skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let me simplify things. Deflation is good for the individual. Inflation is good for the whole. It is basically the tragedy of the commons. What is good for a single person is not sustainable when scaled up to the whole of society. With deflation spending and investing are discouraged. That is bad for economic growth.

Also you are wrong about Bitcoin being inflationary. An expanding money supply is not enough to make a currency inflationary. The rate of the increase in the money supply needs to outpace growth in the economy. That isn't happening with Bitcoin. The obvious proof of this fact is the increase in the value of Bitcoin.
While you're considering zaphar's post and mentally designing your "get rid of ISIS videos" system, remember that YouTube gets 400 hours of video uploaded every minute
One of the multiple JSON specs indicates that implementations are free to introduce limits on precision or range of numbers: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-3.
The story of the 1968 “Fuck the Draft” poster
Crown immunity or its finish eqvielent
This crate provides the functionality: https://github.com/Elzair/core_affinity_rs

It takes a couple of seconds to add this crate to your project. I don't see what the problem is?
Actually for me a numpad is a requirement. Some of my tools specifically rely on numpad key mappings.
I know it is slightly off topic but I am really curious...

How can the conference do this? Conferences are notoriously costly between the venue and the vendors, How is it that a $256 a ticket conference can afford to have a badge like this?

I know I couldn't make this badge for less than $40 a piece. I can't even find a screen like that for less than $30 unless you buy in the thousands.

Is there some trick to being able to do this stuff cheaply that I am not aware of?

Edit: The description of the build on https://hackaday.io/project/27427-camera-badge-for-supercon-... is pretty awesome. It links to the LCD screens.... which indeed look like they are $40.
This is the second part of a series. The first part is about Kiyoshi Kuromiya who was kind of incredible: born in an internment camp, looked after Martin Luther King's children (apparently?), wrote a book with Buckminster Fuller, published a gay rights magazine in 1970:

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/fuck_the_draft_the_amazin...

His NYT obituary omits the poster, but adds that he was a nationally ranked Scrabble player:

http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/28/us/kiyoshi-kuromiya-57-fig...
They have already responded to this, the rules are applied with some leeway to account for "newsworthiness". The president's tweets will not be taken down and his account won't be banned because of a blind application of the rules.
I'm glad we're in agreement.
Yep. Like the FAQ page.
Google Wants to Train Other Companies to Use Its AI Tools
> Now, some will say that I'm only sorry that I got caught.

One thing though as someone who gets paid a great deal to negotiate for others I think that would be a mistake. Reason is you don't negotiate for the other person. Hard to explain but that is how that strikes me. Very possible there are people that won't think that. And now you are putting the idea into their head when they hadn't thought of it. [1] And those that thought of it won't care (is my guess).

[1] I am reminded of when I was younger and was looking at a house on a main street. The real estate agent said to me (and my fiance at the time) 'and you know street is no big deal there is a big yard in the back so you don't have to worry about your kids playing in the front and the traffic!!'. Well you know we hadn't even thought about that at all at that point!
For important documents, I have a neat and legible signature. But for CCs, I've been doing this for a long time now. Just a wiggly line, whether on screen or on paper. No one's ever challenged it.
> Google has historically stumbled in the difficult business of hardware, despite several multibillion-dollar attempts, including the $12 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility (since sold off for $2.9 billion)

Are we really still repeating this nonsense? The $2.9B number quoted above was merely what Google sold Motorola Mobility's handset division for. It also sold the company's set-top box division for another $2.35B, plus it kept the $2.9B cash hoard that came with the acquisition, and additionally $2.4B in tax credits and a patent portfolio valued at around $4B.

Add those numbers up, and you get $14.55B.

Source: https://seekingalpha.com/article/1987261-googles-acquisition...

Another source, with somewhat different numbers, but in the same ballpark and an order of magnitude above what Bloomberg reported: https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/did-google-really-lo...
I disagree. Instead of partitioning with rules and filters, you're partitioning with accounts. It's less granular. It's not like the two accounts method is going to eliminate problems of false positives and false negatives. It just means you have two accounts to manage.
I do forget the NE is dense living around the northern Idaho region.
Thanks for inspiring this:
https://medium.com/dusthq/the-pivots-are-constant-f9b191d954...
When talking correctness (or security) I would think pedantry would be more welcome. I think you have a point on derailment if the comment I replied to had given a specific example that refused to compile anything with a chance of crashing, e.g. through guarantees of its type system, and then I come along asking about cosmic rays. But they didn't, they were vague, and I'm still left wondering of an example because even Haskell programs crash with a segfault or bus error sometimes. It's perfectly fine that it can't cover those cases but a compiler did sign off on a program with a chance of crashing, no cosmic rays involved, at best it only assures less likelihood of crashing compared to another compiler.
The most fun I've had using social engineering was to get access to a database that the pukes in the home office had locked up. Our boss' boss wanted access to the raw data, but they wouldn't give it to us. My colleague and I tag teamed them to figure out which server it was on and the names of the files, then he was able to break into it. The boss was very pleased to be able to provide the data as real-time on his boss' dashboard. Christmas bonuses all around.
^^ is making an interesting observation, followed by a plausible hypothesis. This is not “baseless speculation”.
The pivots are constant
But it seems the discussion is highly redacted and the papers that are up for discussion are chosen by a panel.

