skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Which is incidentally approximately free if you have access to capital, since your returns from airbnbing the right property, net of management costs, will exceed the mortgage. There's risk, obviously, that the rental market could change or real estate value could drop, but it's a pretty good deal. Each EUR 350-500k includes spouse and dependents, so it's up to 6 people. Very popular with people from China right now.)
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Descent was great, but it was also much harder to play, and to build levels for, which kind of limited its appeal, IMO. DOOM hit a sweet spot of fast-paced gameplay, really cool ambience (for preteens and teens especially), and lower technical requirements (though I remember Descent's engine being quite well optimized).
$5 is tough to hit. My 'cheap' goto is anything from Rosemount. It's in the $10 range, and is consistently good. The shiraz was their original known variety, but they have others now.

It also used to be cheaper at just under $10, but popularity pushed the price up.
When we say a source is "baseload", we're not saying something good about it. What that means is that source's business case depends on being able to sell its output most of the time. It's a word describing economic inflexibility.

There is no reason why a grid needs any baseload sources whatsoever.
PoS requires that you get the consensus rules AND a hash of the most recent valid block from a trusted source. With PoW, you only get the consensus rules. Either way, you're relying on a trusted third party for bootstrapping.

The risk that the party you trust is defrauding you is infinitesimal in both cases, given you can poll the community widely until you settle a highly credible source of truth, or several credible sources that all agree on the same version of events.

>>That’s exactly the issue PoW solves - gives you such objective measure to compare chains.

That's true, with PoW you can measure the work in each chain. With PoS, you do you have a somewhat similar option: you can measure the market value of the coins of each chain.
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"Washington" and "Post" are also generic terms.
The recent piece by HCN on our nuclear past stands in sharp contrast. [1] Anyone reading that, environmentalists or not, will have reason for extreme concern and skepticism about a single generations ability to manage consequences that can last thousands of years.

[1] https://www.hcn.org/issues/50.21/nuclear-energy-theres-no-ea...
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Either your view of patriarchy is misconstrued, or you've heard about it from a source unfamiliar to me or indeed social science researchers who take the concept very seriously. Before talking about it being an idea which cannot be challenged, I'd also draw your attention to the very challenging debates in social science and philosophy which do question it. Their inaccessibility to laypeople (including me) is something to be improved on, perhaps, but I don't think we can say it's such a concept as you are describing it to me, short of a mass academic conspiracy.

The understanding of this current rationality as purely an antidote to pernicious ideas and mysticism is a relatively new one; in fact, in the 60s and 70s a big argument in critical theory was that by deplacing religion as a bearer of objective rationality, science took up a semi-religious role itself, and questions of morality or things that natural science (as opposed to the science of philosophy) could not answer were brushed aside as too mystical to be worthy of consideration, and consigned to the same dustbin us 'rational' people dumped religion in. This is also shown in the anti-positivism controversy, that is to say to what extent we can apply the methods of natural science to the social sciences. Your characterisation of patriarchy (which seems to stem from positivist ideology) seems incomplete in the face of the debate. Are there any scientists who agree with your characterisation?

I hadn't even heard of Joscha Bach before viewing the link, so I can't comment on his case in particular.
This site, with the name "Hacker News", was already popular and predates the other site by several years.

If I launched a new site called "TheFacebook.com" tomorrow, what proof would you need that I was, at a minimum, knowingly causing confusion?
I'm not talking in generalities. I'm talking about the standard inner product space on R^n that most people use (either implicitly or explicitly) every day.

You are right that the normal distribution is not continuous because of the CLT. That was a typo. I meant "most important continuous" distribution.

Yes, other exponential distributions are convenient to work with, but the Gaussian maximum-likelihood estimate has a closed-form expression defined with just linear algebra. That's really damn nice in my opinion.

The point is that distance (in most real-world applications) is equivalent to the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle in Euclidean space. So in my opinion, yes, high-school trigonometry governs a lot of advanced mathematics, including in statistics and machine learning.

