skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, but both Go and Elixir (Erlang less so - commercial and internal PLs work a bit differently) were in the same situation at some point: very small ecosystem, small community, lots of changes to the language. Adopting a language at this stage of evolution has a set of very well-known risks, but it has to be done by someone for the language to ever reach maturity. Trying to use it seriously is one of the best ways to contribute to the language.

In any case, if you are aware of the risks and plan to mitigate them - by, for example, employing people capable of debugging and fixing the language's implementation - you're left with some risk and a lot of advantage (if you're lucky and your domain is indeed the one your language is best suited for). It's a gamble, of course, but then nearly every decision (other than buying IBM) is one.
By that definition I guess all startups and IPOs are also scams.
New financial year, fresh budgets
In the article, you say the gradient of 2x + y^8 is [1, 7y^8]. Shouldn't it be [2, 7y^8]?
Off topic, but wonderful job on Inconsolata!
if they sell their usdt for btc, the btc price could actually rise. it just depends if they try to withdraw all together and the money leaves the crypto market
Why do you compare "owning a home" to "renting an apartment"?
Why don't you compare "renting a single family house" to "owning a home?" If you take away the obviously non-comparable "house" versus "apartment" aspect, it's a better comparison. You aren't comparing renting to owning, you are comparing apartments to houses.
I remember listening to your talk about Xi at RustConf '16, and being amazed at how deeply you've been thinking about text editors. This talk is a nice update on your thoughts.

How soon do you think it will be before more product-level thinking can be brought into the mix?

(Edit: I see I'm not the only one to ask a question along these lines.)
They are in the business of making companies pay for placement in the comparison shopping business.

It seems obvious to me that this is just an artificial product to make more revenue.

Froogle was actually better for results a decade ago when they just sorted the normal web scraping for shopping items. Adding the forced ads to show up resulted in worse deals for consumers. This was part because advertisers had t pay for ads, thus raising prices. And part because advertisers didn’t have the best products, just the most efficient ads.
Contact info needed.

Me: front end dev (ng) / IM / biz dev
How? The invasion of Russia lead to the meat grinder that destroyed Germany. How would the allies have turned Germany without the Russians?
What is the source? I didn't see that in the linked article.
Preliminary Report: Hawaii False Ballistic Missile Alert [pdf]
Huge changes in computing and technology, driven by the cloud in good part: big data, AI and machine learning, chatbots, and containers, microservices, etc. The major players all want a part of these so are acquiring innovators in each of these spaces.

It's a great time to be a developer!
How to Write a Good White Paper for an ICO?
Congrats to Alex and his team! I've loved their technology since their alpha days. Glad to see it working out and hopefully getting into more hands with the acquisition.
(this has nthing to do with wallaroo or kafka but:) go isn't stuck in the 80s it just stuck on Rob Pike's belief that him personally being lazy and jury rigging in general is "simple" and a virtue.
India's Phantom Flats Leave Homebuyers' Dreams in Tatters
> Also, when you deposit your USD in Chase Bank, you don't have USD, you have "Chase USD credits" which you can withdraw, subject to their limitations, on demand.

No, I have USD in my account when I deposit to Chase. I can go to Chase and say "give me my fucking money" and they'll give me sweet cold, hard dirty fiat dollars with, in general, no questions asked. I deposited in dollars, my account balance is denoted in dollars, my withdrawals in dollars. 1 USD == 1 USD.

All of these Bitcoin exchanges.... ...... maybe you can do that but good luck..... maybe?????

Unlike a real bank, your "Bitfinex Credit" is actually backed by USDT, not USD. When you go to Bitfinex and say "Give me my fucking money in USD", they'll laugh and point out that you never had USD, you bought something called tether which is. Tether being, of course, the space-age crypto currency that is pegged to the USD using ...$methods.... and has, according to their marketing website, been subjected to "multiple professional audits" (cough).

