skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The top allocations are all solid: ARM, NVidia, FlipKart, WeWork, Uber, OneWeb. Thematically it is precisely what Son says it is: a bet on the connected future.
>If you have more than you need, and you know that others don't, and you know that the government is not efficient enough to use it properly

You don't pay taxes so that governments can spend money. Governments can spend as much money as they like - they print the damn stuff.

The economy would function precisely as it does now if every dollar paid in tax were burned and every dollar spent by the government were printed.

Taxes paid to extinguish money. It is supposed to be deflationary - a transfer of wealth to everybody else spending money in the economy.
Thanks for mentioning this. Also keep in mind that mapzen its isochrone API:

https://github.com/valhalla/valhalla

as well as ours is open source:

https://github.com/graphhopper/graphhopper/pull/1237
This encourages gaming the system: companies will seek to designate as the copyright holder the youngest available employee, to make the term last longer.
“Can you make it look like the iOS app?”
It scales really well for the owner of the service... it does not scale really well for the internet as a whole (sadly).
I've found myself wanting the same thing. Git's diff algorithms are sometimes not as smart as I wish they were. Recently, when merging master into my feature branch, I had an incoming one line change trigger a single diff that was nearly the size of an entire file. That change wasn't even in the same area of the file I had been working on. Being able to walk forward and backwards through the incoming changes would have resolved the issue much faster than comparing "ours" and "theirs" by eye to see what actually changed.
Comprehensive list of "earth shattering" theories in fundamental physics of the last 50 years, discovery of the standard model as a gauge theory, first discussion of gauge theories in the 20ies, completion with observation of the Higgs boson in 2012, dark matter, first discussed by Zwicky in the 1920ies, since WMAP (~2000) a well established observation. Dark Energy, first discussed by Einstein in the twenties (actually I think a decade earlier) and observed by the High-Z-Supernova-Project in 1998. And neutrino mass, discussed as a curiosity for a long time and observed first in the 60ies and confirmed in 2001.

So anybody who uses the description "earth shattering" more than once a decade is probably overselling the importance of individual papers.
at least someone is hiring rust developers !!
Of course you can't ignore details. I was explaining the source of emotions, which tend to drive whether one wants to adopt a particular tool or method.

That being said, I often find convincing, false proofs as illuminating as true proofs, once the flaw is clear, because they highlight the nature of the conjecture. So I disagree with your claim that a proof can suddenly become useless due to a slight misstep.

And for what it's worth, theorems are rarely thrown out due to pathological corner cases; at least I've never heard of this happening. Instead, if the insight conveyed by the proof is useful, it's called a partial result and the conditions are modified to fit the proof. Entire theories are built up specifically to avoid pathology (almost every mathematical field does this)
These companies are paying the minimum amount of taxes that they can make a reasonable legal case to pay for. They have armies of lawyers that check and recheck the scheme.

Yes, there are many judgement calls, and as with all judgement calls, there may be differences of opinion. But you can bet that they all believe that they can make a strong case that they are within the law.
You can double newline

like this, to get a line break
This isn't pure academics. It's applied and constrained by time and resources. 2020 is when IOHK's funding contract expires and renewal is contingent on performance. They've already proven Ouroboros as valid - I bought ADA, it's running. Can someone find a hole in it? Sure. The world could also come to an end tomorrow. Anything's possible. As it is, they've put more rigor than any coin so far run by "gut feeling" (e.g. testing but without formal proofs) rather than formal proofs and verification.

IOHK/Charles is pushing for performance, it's not just academic showboating.

Some of the greatest things ever were created when academic minds and experience were fused with strong business and leadership ethics.. Qualcomm for example - started out with a bunch of Ph.D.'s and a grand idea - CDMA, or rather power control and new modulation and coding schemes applied on CDMA, which is what their invention was (CDMA had existed since WW2 I think, commercially Qualcomm made it happen).

What bothers people is that most of the stuff Charles is talking about is flying way over most people's heads...so instead of sucking it up and learning about it, it's easier to just dismiss him, IOHK, Cardano, etc.

Since I don't know the future anymore than anyone else, you could be right too. Just in case, I put some money down on Cardano/ADA. So maybe I'll be right. If I'm not, feel free to gloat.
Upgrading ubuntu to 17.10 from 17.04
I still have the urge to put an asterisk by success for Uber because they're just burning piles of money still.
>The point is that there shouldn't be any economical or work-related downside (other than slightly less pay during maternity/paternity leave) for having a child.

but there are productivity downsides to having a child - taking more sick days, less flexibility, etc.

To the extent that we expect equal pay for equal work and we have lowered expectations for parents who work, there should be downsides to having a child or upsides to remaining childless.

