skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! What we have for v1 of the protocol is really the starting point. There are also other extensions that could support subjective information. For example, it could be similar to Reddit's upvoting system. You can stake 100 tokens to say Domino's has the best pizza, and I can counter with 200 tokens to say Papa John's is better. Items are ranked on the list based on the token stake. There would be no challenges or voting in this model.
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If only there was some kind of distributed ledger thing we could use to make sure everyone had the same information as everyone else using cryptography
You got to be kidding! The MSVC impl is a incompatible incomplete joke and everyone knows it. Even MS is investing more and more in llvm tooling because of this.
Ask HN: Best resources for daily machine learning coding practice?
I'm a math student interested in ML research, with very basic coding skills. I realized that for a good understanding, it's necessary to have a regular programming practice.

As this is my secondary interest, and I'm almost a beginner now, I can't try implementing new papers.

Does there exist daily coding challenges or a list of problems or something that would keep me on track and help me build better understating in ML?
Not only that. Solar energy production follows the sun, which incidentally is what humans also follow and when they are typically active and using most energy. Hence, solar producing energy when it is actually needed and in most demand (peak energy). This is even more so the case in hotter places that need AC.
There are a lot of calm nature locations in the U.S., I'm just sayin'. You won't make Silicon Valley wages, but you may still have an improvement looking in alternative city centers with varying proximity to nature: Austin, Chicago, Boston, Denver, Salt Lake City
Knowingly using false data strikes me as malicious, not incompetent.
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1) Reducing demand would be a great place to start. Good insulation, something to help keep the sun out in warm climtaes, efficient appliances of any kind etc.

2) Timing demand to peak solar moments. When the sun is brightest, why not start heating your well-insulated home & start your washer and stuff?

3) A bit of local battery storage could help the grid immensely, especially wrt appliances like electric cookers (induction or whatnot), toasters & kettles etc. These usually draw a lot of power for a pretty short amount of time -- and to make matters worse, everyone uses them around roughly the same moment around sunset. I think this is where the value in things like the PowerWall truly lies.

I guess when those three things are in place, it should be a lot easier to provide power outside of peak solar moments.
I have heard the same about anesthesiologists. 99% boring routine and 1% sheer terror.
If the only advantage you can think of for sending traffic unencrypted is that it saves you a small amount of time, you're unlikely to find anyone who cares.

"I'm lazy, so I don't want to set up encryption on my website, but please don't tell my site visitors. They don't need to know"
Google releases Jib for containerizing Java applications
Interaction. Comments (toots) and likes (boosts) are built in the platform. And you don't need to log in anywhere to comment, you're using your one ActivityPub identity. While commenting you can add additional people to the thread, recommending the post to your friends.
My house faces south westish. I have a lot of roof on the back side that I think would be good for solar but all the automated online stuff seem to indicate it was be expensive and not pay off for a LONG while. At least around here in MN there's not a lot of residential push for it. Hopefully as prices drop it becomes more viable.
Have you tried the Macbook? It is pretty amazing for me who came from the Air. Yeah I get the port issue but I have found out that I rarely use it now beside charging.
He stated literally that the action was 'reminiscent of the earlier, more libertarian, hacker ethos'. You are straw manning his comment.

As for the issue, do you really think news articles are reasonable sources on an issue like this? This [1] is a list of countries by intentional homicide rates. This [2] is a list of countries by gun ownership rates. Here's a sampling of your "extremely high correlation."

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Top 5 Countries by Gun Ownership -- Intentional Homicide Ranking (lower means more homicides)

1. USA -- 90

2. Serbia -- 170

3. Yemen -- 77

4. Cyprus -- 179

5. Saudi Arabia -- 166

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Top 5 countries by Intentional Homicide Ranking -- Gun Ownership Ranking (lower means more guns)

1. El Salvador -- 92

2. Honduras -- 90

3. Venezuela -- 60

4. US Virgin Islands -- unranked

5. Jamaica -- 73

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The numbers get even sillier if you do the top 20. You have to remember that some of the gun heaviest nations in the world include Norway, France, Canada, Austria, Iceland, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, New Zealand, etc.
Maybe it my problem, because I don't understand all my options.

But when I spin up a new cloud server built on some image from a cloud provider, I am not sure how I can verify this certificate. How can I verify I am not being Mitm'ed on this new server?

Or maybe the cloud provider is dropping the ball in not giving me the fingerprint when I request its creation?

But yes, it does seem broken to me.
As long as we agree that we're operating in different planes, mine where the Supreme Court matters and yours where it doesn't, I'm comfortable with us agreeing to disagree here.
Hawaiian will continued to be used as an adjective.

And additionally better isn't always the most succinct. I use Hawaii resident or kamaaina to say I'm from Hawaii, I don't call myself Hawaiian.

