skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least one link still shows the outdated title. See second paragraph under “Grouping” in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/quantum/quantum-qr-expressi...
I always felt safe posting under pseudonyms, but then realized even if everything else is 100% private, somebody could theoretically use stylometry to identify me based on my posting style.
> what makes kdb so special and why isn't there an open/libre alternative?

Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it seems like you expect the answer "nothing much" to the first part of your question. I have done nothing more than read lots of articles on KDB's lineage and play around a bit with J, so take my answer with a considerable lump of salt, but my impression is that the answer to the second part of your question is "because there's something 'so special' about KDB"; my understanding is that it provides blazing-fast access to memory-compact databases, from a tiny codebase, building on the APL/J legacy. Why can't this be done in an open sourced way? Well, surely there's no inherent reason, but the fact that it hasn't been is probably evidence that it's not just a problem of trivially cloning existing work (or else someone would have done it).
Towards an Understanding of Our World by GANing Videos in the Wild
On github kiyoto worked on this project[0] to help others understand Q code.

[0]: https://github.com/kiyoto/ungod
How do you deal with changes to multiple files at the same time? What if a subset of users see updated file A but not file B?

You don't have such things in other languages simply because they have not been initially created as glorified templating engines. More importantly: for example, Django in debugging mode allows you to swap templates on the fly, so is with the executable code. Except nobody does it because that's considered ridiculous.
That's a really great counterpoint. I didn't know it was something well-discussed- I had only just read it for the first time today.
Reflection changes "left-right". So effectively, a sugar solution (rotating polarization) before mirror rotates it in the opposite direction (vs a sugar solution after a mirror).

Actually it is a tricky thing I realised while testing this game. I thought it was an error in code. But nope - it was how does physics work. :)
A big difference is that anyone could grow Tulips; Bitcoin has a supply limit
All right, but if the coin is inseparable part of the resource, it cannot be a security. There is a thin line here.

Imagine a coin securitizing Bitcoin miners ("cloud mining coin"). Yes, that's a security.

Now imagine Ethereum. It was ICO'd, talking in today's terms. Is it a security? (hint: SEC just admitted it's not)
I can't believe you interviewed him. That is amazing!

The rest of this post isn't directed at you specifically, you probably know this and much more. Evangelion perhaps popularized this kind of shot, but there's an interesting broader history and context.

In general, this kind of shot is called an establishing shot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Establishing_shot

[An establishing shot] establishes the context for a
scene by showing the relationship between its important
figures and objects.[1] It is generally a long or
extreme-long shot at the beginning of a scene indicating where,
and sometimes when, the remainder of the scene takes
place

Some directors like Yasujiro Ozu used a more enigmatic or abstract sort of establishing shot (or quasi-establishing shot) dubbed "pillow shots" by one film critic: https://dangerousminds.net/comments/yasujiro_ozu_and_the_eni...

A "pillow shot" is a cutaway, for no obvious narrative reason, to
a visual element, often a landscape or an empty room, that is held
for a significant time (five or six seconds). It can be at the start
of a scene or during a scene. At a minimum, in Ozu’s work, these pillow
shots inject a sense of calm and serenity and contribute to the elegant
and stately pacing of his movies.

The term “pillow shot” was coined [...] by the critic Noël Burch in his
book To the Distant Observer: Form and Meaning in the Japanese Cinema:
“I call these images pillow-shots, proposing a loose analogy with the
‘pillow-word’ of classical [Japanese] poetry.”

At least several of Ozu's works feature power lines in these shots: http://www.davidbordwell.net/blog/category/directors-ozu-yas...

This context is something I feel a lot of people miss when discussing those shots of power lines in Evangelion, perhaps ascribing to them more symbolic significance to them than Anno intended -- they are a stylistic hallmark of Evangelion, but aren't unique to Evangelion.
Everybody that upvoted that comment to the top, at least.
If you are a value investor, everything on the S&P500 has been overpriced and overbought for the past several years. Best bet is all relative.

