skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More overlap than you think!

In his talk - https://vimeo.com/115154289 - Bret has a footnote reference to Radical Atoms group (Hiroshi's group)
> Oracle building a big office here

Well...
Bitcoin gains or loses more than 10% in a day quite often.
Stomp on the Mystery Box
Nuclear is obsolete to what? As far as I understand, nuclear is the replacement for coal, nothing else comes close to being able to provide a stable constant supply in large quantities.

What else can take the role of supplying the bulk of electricity to grids that doesn't also have it's own environmental concerns?
Might it have been Lyrebird[0]?
They're (as far as I can tell) they have the best text-to-speech that you can actually use.
It's kinda annoying when Google makes these announcements about their advances in TTS only to reveal that it's not actually something you can make use of, and no, the dataset they used to train their model is not available.

0. https://lyrebird.ai/demo/
If you were in Venezuela you would certainly prefer to own Bitcoin if it had the same buying power in 6 months than keep local currency. Could be said of rubles and other currencies as well.

Even in the US, holding Bitcoin at the same buying power would be a hedge against inflation.

Of course the Bitcoin price in USD would still fluctuate, if it were pegged to USD there wouldn't be much use other than easier to move around.
Facebook Wants Your Face and You'll Probably Let Them Have It
"Blood money" (a family forgiving a murderer in exchange for money) is a mutually beneficial trade, but is illegal in almost all countries.
At one point in time, Bitcoin was worthless. Therefore it is provable that it can be worthless.

At no point in history has gold been worthless.

As far as you and I know, gold has had worth as long as society has had the capability to get it.
You are, obviously and of course, correct that Facebook stands to benefit from lock-in.

Perhaps I fail to understand the IP issues correctly. Users uploading wedding photos to Facebook that they claim they have the rights to is in the same category, legally, as the videos that users claim they own the rights to. Both get the same (lack of) concern.

That's my understanding, at least. Does your differ?
Gold exploration had been going on for thousands of years which means every new piece of gold is being discovered at much higher cost. So while supply increases, prices don't go down.
All right, here's some context. People are classified as "racist" for believing that the culture that came out of northern Europe is not inherently oppressive. (Source: Watching what's happened on university campuses for the last couple of years. I can't point you to a specific documentation of a specific event at the moment.)

When that's the definition of "racist", then racism is indeed "nearly meaningless" - it's become such a broad term that it no longer means anything. To paraphrase The Incredibles: "When everything fits the definition... then nothing does."
Creating Custom Estimators in TensorFlow
Intriguing.

Could a person have their vote assigned to more than one person if none of them have won yet? (Probably with some sort of ranking to resolve any ambiguities as to who their vote goes to)

I'm not sure if that would be the optimal threshold for number of votes needed.

Here is an idea for a small modification:

First, have all the voters vote on the number of congresspeople to have, and then pick the median (if there is an even number of votes, and the middle two are different, pick between the two at random).

Then, after the result of the first vote has been decided, have everyone vote on the vote threshold (making sure that they are informed of what the voters/seats number), and again, take the median of the votes (and again, if a tie between 2 values, pick between the two at random. Don't average them.).

Then do what you said, with the chosen number of seats and the chosen vote threshold.

There are no doubt some downsides to this method. I don't yet have enough understanding of them to fully recommend it, but it seems worth looking into!
The sky is thermally very cold. Something room temperature would show up much brighter.
the link died really fast
Plenty will tell you: not very often, day to day

People will tell you all sorts of things.

It's objectionable because it doesn't test the skill set that would be used on the job.

Maybe they just say that because that's easier than investing the time to develop a good understanding of basic algorithms?

Don't get me wrong... I'm all about specialization of labor and all that, and I'm not saying every programmer in the world needs to be able to write a provably correct implementation of a PriorityQueue from scratch, at the drop of a hat. But I would argue that all developers, front-end or otherwise, benefit from algorithmic knowledge, and that it is reasonable to test front-end devs on that knowledge - to a point.

