skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a good place for MIP solver comparisons (including expensive commercial solvers like Gurobi and CPLEX, as well as other commercial and open source options) is Hans Mittelmann's website:

http://plato.asu.edu/bench.html

here are MILP current benchmark results (updated this month) including CPLEX and Gurobi

http://plato.asu.edu/ftp/milpc.html

If you are interested in which is the best (fastest? finds feasible solutions most often?) solver for a particular kind of problem, these general benchmarks perhaps don't matter as much - you need to compare the solvers on instances of your problem.

edit: i think it is possible to get free trials of commercial solvers if you are interested in trying them on your problems. Gurobi also appears to have a cloud offering where you can pay to rent a solver for a short time.
https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

Some self-education links at the bottom as well.
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Did you have a beta release installed? Usually those are hit with a “full” update when GM version drops.
Skia is now the default on firefox/windows when direct2d isn't available.

http://techdows.com/2016/10/firefox-52-skia-enabled-by-defau...

What does that actually means in practice? I'm guessing the only time you actually get skia is when running in a pretty old hypervisor environment or on a server/BMC without hardware acceleration.

Which IMHO, having your application _LOOK_ different depending on hardware acceleration capabilities is sorta stupid.
Poe's law: Sufficiently advanced satire is indistinguishable from fanatical confusion.

And many people do promote the "code is law, and nothing else" idea -- at least Ethereum Classic stuck to it!
Why can't we focus a lot of funding on this project? This is exactly the kind of thing for Government to lead rather than wasting time trying to healthcare out.
oh ok! I like fun, just the right amount of fun tho
A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet
>I'm sure you don't realize you're doing this, but I'm telling you how I and many other immigrants who have lived as ethnic minorities in a foreign country are led to feel like outsiders, and your response is to say that those feelings are invalid, and you wouldn't let it bother you, despite having (presumably) never experienced what we're talking about.

Well, I'm European but I have worked in an asian country for years as a very tiny ethnic minority there (not even 0.01%).

But in general, "you haven't experienced it" is no real argument, because just having experienced something doesn't mean the experience or the interpretation of the experience is justified. And that's something that someone who hasn't experienced the thing might still be able to point out.

I don't doubt that one can feel "like a foreigner" in Japan.

People can feel all sorts of things, including that, and Japanese society might especially encourage them to feel like foreigners.

What I'm saying is that if a caucasian feels like a foreigner just because Japanese because people assume he probably doesn't speak Japanese, then he feels like a foreigner for a superficial reason -- and not about how he's treated and how he's integrated (or not) into his Japanese social circles, but about how Japanese people he doesn't know think he's a tourist or short term visitor.
In a stunning lack of foresight, Cloudflare used the passwords on that particular receipt as the root passwords for their production database servers. They have to cut the gif short to avoid leaking them...
Entropy, not something you want from a currency, also, paper money is not magic, it's a network of trust. I think block chain applications are out there, I just don't think cryptographic currencies are their best use.
I believe at least one of the reasons why those are given more attention is because they are more likely to affect younger people and they seem more preventable. As opposed to cancer and heart disease which are more likely to kill older people and often develop over a lifetime.
Paul Graham goes to extra lengths to differentiate startups vs other type of business: it's all about growth.

So this essay talks about startups under the YC brand, I assume we're talking about hi-growth business, not small and medium ones that have no goals to grow double digits every month.

Finally, we should stop adding a condescending "lifestyle" qualififier to businesses that are not trying to become a unicorn. It is most businesses actually.
My dad was not a successful founder. He quit his job at 40 or so to start a company. He failed miserably, and despite us being fairly well off, went into a downward spiral. He is divorced, alone, and living in a trailer park. Every time I visit him in his doublewide in Campbell, still same furniture as person who died in it had, I expect him to be hanging from the rafters. He was a serial startup employee with over 20 years tech startup experience before starting. His startup destroyed his life. the YC, anyone can become a founder mythology is toxic. My dad was rich from previous exits, had everything going for him, and had a good idea/execution. He just couldn't boil the ocean and it destroyed him.
>Imagine any non-English speaking person entering a non-ascii name for their document

You mean there are people in Europe, China, Japan, India running into widespread problems when they create filenames in their own language in iOS 10.3+ ?
Poking around in that project, I don't see any specific tests of the Wallet contract... would be interested to see what UTs/STs were included if anyone knows where they are -- or was it just manually tested on the testnet? It seems that a basic set of UTs for this contract should have caught this issue.

It's not even in the category of weird timing attacks or complicated internal states allowing unexpected state transitions -- this is a trivial bug that could be spotted by viewing the contract in Remix (the Solidity IDE).

