skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you use this over BTC or ETH? This will run into all the same KYC laws as those just that you are locked into a single provider instead of having a marketplace of exchanges to go from fiat to a crypto.

Sure smells like an ICO scam.
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I think this is a healthy and needed swing towards holding charities accountable for what they actually do. Sure I do feel a little bad for the Red Cross but come on.

We also need to take care on looking too much at a nonprofit's overhead spending. This is a great TED talk on that subject and will really make you think about the whole sector.
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...

EDIT - Oops just noticed iamapipebomb had linked to this too.
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Ignorance? Well, please point out where I made an error - I'd be happy to correct it.
Enforcing the law like not committing perjury during his confirmation process?
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain
My understanding is that their TMN token is an intermediate currency for exchanging fiat currencies. And their business model is to sell this, and thus charge the users by inflation. Is that correct?
Out of curiosity, why did you capitalise editor?
> deep packet inspection, network flows monitoring, white/black listing

This is usual network security.

At some point someone need to glue together existing devices and software into something that has an obvious use case with ethical implications e.g. the chinese "great firewall".
We know markets are bad at pricing in catastrophic very-low-probability events. That's why the lottery stays in business.

How do you price in dicamba use? It shouldn't quite be banned, but—silence isn't enough.
hm, time to eliminate the hacker news bookmark...
Yes... this is super painful and kills the potential for most things outside the basic Alexa functions
Perhaps not more likely, but since they run on heat, hurricanes could possibly become stronger in the future. I haven't seen any articles which reference research on this, as it's hard to filter out the ones with bias (in either direction).
This is a bit of a clickbait title, as it implies the steamroller did it by accident. In fact, it destroyed the novels "as the late fantasy novelist had instructed".
This is like saying it's lazy to use lung cancer cases to bolster arguments against smoking, since there's no way to prove that a particular case of cancer was caused by smoking.
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And even if we did have atom-precise manufacturing. This could enable say, the construction of nanobots, and these could possibly be used to perform surgery or cure cancer, but making nanobots that cure cancer, even if you already have nanobots, is probably more challenging than the Apollo moon mission (how do you control a swarm of tiny spaceships to make them do useful things inside a human body?). The possibilities (and challenges) are endless.
I'm currently evaluating testcafe which is pretty nice, and headless chrome was easy to setup. I'm interested to see what people recommend for browser testing, I'm also using preact.
Honestly KYC for cryptocurrencies is ridiculous. What if I want to buy for a company shall I identify the beneficial owner?

Cryptocurrencies have limitations against alternative payment systems: (1) they are "push" only (2) have a huge buy/sell spread and (3) risky fluctuation, if they do not have at least anonymity benefit why should I prefer them to UDS, EUR or GBP?

Anyway seems that there are ATM for bitcoins, never tried one (https://coinatmradar.com/). Did anybody already tried one?
Public use? As in use in public spaces? Rooms with unclosed windows? Well sure, that's unsafe and you should tell your customers not to do it, but you'd be crazy to think that permission is what's stopping people from dangerously operating lasers these days.

And what about the bit where he says that it's "the wild west" (mythicized time when, in actuality, homicide rates were not really that high, especially for the time) or "mad max" (completely fictional Australian motor fantasy).

The things that actually prevent laser related injuries from being a common health problem are a) common knowledge about laser safety (usually explained thoroughly by manufacturers), and b) the relative obscurity and lack of particular interest in high powered laser devices.
Obviously, climate change is nowhere near 'the cause' of this storm. However, the pattern of there being more storms and floods is a clear consequence of climate change.
Choosing this moment to drive home the need to reverse climate change makes sense. Which I think is the intention here.

This is more about arguing 'climate change is bad' as opposed to 'climate change is real. And really, we don't need to be discussing the latter, it has been well established.
I am a complete java noob, but it seems like in the test program the same variable testBigDecimal is being shared by different threads without any lock or mutex or any sort of concurrency control! Won't any function working on testBigDecimal be thread unsafe if it was not specifically written assuming it was working on a shared object? Why is this news?

Disclaimer: I am so java illiterate that I am applying my C understanding to the code snippet.
This. Once the "master" is treated with the maximizing limiters that are used in the loudness war the files are just rendered into their separate file formats.

If the SA cd promised that they reloaded the source tape/protools/whatever DAW was used and remixed/ remastered the songs to actually have dynamic range then I would be interested. As far as I am aware this isn't happening, and is implausible for any record of considered a classic
Great! Now Uber engineers will be able to VR into god view.