And given how much more complex "web apps" are becoming with pretty complex SPA's delivered with lots of complex logic executing on the "front end" I think that's become even more true over the past few years. It's not like "Front end developer" means "person who does CSS styling and can add a few neat effects to a page using javascript".

You wouldn't judge an electrician on their carpentry.

No you wouldn't but that analogy really doesn't fit the present discussion at all.
For now, those companies were different 10 years ago, Netflix has it's own issues if my viewing options are the same as everyone else's these days.
No, actually it isn't, please go fuck yourself and your assumptions, jesus fucking christ. I've been interested in software development my whole adult life and have just had a series of unrecoverable bad decisions.

God, seriously, go fucking fuck yourself. It's so fucking insulting to have those kind of asinine assumptions thrown my way.
Duckweed is a good tilapia feed, but requires a nitrogen source. Use it to supplement azola, it has around 4% more protein.

The problem with tilapia is they reach breeding size long before they reach useful eating size. Upon reaching breeding size, they pretty much quit growing and put all their energy into offspring. They are nearly impossible to separate by sex. Commercial tilipia is treated with large doses of hormones to hermaphrodize the fish to a single sex and grow those nice sized fillets.
Thanks!

For starting a company, is H1b the best visa to be on, or are there other alternatives. If it is easier, how do YC founders navigate visa (assuming they don't have a green card)? Please feel free to add constraints regarding funding, board etc.

Ultimately, this is the thing that scares me the most in even dreaming to start my company, so even links that help would be amazing.
Yes. They are waiting to be picked up by a miner, based on the fee that the transaction has paid to be included in the blockchain. You can still make a quick (by BTC standards) transaction in these scenarios, it's just more expensive to do so. Right now, a regular simple transaction would have to pay USD 22 to be included in the next block (i.e. within 10 minutes).

Here's the reference website for BTC blockchain backlog. It allows you to understand what a good fee is at a given time.

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/
I'm genuinely curious; can you name a few more clients and features?

A lot of the things you called out sound like "smart features" more than an overhaul to the app (or significant UI changes). I think a lot of the trendy email applications that came out around 2012 (Sparro and Mailbox), were really interesting, but niche. They've seemed to have all gone away and only nudged the email clients most people use everyday.

I do like Gmails categorization, but I don't know of another client that does it. I also assume it requires a server-side component to look at and categorize email by looking at everyone's. Maybe it could work like spam detection? Again, it sounds difficult to get right--not just a design choice.

Regarding the button size, looking at Google Inbox all of the buttons look proportional to me. Phones lend themselves to multiple rows of varying size icons. Desktops usually have a single vertical or horizontal row. Mixing up the size can waste space. It's funny looking back at screen shots from Thunderbird v1. It had a row of huge icons. They've since been replaced by smaller text-only buttons. Phone and web interfaces have less strict standards and consistency (which I think discourage a lot of people).

I do think they could get rid of some clutter by ditching Chat, Address Book, Tags and Filters, and hide "Get Messages" under a mouseover (like Fastmail's client). Leaving "Write" on the left and and a text box for filtering on the right--perhaps ditching that whole row by integrating those two widgets into other places in the UI. But I also wouldn't mind if they improved the backend, added some of those "smart features" both you and I mentioned, and left the UI as it was years ago.
I'd personally really like for code to go away / not need to use it. It's an important bootstrapping step, but really only the hardware of the 60s and 70s more / less needed text, files, and source code.

