skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What currently makes it incompatible? I'm not well versed in Electron so I can't see exactly where it hooks in and how it is needed.
The whole paragraph is just confused. A call-capable phone without a microphone?
Would most sci-fi fans consider Contact to be hard sci-fi? The main ideas are nearly identical.
Since we're on the topic, are there any new-ish open source alternatives to pump & stream-framework?
I think it's a bit extreme to suggest that the standard for an acceptable range of risk is anything that doesn't cause our species to go extinct.

We tend to put a greater value on human life than that, even (or especially), traditionally.
I used Stripe Atlas earlier this year to incorporate Chatdog (https://chat.dog) and it has been a good experience so far. Stripe's customer support is responsive and helpful. I'd highly recommend it!
A site should still be able to choose to not produce RSS if they don't want. Encouraging RSS is different than forcing RSS feeds on sites that don't want them.
Yes, the average investor get's sold relatively expensive funds. Yes they are different, but there are strategies like GDP-weighting that offset most of the benefits. As in, the returns of GDP-weighted Worldwide stock are much closer to a good manual fund, when compared to a simple marketcap-weighted fund encompassing the same stocks.
I guess easier access to global markets, and reduced counter party risk with the exchange. Having the loans fully or over-collateralised (in the absence of credit scoring and real world debt collection) definitely reduces potential applications though.

Congrats on the launch still, great name ;)
It won't ever come back because there's no monetary incentive for people to share content. Just the opposite in fact.
Every policy favors one group over another. The policy against murder favors non-murderers against murderers. The question shouldn't be about whether a policy favors someone but whether the policy helps someone live a better life.
HN, Lobste.rs, 4chan /g/ /tv/ and I check /r/programmingcirclejerk quickly.
You cannot make the required $187 from your donation if you let it sit in a DAF forever, which is the behavior the article is questioning.
I worked with a domain driven setup at one point, which seemed like it was designed to sell JetBrains licenses because it became almost unbearable to try and maintain the codebase with a text editor. You would have to go through a controller, a DI container, a repository, an entity, a factory, a builder, maybe a facade, and an event bus... almost all of which were single-method classes (except for the DI boilerplate which was split between constructors and YAML files) that just called the method of the next dependent class. One line of concrete business logic hidden between half a dozen files full of architecture.

The rationale was that the abstraction was necessary to make things easier to replace if they weren't needed but it was a false assertion on two levels (and it almost always is):

- that kind of replacement is unlikely to happen in the short/mid-term, and if it does it won't be in a way you anticipated.

- the simple version could be deleted and rewritten in less time than it would take to fix your highly abstracted/decoupled/meticulously architected integration

Of course, simple isn't easy and this approach to abstraction (where you take classes/methods longer than x lines and extract them into more classes and methods) is very easy to achieve... at a great cost.
I'm not saying seatbelts are bad, I'm saying the reason the laws exist is in part based on a combination of NHTS data opened up with Reagan's move to regulate federal drinking laws and the idea that mandatory seatbelts would lower insurance costs.

It's an example of one thing being tracked moving down the line to something that the majority of people opposed also being tracked and legislated.
There's a lot of negativity in this thread and the title is very sensational. The point that should be highlighted in the article - "The bright side? That's an improvement from half of adults being unable to cover such an expense in 2013. The number has been ticking down each year since."
I was with you until your Musk comment. We don't need more centralization of power; instead, we need decentralization--more local sustainability in place of the just-in-time global economy we live in now.
The sovereign state named Eire, technically.
>it seems conservatives get upset at the idea of an unlevel playing field

It seems to me that the conviction in which conservatives believe in this particular principal depends on what they'll get out of the situation.
The government has no access to that data without due process mediated by a judge. That is not the same as continuous surveillance.
Yes, and I did not mention Vanguard as a broker, due to them not being nice fee-wise for small fish.
What about the Obama elections? Both of them were hailed for their pioneering use of SM to motivate and influence the electorate. I get i that the Trump win has shaken everyone but it's possible that social media could do little to stop it.
>They are NOT selling a service that identifies people from data sets other than the police's supplied data sets.

I don't really give a shit what tiny little corner of respectability they hold onto so they can sleep well at night while ratcheting up the surveillance state.
Design for Agency
Related: Firefox still offers an RSS button that you can place in a toolbar. Lights up when a site has a feed available.
Region in Central Asia sits on world's busiest flight path for space missions
Uhh.... this sounds interesting. Maybe we'll see it soon-ish (<5y) in LLVM/GCC.
The Shock Doctrine [1] described that idea that the rich could undertake disasters of various types in order to push unpopular policy in their wake. I don't think it was ever updated to the 2008 recession, but the bailout of the banks via buying poorly performing securities via quantitative easing follows that though with the same effect. The fed bought risky bank mortgage securities, while still allowing mortgage loan servicing continue to collect on loans and real estate parcels (and equity value) of individuals who didn't get a bail out - and now whatever survived will be sold back to the banks.