Perhaps the phones of people around should record video all the time to improve the view!
Remember when Dr Roger Pielke Jr was fired because he didn't think climate change intensified hurricanes?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_A._Pielke_Jr.

You might have that understanding because the media punishes disention.
Achso. Now I understand the issue here: "For" should be "For Each".

The weird ('Hello' for i in range(3)) becomes totally comprehensible in the form of ('Hello' foreach i in range(3)).

Making M4-macro for "foreach". Or is there some pythonic way to do this?
Pretty obvious attempt by uber to demonstrate their self-driving abilities to a national audience skeptical of their progress after having been ousted stealing technology secrets from waymo.

In short its propaganda, I have no doubts waymo is light years ahead of the current efforts of uber. Uber is trying to change the public perception in their favor.
It's the name of an environment variable that most programs respect when opening an editor.
Yes, I'm working through a few books that way. I didn't see his 24h challenge so I'm not sure what it is, but what has been effective for me is blocking off a few hours every day to work on this stuff. I haven't gotten to the really difficult material he's talking about yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing how this goes. Good luck to both of us!
This is a great article. One thing I can particularly relate to is when working on a 'blue sky' project, how easy it is to rationalise away the obvious red flags and keep going until everything falls apart. When one has invested a lot of time and built up the momentum, it's very hard to admit failure and accept the big changes that must come with letting go of a project.

I think it's particularly hard for people who are used to, and enjoy being successful - is that perhaps why university dropouts often make good company founders?
While the idea looks great on paper, they have nothing now. I am not kidding, just a whitepaper - no prototype, no clear model on how to meet regulations, nothing proprietary and they want to raise 43 million dollars worth of ethereum. They are offering 50% commission in the future, so they company value the money post discount is $86 million. Wow !
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15121915
> All that happened is we were told we need immigration instead.

You say this everywhere, we discussed this already. You have an unfounded, ignorant view of immigration. You are so locked into your position that it doesn't matter what you are shown, you will ignore it and instead fall back to your ignorant position.

And please, tell me why a tech news aggregator is the place for ignorant anti-immigration rhetoric?
Sure, if he doesn't care that his fancy tables and CSS formatting will look
like sh&t on my terminal, defeating the very first thing that marketing
material must do: look good.
Big fan of FastMail. Roughly $50 a year to control my email destiny? No brainer.
>PhD in Artificial Inteligence

>Inteligence

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Looking at the article I see he's running on a raspberry pi. I would guess the problem is that the openjdk aarch32 jit is not correctly implementing the java memory model as final fields should have been initialised before an object is visible in another thread.

So it's not really that BigDecimal isn't thread safe, but that there's a bug in the JIT.
France doesn't get anywhere even close to what Harvey dumped on Houston.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40554842 - Paris got 54mm of rain - "heaviest July deluge on record", "the equivalent of 27 days of rainfall".

Harvey has dumped 25x that (51" and rising) on Houston.

If you dumped half that on Paris, I guarantee it would be a national disaster on the same scale.
Strange how difficult it is to get a non-political unbiased view of man-made climate change, isn't it?
Does anyone have any metrics on headless vs headed browser testing? Can you say headless is 25% faster and 20% more reliable? What is the sales pitch for headless browsers for UI automation?
Funny that you mention zoning - Houston has none. There's a guy living next door to an amusement park and during the summer has to listen to the screams of the adjacent roller coaster riders every 2.5 minutes. It's just an accepted part of living there.

However, Houston does have building codes, and structures must withstand 130-150 mph winds, depending on location and other factors. So new-construction buildings and those undergoing significant renovations must have things like hurricane-rated glazing, and roof ties to prevent them from being blown off.

https://edocs.publicworks.houstontx.gov/documents/divisions/...
Traces of 6,000-year-old wine discovered in Sicilian cave
> the world was warming up already as part of its natural cycle

Do you think climate change is man made?

I agree strongly with the rest of your post, the article was way to political and could've supported the claim 'warmer earth -> more storms'. But those positions are easily supported, which makes the lack of such support even more egregious.
Firefox [0] and Chrome [1] have policies for when to show Unicode and when to show raw punycode. You can also set flags to force them to show punycode all the time.

