skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, when did "blockchain" become an uncountable noun? "blockchains" or "blockchain technology" sounds much more natural.

Anyways, I wish more people in the media would differentiate between the Merkel tree, providing the immutable ledger part, and the proof-of-work distributed consensus algorithm, which provides some degree of trust through burning an ever-increasing amount of power. Most of the benefits the author lists would be true of just the Merkel tree without needing the wasteful proof-of-work consensus system, if it's used between trusted parties. Also, even if there's not complete trust, it would still provide an audit trail so that appropriate actions could be taken against bad actors.

When the author later talks about governance boards, that just underscores the incongruity even more. While I'm sure governance boards could be shoehorned into some DAO-like system over distributed consensus, it seems a lot easier to just get rid of the whole distributed consensus altogether and give some digital signatures to the governance board that can sign/bless the Merkel tree.
> Ord a is a witness that type a is well-ordered, which is to say that for any two as, one is definitely less than or equal to another.

What the author described here is a linear order, not a well ordering, despite linking to the correct Wikipedia page.
On top of that, they have the fastest SSDs in a laptop. It's not optimal, but swap is still extremely viable. Also, doesn't macOS have memory compression on top of that?
Every good dev I know makes 100K+ and cost of living is much less.
This looks a little more promising https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CQTK6GU/
Blindly buy and hold has actually been a pretty good investment strategy for the last few decades.

Besides, not watching or worrying about your stocks has benefits on your sanity as well as your wallet.
Vocational training is certainly part of your toolkit to increase jobs prospects for unemployed underemployed people who are willing to work, but it's not the whole toolkit. It helps, but you need more than that.
You think it's a victory for the republican party? Given how many from the establishment publicly disowned Trump, or simply failed to support him as the party's nominee, it's a bit of a stretch to say the republican party won.
Spotted the front-end developer.
Destroying the Electoral College would be one more step in destroying the federal nature of the Unites States. Perhaps you think that's a good thing, but I think it's a terrible idea: I think that we should be more, not less, federal. What works for the people of Massachusetts is not what works for the people of California, or the people of Wyoming.

I'd like to see state legislatures selecting electors again.

Also, the Constitution states, 'No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops, or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.' Has Congress consented to this interstate compact?
History Shows What Will Happen Next: Brexit, Trump, Other Nationalist Movements
Not a good idea. As a personal anecdote, I had my 1TB HP simplesafe drive crash and I lost lot of precious pictures from recent years [Before moving to cloud]. The drive was Western Digital and none of the recovery software worked. You run the risk of drive failures with these and also not easy to migrate data once data grows or hardware evolves.
This may be slightly off-topic (and it's admittedly an older incident), but the fiasco with the Aegis missile cruiser, the USS Yorktown, often comes to mind when I read of high-value or mission-critical systems using Windows of any kind. Sadly, the Yorktown is certainly not unique with respect to major projects relegated to using Windows OSes- it just happens to be a particularly vibrant example of the potential results.

https://gcn.com/Articles/1998/07/13/Software-glitches-leave-...
I can't help but plug my take on why enterprise blockchains are almost entirely bullshit: https://medium.com/@qertoip/enterprise-blockchains-are-a-hug...
Every good dev I know makes 100K+, some make 150K+ and cost of living is much less.
Corruption, lack of a single payer system that dramatically increases efficiency in the "socialist" countries. Insane health insurance system (ties into corruption).

It's doubtful they can/will fix any of this.
America is a country controlled by lobbyists.

The politicians don't matter at the end of the day, look at Obama, had the right idea, could only implement a relatively mediocre system because anything good was politically untenable.
The fact that politics can trump (lol) the health of the nation is enough for me to never want to live there.
From the description on website, it appears to not bundle the computer, just the case and hdd. So, if we consider the HDD to be 60EURO max, having compared to other WD blue mobile disks (couldn't find the exact model listed anywhere), then that leaves you with 10EURO for the case. The total of 70EUROs may or may not include shipping, I couldn't figure that out without trying to place an order. It's not cheap, but that pricing isn't expensive either. If it includes a Pi 2, then it's cheap.
But that's still on paper. Thiel may be wrong in that a wall gets built anyway. But he seems right in predicting that people who prioritize immigration policy will vote for Trump even if they know he can't fulfill his promise, because some reform is better than nothing. I don't think that prediction in itself is genius, but yeah, too many in the media were too self-assured that only wall-building extremists would vote for Trump, thus, leaving Clinton with the majority.
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/legal-734790-marijuana-op...

Under Prop 64: "Employers can still enforce their own drug policies, including firing workers who test positive for weed."

