skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Geez guys, I chose a term that I thought most people would be more likely to understand. I realize that some of us have worked a lot more on numerical methods, but other hackers never made it past Calculus 2.
Monty Python's Flying Circus.
It does in a way. When I watched standard tv programmes years ago, the ads would be a thing you have to go through, and try to ignore. Now they're not tolerable - I'll choose not watching something over watching it with ads. Not sure if it makes me more susceptible to ads I do see (unlikely, I barely but anything anyway), but it limits the exposure a lot.
YouTube ads don’t tell you what to buy? Or, they aren’t displayed on something box shaped?

If you mean the ads are better quality, then that’s even worse. Better ads mean you’re being told what to buy... more effectively.
Probably depends on how they make curriculum.
Some of the things I remember having been taught:

runge-kutta
analythic geometry
turbo pascal (or one of his relatives)
DFA/NFA

Some of the things I find useful at work:

memory and cache behaviour on different archs
Dijkstra's algorithm
posix

I mean, chance of being lucky to learn exactly the things that will be useful in programming (as opposed to other less volatile arts) is a small one.
Gives away hundreds of dollars in value in exchange for an email address, any email address.

HN complains.
Also important is that capital gains on your primary residence are (for typical homes) tax-free.
> I live in NJ, another state where the $200k-$400k will be hurt. Believe me, that is solidly middle class

The median household in New Jersey in 2016 had an income of $76,212. (Source: https://www.census.gov/data-tools/demo/saipe/saipe.html?s_ap...)

In the highest-income county in New Jersey, Hunterdon County, the median household in 2016 had an income of $113,336.

You may wish to adjust your definition of “solidly middle class” a bit.
Good to know; thank you.
Still long on bitcoin, but also wouldn't be surprised if it lost 70% of its value in short term.

He does bring up some great points regarding transaction throughput and the team productivity.

It seems like lightning network is the tool to get a lot of cheap, fast transactions done via bitcoin and turn it into a really useful viable currency.

However, that has taken a long time just to get to test mode. Much of the fate of bitcoin is tied to that github repository and pull requests. There has never been another open source software project with this much money riding on it. Can this team continue to deliver value?

There are other concerns like deflationary spirals, volatility, etc., but my bet on bitcoin is largely a bet on the dev team and whether or not useful pull requests get created & merged and what that velocity is.
I work in D.C. and you run into these stories all the time and I can't help but wonder "How does you leaving makes things better?"
I wonder if he could make something like the totally unobtainable Curtis filter chips, or other devices which are long out of production but still desirable? I'd think there would be a business in there if it is doable at a sane price. Obviously I have no idea how complex the internals of such a chip are - is an 'analogue' chip significantly different internally to the CPU talked about in the article?
One sign of a bubble: people who have no idea what it is are trying to get in.

Public companies are adding "crypto", "blockchain" to their company names are seeing their stock price boom. That's how you know its a bubble.
I read it as an extended argument for concluding that there is no such thing as an 'unknown alloy.' I have seen this as a tactic to pressure people to provide more details.

Simply writing "we don't believe them when they say this" doesn't carry as much weight as "we don't believe them because x, y, and z."
Nice comment, you seem like you know your stuff. My opinion is without fundamentals or historical or correlated assets here you can't price tail risk beyond throwing a dart. Look at the Futures margin reqs, it's like 40%. A ridiculously high number and that's probably still a compromise because they halt trading for the day around 20%, otherwise I imagine there would be almost no margin given. Price of tail risk is not being priced.
Anecdata: When I, on occasion, use the internet someone else's computer, who does not have an ad blocker, I'm horrified. "THIS is the internet they live with?!" They typically seem not to notice the ads, or accept them as the status quo.

