skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mortgage point illustrates the issue nicely.

However, I think if I had a reliable income that was measured and paid out in BTC, then the answer would be yes.

That's really the benchmark for when BTC can be used as a proper currency, when people are prepared to set their value in BTC.

At the moment it makes a decent transfer mechanism for funds where the quantity is calculated relative to another currency at the time of transfer.

If Bitcoin were to become a standard currency it will necessarily have to go though more volatility. Bitcoin's value, should it succeed, is significantly higher than where it is now (conversely, should it fail, lower). When its value does not match its utility it must eventually move. Stability increases utility. These oppossing forces will cause occilations like a plucked string. The occilations should deminish over time as the forces reach equilibrium. The point of balance is anyone's guess right now.
As a zip car member, I wish it did all those things, but it is a far cry from the self-driving future GP is talking about.
I'm also worried about tesla's market share, but more because I don't know if they can corner all the markets they are about to compete in: automotive manufacturing, batteries and set driving systems are all hard enough problems for an entire company. It's a lot to get right.
>“On the other hand, I mean, people have been implanting things into their body, like pacemakers and stuff to control your heart,” he said. “That's a way, way more serious thing than having a small chip that can actually communicate with devices.”

People don't get pacemakers for fun. They get pacemakers because they're medical devices that ensure their hearts beat properly.
I can log into my Windows device just by looking at it. Surely there are less intrusive ways of authenticating a person before we start embedding technology.
No, it's really not just as easy--not in advertising.
I am not cynical, but I got enough rational programming in life to know that quasi-literate Roman demagogues had no idea what a microchip is, and were more worried about the threatening excesses of Nero than the bumptuous innovations of slightly more literate entrepreneurs whom, two thousand years later, history will regard as even less notable blips on the western cultural radar
Or from their perspective: it's the consumer who is the parasite, like moray eels siphoning Company resources.

If they're not selling the service _to you_, you're not a customer. You're at best a consumer and at worst a resource.
KDE has a similar feature: When you hold Ctrl+Win, it will draw revolving circle segments in black and white around the cursor to allow you to find it. It looks like this: https://imgur.com/a/67wfI (You'll have to imagine the cursor inside these circles. My screenshot utility won't include it in the image for some reason.)
Graphene was re-discovered only in 2004. It takes time.
Tough call.

But really, the CIA mostly just wants to disrupt China by making information more widely available. Like VoA and the BBC have done for decades.
That's what had been stated upthread a ways. The comment I replied to specifically spoke of replacing the transaction with another.
That's true for correction against irrational exuberance in a static environment. This may explain Japan. But the world is usually dynamic. Technological progress, non-monetary fiscal/regulatory reform, new business innovations (of the non-subprime-mortgage flavor), world events, and population growth are rational factors that can simultaneously push up GDP during or following a correction of previous irrationality.
Don't you think that's what he means by "way, way more serious"?
Not really, their whole purpose was to find a way to produce suitable membranes with something much easier and cheaper to produce than traditional graphene sheets (i.e. graphene oxide). The article not only puts adequate focus on that issue, but even ends in a cautionary note about the future work required.
> If a miner has 51% hash rate, they can in theory steal your coins by rewriting history to replace the transaction that granted you the coins with a different transaction that sends the coins somewhere else.

Nope. Unless they have your private key, they can't sign your coins no matter how much hashing power they have.

What they can do is unspend their own coins. So if they paid you BTC$1,000 and you gave them a yacht they can go back and send that money to someone else (double spending). But even that is limited:

You can think of it like a race. With 51% of the network you're slightly faster than the other half. That means you can probably win disagreements going forward. But in order to change past transactions you have to go backwards in the race and then catch up again.

Your ability to do that is proportional to how far back you are going and how much above 50% you have. If I want to go back one block (ten minutes) and I am going at 1.1x the rest of the network, it will take me 100 minutes to catch up (I can do 11 blocks to their 10).

If I want to go back 2 blocks (20 minutes), it will take me 3 hours to catch up. You can see how this gets out of hand quite quickly.
How are companies valued?
Good catch. Fixing it right now
The mistake you're making is in thinking there is some objective definition of "value" - as in, there is some all-seeing entity which knows everything and knows exactly what a person "should" be paid.

I would argue that that's a fundamentally incorrect way of looking at it. You're "worth" whatever you can negotiate for (making baseline assumptions about not defrauding people).

If you can convince someone to pay you 10 million dollars to mow his lawn, I think you deserve every penny.
Okay, then... New rule: the primary loan provider for higher education in America - education that is argued in many circles as being a public good and benefit to society - shall be considered to be in a "special relationship" with the student borrower... Let people know what they're getting into.

