skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The testing center had their own car? Is this standard in Spain/Europe? I had to pay an instructor with a car to drive me to the testing center and let me use his car for the test while he waited around.
Riding a bus is not behaving like the poor.
Avoidance, not evasion. If you're a very frugal person, it seems pretty normal to hate taxes. No point in saving on everything, yet then throwing x% away in taxes (yes, I am aware taxes fund a lot of good things, but at the same time a lot of money is wasted -- I'm sure Kamprad thought he could better manage and deploy that money)
Bitcoin Benny: Crypto Outlook for 2018
https://www.tokens24.com/exclusive/bitcoin-benny-crypto-outl...
>type that explicitly recides on GPU

Yes, that's what we do! More domain specific types will come, for e.g. views, lazy arrays and sparse arrays.

> or does it manage the device state?

It aims to manage most of the device state! Some more complex gpu interactions will need to drop back to manual management, though - but the hope is to turn more and more into a high level API when needed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stichting_INGKA_Foundation
(I work at Adyen) - Adyen has an office and acquiring license in Australia, offers EFTPOS, and works with Kogan, Showpo, Freelancer.com, and others.
I really think if Adobe did that and then released an Adobe-branded desktop Linux distribution they could take over the desktop OS segment for "creative professionals".
> Back when I was a kid, we called this rapid application development

What do you mean by "this"? RAD tools like Visual Basic, Delphi or Cincom Smalltalk were event-based - which is also true with most native GUI frameworks, BTW - but they did not provide any abstraction above the level of events. Reactive programming takes events and stuffs them down a set of pipelines, where previously you had this giant switch statement for dispatch and the logic for actually doing something was split among some of the branches of that switch. Now you can group your logic around a certain pipe, which allows you to see a complete description of complex processes at a glance, without the need to guess "which event is used as a next step of this process?"

So Reactive is actually a quite convenient interface to event-driven systems and it wasn't available in RAD tools of the nineties (if memory serves, might be wrong on this?)
> We need fewer product managers.

We need MORE:

- internal startup co-founders,

- UX,

- customer advocates,

- domain experts,

- service designers,

- complexity untanglers,

This suppose to be a sarcasm?
December Web Traffic of Major Exchanges:
http://bit.ly/2njDox5
Great work! I’d love to see added a stub for graphics, image processing, and computer vision!
When trying to create something representative, it often gives a better result to over-represent than exclude, because the latter may imply there were none.

I'd argue a large reason we're having this discussion at all is exactly because the idea of black people in Britain at that time is surprising to a lot of people, exactly because a lot of people have an image of the Romans as being mostly white Italians to the point where seeing a black character at all is a surprise, rather than out of concern that they're not accurately representing the precise proportions.
This is very disrespectful of you towards the LBGT community!
> I believe that the distinguishing property is not what the event/data/codata is, rather how you are accessing it and when you process it.

But this is exactly one of the important distinctions between data and codata. If your language supported first-class codata, you wouldn't need to encode push evaluation via a stream data type. Codata already has the required push-like semantics, and your language's evaluation model would handle the necessary plumbing for you.
Just so you know, Messenger can be used standalone.

It tethers to your phone number, and backs up an account key to Google Drive/(iCloud for iOS?)

Functionally, it's the same except you don't have a profile of course. The only missing thing is that messenger.com doesn't support this so your only point of access is mobile.
Some millionaires care about money so little they give it away to people that need it more rather than designing elaborate structures to hide it from their family and the taxman...
This is a cool idea, I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

One comment on the layout: the line breaks in comments are quite jarring because they break on letters rather than words. (word-break)

e.g. https://www.acho.io/post?id=5a73a65ff366940014d2621a
Facebook is Considering Ways into How to Use Cryptocurrency; Zuckerberg Says!

http://bit.ly/2qBjJN2
I agree that Google is coming from behind in enterprise sales. AWS have the long headstart and Microsoft have an existing, massive sales org.

