skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah? What lab? I regret never actually getting to meet everyone. It makes sense that we all had similar ideas about how to change programming :).

Anyways, we should have some kind of meeting about this eventually (with people like Jonathan Edwards, Chris Granger, and probably many others). There is the LIVE workshop held yearly at SPLASH, the next one being in Boston at the end of October.
I see plenty of things in that list where i find the democrat position abhorrable. same of some Republican positions. and a lot of positions where both parties switch as soon as they're in power
Found a small, privately-owned 8 or so unit apartment building that a coworker of mine was living at back when I was in school. She recommended me to the apartment manager/owner, who then gave me a good deal on a unit that needed things re-done (carpet, paint, etc.) by not renovating it as planned. Since it's rent-controlled they've only increased my rent by a small amount twice in my 5 years living there.
Good analysis as always from Matt Levine:

I am always skeptical that stories like this are actually about insider trading, just because it would be too dumb and obvious for Krzanich to dump his stock just before announcing bad news. Also: The news doesn't seem to have been that bad for Intel's stock, and in fact Krzanich's sales last year were mostly at prices below yesterday's close. As a diabolical plan it seems pretty unimpressive.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-05/citi-forg...
It means that if you are using your phone while driving, you are at just as much increased risk of incurring an accident as if you had not slept the previous night. Right, folks?
Citibank uses more electricity.

Have you seen the electricity foot print for livestock?

Going vegetarian would allow us to live longer, cause less methane/co2 release and allow us to do Democratic banking.

Bitcoin (Cash) is The most efficient banking system in the world. (Large blocks will scale to trillions of tx/sec)
(Edit, in case anyone's still reading: here's the dist version. Refresh for another blob. https://akx.github.io/watercolour/)
Show HN: Discussion forum for GitHub / BitBucket / GitLab repos
Virtual Private Servers are inexpensive, you can use them 24/7 with no extra charges, and you always know what your bill is going to be.
I doubt it, since the APIs to access them are the same.
I'm trying to learn Chinese. I wrote http://pingtype.github.io to parse blocks of text, and I'm now building up a large data set of movie subtitles, song lyrics, Bible translations, etc.

Try reading this in TextWrangler:
1 . 教會組織: 小會:代議長老郭倍宏

The box causes the follow characters to be unreadable - it gets interpreted as a half-character. Deleting it makes the text show correctly.

I tried it with ftfy, but it just copied the input through to the output.
this reminds me of what Snaptu was doing years ago to bring access to developing countries... worked out ok for them: https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/20/facebook-reportedly-acquir...
Also, this is a great way to bring better comms to millions of people who are likely underserved today.
Developing a Command Bus in PHP
<citation needed>
Cool project. It only has one theme at the moment, but I guess you guys are adding more in the future?
Nice. This is a good addition to "List of cognitive biases", a Wikipedia article I've liked to read from time to time ever since I discovered it, years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases

As a Stoic, it's good food for thought to improve your "perception" of life and the world.
You missed a few steps for messenger: Live Messenger -> skype -> lynq -> skype for business
How to perform hierarchical clustering in R
Time is hard.

Doing it right is really hard.

Whether this is measuring time or calculating time, it's hard.
“I just warranty deeded my house into an Ethereum smart contract.”
Yes definitely! We'll be adding many more themes hopefully in the future. Perhaps ones where users can create too.
Not gonna happen, they just wanted to stop it and get a piece of the pie. Mining will resume in China
Since the article neglected to say how it failed, or how it affected the other satellites, it looks like the rocket never quite reached orbit.
Extra virgin olive oil has a low smoke point, 320F. "Light" olive oil has a high smoke point, 460F.
Hello HN. This is something my team has been working. It's a small tool that gives you a discussion forum (community) for your software project. It's something that we built for ourselves and personally I think it's something missing from GitHub/BitBucket/GitLab. Would love to hear what you guys think.
Ask HN: Data Analysis Econometrics v Machine Learning is one becoming obsolete?
I'm a graduate student struggling with an important decision as to whether I want to pursuit phd/research work after my master's in economics, specifically econometrics & data analysis in association with consumer behavior and derived demand.

My question is that for years while learning very sophisticated and practical methods of analysis, I had to force myself to ignore a lot of the machine learning frontier. I only recently started learning these practices and see definitely the source of mutual benefit.

I had to ignore it because from what I saw, people were solving similar questions with almost zero of the same sophisticated methods.

My question for someone with maybe experience with machine learning and high level methodologies of statistical forecasting is: is the mathematical practice of these methods going away with automation and machine learning? Or similarly is mathematics becoming less and less useful in practice?

