skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I enjoy seeing FB sabotage thier brand into the ground, not because of it's service, but rather because of it's sess pool leadership.

My feed is basically a bullshit mill of news instead of actual "freinds" experiences. Even given the bullshit, a good % of the experience stuff is basically just selfie show-offs. It's almost become a mirror of the self, with very little socially valuable interaction.

oh you're on a beach ...like

oh you want to signal your virtue ..share

Facebook is starting to become the anti-social platform in the sense that it has an overall negative social effect.
it's a very dangerous pattern. Use mktemp(1) instead!
Out of curiosity: Did you try to validate your hypothesis that people will find this useful?

No need to share juicy detials, I'm genuinely wondering. I'm very much thinking about "on top feature" small SaaS projects and Stripe is a prime candidate, but I wonder if I would use this.

General Stripe reporting solutions are there. I'm having a hard time seeing how nominal revenue predictions are actionable. In case things go up I should be able to gauge by actionable metrics (churn, sign up rate, conversion rates), and wouldn't care to end up with $ estimates (will be slightly off either way).

Would love to chat about the idea/ topic in general in case you're interested.
Additional observation: it's also interesting to me that the term seems to be having a resurgence of late?

It started out largely being an accusatory term used by the American political left to disparage biased and/or incorrect information spread by Trump supporters (mostly, anyway). But then Trump and his supporters decided two could play at that game, and it became almost exclusively a term used by the Trump/Fox News crowd to bash the left.

As a result, the left stopped using it as quickly as they had started, and the term all but disappeared from respectable news sources.

Now, a year and change later, it seems to be coming back.

No point here other than it's fascinating how trends in culture stop, start, and change with time.
>Your argument seems to be that girls are so suggestible that any discouragement easily bounces them back in line.

They're _children_. Girls or boys, having an authority figure saying "you don't want to do this" will mean most won't do it. It isn't about that girls are any more suggestible than boys, it's that in this area girls get more discouragement than boys do.
Introduction to the Amber Web Framework and Its Out-Of-the-Box Features
Speaking of sisters, I'm a triplet with two sisters and I spent a lot of time on the computer as a teen mostly out of social destitution. But that's what got me into tech and programming.

My sisters never had time to play video games with me, although they periodically enjoyed them and even bought a couple games, because they were always meeting up with friends. People were always inviting them out.

I look at my tech-minded friends as a kid and there's a similar pattern of social deprivation. I wonder how much that plays a role in general.
Are you joking?

It has thousands of years of historical backing as a value store and has many extremely important uses in society, SOME OF WHICH are social (and that's not changing anytime soon).

This is cryptocurrency:
http://bitcoinist.com/ripple-co-founder-worlds-richest-perso...

Cool, I have Ripple coins now...let's just go ahead and say these are more valuable than the US dollar, because...err...someone told me it's the future! It does all these things all the currencies can't! And my neighbor just remortgaged his home to invest a few months ago and now he's got a yacht! I better do it too. I think this bubble should be called collective insanity. At least with the housing market bubble, people were investing in actual, physical assets. That was, at the very least, intellectually justifiable.

Can Neopet dollars become a global currency as well, please? I think I have an account on there from way back

Edit: I scrolled to the bottom of the article I've just linked...stumbled onto this guy: https://kwhcoin.com/the-kwh-team/

This is literally like Ocean's 11. Again, at least casino chips are physical objects
Adebug for Amiga Now Free Software (GNU GPL v2)
How many doctors are still practicing after one malpractice lawsuit? 2? 5?

You have to be insured to practice. There's a professional organization that licenses you to practice. These are the social structures we put in place to limit the damage done by the various forces of the world that would tempt a doctor to be anything but faithful to the practice including profit.

A hospital may ask a doctor it hired to "cut corners," but the doctor should refuse and if the hospital tries to fire them and get away with it anyway... the hospital should pay for that.

What I meant by the last line of my comment is that we have a vested interest in producing more software, not less, and I don't think cost is the problem. Although there are people with a vested interest in the status quo who would see the expense of insured, professional software engineers as being unbearable to their interests... not necessarily because such practices would harm the public good and their reliance on technology.
energy spent is proportional to the amount of security people need in their transaction platform.
Yes most people die of natural causes.
Again a banana attached to a gorilla and a whole jungle. Why can't we have
a dashboard that just displays whatever is in its configured data store, and
a data store filled with whatever is collected about the environment? It's
always another dashboard-with-datastore-and-monitoring-agent in one complete,
impossible to separate package, which is effectively a crippled attempt at
building a monitoring system? (I wrote all three separate things, dashboard,
data store, and monitoring agent, and I am using them in production, so I know
it's a doable plan.)
>best numbers show about 15% of prisoners are in with drug charges.

That's incorrect. The source says ~16% had, as their most serious offence, a drug charge.

