skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This fact is at the heart of what is wrong with non-FLO software and the whole trend of technology today.

I left Apple (previously only a Mac user) several years ago over this. It's not merely the issue of ads (which is not to be understated, ads are ruinous, at the heart of tons of problems). The way power structures work in these non-FLO walled-gardens amount to an effective sabotage of the entire potential for FLO software overall.
Is anyone still programming in assembly in 2018? Maybe some embedded systems people?
> How did the author create the PDF from the markdown source

He used a tool called Marp [1].

At the top of the Markdown file you can see a code that reads "page_number: true" which can be found in the sample file provided by Marp here [2]. There are other tools out there that can be used to convert a Markdown into slides or PDF. I personally use Deckset.app [3] but searching "markdown presentation" — or — "markdown slides" on the Internet seems to bring a long list of projects aiming for the same feature set.

[1] https://yhatt.github.io/marp/

[2] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yhatt/marp/master/example....

[3] https://www.decksetapp.com/2/
Define 'hard'.

To me, almost anything that can be completed in a fixed amount of time with high probability isn't hard; it's tedious at most. But if it can be completed within one hour it's not even tedious, it's (IMO) 'easy'.

For something to be 'hard', there should be a reasonable chance of failure with associated non-trivial costs.
Yea, this is now a requirement for me on any future languages i use. Coming from Py/Node, single executables blew my mind.
The FBI Used Classified Hacking Tools in Ordinary Criminal Investigations
From the same article

> For a brief period last year, Uber was profitable in the United States and Canada, the company said

Recent troubles have been due to negative press and Lyft's popularity, but again in the same article (from November) they said they could be profitable again in 6 months. So overall their business is pretty stable and not really on the brink of death as people here usually make it out to be.
I'm currently reading Why We Sleep and just finished a chapter on how humans' ancestors came out of the trees and started sleeping on the ground. It's speculated that early humans' use of fire made this non-suicidal - keeping away the big nocturnal predators and also reducing the number of ticks, etc, preying on them.
Machine learning driven AWS EC2 scheduler
Everyone is different, but it feels like a weight is lifted off my shoulders when I get rid of stuff I don't need or can't justify keeping. Marie Kondo wrote a book on this: The Japanese Art of Decluttering.

https://www.amazon.com/Life-Changing-Magic-Tidying-Declutter...
> It's taken a huge bite out of PC gaming and left the RAM and GPU market in shambles.

RAM prices have skyrocketed along with GPU? Sorry, not kept up on it....
True enough. It's a really bad name.

On the other hand, someone would have to be astonishingly thick (or at best cavalier about their business) to take that seriously into account when deciding whether or not to use it.
My son just bought himself a Switch, and TBH this isn't surprising at all. What is surprising is that Nintendo didn't modify the port so that a USB-C cable wouldn't fit. I don't think it's advertised as being a USB-C port, though.

The specs page[0] says there are three USB 2.0 ports and a power port (which, by looking at it, uses the same connector as USB-C).

[0]https://www.nintendo.com/switch/features/tech-specs/
Why did your ear, the outer part and the inner bones and the canal and the fluids and the brain, all evolve together in a way that grants Fourier analysis for free? Coincidence?

Maybe maths could help us understand biology or other non-maths fields better!

(Extra mystery: Why did we evolve phase-invariance?)
> Compelling evidence

The thing is that the evidence is not compelling at all. It relies on sketchy cell phone evidence and the witness of a guy who told three entirely different versions of his story.

The cell phone evidence is so bad that the expert who testified for the prosecution retracted his analysis during the appeal. Prosecutors presented location for incoming calls as evidence, even though the AT&T call log made it clear that incoming calls did not have valid location info. The police mistakenly placed one of the towers in Patapsco State park, and the first version of Jay’s story had them driving through there. The police fixed their map and the second version of his story does not have them going to that park. That seems pretty clear that he was being coached, which puts the claim that “he knew where the car was” in doubt.
That jump at 1:02 is spectacular!

And the quick reflexes on the ice are also pretty impressive.
(disclaimer I own one and a two more family members also own Porsches)

How long did Porsche take to fix it?

