skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sucks. I used to work in investment banking where we used a tool called Capital IQ for our research, despite the fact that our focus was on venture-backed startups and Capital IQ's coverage of startup companies was really crappy. When I left banking one of my top 2 or 3 ideas was to start a company that would essentially be Capital IQ for startups. The idea being that I would sell the overall platform to VC firms and investment banks, gain access to their data, and use it to build predictive models of non-venture-backed startups based on publicly-available information. I didn't end up pursuing that idea, but I was aware of Mattermark and thought that it was a service that should exist, would be a no-brainer for people targeting that market. To be honest, I think they did a lot better of a job of it than I would have.

Back in April when I was looking for jobs I did get the chance to interview at Mattermark, though. Kevin Morrill and the rest of the engineers that I met all seemed very friendly and bright (they ultimately rejected me, which is good because [1] I would have accepted their offer, and [2] I ended up joining Flexport, which I love). Even at the time I got the impression that they may have a tough road ahead, but I'm sorry to see that things turned out this way.
That blog response is completely unconvincing and makes me trust them even less. They have no proof of the extraordinary claim that the flawed hash function was intended (which is bad whether this is true or false) and their network going down for three days is a huge red flag that the protocol cannot be used in a decentralised way. He talks a good game but if you have any technical background you can see he isn't addressing what's being asked and is avoiding valid criticism via hand waving and character attacks.
South Korean Cryptocurrency Exchanges Hacked by North Korea
You can redeploy a Heroku app to many other servers and platforms relatively easily.

However, I'm not sure you can do the same with AWS Lamda Functions. To mean, this means it is like a lock-in.
In other words, short sells are tools to use against failing companies, not against markets you think can't deliver real value. Markets are much bigger than companies and can make short work of your maintenance margin even if they're going to crash in the end.

If you want to make a long term bet against a market, the best idea is to figure out who benefits when that market crashes and go long on them.
> But all educated Americans know that the parties flipped their positions in the 1960s when Dems under LBJ courageously pushed out the racists to pass the Civil Rights Act and the racists moved to the Republicans.

That is an oversimplification.

What happened is that overtly racist policies fell out of favor. People talk about structural racism today, but nobody can say with a straight face that it's the same now as it was in the days of Jim Crow laws.

By the 1960s the Democrats saw the writing on the wall. The political winds were changing and they adjusted their sail. But supporting Jim Crow had been how Democrats got elected in the south. By voting with the Republicans to pass the Civil Rights Act, they alienated all the old racists who voted for them specifically to prevent that from happening.

The south was ready to skin them and eat them at that point. The Republicans weren't too stupid to realize that. All they had to do to take the south was to show up and be Not The Democrats.

Some racists (e.g. Strom Thurmond) switched parties, but in general the Republicans were never as racist as the Democrats historically were. They didn't have to be. Popular support for racism has been on the decline for more than a hundred years, and the remaining racists no longer trusted the Dems so the Republicans never had to give them anything or even really promise to give them anything to get their votes.

It's not so much that the Republicans flipped as that the racists lost and that redrew the electoral map.
Based off the abstract, there's one class of weak solutions, the Leray solutions, which are known to exist. And now they've shown for a different class of weak solutions to NS that the solutions are not unique. Is that right?
Schmidt is 62 and worth $13B. Maybe he just decided to do something else.

I'm sure Google has plenty of clout in DC. They have 600+ lobbyists and a huge budget.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/30/google-si...
An Open Letter on Why We’re Removing Usernames
Not doing so well in Satoshi terms. I'll never forget the 25->100+ pump of 2013. Wild times in IRC. I forget the name of that Chinese whale now though.
Google Drive mobile app does this natively (at least on Android) there's a 'Scan' option when adding a file that will do it.
Btw this is work relating to one of the famed Millennial Problems - http://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/navier%E2%80%93s...
With Algorithmia you can write algos in Python, R, Scala, Rust, Java, Ruby and JavaScript. And you can call those algos from any language at all.

There’s solid dependency support, GPUs enabled, built-in versioning, automatic JSON APIs, etc. and the latency is about 15ms for warm responses.

While you’d still want to train your model offline or elsewhere in your own preferred environment, this provides a DevOps-free environment for hosting your algo. You don’t have to worry about building a VM, manually scaling load, etc. And algos are easily chainable / pipeline-able across languages and developers. So your local Python script can call a remote R routine which loops over a Java function, with basically zero overhead.

Algorithmia only charges per compute-second for use, not for hosting. And you can either make your API free, or charge a royalty per use.

Refs:

Creating an algo: https://algorithmia.com/developers/algorithm-development/lan...

