skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but the current landscape is such that it feels like seeing a street performer only accepting tips in Bitcoin. Do you want my money or not?

It's made clear to me every time I want to go watch something and am willing to pay money for it but it's not available on any of the platforms (read: middlemen) I pay to subscribe to; I have to subscribe to yet another one just to see that show. Or it was there until yesterday, then it was removed without warning.

I found myself in a position recently where the only way I could watch a particular show would be if I went down to the store and bought the box set on DVD. But I don't own a DVD player, haven't needed one in years, and wasn't about to buy one..
The easy solution is for pregnant mothers to take folic acid supplements. As you noted, it can prevent spina bifida, and is extremely cheap relative to what it prevents.

https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/folicacid/recommendations.html
And as a user, that system is _utterly terrible_

"I want to add you as a friend so we can play games together, what's your name"
Mrguyorama + random junk I didn't choose

It's user unfriendly
There are soooo many ways to easily game the email side of it that you would be better off using other means of detecting uniqueness (rate limit per IP address, rate limit per hash of IP address and user-agent)
Sorry, can't watch the video at the moment, but: if anything, the hifi companies are tweaking for an "incorrect" response, then, right? Which it seems at best might sound "better" for one type of music but it seems like would thus have to sound worse for others. If not, it seems like all editing stations ought to have an EQ that applies the universally-superior-sounding shape to all output. (Of course this assumes speakers aim for flatness…)

Edit: this other thread on this same post is already discussing this topic - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16360296
Yup. Now all your client's data can be stolen at once and isn't protected from government intrusion due to third party doctorine and network problems cause application problems. All these things that make it worse for the end user and more.

But it's easy for devs so none of it matters.
Expensive and slow seems to be the point. An attacker would need to spend an inordinate amount to change just the most recent transactions - this provides high confidence that the chain is immutable and secure. Maybe digital scarcity with trustless, secure transactions is not valuable to you (or the author), but many people do see promise there.

Additionally, the "environmental disaster" claims have always seemed shallow to me. Yes, it is a serious issue if everyone is mining with coal powered electricity, but how did it get so cheap? Isn't it on the government to not subsidize coal? The largest mining companies are finding super cheap energy in renewables (1). In the long run, I feel like mining is what can pay for further investment in renewables. For instance, see the article below about Germany paying customers to use electricity (2). Seems like government level mining might be a good investment.

1. https://globalnews.ca/news/3974083/bitcoin-mining-quebec-can...

2. https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/germany-grids-payi...
I'm in my 30s and I use FB a lot to keep up with my friends. However, I have notice that my younger cousins in their 20s never post. So... where do young folks go these days? Instagram? Twitter? Snapchat? I guess I need to talk to my cousins more and find out.
The question for me is - will Zuckerberg wake up and realize that Facebook is not a Google in terms of diversification and influence? CEO should have strategy about his main asset, he shouldn't rest on his laurels.
> I can't remove my account as I need to use as a developer

Why?
This is a good suggestion, and we have created an issue to implement this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43186. Thank you for the constructive feedback.
Especially since we know that Netflix has grown to be a ridiculous percentage of all traffic
Yes, except that gold will still be around with or without the state of computing radically changing.

So I wonder if the incentive structure will continue to uphold the validity of the ledger for such a timescale. Or if we’re going to discover things about computing, cryptography, and data representation that will leave bitcoin and others vulnerable to unforeseen attacks or degradations.

A physical good can continue in the absence of a civilization to support it—virtual goods are tethered to the long-term viability of their protocols and the computing infrastructure which represents them.

My suspcicion is that the long-term security of any cryptographic protocol is always approaching zero and that the field is still new enough that we have not yet developed 1000-year, let alone 100-year, protocols.
When I started my current position (my first as a developer), I was given a company notebook that I use as a learning log. For each PR I write a bullet point or two of things I learned/mistakes I made in creating the PR.

I go through it every so often to look for patterns, and use them to focus my learning. It helps avoid repeating mistakes, and makes my professional development much more directed/intentional.

I prefer keeping the learning log in a notebook than on the computer, as looking for patterns requires me to review everything I've written. I've found that unexpected connections pop out at me when I do that.
> The instant you sign a mortgage it becomes in your economic best interest to limit the supply of housing.

Not if you own the underlying land, or at least a portion thereof, and willing to build higher and denser and rent it out. For example, if I own a 1 story house, NIMBYism prevents me from building another story and renting it out as a separate unit for extra income. NIMBYism raises the value of my current property but lowers its potential value.
I like the idea of Mastodon.
I haven't really followed up on diaspora much, but why is that?

