skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, even if the intention was to create a bioweapon to use in war, you would think the work would still fit those two parameters.

And how do you know the work will 'produce knowledge?'

A vaccine is impossible to guarantee.
>I would generally prefer to get the tube as compared to e.g. an Uber, even if there were no price difference.

The rest of the discussion aside, I agree with you regarding my experiences on the NYC subway. However, that is because I organized my entire living situation around the locations of subway stations and lines near my office. If that constraint didn't exist (there were a reasonable alternative to the subway), I may well choose to live elsewhere, and therefore, prefer to use Ubers or other methods of transportation. For many of us who use public transportation, we have built our lives around a constraint that may no longer be present in the future and may allow for people to live in currently less desirable parts of cities.
I'm using Kraken myself, and have found it to be working as expected, except it's just really slow.
Yeah, I'm not a very likeable person. People don't like me, and that suits me fine, because I'm not too fond of them either. Things might have been different if I hadn't so often been on the receiving end of so many spiteful kicks, but there it is; experience taught me not to trust strangers, and to not rely on others for anything important, including just doing the job they get paid to do.

At least I know that about myself. I don't have to pretend to be a "good person", and can just be a "barely good enough person". I won't judge you if you don't judge me.

If you're my friend--and I do actually have some, shockingly enough--I won't turn my back on you because I don't think you measure up to my standards. It's more likely I'm just avoiding you because I don't think I can measure up to yours, and I'm ashamed and embarrassed of things I have said and done in the past. I can't even imagine how someone could cut someone else out of their life just for being homosexual and still know what friendship means. That person would definitely do exactly the same to me if they ever realized I was atheist, so we can't be friends, ever, even if they thought they wanted to be.

I just can't bring myself to tolerate the intolerable.
Accomplishing difficult things from a disadvantaged position is more impressive than those accomplished by someone without those disadvantages, but it doesn't mean the latter accomplishments are not impressive.

The world is full of people who want to tear down other peoples accomplishments - "Accomplishment X isn't that impressive because of starving people in country Y." Using that standard, nothing done by anyone who "won the ovarian lottery" by being born in a 1st world country would qualify as "impressive".

When faced with a beautiful sunset, you can say "Meh, I'm not impressed. The sunsets in Hawaii are much better." or you can appreciate the beautiful sunset for what it is. The latter approach is happier path in life I think.
Sales tax is even more regressive because the poorer you are the more likely you are to spend essentially all of your income. Sales taxes would have to go way up for that to work. We don't need to run an "experiment" to know the likely effects of this policy.
Maybe it was to reduce ambiguity? Often legal documents define terms up front ("the participant" refers to John Doe). If they choose a common work like "is" or "through" it can become a rubik's cube trying to correctly discuss it.
So it has a computer system based on Linux? Tough for me because my VR project uses several Windows APIs.
> The devices seem like they are handmade, said Dennison, who was in the Statler lounge when Simcox found the device. “Some person smarter than I am is manufacturing those out of their dorm room,” she posited.

https://pedroliska.wordpress.com/2015/07/13/building-your-ow...

EDIT: Code for those who don’t want to read the article: https://github.com/pedroliska/ATtiny85/blob/master/watchdog-...

With great power comes great responsibility, friends.
It's not always better than everything out there; where I live in the greater Seattle area (in particular my current home), Google Maps doesn't have an accurate location-to-address mapping (it's not an apartment either) and the map visualization is not quite right either.

However, Bing and Apple maps get the correct location and have the right visualizations for the same area.
Why would someone provide this service? It's like they say you pay us $1 and then you get $2 in return. It looks too good to be true.
...Because that’s how Twitter used it. They didn’t offer verification to any verifiable person, it was a “big thing” with benefits. By design I would guess.
D is not dead. It is steadily growing. Not as fast as Rust for example, but still healthy.

I agree that there was a nice opportunity before C++11. Now D is lurking in the shadows for another opportunity and slowly building.

I believe D would be a great language for startups because it gives you options. You can do it quicky and dirty (like Python/Ruby/Perl), you can do it fast (like C/C++), you can do it safe (like Java, but not quite Rust), you can be generic and multi-paradigm (like C++), you can be easy (like Python).
If you "cannot trust regulators or legislators at the federal level" how can you trust the laws? Who writes them, and who enforces them, if not legislators and regulators, respectively?
Watch Jobs in his prime a year later describing his philosophy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

I am very far from an Apple fanboy but gosh, this guy totally gets it.
Most people don't do it because it's effort that's not directly associated to programming. It's also easy to think that you won't get any payoff from the effort invested, since it's rare to see to begin with, and even more rare to see anyone making a decent living off of it.