With the physical environment of Dynamicland, "code" can be re-represented using physical objects, and we may not even need it. That's a really exciting idea!
The utility of bitcoin depends on your perspective. As a means of value exchange, high fees make it less useful. But as a store of value, high fees matter little.
Say the guys with a significant stake in BTC.
Why do you prefer ecc? I can't think of any uses for it in a Mac that isn't a server.
what you're claiming is plausible but how many successful companies are actually refinancing real estate they own in order to get capital (for further growth?)? do you have proof this happens as regularly as would have to happen to be the largest component of sv success, as you claim?
Tesla's battery is better at doing what it was designed for, compared to coal plant(s) that are better at doing what they're designed for. In conjunction with one another, both technologies work incredibly well.
We need different words (or perhaps phrases) for "mainstream (US) liberalism" and "classical liberalism". The problem is that "liberalism", without modifiers, used to mean "classical liberalism", and now most often means "mainstream liberalism". This leads to confusion (sometimes deliberate, as mainstream liberals try to wrap themselves in the mantle of respectability that classical liberalism earned).
They've been indoctrinated into a deeply subversive ideology. That ideology commands them to believe god and religion before country, before mere laws of man. Rural America believes this is a Christian nation, founded on Christianity. And there is to be no discussion of this. The ideology itself is what broke down any chance of conversation.

Rural Americans have no idea "in God We Trust" is not original, that it was added in 1956, that "under God" was added to the pledge of allegiance in 1954, they have no idea that Article 6 of the constitution explicitly says no religious test will be required to hold public office, and they insist that the 1st amendment does not make the U.S. a secular state. And they think it's a lie that there is such a thing called the Treaty of Tripoli, written by Washington and Adams, ratified unanimously by teh senate, that says "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion".

In the original case of Loving vs Virgina (1967), the state judge pointed to the bible, chapter and verse, as moral and legal justification for anti-miscegenation laws. Interracial marriage was illegal in nearly 1/2 the states up until that time. And the same arguments then were the same nut bag religious arguments used most recently with those opposed to gay marriage, and transgendered people having equal rights.

Is there really a conversation to be had here? The racism, bigotry, misogyny, sure they all pre-exist religion, but they are enhanced, coddled, protected, by the most popular variety of it in rural white America. I would never work or live there. I don't even care to visit. And I see no time in the near future where this will not be true. They do not want their culture to change. There is nothing wrong with it. Everything wrong is with the gays, the godless, the Muslims, and the illegal immigrants stealing white American jobs, and sluts having abortions. And they have a president who perfectly represents them in helping them blame others for their problems.
I have nothing constructive to say except that i love it.
As a heads up for folks interested in Haxe, the first stateside Haxe conference is set for May 3rd-5th in Seattle Washington : https://haxe.org/blog/seattle-haxe-summit-2018
We need a standard streaming API. I like Netflix's interface, and I would pay for HBO for example, but I want the shows to show using the Netflix interface, not another crappy client.
Society has not abandoned innocent until proven guilty in court cases. That's where that standard applies.
What happens when the school bully rips up my piece of paper?
No one can steal it from you with 50%+1 CPU resources though.
Hi Peter,

Just wanted to say here that in my experience this is now taking much longer than 3 months. Mine is currently approaching 4 months, and I have colleagues that have been waiting for over 5 months.
Have you ever seen propaganda for a mineral before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXyEfo27Z38
Facebook's market cap is $521 Billion. So good on them but they probably should have had more of FB.
It's most likely news to most of the country that the battery would have this benefit to the whole grid. That was the target audience.

It's likely popular on HN because hey cool this entire country has a backup battery by Tesla and it's doing cool stuff.
Crystal: This is not a new year’s resolution
> Mark Leno said so.

I can believe Leno said that, but I am also quite aware that it was a very small minority opinion even among supporters of the legislation.

I'll also note that Leno isn't quoted as saying anything like that in the article you cite to support that Leno said it, though.

> You may not be familiar, but in previous decades, Mark Simpson, Michel Foucault, and many other gay writers were against "gay marriage", often expliciltly arguing it was an embourgeoisement to be rejected.

