skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the two parties to trade they need to agree with each other's, otherwise there are no transaction to settle. Each party can sign the transaction with its private key, and exchange the signature, so that each party has verifiable proof (from the counterparty public key) of the transaction.

And if you want to validate the keys, use the central bank as a certificate authority. A bank not approved and monitored by the central bank is not a bank and can't make payments.
FDA clears breakthrough gene therapy for childhood leukemia
Microsoft also added "Blockchain as a Service" to their Azure offerings.

I'm not sure if that was because they think it's a good future technology or if they just think it's a technology that people will give them money for.
When will the AI fad finally die?
It may not be a solution, but it's a smart thing to do and at least a step in the right direction, no?
Not trickle down, just that 1) there is a difference in economic impact between those who choose not to work and live off of inheritance vs. those who choose not to work and live off of government assistance, and 2) 100% estate tax has no relation to UBI.
There's no reason you can't realize some of these benefits in C. I wrote a program recently that produces a new struct every time the state changes (any function that changes the state is passed the current state struct by value and returns a new state struct.) While part of the state is a multi-gigabyte memory allocation, this is represented as a pointer, so copying it from state to state is very cheap. This means that all of the structs point to the same chunk of memory, so only one of them can be considered valid at a time. I found that this approach made it very easy to keep track of what state my program was in. It greatly simplified error handling because I could just discard a failed update rather than trying to unwind it.
> vast sums of wealth being dumped back into the economy through luxury purchases

Which feed people in remote countries minimum wage at best and keeps what looks like slavery at worst while it generates handsome profits for others who brought in very little value.

> create a disincentive for wealth accumulation

Which is actually a great thing: all that money will hit the economy much sooner.

> force those people into different investment vehicles

Like giving their offspring an education that'll allow them to pursue well paid positions. Gifts are also taxed and an exponential tax on their market value would be a smart thing. Also, they can be sure their children, no matter how deplorable, won't starve.

> That is really only import for those who are amassing large sums of wealth though

So these people who make insane amounts of money while pressuring down compensation for the rest of society will bear most of the burden. Seems only fair.

Also, keep in mind these people are far too powerful now to freely give up their advantages. These ideas have the potential of getting very, very ugly.
And he preordered a Tesla too. While that's not the concern. Calling out 'Roadside merchants accepting Paytm' as a Positive impact on economy is more of anecdotal than data driven. This nevertheless must have increased Paytm's market penetration and cash flow but a lot of road side vendors just had to sit in their homes for days due to unavailability of cash which is their primary mode of purchasing and their customers too.
Cheerios denied trademark on its breakfast yellow
>Arun Jaitley, finance minister, on Thursday defended the demonetisation at a conference in New Delhi. He admitted that black money had come back into the banking system, but said that tax officials were combing through people’s accounts to identify and tax it.
>He said: “The fact that money has got into the banking system does not mean that it is all now legitimate . . . The money got identified with the owner whom henceforth had been fixed with the liability of explaining that money and facing taxation on it.

This is the important part, money coming back to the system doesn't mean people can get away with it. An elaborate exercise is going on and I read multiple stories where the tax dept is sending notices to people with dubious deposits.

Also, This is always going to be a polarised debate. Digital payments certainly went up, people started using bank accounts. Yes, it's not significant, but change is really slow
I've never heard of a way to do this without giving all your contacts to the app. Hashing is pretty useless if an attacker steals the DB as the parent pointed out because you can pretty easily build a dictionary of all possible 10-digit US phone number hashes (especially since area codes aren't anywhere close to randomly distributed). One slight advantage of hashing is non-malicious but curious employees/engineers at the company could be tempted to look at contact info whereas reversing hashes is much more clearly over the line and not everyone will know how to do it, but that's more a matter of training employees not to do it either way.
It costs the government to provide infrastructure to service people in these areas. It costs them to repair when they get flooded. It costs the government to rescue people and provide emergency services.
I presume you don't see much coverage on HN because lots of people who talk about blockchain tech are excited about their own money even more than the tech.
"Things we have evidence for" also includes our lack of a definitive understanding of physics and our lack of understanding of what life does or doesn't exist out there. That needs to be taken into account. You can't just assume the positive knowledge you currently have is representative of how things actually are.
Has there been a followup to this? I couldn't find anything past 2014.
What's cool about these statistics-based approaches is that you mostly don't even need fully up-to-date statistics, just overall decent stats, unless you have an insane amount of churn. Meaning - you can get query speedup without insertion overhead: you choose to take that overhead any time you want using ANALYZE.

