skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they would probably take a loan (in yen) with the btc as collateral

Do you have a suggestion as to who in Tokyo has 70 billion yen which they'd like to loan to a bankrupt entity owned by an accused embezzler whose main line of business was operating an international money laundering operation, with security being a hyper-volatile token with dubious liquidity?
That is what I did when I was looking. Turns out that takes less than 10s if you have their website - "I have always been interested in $TECH_THEY_USE and would love to work on a team that works on $WHAT_EVER_PRODUCT_THEY MAKE because it sounds like a challenge". That wasn't exactly the words I used, but close.

Then you include the name of whomever is the recipient, because people love to see their own name and feel important.
Profit is a terrible metric. Because profit = revenue - expenses, and the easy way to increase profit is to cut expenses like R&D. Good companies pour nearly all their free revenue back into expansion and R&D, which is why Amazon has small profits but a constantly growing lineup of popular products and services.
There are mice with an array of thumb buttons on them that can be assigned to keyboard macros these days, they are advertised as MMO mice.
The real metric to watch (but the hardest to get) is "number of users" and particularly "number of users doing things other than buying coins/tokens in hope of capital gains".
Sigh.

Krylon laughs at your DRM.
Just because you never had a problem doesn't mean you never will. Past performance is no guarantee of future results, and in fact it would be trivial to get a malware-infected app into the app store because the review process does not look at the source code (and even if it did it's not hard to obfuscate malware).
> I'm not sure what TK leaving does to stem that

Matt Levine at Bloomberg explained the benefit of Uber getting itself in order while TK is on leave:

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-06-12/mortgages...

"Doesn't it seem like a great idea? Everyone understands that Uber needs some change, needs some adults in the room to rein in Kalanick. But it's hard to find someone who wants to waltz in, shake Kalanick's hand, and say "hi, I'm your adult." Presumably Kalanick would give that person a wedgie and retire to his room to sulk. But what if Kalanick weren't there? What if Kalanick took a few months off, Uber hired some adults, they set to work doing adult things, and then by the time Kalanick got back Uber was a well-oiled non-controversial profit-making (why not?) machine? He'd walk in, refreshed and ready to go, and say "hey guys, let's write a sex-party memo." And the COO would say "no that is not appropriate," and the general counsel would agree, and the head of human resources would give him a stern talking-to, and they'd all have each others' backs and the support of the board. The central problem with rebooting Uber's culture is that the culture comes from Kalanick, and he is the boss; the central problems with getting rid of Kalanick are (1) he has super-voting shares and a pretty good lock on the board and (2) he is the visionary behind Uber and might actually be necessary to its success. But getting rid of Kalanick temporarily and voluntarily might give the company time to fix itself and bring Kalanick back as a regular CEO, ensconced in a regular structure of regular corporate behavior."
Would love to hear how they generated the shadow contours from the Moon to the Earth's surface!
The big upside to Markdown is that unprocessed readability is fully first-class; if something doesn't provide at least some utility when reading the raw document, then it doesn't exist. Of course, that's also one of its downsides.
Good point. And I would seriously consider an applicant that wrote such an application, but better than putting it in his resume would be to write a quick note. "Hey, I've been looking for a new role. As part of my process I wrote this app. See it here and let me know what you think." That would get somebody noticed.
If I get an SMS like this one day, what can I do to stop someone from hijacking my account?
The odds are for your average moron, not for me (I am very smart). So they are not convincing. This is similar issue as with motorcycle statistics.

