skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several ways trucking could be badly broken but still consistent with your statements:

a) Say today, company X sells a thing for $100, of which $15 covers shipping cost, $15 is profit and $70 is what they paid their middleman for the thing. Suppose further that shipping cost could be reduced to $11 just by properly managing trucking, increasing the profit margin by 27%. These are of course made-up numbers, but just because a business is successful doesn't mean there are no inefficiencies left.

b) It is well known that certain jobs take a huge toll on the people doing these jobs, causing early burnout, physical and/or mental health problems up to and including suicide, etc. E.g. drone pilots, people working with social media illegal content filtering have been covered in the media recently. If trucking causes lots of health issues, it's not just "badly broken" in the human compasdion sense, it also leads directly to reduced national economic output (with a 2x multiplier, you're taking away a taxpayer and adding an additional user of Medicaid/whatever).
Yes. That's why it's an interesting legal question.
no platitudes around here. you can't deny (well you can but you shouldn't) that the vast majority of ads are all brand.

Not talking about absolutes or semantics but:

Without the Big Advertising people would drift off-brand. maybe boredom, maybe trying what their friend uses, maybe (surely not) be affected by price and quality.
Hunting is often done in the cold, wet environment. Dead batteries and electronics that doesn't work because of the condensation are pretty common.

You really don't want to waste that one-in-a-season opportunity because some $0.02 electronic part has failed in your "smart" gun.

Especially since it's not buying you any safety. You have to follow gun safety rules anyway, and if you do, you really can't shoot yourself. The latter argument also applies to the practice guns.
So, suppose we live in a fantasy world where a smart gun is developed that has extremely high reliability. Would you agree that would represent an overall improvement in firearm technology?

I'm trying to understand if the objections are rational, or religious.

I honestly can't tell.
Price would be determined by the market given it has no revenue. I imagine a VC firm would consider buying it for low single digit millions.

Though the difficulty would be that the brand is so attached to HN that the VC firm might struggle to get the brand value.

Also, given that they have around ~20 million visits per month according to similarweb it could probably make $10-100k per month if it charged for job ads.

It could also probably sell ads and do ~$30-100k/month from that based on a ~$3 CPM.
https://espressif.com/en/products/software/esp-mesh/overview

It's not exactly self-healing in the same way 802.11s is, iirc it's your basic distance-vector routing protocol with all the usual problems that has.
>Maybe moral right, but that depends on highly subjective morals and might therefore still get you into legal trouble.

We're intelligent human beings. We should be able to arrive at some kind of consensus on what our moral rights our, through rational discourse. That's what I'm trying to do right now. My argument starts with what "the law" means:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...
Great point. We have a chat community which is a start. We'll definitely add more structured mentoring if more people find it useful.
Judging by the comments it's not entirely preaching to the choir. It's also hard not to notice that HN is one of the highest concentrations you can find online of the very people who build this system.
I think there might be a gotcha there. SEC rulings only apply to dealings within the United States. Being that Ethereum is [at least in general, if arguably not] decentralized, and largely pegged to a Canadian, and started in Switzerland it might not be so simple. The Ethereum Foundation itself is a Swiss nonprofit.

Of course, it remains to be seen what this will turn into. Even if it comes crashing down in the United States, that has little effect on the viability in the rest of the world... especially as of late.

I just wouldn't want to try and run an ICO in the US as a resident of the US!
I see what you're saying. I'd say the petty part there is the tallying the small items I offered to you in my home.

Going out to a restaurant with a group is not the same thing, though. If there are three people eating at a moderately priced restaurant and one person picks up the tab, it's not petty to request reimbursement.

In a cash world, it would be petty to demand exact change because of the extra effort it requires to produce it. In an automatic payments world, it's no extra effort on either side.
https://krzysztofzuraw.com/blog/2016/jwt-in-django-applicati...
There are screenshots in each of the directories in the project.
Again, you're missing the point of the command pattern. It is not replaceable by a first class function. I'm well aware of what first class functions are, what they can and can't do, and yes in the most trivial cases at run-time only where only a single action is required of the command, they can be used instead of a command pattern.

Many times commands come with multiple actions, to allow execution and rollback, require being able to be serialized to disk to database and replayed later, or are used to better organize and plug in extension commands to large code bases. None of these cases are amenable to first class functions.

The command pattern isn't just a hack around not having first class functions, we still use command even when first class functions are available. You aren't going to extend Photoshop with a new filter using a first class function; you're going to write a plugin which is a command pattern for filter execution.

