skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true, hardly anyone inside China is even aware of his existence.

That said, I've seen direct references to him (and even photos of him) from activist friends in my WeChat feed, which surprises me a bit. I would have thought the WeChat censors would have been working overtime this week...
A key difference, of course, being that political resistance to oppression in the U.S. is active, vigorous and protected by law, and does not require a violent, wholesale dismantling of the state apparatus.
You might want to move away from neon blue as your main theme. It's incredibly hard on the eyes.
Here's a little story about how my gold card was disabled;

I was ordering coffee and my balance wasn't quite sufficient. I reloaded it via PayPal, but the balance didn't update so I tried again (it did error out). The app crashed, I reopened it and found it had added both transactions to my account. Open dispute on PayPal for just one of the transactions, got a refund but my card was completely locked out - $0 balance, couldn't reload it (the dispute was after I tried contacting support). So now I don't go to Starbucks.
I mean, don't we already have "standby flying" where you can show up at the last call time and claim seats purchased by no-showers? The bit about having to overbook to fill capacity is bogus - as long as standby flights are cheap enough, people will accept the inconvenience/risk of standby flying and fill the remaining seats.

Of course, the real issue is a monetary one for the airlines because standby tickets have to be discounted. But as a customer, I still advocate against overbooking.
> However tying the end of a contract to the delivery deadline is usually hard to achieve.

That's by design. Why end a project when you can drag it out for another month and secure another month of those sweet day rates for your big team, skimming off the top?
Not really. Wikipedia says that the USGS extimates that "At a price of $60/ton, roughly half (48%) of the coal is economic to produce." Current prices are near $10 a ton so only highly mechanized shallow strip mining techniques are profitable. Coal is about as valuable as other bulk earth products like sand and gravel. 19th century techniques could easily mine most of this coal. It is shipping, not extraction, that determines the price of coal at a given point on Earth. Civilization might need to restart near the mines, but there are still many of those places left.

Oil on the other hand. That might be a problem.
Oof, I'm limited to building at -j4 due to memory constraints, not CPU constraints.
Sounds like the right use case.

The lifecycle of a game is similar to that of a movie, or book etc.
Not arguing with your experience, but offering something else to consider: these days when people bring up "culture" it sounds like what they really want to talk about is race. The term has a long history of being used to put a wig on various forms of racism: "Race XYZ obviously isn't inherently lazy, but it's part of their culture..."

Even assuming you don't mean culture as a proxy for race or religion (which are obviously related but not the same as culture), times being what they are when you hear "culture" from a stranger you don't usually think "oh interesting, an anthropologist!". Instead it's usually time to buckle up for a broad generalization about a very large group of people the speaker is no more familiar with than anyone else.
not exacting. they want disk encryption with a master password fallback and bios tampering detection. then there is nsa and nist and darpa et al which want lots more.

Intel just decided to clump it all together. and it doesn't even fully address the two main corporate requests.
Monocultures of any kind in software aren't good.

It leads to lock-ins, like the current kernel is locked into GCC. Some of those GCC Extensions used are effectively proprietary because "the code is the documentation" so nobody can replicate it for their own compiler.

I do not believe that is healthy.
> That's a loss of opportunity cost.

It's trading something I have for the possibility of gaining something back in the future, maybe less, maybe more, maybe nothing at all. Yes, it's a loss of opportunity cost, as is any other investment.

> It's not devoid of risk.

I know you won't find this in your economics textbook, but: The risk of losing something I don't need is not a risk.
Odd to see hn cheering on segment, but hate on analytics solutions in almost every other thread. Is it okay because anything yc does is good, or is enabling analytics different than using analytics somehow?
The UASF chain's demise would not be disastrous at all, it would simply be the status quo. Bitcoin would continue as normal.
This is how Film and Television has always worked. Often times with even more people and extremely complex relationships and functions.
Yeah but that's a general argument against patents, not against NPE patents being enforceable.

