skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And these two comments (the parent and grandparent) capture the tension between money and principles. I don't know anything about the insides of your business but we dealt with this crap all the time at Blekko.

Realistically, how many of your customers are going to make a custom email for your giveaway promotions? Its going to be small, and they are 100% going to get spammed and abused by that part of the Internet industry that slams unwanted apps in your face or hijacks your search page for sideloads an advertising rootkit on to your phone. Because that is what they do, they get away with it and make a lot of money at it, and yes they offer you a small piece of the action and all you have to do is give them validated email addresses.

The local Taqueria had a jar that said "Put in your business card for a chance for free lunch, awarded monthly!" and the jar had dozens of business cards in it. I asked about it and the restaurant had nothing to do with it, except that the restaurant was paid by a local recruiter $100 a month to have that jar there.

So one of the Internet scumbags makes a deal with a web site, "Here is a contest you could run which is tangentially related to your web content, all you have to do is run the contest and we'll pay you $x." Free money right? No, it just makes you one of the Internet scumbags too, maybe you didn't know they were going to click jack Grandma's PC but at some level everyone who gets into these deals know there must be some catch otherwise they wouldn't be giving you all this money right?

If you are in the airport and someone says "Oh, are you on the flight to Chicago? My sister-in-law just left for there and forgot this bag, if you'll check it through to Chicago when you get there she will pay you for your trouble. How about $500 ?"

You have to ask; Why is it worth $500 for me to pretend this is my luggage when it would cost less than half that to go to FedEx and just ship it? Why is this person paying me to run a free lunch contest for them? Why is this internet company paying me to run a giveaway contest for them?

At Blekko we tried several times to find the people who weren't scumbags and were actually trying to provide a real service or value to our customers. They may be out there but if they are, they are outnumbered by scumbags at least 1000:1, maybe more.

The only winning strategy was to just not deal with them at all.
That's certainly true for most people sitting in front of a computer but I really liked the inclusive design guidelines from Microsoft[1] reminding us that there are many people for whom any particular assumption is untrue, often only temporarily or in a specific situation:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/design/inclusive

As an example, a coworker mentioned that his use of Alexa went from casual to heavy when they had a child and the ability to do things while carrying a baby suddenly became really important. I suspect there are more situations like that than we might think at first.

1. I know, 90s me is still getting used to saying that too
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> It gets a tremendous amount of unjustified hatred from people who don't realize what an impossible balancing act it is to build

It's only an impossible balancing act due to the absurd requirements imposed by civilians in Congress with little-to-zero understanding of the roles current-day aircraft fulfill and why we have role-specialized vehicles in the first place.

And then they let the Marines dictate requirement after requirement in an attempt to replace the Harrier... no other service wanted VTOL, yet VTOL dominated the design considerations (causing all sorts of design trade-offs), leading to the turkey known as the F-35 project.

A one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none aircraft was, is, and will remain a bad idea.

Not to mention there's now 2 variants of the F-35 platform (the Navy version is larger and removed the VTOL capabilities), so it's not even meeting that original design goal anyway!
Roll back.

A Bitcoin transation is not a credit facility. This is an important differentiation.

When you pay with a credit/debit card, the money isn't transferred right away.

Visa/MC check to see if they are willing to approve the transaction(see if you've breeched your limit)

if they are, they guarentee that you are good for the money, and the merchant approves the transaction.

A few days later, visa will settle with the merchant, paying your debt on your behalf.

You then pay visa on your monthly schedual.

Visa also act as an escrow of sorts, If there is fraud, or the transaction becomes void, Visa is equally liable to sort it (depending on country).

Bitcoin has none of these functions, it is just digital cash, with a public ledger. Whats worse is you need a credit function to allow quick purchasing of thing with bitcoin, because of the time needed for verification.

Without a relable and safe credit/escrow system digital currencies will just be limited to the brave or those who have a decent cradit facility.
Sorry for the ambiguity, I meant Crypto currencies
It's still easier to break a window or kick in a door than to hack a smart lock. (I don't have one though)
Hacking of IoT devices in another fear that has questionable justification (don't get me wrong, many IoT manufactures are verging on negligent with the level of security on their devices). Most hackers aren't chaotic evil caricatures raining down destruction just for the lolz. They are usually trying to gain money or power. What is the goal of taking over my smart thermostat and turning off the heat? What is the likelihood of that actually happening?
H2 is an assumption you've made. When talking about a nuclear explosion. There is hydrogen in a number of compounds (notably water and hydrogen sulfide) present in the atmosphere that could be relevant sources. The ppm being incidental is another issue. You've been unnecessarily condescending to an honest question.
Not bad. However, I'm missing some newer, complementary stuff on the list. For example:

- Rationale for Ada 2005: http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rat/h...

