skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even Paypal, who ostensibly should be doing this, charges $0.30 for payments for goods and services.

PayPal is doing this. At least, via their subsidiary Venmo. The first thing I thought of when you said "try sending $.001 to someone once" was "huh, I do that all the time on Venmo. Couldn't be simpler."
>I think I saw an earlier HN thread that suggested that they might put occupants at greater risk of kidnapping because the cars could refuse to take evasive actions that endanger or injure a kidnapper

What alternative would a human take? Would they kill the kidnappers by driving over them?
This is awesome! But I do wonder what his safety nets look like. For instance, I grew up poor so even though I have a good job and have saved a lot I'm always in fear of getting knocked back down to where I was. How does he save for retirement (or is he even)? What about medical bills? What about your car simply breaking down? Can you actually pay for that?

It seems like he has put everyone else over his own well being which is definitely commendable. I certainly couldn't do that.
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The problem is made worse by unwillingness to grow the supply. The market is so distorted by NIMBYs and regulations, so you need some counterbalance, but Santa Monica has gone way too far.

The NIMBYism also backfires spectacularly - the old papermate factory conversion debacle is prime example here in SM.

Instead of getting a nice pedestrian street with more restaurants and a park, the factory is now being "renovated" and converted to half a million sq. ft. Of creative space (a.k.a. rows of desks packed like canned sardines) and will do more damage to traffic than the previous project and produce no new housing or affordable units, and absolutely zero utility for the surrounding communities.

Source: http://www.santamonicanext.org/2015/03/new-plans-filed-for-p...
Yawn. This company died eight years ago.
The author describes performance problems with existing heap (malloc) implementations, then describes their own memory allocation algorithm system like this:

- things of roughly similar total chunk sizes (constant + dynamic part) are stored in one "bucket", laid out contiguously in fixed-size slots, with a little leeway for growth inside

- there are buckets for each existing size of a thing

- if a thing outgrows the slot size of its bucket, it simply migrates to the bucket with the next bigger slot size

Isn't this exactly how many (most?) modern malloc implementations work? ... A series of buckets for different sizes of objects, combined with bitfields or free lists to keep track of which slots in each bucket are free?
Let's say you're Alice. You have a channel open with Bob. Bob is connected to Carol (OKPay).

You update your channel to tell Bob, I will pay you conditional upon a proof that you paid Carol. Bob pays Carol and provides proof. If Bob didn't provide proof after an agreed timeframe, this gets cancelled. There can be an arbitrary number of people between you and Bob (7-degrees of Kevin Bacon, but probably don't go too high!).

This is done completely off-blockchain. At any time this can be moved on-blockchain, but since the blockchain will enforce the payment as part of its transaction scripting language, you both elect to do it off-blockchain. Think of this with the system intent/design where it represents an enforcible caching layer where invalid cache can be corrected on-blockchain.

You can do thousands, even millions of these transactions off-blockchain. Only the final balance is net-settled on the blockchain. So you finalize your balance between Alice and Bob if you want to close out the channel. Note that the channel between Bob and Carol could still be left open and everything still works fine!

Since it's scalable in a routed graph (think switches instead of hubs), you could potentially do millions to billions of transaactions which route value, much like routing packets on the internet.
It might still profitable to rent the house for the busy season and let it sit vacant the other half of the year. A friend who owns three VRBOs in Santa Cruz basically does that. (he's a decent guy but an opportunistic and terrible landlord)
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Don't worry, under Trump these long missed 'interrogation methods' will come back. (If you belief they stopped)

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/...

People never learn...
We had a contest at the office, the challenge was to create the most complex illustration with css and a single div, so I created http://javier.xyz/img2css/ (I have to admit that is not as fun nor interesting to create 'single divs' with img2css).
We started indexing gobs of Youtube videos and made the world's most luxurious, diamond encrusted video search engine. The audio is stripped and digested with Deepgram (that's us—hi!). When you search, you're brought right to when people are talking about your precious little search term.

The index is 4 million+ seconds of video and growing.
Bitcoin doesn't offer chargebacks though, and nor do any of the exchanges. I think GP's point is that Linden money is equivalent to BTC, just centralized. And they can send small amounts of money.

If you mean Linden would have issues with chargebacks for people exchanging real money -- why wouldn't any BTC exchange have the same problem? It seems unlikely you'll be able to buy $0.01 of BTC.

In fact, any centralize system that throws out chargebacks should have zero problems scaling. A few years ago VISA said their target was around 50K tx/sec peak (though their daily peak is only a few thousand). It'd be slightly odd for a centralized system to not be able to easily scale to that volume.

