skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's okay if you don't find these problems to be fun. Some people like crossword puzzles, some don't. If you can't solve a problem, it doesn't say anything about you, except that you haven't yet practiced using that particular algorithm/technique enough. It most definitely does not say that you are stupid, although some ppl would have you believe that.

I'd recommend that you only solve problems that are extremely easy, on websites like https://www.spoj.com or https://www.topcoder.com or old google code jam questions. Pick a single website (I recommend codejam) and do only the easy ones for a few months. It's hard to argue against the happiness that comes when your program passes the tests. The point is not to sharpen your skill but to get used to the feeling that your program passes ALL the tests cases.

If you get to a stage where you're completely sick and bored of easy problems, pick a slightly more difficult problem with basic algorithms like plain BFS or DFS. Try it for just a day or two and when you can't solve it, read the published solution. Try to understand it, apply it manually to the test cases and once you're sure that you've completely grasped the solution, implement it and see if it passes all the tests cases. Take it slowly, and return to easy problems often.

This could take you pretty far in terms of enjoying the process. :) At least that's how it worked with me -- I liked the high of getting a program "accepted".
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Exactly. What's your point?

I read the ones from yesterday, including the AP that started the "scandal". The problem is that since Cambridge Analytica, any piece of privacy issue gets a clickbaity headline for little reason just to get viral, play with fear and emotions, and drive traffic. All of that for ads money from Google. Full circle.

On this story: Headline is "Google tracks users who turn off location history
", sub-headline is "Pretty sneaky", but actually in the article : "We provide clear descriptions of these tools, and robust controls so people can turn them on or off, and delete their histories at any time".
In Europe: https://ecu.de/
Would also add to this that ideas about what "temperature" means change when you are switching between equilibrium and nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In nonequilibrium thermodynamics a bunch of your equations go out the window, like the Boltzmann distribution, and all of the rules built on top of that which are many.
Not saying the industry is reputable, but the people are super nice and really don't judge.
How an Archaeological Experiment Revealed California’s Ancient Past
https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-08-13&p=2

55th position
I dunno about dumb, the morale break functionality was pretty brilliant.
Ironically, I found the Simple English articles I tried to read harder to understand than the regular ones. Interesting concept, though.
Don't feel bad for me. I'm happier than I've ever been.
Uh-Oh, Germany Is Rapidly Running Out of Beer Bottles
Using kubernetes ingress for authenticating applications
Herd immunity?
Sorry, how did he cause several deaths?
La Liga announces landmark free-to-air deal with Facebook in India
Not sure about fawning, but every time there is a negative post about China, there is always a big thread of “we are just as bad”.
To be fair, it's not new. People have been using FPGAs in that capacity for decades.
i audited university of Chicago's undergrad "hard-track" real analysis (i forget the name, but iirc there was an easier version of the course available).

The problem sets would have several questions you were expected to solve, and then often 1-3 questions marked with 1 or 2 stars. I forget exactly the language, but there was some explanation that you probably couldn't solve the 1-star problems, and solving the two-star questions could be someone's PhD thesis, as it would require novel insight into an unsolved problem.

The point was that it was a class for young aspiring mathematicians many of whom were used to being the smartest person around, and this helped them confront problems they couldn't solve without feeling like total failures. Also at that kind of school, you never know, someone might be able to solve one.
You don't have to have PornCoin, they can use an exchange like Binance which has a lot of different currencies supported, and the customer could pay in any one of these. Or they could use Request Network if that pans out.

And lastly, Bitcoin fees currently aren't large and you can get a confirmation with a few cents fee. That might stop being so if it becomes too popular again, but if off chain solutions like Lightning Network pan out, then that'd be sorted out.
Cribbing from a famous quote: this interview methodology is the worst except for all of the others. We don't know what a systemic, better interviewing system would be.
This article confuses the issue of preferring walking, biking, and mass transit to owning a car with the issue of software freedom. The former is still based on ownership of sneakers and bikes. More importantly, it's not the same issue as proprietary software licenses that prevent users from running software as they see fit. I think RMS would be happy to see such a piece about the importance of software freedom in such a mainstream publication. It's too bad that they didn't fully research it and tie these issues back to the disappearance of general computing from our lives, but it's great to see this issue getting wider exposure in the mainstream media even if it is slightly dumbed down for the masses. RMS has been writing about this issue for decades (1) and it most certainly is one of the biggest issues of our time.

