skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only we would sour on the ongoing atrocities in Yemen...
If only video game creators did something like... while your noob character wears this free special hat, he gets +1 XP and your machine folds proteins in the background
Very fishy ...

From the article:

> Jan 18, 2018 in World.

> Reykjav - A new poll suggests that Iceland is becoming more secular. [...]

> The poll was taken by the Icelandic polling company Maskina for the Icelandic Ethical Humanist Associaton. No details are given about the methodology.

> Less than half of Icelanders polled claimed to be religious with more than 40 percent of those under 25 claiming they were atheist. 46.4 percent of Icelanders as a whole identified as religious the lowest percentage to date.

Let's compare it with http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/00-icelanders-25-years-or... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905652 (14 points, 739 days ago, 3 comments))

> Jan 14 2016

> Iceland seems to be on its way to becoming an even more secular nation, according to a new poll. [...]

> The poll, which was conducted by the polling firm Maskína on behalf of Siðmennt, The Icelandic Ethical Humanist Association, an association of Icelandic atheists, found that 46.4% of Icelanders identify as religious, which is the lowest figure to date. [...]

All the numbers are too similar, and the associated data is also too similar, but the other article is has already four years, so it's not a "new" pool.

Also, the data was not very reliable. I'll copy my old comment

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As other user said in another thread, polls are very sensitive to the exact redaction of the questions, so take this with a grain of salt.

The article has too few details: Was it an online poll, a telephone pool or a street poll?

The data are in http://sidmennt.is/wp-content/uploads/Lífsskoðanir-Íslending... (linked in the article). I don't read Icelandic, but with some help of Google translator I found that the numbers are in the page 16.

It says that of the persons with less than 25 years old:

Valid answers: 102

* world was created in the Big Bang (Big Bang): 93,9%

* God created the world: 0,0%

* do not know / I have no opinion: 3,0%

* other:3%

It means that 0 out of 102 persons answered that don't believe that God created the word. The title with "0.0%" is misleading because it looks like less than 1 in 1000. (My friends with more statistical background would ever ask for more samples to be happy to write a 0.0%.)
> There is already enough confusion if someone is in TAI,
> GPS, or UTC time

Don't forget BCT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric_Coordinate_Time
just for some comparison, here are some data for the US between 1958 and 2015,

http://www.people-press.org/2015/11/23/1-trust-in-government...
The average HN reader won't.. potentially needs the VC money. :) And less cynically, the surfrider foundation, the coastal commission and all of the environmental groups you can think of supported the lawsuits against him. So protesting off of Page Mill next to Stanford? Maybe worth it if the guy is there. It's not like there wasn't action nor visibility.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16176216
But that penalizes the single process systems, they exist. One already pays a cost of overhead for multiprocess/multiuser systems and this is part of it. Pay for what you use. But have sane defaults(protect the common case).

Then again, I cannot see this costing much in future chips.
"Murder in cold blood" is not "negligent homicide".

It's premeditated homicide, i.e. first degree murder.
Maybe. But the issue is growth percentages. Others point out that 3% is now high. The question is if the fractalization of the economy (that AI may allow) will increase the growth rate to 5% or something.
In one project at a previous job we were able to pinpoint the genre, mood, instrumentation, etc of any new song with (usually) better-than-human accuracy in milliseconds using deep neural networks. This is better in pretty much every way than the 1000s of music experts that are employed by competitors and vendors.

https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...

Not to mention personalized recommendations, which basically aren't possible at scale without some level of ML:

https://tech.iheart.com/mapping-the-world-of-music-using-mac...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12269568

The thing to keep in mind is every machine learning practitioner who is worth their salary is doing stuff like this. A lot of our every day work isn't as sexy as teaching a computer Go, but it's game-changing to most industries.
I agree that that's how it should work, but I wouldn't be surprised if Coinbase wasn't completely orthodox in their accounting. Replies below indicate that they may indeed be counting customer deposits as "revenue".
Parent said income, not profits.
Ask HN: What does the first 90 minutes of your day look like?
Insured by Daymond John’s ansewer on reddit, how does the first 90 minutes of your day look?

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/7s8wup/comment/dt2ygg2
A while ago I saw that Qatar was getting around some of the transport restrictions imposed in the Gulf by using ports in Oman.

Edit: Here's an article that tries to answer your question: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/oman-stance-qatar-gul...
Diminuitive of 'nope' :)
Aren’t their costs going up at least 25-30% because of Meltdown/Spectre mitigation performance penalties? Would they weather another 10-20% price hike on top of that?
A lapse of judgement is potentially going to cost lives in a plane too. You have an overly romanticised notion of air safety if you believe otherwise. Pilot Error is what they call it, including euphemisms such as “controlled flight into terrain” meaning the pilot was in control and doing everything wrong.