Which is as it should be, a business owner ought to be able to make decisions about what employees to hire or retain.

But will we see being a marijuana user becoming a protected class against which you can't discriminate?
He didn't have to outrun the proverbial bear. He only had to outrun Hillary.
He's had so many contradictory positions and has so clearly made up certain positions solely to manipulate voters that no one really knows how he'll govern.
I think the statement should mean neither. He is saying marriage institution being a government subsidy is absurd and should be shot in the head. No one should "get married" in government standards. We should not assist someone in any way for having a child. We should enforce population control as light handed as possible. Okay that's just how I feel about everything actually, nevermind.
The Wall Street "elite" I think have mixed feelings toward him. On the one had he's against taxes and has vowed to remove some of the "worst" ones (estate tax, repatriation, etc).

On the other hand he's been protectionist and not afraid to attack trade agreements that benefit large global corporations at the expense of American workers.
This x1000000. It's not about legalization, it's about decriminalization.
I am going to take this moment to specifically ask what about my treatment of BBSes shaves your goat.
I'm sure there are people that want to live in the wilds of Alaska, but have all of the benefits of living in NYC with regards to jobs, but that doesn't mean it's possible or even likely.

What you want and what reality is don't have to match up.
Well yes, people lose they jobs and have to seek new opportunities. And that's good in the larger scheme of thing.

Just let's not downplay the effect it can have to have to rethink the way you earn your livelihood, it's nothing short of a personal crisis. Some people have a really hard time adapting, others not so much. But that doesn't mean government should protect you from that.
As someone on the employer side of the table I see two frequent problems with university educated candidates that generally don't land the job

As someone who has sat on both sides of this table, let me point out that pathologies in hiring are very, very hard for a company to spot. After all, who is going to advocate the contrarian position? The ones not hired aren't there. Observers who are there often don't have anything immediate to gain and lots of political capital to potentially lose.

complete lack of practical knowledge or skills.

If those skills are valuable and hard to find, then it's an advantage to be able to impart those, for both a company and a country.
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Cool, may i participate somehow?:P
I know this is futzy to ask.. but why downvote this to 0? I think Tim is brilliant.
The other guys managed to design one with a < 3mm profile. It should be possible, shouldn't it?

The big problem would be with the voltage. But it looks like the USB-3.1 spec supports 20 volts (same as the 85W brick that comes with high end MBPs), and the mac power bricks only send 3-7V until they've had a handshake with the computer.

So it seems at least within the realm of physics that you could make a dongle about the size of the old magsafe-1 to magsafe-2 adapter...
Thanks. Really good points.

One striking observation to me is the lack of ideological purity in Trump's economic plan. You (correctly) describe it as socialist.

Similarly, Hitler's economic views were inconsistent or incoherent. He ran vehemently against "Marxist" socialists and against "Jewish" capitalists, arguing that the Marxists were acting as a front for the capitalists. Meanwhile, he inflated unemployment numbers, claimed the economy was doing worse than it was, and promised infeasible fixes devoid of specificity.

I'm not arguing all of Trump's supporters are primarily motivated by bigotry. But I think they're willing to tolerate bigotry in the name of economic progress, and unfortunately they may get the bigotry without the progress.
>There will always be a distribution of skills and it is not for the well educated to say "you just need to be like us".

This is akin to saying, "It's not for the doctor to tell you how to live your life." True enough; but you ignore their advice at your own peril.

That an education is a path to economic stability and mobility is not a matter of opinion. To write this off as snobbery is shooting the messenger.

There will always be a distribution of skills. And that distribution of skills required by the market needs to match the education of the populace. "Smart" is a superlative; "educated in a particular field" is merely an attribute.

Manufacturing is not coming back. We need to move on, and soon.
Firstly, we don't have open borders. Secondly, why not? Lots of other social programs work with the present "border situation". No illegal immigrants are drawing social security or medicaid.
I think he means, it isn't an issue that they will address. It is a built up for election sake, but will be ignored otherwise.
I think modern transportation and communication have contributed to our increasingly divided society... by extending our interactions over larger areas, those tools allow us to naively fall into our own physical "filter bubbles".

Modern transportation contributed towards physical obesity. Technology became so efficient and so cheap that we became isolated from physical reality... we have to work out in order to stay physically fit.

I propose that modern communication has had a similar impact. We've been binging on the conflict-free interactions we enjoy, but we haven't been eating our veggies or working out. This is a mental "obesity epidemic".

