skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A blockchain isn't as much of a guarantee as you think it is. Maintaining an offline, physical-access-restricted backup of critical logs is arguably more secure than a blockchain which can be altered by an attacker controlling the majority of the blockchain's computational power.
Can you talk more about what data you used to build you AI
Depends what you're dealing with - plenty of things like cakes are weirdly cheaper for me to buy than to buy the ingredients for.

Preservation matters - the cutting up of vegetables for meal kits is a form of processing that reduces their shelf life, and therefore increases cost and waste.
Eh, if I'm deploying a cloud function, the server truly doesn't exist for me. It's more like a Web Worker running in a privileged environment. I'm ok with the name.
> - Trash day is once a week, because you can't have a garbage truck roaming the streets every morning waking everybody up.

While I agree with the rest of your points, "once a week" trash service is pretty standard in many areas. And if you have properly integrated mechanisms within buildings, even that might be more often than needed.
> And given that phones cost $10.00 why not?

Because most burner phones use 2G or maybe 3G, both significantly weaker than LTE.
> People who believe they are "right" but are unable or unwilling to defend that position with words ("the debate is over") should not be trusted, ever.

So what you're saying is the debate is over about the intentions of people saying the debate is over?
here are the new stuff:

Large file support - Improved performance for large files, no size limit on 64-bit machines.

64-bit Windows builds - Use your computer's full address space with the 64-bit builds.

Find in Markdown preview - Full search for Release Notes, Markdown preview, and Extensions.

Auto-indent, Emmet 2.0 on by default - Source code auto-indenting and new Emmet support.

Custom syntax highlighting - Easily adjust editor colors to your liking.

Terminal environment variables - Preconfigure the Integrated Terminal environment.

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Markdown preview plugins - Add styles, scripts or plug-ins to Markdown previews.

code.visualstudio.com updates - Tutorials for React, Angular and deploying Node.js to Azure.

Preview: Multi-root workspaces - Settings and debug configurations across multiple projects (Insiders build).

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Is it a big deal that a BTC can never be lost and later found?

On a long enough timeline, won't lost credentials result in BTC that are functionally permanently out of circulation?
> Anytime you make something cheaper, easier to use, more useful and/or more efficient you get an increase in usage.

This isn't inherently true. You only get an increase in usage if people want/need that usage but previously couldn't have it. (i.e, if there was already a shortage -- if we were severely undeserving the need previously, or a new undeserved need was discovered).

If there is no shortage already and/or no newly-discovered need for something, then making something cheaper or easier does not increase it's usage.

(This is the big common mistake nearly everyone makes when talking about "Induced Demand". If you don't understand that Induced Demand is really about critical shortages further up the chain, then you trap yourself into doing nothing under the false belief that any new capacity added will automatically "induce" a failure of the new system).
Work for companies that support remote work. You'll always have a private office.
Or just read ahead and figure out what you can and should not pipeline. When I see I need to cook rice for 20 mins I know that I can wait to chop the garnish
For an entire half-decade there have been payment processors that made it seamless for businesses to accept bitcoin and cash some or all of it out immediately if they wanted to.

If it takes a $100 million fund raise article for you to ask why everyone else isn't crazy, c'est la vie. People look for validation all manner of ways.

Coinbase also has merchant services that allow for immediate cash outs. This is probably one of cryptocurrency's smallest markets.
> You can use non-blockchain cryptography to guarantee that.

Not in the same way though. An attacker could still modify the transaction after-the-fact at both endpoints during or after reconciliation processes (sadly, most banking transactions still happen in batch and there's multiple reconciliation processes every day). They could hack the reconciliation process(es) to undo or modify transactions later in the same day or--depending on the banks in question--days later.

Then there's also the possibility of just changing balances at one end of the transaction (flat out) with no way for the 3rd party to perform the equivalent of double-entry accounting to verify that the amount received matches what was sent. Bank transfer reconciliation catches problems like this all the time and it's baffling to me (but apparently has legitimate causes).

A blockchain would completely negate any such attacks and make reconciliation pointless.
not everyone has the discipline to work in an office either. not sure the proportion is any different.
You could try the Aston Martin Bulldog, http://astonmartins.com/car/bulldog/
On the other hand, government funded resource for DARPA created the place we're speaking on now. You could say that created and entire multidimensional marketplace for business. I'm not sure it would have existed if it were purely down to commercials (take Gopher as an example)
If the funds went back to all employees equally then it’s a market-based solution.

This example is conflating the market for charity donations with parking. If I was going to donate $10k/month to charity anyway, I’d bid $5k a month on the parking (not sure how tax would work).
Well we won't get much further if you keep defining away the distinction I am trying to make.

It's illustrative to look at this form of definition when thinking about a boycott, which is an effort to discourage free speech.

