skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Now, determining which one is right is basically a question of whoever shouts louder... It's completely within the threat model of this situation that a nation-state might want to rewrite its identity database and deny that it ever happened.

This was a solved problem before Bitcoin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping

Now that Bitcoin exists, you don't need to trust a third party for trusted timestamping any more; you can insert hashes into an existing (stronger) blockchain instead.

I accept this is technically "blockchain" in that case, but I wouldn't really call it "blockchain technology" or "turning to blockchain" and there's no need to reinvent a new blockchain with all the risks that entail.

Take my git repository and add a rule that to be considered valid by a client an authority must have inserted the commit hash (or a child commit hash) into the Bitcoin blockchain. If an alternate branch appears, the earliest appearance wins. You get the property you're looking for, but you don't need to invent a whole new system to do it. Bitcoin (or any blockchain) isn't required; any trusted timestamp service will do instead. If you don't want to use a third party, then sure, use Bitcoin, but no need to invent anything new.

I argue that this is far better than "turning to blockchain". All the components are well understood. There is no risk in this model.
For you that's perfect, but for others, between city pollution, traffic and plain GHG emissions, how perfect is that ?
Implementing single file Web Components (Vue.js-style) in a web browser
Audrey Tang also spoke about this at DebConf18 in Taiwan recently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDwfk5jo_ow
https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2018...

The tech sounds interesting to apply to other situations too, like collaboration on open source projects.
>Remember that on paper even communism sounds good. Although while hotly debating the Brexit topic with whataboutism you just made my point without realizing.

Sorry, but I consider accusations of whataboutism an easy cop-out from the duty to put things in perspective. It's predominantly one-sided too, those accusing people of bringing up Y in a critique of X seldom or never critique Y. But even if they did, both critiques would be bogus without whataboutism anyway. Things can only make sense and can be understood in comparison, not in some abstract pure critique that ignores what happens in parallel and what the alternatives were.

But I digress. Let's get back to the comment.

>You're focusing too much on Brexit, it was just an example. Politicians fooled people into thinking they vote for (among others) more money to the NHS only to turn around right after the vote and say "that's not happening". The vote was heavily based on misdirection and manipulation. All perfectly democratic but without actually giving any power to the people. What happens after a promise is broken? Nothing.

Sure. But that's neither here not there -- that's a common with politics.

I'm focusing on Brexit because it's the perfect example of this contempt for democracy (and the "unwashed masses") when it involves a choice the 10% doesn't like.

As if one choice or the other was objectively good and the other objectively bad -- which misunderstands and diminishes the role of democracy to always choosing the objectively good. Instead, democracy is about balancing opposing interests, as individuals see them.

Saying that those that voted opposite to what one would want are "voting against their interests" etc, is putting one's position above politics, and into the realm of inherently good. That's not democracy, that's TINA.

>Democracy as it stands now is actually the business of selling promises. If you vote for a promise that's never fulfilled what exactly is your power other than to try again?

Mass protests? Mass participation to party meetings and conferences? Grassroots emergence of new candidates? All of those have been tried with various degrees of success (including toppling governments). Not all of them are guaranteed to work all the time of course, but that's life. It's all up to the vigilance of the citizenry (or lack thereof).
Here's another way that an employee can misunderstand their own job: Suppose you have an employee who is working for Megabureaucracy Inc. Megabureaucracy is a company that's losing money. The employee witnesses waste and inefficiency throughout the company in everything they do.

However, that individual employee may be doing work which means that Megabureaucracy is losing less money than it would if the employee did nothing. The employee might conclude that they are in a "bullshit job" - but actually what they are doing is adding value, even though they are part of an enterprise that as a whole is subtracting value. i.e. they are causing it to subtract less value than it otherwise would.

The same logic applies for employees that are working in an inefficient department of a company that is efficient in aggregate. Helping an organization that is inefficient to be less inefficient is still economically valuable - but to the individuals concerned they may consider their own jobs as economically valueless.
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That's what Roblox is basically already doing. Except it's more like "create your own game from these blocks" kind of thing, the content there seems to be of remixing lot of existing ideas and concepts.

