skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My understanding is that it doesn't need to be "revolutionary" to be patentable.

How would one measure revolutionaryness anyway? If it hasn't been done before and isn't just a variation on an existing thing (e.g. sports car but in green), that sounds like a good enough thing to award a patent for.

Which is not to say that I agree about all the details, e.g. that software should or shouldn't be patentable, or how long a patent should be valid, etc. Just that one can get a patent for something that's not "revolutionary" makes sense.
Yeah, I googled my way there as well (and to 17 other similar pages on br.de) with no luck.
> Seems more sensible to me to do it that way,

The interesting part to me of the OP's design is it has only two identical moving parts.

Adding 2 * 2 DOF gimbals is four more actuators to go wrong, for a total of 6. That flight demo is pretty nice, though.
It is much safer for me to buy things on the Internet with cryptocurrencies than credit cards. It seems like every few months there's a huge leak of customers and credit card information.
In other words: nothing will convince them, because there is more than enough available evidence. It's not a matter of lack of evidence, it's a matter of belief. If evidence were any match for feelings the Dark Ages would've been a bit brighter.
My personal thought is to make a geoengineering company to perform carbon sequestration. At first you would figure out how to grow large amounts of switchgrass and or algae using some type of automated planting either in deserts or in the ocean. Then start breeding or make GMO plants that would more efficiently sequester carbon. Also, try to make other systems that would lower temperature like a space based shade or changing the albedo of the ground or atmosphere .
Mostly I've noticed that people click ads when they don't realize they're clicking an ad. For example, when my dad googles something, often he doesn't realize the results at the top are all advertisements (he's colorblind and has bad vision). When I point out to him that they're ads (whether relevant or not), he then avoids them and scrolls down to the organic results.
No, Flippa is for finished sites. Finding a client and building what they want can generate you thousands in revenue.
i'd rather be coming out of an ice age than going into one, you fucking cucks.
Are Javascript and Java really that similar? I know plenty of front-end Javascript devs who are pretty uncomfortable with Java development.
Look, instead of turning us into strawmen, try and understand.

I love libraries. If someone is reading a book or a magazine or even surfing Facebook on a computer I don't care what they look like, smell like, or whether or not they go back to an apartment at the end of the day.

My city has a beautiful library. They also have very liberal policies, afaik people aren't turned away.

But those tables you'd like to read a magazine at? Full of people camped out, possessions spread around them, talking, dealing.

Those isles of books? Now they are also beds.

It's really an asshole move to assume that if anyone at any point doesn't want their library turned into a shelter, then they are heartless people who hate the poor and mentally ill.

I want better health care in this country. I want better support for ensuring that everyone had a roof over their head. I also want to read a book in the library without being hassled or smelling excrement.

Libraries should be open to everyone to use as libraries.
He sounds more like a troll.
Half of my plots use logarithmic scale. Makes sense to me.

I really like the default axis styling where they have gone against the mainstream style of gnuplot/matlab. I'm definitely going to try this out sometime soon.
This is basically money laundering, right?
Yes. To put it in startup terms, SiaCoin has an MVP and is post Series-A but is still building out the product.

Storj, which is in the same space, is a couple year ahead and is just starting to try and get traction (but had a management shake up)

The most serious alt coins are very much like startups.

Factom, which is sort of a digital notary service, seems to have been working for several years on their platform and only just recently picked a market- Mortgages- Claiming they want to prevent the problems that happened in 2009 by making auditing and verifying mortgage documents better. They closed their Series A last year, but did their ICO a couple years before that.
GNU (FSF): Explaining Why We Don't Endorse Other Systems
Success is a complex function, but there are some inputs like networking, testing the market, experience, etc. that will improve your chances. It's not helpful to think of success as a lighting strike.
I would guess a fair amount is just the whole alpha power dynamics thing. The job attracts a fair amount of people that enjoy the authoritarian role and sticking it to people at will. It's not all of them, but there's certainly a draw for that crowd.
The other really important thing: You can have both in one project. [1] You can gradually convert your existing Java project to Kotlin; there's even a menu item in IntelliJ to straight up convert a Java file into Kotlin.

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/mixing-java-kotlin-int...
By the way, a new Alpha came out last week. Might be worth a test drive as they're constantly improving the game.
Google and Facebook's interest in suppressing "fake news" is especially worrisome given the lack of transparency in how they are run. Left leaning websites are already seeing drop in traffic from search referrals because of changes in Google's ranking[1][2]

[1] https://mronline.org/2017/07/28/new-google-algorithm-restric...

