skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't believe I haven't seen this. I consider myself pretty connected, I read HN and have a robust set of reddits and githubs. They should have done more press for this!

This is such a neat project. I want to get some paper signals going up at my house tomorrow. I just so happen to have a jar full of 30 microservos from a project that didn't work out and a couple of the same microcontrollers they are using sitting here... but still, papercraft + IoT. I really like it.

I like the idea of making paper signals for my development team related to sprints, epics, and other task countdown. I think there's something about it that would really make a difference in work.
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I'm sure people would find value in that, I look forward to seeing what you put together ;)
If Grandma needs subsidized housing, that is something that should be separately agreed upon and implemented, presumably from tax revenue. The idea of forcing landlords to pay that subsidy basically at random seems ridiculous to me, the kind of thing that results in discrimination and legal fights.
I just played with The Lounge a bit and it actually looks really nice.
Paper Signals – build-it-yourself objects that you control with your voice
Do some French people do social kissing? How do you feel about that?
Hello, Google’s AMP team. I see you’ve been busy downvoting my comment ;)

Too bad you spend most of your time running away from uncomfortable questions and defending your overlord’s increasingly dubious and morally questionable practices.
Brew's approach to compilers adds tremendous friction.

Brew doesn't download a binary, it builds the compilers (both gcc and clang) and installs them but doesn't make bin/ links.

It's because of this that our build process (I'm not OP BTW) builds with all of brew gcc, brew clang and xcode (thank goodness for xcodebuild at least, so I can do this all from a Makefile). CMake is really helpful here.
I could see someone taking a bunch of android devices and using this to farm stuff.
So what about bisous? At least in South France it seems quite common to kiss colleagues (even some you’ve just met the first time) and strangers at parties
For me I had a different problem. On the Easy difficulty I made it to the boss the 2nd time I played, and almost every playthrough after and I won about 90% of the time. However on "normal" difficulty it was several dozen playthroughs before I could get to the boss, and I was so under-upgraded that I had basically zero chance.

I think I have 1 win to my name on normal difficulty (not counting the crystal ship, which is clearly overpowered). I find the only way I can reliably do well on normal difficulty is to take a lot of early risks and then just restart if I don't get lucky.
Extreme frugality allowed me to retire at 32 – and regain control of my life
Who's taking about switching? The question was whether YOY increases in performance still matter. I don't know about Android, but on iOS I see developers consistently rise to the challenge of a bigger performance envelope every year with new and innovative use cases. If that's something you don't care about, fine, but that doesn't mean the whole industry finds it pointless.
The article is about humanity's loss of touch as a form of socialization. The French lost it earlier than British (the topic of the article) and Americans.
I'm astounded by the amount of blow-back in this thread. Do you all really love gathering user data that much that you can't even consider the possibility of parting with it, or at least with its free availability?
Ask HN: What to do with 10% of UK LTD i can't work at anymore
I own small share of a company that never made it out of startup stage and that now earns 30k$/year (advertising and couple of remaining clients), which gets divided among owners as pocket money. Old feuds and intolerances exploded in an argument that now makes it impossible for me to continue working. I feel so bitter about everything that i want out, but i am in such a bad relation with everybody else that amicable split is no longer possible.
Apart from giving up on everything, is there anything i can make out of this for time i invested?
Hey, thank you for such an useful tool! :)

I'm an Android dev currently working on a team using NativeScript. My coworkers' latops have only 4GB RAM and they are unable to use an AVD for development. From now we are going to use scrpy :)
It's not as uncommon as HN makes you believe these days. I've been at a place for 11 years, moving to new projects every few years, gotten large pay raises over the years to keep ahead of market. It's possible, and it's kinda great to be honest.
You can take salsa lessons or similar and touch many people.
Etymologically, yes. "bras" means "arm". "em-bras-ser" this means "take in arms".

Strictly speaking, that's still what it means, but if you ask anyone what "embrasser" means, he will tell you it means "to kiss".

Amusingly enough you made me realize the split between the literal meaning of the word and its current acceptation.
I can corroborate that. I think most people intuitively know that what they were being taught wasn't quite true though. I certainly did.
Qubit quality is defined by the quantum volume [0]. Errors that occur when gates are applied to qubits need to be below a certain threshold to perform error correction.

[0]: https://www.research.ibm.com/ibm-q/resources/quantum-volume....
inb4 "oh so you should use emacs" :D
étreinte (to embrace)

http://www.larousse.fr/dictionnaires/francais/%C3%A9treinte/...
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And yet you guys go around kissing each other all the time.

I enjoy hugging both male and female friends, but I find French-style social kissing painfully awkward. So much potential for clashing faces, or accidentally planting one on their lips.

