skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well the telco doesn't exactly know who is the caller. They only know through which carrier the call came from - and they in turn charge that carrier per minute of inbound calling. It only allows them to pinpoint it to a specific carrier, however the spam calls often use the same carrier as the legitimate calls, and this is where the trail ends.

Having an end-to-end chain of ownership for the call that can be verified cryptographically would help a lot, since even you on the receiving end should be able to verify this provided you have the appropriate software on your phone.

Bad callers using Mechanical Turk would be a minor issue - you won't even have to sue, just get in touch with their telco and they'll shut down their access for violation of ToS (in fact a lot of telcos already prohibit using their consumer-grade plans for business usage, even if not spam). Unless you're paying those Mechanical Turk contractors a lot nobody is gonna bother setting up extra lines to make those calls, and nobody is gonna pay them a lot of money because the only way this spam works is because it's dirt cheap to spew out those calls with the current situation.
OK, so let's compare eight GP102s against one GP100. Is there any metric where GP100 wins?
Love for solitude is a great gift, I think. I used to be stuck between introversion and extroversion; on one hand I did things better on my own, on the other I sought validation from others, all the time. Guilt only amplified this problem. It was pretty toxic, and took many years to sort out .. it's only recently that I can feel 'substantial' enough to enjoy my own company. (I feel that this is actually an illusion, but a much needed one to save my own sanity!)

But you're right; we're social animals and will never get away with complete solitude. It sounds that you do enjoy your own company, but need the occasional 'break' from yourself. You mentioned that you have a handful of friends? Focus on them, even though you may feel that it's tedious.

I know that "going out and meet new people" is cliche but it's so true that it's a great first step. Try meetup.com to find out events that you might be interested in. Don't just go for tech, try a new crazy thing, oh and hiking ;) Sunning your face and relaxing your eyes over vast expanses can do wonders to the soul, I find.
> I switched to iTerm2 recently after repeated Terminal.app slowdowns and crashes

Wow, what were you doing? I think I've seen maybe one Terminal.app crash in the past few years, and I'm a very heavy terminal user.
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The other efforts you mention are much further from having Q>1 (energy producing) fusion. FRCs and focus have not even reached Q=0.000001 and have little theoretical basis for being power producing. Stellerators have their own problems as well. Tokamaks have achieved Q=0.69, and so ITER has very little risk of missing its goal of Q>1 if it does get constructed and run DT.

I agree that fusion is severely underfunded, and that it is dangerous for us to put all our eggs in the Tokamak basket. And this article is pretty strange for its fixation on DEMO which at this point might as well be made of unicorn horns. But ITER was proposed and is supported by a huge number of scientists for a good reason: it's the best way for us to hit a goal that fusion science has been dreaming of for 50 years, that is key to understanding and designing real fusion reactors.
The short answer: The developers gets to decide.

The longer answer can be found here[0]

[0]:https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-is-the-ether...
Somewhat related: Tarsnap has a weird pricing scheme.
You can follow the advice of patio11 in http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/03/fantasy-tarsnap/ HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 (801 points, 1202 days ago, 311 comments) or you can follow the example of cperciva and ignore patio11.
To add to the GP: you might consider trying ultimate frisbee. The barrier to entry for a city league is really low (little athletic ability and no domain knowledge required) and many players tend to be technical people: I know several software devs who play frequently. In addition, the community is the most welcoming and least disparaging I've ever seen in any organization, bar none.

If you're really really not into athletic pursuits, I would second meetup.com for your interests. You also might check to see if your city has any bars/restaurants focused around board games or trivia. Those are also great for meeting new friends.
Even if you can print all the structural portions, there's a big problem printing electrical components e.g. motors, and then an even bigger problem printing control electronics...

Although, I think if they end up able to print robust, ready-to-use metal components with reasonable strength (say strong enough for a bicycle frame), that would be a pretty good leap forward. The base tech of what you can do on a desktop doesn't seem like it would quite get there today though.
gnachman Thanks for Iterm2. We have many developers using it every day.
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I don't think that's correct.

The way I understand it tripple buffering adds latency in exchange for higher sub display hz framerates.

Double buffering renders the next frame while displaying the current.
That results in latency of 1 frame since input.
Triple buffering adds another frame to the queue, resulting in a 2 frame lag.

With double buffering the framerate gets cut in half if it cannot meet vsync, with triple buffering it can also get cut in thirds. So double buffering is 60 -> 30, where the frame lasts 2 refreshes. Triple is 60 -> 40, where one frame is displayed for 1 refresh and another is displayed for 2.

