skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using bitcoin(I know less about how to store data into bitcoin transactions) you can execute a transaction and store a small piece of data that would be a reference to a larger blob of data, say an IPFS hash to an encrypted MRI image and the doctors notes. You use bitcoin to store the log of changes using reference to some type of immutable data store. It's imperfect, but can be built. The value add of the bitcoin here is it's extremely hard to create a false history and tell that as the real story.

Ethereum would be easier to understand and see what's going on because we have a reasonably readable contract language. You'd still likely need to store larger blobs of data using an external immutable data store, and those blobs wouldn't be automatically distributed and backed up. But you could pay for distributed backups in an automated way using ether. Lots of people working on this last part, which drastically reduces the potential size of the blockchain because it will only be afordable to log blob references and numerical values.
Nem Core(XEM) Has Critical Bug Neglected by Developer
(or, as the kids would say, 'new telegraph who dis?')

Here's a link I found on some early codebooks: http://www.cryptomuseum.com/crypto/codebook/index.htm
Is that better than http://speleotrove.com/decimal/decnumber.html?

But, apart to just have a decimal datatype + overload the operators and provide some functions, exist something else I need to be aware?
Part of what we should be asking is why Harvard is even relevant?

That these Ivy League schools have such an outsized influence in politics and American culture should be something that should be examined and debated.
> The thread started by wondering if there were smart ways to upscale some of the games because Sierra often used a lot of vector art, though the conclusion there is the vector/raster mix is too brittle in most of their games, because it is almost always a pixel-specific mix in the end result.

IIRC "Out of this World" (aka "Another World") was relatively pure wrt vector art. This is probably why it was straightforward to port to a modern re-release. I don't know that they targeted a higher resolution, though.
Activist and former white supremacist Christian Picciolini claims that "globalist" was an intentional renaming of "Jewish" in order to make their message more palatable to mainstream conservatives.
I never considered that the move away from ornaments might be a net negative on working class jobs. That's a little chilling.

_From Bauhaus to our House_ was published in 81 (near the end of the movement), so it's completely possible that Brutalism had strayed from it's original ethos by then.

Still, outside the book, it should be noted that some of the recent backlash against the style is based on looking at an unmaintained building, and then blaming it for crime rates etc, conveniently ignoring other soci-economic factors.

Also, one of the flaws/features of the style was that since you're showing the materials, they needed to be high-quality and maintained. You couldn't just paint over cracks. This means that they're sensitive to neglect, and often, they were.
A Tell HN or Show HN would better help people filter spam from real showcases.
Towards the end of the article was the question I had all along reading it:

"Where was mind when the universe was born? And what sustained the universe for the billions of years before we came to be? He nonetheless bravely offers us a lovely, chilling paradox: At the heart of everything is a question, not an answer. When we peer down into the deepest recesses of matter or at the farthest edge of the universe, we see, finally, our own puzzled face looking back at us."

Can someone explain how his 'answer' is chilling or lovely? It's fine if he wants to offer his own pet theory of reality, but to give a cop out answer to its most fundamental question doesn't go far to support it.
Madworld? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MadWorld

While no-one would argue that Quake was truly photorealistic, it was as realistic as the hardware of the day would allow at a videogame framerate (30+fps).
Fee Fei-Li: Empowering businesses and developers to do more with AI
> the most successfully interpretation has been the "shut up and do the math" one

No, that is simply throwing in the towel. Giving up should never be confused with success.
We don't know that there's no solution. One of your siblings suggested having the editor just use space alignment. I can't see any reason why that wouldn't work either and was the idea I had in mind.

But installing ideas onto wetware is perhaps the most expensive thing that can ever be considered. Because it often involves fighting a war.
What I don't get about Athena is what happens after you've put the data in Athena? Fine, you've got SQL and tabular data, but the type of BI I've had to do usually has a graph or some other visual representation at the end rather than a table. There's only so much data you can import into Excel from a CSV that Athena produces. Usually I find periscope/cluvio to be much better tools for this and then you need to go to redshift. So why bother with all the data pipeline to Athena? Does anyone use this as well as Periscope/Cluvio and can chip in?
The the reason this is disliked is pretty obvious IMO. It's undermining the value of stars as an indicator of a projects health / usefullness. People explore tools and libraries on GitHub to incorporate into the work they do at their jobs. If this were to take off it could potentially make everyones job harder, yikes!
> asians are considered "model minorities" and the best "assimilated" minority

By who? What data is there? A stereotype is not evidence; repetition doesn't make it more likely. Nor can we infer from a stereotype - or even real data about assimilation - something about the personalities of individuals.
> I wish I could find that company where nobody gives a shit about their place in the hierarchy and everyone isn't constantly trying to gun for other people's jobs to make their linkedin profiles look more impressive. It's been a looooong time now, still searching.

