skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I priced a random 3 topping large pizza on Dominos website: $17.92 which includes delivery fee but no tip.

Roulette: $23.70 including tip.
Let Andrew Ng address the Trolley problem:

https://youtu.be/21EiKfQYZXc?t=1h25m50s
There is actually a fuchsia port in the upstream chromium tree.
I'm reading the paper looking for an answer. (as I'm hopping to be able to run a PoS node in the future)

As I understand PoS, for security to be achieved, you need to be able to lose a non trivial amount of ether. I guess the 1K5 ETH is designed to stay roughly above 1 million USD of stake.
OK, nope, mine was Berea; same era, though. I knew a girl who lived on Longforest Drive who went to Lakeview, and everyone who lived on Plano Drive went to Berea, so I guess the line was somewhere in between the two. That's wild as hell. Howdy, distant-past-teenage-neighbor.
It's actually not that hard to get out of, unless you rely on their scaling - in which case any system is hard to get out of.

We did some contingency planning a while back, which included moving a low volume service to a LAPP (Linux/Apache/Python/PostgreSQL) stack to see how difficult is was. The biggest job was re-writing the NDB API calls, but it was not difficult.

For me, knowing the world's best sysadmins are looking after our services is worth a lot. I've heard a couple of talks by Google's system relability engineers, and they are fanatical. Visible evidence of this is the brutally honest post mortem they produce every time there is a significant outage, including the vitally important "what we're going to do to stop this ever happening again" section. This focus works - GAE is way more reliable than AWS or Azure.

So YMMV, but GAE is well worth it for us.
I think the GP comment means prototyping a product idea to a real market. Obviously individual developers will run a local version of the production systems.
That seems like a very specific setup that probably took years of research and trials. It's only fair that they can have some rights. The issue isn't so much patents, but how patents are used and, more precisely, abused.
> Getting past the flowery writing style, I can't help but wonder why we Americans are all required to believe that immigration is healthy and important with this evidence that scarcity of jobs for people to do has made life a living hell for millions of people.

Here's one piece of evidence to help you understand why we believe it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-.... It's not the whole reason, but it'll get you started on your journey of discovery.

The summary: in 2011, Georgia passed a law to crack down on illegal immigrants working in farming jobs. Georgia's unemployment rate was still fairly high (just a few years post-recession), so "obviously" now that the illegals weren't taking those jobs, they could go to citizens right?

Nope. Georgia farmers' crops withered and died on the vine, costing hundreds of millions of dollars because even unemployed people don't want, and didn't take, those jobs. And Americans don't want to pay the kinds of food prices that would be required to pay wages at which Americans would take the jobs.

Amusingly, five years on and Georgia still hasn't figured this out: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-06/crops-rot... I wonder how many billions of dollars in crops have to die before they get the message.
Commercial hives are normally sealed during winter in places that are in even the slightest way cold.
Are there any for PHP?
That doesn't really seem plausible.
I've used both, and ECS was definitely the bigger pain. I deployed to and managed an ECS cluster for 8 months; the lack of replicability locally (which sucks for testing and CI/CD), the opaque and limited management options, and the lack of community interest / discussion all turned us off.

I think hosted kubernetes was easily the better option for us.
Thank you! Non-profit is registered under 'garage script', here is the info on GuideStar: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/82-3129102

All of the points you mentioned is in our top priority list for early 2018, thank you for pointing them out!
Wouldn't sites like Coinbase which "hold" a huge amount of stake, basically have a huge control over these currencies?
There’s one simple answer to such claims, whether they are made by Smalltalk, Erlang, Haskell, or whatever.

The answer is: where are the accomplishments?

Show me the Kafkas, the Cassandras, the Hadoops, the Kuberneteses, the nginxes, the jettys, the (a myriad of other projects)s.

After literally tens of years of claiming/boasting that they are the best, and that other languages suck, I’ve yet to see any of these claims turn into anything but empty posturing.
Thanks; that kind of contribution is why I read HN.

> using a dataset where ground truth is known

How is this dataset created?
A non-exhaustive list:

- Amber Smalltalk provides a Smalltalk layer on top of JavaScript: http://www.amber-lang.net/

- Indium adds JavaScript tooling support and runtime interaction to Emacs and brings a few Smalltalk features such as object inspection (the project creator and maintainer is a Smalltalker and author of Amber): https://github.com/NicolasPetton/indium

- Lively provides a Smalltalk-like environment (code browsing, editing) as well as object(-graph) persistence, similar to the Smalltalk image idea, and mixes in some ideas from Self: http://lively-next.org/

Lively's meta interface is separately usable via lively.vm and lively.modules: https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively.vm https://github.com/LivelyKernel/lively.modules
There will be validator pools available for those with small amounts of ETH
what are you doing that takes over 10 minutes that can't be broken up into a series of retryable (and likely parallelizable) steps that a worksflow or queue system wouldn't work, be more resilient, scalable?
Seems this is an experiment in the direction of UBI.
Where I am in the northeast right now, it's about -15°F. There are roads passing through unpopulated areas of National Forest that have no cell service. If you break down along these roads and no one drives by to help, what in warmer climates would be just an unfortunate inconvenience would leave you frozen to death by dawn.

