skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah I think people are downvoting statements they disagree with...even when they add to the conversation. This is bad because those comments can disappear on HN.
I don't get why people are obsessed with inflation. It is not the only thing that is required to stimulate an economy. On the other hand for majority of developing nations, it is a sink hole that eats their earnings alive. You can still use a deflationary currency just like an inflationary one. Just use satoshis to track bitcoin increments. I'm sure if Zimbabwe was using bitcoin, they wouldn't have ended up in the shit hole they were a few years back.

Think about it: for every dollar you earn, the government can print its own one dollar to basically halve your earnings. Why would anyone want such a thing. With bitcoin, you don't need to invest in stocks/real estate and other inflation resistant things to beat inflation. You can hold your earnings in it and you are already beating inflation.
Mini cab drivers are often self employed, they pay a "radio fee" for the booking office, provide their own vehicle, licensing etc, have fares set centrally, and they keep their fares (and take cash to avoid paying tax).

How is uber any different?
Goldman Sachs wants to be more like a normal bank
Wasn't trying to twist anything. Just letting you see how your post looks to someone not in your in-group.

It's crazy to me that your worldview is so deeply embedded with tribalism that you think your dad being a mechanic or your friend being black have anything to do with who you are.

The point about minorities is just that: by arguing that you're not racist because minorities are in your tribe, you're showing that you completely miss the point. For you, the in-group is your frat, your world. And being outside your world means lacking a variety of privileges in life.

But race is an in-group too, and maybe that's not one of the tribes you recognize, but for many people it is, and it's the tribalism that's the problem, not the fact that skin color happens to be a particularly easy and dangerous arbitrary criterion for admission into the tribe.
You’re right, I do. Gosh that’s embarrassing...
I think they were nitpicking your choice of words. "copyright infringement" is not the same as infringing on a patent.
Correct, with the exception of a few diehards who decided beating the 'blind adherence to contracts' drum was worth trying to stay on the initial fork and buy up the useless 'original' fork.

It's* also worth noting that currencies like Ethereum actually fork all the time. The only worthwhile ones are the forks with mass support, which in Eth's case is usually the latest one supported by the foundation/Vitalik and in Bitcoin's case are Core and Cash (the forks supported by Blockstream and the community fork centered around scaling the block limit, respectively)

Agree with the article title, but the 'fiat' in question is community fiat.
And you're just as likely to be attacked/raped/whatever with a local minicab firm, probabpynmore as there's less tracking of what's happening.
Gitlab is great. We've got it setup on a HPC cluster and use CI to automate Ansible configuration for the whole cluster (mostly.. not the VNX). We also use it to automate testing of new algorithms on clinical datasets, something we could not do with anything else and so little effort.
Meta: Thanks for changing the title.

It was something like, 'We've been monitoring arctic sea ice since 1979. You'll notice a trend.' I put that in the patronizing click-bait category.

So, thanks mods!
I fear I will forget about that. Would have preferred a cite text link instead of that quotation icon.
Right and thus consensus exists. And that consensus consolidates to a single set of rules (and any major deviations result in forks).
BubleDuktapeFun: Buble and Duktape = Simple ES2015 Playground (WIP)
>Still not convinced? How about this: A* is supposed to run in O(n*log(n)). By implementing the open list as an unsorted flat array, instead of a binary heap, its runtime changes to O(n^2).

gradstudent, I understand the implications of making the algorithm more efficient. You're still not getting the point that the video I linked points towards, though. An inefficient solution works if it works well enough for enough people.

When you're building an engine that contains many moving parts you don't want to spend too much time optimizing each part to the best of your abilities because if you do that you'll never have a product that people can actually do something with. That's not even to get into the main point, which is that you don't need to run the pathfinding algorithm every frame and that most of the time it actually isn't an issue. So if you spend time optimizing it you spend time doing unnecessary work. The developer of the engine agrees with this notion: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/11492.

Take the advice on the video to heart, gradstudent, you'll benefit from it immensely as a programmer.
I live in the Bay Area, and $300-400k/yr is an unfathomable amount of money. Get a grip! You're talking about the top 1% of incomes in the country.
Antimony pill
This is solely my personal opinion. But it isn't a traditional memorial.

It is in a rather unmaintained state (minimal reinforcement), with relevant information displayed next to and on it and is freely accessible to all.
Same number of people watching netflix in 90's over the internet :)
* Hold down LMB on the title, release LMB, before title starts to scroll hold down LMB once again. After ~1s title starts scrolling even though you're holding LMB down.

* After scrolling the song title a few times, when I hold down LMB, wait a moment and scroll once again, title jumps ~20px left or right.

* In original winamp mouse wheel changes volume whenever cursor is over main window. In JS version wheel only works after I click the volume bar and hover over it.

