skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
According to https://www.openbazaar.org/about/

They founded a company, OB1, with a $1 million venture capital investment from Union Square Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. [...] OB1 received a second round of investment for $3 million in the fall of 2016.

OK, so just to clarify, this is a for-profit project produced by a central party with no stated plan for monetization. That is IMHO dubious. Their website http://ob1.io/ includes a couple of hints as to how profits may be eventually sought: a search engine for Open Bazaar and a cloud based Open Bazaar store launching service. Then there is the fact a small cabal have probably premined all the easily obtainable coins (SYSPOOL, Give Me Coins, F2Pool), which means if the value goes up they profit handsomely.

Note that http://ob1.io/about.html lists some more investors: BlueYard Capital, Digital Currency Group and William Mougayar.
With these kind of systems (like a parking meter) you could add a 2-3 second delay between each attempt. Most people wouldn't notice the slowdown, but it would make brute forcing so slow that it would be useless in the field. This also works for things like logins on websites where the time taken to authenticate can be a second or two without annoying the user (vs loading a page which should be instant).

There is absolutely no reason why anything RFID controlled, like a door mechanism, should allow key entries at full speed (3k keys/sec someone posted).
Lately it's been important for me to think of myself like an elextric motor, two modes:

DRIVE - electrons in, mechanical energy out

REGEN - mechanical energy in, electrons out

Except in your brain it's a little harder to label the i/o... it's something like

CONTROL - cortical activation in, perceptual changes in the world out

SUBMISSION - percepts from the world in, cortical activation out

Just like a vehicle, you stop functioning if you stay too much in one mode or the other. And ironically, I find I achieve maximum control when I cycle back and forth in even measure.

As for long term projects, I find I need to do this cycling at all time scales. Hour, day, week, month, year. It's the cycling back and forth that flushes out nonsense and keeps your finger on a degree of incontrovertible reality.

The trouble is, I often lose track of where I am supposed to be in all these cycles. I am working on software to try to help. Encourage some harmonics.
Decentralized closed-loop monetary policy is an unsolved problem but almost no one is working on it because there's no reward for solving it. There has been some initial work such as https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/11/11/search-stable-cryptocur...
I stand corrected.

>>Over a decade has passed since the LCD monitor unceremoniously ousted the boxy CRT monitor into obsolescence, but with that ousting came a small problem: CRT monitors redrew every frame from scratch, and this was baked into the fundamentals of how PCs sent information to the screen. Monitors redrew the screen with a refresh rate of 100 Hz, (100 times a second), and they were silky smooth.

>>LCD monitors don’t have this problem, because the pixels don’t need to be refreshed.
Instead, they update individual pixels with new colors, and each of those updates takes a certain amount of time depending on what the change is.
The response time refers to how long this change takes. LCDs started with a 60-Hz refresh rate but a response time of about 15 milliseconds (ms).

For more information on the subject: https://www.tomsguide.com/us/refresh-rates-vs-response-times...
Switzerland!
I had no idea it did that! Thanks for letting me know. Will look into.
Am I the only one here that gets a little terrified by this kind of thing? I mean I'm fine if they're just selling recreational drugs. But, we all know that there are much worse things people will be selling on these crypto markets than just plain old LSD and marijuana. Can we find a way to help law enforcement police at the very least the really, really bad stuff?
I'm not seeing anyone forcing anyone or removing choice from anyone in your argument.
Watch the First Trailer for Steven Spielberg’s Adaptation of ‘Ready Player One’
Source code of the SLocker Android ransomware
They mean: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Turkestan and article states : "Uighur Muslims are a Turkish-speaking minority of eight million in the northwestern Xinjiang region". For language you are correct but from my point of view it is nitpicking, same like 10m and 8m. Important parts are, they do not speak same language as Chinese and in country of China group in up to ten millions is still minority which can be oppressed by central government. For comparison Sweden or Portugal is around 10m people, which gives me nice point of refenece.
Pretty interested in this as I'm not a fan of 21:9, I'm wondering how I'll feel about looking at 24:10. As stated I wish it was a way higher refresh (120 I feel should be the new norm now?)
There's no amount of union types that will save you if you want to write a polymorphic, type safe map/filter/reduce function. These functions need to be generic over containers.