The monetization apparently works there:

https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/21/the-deanbeat-robloxs-kid-...
I think Papa solves a legit need. By the time we (ie millennials) are old, we'll be so damn connected, hopefully loneliness will be low. But between now and 30 years from now, there are millions of seniors suffering from loneliness, and I think Papa could help with the problem. I've definitely thought about this exact idea before.
Thanks for your feedback! Someone mentioned this on twitter as well and I thought it was a good point so I implemented that change.
I think it is important to offer more equity to your engineers.
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According to Ixora, major film studios produce 100 blockbuster
films each year that feature than 1,000 CGI shots —
each costing them roughly $10,000 a pop

English is not my mother tongue, does "a pop" mean each second ? Anyway USD/(second of VFX) is a bad metric.
Curious about the startup though, looks like they are putting the idea out there to see if people are interested because there's no information online about this
Fair enough - but there's still no more info you could learn from the ENOENT error.
These expensive items are actually useful equipment for video production, but it doesn't mean a video card has the same importance. Who cares about slightly longer rendering times for rarely used special effects?
These kind of apps seemed popular a few years ago in China and mig still be. Saw this type of gifs in wechat frequently back then. Maybe animated gifs and stuffs in chats are more popular there but it might work to make some money from this.
I would start with Haskell Programming from first principles, as it is recommended by many and it looks good (I have to admit I started with LYAH but content-wise, HPFFP is much better).

I also recommend reading these web documents as a supplement:

http://dev.stephendiehl.com/hask/

https://wiki.haskell.org/All_About_Monads

https://wiki.haskell.org/Typeclassopedia

https://www.fpcomplete.com/blog/2017/09/all-about-strictness

I am now reading Haskell High Performance Programming (https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/haskell-hig...), and while the book is more intermediate (it assumes that you can find the documentation and read the Haskell code yourself), I think it is a good overview of how to use modern Haskell in real projects.
False dichotomy.

Money is the medium through which societies (attempt to) measure such contributions and meaning. And this includes abstract and indirect ways, like art, fun, future potential, etc.
I honestly wish to have the skills of people who pitched and found investment for Emojer.
The jobs you named are only useless in a hypothetical parallel universe. We could do without police if only there was no crime and we could do without armies if only there was no war, but neither of those things are possible.
When can I have it in Toronto?:D

Looks like a cool idea. I definitely need something like this.
Yes, but then it turned out Phil actually sang that music better than Peter so there can be some disagreement over the exact year.
Extra hot coub edition №86 – FunnY Vine Video Cube mix (2018)
If you have the programming skills necessary to develop deep learning applications, it should be assumed that you can also easily get a well-paying job so this isn't really even relevant.
“A pop” means “each” in this case.
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>Because I don't want to?

Well, don't let the door hit you on your way out of the beach then!

Who said anything about making this mandatory for everybody? What I discussed is that it shouldn't be seen as bad to "have fun and go to the beach".
In this context 'a pop' would mean 'for each'

So each shot is $10k
That opensignal report is not about coverage. 4G coverage in The Netherlands is 95%+, not 89% as per the report. When the various operators got their 4G licenses they had to provide 95%+ coverage within a certain amount of years.

Belgium has a 94.5% coverage as per last year. The report shows 85%.

The reason is pretty simple, per the report: "OpenSignal's availability metric tracks the proportion of time users have access to a particular network."

That's not coverage. Your source doesn't show what you think it does!
link is down. Is there an alternative link?
Yes, I recently got a Kobo Aura One. At 7.8" and high resolution screen it is not much different from reading a largish pocket book. Also being able to read in the dark without disturbing the wife, thanks to screen back light is also a big plus.

But even with bigger screen and higher resolution than most e-ink readers, it is still a bit small to read most magazines comfortably, which was a bit of a disappointment to me.

I read some ebooks on my phone before, but as you say, it does not compare. You have constant distractions and reading on a phone / tablet outside in daylight is no fun.
This is part of a long and interesting story I don't have time to find the right links for...

In the UK compared to the US, say 1850-1950, the premium commanded by skilled labour over unskilled was always much smaller. Or another way to say that is that they had a very large pool of skilled people. This was part of what allowed them to do many interesting things first (like railways), but also as time went on discouraged automation. For example lots of first world war UK munitions factories imported the latest American machines, suddenly needing to modernise once their skilled men were conscripted. This is, I believe, part of why Rolls-Royce were doing things described in the article -- call it a first-mover disadvantage relative to Detroit.

There is lots of interesting data about all these things. If you want to think about robots taking jobs and all that, then understanding (for example) the cotton industry circa 1900 is actually a great place to start. If some factories employ 1/4 the workers of others, that sounds a lot like having 3 robots... transistors are not involved, but certainly dollars (and unions, and taxes, and shipping) are.
Thank you! I am a newbie in options area. Shall go through the reddit and find more about the Wheel Strategy.
If you worked in a company where I used to, you’d be designing email internal email campaigns for our staff of 50.
Crazy Rich Asians author wanted in Singapore for avoiding national service
It's funny because it's true.

