skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I understand it, they're a new way of raising money (as Fred Wilson put it, "disrupting Silicon Valley").

Normally, you sell of portions of your company to investors in exchange for funding. You get money to run your business, and they get a stake that could be worth 10x in a few years time if you get acquired or go public.

With an ICO, you can't really sell off portions of your company, because you'll run afoul of securities laws (I'm speaking of the U.S. here). So what do you sell? Typically, companies sell tokens that will be users' way of interacting with their future product. So if you're a decentralized file storage company, the ICO token is what users will eventually use to buy storage.

What's exciting for some is that coin offerings provide a way to fund interesting and meaningful companies even if they are outside of the "venture capital loop". In some ways, ICOs are more democratic and egalitarian than any funding system currently available.

Mind you, I don't think ICOs provide any new value whatsoever, and I don't really see the point, but you asked for an explanation and there it is.
Ask HN: Working for US companies from Europe
I currently work as an Azure architect for one US company. We think to move back to Europe (my wife, our sons, and I have dual citizenship) in one, two years.
I will not be asking about legal stuff etc., I am more curious about discussion & advice about topic - how to keep my person still attractive for US employees even though I would be working from different continent.

I try to work on interesting work projects and self-improvements / continuing education is something which is very close to me, as well. I have already gone through several blogs, however I am really interested in the experiences from this community
Meanwhile, if healthcare is profit-driven, suddenly it makes sense to recommend pointless treatments for revenue reasons.

Obamacare is basically the worst of both worlds.
I was dating a Vietnamese woman a little while ago. This eventually, inevitably came up. It is extremely difficult to defend a US policy that measures "success" as a body count metric. The Vietnamese people vividly remember this, I don't think it's appropriate to make flip comparisons to a humanitarian catastrophe perpetrated by people the likes of Henry Kissinger in multiple countries, with body counts of millions.
3 paragraphs about why to write this essay. :/
Your situation doesn't tell us anything about whether the congestion was the backhaul or not. IMHO, their backhaul most likely wasn't the issue. You can have 100,000 people all right next to a cell tower and while they won't have any usable service, they'll still see 5 bars.
Thanks for sharing.

My kids are going through similar education, Saniku Gakuin twice a week after public school. While it's a bit intense in terms of homework and tough to balance with sports, but they find the work far less "meaningless" than the busy work they have to do in public school.

My oldest is somewhat dyslexic, so he has a strong preference to reading japanese books--but I'm just happy to see him reading.

I often struggle myself in finding appropriate words, even though I speak only English.
Anything. Selling drugs, for example. You are implicating yourself. Stop.
Dutch Startup Turns Plants into Batteries
It sounds super shady but it's what this company does. It's basically a payoff: "Don't ruin our recruiting pipeline or tarnish the opinion of any existing employees and we'll make your firing a bit less painful with X months salary, just sign here. Also we will let you know what 'X' is next week, after you've signed".

X ended up being 1 week of salary. Though for other people it was 1 or 2 months. Very shitty.
>"Food A is good for me and Food B is bad for me" is not how health works.

Your oversimplifying what I said.

As it happens, I generally favor a holistic approach to nutrition too.
Try to just hang it with your hands, you'll see, it's not that bad and the bonus is that you don't piss off other people.
My main question is:

Has anyone found how to solve the double-spend problem WITHOUT global consensus?

The original Ripple idea used trustlines. The nice thing about those is that you don't have the double-spend problem. Each entity issues its own currency, so to spea, making it credit-money rather than value-money. I really love the absence of a global ledger recording every transaction ever made - both from a privacy point of view and this one:

https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/stories/design-challenge-avoid-ce...

But the problem with trustlines is that it's hard for anyone to pay anyone, and the bandwidth of trustlines can be pretty small. Plus, you do have to have the permission of all the intermediaries to make a payment.

