skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked there around the time of end of support for XP and there was no reason to suspect they were upgrading. What's weird is that it was clearly written in Java so in theory it shouldn't have been too difficult to upgrade the platform. Probably it was a driver issue with the receipt printers or touchscreen monitors.
Seems like IPFS potentially?
A post about innovation and moving beyond block-based encoding and no mention of Daala's idea of lapped transforms?
Always appreciate a good Aliens reference. Especially when it's helping point out what the parent didn't understand about the approach.

I think a minimal set of cross-browser CSS reset rules is a very interesting thing.
How so? I don’t notice any difference..
IPFS comes to mind.

But I doubt anything will displace BitTorrent anytime soon. It's quiet entranched at this point
Could it be your ISP is targeting and throttling Netflix? There's probably a way to verify this.

I tend to find the quality of HD Netflix streams pretty great over my PS4. Certainly never a cause to download a torrent instead.
I think filesharing is mainly just going to die. Streaming is probably the main perpetrator. Hollywood and the music industry are figuring out how to do digital distribution in such a way that consumers don't feel the need for filesharing.

The other is the increasing orwellization of online life, with most computer-mediated interactions and data storage happening in one of a few silos, all of which are cozy with the authorities.
At a time when pretty much every regular pc and internet connection sucked, here's what is definitely an historical moment in online gaming. The birth of Quakeworld, the internet optimized quake engine:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-ar...

Note JC's comment that "this is just my pet research project". If you've ever played quake and then quakeworld online, you'll know what an understatement that was and how freaking awesome the online gameplay became with qw.

So really, thanks John Carmack for the countless wasted hours :)
I do believe you are on point. Yet this is not exactly reddit or facebook and I'm not a baiting troll (as can be seen from my comment history etc.)
> First, we know with absolute certainty that here is substantially different from anywhere else: we know there's life here, we haven't found life anywhere else.

We haven't even ruled out life existing on Mars or under the ice of Europa, let alone X light years away.
Active measures show up on here, this is a pretty big forum with a larger than average number of influential users after all. But typically those posts are down voted pretty quickly.
"generics" is mostly a matter of type system, not of implementation - as Java and this Go implementation showcase. Indeed, "untyped" generics is trivially implementable in Go, via `interface {}`, you just loes all the type safety (and you have to write more verbose code).

My point is, Go type system DOES support generics, but only for "primitive" types, not for user-defined types.
Real central banks share an incentive to inflate asset prices just as much as Crypto exchanges do (altcoin exchanges take profits in crypto and thus are exposed). The parallels to central banking are astounding to me. Except in crypto this happened at internet speed instead of over 50 years.

(I am not talking about money printing and interest rates, I'm talking about actual assets in bubbles like houses and stocks and cryptoassets. Central banks = nation states and nation states want growth in assets)
Sorted are hiring a Senior Web Developer- Manchester
La Liga uses your mic to enforce its copyrights (with your explicit permission)
What supplements did you use?
> After brexit takes place, any EU citizen I wish to employ will have to go through the Tier 2 visa route.

How do you know that?
The last thing I did in D3 probably would have taken several times more effort with raw SVG and JS, I expect. I couldn't find a higher level graphing library that would let me do what I really wanted at all (a custom radial graph that had fairly complex user interaction), and D3 was a perfect sweet spot I think.

It gives you a whole lot of helper functions that really speed things up, data binding, animations, transitions, etc.
In an industry averse to employing older workers it’s probably a mistake to rely on your employer to provide meaning to your life.
This was recommended in a previous HN post. https://www.digikey.com.au/product-detail/en/atp-electronics...
I would consider using a SBC with onboard eMMC/NAND flash, such as the beaglebone or orange pi.
As far as I understand it, it's saying that IF the upbringing is the problem, then on the level of the society, not on the level of individual families. I.e. there doesn't seem to be any evidence that some families bring up their children better than the others (on average, all thing being equal yada yada).
BT is still great, and exceptionally good at distributing large, popular files (or groups of files). Why does it need a replacement?

IPFS is probably spiritually closer to BT in terms of censorship and content sharing, and could be a valid replacement if the right incentive based sharing applications are built over it. Right now there is little incentive to seek out and add content to IPFS, if that can be cracked then BT could be wiped out by it.

However, the trend now for most people is to subscribe to spotify, netflix and amazon prime, thinking there is an endless selection of great and original content. Instead you quickly run out of that and end up listening to and watching whatever the algorithm tells you to.
Ask HN: How does HN handle trolls?
I've come across a recently made account that seems like an obvious troll (frequent commenting about politically charged topics, ranting about what is allowed to be posted, etc.). Does HN manually moderate and ban these people or have some form of automated trolling detection?
Multi leg options sound weird on paper but aren't too hard to understand when explained properly.

