skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a -109 out now. I'd install it before rebooting and probably expunge -108 entirely.
Cool! We don't have a public Slack/IRC yet, but it seems like something we might do in the future. In the meantime, we're all pretty responsive on Twitter and on email.

And yeah, my last name being Slack does create some confusing moments sometimes. :)
What's a good resource for finding and following new blockchain projects?
Or where they can split the gains with a corrupt official in exchange for free power...
This. I try to spend way more time being the haystack to keep my needle hidden best...
Because they already implemented something similar as per the blog post.

React has an implementation of a virtual Dom. They don't have to use react to do that and as discussed in the blog that is the major slow down on their UI.
HTML is not code, its markup.
Honestly I agree with his statements 100 percent. Mass transit done well is mediocre at best compared to individual transportation. Especially if someone else is driving. I would rather take an uberpool over the CTA any day of the week, it's simply faster and generally the same price
People said the same thing about clay baubles with small markings impressed upon them!

Oh wait...
That is pretty worst case. OTOH, it teaches the lesson about testing updates on a small number of hosts before rolling 'em out globally.

One has to learn that lesson at some point.
What is the License for the free install ? MIT/BSD/Apache ?
Fun fact, There are actually both gold and bitcoin backed credit/debit cards.
glad you find this useful .. this came about after years of frustration as a dev
> Why has Hacker News become such a hotbed for cynicism, ridicule and snark by which almost none comes constructive ideas?

The moderators have almost certainly played a part. Selectively permitting snark from the in-group is easy in the short run, but eventually incurs a cost to the community.
Why the fuck should my tax dollars go to fund your greed?

If your business can't succeed while paying people a living wage then you're business doesn't deserve to survive.
I wasn't defending. When you're only attacking one side, maybe you need to stop and think for a bit.
Is code intelligence a paid upgrade for all languages?
"Cryptocurrency wealth is valued in dollars, isn't that ironic?"

No, it's not. I don't get his point about this.
> white fluid and heavy, black fluid flow past each other, creating the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

This reminded me of the recent Jupiter images: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/jupiter/galleries
Look at XXH64.
> Also, the Arab world is arguably worse off... Invented much of math

This is historically not true. Sure we get terms like "algebra", "algorithm", etc from the arab world, but the arab world didn't invent these mathematics ideas/fields. These ideas/fields go back to the mesopotamia and ancient greece. Also, the mathematical concepts developed throughout china, india, etc also.

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

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

Certainly the arab world made contributions to math but they certainly didn't invent most of math.

> and is now dominated by ascientific theocracies

Even during the islamic golden age, it was dominated by "ascientific" theocracies. One doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the other.
Not sure if you saw but they did post this: http://blog.npmjs.org/post/169432444640/npm-operational-inci...
This is particular to Ethereum, but https://www.stateofthedapps.com/
Not sure what you're trying to say.

I'm asking for an apples-to-apples comparison here. Using one figure from a random CPU on github and comparing it to another figure from a different random CPU on github is not an apples to apples comparison.

I don't think anyone claimed xxhash would be 5x faster than metrohash. (Maybe you are getting the 5x number from metrohash's claim that it is 5x faster than siphash?)
Writing a C Compiler, Part 5
I guess an "example". I generally agree with the parent poster. Testing for files does not sound useful. Test the functionality, not structurue. But not everyone's google.
Wow I'm glad I asked!
Why are you being downvoted? What you said is true.
Thank you Dhruv!
> As someone that was prevented from distributing Linux at high school because the administrators thought that any copying was piracy

I remember having this discussion with in HS and also at work with people who were convinced pirating a PSX game is same as stealing, while not realizing there is no evidence that suggests a pirated copy means a lost sale (people can't afford it in places like Brasil where they still play Sega Genesis).

The level of brainwashing of my generation is appalling, but I'm glad people like us realize the ridiculousness of claims like downloading an mp3 is stealing from an artist (they clearly have no idea how much the industry leeches off the artist in first place).

