skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see the reason they are making this move is because the supply of GeForce Video cards is being used up for things other than Graphics duty like mining block chains or AI training. It’s probably a desperate supply move
"In turn, financial investors get a secure, levered exposure to bitcoin that is not hostage to an unproven price-setting and without the expense of setting up a system to hold physical bitcoin."

I realize that securely holding bitcoin at scale isn't completely trivial, but isn't part of the value of bitcoin supposed to be that these costs are not large? Especially the use of the term, "physical bitcoin," seems a bit ridiculous.
I’m happy 52m voters still voted for Trump, despite all media being on Hillary’s side (TV, social networks, Hollywood, etc, except what, FoxNews and Breitbart which wouldn’t have an audience if people weren’t disgusted of MSM). It proves people don’t vote what they’re told to.

Note: If you don’t believe it, try to listen to conversations in uncensored areas, places where there’s no social push to behave in a certain way.
That'll be expensive. On the order of 100's of millions per year at that scale. 15,000 * 1000 = 15 M / month for an amount that would move the needle, but still not enough to live off.
I would think sleep is pretty important. It's when the brain recovers. Yet I wonder how many drugs prescribed to people later in life disrupt their sleep. I'm going to spitball and say: probably far more than we realize.

And in (say) obesity, which effects a high percentage of adults and is bad for the body (of which the brain is a part) and also effects sleep.

Long to short, plenty of people abuse their bodies as well as theirs minds. Yeah, it's sad. What i don't understand is the general surprise that there might be a cost to that. It's like wanting to party all night and then somehow expecting not to have a hangover. The body doesn't work that way, afaik.
So I bet releasing the game server code is actually impossible since it's tight to third party framework like Havok?
I live in Fort Collins, Colorado. It’s supposedly the best bike city in the entire US. I STILL see people narrowly avoid accidents almost daily due to only about half of the roads having dedicated bike lanes and the insufficient size of the lanes that do exist. It’s really a disappointment given that title. I’m glad I have a car.

Edit:
On a little research, apparently that’s a very outdated acendote. Good to know!
Another notable change from that page:

> Froze the user-agent string to reduce web compatibility risk and to prevent its use for fingerprinting
People were spending tens of thousands of Bitcoins on stuff like pizza in the early days and there were significantly fewer Bitcoins back then. That's hundreds of millions of dollars today.

So all some of them had to do is keep them around. Others just bought them later on. Winklevoss twins put $100 million in Bitcoin years ago. I imagine many rich Chinese people wanting to evade money transferring rules in China did, too.

Satoshi has a million Bitcoins.
>I wouldn't mind facial recognition for re-entry if it meant I could scan my passport, get scanned and be through the checkpoint very quickly.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/trusted-traveler-programs/global-...
I’m happy with it. I totally agree with mlevental‘s assessment of the intro. Just getting through that boosted my feeling of competency a lot. I’ve been anticipating this book for a long time, and I’m not disappointed at all.
It's worth noting that opposing gay marriage is not substantially different than opposing any other sort of human rights. Would you have been fine with Brendan Eich donating in support of an anti-miscegenation law, or funding an effort to revoke women's suffrage? If so, that's at least consistent, and I suppose I can respect that. But too many people acted like gay rights are just a minor thing, not worth getting fussed about, compared to other human rights.
The fact that "humps" exist implies that quite a few people are putting GeForces in servers and not talking about it. https://www.servethehome.com/avert-your-eyes-from-the-server...
Thanks for the kind words! I feel bad for accusing you of plagerism based on just structure itself. It was a completely impulsive reaction.
In 1986 I would connect to BBS systems over a 300 baud modem and communicate with other enthusiasts, teenagers, systems programmers, game programmers, mainframe jocks and former ham radio operators.

If you want to join some other network and talk to your friends, do it. Then you have some choice if your grandmother joins or not!
Is it worth the human cost?

