skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is quite positive and in line with how ASIC (our SEC in Australia) are treating these types of assets.

Both are quite opposite to the way China is handling ICO's and crypto currency in general.
My subscription will be around 3USD/month so I'm very price sensitive. All the plugins I found where on the 100USD/month range.

I am testing this idea so looking for cheap stuff at the beginning.

EDIT: Just tested this plugin and it doesn't work with my country (Brazil)
And there's more where he's plain wrong, like Aluminium.

Despite all that a great antidote to the overhype that I see most days.
I strongly believe social media in current forms is bad for society and for people individually, it is a digital addiction that feeds the worst of human nature with no redeeming quality.

Everyone I know who still is used by the service always reports their experience as some variation of outrage, gossip, fake news, distraction, attention draining, rumor, innuendo, hearsay, time wasting, conflict, narcissism, vanity, boasting, egotism, or at best some ultra staged portraiture intended to signal how wonderful someones life is in a completely artificial self-selected setting. Does any of that sound like a good thing?
Generally yes, but there are occasional cases where information is preserved. There's a really interesting podcast about one instance:

http://www.radiolab.org/story/mau-mau/
They seem to be approaching things in quite a pragmatic way, which is great.

This is a space that will grow in the coming years, and while there will be growing pains / abuses along the way, this might end up being a new, valid and accepted method of raising international funding.

All the actors just need to get comfortable with this and figure out the best way to approach this.
> On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

Luckily math has developed methods such as error-detecting/error-correcting codes (to insure against small typos/transmission errors), constructive results on continuity and robustness of functions (i.e. we can prove that if the error in the input data is less than some concretely computable delta, the solution will have an error less than epsilon; or we can ensure that the error in the solution is less than some computable epsilon if we can ensure that the error in the input data "is not too large" (i.e. bounded by some computable epsilon) etc.

In this sense I don't consider the question as that absurd.
Crypto-collateralized loans are being launched by a startup called Salt Lending. I’m expecting rates to start around 10%, although I’m unsure where I heard that.
https://www.saltlending.com/
Sounds like a great car! So long as it has a drink holder for my coffee...
Sure, just a few blog posts and some other things really, but here you go.

https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/50678-the-nosql-discuss...

http://www.labouseur.com/courses/db/Stonebraker-SQL-vs-NoSQL...

http://www.redbook.io/

https://www.barrons.com/articles/michael-stonebraker-describ...

https://blog.jooq.org/2013/08/24/mit-prof-michael-stonebrake...

http://wp.sigmod.org/?p=1629

https://www.voltdb.com/blog/

http://www.paradigm4.com/category/blog/
My work situation has been much less draining since moving to Australia. I think the biggest difference is that 6-12 month contract work is more common in tech jobs, and there are a lot more small companies where your contribution is bigger and feels more valued. The flip side to that is your work probably won't be seen outside of the small company unlike with huge corporations.

I don't know that they have the equivalent of casual/agency contract work for developers in the U.S. I think the health insurance makes it a problem, but I liked it better than working for bigger companies because there's less BS and you can just take a month or so between gigs if you want. You're never going to get rich though and there's always the possiblity of not having anything for longer than you want.
This is already possible using emscripten without too much effort. Emscripten JS is basically binary code. It's also been possible with Flash for over a decade, though fewer and fewer people have that installed.
There are also obvious upsides to stepping aside - you can get some more free time at minimum. If the business is doing well, you might also have the opportunity to take some cash out.
It's just Happy Gilmore with lightsabers.
I think people doubt the power and threat of social media (and online porn[0]) because of their physical properties: They are images on a screen - how much harm can such things do? They are not intravenous drugs.

But what if social media, or some aspect of it, or online porn had the same cognitive, emotional, and/or physical effects on people as heroin? In fact, isn't that what online businesses spend so much on, and a generation of smart people work so hard on - addictive engagement? If someone developed engagement that powerful, do you think they'd stop themselves and say, 'this is too much'?