So, as I understand it, it's not like you can ask questions about a random paper you are currently reading, and ask the community for help.
I've made that remark, actually, that "These things are too illegible to be used to prove anything". At least once, the clerk (or bank teller - I forget which) corrected me, saying that they actually have been successfully used to prove something. (I didn't get details...)
Thanks. I'm not on Twitter.
We're on! Can you email me at michael.keenan [at] gmail so we can be in touch?
In essence, you're saying, 'They're not making mistakes. It's malice.' If your decision is based on incorrect data, you have no backing for that decision. It may be true to say that some judges are such partisan hacks that they would rule the way they did regardless of the information, but we should demand better.

>The review found an error in a landmark ruling, Shelby County v. Holder, which struck down part of the Voting Rights Act. Chief Justice John Roberts used erroneous data to make claims about comparable rates of voter registration among blacks and whites in six southern states.

>In another case, Justice Anthony Kennedy falsely claimed that DNA analysis can be used to identify individual suspects in criminal cases with perfect accuracy.

This cannot be viewed as acceptable. This cannot be viewed as, 'Oh, well, they would have found a reason to rule that way anyway.' SC judges are not your (general 'your') drunk uncle, who has a right to be a buffoon unless he's hurting someone. When SC judges are buffoons, they will absolutely cause damage.
Yes, indeed.

Sadly I’ve never had the opportunity to use Erlang for work, I’d certainly like to give it a try. I suppose I should try it (or elixir) on a side project sometime since it’s always a bad idea to go blind.
ProPublica is an extremely partisan group funded by George Soros. You shouldn't be surprised.

The funny thing is though that there is a strong conservative argument to be made against the sweeping power of SCOTUS. Out of all the federal branches, they--being unelected--are the least accountable to the public and the decisions they make cannot be appealed or nullified except by their own subsequent decisions. SCOTUS serves as a sort-of "final grand council of elders" that can nullify or change any aspect of the law with no oversight or recourse.

I'm no fan of Congress but at least they are directly accountable to voters. If there is a conflict among the three branches, it should be Congress that prevails not SCOTUS.
You must live in a small town
Nestlé is extracting water from Canadian towns on expired permits
I've seen a write up of a test where tons of orange peels have been dumped and spread over big area [1]. After 16 years, ecologists returned only to find abundant flora at the areas covered with peels. Maybe to try this approach?

[1] http://www.upworthy.com/a-juice-company-dumped-orange-peels-...
Various religious groups have been the dominant social and political organizations for large swaths of the world, across large time periods. This is true of Christianity but also Islam and other religions. As a result, many achievements are credited to religious individuals or religious cultures.

But is this anything more than a coincidence? It seems obvious to me that culture dominated by religion will produce religiously-motivated social institutions, and that historically-notable men and women will themselves be religious.
If MasterCard isn’t going to offer lower rates for card present w/ signature vs card present w/o signature then you can guarantee smart retailers will choose to opt out of signatures. Instantly shave 5-30 seconds off your average transaction time.
Best Bhojpuri Song. Please listen it once
for what it's worth, if i really need to go to sleep i usually vape a small bowl about an hour before bedtime. When recreational shops open near me, i'll switch to dosed edibles.

I'm not big on the "it's natural so it has to be great" bandwagon, but CBD-heavy strains of cannabis are really properly good at knocking me out.
> people tell you you can't handle being off the meds

> you'll show them

> go off the meds

> you can't handle it

> man fuck those people tho, it's all their fault
I think it's also a convenience thing. One of the most common ways for border agents to go on strike (in Europe at least) is to say "We are going to follow the law to the letter on day so and so"

People end up waiting to cross the border for hours on end.

I imagine security guards at a high traffic building have similar leverage and reasons to be lax. When a few hundred or thousand people have to get in through the lobby every morning in the span of 1 hour ... well I think most people would say "You know what, the probability of something bad happening and the consequence if it does is so low that we'd prefer convenience than standing in line for 3 hours to get to work"
Mentioned it above but I live in the northern Idaho region. We've grown our wolf population for awhile. Now we are at the point of having too many wolves that we are opening hunting to them.
It's not an issue at all - Bitcoin is in theory infinitely divisible. In practice, it's divisible to 10^-8 parts, each of which (a "satoshi") is worth 3/500th of a cent at USD6000 per BTC.
This also happens with fiat currency in the form of lost or destroyed cash. The final supply of bitcoins is limited but bitcoins can still be created using fractional reserve banking no different then our current banking system.
An X is a legal signature.