I don't see how this should be any different from the relationship a fiduciary has with his/her client.

Can we make this happen?
CSS Grid isn't about replicating the table experience, it's closer to native support for css grids like bootstrap etc.

The major advantage is its flexibility and ease in creating responsive layouts that look good at every screen size. One example is the minmax property: I want all these products in a grid, large enough to fit all their names. If you have the space, make the bestsellers larger and include the description. Oh, and they should really line up vertically and horizontally.

There's nothing that was completely impossible before, but there are a million hacks that we can finally discard, like all the shenanigans I've had to play with negative margins over the years.
After thinking about it a while, I think part of the numbers come from a time-based valuation.

Apple's chief council is likely not the only lawyer who could 'do his job' for that price. But I need someone to do his job this afternoon, no, now. Who has all the relevant information in their head so they can give me an informed opinion based on the entire company's operations and positions about a $10B decision that must be made by the end of the day. Go find me that person. How much would you pay to have that person here and now today rather than tomorrow to guide whether the price should be $21B or $18B for the deal.
There is a conspiracy theory that barcodes on products are marks of the beast because every single barcode allegedly contains the number 666. This claim is based on the barcodes’ guard bars and how to interpret their meaning. See http://www.av1611.org/666/barcode.html for an explanation.
You are right. For the 85K visas, there were ~240K applications. If 30% of them were for senior engineers, then with these new stricter directives all 85K visas go to them, thereby increasing the supply of senior engineers.

Otherwise there would have been 30K senior engineers and 55K junior engineers.
What's the advantage of just using a little bar on the screen to search for what you want to launch, or close, or switch to? Because when I'm on windows 7 and looking for what I want to switch to on the start bar, i'm definitely not using the rest of the screen for anything. I'm looking for the right little icon to click.

Tell me why it's the "Right Way".
It would be interesting if such a device had to be enabled for reading by, say, touching the tips of your thumb and finger together (like an "OK" gesture) so you had control over who could read it and when.
Maybe $100,000,000 USD is like pocket change over there.

$100,000,000 USD is $133,855,000 CAD! Clearly, Google should've hired a Canadian, our country is paying smart people to leave our economy.
Yes it is a quite a niche and strange query technique but looked cute

Interesting tid-bit, one Mr. Sergey Brin published this in 1995

"Near Neighbor Search in Large Metric Spaces"

http://www.vldb.org/conf/1995/P574.PDF

So I'm curious, because I had been planning on using a VP tree for something I'm mulling over. I could see stormy waters though for large dimensions.

Seriously interested to hear any feedback from people who have tried it. Any recommendations for what to do instead?
Well, considering that the table layout has been available in CSS (without the 'baggage' of poor semantics) for a while (display: table-cell), CSS Grid and Flexbox must offer new layout options, which it does.
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"Economics is a highly sophisticated field of thought that is superb at explaining to policymakers precisely why the choices they made in the past were wrong. About the future, not so much." -- Ben Bernanke, 2013

(the quote is from an unexpectedly funny and thoughtful commencement speech)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww6guPQsKQo

http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/02/news/economy/bernanke-prince...
Desalinization is already with about a factor of 2 or 3 of the thermodynamic optimum, so improvements can't be revolutionary. Desalinization mostly needs cheap clean energy.
I think its a bit more than that ... specifically the jobs themselves have to be shown to be requiring Specialized engineering knowledge.

> Companies applying for H-1B visas for computer programming positions will have to submit additional evidence showing that the jobs are complex or specialized and require professional degrees
They're true believers and their faith is called religion.
So, first off, I don't think anyone, least of all in the running community wants to take anything away from Gary's accomplishments. He ran an amazing race, no question about it.

That being said, this race has its allure and mythical status specifically because it has a variety of rules/challenges that must be precisely followed. Not meeting any of them means you are not a finisher of the Barkley Marathon. If we start bending the rules because someone was close or from the emotions of things we start to devalue the accomplishment itself.

Ok, so if we say 6 seconds, that's really close enough. What about 6 minutes? What about 60?

What if he ran the right distance but took a wrong turn? Should we give him time credit for the extra couple miles?

What if he had the wrong page from a book? He still made the checkpoint... What if he had 3 wrong pages?

Eventually, being a finisher becomes a very confused and confusing accomplishment to even understand. I think it's far better to be very clear as to the rules, and then follow them, even if heartbreak ensues.
Are you sure about that?

http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/faculty/staff/cv.php?staffnum=104...
From the discovery of new basic science to commercialization usually takes 30 - 40 years. We're not even halfway there yet.

