skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happened to the subscription service? I tried giving them money--multiple times--and it seemed like SC would forget my subscription after a few months each time. I eventually gave up.
Where have you got those numbers from?
Maybe it's An American Thing, but as I grew up and participated in school sports, our coaches often told us to "hustle" -- I don't think they intended for us to defraud or swindle anyone, or to break any laws.
Molten salt is one of the standard solar reservoir techniques. In fact there is such a system already deployed in California today in Crescent Dunes. It burns natural gas to keep the salt molten when there isn't adequate solar resource. There are some in operation in Spain as well.

It's frustrating when some reporter writes an article about one of these companies with great PR (Google, FB, Apple, Tesla et al) writing that since the reporter's never heard of this before (or of a web search either, apparently) that the company must have come up with something amazingly new.

Yes, google could cut the marginal cost of storage, but the economics of thermal storage make sense in thermal plants, not direct grid storage (I worked in thermal storage myself, though using a different technology). This is the big point, and as cheap PV has driven funding for thermal plants away it's hard to see hw this can fit in. That should have been the thrust of the article instead of breathless boosterism, especially for a magazine ostensibly aimed at the finance industry.
There is massive iPad growth in the small business sector. If you walk into a restaurant these days, it's pretty common to see three or four iPads sitting on the counter. Seems like every service like Amazon Prime Now or GrubHub requires its own iPad.

Daycares are also big consumers of iPads that allow parents to see pictures of their kids at school.

Many small businesses are now using Square to accept payments, which requires an iPad at every cash register.

Technically, for all or most of these purposes, an Android tablet would work equally well. But people still think "iPad" when a tablet is required.
So, I don't disagree with that. What I disagree with is the characterization of the machine as doing any of that. "[H]ad simply modified human language for the purposes of more efficient interaction" anthropomorphizes the hell out of the machine, and confuses the issue. The machines don't understand English or any other human language and weren't modifying it to any sort of purpose. The machines were given a training corpus and made to communicate between agents and something fell out, and the exact manner of it was about as intentional as an apple falling out of a tree intends to hit this branch or that branch on the way down.
Integrating something like https://nodesecurity.io/opensource or https://snyk.io into you're CI process will help flag issues you may want to know about if they are disclosed / discovered.

And yes, I get the irony of adding another dependency to help with the security mess caused by the node ecosystem's bent towards external untrusted / unverified dependencies.
That's still a civil war. If the fork doesn't get/stay strong you think this will go away?

It's just a strategy. Granted, it's a good one.
On the other hand, it'd be helpful if a passive fund screened stocks to exclude ones that didn't meet criteria for being investible. E.g. if a stock is obviously a scam, it would be rational to not invest in it.

Passive funds tend to track indices, so the responsibility of deciding what stocks are investible seems to be done by the folks who maintain the index.

This is what appears to be happening here: index maintainers are unimpressed with stock, stock is excluded from index, passive funds that track index won't invest in stock
Calling it 'weak' is giving it too much consideration. The only sensible argument against larger blocks is that they boost mining centralization because larger blocks may take more time to propagate. Which may be true but it requires 1GB+ blocks. 10Gbps connection isn't a noticeable cost item for a serious mining operation, which means latency for a 1MB block and a 1GB one should be almost identical.

That's it. Remember that decentralization in bitcoin concerns miners, and miners only. 'Nodes' in the whitepaper are synonymous with miners.

Non-mining wallets need to have enough bandwidth to download blocks from miners as they appear. For 1GB blocks 20Mbps is enough. Which means a full verifying wallet for 1GB blocks is practical on a LTE connection.

Storage is also a non-problem with utxo commitments.
The other genius part was doing this today, when the small-blockers and segwit proponents already had marketed this day for their supposed "USAF" - the anti-miner consensus-by-amount-of-nodes change.

Had this fork been done months before, not many would have noticed or cared. Well played.
> And how many Fukushimas, Chernobyls and Three Mile Islands are we prepared to endure until we actually reach this hypothetical point in human history?

Why are you listing TMI alongside actual nuclear disasters?

There was a reactor meltdown. Containment worked exactly as expected. Not a single person died. If we held the rest of the energy generation industry to such a standard, we'd be living in caves and banging rocks together for warmth.
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Really? I've never heard that before. I'd guess it would be bigger if anything.

Any idea why that is?
The PayPal form also involved redirecting all your users over to PayPal. Stripe has always integrated into your site/service which is part of what made that form so nifty.
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Do you have any better resources to claim that "GMO has turned out to be a bad experiment"? Not only does "gmo-awareness.com" not create any confidence for me, but the points in the link are about a chemical substance and not really an impact of the GMO seeds directly. Moreover, all the points listed seem to be common for most chemical pesticides or herbicides if not used in moderation
I still think it is...
You mean in the early to late 90s? Because advertising has been running the show at many levels since the early 2000s.