An option is a bet on the future price of a stock. If you think that Stock XYZ will go from $15 today to $20 next month, you can buy an option that will reflect your prediction.

A multi-leg option allows you to bet on the "magnitude" of a stock's price change, rather than the "direction".

For example: "Tesla reports earnings next month. They're either gonna be REALLY good, or REALLY bad. So let me buy a multi-leg option that predicts a 10% price jump either up or down". You'll make money whether Tesla goes up 10% or down 10%. You'll lose a ton of money if Tesla remains roughly the same price.
SQL is an initialism. Please capitalize it, as it should be. It stands for Standard Query Language.
> Could it be your ISP is targeting and throttling Netflix? There's probably a way to verify this.

I believe fast.com is supposed to test against actual Netflix video delivery servers, just to detect this kind of ISP fuckery.
Google returns results specifically showing which terms were missing if this were the case for me. This is useful for finding articles with intersections of concepts (assuming I got the terminology/jargon right) and knowing when those probably don't exist, so I like the feature.
>You never need to use IDs with React.

If you don't care about accessibility then yes.l, but try using properly annotated aria attributes without appropriately scoped ids(which you can do in react, but it's not free).
The paper just says that Fermi estimation method is not applicable in this case. It does not say that there is no life, it says that is not the right way to estimate life existence. You can as well flip a coin, and then be amazed that aliens do not turn up when you guess heads right.
I appreciate the fact that you're setting a reasonably high bar for the evidence that you'd base potentially large lifestyle changes on. In a si milar vein, it really gets me when close friends go down farcicle paths of "cleansing" their body, heavy fasting, or others, with barely anything to go on.
What are you talking about? WW2 was not about freedom of movement. The Schengen zone did not come about until way later. And as you your self said they never adopted it. Your statement doesn't make much sense. Sure Brexit sucks but we still don't really know what Brexit means. We can make guesses but until its all ironed out there are so many possibilities for the future of the UK-EU relationship. Yes they want you to apply for a visa, its still a great place to live and a good market to enter.
I see this:

In the ITU-T VCEG and ISO/IEC MPEG standardization world, the
Joint Video Experts Team (JVET) was formed in October 2017 to
develop a new video standard that has capabilities beyond
HEVC. The recently-concluded Call for Proposals attracted an
impressive number of 32 institutions from industry and
academia, with a combined 22 submissions. The new standard,
which will be called Versatile Video Coding (VVC), is expected
to be finalized by October 2020.

Can anyone with more industry knowledge chime in here? To me, that sounds a lot like the kind of group that created the patent- and royalty-encumbered stuff the AOM was created to avoid.
I am fully prepared to receive negative points for this comment, but I do not believe there is anything new here. This narrative has been pushed by the media for almost a year now. The article even claims:

> This method is not conclusive, but it has helped government authorities and academics spot suspicious activity in the past.

I haven’t read the entire 66 page report yet, but assume for a second that the relationship between Tether and US dollars is 1:1. This would mean that during a bull market, when the price started to decline, big players invested money to buy up the available supply. Nothing about that seems suspicious to me. They may have chosen to use Tether instead of US dollars for any reason. Perhaps because there are more exchanges that have USDT trading pairs than there are with USD pairs. Or perhaps because it made arbitrage easier (transferring USDT from one exchange to another is much simpler than USD where you would have to first move it to a bank account then wait days for a new transfer to take place).

There is a chart at the end of the report that shows that the Tether issuance continued to increase even as the BTC price was falling. Also it shows that less than 25% of BTC trading volume came from Tether while over 60% came from USD (page 38).

It is funny that claiming that the price decline in BTC since December is manipulation will lead to you getting flamed here and people will tell you that it is just going to its “natural value of zero”, but the idea that there was a conspiracy to pump up the price last year is greeted with open arms, and everyone latches onto it (The reality is probably somewhere in between). The math regarding Bitcoin’s price increase is actually pretty sound, and I encourage anyone who disagrees to read this article:

https://medium.com/the-crypto-times/why-is-everyone-investin...

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As a side note, I think if you said this exact same thing about the stock market, it would not be big news at all: “US dollars were used to pump up the stock market after it experienced big dips”. And meanwhile BTC is 0.3% the size of the stock market.
Very nice!

