skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethereum's main selling point is it lets you issue illegal unregistered securities. => Well that is the whole point of being decentralized. Anyone can do anything allowed by EVM.

Also the lead developer is some kid who believes very much in moving fast and breaking things. This philosophy may work for a social network site but not for other people's money.
=> Well they have improved significantly. There are 3 implementations - one each in cpp, go and py. There are multiple miner implementation. It is significantly more mature and many people involved. See https://github.com/ethereum/go-ethereum for example.

'terrible bugs'? there was one terrible bug a long time ago

Additionally the size of its blockchain has already passed Bitcoin. It's file size is growing so fast and will pose a serious technical problem. => Storage is not a problem. We get TB size drives now. Most people use online wallets. There are various pruning measures which reduce the size significantly. There are many proposals to handle scaling if it were to become bottleneck.
Yes, yes. To who am I going to prove my identity though? There's no one that, once I've done that, can go into the blockchain and fix things up.

This is why there are so many lost bitcoins that are 100% unrecoverable.
Crowd-sourcing the data is going to cost less, but this will also produce lower quality results. I think that's why all the pros use Mappedin:

https://mappedin.com/
I live in a hot, humid area, and there are many people who don't go outside because of the discomfort. That said, I also have young kids, so my cohort actually is outside for hours per day year-round, and it's really not that bad when you get acclimated. The cities you list in TX, I think, are very car-friendly and developed recently (maybe not San Antonio), which is such a huge part of the problem. Commercial developments aren't made for walking and residential developments are segregated and often lack sidewalks. It's terrible.
To be honest I just back of the enveloped it, taking into account the stated revenue for the entire federal government and the putative value of all real, physical or financial assets in the continental US. It would be somewhere in that order of magnitude for sure.

I think the larger question is the implication that (assuming we moved to a purely wealth tax), there's a minimum rate of return on wealth - this is already functionally true, but it sets an interesting floor to the return on investment for an asset.

I'm by no means a financial wizard, I'm sure there are huge flaws in the idea I can't see after an hour's thought, I was just playing with the idea, but it seems like it solves a lot of the problems inherent in income taxation - different entities (people, corporations, foreign investors, etc) being taxed at different rates, the relative spending ratios of various income brackets, etc.

It follows essentially a similar line of thought as the land value taxes, except of course applying to all assets.
>Empirically, we seem to be too far in the direction of "innocent until proven guilty."

You can't know this without knowing how many of the allegations are false.
The Dawn of a New Command Line Interface (2017)
No it wasn't trying. I use that with an ergonomic keyboard tray that moved under the desk. I try to stand up as much as i can and also adjust the height so that i don't bend.

In my experience, the cost was week worth it.
How is something like this funded? Charity organizations? Is Google just paying for it?
Bitcoin is used for drugs, prostitution, and gambling.

That terrible bug was the DAO, but that's the nature of the blockchain and applies to Bitcoin as well. If you want rollbacks you use a centralized server.
And if those systems fail (as all systems will fail at some point) then....my bond is just gone? Poof? Like all those lost bitcoins.
It's a joint project by a bunch of major financial firms.
Why musicians are so angry at the world’s most popular music streaming service
You get Radiohead ;) but actually, I hope you can appreciate some of their work.
In my subjective experience (as a Brit) British people often think the NHS is the best health service in the world

Having experienced it, I'm surprised that Brits feel that way. When I was studying abroad a while ago (which was not a great experience for other reasons... https://jakeseliger.com/2012/11/18/about-the-university-of-e...), I needed an x-ray and then a CT scan for what appeared to be a minor issue. So I went to the clinic and signed up for one, only to discover a week later that an x-ray typically takes 6 - 8 weeks to be done! I asked around and was told to go to Bupa facility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bupa). To the Brits this seemed like an obvious solution, and paying in cash is in fact a good way to get things done quickly. It turns out that when people have something really wrong with them, the solution is often to just pay out of pocket!

