skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The aspect I like the most is BTC becoming a global currency. It's so nice wiring "money" to friends/family/businesses and not worrying about exchange rates, multiple banks taking a percentage en-route, sending limits, choosing between SWIFT, SEPA etc. or trying to track down the beneficiaries bank address. Sending BTC is so frictionless: open wallet, paste receiver's address, specify amount and hit send (transparency bonus: watch in real time as your "money" instantly starts moving through the network and gets confirmed in the receiver's wallet).

Admittedly, for now at least, you still need to on-ramp/off-ramp BTC in to fiat in a lot of cases but as bitcoin adoption increases this will become less and less of an issue (you can see the beginnings of this already with a lot of employees working for companies that have done an ICO opting to be paid in BTC/crypto-currency rather than fiat).
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For those who like me didn't know what "priming" is in this context:

"Priming is a theory in which an implicit memory effect in which exposure to one stimulus (i.e., perceptual pattern) influences the response to another stimulus. ... For example, NURSE is recognized more quickly following DOCTOR than following BREAD."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming_(psychology)
People would give you funny looks for standing up to stretch? People need to stop caring what others think.
Thought a little too fast there.
3. Now 1/3 of pages I'm visiting I need to make request to google because someone wanted to use a 5 lines of JS from jQuery.
> A Microsoft representative said Windows Phone was never vulnerable.

it says it right there in the article
Mmap - I can't think of a scenario where it improves over read or write in the context discussed here: async access. Mmap is synchronous, and you can't do select/poll on it.
I'm an author of the underlying paper:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3025604

This article is very misleading in several ways:

(1) we do not work for the Finnish Central Bank in any way nor does the content of the paper reflect any views of the Finnish Central Bank (so far as I'm aware), the paper was merely included in their working paper series

(2) the main content of the paper is to contrast the economic model of bitcoin that of a monopolist service provider, from the abstract:

"A simplified economic model that captures the system's properties answers these questions. Transaction fees and infrastructure level are determined in an equilibrium of a congestion queueing game derived from the system's limited throughput. The system eliminates dead-weight loss from monopoly, but introduces other inefficiencies and requires congestion to raise revenue and fund infrastructure. We explore the future potential of such systems and provide design suggestions."
The use cases I know of for lidar don't usually include a glancing reflection off a large flat surface.
I did something similar with AWS's S3, Lamba and a google spreadsheet.
For me a big difference between package signing and HTTPS is that with HTTPS the private key has to be on the web server all the time, so is constantly exposed.

With a package signing key, it can be held on a more easily secured system, and is therefore less likely to be compromised.
It's referred to as "their internal network", but these taps were not within their buildings, as far as I recall. From my understanding, these are still leased lines run externally from facility to facility. It's been generally assumed that nobody is between points A and B on that line, but the line is still largely traveling through unsupervised space, and we are not the only government to have invested significant resources into tapping lines. (I believe both the US and Russia has submarines specifically designed to facilitate tapping undersea cables.)
Not really. I believe the journalist did sign a document that she knew where the emergency exits were, and the only "damning" thing she found on-site was an unclean bathroom and generally difficult work.

This whole thing seems like such a non-story to me. Maybe it's because I've worked in factories before, but I've personally had more harrowing experiences on my 1st day than anything mentioned in this article.
> The curves are drawn at a given point in time, what you're doing here is recording supply/demand over time

Supply tables show producer activity at a point in time. Linear models don't model elasticity or endogeneity. Taking activity across a period in time is perfectly fine for this kind of a model.

By the way, we discovered and characterized elasticity and endogeneity by measuring deviations from said linear model. In some cases, the deviations were predictable. That expanded the box of situations in which the model was broadly useful.

Of course the introductory model isn't useful in most cases. But it (a) can be empirically validated in a predictable set of markets and (b) naturally extends itself to cover more ground, e.g. non-linear, endogenous and failure effects.

> You would have to assume in addition that the curves didn't change over the time period so you could say this data are the demand/supply curves

This is a fine assumption for a bare-bones model. If someone wants to shrink the box of uncertainty around their predictions they can learn more finance and economics.

TL; DR these models work well enough that people who understand them, and their limitations, will be able to make better predictions than those who don't.
That's more specifically a Southern Californian thing- people moving from Northern California to SoCal find it strange.
Those teams are pretty motivated to protect users as well, because user population and network effects are key to their business models (perhaps a bit more for Facebook than for Google but still). If users started feeling like visiting those sites exposed them to security risks, as well as the existing privacy concerns, it would be disastrous for the bottom line.
whops, missed that.
What specificity is missing? I think it’s fairly simple.

Firstly, I think we can completely ignore "misdeeds". Nothing in the creation of this photograph occurred contrary to anyone else's wishes.

