skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>In essence, the creation of a new Bitcoin requires the performance of a complex calculation that has no value except to show that it has been done.

This is incorrect, the massive amount of electricity that goes into cooperative bitcoin hashing also contributes towards the security of bitcoin. It would take, at minimum, an equally massive amount of electricity to compromise the network.
> I read somewhere ( and I bet ) it's used by Google / Facebook / Apple employees.

In fairness, it's used by virtually everyone who has to do anything of significance in software development on a Mac.
If you're going to dismiss a cause because some of the proponents use ugly tactics then I don't see how you can maintain any moral convictions whatsoever.
Many of my friends have expressed that they don’t want to watch porn. They do it anyways and hate themselves for it after you know... they are done.

I personally think it’s completely natural to have such urges and to cave to them. In fact, for men specifically there are some benefits in keeping the system well lubricated (pun not intended). It’s just something one has to moderate.

Additionally, i have noted that people’s expectations of their desired partner is usually skewed from what they see in porn.
The negative externality of fire isn't arson, it's uncontrolled burning. Once you know water extinguishes fires, that's something to think about the next time you start one.

The thing is, we know what externalities are and how they play out in regards to technology, even if we can't fully predict them. It's trivial to infer that this technology could be abused for deception, and that some sort of authentication technology might help to prevent that. So the responsible thing to do would be to provide both the editing and authentication technologies at the same time, even if neither is perfect.
My comment states that government officials have, in the past, been irreversibly shortened for choosing to disregard the will of the taxpayers whom they serve. I imply that he will be violating the social contract of trust between himself and the public if he chooses to go through with this. If you get the idea that "Pai should be or will be killed for his actions. " from this, you ignore the way political corruption is handled in the modern day USA.

If he were to harm another people in another time in such a manner, the results would likely be much less in his favor. In our current political climate, there is very little action against any public "servant" of sufficiently high rank (example: Hillary's criminal negligence of handling TS/SCI intelligence)
They can sell a LinkedIn Premium equivalent service.

X people used your face as a swap in for a pornstar. Y$ a month and you can see which state they're from. Z$ to meet the top 10 reviewed individuals near your zip code.
Google has complained re: Title II for phone service with Google Fiber.

There is so much red tape that's added simply by being classified under Title II.
That's usually why projects of this size have multiple parties involved aside from directly contracting with the vendor.

As much as it's easy to hate on the Big4 consulting companies, they exist for this reason among others (some of which have more to do with how to grease the skids with pork).
What is considered high tech these days?

I guess getting your name printed in the Wall Street Journal in order to raise funds is what is considered high tech.

Renaissance Technologies doesn't seem to have a problem performing and they use machine learning. 80% YoY for 3 decades...

These guys are way behind.
If we can land people on the moon before, I don't see y we can't continue to be doing that.
Thanks for sharing! Really enjoyed the article.
They don't necessarily have loyalty, exactly, but they do have a detailed understanding of the company's point of view and interests, coupled with possibly a much shallower understanding of the viewpoints and interests of the public.
Spotify: new approach to going public
irony.
Thanks much for the feedback!

Imagemagick -> tesseract -> solr/lucene

I am a neophyte when it comes to this stuff, so I'm sure someone with more experience could get better results from tweaking IM/tess. Some of the IM convert stuff was extremely memory intensive on larger documents and AWS was starting to get really expensive. Later on I added PDFbox to split the PDFs pre IM and run a page at a time vs. the entire document.

SOLR has a highlighting feature that I never really got working right. That would have showed some context to the search terms in the results.
Keep all your ebooks in one place. Access it on any device.

But then it supports PDF and EPUB, neither of which are directly supported by Kindle, they have to be converted first. So is LibreRead converting to AZW, or to HTML such that the Kindle's permanently experimental web browser can display it?
OK but so what? Every 2nd news headline is clickbait these days, it's not insightful to point out the obvious in individual cases.
If only Vulcan had survived.
Show HN: Basic Dividend Contract – A simple fundraising smart contract
The biggest sample that's already up is the doc set for RethinkDB (rethinkdb.com). That's not 100% mine--they had an engineering culture that valued documentation even before I got there, which helped immensely!--but I've worked on most of the pages, writing a fair number from scratch.
As long as the candidates have a valid work status, isn't it illegal to discriminate based on type of work status?
It depends on what you mean by "old fashioned TV." Until the 1990's advertising for products for children primarily was structured around the "Gatekeeper Model." The advertisement was focused on selling the product to both the child and their parents. In A Christmas Story Ralphie is asking adults for the Red Ryder. He even pens an essay to provide a reasoned case. He grudgingly lives with "You'll put your eye out, kid" as having legitimacy.

