skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok. Who's using it as an alternative to Western Union today on a regular basis? I live in a city, SF, that has plenty of signs up to attract people sending money back to their family back home. But I've never seen a single sign getting people to use Bitcoin for that.

It's certainly possible that Bitcoin is like the Internet was in 1975. But at that point, they hadn't even invented TCP/IP, which came in '82. At that point, ARPANET was just one of many approaches to networking, including BITNET, Merit Network, Tymnet, and Telenet. Not to mention the circuit-switched networks that were probably dominant in revenue terms. It seems totally plausible to me that Bitcoin and/or blockchains could end up as a similar "people used it for a little while but it's hard to remember why" thing.

Or, worse, it could end up like the OSI protocol stack: a collection of exciting ideas that nobody ever really got working to deliver much value in the real world.
FAA Drone Registration Ruling REVERSED by Courts
Years ago a guy that worked on input devices said if the latency gets over 10ms 12 year old gamers start throwing things. I'm assuming that's because they can tell the button press slipped into the next frame.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled-access_highway
He has a satellite phone and a radio, he can contact nearby ships if his propulsion fails and he's dead in the water. He has food/water in the meantime. If the hull integrity is lost and there's no ship nearby, well, he better have a immersion suit in his equipment list along with a working EPIRB.

Given he has taken adequate precautions and has appropriate equipment, I have absolutely no issue with his rescue being at taxpayer expense.

The one thing that he should iron out before making the crossing is making sure that there won't be any fatigue issues with the hull. Doing appropriate testing (I don't know the material and don't know the best non-destructive methods for testing it) on a used hull to make sure there aren't cracks/flaws that develop over time is a good idea.

Given he'll have to sleep, I also think that a reliable electronic alerting system that continuously monitors bilge level / hull integrity and the position/orientation of the boat seems like a necessary addition as well. Early warning of critical issues in such a small craft is a good idea.
> social control through targeted propaganda

That's more along the lines of what I was talking about. Albeit from a double-edged sword perspective and with an emphasis on passive rather than active influence.

Anonymity / lack of consequences causes individuals to do certain things, yes. But above and in addition to that, I'd say the nature of their network connectivity (e.g. none, newspaper, coffee shop, phone, app, etc) also fundamentally influences the behavior you get in aggregate.

Or, to put it another way, we could design a network that caused everyone to become an asshole, just as we could design one that caused everyone to become an angel.

Without the levers of totalitarianism, realistic outcomes are probably between those two extremes. But how we connect people still strongly influences their experiences and behavior.
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I am not saying that Shah should have been denied entry, and personally, I think it kind of sucks. Shah's prolific tweeting probably worked against him in terms of proving his non-immigrant intent.

Four days ago: I really want to work at this building

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/86445977790400102...

Eight days ago: Apparently you can drive around in California as long as you have a valid license from anywhere. Really wish I’d planned for a longer stay.

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/86300061707719475...

Twelve days ago: Wild to think that Jared Kushner’s brother being a VC might save H1B.

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/86160090342970982...

May 2nd: I’m thinking of applying for 2 jobs. One is almost literally a stone’s throw away. The other is on a continent I’ve never stepped foot on.

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/85958214083233382...

[Edit: This post is the result of my genuine curiosity. Again, I think it kind of sucks and the lost opportunity is unfortunate. I'm not trying to blame a victim or justify US immigration policy or trying to dig up dirt. I'm more interested in something approaching a root cause analysis that might help someone else avoid similar problems in the future. Getting a scholarship to WWDC is a big deal in a young person's life and getting refused a visa to attend is also a big deal.]

