skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Utterly fascinating, both that this "special arrangement" has existed and has been kept out of general public awareness throughout all this time.

Brought into context with the otherwise inexplicable tolerance for that regime's egregious human rights abuses, and the "delicateness" with which it was handled during the 9/11 investigations (extended the fact that its key people were allowed to slip out of the country in the immediate aftermath, despite a nation-wide travel ban on everyone else) -- it all starts to make sense.

Not in any tinfoil kind of way. But in a more banal, mundane, "Why do we keep kissing this bloodthirsty, homophobic, misogynist and utterly decrepit regime's ass, for decade after decade?" kind of way.

The U.S. started releasing data on foreign ownership of Treasuries in 1974. Since then, the Treasury’s policy had been to not disclose Saudi holdings, and it grouped them instead with those of 14 other mostly OPEC nations, including Kuwait, Nigeria and the United Arab Emirates, Bloomberg reported in January. The group held $281 billion as of February, down from a record of $298.4 billion in July.

For more than a hundred other countries, from China to the Vatican, the Treasury had provided a detailed monthly breakdown of how much U.S. debt each owns. The figures for March are scheduled for release at 4 p.m. New York time Monday.

The special arrangement was a product of the 1973 oil shock following the Arab embargo. It’s among concessions that U.S. administrations made over the years to maintain America’s strategic relationship with the Saudi royal family and access to the kingdom’s oil reserves.
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Same here, I only update when necessary. Also having auto update is painful, when you suddenly switch from 4G to WiFi your phone will try to update everything making it sluggish, regardless of what you want to do on your phone...
The 4 commits before 2008 are pretty clearly not development on Go in any sense, they appear to be Brian Kernighan playing with the syntax and styling for a C "hello world" program: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=810

No one would say those commits show he was working on Go as a "personal project" during that time.
Deep+Web+Links+with+Categories+|+Security+Zap
It's not all that effective; some apps (like the Hue app) just crash if you deny them anything. Why didn't Android add the option to provide blank data to apps?
US$120G does not put their reserves bellow China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia? How is it the 3rd?
Well, a "community" can be shaped when its individuals delegate thinking for themselves. This is the case with places where traditions hinder critical thinking. Everyone in unison: "GO TO statements are bad; Dijkstra said so".

It also doesn't need to be kept out of the participant's attention to work or there wouldn't have been Hanssens and Polyakovs.. My point is that if the very people who do this for a living and are trained to counter an effort to turn them can be recruited, then anyone can be.

Smart people seem to be like a machine with more open ports than a microwave and knowing the knife is sharp doesn't make one bleed less.
There are investors and then there are investors. Seems a lot of VC type investors are happy to go along with that nonsense as long as they can get out early and dump their stuff on another investor, often the retail investor.
We are finally truly in the age of the soundbite. Lucky us?
It would be much better for civilians to be able to invest in ETFs that invest in VC firms. That way they're investing in baskets of startups picked by (hopefully) professionals. The odds of a single startup succeeding big are small, especially if it's picked by people who don't have a lot of domain expertise.

I sort of fear this will turn AngelList and similar into scam hellholes since the average person will be snowed more by flash than by substance. Why spend time building a product when you can spend your time building videos of a rendering of a product...
And IoT - good, secure IoT.

There's no lack of opportunities. But I'm seeing Apple struggling with keeping its current technology working as well as it has in the past - never mind building incredible cool new stuff.
> Can you name a safer financial instrument than US debt? Its definitely not fiat currency

I dunno. I mean, US government debt is conceptually subject to both US monetary risks (the same as US dollars) and US government fiscal risks, so US government (dollar-denominated) debt must always be (even if only infinitesimally) less safe than at least one fiat currency, to wit, the US dollar.
Carbon3D visit on Tested
Now that is a good idea!
Depression, yes; see http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/06/marijauna-depressio... .

