skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And most people hyping BTC are bagholders who have a vested interest in shilling their useless product. How about you divest your cryptocurrencies before we believe anything you have to say about them?
Do you consider referring to racism to be the same as being racist?
Seems like that'd be fairly easy for Wikileaks to show if it were the case.
That’s not quite the full story tho’. Where’s the bit about NASA is promising to launch British payloads at a huge discount then reneging the instant Black Arrow was cancelled? That’s why the Treasury was fooled into not supporting it.
As my piano teacher liked to say, 'practice makes permanent'.

It's just as important to evaluate the way you do things as it is to actually do them. Just because a method is battle tested doesn't mean that it's optimal, or even close. It's not a convex space, and it's certainly not a solved problem.

That said, I don't think that there's any particular dearth of the experts that you talk about writing about the industry. Maybe you only click on essays written by fresh talent, for some reason?
The future of VIA x86 processors
I am homeless and due to the patriot act. I am unable to
open a bank account as the bank without a utility bill is unable to determine that I am not a terrorist.
I never knew about them, I thought they were using it as a placeholder for something they didn’t want in text for CYA reasons until I saw the link to the Wikipedia article on the echo. Disgusting stuff.
It's an easy problem to solve. Force people to signup through app and make them take pictures of their documents. You can safeguard against all but state-sponsored attacks by simply obscuring your device oauth key and rotating it frequently through app updates, detecting emulation/simulator, pinging E911 location of the phone via the carrier.

Look at how hard the Starbucks app is to crack open and get access to the remote APIs or how long Skype protected their protocol. Can easily put the same amount of effort to ensure that phone isn't tampered with and that you're getting a legitimate picture of the docs.
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I did a lot worse, and I'm a very fast typist.

I'm wondering if there are some fast types' of typists that are less limited by the the problem you describe and somehow developed high typing speed without the speed being linked too much to the exact content.
You're describing my pet peeve with research in programming languages, or more generally use of abstractions in CS. What you're writing makes sense: Understand the structure of your problem, then think of similar problems you've seen before, finally try to abstract away details that are irrelevant for the solutions in each case. If you're lucky, all of these problems are an instance of one general one, and need to be solved only once. In your example, it's that IO and [] are both monads and thus share some structure.

What's often happening in PL theory, though, is that people start off with axioms/syntax and then mutilate the actual problem until it fits the syntax (still badly). That's how you get ridiculous stuff like "everything is an object" or "everything is a file". In PL theory, people will usually first make up some syntax/theory and then search for models. If physicists worked the same way, they'd write down random formulae and would then go out to find phenomena described by them. You'd probably read this comment on a cave wall.
Socialism or barbarism, eh?
Although you make a good case that informational asymmetry is a problem, I suspect you underestimate the willingness of the average person to stick one's head in the sand, focusing only on what they'll perceive as the privacy violations of this system.

After all, they don't have any control over the many public cameras controlled by others, but they do have control over whether or not they install a camera of their own.

I fear you've spent quite a bit of time on the technical aspects and theoretical human aspects, but will run head-on into the practical human aspects and bounce off.
As likely is that whoever runs it (Assange or other) was always an ass, or they went off the rails, or was at the receiving end of a rubber hose interrogation, or ...

Really, at this point, it's hard to say for certain with all the spooks involved and the circumstances of the major players.

That said, I maintain that "When Google Met Wikileaks" and "Cypherpunks" are excellent reads.
Unexpanded Amiga 500/600/1200 don't use the 68000's DMA support, so an accelerator board can ground the bus request line and take over the system bus.
I don't fear rebooting my router because it takes less than 30 seconds to do a complete cycle; TCP sessions can withstand that.

It probably helps that it runs Debian stable, too, so security updates are frequent and regular.
I reached a point where I don't know what to believe, everything cures and causes cancer at the same time, every week I'll ran into an article about a new study contradicting some random common knowledge.

I guess the key is to live a balanced life, don't consume anything in excess and don't worry too much. "In medium virtus est"
> have solid support for fixed-point decimals

What solid here means? I find some repos that implement it or support floating point decimals.
Breitbart is a repeated and notable example: https://twitter.com/obsoletedogma/status/897925242122887169?...
That's not a difficult statistic to attain when Britan has invaded ~90% of the worlds nations:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/britis...

It seems that only 22 countries and territories have escape British invasion. Yay Mongolia!
> Very few handled anything that couldn't run off a beefy postgres installation.

