skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think ppl like buffet, gates contributed massively towards viewing rich as more tolerant, magnanimous and kind. They also aligned themselves on the right side of 'masse flame war around gender, race, sexuality'. If you are rich the best thing you can do to avoid pitchforks is to get on liberal side and seen by people and media and 'fighting their war'.
kind of. but, the system built on debt and is set up for you to fail.
Sometimes you are expressing a specialized concept that, even when translated into words, won't be readily understood by someone without domain knowledge. That's when I believe symbols are very useful.

In this case we are dealing with an applicative functor. If you know what's an applicative functor, you will immediately know what these symbols mean. If you do not, even if we translate <* as `sequenceActionsKeepFirstValue` you still don't know what this is doing.
There's a lot of accessible potential but the market today is so fast that I feel like it amounts to something like a random casino. The window for any particular hustle sometimes lasts as little as six months to a year. Nobody can actually do anything in that time frame, so who ends up winning the big bounties attached to these windows ends up being whomever just happened to be working on this or that thing for some random serendipitous reason or happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The canonical example would be someone who mined a bit of Bitcoin in 2010 and archived it and forgot about it for six or seven years. That's an extreme one but to varying degrees the whole economy seems to look like that.

I think this is a problem because it completely decouples reward from sustained focus and planning. If you pick something of value and apply yourself to it, chances are it will take too long and you'll miss the window. You have to be there before there is any rational reason to think something will be valuable, otherwise you miss out to the people who randomly happened to be standing there when money fell on them.

As such it ends up reducing to a lotto or a bad MMORPG where you run around and loot kind of randomly materializes here and there.

The roles that do require sustained focus and rational planning are careers, and now you're in the early 21st century real estate hyperinflation trap. Most of the career jobs that pay well are in places where the rent or mortgage costs are so high you'll never accumulate wealth, and most of the places with affordable housing are places where there are no good upwardly mobile jobs. If you follow a rational career path your choice is between two different ways of going nowhere.

The only way to get ahead is to win one of those random hustle lotteries and vault out ahead of real estate's unstoppable inflation. (Certain other necessities like tuition and health care are inflating without bound too, but I picked on real estate for being the worst offender.)
> In a previous statement, WikiLeaks said the source of the damaging disclosure had hoped to “initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons.”

That didn't really work out... I wonder if that was the real motivation; it seems a little naive.
That's an interesting point. I would point out another problem with this article based on my own experience living in metro Atlanta since 2001: many people, especially those moving to Atlanta from the Northeast, would likely have said that there was no good urban neighborhood in which to live in Atlanta in 2005. I think that was more of a chicken-and-egg problem than a zoning one. Midtown Atlanta had the right zoning and had neighborhood civic associations that were working toward urbanizing the neighborhood, but it wasn't until several years later that significant amounts of neighborhood-serving businesses started to move in.
Steve is big on "getting out of the building". I agree the story seems more focused around the asshole CEO but if you read 4 steps to the epiphany or do his online course, How to build a startup (it is free on udacity and actually taught by Steve: https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-build-a-startup--ep245 VERY good course) you'll see that "getting out of the building" is a concept he mentions a lot.
OTOH, China doesn't seem to want immigrants either. It's close to impossible to get Chinese citizenship if one would want to, for example.
Break down of a C64 demo effect
In a world where the sum total of productive human labor potential is not needed to sustain the human population, we need to rethink social organization. We should want to encourage productivity improvements, but if people's self worth is tied to their labor, all we do is effectively remove people from society
Namely, it doesn't support configuration via CLI or env vars, which means you have no option but to generate a file to be loaded in. To be fair, that's kind of a newer pattern. Also, multi-DB PgBouncer is a little more insecure than it leads on to be by default, along with a few other things you learn quickly as you handle larger and more complex use cases. It's not bad, just not as good as it could be in my opinion.
A number of people (well, maybe at least 0xF people) have made suggestions about this: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pronounce+hex+digits
Although I am not in your position yet (a few years laggard) I feel echoes of your sentiment in my life already.

Alas, all I have to offer is a measly upvote, the currency of Millennials' bright shining future.
I've always counted in 5s, or really more like a 3+2 or 2+2+1. The garden party for me is keeping the number in my head so knowing the last digit is always 0 or 5 makes it easy. Then you just add the remainder at the end.

That's roughly how you count change too.

Ex: if I were to count 21 items my mental count would be 2,3 [5] 3,2 [10] 2,2,1 [15] 2,3 [20] and 1. [21]

Hope that makes sense!
I think you misinterpreted the question. It's about cryptocurrencies, not about cryptographic algorithms.
It never got that far. They asked if I’d be interested in a job with them, I said no, never, and it stopped there.