(1) https://www.fsf.org/
Yes they do. Location History is a feature you can disable, pretty easily.

They never claimed "Turn this off if you don't want to share your location in any of the Google services you use. There actually is a control panel for your global settings.
Funny how some people believe that brain simulations are relatively nearby, but we can't even simulate an FPGa well enough to trust the model.
Better tooling can help, but so can 'not' forcing everything to be side-effect free.

Honestly, I'm getting downvotes for this but probably from the same types who thought CQRS or micros-services should be taken to the extreme and ended up totally crashing and burning.

Why can't techies see an approach, appreciate where it can help, and apply it where its useful? Why does it seemingly have to always be an all-in-or-nothing proposition?
Read the article. What are the "clear descriptions and robust controls" to turn off the following Google location tracking behaviors:

> Google stores a snapshot of where you are when you open the Maps app

> Automatic weather updates on Android phones pinpoint roughly where a user is

> Searches that have nothing to do with location pinpoint precise longitude and latitude of users
> Forcing continued debate can cause people to dig in on their view of the problem.

Yes, I've seen it. It's refreshing when people quit talking and build their debate position as in Napster[0], the RFCs[1], and even the Nail Cabinet [2]

[0] https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98865&page=1

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/

[2] https://craftcouncil.org/post/garry-knox-bennetts-notorious-...
Or someone taking a shit in a train with an old-style toilet...
An economy is like water, you can push it around for a while but eventually the volume will be too great and it will go where it wants. It doesn't matter what you believe or desire, an economy or currency or similar will go where the environment allows it. People (especially authoritarian dictators) always think they can ignore this. Usually it winds up bad the people who live in such a country.
> if you do floating point math in your application it will give you different results

That seems like a gross weakness in the emulator; floating point isn't actually nondeterministic!
Good catch! Beliefs are mutable.

Financial justification: people who believe in $deity are probably over 80% of the facebook userbase.

Can't make money with angry users, so they consider beliefs immutable.
Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Do we technologists need to build privacy invading tools on every damn thing?

They are reporting on a problem that we keep creating. I don't see any problems with this.
Evolutionary Algorithms: The Next Big Thing in Machine Learning?
The guerrilla gig-makers who changed music festivals forever
> All browsers are using WKWebView engine

> all the other browsers became reskins of Safari.

That's what he's saying. You can't implement your own JIT on iOS. Even if you have a better idea/algorithm than Nitro JS, you're limited to how fast safari is.
It's not wanted. Nearly every social network out there isn't wanted.
> fast enough. 15 minutes to validate a transaction is sufficient for a porn site.

And what happens in that 15 minutes? Does the user have access to the site in that time? If so, what happens when the transaction doesn't validate? Just lock out their access? Ok. You can download quite a bit in 15 minutes. And then you can just run another fraudulent transaction to regain access.

> - as certain as wiring money. There's no chance a customer can force money back from you once paid.

Which is great for actual fraud. Especially when you make it super easy to do. Like buying coins online and clicking a button.

You do realize the issue is that neither side of a payment fully trusts the other, right? We can't just pass the ball to whichever side when it's most convenient. Cash works because it's in person. You see me, I see you. I hand you cash, you hand me a product/perform a service.

> anonymous

Bitcoin is not anonymous. It's at best pseudonymous. Not to mention, if the bitcoin can reach you, you are reachable. It can be made difficult, but no matter what there has to be a path back to you in order for you to receive the coins.

And you are ignoring that crypto is incredibly volatile. I think bitcoin went from near $20,000 to $6000 in this year alone. Imagine losing 70% of your value just because. That that $5 you collected from Joe Shmoe in January became $1.50. It's why a lot of businesses started backing off of it. It's just too volatile to be used as a currency. And let's not pretend that there's any other crypto worth talking about other than bitcoin. Ethereum, Litecoin, BCH, etc all follow bitcoin.
Not that I disagree with you, but I should point out that it's a reference to the video "Absolute hot" of the YouTube channel "Casually explained".
By your definition, something could be both under valued and over valued at the same time.
Most FPGAs I've seen go out of their way to allow you to reconfigure while it's running, you just have to jump through a few extra hoops and get down and dirty with the floor plan.
Heard a similar story except the owner chased the truck while calling police. When they stopped the truck after two hours (not so easy getting police to actually stop a truck on a highway), they found only car parts inside, with destroyed part numbers.
Identifying Programmers by Their Coding Style
We're not waiting, we're currently reinforcing the dikes so they'll be estimated to break only once every 100,000 years instead of every 10,000 years, while taking sea level rise into account.