I have a small bug report: When you first paste something NiceJSON doesn't understand (like an image) and then you paste some valid JSON, the page will become blank (no error messages).
You have to refresh and re-paste to see the JSON you tried to paste.
"Not breakable in fewer than O(2^(n/2)) operations" is an imprecise security claim; "challenging" means nothing. "Challenging" may not even mean "computationally hard"---breaking a truncated LCG is arguably quite challenging if you are unfamiliar with lattice reduction.
Torrenting too. Getting all the adobe products I need for $35/mo is a perfect fit.
At work I am forced to use Internet Explorer, and by using it I found a surprisingly useful feature: I can not only clock all third party cookies, but it prompts me as to whether I want a first party to store any cookies. The prompt allow allows me to automatically blacklist a site from providing me any cookies. I really enjoy this, as if I know there is a site I will never log into, I can permanently blacklist it with one click. I tried to see if I can do the same but I did not find this feature on Firefox.

I have also noted that certain sites will be very user hostile if you do this. Reddit will load the site and actually overlay a white screen to make it appear like it never loads if you block its cookies.
Absolutely.

Proof: https://panopticlick.eff.org
IPFS looks very hopeful.

The documentation is very light on for now though. There are some large organizations that use NFS or AFS in large networks, IPFS looks like a promising replacement, but I think they would need more documentation and stability before considering a switch.
It makes people uncomfortable to think that intelligence can be reduced to single one-dimensional scale, but that doesn't mean it's not generally the case.

'General intelligence' has been well studied (though I admit I don't know much about it myself) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
I wouldn't use the term "definitely." But it looks like "just" a (very hard) engineering problem [i.e. no known fundamental reasons why it's impossible]. And humans are pretty good at solving engineering problems over relatively short periods of time.

ADDED: There are also questions of resources, motivations, and e.g. whether we'd even want to build self-replicating probes.
It's very strange that number of applications is used in the calculation. As you suggested, it tells you more about openings, brand value, and perhaps geography than it does about how nice it is to work there.

This honestly just seems like LinkedIn trying to synthesize its data into something that will be written up in other places. A serious attempt at answering this question would use a survey. GlassDoor might be somewhere closer to knowing the answer.
I don't support the author's conclusion that if the NH or Grafton government more tightly controlled individual liberty then situations where some people feed bears and some people's livestock are fed on by bears wouldn't happen and those people wouldn't go go of their way to hunt bears illegally and the implication that somehow that end result would have been better.

The author's concern over the legality of killing a bear that eats your livestock or going bear hunting because there's a problem with bears eating livestock/pets and various other cases seems misplaced. When fish and game deals with a bear they'll tag it and relocate it. If they relocate it close by and it comes back and gets caught again they'll either kill it or relocate it to somewhere far away. In the latter case the bear is just as removed from the local gene pool as a dead one is and one that's learned to rely on humans for food it will either do that again in the new location or have a high risk of starving. The author could have taken the opportunity to focus on the impacts of illegal hunting in Grafton on the local bear population and how that would have affected the rest of the food chain in the area. That would have been much more interesting than just tossing in some criticism of small government to conclude the article.

Everything has trade-offs. Having more interactions between wild animals and human civilization is just a trade-off of making it harder (than in decades past) for people to hunt them. Allowing some people to feed those animals is going to increase interaction even further. This should come as no surprise. I think the people of Grafton would much rather put up with bears than put up with laws that require people to do or not do particular things in order to avoid interactions with bears.
> You really need a mouse for first person.

You did, until Golden Eye N64.

And many of those early games (Wolf3d, Doom, Hexen) didn't have Mouse look on be default, you played them Closed (Arrow Keys and Right Ctrl/Alt) or Open (Arrow Keys and Left Ctrl/Alt).

It really wasn't until Quake I/QuakeWorld that FPS' made the shift to Mouse+WASD. And evenstill in Quake1, mouse look was off by default.
Introducing more ways to lose money
I'd like to leave the format discussion behind. Its the least interesting part and you rarely interact with it. I'll add YAML and JSON support so ppl can judge for themselves on merit against options that have tradeoffs.

Its absolutely suitable today. We have it in production in several apps. begin.com and arc.codes itself are two examples that have seen non-trivial traffic.
Where is this information stored on my computer? Is there a central location for the information that I can look at or software to read the cookies?
Facebook may now ban bad businesses from advertising
> the math on probabilities should be using distributions

Do you really think that this is novel in any way whatsoever? There is some yearly chance of nuclear war, and I don't know about geopolitics so I have a prior distribution over that yearly chance. Should I cite this paper?

I actually really like the authors, and for all I know the paper may have some new insights or perform a calculation that hasn't been done before, but let's not pretend that prior distributions over probabilities is a new idea.
I am reminded of a quotation from the first chapter [0] of McLuhan's "Understanding Media":

"It is in our I.Q. testing that we have produced the greatest flood of misbegotten standards. Unaware of our typographic cultural bias, our testers assume that uniform and continuous habits are a sign of intelligence, thus eliminating the ear man and the tactile man."