You’re also arguing to the wrong side of the brain. In face of danger, I will never ever choose to remain helpless. It goes against every single instinct a man has.
I also switched to VimFX from Vimperator, and it blew my mind how much faster Firefox suddenly became! I used to simpathixe with my friend who switched back to Chrome "for it's speed" but without Vimperator, Firefox is waaaaay snappier than Chrome (on my machine). It made browsing a fun tactile experience again!
Program FPGAs with Go
How to Build a Skill for Amazon Echo Device on Alexa
A couple years overdue. I'm sorry for the man, but this would be necessary regardless of his parent's death.
Bloodhound Diary: Learning from the past
Oh, that's an interesting analogy. Another one I use to help sort out my feelings on this is recreational drug/alcohol use and recreational car use (probably not too long from now once they're fully automated). That is, how do we handle activities that a large fraction of society enjoys, but that nonetheless do pose risks to both themselves and others.
Ginny Rometty takes heat pretty regularly, but is basically successful.
The problem with the App Store, is that the software most likely to have an issue with the sandboxing is often the software that's more critical in terms of security. Such software may not be security software but still have more stringent needs in terms of security review. For example, layout managers might have hotkey functionality that could disguise key-logging.
Having been involved with chargebacks from both the consumer and company perspective, for the company, it can be really frustrating when customers chargeback without ever trying to contact you.

Often, the company is happy to rectify the situation if you contact them, because like you said, chargebacks can be expensive per transaction.

In my experience, sometimes consumers will run a chargeback even for legitimate purchases. For example, a spouse will run through a credit card statement and do a chargeback if they don't recognize a purchase, without even checking with their partner. Then, the credit card company often sides with the consumer despite evidence, and if you sold a tangible good, you're SOL.
The typical use case is piping it into another running program. Maybe someone wants to do that really quickly rather than putting it on disk or pushing it over a network.
There is a reason mammography is the standard for screening, not ultrasound.

Honestly the more interesting case is probably this + mammo, as there is research suggesting sensitivity increases with US + mammo, over mammo alone.
The future of education might be plain text, but not for the reasons mentioned in the article. Also, I think something can be the future of XYZ if it solves the problems XYZ face currently.

The current content for education is good, but is definitely bandwidth-heavy and is tough to maintain. But dropping to plain text will force us let go a few things that otherwise make learning more effective.

I think HTML (or a WYSIWYG style editors - that seem like plain text, but can be powerful with images, videos, animations when required) also does the same thing like plain text,

- it is always compatible (I give it to you that it takes effort to run hifi stuff on browsers, but still better than plain text).

- is easy to mix and match

- is easy to maintain (thanks to many editors)

- is light weight (not compared with plain text of course)

- is forward compatible (not possible when all browsers decided to not support HTML in its current state).

I appreciate the thought behind bringing this up. I think writing something in plain English, which can then be turned into some super cool learning material that runs everywhere would be awesome. It helps both in solving the issues mentioned in the article at the same time keeps learning effective.
Ask HN: How to apply Mathematics in life?
صور+جميله+2017+خلفيات+جميلة+وصور+منوعة+خلفيات+رائعة
Ask HN: How do you keep your ideas?
I'm thinking of tackling these two problems:
(1) Ideas happen anywhere, anytime (running, in the shower, driving, etc). How to capture these ideas before they vanish?

(2) I use notebooks, but once I write down an idea chances are that I will never see it again. I have a box full of notebooks collecting dust.

I want to know how do you capture/keep your ideas (notebook, an app, eidetic memory, napkins, mails to yourself), what do you like/dislike about your current way, and what have you tried and didn't work/stick.
Are you assuming that mtgox would sell it as fast as possible and drive the markets down as much as possible? They've been in debt for years, surely taking a month to sell off the Bitcoin would not be unreasonable. Additionally large orders are not always done on the open market but are arranged privately. It is just as reasonable to assume they could sell them at a premium to an interested party who didn't want to drive up the market unnecessarily as the opposite which is the only one I ever see claimed. If anything, with the rising price, a premium seems more likely.
I think clonal colonies like Pando are some of the the oldest LARGE organisms. But can one say they are organisms?

Probably a few rotifers and tardigrades are the oldest organisms since they can lie dormant for many years and then be reanimated with water. Perhaps millions of years!!!
...???