There are two people flying the plane, with rigorous training and controlled work hours. Air safety, as they say, is no accident.
Linus is not mincing his words on this issue:

"Patches slammed as 'complete and utter garbage' as Chipzilla U-turns on microcode"
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/22/intel_spectre_fix_l...
BitTorrent is not going away anytime soon. If anything, it's going to get stronger while every content creator and distributor has their own streaming service.

When streaming video started and became bigger, Netflix was seen as a single source for most content. Now, and in the future, this reality isn't going to hold good. It's already painful to figure out where one can watch a certain movie or show (apps like the TV app on Apple TV can help, but only if the streaming apps support it). Content keeps appearing and disappearing on different services and seems like a game of whack-a-mole!

BitTorrent's main draw is that it will always remain a single source (at least for relatively recent content) than any other streaming content provider can ever dream of! If at all torrent sites look like they're shutting down and don't have much activity, it's probably because all the activity with private trackers thriving is invisible. Yes, private trackers also get busted once in a while, but there are many that sprout up in the wake of one's demise. Whoever used the term "hydra" for this phenomenon was right.

Bottom line, as long as "big content" wants to haggle between themselves and focuses on making it inconvenient for customers to access content, BitTorrent will continue to thrive.
True, but the article is about the American West and public lands, Zinke is at the center of much of that debate.
Of all replies defending Linus I've read, this one hits home run.

Linus himself admits[1] that his outrageous insults are sort of "jokey" and a hyperbole. That's the surface. The underlying tone is to get attention without getting drowned by political correctness.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ017D_JOPY
It's closer to MobX
you could just break out a calculator

Hold on while I break out a calculator to operate my computer. As a former sound engineer I have to tell you nobody liked Logic, they tolerated it as the affordable alternative to Pro Tools until other tools came along. People appreciated its reliability and depth but not the UX.
Machine Learning is about the math but is also about the code (including frameworks), and most of the time also about the domain specific contours of the problem. (ime)
They exist. But collision avoidance is far from a necessary retirement. E.g. my father in law's private single engine. Autopilot is basically cruise control, but you know...for a pilot
Transaction malleability has nothing to do with the security properties of zero conf, it only allows you to change the signature of a transaction, not the contents. So if you malleated a transaction, you would still end up with a transaction paying the merchant, in no way vanishing like you describe. What does affect the security is if miners violate the first seen rule, which is not a consensus rule, to include transactions that were seen later but have higher fees into their blocks. This allows you to essentially replace a transaction by bribing a miner with a higher fee. Generally the risk of this is seen as low, generally lower than the risk of credit card fraud, so for low value transactions it is generally fine. Malleability breaking the withdrawals of an exchange is a problem with that exchange, not with Bitcoin Cash.

As for developers removing the malleability fix (SegWit) to break the LN, that is just a plain lie. First, SegWit was removed because it is just an hack that can be achieved in much better ways. SegWit is such technical debt because it did in a soft fork what should have been done in a hard fork. Second, you can see on the development mailing list that fixing it has been discussed well, and a fix for third party malleability is actually already active. You can also see that nobody is against 2nd layer systems like Lightning Network, and it will be supported if and when it is actually useful.

The EDA that was in place in the first 3 months was indeed a big mistake and has since been replaced with a well performing fast acting DAA, but it is not the reason people push for 0-conf. 0-conf was a pretty well used and working feature of BTC before the blocks first became full. It is only logical to use it again on a chain that does not intend to let its blocks become full.
My experience in attempting to build a monolith—and, oh I tried—was that it's basically impossible.

Forget embedding Elasticsearch for the purpose of running it inside your monlith; just the transport layer drivers (supposing you're not using drivers that work over HTTP) basically add all of Elasticsearch onto your classpath. Good luck building your monolith after that. And that's true for so many things you'd want to use. If you want to build a monolith you basically can't have any dependencies. Or be very experienced in dependency management.

This is why I have a microservice that fronts all my Elasticsearch queries. Its artifact has the Elasticsearch drivers, all other microservices that need access data from Elasticsearch talk to this service over gRPC. Any time I want to upgrade Elasticsearch or change something about a query, I only need to do it in one spot. It's great.
Paywalled articles are bullshit. If you post them you legitimize the process. You are building the wrong world when you do that.
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It's called the drive thru is always stacked with cars.
Have a look at my reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210897
Not only that, you can apparently add a code of conduct to it :-)
You can't get kicked out or fined if you didn't lie. This would be no different than paying police to fine those who park in handicap spots illegally.
>Ever consider that the reason Japan is defensive is because their opponents spread outright lies like this?