I would love to have each community issue its own currency without being able to control who pays whom, and without the double spend problem, and without a global ledger of all communities in the world. What are the latest solutioms to this?
It's true of Europe today. There are a lot of differences between the two obviously.
Sure, culture is part of this. But just an annoying guy talking to you in the crapper? Maybe can't blame that one...
Works incredibly well.

https://www.reddit.com/r/keto
That's not how fractional reserve lending works. Banks issue their own credit lines backed by Bitcoin. And you can't stop them from doing that.
I'm curious how RAII approaches relate to this?

Would it be considered a form of binary reference counting(where reference counting isn't explicitly used, i.e non shared_ptr code in C++) or it's just completely separate and not part of the dual GC theory?
I'm trying to sell video games.
You're not arguing with the legislation she cowrote but with a detail from her history. You need to address the argument here, because it stands independent of her history.
Ahh, yeah, of course. If you taint it. But if you don't taint and don't opt in, then it can be stolen.

So yes, if you are on the Core chain, you can protect against replay, but only if you opt in. If you don't opt in, then they can be stolen on the other chain.
I think this is meant to be read as a catch-all statement as opposed to considering other factors (lifestyle, mental state etc)
I'm making a massive location-based game myself right now (currently have 140 million POIs in the USA alone) and have been studying how Niantic is making decisions for about 9 months now. It's pretty crazy how poorly they treat every misstep they make, though I think they did a good job quickly giving refunds, rewards, etc after this one, as well as a decent sounding apology.

Of course, they should have been better prepared for the event, but they did seem to do better at the cleanup this time. So... baby steps?
Agreed, especially when it's around 1/3 of the article.
That's absolutely fine. However, this isn't the place to ask questions regarding services. This is the place to contribute to a discussion.
I think you're being excessively critical here like a compiler :)

You're not wrong, but I definitely understood the parent comment's point.
This might have been true five years ago. These days most of its perceived value is due to the fact that people around the world trust it to hold value better than other investments available to them.

It sounds like nonsense because it is, but so is all of economics in a way.
The ones that are done properly are some form of "compensation for operating the dapp". For example: Augur Rep is for adjudicating events, for which you receive a portion of the fees. Somewhere along the way ICOs became a money grab.
This is interesting because it shows no wires is desirable.

You could build an almost wireless box - just a little power lead - if you built in whdi or wigig into your little desktop unit but for now tat would push the price up too much. I hope it happens one day.
New Middle Class? Job and Wage Growth in the Digital Sector [pdf]
It is up to individual sellers what they sell on OB. OB is just the platform.
I think the anecdotes I've mostly heard use that tactic as a way of forcing the kid to speak both languages - "with mom you speak this language, with dad you speak this one" - otherwise the kid will be exposed to both languages but will gravitate to only speaking one.

This is what happened to me when I grew up, living in the US my parents would speak Swedish at home, but I'd pretty much just speak English all the time and when we moved to Sweden I had a lot of work catching up. It was still all in there somewhere since I had been exposed to it, but I would never have become bilingual if we hadn't moved back to Sweden to force the issue.
There are no benchmark numbers to back the claim that it's fast. At least the OP should have done some measurements; I'm interested in anything that will speed up our DB's 300+M record tables.

The article also does not link to the official maintainer page/github page.
After digging into some Reddit comments, this reply appears to downplay the extent to which you're directly facilitating the darknet market migration.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/6oifak/is_it_po...

"Well if the devs want massive adoption and 2.0 is functional then getting it to work on tails in the next 3 months will get them that."

"If someone would post an eli18 walkthrough on how to config tails so that OB 2.0 will work when that comes out that'd be great."

https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/6opqii/i_read_s...

"It's actually about to enter the alpha testing phase. Tor is working with some manual steps. You can test out a week-old build here."

The situation appears to be that OpenBazaar has been used for a year for mostly legal trade due to the technical hurdles of using Open Bazaar with identity-hiding software like Tor and Tails. In fact, OpenBazaar does not work at all on Tails, though work is ongoing to promote this use case (https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/6oifak/is_it_po...) and a release with Tor support is scheduled for August.