Call it numerology if you want, I'm just trying to get people excited about math here.
Just so you know, on mobile version of your site, on ios, pricing page description overfloats left and you cant see description for the numbers - I guess it's cpu, ram and storage but what is infinite, traffic?
In my mid 40s, my first alternative would be working for a consulting company. Secondarily going out on my own.
Perl 6 (Raku) takes it a little further with what's known as the Q lang[1].
In their most literal form possible, strings are created by using a Q followed
by any pair delimiting surrounding the text.

Q[This is a literal string.] #=> This is a literal string.
Q!The most literal-est of all.! #=> The most literal-est of all.
Q<So I say 'Hello'> #=> So I say 'Hello'

From there, adverbs are used to sort of expand a literal string's behavior.
For example, `Q:q` (or its more verbose form, `Q:single`) means the string can
interpolate \\, \qq[...] and escaping the delimiter with \.

Q:q[A simple string] #=> A simple string
Q:q{Backslash: \} #=> Backslash: \
Q:q!Backslash: \\! #=> Backslash: \
Q:q{This is a \} so not too early.} #=> This is a } so not too early.

In the other hand, `Q:qq` (or `Q:double`) means the string can
interpolate scalars (`$`), arrays (`@`), hashes (`%`), function calls (`&`),
closure (`{...}`) and backslashes.

my $bool = True;
my @bools = True, False;
my %bools = False => 0, True => 1;

Q:qq[Scalar: $bool] #=> «Scalar: True»
Q:qq{Array: @bools[]} #=> «Array: True False»
Q:qq (Hash: %bools{}) #=> «Hash: False	0␤True 1»
Q:qq!Function: %bools.keys.join(' and ')! #=> «Function: False and True»
Q:qq<Expression: { 1.0 + 2.0 == 3.0 }> #=> «Expression: True»

In order to prevent unwanted interpolation such as in "username@email.xyz" or
"https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%87", only scalar variables are interpolated
normally. As demonstrated, the array constructor `[]` is used to interpolate
a whole array , the hash constructor `{}` for a hash, etc.

Since both `Q:q` and `Q:qq` are so common in the language, they have more
usual and succinct forms: single quotes (`''`) for `Q:q` and double quotes(`""`)
for `Q:qq`. Furthermore the Q can be dropped so `q` or `qq` (followed by
a delimiter) can be used as well.

From here onwards, a small number of adverbs can be used on the quoting
constructs `q` or `qq` to further restrict/expand a string's behavior.
For example, for a string that only interpolates scalar ($) and closure ({...})
variables, the adverbs `:s` (or `:scalar`) and `:c` (or `:closure`) can be used.
This results in `qq:s:c` (or `qq:sc`, `qq:scalar:closure`). For example:

my $var = 25;
qq:s:c<$var: { 3**2 + 4**2 }> #=> «25: 25»

Another example is the use of `q` with the `:to` (or `:heredoc`) adverb
which seems to be the closest construct to Swift 5's custom string delimiters:

my $billTheCat = q:to/BILL/;
<------- ____
&&& / \ __ _____,
`-- | o \' ` &&/
`| | o },-'
\____( )__/
,' \' \
/~~~~~~|. | .}~~~\
,-----( . | .}--.
| . /\___/
`----^,\ \
\_/
BILL

[1] https://docs.perl6.org/language/quoting
Ethereum is predominantly written in C++. The python codebase you are talking about is the Ethereum client / virtual machine of which there are several implementations written in Java, Go etc.
The original name and domain of Facebook is TheFacebook.com :P
It is unclear how strong a vacuum Guericke's pump was able to achieve, but if it was able to evacuate all of the air from the inside, the hemispheres would have been held together with a force of around 20 000 N (4400 lbf, or 2.2 short tons)

I'm no expert, but if it was able to evacuate all of the air from the inside sounds unlikely - impossible, even. What's the best we could do nowadays? How total are (practical) vacuums?
I looked at them before and they couldn’t do the illustration generation I needed, but maybe with some preprocessing on my side and some on theirs :)
The linked story is mainly about copyright infringement of artists and that is what I responded regarding.