There are certainly some weird edge cases in the Ethereum VM programming model that are hard to UT, and I think that dev efforts in this area are under-resourced (e.g. it's currently impossible to test time-dependent contracts as there's no way of mocking out the clock in the simulated blockchain).

If you are considering writing a smart contract, read and re-read https://github.com/ConsenSys/smart-contract-best-practices, and then write UTs for each of these cases so that you can convince yourself that you've covered them.

Relevant to this bug:

> Understand that your public functions are public, and may be called maliciously. Your private data is also viewable by anyone.
Don't forget to mention privacy. Why would I use a browser which is spying on me if there is an alternative that doesn't? Same goes for other software.
That was on my mind as well. The pessimist in me was concerned that this article will either get /r/opiates banned or will become a honeypot for law enforcement.
> Do the authorities have ways around that?

Yes. The $5 wrench. https://www.xkcd.com/538/
The NBA Draft Lottery is similar in spirit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBA_draft_lottery
Yeah something like 1% have wealthy families and something like 99% don't. YC has always been a program by the upper class and for the upper class.

There's a reason YC doesn't publish economic diversity stats. It would be an indictment of their systemic bias.

You're not better than the all of the 99 other people that didn't go to Yale/YC, you're just lucky that you were granted help instead of them.

And yet it never seems to occur to the "elite" YC team that any of them could've been born on the outside of this class system.

YC, like most class-based institutions, sits on a fortunate while millions are starved for opportunity. The people that receive its help are those that need it least.

Someone with a genuine underdog story needs to create YCs successor. YC is too much the "Harvard of accelerators."
This is a mind blowing amount. What could be the reason for such a high cost?
> Rust enthusiast

What a surprise...

You're free to be as prejudiced as you want, but I gave an example of an actual implementation.
>I chose this trial because the I liked the fact that my own immune system was being boosted to fight my cancer.

I work in biotech and a very successful CEO of mine once told me "When I'm evaluating new (bio)technologies, always bet on tech that replicates/take advantage of a currently working biological system. Tech where everything is synthetic/relies on a custom designed system/etc is much more likely to not work in the long run."
There are a few examples of startup founders who were potentially homeless if it failed (AirBnB is the obvious one...they started it because they were literally a month away from being homeless), but you're right, this is the exception rather than the rule.

I think what's frequently overlooked in the "how do I get the resources to found a startup without risking everything?" is that you don't do it in one shot. If you have zero in the bank, your first priority should be to get six months of living expenses in the bank, and that usually means taking a job and saving 25% of your paycheck for two years. Then once you have six months in the bank, your next priority should be to get 3 years of savings in the bank, and that usually means taking a better job and saving 50% of your paycheck for 3 years. Only once you've got about 3 years saved up are you really in a position to found a startup without having run across seed funding from an angel.

Few people really understand compound interest or how it works out in practice. It's not just about putting money in a bank account or index fund and letting it grow. It's about having successively larger cash cushions so you can take bigger risks with better risk/reward trade-offs.
He's trying to change the subject because he knows you are right in what you are saying about what universities should be doing, but doesn't want to admit it.
Rolling back the dao set a terrible precedent, and people that were ripped off in the latest hack should rightfully be asking for another fork. If there isn't one, then it'll be apparent that the developers will only protect their own interests.
Yes. Contracts are only as secure as the people interpreting them, and when people can't interpret them because they're code, suddenly you need third parties to interpret them and then you've got to pay third parties to do this efficiently and suddenly you've reinvented the concept of being a lawyer.
Note that the URL bar does search autocomplete now (new in 55 maybe?).
This is for engine power but for other electrical usage inside the train.
This...it was a poorly written contract just like the DAO was. Parity developers didn't follow the most basic contract safety steps, and people used it because they trusted them too much.

Each of these situations is a painful learning experience, but moves the platform forward.
Can't be nearly as bad as any pachinko parlor that I've been near. It sounds like a machine shop full of circular saws.

I harbor the belief (likely unjustified) that the hearing loss resulting in hanging out there is as bad as gambling addiction issues. I don't know how people stand it, or why they'd want to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHfocxjWbZI
Certainly not 90% of the early employees.
That looks interesting. I just skimmed the white paper. It's not clear what their contracts can do, though. They need more examples.

The underlying DAG idea has potential. You could have two half-transactions happening on separate subtrees, where A is buying X from B and B is paying Y to A. So A broadcasts "A will buy X from B when B pays Y to A", and B broadcasts "B will pay Y to A when A buys X from B". When the matching half-transactions acquire a common child, the transaction commits. It's a true "meeting of the minds".
>stop adding a condescending "lifestyle" qualififier to businesses

"Lifestyle" is a neutral label and is not a condescending perjorative unless you insist on perceiving it that way.
See:

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_business

+ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4053554
How misaligning data can increase performance by reducing cache misses (2014)
Countries rise and fall. There is still slavery in America, and (separately) black people and women are often still disadvantaged compared to other races and to men. Weed is still illegal in the majority of states and under federal law. These are things that change and shift over time.

