skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see similar issues here as with big data tools and NoSQL. We read how companies like Netflix and Uber are doing things and take advice. Yet they are operating on completely different scale than most other business.

Preparing to scale may be good, but those technical choices tend to add their own complexities (as random example, see the Saga pattern [1]). Need to think if you should be building platform that can manage 10M active users or is it more important to add features that get you the first 100.

Couple of days ago there was a discussion on HN about Instagram. Somebody pointed out why they went with Python instead of something more suitable for large codebase. This seems to be quite common theme - companies who made it big facing growing pains because of doing things "quick and dirty". This led me thinking if this "let's get it running and worry about growth later" thinking is the reason why they outperformed their competition.

[1] http://microservices.io/patterns/data/saga.html
I think I'd still pick out most of these as likely machine-generated. But it's getting very close. Some of Amazon's Polly voices (especially a couple of the English women) sound good to me as well. They're not quite at the point where I'd use them for applications where people expect human speech but it's not far away.
I wonder how on earth they are not worried that their idea can be confused with "Bitcoin Cash (BCH)"!
Sure, but our industry was never as corrupt as e.g. finances, doing back-channel financing of atrocities like wars/genocides, buying politicians to bypass popular sentiment, setting up drug distribution centers and prostitution rings nearby so that their employees can kill their inner humanity and have reward for corrupting themselves. My fear is that we are becoming the same and that change is happening right now.
I myself will go to any length to avoid advertising. Luckily its pretty easy.
> because they don't want to be blamed for missed opportunities

It sounds more rational than that. Blockchain announcements make headlines. And blockchain headlines are driving stock prices [1]. There are numpties in the mix, but I don't think it's them.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-21/crypto-cr...
> It's just that there are some types of research that use non objective and unproven measures to convey a message they wanted to prove from the beginning. This becomes more serious in the field of "social science" because by default "social" is very difficult to come up with an objective hypothesis with. There are many that do a good job of trying to stay as objective as possible, and there are those who actually started out wanting to prove a subjective agenda. I think this particular research is the latter.

I'm sorry but everything you say in this paragraph is objectively wrong and indicate that you don't really understand how science works.

There are different approaches to empirical evidence, but none of them can be written off as less serious or reliable than others. They are different tools for different jobs.

You mention "social sciences" as a bad thing, but interestingly enough this article didn't gather it's evidence through hermeneutics or constructivism (two approaches I'll assume you dislike), but rather realism (what you'd probably consider "sciency" science).

> I do not trust any research results that present themselves as cause-and-effect when all they are is just a correlation. This is really misleading and in fact do exist in numerous "research" results sponsored by cigarette companies and fast food companies that try to use "research" as propaganda that unhealthy is OK because "research said so".

Except the research isn't presented in this way. It's tested, it's peer-reviewed and the article itself tells you which problems there is with their approach showing you that the people who wrote it, actually thought about the weaknesses in their statement.

Ironically your approach to science seem to be what you despise about what you call "social science". You disregard evidence because it "feels" wrong to you, and because it's "presented" in a way you don't like.
Don't most people use tech to argue with each other on the Internet?
I suspect a lot of these comparisons are not apples to apples.

Declining wages are real, but populations are declining in the affordable but undesirable towns where property is cheap that my parents and grandparents bought into.

My mother's parents bought their first home in Minot, North Dakota and saved up for a tiny home in St. Paul, Minnesota. He was an engineer who put himself through school while living in a boxcar in Montana in the depression. She was a housewife. They scraped and saved, and did well for themselves despite hard circumstances (the depression, world war II, etc.)

My parents bought a starter home in Bloomington, MN. He was an attorney, she stayed at home. They moved to a wealthier suburb to find better schools when they could afford to.

Both sets saved aggressively, didn't go out, didn't drink, maintained cars themselves, didn't take elaborate vac actions, and lived in relatively low cost areas.

