skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO anonymity has never been Bitcoin's strength, and we must stop pretending that BTC is the right tool for transactions that need to be private. At best, Bitcoin is pseudonymous.

Other currencies have attempted to fix this problem, such as Zcash. But I think it will be hard to escape the volumes of metadata created through transactions on merchant websites. Ultimately, your spending habits and browser cookies will say more about you than your BTC address.
I like RadarScope (and pay for extra features and data feeds) but that's for live radar and not the local forecast.
> But the point is rather that the FBI probably doesn't need to respect the rules outside of the US.

That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works. They don't operate at all outside the US. :)
Beyond Meat gets name-checked in the article, but I want to emphasize that their burgers are pretty good: https://jakeseliger.com/2017/08/23/beyond-meat-burgers-are-p... and in my view underappreciated right now. If you've not tried them yet, you ought to.
Note that, for Linux, "IPC" is kind of loaded since it tends to refer to TCP/Unix sockets/signals/etc., which aren't used as much as IPC on a microkernel system. The right comparison would probably be with system calls overhead.

That table shows 0.09us (or 90ns) for a 1-way IPC; a cheap system call on my laptop (using https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tsuna/contextswitch/master... because I'm lazy) is about 59ns, 2-way.
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I'm not sure this isn't a "good thing", to some degree. Companies like Apple and Google offer rewards for people who find exploits in their software, but they have little incentive to raise the reward even as the exploits become more and more rare, and demand more time to find. This may give them the false impression that there are no more exploits, while in reality they just haven't incentivized people sufficiently. This company operates on the other side (of which I don't approve), but by pricing exploits more accurately (via supply and demand), it forces companies to raise their prices as well to compete.

In other words, this can be seen as part of the free market incentivizing people and companies to find and patch exploits, or for programmers to just write safer code in general.
I can see it working in lower cost-of-living markets. I was more intending to analyze the US market.
> Good luck. It's pretty difficult with the various capital controls in place to get lots of money out of the US without attracting attention.

No it isn't, buy Bitcoin, store coin in brain wallet, walk across any border.
> in the US you could imagine an insurance company that competed on lower premiums conditional upon certain gene edits being applied to covered children.

On one hand, this sounds entirely economically reasonable (and even humanitarian).

On the other hand, I fear this would inevitably produce unintended consequences that would shape our society in distopian, sci-fi/horror-flavored ways.

I have no idea how it would actually shake out. Maybe I'm just being anti-intellectual here.
Look nice. Could you put a filter at the top to select the language. I've spent several minutes trying to figure out which languages you teach.
Not sure why you phrased this so combatively. The whole point of having a discussion is to "allow" stuff like this. Discussions are usually pretty boring if everyone agrees, and the idea here seems to be getting people more engaged.
I use the same page -- well, the same graphs -- a few times a day (usually when trying to decide whether to ride the Harley or drive the truck). I can find out everything I want to know in just a few seconds.
Someone had a website (Now dead) dedicated to something like this.

Basically refit the USS Enterprise as a floating, mobile, disaster relief platform. Plenty of storage for food and supplies and disaster relief workers, desalniation for water and a nuclear reactor to supply power all wrapped into one 33 knot package.

http://web.archive.org/web/20170621182811/http://sendtheente...

Is a fascinating idea
I would have never imagined that a book about the utter obliteration of the world could be so hopeful.
Inferred lifetimes? A man can hope :).
Ask HN: Is there a service that consolidates various SaaS bills/invoicing?
Is there a service that acts as an intermediary or helps consolidate SaaS bills into a single monthly/annual invoice?

At my current company we use a myriad of SaaS products and getting a handle of the total total costs without looking at accounting software is hard. We use ~ 10 SaaS products. Sometimes we lose the credit card and then it's an even bigger nuisance to go and update all the services.
>>> Funds advised by Apax Partners (“Apax Funds”) have today announced a definitive agreement to acquire ThoughtWorks, Inc.