More financial support to free software development would certainly be appreciated. Even a single cent just to show the developer you enjoy his software is a good incentive for a developer to keep going. It seems like most feedback developers get is negative, so anything positive is appreciated.
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Bitcoin too expensive? This article explains how to spend just as much with no guarantee of ever actually getting any Bitcoin in return.

The only reason I clicked was that this was an epic opportunity, not taken, to have some sarcastic fun.
I'll give it a read and see if I can incorporate anything!
I've heard from visitors to Japan that groping on public transit is a real problem.
Not sure who spit in your frosted flakes this morning. The other code is support code that sets up a runtime environment of sorts, and the actual interpretation of the input brainfuck happens in a single printf statement.
I'm (one of) the author of Tokio, hopefully I can clarify some points.

> Unfortunately, Tokio is notoriously difficult to learn due to its sophisticated abstractions.

IMO, this is largely due to the current state of the docs (which are going to be rewritten as soon as some API changes land).

The docs were written at a point where we were still trying to figure out how to present Tokio, and they ended up focusing on the wrong things.

The Tokio docs currently focus on a very high level concept (`Service`) which is an RPC like abstraction similar to finagle.

The problem is that, Tokio also includes a novel runtime model and future system and the docs don't spend any time explaining this.

The next iteration of Tokio's docs is going to focus entirely at the "tokio-core" level, which is the reactor, runtime model, and TCP streams.

tl;dr, I think the main reason people have trouble learning Tokio is because the current state of the docs are terrible.

> Aren’t abstractions supposed to make things easier to learn?

Tokio's goal is to provide as ergonomic abstractions as possible without adding runtime overhead. Tokio will never be as "easy" as high level runtimes simply because we don't accept the overhead that comes with them.

The abstractions are also structured to help you avoid a lot of errors that tend to be introduced in asynchronous applications. For example, Tokio doesn't add any implicit buffering anywhere. A lot of other async libraries hide difficult details by adding unlimited buffering layers.
> I know its strange in 2017 and for youngsters in general (and that's NOFI; its a general observation and zeitgeist; I don't know your age nor am I interested in such) but it is important to note that "for free" doesn't equal "go use my PII for profit" or "go help others receive my PII" or "I will allow you to use my computer as part of your cloud without my consent".

Which is why you should use some due diligence before (and after) choosing which products you use. It's not like anyone's forcing you to sell your soul so you can find out your best friend's dog Fluffy just went to the groomers and here's the pictures.

I see this like those people who go and buy a house next to an airport then go crazy complaining to the city about airplane noise, they benefit from cheaper prices (because most people don't actually want to live next to an airport) but then feel entitled enough to feel everyone else should bend over backwards for their personal preferences.

> Glad we're getting GDPR in EU...We'll have to see how it works out in practice though.

Produce a digital wasteland IMHO...like the tariff wars that (partly) led up to the Great Depression.
It works quite well in nyc.. so not sure what you mean by "There's something about America that makes it not work."

We have 5.6M average weekday riders, and about as much for the weekends ( Sun and Saturday). That's 1.7 Billion rides a year..
[1]

If that's what you consider "not working"...

Does it have its flaws? absolutely! But does it work? absolutely!

As someone who has visited the bay area yearly since 2000, a quick observation comes to mind on why mass transit doesn't work as well there... The crazy idea amongst "21st century" companies to stick to the 1950s model of the "company town" in the suburbs.. and well, BART not going a lot further down than it should.

Companies should be moving in droves to the east bay, were you can actually build transit ( and there actually IS some real transit infrastructure ), and two, you actually have land you can build buildings that are horizontally efficient... ( not sand land fill that doesn't support any decent vertical building )

[1]http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/travel/mta-subwayridershi...
20,000 is a whole lot less than 200,000.

EDIT: Also, those 20K you mentioned are essentially getting both. It's a totally separate bonus.
Well the idea is that the money will eventually be spent or transfered, and then during that event it would be taxed. I mean sure you could just let the money grow but I assume it would either be given to someone or spent eventually.
My guess: because financial systems.

A lot of traditional financial instruments 1) are not resilient to failure and 2) run at fixed times in batches. I’m confident it’s not their own systems that set the requirement of rigidity.
I used BART and Caltrain for few weeks in total between 2006 and 2012. The experience was so much worse than anything in Europe.
Caltrain and to lesser extent Bart felt like everything was falling a part and people just gave up.

And then the was the smell. Even Moscow underground was significantly better. There you got occasionally extremely smelly homeless people, but it was like each 20th trip, not each second or third. And in Norway I meet a situation when one does not want to seat near someone on a bus or train perhaps once a year.
Surely they should be awarded a prize in the Hackaday's Coin Cell Challenge.
"Bitcoin gold" is currently the #10 largest cryptocurrency.
'snakes', goddamnit.
More helpful responses:

1. This sounds like a great idea: In trying to do it, you will learn a lot about all the ways it won't work. (It seems to me.) I started writing a program once to understand poetry & jokes. I learned a lot, like just how much humans have to know to understand this stuff. You have to know about everything just to understand one word! Best example I know of this: see the chapter on 'over' in Lakoff's Women, Fire and Dangerous Things.

