skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think that the "lack of value types" is probably an overrated difference these days.

Well, seems that the JVM designers disagree, there's been a lot of work put into fixing this, see 'Project Valhalla' for instance

https://www.infoq.com/news/2016/11/valhalla-Implementation-p...
http://www.jesperdj.com/2015/10/04/project-valhalla-value-ty...
In the long run it saves money on cleaning and dealing with the health consequences.

Like all infrastructure projects there is an initial outlay.
FWIW my FF 56 was set to "ask before upgrade" but it didn't and I got FF 57 crammed down my throat anyway.

So much for those plugins which can't be ported because the required WebExtensions API doesn't exist.

Not very pleased about that.
How I make money on infographics
Too hand-wavy for my taste. I have the feeling I still don't know why they work.
> Sure. I'm talking about universal adoption because the article is ("take over the world")

Once you reach a critical mass of users, taking over the world will be inevitable, even with some of the inconveniences. Finding a gas station, for example, will get harder for ICE drivers as EV vehicles take off (lots of gas stations will go out of business, so you'll have to drive longer to refill your car), auto shops capable of dealing with ICE will become more scarce and expensive, etc...

At some point, the annoyance of owning an EV for some of the extreme edge cases will be less intense than the annoyance of owning an ICE vehicle. Even without proper infrastructure, the switch to an EV will be the only sensible move, even if it requires changing your habits.
Not a cannabis user, but I hardly ever remember my dreams. Maybe one every 1-2 months if I'm lucky. I wonder if that means that there is something wrong with my sleep.
You are certainly right, that implies money is not directly involved.

Assuming no other non-monetary favours (in which case this apology would be pretty disingenuous), I don't think spending resources on a marketing campaign for a TV show the majority of the users do not care about for free is a good and responsible thing to do as a non profit. Not to mention the circumventing the end user part.
I'd rather be wary of explaining mathematical concepts with pictures. Pictures are known to be highly misleading and force the reader to imagine a thing in a certain way. For example, most pictures of triangles have all 3 angles being acute. This leads people into forgetting the case when one of the angles is obtuse.
I learned from Zen Buddhism the same idea that you share here. Indeed, if we treat other people like other act of god, i.e. as things that don't act but just are, a lot of stress, anger, and sadness will vanish [1]. Zen and Stoicism are similar in their promotion of acceptance. I happen to feel more drawn to Zen because of their comprehensive guide towards how to achieve this acceptance.

[1] Within Zen, this idea is captured in the parable of an "empty boat." http://omswami.com/2015/09/the-empty-boat.html
Lack of civic sense in India
I hope at your day job, if you are a programmer at all, you don't write commit messages like the ones in the repo.
Yep, same model / year as mine. 2.5l MT Astina. Great car!
Kaspersky Lab files Lawsuit over #DHS #Ban of its products and services
> Everyone’s heard stories about investors losing access to their crypto tokens — perhaps because they forgot their private key for example — but this doesn’t happen to e-residents if their wallets are linked to their government-backed digital identity.

How is that supposed to work? You do not fully own crypto tokens unless you and you alone hold the private keys.
Charging a car requires a nontrivial amount of electricity, so it's not sufficient to add a circuit breaker / socket, you also need a payment infrastructure unless e.g. the municipality is willing to sponsor the energy costs of everyone driving.
> Set overcommit policy and malloc would just fail, which is handled in mysql and would abort the query instead of invoking oom killer.

So many things depend on so many gigabytes of overcommit, that seems like a pretty bad way to go about it in the general case.

> And a crashing service should get restarted, involving journal file recovery which is consistent state.

I think you're agreeing with me with this sentence?
No thanks I got burned on auroracoin. Cryptos are global. Heck they could be intergalactic. But they ain't local.

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There is also this nice article about spaced repetition if anyone is interested.
https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
It's really simple. My newsletter CTA looks like this:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1520/1*pDNISBRJFawWMkNX7...

Just photoshop together a pretty image inviting people to subscribe.