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/IDN_Display_Algorithm#Algorithm

[1] https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/idn-in-...
Is there an ICO generator yet? I remember there was one for altcoins a while back.
Yeah, we were talking about something really fun, like being able to melt a boulder or something. %^)
Here's a video of a public axe throwing contest with amateur participants, no backstop, and people directly behind it.

https://youtu.be/EeiMvKuXs0E

People endanger the public at large all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. There is no decent world in which acts which merely pose a danger to the public are illegal before they cause that danger.
No, that's two different concerns.

Headless Chrome/Firefox render the website into a framebuffer in memory (instead of on the screen), but websites still look the same. You can extract an image file from this framebuffer and it will look as if the browser had been running in normal GUI mode.

Lynx on the other hand renders onto a text terminal, which is a completely different output device compared to a pixel-based framebuffer.
Remember that if you pass through any data from an outside source, you're running their code on your browser when you thought you were just printing a document.

The security issues don't apply in all circumstances, of course, but if you feel like taking a shortcut to PDF generation and printing through a headless browser, you need to keep them in mind.
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Show HN: Video stabilization used by YouTube
I just finished reading through the VSP saga. That was very interesting.
I didn't say he was good at doing the job consistently, just that he seems pretty fanatical about enforcing it. I can see him ignoring the political side of things and enforcing laws very comprehensively depending on how it fits his ideology and the mood he's in that day.
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Ah, yikes. Duly noted.
It's a simple issue, bar entities that should not have conflicts of interest from accepting gifts/investment/etc that could create a conflict of interest.

It is appalling how US senators are allowed to receive gifts or be compensated in creative ways by companies.
PhD in Grammar Nazism?
I suppose Maricopa County could in some ways be considered foreign territory, but bastard Joe was an American county sheriff in an American state...
Let me see, the title reads "Open Markets Applauds X" where X is a court verdict against those who're funding the think tank that produced the article.

Regardless of the content of the article or the fairness of the court's decision, the title itself is inflammatory and nothing less than indicative of someone having a beef and thumbing their nose at Google.

The lack of self-awareness on part of whoever came up with that title is astounding.
Eh, same vein of humor. I'll allow it.
> bribe anyone in their way

Do you have a source for this claim?
Terry had Ocular Alzheimer's disease. He "wrote" by either dictating to Rob or using speech recognition software.
In your estimation, are you placing the very active and loud anti-corporate voices in this country outside of American politics, or merely denying that they are genuine?
i'm sure it could still be recovered through forensic means from the pieces if one really wanted to
Do you have a suggested alternative guide and judge? Perhaps religious leaders and liberal journalists?
America's business is business.
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Perhaps I am a "crank".

Refutation as in "you overlooked this standard point that undermines your position", like maybe "polarised light describes a perfect circle", or "the gravitational field of a black-hole (when shaved) is a sphere".

AFAIK there's nothing truly infinite, nor perfectly geometric, that we can experience in our physical spacetime -- I'd like to hear from those who can show me that's wrong.

The world itself isn't axiomatic, if certain theories/systems that are unfalsified show parts of it are infinite/etc. -- despite that just being a model -- that's an interesting result.
Of interest in the article is this:

> flooded fire ants deliver higher doses of venom because they have 165 percent as much venom inside them as normal fire ants

Growing up in rural Texas I can assure you that fire ants were never to be messed with (unless you had fire/gasoline).

I got stung once 3 or 4 times on my ankle, which was swollen for about 3 days. The bites were hug. The oozed a milky liquid. We doused them in calamine lotion, but it still didn't stop something like arthritis from hurting.

Having been stung by wasps and bees, I find those preferable to fire ant stings. I couldn't imagine getting stung by something over 50% worse.
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Related: a book Pratchett teased but didn't complete was about tax management: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_Taxes
Definitely no bias in the take you linked...

Whatever you wanna say about how regulation worked out for trains in the US, the situation in the early era of US rail was not a good one. It was one of the worst monopolies we've seen and was terrible for the workers.
Don't abuse language features
Unless you are in totality or near totality, I doubt a child would notice anything special is going on. Unless, of course, they notice a bunch of other people staring at the sun through glasses--and then attempt to do the same thing sans glasses.

I was just in an area of 70% coverage and away from all the starers, I did not notice anything special going on. It was a bit dimmer at mid-day, but that could have been easily ascribed to cloud coverage.
I agree that it may not make much of a difference. This seems to be more of a surface change — i.e. the business model won't change, but the faces behind the trouble are gone and now there is a new leader so everything slowly fades into the past, all of that fun stuff that happens as the dust settles after a period of scandal.