>Developed is quite apt for any society that values its members.

Still, developed isn't the right dimension. Pygmy tribes value all their members, but they're not developed. Well, do they even 'value' their members? They don't value their members enough to integrate into the global economy and enjoy the benefits of evidence based medicine and trade.

Development is more closely related to infrastructure and safety/security. We understand poor parts of Mexico to be less developed than NYC because of ease of access to infrastructure and the difference in safety/security.
Deep background on double love suicide of artist couple Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake that rocked the nyc art world in mid-noughties:

The Golden Suicides by Nancy Jo Sales

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/01/suicides200801

Thanks for posting. Rhizome is doing a great job of archive early net art ;)
We had an application specific reason we needed to use them instead of numerics and used this method which helps somewhat: https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized...
This is a false dichotomy. Equifax was extremely negligent. I don't have to be 100% perfect myself to be outraged by that.
If you don't mind me asking, is there any particular reason you didn't just leave? I'd imagine this fits the kind of situation where you aren't obligated to stay.
> Well, you don't do LN transactions on a blockchain at all, that's where the speed improvements come from.

Yes, but I meant using a blockchain for the decentralised aspect of things.

> Multiple blockchains could mitigate this issue, but they can't really talk to each other very well, not without incurring further losses of efficiency. In that scenario we'd need four transactions to send our $5 - one to open the channel, one to close it, and two to jump blockchains. Ack!

Is it bad to use 4 transactions for 1 transaction when it makes your transaction througput 100000x higher?

> These are just really hard problems and hopefully they can be solved, but right now there are no even proposed solutions which can fix this.

Aren't there already altcoins that have solved the transaction scalability problem?
I always really like old photographs of everyday life. It's always amazing how different but still similar life was.
Not mention I just saw yet another commercial where Equifax was selling a service to protect your data "on the dark web". Which they allowed go there. It's like a bank losing your money and then for a fee offering to keep other people from using it.
Coincidentally: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/spotify-acquires-blockchai...

But I know there are a few other startups trying to do the same thing.
>are classified as gold digging whores if they think the father should provide for them while they do so

That's not a fair characterization. A lot of successful men select for that trait during courtship. I earn enough money to raise a family on my salary. I would prefer that my spouse would stay at home. I've been slandered as a chauvinistic sexist for articulating this viewpoint but I still hold it.
Samsung Galaxy S7 has the same issue. Will probably try it out on my computer later though.
Ask HN: Any online courseware with these features?
I'm teaching a (non-online) course in a few months, and I figure that as long as I'm preparing it, this is a good chance to try creating an online version.

But it's sooo hard to find out what the actual features of different courseware/LMS platforms are.

In particular, I'm looking for options for teaching that's mostly live sessions. This seems different from the use cases most LMS/courseware was designed for.

Does anyone know any that have any of these features? (I know there's probably nothing that has all this)

1. Interface for students to formally submit deliverables (as opposed to just another forum)

2. Forum where students can post questions and join discussion

3. Ability to differentiate between students taking the class statically (can start whenever, no feedback) vs on a schedule (with others, with instructor feedback)

4. I can livestream sessions

5. Students can comment on live sessions using text chat

6. Students can speak questions in live sessions using microphone

7. Students can screenshare to the group in a live session

8. Tutoring mode: instructor can control mouse and keyboard of a student temporarily, or work in a shared environment during session

9. Automatic transcription of recorded and live sessions (ideally human edited, but voice recognition alone is ok)

10. Ability to form discussion sections by grouping students into subsets, in an organic way (MIT Open Courseware does this great)

11. Provides ability to use streamlined signup (like, just provide an email address) if I prefer, instead of charging money (useful from promos and teasing upcoming courses)
OK, so this bothers me on a couple of levels. One, this strikes me as New York wagging its fingers at San Francisco, while bankers and media types have been having parties like this for ages, and it's taken with more or less a shrug. That said, though, it's also a bit slimy the ways that feminist polyamory and sex-positive community has been coopted as some sort of fig leaf for plain old money and power. The bankers never sought to justify themselves. I don't think that actually alters the basic morality one way or the other, but I have to say, I'm reminded of this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rkj6PhhhzDk
What this article describes is a terrible, confused, scary nightmare.

From the very first picture that begins the article on-down, Elizabeth Mason advocates an absolutely frightening system that is made even more scary by how she comes through as genuinely/naively believing in it all.

> Big data promises something closer to an unbiased, ideology-free evaluation of the effectiveness of these social programs. We could come closer to the vision of a meritocratic, technocratic society that politicians from both parties at state and local levels — those closest to the practical problems their constituents face — have begun to embrace.

