skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problems described in this post are unlikely to happen. There is an attempt to split ("fork") the network scheduled for August 1. The people forking will force activation of a new feature, Segwit, while the non-forkers won't. However, the non-forkers are currently planning to activate Segwit as part of a compromise plan before the deadline. If this compromise happens as planned, there will be no need to force-activate Segwit with a fork, and so no fork will happen on August 1.

Frankly, even if the compromise solution fails and the fork does happen on August 1, it will be a complete non-event. Bitcoin.org is biased as they are affiliated with people who support the August 1 fork, and so they're attempting to publicize it. However, the fork has practically zero support from Bitcoin miners or exchanges. On Aug 1 the vast majority of miners and exchanges will stay with the current network. Without significant miner support the forked network will run extremely slowly, and it will be vulnerable to several kinds of attacks. Without exchange support the forked network will not have economic value, and will quickly become irrelevant.

Although August 1 will likely not be a problem either way, there is another date that will. Around the end of October, another proposal to fork the network is scheduled, and this one is supported by miners and exchanges. What will happen then is much more murky. It will become clearer as the date approaches.
Executive Interview with DFLabs on Automation and Orchestration
The impressive thing about Babylon.js is Spector
http://spector.babylonjs.com/

Babylon Spector is a fully functional WebGL debugger, it is an extension in Chrome which makes 3D development on the web so much easier, works with Three.js too!
Pretty easy. Pull all of your coins into a wallet you control (like bitcoin-core, running on your own computer), and then just ride through the storm. For some amount of time, there may be 2 or 3 versions of Bitcoin that are active, but if you use this strategy you'll own all of your coins on all the versions.

So, as long as the combined value of every version is approximately around the value of the original version, you haven't lost any money.

Then, wait for the dust to settle, sell the coins for the versions you don't like, buy coins for the versions you do like, and then resume using Bitcoin like you had originally.

The altcoin market is pretty upside down right now, even more than Bitcoin is. It's probably less safe to move to an alt than it is to just ride through the bitcoin storm.
No chance whatsoever that the major industrial nations, developed and developing, will ever come to an agreement that they will actually implement. What ever they agree to will not be implemented. The problem is that it would destroy their economies and consequently, jobs.

Even if they would implement it, it is too far gone, I think. I'm sure that at some point clean energy tech will truly be viable but right now it is not capable of replacing fossil fuel in an economical manner. And I truly think that the damage(burning fossil fuel) already done up till now and the near future have hit the point at which its effects are not reversible as far as climate change is concerned.

At an intuitive or visceral level, people already know this is the case and they are just too afraid to admit it.

The only hope is to tackle the problem by removing carbon from the atmosphere by technological means.
Is technological development in the future capable of removing such an enormous volume of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere? I hope so but really don't think so.

The problem is that millions of years of carbon being removed from the atmosphere and sequestered has been put back in the atmosphere in a hundred years. Only a process having exponentially greater impact than the one that put it in the ground would be able to stem the destructive changes we face. This technology would have to be developed in short order.
Wow!
They got a x-mixed-replace. That's totally it. From quick googling - looks like it is not working for html since chrome 36

Edit: It works only with svg and only in Firefox, or am I doing something wrong?
DANE perhaps?

http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/dane/
The reasoning is that some people cancel their reservations, so if you have a good statistic for how often that happens you can overbook to take up the slack and still have a full plane. Airliner margins are pretty thin, so they jump at opportunities to avoid "waste" like this.

Scammy? Ehhh. People get way more than their money back for switching flights, which I consider enough to make it un-scammy. Others might reasonably disagree.
Not really, it appears to require InteliJ and cannot work with the modified version that is actually Android Studio.

It also doesn't integrate with the language aware tooling from Android Studio or the Gradle versions being used on Android Studio.

At least this was the situation last year.
So the airline can auction off seats EVEN BEFORE THE FLIGHT IS FULL and force feed you their $250 voucher?
If it happens to me one time, that's the last time I fly with that airline.
In this day and age, why can't they just fly planes with constant ticket prices? Makes it easy for consumers and less sophisticated for the airlines. As a side-effect avoid some PR disasters..
These four charts show the remarkable nature of Roger Federer’s longevity
That is the most contrived nonsense I've heard in a long time. You can't not afford to use ZFS, it works fine on a single disk and at least you'd know your data had mutated.
I'm struggling to grok exactly how that would work.

1 pizza with bacon, -1 pizza (without bacon?)

Then what, hope the employee reads -1 as 1 and doesn't cancel the order and call you to find out what you wanted?

I must be missing something...
Apple is not the only manufacturer of phones and PCs, nobody needs an iPhone or a Mac.

