skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to say every bank supports this. If USAA is the only one that credits any amount instantly, that's a shame, since they've started restricting who can sign up.
This constant barrage of FUD from the cybersecurity community is exhausting. The real story here is that a combination of misconfigurations resulted in a system being exposed to remote exploitation. Until we in security move away from producing this noise about the latest clickbaity hack and start professionally addressing underlying hygiene, root causes, and config laziness at scale, we will never drive the conversation forward. But that doesn't get your talk accepted at Black Hat.
Trump Pardons Joe Arpaio, Ex-Sheriff Convicted Over Immigration Crackdown
AFAIK being optioned gives you a chunk of cash - you're selling an exclusive, sometimes time-limited, right for the studio to make the movie. If the movie doesn't get made, you still get to keep the money.
Yeah, amazing how the public routing number and secret can be used to empty an account without any further auth.

We need to end this madness. I was hopeful for chip&PIN but we just got chip&recurring transaction fraud. Places don't even try to check your ID, but now the card verification takes at least 4x as long without any additional meaningful security factors. As someone who has had cards stolen from their mailbox and activated + used, this is frustrating to say the least.
.... a day
> The warning "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit" is perhaps scary the first time you see it, but then it becomes insignificant as time goes by and as extensions get installed without causing any visible harm.

LOL, what matters is the threat itself and not your waning level of apprehension over the threat. This is really a very, very strange comment. The point is there is no need for this to be a browser extension. Putting an input element and some AJAX on the page is trivial, so I really don't buy the excuse that they haven't had time to put together a web app yet.
Love that plane looks futuristic, reminds me of that scene from 2001: Space Odyssey
Exactly, capitalists pay in cold hard cash. You can't buy a sports car if the state doesn't even allow them to be made.
How do you properly signal that you dropped out of a PhD program to distinguish yourself from someone with a Masters?
The dates are probably hard-coded in Fortran and no contractors will touch the core of the banking operation with a 1024PB pole.
While the article may be considered a bit trite, and people argue over the word "artisan", there were a couple of points that brought salient anecdotes to mind.

Own Up to Failure

I've worked in quite a few places where arse covering was a full-time activity. Where, "I don't want to make a decision because then I can't change my mind later," is and actual quote during requirements gathering.

For some reason, I've never been bothered being honest when I've screwed up. I distinctly remember one time when one of the client's staff came to me about a problem, loaded for bear, fully expecting a fight on their hands. About one minute into the discussion, having got my head around the problem I said, "Yeah, that was my stuff up. I'll get that fixed."

There was a palpable sense of shock, followed by delight and relief.

...and that leads in to...

Trust is Earned

Where I was brought into high-level management meeting with the same client about some important issue, and my opening remark was, "That's not a bug, it's a feature," as which point my project manager nearly had kittens on the spot. But I then explained through the details of what was going on, agreed on a couple of minor adjustments that would make things clearer in the future, and everyone came away satisfied.

Don't know if I could have gotten away with that if I hadn't already had the reputation for being straight with people and owning my own mistakes.
How would a "cloud" at the Lagrange point be removed in the event of a global cool down or "black swan" event occurred?
You are so right, Ripple is one of the only companies trying to revolutionize how payments work by creating interoperability between different payment networks and working with banks. What they are trying to do is extremely ambitious... if they can pull it off then oh man, not sure what to say. It's like trying to predict Facebook pre internet.....
Thanks, this is really helpful! Have you done any CI with Elastic Beanstalk?
Don't forget that many banks will still require that they fax you a form to sign which must be faxed back for large transfers. This + multiple phone calls to both the bank and the person you're trying to pay make for a fun time.
Get a full-time remote job (version 2)
For the price of the largest building in the world, you could possibly build the Enterprise [1].

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/cost-mass/
as an autistic person with many autistic friends i would definitely like you not to grossly simplify the matter so bluntly. thanks
Yeah, for me "viable" has always meant complete, worth selling as a product.
A large part of the capital costs is satisfying all the environmental studies and inevitable lawsuits. The core technology is pretty cheap (concrete and pumps).

Nuclear power is literally orders of magnitude cleaner/safer than anything else, and yet the fear mongering continues and the idealistic environmentalists are pumping more CO2 into the atmosphere with every NG turbine installed to backup the wind/solar plants. Just the other day I heard a talking head repeatedly referring to "the old dirty coal and nuke plants".
It'll still be scarce because it's still under diamond producing pressure! No submarine is going to be able to dive down and get them.
Contrary to you he at least gave a reference link to pick apart and discuss the validity of his claim. Which is better than a counterargument thar boils down to "I believe it could work because these ideas behind it soundsl reasonable" with no actual back-up from scientific studies testing those hypotheses. Which is then followed by an ad hominem accusation of being unscientific, and topped off with a claim of "well documented biases" but again without providing any actual references to said biases.

