skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
~15k people in a small section of Grant Park all trying to play a somewhat data-intensive online game that requires constant communication with servers is a VERY different activity stream than people in a stadium. Might be closer to think of those people in a stadium all trying to stream video of the event.
I'm guessing you don't like 21:9 because it's too wide relative to its height, or put another way it's not tall enough relative to its width.

If that's the case, 24:10 would be even worse.

Don't be misled by the :9 vs. :10 part - that is meaningless. Reduce them both to a single number for a fair comparison: 21:9 and 24:10 are 2.333:1 and 2.4:1 respectively.
The best way to fight the drug cartel and crime related with drugs is with law enforcement. The vast majority of victims aren't drug users.
I was at one time diagnosed with narcolepsy and was taking 20 mg Adderall tabs to get out of bed and 30 mgs Adderall XR 2x a day w/ 200 mg Provigil 2 x a day. Initially, I did not sleep for 2 days and on average only slept 3-4 hours after that. I finally saw a neurologist who specializes in sleep issues said my previous dr had me totally jacked up and dialed it back tremendously. Now, a 10 mg tab in morning and 1 XR a few hours later along w 200 mg of Provigil is my sweet spot for productivity and allows me to get 6 hrs of sleep a night. Six hours seems to be my optimal number of hours of sleep in order to think clear etc.

I can tell you when you are taking as much as they had me on initially, you tend to focus on the minutiae around you rather than the issues at hand. Over use of a drug like Adderall is not advisable. I would never intentionally over use my meds. I can tell you when I had to come off of the tons my first dr had me on in order to do a sleep study it was excruciating. My head hurt so bad I thought I was having a stroke. It was the worst 5 days of my life and I never want to repeat that experience. Don't overtake these meds and it is good to take med breaks when you can in order for them to be as effective as possible. However, I will tell you during med breaks you will be super tired but it is worth it in the long run.
I'm kind of wondering why that is. Since darknet markets are getting busted one after another, why hasn't everyone migrated to OpenBazaar? It would seem like a prime opportunity.
musl libc also uses base-1000000000 bignums for float formatting: https://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/tree/src/stdio/vfprintf....
If I could go back in time to my teenage self and give one piece of advice, it would be to do heavy squats. They're that good.

Though I'm not athletic by any competitive standards, being physically active has always been important to my health and well-being. I've tried a pretty good variety of sports and activities, and of everything I've tried, strength training--squats in particular--have had the best cost/benefit. Doesn't bother my joints and very few (if any) injuries. Doesn't take much time to get an intense workout done. Good for maintaining flexibility, especially after programming at a desk all day long. Fills my body with youthful hormones.

YMMV, but for me, squats are the best thing I've ever discovered for exercise.
> what Twilio offers is a commodity, and there are no switching costs

There are plenty of switching costs. Porting numbers from one carrier to another with zero downtime, for example. Negotiating a contract with a new carrier. The new carrier may not support numbers, calls or SMS in some countries you are currently supporting. Testing deliverability and call quality across multiple carriers in multiple countries; you might discover that the new carrier routes messages/calls using unreliable carriers. The new carrier may not have good procedures for avoiding toll fraud. Sending SMS messages that contain Unicode might render like Ã on some phones; Twilio put a lot of time into figuring out how every carrier treats those on the wire and ensuring that messages get rendered properly. Fallback procedures may break.

If you want to host it yourself now you probably need a NOC, and to test binds, and to test the fallback protocols, and to figure out every edge case that carriers have with respect to certain numbers, messages or routes.
Does anyone know if Python 3.6 going to be in Stretch at some point?

Not having it is so annoying since Stretch is basically there for the next few years and 3.6 is a very important Python release.

I've even been considering switching all my company's servers back to Ubuntu just for that...
>The ones who are sucessful bilinguals as adults are still much better in English than they are in Spanish

Sadly true. Probably the biggest challenge of a bilingual childhood (or I imagine, bilinguality anywhere) is the lack of exposure to a massive amount of second-language vocabulary that you'd normally learn by use. At least it's good to know that not having equal proficiency isn't a failure.

Interestingly, I've had discussions in the past where the other side suggested that immigrant parents have a duty to speak the native language in the household, to encourage their children to learn it better. This article does a nice job of explaining why that's already unnecessary, and maintaining a second language in the face of native schooling, media, and what else, is hard enough.

