skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anybody who you trust can then use My Cool Quiz App and let it read anything they can see about you, too.

Reality is not required to cooperate with coinwank.
If you liked this, you'll probably enjoy the North Korean equivalent:

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/new-york/articl...

Although the designs are more austere and less whimsical. (As, to be fair, were the vast majority of Soviet products too.)
This is smart. If you're not going to do anything else with it, you should publish it.
Not everybody can read cursive Cyrillic...
That's fair. I'm not trying to portray ITA as a failure. Quite the opposite. Trying to say even an elite group of genius talent can't turn the ship quickly. That it's more about legacy thinking than it is about legacy tech.

Airlines and OTA companies could be 10x more innovative with the tech they have now. TPF and other old tech is NOT the barrier.
For full disclosure: the creator of SQLite is also the creator of Fossil, so this is not at all an unbiased comparison.
Steve Wozniak drops Facebook: “The profits are all based on the user’s info”
> According to a spokesperson from Hunter Energy, it expects roughly 5% of the energy from the power plant will be used for blockchain related processes.

clickbait nonsense
Is there an archive of his show that we can listen to?
Does it also handle the recruiter spam? Some kind of captcha perhaps, one of these is not a JavaScript framework: ...
Sounds like Oracle's core business of fucking everyone up for no reason. Larry you are a true POS <3
Would you accept Hacker News as edutainment? It's entertaining but rarely useful. Still I enjoy it.
Bret Victor - Inventing on principle

https://vimeo.com/36579366

Alan Kay - Power of Simplicity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdSD07U5uBs

Steve Jobs - Marketing (unveiling Think Different)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HsGAc0_Y5c

Robert Cialdini - On Influence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC6ItuT1Eso

Peter Thiel - On Zero to One (Notes on Starts Ups or How to Build the Future)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZQnKtjM1TA

Naval Ravikant on Reading, Happiness, Systems for Decision Making, Habits, Honesty and More (Farnam Street podcast)

https://www.fs.blog/2017/02/naval-ravikant-reading-decision-...

Josh Wolfe - On "This is who you are up against" podcast

http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/

Richard Feynman - Fun to Imagine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zZbX_9ru9U

Paul Graham - Startup school (2008)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7K0vRUKXKc

James Burke - Connections (BBC documentary)

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Jim Al-Khalili tells the story of the Atom (BBC)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gm3p_3Vgejk

Elon Musk's 2003 Stanford University Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders Lecture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afZTrfvB2AQ

Ken Robinson - Do schools kill creativity?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG9CE55wbtY

Paul Stamets on mycology, bioremediation and fungi- Joe Rogan Experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPqWstVnRjQ
My thought is how likely is it that crustal movements would bury things too deep on that timescale? If stuff stayed near the surface, that's one thing, but would it?

We also see things trapped in glaciers, but if the timescale is large enough for all the glaciers to have melted...
Honestly it wasn't until I actually flew on a 787 that I realized the trade-off. My only frame of reference was ~1998 economy-class flight quality.
>Later you have x=2i or x=-2i.

To be clear, by the time I got to this statement, I had changed the question (from a base of Q to C)

Further, the complete statement I was making at that point was:

If ((x^3+4x=0) AND x != 0) then ((x=2i) OR (x=-2i))

I am not allowing x to vary at all here. Suppose, for the sake of arguement, we had x=2i. It would still be true that ((x=2i) OR (x=-2i)).

> Persisting with the idea that you can view x as an element in the base ring and at the same time allowing its value to change or vary indicates you don’t really understand these issues.

Persisting with the idea that I am doing this indicates that your are not reading what I am writing.
They were down for two weeks? Didn’t announce it? Still had users when they returned? Wow!
>A single dental implant from end to end in the US is usually in the $4,000 to $5,000 range.