[2] http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/07/28/pers-j28.html
« As horrible as Nazis and neo-Nazis are, censoring their speech is STILL a violation of human rights »

That’s only one interpretation of human rights.
The city tries certain efforts to fix homelessness, no one will ever go hungry or unclothed, but the way they spend money to fix the problem is sometimes asinine. They built a new shelter complete without running water or bathrooms [1]. At over $200m a year, they could have definitely had city sponsored housing for this issue, adding building by building year after year for the affected. But if they took that approach, there would be even more homeless flocking to SF for all of the freebies.

1 - https://www.google.com/amp/www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/neviu...
> Claims like this are utterly lacking perspective

Hmm, lack of perspective you say? IMHO, the ability to point at cruelty in other animals and find reasonable justification of our own actions (which in magnitude, are not even into the same ballpark of cruelty) has got to count as somewhat vile, and uniquely human, don't you think?
The international resource mission is called open access to papers and open source AI software. See things like Tensorflow, Open AI, etc.
Rise in Google bikes stolen, dumped in Mountain View creek has locals annoyed
I'm not disagreeing with you.

I'll hopefully never fully understand what it feels like to have someone you're close to being threatened with a knife, but I can imagine it's horrible, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

What I am saying is that in order to cut down on that behaviour, we need to stop the problem at the source. To my knowledge, no country has ever managed to fully eradicate homelessness, but other places have had success in reducing drug addiction and mental health issues. If those issues are tackled, the issues surrounding homelessness should be greatly reduced, including a large reduction in violent and/or erratic behaviour.

Trust is hard to build once it's broken, and I'm not asking you to forgive anyone, but we have to look beyond our current hardships if we want a future that's worth looking forward to.
Evidence says "Hell yes. Obviously."
They have these rules, but they are rarely actually enforced. Point someone to a homeless person shooting up in public or bathing in the bathroom, and see what happens.

If anything, there's a shrug and a sigh and some rent-a-cop is sent to harass. Almost never is the infraction met with punishment of any consequence.

Start actually arresting or forcibly evicting people who behave this way. They'll stop coming around. San Francisco is particularly feckless in this regard.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-15/research-team-slams...
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-15/research-team-slams...

Idiots
24 tailor-made Star Wars themes for your Hyper terminal. Lightsabers included
At least here in Portland, OR, you have the option of filtered/unfiltered Internet when logging on to a library computer.

Looks like SF libraries don't filter content:

https://sfpl.org/?pg=2000004301
> "I haven’t been thrilled by the atheist movement. First, who is the audience? Is it religious extremists? Say right-wing evangelical Christians like George Bush (as you rightly point out)?" ...

Dawkins talks about who his audience is on many occasions. Dawkins is going after the type of people who consider themselves religious largely because their parents are... the type of people who haven't read the bible, almost never go to church, and really haven't given religion much thought at all. This is a massive segment of Americans and British people numbering in the 10's of millions. I'm amazed Chomsky can't understand this.
Hey everyone! Hope you all enjoy it and may the Force be with you!
Yes, you're technically correct, but I can assure you that byte-swapping is fast.

It seems I should have just left out the fact that byte-swap is a single instruction on x86, I was trying to make the point that it is fast but I suppose the point missed its mark and the fact that it's a single instruction really doesn't matter. You can do the swap with a few shifts and it still takes no time at all. If speed really becomes such a factor that this is too slow doing the encoding and decoding, you'll likely be looking at replacing this framework with a more hardcoded solution, not removing byte-swaps.
Peter Moskos, a criminologist who spent a year on the Baltimore police force while doing his PhD, has a good post up about what happened -- http://www.copinthehood.com/2017/07/thats-quite-days-work.ht... It seems like the officer forgot to turn on his body camera while originally finding the drugs, and so rather than get reprimanded for forgetting to turn on the camera, he decided to recreate the crime scene and pretend he had that he had the camera on the whole time.
You die
The Future of Journalism Won’t Look Anything Like Today’s Journalism
That is why I have embraced it. I never liked the features lacking from bitcoin. And when the anonymous coins like monero and zero coin came out even then it took me a while to research and embrace one. Monero was what I settled on. I like cash because it's untraceable. I like Monero because I can carry out transactions in private and anonymously. It's no ones business what I do with my money including governments. I have always felt that way. Time will tell wether Monero's ring signatures and other privacy features hold up. But for now that is where I park some of my assets.
It's privacy. Money laundering is a fake crime and propaganda by governments with prosecutors unable to find real crime.

It's as bad as calling copyright infringement "theft" or even "piracy", though the later term has been pretty watered down. Or how banks push the idea of "Identity theft" as if someone stole your identity versus the bank failing to verify your identity.

We don't call encryption "information laundering" and niether should simple financial privacy have any negative term.
1 or 2 uops, 1 or 2 cycles (depending on data size). So quite fast. There's also the newish MOVBE (load/store big endian), which currently performs fairly similarly to MOV + BSWAP per Agner, but could be made into a single uop in the future.
What if the leaders that we learned about in history class were cats?
>First, none of the prominent ones are genuine religious scholars, historians of religion, or cultural anthropologists who can, for instance, examine the cultural, historical, literary, or linguistic contexts in which the varying parts of the Bible were written to provide an explanation of why fundamentalist biblical literalists are, well, mistaken and ignorant.

