skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not an expert on bitcoin transactions - i would still need to create a business bank account and incorporate and use a payments processor like Stripe to do that, right?
Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora
If you think I'm a barbarian at the gates then honestly I'll stop. Where you say inflammatory, I probably think polarizing. When you say incivility, I wonder why the top-level comment which just trashes a whole group of unnamed people in the most condescending way possible isn't considered uncivil; but I also don't think the top-level comment was problematic. I haven't thought my posts were toxic because they get good replies and they don't get downvote-hidden. If you're saying I bring the wrong kind of conversations to the threads, then that's fine.

Like, I'm not going to tell you how to run this ship because moderation can be a thankless job at the best of times.
I see no correlation between streaming (convenience) and forbidding one to download what is streamed (DRM).

But streaming isn't convenience, it's the business model. At no point do you buy any albums, you merely rent them while you listen to them. Otherwise you could subscribe for one month and download every single piece of music you can within 30 days, then cancel. That's pretty obviously not how the system is designed to be used.
We can't hold science to a higher standard than the rest of the world. You and I would both like this to be a more principled place, but one thing can't be the pin. It has to be across the board.

Most of everything is crap, the good stuff survives mostly. The bad stuff survives as crap mythos and some good stuff goes under.
I started it, not finished yet. My overall impression is favorable based on the part I've worked through so far.
The counterargument is that nobody knows how much value they will have--and sometimes people are too optimistic. See "Investor Storytime" here: http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm
I stopped at "Perhaps the best description of the rigged game HFT’s play comes from the book..."

Just because they aren't guaranteeing your execution price when you trade in larger size blocks doesn't mean the game is rigged. This has been discussed to death. Sure, a few bad apples used the technology for frontrunning, but then we have a frontrunning problem, not an HFT problem.

Furthermore, just like the stat arb strategies of the past that eventually expanded beyond Wall St into everyday retail and online analytics, HFT strategies may be hard to understand but it's not like this is some mafia forcing you to pay a toll to trade... it's far, far more nuanced.
If you give your employer two months notice, there's a reasonable chance you will find yourself fired on the spot.
I'm curious why this claim (distributed minibatch is hard) continues to be repeated. Am I misreading the state-of-the-art? There was a paper at Interspeech this year [0] where Amazon showed excellent scaling (54X speed up when distributed across 80 nodes) without loss of accuracy.

[0] http://www.nikkostrom.com/publications/interspeech2015/strom...
SketchDeck (YC W14) is hiring a first marketer
Well, sometimes it is a clean presentation to not be able to select text. You know when you just randomly click and hold the mouse then you end up highlighting half of the interface as well as the text? That is "immersion breaking" for web apps, or whatever the real word is.

In this specific case, it's still broken because the cursor still changes to the selection cursor. Oh well.
They also probably haven't been fined for things that actually should be illegal, just because it's hard to write regulation that captures otherwise obvious ill-intent.

I honestly will never understand this kind of apologia.
Slick and Fun!!
"Cell Simulators" is a bad name. We should be calling them "Phoney Base Stations"
Defunct social network asks court to reverse Facebook’s $3M award in spam case
Git on the floor!
Don't forget Schwarzenegger. Just three days ago on HN we discussed his Facebook stance on "climate change" and "pollution". And yet this clown commuted via private jet, sometimes daily, between LA and Sacramento.

Oh, sure, he bought "pollution credits" to offset that. I suppose those credits paid for giant flying bags attached to his jet engines. And then he sequestrated the captured CO2?

It doesn't get much more hypocritical than that. Gulfstream liberals put limousine liberals to shame.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/07/local/me-arnold7
Guilt is not problem everyone suffers from. Some only behave just well enough to avoid criminal trouble. They have no problem separating a fool from his money, what you label as "screwing people".
Until you can purchase a phone that is not compatible with 2g, you will always be at risk of fallback attacks.

It works sort of like what you are describing in 3g & 4g networks.

So to answer your question: You are missing phones that don't work on 2G (unless there is a function to disable it in a user-unfriendly engineering menu).
I definitely agree that Stripe's design is beautiful, but this is just too close for me. I think it would be awesome if they built upon Stripes beautiful interface and built something nicely different!
I would add: Conjectures and Refutations, by Karl Popper.
you might get more response as a "Show HN" posting
It looks cool, but I still don't see how this site will give me more info then in my example my Basis website.
It claims it improves productivity but I fail to see how it would do that, aside me analysing graphs, that tends to waste time...

Anyhow, if anyone has good info that would help me understand this, I would appreciate it.