Even if not intentional, it's a question of financial buffers. The extremely wealthy can weather recession and do even better by buying distressed assets from any who don't have the buffer which they hold. It's not the absolute numbers of the wealth, it's the amount of growth in control of assets that matter in this model. Without the right public policy, the wealthy win on the backs of the poor on the downswing and upswing of the broad economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shock_Doctrine

I wonder what happens when we swing into recession and there is nothing left to take.
> The answer is that ants are not organisms, they are organs. The ant colony is the organism.

I am confused by this, because this seems to be the "group selection" idea that is vociferously rebutted by Dawkins and others.

It is really not clear to me what the bright line is between group selection and kin selection. If social groups are genetically similar (which is most often the case in nature and human society), group selection and kin selection appear to be equivalent.
there are companies that provide some marginal benefit to people, like keeping track of your online shipments and order, but in reality are there to analyze and sell your data to digital marketing companies. this seems like one of those things
According to the dude who sold the 2 slices of Pizza for 10,000 BTC, the coins quickly made it back into the crypto-economy.... i.e. it appears that he performed other transactions using those 10K bitcoins and didn't hold on to any of it.

( See the actual blockchain transaction in the interview page below )

> Q. What do you primarily use bitcoins for? Do you still control millions of dollars worth?

> A. Bitcoin as a currency is meant to be spent. Those 10,000 BTC made it back into the economy fairly quickly, around the time they were worth some $400. A ~10x ROI from simply trading in a different currency is quite good, even if that factor could have been higher had I held on to said currency longer.

Source: An Interview with Jeremy Sturdivant aka “Jercos”, the young man who sold two pizzas for 10,000 BTC 5 years ago on May 22, 2010

http://bitcoinwhoswho.com/index/jercosinterview
Can you elaborate? What happened exactly and how were you informed?
Well, the point is, Vitalik can't do that. The community would have to agree with him.

If the situation were sufficiently dire, then presumably it would be easy to get community support. But the opposite is true too.
Perhaps the bigger issue is: X% amount of Americans can't afford to lose work for N days. Where X is likely very large and N is < a week.
Well, I didn't RTFA. This was not meant to be specific for this article though.
Creating a POC U2F 2FA at Shopify
The southwestern section of Iceland is the most touristy. If you get outside of it, things are a lot better.

I did a drive around the island and it was quite pleasant until I got around the the southwestern side again. The roads filled with cars and buses, there were crowds at most roadside stops, and I started seeing poorly-behaved tourists.I understood then why some of the Icelanders felt annoyed at all the tourists.

The rest of the Iceland did have tourists, but they were in much smaller numbers and the experience was much more pleasant. The tourist buses also disappeared. This was in late September.

In talking to Icelanders at some of the small municipal swimming pools (those were the best), there were a lot of complaints about how tourist money flowing into the economy was driving up prices for everyone who lived there.

Iceland was really nice to visit. It's unfortunate that they are being overwhelmed.
At least in Canada, the new Amber-Alert-over-LTE system is mandatory, and cannot be opted out of:

"People cannot opt out of this," said CRTC spokesperson Patricia Valladao. "There is a high importance that people — want it or not — receive these alerts."[0]

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/emergency-alerts-system-ph...
Billy Gilman Voices His Pride at Kansas City Pridefest
Going through the experience right now for my startup. It needs a _lot_ more clarity of where you are in the process, what's next, etc. There is a lot at stake here and one needs reassurance that he/she is not messing anything up.

Also, modifying the application introduces a long turn-around (the system needs to re-generate the documents). In perspective, a couple of typos cost us 3-4 days in the process.

Side note: signing the paperwork with my trackpad on docusign makes signatures look like a 3-year-old has signed the contracts. It would be great to be able to upload a scanned image of my signature (granted, this is a docusign limitation).
We should but you know personal responsibility and all that jazz. The wealthy only care when the pitchforks come out. The biggest achievement of the wealthy has been to convince the middle class to eat itself.
Late versions of Eudora added something they called ‘mood watch’, which could highlight potentially inflammatory words or phrases (including profanity) in email and warn you before sending. The developers added a hidden setting which would, when you opened a message, speak aloud precisely those words.
The other side of his comment about the class divide is kind of telling though. It implies that the middle class is the most unstable of the three major economic classes in the long run. And with the current system of constraints, contents only want to settle in the top or in the bottom.
Textures, antialiasing, and applying filters to make the rendered image look nice are all good, but I would argue that what really matters and everybody immediately notices is the realistic modeling of ambient light. Proper global illumination is often what makes the difference between a sort-of-realistic looking scene from something that's hard to distinguish from a real image. The best known methods of doing global illumination are all based on tracing a lot of rays.