Nowadays it's probably better to use adaptive vsync, which simply disables vsync when the framerate drops. This will reintroduce tearing, which might be preferable in fast action games.
The autonomous racing league that meets in Oakland is doing exactly that. Typically the R/C car uses wifi to connect back to an AWS instance for the heavy lifting.
Would it be possible to make them modular? As in, build X number of the best submarine-size reactors and drop them in side-by-side in essentially secure concrete warehouses cooled by water pumped from a nearby lake? Kind of like racking servers is what I'm picturing.
Thank you for the very encouraging comments :)
The problems go far beyond your team or your influence. So, no, you can't fix the problems. If you try, you're going to wind up burned out and/or depressed.

You probably can't get your team to get along, either. The problem is that, in that situation, everybody's attitude is going south (with some reason). "Hey, everybody, the situation outside our team is garbage, and the garbage keeps landing on us, but lets all keep a positive attitude, OK?" doesn't sell very well. You might be able to encourage them to not actively fight with each other (admitting to each other what the situation is and what it's doing to you might help), but everyone's underlying attitude is still going to be crummy.

It's a toxic environment, and it's not your team's fault, but you can't fix it. Get out before it destroys you.
By using a blockchain, you enable auditing organizations to participate in the authentication process. For instance, I might publish a private message to the blockchain that is an authentication request to resource X. A smart contract would then act on that authentication request, and publish either an ACCEPT or REJECT message. By bringing auditing organizations into the blockchain, every authentication attempt is sent to the auditing organization before access is granted.

The key is that every transaction must be made known to the auditors before it is acted on. By logging to a traditional db, you're at the mercy of the party responsible for sharing out those logs.
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I explicitly point out in my original comment that this applies for monopoly markets! To spell it out in gory detail: in a simple monopoly, the price is that which maximizes the supplier surplus for a given demand curve, and the demand curve will be proportional to probability that any single pill is consumed. If you have a more complicated model, then by all means explain it to us, but do not just assert the contrary with no explanation.
> But a developer that's called into build a query generally isn't going to get a lot of mileage out of suggesting rearchitecting the database, in either of those ways.

It's like you were there :)

It was a third party product so changing the structure was out of the question. We had some views but they pulled in the entire database and ended up with so much duplicate and irrelevant information they were unusable.

I tried creating a clean set of views like "v_currentStudents" that could then be joined on for information relevant to the current report. I even built a small test suit for them, but getting the support devs (who I was covering for when this happened) to change their cowboy ways was too hard. Management didn't like they idea either, cut into the billable hours.
Build solar where sun is abundant and space is unconstrained: in Sahara.

Quite a few technical challenges due to the sand, though.
Cheapest Lidar I know of with reasonable quality is a Neato vacuum cleaner. Go to Target, get a vacuum, give it a lidar-ectomy, throw away the sucky parts, and you still have the cheapest LIDAR in town. 350 pionts, 5HZ scan rate. Indoor range about 5m, outdoor 2+m with a sun shade, accuracy at 5m about +/- 2cm. Great for hobby robots. Totally not sufficient to drive a car at highway speeds.
> IMO its much better to spread the resources into these efforts rather than dumping a bunch of money into monstrosity like ITER

It's great to have a diverse approach in the R&D phase, but sooner or later you're going to have to build a viable machine to study it, and that's when you run into the problem of scale. Confining a plasma of hundreds of millions of Kelvin is no joke even with superconducting magnets, so to get any sort of useful confinement it will have to be at least as big as ITER. And since neither individual governments nor the private sector want to unilaterally fund something so big without a guaranteed ROI, if we want the progress then there's really no way around this stepping stone of a huge, expensive, politically-charged multinational project.
Hi again! That's great news. I passed the app around to my coworkers already, however we can't actually use it!

If it's at all possible, we'd love to have a build compatible back to macOS 10.10. Right now, it can only run on 10.12 and we work in a large enterprise where updates are withheld for mostly software-compatibility reasons (a lot of media software relies on older systems).
Why are drugs almost exclusively dosed in multiples of 5, ie 50mcg, 250mg? Surely this introduces a margin of error vs the "perfect" dose.
Looks like Electron on steroids. The landing page is nice but it's like putting lipstick on a pig - it's still a pig in the end.

Also, I never understood why people hate native languages so much - why do you want to replace everything with Javascript? It's shit - it's a necessary evil in the browser but when the environment gives you something better (Swift, Java, etc) why not enjoy it?
Maybe an ingredients.json instead of a package.json, sub versions with quantities, and then this becomes a constraint solver!
The users of the platform get to decide what software they want to use.
By joining the EEA you are not committing to use the public Ethereum blockchain.