2. It sounds a bit like - music! Maybe you could use music for that? Hmm well no. But maybe look at Deryck Cooke's The Language of Music, which is a remarkable attempt to spell out explicitly what the elements/motifs/phrases/melodic units in music are saying. I guess any partially-facial-expression-based language would have a lot in common with that.
Can't live without it. I travel a lot.

Lately I have even been wanting an operating system that has maps as the main UI, or a majorly core feature. With the amount that I use maps, it is an absolute pain to have to switch to it all the time.

I pin every place recommendation I find in my social circles online and tag them with who suggested them. When I'm driving I'd like to pin/note places I see without interacting with the phone. When I'm flying I wan't to know what specific features I am seeing from the air (towns, mountains, lakes). When I'm on a road trip I want to hear snippets of info about the small towns that I'm passing through or the things I see out the window. When I'm walking I want to use the camera for input and output to the map to pin and locate myself. When I'm indoors I don't want to feel lost again or ask where the restroom is.

Location has become a core part of my interaction with the world but it still feels rather basic as a 3rd party app on my phone. Or another tab on my desktop.
"store of value coins" are such a far departure from what cryptocurrency was invented and intended to be: peer to peer decentralized money.
Luckily I'm not sacrificing any of those things.
Thanks, I added that to the title to make it clearer.
This is fascinating.

> And then, at some point, it clicked: Chutes and Ladders [...] can be modeled as a Markov process!

I know some basics about Markov processes, and after reading that and watching the visualization, I thought Yes, what's so special about it?

Well, the author uses this property to decompose the complicated and chaotic system into a set of understandable characteristics. Every once in a while, I'm astonished about how some complex system can be reasoned about in sn organized way, and that is one such example.

I also didn't realize how useful Markov processes were in terms of allowing things to be analyzed. The interesting things start at the Shannon entropy section and continue to the end. Especially impressive is how elegantly stationary states can be found.
> I think part of the problem is that D isn't as good as Python for scientific/numerical computing

I realize that some hold that opinion but I and many others don't.

> people doing Python for it will typically drop to C++

That's something you don't need to do if using D. It's also the biggest selling point of Julia.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_train_services
“You can’t force me to use my property the way you see fit” != “it’s mine so I can do anything I want with it.”
Very cool. This is based on ECL (Embeddable CL), which is one of the best and useful CL implementations.
Yes you can do this. The actual socket is not pinned to any thread, so you can move it to a thread pool or whatever.
My current company keeps trying to cook up elaborate systems to keep certain deployments from happening while others are going on and I couldn’t recall ever having to solve this previously which is odd because of course this has been a problem before.

Yeah I was using my CI system to handle the CD constraints and it was so straightforward it hardly registered as work. I was setting up one build agent with a custom property and all the builds that couldn’t run simultaneously would all require an agent with that property. So they just queued in chronological order of arrival. Done. Next problem.
Sorry that you had this experience. If you have the time, any concrete specifics about things would be helpful.
Oh no! I always meant to host my blog on s3, looks like I didn't do it soon enough.
That's roughly what I got out of the article as well, I'm just not sure it actually holds water.

Sure, Bitcoin is less expensive to mine where energy is cheaper, so if I happen to want some Bitcoin anyway I should try and purchase it from a miner somewhere with low cost electricity. That still doesn't tell me why I should consider buying it at any price. Let me see if I can demonstrate my objection:

Kangaroos aren't very common here in America. In order to acquire a one pound box of kangaroo feces domestically, I would need to find a rare animal collector to negotiate with and may expect to end up paying, say, $100. An Australian, on the other hand, might well be willing to send me a box for barely more than the shipping costs, leading to a total cost to me of only $20.

I suppose I could choose to describe the shipper as wrapping up the difference between their kangaroo availability and mine into a security, but that doesn't by itself make paying $20 for a literal box of crap a "good deal".

Obviously Bitcoin at least appears to have some intrinsic value, since it's currently being actively traded. And obviously energy prices serve to set an upper bound on that value. I just don't see how energy prices could serve to also set a lower bound and, therefore, can't be the source of that intrinsic value.
Well right. It's that social security idea that seems nuts. Hence my question.
Yeah. If it was simple user verification, they would have long time ago verified the likes of Assange. Obviously they use it as a political tool, because they do verify other activists they are more in line with.
We’ve come a long way from the 2007 study by Italian nuns on the connection between stress and disease. You know, which I read about at the job I started on March 15th (ref: HELen).
I'd love to use it but... No HTTPS!?
Oh yes. I forgot. You can pay a service fee to have your device performance and battery life uncapped "responsibly." Apple even licences the technicians.