There is no scientific evidence to suggest that OP has "just been lucky". There is also no evidence to suggest that OP is a threat to him/herself or anyone else; they simply noted that they had previously been diagnosed with schizophrenia. Also, Bupropion is an anti-depressant, not an anti-psychotic. And Xanax is a strong Benzodiazepine and also not in any way an antipsychotic. So the conditions that OP was treating were basically depression and anxiety, which scientific evidence shows Cannabis has positive impact on both.

Now, this should provide all of the evidence needed to contradict your ridiculousness, but, in case it doesn't, YES, certain constituent compounds of Cannabis DO INDEED treat schizophrenia (and, again, your insinuation that anyone claimed it /did/ treat schizophrenia is a bit illogical for reasons above). See here for more info: https://www.projectcbd.org/schizophrenia

CBD is a potent anti-psychotic and antianxiety/anticonvulsant. Granted, it's present in small relative amounts to THC in most strains, but CBD supplements are available in all of the Medical states. I take them almost daily for anxiety and anti-inflammatory reasons.
A space about space. Right now almost empty.

https://goo.gl/spaces/wYK3coJ6Mb5c5CMv6
A space about space. Right now a Ghost town.

https://goo.gl/spaces/wYK3coJ6Mb5c5CMv6
Probably any sort of mental challenge would stave off dementia, whether the challenge is linguistic, mathematical, verbal, or some other category.
I strongly agree. Kids are smarter and much more adaptable than the people developing this stuff seem to think. I don't understand why we aren't just exposing them to real programming languages from a very young age, like their native tongue.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11706667
GMaps were actually acquired by Google
I think emp_zealoth quite literally passed a vehicle while an oncoming semi was in the opposing lane. A "close call" if you will.
The numbers that are illegal
Pal, I've gone through the whole rut of "professional" treatment. I've been seeing psychiatrists and psychologists since I was in the third grade. I went to several counselors throughout high school, some of them mandated some of them I found through my own research and references. I spent over two weeks in a serious inpatient facility where they open the door to your room every 10 minutes to make sure you haven't killed yourself yet. I had to be taken away on a stretcher and loaded into an ambulance while my parents looked on, baffled and confused as me. I've been on uppers, downers, SSRIs; I've done CBT and group therapy, I've meditated for hours on end, I've seen shrinks that cost $300/hr and I've spent my fair share talking to the shrink on the other end of the bar. But nothing has helped me as much as I feel weed has. Call it anecdata, but considering that I was having issues every few months or so for years...decades...until I started smoking weed well, I haven't had a problem in almost nine years so call me lucky.
Oh, if you know that risk is going up, you can buy (long term) credit default protection now, and sell it once the market recognizes the risk, too.

(You don't need an actual default for the credit default protection to appreciate in value, just more of a perception that the risk of a default has gone up.)
Bing Travel - specifically the price predictor tool.
Depends on what risks you are looking for. Singapore debt might be in sounder management, but of course the country is smaller; so more of a playball.
Here is the interesting thing, why now?

Let me give you a hint....what resource do Saudi's loose in the next 5 to 10 years?

Give up? Its the next thing to reach $100 per barrel..at least in several parts of the Middle East

Okay okay okay...Water, specifically the water table Saudi has relied upon for so long will be gone.
I'm sorry to hear that. That's just god awful. The pursuit of "justice" in this country can make you really sick to your stomach sometimes. I hope everything turns out well for you, my friend.
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What were you running to grab the images?
Where you processing with motion or something of the sort?
Anything else running on the model B?

I ask because I have about one dozen Raspberry Pis (Model B, B+, and I think on of the latest one?) working as webcams.
Yet I snap one photo per minute... and one 60 second video every 10-15 minutes.
They rsync off-site.

And they're all running in a security camera housing, under the sun/rain/shine, in front of beaches, inside a ziplock bag.
He said, in 209 characters.