In fact, most of the recent activity on the OpenBazaar subreddit has been questions about exactly that: sale of illegal substances. https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/6oigt2/so_i_hea...

It feels like Open Bazaar is poised to become the next Silk Road. The keystone to achieve that is Tor support plus a Tails walkthrough guide. Both of these seem to be on the verge of being released.

I just wanted to clarify for onlookers that the Open Bazaar team seems to be going into this with both eyes open.

Developing a protocol is one thing. Going out of your way to enable anonymity as a means of acquiring users is a very interesting tactic. It's doubly interesting to repeatedly claim that Open Bazaar was not developed as a darknet market and "may not work for that use case" while also accepting merge requests for Tor support and eventually providing binaries that will work on Tails.

According to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829076 OB has taken $4M of investment. Perhaps investors are pushing you to acquire users. The DarkNet market crowd is certainly a large target market. Or perhaps all of your intentions are as transparent as you claim, and you're innocently laying the foundation to become the next Silk Road -- an unstoppable decentralized market accountable to no one.
Learned this the hard way. I'd encourage anyone tempted to try out his program to take a week or two and work on your mobility first

Interesting; do you have any links for advice or guidance on how to work on mobility?
As the lead engineer on an up coming game of a similar scale, YES! This would be so awesome!
"It is estimated that some 40,000 moths per day can end up in the stomach of a hungry bear."

Seems to imply up to 40k/bear, but doesn't give much more for details.

It mentions moths are about a half a calorie each, so just from the moths a bear can consume 20,000 calories/day.
Eventually, sure, but I have crappy old fridge magnets that are still going strong after 30 years. What's different about little neodymium rods that they fail in 5?
This is not how most large companies I've worked with operate. Large IT decisions are driven top down, not organically through the engineering front line. The CTO, CIO, etc. work with vendors that market to them. It's the way organizations like Salesforce, Workday, Cisco, and Concur operate. The consumer/developer first organizations like Dropbox, Twilio, and Stripe can only get to a certain stage before they need to target the big fish. It's this huge cultural shift (focusing on making something users want vs figuring out how to sell to behometh organizations) that will make or break these companies.

If they figure it out, they will own their markets because frankly their products are better since they were user first.

I think it's important part of building a company - recognizing that the heart and soul that led you to say $100M sales can completely differnent from what leads you to $1B. It's almost like a mini innovators dilemma for startups.
I'm raising my 3-year-old bilingually – I speak 6 languages myself, although 2 are somewhat rusty. It's hard, because my native language is the underdog as it's pretty much just me talking with her. She understands what I say, but replies always in mommy's language. It forces you to switch languages if you want to have a fluent back-and-forth conversation instead of something that just peters out. If you want true bilinguality, as the minority language speaker, you have to be willing to push and fight, and sometimes feel on the outside yourself.

When she was younger, it was sometimes heartbreaking to read a picture book where she knew some words in one language, and then the other parent comes in and all the words change.

Kids' minds are amazing though. I sometimes speak some English or French (not our native languages) with her as a game, and the speed with which those words stick is unbelievable – their minds are just sponges. Last week she threw some random French words at guests, confusing them to no end.
> Require non-free or proprietary drivers?

You almost certainly do, which is why I now point people to the easier to find/search https://fiendish.github.io/The-Debian-Gotham-Needs/

Unfortunately, live testing+nonfree ISOs are frequently missing or out of date.
The biggest difference is that FLIF is an image encoder, SPIF/Multires is a container format.

So you can cram lossy 20x compression ratio JPEGs into Multires, optimized for each resolution. Or you could put a simplified SVG for low-res use, and detailed one for zoomed-in detail. Or hack it a bit and use Multires for loading the right-resolution video for your page. The format is just a container that tells the browser where to find the assets for each resolution.

FLIF is a lossless bitmap image encoder with progressive resolution enhancement.