At best, with this union type hack what you'll recover is similar to "ad hoc" polymorphism, not true parametric polymorphism.
how bout this? https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go/pull/342

A PR for "Tor"
> trial where a Director General in Sweden was fined half a month’s pay. Given how much the establishment has got each other’s backs, this sentence was roughly equivalent to life in prison for a common person...

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Why do people want curved displays. They get glare from evey angle, and the image is distorted.
you need applications and queryable storage for maintaining models both for production use, internal testing/validation/research, and everything in between. Maintaining a model - or collection of models - implies maintaining a ton of data that can ideally be parameterized (learning data, build info, tuning parameters, purpose, priority, etc) and there are a lot of sophisticated ways to handle this all efficiently mostly dictated by your problem space (algorithm, data volume, response time, research methodology, etc). This is all outside (or inside) of whatever application runs your actual business model and the infrastructure necessary to query your "live" model(s) in a distributed/replicated environment if necessary (as is for most big data projects).
It is related to your personal anecdote, that you couldn't get a bigger salary because it would have surpassed the salaries of other employees of the same perceived value as you.

With my personal anecdote I was showing that this can also work in your favor, and under some reasonable assumptions this will increase the average salary and decrease the variance as you suggested. The only losers are good negotiators or persons with good pedigree, because they win at the expense of others.

BTW, the second company I mentioned doesn't actually have public salaries, just matched salaries for similar perceived value. So I still don't know what people above/below me or on different tracks make.
Actually there are still transaction fees in the bitcoin network.
>"Yet nature is not scale-invariant. E.g., you can't take a carbon atom and scale it by a factor of 10 and make it behave in the same way as the original atom."

That's a major caveat, although I think in the end it just makes things more interesting. "There's plenty of room at the bottom" as Feynman said. Technologies like nanophotonics will allow us to have things like sold state LIDAR and perfect spatial tracking for virtual reality. Also to boost solar cell efficiency to ranges >50%, which has been impossible with the classical light modeling used up until now.

Perhaps the reality is that all of these scales are linked fundamentally, but proving that would be quite a task.
> ...are "technically incapable of blocking off groundwater with the frozen wall"...every day 300 tons of contaminated water leak from the crippled nuclear plant...

That article is out of date. The frozen wall has been working for quite a while but TEPCO wasn't (isn't) allowed to completely close it.

June 29, 2017

Tepco applies to the NRA for permission to finish the Fukushima Daiichi ice wall. Closure of the wall has been throttled down by Tokyo’s Nuclear Regulation Authority due to fears concerning groundwater outside the turbine buildings falling below the level of water inside. Tepco has been forced to freeze the last half-dozen seven-meter-wide sections individually, wait to see what it does to external groundwater levels, and then proceed to the next section if groundwater level is maintained according to plan. One section on the inland side of the 1.5 kilometer ice structure is all that needs to be activated to complete the wall. To date, the sequential closure of Tokyo-mandated gaps has dropped the groundwater influx from 400 tons per day down to about 100 tons per day. No projections are being made as to how much more the in-flow will abate after the last part of the wall is frozen.