You're talking mainly about trademark infringement and I agree that Amazon is screwing over their customers regarding it. Of course, their end game is pretty clear in that area. Buy "AmazonBasics" products and you're certain they're legitimate.
The term "Facebook" is not nearly as generic as "hackernews".
You can ML electrostatics for much less than 120k. They do sound great, but are still too much for me :)

I'm happy with my 10 year old Paradigms. The next speaker purchase I make is going to get something smaller instead of floor standing. I'm at a point now where I want good sound for music and home theater in the smallest package possible.
A concrete location is something very specific, and the number of newspapers per town is very small.
They also reportedly shutdown Subscribe Star recently, when people started to use it instead of Patreon, in the wake of the Patreon banning of some prominent You Tuber. This isn't working. The free market doesn't seem to work well in the tech world, where we have all powerfull monopolies controlling what we say, what we know and what we buy. We need new laws.
I don’t know if you picked those judiciously or if I did but those are two blog posts I did actually write :)
I know; that's part of the point. ;)
Not quite book, but I would like to read all laws and regulations related to business, finance and taxation such as the Companies Act etc as applicable to India. I will be transitioning to becoming a businessman in 2019 and its pertinent that I make myself at home with these topics so that I am not swindled by lawyers and auditors, or even the government for that matter.
The achievement that made Doom timeless probably has less to do with graphics than it does with an innovative distribution and marketing model. The Doom demo was a blockbuster. It spread in a manner that we would probably call viral today.
Where I went to school, they didn't teach programming at all. First day, first class, if I remember correctly, the teacher walks up in front of the class and says something like, "Computer science is the design and implementation of algorithms..." and finishes with saying they won't teach us any programming. The assignments must be implemented in C and run on campus computers. There are optional, zero credit labs to get help learning to program or get help with homework held by the TA's.

I went to one lab, the lab computers and all campus computers were running Slackware with Afterstep. I was a Window Maker and Red Hat user at the time, I was impressed and thought it was neat.

Of course this is from memory and 18 years ago almost to the day, but that's the gist of it. Anyway, I felt like I learned a ton and loved it every bit. I went to a few of the CS club meetings and got the impression basically every one had already had internships with Intel, IBM, or Microsoft. This was my freshmen year and was basically in awe.
This is a fraud website which has mercilessly ripped off content from other sites and published as its own. Also it has published a ton of proprietary information from time to time. Good riddance!
If you are interested in how to build a bot, Manning is having a Go bot competition:

https://deals.manning.com/go-comp/

It’s been really fun to work through the books.
Who was ever donating to that thing?!
> how do you know what it’s supposed to be

The information is in the block headers.

> In ETH instead it is common to just download the result and trust it’s valid

Nope. You still have to download all the block headers from block 0 and check if they are valid, including the PoW and other hashes.. The blocks are basically tamper proof as in Bitcoin (but can also be vulnerable to a 51% attack)

Then that's where it all diverges from Bitcoin: in Ethereum, there are three merkle trees: one for the state, one for transactions and one for the transaction results (receipts). The roots of these trees are in the blocks, once you have these, you can verify a particular value of, say, a state value, without the need to verify each and every other value, by walking through the tree and doing a merkle proof. There's plenty of info on the web explaining how it works if you look it up, eg. Search for "ethereum state trie"

As for syncing, recently it improved a lot. I did it a few times last month with Geth on an old machine just to test it out. Synced within 2 days, a big improvement over the previous versions of Geth. And yes, it got all the blocks from 0 to current. Blocks by themselves are very light.
Paypal has done this multiple times, here are some incidents.

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/My-Account/Permanent-BAN...

https://medium.com/@puntofisso/paypal-closed-my-account-with...

https://www.elliott.org/blog/banned-from-palpal-account-limi...

https://www.success.grownupgeek.com/index.php/2008/04/05/pay...