What does that mean? It's not literally Apax buying the company, but "Funds advised by Apax"... does that mean it's just the money that owns it, or child companies, or some sort of fancy tax/legal structure?
Anyone with insight on this I read years ago: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a11907/is-the...

I worry that that if Thorium reactors become very very common because they are thought to be very safe (e.g. behind your house common, as some have bragged), but they turn out to be dangerous...we will have a real problem.
> anything normal on a Linux that doesn't use a hacked up Freetype (ergo Ubuntu is out, so is RHEL/Centos and Fedora).

Your definition of "normal", "important" Linux _excludes_ Ubuntu, RHEL/CentOS, and Fedora?

I get your point about hacked up FreeType, but given that the three largest distributions on the planet are excluded from your list doesn't really gel.
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So you work hard to keep that feedback gain under '1' in an amplifier and over '1' in an oscillator.

Technically an amplifier with a feedback mechanism can become an oscillator and if you break the feedback loop in an oscillator you end up with 'just' an amplifier.

To make this even more interesting: a negative feedback element in an amplifier will greatly enhance the frequency response at the expense of amplification (and will vastly reduce the chances of that amplifier turning into an oscillator).
AWS lambda charges by the 1/10th of a GB/CPU/second.

I'd bet they could have seen significant cost savings on AWS by migrating to lambda, and gotten continuous scaling to boot.
Why would a guy living in Germany register an Austrian Domain?
What has been released after the previous "methane gun" events?
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, perhaps the word "pointless". But certainly there are administrators on the public school payroll who's job is ensuring regulatory compliance and collecting/filing the evidence of compliance, and that function did not exist years ago.

Now, whether or not that is "pointless" is a debatable. The laws were passed in the first place to cure some perceived ill. It's fair to have an ROI discussion around that.
What's the QEWD.js framework and how does it help with heavy CPU processing?
For the TLD? It wouldn't be the first time someone used a country TLD for the letters rather than the country it represents.
On a global level, you may be right -- but recessions and market forces strike nationally, and it's hard to tell an out-of-work coal miner that "Sorry, there are no factory jobs to fall back on because we gave them to some really poor people in Honduras and now they're doing great!"

A middle class that is relatively less wealthy than the upper class has less ability to soak up down markets. And down markets will always happen (I mean, it's cyclical) -- but the middle class in the US is leveraged up to its eyeballs just from trying to get to a middle-class lifestyle (college loans, medical bills, etc.) That means the slightest perturbation in the status quo sets off a chain reaction of default and money supply pinch.

I expect the next recession will trigger the student loan avalanche. There are students graduating with over $100k in debt -- and many like me who are well into lucrative careers without a ton in savings because so much of their income goes to servicing their student loans.
Carrot weather is my favorite. Nothing beats a weather app planning to kill you behind your back and being snarky about it.

It’s not the most detailed weather app, but certainly the funniest.
Roboto is already being loaded from google fonts (https://github.com/rsms/interface/blob/b91dd3af/docs/lab/ind...) However, I think Chrome might do something weird where it fails to actually load the font files when later the font family "Roboto" is requested (https://github.com/rsms/interface/blob/b91dd3af/docs/lab/ind...) — a common hack for this issue is to have an invisible element in the document that explicitly uses the font and forces the browser to load it at document-load time. Could try that hack here.

Anyhow, the version of Roboto served from google fonts is an older version and a subset of the "real" roboto, as can be fetched from roboto's source code repository. If you have Roboto installed locally, you probably have the more recent and more complete version installed and will likely want to compare with that (rather than what's on google fonts.)

Edit: https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/900484392472109056 points out that @import must be at the beginning of a style declaration. Website has been updated.
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I was just thinking, "Where the hell did that come from?"