In the 1990's advertisers started marketing directly to children in a different way. Recommend, Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

https://www.amazon.com/Born-Buy-Commercialized-Consumer-Cult...
>These companies are focusing on "real problems"?

If you listen to the talk he says many times "Get the Money" then focus on the real problems

The key here is you have to get the money first, then you have the power and resources to make social change and fix the real problems

So his mix of investments does not have to 100% "real problems" like climate change, his (stated) goal is to get capital from those other projects and use that to fund other companies that focus on "Real Problems"
Prototype of smart street crossing [video]
With the reason being, they are ignored.

Not when they are used.
> US banking system is stuck is in the 1800s

As someone who has to work integrating to banks, yeah this is sad but true.
Good deal for $1k. :-)
In terms of my time, it has been very valuable.

I had to spend quite some time working around Heroku's limitations. We have had 100% uptime (based on external monitoring) since we moved to Elastic Beanstalk.

Health check based rolling deploys are awesome. Caught production bugs 3-4 times.

I agree that it was easier for me to do, because I have extensive DevOps experience. However if someone is getting to anything more than a hobby project, consider investing in someone to build a basic CloudFormation script for ElasticBeanstalk. I will open source ours in a couple of months (things really hectic right now).
Describing Cryptocurrency to a 12 year old – How not to confuse everyone
You have to include the Republican Senate since many of these appointments require Senate confirmation. And even then a few were below even that incredibly low bar.
That may be market dependent because I've not seen it with the candidates I've interviewed.

I think the preception of ageism comes from the fact that more experienced employees come with with more expectations (of performance and pay). If you've been in industry ten or twenty years and havent' (by choice or by ability) then you've all but proven you're "harder" (Id say neigh impossible) to train. One of the few metrics that correlate well to performance in knowledge work appears to be ambition so it naturally results in older workers either doing very well or washing out.

The problem, as I see it, is those washouts are the ones crying "ageism" the loudest and doing their best to stifle talent entering the workforce.
Any bets on when the current deep learning bubble is going to burst?

It’s shocking to me how much technical people buy into this, how “this time it’s different” and AI isn’t “over-promising and substantially under-delivering” this time. Really odd to watch it come round again, when the reality is we’re more likely to see some near incremental progresses, partly fueled by more compute and algorithmic advances. Partly by a lot of PR.
I graduated from UIUC with a MSCS ‘14 (online).

- Did my CS undergrad at top school on site ‘11
- Worked full time in Bay as software developer since undergrad graduation, 2011.
- Employer paid MS tuition

Pros:
- I learn a lot better from doing than listening. I’d watch the lectures at 2x speed. Felt like I could actually pay attention until the end.
- Learned how to read papers.
- Challenged me to keep learning outside of work. I keep studying new stuff even now otherwise I look back and feel lazy.
- Taught by best of the best.

Cons
- Group projects can be a little hard to organize with on site students
- Summer courses are accelerated but your full time job does not get any lighter. Summer classes are very hard with a full time job. Take something fluffy.

Anecdotally, my friends who took online classes at GTech complained that it was too easy. UIUC was definitely not easy and you get access to some top professors. Salary wise, I don’t know how much it mattered but if your employer pays for it, it’s a no brainer.
How expensive are the WordPress plugins?

There's a Shopify Plugin for $20/month https://apps.shopify.com/shopify-recurring-payments (plus whatever Shopify and the payment provider charges).
IIRC, they had something on the order of ~50 patents, which they only started on 3-4 years ago. The first 10 years of the project were entirely spent on thinking up of the new, patentable ideas that go into the thing. As Ivan says, you can't put a schedule on insights--they happen when they happen.
My understanding when I last played with Nextdoor a couple years ago was that they do address verification either through mailing you a postcard or some sort of phone numbers/credit card check. And then you can only interact with people in your neighborhood, or the adjacent ones.

While Nextdoor is technically a subset of Facebook the same way snapchat's disappearing pictures and twitters character limit also is, having a restriction/focus makes the product more compelling to certain people.
They are called implants.[1] To GP, yes even hdds, I suspect similar with ssds.[2]

1: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/03/cottonmouth-i...

2: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hddhack&page=1
Sounds like a good idea, if you also receive a freshly made hash: to ensure the picture was taken _after_ the received hash and _before_ it was sent out.

I would make a merkle-tree-like hash to be able to obscure parts of the picture and still be able to prove the date.
A little emphasis, focusing on the aftermath from the SEC's July report on the DAO:

> "Following the issuance of the 21(a) Report, certain market professionals have attempted to highlight utility characteristics of their proposed initial coin offerings in an effort to claim that their proposed tokens or coins are not securities. Many of these assertions appear to elevate form over substance. Merely calling a token a “utility” token or structuring it to provide some utility does not prevent the token from being a security."
Golf Gender Pay Gap: Top Men Earning 4x More Than Top Women
There are a lot of small apps/products out there that I was wondering the same thing - why doesn't Facebook try this, they have all the data and 1000's of engineers.
Ignoring the difference between 3D XPoint memory and Optane-branded products based on that memory is a good way to reach bad conclusions.

