skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, I don't believe my tin-foil conspiracy is true, and honestly it doesn't matter one bit to me if Craig Wright is the inventor of Bitcoin.

That said, I never said that his "absence of evidence that he is Satoshi" is actually "evidence that he is Satoshi". In fact, no one has provided any real evidence either that he is or is not Satoshi.

Again, assuming that the real Satoshi wishes to remain anonymous, but is on the verge of discovery anyway, he may have a difficult time "proving" that he isn't Satoshi, so his next best bet might be to sidestep proof entirely and instead play a kind of mind game to throw off the investigation. So conservation of expected evidence doesn't factor in, because he hasn't "proven" anything one way or the other, he's basically gambled that internet ridicule will achieve a desired goal.
The general presumption is no it wouldn't effect ejuice containing no nicotine. The general formula for ejuice is vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, flavor extracts, and liquid nicotine based in PG. Sine all these ingredients are generally available without regulation ( minus nicotine ) I feel that I would be hard to claim that these constitute a tobacco product.
This is the way i read it too. No big deal really.
Accessing the ip posted in the article it shows the bitcoin address posted by the OP.

I even switch over to https to make sure the request is not modified.
'IBM Is the World's Biggest Patent Troll'
On a relative scale they may be safer, but that doesn't mean they're safe in general.
It does read like a suicide note, as someone in the other thread noted
Introducing TAuth: Why OAuth 2.0 is bad for banking APIs and how we're fixing it
That may have been the intent. The million dollar a flavor fee isn't too large a hurdle for the likes of Phillip Morris, but will be ruinous for most of their competition.
I agree. I went to private school for a year and did well. I went to public school after that because private was too expensive to maintain, and it was not so good. A few non-burned out teachers who made a difference, mostly just soul-crushing apathy and stockhold syndrome all around. And I would love to have learned to program and read earlier, I am not sure how I managed to go that long without reading, I guess I was just different developmentally.
How far down does "descending" go? It'd be a race to the bottom.
E-liquid can be made at home using pharmaceutical grade glycerine. In fact, you can vape glycerine on its' own (possibly adding some distilled water to aid in wicking). It has a vaguely sweet flavour. Commercial e-liquid is made using vegetable glycerin, propylene glycol, or some mixture of the two.

In the UK glycerine is available in pharmacists for ~$2 per 200ml. https://www.boots.com/en/Value-Health-Glycerin-B-P-200ml_852...

The devices themselves can be bought from overseas - AliExpress has many variants, some for <$10.

At that stage, the 'safety of e-cigarettes' is equivalent to the safety of inhaling atomized glycerine. Stage smoke.

Flavourings - you can look for things which are used in aromatherapy (e.g. menthol crystals), but you'll probably want to study whether any chemical changes can occur under heating.

Pre-mixed nicotine is a difficult one. I don't use it so I'm not sure if you can acquire it from trustworthy sources.

I would not want to fall into the habit of using e-cigarettes produced by tobacco companies such as the 'vype' disposable (British American Tobacco). They have a history of producing methods to increase the addictive potential of cigarettes, ramping up nicotine levels, to cheating on tests, using ammonia to produce 'freebase' nicotine, etcetera. I wouldn't be surprised if the same bag of tricks comes out in the e-cigarette market.
The best indicator for me was, instead of providing something right away, saying you will provide it "soon," and then waiting for the inevitable excuse when it doesn't happen.
What about "generally recognized as safe", which is a category I think most foods fall into unless evidence directly to the contrary surfaces?
That's a nice guess, and I guess it's meant to scare me from driving in the future, but it won't really.

Long before "automonous cars are ubiquitous" something else is going to happen - automatic collision detection and prevention will become ubiquitous, long before all cars are fully automatic. So even if I drive the car myself, it will be very difficult to crash, therefore the insurance will have no reason to increase.