You need to remove all nuance to fit any reasonably complex idea in 140 characters . And so we're left with soundbites and absolutes, the backbone of all good discussions!
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For big companies it's probably no so much they don't want to do it as they haven't set up their system such that they can do it. Large corporations want to see you as an interchangeable part, and anything that makes you less like an interchangeable part is a headache they feel they can do without.

I work at a very large company. They have divisions with different salary bands and benefits. When you move from one division to another it's like moving to a brand new company. I guarantee you if you negotiated extra vacation at my company they would eventually transfer your business unit to another division and you'd stop accruing the extra. HR would shrug and quote you the corporate policy.

You're probably much better off working for a smaller place where the CEO was involved in the salary negotiations.
It is nothing like functional alcoholism. Marijuana does not cause someone to become overconfident and make stupid decisions and take risks, and it doesn't cause any significant change in reaction time when used regularly. But, of course, a functional alcoholic would probably drive drunk slightly more safely than someone who rarely drinks. But the direct CNS effects of alcohol make alcohol a pretty direct safety risk in ways that marijuana is not.

Also, do you support the .08 legal limit for alcohol? That's about two drinks for most people. If you do, do you think Marijuana should be any different? Why could I have two drinks, but not two joints?
GAAP can be deceptive. Take Amazon for example which hasn't reported much profits, probably less than $2bn over 20 years, but is now worth $331bn.
I think it depends who you choose to follow. Twitter can be different things to different people. I've never been a big fan of Twitter myself, but I follow about a dozen programmers and a few sporting brands and I get some value from that.

Your argument of Twitter being better when only programmers used it doesn't really apply if you only follow programmers, does it?
This is yet another fascinating step in the disenagement of the US from Saudi Arabia (pity it took so long to happen). Drip by drip stories are emerging which are preparing for it. The Saudi 9/11 pages in the report. Diplomatic spats etc.

It's fascinating to watch such a deal with the devil break down. The long term natural ally for US in the Middle East is Iran. It seems the Washington establishment knows this.
I never liked anthropomorphic neotenized animals. Create a programming language with transformers or thundercats not a cat on meds (j/k, that project is cool, but you know what I mean!).

I learned to program with QBasic and I know many others learned to program with the ZX Spectrum or similar machines.

If kids can learn the abstractions of the English language, be high dans in Go, get accepted into college, and achieve incredible things, they can learn programming too.

I highly recommend the book "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman", especially the chapter about how he fixed radios. This really reflects the magic of learning as a kid.
Interesting read, thanks (I'm a monoglot, myself). It's odd, though, how Esperanto is always introduced as being the work of an 'oculist'.
Even acquisitions can be indicative of innovation. It takes a great deal of effort and vision alike to identify potential acquisitions and successfully build from them. Just buying the company is the easy part. Doing something with your new division, rather than just letting it continue to do its own thing, can be just as challenging as breaking new ground altogether, even if the nature of the challenges are different.
Tufts is doing some great research in this area. They've seen kids as young as 5 learn these concepts by manipulating tangible blocks - https://ase.tufts.edu/DevTech/publications/computersandeduca...
> Your argument of Twitter being better when only programmers used it doesn't really apply if you only follow programmers, does it?

That's a fair point.
National Police Misconduct Reporting Project
But given how fervently anti-development San Francisco itself also is, would it even have helped?
Now, Mumbai's heritage is just a click away
My guess is they will reduce those holdings - they have a large budget deficit they need to cover, before it bankrupts them. Defense and fuel subsidies make a large part of that deficit.

For a country of 30 million people with a lot of sun, I find it crazy they produce most of their electricity with oil and are the 6th largest oil consumer in the world. Much of that is simply wasted through inefficient power plants and AC.