We shouldn't compromise safety because we lack the self control to turn on Do Not Disturb mode.
> If automation starts to displace a huge number of people, and there is no job to transition, the social contract will break.

Break because of what?

If a job is stupendously productive because of automation, it can support stupendously high taxes too.
Might be an interesting comment except we don't know what you're comparing it to. FWIW this is the opposite of my experience. To try to duplicate what GAE does in other environments, such as EC2, has been prohibitively expensive and difficult to size correctly. You can actually tune your GAE install to reduce costs by literally twisting dials. Very hard to do with "traditional" cloud and not as dynamic with container-based offerings.
I would like to mention this ring of plasma is visible only under a microscope.

- Sure, just not very quickly. It will likely come in the form of antennae (tuned to 1/4 of the resonant frequency, likely around 900MHz or 1800Mhz based on the static experienced by the researchers) and energy harvesting IC. Would need more details to be sure.

- This is a very strange question. Are you asking if it could provide a potential difference(voltage) to allow a flow of electrons (current) ? If so, yeah, probably. Would need more details, like above, to be sure. We're probably talking about several mW of power.

- Categorically, no. Even if we found out Eisenstein was wrong and quantum theory is blown apart, thermodynamics will be solid, and thermo says this will not happen.

This is likely to be an awful way to produce/store/transmit energy, but definitely cool.
> From a macroeconomic perspective, it is clear that equal results at lower cost must benefit the participants of the economy.

Maybe not if that costs is directly related to the security of the network.

It takes a certain amount of money $X to control 51% of a POW network.

If X is large, it's very hard for any one entity to perform a 51% attack.

If X is small, the security bar is low as it becomes more accessible for entities to attack the network.

It seemed to me that the high cost of securing the network was the main security feature.
web3 = Web3(HTTPProvider('http://52.87.179.32:8545'))

Stuck at this step, since the host 52.87.179.32 appears to be off-line
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Yes, but the simplistic version of the argument is that any entity with such a large stake would be inherently incentivized to preserve the value of the currency and act in good faith.

My intuition is that this is a risky proposition. If an entity can benefit themselves $x by making a bad-faith transaction, but it only costs them $y such that $y < $x, it’s rational to do it even if the costs to others are orders of magnitude greater. As a concrete example, if Coinbase double-spent a transaction for $10m and had enough stake to make the network accept this, would it necessarily devalue the currency through loss of trust by enough to make this unprofitable? Is this true for all possible actions by a 51% stakeholder?
There's a funny novelty to this that you can't deny and the user experience does make it super fast to get a pizza. I'm not sure I see myself using it outside of an office joke but why not make a little profit from those who want to do this?
They can't stake that ETH because their users may want to pull it out. Staking it means that you make it unavailable for use, and if you try to break the rules while staking you lose it.

They could probably stake some of it though, as long as there's no bank run situation.
Technically, they committed criminal mischief and theft, maybe other crimes.

'Vandalism' isn't a legal term, but rather a lay characterization of a kind of criminal damage. It's also associated with casual destruction/damage of property rather than criminal enrichment. Motivation matters a lot in criminal law.
I think this has become increasingly infeasible over the past decade due to the rise of social media and internet usage.

People have become very picky with very short attention spans (scroll through feeds, swipe left/right, filter people on dating apps based on very specific attributes, etc).

Also to a large degree "locality" benefits (and limitations) have faded. 10-20 years ago people didn't have access to such a seemingly infinite pool of people. It was more limited to the people around them (people likely to visit the same pubs and coffee shops and events and so on).

I don't think young people today have the patience to "invest" in getting to know random people like that anymore.

Instead of spending days and weeks with someone only to find out that they don't match well together, they go through 300 profiles and talk to 5 of "the best" ones out of that pool.

And often times there's lots of information packed in social media that they can pick up quickly (politics, job, education, culture, etc). It would take much longer to pick up that stuff in organic real world interactions because people don't quiz each other like that.
In other news the UK is threatening car makers with higher taxes if they don't stop bank robberies and quit profiteering off crime.

I think this is called extortion.
All I'm saying is there's no absolutes in life. Everything is relative.

I'm not denying Palestines their right to freedom. I'm not denying Israelis their right to exist.

All I've done is just depict the situation as it is. No judgement, no side taking.