It is really impressive site.
I am compensated as a paramedic. I volunteer as a firefighter. However, my compensation as a paramedic is $16/hr, which isn't awful (at least it's more than minimum wage), but I certainly don't do it for the money... The money that feeds my family comes from work as a software developer.

There are a variety of reasons why I do what I do. A desire to help others is certainly one of those reasons.

Did you just stop reading after "Heroic, right?" The very next word was "No"...
Works fine, company doesn't care about FOSS, relationship with the ODM, Cortina Systems is unknown. It was running kernel 2.6 when I got rid of it last year.
very incorrect. Visit a country with near-100% NFC contactless card rollout like AU or NZ. Contactless cards(paywave) are effectively instant. Checkout lines are noticeably faster, probably 2x with small/single item counts.

Everyone sighs & judges the person paying cash while they hold up the line for everyone else.

The US will eventually catch up, and you'll all wonder why you waited so long.
Most medium sized professional environments aren't utilising Skype, they're utilising an entirely different product called, uhh, Skype (Lync), but it doesn't show ads and is a completely different product with Skype branding (even the executable is still Lync.exe).
There was an attempt to start that in Wikiversity, but it's been very very slow.
True, but since 2008 at least, I think any level headed rich person would have to take any promises made by JP Morgan with a grain of salt. They might get screwed but they might still get the best return on their investment compared to more honest alternatives. It's still a choice to make in where you put your money.

Everything I hear about investment banks is that their job is to rip off rich people. If you don't like that, then use a regular bank and get a regular couple of percent interest.
Also gets blocked by uBlock, stating your site used to host malware.
I agree that neuromorphic is often specious, but it's not fair to say that neuromorphic hardware fails if it can do non brain like computations more efficiently than conventional hardware.

The thesis may be misguided at times but building non-traditional hardware that provide significant efficiencies is a wonderful thing. Sometimes it takes a random vector to get off a local maximum.

For example, did you know Synaptics, the guys who developed the touch input you're probably using started as a crazy neuromorphic thing from Carver Mead? [0]

While most of the IBM press is garbage, they do seem to be making progress running conventional DNNs on their hardware, showing backprop in low precision, and suggesting progress on CNNs. [1,2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carver_Mead#Touch

[1] https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5862-backpropagation-for-energy...

[2] http://p9.hostingprod.com/@modha.org/blog/2015/12/nips_2015_...
I'm not danellis and I'm not skilled in signals processing, but assuming LTE is multiplexed with TDD, yes. The radio is switched throughout time between receiving and transmission. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex_%28telecommunications%2... for how TDD works.
the Banana Pi R1 uses an AllWinner chip.
Why is anyone still using skype?
Isn't options the default rather than a grant? The tax should only apply on exercising/liquidation.
Sad to see ++ and -- among the first things you learn. Aren't they [slated](1) to be taken out of the language?

1: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...
Thanks for the correction; I didn't know this existed and that's somewhat comforting. I guess my point still stands for personal users of Skype, small businesses and startups.
A similar resource for Mathematics:
https://github.com/ystael/chicago-ug-math-bib
Extensive recent discussion of the original source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10493881
I expect USGOV to lose the keys argument, but not without extracting vast sums from Congress for projects that promise to work around the obstacle of strong encryption. I'm also hearing less and less about cues missed that could have prevented the recent CA attack, and hearing more and more about the encryption debate. Good PR and understandable given the thankless and impossible task DHS/FBI has of getting it right every time. One right/freedom I wish we had in the US was that our leaders could be free to admit imperfection and mistakes without Congress and the Press piling on.
Dude its the first episode. There's something called pacing.
Not being funny, but if your first concern is a good nights sleep, why move right to the centre of one of Europe's biggest cities?

Two things that people commonly do in the centre of cities is get drunk and buy drugs. They go to parties, nightclubs, pubs, they make lots of noise. That's the whole point of cities. They are supposed to be grimy, raucous and beautiful.

If you want a good nights sleep, move to the suburbs.
Skype : Microsoft :: iTunes : Apple
If you're open to accepting that writer was confused about the meaning, why not about the name too?
How to use interfaces in Go (2012)
Contest Management System for Competitive Programming
We've eclipsed the usefulness of this birdhouse analogy, but suffice to say being able to replace one proprietary commercial vendor with another doesn't make something open source.

> This is some kind of confluence of the values of
> FSF captial-F "Free" style software with the more
> pragmatic goals associated with open source.

Well, pragmatically, if you needed to alter the hardware of this "open source" hardware what percentage of the total electronic complexity would you be working with? I'm going to aim for a conservative one-digit percentile.