Calling an algo: https://algorithmia.com/developers/clients/

Pricing: https://algorithmia.com/pricing

Platform overview: https://algorithmia.com/serverless-ai-layer
Twitter "made 2.5B losses". Yeah ... that's bad ... but not from the perspectives of investors.

Jack Dorsey became a billionaire from those losses. The same is true for probably all other early investors. For an investment in Twitter to have done really badly, there was a "bear" period of about 2 years.

And before you say it, remember that even Google stock dropped 60%, Facebook's 70%. Twitter's drop actually looks pretty reasonable in comparison.

So firstly, I don't think twitter is bad, and secondly, I don't think people have given up on twitter, and thirdly, that seems pretty justified.
Probably not. There's about 900 million passengers a year in the US (https://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/press_releases/bts018_16), so if you assume a 15 minute wait, you can estimate number of lifetimes lost in line: ((((900,000,000 * 15) / 60) / 24) / 365.25) / 78.74 = 325.98.

Not to say we should have no security, but I suspect we're past the point of doing more harm than good.
Uh huh.

What were the parties looking like post Nixon?
Blockchain is simply a technology; it does not "stand for" anything. You could, perhaps argue, that it is technology that is not useful in the presence of regulatory authority; but that seems like a very broad statement to make. You would have to show that any level of regulatory would allow for a solution to all the problems that blockchains solve that is no worse than using a blockchain. In fact, they would probably have to solve those problems substantially better to overcome the network effects of using the more established technology.
Shallow networks would probably differ in the number of categories they can differentiate with accuracy.
Hey, if you want every browser to be identical, that's your right. I happen to think that competition among browsers is a good thing, and that means that they'll always be at least a little bit different. Shouldn't it matter which browser you use?

No major browser vendor (in the modern era, at least) wants to break interoperability -- that's the bright line that separates innovation from fragmentation -- and you'll find that each works hard to stay on the right side of that line, often slowing their rate of innovation to do so.

(And no, saying extensions platforms don't count isn't just language-lawyering, as I think you're trying to suggest. Most extensions platforms, particularly ActiveX and old-style Firefox add-ons, are deeply dependent on the host OS or the specific user agent's implementation, or else they operate in contexts that just don't make sense in the web's origin-based security model. I wouldn't go so far as to say it would be impossible to standardize an extensions platform, but standardizing one would necessarily give rise to a separate platform (the extension to the extensions platform) that was host-OS-specific or user-agent-specific. As I said earlier, there are legitimate needs to get stuff done that can't and shouldn't be done on the web, but that don't require abandoning all web technologies. Maybe you're right that the intent of ActiveX was to kill the web. That doesn't mean that it didn't also solve real problems that the web couldn't solve at the time and still can't today.)
> Anyone can buy any amount of BTC.

Actually, this is untrue.. a Satoshi is the smallest denomination of btc

> That's like saying only rich people can buy gold

It's more 'like' saying "only rich people can invest in gold"

That's why ETFs and mutual funds exist: so other people can invest in those so the wealthy people who own them can invest in gold then distribute the gains

>Essentially there are many uninformed people buying these digital currencies that know nothing about them. That is what I was pointing out.

Considering the misinformation you are spreading and your claim to be 'gambling' with 'some' 'digital currency' it sounds like you are describing yourself

In the gp you claimed "she's clearly not an expert"

Can you at least admit Theodora: someone who moves 1M+ worth of assets between multiple currencies based on first hand market research and future potential of direct and peripheral regulation; exhibits more expertise on the subject of cryptocurrencies than you?

Why did you choose this article to strawman?
I've had a great time writing Rust this past year, and I'm looking forward to the next year. Thanks, Rust team!
Omg, who cares if wired writes a story about your startup?!? No story has ever made a company...
Transparent File Cryptography with EasyPG

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keeping-secrets-in-em...
https://gcn.com/articles/2017/12/19/smartphone-authenticatio...

The application is specific in this instance but can obviously be generalized. Thanks for the info, I'll keep this in mind.
It is indeed very interesting to consider that the vast majority of internet enabled people across the world don’t read Hacker News, don’t read Bloomberg editorials - they just check their Facebook feed...
As a european it's always funny hearing some americans call Bernie an extremist.

Here he's just an average left-leaning politician, we elect plenty of people like him all the time. US politics are so absurdly shifted right it's mind blowing.

Edit: Does anyone here actually disagree with this or am I just being downvoted because people are upset this is the case?
I agree with your assessment. I also personally feel like this needs to be regulated by governments. I don't think that companies can be trusted to govern themselves, and I think that what we're seeing not just in f2p mobile games but also in AAA games proves that fact out: the "fiduciary duty" to shareholders is proving to win out the battle against competing ethical duties, primarily because the former is mandated and the latter is merely a suggestion (if that). This is where regulations need to step in, and force businesses to have a duty beyond the shareholder fiduciary duty and require them to provide transparency and avoid exploitation of addiction.
“A fool and his money are soon parted.”