Cloud computing fits almost none of their DNA. It requires intensive sales rather than automation. It's a volume business with thin margins (rather than a network-effect business with fat margins).

But it's also a business in which they have the best technology out of the three and the first plausible alternative revenue stream they've ever found. I don't think they are going to stop elbowing their way into this, and neither are Microsoft.
I'm already seeing non-technical friends (who are not exactly rich either) on FB posting all sorts of mental gymnastics about this. People are going to get hurt.
Heartily agree! The major upside of conversion tracking and auction advertising on the business end is enabling smaller businesses to compete.

One of my personal highlights was an AdWords campaign was where one conversion delivered 14x ROI for the entire campaign, even though we were a small player - if we couldn't attribute that, getting sign off would've been nearly impossible.
I think a name change would be very beneficial, but also, mass hysteria seems like more than one phenomenon, and at least some of it seems mixed with hyperbole so unpicking it all might help too.

This instance sounds like one the 'medical' variety of mass hysteria, but there's also the psychological version where the only symptom is a panic caused by perception of threat (real or imaginary).

I sat through a lunch talk a couple of years ago by Dr Julia Pierce, a psychologist who's a specialist in public response to threat. She had an armful of case studies where people had proclaimed 'mass hysteria' but actually looking at the evidence people had broadly remained calm and made normal choices. For example a lot of people talk about "panic" during the evacuation of the World Trade Centre in 2001 but actually during a lot of those episodes you find people acting fairly rationally, going back to help colleagues etc. or descending stairs in an orderly fashion, moving out of the way for others, etc.

The evidence she presented suggested that the conditions that prompt actual panic are predictable and quite constrained. We're less susceptible to it than Hollywood might suggest.
It's like your experience in Switzerland.
Adobe Flash 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878)
There's a lot more to life than resale value.
> it's healthcare, they are not going to worry about their conversion rates

Monitoring conversion rates can be used to find out whether people are actually able to use your web service. The goal of a “conversion” doesn't have to be a sale.

But I agree that if you're going to do this sort of tracking, it definitely needs to be private.

I hope there's a court case soon where the court rules that sending a whole load of business-sensitive data to Google, Microsoft and Apple actually does breach a non-disclosure agreement.
Well, you wanted a capitalist world, didn't you?
WebPack was forced to upgrade to a zero config tool because of Parcel's threat. They couldn't let the others take that place.
Now there you have it, progress without end. Developers constantly upgrading, until death does them apart!
Ask HN: Any accessible talk at FOSDEM for beginner developers?
One of my friend started to learn coding. She had around 1 year of lessons covering basic stuff (PHP, Java, SQL).
She leaved just next to the ULB where FOSDEM takes places so she was planning to drop by and visit.

Any recommendation on talks she could attend that would be accessible for her level ?
This is a 0-day, cross-platform and full-system compromise vulnerability. This is pretty bad.

"A critical vulnerability (CVE-2018-4878) exists in Adobe Flash Player 28.0.0.137 and earlier versions. Successful exploitation could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system."
The Infinitely Colorful Biodiversity of Fractals [video]
What assumption? The only assumptions I (well, prominent theories) I make are that (a) people got there 45-70kybp and (b) they achieved behavioral modernity (art, tools etc.) around that time or shortly after.
and as usual with any news headline involving evolution, it's worded the wrong way round. It should say something like "Fed urban birds have tended to survive more" i.e. looking back, not looking forward as though birds are capable of intentionally changing the genes of future generations
This is so obviously silly. If the Greeks made such a voyage, it certainly wasn't in s trireme. Triremes are warships optimized for battle near shore.

One reason triremes didn't sail far from shore is that there is no room on board for the crew to do anything other than row. There are no bunks, there are no holds. If you want to eat or sleep, you need to get off the boat.

Another is that because of the wood used to construct them, triremes needed to be beached overnight to dry out. Leaving the ship in the water continuously would lead to the timbers becoming waterlogged, making the ship too heavy and slow to row.