There's that one dike in Wilnis though that threatens to break every time we have a severe drought, like this year...
I know, but are you familiar with how terrible it looks, even when it doesn't collapse? Genova hasn't ever been the prettiest city, but still.
Look at the hair in the scene where they're in the ocean in Incredibles 1, and... pretty much any comparable scene in 2. The hair in 1 looks almost like plastic; in the sequel (or, even better, Moana), the wet hair looks much more lifelike.
This is from the letter signed by her colleagues:

We write as long-term colleagues of Professor Avital Ronell who has been under investigation by the Title IX offices at New York University. Although we have no access to the
confidential dossier, we have all worked for many years in close proximity to Professor Ronell and accumulated collectively years of experience to support our view of her capacity as teacher and a scholar, but also as someone who has served as Chair of both the Departments of German and Comparative Literature at New York University. We have all seen her relationship with students, and some of us know the individual who has waged this malicious campaign against her. We wish to communicate first in the clearest terms our profound an enduring admiration for Professor Ronell whose mentorship of students has been no less than remarkable over many years. We deplore the damage that this legal proceeding causes her, and seek to register in clear terms our objection to any judgment against her. We hold that the allegations against her do not constitute actual evidence, but rather support the view that malicious intention has animated and sustained this legal nightmare.

It is crushing to see a statement like this signed by a person like Judith Butler. It is exactly the kind of response that have kept sexual harassment quiet for so long. "We know [accused harrasser], he would never act this way. We've worked with him for years, he's an honorable man, we know his character,... The accuser is just seeking attention/money in this malicious campaign". It just happens to be the case that the accuser is a woman in power this time.

Having a powerful feminist be accused of sexual harassment does zero damage to the feminist movement at large. If nothing else, #MeToo has taught us that there are harassers hiding everywhere, and even the people you least suspect can be guilty of it. This is just another example.
Recent research from the Americas adds new questions to
the debate. These investigations suggest that money
independently appeared for different reasons and assumed
different tangible forms in many parts of the world,
starting thousands of years ago.
Last $4.95 and my macbook – My startup story
Just got coffee from 711 $1.35 now sitting at a friends house thinking what to do.
My startup is considered enterprise SaaS, I have done some 15 demos after months of cold calling. Every demo the clients were blown away because how many problems my software solves for them and saves them thousands. However, no one signed a contract yet every follow up they say next month.

End of the thread now, had to vacate my apartment ,repo guy is chasing to get my car..
What next should I give up and go get a job ? or keep living off YMCA and keep hustling.. feeling broken for the first time in the startup journey.
Important Algorithms That Helped Define Math, Computing, Physics
> in the long term, the rate of block creation stays constant

Consider Bitcoin if there were a single miner running a single rig. They sink costs into the rig, and then run it, paying for electricity as it hums. The rig has to produce at least as much income to this miner as she pays out in electricity costs. Otherwise, it's more profitable to turn it off. So if electricity prices go up, income has to as well. If it doesn't, the rig goes off. This is fundamental to profit being equal to revenue minus costs.

In a networked state, there are more interaction effects but the fundamental relationship holds. Every miner must pay, directly or indirectly, their electricity costs. (More than that, every user has to pay electricity costs. If electricity prices skyrocketed, an electronic currency--whether digital dollars or Bitcoin--becomes fundamentally uncompetitive relative to paper.)

Constant-rate production dampens this effect, but does not remove it. At the end of the day, somebody is paying for the electricity the network consumes. Those somebodies aren't doing it for free.
Well the first thing to note is that "very heavy" is a very relative term. What scared me at first is now way below what I would even warm up with after a few years. So make sure to start out very light and take your time working up to things.

I don't know what's "ideal" but I can tell you what I did. I joined a regular gym, and a crossfit gym near my office at the same time. Was feasible to do since both had great intro specials.

Crossfit gets a bad rep in some parts of the internet but the owner was an experienced olympic weightlifter and knew what he was doing. I went 3 days a week for the first three months religiously, and asked a lot of questions about how to lift with proper form and all that.

