skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hot diggity that's awesome dude. Was it hard to make? You strike me as ninja-on-the-stratosphere with something like this
> America does not hold a monopoly on freedom.

If you spend any real time exploring the concept of freedom and how to measure it, America is in fact the most free nation in the world.

That doesn't mean America holds a monopoly on freedom, it means America is setting the example that others follow, and will continue to until another nation offers it's citizens quantifiably more freedom than America does. And examining the current geo-political climates, that isn't going to happen anytime soon.
In my experience, USPS has been at least as reliable as FedEx and UPS. I've had more issues with those two (late shipments, delivery to wrong address, losing things in the mail) than I've had with USPS.

I've also been impressed with their physical locations. The workers are attentive and helpful (I don't mail letters very often; they have the answers to my many questions). This has been contrary to the stereotype of the post office being similar to the DMV.
Is blockchain really cheaper than centralised payment systems?
I've recently did a bit of calculations comparing Bitcoin and Paypal.

One of the most interesting thing that I found that Bitcoin transaction in average is much more expensive than Paypal transaction, 7 to 20 times now.

I think that it is very interesting, taking into account that cheap transaction is very often cited as a big benefit of blockchain technology.

To make it clear, the cost per transaction was calculated as revenue of system providers divided to number of transaction for the period of time.
For Bitcoin providers were minders, for Paypal - Paypal itself.
For the end of Q2 2017 I came to $2 for Paypal and $14 for Bitcoin. Now Bitcoin transaction is even more expensive, around $40.
Important to note that for miners I've calculated both direct transaction fee and mined new coin reward, I think that is the correct way. Even if we forget about new coins created, just transaction fee now is around $8.

More details with data sources and an infographic summary are available in my blog -

https://levashov.biz/paypal-vs-bitcoin-2017/

The question to community - do I miss something important? What other people think of it?
Instagram has never been a paid app.
Do you mean the URL shared or displayed in address bar?
Attitude can fall under the realm of Skills!
If the start-up is to monetize due to lack of privacy laws, then this regulation is specifically meant to prevent such companies.

If they are the middle man with no dependence on private information, then yes it will cost them to be compliant but it won't break their business model.
I absolutely agree there are some loose ends. That's why there were a lot of court cases about 10-15 years ago, mostly spearheaded by large corporations who were late to the game and suddenly realized they needed to protect their trademarks in the domain name market.

It's safe to say that it has not been settled yet. But it is in everyone's best interest to do our best to adhere to the intentions of the original creators.
Did anyone ever say that Bitcoin would be cheaper?

It's pretty well-known that things are more efficient if you can trust a centralized authority to maintain them. The point of Bitcoin is the decentralization, not efficiency in any way.
"intelligence" cough cough
The kernel you get is entirely up to the SoC vendor.

Snapdragon 820/821 ships with 3.18.
Snapdragon 830 ships with 4.4.
Snapdragon 830+1 will ship with 4.9

There's a huge amount of work involved in porting a chipset from one kernel version to another. While I'm sure Google _could_ do it, it's ultimately not worth their while - they'd probably lose support from Qualcomm, and if they hit any weird bugs they'd be on their own.
Well said.

I always thought of it as giving a platform or framework so, as you said, people didn't have to think about it. It's ready to go when a project is about to launch, etc. I also wholeheartedly agree about that w/ the more human processes (HR, onboarding, etc).

It was an interesting experience to learn from though my pushes for change and resulting frustrations are probably what ultimately lead to being laid off.
Nature "learns" by trial and error while humans have the capacity to reason about things. In the long run intellect will win (although in most cases we are far far from that point).
There was always a strong anti-semitic vibe in community who migrated from the middle east. But hey, no need to call it out- its part of there culture.
Like its part of pegidas culture to squash the left who was idiotic enough to welcome every radical conservative as long as he had exotic flair.
> Who in their right mind wants to write a front-end in C++ or Rust? By the time you get anything done, the web has changed and you're stuck with a pile of dated code that takes too much time and costs too much money to update.

This has been repeated again and again, but the proof that you are programming faster in JS than in Rust (or whatever language you want) is very lacking. At least, if you want to use your code longer than two days, because that's the time many of those "I just write it and it will work!" JS programs stop being readable. But even then I have my doubts. Sure, if you've never used a language before you will be slower, but that doesn't make the "JS can be programmed faster" assumption correct.
You do realize that everything is pretty much re-used and not new?

99.99% of all creation is Synthetic.

The other 0.01% is very rare and looks more like abstract art.
Until .NET Core provides support for many of the .NET Framework APIs still lacking from .NET Standard 2.0, many companies won't consider it "enterprise grade".