Appeal to authority. Sam Harris's academic credentials aren't enough, he needs a Theology degree as well? Please.

>These are the skeptics who are worth paying attention to.

Please, tell me more about who I should pay attention to and who I shouldn't. Why are "anarchists" always so authoritarian?

>If so, only the most morally depraved will deliver solemn lectures to her about the falsity of her beliefs.

I'm done. What a shit article, from 2012 nonetheless and linking to a 404'd MySpace page. Why is this even here?
DOCUMERICA: Images of America in Crisis in the 1970s
I am skeptical about this. If it were possible, would many programmers not do this ?

Moreover, the OP lives in Pakistan not the US
No. Awareness of the realities of the world does not count as vile.

Whether or not humans should be more empathetic or less violent or whatever else, it is absurd to call humans worse than other animals simply because humans happen to be smart and aware.

Or alternatively pigs are terrible animals because they're smarter than average and happy to kill other animals (including humans).
IOW: we want to be so idealogically pure, we will disdain anyone who isn't as pure as we are.

The holier-than-thou elitism showcased there really makes them look like kooks.
I'm in the rat race for better grades and projects leading to better jobs. I feel like I'm living just for myself, my parents and maybe 2 children down the line. That seems kind of selfish and boring though, to spend all your waking time to keep 4-5 people happy who would probably be happy anyway. I wish I had a mentor or a vision to motivate me to maybe work for climate change or inequality.
Good for property owners

Bad for renters
I didn't even know DSL was still around
Doesn't it seem though that politics is a deadlock, with nations playing a game of chicken that has no winner? It's a case of the tragedy of the commons. No power broker is going to sacrifice their economy or political backers enough to make a difference, as there would always be someone else with a more short term view take advantage of their temporary weakness.

It seems that there is no feasible solution other than technical, however unlikely a technical solution is.
I primarily use Python, C++ and Rust these days and I would certainly moan about having to pick up JavaScript.
This is irrational.

Not that I expect the courts to be rational anymore.

Anyone should be able to block (and unblock) anyone they like on social media.
Belief is a hell of a drug.
Stanford researchers develop a new type of soft, growing robot
How soon is that day when elliptic curve cryptography will be broken? AFAIK RSA is still mostly unbroken and it has been decades. EC could last 50 years or 500 years, right?

And if one were to, say, take some transparent ZEC, send it to an invisible location, then take it out to a transparent location and do the same again to a third transparent location (to then convert to bitcoin or whatever)... EC would have to be totally completely broken to figure out the private keys of all three transparent addresses (not just weak in the sense of $1B of GPUs can reverse find one key in 6 months). And still you don't know who those addresses belong to (and haven't broken the invisible part to know where the coins that went to the second and third address came from), right?
If you add spaces around your (single) asterix, hn won't interpret it as signalling itallics: * itallics * .
Interesting question on "who is the audience of the New
Atheists"?

I suspect, (at least partially), it is those who grew up religious and have since "thrown off the shackles", and are looking for validation/confirmation that they made the right choice. And, who hope to convince others to do the same.

As they say, some of the most fervent anti-smokers are those who used to smoke themselves...
10000 lines might not be enough. I'm not sure that it's possible to determine whether something is a valid email address other than trying to send mail to it. If you haven't read the RFCs, they're pretty much a nightmare. The HTML5 spec has this little gem:

> This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for e-mail addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the "@" character), too vague (after the "@" character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.[0]

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#e-mail-state-(type=em...
Other than some syntax similarity, no
The money laundering statutes are so broad that you are a felon under them if you take money out of your savings and put it in your checking in order to make your credit card payment one month. Even if all three are at the same bank and none of the money is the result of a criminal activity.
It looks like DSL died 9 years ago due to some infighting

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/static/act-ST/f-4/t-20537.1.ht...

Doesn't seem to have much activity since then.
So if we've decided an animal is dumb or insensitive, it's fine?

Based on what scale? Are cows dumb enough? What about chickens? Goldfish can be trained to swim through obstacle courses, so are they too smart?
We've been hearing about it since forever.
Hence why the commenter you're replying to supports single payer healthcare, to address mental health issues and addiction.

And having affordable housing obviously creates some stability in a person's life.
The problem is that the economical background of our society is based on exploiting all resources and pushing the limits of the society itself (both with high reproduction rates and in mass production of goods).