Would do them well to use their foreign reserves (while they still have them) to cover their energy needs by building solar.
Well, small things are very competitive, everyone can do them and do them better than a large corporation optimized for innovation-killing efficiency. I guess it's only natural for a corporation to go big and do massive investments in big things, because there is almost no one on that level to compete on innovations, no matter how poor they are.
How does that compare with iOS? I mean, Google may be doing yeoman's work, but if that compares with near-zero (due to Apple's walled garden), it's still looks bad in comparison (esp with the huge Android installed base).
> … I suspect that the binary tree program is slowed by … I suspect that fasta and reverse-complement are slowed by …

Maybe it's the way the programs are written.

For example, binary-trees Go #6 program is no longer shown because it doesn't do what's required.
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. This article talks about housing in Japan depreciating rapidly: http://www.archdaily.com/450212/why-japan-is-crazy-about-hou..., a contrast to the U.S., where to some extent, properties gain in value. (Mostly the land value, but to a certain extent the structures as well).

I think it's reasonable that a 2+4 building built today last 20-30 years, is depreciated, and then torn down for an even more dense structure at that time. Over 30 years, building heights and technologies should be such that a more productive use of the space can be made.

In light of that, it doesn't make sense to spend extra for a “100-year-building.” Not everything needs to be a historic structure. We should recognize that some buildings should be [relatively] transient.
Sounds a bit like sociocracy, consensus for cities.
Sounds like they shut down the web sites of some central banks, which is a far cry from shutting down the banks themselves. The infrastructure for their public-facing web sites is almost certainly completely separate from their transaction-processing systems.
I wrote something on the memory leak vs. memory unsafety confusion a while ago, for those interested in exploring it more: http://huonw.github.io/blog/2016/04/memory-leaks-are-memory-...
Public sector unions have always seemed iffy to me. They put a lot of money into the political process, and unlike issues with competing interests there's really nobody on the other side, so they usually get their way. It's a case concentrated benefits and diffuse costs.

In California politicians don't cross the public sector unions, because the unions provide money for poltical campaigns. Schwartzenegger tried to reign them in and was pretty much mortally wounded in political terms.
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Just because we made a deal with Iran doesn't mean they are our ally, and I'd hardly call them our "natural" ally; their regime is only marginally less bad on human rights than Saudi Arabia. Iran still funds terror groups, much like Saudi Arabia. They are just part of two different tribes and despise one another. Really the U.S. mission should be to do whatever it takes to prevent Saudi Arabia and Iran from going to war. They are already in a proxy war in several locations, Iraq and Syria being the two largest.

I think that's what people in Washington know, has nothing to do with being their ally and everything to do with stopping an implosion. If Iran got a nuke, it's not likely they would give it to a terror group (from what I see) it's just incredibly likely that it will push Saudi Arabia to get one too and then we'll have quite the situation on our hands.
Twitter can be fun
The sad, slow way a system of cron scripts becomes ugly
This sounds like a bad way to launder money, the logistics and scale issues make it impractical. Besides I doubt transferring $→ETH→DAO→ETH→$ is adding any extra obfuscation compared to $→ETH→$.
100% agree. I think the best way to learn to code is to... write a lot of code. I'd bet that's how most of the self-taught people here learned.

Shameless plug: in Hack Club (https://github.com/hackclub/hackclub), our approach to teaching is to not actually "teach". Instead, we have a bunch of open-source workshops (https://workshops.hackclub.com) that walk high schoolers through the process of building a real thing (using real code), like a website or game. We don't expect them to understand everything that's happening. In fact, we expect learners to not understand 90% of what's happening -- our goal is to get people excited about hacking and have most of the learning happen when they're googling to build their own projects.
Is the writer trolling or what?
Honest question -- What exactly does DDOS'ing the public facing websites for these central banks accomplish?
Wow, awesome. At about 2min10s.
The question is whether you want learning programming at 14 to be as rare as getting accepted into college at 14.
Incidentally, neither u64 nor u32q are being updated -- that data is from before November 2015.
Gentrification step 13: vote out the pre-existing population's preferred politicians and install new "free market" policies (since the "free market" works in favor of the people with the money the new policies will benefit the richer new comers).
6.3K .. snappy.
there is actually no way to get a h264 stream(!) decoded with onboard html5.
using pepper plugins would limit your users to chrome.
another alternative might be flash but i dont blame anyone for not taking this alternative serious.
No generally available access port to that memory. In the x86 world (for some chips) there is a proprietary bus called the "frontside bus" which connects the CPU to something called the north bridge. Other chips export the memory controller directly with some number of "physical" bits which will constrain the total number of DIMMS that can be connected to the system.

