skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m amidst digging into getting some gps clock hardware to make sure an open source db we're developing at work can work in some interesting situations. (Hit me up if you wanna join the team ;) )

High accuracy time is a fascinating domain. It’s this weird mix of general relativity, hardware, and anthropology. Cesium atoms and satellites vs calendars vs astronomy: who wins? :)

Point being: more organizations making high accuracy time available to more folks is a good thing!
Do the banks talk to each other about their customers? So if you don't pay a loan to bank A does bank B know about it and make their lending decisions based on that information? If so, it's functionally identical to the credit reporting agencies in the US.

Is the same type of credit with the same interest rates available just as easily in France as in the US?
This particular case is for investigation into a reportedly missing package of a mobile phone; but yes, clickbait.
That sounds perfect. Is it too much to ask for three company names to start me off in looking?
Andy Rubin innovating than leaving (again)
Andy Rubin, is definitely this generations innovator that we do not think of much, as he is the person that brought us the most used phone os, and phone android, than when he departed the company, he set out to make something new, He brought us essential, it might be one of the nicest looking phones, without bezels completely. Now due to some reasons, he said he is taking some time off, will he be back or will he permanently leave the company.
The very same reasons they have delays right now. Institutions are able to move money pretty quickly and cheaply between themselves.

The reason you don’t get that as an end user is because of compliance, fraud, etc.
Pretty sure cash is the most commonly stolen store of value in the world.
If you would like to know more about this, go to tech crunch, here is the link https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/29/andy-rubin-takes-leave-fro...
Algorithms and Utils for Machine Learning in JavaScript
GitHub: [https://github.com/laoqiren/mlhelper]
Yes. In NYC too.
Aside from price, it's a (very rough) measure of the number of people who would be willing to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment. The 'utility' of Bitcoin is you can pay for things with it, so the number of people who will let you pay for things with it is a reasonable-but-somewhat-lacking way to value the 'fundamentals.'
Apart from the many insightful comments here:

I open up Wikitribune, and the very headline story is "Current Affairs: Trump retweets trigger storm with UK".

Exactly the kind of click grabbing, contentless "news" crap I do not want to read, and don't consider "hight quality news".
I'm the author. I am trying to flesh this out. Yes, I am making contacts on the ground. But locals aren't that internet savvy. I need this more fleshed out so I have something to present.

I seem unable to actually edit my comments under this new account. I am assuming it is a permission I don't yet qualify for. If there are typos, I can't correct them.

Thanks.
Your situation sounds very similar to mine. How did it work out in your favor? Right now it looks like I just have to give up completely on productivity to get a promotion.
this might be what your thinking of.

https://voteflux.org
But cryptocurrencies do serve a socially useful function: the ability to send money without a transaction fee from a third party.
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In such a cold season, what about patients with kidney disease?
Maybe, I'd at least say they have limited knowledge of the history of prohibitions
> we take privacy extremely seriously...implement numerous safeguards operationally and technically to ensure this doesn't happen

I hate that this is going to come off as snark, but a lot of tech startups make claims about executing "rigorous background checks" (Uber et al), which gets proven time and time again is not true at scale.

So what specifically do you do to ensure this? How do I trust your organization?
He addresses that possibility in the article. According to him Canada publishes name changes online.
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Except it takes usually 2 to 3 days for the ink to dry in the ledger, and costs you $3 every time you wrote in it, and consumed more electricity than your house does in a week, and you do it this way because you want it to be trustless.
Let me ask you this... Where does the value in the USD come from? Why does the world accept the USD as a globally accepted standard? What migjt cause that sentiment to change? Where is the value in usd???
Cloudformation templates can be written in YAML now, which is a lot less sucky than writing JSON by hand.
I Bought my cable modem on day one of establishing service. The cable company demanded my Driver's License and SSN none the less.
They do. It's called auto-vectorization and the Rust compiler does it (mostly by virtue of LLVM). But there are thousands[1] of SIMD instructions just for x86_64 alone and auto-vectorization doesn't come close to covering all of them. Even if auto-vectorization does cover the instructions you want to use, you might be justifiably uncomfortable with relying on it for performance in every case (or perhaps you simply can't rely on it), and would instead prefer to explicitly write out the transformations.

[1] - https://software.intel.com/sites/landingpage/IntrinsicsGuide...
Diet conditioning in patients with chronic Kidney disease
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Yes. I expect at some point the wealth stored of bitcoin on exchanges will be too great a temptation for some governments. All the more reason to ensure you don't store your bitcoin on an exchange.
I don't think there's any appropriate time for FB to request nude photos of their userbase. I don't understand why you think I should explain this.
Kind of an ironic example, lawyers have terrible working conditions. Pay is great, but the partner system of advancement is dehumanizing, and encourages cutthroat behavior and insane working hours.
moreover monetary inflation absolutely kills poor people and enables rich people to do things like leveraged investments, and drives the middle class into investing in corporations to stay afloat for retirement (essentially a subsidy for the wealthy).
>Consumers are workers.