So what you see on all these ticker sites is a bunch of USDT that is silently folded into the USD marketcap and pricing models people use to make their decisions. All of it assuming USDT is actually legit. If USDT goes south, it is going to fuck over the entire crypto market because almost everything there is now completely mispriced. Worse, there is allegations that USDT was being used to drive up and maintain the current crypto prices... if that is true, crypto is double-fucked because even the underlying valuations are bullshit.

> Bitfinex, as I understand it, allows withdrawals in USD (modulo the restrictions above).

Show me an average joe retail "investor" who has been able to successfully withdraw USD from Bitfinex. People have been asking for that person to stand up and raise their hand for months. Crickets is all you get in response.
The lease is a loan for the term of the lease in the amount of the total rent, coupled with other grants and responsibilities.
Google completes its $1.1B HTC deal
This is great news! I am not sure what happens to tectonic? Is is going to be part of OpenShift?
But since google auctions ads, Case A results in higher prices to the non-Google ad buyers. So it’s better than neutral.
But that is exactly what happened. Bitfinex has not exchanged USDT for dollars since mid-2017.
Figma (a UI design tool written in C++ compiled to JS using emscripten) talked about this briefly in their tech blog. They compiled FreeType to JS for rendering fonts to bitmaps: https://blog.figma.com/building-a-professional-design-tool-o...
right but it’ll never go over something like 1.04 because it’s supposed to be pegged to a dollar
How to write some Walt Whitman style poetry using Deep Learning
Amazon Lumberyard is really an issue.
Some cultures you would protect do not have this quarells. They produce social dynamite that constantly attacks weak members of the culture or other neighbouring cultures.
If it is western culture to vote dictators to power who send culture relativists into camps, is the preventing of this not "meddling"? Or are some 'cultures' just regression and barbarity hamered into laws, protected from discussion by some "god" who created them.
Is discussing other peoples missery and supression by a culture who do not get to have a say due to the culture - not actually a privilege and meddling with theire basic rights as a individual? Is the collective always worthier of protection, than the individual?
be happy, at least you are targeted
Thanks for this. Was taking Andrew Ng's course but the way he glosses over the calculus and then expects the student to understand the implications at end of lecture was a turn off so I dropped it. I hated the feeling I wasn't learning, just memorizing solutions.
If by "Kelkoo" you mean "a yahoo proxy", then yes

See the "a yahoo company" at the very top of this archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/20050701004143/http://www.kelkoo... (you'll need to collapse the archive.org banner on top - it is hidden behind it by default)
That's because you (probably) haven't used a modern text editor.

If you'd follow either chrome's or firefox's changelog you'd also read about constant progress in optimizing their browser engine and dev tools.
Except Red Hat is financially now in Q4.
Hi, developer and designer here - I'm happy to help if you're happy dealing with a UK based company!
Unlikely. Most of the acquiring companies, including Red Hat have fiscal years that don't end on Dec 31.
You are correct, that would be a risk for them (especially for FB) because of how big they've become.

Anecdote: in 2014, I registered an account on Twitter called "tweetcoin". I felt social networks would start developing their own currencies. I posted one comment, "exciting things in the works". I was promptly locked out of the account, and a new tweet appeared there (dated 2012!), stating "this is not your account."

You can see it here:

https://twitter.com/tweetcoin
Actual (and better) title: "A beginner's guide to Train travel in the USA"
Recently my impression of the WSJ is incredibly poor. Just BS article after BS article. To me the bias has never been more obvious. Though I only see their content on aggregators like HN, so perhaps that plays a part.
Thank god, this has been SO annoying to see all the time. I mark them as spam/report them for being a scam.
What alternatives do you find preferable, should one wish to avoid contamination and preserve the purity of indigenous cultures?