In most cases, I think companies are likely to use the Ethereum codebase and run their own private chain using their own servers.

That mostly defeats the purpose of a blockchain, but it arguably still provides more security than using a single, centralized database somewhere.
It goes through two additional steps: burning out the plastic and then putting the part into a furnace to get the metal particles to "fuse" together more closely, aka sintering.

The printing part just forms a "green" part, it's basically like you would make pottery, the actual strengthening of the part happens in a high-temperature furnace.
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It doesn't require a gradient. Suppose that, instead of expiry issues, half of all pills were inert duds for whatever manufacturing reason. (You look in the bottle and the duds are black.) This would make the pills half as valuable to consumers, and manufacturers would simply sell twice as many for half the price. It does not require that consumers have access to pills that have a higher or lower dud rate. And yes, it's possible to construct a model where there are frictional losses from duds (increased spending on pill bottles!), but to assert that you'd need to try to write down some numbers.
It could be insider trading under Rule 10b5-2 if an insider gave Google the information with the reasonable expectation that they would keep it confidential. That would apply to some of the information Google has, but wouldn't apply to other information.

If a company used Google Apps for their business email and someone at Google found out about a merger by reading about it in an email that they got from the CEO's email, that would be insider trading because the CEO is an insider and would have had a reasonable expectation that Google would keep their email confidential.

On the other hand, if the CEO by mistake sent an email about the merger to someone who used Gmail who was not an insider, that would not be insider trading because the person who had the expectation of confidentiality was not an insider.
Thanks for this question. I think many people will be curious about the comments here.

In my case, I have stopped thinking about it. Admittedly, some days it's not so easy, but the next day it's gone. What can I say. Some people like parties, others like strange things, and we like to be alone.
Not true in this instance. They implemented the Linux ABI, which means software can run on the linux subsystem without recompilation.

Cygwin allows running GNU software on Windows, but it doesn't implement the Linux ABI. Therefore Cygwin requires software recompilation.

The big advantage of WSL is that you can run native linux binaries.
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Users won't think of the cost every day but they'll notice different monthly charges on their credit card statement and wonder how they can save money then. Worse for B2B when changing amounts raise questions from other departments and need to be re-approved or justified.

How about plans that cover 15 transactions, 30, 100 and users can take over any unused transactions to the next month? I've seen services where you pre-pay packages of 100 or 500 (text message sending, Skype minutes) even which will lead to irregular payments on your end.

I think for tax purposes you need to set aside income from unused transactions. That's why often in the fine-print it says they can expire or loose value over time.

Personally I'd do monthly plans though. Some users will overpay or even forget they signed up. In that case offer generous free refunds or even email them if they haven't used the service a certain amount of days/months and offer to cancel for them.
Had a bug in my stock market scan and missed a trade that would have netted me 20% - easy the biggest trade of the year...
The only thing I can think of is that the data you store is still distributed across multiple servers and can’t be removed or tampered with easily.
Solar power for 1,000 homes would require 32 acres of land. [1]

Food for 1,000 homes requires 7800 acres. [2,3]

That's ~240x as much for food as compared to energy. It's a rounding error in terms of "damage to Mother Nature" and could be easily compensated for by not wasting so much of our produced food.

This came to mind because filling an entire roof with solar panels would definitely meet all the power requirements of a house (except for probably electric vehicles), but I was relatively confident that it took a whole lot more area to farm food for that household.

My math could have a mistake somewhere, did this pretty quickly. Feel free to tear it apart. :)

[1] https://www.energymanagertoday.com/it-takes-2-8-acres-of-lan...

[2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.K2?locations... -> 4,082,000 sq km / 321 million = 3.1 acres per person.

[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h... -> 2.5 people per household, x 3.1 acres per person = 7.8 acres per house = 7800 acres per thousand homes.
Not true of two big (and expensive) ones I use: Adobe and Autocad. I used to upgrade every couple of versions. This has ended up costing me way more. But I still pay it because I need the software. So I guess they win...
Coinbase makes a percentage on each purchase/sale of a cryptocurrency, much like how a bank makes money when we buy forex. As far as I know, they don't take a fee for transfers of cryptocurrencies, which is more along the lines of what Mastercard does.
In the US News article I posted, AG Lynch was actively encouraging the practice by reviving the equitable sharing program. A program designed to be sure those that collect the loot get their cut. My informal turn of phrase notwithstanding, the so-called progressives are just as regressive on this issue add their conservative counterparts.
Hmm. I think you're right - the fact that it's a closed surface means you can discard all that inverse-squared-law stuff and just go with conservation of momentum. Darn.
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Maybe it's doing hardly anything one character at a time.
They're freak accidents. We wouldn't tolerate deaths day in and day out to the tune of 40,200 in the US in 2016.