Huh? It is much cheaper then that. About half that.
Actually, it may not be too many years before peanut butter, breakfast cereals, and many items found in grocery stores have a "blockchain certified" logo and QR code, or something along those lines. One of the interesting non-currency applications of blockchain tech is "track and trace" for the food and beverage industries: you could scan the code (with an appropriate app, of course) and find a complete history of transport and processing steps for every ingredient in a food/bev product, all the way back to the farms.
Gold is soft but Amber is softer and we've found intact insects encased in that substance which are 230 million years old*. You wouldn't be likely to find a complete car or something in 60 million years but there will certainly be plenty of artifacts which were preserved through sheer luck. I wouldn't be surprised if most small manifactured objects would survive in archeologically recognizable form if they were accidentally lost in an anoxic environment. For example, imagine you lose your iPhone when out in a swamp. Drop a phone in something as thick as Pluff Mud, which is abiotic below the surface, and you've basically encased it in the exact kind of environment which has produces the best fossils we've yet found.
datacenter construction and management is not exactly rocket science in 2018.
Update: take this news with a grain of salt. It smells like nothing more than a statement of intent at this point, from a group who clearly have no experience of running a power station but who probably have an excellent PR department.

Newcastle Herald: http://www.theherald.com.au/story/5335192/latest-twist-in-th...
Meat isn't healthy. Here's some data on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlhJU57KUdQ
Ask HN: What is existential crisis and how do you know if you are having one?
Hi!
I see your point, but threading, PIC, exceptions, DOM access, etc, are a level above ASM.
It's pretty surprising to me that there's only one or two serious attempts (eg, Fossil) at bundling a bug tracker and stuff inside a DVCS repository, so you keep everything together with the code. I was looking at this a year or two ago and couldn't find anything which met my particular requirements.

It doesn't even need to be standardized, just reasonably portable.
Instead of addressing privacy in just email,
we are addressing the full picture in the context of a parallel digital ecosystem called ByStar.

See http://www.by-star.net

The Libre-Halaal By* (ByStar) Digital Ecosystem

A Unified and Non-Proprietary Model For Autonomous Internet Services
A Moral Alterantive To The Proprietary American Digital Ecosystem
For Preservation Of The Individual’s Autonomy and Privacy

Narrated presentation format is at:
http://www.by-star.net/PLPC/180054
I think it was almost 20 years ago when I expectantly started the robot algorithm that had slowly been evolving for weeks.

I had already realized that I had to adjust the fitness function to give points for killing, not just surviving, since the first attempt had created robots that instead of skillfully picking off the opponents one by one - as I had envisioned - took speed for the nearest corner and then just sat there waiting to be killed by one of the other traditionally programmed robots.

I realized that the corner strategy made sense as they got the most protection there, but it was a bit unsatisfactory to watch...

In the second try the robots scurried to their usual corners, waiting to be killed, but this time firing randomly, occasionally killing one of their opponents by luck before they got hit.

The evolutionary algorithm sort of hit a plateau there, and besides I kind of wanted to use my computer for other things rather than spending days and days simulating robot fights.

But I learned two things:

* Evolution most likely is a thing.

* It's really really hard to write fitness functions...
If you're interested in diving into a real experiment, over at Sweden there's a movement[0] to try to increase the vocabulary early. Teachers in lower grades are quite worried that the entry bar has been lowered over the years. I didn't find any material in English, but Google Translate at least made it somewhat readable.

This is interesting because it's focus is not the kids, but the teachers, and how they should interact, what resources they should use etc, which benefit the kids.

I'm exposed to it because I have a kid on daycare, they make a thing about having themes where they read all about certain books. And the constant mantra is to never hold back on 'advanced' words, but rather explain them and try to use them in normal conversations. The kids will pick it up, no need to be easy on them. Hopefully it will turn out for the best ;)

My dream is that we will fully enact parental support from inception until the kids are 18. From what I've read there should be actual scientific studies about it where there were massive improvements for the kids, which at least I think that would lead to _a lot_ less stress in the system in general.