I agree btw
This is the first real Go REPL!
That makes more sense, but didn't people ever raise an eyebrow about a therapist on staff, or requiring yoga? From the outside, the optics of that could be interpreted quite a few ways.
_Bad_ software is a "service". Good software works for 15 years before you need to do anything.
Seems like there should be some additional protection in the extensions API, if there is not already. "Read and change all your data on the websites that you visit" vs. "And send it somewhere over the web" are two separate layers of permission.

Footnote: I can't visit the page. Blocked by corporate.
One could possibly draw some kind of conclusion about the way many of the illustrations look to be traditionally mocking Jewish caricatures.
Politics could resign us to an alien invasion?
Hacked restreaming tool for streamers to make money from already created content
Calm down, Stallman.
It was shown that for most games nowadays 2 cores will result in micro-stutter. For example the Pentium G4560 (2x 3.50GHz) has pretty good average FPS, but if you look at the 99th percentile, it's worse than similar priced quad cores.
Firm theory reflects the empirical reality that markets aren't perfectly free and efficient.
Getting to mars is not that much harder than getting to the moon. It takes longer but everything else is just a matter of more power.
And it may actually get there. It might not, though - it certainly didn't during the Civil Rights movement (Although enormous steps were taken during it). I'm speaking about the situation, as is, not what it might be.

Also, many Americans are currently under the impression that the current state of civil rights protests is violent, and should be repressed. Government and police often share that viewpoint.
I'd assume the down votes are because you're asking for something neither the title nor the article imply would be provided...

Imagine if the article was "Facebook staff survey results" and someone commented: "I was hoping for a list of upcoming features."
But said political resistance has also been largely ineffective for the last 50 to 100 years at addressing the aforementioned problems.
Have not used the product but have highly enjoyed reading their tech blog, great stuff.
Sure, so we'd better get started.
Isn't SF an earthquake area?
There's a few open source projects out there.

I wouldn't recommend anyone use mine, because its written for my needs. And one of the important parts... Speech recognition... Isn't implemented yet. ;) But I think there's a huge perk to a 'personal' digital assistant... One built for your needs, not a corporation's.
How Many Go Developers Are There?
From their FAQ:

I am not between the ages of 18 and 30. Can I come to
42?

No. While we do not have anything against those who are over
30 years old, when opening a new location, we have decided to
concentrate our where they can be the most efficient and where we have a great deal of experience.
unparalleled? the vast majority of physical work is done by machines. humans are the gods in the gaps
Federal loans make up 90% of all loan disbursements.

The vast majority of college students only have Federal student loans.

>unless you're at a state school or community college

Private colleges enroll about 15-20% of students. If you don't want $100k in debt, go to a public school, or go to a top tier school like Harvard that has very generous financial aid.

If you can't get into a top tier school with excellent financial aid (or your parents make too much money to qualify), you have to decide whether $100k in debt is worth it.

It's not society's job to pay for private college.
Ah yes reeducation, I forgot I'm just some idiotic, unenlightened American.
The simulation starts with each user having 14 channels open - seems like quite a strong assumption for a serious test (starting with 0 channels for each user and then randomly opening new ones would be much more interesting). After a talk by one of the lightning devs I also got the impression that they are betting that several hubs with thousands of channels would quickly emerge - due to the fee gained by running a channel. Needless to say this would undo quite a bit of the decentralized nature of bitcoin.
this is beautiful AND insane
bravo
Ah I get your point, but static analysers and sanitizers aren't able to find all unsafe issues, specially if binary dependencies are involved.

This is why on Solaris there is OS support via SPARC instructions to enforce bounds and valid pointer use, for example.
How Slack shortens distances
The other 'cool' part about CARs is that 'without much modification' is not near so large a challenge as it is for small molecules. Certainly there are regulatory barriers, but scientifically, the ease with which you could just (genetically) pop on a custom nanobody/binding domain is many many orders of magnitude less than trying to find a small molecule to hit a different target.