My point is not that social media and online porn have the same effects as heroin; they do not. Whatever their effects, they are at least different. My point is that we shouldn't dismiss their danger based on our preconceptions about the medium by which their effects are delivered.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/11/16761016/former-facebook...
I think that and also most games are on Sunday when younger people are out and about combined w cord cutting. Very few people are aware that you can get HD over the air with a cheap antenna for free and even then, those games are generally the local team. A lot of young people follow players not teams. Lots of factors at play but the NFL wants eyeballs to get more ad revenue and getting on someone's mobile is a superpower for advertising purposes.
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Nope, this isn’t the HTTPS-validated Stripe website you think it is
I did notice that one, but aluminum is kind of a complex topic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Synthesis_of_metal): the early cost was both the chemical processing and the low ore content, and one could charitably read him as referring to discovering bauxite and the electrolysis method, and then he's certainly right about the cost of electricity coming down drastically and making aluminum even cheaper. So not clearly wrong IMO, given that it's an extemporaneous interview.
This is not a statement from the SEC, but from chairman Clayton. See footnote [1]: «This statement is my own and does not reflect the views of any other Commissioner or the Commission. This statement is not, and should not be taken as, a definitive discussion of applicable law, all the relevant risks with respect to these products, or a statement of my position on any particular product.»
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Thanks for the feedback. To be honest, I just thought it would be a fun project. Perhaps I should indicate that somewhere in the about page to make it more clear. Someone else had recommended making the index files public, which might help with some of your concerns.

I went back and forth about the title, but my girlfriend gave the OK, so I went with it. :)
The flaws in the assertions made by this Facebook exec are exactly the same as those who assert that Russia "attacked our Democracy" using "social media". In both cases the issue isn't "social media", its our sick society where most people are thoughtless, lack critical thinking skills, and are easily influenced. When people are vapid and whimsical they are extremely susceptible to any kind of external stimulus much like someone with a compromised immune system is susceptible to disease. Unfortunately, by the very nature of our national disease, introspection is absent. Consequently, instead of dealing with the root cause of social strife (the nature and intellectual capacity of our citizens), we seek to externalize the blame ("It was the Russians!" .. "Social media is to blame for our national discord!"). Critical thinking, awareness and presence of mind are not lacking due to some widespread genetic problem. These are skills that have to be honed and developed from childhood. Paradoxically, this problem only gets worse because those who sit at the top of the pyramid of our society don't want a nation full of critical thinkers. They want a nation full of people who are constantly worried about where their next rent payment, credit card payment, or insurance premium are coming from. The last thing they want is a nation full of people willing and capable to challenge the status quo. As a result, things will continue to deteriorate as the vast majority of citizens are more concerned with when the new Iphone is released or what trouble the Kardeshians have gotten themselves into this week.
Jay Clayton

'1] This statement is my own and does not reflect the views of any other Commissioner or the Commission. This statement is not, and should not be taken as, a definitive discussion of applicable law, all the relevant risks with respect to these products, or a statement of my position on any particular product. '

Intriguing that this is a personal perspective....
One startup's solution to solve the world’s long term energy-storage problem
Anyone know how this might impact constraint satisfaction algorithms? Is it possible we'd see something like Prolog being orders of magnitude faster? (Assuming it were re-written for a quantum computer, maybe using something like Q#.)
Do you sell your robots or are they personal use only? I've been interested in this for a while but figure plenty of people would have done it better.
If it's 400 meters long and do one rotation in 7 hours the gravity is essentially zero. It'd have to rotate twice per minute to produce 1g.
There are altcoin solving all these problems
"The open web" is a platform where everyone can publish and access content because the standards are open. WebAssembly makes the web more open because it puts nails in the coffin of Flash, Unity Player, and the like.

Back in the day we had Flash-only web sites. They died off because it turns out that it's easier to just throw HTML, CSS, and JS at people, and since these were open standards, there was a fair bit of competition between different vendors to make better tools for consumption, authoring, and delivery.

If you want to reimplement that experience in WebAssembly, the ROI is going to be horrible and if you render everything to a canvas your site won't be indexable by Google (goodbye traffic) or workable with screen readers (hello lawsuits).
I feel like a lot of people would agree with this. It wouldn't stop them from using Facebook though. No one at the fast food line claims it's healthy. Beating akrasia is tough.
Help your team learn from it's success
I fast all day and eat all my needs at night, a huge and delicious meal and dessert. There are a tons of benefits, in logistics/time, health and aesthetics. Google for intermittent fasting or "The Warrior Diet".
The interface is nice. I will be paying attention to this. However, the bolded font you are using for video titles, I find blurry and it hurts my eyes.
Eh, pretty disappointing interview. It doesn’t tske a team to utilize gpu computing, it takes one person and I’ve done it. Also, you can’t complain about there being no strong-ai companies and then list accomplishments of strong-ai companies.

