skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yea if you keep your own bitcoin wallet, which if it's in mtgox or a similar exchange is not the case.

It'd be akin to buying up a bond fund vs. keeping a stack of treasury notes in your house. Only here the broker or whatever who is running the bond fund has only been up and running for <10 years, has basically no SEC oversight, and when your funds don't show up in the right amount of time your official method of recompense is "yea just wait awhile longer, we're going through a massive growth phase and are having difficulty dealing with the scale". Oh and in this hypothetical world, this is also the #1 broker in the world who handles >50% of all trades.
This is a HUGE issue in the USA, one which, apparently, too few people know about, or take seriously.

More and more companies are insisting on customers signing binding arbitration clauses as a condition of doing business: car dealers, banks, airlines, you mention it. It's all very well to say, well, don't do business with them, when all the competition are doing the exact same thing. If you need, say, a new car, well, good luck getting one without signing most of your rights away, and this is no exaggeration.

Binding mandatory arbitration clauses mean that you cannot sue the company, and agree to accept the verdict of the arbitrator, for which there is no appeal, and who is generally hired by the company having the arbitration dispute and is therefore impartial /s.

I have read FTC field reports about vehicle warranty claims where one arbitration decision was so outlandish even the FTC wrote that it was irrational, and the vast majority were in favor of the dealer.
I might be reading this wrong, but nothing in the article says that the SEC supports ICOs that are not obviously securities. Instead, the more reasonable conclusion is that the SEC will go after the most flagrant violators first, which isn't the same thing as the first statement.

It's not terribly surprising either. Regulatory agencies have limited resources, so they must necessarily focus their efforts on actors that cause the most damage or openly violate the rules. But it would be a stretch to say they show support for all the other ICOs they don't go after.
Well, they're not marketed like this.
I disagree. Not understanding how my car works is not a problem for ownership, so long as I can decide where to delegate all the maintenance etc that requires it to work. When I can choose my mechanic, I own it. When I have to take it to a dealership, because of all the DRM'd electronics inside, I no longer do.
So you're saying fear-mongering "works." Specifically, in an attention-based market, this generates profits more successfully than other strategies. Or to put it another way, there's more money in keeping people fearful.
The problem IMO is that stocks outperform bonds in the first place because of the debt-based economy. I suspect it is part of why Glass-Steagell was repealed in the first place.
In short because an optical engineer at apple checked that the emission was at a safe level, and if it wasn't they'd be shafted by lawsuits. Assuming it's a laser, it'll be a Class 1. The emitter is short range, so the power doesn't need to be as high (though interesting to see how well it works outdoors).

> Workers in hot environments, exposed to IR, developed lenticular opacities due to IR irradiance in the order of 80–400 mW/cm2 on a daily basis for 10–15 years

That is really high. The original Kinect has an output power (at the emitter) of around 60mW. The expanded beam is safe to look at beyond a centimeter or two (I think less, actually) due to energy conservation.

On top of that you're only being exposed for a second or two to grab the depth image, not 5 minutes.
> your token gives the holder some special ability.

It's that category that the SEC appears uninterested in. Some ICOs (like Brave's) are tokens that entitle you to goods or services on the platform in the future. These are effectively currency scrip (or "gift cards" in the article's terminology), and the SEC seems to consider them outside its jurisdiction.
For anyone else like me who was overwhelmed by all the information and just looking for summaries:

"In one sentence, how does it work?

Payment Request API enables a user to complete a transaction more easily by reusing information stored in the browser or third party payment apps."

https://github.com/w3c/payment-request-info/wiki/FAQ
I've seen a larger amount of instability in Windows than in Linux. Having a stable ABI doesn't help much.
To be fair Google knew about the iPhone well before Microsoft did (they worked closely with Apple in the beginning for Maps and search).

