skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of these things are no different than holding large amounts of normal cash(of any currency really) or something such as gold, with the exception of their being a ledger of all trades that have occurred. Also bitcoins can certainly be seized by the government should they size control over any accounts you hold coins in, take your computers, ect (it's just harder to do so).

Also I think your missing the biggest use case, abet one that isn't frequently discussed, and it is that crypto currencies are by far the best digital payment solution when it comes to the time it takes for transactions to clear. There is no dispute process, and there is no waiting on the fed for their ACA system to clear your transactions. However, I think a lot of people prefer credit cards for cash back and to have the option to charge back, but certainly cryptos are better for sellers (and potentially will give discounts to those who use them in the future).
Mark, if you're reading this, I want to fight you live on FB video.
Exactly. I gave up on tiling window managers after I learnt to use tmux. I was really only using tiling for my terminals anyway. I had to rebind some tmux keys though to make it more i3 like.
"they won't start a hissy fit"?

That's not what their comments (in the leaked screenshots) would seem to indicate. On the contrary, they seem ready to go to great lengths, lengths harmful to their employer, to carry out their stated personal policies.

At virtually any ordinary company, they'd be fired for this.
Keep in mind, a celebrity did not have enough money to take on a shittly little website in a lawsuit, so even he had to find another backer.

That's one way of looking at it. Another way of looking at it is that the backer in question didn't give a shit about Hulk Hogan and his sex tape, beyond that lawsuit being a convenient stalking horse against a target that he already wanted to take out. (If this was just up to Hogan, he'd likely have taken one of the settlements offered, and almost certainly wouldn't have dropped the claim of "negligent infliction of emotional distress," a move whose only point was to prevent Gawker's insurance company from being able to cover any part of the damages.) In fact, the evidence strongly suggests that Thiel backed several lawsuits against Gawker, including one from the same yoyo who claims to have invented email that's suing Techdirt now. And Thiel won't say if he's bankrolling Ayyuadurai's lawsuit against Techdirt, which is being brought by the same attorney Thiel hired for Hogan. What a strange coincidence!

Celebrity rags being sued isn't a precedent; having a billionaire fund other people's lawsuits until he finds one that sticks is. And there's a small but non-zero chance that the lawsuit we're talking about right now is one of those lawsuits, and unlike the Hogan case, the plaintiff is clearly in the wrong. Journalists, and I won't put the snide air quotes around the word, aren't that worried about the "if you publish somebody's leaked sex tape you can get sued for it" part of this matter. They're worried about the other part.
You seem to be using a slightly tweaked CTC-based architecture built in tensorflow (possibly with Baidu's warp-ctc) but marketing it as some super-secret technology you invented in-house. I don't see any performance benchmarks or WER results we can compare with other APIs, but the pricing is the same. Surely character-based approach lets you add new words without pronunciations, but that process is not as flawless as you make it seem, especially when you lack language model data for new words. Now I'm still a bit confused why somebody would use AssemblyAI over other APIs given the same price. And FYI you are not using Kaldi / Sphinx because the guys behind them did not endorse CTC and are purposefully avoiding putting it in there, though for example Kaldi's chain models are also sequence based. There was also Eesen that tried to implement CTC on top of Kaldi. Sorry if this came off too harsh, but I am a little suspicious about the novelty of the approach here.
I would assume it's been standard practice since then to do regular scans for electromagnetic interference?
Bitcoin purists will say that, eventually, there is no "cash out" phase. 1 BTC = 1 BTC and who cares about what the dollar equivalent happens to be. Once everything is in BTC you will never exchange it for dollars.
90s Dumb Phones Essentially Had Siri (800-44-ANITA)
Sonic the Hedgehog's Rogue Fans Program Character's Revival
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>proven to be very adaptable

to conditions on Earth
What the hell. What possible good for Cuba could this do? (Don't answer that, none, it's time to accept the post-war era is here and you should get your power-game urges out in a video game)

However, I think you could make something to pinpoint high-pitch sounds relatively easily (< $200) and get a little more conclusive evidence.
This is likely a query issue; I've had many queries go wild & OOM, once fixed they work as you'd expect. There's also a config setting you can use to limit in seconds the amount of time a query can run before it's killed, very useful if you plan on running hand built queries on anything production (which you shouldn't be anyways ;-))
Which is why they want to use texting in my opinion. Social media is public, and when an angry customer uses it as a platform to complain, you have to handle the situation post-haste. The longer a mention goes publicly ignored, the worse it is.