My free guide cta looks like this:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1520/1*MrvefAFP7GtyAtPZY...

Put together a short pdf in your area of expertise, and offer it to email subscribers.

Sometimes I simply send people to a landing page that looks like this:

https://startuplab.io/free-guide

Keep it simple, minimal information, promise value, address potential objections, show a signup form and a big subscribe button.

Here's some good advice on putting together a simple landing page:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVRf3MeFKm0

If you're interested in email marketing in general, I highly recommend Alex Becker's courses. I don't know if HN audience will like him, but I've learned A LOT from this guy and I love his tutorials. You can find his introductory course here:

http://alexbecker.org/membership-area/

Feel free to email me if you need more advice(raymestalez@gmail.com).
Maybe the future of interconnects is mechanical after all.

https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2017/EECS-2017-...
I don't think it's quite a "have your cake and eat it" scenario. I think there should be sufficient leeway for a cryptographic value-exchange medium that is ultimately backed by the Euro?

It is an interesting play with words but of course the European policy makers would have to have the last say, and of course it would have to abide by European regulations. As long as it does, how could they possibly have a problem with it?
Actually yes. I definitely enjoy keeping in touch with people I am not able to see on regular basis for various reasons.
2FA completely broke my habit of checking Facebook.
According to doc/csv.texinfo:

It is stored in the format used by the ISO C asctime()
function (for example, @samp{Sun Apr 7 01:29:26 1996}).

For more fun, doc/cvs.texinfo also says:

One more note: In output, CVS should consistently
use one date format, and that format should be one that
it accepts in input as well. The former isn't
really true (see survey below), and I'm not
sure that either of those formats is accepted in
input.

cvs log
current 1996/01/02 13:45:31
Internet 02 Jan 1996 13:45:31 UT
ISO 1996-01-02 13:45:31
cvs ann
current 02-Jan-96
Internet-like 02 Jan 96
ISO 96-01-02
cvs status
current Tue Jun 11 02:54:53 1996
Internet [Tue,] 11 Jun 1996 02:54:53
ISO 1996-06-11 02:54:53
note: date possibly should be omitted entirely for
other reasons.
cvs editors
current Tue Jun 11 02:54:53 1996 GMT
cvs history
current 06/11 02:54 +0000
any others?
How much do people use dependencies in jira etc? Seems that one ought to be able to create a plugin that would automatically generate and update this graph for any issue with dependencies.
We're paying the price for the proliferation of existentialism, and it's flavor of capitalism and justice.

"You're on your own" is good when reaping rewards and thriving in a meritocracy, but not when you need help, are losing, or just want warmth.

But a healthy dose of loneliness is what has us reaching for each other.

So we should all just give in, and reach for each other.

Natural feeling tend to take care of themselves, so long as we're capable of being honest.

Of course, that's the other issue.
Its Haskell.
Ares Çalışmıyorsa ne yapmalıyım, Aresin Çalışmamasının nedenleri
The article goes on

> However, crypto tokens have far more significance than their > use as a currency and don’t necessarily fall into that category.
>From Estonia’s perspective, estcoins were proposed as a way to raise money and support for the development of our digital nation from more people around the world. We would also want to structure the tokens so that they help build our e-resident community and incentivise our own key objective, which is to increase the number of companies started in Estonia through e-Residency.

Don't just take the things you want to hear out of context from the original meaning. Founding more Start Ups in Estonia is a valid use case. It's also a way to fight poverty.
Don't you have a computer with a decent GPU? I have trained YOLOv2 on a GTX 1050. A night of training (and starting from pre-trained lower layers) yields good results depending on your application.
I agree the new tools are incredible. Their planned obsolescence interval seems to be a lot shorter, though.
Parking spaces in dense areas already act as a huge subsidy toward cars, so I don't think electrical cost is a deal-breaker.

Or you glue on half a parking meter to turn the electricity on and off.
What is a Unit Test?
I think the thing you have to remember about Germany, is that it's one of the top 5 exporting nations in the world up there with China, the US, Japan ...

