skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps you can go even further and try to make it so that any two points have pairwise correct distances, like in the Azimuthal equidistant projection?

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

Perhaps there are metric functions where this is not possible (a quick proof eludes me...[1]), but approximations might be possible anyway.

[1] Edit: actually it's quite simple. Any non-isotropic metric cannot have an Euclidean equidistant projection, simply take a pair of points lying in rays (1,0) and (0,1) in an L^p metric, p not 2, as a counterexample.
The government, mostly. I guess the investors would sue and a judge would order them to pay or go to jail.

Your implied point is true though. I'd trust YCombinator to pay out their tokens as long as they don't go bankrupt.
Depends on what the contract says. I'm guessing no because the Intel lawyers are not incompetent.
This guy must get a monthly paycheck from Apple. He always comes out swooning over new Apple hardware despite everyone else slamming it. It’s a tired routine.

This is coming from someone with more Apple devices than I care to mention and even last week bought a new iMac. My personal phone however, is a Pixel.
If the letter of the agreement isn't violated then it isn't violated. Apple can't just retroactively rewrite it.

Of course depending on how it's written it is possible there could be some room for interpretation, which would likely end up being litigated, but I suspect these huge companies have teams of lawyers that are pretty careful about that kind of thing.
How white supremacist do you have to be, to be acceptably labelled 'malevolent'?

* Enough to consistently regard ethnic minorities as threatening?

* Enough to consume white supremacist literature?

* Enough to endorse white supremacist literature to those around you?

* Enough to write white supremacist literature?

Your threat model is a caricature. When individuals with track-records like Thiel are selected for positions of power, it makes all of us less safe: No amount of domain expertise will protect us from Thiel himself.
Just buy and hold/hodl.
Except that hotel room bookings work a lot differently for lot of hotels than any other types of bookings. Hotels usually sell rooms in bulk to Priceline, Expedia and other OTAs and possibly keep some for their own funnel. So they may not have the same incentive to sell at that price you saw on Priceline.
Well, I am joining Booking.com as frontend engineer this November and this makes me a bit worried. The only reason I chose to join Booking was Amsterdam (I wanted to live/work outside India for a couple of years).

I have also heard the tech stack is kind of old and so learning-wise it might be an issue. Any tips on surviving and keeping the learning curve straight from a current/former employee?
If we could stop hindering real progress with all this blockchain bullshit, that would be great...
Migrating from Postgres to Citus
This is true. It might make it a bit better knowing that they’re hiring a few of the top Perl people in the world (Yves, Rafael, Ævar), but indeed, everything is Perl. They’re managing to hire quite a lot of people, by the way, but the compensation is a lot higher than what’s normal in NL.

With regards to their testing procedures, the way I understand it is that they’re focusing on mitigation using clever monitoring/automated rollbacks. They pride themselves in their data analytics abilities, and this is part of that.

Source: live/work in Amsterdam and know many people that work/worked there.
I'm not too keen to hear this news, but there is a tradeoff in that now you can quickly enable low power mode from control center. I still would like a way to entirely disable these connections at times, but in terms of battery there's a bit of give and take.
Maybe it's time for SSMS? The extra S being for secure, of course. Something encrypted and requiring authentication would be good - and maybe (tangentially related) not letting just anyone transfer your phone number to a new phone contract. That should require ID and some level of additional authentication.

It's like the whole thing is a house of cards. I'm half amazed that it works as well as it does and isn't exploited more often.
If you are interested in zcash, check out monero and zerocoin.io
This blog post was quite famous: http://blogs.perl.org/users/bookingemployee/2012/03/truth-ab...

Also booking employers refused to let their YAPC conference talks being recorded. https://web.archive.org/web/20111116162105/http://blogs.perl...
In a nutshell, allowing the aluminum to solidify gums the batch process up catastrophically.

Friends who used to work at aluminum plants were surprisingly happy when the plant was snowed in: it was more economical to keep workers onsite running rotating understaffed shifts at triple pay for the duration than to let the pots solidify.