- Rationale for Ada 2012: http://www.ada-auth.org/standards/12rat/html/Rat12-TOC.html
> good developers

Which seem to be in a dire need in the face of more and more "entrepreneurs" seeking to "disrupt", "change the world", etc. (read: make quick cash from nothing ideas) and start nonsense start ups based on nonsense ideas. And to add insult to injury, hire talentless hacks for cheap, calls them "developers" and lets them "develop" "apps" for platforms they should have no place at all touching.
I want everyone to have the same system, so that rich people are forced to expend their influence on trying to improve the system for everyone.

Give them the option, and they'll just make the best walled garden they can and fuck everyone else.
Yes, it's in the article; it's also a (impressively durable) myth, not an actual fact. The 5.56mm was adopted by NATO as a standard for logistical reasons, not because wounding is better than killing. (The initial US use of the round was spurred by a doctrinal shift in favor of full auto fire, but that shift was rapidly reversed...for both effectiveness and logistical reasons.)

> unlike AK 47 or FN FAL which are 7.62 mm weapons. Chances of survival from a 7.62mm ammo, especially at close range are low or nil.

True (at least compared to the 5.56 round at issue) of the 7.62×51 round used by the FAL, less true of the 7.62×39 round used by the AK; from everything I've seen the 5.56×45 round used by the M-16 and similar assault weapons is at least as lethal as the (slower) AK round overall, and moreso when body armor or other material is penetrated before reaching the target.
A funny popular experiment is the seebotschat Twitch account who livestreamed 2 google homes running Cleverbot API talking to each others.

Here's a short highlight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoI6_z2mfdY
Some implementation details in AMA: https://redd.it/5nz3eb
I believe points 1 and 2 could be addressed by implementing a trust-on-first-use model whereby the customer can set an initial signing public key for the PSP, which is then used to sign specific boot parameters.

That way, as the customer, I can tell the PSP that I'd like to either require PSP-mediated secure boot, or permit boot if the PSP is disabled. OEMs and vendors selling to enterprise customers can pre-sign it for convenience, and tinfoil hats like me can disable it. Everybody wins.

But we don't even have the choice.
I don't think it would help in the long run. The tunnels would keep getting hotter, and the AC in the trains would have to work harder and harder.
Maybe they could make something that I could carry around with me that I could use to play recordings of my favorite songs from those vinyl records.
So its exactly once semantics, not exactly once delivery. Adding a dedup is not exactly once delivery, its being idempotent, its exactly once commit, we've had this for years. Having clients request for committed messages and keep track of their progress is not exactly once delivery, its exactly once request. Exactly once delivery has messages pushed to clients. As blogs have noted this is not possible.
That's honestly the less important part. Even if the atmosphere were pure hydrogen (whether protium or deuterium or tritium) you would not build a hydrogen bomb without its own encapsulated hydrogen fuel source.

The black magic of a hydrogen bomb is that it focuses the explosive energy of a fission bomb to ignite a fusion explosion. Doing so requires a very specific configuration; any hydrogen on the outside of the bomb, regardless of its concentration, would not reach the appropriate temperature/pressure to fuse.
Ah, makes perfect sense.
a huge paradigm shift that can't fly in the rain
Give us another go in a few weeks - our initial trials we were partnered with Hiscox, and were bound to only their (really expensive) policies.

We're now in the final stages of rolling out our own policies which are much more competitive - quoting on my own house has our policies coming out cheaper than my current home insurance policy, with much better service.
Also checkout go buffalo http://gobuffalo.io/ the claims are nearly the same "Rails for go" .

Too bad they didnt collaborate to make a single project better.
>universally recognized

The value of gold is not universally recognized, and is inflated more from idolization than by its practical uses.

>When I was older, I learned what the fighting was about that winter and the next summer. Up on the Madison Fork the Wasichus (white people) had found much of the yellow metal that they worship and that makes them crazy, and they wanted to have a road up through our country to the place where the yellow metal was... Our people knew there was yellow metal in little chunks up there; but they did not bother with it, because it was not good for anything.

-Black Elk Speaks
defense contractor doesn't want to use the account where they post about flight control software
Neat. I saw something like this recently in game form: Codeshapes http://teropa.info/codeshapes/
The general rule of thumb is that falcons prey on other birds and hawks prey on land animals.
Why I developed an entire system for the government and then gave it away
What would that result imply for living water-borne organisms?
Depending on what you're listening to (and more to the point - how what you were listening to was recorded/mastered), an analog medium sounds better. Same can be said for a digital medium, of course. It is a tool box. I put the tools I need in the box.

In that light, medium does somewhat equate to being an active listener - you evidence that you care about how the music was made in the first place.
You would prefer simply to say "in space" perhaps? Drop the "outer" part?

