skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Last night I watched "Guardians Of The Galaxy 2", which featured a Cat Stevens song I knew well.

I was surprised that such a song would be offered. I was, in fact, distracted by the song lyrics against the movie dialogue due to this and I'm not complaining about that. It was just so surprising, because Cat Stevens.

And I'm glad for it. The last I heard of him was getting stopped by TSA Theatre because of his life-change in name and perhaps religion change over a decade ago. Hearing his music in "pop culture" in "current year" is refreshing.
How Traders Are Making Money as Oil Prices Go Nowhere
There's a world of difference between being customer support in the b2c space versus b2b imo.
Western fast food companies are aggressively expanding in Brazil
There is this
http://www.newshub.co.nz/entertainment/yusuf-islam-get-over-...
where he doesn't seem to want to apologize. I'm not buying it, either.
*depreciates
How durable would Silicon be in this application? Those teeth look awfully delicate.
Ask HN: What is it like to work for AWS / GCP / Azure?
The three large cloud service providers (Amazon, Google and Microsoft) keep pushing the boundaries of software and announcing new products all the time.

I'm curious what it feels like on the inside of one of these places. Do you get to solve interesting technical problems and write new software, or is it far less glamorous than what it seems from the outside?

Thanks
That's not entirly true. The branch manager has discression. I know because when I first moved to Canada I had no such ID and opened an account after asking for the branch manager.
Is This Hotel an Airbnb Killer?
This one is super coarse, there are much finer ones:

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

I've played around a bit with such super light metals and aerogels as well, they are very interesting materials with surprising properties.
If I'm not mistaken, the UK uses price-cap regulation in electricity distribution, which is one where government just sets a maximum per unit price for electricity. The standing charge only pays the cost of maintaining his own individual connection to the network, but the fixed cost of installing and maintaining the distribution network go into everything else in the bill. So an UK's consumer "variable" electricity costs are actually the firm's fixed costs.
I don't buy it that everyone would be a digital creative if they just had the right tools. To make quality content, whether it be apps/music/movies/etc..it requires much more than tools.

I respect Alan Kay, but I don't understand the need to bash on modern day technology.

Have we really come along way in terms of general computing? Maybe not [Example: 0]. But in terms of the digital world, I can take a video of my parents and send it to my cousin who lives 10,000 miles away and he can respond in a matter of seconds.

I can literally meet people in remote areas of the world. I can interact with people who barely have food but somehow can get cell phone access and now they are learning and communicating with everyone else. I can't imagine a better way to level the playing field (socioeconomically) globally then how we have it.

Do we have a lot more work to do? Sure. But Rome wasn't built in a day.

The future of the internet & technology, the direction it's headed, is going to come from small contributions from millions across the world.

What people will need will turn into what we have and use. And there won't be some magical device that just pops out of nowhere that will change everything.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
"Banks have discovered that they can siphon off all the productivity increase + 2% every year, without people complaining too much. They accomplish this currently by increasing the money supply by 5% per year, getting this money returned to them at an interest."

This bit is missed by large swaths of the population. But it's not just banks profiting this way, it's government. Deficit spending and funding all these wars is enabled by this mechanism. There's a reason large historic banks have tended to fund wars.
There's a lot more interesting things you could do
'crypto-currency' is an accounting treatment, it's not 'value creation'.

There's no net-value created by doing the 'mining part' - in fact, it's a value-destroying activity.

Why waste electricity doing nothing?

Generate electricity that others can use, sell that, and pay for research.
> But that's not what this thread was about, so your entire argument is completely moot.

I guess you were in a different thread than me. The discussion started with saying that "they don't use GPLv3 purely because of security concerns as they cannot have a secure system". I outlined that yes you can, you said that "currently Apple's system doesn't work that way" and now you're saying that discussing whether or not it is possible to create such a system is off-topic.

