skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's still possible to silently and unknowingly pass the wrong type of value into any given argument

This is also possible in traditionally statically typed languages. Nothing stops you from doing unsafe casts or using reflection. Much like its exceedingly unlikely that you'll run across this in "normal" java or C++, its exceedingly unlikely for you to run into any issues with this in python. And, in fact, the typechecker has ways to handle unusual things like dynamically created attributes, for when that comes up.

And yes I mean this quite honestly. I've seen a lot of typechecked code, some of it quite ridiculously dynamic. Typecheckers perform absolutely fine.

>The "tooling" the other languages have includes a compiler that performs these checks in a way that Hints + Checker-of-choice is unlikely (or unable) to.

What way is that? Typechecking is static analysis. There's really no difference between how java or cpp does typechecking and how mypy does, other than that the python typechecker isn't installed by default.

>The answer is: not nearly what a compiler does.

This is not an answer.
I just read through their website and I can see why it was tough.

There's something especially difficult about a business like this. It doesn't feel like a finished product on offer, but more of a raw material for making of it what you will.

Because when you look at their home page as a potential end customer, there isn't much in the way of real benefits on display. In fact, the main "features" are:

-Automatically enrich leads in Salesforce

-Customize your experience with API

-Export Mattermark data to spreadsheets

-Right Data. Right Format. Right now.

3 of those 4 are purely meta-features around accessing the data (which is presumably the core feature), but there's virtually nothing about why you'd want to or how to make it easily actionable. They're saying "here's a bunch of data and a bunch of ways to access it. Go make it do something for you."

That's a tough sell because it doesn't answer an immediate need wherein you simply sign up and a problem is solved. Even if you are able to connect the dots WRT how you might make use of the data, you're now left with the task of building something on top of it.

I'm not sure how many customers can do that. Seems the only way to make it work is to pull in very tight partnerships to build finished apps in specific verticals, through which you license the data/API.
"Hear, hear" on a comment about Audio Context? ;-)
No, I'm not talking about transactions on the blockchain. I'm talking about trading volume on exchanges. That $16B figure does sum up trading in all BTC currency pairs including altcoins. BTC/USD daily volume alone is around $2B. KRW, JPY and EUR also have significant volume. https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin
Thing is though it’s not that easy to get a big4 job. It takes several weeks or even months to land those competitive roles whereas startups are much easier. Not all of us have the talent to land that big4.
I think the point is less using nouveau drivers for nvidia hardware as it is we should have never accepted CUDA as a standard since the implementation isn't free. Proprietary standards leave us at the mercy of the owners.
Pipes have existed in DOS since before Windows 95 was around!
Thanks MrAwesomeSauce! Do let me know if you have any feedback from this :)
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Yeah, that was intentional. Maybe it's not for everyone, but I just want to say that it's not that you never edit. The point is just to get your thoughts down on the page first.

I used this to write my first book and it took 48 hours. And then I spent months editing it before I published it.
So 10x to 5x to 3x, which isn't really a large multiplier. Also, a guy worth $300K is a "large multiplier" more valuable than 3 entry level juniors at $100K.
Haha, ICO incoming.
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> Evidence is mounting that that the world is no longer fascinated with Silicon Valley

That would be absolutely great. I'm rather tired of the excessive media focus.
Developers should be mad about this. Here's where to start contributing to open alternatives:

ROCm:
https://rocm.github.io/

OpenCL: https://www.khronos.org/opencl/

TensorFlow: https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow

Nouveau:
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
The technical feasibility isn't really explored here - and the 'regulatory node' aspect is essentially a 'trusted 3rd party' that power over the mutability of the blockchain.

It would seem like this layer would be fighting the very nature of systems like Bitcoin, or Ethereum.
It's definitely less necessary than it was a few years ago.

I find it useful when you just want to add a little bit of interactivity to a mostly static page, and you're not sure who's going to be maintaining the page in the future or trying to use it as a template.

A lot of people who know a decent amount of HTML and CSS but aren't that familiar with straight JS dom manipulation, or what functionality works cross-browser, can tweak jQuery-based code more easily. That's really a tribute to the jQuery project--the documentation is simple and a lot of the methods (e.g., show, hide and append) are very intuitive.
Coinbase is not a true exchange. It's more of a broker. Their exchange offering is called GDAX, and it supports daily withdrawal limits in the tens of millions of dollars for verified users (possibly higher, I don't know an upper limit). The initial limits are lower, but if you have the money and aren't doing anything illegal you can simply request higher limits. Also, deposits and trades are completely unlimited, so you can sell a billion now and withdraw later over time.

Other exchanges with high USD volume include Bitstamp and Gemini. Bitfinex is also an option if you trust them and live outside the US (I don't).
Resilio Sync + encfs, works fine on macos and linux, not sure about windows though.
The second keyword is "if".
Consider how much of the pay of well-paid big Corp talent goes to real estate rentiers in the Bay Area.

