skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethereum is interesting because it is basically a ponzi scheme which spawns new ponzi schemes (ICOs) on top of itself. I am only an observer of blockchain space (don't own any blockchain tokens) but afaik there isn't anything real aside from gambling apps and some prototypes hacked together for ICOs (without any real users) running on smart contracts.

So I think I wouldn't count such usage as it's all speculative until there is some mainstream application which actually uses smart contracts or public blockchain.

Most transactions on blockchains (Ethereum or Bitcoin) are just moving tokens between addresses on exchanges (either by bots or by gamblers who do it manually) or moving tokens to ICOs to create new tokens and then trading between different kind of tokens in order to gamble and hopefully make some money from it.
That's pretty clearly part of the long term play
The Great Capacity of Statistics and Collections: June Edition of 2017
Diet discussion circles around an issue that can't be said aloud: People have varying different amounts of self-control and self-control varies situationally. Fat itself is hormonally active tissue that can affect self-control.

Most people are able to lose their weight fast once they get motivated and are in a place where they can form a good habit. Habit forming requires so staying power and ability to live in some amount of discomfort. When people difficulties in life, or become depressed, food is good excellent way improve mood temporarily. Food works as instant antidepressant for mild depression. It's long term effects for mental health are usually negative.

Many people (me included) feel few days of extreme hopelessness and loss of meaning in life if they fast. If person cant accept periods of mental discomfort, but treats them as emergencies that need to be solved and not endured, there is no way he/she can get anything done that requires more than average effort.

If we would treat self-control as major issue in health and life even for normal mentally healthy people, we could tackle the issue directly without negative connotations and shame.
If you spent it all on drugs it would be anonymous.
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I find EOS especially hilarious. Per their own FAQ[0]:

"The EOS Tokens do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features, express or implied, including, without limitation, any uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features on the EOS Platform."

And:

"We believe that EOS means different things to different people. We have received numerous amazing interpretations of what EOS stands for or what it should stand for so we have decided not to formally define it ourselves."

[0] https://eos.io/faq.html, last week's mirror: https://archive.fo/m3D1T

At least they're honest about it.
The South Park Commons Fills a Hole in the Tech Landscape
The file would still be there and available, even more so as it would be "frozen readonly", you just get a request on write access.

Whereas with drives you don't have access to the file if it's not mounted, you have to know on which drive the file you're looking for is, go through the mounting process, then actually find the file. And if you want to alter the file you have to remount the entire thing, and possibly need to track down that one daemon which still has a handle open and prevents you from unmounting it.
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I put in an edit to clarify some thoughts on investing in coins. Basically, if you put in money and then don't touch the coins for years, that's investing. It's just so hard to have that mindset in this particular medium.
Just to be clear: I wasn't making an argument in favor of states, merely in favor of a regulating body.

Some industries already self-regulate precisely to preempt regulation by a government agency, as in: "we're well-behaved amongst the rules we made for ourselves, so please don't step in and start making rules we cannot control".
It'll make my job of saving lives/advance medical field more easy IS a good reasoning for wanting a more streamlined mechanism to share statistical data.
Bulk SMS Web Tool?
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Man, I wish I had more experience with Rust.
This looks really nice!

Any chance you guys have a blog or something, talking about the experience of using Rust as a backend language?
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Also worth mentioning that other crypto-currencies do not require mining (proof-of-work). They instead use "proof of stake" or "Proof of burn" systems which would use less power. Things are still evolving very fast in this space, so you never know what's around the corner!
Heh, my guess all along has been that the crpytocurrency story right now is about capital flight from China and India (i.e. the recent cash ban there), and possibly from some other destabilized regions like MENA.
I think I instinctively agree with your argument, although the particulars of this topic have made me wonder a bit about absolute privacy in the human health space. Specifically, we generally consider privacy not to be an absolute right, but to be one moderated by the rights of the public (i.e. if there is reasonable suspicion that you have committed a crime, police are allowed to violate your privacy and conduct searches with a warrant). I wonder at what point this might extend to issues of medical research/public health. We already know that (in the US at least) cases of certain illnesses must be reported to state/federal authorities, which to some degree violates the privacy of the patient. The selection of what sorts of data are shared is somewhat arbitrary; where is the right place to draw the line? If increasing ease of access (and perhaps violating privacy at some level) to millions of health records could bring about the discovery of more-effective predictors for heart disease 10 years faster than without this access, should this trade-off be made? I'm not saying it should, but it makes me wonder where the line should be drawn.

I also recognize that this might be a false binary, that streamlining the process might be orthogonal to maintaining privacy, but for the sake of argument let's assume they are not totally orthogonal.
I've always wondered to what extent "traditional" luxury car makers have one hand tied behind their backs competing with Tesla in the electric market thanks to still having to support "legacy" technology like the internal combustion engine.

The major German marques often seem to be investing in shared platforms for next generation models that support combustion and electric drive options, but it strikes me that a platform for a combustion based car has to support a ton of things the electric one often doesn't - combustion engines have typically needed much larger/complex gear boxes and drive train in general, plus all the big firewalls needed to keep engine fires out of the cabin and so on. A purely electric car company like Tesla can presumably build out its platform technology without having to worry about a lot of these things. I'd guess you can even build more cabin space for a vehicle of the same size and so on thanks to eliminating many of them. I wonder if shared platforms can leave in otherwise artificial constraints on the electric version for compatibility reasons?
Taxis get Square in DC
So how exactly does one change these currencies to fiat? Is it even possible or are you trapped with the currency until some type of exit event?
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I'll happily recommend Kliment, we've met in person, he knows his stuff and is extremely easygoing.
It's not just about cognitive decline, but about how quickly our knowledge becomes obsolete. Tech is a very fashion-driven industry right now, and deep knowledge is sometimes (often?) valued less than ability to pick up the latest trend.