1+2. One way or another, America will "stop playing world police". It might do things like adopt the metric system (depending on how long the "rugged independence" streak runs). U.S. climate policy is about as important to the world as Californian climate policy is to the rest of the country (near zero). The internet is already splintering into interlinked regional networks, and will continue to do so naturally.

3. War isn't inherently a way to enrich private entities, although it's clearly true that that's one effect of it, in this country right now (and arguably, currently the primary reason). War has been a constant reality, at least since the time humans began agriculture. Maybe it'll go away in the future, but I see no evidence of it.

4. One over-arching nation, with some division of regional governments. Conflict will just move down the tree.

5. A single, universal language isn't an inherently good thing. It sounds like a great way to kill off cultural diversity.

6. We'll have to change the nature of the human animal. We're naturally prone to categorizing, ranking, organizing, and using those structures to assess threat levels. Denying that is fighting nature; you won't win that war.

> The world is changing really fast, and the rate of change is getting faster. When people argue "That could never change!" I have to wonder if they have any real evidence... Do you?

True, true. Things will change. They'll follow the path of least resistance, on the macro and micro levels. Your 6 steps are fighting entropy the whole way. They're radical claims. Radical claims require radical evidence...do you have any?
Not just the code but hopefully the compiler and processors (at large i.e. Intel) have no bugs that causes unintuitive behaviour.
Recipes are an area that is quite hard to shift to metric because often recipes are handed down from previous generations. Simplistic conversions are easy, but will often create slight problems in the recipe - eggs, 'spoon based measures, etc., break the rounding that goes on in moving between measure systems.

Cookware passed down too could help to promulgate Imperial measures, we have a heap of tins that are inch-based measures. They're small effects but they add up.
I just lost my mother to cancer and it was a hellish experience. It gives me joy to know someone out there beat it and that people in the near future may have a better chance than mom did. Congratulations on the recovery. Wish you many wonderful years full of life!
Parent is referring to the transaction mechanism of the CC providers, not consumer credit.

Fraud is a function of humans not the currency. The reason large systems to protect from fraud are baked in, is because there are a lot of humans that commit fraud. The blockchain would only provide a well documented account of the fraud, with no tooling to remove the assets from the fraudster. Chargebacks are a blessing when you need them and a curse when you receive them, but something that the economy has deemed a necessary evil mostly because there are a lot of fraudsters in the world.
I highly recommend Destroy All Software if you're looking for resources for going from a beginner/intermediate level of coding ability to a more advanced level. Much of the material is organized around MVC web development and especially TDD, but there's a wide variety of transferable skills to be gained.
Damn that's hard. Thank you for sharing. Best of luck to you and your family - as optimist, I hope that your dad can find peace soon.
> the various "interpretations" of quantum mechanics frequently fail to address what the nature of physical reality

No, they ALWAYS fail to address it, That's why they are called "interpretations", not "models".

> Do they actually exist

This question is completely outside of the realm of science.
This implementation always moves the nth item, it should only do it most of the time, it could never return the starting array but needs to be able to.
Yes. This was true before and after the hard fork. Seems like common sense to me, but I guess it's a good thing that the hard fork happened because it educated people that this is possible.
Well, you know, except for the whole "we, the central governors, will hard-fork if we get scared that there's an existential threat to the blockchain" thing.
In Haskell everything is public by default unless you specify exports for the module.
I absolutely love these articles, and was inspired to create some (not nearly as cool) of my own.

Here is what a Graph looks like - http://gun.js.org/see/graphs.gif

Here is how an Ad-Hoc Mesh Network can deduplicate broadcast storms: http://gun.js.org/see/ad-hoc-mesh-network.gif (This is also the same principle that neurons use when firing signals!)

Here is what a Radix structure looks like: http://gun.js.org/see/radix.gif

Would love to see other visualizations by other people, please add links for me!
Tax forms don't have a place to declare assets, iirc, only income.
That is certified brilliant.
Every Great Investment Hurts
How to Create a Multiplayer Bomberman Game in Unity
I think a big part of the complaint is about the implicit assumption that because people are smart, and have experience with cryptography, they necessarily have the experience to design a sane and safe programming language given their goals.

They did put themselves way out there, and that takes ambition, but also hubris. I wish they were able to figure out which one was driving them at certain points a bit better, as while some of these problems are because they are doing new and interesting things, some are old as dirt for computing, and there's little defense.

