skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How can they decide what certificate gets the padlock? It's really a browser decision, isn't it?
Continuous Delivery for ML Models
If you quantise the market, someone else will start a secondary market for the same commodity and trade there, waiting till the close of the one second window to arbitrage to the main market.

People who participate directly on the main market then effectively loose out, since you are doing your order blind in the future while other people on the secondary market are trading real-time and have more information than you at the close of the 1 second window.
What he writes in the tweets above really comes across as white supremacy-ish and a bit racist - basically blaming the conference organizers that not being accepted is because he is white, or more specifically, is not "racially diverse enough", which imho is just another form of racism... I wound't find the bottom "Stupid fucking white man" tweet (i.e. quote from a great movie) as offending as what he is implying in the tweets above.
anyone who thinks this is fascinating should take a look at magnet fishing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet_fishing - it's a pretty cool hobby.
Haha no successes? The biggest success is that it works at creating digital scarcity. That's a pretty big accomplishment. Various cryptos trade to the tune of billions of dollars a day. Ethereum has layered an open source, open computation, virtual machine on top of a monetary layer. It has inspired and spun off dozens of other blockchains each with their own takes on smart contracts. Meanwhile there are projects already implementing prediction markets, gold-backed ERC20 tokens, video games using ERC721 tokens, provably fair online casinos, decentralized exchanges (0x), automated crypto backed loans (DAI), crypto backed computation and digital storage (Sia), social networking with integrated micropayments for curation (Steemit), you've got Brave browser and it's BAT token with a novel approach to paying content creators...can go on and on. Just need to take your blinders off and do some research.
An excellent book that you can pick up, read a few random pages and walk away feeling you've learn't something. Always informative as to where ingredients come from and what happens when heated, kneaded, beaten, stirred, etc.
His goal was 20000/mo with less than a quarter of the current manual labor that he's using. We're now twice as far along as the original goal, and he can't even make 5000 in a week when rushing cars through as fast and shittily as possible.

Building 5000/w is nothing if you're just willing to throw more and more money at it. The point of the original goal was that it was actually going to be a sustainable, profitable approach.
Or worse, to assume their implied political position as "natural" and everything else as a "distortion".
there's nothing out there like BASIC anymore (except maybe lua or moonscript/python)

also why would a child want to code a website, I learned BASIC because i wanted to make games.
Adversarial ML where the attack has to fit in the mind of the test taker and iteration is slow is an interesting problem.

I can't say that I trust the original humans grading thousands of SAT essays prior to any ML assistance though.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28159831

Yes, and that's not mutually exclusive with there being a biochemical risk factor that triggers it or increases susceptibility.

It is certainly a little out there, but if I had to guess at some hidden danger that's ubiquitous in our environment to which we are oblivious, I'd say "prions are more prevalent and dangerous than we think" isn't a bad place to start.
Shared blocklists are a pain. If you at one point happened to make a bad but well-intentioned pun, you ended up[1] on a blocklist meant for blocking fascists[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/wilw/status/688127971337449475

[2] https://twitter.com/wilw/status/688149812881960961
Actually, the software to do this kind of thing was actually what Mitnick was after!

It would be laughably easy by today’s standards. Cloning AMPs phones (with ESN/MIN from “trashing” and bootleg Motorola service software) was within the reach of bored teenagers, but the elusive “vampire phone” required decoding the control channel. This was “hard” at the time.

It could be done with the right service equipment or say, suitably hacked firmware for something like an OKI 900...

No stingray required, you could indeed do everything passively. Very different times. Today you could probably do it all by dragging a few blocks around in gnu radio’s grc tool.
You could always just write out all permutations and train a network on recognizing the sorted one ;-)
“Forget growth-hacking, go back to basics”: Anthony Tan reveals Grab’s origins
Random oracle
BAAS - Banning As A Service
An array of bits is generalisation of everything.
Complicating the Narratives
"Who's to blame? I'd say you, for caring."

This is logically inconsistent and snarky. The ban came before the reaction to it. In addition, publicizing an egregious sleight because it pissed you off, does not make you "lose" because you cared. If you smash your phone, if you crash your car, if you get angry, sure..then you sort of lose because the reaction didn't measure up to the reason for it. But here...JS Conf organizers are notorious for being a bunch of intelligentsia hipster hacks - and they are pulling in big dollars from corporations like GitHub, Amazon, Microsoft, and the like, because devs get to goto all expenses paid conferences. So seeing continued, firm evidence of pettyness on their part shows that all their bullshit politik-apologies are BS. These people are a disgrace to our industry. And deserve to continually receive bad publicity especially when their public events which rely on public image, are still milking dollars out of our programmers and the respective companies.
What I understood as the significance of this ruling is that it establishes a different precedent for companies that are considered to participate in "two-sided markets" in relation to anti-trust law.

