skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know if the core is going to get split. There might not be a reason (overhead with memory, more to supervise). It's kinda like MVC but I think it follows more closely to the control/convergence loop you are talking about (and from there, Promise Theory), whereas MVC don't really have that control loop.

On the other hand, Operators are essentially non-core controllers. They can be highly specialized to a specific system (etcd, kafka, postgresql, etc.) Same with service catalogs.
Bitcoin and Ethereum are not anonymous, every transaction amount, source address, and destination address can be seen by anyone.

Dash provides some anonymity features, but are generally opt-in (i.e there are certain transaction types which provide more anonymity, but they are not required). Even with "anonymous" transactions on Dash, I believe only the sender/receiver can be somewhat masked, but the amounts are not masked entirely.

Monero provides pretty anonymous transactions which have gotten better with it's recent introduction of Ring Confidential Transactions, which makes it so that new transactions have (by default, and to be enforced later this year for all Transactions) hidden amounts, sender, and receiver.

ZCash is arguably the most anynomous, as it has hidden amounts, sender, and receiver from the ground up, but comes with a bit more risk since it is essentially based on entirely new, and as yet unproven, crypto (zkSnarks). It is an exciting promise for the future, but it also required a "trusted" setup of a random seed which, if compromised by any party, could enable infinite, undetectable inflation of the ZCash currency.

In short, there is no perfect anonymity, everything is a scale and a spectrum of security, and what type of guarantees you can get around the anonymity properties you want.
ZCash is the only one among these currencies that provides strong anonymity.

For an explanation of why Bitcoin is not anonymous, take a look at the recent Keybase post on adopting ZCash:

https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-and-zcash
Howl 0.5 released
>By contrast, most central banks pilot the amount of money in circulation in order to try to keep the price of goods stable. This is, imho, as absurd as changing the length of the meter because we've noticed that generations after generations people are getting taller and taller.

Indeed, and this is why central banks are counter productive to automation.

The two primary goals of the Federal Reserve are to maintain stable prices and achieve maximum employment, despite the fact that automation is making goods and services better, faster, and cheaper and designedly eliminating the need for human labor.
> What is the goal of taking over my smart thermostat and turning off the heat?

There are several

1: Look what I can do. If it is easy enough expect some kids (think 13 years old) doing it and laughing at the possible chaos they have caused.

2: lets rain chaos on those evil [insert any other country that you are at war with]. If I were to do this I'd change things so the average temperature was about right, but the heat and cooling would take turns changing the temperature by half a degree. Most people won't even notice right away, but their utility bill will be more than their monthly income and on a national scale the country is forced to dip into energy reserves.

> What is the likelihood of that actually happening?

1: Very high. For any individual kid it is low, and like for an individual thermostat, but if you are the exception it doesn't matter that only 10 people were hit worldwide, what matters is you have to replace all your plumbing

2: somewhat unlikely, but if anyone can pull it off they can cause a lot of problems for the target country.
I like it. I've seen experiments that break out eigenvectors of a neural network, which is like being given a dictionary in a foreign language. It's precise, but you still have to figure out what each eigenvector means. This technique is like having a translating dictionary. It's less precise but it lets you reason about the network with a familiar visual vocabulary.
Format Unraveled [pdf]
Why? You can buy just about anything you want with any cryptocurrency you have through Purse.io + Amazon.
I never thought more guns, less crime was a very solid argument for expanding gun rights. Should we predicate an argument for free speech on the fact that it makes us safer or better off in some objectively measurable way? Either you believe in the second amendment - namely, that the right to self-defense is fundamental, and the right to own a gun is inseparable from that - or you don't. Don't argue for it with flimsy arguments that are impossible to prove definitively and easy to undermine.
It's striking how easily you can see the repetition most languages force on you. PHP's sawtooth silhouette is especially interesting.
Java is great for large engineering teams. It also has a great Standard Library.

I get why a startup might not like Java, but for large scale software projects its not a bad choice.

* Its stable

* Highly Supported

* Easy to find developers

* Fast (compared to other popular programming languages)

* Has a great package library

* Old code will just `work` for years if not decades. New java versions are generally non breaking
The fractal dimension of each one would be nice.
I like named returns and I like efficiency, nice!

An argument against named returns is that things become harder to track in longer functions or functions with a lot of branching, but if you're using gometalinter you'll be warned about both of those things anyway, so I don't see the concern there.
Chris Lattner on the Realm WWDC 2017 Swift Panel
Why can't you plug your iphone in your home stereo and "listen"?
if your problem is that the conversation has been had, why not remove/flag/off-topic the baitparent, too?
No, but I've seen plenty of good subreddits go bad after a flood of new users!
To me the motivation is obvious. It's the difference between collecting trading cards vs virtual trading cards. There is something to be said about having a physical collection.
Shameless Plug: I work at Semantics3 [https://semantics3.com/] - an API for product and pricing data.

