skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How could anyone provide a helpful answer to this?

If you have a dozen bad ideas before breakfast, your self-skepticism is really good! It's preventing you from spending time on ideas that are flawed. On the other hand if the ideas aren't bad, you're missing good opportunities.

The problem is to have better ideas, and be better at evaluating ideas. It's not a mindset problem of being more or less pessimistic or optimistic.
Ouch. I still couldn't wrap my mind to that string traversing gets intuitive in Rust. The entire iterator thing seems completely counter-intuitive.
> Do some more digging instead of just snopes

How about personal experience? I grow wheat. It doesn't get the roundup treatment. That would be a big waste of money. That's not to say that nobody does it, but it's not standard practice. Wheat tends to dry down sufficiently on its own (and there is no such thing as glyphosate-tolerant wheat, so you would never want to apply it through the growing season).

My colored beans on the other hand... They definitely need the desiccation. Out of interest, does your friend get sick from beans (not soy)?
I rather believe Linus' goal is to change Intel. Some curse words got it escalated to the Hacker News frontpage and that publicity helps. Why de-escalate?
Very few such countries exist, and most people in them aren't native English-speakers.
Astro – A multi-paradigm language that compiles to WebAssembly and native code
I have done pascal before and I wish to have ADA more easily available.
Several years ago I took advantage of digital fabric printing services to create functional and attractive sound-absorbing acoustic panels with movie poster art, suitable for home theater installations. Getting a hold of high-quality digital sources for movie posters sometimes presented a problem, particularly for fans of older movies. This is a great resource, and I'm already plotting on a few new pieces to make!

Here's a build thread on how to make your own: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/19-dedicated-theater-design-co...
Elasticsearch with Rails – How to Create a Simple Search Engine in 1 Hour
Government bonds are limited in quantity, the government can't sell enough of them to meet demand. Not even the US government has that much appetite for spending. And if you think about it, governments could never be that sink. Security will forever be a scarce asset.
Furthermore, restricting future sales to a buyer because you don't like that they sold the last one sounds pretty anti-competitive, especially when you consider that usually a gallery has a temporary monopoly on an artists works.
> Bitcoin being a market entity that can remain outside government regulation and enforcement reach makes it the ultimate asset store.

Any major world government could muster up the resources to do a 51% attack on Bitcoin. China could go after the major miners, the US could shut down Coinbase, etc. Many ways for them to stagger the currency, potentially shaking confidence enough on it for people to cash out.

That's not even counting the non-governmental shenanigans of things like Tether that are going on that could do that on their own.
Https explained with carrier pigeons
> Were traces of the app found by her employer?

Probably that's just the journalist words as I don't think they found or even looked for "traces of the app" on the phone. Most likely the government got a log of the DNS lookups from the ISP and made their arrests based on this.
I think the point is you need to have time set aside as part of your normal process to study if you are serious about your education. It's time that you should be focused on your academic pursuits, not drinking, working, gaming, girls, etc.

I didn't follow this sort of advice, and paid the price. I sailed through most classes on my wits, but hit a wall when more advanced classes had time demands that I couldn't meet due to work or other obligations. When I tutored high school and undergraduates in math, I saw smart/lazy kids making the same mistake... they would pick up the material in class and never learn how to read a math textbook. Life was good until it wasn't, usually when they hit Calc 2 or 3. It was hard to watch.
Uber Eats acquires Ando, the food delivery startup that makes its own food
Rust is especially difficult if you bring your C-like assumptions to it.

You first need to learn difference between a borrow (a view, which may be read-only) and owned type, and know that Rust enforces stdlib strings to be UTF-8. Random mutation of a byte in a string is possible, but it has been deliberately put behind an unsafe function call, and there are better alternatives available (like char iterators).

It's not hard once you "get" the way Rust works with data.
Not in the sense we normally mean aesthetic (as in this looks good). In the sense of an aesthetic style (like the renaissance) sure.
Cheaper shouldn't matter if it hurts productivity.
Without this being a double-blind experiment, than it is highly questionable. People over-compensate for bias if you tell them you're testing their bias. The fact that the abstract makes no mention of this is highly suspect.
You have been able to do this on Google News for a long time:

See more stories from preferred sources, and block news sources you don’t like.

- Under "Preferred," list publications you want to see more news from.

- Under "Blocked," list publications you don’t want to see any news from.

https://support.google.com/news/answer/1146405
Never a Failure Always a Lesson
Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world
Is It Possible to Use the Internet Privately?
>Pentium 4 proprietary RAM flop

You mean RDRAM?
Ugh, The Economist.

> However, the barriers to entry are rising.

Largely irrelevant. Antritrust doesn't exist to protect you from competition. It exists to protect you from unfair practices resulting in market dominance (typically monopolies). There's a difference.