From the Wikipedia page on aluminum smelting:

An aluminium smelter consists of a large number of cells (pots) in which the electrolysis takes place. [...] Smelting is run as a batch process, with the aluminium metal deposited at the bottom of the pots and periodically siphoned off. [...] However power must not be interrupted for more than 4-5 hours, since the pots have to be repaired at significant cost if the liquid metal solidifies.

In addition to Wikipedia, there’s a surprisingly good explanation here:

https://www.ega.ae/en/operations/smelters/production-process...
This is is irrelevant with regard to Thiel, because, as the parent points out, he’s a neo-feudalist working for the abolition of democracy. He funds several “Dark Enlightment” figures like Curtis Yarvin and even says as much himself:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/2/21/14671978/alt-right-menciu...

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/educatio...
4,294,967,296 is the number of planets which is a much more than 4 million. Think about a planet as a piece of land more than a phone number. How many people on earth own a piece of land? And when will that reach 4 billion?

Also, if Urbit becomes popular other groups will start similar systems and they will be able to interact.
> For tasks like the one the author describes, I prefer using just [1] over make.

Just really ought to be better known.
Booking.com 's website is awful. They are still stick in 1995. They do product development solely based on A/B tests. That's how the product is so crap.

But they have a Monopoly (almost). So that's why people keep using them.
Don't forget Microsoft and Nokia! The only explanation is patents.
Or whatsapp. But then those were complete acquisitions
S.E.C. Says It Was a Victim of a Computer Hack Last Year
I'm by no means an expert on the matter, but I believe you're thinking of running Casinos specifically. For example, scratching games or lotteries are legal in almost every state in the US. And for those states where casinos are allowed, no one will ask you questions as long as you are +21.
That is what all the coverage at the time pointed out.

They missed out on the Nortel patent portfolio earlier that year I think.
This might be a dumb question but can you currently invest in yc itself or just its individual startups, à la carte?
How about being a grownup and actually take the damn call? Could you not just tell him you weren’t interested rather than being so ignorant? For a whole month I mean, really?
>> Peter Theil's mastery of Dark Arts...

I mean providing Data Mining and Intelligence analysis software for Intel organizations is Dark Arts now?
I rewrote Logo to make maps like this from a spreadsheet.

Then I made a subway-style map of the Taiwanese train network, where the distance between each station corresponds to the number of minutes it takes a train to travel that distance.

http://peterburk.github.io/tra/

I could do the same for high-speed trains, but there was no interest from the train company so I kind of left the project behind. I still use it for myself though, because other maps are worse.
> If the developer does not have any interest in updating their own app, do I as a user care about their apps?

A developer's primary interest in their app is to earn an income. A user's interest is in using the app for whatever functionality it provided. There's no symmetry here.
James Fletcher -- twice the head of NASA -- had a very good speech that "the moon shot, and etc" were really about learning to coordinate 300,000 people and billions of dollars to accomplish something big in a relatively short time. (And that the US should use these kinds of experiences (wars included because the moon shot was part of the cold war), to pick "goals for good" and do these.

Most of the old hands and historians of the moon shot point to the public in the 70s no longer being afraid of the Russians in the way they had been in the 50s, and the successful moon landings helped assuage their fears. The public in general was not interested in space travel, science, etc. and did not understand it or choose to understand it. I think this is still the case today.
I think it's just that everyone is close enough to a supermarket, it's easy enough to just go there on the way back from work, or just pop to the supermarket. It's not worth paying to get someone to do the groceries for you.

I don't think I've ever lived further than a 15 minute walk from a supermarket.
thats not what he said though.

He said "how can a bunch of foreigners tell us what is good or bad."

