skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it is calculated based on the amount of coins in circulation. Maybe those that had a movement in last N days or something like that, not sure about the exact details.

Daily transaction volume might be a better indication though..
How to prevent students from using modified calculators to cheat on exams?
Computational Complexity:A Kolmogorov Complexity Proof of the Lovász Local Lemma
"This paper describes a modified form of Kohlbecker’s algo-
rithm for reliably hygienic (capture-free) macro expansion
in block-structured languages, where macros are source-to-
source transformations specified using a high-level pattern
language."

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.464...
I got the mid 2013 13" i7 as soon as it was released. I had to replace the battery just over a year ago but it's still my main development machine. I feel like buying another Apple machine in the current line up wouldn't even be an upgrade
Quantitative easing (QE) is when central bank does large scale longer maturity assets financial asset purchases in order to lower interest rates and increase the money supply. This is supposed to stimulate economy. QE exchanges short term asset (cash) for long term assets (bonds and other debt instruments).

QE works by increasing the money flow trough real economy (the part of the economy that is concerned with actually producing goods and services rather than the part that consists of financial services such as banks, stock markets).

Bitcoins is the opposite. It's speculative asset that moves money into financial realm.
I assume they sold some of it by now. But I see your point, does pos make the rich richer? Rich people can stake almost all their ether. since you can't move your ether for a long period of time after you stake it, staking is impractical for many. The first version of Casper will also include a minimum of ether to stake, though there are pools and they want too lower it over time.
Very interesting. Does someone have an example of a project where they used scratch?
It seems to be only useful to build base distribution images
stocks are securities, while crypto projects are trying to be currencies, two very different things.
Does gtk-rs count?

http://gtk-rs.org/

https://github.com/gtk-rs
AWS will take a shot at nearly every meaningful service that can be shoe-horned into what they do. Some will work, some will fail, they'll keep taking shots. It's really that simple for Amazon. Not much is off limits.

Ten years from now, the majority of AR & VR experiences will not be derived from traditional gaming engines like Unity. They'll be built & live on AWS, GC, Azure or similar. It'll be done so as to remove as many units of labor from the process as possible.
I'll pay a fee all day to have some fraction of the population getting less of their news from the Daily Mail etc.

Let's triple the fee and get some state newspapers and advertising.
The tor option has already been mentioned. The other useful option if you don't have your own server with static addresses is dynamic DNS and then simply set up a VPN or reverse SSH connections to the dyndns hostname on your DSL or whatever. Certainly more sensible than a cloud service with a hilarious 5GB traffic limit that also unavoidably adds unnecessary latency to the connection.
and they store it because there is a market for it, because people find it valuable, if the millennials don't get why a piece of metal has value, there isn't much governments can if no one buys their shiny metal.
Well the work might not be that much, eg

http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=377183

Three technicians with handtools vs a Honda Civic => six minutes
But what if the Chinese copy your product right after you have scaled up production?
Oh well, how timely, I was talking about quantum optics yesterday, and now Im curious about textbooks references, any suggestions ? Even fundamentals and not up to date QC research.
If China cuts off its internet, Bitcoin would still exist though. I fail to see the connection
Actually maybe not as hard as you think:

https://youtu.be/9Rni8okfgn4#t=1h34m
When you try things no one has tried before, you make mistakes.
Basically confirming the parent comment. If it's not politically convenient it must be bogus.
Reason is capitalised, unless you mean actual reason.
Why react native apps are better than phonegap
Critical Exim Security Vulnerability
Even better if you make it:

template<class T>
constexpr bool is_space(const T & x) {
return x == ' ' || x == '\n';
}

Debuggable, type safe and same performance as straight C code.
Satoshi actually used a manipulative log curve for his minting algorhythm which effectively created a ponzi style distribution scheme. The majority of BTC was produced to the small userbase for minimal effort, whereas time passes the computational work and wattage required to produce coins for late adopters increases as presumably more users discover the system.