* Move equalizer window down 100px or so. Try to move it left or right. It snaps to main window. In original, horizontal snapping works only if windows are touching each other.

* In original, holding down LMB on a control button and moving it to other buttons causes those buttons to appear pressed in (and register as a click when releasing LMB). In JS buttons act independently.

* Activating double-size mode doesn't move equalizer window if it's snapped to main window. In original it does.

* In original seek bar updates every second or so. In JS it updates continously.
It's called moral posturing and virtue signaling.
You missed the part where the cost is split by decades not just household.

It's not to say that I support US drug policy, because I don't, it's that this really is dishonest journalism.
An even more interesting arctic graph. Arctic sea ice extent by area: https://goo.gl/b5ciWZ

Which year is not like the others? Most of the arctic ice extent in the last decade fell outside of the 2 standard deviations, but 2016 in particular was something like 5 standard deviations out of bounds.
Why are you looking for social inclusion at work, of all places?
this is brilliant but small nitpick it probably should be "transgender person" or "trans person" because "transgendered" has fallen out of favor for the most part
Upstream rsync does not seem to have any special-casing for mac/hfs. I'd wager Apple's extended-attribute handling is added in this patch[0] for the version distributed with macOS.

Even here, there isn't special casing for HFS. Instead, a special library function, copyfile()[1], is used to handle copying files and their associated metadata.

It seems this function was introduced in Mac OS X 10.5, which was after the article you linked. I'd wager copyfile() was introduced in response to the unwieldy file copy mechanics.

After discovering how copyfile() is used in rsync, I am fairly confident that rsync works so well on the new FS as a result of Apple implementing a fairly solid copyfile() for APFS.

[0] https://opensource.apple.com/source/rsync/rsync-20/patches/E...
[1] http://www.manpagez.com/man/3/copyfile/
Women Scientists of India: Dr. Asima Chatterjee
Ha. Such fond memories. I remember being able to play multiple mp3 files simultaneously(just because you could!) in BeOS at a time when win98 was lucky to play one without stutters and pops.
Still think software patents are a defensible idea?
This highlights why US-based companies, while not perfect, are far more preferable to Chinese companies for storing your personal data.
I had a non uber cab back from the airport once. The driver started slowing down on the motorway which was unusual at 11pm at night so I looked up from my phone, he stopped on the hard shoulder in the dark to fiddle with his sat nav and refused to move until I phoned the cab firm (I told them clearly I would not use them again as if I was about to ring 999).

Haven't used manchester Cars since.
Make this work with spotify then publish as an electron app and I'll use it for sure
Usually it is the lawyers doing people a disservice actually. That said, Eben Moglen is who I would refer you to. (Has been the lawyer for the FSF and RMS I think)

Read the slide in the first few seconds. Does that look familiar to you?
https://youtu.be/okEQt-Rla7o?t=863
Right, sorry. I meant “patent infringement”, of course.
You might, but the research is starting to become more and more clear that the "magic moment" is when you feel better.

We know that moment. At least, I do. When you're not really sick anymore but you're still recovering from the weakness left in the wake.

I have a group of doctors for an advanced immune system issue and this has been there advice for about four years. When I need antibiotics, we have top use the minimum dosage possible. So they tell me to stop when I feel better. And I do. I have bottles of half-full antibiotics in the bathroom drawer because of it.

My experience is only anecdotal, but I've never had to start over.
Do you really think, that general populace's misuse of antibiotics could cause the development of resistant bacterial strains en masse?

I might be wrong, and if so, please don't hesitate to provide some factual paper, yet my intuition suggests that in order to obtain solely by selection (under the pressure of a _single_ bioactive substance), a bacterial strain, that is, simultaneously:

- resistant to the aforementioned substance

- stable: resistance is not lost after the generation or so, past the moment when exposure is over

- contagious: strain is resistant to different immune systems (w/o losing its resistance to the substance, of course),

one either needs to perform a directed selection (eg. like that for apple-trees), or to create an environment, where really _huge_ bacterial population could thrive and persist for a long time: like that in hospitals or farms, - where not only frequent turnover of living organisms along with the regular exposure to antibacterial substances do happen, but also some intermediate vessels (medical instruments, ground, water supply, etc.) are available for bacteria to flourish in-between living hosts.
And how would this have gone down with "Dave's minicab firm"? You really think they'd give a stuff? If the driver doesn't have a legal vehicle he's risking his license, be it uber or daves cabs.

How does a seatbelt break on the motorway in any case? Did it just spring out of the socket?
Turn the tables. Use guile and cunning to attract beautiful women online
Does XMMS not work for you? It's available in the AUR so I assume it still functions. And it'll consume about 0.01% of the RAM an electron app will

http://www.xmms.org
To bypass paywall, no facebook account needed, drop into console or a bookmark (HN formatting weird, zerobin text there anyway):

javascript:window.location="https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u="+encodeURIComponent(window.l...

alternative:

https://zerobin.net/?9b41630b08e38f96#FAC6oUt+oqX9fwxhamtom+...