These 4 digital assistants should partner with us to help their users find the prices for a pack of Lays chips, iphone, etc. ;)
Vinyl recordings are absolutely degraded by a compressor; it's necessary to reduce the dynamics so that the record can be cut, and so the needle doesn't skip out on playback. Something has to make the material fit into the limited dynamic range.

There is also pre and post equalization applied:

Wikipedia info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

The bass has the shit rolled down out of it, and is boosted back on playback.

If you image search for "RIAA circuit", you get lots of hits for phonograph cartridge pre-amp circuits that implement the playback EQ.

By the way, another Zappa article, on this topic, about record cutting!

http://www.afka.net/Articles/1980-01_Musicians_Only.htm

> The album was cut at half speed, a lengthier process, obviously, but resulting in far better definition and dynamics. At normal speed, deep flanging like that used on JOE'S GARAGE can play havoc with the record cutting head. When the two sides of the stereo are out of phase, the groove almost vanishes and your stylus will leap clear and scythe a path across the rest of the vinyl. One of the advances he's looking forward to is the improvement in cutting techniques so the head's relationship to the disc can be updated many more times during a cut, boosting the fidelity.

Good grief ... the vinyl issues! Flanging was used and the head skips due to the channels being out of phase, gotta cut at half speed.
Rarity does not endow something with value. There are many things that are difficult to extract yet are not valuable.
Chalk 2 for Node.js was just released after two years
GNU GPLv3 turns 10
While I found this article very interesting, I feel like something is missing here.

So linking this issues to a Cisco bug is very interesting, that dropping connections would cause the application to lock up / crash, while all the connections to the database were dead.

My question is why would the application lock up and the servers would crash?

I don't see it very often, but when striving for high availability and strong resiliency (which isn't reasonable for everyone), issues need to be looked at in great detail. So I would be trying to look at the second side of the story, which is why was there crashes encountered under these circumstances, and are there other plausible triggers that could cause a similar set of circumstances.

Disabling timestamps does avoid the Cisco bug, but a similar set of triggers could be encountered anytime the VPN connection dropped, or if the firewall failed over without the state tables in sync, or any number of other network conditions.

And don't take me wrong, I don't know if the OP did this, but based on the article, I would lean towards disabling timestamps as a workaround, and this might still be an indicator that something in the app isn't behaving correctly when the database is unavailable.
Do you guys think these are worth the price premium for home server use? Are they really "better quality" (more margin/tighter silicon screening, etc) or is that part mostly a marketing gimmick?
Thank you for mentioning this. I'm sorry for the unnecessary repetitive credit card input. My plan is to separate the editing of payment and location preference to their own pages in the future.
Tor descriptors à la carte: Tor Metrics Library 2
This greatly confuses the concept of ownership.

If I physically control gold, then I have some guarantees about that ownership. Someone can physically take it from me, but I can, at least, make that difficult.

If I own gold credits, then I must trust the holder of the physical gold, both to honor my credits and secure the gold.

If I own Bitcoin, it means I posses the private key that enables their spending. I have to trust the collective actions and incentives of the Bitcoin network, not a single party.

I think it's very clear that these are wildly different notions of ownership, and that they may be valued differently. Equating the transfer of gold credits to Bitcoins fails to account for these differences.
It depends on what the parent was referring to by "identity politics."

Some people use that term to mean politics according to demographic factors they cannot directly control, such as their race. So, if it was what was intended, then I don't think your (actually quite excellent) critique of post-modernism is relevant to what they were talking about.

Unless of course, you're arguing that it's the underlying philosphy even if the participants in it don't know it or think that way consciously.
Either you believe in the second amendment - namely, that the right to self-defense is fundamental, and the right to own a gun is inseparable from that - or you don't.

But it's so much more nuanced than that, and this kind of false dichotomy just polarizes the argument.

Does a right to self-defense mean a right to any and all arms?

Does a right to self-defense mean a right to carry a concealed weapon?

Does a right to self-defense mean a right to carry a weapon in any and all locations?

And that's just the first three questions that sprint to mind.

In fact, you anticipated this with your example of free speech, though probably not in the way you intended. After all, free speech is not an unlimited right. For example, libel and slander laws are on the books to balance free speech rights against the rights of others who might be harmed by that speech.

Why wouldn't you have a similar debate on the balance of harms regarding the right to possess and carry a firearm?

Don't trivialize this. It just makes it an "us-vs-them" conversation, and I think we can all agree there's enough of that already.
> The major difference is fewer technologists are raising their hands for public service now

I suspect you are making a false, or at least unwarranted, generalization from “federal executive branch” to “public” here.
Clojure is 8 years old and ClojureScript 6
> There is no intellectual curiosity in this battle

it's not a battle. it's a conversation. humans can be good at both, but often not at the same time.
Same, 1700, 32Gb Corsair Vengeance at 2666, 4 weeks not a single problem and I've battered it, was transcoding 30,000 multiple page tiffs yesterday (don't ask..).