To the point about seeing potential in Uber: they definitely shook things up and grew quickly, but with the competition now growing in their sector, it seems that this growth has slowed a bit and sadly they have been in the news for wrong reasons. If this CEO is aiming for massive growth and pushing revenue way up, could be an uphill battle.

Okay, now with all that obvious stuff out of the way I have to ruminate on the idea of self-driving cars. On HN, with TechCrunch and speaking with friends I have who work in the Valley, you would think self-driving cars are around the corner, may be wifely adopted within 5-10 years and possibly could propel companies like Uber into the stratosphere of Google and Facebook.

My hesitation is that we here on HN and others who spend hours immersed in tech thinkpieces are not indicative of society at-large in certain ways. Something that seems like a fantastic idea to many of us may seem outright scary or "going too far" for the everyday person. I feel like self-driving cars may be one of these ideas. Who knows how long adoption and general acceptance could take? I have no data other than anecdotal to share, so I shall refrain. This is just my gut feeling.
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There's no need to mentally differentiate between all those approaches when writing code with Python's scientific stack.

In practice, code is initially written with relatively little regard for how it affects the performance of Numpy and other libraries like it, and then, afterwards, and only if necessary, these techniques are used to optimize those lines of code that prove critical to performance, typically only a small fraction of all lines.

However, if you're working on a project for which every line of code is performance-critical, then I would agree with you, Python would not be a good choice for that.
James Altucher studied computer science, not liberal arts.
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I feel compelled to jump in and defend the platform I've spent most of my time on for the last 5+ years. Yup, it's not Laravel or some other new, beautiful framework that has the luxury of standing on the shoulders of giants. But it's solid enough, it's constantly being updated... both those are technical considerations. We're talking about launching a product people pay for. WordPress powers 25% of the web. I challenge you to considier the potential market for a product for WordPress vs something like Laravel. Which market is bigger, has more eyes, is more established, and is known to spend money?
I found Discworld by starting with Unseen Academicals that I picked up at Düsseldorf waiting for my flight home from a business trip. I had it finished by the time the car service dropped me off at home.
Go for it, and report back!
> You don't think clean running water is a big deal in sparsely populated areas?

Depends on the region. Around here for example (rural Eastern Canada), a lot of people are drawing still their water from wells on their lands.
No, just English.
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I think it's incredibly hard to give general advice about the Ph.D. process. Even within the same discipline, the work varies greatly from sub-discipline to sub-discipline, and from advisor to advisor.
npm is indeterministic, as I have to mimic its implementation, JNMP isn't deterministic also (but I could make it so, good point)
> and the application server can rwx pretty much everything of interest because that's its job, right?

Eh, I don't know about that. I don't think most application servers are running as root, and I'm pretty sure it's considered bad practice to run them as root, no?

But yeah, they still need to have enough privs to do their jobs, which will be a lot of privs. But you still don't go from that to "might as well just run as root then".
So funny, if the MS of old saw someone was charging $29 a month for a feature, not a product, they would not sit idly by.

Perhaps this can serve as future guidance for those who soon look to encroach on Google or FB turf who may be afraid to act due to anti-trust enforcement.
it would be terrifying wading though the water and seeing a huge mound of fire ants ants floating nearby
> Google's motto was never "do no evil". Previously, it was "don't be evil"

They should probably use a motto that derives from Dungeons and Dragons' lawful/neutral/chaotic good/neutral/evil alignment system, just so we can be sure.

Google would be lawful evil whereas Uber would be chaotic evil.
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What bias? As far as I can tell, the author has no connection to the rail industry.[1] As to your other point, the fact that early rail monopolies were bad doesn't mean that ICC-style regulation was good. You can have labor protections, antitrust enforcement, and safety regulations without having the government be involved in deciding how much a trip from Chicago to Milwaukee should cost. There is a reason there was a bipartisan effort to get rid of those regulatory regimes in the 1960s-1990s, and why Europe copied those reforms in the 1980s-2000s.

[1] If you're referring to the fact that the article appears in the American Conservative, merely being conservative is not a "bias." In any event, left-leaning organizations like the Brookings Institute have featured similar coverage: https://www.brookings.edu/research/the-success-of-the-stagge....
You do realize that "foreign" depends on a perspective? What is "foreign" for me isn't necessarily "foreign" for you. HN readers are from all over the world, and I'm sure much more of them knows what Google is and thus more interested in related news than some "bastard Joe from Maricopa County".
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Of course they do. Their credibility is on the line, and much has already been lost; they will forever be that group who is beholden to Google.