"An effort to discourage free speech" is free speech.

"An effort to discourage tolerance" is tolerance. ("You must tolerate my intolerance!")

"An effort to discourage liberty" is liberty.

"An effort to discourage diversity" is diversity. (This is literally the form of argument that the manifesto author engaged in.)
I mean I could guess one way it'd fail - if they market it heavily to the PC gaming market, and their single threaded performance isn't as good at similar price points. There's still lot of workloads out there that can't take advantage of 4 threads, let alone 16/32+. I would assume they don't market it heavily to gaming, but it's like the second thing they mention on their main landing page, so... idk.
2016 was third consecutive year of record global warmth
Is that any better than a distributed/replicated traditional database?
If companies can't afford to give programmers their own offices, then they should just let them work remotely from their own private offices in their homes.
Why? Currencies existed prior to governments. What prevents that from happening in the future? Beyond that, the USD is just one of many mediums of exchange. What prevents the USD from becoming the next Deutsche Mark, French franc, or Spanish peseta? While I don't believe BTC is The One, calling it "the most absurd" shows a blatant ignorance of history, and hardly supports a notion of superior intelligence.
I use slack for those questions and, very rarely, a phone. Collaboration doesn't need to be in person.
One kink is that the raise would only be ~$180 after tax at typical Lyft employee tax rates and they wouldn't be able to deduct commuting expenses (unless they were over a certain level).
You should read my origin post, I wasn't talking about the top article, I was talking about the character of the discourse on HN.
You may love that conversation, but how many Americans are willing to give up their vehicles?

In America, the privately owned vehicle isn't just transportation, it's a status symbol. That's not going to change just because someone crunched some numbers.
Presumably it's not at an embassy as the activists are trying to keep a lower profile than someone who walks in the front door.
I've been using Tilix since it's copyright-infringing "Terminix" days as a replacement for Gnome terminal and really like it. While I do most things with it's keyboard shortcuts I sometimes like just mousing between panes and scrolling through history if I'm more reading than actively typing. Per session I use screen for session permanence and it works for me.
I feel anxious when anyone can see my screen. I should be able to visit HN without feeling guilty as long as I'm getting my work done, but when I'm facing a wall, it's almost paralyzing.
I guess it depends on which apps you use, but I consider myself a power user and I regularly drag files onto Kaleidoscope in my Dock to diff them, or I right-click Dock icons to quickly re-open recent files with a single mouse gesture. It's all pretty efficient.
I did read that part but I also went to the website and tried the service and could only find out how to do it via the pre-made templates.
I Get Called a Russian Bot 50 Times a Day
So that's why they refunded everyone after they got taken advantage of in the flash crash.

Maintaining confidence had greater consequences than not.

All about those user numbers, or attracting other people attempting to exploit the same glitch. Pretty efficient market in that regard.
It's worth noting that the last one came off the production line in October 2000; the later ones surviving isn't that much an accomplishment. (And yes, it may well be the case the majority of Minis produced had been scrapped before the last was one produced!)
I remember the IL buildings having almost exclusively single-occupant offices and cubicles throughout the 2000's. In the last few years you can't even find a parking spot out there. Maybe things will be better for you with people shuffled to the new hell building.
I generally hate open offices. I've worked in enough open space / half-height-cubie-space to detest them. In one case I refused a job (well, a transfer) because the other group was basically cheek-to-jowl and in a place with little ventilation (it smelled bad in there); I've done crappy working conditions in startups, but I refuse to do them in a multi-billion dollar corporation.

However, the ability to move your desk at will makes open space work well, assuming you have enough space to work with. If your desk is on wheels and your company lets you, you can just relocate: Find a quieter spot to work, or go sit next to a few people you're working closely with for a while.

But the combination of open offices and assigned seating is terrible. It feels like preschool. I prefer to be treated like an adult at work, not a child or a slave.
Well, "soon" is tomorrow August 11: "PSA: Legacy extensions disabled by default on Nightly": https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/dev-addons/2017-August/00...
The project is great! I think it needs to Machine Learning...
"Site won't load with cookies blocked."

curl -o x.htm http://nautil.us/issue/51/limits/how-information-got-re_invented

Retrieves full article. No cookies needed.

Open file://x.htm in browser of choice to read.

Optional: Remove javascript

sed -i '/./{/<script/,/<\/script/d;}' x.htm
I read the entire recipe through once to get a feel for what I must do before cooking and what I can delay. This hasn't proven to be an issue for me. Even if you just make it as-written, you're killing what, an extra 5-10 minutes? I pour a nice glass of wine or a beer and turn the cooking into a fun experience instead of viewing it as a waste of time.
> OpenLTE networks were tricking phones into attaching to them and the most disturbing thing I saw of that was middling of TLS

I am sure that many folks would be very interested in seeing any supporting data/captures. This is incredibly uncommon.
The PDF report this links to is more insightful than this blogspam. The "harassment" bullet points are pulled from p24-25.
Code conventions don't cover good algorithm design, good architecture, common implementation patterns, edge case coverage, etc.
I was just going to say, verbally Coco = Cocoa. Not that it matters all too much since they're in different spaces, but they could have come up with a different name, especially when you don't even have to use a real word.
I am illustrating use cases, not advocating - I think my excitement about the tech was poorly communicated as excitement for the chaos.