Me? I live in a booming tech hub. Prices aren't even comparable. I spend on food and wine and travel. I have a fancy phone I don't need and take my car to a mechanic for standard maintenance. I "can't afford a home" because I don't want to repeat the decisions of my elders. I could certainly buy a home in Minot with cash, and could get a mortgage in Bloomington without too much effort, but I don't prefer those options to what I'm doing now.

That's speaking for me only, but I'm pretty skeptical that prudent living doesn't have similar or better payouts than it did fifty years ago.
Terrorism is the deployment of asymmetric warfare techniques by an organization we won’t dignify as a state or military.

Getting the victim to raise its defenses doesn’t have to be a goal, but it can.
Apple is almost never early to a market, so why call it out specifically that “business as usual on timing”. We can debate if they are successful or not (I waffle myself), but they’ve not prided on being first, but rather being better.
Yeah, but things might not go swimmingly. We will see violence, protectionism, plain old isolationism rise.

The developed countries are still developed and their citizens will fight back.
You appear to reference a link via the “[1]” but unable to find the reference you appears to be citing.

Beyond that, are you aware of any related notable research, sources, etc. - on the topic you’ve presented for additional reading or action.
I traveled all over asia with very little issues with using my Chase credit card, but when I went to purchase candyjapan for a Xmas gift, my purchase was insta-denied by Chase.

it was almost like the banks have flagged your merchant account as fraudulent.
Just tried building shen-c[1]; it seems my gcc (5.4.0) doesn't like the code with -std=c99 and prefers the -lgc at the end of the line.

[1] https://github.com/otabat/shen-c

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 3ae5a55..458200d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -26,5 +26,6 @@ ${TARGET}: ${SRC_OBJS}
#	cc -g -O3 -std=c99 -lgc -lprofiler -Wl,-no_pie -o $@ $^
-	cc -O3 -std=c99 -lgc -o $@ $^
+#	cc -O3 -std=c99 -lgc -o $@ $^
#	gcc-6 -g -O3 -std=c99 -L /usr/local/lib -lgc -lprofiler -Wl,-no_pie -o $@ $^
#	gcc-6 -O3 -std=c99 -L /usr/local/lib -lgc -o $@ $^
+	gcc -O3 -o $@ $^ -lgc

@@ -34,5 +35,6 @@ ${OBJ_ROOT}/%.o: $(SRC_ROOT)/%.c
#	cc -O2 -std=c99 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -c -o $@ $<
-	cc -O3 -std=c99 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -c -o $@ $<
+#	cc -O3 -std=c99 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -c -o $@ $<
#	gcc-6 -g -O3 -std=c99 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wall -I /usr/local/include/gc -c -o $@ $<
#	gcc-6 -O3 -std=c99 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -Wall -I /usr/local/include/gc -c -o $@ $<
+	gcc -O3 -fno-optimize-sibling-calls -c -o $@ $<
The question is wether they want to make the world better or just push certain agendas.

A great example would be Cassie Jaye and her film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY
Lapham's quarterly is an absolute amazing publication. Stumbled across the Religion volume in the sprituality section of my local thrift store three weeks ago. Truly one of the more important publications I've been exposed to in a long time, and it's a non-profit! I love how it's essentially classic literature curated just for those who aren't lifelong academics of the classics.
> its a bad _currency_

The problems that I see are:

1. There is a finite number of bitcoins, which means you can never have inflation, or in other words the bitcoin price is only going up tomorrow. So it doesn't make sense for people to spend it.

2. Mining. It costs a lot to mine a bitcoin. Imagine if the US government had to spend 1 billion worth of energy to print 1 billion dollars.

I think Bitcoin was designed to be analogous to gold. We stopped using gold as currency many years ago.