At any rate, Plutarch's text doesn't say anything about triremes, only that the crew rowed to these islands. You can read an English translation here: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%...

It seems to me that Plutarch doesn't necessarily believe this account, seeing as its related by an interlocutor as a myth.

At any rate, the directions are inconsistent, since rowing 5 days west from Britain to 'Ogygia,' then northwest (the direction of the setting summer sun) an equal distance to these 3 islands, can't bring you south to the latitude of the Caspian Sea. The account of the short day in winter also doesn't square with that latitude.
> the SJW that tells the Norwegians they can't use their own letters because Nazi decided to co-op their culture back in the day

No-one has said they can't use their own letters - they've said "maybe you want to think about using a symbol that was associated with the Third Reich and is currently in use by Nazis in Norway" and that's exactly what people are doing.
Stuff like HODL? To the moon? Stupid memes about the strong don't sell? Reality is most of these speculators haven't got a clue as to the utility (or lack of) of the coins they "hold" in the exchanges, the butthurt is well deserved.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgRLlqEvOT8&feature=youtu.be (someone posted this on reddit which captures the scene pretty well)
Bloxels – Build Your Own Video Games
This is the standard in Spain. It is so because the learning car has a double set of pedals so the instructor can operate them if the student messes up: https://img.milanuncios.com/fg/2560/05/256005093_7.jpg

In Spain you usually enroll in a driving school where you have theoretical lessons (there's a theoretical exam that you must pass) and then they give you driving lessons with their adapted car.

When you're ready an official from the corresponding ministry joins you and your instructor one day for a practical test on the street/highway.
>White bread in particular has no real nutritional value

I've never understood this claim that a lot of people seem to make. There's plenty of starch and protein in it, two vital macronutrients. Same with the bizarre claim some people make about breakfast cereals, that you're better off eating the box it comes in. No, you're not, humans cannot digest cellulose.
To elaborate a little on the other poster, the data types you're used to are finite values built incrementally, ie. build this, then build this, then build that.

Codata is the inverse, in that you can see it as a finite set of observations of some already built infinite data structure, ie. unpack this value at the head, then unpack that, etc. For instance, the stream of values observed from a process that runs forever.

We usually encode codata using inductive data types, but this is awkward for all of the reasons that come up in FRP and other reactive systems.
Deep learning technology is now being used to put Nic Cage in every movie
Show HN: APReF: An Automatic Parallelizer of Recursive Functions for Haskell
To add to your experience, i have managed to treat several severe tooth/gum abscesses with fresh sliced tumeric root steeped for 4-12 weeks in brazilian sugarcane rum (51 pinga). It kills the pain almost instantly and after a few days of use, the infection disappears. I now swish it in my mouth once a month or so as a preventative measure.

It's important to note that there are more than 10 varieties of tumeric, and have markedly different morphologies.

Also: growing conditions or perhaps some other factor affects the depth of the yellow color of a crop, as well as smell, which seem to be indicators of potency.

Lately, particularly since the recent judicial decision in India regarding the intellectual property rights of tumeric which denied a patent to a western company, I've seen general attitudes toward 'curcumin' in western academia revert their opinion about it's potential.

i dont expect any study that isolates the curcumin molecule (which ks widely known to be non-bioavailable on its own) to be very effective.

furthermore (conspriacy theory warning) considering the lack of scruples of the bio-based businesses (med agri gen chem), i wouldn't be surprised to see medically inert or even toxic varieties of 'unprofitable' and/or 'competitor' plants to flood the market in places where tumeric isn't grown amongst traditional small farmers. just a thought, and fits the monsanto narrative in the us and india.
See other replies to my comment for more details.
Surrogate markers may not tell the whole story
That isn’t factually true it was never confirmed to be fake nor was it confirmed to be genuine the status of it is disputed.
Bitcoin plummets below $8,000 for first time since November – Axios
Frescoes and mosaics are not reliable sources for the composition of the overall population, as they generally will over-represent specific social-strata and specific demographics, so without a control we don't really know what they tell us.