There's a real and unambiguous line to be drawn in the sand here. If you get "open source" plans for hardware that you can't replicate with third-party fabrication & your own materials it's not open source. It's just a recipe for assembling commercial proprietary components.

It's awesome that people publish those recipes, but don't call it open source hardware and dilute the meaning of hardware that is genuinely open.
I'll paraphrase here... "Stop encrypting so that we can break the law by spying on our own citizens."
Interesting ah..perspective.

To me, and to most builders, Windows desktops, and OS X / Linux desktops, are far more viable than iOS or Android; not less. Even John Gruber admits that the iOS app store is rotting.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2015/12/01/sketch-leaves-m...

Desktop machines may not be sexy -- unless you happen to like games, your example of choice -- but they're reliable, users understand them, they exist in huge numbers, and they're never going away, because humans will always like large, high-resolution displays, and whatever computing device provides that will be "the desktop" going forward.

The comment about "infesting Windows PC with viruses and software" is also inaccurate, and has been since about 2008 or so.
This is one of the most naive comments I've read.
In addition to that you also can typically know how an undergraduate would progress in the courses from the universities as well, through stuff like graduation plans etc.
I would add: The Retreat to Commitment, by W.W. Bartley, III.
Those were called tabloid-style headlines.
DISCOVERING OPEN SOURCE IN CHINA
Oh definitely. You're right on base, it is a massive concern.
Maybe related: A top salesperson's commissions often makes them one of the highest paid persons in the org chart. Upper management always ends up thinking they can be replaced with cheaper people. So it gets very classically political.
> Nationalism doesn't lead to wars, massacres and other oppression and brutality. That's tribalism leading to that.

Could you explain the difference between nationalism and tribalism?

> If you want real danger, you should want to curb and reverse the mass immigration we're still seeing. History is very clear on this point; if immigration continues unabated, eventually the immigrants will become targets. Hopefully it's just expulsion that they're targeted for, but genocide isn't unheard of in these situations.

Are you saying that we should deport the immigrants for their own good?
what defines which is "current" ?
they should have done `cursor: default` for the html element selector in the CSS file as well.
Same here, on Chrome
There's no typical vegan diet, just like there's no typical non-vegan diet. Vegans can eat whole foods, junk food, high-carb, low-carb, high-protein, etc. There's no macro or micro nutrient that comes exclusively from animals. (Btw, I've never seen Sauerkraut that wasn't vegan.)

I've been vegan for 10 years, have lived in 3 different countries and have met a lot of vegans, usually in situations where food was involved. My personal experience indicates that, overall, vegans eat less processed/refined foods than non-vegans and are more knowledgeable about nutrition than the average.
Atlassian is quite slow to move forward on their products, including their acquisitions.

In some cases -- Bitbucket Cloud -- they really never do.
Whenever I think about Bitbucket, I think of https://bitbucket.org/site/master/issues/8548/better-ci-inte...
Detroit's hidden antique car collection
What are you trying to do here? You think you know who downvoted you, and you're...calling them out? By...linking to their public user page?
Some friendly suggestions:

1. The domain name could be different. It is a little longwinded and it does not convey the value of the service clearly. It places it in a SOS context, whereas you will be able appeal to a larger customer base if it were positioned as a Chef-on-tap service.

2. How do you throttle chatty customers? How do you rebate non-power-users?

3. $20 per month is on a high side (I can get A family plan of Google Music and Netflix for ~3$ more per month). I am not saying everything should be pegged to these services, but as a customer I think this way. May be charge per question?

4. How have you implemented the chat? Curious to learn.

All the best.
The Chances of You Succeeding Is Slim
Not really, it depends.

You don't need a bank account to accept bitcoins, all you need is a Bitcoin wallet.

If what you want is to convert bitcoin to fiat currency, there are lots of ways to do that.

You can do that by using Circle/Coinbase and link your accounts to a bank account, have Coinbase/Circle convert it to cash for you.

Other ways to do that is with an ATM, bitcoin credit/debit cards, localbitcoins.com, etc.

I suggest Bitcoin because it's been way more flexible and easier for me when it comes to international payments.

Good luck.
Well, I wholeheartedly agree that the current Skype is in that category. Sadly, that is only because it has become that way. It used to be nearly the opposite, a great example of what chat could be.

Very early versions of the Mac Skype client (like 2.x or so) had a completely different UI layout that was multi-window and multitasking, and the program worked absurdly better back then.

Around version 5.x they started making mind-bogglingly stupid UI changes and I stubbornly held onto an old 2.x client just so I could keep the interface that was actually sensible.