I had a small rattling appear on mine after a couple weeks and called and they fixed it on the spot (user error, my son dropped a metal ball through the seatbelt hole that caused it). My cousin had a brand new Panamera with a scratch/dent that didn't notice when he picked it up. Called, 3 days later they called to take the car there and replace the piece (took 3 days since these were the brand new Panameras when they were released and they didn't have that part in stock to replace)
Disagree. Built a new gaming/dev station 6 months ago. Hadn’t built a desktop from scratch since 2008.

New case, CPU, mobo - everything.

Everything came with graphics heavy instructions that were as easy to follow as an IKEA manual.

The whole thing was way easier to deal with. To be fair, I built my first desktops in the 80s, so lots of muscle memory.

No jumpers, dip switches, modern cases are roomier with built nooks to tuck cables.

It’s time consuming, for sure. But not “hard”.
Fixing the Facebook Problem with the Pilot Wave Protocol
Under Armour admits data breach affected approximately 150M accounts
What's intellectually lazy is that you're clearly approaching this from the assumption that Syed is guilty and demanding proof that he isn't.

The American system is founded on the exact opposite principle: the State must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Syed is guilty. Syed doesn't even have to show that he is innocent, just that the State can't prove his guilt.

In the case of the fingerprints, as many other posters have pointed out, he was the victim's boyfriend and so had been in her car many times. The presence of his fingerprints in her care is therefore neither surprising nor evidence of guilt. It just shows that at some point he was in her car, which already know was true many times.

It's not for Syed to explain away the fingerprints, it's for the State to explain how it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed the murder. Despite your numerous erroneous assertions to the contrary, the evidence presented by the State is extremely weak and circumstantial, and testimony of their key witness demonstrated to be extremely unreliable.

Not to mention your assumption that it MUST be one of the listed suspects, and since their fingerprints weren't there it must be Syed. It's possible the killer was an unknown person. It's possible one of the other suspects wore gloves or some other protection against fingerprints. It's also possible Syed was the killer, but the fingerprints being in the car are not in any way proof of that because, as noted above, their presence is to be expected.

Yours is precisely the kind of mindset the entire system is set up to avoid. Thankfully people who actually know the law and have gone over the evidence haven't approached this question with your attitude.
There's also the follow up called "1493 ..." (I forget the rest).
> They don't tell you that closing the CPU guard feels like you're breaking hundreds of dollars worth of equipment 100 percent of the time.

I had a brief summer job as a 17 year old, assembling computers. Even after over 100, I still had that feeling of imminent destruction of expensive electronics.
[1] http://fairpixels.pro

[2] http://stripe.com

[3] http://airbnb.com

[4] http://dropbox.com
It’s amazing what you can find out by seeing someone’s tax returns, right Trump?
"If we strip away the consensus mechanism, all that is left is a trivial data structure that anyone with a CS background could come up with. So, the question becomes where the real value proposition is in "blockchain technology" outside of the realm of crypto currencies. What are the things you can only do with "blockchain technology" that cannot be achieved with existing technology?"

To paraphrase -- "if you discount everything a blockchain does, what can you only do with a blockchain". This is not a reasonable approach.

Yes, blockchains are (now, at least), trivial. A merkle tree or simile distributed database with multiple writers and time-based consensus...a lot like git, really. There are an enormous number of potential uses of such a technology -- security and land ownership, contracts, etc. Virtually anything where you want an auditable, immutable historical record and where the data has many interested parties. This historically was accomplished via a centralized trusted database, but that doesn't mean that's the only solution.

HN, in many ways, is overly cynical at times, and is too eager to try to knock down the hypesters, throwing the baby out with the bath water to make a point.
Compare with a service like Netflix. Netflix has no ads and let’s me skip past the opening titles with a single click of a button. It’s highly optimized to give me what I want.

HBO not only shows me ads for unrelated content (it’s really never something I’m interested in seeing), but I have to blindly click the timeline when I skip it. If I overshoot, I have to backtrack in search of the first scene. Overshooting again puts me back in the ad. It’s more about what HBO wants me to see than it is about what I want to see.
No doubt inspired by the amazing My Summer Car [1].

And presaged by the classic Onion videos "World of World of Warcraft" [2] and "Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3" [3].