But even adjusting for that it took MS 3-4 years after the iPhone to just get Windows Phone 7 out, and that was also clearly a rushed release, because they had to throw everything out for Windows Phone 8.
Then why doesn't it say "Mt. Gox is probably insolvent"? It's also not very helpful to say "Told ya so" rather than "These are the signs to look for in general."
> I don't buy it. Windows provides stable driver ABIs and works just fine.

Depends on the driver, but often they are buggy and will never be updated for the life of a device. Once a device has been sold the manufacturer doesn't care about support. Most linux CVE's are in drivers, imagine how many are lurking in the binary blobs of random third parties?
It's not about laughing, it's about being disorderly. Has little to do with "free speech", stop click baiting.
Windows, at least for me, has been exceptionally stable since Windows 7 or so.
> I'm sure it is very context dependent, but I'm very interested. For example, let's say you have information that allows you to forecast the earnings of a publicly traded company to within 1% MoE; for how much could you sell this information (either one time, or periodically) to a financial company?

It is context dependent, but I can give a basic idea. In the example you've given, high four figures per customer per quarter, assuming you just give them a deliverable report once a month and the data is turnkey enough that many customers (30 - 40) can "subscribe" to it. For a fund that wants something more boutique, like exclusivity or a specific company, five figures becomes the floor.

The nature of the business is significant upfront work (setup of data collection and analysis model) followed by infrequent tweaks going forward. Lucrative data on a single hot company could be sold for mid - high six figures per year with very high profit margin for as long as the data is available and the analysis model is both functional and interesting (i.e. delivers an insight not already priced into the market).
> Most linux CVE's are in drivers, imagine how many are lurking in the binary blobs of random third parties?

That's why we should sandbox drivers as much as possible! I'm a big fan of punting a lot of driver work to userspace. How are we supposed to do that if drivers are allowed to use the entire Linux kernel internal API and do whatever they want? How can we possibly isolate a driver that thinks it has the right to take mmap_sem and twiddle PTE bits?
Sounds like olyou should take a refresher ethics course. And if not that, a business course because you're just going to drive your idea into the ground the way you're going. There's your feedback.

By the way, users will instantly close your game if you cause their cpu fans to spin up to 100%

Good luck with your doomed project :)
Maybe this helps too:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/discovery-and...
> "Without 200-400 W of incandescent light, I just can't see clearly enough for the work."

Why can't you use a CFL or LED?
Yes, but you would need an app or browser to navigate through all that mess.
To make impulse buys easier.
From selling food in the street to working for top firms in tech
The catch is, if I try to work with code relying on special stuff, and I don't have your special font, or special extension, etc. your code will look terrible.

Consider for any of these ideas (and the idea of various fonts) just how well it would work for the masses. Consider the mess if someone works on an open source project and checks in a bunch of code formatted for this.

Which is why I guess I'd see any kind of "fancy" spacing or even proportional fonts to be a real problem in an organization or structure where potentially many people, or new people over time, will have to work with the code.
Index funds have to outperform active funds and traders in aggregate by definition. It's not a claim or debate, it's simple math. After savings on taxes and expenses, indexes represent the average + a fair bit more than other options. There is no feedback effect, except that more people indexing will lead to more trading arbitrage opportunities, which people will take and which doesn't hurt indexers, who will continue to take the market average return plus what they save in expenses and taxes. As an aside: the last place to get financial advice is Zero Hedge. Try this instead:

http://www.etf.com/sections/index-investor-corner/swedroe-wh...
Nextdoor can be interesting.

One of our neighbors posted a photo of "chemtrails" and explained her worries about the military jets that are pumping this poison into our skies. She asked if anyone had noticed the particular "X marks the spot" pattern that the chemtrails made that day targeting our neighborhood.

I said that our area (SF Peninsula) has major north-south and east-west airline traffic routes overhead, so it would not be surprising to see an occasional "X" pattern in the sky.

I also mentioned that the trails in her photo actually looked like formations of crystalline dihydrogen monoxide, and I provided a helpful link to http://dhmo.org/ where she could learn more about DHMO.