In a decade or two, I wouldn't be surprised if CARs were being deployed that were entirely customized to a patient's cancer, where the scaffolding was 'FDA approved', while the binding domain was cultured to specifically react to this patient's cancer, encoded into DNA, printed and designed within the space of a few hours or days. The kind of customizability that comes from a genetic therapy opens a lot of new doors.
Machine Learning at Berkeley: The Bias-Variance Dilemma
Unix Time: 1,5B Seconds and Y2K38
Lots of domain experts casually mention that there's nothing defensible in a well trained model.

If that's what gets you going: Russia could also match or beat America in AI.
Automatic migration for MongoDb C# Driver with Mongo.Migration
very wrong.

from their site:

"For years, coreboot has been struggling against Intel. Intel has been shown to be extremely uncooperative in general. Many coreboot developers, and companies, have tried to get Intel to cooperate; namely, releasing source code for the firmware components. Even Google, which sells millions of chromebooks (coreboot preinstalled) have been unable to persuade them.

...

Basically, all Intel hardware from year 2010 and beyond will never be supported by libreboot...."
Increased rental prices are great for home-owners.
This post could benefit greatly from a little more quantitative analysis.

The first, and main point, about whether the supply would appreciably drop the price is a great example of where it is needed.

Has there been any study of the elasticity of house pricing? Give us the range, and then we know roughly how much housing it would take to drop the price by $10/sf.

Then let's see how much extra housing we could build, and what the bottlenecks are.

Now we are having a conversation. Otherwise it is just intuition mongering (which, by the way, is a useful and noble exercise as well, but it is not complete).

Edit - I found some:
http://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/pdf/HQ_REStat80.pdf
http://budgeting.thenest.com/price-elasticity-affect-housing...
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/reports/2009/R284...

Berkeley and Rand, so trying to cover different views.
Yes, it was an issue in one moving part. The fix did not require significant tiptoeing around to prevent breaking everything else. It's a perfect example of the "do one thing well" philosophy paying off.
if we got a whiff of intelligent life on mars, funding would appear
MCM is multi chip module
I can understand why someone would pay to use this service. Not clear on why anyone would read it. Vanity twitter?
I know literally next to nothing about this, so beware my comment. However, I'm pretty sure that " tens to hundreds of senators or representatives collaborate" is not a thing for bills.

It's typically a small group of people who create the bill. (Like a Senator and their staff) It gets proposed to a subcommittee who reads it (I believe they also give feedback) and then accept/reject it. If accepted it then gets passed to the entire Senate/House for people to read and accept/reject.

If you're curious about how the actual writing occurs, I'm sure its nothing special. Just like writing a group paper in school.
My point exactly. Who would have thought that giving an extension permission to read and change all your data on website you visit would give the extension power to read and change all your data on website you visit.
Doesn't change anything for me, other than affirm my decision to not bug my own home.

These seem like fun toys, but there's no way I'm allowing closed-source surveillance devices that send data to who-knows-where/who, under terms that are mutable by a TOS change nobody ever sees, protected by a firm with interests only sometimes aligned with mine, stored for who knows how long in to my home.

Even if you're fine with all the rest and think Amazon/Google/Apple/whoever is perfectly aligned with your interests, the storage aspect should be troubling. In the US, we've been on a steady downward slope of privacy intrusions from our government. Imagine your personal political boogyman in power when the next bad terrorist strike happens and everyone is in freak-out mode. Last time the Patriot act was sitting in a drawer, waiting for the right time. What is in the next version, sitting in a drawer right now?
As someone who just started learning Go, what are the other popular Go REPLs in addition to this one?
Awesome. I wonder if we can do the same thing in terminals(iterm/terminal) when we connected to prod hosts via SSH.
I agree; an off-the-charts earthquake is the only practical solution to bay-area NIMBYism.
Free Advice: Pick a LPWAN That Will Survive
...looks like the first prototype of 1984 will go live in China. First of all Chinese should be worried but to my constant surprise many don't.
For ECC to work in NON Pro ryzen chips the motherboard needs to support it, pretty sure there are 2-3 that are confirmed to support it
Exactly this.

