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Ask HN: Can we build an artificial brain?
I just finished https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06963 and was pleasantly surprised at state of neurotrophic computing. Specifically, the use of organic materials to build robust, low power networks that get past the von Neumann bottleneck and allow us to incorporate new levels of sensing into our environment and lives seems extraordinary. TPUs and chips are obviously interesting for orgs like google, but what about synthetic clusters of neurons integrated into our environment? How significant could that be?
I've done frontend for quite awhile. I usually start with some sort of framework for every project and use only the minimal pieces for the foundation.

Generally you need the same stuff for every site:

- reset/normalize the styling cross browser
- basic grid system
- typography, forms, and buttons
- "componentized" files with variables (sass, less, post css, etc)

Basically I start with a custom build of whatever framework, use that to build the MVP, then customize it according to the designer requirements. Lastly, I'll pull in components as I need them.

Why reinvent the wheel and start from scratch?
If you get the ideas of living in Manhattan out of your head, NYC is definitely more affordable than SF. So NYC does have the option of people just being able to move there.

The larger problem is how do the other cities compete at all in the future?

Smart cities are building out train based metro systems that connect their major universities and their airports to their downtown areas. (Houston for example). But that's REALLY expensive. It's not a coincidence that Houston, a city flooded with energy wealth, is one of the few cities pursuing such a strategy. They're one of the only cities that can afford it. What about everyone else? I think the other cities will need to get aggressive and creative about making themselves appeal to the bottom lines of tech companies.

If not, yeah, most will likely be left behind. Sad, but that's how the market works. Just ask Gary Indiana.
Not sure why I'm downvoted for this. I struggle to think of a "modern" imperative language that offers similar levels of safety and concurrency, aside from possibly Rust. Erlang is fantastic, but not imperative.

Go has channels, which is nice enough for message-passing behaviour, but nothing for elegantly sharing memory. ("Share memory by communicating" doesn't always work)

Things like conditional critical regions, monitors, and protected objects are much better abstractions for concurrency.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Place Google Home Hub between door and doorframe.
2. Let door close on to Home Hub.
3. It is now a door stop.
4. The article explains how to remove other fun functionality. However, your Google Home Hub will make a fine door stop even with the other functionality.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17457678
Surely names aren't a unique identifier? "John Smith" et al. Would they keep around other information and use that?
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I am convinced that we will discover many auto-immune diseases are the same disease manifesting in different ways due to environmental factors.

I have researched all the aspects you mention thoroughly already and I can't agree more with your closing paragraph. Spot on!
Because the former teaches your kids it's okay to hit people who don't share your values.

ELI5 for you: imagine your boss punched you in the face for less than 110% performance, and that society viewed him being right in doing so.
We have a lot of data stored in Postgres JSON fields at my work. Around three months ago, we were trying to optimize some queries by adding sub-key indexing to the JSON field. We tried multiple times, but Postgres seemed to keep using sequential scan on the records, rather than the JSON index. So, we just decided to normalize the data and use proper foreign key fields for query performance.
Elastic is almost the exact execution of this article. The majority of their revenue comes from paid add-ons and hosted services.
Former FX fund manager here. I believe the allegations.

What happens is that most derivatives like options or variance swaps are tied to the daily WM/Reuters fixing in the London afternoon. There's a bunch of different types of derivatives, but the thing about most of them is they have some sort of characteristic where the price dependency gets highly nonlinear towards an expiry.

So this means that someone who had a moderately sensitive position on one day might have an extremely sensitive position a few days later.

To the point where it might make sense to make sure the price doesn't hit a certain level at the fixing, by doing a bunch of trades in the spot market leading up to the fix. Or conversely by making sure it does hit some level by ramping up the price.

Now you might think it's all more or less a wash, because someone is gonna have the other side of that derivative, but that's not the case. The banks tend to have the same sides of the trades against their customers, because the customers are mostly all after certain payoff schemes.

Apart from there being a motivation, I also believe the allegations because I've been told the actual positions on certain days. You'd have these days where nothing was happening at all, and then just before the fix the price would ramp, or the price would be moving but the graph would have a weird flat ceiling. So you'd call the brokers and ask him WTF happened, and they'd say something like "XYZ bank has a huge barrier there", or "Bank X has wants to knock out this level".

It's very apparent to anyone who looks at any product that has a fixing, I've traded several (Swaps, FX, Equity Derivs). You start by thinking it's just noise and there's always someone in the office who will say that, but after a while you get suspicious of it happening at the same time, plus you have the broker rumours lining up. It would be great if the free market were restored.
That's partly true and partly not.

