skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Saw the same thing in Japan during my two years there. In Japan this is known as "mizu shobai", literally the "water trade". Business deals in Japan are largely made over drinks and snacks after work. The bars are literally packed to the gills with "salarymen" until well into the night, only to repeat the next day. It's brutal.
Earlier discussion still on front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18550760
Max 10 items per transaction, that's quite a restriction! I guess you have to plan all the transactions you would perform and make sure they meet the bounds.
One thing I didn't see mentioned in the article is that loud restaurants can provide diners with a sense of privacy. In a sea of noise your conversation will easily be drowned out before reaching others. Additionally, more ambient noise means less chances of being irritated by other diners.
Voodoo magic hidden from view would finalize the collapse. Like the great Oz behind the curtain.
Show HN: A Webpack Development Server in a Plugin
Nice work i really like it
In my experience, unless you meet all of the requirements in the req, and substantially exceed a few of them, you will probably be passed over for a candidate with "more experience in technology X".

Not that I apply for jobs to get jobs, not to get interviews. Getting called in to interview means next to nothing.
Amazon.com's Graviton CPU: A New War, a Lost Battle
IN: INT*
OUT: anything not NT.

I used to really like the MBTI-type stuff, but honestly think it's kinda nonsense now. You need a diverse team to be the best imho.
Show HN: I launched a side project for my studio to solve common design issues
I've run a couple of studios and with my latest one (AVA) I wanted to do things a little differently, so we launched Service-O-Rama today to offer transparently priced packages to product owners and founders. Hopefully it helps take some of the mystery out of world class product service... or if not, someone has fun with the website. I designed and built it in around 9 days from idea to live. I used Webflow as I totally suck with code, if we get some traction, we'll rebuild it in something fancier if needs be. Any feedback welcome, first time launching a product.
Tokenization of Everything
Transcript:

http://www.zachpfeffer.com/single-post/2018/11/27/Transcript...
Does your wife have an alternative language to switch to? Maybe trump their English with a couple of sentences of German, or Spanish?
Why twice as many Blockchain teams are distributed
I was there several times and it was just not interesting, like at all. Even from a business perspective there was nothing to do. When they changed some things to make it more attractive in 2018 they simply made it even worse.

Not surprised that they are shutting it down.
Or maybe you should just take breaks at natural stopping points and stop trying to turn coding into clock-punching assembly-line work.

I've tried pomodoros many times. 25 minutes is not enough time to get anything useful done, and taking a 5-minute break every 25 minutes is a great way to blow out your mental stack. That's why people frequently ignore them and keep working.

This is an app designed to "solve" a problem of its own making.
And accompanying blog post https://medium.com/@shellscape/plugin-to-a-fresh-webpack-dev...
> Myth #1 Blockchain changes data ownership, giving power back to the consumer. Anyone who becomes privy to some data has some ownership of it. Blockchain doesn't change that. If you want to share something with only a few select people you need inherent trust or an NDA.

I disagree with this. It's clear in cases such as Facebook that data privacy is abused. Not only that, but users don't have much of an idea of exactly how their data is being used. In a P2P system powered by blockchain, I can set permissions for certain data my on-chain information to be accessible between different parties, whether that's a doctor or a friend on a social media platform. They can receive a hash an decode it locally to view whatever information I am granting them permission to view.

> Myth #2 Blockchain can revolutionize supply chain. Its a datastore with some cryptographic identity checks and tamper proof guarantees. It can't prove that a package made it from A to B or that it stayed at some ambient temperature IRL. It only records that someone attested to that, not whether its true. An ordinary database will do for an audit trail.

Again, I disagree. Custom devices are being designed to record information in a tamper-proof way and submit to chain.

> Myth #3 It cuts out the Middleman. You dont need blockchain to cut the middleman out of indusrty X. Any service trying to do this wants to be the new middleman with lower service fees cos' blockchain!

I disagree with this as well, in certain context. Yes, many of the newer projects are trying to run blockchains they're developing as businesses. In that sense I would agree. Where I disagree is where blockchains aren't services, but protocols. A marketplace protocol can cut out Ebay, a stack of supply chain protocols can cut out SAP, loaning protocols can cut out current loan services, etc.

For somebody calling themselves a 'blockchain engineer', it sounds like you don't have a great grasp on what the technology enables. Is this all doable today? No, but some of it is. We're still in the early stages where infrastructure and tools are being built out.
BUT, an average developer is better than a developer who just puts in their 8 hours a day and never learns new skills. The people who you make a point to address an issue with and then a few weeks later you see they created the same issue again.

I think the key is to actually care about your work. You got even a little bit of that and you're fine.
I think there is an assumption that if a candidate doesn't have experience in 'Y' but they have ten years of 'X' (which is similar to, or a precursor of Y) then the candidate is somehow biased against Y or unwilling to work with it.