One thing that helps, in my experience, is reading fairy tales. They have some of the most common use of language, and can take a conversational tone that's missing from regular reading.
It's beyond any human organization right now to know what the appropriate price for or cap on carbon is, which ti me, is the largest reduction that does not cause serious problems. But if the carbon price (tax) is too high, people will lose money, but life goes on -- capitalism is naturally equipped to deal with shortages by raising prices, so working in reverse, we can push the economy towards a shortage by increasing costs. By contrast, if the carbon cap is too low, production has to stop; you get larger shortfalls. So the legislature is free to act more boldly in setting prices. The comparison with sulfur markets for acid rain is often brought up, but the difference is that a shortage of sulfur credits would only affect a few industries and there are many substitute goods. In practice, carbon markets which have existed until today have had caps too high to effectively lower emissions, and I think this is because the legislators' legitimate fears of creating a carbon credit shortage and hurting the economy caused them to be more susceptible to corporate influence. By contrast, if the carbon price were too high, the negative effects would be milder, giving legislatures time to reverse them. This allows them to raise it in the first place more fearlessly.

Also, do note how many energy companies love C&T. Do you really think it's out of the kindness of their hearts?
Of course a decision ultimately has to be made, and I'm not claiming that every decision must garner unanimous agreement from everyone. That's impossible. I'm just advocating for more democracy and inclusion. Although it might be a hit to the ego of a lead higher up in the foodchain, ultimately I think it improves decision-making and increases employee engagement.
This is right, but I'd also add that the benefit to cap and trade is that it's politically easier to do (since it's not called a "tax").
How hard would it be to add regenerative braking to that ? if not already installed.
I think there are 2 reasons:

1.) Lack of anonymity - AFAIK it doesn't yet have integration with tor-or-similar, although this is coming soon

2.) Network effects - hardly anyone is buying or selling anything on OpenBazaar, so there's not much motivation for anyone new to move there. I hope this changes. I use eBay for almost all of my online purchases, and I would love to see the day where OpenBazaar replaces eBay for all or most of my uses.
Not disagreeing, but just to test this a bit. I'm in San Francisco. What's the safest and easiest way for me to go acquire Bitcoin or Ethereum right now? Note, I don't have a credit card.
I've seen them around alright, just not realized how common or easy-to-set-up they might be for an event like this, or how they work from an inter-provider standpoint. Do they not cost a whole ton for the organization setting up the event, and wouldn't every provider (T-Mobile, AT&T, etc.) be required to set one up? It seems like such a massive headache and cost for something like a Pokemon-catching crowd that might not even generate much revenue(?) that I'm confused how everyone is saying "just deploy extra capacity". Like do providers just follow crowded events for free and put antennas wherever people are as if it's no big deal?
Does the same logic apply if Alice wants to sell Bob a human being?
I wonder if enhancing existing senses might end up being easier than engineering new ones, at least in the short term.
Hm, if that's indeed the case then this is free, feeless and decentralized only to the depth of its landing page.
I haven't looked at the audit yet (and agree with your comments), but I can say a bit about what Briar is doing with crypto.

The focus is on a time window based hash derivation of keys for symmetric cryptography and tags to recognize streams. It currently uses blake2s and XSalsa20/Poly1305. Bouncy Castle is used for the core algorithm implementations when possible.

Connections are made via QR code and use ECDH with cofactor multiplication. There is also a simple bittorrent-inspiried synchronization level that is new and an encrypted storage layer for data storage (I'm not sure but I think this may use pre-existing code).

So there is some amount of crypto to look at but it is fairly basic and not doing anything exotic. The layering and heavy use of symmetric crypto makes the crypto simpler than might be expected based on the features (and battery use heavier).

Version 1 of anything is likely to have issues and hopefully even the release will have a disclaimer to that effect, but there is always a tradeoff between needing some amount of support for further development and trying to make the best app possible before releasing. Briar has been in development for years and they are aware of that tradeoff and trying to both be cautious and not allow the project to die from lack of usable result.

The transport layer spec is at:
https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar-spec/blob/mast...

QR code based key exchange spec is at:
https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar-spec/blob/mast...

Sychronization layer spec is at:
https://code.briarproject.org/akwizgran/briar-spec/blob/mast...
A more elegant approach to handling events in React
Debian seldom does major upgrades in-release. It's going to be in Stretch backports I would guess.
Nothing about Wacom tablet driver fix snief. That currently freezes the system and prevents me from updating :-(

Also I really don't like that the live-cd's change my system-clock. I nearly missed closing of shops today because I didn't expect my system time being suddenly wrong. Why do that? It didn't even check any time-server, but simply set my computer clock 2 hours back without any warning!
A fork like Bitcoin Cash will be a boon for the blockchain community.

There is a pretty big subset of the community that believe Bitcoin is a panacea that will replace currencies, payment networks and so on, regardless of how technically inferior the blockchain is to other more mature distributed databases and networks. They believe one day, the blockchain will be just as efficient or even more so. This subset is vocal about the urgency of increasing Bitcoin's block size limit so that we can increase transaction throughput as much as possible and as soon as possible.