If you don't think regressing the internet back 20 years would be massively destructive... well, I can't help you.
The only one I've seen work at any kind of scale is anonymous peer-to-peer feedback where the company only sees aggregate numbers. You pick who rates you, but you have to pick X number from your direct group, X from groups you support, X from leaders, etc.

Doesn't help the company do anything actionable at an individual level, but does give you a more clear idea of how others see you. Which is more likely to feel actionable to you. Less threatening if there is real assurance that only you see the scores too.

Of course, you still need something for leaders so they can dole out whatever limited bonus or promotion opportunities, so it isn't a panacea.
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You're both right. There are two broad classes of exchange-traded products (ETPs): exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and exchange-traded notes (ETNs).

ETFs have a creation-redemption mechanism [1]. This keeps tracking error [2] low. It also forces ETFs to actually hold their component stocks.

Some clever financial engineers noticed they could approximate most of an index's performance with a few names and some clever trading. They issue ETNs. These are notes issued and backed by usually an investment bank that promise to pay interest in a way linked to an index. They have no requirement to hold the index's constituents.

[1] http://www.etf.com/etf-education-center/7540-what-is-the-etf...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_error
Wikipedia says:
80.0 for Coal

100.0 for Hydro

75 for Nuclear

18.0 for Wind

6.8 for PV Solar

I saw lower estimates for PV solar elsewhere hovering around 1.0 though, apparently the methods are controversial.

Either way, 6.8 is a still science experiment territory compared to other methods.
Opera 12 called and it's rotating in its grave. Unite was such an amazing feature. And notes were available in Opera even before I started using it. Opera, I miss you, it still hurts.
I think you misunderstand fundamentally, GP is saying that no matter the position of the current government there are absolute inalienable rights which is a common position to take (outlined in the founding of the US, for example) and that there is indeed a higher authority than government, morality/religion/philosophy/humanism. Some consider, e.g. the UN declaration of human rights to enumerate rights which can be violated by governments even though you cannot go to the UN for redress.

You are considering a 'right' to be defined as 'a thing the particular current government allows you to do' which is a great technical legal definition in service of blind unquestioning obedience to the powerful and is a nice clean enunciation of the universally rejected philosophical principle "might is right" but is actually the exact opposite of what most people mean when they refer to rights. The law (even highest law of the land) and its enforcers can violate your rights and you can defend your rights by refusing to obey unjust law, for example. The whole point of saying a right exists is to define what it means for a government to be evil or oppressive; to deny natural rights. To say rights are defined by what the government permits is to say no government can ever be evil or oppressive, and that it justifies itself by its power and nothing more, an idea we rejected hundreds of years ago as a race when we moved past the divine right of kings.
What I find odd about your reply, is that you downgrade C++, yet its really the only language that has sufficient operator overloading to do what the poster was requesting (transparent support without OO overhead).

AKA, its completely possible, and there are quite a number of C++ libraries that make vectors look like native types complete with long lists of global operator overloads for interaction with other base types. Generally these libraries are just thin wrappers around inline assembly or intel intrinsics for SSE/AVX and generally don't bring any form of OO syntax into the picture.

That said, even with C++ the libraries tend to fall down a bit when it comes to individual element operation/masking because the closest method is generally using array syntax for the elements which limits the operations to a single element in the vector at a time. Which means you end up with OO method calling syntax for element masking (or creative solutions with operator() )
NPM themselves recently launched a new package called npx [0] which will download and execute packages directly from the registry if you don't already have them installed. So if you make a simple typo like this:

npx crossenv foo

instead of

npx cross-env foo

you'd have got the malicious version.

[0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx
Fair, but the Segwit vs this is the current battle at least.

It's also the largest in a long while.
There are xenophobes that use the term HBV to push their own murky agenda. That’s wrong. But when women from e.g. Kurdistan report about HBV I believe that their stories are worth listening to and taking serious. If we want to do something about these issues we first need to understand them.
Good to hear. I'm sure there is a large group of developers sitting on the sidelines that check in from time to time hoping to be able to leave C behind.

Has anyone on the rust team tried reaching out to get input/contributions from companies who are heavily invested in the embedded world? I know xilinx pours a lot of effort into language research, they do seem like an very proprietary company though.
Even if you don't really want C on such a process there will be an emergent and unholy aliance between (1) a pointy-hair impulse within the manufucturer to have "programmable in C" on the feature list and (2) an empire-building impulse within the C standards writing ecosystem that wants to encompass every chip under the sun.
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The full phrase is "always be hustlin". That does have a certain context. Not necessarily fraud, but certainly cutting corners, winning at any cost, etc.