There are skill sets that have a longer shelf-life, but developing those skills (and finding jobs that actually need those skills) is a challenge.
Maersk brings major IT systems back online after cyber attack
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The U.S. $7500 tax credit for buying electric cars is cut in half two quarters after a manufacturer hits 200,000 units. Two quarters later it is cut to 25 percent, and at the start of the sixth quarter after the limit is reached, the credit disappears completely.

I wonder if enough people know about this to produce pressure to buy Model 3's quickly?

https://cars.usnews.com/cars-trucks/how-does-the-electric-ca...
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Most of the programming problems have been solved before. Some of the solutions turned out to be solid programming patterns. Before you write a single line of code, you check if there is a "standard" way of solving the given problem. That way the code is more maintainable and more people will be able to work with your code.
Ask HN: How much has missing JSON datetime cost you?
How much time / money would you personally have saved if JSON had a timezone-aware, comparable datetime type built-in from day 1?
InfiniBand and Proprietary Networks Still Rule Real HPC
> My point is that gold has similar properties to Bitcoin.

I see, the correct version would be: Fiat currencies [...].

> My point is that gold has similar properties to Bitcoin.

I agree with your point.

> Why can't the current design of cryptocurrencies be just like gold, only more convenient?

Cryptocurrencies are a lot like gold. But as you said, gold is around for centuries. Can you bet 10 million USD that bitcoin will be around next year?
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I do live in Germany, and it is a concern for me.

The VW e-up costs 22k EUR and has a top speed of 130 km/h, the BMW i3 full electric version w/o range extender costs about 35k EUR and has a top speed of 150 km/h.

This performance would be fine if I bought a car under 10k EUR but not for this price.
> Hospitals routinely get hacked by the most bottom of the barrel mass malware.

If only that. A close acquaintance of mine who I won't name worked in a big hospital in Poland for a while, and told me some horror stories related to data practices; I think it's enough to say that they could take out a lot of patient data, even by accident, and no one would notice.

Given the ease of it happening, I'm pretty sure the data is already circulating somewhere.
Facebook Is Fighting a Gag Order Over Search Warrants for User Account Info
Is it possible to disable reporting? If, say, I'm not thrilled by idea telling the guys from Tesla where I'm heading to?
As Mark Twain said "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics". An honest answer to the question of whether communicative aliens exist is "we just don't know".
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The discussion seems to focus on privacy, the article mentions this.

Given DeepMind didn't do any trials, I'm not sure how that is relevant.

Labelling statistical analysis as a "trial" seems like it's own farce.
Nondestructive imaging of atomically thin nanostructures buried in silicon
The (re)making of 'Crash Bandicoot'
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https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/30/confluent-achieves-holy-gr...

There is a crazy claim of 'solving the unsolved problem for so many years' from Confluent CTO Neha Narkhed as mentioned below from the above article.

“It’s kind of insane. It’s been an open problem for so many years and Kafka has solved it — but how do we know it actually works?” she asked echoing the doubts of the community.

This is solved only in consumer-transform-produce scenario addressing kafka streams exactly once requriements. This is a nice feature for kafka streams but it is better to avoid tall claims like the above.

Actually blog post also started with major claims but it was made clear in later paragraphs on how it is acheived through de-duplicating messages in broker and the limitations on consumer side. Title of the blog post and comments in the tech crunch does not seem to be in good spirit.

Idempotent producer does not give any API to solve exactly once producer fecthing messages from target systems and sending them to topics.

I like kafka and the design choices taken to keep things simple for users but all these tall claims should have been avoided.
"US had to import bees from Australia"? They're not a native species. All US honey bees are "imported".
Okay, I clicked on this expecting it to be about using the south park disclaimer as an open source license. ('all celebrity voices impersonated poorly -- and due to its content should not be viewed by anybody').
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True, because it takes long to actually get to that speed.

But imagine if you'd like to drive 160 km/h on the highway all the time, you probably need a car that has a rated top speed of at least 180 km/h.
Recently, I evaluated different JS drawing tools and libraries.

Its very cool that your web app does not clog the whole CPU like similar tools. Can you tell a little bit about the technology stack. Feel freeto skip questions if they are too invasive.

1. Do you use a drawing library or is this in house?

2. Do you store the SVG-objects as JS-objects?

3. If (3), how do represent the SVG-objects? (I looked into hyperscript).

4. If (3), how do you render the JS-object version to SVG in the DOM and update them? Do you use something like React, i.e. 'render' the whole thing to a VDOM and then update changes in dom for each update, or do you bind each SVG object to its JS object via an Observer?

4. A drawing app has obvouisly many states like UserCanSelectObjectByClick, UserClickedFirstPoint, UserMovesRectangle. Do you use state machines, generators, or sagas to implement these flows?

6. Do you use Websockets? Which library would you suggest? (A classical choice would be socket.io, but it is relatively heavyweigh).

7. Do you somehow abstract the mouse-events with jquery or d3? Any plans to support touch?

8. What happens if two users modify the same object?
Not to mention that it's basic programmer ethics, the person who paid you owns the code.
Middleman[1] and a rake task running rsync.

[1] https://middlemanapp.com/
It's arriving Friday and they still haven't released official photos of the interior nor have any options configurations. Really odd way to launch a vehicle.

https://www.tesla.com/model3