30% of base?

That’s almost greater than the US gov’t’s cut.
Added to my list of crypto projects that look interesting.

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Cryptomator on top of iCloud and Dropbox. Also Boxcryptor on Dropbox.
ownCloud and never looked back
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I've experienced what's commonly called the "keto flu". Whenever I get back on a keto diet, I drink a lot of electrolytes, get plenty of vitamins, and that seems to mitigate most of the symptoms. It definitely feels like a cold or the flu when it happens, though without a fever.
Early YC: Small, gets disproportionate number of wins. Develops top tier reputation.

Later YC: Expands significantly due to the added prestige, and now performs much closer to the mean.

Today: Sam says that "too many YC companies are getting funded".

Is this fundamentally different from a mutual fund that yields 25% above market for a few years in a row and then performs closer to the mean for the following decade? In the mutual fund game, it's very common (hence Vanguard).

Surely during those top performing years the mutual fund managers strongly believe that they have deep insights that are the root cause of their funds' performance. But the following decade proves otherwise.
Just watched it and was really unimpressed. For a documentary titled "the science of fasting" they really went out of their way to find the least credible sources and seemed to try appeal as much as possible to consumers of alternative and holistic medicine. Secret, untranslated texts by open-minded Soviet researchers, Western science rejecting studies out of a bias against unprofitable treatments, genetic memories of starving on the savannah, body resets and cleansing...I know a lot of people who are into fasting would really like that stuff, but I was hoping to find a description of fasting that avoided those sources.
That 2005 apology is ringing pretty hollow in 2017.
No.

First, removing javascript support in browsers would deprecate the functionality of all of the JS code currently running on the web, which would by extension break the web for almost everyone. So, if only for the sake of backwards compatibility, browsers must support javascript for the forseeable future.

Second, the WebAssembly project's own FAQ[0] states that "WebAssembly is designed to be a complement to, not replacement of, JavaScript."

Third, compiling languages to WebAssembly will always be a more complex process than writing javascript - although I state that with the caveat that a lot of javascript is, itself, compiled or transpiled nowadays, because that's not actually necessary. Having a text based, interpreted scripting language running in the browser provides a degree of convenience and simplicity that WebAssembly can't directly replicate. To me, this indicates that javascript won't even be implemented as something like a WebAssembly module by default, although that is possible.

Plenty of people do plan to try as hard as they can to replace javascript with languages that compile to WebAssembly, and it will probably replace the paradigm of languages "compiling to javascript" as it provides an actual bytecode instead of pretending javascript is bytecode, but like it or not javascript isn't going away anytime soon.

[0]http://webassembly.org/docs/faq/
That may be the case, but I was talking about the article.
Leverage your tools. Don’t let them leverage you.

Reduce the friction of importing your vim config non-destructively and on demand.
This is the game server code...
A Flexible Approach to Automated RNN Architecture Generation
Well, that's honestly how I understood what you were saying. What smug ideological loyalty are you arguing against?
What happens if you lie about your user agent?
Orion: deck.gl-powered data visualization tool for OwnTracks location data
you can just ask your recipeint to send you some uuid on the letter after they receive it. i have no idea what problem you are trying to solve though.
OP is missing that crypto networks are not likely to be O^2 given atomic swaps.
Fair enough. The insinuation at which I took offense is forgiven.

A Happy Solstice to all and let there be peace in the world.
|> I have zero connection to any side (not Chinese, not turkic, not muslim, buddhist, whatever).<|

But your information source is limited to English world, which favors separatists over the other side.

|> Note that this level of surveillance is not pervasive throughout the rest of China; this is about a region populated by non-Han Chinese (Uyghurs, a who are Muslim and speak a Turkic language); most han residents are colonists.<|

Hah? Xinjiang was founded after the extinction of Dzungar people who were mongolians. Most han and manchu residents in Xinjiang are desendants of military migrants of Qing dynasty.
The Nothern half of Xinjiang had never been populated by Uyghurs and although the Uyghur population has been expanding much more rapidly than other ethinics in Xinjiang, they are NOT the owner of the entire Xinjiang. Please stop repeating these disgusting FAKE claims.

|> the government and newspapers describe it as an integral part of China with a terrorist separatist movement no different from, for example ...<|

They're terrorists. You're a terrorist defender. Pure and simple. Attacking innocent people to attain certain political influnce is the essense of terrorism. I've been fed up by your kind of takiyah and abuse of political correctness.

|> all muslims are evil terrorists <|

It's not true given the Hui muslim in China get many many privileges over Han and other ethnic minorities. One of the most important PRC founding fathers, Zhou Enlai, is a desendant of muslim as his niece recently disclosed. The PRC ethnic and religion policy framework was set up by Zhou Enlai. The Xinjiang problem was sparked by Zhou's wife Deng Yinchao in 1980s. The CCP censoring departments are established and controlled by Hui muslim CCP leaders according to the Criminal Law Act 250/251 (which was set up by a Hui imam in 1997).

