skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When games are canceled hundreds of people have wasted thousands of hours on: games, ai, art (raster + vector).

I don't think this is any different than the risk of working for a startup. I've worked for a number of companies in my career that no longer exist. It's really the same as far as I am seeing.
Transparency of votes doesn't have to map to identity of voters. The blockchain is transparent, what you put inside is left to the implementer to choose.

And come on, it's a highly experimental technology whise use cases impact the most controversial aspects of our society : money, vote, accountability, transparency, power to the masse.

Of course it's going to take time and fail in many spectacular ways.
That looks more designed for a hurricane's coming and I'm willing to spend $35 given the high possibility of losing water supply.

In general, some big water jugs that you periodically empty and refill are probably the better bet.
I used to use Procomm for Windows 95 in the late 1990s. It was one of the best until it got bought out. Had macro language and other neat stuff.

www.symantec.com/connect/forums/procomm-plus

I use Putty but there is another one:

https://terminotix.com/index.asp?lang=en

It used to be free.

Some of the old BBS DOS terminals like Qmodem, Procomm Plus, Felix, Bitcom ECT died when the Internet took over with the WWW.
It seems that there is justice in this world, then.

By going public Tyler Schultz very likely saved lives.

I can only wish him the best in his new endeavors. For certain, anyone doing business with him knows his handshake is worth something real.
Yeah, this particular technology is particularly vulnerable to scamming for additional reasons. Not just lack of widespread usefulness, but because it's also _close_ solving a real problem people think they have. And it's just legitimate enough that it has some valid niche uses, which lends an air of credibility to the whole thing. It's merely a scam, it's something which can be turned into a scam.
And you, personally, correctly calculated the actual expected rotation?

I can't imagine the amount of superiority you must feel to assume that physicists don't know high school level integration of Newtonian forces.
For something as common as unlocking my phone, the algorithm needs to be extremely fast and power efficient not to mention this is a PHONE, so yes I still find this impressive. The fact that sensor data is being processed through a neural network using a dedicated chipset for neural net operations would seem like ridiculous overkill if you explained it to me ten years ago. Furthermore, the network is actually being re-trained on the fly to accommodate for changes to the users facial hair, etc.
It’s also how epic reduced the input delay in a UE4 update a few months ago
Sudden increase of movement (via the accelerometer) around the time they usually leave work, for example.

If I usually leave work around 5-6 and I start packing up my bag, that could be a signal.
Some would say it's the reverse right now. Amazon retail is running some big projects to migrate to AWS. Some AWS services are used heavily, others are not.

e.g.

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/in-major-shift-amazo...
There is no wow factor at all. This was a case of notoriously difficult calorimetry measuring single digit wattage from a large device, under the control of Brillouin engineers in their facility. Or rather, the wow factor is just how hard people here are biting on this, presumably out of nothing more than sheer desire for it to be real.

Cold fusion (oh sorry, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) research is a bad joke, unsupported by theory or practice.
They could only get up to $150 in attorney fees and up to $150 in lost wages. However, only if they won the appeal and the judge granted them.

[http://www.calattorneysfees.com/2008/07/small-claims-ap.html]
Yes. But you can prove "uber for cats" doesn't work with 5 people. Not 100 people, 3 years later. Canceling a game is more like a funeral.
"There is no evolutionary pressure."

Sure there is.

Are the people who are having lots of children that survive to adulthood today different in significant ways from the people who had lots of children who survived to adulthood 100 years ago?

Clearly, yes.

> Not only dumb people can survive but there are evidence they procreate a lot more than smart people.

If dumb people survive and procreate more than smart people, and if intelligence is hereditary, the human race will become dumber.

That's evolution, dude.
> What about the cast system? Do you think that would be better or worse now if the british had never colonialised india?

The British aggressively codified, intensified and encouraged increased enforcement of the caste system in India in order to facilitate their divide-and-conquer strategy. Did you really not know that?

https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=101...

http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/castesystem.htm
The point is to keep C small and flexible. It supports whatever kind of string implementation needed by the present environment, platform and algorithm.

That said, several “high-level” string libraries for C exist that make it safer, more efficient, etc. Some of them are even pretty clever, allocating extra space right before the C pointer to a null terminated C string that it gives you, so it can do its own bookkeeping.
Yeah, I'm not going to worry too much about how long water will stay "good" for an emergency situation. And, if you're worried about bacteria, keep a filter/UV sterilizer/iodine/etc. with the water.
WKLW
Everything old is new again. Early 20th-century biologists were exploring the role of fields in the development of embryos. This line of inquiry was snuffed out when DNA came along. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphogenetic_field#Historical...

From the article:

> The rationale [...] was that “since DNA is what is inherited, information stored in the genes must specify all that is needed to develop.”

