skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd argue that it could be done, but no longer can. In the past, all of the failings of corporate structures were more than made up for by the value they brought. They solved the problem of distribution, both distributing work to workers and end product to consumers. This was outrageously valuable for a century.

Now, however, it's nearly worthless. Anyone can do distribution, both of work and of end products, with very little effort thanks to computers and the Internet. Now, the limitations of those corporate structures are starting to cut deeper and not be compensated for. Their assumption of all of the tremendous failings of in-person human communication (that 'broken telephone' you mention is only part of it, there's also the inherent prejudices and irrational means of influence at play which are inescapable) in combination with both voluntarily abandoning essentially every single benefit they ever offered to employees and the inherent limitations in such a centralized structure will result in them falling apart. I mean, if the market has anything to say about it. Back when factories got big people accepted things like limitations in variety of goods, limited to nil personalization, etc because supporting those things was difficult for factories. Such is still difficult for large companies. They have executives who want to impress 'grand visions' upon the company so that they have some excuse (both personal and professional) to collect such absurdly overlarge compensation.

The human brain, by the way, is limited to keeping around 150 people in mind and maintaining stable relationships with them. It's called 'Dunbar's Number' and while there's certainly variation amongst different people with regard to it, I think we can safely presume there is no one with the ability to maintain and consider 1000+ stable relationships. That this is not reflected in our social structures is probably an error.
The forgotten factory girls killed by radioactive poisoning (2016)
YC has accepted and will continue to fund great blockchain startups.

Here are some of the companies we funded:

Dharma.io, Quantstamp, Moneytis (now Request Network), Coinbase
> On the other hand, no. I'm not comfortable with a social media network that determine your news feed "appropriateness", via an opaque Brazil-esque (the movie, not the country) bureaucratic process that says "yay" or "nay"

Completely agree. But I'm actually less comfortable with the status quo of state controlled botnets spreading a goo of fake news, and people living in those fake media bubbles it creates. Wikipedia is definitely a role model here. Unsure if twitter and facebook could achieve the same level of control, if they could it would be great.
Bitcoin (which as far as I know is the largest blockchain project) has been de-anonymized.

You have to trust the other peers aren’t secretly working together to use a 51% attack.
Royalty free isn't good enough, it needs to be a FOSS compatible license or too many free (as in libre) OS's and applications won't be able to support it. Further to that point, the code itself needs to be free in order for users to have guarantees they own the ability, for all time, to decode files. If they don't have decode guarantees, then images can in effect become locked; either legally or practically. And that's not something the world should tolerate.
Nothing more useful for humanity, I think. It is literally mining electronic gold which facilitates transactions removing need for trusted third party. You may not ever pay for something "useful" in your life in bitcoin, like you've probably never paid with gold, which is still useful for governments and big investors as store of value.
Moneytis(Request Network) and Quantstamp have both done a token sale
You can try more things and thus fail more often and thus become succesfull sooner.
Just did a quick google https://www.news-medical.net/news/20110614/Universal-influen...
So it seems like their TL:DR is:
1) Either go with a prebuilt solution like Citus, or be prepared to build an external service locator that allows a human to define the leader so that a human admin can manually trigger the failover;
2) Don't forget that it's a DB and it needs fast storage;
3) Nothing is new under the sun and you need to beware leaky abstractions.

This doesn't seem to me like a reason not to run PG on K8s?
Under threat: Cyber security startups fall on harder times
> The situation might be the reverse in a few years.

Which is the problem with all-powerful unions. Works great when you have a booming industrial city like Detroit. But accelerates a downturn in bad times or decelerates potential boom times, negatively affecting the wider economy outside of the union.

In downturns those lucky enough to have a union job cling on to them and continue to push for more power, creating a secondary class system within the working class benefiting a portion of the populace while simultaneously making their company far less competitive (far more relevant today in our global economy), makes industry far less flexible to change, significantly disincentivizes hiring new workers, etc.

It's like Keynesian policy but with QE on all the time regardless of cyclical changes. Or how price controls on food markets have caused food shortages in almost every country in history who has attempted it (including notably in Venezuela repeatedly in the past decade). It's always done with good intentions and typically works well initially but it's rarely designed to be dynamic and flexible enough to reflect changing realities or appreciate the changes the union itself is having on the company/industry which far too often ultimately harm the union workers themselves rather than helps.
I don't think it's possible to be energy efficient in a proof-of-work blockchain? Whatever energy saving you come up with will be negated by having to match competing miners' increasing throughput. If you are not running on 100% you are losing out?
Maybe I should say (and maybe I mean): 5 focused working days.
I like how Coinbase, trading a largely unregulated 'security', has the moral indignity of telling its own investors that they better not be trading the assets they purchased.