I’m not saying either one of us is right or wrong, just offering an alternative perspective.
They keep showing you ads for the fridge because they don't know you have purchased the fridge.

The only way for them to know you have purchased a product is if you buy it online and get hit with the confirmation tracking pixel on the checkout page.

Most people see ads for a fridge, but then go into a physical store to make and finance the large purchase.
If you scroll down it has links and comments about where all the numbers came from.
I made a very simple web service with Rocket (see https://github.com/MrBuddyCasino/alexa-auth), which is better but still - I‘d go for Kotlin or Go instead if performance requirements allow it.
Any plans to Open Source SQLBox? Very seamless integration with the blog post!
Ask and you shall receive. Pretty awesome, did you just write this?
> Blockchain is a distributed ledger that guarantees consensus without any central party

Except not even Blockchain guarantees consensus. If that was true we wouldn't see the hundreds of bitcoin forks. Let's not even forget Ethereum and Ethereum Classic. The "consensus" for ethereum was provided largely a few whales.

Blockchain doesn't guarantee consensus at all.

> It has many other properties, like making the transactions public in most cases, and many other important things that are different from centralized databases and non public databases we have been using for the last 30 years.

Setting aside your massive handwave of "many other things", your only concrete example is not at all unique to the blockchain. You can make any dataset public regardless of data structure used. Likewise nothing is stopping you from making a private blockchain (as stupid of an idea as that might be).

It's all just breathless hype. The blockchain is just a data structure similar to git only orders of magnitude less efficient by design. It's only good for operating things like Bitcoin or Ethereum. Outside of criminal use, Bitcoin has proven entirely useless in the real world. Ethereum used largely as a platform to build ICO scams.

The whole thing is a scam built on other scams. It's all souped up modern day penny stocks custom built to trick rubes into lining the pockets of a bunch of scammers.
Community edition is not a production ready product.

Use Aerospike only if you are ready to buy enterprise edition. Jepsen test results are applicable to enterprise edition only.
They've banned harassment (while falling into the common trap of requiring "consent" without defining the term in a way that doesn't rely on time-travel).

> Physical contact and simulated physical contact (e.g., textual descriptions like "hug" or "backrub") without consent or after a request to stop.
Protonmail provides my only non-work email address for everything. Is it a good idea to have multiple email accounts with multiple service providers? Seems inconvenient. But then, perhaps I am taking a risk with my current set up.
I know Experian will list inquiries on their site. They also email with every positive and negative score change. I'm scared to login and see if they have an email on inquiry option, though, since they often scam activate some monthly billing feature I don't want...
But even epigenetics does not cover all of the ways that derived traits can be passed. For instance, prenatal testosterone levels affect the baby [0], yet those same levels may be affected by the mother's environment. Hence the environment may have effect on lifespring through means other than just epigenetics.

[0] http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2015-09-23/masculine-face...
I'd argue an easy way into NodeJS is to introduce yourself by one of the most popular frameworks, what they do, so you'll see how they benefit from NodeJS and where its strengths lie.
I'd recommend ExpressJS or Meteor.
This is fairly common practice in the medical device field. Volumes for specialized equipment are far too low to justify the NRE on custom solutions, so many low-volume medical devices integrate COTS solutions wherever possible.

It doesn't help that vendors are generally nervous about liability in medical equipment (this fear is often unfounded, but persistent). As a result, vendors of commercial and industrial equipment generally don't want to engage medical device OEMs with engineering and customization support. If there had been that sort of support in this case, Oculus might have made a custom build without the cert check, just as a de-risking measure.

This vendor reluctance is especially present at the FDA Class III (high risk device) level - most vendors outright prohibit use of their devices in these products. It's an open secret that this still happens anyway in a wink-wink nudge-nudge fashion, just without vendor support - which is arguably worse, but it keeps the lawyers happy.
It could be the ads came up a more conventional way - the makers are priming the publicity for the game so it shows up in magazines and ad buys etc. If you and your friends are avid gamers - you probably get some early exposure before more general ad channels buys show up.

But to really answer this question, we could build a better experiment. Write out a set of topics on index cards. You have to be careful that topics aren't new product rollouts (otherwise you really have to think about how you decided to write that topic down in the first place). Draw a card, don't talk about or search the topic for some amount of time, then inject the topic where it might be observed (talk about it and/or search for it somewhere), then for some amount of time, see if it comes up.
Easy there.

Don't you think your prejudice against cryptocurrency is clouding your judgement here?

Keybase is an identity tool and it makes every sense for it to make a wallet. Also, you provided no reasons that being involved in cryptocurrency will undermine keybase's security. Do you think?
Oh no, that doesn't matter. I can search for something a buy it online, and be pestered with ads for the same product for days.