Considering Libya where the Roman presence itself in the North quite possibly was quite light-skinned and where the elite under Roman rule likewise quite likely was white than average for the population, with a lot of people coming from elsewhere in the empire. But a lot of the rest of the population was berbers, which range from relatively light brown to the darkest sub-Saharan black.

We know that sub-Saharan berber groups went to the North, because we know that a whole Roman legion was stationed on the coast to repel raiders from the South.

But I don't think we do know how large a number of the Northern population was made up of Romans from elsewhere and lighter skinned berbers vs darker skinned berbers and/or other groups at any given point in time. If there is data on this, I'd love to see it.

Though we also know that the bedouin population that dominates the North of Libya today, largely came with the Muslim conquest in the 7th century, so modern day Libya is at the very least a very poor indicator of what it looked like 2000 years ago.

(focusing on Libya because Septimius Severus - one the persons mentioned in Beards response - was born in Libya, and because I've covered it in other comments)
TL DR of what you wrote is basically Government doesn't know what it is doing and can't be bothered to change. If that is the case I doubt if there is anything you do can change that unless you held Government accountable for it.
A massive VC funding freeze to support advertising companies would be a good thing in my opinion.

Otoh ad companies will just become even more scummy. I am not sure how that is even possible, but there is probably a start-up trying to figure out how
Until the tether/bitfinex situation resolves, I don’t see a bottom.
Was going to say this, and in use by things like submarines and ships since the 60’s
I say this unironically: this is good for Bitcoin. In my opinion, the best time for Bitcoin was when it was sitting at around ~$1000, where fees were low, transaction times were low and acceptance was high.

Bitcoin was a great currency for online transactions back then. Once prices skyrocketed as they did, it lost the ability to function as "Internet money" because it was simply too expensive to use. Fees are high, transactions take hours, and a lot of the companies that famously accepted Bitcoin (Microsoft, Valve) no longer accept it. As someone who regularly made purchases with Bitcoin before the ridiculous growth, I'm hopeful for a return to those times.
Well he tends to setup a minibus and travel with some close co-workers that are needed along the way.

But sure he could take a bus in spain and no one would recognize him. The minibus is just more efficient.
Musk tweeted about that [0].

edit: I'd forgotten that there's a flamethrower at the end of the clip. That YouTube clip you posted is broken for me.

[0]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/937447589460426752
I don't think its really comparable. The difference to ultrasound sonic attacs is that celiac disease actually exists, but is very rare. There are clinical tests that can be executed, and the symptoms of it are also not quite uncommon. so a bit of confusion in this regard is understandable.
ETH is also dropping pretty sharply today, -30% over 24h, at $800 now.

Question for those who know: what is the current break even price for ETH miners using GPUs? At what point does one take that GTX 1070 rig and either sell the parts or move to another currency, given the current mining difficulty?
Card-readers are “trust your bank with information security” black boxes.

If their online banking password policies are anything to go by — Halifax and especially Nationwide — then very definitely no thankyou.

Nationwide asks you to set three pieces of memorable information. You can then log in with any 1 of those 3, at your option. https://onlinebanking.nationwide.co.uk/AccessManagement/Logi...

This seems obviously stupid to me, but I'll accept that Nationwide knows better than me if HN says so.
Yes but don't they have to be submitted to Telegram for acceptance? That's what it says in the "Stickers" section of Settings. Then again, maybe they accept all submissions by default and depend on the community to self-police.

Anyway, all I ever see are the "trending" ones in the app's interface. I wouldn't know where to look beyond that (and I don't use them so I don't care to look for them anyway).
At $15k-$20k I was seeing crypto lay persons on Facebook cheering themselves on about how easy it was to make money with Bitcoin. Tons of classic mania warning signs were pervasive.