Satoshi easily could have chosen a linear algorithm anticipating additional work input with more users, instead he designed a system to exploit late adopters.

The aspect of Bitcoins having a limited supply is mostly ineffective, as all the features of Bitcoin are now available in other service networks which are including more advanced features and better ASIC resistant algos.
fixed, added also pdfs and mobis.

wget -nc -x -i https://pastebin.com/raw/prJEU2ae
Well, it may be considered corruption also because governments have written and set rules about the hiring process. And giving a friend a boost is likely to violate some of those rules.

I have a personal example of how a friendship helped me get a job. Out of college I didn't get any offers that I liked and was just hanging out at home (fwiw, a luxury that some disenfranchised groups are less likely to have). One of my friends had to decline her summer internship with late notice, but she told the manager to consider me.

I was qualified on paper. Given that it was such late notice, it probably made sense to just fly me in rather than restart the search. The interview went fine, and I was hired.

There is no way I would have gotten that internship if me and my friend weren't friends. Why? Because I'm pretty sure I applied to that company through the normal process and apparently I didn't make the cut. I did not do anything to suddenly become more of a qualified candidate between the time of that rejection and when they decided to give me a call, and yet I ended up with an internship that immediately led to a job and to which I've never really had a problem finding employment in the decade since.

As much as I like myself, I can think of plenty of classmates and friends who were harder-working and more experience and qualifications who had much harder professional paths. And I'm sure there are people who I don't know who are also more qualified than me.

So is my success "fair"? What does that word even mean? What is the most ideal form of "fair" hiring? The "best" candidate? Is there any company or profession in existence in which the definition of "best" doesn't immediately introduce a whole bunch of subjective factors. And if "best" is the priority, then how much is a company obligated to expand the geographical and chronological scope of their search to make absolutely sure they've found the best candidate possible?
Can You Buy a Silicon Valley? Maybe
http://www.paulgraham.com/maybe.html --- Discuss
AWS was reusing their existing infrastructure and expertise and opening it up to 3rd parties.

I'm unclear why Amazon needs a custom game engine. They must have some plans to enter this area, maybe make their own VR headsets?
I like this in concept. I do fear, however, that larger or deep-pocketed companies that end up on “the list” will be able to litigate and lawsuit their way off while the smaller guys will be banished forever.
That would work well if you can always use the TV/monitor at a farther distance.

This wouldn't be an option for me. Although I do usually work at my home office, I also need to be able to use a laptop on its own when I'm traveling or just want to get out for a while. So that determines the 20" focus distance I need.

With single vision prescription glasses tuned for that distance, my eyes don't have to do any of the optical accommodation you mention. My glasses are set up to let my eyes be relaxed at 20"; there's no strain of my eye muscles trying to adjust to a different distance.
Airbnb’s Money-Laundering Problem
I think it demonstrates sheer incompetence of the Arris takeover of Motorola and a lack of quality control with software updates. And applies to the company as a whole regardless of chipset.
It's a wrapper over wappalyzer which is a chrome extension, why would this avoid sending your data to wappalyzer servers?
Someone once suggested to me the easiest way to "bootstrap the world" is to write a Forth implementation in assembly, and then write your Lisp in Forth.
Making $1,000 is incredibly tough
I've bought a bunch of bitcoins: it's a fantastic investment in the vast and indubitable stupidity of humans.

People don't sell, they only "hlod" (it's no coincidence that the rallying cry for the numbnut bitcoiners is a typo), and the market is incredibly thin, driven up by people's willingness to buy smaller and smaller slices of the wretched things.

Downside will always be limited, as sell-offs can always be stanched by whales holding up prices and people's training to hlod and hlod and hlod.

It's such a headfvck, and all these bog-country paddies telling me in the wide suits on youtube about the future of internet currencies, convinces me that spivs and idiots will chase the value of bitcoin up for a long time to come. Bleeuuuurrrgggghhhhhh.
Capital begets capital. The choice of consensus algorithm doesn't matter, as long as the system follows some kind of capitalistic economic model.
What is Cyber Monday
Quantitative Easing injects new money into the economy, devaluing money. But my bitcoin is only worth $10,000 USD if that's the amount you agree to pay me for it. And you will pay me using existing money. So there is no new money being injected and so it would seem there is no devaluation of old money.