I think allocating a small percentage of wealth to an asset with 10% chance of going up 20x, and 90% change of going to 0 (net expected value 2x) is a rational diversification. Crypto seems to be fairly uncorrelated to broad market. (This is actually a more bearish perspective than I hold, but wanted to point out that it can be rational to hold an asset which is likely to fail as long as there exists a significant chance of order-of-magnitude returns)
>Fowler's post created ripples, at least in tech.

Has it, though? I see giant names in Hollywood go down. Senators in DC. I'm not seeing tech figures, though.

I saw Uber do the very definition of a classic ass-covering report.

Is silicon valley really cleaning house?
Bitcoin Cash AKA ScamCoin
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I totally agree. I'm confident a crypto coin crash is coming to eclipse any we've had before. The combination of volume, transactions/second limits, and weak exchange infrastructure; when people want to get out things are going to get ugly.
You're not correct. I think, less than 50% of ICOs are not securities. But the way to prove is exactly this: ask a lawyer
Sounds like you don't like twitter's limitations and want to express your thoughts in a longer format. I think that has been invented before(you may have heard of blogging, news websites, articles, books).

> but the reach of the platform prevents them from publishing elsewhere.

No it doesn't.

Twitter's limitations are it's main advantage and value prop. Many people enjoy using it for what it is, if you don't - you can always write a medium article. You can automatically share it on twitter, which looks great and gives you the same advantages of exposure as a longer tweet would.
> Crytpo's use case as currency make absolutely no sense

Note that calling cryptocurrencies "crypto" doesn't make much sense either.
The iMac Pro sounds awesome, but this reads much more like an advertorial than I expected.
OP here. I started this project a few months ago, around early October. I wrote the meat of the solidity contract in a weekend or so, but the hardest part (of course) was writing all of the UI. That took another few weeks of intermittent nights and weekends.

Since then, I've just mostly been putting polish on it (testing, more refinements) mostly around making the app more responsive.

Happy to talk more about it-- it was a fun project that pulled together a lot of threads (Solidity, React, Web3, Infura, etc..)
There’s an open source impl of an earlier version of K:

https://kona.github.io/#/

There’s also a JS implementation that aims to implement K6:

http://johnearnest.github.io/ok/index.html

I don’t believe either implement all the “database” side of kdb+ though.

Edit: The J language is similar in some respects, and is GPLed. They've also got a columnar database... http://www.jsoftware.com/jdhelp/overview.html
https://thehftguy.files.wordpress.com/2016/06/burning-money....
You're right. Just read it again and saw:

> Each month I'll sell the wallet's contents and donate the proceeds to them, providing proof via my Twitter account.

There are too many scammers out there, there's no reason to trust this person, regardless of what the intention was.
What I did was work for a company and then transition the job remote after 11 months.

I kept my "california" salary and actually earned a lot more money than when I was sitting in an office.

Best of luck!
The DOH example, in particular, only conveys it's benefits if centralized to something governments are hesitant to block. This is an example of "innovation" specifically designed to centralize. There's maybe a handful of companies with enough influence that countries would hesitate to block in order to block DOH.
>I don't see why PSA should be being 'monetized'.

That's irrelevant to the argument.

>I don't see why Coca Cola should be forced to pay for ads during this program.

I didn't say that and I haven't picked up that argument anywhere else really. I merely refuted your argument that something "comfortable to watch" is a good metric for this program. I came up with this example off the top of my head. And you would find a lot of suitable advertisers for this kind of content as well.

Please stick to the original argument, that "comfortable to watch" is a good metric instead of strawmanning me with censorship and forced payments.
It's 2017 and you can build software without code
Please delete my comment
It's also offensive because the proper term should be tong or Triad, not "Chinese Mafia." If they're gonna conspiracize, get the nomenclature right.
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Bill introduced to prevent FCC from changing Net Neutrality
Moral relativism is nonsense, there are objectively better and worse moral systems.