TL;DR FLIF is PNG++, Multires is automatic srcset.
An In-Depth Look at the Parity Multisig Bug
Then you're pathologizing personal taste, which has large and obvious problems.
A woman broke her wrist on the rocks. That was the impetus for the man to install the steps himself.

Had he not installed the steps and gone viral, the Mayor would have never admitted that the 65-150k original city estimate was "totally out of whack".

His stairs were not a paragon of safety, but they were absolutely functional.

Any suggestion to the contrary, in my opinion, shows just how far project management and bureaucracy has drifted from reality and fiscal responsibility.

And also there is already a handicap accessible path in the park.
A woman literally broke her wrist on the muddy slope.
I don't understand this. as long as it's obvious that you're multilingual people don't hold it against you when you make mistakes. on the other hand I have a friend whose bilingual with no accent in English and has trouble some times. people must think there's something wrong with him.
a 2000 food calorie diet is ~2.4 kilowatt * hours, if units(1) hasn't failed me. 10x, 24 kilowatt * hours, is still little more than a few dollars at today's energy prices.

getting 24kWh out of a wall and into a portable something in less time than a person spends eating in a day, though, would require some serious cabling.
> prefetching can be harmful to the user’s wallet when she is on a limited or pay-per-byte cellular data plan

Sure, but if you are not on a limited or pay-per-byte data plan, then prefetching a large block block of data so the radio can go into low power mode for a while is more helpful.
> But I have difficulty imagining it will ever not be crazy to be willing to lop off a perfectly healthy arm to "upgrade" it.

Then say that and be done with it. Don't cloud the issue with misdirection about metal poisoning.
Sort of a meta analysis, but:

While I don't disagree with your level of skepticism necessarily, I'd like to take this moment to make a point --

this kind of negative sentiment seems so characteristic of HN lately toward anything new and difficult, in spite of the fact that this is a community generally aimed toward entrepreneurial, forward-looking, highly-technical types.

Instead of such a short stop "it would be expensive, so why bother, it won't happen for a long, long time" sort of sentiment, why does't the community make more pointed suggestions about flaws. Simply and vaguely saying "the economics look bad to me" generates only sentiment, and no real knowledge to be shared. I can be guilty of it, too, but usually because of emotional response and not a technical criticism. This sounds like a technical criticism with no reasoning.

On top of that, "era" is a really vague term. I mean, it might not be perfect, but try $300 on: https://www.engadget.com/2015/03/23/this-300-cybernetic-arm-...

I don't think it's as far and distant as you think.
Congratulations! I've been working on a similar (though less well-documented) project in Rust: https://github.com/jasonhansel/kineticvm
> It's been a confusing few days...

It certainly has. Not sure what your knowledge is, but the main discussion re scalability in bitcoin recently has been about the activation of segregated witness (i.e. segwit)

There's still one hurdle to get over over the next few days called UESF (User Enforced Soft Fork) that miners have SAID they agree to. The method for this is a thing called BIP91, and it will orphan off blocks from other miners that don't signal they are ready for segwit. Segwit itself (BIP141) requires 95% of miners over the space of ~2000 blocks to signal segwit activation. BIP91 only builds on blocks that signal BIP141, which is how they get to 95%. Almost 100% of miners have already indicated that they will do this. It should start in a few hours?

The problem right now is that lots of people have said they're going to do something, but the question is whether the nodes that define and police consensus in bitcoin are capable of enforcing the BIP91 orphaning. It SHOULD go off without a hitch, but given bitcoin over the last six months, there are no guarantees. If all goes well, bip91 will start orphaning non bip141 blocks, the new ~2000 period of BIP141 activation testing will start, >95% of blocks will be BIP141, and segwit will activate in about three weeks. That will essentially allow bitcoin to double the transaction throughput.