Very neat stuff from the databricks team!
> Current status: Breastmilk-IQ relationship inconclusive and hotly contested (Breastmilk-health status understood and strongly favorable)

Source?
Why are you doing layout code in javascript? If it can't be done using CSS then your doing something wrong. This is being used to generate PDFs of exact width and height size documents. Hard code the width and height of your page.
There were a couple of interesting Planet Money podcast episodes on this from earlier this year:

* part 1: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/10/527803742/episo...
* part 2: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/05/12/528181998/episo...
When it comes to dire situations, if my ISP does funny business, I can choose another ISP e.g. a mobile connection.

No different than taking another road to go to the bank. My account and money in there is still safe.

If the bank take away my account without due legal process, does it matter if the roads to get to the bank were traffic/pothole/toll free?

For a YouTube content creator, who spent years building brand and audience, one fine day to wake up and have videos demonetized and/or account suspended is like bank terminating your account without giving you a dime from your account. With bank, you can get government/FDIC engaged, with YouTube, they are the Gods of that universe.

There are private entities, public corporations and government. We hold public corporations to a different standard than individual persons.

If DNS can be taken away form you without due legal process, does it really matter if your ISP can throttle you or not. NN has become a fringe issue, yes, I do support NN, but at this point I would rather use NN to show hypocrisy of large monopolistic social media platforms. Free Speech is more important to me than NN.
> The fundamental demand is for an asset that isn't subject to the whims of an unstable, fallible government.

You're just trading one set of masters for another, in this case, it's the influential contributors and organizations that act as a defacto steering committee for bitcoin and the mining cartels that monopolize the hashing power. You might say "bitcoin is controlled by the masses", but this is only true in the sense that any ostensibly democratic government derives its power from the governed. At the end of the day, a small group of people will make decisions for everyone, especially if the stakes rise to a level where bitcoin is anything other than a technical novelty (which it still remains, despite what the relatively high prices would have some believe).

> it also happens to be a viable currency

No it's not. It could be one day, but in my personal opinion it will always remain as a "back channel" currency utilized only by enthusiasts and those with an explicit need to avoid the traditional banking system. There will never come a time when bitcoin is generally acceptable because there is close to zero incentive for the general public to use bitcoin.

> This is what everyone wanted, right? The end of central banks, the end of fiat currencies, the end of pointless middlemen, clearing houses and transaction fees

This is not happening and never will. Central banks and fiat currencies will always exist and bitcoin has its own competing system of pointless middlemen and transaction fees which will only increase if bitcoin becomes more popular and when mining rewards eventually fizzle out.
Don't see an ergonomic version. For me that's a must.
This is a social responsibility. Most European countries do this, Canada does this. While not perfect, the system works. It is exposed to any other warfare system to cheaters, but I would say on a much smaller scale than unemployment benefits for example.
Linux on laptop is a big success but only for specific audience. Dell have a lot of sales with their XPS Developer Edition and Project Sputnik http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/01/dell-talk-linux-laptops-d...
Having worked with JS for years, even with large teams, I can tell you that type errors are relatively rare. They happen, sure, but they are a small minority of overall bugs that are possible to generate in any program.

Types are a trade off. Sometimes, by explicitly defining interfaces and types ad nauseam, you spend more time defining those types and managing those types than you ever would in fixing minor type errors that after all, generally only come from incorrectly calling a function.

I think JS code tends to be simpler than equivalent Java code and in my opinion, the simplicity of JS offsets its lack of explicit types.

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability." -Dijkstra
Inertia?
>>and presumably in limited weather conditions;
>Why's that?

Because Phoenix has extremely low precipitation:
http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/phoenix/arizona/united-...
Thank you for your respectful reply.

I agree that everyone should be skeptical and look for evidence.

For me personally it has been a godsend, that's what I can state. I also know about 5 other people who have applied this knowledge and all had noticeable improvements in various areas.

Experience may vary of course. Bodies are also different.

You can go the Buteyko way, Chi-Gung, Yoga, Wim Hoff method etc etc. whatever works if you need it.

Generally I do however think that breathing is way, way underappreciated as a cause for various diseases.

I've seen 5 medical specialists who overlooked my breathing _patterns_. I've been hooked up to heart monitoring devices, gave plenty of blood to examine and all that jazz.

The solution was literally right under my nose.

In the end it was a $5 USD discounted book about Buteyko's research that made all the difference.

Breathe through your nose, your mouth is for eating and talking. That will already help many people. :)
Ask HN: Are there any public datasets for bank customer transactions?
In fact most of the corporates have this part of their internal audit called BCP Business continuity Process, asking team members not to come to office but continue working.