In fact, many atheist and agnostic people are fearing the rapid islamization of China society, especially the legal/eductional sectors and the hatred the Hui CCP leaders showing towards Han and other secular ethinic groups.

In conclution, you know NOTHING about the REAL China. Han people don't have the proprotional ruling power and influence over the CCP elites with respect to the population scale. Keeping China as an integral nation is the responsibility of the PRC government, not the duty of common Han people. It's Hui wumaos who have been yelling to nuke Taiwan.

REPEAT AGAIN: Zhou Enlai was a Hui deceived as Han and set up a lot of laws against so called "Han chauvinism". This month alone there are two legal cases sentenced 2 Han people into jail for humiliating respectful historical ethnic figures.

Downvote me as you wish. Given the twisted information the English media keep spreading, I won't be surprised there'll be a civilization collision between West and East, beneficial to all muslims, if one day the Han people fight back the islamization led by those Hui CCP elites.

Great civilizations never fail to rising challengers but always fail to their own arrogance and ignorance.
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why would you trust someone else to encrypt your files?
I use dropbox and this makefile

%.enc:%
openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in $< -out $@

%:%.enc
openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $< -out $@

just not in the shared directory :)
I just let them soft wrap.
> Developers! Developers! Developers!

A laughing stock turned into a respectable trend. Well done.

I think with this, PowerShell needs to stop aliasing curl to Invoke-WebRequest by default (or at least try to deprecate that alias).
That’s a core challenge of writing code in a language as large and complicated and dangerous and rewarding as cpp.
Does anyone have a link to this particular paper?
Time it for right around your share lockup expires $^D

learn2finance, its the best MMORPG there is
I know a fair bit of YC companies, and a trend is clear from the last few years. As they say: it's not that YC picks the best startups, it's that the startups they pick "become" the best startups (i.e. crappy companies look good just for being in YC).

This definitely isn't healthy, and I'm glad they at least recognize it.
Sounds like a lifecycle management failure. Hope this is a good learning opportunity for next time!
What would be the advantage that Algorithmia offers vs building my own using my own training data?

Is Algorithmia like a marketplace where I can list my own API?

What are the response time like since it's serverless?
Mutual funds and VCs have an incentive to increase fund size due to the 2/20 compensation. They make a 2% of funds under management win or lose, so it pays to up-size the bucket.

With early stage that is not an incentive, and the merit lines are so much fuzzier (is the fund adding value) and for smaller funds - how do you maximize odds of finding and funding the few winners. With increased late stage funding, the early money also get less priority, not to mention the delayed liquidity (unless they can sell to later investors).

Some real perks of having YC in the startup ecosystem is that it:

1. Grows the "seed variety" and "size of land planted" to get more founders with broader backgrounds and in more disciplines to build startups. That dramatically increases the odds of an unintuitive next-big-thing sprouting in Silicon Valley.

and

2. Fertilizes the soil - as YC alumnae help each other and can strike better deals or give each-other an early lift.

Demo day pressure-cooks many to fail or fly fast, and if too many are raising money means they is either a selection problem or a program decision to make:

- Startups picked are too early, or in less VC-worty sectors that need more incubation, or founders don't always have an incentive or plan to build a sustainable business beyond doing YC and raising a lot of money for bragging rights. They can easily an expectation that fundraising happens in 3 months, or narrow the selection of RFPs to later stage more immediately provable.

- Or YC just lets startups pick any demo day they want, but has to carry an ever-increasing load of zombies, or startups too-niche to accelerate with every increasing demand on partner's time. The latter helps both 1 and 2, but it has to be done in a sustainable way. Use Startup School as alumnae-expandable program for on-going incubation?
There probably are deep insights that lead to the root cause of success in both situations. Once these insights are made public or more people discover and exploit them on a widespread level, the market inefficiencies that gave the possibility for outperformance then disappear. If you don't find a new edge, you revert to the mean (or maybe rather, the "mean" catches up to you).
+1. You had an impact.
Thanks! Awesome idea. We don’t have such an algo yet but would love to bring one into our platform.

The link isn’t working for me — do you know if it is based on https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1526/db85a39d246c83f86d3469... ?

If we can get the dataset and methodology, we (or a community member!) can implement it and make it available & extendable for all to use: https://algorithmia.com/developers/algorithm-development/
I didn’t sign up, but I did click around the JS and scheme docs on my iPhone. The horizontal overflow is hidden so half the content is not shown. I cannot zoom out to fix the issue.
Schmidt has always been a globalist scumbag pushing oppressive propaganda as AI bows and unicorns. Good ridden

I hope a yc startup can replace google one day soon.