This disabused me of any notion that publicly-provided healthcare is automatically superior.
This seems insanely over-engineered. So I re-wrote most of them as bash alias one-liners.

# Encrypt a file
function encrypt() { openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -a -in $1 -out $2 ; }

# Decrypt a file
function decrypt() { openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $1 -out $2 ; }

# Fetch weather forecast
function weather() { curl "http://wttr.in/$1"; }

# Convert input text into a QR code
function qrify() { curl "http://qrenco.de/$1"; }

# Fetch information about a stock
function stock() { curl -s "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&symbol=AAPL&apikey=KPCCCRJVMOGN9L6T" | awk '/\. / {$1=""; gsub("\"|,",""); print $0}'; }

# Conversion rate between currencies
function currency { curl -s "http://api.fixer.io/latest?base=$1&symbols=$2" | grep -Eo "[0-9]*[.][0-9]*"; }

# Fetch movie info
function movie { curl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=${1/ /+}&apikey=946f500a" | jq ". | {Title, Year, Ratings:[.Ratings[1].Source, .Ratings[1].Value ], Rated, Genre, Director, Actors, Plot}" | awk -F "\"" '/:|%|Tomato/ {print $2 $3 $4}' | sed '/: \[/d' | perl -pe 's/,\n/: /'; }

# Fetch cheatsheet
function cheat() { curl "http://cheat.sh/$1"; }

# Fetches DNS nameserver ???
function dns_nameserver() { cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep -i ^nameserver | cut -d ' ' -f2; }

# Fetches WAN ip address ???
function wan_search() { dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com ; }

# Show actual destinatoin of a tinyurl. Eg: untiny "tinyurl.com/savepii"
function untiny() { curl -s "http://x.datasig.io/short?url=http://$1" | awk -F '"' '/d
Also a very popular implementation in Rust.

https://parity.io/
You could do exactly the same thing with a centralized ledger and it would be faster and cheaper. The point of a blockchain is security and irreversible transactions.
the NHS is great and the system works much better than in the US,

I'm not so sure about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14774718
A major caveat is, it's still JavaScript so the performance vary according to the browser apart from other variables.

Benchmark on iPad Air 2 iOS 10.3.2 is close for both chrome and safari.

Safari

CPU: 6.110s ±1.9%
GPU: 0.487s ±1.0% (12.55 times faster!)

Chrome 59

CPU: 4.454s ±51.8%
GPU: 0.483s ±0.9% (9.22 times faster!)

Project looks promising though, congratulations to the team.
I use Nix and NixOS and nixops. What can `now` do for me?
This is absolutely true, I was thinking you could certainly structure it differently than the annual tax system we have now, and certainly in similar property taxes there's an assessment problem.

I don't have any answers for those things, but it's an interesting thought experiment - what would such a thing look like for relatively easily valued assets vs very difficult to value assets, etc

Perhaps you could simply structure it as a transactional cost, but of course, that causes overhead on every transaction. Backdating would be ruinous and cause people a strong incentive to transact often which is probably perverse.
One problem is that this has some externalities. Part of the appeal of perpetual licenses is that I know that even if there has been a nuclear war, if I have electricity I can run Photoshop 5.

Also, it makes much more sense for a large corporation to be exposed to the risks of investment return, i.e., it makes more sense for fixed-price software licenses. Well, maybe. Whoever has a smaller fraction of total expenses over cash reserves, and is this able to ride out a recession, should get the risk. In the case of a person with a big retirement fund, they should get the risk. However, in the case of someone living paycheck to paycheck, the company should get the risk.
Looks like the JS parser is created using Jison, a parser generator, and the generation of GLSL from the AST is performed in src/backend/webgl/function-node.js using a single-pass tree walk.
Income will definitely be affected by getting on this list. See above, where tptacek says:

"More likely, since pretty much every VC in the valley needs access to the YC dealflow, becoming persona non grata with YC will force VC firms to make personnel changes."

