skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FA is the first thing that anyone who remotely googles for "identifying music technical implementation" pops up. The idea that someone couldn't figure this out on their own just because they didn't have rich parents who could afford to send them to some school is quite mistaken.

Put yourself in their shoes. You're you. You weren't sent to a school. What would you do to figure out the problem? Would you really hack around for years without success, or would you look up related material, read, study the problem, and check for existing solutions and scholarly articles on the topic? You know, all the things that a Real Engineer does.

And you'd get results quickly. Because you are a real engineer regardless of whether you went to a school.
Who would have guessed that this story about the behavior of fluids seems to kind of leak.
It also has a headphone jack while being IP67 and is still reasonably thin, which is an insurmountable design feat according to some opinions I've seen here.

"User replaceable" barely does it justice either. I just had the battery in my hands in under 5 seconds easily. People earlier in the thread stating iPhone batteries are easily user replaceable are ridiculous, when the process can take upward of 20 minutes, and can leave the phone temporarily inoperable if any of the multiple connectors aren't quite seated correctly. I'm also intrigued as to where all this imaginary extra weight and bulk is coming from when implementing specifically the S5 battery enclosure design, because having stripped down hundreds of iPhones and dozens of Galaxy variants I just don't see it.
I am economist and I have expressed deep reservations about bitcoin (generally, any currency, including crypto-currencies, that have a finite supply https://medium.com/@jamesjunghanns/my-0-00000173120-btc-a-pr...).

I am always extraordinarily suspicious of any explanation of a large market movement (downwards or upwards) that is attributed to somebody saying or doing something. The reason is it's fair that there be a few market participants are so uncertain about the value of their assets and their prospective evolution that they react suddenly, but if the market is so shallow that apparently most participants just react to technical trends, then you have a problem.

I wish also to add that the market turning “just about now” had been predicted quite a long time out (30 November) on the public record by the application of the well-known financial model Log-Periodic Power Law (LPPL), whose application to the BTY/USD exchange rate can be read here:
https://mynabla.com/2017/11/30/bubble-trouble-exploring-an-l...

So no, bitcoin did not tank because some “idiot swede” said something inopportune. It tanked because the market was totally disconnected from reality (and has been for ages, maybe forever), and because apparently a large proportion of participants are trading purely on technical and not fundamental valuations, and therefore act in unison and pro-cyclically in a shallow and illiquid market. Add to this that it is probably noxious for any economy to adopt a fixed-quantity, deflationary currency, and... there you have it.
You are allowed to get a request of all personal data that someone/some company has one you. So you can contact Facebook and say "Please give me a copy of all the data you hold on me" and they have to give it to you. When Max Schrems did they first, Facebook did send a CD with a ~1,000 page PDF "print out". It garnered some media attention since it shows how much they do collect on people./

The maximum they can charge is set in law and is about €5.

More details for Facebook here: http://europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data...
So an AC2 server needs certain IP to work? You can license that IP as a product or publish the API and contracts, allowing third parties to emulate that IP.

Not all codebases have a clean separation between "own code" and "third-party code". If the AC2 devs licensed a commercial engine and then heavily modified it, the abandoned IP is still a derivative work of non-abandoned IP.
Because you often need documents on stressful occasions such after the death of a family member, after an accident, after losing your job, after an IRS audit. You really want to be going over n documents with the possibility of missing one or more during such times?
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The electromagnetic spectrum is a limited and crowded part of the commonwealth, and citizens can require that it is being used in their interests.
I’ve never worked at Google but my read on them is that they’re an algorithm company, not a product company. They tend to hire algorithm nerds and pass on folks who, like Max Howell, can design and build useful products. As a result, their core, algorithm based, functionality is successful, but they fail at new product design over and over, creating and retiring flawed products ad infinitum.
What principle. So you will not comply with a user who wants to remove his personal data from your service by his request just because of principle?

In theory any person should be able to ask a service to remove all his personal data if he wishes. EU just makes this a law which, IMO is very good.

It's funny how people praise privacy and at the same time don't want to do anything about it for their userbase.
The shorting started. Let's see if there's anyone willing to protect BTC and at which level.
Looking at https://www.coindesk.com/price/ it looks like it's at the same price as the start of the month.

Still, looking at the graph for the year, recent months have seen a massive spike.
I think people vastly underestimates the social factors involved (e.g. status) and are willfully assuming that there is some rational economic factors to explain it.
I wish I could find a laptop with:

- a none-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU

- more than two hours of battery at full load

- not a complete piece of garbage otherwise

I could deal with absolutely everything else on my own. Weight won't be a problem, as I'll be putting the thing in a backpack. The actual screen won't be a problem, I'll be plugging in a VR headset. Keyboard and trackpad aren't an issue, I'll be using VR controllers. I just want a max-spec VR rig that I can wear on my back for more than 2 hours. And if I'm not in VR, everything comes with USB-C now, so I should be able to setup a dock to my 4K monitor and good keyboard and mouse.