So, my hypothesis is that exposure to ads does not have any benefits. I would not extend this hypothesis to product placement, however.
You can either use lscpu, which is less accurate, or the best way is to check:

cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/cpuinfo_cur_freq

where instead of cpu0 you can write any core number, and it will give you the current frequency of that core in KHz.
I'm not sure if it's significant to the statistics, but Comcast has always given me an internet+cable package for cheaper than the internet by itself. So for my household, the cable box is just a big electronic coupon.
Thanks for posting this. But, what does the ICO mean here?
Are they some kind of shares of the company? Investors? What influence does that bring with?

If no one chooses to use their Basic Attention Token, will the project survive?
Elon Musk is the current king of marketing in the tech industry. Apple should take some lessons.
Building a mining rig with AMD GPUs
Good point. My brother, a veteran, will not own a Kia because of the Killed in Action acronym. I cannot blame him.
Right. Something that modern society is good at is smoothing out random variations. After a local catastrophe, the rest of the country (or, sometimes, the world) will lend you a helping hand nowadays. But back then, your whole tribe would get wiped out.

Similar for non-life-threatening events. Food input decrease in your area? You barely notice it in the somewhat higher prices, because society is routing food to you from other places. But your hunter-gatherer ancestors would be hungry for days or weeks.

We're better adapted for a harsh, variable environment, and it's funny how our cozy, temperature-controlled dwellings are causing a whole host of new issues.
Ask HN: What are the best scholarly papers you read in 2017?
An AskHN question about best book made me aware I've read many more papers than books lately. (I mean scholarly/academic articles, not newspapers!)
Any field is great, name a few if 1 is too hard to pick. And maybe omit the ones you have to be a specialist in your exact field to understand a word of. Thanks!
Simply call it what it is: "An equation free introduction to MCMC".
> The $165k entry is two earners - all of these are fairly realistic examples.

$165k houshold income puts them barely outside the top 10% of households, though [0]. Its not unrealistic, per se (its not the top 1%, for example), but ~90% of households make less than that, so its not particularly useful, either.

[0] https://dqydj.com/united-states-household-income-brackets-pe...
They should seriously consider "channels" whereby something random is always playing by genre.
Quantitative Analysis and Machine learning for fun and profit
I don't see how you could implement the (k.attr).for_(k) part. That's essentially an assignment, a macro could maybe convert it to a lambda, but I don't see how it would be done macro-free.
There are amateur gamblers, then there are professional gamblers.

The later do have systems in place to make money off the former.
Waste is something that is unnecessary. Competing for PoW solution is critical. There is no waste. If you know a different way of solving the consensus problem, tell us.
My interpretation was that the origin of the material was simply unknown, which doesn't mean much.

If I wake up in the morning and there's an unexpected beer can in my yard that I did not place there, then that would be an object that arrived from an unknown origin. It doesn't make the object itself particularly mysterious, but you could have a lot of fun imagining how it got there or why it was placed there. And you can imagine that getting reported in an interesting way. Did a squirrel carry it into the yard? Did a neighbor drink a beer and toss the can into the yard? Did beer drinking aliens drop it from a space ship into the yard? Well, the latter is a fun story.

Of course it's infinitely more interesting to have a genuinely mysterious alloy or element that is inexplicable or just new and fascinating for whatever reason. I'm sure a lot of people felt that way about vanadium oxide, for example.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/vanadium-oxides/8838...
You are right. The article only claimed to provide a list of expert suggestions on how to fix the New York subway and it did that. I'm the one who wants it to be more.

It strikes a chord because the suggestions offered feel like so many tech roadmap planning meetings I've been in where the technology itself is the end and not a means to an end. Without the greater context I am not sure how anyone can evaluate the suggestions to try and predict whether or not they will accomplish the stated goal.

Assume the hallways were widened, all the relays, monitoring rooms and signals were updated addressing each quote you provided. Is New York's subway fixed now? Maybe it's better for some definitions of better but I digress...
And that made sense back when distribution and funding the creators was hard. That is no longer the case today.
I've been playing with this UI and while it's great, I feel like there're bits on Google Cloud Console that aren't friendly, this UI also impacted, for example:

* In the top search field you cannot search for an IP address, I haven't been able to find anything globally, not sure why it's there.