On the other hand, most developers who have worked on Bitcoin proper (either protocol development or Core node development) believe that Bitcoin is more about financial sovereignty and censorship resistance, not as an in-place replacement of PayPal or VISA. This group wants to find as many ways to scale the blockchain without increasing the block size limit because increasing the size of blocks puts at risk users' ability to validate the chain. This is because larger blocks means more resources required to transmit, validate and store blocks and if you cannot validate blocks, then you are trusting transaction validators (miners) just like you trust PayPal. Risking the ability to validate the chain is risking the financial sovereignty or censorship resistance they value so much.

Regardless of how well some claim SegWit2x is doing, truth is once SegWit is activated, we still have to face the 2x hard fork which many people in the second camp will simply refuse to support.

Having said all this, Bitcoin Cash represents an earnest understanding that there are two camps in Bitcoin and because of the differing economic visions, they will have different technical visions, so why not have two chains and evolve them independently? Rather than playing tug-of-war and both parties being dissatisfied?
If someone is jailed for their speech, I wouldn't call it free. But perhaps I don't understand what you mean. Could you elaborate?
Just a small magnet can give you amazing capabilities :D
Probably a LocalBitcoins in-person cash trader. In a city like SF there should be a decent number to choose from.

It gets harder if you're somewhere more rural, and many of the LocalBitcoins online traders (at least in the UK) require a lot of KYC information, but you should be able to find somebody if you look for long enough.
Yes, that's why I wrote "(The bitcoin fees would still exist...)"

Are you talking about something else?
20 years ago I laughed myself silly when I realised our new big radiocontrolled doors to the factory had 8 dipswitches to set the security code for the remote. Last month I was looking for some home-alarm system for the club house. I wasnt terribly surprised to see only 4 bit security code in some of them...
Not just the 80s, until at least 2000 and probably a lot longer
Another interesting point that is not relevant to the question I asked, which was about dynamic typing!
Ask HN: How do you get a job at a VC firm?
Got some suggestions?
>True bilingualism is a relatively rare and a beautiful thing(...) Highly competent bilingualism is probably more common in other countries, since many children growing up in the United States aren’t exposed to other languages.

I acknowledge that this article is aimed at Americans, but I don't really think that bilingualism is rare in the world, or for that matter, in certain parts of the USA.

Perhaps this is not relevant to the article, but it seems that bilingualism is a forgotten issue these days in the USA. Yet, it is actually a very important issue. One time a person simply told me that they couldn't see the point in Junot Díaz work because it used so many 'foreign' words.

At the time of writing this reply, there were already plenty of other replies that suggested that we should all speak English exclusively or at least that speaking English proficiently should be prioritized. I think that they are probably at least partially right, but it surprises me that there is really not a lot of controversy on this topic.

All I am saying is that here we have a perfect topic in which humans are not entirely rational, and instead of being puzzled and talking about it, we just simply forget about it.

[edited for clarity. Like Celia said, my English is not very good looking, so I'd appreciate corrections :D]
Ah the good ole days when I had $5 in my wallet and paid by taking the $5 note out and handing it to the cashier.
These are completely unrelated, no? One is about scaling the servers and stuff behind the scenes, this thing is about cellular data networks failing and dying.
Yet another reason to abstain from murder.
This would be a problem if decommissioning costs for every nuclear reactor were 24 billion dollars (three reactors melted-down at Fukushima). However, decommissioning a reactor is a lot cheaper if it's done normally at the end of the reactor's operational lifetime, rather than done earlier after a melt down, which is a really extraordinary circumstance.

And remember that the Fukushima circumstances were pretty extraordinary indeed -- the reactor meltdowns were the consequence of a thousand year tsunami which directly killed nearly 20,000 people.
I feel like you're exaggerating based on my knowledge of interfacing with carriers using SS7, but that's just my opinion.

I agree that Twilio blazed the trail, but much of what you mentioned is a known quantity now and can be replicated with less effort.

You don't need to be as good as Twilio, just "good enough".
Consider using f.lux (or a copycat on Linux) to dim and match the color temperature of your lamplight in the evening.
If you're interested in doing this, with a little mindfulness training you can learn to passively notice the pace of your own heartbeat all the time, without modification.
> Contrary to opinion, the vast majority of these people would not have found those drugs in the streets.