What else to say instead?
how about
`const DefaultPi = 3.14159265`
Manufacturing civility
In which parts of the United States is general American dialect spoken?
I've been working in a related space for a few years and wanted to offer a few counterpoints to the article.

First, if you're doing request/response using messaging, you're probably doing it wrong. Pub/sub and request/response are totally different animals. I for one, consider it both reasonable and necessary to use both side-by-side, in the same infrastructure. (Is this view uncommon?)

In our technology stack, which is a monolith-becoming-microservices, we use both pub/sub and request/response side-by-side. The general rule is that if service A calls service B, if the nature of that interaction is such that service B's response can preempt/interrupt/influence service A, the call needs to be done inline, in service A. If the nature of the interaction is more "advisory", use pub/sub.

Examples (from the hotel booking space):
(a) When a reservation gets canceled, we publish a cancellation event. The reservation is then CANCELED, officially. A separate service sees the cancellation event and frees the associated held room inventory; that's a pub/sub interaction.
(b) When a reservation wants to check in to a room, we check whether the room is already occupied. This has to be done using request/response (in our case, gRPC) because if the room is occupied, that's a hard gate on the success of the checkin.

Second, pub/sub != work queues.

Pub/sub is about distributing small bits of information all over the system and letting things be advised of stuff. Using a messaging system as a work queue is overall pretty stupid. I know it's common to use a message broker like RabbitMQ for task distribution, but it's silly. It's really silly when the tasks themselves contain huge binary objects inline, as part of the message payload. Store that shit in S3 or a proper system, and keep the message payloads light.

I guess that's all for now.
This is surprisingly good stuff (for being a bbc.com article - they tend to be overly light on details).
Tech provides leverage horizontally, not vertically.

As programmers, we often fool ourselves into believing the opposite.
Others have answered well, but if you want to dig deeper, Richard Rhode's two books 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb' and 'Dark Sun' should more than cover what most non-physicists need to know.
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Other comments mentioned deuterium and tritium, but didn't mention why those are used, which is also interesting. Plain old hydrogen is really, really, really difficult to fuse. Plain hydrogen nuclei are just single protons. When you squish two of them together, you get helium-2, which is unstable and immediately decays. It can either decay back into two protons, or it can decay into deuterium, which is a proton and a neutron, by emitting a beta particle which converts one of the protons to a neutron.

The second reaction is really unlikely, so the helium-2 almost always decays back into hydrogens. That means that pure hydrogen fuses extremely slowly. That works out in, for example, the Sun, where tremendous heat and pressure is maintained for billions of years. It doesn't work so well in a bomb which can only maintain fusion-level temperatures and pressures for tiny fraction of a second.

Thus, fusion bombs always use deuterium or tritium. Practical bomb designs typically don't use those directly (hydrogen is a pain to work with), but rather use lithium turns into deuterium or tritium in the neutron-rich environment of a detonating bomb.
At some point you will need to convert fiat into cryptocurrency and vice-versa, and the companies that provide that service legally will require your identification.
Wait，Java has actually the shortest silhouette?
Father of two boys (10 and 13), French.

Homework : I am behind their back, forcing them to plan ahead (this includes catching up over the weekend). They got used to that and now do their homework on their own, I still check and will continue until high school.

Religion : I am an atheist, the whole family is into science, I am open about my theory that religion is nonsense but that it brings some mental order and peace for some people. I let them choose to think what they want but this is not a big discussion subject anyway.

Internet : my first aim was to make sure they are never exposed to something they are not actively seeking. Which means paternal control, one they will be someday able to avoid if they want to. I put some strict rules : zero personal information published, including their first name. They are putting pressure to show their face in some videos but this is still a "no".
I told them that Internet has dark corners and that they can find horrible things if they are not careful. The younger one (more independent type of child) did not listen and watched something about zombies. Still had nightmares but clearly let's a lesson.
Each time the cheese is moved, the economic order mutates, creating new winners and losers. That's reason enough to move in a circle, when you are not currently a winner.
Apple made a games console called Pippin in 1996
Santa Cruz, Bolivia (pop. 1,640,615) is much larger than Santa Cruz, CA (pop. 64,465).
It is not supposed to be java, but java is dominant language there. As of now, there is not a single Rust project https://projects.apache.org/projects.html?language

A project can become Apache project if it follows their governance rules - they define management, decision process, minimum number of organisations and such.
FWIW, in America, modern submarines are exclusively called "boats" by people who work on and around them (regardless of size). Definitely not "u-boats." Never heard anyone outside the submarine community say "boat" though and I've had people in the general public try to "correct" me when I said "boat" to refer to a submarine.
I see your point and won't pretend there isn't an air of pretentiousness surrounding some who purchase records.

I think any hobby will have its fair share of smugness at the top.