I would be curious to hear some commentary on the interview below that discusses this ruling, maybe it would have made for a better submission:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovqjj_hNAYw
Internally a Lisp list is a binary tree in which left children are leaves storing a value and right children aren't leaves (except the terminus) and don't store values.

Or rather, there is a structure called a cons cell which consists of two pointers, "left" and "right"; a cons cell in which the right pointer is NIL is a list; and a cons cell in which the right pointer points to a list is also a list. The values in the list are whatever is pointed to by the left pointers.

If you diagram this out, you'll find that your mental image is basically accurate already. It seems difficult to describe lists of this form as a "generalization" of graphs.
It looked I saw some bones too as I traveled back a few hundred years. Wonder if they are human.
Many reasons. S-expressions would be the least of my worries. Java is dying, not on the whole, but certainly in mindset of people who are picking new languages. It’s integration with OSs, which Clojure depends on, is arcane by today standards. Second, it’s tightly controlled by one person, and they happen to hate types. Similar to CoffeeScript, couple years after the language inception people figure out that they miss types. Adding them back in is super tough.

And third, abstractions have costs. There is no wide-spread popular LISP, and people should really ask themselves why. We have lots of code generation, and depend on it more and more. But it’s “simple” (or “primitive”). It’s usually one step. You can read the input, and you can read the output.

I’m starting to get a sense that macros are like currying. Elegant, beautiful, powerful. But net negative if your concern is to get lots of people to create software together.
> You send in 5-6 proposals per year and send direct messages and mails to multiple people when you don't receive answers

Jesus, if you think that comes off as needy, you should see what founders often have to do to get going.
This type of drama is why i don't attend conferences anymore. It is a social minefield.
I've wondered about that of late. Assuming that fitting stone work was is a skilled craft. But with modern CNC technologies might be worth a look again.
Oh great, another internet rabbithole!
Student DataFest 2018: The Data Supremacy
Yes but the nes was faster to setup, more child proof and had better joypad. Even without the fantastic games, it made a huge difference.
> That's a quantifiable social benefit.

Only if you know how the occupants in these additional vehicles were transiting previously. If they were previously carpooling, or if they moved away from a good (but slightly less time efficient) public transport option, then the social benefit would be somewhere between minimal and nil.
Scaling individuals gets you output at the quality of the very best individuals. Scaling the people gets you the best the average of the people can deliver. The vast majority of useful and highly complex software at least in its initial formative stages is produced by one or very few individuals working. Later come the masses of me too I need this. There will always be the need for languages you can be super effective and productive in as an individual. Java is a great engineering language, but anyone who thinks their personal itch project is best served by that language, doesn't know anything other than Java.
This was done as part of building a new metro/subway line straight through the city (the "North - South Line"). Unfortunately, it's taken this long to finish, should open in three weeks.
PizzaMaking and the sub are basically the two best places. We share a lot of common members. PizzaMaking has more higher level industry folks along with some unbelievable hobbyists.

Over the past few years the ability to make a wide variety of really amazing pizza at home has become extremely accessible. The last wave of ovens are fantastic.
> But the rich aren't hoarding cash. They're investing it. The money is put to use. The rich do not have pallets of cash in the basement.

As a general statement, that's just as much an assumption as the GP's claim. Where are the studies to back it?

I could certainly imagine situations where someone owns a lot of wealth but never developed the skill to manage it - classical example being inheritance.

Also (unrelated to the argument), "investing" != "put to good use". If an investor chooses the strategy that gives themselves the best ROI that doesn't mean the investment is necessarily beneficial for anyone else. (Except in an abstract "stimulating the economy" sense. But if that is all you want, you could just spend all your money continuously digging holes and filling them again.)
> they get tacked on in some inconsistent, half-assed way as soon as the need for frameworks, DSLs or sophisiticated configuration arises.

can confirm, if you can't metaprogram in the language, you will at some point write external code generators and such... Metaprogramming is just the most common programming "task", avoiding repetition, applied to itself.
The kind of people who don't want to have those paying customers as customers anymore. Also known as "firing the client".
Protest against immigration law enforcement policie in many places United States
IssueHunt – Funding platform for open source project
I know this conference is probably not using this particular blocklist, but why should a conference 1) use a blocklist and 2) block people just for being of particular political view?
EQT to acquire leading open source software provider SUSE for $2.5B
What you say is true if it was a private person. This is about a conference that seems to be important professionally to that person.