She thanked me for the post and started citing some of the information from the DHMO FAQ in her subsequent comments!
I'm pretty sure it doesn't. It would just let Stripe add a "use credit card data from your browser" button that avoided making users type it in every time.
I did but that didn't work for me. Btw, were you on a Linode in a southern US city?

- I changed DNSSEC to NO.

- I had DNSmasq running which was apparently blocking systemd-resolved from binding to 127.0.0.1.53#53. I first changed dnsmasq's port to 5300 from 53 and then killed dnsmasq but that didn't solve the issue either.

3. I manually linked resolv.conf to a non standard location which I hand edited to contain the name servers I wanted my server to use - didn't work.
> This shows the fundamental flaw in cryptocurrencies.

Hardly... but if it did, it doesn't mean they're still not worth using and developing.

And traditional banks don't require a physical robbery to be hacked.
Anyone ever play clash of clans? ICOs that don't confer any securities-type value on the buyer (no ownership stake, entitlement to a share future profits, etc.) are basically just gems from clash of clans. You buy them in order to interact with the service, that's it.

I suppose the only functional difference between ICOs and gems from clash of clans is that you can resell your tokens on a secondary market because of the decentralized nature of the system. But so what?? It's a solution to a problem that never existed.
Yes, time of flight makes a direct distance measurement per-pixel. It's based on a phase shift principle; send out modulated light and compare the ingoing/outgoing phases. The phase difference is proportional to the distance the wave travelled.

The original Kinect is basically a one-camera stereo setup. The pattern is known and they perform correlation with a stored image of the pattern at a calibrated distance.
FreeRTOSs heap_1 allocator [1] does the very same. Not such a crazy idea for special circumstances.

[1] https://github.com/maniacbug/FreeRTOS/blob/1d772c834b2e5e9bf...
Making Google Tasks Better; Part 2 [Haskell]
did you ever stop to wonder why every communist state ends up the same? is it possible they misunderstand human motivations and psychology and will always devolve to authoritarianism?
Their bottom up innovation will come to a screeching halt. They will export more young utility focused entrepreneurs fed up and not wanting in to that domineering state whacking their friends. We had a different colonial trajectory, but our own McCarthy era had disastrous cascading outcomes. "Rights to be forgotten" is another peculiar notion popular in some TV propaganda driven Western countries loving makeovers. Keep on rocking in the free world while it lasts.
This would make a lot more sense as a blocklist for ublock than as its own extension. Actually I wouldn't be that surprised to learn it's already blocked.
>> Kids know how to use it to text, exchange ideas or pictures of kittens, draw or sketch, learn how to program (Swift Playground anyone), take and edit photos.

Those things don't sound particularly creative to me [at least not to the extent you can actually do them on a phone] and you don't need an iPhone to do them, either.

Isn't it more the case that kids (and everyone else) are naturally creative and Apple marketing somehow latched on to this as a way to push their devices upon as many people as possible?
"At a high level, the API affects the front end (checkout), not back end. Therefore, merchant's should not have to make changes to backend processing of various payment methods."
Sorry, they actually got it in 2011, had to double check Redfin.
I spawned in the upper left corner outside of the field and couldn't get inside the wall of the field.
I just recently read about this in the You Don't Know JS series of books:

"We can be tempted to look at var a = 2; as one statement, but the JavaScript Engine does not see it that way. It sees var a and a = 2 as two separate statements, the first one a compiler-phase task, and the second one an execution-phase task.

What this leads to is that all declarations in a scope, regardless of where they appear, are processed first before the code itself is executed. You can visualize this as declarations (variables and functions) being "moved" to the top of their respective scopes, which we call "hoisting".

Declarations themselves are hoisted, but assignments, even assignments of function expressions, are not hoisted.

Be careful about duplicate declarations, especially mixed between normal var declarations and function declarations -- peril awaits if you do!"

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS/blob/master/scope...
I've always thought that one of the things that gives Windows drivers the edge over Linux ones is the fact that Microsoft provides a testing and validation suite for drivers [1].