If that's the case, then I'm wasting my time at school learning more and more sophisticated layers of mathematics to incorporate into analysis. When I often see things on Kaggle for instance, people solving complex problems with almost zero mathematical modeling. Of course this was at first frightening, but after delving deeper there is reason for the models to exist although some people may disagree. I'm less concerned with this as I am with future obsolescence of the high level mathematical econometrics that's currently taking up so much of my time. Often feels as if these machine learning frontiers are more important. I of course would like to learn both but I won't be able to do that till I finished.

My work now involves almost exclusively with R. Some work with SAS and Matlab but that's pretty much it. So after years of practice, and I've yet to delve into any deep learning, it's very nerve racking.

Any help or suggestions would be very much appreciated.
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Can you make a payment with locked screen? Otherwise, isn't having the screen unlocked consent enough?
> I understand being upset at the Dems for stuff like the TPP, basically rolling over to Hollywood any time they ask for a copyright extension or more copyright enforcement powers

I am, but those are relatively minor compared to the real issue, which you are ignoring.

> or even being soft on enforcement of any given regulation

You appear to be laboring under the misapprehension that regulations in general are good, and the only issue is proper enforcement. But that's the real issue: regulations in general are not good. One obvious reason is regulatory capture: regulations end up benefiting the industries being regulated, not the public as a whole. The history of regulation of the Internet is a good example: we don't have the current dysfunctional structure of huge ISPs with monopoly powers and no easy way to dislodge them because of lack of regulation, we have it because of too much regulation, bought and paid for by those same ISPs to insulate them from actual competition.

I understand that we can't just dismantle the existing regulatory structure cold turkey, because, for better or worse, it's the status quo and everyone has made long term plans in good faith based on it. In that sense, the agenda Trump is currently pushing is not a good idea. But that does not mean that pushing for less regulation over the long term, and more recognition of the limits of government regulation as a tool for social improvement, is not a good idea. Unfortunately I don't see either major party in the US recognizing this (or, for that matter, any major party in any developed country). The Republicans are pushing to repeal regulations they don't like, but they will gladly put in place other regulations that they do like--for example, the various travel bans and restrictions that everyone was up in arms about early in the Trump administration, or laws like the Defense of Marriage Act, or...you get the idea.
If the article had gone into any details I'd agree, but all it really says is that JS engines have a memory heap and a call stack. It doesn't get into the kind of depth where JS engines differ from one another.
http://www.armaghplanet.com/blog/the-real-mystery-satellites...

More information/speculation for anyone interested:

"The first of these satellites is known as the USA-53 or Misty satellite. This stealth satellite’s design means that it is incredibly difficult to detect or locate. This satellite is thought to have been developed to keep an eye on the Soviets and their concealment of weaponry. If this satellite is still really in place it remains classified information. Allegedly launched in 1990 (on board Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-36), was a payload which remains top secret but openly known is that the mission was dedicated to the Department of Defense. Aviation Week magazine announced the satellite on-board was an imaging reconnaissance satellite. Amateur astronomers tracked the Shuttle and its payload and measured the satellite’s magnitude at -1, which was quite bright compared to normal imaging satellites.

A week after launch, reports were released from the Soviets that six bits of debris had been detected suggesting an explosion had occurred. The Pentagon announced that any debris would decay after six weeks. The amateur astronomers and observers that were tracking this object only catalogued five out of the six pieces. Six months later an unidentified satellite was discovered in orbit on a similar trajectory to that of the classified payload was released, leading the satellite spotters to suspect it was the missing piece, nick-named Misty. However a couple of noticeable manoeuvres later, Misty disappeared again. Perhaps the ‘explosion’ was a decoy to put Misty into place unbeknownst to the Russians."
It’s not the best. There’s a Russian joke that goes “One person is cooling in the morgue, the other is running a high fever. The average temperature in the hospital is 36.6 C though”

Averages are very susceptible to outliers and don’t give a proper insight into your data. What you really want is: how did half of my requests perform, 90% of requests perform, 95% of requests perform, 99% of requests perform
The method of loci[1] is missing from this list. I am a visual/spatial learner, and find it quite useful for quick information storage and retrieval.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci
I have 3 questions:

1. Did you see the Park et al report on DNA-PK inhibition from earlier this year?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14301878

2. Is anyone working on sleep?
https://twitter.com/clumma/status/764842049199898624

3. Have you considered funding low-dose ionizing radiation research?
https://www.facebook.com/clumma/activity/10151804061151737
Let's take it back to currencies.

You lend me 1,000 USD and then demand it back 12 months later. Can I give you 1,000 euro or 1,000 swiss francs instead? I doubt it. You'll want 1,000 USD back, or at least the equivalent to what $1,000 USD is worth now.