Also, now that I've monies I ended up buying most of the games I use to play as a kid on a mod chip, and warez sites on Steam and the dreaded Playstation Store.

2018 is off to a good start.
When I read or hear this thought I always think of the Futurama episode where Bender uses the Egyptian alien slaves to build a giant statue of himself that yells "Remember Me!" and breathes fire.
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So do we make snide remarks about fixes not being tested like we did when microsoft also had issues fixing CPU level bugs?
No, that is also a total fabrication. Please stop making things up.

FreeBSD secteam does not leak NDAed or embargoed information to other BSDs.
The whole point is not to be a major global fiat currency.
It happened to one of my HP boxes that has an AMD chipset. After installing the update, windows 10 just hangs at the blue windows logo. Only solution is to turn the machine off and on twice, which then results in it undoing the update.

The Microsoft link you provide says "Microsoft is working with AMD to resolve this issue", so they're not just brushing it off and telling customers to contact AMD.
> Or where they can split the gains with a corrupt official in exchange for free power...

Has this happened before? It sounds bizarre and Googling gave me nothing.
Of course they charge for their service, but 'economic rent' is a term used in economics to denote value generated by other economic participants and extracted by a non-producing party. Miners are producing most of the value they are capturing. The portion of their earnings that is 'economic rent' is not nearly as large as that of the beneficiaries of the traditional monetary and financial system.
Advisers at Leading Discount Brokers Win Bonuses to Push Higher-Priced Products
Yeah, but is anyone working on useful blockchain applications as opposed to shoving Blockchain in because HYPE.
Ideally. It's possible that the Google business machine might not do a superb job collecting and synthesizing the vast number of these very fine-tuned details and pieces of feedback, at least at this early stage.

This is something a good personal assistant can do easily.

Though eventually AI will gain those capabilities, one way or another.
The Rothschild's are also not on this list. It's a rather pedestrian list of all non tax cheaters and non privacy aware mindsets.
Oracle, not being the state government of either California or Nevada, could not and did not “push the criminal angle”, they filed a civil action charging violation of both federal copyright law and two. states anti-hacking laws; the latter allow both civil and criminal actions.

They also, it may be worth noting, won on the copyright claims.
Q: What are the best news sources about blockchain technology?

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-news-sources-about-b...
I dunno about that.. controlling access to your server is much more important today because tech is ubiquitous, and a big target for bad actors. In the old days very few people would know enough and care enough to reverse engineer your protocol.. when a service has billions of users and valuable data, that changes.

If Twitter did not have an API key, they would spend 2x the money on absorbing & defending against DDoSes and security vulnerabilities. That cost would get passed on to us with frequent outages and many more ads in our feeds. Or a leak of someones DMs.
Most of the bitcoin cards got cancelled.
Emacs doesn't offer a fraction of the graphical flexibility that Atom does. How would you do any of the below?

https://benmccormick.org/2016/01/11/the-most-interesting-ato...
I hate the fact that's probably exactly what will happen.
We need better ways from keeping corporations from taking advantage of the tax payer unfairly.
What a huge waste of resources, just to create competition.
> There's a difference between unintentional bugs, which it seems a bit harsh to call "badware", and actual malware or very sloppily written, low-value commercial software that recklessly behaves almost like malware.

There's not much difference between the latter and all these smartphones, smart TVs, and other IoT devices which receive software updates for 2 or 3 years after release if you're lucky.

> Also, Android, as running on most commercially available phones, is not FOSS because it contains Google's proprietary extensions and probably hardware drivers/firmware as well.

True, its a mix. I can recommend LineageOS + microG [1]

[1] https://lineage.microg.org/
Warren Buffett prefers flip phones – and he’s not alone
Just stumbled across the following site, which might help you evaluate platforms:

https://www.ecommwar.com
> The real world has truly random events, and while it bothers many people..