Signed,

POSIX_ME_HARDER
No, these satellite connections have bad latency and VOIP traffic might be filtered out.
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That's a good question and so far it has been the most challenging thing to communicate this well, or, in a concise way. So, any feedback is welcome.

When an application sends transactional messages, software teams often integrate with some transactional email service (SendGrid, Mailgun, etc). However, these services primarily solve an infrastructure problem, i.e. the problem of not having to setup and look after your own SMTP server. These services typically don't solve a content problem. Many applications these days send both email and SMS (and if there is mobile app, also mobile push). Somehow we're totally OK with using any of the MailChimps of this world for promotional messages (email templates) but when it comes to our transactional messaging we're fine to just stick message text in our source code.

When a team grows, product people will want to have easy access to the message text, not just for marketing/promotional email, because they will want to tweak it constantly. In a way you can think of Postways as a message management system.

Onboarding users has been slow. One of the main problems I have run into is that when software guys look at this they say something like "Uh, I can build this is a weekend" (typical developer under-estimation) and business owners find it to technical and refer judgement to their lead dev.

From the users I do have it actually took a while for them to "get it", I had to spend quite a bit of time helping them to onboard but once they were in, the feedback was mostly along the lines of; of course, this makes total sense..

One last thing, I'm not competing with any of the existing transactional services. To use Postways you need to BYO your own infrastructure. Reasons, It wasn't a problem I wanted to solve and I figured most people already use some service for their transactional messaging, making it easier to onboard them. E.g. Postways fully supports SMTP integration, so if you're already using Mandrill, or what ever, you can just keep using that.
> Using maps/yelp/fandango/uber covers a majority of the functionality that a smartphone provides.

What? That's a minority of my use.

Saying that the comment is dishonest or disingenuous implies that you think there was an intent to deceive, and I don't think there was any such intention. I'd say that you're taking an unusually and unnecessarily rigid interpretation of what was said and possibly ascribing deception where none exists.

Humans are imprecise. Natural language is imprecise. What ever happened to allowing some leeway for imprecision and even inaccuracy in a casually-written piece of text?
"But this is what you'd expect from a DOE run by an oilman and climate change denier."

I assume you refer to Rick Perry. In point of fact the myth/reality portion of the page has been unchanged since at least September of 2015 [1], at which time Obama appointee Ernest Moniz was Secretary of Energy. Dr. Moniz has never denied the fact that the climate is changing, as far as I'm aware.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20150912221729/https://www.netl....
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If it is the word "pointless", I bet your parent used it as that's the phrase that's used in the submission title.
I think at this point if you aren't in a very constrained platform, it doesn't really make sense to use someone else's data structure implementations unless they at least support some kind of CPU parallelism. Preferably openmp or whatever suits the algorithm at hand.
Sea levels aren't the only source of trouble. Changing rainfall amounts for example would impact our ability to grow crops.

Yes, extinction seems unlikely. But the planet's ability to support the current population could easily be a casualty.
Regardless of tax policy having been reformed several times, tax revenue relative to GDP has steadily increased. The problem is that the money is spent on other things, not that it's not being collected.

http://www.usgovernmentrevenue.com/revenue_history
Apple has never been a company that serves everyone, hence the reason they have a only a minor market share. They care about aesthetics and ease of use - which is why there isn't the tractor equivalent of a smart phone in their lineup. Your shoulder use cases means you probably wouldn't buy a vehicle made by Apple, similar to how if you need X feature in a phone and Apple doesn't provide it you'd buy a suitable alternative.

Let's go backwards with this one: What are most road trips for? Commuting. Would Apple want to make a vehicle for all uses and conditions? Doubtful. Would Apple want to make a truck? Highly doubtful.