Hell, forget the battery. I'll hack together a DC powerbank on my own; it's not that hard. I just want full power and not-garbage WiFi and audio drivers.

But I've yet to find this computer. I've found a bunch of VR-ready laptops that creak under their own weight if you lift them by the corner, or they throttle the GPU even when plugged in, or they can't stay connected to a WiFi network for more than 4 hours, or they pick up EMF over the speakers from all over everywhere. I'm sorry, but if I'm going to be spending more than $3000 on a computer, I expect it to work and not break itself.
Isn't dropbox doing it partially to aid a future migration to Python 3?

> In which case it seems prudent to avoid the said amount of work by picking another programming language for one's large-scale code base

When I first saw Instagram I thought it was nonsense, I was wrong. When the founders started Instagram, I wonder if they had the amazing foresight to see what it would become. I would suggest getting to market was more valuable to them than worrying about what maintenance they would have to do once they had a billion dollars
You're suggesting a free market approach. "Just don't use the service if you don't like the terms". That's fine. But there should be limitations on what people can sign away. You cannot agree to work for below minimum wage, and you cannot sell yourself into slavery, and you cannot sign away your personal data rights.
TensorFlow also supports Intel Xeon Phi as an alternative

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/tensorflow-optimiz...
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> If we're going to apply it backwards to any web hosting service where the host was not explicitly managed

But that's the thing - there is no "the host" any more. In the days of yore, if the physical machine hosting your site failed, your site went down. Maybe some rare services had failover and redundancy to some degree, but they were primitive at best compared to AWS (and the other serverless providers, for that matter) today. There was simply no comparison to the ecosystem that exists today. Have you ever had to manage production hosts before? It simply boggles my mind how many people throw out these "the cloud is just somebody else's computer" comparisons - like they've never had to diagnose JVM garbage collection thrashing at 3 in the morning before, or dealt with a server that goes down due to 100% of disk space being consumed by logs, or patch a massive fleet in a matter of hours in response to a CVE, or a power outage, or a hyper-localized network event in a data center, or any of the other million+ super annoying problems that come with managing physical hosts, and to a large degree, VMs/VPSes.
No, the contents of the instances are managed by a separate NixOps network, since it would be wasteful to send the full image (~1GB) for each instance each time a package is updated.

The purpose of the base image is to preinstall something that's ready for NixOps to "take over" with whatever I actually want to run on the VM.
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A percent of revenue doesn't help with abandoned works, though.
> Market success or user count are unfortunately not tightly correlated with technical excellence, as many of us have bitterly found out

It depends on how you define technical excellence. I would suggest a low memory usage might get you a thumbs up from HN, but isn't real technical excellence the ability to solve users problems?
What happened to Google Maps?
Yes, it's possible that FB will abandon the EU market, but the EU is large, and I'm sure they get a lot of revenue from EU adverts.

If they turn off access for the EU, then many people will try to produce a new social network that can play by EU rules. You already know the features that are needed, just look at what FB does now. Social networks are very suspectible to the network effect. This/these new companies will be able to operate in the USA and EU, whereas facebook chooses to avoid EU. So what happens when there is another social network that's about as big as Facebook? Is that a good move for FB?
> It's available from the Microsoft Store in Europe

No. The links you provide are for the 13.5", notice they all specify a 1050 and make no mention of a 15" option unlike the US store[0].

The article and my comment are about the 15" machine, which is literally only available on the US storefront (not even the Canadian one[1]) with no word whatsoever that I could find (so far) as to its eventual availability outside the US.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/d/surface-book-2/8MCPZ...

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/store/d/surface-book-2/8MCPZ...

PS: comment formatting on HN is a pile of garbage.
I believe there is an elegant way for regulation. Regulation authorities just have to "taint" the coins according to some rules and publish the result.

For example they say which coins are clean and which are dirty and define a rule that upon a transaction you must first spend away your clean coins (the clean and dirty coins sets are updated by watching the blockchain).

By creating such an overlay currency over an exiting one they can provide incentive for actors to self regulate (i.e. you won't be willing to accept coins which you know are dirty if it means you won't be able to cash them out).

Anyone can create such an overlay coin (I call them rainbow coins). For example you can define a rule which will add a stamp to coins which go through a specific address (The idea being that people then send coins to this address, you send them back a fraction but this fraction is now "stamped").

What is great about this solution is that it can be applied to all public ledgers.

It doesn't work for the crypto currencies which don't have a public ledger (like Monero, Zcash, ...) but those are more risky per nature, as any implementation bug could mean that all the money can be diluted away and nobody would know.
> When it first emerged, many people questioned it's (sic) basic premise

As they did Charles Ponzi's international reply coupons.