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding the thread.
From another angle: their being your friend doesn't grant them partnership privileges.
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Except that property rental always have a final thing to attack: Ownership of the property.

There are certainly businesses that may become hard to force to comply with laws due to Bitcoin, but property rentals are far down the list, given that there are few things that are harder to move out of "troublesome" jurisdictions.
Tesla's Autopilot isn't as safe as the company claims
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Not a hardware engineer, but I'm going to wager that it has something to do with failure rates.

Modulo correct wiring, if you have a massive stack of D-cells and one dies, it's not a big deal. If your sole source of power dies, then you either have to send out a repair crew (expensive!) or have no data until the buoy is replaced on-schedule.
These transactions have affected parties that are not voluntary participants, such as the neighbours. That is the problem.
Or: rapid relationship quality check filtering by MITM stress testing techniques
Trump is an obvious tool to railroad Hillary into office.

Like a hurricane projecting so many joules of energy into an ocean of assholes, that their obnoxious storm surge washes away more credible, but presumptive opponents right of center.

He'll never win, and that's the point.
I thought their minimum was $0.01 last I checked, I stand corrected!

Venmo also explicitly discourages you from sending money to people whom you don't have a social relationship with due to chargeback risks. They're a long ways away from being a general payment platform for goods and services online with people whom you don't have a prior relationship with, and as part of that will likely drop it from their business model. There's a reason why Paypal has been talking about doing it for 15 years but haven't actually done it (paypal doesn't charge any fees for payments to your friends but charges fees if you're paying for goods and services).
Even if people could, I don't think most people would, but for a few people who might be considered [some-color-race]-philes.

And, changing your personality to "fit in" is a lot harder than you might imagine.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062631
Is that insurance affordable for Volvo in America? Liability payouts here can be huge.

Volvo putting 100 cars on the road in Sweden in 2017 doesn't necessarily mean they're close to shipping autopilot in the US. Insurers may request more testing to give an affordable price.

From what I've read, Tesla isn't insured. My guess is that has either to do with cost or insurers' reluctance to put a value on a brand new feature

From a Fortune article [1],

> Tesla noted that it does not carry insurance against such events. Were the company to be sued because of a death related to, say, its autopilot feature, it could result in a “substantial monetary award” that would have to be paid from “company funds, not by insurance.”

[1] http://fortune.com/2016/07/06/tesla-autopilot-crash-material...
Perhaps a lower limit then. No more than 10 weeks per year maybe. Or 8.
From a PR perspective this is a horrible move any way you slice it. If I were on the board I would be fuming right now.
That's... not accurate. There's a reason every time FreeBSD made SMP improvements, ONTAP was quick to follow. Spinnaker != 7-mode, and cDOT took SpinNP and very little else from that codebase. I don't know what history of ONTAP you followed but it's not accurate.

There's a reason NetApp has been one of the largest contributors to FreeBSD both in terms of code and monetary support since long before they acquired Spinnaker.
Information asymmetry sometimes defines an entire market (like salaries!). When you take away that asymmetry you change the market.

I don't know if that's a good or a bad thing, but I assume that is what the GP is getting at.
The presumption would be the underwriting risk is batched and pushed to one point (the exchange point). It's economically feasible to underwrite a single transaction for hundreds of dollars to buy Bitcoin (exchanges doing AML/KYC). It's much more uneconomical to underwrite a $0.001 payment -- as a result building a real marketplace for this becomes difficult even if there would be a lot of users.
I still think of null as undefined, which is very different from zero. When you average, for example, nulls are ignored. If you replace null with zero, you get incorrect averages.
And that reminds me of this gem: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/53-in-the-desert/
The site talks about billions of transactions per second. So presumably multiple tx/sec/person on earth. Can you give me some examples of how this is useful? For instance, why would a CDN want to handle and record a financial transaction for e.g. every HTTP load or something?

I'm also suspicious of pay-per-whatever extending to end-users. People hate that kind of billing, even when it's cheaper (I learned this the hard way). And between companies, again, what's the benefit of having thousands of transactions when a couple would do?
(Hej; fellow Dane here!)

> Zendesk is also Danish originally, Tradeshift is, Podio.. they all end up leaving because the market opportunity in Denmark is very small (6mio) and there isn't easy enough access to talent when you need to scale up

Podio mostly had a sales-office in SF; most development was in Copenhagen (until Citrix moved most of it to North Carolina half a year back or so)

While I'm not aware of their legal statuses, both Zendesk and Tradeshift has non-trivial amounts of development in Copenhagen.

Realm moved (and was part of Ycombinator, even) and then moved back to Copenhagen.

Falcon.io always had most of their development in Copenhagen and only really moved sales elsewhere.