The US and any other country in the world is far from perfect but it doesn’t mean there aren’t better and worse, much much worse moral systems out there today.
We get same day with our pediatrician, albeit we often end up waiting for along time.
...or alternatively, demand that the city stop handing moneyed interests the keys to the city. It's embarrassing to see a gigantic empty mall in the middle of Market street when so many people are homeless. You can thank Ed Lee for that -- it would be “such an attraction for retail,” he said [1]. What could have been an apartment building or live/work space became a mall that nobody wants [2].

While the housing crisis is real in SF, the "YIMBY" movement is a fairly thoughtless, knee-jerk reaction to the problem. In general in SF, developers have been getting exactly what they want since Wille Brown -- they just don't build things that help people who don't have money. SF could use some balance on the other side of the ledger.

[1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2014/11/12/150-million-reta...

[2] http://hoodline.com/2017/02/market-street-s-6x6-mall-opens-p...
iOS Release Report Nr. 3: Game of the Day – Greenheart Games
trading is halted for _minutes_ 2min then 5min... hardly an earth shattering pause.
The cost for transferring these 10 gigabytes to Australia is about $0.04, while a closer destination would be cheaper. So while technically you are right, realistically these costs don’t factor in the price.
I'd like you to know that they're currently holding a kickstarter, and are only $2,000 removed from their $50,000 goal with 21 hours left.
Can't go one thread...
You joke but I'd be happy to invest if I think that I could sell that thin air after a month for twice what I bought it for. So make THAT happen for thin air and we are good.
> The theory seems to be that when people have a safety net they'll better themselves with long term skills and grow the economy.

That's certainly a theory. It's not a theory I subscribe to. Teach a man to fish and he'll fish for a lifetime. Give him fish for a lifetime and he's free to do something useful with his time.

If our economic output is constrained by demand and you give people money, they can buy the stuff we're already capable of producing. It's as simple as that.

> Some of us aren't against the idea of "free money", but I want a guarantee it's being used for good.

It's not free if it comes with such a restriction. We don't need to force people to work. If we want people to work, we can always pay them.

I agree with you that people should use their money for good. But what is the ultimate good that we care about? We care about people's well-being and the prosperity of society, right? Using money for good means spending it on things that benefit you.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
> Congress could (and in my opinion, should) completely preempt these things, but that's a hard sell.

It's always easier to do what big telecom wants. So we have action on "deregulating" Net Neutrality which allows the telecoms to further leverage their local monopoly power, but no action which might actually put those monopolies in danger of real competition.
When "bland" means "prone to copy-paste boilerplate", its starts to sound less relaxing. It sounds more like tedious search-replace and looking for not making a typo when adapting the boilerplate to the next similar-but-sightly-different use case. It turns a developer back into a coder.

What Go takes away is mostly tools of abstraction. Some of them are removed for a reasonably good reason (hard to implement in 1.x). Well, people end up with codegen tools that replace not only templates and generics but also the C preprocessor.
Sorry, you're right about that but you're still misplacing the blame.

Softbank made the offer, not Uber. Under US law, the board didn't have much justification for rejecting the offer due to Uber's capitalization needs--the boardmembers could have been sued if they rejected it. Note that the board didn't approve the deal itself, they merely approved Softbank making the offer to the shareholders. The deal is contingent upon enough shareholders participating in the offer.

(Uber's capitalization needs matter here because it goes to whether the board is acting in the best interests of minority shareholders. In this case, the Board can say that w/o investment, those interests become worthless. This is different from a normal, revenue-generating company, like say Qualcomm, where the board can reject this sort of offer if they feel it undervalues the stock of the company, because in such case the lack of a deal doesn't impact the company's ability to operate as a going concern.)
Or perhaps the world is not so black and white. Perhaps her experiences taught her things women often seem to not know. Perhaps she had various forms of support that are not obvious here.