[1] http://www.amistech.com/msc/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuTkgi7scKo
It certainly can be daunting at first, I generally just get a bit frustrated when people assert a task is too hard when all it really requires is some concentration and research.

If the argument were "I have other things I prefer to spend time on" then I would completely understand, but rejecting it as too hard seems somewhat lazy unless I'm just overestimating the average person's ability.
Right now such currency is USD, with the Fed acting as a trusted third party. That's one of the reasons why other countries are investing in "blockchain technology", whatever that entails
The worst part is basically all the major vendors have drastically reduced their return policies or eliminated them entirely.
I basically used uber to commute (exclusively for a few weeks and as a second option for the rest) during an internship. I noticed my pricing going up from $16 to $22 at the same times during the same season. By the end I ended up using Lyft.
Is it because people will keep coming back for bland food?
OK great.

Now how do you get "the blockchain" to know which paper rolls went into which shipping container.
I haven’t built many machines over the years, but to me it’s less like ‘hard’ and more like ‘scary’. The line about locking down CPUs feeling like breaking hundreds of dollars of hardware 100% of the time is a very real thing.

Otherwise it’s the usual dread of whether the damn thing will actually boot. These days, though, they’re much better at booting than they are at not booting, so most of that nail biting is gone.
For anyone asking about code/how it works, I found these links:

http://bobthewebdev.xyz/about

https://blog.goodaudience.com/how-i-taught-an-ai-to-ask-web-...

It uses https://github.com/crisbal/docker-torch-rnn
Algorithms Can't Tell the Difference Between Bad Stuff and Reporting Bad Stuff
I've had many an argument with Randy over HLA and I agree. His point is that it makes assembly and computer programming at a low level easier to understand but I just don't see it.
This is the sort of obtuse insistence on narrow denotational semantics that makes everyone avoid engineers at parties ;)
First thought that sprang to my mind when I read the headline, which wasn't addressed by reading the article, was "ebay ledger nano scam"[0]. I don't see how you can be sure strangers don't have copies of your keys. Unless the keys are generated and coins transferred automatically somehow when you first plug in the stick, which would be cool.

[0] https://cointelegraph.com/news/life-savings-stolen-from-seco...
The scary part is actually not building it but looking up a dozen components with weird detailled descriptions and figuring out what that stuff actually means. Then getting back at it two years later and finding most names completely changed.
I’d say the industry norm is that they care about money above all else. It’s the moviegoers who care about entertainment above all else.

In any case, the result is the same in the end....
One of the cooler things about PC Building Simulator is that it uses a lot of real brands.

Smart. If this game takes off, there's a ready made revenue stream to sell ad space in game. You can't ignore the core gameplay!
Sorry, more clarification -- same difficulty at roughly the same time, not same difficulty across time.

Edit: It seems this thread has gone off on a tangent. I was adding to the discussion of flawed assumptions, not ethics.
I think folks here are missing something. It isn't assembling a gaming PC that's difficult, it's the process of building the rig; specifying parts and confirming that they're compatible can be a daunting task, much less sourcing them and recognizing the appropriate prices.

It's a really big matrix of possibilities that can be pretty opaque to people who don't keep up with it.
What kind of cheap brushes are being used? I've used Weber bristle brushes for years (the spiral ones) and have never seen a single detached bristle.
I love reading about interesting business models such as this. A similar one I've read about before is vending machines. Apparently a well-run vending machine business (ignoring labor costs) can easily achieve 50-100% ROI per year per machine. The vending machine owners don't usually have to pay for the electricity of the machine and each machine only costs $2-3k. Maintenance/restocking has relatively low labor requirements and the stock itself is so cheap it's almost a negligible cost.
the idea that citizens belong to the government is the most unamerican formulation of the actual relationship i can imagine. i’m a little grossed out having read that
Download CPUDasher X and see what your CPU clock speed is. Mine was dropping to 600MHz when the battery hit about 50% and things were laggy. After battery replacement its on a steady 1400HMHz right down to 10%
Google's mission statement: https://www.google.com/about/our-company/

“Organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

Since the beginning, our goal has been to develop services that significantly improve the lives of as many people as possible.

Not just for some. For everyone.