But it feels like maybe you're right. I think existing money is essentially being devalued every time someone decides to spend their USD on bitcoin, demonstrating that a new thing that came out of (more-or-less) thin air now has value, and thus those who own it can 'claim' dollars, and thus there are less dollars for all the people who don't yet own bitcoin. Which means they are getting poorer.

My head hurts. Can someone smarter than I figure this out?
Nearly every valuable and or volume product (not every copy of every product) will be scanned for VR/AR purposes, so you'll be able to actually examine it from most or all angles. There's no scenario where Amazon doesn't do this eventually. The applications for clothing alone (which they're extremely determined to be huge in) makes it a big obvious must. Near-term it'll be ugly, 20 years out it'll be so good as to be the routine way to shop for a lot of products (you won't bother with basic well understood purchases, things in generic boxes, like advil).
My pastor asked me about Bitcoin yesterday, and if he should buy some. My pastor, who did the math and realized that it doesn't make financial sense for him to own a car on the little bit of money he makes working for various English-speaking churches here in Germany and teaching, and is not a greedy person (otherwise he wouldn't be a poorly-paid mainline Protestant pastor...)

At least he understands that he doesn't understand how on earth it works and that should be grounds enough for caution.

If I didn't already have problems with how much electricity it burns for even the smallest transaction, that would have been enough to put me off it.

I apologized to him for possibly being wrong about warning him off from what looks to me like an enormous bubble, but from what I've seen outside of our own tech bubble, it's an enormous bubble that most of the buyers have little to no understanding of.

I made 1300% on Nvidia stock purchased in 2009, after that court ruling. I'm content with the money I've indirectly made off Bitcoin.
"The only good use I can come up with is spotting terrorist"

I can come up with a handful of benevolent uses for facial recognition in no time flat.

1.) Automated ID systems for supermarkets. Walk into a store, store knows who you are. No checkout needed. Just walk out.

2.) Security for venues/work/etc. No more backstage passes getting copied - computer vision knows who's allowed where.

3.) Emergency response after a disaster. Automatically notify loved ones if you've been detected alive in a news feed.

4.) Voting systems. Got a stadium full of people? Just have them raise their hands - computer vision does a tally along with ID'ing who voted for what.

5.) Guest lists / ticketing. Show up to a venue, walk in. No ticket needed. Venue knows who's if you're allowed in. No more lost tickets.

6.) FaceID for the iphoneX. I'm personally loving it on mine.

Like many new technologies, it can be used for both good and bad. Harnessing nuclear reactions can be used to generate massive amounts of electricity, or to level cities. What's important is that it's regulated, not that it's banned.
> btc was premined by Satoshi

No, Satoshi did not "premine" bitcoin. Premine means on day zero you have created currency for yourself already. The only block we know Satoshi did mine cannot be spent. There is also zero evidence that Satoshi mined additional blocks once the network got up and running. (It took days for the second block to be found.)
1. :)

2. Will try to make it obvious what to do next;

3. Modal pops up so you can search components like the ones on our homepage and simple geometric forms too. That modal is also callable by Cmd/Ctrl + Shift + F;

4. Hexagons are there just for design purposes right now. Once upon a time, the grid system used to snap to the hexagons, but we replaced it with a square grid, because it's harder to make good looking diagrams like that;

5. See point 3;

6. What you are hoping for is exactly what we aim for. A constrained/opinionated solution that lets you create beautiful diagrams with little effort.

x. It's early and we're trying to gather as much feedback as possible to improve the UX/UI, this is why we released it as beta.