Being able to see what users are actually saying to your chat bot is critical to do development. Without it, it is like trying to debug an issue with a website without being able to see the HTTP access logs.

Furthermore, the bot already knows when you say the right things to it, because what command you issued is sent to the developer's lambda endpoint so they can fulfill your request. This is just telling the developer when you say things to their app that weren't properly recognized by the AI.

Previously it was like telling a developer: you got this many 404 errors but we won't tell you what page they were on. This is just telling the developer what page.
Right now it's a 20 year loan at 5%, $106 a month, but we're going to pay 50% of it cash and 50% HELOC for tax deduction purposes.

There's a 30% tax deduction one time for the total cost. My loan payment is less than my precious monthly power costs including taxes and fees ($15 a month to be hooked up to PG&E).
An ATM dispensed cash – and notes for help from a man trapped inside
That's patently untrue. The USA and other countries in fact specifically have laws and regulations covering how airlines must handle overbooking situations.

I suggest you Google "is airline overbooking legal?" Literally, the very first link returned is titled "here's why it's legal for airlines to kick you off your flight" http://www.nbcnews.com/business/travel/here-s-why-it-s-legal...
That is one of my favorite books!
The reasons outlined on that thread are very specific to the Los Angeles area. Not that crazy regulations don't exist in SF, but the car-centric parking space regulations in Los Angeles are a huge part of the outlined cost. I don't think that applies broadly.
The biggest difference is cell phones aren't listening for activation words to then transmit audio to the cloud. The chance of accidental activation and transmission is much lower.

Yes, there are phones that offer this as a feature, but you'd better believe I won't use those either.
I am sorry but I fail to see how China being influential (which is already true to a large extent) would cause the world to be a worse place than it already is.

You could argue that what's going on in China is bad for Chinese people, but China's influence outside its border is much less significant.

This is going off tangent, but I would just like to point out that until now, China has not been deploying troops around the world and over-throwing foreign governments.
Thanks for the idea :) I actually did something along those lines - completely switched to emacs within a tmux session on some large EC2 instances but meanwhile optimized my workflow (introduced more isolated TDD) so that performance is bearable enough on my local machine..
Isn't that more or less in the range expected from background radiation bitflips when having 48 GiB?
why would martian life survive the destruction of earth from extraplanetary impact, which would affect martian orbit?
Sad to see some people taking raw and insignificant benchmarks to evaluate a language[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14479757
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Shoot. I'm sorry this happened. I'd love to chat more about your experience with Branch SDK/APIs recently. I found your email in another HN comment and will reach out shortly.

On the other two issues...

Analytics.js launched on HN in December 2012. It had some bugs in its early form, but it has certainly become a lot more stable in the five years since then. Today it runs without issue on 500m+ browsers and hundreds of thousands of websites each day.

For event delivery, you can see real-time event deliverability and latency stats on our public status page:
https://status.segment.com

For most services we deliver data in a few hundred milliseconds, but some services consistently drop data. We retry that data over the next 12 hours, and this actually increases the deliverability to our partner endpoints. (For example, we're improving deliverability to Iron.io from 95.4% to 98.4% right now.)
If you don't want to run in Dual or Single channel mode - yes.
Thanks, I will contact him and see if I can set up a consultation call.
Yes and no. 1 Bitcoin is worth more than an ounce of gold ($2340 Bitcoin to $1215 ounce of gold). But the value of all outstanding Bitcoin vs all mined gold is much lower ($39 billion all Bitcoin to $8 Trillion all gold).
If you can give me a reasonable alternative for a smartphone that respects your privacy and doesn't make me live like I did a decade ago, I will switch.
The downside with adaptive immune system therapy (like CAR-T therapy) is that it doesn't work as well with cancers with fewer mutations that the T cell can detect as anomalous.