> The extreme form of this view is “to explain everything by saying ‘it is in the genes,’ or DNA, and this trend has been reinforced by the increasingly powerful and affordable DNA sequencing technologies,” Huang said. “But we need to zoom out: Before molecular biology imposed our myopic tunnel vision, biologists were much more open to organism-level principles.”

> The tide now seems to be turning, according to Herrera-Rincon and others. “It’s too simplistic to consider the genome as the only source of biological information,” she said.

(emphasis added)

If genes are all-powerful, there is no hope for those who begin to deteriorate. But if our bio-electric fields are more important than our genes, there is much greater possibility for improving our health than the geneticists have led us to believe.
Something like this, I would downvote but that might mean less people get to see your opinion. Downvoting is not a good way to start a conversation or share information. If this post is downvoted to oblivion, it robs you of your time and effort you put in and ends the conversation.
Yes. I specifically included trains in my comment.
I was asked to do a presentation at work about the blockchain and decided to implement one myself (Python).

With the same basic code base, I've built:

A basic asset tracking system. Think shipping containers.

A simple IoT API (logging sensor data).

A crude lap time tracker for racing drones. This would be easily shareable and loaded into different tracks to log your progress. I build racing drones as a hobby.

The really useful thing about the blockchain is that I can define a data structure and then design systems that consume it. Making the data portable.

Feel free to email me with questions. It's a fun tech to work with and simpler than people make it look.
Believing your own hype does not make it any less a scam.
I don't consider it elitist at all. Someone with a solid knowledge of fundamentals can often accomplish more, faster, and more maintainably in vanilla Go (for example) than an engineer who is trained in frameworks. The former can write a pretty solid pubsub/distributed queue/disruptor/stream parser/load balancer/etc. that will outperform most off-the-shelf solutions, cost very little to host, and be tailored to a specific application. The latter generally cannot.

Don't get me wrong - I run a very small programming shop and I make judgment calls every day about whether to borrow or build. My operating system, hardware drivers, compiler, dependency manager, email server (etc.) I borrow these because it seems obviously practical and I have an appreciation for the complexity underneath (although I have some unkind things to say about hosting tiny apps on full-blown linux virts, the waste is unbelievable). I use Unity for client side development for games, which is probably the decision I'm least happy about, but I simply don't have the bandwidth to deal with the monstrous complexity of client-side programming (especially in a gaming context).

Frameworks are generally bloated monstrosities that conceal performance problems behind walls of configuration and impenetrable cruft that has developed over decades of trying to make the "out of the box" experience configurable while pleasing myriad experts. They do more than one thing relatively badly, and the engineers who work with them often haven't developed the ability to deep dive into them to solve real scaling problems.

You don't get simplicity, you never get zero-touch, and your learning when working with a framework often doesn't generalize, so you're basically renting a knowledge black-hole rather than paying down a mortgage on a knowledge library.

Anyway, that's my two cents on why I think having solid fundamentals is important, at least in my line of work.
I don't think the owner had written any/many. They seemed to be shared amongst the digerati for c00lz. Mostly very trippy colormap warping, some of them had sprites doing things over the underlying image, a lot of XOR constructive/destructive interference fringe ideas.

They had two dimensions: 1) be as trippy-cool as possible 2) be written as tersely as humanly possible

The suicide: I can't say. He left no note. I was led to believe he'd found a way to consume a huge amount of time-charged online credit, realized he had accrued a multi-thousand dollar debt, was failing university and was severely depressed. This was back in the 1990s. Computer Crime was new, and the consequences for him was probably jail time.

A lot of other stuff on the amiga was about conspiracy theory, hacking, the usual ascii copy of 'the anarchists cookbook' which almost anyone can stumble upon and hoarde. For somebody in formative years, maybe this was more exciting than in hindsight it reads. (I mean both for me, finding it, and for him, finding/owning it in the raw. I wouldn't have been significantly older than him really, perhaps 10 years at most)

I don't think I helped the family come to any sense of closure, or informed things to help the police or coroner. I did learn that this is a very emotionally stressful job to perform and I am not well suited to either the detail side of logging "what was found" or delivery of the right kind of empathetic response to people in emotional stress. The uni was pretty good about this. They gave me counselling afterward as I recall. I wouldn't be surprised to be told anyone doing this kind of digital forensics nowadays has a pretty solid support structure. Between this, and kiddyporn I think you'd need it.

I think you can learn both skills, but it takes time
What would you do if you worked at a startup which, after a year and a half of existing and raising a substantial Series A _hasnt even started_ to define what the product is? Basically the only reason the startup is alive is a single large customer walked in one day in search of the narrow expertise that we excel at, and gave us a contract. But other than that, there’s zero product effort, and the CEO doesn’t understand he needs to solve customer problems.