Anecdotally, my octagenarian grandmother outright refuses to fly anymore. Why? Because about a year ago she had to go through a 3-hour intensive screening/interview process which involved invasive searches because she had used hair spray that morning.

Ridiculous. Knowing her, if she hadn't had a relative with her, she probably would have wound up in the hospital. And that's justified because the agency is afraid of failure?

No, they have already failed beyond redemption IMO.
These kind of companies are among the hardest to get going unless you are the first entrant into a new field. The chicken-and-the-egg problem can take longer to solve than you can stay liquid. Better make sure you have a lot of runway.
VIA wasn't backdoored that I know about. That, a TRNG, a crypto engine, and virtualization support was why I designed around Artigo's a long time ago for little security boxes. Looking at it now, I see a quad-core with no mention of a management engine:

https://www.viatech.com/en/silicon/processors/quadcore-e-ser...

There was also another article indicating they have a 28nm chip in works with better performance. They're designed by Centaur Technology in Austin, TX. Might not be immune to national security activities in that jurisdiction. They'll also be way slower than desktop-class chips of Intel and AMD. Yet, there are options for x86 past Intel and AMD. Like everything else, the odds of a backdoor from groups like NSA also gets lower the older the design you buy since most were focusing on software and crypto back then.

EDIT to add link below. Anyone interested in hardware design, esp FOSS, might find their server farm impressive or daunting depending on how cheap you wanted CPU design to be. ;)

http://www.centtech.com/?page_id=2723
Build a Serverless Web Application
$100M Grant Brings Sesame Street to Displaced Syrian Kids
It's already been flirted with in JS I believe [1], though not specifically for Flow. The problem is that it falls down in the higher order case, which happens quite alot in JS. Also, I don't think JS has a mechanism like sys.setprofile that deals with alot of the pain points.

[1] https://medium.com/fhinkel/runtime-type-information-for-java...
I thought about it and I’m clearly in the wrong. See my response to the post author in this thread.
How Deep Learning Detects Eye Disease
My argument was that centralizing trust as a service is unsustainable. That's all.
>developers grouse about the other browser makers who are “holding the web back.”

Oh get off my lawn! Anyone to complains about Chrome vs. FF Quantum vs MS Edge doesn't know or remember the dark of days of IE 5 and IE 6. The lowest common denominator these days is exponentially better than it has ever been.

Slight tangent, but I was happy to see the other day the Google hangouts works on Firefox again (I don't know if that is coincidence or related to the Quantum release or if Google finally decided to support WebRTC).
This is probably the most scandalous part about this.
What is he doing as of late? I don't really feel his presence bears too much significance for today's Google..
I think the point of claiming a code base abandoned would be to strip rights from rights holders for property they do not show any intention of servicing.

You contributed to AC2? That’s great! The game is now abandoned, you have no rights to that code anymore.

To maintain your rights you either maintain the game in a serviceable state, or deploy your server technology as an API rather than integrating it into the client.

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.
That’s assuming that the players who played since 2004 stayed which isn’t the case really.

While the entire “gamer” demographic is now considerably older than it was 10-15 years ago on average I don’t think that WoW has an exceptional demographic in this regard.

If anecdotal evidence to be used than I would say that WoW probably skews younger now despite being a subscription MMO which tended to attract more adults than teens.

Not many 30+ year olds have time for MMOs anymore but we can still log into a CoD or BF multiplayer match over the weekend.
Future of JavaScript vs. WebAssembly. Will JavaScript Co-Exist?
Is webassembly will replace javascript by being the target runtime for browsers upon. I am new and got introduced to webassembly recently and I am wondering what is the roadmap for javascript
I expect more from the HN community. Are you guys doing your homework before commenting? Doesn't seem so.

1. about crypto
Every time there is some news about iota here the usual 'don't roll your own crypto' comes up.
Yes, I think everyone agrees that doing that, if you don't know what you are doing, is dangerous. This is especially the case for you app and web developers. You guys have no business rolling your own crypto.
But think about it, if nobody rolls their own crypto then how will crypto progress?