But then again, I know little about economics and finance, so don't take my word for it.
Would also reduce the 1 month battery life :)

It's been a good reason to bring the old DSLR back out.
Conservatives’ culture wars come to Silicon Valley
I blame Duolingo. Two months with their app brought me from not knowing any Esperanto to being terrible at it.
this debate is extremely informative; thanks for sharing and engaging so clearly and politely! since you felt a smaller plane would be more desirable for most routes, could you elaborate why you felt airbus was going to win at the time? thanks!
AES's security reduction in the quantum scenario comes from a sqrt(n) reduction in search time. It's an optimized brute force against the key.

ECC gets broken because there is a quantum algorithm that solves the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem much faster than sqrt(n).
I just moved away from LastPass due to the acquisition and migrated to 1P. I had two issues with the migration that were easily solvable by someone technically inclined.

1) Folders don't get migrated over to tags into 1P. You need to use this pearl script to do so. (google it)

2) Autofill is well umm different. It took some getting used to, but you now have to hit Cmd+\ to autofill intsead of using the mouse. It's more secure and it ends up being more "clean" I've noticed.
I took it as trolling, and upvoted it accordingly. Or rather I upvoted it because I also had a hard time telling -- and that amuses me.
Don't get it. I have been giving example of a "chat app" that's e2e encrypted. If it's easy to use, but solid to do proper e2e, government cannot do anything. Especially if messages also can "disappear" after a day. Government stops you, inspect your phone, cannot find anything. At least there is some reasonable doubt. Granted, if oppressive government has a reasonable doubt about you, you might have hard time otherwise, but that won't scale to large populations.

Similarly, if internet was designed with privacy in mind, things would have been different. If your favorite news site were available through tor, and you were using nontracking browser, you'd probably be fine.
> I'd say the higher in the social rank, they ratio of contribution to taking drops exponentially, not linearly.

You mean the richer people are, the ratio of their contribution to taking grows? That does not seem possible, because that will not make the person rich in the first place.
This argument comes up practically every day now with the same lack of comparison to existing financial systems. Bitcoin is an energy hog; so what? Lots of things require enormous amounts of energy. The question should be what value are we deriving from that energy usage, and is it greater than the status quo? How much energy is expended running bank servers? How much energy is expended mining gold and keeping reserves secured?
We also use it to construct theories about sociopaths infiltrating the industry and realigning the biggest players’ cultures to better suit their sociopath interests when someone suggests people skills might not be irrelevant.
This is so awesome, nice work!
Exactly. This is the point I make when people start talking about how Ripple coin is going to revolutionize banking. Blockchain will definitely be useful for banking, but i’ve been able to come up with no reason to involve a cryptocurrency.

Edit: iPhone thumbs
WeWork is set to become the No. 1 tenant of London office space
Interesting Framework.
Seems to hail from :
> https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/
Quite the bee-line from the authors' previous papers. It only seems to have been preceded by : https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03924
However, the language in the [Ray] paper is completely different. Different from the preceding paper but familiarly distinct. Any specification of outside groups/companies/individuals who were consulted/collaborated with on this project? And who more or less lead the development and design? Maybe I am jumping the gun, but it clearly wasn't of the listed names.

Of all of the authors listed, none of their previous papers read like the Ray paper nor does the proposal paper (Real-Time Machine Learning : The missing pieces). http://arxiv.org/abs/1703.03924 reads like a corporate/industry grade requirements/proposal doc which is a huge departure from all of the author's prior papers... So, out of the blue, corporate level infrastructure project proposal and completion within the span of a year?

Can any of the paper's authors speak more clearly on who led this project over what span of time, under what direction, and with which industry groups? I see no background or papers from the individuals priority listed in the paper reflective of the sort that creates a formalized and industry grade Distributed Computational Framework such as this.
> Robert Nishihara
> Philipp Moritz
Are priority listed yet have no prior papers leading to such a development. To what degree did : https://rise.cs.berkeley.edu/sponsors/
Drive this?
i) 747 sales were already declining and it required expensive investment to continue.
ii) How would A380 sales help sell other Airbus aircraft? It's such a low volume plane that it offers virtually zero benefits to purchasing other Airbus models.