But the minute you realize the use case around privatization of global wealth / taxes and/or pyramiding you can begin to underwrite its probability.

I think mass adoption - tied to the use cases I illustrate - has a high probability because people act primarily in their self interests.

Crypto is pretty neatly aligned with self interest.

Until we devolve into total anarchy of course ;)
Isn't it up to proponents to prove that it does work? Rather than opponents needing to demonstrate that it produces negative results?
A blockchain does not offer that guarantee either. The shared consensus it achieves comes at the cost of occasionally discarding stuff.

The few protections it does offer against tampering can be achieved in a much simpler way for your scenario (signing)
There's quite a nice animation on the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive
They give you the option to mail the recyclables back to them for recycling, since they know many municipalities don't offer curbside service for recycling.
I highly recommend unique urls to pages containing generated logos, to easily share amongst colleagues.
Are you referring to a bug which was fixed prior to Defcon?
I agree with both of you.

In corporate environments that I've experienced, the otherwise very argumentative developers would never actually challenge Employee No. 9610 in their basic skills. There's a formal distance in every interaction, pros and cons.

But in the few startup environments (<15 people) the culture was much closer, and there's no way that they would not have been 'caught' very early on, probably even in the first interview.
Tangential, but I like it. Have an upvote.
Analysis of all products sold on Shopify
Automating Your Next Data Science Project?
What makes you file it as click bait, exactly? I thought the headline gave me a very clear idea of what the article's contents would be. How would you improve it?

Edit: Wait, the actual article says secret and on HN it says chemical. Hmm.
While I haven't had any real life interactions with these, I can think of a couple scenarios where it might make sense:

- Your company handles dangerous or highly regulated materials (prescription drugs, hazardous materials, etc.) and you are required to have controls in place to monitor your supply chain.
- You deal with lots of vendors of questionable reputation, or have a history of graft, embezzlement, or other loss in your supply chain. For example, easily "misplaced" goods like cigarettes that need to be distributed to lots of retail locations.
> but how many Americans are willing to give up their vehicles?

That's not the question. Can you afford your own car if the cost efficiencies are no longer there because there are so many fewer cars on the road?

How many people own their own Cessna versus buying tickets on Southwest? Even with a private pilot license, I would never consider owning a plane myself. Too expensive!
this fcc comment is so uninformed. getting rid of net neutrality will make service way better because you will be able to pay for a line with prioritized access for video conferencing and remote presence. net neutrality is what makes it impossible for individuals with a public isp connection to get the same quality as corporations with their own private networks.
Startup investing requires willingness to take risks with an unknown future.
There's a lesson in there about how AWS makes a crisp $10m dollar bill for the richest man in the world every day.
Large file support is a big one. I had to use different editors to open big log/sql files. Now I managed to open 280 MB SQL file without problems. It did take 15 seconds to open, but didn't hang the UI and after that time it worked perfectly fine. I wonder if it would be even faster if minimap was disabled.
Absolutely! We partner with a few API providers who are experts at building the logic that drives the symptom checker, and then build our own layer on top of that to make it as user friendly as possible.

As for how the AI itself specifically works, given the data it has on the stated symptoms (Fever, Sore Throat, Chills, etc), it has based on prior data a best guess of the top conditions correlated with those symptoms.

Then, it asks a question that can help inform its calculations, which has simple boolean answers (True this symptom exists, False it does not exist). Then, the ranking of conditions updates, and the API responds with the next symptom it is curious about to drive towards a smarter diagnosis.

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Uber's VP of Operations Resigns
I had the exact same experience. I thought the main selling point of these services was to save time, but I never felt I was saving time. And the amount of dishes and pans I had to clean up after was obnoxious.

If someone can make a service that focuses on using a single pan/dish per meal, I'm interested.
> It seems like a bit of cloak & dagger tomfoolery where the blockchain is just being implemented behind-the-scenes on a specified collection of servers

The key is who is running that "specified collection of servers". If they're all yours, then yeah, there's no advantage to just running your own sql-ish cluster.

However, what if now your p2p miner pool includes a few machines run by your regulator? Yes, your business logic endpoint nodes are participating in a one-way fashion, but their transactions are now being automatically logged by the regulator (regulator doesn't need to know what the underlying business logic is, just that the reportable transaction results are being logged in the blockchain they're part of). Something like a third of financial firms' business is around reporting requirements.