As said, I assume they didn’t mean it seriously.
While this is a good explanation, keep in mind that:

1. This is the benchmark that you provided, so while this might be not obvious to the average user, it also seems to not be obvious to the above average user that wrote the benchmark. I was just using what you proposed, assuming that you used the right thing in your library.

2. It still does not explain how you got better performance with ND4J with the same non-optimal call, which was what started the discussion, and inspired this post.

3. Neanderthal supports both Row and Column oriented order with cuBLAS with the same performance, and won't have those problems that you mention for ND4J.

I'm, of course, interested in following up on this. Please decide on what cases you'd like to compare, post the (optimal) code, and the ND4J and Neanderthal numbers that you get, and I'll respond with my comments.
Yes, it seems like classic divide and conquer strategy but I have no evidence for it. the idea has been kind of obsessing me a bit recently, I'd love to see someone that has actually looked into it and tried to compile a bit of data.
I don't think that'll work any more under current mismanagement.
You're over analysing what I posted. I wasn't suggesting it's people's "responsibility" to look past trolling. I just felt there was a valid point buried in there that was worth reiterating in a non-inflammatory tone.
While I won't justify anything this person allegedly did.. it seems open to speculation whether the child pornography stuff was actually legitimate, or some sort of targeted attack. (whether to destroy his character/career or keep him under judicial watch / within the country)
> In the event of a printing stall, and occasionally during normal operation, the fusing oven would heat paper to combustion. This fire risk was aggravated by the fact that if the printer continued to operate, it would essentially stoke the oven with fresh paper at high speed.

Ouch. Talk about failing open.
That’s a very tone deaf response. Accepting a life of toil and misery because the government provides you with no support and because of the selfish economical choices of the previous generation really wouldn’t be a game that I’d be willing to play quietly.
Solaris didn’t disappear overnight like Smyte did. When Sun was acquired by Oracle they just didn’t abandon thier customers - that would have been too value destroying.

You can still buy Solaris based systems today but you would have plenty of time to migrate. But seeing the writing on the wall you would have plenty of time to migrate.
Don't switch accounts like this.
> “Control” here is falling prey to the freedom fallacy; something we should expect a judge to overcome.

What is the "freedom fallacy"? A quick Google search only turned up a book with that title which questions liberal feminism.
Mr. Schulte had been charged last year in New York with possession of child pornography

Very interesting! It almost seems like the pornography charges against him was a way to punish him but without prosecuting him for the actual leakage. Perhaps the government wanted to still point the fingers at someone else or avoid embarrassment?
This was related to some work I did a few years ago but recently had time to retrain models to make it work inside the browser in an interactive setting.

The dataset used to train the network had to be refined a bit as well to match how humans write on a tablet.

Some prev discussion a while back for the original non-interactive TensorFlow version:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10801712
To me basic income seems like an incredibly -bourgeois- solution. Accepting it as a solution accepts that the current economic practices are not working for large swaths of the working-age population.
expat = expatriate (someone living outside their home country)

from the latin expatriare meaning to leave one's own country
IRCCloud solves everything you just mentioned.

The key is in the clients, not the protocol.
Comments like this are infuriating because they demonstrate an axiomatic commitment to a totally bogus premise. That is, "if you just work hard, you will be successful", and the completely evil logical converse of that statement, "Therefore, if you're not successful, it must be because you didn't grind enough." You just take this as obviously true, without ever considering that it is completely possible to grind yourself into dust and still be just spinning wheels, because of structural factors that previous generations erected and then demanded Millenials claw their way out of.

Are you aware that the ratio between average house cost and the median hourly wage of a 20-something worker is an order of magnitude higher for Millenials than it was for people in the seventies? Meaning, essentially, that you have to work ten times as much to get the same result? No, and for all you know Millenials are working twice and hard as you were, and then you take the 5x shortfall as proof that they're just pointing fingers.
As the `in` keyword seems key to understanding the language, could someone elaborate on it?

It isn't obvious after reading the intro on http://gluon-lang.org/book/syntax-and-semantics.html.
That blog is much more propagandist than anything James Hansen ever did.
I read the IRC logs, and I'm skeptical that anyone not deeply versed in the lingo, tone, and character of that scene could fake them.

It's not impossible, but it was pretty convincing to me.
Kim Jong Un and Cryptocurency Monero Scare on Wall Street
Once thought that Sung il University was at fault for economy scare. Suspicious North Korean cryptocurrency Monero might have been involved. Wall street took notice.
those are nice observations you have as his patron, but you didn't really answer my question

it's not normal for a self-described businessman to give out money for free: so what's his long term plan behind all of this?