This is circular logic, isn't it? It's like saying McDonald's should only pay workers $3 an hour because I, some uninvolved person who happens to be a worker elsewhere, would like a cheaper hamburger. That's not pro-worker, that's pro-hamburger.

If the question is about a fair playing field between bosses and workers, I don't understand what a strike inconveniencing people has to do with it.
You can't judge the quality of decisions you made in the past based on what you know now. Imagine going to a casino, putting $100 on red in the roulette wheel, black coming up and then thinking, "Man, I really regret putting it on red, I should have put it on black".

How is that in any way useful or going to improve future decisions? Bet on black, because you know, that's where the trend line is going?

Case in point: Do you short Bitcoin now or not? Who freaking knows...
I'd argue that Bitcoin would eliminate the fraud aspect (users can not 'fake' deposits), but compliance could certainly remain as an issue.
Ask yourself first, why did the value climb 16x? If you cant answer that then I caution purchasing more. I would also spend some time understanding what "investing" is vs what speculating\gambling is.

This is gambling.
I would assume a datacentre would put a GPS somewhere to provide time to an NTP server. It's quite cheap, easy to do, and a useful value-add for their customers; and it's something that can only can be done by someone with physical (and likely roof) access.
If we could run the economy on blockchain, why not?

One potential obstruction to this is probably the speed of transaction confirmation. I believe it takes about an hour for a transaction to be confirmed. If we equate that to a current fiat currency based transaction confirmation which takes just a fraction of a second, we are way off. I may be wrong in this comparison.
What I do understand is that, you can't have the blockchain and also the speed of a fiat currency based transaction confirmation. What I don't understand is - Is this confirmation so crucial.
I see blockchain as more amenable to existing workflows that takes eons to complete, such as an approval in an organization.
So the company approves vacation time for its employees, then wants to take it away because they don't know how to use a calendar, and you're blaming the union for the entire thing?
It's funny, what the US did there isn't all that different from what the various Sovbloc countries did when they forced people to exchange their 'hard' currencies to the local currency at some ridiculously low exchange rate.
Chicago has a disused freight tunnel system larger than either of these pedestrian tunnel systems:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
A combination of belief and the threat of violence.
CRAs in the US are also highly regulated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Credit_Reporting_Act
During my last job hunt I was told that some companies target 30% of total comp in stock. If you get options and the stock goes up, you can do quite well.
A new one for me the other day was "Google Nearby". Enabled by default and some company in the airport using it to push ads to your notifications. Disgusting and maybe the final nail in the coffin for Android for me. As a long time diehard android user, iPhone sounds better and better every day.
The same source can be blasted as fake news and regarded as credible by different audiences. You don't need to please everybody to have a viable media enterprise.
I really hope this works as promised. I'm curious if they'll add support for boost (www.boost.org) though.
I think bitcoin will finally separate the good debt from the bad debt. It is my personal belief ( as in i don't know of any formal theory ) that debt should only be incurred for the use of building a productive asset. In a deflationary currency, this encourages businesses to ensure that productivity increases will have greater returns than savings. Instead, our financial system has encouraged the acquisition of debt for fixed assets. The only thing this has done is bid up the price of those fixed debts with debt, and handed over the money for supporting that system to banks and their owners. In order to stimulate growth in such a system, the only way that you can function is to tax savings. That's what inflation is. What it forces people to do is to invest in increasingly risky assets, because of the loss of their purchasing power. Hence bubble after bubble after bubble. Crisis after crisis after crisis.

Bitcoin will eventually stabilize to an ever appreciating value asset. But what it will allow you to do is save for a house. If you have a business proposal that encourages people to pay you for a good or service, people will invest their savings in it and take on that risk. Banks will instead move back to providing capital to businesses, using savings from people that are willing to invest. Businesses will again focus on productivity increases, because that's how you get access to capital.

I also don't think it is going to be resisted quite as much as people think it will be. People still need to pay their taxes, and that is not going to stop. The main thing it is going to do is prick the bubble of consumer debt, and remove the banking middle-men from that space. That alone is a multi-trillion dollar industry, let alone the annuities that banks own and graft from, from those assets. Removing these people (i.e. banking debt suppliers) from positions of power, by strangling their access to capital, is a justification for bitcoin in its own right. Imagine a world in which banks didn't control governments.