Build it, they will come.
Is full contact viable?
For the five or six years my daily driver has run windows (gaming) while actual work gets done by forwarding X from a headless linux box. In my experience:

* MobaXTerm was usable (on Win7-8, a couple years ago), but IIRC it's surrounded by a faint stench of upsell and I recall being annoyed by its attempt to be a full desktop environment (tabs, file manager, integrated editor, etc). It feels very... windows-y, the X server equivalent of PuTTY.

* VcXsrv had (on Win10, about two weeks ago) a show-stopper bug - windows would fail to redraw outside their original bounds when resized. It also had trouble using modern UI toolkits or themes.

* Cygwin/X is the best, no issues at all if you're in cygwin, but I was unable to get it to cooperate smoothly with bash on windows and ended up deciding that the environment was worth more than the tiny missing features. If you don't need WSL I'd recommend this.

* Xming is what I've settled on. I use the free version, which is a major version behind (6.9 instead of 7.7), but I haven't noticed it lacking anything compared to Cygwin/X. Seems to be just as reliable as Cygwin/X too. Getting it configured was somewhat annoying (had to create xauthority manually, etc), but now that it's set up it's working smoothly.

I am mostly annoyed by two things, both of which are common to the setup and not the chosen tools:

* I have to put up with Windows for window management. I would much prefer something like i3, but I haven't gotten the fullscreen mode to work to my satisfaction.

* Network issues. You must be wired and you must have spare bandwidth. If you're running gigabit ethernet this isn't really an issue, but if you try to do it over wifi you're going to have a bad time.

Compared to running a virtual machine... it really comes down to picking a set of annoyances. VM you have to deal with configurating another machine, it devours resources, integration with the host isn't as good, and it can't tolerate monitor switching at all. Native X you don't get a usable WM. shrug
Scannable (by Evernote ) does this wonderfully. Allows exporting as pdf and storing wherever. I’m a fan.
The approach is really to regulate anyone who puts themselves in a vulnerable position with the law. Any company that wants to be “legitimate” (raise money, hire employees, file taxes, distribute shares, etc.) puts itself in a subjugative position toward the government. Legitimacy requires legal exposure; you cannot reap its benefits while playing outside its rules.

If a company or market segment is organized in a way that makes regulation enforceable, then the government will find a way to regulate it. The only way for a company to avoid such regulation is to operate outside the bounds of the corporocracy, foregoing the benefits of legitimacy in hopes that the strengths of decentralization will ultimately prevail.
The link was given in the article: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10033
Bitcoin plunges again, now down more than 28% since Sunday’s all-time high
> This is also possible in traditionally statically typed languages. Nothing stops you from doing unsafe casts or using reflection.

Neither of those is "silent" or "unknowing".

> What way is that? Typechecking is static analysis. There's really no difference between how java or cpp does typechecking and how mypy does, other than that the python typechecker isn't installed by default.

The typechecker can't handle un-hinted code (or, rather, it chooses something very permissive, like 'Any' for all hints). It's incomplete at best.

> This is not an answer.
It is. That you don't like or agree with it doesn't make it not an answer.
This was the paper that excited me about neural networks in the nineties, from 92... http://liacs.leidenuniv.nl/assets/PDF/boers-kuiper.92.pdf
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I think olfactory’s implication is that they get lucky at first, develop a reputation due to that luck, then revert to the mean. That there is no secret sauce at all.

It’s an interesting theory.
That’s the point, I mentioned the difficulty in fact. But he chose to step across that bridge and then abandon it. What else can we conclude other than, heat of the moment emotional decision, or that the merits were, if morally strong enough, not legally strong enough?
I come from a statically typed background (C++), but have been doing a lot of analytics in python in the past two years. It is frustrating not to have compile time guarantees when dealing with mathematical programs, because some things have to be a particular type (i.e. matrices of compatible dimensions). The result is a copious use of asserts, but it feels bad when you know that if you did this in a functional language,let's say, you could prove implementations are correct by the nature of the type system. In short, I'd love to see more strong type support in python.
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It sounds to me like Sam was just trying to say that the reputation of YC-backed companies often preceeds them and that VCs look at YC graduates with rose tinted glasses, which they perhaps should not. Doesn't seem like a bad thing to say at all.
A large amount of computing equipment is sold with the restriction that it not be used to control a nuclear power plant.
The inverse I think might be true. If the GPUs are much more accessible on the cloud, deployment and placement problems handled, then more developers will be comfortable building around that. Otherwise, it's a massive hassle to have physical machines with specialized hardware.
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