[citation needed]
It's usually easier and faster to get the sniff of the communication between MCU and the reader(UART,I2C,SPI,USB) in some cases you've to dump MCU's flash or EEPROM to get an idea about the keying scheme used in particular product range.
Firstly, that falls under my "at least to the degree needed to provide an answer to my question" rider. Secondly, no you can't type the values but you can type the consumers of the values, i.e. the functions: http://h2.jaguarpaw.co.uk/posts/strictness-in-types/
Is the game that data-intensive? What data is there to send/receive that you're comparing it with streaming video?
Just the description of the nonsense these two have done gave me a shiver. The toward the MRI part, I prepared for the worse. Had he forgotten about the magnet, it could have gone really bad.

And I think to myself, what a ridiculous world.
I can't recommend this for your company but would love to hear some feedback for https://labs.fedoraproject.org/python-classroom/

(note: I am not a member of the project just interested in reading some feedback)

> One of the benefits of Fedora for Python developers is the ease of setting up Python development. The Fedora Python Classroom Lab makes it even easier for teachers and instructors to use Fedora in their classrooms or workshops. Ready to use operating system with important stuff pre-installed - either with GNOME or as a headless environment for Docker or Vagrant. Teach Python on Fedora, with Fedora, using the stuff you love: IPython, Jupyter Notebook, multiple Pythons, virtualenvs, tox, git and more

> The Fedora Python Classroom Lab comes in 3 variants. Either you can run it in graphical mode with GNOME, or you can virtualize it with Vagrant or run it in a Docker container. You choose what fits your teaching environment the best.

> Users and developers are available in the #fedora-python IRC channel on irc.freenode.org for real-time chat.

> Users and developers are also available on the mailing list at python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org.

I know Red Hat is not the best but maybe this might be worth looking into?
Smooth scroll here. Windows 10/Chrome59.
Right, while I still want X-ray vision, night vision might be more feasable.

Our body is pretty good at all the relevant stuff of our physical world :). And in the digital the interesting stuff is high-level or can be automated or removed.
No background in real estate other than as a client! I've been doing software consulting locally for a number of years. Prior to that I was doing database related development. (Warehouse design, ETL, and analytics.)

In case anyone might be considering career options some semi-random background and bits of my thought process:

I haven't been getting any traction on the tech side locally as much as I enjoy the engineering and problem solving. So I started looking inside myself for assets/skills and limitations as well as around my community for where to find the opportunities.

My basic questions became:
What can I do without being concerned about my age (in my 50s as of last year) and have high levels of autonomy regarding scheduling my time?
Where is the money flowing locally?
How do I put myself in the position of being a revenue center instead of a cost center?

What do I bring to the table?
Computational thinking, problem solving, and picking up processes and systems fast. (Seems to help quite a bit with following the paper trail in a contract.)
My demonstrated non-tech assets/skills (Argentine Tango instructor, math and software tutor, flight instructor) include connecting with people and being very calm in stressful situations.

As far as age goes, a number of people are real estate brokers well into old age. It's a great retirement career from what I am seeing.

Locally, real estate has been strong relatively speaking for a number of years. Seattle and Vancouver BC home prices are making my town very attractive as an alternative. Especially for those who can telecommute.

So I knew I could quickly learn the systems and processes of being a broker. I have the personal attributes/skills to connect and work with clients. As long as I am willing to learn from role models doing business successfully how I want to do business, in time I will be successful.

Plus, working under established brand/company has been very nice.

Considering all of the above learning how to be a successful real estate broker made sense for me. Now I can explore areas like infosec and cryptanalysis for fun. No pressure to monetize.
That's somewhat of a strawman argument: if you think dealing crack is the same as dealing human beings, where do you even draw the line? Is it not OK to deal in anything, on the basis that it could be a human being if you changed it to a human being?

The difference when dealing a human being is it's no longer a transaction between only Alice and Bob. There's now a third person involved who has every right to object to the transaction. Decentralised marketplace or not.
They also compete with themselves.

It's pretty easy to figure out the bottom dollar when people repackaging their services show up.
> I can't agree with that. Without actually knowing for sure (I will guess that you weren't looking at other people while they poo), you are blaming employees for the lack of toilets.

Smartphones aren't silent. They're often quiet, but in a bathroom you can easily hear when someone is tapping on the screen, or pressing buttons.

It's also pretty clear when someone is actually pooping or trying to poop. There are all sorts of small and/or loud sounds accompanying it.
+1 "mobility you probably do not have"

Poor posture, tight hamstrings, weak ankles, knee joints, tendons, etc. You can't take those things for granted.

The more complex the movement, the more likely you are to involve a part of the body that is not capable of handling it. Other parts will compensate, but if you go to failure or use imperfect form, you'll quickly discover a weak link.

Complex movements are the best for maximizing strength gains, but even without weights, they can more easily break you.