It's only as a matter of course that in any economic union such a force would have significant heft.

Anyone that isn't happy with that can and should improve their export game.
Viruses: What are they? See how scientists finally find a new way to kill them
Interesting discussion. So when is it in your opinion allowed to draw conclusions based on personal attributes, e.g. when is something not discriminating.
UI Jar – Hand-picked designs from Dribbble for real life projects
IIRC many places already have a legal requirement for replacement noise for safety reasons, usually the criteria is that it must be active below a certain speed.
Maybe it was harmless, but the browser betrayed user trust.
US could broaden its use of nuclear weapons, Trump administration signals
I looked into this.

There are plugins, but I can't add plugins at will at work. People don't use deps properly though - GIGO.
1kW to maintain is nonsense. My 11kW limited motorbike (much lower air resistance) can barely do 65mph, sometimes hits 70 on a downhill. Any wind and you won't break 60.
It sounds like it's not any different from regular electronic money, but maybe with better APIs.
If you lose your private key as an e-Resident, you go to the embassy to revoke it and get a new one. The state as a root authority is convenient in that sense.

You can imagine, for example, that your tokens would be owned by a smart contract controlled by your e-Residency, so that as long as you can present a currently valid e-Residency, you can access the tokens.

Presumably you could also transfer those tokens to a non-e-Residency address, and forfeit the convenience of the state identity.
Kontena Slack Bot
Personally, going to Church has helped me suffer less with loneliness. I've made meaningful friendships, and relationships with people from all sorts of backgrounds. It has given more meaning to my life than anything I found at work, or by random socialising.

Of course, YMMV. Please take this as a random anecdote, not as evangelism.
First of all, using git is not really a choice in many companies (except "choose to use git or choose to find another job"). Because, despite being a terrible tool, "git won". So people like me choose to put the minimum of time in getting familiar with a tool that even some git experts/devs admit is confusing to use (after having used it and being intimately familiar with it for years! or maybe you think they were unwilling to spend enough time learning).
More importantly, git (or any DVCS) is NOT work. Lots of technical people seem to have forgotten what purpose versioning control serves (saving your progress as you go) and instead seem to relish in solving git problems that make them feel they're working but add in fact no value whatsoever. That is the core issue. Takes about 10 minutes to get familiar with hg (and then just use a GUI), whereas you have to spend days/weeks reading git docs in order to internalize how it actually works. For what? Just to save some files on a server. I'm sorry, but no.
The lesson is to use Whatsapp or Email.

Sure, Whatsapp is owned by Facebook but you can send messages to each other and see their response pushed to your phone. It doesn't have an algorithm choosing not to show their messages sometimes.
It works by associating your tokens with your identity. You're the only one with the private key, however the identity manager (government in this case) decides which public keys are linked to an identity.

Of course this also means that the government could seize your coins.
Embracing Kubernetes Successfully
A field is algebraically closed if whenever you have a polynomial with coefficients in that field, all the roots of the polynomial also belong to the field.

For example: The field of rational numbers is not closed since it does not contain the roots of x^3 - 3 (since we can prove the cube root of 3 is irrational). The real numbers are not closed since they do not contain the roots of x^2 + 1. The complex numbers however, are closed.

An algebraic closure of a field is an embedding of that field into a closed field. For example, the rational numbers into the complex numbers, or the real numbers into the complex numbers. The second case is special: while rational numbers have many possible closures, the only closure of the real numbers is the complex numbers.
Java seems to have a similar initiative called "Project Metropolis" to (re)write some stuff in Java instead of C++: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/discuss/2017-Septembe...
> Estonia’s only currency is the euro and this is an essential feature of our EU membership

That's just false. Eurozone and the EU overlap, but they aren't the same. UK has its pound, Switzerland uses francs.
Pretty sure they're just saying "Here's our (web-based) wallet where you have to login with your ID card and sign transactions with your ID card". But that's pretty much as secure as a Yubikey assuming the government doesn't fuck up it's cards or their software again.
https://outline.com/VEjrjG <- paywall bypassed.
Enjoy!
It seems like Tesla is at least hinting to aim for a system where you can basically send your car out to charge and have it back when you need it. Combining auto pilot with this prototype, it is at least feasible that it could work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMM0lRfX6YI

Edit: Also this discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/5los32/can_a_t...
If they are, they oughn't be. Batteries are like a really really expensive fuel tank. The fuel happens to be way cheaper. That's the trade-off. The article fails to mention this, which is odd.