The bitcoin blockchain is a crappy database that's incredibly secure because it's backed by an amazing amount of irreversible thermodynamic energy. Anything you put into it is there forever, even quantum computing couldn't undo anything a few hours old. That's all the public needs to know.

These articles are a bit tiring, despite being an aficionado somewhat keen for a blockchain winter.
Unrelated. There's a growing body of science backing up the idea that antibiotics are very often way over-prescribed, and that over-prescribing does NOT prevent bacterial resistance.
Do you remember the multi-million dollar pizza? Today, nobody wants to be the thousand dollar toilet paper guy. I believe most people buy it as an investment, with no intention to every make an actual purchase with it. What gives it value then? What will happen with the price when there are no new people who wants to buy bitcoin?
Big tech is under increasing pressure as London bans Uber
In that case, there are two issues that need to be covered by FB; first, they need receive an agreement from all collaborators they agree with the license change—most likely, the SLA takes care of that; second, forks of the code up until the license change point still hold the original license—any fork that was created before the license change remains with the original license, and so does every use of code that consists only of code before the license change. This is what I meant by “retroactively”.
Significant inflation is obviously a bad thing. Zimbabwe or Venezuela prime examples. But being deflationary where the currency increases in value obviously causes a disincentive for spending that currency. You are encouraged to buy and hold it because it will be worth more in the future relative to the cost of goods, services, and other fist currencies.

Even just minor deflation is disastrous for economies because if there is 3% deflation, you could get 100% of what was generally typical GDP growth for developed countries without spending any money to produce anything. This encourages everyone to be risk averse towards spending money on anything at all.

Thus, monetary policy over the past century has settled on a steady but small amount of inflation as the ideal policy for balancing economic growth and unemployment.
The US Government has been trying to get here, to this regulatory point, for two decades. They're going to get what they're after.

The barriers to entry for building online will go up dramatically, as they have in every industry in the US over time. People mistakenly think the US is a Capitalist nation, with few economic regulations, when in fact the opposite is true, the US economy is very regulated. That borderline psychotic power addiction that emanates out of Washington DC, has its sights set squarely on the Internet as its next conquest. Why? It threatens their conventions - their understanding of how things do or should work - when it comes to political power and what they've always known. This latest election turned most of them inside out and they'll do anything to bring the Internet to heel if that helps to return their idea of political normalcy. The $100,000 Facebook-Russia media performance going on right now is all about that, finding an angle to launch from to begin heavily regulating politics online. SESTA is similarly about using a convenient angle to launch a regulation assault, to acquire vastly greater control.

The only good thing I can say about the powermongers currently on the move, is they're extremely obvious in what they're doing and why.
Meh, I just looked at Scholar for the first time in ages (since I am no longer a scholar). The information density looks as high as it always has been -- even if they are claiming to have the dreaded "cleaner design".

I agree that text is better than an icons, especlally the misleading "quote" icon that actually means "cite" -- so thank heavens for tooltips (which presumably work only on desktop).
I think you were referring to Marc Andreessen's AMA with Stripe Atlas founders [0] which was as recent as July:

"Getting a warm introduction to a VC is a basic test of networking skills.

VCs are dying for interesting qualified referrals from people in their network—angel investors, other VCs, advisors, coaches and mentors, lawyers, and customers. All of those people love giving qualified referrals to their favorite VCs. VCs are some of the easiest people in the world to reach via their networks.

It turns out that the skill required to network into a VC is the same as the skill required to network into a customer, into a supplier, into a distribution partner, into the press, into an executive search firm.

And so if a founder can’t navigate a network into a VC firm, it is unlikely that founder has the skills to navigate the other networks required to succeed in building a company."

[0] https://stripe.com/blog/marc-andreessen-ama
> The end result is something that tries to be bland, uninteresting, and inoffensive.

So much this. Also conversely I don't understand how the tyranny of the average issue for polarising movies is not brought up more. Many movies I like aren't obviously appreciated by everyone (too gritty, too awkward, too dumb, too sci-fi...) and end up in the 40-70% range which tells me nothing.
dblp is also good for computer science papers.
http://dblp.uni-trier.de/
A bunch of numbers stored in your SSD are no more real than some other numbers stored in a bank's mainframe.

If I wanted a store of value that's really real and keep it under my control, I would much rather store up on gold, canned food, and bullets. Even among these three, only one (food) has any intrinsic value and everything else is social convention.
Is systemmatically hiding that most E Vehicles drive with Coal and/or Fukushima-fuel that much better. The whole debate of e-vehicles versus traditional vehicles is heavily warped.

