skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True. I sort of meant "similar"in a wider sense: large scale, community effort to do something useful. Wikipedia represents a lot about what we that the internet, and internet culture was.^

Remember how big a deal Wikipedia is. A lot of that "human knowledge at your fingertips" is Wikipedia.

Maybe that applies at a bigger level, with "similar"things being implemented as part of something. I suspect that a big part of the reason Wikipedias don't get started now is that they get implemented as startups.

Anything showing promise on that scale is a "unicorn" and in 2018 Jimmy Wales would have had a choice between private/startup and internet-owned. That's a billion dollar choice. For example, stack overflow could have been built like a Wikipedia. If it was done in 1996, that would be a sensible choice. In 2018, a founder would be forgoing an unthinkable sum of money, and also resources to make it happen with.

^I guess all this needs to be caveated with "other than OSS."
> But I don't see why those who 'miss out' on the presale etc. (think banks, governments) would choose to hop on board at a later date - essentially gifting money to early adopters - when they'd be better off simply creating a new coin

This exact same argument has been repeatedly given to explain why Bitcoin would never break above $10, $100, $1000, whatever, or why Ethereum was doomed to stay in the pennies. Clearly the late adopters see more value in entering than they see a problem with gifting money to earlier adopters.

Creating a new coin or forking doesn't solve anything, they would be alone and it wouldn't have any value if nobody wants to trade in.

The value is what people value it at. Just because the supply is bounded doesn't mean its value will increase indefinitely.
Here’s something similar I’ve built: https://stereo.lu/charely
Is there? What would that huge amount of code meant to you?
No. The term “bug” — describing a malfunction — was used long before the advent of electronic computers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology
Show HN: Immutable Styles for CSS
Off the top of my head:

- Google Wallet

- Square Cash (now "Cash App")

- Venmo (blegh. Owned by PayPal)

The first two allow you to send and receive money via a debit card, no direct banking info needed. I've never used Venmo but I imagine it's the same.

Facebook has a similar way to send money, no idea how that one works. Google Wallet funds can be sent via Gmail.

The apps auto deposit money. Square takes a bit longer unless you pay them.
Are drones really “the most climate friendly way to ship packages”?
Once-tolerant Indonesia moves to outlaw gay – and extramarital – sex
> live coding, inspection, self-documentation and hotswapping

I have done all of this with Java and Intellij
The desktop version absolutely does not have that requirement, you just have to buy the right one. Office 2016 can be installed and used offline without ever talking to a Microsoft server. You're referring to a restriction specific to the Office365 version. If you don't want cloud requirements, don't buy the cloudy version.
No idea about you, but when I reason about programs, I spend very little time manipulating syntax. Most of the time is spent manipulating semantic objects, like predicates on the program state, whose representation is independent from even the abstract syntax of a programming language.
IRQ conflicts!

Recently I had this surface, some RT kernel extension we use would display possible conflicts. Despite programming a lot these days, my background is electronic engineering, so I still have a rough idea of what an IRQ is and does even on the lowest level. However had no luck trying to explain that to a 'pure' programmer.
Installing visual studio 2017 in a windows VM on a ryzen 1600 with an ssd and 16GB ddr4 and a fast internet connection took 3 hours, just did it a few days ago
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deodorant#Overview) it is more a matter of not having bacteria than of having the right ones. It says that washing and shaving one’s armpits are contributing factors to having bacterial colonies, and, hence, smelly armpits:

”When adult armpits are washed with alkaline pH soap, the skin loses its acid mantle (pH 4.5 - 6), raising the skin pH and disrupting the skin barrier. As many bacteria thrive in this elevated pH environment, this makes the skin susceptible to bacterial colonization.
[…]
Underarm hair wicks the moisture away from the skin and aids in keeping the skin dry enough to prevent or diminish bacterial colonization. The hair is less susceptible to bacterial growth and therefore is ideal for preventing the bacterial odor.”

I think deodorant mostly is an example of capitalism creating demand where none exists.
Hopefully these scammers will take a hefty fine one day.
Ask HN: Any tutorial on importance weighted active learning?
I was reading this interesting paper on importance weighted active learning: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~dasgupta/papers/iwal-icml.pdf

I'm having trouble understanding the selection of the rejection threshold. I'm trying to implement a basic example of active learning using sklearn.

As per page 44 of this document: http://hunch.net/~active_learning/active_learning_icml09.pdf I'm looking at how to implement the "implicit" version. However, I don't understand the meaning of "If learn(S ∪ (xt, 1)) and learn(S ∪ (xt, 0)) both return an answer".