ICE: powertrain + fuel tank ~$6,000 (or whatever your local currency) …

EV: powertrain + fuel tank ~$16,000 …

That makes more sense, but then you'd need – cost of fuel per mile/kilometre

ICE: 10¢ a mile

EV: 1¢ a mile (or sometimes free?)

That's why people are buying electric vehicles already. Okay, maybe it's partly environmental, but surely it is also because they figure that running costs are lower over the lifetime so they might break even overall. As battery prices drop, electric vehicles only become even more economical in the long run.
Presumably the frequent poster will post several times about their important event, so at least one of these will get through the filter.
You could solve that by subscribing to your battery rather than outright owning it.
How about: We need to shift from individual car ownership to more public transport? Sure it will be great if cars turn electric, but that does not solve issues like crowded streets etc. This would be partly addressed if cars were self driving and shared, i.e. would spend less time standing around unused. Nevertheless, I assume (=don't have data) that public transport would be much more efficient than electric cars in terms of energy/ resource/ space usage.

Maybe in the future, the line between private and public transport will be more blurry, i.e. you take a shared, self driving car to the railway station etc.
This discussion involves details about content referenced from another domain (or source which is not trusted). The implementation seems to be an issue which has finally been solved with a standard. The new implementations are being worked on. It is called CORS and the problems are still hard to solve in practice.

I am super glad for all the hard work put into all this.
Yes, but you're paying less taxes. So it's not as broken as people try to present.
Mining will be in an equilibrium, but the equilibrium might be at a point, where the network can not be protected from a 51% attack.

Currently, it will cost around $2bn to buy the hashing power to control Bitcoin - that's the price of one Stealth Bomber.
Sadly, like all the other clones, they just "stole" the Cryptonight WASM implementation from Coinhive.

Think about it: they're hosting a WASM blob on their site for which they don't have the source code and can't tell with certainty what exactly it's doing.

With so many faces on their team page (and a dog!), you'd think they'd have the resources and competence to build something of their own.
Ask HN: How you keep yourself motivated for year long projects?
I have started few projects recently but not able finish any of them. Lost interest in all.

How you keep yourself motivated for long side projects?
Wow! That sounds fantastic, actually. This is the first case of completely computer-generated music I like listening to.
V8 release v6.4
I know a few people who have suggested attending a Unitarian Church (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarian_Universalism) as a way to get the social benefits of church without having to subscribe to a religious belief. Many congregations include atheists and agnostics.
Are there any that let me specify what percentage to give to the devs?
The issue isn't the use of DL per se, it's that the resulting NN has independently discovered it can achieve its goal of increasing "engagement" by fuelling negative feedback loops in its test subjects (us). There's blind faith in its effectiveness on the part of its owner, and no oversight.
Priuses have a solar panel on the roof, but all it has the capacity to power is a fan to keep the cabin cool when you park in the sun on a hot day...
No idea how the text relates to the music, but beautifully haunting none the less.
That site is a work of art. Also, apparently I unlocked an achievement for refreshing the page!
It's not false as it says our EU membership, as opposed to every EU membership.
You're right, but Switzerland is not a member of EU.
(EDIT due to wrongly stating that models run on the Raspberry Pi directly)

The Google Vision Kit will run models on a custom neural processing chip connected to the Raspberry Pi Zero. With the DIY setup from the blog bost, the neural network runs on a "large pc" (potentially with GPU). Depending on the hardware you have at your disposal, you can run more complex (and therefore more powerful) neural networks. At the same time, you'll need wifi set-up and streaming to work. Completely embedded devices are easier to just put in the wild.