They definitely exist (I work at such a place) so I wish you the best of luck in your search!
What prevents being prescriptive about how the abstractions are consumed or presented?
Ask HN: ICO on MMORPG-what will be your feedback?
I have a question for you…

What would happen if big data was used to help humanity ?

What would you do if you were able to impact positively the real world with a virtual world ?

How would you contribute to such a project ?

https://dearth.io
First the Chase thing, now this. I've taken to distribute my money across a number of bank accounts so I'm not completely FUBAR if one of them goes rogue. I should really just join a credit union, I guess...
The animations could be optimized further via gifsicle (http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/):

-rw-r--r--@ 1 x staff 538584 Jul 30 17:36 columnblocks_coloured.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 x staff 282676 Jul 30 17:42 columnblocks_coloured_opt.gif
-rw-r--r--@ 1 x staff 131143 Jul 30 17:36 logo.gif
-rw-r--r-- 1 x staff 92369 Jul 30 17:42 logo_opt.gif
Yeah, you raise a good point here, sometimes enemies of your product can suppress it, so it is more complex than just creating what people want sometimes. To be specific about your product, even though people want it, it feels like it is for the wrong reasons. If your product succeeds it devalues GitHub stars which is a metric taken seriously by the GitHub community. So (unintentionally) you have attacked the values of the Github community and this is why you are getting some backlash. Also, unfortunately, I think many of the people that would love your product are the people I am talking about in my post above, they are not good at selling their product or project so they try and game the system that elevates good projects. So its a short-term solution of sorts, that crowd will be better off actually learning how to market their projects than gaming systems
I’ll still prefer local governance over shareholder control of a for-profit entirety providing me a utility service, regardless of fiscal solvency issues.
Why would someone apply to a school ten times??
At risk of repeating myself, it isn't HTML inside JS, it's just JS function calls with a weird HTML-mimicking syntax. You aren't putting "HTML and JS logic in the same file", it's literally all JS. It's like how you could write lisp code with the s-expressions represented with XML: it's not a different thing, it's the same thing with a different syntax.

Maybe your point is that you don't like the style of building up HTML strings by composing function calls. If so, fair enough, but I would argue that the jury is very much out on the trade-offs between that approach vs. an interpreter for a template language. React's string-building API is not the only example of this style; for instance lisps seem to do it that way pretty often (probably because sexprs are a quite natural syntax for this). Personally, I find the string-building approach much easier to reason about. It's a more explicit and well-defined problem. Instead of parsing and augmenting an existing string, the implementation just needs to transform some parameters to an output string.

As I said, I'm not really a fan of JSX itself because I find it weird (and unnecessary), but I do like the simple string-building API it gets translated into.
This isn't proposing user permissions, this is proposing site permissions.

A better analogy would be, that app developers are too apathetic to review their own app's permissions, so they want a way to limit what permissions a third party ad library could add to their app.

It is a way for people shirking responsibility for their own site, app, or content.
Hey .. I just came across Mu in the context of the BBC Microbit. From a few days of hacking with it, I must say I am very impressed. The ability to flash code to the microbit, the automatic install of libraries .. I remember thinking "I'm going to get an error message now". When things just worked, I went wow!
Thanks, I will read this. I think in general the reasoning I see in this area is very poor. I think, since people have a hard time understanding their own intelligence, let alone sub- or super-intelligence, that they just project all kinds of human foibles onto it.
From an article with some actual information:

> A spokesperson for Bank of America said the bank has to collect that information because they aren’t legally allowed to provide services to people from countries the U.S. has economic sanctions against.

> But the spokesperson said a person who has U.S. citizenship can still use their account even if they are also citizens of a sanctioned country.

http://www.seattleglobalist.com/2018/04/13/bank-asks-about-c...

See also: https://www.quora.com/All-of-a-sudden-Bank-of-America-is-ask...
>You review the applications and notice to your horror that 600-1000 of them all have perfect or near perfect test scores, boring essays, so-so extracurriculars (Overwatch tournaments and robotics club don't cut it), play an instrument (very well, but not remarkably), and want to study pre-med.

Kind of reminds me of the 1970's lawsuit against UC Berkeley where women were claiming discrimination because of lower grad admissions than men. When they analysed the numbers, they found that it was because women generally applied to very departments with low admission rates, and men generally applied to departments with high admission rates.

There is a bit of self selection in the outcome here.
I agree with this - I think there is a lot of value in having hard-copies, if just for the ability to walk through the shelves and pick something up. I know most people don't do this, I know it's not cost effective, but I have walked through my University's library and picked up a random book here and there.

