skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People interested in this topic might want to check out the Skept Vet's web site:

http://skeptvet.com/Blog/

The site is run by a veterinarian who "takes a skeptical and science-based look at veterinary medicine". There's a strong bias towards evidence based research over junk/pseudo-science (which should appeal to a lot of HN'ers), and I've learned a lot from reading his blog.
That scan is a .exe file, so it won't run on Linux. When I try to log in using Chrome on Linux, they ask me to run it; I can't, so I can't log in.

Happily, so far, they don't ask from Firefox.
Many SaaS companies not only lack the ops experience needed to run their own infrastructure (which may be only problem of perception, for me running stuff on dedicated HW in colo center seems like less hassle than dealing with things like AWS) but also the common sense required to not over-engineer the scalability of their solution in the early phases (which falls squarely into the YAGNI teritory, as you can run surprisingly large stuff on two or three physical low-end 1U servers).
Haha wow im surprised this actually got a response...I didn't even think this would show up. Nice of you to make this one comment visible to prove whatever point you'd like to make. That's even funnier now. Bahahaha. You must just sit and personally curate the comments on every story. Haha wow. Still no answer to the email though. :)
THICC is a meme
Underrated comment. When a monopolistic video platform with a leftist bent is compelled by its financiers to censor specific content, for reasons other than incitement of violence, or libel, I’m allowed to feel like we’ve slipped one step closer to the abyss, even if the site isn’t run by the USG.
Instagram is down(HACKED)
I'm more concerned that it takes something "wasteful" like mining to make people wake up. What about DRM techniques like HDCP? Even with hardware acceleration we've been wasting power for at least a decade to encrypt every single video stream so that we can stop piracy. Piracy still exists. Mining most definitely uses more power than video encryption but only one of them has really produced anything of value.
> Yes — but only if, as in Haskell, that syntactic sugar was generalisable.

Only if you just need one type of monad. If you need interleave multiple monads, haskell syntax is worse because it makes no visible distinction between them.
I love eclipse and we used eclipse for over a year until we switched to intellij.

The main reason: Updating intellij just works. Updating eclipse on arch linux meant that i have to readd the marketplace url for the proper version, add the maven plugin again and than it worked.

Yes this small detail sucked and yes it just works better in intellij.
> Isn't "serverless" just a fancy way of saying "someone else's containers"?

No, "serverless" just means that there are no servers (or VMs, or containers) to be directly managed by the developer.
Its called motocoin and it has kinda failed.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1365986.0
One person made a very good bot and took over and no one has made a better one.
In how many years will it be that you can't opt-out? And then the next step will be since you can't opt-out, and you're dying anyway and someone else needs your organs...well, maybe they pull the plug a little early before your organs degenerate.

Organ donation is great. I always do the checkbox on my license, but you can just see that slippery slope creeping in as usual.
> Who came up with this weird name?

Amazon popularized it, but Ken Fromm's use is the earliest mention I've been able to find (from 2012): http://readwrite.com/2012/10/15/why-the-future-of-software-a...
Don't know how much it will help, but I upvoted you.

I used to like Marco, but after following him a while and noticing inconsistencies of principle like this, it got to me. (That, and when he said in a podcast that he didn't use SQL joins when building Tumblr because he doesn't like them. Trying to think about how he could have possibly accomplished that makes me shudder.) I can give him the benefit of the doubt that perhaps his perspectives have changed with age or experience, though.

All that said, I upvoted the OP too, because as much as I don't like the guy, he's not wrong here.
I like Dropbox but as a potential investor I would be a bit nervous about the online storage industry as a whole considering crypto-backed decentralized storage seems only 12-24 months away.
And if the organization does decide to have a "one official system" then it will need 118 option parameters or weirdly specific virtual functions in a base class and become a disgusting, complex mess. Because "pretty much the same thing" is not "exactly the same thing." Sometimes it can be hammered into place. Other times those differences were important.

So yeah, I agree with you that duplication will continue to happen a lot.
Does PRISM count as due process? I get how americans could be biased thinking "I live here and nothing has happened to me", but that's a very naive mode of thinking. Masking strategic actions under the "just helping you from yourself" umbrella isn't new, but isn't very convincing either. It's like trump saying he'll nuke north korea because it's an oppressive regime. Caring doesn't work that way.
When someone speaks in the style of this guy — absolute certainty of the superiority of their chosen technology, dismissive of or glossing over its disadvantages, condescending to those who use or advocate other technologies — it makes me very dubious of their claims. It also makes me assume they’re trying to sell me something.
Announcing SegWit support
What's your proposal for a more egalitarian reward model for block producers (in any consensus model)?
So say that a customer was overcharged $100 in interest in Jan 2017 and they carried a balance all year. By Dec 2017 they carried an extra $100 on their credit card balance needlessly so they paid >$20 in additional interest (APR 20%) due to this overcharge.