Isn't the idea behind diaspora something similar to sub-reddit's/facebook groups? You find a "pod" of interest/relation and join up. Thus a focus on the social/community aspects.
I check about once every one or two days for 10-30 seconds. The only reason I keep my facebook around is in case someone wanted to contact me. I've deleted most of my posts, my pictures, all of the other random information, and deleted a lot of friends recently as well.
As someone who's just entered the employment market after being a freelancer for a while, I have no idea how people who already have jobs can physically participate in the lengthy interview processes most jobs require these days. Ok they can take sick days, but if you're a bad liar or have an overactive conscience that's not ideal.

I totally understand the value of coding challenges, but I've been endlessly surprised at companies that expect me to expend more than 4 hours of my life interviewing for a chance at a job that will be paying maximum 50k. These are small companies, hardly the big 4. It's really an imposition.
Always wanted to augment http to use BT as a transport, but with the rise of https I’m not sure that would even be possible any more.
Thank you, that makes a lot of sense.
That's how I feel too. I'm not sure if it's because of Facebook itself, or just more about my personal growth and realizing that spending much time on social media in general was a waste of time.

I've found that I just care less what people are posting about than I used to, and I care less about posting my own stuff too. Would rather catch up when I see them next in person. And if I'm never going to see them in person, they're not really a big part of my life anyway.

Facebook's algorithm seems to get worse as time goes on too. It tends to show me the same old posts from around 20% of my friends and ignores what 80% of my other friends post. Maybe I'm technically wrong about this, but that's how it feels.
How I Learned to Embrace the #nomakeup Movement by Buying $150 Fake Eyelashes
this is pre-potato, try turnip
You can do that, you just need a good embedding space.
I never expect my headlines to survive (though the subs shouldn't use lazy annoying ones either), but I do aim to make good enough cross-heads that most of them get left as-is by the subs. \o/

In this case the headline was annoying enough that I did not read the piece at all: whose fault that is doesn't really matter. The fact that is was anti-clickbait does!
Empires traditionally rule over much more sizable peoples and lands, and if that weren't a requirement, then we could probably consider every nation an empire.
Evolving systems and pushing the reset button
It's almost like they've never heard of orientation, shading, or SHGCs.
Fun fact: US citizens overseas still have to file US federal income tax. The only place in the world where they don't have to do this, is Puerto Rico, because of its special status as a US territory.
If you need to support Facebook oauth, you need an account.
A bit similar to Opera Unite circa 2009:

http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-un...
try Mastodon.
> With bitcoin there is no possibility of default

Nobody is stopping you from writing an off-chain loan that defaults, by trampolining back to meatspace trust models for the debt obligation. Sure the effects are likely to be much more contained, but to say there is no possibility of default is not accurate.
The typical Facebook user is now a middle-aged/older person with a lot of disposable income. that is why the company is doing so well and why this loss of young users is not a big deal. Also, Instagram is filling that niche, so Facebook, which owns Instagram, wins either way.
I like this. If I may propose one more…

wave 3: bots[1]

[1] https://mashable.com/2017/11/02/facebook-phony-accounts-admi...
And automate it easily.
This looks similar to http://visdown.com/.
This device is not battery operated. FYI.
See the lump of labor fallacy. There's not a fixed amount of work out there and automating one process might make another one cheaper / more efficient causing growth in overall employment.
In Poland, downloading movies, music and books (but not software) as a regular person is completely legal. What is not legal is distributing them, so you have to make sure to disable uploading in your torrent client.
Short of leak from within Wikileaks (or what's left of it) that will be a hard (or even impossible) one to prove. In the meantime, Assange taking sides in an election battle does not help to promote the independence of WL. There is other evidence of WL heavily editing their output so witholding stuff that does not suit their agenda would seem to be a reasonable assumption, absent hard proof to the contrary (which they could easily provide!).
Then I assume there must be evidence that the Vietnamese and migrant workers in the US are rushing to adopt decentralized currencies. Is there?
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In order to use some developer products and tooling you need a facebook account.

https://developers.facebook.com/
My father was in the Royal Engineers and after WWII he was part of the unit dumping this stuff. He claimed there were also tonnes of mustard gas and very dodgy dynamite dumped too. The dynamite was sweating and gave them all headaches. Terrible job dumping this stuff in the Irish Sea off of a heaving ship.
Decline? I don't know about bittorrent as a client, but torrent use in general is very widespread and probably one the biggest sources of piracy
Reading these comments, I have a different perspective. My FB experience is pretty much sharing my kid/pet/food/vacation pictures and looking at everyone else's kid/pet/food/vacation pictures. This will continue until no one in my social network has any of these to share or they start sharing them somewhere else. In other words, my circle of friends will go wherever the "social action" is.
Or maybe people are discriminating against poverty / class rather than race.
>N-gate said it's just an app that makes you creepy because you stalk your family and your best friend.

