skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jQuery UI was also tightly tied to Filament Group so it was a commercial product looking to capitalize on the jQuery name. That whole think was not so successful and jQuery UI was never that great. 5+ years ago it was bloated and buggy and it has not seen much development since.
Did Mozilla claim to offer support for their product for that period of time? Why would an embedded developer take a dependency on a third party product that does not have a guaranteed support cycle greater than the life of the device?
I've been reading David Walliams' books for children. I think they're very good. More importantly, so does my child.
Well you can be the chair of the board and CEO so then that's not too weird.
I've seen a few well know prop trading firms that are trading cryptocurrencies as well (Jump, DRW, probably others) and there doesn't seem to be too much talk of that. Goldman lends credibility and pretty much everyone has heard of them, so I get this is bigger news, but to me the more interesting news is in the trading firms.

Prop trading firms have no reason not to manipulate the cryptomarkets (it seems legal) and have the capital and knowledge to do so. Or am I missing something and manipulating these markets is illegal?
Ask HN: What are the open questions in understanding Neural Nets?
Dear HN community,

I often read (on the web or in papers) that Neural Nets are great for a variety of machine learning tasks, yet their workings are not fully understood.

I'd like to know what exactly are the open problems in understanding NNs. Are these questions mostly related to training? Inference?Anything else? Can it be boiled down to one central question?

I hope someone smarter than me can shed some light on this.
I don't disagree with that, but by that definition, no investor should be taking any above average risk. I think being aggressive with a few percentage points of your portfolio on "long shots" or high risk stuff is not necessarily bad.

We have no idea how far cryptocurrencies will run. There will be corrections along the way, but if it actually is a major bubble it might very well run up to $10tn in market cap before we see a major correction.

But I agree with the options example. Just being OK with risking a part of your portfolio doesn't mean being stupid about it. You want to make sure that the upside is sufficient and the true downside isn't 0. Which is why I would say crypto currently seems like a better investment than angel investing or buying options. You are probably putting 50% of your capital at risk, for a potential 5 to 10x return.
I agree that I really should clean my blog up. Creating a blog post is easier than linking to individual tweets. This is the Blogspot default look.
Simple - $$$ and prestige, that's why. If you play your cards right, Google is one of very few companies in the area that will make you absolutely ridiculous (for the level) offer in practically all cash, not some faint promise of payout some time in future. Then, once you have Google on your resume, it opens opportunity to at least start a conversation with almost any other company you wish to work for.
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The challenge of teaching language to voice assistants
I'm not quite sure what you mean. Python has an external static checker for types, it's called mypy.

Python's type annotations are in fact very similar to Flow and Hack in the sense that they provide gradual typing. The specification (see: PEP 484) describes that only annotated functions are type checked. Calls to non-annotated code are treated as accepting any type in arguments and returning the Any type (a special type which effectively silences the type checker).

This generates a chicken and egg problem: if you don't have enough functions annotated, the type checker won't be able to provide meaningful output to you. So convincing people to annotate their code is harder: they don't see the benefit right away. Worse yet, you already have tens of thousands of functions in your code that you know work in production but were written before type annotations were introduced. It's not really feasible to come back and fill this information manually.

MonkeyType is a tool that gathers types at runtime and enables putting them back in your code as annotations. The goal is for mypy to have more information to work with, making it way more useful.
Go wasn't a serious option for Instagram though. According to Wikipedia Instagram launched in 2010, Go launched in 2009. That would have made them very early adopters, was the library support there back then like it was for Python?

Just because there may be better tools now, should they scrap their working code that earned their fortune?
Typical. "I have a friend" comment. So many propagandist comments on HN lately with "I have a friend" or "I have a coworker".
Sure, apple is incredibly successful. But the east india company was around for hundreds of years and could wage its own wars and had enormous. That wasn't their primary purpose, they just also waged war. Could you even begin to say the same about apple?
> Twitter and the media went nuts, demanding he be fired.

Demanding someone be fired by the people with the authority to do so because you perceive that they are unsuitable for a particular role isn't lynching. It may be, in some cases, unjustified by he facts, but what makes a lynching a lynching has nothing to do with whether the accusations made are unjustified.