In theory, you should be able to use the models from the Vision Kit if you follow their instructions and just put the on a Raspberry Pi directly, and get an additional Movidius compute stick: https://developer.movidius.com/
Whatever about flash a few years ago, it's not like Xamarin contributes to that much worse an experience. These apps will end up just moving to webviews since cross platform is important to them, not native APIs.
So they have to choose between kneeing before the EU or kneeing before Russia.
What glorious prosperity this EU is.
And they aren't saying a single word about what fees they take and they offer no easy way to ask for user's permissions.
Completely agree. It's what Prof. Susskind states in one of his lectures on QM explaining quantum fields. Eventually pictures and mental abstractions break down, and it's better to not visualize.

At some point, one's limited biological brain will be unable to fully perceive or visualize some mathematical object. That's where intuition comes in.
I feel that Pomodoro and friends are similar to many diets: they might be placebo, but in the end you will focus on and address a problem directly.
Considering that it is well known that Switzerland has one of the better democracies in the world you're frankly talking out of your ass to put it politely :)

See here https://www.eiu.com/topic/democracy-index (number 8 in the world in 2016) for instance or do your own research.
Let me put it this way, I looked at buying an Electric Car but I live in a house with no driveway so there is no way I can ever own one. I would never risk the idea of driving to a supermarket hoping there is a free charging port for my car, just in case there isn't any free - it's not like I can just queue up the car. It's a huge fundamental hurdle and one that until solved will stop me from ever buying an Electric Vehicle.
It has been a long-term ambition of mine to someday build an electronic aeolian harp[1], powered by weather data. This, I must say, is an even better idea.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolian_harp
In the UK they were billed by the word : http://www.1900s.org.uk/images-1930s40s-postal-rates.htm has a scan of a 1930s/40s tariff which is 6p for 9 words, extra 1p for every word beyond that, and extra 6p per mile you were outside a 3 mile radius of the destination post office.
These numbers don't pass the sniff test, the World Solar Challenge wouldn't be a thing if it were that easy.
I have always been lonely all my life. I will use this to my advantage.
Agreed :). Workflow matters a lot more than the hype Sandhill road and google's marketing team are perpetuating. Good on you for making it work in the real world for something outside of vision/speech!
Seems really overkill
دریافت ویزای شینگن یونان ویژه ۸ دی ماه
Language 2.0 – Open-source, Machine Intelligent, an intriguing idea
Languages are broken. People speak different dialects, different tongues, different phrases. Machines don’t understand them because they were invented a time before all of this existed.

We all try to solve this problem through translation, but it doesn’t work very well. Even chat-bots suck! Aren’t we going about this all wrong? Instead of trying to fit broken pieces in existing languages, just because we have a lot of people using them, why not just invent one that works for the modern world?

Before you laugh, let’s just think about it for a second.

With technology, a language can be anything. It can be the way we program, it can be semantic, it can be spoken and contributed to by anyone. It can grow!

We create a global movement where everybody contributes to form a new kind of creative expression. Open-sourced, decentralized, not-for-profit.

Think about it, even the challenges are interesting.

1. What will be the advantages of this new language? Will it be more precise? Faster? More beautiful? More expressive?
2. How do we create a smart set of rules, that form the basis of language - Can we make this better?
3. How do we create a tool, that then translates any 1.0 language to our 2.0 version.
4. How do we teach and learn this new language and reach a critical mass that then adopts it?

My proposal is to create a steering committee that helps solve some of the tough challenges around it. I’m creating a mailing list, If you’re interested, drop your details below.

https://goo.gl/forms/uwsl1UfqM675zi1I2

Cheers,
//Sheran
This is just a PERT chart, right? [1] Only difference is you don't appear to have any durations on the tasks. If you added that you would be able to calculate your critical path.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_evaluation_and_review_...
Different environment, no?

Back then, kids would need to rely on each other more, no?

Nowadays, what good is a sibling really?