> That is all kind of the same vibe as Bitcoin

You mean the creator(s) who went to great lengths to hide their identities (that's reassuring), or do you mean the various ripoff artists, fraudsters, imprisoned scammers etc.?

> It has securely held Billions of USD equivalents in value for years.

So did tech stocks in 1999...so did subprime mortgages in 2007...
Why are "developer", "moderator", "server", "massive" (the developer), and "worldinconflict" banned?
If the equations are only useful approximations anyway, why are edge case breakdowns so important or surprising like the article seems to indicate? If they are as imprecise as Newton's laws, why are mathematicians looking for "unfailing" precision from them?

Or is the article simply wrong in the initial few paragraphs?
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> If Facebook declines to pay these fines, then presumably their execs would be arrested if they ever travelled anywhere in the EU.

Facebook Ireland Ltd is a company in Ireland (an EU member). Every FB user outside the US & Canada has a legal agreement with them. I don't know who you pay when an EU entity buys adverts on FB, but if it's to FB Ireland Ltd, then there's the money you take. FB also has offices all over the EU. That's the property you sieze and charge.
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Non US citizens have been subject to warrantless surveillance by NSA etc for some time now. That was fine, apparently?
This is an interesting post - not because of the content provided by the author but because of this discussion thread!
Internet-outragism I am going to use this term. Thanks homebrew guy
Let's also see how fast something with 0 utility value can fall when the hype stops.
I'm reminded of an amusing projection of telephone switchboard operator jobs (from the early 1900s) soon occupying half the US population, but can't find it right now.
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Here we go again.

I said earlier on HN to buy in at $3,800, roughly 3 months ago.

Then I said to buy in at $5,900, when BTC bottomed out after China started regulating it. It was a good price.

The time to buy is now, when it's been crashing. This is always true after a crash.

So, let me go 3 for 3: Hocus, pocus, $14,000 is a pretty good buy-in price. Those who have been waiting should do so now.
Finally registered to Hacker News just to say thanks for this. I wanted to use Google Cloud for so long but because I'm in Europe, I can't use it for non-business purpose. The algorithms I'm interested in seem to work pretty well so far for what I tested (text detection).
I wouldn't say 0 utility but for sure not anywhere near it is now.
Tulips still have "utility" today but a single one does not buy you a house anymore ;)
He can just block EU residents from registering to his service, obviously explaining why.
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Will remind you when the hype/bubble is gone and bitcoin is traded below 100 :)
My laptop runs fine for development and all I need on 8GB. 16GB would be a waste.

What are you guys doing making you need 32?
It's a lot slower to do retroactively. You basically have to tell the computer why you believe something is correct - e.g. if you're moving to having a distinct type for non-empty lists because some functions are only valid for non-empty lists, you have to explain why you believe a list you're passing to such a function is non-empty. That's a lot easier to do at the same time you're doing it (even in Python you'd probably still ask yourself whether you knew the list was non-empty as you were writing it) than to come back months or years later and remember why.
Have you looked at the HP Omen X17. I've only looked at them in the store, but it should fulfill your requirements and while the build quality isn't Apple quality, it is the best build quality I've seen in a gaming laptop.
Didn't MS also say that IE is a core part of Windows?
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This is outrageous. As a fellow Canadian whose parents immigrated here, I am fed up with Canada's reputation as friendly and welcoming to foreigners. While it is to a degree, the racism here is much stronger than people seem to be willing to acknowledge.
Note that he's asking for to be flamed in a forum notorious for banning critics.

The 'idiot felon Swede' is making great moves in promoting his fork and Bitcoin in general. I think the Bitcoin community should be glad for the attention this drama generates.
> Apple documents that without the battery (i.e. on AC Power) the CPU is underclocked

This is an utterly absurd apology on behalf of Apple, something very common in this thread it seems.

Alternatively, perhaps Apple should sell their high-end model with an appropriately powerful AC adapter, regardless of the absence of the battery?
Uh huh, and all of my "Buy in at $3,900; buy in at $5,800" comments were downvoted too.

It's remarkable how influential groupthink is. Everyone is panic selling, so of course the logical action is to buy. It's never a good time to buy when everyone's been buying! This is the only correct time to do a long-term bet.

This is all quite mistaken for day trading, but that's not this strategy.
Why would you even consider shorting BTC in the last few days? There was no negative news at all. Might look smart in hindsight but complete speculation IMO for this short timeframe.
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I like the dramatic style this opinion is written.
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It's slower when done retroactively. A developer writing typed code has the problem domain and software design unmarshaled into his brain while writing his small section. Type testing occurs concurrently with feature testing. Types added retroactively need to be applied to a large codebase and undergo separate testing.
What are modern alternatives to jQuery mobile ?
If you are going to describe the fluid motion as probabilities, are you going to assume those probabilities to be independent or not?