> If this trend runs its course, consumers will suffer as the tech industry becomes less vibrant

Not every surface is a slipper slope.

More to the point, we're now talking about what might happen rather than what is happening?

> Less money will go into startups

Absolutely no evidence of that yet. In fact I'd argue there's still too much sloshing around the tech industry. But that's fine. If "sophisticatd" investors want to lose their collective shirts on pets.com or whatever, go for it.

> The European Commission has accused Google of using control of Android, its mobile operating system, to give its own apps a leg up.

I've never understood the complaints about Android for two reasons:

1. Consumers have other options (mainly iOS); and

2. Apple isn't held to the same standard. The only reason Google seems to be is that they let third-party manufacturers use their stuff at all. Apple doesn't. So Google gets raked over the anti-competitive coals? WTF?

It's also worth nothing that Android consists of two principal parts:

1. The open source part, which anyone can do anything with (license permitting); and

2. The Google apps and Android trademark, which come with constraints.

Amazon has gone the route of using (1) for their Fire line. Samsung is in camp (2). The point here is you don't have to use (2). People are capable of writing their own apps. Well, let me clarify. They should be but they aren't. Samsung apps in particular are terrible.

That's not Google's fault. That's Samsung's.

> Facebook keeps buying firms which could one day lure users away

Isn't this a sign that their alleged market dominance is fragile?

Honestly, this whole piece seems like a giant FUD exercise in "What if..."
Anyone know if prices are on items?

On shelves?

On app screen?

And are the same for each customer?
A gentle contradiction in the article:
"a full-scale break-up would cripple the platforms’ economies of scale"

but later:

"Trustbusters should scrutinise mergers to gauge whether a deal is likely to neutralise a potential long-term threat"

There also seems to be plenty of middle ground there. Like forcing a sell-off of Waze and Instagram without breaking up the whole parent company.
The whole idea of "fake news" came out of US politics to begin with, so no surprise organisations set up specifically with that as a mantra are ideological in nature and uninterested in actual facts.
The "article" is pointless, the guy just vents a bit, missing any opportunity to give any technical insight on what that legacy project is about, or offer anything substantial other than positive affirmations directed to himself.
Long term it's exactly what you should do unless you truly believe that the USD is going to be as valuable as a security as it is right now in the long run (it's not).

One thing that many people forget is that most bitcoin is owned by very few people who go in very very early. They will not need to sell even if it was cut on half from now and they do not have to worry about inflation. If you can do that in the long run bitcoin will gain trust and thus be less volatile or even live with the volatility (as we used to do with normal fiat currencies)
Those people are wrong. Don’t worry about them.
One possible path to achieving this is simply based on the current advances already being made even by the biggest players such as Amazon. They try to eliminate human workforce completely from their pipelines. But what do they get with achieving this? Poor, jobless people who cannot pay for sh*t, thus their market would simply collapse by achieving what they hoped would give them much higher profits.

A simple solution to this could be that the more a company is automated (and needs less human workforce), the more taxes they'd need to pay, and that same tax would be distributed to people as universal basic income. This circle could sustain a constant market for them, as well as enable people to pay for the stuff they need. Maybe.
The multiple-precision arithmetic section of mine is easily found by looking at the colour on the edge of those pages. There is no better treatment of this subject out there.
These days it is often assumed that if you don't mention this kind of thing then you are tacitly endorsing it. I don't buy into that, but I don't mind playing along.
Regulating would only diminish its QoS, methinks. Algorithms improve at such fast scale that no one person has complete knowledge about it. Regulating it may drive the regulators mad.
lol. trust me i don't plan on editing my comment. the point was to illustrate to you how there's no difference between what you wrote and racist slurs except that women are the focus
>romantic interest

Heh, I don't know about other STEM fields but I remember a lady attending a computer science freshman social event once. There were very few women there as the majority of women in CS are in HTI. After a while she said to my friend, "Why is everyone such a nerd."

She left the field, men were at fault.
But... then aren't you closing yourself into your own filter bubble?

(It highly depends on your purpose. Do you want more movies/books like the ones you like? Or do you want to read great critique?)
10 Outsourcing Myths Jeopardize Too Many New Ventures
> It's a consequence that hiring practices should favour women who are equally qualified on paper, because they have likely overcome more barriers in practice and, all other things being equal, are better hires.

I want to argue against this from a purely utilitarian standpoint, where we care about getting better hire, and don't care about any ethical implications. I think your logic is just bad math.

You're right, and women have more barriers to entry into STEM. And if some barriers are already removed (as this study suggest), I can assume that others still exist. Let's make the numbers simpler, and assume that these barriers make it 2 times harder for a given woman to get into some experience level (I don't know real numbers anyway, and they don't matter).

However, when we observe the effect of these barriers, we simply see that there are 2 times more men on that level than women. That's the whole effect. Statistically, if a woman had 2 times less chance of getting through, and there are already 2 times less women than men, then we already see the full effect of this barrier: there's no evidence that there should be some hidden variable to explain this barrier.