First, meritocracy was first brought up as a joke by the author who coined the term. Second, who is advocating for this “technocratic vision” short of Silicon Valley CEOs? This “vision” of centralized, unbiased analysis by top-notch planners was what we had in Vietnam or with GOSPLAN in the USSR, not what we need now.

Third, AI works fast, which means even if it’s 75% less “ideological” or whatever, it’s rate of speed is so fast that it will magnify any and all biases that might be lurking inside. To imagine that it is unbiased is crazy, let alone to think that it wouldn’t be used to some horrible malevolent end (cough China cough).

This article made me sick, but it was so uplifting and wonderful to see all the other negative reactions on here and that this is not representative of HN.
Great points, thank you for sharing. I think a lot of people dismiss co-ops because they aren't aware of models to emulate.

Maybe there's opportunity there. An open question to all: What are some challenges with starting and managing co-op businesses?
Yes, but without the underlying tech, there is no way for the end user to access that content. So the question is, which is more scarce? The infrastructure, tools, and millions of paying customers using your streaming service, or the music itself?

There are a lot of music producers and publishers. There aren't many streaming services that have a large customer base and the tech to service it.
Does that make it less silly? I'm talking about the principles involved, not my lived experience. If it was merely a matter of being cold, you'd just say "put on another coat".

For your information, yes, I fire the car up, put on my seatbelt, close the garage door, put it in gear and go. But even in the mild bay area (it's been around 33-35 most mornings on the peninsula), I'm all the way across town before the coolant temp even comes off the low mark which is 124f, at which point SOME warm air starts coming out of the vents. But again, it's not a comfort complaint, it's a "electric cars make ICE cars seem dated" observation.
god yes, Space Merchants is the most prophetic fucking thing I ever read as a kid devouring SF in the 70s. It seemed like such broad, impossible parody back then, but here we are with ads invading every single possible surface of our lives and corporations flouting regulations with impunity.
What's the connection?
How so?

There only issue I can think of is upload speed, which is improving for many, and would improve more prevalently if more average users had a clear need.
What triggered the diff? Always trying to learn more Git nonsense.
Bounds checking in hardware is an awesome idea. It's still simpler than full protection modes and is more versatile. Not only does it allow efficient software JIT implementation of protection but it also allows pervasive bounds checking to eliminate buffer overflows and other common errors. It eliminates the performance incentive for a lot of unsafe code.

What I'm suggesting is not a total clean slate. It could be done easily on current processors or current instruction sets and would be more an omission than a change to core architecture.

I wonder if doing it on current chips and just ignoring all the protection and remapping logic would have a performance benefit? Look at the boost you get on some databases with transparent hugepages, which kind of do that.
Well, as far as ethics go .. I am not hurting anybody or anything if I eat meat cultured from cells.

So the objection would be because it is a cultural taboo (and as others have mentioned, would it be safe ?) .
This article felt like a an "Unsolved Mysteries" narration to begin with, but this part really set off my BS sensors:

> MDMA is a powerful and long-lasting drug whose one-two punch of euphoria and manic energy can keep you rolling for three or four hours. As dopamine fires, connections spark around the room, and normal inhibitions drop away. People start cuddling and making out. These aren’t group orgies, per se, but guests will break out into twosomes or threesomes or more. They may disappear into one of the venue’s many rooms, or they may simply get down in the open. Night turns to day, and the group reconvenes for breakfast, after which some may have intercourse again. Eat, drugs, sex, repeat.

Listen, MDMA is great. But make people want to fuck it does not. In fact, it's damn near impossible to become seriously sexually aroused on MDMA. It promotes a much more fraternal feeling than a sexual one.
Maybe ‘naive’ is not the right word. I am sure they knew intellectually what was expected of them.

Sounds like they are explained the situation when they get invited.

But it also sounds like there is no way to back out or participate without repercussions leaking into their normal lives. Not exactly fair.
So do you have a different proposal that is better? At least to me the current solution does not seem like much of a solution, it is expensive and leaves most undersupported at best, and any rehabilitated social client would have to contend with that:

- SF metro area is the 8th most expensive in the world

- only a one bedroom costs $3600

- low skilled entry level jobs are moved elsewhere https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.wired.com/2016/03/those-...

There are large areas not far from San Francisco that is much cheaper. Personally I moved to Oakland, and even that relatively short move makes a huge difference.
Winter 2018 isn't as bad as Winter V.2014
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And elegant. I’ve always assumed people were overdressed for the picture, and here I notice they actually wore the hat everyday. They dress better than for today’s weddings.
I will second that. My iOS team was 1 person strong so we could get by on the startup plan at $80 a month (1 build at a time). The gain in productivity was huge.
Reminded me of this short documentary about the development of Chinese cuisine in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NMrqGHr5zE
I am guessing stock options/vesting.