Stop trying to tell me what first class functions can do, I'm fully aware, I use them every day and have for nearly 20 years. You aren't talking to some kid who never heard of functional programming.
There are static images available in the README in each subdirectory. Not as good as video of course, but still gives a decent sense of the quality of each implementation.
Keep in mind that having this right available will kill people.
As an English speaker, the windows clipboard and a physical clipboard are entirely unrelated concepts for me too, much like how "right" (the opposite of left) and "right" (a legal entitlement) are unrelated concepts.
Sounds like to me this is because the market for developing novel IOT devices is not as disruptive as previously thought.
Cute graphics ! Some feedbacks :

- Please make sure forms can be validated with enter, an not just by clicking a button (use for onSubmit)

- allways auto-focus most important input of form (like a person's name) when opening it (at least when it's empty)

-after adding a person, open the form immediately

- when tree is empty, put the + button in the center of the screen, big, and with explaination. THen, make a transition to put it back to it's normal place. This way it makes it obvious and then falls back to standard material design location. Other option is to make an empty state image with a big, obvious arrow to the button.

- maybe add transitions that help user follow the change of state when adding someone to the tree.

Great work overall, i wish you the best for your project.
Very interesting. What's striking is how much better the OpenGL version looks than everything else. Not sure if it's because that was the reference version or if some of the other APIs require more work or the dev is simply unfamiliar with them. The Cycles renderer creates some really cool looking materials on the dragon, but the terrain doesn't look great.

The Metal version in particular looks terrible, but then again low level APIs like Metal, Vulkan and whatever subset of Direct X are all meant for vendors, not individual developers.
The white-paper has more detail than the homepage and I recommend reading it for a better understanding of the project

From what I understand, third party entities responsible for vetting borrowers. These entities referred to as "Risk-Assessment Attestor"(RAA) are incentivized to do quality risk assessment as they get a piece of the loans they vet.

Here's a section from the white paper, discussing the importance of RAAs and how they might deter habitual defaulters

"Moreover, RAAs are capable of reporting borrower defaults to relevant credit bureaus on the behalf of lenders. Thus, borrowers are disincentivized from defaulting on loans insofar as their future creditworthiness, both within the Dharma network and in traditional loan markets, will be adversely affected."

https://dharma.io/whitepaper
Can their ethereum contracts reject transactions based upon IP address? I don't think that's possible.
Nothing especially strange in the price data, just the usual ups and downs. There's a downward trend as of about 14 hours ago, but good luck pinning that on insider trading. Woo $222 to $215. That could happen any day. These charts seem to be a Rorschach test, but:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/

As far as what this will do, your best bet is to stock up on fortune cookies and astrology mags because they're probably about as informed as anything else on the matter. Preferably cookies, because at least you can eat those.
HTML5 toolset is too fragmented and developer-oriented. Unity is humongous and WebGL builds are too big. There's no replacement for Flash.
Methinks we should compose a musical Turing test...
Thanks to you (and all the other commenters) for the detailed answers! I learned a lot!
You can't weld regular batteries into a lot of applications, and a lot of IoT applications are mobile and vibration sensitive. You'd be surprised how just a little vibration can really mess up your power supply as the springs bounce around.

CR2032s have a much higher surface area on the contacts, which is required to dissipate the heat from the weld as well as have more surface contact with the springs if you use a battery socket instead.
The most serious effort I've seen had a geoblocked website that worked with a Chrome plugin. You could get around it, without even using a proxy, but only if you could understand the smart contract code and figure out how to prepare the data it required.

To my way of thinking, if you're sophisticated enough to do that, you're sophisticated enough in blockchain matters to make your own investment decisions.
True and true, but I'm not sure what you were trying to say. Blekko never did discover the secret to competing with the #1 and #2 search engine companies spending over $5B a year to buy search traffic :-). However IBM found great value in a technology that could effectively crawl and index billions of pages, that is, remarkably, still a hard problem even today.
Person who prefers gourmet restaurant food suggests that another person who always cooks at home has a limited appreciation of what's possible and overestimates their own cooking ability relative to the best chefs?
It's been done before. Colt tried to do it, failed, then announced that they have eventually solved all technical problems and invited a bunch of journalists for the demo.

The turned out to be perfectly safe - it did not fire during the demo, even when it should have. The story made headlines back in the day, and was pretty popular. Nobody has tried building "smart" guns for a while.

Looks like it's been largely forgotten now, and we're due for another cycle.

Edit: source http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473416699/how-an-idea-to-devel...
The microphone doesn't work, TI never released packaged firmware for it. There's source code available that should work, but I haven't seen anyone on the forums that managed to get it integrated into an application, much less even build it.
Corda looks pretty good for private ledgers since that's what it's designed for. I don't know if Java smart contracts are any better or worse than Solidity/EVM, though.
I don't know anything about the state of JS emulators, but I'd imagine three years of hardware and software advancements will go a long way to making this feasible.
Yes, fair point. Edited, thank.