Either way, I am sure fully automatic cars won't become ubiquitous in our lifetimes no matter what manufacturers say, so I'm not too worried.
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>to realize that in more than 30 years, we have not been able to come up with something better for our kids: Qbasic ..., but we have never really made a simpler or more direct access to the thrill of programming than QBasic.

First, I think it's really cool that he's exposing a young mind to programming. But I'm also old enough to have installed QBasic from floppy disks and part of me thinks his statements I quoted are romanticizing QBasic a little bit.

I think that Javascript in today's browser is a fine substitute. I've had good experience with children that age by going to the browser, pressing F12, go to Console tab and start typing code. It can start as simple as:

alert("hello world");

And boom, you get a popup. You can also show the kid he can type in arithmetic stuff like "2+3" and he'll get back the answer 5. You can then show him how to modify the existing web page. You can ramp up a slight bit of complexity by showing how to create a text file and writing Javascript and then having the browser run it. The 8-year olds I've seen can handle this no problem.

What I like about the Javascript-for-kids approach is that it shows them that programming isn't some other universe where you install QBasic in a vm. Instead, the initiation into programming/experimentation is just 2 keystrokes away. There's something about the immediacy of F12-Javascript that keeps it from being an esoteric dark corner. The kid can also get more mileage out of his "programming" knowledge because he can use his Javascript console tricks at his friend's house on any web browser. On the other hand, playing with QBasic today is more isolating. The use of QBasic in 1980s had more utility because the syntax of '10 PRINT "HELLO"' also worked on Apple II, Commodore 64, Radio Shack TRS-80, Texas Instruments TI-99, etc.
You mean now that they are in release candidate! ;)
Out of curiosity, does this mean that you didn't have any English lessons in school?

I ask because in the field of Second Language Acquisition there's a pretty strong consensus that the optimal path to language learning involves a combination of classroom instruction augmented by interaction with (reading, listening) & use of (speaking, writing) the language.

I've spent most of my career as a language teacher, and the typical successful learner is one who isn't necessarily a language nerd, but almost always is someone who does some heavy lifting in the target language outside of class. I love students that have a goal for language use because they help me to target my instruction to bits of language that will be immediately useful to them. (One of the best jobs I had was teaching English to software developenow here I am.rs; as I researched the language they needed, I started to learn programming and )
That would be an interesting play. It's the harder road. The man would have to do an awful lot of creative laundering to be able to use the btc without attracting the attention of revenue folks, though.

The two paths are:

1. Come out as Satoshi and be regarded as a genius. Deal with whatever the consequence of holding btc are, be they currency or assets.

2. Burn your own rep and be regarded as a nut, then struggle to live off your btc fortune.

Some people are weird. It's all fun to think about though.
Apple Music doesn't delete the original files.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204962

>When Apple Music adds these matched songs to your iCloud Music Library, Apple Music doesn’t change or alter your original music files that reside in iTunes for Mac or PC or on your iOS devices from which they were added.
It would be interesting to see a couple of those hashes and try to generate perfectly legitimate images with the same hashes.
The statement you quoted is correct. It doesn't say "O(log(N)) algorithms are faster than O(N) algorithms." It says performance of a particular algorithm degrades linearly as data set grows, if that algorithm is O(N). Which is true. (asymptotically)
What about running BASIC on a Raspberry Pi? There are even some distros that boot into BASIC and can work with the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/celebrating-50-years-of-bas...
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I uploaded all of my music to Google Play and deleted it off of my computer. When I get a new computer I only really need my google credentials and then between google drive and google play music I'm up to speed. I install a few packages and I'm at home. I have no need to keep my music there.

Thus there certainly is a reason to do this. Its how photos work on iphones and androids as well. You take pictures, they are put on the cloud, space can be freed up. Its not a malicious workflow
Corporations get a tax credit on taxes paid to foreign countries.

This is where the U.S. nominal rate comes in. If it was about the same as other countries', then it would not be an impediment to repatriating profits. But at 35%, it's the highest in the world, so corps repatriating profits will indeed pay additional taxes to the U.S. government, even taking the foreign tax credits into account.