But still, this will probably be good on balance. False accusations of this sort will certainly be something to watch out for, but now victims of real sexual harassment will have recourse.
I think you intended to post this in another thread?
Yep! A big deal. You can see the lineage of transactions and actually always know who owns what.

Be good for stocks too, which are a total and complete nightmare when it comes to who owns what.
Tweeting Hatred: The Hounding of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan
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This makes me find it funny that the Brave browser purposefully blocks all ads by default, seemingly without much negative recourse to the end user -- not directly, anyway.

edit: Point being the browser that capitalizes off of blockchain virtual currencies/tokens would purposefully block such a sneaky device.

Companies who want to advertise through the browser's ecosystem have to purchase the company's tokens on the Ethereum public chain and the end user has to OK viewing ads on sites they visit regularly in order for those publishers to see returns and the user doesn't have to OK anything at all. The browser capitalizes off of publishers/content providers who don't want to lose ad views, and the user base grows because of the late and growing public desire for privacy and dismissal of unwanted rampant advertising that is sometimes even quite inappropriate.

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All that said, I'm quite excited to try this out, too.

Due to my regular dev workflow in JS I'm looking forward to it being published to NPM, so it can more easily be used as a module and bundled for the odd front end project/experiment.
did you want to live next to the "L"?

Yes. I only wanted to live next to the L train. If I were apartment hunting, and it wasn't a quick walk to an L stop, that apartment went straight to the bottom of the list.

And when I sought roommates, my place being steps to a blue line stop meant I got literally 70 emails within the first few hours of posting the ad.
They will use a private net so it's irrelevant to Bitcoin or Ethereum.
Why is "Google" in the title? The only connection between Google and this company is that they share a parent company, Alphabet.
I'm curious how mosquitoes will evolve to beat this.
We Need Universal Basic Income to End Economic Anxiety Over Refugees
On the OP Web page, the lines commonly have about 96 characters. On my 14" screen with a Web browser magnification that lets a whole line show at once, the text is so small it is totally unreadable.

With more magnification from my Web browser, there are still 96 characters per line so have to use the horizontal scroll bars twice on each line to read it.

So, since I was interested in the article, I selected all of the text, copied it to my system clipboard, pasted it into a new e-mail in my e-mail program that reflowed the lines and used a larger font, and then read some of the article.

With 96 characters per line, apparently the Web site is determined, feet locked deep in reinforced concrete, with iron-clad rigidity, to discourage as many readers as they can.

Ah, since the OP is about psychology, the 96 characters per line and the whole OP is really just a psychology experiment?

Curious that a Web site would want to work so hard to discourage readers.
If this example proves anything, it's that the GPU result is the same in both browsers.
This doesn't touch the real problem. Nobody intentionally creates a policy that will take $20K from someone with $40K and give it to someone with $10K. When that happens at all it's unintentional (e.g. 20 programs to transfer $1K that weren't expected to overlap) and people who discover that outcome find it outrageous.

Because that was never the problem with income inequality to begin with.

The problem isn't that one person makes $10,000 while another makes $40,000. Those people are both struggling. The problem is that one person makes $10,000 (or $40,000) while another makes $10,000,000.

Reversal never even enters into it. If you took $9,900,000 of the richer person's money and split it between 1000 poorer people, the richer person would still have more money. Even though that would imply a 99% tax rate.
That's essentially what brainwallet did. Your bitcoin private key was deterministicly generated by your password. So using a list of common passwords, private keys could be pregenerated by attackers. So anyone who "created" a brainwallet with a weak password would get their money stolen the second they deposited it. Brainwallet got so much hate from people that used weak passwords and got their money stolen that it was shut down.
I was trying to draw that point out. Sometimes news like this is used to pump crypto coins.
Interesting coincidence (or maybe not...) Redis was discussed on the Floss podcast that I listened to earlier today and now I have an inkling of what Redis is. My first exposure to Redis was to ponder where it came from after I tried to run Gitlab on my puny (J1900, 4GB RAM and spinning rust) file server. It was spectacularly non-performant with most page loads timing out. I suppose it was because Redis had insufficient RAM for operation. Redis may be scalable toward large busy systems but seems less so in the other direction. I thought it would be cool to have a real Git server but this one was not it.