However, I think YCombinator has more often than not stated that they invest in the team and not the specific product they are making at the time. The invested product is generally just a learning vehicle for the team. The selected team is expected to plausibly have the insight and technical capability to pivot and retarget as new data is gathered.

Nigeria is the most interesting country in Africa at the moment and Lagos is projected to be the largest city on the planet in 2100. It's totally credible to try sounding the local market at this point. Funding a couple of small startups with a talented team sounds like a great way to do that.
A riddle wrapped in a curve (2015)
Free was actually offering free roaming before it made it into EU law. Not much of an edge now, sure, but credit given where credit's due.
Your data are inconsistent with the benchmarks that I mention in the blog post: https://github.com/u39kun/deep-learning-benchmark

You also do not benchmark LSTMs: https://www.xcelerit.com/computing-benchmarks/insights/bench...

If you put both of those benchmarks together my conclusion is quite reasonable. But I see that you could also come to your conclusion with your benchmarks. It is just a question which benchmarks are less biased and that is too difficult to evaluate.

I guess we have to wait for real data, but thanks for putting your data out there to get a discussion going.
Hey I'm not saying this license is bad but it's absolutely not free software anymore by any definition.
Facebook removes 652 fake accounts and pages meant to influence world politics
>Money is the medium through which societies (attempt to) measure such contributions and meaning.

False axiom.

Money is a very bad medium for that purpose. Money was created to measure exchange value, and it should stick to that role, and not even try to touch meaning.

A person who made $10 billion selling poisonous crap to consumers, paying researches to mark it, and advertisers to brainwash them (e.g. a cigarette maker) does not contribute to society more than a doctor who found a cure for a disease that killed millions but made no profits off it.
A study of musical scales (2017)
The article points out measurable health benefits from having to walk a little to and from bus and metro stops. They totally neglected talking about the advantages of commuting by bicycle though.

It would take a lot to make me switch to a job that I would not be able to reach in half an hour or so on a bike.
The best #1 engineer is someone who is willing and will want to help do some cold call as well. Offer not just more equity but better base pay. They deserve better base, real cash. Then we talking. If you offer me my current salary (not faang level), plus a very good equtity (2-5% stake?) then I will work 15 hours every day likr I do now anyway. I will pull in 18 if you want. As a workalochic, I am up for all night. I will do cold call and go out to reach new users as well. I will clean the office with you. You want your founding team to feel they own a stake.
My point was about whether or not the Stanford Students' wealth distribution is more skewed towards higher family income, as compared to other schools.

And additionally, whether or not these differences are driven by academic achievement (which is often higher in higher income families, for various reasons if not more money spent on good grades) or other reasons.
The BS Excuse Killer List
> Target notes that in the days before GNU Emacs, it could cost hundreds of dollars to install Emacs. “So vi became enormously popular.”

I haven't even considered there was an emacs before gnu emacs.

... Ctrl + F neo ...

Damn, no mention of neovim. I was hoping they'd have mentioned it. Feels like an oversight given the completeness of the rest of the pre-vi, vi, and vim history.
The Planet Now Has More Trees Than It Did 35 Years Ago
It's a hybrid though.
It can run completely on the gasoline engine.
Thanks that is extremely interesting info. I have noticed when talking to Americans and reading about American manufacturing, I get the sense that workers are not expected to be particularly skilled and that production is designed with that in mind.

I am from a Nordic country and we tend to follow the German style system of vocational training where you go in an apprenticeship and get a certificate. I have tried to understand the American model but it seems less formalized to me. It seems to be more company specific. You get trained to do a particular job at a particular company.
The Ego is the Enemy is not a good book IMHO. It is a blog post repeated to fit into a book. The Obstacle is the Way is Ryan Holiday's good work.

Try to read "A Guide to the Good Life" or Epictetus's Enchiredion. Good stuff.
I clarified that the Redis core (https://github.com/antirez/redis) remains BSD, and what I think about the license switch Redis Labs is operating on certain Redis Modules.

https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032180321834467330

and the considerations thread:

https://twitter.com/antirez/status/1032192721308594176
As someone who use intensively Tmux, I find easier to not touch the default configuration. Press twice vs use something that works perfectly.
Yeah, I'm as much a fan of whimsy as the next guy, but every language wanting one of these twee storybook intros is increasingly grating (Clojure has Clojure for the Brave and True etc).
if you are an employee, then for love of god, dont cheap out and buy another laptop for your personal work / side project. My roommate who used to use company laptop as a personal one, had to go through a lot of legal hurdles when he moved to a different company.
That's not how I read it. The gasoline engine can't turn the wheels, it can only charge the batteries.
Can you be more specific on where the goals differ?