To decrement something would appear to be contrary to making it universally accessible.
From a user perspective, probably the biggest aspect of this is freeing up local storage. My iMessage database is 10 GB, my wife's is 9. That is not an issue for me, but there are still lots of 16 GB devices in active use.
100% agree. And that's my point. There is a level of discernment and skepticism you should have as an adult.

While those skills are not common enough in adults, it's rare that ANY 10 year old anywhere would have the life experience to develop those skills.

Also making this business activity socially acceptable for kids opens the door to parents putting pressure on their kids to make money ("WHY ISN'T MY 12 A VIRAL BEAUTY GURU!?!?!" says some soccer mom). I'm also willing to bet most of these kids have parental involvement, so it opens the door to parents 'pimping out' their kids so they can market some shitty product with an edge of it being sold by a kid.

At that age, kids should be focused on developing fundamental skills instead of focusing on their brand or get rich. What's wrong with saying something is ok for adults but not for kids?
On a macro scale, I agree. We should strive to improve our culture and reduce the harm our actions have on anything outside ourselves. The world would be a better place if we all worked together, undoubtedly.

On a micro scale, if I had children, I'd teach them to take every advantage they can get. I'd teach them to be ruthless, because that's what the world rewards. If someone has to suffer, I'm doing everything in my power to prevent it from being them.

You can't attack these problems from the bottom. A parent would be putting their child at a disadvantage in the interests of the state, which is absolutely absurd to expect. It has to be an institutional movement.

It would be great if we could remove the system that rewards that behavior, but in absence of that, the correct move for any individual agent is to exploit the imbalances.
I'm curious of what the lobbying arms of major social media companies like Facebook and Twitter think of this. Are they using their considerable resources to try and push back against this? They can't possibly benefit from this deeper reach of the government's spying eyes.
> a reasonable chance of failure with associated non-trivial costs.

Any single part of a computer is a non-trivial cost if broken, and it's not too difficult to imagine the situations where that might happen: bending a pin on a CPU, giving a static shock to a component, misapplying thermal paste.

Even for enthusiasts, this is a task they do perhaps every 3 years, and every time with different components.
Can't recommend this game enough. Perkele.
It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure the shopping is the fun part.
It's so apperent that the price of cryptocurrencies aren't really related to how well they are functioning in terms of tech.

LN is working on main net, tx fees are very low and atomic xchain tx are working on some major chains.
Out of curiosity, how does a company lay off ~220 employees yet still have many open positions on its website? I looked at the jobs section for snap and it seems like they have a plethora of engineering jobs despite laying off 120 engineers. Why?
And yet they didn't accomplish these things in other areas. Africa, and a lot of south east asia for instance are not populated by huge swaths of people of European descent.
MySpace prospered for four years, that's it.

And by prospered I mean, never made money, never became self-sustaining at all.

Facebook is still expanding in its 15th year.

MySpace never earned a profit pre Fox acquisition (the Google deal gave it a one time bump).

In historical terms, MySpace is barely a bump in the road, about the size of an Ask.fm type service (ie trivial in today's hyper scale). It's like looking back and thinking Excite was a juggernaut and therefore a supporting piece of evidence that Google is going to die soon.

Facebook will earn ~$20 billion in 2018 and will end the year with $50 billion in cash. That's 86 times what MySpace sold to Fox for.

MySpace peaked in size at a mere 75 million monthly active users. Facebook is nearly 30 times larger.

MySpace then is to Facebook now, what AltaVista at its peak is to Google today.
I just mean to say mathematical objects do not have to exist in order for them to be efficacious. We may just disagree on the ontology of mathematical objects. Or, I may just be misunderstanding your argument.
Just imagine it has "blockchain" in the title.
Only for SIMD-optimized code. For remaining cases, you can help the compiler so it can generate very fast code (with current OoOE CPUs, the generated code may be suboptimal, but as fast as hand-tuned assembly because of the abundance of ALUs and load/store units in the CPU; also, current compilers are better than back in 1996).
Not too sure why a Self-Storage article is trending but not this. Good share.
I don't think its just that it has a bug in its name. I would venture to guess that if the name was Wasp DB, this issue wouldn't exist. It has more to do with the disgust trigger that many people have when they think of cockroaches.
# read this story as text-only, no javascript;
t=198f3c4c31d49ced9b00837138196ec7b5c415904e81b59f3ea04e7b3959a1c9 ;
curl -4 https://cdn.contentful.com/spaces/t0pm5m7uku03/entries/4NOhsWpS3m4esgOG6uMYm?access_token=$t \
|exec sed 's/{/\
/g;s/\\n/\
/g;s/\\"/\"/g;s/}//g;s/ *//;s/\"###/\
\
###/;' > 1.htm ;
exec firefox file:///1.htm ;