Actually, that's very, very strange. The edit I made doesn't seem to be what is above. I said something like " same (edit: that LightGBM is faster to train than XGB) thing". I mean it's harmless, but very odd.

Did someone else edit my post? @dang ?
>2) Carry your gun in a proper holster, on your person. Not in your purse in the shopping cart, but on your hip.

Even then, a proper retention holster that covers the trigger would solve that problem in 99% of cases. Sure, a particularly strong and determined toddler might be able to figure out the release after a few minutes of trying but nobody leaves their child completely unsupervised (not even taking a glance at what they're up to) for several minutes at a time.
you can use MapD on your MacBook pro in CPU mode, but it will not be able to do any vega rendering because that requires a GPU.
Yes exactly.

I also think the general population prevalence estimates for dementia are too low, for reasons not worth going into here.
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>>> "How does that help me when I'm in bed and someone breaks in in the middle of the night?"

There are holsters for bed.
For sure. Regulation without justification is "pretty crappy". The starting point should always be "no regulation". Occasionally, we override the starting point following the occurrence of massive market failure, where market forces simply are insufficient to apply the right pressure to actors involved.

In environmental regulations, we had the Love Canal which exposed a lot of school children to toxic waste. The market failed, we responded was CERCLA and the EPA.

In the case of securities regulation, the market failure was a big one in 1929. We responded with major legislation in 1933. And in general, that legislation has been a rousing success. But it's important to note that the goal of security regulation, of preventing crappy investments, isn't just to protect mom-and-pop, but also to prevent against another 1929. In my mind, it's really hard to argue that the effect of US securities regulation hasn't been a net positive.
It was a common saying when I worked adjacent to online advertising that "The guys who think it doesn't work on them are the biggest marks of them all". The reasoning was that they have no defenses and think because they don't click on ads (who does?) that they are immune to social pressure, cognitive biases around awareness, status concerns.

After I heard this and started paying attention I'm completely sold, people who say this are never living lives that look remotely like they aren't affected by advertising.

That's not even counting the fact that it doesn't have to work on everyone, just enough people so that those who don't conform are punished by becoming outsiders with all the social, financial and professional consequences that entails.
I'm making an audio plugin library in D, with the explicit goal to avoid all the pain of setting IDE projects, paths, and managing dependencies (all of this is done through the language package manager).

https://github.com/AuburnSounds/dplug
This discussion really has nothing to do with the topic at hand.

It's possible to veer off-topic in a substantive way. Some of the more interesting HN comments have been spawned that way.

Whether subsequent comments will be high-quality depends on the topic and the amount of energy thrown into the conversation, but fresh perspectives are good as long as people are introducing them productively.

Threads like this shouldn't be auto-collapsed. One of the main reasons people write quality responses in an off-topic conversation is because it will be seen. Take away the eyeballs and you take away the quality.
>it turns out that having no rules on speculation is a bad idea.

Source?
It doesn't matter if Ethereum is a crypto-decentralized-blockchain-p2p-network-thingamagig. If the Ethereum Foundation sold their thing to US residents, it is under the purview of the SEC.

The only question is if the Ethereum Foundation's token sale passes the Howey Test. An analysis of this must be done like was done in their report of the DAO. I'm not qualified to do this analysis, which is why I ask. I know they said Bitcoin was not a security but that's all I know.
It's much easier to attack such a system than to defend it. Attacker only needs a short window of time, so can emit a lot of power. "Smart" gun can't do that, it has to work for years on small battery, so its signal must be weaker by many orders of magnitude.
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> the terrain

The OpenGL version looks really aggressively bump mapped. The Cycle's version doesn't appear to have any bump mapping enabled.

Edit: The depth of field in the Cycle's version also looks a bit weird, and blurs away most of the terrain's detail.
The main reason they didn't come down hard on the DAO is because of the hard fork..
Naw, I have a PPO. It's definitely one of the better plans I've seen offered anywhere though. My out of pocket cost is $1000 a year too, so that's pretty sweet.

It's not terribly expensive either. I just started COBRA and it is $750 a month or so.

I'm glad I don't have an HMO, as I'm not organized, and tracking down referrals and such would be a nightmare for me. I've never found a doctor that isn't in my network, so I just figure out which doctor is closest to me and isn't a hack and schedule an appointment. I live a couple of miles from Northwestern University Medical, and Rush University Medical Center, and they've got almost any type of doctor you could possibly need to see.