You are misrepresenting Foucault, who did not argue against (or for, it just simply wasn't a controversy he addressed) equality in marriage but that the limitations (irrespective of sexual preference of the partners) of socially acceptable and institutionalized relationships to only marriage and family-by-descent ought to be lifted and additional forms of relationship recognized and valorized.

Neither did Simpson come from the radical, anti-embourgeoisement, angle you suggest, instead simply buying into the (historically inaccurate) religious right story about the origin of civil marriage and the pro-state-establishment-of-religion argument of the religious right that would give the religious right veto power over the civil definition of religion. That's certainly a viewpoint that exists—and which AFAICT Simpson still holds—but it wasn't a dominant one among LGBTQ activists and allies anytime in the 1999-2011 history of the establishment and expansion of California's Domestic Partnership system. Not even when aggregated with people who did take the radical position you identify, even though neither Simpson nor Foucault are among them.

> Andrew Sullivan and others (with lots of documentary and eyewitness evidence) have written about how they had to move the consensus even among gay people toward marriage equality when it was far away.

I'm not sure why you are pointing to an Slate article that is simply a reprint of one of Sullivan's 1989 articles laying out a conservative case for gay marriage to support your contention that Sullivan and others still had to move the consensus of LGBTQ advocates and allies to support marriage sometime after the time in 2011 when California harmonized domestic partnership with marriage so that the two arguably differed in name only.

Sullivan was certainly important in moving the needle in terms of what people thought was reasonable to set as a near term goal and how they sought to sell it (whether he really shifted the ground on the long-term goal, or just made it seem less quixotic and pie-in-the-sky might be a debate), but he did that well before the time you are referencing.

You spin a fine tale, but it seems to be entirely historical revisionism backed with red herring links and name dropping.
Teeth?
There are a few quantum resistant cryptocurrencies out there already. Bitcoin isn't one of them but it's well understood how to change it to be quantum resistant. When it becomes a genuine concern they'll no doubt upgrade the crypto.
Tech job in LA and visit Kansas City, where I grew up, a couple times a year. Your analysis is lamentably parochial. There is no mapping between the "diversity" of Kansas in 2010 and that of California in 2000. Just not even close. Maybe there could be between California in 1985 (before I came here) and Kansas City now, that's how big the gap is.

The idea that attitudes toward "action by government" are significant in explaining the absence of tech from Kansas is nuts. The density of talent and the presence of tech-smart capital are controlling variables.
Think of a triangle. At one point is "philosopher", at another "asshole", and the third "idiot".

Consider the edge between "philosopher" and "idiot" to be "innocent love". Consider the edge between "philosopher" and "asshole" to be "pure knowledge".

The total idiot has all the love and none of the knowledge. The total asshole has all of the knowledge and none of the love. The total philosopher has all the love and all of the knowledge.

Anti-philosophers fall somewhere along the "asshole-idiot" spectrum. Stock brokers, tech bloggers, newscasters, Hollywood actors. You get the drift.
Awesome, makes sense - thanks for your help!
Is there any service that converts scanned PDF's using the Google Cloud Vision API to searchable PDF's? If so, that would be highly useful for me.
I think the color dots are some hash/key to a program. Whenever the camera sees the code in its FOV, the system executes the program. Also, the color code seems to serve as location tracking as well, so the program is projected on the physical paper.
I have nothing to add to the article, but just wanted to point out regarding that YouTube instant thing:

1. Feross never got the job he was "offered" and reportedly "accepted"[1]. He went on to do other things.

2. He is on Patreon, and you can support his Open Source efforts here: https://www.patreon.com/feross

3. Or... you can try and hire him. He was excellent to begin with and seemes to have only gotten better through the years.

4. 2010. That was an era. "Must have been love, but it's over now."[2]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/24/youtube-instant-instant/
[2] https://youtu.be/s-XolL_1dN0
Gold has had some ridiculous swings along the way too, though I doubt anything like BTC.