That's why corps want the corporate tax rate lowered--so that business purposes can have a bigger role in decisions about moving capital. Right now tax avoidance has a large role in those decisions, at least when it comes to the U.S.

It's also why a temporary corporate tax holiday does not really help. It lets companies bring back one big lump sum, but does not change their long-term decision making, and it is long-term decision making that determines where investment goes and where jobs are created.
> Just what sort of obscenely restrictive firewall are you behind?

Many companies block outbound on non-well known ports, for various reasons. tcp/443 is almost always available though.
on tilt the way you are right now

I got increasingly irritated with his faux innocence as the evening progressed. I should probably have stopped around midnight.

you know this isn't true

My turn to be surprised. Which part isn't true? It seemed true to me when I wrote it at 2 AM, and it seems true to me when I'm reading it again now at 8 AM (curse these early morning meetings!).
No. You are missing the point. The fundamentals are very simple and easy to learn. That's what makes them "fundamental."

I think what we actually disagree about is just the exact definition of "fundamentals". I personally would not say "the fundamentals are very simple and easy to learn". At least not if you're learning them to the level of depth that I would want to learn them.

Now if we're just saying that people only need a very high level overview of "the fundamentals", then that might swing the equation back the other way. But that, to me, is exactly the knob that the MIT guys were twiddling... moving away from SICP and using Python doesn't mean they aren't still teaching fundamentals, it just sounds like they aren't going quite as deep.

Anyway, it's an analog continuum, not a binary / discrete thing. We (the collective we) will probably always be arguing about exactly where on that scale to be.
I'm not sure if that's the link you intended to post but I see nothing in that comment rationalizing Apple's actions, in fact it seems to share the opinion of the original article.
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And it means the municipal government provides funding for smaller companies, which gives those an advantage, and they don’t even take large risks either. It’s a win-win-win-win situation.
I agree with you that there is a wide gap between Bitcoin/Blockchain tech and real world. Won't contest that.

But a will contract can be put on the blockchain, and its a step forward, IMHO. Just today I learnt about OverStock's t0[1] trading on the Blockchain using colored coins (which is supposed to bring down the settlement of stocks to T+0 from T+3. Just stating this example as a case of progress enabled (or made possible) by the blockchain.

Likewise, Blockchain will make wills better i.e. enforceable and crisp via a program hence more specific. But as of now, its not a replacement for judiciary definitely. That's why I said its like version 0.1 of what's possible.

[1] https://t0.com/

Edit: The link to t0
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About 15 years ago, a friend almost got a DUI for riding his bike while drunk in the SF bay area - the cop was going to cite him if he couldn't get a friend to come pick him up.
Only if you're still using classic.
The obvious problem here is that the real beneficiaries of H1B abuse are companies our parents have heard of, but the named violators are the 1099 body shops they source from, who nobody has heard of.
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Url changed from http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/5/11595564/microsoft-3d-touch..., which points to this.
I don't really see what the benefit is here for the developer? With HTTP CloudFlare can do caching etc to take load off the origin, but the origin server has to deal with each websocket (right?)
Not when using VPC, which almost any modern AWS deployment is.
A lot of consultancy firms abuse this system, BUT: not all H1Bs are "cheap labor". If you are not American and want to work in a tech company in the US, you don't have much choice: 99% of the time, you have to get an H-1B.

I once got a position in a very interesting startup in Palo Alto (with a salary significantly above average in the region), and the company was thrilled to have me join them (because there really is a shortage of candidates in my field)... until we learned that I didn't get my H-1B.

It's a lottery, the most stupid way to pick who gets to enter you country. American tech companies are so frustrated with this system that they often build offices in Europe just to be able to recruit local talent. Many companies moved to Canada because the immigration law is more flexible there.