If we want to change the climate situation, we first need to change the whole economic system and related political measures.
Or Signal
Well, I'll be dipped in shit !
<bracing for downvotes>
It seems to be about both taxes and making yourself not traceable to a crime (or the latter is a side effect of the former, since making money appear legitimately earned will of course unlink it from any crimes as a side effect/prerequisite).

Look at the definition here and tell me it doesn't sounds like a mixer: https://www.fincen.gov/history-anti-money-laundering-laws

Similarly there can be unusually high tax (like the 75% in Poland) on undocumented income but if that money could also be traced to a bank heist or drug deal as well you would be in much more trouble than just that tax.

As for USA's (un)usually far legal reach, strong extradition agreements, etc. - that can be up for debate. But money laundering itself (especially when starting with stolen funds) is hardly legal anywhere and mixers seem to fit the definition of laundering at a glance if you consider Bitcoin a currency, it's typical case of law not catching up with the technology and legacy laws being reused instead.
I've done it all, from freelancing to startups to starting a cafe.

What consistently worked for me is teaching, in hours worked, risk/repeatability, and overall time (3 months).

The cafe brought me that kind of sales in about 10 weeks, but after factoring all the other costs, the income was lower than an average salary.

Startups are very slow to set up. Something with 5%-10% margin would be faster to set up - get a product, hack together an online shop, drop some money on Google ads. But when you look at profitability it could take way more than a year for that kind of money. Cafes are faster.

A startup with 90% profit margin would bring in the income much faster, but it may take a very long time to build such a thing, easily 3+ months.

Freelancing is good. A fixed price project would pay that well in about 1 month if you're good and reputable. I've been offered about 4 projects crossing the $10k mark, but all of them failed for some reason (mostly miscommunication).

A beginner freelancer might make about $25-$50 an hour.

But with similar experience, you might get about $50-$75 an hour teaching bootcamps or individuals.

The reasoning being that most people who hire freelancers instead of in house programmers are broke startups or don't have tech as their core. The price for freelance coding is also pegged against people all over the world. So some lady in India or Indonesia would be equally happy making 5x less. With teaching, your competitors are geographically limited.

Also, programming is very tiring work and teaching not so much. So you can put in many more hours and it's more suitable for someone working full time.
Jerry's a great guy and Coin Center is the EFF of crypto. Everyone should send them some coins.
he has a theory about what he thinks happened.

But these cameras have a 30 second buffer, and are always recording to that buffer. The buffer is stored when the start button is pressed. That is how he got caught.

So if your camera is off, and you found a stash of drugs. Just press the start button. It'll record you finding the stash 30 seconds earlier.

That's actually why that button exists. So officers have a recording when it's needed unexpectedly.
Exactly. There is huge difference between a-religious but open to becoming religious if the right circumstances happen, and a-religious and inoculated against the idea of religion.
What trouble did you run into with JSON? I just make Jackson objects as data classes and I'm done with it. Mucking with ObjectNode/ArrayNode is a bit annoying but not too bad, especially when you can map and collect.

Was gonna say what you did about testing, but you have it, so, yeah. ;)
Am I the only one who gets a bit ticked off when seeing the axis not cross at the origin ?
Lula continua na liderança em pesquisa eleitoral para 2018
It only covers two types of solutions, reducing carbon emissions and carbon sequestration. What about more extreme or dangerous solutions such as weather manipulation and reflecting solar energy through materials in orbit?
What is the actual source of this? Hiw do I verify this really came from NC?
Google has to deal with some manufacturing issues related to their phones and tablets, but does not entirely depend on China for manufacturing.

Apple is overly-dependent upon Chinese manufacturing to have hardware at all. Leaves them beholden to Chinese rules, whereas, if they had manufactured elsewhere, China would have to deal with demand for a needed foreign product.

Now, however, if Apple pulled out, they would leave all that manufacturing expertise behind, and would face a lack of skilled labor elsewhere that they largely caused in the first place.

So, yes, ethics and money clash yet again, as money was designed to make happen. If they didn't pay people, a lot of dirty work wouldn't happen, and a lot of goods would be unavailable as a result.

If you tweet about ethics on a computer, chances are, that computer's hardware makes you complicit.

Yes, me too...
Or you lose because you lose fair and square. But you're right, either way you can't win.
You don't, as a rich person, want to have all your assets in a single jurisdiction. You want to spread them as far as possible, for multiple reasons, and for this you need a cheap transfer way:

- resilience against political "changes" (esp. China, Russia); money that is under foreign, unaffiliated regulatory regime cannot be seized by authorities at home

- taxes: you want to secure your cash/assets from sudden taxes on property/equity

- resilience against a bank going literally bankrupt. this happened in the financial crisis, even in the EU, and one bank's customers IIRC lost everything above 100.000 € on their accounts.

Also, if you run an international business with regional offices or such, you don't want to spend huge amounts of both time and money when transferring company funds or buying machinery from vendors in other jurisdictions.