skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're focusing too hard on the chromesteel cyberpunk angle. A prosthetic made of silicone, plastic, and carbon fiber is still just as "cyborg".

And metal will still have its place. Most people are quite tolerant to titanium, and there's been some advances lately in hydrophobic coatings for implants that keep them from interacting with your blood. I think it's unlikely to be a primary component, though, because it's heavy and expensive and its primary advantage--strength--is useless if the body it's attached to gives out first.
That was the case when the network was clogged, which should be much better now. For a 250-byte (avg) transaction you should be fine with 0.0006 BTC ($1.68, 2.8% of $60).

https://bitcoinfees.21.co/

You're right, bitcoin became expensive for small purchases, which is what the whole recent debacle was about. Hopefully Segwit2X fixes this, at least for a while.
One two year spell with Hibernate was the end of all flirtations with ORM at our gaff. "No transparent persistence shall be the sum of transparent persistence."
To be honest I'm a bit baffled. Are you claiming that once these flaws are revealed, the perceived value in Bitcoin will be destroyed? If no, what purpose does the word "fatal" serve? If yes, couldn't you answer my original question?

As an aside, the phrase "rhetorical question" has a special meaning, but the adjective "rhetorical" just means anything relating to discussion. I was trying to say that you veered off into a meta-argument about the words we were using, which unfortunately I'm now continuing.
cause you can power it from your monitor via usb-c.
It looks beautiful! I would buy one of these for my parents, keep it out of the way. Taped to the back of the monitor?
I see the problem, you are misunderstanding the proposal. I suggested using optics for imaging, and fiber to bring in illumination. You'd have a telescope-like camera at the far end. No image transmission through a fiber bundle. You would need refractive elements that would work in the high radiation environment.

As for the illumination, collimated light down a polish steel tube would obviously work, but a rod of glass should work as well.
As a US spanish speaker, saying Catalan is another language is kind of debateable at least IMHO and gets into the interesting difference between a dialect and a language, namely - a flag and an army :)

Still, though I think true bilingualism is extremely rare, If by "True" you mean being able to do anything you can in one language in the other language without any hiccups and word-searching and at the same speed and eloquence and precision in all possible situations and contexts.

I've studied at a university level in 3 different languages and am highly fluent in all of them, still there are a lot of contexts where I don't know the specific vocabulary in one particular language or might have problems finding the right word in one language because I'm getting interference from the other ones.

Also, I've known a lot of bi/tri/quad linguals in my life (whole family, extended family, friends, etc), and in my studies and I have yet to encounter even one truely bilingual person as I defined it above.
Obviously you can't immerse yourself, but from spending maybe 6 or 7 days in Gaza over 3 or 4 visits I have a far better idea of the conditions that those people live in. It's far easier to empathise with what you read on the news when you've been there and can picture it.
This is both interesting and unrelated to the bill.

There is not an issue on this planet, down to "is it raining outside," on which I would trust Rand Paul. But I don't have to trust him when I can read the thing. It's only eighteen pages long. (On my phone, otherwise I'd link it.) Beyond that, there are plenty of organizations more than willing to weigh in on stuff like this; you don't have to take the legislator's word on it at all.
Didn't realize the mac mini was modular?
Enterprise guys will buy it without even thinking about it. You're either a Dell shop or an HP shop.
True Detective, Breaking Bad, Halt and Catch Fire, The Knick, The Leftovers, The Americans, The Young Pope, Patriot and Fargo.
Regarding your Chinese, you will need to spend 10x effort than an ordinary Chinese kid. I can't imagine how it could be of use to your career, but once you grasp the language, there are so many interesting and subtle things to discover that you probably won't regret the time.
Have you heard about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ_harvesting_from_Falun_Go...
HP decided to interrupt my customer experience by asking me about my experience 30 seconds after I opened the page. No thanks.
Do they run patients through a metal detector before putting them in an MRI?
Varoufakis on Valve, Spontaneous Order, and the European Crisis (2013)
Thank you for your explanation. This is the best description of WHY there is such a battle going on that lay people like me can grok :)
Got it now, thanks. But, this (the "return common();") could be done even if the function "common" was not nested within the current function, but defined outside of it, right? So what is the benefit of defining "common" as a nested function? Is it because it then has access to, and can use, variables defined in the outer function?
that would still be a chord.
Using Hilbert Curves to 100% Zelda
You've just redefined a personal website or blog. "Worth" for whom?
They should really move to Ethereum. I have regularly been paying ~$0.01 for transactions that verify in under a minute.
With better specs, speakers and versatile connectivity.
If the compass thing interests you, I find the North Paw (https://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw/) much more exciting. Implants are neat, but external augments are just as good for many things.
Ask HN: How much should I charge for direct ads?
I have a website with 12k subscribers/users and I'm looking to experiment with direct ad sales. I have no idea where to start. What would be a reasonable monthly rate for a sponsor to jump on board? Where to I find these potential sponsors/advertisers?
But no, we won't.
Only if you share it. :) This might make you feel less alone: Everyone feels this way.