I don't know anything about GAPS and have no stake in its validity going either way, but I can say that your accusations of unscientific behaviour come across as projection.
Literally "shelling out" with the ATM example. Don't forget the $3 fee for withdrawals.
I like the lovable (or as someone said in the comments, compelling) part.

Thinking of customer development, would it still be risky to build an SLC and then validate your hypothesis? Presumably, since you've focused on both lovability and complete-ness, it won't just be a figment of your imagination?
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I've got a smart active wife. She feels better on metformin and I think we'd both notice the effects you mention if they were common.
Eh, my point is this bears out the principle behind my idea, not that we can readily mine these specific diamonds.
The first fork drove some away because some felt the ecosystem was fragmenting but many came back after they merged back or understood io.js advantages. Some new developers who might have choosen the language never came back. The growth curve was altered because of those events.

This new split will not drive people away or stop the adoption in the same way. It's may cause some to put there changes in this new fork but this new fork will push changes to the node.js repo and this new fork will keep pulling changes from node.js.
Definitely not the norm and probably not enforceable. I hope you find a new job!
this. where can i vote a million times?
"Get an approval to buy a home or refinance your mortgage in minutes."

https://rocket.quickenloans.com/

If they can do it for buying a house ...
We have to acknowledge that the underlying issues here won't ever be understood by the broader public. These kinds of "here's what happens when..." stories are among the most important ways that we can get your message across.
I mean no offense, but what am I simplifying?
You can ask these guys: http://historum.com/asian-history/2373-why-did-ming-dynasty-...
> But no customer wants to use an unfinished product that the creators are embarrassed by. Customers want great products they can use now.

The reason MVPs are so valuable is the word "viable". If your customers truly demand "great products they can use now", then that's what viable means for that customer group.
Bombs, revolutions and dictatorships without the EU? And especially in V4 (most related to the article)?

Please, read about history and geopolitics in Europe. The idea that in stable democracies created by peaceful means (Velvet revolution, Contract Sejm, Round Table Talks), 15 years after these events some dictator with bombs would materialize, were it not for EU, is simply ridiculous.

And using Ukraine as an example of what it would be like without having EU peacekeeping in other countries is even more grotesque. The events in Ukraine unfolded in the way they did due to the political games between West and Russia, including foreign-supported politicians from both sides, and gas transit extortion. EU was very involved in all of that.
When people defame you in the public, to talk to people in the private don't solve all the problems. The public need to hear from both sides.

You don't like to hear the defense, all right. Just don't try to stop other people from hearing it.
You can usually look up etymologies on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Earth#Etymology

Earth comes "from Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe (“earth; Earth”), from Proto-Germanic erþō (“earth”), from Proto-Indo-European h₁er- (“earth”)."

Also (from the page for lowercase "earth"): "Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”)). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʾarṣ́- (whence Arabic أَرْض‏ (ʾarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ‏ (ʾereṣ)) is probably not related."
This is veering off topic but your example is one of the reasons capitalism strikes me as a transitional system. It only makes sense to weigh the cost of something like a lifeboat or healthcare when the inputs are scarce. When the inputs become plentiful there's much less of a reason to be so miserly.
Where I was watching (the "day tripper" area at Solartown in Madras, Oregon) there was one bright point source reasonably near the Sun which I assume was Mercury [1]. Overall the sky was brighter than I expected, and if there were stars visible there were not many of them.

There was also some idiot's drone buzzing above us, with red lights on two of its opposite arms and green lights on the other two arms.

[1] or rather, I assume it was the same planet you saw.
For future reference, you can look up Alaska iterinary by AA e-ticket number and change seats directly on Alaskas website. I've done it a number of times
In mathematical terms, what I'm saying is that equality is more fundamental than equivalence as defined by some other equivalence relation[1]. If you're considering integers according to their remainder when divided by 5, you can easily show that 4 is equal to 4, and that 4 is equal to -6. If you change your metric to remainder when divided by 3, you'll notice that 4 is still equal to 4, but no longer equal to -6. That is because 4 is fundamentally more similar to 4 than -6 is.