The person I first responded to called the shirt 'as genuinely Hawaiian...', which while true to describe its geographic origin, carries a different connotation. I think I made that point clear.

I don't think we'll get too much more understanding arguing points of grammar, you have a fair point with using Hawaiian as adjective. Thanks for the discussion.
I would pay money to watch you tell a SFFD firefighter they were a hipster.
$1 can be an inspiring start that gets folks to promote their project and get up and get going. It is a bit more about the principle, like a high five to get up and get going.

Also part of the experiment is the Patreon. Every $1,000 we may or may not raise means we can up the amount by ~$1, every month. So that means as an individual, you can pledge ~$12/year and say you contributed to every project on Kickstarter that year.
There’s a special place in hell for anyone who was viciously opposing this at the UN.
With wikipedia or projects like Open Street Maps, vandalism, spam, and poor data quality are problems at scale. In particular, crowdsourcing does not work for curating commercial data or information where you can profit by spreading misinformation.

For example, in the cryptocurrency space. Projects raise funding through initial coin offers (ICOs). In an ICO, you can contribute ETH to a smart contract for the promise of tokens in the future. Having an openly editable list of ICOs and their contribution address would not work. The list would be quickly spammed because malicious actors have a really high incentive to put their personal wallet address as the contribution address.
I'm curious...
I can see the obvious value of having a testcase for a class of bugs, but a testcase for a particular bug instance which was already fixed earlier does not seem right, so I probably misunderstood something.

How often do the tests find a problem?

When it does find a problem, doesn't this mean that one hits a bug which existed before?

Can you give an example of a case when the test was useful?
Here is another article without a paywall: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/396490-fcc-proposes-to-...

Note that this is an effort to post alernative sources when one is behind a paywall.
I'd say it's that it takes care of the the complaint that RSS is not "social."

I think it's a cool idea. If you really want to break the power of FB, you need a way to easily see what people are reading, recommending, talking about etc. and that includes following a whole website, whether written by an individual or a corporation.
In her defense, there are a lot of people in the world with famous parents who don't do jack with it. Kudos to her for following through and building something. (Her lip plumper goop is outrageously popular, like shockingly so.)

And until the Keeping Up with the Kardashians show started, her mom Kris wasn't at all famous and her dad was an aging former athlete.
In a 100 years, at this rate there might not be any cold climates.
Hello, start earning money by paid surveys.

http://www.clixsense.com/?8172285
guessing this also has to do with the fact that most American homes are single-family wood framed structures, so the relative importance to people is perhaps higher.
By using a modern language, having a C++ subset as shading language, SDK with support for fonts, texturing, 2D, math library with SIMD support, input devices, model loading, a debugger than can even go through shader code.

Instead of having to play "go fish" for libraries of various quality and support levels.

By the way, this applies to same productivity offered by Apple, Sony and Nintendo 3D APIs as well.

If you read the article properly, the only place where Vulkan is getting traction is on Linux.

Even on mobile space, Samsung and Google keep trying to advocate it, because being optional and with only Pixel and Samsung S devices having good support for Vulkan, no one is really bothering to use it, when considering targeting the widest user base.

https://vulkan.gpuinfo.org/vulkansupport.php#android_devices
I'll see your cynicism and raise you.

Next up: pay-to-play/kickback-dealing single source contractor (crony?) brought in to make a new system, over budget and years late.
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Because they don't offer to save your passwords the breach can always just be if someone attacks your personal computer, which is so much less likely than that someone tries to attack a company which hosts thousands or even millions password databases.

In the open source world you have at least the possibility that someone who you trust looks at the code, with the closed source you don't.
Because crime is directly caused by the lack of police officers there to "prevent" it. &eyeroll&
I am a big fan of Cleveland, but it isn't a "skyscraper city." There are a number of mid-sized buildings and really nice downtown, but it hasn't grown vertically like some other cities.
Well, yeah. You need to trust someone. And if you aren't willing to centralize, then you're left with key signing parties.
Lake effects winters are nothing to scoff at. Cold temperatures, wind, and excessive snow/freezing rain make for some really miserable times.
Infostellar:This Tokyo Startup Aims to Be the Airbnb of Satellite Communications
For ACs and cooking lunch, yes. For cooking dinner and artificial lighting, no.
I think a lot of people lack imagination here. What kinds of efficiencies could we create with room temp. super conductors? This is a good read for anyone interested in this trend https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S136403211...
I agree. That was my point; it's silly to say "there is at least one skyscraper in ${CITY} and ${CITY} is more affordable than Chicago, ergo ${CITY} is a skyscraper city", which is the argument the OP made about Pittsburgh and Atlanta. I just demonstrated the silliness of the reasoning by taking it to its extreme conclusion with Des Moines.
So it's Wikidata but with "blockchain" stamped on it to raise more money?
A usefull shortcut not highlighted in the article: Instead of implenting an emulator for the LCD display hardware, the author simply peaked at the frambuffer and dumped the contents.