Completely relying on any third party is a bad idea. We should consider the risks when we signup to any service. Around this month we have seen multiple companies banning accounts without giving valid reasons MailChimp, Patreon, Slack(They had a reason but they didn't notify the users earlier, however they appologized later)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18754860

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18715866

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18724107
When one starts to lump unrelated taxes atop of income tax, it's a sure sign it's not that dramatic.

VAT in Norway is 25%, petrol yesterday was €1.6/L (and we're a major oil producing nation). A car here is probably 1.8x of same model sold in Portugal, purely due to the taxes. About 35% of my (unremarkable) paycheck effectively goes towards income tax, after all tax breaks are factored in. If you are in top tax bracket, you'd be easily paying 45% effective income tax, with nominal over 50%.

Do we get fair return for the money? Most people here seem to think so. Can smaller tax on over smaller base income be felt disproportionately? You have a point there. However Portugal is a first world nation, and this level of civics, infrastructure, education and healthcare does require substantial money for upkeep. There is no good way around this, but hopefully you get a better deal on that due to economies of scale than if you had to provide all that for yourself on your own.
Vitalik & Co have enough money to hire an army of top developers if they want to try and fix ETH. The fact that they don't is proof that it's unfixable and that they don't care.
I am the artist who's work is sold illegally on Amazon.
There is no excuse for Amazon. Absolutely none. 0!
I have reported the URL. It never changed. I don't know when the ASIN changed but the URL remained the same.
The new ASIN or URL cannot be reported. I am getting the message that the ASIN is wrong whenever I am trying to report it.
I am getting silly answers from silly people who are bullshiting me. They have a seller who is selling fake products. What a serious company does is to close his store. Especially when they learn that an item that is take off is up again.
After days of complains I decided to complain on Facebook. They are bullshiting me there as well.
It's a real shame!
why? has ycombinator trademarked/registered hacker news?
Well, THN is actually about hacking. So if the name is confusing on anyones part, I would more likely be HN.
The name is where the fraud began for this website.
You can, but at least a few years ago most cheap readers would horribly mess that up (usually not render it at all). And those that didn’t were typically nice enough that they could just render the PDF correctly ;)
I don’t understand how your post relates to mine. I was saying that if a static functional language focused more on simplicity, readability, good tooling and documentation, etc then it would eat Go’s lunch without trading off any of Haskell’s important characteristics (I.e., robust type safety).
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Might do. OTOH I often have a shell pipeline as the body of the loop, rely on glob expansion, etc. For ad-hoc parallelism of a simple command over lots of data, I tend to use xargs -n -P - since I use xargs for other things, I stick with it.

Also, bash and xargs are available everywhere, on production servers as well as dev laptops. Anything that requires installing something has a big hurdle to overcome - this counts for fish too.
I think that's not a great comparison. Hacker News is still essentially a niche site known to people who care about a specific set of fields relevant to startups. If you asked a random person on the street they probably wouldn't know about Y Combinator, much less Hacker News.

I'm not sure how to measure the actual level of recognition of a brand name, but I feel that Hacker News falls into the second or third tier of whatever that ranking is, whereas names like Facebook or Google form the top tier. That, combined with the relatively generic name, make me inclined to believe without further evidence that it's a coincidence - especially given the fact that the site is actually about news related to hacking, or hacker news.

A closer comparison I can think of is if I saw a watch company called "The International Watch Company". The real IWC is a luxury watch company, but the brand and its full name aren't known to many people. In that case too, my opinion is that the name is generic enough for it to feel like an honest coincidence.
Exactly!
So Amazon makes money from our work. And they even makes us lose time with reporting items that simply change numbers.
What a shame!
This is very valid when the formal degree education is a proper one. Unlike here in my place, a small town in India - most of my computer science concepts where just read out aloud by someone - say a Prof and the formal degree was provided based on a theoretical test that was just out-of-Book answers. Even the stats I was taught during early days of my engineering, I have got no clue about when I self taught myself to do ML algorithms.
he didn't say the guy deserves to get away with it, though

he said the guy should be sued in civil court and be made to pay damages, rather than sent to prison by a criminal court
Neglected? Not so much I'd say

It's the basic component for digital electronics experiments (pre microprocessor ones)
You need some parking yes, although it doesn't have to be right outside the pedestrian zone (and in fact that would almost certainly be a terrible idea for a variety of reasons).