Examples on our case, WPF, WCF, ODP.NET drivers for ADO.NET.
I agree with your broader point but The Guardian is a consistently far-left, pro-large(r)-government publication, so it actually doesn't take much for them to publish something like this; the suggestion is right up their alley.
There is a big difference between cookie warning and GDPR. You could not op-out of cookie storage. You either used the service and accepted that they store cookies. Or you closed the tab and left.

GDPR prevents the companies from discontinuing service for users whom wish not to be tracked.
It depends greatly on your location. Mine is very bad, I've lost maybe 10 packages over the past few years or so. Thankfully Amazon has been kind, but I worry I may eventually raise a flag there, even though I tell them constantly my local usps is trash.

The people in my post office are extremely rude and about as "I don't care" or "not my problem" as you can imagine. To be fair, I've also seen some extremely rude customers in the past too. From what I see, they are also very understaffed and probably under paid, but then again they have godly benefits and job security.
Timely. Today is the last day it is permissible to mail not-more-than-24-hour-old pheasants, until April 1 2018.
Brute force. grep to find where the namedtuples are used in version control and in Python 2.7, 'git annotate' to find the last time the 'namedtuple' code was touched, then manually browse the github history view to search for when the code was added.

If a given function was in python2.7 then it was easier. I checked if the code used to be a tuple.
OnePlus ships the kernel that Qualcomm gives them. The BSP for Snapdragon 835 (aka msm8998) is based on 4.4
> would a zoologist ever recommend baby mammals receive any food other than their mother's milk to facilitate optimal development

If he is employed by Nestlé, yes.
> Google Maps has the data from 2011 on their maps, missing entire streets that have been added since.

I assume that's the one north-east of the city center (Google wants to send me to Ottendorf first). Hm, comparing Google Maps to Here maps, the two look pretty identical - here maps has a few more footpaths. Openstreetmap seems to agree.

> Actually, all that data is publicly available online, and the transit authority has a public REST API. Just not in the format Google demands.

Yeah, I wish. This is a highly shattered provider landscape, some provide no data at all (HNV), some provide some data (MVV), some provide data in an usable format against cash (Bahn after a certain, very low limit) ... some of it is real-time while other is "probably as good as a guess".
I guess the more interesting solution is power-user specific: it knows what you're focusing on/working on and shows the list of keyboard shortcuts relevant to your current activity. Debugging? Here are the pause, step, return, etc, shortcuts. Searching for text? Here's help for RegExp...
Not really, because there is still a hive nearby which they are protecting. You are a potential predator that they are trying to move on.

They might be a nuisance. Indeed, they might be a invasive and dangerous nuisance which we need to be exterminated, but that does not make them evil, and neither does it require glee to carry out that task. They are ants is all. They have, in evolutionary terms, found and developed a niche for themselves just as we have.
Power from transparent photovoltaics printed on the same sheet. And include some kind of graphene battery inside the sheet so it can also light at night.
This is to some extend implemented in Samsung's screen edge feature found on phones with curved screens (although it is not context aware by default):

http://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00047881/
They have some data here and a nice plot :)

http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=10675%20and%20will%....
Ethereum, on the other hand is alot cheaper.
Makes one wish there was a longterm planning organ in a democracy, who could veto on short term solutions.
Somehow adding a theme adds 15% to my productivity? Bollocks. I laughed at the "I travel inside my directories a lot" - midnight commander will blow this guys mind. I installed midnight commander, and increased my productivity 132.45%!
Using corn puffs for both buffering and sustenance, every animal friend should be happy on his journey.
In Java some of them are there, although the Unsafe package is not sanctioned, and marked to be replaced by something safer that can provide the same capabilities (e.g. VarHandles on Java 9).

As for the rest at least we can hope Java 10 brings them.

You missed a few C# goodies from 7.0 up to 8.0, coming from the experience with Midori.
Note, Here Maps doesn't seem Asia proof yet, just seems to use English everywhere.
The idea is that a user should not suffer detriment as a result of their decision to withhold consent. If you withhold the service as a result of a failure to provide consent then the user is likely to suffer a detriment.

However the above analysis really ignores free services where you are essentially paying with your data.

It is an ongoing question as to how to deal with these services in relation to GDPR.
To my mind privacy advocates ignore the fact that without giving companies the ability to use data, the services may not be available for free, a potential detriment in itself.
In User Manual video they connect to the device and it shows some info about it. The core is certainly what you guessed.

Model: TP-Link TL-MR3020 v1
Firmware: OpenWrt Barrier Breaker 14.07 / LuCI (0.12+svn-r10530)
Kernel: 3.10.49
What I find amazing is the amount of people who think nature will always DTRT. Take the laryngeal nerve of a giraffe or my myopia as examples.
Grandparent post didn't say anything about timeframe of civic government and even mentioned things like schooling that have a long time frame. Also assertion about DARPA supports a small logical induction, in that the U.S., which spends taxpayer money on DARPA, competes well with other nations.
To add a data point, my experience at several post offices has been terrible. Right in par with the DMV.