Is there anyone who can shed some light or point me to resources that'll help me implement importance weighted active learning?
"... but it improves quality of life at a very reasonable price."
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> I'm a layman, but spectre and meltdown seems like it can be a vehicle to exploit the intel management engine.

No, or extremely unlikely at the very least.

Spectre and Meltdown allow a low privilege program to read (not write, only read) normally protected system memory accessed by higher privileged software through a shared cache. In the initial attack the privileged and attacking software run on the same CPU, but there are now "Prime" versions where attacker and privileged software can run on separate CPUs as long as they're on the same coherence domain (very simplified: they share some level of cache, at least the last level).

The ME on the other hand is a completely separate CPU. Although it can access system memory, likely in a coherent way, as I understand it has its own dedicated internal memories (sometimes called TCM for "tightly coupled memory" or CCM for "closely coupled meory", it's all the same: internal SRAM directly attached to a CPU core and dedicated to it). All the security context would be in these ME TCMs, so physically unaccessible from software running on the main CPU cores. It's a simple and efficient way to enforce security: true physical isolation with no sharing.

So Spectre and Meltdonw may enable a low privilege application to spy on communications between privileged software on the main CPUs and the ME, but it shouldn't help attack the ME itself. Unless the Intel ME devs did something horribly wrong, like storing sensitive ME data in the main system memory. Which would be very surprising really: if you put an isolated CPU for a ME, it's really to isolate the security state.
IMHO internet projects, especially free data-centric projects shold just be made as granular as possible. There should be a project to maintain the actual data base and independent projects to display and integrate this data. And as far as I know this is how it actually is in the world of OSM though the actual projects are not being developed and marketed actively enough. I may be wrong - I have never really used OSM (I prefer the proprietary map project native to the country I live in - it does the local job much better than both OSM and Google), just read about it a number of times.
> He was employed by Breitbart.

> He left

He resigned under pressure when controversy erupted over his past comments that were viewed as supporting, or at least minimizing the significance of, pedophilia.

He didn't leave because he suddenly realized, after years of association, that Breitbart was an alt-right outlet, so the fact that he left is not really germane to what his voluntary association with Breitbart says about his ideology.
> But "code is data" and "code is expressed as lists of lists" are not the same statement. And the difference matters.

Except that when a Lisp programmer says "code is data" that's exactly what they mean. Lisp programs are lists of Lisp lists (say that 5 times fast xD). This gives Lisp code generation powers that leave any string-based code manipulation in the dust (I know you already know this).

I'm not against making the clarification, I just disagree with the statement "even the most casual reflection on what this slogan actually means will reveal that it can't possibly be the right answer.".

I realize that some may not understand what is meant when a Lisp programmer says "code is data", and it is worth explaining what they mean when they say it. I just disagree that that makes the expression invalid for Lisp programmers to use in that manner.
My sister turned out 6'3, my parents would have given a lot to predict that height some years before (as they feared she might end up even taller). Same is probably true for very small people that give their kids growth hormones. And If you are looking for a sport your child is good at it might also help. Sure you can construct very adversial uses of such a technology here but that does not mean that the tech itself is bad.
> Yet some of those people reject the idea that it's something they should do at all.

Maybe they are right. Life expectancy in Europe is about 80 years old. I may be wrong but I suspect most people who are 80 years old now never exercised. They probably were physically active but didn't exercise in the modern sense of the term.

If you are reasonably active in your daily life and eat healthy food, I'm not sure exercising is such a necessity.
People have trash talked their way to millions of dollars in poker tournaments.[0]

You can "regulate" this away as a tournament organizer/gamedev company if you wanted to (i.e. allowing allied team only chat or allowing players to disable chat visibility altogether)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_gold
The way we are talking to each other here is just toxic. Most of it isn’t even a conversation at all and I see very few attempts at understanding or empathy. It all just stinks of tribalism.

Every time the memo is brought up I see this same shit, and feel someone needs to call it out. I don’t care what side you are on; how we are going about this conversation is clearly not working. I wish I had a solution for this. I don’t. But understanding that there is a problem may be a good first step.

We must be better than this
I spent the better part of a week trying to get google cash working - submitted passport, utility bills - they kept claiming my passport picture wasn't clear enough. Eventually I gave up and just used paper cash - which is what we, a pretty much 100% highly technical office, use to pay each other.