Their use case is valid, they need something lightweight for IoT. They are trying to push the current state of the art.
They hired a company to help them improve their algorithms.
https://blog.iota.org/iota-foundation-hires-cybercrypt-615d2...

2. about 'fake' corporate partnerships
There is already so much clarification to be found via google but let me repeat.
We had this blog post announcing the data marketplace:
https://blog.iota.org/iota-data-marketplace-cb6be463ac7f
where some quotes from companies can be found. The mass media took this and interpreted it the way they wanted to. I mean just check headlines in newspapers etc. They are 90% bullshit.
And because of that you give the iota people so much flack? You denounce them as liars and whatnot. Very unprofessional. They never themselves said 'we have a formal partnership with Microsoft'. It's the people writing news articles, writing reddit comments, doing YouTube videos that interpret things, and other people just accept that as the truth.
Go to the source for information, don't take third party info for the truth.
I know the crypto space has a lot of people manipulating markets and ripping people off. But having followed the iota people for some time they, to me, don't seem like ill-natured people.

3. about ternary
Similar to point 1, keep an open mind. They have a hardware startup working on ternary hardware for IoT. So arguing that emulating ternary on binary is shit makes no sense. That's not the purpose for iota. Iota is for IoT. The project is kept under wraps so we don't know much about it and now you might say, why believe them?
Well, no proof but, if you think about Bosch investing a large sum in iota and knowing they tried their tech for the last your, don't you think they vetted it and thought it could have potential? Bosch is a huge company with LOTS of experience in hardware. I am pretty sure they got a look at the ternary hardware, too.
Instead you guys think you are better than Bosch in making decisions, even you have none of the info Bosch has. Ridiculous.

4. coordinator
There is not much to say here. If I say 'in the future there won't be a coordinator' you guys will just say that won't happend. Anyway, think about how decentralized Bitcoin is.. got it? Not much. Pretty much centralized. 2-3 companies having most of the mining power. So why cry about the coordinator? No idea.

I wish for this community to be a bit more open and forward thinking and not just regurgitate things like 'don't roll your own crypto'.
And yet that's what battery life getting worse does: spikes cause shutdowns. If people don't expect that, they don't know much about lithium-ion batteries. Which is fine, but that's exactly 100% what Apple is handling here.
“In recent years, I’ve been spending a lot of my time on science and technology issues, and philanthropy, and I plan to expand that work.”
I don't remember random reboots or otherwise similar behavior. More importantly, I remember same upgrade problems since 2010 or so.
I thought the NVIDIA drivers for the more fancy cards (TITAN etc) are the same as for the gforce cards. Wouldn't this restriction apply to those cards as well? Doesn't make much sense to me...
So what if they do want to go out drinking? What's your beef about this? Are bars and restaurants only OK to go to before a certain time?

This citizen lives in a city where LOTS of stuff is open late and he/she would like to participate in this city. Not just bars. But even the bars have workers who still need to get there. And I'd guess the nightlife sector of NYC's economy is MUCH larger than any other city in the US.
No, I the analogy just wasn't very apt.

Python allowed them to build a successful company. Now, when their stack is mature and maintenance is more important than rapid prototyping, Python allows them to add type hinting.

Because they are engineers, they built a tool (in Python) that allows them to do it in an automated manner.

And all of this is great!

They are evolving their code to fit their needs; it's nothing like making a octagonal wheel and wishing you'd have gone for a round one in the beginning.
Papa Johns CEO is stepping down as well as of Jan 1 2018
If true then Nvidia has gone nuts. There is no way that they can control what end users of their products do with their products and/or their software post download to the extent where they are going to have a say in what locality you can use their software and where not.

Utterly ridiculous. For a company that has seen my solid support so far I'm extremely disappointed.