The scale is incomparable, but every year the history grows and the likelihood of permanent acceptance increases.
The problem with that approach is that in Europe (at least parts of it, I'm from the Netherlands and this probably doesn't apply to every single country), "text messaging" was largely replaced by WhatsApp. Getting someone to contact you over SMS instead of WhatsApp already requires a change in behavior. Once you have to explain to someone why you want them to contact you through something other than WhatsApp, the SMS angle is already irrelevant.
The Haxe code might even look similar to the GPU ActionScript - they're (deliberately) very similar languages.
Well, that's just the thing. Facebook's control over React means it won't be left out of this. Why do we think that they invest in this? Every company wants to integrate themselves as an irreducible dependency in your processes and systems. Facebook doesn't get any money for letting you use React, and they no longer get the value of using it as a kludge to allow them to more easily steal the intellectual property of small inventors (not that they needed anything extra on that front anyway).

The continuing value added to Facebook's bottom line by React is in granting influence far outside of their natural scope. Could they counter Mozilla's move by introducing new React "features" that Mozilla simply "can't support" yet, even though they "really super duper hope the new featureset can come to Gecko-based browsers next year"? Even more insidiously, could there possibly be some little snafus in their QA process that let bugs that affect Gecko-based browsers go unnoticed?

That's their leverage, that's their retaliation against Apple and Mozilla's moves to stymie their flow of user behavioral data. But, I'm sure a company whose revenue stream is wholly predicated upon reselling user identity would never do something "shady" like this to prevent competitors from blocking their access to the data that forms the lifeblood of their product, right?

... Right?
Except for most (probably all) uses of an iMac pro "need" ECC memory about as much as they "need" the apple logo the back of the computer. No workstation needs ECC. At least, few enough would benefit from ECC that a comparable system shouldn't need to include it.
People who actually use bitcoin must be ignorant of all the much more usable and useful alt-coins. Can anyone think of a good reason to actually use bitcoin vs. ripple/stellar/dash/zcash/monero/nem/...? Maybe it's just cause so many platforms have been built around bitcoin?
Most wallets allow you get out of this situation with a clever feature.

What you do is raise the insufficient fee after the fact by issuing a new transaction that is dependent on the first one, and adding a large enough fee to the second one. This is known as "child pays for parent" in BTC lingo.

That being said, the fee for a good transaction now is around $22 so it might not be worth doing for your $50 send.
Also possible scenario is

Slow down pages -> more users frustrated with Firefox -> fewer user share -> Mozilla closes and donates all code to Apache Foundation.
Thanks.

There was recently a NYT article on trying to get a ballet shoe emoji (high heel shoes & sexism related) into Unicode.

Sarcasm should be in Unicode!

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>Sarcasm, Inc. was formed in 2006 to pursue this idea, and with a great deal of effort and undying support from family and friends, the punctuation mark for sarcasm came to life.

This is why America is the greatest country in the world!

Sarcasm Inc even has (sarcastic?) shareholders and apps!
Awesome! I forgot about that mention. You should see what that research group is doing now. "Radical Atoms" where the material is dynamic and embodies computation. Now they are applying it to food... super fascinating!
The 51% attack allows you to double spend. It doesn't allow you to steal other people's coin.
Firstly, the scenario is exact in its implication. All things held equal, an "Islamic", "jihadist", "immigrant" is treated with greater caution than an "armed" "toddler".

Secondly, you can not infer the population of "armed" "toddlers" or "Islamic", "jihadist", "immigrants" from this statistic. Terrorists could be incredibly common and safe or uncommon and dangerous. Increasing their commonality might not be desirable. Which directly contradicts the implication of the tweet.

Thirdly, proportion the population of toddlers and terrorists however you wish. Under any proportionment the terrorist would be addressed first. For the simple fact that terrorists have intent to harm, whereas toddlers are more likely to harm themselves.
Similar to BTC
If you're doing trades through coinbase or similar, you'll get hit with large fees. Going to the exchanges is much cheaper.