There is no undertone, its explicitly xenophobic.
International Wire Transfer Fees by Financial Institution
This is called clickbait and is why Techcrunch is a trash website.
Anyone have stats on their user-base/ geographic breakdown? Thanks.
Most US libertarians are just proponents of classical liberalism. "Left libertarianism" is very niche and sounds a bit like an oxymoron to me. I don't know much about Peter Thiel but it's hard for me to reconcile his outspoken support for Trump with the "libertarian" label.
> So what?

Lots of people don't like xenophobia.

> have the right to choose who to do business with?

Ah here we go. Like the hoteliers who don't allow gay people to stay ?
I really dislike articles that start off like this one, where every sentence has to be on a new line. Why write this way?
I don't think this bodes well for Amazon, in particular.
Trump has a grudge against Bezos and it won't be out of character for Trump to hint to Thiel to express his loyalty by being harsh on Amazon
"You can't use pottery shards or even hard pebbles to break glass; you need very hard technical ceramics[1]. Spark plug ceramic is alumina which is extremely hard."

Plenty of pottery contains aluminum oxide, which is very hard.
I guess it would depend how sophisticated the scam is. When I wrote that, I had outright thievery in mind.
Take a look at the how the US responded to WWI re "free speech" etc, and you'll see that we haven't hit bottom yet. But we have fulfilled H.L. Mencken's 1919 prophesy:

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H.L. Mencken, 1919
I believe the 4 million in your parent's comment is a typo. Further along in the same comment they refer to 4^32 and down thread they refer to 4 billion.
Eff off internet. You’ve been saying the same shit for 30 years straight.

DISCLAIMER: I do not hold Apple stock. I’m just not fond of stupid parroting. Also I may or may not have been listening to John Gruber.
Bitcoin Piñata on MirageOS unikernel
Oh, my dislexia thought this was a time travel map.
Huh, I thought it was a bug. Sometimes the volume levels of AssistiveTouch and Control Center are in sync (iPhone SE) and sometimes they aren’t. I wonder whether that’s another hidden feature.
> "My guess is this: Booking.com already knows that they are fighting a losing battle against AirBnB."

For a two or three day trip AirBnB isn't practical, and it's not as if AirBnB is perfect either. At least with a hotel I know there is a basic minimum standard and I have some level of consumer protection.

I go direct to the Hotel's own site wherever possible but often they don't have a facility to book online easily and, where they do, the price is often the same anyway.

Chain hotels are the exception but you often need to book and pay well in advance to get any real saving.
In India Booking is known as the company you want to call when you want to visit Europe. The questions they ask in the phone screen are relatively simple by Indian standards so it's straightforward to get tickets and travel to Amsterdam. They don't seriously consider working there because perl isn't the only thing unappealing about Booking. The pay is so mediocre that Indian devs would prefer to stay in India rather than move.

Caveat here is that I'm not referring to all Indian devs, only the few I'm acquainted with.
My goals are a lot bigger than Hoppe's (and I fervently hope for something much better than his vision).
Python is a general-purpose language. Make is specifically focused on building artifacts. Python can do anything Make can do, but it's going to require more work on your part, which won't be as battle-tested as the stuff already in Make.

For example, run into a problem building an artifact with Make, and the internet is full of answers for you. Run into a problem with your own bespoke buildscript, and your troubleshooting gets harder.

I was always scared of make and it does have a learning curve, but then I spent the time to learn some basics and it's fine now - better than writing my own custom buildscripts.
As it is, the icons grey out when you “disable” them from control centre, and have a line through them when actually off(which is how they looked before).
Link to the statement: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-170
Uber has 5.5B in cash, and 3B in credit available
The term was invented by anarcho-communists and co-opted by the right:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism#Etymology
There should be some browser extension or set of filters for uBlock to hide these shady parts of Booking.
Show us then.
Many US libertarians are anarcho-capitalists, but certainly not all. Most are just minarchists.
What good alternatives with prices as low?
What the hell are you talking about? It reads like you are accusing Thiel of being a white supremacist. If so, please provide citations.
Perhaps morphing the physical map to match the time would work?
Or remove "like", which is probably what was intended and slightly less sensationalist
Watch out, that salad is super high in oxalates. I did something similar and got my first kidney stone that way.
I'm actually building something that's like reddit meets learning resources. Kudos on your release, best of luck!
Maybe if the community can fix the Bitcoin mining fee problem it will work. But if they can't get the mining fee down to like 30 cents per transaction like with square or stripe, the overwhelming majority of people aren't going to want to use it.