* Pages like Firewall Rules, Routes, or External IP Addresses don't have filtering fields. Have 2000 instances in GKE cluster? Good luck finding something, paginating through hundred of pages.

* In Google Cloud DNS, when creating an A record you cannot copypaste 5 IP addresses into a field, you have to click + 4 times to get 5 textfields and copypaste each address into every field.

* Unrelated to UI but extremely annoying: When deleting LB services or ingress rules inside GKE cluster, forwarding rules/target proxies and full load balancing chain is preserved and leads nowhere. You have to clean those up manually which is a stressful operation.

* Last but not least, would have been nice to be able to see PVCs that are not currently used. When disk is in Bound state it means PVC is there but it's StatefulSet may have been deleted long ago and someone just forgot to delete it's PVCs.

The terminal Web Shell is surprisingly well-engineered and I actually like using it.

I think Google Cloud Console needs a bit of polish, because even when you automate things a lot, sometimes you need to perform manual tests of things and Console does not make it easier.

Maybe @boulos could pass a little bit of feedback :-)
Why We're Updating the Minimum BitPay Payment Amount to $100
A guide to using NoScript 10.x
I've heard from retirees of my acquaintance that at a less elevated level, you can regularly eat for free at fine restaurants courtesy of people who want to give you a sales pitch on managing your nest egg. It's possible to socially engineer the social engineers.
The NYT article they are discussing -

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-prog...
I can't watch normal cable TV anymore with all the commercials. I honestly think there are more commercials and they're longer these days.
Yet cities like buenos aires with rampant poverty don't have this issue and it doesn't nearly as much to solve that particular problem.

It is a problem of policy and one that affects both the homeless and the non homeless people tremendously. I guess if the couple that had kept the presidio street and were to put up the homeless tents there , the problem would find a solution much faster.

As many others, its a problem of political will. What is unique, is that people everyday have to deal with homeless people in SF and yet its not a top agenda. Smoking pot is tho.
Would love to try, thank you!
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So instead of watching content provided by the major networks over Coax delivered to you by one of the major ISPs, you watch content over TCP/IP brought to you by one of the major ISPs owned by the same content providers. Hulu is 30% own by Fox, Disney, and Comcast and the other 10% is owned by Time Warner.

You're still watching content on your television, over a wire, brought to you by the major content providers. What's the difference again?

I also subscribe to Netflix, commercial free Hulu, and commercial free CBS. But how I get my content isn't in a practical sense any different than a cable subscriber except for a lack of ads and I don't have to pay all of the extra fees.

I'm also not bothered about admitting I have 6 TVs throughout my house all with Rokus.
This is the most polite way to express exactly my thoughts.
Picquiz: Picture Puzzle Game
Unfortunately GDAX by default only allows to withdraw $10k per day. It's possible to ask for an increased limit, but reviewing those requests currently seems to take multiple weeks for them.
On average in USA poor inner city school receive 15% less. That's the actual numbers. Some states have a more fair funding system and than there is PA. BUT if you look at the bottom states in Education, Miss, WV, and VA they allocate less money to education. In PA a teacher makes about $42,000 first year and in WV you get $28,500.
A few seconds on any major exchange, assuming you don't mean in the billions of USD.
Normally, yes.
Nothing new for me. Just trying to decouple some components from my side project from a year ago.

For those interested, this is a JS/React project.

The app is an open-source version of Alfred built on top of Electron/React -- https://github.com/vutran/dext

While it's very difficult at the moment to work on the app itself, I decided to just extract the search component to be reused elsewhere so I've started building Omnibar (https://github.com/vutran/omnibar).
I am interested in mdp Markov decision processes. Are they useful compared to other techniques? How do I learn about them?
> our bodies are very different to the people who lived like that

True, but I think the differences can still be explained 99% by changes in lifestyle. Genetically we are still overwhelmingly similar - with a few tiny differences like lactose tolerance, etc.
Comcast cable wasn't cheaper for me once I took into account all of the extra fees involved.
Taking a look specifically at the Big Bang Theory, up until Season 10, most episodes were around 21 minutes. Season 10 had episodes around 20-21 minutes, and the current season (11) hovers around the 19-20 minute mark.