Maybe I just misunderstood what you meant, but if that's the case then it still doesn't justify you broadly making incorrect claims about the GPLv3. You should say something like "Because Apple doesn't have the ability to replace the keys by the user, they cannot use GPLv3 as that would make their system insecure". You cannot omit the first part as it makes the statement incorrect.

> Please stop calling things FUD just because you don't like it.

"GPLv3 is toxic to companies" is FUD. It promotes fear through the use of the word "toxic", it promotes uncertainty by challenging a well-established license with vague concerns, and it seeds doubt in whether the license will be toxic to their company. As many companies do use and ship GPLv3 software and aren't being killed by this hypothetical toxicity, this is FUD.

It just so happens that I don't like that you said it, but that's because I don't like people spreading FUD. ;)
It will be quieter than a rackmount server since there's more room for bigger, slower-turning fans that move the same rate of air, but at full load is still likely to be quite loud.
The M1 money supply in any currency is always a tiny fraction of the money supply in comparison to the M2, M3, and MB, which are illiquid and used for speculation.

It isn't mysterious that this is also the result in cryptocurrency as well.

An oft parroted rebuttal is that bitcoin is being used for speculation and very little is being used for purchases of goods and services, even though that fits the same behavior of national currencies it is used to discredit bitcoin's use as a currency.

It looks like it is growing the way one would expect.
For Amazon, Can Two Headquarters Still Equal One Culture?
Death of Moore's Law Will Spur Innovation (2015)
Thanks. Hosted on Amazon. Using Scala as the programming language. Sprint for payment.
For the Enterprise-Plus we are developing we will support "real-time" alerts but those will still be with 5-10 min delay.
We can find tweets 7 days back in time - that is the API limits.
All good questions - as we are working on Enterprise-Plus we need to think about all those issues and how to scale.
Some cool features you might want to know about that are supported in some plans are:
- You can get email alerts for tweets that have more than X likes (discover tweets that might go viral)
- You can get email alerts for tweets that have more than X retweets (discover tweets that might go viral)
- You can get email alerts for tweets where the Twitter user has more than X followers.
- In Enterprise-Plus you can export all Twitter users that are part of that alert and use that list for retargeting for Twitter Ad Campaign.
Good points but I know a few people that are more productive at work if they work out in the morning. I mean, they aren't running 5ks or lifting heavy lifts, but a few coworkers go for a quick run in the morning and they say it helps them a lot.
Re: Gaming the system - I am not 100% sure, but the basic lottery is picking 7 numbers from a total of 45 that are drawn each week.

Those normal games are around $15-$20. However, you can buy 'System' entries in the games where you can pick 8, 9 or 10 numbers in a game. That obviously increases your chances of winning, but become increasingly expensive. I believe buying a 10 number system in a game is something in the order of $5000 or similar?

I know there are sites that show lottery draw numbers picked going back many decades. Coin toss theory aside, I am assuming that if someone was to analyse all those numbers and do a statistical probability analysis of the frequency of all 45 numbers, they could form a basic idea of what numbers would likely come up? Combine that with a group of large system entries which increases your chance of winning, and it may be worthwhile.

Like I said above, we are talking six figure sums of money here. If it was just a rich addict without any pattern, then I would expect to see lots of outgoings, but no winnings, however, the winnings with these particular customers seems to be on par with their spending, on a totally random draw, which seems to indicate to me that they have worked out a way to bring up their win/loss ration to at least equivalence, and tipped slightly in their favour.
Does Blocksci allow one to test out new consensus algorithms as well ? Especially nuances like proof of work vs proof of stake ?

How much of overlap is there with tools like Jepsen (e.g https://github.com/jepsen-io/tendermint/blob/master/README.m...)
Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that. I always assumed it was policy. I've spent my whole life needing a driver's license or passport when I do anything money or government related.

I'm glad they can make discresionary decisions like that for special circumstances, such as someone who clearly can't have an ID or passport yet.