Replace the word random with unpredictable and it shows why some people are bothered.

To say something is fundamentally unpredictable means that it is immeasurable and not merely complex.
s/in-group/in-meme

Apple products are bad now despite having a pretty similar rate of technical glitches they always did

It’s just the changes impact the HN crowd more now so complaining em masse is allowed

It’s meme-tribalism

No one wants to be the one to have to give up on their meme
>So yeah, there's a huge amount of R&D and competition to get the best stuff out there. And Bitmain dominates.

You're right that Bitmain dominates ASIC Bitcoin miners, but why? Surely there are more than enough capable engineers to design ASIC miners in the US and some VC's willing to fund them, or is there something I'm missing? Manufacturing costs would be high in the US, but it's not like foreign manufacturing is an unknown concept to US based companies.
Can only hope Brazil, India and Indonesia will follow in the replanting and reforestation after they're done with their denuding their tropical forests.
Bitcoin will never be a currency in the traditional sense, as it fails the stable store of value test, which then impairs it's ability to serve the other functions money (unit of account, medium of exchange). However, Bitcoin and other cryptos are more like investments that also happen to be massively efficient global wealth transfer systems (relative to existing methods). CNBC's crypto coverage continues to be shallow, click-baity, disappointing garbage.
> "Home cooked meal" loses a lot of its appeal if it's Mom's robot doing the work.

"Home Cooked Meal" isn't typically a job. I would argue that when it is, the difference between "Prepared by my employee human" and "Prepared by my robotic property" doesn't lose much appeal given equivalent quality/variety.

However, I get your point. Many people do place a premium on expressions of power. The one thing that a human cooked meal provides that a robot cooked meal doesn't, is the sense of power over another person. I agree that there will probably always be jobs for people, purely based on this desire. However, this is rather beside the point of the article.

> Anyhoo, the main point I'm trying to make is there has been automation for a long, long time and we aren't any worse off because of it. Some could even argue were better off because of it even.

Most of us would happily agree with you that we are overall better off because of Automation. However, that is also besides the point of this article.

The main point of the article is to point out one of the negative effects that can/has come out of automation. Your 'main point' seems to have no bearing on this, hence the downvotes.
What modern systems even map memory to 0x0? Doing so breaks the C standard, among other things.
True, but the article is not about the blockchain; moreover, I'd be shocked if CNBC were discussing inner works of software and technical concepts that the general public has no interest in.
> Which would stop anyone from being invited to the group

No, just the malicious server adding the malicious user.

> So you mean the admin would be in on it?

I mean WhatsApp could patch this attack vector by requiring the new member to get a signed assertion from the group admin, proving to the other members that the group admin was the person who added the user.
A small minority doing the mining does not imply rent seeking. Specialization through division of labour would produce the same result.

In any case I'm not saying they are perfect or that they permit zero rent seeking. What I'm arguing is that for reasons I've articulated, the current crop of cryptoeconomic platforms are much less rent-seeking than traditional financial platforms and systems.

Therefore, all other things being held equal, meaning that if we're only comparing on the grounds of how much rent-seeking they permit, I believe it is likely that it would improve public welfare if they supplanted the current monetary and financial system.
Agreed. It may be necessary to abandon TLS-SNI. Maybe ALPN will work out.
yeah, and Netscape isn't the dominant web browser, and I don't order pet food from pets.com, my grandma no longer uses AOL, and I don't listen to music with Napster anymore. What's the point?
Billionaire Buffett says Bitcoin almost certainly will come to bad ending
Imagine that bitcoin is a bubble, and then I don’t think humanity would have had ever spent such a huge amount of energy and resources for such a « useless » purpose.
Any possibility of allowing self-hosting? Would be fantastic to run on my local dev server.
> To say something is fundamentally unpredictable means that it is immeasurable.

No, it just means that the measure cannot be predicted in advance.