When I was in High School, our English teacher actually wrote and produced a TV show and was telling us about her experience and some of the things she had to do to cut episodes in the right amount of time for commercials. At the time (mid 2000s), the average was 23 minutes of show per 30 minute episode.

Looking across my library at recent shows, it seems to average about 21 minutes nowadays.
except that smart games like factorio only accounts a super tiny amount of gamers, most of which are actually playing games like league of legends, call of duty, cs go, dota 2, hearthstone and overwatch. they're all really fun games don't get me wrong.
web app tools...
I wonder how this compares with Redox OS. This is Plan 9-like, which Redox could be with its 'everything is a URI' concept, but I haven't used either to see.
Likewise; I think that's because (my interaction with) Factorio is much simpler; it's scratching the "build and organize" itch. I find this game to be relaxing after a hard day at work. (I'm sure this would change if I was trying to build and debug a complex circuit network).

As others have mentioned, Zachlikes are basically programming, and in particular the debugging / pipeline optimization parts can quickly drain my enthusiasm if I've been doing a lot of hard coding at work.
How to Manage Superheroes
There is a market for public good: charities
As I recall, back in the day, SoundForge was the lightest and fastest audio editor for Windows. (On the Mac there were of course many choices for simple editing, going all the way back to SoundEdit16.) It was a little sad to SoundForge sold to Sony. The author should be proud of that software. There was nothing else comparable for Windows back then, to my knowledge. Interesting that he became involved with something as different as Bitcoin.
Forgot to add one more observation: similar thing with GCP healthchecks: they get preserved when underlying GKE objects change or get deleted. I even tried to delete a whole GKE cluster and Healtchecks were still there, checking nothing.
props to him and his parents for supporting this. Hope this story will inspire other kids. Personally i'm inspired, adding this to my "bucket list" of satisfying things to do when i will have time (someday...i hope...)
I'm speaking from experience. It's a generational gap, I think, which is why it's hard to understand. But it's true.

FA is using cosines up and down the spectrum to convert a set of samples (audio, image, etc) into a frequency spectrum (the magnitude associated with each cosine).

I didn't have to look that up. I just know it. And I'm no genius. This isn't nearly as difficult as it seems.

Especially because universities usually spoonfeed you information at an absurdly slow rate. There's value in that – I'd wager you could whip me if we have to bust out some paper and solve some integrals. But then again, I can just get a computer to do that hard work for me. I know what integrals mean and why they're useful, which is far more important than the rote memorization of techniques to solve them.

Now, if you want to argue that there are specializations that you can only learn in university, you'll get no disagreement from me. Distributed systems is a perfect example. On the other hand, I know those fundamentals too because I completed 6.824 on my own time. It's freely available.

And yeah, matrix math is a piece of cake too.

The world has simply changed. Information used to be valuable and guarded. Now all that matters is raw talent and motivation.

And credentials, sadly. But the world is slowly learning those aren't a great proxy for talent.

It's probably hard to empathize because you were well off enough to go to university. But you have to remember that intelligence is mostly genetic (probably), so talent can come from all walks of life. What would you have done if your parents had a massive divorce and someone squandered what little your family had? Are you sure you would have gotten a scholarship? When your parents never instilled the value of university into you from a young age?
Here is the Twitter thread that started this: https://twitter.com/jllord/status/941033391750819845

And here's Max's statement: https://medium.com/@maxogden/statement-to-the-community-c835.... The first version, which did not include any specific actions, and to a certain degree engaged in victim blaming, is here: https://imgur.com/zbiz1Hi

Note how "pressure and expectations [that were] not sensitive to her needs and experiences" turned into "sexual abuse, coercion, and controlling behavior".