In a nutshell, there was two slightly different versions of events here, which lead to opposing conclusions.

The first version was the tagline the photo was originally published under. A "monkey's selfie".

Now, if I say "pass me my phone", or "may I borrow your phone", and then take a 'selfie' with it; I think it's pretty clear that the "creative input" was mine, not yours. So the question becomes "if I, a monkey, am not legally recognised as a person capable of copyright - does it fall to you, or does it simply fail to be copyrighted".

So that's the example I was trying to frame. That if that monkey was me, the copyright claim wouldn't even be a question (nor would anyone be looking at the photo). But ironically, the description that created the commercial demand of the photograph, also destroyed the photographer's ability to commercially exploit it.

Then we got the later, long-form version of events. That the camera was intentionally staged for this, a wide-angle intentionally selected for this, the remote intentionally positioned for this, etc. "how the sausage is made", but basically the photographer reasserting that the "creative input" was his.

The whole thing then got lost in a limbo; a court in the US, and the ICO in the UK, have both said animals cannot own copyright. Neither has opined on whether an animal is capable of "creative input". If they are, the monkey was likely the primary source of creative input, not the photographer (in which case there simply is no copyright). If they're not, then he'd be the sole creative input, and the copyright is his.

Ultimately I think the photographer shot himself in the foot.

(I do have other questions though. If a US court has said a monkey cannot own copyright, how was this PETA case even a thing? How are PETA able to assert themselves as the IP agent for an Indonesian monkey? And why are the actions of a British photographer, acting in Indonesia, being opined in a US court?)
You're that way until that behavior gets you in some real pain, then you stop caring about the looks you might get.
Edit: MacArthur's reconstruction of Japan is just a easily identifiable event. What I am really saying though is how industrious the Japanese people have been since the age of exploration. Perhaps the seminal event should have been Commodore Perry or the Meiji restoration.
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How would they be able to quickly take the wheel and brake if something happens? I think the opposite is true, if you need longer reaction time it's probably a bad idea to not be fully immersed in the driving until an accident is imminent.
Make a very decent interpreter for a language that is good for writing compilers (without a question, a Lisp of some sorts, of course, ha).

Then, write the compiler in that language.

The compiler walks the code just like the interpreter, but instead of interpreting, it spits out a translation.

Spitting out some kind of translation into something isn't a very high bar; the difficulties are all in optimization: things like analyzing lexical scopes for the presence of closures which escape, so as to be able to stack-allocate environments that aren't captured by closures. Plus all those other difficult things: like turning a program into a graph of basic blocks and doing flow analysis; register allocation, selection of instructions for a myriad target machines, debugging suport, and so on. Any of these requirements can be excluded from a compiler, yet it's still a compiler.

The "Lisp in 500 lines of C" (plus accopmanying .lisp) file implemented a compiler. The complete source is hard to find, but here is a derivative project: https://github.com/jackpal/lisp5000

A chunk of init500.lisp implements compilation to C. Search the file for terms like "compile" and also "deftransform".

If you've ever written a macro, you've written a piece of a compiler. Macros take an input syntax tree and spit out a new one. Many actions traditionally associated with a compiler (by Lisp-unaware computer scientists) can be done by macros or in the macro expander. Basic compiling is a lot like macro expansion. It can actually be Lisp-to-Lisp even; the transformers can spit out a Lisp data structure representing a target language. (Heck GCC spits out a Lisp-like data structure for intermediate code. Of course; it was originally a project started by Stallman.)
"So, there might be a priming effect but the studies that Kahneman used don't necessarily show that? Is that right?"

Perhaps more importantly, there still might not be.

Part of the problem is that priming isn't a binary thing, but a range. Some uses of things that could be described as priming are so well established that even if they are not "science", they are certainly engineering, inasmuch as marketers successfully use them routinely. On the other hand, studies that seem to show that if you flash words of negative connotation faster than they can be consciously read (or possibly even consciously seen), pictures conforming to stereotypes associated with those words are slightly more quickly recognized may turn out to be bunk they intuitively are after all. (Note that I'm not saying they're bunk because our intuition says they are. But contrary to what seems to be a somewhat popular belief, it is in fact possible for our intuition to be correct. It's one of those things where you only ever hear about where it's wrong, precisely because that is in some sense news. It's right quite often, moreso for one trained on existing science.)

Personally I'd say this is one of those cases where the recent Nature proposal to up the standard of significance from 0.05 to 0.005 would probably have been helpful. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15192610 If implemented it wouldn't solve everything instantly, but it would certainly raise the bar on this sort of side track being taken.
Well, it's a glorified cruise control, so it makes some sense, even if it's not optimal. My cruise control doesn't recognize profiles or other aspects either, nor does it the read of other vehicles, because it's an old dumb system. The last time I used a lane assist system (a few months back), it had a hard time even finding the lane. These are not self driving cars, these are driver assisting cars.