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/downl...
I found out about Consolas by way of Inconsolata.

One day I spent an afternoon looking for a better coding font.

I liked Inconsolata. When I Googled to find out more about it, I learned it is a knock-off of something that was hiding right under my very nose: Consolas found on Windows boxes.

I tried that and found it better. I now have Consolas all over the place. I'm typing in it on Firefox. I have it in Ubuntu right inside Gnome terminal and other places.

Thank you, Microsoft!
There are several options that have noting to do with competence that allow for such returns. The most obvious is feeding the fund using another fund. Luck is another as the best returns from the largest outlier taking high risks looks great especially if you ignore large initial losses.
Can Prosecutors Hide Behind Trade Secret Privilege to Convict You?
You do know what throttling and debouncing are right? Or do you need to take an actual computer science class?
Pirate Bay trialed this but otherwise nobody is doing this at scale right now. The problem is that users will notice and the ROI is miniscule. Even if your users keep the miner running 24/7 you're nowhere near just regular old ads.
SAL/PreFAST are _awesome_ too. I haven't seen anything close in the free world.
What does the 'deterministic' mean in this context? What would be a non-deterministic wallet?
It's there in spirit. VirtualAlloc is extremely flexible. brk is really intended for a segmented environment but it makes it almost impossible to return commit back to the OS.

A lot of unicies allow over commit because of this where windows will fail the alloc. The windows design is much better if you care about handling OOM.
That means you're the coach
The problem it solves is reducing friction on checkout.

For a super quick gist, watch 15 seconds of this video starting at this time: https://youtu.be/NDZw7vtoYnU?t=514
Don't underestimate the nationalism of young Chinese.

And I very much doubt the CP is going to go after administrators who on-the-whole moderate with a pro-Beijing slant because they took 5 minutes too many to delete a comment.

Making assumptions that all young people hate the CP and would betray their country to the west at first opportunity sounds like one of those classic mistakes the West makes when it projects it's own sensibilities onto the world.
> Their bottom up innovation will come to a screeching halt

China didn't have much innovation coming out to start with. China mainly did the steal/force transfer/borrow technology thing.
>I don't buy it. Windows provides stable driver ABIs and works just fine.

I strongly disagree with this statement. Windows is a buggy mess on all levels from GUI down to kernel. It is a consensus of technically enlightened people
As I said, I have doubts. I'm not saying "definitely illegal," just dubious as all hell.

In terms of specifics, maybe not anything criminal (though a prosecutor could try the CFAA), but on the civil side tort law trespass theories, maybe also unjust enrichment theories, would be well worth a try for a plaintiff's lawyer.

But really, I'm thinking in terms of more abstract legal ideas that could use some caselaw development to flesh out---the notion that there's an implied license to use resources on a user's computer to an ordinary extent and for an ordinary purpose---and grabbing onto those resources for this kind of extraordinary purposes without prior notice violates that license in just the same kind of way that (eg) triggering a more conventional malware download would. If you buy that theory (and I tentatively do), then there are lots of concrete legal doctrines to hook it to.
The idea that mining is a waste is a bit strange to me - of course it is a waste, that is the genius insight of it all. Waste is the most powerful thing, it is pure cost, the hardest thing to do, raw sacrifice. There are no tricks or shortcuts to over-taking the blockchain, just pure cost and waste. If the proof-of-work had value and could be sold, it would make the network less safe, and less predictable, subject to the whims of the market for its output, and able to fund its attackers while they attack. Proof-of-work is a nice way of saying proof-of-waste.

There are other types of consensus mechanisms, like proof-of-stake, that are much more energy efficient, with their own set of pros and cons. They should, and will, exist; but there will still always be at least one proof-of-waste blockchain. Waste is the gold-standard of expense.

The environment issue is a societal one. We need to move to clean energy, and we are.
Not yet ready to share, but I will put out a bunch a data when the time is right.