Do you want to write? Why?

Here's a book I recommend for anybody that makes stuff and puts it out in the world: "Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking".
Magnets wear out? I didn't know that. How come?
There is a VESA mount adapter
Look, I am not arguing against creating prostheses for people who need them for some reason. If you are going to die without it or if your functionality is sufficiently impaired due to lack of a body part, there are certainly cases where it makes sense.

But I have difficulty imagining it will ever not be crazy to be willing to lop off a perfectly healthy arm to "upgrade" it. That was what I was reacting to. It isn't like I am decrying the evils of cochlear implants here.
The dangers of tx replay mean that HF's like this can never be safe.
Beware those that would tell you that these forks are safe, they are not.
This is another scam from those that would try to usurp the blockchain.

You will be able to replay original bitcoin and abc tx's on each chain, unless you opt-in to some funny new untesed hash.
This will hugely disrupt the minority chain ABC, as the mempools on cash chain fill with other valid tx's from main chain.
Its going to be a bloodbath. Steer very clear!

From: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/56867/bitcoin-ca...

Bitcoin Cash (aka Bitcoin ABC aka UAHF) provides two methods of replay protection, both of which are opt in. If you do not create transactions which use these features, then your transactions are vulnerable to replay.

The first method is a redefined sighashing algorithm which is basically the same as the one specified by BIP 143. This sighash algorithm is only used when the sighash flag has bit 6 set. These transactions would be invalid on the non-UAHF chain as the different sighashing algorithm will result in invalid transactions. This means that in order to use this, you will need to transact on the UAHF chain first and then on the non-UAHF chain second.

The second method uses an OP_RETURN output which has the exact string:

Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
as the data of the OP_RETURN. Any transaction which contains this string will be considered invalid by UAHF nodes until block 530,000. This means that prior to block 530,000, you can split your coins by transacting on the non-UAHF chain first with the OP_RETURN output, and then transacting on the UAHF chain second.
Do they speak both with near-equal proficiency? Most people I've known tend to heavily favor one language over the other. College-level in the first, early high school in the second, or speaking one with a much stronger accent than the other.
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Can you say a bit ore about the mesh network features of Briar?

I've looked through a lot of the documentation and can't find anything other than references to bluetooth and wi-fi, which is opaque to me.

I'm kind of wondering about something like briar, but that can connect over a cjdns network if available... is that what it's doing?
The existence of a marketplace does not constitute the existence of criminal activity, or vice versa. Rather than focus on the monetary transaction, I believe we should focus on the crime itself.

Pushing the monetary transactions for criminal behavior toward the public consciousness is, IMHO, beneficial to law enforcement, even if there is no clear or reasonable way to prevent or even track the monetary transactions themselves. So long as people are educated about criminal behavior, we can have a culture where law enforcement is actually effective; after all, real crime happens away from keyboard.
FWIW, the git repository looks like it was worked on within the last couple of days.
fork in codebase, not fork in chain. mutually exclusive genesis blocks and different proof of work algorithms. Its like its little silver brother!
Thighs parallel to the ground is a competition squat. Indeed, your but touching your calves often means you are curling slightly to make that contact and that can lead to injury.
Defining "lying" as "doesn't have cords in promo images" is really really weird. You don't see too many Dell ads with cords flying down to their towers either.
I think the fact that the 27" monitors next to it are closer to the camera in that photo makes the TV look artificially smaller. It absolutely dwarfs the 27" monitors. If you're close to any store that carries 40" 4k TVs, though, just go there and stand 28" away from one. I think you'll see what I'm saying about having to turn your head to comfortably read text in the corners, something that has never been the case for me with smaller monitors.
I hope Apple updates Mac mini in response. It's over 3 years old now. About time it got kaby lake and USB C treatment.
They can add the fees later, when (if) it gets popular. If the fees are low enough, forking it would be too much hassle.
Minis have no real official modules I guess. Lenovo made similar stackable thinNUC, but I didn't see it catching wind.
I know from personal experience that more than just "people with vaginas" squat for sex. Reads like a bad attempt at trans-inclusivity.
I'm fairly sure Silk Road never offered multisig transactions.