It baffles me that some people believe most non-American employees are just "cheap labor". There are smart people on the other side of the pond as well!
We changed the title from "Microsoft's hover gestures for Windows phones are magnificent" when we changed the URL.
All lies...
Not trivial at all, just mostly invisible and most of us who've only known modern western societies never give it a second thought.
I was nitpicking the performance part of the statement. N does scale linearly.

The point I was trying(and failed) to drive home is that it matters how you walk your N not just what the N is.

If you've got to do a pointer indirection for each N rather than a linear read that can end up dominating the non-constant factors in a lot of cases.
Thank you very much for the distinctions. This bodes well for a non-consumption idea I had somewhat based on the existing technology, though with no intention of including nicotine in the platform. I'll have to see what the local shops plan on doing to get a first-hand feel for potential supplier issues. Again, very much appreciate the shared perspective.
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Right. But if the availability of these devices leads to lower levels of smoking (and my understanding is that it does), safer is what matters, no?
Emoji under Linux
No private chats for Windows/Linux.
Stop fucking our privacy Apple! Jeez...
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If he's seven, he was probably coloring in ten frames, which are used to build a stronger conceptual understanding of our base-10 number system. The model starts out with physical objects, moves to visual representations of those objects ("coloring in"), then to abstraction.

From there, students use those techniques to move away from the to develop good mental math strategies. If you were doing 17 + 35 on a ten frame, you'd fill in 1 full 10 for the 17 and have 7 left over. You'd then fill in 3 full 10s for the 35, and have 5 left over. You can take 3 of those 5 and fill in the missing spots on the 7 out of 10 ten frame, making a 5th full ten frame, and leaving 2 lonely chips/colored squares in sixth.

The goal is to eventually get students to do all that mentally. 17 + 35 = 10 + 7 + 30 + 5 = 10 + 30 + 7 + 5 = 10 + 30 + 7 + 3 + 2 = 10 + 30 + 10 + 2 = 50 + 2 = 52.

You might have figured out that kind of mental math trick on your own. If so, the lesson's not there for you. It's for all the people out in the real world who didn't develop it on their own and will readily tell you that they're "not math people".

The same technique will be revisited to work with fractions, first with the same denominator and then dissimilar denominators, and similar techniques will be used for multiplication, the distributive property, etc.
Is there a way for us to have this conversation without each of your comments adding to the list of specious accusations you're making? There's nothing "faux" about his innocence.
Yeah, I can't really get on board with rewarding large firms for their inefficiency.
Kids and computers are a great mix.

I spent some time fiddling around with assembly when I was a teenager to run a TSR (terminate and stay resident, what daemons were called before they were daemons). It would hijack the screen when my little sister was playing a computer game and type out spooky messages like "Help me Sarah... I'm trapped in here" and then go back to the game after a few seconds as if nothing had happened.

Ah, how we laughed (after her nightmares stopped)...
All the things CloudFlare provides but not the caching (e.g. WAF, DDoS protection, DNS, SSL, ...)
EC2 GPU spot instances average around $0.20 per hour in the cheapest region. On-demand instances are $0.65 per hour.
Never understood why people use iTunes. If I'd ever had to name the worst Mac app - this is it.

Store your music, listen via http://swinsian.com (for example), back it up, be happy.
"Write Angular 2 with style"

> Request javascript version

"This chapter is not yet available in JavaScript. We recommend reading the TypeScript version."

LOL
500 years? Like 20 years after Columbus?
Professional corner-cutting
The risk to today's web developers is something that - most realistically - makes web developers so much more efficient that a few people can un-employ many of their fellows. Wordpress and ThemeForest (and their predecessors) did this to the Perl::CGI programmers and HTML jockeys of an earlier age, and e.g. React/Bootstrap/Parse are trying to do this to today's jQuery/Rails experts.

For now, there's plenty of demand if you (can) upskill - those "DHTML experts" who jumped to Rails are still fully employed creating more complex sites (rather than more sites.)