The article only mentions returning the original amount AFAIK so it looks like Citi might still be profiting from this error.
They also work on stuff like [Dropbox Paper](https://www.dropbox.com/paper), a markdown capable minimalist Google Docs alternative.
Many organizations have operations teams that are responsible for ensuring servers get patched on a regular schedule, and there is an entire industry of software to confirm whether or not they are doing it properly. But I know for a fact that at some of these same organizations, the deployable unit is a Docker image that the development team pushes to the repository when it suits them. Operations doesn't have the ability to patch the software in the container, and the auditing tools haven't caught up either.
How are they planning ever to make any profits? Their product was innovative some years ago but now they have a lot of competition so I'd expect their margins to get squeezed even more.
spy cam or wall, you decide.
> Humanities graduates how about engaging rather than knee jerk down voting anything that questions your world view

I have a degree in mathematics.
I worked on an ambulance rig as an EMT during college. My first night of working on the rig, around 7am, we were called to a house on the outskirts of Champaign, Illinois.

When we arrived, we found a man running through the street with a tiny pencil sticking out of his back. Turns out, his father-in-law had plunged a complete pencil ~6 inches into his back during breakfast. Why? He had eaten some of his father-in-law's hash browns. He wouldn't stop talking about it for the entire trip.

Sometimes, people have disproportionate reactions to slights against them.
Bitcoin mining is a real world version of Keynes' quote about labour productivity[1].

The important difference is that the money doesn't belong to any country, and is transformed purely into personal wealth. This will lead to wealth inequality the likes of which we have never seen. Governments should charge miners a lot more for just existing, and using all the infrastructure the public has funded to spin money out of thin air which will never help pay for that infrastructure or contribute to any of the economic activity which keeps a country going.

Why we let people dealing in financial instruments acquire so much wealth and power continues to baffle me.

[1]https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:John_Maynard_Keynes#%22...
I really hope Google Assistant succeeds. I am totally embedded in the Android/Gmail/GSuite ecosystem. I want it to succeed. I need it to succeed.

However so far Google voice assistant hasn't worked great for me. Most of the time it gets it wrong. It is really frustrating while driving. I am a native English speaker, albeit Australian.

I've made this comment before - it is astounding that Google have banked their entire reputation on people getting a positive experience through saying "Ok Google".

Amazon have Alexa. Apple have Siri. Microsoft have Cortana. If any of those become a negative experience overall, they can just invent a new AI with a new name.

But at the moment, saying "Ok Google" ends with me having an experience of frustration or disappointment. This is a big risk with your brand?!

You can breakup with Siri and stay with Apple. It's going to take an amazing Google Assistant to over come the hundreds of wasted voice experiences I have suffered thus far.

Good luck, Google.
Reminds me of stuff we did in Udacity's Self-Driving Car Engineer Nanodegree.

Looks great!
Let it be known that Mark Zuckerberg and Drew Houston are best friends. I know it might not be the main reason, but it is something to consider.
That would be a shrewd business move unless the ISPs want to get into the same business.
I've been using Eclipse for what seems like forever. But it feels like with each new release, Eclipse gets worse. More freezes, more crashes, more really weird behaviour, slower code completion. The fact that I still can't turn off retarded core plugins (like the horrible Git plugin) bugs me to no end. Every time I install a new version, I have to remember to go in and delete the Git plugin jars because it fucks up my workflow.

I'll keep using it, because IntelliJ is almost as bad and has a GUI paradigm I can't get used to. But eventually that balance is going to shift.

If Eclipse is suffering from a lack of man power, they might want to consider making it easier to contribute.
You are not a billionaire so no point in talking about hypotheticals.

For now actual billionaires don't agree with your statement.
The trend of history since babel seems to be going in this direction. If there is eventually a universal common tongue this rational will be proven right.
From what I've seen with serverless, it doesn't look that hard to build your own runtime for it if you did want to run outside of your vendor and avoid lock-in. It would turn your stuff back into a stack of containers, of course.
Is Spring really in the same category as React and Angular?
Great. Price controls to fix the unintended consequences of price controls.
Just Pick a Marketing System
I think they're talking about an implied decimal point, i.e. fixed point math.
>1) Non-existent if you didn't declare you're Chinese

This is ridiculous equivocation between a democratic society with a rule of law and an authoritarian regime. You're kidding yourself if you don't think the Chinese government has an interest in data owned by foreign nationals that they could gain access to.
Yes, I get that. I was just wondering why, given the started reasons.
I don't agree, but I do think it's very wise to be suspicious of coins and their distribution mechanism.
Making it available outside would require hiring more people and doing more work that they don't need right now.