Yet they are the biggest company by market capitalization.
My view is that SegWit is a bandaid, not a cure: while it would give Bitcoin some breathing room, it doesn't fix the underlying constraints and is not alone going to solve scaling, hence "muddle through".
My adult daughter still can't drive.
The Free and Open Net Is Under Attack, Again
The year of Linux on the desktop is finally here (on Windows)
Lots could go wrong, but Ethereum launched the same way and it's now got a market cap of ~$20 billion.
The employee will ignore the negative sign in front of the number and make you that pizza anyway. The calculation of the total is where it might give you free pizza.
Introducing Singer – Simple, Composable, Open Source ETL
Teslas do not have the required hardware to reach Level 3 autonomy unless they've been secretly including LIDAR in all of their vehicles.
$200 million worth of cryptocurrency has been sent to the tax haven of Guernsey. A foundation set up in Switzerland manages the funds. Founders immediately take a cut of 8.5% of the donations received.

https://tezos.ch/pages/contribution-terms.html#contribution-...
Well that argues for putting one outside of Fort Worth, TX, then.

But the current hubs might not stay the only hubs. The new Boeing planes are rated for about 500 miles longer range, so that's going to put a lot of airports inland from the coasts as reachable from Europe and Asia, and a lot of coastal cities with smaller, cheaper airplanes.
Several parks have a "berm": elevated land, tall trees or other obstacles around the park that block your view of the outside world.
Because on every flight, a certain percentage of people don't show up, and certain number of passengers are on "flexible" tickets, that can be transferred to a different flight even very soon before departure.

By overbooking, the airline can ensure that all seats are occupied, which means more people get to their destinations when they want to, and the cost-per-passenger is lower (as fares don't have to include the overhead cost of empty seats).

Most of the time their forecasts are accurate and the system works well for everyone. But occasionally their combination of forecasting, incentives to transfer and customer service practices go wrong, resulting in the horrible incidents we've heard so much about.
I've been told the same thing about dishwashers; all the pumps are the same and you're just paying for more buttons. They did add that sometimes the top-of-the-line model will still actually clean better due to some added sensors that will extend the cycle if the water through the pump is still getting dirty, but it sounded like the improvement was negligible.

Unfortunately everything is getting more complex. Even my dirt cheap "buttons and knobs" washer no longer has a batch size knob, instead incorporating some sort of sensor that determines the "optimal" water level.
They had me because it was so similar to the - very real - combinations of "conses" in the lisp world: caaaar, cdaddr, cddddr and so on.
https://franz.com/support/documentation/6.0/ansicl/dictentr/...
No-shows are way more common than most people think, especially given the proportion of frequent flyers who are regularly flying for business and regularly buying flexible tickets.
I think the big turnoff for me is its closed-source nature

Well, the issue of open-vs-closed is less clear with things like MATLAB. Sure you can't download it for free-as-in-beer, but if you own a copy, you are free to inspect its source code, as MATLAB is mainly written in MATLAB (same for Mathematica and other similar packages).
By having a good partitioning strategy, where you partition based on unique keys like usernames, you can very easily scale horizontally, because each consumer only consumes one partition. And it's still sequential for events that has to be sequential.
Guangzhou didn't make the cut. Perhaps too obvious a choice but it's easily one of my favorite cities.

Great weather, cosmopolitan population, good food and close to HK. Plus feels more chill than other cities.
Jet Blast at Caribbean Airport Tosses Tourist to Her Death
The dominos ordering app in India had a terrible flow a while back. Once the products are added to the cart and proceeded to checkout , the flow was as follows

1. First a payment collection flow is initiated from the browser (asking Credit Card details, pin etc)

2. The payment confirmation comes to the browser

3. The browser then places the order(the pizza information) to another api end point, marking the payment part as 'Paid'

The thing is, one could add as many pizzas to the cart in a different tab, while the original tab proceeds to payment. The end result is, you get to pay only for pizzas that were initially in the cart, but could get any number of pizzas. For literally Rs100 one could order thousands of rupees worth pizza.

I discovered it accidentally and did report to them. Neither did they acknowledge nor did they send me a free pizza :(

They later fixed this, by not allowing to load the cart in a different tab. But there is a high chance that there could be another hack even now. Since I had wowed not to eat junk food anymore, there was not much incentive for me to spend any more time on it.
Tim Berners-Lee Officially Supports DRM in HTML
I'm really tired of hearing the "increasing the block size won't suffice"-argument. Yes, increasing blocks to 10 MB won't give us VISA-scale, but it will allow Bitcoin to serve TEN TIMES AS MANY USERS! I can't believe how many otherwise intelligent people fail to see that this is desirable. It's like driving your car at 10 km/h per hour on the high-way and refusing to increase your speed because that would still not make you as fast as a rocket.
I also like C++ a lot, but in what concerns the current OS trends from Apple, Google and Microsoft, even Qt Company, it appears its use is being shifted down the OS layers to pushing pixels, audio frames and driver data around.

