skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mixing Python with Elixir
Sound like Intel is interested in allowing hacks, probably for government oversight.
Nice, I don't see how I could – at the very least - upvote for this proposal. How does that work?
Half of Norway’s Population May Have Been Breached
oops! Yep, ISS.

Even though... launching war criminals to an off-world prison would be a great addition to Musk's comic book character persona. ..c Can you imagine the prison break edition!
China’s breathtaking transformation into a scientific superpower
> 2018

> people writing shitty blog posts and still using clickbait to get views
I thought that the American government had the worst ratio of free citizens/incarcerated citizens ...
You need some help.

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>I mean, it's preference. I'm from Italy and no matter what you might say or have heard, black people up north and central Italy are not that smart in general, often wearing jeans and hoodies and not taking good care of the way they look. They're also not that friendly, and as coworkers, employees and in particular bosses are a pain in the ass.
White people you might find abroad or in major cities are usually smart, take care of themselves, and are friendly. I worked with a white person for a few years and lived in Miami for 3 years

Turkish, Albanian, Romanian black people--for instance--are definitely less intelligent than other places I've been.

As for Poland, they always look very smart, and are generally friendly. I'm currently working with a black person from Poland for 3 years.

Of course, we're generalizing and I'm talking from my very limited experience, there are smart black people everywhere (or stupid, for that matter), people's taste is different, etc. etc. I know that here when you go anywhere it's hard to find one I wouldn't work with if I didn't have a job!
Kotlin has coroutines, channels and select.
Gotta be a weird person not to check the outcome on the news before going to work since they've been plenty forewarned.

I guess someone living close by, that woke up late and doesn't have radio, tv, or internet available for a quick check could plausibly skip over calling someone to find out before jogging over.
Trust isn't neccesarily the only solution that blockchains solve. Lets consider a simple example, login credentials.

Your login credentials exist on many different centralized databases, which a service provider is responsible for managing. This leads to increased possibility that one of the providers messes up (identity breach) and leads to an unnecessary amount of data replication across databases.

Why do I need credentials for every single different service? Instead why don't we store these login credentials in a blockchain so that many providers can access these IF you let them, in a cryptographically secure way.

You PROVE your identity on the blockchain without actually letting them store identity information on their database.

A blockchain is basically a shared resource pool where a user chooses who can access the data that belongs to them whether it be assets, identity, or other important data.

Service providers no longer have to be responsible for it and the user is put back in control.

This is a much saner way of storing important things on the web
How “Cops” became the most polarizing reality TV show in America
Also an option: OctoTree [0], which adds tree view to github PRs too, as well as the source browser.

[0] https://github.com/buunguyen/octotree/
>High-end art prices aren't "manipulated" in some kind of nefarious way,

Laundering Drug Money With Art (https://www.forbes.com/2003/04/08/cx_0408hot.html#1da16d3e66...)

Valuable as Art, but Priceless as a Tool to Launder Money (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/arts/design/art-proves-att...)

Chinese snap up fine art for use in laundering schemes (http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/20/news/economy/china-art-laund...)
> The volatility of crypto is immaterial, what matters is that it's still around. The resilience of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there. They can trust the protocol more than they can trust their nation's banks, their political institutions, and their social order.

You may eventually be able to make this claim, but to make it now is lunacy.
Not sure if sarcastic...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkcXRC4HZqc
The reality is that there are now much better cryptocurrencies to rely on for small transfers than Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is extremely slow and costly. Other cryptocurrencies provide the same service for a lower cost and higher speed. Check out Stellar for instance, a distributed, hybrid blockchain that is fully open-source, optimized for money transfers...
Art is just good provenance - If you attach provenance to anything it becomes art.
None of that stuff is because of bias though. That is just the result of being in a field dominated by the other gender.
> Bullies are violent for no reason, for the pleasure of it.

Not quite. Bullying is continuing targeted agression for the purpose of demeaning another person and getting power over them.

A one-off diatribe, blunt or even mean-spirited statement, by itself, is not bullying. A person can be an ass without being a bully.
If you can't claim "PC has a chilling effect" without being asked to stop claiming it, the case is closed.
Vanilla JavaScript Development in 2018
Contributing to Open Source
Luajit with it's ffi library for zero overhead ffi is amazing.

Even if you don't use Rust you can increase performance and reduce memory usage massively by simply defining the memory layout for your existing lua code.

http://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html#cdata
I think an interesting way Facebook could approach determining credibility would be by having users bet (betting with some made up points instead of real money). Since this forces readers to speculate, it would encourage critically reading the articles. I think a betting system would push Facebook less in the direction of an echo-chamber. The difficulty with applying a betting system is that it still doesn't tell you whether the information is true, thus bets can't be evaluated.
Me too. I find it inexplicable that while our species has progressed so much after 6000 years of civilization, one thing that doesn't seem to have changed is the desire of large sections of people to be led by oppressive maniacs. It's almost like many of us just love handing away our freedoms. Have sociologists studied this phenomenon?
> I bet that on HN you'll find a lot of support for jailing people who install a let's say Nazi chat app on their phone.