Physically correct reflection and refractions are nice to have, but those aren't the only reasons to prefer ray tracing.
Not sure I agree with you on that. I read it as Mary's career being steered away from film-making and into studying "DRM and copyright law with regards to film."

Even if you personally believe that a career defined by studying and fighting bad law is "better" than the desired career in film-making, I very much doubt that Mary would see it that way after a mid-life crisis. If you see that as a good outcome, I think you may have slightly missed the point.
Peeking at your website, I suspect that the reason you don't like the GoF book, or perhaps design patterns in general, is that they are aimed at an audience solving different problems than those in your work. For developers doing application level development, the GoF book, while a bit dated, is useful. More generally, this kind of systematic approach ("Where have I seen this pattern before, and is it applicable to my current problem?") is IMHO, a good thing, as it brings structure to the thinking process.
Writing one is fun because it’s trivial to start, but you can be sure that there are features that are simply beyond your capability almost no matter how good you are. And it gets hard fast. It’s also very cross disciplinary if you like math, physics and system level programming. Those of use who wrote ray tracers are probably the same that code toy synthesizers. We like numbers. Once you made one it’s also an excellent way of learning a new language to make a new one.

Nice challenges include:

add parallellism. Traversing a tree hierarchy efficiently with SIMD or GPU code isn’t trivial. (I tend to dodge this part of the problem by using intels simd lib Embree)

Or make it spectral (trace with wavelengths instead of simple colored light, to get effects such as rainbows in refractions). This is actually reasonably simple - but then you realize it ruins your hope of parallelizing efficiently as the rays diverge when they refract!

Or implement realistic subsurface scattering. Doing it physically right means your render will never finish, so it’s back to inventing the most clever hacks - just like rasterizing!
> What makes you think that?

Direct observation.

I learned unification algorithm from studying Matthew Rocklin's Python Kanren implementation [1]. The next time I was thinking out the solution of a programming problem, as I was witnessing my brain (or mind if you prefer) solve the problem, I realized on a "meta-track" that what it was doing was exactly unification. I actually "saw" it happening and had a context to recognize and name it. I think it helped that I was working in a domain that has models very close to the forms (computer programming) but the rational logical thinking process is the unification algorithm.

> I don't think we have a clear idea of what the brain does when doing "intelligent" things

Well, I don't mean to suggest that rational thinking is the only kind of thinking! I'm just pointing out that it's a kind of thinking that really has been automated. It's AI. (Not all that AI is or ever will be, but it counts.)

Turing essentially made concrete the thought process of solving (some kinds of) math problems, noticed that the "atomic elements" of the process were a finite set, and designed a machine to automate those steps, so in a sense, computers have always been AI.

> CLP(FD) stuff you posted isn't "just" unification, it needs additional powerful constraint solving algorithms behind it to work as well as it does.

Yes, and the brain has powerful sensory systems attached to it. I think science has identified something like twenty-seven different human senses. These all supply "finite domains" to the reasoning system. The sensory systems are very active, and can function in "virtual" mode (aka imagination) to permit a kind of thinking by simulation (analogs.) Animals have this sort of thinking as well (that's why they can dream.)

The linguistic/digital system reifies this fast primary mode thinking into slower rational thinking distinctions and reasoning, which is then used to build coherent models of the world which are then used to generate behavior. [2] If you codify that thinking process you get the unification algorithm.

[1] https://github.com/logpy/logpy

[2] ...and behavior generates new sensory inputs... The whole thing constitutes a feedback loop linking the real world with your subjective experience. Linguistic thinking permits direct modeling of recursion, which permits thinking about open-ended loops in behavior in a concrete way, which permits self-referential modification of the reasoning structures, enabling rapid innovation in behavior (aka "culture".) You're a cybernetic process that can become a Gödel machine.
Absolutely dirty. There is nothing productive about adding this layer of tension between employers and employees.

Sure, people are going to stop smoking, but the change isn't coming from within. I'm certain this will only breed contempt.
Here's perhaps a silly question. Even more so since I haven't read all the comments, only the top ones. How does grayscaling the web avoid mindless browsing?
How would you deal with video hosting? It's a high bandwidth application, and would be very expensive to self host.

Just an hour of streaming takes about 1 GB or $.25 if you're using AWS. Multiply that out across a couple hundred users and many hours of streaming that's very expensive.
I wonder if that's tracked to inflation. A $400 medical expense from 2013 is likely closer to $500 today, which might account for the difference from 50% to 40%.
A Day in the Life of a Harvard Computer Science Student
My Musk comment was more about how much of NASA had turned into a jobs program than anything.

Take a very simple example, the BMV. We've had good internet now for a couple decades and you still can't do basic transactions without going to the BMV in the middle of the day.