If some company tried to tout a new language with all the pitfalls of C, but none of the benefits of being really inter-operable and known the same way, I'd like to think we could recognize that as having some very bad design choices given what we've learned from C, and at little benefit other than being different. Ignoring decades of research and experience on the topic through ignorance is not laudable, even if you've put yourself out there. I can't help but feel we have a similar scenario going on here.
About 8% to 12% of people prescribed opioids long term will become addicted to them.

The US prescribes far more opioids than any other developed nation.

These two combine and there are a bunch of people without addiction, but with spare pills. Those pills have a market value, and so they get sold. Or relatives of the patient find the pills and take them.
"If you could make a brown fizzy drink faster and cheaper than Coca-Cola, why wouldn't everyone buy it?" Rebuttal: store brand soda.

Welcome to branding / advertising / marketing.
In the UK, you can get the Dacia Sandero for £6k (~$8k). £1k of that is VAT (tax), so that is impressively cheap.

http://www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/new-sandero/
This wasn't a third party wallet actually. It is the local Parity wallet and node. What this was, was a bug in the multisig contract that Parity would give you to deploy. So it is a contract you personally deploy onto the ethereum network and then interact with. You do own it, you own the private keys for the address, etc.

But the bug allowed any other address to add themselves as owners and withdraw from it.

Luckily not many people used it and the white hat was able to claim all the rest before anyone else.
Haidt and Lukianoff are saying that universities should be places where students learn to engage in reasoned debate and discussion, instead of being indoctrinated in a particular ideology. I agree.

If you like what they are saying, check out their organization at heterodoxacademy.org/
Shame on whoever considers himself familiar with cryptocurrencies that downvoted this. This is a well worded argument for an opinion that one may or may not share, but whatever one's position about the "true believers" of smart contracts the parents points are valid, on topic and sensible.

Btc isn't here to pay your coffee or your salary, it's here as a fallback if you really need to get out of traditional finance.
Same with ETH. You're not supposed to switch all your banking, notarial or legal affairs to the platform but it's there for cases where traditional contract law isn't desirable.

Now why so many people ascribed additional meaning or value to these platforms is the really interesting part. In a way, it's good these hacks happen as a reminder that this is what you signed up for. It's the wild west and you don't have a court or government watching your back. That's a (the) feature.
One disappointing but also reassuring thing about the Filecoin ICO is that it's only open to accredited investors[1]. It shows they are doing it right and legal but that unfortunately locks out non-millionaires.

1. http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp
It's a good indicator that these people may be experts in one area, but not necessarily in others.

Language design is actually notoriously difficult in general[1], but if you're doing language design for a security-critical language[2]... well, that requires actual mechanized proof, IMO. Not just proof of "design", but proof of the implementation. Anything else is a huge gamble. (And I'm sure there are some 'investors'/gamblers who made off very well.)

[1] Beyond surface-level, obviously.

[2] We're talking about 0.0001% of the general population here.
The key word there is "viable plan", and you don't know that you have one until you do it. Many of the biggest, most successful companies are pivots from some lame initial product.

There are plenty of bozos who don't try to solve a problem or offer a service, but there are plenty of dead startups who did all of that and still failed.
Furthermore, I suggest you do what your parents did, and get a job, sir! The bums lost, Lebowski!
Many research trials are privately funded, but run by the government for regulatory reasons. I don't know about this one.
As far as I could tell, the thread started from the mention that Einstein believed that the universe is deterministic, which set the context of the thread. This argument is traditionally seen in context of quantum effects, and whether or not there exist hidden variables.
You move to somewhere in the third world with lax banking regulations.
"truly random" refers to how well a real distribution matches its intended distribution. So, a long cycle is not truly random, because many desired outcomes are physically possible to obtain.

This is orthognal to the choice of distributon. Shuffle and Weighted Sampling are different choices of distribution.
Node v8.2.0 (Current)
You’d have to do some legwork. Find a local hacker/co-working space and ask if you can host a paid workshop there.
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Yep. Novartis' new CAR was recommended for approval last week. ~100 are in the FDA pipeline, and now that the first was unanimously approved, expect a lot more.

Paywalled, but a good review of the 100 in trials right now:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27613725
Have you considered hiring someone full time to manage it? You could include the apartment as part of the compensation and maybe provide some kind of profit sharing bonus incentive as well.
And there's more Ethereum now. The DAO was a ~$50 million fraud. This was a ~$30 million fraud. Obviously this is totally different and there's nothing we can do about it and it's just fine. People should have known better than to use parity with this bug in it.
Require all searches to be performed in a faraday cage?

A better solution would be to disallow all searches of electronic devices since this seems unnecessarily intrusive.
I hypogthesize that has to do with whether the image is from an image tag or from a css background image attribute. Does anyone reading this know for sure?