So they should have provided ETH back, but didn't because it went up in value. Super dodgy and very convenient. I bet they would have provided it back in ETH had the value per coin fallen.
The only account I had before this had about 3 posts and I lost the password. I'm not looking to make unreasonable discourse.
Agreed, China's excessive state power can be at least of good use for this case.
Stolen car found with Lyft stickers and 11,000 more miles
I do like the "durable functions" concept in Azure preview. AWS has step functions, but coding in flowcharts isn't scalable.
i can't imagine he'll make money on cheap Indian users when he needs a server with terabytes of RAM to serve them but you never know.

i might get blowback for this but I had an Instagram paid service where Indian users were blowing up the free trials and never paying so I just blocked all Indian IPs. more trouble than they're worth
"...what's worse than what you describe? Educational games, i.e. schoolwork disguised (usually poorly) as a video game."

Yeah, basically anything in that category except perhaps for rote memorization of multiplication tables is better done by a human teacher and static quality educational materials.

"Kerbal Space Program (makes 12 years old learn the math behind rocketry and orbital dynamics),"

With a) MSc in physics b) two kids in school c) over 700 hours spent personally in Kerbal I disagree. It does not really teach math and claiming it does is delusional. However, it does give a pretty intuitive introduction into orbital dynamics. It's a fun game. And there's nothing wrong in that category! Fun and games are as important as learning, but these two categories are complementary. Pretending one is the other does not really help anyone.

It's confounding to confuse the two as a parent who has to consider how the kids spend their time (i.e how screen time is rationed). If my kids want to play Kerbal, it's rationed from the "digital games" category and not "educational". For me "educational and character building" category includes stuff like 3D modeling, playing and mixing music, creating stop motion animation, etc. The latter they can do as much as they like.
Comparing China's National People's Congress to the US Congress is ludicrous. The NPC holds one annual session lasting less than 2 weeks, and passes legislations often with 99% Yeas. Every Chinese knows that the NPC is largely a show and holds no real power despite what the constitution says. Wikipedia summarizes it pretty well [1]:

> In theory, the NPC is the highest organ of state power in China, and all four PRC constitutions have vested it with great lawmaking powers. However, in practice it usually acts as a rubber stamp for decisions already made by the state's executive organs and the Communist Party of China.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_People's_Congress
Well, Google doesn’t know anything until you go to a Google page either. Not counting things like Google Analytics, of course, but publishers choose to share that info with Google.
Did you complete grad school all the way to a doctorate? I'm in grad school right now weighing the decisions to leave a year after a master's degree.
Watch out - there is a reverse bias, Parkinson's law, that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. This is why Elon Musk sets absurd deadlines he rarely can meet, to resist the expansion of make-work and administrative bloat which consumes longer-timed tasks.
Unless you and the people in your "company" can pay for your food, rent, and bills directly with Bitcoin or Ethereum, I don't see how this works. You have to convert it to fiat somewhere, and that's probably going to be through a bank. Then you're in for a lot of trouble if you get investigated, audited, or whatever.
Bazaar was my first DVCS and I was a holdout against using Git for many years since I was so used to using bzr in the open source world. A few weeks ago I realized my email has been subscribed to the mailing list for 13 years now and I decided to take a look and it's a bit chaotic!
for some reason, all examples on that page deal with "sloppy-windows-1252" > "utf-8".

Is it fair to say it is a sloppy-windows-1252 fixer?
Technically: SHA-2 and P-curve ECDH.
Show HN: iOS UserDefaults API for 2018
Can't agree more. Also I am getting pretty sick of the impact crypto trading is having on office conversations. All I hear these days are inane conversations about getting rich quick. Everyone is an expert in technical analysis these days.

At best, trading these currencies is a zero-sum game where you take money from others without providing any intrinsic worth to humanity. At worst is a pyramid scheme plain and simple.
This is why advertising works as a good source of revenue.
Debian stable has 1.14, but Debian testing has 1.22.1.
I'm not surprised. Two out of five of the top coins by market capitalization right now are fake crypto-currencies. Cardano literally doesn't exist at all yet and is a white paper and Ripple to be considered a crypto-currency requires a serious stretch of the imagination. Neither are mineable. Also we are approaching $2 trillion USDT floating around.
Thanks for writing this up; it was something of a wake-up call from a recent bout of fanboyism, and I found myself agreeing with most of your examples. I'm still learning and I haven't found any of these things to be dealbreakers yet, but they're absolutely questionable design decisions when you consider that other languages already solved many of these issues (with good reason). I think there's a lot to like about Go but I'm worried that the language will die young because of religious inertia.
Chinese government hates everything it can't control, especially related to money. That is just a fact.
Massive server slowdown requires more hardware to be used; AMD can't supply many servers, so it's a big win for Intel sales as they will sell many more servers than anticipated. IMO Krzanich is going to lose a lot on premature stock sales.
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Apple Photos app with original, full sized files on iCloud. Periodic backups to external HD. 27k photos arranged in hundreds of albums which are organized in dozens of folders which are organized in 6 master folders + a handful of smart albums ( favorites, videos, screenshots, etc.
Does the original contract published include that provision? If not it would require the contract holder (developer) to modify the code.
> I never understood why this wasn't in WPA2