And to be specific, I used Coinbase to purchase my Bitcoin and then transferred it to an Electrum wallet and then to another wallet.

People have told me that you don't have to pay the $5 mining fee, but I did not see an option anywhere with those two wallets to avoid or substantially reduce the mining fee.
> adding a method called "any"

Right, I understand there are ways to do this with methods but my question was more about the purity aspect, which you already addressed above.
The issue with PC-culture is that it goes way, way beyond treating people fairly - I've never seen the ironic usage of political correctness applied to situation where it just required people to simply be treated fairly, the term is used when there's something ridiculous done to protect the appearance of treating people fairly or to prevent the risk that someone might get offended because of some interpretation (which has nothing to do with treating them fairly).

e.g. ESPN pulling veteran announcer Robert Lee off a University of Virginia football game because his name is too close to Robert E. Lee, the Confederate general is an example of political correctness in action, and that has nothing to do with treating people fairly (certainly the announcer wasn't treated fairly in this through no fault of his own), but to prevent the risk that someone might get offended;

Censoring Huckleberry Finn (for having the n-word in it, despite being a great anti-racist novel of the time) done at some institutions was another example of political correctness - again, there's nothing in the act about treating people fairly, it's simply a fight against "taboo" words or thought, and that is pretty Stalinist in some aspects.
The Political Awakening of Silicon Valley
"It’s a stealth feature, one that hasn’t activated yet.
But when it does it will ripple across the entire world, remaking every aspect of society."

Nothing about cryptocurrency will remake every aspect of society. That is just over the top garbage. The rest of the article is of similar low quality nonsense.
> You don't have to memorize the new names they've come up with for most of the ASCII punctuation characters, like "gal", "gar", and "hax" for "<", ">", and "#", "but it helps". A normal engineer's reaction to a system that tells it that it will help to remember a new name for the pound sign is to ask "Why? What fresh horror lurks in the deeper meaning of your new name for the percent sign? And why won't you tell me before I commit to this system?"

Odd, I saw the rationale early on, when I was just reading the documentation for Urbit. If you've ever seen Hoon code, you'll notice it has a lot of punctuation in it. Have a look at tumblr.hoon[0]. If you want to speak with fellow Hoon programmers in person and communicate fluidly, it's nice to have a compact, standardized-within-Urbit way of saying things like "$%"[1] out loud.

Now, at this point you're probably wondering "why would they have names that are all punctuation?". As far as I can tell, this keeps the identifiers short and of uniform length. From what I understand, one of the problems that they're trying to solve is that single-assignment code in, say, Lisp tends to flow down and to the right. They're trying to limit rightward visual creep, as I understand it.

Now, I'm not convinced that focusing on standard-library-identifier length is a good idea. Early C linkers could only handle function names that were six characters or shorter, and constraints like the ones in Hoon's standard library sound similarly arbitrary and likely to lead to unintuitive names like "strchr".

[0]: https://github.com/urbit/examples/blob/master/app/tumblr.hoo...

[1]: buccen, which I pronounce as "buck sen". It's used for making tagged unions, which reminds me of Erlang/Elixir {:ok, Value}/{:error, Reason} value-passing style.
In Europe, I would say the opposite is happening. AirBnB is being pushed out of or held down in many cities by local authorities. In the last two years I have stayed 50 nights or so in rooms booked through Bookings.com or Hotels.com and only 2 nights in rooms booked through AirBnB, and it's now almost two years ago. I had a good stay in the ArBnB booked apartment but the only reason I used AirBnB in the first place was that I couldn't find a hotel in the city since all hotels were booked. Most people I know have never or only once used AirBnB.