It's kind of the same with pictures. Most of the people I know have thousands of pictures on their phone - most of which they will never, ever look through.
> The control solution was 100 ml of cool potable water and the L-theanine solution was prepared by dissolving 0.5 mg powdered L-theanine (Taiyo Kaguka Co. Ltd., Yokkaichi, Japan) per Kg participant body weight in a tea infusion (total L-theanine 50mg/serving).

So, there was a statistically significant difference in brain activity between participants who drank cool water and participants who drank (hot?) tea with added L-theanine. Curious setting.
How do you qualify candidates as being the target audience, and what happens if it’s a really small, hard-to-reach niche - how do you guarantee the number of respondents?
> You're yet to provide any.

> Decrease costs of daycare and create programs to re-introduce child-bearing women

Are those not solutions? With lower daycare costs, you don't need to take a long maternity leave, just enough for recovery. And the re-introduction programs don't have to come from the employing company, it can be driven by the government so companies don't feel they are impacted by pregnancies. Maybe a tax write-off for post-pregnancy job training?
The University of Texas at Austin seems to put a lot in storage instead of throwing it out. But they have thrown things I am interested in out before. I recall checking the catalog for a well known journal which has been entirely digitized. Unfortunately a plot that had data I wanted was illegible, so I went to scan the plot. Apparently they had just thrown out the journal a day or so before I arrived and had not updated the catalog to reflect that yet. I was very confused as there was nothing at all where the journal should have been. Fortunately a librarian was able to figure out what happened. I can recall them saying "I knew something like this would happen..." I eventually got a scan via interlibrary loan.
Quicksight (https://aws.amazon.com/quicksight/)? There are some other 3rd party sources that can utilize athena querying like ChartIO and Looker as well.
Thanks. I’m guessing it must have triggered some kind of filter.
How do you deal with the 10+ second cold start times for Lambda when using it in a VPC? Are you pre-warming your lambda functions? Did you open up your RDS instance to the world so you could connect to it from a public lambda network? I know you had to pull some magic, because I've been down that road.

It's been a problem for years and there's been no sign of a solution. Example article from last month: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/lambda-vpc-cold-starts-a-lat...

These are the sorts of problems that turn people off from using serverless architectures.
Dating back to the 5150, most PCs had case fans. IIRC sometimes the fans would spin a little faster with Turbo engaged, even if just for effect.
Yes. There shouldn't be any reviewee except the code itself. But this is hard to get right.

One of the questions I try to ask myself with any comment I write as a reviewer: "Would I accept this comment?".
> And if the ad network suddenly changes their policy without notifying you, what are you supposed to do?

That's a legal question, not a technical one.

If another company violates your contract with them, or the contract doesn't require notification for substantial contractual changes then you need to talk to your lawyers.
Athena has a JDBC driver and AWS Quicksight is supported if you want to use that
Hi good idea? I would like to put my product through this but 1 thing concerns me. How do i know you actually asked the users ? If everyone is anonymous then how can you guarantee this ?

Thanks
Doesn’t that depend on context and intent?

Does saying ...”but he’s white” mean someone is racist for bringing up race? I think it depends on context and intent.
I was told that I should start speaking at conferences right away, because "teaching is the best way to learn". I guess it's supposed to motivate me to learn "faster" if I have a deadline and the pressure of regurgitating that new knowledge to a crowd? But I already learn as fast as I can. Software is my passion! All it would accomplish is making myself look foolish, and wasting an hour of a few hundred people's time.
Author here, that’s a great question! We approach this by ensuring that there are always multiple people that can review a given codebase or service. In practice what this looks like is we have teams that own our different services. Rather than just assign a random person from that team if you’re making a PR for one of their services, we utilize what we call “open” slack channels, where any one can ask questions of the team. So you’ll go to the teams’s slack and ask for someone to review. We recommend @ mentioning the people who’ve most recently made significant changes to the code you’re working in as they’re most likely to be the best reviewers. But by sharing the responsibility across each team, that ensures there’s no piece of code that only one person across the whole engineering organization is qualified to review. For projects within a team, there will generally be one or two dedicated reviewers and we utilize stand ups to check in and make sure no one is overloaded with reviews. And since the whole team has familiarity with the project, it’s easy to swap out a reviewer if someone is overwhelmed or on vacation.
"‘Oh yeah, we need to know if you’re a citizen.’ You know, I was born and raised in Kansas like Superman"

Superman was an undocumented alien.
China is laying the groundwork for a post-American world order
I have a list of them. I review it every change of seasons (quarterly). I can't afford any of them, and my background is so average I don't think I'll ever get investment. I'm working on simple things (Amazon FBA, etc.) to net a decent profit to get one of them going.
Can anyone please comment what advantages and short-comings Common LISP has over "modern LISP" (i.e. Clojure)?
To add onto this, how much manual intervention is required in creating the list and contacting them? I feel like there's a reason the competition costs so much more. Seems like, even with "AI" involved, there would be quite a bit of leg work.
If monads are the solution, what is the problem?
How so?