That's the way it is supposed to work i think. It is pure genius.
Actually, the probation period I mentioned that all major professional orchestras require of audition winners regardless of their accumulated fame or lack thereof, deals very thoroughly in the mysician's ability to collaborate. They are paid the standard salary and benefits for this period, just like every other player. Obviously, they can't rehearse or perform from within a Faraday cage, so this period is not "blind".It is the "at will" part of the orchestral contract- but a committee decides if they have collaborated well- a committee made up of the conductor, their section leader, section members and players of other instruments and administration. They get canned if they aren't consumate collaborative professionals. Like I said, they do get canned... it just happens very rarely. This period can last for six months to a year depending on the position and the orchestra. So it isn't part of the blind part, but unlike in engineering, if they pass this period, they have a solid contract. It then necomes much more difficult to fire them,although it still happens when there is good reason. As for the software interview-- man is that just kind of squishy and often poorly structured (not to the job- more like a hazing situation). And not blind, not usually inclusive, and downright structurally discriminatory in many cases. Why not structure these with the job in mind, toss the whiteboard in favor of their actual laptop and IDE (musicians audition on their own instruments, not on soundless replicas, and not with just any example of music from the entire repitoire- an set of excerpts and sightreading that directly apply to the job they will do)-keep it blind and pay them the usual salary for a probation period during which everyone on the team makes the effort to build a great collaborative relationship. Why not? Having been a pro orchestral musician and now software craftsperson, I can tell you these two gigs have a lot in common. The diversity people in music finally revolted back in the late 60s and got some positive change, just as diversity people are finally aiming to do battle with tech's ironically inflexible hiring culture and its general culture right now. It would be most helpful if more people got hip to diversity and inclusion being a more productive, stronger, and fulfilling way to go. Bit it needs to be met with eager interest rather than skepticism and pushback on experimental efforts to help it flourish.
Licence plates, credit card numbers, text messages, your page number in Game of Thrones, normal spy satellite stuff.

/s

Seriously though maybe the text wasn't in the image as much as metadata attached to it? Something like the lat/long and time of the image? I don't really know, it's a good question.
They do that because the US government requires them to keep those records.

This isn't Coinbase twirling their evil mostache and scheming about selling your personal data.
I should clarify, we didn't use satellites directly, we just used the images given by a third party.
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ok, so I had an upsight, to borrow Neil Stephenson's terminology. Speficifcally, that POW coins are inherently flawed. There is no fundamental reason to own one of them.

POS coins on the other hand, are a different animal. If you own a POS coin, you get paid transaction fees for helping verify transactions. Thus, POS coins make fundamental sense, can be valued accordingly and create a reason to actually own the coin - and should, therefore, prove a better store of value than POW coins. Of course, POS is somewhat theoretical, but if Ethereum can pull it off, it should supersede bitcoin. Now, ELI5 why I am wrong, please.
One of the big pros of BitTorrent is that it allows you to download huge files over an extended period of time on a slow connection. Back in the day when torrents were starting to take over things like Limwire/Kazaa, this was a big deal. This was also in the days before video hosting (i.e. YouTube and, frankly, PornHub) and cloud storage were a mainstream thing.

Also, due to peering, torrents tended to allow you to max your connection compared to shady direct-download websites which required premium membership (e.g. Rapidshare).

BitTorrent is still a viable solution for big files and slow connections. Some scientific datasets are available via torrent for this reason.

Media distribution has certainly helped kill off torrents (I say kill off, they're still widely used, damped perhaps?), but another part of it is faster connection speeds, no bandwidth caps in many places and the availability of cheap file hosting (e.g. via Mega).
Seems these are not really new issues, shitty software is shitty:

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/aviation/sky-talk...
Ah, that makes sense. I haven't heard of any other instances of this, so I think it's safe to say El Cap isn't vulnerable.
There are specific (non-cryptographic) hashes which are built to compare equal for equal data, and to be similar for similar data (for different metrics of similarity). It's a somewhat esoteric subject, but it's a thing.
I don't know specifics in this case, but I'll never forgive the ALPA for torpedoing the removal of the third-class medical certification, thus ensuring that I'll never be able to get one without an extremely costly special issuance. In return, I'll happily do anything I can to lobby against their interests in perpetuity until they correct that mistake.

What I'm trying to say is, older pilots screwing over younger pilots and would-be pilots is pretty common.
It's frustrating enough to see private enterprises using SSN as a form of identification, e.g. getting a lease on my apartment I had to provide my SSN.

What's worse is when government agencies themselves use it, knowing full well the number of recent data breaches. I recently went to the DMV in Colorado to obtain a driver's license (since I moved here from another state). They turned me away because I didn't have my physical social security card with me. I did have my U.S. Passport, which has far more security than a blue card with a number printed on the front of it. And sadly the Colorado DMVs will continue using SSN to identify people, even after hearing about the Equifax breach.