With everything else built on top of it with safer languages.

This is quite clear with the set of APIs that are being made available to C++ on those OSes.
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support

None of the core developers support segwit2x.
Yeah that's what I figured. The wording of the post made it sound like it had something to do with the bacon though. You could just do this for any arbitrary pizza.
In my experience it's everything--the scratchy pencil sensation dragging across the paper, cedar wood smell, that little curve at the end of letter e, ease of annotations anywhere on the paper, drawing arrows to connect pages because it doesn't fit in one page...
Very good question. The answer is, of course, 'it depends'.

What is depends on is how much horizontal scale you expect to have. At a small scale, you can use something like postgres as a centralized broker of sequence. A single postgres cluster can sequence a lot of records in a hurry, no problem.

At a larger scale you might need to decompose your domain into multiple, independently ordered aggregates. Now you have multiple choke point brokers, each of which can handle a lot of records, but which don't block each other.

Step it up another notch, you can use a consensus algorithm (paxos or raft) to get a cluster of machines to agree on the state of the sequence, and perform optimizations such as assigning blocks of sequence by shard and node.

I recommend not over building your event storage architecture until you measure your actual needs. There are cheap ways and huge expensive ways, and building too much is an easy way to make your project fail. Also, one of the nice things about a sequenced set of events is that it is pretty easy to replay into your new, faster event storage later once you've had the happy problem of too much success.
Tesla still needs to develop the software updates (if it's even possible with their hardware), while Audi already has the software.
So why not sell standby tickets instead once you reach 'full'?
Xposed Framework module to disable SSL cert pinning https://github.com/Fuzion24/JustTrustMe
This article is an unvite. It's a nonvitation.
More significantly, Delta does this at check in time and solicits bids, aka 'volunteering.' Because the people involved have volunteered, Delta can accept the lowest bids AND because people have volunteered there's a big reduction in legal protections of that becomes significant - they volunteered and surrendered their seats, they weren't bumped.
Your description of the result is a valid Lisp expression. . .As long as one has defined a prints function.
Haha, Chengdu is the only one I've been to (having been lots of other places in China). Oh, okay Beijing too...fine.

Best cuisine? Frankly I liked the old Hui stronghold of Ningxia the best. Plain old noodle soup, but to perfection every time. And very good who-knows-what-that-might-be-but-who-cares-its-delicious satay all around. Chengdu would be a close second though.

While I respect the culinary history of China, IMO SE Asia and India both blow all regions of China out of the water. (Though Taiwan, if you think of it as part of China, being my first ever overseas habitat, holds a bit of a soft spot in my cuisinitude).
I think brango's point is that it can be dangerous to give medical advice if you are not qualified / not a MD, & even then, it should be given only after proper examination
Nice - did you make any changes to your workflow, project organization or build tooling?
and then you have this as well: https://lyrebird.ai/
Optional types will eventually become value types on Java, you just need to wait until Java 10 for it.
The two business models seems interesting. How do you track students once program completes? how do you know where are they working. How does the legal binding works ?

https://www.holbertonschool.com/

https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science
>You never specified your definition of "efficient.

Being effective at using economic resources to generate more economic resources. Being efficient at utilizing economic resources at meeting people's material needs.

Unions, and industries walled off by licensing regimes, are not efficient, and contribute to growing income disparity. That's what decades of economic theory and raw statistical evidence suggests.

>Exploitation of people via coercion, exploitation of a lack of regulations leading to concentration of wealth, etc.

This is not an accurate definition for exploitation. It amounts to anything one doesn't like that conforms to some precept of social justice ideology.

'Exploitation' is nothing more than a buzzword in this context.

And like I said, there is no evidence that the free market leads to growing income disparity. The links I provided provide evidence for the opposite: that restrictions on the free market are the cause of growing income disparity.

>You speak about people choosing to use Uber as if they have a choice, and not as if they are coerced by the circumstances (lack of jobs in their field, outstanding debt, mouths to feed...).

That's not what "coercion" means. Needing to do something to avoid starvation is not the same thing as being coerced into doing something.

Both are terrible situations, but in one situation, a person is taking the best option available to them, while in the other, someone is threatening to rob them of their life or property in order to force them to do something that they otherwise would not choose to do.

>If you have no money, then you cannot spend money.

But almost everyone has money, especially in the developed world, and the vast majority have the capability to generate more money, especially in the developed world.

The victim theme is not justified by the facts.

>To put things a bit bluntly, most of the places in the world aren't very fun to live in for the reason that there's not a lot available and not a lot of earning potential to pay for what is there.

Wages are increasing in the developed world faster than ever before in history.

>but the solution would be instead to regulate those at the top more, rather than regulate those at the bottom less.

So those at the top just pay accountants more to hide their income and split it among their family members.