Think about the other communication platforms. People hate calling, because it usually means waiting on hold to get connected. Email can suck, because it can be days before you get a response. Face-to-face can work, but airlines seem to train their desk agents in customer service warfare.

That leaves texting. It keeps customer out of the face of agents. It's private. Turnaround is faster than email, and you can lodge your complaint in the same amount of characters as a Tweet. "Why do a social media mention on Twitter when you can text us directly at your leisure?" It's the perfect way to subvert public shaming. Anything that can be handled in SMS can be handled through Twitter DMs after you call them out for your terrible experience.
Wasn't Austrian culture (it mentioned that Beethoven lived in Vienna) distinguishable from 'German' culture? I think I read about that in Nassim Taleb's Antifragile when talking about Gödel having to leave during the Nazi occupation and the negative affect Viennese culture incurred from being absorbed into Germany.
Please don't post unsubstantively about flamewar topics? This leads to generic flamewar tangents, the worst kind of subthread.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14976350 and marked it off-topic.
Most DoD and DoE jobs/contractors have personal offices. In fact, I've never seen one that doesn't at least have a cube-farm and most just have a personal office and then meeting rooms and then lab-space, depending on the job. Cubes are terrible in their own right, but it's better than an open office by a lot. At least you have somewhere to put pictures of your kids up at eye level.
At this point me and many of friends with Coinbase account came to conclusion that there is NONE. I don't believe a single person works in customer support.

I also heard that it is such a big issue that some California attorney is advertising heavily in top 5 states to gather traction for a class-action lawsuit regarding this problem. Unfortunately I haven't stumbled upon his advertisement yet, but wouldn't be surprised if judge will give it a green light.
Moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the Public Cloud
I'm largely in the same boat, but I use nvim instead. I already learned how to manage panes and tabs in vim so once the terminal mode came out I went ahead and gave a try switching.
> This attempt at summarizing the research is innumerate, disconnected from empirical data, and offensive.

Maybe you should elaborate on why it is innumerate and disconnected. As for calling it "offensive", that's entirely irrelevant. It outs you as somebody who is more interested in silencing people than debating them on more objective merits.

> Research on gender and IQ does not show that "there exist fewer females with high IQ"

Research does show that there exist fewer females at either ends of the distribution and more towards the center, compared to males.

http://www.aei.org/publication/statistical-tests-shows-great...

This does mean that there exist fewer female individuals with exceptionally high or exceptionally low IQs. That is indeed how statistics work.

If you want to contest that the research is flawed and that the result is wrong, do that. If we suppose the data is valid, then my conclusion is sound.

> And there are an enormous number of women in STEM: the concern is that there are few of them in computer science.

The broader concern is STEM, not just computer science. Sure, there's an enormous amount of women in STEM, there's also an enormous amount of men in STEM and if you put both in relation, the relative amount of women in STEM is quite low (compared to other fields).