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20170627_01/

I would also like to give a pointer to the
"Fukushima Accident Updates" blog-page at hiroshimasyndrome.com. It collects and summarizes a lot of Japanse news and updates concerning Fukishima and related on a regular basis that will never reach the mainstream/ international press.

http://www.hiroshimasyndrome.com/fukushima-accident-updates....
This is a situation where a mesh network topology (like Firechat) would be necessary.
Beside nicer fonts you have "sub-pixel" resolution in e.g. your piano roll/channel list, so you can zoom out a bit more while still able to distinguish stuff there. That is handy if you work with a very large number of channels.
I think that first line was meant to be sarcastic.
Agreed, this should have been totally predictable based on Bears games, lolla, etc.
I don't think this is a joke, but it should be. Forking a chain will never result in value-added.
That doesn't strike me as modern. The resolution, size, and frame rate are on par with an Apple Cinema Display from 2004 (though the color is better):

http://www.everymac.com/monitors/apple/studio_cinema/specs/a...
They are asking people who extensively use Go to help collecting cases where generics would be useful in the context of real world Go programs. So instead of cargo-culting a random generics design from a different language or some theoretical reasoning, they want to make sure to enhance the language in a way that actually solve real-world problems in programs written in Go.
Sometimes VCs fund things they want to exist independently of whether they'll make a profit. $4M is spare change for a fund.

I'm not sure that's the case here, but "no obvious way to make money" isn't exclusionary when it comes to the VC funding model.
The technologies used and underlying principles have changed enormously from 2G/GSM to 3G/WCDMA to 4G/LTE/OFDMA but a lot of it comes down to questions of how many individual connections each tower can handle and the minimum amount of airtime communicating with each device requires. At one point (still?) there are also questions of how strongly each device and tower must be broadcasting to keep the received signal at each end within acceptable levels.

Edit: Expanding on this a little while I still have time to edit, and all of this is from a non-telecom person so it's likely I have errors in here. Still, this should provide a starting point for the history and what to look for to get more current/accurate info.

Most 2G was GSM which used TDMA (Time Division) - basically, each device connecting to the tower was assigned a "slice" of the available time and had to broadcast within that time slice. When the tower ran out of slices, some devices simply couldn't connect to it. Sprint and Verizon were the exceptions, they used CDMA which allowed many devices to broadcast at the same time and was able to decode data for/from each device based on the Code Division used to encode it. CDMA towers "breathed" which meant that their coverage area could vary based on how many devices were connected because the devices and towers had to keep broadcasts within particular power levels at the endpoints. CDMA allowed more devices, TDMA could allow larger coverage from each tower by reducing the number of time slices (which also reduced the number of devices that could connect). Notably, CDMA allowed devices to talk to multiple towers at once with reconciliation being handled by a smarter backend, while TDMA required more explicit handoffs between towers. Way back when this was why on GSM your call would simply drop, but on CDMA you'd simply develop a severe case of robot voice.

3G almost all moved to WCDMA, which I believe had many of the same advantages in density as CDMA.

4G moved to somethind different (OFDMA?), which I haven't read enough about to really understand but which is technically quite different from WCDMA.

Most LTE uses yet another protocol. On T-Mobile, this was noticeable when T-Mo "refarmed" its network, converting a bunch of frequency bands from 4G to the newer higher-capacity but incompatible LTE. I know a few people who had 4G phones on T-Mobile and were offered free replacement phones because T-Mobile had basically yanked the actual 4G network out from under them.

Basically, there's a lot out there, it has changed a LOT over the last 10-15 years, and many of the changes were actually complete replacements rather than incremental upgrades.
I'm not saying you can't maintain a close relationship with a little distance.

But first and foremost, there's a big difference between you yourself traveling 2 hours each way (to work) and you, your spouse, and 2.5 children traveling 2 hours each way. Getting kids ready & keeping them entertained for a 10 minute drive is bad enough.

And it's insane to say four hours of travel time isn't limiting. You maintain a close relationship, sure, see them often, sure. But do you stop by just for lunch or dinner? Do you see them during the week, or just on weekends? Do you go to the same church, are your kids in the same softball league? If the kids are sick and need someone to watch them during the day, do you drop them off with grandpa or do you take a day off work?

The point of having a 2 hour commute is so that you can live where you want to spend most of your time. If you want to spend most of your time 15 minutes from your office, great. If you have somewhere else you'd rather spend most of your time, it makes sense to live there, so that by default, there you are.
By arriving at a realization that there is more things out there than there are hours in a day, so unless you make a time machine you can't explore it all.