Beefy postgres would get you to 99.9% availability at best, with pretty bad tail latency and would cost quite a bit to operate. As it turns out, very few can actually live with that. And even infamous MongoDB can do better at this than PostgreSQL. Ignorance simply makes your business less competitive.
Great, are you on Twitter? happy to mention you
Most people that care about Typescript are JavaScript developers who desire more structure and safety. It can't do anything that JavaScript itself can't do. The article itself has a great description of the benefits in the first paragraph.
You seem somewhat confused as to the topic of conversation here.
Not the industrial revolution?
It has several interpretations. One is close to game theory, one is related to ownership, one is related to probability, one is related to interfaces. These are all the same idea.
The trick is to ban even the correct but (to a human) ambiguous patterns. In this case, I wouldn't let you do assignment on the same line as the conditional.
It's frightening to think of a world controlled by China although Western societies are heading in China's direction and left wingers have no problem eroding free speech rights...
I'd be down for paying you $100 to do this if you can get it to work flawlessly as per the specifications of the explanation video. I'd also be cool with hopping on a Hangouts to go over a more formal spec list and expectations.

The only stipulation I have is it needs to be released under an MIT license. I wouldn't monetize it, but I would like to openly share and distribute the script with others (giving you credit of course).

If you're interested email me at nick.janetakis@gmail.com.
The “Big Decline” will be a Great Filter event, but the timeframe for that event is still uncertain. It is still inevitable, however.
Their posts were caught by a software filter. If you email us at hn@ycombinator.com we can be sure to see it—otherwise we may or may not notice on the site.
I guess someone has to be the negative one: I can't help feeling it's route to the correct face looks entirely accidental (and I don't mean that in a good way)... I'm sure it's "learned" some methods, but they don't look that efficient, reliable, purposeful or controlled. In a more noisy and dynamic environment I'd expect them to fail. Granted is possible these could be more due to training conditions than an inherent limitation of the underlying model.
Sorry, fixed. That’s what I get for using my phone to comment on technical things :)
>So, you are saying that I stead of saying he was a rat that was of particular concern because he was both Jewish and involved in anti-anti-Semitism action,

No, I am saying that since he uses 7 parentheses, the authors intended message probably has nothing to do with the anti-semitic triple parentheses.

"Not intended as anti-semitism" is not the same as "intended as anti-anti-semitism."

Intention and negation do not commute...

He simply always incorrectly interpreted the anti-semitic banter of others (the triple parentheses) as simply referring to Judaism, without any anti-semitic connotation...

Not sure what is so hard to grasp here?
Thanks, this is encouraging to hear. I can also sympathize with GP's skepticism. I get suspicious whenever people try to sell me stuff on the web. I think I'm going to try being very explicit and upfront about the purpose of the site and the role of affiliate marketing within it.
It’s no less legitimate than all the recent publications out of Wikileaks themselves, at any rate.
i would build a profile on some(many) freelancing site(s), and take a couple programming gigs to build up a portfolio on Linkedin. From there, apply to as many jobs as you seem fit while polishing your soft skills ( deadlines and teams are a harsh reality ).
Ha! Came here to say this!
We have a PHP app written in the past n < 10 years. We’re actually looking for a lead dev. Shoot me an email if interested!
> Learning to rotate an object in simulation without randomizations requires about 3 years of simulated experience

It's interesting to me that this is about the same amount of time it takes humans to develop similar levels of motor control. I don't know enough about AI or neuroscience to say whether it's likely to be a coincidence or not, though.
They don't treat other people better. Chinese foreign policy is generally indifferent to the politics of their trade partners. China doesn't intervene, for better or worse, in the running of other countries. There are no Chinese analogs to America's unambiguously disastrous adventures in Iran (Mosaddegh), Iraq, Afghanistan, Apartheid South Africa, Chile (Allende), Vietnam etc.

America's main success, in my opinion, has been the ability to cast itself, and perhaps more importantly see itself as one of the good guys - if not the Good Guy™ - while simultaneously setting half the world on fire. China has no such pretensions.
Here's a tutorial with a focus on more practical applications that doesn't try to go too deep into the semantics of monads, but rather tries to build intuition on a syntactic/language level - which I think is generally more helpful for beginners.

https://philipnilsson.github.io/Badness10k/escaping-hell-wit...
This is anecdotal, and I've read cases of the opposite, so I know there are downvotes incoming.

I've yet to work on a system where NoSQL was I was like "thank goodness we didn't use a structured database!". Instead, every time it's been the HIPPO trying to defend the decision while everyone else just deals with it. NoSQL seems to be taking a giant loan... You're going to need to organize and parse your data at some point (or why would you keep the data?). Putting that decision into the future just makes it harder on everyone.
On the topic of changing look and feel, there is SUPERQOT [0], i.e. Quake in the style of SUPERHOT [1], meaning that time flows in proportion to how fast you move.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciBgg-Fuf0o

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW-RJyI8LGs
> For me the canary in the coal mine event was Gulf War 1 when the US went around asking other countries to help pay for our war.