ARM SoC's typically have a memory port that supports exactly one memory chip. So the most memory you will see on them is typically 2GB (32 bits x 512K) although from the Anandtech article on the A9x (http://www.anandtech.com/show/9824/more-on-apples-a9x-soc) it seems to support 4GB. Looking at the iFixit teardown (https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad+Pro+12.9-Inch+Teardown/...) on the iPad Pro it has two LPDDR4 chips (SK Hynix H9HCNNNBTUMLNR-NLH).

So that makes it one of the first I've seen that actually can take two chips. The issues generally are that they burn up a lot of pins and at the speeds the run signal integrity is really hard (for example all of the data and address PCB traces have to be the same length so the bits all arrive at the same time on the CPU side and the memory side!)
I don't see usage of new/free without encapsulation, this is not modern c++ which invalidates your point. Using naked new/free is depreciated in modern c++ and is problem of C not modern C++. What kind of statistics? Can you give any links that support what you wrote? All memory leaks/buffer overflows that i saw lately are associated with C (openssl, libc etc) not with C++. For iterator invalidation there are couple of simple rules to remember or for example you can use std::insert_iterator that will not be invalidated even if relocation occurs. You could use static analyzer and would avoid most of the problems.

EDIT: My point is that i have nothing to gain from rust when knowing c++ and memory management rules + i got good static analyzer. But probably for someone that do not know C++ at all Rust could be a better choice.
Some quick research turns up that this pays about $1300/month ... or around $40/hour. I'm basing the hourly on 4.3 weeks a month, 6 hours a week + one "full day" before class starts. There may be more hours involved (reviewing homework, helping students) making this an even worse value for the instructor. Does anyone have different information on the remuneration?
It's a plausible strategy as long as it's part of the plan. If you're in an environment that that makes construction difficult then cheap may not be the best choice.

Seattle still has too many taxes and fees for my liking. I appreciate the desire for below market rate units and and low income housing fees. But it's completely ass backwards. Taxes are disincentives. Don't disincentivize the thing you want more of!

Developers are slapped with extra fees if they want to build above a certain height. Complete opposite of what's correct. There should be a fee for not building high enough!

Le sigh.
Ruby is fast enough and it's a beautiful language with a few warts, just like any language.

Profiling and caching should be the first step to solving an existing app's problems.

Rails is a great framework because it gives developers rules, a simple pattern to follow.

All that being said, if I was starting an app today I wouldn't choose Rails or even Ruby. There are plenty of other options that are almost as expressive and easy to hire for without the speed penalty. If you hire good developers they can get up to speed on any language and any framework. If you don't hire good developers then you're paying a 2x-10x penalty for hiring bad developers and a slower language or framework. Who here hasn't ever worked with or hired a bad developer?

IO is the true bottleneck in most situations but so is a developer writing a view that queries the database for a list of things and then filters them in code instead of letting the database do it. I can't count on two hands the number of times I've seen a developer do this in the past 6 mo.

Your framework and your language are your platform. If you're stuck on a platform, accept it. Rewrites are hard. Hard for the business, hard for your users, hard for your developers. If you're starting from scratch do yourself a favor and pick something that doesn't chop you off at the knees to begin with. Bad code in (Go, elixir, c#, python) is faster than bad code in Ruby.

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This article was written in 2012. Mods, can you please update the link?
Since this only took down websites, it'll be interesting to see how this affects the price of bitcoin...
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