We drive between similarly minded social gatherings. We keep contact with similarly minded people by calling them. We're in constant communication with our social groups with little time for disruptive ideas to slip in... each of us is deeply connected to our pocket of the world, but many of us are equally disconnected from the rest of the world.
Earlier indicator that traders expect higher volatility under Trump https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/what-do...
Its ignorant for you to assume that people on the right are ignorant and honestly the attitude of people like you were one of the driving forces of me supporting and voting for trump.

Here I am, working as a software engineer, with a BS in computer science, fluent in multiple languages, able to criticaly evaluate evidence in order to make decisions, and just as educated as you are, and you automatically assume that just because I'm on the right I am ignorant.

Its people like you that have poisoned the well of society.
I actually have some money in Germany that I was waiting to bring back until after the election, hoping for a Trump win and a collapse of the Dollar relative to the Euro, but some of the stuff I've read suggests that it might actual do better? I don't know...it's all a little confusing to me.
They started paring losses almost immediately as he was making his victory speech, which was refreshingly magnanimous.

I believe the markets wanted stability more than anything else. If he would have mentioned during his speech his desire to prosecute Hillary etc, I think that would have really affected the markets in a very bad way.
It might be what "should" be done but given the election results last night I'm not sure it's a winning recipe for electoral success. A big part of the country is not down with pulling harder to the left.
What's sad is we just experienced that with Brexit http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/23/brexit-two-months-on-markets-...
I think it depends what kinda code you write. Also, what kinda management structure you find yourself in.

Sounds like you're writing code with hard specs (enterprise company?) where you just feel like a cog in this vast code outputting machine. In that case, it's totally natural to feel like you're dying inside. That's natural. We're creative beings, and you either need to find a different job or calibrate other dimensions of your life to meet that need (physical fitness, start a family, serious hobbies, be part of a community).
It's really nobody's business but your own what you do on your own time. Particularly when the interested party is your employer. I've never been asked and, on principle, certainly wouldn't submit myself to that sort of screening.
> ...was clearly intended...

So says you. But have you been appointed to the US Supreme Court? If so, your opinion hardly matters.
Not taking everything they say literally isn't the same as taking nothing he says literally, which is what your quote said.
exactly, in so many situations, why do we have to make things black or white? this is exactly what creates "us" vs "them".
Are you okay with missing messages, or do you only ever communicate with people over an always-on wired connection?
Microsoft doesn't care about privacy? They stood with Apple against FBI so you know. They are more reliably data protective than Amazon or Google in their agreements. They don't know what your data is on the cloud for example. Amazon stole Target's data and used it against them.
I have been thinking about whether the distinction between "consumer" (eg IdeaPad) and "business" (eg ThinkPad) machines even makes sense. This is not even limited to Lenovo of course.
Working for pharmaceutical manufacturers requires a drug test, and I assume there are other industries with similar requirements
or use an external keyboard, which is what I plan on doing.
Oh come on. Anyone using a data driven approach to predict the election was putting money on Hillary. If Palantir had data to predict a trump win, then that would be interesting to hear about.
> deliberately

How do you know that? Can you really not imagine that someone can misinterpret something without malicious intention?

Can you believe that I agree with OP that Bernie was the better candidate, yet still disagree about a particular argument?
The basis for saying that about Clinton seems to be her somewhat more interventionist stance regarding places like Syria and Libya.

My basis for saying it about Trump is his extreme insecurity, and saying things like "When you're in business, you get even with people that screw you. And you screw them 15 times harder." or "And by the way, with Iran, when they circle our beautiful destroyers with their little boats and they make gestures that our people -- that they shouldn't be allowed to make, they will be shot out of the water."

It sure looks to me that the things people say about Clinton are mostly inferences they've drawn, whereas the things people say about Trump are just things Trump said.
I think more obvious examples of Trumpian bigotry are things like the claim that "thousands of Muslims" celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey.

That has little to do with how many generations you've had to live in the US before you qualify as "founding stock."

(Out of curiosity, though, where is your cut-off line? Is it only first-generation immigrants, or somewhere farther back? I haven't heard this "founding stock" argument before.)
When I was a kid my family stayed in a hostel in Billund (where Legoland, Denmark is). We got a 4-bunk room to ourselves.
It means "manure" in Dutch :)
This was a bit TL;DR.

I think a better summary is that "liberal elites" (although really moderate republicans) has conclusively failed. And it lost in 2000 and 2004 and this is a pattern of it failing.

And the problems are that they've completely lost the blue collar male vote. There's no labor party here in the US at all. And the problem goes all the way back to Bill's vote for NAFTA and his center-right policies. The Democratic party has been losing the actual working class ever since then.