During the podcast the Redis guy mentioned that 4.0 was on the verge of being released.
> Will you do it now that Steve Jobs is back from the dead and has agreed to be the CEO?

No. I've watched too many movies where this ended badly.
Those things are nice, but I'd like to know whether you have ever lived directly next to them (as opposed to just close enough to get to them when you want).

I grew up in a scenic neighborhood in Berlin, with lots of bars and restaurants and dance clubs in former factory yards, and it was pretty annoying at times. Drunken people get loud, and you don't want them to have a midnight singing contest right outside your bedroom window. Occasionally someone would drive around the block blasting music at full volume. And so on.

I think most people would much prefer to live in a quiet neighborhood, with all the action happening within walking distance just outside of it.
The problem with voluntary human extinction is that suicidal ethical systems are inherently self-limiting. A serious negative utilitarian who wished for human extinction would have to sterilize or kill others to succeed.
This says nothing about why people don't support realistic measures to alleviate income inequality which don't upset the social order. I'd say almost all if not all realistic programs and solutions proposed do not upset said order so why aren't they supported by over 70% of the population? Or maybe they are and our representatives just ignore us. I'm not talking about stupid ideas like communism but things like raising the minimum wage.
I can't respond to this without violating an NDA. Sorry.
Just curious, what is the reasoning behind such rollouts? Localization?
Yes, YES, this is what I'm talking about Microsoft. I'm surprised how muted the reaction is from HN here.

On the technical side, this is a perfect example of how AI can be used effectively, and is a (very obvious in hindsight) application of the cutting edge in scene understanding and HCI. There are quite a few recent and advanced techniques rolled into one product here, and although I haven't tried it out yet it seems fairly polished from the video. A whitepaper of how this works from the technical side would be fascinating, because even though I'm familiar with the relevant papers it's a long jump between the papers and this product.

On the social side, I think this is a commendable effort, and a fairly low hanging fruit to demonstrate the positive power of new ML techniques. On a site where every other AI article is full of comments (somewhat rightfully) despairing about the negative social aspects of AI and the associated large scale data collection, we should be excited about a tool that exists to improve lives most of us don't even realize need improving. This is the kind of thing I hope can inspire more developers to take the reins on beneficial AI applications.
>However, any possible password with a standard printable ASCII character set will typically be found in Rainbow tables up to 10 characters long making expensive cracking unnecessary.

Umm what? Even assuming a limited set of ASCII i.e. Base64, on what magical medium do you suppose a 64^10 rainbow table is stored?
Eh. Bummer. I could totally be wrong about this, and I'm super curious since a lot of smart people seem to be into it. I just don't see the reasoning behind things.

Thanks for sharing what you could!
Yes, it is. Added the same.
Verizon Database Exposed Online with the Details of 14M Customers
GPS is basically always on - on iOS if you have a background location app, you're being located every 5 minutes at least.
I work remotely and I only read and write English.
Seems the tick population is increasing the The Netherlands as well [0]. I am kinda scared to go outside in nature in The Netherlands, due to these little buggers.

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[0]: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/lyme-disease_b_31135...
Notice the ±51.8% in the second benchmark. You probably got unlucky and hit garbage collection, or some other process decided to use the CPU while you were running it.
To elaborate what the parent was talking about when they said "the way it worked" (it might also be what you're talking about). My guess is that the box is useful to straighten, unskew, and scale the image before applying the OCR.

You could /try/ to do it looking at the baseline and cap heights of the text itself, but you wouldn't know the scale in either direction. I imagine those font identifiers would have been a lot better if they could have known those things.
> However, any possible password with a standard printable ASCII character set will typically be found in Rainbow tables up to 10 characters long making expensive cracking unnecessary.

Really? Storing every possible 10 character long printable ASCII password plus its MD5 hash would require approximately 1.5 zettabytes[1].