But, ultimately, Max Ogden seems to have found his way to dealing with these accusations with something not entirely unlike integrity. Without knowing any specifics, I can only hope his ex-partner can find some degree of healing in it, and find a community that will support her.

And, while I feel somewhat dirty including this in such proximity to wishing his victim well, it is worthy to remember that human lives, and especially relationships, are often messy. We have all made our fair share of mistakes, and their magnitude may often have been limited more by circumstances: good friends stepping in, or sheer luck. It must, and should, be painful to suddenly be woken up and realise the pain you've caused. But Max seems to be a rather young guy. And, contrary to popular opinion, it is in no ones' interest to see his life ruined.

We have created an internet that doesn't forget. Let's see if we can handle its results. Not by forgetting. But, within reason, by forgiving.
Phosphorous oxychloride works well and is safer.

Edit: what makes you think he’s using phosphene?
Bruce McCandless, iconic spacewalker, dies at 80
> When he bought his stash, the price of a single litecoin was $67

> He sold his holdings on Dec. 12 when litecoin was worth $387, a 570 percent gain

$387 is a 470% gain from $67 not 570%.
Those games still definitely involve much more than muscle memory and I'd argue that they are indeed smarter as well.
So is London’s, and they manage to move almost as many people each day for half the money.
Turns out this is all a complete fiction, as far as "forbidden" goes:
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/12/19/fake-news...

There was no ban coming from the administration, but a strategy coming from inside CDC to avoid these words so that their proposals would go more smoothly with Republican congressmen.
You need to do some more research, because the way you describe things is not how they really are.

The success of a crypto requires much more than just forking and publishing, it's not just hype based except for the scams and fly-by-night operations.

And there aren't "double" the Bitcoin any more than a photocopy of dollar bill doubles the amount of money in circulation.

There is a new cryptocurrency called Bitcoin Cash, but that is not the same as Bitcoin. Just because they have similar names doesn't make then the same, just because they come from the same codebase doesn't make them the same.

Unless you also think that creating a successful browser is just hitting fork and publish, or creating a successful operating system is just hitting fork and publish, or creating a new Facebook is just copying the functionality.

If it's really that easy, then please take over Bitcoin yourself, as there are literally hundreds of billions of dollars to be made here, surely if it's that easy you can handle it?
that's what i do with Plex. i use my legally obtained library of shows i like (updated on the regular), i open one up, and press shuffle.
Here's the guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn His smug shot looks like he's been too close to the reactor. Looks worse than deadpool.
Have you seen the Khadas VIM2 Basic? iirc it's $75 somewhere (there recently was a $50 deal; maybe there will be another). It has 8 1.5GHz Cortex-A53s, so in theory it's 2.5X as fast as a Raspberry Pi 3 (4 1.2GHz Cortex-A53s) for CPU-bound tasks with sufficient parallelism. YMMV.
I'd argue that news is not for kids, unless it is specifically tailored to them (eg the German public kids TV channel has special kids news (and no ads)). It is easier to learn about the world's problems from less explicit sources. News can be worse than horror films, which are at least known to be fictional.
Wow. I genuinely never realised people could think this.

You understand that they didn’t remove the racist component at all, right? He literally explained how to implement racist policies without making it explicit.

Like you said: replace them with something to achieve the desired objective without discriminating based on race.

But note that the desired objective is to discriminate on race, and it is only an attempt to hide the appearance.
get a tv, a small computer, plex, and a wireless media keyboard

its amazing
Why kids love 'fascist' cartoons like 'Paw Patrol' and 'Thomas'
200k-400k is in no way "solidly middle class," nor is that true in any area in all of The United States. That income is very much upper class and puts you in the top 5% of earners in NJ, so it is in no way "middle" anything.

https://statisticalatlas.com/state/New-Jersey/Household-Inco...
I saw the same audio cut-out bug in Firefox 58.0b12 on Mac OS X, about 1 minute 10 into the very first episode and like you found using Chrome was a workaround.