Mind if I ask, did they ask for your passport?
The terminology around motors is... inconsistent. Induction motors are a specific kind of brushless motor with windings on both the stator and rotor, so named because it induces a current inside the rotor windings.

Reluctance motors don't use permanent magnets or rotor windings and don't have rotor currents. Universal motors (which until very recently were absolutely ubiquitous in appliances) are commutated rather than inductively coupled and also don't have motors. There are a half-dozen other types but they're mostly novelties or variations on a theme.
Cost per mile varies a lot per state, and varies differently for gas versus EV:

* $/kWh varies by a factor of 2.2 within the continental U.S., from Washington at <$0.1/kWH to Connecticut and Alaska at >$0.2/kWH. (Hawaii is an outlier $0.3/kWH.) Source: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/epm_table_grapher.ph...

* $/gallon varies by 1.4, from Midwestern states at around $2.3/gallon to Washington and California > $3/gallon. Source: http://www.gasbuddy.com/USA

* Some places gas is cheap and electricity is expensive, and vice versa. The ratio of $/kWh to $/gallon varies by a factor of 2.3 from gas-cheap NH, MA, and AK to gas-dear Washington and Oregon.

* Some states get (much) colder in winter. Cold weather impacts EV mileage much worse than gas engine mileage, especially if you spend fuel on cabin heat.

Maybe someone will build a calculator? It would be nice to have something like https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-cal... for gas versus EV purchases.

[Edited to replace 2011 kWH data by data from June 2017]
The pin code they will give you to unlock it is the date/time stamp of when you locked it.

And, if you happen to forget it, they will unlock it if you can cough up the very information supposedly compromised in the equifax leak anyway.
There's a fantastic CGP Grey video on that. I'd search for a link but on phone.
What part of "if you see a style, they blew it" is hard for you to understand?
It's worth noting that the perpetrator in the bloomberg article had a fake driver's license in the name of the victim. So ID cards aren't a complete solution either.
> namely that it is available under a GPL license

Not exclusively from what I see, seems you can choose the Eclipse Public License. From your #4 link:

> Licensee may not: [...] (iii) distribute a Licensee Implementation under any license other than a GPL License

I hope they revoke their TCK license personally (ex-dev below stated it passed). I would hope then implementations would stop supporting this "Java" naming/certification single-company gatekeeping and instead support and contribute to the open test suite.
How to think like open source pioneer Michael Tiemann
I've been a Java dev for a decade, and I never once used anything but Sun / Oracle's version (now OpenJDK, which is almost the same thing).

I really have no idea who ever used these other JVM implementations. I'm guessing it would be companies with specialized hardware such as IBM mainframes or finance firms paying a lot of money to squeeze out performance with WebLogic. Either because of poor marketing or some other reason, no developer or company I worked with had a reason to use anything else.
... or maybe ICO's are clever ways of extorting even more money from naive cryptocurrency day traders?
From 1001 sound effects to much more right here
Ehhh I don't know about this. As a (semi)senior programmer who still takes support calls, either because people call specifically for me or because I have to handle the call, I can't express the value of speaking with end users and clients over the phone. It's just there.

The value is just sitting there, like you're fishing. You just have to catch it and reel it in. If you're willing to work with the person on the other end and talk through the issue, you'll discover countless bits of information that will make your software or product better. Whether it's a workflow you didn't realize existed or a confusion caused by how you worded something or a random bug, the exchange can prove invaluable. You've got someone, most likely in the middle of their day, trying to use your thing, that you've created/sold, and their attention is focused solely on your thing. You have to take these opportunities and squeeze the most out of them!

Look, I get that some protocols like training are lacking and not everyone has the knack for calming people down, but communicating over the phone or via email with customers yields valuable insights and gives you an amazing perspective. If I ever have my own company, every new employee will almost most certainly do a rotation in customer support.
Oh, I know about reluctance motors. I was wondering what kind is as cheap as you mentioned in your previous comment.
Currently I keep a tab active with a twitter search for [company-name], which keeps me apprised of new tweets via about my startup (the "(1)" notification appears in the tab name when there are new search results).