Perhaps they thought that this would be taken care of at a higher protocol layer. ISTR that things like IPSEC opportunistic encryption was hyped a lot at the time.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/947/
...because if you're going to hide a secret satellite, how better to do so than to declare it "lost" on launch?
Making cocaine illegal hasn’t been too successful either though :(

We would be better of learning from the war on drugs that “Wars” don’t solve any problem...but sitting down, listening and providing help to addicts does!
Doesn't Rust do all its type checking at compile time, not run-time?

(Not to say that a correctly-written Rust program wouldn't be vulnerable to Spectre for other reasons, of course.)
The three little pigs taught me "Don't bother putting in the hard work; because when the shit hits the fan, someone else will happily bail you out".
uMatrix, for everyone else.

It's a bit fiddly, but you can set moderately sane defaults. Well, sort of. If websites themselves were far more sane, this would be far less a problem.
Does anyone know if any of these services provide the ability to cycle between IPs? One of the use cases for Lambda (and now Azure Functions) is in web scraping where companies get mad if you access them too many times from a single address. Lambda made it clear while they do use a lot of IPs you're not guaranteed to get distribution among them.

Seems like a long shot but I figured this is a good place to bring it up.
> The news doesn't seem to have been that bad for Intel's stock

That's a red herring. Krzanich had no idea how badly the news would impact the stock. He may have well overestimated it in his mind and chose to sell. Just because he didn't make huge gains from the possible insider trading, doesn't preclude the possibility of insider trading occurring.

So the whole argument here is:

1) Krzanich couldn't be possibly stupid enough to do this.

2) He didn't make a ton of money so it's a stupid plan, he could't possibly be stupid enough to do this.

Weak.
It would be nice if the article told you how many successful missions SpaceX has launched.

I see failed mission articles on HN every once in a while. I have no idea if this is business as usual, or SpaceX is a company with serious quality issues.
This is what I like most about Canva too. They are always improving their tool with new UI and features without ever forcing me to buy the "Canva for work". They are also great at accepting feedbacks.
Not when I click on them they don't.
P-256 and P-384 have some "NSA" stigma associated with them though.
Giving them similar names certainly wouldn't make it any easier to remember which one is which.
> I don't want to tax wealth at 90%, that's a straw-man, but let's use it as an example anyway

My intent was only to use it as an example. You can change the percentage to anything you want, as long as it is low enough not to have an effect on Warren Buffett's consumption. And if it has an effect on Warren Buffett's consumption, then you could do the same thing with a consumption tax so that wouldn't be an argument for taxing wealth over taxing consumption.

> In your extreme scenario, there would be an increased demand for food. Greater demand would increase prices. This would move the allocation of resources to food production from, say, Ferrari production. You would have more food production and poor people would eat better.

Indeed. But this is just as true if the spending on food is funded by a consumption tax. This is an argument for taxes, not an argument for income or wealth taxes over consumption taxes. I also believe taxes are harmful in general, but that's a separate point from whether a consumption tax should be preferred over an income or wealth tax.

> The outcomes of taxation and other economic levers are never represented by monotonic functions. The optimal options are always somewhere "in between" the extremes,

I don't see why this ought to be true and you did not provide any evidence to support these claims.

> so saying "taxing at 100% doesn't work, so we should tax at 0%" is a fallacy.

It is, but not for the reason you stated. Saying "taxing at 2% doesn't work, so we should tax at 0%" would also be a fallacy if the optimal tax rate happened to be 1%. This has nothing to do with extremes.
Does this offer anything above existing solutions like Apple Pay or Samsung Pay?
Couldnt agree more. All that wasted energy and carbon for nothing. All that power that could have been used for something useful like gene folding or SETI.
Here is what a pyramid scheme is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme

Bitcoin is a distributed database that solves the "Two Generals Problem". Please don't spread misinformation on things you do not understand.
I presume you are offering this study as evidence of differences due to sex.
Interesting. Did men actually make up the majority of nurses back then, or are we just talking about fluctuations in how much of a minority men were in nursing? From the wikipedia article you linked:

> The term nosocomial originates from the latin nosocomi, the name given to male care-givers, meaning that men were prominent in Ancient Rome

... If they needed a special word for male care-givers in ancient rome, that implies they assumed care givers were female by default.