200 deliveries for a $30B+ development costs is a disaster. Airbus has already admitted the development costs will never be recouped, they'd have to sell over 400 planes to ever have a shot.

And any technology you want to develop for other planes would have been far cheaper to just develop for the other, presumably profitable, planes.

Boeings brilliance was sucking Airbus into this market. Instead of canceling the 747, they kept the 747 production line open with a low cost update (the 747-8) allowed them to crater A380 pricing. That cost Airbus a huge amount of capital, and delayed/hamstrung their efforts to compete with the 777 and 787.

Airbus has lost at least 10x as much on the A380 as Boeing lost on the 747 since 2000.
It's not a bad airport. Its downside is that it was popped down in empty land to the northeast of the city so it's significantly farther from downtown and farther from many of the mountain destinations to the west than the old airport was.

But obviously there was nowhere else to put it.
LastPass 2FA App's Fingerprint Requirement can be Bypassed with Software Hack
That's a huge footgun in an environment where blocking calls are the default way to get almost anything done, and some calls cannot be made non-blocking.
Obviously Fred. The family is what Fred spent his money on ;)
Naivecoin: a tutorial for building a cryptocurrency
I ask myself that question every time I read something about ME.

Possible answers, in ascending order of paranoia, are:

* A lot of people just don't care. "It's not gonna happen to me"
* Some customers like the remote management capabilities without having to spend money on licenses for vendor-specific remote management systems such as HP iLO. If you have to manage hundreds or thousands of machines, it can make your life a lot easier.
* The NSA tells Intel (and AMD) to put it in there or else.

I assume some customers talk to Intel about this. I vaguely recall reading that the NSA gets servers with ME disabled. So "They" are most certainly aware of the risks.

FWIW, a while ago someone posted a video of a talk on HN given by a Google employee who talked about replacing stuff like UEFI firmware in their servers with their own code. If that person keeps going down that road, it's just a matter of time before he runs into the Management Engine.

I really hope that this issue generates enough pressure on Intel/AMD to provide a way to disable or replace their proprietary ultra-privileged code. But it is not easy to explain this to people without sounding like a paranoiac.
I'd be curious to hear people's logic for concern about screen time as a general category, vs something like "unrewarding screen time".

To me it seems like, as with all new media, we are going through a period of moral panic that it will corrupt the youth by its very nature (the same has been said of video games, comic books, movies, television, rock and roll, blues, jazz, the twist, and, yes, even literary novels back when they were "new media").

In my opinion I think it makes sense to limit screen activity that is analogous to "junk food"; everyone will have their own categorization, but I think things like child-targeted Youtube autoplay spam videos are easy candidates.

On the other hand if a child wants to use a screen for something productive and enriching ... why is that a concern, even at fairly high levels of use? Obviously there are limits (e.g. eye strain, opportunity cost of playing outside and socialization etc.) but I just can't understand the seemingly popular theory that screen time, per se, is a problem and must be carefully controlled.

I would genuinely be interested to hear people's thoughts on this.
"hog" is a value judgment though.

A neutral headline would just talk about bitcoin energy consumption or whatever.
Extending Array with ES6 classes
Just wait until they start using the voice data they've been collecting from millions of people via "OK <brandname>" enabled devices to imitate individual consumers' voices and use them to endorse products/brands to their contacts.
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It

- Tools of Titans (was positively surprised by this one)

For developers I can highly recommend the Domain Driven Design books by Vaughn Vernon.
As far as I know it's not exploiting vulnerabilities, just the fact that it won't mind if most modules are not present.
It's a very good question. In Poland police was also said to have used this device during an oppositions protest. However, it turned out it was used as a speaker.
It wasn't used as a crowd control device because it isn't included in our Law about Police as a legal mean of enforcement.
To make things more interesting it shouldn't have been bought at all (because it's usage is illegal), but it was bought anyway by our previous government that is our current opposition protesting today.
Correlation != Causation

If we examine the background of anyone who has ever committed terrorism, every major race and religion would be covered. And so much of crime comes from social context, so at what point could you ever say: it's safe to assume that anyone with X ethnic background is not a threat. You can take any race and put them in a hostile, violent context and see them either continue the violence or die.