You don't know anger until a post office working starts sliding the security bars closed (at 4:30 pm) cutting the long line in half and telling the people that are on the wrong side that they will have to come back tomorrow.

And what the hell kind of service business closes at 4:30. Making it literally impossible for anyone with a day job to EVER pick up their package (that they should have delivered anyway but didn't because the carrier didn't want to look for the box in his truck and just tiptoed up to your door and stuck a note on it).

Luckily, most post offices stay open longer now. But I still see nothing but long lines and poor service when I have to go.
I just finished it during holiday, I loved the book.

A film based on it is on the way: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4795062/
Bio lab in Galveston raises concerns (2008)
>There is a market rate for work and that rate isn't limited by geographic location. It's your ability to sell which will get you that rate.

But for most programming jobs, developers are interchangeable and a big part of hiring a developer(remote or not) in developing countries is that you can pay a fraction of the salary you would be pay if you were hiring a dev in US/Europe. Hence this in essence is one of the major selling points.

What are the specific things would you say one can do to sell themselves at that rate keeping in mind the above mentioned point?
A part of me believes that academics fulfill the role of priests in ancient cultures. They have highly developed sophisticated incantations which are not intended to be meaningful but to build a facade of control and portray an illusion of almost prophetic insight to the general public.
> Getting into mailing list wars and trying to make everyone happy ensures you end up like Nokia - too late to matter and with no more money. That's not helpful to anyone.

Not arguing about the rest of your post, but the above is incorrect.

Nokia didn't go bust because they tried to cooperate with the rest of the world. You can be cooperative and still say no to people.

If I'm not mistaken Android was developed in submerged mode for a long time, for business reasons.
Amazing graphics from the 1950s New York Times archive
Right. So let's say we have file A, which is an innocuous image file, and file A', which is a malicious image file, where MD5(A) == MD5(A'). Based on the MD5 prefix collision attack, I should be able to construct two such files A and A'.

I get an edgemesh site to accept file A (perhaps the site allows me to upload a user avatar, upload an image on a forum, etc). I then behave as a node in the mesh, and receive file A. When I get a request to replicate file A to someone else, I send them file A', they check the MD5 hash, and the hash matches. Not seeing how that doesn't work?

It is admittedly a narrow attack, but I think it works.
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I rarely hear the NYT described as sharing the political biases of David Brooks, their employer-employee relationship notwithstanding. Brooks presumably has some influence on New America with that position, so I'm curious how this squares with microcolonel's assessment.
Open-world Half-Life does sound intriguing.
This seems like a good presumption, at least for a large capital operations like factories and data centers.
I am in Bolinas right now, it's close to midnight, and I am going to close my laptop in a few seconds, and go out to look at the night Sky - which I did yesterday, and it was quite magnificent.
Yes, shipping on Java 9.
Throwaway since I don't want to involve my employer.

I actually work for a platform that is squarely in the GDPR crosshairs (digital marketing). There are a lot of things where our lawyers' perspective is different from what most people say here (I didn't talk directly to lawyers, but I presume product managers did).

- You don't have to comply in 2018, you have to show that you started seriously working on a solution, even if you're not fully prepared.
- You don't have to have automated processes for everything (e.g. delete from backups), it's actually perfectly reasonable to say "we'll process your request" and do it manually (ref: startups spending inordinate amounts of effort for GDPR compliance).
- Opt-in is not as "game changer" as suggested here, my understanding is that you can do implicit consent (notify the user about what you do, give them a link to take action; crucially, that link might even be the link to your privacy policy which contains the link to the opt-out interface... if I got this right - and I think that I did - this may not amount to much more than a slightly modified "this site uses cookies" thingy).
- Delete requests may be handled by "de-identification" (don't delete the data, delete the association with you).
- Related to that, while I don't have a definitive answer, I strongly suspect that GDPR only applies to information that can be positively associated with you (e.g. authenticated activity). I'm not obliged to show you anonymous browser activity/information that I've probabilistically associated with you, for the simple reason that I might be wrong and I might disclose sensitive information (think about girlfriend looking up "what does Amazon know about me" and finding up that "she is interested in an engagement ring" because you anonymously browsed from her computer, thus spoiling your surprise even though you were careful to delete your browser history/ browse anonymously. Yes, incognito mode doesn't necessarily help you - we do efforts to identify server-side the incognito sessions and de-link them from the probabilistic marketing profiles, because we don't want to negatively-surprise the customers; but I suspect not all players are that careful).