My wife has brain cancer and has been reading about all the immunotherapies available. Unfortunately brain cancer tends to have much fewer mutations than say, lung cancer. However there are innate immune system therapies being researched that might be more promising in those cases.
>What is the best way to report this?

Flag as spam and move on with your life.
Major Science Report Lays Out a Plan to Tamp Down Opioid Crisis
You can actually choose that as option in the AMD or Nvidia control.

You want to select the scaling mode Nearest Neighbor instead of Bilinear.
Rage up, Smith.
Posting from my dual Xeon E5-2670 here, it is a great machine for gaming, look at those average fps benchmarks in your link.
Yeah, I've heard SF is mostly 3-story buildings "so flimsy walls don't kill you in the event of an earthquake ".
If memory serves me right, Warp speeds are x^3 faster for each step. Warp 1 is 3x faster than light, Warp 2 is 27x faster, etc
It has made enormous progress in some areas, but less in others. An African American can now become a lawyer, or a doctor - but they still can't walk, or drive on some streets, or buy a used car without being harassed.
What are you really asking about? What is historical value store of bitcoin? The value stored in bitcoin is still orders of magnitude less than that stored in gold.

Sure the exchange rate of bitcoin has grown much - but it does not make it better value store now, rather the opposite.
Government loans are credit independent. Subsidized loans are need based (the interest that accrues while in school is subsidized by the government), but unsubsidized loans are not. The vast majority of students qualify.

If you are a felon, once you are released from jail, you can still qualify.

The only people who really can't qualify that I'm aware of are non residents, people who have been convicted of drug offenses that occurred while accepting federal financial aid, and people who already have degrees.
Sweden.

Most houses connected to the central heating system has also access to fiber. The selection of ISP is more or less the same way but in smaller villages a phone call is usually needed but this is slowly moving in the same direction as the cities. Dsl can be chosen pretty freely everywhere there still are copper networks but they are shutting down that in the less populated areas. Still might have access to fiber though even if the village only have 30 houses.

Either the powercompany, citywide housing company or the state takes care of the fiber network. Dsl is some former state owned company taking care of I believe. Havent had to use dsl the last 20 years so not so sure how it works there now.
Toward Go 2
Digital transaction reduces a month-on-month after demonetisation spike
At this point this is just trolling.

The proof of stake you are describing is of your own invention and doesn't address how systems like Peercoin or algorand actually function.

Starting from scratch with a new genesis block? Sure go ahead.

Rewriting any number of blocks is not straightforward due to the use of digital signatures and the cryptographic guarantees that go along with generating and choosing who gets to sign and generate the next block.
And building DRM was so complicated close to no sites had it? Yes, exactly that.

Right now, YouTube is working on adding EME based DRM, as are Twitter and Facebook.

Even with their Flash based video, you could always easily download it.
Yes, maybe pairing could be accelerated with NFC, then switching to bluetooth for extended range and bandwidth.
the other day I thought of a secondary device (that's not connected to the internet) that would go along with Alexa or whatever mic-connected device that "somehow" scrambles the sounds so that it's just noise to Alexa until you say the keyword, at which point it unscrambles for some given period of time so Alexa can understand.

Is such a device possible?? I don't know, probably not but it would help me feel better about getting one of these devices
I like the part about the Free CV evaluation, some lawyers charge $300 for a 20min call in which they will only tell you the same information you can get online for free.
Xiaomi's Surge S1 Chip Shows How the SoC Business Has Changed
Division is much harder than multiplication. Even for computers. It's easier to just square your estimate and see how close it is. Then increase or decrease it proportional to how much closer you are getting.
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I'd like to see these cars' behavior when they encounter a road work crew with a closed lane and flaggers directing traffic.