So then, what does Microsoft do? They start screwing with the protocol itself and making everything refuse to work at all unless it is running the latest version. Then they introduce more ads and a generally scummier experience from one release to the next.

Even all of that was almost tolerable. Then they made a major "update" to the iOS client that must have removed about 50% of Skype's features for no apparent reason, and added annoyances or random breakages to whatever was left. Fortunately though, the release notes made it clear that they had flattened some buttons so we could all feel good about Skype's usefulness having been mostly obliterated.

Microsoft has, quite simply, ruined Skype. There is no more suitable word than that. It was a very promising protocol and the clients worked well, and Microsoft just completely destroyed it. It's honestly hard to believe the team is being paid to enhance Skype because it really does seem that the team is instead being given instructions to damage Skype in any way possible.
I once had a 404 page that was a photo of Ronald Reagan with the caption "I don't recall the page you're looking for". I thought that was pretty good.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10713301
VC-backed firms that are focused on enterprise don't worry me, those focused on the consumer side worry me. Consumers are more fickle than businesses, which generally lock in vendors and want streamlined items.

With consumers, an item like Snapchat is the hot item today, but AIM was the hot item before that, then it was Skype, etc, etc, etc. Consumers don't have the loyalties that enterprise has. Facebook was smart because it has built an ecosystem around its graph, others haven't and I fear eventually those "utlra-unicorns" are going to face reality and that is going to hurt firms, even your own.

And with some firms their path to profitability is total nonsensical. Monetizing is extremely difficult when you can't actually charge your customers in any significant way without completely driving them away.
It's not strictly about targeted attacks. There are people who modify unencrypted content that passes through their system regardless of what content it is. There have been several presentations on this topic, but I'll link the slides for one [0]. Here's an article about an ISP injecting ads in case you don't think this sort of thing happens in real systems [1].

[0] https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-17/dc-17-presentations/...

[1] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/04/how-a-banner-ad-f...
Actually the PCI express topology is configurable, which is one of the innovations. You can put all 8 gpus on a single CPU bus or have 4 on each CPU (but have to use QPI between them)
From Backblaze's latest storage pod blog post: "As always, the Storage Pod design is open source...."
I would also highly suggest Giere's book, Understanding Scientific Reasoning: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/015506326X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

It's a textbook so it's a bit denser than a standard nonfiction offering, but it explains the perspectives of a few famous philosophers of science, the scientific method, clears up some common misunderstandings, and is packed with case studies which make the concepts easy to understand. It's a great piece for either reference or learning about science in general.
If only there was some way to self-checkout with this. Scan your own barcode with the camera, bag your own goods. Set them on the scale, checkout!

I know security is a big risk with this, but stores DO have self-checkouts.

One step closer to making shopping at the store as easy as going into, picking out what I want and leaving.

PS How much of this was written in Clojure?
Also useful in HTML/CSS/JS-driven desktop UI through Chromium or similar as a way of preventing selection on user interface chassis elements.
If only there was some way to self-checkout with this. Scan your own barcode with the camera, bag your own goods! Set them on the scale, checkout!

I know security is a big risk with this, but stores DO have self-checkouts.

Maybe one day shopping at the store will be as easy as picking out what I want and walking out the door! I thought RFID tags were going to bring
Ask HN: Could i modify bootsrap and sell it
Two-Thirds of Earliest Tesla Drivetrains to Need Replacement in 60,000 Miles
I thought the law was that you can be compelled to decrypt a document in your possession, provided that the fact that you are capable of doing so has been established (i.e. only when admitting that you are capable of decrypting something is sufficient to establish guilt do you have 5th amendment protection). Just as you can be compelled (under warrant) to open a safe for a search.
The problem is, you claim you want liberals to love America, but what you actually want is for them to love only the specific idea of America that you've constructed. If I say "I love America because it was founded on the idea that liberty is more important than security," then you put me down in the "hates America" column.
I don't see what we are looking at, can anyone enlighten me?
I don't understand why this is getting down voted? Someone explain?
> But streaming isn't convenience

For me it's convenience.

> At no point do you buy any albums, you merely rent them while you listen to them.

I don't really understand the concept of renting for digital goods. Since they can be duplicated practically at no cost, there is no practical reason to "take and return" approach (i.e. rent). Keeping your digital copy does not reduce any value for the service.

> Otherwise you could subscribe for one month and download every single piece of music you can within 30 days, then cancel

That can easily be prevented by saying that you can't exceed certain limit of downloads for such service if you only pay per month, and not for each copy. But again, I see no reason why they can't offer an option to pay per copy and let you keep one.