What's inescapable I think is things like Malware attack and not these things
Link returns 404.

This may be the correct one, http://www.michaelburge.us/2017/08/31/roll-your-own-bitcoin-...
I'm guessing when it stops being useful and/or interesting for the public and for developers. On that basis, I would expect "never" to be a reasonable answer.
You can use inkscape’s CLI interface to get SVG from pdf, and then manipulate that with any XML editing library automatically
Headers/footers are 2 huge features. Plus all of the other small features wkhtmltopdf has. It may not have all the new bells and whistles but it works reliably.
True that. The argument (at that level) is speculative. But sometimes it can be interesting to speculate.
No, it was on par with regular security checks.
How to Become a Full-Blown Privacy Fanatic with Purism's Librem Laptop
Fully agree, as well as logitech has been left in the dust when it comes to ergonomics. There are smaller companies (ergodox-ez, matias) that blow away all big corp ergo keyboard offerings.
That is true but it's an error in the unproblematic direction: fixing it makes the argument even stronger.

That is, if the probability for each city flooding is 0.002 but the different cities are positively correlated, then the probability of at least one city flooding is lower than it would be if they were uncorrelated. (Because the probability of no cities flooding is higher, because of positive correlation.)
What's the "slot" on the back next to the USB C port?
Yeah it's a little much when you can buy a wireless keyboard from them with a touchpad for $40.
File types should be restricted, there is no need to allow exes to be uploaded.
That's a great analogy
They should put one on both sides so you can navigate like an etch a sketch
I did it in 2 days. Its not very hard.
<topre joke>
Five new motors from Eurobike 2017
R2: HTTP client. Spiritual successor to request
I like The Silver Searcher a lot, but recently I've replaced it with Ripgrep. It's much, much faster.
No matter how good or bad this design and its functions may be, I always find it refreshing if a certain area is innovated that has been "ignored" for a longer period of time. Even if it is incremental.
A box full of scorpion sized geese would be kinda cute, however a goose sized scorpion would pretty much be the worst of all scenarios.
Reducing complexity in general, especially for new and small projects, is very good advice.

For the past several years I've started new personal projects with PostgreSQL+Python+[Flask|Django] on the backend and Bootstrap+Knockout on the frontend. I recently tried to start a new project with React instead, and while the actual act of development on a working React-based codebase is fairly nice, getting it to that state apparently requires a load of dependencies that I simply wasn't prepared for.

I retreated back to using Bootstrap alone for the prototype and found it much easier to work with than I remember. I'm sure part of that is that I've gained a ton of experience since I last used jQuery without a UX framework like Knockout, Ember, or React - but part of it also seems to be that browsers have come a long way since then.

In fact, I'm considering eschewing all front-end dependencies for my next prototype - ES6 has far better support in modern browsers than I recall, as do the more recent CSS capabilities like flexbox.

I figure that at best I'll have a lightweight, clean project that works well enough for a prototype; at worst I'll learn a lot about where modern web standards are.
The difference is an IOU that can be verified independently of that bank (banks don't trust each other), and the role of the central bank is to run that ledger (banks trust the central bank).
Functional Programming, CSS, and your sanity
Ryft Appliance and Apache Zeppelin
Captain401 (YC S15) is growing fast and hiring full-stack engineers in SF
Good question. But I did pay what seemed like a lot for this thing: http://matias.ca/quietpro/mac/

And I absolutely love it.
Hopefully it can emulate the Surface Dial. I don't think we need two competing dial interfaces for each app.

For those that haven't seen it: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/accessories/surface-...
very small chance. They won't go and put a bucket load of these type of tools on a server to leak. Makes no sense at all.
Apple's Magic Keyboard is not far off and people are obviously buying that one.
Stable orbit above the troposphere?
Facebook ditching the Red Cross ignores leverage
> It's easier to move an object 1 cm to the left than it is to bootstrap a universe

That's like saying sorting can never be fast when the only algorithm you have is bubble sort.
For years I watched our corporate owned "Financial Media" gush over Wells Fargo, to the point that I, a layman, wondered wtf was going on there.

Now we all know they were scamming customers but how is it that they kept touting them to the point where $billions were invested in these companies without any one of those "Financial Expert Journalists" having even so much as a clue?

One might guess they were shorting the stock, but of course those that might would be chastised for daring to.
More details about Continental's new 48v mid-drive can be found here: https://www.continental-automotive.com/en-gl/Landing-Pages/I...
For your parallel search example, the data set has to be extremely large for parallel searching to have a significant improvement.