They even replied to him - why not just say WHY and get it over with once and for all? This is just stupid, not (just) unprofessional. If they could at least point to "we already told you, now get lost" - but never giving a reason... it's not like they could be sued (first, Europe, second, just a Twitter block), so the usual (at least understandable) justifications e.g. when not giving reasons when not hiring someone don't apply.
It would be nice if you could build up an image filter by giving it a google image search to run.
Multisignature Wallet: the Basics
Languages don't create unmaintainable code, people do. I don't get why there's such hate against Lisp. (Granted, as others have noted, the author of this paper obviously drank from the Lisp kool-aid fountain)
I used Lisp as my main programming language for about 6 years in the late 80s and early 90s - I remember receiving some code I was expected to integrate and initially not realizing that the code was Lisp due to the rather over-enthusiastic use of reader macros.

Edit: Actually, I seem to remember that this was how I learned about reader macros and I went on to over-enthusiastically (ab)use them myself....
Doesn't work is massively growing the economy pulls the roof over our head. Considering if we do the worlds poor are the ones to suffer.

That 3 bedroom ranch style house in Bangladesh doesn't help anyone if it's under 2m of sea water.
Come on. A lack of tests or documentation isn't specific to Lisp. TBH, I'd rather use a well-designed DSL than a shitty API.
I don't share this experience. I mean, I'm absolutely sure it can happen – in particular at shops where there's a high level of employee churn and they throw consultants at a problem and then kick them out again. Of course you'll get all sorts of weirdness at then.

But with some continuity and a carefully crafted own little world, everybody on the team soon chooses voluntarily to speak in the terms of that world, because it is a world well suited to the problem at hand.
Ah, the heady days of the first Dot Com bubble. I remember it well.

This was a period when one of the biggest drags on the development of e-commerce and monatizing Internet businesses was the absence of a good micro-payment solution. PayPal hadn't really taken off yet, App Stores weren't a thing, and everyone was scrabbling around for a way to enable cost-effective small payments that didn't have prohibitive transaction fees. Plus the advertising infrastructure that Google enables didn't exist, so micropayments for doing things online made a sort of sense.

Beenz was one option for this that I vaguely remember. I think I had an account, though I never spent any Beenz on anything. e-Gold was another popular option.

I'm not sure the analogy with Bitcoin and crypto really holds. Beenz was trying to solve a particular problem, and became obsolete when that problem was solved more elegantly by PayPal, Amazon and the credit card vendors. Bitcoin is trying to solve the 'problem' of state-backed inflationary fiat currencies. It might fail in its own terms but fiat currencies aren't changing in response to it.

That said, clearly most of the crypocurrencies and ICOs out there are somewhere between follies and scams. Almost all will fail, but they'll fail because they're largely dumb and they suck and they aren't solving a problem at all.
Review of Console Text Editors for Windows
You still have to drive it to the stores once it's on land though...
No it's not, it's way worst when it about new syntax that functions.
I think the problem when you are on the lower end of the market, it doesn't make much financial sense to train you. Nobody is going to invest in these people. The only entity that can save them is the government (ie: social help).
"But there are some thrown away guns in the collection so may be some old crimes will be solved"

Surprisingly few, I thought.
Here's an idea: if you're on Linux, use this to sort the list of all paths on your file system (find / -xdev). It's a nice dataset since it's (a) a large list, (b) comparisons are nontrivial, and (c) it's a realistic mix of somewhat-sorted-but-not-completely. (Note: If the file system already sorts everything this won't do the job, so it won't work on e.g. WSL.)
I sadly do not understand what you have just said.
Because OP is blaming the tool and not the programmer. You can have zero unit test or docstring in any language, not just Lisp.
That was a comment on the perils of mechanization/automatization, not globalization:

Let us remember that the automatic machine, whatever we think of any feelings it may have or may not
have, is the precise economic equivalent of slave labor.
Any labor which competes with slave labor must accept the economic conditions of slave labor. It is perfectly clear that this will produce an unemployment
situation, in comparison with which the present recession and even the depression of the thirties will seem
a pleasant joke. (...) Thus the new industrial revolution is a two-edged
sword. It may be used for the benefit of humanity, but
only if humanity survives long enough to enter a period
in which such a benefit is possible. It may also be used
to destroy humanity, and if it is not used intelligently
it can go very far in that direction. There are, however,
hopeful signs on the horizon. Since the publication of
the first edition of this book, I have participated in two
big meetings with representatives of business management, and I have been delighted to see that awareness
on the part of a great many of those present of the
social dangers of our new technology and the social
obligations of those responsible for management to see
that the new modalities are used for the benefit of man,
for increasing his leisure and enriching his spiritual life,
rather than merely for profits and the worship of the
machine as a new brazen calf.
There are some human bones.
This one, clearly looks like someone tried to destroy it and throw out https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondst/NZD1.00540KST014...
This would almost certainly cause extreme congestion on the exit lanes and as a result a huge speed differential between lanes.