In particular, if one anticipates returning to a pricey location later in life (e.g. needing to take care of elderly relatives there), one has to save for retirement at a higher level than if one can stay in the cheaper place forever.

Cost of living comparisons used to justify salary reductions rarely account for such scenarios.

With that said, the numbers can still work out to make it a good financial deal, it's just less automatically true.
I use GitLab CI runner and VirtualBox for ArchMac. Upon CI job submission, on the first run a linked clone of a base VM is started and a snapshot is made, then the job executes inside of it. On subsequent runs the runner starts from the VM snapshot. Concurrency is supported by doing multiple clones.

A blog post is pending bu here's the doc:

[0]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/osx.html

[1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/virtualbox.html
Basicode was quite a thing in the Netherlands when I was young; it is a BASIC dialect which is cross platform, which was quite a thing in those days. You had a 'library' of common subroutines which were above line 1000 (10000?) which you gosub'ed to. Also it defined the sounds to use for storing & transmitting so it was cross platform.

Basicode programs came on cassette, floppy disk, records (not vinyl, but flexible plastic you put on your record player and play once or twice only to get the program off and then store it on cassette or floppy), magazines (you had to type it in yourself) and radio. There were multiple weekly programs that sent over Basicode.

I used to get them and put them on my BBS if I didn't get them elsewhere yet.
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Ah, so you're comparing them on basis of formation of will.

That's not the point that was made, however. The post you replied to connected the military to democracies as protectors of their physical integrity.
Hi All,
I want to start something similar and I have a list of around 175+ Good Remote developers from around the globe who are looking for Gigs. I am currently looking for a US Based partner who can oversee getting client proposals.
My email is in my bio.
That's interesting. What are query times like? Let's say for single series to query data for a week at a five-minute interval, how many seconds it would take?
Depends on your security requirements:
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/10793#issueco...
I don't know man?

You'd be surprised how attached people are to their spouses or partners. Doesn't matter how badly you want to work at Google, if your spouse is an IP attorney or VP at an academic hospital, as a family you just can't go moving to the middle of nowhere. It's not ALL about being able to work at Google. There's a lot more going on in making these decisions. (At least there is for the type of people that Google would be interested in.)

Much better to be in that NYC-Boston-DC corridor where high powered opportunities abound in multiple sectors. Or SF. Or Chicago. Etc. But trying to move a lot of these types of couples to, say, Lincoln Nebraska, is just asking for trouble. The spouses or partners are definitely not going to go for that.
» There are hundreds to thousands of such lawsuits every year. And within a month of California rolling back forced arbitration, more popped up. Including 2 high profile class action lawsuits.

Why can't we require all employers to disclose, if not to the public then at least to all employees, contractors, and associates, everyone's compensation information? Why do we allow this information to be private?

I've talked to a few people who are "woke" but when I bring up transparency, almost everyone balks. Almost everyone thinks they are above average when it comes to salary negotiation but I don't know why they prefer to drive blindfolded.

They say things like privacy but salary is public information for public sector employees.

Thoughts?
Google doesn’t want AWS to take over NYC
No, I'd argue it isn't. Even if you connect an external keyboard an display to the iPad, you are just getting the ipad experience on a larger screen. There is never any transformation of interface when used this way. Apple has never allowed mouse/trackpad on iOS(with some very very narrow exceptions) so it's not transformative - you are still getting the same experience essentialy.

For it to work on the iPhone, they would have to add support for some kind of mouse/trackpad, because the iphone itself is sitting in the dock - and I don't see apple doing that in a million years.
What hypervisor did you use?
Hmm, I don't know...These sound like good advices to do your job well and might even lead to happiness (which is good of course). But if your goal is to have a successful career maybe this would be more useful: Word hard on the right things, pay attention to what the others are doing and praise your own work uncritically :)
Does this allow us to monetize GraphQL, similar to Apigee[1] where you could charge customers for API usage?

[1] https://apigee.com/api-management/#/product/monetize-apis
Can anybody figure out the year?
Yep, my first computer didn't have any storage, so I typed over games from magazines, played them and left the computer on. When it switched off, the game was gone and I typed in another game. It definitely gave me a lot more quality playing time as this was the only thing the magic machine gave me. When bored with the game I would start changing things in the code; first randomly and getting many errors, but after a while it started to make sense.
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No. Being female only changes the nature of likely threats, slightly.

Assume the example person is walking. Fear of crowds is the norm for people with a rural/suburban mindset. Evidently, people with an urban mindset actually feel safer in crowds, which is difficult for me to wrap my head around.