[Edit: If the source had not been Twitter, I certainly would not have scrolled through the tweets. I pretty much hate Twitter as a news source because it favors sound bites over analysis.]
We reviewed this dock, then opened it. We took some shots of the PCB, and had a look at the ICs they used.
Not to be a jerk, but how much does such an outing cost? :\
It's only like Haskell's type system compared to other schema languages (most of which don't even have product and sum types). Plate has parametric polymorphism, phantom types, and algebraic data types. It doesn't have typeclasses however (I don't see a way to implement them, thoughts here: https://github.com/seagreen/plate/issues/1#issuecomment-3028...) and so advanced Haskell features like type families are out.
While I do agree that crypto-currencies might be a bit overblown, if you're right at 2% if HN readers having them, I'm actually more inclined to believe the OP is right. That's a lot of people.

To me though, the only thing crypto-currencies currently are good for is buying illegal drugs on the internet. There just isn't any reason to use them over regular money the rest of the time.
Nothing shared like this. But I have kept daily logs, first as text file. Currently I do this using quiver (a multi-noteobok editor). I create a notebook called worklog and each day I put in a short list of planned actvities and then I copy/paste a lot of details below as I move through the day. Code snippets, log snippets, bits of conversation. Along with my own notes of what I tried and observed.

Currently, I'm sort of split between three tools. Omnifocus (a GTD manager) for tracking all the tasks, quiver for notes through the day, and then I use
[emergent task planner], a paper based task planner for the days tasks. As much as omnifocus/gtd helps me track things, I found using paper to block out each hour of the workday ahead of time really helps me focus. If I find myself losing focus, I can refer to that and (usually) get myself back on track.
What does shitty economics outside the powerhouse of London (a thesis which I agree with but which I would argue has also been common knowledge for decades) have to do with setting up a new and stricter internet? I don't believe that disgruntled pensioners in the Cotswolds want to stick it to the globalists in London by forcing them onto a different version of the internet protocol.
I think mdekkers meant it was a recent development in the history of SourceForge and was not true for most of its existence. It has been rectified.
What anti-establishment speech do you think is unfairly persecuted in the US? We let neo-nazis march in the streets.
That's an odd version of history.

It was the monarchs of France that helped the US during the revolutionary war.

Then France had their own "revolution" and beheaded a lot of people. It was more Pol Pot than Thomas Jefferson.

Then Napoleon took power and made himeself emperor and tried to take over all of Europe.

Then we fought the quasi war.

I suppose after that we had some better times, maybe the last 100 year.
New Labour was as bad. Current Labour see New Labour as completely toxic. As bad as Corbyn is seen in many circles, Tony Blair now polls worse.
Thanks for the links. I'll try to have a look this Sunday.
I write notes in markdown, one file per day, and use Pandoc to create HTML , PDF and mobi versions monthly for reading back later on the train.
Are they actually competitive with freight aircraft? Something like an older DC-3 or C-47 can land and takeoff on short, rough airstrips and are used extensively for shipping goods in remote areas of Alaska. They only need a few crew and are very durable. Don't know how the operating costs compare though.
You can use http push (link preload header) or prefetch to make the browser download all dependencies async. Then require the modules sync. when they are needed. The advantages with modules is that they can always be cached! You do not have to bundle or add compile steps. Just use sync. require. Here's an example require script: https://www.webtigerteam.com/webmodules/require.js
>Neither were intended to be literal. They were designed to convey meaning.

Even Genesis has direct geographical references to it. It has directions. Calling it a metaphor is moving the goalposts. Ad reductio Abrahamic religion is simply that god made whatever we can't understand.

It's not like I'm saying the world wasn't made in seven days. I'm saying that god said we were kicked out of where we came from and would never be allowed back, and that place doesn't exist. I'm saying god says he talks to us and appears to us, and those things don't happen. The basic, central tenants of the bible aren't real. These are important things, not minutia.

>Origins are highly disputed, but El seems to be the most likely title, who is the head of the Caananite pantheon, and influential enough to be remembered in Babylon. Not a minor deity.