[0]: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr...
Eastern bloc design is what American fifties-early-sixties were, back when Khrushev was trying to make USSR a semblance of a normal nation.

To many here, it will may sound surprising, but Khrushev kept quite high opinion of the Western society, and looked up to it.

After Khrushev was kicked out of the politbureau, all things got stuck in that era till the moment USSR kicked the bucket.
Amazon is definitely the current leader but in order to to make it a monopoly, competetion in cloud should be encouraged that will improve offereing and bring prices down for majority of the users.
it was on hn a while back. the link is dead now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14146776

it’s on wikipedia, with the same dead source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test?wprov=sfti1

EDIT: Working link to the paper (in some journal of science): https://www.udocz.com/read/are-ants-capable-of-self-recognit...

http://difusion.ulb.ac.be/vufind/Record/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot....
This is very sad news. I was entertained for many nights by his provocative guests and his superb interviews. Also, I hard pressed to think of a better voice for radio.

He will be missed by many.
I doubt anybody running it is interested in upgrading their pip.
You should look to the matrix protocol. That will be your new friend. Now, the most popular - though of course NOT only - client is https://riot.im Its similar in concept to IRC - chat rooms and such, and its decentralized. The web and mobile client for riot are really awesome...but you mentioned about personal information, hey, the matrix folks actually have a server you can self-host...so there is really no personal info you need to share with anyone that you don't want. My small family and i use matrix (via riot.im), and it works well for us. I encourage you to give it a try.

(Oh I didn't even mention the bridges to other platforms like gitter, irc, slack, etc. that matrix contributors develop...I honestly don't know why matrix has not crushed every other chat platform yet.)

EDIT: To clarify, matrix-based platforms like riot.im are chat platforms not really what most might call "traditional social media/networks".
I’ll build you this today with a “database”.
Bravo, good sir! The world needs more people like you.
A friend asked why I was in computer science if I thought so many tech companies were doing evil things.
My answer was that being a conscientious objector, I might be able to make a difference.
Thank you for showing it can be done.
The US government outsources everything. Anything actually being produced or operated is done by some vendor on a government contract, with the big exception of the military (which still has plenty of outsourced business).

Government IT expertise is not high-quality and will never match what AWS has. It's about value, not cost. It's better to have reliable and scalable infrastructure even if AWS is vastly more expensive.
I found a lot, here's one: https://9to5mac.com/2015/01/26/nexus-6/
I love oracle db and so do lots of dbas.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16836394.
Most of the free apps on the App Store or Google Play, are probably selling your data left and right.

The little "My Digital Life" app (that just happened to exploited a bug in Facebook's platform at the time) is probably a drop in the pond. Who knows what other apps there are that's not even connected with Facebook that have been selling for all these years and are probably still doing so today?
Cheap, but let’s all enjoy Larry Ellison on “the cloud”

https://youtu.be/KmXJSeMaoTY
I mean that targeting ads comes from harvesting lots of info. If the only thing the data shows is a single relationship then it is an order of magnitude lesser than if you are pulling data from hundreds of relationships.
And that's how we went back to book burning, again.
Happy to help - there are plenty of open positions on the AWS team!
OMG. How many times does Zuckerberg have to tell everyone they don't sell data before this old trope isn't pulled out?
Maybe not everybody, but I would hope people writing books about Soviet design would know the basics of Cyrillic.
DEF CON 22 - Gene Bransfield - Weaponizing Your Pets: The War Kitteh and the Denial of Service Dog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMNSvHswljM
There's a bunch. Even Avocado IO but some suffer from laggy chat. Once you got enough messages the app takes forever as it tries to download every single message. Skype has the same damn problem... Just sync the last 10 then slowly poll for the rest and poll the rest fully if I scroll up... Never understood why they did that.
But the final site is static right? Because a Nuxt site even works with JS disabled?
Why does that need to be decentralised? Why not just have a chain of signatures uploaded to a database run by a state body or private company?
The examples he presents to compare the features of GitHub to Fossil, not git itself.