When does a client-side JS app have access to many GBs of local data that would justify a parallel algorithm? It seems exceedingly rare but maybe you can imagine an example.

If you're talking about a server side app, if your goal is speed, why would you choose JS over C++? It seems more sensible to write the parallel database search in C++ in that case.

As for appropriateness of threading for C over JS: I think the fact that JS is garbage collected makes a threading implementation a nightmare. A naive GC implementation otherwise kills performance: imagine running a parallel computing and having to "stop the world." GC at a conceptual level is inherently "single-threaded" and it will always be a bottleneck in one way or another.
Accounting info must not be modified. This does not change that. Same way you can't demand deletion from credit reporting data.
The airline method.
It was no worse than any other concert I ever went to.
This is great. I have been looking at Kubernetes for sometime and have struggled with adapting it to our deployment model. A lot of the tools and tutorials want someone to sit and run commands in order to start controllers and worker nodes but that doesn't make sense in our automated environment. What we really want is a way to bake AMIs etc that have everything ready to go and when we do a deployment or scale out it is as simple as starting an instance. This collection of labs lays a lot of that out and I think this is something we can work with.
Can I delete this post?
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TL;DR: when wifi is off, and the setting whose description reads "allow scanning when wifi is off" is turned off (not all softwares have this toggle available in the WiFi settings, it seems default-on) then it doesn't seem to send frames.
Monero, and all crypto-note infrastructure, is about 2 years behind transparent blockchain technology, and thus has a lot of growth as it becomes a viable option for more use cases.

For example:

Multisignature transactions are just becoming available. The lack of multisignature made it a non-starter for many applications, including on darknet marketplaces, because rudimentary escrow or deposits were needed. When the operator goes down, all your funds are on their server and are gone with it, but with multisignature as seen in bitcoin and ethereum, you always have control of your funds and they are never in limbo.

Meta-assets are not possible yet. Asset creation is one of the big tenants of Ethereum right now, and there are many assets on bitcoin as well for even longer. Many organizations use this as a way to raise capital, bringing in a lot more capital into the base currency's economies. Monero and crypto note doesn't have this capability yet, but being able to issue and hold balances of these privately, with audit capabilities, will be powerful.

2nd layer scaling solutions are not even on the roadmap yet in any crypto note network. Cryptonote has the same scaling problems as bitcoin or ethereum, but the key sizes accelerate that. Cryptonote coins have dynamic block sizes already, but it may react too slow to really help periods of many transactions. Monero already encounters this issue. Bitcoin style cryptocurrencies have Lightning Network via Segwit. Ethereum has Raiden on the roadmap.
So it's a standard logitech crappy keyboard that comes with one of these?

https://www.amazon.com/Griffin-Technology-NA16029-Multimedia...

The marketing on this is great, but the product is pretty underwhelming.
Eric Elliott is a joke even in the JS community.
Then opt into collection. This does not disallow that.
TL;DR (from TFA): No. We show that another option, called "Always allow scanning", when activated, makes a device send Wi-Fi frames which can be used to track this device, even if the Wi-Fi switch is off. This option is not clearly described in all Android versions, and sometimes even not deactivatable. Besides, the Google Maps application prompts the user to activate this option.
That is assuming the whole stuff was done for the singular goal in mind. There could have been multiple reasons:
a. End counterfeit money b. Make a list of hoarders as everyone depositing money needed to show identification.

It is going to be interesting times ahead with the data they might have collected.
:) lets educate them all
This is actually rather appealing to me. I'm not a huge fan of most mechanical keyboards and do most of my coding with a wired Mac keyboard with 10-key. But since I'm not on a Mac, there's a couple small things missing (Print screen and Insert, I believe). Also, the keyboard really needs just a smidge more resistance: resting my fingers on the keys results in a keypress a little too often.

I also really like a physical volume wheel, which I think that knob can be. A wireless apple keyboard runs $130, so it is a little on the high side, but it wouldn't surprise me to see this running ~$180 or so most places.
> People just aren't going to move across borders because of politics, unless things get really bad. It just costs too much to move.

Perhaps in the EU or some other part of the world, but in the United States, the population is fairly mobile.

People move from state to state all the time because of job opportunities, taxes, family, healthcare, etc...

I saw a statistic while ago that said that something like 30% of Americans moved in the last five years.
When I saw this initially, I thought this'd be a bunch of graphs detailing how you would have done to invest using DCA at different times in the past, and at different amounts.

I'd be interested in seeing that as well.
That's actually a pretty great video. I'll admit I don't hate the new simpsons but there is something different about them that I couldn't put into words, this video does a good job doing that.