North Korea does what it does to survive. South Korea does what it needs to do to the same.
I worked on a bitcoin trading startup (part of that was the timequerylog module on npm) and a lua-programmable 3d libretro front-end.
I went through a series of jokes with mates about buying those several thousand dollar audiophile network cables[0]. Facebook has been showing me ads for these things fairly consistently since about March.

[0] I would put an Amazon link here.. but I don't want to do it to you.
I don’t see this as a restriction so much as a category. Having an option to exclude foods based on allergies and other similar reasons keeps the original idea. I’m assuming, of course, the original idea was to entertain and maybe find new, interesting taste combinations.
I am so interested in this! Are you willing to answer some questions?

1. What hardware are you running?
2. Do you pay for apps?
3. Are you able to use this as your primary machine?
4. What kind of work do you do?
> I pay $600 per month for housing, food and bills

Is that in the US? Sounds really low...
I would define "capable" in terms of developer productivity--the time it takes to deliver quality software. For example, if you decided to write a DNS server from scratch would choosing Haskell or Scala (both fine languages) really enable a massive (order of magnitude) improvement over choosing Smalltalk, C, Ada, or Common Lisp? I doubt it. What we do benefit from is the availability of libraries, IDE's, and various frameworks. These, I would argue, rather than innate abilities of the modern languages are what enable us to be more productive (assuming that we are).
Patents are an artificial construct -- their purpose is how they can be used. If they are being abused, or used incorrectly, then they are flawed and need to be fixed.
How's that? Weworks is buying in one market and reselling (with value adds) in a different market and profiting off this difference.

They lease large commercial (multi-story) offices from owners and building management companies and rent out to 100s of small businesses in the same space.
Only if the people pay, it sounded like the one of Swedish economists from the article think there is a limit to what you can tax people before the social contract breaks.

I'm assuming this applies to individuals and populations.
Not everything has to be marketized. I'm absolutely fine with subsidizing things that the market doesn't value properly.
I bet they combine this with /dev/urandom or something to just add an element of chaos to something a computer generates
1. There is never going to be an opportunity for this to be on-topic. Someone expressed that they hoped I would continue writing, so it's not quite "entirely off-topic."

2. There is no recourse for those who have been banned or penalized.

3. I have tried to go through the normal channels and ask for an explanation.

4. I've been a member here for a decade, and typically that means something. Not a lot, but a little bit.

Part of HN's strength is its fastidiousness to these rules. But it's also a weakness. Isn't it convenient that the perfectly crafted ruleset just so happens to exclude any possibility of critiquing HN or asking "Hey, I'm in a situation that sucks, what should I do about this?"

So yes, feel free to simply not empathize. That's your right. And it's my right to continue causing trouble and escalating the situation until I get myself banned as a protest to overreaching moderation policies. I would rather go out fighting than be kicked repeatedly until I just get tired and quit.

(And whatever you say, you try writing HN comments when all of them immediately get whisked to the bottom and tell me it doesn't feel like a small kick each time it happens. Especially if you put effort into your writing, or care at all about quality.)
I wonder if they take into account that you made the purchase, or even know about it. If you consider that the only information they have is that you were looking for the product, but may or may not have bought one (or may have returned the one you bought), then their strategy starts making sense.
Shoot me an email -- arthur@simairport.com -- anyone else interested in mod testing, or especially anyone that has experience with squeezing every last bit of performance out of C# / multi-threaded game dev / etc. =)
If their take-home pay is still increasing, I'm not sure there can be all that much objection to higher taxes.
I use Clojure* on the GAE Java SDK instead and don't think about the version of Java that's running underneath. It Just Works. https://github.com/nickbauman/cljgae-template

*(Just one of many reasons not to use Java on the JVM in general)
And only if you’re making $50k/yr or more
Well, having such a probably could indicate that the possible solutions "could" happen from 10^31

What a lot of people don't know is that the theorem was already proven for several expoents before the final solution (including for 3 and some others - and multiples of those cases)
Hiking and backpacking is my time to unplug and tune into nature. I bring my smart phone with me but only use it for photos. If cell phone reception were available, I still wouldn't use it.

I've hiked all over North America in front and back country. The people who hike beyond the first half mile of trail aren't the type to ruin their time outdoors with cell phones.

I suspect the Telecom providers are lobbying for this. The language really screams special interest:. "advocates for increased cell service, including many NPS officials, say the parks can’t cling to an earlier era"

Who the hell are these Advocates, other than Telecom providers, their lobbyists, and Alphabet?

Also, no one in the NPS is advocating cell phone reception. They've gotten on just fine without it. They are afraid of being fired by the Trump stasi for speaking truthfully, though.
It doesn't have to be exclusively one or the other.

It's like you are blaming people for having "impure intentions".

Lots of things are like that.