On the contrary I would say Gulf War 1 was the last example of the US empire operating as designed: a large coalition of westernized nations implicitly following the leadership in the US, in a network of institutions and alliances entirely built around the assumption of US supremacy.

IMO the second Gulf War was the first blow to the US-centric international system... and it was the US themselves who dealt that blow.
> I suspect that if you removed WordPress, Drupal, etc. from the calculation, you'd see PHP plummet to the bottom

You can't just say "... if I ignore the ~30% of the internet that WordPress powers".

But anyway, after that... Wikipedia, Laravel, Symphony, CakePHP.

At the bottom of that pile... I built a CakePHP front end for a startup that after 8 years and was sold for $50m. Didn't require massive scaling, but the code had to be released on Windows servers in internet disconnected sites. The PHP code didn't require a single fix to production in the last 6 of the 8 years.
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I am a self-taught guy and I want to host a few of my projects so I can show my potential employers what my skills are. I know I can get something like DO or vultr for super cheap, but being a bit broke 20-year-old, every dollar I can save counts. So, which providers have the best free tier if I want just to showcase my skills?
> light gun

The same technology in light pens and the NES Super Scope, involving a sensor in the gun and a sync-pulse on the display? Or was this an actual example of a CRT being used as a dual-mode transducer, both producing light and observing “unexpected” light above-and-beyond that produced?
This, I feel, is the case with all monads. Even "free monads" are just an interesting name for an AST with embedded host-language functions.

Monad is interesting in retrospect. After you "get" X, Y, and Z you come to realize that they're all monads and then maybe you get some mileage out of the mental compression.
Once was shamed on Twitter by a Groupon dev for attending Illinois State University. He's probably working for a VC firm now. And I'm using the money I saved on college to build passion projects from an island in Southeast Asia. Get it?
A working bespoke IBM product! They don't make'm like they used to.
Yes, that is what they are saying. I believe it is meant somewhat tongue in cheek. Although there is also some truth to this.

For example, it is not uncommon in the US for native english speakers to confuse the spellings of "loose" and "lose", whereas this kind of confusion is uncommon among say native German speakers who know English as a second language.

There are of course also native speakers with excellent spelling.
Thank you. Kurlansky goes into some of the applications of salt in the book. I was thinking about adding a section to this article on how salt drove technological innovation, but couldn't quite capture all the different events coherently.
This is a research project, so there is a certain amount of trust required. Also with most reports, you get very specific comments as well. Suggestions, critique, insider information. This can give you an idea of how targeted is the audience.
It's available! Go for it.
On occasion you may encounter a young person who is more talented and successful than you. It can be difficult to accept. Instead of attacking the author, why not consider her thoughts and ideas?

You've set up a strawman with some asinine assumptions about the author: "relatively new to the tech industry", "lack the actual experience to justify their stance", "without ever writing any significant amount of code or being a valued team member".
It's a nice idea, but the library is the place I go when I have books I would rather give away for free before chucking them out. What do I do with the free books I took when I'm done with them/can no longer accommodate them?
Yes, yes, yes. MrBartBoch :)
No. If I see a kid in a car, I don't know how long he or she has been in there. Temperature in closed cars rises dramatically and unpredictably, in ways that affect children and infants more quickly than adults (in some cases, it might hurt a child or infant in literally a few minutes). If taking a child with you for a few minutes is too much for someone to handle, I seriously doubt if they have the fortitude to be a non-negligent parent.
The notable thing about this is how little computation it needed. We have a long way to go, but this is a big step in the right direction.
Chinese “hackers” are sending malware via snail mail
Thanks for de-clickbaiting the title.
Why would they want you to close your account? They can't nickel and dime you on fees if it's closed.
:this: A concept that's underlying the move to a datalake architecture (read: keeping your data in its rawest form, and its transforms in S3 or HDFS) is decoupling your compute from storage.

Motivating example: you have huge tables in Redshift that are either infrequently accessed or the usefulness of the data decays over time (website logs, customer order information). In this scenario you're paying a lot just to keep data in Redshift (storage) but a large subset of the data is laying dormant (no compute).

