skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hell, one of my credit unions holds payments I make to my credit card from my credit union checking account.

One credit union will give me a "courtesy credit" for photo-deposited checks up to $1,500. Another holds all of them for three business days.

The bank I was using to receive a wire transfer sat on the deposit until 6pm even though the sending bank said it was transmitted at 8:30am (same time zone).

How we handle moving money is nuts. Most of the time, the way that's actually the fastest is to go to a credit union ATM, withdraw the desired amount with one plastic card, and use the destination credit union's plastic card to deposit the exact same money back into the exact same ATM.
But it is equally also not something you owned that is the only point I am making - noone is saying 'literally' it's the world's eclipse, it just rankles when someone takes possession of something they do not own - rational or irrational. Perhaps something more interesting to explore would be me and 10 others in the thread above think that way.
Could we take it one step further? I'd love to see a publication format that bundles the code, the data, and maybe even the paper together into a single executable bundle for distribution.

Imagine that the bundle starts with a manifest file that describes the data and the code, pointing to an authoritative, versioned copy. The user can "run" the manifest, which will download and install the data and any necessary dependencies. (If you're thinking about this from a containerized point of view, the code dependencies and data may be modeled as a container or virtual machine image.)

The manifest is like a build file that executes the code passing the data as input, in a clear and reproducible way. Anyone running the manifest will get the same results as the researcher did. Because the entirety of the execution environment is versioned and captured by the manifest, including all of the system software, the results are reproducible from the code and data phase onward with zero effort.

For bonus points, the manifest would also "build" the paper (e.g. if it's TeX), and would substitute the results of the code execution directly into the paper, i.e. graphs and numbers. You could conceptualize the paper as something like a notebook, where its values can change dynamically according with the data you provide it.
Well compared to where he started or the average golf player but still very far away from a anything resembling a pro. Which in general is the scientific consensus. Which is you can get a lot better at things by practicing but being that best is always a matter of talent.
I work for comScore, on one of their major applications with this data and others.

We are always hiring and need many more engineers. Most of the work is .NET, but 30-40% is other languages. As you can tell, we have large data teams, dealing in a multiple of quadrillion records. Free snacks, nice open floor plan and good benefits.

Our President is also doing good things to move the company forward and being very open with his employees.
John Snow (C4): Facebook needs to do more
Why would you once have all the apps you need?
What the hell is a check! I am, of course, joking: I'm 47 and probably still have a cheque book ... somewhere. I think I last wrote one about five or six years ago and before that a year or two.

You are probably acutely aware how ridiculous a solution to the delay in check clearance is, that involves taking photographs of it. That's something like a 10MB data transfer to convey say 1Kb of information. Those numbers are plucked from the air but probably of the right magnitude.

You'll be telling me next that in the US a written signature is still a thing 8) OK - I have stopped giggling from being offered a terminal to sign to approve purchases via my debit card when in the US: I haven't signed the back of one in about 20 years.
And I can tell you like the show Seinfeld from your username.
I think you're right. What separates the average from the good is practice. What separates the good from the great is something different.
Seems like you watched Real Life Lore today as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKKtcRg6YU
What are some key learnings you got from that book?
International students can now refinance their education loans in the U.S
Conklin and de Decker are a respected (though not perfect) source for variable operating costs for various airframes.

They list the various BBJs (which are based on 737s) at $5360-$5749 per hour.

https://www.conklindd.com/ReportTemp/ACEWebReports/_%20BBJ_%...

BBJ3 is based on the 737-900ER
I'd take a significant pay cut just to never fucking deal with a health insurance company ever again. I've literally made decisions on jobs based on their health insurance plan and it's so fucking stupid.
Alternative to the MVP: Simple, Lovable and Complete
That's a good way to get rid of Kim Jong Un: show him this thing, say he can't build it, and pretend you're building it. That's what Reagan did to the USSR with the Strategic Defense Initiative (AKA satellites with friggin' lasers attached to their heads).
This might be the closest thing:

http://bots.duolingo.com/

If they had an API (which, they do not), somebody could build a TTS + voice recognition wrapper for this functionality, creating the experience you mentioned.
Things you don't say out loud
It is weird. But a lot of times "toxic" people need real protection. It is easy to get accused but not every one can argue or explain their personal views like Rod. Or even have strength to deal with it and not over react or get panic attack

I am wondering about introvert geeks accused of "toxic behavior" silently sitting in the corner.
It kinda sorta works?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15103535
Had this on my clipboard to paste here.

This guy is saying this is pretty close to immortality.