OTOH, the observer effect can make measurement problematic.
You all do realize that (at least by default) ubuntu will keep old kernel versions around, and you can choose to boot them in GRUB, don't you?

This is certainly a pain, but it's hardly the first time a broken kernel has shipped. Reasonable recovery mechanisms are in place.
CNBC is a joke. It's the Techcrunch of financial news. Occasionally they publish something of value, but mostly it's just repurposed press releases and garbage commentary.
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> Assuming there is a free market everywhere this is true

Sorry, but you can't assume that what theoretically holds in a long term stable equilibrium of a perfect idealised market holds at every moment in a fast moving dynamic real world market.
Yes, code intelligence (go-to-definition, find references, hovers, etc.) on Sourcegraph Server is a paid upgrade for all languages.

But you can try/use it for free on open-source projects using our Chrome extension (to get it on code you view on GitHub) at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for-gi... or on our public site directly at https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/websocket/-/blob/... (for example).
Typical arms race.
You can fork the game, but the rest of the population will be using the main game on the real blockchain and it won't recognize your character as having the item.
The 100th Birthday of Murphy–the Murphy of Murphy’s Law
Bitcoin/Monero/Zcash are already incredibly useful by making things like Wikileaks possible, which was previously shut out of the world financial system from US Govt pressure. This contribution to international politics alone has changed the world.
Yeah, when I fly back to NC it feels like I'm landing in Endor vs California.

I also sleep much better despite the insect noise than here in the city. Will take cicadas and crickets over helicopters, fire engines, etc. any day.
Agree with you that this is by no means a complete solution and there is a long way to go to make it actually usable.

I think one big problem with image captioning could be lack of high quality training data. While in this case we can generate lots of good training data. Whether we will be able to generate enough good data and have enough compute power to train on them is something that we need to find out.

Playing go was considered a problem too complex to solve couple years ago, but it's now a solved problem. So I am hoping we can get a breakthrough on this sooner than we think.
I must be getting old but napping whenever you want sounds like the best perk.
> The best BTC ASIC miners on the open market are all sold out and backordered for months [...]

But in that case, why don't ASIC manufacturers sell to the highest bidder and let mining companies bid up prices?

If the barrier to entry is in ASIC manufacturing, why don't the manufacturers capture the excess profit, instead of the miners?
If you can afford a Tesla why would you let your car be used like this?

I am the kind of person who would get a tesla and I would never want to deal with the inconvenience of lending my car to a public fleet so it could get fucked up by drunk people.

Also how does the car know if someone throws up in it before picking up another passenger?
I recently watched the 1983 comedy Trading Places again. Quote:

Randolph Duke: "Now, some of our clients are speculating that the price of gold will rise in the future. And we have other clients who are speculating that the price of gold will fall. They place their orders with us, and we buy or sell their gold for them."

Mortimer Duke: "Tell him the good part."

Randolph Duke: "The good part, William, is that, no matter whether our clients make money or lose money, Duke & Duke get the commissions."

Plus ça change.
Yes and no, sadly. If bitcoin collapses in disgrace, many people might be biased against all things blockchain for quite some time.
The alternative to a $50k drug can be a $100k stay in the ICU.
Does anyone see WikiLeaks as a good thing anymore? The concept is interesting but WikiLeaks is beyond worthless and Julian is just an attention seeking whore, being played by global superpowers
There are quite a few projects vying for owning the next generation of block chain. Generally known as ffm tech (fast,free,and minerless). They depend on some variation of PoS, hierarcal blockchains, and Byzantine consensus algos. Basically there's lots of serious work going into making blockchain ledgers scalable to permit money-like usage.

Some examples are Raiblocks and Ethereum's Plasma protocol.
Apache countered Microsoft's DNT=1 default by ignoring the DNT header for IE10 users. Advertisers could have similarly ignored Microsoft and honored non-IE users' DNT headers.

https://www.cnet.com/news/apache-web-software-overrides-ie10...
Actually, not everyone trash talking Bitcoin is talking their own book.
Indeed, nothing bad about having marketing skill or excelling at it. Certain people can take average glass skill and, through marketing, networking` and product savvy, parlay it into greater fame and fortune than others - people who have been pounding at their craft for decades.