Here's a (fairly old) blog post describing how escrow works in OpenBazaar:

https://blog.openbazaar.org/how-moderators-and-dispute-resol...
ORM is the Vietnam of Computer Science, because OOP is the Vietnam of Computer Science: A 25-year failed experiment in boosting productivity of masses of mediocre programmers using this one true silver bullet.
The second paragraph begins

"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."
And many ACs break noise rules (often 40db in residential areas).
My problem is when I open the editor and refactor a function, I start finding other functions that need to be refactored, then finding even more refactoring opportunities from those, recursively, forever. At some point I need to stop refactoring and start producing something new...
All the brands have smaller size models. For eg. http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/thinkc... too is tiny & better value for money.
"Powerful PC" - probably uses Core M, a giveaway being that they don't mention exactly what processor they're using. It's also the reason Intel will soon rebrand Core M to "Core i5", because everyone knew Core M sucked. So their solution is to make people believe it's a more powerful chip. Because feels > reals (marketing 101, I suppose).
It's a challenge, but a very well-characterized one that all enterprise-grade access points are built to handle. Lots of access points, with radio power turned way down to prevent neighbor interference, and channels selected to avoid overlap with neighboring APs.

Shameless plug - my ex-employer Meraki is particularly good at supplying these systems for events, since they have automatic channel-selection and good tooling for selecting power levels, and let you set up configurations at your leisure that the APs will use as soon as they get an internet connection and fetch the configs from Meraki servers.
Well then, ban drones.
The comments here make it seem like being an employee at a VC is super elite, and either requires a deep rolodex or deep pockets. While, I've thought about breaking from technology and business into the VC game, it seems like being a trader in NY would be more prestigious and probably way more lucrative in terms of compensation. Maybe I've just watch The Wolf Of Wall Street too many times.
> As a US spanish speaker, saying Catalan is another language is kind of debateable at least IMHO and gets into the interesting difference between a dialect and a language

A spaniard who doesn't speak catalan won't understand 95% of a normal convo... Catalan [0] is lexically as distant from the spanish as the Portuguese is [1]...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_language

[1] https://elms.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/lexical-distance-among...
This is HN, do you really expect there to be 0 cables? If that were the case I'm pretty sure that would have been their biggest headline ;)
> fossil fuels they don't have the same potential to go quite so spectacularly bad

No, that's not quite right. In fact with all oil-based energy consumption, we get harmful particles. And its worse, because: oil-based consumption is massively distributed, and it is therefore harder to turn off.

Apropros management of energy, we humans are surrounded by free energy we haven't yet learned to manage. If we will perish because of oil-greed, then the lesson learned in all of this is that we must continue to go "local" in production and consumption.

(Myself, I'd be happy to transition to 100% solar-power, and I de-incentivize my own personal oil consumption, i.e. I ride a bicycle to work.)
https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/5d75f441ef0a3cfe7af0d...
This is an old article and much has changed.

ORM frameworks in many languages such as Ruby, Python, Java, etc. have improved enormously since that time. I think they'll continue to improve as metaprogramming facilities improve, it is very feasible to convert an expression like 'x>2*y-7' from conventional programming languages to SQL and other query languages.

Also there is immense interest in document databases such as CouchDB, Marklogic, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB, etc. These solve some of the problems of object-relational mapping, and we will someday see new frameworks.
IMHO, use the time to read a better book. Try Graham Greene if you haven't already. Or Aldous Huxley.

If you want a contemporary sci-fi page-turner, 'The Martian' was much better.
The real thing to reform is the wait time for trial. The article mentions someone who sat in jail for 3 years waiting for trial on a theft charge. This is cruel both to people who can't afford bail, and to people who can. It's hard to move forward with life and make plans for raising a family or pursuing education with a potential jail sentence hanging over you. Also, the deterrent effect for a potential sentence 3 years in the future must be less.

Speedy trials would improve things all around.
The point is, there are many places in the world that draw large crowds into a tiny area on a weekly basis, and the cell networks will fall over and die without special measures.

Did they do anything at all to anticipate that load? It seems not. "We tried and failed" is understandable, but simply inviting 20k people and expecting them to play a mobile game is monumentally foolish.
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I also think that in all the 4 languages I speak, I exhibit a slightly different personality, as you usually not only learn to speak in a language, but also how to behave in another culture.
https://blog.openbazaar.org/decentralized-reputation-in-open...
I agree wholeheartedly!

That's why I spent 2 years driving from Alaska to Argentina, learning Spanish as I went, and am now spending two years driving right around Africa, learning French and Swahili as I make my way around!

I have learned more in the last 12 months of my life in West Africa than I did in the 34 years that came before...
What makes you think this is a good writeup? It seems pretty incoherent.

* It claims that the Office of Antiboycott Compliance explains that the law affects only corporations. Setting aside the fact that a prohibition on commercial boycotts is no more constitutional than one on individual persons, the OAC explains no such thing; it in fact says the opposite: "The term "U.S. person" includes all individuals, corporations and unincorporated associations resident in the United States... (and so on)".

* In pointing to OAC, Michaelson is relying on Commerce's regulatory authority to explain the meaning of a statute. But the whole point of regulatory authority is that the executive branch controls it: the "Foreign Boycotts Prohibition" yields to President Donald J. Trump the authority to issue regulations within his Foreign Boycott authority as he sees fit and without Congressional approval.