People who go to a local food event go there to eat food but also they know they are going to meet some people that they may like, at least for some people that's a part of the motivation too.
And DARPA is nowhere near as good as ARPA was.
You should really read the attached paper. The whole point is that it takes total cost of ownership (i.e. all those other metrics / factors you list) into account, and function points instead of lines of code..

Capers Jones measures these things in a fairly sophisticated way, and has been working on it since the late seventies. Spend some time and read his work before making these surface level comments that are refuted directly in the source.
Beijing enjoys best winter air quality in five years
Me too it was on x files
You can leave your phone at home. However like everyone else you will also have to learn that you don't get to dictate what other people do.
It feels a bit more risky than mining in a pool don't you think?
If a validator pool is hacked you loose your stake.

The equivalent in PoW world would be someone breaking in and leaving with all the GPUs of all the users of a pool, what I would consider not dooable for a large enough pool.
If you are a straight male, statistically speaking a hacker meetup is probably not the best place to go for that :)
A lot of confusion in this discussion thread and other promotions of this idea stems from the intuition that you can "run out" of entropy in your random number pool if you don't periodically replenish it with a physically unpredictable source. I have had this intuition too. Two things that feed it are the Linux random(4) man page and the behavior of GPG when generating a new private key.

tptacek tried to explain some of the problems in this intuition at https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2014/02/25/safely-generate-rando..., which relates to why he's so annoyed at some things people have said in this thread (and when discussing CSPRNG seeding in other places).

I like the idea of feeling physically unpredictable data into the CSPRNG, but for most purposes it's a misconception that doing so on an ongoing basis is in any way required by the design or that heavy users of randomness like CloudFlare would "run out of entropy" or "exhaust their entropy pool" if they didn't do so. The design of existing CSPRNGs would let CloudFlare use /dev/urandom for as long as it likes after securely seeding it just once, and there's no known cryptanalytic attack to which this practice would be vulnerable.
Can’t speak for the OP, but in Singapore they have these super fast and convenient bar code printers all over the place that lets you identify/weigh/print/tag your produce in <5 seconds item. Fastest bar code printer I’ve ever seen. I’ve used self-checkout 1000+ times in the last three years - and I’m struggling to recall if I’ve had any issues. Makes going to the grocery store a couple times a day much more enjoyable.
It was at-all employment so they can fire me for any reason here in the USA.
Ask HN: Any domain name registrars that don't require JavaScript?
I wish to manage nameservers and records via a text browser such as links, lynx or w3m.

I recall when namecheap and namesilo did not require scripts.

Anyone have current experience with a registrar free from JavaScript?
Hope they hire security
I guess the usual argument in similar situations is that the market will eventually adjust by raising food prices or that people don't desire food enough to pay the prices.
Under this OS, who decides what capabilities an app has?
There are satellite systems if you care enough to get one.
A big red flag for lacking real accomplishments is when the only 'real world' examples proffered are (1) run of the mill web apps (which can be thrown together using just about every programming environment on the planet); and/or (2) 'enterprise apps' (a good working definition of which is: 'apps which are only ever launched by order of the boss').
Does anyone know what happened to HARC ? It was announced in May 2016, with Alan Kay's involvement and Bret Victor's:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/harc/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11679680

In September "eleVR" said it was leaving YC research:

http://elevr.com/elevr-leaving-ycr/

I presume these e-mail excerpts are inspired by the end of HARC too? What happened?

In the thread about first year reports a couple months ago, someone suspects that funding has ended too. Also, Bret Victor's work and name are conspicuously missing from the first year reports.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15564072

https://harc.ycr.org/reports/
Actually that’s an example of a soft fork. When you change the rules to make them more restrictive (add limits, decrease block size, block addresses, etc) those running the old version will find the new blocks valid so will try to build on them and find their blocks to be rejected, but can keep running no problem and are incentivized to upgrade.

When you change the rules to be less restrictive (add operations, increase block size, etc) then any old version will reject the new blocks, so will keep running their own chain until they are upgraded, potentially forever if there’s demand.
I'm pleasantly surprised to see the author comment on a positive aspect of the experience. That is usually not done, or, worse, is done in a manner that negates the overarching point that this a net negative.

It's a good read, but I have my reservations about pieces like this. It wallows in the experience, making of human suffering entertainment, often for better off people who will never experience such. Meanwhile, for all that it provides criticisms, it doesn't suggest solutions. And that makes me uncomfortably aware of the possibility that the article itself is one more means for the most desperate and destitute to be used for the benefit of the relatively comfortably well off.
What I am trying to do is change the contour of my forehead muscles so they don't feel as intense. The forehead muscle has nerves, so it is part of the nervous system.

What led me down this road is I found a study that said that people on the spectrum may have different facial features (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/children-with-autism-have-disti...). I reasoned my face looks very similar, and then realized that I experienced lots of muscle tension on my forehead.
Retirement is a drain on social services.