That's not true. The introduction of Yahweh to the Semetic religion was very visibly followed by a shift in personal names referencing El (eg Michael) to names referencing Yahweh. Yahweh was an individual, entirely separate god that aggressively replaced El, and El was relegated to an increasingly minor role. The thing called YHWH in 1200 BC is a 4th tier divine warrior, and the thing called YHWH now is a sole god.

Bare minimum, the Semetic religion was demonstrably polytheistic before it was monotheistic, and that alone massively undermines the bible.
I researched basically all the solutions (wikis, tiddlywiki, evernote etc etc), but they all had some limitation either in offline access, shareability, portability, openness or something else.

What finally made it into a working solution is writing plain markdown files, one per day, automatically synced to bitbucket via tiny bash scripts that initiate a new file for the day (aliased to 'j' for minimal hurdle to start writing), opens them in an editor, and committs to the repo after closing the editor.

It is available here: https://github.com/samuell/mdnote

The nice thing with markdown, if you make a level-1 header for each new file, is that you can concatenate the file into a long file, and run pandoc -i allnotes.md -o allnotes.epub, and get a formatted and searchable notebook for offline use, when you want to read it, with the Level-1 headings denoting chapters - so, one chapter per day!

(I have a script for this too of course: https://github.com/samuell/mdnote/blob/master/as_epub.sh).
> The Wire was a good show for its time but it's already showing a lot of age.

One thing still true, the game still the game yo.
Do you like the 2nd gen volt? :0
What the heck is a 'manel?'
W3cubDocs API Documentation – W3cubDocs
No they're not. They can grow their own (and have in times of previous crisis) and most large cities are built around ports. Also, when was the last time a rural population laid siege to a city and starved it? Hundreds of years ago.

Honestly, I don't understand the fantasy world people like you live in. You seem to assume that people who live in cities are helpless kittens or something.
The medical cannabis industry!
- Science: as we pass the obstacles of regulation, more studies will be able to confirm (hopefully) what we suspect so far.
- Zeitgeist of our times is "going green".
- Damaged image of big pharma.
AmiKit X – An emulator engine to run Amiga on Windows or Mac
fair criticism of my reading. Still, there are no AB tests at various points on that chart (different real-world examples that were actually AB tested) - it's just theory.

Surely you can agree with me that AB tests can't hurt. Anyone can say something plausible, after all! (Just see this comment thread - literally every commenter in the thread says something plausible that I could agree with, including you.) The only rigorous experiment the article mentions is about guessing the value of pre-assembled and unassembled Origami cranes.

This is obviously a problematic proxy for real-world products that manufacturers actually sell.
Managers should get good at RTS games. A lot of the same principles apply -

* production vs process - you can spend resources on improving process(usually tooling) to improve production but this isn't always an easy knob to tune and can have diminishing returns. "Automate all the things" is how I know you don't know what you're talking about.

* DOTs - damage over time can be brutal, question every meeting and email that hits your team. Similarly- Engineers need large blocks of time to find flow and be effective(aka void rays). That 15 minute 2pm weekly check-in may seem trivial but you're pretty much nuking an afternoon's worth of productivity.

* macro vs micro - you generally need to spend time on both. Even Sr. engineers can benefit from occasional guidance because you should know more than them(see below). (knowledge != intelligence)

* bottlenecks/'stage III' production - you can have too many resources on something.

* Some resources are much better at certain tasks than others.

* situational awareness - know the executive roadmap, your roadmap, your internal customer's roadmaps, know 'the theory of how engineers are working in your org' and the reality. Know every project in your code repository. Know about most other possibly relevant open source technologies. Mostly this is just a lot of listening and reading. Be Omniscient

* 'strats/build-orders' - similar to the above, know how the industry/competitors solve the same problems your org has (but don't necessarily seek to copy them)

That said, treating people like RTS units is also a good way be disliked and ultimately be ineffective so you have to do the whole empathetic human thing.
Makes me giggle when people think "the Internet" can do a damn thing about people with direct physical access to the submarine cables who buy servers and storage by the acre...
As much as things are looking bad, saying Labour has disintegrated under Corbyn is a truth with severe modifications. Labour is currently polling higher than Ed Milliband was, and has been steadily improving.