Also comparing listening to records as consulting tarot cards is a bit extreme don't you think?
Currently this is vaporware, but there are a lot of interesting ideas. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

The syntax for Lenses is particularly cool imho. Since it's bootstrapped on top of OCaml I doubt it has HKT though.
"Paper money is a significant technological advance over gold money"...Bullshit.

Gold is a commodity which marks a certain amount of labor and energy expended before it can be exchanged for other goods and services. Paper money is a debt note that represents a promise of labor and energy to be expended in the future.

So what happens when there's no demand for the already created paper? History has shown time and again; depression and war.
It's an accepted reality in the web world. Pick currently trending framework X which does [A,B,C] amazingly, write some "app" in it. Then comes framework Y, which reinvents how [B,C] are performed, is so much better and it's now laughable that you are using framework X (to the point web "devs" won't work in your company since you are using _outdated_ 1-2 years old framework X, so you rewrite all of your "app" in framework Y. Then comes framework Z, which reinvents how [A,C] are performed ...

Rinse and repeat.

Web "dev" is such an amazing prospect. Let's use those amazing technologies and mindsets to "develop" mobile and desktop "apps". What could possibly go wrong?
It does build on the fact that increased concentration of CO2 reduces EM waves emission (in the parts of frequency spectrum that can be absorbed by CO2) from Earth to space. Earth is presumed to maintain thermodynamic balance (i.e. energy received should be equal to energy lost). To compensate for reduced emission caused by CO2, Earth's surface warms up and restores the balance. This is global warming 101, I believe.

Have you read your links?

"One of the biggest questions in climate sensitivity has been the role of low-level cloud cover. Low-altitude clouds reflect some of the sun's radiation back into the atmosphere, cooling the earth. It's not yet known whether global warming will dissipate clouds, which would effectively speed up the process of climate change, or increase cloud cover, which would slow it down.

But a new study published in the July 24 issue of Science is clearing the haze. A group of researchers from the University of Miami and the Scripps Institute of Oceanography studied cloud data of the northeast Pacific Ocean — both from satellites and from the human eye — over the past 50 years and combined that with climate models. They found that low-level clouds tend to dissipate as the ocean warms — which means a warmer world could well have less cloud cover. "That would create positive feedback, a reinforcing cycle that continues to warm the climate," says Amy Clement, a climate scientist at the University of Miami and the lead author of the Science study."

That's one study that recorded the cloud data for subset of Earth.

Read about clouds feedback issue here, it's very pro-CO2-CAGW site:
https://www.skepticalscience.com/clouds-negative-feedback.ht...
Agreed, this reasoning about Bitcoin is entirely backwards.

Any discussion of the value of Bitcoin needs to address some of the unique properties is has as a network, namely resistance to Sybil attacks, a solution to the Byzantine Generals Problem, and Nakamoto Consensus.

This article is clearly from the point of view of an economist that doesn't understand in what ways Bitcoin is novel. Without understanding the value that Bitcoin presents, it's not surprising to find it lacking in value.
Thank you. In that case the authors need to seriously reconsider his priorities.
I wonder if the environment of experience is significant? USDS positions itself like a startup (even their page has a section on "dress code" which mentions being like "any other startup"). Someone whose experience is primarily enterprise or BigCo might be less appealing. It would be interesting to see a roster of current USDS FTEs and their backgrounds (I didn't see a "Who's Who" on their page, but didn't look extensively).
zcash, specifically when using the z-addr and not the t-addr sending method, can provide guaranteed anonymity. Others generally provide anonymity through obfuscation, which isn't "ideal".

Not to say zcash is perfect and alternatives are imperfect. There are pros and cons to each.
Every newbie filmmaker must not miss the chance knowing some useful hacks
He left another 9.8% for the other costs
Minneapolis City Council approves $15 minimum wage
AI + tiny devices = automatic surveillance.

There's just no way to train dumb little computers on enough observed data. You have to centralize the AI training at least, and therefore centralize data collection. Most existing services (like Amazon Echo or Siri) also centralize the AI logic, requiring them to be online to function.

This setup of ubiquitous, always-online smart devices reporting to a central collection server is very hazardous. At the very least, we need to require that these devices be disconnectable with a hardware switch (without losing other functionality), and that the training data they send home be pre-cooked as much as possible.
I wonder if our understanding of neural networks will help us understand the human brain.
Thank you! The deals that I post and distribute are sourced from a variety of sources including manual searching with tools like Google Flights / QPX (like Scott's team), programmatic searching (expensive as others have mentioned in the comments here), forums or blogs, and of course Concorde's "Discover" tool. The Discover tool makes use of a cache of flight search data that is collected from Global Distribution Systems (GDS) such as Sabre and others. Further reading on GDS's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system