I love venmo - it's worked well for me. And I use Apple pay multiple times a day, every day. And been a PayPal user for 15 years - but no common thread with colleagues in the office. We just need something that we can be certain everyone can use. Zelle might be that thing.
Bro, session box is such a handy recommendation. Didn't know of it till now. I typically have to use incognito and it's rather tedious.
I think there's a general problem that the incentives are for building big tools, so small problems like this are handled by everybody writing their own ad-hoc scripts.
No, this only says that the about 20000 SNPs (mutations) that they can accurately measure have a limited effect on variance. What the millions of other SNPs do is not known. For example there are estimates for many many thousands of SNPs that influece your height by 0.1 mm. The single variant effect is tiny but altogether it adds up a lot.

Oh, and lets not forget that again this is only point mutations (SNPs). But there are also genomic insertions, deletions, larger structural variants and poly variant interactions, all of which we do not really have much idea about or even the tech available to accurately measure.
never in my life I heard anything like this.

In contrast, never in my life has America faced anything like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Mumbai_attacks

In America, mass shootings only seem to occur in "gun-free zones", where perpetrators know there is little chance of armed interdiction before they have accomplished their mission.
VS Code is a modern extensible programmers editor; with appropriate extensions, it approximates an IDE, but it's not an IDE like Visual Studio proper, Eclipse, etc.

Now, most actual IDEs don't take long to install either, but VS takes approximately forever.
Honest question: I'm from eastern Europe, trying to wrap my head around this US controversy.

I fully respect Google's right for at-will termination, just trying to figure out whether Damore sinned by going against "world-as-is" or "world-as-ought-to-be".

I took the effort and found both the full text of this new National Labor Relations Board judgement [0, PDF], which includes:

"… statements about immutable traits linked to sex—such as women’s heightened neuroticism … were discriminatory and constituted sexual harassment…"

and Damore's original memo, which cites a peer-reviewed published source [1]:

"research in large samples has shown that levels of N (neuroticism) are higher in women than men. This is a robust finding that is consistent across cultures. This is especially the case during the reproductive years, but is also visible in children and elderly."

Does such research really constitute harassment in the US? If so, what are the broader implications for science?

Other rebuttals I could find were similarly vague in distinguishing between facts ("is") and desires ("ought to be"). Has Damore's memo been rebutted at the "is-level"? Is he wrong in facts, or merely controversial in his proposed policies?

[0] https://apps.nlrb.gov/link/document.aspx/09031d45826e6391 (PDF)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23068306
Running a 2-hour-per-day sleep deficit is almost certainly worse for your overall health than whatever benefits Crossfit provides.
My family got our first computer when I was 6 years old. It was a 4K ROM BASIC machine with cassette storage. It didn't come with any software. Instead it came with a book that taught some BASIC and then pages of program listings you were supposed to type in. That's all you could do with the early computers - program them. Now I have a career in software development.
A decade after social networks got popular people still do not understand how relationships are formed.

They think you can get a buddy, find friends, be not lonely anymore with a single click. FB, Instagram, Tinder and today's Show HN seem to be simple fixes to break out of loneliness.

They are all like sweets—they are tempting, tasty and shortly after consumed you are hungry again. Hungry for social encounters. So you consume them again and the vicious cycles starts.

Building real-life relationships is not easy. There are many ways to get there. A pure online play is not the answer.
As I said in my reply above, I'm all for the clarification of what Lisp programmers mean by "code is data". I just disagree that the fact that someone may misunderstand what Lisp programmers mean when they use the phrase somehow makes it an invalid thing for them to say.

"code is data" has a specific meaning to Lisp programmers, and it is completely valid.
EU national identity cards are issues under EU guidelines and recognized by the authorities of all member states.
> Familiarity with how computers work arguably peaked during the early-mid PC era.

Now there's an interesting observation. I'm not quite sure whether you're right, but quite possibly.

Looking around my local libraries and bookstores, most of the books that deal with using personal computers do seem to be from the 90s/early 2000s era. The question is whether the decline in these books indicate that they are not needed any more, or that they are not wanted anymore (due to "hidden complexity")?
You mention Litecoin but not Ripple?
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A jet fighter is a computer with wings. I don't think we should expect pilots to be computer literate the same way a software programmer needs to be.
For those curious, in practice, one of the problems we find with this kind of thing in practice is the phenomenon of policy-based evidence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-based_evidence_making

That is to say, governments in charge of deciding goals, metrics and studies/reviews will inevitably cherry-pick, pay consultants, and fund those things which selectively support their desired policy-implementations and outcomes.

You may say: "well, make the thing independent", but that's easier said than done.