See Glengarry Glen Ross for something very similar.
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yep, when full (or when there are more than 1mb of unconfirmed tx) these chains function differently.

if it wasn't clear, I was writing that they are practically empty right now. at the time of writing.
From this[1] report:

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Setting aside the fact that Gmail hasn't even existed for 15 years[2], this underscores the need for users to backup their cloud-based email accounts. A few of the many options include MailStore Home for Windows[3], Horcrux for macOS[4], imap-backup[5] for *nix (or anything Ruby runs on apparently), and Gmvault[6] for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

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No, since they produced representative art (not abstract art as far as we can tell) they tried to make water watery and the sky sky-y.

Yes, since language reflects which paints we pick up, and you can see this from greek sculpture (the victorians didn't manage to get all the color off all the sculpture): their color choices were more garish than we would use today. In fact their color choices are closer to those of hound sculpture. And note that the bronze-age aryan invaders to India and Persia also invaded Greece at the same time...

In other words, "yes, but not as much as you might think"
Correct, and the big reason for that is it means you don't have to be PCI compliant since the card never touches your server, only stripes. That's why Stripe blew up, Paypal had no such offering for allowing you to use your own checkout form but not have to pass the card through your server.
That's pretty straight-forward.

Facebook views its mission as connecting people.

Other tech companies are heavily investing into hardware for the home including communications, along with various in-house services relating to AI, including Microsoft, Google, Sony, Amazon and Apple. That category will continue to rapidly expand, the products and services will get more and more powerful/capable. That hardware, such as the Echo, is a direct threat to Facebook's social monopoly, specifically because these devices will keep getting more powerful and keep reaching for nearby functions to assimilate. Those nearby functions will include numerous social & media aspects (two of Facebook's foundations now are images and video).

Why did Facebook aggressively target chat apps (WhatsApp, FB messenger) & photo apps (Instagram)? Because they were nearby functions to their core social product. It was very, very well understood that Instagram had the potential to expand into Facebook's territory, using images as the beachhead. Facebook is guaranteed to be concerned about the same concept at play with the devices being deployed into people's homes that are basically AI footholds. Today? No, today does not matter in that sense; this is all about the next 5, 10, 20 years and what these in-home devices will be capable of and what people will use them for.
> I've never used SideBarEnhancement. I assumed users knew it was related to Kite.

Considering how many posts you've made in this thread defending Kite, this seems like a major gap in your understanding. A simple ctrl-F of both the Github README and the PackageControl page show no mention of Kite.
> Can they catch an error in 200TB of proof?

Yes, you could either put an army of people on picking through the data, or write another software program that also picks through the data

In either case, we are talking about two different things. The initial discussion was about probabilistic theorems, which is the idea of throwing a bunch of tests at a problem and getting a sense of how likely it is that the theorem is correct vs going through the entire space of a problem through brute force.

Then somehow the discussion changed to whether people and computers can be trusted to not make mistakes when brute forcing the problem space, which is an entirely different subject from the topic of this post.
Irrelevant. The story is not about him.
> If not, what is the value of a non-voting share? Particularly for a company that doesn't pay dividends and doesn't have substantial material assets to sell in the event of liquidation (my impression is that this describes many or even most modern publicly traded companies)?

Why would a voting share in a firm without dividends or with no assets be worth anything? Voting just gives you input into a future course which will hopefully give the firm assets (from which it may or may not issue dividends), but the voting shareholders will presumably pursue that anyway, and if you don't have better ideas than they do on how to do that, your vote isn't actually netting you any additional value.

All stock is based on the (possibly expected future) value of a share of the net assets of the company. There is nothing else that could provide it value. Voting rights are just a way to have input on how the company will try to realize value and how and when it will distribute it to those entitled to it.
Here's the specific software being talked about:

> SPITBOL is, Shields says, a "quick and dirty" implementation of a 60s programming language called SNOBOL4, written by Robert Dewar. It's terse and to the point—28,000 lines of code altogether, half of which are comments—and is chiefly meant to manipulate text and symbols, and recognize patterns. While SNOBOL4 was seen at the time as powerful but slow, SPITBOL was built for speed.

Another implementation of SNOBOL4 which I'm familiar with which has also been maintained and made freely available under a simple permissive license is Phil Bunde's CSNOBOL4, based on the Macro SNOBOL4 from Bell Labs:

http://www.snobol4.org/csnobol4/curr/

Release 2.0 is from January 1, 2015.

He maintains a website with lots more information about SNOBOL and relatives:

http://www.snobol4.org/index.html
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I am not usually in the "if you have nothing to hide..." crowd, but this isn't some kid in Minnesota who downloaded a Metallica album. This is someone who created a business enterprise to circumvent US law. This is someone who pulled in tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars from this business. For a time this business was the single biggest source of pirated content in the world. All of this was done basically in the open. If this guy was an American citizen I doubt there would have been any resistance to getting warrants for this information. The slope would have to be very slippery for it to get to the level that the average American citizen would be the target of this type of investigation.
>>US secret security clearance

???

Maybe??