Fossil has a GUI built-in that makes visualizing the repo easy. There are tools for Git that provide similar functionality.

1. "Git makes it difficult to find successors (descendents) of a check-in" - Use a Git GUI like SourceTree and it's really damn easy to jump to a commit and review the entire graph up and down using links to jump to parent/child commits (even multiple parents for merges.

2. "The mental model for Git is needlessly complex" - Again, a Git GUI can make it really easy to keep track of "changed but not ready to commit, changed and ready to commit, local and remote branch"

3. "Git does not track historical branch names" - The example he provides here shows a visual graph in Fossil of the branch history. The exact same thing is available in Git via "git log --graph --all --decorate" or a GUI that shows the graph.

4. "Git requires more administrative support" - "apt install git" or "brew install git" or most systems come with it pre-installed. Windows is a bit more annoying.

5. "Git provides a poor user experience" - "Just memorize the shell commands". Again, there is tooling available for Git to remove this requirement.

It seems to me that his main complaint is that Git doesn't provide a GUI out of the box to make visualizing the repository easier. I get that, but there are enough tooling options available that it becomes a non-issue. SourceTree is a native app for Mac and Windows and there are various other GUIs even CLI GUIs for Git that users have a lot of flexibility. Fossil would seem to require them to use the GUI provided by Fossil whether they like it or not.

I'm not bashing on Fossil at all. I'm just saying that his arguments here show a lack of knowledge about the available tooling for Git and not fundamental advantages of Fossil over Git.
Building it into an API would make an amazing product but not something I could afford as a side project. Each session would require a huge amount of RAM & CPU and the code would need to be re-architected to handle concurrency.
>"Most airlines have pushed the legacy TPF layer into a sort of nosql data store."

Sorry what is TPF here?
The correlation with "infant mortality" is a subtle nod to prostitution, rape and abortion.

Dead babies come from accidental or unwanted pregnancies, particularly when combined with drugs and alcohol.

If the underground black market has a strong supply of prostitution (and not just human traffic sob stories, but also prostitution as party time and consenting my-vagina-my-choice power plays, aka: porn without the camera) and the johns are kept in line with strong arm tactics, you get a lot of ladies offering services, and a cross section of pregnancies that represent a poor business decision.

Charting an uptick in dead babies and unattended children running around is a bellweather for women doing whatever, and having whatever done to them, in larger quantities. Really large quantities, over a sustained span of time looks more like big business producing unsavory norms, the kind associated with vice.

In the periphery of legal pornography production there's a quantity of abortions that, in the early 20th century would have cropped up as "infanticide" and "infant mortality" for lack of better terms.

Low literacy rate is a measure of the unwanted pregnancies that lived. Kids that have parents that don't care about them won't bother with compulsory education when they approach ten years old, and dealing with other students starts to become truly unpleasant. Individuals may obtain pragmatic reading skills, but creative writing and reading for fun would decline right along with an uptick in other adversities.
You'd love APL
Yes, they give it for free with the prism program.
I don't get all of the Amazon fan-boi-ism. They are just another company. They are all trying to get more of the publics money through influence. You think Amazon hasn't been lobbying agencies and congress to get their business? Why do you think that Bezos bought the Washington Post?

Oracle is quite bad. Procurement in the Government is broken. The DOD is the worst. It's literally a give away to the private sector. If you think that someone "wins" this kind of business because their "product" "is the best"...You are going to be very sad.
I haven't kept count, but I think I've seen like a dozen attempts of making git-based issue trackers over the times. Of course it is debatable how "serious" these attempts ever have been.
sanchor
Originally, I used facebook in some weird, dystopian and usually ineffective courtship ritual. Then I used it to keep in touch with distant friends, which is the stated use case, but actually isn't that interesting, but would have been well-served by curating my friends list.