It's not just n-gate, I think Monica is creepy as all hell. Keeping in touch with my best friends and family is texting, chatting, and calling each other once in a while. Putting them on a "CRM to manage" is like using LinkedIn for my personal life.
I agree. Zero out the stockholders and send some executives to prison for negligence and fraud. The corporate death penalty is the only way we'll see companies take infosec seriously. If I were CEO at Transunion right now, looking at what's happened to Equifax as a result of the breach (nothing), I wouldn't spend a minute's time thinking about upgrading my security practices.
I know I'm not alone because the top seed for each title on the pirate bay is almost always either the 700mb or the 1-2GB version.
I agree with everything you said, but were Apple compensating for that, I'd expect them to use a curve weighted to crappy studio monitors/Beats headphones/etc.

A couple other commenters noted that perception-weighted curves vary with total SPL; louder sounds sound different. I had never thought about that before but that makes sense to me, that Apple would apply a dynamic adjustment that studios can't.
The lack of customer communication here is simply shocking...
If you assume each of these transactions is a dollar, you get a bit under 0.04 transactions/sec on average. If peak load is 25x average, that would come out to 1/sec.
True, I have a friend who is building a mining operation of 112 MW in the North
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"Poorly" socialized is a value judgment. Not on worth as a human being, but a value judgment all the same. Some people are out of sync with the behaviors required to socialize/reproduce with YOU and the people YOU associate with. That doesn't make them poorly socialized. Except from a very limited perspective (yours).
Patchwork: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16273096
Why I stopped searching for my life calling
Started using FB in 2004 when there were barely a few hundred thousand users. It was great as a college freshman going to a new place not knowing anyone and needing to make friends fast and keep up. In my 30s now and have almost completely stopped using facebook. I check in once every few months, usually when I need to sign in because someone messages me there instead of email. It's actually stunning to me that Facebook is lumped in with other tech giants like Google and Amazon. If the services that google and amazon provide disappeared tomorrow it would have a sudden and devastating impact on many parts of my life and business. If facebook completely disappeared, I honestly wouldn't even realize it for at least a couple months (until the next time I check in) and even then I wouldn't care one bit. In all honestly I think it would be an improvement to society.
You mean, it allows corporations to make money. Actual artists derive most of their income either from salaries, or are paid for performances.
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> The resource-usage is wasteful to the point of irresponsible.

Agreed, but that's not how the law works. The law should prosecute everybody they have on their lists, regardless of the economics, it should be a matter of principle rather than one of cost-benefit analysis.

Not saying that this isn't how it often turns out to be, but that's how it should be.
Your house is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Developers are willing to pay a lot for it since a multifamily building can yield a lot more rent revenue than a single family house. The house is probably worth more in this scenario.
Survival games to stroke your inner-survivalist fantasies
You're conflating capitalism with colonialism / imperialism.
Learning Spark: Lightning-Fast Big Data Analysis
I agree that the algo sucks. I want a LinearBook. I want a time-series database for my social network updates.
What you actually need to know about Testing in the Agile Model
> And if you use a deduplicating backup system -- and you may have few viable alternatives at small scale -- the answer to that latter part will be "indefinitely". So yes, the GDPR does effectively ban backups, at least in this sort of scenario.

If the blocks are deduplicated because the reference count of the bit map remains greater than one then I don't see the problem: Just because John Smith can ask you to delete him from your database doesn't mean he can ask you to delete all John Smiths.

Also: European courts aren't amused by this kind of nonsense.

> And yet there is nothing else you can reasonably do in the absence of more specific, enduring and legally binding guidance from your national regulator, and even that guidance is at risk of being overturned in court at European level.

Sure you can. You can look to the historical application of various other similar laws and get an idea of what the regulators are likely to do.

For what it's worth: European courts cannot be legally bound to do anything. If they think you're being an asshole but are "technically within the law" they'll still fine you.

That's just how it works here: Hurting people is simply not ok.

> Nope, because the right to erasure is not negated because of those sorts of common sense

It's not "common sense" at all: Being afraid of the government and the police isn't something civilised countries have to deal with.

Why would anyone think that the government is trying to hurt people if everyone agrees hurting people is not okay?
I keep my profile to use Facebook login everywhere else.
> I mostly use streaming sites instead of BT these days.

Why? You have to get through tons of ads, have to hope they are of decent quality, etc. With BT I download, and in about 5 minutes I have the whole thing in HD.
They leaked the Baghdad airstrike video that got people mad for a few days before not doing anything about it.