Given the world population, that’s and endless supply.

Marketing and psychology are kings of science.
+1 Spider Oak "Hive" for dropbox-like functionality
Show HN: Golang CLI to manage Spotify playback with a TUI for search
NATS streaming was definitely neat. And thanks for sharing your video, always looking for new distributed database resources.
Show HN: 'Ask me anything' app for expert knowledge and opinions
Depends, if the companies are holding some assets in bitcoin in addition to the branding efforts then shorting could be risky depending on how the bubble times relative to your short position.
Sounds like the projects you worked on had excellent encapsulation.
Whoever invented hummus died centuries ago. Tribalism makes no sense to me.
Navier-Stokes equations:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier–Stokes_equations
What do HN people think about a law to prevent corporate executives from giving money to politicians?
Thanks for the detailed answer....but I still don't get the why....but maybe because this is more for large teams?

I'm struggling to understand why I would use this over Google Cloud or Microsoft AI.

Am I misunderstanding the big picture here?
When was this? Rust has been able to pretend to be C for years, now, and debugs pretty ok. However until last year you could not do things like call functions (in gdb, lldb doesn't have support yet).

We're now moving towards making Rust have Rust-specific debuginfo for a better debugging experience. tromey (who has commented below) is working on this both for lldb and gdb.
I don't believe in the argument to moderation.

> A philosophy can be useful, even beneficial, but still be flawed.

I agree wholeheartedly.
> To govern and regulate a public block-chain is fundamentally against what they stand for.

A block-chain has no stance for or against anything. Saying that a block-chain could be for or against governance is similar to saying that b*trees are pro-life.
Any good open source desktop software with linux support to do this? I don't see why I would personally want a web app for this.
Dropbox and encfs. There's a Windows client for it too if you need access there (http://www.getsafe.org/).
Was he just messing with you? What's a case where assembly is not isomorphic to machine code?
Okay, wow, this is cool.
Teaching Safe-Stats, Not Statistical Abstinence – By Hadley Wickham [pdf]
Sodium, while a main (50%) ingredient of salt, gets into us for example with the probably most popular ingredient ever, monosodium glutamate.
I personally believe it's the excess of one polarity ion over another that's detrimental to our health.
I don't believe in hard limits, but if a line goes over about 120, I'll put its length under more scrutiny, to see if there's somewhere that it would make sense to split it. There almost always is, unless it's some kind of data table embedded in the code (or a long string).
I'm not sure if this makes me sad or if it's just another nail in the coffin for humanity.

Either way, it's an overwhelming WTF people. Think I'll go with sad because many someones will have installed this and gone out into the past-the-front-door world :(

and, digging deeper, I found this https://cdn0.tnwcdn.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2017/12...
I'm not saying it is definitely wrong and no one should believe it because it is the best working theory. Based on the track record of science though it is very unlikely that it is 100% correct.
That may simply mean that only one of these things really is quality :

1) working great and well for the end user, for the function of the software

2) bugs and code structure

Code quality can be so bad that it matters. But beyond a basic level, it does not matter. Bad code that works beats great code that doesn't fulfill it's function every single time.

I once had this great lesson. I was brought into a team as a TL/Manager. We were making a product that was doing pretty well, in terms of attention it was getting and so on. 1 week in, I learn that about 70% of the code is tests, 30% is actual code that's used at runtime. 2 weeks in I learn that everybody's always working on the tests, never on the program (there's a reasonably good reason for this even). 3 weeks in I explore the program, and at some point I try to run it. Turns out the "main" function is broken. Because of crashes (plural) during variable initialization it never gets to the first line of the main function ... How long had these bugs existed (it wasn't just one), you ask ? Well, over 3 months. Doesn't happen in the (VERY extensive) test run.

Lessons learned in that project:

1) test driven development is a great place to start, and a VERY bad way to run projects once they're even 10% into their delivery schedule

2) even the best tests don't check everything

3) even the best tests don't guarantee that even the most basic simple parts of the program work. In fact, tests actually WORK AGAINST THIS.

4) the value of a system test (where the entire program runs, by actually going into main and doing what it's supposed to on a realistic example) is incredible. The criticism that TDD developers have is valid, that if it fails you won't know (necessarily) where it failed, but isn't that serious. Firstly, you'll usually have some idea of where it failed, and secondly, and this is the big one, you'll know it fails. FAR preferable to the other situation. They're also very hard to write. Tough. You need them, far more than you need unit tests on 5 line functions.