It generally seem to me that they take a few semesters stateside to get known/funding/... and them move back. I've heard access to talent, employee mentality and "founders' wanted kids to grow up sane" amongst reasons for moving wholly/partially back.
Lead acid has something like 1/4-1/3 the energy density, higher self-discharge rates, are more expensive, and are worse for the environment. The advantage is very high power density (nice for starting cars) and rechargeability, neither of which would be useful here.
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The outline of Null island is taken from Myst. Even the ship is there, but it has become a peninsula (a stoneship, perhaps).

https://www.google.com/images?q=Myst+island+map
It's not surprising that Zillow's AVM [1] isn't accurate for this sale. The model needs local comparable sales data to function properly which it didn't have in this case; it's not everyday that mansions are bought and sold. The next best thing it can do is look at the last recorded sale (or tax assessor's indication of value) and project out by looking at market trends and applying some other proprietary mumbo-jumbo to come up with a price.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_valuation_model
Or the realisation that WE are that corrupt and inept bunch. It's not like government workers are a 'special elite' class...
Thanks for taking the time. I think I understand it now though I'll spend some more time having a read through the site when I have a bit more time.
> It seems like he has put everyone else over his own well being which is definitely commendable.

It's really not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_egoism
Would the one off Amazon be as fast? Is Crucial RAM as high-binned as Apple RAM is?
Believe they are working on a mono upgrade as per this[1] tweet:

"@dsyme working on Mono upgrade which should help. [..]"

[1] https://twitter.com/jon_cham/status/743965646854234114
>Can you give me some examples of how this is useful?

Marketing.
The two are not mutually exclusive. I don't think gluing everything together is purely engineering decision.
Agreed. The property is unmovable. However, how would they get the information that someone is short-term renting a particular room, flat, or house?

It is not enough to prove that this guest is staying in that location. He may just claim to be a friend, especially, if he stands to lose a security deposit on the platform when claiming anything else. The regulator will also have to prove that this person has been paying for his guesthood.

You see, in so-called no-go zones in western Europe, the police no longer walk around on foot, because of the dangerous youngsters (usually of Muslim creed), who become impossibly aggressive if they see the police venturing in what they consider to be their neighbourhood. In other words, these places are a bit like Bagdad, where you need armoured vehicles and entire platoons to collect something as menial as outstanding city tax bill. Therefore, physically inspecting houses for guests may not necessarily be feasible either. They would not want angry Hispanics running after them with big knives ...
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http://finance.yahoo.com/quote/Z/financials

Quarterly data says last 4 quarter net income is -47M, -25M, -26M, -38M.

It might be fine that they're losing money because they're growing (LNKD never was profitable but made off well eh?). Still doesn't mean they're not losing money.
> For latency sensitive microblogging, we can support up to 10,000 users with less than one second latency with 160 byte messages.

This is not a general-purpose mix network.
Is it too late to skip law school?

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/04/the-jobs...
Renders fine on a $99 Windows phone. Crashes the browser on my iPad. The world is a funny place.
> almost always have their base font size in their browser set high already

I've come across people who don't - but still, maybe this is generally the way to go.

Thanks for your detailed feedback and encouragement. I've made 2 issues at https://github.com/OpenACalendar/OpenACalendar-Web-Core/issu... and https://github.com/OpenACalendar/OpenACalendar-Web-Core/issu... - but if you had time to comment on the Google Group that would be great :-)
Well this is in comparison to my home in rural Vermont where the signal is always very spotty. I realize people enjoy it but ultimately this was not voted on and thus saying "you asked for it therefore you must deal with the compromise" is a bit shitty. I think I'd enjoy it too if I didn't know the tradeoff, and even then gigabit WiFi would be pretty cool. However Google are not doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, if they were they would not put ads on it. Of course then the taxpayers would have to foot the bill, which would be severely unjust considering the undemocratic nature of this product's implementation in NYC.
You are comparing apples to oranges. The python line is a good representation of a part of a larger program, while the neural network you are talking about is not a good representation of any part of a larger neural network. You wont get that solution if you train it normally without knowing how to solve the problem yourself. Try setting up a network with 3 layers of nodes and 120 nodes in each layer and train it to output "Hello, world!" using a standard training method, you wont get something easily comprehensible from that.
Please tell us the name of the company, so that we can give them our business if we need the type of products they sell.
But if those trades included insider trading or market manipulation then they were hidden from the regulators' investigations.