Or, if you say the majority of terrorists are men, so let's stop profiling women, I'm sure you would find more women committing terrorism. Then are women the greater threat or is it simply that we've made it harder for men to be terrorists?

I don't see a way to profile without affecting the statistics.
How is this better than something using a Sharp Memory LCD, or similar low power reflective LCD with built in memory?

The power consumption of the LCD is slightly higher, but total power use is dominated by the wifi. It will still run for months and the refresh rate is much better.
So paywall your site? See if it lasts.

I can't comment on.morality because it is inherently subjective but there is no legal problem here.
Tim Swanson: Enterprise Blockchain is in a "Trough of Disillusionment”

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/tim-swanson-enterprise-...
With bitcoin, because the participants aren't identified and there isn't any form of traditional trust established between them, there are certain actors in the system that are paid a lot to manage the transactions/blockchain.

In your example of multiple companies coordinating on a single blockchain, who would be paid to manage it?
You must have missed a decade+ of Apple talking about how everyone copies them?

Example: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/photo...
Yep. To me, typora just feels so much better.

- Less cluttered UI

- Allows both a file tree, or a more TOC-style tree, in the left pane

- A lot faster startup

etc.

Great with more options for pure-markdown wysiwyg editing/note-taking though.
Some discussion on the Google blog post from a week ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15962543
I think you are reading that wrong. Initial margin is 100% to 110% of maintenance margin (44%) depending on how they classify you (almost everybody here is a speculator not hedger).

Current maintenance margin is about $34k on a single contract (5 BTC).
You use a blockchain when you want one common ledger across multiple companies, and you don't want to pay/trust a single company to manage it.

Not really, you can have a blockchain managed by a single company. In the most basic definition, a blockchain is simple an authenticated linked sequence of records. It can be public or not, it can be processed centrally, distributed across a single organization, or distributed in a peer-to-peer fashion.
"However, the system is only trained to mimic the one female voice; to speak like a male or different female, Google would need to train the system again."

If I understand this correctly, they trained it to mimic a specific person, not just a human voice. That's... kind of terrifying. Trained to my voice, and given the right text, you could probably get me fired, possibly divorced, and maybe jailed. Trained to mimic Trump's voice, and given the right text, you might be able to start a war.
You've clearly got an axe to grind. The idea that sociopaths didn't exist in tech before is pretty easy to disprove, unless you think Steve Jobs was a benevolent person. Not to mention Ellison, Kalanick, Khosla, and honestly the list is endless (venture capitalists are famous for being assholes, many would say it's an asset to doing their job).

Money attracts assholes, I don't think many people would argue with that (although I'd honestly be interested in hearing arguments against this). So if your goal is to keep them away, then just make sure to never monetize your product.
I like that dichotomous approach, but are those two in balance?

What makes it more scalable than a database when a characteristic is a redundancy of copies beyond what would reasonably be needed for sufficient backup? What makes it anymore trustworthy than a database with only trusted actors authorized with write access?

The trustful, or verifiable aspects of a blockchain come as a side-effect of independent actors competing for a financial reward. How does one replicate that dynamic in a single organization? Why would one bother trying?

a number of benefits over a traditional database

A blockchain doesn't provide a number of benefits over a traditional database.

A database isn't even a particularly fine-grained description of a blockchain.

A blockchain is a key component of an experimental currency inspired by a particular political ideology that is at odds with many aspects of western civilization, such as the benefit of trust in a society.

It's not really useful insofar as most people can tell in any other contexts. Even it's usefulness in it's native context is not highly established.
Keepass2Android has a custom keyboard to auto-type usernames/passwords.
On Eating People: Or How to Find the Next Big Thing