AirBnB is fun to try but I wouldn't rely on someones apartment for my vacation.
Google Nest secure alarm system
Where's elsewhere then? AirBnB doesn't count, just in case.
It is essentially true though because your transaction almost definitely won't make it into the next block unless you offer around $5 worth of Bitcoin... This means you may have to wait a very long time for the transaction to go through.

Bitcoin transfers are slow and expensive so it only makes sense for large transactions. For small transfers you should use a different altcoins.
Democracy does not equal liberty. It may, arguably, be the best way of preserving liberty. But then again it may not.

"Many will be shocked to learn that the word “democracy” was neither used in the Declaration of Independence nor in the Constitution. Indeed, the Founding Fathers were anxious and fearful of allowing any form of tyranny, including the tyranny of the majority." [1]

[1] https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/democracy-versu...
I regularly use booking.com and I think what they're doing is rational,not manipulation.
And it hasn't been overturned. It's a big part of the problem with police in the US, the departments have been filling up with dumb bullies.
I imagine the downvotes are out of disbelief, but this is not really disputed (it's worth clicking the link).
hazarding a guess: a secure social integration layer for cryptocurrency?

now that i'm thinking about it, this has to be the answer
Well, Coinbase provides what it calls Bitcoin wallets. But yes, they're just accounts, which control Bitcoin wallets.

Still, this is what many have come to think of as Bitcoin wallets.

Me, I only use local wallets. If I had lots of Bitcoin, they'd be offline.
doesn't HTC also have a US R&D division (most likely they do to work with North American carriers and Qualcomm).

Do you know what's happening to them?
There is a significant difference.

Gambling is up front about the odds and the fact that they are stacked against you.

ICOs and scam investments are not.

The issue is not about allowing people to lose their money.

The issue is about Fraud, and people lying about what they are selling, as well as promising false returns.

Casinos don't promise you anything false, and transparently offer you provable odds.
You could resolve it by cutting the circular highway att the furthest point, and let the surrounded are baloon out. The map would still make sense close to the user.
> No one cares what you want

If you don't care for my thoughts, then you don't need to have them.
Maybe they want to have the figure public because they see it as very high and want to bias the public about the absurdity (from their perspective) of such a high number? People may see the number and conclude that Waymo is just being vindictive/aggresive/jerks and believe the suit has no merit.

I have absolutely no insider knowledge and am just speculating.
Thanks for the tip at least.
Does that mean that all embedded WiFi (and probably also baseband) controllers are deeply rotten, and we only blame Broadcom so far because of their popularity with device manufacturers?
I believe a toy Haskell compiler could be made with comparable effort to toy C compilers. Admittedly, I cannot find people making toy Haskell compilers.

What makes Haskell higher-level than C? Garbage collection does not really complicate the compiler if you just use BoehmGC.

You can use a simple subset of assembly instead of the full complicated set. Toy C compilers do this, e.g. by treating x86 as a stack machine.
The problem is that there are usually zero ramps usable for single person, while in Europe there are many of them.
Yeah for Austria it doesn't seem like a bad price, it's just weird that the price is nearly the same as the accomodation fee. And as a Brit the idea of any kind of service fee is pretty foreign in the first place (why not just include it in the advertised price?).
The only other option is to government-mandate that, right? Not saying there aren't other unfortunate consequences of allowing a business owner to choose who they serve, but I'd say the larger problem is just that people can be... well... humans aren't great. However, putting the power in the hands of the law probably doesn't fix that.

Ultimately, why would you want to support someone who doesn't want you to be there?

Regardless, you've given me a new thing to think about. It's a complex issue for sure.
The innovation of blockchain, as applied to investments, is that your share can be immediately and easily traded.

The investment could still have the same terms and conditions as a regular security, though. There was a big one recently that even required you to be an accredited investor to buy on the blockchain.