skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
8mb is the local version of the code without gzip and minification. I just tested at the minified version and it is 2.5 megabytes
The biggest tumbler closed down and none of the other existing tumblers are very trustful.
HP had PA-RISC and Itanium so they ported Sun/Oracle's JVM (presumably under some commercial license agreement as this was before OpenJDK) to those platforms and distributed/supported it with their HP-UX. Oracle DBs on Itanium used that port of the JVM too IIRC.
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LocalBitcoins is pretty impractical for significant sums of cash.
Ask HN: What are the cases when one should worry about FB's patents?
How serious is the issue of PATENTS for React and GraphQL? What are some alternatives?
Before changing careers I worked as an agronomist for sixteen years at a fertilizer plant just down the street from the A.O. Smith factory in Ionia.

A.O. Smith was a conglomerate that was famous in agriculture for creating those blue silos you see on farms.
Thanks for the information! CSP definitely sounds like something to look into.
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It is live. I froze mine last night after learning that equifax was waiving the fees (i.e., free) and the pin they returned was no longer the date/time of the freeze. It 'looked' reasonably random-ish, but looks can be deceiving in regards to randomness (http://dilbert.com/strip/2001-10-25).
Seconded - HP Z series are very good quality workstations - very less noise and great Linux compatibility. You can find them cheap as HP refurbs if you want warranty like new, otherwise eBay has them for quite cheap too.
Monero certainly is. Money laundering is now solved thanks to this.

Want to hide your money? Use Monero. There are even services that fulfill BTC orders: you send them Monero, they send BTC to the specified address. There are also services that go the other way.

It uses ring encryption and appears to be well-implemented. It will be with us for a long time.
For every story you read where you notice wrong facts, tens or hundreds of stories are getting things fine.

Almost no one sits down and says "oh, indeed, this article is competent and a correct statement of fact"
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On one hand the name had put me off from wanting to look at it when I first heard about it. But at the same time, it's also the reason I looked, since DB technologies are a dime-a-dozen these days with generic sounding names.

I would still prefer another name though.
Ya, I am aware of that. I don’t think it really weakens his argument that much though. Your bitcoin is only redistributed to new addresses when you send and receive it so even looking at just people who have bought and held it will give you a piece of the puzzle.

You can also compare Bitcoin’s current market cap (~$60 billion) to that of gold ($7 trillion) and see that it still has a ways to go (if it is going to become widely adopted).
As an American who lived in Brazil for 8 years, honestly I'm not sure this is any worse than traditional food.

A typical Brazilian lunch is a piece of meat with beans, sides of rice, french fries, and fried flour (farofa) -- that's right, 3 carbs of empty calories (2 fried) and no real vegetables -- all washed down with mostly-added-sugar "fruit juice concentrate" (cashew apple is really common). Bar snacks are 100% deep-fried, or "pizza" with copious amounts of sugary ketchup (don't ask). Desserts are the sweetest things your tongue has ever touched -- brigadeiros, pudim, essentially all just super-sweet condensed milk.

It's not like the traditional Brazilian diet is full of fresh veggies or nutritional variety at all. I mean, I thought us Americans loved our french fries... but the Brazilians have got us beat!
> People I know who've worked on B2C support got verbal abuse almost daily.

Is this generally the case? I've answered thousands of customer service queries for my (mostly B2C) startup. I can count on two hands the number of angry/abusive emails I've received.
The only thing I didn't like about customer service was being hindered by ass backwards bureaucracy, lazy colleagues without empathy, or outright CRM bugs, to solve the problem. Or to be the first person to actually listen to something that had been fucked up (and documented so poorly) in the last few weeks/month with no fault of the customer. But the customers were awesome for the most part, in some way or another. Either people were lovely; it's amazing how patient and friendly and strong some people can be.. the things I saw (well heard), the odysseys customers went through. Or they and the situation were normal and it was awesome to be friendly to them and give them your best. Or they were assholes and I still learned a lot. I think I liked angry customers I managed to make progress with more than totally benign calls. It wasn't physically or mentally taxing, that is, 99% of the time the stress only ever lasted as long as the call itself at most, and as I said, most of the time I managed to turn stress into something better during the call, and that feels like being a professional lion tamer in a circus run by evil clowns. I went home energized every day. One of my bigger surprises in life, I took the job because I had to, and then stay longer than I had to because I realized "serving" random people sometimes does me good. It also restored a lot of my faith in humanity, I was surprised how cool so many normal people are when you treat them fairly and openly.
The scam was not so much with Brave, but how the BAT token was distributed. There were 184 investors in the BAT ICO -- is this a fair distribution for what is proposed to be the new attention economy?