So in reality more than 16% are serving time for drug crimes. It seems a bit disingenuous that the statistic is posed like that, especially when considering the cyclical nature of incarceration,"3 strikes" laws, and the cascading violence caused by drug laws.
libFLAME has already done this for over a decade. [0]

[0] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~flame/web/libFLAME.html
If you want random numbers in bash then use dd if=/dev/urandom ...

$RANDOM is not cryptographically secure.
It's kind of funny, considering that their target demographic probably makes an average of 100k per year after graduating :)
I can't speak for anyone else but I would recognize that as software-generated instantaneously. It's unmistakable imo, and actually sounds significantly worse than, for example, these samples from Google's Tactotron 2 system: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/12/28/googles-new-text-spe...
The executive branch has chosen to exercise its anti-trust powers against monopoly (which is often reduced to consumer harm) a bit over the last few decades. They’ve applied their powers barely at all to monopsony during the same time period, but I don’t think there’s nearly as broad agreement as you imply that those powers shouldn’t be applied to monopsony.
Being better at Machine Learning than Google – is it possible?
So we're just to take his word for it? Other than profanity what I read had no specifics, just jerky complaining. By a guy who is arguably not an expert at the issue (of Intel Processor microcode internal vulnerabilities).

A thoughtful comment would have illuminated the issue, explained why the fixes were too broad or not specific enough, and how they could be improved.
> How mainstream has crypto trading gone? Who are the suckers?

I would say it's the early majority now. But it has reached the point where I see people following crypto stocks in the train regularly, and apparently all of my non-techie friends (teacher, historian, etc) all own a small chunk of crypto stocks now.
> But the salaries are probably also not on SF or NYC level

You got that right!
But that requires modifiers. Insert modal vs. not flame war.
> Cannot you see, cannot all you lecturers see, that it is we that are dying, and that down here the only thing that really lives is the Machine? We created the Machine, to do our will, but we cannot make it do our will now. It has robbed us of the sense of space and of the sense of touch, it has blurred every human relation and narrowed down love to a carnal act, it has paralysed our bodies and our wills, and now it compels us to worship it. The Machine develops - but not on our lies. The Machine proceeds - but not to our goal. We only exist as the blood corpuscles that course through its arteries, and if it could work without us, it would let us die."

E.M.Forster, The Machine Stops. 1909
Is there some reason that I'm seeing the word "cromulent" more and more now? (for those not in the know the word is originally from a Simpsons episode in the mid 90's)
LN does not need any changes to the bitcoin protocol, it is already out and working on mainnet even if in pre-alpha state.
It doesn’t change that they’re still authoritarian nationalists. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, publicly supports the big duck that likes hurting other ducks rather than simply keeping its beak shut...
Can't blame the masses. I feel no contempt for propagaters, only catalysts.
I always liked the imagemagick introductions to fourier transform filtering of images:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/

Here's another one for advanced uses, including sharpening through FFT division:

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/fourier/fft_math/
That's not how this works...

If you buy something for $10m you're out $10m. Yes, when you donate it you can write off those $10m, or present value at the day of the donation.

But you're only saving the taxes on those $10m of income, so you're still down $5m (assuming a 50% tax rate). And you could just as easily donate those $10m directly, and get the same tax write-off.
Late reply, but Kube meant Kubernetes not Kubeflow.
Alpha GPU support landed in 1.6 if my memory serves me right.
Before that you had to do a bunch of stuff manually to make GPU work, mostly around scheduling etc.
Since 1.6, Kubernetes will automatically detect the GPUs on your node and thus correctly assign the workloads where they fit.
Kubeflow is an abstraction layer on top of that, that helps a lot when you want to do things such as distributed TensorFlow training. It also helps a bit for simpler jobs by (almost) removing the need to manually mount the NVIDIA drivers from the host into the container for example.
There's a lot more about the end user experience in the most recent published paper: https://research.google.com/pubs/pub46366.html
I believe there are already many solutions for this, https://baremetrics.com/ offers a paid service for reporting churn, sign up rates, conversion rates etc, https://clearbanc.com/ offers a free solution for the same metrics. I believe they both support stripe data as well.
I think this is the key point. Even if schools presented largely propaganda but they spent an effective amount of time teaching useful critical thinking then the students might have enough experience/tools to think for themselves and not accept everything in the books.
"Because a protocol with a finite number of coins has an inherent value to it"

No, it doesn't. Being scarce, by itself, is not valuable at all. Being useful is was gives something value. In fact, I'd argue a protocol that I have to have a coin for is much, much, much less useful, and therefore less valuable, than one that doesn't.
Same here. Maybe they are looking for something like Amazon's 'one click checkout?'
I haven't noticed any particular uptick, myself - I see it occasionally, and always smile a little when I notice it.
No, not at all. To go back to my individual, circumstantial example, my sister is now a very good teacher.