As an alternative to just trying to be better than your peers, patio11 has talked about combining two not-spectacular skills (e.g. programming and Japanese, or programming and marketing) into a very attractive package. E.g. HCI could fit with web programming, as could an appropriate hobby, as could business skills (e.g. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a-pro...).

If you just want to do something hard, AI, AR/VR, and Robotics can all work - but those are all fields which employ far fewer people than web development, and job opportunities will similarly be more limited (e.g. geographically dispersed). You'll need a bit more direction and motivation than "more defensible to future automation". To get a feel for what you like, hobby projects and e.g. Coursera can both work fine.

Alternatively, if you have a Silicon Valley salary, you could simply aim to retire by 40.
Actually I think Windows has always had a little popup in the bottom right which lets you cancel within about five minutes. But sure, you might happen to step away momentarily during that time.

Thankfully browsers and editors now save and restore their last state, so an automatic reboot doesn't enrage me like it did in the WinXP days.
Agreed. I've lost work before due to this behavior. Granted, I should be more diligent with saving my work.
My opinion is that if you use performance-enhancing drugs, you lose Olympic medals, even if it only happened because you accidentally took the wrong cold medicine while in a foreign country (see Silken Laumann). Maciej should have known that soliciting votes via twitter was against the rules; whether he did know is irrelevant to whether he should be excluded.
Which would be relevant, if the level at which UBI was being proposed as a policy was the world government, rather than that of the US.
Now I'm blushing.
Even George H.W. Bush, fellow ex-president, admitted Clinton was far more charismatic than him, saying something to the effect of "no wonder I lost to this guy."

(mentioned in Meacham's recent biography of H.W.)
Yes, we changed to that.
I don't know what really constitutes low or high taxation for this purpose, but I am only suggesting that businesses pay the same rates rather than using their wealth as a lever to harvest services from community at a preferential rate.
Yep, my mistake, didn't notice until after I submitted.
ING Increased Their Software Deployments to Twice a Day
The BoE provides political air cover for political decisions. In no real sense is it politically independent. It can be relied on to do absolutely nothing to promote economic policies that could benefit the majority of the population at the expense of bankers, land owners, rentiers, and speculators.
How to campaign for the cause of software freedom
China is getting the Warcraft movie before the US
Anybody know a linux script/software that would 'lock' a domain down to am IP regardless what the registrar does.

Maybe have even a out of band way of updating it without the registrars involvement.

I guess what I'm looking for would be P2P DNS server although making sure the data is not fake would be difficult without some kind of signing.

Wonder if it could use the bitcoin ledger as a kind of key server?

Edit: I know /etc/hosts does the job it's just lacking if the server changes IP
Great idea, yesterday I also had mine here but for some strange reason it disappeared - you can check it out here:

Organise your bookmarks and collaborate with others!

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I've a better list http://sammyboy.com/showthread.php?98021-Companies-ruined-or...
Mods can we remove this? This has been submitted umpteenth times since the blog was first posted in January.
Attackers can hack CISCO TelePresence boxes with an HTTP request
.NET framework ported to NetBSD
First rule of a credible "reveal".

You do not reveal yourself; someone else must reveal you.

The art lies in the orchestration of the latter.
Probably because the large ones can follow the letter of the law. The smaller shops are probably the ones which are rally sloppy with their work. Just turning in paperwork has worked in the past and so they feel it will work again -- just procedural but sloppy, is my guess.

I guess if people are really bothered by a few unscrupulous employers abusing the system, there is nothing preventing someone from building an app to shame or report the employers to authorities who could fine these places. Maybe cut a deal to get a slice of the fine for every good lead. Gamify it so those who produce credible leads are weighted over those who want to cry wolf or are on a vendetta, etc.
How does the fact Al Gore won the popular vote affect this analysis?
I often find myself an outlier in this forum.
How many freshmen come to MIT having never studied calculus?
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In this case yes, because they are influencers of the community and were not being responsible in ensuring the proof was rigorous enough