The scam is in the back end of how ICO's are run. Even if the project is legit, doesn't mean the token distribution was legit. $35m in 30 seconds??

More details:
https://medium.com/the-bitcoin-podcast-blog/a-look-at-the-ba...

https://www.reddit.com/r/BATProject/comments/6lnrf6/screenca...
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> There’s a logic to the maze you have to run to expose fraudulent financial accounts. In an economic system where U.S. consumers carry $12.73 trillion in household debt, you shouldn’t be able to just call up, say “it wasn't me,” and leave thousands of dollars in obligations by the wayside.

Perhaps if it was easier to do that, there would be less of the predatory lending that created such a crippling burden of debt.
You might even get mashed sweet potatoes when you want mashed potatoes, as I learned the hard way.
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SageMath is technically really a large Python library, with over 1 million lines of actual code in Cython and Python. Most Sage development is motivated by pure mathematics research (combinatorics, number theory, algebraic topology, manifolds, algebraic dynamics, etc.) and also undergrad mathematics education. For numerical computation, Sage has some interesting things, e.g., wrapping GSL using Cython, very good interval arithmetic, etc., but we ended up mainly punting to Numpy/Scipy/etc. because most Sage developers are not doing applied math/engineering.

(DISCLAIMER: I’m the guy that started SageMath.)
Ask HN: What do you use for personal document management and archival?
Recently, I have reached the point in one's life where the various important documents one has to keep for one reason or another have begun to pile up. Until now, they've been few enough in number to not require any particular form of management and any risk of losing papers while moving was small. Slowly but surely they've become more cumbersome to deal with, which has lead me to look into some kind of digital document management. The idea of scanning, indexing, and discarding all except a handful of things where the original physical copy matters is appealing.

I've heard some people use Evernote for this purpose, but the idea of entrusting what will eventually accumulate into vast amounts of sensitive documents to a third-party cloud service which is used by many others for the same purpose doesn't sit too well with me. It's just too juicy of a target. Evernote is also "less than svelte" and it seems less than wise to lock all of that up behind a closed source service that could easily go belly up or otherwise lock me out.

So this leads me to the question in the title. What do people here use for this kind of thing?
Especially considering pre-processed foods.

Even though there use pie charts (no pun intended), I liked this visualization.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/what-the-world-eats/

https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...
It works because nearly every institution that would "extend credit" relies on the reports from these agencies to decide to do so. So when they try to pull a report (for you or a fraudster) they get back "sorry, frozen" and that causes them to actually stop and try to actually verify the true identity of the person requesting the loan. If that is you (the proper owner) then you can 'unfreeze' for the purpose of obtaining the loan. If that is a fraudster, they will likely not have your pin's to do the unfreeze, so the bank/business says "no" to the request for money.

[edit: spelling]
Companies like Equifax are fundamentally timebombs. The problem there isn't an IT problem.
It is hard to understand the benefit of a unikernel versus a very stripped down Linux kernel.

If any people from the mentioned project are here, I'd love to hear your answer to this.
> But universities do a good job of teaching law, medicine, engineering, and art.

Or do they? Can you just get a regular job directly after finishing your
degree in law or medicine or engineering, or do you need to get additional
training in the form of internships? Pay special attention to medicine
training and electrical or civil engineering.

> I don't see why it wouldn't teach IT as well,

Actually, it does work just as well -- or rather, just as bad. It's just
the other fields are regulated and you need to have an actual
apprenticeship-like training on top of that.

> especially when the facilities you need are just computers.

It's not just the computers. Out of everything, the computers are the part
that's the easiest to procure. What you need is software that is actually used
and that needs development and/or maintenance and an environment where
students will not destroy system's code (usually it's achieved by guarding by
much more numerous experienced staff). These parts (idea, users, and a way to
keep the system running) are hard to acquire in IT even in industrial
setting.
The worst part about having back pain is that everyone you tell about it recommends some kind of remedy.