The only real argument here is how much (if any) of that is due to causes that aren't social.
Chatham House Rule
If you have ever seen Ron D. Moore's Virtuality. They based the Phaeton off of Orion and it is pretty cool to see how it would work. They have a whole sequence of dropping the nukes behind the ship and the explosions pushing the massive pusher plate.
Yes. Sprinkle a bit of blockchain pixie dust on your servers and now all of the sudden you can secure your data and go paperless. It wasn't possible before this. Software was useless before blockchain. Blockchain invented computers.
Extending the chain of trust down to the source of information isn't exactly going to happen at a snap of a finger. If you trust TLS and trust what the server gives you then today that is a fine option, the server is signing a piece of information and giving it to you, this is no different from you signing a transaction and publishing that transaction to bitcoin the trust ends in just the same way in each case with the caveat of 'value' being created from a web service. An attacker gains access to either the producer of the transaction (client code or web service) or the keys to sign the transaction (tls or bitcoin private key). That said I agree that modern web services could much more easily be made to give an incorrect response.

I don't think your argument applies any differently to other cryptography, it all looks like jumping through hoops for no guaranteed safety. If you believe that the only thing that matters is 100% safety then you are going to be very disappointed with computer security in general.
The Tellme service; one much like the Anita number in the article is still running: 408-752-8052.
the 'Buy Now' button on the website tab doesn't seem to be working
Outsourcing Support the Right Way
I don't know about the day/night thing, but we could definitely get used to more gravity. When coming in for landing you could decelerate over the course of the last year or so at a slowly increasing rate to an effect of slightly more gravity than the planet you're landing on. You slowly grow accustomed to that and then when you land, you actually feel lighter on the surface of the planet.
They didn't 'switch' over. The KDBX 4 format introduces Argon2 as a possible KDF, in addition to AES-KDF which has been the dominant KDF in KeePass and its implementations.

Even the project with most contributors - KeePassXC, doesn't yet support KDBX 4, and work on it doesn't look like its moving either[1]. Most other implementations also don't support KDBX 4 format.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14634253
> Crypto could become the "people's" wealth vault, and undercut nations ability to tax & control markets by truly privatizing wealth. All it takes is MOST of us to decide.

You say that like its an admirable goal we should strive for. Taxes built the roads and bridges you drive on, the crystal-clean water that flows from your tap, the lines that your internet runs over, and the (admittedly glacial) bureaucracy that prevents your city, municipality, province and country from descending into unorganised chaos.
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14977061 and marked it off-topic.
The whole intentionally loud thing is a bit different than just differing tastes, as it is inflicted upon unrelated bystanders.
Exactly this - futures denoted in BTC will turn it into a real currency.

It requires buy in from many parties - suppliers of materials to manufacturers, manufacturers of products, merchants reselling products, etc.

The entire chain can be stabilized with futures so then bitcoin doesn't need to be converted immediately to another currency.
Good. The guy obviously didn't invent email, and the claim, on its face, doesn't need much comment to highlight how bizarre it is. Regardless of anyone's opinions about Gawker, Peter Thiel, the Koch group, etc., he shouldn't be allowed to abuse the legal system like this.
> I got sold on the rain

So sorry for no rain in last 54 days. ;)
This is great - the like / heart button is really slick, and I love how it doesn't get in the way at all. I've used pinboard and others in the past, and the (relatively) heavier bookmarking flow would often stop me from saving things as I didn't want to break my flow.

Excited to see where this ends up!
HN articles should be interesting or relevant.
mpweiher, you are correct! PSPDF is a pdfium lipstick. You can find its license in binary sdk-s or simply ask them. Included or derived work must be disclosed!

Also using the pdfium via Enscripten is not news (https://github.com/coolwanglu/PDFium.js is 3 years old).

On commercial, battle tested side PDFTron offers PDFNetJS & WebViewer for years https://blog.pdftron.com/2015/11/10/pdfnetjs-html5-pdf-viewe... (http://xodo.com/app is the demo referenced in the presentation).
Why on earth would it become a "home for crypto". The only reason I use them is because Kraken & Co requires full SSN to buy or sell; Coinbase doesn't. There is no network effect here. I don't buy/sell/keep with Coinbase because my friends or family does. The moment I found some other system that doesn't require my full SSN to be revealed, Im moving on as well.
Uber adds in-app messaging between riders and drivers
Remote isnt for everyone though. I much prefer to go into an office with coworkers.
If remote works for you, great, but for me, i get far more work done being in an office.
Your currency use cases sound fine to me. The wealth ones however look dangerous to me.