The ad-placement folks have technology and patents and millions tied up in all that. And what do they come up with? "Show ads for what they just bought"
Outside of the slightly distasteful attitude ("I didn't bother" and "I bet" are slightly abrasive sounding), isn't the attitude one of the skeptic? It jibes with my understanding of how to make better decisions: don't start with the assumption something is true, question information before you store it in your brain.

Annie Duke talks about this in her latest book.
These are beautiful ideas.
Well, yeah. There is indeed the kiss on the cheek, called "la bise", which is a fairly common greeting, even between adult males.

I've always found it awkward myself, but that may just be me.
That doesn't actually seem that different than the "put a hand on the arm while talking" technique that a lot of people use to try to inspire confidence from others.

Personally, when someone touches me like that, I realize I'm being manipulated and instantly like them less.

But a lot of people respond strongly and warmly to touch, even from strangers.

I also dislike it when strangers use my name before I've given it to them, and really, really dislike it when a stranger decides to use a short form of my name instead of the full version that I gave them. It stems from the same distrust of people trying to gain my confidence without merit.

I did not downvote you, and disagree with those who did.
There's an in-browser quantum computer simulator called Quirk https://hackaday.com/2018/01/24/quantum-weirdness-in-your-br... and the author's blog explores related problems http://algassert.com/
Assuming you're testing on Windows, node-chakracore is currently released as a beta, so Node 10 is probably the more appropriate comparison.
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I don't understand this -- this "article" doesn't actually say that the Apple employee had access to the customer's private data, only that the employee made threats.

If the threats were credible that would be a big deal.
that's just the new NPM version
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Basic attention token has nothing to do with the article.
Yeah, precisely. It seems like "the next level" gets a lot more like management and involves less writing code and I don't know that that is really for me.
In relativity, the the meaning of the term "reference frame" is "coordinate system." The fundamental geometry of the situation gives us a bucket of possible coordinate systems. From this bucket, we can choose a coordinate system where any give object appears stationary, unless the object is moving at the speed of light in which case there's no corresponding coordinate system.

The coordinate systems are the fundamental physics part, and the idea of matching coordinate systems with objects comes out as just something we happen to be able to do for some objects.
Why I think that opening a new app is like visiting a new place
... and strings need to be unified and fixed fast. Anything involving string manipulation is pure pain and is wasting a ton of time at the moment.
>Made me skeptical about this being any kind of breakthrough.

As you should. Google is planning on sharing the results of this processor soon: https://research.googleblog.com/2018/03/a-preview-of-bristle...
Yeah, but none of that information is surfaced in the high-level report. If I'm reading this I'd like to have an idea of each number's validity.
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I do the "hug until they let go" thing with my kids. You can see how it changes and calms them.
Also who is tptacek and why does he want $1E5 to stop tweeting about ESR?

There's literally no useful information in the linked tweet.
It's not exactly obsolete, but really nobody uses this word casually.

I also guaranty you that if you say "étreins-moi" (embrace me) to someone, he will understand it in a sexual way (not "hug me").

The closest may be "serrer dans les bras", and it's not a word, it's a description of what is done.
I think the reason they don't do this is because we, the consumers, are not the paying customer to the credit bureaus. We have to defend against them messing things up for us. They can give out credit in our names that we then have to pay, or spend lots of time and money fighting against.

If they were consumer focused, like say a bank, they would make it easier to control. If the credit bureaus had to pay for the fraud, they'd try to control it more intelligently, like banks. If they did that it would hurt their business somewhat, because it would make it harder for people using their services, businesses trying to sell me a car or whatever.
Neato. Well dude you got your answer, take it or leave it. I understand acting dumb and trolling is fun too though.
Indeed I would say that with an app like Dark Sky the value is almost entirely in the experience, in a way.

The data is provided by the government for “free” but weather.gov is not as well designed and presented as Dark Sky and other weather apps.
I would be fine with even needing to modify the MCU code to use the simulator APIs in the Hardware Abstraction Layer - then no MCU emulation needed at all.
So then essentially this needs to push/pull data in from the SPICE domain for the circuit simulation part. It should be possible to reuse an exiting simulator there, hopefully.
It was only a few years ago that there was breathless commentary about the sexual degeneracy of male and female high school students hugging each other too casually. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
This sort of data collection is inevitable with a highly commercialized Internet.
California always a step ahead.

I remember opening watches and other electronics at circa 199x.

Even 10, 15 years ago most electronics used standard cables and standard screws and anyone was able to open, see whats inside and maybe replace 1 or 2 things.