Lately, I moved to San Francisco and started doing stand-up comedy. Facebook is the single best tool for self-promotion and for finding out where good open mics and shows are. Both goals are served by adding randomly every single person I meet, not by curating my list.
I've had an idea for a while, where you basically build a government as a service. The way you do it is this:

1) You create a non-profit organization and hire a few people.

2) You create a website where every law proposal that goes through parliament/congress/whatever is displayed on the website, and you give each citizen one vote on this website on each proposal.

3) Your people run for members of parliament in the next election.

4) Here's the kicker: You promise that all of your elected members of parliament will unanimously vote on each decision whatever the vote on the website was. If a majority of citizens voted yes on a law, your people will also all vote yes and (hopefully) pass it.

5) Citizens are incentivized to elect your MPs because they are basically direct democracy, transparent and accountable.

6) You explain each proposal in layman's terms, and how it will affect people, so they're more informed on how they vote.

The good thing about this is that it's backwards-compatible with democracy and it's in the people's best interests to vote for your people. They do need to trust that you'll do what you say, but standard checks and balances apply there (you won't be elected next term if you don't). You also need to solve the electronic voting problem, which is hard, but this protocol is probably better than the one we have now where MPs vote based on lobbyists.
2 OMG comments stating the same thing. Is this a bot ? Is this PR ? Is this instagram leaking on HN ?
Also reminiscent of an episode of Voyager where dinosaurs had evolved on earth millions of years before humans and started exploring space.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Distant_Origin_(episode)
Preact Universal Recursive Sliding Component
I never even used gmail, but I have fond memories of google chat! It used to be my best way of keeping in touch with people. Not sure why people stopped using it; I imagine that maybe Google changed something about the gmail UI, or maybe it was because people started using phones instead of computers for email. In any case, it had all faded away naturally long before Google stopped supporting XMPP.
People hate Oracle because they hate competition.
Is this true? Are we basically fucked in two years?
https://www.google.com/search?q=formula

Definition 1 ("equation") vs definition 2b ("recipe")

As a theoretical physicist you might find definition 2b uninteresting.
I was expecting "Happy to answer any questions you have!", but this was a refreshing twist. Hoping for the best bud.
Yeah but if they wanted to they could just restore the whole thing and ignore the list. I mean as long as you can't see them deleting everything from everywhere you can't be a 100%
Has anyone applied this to a working prototype? Unless I'm mistaken I just see ~120 pages of theory?
Not sure what was going on there 4k-15k years ago?

Scholarship in ancient Chinese history here. While 'China' as a concept didn't exist, certain forerunners to key cultural traits defining Chinese civilization were in place by 3000BC. This includes agriculture with pigs, chickens and common intensive staple crops, village structures, pottery, warmaking, Sino-Tibetan language,[0] and critically the indisputable development of written Chinese characters.

However, in addition to these there were also distinct, large, parallel, significant cultures with impressive technical achievements, those such as the Shu[1] Kingdom (finally invaded and destroyed by the Qin in 316BC, and only rediscovered in the 1980s) which was known for its masterful large-scale bronze casting, said to be unequaled in human history.

Prior to 2k years ago, it gets messy fast, and notions of "China" are vague, relative and almost untenable. Chiefly because, lacking any large unifying kingdom to provide political, economic, military and cultural unity, it's very difficult to make blanket statements about an area the size of the modern region of China. There were certainly separate cultural spheres from the northeast (circa Korea), the north, the northwest (Xinjiang), Tibet[2], Sichuan, Yunnan/Guizhou/Guangxi, Hainan, the southeast and Taiwan, from which humans launched themselves in to the Pacific to conquer the final part of the planet.[3] We can make sparse suggestions based on suppositions about overall migrations of people and technology, but not much more.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangshao_culture

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shu_(state)

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Tibet

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_peoples#Prehistor...
The man rumored to be John Titor is currently in jail for drugging and raping at least four women: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2013/10/post_37...
>which is known to be particularly right-wing

This is a baseless claim with zero evidence to support it