For most target hardware, this shortcut provides a reasonable approximation of the intended output image. However, some older hardware relied upon specific characteristics of CRT displays to enhance the graphics. For example, some clever developers found that they could create extra colors by swapping the palate during the vertical blanking interval on interlaced NTSC video.

Of course, some of the earliest video game consoles don’t have a framebuffer since RAM was to expensive. For these consoles, you will be stuck writing a video display emulator.
horsepower is not fuel efficiency
How the FCC can prevent fake comments
It is just a matter of someone bothering to create a FPGA for it. :)
Not sure, I haven't used that platform personally, there is probably a debugging interface to the chip but it will probably require different hardware/software.
I hear people raise this concern a lot, but I think it is without foundation. If something is in the public domain in the U.S. then anyone can use it for any purpose, including releasing it under whatever license they want. Of course, any constraints imposed by that license will be unenforceable since any user of the software can claim to be using it under the terms of some other license or, of course, as part of the public domain. But if you think you need it licensed, you can have it licensed.
Web browser Opera is testing a cryptocurrency wallet in its Android app
While again being technically true, I would love to see any white or asian immigrants noting the ethnography of the original Hawaiian people in the time where they first made contact with and lived among the Hawaiian people.

By the time of Kamehameha, I was taught there was a unified monolithic Hawaiian culture.
In this particular case, it's because Loon and Wing are "graduating" (spinning out), although that information is a few paragraphs deep. And it's in the URL, but not the article title.
YouTube TV goes down during the World Cup
I thought this was a potentially strong argument delivered weakly.

First, he poisons the well by talking about "integrity" and "intellectual honesty". This is a bad move at the beginning of a speech because it is far too easy to take it such that people with different conclusions are lacking in those qualities. Given his delivery, I suspect that he might actually believe that. It would be better if he just owned that this was his opinion and delivered it respectfully.

Second, the section on academic priorities was weak. He spent a large portion of the talk highlighting the mission statements of various languages, which is marketing language. But if Scala made no other changes other than its marketing language, it would not solve the problems he was highlighting. I thought too much time was spent on that part of the talk. There's another moment later in his rushed conclusion where he made stronger points that could have been fleshed out - how the academic influence leads to theoretical features that later get abandoned when the academic project is completed. (And I quite liked his revised marketing statement for Scala.)

I also didn't like that he brought up Cats vs scalaz as a flaw with the community, given that it became clear later in the talk that he had a clear bias on which was preferable. That seemed needlessly provocative.

I think the final conclusion of abandoning the OO path was interesting and fun to think about! I don't know if there's already an opinionated compiler plugin that discourages the more OO techniques while encouraging FP techniques, but I can see how that would be a lot of fun to play with, and educational in the same way that static analysis tools are. (I don't understand why "partial functions" was crossed out as something to abandon, though.)
The proper way of doing this is to have a trusted* (because the process is open, monitored, and audited) observer (probably run by the government) that consumes messages enciphered to it which contain a signed delegation. It would then (daily, weekly?) release a signed batch of public keys with designated metadata.

Metadata might include simple yes/no statements or very short string tags.

* Country
* State/Provence
* County/Locality
* City
* Is Locally Contract Age
* Is Locally Unrestricted Purchases (alcohol/tobacco/etc)
* Is a Driver
* Is a Voter (might not be registered or might be serving time for crimes)
* etc

Ideally someone would have a unique key for each slot, and of course their primary (high security) civic key could be used for cases where proof of identity is required anyway.
> An example is a military servicemember ... who needs to assault you to prevent you from assaulting someone else.

A military service member has no more authority or right to do that then a Hacker News member.
Seems fair. Thanks for all your hard work!
Austin has SkyScrapers... It's vastly more affordable than Chicago and has superior weather...
NeXT Employee Story: Steve Jobs encountered the iPhone's key features in 1994
> reliable, continuous energy.

That's the job of the inverter, right? It uses free solar energy first and maintains reliability by supplementing it with costly grid power.
I for one am very grateful to twitter -- it helps me follow people relevant to my work as well as some fun topics.

Tweets have also disrupted MSM which used to have control over what America could see and know, I'm thinking of NY Times, Washington Post, major TV news.

As much as one might like/dislike Trump, his twitter feed has allowed him to get a message out without waiting for MSM to filter it.
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I think you are right, one-way streets.