However, if we would know that women's barrier makes it 10 times as harder, and still, there are only 2 times as many men as women, then we would need some other data to explain this; namely, that these women are actually 5 times as good as the men.

But we don't know that. The whole knowledge about these barriers that we have comes from the outcome: we see that there are 2 times as many men as women, and that's how we assume (correctly, I think) that there is a barrier. But if we start from this outcome data, we can't through some magic come back to it and add a hidden variable - it's just a logic loop, and a strange one: we see data, make conclusions from observations, and from these conclusions change our observation of this very data to see it as incomplete, without help of any data points outside this original observation. How could such logic be correct?
Both security and stability are scarce assets. Bitcoin can provide useful alternative market offerings for both.
The BBC article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-42755832) made the point that this system would have stopped Buzzfeed being able to make that change (to the extent they'd still rely on FB traffic):

> For instance, Buzzfeed's initial beginnings as a viral site would have almost certainly hindered its growth into a serious news organisation had it been subject to the ideas about to be put in place by Mr Zuckerberg's team.

I'm not really sure what the answer to this is - but they are really good now and would definitely have been perma-black-holed before now by many measures I can think of.
It's stories like this that makes Richard Stallman start to sound sensible.
is "fireworks" literal or figurative there?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volksempf%C3%A4nger
18 years ago Jane Jacobs published The Nature of Economies, which explicitly applies principles of biomimicry to economic philosophy. It's absolutely brilliant and has been the cornerstone of my economic thinking ever since. Also, it's been a somewhat sardonic pleasure to watch the mainstream economics world haltingly get the memo. They've come a long way since 2000, but still have a long ways to go.

If you want to see what economic understanding will eventually look like, just cut to the chase and read The Nature of Economies today.
Uber committed to doing business in Afrika despite SoftBank's statement
But that still requires that you have knowledgeable baseline of who is and isn't a "good" theoretical physicist. For a lot of people for example Dr. Oz is a "good" medical doctor and Gwyneth Paltrow is a trusted source on women's health and with that as a baseline you haven't solved anything.
Well, that's a glib remark if I've ever heard one.

"Whataboutism" - so that's.. said to people who tiresomely derail discussion of seriously wrongdoing with their pat diagnosis and dismiss the original topic as naive. Unfortunately you have done that same thing by using the word.

I get why it's useful to have a name for the phenomenon, but there's nothing commendable about the way you used it, it came across sounding like a jerk who thinks they're superior. And made me wonder about what you "want to tell us".

edit: Could the downvoters explain why? Thanks. I tried to say something substantive, I thought successfully. (joosters, I totally agree)
I don't see the citation of malicious single line of code in the article. That's why I clicked it in the first place.
Scientist Worried That Brain Wasting “Zombie Deer” Disease Might Spread to Human
Just one tiny suggestion, let users create their display name. The hashed names make it a bit unreadable.
In the US at least, if an ingredient label says "sugar," it means sucrose. The sucrose molecule is broken up almost instantly in the digestive tract, and enters the bloodstream as a 50/50 mixture of glucose and fructose.
> They're...interested...in security, and... [c]rypto can provide them with precisely that.

20% of all bitcoins have been irretrievably lost [0] and 7% have been stolen [1]. If I was the global rich, I'd rather hide gold bars in my mattress rather than put it in Bitcoin if my goal was just security.

[0] http://fortune.com/2017/11/25/lost-bitcoins/
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-bitcoins-have-been-s...
Any working statistical method will lead to the same result? What do you mean by that?

I read articles in the New York Times, the Economist and also Breitbart (UK edition) fairly regularly. Whilst they cover very different stories as you'd expect given their political biases, I have not noticed any major difference in accuracy when dealing with objective facts. This is partly because "mainstream" media is quite unreliable, rather than any awesome quality of reliability inherent to Breitbart, but the idea that it's unreliable seems to be to be coming from people who simply dislike conservative worldviews ... and desperately want to stop people from reading them. Same reason they try and smear anyone who goes looking as nazis, bigots etc. They fear that if someone reads things from the "other side" they might find it's not so unreasonable after all ...
> which created a window "one pixel high, one pixel wide" to Bylock.net

WTF, that is like condemning everybody of murder who owns a knife.
Repository of crypto project whitepapers
This is perhaps similar to the nikoniko board, although the point of that is that it's public:

http://agiletrail.com/2011/09/12/how-to-track-the-teams-mood...
It is but so is believing in the government-backed securities IMO.
The global market place is an order of magnitude bigger than all the governments in the world. They maintain order through force, not through economic size.