He has no idea what he is talking about, what a scam artist.
I just ordered three 14 pound boxes of cat litter for $20 with free delivery on Amazon pantry. It's frightening how they can operate with margins so thin. If Amazon can to afford to take the same strategy with Whole Foods, Costco, Safeway and all the other regional supermarket chains are in for a world of hurt.
Who controls the Internet
This phenomenon is circular. There is a void of publications on the subject, therefore, scientists and laymen begin to believe that there is no second side, and, combine that with politics, we end up with a seemingly settled science when, in truth, the process has not been scientific for at least a decade.

It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate. Especially considering we also rely on trends on the order of millions of years, and we are making a judgment based on many orders of magnitude less time. Is it a bet worth making? Sure, in my opinion, but without some published skepticism, climate science may as well be propaganda when it comes to convincing people to act.
Yes to all your points :)
Do you have a link to the source of this claim?
That's a fantastic link, thank you for posting. I spent an hour reading that.
No, but people do.
This was almost exactly like the scene in my interview with Square!
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Offer to give them treatment if it was effective?

The only study here is one in how to seperate people from $8k with the promise of near immortality from blood that was taken under the pretense of helping people who actually need it.
Yeah, one of the best-served demographics is "People who attended at least 2 years of engineering school and either did not graduate or are underemployed after graduation."
What is the difference between an 'oracle' and a server?
> We believe this to be the first exploit of a connected device that causes the device to physically attack someone

Is this really the first time anyone has found an exploit that lets them control a motorized door? Because that seems kind of surprising.
Mercury was visible to the naked eye, but I didn’t see much else. Was not really looking for stars though.

Nice shot, btw.
It will always be valuable to know things about other people. Technologies that enhance privacy without providing perfect privacy merely increase the cost of technologies that collect data. Even with perfect privacy tech, people sell their privacy for small discounts all the time already. Is the resulting information asymmetry better or worse than sacrificing privacy altogether? I'm not sure.
very kind of you to say, thanks
Same thing happened to us, also on a flight to Hawaii. Except we sat near the middle of the plane. We had to feed our two young kids using various snacks and cheese plates.

Seems like there is a systemic failure - their food oversubscription system doesn't correct for a fact that on a six hour flight almost every passenger will buy food.
Very interesting! Great timing for myself, as I just pulled the Chez github repo just last night— a whopping 900mb btw!

Chez became a point of interest to me after learning about it's solid performance (can even do whole program optimisation and across library boundaries).

I wonder how feasible it would be to build a Chez target for Clojure?

Most recently it has been open sourced under a GNU license by cisco, and is even on Github.

Looks like good times for Chez and Scheme!
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re: "If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it?"

This is defeatist. There are ways. Imperfect, but they exist.

There are legal remedies like HIPAA. It seems that we don't actually want the health care system to share everything it knows about us.

Also, Snapchat got where it is by realizing its users want disappearing messages and doing their best to give it to them.
Saw that too, from Albany.
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The WP article says that "Most lab-grown stones are produced via a blasting process..." This is not true.

Where "lab-grown stones" means gem quality diamonds, they're produced by microwave-activated plasma chemical vapor deposition.

Some small-diameter diamond abrasives and nano diamonds are produced with explosives. Nothing bigger than a few microns in diameter, AFAIK.
My Nexus 5X (purchased through Fi, by the way, but recently using my Verizon SIM because of certain network coverage, etc.) bootlooped. I'm waiting for the Pixel 2, unless I decide on something else, and I picked up a Motorola G5+ to tide me over until then or I "unbootloop" the 5X and decide I can trust it.

Anyway, comments on Amazon and/or Newegg about using the G5+ on Fi state that it works but that calls can only be made on the T-Mobile network. IIRC -- this wasn't a factor, for me, so I didn't make a mental note to self to particularly remember that detail.
This is not at all relevant to the discussion. The one getting murdered is newsworthy and noteworthy. The many that do not is not newsworthy.

Rapidly increasing the temperature of the planet will have devastating consequences. Write news articles on its few benefits is not newsworthy in light of the impending devastation.
anecdotal experience with my parents is that they're not really sure what apps they would want, if any.

Hell, neither do I. I essentially have every app I "need". A browser, a music player, a podcast player, some IM clients, a train notifier and banking apps.

Why would I ever need anything else except like, games or something but I have 0 patience for them on mobile unless you can get in and out fast.
"It is also absurd to be so certain about our potential impact on something as complex and chaotic as climate."

This is where you are wrong. You may not understand it but the science is solid. It is well known what happens when too much green house gases occur. The physics is indisputable.
I would trade being behind in inter-bank transfer speed for being ahead in commerce.
This is essentially it. Once you've been there, done that, you're just left with reinventions of the wheel and rubbish "App of the Month" clones.

(I'm generalizing of course)
Strange, I was between Corvallis and Albany and don’t recall that at all. I must have been too distracted by the experience to notice much.