I homeschooled my sons. Lack of formal education prior to university is not evidence that one is not getting support. There are parents that actively quash the dreams of their kids and insist the kids pursue something the parent feels matters. They push their kids into pursuing a particular path. This is often seen by outsiders as a good thing, but it usually is not. It usually means the kid never got to decide for themselves what they wanted out of life and simply did as they were told.
Twitter just released 'native' threads an hour ago: https://blog.twitter.com/official/en_us/topics/product/2017/...
Aren't the same perks offered by most workplaces? Every place I've ever worked, military and civilian alike, have offered some kind of gym and some kind of food on the premises.
Hi all. The contract that distributes donations also transfers a fixed fee to my account. For instance, see: https://etherscan.io/tx/0xc27a96a1ed705b03604b91287d0e2cf76f...

The fee is flat and priced around a buck, mostly to help recoup some server costs, hosting costs, etc.. which I thnk is fair.

My main motivation was to make a cheaper version of GoFundMe or Patreon. Both of those sites charge a percentage on top of whatever credit card fees.
False negative and false positive rates are correlated, you can generally trade off one for the other - although I don't know how easy that is with machine learning. The false negative rate doesn't have to be perfect to be a deterrent - would you try to sneak a gun into a casino if you knew you had a 50/50 chance of being caught?
Love this visualization!
what a strange list of people to join. I mean, I realize you have to contextualize these name in the time they were selected but, Trump, Spitzer, GWB, Rupert Murdoch, Kissinger.
While everyone would agree with this, everyone doesn't agree with what should be thrown away.

Burning books because they aren't "valuable" is dangerous ground. Safer to store everything.
And eyeballs for advertisers come from content. For example Laci Green has up to several million views on her videos. So she pulls a lot of people onto the platform. But because sex ed is "uncomfortable" she shouldn't be able to monetize? That isn't quite fair to the creators either.
(I'm talking about the general moral juxtaposition, not Google's interests)
I'm guessing the answer is no. Even though they just made an announcement about their new "premium" api[0].

[0]: https://blog.twitter.com/developer/en_us/topics/tools/2017/i...
Given that it was used by a lot of news websites, there's a lot of legitimate history in there, whether we see it as such or not. That's worth preserving.
Not directly related, but this made me think of general role of power lines in art.

When they are drawn or painted, they are valuable: they obviously carry a message, someone took the time to draw them.

On a photograph, they are considered something to avoid, or an eye sore to erase. Perhaps because often photographers want to convey what they perceive, not what they see. I can say that about myself - I tune out all the utilities from a beautiful piece of architecture like banner ads from an interesting website. But when it comes to taking a photograph, they come back with full force, often leaving me hopeless.

I wonder if there exists a way for a photographer to embrace and love the "ugly" signs of civilization. Perhaps give them a compositional role?
> It's a valid comparison for his point that Mercurial is much more reliable for his workflows than git

To me it reads as a warning that Mercurial repos are prone to being screwed up even if the user has over a decade of experience avoiding Mercurial's traps while with Git only bold inexperienced users can screw up repos in a similar matter.
http://www.paulgraham.com/divergence.html

VC funding will probably dry up somewhat during the present recession, like it usually does in bad times. But this time the result may be different. This time the number of new startups may not decrease. And that could be dangerous for VCs.

When VC funding dried up after the Internet Bubble, startups dried up too. There were not a lot of new startups being founded in 2003. But startups aren't tied to VC the way they were 10 years ago. It's now possible for VCs and startups to diverge. And if they do, they may not reconverge once the economy gets better.

