skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm... Smalltalk isn't quite as productive as MUMPS. The numbers seem pretty suspect.

If the business functionality being provided is "deliver networked application to customer" then JavaScript would probably do well. If it's "create 3D rendering engine" then other language orderings are likely. How can you normalize the fact that different languages are appropriate for different domains? Do you have to come up with numbers that compare the business value of very different tasks.
Another advantage of the mobile Facebook site for iOS is that you can use an ad blocker plug in Safari.
True of course. I just feel like many people had long since taken native off the table because of the burdens of cross platform c/c++ development. But I found Rust+JNI so easy that I think it should be a reasonable tool in every JVM optimization toolbox.
> IIRC Google used to scan your emails to serve personal ads.

Oh I assumed they still do. Did they stop that practice?

Also I'm not suggesting that giving everything to The Google Machine is a good thing. I was just pointing out the super sleazy gross tactics.
That's how I feel. Cloud services are great for anything that isn't losing money on each customer and then trying to make it up in volume :).

Cloud is way more expensive than other options, but I'm serving 5,000 customers for less than $100 a month, so spending more time to get that price down is definitely not the best use of my time.
> The sole way a government can kill it -- any government -- is to invest >$2B into getting >51% hash power, then launching coordinated malicious doublespends for the purpose of shattering faith in bitcoin.

How much hashing power resides in China? I was under the impression that it's >50%.

It would cost the Chinese government a lot less than $2B to raid all those farms and take their equipment.
You're hitting on a critical point about cryptocurrencies that isn't widely understood yet.

Ultimately, the community of users and businesses at large decides. Cryptocurrencies are social contracts that are encoded in software. If everyone agrees that a rule should change, and updates their software in concert, then the rule de-facto changes.

In the absence of total agreement, the decision is made by whoever wins the political fight for user/business mindshare. It's also possible for the question to be answered two different ways (a longstanding fork occurs).
The roughly equally bad take on that sequence is that after confirming you're neither balding nor impotent, it assumed there was someone in your life to purchase Victoria's Secret for.
I'm volunteering in a local high school, helping out with a few CS classes. My main focus is an introductory Python class. I've put together a few projects for the students in that class:

http://blog.jrheard.com/watercolorbot

http://blog.jrheard.com/python/passwords

http://jrheard.com/blog-staging/python/caesar.html

I'm excited to see how the rest of this school year goes - by the end of it, I'll have a suite of projects that beginners to Python might find very useful!
Show HN: Spectrum – Tiny real time color picker
Ironically, I'd point at GHC Haskell and Scala as the prime examples of what's so wrong with programming language research today. Today's academic environment only rewards work that can deliver results in a short time frame, which discourages academics from doing badly needed fundamental work. What we need is “a formal semantics for a language, with practical proof principles for designing correct programs”. What academics give us is “a type system with first-class foos, with a proof of type soundness”. Pathetic.
I'm really sad to see this kind of thing here.

You would think this kind of thing would be limited to fringe websites, and Arab sites.

> Tel Aviv IS the internationally accepted capital of Israel, period.

There is no such concept. Since when does the international anything "accept" a capital? As if the decision was given to them!

> It's a fact

You don't know what a fact is.

> All the world's embassies are in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.

That doesn't make it a capitol. It just means ambassadors have extra travel to do to get to the actual seat of government.
It happened in Iowa.
Moved to Quebec; learned(-ing) French while living with a host family. Worked on my first Haskell backend project[1] and found a remote job.

[1] https://github.com/srid/slownews
Looking for an article from 2 months ago
Please help me find an article from two months ago. Its topic was competency, and the dilemma of whether we are qualified to question the competency of others, when and to what degree. Examples were drawn in regards to the Bank of Japan not printing new currency when outsiders viewed it as a barrier keeping it's economy from growing further.
True, it's just an option with possible downsides. Just seems to go unmentioned often.
> It's different in that newspapers create the content that they publish themselves.