Trump has been more corporatist than even Obama or W or Clinton...not sure how far back you'd have to go to find a President more focused on the needs of corporations over other citizens.
It's simple. It doesn't fit in with the rest of the defamatory narrative they were just itching to write for the rest of the article.

Either that, or they simply didn't know. But I find the latter hard to believe. Even if that detail was missed, it's very poor journalism to not find the full story.
See my comment above, but it could be that there was a compromised app on the phone snagging SMS messages and forwarding them to the attacker.
Verizon Completes $4.48B Purchase of Yahoo, Ending an Era
Trump Puts U.S.-EU Privacy Shield at Risk
Too many Taylor series, methinks! It's 'tailor'.
Tablet with keyboard ≠︎ laptop with touchscreen

I used a succession of iPads as my main productivity computing devices between 20013 and 2016 and despite my general satisfaction I found I really needed a ’proper’ computer (a much-derided but perfectly adequate ”single port MacBook") last year for the sake of writing a business plan. Right after that Apple released the iPad Pro and I've been using that intensively (but no longer exclusively) since April last year. I'll be upgrading to the 10.5 inch because iOS11 seems to deserve top-level hardware. I'm really convinced that for non-development use an iPad is an extraordinarily capable device.
Limited time email invite for Superchillin
How many "rockstars" would that cover in SV?
There was a tree. Someone was trying to check it's age and his bit got stuck. He cut the tree down to retrieve his bit, finding the tree to be the oldest living (something). I don't have a link. Probably on Atlas Obscura.
Why is there no open source Financial Stock  APIs?
Automation predicted to replace huge number of white-collar jobs
Perhaps educational materials should be designed to benefit the student rather than somebody looking over the student's shoulder...
Buried at the very very bottom of the article as a footnote.

Glossing over the tragedy of unexpectedly losing one's mother and almost losing One's father. The media reporting on Uber absolutely disgusts me and demonstrates a culture far more toxic than anything I've heard about Uber.

My bet is that the media doesn't make public any email from Travis about this because it will likely show how the media is grossly misrepresenting things.

FWIW How people read online: why you won't finish this article.

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/06/...
>You could go on forever but really it just boils down to someone making bad decisions from inadequate knowledge and lack of foresight.

To what level should a developer be at before joining the workforce?

How do we bring all potential developers up to this level so that we can have a smarter workforce?

Can you create an education system that reliably produces developers at that level?

That's what interviews attempt to do, but since those vary so widely between companies (with some being done terribly), you can't get a coherent picture of what to actually learn that will serve you among the greatest number of companies.

This means that, if you can't answer all three questions above, the workforce at large MUST support bad developers writing bad production code at some point in their careers because that is simply how they learn what is and isn't important to know.

If we can't create this system, then we're all complaining about nothing because there's no way to avoid writing bad production code at some point in your careers.

(I specifically mention production code because conceivably, you could just have them learn and write code in a dev environment, then have that code reviewed, but never let them have much of a business impact. Most of us don't care much if someone is writing bad code in a dev environment because that's meant to break occasionally)
An asymmetrical relationship between verbal and visual thinking [pdf]
I use a Mac for work and personal, and I feel like I take the reasonable precautions to avoid malware/ransomware/spyware/*ware (ex. prefer the App Store when possible, only download stuff from trusted sources, etc.) What more can I do to be safe? In 2017, is it recommended to use some kind of antivirus on a Mac? I've always been told it's unnecessary, but it seems like nefarious software is becoming more commonplace on the Mac.
I'm in the same boat. I've tried dozens and my leading contenders are...

1) vimwiki configured to use .gpg extensions, then use the gnupg vim plugin. Great wiki syntax, easy links, transparent encryption, optional markdown formatting. Downside is no embedded images.

2) Typora with encfs. Great visual interface and the developer has promised some new features (such as a file browser) to make it more useful as a note-taking app.
And not just a part of her plan, part of the Yahoo Board's plan. They wanted someone with a big name that would make Yahoo exciting again.