The thing is a straight out monster for a 300 quid processor.
You can combine your demo and onboarding process into one thing. My favorite example of this is NewsBlur: https://newsblur.com/ (Hit the "Try out NewsBlur" button)

Basically, drop them into a demo of the product with pre-filled data. They can make changes all they want, and if they want to save it, they'll need to register an account.
Can the SMT part of a die be defective? I'm just wondering if it's by choice to have SMT-less chips or if it's to recycle chips that have SMT defective.
Only because you've classified every activity as "work". People have hobbies where they do things purely for entertainment.
Using templates in Asana
Sure, if your on the train. What do we tell those that are yet to purchase coin, and wish to anonymously?

Coinbase now requires 'selfies'!
It's not as if they generated some "average" code to make an apples to apples comparison, they arbitrarily grabbed files with very different purposes based on length.

So really all this does is show that different code with different purposes has different shapes. AKA, pointless. You would have to do this across huge numbers of files and average them out to have anything actually interesting to look at.
Absolutely not true for me, this tool saves me so much hassle!
> Step 1:

> Install NodeJS

o_O
Are you mistaking different for correct? Generally the thermostat just turns the pump on, but is there actually anything wrong with leaving the pump on and changing the temperature?
> What is the likelihood of that actually happening?

Probably comparable to the likelihood of an IP camera [0,1] being used as a botnet.

[0] https://www.wired.com/2016/12/botnet-broke-internet-isnt-goi...

[1] http://www.darkreading.com/iot/move-over-mirai-persirai-now-...
Article is basically why use React over Angular.

One thing though - Facebook succeeded because of the sheer amount of money plowed into the team. Our team is succeeding with Angular at the moment and feel pretty strong that it solves our front end rather splendidly.

Disclaimer - I do like React, it has its place.
Install nodejs as a first step... Should not be a requirement of a Go web framework.
It's shocking how confident people are in their understanding of economics when they clearly have never read a book on the subject or taken a 101 course on it. People have some kind of instinct for how much money is "too much" in different contexts and they fully believe they are right without any external frame of reference. Ask them what the "correct" margin should be based on and they'll say something like "the cost plus a little bit more to cover overhead." No understanding of supply/demand whatsoever.
Two things bother me about Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies:

1. The process of "mining" seems like arbitrary busywork that is ultimately a massive waste of computing power and electricity. At least Folding@home was contributing to scientific research. Is there any way around this? Incentivizing a bunch of computer geeks to build massive GPU clusters and waste tons of electricity mining for coins doesn't seem like a great idea.

2. Much of the "wealth" of these coins is concentrated in the hands of early adopters. This seems to be by design (due to the increasing difficulty of mining) and is not the result of actual economic activity, but merely because those early adopters started mining first.

Can anyone (more familiar with Bitcoin than I am) comment?
Oh my goodness. Yes. :-)

I meant to reply to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14660862

Sorry about the confusion.
"Okay Google, spend my money."
There are services like https://localbitcoins.com/ which I presume could be utilized to avoid identification.
If a modern, loudness-compressed digital mix is rendered into vinyl, it will have the same property.

I think that before digital, recording engineers treated the headroom as that: headroom: it was there to "have" not to abuse all the time. With analog, you don't exactly know where the red line is, either. Plus there is the effect of a gradual onset of distortion which is interpreted by the ear as loudness.

With digital, you can level the loudness with an algorithm to use the full headroom. It can be done with analog tools, too, but digital ones are just more "surgically precise"; the algorithm can look at the track globally, not just with an infinite impulse response circuit that whose output is only based on its prior input, and which cannot anticipate transients.
Alexa is the first thing I've owned that really does quite a solid job in the voice recognition department (whatever its failings to return something useful based on that recognition). Siri on my phone is rather hit or miss by contrast.

I suspect that the microphone array has a lot to do with it. Anecdotally, I've read pieces by people saying that homebrew "Echos" together with the Alexa APIs aren't as good as an actual Alexa.
I really like Tim Ermilov's "Building products with Javascript" course. It goes on how to build a full product from backend to frontend and uses React for the frontend.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPkKhlR0sXtN5hlB228xuTg
Yep and TDP as a measure of cooling design is inexact anyway.

My old bistro laptop was sat at 55C today and 85C two weeks ago, ambient temp today was 16-17C (I.e British Summer) and two weeks ago 30C (not British Summer ;) ).
Just as that person was 1 of 10,000 learning something for the first time today, I hope that today you learned that not everyone has exactly your set of knowledge. Also consider that it is quite likely that person is an expert in several things you have never even heard of.