If IQ tests make tacit assumptions of this kind, could the shift in the dominant media forms be playing a role?

[0] http://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/mcluhan.mediummessage.pdf
You seem to not understand how SSL works. It is how you know the site you are talking to is the site you think it is.
"we show that the observed Flynn effect, its turning point, and subsequent decline can all be fully recovered from within-family variation. The analysis controls for all factors shared by siblings and finds no evidence for prominent causal hypotheses of the decline implicating genes and environmental factors that vary between, but not within, families."

"Stupid people have more kids" is exactly such a prominent causal hypothesis.
As someone who has spent a lot of time working with text-generating neural networks (https://github.com/minimaxir/textgenrnn), I have a few quick comments.

1) The input dataset from Memegenerator is a bit weird. More importantly, it does not distinctly identify top and bottom texts (some have a capital letter to signifify the start of the bottom text, which isn't always true). A good technique when encoding text for these types of things is to use a control token (e.g. a newline) to indicate these types of behaviors. (the conclusion notes this problem: "One example would be to train on a dataset that includes the break point in the text between upper and lower for the image. These were chosen manually here and are important for the humor impact of the meme.")

2) The use of GLoVe embeddings don't make as much sense here, even as a base. Generally the embeddings work best on text which follows real-world word usage, which memes do not follow. (in this case, it's better to let the network train the embeddings from scratch)

3) A 512-cell LSTM might be too big for a word-level model of that size; since the text follows rules, a 256-cell Bidirectional might work better.
If I remember correctly, the senators were originally not elected, but chosen by the state to represent the states' interests, while only the representatives were elected to represent the people's interests. That's why the number of senators doesn't jive with the populations. Each state is then equally represented and of equal importance in the senate.
Some say that's why he marched them through the desert on the way back home, killing many through attrition.
I don't know about automation, but I do know some are manually shadowbanned
Who knows, maybe they already are? I mean I'm confident there's a ton of content farms out there already that just run a cronjob every couple minutes to pluck the top ten images off of a subreddit, checks if they've been published on their own channel yet and republishes them.

If not, I'll brb, need to set up some websites / facebook accounts.
> At the height of the greek empire, it's pretty much a given that alexander would have easily conquered italy. But there was no real reason to as italy/rome back then wasn't really worth conquering compared to egypt, persia, india... I suspect had alexander lived long enough, he would have move further into india and maybe even into china. Not sure how successful he really would have been, but it's an interesting "what if".

Just before he died, he was preparing a campaign to the WEST.
HN moderators are fairly active, and will generally ban accounts which regularly break HN rules. If you click on the timestamp for a comment, you may be able to flag it to their attention (there's a karma requirement for this, I think), otherwise you can click the contact link and shoot them an email if it's particularly egregious.
Today Matt Levine talks about this paper in his daily column:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-06-13/judge-rul...

"of these two explanations—

1) Bitcoin’s rapid and sustained rise is due to the fact that it satisfies a real economic need in an elegant way, and people have responded to that; or

2) Bitcoin’s rapid and sustained rise is due to a magical fountain of fake dollars that everyone just decided to treat as real dollars, and that can be used to manipulate its price any time it’s in danger of falling—

the second is possibly more impressive. Like, creating billions of dollars’ worth of value by building a useful thing is relatively straightforward. Creating billions of dollars’ worth of value with a ridiculous perpetual-motion fake-dollar-printing machine is a real innovation."
I'd need some argument for it being a different reality.

Brain in a jar/The matrix style VR perception altering technology could make me experience a different world - but it wouldn't be reality. I actually could still see this resulting in wisdom under certain circumstances, so I guess I have to cede that actually :)
Nice introduction!

I think your step 4 code is messed up though?
For a non-nefarious use case, it can be used to iterate on the UI to create a better user experience because it can expose areas that people aren't seeing on the webpage. Your site might have the important content or useful navigation in a place that users aren't noticing which causes them to leave the site in frustration.
Reminds me a bit of https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/
Dont conflict one ministers opinion with the whole of the UK. Its not even something that is being debated, it would never get anywhere near a law (Even though I am sure Ms May would love it to).
Using GraphQL with Rails
Here's what the guidelines say:

"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.

Please don't use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle. This destroys intellectual curiosity, so we ban accounts that do it."
The nicely phrased conclusion is: Intriguingly, this analysis suggests genetic contributions to intelligence and educational achievement are currently disfavoured by natural selection. In evolutionary terms, it seems, humans are now brainy enough.