Signatures are really only useful as an indicator that you agreed to something in entirety, it clears up legal grey areas.

So, when a judge asks "did you agree to this?", you can't say "I agreed to X not Y". Instead they can say "is this your signature?" and the intent is clear. It's really just a symbol of total agreement.
Nuclio, a serverless framework
So how do you deal with strangers who walk behind you when you enter the building with your security card?
I mean, they never claim that there is any kind of political bias, or that the cases they describe is some kind of random sample, they just note that there have been factual errors in the court opinions. My own guess is that the reporter noticed these errors in the process of researching cases for other articles, and thought it was interesting enough to write about.
It is completely baseless speculation. It creates an unfounded implication of wrongdoing or subterfuge on the part of Pro Publica without any evidence.

This is a classic FUD tactic.
Do you think that your post is a reasonable to a simple request asking for any sort of logic to support your assertions? So far as I can tell, your argument seems to be a poorly elaborated upon appeal to taxis.

Even giving you the benefit of the doubt there, I don't see how this makes sense. Removing the driver is a revolutionary shift in how the entire industry operates. It also completely shifts the margins for competition, and innovation. The vast majority of cost in a taxi is the human in it. That means that in order for taxi companies the most effective means of competition on fare pricing is seeing who can pay their drivers less.

Shaving 10% off your operating cost due to scale is irrelevant when the human in the seat is 95% of your cost. Taxis in most areas are monopolized (making your choice of them as a foundation of your view even more perplexing), but Las Vegas is an exception there. There are a large amount of competitors and the net result of that was that taxi drivers just finally won a years long court case demanding they be paid at least minimum wage. That's quite silly, and sad. And something that a decade from now will be a relic of the past.
You mean the signature that was scrawled with a finger tip on a 4” touch screen? Yeah, that’s going to match what I wrote on the back of my credit card exactly.

I think it is for just this reason that MC is ending the signature requirement. They’re ain’t defendin’ shit if they think they’ll convince anyone that the 100 pixel-wide smear was done by me and not someone else.
What kind of organization has budget for pen-testing but not for security door controls? Also Facebook hounds their users to protect their info from strangers like Sophie. Also lock-picking seems brazen to an unbelievable degree. Credulity: strained.
Yes. America is stuck in the stone age when it comes to this stuff.
> Patrick Pachette was parising the benefits of scrappiness, which saved $40m in travel costs that year. Incidentally, his was paid ~$40m extra that year;

That's some insane level of hypocrisy right here.
Ask HN: Voice api pricing - anything cheaper than Twilio?
I built a CRM in my spare time and want to add call functionality from the browser. I've been looking around at companies like Twilio, Plivo, etc., and their prices are about .015 cents per minute outgoing. If the average salesperson uses it 4 hours a day, 20 days a month, that comes out to .015604*20 = $72. That seems like a lot of money. Do you think my usage estimate is right? If so, I'd like to hear your ideas about how to accomplish this at a lower price.

Thanks all
my recollection is that it decompresses fine/performantly, let me see if I can dig up an article.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/zopfli-optimization-literally-...

https://blogs.akamai.com/2016/02/understanding-brotlis-poten...

one more: https://medium.com/front-end-hacking/reduce-your-javascript-...
Can't say for sure, but we mexicans are very hypocrite about racism. We look at the US and can't believe how they treat their immigrants, but we do the same in the south border. I have heard that we treat them even worse than what happens in our north border.

There's a machismo culture and it might be the worst about ourselves, but also we look down to the indigenous population, saying things like «you are so indigenous» to mock somebody who has done something stupid.

Obviously we are not all like that, but when you look at the average mexican, things are not looking too good. So there's that, but also the thing about the trending topics is that it looks like it's created by people that gets paid to create them. And between jobs they are testing their weapons, focusing on a controversial issue (when you click on a trending topic it's almost 50%-50% people using it to make their hateful statement to those who use it to defend the affected group of people).

Regardless, a platform as interested in their user's safety shouldn't be a megaphone for hate speech.
> His NYT obituary omits the poster, but adds that he was a nationally ranked Scrabble player

American propaganda at its best
Sounds like an interesting method but I am getting php errors when I select Japanese from the list of languages.
DMarket – A Decentralized Marketplace for Gamers
> What does that mean?

"A binary that performs as desired is an outcome. Coding and compilation is a process."
> Are you talking about taxes or ransom?