The fact that people cant buy or sell shares of private companies is ridiculous in general, but particularly in this case.
I wish they would spend more money on finding old films and digitizing them. There have to be vaults of old Italian films that don't have significant licensing costs. Sure, I may represent a small segment of their paying customers, but I find myself using Amazon's video service more and more because of this. To me, a newly released old movie has similar value to a newly released new movie, and I bet the former can come cheaper and faster (I personally am mostly done w/ TV shows and often consider the format a protracted way to consume my time over a standalone movie).
The Future of B2B Software Is B2U
"Not as bad as WWII" isn't much of a standard for world peace.

If you total up casualties from the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia then you might be surprised at just how many violent deaths have transpired in the past decade. What's more, many of these conflicts have significantly outlived WWII in duration. Will the humpty dumpty of Syria ever be put together again? Probably not as long as it's the proxy battleground for regional powers.

What we might be seeing, rather than real peace, is a disparity of safety from violence. Some countries will be bomb-wrecked hellscapes for decades, while others fund those conflicts but don't think about them too much (except for when terrorists show up to burst our bubbles).
Necessary but not sufficient....

I can't quite tell whether you're trying to underscore a point about cryptocoins' benefits or if you're misunderstanding the conversation.

Just in case it's the latter -- I was probably a bit too fast n loose with the quotes around "fraudulent" so I will explain in more detail.

From the article:

> Phishing was the most widely used hacking technique for ICOs, with hackers stealing up to $1.5 million in ICO proceeds per month, according to the report.

This is a kind of "fraud" which cryptocoins are not designed to thwart. If you steal someone's keys and take their money, it can't be returned to them unless the thief decides to return it. This is very much like cash.

The problem comes from decentralization. In the Real World, we usually defer to authorities when it comes to crime and restitution. The authorities come to a determination and publish their decree. This is very much centralized. Cryptocoins are decentralized and are simple automata. There's no authority that we can appeal to in order to reverse a transaction that was executed in bad faith. Part of the problem is that there's no way for the automaton to trust this authority without destabilizing the entire system.
Is it likely that the whole NN issue will end up decided by SCOTUS?
All the libertarians are now learning the downside to a fully unregulated market.

On the flip side, basically this means that if you're willing to accept a 10% risk of total loss, ICOs are not a bad investment -- knowing that going in.
I disagree and haven't been subscribed to netflix for a year and a half. I've switched over to hulu which has a lot of the content that netflix has lost.
Has it ever happened before that a consumer of chips is among the largest customers of what appears to be the biggest foundry in the world?
(defining "consumer" as "we actually use & run that chip, we don't embed it or sell it"?)
The other 90% apparently will be stolen at some point in the future.
You're still making the mistake of extrapolating the entire community's nature from a small sample of comments and votes. It's a common reaction when we feel like our own opinions are being attacked or undervalued but it means we fail to appreciate and value the side that is worthy of our support and appreciation, and we fail to take responsibility for the role we all have in making the site better.

Comments lamenting how much better HN "used to" be have been a constant from not long after it began:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hn%20used%20to%22&sort=byPo...

Please, if you want HN to be good, be the change you wish to see!
That's great news! But what about internet privacy?
> network storage like EBS volumes where AWS guarantees me that I won't have data corruption issues in exchange for money.

Source? I've never heard that claim, and in fact we've lost data on EBS (though it has been a couple years)
"That sounds like a shitty excuse to just dismiss the whole thing as too hard"

Disclosure: I work at the company that published this post.

I read it differently (albeit, I have much more context). I read it as a cautionary tail that Kubernetes makes it easier to get in trouble if you don't know what you are doing - so you better have a deep knowledge of you stateful workloads and technology. Perhaps obvious to some, but still a good reminder when dealing with a well-hyped technology like Kubernetes.
it is written in pascal ... interesting
I'm designing an introduction to programming class right now and I plan to just teach basic ECMAScript5 in a Node library, while keeping all the webdev stuff like HTTP, HTML, CSS, etc. hidden totally from the student. If things were different, I would love to incorporate pragmatic UI development in a beginner-friendly way, to expose people to the positive feedback loop that comes with iterating on highly visual code, but there just doesn't seem to be a way to do that in 2018.
One thing that I've found with my kids is that TV (yes, the dreaded TV) is the best way for kids to pickup a language.

Mom/Dad speaking French? Boooring. PJ Masks or Paw Patrol en français? Oui c'est super!

Netflix recently made available lots of voice-over / subtitle options for most of their original content, and even some non-original stuff. It's super exciting time to be a multi-lingual parent.

This was a supplement to their French-langauge preschool (2d/wk,immersion) and the corresponding playdates and such with their French-speaking friends.
> "But I don't see how porting Powershell to _nix solves that issue."

