skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is nitpicking. In python you can do everything you want in inner functions, they just have to be named. Additionaly there is simple syntax for single expressions, that don't need names. Lack of TCO is a lot bigger obstacle to using more functional style
Researchers work to make experimental phage therapy less of a long shot
You can also manually hibernate your instance once you are done with the work for the day. I also suspect you won't need anything like a m4.large for most dev environments but i see that you wanted some equivalent to a macbook pro, so that makes sense.
I've been using c9.io for about 6 months now as my sole IDE for my own projects (I'm 100% node/react/etc). It's been fantastic. I really wish they added some breakpoints and mobile support, because coding on the go isn't amazing, but I can see the potential.
Can they successfully raise money at a huge valuation with that case unsettled, news that they (almost-certainly-illegally) hid a data breach, a potential class-action lawsuit about sexual assault by their drivers, a business model that shows no signs of breaking even, etc. etc. etc.?

If so, they then probably think they can go public with all of that baggage.
Although the New York Times connects these two phenomena with a psychosomatic explanation of emotional distress, I view the relationship differently. Neighborhoods where African Americans lived – often restricted to due to segregation and redlining – were more exposed to both indoor and outdoor particles that triggered asthma symptoms. While struggling to breathe, black people simultaneously fought for the right to live as equals.

I am an environmental studies major. This is not news to me.

It would be more accurate to say that NIMBYism by privileged people, who are mostly white, is literally causing increased incidence of asthma in people of color. The de facto disenfranchisement of such people is literally interfering with their ability to breathe and is sending them to an early grave.

A fight for rights is a fight for life itself.
I know of one case where after a subpoena and request for evidence: hard drives were wiped clean and mobile devices were destroyed with a hammer.
We can't have it both ways, can we?
Following the article's logic, in 2028, Robot Bernie Sanders will become the first cyborg president, running on a platform of a "Neo Deal", which will replace Social Security with Universal Social Welfare (UBI), consolidate Medicaid and Medicare into Universal Medicine (NHS), and of course a massive infrastructure package.
G-man here (not the U.S.). Switching between four systems daily. Scroll Lock x2 + n.
Wasn't the case in the beginning of the year and isn't the case at the end (I know people who have left this week for FANG). And that period arguably coincides with the most intense PR snafu for Uber. Most companies are smart enough to distinguish between a rotten top-mandated culture against individual actions, and not generalize 14k+ employees. Also worth noting that a large contingent were already former FANG employees so some are just returning back home.

With regards to why not move sooner, isn't the company going through an entirely top-down overhaul starting with the CEO? If someone wants to be part of that change, and if they still believe in the ride-sharing space and if they were never in the crossfires of any of this anyways, then all of these are valid reasons to stick around.
The problem is that this is a short term strategy. You might win this election, but move the overton window to the right.

The other problem is the risk of alienating your base.
You're comparing Bitcoin to diamond, but there are many more asset classes that are actually more similar to Bitcoin, which actually work.

I think a lot of people make the mistake of using pattern matching to judge Bitcoin when they don't have enough patterns to work with. There are and were many financial products that could have worked (but failed because of corruption) or are working currently that most people who don't do a lot of financial investment aren't aware of.

That said, let me go through each of the comparisons you made:

> Its original bump in value come from a marketing campaign (even if with Diamond it was centralized and offline, and with BTC is decentralized and viral)

Diamond has a centralized cartel that does the marketing. Who do you think is doing the marketing for Bitcoin?

> Its scarcity is artificially controlled

Diamond's artificial scarcity is controlled by the cartel, just like OPEC controls oil.

Who do you think "controls" Bitcoin's scarcity?

> Its main use case is black market commerce (for one side of the argument) or money laundry (for the other side).

Nope. That's what you probably read a few years ago from some mainstream media.
Pretty sure that was a riff on their employee stealing data from Waymo via personal laptop.
Why PlainSite No Longer Supports the RECAP Initiative
Unfortunately iTAN's are no more.

iTAN is solid secure concept, if you take normal post service for granted, handle the paper with care, and don't fall for "phishing attacks" where the attacker tricks the user into logging into a forged copy of the bank's website.

From a security point of view (imho, please correct me) is iTAN more secure than SMS-token (mTAN), email-token and app-token. You simply cannot beat analog offline security, as the iTAN-list exists only in two places on the server and printed out on paper (user).