XKCD 10,000: https://xkcd.com/1053/
"...supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

As technologists, one of the most important innovations we can work on for the civility of the information age is a framework for the proper application of that clause and others like it.

When data is digital, how do we develop an understanding of this sort of particularization such the right to be free from capricious intrusion is preserved?
And you give up your anonymity as soon as you do.
This is why I like Aurelia, its much lighter in terms of speed and amount of code, while still being a fully flared framework like Angular. Sure theres React/Redux Vue/Vuex but why do that setup when you can literally go au new hit enter about 4 times and your app is ready to code and build.
Yeah I think the "it sounds better" argument is silly.

Personally I prefer records for these reasons:

- If I want to share a record with a friend, theres a greater chance they'll just let it play as opposed to a bluetooth connected speaker, where everyone decides they want to be the DJ.

- Having records often starts conversations. Its much more likely someone will see my records or ask to flip through them than say "Hey, can I peruse your Spotify library?"

I like music and it's nice to connect about it without having to force a conversation with everyone I meet.

That being said, I've often thought of living a "mobile" lifestyle like you mention, and if I do records would not be on my list of necessities.
Depends on whether the music was recorded/mastered using digital or analog equipment.
ZCash is fairly anonymous but it's also controlled by a privately owned organization in the U.S. Theoretically, they can be compelled to only let one transaction through on a block, which can be used to deanonymize the owner of the account on the other side.

ZCash also personally takes a cut of the mining, if I remember correctly, but that's not part of the anonymity.
Just a quick point on this, the "new scenario" page came up with an error (I think?) for me:

https://puu.sh/wylE1/21197650ef.png
I use a device (http://zap.intergate.ca/) before going to bed, which induces electroporation & destroys harmful organisms living in my body. I ride my bicycle 5 miles to work & 5 miles back home every day. I limit my caloric intake to less than 1,500 per day. I drink a lot of water and also teas that reduce stress.
Most companies I have worked for/heard about have the option of 1) using a company card with the company keeping the perks, 2) using your own card and getting reimbursed or, less often, 3) using a company card that is in our name, paid by the company, with all perks going to you. I've seen 3 most often with Diner's Club cards that cover only meals and 2 most often with travel, if you opt for it. I have seen a surprising number of people who do not want to deal with another bill though, and opt for 1, leaving all the perks with the company. I never understood that, but I enjoy any perks I can get.
How iOS 11's Do Not Disturb While Driving Feature Works
I'm not entirely sure, however running the pump without actually heating the water seems like a waste of energy. Maybe that's how this boiler works though, I'd be interested to know more from the OP.
Except legally they do and morally it's debatable.

I have no expectation of privacy on a work machine as the company has to protect its IT systems and assets.

However I do have in my case since it's a Linux desktop with encrypted disks to which I have the password alone in a company full of Windows machines with an outsourced IT department who couldn't support Linux if I asked.
Similarly, Unreal Engine 4 offsets platform time (a double) by some large value so if it's stored in a float, accuracy errors will be exposed almost immediately. Looking it up, the offset starts out large enough that the epsilon is two seconds.
WWII had a huge war-footing ramp up (IBM's factories converted to making machine guns etc; rationing; war dominating the headlines, huge war bond and material drives; et al) and enough men under arms that the labor markets were seriously distorted (women recruited for previously male-only occupations; wage and price controls lead to company-sponsored health insurance etc etc). The war effort was ever-present.

Viet nam was more distant; it didn't completely dominate the headlines and the mass draft of middle class kids was seen by many (though far from the majority BTW!) as unfair. But the expansion of the Great Society was at least as big a deal if not bigger, and both efforts were funded by an expansion of the national debt through traditional (not "war bonds") means.

In contrast: today's permanent-war has long slipped from the headlines (just checked home pages NYT, Wapo and Fox and at this instant none have an article about the Middle East or Afghanistan or any military action at all on the front page, except for NYT's video about the Saudi royal family). While yes, the military budget has ballooned, its primary use seems to be a way to provide a government jobs program and cash payments to large donors in the military industrial complex (a term coined in a warning by a GOP president and war hero BTW).

As an aside: the general US view of the US military from the 1790s to the 1980s was one of regrettable ridicule (incompetent and inefficient, but necessary and better than nothing). This includes the Union army of the civil war (they had to riot to get pensions and health care), the WWI expeditionary force, WWI and Viet nam. Think SNAFU, FUBAR, Bill Mauldin, Catch-22...none of the could appear in Stars and Stripes today. Instead we get the hagiography of Tom Clancy. In fact as the military is more and more distant from the bulk of the populace, its halo has increased.

However it is, as I say distant. The country is not at all on a war footing. Of course it faces no existential external threat. I am glad that it is not girded for war, but the current state WRT to militarization and discussion of war is also very unhealthy.