[1] And as I've already mentioned, you can see that this is true by looking at the definition of an equivalence relation. They all treat everything as equivalent to itself.
> As long as we get the right framework and people are not being exploited, I think flexible work is a great thing

That's the crux of it there, isn't it? I don't suspect that the newer generation prefers their lot to the stability and long-term viability of their forebears, for the most part, but rather that structural changes have sort of foisted these circumstances on them. It'd take some additional evidence to support the notion that people have shifted their preferences, rather than there just being a dwindling of opportunity.
Is the point of this more to understand exactly how the brain processes things like memory than for allowing us to control machines through thought? Thought-control has its uses, I suppose, but personally I'd much rather have a way to influence memory than anything else.
"Terra" means ground/dirt in Latin just as much as "earth" does in English.
Whether there would be a benefit is an open scientific/engineering problem. We certainly haven't reached the limits if Jnon-neural interfaces (I still can't casually mumble to my computer and have it reliably understand), but there are definitely limits. For instance, regardless of how much visual data you can present to a user, she can only focus on one place/element at a time. A "neural uplink" might give us ways to bypass or finesse that bottleneck, which would by itself be huge.

Or perhaps not! But Musk has no interest in sure-fire bets. :)
YES! Soon the world will know!
Vast deposits of lithium could change the global politics of battery production
Ask HN: Who are your favourite conference speakers?
Please share conference speakerd who are notorious for consistently delivering legendary lectures.

e.g. Rich Hickey, Sandi Metz
HTC looks at option to sell or demerge Vive
Yeah, how dare you make something free and give great and useful information in return for a bit of client gathered data.
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A simple search would have saved you some embarrassment: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/02/11/big-p...
There's a lot of money to be made with overdraft fees and offering pseudo-banking services (cheque cashing places, refillable debit cards that can be ACH-deposited into) to the unbanked, so US banks have a very strong incentive to keep their consumer-facing offerings slow and sucky.
I'm split on it myself. I like being able to go Right Click -> View Source and poke around but with more modern sites, you're given nothing but a single JS file. You can scroll through the DOM in developer tools but it's not as neat as text :(
That was Venus. not Mercury.
"MVPs are too M and almost never V"

yes, viable is the hard part. just like "loveable" will be the hard part of SLC.

next month's article. "SLCs make me SC(sick)"
I always tell developers I work with to primarily optimize for readability. Assume that someone less intelligent and skilled than you will have to maintain the code five years after you have left.

Sometimes, the most readable solution is quite long. Other times, it's short and compact. But, if it's always readable, chances are high that it is not only well designed, but it will be easy to maintain.
I may not know enough specifics to be useful, but we ran into issues where the solution was to sort of have servers spin up and bootstrap themselves until they could finally locate and cede control to the chef server. It may have had something to do with how we use AMIs but the way our ops engineer talked about it it seemed to be antithetical to how chef is intended to be used.
Venus was the only planet (or star) that stood out.
Well, there is the case where a double-blind research project into a gut microbial cure (I believe it had something to do with cancer) failed the double-blindness aspect because the doctors could tell which patient got the real treatment and which one got the control group, because those with the real bacteria were visibly happier (and no, the control group did not have more digestion problems). I recall reading about this a few years back in the New Scientist.

There is also the fact that many of the people who get their stomach stapled report (usually temporary) changes in taste, in the sense that a glass of orange juice might suddenly taste like fish for a few weeks. That only makes sense if the stomach is somehow involved in the process of flavour perception.

So there definitely is more going on between the gut and the brain than the former only sending sensory information to the latter and the latter then deciding what happens next. We just don't know how that works yet.
Better management of discarded produce could help forests regrow
Sounds like a Jupyter Notebook.
> How would that even work without getting quickly entangled with the First Amendment?

You tell me, you're the one claiming it's unacceptable to refuse to do business with certain kinds of people.

> Business owners have no right whatsoever to fire someone for expressing beliefs that run profoundly counter to the business?

You mean like a Christian business being unable to refuse service to people whose activities run counter to the tenets of Christianity?

Remember, I'm not the one claiming forcing people to do business against their will is acceptable.
I suspect certain games, like Ingress, or GPU-intensive games, routinely max out phones' computing hardware. Chances are that badly overheating models are reasonably few and already known by gamers.
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The world’s first trigonometry revealed in an ancient Babylonian tablet
Big corps have departments doing MVPs these days, no need to be a startup.
A quick search shows this hitting too many of the typical pseudoscience bullshit triggers to merit much further analysis:

- mentions of "toxins" and "heavy metals"

- zero quality research or scientific backing

- broad list of afflictions it can miraculously cure, with little scientific reasoning for method for most

- supported by Dr Axe and other peddlers of bullshit

- origin story about how "mainstream medicine" failed the creator, who doggedly persisted in finding magic cure

Etc, etc.

Like most alternative treatments that aren't inherently harmful, I'd try it if everything else failed.