For a while, it's very likely that Google will be the main user of these, so there's still plenty of incentive for it to increase efficiency and reduce costs.
Not necessarily. There might not have been an obvious criminal action if Manafort just had someone else convert an existing P&L disclosure from PDF to Word. The real problem was asking someone to convert his fraudulent Word doc to PDF.
How horrible is horrible
Really? I hate Eclipse git "support" with a passion. I don't want my IDE to go anywhere near my version control. I'll take care of that myself, thankyouverymuch. The fact that Eclipse makes it nearly impossible to disable that git "support" downright angers me.
My favorite sentence was this:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2012/11/cleveland_w...
Or you could have a combination of both. I'm currently in high school. I live in a small town's school district but commute into a fairly large city to school (about a 35 minute drive). This gives me both access to nature (where I live) and the opportunities/resources of a city (where my friends live). While it may not be for everyone, I wouldn't want to have it another way. What I can also tell you is that significantly more people die at the small town school than in the city (almost all are vehicle-related deaths).
Another very effective way to stop people having children is to given them heavy retirement and old age medical care subsidies -- without having to depend on children for one's retirement / old age, one will have fewer children.

All that said, fertility rates among the middle class are not zero. They may be below replacement rate (ok, they are below replacement rate), but being non-zero means evolution still applies.

Also, obviously in the wider population (that is, world-wide) we might well be selecting against traits that lead to middle-class status (by having lower fertility rates in the middle-class), but still, within middle-class populations we're likely still selecting for those traits.
Serverless really needs to work on their latency I think.

Things will be going great and then there's the oddly weird 2 second delay. I guess it is bringing up a new server or container to run the lambda in.

Whereas with your own (or well, Amazon's) machines you can scale up before hitting the limits and not need long pauses.

Maybe one day they'll fix that.
By and large, the mass produced American breads aren’t very good. But the bread sitting on my counter right now from Trader Joe’s, which is not actually an artisanalproducer, doesn’t seem to have any added sugar. No it’s not a mass market product but it’s also something that’s more than “no one” buys.
It's an LED on a tiny PCB with an inductive loop around it. One of the images in the gallery has a picture of it.

The ultrasonic puffs of air keep it suspended.
I feel like I don't know enough to care about this. I suspect many people will be upset about it but I just don't see it. Is what the IRS asking for any different from the kind of access they already have to traditional banking and trading accounts?
Equal payment for the same work/processing power.
There is no sensible interleaving of multiple monads, and any sensible language would prevent you from any kind of implicit interleaving.
Trump dissed an armed officer who didn’t confront the gunman in Florida
I have given away my time and expertise for literally years. I have done tons of volunteer work. People tell me all the fucking time they value what I do. But they will not pay me. This never leads to paid work. Ever.

I just answered questions for free for a YC company this week and informed them I do the kind of writing they need. They can't be arsed to so much as reply to my email with an acknowledgement that they have it.

I need income, not more opportunities to improve the lives of others for free, get pats on the head and told to piss off about my sad sack story that I can't afford to eat at the end of the month.

I have tried endless suggestions of what works for the guys. Email people and ask for feedback. Email top people here who routinely talk about gender parity in tech and have magnanimous invitations to email them any time. Buy a .com domain to be taken more seriously. Put together some kind of portfolio.

I have been asking for advice for literally years on how I can turn my skills and expertise into earned income and I get mostly pissed all over and bullshit excuses.
In real code, you would have type signatures on top-level definitions.
The US government considers free expression, freedom of speech, to be important. This does not mean that private citizens or entities need to adhere to the same rules.

Just as the US government can't censor you, it also can't compel a private company to host something it wants no involvement with under the guise of "free expression".