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

iTAN (Indexed_TAN) article:

"Indexed TANs reduce the risk of phishing. To authorize a transaction, the user is not asked to use an arbitrary TAN from the list but to enter a specific TAN as identified by a sequence number (index). As the index is randomly chosen by the bank, an arbitrary TAN acquired by an attacker is usually worthless.

However, iTANs are still susceptible to man-in-the-middle attacks, including phishing attacks where the attacker tricks the user into logging into a forged copy of the bank's website and man-in-the-browser attacks which allow the attacker to secretly swap the transaction details in the background of the PC as well as to conceal the actual transactions carried out by the attacker in the online account overview.

Therefore, in 2012 the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security advised all banks to consider the PC systems of their users being infected by malware by default and use security processes where the user can cross-check the transaction data against manipulations like for example (provided the security of the mobile phone holds up) mTAN or smartcard readers with an own screen including the transaction data into the TAN generation process while displaying it beforehand to the user (chipTAN)."
1Password supports saving the 2FA token: https://support.1password.com/one-time-passwords/. Though you could argue that's not much safer than not using 2FA since if 1Password is breached, the tokens would be available as well.

As an alternative, you could use Authy, which backs up the tokens encrypted (just don't store the Authy password in 1Password if you're worried about that being a single point of failure).
A lot of sites are like this but they miss the point... which is that I don't want to give them my mobile phone number in the first place.

I might, if I could reasonably trust that they really do delete it, but I think experience shows that we can't completely trust most companies nowadays.
Arc fault protection for outlets in dwelling bedrooms was was new in the 2002 NEC. Back then, the only available solution was an arc-fault interrupt circuit breaker. Arc fault receptacles are currently available in the market place...

...however, the code (at least back in 2002) specified protection of all electrical outlets. Receptacles are plugged into outlets. So are hired wired lights, smoke detectors, etc. An outlet is "A point on the wiring system at which current is taken to supply utilization equipment."

This means that any literal reading of the code requires arc-fault breakers from a practical perspective since even the outlet into which an arc-fault receptacle is plugged requires protection upstream from the receptacle. On the other hand, building departments often make code interpretations that are politically expedient and that's why some jurisdictions may allow arc-fault receptacles as a means of code compliance.
What are you doing on hacker news? Go add a mobile breakpoint so I can ditch my laptop altogether. ;)

(Fully converted to C9 6 months ago)
I really wish Amazon would choose more intuitive names for their AWS products instead of trying to be clever especially given they must have around 100 products now.

AWS Cloud IDE or AWS IDE (cloud seems redundant) would give you a good idea what this is without having to click the link for example.

Recently we've had AWS Lightsail, Fargate, Greengrass and Sagemaker which all give you zero hint at what they are unless you read more plus they're hard to remember. Even EC2, RDS and S3 should have been given better names.
I imagine it's exactly the same as how they tax currency trading.
How is the 600 billion spent annually on the military anything of productive value that is in any way significantly different than it getting "pissed away"?

It's offensive to suggest more of that money will get spent on entertainment (etc) than food, clothing, shelter, education, medical expenses (etc)
Uber's microservice architecture and it's pretty insane

Symptomatic of too many engineers and too little leadership
It would be nice if the Alexa team actually cared about people building business skills for the platform and treated them different than people submitting fart apps.

Disclaimer: I build business tools for voice with actual paid users. Looking to abandon Alexa for Google Assistant and Cortana. Apple, please do Siri right when you open it up properly.
1) Setup and test your VPN before you go. If you decide to use an IPSec VPN expect it to fail around-half the time (even if properly configured). YMMV

3) Microsoft Translator works well in China and has 2-way text to speech, offline language packs (Traditional and Simplified), and photo analysis / text overlay.

5) Taking a bismuth tablet with every meal to avoid getting sick. Enjoy the street food.
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> Ridesharing companies are not hard or expensive to start.

There is a lot of work that goes into the infrastructure behind companies like Uber and Lyft. You need good engineers that build products that are reliable and well tested, to work 24/7.

It is a hard problem. A lot of the smaller city taxi companies that have apps contract to larger vendors as well.
>I'm not saying it wasn't used for malicious purposes but I'd take those allegations in the letter with a grain of salt.

Seriously? What ever happened to due process?
USSR implemented socialism, and all countries that ever called themselves "communist" were socialists.

There's a big difference between communism and socialism. And I think cryptocurrency will enable communism and not socialism. Socialism was a compromise path to get to communism, but failed because of its centralized nature.

With decentralized currency you don't need to go through socialism, you jump straight to communism.
I wrote one so I could keep my job...