But this almost certainly doesn't work.

Edit: I mean, check out this blog post on eczema and the GAPS diet. I don't mean to make fun of this parent, but this is exactly what I'm talking about. I'm not sure there's any actual facts or understanding of science here at all. Almost every sentence is wrong. http://www.mariarickerthong.com/healing-eczema-with-the-gaps...
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Bayes assumes/requires conditional independence of observations; which is sometimes the case.

For example:

- Are the positions of the Earth and the Moon conditionally independent? No.

- In the phrase "the dog and the cat", are "and" and "the" independent? No.

- In a biological system, are we to assume conditional independence? We should not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional_independence

...

"Efficient test for nonlinear dependence of two continuous variables"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4539721/

- In no particular sequence: CANOVA, ANOVA, Pearson, Spearman, Kendall, MIC, Hoeffding
I followed much the same route, but I can't recommend it as a strategy for someone looking for a path to the USA, given you have to work for said employer for a year then hope they will consider sponsoring you. Unless you have hard to find skills, I don't think many employers will offer this option at interview time, given you are still not a fully known quantity until you've actually started working somewhere. Those on L1s in this industry are usually there by accidents of fate rather than a grand plan in my experience!

The H1 or entering education in the USA are probably the two main methods, but even those have gotten significantly more difficult as others have pointed out (H1 cap etc).
I note that now you're agreeing with yostrovs who originally asked "Why wouldn't a modest rise in temperature do some good in at least some ways?".
> This is preposterous.

There is overwhelming evidence that this is exactly what the current United States Secretary of Education DeVos' motivations are:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/betsy-devos-chri...
>Immigrants are more than cheap labor.

Great, but not the important question. The important question is: are citizens more than cheap labor?
Decentralized system where 'retweeting' is rehosting. You traverse trust network n-levels deep and only access the content which has distributed trust to you. Every view is unique that user and their network.
Happy anniversary, Linux: A look back at where it all began
Sencha has been acquired by IDERA, Inc
It’s very different if you do it right but not really harder. The first thing you learn is digital logic design at an abstract level. Something like this: https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~pjcheng/course/asm2008/asm_ch2_...
Then once you can make digital designs you learn to describe them in a hardware description language (HDL) such as Verilog.
When reviewing verilog designs it’s very easy to spot the “verilog coders” vs the hardware designers.
There is absolutely no instant spending of money deposited by check in the US. Checks have to clear, in some situations there can be a 1-5 hold for the entire amount, and the money can be returned within 30 days. Most banks will make a very small amount available for instant spend, in the $100-500 range. So I would say we're very far from instant free payment, don't you think?
What you are saying is very reasonable. But...if he did so much to upset so many, it should be easy to come up with concrete and specific examples of conduct that any reasonable person would consider unacceptable.
After I wrote my previous comment, I went and looked up the applicable code of conduct. [1] I suspect the relevant passage might be:

Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the
Code of Conduct in good faith may face temporary or
permanent repercussions as determined by other members
of the project's leadership.

As I said, due process is a three way street. And the more I read the statement linked as the story here, the less I think this is about anonymous complaints and the more I think it is related to whether or not actions by a committee member reflect the level of good faith expected in order for the committee to function efficiently.

In some contexts, voting people off the island is sufficient due process. If it is not sufficient here then many people will have to have acted contrary to good faith. I don't see evidence to support that conspiracy theory.

[1]: https://github.com/nodejs/TSC/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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You have to keep the thing painted, though, and wash the windows. So there would be plenty of forever jobs.
From the title I was expecting something criminal.
Well a newspaper is different, few contributors and many readers. Normal chat is either 1 to 1 or a small group of people in a channel/room.

Just like email, I'd happily pay a small amount, say $0.10 to email a person the first time. Especially since even a small fee, negligible to most would be catastrophically expensive to spammers.

Might also create an income stream so that it would be easier to compete with gmail, microsoft, and yahoo.

As spam bots become more common on social and messaging networks I don't see why it couldn't be a similarly effective measure.
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I had forgotten (socially, legally) "mandated" vacation.
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I came to understand it as users of the app willing to put a price on their visual attention, giving advertisers the ability to bid on users' attention based on the users' own tolerances, and then it all becoming an ad bidding network.

Except the marketers would pay you money (I guess, the coin) to show you the adds, and not say, a TV network.

I'd probably put a high price to my attention — $5 per second. If I get an ad maybe someone messed up, but I get paid dearly. A lot of people I imagine would be down to get paid some fraction of a cent per view, probably seeing more ads, but also probably making enough revenue for a handful of coffees every month.

Here the blockchain is the distribution network.