>Crypto could be the biggest store of value. The beautiful math behind bitcoin (and others) is self-limiting creating real scarcity. With mass adoption will come stability.

Currencies should never be used to store value. No one should hold large amounts of wealth in Euros or Dollars and almost no one does. You hold wealth in actual productive assets like land, stocks, bonds, etc. That we price these in Euros or Dollars is irrelevant and we can price them in Bitcoin just as well. Nothing the central banks that control fiat currencies do changes the underlying worth of these assets even if they can generate temporary valuation swings.

>Crypto could become the "people's" wealth vault, and undercut nations ability to tax & control markets by truly privatizing wealth. All it takes is MOST of us to decide.

This to me sounds even riskier. People shouldn't be going out and buying bitcoin to do any of this when there are plentiful cheap instruments out there to actually invest in assets. Go buy ETFs of broadly diversified asset classes (stocks and bonds would suffice but real estate ones also exist) and leave the innovation in crypto currencies to sort itself out.
Measuring the star wobble (i.e. doppler shift) doesn't give inclinations.
See here: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshit%20a...
I came to the same conclusion. I wound up making a small tmux lib for dwm-style pane management: https://github.com/saysjonathan/dwm.tmux
I’m hoping to fly to a clear-sky airport in the totality path, possibly SRB[0], and will be watching the weather as the day gets nearer to improve the odds of a good viewing.

I have heard Carbondale[1] may see more than 200 airplanes. With that much traffic, a control tower would be a good thing, but there aren’t a ton of Class D airports in the region.

[0]: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KSRB

[1]: http://www.airnav.com/airport/KMDH
It was obviously worded in a way that was easy to misunderstand.
Well, for a bank it can be super duper useful because it's "incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions" (the very definition of a blockchain). So if you're transferring money from one bank to another it makes it all but impossible to mess with that transaction in flight (man in the middle attacks, timing attacks, replay attacks, etc).

Another example would be trades: Most people think of trades as buying stocks and bonds in an open market but there's a lot of private/internal-to-an-organization markets too. The blockchain is an excellent way to facilitate such transactions.

Being in banking (where we're trying to take advantage of blockchain transactions) the objections from management so far have been surrounding the inability to "undo" a transaction. Even though you can just make the same transaction in reverse afterwards the price of whatever it was that you're trading could've changed resulting in some troublesome circumstances.

For it to work you have to negotiate contracts ahead of time to ensure that all parties participating understand the ramifications of such a system. Since the blockchain is new technology it will be difficult to get 3rd parties to sign of on such things.
I can validate this claim. I interviewed with them.
https://www.today.com/food/chocoholics-sour-new-hersheys-for...
Are you confusing digital with electronic? Ones and zeros carved into a tree are still a digital record. Digital refers to the fact the you operate on a set of discrete values, in contrast to a continuum of values. Medium is irrelevant.

Just to be clear. I do agree with the argument above that "cryptocurrency" is a much more fitting term than "digital currency".
Sure. And once we adapt to conditions on Planet X, we'll be hardly human.
The tactics Russian intelligence uses to harass foreign diplomats
Looks like a great idea, kind of like WebMD but it already knows about your insurer. I would use this.
I’ve never known software engineers to be a quiet or nice bunch — we love to argue and call stuff out as shit.

Update: I’m not saying this is a good thing, just an industry observation.
Sure, after Lyft renormalizes the prices they charge to customers by customers' salaries.
I agree that grouping by skin colour is statistically insignificant, just trying to re-phrase your title. Although, I still think that if the content underneath that question was about even more diverse workforce: in additional to blacks hiring Mexicans, Asians, Arabs etc. it would be acceptable if a company was targeting only blacks at the time.