YouTube deleting that video is free expression on the part of YouTube. Deal with it.
How One Quantum Particle Can Send Messages to Itself
I get into many discussions like this; not sure where you are from but educated Americans I talk to do not accept their data being read by anyone except the gov in cases of terrorism. That means, in practice, the gov can read your data. What is the difference in China? Do you want all data or no data or some data and how is some data defined exactly? If this is not black and white the definitions are going to be painful and biased and how to enforce proper use?
Bitcoin mining seems inefficient now, but when the network is carrying 100x more or 10,000x more transactions, won't it be extremely efficient? (On a per-transaction basis)
I’ve mentioned this before but a median filter would nuke the single outlying pixel without too much of an effect on the input image. Is there an attack that can get past such a basic preprocessing step?
This is an update to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815811 (Coinbase Ordered to Turn Over Identities of 14,355 Crypto Traders to the IRS) from 3 months ago.
Each polling place only has about a thousand votes, making it a process that I can easily audit completely. The results for each polling place are reported online, so I can check a part of the process from beginning to end. If you have just ten people or so, each auditing one random polling station, you can easily get to a statistically meaningful assurance of the election’s integrity.
This is really no different than the docs/info your brokerage would furnish at the end of the year to the IRS (1099-INT, 1099-DIV [or both together on a consolidated 1099], Form 5498).
They profited or earned money and it wasn't declared when doing their taxes. People who should be worried are those that didn't follow the rules. What makes it interesting is that cryptocurrencies are very new and it might not have been obvious if taxes should have been declared at the time (you probably should have). If they declared or can show that they tried to declare then it's no big deal...
How do you know its a lower cost? what has been the cost of this regulation in the banking industry?
You can actually appreciate country music driving through West Texas. It works out there.
I bet he got a sweet tax deduction for building that abomination. This is where your tax money are going. That's what you get when you expect the rich to re-invest their profits. Enjoy your trickling-down shit.
For smaller teams/apps, it's super-handy to be able to just include dependencies in the repo. I'm guess this is one of the capabilities vgo will gain in response to community feedback.

(The Go folks have a bit of a blind spot for environments that don't have heavy duty infra. Recall how their initial solution to a montonic clock was "just arrange for your ntp server to not do that...")
Monads have nothing to do with verification, so I'm now unsure what your original point was.

It's not surprising that you can't use a banana to edit text, so it's not surprising you can't use the general idea of monad to do verification.
The final message is that the 10'000 year clock was always in your heart.

Neal Stephenson wrote that book, it's called Anathem.
I’m not 100% sure but I believe this is also called R&D because it had different financial/accounting meaning which affects how spend/revenue are reported.

They can be considered expenses that are reported on taxes, and also since there is risk of no or poor ROI knowing the R&D component of the budget helps adjust for risk in modeling future revenue and expenses.
Proof of work, it requires continual investment if you want to get the rewards, not just sitting there watching the cash roll in.
Yes, the initial request was a fishing expedition in direct contradiction of IRS rules on the matter.

Here's prior discussion in lieu of a proper citation [0].

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13007310
The website lists the address as "327 W. Davie Street, Sweet 100"

Is that a typo or someone being cute? :-)

(I live in Raleigh and hadn't heard of it so I looked it up.)
The only unique thing is that its bitcoin. They'll do their own form of discovery in other investigations.
From the summons[1]:

"The Narrowed Summons “do[es] not include users: (a) who only bought and held bitcoin during the 2013-15 period; or (b) for which Coinbase filed Forms 1099-K during the 2013-15 period.” (Id. ¶ 2.) According to Coinbase, the Narrowed Summons requests information regarding 8.9 million transactions and 14,355 account holders."

Looks like the IRS is encouraging hodling /s

Seriously though I'm glad that the tax court reduced the reporting requirement to just people who likely have a tax obligation (bought and sold) than people who merely bought and hadn't sold.

[1]https://assistly-production.s3.amazonaws.com/75687/kb_articl...
From their documentation, it certainly sounds like it is:

> Cockpit uses systemd and the DBus APIs it provides to configure and monitor core aspects of the system. Use of alternate system APIs are not currently implemented.

and

> Cockpit configures the system time and time zone via the timedated daemon. To perform similar tasks from the command line use the timedatectl command

That's a systemd specific daemon.

http://cockpit-project.org/guide/latest/feature-systemd.html

Edit: Also please note that I'm not disparaging Cockpit nor systemd, just pointing out that (according to their documentation linked above) it is tied to systemd which may be an issue for some.
It is. Coinbase has to consider all withdrawals for these purposes as sales, IIRC. It's not just reporting gains
Found this app on product hunt, have enjoyed using it so far. Sort of like headpsace but for hypnosis i feel?
Also, if we ever get something like Mozilla's Servo technology in something like Electron combined with WebAssembly and you truly have a very powerful platform with lots of development options
for the uninitiated, an 'n-dimensional vector' is an array of numbers
>They profited or earned money and it wasn't declared when doing their taxes.

Speculation -- how can any conclusion about whether a tax violation occurred, if the IRS doesn't even have the information about the people who even sold bitcoins? This effort is the start of that determination.