We put on Dark Side of the Moon as thematic music. By pure accident, the climactic finish of the album, “Eclipse”, just happened to start playing as totality hit, and ended as the “diamond ring” appeared. I’ll never forget those two minutes as long as I live.
Serious question. Can you offer any advice on going from web/mobile app developer to the level of systems/aerospace software engineer? Say, over the course of 5 years?
Yeah. I get it. It was great, like every eclipse is great. And it was visible in America. So strictly speaking it was indeed a "great American eclipse." But not everything that's technically true deserves to be turned into a Cheesy Marketing Buzzword Made Of Wishful Thinking.

America is on the down-slide of greatness. You can tell this by taking an honest look around, but also just by listening to the widespread shrill insistence on how great it still is. So "Great American This" and "Great American That" is not only played-out as I said, but probably inaccurate as there become fewer and fewer great things to be found in America.

Anyway. The phrase "Great American Eclipse" also sounds just a tiny bit like America is taking credit for the eclipse, when of course the eclipse didn't need any help from America. America just happened to be underneath it this time around.

Finally it reeks of the same old American self-congratulation (for things that are not at all unique to America) that you can see almost anywhere in America, including your comment, patronizingly reminding me of my rights.
I moved to Canada to escape the George W. Bush presidency. I couldn't in good conscience pay taxes to support the Iraq war. I took a 40% salary cut but the next few years dropped the US$ rapidly and made me some of that back. Also my family health costs dropped dramatically, making up more than the rest.
My guess is that 'low-latent inhibition' plus a great memory plus long practice make for mastery.

http://www.lowlatentinhibition.org/what-is-lli/

(And those who force themselves to practice are going to get injuries like repetitive strain which are really a kind of 'inner rebellion' against this forcing.)
Did you even read the article about rolling coal? It's illegal in the US.
Also, my idiotic 16gb Android phone is almost always full (thanks to the OS keeping loads of garbage and leftovers from previous versions, according to google searches). On top of that, every time I plug in the phone on WiFi, all these apps start their regular updates (how often do they need to be updated??).

Thus, I need to be very careful with what apps I have, and constantly trim them. I guess that with a new phone this wouldn't be the case, but heck mine is less than 2yrs old and runs fine.
https://www.youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/07/the-just-world-f...
Games and other 3D applications? Getting people in-game (say a lazily loaded demo with slightly less perf) with one click is huge.
A code of conduct lets people focus on the community purpose of the project. It lets people know what to expect so they can decide "I disagree, and therefore this is not for me," or "I disagree but I can live with it," or "I agree and can live with it." Codes of conduct are practical tools allowing a community to handle people who decide "I disagree and will stay and not abide by it" and then behave in ways that disrupt the community from its purpose.

From a practical standpoint, due process can be simple as the people assigned to deal with complaints saying, "This is problematic. Please stop." The cost of lawyering up when the response is "So sue me," is disproportionate to what has been asked. Due process is a three way street.
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Controversial = Actively and intentionally racist, most expensive (i.e., millions upon millions in settlement payouts), created unconstitutional torture camps, failed to investigate sex crimes (including a 13 year old child), illegally and aggressively closed cases on crimes against hispanics, killed many inmates (and at times hid their deaths from their families), tried to indict/arrest/harass a multiple judges, arrested and tried to tried to hide journalists, and STAGED AN ASSISINATION PLOT that they pinned on an 18 year old kid to create buzz for a re-election campaign stunt.

I'm sorry but controversial is the wrong word. He is evil. Arpaio is the type of criminal people describe when they try and justify 'tough on crime' and yet he was for years law enforcement. He deserves nothing more than to be dumped into the hellscape of a concentration camp that he created and left to fucking rot.
The fact that HNers are so adamant that payments should happen faster displays a complete lack of understanding of user needs. In fact inter-bank transfers in the US via ACH have worked just fine for many decades.

Further, the US is one of the only countries where you can pull funds from a bank account.
To fiat that'll take a while, but moving it around the space cash world is often very quick, on GDAX anyways.
People will pay to not have their data sold and then the companies will sell the data to double down
And don't forget Hollywood which makes an insane amount of money just to make you feel like you were there.
You're missing that MC is trying to cash in on garbage while the cash is up for grabs.
Serverless Overview: The New Cloud Computing Trend
Where would one find the full technical documents for this?
Yes, I have it - it's deep-linked in the neurons of my brain. This has been discussed here before, so, use your search skills if you possess any!
There are plenty of times I've seen a small group misinterpret something, and then feed off each other, and then reinterpret future events with that new, sometimes incorrect, context. On one side we have people that were apparently so upset they decided to leave. On the other we have someone that professes to not being notified when he made people uncomfortable, and more so, actively kept in the dark to the point that he had to drag minute details out of third parties that weren't supposed to talk about it.