The biggest problem now is not that Labour has disintegrated, though the infighting certainly have not made things easy, but that UKIP and the Lib Dems have been disintegrating, and UKIP voters in particular appears to be largely going Tory.

Labour might lose a lot of seats based on current polling, but that is more down to a blatantly undemocratic electoral system than to how the party is polling.
I do not get why use Babel when both ASM.js and WASM are only supported in first class browsers.

Without native interface to DOM this project is will be limited but It is interesting anyway.
Just the really nice typography, wide single column, nice charts. Also, the table of contents is great on the side.

I come from aerospace where it's all two-column LaTeX docs and PDFs. Not much in the way of web-based presentation.
I agree, seems like the weeks, months and years are just beginning.
Book recommendations from Don Knuth
What prevents Google and Facebook from sharing data with the government? Especially if nobody would know about it?
"Are you on the side of the terrorists and child pornographers?"

That is how resistance will be framed and it could play just as well here, but I hope I'm wrong.
I guess this goes to show how unrepresentative online commentary can be, and how easily unrepresentative info can distort our mental model of the world.

Far from "not still being a thing", Amazon is absolutely massive in the US, and usage continues to grow at a fast clip. I've never had a problem with fake goods, and I've never met anyone in person who has. Then again, I buy primarily from Amazon or the manufacturer selling on Amazon. It might be because the UI pushes third party sellers.
Agreed. As it stands today, PCI, Sarbanes Oxley, HIPPA, and other drivers are used as hammers to force password change policies.

Even if they don't mention it directly, some audit firm tosses it in as a best practice to support something more generically stated in the standards.
I have yet to experience (in person) anybody expressing frustration about putting together IKEA furniture. The closest thing are some friends who have expressed bewilderment at "the internet's" view that IKEA furniture might be difficult to assemble.
I have a 4k monitor and Divvy is a godsend for setting up the monitor as a 6x6 grid which I can then split with either the numpad keys or the 2x3 stacked control keys which mirror the layouts.
Building a business when no one will hire you
> That would give you the thickest part of the shape, not necessarily the center.

But we're looking for the "visual center," defined in the article as "a point inside a polygon with as much space as possible around it."
Ties to your home country, such as mortgage, lease, a job, things like that.
Depends on your Visa. My experience in the United States, is I just walk right through because I have Global Entry. In Europe it was a breeze too, same with Mexico and Canada and many other countries.
The irresistible urge to form an orderly queue is a point of national pride, for the English at least.
I know I will upset many when I say this but: Nobody cared when it happened under Obama's administration (as with most atrocities that happened when he was president).
You No Longer Have to Register Your Drone
you are building a caricature of his argument, painting it with facism, and then knocking it down.

in other words: a straw man.

nothing you mention is advocated by the presenter.
Rather than move to such a place and reap the benefits with no effort on your part, maybe consider helping to change where you are living now.
It is likely the same people in every thread complaining about the issues they find in some niche book market most people don't care about. They are likely telling the truth but it also probably doesn't affect that many people.
I mean, yea, basically. Why shouldn't it be that way? Probably a majority of the people of the world would prefer to live in the US/Canada/EU if given a choice. So it makes sense to assume they plan on staying and make them explain why they'd willingly return to an "inferior" country.

But maybe some sort of bond procedure would be handy for this kind of thing where you really want someone to visit and are willing to stake a lot that they'll return. OTOH I'm sure if Apple wanted to get involved they could easily help him out on his application.
Here is a small boat project that is done by a veteran, Sven Yrvind, its a 5.76 x 1 meter boat he will sail around the world, its not his first time in a small boat in the big seas either, read more here:

http://www.yrvind.com/present_project/
not as much ... Bluetec is just an advanced catalytic converter, that reduces NOx. Mercedes has been implicated in the emissions scandals, afaik. Inherently diesel is less refined than gas, so it does not burn as clean.
Stegano Exploit Kit Now Uses the Diffie-Hellman Algorithm
I guess I didn't mean staff-heavy, more "few grad students and postdocs." E.g., [1], instead of outwardly similar labs with a dozen or more postdocs.