Of course, since the many folks are extremely inconvenienced without a phone for a day or two for servicing, I wonder how good the uptake on the post-warranty battery replace really is. It's a 1 hour operation to replace-and-upgrade.
For me the reason to sell at the moment is quite banal: I do not want to spend time thinking about investing over the holidays, and I do not want to feel like I should pick out my phone.
See my top level comment - about $10 per unit.
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In the age of publicity it doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with an idea, it matters that you helped it spread.

I don't know that there's a fix for that.
I don't twitter. What are the perks?
No I don't think it was specific. I believe he was just guesstimating the exponential power required to do anything more interesting than basic math. We were all rather young students at the time so I don't think he had a specific application in mind. It was all rather new back then anyways, hard to imagine all the applications.
This pretty much mirrors my experience. I've also been to SF a bunch of times and never had any issues taking the local transit(bus, subway, BART, tram, etc.).
Sure it isn't sparkling clean, but seems to do its job. The bus network in particular seemed pretty good.
> The batteries are replaceable, by Apple or an authorized service store

Ah yes, it'd be a shame if Apple didn't get a pound of flesh from the service techs who pay for the license. Very good point.

It's 100% the correct design choice if your goal is to perpetually force users to upgrade. But hey, at least the phone is sliiiightly slimmer. Because what everyone's desperately been asking for is a slightly slimmer phone.
I can tell you from experience that if you persistently ask newbie questions on the Rust help channels, they'll get enough information out of you that they can say "oh, just put X, Y and Z on line 22 of your code" and it will work, even if you don't understand it.
I just use Scalafx with a Scala REPL. Unfortunately I don't know offhand of anything else outside of the JVM ecosystem that's as simple and portable.
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this whole situation reminds me of all the naysayers Musk proved wrong twice already. Electric cars will never happen. A private space company, Musk is insane. Better public transportation, who does he think he is...
Who else can't wait to have Musk prove them wrong? ... I can't wait
Actually, here it is:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Xm4Ewpw...
Well if you personally didn't have a positive experience with such a phone, then I guess it's axiomatically impossible!
Agree with the shiny new tool syndrome.

Also remember this is Stripe, and they like to advertise through Engineering blogs (and they do that quite well to be honest).

I'm getting cynical here, but I'm sometimes wondering if they didn't specifically chose a cool shiny tool, so that they can speak about it (and advertise through blogging)
That doesn't work for me. If I enter that rule into the "My rules" editor, and click the "Save" button, the rule is immediately deleted. Also, the documentation you link to entirely confirms my assertion that you cannot combine type-based and hostname-based rules. For example:

Note that with type-based rules, the destination hostname is always *, meaning "from anywhere".
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Why do you think that's absurd? Social Security is basically a very inefficient (and potentially insolvent) retirement plan. The more you put into it, the more you should get out. That's why people would want to maximize contributions.
I remember installing this in a VirtualBox around 2008 - cool to see it's still going! I had a friend in my CS program who was really into BeOS.
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Just a query, forgive me, why not use the word "ban" instead of perma-suspend. A suspension means a kind of state between other states. Permanent suspension doesn't make sense to me with this context. perhaps it's an American English thing?
The software is SAaS and is in open Beta right now
We've been getting sporadic reports that people are using `http` vs `https`. It _should_ auto redirect you to `https`! Apologies, we 100% intend for every user to use https, will dig in further :)
I believe you mean AppKit and UIKit.
Which is a proof of concept around newt [0], which is a C library you can use.

[0] https://pagure.io/newt
Twitter could have avoided so many problems by sticking to verification as they advertised it - that the blue check mark just meant you were who you said you were and nothing more. It should have provided no benefits other than followers know they're following the right person.

Using it as a stamp of approval is an absolute minefield for a public company. So far the competition is, well, incompetent, but eventually somebody's going to come along and take advantage of these kinds of mistakes.
Apple’s statement on iPhone 6/6s/SE power management (the slowdown)
In the article it lists a few, such as better SEO, spam white listing etc
>However, generally people who have billions to invest on high risk super high tech ideas aren't as stupid as people here would have you believe.

Counterpoint: Theranos.

Never assume investors are smarter than us mere mortals.
Coins, or Blockstack? It's just a webapp, so it should work in any mac os version :)
A fitting link to follow up the Apple / Next merger article that's gotten so much traffic today. At the time I really thought Apple was making the wrong move. Who knows what BeOS would have been today had Apple picked it up, but the wisdom of going with something *nix-based seems to have been a great decision.