But even accounting for that, Intel's definitely not hitting their goals for endurance yet, and the density goal is the only one they clearly have come close to. We won't be able to judge performance until there are 3D XPoint NVDIMMs that get the PCIe bus out of the way.
It may help e.g. if the original person has an alibi at the time the fake one was made, or to distinguish which of two version came first.
"What's wrong with rich guys becoming richer?"

Because it happens by doing something that negatively affects the rest of us. If they were getting richer by something that benefitted the rest of us too, that'd be fine.
What strikes me about the experience you are describing (your own on social media) is how active a role you have taken in your experience of it. You should know that very, very few do this: they absorb the medium as it is presented. I have watched people completely tune out to their children playing with knives, cars coming at them, etc. because their focus is so absorbed with what is being presented. This behavior is directly traceable to the reward mechanism in the brain and our ever-increasing need for it if we indulge the addiction.

When the entirety of a platform is created with the intent to addict you, and ever color, line, word, behavior is designed with that intent, you have to be particularly strong-willed to resist it, much less even to notice it. Subtlety is the key, and these systems are getting very very good at making you believe you are willingly participating when really, you just can't make yourself stop.

Facebook has a place, and the way you've described your use of it is a great example. I try very hard to use it in much the same way.

But for most people, there's a great line I loved from Stargate SG-1 all those years ago that describes the path they must take to having a healthy life where social media is concerned:

"The only way to win is to deny it battle."
But can you spell it all three ways at the same time?
If we detected radio signals I'd be all for a crash project to do so, possibly using NERVA or some similar kind of crazy propulsion system. A possible alien artifact would be absolutely worth the risk of launching a nuclear upper stage. Workable designs for NERVA are on the books. I'm sure we could think of some way to fire a very small probe at this thing by putting an absurd amount of rocket muscle behind it. Even a fast flyby with a few measurements and shots would be worth it.

I guess barring that we will soon have the JWST.
NEED iOS AND Android developers FOR NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM
I am a non-technical founder of the new kind of social media app.I made app hiring a developer, It took off very well now users are increasing rapidly I am looking fulltime technical partners (IOS AND ANDROID DEVELOPERS).I just don't want this project to stop.

As I got no finance now, I would give them equal share and title of co-founders)

Please help I don't want this app to die, its something very interesting.

Comment if you are interested and share with a person who you think can help.
Speaking as a 'loon', his AI history is wrong in several places:

1. the Fifth Generation Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_computer) was 1980s officially ending in 1992, not 'late 1990s' (during the Dot-com bubble?!);
2. the Lisp bubble didn't pop because of a failed DoD piloting project, it popped because of the first AI Winter + commodity SPARC/x86 pressure + recession (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_machine) (and I don't recall DARPA instituting any policy like 'no AI', just stopping subsidizing Symbolics and later Connection Machine);
3. the Club of Rome report couldn't've killed its modeling language because it only really acquired its present ill repute by the 1990s, the implementation language Modelica (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modelica) didn't die (last release: April 2017) and is still in industrial use which is more than almost all languages from the 1960s-1970s can say, and even the World3 model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World3) analyzed in the report continued development for decades;
4. the Oxford paper (https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/The-Future-of-Em...) doesn't make precise forecasts for when any automation may happen (merely saying "associated occupations are potentially automatable over some unspecified number of years, perhaps a decade or two");
5. the GPU server comparison is really weird as computers have almost always cost more than humans and only relatively recently do any computers' hourly costs fall below minimum wage; and
6. the Dartmouth description is wrong, the conference merely proposed (http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/dartmouth/dartmou...) that meaningful progress could be made by 10 researchers, not grad students ("We propose that a 2 month, 10 man study of artificial intelligence be carried out during the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College...We think that a significant advance can be made in one or more of these problems if a carefully selected group of scientists work on it together for a summer.")

Also, come on dude, Keras isn't hard to use - it's not even comparable to Tensorflow. But at least he didn't tell the tank story.
I just don't understand how they can be expected to provide this, though. This "authentication technology" might not even exist, and in any case is very likely to be wildly different from the editing tech.

The editing tech in the OP is also off-the-shelf components, i.e. nothing was invented, just assembled in to the correct form. What exactly are they supposed to have done, just not posted anything about it until they found a way to thwart the technique they just discovered? Most likely this bottoms out in an arms race, so they'd be waiting forever.

Your request seems really absurd and I've never seen technological innovation work like this.
> I believe that initial coin offerings – whether they represent offerings of securities or not – can be effective ways for entrepreneurs and others to raise funding, including for innovative projects.