> It exactly is

I don't think you understand what a lynching is, because none of what you have described resembles one in any meaningful way.
Is there any way for YC to build its prestige and the sense of value it delivers without being a positive signal?
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Put in my number for fun, found out it is eligible for a replacement. Good things after 2 years a free new battery :).
Fedora's installer wrote a new boot entry to NVRAM and set the bootorder to default to Fedora. If you boot Fedora you can run efibootmgr -v to see these entries and change them with 'efibootmgr --bootorder' and then put in the boot numbers in the order you want, e.g. 0002,0001. If you make macOS first, then it will boot by default, to get to Fedora you'll use the option key at boot time to pick its icon in the firmware boot manager UI.
A few decoys would improve the prank. They think they found it but then the chirp comes back, and it's not coming from the thing that they found.
I think you meant to say sub 20 second start times for clojure apps :)

But seriously completely agree with you about the jvm being awesome. However clojure var load times on top of the base jvm and memory use makes it dog slow to start a development repl(30+ seconds is normal.. queue comment about how someone only restarts their repl every couple of days LOL) and unsuitable or unusable for situations where you care about app start times of less than 10 seconds and memory constrained environments such as cli, iot, serverless, android.
The poster you are replying to was talking about the BFR not the Falcon Heavy
Google Cloud is experiencing extremely rapid growth and is on its way to significance in Google’s bottom line.

YouTube, though mature, is still important for profit growth within the company.

There is undoubtedly duplication within the company, but I don’t know of a simple solution for it.

Max was passed over because of the engineering interview process at Google, which hasn’t changed for a decade. It is orthogonal to recent developments within the company.

I agree with Max, but I don’t think there’s anything more to read into it other than the fact that Google is extremely risk-averse to making bad hires. Part of this is due to an almost government-employee-level of process related to performance-related firings. An employee could likely be idle for a year before being fired.

So the hiring process is a rational response to a highly irrational retention policy.
Interesting. Why is it this and not daily volume?
Hacking (With) a BB-8 [Making-Of]
>Cathy O'Neil wrote a book called "Weapons of Math Destruction" -- interesting read

+1000. That book should be required reading for anyone working in machine learning. Written by a former Wall Street quant who has the math down cold.

What she knows about rampant bias in allegedly politically agnostic machine learning circles is that the formulation and production of answers is trivial when compared to the formulation and production of questions.

Super-relevant to this thread is her work on recidivism risk scoring algos run on prisoners and defendants. The feedback loops that these algos spur are seriously damaging the lives of huge numbers of persons in the criminal justice system far beyond proportionality for the offenses that brought them there.
Has to be a good year or so? Been a while.

AWS is the new one, just started a few weeks ago.
The referenced study:

https://www.airportfacescans.com/
Eric Schmidt will officially step down as Alphabet’s executive chairman
Apple will replace the battery for $79 [1]. When you consider the cost for a battery, the labor for replacement, the confidence that this is not a junk replacement, and the warranty for the service, that's a very reasonable price. There is no way Apple is making money on this.

[1] https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power
The last time I heard of someone buying an iPhone in a non branded box, she ended up getting a box filled with potatoes. Your wife is already ahead on that person.
Causality is hard.
Aren’t anticompetitive and anti-consumer two completely separate things?
Yes, I think of an 'executive' as one who executes.

Yes, both meanings...
Just because it was planned 2 years in advance doesn't make it any less meaningful. And there were a lot of "incredibly specific workflows" that xul extensions allowed that webextensions won't. Will you deny millions of people each their own incredibly specific workflow if there's one singular ecosystem that mozilla has to maintain, to accommodate them all?
The biggest problem right now facing Bitcoin is the scaling problem. The current debate is between the "small-blockers", which support scaling bitcoin by limited block size increases and implementing off-chain transactions, and "large-blockers", which advocate continuous block-size increases. I personally don't think either method will scale in the long term, especially considering the original goals of decentralized digital cash. It is my opinion that both scaling paths force centralization of the network. This paper details Lightning Network, the current best design of off-chain scaling https://lightning.network/lightning-network-paper.pdf
It isn't. Anti-discrimination law includes religion in the set of protected classes.
Thinko: I last used BeOS in 1997, not 1999. Curious to hear what you find.
It's really tedious. Anyway I'm on irc.freenode.net. I'll want to see efibootmgr -v, blkid, and see how it's all being assembled. The easiest way to get data out of a Macbook Air is if you have a wired ethernet connection since the proprietary Broadcom firmware blob won't be on any of the install/rescue boot media. Once you've got an internet connection you can pipe anything to fpaste, which will spit back a URL containing the pasted data from the command.
How about the huge number of companies that already use nodejs with great success, and don't want their developers to have to learn yet another platform(jvm), and be able to use a single platform for both server and client?
I have to say that my own experience over the last two years matches burntsusih's pretty close.

In the case of logic stuff Tagged Union/Enum types help me force logic at compile time. If I've got a particularly intractable logic problem a good coverage of unit tests works well to flush out any bugs and give me confidence when it comes to refactoring.