But of course it would be great not to have to keep tabs open for this sort of thing, and to get notifications when I'm away from my computer.

I'll certainly give this a try and see how it compares to my current inelegant solution.
Absolutely, but it's a great way to strengthen the core and work on posture. It's always going to take work of course.
This puts a lot of pressure on the lower back. Sitting down for long periods without any back support doesn't seem like a great idea to me.
Equifax security and information executives are stepping down
What interests me about this movement is that it's mechanically simpler than a conventional movement and should eventually be cheaper to produce. We might actually see these in relatively affordable watches rather than sold-out unobtanium stuff. This is a lot more exciting than yet another watch-maker piling on ridiculous numbers of complications to make a watch nobody will ever want to actually wear.
China, Tethers, and what’s happened to the Bitcoin price in the past few days
My favorite bit of electric locomotive technology: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjMZ5qtyCUc

Closely followed by dynamic braking, or as it is more accurately and much more awesomely called in the UK, rheostatic braking.
It's probably also a dream come true for anyone who wants to launder some money.
How Equifax got Hacked
Please try it - I am sure it works better as I have tried your version before. :)
We offer good offers for startups. Send us a note and we will activate a free account for you as other small startups.
Making this a setting doesn't preclude sane defaults, like disabling autoplay everywhere except youtube.
> An oft parroted rebuttal is that bitcoin is being used for speculation and very little is being used for purchases of goods and services, even though that fits the same behavior of national currencies

Are you asserting that a sizeable fraction of U.S. dollar M3 or even M2 is sitting idle speculating on the future value of the U.S. dollar?

Rates are built into modern currencies in a way they were not for gold. That's Bitcoin's fundamental problem. It's a 19th-century currency relearning old economics.
If it uses open hashing, yes. A degenerate closed-hashing hash set becomes an array.
I would argue that half an hour to an hour is no one's idea of long periods.
On the contrary, mining does create value, by creating a demand for computing power therefore financing the development of more advanced lithography, one of the very few areas in which our species is still making substantial progress.

Now if they were getting the electricity by burning coal, a case could be made that the environmental harm outweighs the benefit. But getting it from a renewable source also expands the economies of scale on that renewable source just a little more, so it's a win across the board.
> And, if you happen to forget it, they will unlock it if you can cough up the very information supposedly compromised in the equifax leak anyway.

Wait, what? Any more reading on this?
Let's get straight to the really important question, can J9 or AOT help maybe just a little with clojure startup time woes?
It's not a problem. It's a way things can be better.
Put it in the other room! We have long enough cables for the peripherals.
https://youtu.be/Erp8IAUouus
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That's roughly 100 percent price correlated. tether, iota, emercoin and few others aren't as correlated. Not a good diversification when they all go up and down together. (If you're diversifying to reduce risk.)
Is anyone researching motors that use elerctric charge instead of magnetism? Couldnt those be cheaper to build and possibly more efficient and powerful?
Not to mention the other documents from the GP.
A scrapyard. Both the rotor and stator are water cooled in Tesla motors. The motor shaft has two holes drilled down the length of it which is fantastically expensive to get done in units of less than tens of thousands. However there is a steady business of resold Teslas from crashes etc.
> How would a more secure system work?

Just look what many other countries do.
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Hodinkee is a great site! Some of the videos of people discussing their collections and stories are fantastic and well worth checking out.

Do bear in mind though, even very wealthy collectors also regularly sell pieces and 'trade up' over time. You can only wear one watch at time after all... unless you decide to start 'Schwarzkopfing'
Universal or DC motors for <300 W, induction for anything above that.
HSPD12 badges for everyone?
It's not just hard to forge: tgey expire often and change code frequently sp the exploytable window is smaller than for the quasi permanent ssn
>I wonder if knowing your neighbors is more of a suburban/rural/family thing?