Or consider a large supply chain... again the miners aren't just one company, it's everyone in the supply web or the consortium. Allows for coordination without necessarily being open to the public.
The exterior makes no sense, it's like a kid building a lego car. The interior is pretty rad though.
Non bi-symmetric&quadrupedal animals usually make b-movies or enemies in horror genre.
I am also interested in life forms in other quark/lepton/ muon sorts in the current universe if possible.

I m a firm believer that non-natural, non-random life forms will dominate the space exploration including robots, augmented humans, bio-robo hybrids and Supra and sub swarms of those.
vscode is great but code folding is still a mess. Just yesterday I lost about a half an hour of work because I cut and pasted some folded code and it mangled a completely different portion of the document.
If there's one group that deserves to raise a ton of money through an ICO, it's the developers behind IPFS.

I wish Open Whisper Systems would do one, too, for a distributed Signal app of sorts.
McDonald's in the Seattle area is pushing UberEats really hard.

I just can't see paying a delivery fee for McDonald's
Can you elaborate on how that is going to happen? Not trying to flame, I can see a world where people use BTC for everything, but I am confused at how that will happen with current valuation.

BTC is worth thousands of dollars, so if everyone starts using BTC will people pay irrational fractions of BTC for bread and milk at the supermarket? will there be some adjustment? How will other entities handle conversion and exchange? Will the general population have some compulsatory event to liquidate their own bank accounts into BTC funds?

Could this change asset valuation worldwide(Real estate, investment funds, etc)? If no government entity mediates currency value and printing can they tax your earnings if companies pay through some decentralized medium? What happens when nobody is paying taxes?

How about other cryptocurrencies, is there some kind of zero-sum game race to the top going on? Can they co-exist in the long term purist scenario?

Some of these questions are probably extremely stupid as I have little financial and economics knowledge and I am almost illiterate when it comes to Bitcoin, and I don't know how it works for the average joe if this purist scenario becomes true.
I don't get this bit from the linked article:<blockquote>"Google has denied the charges, arguing that it doesn’t have a gender gap in pay, but has declined to share full salary information with the government."</blockquote>Doesn't the government have that data already? The IRS is part of "the government", isn't it?
Bitpay was cashing to fiat from unconfirmed bitcoin tx's? SMH

If its a bitpay to bitpay tx its all internal and likely didnt actually touch the bitcoin blockchain.
Yea, downvote buttons are a massive detriment to discussion on social media. The comment isn't hidden for me, and it wasn't light grey when I replied. HN is a little better in that they are more sparsely used, but it can still be abused. Same with mass reports on Facebook, same with downvotes on Youtube. That button makes bubbles.
Here I thought this was going to be about someone having implemented my idea.

Basically, a fund you can donate to that then looks for lawsuits against the airlines to underwrite Peter Thiel/Gawker/Hulk Hogan style.
What did you have a look at? The article doesn't link to the study, so I'm going to just go off of questions that the article left me with.

First of all, what period did they look at, how many they expected to die, and how many of those did die. 1200 people sounds like a lot, but if their model said that 2.5 people should have died but 9 actually did, your results are extreme but the p-value isn't very high.

Further, do we trust the model that they had for how many should have died? They say what they did. But there are a lot of ways to tweak such a model, and p-hacking is naturally going to lead them to tweak it in ways that make the results look more significant.

Next, even if all of this is true, what is cause versus effect. Are people using marijuana to deal with life stress? If so, is the stress the real risk factor here?

There are a lot of things that can go wrong in a study, and most published studies are wrong. Until I see the methodology checked and the result replicated with a high reported p-value, I'm not trusting this study. Not because I don't like the outcome, but because that's simply how unreliable this type of science is.
And not one of those villains ever thought to trap the button. Pull to disarm, push to receive flashbang.
We have team offices at Smarkets.
>> The war on drugs is over. Drugs won.

I'd say they're winning, and will almost certainly continue to. I really wish, for many reasons, we could move that to past tense like you did.
I have a Ryzen 1700 in the desktop I built at new job, it's performance per £ is simply staggering.

It's the first time since I got my first i5 (2500K) from an AMD64-3000 I've genuinely been staggered by performance and the desktop at my previous job was an OC'd 3570K.

Frankly the Ryzen 1700 is incredible, so much so I'm already planning on building a similar machine for home.

All that said though I'm also really impressed with the i7-7700K in the new laptop, the amount of processing power intel has shoved into a laptop is impressive as well.

Competition is good, it will be interesting to see what the mobile Ryzen's are capable off.
Heavy virtualisation, running complex infrastructures within minikube, loads of data processing for customers. Also occasional hardware synthesis and video editing (but not professionally)