Thanks for checking it out, and for the feedback!
This AI algorithm probably means the end of high-end art forgeries
Our employees are sat 50cm from their 27" 1440p monitors, they sit at 1.2M/4ft desks and look at text for 5-6 hours a day. So in this context TVs are not suitable, and would be never considered for our office environment. Some are free to choose what they want and have 4K monitors, everything is Dell Ultrasharp for simplicity. There is a mix of portrait and landscape used. I'd suggest quality 4K over cheap 4K, but we don't provide that for all our employees as it is unnecessary, but I do deal with a lot of other businesses and it has been very uncommon for me to see 4K TVs in the workplace here in the UK.

I've had IPS monitors for 15 years and maybe it's in my head at this point compared to high end TVs and TN panels, but I wouldn't use anything else nor would I subject those I expect to drive revenue for me to do so. It's a key tool that is often an afterthought.

End of the day whatever works for you, but I have seen first hand people have huge TVs on a desk thinking they are getting some kind of gain and then they look up and down all day long or squint to see whats on it. A lot of people have to be forced to adhere to good ergonomics and healthy use of computers.

Hardware is cheap compared to what we pay for software, SaaS, pension and perks for our staff so it's something we are good on.

/ramble over
ABC news Australia recently sent a reporter there;

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-27/the-dome-runit-island-...
I am from Africa. I can say first-hand that most aren't interested in scientific and technological pursuits. However, I can make the same claim for white people. The difference between us is access to great education and resources. I was fortunate enough to grow in a wealthy family and have access a great education. This African "middle-class" you speak of is almost non-existent please care to check for Th GDP per capita of most African nations and dare say THAT is not lower than the norm.
But couldn't exactly that have happened during Google's seed rounds? And even the Google IPO? There's no way to prove that didn't happen either?
oh, right, millennials
Note that you can buy any movies you want in ripped dvd form in the street, some restaurants or some shops anywhere in China. They even sold it on my campus uni. Its common practice to go there once a week to pick up a bunch of dvds
1. Telling? That's what you asked for.

2. Functional semantics are convenient for sequential programs.
One economic case for the moon is as a source of mass in Earth orbit for staging exploration/utilisation of the rest of space. Low gravity and no atmosphere makes it more attractive for raw materials than Earth is. Large Andy Weir style human settlement isn't required; this is a case for automated moon-based facilities for harvesting raw materials, performing whatever automated processing/fabbing is required, then launching them to where they're actually needed for considerably less than the current $25k/kg cost of getting them out of Earth's gravity well.

Ultimately the only thing that absolutely needs to come all the way up out of Earth's gravity is canned homo sapiens; automated production of everything else can be arranged remotely.
Discussed yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15779382 (347 points/146 comments)
>The 2nd coming of VR is cooling a bit right now

It's true and it's unfortunate, we're just starting to see "affordable" hardware with decent performance. I finally pulled the trigger and bought a Rift, at 400 euros for the headset and the controllers it's pretty decent value IMO. Too bad VR seems to have lost some of its hype in the past year or two.
It would be nice if some example grant application letters could be included.

By the way, this guide could include a donation button serving as an example :)
No, you don't need personal data for personalization
Can you be more specific and educate us?
You feel bad for her?

Man she doesn't give a fuck about you. She betrayed you as thoroughly as she possibly could. She fucked other men in your house without a whisper of concern for your feelings and did it so much you had to leave your own home. And now she's laughing all the way to the bank fucking other men, in your house, in your bed, on your dime.

Her and all her attention whoring instagram friends are laughing at what a mug you are.

Stop being such a pathetic doormat and cut the disloyal slut loose.
Continental operates the island hopper [1,2] from Hawaii to Guam, which stops in Majuro and Kwajalein (Marshall Islands), and Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Chuuk (Federated States of Micronesia). So, it's relatively straightforward to get to the country (Marshall Islands). However, from Majuro to the Bikini Atoll is still another 800 km (500 miles) of ocean, and there is no easily available scheduled transport, from what I gather.