"Get all windows stuff to run perfectly in Linux" sounds like a pretty simple goal to me.
Interesting, given that I've read that Americans were far better at mass production than the Germans. My impression is that Germans engineered their hardware better than Americans but they were not as good at mass producing it fast.

So if I understand correctly, the British was exceptionally slow at manufacturing compared to the Americans then.
I thought quadrocopters were so unstable that flying one without a PD controller, or better a full PID, would lead to a crash within seconds. A Helicopter, possibly only of the counterrotating coaxial variant, should not be affected by this instability, I think.
Include a base64 encoded image as a street name.
You are mistaken
At first I read human WGS and I was like uhhh...

But it’s good to see those machines go to good use! That last core lab I was in was still processing the same types of samples through Sanger (of course not WGS), so I’m glad that the research community is using the smaller NGS instruments for what I feel like they were meant for. Good on ya :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyWUTXuXjr0 pretty disturbing end of a P51.
How about offering them a paid-for API with your content?
Given that micro-movements can lead to RSI, shouldn't the goal be to make the hands move as much as possible instead?
I'm doing a compulsory end of studies internship in a big IT company in France, now I live in the other side of the paris area, and I refused many internships because they didn't allow remote work.

So I started with this company and asked for remote work for 3 days a week and they accepted, but when I started they sent my supervisor to work on a different project and the new one refused any form of remote work, and it was too late to change since it's a long process between the company and the school etc...

So now I do 2x2h of commute a day, and most of it is standing in a train or a subway filled with people, I tried every form of entertainment or podcasts or videos but nothing does it, I only have 1 month left though but it was the most soul crushing experience of my life.

The irony in all of this is I'm a developper and their VPN works flawlessly and I'm the only one working on the project so there are at most one meeting a week and it's done over Skype since most employees work remotely, but not interns.
I now believe that there are no actual benefits to commute (as in big city commute with subways etc...) and they're the ones losing manhours, since I could have put those 4h a day working on the project.
10 Swiss startups to watch in 2018 and beyond
I've commuted long distances (over an hour each way) by train and car for nearly two decades. When driving I try to get through my podcast backlog mainly on technical things, but also now more general stuff. Sometimes I miss the ability to bring the laptop out and do something fun, but then I remember when I did train in, I ended up working most of the time, and it became an extra two hours of work per day. Like all things, it's down to self-discipline I suppose.
I've always wondered why GPL dual licensing isn't more popular. In particular, I've always wondered why "GPL or ask me for permission" isn't being explored more. That still allows you to be extremely permissive but you get the make the call.

Eg if I were coding a database like Redis, maybe I'd be totally cool with people freely using it in their moonshot VC-funded trike sharing site, but not with cloud providers offering it as a paid service (or, at least not without paying me some royalties).
I think your comment highlights the biggest take-away from the article. Finding statistics to fit your narrative is a trope in journalism, XKCD has even pointed it out: https://xkcd.com/1845/

I think one way these articles could be more honest is if they did not compare the survivors to all modern top 40 hits, but rather to the most curated selection of culturally-relevant and generation-defining songs. I'm sure any avid listener to any genre/time period could find you 10 songs that will make you reconsider your perhaps preconceived negative opinion on that genre/time period, and 10 songs that will make you continue to generalize the genre/time period as low-quality music.

But this is non-trivial and prone to more bias, so we'll probably never see it happen. In the mean time we can continue to use this example of pop-statistics in journalism to remind ourselves to be wary of what we read.
A large portion of coding is moving the cursor left, right, up, down, page up, page down, home, end

The arrow keys are not even shown on the layout.

And the selection of prose corpus (es?) is again not related to programming [Tom Sawyer].

We need underscores, braces, semicolon, context menu.

Perhaps a better metric would be the hoc compiler source from The Unix Programming Environment.
I can reboot my Windows 10 desktop in a few second. The only reason I put my desktop to sleep is that I don't trust the hibernation to maintain my application state...
That's how all hybrids work. This allows to make combustion engine smaller and less powerful while still providing high-power bursts by buffering energy in a battery.
Whether TortoiseGit is a derivative work of Git is ultimately a legal question. Certainly just being a separate binary doesn't automatically make it not one. "You could replace the git client with one that has the same interface and it would still work." - that's true of any library used in any program.
I used to GM some pen and paper RPGs with a team of adorable and mischevious players. It taught me to be paranoid about every little flaw or loophole in rules. "Can my 'create water' spell work to flood this bad guy's heart?"

I think to prevent tax evasion, tax law should be written by people with 5+ years of GMing experience...
Valve really needs to roll out a 64bit client though. I always have problems just installing the client because of the 32bit architecture.