This isn't true. A significant portion of newspaper content is derived from the wire services ( AP, Reuters, etc ). And of course the advertisements or "reviews-as-advertisements".
I tried to use App Engine flex for my application, but it seems to only support the simplest of apps. `gcloud app deploy` would always time out after about 10 mins with DEADLINE_EXCEEDED due to the Docker build taking too long. It was not well documented, but I figured out I could work around that by defining a custom cloudbuild.yaml with my own "timeout" parameter and submit remote builds using that (`gcloud container builds submit --config cloudbuild.yaml .`), then deploy that specific image (`gcloud app deploy --image`).

Then I found out that I couldn't run my own sidecar container (nginx reverse proxy), and also that Cloud CDN doesn't support App Engine Flex yet. Those were dealbreakers, so I switched to GKE. So far things are working well except a Kubernetes issue not terminating Job/CronJob sidecars correctly which gets tangled up with Google forcing you to run a "magic" proxy sidecar container to access your Cloud SQL instance(s).
Fond memories. Boldly embraced the Windows 95 chrome.
> 2 billion US dollars is all it take to take down Bitcoin?

Right -- this is one of the reasons why some people think PoS is better than PoW. Much more expensive to permanently attack in this manner.

Realistically, if Bitcoin were attacked in this manner, the community would probably respond by switching its proof of work function. If attacks continued, it'd probably end up doing PoS. So an actual attack might be much more expensive/likely to fail.
It does mitigate the risk of geographic centralization. It's not good for BTC security that a majority of the mining power is under the jurisdiction of a single nation state.
Wasn't the internet supposed to liberate us from one size fits all cultural norms?

The author isn't asking for a ban on bra ads; she just wants to be able to control her feed and see ads that are more relevant to her life. She is trying to have a conversation about the stereotypes that the advertisers are using but neither the advertisers nor the channel appear to be interested.

I'm reminded of the Cluetrain Manifesto [1] and it's successes and failures in the current context.

1. http://www.cluetrain.com/
I am remote, yes! Thorn has a SF office, but the team is almost 50% remote.
> ...parents won’t be required to list gender on their children’s birth certificates.

Ok. Then say Sex. Whatever. How do we identify someone if we keep making parts of the identification "optional". It's like saying we shouldn't list eye color because you can get contacts to change it.
didn't ethereum pass 100 recently?

Also, DAG based coins are seemingly the better in terms of efficiency.
Like in particular real time data. This idea of “uploading data” is classified as slow. I’m not interested in preloading. I want a mouse to churn 1k pixels. This “upload to gpu” seems a major bottleneck. Where’s 1000000 particles cannot be interactively controlled
In brief, an attacker is an agent or group of agents that execute a double-spend attack. In Ethereum's proposed PoS system, all stakeholders that collude in the double-spend attack would have their stake destroyed. These properties are automatically detectable, and once detected enforcement is automatic.
Are these private apps based on Ethereum or public facing apps? I'm curious at this early stage of the ecosystem what an "Ethereum Developer" does in terms of active projects.
A Haskell http-client generator for swagger-codegen
Maybe some people actually agree with the sentiment of the article but are disappointed that no one takes any real action.

Almost everyone I know hates these kinds of ads and the way social media uses our information, but all they do to combat it is write blog posts and comments about how they wish it were different.

I think its pretty clear at this point that nothing is going to change if all we do is talk. Facebook knows that a bunch of blog posts are really no threat to its bottom line. So I think its not unreasonable to ask why people are unwilling to boycott services that they criticize so harshly.
Foreign students pay higher costs than even out-of-state students. They’re not mooching off the system.
This reminds me of None Pizza with Left Beef, which just celebrated its tenth anniversary:

* original: http://www.thesneeze.com/2007/the-great-pizza-orientation-te...