They got that. The news of her hiring spiked the share price, and the media announced that Yahoo was suddenly relevant again.

Then the time came to actually save a business that was in dire straights. Not sure anyone could have done that.
I actually think that they might make some money off it. They can serve way more crummy over-priced ads than Yahoo! ever could (apparently).
I switched to target archery for similar reasons. Archery is far less about the bow and far more about technique. With olympic-style recurve and bare-bow shooting, it seems like there's always more to learn--it never gets boring!

And if you want to throw some money into the bow, you can put together the same bow that Olympic shooters are using for about $2000. The compound bows you see on the World Cup circuit are a bit more, perhaps $3000. Keep in mind that's for very top-end gear. (See [1] for examples of what I'm talking about.)

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/user/archerytv
Didn't Microsoft extend a $40+B (however hostile) bid a decade ago or so? I'm still at a loss as to why Jang et al didn't sell then...
Show HN: Nos-stock, using tensorflow to automate YouTube frame grabbing
But there's a reason scientific books aren't very rich in illustrations.
I think Oregon is a bad spot to view it. The weather (yes, even in summer) is too unpredictable and it's too close to populated coastal areas.

Wyoming is the way to go, or western Nebraska. Don't expect to get hotels, but camping on a rancher's land is easy, and the arid climate in the summer minimizes chances of cloud cover.
That would be a fun link along the lines as /new which would help new users get a sense of the place.
This is a trope that is just not true. Ballmer's vision was a reinvigoration of Windows. The Hololens. The Phone 2.0.

Satya's is about openness and meeting developers and customers where they are. This is what has value and what Wall Street is excited about.
For those interested, here's a list of the Top Safety Picks for 2017 (and older) http://www.iihs.org/iihs/ratings/TSP-List

Didn't see Tesla on any of the lists for the current year, or past years.
I don't see why a screen you cannot trust should be a precursor to a mammogram. It just makes things worse.
>I believe this pure split you refer to is the fault of the gun control advocates.

In my experience it's been the other way around. I'm a gun owner and gun control advocate; a seemingly impossible combination in the eyes of most gun rights advocates.

When I've said to other gun owners in the past that common sense regulations make sense, not only have I been told that opinion means I don't deserve the guns I legally own now, it also means that if I were in danger and a gun owner was around who could stop it they should let me die because I'm not on really on their side.

That's right -- gun owners should not help me in a life or death situation because I think there should be some limits to gun ownership, despite being an owner myself who would also be subject to those limitations.
Use the same size notebook.

Set aside front-matter pages for indexes and update them whenever you review the contents.

Write the subject, date and page number on every page.

Throw the notebooks away when they're more than ten years old. You're a different person today and if you didn't use the idea then, that idea probably isn't going to be relevant today.

Bad ideas will decay. Good ideas will echo. The hard part of the experience is knowing that 99% of your ideas will never be done.
That's a lot to bet on good weather.
In this case they're writing everything to a local SSD. The other usual techniques are RAID-1 (multiple copies) or a higher RAID level (if you want to conserve memory.)
Web Developer Tips – 13th June 2017
Why do all the comments on this so far seem like paid promotion?
Looks great -

I have questions:

1) I have a 2-person startup and would like to use Scup instead of Olark. How to proceed?

2) I have a 80-200 person company. We use OTRS for customer issues. How to migrate to Scup?

3) I have a SaaS offering. How to integrate it with Scup? (like I can with Slack)
I understand and appreciate that -- plus I always write personalized messages. It's a very worthy time investment!

That being said, many firms don't have enough information on their websites -- and even in their job application info page! -- about what do they do technically and what is their current need.

That makes it hard to make a proper addressing to them while doing a sales pitch of your abilities and profile. And I refuse to engage in vague guess-work, too.

Thank you, I realize some people might not have responded because I didn't have enough info to go on to try and tell them why would I like working with them.
But how does that relate? Best in class is not necessarily highest possible.