Moving to the faster lanes would be dangerous. Cars merging back into the slower lanes to exit would cause permanent jams in the second lane at every turn-off. Nobody would benefit in the end and the road would be horribly unsafe.
Twitter realises it is stupid. However many of their technologically illiterate users don't and when they tried to change it there was an outcry that Twitter was helping abuse or something silly like that. Keeping the feature is as is easier than educating their users how computers work.
The approach we have taken is to create independent clusters with a common LoadBalancer.

Basically, the LB decides which kubernetes cluster will serve your request and once you're in a k8s cluster, you stay there.

You don't have the control-plane that the federation provides and a bit of overhead managing clusters independently, but we have automated the majority of the process. On the other hand, debugging is way easier and we don't suffer from weird latencies between clusters (weird because sometimes a request will go to a different cluster without any apparent reason <-- I'm sure there's one, but none that you could see/expect, hence debugging).

My people's time is more important than your complex system.
It's striking how disposable the newer plastic items look compared to pre-1930 items, which are made mainly out of ceramics, metal, glass and wood.
There's a philips c12 (iirc) there, I had one circa 2000, really liked that phone. Maybe it was more by association though. My contract allowed one free number and I set that to a landline access number of a discount telecoms provider so i was able to make calls to everywhere really cheaply for the time.
How much of this is to hide proprietary information, and how much is because no one person actually understands the bigger picture enough to write about it?
Software advice from the unlikeliest of sources (Stalin): quantity has a quality all its own.

The architects will be constrained by Java, but they can use it nonetheless. And instead of metaprogramming with Lisp they can metaprogram with humans. You'll need them anyway, as the application grows, and like this they get to know the code better, since they write it.
I think you mean USD/BTC exchanged. Bitcoin did like 5bn USD of transactions yesterday (on the blockchain). It did x10-50 more on the peak. But it is certainly a much less reliable figure since you can transact with yourself.
The reason that there are no Nokia's in the collection is due to them all still working and holding charge, so they were taken and put to use.
How to Hack Hockey Stick Growth
Thanks, not gonna click this then.
Artificial Intelligence in Autism Detection
They're pretty close to synonyms in my and other people's understanding [1,2], but I would be unsurprised if some countries defined them differently. Edit: I've since realised from reading my own links carefully the labour force participation rate is employed + unemployed (looking for work) / working age population. Employment rate is employed / working age population. So I think I was right with saying employment rate initially : )

The OECD chart linked (if you play with the sliders) shows that both are increasing globally. I know that in the UK the employment rate is at an all-time high [3].

Your link seems like it might be using a strange measure of employment [4] which excludes agricultural workers and the military in the numerator and includes all people who are aged 16+ in the denominator, so as your population ages, the indicator would worsen.

[1] https://data.oecd.org/emp/employment-rate.htm

[2] https://data.oecd.org/emp/labour-force-participation-rate.ht...

[3] https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwor...

[4] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/civilian-labor-force.as...
Everything about the post makes my skin crawl. The weird vaguely sketchy tweets, overly needy behavior, constant need for validation.
Charge back in porn are not by honest people. Unless you have worked in the industry you would not have a good idea of the size of the scam phenomenon there. It's way higher than in the regular market.

Sites scaming customers has been solved mostly by communities organising and insta banning bad apples.

The reverse is insolved. And yes, removing a gun will make people mug less.
On the one hand, it is a privately run conference and they can generally do what they want. On the other hand, I am strongly opposed to private blacklists, on the following grounds:

First, I understand there is an effort to create blacklists independently, then contact conferences who have a speaker who is on them, and then publicly shame the conference if they don't ban the speaker in question. This removes agency from the conference to decide who they want as a speaker, and creates a chilling effect, as nobody except the owners of the blacklist knows who is on the list.

Second, if I am a speaker who is on a blacklist, I generally am not told about this. Which is safer in the current political climate, to submit and risk becoming the epicenter of some twitter drama, or to decide not to submit a talk? How many great talks do we miss because an unaccountable arbiter of a blacklist has decided on my behalf who gets to speak and who doesn't?

Third, the owner of the blacklist acts as the judge, jury, and executioner all at once, with no due process. As either a conference organizer, speaker, or member of the public, I am generally not privy to 1. why the person was blacklisted 2. how many other people are blacklisted 3. whether or not (most likely not) there is an appeals process so they can be removed from the blacklist. If this sounds familiar, it's because the TSA does the same thing.

Two additional things: I realize that I am assuming some of the structures of these systems, but it comes from a bit of experience. Second, I understand that the blacklists extend to more than just conferences, also to contacting employers to get people fired, or prevent them from being hired.

I'm not sure if the conference is employing their own blacklist or was contacted by a third party, but my points still apply either way.
> Those in the know said electric cars in general were an unpractical waste of money.

Really? Who said that?