How about you show how even one of the well-known techniques for mathematical optimisation (see e.g. [1] for an overview) are not expressible in the currently accepted foundations of mathematics (such as ZF, PA, MLTT, HOTT), or at least point to peer-reviewed papers in credible mathematical publications that give evidence that "[a]ll mathematical optimization falls outside of classical logic". Or even weaker, point to Girard's written works where he claims that "[a]ll mathematical optimization falls outside of classical logic".

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization
I'm too materialistic for taking those views seriously, but I recommend a nice Science Fiction book that deal with this:

"Distress" by Greg Egan [1].

1. http://www.gregegan.net/DISTRESS/DISTRESS.html
It's a direct descendant, really almost a twin, of the SAGE air defense system from the 1950s. This was one of, if not the, first large-scale networked computer system.

https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/sage/b...
We know it by the times when reality doesn't correspond to our ideas and/or questions.
Incentivised Multi-Target, Multi-Camera Tracking with Untrusted Cameras
They have these, they're the SAT subject tests.
It’s a balance but you need to balance team priorities. If you aren’t shipping code because of your time on code reviews you need to better manage your time. Call it out during stand up (assuming your team has them) and make it clear you don’t have time or code reviews today because you need to focus on your deliverable. If the review is more important your team can identify this collectively. However, individuals should never feel you describe, if so it’s a lack of coordination across team.
It’s a regulatory requirement. Banks don’t do these things just to piss off their customers.
To do what you want, you'd hook the windows resize messaging hooks, and override them. I'm not sure you can get the application to 'look' maximised though, as you'd probably have to abort the maximise event, and override with a resize to your constraints event.

Additionally, it's possible to lock the mouse inside a defined rectangle on the screen, using the Windows API.
Researchers teach AI to predict personality traits from eye movements
Even removing CJK, there are still more than 65,535 glyphs necessary to represent everything the the SMP and BMP less CJK. If you look in BMP without CJK, surrogates, and private use areas, you are looking at around 27,000 code points. If you look at the SMP (supplementary multilingual plane), there are around 90 blocks of 4096 code points assigned. That total is well over 65,535. And keep in mind many scripts also require unassigned glyphs which are not Unicode code points themselves. These unassigned glyphs count against the 65,535 TTF limit, though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_%28Unicode%29
Brain waves were fine-tuned over many thousands years of evolution.

Stuff which modifies them greatly as this study seems to show probably has some sort of side effects.

Otherwise nature would have boosted them already.
The entire article is undisciplined and sloppy. She really gets in the way of the story she's trying to tell.
. . .(but superman wasn't _born_ in Kansas)
Interesting that they revised their statement.

The original statement (emphasis mine, because it took me a couple of reads to figure out what was changed)

> "Like all financial institutions, we’re required by law to maintain complete and accurate records for all of our customers and may periodically request information, such as country of citizenship and proof of US residency. This is not unique to Bank of America. This type of outreach is nothing new and the information must be up to date. Therefore we periodically reach out to customers, which is what we did in this case.

> Over time, we reach out to all customers to verify their information, not only specific customers. If we don’t hear from a customer in response to our outreach, as a last resort, we may restrict the account until we can confirm it is in compliance with regulatory requirements."

And the revised statement:

> "Like all financial institutions, we’re required by law to maintain complete and accurate records for all of our customers and may periodically request information as required by law and regulation. This is not unique to Bank of America. This type of outreach is nothing new and the information must be up to date. Therefore we periodically reach out to customers, which is what we did in this case.

> Over time, we reach out to all customers to verify their information, not only specific customers. If we don’t hear from a customer in response to our outreach, as a last resort, we may restrict the account until we can confirm it is in compliance with regulatory requirements."

edit: formatting, because no preview button.
not necessarily into this serverless thing but that doesn't seem like a valid complaint, use a global connection pooler like pgbouncer
For reference of countries with sanctions:

https://sanctionssearch.ofac.treas.gov/
What company (any industry) offers the most valuable training for new hires?
At least with CRISPR, they're discovering unfortunate side effects and unintended mutations: https://www.google.com/search?q=crispr+side+effects
Yes, you are much more motivated when it is "unavoidable." I either take the bus to work or get my wife to drop me off, then run home (about 4 miles). To your other point, I used to bike, but found it safer to run.
Because it should really just be called Functions-as-a-service, and they are great for single-focus reactive/connective processing and 1-off tasks but are not a replacement for everything as people try to use it for.