This is pure flame-bait and will not result in any positive contributions to this conversation.
Nothing more than a USDA database.
It is well worth growing your own tomatoes. The taste explosion of a freshly picked tomato is just incredible!
I fear for the future of post-Linus linux.
Have you ever considered things that men have to deal with and are not being able to put them in terms of 'being male in the X industry/community/field"?

This is not to minimize anything a woman has to go through, but let's, at least, not compare as if it's on equal terms. If we're able to talk about women issues at all, isn't that because women and men are different? Why compare it so easily and uni-dimensionally?

BTW, what about cases where a woman approaches a man about a technical matter, but with a _romantinc_ interest? Where's the real danger in that? We, as grown ups, should have the tools to dismiss politely romantic interests. It's the same case between men and men/women, as it is between women and women/men. It's part of life. The expression 'unwanted advances' is by far the craziest accusation one could make to a person. Man or woman.
If they are smart, they will do some self regulation to preempt the government from coming in. Giving more transparency and empowerment to the users, and explaining a little more what they are doing, and why they are doing it, would go a long way.
The fact that Facebook walls are visible to everyone, any controversial topic usually gets reaction from both sides. Whatsapp groups are formed based on likemindedness (I am excluding core family and friends). I call these groups echo-pipes which silently form a larger echo chamber.
Simple Python/React deploys using Fabric
I wouldn't give up the thin and light build, but I travel a lot with it, even in the office :)
Maybe a physical barcode card combined with some kind of biometric (thumbprint, faceID, microbiome biopsy) could form an "offline" backup authentication.
the end of your page says:
'© 2017 CorrelatePro. All rights reserved.'

but it is 2018 now... and those litl things might matter to some... they do to me
I grew up in the village where we used to grow our own tomatoes and it's simply not true that bigger ones taste differently. An average tomato (6-10cm in diameter), usually tastes just the same as a much smaller one growing on the same plant. Actually I didn't notice any difference in taste based on size. For a cucumbers that was definitely the case, once it passed certain size, cucumber use to become much less tastier, but tomatoes all tasted the same, delicious. And as with current tomatoes in the store, in rare instances you can be lucky and find a batch of great tomatoes that taste quite good, and they are all of decent size.

So what I'm saying is that at least my practical experience never even gave me a hint that bigger tomatoes would taste worse than smaller ones. And I was very surprised the first time I heard this hypothesis.
> How does it feel being a slave to a paycheck and a career?

It feels pretty good to have ability to make decisions about your life and feel responsibility for them, actually - something that real slaves, term that you're horribly devaluate with this amount of ridiculous hyperbole, don't enjoy.
very interesting. seems to be handling the load exceptionally well, even if the system messages are interfering right now. latency is quite good to!

there's something I don't understand from skimming the docs: if I want to use IPFS for a project of mine, do I have to deploy a IPFS backend or there's a default I can use? it's said to be peer-to-peer so unless the peer are shared across all projects small implementation may have issues to keep availability.

edit: figured out there's a public gateway and one can also set up a private swarm. sweet!
It's trust the original supplier of the fish vs. trust the original supplier and all intermediaries. An improvement but no silver bullet.
recently, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15898944
A dutch security company was asked to provide a technical review of the 'evidence'. Their conclusion: it sucks.

https://www.fox-it.com/en/insights/blogs/blog/fox-debunks-re...

> Overall, Fox-IT concluded that the quality of the MİT report is very low, especially when it was weighed against the legal consequences of the conclusions which is the detention of 75,000 Turkish citizens.
English has no gender-neutral singular pronoun in modern usage.
Mm. And you believe those on top will allow this to happen?

You're raw material to them. Something they can consume. You're a chess piece.

One reason I conceal my identity is because my father has some very strange political beliefs, and I'd be embarrassed to be associated with his writings. But as time wears on, the belief that war is the inevitable outcome keeps pressing at me, gnawing at me, like a scratch on the roof of your mouth.

History shows that war is the natural state of things. For roughly a million years, we have been at war. The peace brought by nuclear weapons has been maintained, thankfully. But we see how fragile the world is; this state of affairs holds up until the next generation becomes unhinged, and no longer.

What do you think will happen when the top captures so much wealth production that the rest of the world cannot self-suffice?

Truly. Put yourself there, mentally. Get into the mindset of the greedy nature of those at the top. Those who wish to grow their portfolios and dominate the world. The ambitious.