[1] 95^10 * (16+10)
The Resilience of Life to Astrophysical Events
Apple does not allow for real Chrome on iOS, so Chrome on iOS is just a wrapper around Safari.
> At most schools, if you want to major in computer stuff, you major in some sort of computer science major.

That was definitely true in the 90s, but I don't think it's been the case for years now. Most schools have degrees like Information Systems where most of the people end up who are just generally interested in computers and/or find CS too difficult. Hell I work with a guy right now whose degree (from a state university) is in "computing" whatever that means.
They don't upset the social order immediately, but they're a starting point. So it would make sense to be against that too, to maintain the current social hierarchy.
Greening the web
Is it really a big deal to wait 6-8 weeks to get an x-ray for a minor issue? Obviously this is not ideal, but it seems pretty minor compared to the ridiculous stuff we deal with in the US system, especially if you compare to the pre-ACA US system.
What? The rent in cities is vastly depressed by all the demand that the suburbs soak up. Limit the effective radius of the city to walking distance and it will skyrocket as the same number of people clamor to fit into less space.
[He announced, “According to a recent study from the University of California, Riverside, cities with these policies have more violent crime on average than those that don’t.”]

...

[In fact, our study suggests a different conclusion: Municipalities that chose to designate themselves as sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants experience crime rates no higher than THEY (that sampled subset of sanctuary cities) otherwise would.]

Fake news. That's not a "different" conclusion; that's a conclusion about completely different criteria. For him to be "wrong", they'd have to show that the violent crime rate for sanctuary cities overall is not greater than that of all other cities overall.

They only included a few cities in the stated study (they are not listed in its abstract).
"Koperski was told that Safari content blockers, introduced in iOS 9, will be the only Apple-supported ad blockers going forward, and those ad blockers are limited to use in the Safari web browser."

That doesn't sound good.
Per my knowledge tuning hyperparameters and building models are mostly intuitive guesswork/experimentation based on some fundamental mathematical principles. Am not sure if that's equivalent to hacking in the canonical sense.
Nothing is truly free. TANSTAAFL and all that. We all know this, and we use the word anyway because it gets the point across.

But for some reason any time it's used in the context of health care, people just have to point out that it's not really free.
This is one of the things that really interests me. It's a tool to boost honesty in traditionally exploitable aspects of business.

Hell, with something like that the public might be able to viably reduce financial regulation -- or rather preventative procedural bureaucracy -- because of the ability to trace business transactional practices.
they would inform the employer and use that as a strike against you if anything else were to occur.
Keep your keyboard and monitor separated by height. Laptops are evil for upper back posture.

Think of how high your eyes are above your elbows. Most of us need the center of our monitors to be 2-3ft above our keyboard height for proper ergonomics. Even typical laptop risers don't cut it.

Get your eyesight checked - and get it rechecked annually, because it can change significantly in as little as six months. Nearsightedness (myopia) and astigmatism may both cause you to lean in closer to your monitor to read clearly, causing your back to hunch. Corrective lenses make this unnecessary (though they alone won't break you of the postural habit.)

Lower back posture is a separate issue - and that's what sit-stand desks, exercise balls, and the like try to address. That said, they also strengthen your core, which may be necessary (though not sufficient) to straighten your upper back.

You may want to consult a physical therapist for specific exercises to straighten your posture, for guidance on how to do them most safely and effectively, and for a program that ramps them up gradually as your strength increases.
Very nice, but if you lose the function keyword and just use

name () {... ; }

you'll have greater cross-shell compatibility and they'll be a little shorter.
Not only do venture capitalists do this kind of tracking, but they collude with each other to share informal blacklists and whitelists. There may be no group of people operating in American commerce with less of a moral high ground on this issue than venture capital firms.

What's more, there's not much you can do about it. Ultimately, they're not employers. They're investors. You can't coerce people into investing.
Spectrum's are legendary in the UK. I'm guessing that's the reason.