Two decades of OpenGL experience?, sorry we are looking for someone with Vulkan experience. Two years of OpenGL experience? when can you come in?
Intel's Chipmaking Throne Is Challenged by a Taiwanese Upstart
Bigquery has a cool function like this where it will tell you the cost of the query before you run it.
How do they solve the $5 wrench problem?
Don't think publicizing information against the US presidential candidates makes somebody "a tool of the Kremlin's propaganda wing". Or have you drank too much laughable American propaganda yourself?
“the point the parent and the article is making is that apple's business model is changing toward services and rent-seeking through its platforms like the app store.”

If you take out the mention of services, this statement becomes false.
> You simply couldn't do it without a middleman before Bitcoin.

How many people transfer Bitcoin without middlemen like Coinbase.
I love doing this too. Also with samples.
I think McDonalds are designed for that purpose in a way less obtrusive way - ironically enough by the decorating being loud making people not want to linger. The chairs and seats are tight and limited in manuverabilify for one in addition to the "openness". How well does it work? Well do you want to go hang out at a McDonald's?

Ironically they later tried McCafe iniative to make lingering spaces to try to compete with Starbucks after seeing how many go there for coffee - often taking the form of a nook which fails pretty badly at the task because of the previous decorating. Illustrating quite a few other negative things about the leadership.
It also supports firmware updates for Bluetooth headsets.
That's a lot of work to avoid buying an electric blanket with a timer. I mean, it's cool and all, but I would hope the lessons learned were worth the effort.
Do you need to do softmax? Why not just look at the underlying amplitudes of the output before applying softmax? Or is it that they won't be normalized?
Google Has a Plan to Eliminate Mosquitoes
Just like a lot of Americans don't trust American products
The internet is slowly killing all trade shows ( cars even ).
I see, thanks for your time!
On the nature of causation and correlation: elections and cancer
That would be completely unusable in large IX router meshes with hundreds or thousands of peers, constantly coming and going, all with their own lists of prefixes constantly changing.
Okay, thank you!
Funny how almost everyone seems to be discussing the diagram and not actually reading the NIST paper first hand.

And then nitpicking over the very definition of what block chain is. But then saying 'bitcoin' 'ethereum' 'git' and 'merkle tree' over and over and over.

Given the title of the thread, and the availability of the actual text, I suggest everyone take a quick read first, then come on back. It is only 50 pages.

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
The refugees just want to go back home and be with their loved ones.

The demand for a unfalsifiable and incorruptible digital record comes from the NGOs and government organisations who want to make sure their funds are being used to feed the needy not the insurgents that often get into the camps.

I have only a partial view of what life is like in one such camp. What I'm told and have seen to some extent is that people who are in such a fragile position trust no one and will act on their basic survival instincts, which sometimes makes the life of those trying to help them very hard.

What I'm trying to say is that if we sent dollars into the camp, you have no idea what people would do for them...
I would like to inform you that it does in fact work really rather well. I write this on a laptop running Debian Linux which I use for work. It's great.

I also use a machine running Debian Linux for my personal computing needs, but prefer to separate those concerns a bit. I can confirm the community's support is excellent though.
This is an example of a reply to a comment.
We actually tried to be fairly explicit in what you will be doing for our team:

https://www.themuse.com/jobs/capitalone/machine-learning-sof...

We even set the requirements to match what we felt could do the job. The roll has actually been fairly difficult to fill though. Recruiting decks I have seen actually suggest creating more requirements and being vague in an attempt to lure more applicants. After this experience, they are probably correct. Lure them in then explain more after they meet the team (i.e. get them excited)
Here’s How Big Data Can Improve Safety in the Workplace
I know that this doesn't make use of Sublime, but you could give Cloud9 a shot. I've used it for pair programming and it's actually pretty nice on that front, especially if you're just helping beginners understand things because you end up sharing the entire environment, not just your IDE.

https://docs.c9.io/docs/share-a-workspace

Sorry I can't help on the Sublime side - I've tried Floobits with moderate success, but understand your need for something that's more "plug and play".
I was there prob around 2009 - 2010.

A lot of halls, but the only thing that I found interesting was a hall dedicated to gaming. With gaming machines, and some tournament-style thing going on.

Occasionally walking around there there was some cool tech, but it's not something I ever went since that day. Not worth the travel.

[I went as student at the time. But I can't imagine I'd find it more interesting now]
This happened in Indonesia. SE Asian domestic airlines have abysmal safety records, and most of them are on blacklists that prevents them from flying anywhere else for that reason.
I grew up thinking libraries were not fun. I am an adult. I support them.
Wow, really the end of an era. Sometimes shows fail due to the end of a technology (steam engines?) and some due to its success (e.g. NCC, West Coast Computer Faire, and now CeBIT).