Could someone fluent in Japanese please confirm the claim in the title?
You know the famous pizza for bitcoin story?

The media always tells the story this way: Joe Person traded eg 10,000 bitcoins for some pizza, in what is believed to be the first commercial transaction.

You know what they always miss in the story? Joe Person did that same deal several times, which you can see by reading the forum thread that still exists. Joe Person missed out on a billion dollars in Bitcoin value in exchange for maybe a dozen pizzas.

How did Joe Person get tens of thousands of bitcoins? That's how easy it was to mine back then.
Self-promotion: here's a booklet I wrote to describe Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies and the blockchain to barely technical people who kept asking me to describe it all over again: http://scepticsguide.ivoras.net/ . It covers some history, the hows and the whys, and takes a "don't rush in just because everyone's doing it" stance. It's a light read.
This is the concept behind openmined.org - the “miners” are rewarded for improving the gradient (the data is anonymised).
I'm not a legal expert and don't understand EULAs at all. I expected a "Datacenter" to be defined at some point but I didn't see a definition in the EULA.

How should one interpret this? Is a research cluster a datacenter? How about a rack of a few dozen machines I built by hand? I've been in university research groups that had both options.

Somewhat maddening to have a single line in the EULA that's so open to interpretation.
To reply to your question. It's possible to install a CA without one's knowledge.

The battle update this week requested to run with admin rights, like a million of setup software. It didn't ask specifically "Allow setup.exe to install a system CA? Yes/No".
> I would probably ask if this is in-place or do we treat the input tree as immutable.

…that's what the parent comment is implying. Ask questions and don't assume things.
That github thread was maddening to read. They actually got a lawyer to chime in with their explanation for why the new CLA is needed, and then we got this nonsense:

> Among other changes, the updated CLA gives the Foundation the ability to re-license contributions under Apache 2.0.

But they already said:

> There is no need to get new signatures for old contributions

So they're not planning on getting all old contributions to be updated to the new CLA, but they think the new CLA will let them relicense the entire code base under Apache 2.0. That's not how that works! But it gets worse, because when challenged the lawyer quotes the updated CLA language:

> You understand and agree that the JS Foundation projects and your Contributions are public and that a record of the Contributions (including all metadata and personal information you submit with them) is maintained indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with the JS Foundation’s policies and the requirements of the Apache v2.0 license where they are relevant.

"You [...] agree that [...] your Contributions are public and that a record of the Contributions (including all metadata and personal information you submit with them) [...] may be redistributed consistent with [...] the requirements of the Apache v2.0 license where they are relevant."

That's clearly saying that they may need to provide people with the record of your contribution in order to prove that, eg, the Apache v2.0 license is being complied with. It is not an agreement that your actual contribution is licensed (or can be relicensed) under the Apache v2.0 license.

This is just magical thinking. You can't just mumble the words "Apache 2.0" somewhere in the general neighborhood of a legal document and have it magically relicense years of contributions. You certainly can't make people agree that metadata about your contribution can be shared with some people, and then expect that to magically change the license under which the contribution itself exists.
I didn't see any option for that. Got a screenshot?
And everyone who starts a business is successful at it?
There's a big difference between games where IAP is essentially used to enable a free demo, where you pay once to unlock full functionality, or where it's used to buy cosmetics; and cases where someone essentially designs a fun, well-balanced game and then deliberately breaks it to be increasingly slow and unsatisfying, requiring you to pay continuously to get that initial fun back.
Facebook ditches fake news flag after admitting it was making the problem worse
Where are you getting this that men flip out of they are prohibited relationships between coworkers?

I was just listening to NPR this morning where the woman speaking was saying that we need to more strongly define expectations for office behavior, but that women as well as men are against the idea of banning office relationships.
It would be quite different if they reduced speed without a need to control battery expenditure. Planned obsolescence is a benefit to future sales, but seems this is a technical requirement to work around limitations of batteries.