Shall we not tell people that conditions are treatable or offer our knowledge, because it stems from a Western imperialist cultural context?
Kind of off topic but does anyone have any resources on operating system development for AArch64?
AMD falls despite beating Q4 estimates
I suspect an announcement re: Docker's acquisition by a major tech player may follow closely on the heels of this news.
Although that advice is useful. I would have assumed a co-founder is mostly focused on marketing.
39 Cybersecurity Issues in 2018
Sure... sorta. But there is a problem. You see, without continuous input from the environment in the form of highly corellated input... we know what happens to human consciousness. It rapidly dissolves and disappears. Consciousness is intimately and (thus far) inextricably bound up in its embodied existence. Facial paralysis has profound effects upon the ability of people to feel emotions 'internally', eventually resulting in both an inability to even recall ever feeling those emotions or having an ability to recognize them in others. Should a consciousness divorced from a feedback loop created with the same environment we share (or at least similar in most respects, a simulation might work OK, I don't think we know) be created, the odds that we could even recognize it as conscious are very low. Maybe a general measure of the systems tendency to reduce entropy in some region either within or near itself?

We are feedback loops, and when the loop is broken, we stop being us.
Thanks for the kind words :) But Pathfinder doesn't do shaping.
It took less than 30 seconds to find out that they're not.

https://www.ft.com/content/4044d354-b825-11dd-ac6d-0000779fd...
You can show people how to fish without appearing at a PR dog-and pony show with someone who is actively opposed to what you claim to want to do.
For the first, proof-of-concept, no-optimizations-applied, version of a low-level library written from scratch in a high-level language to be anywhere near production-ready, presumably optimized C implementation is actually very impressive. I'd expect the new implementation to be an order of magnitude (or more) slower than the C one, initially, and only get better with many rounds of optimizations in the following months.
What do you mean? How would it look like?
Hey, stay on thread! Thanks for the kind words though.
But are they as efficient as regexp? I personally prefer regexp combinators.
M&A has been the strategy of just about all major companies for the last 18 months, and because of the lead time, I think 2018 is going to be even busier.
The problem is that a small community can’t develop or even maintain advanced technology, including that required for sanitation and healthcare.

So, you either choose total independence and low technology or interdependence with other groups and advanced tech.
I am guessing that would be the future of the social networks. Yes, lord zuckerberg helps you be in touch with your friends and family, but makes a ton of money while selling your data(/metadata).

A legitimate network which probably starts niche and share a token or a part of it for your activity would be a great start I guess.
Do bear in mind that he voted for bringing the Investigatory Powers Act in to law.

He's a career politician. He'll be very pleased to be in the Guardian today.
I'm surprised that you're surprised; this article clearly isn't meant to be a serious piece of journalism. Regardless, thanks for posting a reference to Jim Keller's wiki page.
Railroad diagrams for regular expressions were common long before 2005, and generating such images on demand isn't that unusual, so your work is unlikely to have been a major influence here. Similarly, automatically translating regular expressions from one engine to another is something that people have done before (out of necessity, for compatibility).
If you get children pumped up about science and the natural world, does it matter if you don't use scientific methods?
Internet Filter Bubbles Are Killing Democracy
Hi Raph. Do you ever get the feeling that `xi` will inevitably become isomorphic to the "general programming problem" that's been solved many times, at several levels of zoom, distinguished by trade-offs and implementation quality? I mean, what do you do when your general editor implementation inevitably starts feeling like an OS? Or do you think you'll be able to successfully avoid implementing processes, access control, roles, db and/or fs functions etc in your editor, somehow?
Intrinsically? Nothing. I think he's just making an observation, not insinuating anything.
Do you work with SAP as your username suggests?

That seems pretty good to me for Houston.
Care to elaborate? The article mentions it had over a ten fold increase in incidents compared to the well-known Firestone debacle. What other tires are dangerous?
> However, in practice, they do do it.

Anybody been able to actually withdraw cold, hard fiat dollars from tether or bitfinex? Show of hands please?