I'd say the main reason to install PowerShell on Linux is if you want to use the tools for managing Azure. Aside from that, there are other scripting languages that are have a more mature library ecosystems on Linux.
Two tabs at the same time.
When playing games, my children somehow never cared when they lost (we never made a big deal of it). They were enjoying the game itself (and sometimes ended up upset one on the other, but not because they lost but because the other one laughed, cheated, breathed the wrong way or whatever). Two boys, 2 years apart, from 5,7 to now (11,13).

They were astonished when they played with their cousins (whom they like a lot) and the cousins started to cry when they lost. Mine told them that they (the cousins) can "take the victory" if they want cause this is just a game.
I noticed almost all of my recommendations were originals, so I started using a third party recommender [0], which has put me back to watching more old/well-regarded films. Haven’t found a source as good for old series, though.

[0] https://www.cinesift.com
Last week when I used BCH, it was slow as hell.

3rd gen tech is here, with instant transactions and 0 fees. Look at RaiBlocks and IOTA, these things make microtransactions a reality.

I passed funds with RaiBlocks the other day, fast as hell, 0 fees. Try to beat that.
Indeed. “Defeating States Rights to Allow an Open Internet” has a very different ring to it.
The claim that vertical and horizontal lines in the transform's output are caused by natural tendency to have vertical and horizontal edges seems doubtful. I suspect they are caused by discontinuities between the left and right image borders. DFT is nearly unchanged (only phases change) under cyclic shifts of the input. Thus a discontinuity inside the image is "just as bad" as a discontinuity between the left and right border of the image.

If you want to DFT an image for analysis purposes (ie. if you don't need the transform to be invertible), you can use the trick from the "Periodic plus Smooth Image Decomposition"[1] paper that extracts a "periodic approximation" of the image. It's used e.g. for DFT-based texture enlargement/periodization.

[1] https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00388020v1/document
Or, conversely imagine Chinese saying "The United States of America" rather than "mei guo" (美国 - mĕiguó), or Mexicans saying "The United States of America" instead of "Los rstados unidos", etc., etc.

It's ridiculous to think you should pronounce the name of any geographic entity by the way the people native to the area do.
Even if the patient themselves agrees to the experimental treatment, but then dies, maybe even in a gruesome manner, is it still possible for the patient's family to sue the biotech startup for large sums of money?
I think it depends mostly on the context. If you only want to allow a known subset of items, prefer a whitelist. If you want to avoid a subset of items, prefer a blacklist.
https://www.gridcoin.us/
Will Intel release it as a patch/firmware for those of us who have hardware by OEMs that aren't likely to offer anything?
Yes

But as the saying goes "The Market Can Remain Insane Longer Than Investors Can Remain Solvent"
One strange thing about this thread is all the people equating the net cost to the insurance company with the cost to themselves. I don't normally come across that attitude, usually the insurance company is perceived as an adversary you need to fight to get the deserved coverage.
There are projects like gridcoin, uscore dot net, that use mining to compute scientific research. It is considering using a Proof Of Research approach.
> Let's say your kid has 1 hour of productive attention span per week, time of focused learning.

That's not the way kids learn at all. They are learning everything all the time, in small amounts. That's why immersion is so important.
I've heard that Google has a decent amount of custom silicon too.
The latest versions of PyTorch (compiled from repo) already do this:

> x = torch.rand(4, 3)
> x.size()

torch.Size([4, 3])

> x.shape

torch.Size([4, 3])

Their explicitly stated goal is to match numpy semantics as much as possible :-)
>asafoetida

Asafoetida (called hing in Hindi) is an interesting spice. I think it is a resin of some kind. It is used a fair amount in Indian cuisine.
No, closing either eye clears it up thankfully.
Developer 102 (or perhaps entrance exam): Never return authorization credentials on an unauthenticated HTTP endpoint.
Can't begin to tell you how many people I've met that think they're longer contagious because they have symptoms now.
Right. I should really shut up and work hard to fulfil my dream of being born in the Walton family.
And the point of blockchain is to set a minimum difficulty level of work, which translates to a minimum energy use.
I mean, yes 20k is a big order, but to put that in perspective, it's at most the output of one small production line for one month, and more likely they're balancing it with other orders (and doing a ramp to verify the process before going full bore). It's still a tiny fraction of the foundry industry overall.
Java, R, Python, C and C++ are massive in machine learning and Data Science. The reason Python is at the top is because it has the largest set of machine learning and data analysis tools, tutorials, easy setup and easiest use-ability and extremely minimal to no boiler plate needed to get results.
The key is to figure out WHY you don't do well in technical interviews, and then fix the root cause.