Some people would ask what is the difference. Im not quite there, but sympathetic to the idea.

> I am all for progressive tax rates and as a poor person I do not support tax cuts for the wealthy (just wanted to clarify that)

This is a technically problematic issue that i think the public does not quite understand.

There is a concept called the statuatory incidence of taxes and the economic incidence of taxes. The first one is who signs the check to the government, the second one is who ends up paying for it. So if for example someone said that "now employers will pay 100% of the social security tax)", it might look to the untrained eye, that taxes are lowered on employees. But actually, it will reduce wages just as much, and in the end, the employee is still paying for it.

Progressive taxation has this debate in economics: the excess wealth of the rich always get invested, which increase competition for labor, which rises wages. (very classical economics). At the same time, when the government seizes that money, a huge chunk is eaten out by the machinery. For example, some goes to the military, some goes to the government machination, some goes to the collector.

Add to that, that now the wealthy will spend money to avoid the tax, which reduces the amount you will tax in comparison to what would have been spent or invested.

I'm not sure if it technically holds true, and this is a debate amongst economists, but the thinking that taxing the rich will help the poor is not as simple at its stated, and I strongly opposed the mentality of "that guy has to much, lets shoot him".

> I think all companies should be required to make compensation (salary, bonus etc) information public for all employees and contractors

I think its even easier for the IRS to do it, since they already collect that data, and it will also inform on the effective tax rates people are paying, leading to a more informed society. I am all up for public salaries, after all ,mine was already forcefully disclosed in the US as an immigrant, lets get the rest in.
> Writing is the part where non-native English speakers like me are in a disadvantaged position.

While reading the article, I had no idea you weren't a native speaker until I reached that line. So: congrats.
To me the obviously over-the-top use of models to sustain the gag and turn the thing on its head serves as useful satyre.

You want real creepy? Look at this shitty RAD tool[0]. This piece of crap is terrible: there are highly suggestive ladies everywhere on their ads and documents. Even the installer and the wizard screens right in the IDE have them plastered all over! They even have a FAQ[1] trying to legitimise the whole thing. Seriously, scroll down that page and tell me how this[2] is even remotely acceptable (and it's not even the worst offender, by far!).

Translating[1] (trying to keep the completely awkward phrasing because they can't even write proper french):

> Plea for freedom and optimism!

> Our company's marketing is bold and innovative.

> Our marketing is emotional, happy, joyful, optimistic!

> In a world where not every day is a happy one, we persist in our unabated optimism and our confidence in human nature!

> Our ads are warm, smiling and create happiness.

> We categorically refuse a world of darkness, of established conventions, stereotypes, bland ads, sadly descriptive, joyless, actionless, emotionless, smile-less, humourless, without off-beat humour.

> At first it can be surprising, yet ads for technological software, do not have to look like sad and mournful technical sheets! Neither do they have to reproduce bland photos of people working (everyone gets to see these daily!). An ad has to make you dream, and has to keep being an ad! We say yes to smiles, yes to the sea, yes to the sky, yes to dynamism, yes to action, yes to emotion....

> <exhibit A>

> [stock photo of busy but sexually diverse people, badged with a red no-no cross]

> VS

> [stock photo of a girl squarely aimed at cisgender males to provoke arousal instincts through body language, badged with a green hell-yes checkmark]

> </exhibit A>

> We are sorry for people who could be put off when faced with so much boldness and emotion!

> Just as our software is innovative, our marketing is too.

> Long live freedom, long live women, long live men, long live equality, long live boldness, long live passion, long live optimism!

> The marketing team

[0]: https://www.pcsoft.fr

[1]: https://www.pcsoft.fr/pcsoft/plaidoyer-pour-la-liberte-et-l-...

[2]: https://www.pcsoft.fr/img/2016/pub-1.jpg
Given the pre-election kerfuffle with judicial nominations, I'm floored that Roosevelt appointed eight judges to the Supreme Court. I wonder what the headlines were like around that time. Can you imagine the state of Twitter of Obama or Trump managed to pick all-but-one of the members of the SC?
Laws of society are not the same as laws of physics. They'll be interpreted to be what the current culture commands.

Thomas Jefferson was on board with the notion: "I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind."

https://www.nps.gov/thje/learn/photosmultimedia/quotations.h...

They wrote a social contract that's obviously ripe for manipulation and abuse by the current powers that be. I see no reason to try and read the minds of dead men and opine for the past. Especially since I'm pretty sure they all wrote about fears to the effect of future America deifying them when they are but humble, fallible, humans.

Humans quit caring about the past because it's not relevant in future reality where things are much different. The inputs are all different.

Goodhart's law, man.

But by all means, keep believing in your religion that you appear to believe is failing you. I'm sure your support will make it better.