The hardest part is finding interesting challenges for the AI to conquer.
It's because utopian projects are at odds with human nature. Attempts to force human nature to conform to the ideals of utopians in power leads to tyranny and misery. We should bear this experience in mind when looking at our own utopian projects. It's easy to mock China's defiance of human nature, but it's much harder to look in the mirror ask whether we've gone too far in our own pursuits of "justice".
> The complaints you hear frequently all focus on no actual content anymore on timelines but just ads and friends sharing news items, other adds, winner actions, etc.

To expand on this idea, one problem that has irked me with YouTube (I know we're talking about Facebook, but bear with me) is the decreasing amount of original content, at least from what I see. (I don't actually have objective data about this, only commenting on what I see from recommendation lists and the homepage). There are way too many content farms that just post videos of "Top 10 X" or "Most shocking Y" or "Z things you need to know about ...". It's almost a form of rent-seeking: these people aren't contributing much to the platform, but want to rake in the ad revenue or likes/views. They don't create, only re-arrange.

Objectively speaking, though, Facebook has seen a decrease in original content [0]. People are writing fewer original posts about whatever, and instead just re-sharing things more. It's (in my opinion) a sad trend for any social network; what was once supposed to be about the user has become more about clickbait and celebrities who churn out content.

This was probably one of the greatest contributing factors for me quitting Facebook - even though I had friends from school friended, the platform didn't provide any value in terms of reading more about their lives, seeing the things they were doing or thinking, etc. All they did was re-share clickbait, mainstream articles, or articles that appealed to emotion and "teams" (Democrat/Republican).

If someone out there is to design a competing social network, they should consider explicitly marking posts as "Original" where appropriate. If someone shares disproportionately compared to the amount they write original posts, send them a notification, and possibly scale back their posting abilities so the network doesn't turn into a giant cage of parrots like we have now, just re-posting digital noise.

[0] http://fortune.com/2016/04/07/facebook-sharing-decline/
Also, who said this was a business? I'm a goddamn 22-year-old webdev, I don't give a fuck about ethics or conservation or profit margins. My doomed project is the same goddamn project it has been since I started working on it, and your smug opinion of the optional feature it took me five minutes to implement doesn't change that.
Platform Cooperativism
Except he didn't completely die, he was actually cryo-preserved. Although you can look at it in multiple ways.
I've personally never had any problem stemming from the lower levels of the system ever since Windows 7. Whenever I've seen major bugs on Windows, it was on user space stuff like the profile corruption that breaks the start menu and metro/UAP apps in Windows 10 after the major updates which can be fixed by deleting the user and creating a new one.

Windows also has a more robust architecture where it matters, like the fact that a GPU driver crash doesn't kill the user session (windows can reload that subsystem while keeping the user session running since Vista), whereas it can either kill Xorg or just outright freeze the system on linux. A very useful way to architect the OS, although I've only experienced it on Vista and had more stable GPU drivers from 7 onward.
It it's quick it will recover fast, it's if it's a grinding situation like Venezuela or Ukraine or Syria, where change occurs but there are still large blocs of people fighting for the government then it gets horrible.
Congratulations, I guess?
Here's what I found with some Googling with a mix of strengths and weaknesses. Also, note that the one with fragmentation might not be a problem if using clustering with regular replication and fail-over. Depends on how quickly it fragments but small, regular restarts can knock out lots of issues like that.

Wait-Free

http://www.non-blocking.com/download/Sun04_WaitFreeRef_TR.pd...

Lock-Free 1

http://www.win.tue.nl/~jfg/articles/CSR-04-31.pdf

Lock-Free 2

http://www.non-blocking.com/download/gidpst05_lockfreegc_tr....

Far as restarts, you being a Java guy on distributed systems might find the Micro-Reboots paper interesting too as it ties into above tip:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/osdi04/tech/full_papers/...

https://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/people/fox/static/pubs/pdf/j0...
Marketing Automation for restaurants
To enable micropayments for content such as news.