Barings was brought down by trades in a special "error account" 88888 that was excluded from (different) reporting.
The author clarified on Reddit [0] that the lists are separated per type, so a list will only contain data for a single actor. So the actors are likely looping over lists and processing each entry, which should look to the CPU like any other array-processing code and optimize pretty well. It's a bit deceptive, since actors would typically be isolated. Instead, it seems like the "big idea" here is simply separate different data types into different lists and process them with different threads, using message queues as the concurrency mechanism.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4sp25q/xpost_r...
I guess that's the simplest one that a self-driving car's software might not approve of. Or intentionally collide with a kidnapper's vehicle, or just make a prohibited turn or run a red light to try to escape.

These scenarios are kind of vague because they don't make it clear whether the self-driving car lets a human driver take over and take full responsibility.
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The model was off by 5%.

Sounds like a pretty good estimate to me, particularly considering the paucity of back data for this kind of inventory.
Thank you for free unlimited private repos and GitLab CI. This made me switch from GitHub.
The way people write "Science" capitalising the first letter, and says things like "one day Science will solve these problems for us", sound a lot like putting faith in a religion to me. What is religion but philosophy mixed with some faith?
"If you’re building in-house software that has to run only on single platform then many of the above points may become non-issue for you."

I find this quote quite surprising if he speaks about Go.
As long as your customer got Python (with the right version) and all of the dependencies installed, everything is fine. But if you bring 3rd party dependency (say.. requests?) you are in a world of pain. If you add non-pure python dependency that's even worse.

While with Go, you just need to compile your stuff? (assuming your libraries support your target system)

Am I missing here something?
No need for username/passwords. The flow would literally be you paid? You're done. No more per-website API tokens.

Pay per website you visit, you visit a lot of different websites.

The notion is that you make each payment to be the smallest atomic component, so you need high-volume for that (since one large purchase gets split into many small purchases).

End-users don't like being scammed. If it's sufficiently low value with sufficiently high service level, you will get adoption. Appstore payments of $0.99 don't even register for a lot of people (with the exception of egregious Pay-to-Win games), if the payment was $0.001 and you only end up spending $0.10 in a day nobody would care. If you're getting billed per-hour on AWS, people prefer that to per-month.

The benefit between companies isn't for persistent relationships. It's the notion that you're reducing information cost (instead of paying a large payment with signon, you don't care who your counteparty is -- if they don't deliver who cares you're only out $0.001). In the longer-term, this is about reframing how you discover business relationships in the first place due to information/transaction costs.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply.
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Those kinds of modifications are of a completely different category than modifications to an autonomous driving system. There aren't serious civil or criminal penalties to deter "ridiculous wheel/tire packages" because they don't really have the same potential to cause serious problems.
That is well known to many Saudis, you will have to create another account in the app to regain ability to make calls.
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For animations that touch only primitive transformations (scale/translation/rotation/opacity), the browser will usually render the element once on CPU, upload it to the GPU as a texture, and then composite it with the rest of the page on the GPU. That makes things like the spinning BB-8 or the blinking NO VACANCY basically free on the CPU.
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I have an itch to design a game. I have got the basic idea behind the game but I don't want to just start coding without thinking of monetization.
Any advice from gaming experts here?

Thanks,
"National health expenditures will hit $3.35 trillion this year, which works out to $10,345 for every man, woman and child."

This is over $10,000 per person on health care costs in one year.
Too late to edit, so I'll put that up here: we do migrate your local SSD but it's best effort and it takes a while (something like 30 minutes maybe?). But for comparison, our SSDs have crazy amounts of read/write bandwidth (1 gigabyte per second) compared to a single spinning disk. And while your VM is still going, it's not that disruptive to be re-syncing an SSD, randomly seeking around a hard drive while someone is trying to use it for say streaming reads will take their reasonable performance and tank it.

tl;dr: Yes, we do this for our scratch disk SSDs, but you wouldn't want to rely on this for a guaranteed durable storage (as it'll take a really really long time to move 100 GiB of HDD).
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I don't know much about the paper factory, but unwillingness to grow supply feels like a pretty common issue amongst larger cities. Where I live it feels rather protectionist, I imagine that applies in this case, too.
The plane is zero centimeters from a hard surface at the beginning and end of the flight.
However, applying just the first part of the title statement - a rational nation - would be world-changing...

Aside from making direct democracy such as Swiss-style referenda possible, the most terrifying outcome (to political elites) would be in national defense/offense.

A E van Vogt covered this in 'The World of Null-A': an invading army was confronted with a populace that mobilized instantly, utilizing every available implement that could be used as a weapon, and able to make rational decisions regarding local defense without an overarching leadership.

As for offensive actions: if enough whys had been asked before and during WWI (and countless other conflicts), millions of soldiers would not have needlessly perished.

Developing and cultivating rationality, and super-rationality (as detailed by Douglas Hofstadter), is largely a matter of early education... Schools and teachers could change the world!