In retrospect I probably didn't actually need to do that, but it took away a lot of anxiety. As a guy in his 40's I knew I didn't know what I was doing, and of course all sorts of strange and unfamiliar aches and pains and soreness came along at first and having someone experienced helping me made me feel confident that those were normal.

After the three month trial was up I let the crossfit thing lapse and started Stronglifts 5x5. They have a great app and set of videos that just tell you exactly what to do, it's great for beginners. The linear progression they use should keep you busy for a year or so before you start to feel like you need something new.

After a year or two I got a personal trainer, but it was mostly just for efficiency because I got really busy. I get a lot more into a single hour than I used to. He helps get things set up and so on and pushes me. One thing that I did do was tell him I just wanted to lift weights so I wouldn't waste time on random exercises. You have to manage a personal trainer like anyone else, and if you don't like things they have you do then don't do them, manage your own program too.

Hope that helps.
Right, this was how I was taught about temperature, and I'm just realizing now it probably isn't the best analogy... Like, do particles shot through a particle accelerator have a super high temperature? They're moving awfully fast! Or does it have to be "vibration," in which case, "vibrating" relative to what?
"...programming FPGAs is still an order of magnitude more difficult than programming instruction based systems." True statement. If you're offloading computation from a CPU, profile your application first, and determine if the FPGA board's architecture will allow you to improve performance. Don't underestimate the cost of communicating data to/from the FPGA/CPU.
It would be ironic if Turkey ended up in a similar financial crisis situation to Greece. Although the mechanics are different since they have their own currency.
One approach to test the effectiveness of a translator is translating a passage from L1 to L2 and then its reverse. When you do this action many times, if the final version of the passage in L1 gives the meaning of the original passage in L1; then it is a stable translator. They do this test for English-German at Linguee translator. Their claim is that it is more successful than Google translate in these terms. This gives another idea that Google Translate does not give strong results for English-German translations. Considering German is much more closer language to English than Turkish, I don't expect much from Google Translate. Thus, I don't see it as a proof to any argument.
Wow! I didn't know you could look at the homepage based on day. That's awesome, thanks!!
There are multiple layers here.

The current controversy is whether Google keeps a history of your location data tied to your Google account when you ask them not to. It turns out there are two different places they record it, so you have to disable both.

Separately there is the question of whether Google can get your location data from your phone at all. On your iPhone, you can specify "Never", "While using", or "Always" for Google Maps' access to your location.

If you specify "While using" and force quit the app, no, they can no longer access your location.

I do not know for certain, but suspect, that if you use the home button or multitouch gesture to leave Google Maps, it's still effectively being "used" and thus can still access your location.
Transaction Agnosticism: A Path to Cryptocurrency Mass Adoption
Imagine if one group was more prone to psychosis then the other. I do not think the state makes for a good gatekeeper here.

I think relatives should access the right for a psychotic person and act as a guardian.

Another interesting thing- at what point is it more merciful to leave somebody in psychosis? This is the coma patient, waking up, only to find his life been gone, his youth being spend, his family to be gone.

Is it not more merciful to leave somebody in the delusion until his/her final moments?
I doubt that programming efficiency is what's holding back FPGA's for general compute.

Why ? because we've seen decades of research in this area - so at least we have some tools(c for fpga isn't ideal, but still...), and a lot of the general mapping between what algorithms should be in FPGA.

And Amazon FPGA's instance exist for over a year.

So in that time, if there worth while services to offer with FPGA's, people would have offered them, or at least started. And sure programming complexity is a barrier. but entrepreneurs and VC's love competitive barriers. So where's all this VC funding going towards this area ? Where are all those startups ?
Google allows you to turn off the Location History feature AND allows you to stop giving out your location.
BankSpot - https://www.bankspot.org/
Provides search and discovery of banks and credit unions.
Working on a review system and tools to remove barriers for the un-banked population.
I'm confused. I thought that Facebook was doing the censoring.
> Erdogan believes that higher interest rates cause inflation.

I don't think he does.

Proof: https://tradingeconomics.com/turkey/interest-rate He hiked interest rates by 10%. Making the central bank rate around 18%. You'll pay 22-25% to borrow in Turkey. That's an insane rate. At which most businesses will simply collapse.

How much should he raise the interest rates? To 100%? I don't think that will work either.

Interest rates hike do cause short-term inflation. Long-term, they'll just bankrupt businesses. And no, I'm not a genius. I don't have a solution to this vicious circle the economy has entered. It looks like it is about to wind down either ways with lots of damages.