Extreme mania usually gives way to extreme pessimism. Emotion takes it too far both directions (assuming there is at least some underlying value). So the question: how low can that aspect of human nature take Bitcoin to the downside?
This is really a rant against management. Reading it reminds me of my way of thinking early in my career before I had encountered a good manager, and also really understood how hard it can be to get even well meaning people working on the right things and moving in the same direction. A collection of specialist individual contributors sounds great, but in practice, it just doesn't work.
If you count 10MHz and up as rhythmic then yes! But kidding aside it would be really nice to have a musically encoded version of TCP/IP that sounds nice to the ear.

You could start by picking a major key and then dividing up all bytes to be transmitted into groups of three bits (have fun with the shifting...), that way all 8 tones get to be played, and since it will be monotone it should not sound too bad. Major points if you can do this with chords that sound harmonious.
As anyone who's watched Ancient Aliens knows!

Slight /s. Only slight.
The First Annual Fake News Awards
the thing is, tether/finex was instrumental in keeping up the hype during the great rise where every news outlet reported it. It was also what kept bitcoin from falling too fast after reaching top. Now as its been subpoenaed, things are looking grim. But I do think it wont fall paste 3000$
Attacking the Nintendo 3DS Boot ROMs
KiwiDocs  – The open-source documentation system
ASK HN: Anybody noticed the YouTube fake home button?
Youtube made the youtube logo into an add for the superbowl. Made the mistake 2 times already, thought i clicked home, but went to the superbowl. Bad practice.
I'm swedish and I didn't know that Ingvar was behind Ikano bank. It's a major thing here, they have a bank, loans and property.
> The foundation owns itself, so no Kamprad family members hold shares.

Late stage capitalism...

Anyway, I don't really get why the article claims he didn't care about money. It's known for a while that IKEA avoids taxes in many dodgy ways. If he really didn't care, the connected companies could pay a reasonable amount.
> I wonder how they can justify these prices

I mean, you've got to think someone has done an expected demand / price model and decided that this will maximize profits. Only people they need to justify to are shareholders.
The profiled photographer does not call for a ban on OxyContin, she argues that they require much more regulation than they currently have. I don't see how the fact that you are apparently one of the many people who don't get easily addicted, and she is one of the many who do, gives you the authority to say that she took "zero responsibility. Not sure what relevance alcohol and tobacco have in this. In America, both substances are heavily relugated, and these regulations were ostensibly in response to fears about their threat to health.
Event App Checklist to Ease and Engage Your Attendees
The subreddit is already a hot bed of denial which will eventually give way to tears.
I think about doing the same. I limit myself to less than 10 minutes a week on FB, and find that worthwhile to get news of people I have mostly lost contact with and see pictures posted by friends and relatives.

Reevaluating time spent on FB has also made me consider time spent on HN, Reddit, and Twitter. Tech social media is fun, sometimes useful, but I try to be mindful of the time I am spending. For me a good substitute is taking classes on Course and edX, read more books, and listening to audio books.
How a malicious seed generation website stole $4m using hidden code in an Image
The tech is interesting and the ideals of a currency not aligned with a government or big bank are nice but cryptocurrencies have no real value.

Essentially, they are a verifiable ledger of anonymous people exchanging bytes. They may have paid for those bytes with a real currency, much like someone paid for tulips some time ago, or they may have won them for verifying something on the ledger.

Some people in the tulip craze actually had tulips though, right? If a cryptocurrency falls to $0 USD exchange then all that is left is a digital ledger.

"At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsworker" [1]

I wonder if time of year plays into the psychology of this.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I just made a new account a few months ago so that I can keep up with event listings. I use m.facebook.com with JS disabled, which is tolerable. I have about 300 friends, 98% of them being Indian spammer accounts, whose friend requests I approve indiscriminately, so I have no reason to keep up with my feed. I did not use my real name, obviously. Works great now!