5) you are MUCH better off with a "hero" programmer (bad name, "loose cannon" would be more apt description) AND someone acting 90% anal about tests, and managing the inevitable conflict, than you are without the loose cannon. Managing that conflict will be a challenge though. And yes, that means that, to the utter dismay of the TDD developer, you'll have to tell him to let in code without, or with bad tests, from time to time.
Cicero's Periodic Sentence (2012)
I didn't realize that Uber worked without mobile data.
That's correct, while taking away the entropy inequality as well. The thing is that very inequality is one of these laws of thermodynamics we so love, so I kind of see this as hot air.
Does anybody know a saner way of doing this cross-platform? I've resorted to doing platform checks in my .bashrc and don't get me started on the OSX / Linux differences in .platform, .bash_platform, and .bashrc sourcing.

And when I tried termux on Android, oh dear lord. The whole thing breaks because of permissions issues. Had that issue on WSL too.
Tragically, this device is illegal in Canada - and would result in a $100,000 fine if imported.
It was a BI experiment, the U being eliminated by heavy selection. Xerox PARC started that way as well - select very talented people, then give them money to work. UBI presumes you are ready to give the guy begging on the street with an alcohol habit the same check you'd give Drew Houston.

A company can pick its most favorable market to make a profit (people with money to invest then boost the companies with most favorable returns). Government is a silent partner in all commercial transactions because it has to serve all of the other citizens too at a basic level (it can't just pick and choose). Non-profits get a pass on taxation by the government to serve the markets missed by profit-makers.
> Python being slow is never an issue unless someone is insisting on using the wrong tool for the job.

So you think, for example, Numba (and everything that uses it) is misguided?
I’m aware of some of these efforts. I’ve been following REQ.

If currencies go to zero and the masses lose their money then they could lose faith in the whole system. Interop of 100+ currencies won’t matter if all have zero value.

I’m not saying this will happen, but suggesting it’s a worst case scenario.
I "deleted" my original account via facebook's deletion mechanism. Then, six months later I created another account with the same email address and received a different account (the url to my profile was different).

I commented with this account for a few weeks before getting into a heavy argument with a Trump supporter in a comments thread who even accused me of being a fake account because I had no picture uploaded.

Not saying your scenario isn't plausible, just unlikely.
Most in the article are dropping their current business to focus on bitcoin, despite no understanding. Seems reasonable that at least a couple will fail with that combination.
Yeah, hard to measure it against satoshis when bitcoin went up.
Yes that's a more accurate characterization.
Even better: tell them what they give back in exchange. That is what patreon and the like is about.
However, in '99/'00, even in '94-'96 there were many sorts of things one could say to a friend, "Hey look at this cool thing you can do on the web!" and your friend would say "Wow! Yeah that is cool!"

What are the equivalents with cryptocurrencies/blockchains? I ask this all the time, no one seems to have an answer.

The extent of the discussion around cryptocurrencies seems to be rambling on about things that either, no one understands, few people care about, or as a solution to a "problem" that few people if any, actually have. But people are "really excited" about these obscure curiosities, because if they can get other people about excited too they can sell their holdings for more than they paid for them.

The comparison between the web and cryptocoins seems really strained because not only can you not show the average Joe anything that would really impress him done with a cryptocurrency, beyond an irrational exuberance, but also because the two are so vastly different in scope.

The impetus of bitcoin was about an experiment of enacting a certain type of monetary system related to a certain political philosophy. In comparison the web is basically infinite. You can read about, write about, or discuss that political philosophy, or any of a hundred others, or you can do any of millions of other things having nothing to do with a political philosophy.

One of the great legacies of the web is the dematerialization and demonetization it wrought due to zeroing out reproduction and distribution costs.

Now we have people pretending that code that can be literally copy and pasted to start a new network of ____coin is somehow super wow! valuable!
Well said. I’m amazed by how blind history is to LBJ’s racist roots. LBJ was a life-long cold blooded political operative. His “courage” was strategic. And it worked.
From the author of the Picnic css framework. That bodes well for conciseness, documentation, and style.
Aye either they have upturned a theory as august as general relativity or they’ve thrown the baby out with the bath water somewhere.
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It's not too soon - there's always a new model out every year! What a coincidence!
Well, companies take many years to reach that stage of success, so of course all the successful companies will have come from the past batches when batches were smaller.
I found it (almost), low temp microgravity environment!

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0011227501...
Voter ID laws definitely changed. All the kicking people off voting rolls definitely got stepped up.

Quite a few things were different.
Are you using notepad to write c#?
If you hover on the var you will see the tooltip with the type.