Those who own the automation pipelines. Those who own the government.

What possible incentive do they have to give up their control? They own you.

And like the middle ages, we have no recourse. We'd lose this fight. And they know it.

Forever. The lever of technology has become so large and terrifying that no one can possibly win.

The only way is to subvert it. And as we approach 8 billion people, achieving any consensus becomes less and less likely.

How high shall we go? Ten billion? Twenty? A hundred?

How far are we from the limit?

These thoughts are uncomfortable. Better compartmentalize them and follow the crowd: don't think about it, pretend it's not true, focus on math and programming and what little you can change.
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It's much simpler than that - they simply need to own the crypto-asset(s) they're wanting to succeed, for their value to go up.
Federated video streaming platform using WebTorrent directly in the web browser
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A government can imprison people for horrible reasons, but still not have the worst radio.
Very interesting. I presume this isn't a blind test though, so could there be a "ooo they're testing for sexism, better pick the women!" factor? Or did they account for that somehow?

Edit: Skimmed it and they did go to significant lengths to disguise their hypothesis. Details on page 2 of the PDF.
The original post is clearly referring to the general engineering usage of rollback, as seen, for example, in source code control systems. As I pointed out before, 'rollback' is defined by its effects, not the mechanism by which it is performed, to which I might add that it is even less defined by mechanisms that are specific to a particular implementation.

If the existence of a record of the rolled-back transaction made a difference to whether an action is a rollback or not, then, by your argument, it would seem that the existence, or not, of a backup (or any other record) preserving the prior state of the system, would make the difference as to whether an SQL rollback was or was not actually a rollback. This, of course, is absurd, but its what you get from mistaking an implementation for a definition.

> In any case it seems fairly useless to debate what the meaning of "rollback" should be.

That was the point of my first post in this thread (with special reference to self-serving definitions.)
I guess he's going for the indirect, impolite, with low information density option.
Quite useful and minimalist. If I may suggest an improvement, the tool would be better with the option to show the latest price graph for each currency.
> given English has a gender-neutral one ("them")

I use "they" and "them" as gender-neutral singular pronouns. There is disagreement on this choice of style. Alternating between gendered pronouns seems to be the preferred alternative to the last decade's (s)he he/she garbage.
to the user that downvoted my comment: which of the four bullet points was false?

Didn't downvote (and I don't have CNN), but your complete lack of links to back up any of the things you mentioned makes it very hard to judge if they're actually true or false.
We have to pack ourselves in the UK too, but it doesn't take long you just put things in bags as they're scanning the next one. Or in Aldi where they fire things through like a machine gun, put it in your basket / trolley and go and pack it elsewhere.
These types of things are almost certainly written into the contracts. A government shutdown is not the only reason that SpaceX might temporarily not be able to use the facilities the way it wants.
> The resilience of Bitcoin means that rich people can park wealth there

When one speaks of assets in which one parks their wealth, an asset that loses 50% of its purchasing power overnight is not one of them.
I’ve noticed a pattern of Europeans getting food items that are the made of the cheapest of the cheap ingredients, almost to the point of being mislabeled and using them as a benchmark for what “American food” is like.

For example, 99 cent gas station white bread loaf taste like cake to Americans too. A 1.50$ loaf at a grocery store tastes much more normal for a nominal difference.

A “snack cake” also tastes like sugar mixed with liquified sugar to Americans. It might be called “cake” but Americans treat it like candy for all intents and purposes.
The objective of any industry is to collect power and influence for itself. Collusion is the natural state of affairs once people with power and money start entering the arena. Once you've exhausted the income opportunity that a single firm can offer you, your priorities change. Mere cash grabbing won't move the needle anymore.

What you want to be doing at that point in time is move up the value chain so you can capture a healthy percentage of the entire market. Artists that make a killing open galleries and provide for emerging artists to make their mark, of course while you take your cut. You see it in every creative arena. Musicians open record labels, actors open acting schools and talent agencies. Career trajectories differ, but the principle remains the same. You move up the value chain.

Once you've mastered selling shovels to the prospectors, then you have to learn how to control value itself. There is no intrinsic value to products of human creation, so that value has to get created somehow. The making of the value sausage is often really, really dirty. But as long as humans want it, then there needs to be a price attached. And that price has to be arrived at somehow.
No one mentioned ratio, this is about 'injustice/abuse of tech' not volume. For comparison, even with the BS behavior in OP, Turkey is about 285/100,000 incarceration rate. The US of A is at 666/110,000, over double.
I mostly agree with the points leading up to the suggestion of mandatory data sharing. I'm still mulling that over.

But I do agree that just breaking up Google, for example, wouldn't necessarily be a good thing. Of all the tech giants, I think Google is still doing the most good in terms of investing in innovation. Their research teams are varied and doing the fantastic.