* anniversary stories: https://gizmodo.com/reflections-on-the-10th-anniversary-of-n... and https://www.buzzfeed.com/andyneuenschwander/hbd-none-pizza-w...
After my former employer had a successful exit, I spent a few months helping to integrate with the new parent company. Once that was done to satisfaction, though, all but four members of our tech department were laid off--including me. I used the bonus payout, my severance and some investment success to finance my own startup...

My first product is meant to help businesses with eCommerce stores (particularly those powered by WooCommerce for now) keep track of inventory counts and locations:

https://stime.tech/yoink/
Technocrats will almost always blame their failures on the irrationality of everybody else.
Looking at that Hotmail login screen makes me think how much things have evolved since then. It also makes me think whether we we're just technically nascent during those days or if just severally limited.
I think he is talking about "Keynesians", who use Keynes as theoretical cover for their statist/elitist policies.

For example, Keynes advocated that governments spend the money that they HAVE (saved from budget surpluses when the times are good) to help the economy recover from a recession - and it is not a bad idea, per se.

The problem is that the US government has never had a surplus in recent history (save for one year 20 years ago).

Hence money printing.
> Ultimately, the community of users and businesses at large decides. Cryptocurrencies are social contracts that are encoded in software. If everyone agrees that a rule should change, and updates their software in concert, then the rule de-facto changes.

That's called a chain split, isn't it? Usually there are people who follow the new protocol and people who follow the old protocol, so the currency splits into two.

Bitcoin Cash is an example.
Asked 144 people a question ‘What is the most exciting trend in technology for you in next 15 years?’. Got amazing answers. There were many standard ones like ‘AI and Cryptocurrencies’. Most interesting responses started with ‘I am not really a tech-savvy person, but...’.

Try it. Ask personally and select people with different backgrounds. Let people speak and just listen.

I plan to summarize it in an article in 2018. It has been fun to compare this to the current Gartner's Hype Cycle* for example. Automated analysis of such free-form answers (and scaling to millions of answers) would be interesting to work on.

--

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
Cool that I stumbled across this, I'll be attending Holberton beginning next week.
In the end, it will end up wherever electricity and hardware is cheap...
PoS doesn't require the network to use more electricity than 3/4 of all the world's countries on something useless and stupid.
Google App Engine (GAE) was cool because it was for free.
Then, Google started charging (really expensive), i got enough with it and i quit.
I bought loads of silly machines over the years - CD32, CDTV, CDi, 3DO, Jaguar...

It feels a little bit like we are in a little golden age of video games.

I’ve just finished up BotW (amazing), maybe 50% through Mario Odyssey (amazing again), I’ve got Rayman Legends to play through and Splatoon 2 to get stuck into, in between the odd game of Rocket League. That’s just on the Switch!

On the PC I’ve got countless games I’ve bought for next to nothing in steam sales to find time for, Cuphead, Just Cause 3, Metro, Wolfenstein to finish and highly acclaimed indy titles galore...

Then I have tons of retro games I’m eager to play for the first time, or play through again, easily accessed and for next to nothing.

My biggest complaint is also the lack of time I have to digest it all.
By that standard, what economic activities would be outside the province of state intervention?
If we find out that a state has spend billions in SHA256 equipment, and is censoring transactions, there will be a unanimous switch to another PoW algo, like SHA3. So there is really nothing a government could do to stop Bitcoin. It's a cat and mouse game and the cat has to have unlimited money just to stay in the run !
I don't even understand this question. Can you reword it?
I remember going on a physics A level class trip to JET in Oxfordshire in about '88. We were shown a graph (log) of progress so far and the target. 100,000th isn't that far out 8) I can't remember how far out they were back then but a recent improvement had chiselled away another chunk of the problem.

We were told that it would be about 50 (not 25) years to a self sustaining fusion reaction.
AJ threw a birthday part for a terrorist who murdered children:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFWVkSU3ic4

> but attacking the messenger

They are not a messenger but are full party to praising those who would proudly kill children. I know the US has killed children in conflicts, but the US isn't proud of it, they don't celebrate it.

> Others see the terrorists as freedom fighting

No. This is false. No one sees terrorists as freedom fighting, except for those who support them.