In Munich, for example, the city center is largely car-free as far as I can tell, but parking nearby is still limited and expensive. That's okay, because transit is good enough to where you can park more on the outskirts of the city and take the S-Bahn in.

I haven't really seen many "massive parking structures" here that match your description, but then again I don't have a car so I'm not really looking for them.

But really in Munich, even if you're living in a suburb of Munich surrounded by farmland, they're compact enough to where almost everybody can walk or bike to the train station that goes to the city center. Check out Groebenzell if you don't believe me: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gr%C3%B6benzell/data=!4m2!...
Anything that is not the content.
Man if Dan doesn’t know about all thouse stuff, I guess I shouldn’t feel bad for not knowing the stuff I don’t know.
I have reported the item on their correct page.
By the way you can try to report it yourself right now. You cannot. You simply get the message that the ASIN or URL is wrong.
In the spirit of this page: I don't have a clue what Redux or React are.
Really nice implementation. I once tried to do something similar with V (npm i v) but lacked the time to continue. Hope this project grows!
> PoS requires that you get the consensus rules AND a hash of the most recent valid block from a trusted source.

no, nothing in PoS requires that. just a sad state of affairs with most centralized insecure PoS coins these days.

> With PoW, you only get the consensus rules.

no, you can opt to get hash of the most recent block if you want to compromise your security.

> Either way, you're relying on a trusted third party for bootstrapping.

no, you don't have to rely on trusted party for PoW bootstrapping. if you're scared somebody has communicated consensus rules to you incorrectly or maliciously - you just get those rules from multiple sources and VERIFY THE CHAIN FOR YOURSELF. with PoW you get objective measure to compare those chains, with PoS you get nothing.

> With PoS, you do you have a somewhat similar option: you can measure the market value of the coins of each chain.

no, you completely misunderstand the problem at hand. given coin X and multiple chains of coin X - how do you compare those chains?

market price of coin X tells you nothing how to distinguish between competing chains. market price is completely detached from actual verification work happening on chain.
Two years was an eternity back then. Heck, Quake was released two years after DOOM.
Watching this I can see a UN Convention on Autonomous Weapons is inevitable.
Hacker News is about hacking too, in the original sense of the word. It's a gathering place for people to indulge in curiosity with fellow curious people.
It is fast or it is wrong
Really? It's literally a generic term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book
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Where does this system of distributed objects improve from what CORBA did?
Having just recently played a bit more seriously with Cardboard VR and been surprised by how compelling it was, this short video came at an opportune moment for me.

From a non-technological point of view I also found Brian May's articulate enthusiasm for this very endearing.
This website was basically an extreme plagiarism website - all the way back in 2014 we had articles like this:

"The Hacker News - Profiting Off Extensive Plagiarism from Legitimate News Sources"

Interesting they feel so unfairly treated by paypal, but don't treat others properly themselves.
Doom was groundbreaking. It’s less about its technical achievements in the absolute — it’s about how radically different it was than what came before. It’s interesting to read about how the developers broke through previous constraints to create something that seemed impossible at the time.
there are plenty of articles about paypal killing small companies due to mysterious fund freezes w/ no support in site.
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The biggest one for me is the preprocessor. The preprocessor is THE reason C++ has such horrendous compilation times compared to basically any other language.

Others have mentioned uniform initialization, which I definitely agree with.
Well to be fair, legos were a nightmare for me the first time as well. Obviously, LEGO doesn’t charge a micro transaction but I’m sure you get my jam.
It's not the fault of crypto currency that people fall for phishing, have insecure infrastructure, or shitty backup strategies.