This logic works in reverse, too: if funding becomes dramatically easier thanks to ICOs, startups have no reason to court VCs anymore. And that could be dangerous for VCs.
Explaining Net Neutrality to Non-Technical People
> why isn't there an open/libre alternative?

see here:

http://t3x.org/klong/
Trust me, nobody who uses threading wants to be using
threading. They want to be able to write a paragraph. (3/8)

Did you not see the backlash that came from them upping the limit to 280 chars?
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I remember there was an episode on the podcast The Daily where Michael Barbaro interviewed a reporter who worked on the Harvey Weinstein story. I think they said that The New York Times had tried to pursue this story in the past, but they really wanted to make another push for it this year to expose the unreported stories of sexual harassment.
Show HN: Firefox 57+ per-site JavaScript blocking from URL bar (like Chrome)
No? I've never had those perks outside of working at universities or military bases. Perhaps in bigger cities? I've generally stayed in small cities though.
You aren't their target market
There is a lot of buzz about net neutrality, and the FCC is set to kill the rule requiring it on Thursday, but a lot of people I've talked to still don't have a good understanding of what net neutrality is exactly. So I wrote a non-technical analogy that should illustrate the general idea.
I don't think you're right. Under this impression, most of cryptocurrencies are securities. However, SEC said, they're not: https://twitter.com/mikebutcher/status/940487575491497985
I'd counter specifically with Ethereum or Filecoin.

They both represent either computation-time or file-storage-and-bandwidth time.

Ethereum could easily represent time on a distributed AWS Lambda. And FileCoin can represent an AWS S3 storage.

It just so happens that they both are also cryptocoin.

It gets even uglier that the turning-like machine in Ethereum/Solidity also exists, kind of, in Bitcoin. In fact it was because it worked in Bitcoin they developed Ethereum. So technically even Bitcoin can do processing work. Makes everything a bit murkier to be honest.
This is just wrong, pls stop spreading misinformation.

The gcm dependency was removed 10 months ago:
https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/1669...

You can get the apk outside of gplay on their website:
https://signal.org/android/apk/
Native Oberon was the very first version, then there was EthOS, and Oberon System 3 with the graphical Gadgets framework.

In the meantime a new version of Oberon was re-done with Oberon-2, whose method declarations influenced how Go method declarations are done.

By this time there was a spin into a Swiss startup that designed Component Pascal, an Oberon-2 derivative, with a RAD development environment targeted mostly at Mac OS and Windows users.

The researchers at ETHZ created Blue Bottle OS, also known as A2, using Active Oberon. Yet another Oberon evolution, that had support for co-routines in async/await style, and probably one of the first environments with a multi-threaded compiler.

It was good enough to support applications like video playing, BeOS wasn't the only one doing it in the mid-90's.

If you want pictures, there are plenty of them here,

https://goo.gl/Rce7A2

Oberon was used until early 2000s to teach systems programming at ETHZ, and many department computers used them as their main workstations.

Including file servers implemented in Oberon for distributing work across workstations, and an early version of applets concept called Juice.

ftp://ftp.cis.upenn.edu/pub/cis700/public_html/papers/Franz97b.pdf

Graz University had their own variant of Oberon, with Hanspeter Mössenböck leading some of the development efforts. This same department is nowadays heavily involved with Graal research together with Oracle Labs.

http://www.ssw.uni-linz.ac.at/General/Staff/HM/Publications/...

http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Projects/JVM/Graal.html

The Ulm university in Germany also implemented their own Oberon variant, including native versions running on top of several UNIXes and Windows.

Mostly broken links nowadays,

http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/oberon/ulm.html

Niklaus Wirth later in 2013 redid the original Project Oberon, with an updated variant named Oberon-07 and targeting an FPGA instead.

http://www.projectoberon.com/

So no, I am not idolizing a past and there was a little more there than just a plain text editor.

Sometimes the Wikipedia is not the best source.
It's a lazy comment, but that blog is the closest thing we have to a modern day Fucked Company site.
The most obvious answer based on the previous observation is "see through your skin," not "cause cancer." I think we'll need more to go on than that.
I used to go to the site to read gadget reviews and hear Apple rumors, but now it has gotten as political as anything else. Its sad politics have become a full-time obsession in America. If I wanted to read more about the crappy Breitbart 'news' site, I would go to elsewhere, not Engadget.
You're aware you're getting up in arms about citing sources over a show for two year olds, right?