2nd layer solutions and hard-forks sheduled for three months (that are never going to happen) are a discussion for another day.
How about "transmogrify"?
The returned file turns out to not actually be JSON (that'd be too easy, I guess) but some kind of javascript-code which is then probably eventually eval'd to get the data:

/**/jQuery3110644358575
2152035_1500757689075(
/* json-data */)

Is that just JSONP?
This was thought provoking for me since I am raising a child in Thailand and there seem to be many parallels. Surprising to me is that despite being surrounded by the local language my child has chosen English as his first language. It seems to be due to my constant interaction with him plus he gravitated to English media at a very early age, particularly YouTube videos of American kids unboxing and playing with toys. Your comment about needing to live in the culture to be "full-<Asian country>" versus how quickly one can become "full-Californian" is kind of amusing but I think it is true.
Dear Vint Cerf, since you have created TCP-IP, and another contemporary of yours - HTTP, you seem to be tacitly encouraging a decentralized worldwide exchange of information used by billions around the globe to facilitate exchange of ideas, pleasure, and commerce, free from government censor...
Enter automation moving to China, stage left.
“SSD hard drive inside my IBM PC 5150”
>> Everybody knows mass immigration from problematic parts of the world brings a huge burden on the host population.

>Was that true for america when it had the immigrant influx in the previous centuries?

Lets ask all the dead native Americans about that.
Why would an American not get a passport? You have French-speaking Quebec and a collection of Spanish speaking nations right on your doorstep.
OOP isn't the problem, the problem is putting faith in the concept of silver bullets. OOP is a useful technique, like many others. I've seen "overly OOP" code that will make your head spin, but more often than not I've seen code that could have been a bit more object oriented. The problem is the cargo cult mentality that you can just follow something formulaically and then magically you'll get amazing results.

There are plenty of highly useful techniques and tools, including OOP, but you have to do the work, you have to apply the techniques skillfully and conscientiously. You have to know when you're just adding complexity with your design and when you're managing it well.
Yes I agree.
To clarify, I was away on vacation at the time and we only spoke briefly. We discussed that the lack of details about the severance was weird but we had 10+ reports of others who had received 1-2 months of severance, and they had worked there only a year or two, whereas he had been there 4 years. So we though it was reasonable he would get at least a month of severance, based on precedence of "lesser" employees.

He was told that hr had a standard formula for calculating the severance but was not told that the main factor was his manager's discretion.

Also for him at this time, any money was better than no money, and he was interested in moving on with his life rather than writing a shitty Glassdoor review (he's actually doing much, much better for himself than he was at the prior company, I'm just pissed about the way he was treated).
So yes, this was bad advice and I learned an important lesson. But I'm also thankful it worked out in his favor in the end.
The hospital/clinic will ask a series of questions that are risk factors for having metal in your body. Here is a typical form (no association) [pdf]: http://radiology.ucla.edu/workfiles/referralforms/MRI-safety...

If the patient isn't able to answer or is unsure it gets a little complicated based on the risk factors, how soon the image is needed, etc.. Sometimes screening imaging of the orbits (eyes) is done if there is a history of metal working or a CT head/orbits (bullet fragments in brain = no bueno), chest X-ray if you can't get documentation on a pacemaker, and so on.
Wait, are you suggesting that pinning broken bones is a bad idea?

Eight months ago I broke my ankle in four places. Today, I can walk with only a minor limp because a surgeon stuck the shattered fragments back together with a load of titanium. Maybe there's a risk of metal poisoning in my future, but I think we can all agree that it's better than a near-certainty of never walking unassisted again.
Define "territory".

Does India count? China? Russia? Spain? France?

India has tons of mutually unintelligible languages. China does too (some call them dialects). Spain has multiple partially mutually intelligible languages -- and Basque is an isolate (and mutually unintelligible). IIRC Occitan and French are not that compatible either.
> but down the road you could use cross-chain swaps

aka the holy grail in crypto.
This is in a way that they make emulators in Javascript like that too? Might be possible to emulate Mame and Mess machines if they haven't already?