Do you known/guess whether the problem is the actual technical part, or everything surrounding it, which makes you appear as "sub-optimal cultural fit", e.g. person that is so nervous that they make everybody else feel uncomfortable too.
I really enjoy a lot of Netflix originals, but I wish they would direct more energy into improving their streaming library's 3rd party content. There are so many films only available via their DVD service, which I (and many others) no longer use.
The article is pretty light, are these whole wafers? What size?
Yes.

They can't send arbitrary traffic, though; they can only send valid HTTP requests, and they don't get access to your cookies (because the hostname doesn't match), so the "only" thing they can do is get access to things that an unauthenticated HTTP client running as you could get access to.

This has been true since almost the first web browsers - XHR wasn't a thing, but you could send GET requests with <img src="http://192.168.0.1/reboot-everything"> or even POST requests with forms (a little easier once JS let you create and submit forms from JS, but certainly doable in pure HTML).

And the problem is there's no way to tell what IP addresses to block. Special-casing 127.0.0.1 is at least a clear enough solution to articulate (though it breaks all sorts of use cases where HTTP to localhost on a custom domain name is intended), but should you also block all the RFC 1918 space? Doesn't that break the vast majorities of companies that have internal websites named wiki.example.com or wiki.corp.example.com? And some companies don't even use RFC 1918 space, they use public IPv4 ranges they own for internal routing.

It gets worse - the other problem here is that IP-based access to resources on the public internet is also vulnerable. If you're at, say, a university which has IP-based access to some journals, any website can send HTTP requests to those journals from the university.

The real right solution here is to avoid IP-based access controls, either on the public internet or on your private network - preferably by not having a private network or at least not trusting it, BeyondCorp style. Every HTTP request that does stuff on your behalf needs to be explicitly authenticated, even if it comes from the private network.
There would definitely be a first mover advantage. On the other hand, for most other VLSI applications, improved energy usage is a PERMANENT advantage: If e.g. Apple improves energy efficiency of Annn chips, it enables them to build better devices, even if the rest of the industry catches up.

For Bitcoin, my understanding is that this is not the case, because any cost improvement in the industry will attract more miners until difficulty adjusts to the previous equilibrium where (cost of mining a bitcoin) = (value of a bitcoin)-(some risk premium)
First of all I appreciate what you've written in this thread. It sounds like we've had similar experiences.

> To repeat: the reason you don't hear more of this is people don't like to announce they're a failing at "getting a job".

This is reassuring to hear. It's really easy for me to feel crazy and depressed with the constant rejections. Crazy because I'm constantly being told that I'm not able to do the exact things I've been praised for doing again and again in the past.

> I think your issue is you're playing by their rules

I think you're right. I need to try something else.

> What do you fill your time with, while you're job searching? I don't think you said.

I've kept to my workday routine every day since becoming unemployed. Interviewing takes up a lot of the time. Aside from that I have some side projects that I work on occasionally. However my computer was stolen during the move, and I lost a lot of early prototypes that hadn't yet made it to Github. Sometimes when I try to work on one of those projects I just get caught in depression feedback loop. I released (and sold out!) a record last week, so I'll spend some time this week making a small app to help me fulfill those orders.
One of my only favorite movie lines is from Cape Fear, where a redneck says that if someone mispronounces a fancy word it just means they've not been able to discuss what they've learned yet. My Vice Principal in HS told me to flip him a good burger someday, if it weren't for reading and being shameless I'd be doing just that with much of my class. The Guntenberg press was revolutionary for reasons.
I get why they feel they need to do this, but I hate the trend of everyone taking their ball and going home. I loved how with Netflix, I had most of the content I would want right there on a single service.

Note to content providers: I'm not going to have Disney, Netflix, HBO, CBS, Hulu, etc subscriptions. It's just not going to happen. I'll do without first.
Apple did it since approximately forever for kernel crashes as well. Anything to avoid any agency and shift the blame onto the user.
https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare...
Large majority of that are games. I wonder what % is that. 80? Or 90?
> The catch to this is there is substantial reason to believe that non-exposure can actually make you more subsceptible later on

Don't flu shots work by giving you a mini-flu?
How do you copyright game ideas? Say one has a game idea, pretty worked out. What would be next best steps to take, without being copied/stolen in the process?

Unlike startups, with boardgames ideas matter much more than execution. Copyright is the only protection for successful games from being duplicated, since materials are so cheap.
I don’t think Skype for Business and Wunderlist have been discontinued. But my comment was more about things like ‘PlaysForSure,’ Silverlight and Windows Phone. It’s not really that big a problem they discontinued Space Cadet.
AWS DeepLens and the Future of AI Cameras and Vision
I think "emptying the place out" is probably unlikely. They still have people that work there. But I think it's probable that there will be times when someone finds a clever new way to lift items without paying. I can't imagine things like that will be difficult to quickly stop.