* It says the proposed law is a "nothingburger" because similar regulation had already been on the books since the 1970s. Leaving aside the fact that the new law makes it statutorily unlawful to respond to a foreign or UN call to boycott Israel, the old law is also horrible and unconstitutional. We don't worry about it because it's rarely enforced. The Senate proposes to breathe new life into it.

* The notion that the law will in reality only bind on corporations is undermined by the fact that the law has been used to prosecute labor unions.

* Even the specific correction about "furnishing information" makes little sense. The ACLU claims the law penalizes requests for information about boycotts. Michaelson corrects the ACLU: the law only penalizes asking the UN for information about the commercial activities of others --- in other words, the law targets boycotts arranged by the UN and penalizes requests for the UN to supply information... about boycotts.

In other words, everyone is wrong: the ACLU, Greenwald, AIPAC and the bill’s sponsors, and Jay Michaelson. But things still appear to be extremely bad.
If it had a network switch add-on, a really good projector add-on, and really good microphones/speakers, this could be a great meeting room pc. But it just looks like a dumb terminal replacement for corporations. (Though I don't know why you would pick one instead of a cheap business laptop?)
I agree, squats and deadlifts. Do you have any resources you would recommend to check out beyond these? Thanks!
This really confused me. Even if you power it from your monitor you've got to plug it in. No shame in having one or two cords, so why fake the product shots?
Mesh is unfortunate for these situations; the limiting factor at these scales isn't infrastructure size, but EM spectrum. The accepted solution is mandating players go onto WiFi, where you can get them to much lower emitted power by deploying enough APs, close enough to any player location, that no clients need to shout to get their traffic heard.
Ah - have watched and enjoyed most of these. Haven't heard of The Knick though. Will check that one out. Thanks!
one thousand plus days of Apple not updating the Mac Mini while holding firm to their price and HP reinvents it? The value isn't in the components, it is in the integration and software.

This is the space Apple should have been in long ago but they dropped the ball with the desktop market three years ago and only seem to have moved after being goaded, nigh embarrassed about the state of their offerings.

While this HP is not useful to me I do appreciate what they have done.
This. Right now I'm sitting in front of 13,312,000 non-UHD/4k pixels, all in beautiful 16:10 aspect ratio. I expect that I will keep this setup until I die.
I love the concept, but it's missing what's in my opinion the component that would benefit most from modularity: dedicated graphics.

A significant portion of the target market would probably have no need for any more graphics power than what comes with the processor, so not including it in the base module makes a lot of sense. However, for many use cases, discrete graphics is an absolute necessity, so not even offering it as an option in a modular system targeted at the high-end market strikes me as an odd omission (as far as I could tell, the system doesn't even have Thunderbolt 3, so it can't support eGPUs through normal means either).
At first I disagreed with you, but when I took another look at the images I realized that it does seem a bit dishonest to not show any cables, especially when the images are designed to showcase how "sleek" it is. There's no way a real-life setup would look like what this page is trying to sell.

It's worth noting that the last image on the page has a cable and make the computer look much less sleek - and that's just one cable, you'll probably need power, display, mouse/keyboard, etc.
Thanks for the tip. I'll give Snow Crash a try.
Is American culture asking too much of marriage?
Dont know why this is even being discuss just use syscoin with VPN,TOR and ZEC and your sorted and everything is on the blockchain no servers to be traced. This is the setup https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkNetMarkets/comments/5s63o3/guid...
Dont know why this is even being discuss just use syscoin with VPN,TOR and ZEC and your sorted and everything is on the blockchain no servers to be traced
That's the problem, if I was paid for neuron firing and imagination I'd be rich. I'm only paid for some output.
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Many of them use point to point microwave (if the provider has a good microwave network in the city).

Those are good for a couple of gbps each and can go anywhere in a city that's got line of sight.
I believe your math is off by a factor of 1000.

125kHz = 125,000 cycles/sec * 2 bits/cycle = 250,000 bits/sec

250,000 bits/sec / 40 bits/code = 6250 codes/sec

2^40 = 1,099,511,627,776 possible codes / 6250 codes/sec ~= 175,921,860 sec ~= 5.578 years

While this is still an extremely long time for the worst case, by the looks of other comments, as well as the author's video, it appears extremely doubtful that most RFID readers have anywhere near 40 bits of security - and it takes about 10 seconds (65536/6250) for the fuzzer to brute force all codes 16 bits or less.
Slicing through middle-men, lol
It is not clear that old trees are less efficient at sequestering carbon than young ones. It used to be thought that old-growth forests are not good carbon sinks but this may not actually be the case.
I don't think it really counts if you speak two languages from the same group that are spoken in the same territory.