That is evident in most of the replies in these threads.
I wish — unfortunately, SageMath doesn’t actually include Octave. I tried to include Octave at one point, but it took far too long to build from source and replicated too much functionality already available in Numpy/Scipy to make it worth the work at the time. I did write a (maybe not so great) pexpect interface between Sage and Octave, and there is also a Jupyter kernel that lets you call Octave from Python. Similar remarks apply to SciLab. A big point of Sage after all is getting open source math software to work together rather than compete. We are all on the same team!
don't forget the caipirinha, usually a double or triple shot of sugarcane rum mixed with sugar syrup and fruit juice (more sugar)... sometimes served with granulated cane sugar on the rim of the glass. needless to say, it gets you hammered in a hurry. or the local beer...

honestly i think the healthiest restaurant food i saw in brazil was the appetizer salad bar at the churrascaria, which is of course the kind of place where you eat until you literally can eat no more.

and, i'm fairly certain brazil was an extreme early adopter of pay-by-the-kilo buffets, if not the birthplace.

the traditional non-european food (apart from churr.) is basically modernized slave food - huge amounts of carb-based calories and deep fried food, for cheap, usually in the form of dense stews with starchy sides. southern/cajun food is very similar.

luckily, brazilians are an incredibly active people whose entertainment culture is centered around outdoor activities, and most of them do not indulge in meals out very often, but as with all other societies that become more affluent over time, the modern less-active lifestyle mixed with the traditional diet is not good.
Which is why you (if you are a US citizen) should look up your congress critter's contact info and send all three of them a message that given this breach, they need to make freezes/unfreezes 100% free for everyone, for ever.

If enough folks write their congress critters asking for "make freeze/unfreezing free of change to everyone", maybe they will do something useful for once.
Among the shallowest of cheapjack Silicon Valley slogans. But certainly revealing of its ethos. In such a climate one could be forgiven for imagining that not everything has to be a commercial product to be used, appreciated, or valuable. What slovenly "artists" we had in the government oh so long ago, who never "shipped" the Internet.
I didn't see as a hit piece. This is a mainstream publication that probably feels the need to explain the basics to the mainstream general populace.

Their conclusion after exploring a number of cryptocurrencies is that the environment attracts a fairly large number of fraudsters, scammers and pump-and-dumpers. Doesn't mean the entire ecosystem is 100% scammers, but the probability of an average joe being hit by a scam is quite high.

What other common use case should they have covered for their readers? Micropayments on the Web? Wide retail acceptance? We know the ship has sailed on those two.
Without any other comment or value judgement it's just worth pointing out that while the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect is named for Murray Gell-Mann, it doesn't come from him. It's a coinage of the fiction writer Michael Crichton. We should probably call it the Crichton Amnesia Effect, but that doesn't sound as cool.
I wonder if we will eventually see open source projects getting a fair cut from cloud vendors. For example, with AWS both their cache offerings are built on open source (redis and memcached), many of their DB offerings (Aurora and RDS versions of MySQL and Postgres) etc.

It seems like giving a meager cut back to these companies could go a long way, rather than forcing them to compete with added features on their own SaaS offerings.

I wonder if this could be done via licensing, i.e a commercial license that only kicks in when you offer the project as a service.

Does anyone know of anything being done like this?
Which subject?
I think we actually agree that it depends on the specifics of the market. Otherwise you wouldn't be bringing up all these additional facts about how academic publishing works compared to other markets. The specifics matter - that's my point.
I suppose a doctor's office and the dentist are two of the rare exceptions. I can't think of any others.

(They generally don't ask for payments till the end.)
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Noob question... What is the "product" that underlies the value of cryptocurrency that is so much more valuable than what underlies an ICO? What is the value of a machine churning hashes? It seems like the value is underlied by securing a transaction ledger + an arbitrarily difficult math problem. So is the value the security of the ledger?
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That is not 'value creation' - that is 'digging holes and filling them'.

The 'innovation' created from 'more advanced tech' to do something entirely useless is not really 'value creation'.

Now - if those 'advanced shovels' end up being used for other purposes, you might argue there is 'value creation' - but no - this is not right.

Why? Because of the distortionary effects of the impetus of the innovation in the first place.

If there is a 'real reason' to make 'better shovels' - then they will get created for that reason. But because they are being created for a non-reason - i.e. digging holes and filling them, well, it's a misallocation of resources.

If the 'false impetus' did not exist, that investment would go elsewhere, and create value for society in more efficient ways.

It's pointless to invest in things that have no value, because there might be indirect innovation elsewhere - just use the money for rational, value creating things - it's much more efficient.
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> I wonder if this could be done via licensing, i.e a commercial license that only kicks in when you offer the project as a service.