If you're bought into the Redshift ecosystem this is where Redshift Spectrum comes in. If you're a smaller company you could just store the data in S3 and "spin up" the compute when you need it (Athena, Glue jobs, or Elastic Map Reduce clusters).
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One way to use Common Lisp with a more immutable flavour is to use the folio2 library.[0]

I have enjoyed exploring it a great deal. The project's readme, explains it better than I can:

"folio 2 is a collection of small libraries that provide support for functional idioms and data structures in Common Lisp and a common set of APIs for working with them.

"It's a direct descendant of the older and simpler folio library, with a greatly expanded and reorganized API, and support for more data structures and procedures.

[0] https://github.com/mikelevins/folio2
AWS also has NoSQL cloud solutions, particularly DynamoDB, and maybe SimpleDB if you want to risk building on a someday deprecated service.

Those options work fine, if you were OK with using a NoSQL DB. But what if you wanted to use an actual relational database? For that you pretty much need Lambda in VPC, and it's not really usable because of the cold start issue.

At some point Amazon will release Aurora Serverless[1], giving a serverless option for an on demand relational database. Will that work somehow with Lambda without needing VPC, therefore defeating the cold start issue? What cold start issues we'll it have itself? I guess we'll wait and see for now.

1. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
Due to the way vim was written, it’s been an incredible pita trying to get support for elastic tabs going there. It’s funny: it’s easier to code elastic tabs for dozens of closed source IDEs and editors with only basic plugin functionality than it is to add it to the most hacked editor of all time.

(On phone. Will link GitHub PR when I’m on a desktop and can use the internet with proficiency somewhat greater than that of a caveman.)
The Isle of Wight test facility is free to visit, it's worth a look if you're in the area. There isn't a massive amount left - just the concrete structure and a lot of rabbits grazing the cliffs below.

However, there's enough left to make you slightly sad that the space race didn't end up in colonisation (yet). There are also a bunch of other features within less than a mile (an old military battery, The Needles, great views over The Solent, the colored sands of Alum Bay). Definitely underrated.
CDD (customer due diligence) became a rule on May 11, 2018 [1]. FINCEN forced banks to do it. Even though it is not in Bank's best interest to go through this exercise at all, they are forced by regulatory laws. There is a whole group at every bank dedicated to this: compliance teams, led by a chief compliance officer. Every bank is examined by internal auditors, external auditors, regulators to see whether a bank is in compliance.

Yes, banks run by people; laws are written by people; regulators are people. The issue is not people per se: which set of people has MORE discretion? In this case, compliance teams at banks don't have much discretion. FINCEN has discretion to fill up the content of laws in the name of new rules. Recently, Congress has started attacking this AML-regulation beast; there are a couple of bills in congress, which can ease AML compliance burden. By the time, any reforms are passed, KYC (know your customer, EDD (enhanced due diligence), and CDD (customer due diligence) become the status quo.

Of course, we could have expected Banks to push back, by sending lobbyists to rewrite laws. Banks are also helped by software tools to generate letters, file SAR(suspicious activity reports), CTR (currency transaction reports), etc. If there were no automated way of doing these, yes, they would have gone to Congress to push back. As long as there is some automation, expect more of this surveillance.

[1] https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-reminds-fin...
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As an American I would be happy to see someone else take responsibility. If China thinks they can somehow bring stability to the Middle East then give them a shot. At least when they inevitably descend into chaos again it wont be us having to babysit. I think many Americans are hoping China tries to take a leadership role in Asia and near neighbors
Or maybe the company is seeking out women in particular.

If there was a company that was made up of 90% men when the workforce was 50%, would you say that "plenty of men independently decided that that company was a great place to work in?"
Blue Eyes: The Hardest Logic Puzzle in the World (2006)
They don’t have to be fully sentient just more sentient than the bottom 10% of people, a goal function like energy storage with a counterfacuals algo will probably yield surprisingly familiar emergent behaviors
If you want to use functional (immutable) collections in Common Lisp, try FSet [0]. (It's QuickLisp-loadable.) FSet greatly expands the space of programs that can naturally be written in a functional style in CL.

[0] https://github.com/slburson/fset
There are some people buying them because 'omgtekasldkjd' but I bet the vast majority of them will be doing this as these will be worth a fortune in 50 years.

Tesla is a historic company, make no mistake about that. This has very little to do with the marketing and customer acquisition.
There is a point to it though - continuations, for instance, have monadic structure - but at the cost of introducing a strict evaluation order. There is other work related to the linear logic that does what Monads do - provide an abstract syntax - but working better with laziness, so it's not exactly wrong to give Monads an operational perspective.

There are many perspectives one can use to understand Monads. The operational one is valid - and useful for many beginners. Of course, it's not the only way to look at them, as you point out.