>The street networks are directed and preserve one-way directionality. http://geoffboeing.com/2016/11/osmnx-python-street-networks/

>OSMnx automatically calculates all of the streets’ bearings. Specifically it calculates the compass bearing from each directed edge’s origin node u to its destination node v. http://geoffboeing.com/2018/02/street-network-orientation/
interestingly, codeforamerica has no posted openings for software developers.
The last GDPR preferences link I clicked on showed nearly 100 companies potentially spying on me. Google is barely the tip of the iceberg.
You're kidding right? Its 2018, there is no reason to not use https these days. With lets encrypt its not like its costing you anything.
Only If this is from a well know entrepreneur, manager or dev working for a big name / successful startup, somebody I heard on some popular podcast.
Or if someone loses their phone then there’s a window of time where an attacker can just pop in their sim.
What you need to know about Tor is that the network consists of clients and relays. Clients are mostly users with browsers. Many of which disable JS, because JS can de-anonymize sometimes. This breaks some websites.

Previously I could not visit CNN.com via a JS-disabled Tor browser, but now I can type https://html.brow.sh/https://edition.cnn.com/ and Viola! (Well, it's still a little crippled but much better than a blank).

So, brow.sh benefits JS-disabling users. The Tor project receives donations and they dedicate them to enhance Tor. And, I think this is a neat enhancement. While I am not totally familiar with their money handling, I wouldn't be surprised if they are willing to funnel some of the funds to various side projects that improve the Tor experience.

In summary, the use case you advertise is minimal bandwidth for clients, but you missed the privacy use case, which someone may want to fund.

Edit: grammar fixes.
Typically peak residential energy use is actually early morning and evening. And those tend to be the worst times for solar.

Solar is great for businesses and schools, well basically anything that operates mainly or totally during the day.
> I’m staying the hell away from the US

I think that's wise. It is far from clear that, as a practical matter, the U.S. is still governed by the rule of law.

(I am a naturalized U.S. citizen, but even that doesn't give me a whole lot of confidence that the government won't fuck with me. I am having to think long and hard nowadays before saying anything critical of the U.S. government on line.)
TLDR: you use formal verification methods to find obvious bugs in the sourcecode of blockchain contracts, taking advantage of the blockchain natural properties to limit the search space

You have a great idea there. Run with it!
I’d get three quotes from solar installers [1] and have them include your 30% federal tax credit, state incentives, and any utility or SREC incentives. Your payback period is most likely less than 10 years, and your ROI on cash invested would be higher than the S&P500 [2]. Ensure you’re not paying more than $3/watt pre-incentives if you select a quote to proceed with.

[1] https://www.energysage.com/

[2] https://solarpowerrocks.com/infographics/solar-infographic-s...
Fascinating - I live in NM and have seen both the yucca blossoms but also what appear to be the same thing as those agave spears. I had assumed they were all yucca around these parts as the plants that give off the tall spear blossoms are smaller than the agave I’ve seen in Mexico and SoCal, but I’m thinking they are just another agave variety.
Don't be lazy. The BLS publishes their methodology in detail. What specific part of it do you disagree with?
Solar is quite location (and latitude) dependent.

Duluth gets about half of the annual Global Horizontal Irradiance that Tuscon does, and that's before accounting for the fact that snow will sometimes cover the panels. In addition, Minnesota has significantly lower electricity prices than the big coastal states (partially due to the great wind resource in the SW corner of the state, partially due to political reasons).

There are other things you can do to make an impact in MN, though. An obvious one is roof and window insulation...
Got any examples of it not?
But that's fine, it'll increase the cost of whatever good is being produced and put pressure on the producers to reduce that price based on competitors polluting less making the same thing.
That was insightful. Thank you.
> These Bizarre Glasses Promise to Cure Your Motion Sickness—But At What Cost

Further down in the article:

> for about $115
I recently took a remote job. Initially, discipline for work / non-work time was tough. But in the end, it lead to better habits and more productive time spent actually working.

I like working in offices, however working remote has been surprisingly pleasant (although I'm definitely more of an introvert).
Making people pay to report illegal activity is just insane. This is literal fascism - and I'm not just being hyperbolic.
"Asparagus Death Fetish" was the name of my band in high school.
better history. I want full content search of things I've looked at, including images. "Google" for my personal history.
Good for Kylie Jenner. Bruce Jenner has six children with three successive wives: Chrystie Crownover, Linda Thompson, and Kris Jenner (Wikipedia). There is what you you are supposed to believe and say about the transgendered, and there is physical reality.
I mean, do you stop and harangue off duty police officers? Members of the military?

Both are complicit in far worse IMHO.
Yes - That's a great analogy. On the moderation side similar to Stack Overflow, Reddit, HackerNews with reputation and points. On the writing side, we put a higher bar on data accuracy and deposits to share data.
What prevents entities who can afford to lose the most tokens from establishing what is listed as 'correct'? What mechanisms are there to prevent those with the greatest token number from establishing what is accurate?
On the nature of P vs. NP
Teutonic CSS
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