.... crickets ....
It told you a story and let you draw your own conclusion. Why do you need someone else to tell you what to think?
Pensions Research Council via Forbes: Blockchain Pensions Can Never Go Bankrupt
From the wikipedia page:

> On March 26, 2004, Kelkoo was bought by Yahoo! Inc for €450 million.
Oracle Solaris 11.4 Open Beta Released
Finally! The most annoying ones were James Altucher's... I found them particularly fishy. (don't know him so not sure what's behind them).
"If you were a German with an armpit tattoo [1] and were taken by the Russians death was certain."

I can think of worse heuristics[1] to use for deciding "whom should we kill".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_blood_group_tattoo
> Fingerprinting is treated like the internet's dirty secret, but it's a technology that could be used in different ways. I would prefer this to any of biometric authentication schemes that have been peddled as "passwordless."

Fingerprints (and other biometric data) is the analogue of a (public) username and not the analogue to passwords:

> http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2013/10/fingerprints-are-user...

HN discussion:

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8496797

So if you replace entering your username by a fingerprint, retinal scan, ... this is perfectly fine from a security perspective (though IMHO a really bad idea from a privacy perspective). On the other hand using biometric data as replacement for passwords is from a security perspective an anti-pattern.
Wondered when that would happen. ;)
Honestly I can see that / what you mean.

That being said, I think narcissism is like a memento mori with death. It’s something you need to remind yourself of daily to keep you humble. Those subreddits can be used for bad / ego-pumping purposes, but I’d like to think it’s 1). a reminder to be careful what we say and screen it for narcissistic detachment from reality and 2). a bit of fun in the same vein as late-night talk-show comedy (which is usually some form of trash-talking whichever ppl were involved in the events of the day).
Downvoted as you probably didn't click the link and left the flippant comment. It links to a page of interesting articles related to this topic.
Probably rhel9. I have no professional insight into this but the historic timeline implies 8 will be out soon, I suspect they are just waiting for Wayland to get some where they feel comfortable with. Anything past Wayland is probably a 9 feature.
> Allies are no exception.

Absolutely. As Robert E Lee eloquently said: "It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it."

In war there is no good. It's just evil. The only difference is between winners and losers.

> The psychology behind committing such crime is beyond the “sexual urge” excuse.

Isn't it innate nature? In the wild, whether it is chimps or lions, you vanquish the males and rape/procreate with the females. For much of human history, rape wasn't a crime. One of the reasons for going to war was for women. Women were considered spoils of war. You can find it in seminal western texts like Iliad or the bible. The entirety of european colonization ( from africa to china ) was mass rape of women. As has been in pretty much all human cultures since we kept records.
Using machine learning to build a healthcare assistant for Google Home
How I Organize My Week to Do Three Days of Deep Work
https://github.com/JoaoAparicio/read-ft-wsj
This is a guest opinion piece, not from the editors of SA.
I believe the one for https://cosmos.network/ was legitimate, and that they’re on the verge of launching the platform they promised. Pretty interesting, actually.
> There is no purpose to automation that does not exist in the service of humanity at large, but only for a few.

There certainly is, to the few that are served. Increased productivity that doesn't require manpower/hours has been captured for centuries.

A capitalist economy provides many incentives to privately hold productivity gains from automation, while providing virtually none to relinquish them to the public.
I really like the "loose coupling" JSON-RPC approach. You're doing Alan Kay proud!
Nope, it's Arc for exactly that reason, though we're not currently using it across threads right now. The fact that it can support immutable semantics safely is one of the really nice features of Rust.
> On many international exchanges, USDT are the easiest way to convert BTC to a (supposedly) USD-backed asset.

I'm sorry, but I cannot follow.

Let's say you want to sell a BTC, current worth about 10k. So you go to a shady exchange, click sell and 10k of USDT appear in your account.