Don't push it too far, however - i dread opening HN because there would be plenty of interesting things there that i can't hope to make myself within one lifetime, so i rarely ever visit now.
Thanks! Always interested in learning about pain points.
I work at a company within the Fortune 10 and we use Twilio in some isolated products, and they are pushing hard on a few potential deals/opportunities to expand further.

Technical foundation appears solid to all their stuff, but their enterprise sales/account folks seem very green - unsure of how to navigate large enterprises, not connecting with the right folks at the right level within the org, not understanding who or how decisions are getting made, etc.

We see this alot - deals with tens or potentially hundreds of millions of dollars at stake where potential vendors have a couple sales folks working the deal, not getting traction. Get a few more folks working the deal and figuring out the right angles and they could have it locked down in a matter of months, but they never seem to figure this out and a year later they're still dicking around with the wrong people at the wrong level not making progress.
Not yet - the internet is fairly recent technology though. Even our voting mechanisms and processes are rudimentary and can greatly improve with things like citizens being able to micro-vote on anything and everything - with policies in place to not flood people with too many decisions, while giving them enough confirmed time (e.g. proof of awareness) to make a decision to allocate a vote to an issue.
> carbon tax and dividend (the only truly market-based approach to limiting green house gas emissions)

I always heard cap-and-trade described as a market-based approach (by people who talk about the actual policy instead of just trying to vacuously demonize it). Can you briefly explain (or link to a good argument) how it fails to live up to that description?
Wait... We can downvote on HN?
People who buy drugs "in the streets" generally aren't versed in how to acquire and manage cryptocurrency. Most people buying drugs have a personal relationship with a dealer and don't do transactions "in the streets". Additionally, actually acquiring cryptocurrency requires a bank account in good standing and a ton of invasive KYC paperwork which will raise suspicions and alienate "street buyers". Finally, in my personal opinion, a street transaction would be preferable to giving out my address to anonymous dealers on the internet, but I know some may agree on that point.
What's to wonder about? Each tower can only handle a certain number of people, and the cell phone companies don't put the number of towers needed for an event like this in permanently.
How do you just "deploy extra capacity"? Do they install new antennas just for an event?
I find that entire premise a bit horrifying tbh, although clearly the DWP or whoever know who i am and what I earn and what I owe in taxes etc.

I dunno if I'd like that public info tho, or any of that like muh transactions or income. That's private, right?
> Medhi’s writing is geared toward frat boys. Mehdi likes to write about how squatting made him stronger, enabling him to win the attention of women.

uh, what exactly is wrong with that? Have we become so pathetically PC that a man can't admit a reason for working out is to improve his sexual prospects?

That's ridiculous.
I like Rippetoe's book (mentioned in the article), but I also think anyone just getting into it should get a personal trainer that knows what they're doing to teach them how to squat.

Squatting correctly is hard. It's a complex movement that involves the entire body and requires you to do things you probably are not used to doing, and mobility you probably do not have.
144. Low refresh rate is a deal breaker on this.
Turkish was written with an Arabic-based alphabet until 1920s. The move to Latin alphabet for Turkic languages is new, and not yet universal. For example, Azerbaijani, the closest Turkic language to Turkish (so much that Turkish and Azerbaijani are mutually comprehensible) is written in Latin alphabet in the Republic of Azerbaijan but in Arabic alphabet in Iran.
Best paper award CVPR 2017 DenseNets
I claim that there only has to be at least one so-called discretionary thing priced differentially based on housing/CoL to make living in the lower cost area more financially optimal. It's easy to show there exists at least one; in fact, there are many.
>When Niantic’s John Hanke took the stage, he was greeted by an audience a few thousand deep, many of them chanting “FIX YOUR GAME” or “WE CAN’T PLAY!”