I personally don’t like the phrase data scientist but I get it and I get why it’s science as opposed to engineering. I personally like the split between machine learning, BI, and data engineering.
Great point! I would add that we also had real competition among ISPs in the 1990s, with many small providers. Pai's idea that somehow deregulation will take us back to that time is just lunacy; it's certainly not going to reverse the consolidation that has occurred.
For me, Knuth becomes far easier to comprehend (but still rough) at 1.6x speed. To put that into perspective, I like the majority of YouTube videos I watch at 1.25-1.33x --- it may seem like a surprising result, but ever since I started watching most videos sped-up, I've found it actually increases my understanding and enjoyment. As a side-effect, 1x now feels annoyingly slow. Perhaps it's indicative of the general information density (or lack thereof) in videos.
> Tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an 'imminent threat'

If tech companies and luminaries genuinely considered the loss of net neutrality as an existential threat, wouldn't they be hiring every lobbyist under the sun to fight for it?
This is about half way to a block chain.

The normal risk is the service simply replaces an old hash for video with a new hash secretly. However, if you put data + old hash you can create a long verifiable chain and someone can record a specific block and know the chain is unchanged from the point they saved a specific hash.
China's also got laws against moving a lot of money out of the country, so not entirely unexpected.
A little off topic but have there been any improvements to the chat experience itself? I tried pushing some of my team to use the chat a few months back but to be honest, the time it took to view and reply messages on iOS was too long and overall reliability was hit or miss.

Not to say your other features aren't great, we are testing out using private git repos for some of our non-essential keys and so far no problem.
I have four kids and outright banned YouTube in our house after that elsagate article in the nyt. I just don't have the time or desire to monitor what YouTube decides to show them.

With Netflix I have a much better idea of what they're seeing. Plus they will watch an entire show with a beginning mine middle and end on Netflix.

When they asked why no more YouTube I told them I didn't want them seeing ads and that Netflix is enough.

I guess that's a long way of saying that it's possible to hand your kid a smart phone to get them out of your hair without involving YouTube.
Consider it a step to a more general approach. Maybe some parts will be useful. Imagine applying this to Rust and Scala.
> So currently I don’t see how JIT-ing could work with reasonable programming effort and performance for emulating entire 8-bit computer systems.

I don't know about the reasonable effort part, but I was able to get decent performance with this approach in BlastEm. It takes about 33.5s to run zexdoc on my laptop, which is faster than even the "instruction granularity" version in the article (~37.5s) despite running on a slower machine (2.2GHz base clock vs 2.8GHz base clock). It can pause both at the beginning of an instruction and at any non-instruction fetch memory access. Unfortunately, it can't currently accommodate wait-states on instruction fetch.

Fixing that is on my to-do list and I have a decent idea of how to do it without killing performance. I'm also flirting with a re-write of that will enable better performance generally. My current approach is pretty naive (doesn't even do redundant flag calculation elimination), but my handling of self-modifying code makes it hard to safely improve that without some fairly major changes.
>"everything must always build against latest" is perfectly enforceable on multirepo too, it's just that nobody does it

No, you cannot. That's my entire point. Here's a minimal example:

Repo one contains one file, provider.py:

def five():
return 5

Repo two contains one file, consumer.py.

import provider # assume path magic makes this work
def test_five_is_produced():
assert provider.five() == 5

if __name__ == '__main__':
test_five_is_produced()

I also have an external build script that copies provider and consumer, from origin/master/HEAD into the same directory, and runs `python consumer.py`.

Now I want to change `five` to actually be `number`, such that `number(n) == n`, ie. I really want a more generic impl. What sequence of changes can I commit such that tests will always pass, at any point in time?

There is no way to atomically update both provider and consumer. There will be some period of time, perhaps only milliseconds, but some period of time, at which point I can run my build script and it will pick up incompatible versions of the two files.

This is a reductive example, but the function `five` in this case takes the role of a more complex API of some kind.
yeah - you gotta manage the extraction. think of it as heat mining/fishing. you want a rate of extraction just less than the replenishment rate or else you screw up the reservoir.
"Apple ensures devices get slow as they get older" Do you have a statistic for that or is that anecdotal?

I'm perfectly happy with my 5 year old iphone. I notice the Facebook/Skype/Slack app get larger and larger over time. https://sensortower.com/blog/ios-app-size-growth Primary reason to upgrade for me is lack of security updates, Apple stopped supporting the iphone 5 (any 32bit CPU device) for example.
A castle in the sky valuation, maybe?
"Fake news" is about to get a whole lot worse.
Why earth gravity?
This reads as if you're trying to draw a similarity between Oumuamua and Rama, but if that's the case, Rama was spherical, so I don't see the similarity. The only other thing I can think of is that the 2OO1(&) monolith was rectangular, but they never really moved IIRC.

(&): Sorry, screenreaders, but it's so much nicer with the letter 'o' rather than zeros :/
Love the UX and feature-set of Keybase, this product keeps getting better. Kudos to the team!