A terrorist is a terrorist. Period. Calling them freedom fighters is utterly repulsive, and whitewashing things like "killing a 4 year old girl by smashing her skull against the rocks with the butt of his rifle." Yes, that is the loathsome creature who AJ celebrated.

Tell me how that is freedom fighting? I challenge you - tell me, exactly how that is freedom fighting. I await your answer.
That's true, I was responding to what you actually said in your response, not defending the position you were responding to.
There's a tendency for anyone who learns information theory before statistics to think that information theory is tremendously relevant - but no, rephrasing maximum likelihood or Bayesian methods in information theory terms may sometimes be slightly helpful in thinking about them, but doesn't really add anything fundamental.

And no, there's nothing particularly special or interesting about distributions that maximize entropy subject to some (generally arbitrarily selected) constraint.

Wow, some two heavyweight opinions there. Care to elaborate?
> there isn’t really a way to opt out of it.

Yes there is: don't use Facebook or Instagram.

I see little value in being surprised that a surveillance based advertising platform does indeed surveil and advertise at you. That's what these things are built to do.

Regardless of whether the ads are repetitive or not, why pollute your life with advertising in the first place? Reduce your exposure to advertising pollution and you really will feel better. That's what I do.
Cloud is worth if you are in the range of $10-$200. Other that, there are better alternatives.
If the RF noise appears in certain bands (as the article says), that would indicate resonant properties of the plasma, such as the ring being 1/2 wavelength, or some other mode. Would be interesting to know.

Plasma antennas have been demonstrated, but those are encased in dielectric tubes. I’m sure the noise temperature is horrible.
Origami-Style Cardboard Tents for Homeless in Brussels
Or towers just for UHF/VHF radio repeaters? Doesn't require fiber backhaul and can be run on solar.
I wished these guys would use youtube for videos. The streaming sucks.
They still have the autoscaling. "Internet scale" doesn't mean we can ask for more resources without paying more.
All of my journals are paper and I do have few of them. One is strictly work related, another one is for travel, next is more like work ideas/things to do. They are all dated and it is just simple stream of what is going on in my head and what I think is going to be interesting to read in future (as I do read my old journals from time to time)
The fact is that facts lie and don't always capture the big picture and they certainly don't capture the importance of an event in and of itself.

With millions of events happening each and every day the simple act of choice is incredibly meaningful.

Your own belief in the objectivity of modern newsrooms proves my point.

Clearly both Al-Jazeera and Fox News do fact checking... yet one would be left with a very different view of the world depending on who did the reporting.
> Far less intrusive.

Then you must not have yet had the pleasure of being exposed to the massive, blindingly-bright displays playing animated ads near many major cities.
How are you supposed to install an ad blocker on an app?
17% for 2 years not exceeding 30k
If everyone updates, then there isn't a longstanding chain split (e.g. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident).

But yeah if there's longstanding disagreement, there are two ways for it to go:

* Peaceable fork with replay protection, like Bitcoin Cash

* Fork that seriously fights for the same brand/userbase --- we haven't seen one of these in Bitcoin. Segwit2x would've worked that way, but was canceled
The prosecution was not of the head of the force as an individual but of the office of the head of the force (effectively equivalent to the force itself being prosecuted - a legal quirk due to the way the force is legally constituted). And it was for breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act, and resulted in a tiny (comparatively speaking) fine. This was viewed by many as a whitewash.

More broadly, the whole episode made them look incredibly incompetent, callous and uncaring. No action was taken against the officers who were clearly culpable through their abject incompetence (for example, if he was a potential suicide bomber, why wasn't he stopped before he got on a train?). Furthermore, the force took far too long to apologise and admit errors publicly. And they never adequately explained the tactics that led to an innocent man being shot without warning.

This is very similar in character to the issues which plague policing in the USA and has served to sow a great deal of distrust of the police here. Witness the "London riots" in 2011, for example.