Im actually for a easily visible sign wethr a vehicle drives with some nature friendly fuel- or the oppossite.
Also, what has this debate to do with anything- this is a concept car- it could be e or tradfuel.
Thanks. I never heard of either term, are they good or bad?
Would you please not post like this regardless of how bad something else is? Making the thread worse doesn't help.
£50k is more than 90% of the country, its no wonder they hate the competiton.

(I suspect they make £60k but they don't declare anywhere near that)
You assume that current remittance providers can't lower their fees. That seems dubious.
Doesn't a decentralized ledger have intrinsic value though? The fact that Bitcoin's value is not based on trust in a third party (a government), but essentially on the laws of nature (mathematics) seems to give it actual value.
You might like one of the add-ons that disable Ctrl-Q.
I can speak for Seattle/WA state-- it is very common to find BTC ATM's in recreational weed shops. The main driver of this seems to be that the stores have a near impossible chance of being banked and deal in cash only.

The crypto ATM's allow you to purchase with a CC and in turn pay the store for product, all while avoiding cash. To the store this is a much safer alternative.

For the crypto anarchists watching the big banks/fed opening up about their feelings and fears about crypto, it seems like they are pushing a near billion dollar industry to find ways to accept payment outside of the beloved USD.
We humans realized long ago that those four points can be true in the universe we're living into (e.g. Plato) but how to be sure? Are we conscious or not? Or it suffices to ask the question to pass your test?

Did you check if some philosopher came up with the same test in the last centuries or millenia and the related arguments and counter arguments?
I've reverted to using Linux but I do miss just one piece of software. I miss JetAudio, the earlier versions. I think I first got it with an MP3 player that I bought on a trip to Australia. I'd later just pay for the app.

It eventually got some bloat with new features but the features they added were pretty nice, like ability to burn discs.

I do miss that app. I could possibly get it going in WINE, I guess.
Building multiplayer games with Socket.io and HTML5 Canvas
Unless the US has 10 citizens per household and the period in question is 10 decades, the point still stands that the Portuguese policy is cheaper per citizen as well as more successful.

(The actual numbers are more like 2 and 4 than 10 and 10.)
There is as much money in circulation as is required to clear the promises between people that are worth doing.

At the summit of the tree the assets are just 'other assets'. An accounting fiction.

The state can purchase whatever is for sale in the token it controls. And it can make sure there are things available for sale by imposing a liability on you in that token you cannot avoid.

The value then depends upon how much stuff the state extracts for the public purpose in return for its token. And the belief in the coercive power that gives that process weight.
I assume you intended this as a national insult. That's a bannable offense on HN, so we have banned this account.
Black cabs need to be kicked out of bus lanes. They should be for mass transport of people, not chauffeuring businessmen from Euston to Canary Wharf quickly.
CyanogenMod successor Lineage OS is now available for download – ExtremeTech
A huge win for activism! I will analyse the new situation in a new post soon :-)
Please don't post uncivil or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
A few years ago I finally filed my income taxes, all 15 years of it that I had been procrastinating on since I was 18 years old. Achievement unlocked!
"If you thought Google Scholar had about twenty different screens, you'd be half right."

It also seems that Google has about 20 different blogging outlets. Shouldn't they all be on blog.google by now?
Until you live in a bitcoim currency zone then you are just investing in a foreign currency.

You still need actual money to pay taxes and that's all a state needs to ensure it can provision the public purpose.
This doesn't tick all of those boxes but in case you don't realise - in the last few versions of Android I've had installed I've been able to set a long press of the volume up/down hardware buttons to act as next/previous track. I can currently do it through settings/buttons but not sure how it worked in the past, it might have been app-specific
I understand what you're saying. At the same time, electric vehicles can be powered by electricity generated from any number of sources while ICE vehicles require carbon-based fuels. Even when the electricity is generated from carbon-based sources, those power plants can be located strategically (e.g., away from heavily populated areas), can be run more efficiently (e.g., at peak efficiency for power generation rather than at varying efficiencies in vehicles), and have better pollution controls.
Are you sure they download when Gmail receives the email? I'm pretty sure it's on first use.
AMA with Aaron Greenspan, developer of Harvard’s Universal Face Book
Nothing on GraphQL, right?
https://www.google.bg/amp/s/www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2017/0...
If a vaccine becomes available, I wonder if somebody will pay to help poor countries fight it.

I mean does the UN have existing programs that offer vaccines in the third world?

I mean it would be a shame to have a vaccine and not see it being used.
If you love HN, you shouldn't be damaging it like this. Every time an established user behaves badly they give license (pun intended) to new users to degrade the site further. That's seriously not cool, regardless of how wrong some other commenter was.

The last way we want people to be defending HN, even against perceived assholes, is by being assholes themselves. Would it really have cost you to make your point substantively?
Everybody creates money out of nothing all the time. That's what business credit is for example. We just swap promises around.