FWIW, Young Pioneer Tours (no affiliation, but I've been with them to North Korea and Iran, and can recommend them) offers guided tours of Chernobyl (and also the "least visited countries" tour [3], including Marshall Islands, but not the Bikini Atoll yet).

[1] http://gmbhome.com/micro05/Islandhop.htm

[2] http://www.jasonaroundtheworld.com/2011/10/the-continental-i...

[3] http://www.youngpioneertours.com/tour/least-visited-countrie...
As a french I’m baffled by that. Italy and France have amazing marketting (ever been to eataly?) but spanish food is way tastier.
I don't consider Bitcoin to be an investment per-se. More of a punt. If I need an alternative way to punt, maybe some penny stocks?
True. In the past 2 weeks I have eaten Brazilian (not spanish, but south american), Argentine, Mexican, and Italian.
TLDR: it's China
except when it's e.g. required to manufacture the electronics these millennials use. gold might be over-valued in your opinion, but it has intrinsic value, unlike bitcoin.
Ask HN: Is there any K/V store which can be run as a cluster
At my current job I was looking for K/V store which is fast and not single point of failure.
We have assessed redis cluster and aerospike cluster. Are there any other options which we can consider.
>to qualify for employment in SV you need to

to qualify - not. To increase chances of getting the employment in competitive environment (i.e. to get into FB/GOOG/etc.) - yes.
What are you talking about?

And I object to false claims that pure FP is somehow "better designed" than other approaches (which is how this entire discussion started). Design is a matter of aesthetics (completely subjective) and pragmatics (also subjective, but can be measured empirically) -- not theory -- and aesthetics and pragmatics are the sources of value -- again, not theory.
I do hate bitcoin and for exactly that reason. But I'm conflicted about it - if I could make a huge amount of money and know, for a fact, that it was caused by me being in the right place to take money off people who actually earned it... is this a bad thing to do?

It's a confidence trick - is it bad to be a con artist? Or is relieving the gullible of their hard earned cash a noble pastime? There certainly isn't any actual value being created.

But if a bunch of greedy bastards wanted to pay off my mortgage, I can't see I'd have a problem with it.
To be honest, it is far from clear that these commercial burgers are anything remotely like meat. And not sandwiches in our lexicon, certainly, no more than these shops are anything like restaurants. They might be food-like substances, rather. https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20090323/7-rules-for...
Got any sources to back that up? 1% of an entire population is still a massive number of people. Or to put things another way: it's pretty easy to interact with 100 people each day so even just 1% of the population means you will bump into someone who isn't immunised during the course of your day.
Right. But even having some individual problem that gives an exponential speedup will break the hypothesis.
As far as the Silicon Valley is concerned, those are equivalent.
You always have nice and expensive jamon iberico de bellota restaurants in France. It’s good! If you’re in Lyon there is one in les halles de bocuse
Wow "Quantum Physics for Dummies" is an actual book lol:

https://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Physics-Dummies-Steven-Holzne...
That would be a trenchant point if the opposite of 'apolitical' was 'political' or 'review of a thing' was the same as the thing. Neither are the case.
> From all industries I know of, SV is probably the poorest example of that, close to medicine for needing a degree to get anywhere in fancy SV companies.

You must not be familiar with journalism, which has a long storied history of amazing journalists who never went to college. Today, it is nearly impossible to land any kind of internship without a college degree, or some other extreme qualifications (being very wealthy, or from a very important family). I think it's a function of the commonality of a college degree and the significant reduction of available jobs in journalism.

> Besides, shouldn't we demand more engineering and computer science, and less ad-hoc crap and reinvention of the wheel from self-taught programmers?

As someone with a CompEng degree myself, I'm not going to argue with you against the benefits of an engineering degree. And I won't make an argument based on the existence of Woz (a college dropout who managed to be a stellar self-taught engineer and programmer). And there are obviously successful SV startups that have been started by people with formal educations, as well as complete disasters from dropouts (e.g. Theranos). But you think the main driver of innovation in SV is coding/engineering aptitude and discipline?