The Democratic Party should really stop lecturing the working class, and start promising the working class that they'll have jobs and won't see their kids sent off to die in foreign wars.
> What will Alex Jones think now that Trump is in power

Alex Jones needs clicks and pageviews so it will be more of the same

> Will there be no more school shootings because Obama/Hillary and the federal government are no longer trying to take our guns away?

it will be because of democrats in the senate or house, or at the state or local level. Plenty of scapegoats to go around

> Will ISIS no longer attack the US because Trump is being "tough" on them and the president is no longer refusing to say the words "radical islamic terrorism"?

it will still be their fault for letting isis happen in the first place

> So many intriguing questions

Maybe for people who are new to politics. The same script will repeat in 8-16 years
"It creates no obligation on plaintiffs' part to monitor, edit, withdraw or block the content supplied by hosts"

This is a correct interpretation of the Safe Harbor laws. If Airbnb was a message board and people just happened to arrange short-term rentals through it they would be fine. An ISP fits this as well because they are not actively invested to what is happening on their networks, only maintaining the networks. Likewise what their users contribute is irrelevant to the rejection.

There is just no way you can argue away the fact that Airbnb is not a direct contributor to the market. They collect fees directly related to the service provided of providing short-term rentals classed as 'Booking Service' in the letter of the law of the pdf.

The logic is very simple: if you are thing classified as a booking service then you need to follow these regulations. An ISP cannot be classed as a booking service under the letter of the law.

obligatory IANAL.
The real problem is these jobs are never coming back. Why is Wal-Mart the biggest company in the USA? Because the American public wants cheap crap. That's it. No matter what folks say they will pay $2 less for something from China vs. a more expensive product made in the USA.

Until you can convince Americans as a whole that they will have to pay more for goods made in the USA to employ Americans, jobs which were once done in the USA but are now cheaper to be done overseas will never see a return. Trade wars or import taxes won't fix that it will only exacerbate the problem.
I'm guessing the forks are a form of bookmarking. At least for my part, I fork every single repository that might even be slightly interesting for me in the future. Hell, I even fork repos that I explicitly hate, just so I can keep tabs on them or learn more about them.
It definitely was a bad move. I can't say I disagree with the sentiment, but it was not a smart thing to say.
Even if we ignore the wifi feature, most cameras let you connect directly the computer and transfer images. you don't need SD card slot or a dedicated card reader.

I have a full frame camera and the raw images are ~30 MB. I wouldn't want to transfer 32GB of data over wifi anyway.
Most Western health systems are universal and more or less exclusively government-funded. This means that the entire population is in the same risk pool, reducing costs for the more vulnerable users and increasing the incentives to implement more preventative medical practices. As de facto monopolies, these systems can do a much better job of controlling the costs of salaries, equipment, and drugs. And, because the systems don't need to turn a profit, they can operate at cost.

Our private health care system, however, has a cycle of perverse incentives -- employers, insurers, patients, and doctors -- that leads to spiraling costs with no increased benefits. The populations with the highest health risks (i.e. costs) are shoved onto the public rolls, in the form of Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA. Meanwhile, the lowest-risk populations are forced to pay into private, for-profit insurance schemes. Specialists have outsized bargaining power, which leads to grossly outsized salaries. Equipment and drug manufacturers can play hospitals and systems off of each other to bid up prices. And, of course, shareholders want a return on their investment.

This problem has everything to do with economic and tax policy in the US.
And his plan for doing it requires widespread privatization.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2016/11/04/donald_trump_...

Ask the residents of Central Texas about what happened when they privatized the toll system. Personal data leaks, false charges sent to collections, terrible customer service. It was only after widespread outcry for government oversight(!) by Republicans that anything got done about it.
The actual research presentation is here (by Nokia Bell Labs researchers Silke Holtmanns, Bhanu Kotte and Siddharth Rao):

[pdf]: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-Holtmann...
Sure, so am I. My Air has 4GB RAM and it's mostly fine - I was hoping to see an upgrade in October, but 8GB would suffice.

My only point was that this really isn't something that Intel does or even should care about, it's the result of Apple's decisions; isn't even necessarily their "problem".
They were actually less than Romney's.
In my state, you go to the county board of elections website and get data about 10 minutes after its run.

For realtime data, I think the political people and press show up in person. I went with my cousin once. Some clerk taped a sheet on the wall.
This thread is discussing Sanders, not Trump.
I know it's sad and upsetting. But propaganda these days is extremely powerful and I don't know how to counter it. If I oppose this kind of propaganda, do I try to counter it with my own propaganda? What are the other choices?
Less government regulatation, government doing less and citizens doing more? Sounds like a political ideology I've heard of before...name is slipping me right now.