I believe Alanis took mp3.com stock as payment.

That was a different time.

The Beam-it software was pretty cool.
What about a software bug that was actually a deliberate "backdoor"? Or what about a tax statute that was written with warnings that it was ripe for abuse (e.g. the pass through income tax cut)?
So much misinfo/FUD in this post. I'll just respond to this one teachable point,

>You have some serious reading ahead of you if you want to set something up that isn't already templated somewhere for you.

Start with a maven project,

$cd /path/to/maven/project/

Create your archetype,

$mvn archetype:create-from-project

Install it in your local repo,

$cd target/generated-sources/archetype

$mvn install

$mvn archetype:crawl

Generate a new project from your new template,

mvn archetype:generate -DarchetypeCatalog=local
> Spotify has previously claimed that streaming is not "reproduction" and is more akin to "performance"... and they (may) have those licenses.

Doesn't having an offline mode run counter to this claim? That's clearly reproducing it. It once lived as a copy on their servers, now it lives as a copy on their servers and on the subscriber's device.

I could see, however, the argument going this way: a true reproduction is permanent, such as when a user burns a copy of a CD and distributes it to a third party. In this case, there are now two copies in the world. With offline mode (I think) those files are only playable so long as the software checks in with the service to ensure the subscription is still active.
I started coding when I was 28. Knew nothing about it, didn't even know what a compiler was. I'm 30 now and self employed, built a profitable algorithmic trading system. There are so many free quality resources to learn programming, it's ridiculous. And all the software you need is free, OS, IDE etc... This is pretty much unique to the field of software engineering. Try to become a doctor by yourself, good luck.

Tips to start: The most important part is to just start coding as quickly as possible and learn as you go. A personal project can really help to maximize motivation and actual hours spent coding. As for the language, I don't think it matters what you pick and everybody suggests something different. I didn't like coding in python at all. Personally, I prefer languages with static typing, especially when you start out (so the IDE can help you). For me, that perfect beginner language was Java, since it's simple, structured and you can completely forget about memory management.

Just don't spend too much time thinking whether you should start or not. I wasted years with that mindset. Just do it.

EDIT: Sorry I didn't really answer your questions, I just don't know enough about web development to help you in that regard. Consider this a motivational comment that gets you started.
Their programmer thinks '=' is a comparison. Should... Should be blame Obama for this too?
What does "pulling discovery data" mean? Why did MP3.com get sued?
Isomorphic frameworks are a bad idea. I'm convinced that any attempt at making a single general-purpose web application framework will fail. I've seen it happen too many times before.

SocketStream, Derby, and even MeteorJS which had massive funding and marketing just couldn't do it. NextJS is just the next generation of fools who didn't research the market... Surely we can at least wait for NextJS to go belly up before launching yet another project that's going to waste several more lifetimes of human effort.

There was nothing wrong with the implementation of the MeteorJS project by the way... The problem was the idea itself. All the marketing and funding it received only served to delay its inevitable demise.
This sounds like something out of Eyes Wide Shut, but with social awkwardness, baggy dad jeans, and crocs and socks...

Orgies are fine. I've never been to one and have no desire to go to one. The real issue here is the power-asymmetry between the men and women involved

Heck, there are low-rent "eyes wide shut" style events in Houston which are distinctly lower middle class. Glowing bracelets to color code your availability. Mud-wrestling scale large amounts of home formulated glycerin lubricant. Not a VC in sight, not a whiff of money and power. Just a whole lot of ex-employees of ISPs and assorted lower middle class nerd/weirdo friends. One of the parties I know of is lesbians only. Another one of them is yearly and run by a woman in an open marriage.

There are only two things in the Bay Area I know of that might fall vaguely into this sensational category. One of them was some kind of brunch with a live sex show. (The other: furries, and I don't know much more than that and I don't want to know!)

People have been doing one variation or another of this bacchanal stuff since time immemorial. It's "Honest" John the Fox and Gideon the Cat from Pinocchio offering you the tickets to Pleasure Island. There's much better one can do with the strength of one's body, mind, and passions than that nonsense. For those of you still in your teens and early 20's -- it's your job to make it past your youth with your honor, your mind, and your optimism intact.
I merged master into my feature branch. One of my colleagues added a property to a jsx element in the render function of a react component.
Here is the link to the video if anyone is curious: https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/news/webcast/?wcid=s7ez7167

I watched the video, it is a bit trite and generic but not really baffling.
For future reference, there is no legal requirement that says you need to formally announce you're not a lawyer on internet forums.