The deserted road is safe, aside from wild animals.

In a crowd, the more extreme rural/suburban people would be keeping their hand near a concealed weapon. I suppose this feeling might be alien to a person accustomed to city life.

The above plays a role in the fact that rural/suburban people without jobs are often hesitant to move to cities. The stress would take a toll on such people.
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Yes, this was covered under our evaluation, I appreciate it's not your fault.

For what it's worth Zulip was at the top of our list when we evaluated hipchat replacements.
Happy to look at it again if you ever will have direct notifications.
Brouwer–Hilbert controversy
In the consumer space it touches a number of fronts. When you have a game people want to mod, you end up with a dev/community line of interaction where someone ends up with the most popular mod/tool/forum/etc. and suddenly gains the power to wield mobs of players who will be upset if "their" mod breaks. It can quickly become a politicized scenario - who really "owns" the game? Does the modmaker get money? If the modmakers were making money, can the dev claim benefit? And so on. Even if the terms and agreements say one thing, the court of public opinion will say something else. Association with random third parties is risky and can damage a brand.

Basically, the more you make ongoing support and "community leadership" part of your business model, the more room there is for the community to interfere with business goals and push for self-governance. This leads most game devs down the path of controlling everything and dictating terms: their game, their codebase, their servers, their account system, their official tournaments, etc. They often do things that make for a worse experience overall in the process, but it lets them set their own targets.

With smaller developers there's more of an issue of not having the resources to support a community properly, and often stepping into success with no preparation for adopting any kind of collaborative governance. In those cases the community just generally overwhelms the dev and does whatever they want, fragmenting the game and creating various secondary power struggles in the process.

It's all fairly vicious stuff. When you have something popular, everyone will look for an angle of personal profit, and while in other media the rules around derivative work are mostly known and straightforward, there are many original ways to create derivatives of games that have had little legal testing. Open sourcing is just a way of leaning toward a derivatives-encouraged stance, but it only describes part of the whole work(assets and any "live data" also count).
10 European startups that are making our cities smarter
There are lots of them:

https://github.com/troxler/awesome-css-frameworks
How do we classify the progression that is tachyons/tailwind? Each time I see a new CSS framework I also think, is this yet another framework for devs that can’t desigh or is someone working to move the needle beyond what tachyons/tailwind have set a new place of maintainable CSS.
Yeah. One thing I don't do when looking at new languages is downloading PDF files. Actually, having documentation as PDF is a big alarm bell. I think about myself browsing PDF files if I ever end up using the language and flee in terror. Why ever invest time in formatting documentation to generate PDF?

Mercury also has HTML documentation, which is the way to go. However it's missing code samples in the home page and it's not like everybody knows about Mercury. Compare to https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/ which instead is pretty well known and still has code to show at the very beginning of the home page.
Something I've often dreamed about is an fpga board in pcie card form with a sane toolset along side it so I can treat it as software instead of getting advanced degrees in desktop cable management and I/O pin mapping. Does something like that exist?
That's definitely a problem because the same yet to understand pattern may happen later with lmdb if there are the conditions (given that they are not understood) and create a random performance issue.
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Lightweight => 10 KB

I'm actually more looking for a grid system using flex in a few bytes
More expensive than any of the competition I am aware off including OP.
While I can buy that a cul-de-sac is not always beneficial, to me it's not hard to buy that it can lower burglary. Also if high foot traffic leads to safer cities depends a lot on how likely these people are to help out in any way. In some cities I'd fear onlookers are more likely to contribute to a robbery than help me out.

First, where the cul-de-sacs are in my town, there is virtually no violent crime. (Violence directed towards persons.)

However, there is a decent amount of burglary and break-ins. Now, if you are going to do that for profit, you'll typically need some form of transportation to get away swiftly before the police gets on your track. Either a moped or a car, depending on the bulk of the loot you are planning on acquiring.

Before a burglary, you'll want to do recon. I can tell you, from the point of view of someone who was looking for property to buy, driving or walking down these cul-de-sacs will get you noted. People know each other there, if not by name, then by looks and what their car looks like. As an outsider, having your license plate number written down or a being snapped with a cell phone camera is par for the course.

Also, some of the suburban cul-de-sacs would have almost no foot traffic not intended for that street anyway, when the street in question is on a leaf or twig.
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Consistently recording logs is the importannt factor. You don't need fancy tools, a simple text-editor is all you need to have.