E.g. look at how long it took to develop digital cameras, flat screen TVs, etc.
Yup. Sieve implies that the only energy required is that necessary to pump the water to a level above the filter. I highly doubt that is the case. Surely you need some significant pressure differential. Even with pores the size of proteins (100x+ larger) you need pressure.
I can't think of any benefits here that a ring/bracelet wouldn't provide, plus the added benefit of removability without surgery.
Sorry, but that is a very misleading tl;dr.

I encourage other HN readers to actually read the article. I found it quite informative. Especially the use of graphene oxide instead of single-layer graphene.
It's great there isn't a "consensus" between economists, otherwise if that consensus was wrong we would never be able to leave it, like what happens in other sciences.
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I'm talking about (the impossibility of) a gene drive for virus replication, not a human gene drive delivered by a virus.
> and yet they still have the hate crimes of which you speak.

exactly. all you do is drive it underground, and nothing solidifies ingroup identity like persecution. with free expression you can at least tell who these people are.
I think you may be missing the point with examples of execs who got paid a ton of money even for mediocre or poor performance. The reason they got paid so much is that decisions at that level are absolutely "billion dollar decisions", in that the performance of the executive, and the executive alone, can be the difference between a super successful company and a failure. That is one reason why execs are paid so much - going in to the deal boards are betting that their execs will be one of the successful ones, not one of the failing ones.

The same is true for "rock star" engineers. I absolutely believe there are a few engineers who can make the difference between being wildly successful or being an also ran. To use a well known related example, consider Jony Ive. I believe that his unique design talents have been responsible for billions of dollars in value to Apple shareholders.
legalizing drugs would cause the collapse of the cartels and help to end this violence.
If it's anyone who should be taken seriously it's Mark Blyth at Brown. A primer [1].

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSS4GCA__As
‘Grammar vigilante’ secretly corrects Bristol street signs
The farther the car goes to park, the longer the wait for it to pick you up on demand. Not to mention, traveling a few blocks rarely saves much on parking in densely populated areas.
1. This is the BBC. They aren't a clickbait site.

2. I count about 12 words you can fit into the title. How else can you adequately describe what the article was about ? Their choice seems completely reasonable.

3. The scale and energy required are irrelevant. The article wasn't describing a fully fledged product it was discussing a concept.
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Create-react-app is great but it lacks something: Redux and its configurations
Node-bowshock npm package to interact with NASA APIS
Good argument for better border control between the two countries.
It's surprisingly simple to locate the plantations using LIDAR + spectrometry. Even easier in Afghanistan, where fields are cultivated in the open. It's so well documented that the UNDOC provides an anual report with the amount in acres. I could go on, but this is enough to make one wonder why they aren't being stopped.
Toughbooks
I have six Panasonic tough books. My favorite one, "this one" is a "CF-C1" it's old. It has dual hot swapable batteries. A very big plus for me. Wife has it's clone. Mine has just about everything you can get for one. Even the thumb print reader on the screen frame. The only thing I don't like is there is no built in DVD R/W and no HDMI. It truly is tough, this one was knocked off a table and fell thirty two inches to a tile floor. Not the lenoleum tiles hard rock of some kind. Landed on the top right corner of the monitor. Small chip there. Three key caps flew off and I could not figure how to replace them. However I was able to use it without the caps until new keyboard came in. The machine was on and running when it hit the floor. HD is fine.
Mine is running Fedora-23 with no twiking at all to install. Wife is running Fedora-25 even better. I have some later model Tough books that I like the handles on and have DVD internal. All have plugable hard drives and replacing a hard drive in the caddy requires no tools. You can purchase extra caddies, "some what expensive" and have pluggable hard drives with optional configurations, OS's etc. I have them but have not needed any OS other than FC-23 for my daily work. I do run a VM machine boots to Kali Linux. So since VM does the job I don't have an extra drive. I may build a drive dedicated to Kali Linx though as the VM is pretty darn slow. That might be more obvious on mine as I also run full disk encryption. I may look into a two partition system where my sensative data is on the encrypted partition and everything else on a plane ole EXT4 system. That might or might not give me some extra speed. If anyone has done this and noticed an improvement please enlighten us. Happy Linux computing everyone.
So fire them. Sorry, didn't work out. GTFO.

The situation now is not better. People have cargo-culted a strategy that is based entirely on having enough applicants that you can afford to have a stupid false-negative rate. It's also easily gamed, so you have to keep trying to find new puzzles for people to solve.
Price is what you pay, value is what you get.

The price may very well exceed the average engineer. However, the value to Google in incentivizing such leaders to drive product development with 100~1000% ROI is that much higher and it's crazy that they have so much cash to do be able to do this.