> There is just some shit you can't say in a workplace without making some employees feel intimidated or harassed.

I get intimidated everyone tells me I should speak more with clients or be more social during lunches. I feel it's way more acceptable to demand "people skills" than "science skills" nowadays, the extrovert's regime - for that see my other comment.

I'm trying to actively learn people skills myself from some time (happy to receive recommendations) but it bugs me how often people with people skills tend not to have enough people skills to understand I don't have enough people skills and sometimes prefer to be alone or to text instead of speak, write a blog post instead of doing presentation, work from home instead from open space etc.
Show HN: Uptime utility for Windows
These 10 tech companies are doing the best at diversity, according to Comparably
Google News = Poop ... NewsPlank.com New Look :)
You can put a lower bound on both, but inclination introduces an unknown upper bound.
Show HN: Play rock-paper-scissors against your computer via webcam, neural nets
Actually this star is not in the Kepler Field, and it is also too bright for Kepler. Even most ground based telescopes looking for transits probably haven't bothered looking at it, due to its brightness.
It does. But it also precedes the failure of most technologies.
At the last couple places I've worked I've just stood on my desk and unscrewed the lights above my desk. Helps a lot with eye strain.
I worry that self-driving cars are going to be used as an excuse not to expand public transit, especially in the Bay Area.

By reducing people's sunk cost in cars, it may well free up the public mind to alternative forms of transportation. A lot of political inertia comes in the form of personal sunk costs. Also, self driving vehicles could themselves be used to expand public transit. IIRC, In Portland in the 90's, there was this thing called the "Custom Bus" where an late-night adapted bus route could be formed by people phoning in a request for a pickup within 2 miles of a normal bus route. Automated vehicles and networked computers could let us do an even better job of adaptive transportation.
Robots Are Ruining Your Driving Skills
Venus is 90 bar, Mars is 6 mbar. Maybe not from N=3 in our solar system.

I feel you on Star Trek. It always kills me that 90% of species in the quadrant is a bipedal humanoid, although they did address this in "The Chase" (TNG:S6E20). But I digress.
The idea that $200 matters that much to a European programmer is so bizarre to me. I just spent that on a decent lunch for two in SF...
But be careful about only mentioning the views of "Bitcoin purists." That sounds like a pretty extreme view, and will be dismissed as a straw man by the Bitcoin fans or optimists, who likely vastly outnumber the "purists."
Not really. Folks usually switch between LTE-only and airplane mode if they're trying to be cautious.
Try UberEATS or other alternatives. The delivery fee us only about $5
"a $180 actual cost. I was left with a light headed feeling, it's a lot of money for me"

people still play with fire. limit your losses, go with digital ocean or something for 5$/mo flat no matter what.
Think about any business transactions between enterprises like shown in the demo. Using enterprise application integration both enterprises can work with each other but what if an auditor comes in and now has to get audit reports from two systems. Instead of that block-chain or hyper-ledger [1] can be used to keep single source of truth.

[1] https://www.hyperledger.org/projects/sawtooth
Are we running out of words, or combinations of letters that are pronounceable? I swear to god this is like the third time I've seen someone release a new framework that had the same name as a different, already popular framework.

Sure, Apple's API is called Cocoa, but verbally is there really any difference?
I don't think they're going for bank, but the more-lucrative exchange model. "Bank" means ongoing fees but lots of risk. "Exchange" means low-risk transaction fees.
So "Any Language" that's either already supported or you're willing to wire up?

Granted, it's a small barrier to entry but still seems a bit misleading.
> With a range extension of 115 miles, that's not quite the distance I'd like to see.

It sounds like you want a Volt. 53-ish miles of zero-emission electrical driving. If your battery dies, the gas generator clicks on, and a single tank of gas gets you an extra 315+ miles at freeway speeds.

It's not perfect. But (IMHO) it's pretty close to the best of both worlds, since the i3 isn't allowed to have a real range extender.