Things don't have to be evil to average out unfortunate.
LAPD leases several hundred BMW i3s, leaves them to rot in a garage
What’s the Big-O factor for the initialization step? Seems it’s at least o(# qubits) which should be O(log n) where N is the database size, but the story acts like it it’s O(1) overall.
Hard Questions: What Effect Does Social Media Have on Democracy?
Can someone explain what makes "corporate" applications so different.

Why does my corporate bug tracker need different security from Gmail? Does that different security do anything?
>>if , e.g. Apple or Google actually _were_evil

Sean Parker on Facebook (and other Social Media giants) exploiting dopamine triggers and psychological drives for social validation: "[We're] exploiting a vulnerability in human psychology ... [The inventors] understood this, consciously, and we did it anyway." [0]

https://www.axios.com/sean-parker-unloads-on-facebook-god-on...
a bigger player is https://www.zodiacmetrics.com/, who have many peer-reviewed papers and are thus transparent with their (general) forecasting approach. i would love to see some model details given the maturity of other teams.

(disclosure: i took a class with the prof whose research drives zodiac)
> If that's the case then their Chromebooks are really just expensive dumb terminals.

Your comment seems to be mostly a bunch of wild speculation, but if you are presupposing they use Chromebooks as dumb terminals, I don't know where you're getting this $1000 figure from. If that's were the use-case then there's no reason not to go with the cheapest Chromebooks available, which can be as low as $200.
Building a Lightroom PC: Why I built a 5.2GHz 6-core editing machine
Show HN: HTML5 webcam pics to email with motion detection
WinUAE 3.6.0 (17.01.2018) released
It is our framework of choice especially when prototyping and implementing new differentiable programs. Although we use Caffe2 in production right now mainly because of Windows support for some of our customers.
But both of them support ONNX exchange format, we can prototype and train in PyTorch and then deploy the model using Caffe2 CPU version.
Yes, they set a local law but still try to enforce it abroad (by requesting things with Facebook).

They could go the trademark way (which then may be enforceable in a commercial context) and would be subject to fair use.
It's not, if you don't want it to be. Old grandmas run.
I will have that in mind :)
It's similar to learning Stateflow: it has a bigger upfront cost in program design, but once it's fully specified, the implementation will likely be correct (less degrees of freedom).
Clearly you never actually read it start here:

"The cost of mediation increases transaction costs, limiting the minimum practical transaction size and cutting off the possibility for small casual transactions"

Clearly lowering transaction cost is one of the basic ideas behind Bitcoin that has now failed.
> news that nearly noone disagrees with

Well, in a country where 30 states voted for Trump, 20 states voted for Hillary, and 100 million people chose not to vote (and that's 42% of the eligible electorate[0]), who shall be arbiter of what news, at least U.S. political news, "nearly noone disagrees with"? I mean, given that a majority of politically active people in a large majority of states voted for Trump, I expect that you'll agree with me that Alex Jones' endlessly pro-Trump daily videos should be featured right at the top of everyone's News Feed. I know I'd love that.

[0] http://archive.is/NDUkb

https://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel/videos
The article linked is excellent. Thanks.
Bitcoin: It may fail but we now know how to do it
LOL. Made my morning. Thank you.
Almost all artists, even successful ones, spend decades in poverty and uncertainty. Yes, it is tautologically true that today's "great artists" will also be rich. But considering that the art market is far more difficult to predict than even professional sports or science, nobody would choose a career in art for financial reasons.
The most expensive part of the build is the plastic injection mould. Compared to that, a different keyboard layout, closer to what an Amiga used, requiring a different board and switch placement would be relatively cheap. Why then usa a PC layout?

The way it is now, it looks more like an Archimedes (which used the PC-101 layout).
Ada is another non-C with odd semantics, so the problem is that it goes too far and not far enough: It's not enough like C to be familiar, but it's not far enough from C to be able to go head-to-head with Haskell. If I want something that's very safe and don't care about it being similar to C, I'm going all the way to Haskell and not bothering with half-measures.
There's upwork.com but in my experience, it's terrible.

My advice is to find someone already employed with free time to help out when needed. I wouldn't trust a queue where you're not sure which admin you'll get on a particular day. Skills vary so much that I don't believe you'll get good results.

I imagine part of the problem is that few good systems people are going to want to work at such a service. I'm on a sabbatical now but my last DevOps position paid me 247K a year with great benefits, ESPP, and RSUs.

It's unlikely that a good systems person would work in a pool waiting for an hourly engagement when they can make reliable money somewhere else. The marketplace is too good for us on the systems side right now.