So if I pay you $100 million to make a product and I have a very high likelihood of flipping it for $10 billion for a 100x return, it makes sense why a market for such talent exists at Google.

If you think about how large Google is and the amount of innovation that the market expects from them along with the pressure from Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook etc, $50~200 million is a premium they will gladly pay because this in turn would put pressure on other competitors.

Lyft simply would not be able to match Google's offer of $100 million. This is how Google and Microsoft wins most of the time. Cash.
Yes, it really would be terrible if economics ended up like physics or chemistry, where consensus results in vast numbers of useful and correct predictions.
The quote originated from http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
It's missing brackets, i.e.

[Oath]
In Hacker News it's considered to be good form to disclose financial associations. Do you also work for the company?
There wasn't a doubt in my mind that this would be the top comment. But it is still a milestone, and a trend. Does anybody think that what happened to Apple and Google's market caps wasn't globally significant?
MIT's 'flying building' assembles itself in mid-air
It seems that could open banks to more liability:

- If they encourage a path via low-rate loans in a field that tanks

- If they prevent a path via high-rate loan that turns out to be much more lucrative than the one they encouraged.
Yeah Google has done this in the past. It's what they did with Google Wave. But Lazlo Bock has reflected that this caused the a lot of departures when the project failed. Not sure if they do that anymore.
That's the thing that pisses me off: if you're going to act a certain way, say so. I'm actually totally ok with a company that is going to act in its best interests (and not its customers), as long as they are up-front and clear that that's the case.

If you advertise that you're going to help people deal with their debt better, then that should be legally binding (regardless of what your fine print says), and a failure to do so should at the very least be illegal under false advertising laws, and I'd say more reasonably it should be considered breach of (implied) contract.

(IANAL, so clearly my terms are not meant in a strict legal sense, because I have no idea what I'm talking about.)
I think privacy is that case only applies to the government's actions, not the actions of private actors like ISPs.
Wait. But Kindle killed the book. I stopped buying paper books long time ago.
Hey, there is a great cartoon about that here!

https://rwer.wordpress.com/2013/11/09/the-scientific-illusio...
Seems inefficient. Fossil Fuels work today because you just suck them out of the ground and ta-da! free energy when you burn it. If you have to pump enormous energy into harvesting the carbon so you can burn it and re-harvest it, why not just put that energy straight into the car and cut out the carbon entirely?

The battery is the thing that makes an electric car "expensive" today, but it's following a consistent downward price curve. In ~5-7 years, it will cost more to make an ICE car than an EV car, and then ICE dies. Simple as that.
Reverse osmosis has been around for a long time and is used on boats everywhere for desalination. This sounds like a new membrane that requires less pressure and thus energy? I guess sieve sounded better?
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The layering approach has much potential. In this case, graphene oxide layered with epoxy resin stabilizes the membrane and lets them control pore size.

The next step, problems with contaminants (seawater) fouling the membrane, might be mitigated with more layers? Say a Teflon layer to aid in cleaning. Or an ionized layer to repel many particulates.

I wish they'd said more about how they control pore size. How does the epoxy layer avoid covering the pores? Is it laid down before pores are etched or something? Fascinating subject.
How do you know moving into the world of atoms will lead to huge economic wins? Its easy for you to say someone should chase less risky investments when its not your money being invested.

Would you know a few VCs who have lost several million or more on an investment. Do it sometime and then express your optimism for the future.
Is this worth it?

- Health complications, however rare [1], could arise from this.

- It sounds like microchips bond with your tissue. The implictations for removal should be obvious.

- They'll almost certainly need replacing, either due to failure or the technology becoming redundant.

- Far from being cool, early adopters are normalising the idea that employers can tag employees. I'm not OK with this.

That's even discounting the privacy issues:

- People you don't know will be able to scan you for a unique ID, without your consent.

- People will do so.

- Startups will emerge getting licensing deals to put NFC readers in public places and sell the data. And so on and so forth.

These things accomplish less than you can do with a phone. Which most of us never leave home without anyway. Or face recognition, or ID cards, or a pin attached to your coat/shoes.

[1] https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/FAQs/Pages/Microchipping-o... . Suggests 1 in 10,000 rate of adverse events. Suggest Epicenter gets a good lawyer ;)
Why wouldn't the store charge Amazon at least 2.9% as well for handling the transaction. How much do stores typically earn on gift cards?
I don't think it's obvious either of those will happen, even if he admits to stealing all those documents.

There are both civil and criminal possibilities here, and various avenues where it might happen. What actually happens though? I don't think the HN crowd (myself included) knows.

I've tried to be an amateur lawyer before and guess outcomes. It works just about as well as amateur programming .