There's been a handful of times that I've wanted to reach for the debugger but a couple inspect()/println!() calls did the trick in those cases.
I disagree that macports “just works.” When homebrew came on the scene, I too thought, “why not macports?” After using homebrew, I realized that it is far easier to fix issues when they appear.
I think his point was, if it happened now, any skepticism would be immediately dismissed as Russian trolls, as it is not consistent with the "correct" mainstream narrative.

I see this happening frequently even where there is zero motive for Russians to be involved, but it is no less effective as we've let the authorities do our thinking for us for so long.
You are correct in every aspect. Non-color treatement is something I definitely miss from movies of the 90s. Digital processing technologies have made it easier for people working on cinema to color-treat the movie as product. Even directors not involved with digital filming, fall on this: Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino, all fail to deliver a natural and coherent visual representation of color.

EDIT: Her was a beautiful experience in itself.
Mastering Bitcoin is the no. 1: https://www.amazon.de/Mastering-Bitcoin-Unlocking-Digital-Cr...
Is this secondary analysis report available?

What are these products that the communicators think up?

Is it back tothe basement for the Morlocks then?
I've read over 100 books this year, but mostly non-fiction.
I'm kinda surprised that my favourite book ended up being a fiction book, which is:
'Ready Player One'
I'm not sure that "Hearthstone is less predatory" is a fair argument. The criticism against Hearthstone is still valid, even if there are other offenders.
Probably a much better question is "why", for which the answer is: "You probably don't want to".

If you care about the learning: You can learn all that stuff for yourself.

If you care about getting a credential: You are in a field which doesn't care as much about those as other fields do.

If you want to teach and need the credential for teaching: Get therapy, teaching is a great way to live and an awful way to earn money.
Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983211
> people have an abundance of computational power and can process IOTA transactions

On IoT devices?

Plus they state that having to participate in the network as a full node (fridge using 99% of your bandwidth) is also a "fee" in this context.

> ...for no other reason except to discredit the IOTA devs

They seem to be doing a fine job of that on their own -- reading the linked page where people can't recover their coins (plus having to jump through a bunch of hoops) because they were focused on unrelated projects seems bad.
Breaching the perimeter with openconnect and ocproxy
> I would hate for the loot box model to move beyond video games

The loot box model is video game adaptation of the collectible card game model which is itself a gaming adaptation of the (non-gaming) trading card model, both of which predecessors have other non-video-gaming derivatives, so the basic model is already lots of places besides video games.
Thanks, that was exactly what I was going to reply. Perfectly explained, thank you.
How does one afford a 100k/yr degree?!
~ time java test

Hello world
java test 0.11s user 0.03s system 88% cpu 0.161 total

MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
The whole Purism project is so promising. They've continued to go in the right direction, addressing all concerns and being transparent. I really hope they succeed long-term!!
We're getting into a world where languages finally have type systems that dont suck for fast development. This wasn't the case until very recently. And many of the current options only became realistically viable in the last few years (or months!).

We still have to work with the world as it exists. Not as it should be or will be. And even with the crop of modern languages, its often still faster to start with less optimal languages and fix shit in the 1/10 chance you're actually successful.
Yes, but I would say that anti-competitive behavior is inherently anti-consumer, as the consumer does not benefit from it - and Apple preventing other browser engines is both
If Bitcoin were to crash, you wouldn't be able to exit. The exchanges would be overloaded, the price would collapse while you[1] can't trade, and you may also discover that some of the exchanges have stolen your money because they are insolvent.

[1] Although some whale customers may be able to. They may win big - or at least, lose less, at your expense.
Invasive facial recognition in physical places seems to be the future. A nightclub I walk by on my way to work has a sign up outside stating that they're operating facial recognition cameras. At least they disclose it, I suspect many more places aren't. We need legal recourse against this sort of invasive spying by both private and public parties.
Well, many people have a problem with the lottery too.

Also the X gold coins for $X is less of a problem. The old League of Legends style of a "free to play" game was great. They were one of the first to do it. You paid money for a currency, and then the currency purchased items. All items had an alternative cost as well for a currency you could only earn in game. It was explicit about what you were buying.

Loot box systems on the other hand are not explicit. Blizzard's Hearthstone for example, as I talked about in this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983166
Sir, you are a genius and the most useful person I have ever discovered on the internet. Thanks!
>Then how do you explain the successive insanely excessive right wing governments

I'm not familiar with Australian politics, but as for the others, what do you mean? We have had both liberal and conservative governments the last 30-40 years. This, again, has little to do with the mainstream culture, which was my original point.

As for explaining to you why neoliberalism has triumphed, well I recommend that you start here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War

>Have you even read Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky?