Okay, are comfort women acts and massive raping committed by Japanese soldiers real?

then why
"Osaka’s mayor says the city will sever ties with its sister city over the monument, which pays tribute to women who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers during the Second World War." [0]

And why are there still quite a few politicians denied Nanking massacre?

Germany really turned around, they even catch tourists who do Hitlergruß. I wonder will Japan do that. And Japan has reasons not to do that, because not like Germany, Japan's gov't still has quite a few war-prisoner-related families in charge, how can they stand out and deny themselves?

I know most Japanese people are anti-war, and I guess most sane Chinese/Korean people won't turn against those people. Those sentiments were ignited only targeted to their right-wing gov't's actions.

[0]https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/11/25/japanese-city-...
Parking fines:

http://time.com/3421587/diplomats-parking-tickets-new-york/
> That is untrue, President Obama hated fracking and did much to discourage it.

Maybe he said he hated it. I am not sure about the "did much to discourage" part.

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2016/...

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The fracks occurred in at least 630 different wells off the coasts of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama (see interactive map), and many took place in critical habitat for imperiled loggerhead sea turtles. Oil companies were also allowed to dump about 76 billion gallons of waste fluid into Gulf waters in 2014.

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Not only that, his administration approve fracking with no site-specific analysis of the threats to the environment and also without public involvement.
Or filing of civil/criminal charges if they've been warned before. If a private entity uses public space as a private space and prevents people from using it, that's illegal. You can do a lot more than name and shame.
I can't imagine a "very sympathetic" article accusing a country for hosting "terrorists". Did we read the same article ?
I don't know what else you'd want to call it. It does use surveillance technology and does invade privacy a lot more than normal convenience stores. Not using the word "surveillance" here would in my opinion be more biased than using it. The store just is what it is, whether you want to be excited about this new technology or not.
Wouldn't it be more accurate to call this an acoustic suspension beam? Calling it a tractor beam implies that it can be mounted on the ceiling and pull an object off the floor. Hence the name (at)tractor beam.
Where does Tesla's data show TACC + Autosteer to be 50% safer than human driver control?
Not really. Uber has its own stake in self-driving so it wouldn't make sense for them to help competition with data collection for short term gains.
There’s Autothrottle, which is more like cruise control. Autopilot controls attitude aka steering.

Tesla Autopilot is a combination of both steering and throttle control.
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Sure, but that's the basic deal for any situation involving self-control and moral freedom.

There's an act you would like to perform, but it's unwise/moral/sinful/suboptimal. Do you do it or not?
Shift work, at least, gives you heart disease.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3971766/#s3atit...
Probably has something to do with endogenous morphine.
Spelling was never my strong suite ;) Nor was avoiding picking up slang in NZ that was later pointed out to me to be racial slurs :| Nobody ever told me about ol' uncle Rangi!
I love discrete math, it seems so much cleaner in general. I wish there were more reformulations of calculus, other numerical methods into discrete maths.

I think Knuth’s concrete mathematics might have been an attempt at this, but I’ve never found time to dig into it in depth. Perhaps I should try again...
So i tested the form. OnClick attach a pic / or take a pic in iOS i took a pic and attached and on submit it sent the form with image to the email the form was going too. Is that not it?
On public transit, wouldn't you be unusually vulnerable to crime? Why would you want a service that isn't safe for you?
True. The point remains though...collision avoidance is not a requirement for autopilot in the context of planes (or boats)
By what measure has the dollar lost half it's value?
I literally just stopped working on my discreet math homework tonight before loading HN and seeing this article.
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I read it as going both ways. Accuses the Qataris of, at the very least, turning a blind eye towards terrorism while also depicting their sympathetic plight. It isn't black and white. If anything, it's too sympathetic and glamourizing.
Hmm I'm not quite sure I follow the process examine. If your started process crashes (let's say supervisor fails to start due to too many failures), k8s would restart the process (your app) to try again. If a managed process in elixir dies, you could make that bring down your whole app, but generally you would want to handle it yourself.

This is similar to an app server in Ruby. A single worker might die, but it's still being managed by a central coordinator. If the coordinator dies, everything is down and the app restarts
ClojureScript is good for the front-end language. Though don't dismiss Elm easily either, it's so cool.
I personally don’t agree, people know the pilots have a real role in the plane among even my non-tech friends, but it’s just anecdotal vs your anecdotal so it doesn’t make either of us right or wrong.
I'd say your probability of success is going to be low. Success is not solely defined by PnL. If you're making money then you will certainly have to deal with increased compliance and oversight from whoever is sponsoring your access to the markets - this comes with a cost.

Furthermore you can never just "sit" on a strategy. Eventually your edge gets arbed out and you need to be creative enough to data-mine the heck out of the market to find some new edge.