> We at the SEC are committed to promoting capital formation. The technology on which cryptocurrencies and ICOs are based may prove to be disruptive, transformative and efficiency enhancing. I am confident that developments in fintech will help facilitate capital formation and provide promising investment opportunities for institutional and Main Street investors alike. I encourage Main Street investors to be open to these opportunities, but to ask good questions, demand clear answers and apply good common sense when doing so.

I don't know much about Jay Clayton (SEC Chairmain) but he seems to be taking a very pragmatic stance on tokens. From what I gather, he's saying that some of these tokens should be classified as securities, while others should not. And we as investors should be be diligent to probe the creators to see if these tokens are subject to regulation and are legal.

This is amazing! The SEC haven't quite stepped in yet. But I fully expect them to. And this gives some great insight into what we can expect in the future.
And Wii U would have succeeded, had they called it something else. Most people were like, oh a "Wii"? Got one already, check, keep browsing for Christmas presents...
I think I had prepaid around $1.5k or so actually.
Each of those so far over time has devolved into a place where recruiters try to promote their projects in order to attract developers they in turn can sell as an anonymous commodity to their respective clients.

The solution to the problem you're describing isn't getting freelance developers on yet another job board but precisely the opposite: Instead of marketing them as an anonymous bundle of TLAs have them actively market themselves as valuable problem solvers with specific experience and niche specialisations.

A possible approach for achieving this could range from individual coaching to courses about sales and marketing as well as helping freelance developers with creating compelling websites and online presences for their businesses.
Single-player in the sense that one typically plays physically alone even if virtually together.
You worked on The Dark Knight Risers, and Frozen? Details please?
It is just so amazingly refreshing to read something not put together by a know-nothing.

I wish I saw more than one or two of these a year.
I don't know what you're talking about. Nobody has ever harassed me on my Discord channel. Everybody on there was invited by me or one of my friends. If people you invite are harassing you, get rid of them.

There is no "turning the platform into a toy". Everybody on your Discord channel is somebody for which you gave consent to be there. There is no possible way for trolls or abusers to arrive on your Discord channel without first being invited. It really is that simple.
Some things in modern life are a bit easier to obsess over, more like alcohol and other drugs than other kinds of hobbies.
> the obligations he has to the community.

There isn't an obligation though. You could fork or pick an alternative as much as a maintainer/owner can abandon a project. They aren't obligated to do anything for you and you aren't obligated to do anything for them.

If you don't like a project because of personalities involved, avoid them. I have personally done this without problem. It can be a pain but I have no actual pull in the matter.
I think we're already seeing a lot of cases where even AI to detect fakes will be irrelevant if the viewer wants to believe or ignore the alternative.
Ask HN: Is there a good solution for using AWS ALB to connect a k8s cluster?
For special reazon, our project should use AWS ALB(not ELB) or NLB to catch an application in k8s cluster. We are using kops to manage the k8s cluster. It seems its load balancer stategy is using ELB for AWS cloud.
I have researched some approach to realize it:

- ELB https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/addons/ingress-nginx
- ALB https://github.com/coreos/alb-ingress-controller
- External-DNS https://github.com/kubernetes-incubator/external-dns

About the second ALB, it shows:

NOTE: This controller is in alpha state as we attempt to move to our first 1.0 release. The current image version is 1.0-alpha.3. Please file any issues you find and note the version used. So it seems that it isn't a good choice for production environment.

Then, what's the good way?
>>Additionally, i have noted that people’s expectations of their desired partner is usually skewed from what they see in porn.

Porn is hardly the only - or even the main - driver of this, though. Look around you: you'll see billboards, magazines, TV commercials, banner ads, etc. etc. basically a plethora of images showing gorgeous women. Compared to that, porn's effect on men's partner expectations is probably negligible (unless it's for specifically sexual attributes like whether they shave their genitalia).
I'd love to have my phones go 5 years, but our two nexus 4s made it just half that. Others have been less.

I think part of the problem is the rate of change: a smart phone from 10 years ago is dramatically different from one 5 years ago.

That rate of change is slowing, though, just like it did in desktop and laptop computers about 5 years ago.

When they increase flash and RAM a bit more, I think it will make sense to make (and buy) more durable phone hardware.
If structures had existed at the time, sure.
But since there is no intermediary between your transactions in crypto, please be aware of fraud. You are completely responsible and accountable for all actions you take with your money. There will be nobody to blame in crypto :)

This is what most governments are warning people against. It's more easy to scam people than before. Really.
Battery backed DRAM is likely a better choice for performance & endurance in most applications, as the Optane product line is a lame duck with memory that dies around the 1TB of writes mark, leaving you with lost data and a dead SSD.