Yes, and it had quite an effect on me when I was in college, and utterly ignorant of history. A lot has changed now, and while much of the book is still good, Chomsky has lost his credibility as a cultural critic following the embarrassment of his analyses about a few corners of the world...:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fO1JkjbzvPw

Not to mention the Cambodia/Khmer Rouge situation, which should have tipped me off earlier. But I was naive then.

>You do realise that liberal and liberalism means keeping the government out of people's lives....

I understand well what the words mean, friend-o.
The definition of exchange would be hard to keep watertight.
Good catch. It's aimed at software companies at the moment although it could just take into account marginal cost in the future
I ran the benchmark and my phone is affected (showed 1650 and 3000 when it the average for my phone is 2400 and 4000). I went into the battery menu people are saying that this notification shows up and there is nothing there about my battery needing to be replaced or serviced.
Even if you don't aspire to leadership, pay attention to the good ones. You may want a new job someday. (I keep them in a file for exactly this reason. Haven't used it in a long time. But if the day comes when I need it, I'll be very glad to know some non-bozos.)
That's all of them isn't it?
Not great from a governance PoV though
Sort of. Shareware... except the price of the game is actually unlabeled, and turns out to be hundreds of dollars per year.
Microsoft BI?

It appears to be gummed up with Firefox Developer Edition, I'm surprised they used Microsoft.

Bing Maps put me on edge for some reason.
We are very happy that you have posted a blog post, Yuhong Bao.
I used to view it as good value for a casual game until the announcement of where as new expansion sets are rolled out, previous ones are sunsetted. It essentially gives a 1-2 year expiration date on any new packs purchased rather than making a limited or ban list for certain specific cards. Then again, Activision stock has increased by a decent margin so there's at least one group of people who likes it.
This was happening to me, resetting it solved the problem.
TFA is unintelligible mumbo jumbo describing an architecture that amounts to (I think!) minimizing statefulness and moving all stateless computation out to a cloud.

Well, OK, but how about some examples? How about some advice as to where to draw lines? E.g., if the computations take less time to do on a server than to distribute, then maybe don't?
I see hearthstone cards as more of an expansion pack per say, its also got a long established history in the physical space (games like Magic, etc)

There are huge tournaments every month, a huge twitch scene, etc

Its a legit game and most people know what they are getting into.

DBZ Dokkan battle on the other hand....
This comment is actually a fantastic example of why jQuery is so popular.

Missing:
Investors buying subprimes were professional investors. Most of them didn't like subprimes but were buying them because that was the only way to pick up a little bit of yield in a market where credit spreads were massively compressed. It's after they lost their shirt that they suddenly pretended having never realized that subprime stood for loans to riskier borrowers.

This is not very dissimilar. I am certain the majority of investors who will buy bitcoin did not do their due diligence in term of how the currency works (in fact I see a lot of pretty financially switched on people around me who seem quite confused on how it works). They buy now because they want the return and will complain that they weren't aware of the risks when they lost their shirt.
I trade you my dog for your cat. We both say that they are worth a million dollars.

What is the market cap of our two-animal store-of-value ecosystem?

(Unless you're an economist, the answer is not "Two million dollars.")

On the other hand, if I then went ahead and sold your cat to some outside party for $600, and you sold my dog for $400, we could reasonably say that the market cap is ~$1000.
Hm, what are bitcoins used for today ? I was still seriously under the impression that there still wasn’t any serious use, except for illegal activities... ( i’m not talking about eth which found an interesting usages with ICOs, just bitcoins).

Edit : i’m also not asking for the list of legal shops that accept bitcoins, i’m wondering about the percentage of officialy legal bitcoin transactions vs the rest.
I am very skeptic with regard to IOTA myself and consider it an overhyped piece of tech that probably will not deliver on any of its various promises. And CFB seems to be a questionable person as well. But...you really should not fall for this elaborate prank site ;-)

The thing about the AI that wrote the algorithm is already pretty crazy, but you really need to take a look at the shop's contents. “Tangelized Viagra“, yeah, sure. I had a good laugh while exploring the entire thing!
Chair and CEO is less weird than separate executive chairman and CEO. The executive chairman model is more analogous to if, say, the CIO or CFO was also the board chair.
For some reason I can't see sources in GDB (both in tui and terminal modes). I've tried different versions from 6.x to 8.0.1 with no luck.
Reading all of the comments from engineers who seem to either posess a time machine to send current tech back in time, or are criticising the technical choices that made the founders $squillions, is making me a bit mad. As a diversion perhaps some of them could list a few billion dollar startups that made perfect choices at the start and never had any cause to refactor or reimplement code as they grew?