You should probably have a stronger sense of safety making a long trip with a 16 year old that just got their license driving. Even then, I wouldn't feel too comfortable taking my attention from the road for too long.
Huh, I'm not a Californian by any means, but now that I think about it I say "the 217", "the 26", etc. Have I been corrupted by Californians that have moved to Oregon?
That seems to be a specifically southern California thing.
I was about to make a very similar comment and have very similar positions as you. The "Autopilot" feature is in this weird no-man's land of being in between two good places. As the article points out, the ambiguity of who's doing the driving is dangerous. The whole "you must be ready to override it" caveat really ignores what many people know about human behavior: if allowed to misbehave, someone will. The first X times the drivers are allowed to ignore the caveat and not have consequences will embolden him to continue doing it until something bad happens. It seems almost reckless on Tesla's part to release the feature this way.
So, are you doing the responsible thing and not using a laptop, or any device that's vulnerable, like a router?
I think you replied to the wrong parent comment?
I hope they address memory consumption at some point too.
you are the one pushing rhetoric, and taking my money is not a point for debate.

I experienced this first hand with Philadelphia's soda tax (to fund universal preschool), which has been a spectacular yet tragic failure thus far.

at least with the tax, it was 'said' to have been appropriated for it, but capitals gains simply do not go for schooling children. those are funded mostly local, please play your 'ALL'/'NONE' lawyer ball somewhere else.
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>point was that I didn't have anything distinguishing me as being from the south growing up, but that I picked up an accent (at least to a Syracuse person's ears) while living in Atlanta. It surprised me given I'd only been there a couple years

That tends to happen a good amount, I think. I've seen it happen to me (subconciously picking up the use of certain accents or local words), after moving from one region of India to another, say between central / northern / southern parts, and also to other people (Indian colleagues) when we went to Malaysia. Within a few weeks, some of them were adding -la (pronounced lah) to the ends of their sentences, which is a thing that local people do there.
I like it. The whiteboard seems to be an anachronism but in reality, I suspect its something people cling to. Just look at every office space. Whiteboard or Idea Paint galore!
Basic rules like "if you decrease supply the price will go up" are true in more cases than they aren't. I agree, however, that entry-level students tend to overfit their models. If they never receive later training, they go into the world with a faulty view. Those same people then find those models failing in places we've known, for decades, they fail (in some cases, in a predictable way) and then come back to blame the models.
I walk 10 mins every 1 to 2 hours and use that time to review. I try to find ways to solve problems in ways that are more fun, easier, and effective. So to me a 10 min break is a work requirement.

Ah, the old Walk-n-Talk meeting style.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkAndTalk

If I could get Alan Sorkin's endorsement I'd sell it as a work out routine and make millions.
That's unfortunate because I'm pretty sure I and all of my Canadian friends/family use an article with a highway or freeway number.
Amazing comparison of Hurricane Irma from the new GOES-16 vs the old GOES-13:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QCJlBDAK80

The performance jump in capture time and resolution blew me away. Really exciting to see it coming on-line.
Street lighting predates cars.
I agree, I am just saying, depreciation is not a free pass, since when you sell, you have to pay the tax.
Seemed to me like it was some sort of bayes classifier. Either way, clearly classic ML.
This is how I can tell where a scriptwriter is from when watching TV or movies. In the Southeast, no one refers to the interstate or highways like that. But many series and movies set here insist on referring to the I-95 or the US-41.
https://tengrinews.kz/kazakhstan_news/kak-vyiglyadit-proekt-...

see chart with three rows for other vowel sounds
In cryptography, there's the concept of a "nothing up my sleeve number". The idea is that if an arbitrary constant has to be put into an algorithm, the author should describe exactly how they picked the number (it's the digits of pi, etc) in a way that leaves no obvious room for maliciousness. (In some algorithms, a specially-crafted constant can create a backdoor.)