..too lazy to find and paste stat from mobile
2050? Maybe they can run their systems on GNU Hurd then.

(</sarcasm> I've been hearing how fusion reactors are "just around the corner" since I was a teenager, at least 40 years now.)
Triple buffering confusingly means different things. Both you and the OP are correct. The OP meant something in line with what Wikipedia says:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_buffering#Triple_buff...

"In triple buffering the program has two back buffers and can immediately start drawing in the one that is not involved in such copying. The third buffer, the front buffer, is read by the graphics card to display the image on the monitor. Once the image has been sent to the monitor, the front buffer is flipped with (or copied from) the back buffer holding the most recent complete image. Since one of the back buffers is always complete, the graphics card never has to wait for the software to complete. Consequently, the software and the graphics card are completely independent and can run at their own pace. Finally, the displayed image was started without waiting for synchronization and thus with minimum lag.[1]

Due to the software algorithm not having to poll the graphics hardware for monitor refresh events, the algorithm is free to run as fast as possible. This can mean that several drawings that are never displayed are written to the back buffers. Nvidia has implemented this method under the name "Fast sync"."
This is a great idea! Servicing employees in this manner will make any company more attractive.
As a primary js developer (about 10 years) who in the most recent two years has done more and more es6 work I will revel in the day I don't have to use it in my day to day. I toy with clojure in my free time and even python and just hate the way the JavaScript language has been taken over not just by trends but with what I think are poorly thought out syntax additions. JavaScript seems like a language that has no opinion on the best way to do a thing, no well thought out constructs to eliminate boilerplate, and just sits there and waits for a Bower, and mom, a lodash, or a Babel to come along and tell it hoe to be a proper language.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here. Are you arguing that function hoisting is the better behavior?
Federated blockchains allow multiple parties in an industry (for example) to maintain a shared trusted database, with no single owner, or single point of failure. (Also, changing immutable data or posting fraudulent transactions requires collusion between multiple parties.)

This is why many large industries like healthcare and finance are actively exploring this space.
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There is no conceivable market failure here that would require regulation of parking spaces. The market will build the amount of parking people want. If the amount of parking goes down it'll be because the land is valued more highly for other uses.
Good old excel to keep exact track of all my stock trades, for the rest of my life, I like it a bit chaotic- it's more fun that way...
Find a hobby or pursue the ones you’ve got. No, not the React/node.js meetup, ya dork, something not tech related. Here are the places or hobbies I frequent where I could make new friends if I wanted to:
1. Local animal shelter. They always need someone to walk dogs. Personally I’m married, but were I single and looking for someone (in my case, female), oh man, it makes a great filter if you like animals. And the asshole ratio of folks I’ve met at animals is pretty darned low. On a related note, many in these comments suggest a pet. Know that a pet, especially a dog, is a lot of time and responsibility, and not to be taken lightly. Where do you all those animals at the animal shelter come from? Not a “child” level of responsibility, but my dogs take up a substantial part of my day.

2. Bluegrass jam, or any casual music circle thing. The people you meet are also people you might spend a weekend camping with because you end up at music festivals together. Gotta learn an instrument, though. And one one will occasionally run into the “gotta be better than everyone else and make sure they know it” asshole, but rarely. Usually a pretty mellow bunch, and the good ones let their playing, not their mouth, speak for their skills.

3. Some kind of sport, like running or cycling, or even beach volleyball I guess. Caution: could be assholes a’plenty if you get in the wrong group. I prefer runners, as they’re generally a more laid back group. Try trail running if you like it so laid back you’ll smell pot smoke before a race.

Those are the three things I regularly participate in where me might meet people (including a romantic partner), and generally nice people at that. Extrapolate to your own tastes and interests.
All the more reason to switch to apt-transport-tor with onion services only.
How do you handle mobile with this setup? I have looked at taskwarrior, but I need something that is easy to use on iOS. Hence, Taskpaper.
Maybe just a robot that keeps ordering copies of itself from Amazon? That seems more attainable.
> The progress indication doesn't necessarily need to include time remaining, especially when the cost is this high.

Exactly. I don't particularly care which file out of half a million it's on -- I just want to know at a glance if it's still running or has somehow frozen/locked up.
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14797350
Wow, 2 years between talks. I haven’t watched this one yet, but are there any general updates about where the project stands?
Interesting. Seems like potentially cool ideas in government and politics for transparency.