I only attended once. It was by far the largest show I'd attended, bigger even than (by far) shows like CES or the Frankfurt Auto Messe. It was so big that the daily fliers of stuff vendors needed to know were distributed by postmen/postwomen. Yes every booth had its own postal address!
Another of the most popular (and enduring) terminal emulators, xterm, can be built to support sixel.
"They're more what you'd call 'guidelines.'"
finally named capture groups
Given that much of the Free / Open Source software is for the public good, critical FOSS could be funded via taxes, I don't see why not.

Of course you can be anti-taxes and prefer a minimal government, you can be an anarchist like the folks in this community tend to be, but we do pay taxes, for roads, for public schools, for public healthcare and as long as we are paying taxes, I don't see why some FOSS couldn't be funded by the state.
It's interesting how women seem to get interviews when matching fewer of the job requirements than men. Might be worth looking into whether this is due to gender discrimination in recruiting, or if women just apply to jobs that are a better fit, regardless of job requirements.
On [1], I found that tptacek's commentary [4] was much helpful to shape my own opinion about it. At the very least I believe the Quillette article is inadequate as an example of, say, biology under the leftist attack.

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17949340
It depends: you need to rely on an IoC to notice a piece of malware. This is typically a signature, a direct communication with a known C2 or a malicious URLs, a hash, ... Beyond the most simple techniques, I'd mention traffic monitoring and analysis (especially traffic flow analysis) and behavioural analysis.

However detecting a dormant botnet isn't easy nor simple.
e.g.: DARPA (via HACCS) awarded a $1.2m contract to build a system that can automatically pinpoint botnet-infected devices.
https://www.fbo.gov/?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=72de4936f6f4...
Biggest Software Mistakes in History
I don’t know about everone. The Carnegie Library here in DC is now an Apple store. Our local library is turning more into a community center, while many others are a place for the homeless to hang out.
I was there as kid with my dads electronics firm. It was the coolest thing ever.
Sometimes it isn’t even an HR person. A computer will scan your resume and if you don’t match enough keywords a person won’t even read it.
Read this blog post about the biggest catastrophes in history. In some of them people died, some of them had cost millions of $.
Teaching Machines Common Sense Reasoning
interesting to see an answer too...usually bays is better with small data sets right?
That's really cool. Source?
Blokchains meet telcos – will disintermediation ensue?
The comfort in this article is knowing for every boutique german headphone company that insists on becoming a CA, there are thousands of nameless chinese companies producing superior products at lower prices that do to some measure respect the users privacy in that they arent more than just a USB peripheral.

Sades and Xiberia for example make perfectly useful (if not a little bit cyberpunk) headsets that just operate as USB soundcards with no special CA requirement.

And if you're just in the mood to listen to some music without special software in this foul year of our lord 2018, Might i suggest a pair of Superlux 668B's? for ~$40 theyre easily better than anything Sennheiser produces that requires its own PKI.
This is a common misconception I see in my patients all the time. Tests aren’t perfect and human bodies aren’t perfect. Even if a test has 99% specificity for a condition, if less than 1% of people getting the test has the condition at the time of the test, there will be more false positives than true positives. False positives require further investigations which have higher risks (incl death) just like true positives. Likewise, tests may show something that is indeed there, a mass for example, but that would never cause a clinically significant impact (the patient would otherwise never know they had it and it wouldn’t hurt their health). But that may still then lead to further investigations, which may be more invasive (read risk of death and morbidity) or at least anxiety in patients about what is going on with them.

This is a long way of saying, it would be bad to test everyone with an MRI machine, let alone repeatedly. (It would be great if MRI costs were cheaper however).
This works if you get nicely balanced probabilities out of neural network.

Softmax which is popular way to transform network outputs to probabilities pushes probabilities either to zero or one.

There may be other ways to transform outputs to probabilities where your approach could work but I'm not aware of them.

Also to reply to OP's comments, to have a class like 'I don't know' you need to have a dataset of things that don't look like your training dataset. And you'll always miss examples of things that don't belong to your input class. Bayesian solves it in a nice way by not requiring this infinite not-input training data.
> In practice the "corporation" "dictating" the set of publicly trusted CA roots is the Mozilla Foundation, a 501(c)(3) non-profit with a large volunteer effort.

Why the scare quotes on “corporation”? Mozilla Foundation is a corporation. Here are he articles of incorporation: https://www-archive.mozilla.org/foundation/documents/mf-arti...
For us oldschoolers, Cebit 1990 demoscene afterparty democompetetion winner, Red Sector Inc. with the demo named “Cebit 90” [1]. Waz not there, but those were the days...

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hHHdldXaWdo
>pg. 21: Emotive forces shape the gestalt of the brand identity.

Which is trivially true.