Now it seems the industry moved to a path of making things break fast and hard to replace anything. Resulting in expansive repairs that will push users to purchase a new item that is cheaper than replacing 1 part. Some companies even weld RAM or processor into the motherboard.

The world has limited resources. In the last 60, 70 years after ww2 and industrial revolution, the population has grown a lot and making thing un-repairable will worsen world limited resources. Some day world will run out of required materials.

Some companies create a specific cable that can only be used on their devices. So if one breaks, the owner cannot use his old one because it is incompatible with that new model.

Standarization of cables would good to have also.

Nice move california!
Thanks! I've actually got plans to write a post or two about how it was built and open source it. It's a nice minimal example of a python server and a database connection.
If you look though the code and math behind Bitcoin and other cryptocoin projects it's quite evident that there is malice and a manipulative design with even Bitcoin.

OP was making a point about how easy it is to produce cryptocoins (in terms of both launching the software, and in terms of measurable capital cost to mine coins).

Coupled with the history of Bitcoin and what has predominately been the demographic attracted to an quasi-anonymous digital token for trading has been anarcho-capitalists who bought drugs and child pornography on TOR and silk road etc.

This comic sums up the point:

https://i.imgur.com/3VbttYh.png
Otherwise known as "things that make ordinary consumers (ones without the time or desire to get deep knowledge about something) choose competing alternatives".
> answer to all world's great problems and they're all wrong and naive"

Just point out that in "A Plan for Spam" he demonstrably solved one of the world's great problems.
"The Hug" by Fred Small
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNXpTE5__LM

and then the new version for use in different contexts and newer political raelity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVVMTTLU8Ko

Partial Lyrics (courtesy of YC) :
https://genius.com/Fred-small-the-hug-song-lyrics
Or you could just run the code you compiled yourself?
There's also precedent for companies charging users and still also making money off their data.
Wanted to mention that we're also hiring for SRE, full-stack web & server, among other roles!
I don't see what the issue is of a development tool supporting blockchain development. Like it or not, this tech is here to stay, and blockchain devs need very similar tools.
As someone who doesn't live in California, will this bill (indirectly) make available to me the service manual for my Acer Travelmate?

I've search high and low and absolutely can't get my hands on one.
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Fair. My point there is not to worry, then, about how to solve large problems. Quite literally worry only about the smaller building blocks.

To get an idea of the useful building blocks for traditional computers, look at the circuitry that goes into manipulating numbers. Far from trivial, once you get to a certain size. And it is likely you will need the same operations even in quantum.

Not just addition, mind. Rotation/shifting and other manipulations of data. I'm sure there are some new primitives, as well.
If anyone happens to like Python and wants to bypass a bunch of the challenges with accepting payments I do have a ~10 hour video course on building a SAAS app with Flask. The source code in that course has been used in production for years and is well tested / polished.

Details can be found at https://buildasaasappwithflask.com/

The course covers a lot of real world features but one thing we do is set up Stripe for both recurring subscriptions (multiple plans) and one off payments (microtransactions for the game we develop which is protected by the paywall). Everything you would expect such as changing subscriptions, billing history, etc. is included.

Lots of people have taken the course and then went on to build their own SAAS apps using the course's app as a base app for their project.
Wow, R fell a lot in the last year.
You are lucky to work for/with Matt. I've never met him, but traded a few emails whilst he was at Google and he was always kind and helpful.

I can't imagine how he must feel. I very much hope he is doing ok.
I think this depends on the individual. I always prefer the version with commas instead of words. It's easier to copy and paste for one.
I'm a big fan of Rust, used it for several projects already, loved it. Too bad much of the systems programming is currently tied to C/C++ infrastructure. There is only so far you can get with FFI. Most likely not far enough to write a Linux kernel driver and many other things, unfortunately. Here's hoping the situation changes now that Rust is attracting so much attention.
Wow, gruseom went fully native.
This is the problem with the hearts of feline nature. Can't be retained for so long as we would wish. They laugh with us, kiss us, mock of us, wink and fly away chasing the breeze. My sympathy and respect for matt, mrbill, webkike, rossta, joering2 and their families and loved ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUJLdC6wqno
Interesting read - suggesting about 5000 units in the pipeline for the next 3 years:
https://www.paragon-re.com/trend/new-housing-construction-in...
I can see android users using it in place of an emulator. From what I've heard (I'm not an Android dev) the emulators are generally pretty slow and using a device is way faster.

This would let you control it right from your computer, instead of having to actually tap on your phone, which can be tedious, especially when typing.
I had to google the pinching on st. patricks day thing. That is a strange tradition I am glad I never heard of. You would have been right to punch them.
A step ahead? Didn't such a law already go down in flames in Idaho or someplace?