Disclaimer: I don't work there and forewent an offer to network my way in.
While I've read and enjoyed the book you recommend, it doesn't actually explain the economics of the art world, more likely the relationships that develop. For a much more informed look you should try "The 12 Million Stuffed Shark" which is written by an economist.

https://www.amazon.com/Million-Stuffed-Shark-Economics-Conte...

As for the rest, the market isn't exactly manipulated, as the article implies, but if you bother to ask any collector they'll complain that prices are high. And this happens for two reasons. One is that there is very low supply of available art of non-contemporary era since museums are popping everywhere and they buy pretty much everything available. The other is that art has become an investment which leads a lot of rich people buying art pieces at great volumes.

We live in an era where you pay $5k to buy a giclee Murakami painting printed in a high-end printer and that if you're lucky enough because a limited edition of 50 copies could sell out in a couple of days.
Surviving the Early Adoption to IP
> Better scheduling. A service made of microservices is easier to schedule using bin packing. Low priority components can be deprioritized by the scheduler very easily. This is important for services with large resource footprints.

That's harder scheduling, not easier. With a monolith you just give it all the resources and threads will use resources as is necessary. After that it's a matter of load balancing appropriately.
All software is modular, whether those modules are individual functions or separate processes called over the network. Like I said, the computer doesn't care so it's really up to the dev team and organization to divide functionality as they see fit.

There's no inherent "infinite scale" that magically shows up; proper architecture and design does that. "Microservices" again just goes back to being a rather badly defined description of a certain way of deployment. Every time I've seen these used (in smaller companies), there's no benefit over just having separate assemblies talking in the same process instead.
I do this almost every day. The old Great Western Railway fleet (which is still most of the services out of Paddington) has these horrible door handles.
People like you are given gold and they will whine it's too heavy.

The graph clearly shows that women are prefered in STEM, what more proof do you need?
The hidden value in your failed A/B tests
I'm not convinced there's a problem here that needs to be solved.

"The dominance of Google, Facebook and Amazon is bad for consumers and competition" ... really??

- Amazon provides good products and services at good prices and that's why they're successful. Some things are cheaper locally, some things aren't. I buy loads of stuff from Amazon and don't want that to change.

- Google, privacy is a concern, but their search engine is extremely useful, and gmail, and chrome, etc. I rely on Chrome, and the search engine, as long as they're the best at what they do I'm happy to continue using them.

- Facebook, is still the most widely used (and that makes it the best) social network. I think Facebook is going to die a natural death - especially when people realize how difficult it is to actually delete their content. It's still the easiest way to run a group, as most people are already on Facebook. I run a local residents group on Facebook and am happy to continue using Facebook for that. I don't use it for personal stuff anymore because everyone's too political, the risk isn't worth the reward. My actual friends use a WhatsApp group to chat with each other, that's a good service I want to keep using. Facebook doesn't belong in the same list as Amazon and Google - because tbh Facebook could disappear tomorrow and it wouldn't affect very much at all.
This is the creepiest thing I've ever read.

As a teen, I was absolutely sure the Internet would liberate us all never saw it being a weapon of oppression as much as it has become. :-(
>High-end art prices aren't "manipulated" in some kind of nefarious way

Oh boy.
The only guide you need to breaking procrastination
Microservices without using something like Spring cloud which offers service discovery, reverse-proxying, centralized configuration, etc. is not worth it. I only learned this the hard way myself--my previous role had what you described above and while it kinda sorta worked, I was of the opinion that microservices weren't working (they were using NetKernel for a lot of their services, too, kind of a weird, mixed environment spanning multiple generations of service architectures).

At my current job, I learned what I didn't know! This place has a decent microservice infrastructure without all the lumps using Netflix's OSS suite.

The only major drawback we're having now is that as we drive harder to move services into real cloud deployments, we are finding out that Kubernetes would be a huge help and that it conflicts with our existing service discovery and so we may have to re-architect some of it. The good news is that doing so isn't impossible, it just takes planning and effort.

One thing I find very annoying here is that the developer setup doesn't really look like QA or PROD and that our use of Docker is in its infancy and that the developers can't agree on a lot of things. As an aside, several people won't let go of Eclipse.

Overall, NetKernel was total hell for developers, total hell, and migrating off of it cost millions, but was ultimately successful. NetKernel was the only game in town for REST services at one time, however. That company had an architect who was a NetKernel fanboi and who pushed them in a bad direction years after they should have been migrating to something else--that was another HUGE lesson for me--that personality and political clout had far more to do with their decision making than anything else. The guy bullied people because he didn't want to move off of what he knew. Once he finally left the company, the deluge started and within one year, NetKernel was dead.