Also I have read the reliability of the X was a nightmare. Any progress on that with running changes?
If you want the fastest way in existence to copy/paste in terminal

https://github.com/morantron/tmux-fingers
There's additional information on this incident in the link being discussed.
There will be a 2.0.

We've been quieter publicly than I'd prefer, but we've been no less busy for it. Stuff that's going on:

1. We have a giant corpus of internal code at Google that we support and migrating all of that to strong mode while also iterating on strong mode itself is a ton of work. (Very few languages significantly change their type system after launch!)

2. The new dev compiler that generates cleaner modular JS is maturing and getting an increasing number of internal users. There's a lot of features to add, bugs to iron out, etc.

3. We are consolidating our tools onto a shared front end (lexer, parser, static analyzer). Up until now, we've had independently written and maintained front ends for the VM (in C++), dart2js (in Dart), and the analyzer for IDE support (also in Dart, but a separate codebase). Merging those into a single shared front end is a monumental amount of work since each of those targets has very different needs and hard performance requirements.

Hopefully soon we can start saying more about what's coming.
https://www.quora.com/What-open-source-APIs-can-I-use-to-get...

Ultimately it's due to that APIs used to generate wealth generally cost money.
But don't they pretty consistently pass on Second Amendment cases? I know they argue that it's a collective right, not an individual one, but I'm not making a moral or legal claim. All that seems relevant is "the ACLU does not litigate cases to expand legal gun ownership".

So now it's chicken-and-egg. Is the ACLU better than the NRA, but uninterested? Or are their different tactics and results a product of the different topics they deal with?
I'm reminded of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect - how we are constantly surprised when the media gets crucial details (which we are personally familiar with) so very wrong in their reporting.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...
We're basically talking about the same thing. But, yes, you are 100% correct about the likely danger in trying to use the code in the future. That's why I think the cleanest thing to do (if at all possible), if he wants to make something of this, is to offer the guy a small equity stake in whatever entity is created to do this work and get a release.

I've been involved with lawsuits over the exact type of situation. Maybe the OP could win, but it will be a costly process...
82" is very wide for a vehicle in the US.

Even the Ford Excursion, one of the most gargantuan SUVs ever produced, was only 80" wide: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Excursion

I imagine parking a Model X is a challenge.
Well, considering Alphabet is one of the must successful companies on the planet now I understand that, Larry Page. Don't be too hard on yourself though :)
OPB says that Oregon expects a million visitors for the eclipse. If you don't already have solid bookings, don't even try.

I have to drive about 15 miles south from my house to get deep into the totality, and I know all the back roads, and I still expect epic gridlock.
> You have to tap and hold for a long time, very carefully not moving the finger so it doesn't interpret the gesture as a scroll, then probably adjust its selection using those tiny fiddly little blue touch thingies, and if you mistap at any point it resets everything.

That isn't what I was referring to. Force-pressing on the on-screen keyboard lets you move the caret around like a mouse pointer, by sliding your finger on the keyboard. Pressing again/harder begins a selection.
What do you think of Grand Teton? I will in Yellowstone that week. I am not sure if we should go do Grand Teton or Nebraska for the eclipse. Ideally I want to hike somewhere for a few miles to avoid the crowds.
> Because she’s A female CEO? Any evidence? Lockheed, Duke Energy, IBM – all female CEOs and they don’t get near the scrutiny of Mayer – probably because they are competent and don’t engage in bombastic grandstanding.

All B2B industrials; not consumer tech companies that get reported on ad nauseam in the media. Lockheed's product lifecycles are measured in decades; Yahoo's in months. I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Agree that Yahoo had really shitty product focus, but that was true 10 years before she joined. Like you said, Yahoo had been warned about MD5 nearly a decade ago -- security had obviously been deprioritized for years before she arrived.

What did she do? She stopped the bleeding long enough to get a sale done. She basically acted like a private equity CEO. If you view her job as extracting the most value out of Yahoo, she did a pretty good job of that.