They only need to make a vehicle that covers a considerable number of (but not all) use cases. If it can get people to work, to a store, to a friends house, to a restaurant or bar then the number of people who would want one is considerable. It would probably be better suited to those living in cities, but that's still a lot of people who notably require something that doesn't take up much space as parking is at a premium. Better yet, the vehicle could park itself, return home when not needed, pick up the occupant on demand or even car-share the way Elon Musk predicts Tesla owners might lease their vehicles.
Yea the world's most powerful country doesn't need diplomats. China, EU and Russia's diplomats can make their wimpy negotiations between countries. We'll just let CEOs have free reign to make whatever real deals they want to.

In fact, we don't need any government at all. We just need to give corporations free rein, they always know what's best for all of us.
I love how highly, highly processed foods are suddenly A-OK to many people here once it's a fake meat product. Whatever happened to the concept of, "Eat real food?"

Full Ingredient List:

>Water, Textured Wheat Protein, Coconut Oil, Potato Protein, Natural Flavors, 2% or less of: Leghemoglobin (soy), Yeast Extract, Salt, Soy Protein Isolate, Konjac Gum, Xanthan Gum, Thiamin (Vitamin B1), Zinc, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Vitamin B12.

I shouldn't even have to post about "Textured Wheat Protein" but it's essentially another denatured protein, one that is completely doused in glyphosate right before harvest. That's the main ingredient of these "burgers."

Check out the chart on page two...

http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ITX_2013_06_04_Seneff.pdf

These "vegan" foods are nowhere near healthy.

Then there's Soy Protein Isolate:

>But high-temperature processing has the unfortunate side effect of so denaturing the other proteins in soy that they are rendered largely ineffective.23 That's why animals on soy feed need lysine supplements for normal growth.

>Nitrites, which are potent carcinogens, are formed during spray-drying, and a toxin called lysinoalanine is formed during alkaline processing.24 Numerous artificial flavorings, particularly MSG, are added to soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein products to mask their strong "beany" taste and to impart the flavor of meat.25

>In feeding experiments, the use of SPI increased requirements for vitamins E, K, D, and B12 and created deficiency symptoms of calcium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, copper, iron, and zinc.26 Phytic acid remaining in these soy products greatly inhibits zinc and iron absorption; test animals fed SPI develop enlarged organs, particularly the pancreas and thyroid gland, and increased deposition of fatty acids in the liver.27

http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm
Private equity manages funds, on behalf of LPs. Just the same as most VC funds. It's the same thing. Apax doesn't own the company, the fund does. Apax gets fees for the deployed capital and carry if the investment, upon exit, goes beyond a given return threshold.
Alaska has a lot of steep shorelines. You could have many "waterfront" homes that are in no danger from rising seas.
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Sure thing man.
1. https://medium.com/marketing-and-entrepreneurship/10-cold-em... - was on HN homepage
2. https://chatbotslife.com/how-i-got-100k-users-in-1-month-usi...
3. https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-you-can-land-a-6-figure-...
4. https://medium.com/personal-growth/how-to-use-angellist-to-g...
For those that are curious, as an early investor and advocate for clean meat, I wrote about my experience eating Memphis Meats' products and why their solution is so much better than convention meat production: https://medium.com/@sethbannon/i-just-ate-meat-for-the-first...
A lot of people are going to "cheer" this move but this is yet another anti-web move that Apple has made without regard to standards or how it will affect other areas of tech. Apple has a clear record of flouting standardized technologies in Safari like breaking iframe sizing in iOS mobile and not supporting many common APIs and is very opaque about whether or not they even view the web as a first class citizen. The code I work on almost has as many Safari hacks as we have IE hacks.

If Apple would stick to just making great hardware and products and follow the standards like other vendors do then I feel like the whole tech world would be better off.