If governments had to resort to using muscle to crush Bitcoin, the next cryptocurrency won't be so easy to target.
The static fire would have to go very wrong to encounter boats.
I am surprised there has not been an antitrust case against Google and Facebook. Google is definitely abusing the monopoly position it has in search. The claim that any user can switch to Bing by just typing in a different URL is ridiculous.

The remedy that the original article suggest is right on point. The way search systems work these days is by learning from how users interact with them. Google's market share ensures that it will always have access to more tail queries and user's intent while asking them. Building a better search engines than Google is no longer about hiring engineers or investing in data centers, it is about having access to the data that Google has on searches. Just like the DOJ forced Microsoft to document and provide API's that were being used by IE and Office to all software companies, a case today that forces Google to share all the data that it collects on searches would help break its monopoly.
Of course - just pop it in a script tag and use the React object functions to render your DOM (which is exactly what transpiled code does)
Explaining Directed Acylic Graph (DAG), the Real Blockchain 3.0
Depends by which metric you use to evaluate the hires. The University where the candidate graduated is certainly used as a metric for predicting competency.

Regardless whether this is the right thing to do companies fall back to this approach time and time again.
Are turning to biology (present tense)?

Evolutionary economics has been a thing since 1898
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_economics

And had a resurgance in the 1990s, see for example
R. H. Day & P. Chen, eds, ‘Nonlinear dynamics
and evolutionary economics’, Oxford University Press, USA
> it does take about 30 seconds

As long as there's nobody in the queue, and the "scannette" (yes, that's how they're called) still has enough battery, and you haven't tried to buy razor-blades which require a manual action from an attendant to remove the theft-protection device, and the granny in front of you isn't trying to pay with coins.
Sentence 1:

> None of that stuff is because of bias though.

Sentence 2:

> That is just the result of being in a field dominated by the other gender.
Just for the record, the annoying vocal promotion is not coming from the Rust team. The people who actually know the language know its limitations, and discourage overhyping it. Language flamewars are banned on all forums moderated by the core Rust community.
How Much Warmer Was Your City in 2017?
Will Swift ever be able to span all the way down to enable Rust-like performance in places where it’s necessary?

Or is it much more that it takes for a language to be a viable choice for starting new C++ type of projects with?
Also if there are huge changes at the top of the internal food chain a huge corp, which is already slow by definition, will react even slower. This problem set is likely to extend more before it gets better.
The Elixir performance penalty compared to Go isn’t as big as people think. It largely depends on what you are doing but the perk that your get is consistency of response time.

This is one of the better articles that shows both when comparing Python, Go and Elixir.

https://medium.com/unbabel-dev/a-tale-of-three-kings-e0be17a...
I'm skeptical about using the web, even with privacy tools. It's difficult to accurately find the source of many of the privacy tools...so they may be tracking you just as much as the sites they "protect" you from.
Due to haphazard security and sheer being unlucky (i lost 300bitcoin from very very early on because they were on an external hardisk that I threw out) I am not the only one.

Peoples money gets stolen all the time.
America has a high ratio.

To call it 'worst' is a value judgment and not an objective statement, any more than saying the abortion or divorce rate is better or worse.
Smart Speakers and Clocks
> With serverless I don't have to keep the os’s updated and hardened,

You can easily get this with CoreOS + docker images on GCE

> manage load balancing

Load balancers are one click since what, 2005?

> or scaling (yes I’m aware of the cold start latency cost).

Except you do. You run a 4 CPU database on the backend. How many lambdas can hit it at once before it dies? You need to manage this still.

Lambda is not the worst thing ever, but many many things using it would be far better off on something like kubernetes or a docker image behind a load balancer.
most people into cryptocoins don't know what they 're talking about
A man worries a woman won’t like him. A woman worries a man will kill her.
Meet the Finalists of the Google Play Indie Games Contest in Europe
A degree is not necessary for success. A degree is not sufficient for success.

However, a degree creates better access to certain opportunities that are more difficult to access without a degree. This is weighed against the opportunity cost of earning a degree. It is worth keeping in mind that opportunity costs are not unique to earning a degree and are part of every decision whereas the increase in opportunity access that comes with a degree is unique to earning a degree.

Credentials are not everything, but they are not nothing either.

Good luck.
This makes me think of an episode of the short lived Dilbert animated series, where Dilbert engineers the perfect piece of art (a Blue Duckie).

It becomes highly popular and the rulers of the underground art world (I think it included a still living Michelangelo or DiVinci) kidnap him and tell him to cut it out.
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Because they'd be giving up a big chunk of traffic and "engagement".

http://fortune.com/2017/09/08/facebook-twitter-snap-news/
> They legally, morally and ethically have the right to determine what content their users see.

Um, legally, sure. Morally and ethically is not up to them.
Yes, but your description suggests this isn't a thing but is many things interacting, and hence, there isn't necessarily a process to apply, but many different processes (that would also interact, likely with unexpected results).