And that's also set against a background where they have been publicly found to be "institutionally racist". Subsequently to the de Menezes incident, armed police also "accidentally" shot an unarmed suspect in the shoulder while running upstairs in a house in the Forest Gate raid (which again, just makes them look like amateurs).

And so on.

So our police are very far from perfect - it's just that being better than some of the worst excesses seen in the liberal world is not a hard standard to meet.
I love Fermats Last Theorem.

It just looks so innocuous. Especially given early exposure to a^2 + b^2 = c^2

I've always had the unreachable goal to prove Fermats Last Theorem with high school based math.

One day... One day!
I focused on completing my Master's in Biomedical Engineering. I looked at augmented reality for guidance during a surgery itself. The clinical application was the (robot-assisted) laparoscopic partial nephrectomy, aka kidney cancer surgery.
Knowing that surgeons use ultrasound imaging during the surgery to scan the kidney, I sought to answer the question of how can we leverage this information to guide the surgeon and inform them of where their tools were in relation to the tumour at any given time?

A relatively easy to read description can be found in [0], while the main paper can be found in [1].

[0] http://stories.innovation.ubc.ca/augmented-reality-in-minima...

[1] Singla, Rohit, et al. "Intra-operative ultrasound-based augmented reality guidance for laparoscopic surgery." Healthcare technology letters 4.5 (2017): 204. http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/h...
Of course it's ridiculous. Who said otherwise?
The Matrix in 30 Seconds from Machine Learning and AI
It’s a small team, so as a developer I’m not working “on content”, but definitely working “around” it if that makes sense. It’s not as bad as it could be, but I’d say somebody should at least be aware of the potential and take it seriously, for personal wellness sake.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#...

The Wired article grossly oversells the popularity and integrity of MOND theories.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16041707
More supply means lower prices and with the saved money you can buy something else.
Can I please leave everyone else's phone at home too?
It can be a combination. I have cystic fibrosis, and there are guaranteed expenses (medicines, etc). However events that may happen (hospitalizations, neuropathy from Diabetes, lung transplant, etc) aren’t guaranteed
Are you able to easily detect whether your account is currently blocked and add some warning to the front page? Would make it easier than just spamming sp@mnesty.com until the mails don't bounce anymore...
Arguably, you should phrase that as 'funny seeing the DNM famous Gwern showing up in the HN comments of this article' :). I'm much better known for my DNM work like my DNM archives than I am on HN, I think.
Well, one, China is already number 1 in PPP.

Two, they are already setting up parallel institutions just to prevent being IMFd that (see AIIB).

Third, they already have numerous renminbi trading deals with several countries where goods are exchanged without ever being converted into dollars.
Previous, related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1846682

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3995615

Neal Gershenfeld's book on mathematical modelling (from 15 years ago) mentions that points in distributions/objects in higher dimensions are always close to the surface -- as dimensionality increases, the degree of bulk and interior space goes away.
I haven't been in the online dating game for awhile, but I found the list of checkboxes more useful in theory than in practice. Even when people didn't lie or mislead in their profiles, which they often did, I got a better idea of compatibility from a short in-person meeting than a lengthy written description.

And bars are a terrible place to meet people, unless you want to meet people who enjoy hanging out in bars. Mutual activities often correlate with similar personality traits, and are enjoyable ways to spend time together.
Which policy is causing suicides?

Seems like you'd mention it unless it is a politically charged issue, perhaps related to gender relations or immigration or something.
"there needs to be enough beekeepers that are buying insurance out there to spread the risk around"

That's not the case. The ones bearing the risk (insurance companies or reinsurers) need to diversify their risks overall but they don't need to do this within risk types.

If you put aside the scale economies of doing the calculations, an insurer would have less overall risk (by which I mean variability in outcomes) if they were to insure one beekeeper, one driver, one baker etc.

No need to have a large beekeeper market from a risk perspective. Maybe from an underwriting efficiency perspective, though.
the problem isn't time atm though.