How would you estimate the chances of success on something like that. I estimate them at roughly zero in spite of the technological prowess, but maybe I’m wrong.
Siri is something that's occasionally useful, if you think to use it.

Alexa and now Google Home can integrate themselves into your whole life. Alexa is the primary interface for the home automation at my home and my girlfriend's. Her 9 y/o kids can use it. Our 67 y/o mothers can use it. We've got a baker's dozen of Alexa-enabled speakers between us, covering all of our living spaces and half the bathrooms.

They get used constantly.

Many of our use cases are "trivial" but having a voice assistant everywhere instead of tied to phones / tablets greatly changes their utility.
Investors are credibly speculating that Amazon will continue to have very high revenue growth rates.

Southwest last year grew revenue 4%

Amazon grew revenue 38% (!!)

If you believe that pattern will continue for a very long time, it makes sense to give Amazon an enormous valuation.

As a practical example, if you discount the future by 10%, Amazon is growing discounted yearly revenue by 28%; Southwest by -6%.

Now stocks follow (the sum of) discounted future profits, not current. If Amazon's revenue increase continued indefinitely, while holding fixed profits, Amazon would be worth an infinite amount, while Southwest's value is actually bounded. Of course Amazon certainly will slow revenue growth at some point - but it isn't too hard to see why it could very well be worth an order of magnitude more than Southwest.
You'll want to basically perform the reverse of a Fisher-Yates shuffle. Instead of generating a random number, you look at which card needs to be swapped with the Kth card in the deck to make the top K to N positions of the deck in sorted order.

If deck is a list holding a permutation of the numbers 0 to N - 1, it looks something like:

random_value = 0
for i in range(len(deck)-1, 0, -1):
index = deck.index(i)
random_value += index
random_value *= i
deck[index], deck[i] = deck[i], deck[index]

The above is a one-minute prototype and may or may not work. When I get some time, I'll actually test the above code, but it's close to doing the right thing.

The above naive implementation is O(N^2). Your end result is a sorted deck, and random_value is a number that when repeatedly mod'd and divided by the appropriate index to generate a "random" number during a Fisher-Yates shuffle would produce your original permutation.

In practice, you'd implement the algorithm in O(N) by first doing a single linear scan to build an index (actually just held in an array) of cards to their positions. Also, you wouldn't actually perform the swap, since you never look at deck[i] after performing the swap. You just do deck[index] = deck[i]. So, at the end, you won't wind up with deck being sorted.
Wonderful, thank you for the link.
Sorry I should have been more precise. The manager has to approve the transfer so presumably they would talk to you first to make sure you're a good fit and give you more context into the role. So I suppose although it's not called an interview, it basically is one.
Yeah, but, that's the instruction manual. This seems more like identifying part of the toolkit.
I've always been puzzled about why programmers aren't considered worthy of tools designed with thought given to user interface.
Neutrinos were predicted based on observations of other particles before observed.

Same with Pluto.

The speed of light being constant isn't a particle but emerged from Maxwell's equations.
I mean, in this case, she literally did use her gender as part of the cynical narrative.
What I assume is being referred to is the story that AWS got started to sell Amazon's spare compute capacity. Werner Vogels has publicly stated that this is a myth: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8658383
Really good piece. Building with value in mind from day one - very interesting approach.
Umm, the money had to come from somewhere.
It’s not clear this is fusion. Sounds like it might be fission. Anyone have better info?
Crispr gene editing ready for testing in humans
I don't know if Skyoblivion ever managed to write a robust solution for translating the codebase from the old scripting language to Papyrus, and I can see why it might be a huge hurdle for modding teams.
Wow, there are full translations into Simplified/Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Ukrainian and Vietnamese.

Truly a great resource, thanks!
I'm not sure I understand: WebAssembly is the output of a (hopefully) optimizing compiler. LLVM is such a compiler backend. If you use WebAssembly today, you are probably going through LLVM.

Perhaps you meant: why not use LLVM IR instead of WebAssembly? If so, allow me to refer you to this comment[1] (from a bit further down in this thread).

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586239
Nobody is talking magic. We have a system with characteristics that maps to problems we wish to solve and we try to do it.

Nothing wrong with that.

The fact crypto is riddle with quick money making claims and project using the blockchain for sheer buzziness tends to make skeptics extra pessimistics in their views.

It's unfair to the technology.

We have a transaction oriented temper proof distributed transparent database.

Those are objective features, and they deserve we give them a try.
Most of the wealthy did similar things but were not prosecuted.

Behind Every Great Fortune There Is a Crime.