I'm rapidly thinking of safe languages in the same way as "nothing up my sleeve numbers". Code written in a safe language is much easier to verify that there aren't any intentional or unintentional backdoors put in by the author.
Same! This really is the only reason I don't use atom as of now
I'm not saying current wages are fairly calibrated, but some work is actually more physically and/or mentally stressful per hour, and some work requires more training. Under your system, how do you prevent people from avoiding difficult work and/or work that requires extensive training? Central planning?
> But as you age you'd want to shift into less-risky assets

Not if you are wealthy. If your money might not last you have to shift to conservative assets. But if you have 10x what you need for the rest of your life you can keep investing aggressively.
Has Hugo made any progress with intergrating Jupyter Notebooks as a blog post? The latest version of Blogdown was just realeased and the R community has now an even better way of writing blog posts.
Their FAQ even mentions migrating from listserv as an option by talking with their team.
Using AI to identify protestors hiding behind hats or scarves is possible
The trickery is in the use of the words "static site" which has become a buzzword (buzzphrase? buzzwords?)for sites generated using a "static site" generator or tool, in this case Hugo is used. The rest of the process is considered the "building" part of a "static site" even though to those of us making sites just a few years ago static site meant open up notepad and write some HTML to push somewhere, that or Freewebs to others (or webs as it is now).
I wonder how bats perceive the AT&T "Batman Building" in Nashville, TN.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Building_(Nashville)
Some of it might be related to partisan politics, in which these organization play an increasingly important role. Some of it might be competitors or would-be competitors. A pretty fair bit, especially here, is likely to be sour grapes and tall poppy syndrome. Some people feel they deserve those billions, and are extremely bitter toward those who actually succeeded.
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That might be quite tricky - I suspect the regional variations aren't quite as strong as they used to be but where I grew up (a small fishing village in North East Scotland) it was possible to identify people from a farming rather than a fishing background due to them having a different accent even though they lived perhaps 1km away...
I cringe reading "belief in well-supported scientific conclusions is not optional."

Belief is always optional, if you want people to believe you have to get them to opt-in to believing. Telling them they must believe rarely accomplishes this and is endemic of the type of the scientism that has displaced real science. Of course, the thing this clown was telling us we didn't have the option of disbelieving turns out not to be true. I suppose now he's willing to grant us that option. How exactly does Kahneman expect people to distinguish "well-supported" science from not "well-supported" science when he himself is obviously wholly incapable of doing so?
My guess is that allow an app to turn it on/off as needed. I have a Pebble watch so I need the bluetooth on. Right now it's either always have the Bluetooth on or I don't use the watch. So I'm assuming that they meant that there could be a way to allow an app (or the OS handles this) to start up bluetooth, pair, send its message, then turn off. Like some form of Push Notification style Bluetoothing. That seems like it'll just add a whole bunch of more problems but I'm sure there are smart people out there that can figure it out.
Like the great George Carlin once again, if you wanna stop illegal drugs just start executing the bankers laundering the drug money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDO6HV6xTmI&feature=youtu.be...
Sure, but the human error is having too much confidence in the autopilot.
1% of 300 million is still 3 million people. That's a lot of people making a lot of money.
> [Utilize] the power of language servers to provide deep syntactical analysis of your code and projects.

Having my code analyzed by others' servers just so I can have better autocomplete does not sound like something I want.
> English "th" represents two different sounds

Three main ones (excluding compounds where it's really a “t” next to an “h” that aren't related): in IPA terms, they are θ,ð, and t.

> and English speakers manage just fine, because in its sound system they are totally distinct and never confused with each other.

English speakers do okay because they learn fairly quickly that written English isn't phonetic and you just have to memorize spelling, not because of a lack of ambiguity.

Nothing about “Thai” vs. “thigh” vs. “thy” tells you which “th” sound each uses (and in pronunciation, the “th” sound is the only difference between them) except knowing what each word is as a rule unto itself.
The post explains this: they don't. Standing water exhibits the same behavior as reflectiveless flat surfaces.

When they fly over a space and "see" nothing beneath them, they interpret this emptiness as a flat, smooth body of water.

Thus the only real problem here is that for flat horizontal surfaces that aren't water, the bats will try to drink from them.
Work through The Make-A-Lisp Process[0], which finishes at “Step A: Metadata, Self-hosting and Interop.”[1]

From there, you’ll be more than ready to generate machine code.

[0]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md

[1]: https://github.com/kanaka/mal/blob/master/process/guide.md#s...
Easier to filter out than incandescents, not easier than the old sodium lamps. Also a single color LED is not too bad. But a (good) white LED has many primary color LEDs and phosphors to broaden the color spectrum as much as possible.

But IMHO, wrt to incandescents they still suck.
How else would you say it?
Thanks! For sure, can be hard to keep track after that number.
The servers run entirely locally on your machine.
Yep, I was using Atom for 6 months, I wanted to give a solid go. But now I am back to sublime text.

I can't really put my finger on it, but sublime text is just snappy and reliable in ways that Atom isn't. Got really tired of Atom lagging because I'm typing too fast, got tired of lockups and hanging. VS Code has very simillar issues too.

It was a nice experiment (can we do editors in HTML/JS?), but I'm convinced native is the only way to go for proper editing.
They should pay for for freezes on the other major credit reporting services as well.