[1] https://www.janelia.org/lab/stern-lab/members
Maybe I'm a snob but I begrudgingly buy IKEA products, view assembling them as tedium in which I gain 0 improvement in a translatable skill and despise the sight of their borderline cardboard junkiness until the day I can replace them and send them off with some stranger.

edit: On the flip side, IKEA actually sells some really nice pulls and handles for a price far below what I've seen anywhere else.
Here is Theresa May, current UK PM, denying extradition of Gary McKinnon, after years of hearings, wanted for one of the largest hacks of US military networks of all time:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/16/world/europe/uk-us-mckinnon-ex...

The UK has a history of both courts and the Home Office denying extraditions. Theresa May is a "law and order" authoritarian to boot, but even she is not prepared to fall over herself to satisfy US extradition requests.
When flying straight and level, with the airframe set up for cruise (eg. no flaps, gear up, etc): yes. Weather conditions don't matter; the plane's speed through the air will remain the same, and it is the airspeed that matters when it comes to keeping the plane flying. Windshear can temporarily change the airspeed due to inertia, but keep the same power setting and the plane will catch up by itself.

When doing anything else, such as climbing, descending, etc: the required power settings will be different, but can be predetermined.

Turning will reduce airspeed for a given power setting, but if the fault is known, the turn can be done with a small enough angle of bank that it won't matter. This can be done by the pilot, or for the sake of this line of argument, a computer could easily be programmed to limit the bank angle when an airspeed indication is known to be unavailable.
Will be? There is.
I hope Evernote is better now. I lost data when it was synchronizing once. It was 5 years ago though.
Maybe in the next 50 years, but not the next 5. There's about a 10-1 marketing to actual breakthrough ratio for AI changing our economy. I agree it will eventually, and has made some inroads, but it won't anytime soon to the extent where we have to solve problems of demographic shifts.

There are few people I'm aware of who think to the contrary who are actually working at a technical level in the field of AI, and not founders of a startup riding buzzword funding or who have financial or PR interests to hype AI.

I'll add a caveat that the invention of general AI would accelerate this timeline. I think it will require paradigm shifts, not feature-augmented/ exotic ensembles of neural networks with RL layers, or other approaches possible with current techniques, but think it is still more possible, sooner than AI skeptics believe, but still beyond 5 years.
I do this with my blog. Not with every decision, but often enough that I have referred back to it occasionally.

Share the wealth! :)
When I applied for a Visa, I had to explain them what my parents do etc. Basically you have to convince them that you have enough reasons to return back home. You can do that in many ways, like saying all your family is home, or you own a house at home etc. It is pretty much about convincing the person working at the consulate.

I am guessing in certain countries they are stricter than others. I think there is an issue with Indians overstaying their Visa in the US, so maybe that's why they are so strict over there.
Check out the show Border Security on Netflix. There's 3 versions, USA+Canada+Australia and they go quite in-depth on how the border security officers make these kinds of determinations.

The Australian one is extra awesome because they have very tight import restrictions on food/plant products for biosecurity reasons and their proximity to Asia means there are tons of people trying to bring in very interesting (but illegal) items from those countries. Plus they have a whole series of really cute dogs that sniff out the food.
That doesn't really show why they'd choose to return, in and of itself.
Crypto currency is very useful for transfers to difficult regimes and across many borders but I fail to see the case for a value add for distributed trust between banks (since there's generally an existing trust model anyway). There are other distributed technologies on the horizon where a cryptographic ledger is going to be super useful, but I don't see it for banks.