# another script to get all the stories from starterstory.com, text-only, no javascript;
# sample output:

---------------------
id: ventana-surfboards-and-supplies
title: Ventana Surfboards & Supplies
subtitle: Growing A Business Selling Surfboards As Pieces of Art
description: Collector surfboards and more.
link: /ventana-surfboards-and-supplies
name: David Dennis
revenue: 8e3
measurement: revenue/mo
founders: 2
employees: 0
startDate: 2014/08/01
location: Santa Cruz, CA
category: other
publishedDate: 2018/03/27
contentId: 5YPTt4uj3a022uOi0uASUc

[hyperlink to content]

type: story

---------------------
id: cblocks
title: CBlocks.io
subtitle: Earning $32,000 in 30 Days With a Crypto-Filled USB Drive
description: Crypto-filled USB drive.
link: /cblocks
name: Auston Bunsen
revenue: 32e3
measurement: revenue/mo
founders: 3
employees: 0
startDate: 2018/01/01
location: Miami, FL
category: other
publishedDate: 2018/03/27
contentId: 4NOhsWpS3m4esgOG6uMYm

[hyperlink to content]

type: story

---------------------

etc.

curl -4o 1.js https://www.starterstory.com/static/js/main.6bf2bb3b.js ;
t=$(exec sed 's/.*access_token=//;/acess_token/q;s/\".*//;/\//d' 1.js);
exec sed 's/{id:\"/\
&/g;s/\"type\":story/&\
/g;/{id:\".*title:/!d;s/.*X=\[//;s/t.a=X.*//;/{id:\".*title:/p;' 1.js \
|exec sed '1s/^/<pre>/;s/,[^ 0]/\
&/g;$s/$/<\/pre>/;/Date:/{s/new Date(\"//g;s/\")//g;};s/{/\
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|exec sed '/additional:/d;s/}.*//;/component:/d;/live:/d;/dynamic:/d;/\"jpg/d;/\"jpeg/d;/[iI]mage:Object(/d;s>contentId:\".\{22\}>&\"\
</pre\><a href=https://cdn.contentful.com/spaces/t0pm5m7uku03/entries/&?access_token='"$t"'\>[hyperlink to content]</a\><pre\>>;s>contentId:>>2;s>\">>g;s>,>>;s>:>: >' > 1.htm;

exec firefox file:///1.htm ;
> There's also the follow up called "1493 ..." (I forget the rest).

It's called "1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created"
Anyone have a nice tl;dr?
I think your comment is, what, a decade out of date?

First of all, pcpartpicker and logicalincrements will help you choosing the right CPU with the right motherboard. Correct timings on RAM hasn't been a thing for many, many years, they work, at worst it won't use the maximum possibility the module offers. The PSU is hardly a problem, unless you are spending an extraordinary amount of money, the smallest PSU you can realistically buy is an overkill (CPU is 65W typically, very few GPUs go above 150W, and you can't even get a below 350W PSU really unless you have some office prebuilt from HP or Dell).

The front I/O pretty much has standardized on Intel https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/images/mothe... and most cases have a single block now.
12 powers of high impact presenting – mindful presenting
The fact is people vote with their moeny, and they don't vote for quality.
The western world is in crisis psychologically. This kind of thing didn’t cause it, but it ain’t helping. But materialism is valorized by CNBC and startup bro culture as well.

The sad thing about this kind of capitalism though is in money via brand building (id argue) no real value is created. It’s just a knife fight for eyeballs.
Probably means the time on your device is wrong.
the effort to make the US even more unappealing to immigrants marches on...
This is how transparent an organization should be when breached. Kudos to Under Armour.