Why treat the successful as the enemy? Why treat them like villains that should be punished?

The statistical evidence suggests those with less money can indeed compete with the very rich when there is a free market, without regulatory barriers and corporate welfare helping the very rich.

Why abandon the idea of a society where everyone is free to engage in any mutually voluntary interaction they wish, and resort to strong-arming government interventions against people whose only crime is receiving too much currency in mutually voluntary trade?

What you're proposing is not conducive to justice and the principle of noninterference/nonviolence.

It also reduces the space for economic activity, leading to a less efficient economy where wages/prosperity increase more slowly.
Side note: Speaking as a male blood donor, donating blood has benefits for the donor as well. Particularly because we're not regularly performing blood regeneration, there's a number of benefits related to it. And that pint is fresh, new stuff. :)
Interesting...thanks for sharing that information.
Disney world has several parks
Despite multiple apps of the likes of shareit, I find bluetooth to be the only mechanism of data transfer that just works. SHareit and the likes of it get new versions which break on my Android 7 for each upgrade and it is a PITA to get it working for different android versions, for some reason it does not show my device on a moto phone and I have to use the hacks like get a file from the other device to my device and then send something on the established connection.

but there is one thing, bluetooth is not useful if the file is big.
+1
I feel in the current education environment the value of memorization is undervalued. There's a reason top athletes practice their fundamental movements. Having muscle (brain?) memory of fundamentals allows for fluid, creative flow without interruption to look up things.
I used to work front desk for a hotel and we never oversold our capacity. In fact, we would normally block a few of our rooms from being able to be reserved in case of unexpected maintenance issues. If no maintenance issues arose we would sell those rooms to walk-ins.

I can't imagine working someplace where, as a matter of course, people with reservations are turned away due to overbooking. It's likely that such a place would not last very long either, because as soon as people read TripAdvisor reviews about how your property doesn't honor its reservations they will stay elsewhere.
"This is not confusing enough to be considered C++"
A functional market with non-cronyistic regulation can go a long way towards figuring out what to charge and how much is "enough". (I know, dream on...)
Can't bode well for Kaplan's other bootcamp, Metis for data science.
I remember reading recently that we should probably be avoiding level 3 in production altogether (and possibly even level 2), since the general populace doesn't have the capacity for responding quickly to failures in automatic guidance systems; unlike perhaps aircraft pilots who are intimately aware of the limitations of the systems.
Well - increasing the block size is not costless - it is not just pushing the gas pedal a little more like in your example.
Because your last minute business traveler who is paying a big chunk of cash doesn't want standby.

In reality, there is no problem to manage here. You simply wind the incentives up until people move.

The "problem" is an airline too cheap to wind the incentives up far enough to get people to give up their seat voluntarily.
They also left out Xinjiang, and while it doesn't have a Tier-1/Tier-2 city in it, if you want to see the diversity of China, Gansu or Xinjiang are good. Heavy security, but radically different landscape, food, and ethnic culture, especially in the South. Oh, and less humid, blue skies, more breathable air.

I spent the July 4th holiday week there (and yes, it is relatively safe).

Nanning is also surprisingly upscale, after going to the rural areas of Guilin, I didn't expect Nanning to be so well developed.

Shanghai is always my first love. Truly "mega", good infra, good food, etc.
I wonder if it's like roads - build more of them and you just get more visitors, not less congestion.
To me what would make the most sense would to have a consortium of companies do this. Imagine Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc. all chipping in in a coordinated effort to prevent trolls from lapping up bullshit patents.
I came to say similar things. After having had problems with ZFS (on Solaris) and btrfs, but never on ext4 or other "simple" filesystems i am wondering if i need and want all that complexity in my filesystem: And no, i don't.

Snapshots are nice, sure. But i'd rather do that on top of my filesystem (they're called backups) and leave the filesystem lean, simple, fast AND reliable. Every filesystem may have its own problems, but i feel that the "attack surface" of my filesystem should be as small as possible.
Do i rather want to have a bug in my filesystem implementation concerning snapshots or would i rather have that bug in my backup tool?

IMO, the FS should be rockstable and lean and not "cool and fancy". I can do fancy on top of rockstable.
Blood bag, please. Let's use gender neutral descriptions
> for Elon to push some software updates

Not everything regarding Tesla is about Elon.
That's 86.5% miners signalling to signal support. Segwit2x is still yet to have a working and tested implementation.

Would you support something which has not been fundamentally tested?
Our neighbours on the continent don't always prioritise motor traffic above everything else.

Making people on foot wait twice to cross a road is very car-centric.
There seems to be a fairly big caveat in that "the A8 is capable of driving all by itself at speeds of up to 37 mph.".

And also:

"The traffic jam pilot only works on highways with a physical barrier separating oncoming traffic."