Some thoughts on figuring out your edge:
1. You're not the only smart person looking at something. There are armies of PhDs who have been there and done that.
2. Study regulation and regulatory changes. Keep abreast of new & upcoming changes.
3. Look for markets where barrier to entry is higher or not as studied. eg: Electricity markets are a _bit_ less understood or traded.
4. Always think in pairs or more... Longing or shorting something outright is almost never the answer. But trading the spread between two (3,4,many) related products is more difficult to calculate and backtest.
5. Always do the more difficult thing - but don't make it complicated. Simple math is usually what works.
Yeah, yeah, god it really sucks here, nobody should move to California. Thanks for helping to get the word out!
Your information has depth. What articles have you been reading? I want to learn more.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/25/elon-musk-t...

> "The probability of having an accident is 50 per cent lower if you have Autopilot on," said Musk, speaking at an energy conference in Oslo, Norway. "Even with our first version, it's almost twice as good as a person."

> The results are from Tesla's first generation of Autopilot, which owners have already used to drive over 47 million miles since it launched in October 2015.
I am astonished by how many people here are complaining Linus being impolite while all what he is doing is to ensure we get a proper fix, not some garbage pushed by some large corporations.

Garbage sometimes comes with a nice package, and mostly so nowadays.
At elixir ATL meetup we setup an elixir app on GKE and connected the nodes via peerage in under 2 hours. Definitely possible!
Yeah but with the accent it's probably spelt Mackers.
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> Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Europe, US and Turkey was the big alliance which tried to take down Syria.

This isn't true - they have all backed different factions in the conflict against the Syrian government, against ISIS and today against one another in Idlib.

Assuming they defeated the Syria government this conflict was always going to split down the differing interests between the Saudis and Qataris

The succinct way (as always, this stuff is a lot more complicated than surface reporting) Qatar are the largest foreign opposition backers in Syria and supported in order the Army of Conquest and today Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)

The Saudi's are likely the second largest foreign backers in Syria and started out supporting FSA and other groups but today have their own umbrella group called Ahrar al-Sham.

HTS and Ahrar al-Sham have been in conflict for some time now and in all out war for some months now in Idlib (would always eventually happen - they're just squabbling over a lot less today)

The USA, Russia and Turkey all have their own groups that they support but the alliances have almost always fallen along axis of Turkey-Qatar on one side and Saudi-Jordan-UAE-USA on the other

What the OP article has left out is the conflict in Libya which makes this split a lot clearer. Qatar backed the Islamist group that took over a lot of Libya. In the new civil war (the one that no one cares about) the Saudi's and former Gadaffi loyalists have formed an anti-Islamist alternate government.

The UAE and Egypt have sent fighter jets to bomb the Qatari-backed side in this conflict[0][1]

It was a big deal in the Arab world (and I can't believe it isn't mentioned in the NYTimes piece) when militants raised a Qatari flag over Ghadaffi's palace - that was a "holy shit that could be us next" moment for many of these Arab nations and hardened their opposition to Qatar[2]

Also only vaguely mentioned in the article is that Qatar and Kuwait are a huge source of the financing for ISIS. The governments there may not have an official position of supporting ISIS - but they sure as hell aren't doing much to stop the flow of money from Kuwaiti and Qatari citizens to ISIS[3]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/26/united-arab-em...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/26/qatar-troops-l...

[2] http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/qatar/raising-of-qatar-s-flag-...

[3] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/kuwait/...
How is it a scam to keep it working like it was intended to work? I did not buy into Bitcoin to hold it forever, I bought it to use it as cash. Therefore I do feel defrauded by the current developers, until just yesterday they advertised one thing on their website but delivered something different.

I have kind of mixed feelings about removing ASIC boost. I do feel it is everyones right to innovate and get an advantage, then patent that advantage. It takes money to do that R&D, so it should be protected. Others can do so as well, or operate from countries where these patents are not respected. On the other hand, others have so far been unable to get their own advantages, so maybe it is time to hardfork (yes, hardfork, SegWit does not fix it, not until > 90% of transactions are using SegWit) to prevent getting this advantage.
GP didn’t say “not a requirement”, the poster said “will not avoid”, which is factually incorrect.
Can you show me an example where a leader of an OSS project had reasonable discussions with other developers (read: n steps below calling them morons who write garbage code), and as a result their project was "stolen" by a powerful tech company?
If $y is the useful PoW, would that not make $y the scientific reward while $z is the (monetary) token reward by way of mining?

Edit: silly question on my part. y and z should be trivially interchangeable. Your argument appears to rest on the idea that the monetizeable scientific worth of the work would dominate the worth of the crypto token itself, since there would be limited value in an already-mined result beyond standard blockchain speculation - is that the case?
They've previously said they detect stationary objects and purposefully ignore them. I think with the intention of not stopping for foliage or something.
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