They also released tons of military files relating to the Iraq / Afghan war and Gitmo that confirmed a lot of popular theory about the goings on over there - torture, Geneva violations, etc.
I was a student in 2012 and this year I'm mentoring for the first time. I'm grateful to have had the opportunity of strong mentorship when I didn't have much Open Source experience.
Gen Z advisory board wanted at Guggy (YC S17) – internship
We are building a humor-based messenger-app for generation Z (born mid 90 to early 00) and are looking to bring a Gen Z advisory board. We'll be transparent, and involve you in the process of defining & building the product, as well as launching it, it will be super exciting.

The perks are:

You'll have a valuable experience consulting a promising tech company and we'll be happy to provide recommendations (if you earn them).Experience with Gen Z consultation might be a big opportunity and a first client will definitely help.

We'll take your opinion seriously. You'll have real effect on the company, branding and product.

Attribution on our website.

$200 Amazon gift card.

We are looking for 5 Gen Z's who:

Have a very good sense of what is Gen Z's, what they like/don't like, how they think etc.

Your are consistent and able to commit for at least 3 hours a week (and at least 2 months).

Strong social network presence (you need to be active).

US-based (though we work remote).

Please apply here: http://bit.ly/2o28Dft
pg. 33-34: "There is usually no point in using a Cadillac as a pickup truck. (In practice it depends a little on what commodity is being «picked up.»)"

LOL!
In UK this is tortuous again, having been made specifically allowed.

Apparently people watching DVDs they've purchased somehow harms the public good. Yay, go Tories!
You don't need conventional disposable nappies/diapers. You can get washable ones. Will save you a shitload (heh heh) of money and trash.
I was thinking: "oh, this is the kind of product I wanted to create when I first made https://github.com/fiatjaf/jq-web ", then I kept reading and found the following line: "you can use jq queries in your YAML file".

Turns out it is using my jq/emscripten wrapper. Pure magic of the destiny.
TF funds one of my teams explicitly just to optimize CPUs and GPUs.
Every discussion i've had with them tells me they care about making customers succeed, period.

So i'm going to with "pretty low".
Do not confuse no value to you with no value at all.
Pipe organ music can commonly reach down to 16 hz or so, but for those looking for (slightly) more current music containing truly deep bass here are a few options:

Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the moon. The Heartbeat in the introduction contains significant energy in the 20-40hz range

Bass Mekanik- Each of his releases includes some music but also features a test section which will play frequencies with labels as to their frequency. Even if this sort of music isnt your thing it is helpful if you are curious as to what the frequency response of your stereo.

Tchaikovsky 1812 overture- Cannon Blasts go sub sonic.
Thankfully affordable co-working spaces offering a quiet environment with high speed internet and dedicated work spaces are abundant.
I find Chomsky's critiques of US Imperialism to be fairly dry, lucid and unemotional. However, it is difficult to perform a critique of America's moral standing and not be accused of having a slant, regardless of the sufficiency of your evidence or the strength of your argument.
My guess: Never
Stop Trying to Be So Busy
Unfortunately no. I am military right now so my hours are what my boss and meeting schedule says they are.
I think you're missing my point that we didn't fight the Barbary Pirates because we particularly cared about them enslaving people (even our own) but because they were disrupting our commerce through the Mediterranean.

And the Barbary Pirates and American slave trade could and did coexist. You seem to be quite emotional on that point.
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Thanks. Its always good to see real benchmarks.

One "qualm" is that AMD's APU is a very interesting platform, which can share pointers and memory between the CPU and GPU. Some degree of caching is shared between the CPU and GPU since both are on the same die!

Its not a big deal for cryptonight (which basically pushes AES-NI instructions: so its fastest on the CPU anyway. And L3 is so small that only 2-instances can run on the Ryzen 5 2400G). But in the general case (say: maybe Ethash, which isn't as latency bound / L3 bound), there may be custom code that can be written to take advantage of AMD's HSA platform.

Code which doesn't exist yet (and therefore can't be benchmarked). In part, the ROCm project doesn't even have Raven Ridge support yet, so HSA coding / CPU/GPU sharing can't really take place yet. But looking forward: it might be an interesting project to see EtHash implemented as HSA / ROCm code.
> nothing less than our democracy is at stake

@dang, this is a brilliant piece of journalism. Any way to give it more traction on the HN home page?
You're correct, but I believe the MP was referring to the fact that any such capital assets (e.g. miners/servers) are being purchased outside of Iceland, so no tax revenue accrues to Iceland (except maybe indirectly in the form of import duties or shipping costs).
This may be because Americans believe that class mobility is high (even though it isn't as high as it once was). But if class mobility is high, then if you're lower class, well, that's kind of your own fault. Go fix it. Move up.

But if you're of the wrong race, that clearly can't be your fault, and you can't "fix" it.

That split in how we think about class and race may be the underlying mechanism as to why we can't talk about both class and race at the same time.
Knuth is 80 and has been programming since at least the late 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth#Education