Still need to see a security audit before I would consider using Keybase for my company's hazmat/key material though.
Depends who you ask. If you talk to people knowledgeable about deep learning and its applicability they’ll say we’re in the productivity regime. If you’re asking people who aren’t knowledgeable then they will display their hype.
better than 2001.

I thought the commie Russians dated the novel when I read it in the 90s, but here we are, 2017, and everyone is worried about the Ruskies again. Funny ol world.
> You would think the more intelligent someone is, the more of a critical thinker they would be

IME, many intelligent, successful people are merely manipulated in a different way, by appealing to their egos. They don't believe they are vulnerable to manipulation; they believe that they can detect if someone is lying and that if something is persuasive to them then it meets a high standard.

I've known salespeople who sell to the wealthy and successful; it's just a different sales pitch, AFAICT.
...no? It was cylindrical in the book.
And how would they do this? Should they have tried to keep fire secret until this problem was solved?
Yes, I think we're about to enter the final stage before the bubble bursts. My uncle had one of his retired friends ask about bitcoin. It's on CNBC every morning now, and seems like it's starting to go mainstream.

I got into Bitcoin back in 2010.
Unfortunately I only have a small percentage of my Bitcoin "fortune" intact, having cashed out most of it below $100.
You know, if everyone on facebook would stop doing this stuff:

[link deleted since although it's all over the internet, who knows if that subject agreed to it being everywhere anyway it's "Guy slightly changes his friend's Facebook pictures"]

then I think it would help the platform. It was a great site when it was just basically a nicely formatted yellow pages for people, with no news feed. Now it's just another place trying (well it feels like it) to push, bot generated news down my throat. This kind of sucks because I can tell they, do, put a lot of effort into what they are doing (which means they must care about it) but the result is still much worse than when it was just a personal homepage, (imho of course). Also I get the creepy feeling that they it's the most likely thing to turn into the people rating engine (like the black mirror episode), so that kind of turns me off, quite a bit (I mean, that wouldn't be quite as bad as having jew armbands in 1939, but... it's in that direction certainly).
I enjoyed his comments on Tensorflow.

> It’s really bad to use. There’s so much hype around it, but the number of people who are actually using it to build real things that make a difference is probably very low.

I wonder how many data scientists out there are actually developing Tensorflow models for a mission-critical project at work. I'm not. I have used Tensorflow successfully within my personal projects, but I've yet to need it for anything "real."
This articulated so much I have learned about the field in the past 5 years. As someone who inherited the title 'data scientist' because that's how my department designated us when it became fashionable, felt fraudulent due to the unlimited expectations of what data science is vs. what I understood it to be, and subsequently has interviewed probably nearly a hundred data science and machine learning 'experts', there seems to be little cohesion to what these terms describe, little understanding by laypersons about data science besides that it is some kind of magic that only the very gifted can command, and no greater distance between hubris and praxis that I have seen sustain itself for so long and so intensely.

The whole interview was an absolute joy to read.
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It doesn't help them at all. Google and Facebook can afford to pay whatever their users are worth to them and the ISPs can demand every last cent of that.

It's exactly analogous to the RIAA squeezing music startups dry: You absolutely have to pay them so why would they demand anything less than everything you make?

So why should ISPs demand anything less than everything the internet companies make?
drilling the well is about $1 million per km. only a few spots around the world make 1-2 km wells cost effective for extracting energy for electricity. this is even worse with the costs of PV installed now 100 fold less than the marginal cost of geothermal.

having said that, a resilient system would have a baseload of electricity from geothermal, some peaking from hydro and plenty of PV/wind. mind you, i'm biased since i live in NZ and we're well on the way to 95+% electricity renewables...
We don't know the source of the fake comments, the FCC is expressly not cooperating with the NY AG on this issue and I suspect that it'll take a court order to get that information from the FCC. The question is why not cooperate, especially in a criminal investigation? It's very weird, and at a minimum looks bad.
I quit FB but didn’t delete my account. I just deactivated it.

Boy they would send me emails with one-liner teasers of my friends posts hoping I would go back. They even sent me an email with one-click to immediately activate my account. So I simply filtered these emails to the trash.

They have texted me twice so far but I simply ignored it.

Been few months and it’s much better now.
Find something else to reward yourself with. For example, a drink of flavored water or a sip of coffee/tea. Also, try coding offline. I always do my best programming when offline– pencil and paper is the best.

If you've already implemented a method in pseudocode, you can use StackOverflow/documentation/Google/etc to look up the actual API calls once you're translating the program into code.