The AGPL can be used this way. The project is free and open source, but people wanting to sell it as a service will pay for a commercial license instead of using the AGPL.
The full essay, for those as curious as I was: http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/
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"Bubble" has been used with so many contextual implications that it's practically meaningless.

In this case it's effectively used to describe the digital divide in a new network protocol, just as the dot-com bubble before it.

The casino analogy is accurate only if you ignore what most commentators fail to comprehend: Cryptocurrencies are both a technological innovation and a COMPETING CURRENCY.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking#History_of_free_b...

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

The Federal Reserve is very simply a banking cartel, which gives the United States a single stable currency to conduct transactions efficiently and maintain a unified economy. Obviously the trade-off in this system is a permanent banking oligopoly.

The casino analogy works better if you include the notion that we all live and work within a dramatically larger casino.

To answer the underlying point of the article, most of these cryptocurrencies are as much a scam as CompuServe, Usenet, Netcom, or whatever else is still walled off from the internet stack.
Of course they don't pay artists. That's not the people Spotify has contracts with. Spotify pays labels, and Spotify pays them a lot. That nothing emerges on the other side is not Spotify's fault.
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The "undo tree" in Emacs is a thing of beauty and really helps with interacting with the undo state. https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/UndoTree

I certainly agree I can get by without it. It does seem like daily I will pull up the tree, though, to walk up and down the history to make sure I understand what the last thing I did was.
Being so spectacularly wealthy and having such a large homelessness problem at the same time is unique to California though.

Hence "wealth distribution" problem, not "not having enough wealth" problem.
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I've been living this horror for six years.

If I'm in too much pain to physically get out of bed, how am I supposed to exercise?

I would email you, but you have no contact info. I imagine I will regret posting this. I usually do. Some broken part of my brain has yet to master hearing of someone else's suffering and going "Welp, not my problem!" It is still on my To Do list.

Some general thoughts, that may or may not be useful to you:

One of the benefits of exercise is that it moves lymph. This is how the body cleans your tissues. It is a necessary function for doing repair work. Think of how old buildings get rehabbed: The first step is to rent a giant dumpster and start doing demolition work and hauling out the trash.

Any muscle action at all will help move lymph. If you just can't do anything, warm salt water baths and massage can help your body take out the trash.

The other thing is you probably are dehydrated and suffering various nutrient shortfalls. The body needs resources to rebuild. After major surgery, you need major resources. Doctors never seem to prescribe higher nutrition during recovery. Additionally, medications routinely interfere with the absorption of certain nutrients or cause wasting of those nutrients. You should google this for every medication you take and up your intake of nutrients your drugs are known to deplete.

Spine surgery involves both bones and nerves. Nerves need extra B vitamins and specific fats to help heal. Bones need extra calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, vitamin K and B vitamins to help heal. Bone marrow needs healthy fats.

Some best practices:

Keep a food journal. Read up on symptoms of specific nutrient deficiencies. Taking supplements is easier at first than making dietary changes because you can do a better job of isolating specific variables because you can just add X nutrient instead of swapping one food for another. Do one new thing every week or two so you can watch how it plays out.

Sugar, mint and non drug antiinflammatories (like cinnamon and hot peppers) can help make pain more bearable.

Source: 16+ years of firsthand experience. (I used to be bedridden, and I spent 3.5 years in please-kill-me-now pain. I got myself better after doctors basically wrote me off.)
I've been building out cloud IaaS demos (VMware, KVM, the works) for a decade now and since the beginning I've always needed basically the most amount of RAM and cores that could be shoved into a single physical box. Otherwise, I'd wind up swapping to disk or doing double-nested VMs with mere MBs of RAM and that was horrific before SSDs were cost-effective either. Nobody else besides doing weather simulations / HPC or video editing seems to need this much compute either.

I've been hearing of people buying Mac Pros for cloud demos so they can run VMs on them locally because they're among the most compact, compute and memory dense systems you can buy.
I put "words" in quotes because often time the "grammar marker" is actually part of the word. For instance, in "食べる", I do not actually mean to say that "食" is a word.

Rather, that you can look at something like "食べる林檎" and, using just orthography, find the word boundary "食べる　林檎".

I threw katakana in there just because a word written using katakana instead of kanji does not actually present a problem for this.

Words written in hiragana, however, do present a problem for this naive approach of finding word boundaries, but do not pose a problem unless you have a long string of them.
He may not be an expert on cryptocurrencies, but he's certainly an expert on markets in some ways.
Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?
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