Very few super wealthy made their money honestly.
I'm pleased to see that now that the price has fallen, the tone of BTC discussions in general has taken on a more sober tone amid the endless recriminations.
Next 5 Years of Chip Technology
I'm running a putty with window transparency, xterm-256color support, in utf-8. Everything is working fine including htop. (Puttytray)
Box CEO Aaron Levie Sounds Off on Dropbox IPO
Oh look. Another Bloomberg article shitting on bitcoin. Seriously, I don't even have to guess the source of these doom and gloom articles on HN anymore. They are wrong way more than they are right and have made it a sport to generate clickbait like this article, titled: The Bitcoin Fad Is Fading—for Now (note the word 'fad', clearly meant to be inflammatory).

So, does anyone want to ask why the vast majority of searches for "Bloomberg" originate in Turkey, Singapore, and Hong Kong? Seems odd that interest in the term would be low enough in the US to place it outside the top 10.
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bloomberg,bitcoin

What's stranger is that the trends for 'Bloomberg' Turkey don't match any surrounding countries (that I checked), and outside Singapore and China, relative volume has dropped over the past few years, especially in Asia.
https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=bloomberg&t...

Maybe it's the conspiracy nut in me, but if I was a conservative financial news source and I saw a lot of interest in a totally new financial system that I don't understand (or have influence over), I'd be afraid, too. I mean, if the search interest in bitcoin was showing strength in those new markets I just spent cultivating, I'd probably downplay it too. But that's probably not what's happening...
https://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=bitcoin&t=w...
Or it totally is.

So, is the fad of Bloomberg fading? Nah, they've been consistently low for years, and everyone loves a 0 growth business. Is Bloomberg about to collapse? Hopefully.

Fucking dinosaurs, man. The worst part about them is having to hear their death moans from miles away.
I have a book called "yes, we have no neutrons" by Alexander Dewdney. Written during the Pons/Fleischmann years.

It talks a LOT about the fundamental characteristics of bad science and pretty high up the list, is publication by publicity event.

If its not in peer review, then I think we're entitled to say hmmmmm

Yes, its SRI. But its also a commissioned report.
I agree. Epigenetic studies hold the key to making reasonable interventions into genetic conditions.

While genetic screening is desirable, it is going to take a long while before we can have it on a species level. But if we can develop chemo-electric interventions that can alter the progression of genetic conditions, that would be a fresh change in the field, impacting many lives.

As we hit the physical limitations of interventions based on central dogma(which is still years away), we will have to look elsewhere, with an emphasis on the temporal progression of gene expression with respect to different variables. This is going to be difficult, but I can hopeful that some controlled processes might turn out in the future - given our data processing abilities.
Yes, for example https://ozlabs.org/ (I've worked with several of these people, and one prominent example is Andrew Tridgell, original developer of Samba and rsync, among other things).
Botrnot: an R package for detecting Twitter bots
[I'll copy my comment from dupe story that didn't get any traction.]

The article avoids all the interesting technical details. In case you are wondering if this is possible and how much of this is an exaggeration, the title of the research article is "The Landscape of DNA and RNA Methylation Before, During, and After Human Space Travel (Twins Study - Mason) - 09.27.17" https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experime...

Methylation is an usual process that the cells use for enabling and disabling genes expression. It's reversible, somewhat permanent and somewhat inheritable. If you like a bad analogy, it's like making a change in the bios setup of your computer or updating the configuration of the wifi-router. It's not a firmware upgrade or a hardware modification. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_methylation
Developer: Michael W. Kearney

Link to github: https://github.com/mkearney/botrnot
I think this came up recently - I know there's a project to compile webassembly to jvm byte code.
I don't know. When I leave my bubble of scientists and techies I regularly come across people who will lie without reason, motive or gain, and I think some of them are more emotional than the mean.

It still throws me off, you have to basically vet or ignore any factual statement they make because it might either not have any correlation with reality at all or, if it is a statement about their intentions and feelings, they will not remember what they said in the future anyway and say they always had the new opinion.
Thanks for sharing this story. This is something I suspected and have actually complained to customer support about repeatedly (things are buried within menus of menus, strange link redirects that don't make sense, functionality that is not available to business owner accounts but is available to the supporting accountant-logins!!). These terrible patterns that keep users from more easily managing their books and the awful lobbying of congress to keep taxes complex are why I think people should actively boycott Intuit software.
Would you use a Markov model for this?
I believe this is known as the 'pussy pass'.
Tell HN: What I should have noticed
Throwaway for obvious reasons.

I should have paid more attention to how much my daughter was afraid of her aunt.

I should have wondered about the abrupt change in my daughter's behavior and personality, rather than just wondering how to deal with it.

I should have noticed how the aunt manipulated us to manufacture situations where she would be alone with my daughter.

I was too busy trying to survive day-to-day life, and hoping to have some time and energy left over for things I wanted to do. I didn't see the warning signs. I wish I had.
> Cold fusion (oh sorry, Low Energy Nuclear Reaction) research is a bad joke, unsupported by theory or practice.

Is this really true?