Almost all other government agencies have been entirely immune to technological change as well. They are, jobs programs.
Site creators have the freedom to produce what they want, and users likewise have the freedom to consume how they want.
we used a Java thing called Prevlayer or something...

Prevayler.

From http://prevayler.org/ :

What is Prevayler?

Prevayler is an open source object persistence library for Java. It is an implementation of the Prevalent System design pattern, in which business objects are kept live in memory and transactions are journaled for system recovery. Prevayler is the simplest and fastest way to provide ACID persistence for your "plain old Java objects".
Back then you didn't have a lot of choice of what language to use, windows was MFC on visual studio and Mac was codewarrior(I think). The Mac and Windows versions were written by two separate teams even though we sat next to each other, and I can't think of any code shared between them, anything we could have shared would have been trivial to write from scratch. I have no explanation for the enormous size of the Mac version.
Deep neural networks synthesize full-dose PET images
That number has decreased since the Obama administration.
For reasons I don't understand, it remains incredibly difficult to scrape a well-organized blog and turn it into something I can consume like RSS or a kindle book.

Note that many/most WordPress RSS feeds aren't that useful because they only show a snippet rather than the entire post. This dreary state of affairs is due in part to the fact that "checking" an RSS just means downloading the entire file containing all posts the author would like to make public, regardless of how many are new to the reader. This insanely unnecessary bandwidth usage penalizes sites that have long (>10) feeds with complete posts. (The single RSS file on my blog takes up the majority of my bandwidth costs.)

RSS needs to be replaced, not revived.
I love 14. Different but equally interesting, you might like Superforecasting
Same problem here
Plaques of Future Past: Eccentric Stone Monuments to Anti-Gravity Research
I have to agree. No matter what one's political leanings or who one believes is responsible, it seems true. Perhaps this is a reversion to a historical (read: modern civilization) mean? One theory is that the period immediately after World War II was an abnormal period of prosperity for the United States, seeing as how much of the developed world elsewhere was simply destroyed.
I don't think this is a good take. Firstly, we're discussing climate, not weather, which is easier to predict than chaotic swirling fluids. Secondly, if we were basing a practical decision off this information, then we should apply some kind of higher threshold, but this research is essentially a discussion piece and it seems pretty plausible that this might be the case on some worlds.

Regardless, it's more useful to point to particular areas of uncertainty than to point to a general miasma of uncertainty around climate modeling as though nothing can be learned. It doesn't really move any conversations forward.
"Tools of Titans" by Tim Ferriss A must-read piece for wannabe achievers like me
And yet, Reddit.
Wyden is the most knowledgeable legislator we have when it comes to technology. Here's him explaining Net Neutrality [1] and urging a 'no' vote [2] on Ajit Pai's FCC nomination.

Here's a letter [3] from him a year ago urging the importance of two-factor authentication.

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4698027/senator-ron-wyden-net...

[2] https://www.c-span.org/video/?434822-2/senator-wyden-ajit-pa...

[3] https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Two-Factor%20Auth...
All these services have free plans either if you have little traffic or if it's open source. So it's definitely possible to self host this (although maybe not completely trivial).

Disclaimer: I work at Stream (but haven't really worked on Winds)
We were able to do such things in Smalltalk as well. The Parcel format was designed to freeze the VM, apply a code change atomically after morphing any objects which were changed, then complete any in-flight transactions with the new code. Once, I logged into a running Web App Server image and manually manipulated DB lock in the ORM, because we had to do a demo before we could fix a particular DB bug. (So I was doing this "live" during the demo. Mind you, this was back in 2002 or so.) We could also use the image saving feature to basically create a "live" core dump while letting the server continue to recover and run.
All those things are great - but nothing kills my immersion more than very very reflective things (cars, water, shiny metal) not actually being reflective.

Raytracing would bring that.
What governments can do for the losers from free trade
...aaaand existing playing field that favors wealthy is level?
Weather forecasting (short term details) may be wrong, but climate modeling (long term trends) is generally correct.

Just because we can't predict when an individual hurricane will occur doesn't mean that we can't predict "hurricane season".
Inflation just hasn't been that high lately. $400 in 2013 dollars is $428.50 in 2018 dollars.
In ancient athens it seems people were quite aware and wary of this. Aristotle considered elections a non-meritocratic, an oligarchic process. In Athens, most of the offices were appointed by lot, and only some of the highest offices were elected. Worth noting that the word democracy had the meaning of "power to the many", which is different from its modern definition as "majoritocracy"
Can online retailers benefit from providing access to competitor price info? [pdf]
Inflation has been historically low recently https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/inflation-cpi
Investors have to fight hard and endure a long time for every % of return. Society on the other hand will never be satisfied with their piece, they will always need more, and sooner not later.