Can you imagine how stressful this would be? It's one thing to get disappointing feedback data on bugs, UX, etc. Standing in front of thousands of angry people screaming at you to fix your software this instant? Yikes!!
You could start OpenBauer - decentralized Bitcoin marketplace for stuff that matthewbauer approves of.
Stumbling across a scam and a system inadequate to fight cybercrime
You're not the only one. These services have destroyed peoples' lives by providing them easy access to coke, meth, and heroin. Contrary to opinion, the vast majority of these people would not have found those drugs in the streets.

There are no easy solutions here, but it's false to claim that these services are inherently better than what came before. They may make it safer to acquire the drugs, but they also make it much easier to do so.

I don't think we should lock people up for possessing these drugs, but an unregulated marketplace with easy access to a Willy Wonka factory of narcotics is deeply troubling.
The CEO of Morgan Stanley took a shot at th
If you took a look at OpenBazaar you'd find absolutely nothing illegal for sale.
20k is actually not that many people as far as these things go. Over 50k in that confined stadium area and you really start hitting some hard limits with current cell tech. 20k should have been no problem with careful planning.
It's fairly common in the shadier parts of the internet. Such side-opened pages can even host various exploits (if you are on Windows) or fork bombs (in the old days).
OpenBazaar isn't a darknet market. It's a decentralised peer-to-peer market.
>But if a child grows up speaking that second language — Korean, say — with cousins and grandparents, attending a “Saturday School” that emphasizes the language and the culture, listening to music and even reading books in that language, and visits Korea along the way, that child will end up with a much stronger sense of the language.

Did this from Kindergarten through 10th grade. "Saturday School" was a full program that followed the Japanese Ministry of Education's requirements for accreditation (since in my era, most students went back to Japan after their parents' 4-6 year stint in the US office). I do notice that my Japanese is stronger than that of my peers who stopped going to these schools at a much earlier age.

>“A child who is learning two languages will have a smaller vocabulary in each than a child who is only learning one; there are only so many hours in the day, and you’re either hearing English or Spanish,” Dr. Hoff said.

For me, this was a big problem since my English vocabulary remained quite weak compared to my peers all the way through high school (mainly because I had a strong preference for reading Japanese material at home). The general lack of confidence in a broad range of English skills is a long lasting effect that is orthogonal to my actual knowledge or skills.

I'm a "true bilingual" but I don't know if I'd want my imaginary children to be the same. If you're committed to living in the States, maximizing your English skill is imo a better investment of finite cognitive resources. My personal feeling is that being highly proficient at English and being "okay" at a second language works out well, but at the same time I know many friends of Asian descent who are self conscious of their "child-like" use of their second language. A conundrum.
It's not enough to survive it has to become a relevant currency and/or store of value worldwide. At 40B$ in market cap bitcoin is still a curiosity in financial terms. Worldwide dollar supply and US GDP are in the 15-20 T$ range. If Bitcoin reaches half that in value and in transactions without fixing any flaws I'll be impressed.
Because there's value in a peer-to-peer marketplace even if you're not anonymous? One step at a time.
which goes to the miners, yes?
It is distributed over a peer-to-peer network.
I find I don't bookmark a page as much as bookmark a sentence in my mind.

Less out of sight as well, the next time I do a google search, diigo plugin injects my existing stuff beside the search. I like the offline copy it keeps for me like you said.

It's not perfect but not a sinkhole of bookmarks.
Classic one. Looks like even paypal can have some trivial vulnerability. I hope they have good priviliedge separation.
> there is no cost to be on a hold list

What do you mean by this? At least at my library, there is no monetary cost to be on the hold list for any resource, but you can only put a hold on a limited number of resources; and Overdrive checkouts work just the same.
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Why do we keep buying things from this disgusting country, China?
OpenBazaar is a peer-to-peer marketplace. There are no fees for using the software. Of course you still have to pay BTC transaction fees.
fuel for the ETH/ETC fire =P
then what does fuse solve?