An independence assumption really helps with computation. However, considering the `eddies' in turbulence, I'd suppose there is large and complex coupling between the probabilities of flow even for positions that are separated.

You might deal with the coupling, but at a first guess that feels like it requires tracking many branching paths, which would have exponential memory requirements.
Are you shorting on CBOE?
How is the performance, how good does it scale horizontal/vertical?

Could it be used as a replacement to Kafka message queue/ring?

(me is still looking for a Kafka-like piece coded in Go)
On an asset with no fundamental value, shorting is appealing because it can create the negative news cycle. Short enough and you get headlines like the one in the OP: "Bitcoin plunges by X%". Suddenly you'll have longs looking to sell and more shorts hoping to get in.
> non-nerfed NVidia GTX 1080 GPU

Surely that would be larger than most laptops on its own..
Why would it make any difference if Satoshi were still around? He can't make arbitrary changes to the consensus rules any more easily than anyone else can.

And you might not be able to take money away from the powerful, but you can still throw them in prison.
> if you apply civil standards of proof, you can't mete out punishments. You can only adjudicate rights: "which one of us gets to stay?"

So you're fine with expelling a student (and likely ruining his life) on the basis of the findings of this 'court', so long as we don't admit that it's effectively a punishment?

> You can't ignore the cost of false negatives in order to avoid false positives.

So you disagree with Blackstone's "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer", I take it?

Erring on the side of 'not guilty' is a cornerstone of civilised justice systems. It isn't 'ignoring' anything.

> if you're being rational, you're trying to minimize SocialCost(false_positives) + SocialCost(false_negatives).

No. Again I refer you to Blackstone's formulation. Your utility function fails to capture the whole picture.

> Setting the burden of proof high to minimize false positives does not minimize the total social cost.

Yes it does. Blackstone was right.

What you are suggesting undermines the legitimacy of the justice system, which brings great costs. It also makes false accusations more likely, as well as more harmful.

It also assumes that a bad outcome is no worse for having been committed by the state, which is not so; it is far worse that an injustice be committed by the state than by ordinary citizens.
Yunohost makes it easy to implement (done in a few clicks). And yunohost has a really nice github clone (Gogs if you haven't heard of it). Yunohost itself is super easy to get working and even has a raspberry pi version. Debian based:)
This assumes that code should be read as prose. I posit that code should be skimmed, then the eye can track right if the code is relevant to the task at hand. This is all subjective, which is why I feel soft-wrapping is appropriate as it allows the coder to decide their preference.
To save everyone's time - It is because of....FUD!!

The favorite go-to explanation for everything in cryptocurrencies.

That said, why is this being voted up? It fails the basic test mentioned in the guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ok im done with HN... its like the elders home of SV.
"those damn kind with those stooopeed comyuters....
we had real rice boards back in ww1 that was a nice time..
interwebs hazh no walluey anywaysh

We can argue about the correct price of bitcoin sure, but that it has 0 utility in a world full of athoritarian goverments, its like saying hideouts for jew in Nazi germany had 0 utility. Fucking ridicolous and stupid, dont want to even sugarcoat that level of stupidity. Sugercoating you stupid asses here on HN leads exactly to this Political correctness that got Trump into power.

So fkc off, go suck Trumps Dck if you love his money so much.
> 1. I feel like most of the desire for a static language is to know what type something is. Is C++ exactly as brief as Python? No, as I think you've demonstrated. But I think you're a lot more likely to know the type of something.

Sure, but you don't have to choose between them, there are plenty of languages where you can have both Pythonic terseness and full type safety. E.g. Scala:

(for {k <- somelist} yield (k.weight, k.name)).sorted.reverse

Many other strongly typed (ML-like) functional languages are similar.
This is only a good strategy, when you think this pump and dump will continue forever - I doubt it!
That's the problem I think with the futures market; because BTC is / can be anonymized, there can be big mules that short BTC, then sell off their BTC. Because the BTC trade is susceptible for panic, other people will start panic selling, further lowering the price. And the bigger mules that shorted BTC earn money both from selling their assets at a high price and the shorting.
This seems like the regular pattern. It goes up for a while, then you see a drop back of about 30% of the rise. Then after a short while it picks up again and in not time it has recovered from the drop, to gain more value. Then repeat.

I have invested a small amount in bitcoins, and just wait until it hits $100k. If I lose all, bad luck. The amount invested is worth the risk.
What do you want to learn? Network security? Application security? Secrets management? Security operations?

I'm sure there are fields where data science is useful, like anomaly detection, malware classification etc.