> For the IRC networks such as freenode, they are a vital network for open source developers and communities which I think we can all agree would be very upsetting if that was to be interrupted.

this statement is so disingenuous it sounds like the product of a PR department

running a large IRC network in 2018 can be done on AWS/GCP for hobby scale money, so it's not as if freenode risks disappearing without his patronage... however your/christel's income would, hence my (and others) concerns about the purchase of influence

(personally: if my "employer" hired Karpeles as their CTO I'd be out of there so fast it'd make your head spin)
Isn't IRC compatible with e2e? I could see it working at a "transport" layer, with additional commands to import, export and view keys.
I can't imagine a more grim scenario than whole populations being entirely reliant on government money.

I'm not decided on where I sit on basic income yet, on the one hand, it might become a necessity as jobs vanish, but on the other hand, it consolidates a lot of power into a benevolent state, one which has not shown it's ability to stay benevolent.
Because the GDPR requirements are vague, overreaching, at odds with best practise and not yet even implemented by the misguided legislature that wrote it.
Neanderthal handles C order in cuBLAS without problems, though.

Thanks for the explanation. I used the code that ND4J guys provided, assuming that they'd do the right thing. Also read my response to crockpotveggies: provide the ND4J code that you think is optimal, and ND4J and Neanderthal results on your machine, and I'll be happy to write a follow up.
In the Boston area the less dense neighborhoods are scarce so only the rich can afford them.

I live in the Boston area and that doesn't sound right. I guess you could say Brookline is low density and rich. But you have to consider the Back Bay, Beacon Hill, South End (north of Mass. Ave)--really the densest areas are the most expensive. Places like Chelsea, Roxbury, are cheaper and lower in density. Proximity to jobs, transit, and amenities is the driver of cost, and density goes with it.
"Government investigators suspect that he provided WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy organization, with a stolen archive of documents detailing the C.I.A.’s hacking operations, but they had not initially charged him in that crime."

Wikileaks is a news organization, not an anti-secrecy organization who's First Amendment Right to Freedom of the Press has been illegally infringed upon by the US Government.
The tricky part is there is no "them" to fight. "Them" is just another "Us". And "we" are responsible for the way things are (albeit to lesser degree perhaps) the same as bank presidents and congressional representatives and CEOs of large corporations.

My feeling is we can't lay the problems of the modern world at the feet of individuals. There isn't a shadowy cabal intent on keep the little people down. It's just people and groups struggling for power and resources with varying degrees of a success. That's not to say there aren't collusions and conspiracies and bad doings by people with power, there most certainly are, but the fact these succeed are problems of a system. Because people are people are people and the new boss is same as the old boss and 4 legs good 2 legs better and all that jazz.

What is needed are some systemic updates. And these will happen inevitably I think.
I don't understand. Why can't you apply for another job? It seems like if you were able to get one, you could get another, right?

(Full disclosure: I am an unemployed millennial as well, and too naive to understand what's keeping you from getting another job. Hence the question.)
divisibility by 3 is important because it leads to diminished scale, and it serves as a universal glue. Divisibility by 4 is important because it leads to augmented scale. (This is not all) This all sounds vague without piano demonstration anyway, sorry.
> The USSR came from far behind and beat us to space. Authoritarian regimes may struggle to allocate food efficiently but they're fine at allocating scientists.

I would say that's debatable. The USSR did beat the US to orbit (and in space station technology), but it fell short getting to the Moon, launching scientific space probes, and building a space plane.
I think this is a load of nonsense, as a successful millennial who works hard. Working hard is just table stakes; you also need to be lucky, which I have been. I can look back on numerous occasions where there were literal lotteries that prevented me from getting wrecked, starting with a lottery my young parents got for affordable housing in an area with nice schools and a lottery I got selected for a math and science academy. And there are many more areas where luck played a subtle but serious factor.

You also need generational support; in my case my parents worked crazy hard to get me into schools where I could work hard and roll the dice. This snowballs quickly.

Deriding people who are unemployed and have inescapable debt as caring about Twitter followers ignores the real dispair facing multiple generations of Americans who worked very hard, got a degree, and were rewarded with a hostile marketplace that didn’t need their labour. They got a raw deal, Netflix and cheap opiates for expensive healthcare and poor pay.
Yeah and if you live in a city in the US and you don’t work in finance/tech/whatever high earning job, you’re forced out. Not so great either.
Medical costs in the US are driven by the only healthcare system in the first-world that puts profit at the center instead of people.
I’d invite that person to consider how much of her/his success is due to luck and I’d draw parallels with the peasant who working twice as much and providing more grain is allowed a bit more privilege.

I’m all for meritocracy. But only if the game is fair.
Or option C: a propaganda arm of the Russian Government.