You might also say: "well, it will be immediately obvious if anyone is doing this", to which i'd respond that it really isn't immediately obvious to most people, and if the efficacy of policies/metrics/evaluations were immediately obvious, we would often negate the need to be attempting/implementing the additional overhead of formally introducing evidence-based policy (since we'd commonly agree on policy and whether it worked).

Which is of course not to say that evidence/experiments is not noble or the right thing to do, but more so to point out that governance is a far tricker situation than just saying "well, we'll fix it by legislating that governments have to do the right thing..."
Perhaps if the sphere were cracked open, there might have been a flashover. The grey smoke billowing after the matched burned out looked suspicious.
Not really the point; if you know the dependencies but do not know the fundamentals, you can build stuff but when things go wrong and the fix is not the first SO hit, you are going to waste a lot of time on something you have no clue how to even start diagnosing.
"what's a computer?"

looks like there is some truth in that ad
Fair - I don't doubt that there are some great educators in the Bourbaki school. But as Arnold mentions in his lecture I do think mathematics lost something when it embraced formalism so fully.

For me, the definition "A group is a set of transformations on an object such that..." is so much more enlightening than "A group is a set G together with a binary operation * such that..."

Only yesterday I was trying to learn about differential forms. Most of the notes I found online introduce the wedge product in a deeply unhelpful way, by listing some axioms that it satisfies and deducing results from the axioms. It takes hours of work to understand why those specific axioms were chosen. For me - and maybe I'm wrong here - that's Bourbaki's formalist approach in a nutshell.

It was only when I found Terry Tao's notes [0] and Dan Piponi's notes [1] that I could actually see the use of differential forms. It's an unfortunate state of affairs for the discipline that in order to learn about X, you have to google "X intuition", since it's not given to you as a matter of course.

[0] https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/pcm-article-differ...
[1] https://github.com/dpiponi/forms/raw/master/forms.pdf
if you look at the first chart, it basically says that when compared with the US, China is producing comparable number of third party cited AI papers when its number of AI professionals is just like 10% of the US total. clearly you don't need to be an AI professional to see the problem here - it is all about quantity not quality. then the sad truth is that for most other categories, China is also far behind in term of quantity.
To be fair, "native" in this sense is exposing platform native UI components and libraries, which gives apps a native look and feel because, well, they _are_ native. For most apps that's all you'll ever need, and the performance overheard of running JS is negligible. For any performance critical code, you can write them in the platforms native code and interface with them via JavaScript.

Unfortunately though, so many developers do not know how to write in the platforms preferred native language and you end up with components, like most of those listed on awesome-react-native[1], where they're entirely written in JS which:

* sometimes emulate the native look and feel (often poorly), not _are_ the look and feel, and,

* as a result, often perform super poorly compared to their native counterparts, and,

* if emulating the native look and feel, and not implementing their own design/UI (which most do), that look and feel can break between OS upgrades and feel out of place, and,

* often don't distinguish between platforms (i.e. the developer won't bother implementing the look and feel for Android, where the component is entirely compatible).

[1] - https://github.com/jondot/awesome-react-native
You send money to strangers every time you buy something online and most of the time you buy something in a store.
> just syncing the map data from osm regularly would require decent hardware

You can get country level extracts, which can be updated every day. Nearly any server which can import OSM data is able to keep it up to date.
As far as I know his methods were to post his document to an internal mailing list specifically for feedback on potentially controversial topics[1]. This seems a "by the book" method (although I am surprised such a mailing list exists).

Someone ELSE then disseminated it more widely (Internally and externally).

[1] I cannot find any citations on this right now though, google-fu appears to be failing me.
Yes, you can do just that.
The inherent issue with ICOs is pricing.

Buying tokens, which can be exchanged for a service at an unknown ratio (price), amounts to financing a new fast food chain by buying a million tokens for $1,000, where the tokens can be used to purchase hamburgers once the chain opens. The problem is that you have no idea if those million tokens — once the chain is up and running — will buy a thousand hamburgers or three.

So there’s a dichotomy here. Either your tokens remain low in value, and the end product of the business will be cheap (as it’s priced in these tokens) and you make no money as an investor, or the token price will increase and the end product will be expensive (but you’ll be able to sell your tokens for a profit).

In the end it’s a useless proposition: either token holders will be able to buy cheap hamburgers if the token price is low (thus causing a loss to the issuer/hamburger producer) or they will sell their expensive tokens for dollars and use dollars to buy their hamburgers elsewhere.
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