Overall... despite what many people think, I think big players are actually fairly careful/sensitive about your privacy (well, if we exclude Facebook here :D ). It's the startups that would concern me more... they have very little incentive to guard your data well, because there are so many OTHER reasons why they might fail, that "privacy disaster" is very low on their list of concerns.
Ah well. As far as I know, there's only BigQuery for full search of GitHub commits. They have some free usage, but it can quickly add up to $$ if you're not careful to restrict the query space.
Under the GDPR one way to use data for purposes unrelated to the underlying service provision is to look to obtain consent. That is not opt-out consent but clear informed consent through opt-in.

If your service won't work functionally without certain data then consent is not right ground of processing to rely on. There is a specific ground relating to processing necessary to provide a service.

If your service isn't financially viable because you can't use data to obtain revenue to support the underlying service provision then consent may not be a viable ground because of the above reasons.

The debate continues however on how to support free service provision outside of the confines of consent.
From Eigenmorality (https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1820):

“I was also impressed by a similar research project called PageRank, which was proposed later by two guys at Stanford named Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Brin and Page dispensed with Kleinberg’s bipartite hubs-and-authorities structure in favor of a more uniform structure, and made some other changes, but otherwise their idea was very similar. At the time, of course, I didn’t know that CLEVER was going to languish at IBM, while PageRank (renamed Google) was going to expand to roughly the size of the entire world’s economy.

In any case, the question I asked myself about CLEVER/PageRank was not the one that, maybe in retrospect, I should have asked: namely, ‘how can I leverage the fact that I know the importance of this idea before most people do, in order to make millions of dollars?’

Instead I asked myself: ‘what other “vicious circles” in science and philosophy could one unravel using the same linear-algebra trick that CLEVER and PageRank exploit?’ After all, CLEVER and PageRank were both founded on what looked like a hopelessly circular intuition: ‘a web page is important if other important web pages link to it.’ Yet they both managed to use math to defeat the circularity. All you had to do was find an ‘importance equilibrium,’ in which your assignment of ‘importance’ to each web page was stable under a certain linear map. And such an equilibrium could be shown to exist—indeed, to exist uniquely.”
EU institutions are not as toothless or easily bribed as national ones, so I'm sure there will be big clashes in near future.
Thank you. I will not. I reported a bug once and did not find the process at all enjoyable. It felt like several of the people in the thread thought my use case was stupid, and were quite blunt about it, to the point where I questioned my own competency. This bug isn't important enough for me to deal with that environment again.
i.reddit.com still works and has a high information density, although its JavaScript appears to be broken for expanding comment threads currently.
Yes, the EU regularly kicks the asses of companies to help consumers in Europe. I'm sure we won't get the same protection on pesticides, pharmaceuticals/medicine, GM, white goods, monopolistic practices like this, roaming charges, etc. etc. once the UK leaves the EU.
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Don't forget to check the license of every library, even many of the more permissive ones will require an attribution notice.
There's also the possibility that FRB-s are artificial in its origin, but it's the byproduct of some technology we don't really grasp yet.
> If there is a greater than 0% chance Apple would have built on that site anyways, then Iowa is directly losing that money.

That doesn't make sense. Perhaps you meant to say if there's 100% chance Apple would have built there anyway?
Nanomachines that drill into cancer cells
I agree with all of that (with the proviso that the SimpleNamespace documentation doesn't make it sound desirable).

I disagree with raymondh's statement that "that is a norm in the standard library that predates named tuples."
All kind of horrifying... lizards specifically can die if it gets cold enough.

I have a couple bearded dragons thinking of someone just shipping them, taking it to chance they don't get too cold and get sick, scared and alone is just a sad sad sad thought.
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Well, I was just metaphorically expressing my frustrations with LI
Hmm, I think this comment was taken little more negatively than I had intended. My fault of course for not expanding on the point, which is this:

Satoshi maintains anonymity, by choice. Therefore, any information about Satoshi's identity, directly stated or inferred from things said by them, logically have to be treated as unreliable. With the goal of remaining anonymous, Satoshi has nothing to gain and a lot to lose from providing true information about themselves. It is in their interest to not provide any information about themselves, and for any information that is provided them be inaccurate.

None of this casts any aspersions on either Bitcoin or Satoshi.

Ah heck, I sound like Vizzini. Maybe I should just drink the damn wine ;)
> this study from 7 years ago is being dug up

That is not fair. You're making it sound like it's a JS framework.

Seven years is nothing in this case.
Wow that sounds like such a boring job.
How about vision based emotion recognition of viewers with cameras in the televisions and monitors? Sure sounds creepy and behaving different when observed etc. But I believe people will forget they are "observed" so the effect dimishs after a time. Than we would have a quite honest emotional feedback for movies. Even for specific scenes, for advertisment, etc
Well, I had none of this breast milk stuff, poor me!!
Not sure about real data, but people have written about this [1].

[1] http://paulgraham.com/mit.html
I love it. The design is beautiful and the tool makes perfect sense. Pricing seems a tiny bit prohibitive to me seeing as there are free alternatives.
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