What I'm saying is that it's entirely possible that they are both telling the absolute truth. Even if that's the case, one side appears to be trying to communicate and come to an amicable solution. The other side doesn't appear to be willing to consider that (or have ever really considered it an avenue of addressing the problem), at least from the information presented so far, but that's not necessarily the whole story either.
Very heavy piece with an important call to action.

My heart breaks for this man who tried to do everything right, but genetics and luck decided to really get in his way.

May he remain endlessly positive and strong as he attempts to do the unthinkable- beat this thing!!!!
> One thing to keep in mind is that Let's Encrypt is in the business of creating a more secure and privacy-respecting Web.

And their required short certificates go against that philosophy. Allowing short ones is fine. Requiring it is dumb.

And that discussion had very little good pros.

I feel the short certificate discussion nicely mirrors the short password discussion- both short proponents have little good arguments on their site.
Ask HN: Please recommend the best pre-built itx or laptop (details inside)
please recommend the best detailed analysis/review of the best pre-built itx computer with at least 16g ram, 25-50+ ssd, no other key requirements, in 2017

a comparative review comparing to other best itx computer options would be best

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or a detailed analysis/review of a laptop that has very very low heat, the analysis/review should say what temp the laptop is at regularly (heat negatively affects performance it seems)
This, indirectly, and after a lot of work and several failed attempts at solutions on the cypherpunks mailing list, resulted in bitcoin.

There was a movement at the time, coalesced by this manifesto, of the geekiest of the nerds, the very few engineers who really cared about encryption, privacy and libertarianism. (OG Libertarians)

For awhile, it was like a window into the world of a William Gibson novel.

Unfortunately, technology marches slowly, and by the time bitcoin was released, the movement was a lot less strong than it was.

Now bitcoin crystalized a second cypherpunk movement around it... but it's success over the past 5 years has attracted a whole lot of momo, traders, players, "investors" and generally non-technical types who can't tell the difference between ripple and bitcoin, except "Ripple has all the banks excited, I'm gonna make bank!"

At some point, though, those eople will be less of an influence as we, as a wider cypherpunk community, recognize, ironically, that identity and the trust that a real identity can accrue, is what is key.

Adam Beck, Luke-Jr, Samson Mow, Matt Blue, and others I don't know as well are accruing the riches of correct predictions, and a half decade of actions with integrity, while the wannabe kings make their plans and push agreements, they will be cast aside as their true intentions become more widely recognized, and their proposals fail in the marketplace (you can't just rip code out of core and call it "bitcoin" and expect it to survive-- the gyrations of BCH's hash rate are a good example of this.)
If we're being really honest with ourselves, the likelihood that he will get a faculty position is quite low. Here, he faces discrimination because colleges aren't interested in having another Asian name with the risk of being a lecturer that student's cant understand - and Asians are overrepresented anyways. He might as well take an offer from a country that is welcoming to him.
This, 10000 fold.

Starting with the title. Yes, I'm an engineer. I studied engineering, including algebra, calculus, and physics for CS students, a common core for all engineering students, regardless their specialty. Don't take that away from me. I saw colleagues leave after 1st and 2nd years because they couldn't stand it. It's my peers' and my achievement.

I'm an engineer also because I solve people's problems through software, applying technology derived from scientific breakthroughs.

Yes, sometimes we need to get creative, as everyone else.

Finishing with this

We are in a very fast-paced industry, and nothing will stand still for long.

That mentality is toxic. I aim for my designs, APIs, routines, scrips, to be as long lived as I can make them. Most of the time I don't achieve it. Sometimes it's my fault, sometimes it's the environment. But I create for the future. For me it would be an enormous achievement to learn some piece of software is still kicking ass 5y/10y/15y after.
Writing a formally-verified image browser in Coq and Haskell
Wow, this is the first time I've been recognized for my obscure Rust syntax highlighting library. Glad you like it. It is one of the projects I've put the most work into, but in the rare occasions I'm recognized it's normally for contributing to Spacemacs.
This isn't a defense but the TF2 team is only about like 7 dedicated people last I heard? There's artists and what not shared between teams who I'm not including in that tally though. Valve News Network talked about it once.
The Case for Colonizing Mars (1996)
Goldman Sachs breaks down how Amazon can jump into health care
Is it really worth the waste of time it would be to debate this at the IAU and the confusion it would cause? Dwarf planets don't follow any set mythology (e.g., Makemake follows Easter Island mythology). Most people aren't experts of Greek and Roman mythology. The English language is full of inconsistencies.
I think some of the smaller banks still have people interacting with the ACH. At least that is my impression from planet money
http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/10/04/229224964/episo...
Active Levitation Championed by RLoop in SpaceX's Hyperloop Competition