Some of my friends and I have done hourly work on the side but not in a pool. Most of the time it's for small startups where we know at least some of the people there and they need some help. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I like to think there's some level of trust needed for systems work. Giving someone root access is a big deal IMO.
if you fork bitcoin you don't make more bitcoin, a forked bitcoin coin isn't exchangeable with the original, bitcoin value is in the community who reconize it as an asset, how you say, people recognize gold as an asset. Except history bitcoin has many other advantages to gold, and history is not that huge argument, times change.
I have also heard it as "gypsum wallboard", which is certainly most descriptive.

I'm not certain whether the water-resistant, mold-resistant variety typically hung behind tiles in bathrooms is ever referred to as "wetwall" or if they still call it "drywall".

Nor am I aware of whether anyone calls the foil-backed, glass-reinforced, fire-resistant variety "firewall" instead of "drywall".

I wouldn't be surprised if obsolete and inapplicable names still attach to items with the same function. If we ever move to polyethylene film panels sandwiched with phase-change material for our walls, it might still be called "plasterboard" somewhere.
It's a touch robotic, but I've heard real people sound like that (and worse) in Google hangouts with poor connections. I also imagine it can only get better with more knowledge and tech.
There is an interesting Twitter thread pointing it to Chrysler as the root cause https://twitter.com/KashannKilson/status/953740344369102848
> Emacs-Muse[?]

Looks more like a publishing (markdown/pandoc) solution. Abandoned 2010 as folks moved to Org.

> org-brain [inspired by TheBrain.com]

Hierarchy plus one additional link type. Org-mode integration. "One node and neighbors" presentation.

I'm struck again by how much code is about to be rewritten for VR/AR. If anyone has a programming language they wish to mainstream, here comes an opportunity to ride a selective sweep. :)
This is a serious concern. If Linus were replaced by someone more pliable/less attentive Linux will have a serious problem.
Show HN: Contabulo – Knowledge Management with Cards
> What I mean is that unless you have the results of Cal Newport or Jordan Peterson your extreme position does not carry the same weight as theirs.

That point of authority doesn't dismiss the fact that spending time taking notes takes from your actual attention and interactivity with the class.

I'm in for writing down a few words here and there, but people tend to write way more and it's actually detrimental to them. We end up in a situation where "taking note" becomes a bad advice and in most cases is not helping.

My story is just anecdotal, but from what I've seen: the more notes students took, the more they failed; the less notes students took, the more they were succeeded. I go to conferences all the time now, and I don't see people taking notes anymore (and the few who do, do not do it as intensively as I've seen it being done in university). Isn't that a sign that people who actually succeeded in becoming PHD students, or postgrads, or professors, or good people in the industry, ... are all people who do not take notes in conferences? (which are extremly similar to classes to some extent)
“Stocks”

That’s such an unfortunate metaphor for crypto.
I use pushd and popd every day. If you forget what's in the stack you can see what's in it by using the "dirs" command.

You can also use pushd -n (where n is a number, although I usually end up needing trial and error to get the right one) to rotate the list of dirs without removing any from the stack - useful if the list has more than 2 directories, or 2+ directories you need to switch between repeatedly.

pushd and popd also work out of the box in Windows command prompt, although you don't get "dirs" or any fancier options like in bash, just push and pop on a plain old stack.
Thank you - that's interesting.

Again, I'd like to have some sense as to the relative difficulty involved vs. the PS3 break which, IIRC, was the same kind of cryptographic signing issue ...

Perhaps Apple just doesn't make those mistakes with their keys ?
Actually hurting someone with the robber at the beginning doesn't make sense even economically - most of the time you need to be able to trade with them.

My father once caused a game-long shortage of bricks and nobody - including him - was able to do anything. Lol. :-)
Watching a Ridge Slide in Slow Motion, a Town Braces for Disaster
You can issue the ICO first, and then when the money pours in, disappear and you don't have to bother with that pesky "work" part.
> Think email. Anyone can send an email as long as they follow the protocol.

Email is not centralized under a single authority, but I disagree that it's so decentralized that "anyone" can do it.

The openness worked so well in the short-term that spammers and scammers started using it, so all the major email providers started running serious spam filtering. As an individual, I can't realistically set up a mail server to send email to anyone, like I could in 1995, since Gmail will reject it.

SMTP is a pretty simple protocol but now I have to use major third-party services for both sending and receiving internet email.

In the case of email, that's fine, because there was never a centralized alternative. In the case of currency, what's the point? Isn't it just going to circle back around to (mostly) centralization again, and so what was the point?
The motion detection takes place in the browser with JavaScript which analyzes and quantifies RGB value differences. HTML5 takes care of the camera. An email server is still required - HTML5 doesn't cover that of course. This works with up-to-date Firefox, Chrome, Edge, and Opera browsers on Windows, Mac, and Android (the OS specific browsers running as applicable on various platforms). I am currently aware of just Safari and iOS on iPhone/iPad not working - the camera view shows all black and I have not yet attempted to solve.
Check Professional Network Inventory Software