EDIT: downvoters aren't offering a response, so I'll just hope or assume that they want evidence:

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/07/putin-dismisses...

[3] http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.771716

[4] http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/25/politics/cambridge-analyti...

[5] https://sunlightfoundation.com/2016/07/28/on-weaponized-tran...

[6] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/11/the-sec...
Librem 5 progress report #14
I resent that you resent "average people".

I'm an average person (with 17 years of professional programming career behind me). I wouldn't give two craps about IRC in 2018. Yes, I really enjoy having a smooth cross-platform experience with inline media, public and private chat rooms, search, file transfers etc. without having to set anything up and without having to deal with half-baked poorly implemented clients who can't even agree on a feature set between each other, and can't produce a single decent mobile client.

Same goes for XMPP.

BTW, it's extremely hard to make a decent product for the "average user". Self-proclaimed über-men should try it sometime.
"The best strategy would involve papering many agencies. The CFPB, SEC, CFTC, OCC"

Preferably before January 20, 2017
I'm generally against GMOs in the food supply, but I'm actually not too worried about this one, because it sounds like it's just a straight-up deletion.

(ETA: I mean, as long as it doesn't have a net negative impact on pig welfare -- it's not just about food and environmental safety.)
I use ledger, along with a couple scripts I've wired up (if I hit Win-Shift-B I get a desktop notification with my current balances).

I actually appreciate the manual nature of it -- knowing I'll have to go to the ledger and enter something after making a purchase has cut down on stupid purchases.

The only thing I'm missing is a nice GUI summary with some pie charts. There's a couple on GitHub but they either aren't up to date or I can't get them to work like I expect. But I haven't looked too hard -- would appreciate a pointer if there is one.
Add me to that list. Became sole breadwinner at 22 for a family that had $2M in debt due to failed business. At one point, I was held hostage at gun point by a debt collector. Deeply scarred by debt to this day. Scared of investing anywhere and just hoarding for a rainy day. No family to speak of except wife and child. Very few friends. No purpose to life other than seeing my child grow up and be successful.
An easier way to connect with Blockchain
The Asquith quote applies:

"I wish I knew as much about anything as that young man knows about everything."
They are a full-time care giver to their wife.
Good point, hastily written and deserves the down votes :). I really meant to say that some people want natural vanilla, and will pay for it.
You forget that on Mt Gox, the price dropped to something like $125 before they shut off trading... I know because I bought some at that price just before they went dark
Computers.

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/%7EEWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EWD1...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1IYwTO4-j8
My dad ran his own company for 35 years. One piece of advice he gave to me was to always have control. My corollary to that is to be fine being a minority stakeholder, but recognize that you don't have control so the one with control ultimately will call the shots.

Over the last 15 years I have participated in CEO groups with around 30 companies. My limited anecdotal experience says that a 50/50 split is bad, but a split where two people have leverage over a 3rd is ok. So a 3 way split is fine.

Ultimately there just can't be deadlock, when everyone disagrees, someone needs to be able to make the call.
Indeed. And the strange irony is that HN millenials will defend central banking, "inflation targets", and ZIRP vehemently. I don't understand it.
Yeah, I’m a millennial foreigner from a lower middle class working in the US in a tech job.

Ask your colleagues around about what their parents are doing, and we’ll talk about accessible potential again, or most likely you’ll see horrible inequality.
As a millennial, I feel like if I were not in a technology field, I would be screwed. But as it stands, I bust my ass doing what I love, and society happens to value the work I love to do. It would be comforting for me to attribute my good fortune to being a badass or super talented, but I know that my chosen field is just highly valued.

I know some people who have followed their dreams and it has led them straight into the poor house doing years of unpaid internships all for a job that is rare, but still only one or two steps above minimum wage.

But I do think there's an attitude and professionalism problem. The term "funemployed", the way beards, tattoos, and casual drug use are coming back in style. The oversharing. And the fact that somehow the generation that grew up with computers still has way too many people on the wrong side of the digital divide.
> Married with $100k in student loans between the two of us

You may want to look into deferring or forbearing your student loans [1], at least until you're back on your feet.

> my $100k tech job didn't come with retirement benefits

Next time around, consider a SEP-IRA [2]. In the meantime, contact a local NGO about subsidized healthcare, food, education and job-training and placement programs.

Also, don't be embarrassed asking for charity. When I started my first company, I took a gamble and skipped out on health insurance. A few months of sleep deprivation later, I'm in the hospital with pneumonia. Huge bill. Wrote a letter to the hospital board asking for a deferral; they wrote down the bill to pennies on the dollar.

[1] https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/repay-loans/deferment-forbearan...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/retirement-plans/plan-sponsor/simplified...