In Emacs one has org-mode, in Vim, vimwiki, even for plain Notepad, one can easily create a time log by pressing the F5 key. It will fill in the time and date automatically. Create a text file like day_log.txt, open it at the start of your day and press F5 key to fill the date and time. Just add couple of words on what you want to note. Done.
Thanks for sharing. The documentation is holy.
Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage
Hi HN, I built this thing! The idea came a few years back when me and an angel investor in the company I had founded were involved in a BI project, defining and collecting some basic KPIs for the business. At one point
when we were thinking about where to store the very limited set of time series data that was our complete set of KPI
metrics, the investor said “why isn’t there some service where you can just send a few numeric data points
for storage, and get them back, without a lot of hassle?”. I really liked it as I saw it as a very simple idea, easy to
implement but which still felt like it may be new/unique.

The new thing here, of course, is not the ability to store time series data. The new/unique thing is the low barrier to entry. The API is extremely small and simple to use and learn, and there is no registration required to start using the service. I tried to make onboarding as frictionless as possible, and I think it’s hard to make it simpler than it is now.

All feedback is greatly appreciated!

Some perhaps useful links:

Site: https://pushdata.io

API docs: https://speca.io/ragnarlonn/pushdata-io

Blog article about making pushdata.io: https://bit.ly/2RGuIxc
> Sometimes new paradigms rear up - eg, Clojure with its set-and-forget approach to values.

why is that "new" paradigm associated with clojure?
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In which way is it solved?

It takes insanely hard work to pull off a consistent cross-component design in CSS.
Great news, Mario.
> and has a dampening effect on rent increase

Is that really true? I don't know if this data is accurate but googling "average rent new york city" vs "average rent san francisco" brings up these 2 results as the first hits. They look almost identical. The site claims average rent for NYC is $3634 vs SF at $3735. It also claims prices increased in NYC by 9.46% over last year vs SF at 0.62%

https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-san-francisco-ren...

https://www.rentjungle.com/average-rent-in-new-york-rent-tre...
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Those were such exciting times!

I recently tried to explain some of this period to my kids and did poorly.

It does make me wonder if every period has these exciting times and are also hard to relate to future people. We get a very low fidelity recounting of history compared to real life.
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There are 12 phones in the picture, not 11 as claimed in the title.
This has been discussed on HN before. I thought their pensions were not being overfunded, just funded to the degree a private company ought to. How much are they being overfunded by?
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Right, but I figure this could be scaled up with larger dies. Sure, Apple is not yet on eye level with Nvidia & AMD, but given their massive R&D budgets I don’t think that’s for long. Also, AR & VR drives demand for GPU FLOPS/Watt in a tight envelope, which has proven to scale quite well to larger chips in CPUs (see mobile ARM -> Cavium & co.).
I'm not sure I'm convinced. To give an example a recruiter once tried to get me to move to some place in India (2002). He told me I'd be making $30k a year which was 10x what locals made so I'd be living like a king. Even if that was true that I could live like a king for that salary in India all I could think about is how I'd be stuck there because I'd have no money to leave to a more expensive place in the future.
Because 2 FPGA cores don't give you the same bang for your computational buck as 2/4 general purpose cores. You're better off hanging an FPGA off a fast internal bus with an expansion card, rather than try and cram an FPGA on a CPU die.

Think of them like graphics cards, but even more niche. Trying to stick them directly into the CPU isn't going to provide the power of a dedicated add on.
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Show HN: Cryptoo - set up your own Bitcoin payment system with 4 APIs
Origin of Markov Chains
For those wondering what this is like I was: Chicken is a compiler for a version of the Scheme language, which is a dialect of LISP. It compiles to portable C.
Yes, self-help article alert. But, what is interesting is to point that it’s true that soft skills are usually underrated. Of course, being a specialist makes you one of a kind, but I don’t think everyone can be that person (meaning, you will become very unhappy just struggling, because normal people has different passions not only one). Actually, this person is the 1%, and trying to be them can be frustrating, so we can be mid-rad. Also, in technology, yes, you want an specialist that solves the problem in 5 seconds, but multiple skills make interconnections and new ideas or relations to other important, not that technical, questions. Meaning, is the 1% because those problems are, maybe a 20% for the company, the other 80% is focused on multiple problems related with reality. For example, Agile, how things are tested, communication, visibility, goals...
Anyway, I found the reflection useful. Here, speaking:

-	Advertising graduate, ex copy writer, ex music producer, ex bartender, ex journalist writer, QA analyst, now self-taught programmer, now kind of in testing automation and managing infrastructure and devops.

Future is bright
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