Edit: Apparently I need to spell out in more detail my arguments because if read at surface level people only focus on AMP. This isn't about AMP. This is about sharing a link to something you are viewing. You are currently viewing the AMP page and that might look a certain way or even contain a certain type of graph that looks a certain way because it's static and fast to load. If you click Share and send this to a friend they will receive an entirely different page that might look different than what you were seeing. I don't think it's a good thing that we can no longer trust sharing a page with someone else. Now the ultimate destination is being edited behind the scenes without you knowing. It's a slippery slope that, like other things Apple has done, have possibly bad consequences in the future. The road to Hell is paved with good intentions after all.
I detest AMP and everything it stands for. I'd like to see this in Firefox.
I'm sure it tastes just fine, but at something like $16/lb for a hamburger substitute that puts it on the same price level as prime grade ribeye or tenderloin.

It's really unfortunate all the meat "alternatives" take the organic/healthy but huge premium approach as this makes it very inaccessible to your standard consumer. Maybe for 6+ figure earning HNers it's not an issue but for the majority of the country it is.
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Extremely unpopular opinion: Let's cut both the extra admin, and excess tenured professors. In fact, the entire tenure system should be completely upended. At my alma mater there were a lot of professors who didn't have enough students sign up for their classes, or their field of study was phased out, or reduced. Instead they sat around doing "research" and when they were forced to teach, quite a few openly expressed disdain for teaching.
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Any talks catching people's attention?
If you're talking about WildFire, it's not an antivirus product and isn't relevant to this conversation beyond establishing the provenance of the data I've shared with you.

If you're talking about something else, I've stated that antivirus detects around two-thirds of new malware on any given day. In case it wasn't already clear, two-thirds is terrible.

Your claim is far more extreme, though. You said "You're better off not using an antivirus". That's wrong. Antivirus won't keep you safe, but you're still safer with it than without it.
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I'm playing with the new(ish) C#/dotnet vector/SIMD support e.g. Vector<double>.Max() generates a vmaxpd instruction, whereas Math.Max() generates a method call.

That method is implemented like so:

if (val1 > val2)
{
return val1;
}
if (double.IsNaN(val1))
{
return val1;
}
return val2;

This appears to not have an optimized implementation in the CLR (the dotnet VM) and the presence of 'if' statements is likely the reason why this was not inlined. So I think the 20x speedup is genuine, it's because the baseline version is horribly slow!
There is quite a bit of technical documentation about our systems, and the code is supposed to be open-source (though a lot of it isn't publicly accessible as it should be). But I haven't written anything meant to be a high-level overview of how it works. I think I will try and do that in a few days and send you an email.

I have been joking about how we should build a "total sh*t array" out of old Dish/DirecTV antennas, so that we could explore the systems design without worrying too much about whether anything could be done with the data collected. This hasn't interested my coworkers that much :) There is an amateur radio astronomy society, and there are plans for how to build various levels of radio telescope, starting from ~$50 and an old Dish receiver and going up. And our open-skies policy means that you do not have to be a professional astronomer to use our instruments, although I only know of one or two amateurs that have proposed for time. (They did get it, though).

As a rough back-of-the-hand deal, we allow anybody who gets time to access about 25 MB/s of data. The correlator we have currently (WIDAR) can certainly output much more than that, up to gigabytes per second, but the rest of the infrastructure certainly can't keep up at that rate sustained. It's not unusual for an observation to top a few TB in size. ALMA data files are probably even larger on average.

We are already in the early design stage for a next-generation VLA, which will increase the number of antennas to about 300. At that point, we probably won't be able to keep correlated but unprocessed raw data, just because of the sheer size of it.
Good, that beats the heck out of a Youtube ELI5 or a slideshow of tweet-sized snippets. A 30-second skim suggests that the writing is of high enough quality to warrant a 10 minute read. Since it is all on one page, I can ctrl-S and read it on the bus. Buses are also good.
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Great news for customers in general. Making real "food" affordable.
Here the new stock:

InterCity/EuroCity: https://www.bahn.de/p/view/service/zug/fahrzeuge/ic_2.shtml

InterCityExpress 4 (to replace major InterCity routes, and minor InterCityExpress routes): http://www.deutschebahn.com/de/bahnwelt/start_ice4/das_proje...