Good, but what is the next step? The next thing you will notice that there is nothing that you can buy for your USDT. You cannot buy a house, you cannot buy a car, you cannot even buy food. The only thing that you can buy for USDT is BTC (or some other cryptocurrency). This is the only thing you can do next.

And the BTC is even worth more than the USDT, because there are actually people willing to sell you stuff for BTC.

But let's assume for a moment that people are really hodling USDT. This would mean that there is an increasing amount of such people, because Tether is printing more and more and more of USDT. This means there needs to be an increasing demand of USDT, and I really cannot see where this is coming from.
Simplenote for general ideas

Trello card for actual tasks
Most likely Apple OSX (Darwin). Assuming that you're talking about servers there are several BSDs being actively developed: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonflyBSD and HardenedBSD. OpenBSD and HardenedBSD both have a heavy security focus. NetBSD's focus is on compatibility and generally will run almost any device. DragonflyBSD is probably the one making the most significant changes (and the one that has diverged the most from the other BSDs).
Show HN: NES Emulator with gamepad support, full screen, save games, and more
Seems like a case where the cover-up is actually worse than the crime. From reading the article I did not see where Goodyear marketed the Tire as being suitable for use on RVs. If that is the case the worst they should be held liable for is failing to re-iterate the fact that they should not be used on RVs.
The Pentagon’s Next Supersonic Bullet Is Almost Ready to See Action
As per the question in the FAQ about open sourcing CoreOS's technology, we can assume it's going to become open source, at least:

https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos

It will probably continue to be available in some paid commercial offering with well defined releases and lifecycles, as well as a community-supported free-in-both-senses offering which moves faster. Red Hat repeatedly uses this model across their portfolio.

Can't answer the OpenShift question - I have no inside info from either company. But open sourcing it is the bigger impact.
Follow the trail related to Bitfinex's CFO (in the Panama papers, and elsewhere).

Pretty interesting findings.
Comment of the author of iterm2 on HN, about latency optimization: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14800195
You could tell people "we want to know how people respond to flu shots, so we're going to give you two shots, one on September 1 and one on October 1, and either the first will be a saline solution and the second will be the flu shot, or the first will be the flu shot and the second will be a saline solution; either way, you'll be vaccinated against the seasonal flu by October".

(You could also have a control group where you don't give any shots at all, and don't claim to have given any.)
It's kind of a clever solution by Google, if a bit troll. They can make that ad auction 100% fair and still win it because they have more expertise on running efficient ad campaigns than anyone. IMHO that just doubles down on the danger of their monopoly power, but perhaps it complies with the antitrust requirements.
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From their FAQ: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/faq-red-hat-acquire-coreos
Probably better asking that at http://forums.fast.ai , since a lot of participants there have set up local meetups, and some of them have gotten pretty big. I haven't created a meetup myself - my focus has been on the online course and community, frankly.
might hurt in the short run but the sooner these scams are gotten rid of, the better in the long run for crypto to develop
Gritty reboot of Carmen Sandiego?
Most of the "top 1% doctor" is marketing hype and BS. Reminds me of the "America's Top Doctors" ads you see on airplanes.
Well if all people decide to cash out, it will destroy the value.
Yeah I think the other guy is right. That's definitely a premium plumber.

I had my plumber fix a pipe that broke inside the foundation for a $1100. And that involved 8 hrs of 4 guys digging a long and deep ditch, as well as chiseling out foundation.
As a long time Atom user I want to agree with you but I'm not sure these editors really have "won".

At least according to HackerRank's "2018 Developer Skills Report"[1] 67% of developers used VIM with only 4% and 2% using VS or Atom.

Stack Overflow in last year's "Developer Survey Results"[2] does align with your opinion however.
Sooo... \_(ツ)_/¯

[1] http://research.hackerrank.com/developer-skills/2018/#insigh...
[2] https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2017#technology-mo...
If they were using plaintext for assignments, it'd be possible to teach it early on. Sadly most students aren't writing their homework in markdown.
What's the matter with Oklahoma?