Building a brand is a skill many artists don't excel at. It requires similar people skills to being a salesman. Often they have to rely on dealers, gallery owners and store owners who have the people skills to do retail and wholesale more successfully. The situation is somewhat mirrored in tech with the schism between programmers and CEO/investor/founder type personalities.

In the niche I work in, some people got lucky and became 'famous' in a kind of underground video way on Instagram and Snapchat. These days it's starting to resemble a more traditional art market.
Selling pickaxes vs gold mining. One is quite a bit less risky than the other.
Well sure, but a high speed train could be built, right?

In Spain (not really a high-tech country overall) there are trains connecting the country corner to corner with trains that go at like 300 KM/Hour average. Considering that train stations are central, plus there is no need to be there like 2 hours before, plus you can easily work there, etc. it is way faster and more convenient than flight, and of course way more ecological.

I'm sure a little of all that VC money can be used to build such infrastructure... I got lots of downvotes for my original comment, but really, the amount of CO2 emitted by air travel is appalling. I understand it is hard to avoid in many situations, but at least let me feel sad about it.
> Also how does the car know if someone throws up in it before picking up another passenger?

Camera + microphone + vomit recognition software.
Ideally it would have some kind of anthropomorphized graphical avatar applicable to the context. Research out of Stanford[1] as far back as the '90s has suggested such interfaces as a means for improving human-computer interaction. If I was writing a letter, for example, perhaps an animated document fastener would be appropriate. In this case, why not an animated, anthropomorphic pizza that morphs into the Domino's logo as a paid-for branding.

[1] https://web.stanford.edu/group/cslipublications/cslipublicat...
They can show me ads based on what I just searched for then.

This debate isn't about whether ads exist, it's about whether or not they should be allowed to hoard massive amounts of data and track every online action in order to ads that might sometimes be slightly more relevant.

It's ridiculous.
Testing a Vue.js and Laravel Todo App
Yes, they usually only test the feature and you are right, when you are dealing with plenty of interconnected components, it's more difficult to do complete tests and there's a higher chance of something slipping by unnoticed.

However, on every build the unit, integration and acceptance tests should run and should alert if something is not right[0]. Automated testing can't cover all the use cases, but there's no reason they couldn't catch most of the issues we've seen with OSX lately (a good example of a system with plenty of interconnected components). On top of that, the good QA people I know always run some random manual tests not related with the story itself on every feature release just to make sure everything is still as expected.

The time is there if it is, along with the expectations, managed correctly. Only in smaller chunks instead of a big, single block of time at the end.

Even though, there's always the chance that there's a completely unforeseen side effect (a test can prove that there's an error, but can't prove that there are no errors), all of this is to try and minimize that chance. In general, I think that these issues appear more often related to specific systems (lots of interconnected components) or environments (lack of proper testing), rather than with specific methodologies (back in the non-agile methodologies days, programs still had bugs).

[0] Like, for example, an edge case of a method being fixed. That can have knock-on effects if other parts of the system were relying on that method failing.
Did anyone solve the "no stake" problem in "proof of stake"?
So China is basically exporting energy for a hefty amount of foreign currency.
> It's plausible the Tesla model will win out because, in the majority of hours, only about 20% of the fleet is used in a car service. RideAustin, as a nonprofit, has publicly available ride data to support this. So with a dedicated fleet, you'll often have a lot of unused cars that will be quite inefficient. With the Tesla model, however, the money-making portion is a secondary purpose for the car's ownership, with the primary one being the owner's own convenience when needed.

Problem: Peak demand for car service customers and peak usage for owners is likely to be at the same or overlapping times.