Forces of emotion (how consumers feel about the brand) is what shapes brand identity.

Gestalt here means something greater than the sum of its parts, which brand identity is -- what we perceive as a "brand" is not a single thing but tons of them (the logo, the product line, their retail shops, the ads, our past experiences with their products, the cultural significance of the brand, and so on).
Fair point. It happened after the tests, but I've no way of knowing if it was because. Just seems suspect.
If you pre-render the glyphs to a texture, you can draw them to the display as fast as your GPU can go. Changes in font size or face mean you'd have to pre-render them all over again, but that's still not terrible.
Where is this mystical coffee shop? I live in Chicago and would appreciate the tip. :-)
Another proposal specifies certain legacy RegExp features, such as the RegExp.prototype.compile method and the static properties from RegExp.$1 to RegExp.$9. Although these features are deprecated, unfortunately they cannot be removed from the web platform without introducing compatibility issues. Thus, standardizing their behavior and getting engines to align their implementations is the best way forward. This proposal is important for web compatibility.

Interesting view. Is this better than a "let it break" approach?

Link rot already claims N% of websites per year. I wonder if cleaning up APIs like this one would increase N noticeably.
Coincidentally xterm is the fastest I know, in particular if you use bitmap fonts. Gnome-Terminal for instance feels rather sluggish.
hotels and airbnbs in hanover are going to be sad
How do you know that it's 80% though, if there's no final state?
Im rational and i care.
Automating Excel File Generation Using Node.js and ExcelJS
for a little bit more "toyish" Figure is simple, intuitive and fun to push to the limits:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/figure-make-music-beats/id51...
Indeed.

I think there's an apt and pithy description for the original article.

It's rather sad, because it turns out that real blacksmith stories (if you ignore the mythological ones) are far more interesting and inspiring than this superficial nonsense.

http://theconsummatedabbler.com/2016/06/25-of-the-worlds-mos...
The fact that it's almost never done doesn't discredit that it will always be possible.

Coinbase is also able to operate their business without asking for permission thus censorship-resistant in contrast to the experience of trying to start a bank from scratch
Exactly. There's no way I could work on enough side projects to cover all the algorithms and data structures and concepts that interviewers expect me to have at my ready.
> That's a lot of work to avoid buying an electric blanket with a timer. I mean, it's cool and all, but I would hope the lessons learned were worth the effort.

Totally agree with you.
I guess it is rewarding to make this kind of work with success, moreover if, at the end, it costs less than the original one.
I hope the skils u've learnt will be reused in another project, maybe more "elaborated".
Its super simple to do this In Spring Boot using AOP
Its not that easy question to answer anymore. The same can be said for working at or for Google or Facebook etc

For the amount of good Google has done for human beings and Internet, there is equal amount of morally questionable ways they make money. 'Honest work' is such a fluid concept now that the grey area seems okay.
Why should developers care if customers don't?

Do we know about a one B2C company who lost the business due the security breaches in their products?
A lot of job descriptions are written overly precise to specifically include or exclude internal candidates.
Aside, but I'd love for someone to come up with an alternative syntax for regexes that sacrifices speed-of-typing for ease-of-reading. Regexes are obviously still fantastically useful for things like command-line scripting and jumping around in text editors, but the fact that people still reach for regexes within programs that are meant to receive long-term maintenance tells me that we're missing a tool in our toolbox.
As to #3 cutting out the middle man...how about in the case of corporate stock ledgers and how the market currently works with brokers, stock trusts and stock custodians?

For example in the Dole case which showed even a publicly traded company when scruntized has issued nearly 30% more shares than there was outstanding. If instead of the current system with brokers, stock trusts, stock custodians a corporation used Blockchain for issuance of stock, such an error could never happen right?

Just in case you aren’t familiar with the Dole case it’s pretty famous, even the Delaware Court of Chancery Judge said Blockchain would have prevented this issue, which is likely wide spread in all publicly traded companies.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/busi...
It's funny to see that in almost all langues the regular expression engines are not actually regular. This results in developers regularly (pun maybe intended) shooting themselves in the foot with overly clever expressions.

(Notable exception: Rust https://docs.rs/regex/)
Have a look at this list, number 15 will surprise you :-)

https://github.com/jpantunes/awesome-cryptoeconomics#attacks

There is nothing a blockchain can do to prevent a stray bullet from harming you or a wrench breaking your knees. What cryptocurrencies can do is create a layer of abstraction between account owners and accounts /wallets, so individuals have plausible deniability and the chance to make a run for it. It's slightly better than a pin or password protected card that you must carry with you.
> BPM is the best indicator. Most house is slower, most techno is faster.

I'd also add that techno can be traditionally "darker" and "heavier" whereas house is usually a little more "sensual" and "groovy". As always, counterpoints can be found, but these are general orientations :)
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