Mutual self-interest brings neighbors together. The further out in the sticks you are and/or the lower income your neighborhood is, the more you get out of a firm working understanding with your neighbors.
The first time I sat in a Prius, I heard an annoying high-pitched noise like this. I don't hear them in current models, but it's possible that this is just because I'm 15 years older now and my high-frequency hearing is not as good.
Even in game development in C/C++, you wouldn't want to be allocating/deleting heap objects in every frame. You'd probably end up pooling there too, unless you're referring to the problem that the JVM has no value types and forces heap allocation for all objects. This will be fixed in JDK 10 (see Project Valhalla).
In my discipline, publishers simply agree to publish a journal with a given editor. The idea they are selecting the editor is wrong - they wouldn't know how. They do no scientific work at all. Usually, they benefit from the status quo: a famous journal is with a given publisher, and to publish there we have to pay them a fee.
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> Are you asserting that a sizeable fraction of U.S. dollar M3 or even M2 is sitting idle speculating on the future value of the U.S. dollar?

No. But that also happens whether it is inadvertently just sitting there, or in bonds as part of a massive carry trade

Secondly did you read the article? It is about sizeable portions of bitcoin being used to invest in ICOs, which I was agreeing with and pointing out how otherwise illiquid portions of national currencies are used this way as well
>AMD Radeon Pro WX 9100 Graphics (16 GB HBM2)

Surprised the Radeon Pro SSG isn't an option. It's basically the WX 9100 with 2TB of flash memory slapped on that you can use as VRAM:

https://pro.radeon.com/en/product/pro-series/radeon-pro-ssg/
Reducing the friction of financial transactions definitely creates value. Credit cards are able to charge ~2% on a large fraction of consumer purchases for exactly this reason. The current return to mining might be disconnected from the value created, but the latter is very far from nothing.
Reminds me of "Google Will Eat Itself" (http://www.gwei.org/).
Interesting, never heard that variant before.
Stronger economic incentives may actually result in more bands/ artists being manufactured by labels, which generally produced worse music.

Costs of prediction are pretty low now, everything except the cheapest indy albums sounds great.
You're not really being fair here. You could just as well distribute all needed dll's with the app. In fact, that's pretty much what Electron does.
Start issuing everyone a FIPS 201-2 PIV card instead of those flimsy paper cards the SSN's are currently printed on.
Also forklift motors. I don't know about the price, but I've heard of them being used to build experimental electric vehicles.
These days if you need proper compute, you need to focus on the GPU. NVIDIA 10 series GPUs are 10x the throughput of high end intel CPUs, and less than 1/10th the cost. It’s not even funny anymore. It’s a shame you can’t even have 4 GPUs in such an expensive and bulky workstation. Back to the drawing board, HP.
Thanks, I overlooked that.
The article and it's original title are about black open access (piracy) winning over green (author-distributed in parallel to journal publication) and gold (journals being paid, per article, to directly provide open access) open access models, not about open access winning over non-open access. Taking “black” out of the title radically changes the meaning.
I had one of the (now 2 gens) old Z6xx series workstations issued by work, and I ended up buying a second hand one from eBay to replace it when I moved jobs.

It was dead silent. I could hammer all the cores, RAM and disks, and not hear anything from it.

At one point I had 4 of them under my desk, and there was more noise from the MacBook Pro.
India is switching to biometric verification linked to the national identity card. The last lease agreement I registered and the last phone connection I obtained both went through the biometric verification process

These are implemented as biometric two factor auth. So you show your id card, scan your finger print and validate via a code received to the registered mobile device on sms
More power to you. Fortunes can be made in the blindspots of big enterprises. Do you have any sort of in depth product tour? I manage brands online and this might be something clients could benefit from.