I don't think my PPO is complicated, but I've never found technical documents that hard to understand. Most of the complications seem to be for emergency and urgent care, but office visits are as uncomplicated as I've made them seem. Some types of lab work might cost more, but I've never been charged for any diagnostic tests outside of cat scans and MRIs.
Will it? Vulkan is meant as a low-level version of OpenGL for vendors who want to optimise their engines and have more control over draw calls and whatnot. Does it actually add any features that will be noticeable in a small, static scene?
Because the net difference between dialects are the sum of all differences from 2000 years ago to now, while 2000 years ago, less time was elapsed, the net difference was much smaller.

The net difference today is the net difference 2000 years ago plus all the new variations since then.
Which craft beers? Most of them are manufactured by huge corporate breweries.

Do you own a car? What kind? Is it an older honda civic or something similar? In North America your choice of cars is almost certainly the result of advertising, both on you and on the people who's opinion about you you care about.
You're exactly right. You can get a 10cm by 10cm 2 layer board with 6mil tolerances for $12 shipped, from china.

Arrow will ship parts overnight with a minimum order size of $20.

Aliexpress/eBay have made discrete semiconductors and passive parts nearly free.

Writing a bit of software is incredibly easy (versus what it used to be) with a good IDE and a solid toolchain.

It's truly a great age to be involved in hardware.
There are hundreds of projects that have held token sales. The vast majority have not imploded.

For what it's worth, I think the majority will fail to produce a profit. That's okay. A high failure rate is fine in an emerging industry. Venture capitalists can easily tolerate 90% failure rates for example.
110/111 testing positive for CTE is insanely high, even with selection bias. This is a big, big deal, and should be treated like a big, big deal. This is not hyperbolic in the slightest. If a chemical plant was suspected of causing cancer, and you got those test results, same experimental bias and all, it would be shut down instantly.

Boyoga!
>" I note Cantonese and Mandarin "dialects" have a common (formal) written form."

I don't know spoken mandarin but I can read written Mandarin, I grew up knowing Cantonese. So I do think they have a common formal written form. And I did specify formal, that strips away the slang Cantonese characters.

It's interesting to see the paper compared the written form to Latin.
I think there have been some papers on that already. Sorry, I don't know them off the top of my head. It's definitely a good idea.
You know, I might have misread what you're offering here when I submitted an application a minute ago, but what I was really hoping was that you would be able to put me in touch with researchers in the field who would answer my emails about whether the research topics I was considering were interesting and promising or not and could help me navigate the academic publication process. The monetary pieces of this grant are largely irrelevant to me.
If you read the actual report (https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf), you may notice that the SEC is careful to apply securities law DAO specifically.

In particular, they apply the security test: "did investors invest money with a reasonable expectation of profits derived from managerial efforts of others?" Since DAO was a wisdom-of-crowd VC fund, the answer is a clear YES.

On the other hand, they are careful to say that other token sales MAY be securities but will be treated based on their specific facts and circumstances.

My takeaway is that this doesn't change anything. The SEC is proceeding cautiously: applying securities law in clear-cut cases, "studying the effects" generally.

It's also not a bad thing to comply with securities regulation. FileCoin is doing quite well selling only to accredited investors on CoinList.
Li-ion isn't even that great a choice, self discharge is pretty high. That will "use" more current than your microcontroller!
> Very smart people are scammed and conned all the time.

Including regulators.
XP is still more popular than many Linux distributions. Should Youtube stop supporting them too?
> Either way, I think calling attention to his skin color in the way you did is petty and rude.

This line was not in the reply I got by email (via HN Replies). I'm glad I caught it here because it illuminates a core problem with these conversations about policing and race.

I did not at all mean or knowingly suggest that the individual officers are bad people who thought bad things about this man because of his race -- i.e., these bad racist officers need to be removed and replaced with good non-racist officers, if any such unicorns exist.

But I understand why it might seem that way to family, friends and other defenders of police because so many critiques of policing do demonize them personally.

I wasn't trying to make this point, but good people acting in concert can easily end up behaving very badly, and even bring out the worst of human nature and its often false, reflexive assumptions about others. This ought to be particularly true for police, who confront the worst of humanity more than the rest of us.

You may disagree that black Americans are disproportionately victimized in this way by the police or that this played into what happened here, but that argument is not a personal one.
In the case of Amazon those thin margins are mainly due to massive re-investment expenses to grow capacity, not competition. The question is if or when they might be able to reign back the investment without risking losing competitiveness with rivals.
Have you ever fumbled around unlocking your phone? Can you do it instantly every time you pick it up?

This would be unacceptable for most gun owners if it happened even every thousand rounds.

It's rational.
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