Honestly, a social security card may as well be a post-it-note with the number written in crayon or finger paint.
When someone excludes “the top subset” why do the next several replies describe Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc as if these were mid-tier companies? These are the generation-defining outliers that are printing money.

Q: “What does an ordinary non-elite baseball team do?”

A: “Well the Yankees...”
Yeah, although I was thinking of this a lot before Flux came about.
Well he was right. It's already being used in some remote communities. Also here is Dominoes delivering a pizza to a customer a mere 25km from a major city: https://www.dominos.com.au/inside-dominos/media/november-201...
Really glad to see this scum finally getting his comeuppance; I personally know several of the many people he's abused over the years, and it boggles the mind that this serial rapist has been allowed to rise as high as he did. It's just a shame that it's not likely he'll see any jail time for his crimes.
I think the clarifications on what is physical were pretty clear. The information in a ledger isn't physical. The information stored in data isn't physical. It's information. Information isn't physical no matter what medium you choose to store it in.
You'd do better to spend a minute Googling before saying something so definitive. The use of gold for jewelry and industrial applications outweighs the investment use of it:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274684/global-demand-for...

Gold has been valued from time immemorial for its unique aesthetic and practical properties entirely aside from its value as a currency.

That's clearly distinct from, say, paper dollars, which indeed have value only because we agree that they do (and because they're backed by the robust efforts of a government, of course).
Ok these were regular land images (I think at 10m resolution) which had some text descriptions on the images. We deemed the text to be confidential enough not to outsource. Def, not spy satellite stuff :)
This new startup helps strangers pool their savings
I would go even further. Too often devs overvalue RSUs / options, etc. Such things are great - but even at Apple, the return on RSUs is going to level off or become less reliable.

RSU / options are lottery tickets not a reliable income stream.
> if

If aliens invaded tomorrow this utility is removed. It doesn't take away from its utility right now though, does it? Bitcoin would have to drop 85% of its value to have only doubled in value this year. So what you're doing is using an argument of 'hypothetically it might not have utility' where I'm pointing out where it does, in fact, have utility. Right now. And it has grown in utility. Right now.
Ask HN: What single company will be the most dominant over the next 20 years?
Amazon will be that company in my opinion. It owns the pipes to our homes and it is increasingly owning the platform that runs a large portion of the Internet. It is in the lead in Cloud Computing and that lead will continue to increase.

What do you think?
And a bit further in the article: "By the time DEC finished their dynamic translation efforts, x86 in translation was barely faster than native x86 in floating point code, and substantially slower in integer code."

So perhaps they were overly optimistic.
I've always wondered how the algorithms behind scheduling different events work given certain constraints. Are there resources (papers, articles, etc.) where I can learn about these algorithms, or even just a search query I can try that will point me in the right direction?

EDIT: spelling
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I believe on exchanges this is in order to maintain KYC compliance, in an effort to thwart money laundering.
Is it going to be monotonically increasing?
I could handle living in an apartment and retiring to a cheaper city at 45.
See I view it on the other side. Someone who has studied currencies that weren’t backed by nation states (or worse were actively worked against) would pretty easily find reason to take that bet.

His entire position is that currencies are the domain of nation states. It’s a reasoned position, based on his long distinguished career.
You can find some interesting results by googling site:virtuallythere.com
Here's my alternative history steampunk novel proposal:

What if Turing was such a minimalist engineer instead of a great mathematician, that he decided not to include a "halt" instruction, because you could always just terminate a program with an infinite loop: Bang! One fewer instruction! Less is more, worse is better, RISC is more efficient, right? Just emulate halt in software! The Woz would be proud.

But as it turned out in this universe, halt was the one instruction you needed to express the halting problem, the foundation of modern computer science! The looping infinitely problem would be moot, because all programs would always loop infinitely!

His genius was to add that one little magical thing that otherwise could have been missing: the halt instruction.

Kind of like Hamilton, who fruitlessly tried to multiply triples, which his children tormented him relentlessly about, until he finally realized he was missing a magical dimension, invented quaternions, and vandalized a bridge, all in the same day.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broom_Bridge
In the post-JavaScript apocalyptic nightmare, the few remaining working terminals will be green-on-black CRTs with nuclear launch instructions burned in the screens. Gopher is a good fit.
Can't wait for the Show HN of a mechanical turk backed chess bot.
If someone has your nudes and intends to share them I think blocking them only on Facebook and not anywhere else is not productive.

You should just post the nudes yourself IMHO and be done with it.
But this doesn't seem responsive to the point. If I pre-pay for my phone and service, why does Verizon still demand my SSN and other data? Why do they even care who I am?