Transparency to end user would be helpful to end user. Doesn’t full performance come back when running on wire power?
and the MC1, which is a XU4 married to a SATA bridge.

From my POV, the Top 10 was disappointing and boring.
AFAIC, there's no SBC competing with the XU4 in terms
of perf/$. I'd hope to see something even better than the XU4 or C2.
Leslie Knope is a blond, Midwest-born woman who believes strongly in using government to improve people’s lives. Despite being stopped short from achieving her goals time and time again, she never loses her optimism or her determination. She prepares long, in-depth policy briefings that no one ever reads, comes under attack from ignorant yokels, and even makes understandable, innocent mistakes that get blown out of proportion into major scandals. That is exactly how Hillary Clinton’s supporters see her.

The show also started around the same time as her incredibly popular tenure as Secretary of State.
What?

I was painting broadly the social demographic of the people that push this sort of nonsense - it usually is uppity liberals and fringe radicals.

People who actually care about their neighborhoods call the police when there are homicides, drug dealing, and violence occurring.

> there are uppity conservatives and fringe right-wing protestors

Yes, and I'm one of those uppity conservatives. I hold the fringe right-wing guys in contempt, but I don't see the relevance? If you want me to rail on them, I will gladly.

>Do you feel that you're "in the middle" and not a conservative?

Libertarian I guess? Grew up in a poor neighborhood much like the one described in the article, so I feel quite strongly about this sort of stuff. A larger police presence would have been a gift from God.
This I agree with!
Does it need to be a whole septate machine? If I run Linux as my daily driver and a Windows install on a separate drive/partition for gaming only, then I'll only be exposed to any potential risks for this when I boot to Windows, right?
Weird though, because school/work is the most common place for couples to meet. Your opinion is another example of ivory-tower syndrome, or living in an ultra-liberal bubble.

Coworkers abstaining has more to do with risk (greater on the men’s side). Elites have always tried controlling sexual freedom and exploration because it threatens their control over literally creating future elite generations.

The sexual revolution absolutely improved women’s prospects from the Eisenhower era. Instead of forced to religious-coupling or pushed into traditional female roles, instead women were able to more freely choose their mate.
This seems to fit a continuous change in YC and perhaps tech in general. YC doesn't seem so eager to fund 1000 startups so that 2 of them become unicorns anymore.

It's more like they want to fund 1000 startups so that 100 are sustainable.

We don't hear moonshot or billion dollar market depth or hyper growth as much as we used

Anyone feeling the same?
Well yeah I get it that the HN crowd tends to have a love for hard data, but still I think HN is still a human community that welcomes anecdotes and personal communications. HN is not trying to be a strange comment-based Wikipedia where everything must be verifiable and objective. Telling stories is one of the oldest ways human communities thrive. But you don't have to believe my story; you could probably satisfy your curiosity by closing this tab and go read featured articles on Wikipedia.
The 1918 flu pandemic also came at the tail end of World War 1, when the youngest and healthiest were in incredibly close proximity and likely had compromised immune systems from a few years of warfare.
Net Neutrality and Blockchain: Trouble for Potential Growth?
I have the same inclination about ads, but I'm highly skeptical that such a solution would work fully. I'd be willing to give it a try though. The problem is bad enough that it's worth throwing solutions out and trying them until we see what sticks.

The point about Facebook anyway, singling them out, is that it happens to be an article about Facebook and how they in particular do this. A similar article on "How Fox News…" or "How ESPN…" or "How the NYT…" would be appropriate also in the case that any of those places had a dedicated political unit which was interesting to report about, especially if it contradicts the way the entity prefers to present itself.

Of course, it's reasonable to focus on Facebook merely in their dominance.

And finally, it's possible at least that Facebook is actually worse in some ways (or just more effective at spreading propaganda etc), and I'm not ready to rule that out.
There's also this paperless https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless
wouldn't it be more accurate to say "wallets"? I am sure many of these are owned by large groups of people.