I work at a company that provides backups for both Linux and windows. The entire concept was around block level backups. You could just open up the block device and copy the data directly but it would quickly become out of sync by the time you finished copying it. We did not want to require LVM to be able to utilize snapshots to solve the sync problem. On top of that we had a strong requirement of being able to delete data from the backup.

This resulted in me learning how to build a kernel module and then slowly over about 6 months creating a kernel driver that allowed us to take point in time snapshots of any mounted block device with any fs sitting on top.

Other requirements also dictated that we keep track of every block that changed on the target block device after the initial backup (or full block scan, after reboot).

I wish I could release the source but my employers would not like that :( So at least for me learning how to write kernel modules and digging in to some of the lower stuff has keep me gainfully employed over the years. It is still in use on about 250k to 300k servers today (it fluctuates).

The hardest part was not writing the module, but getting others interested in it enough so I don't have to be the sole maintainer. I like working on all parts of the product and don't want to just be the "kernel guy".

One other time I wrote a very poorly done network block device driver in about 8 hours. You can find it here https://github.com/mbrumlow/nbs -- Note I am not proud of this code, it was something I did really quick, wanted it on hand to show to a perspective employer -- I did not get the job, I am also fairly sure they did not even look at the driver, so I don't think the crappy code there affected me.
The only issue, from my understanding, is the arrow keys not working. Ace editor just pushed an update that fixes the issue, though it's not yet integrated into C9.

I use a note 8 with a Dex dock, and I'm kinda dying for full mobile support on C9.
Can You Mine Cryptocurrency with a Tesla?
Right - out of curiosity do you know if the Linux kernel uses the term "ring", or some other terminology to map to the underlying hardware implementation, be they rings for x86 or modes for ARM? Maybe it's just "privilege level" or something similar?
Sounds kind of like this article: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-08-24/are-index...
Bitcoin Frenzy and Trendy Computers
I stopped reading when the author claimed that bitcoin not having "alternative uses, like gold" makes it less suitable as a currency
Could you tell us what financial products you think bear a closer similarity to bitcoin?
Yeah. Be very careful of the idea that it would be "fair" to take what flows into "other" pockets. It always turns out that there's not enough flowing into "other" pockets, and therefore that it becomes "fair" to take what's flowing into your pocket.
on MySQL or any database that doesn't have it as a datatype, its 36 char on latin charset. If you leave everything as UTF-8, then its x3 that amount.

Try it for yourself.
Hi, Tribler dev here. awesome to see everybody here.. Do Sia and Filecoin take into account the "oversupply problem"? Filecoin devs nicely explain their sybil-attack strategy with growing your identity. However, how can you earn credits if nobody likes you and you happen to have a low-performance node?
Is this a real problem or are we missing something? For details, see our journal article on a macroeconomic sharing model from 2012, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/files/1517977/Meulpolder_...
Any time someone mentions Steve Gibson, the "Security Now" podcast, or any of his "work" I feel obligated to point them to http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/
Promising to provide tech support and troubleshooting to every website in the world for free is a lot to ask of a search engine, even if they're the dominant market leader.
> akin to the argument that using encryption...

That's quite a stretch.

If you read the document, it says they use self-destructing apps to not leave paper trail.

That is akin to saying you used encryption so that DEA won't catch you selling drugs.
That could be what's happening but enum case names can't be determined from the disassembly.
My equities broker has to report my transactions to the irs. Why should bitcoin be any different.
If you lose a judgement, you still have to post a bond before you can appeal.
This was a super-long time ago, but a kernel driver was needed for video capture back in the 90's, to control devices across I2C, etc. At the time I had a Matrox video card which did analog capture, decoding and TV-in, and so wrote the first few iterations of a kernel driver[1] to get it to work. It since got adopted by a great maintainer. Nowadays I'd guess nobody is using it because the hardware is ancient.

1: http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~eddie/mga4linux/
You had a daughter with your business partner? I'm now curious about the story.
iTAN has been replaced with ChipTAN which I personally find easier to handle since I frequently misplaced my TAN lists :)

Plus the advantages that are already mentioned at the end of your quote - the TAN generator shows the IBAN and the amount, essentially acting as a secure display device for the transaction.
Anyone interested in reading the Filecoin offering info you can find it on the CoinList.co site

https://coinlist.co/filecoin
BMW extending their leasing business to on-demand car use

BMW has no choice but to do this, as do all the strong brands. They can't compete in a world that you don't care about the brand because you're riding journey-by-journey with no personal investment.
So short of not believing in a two state solution, with historical relevancy to back his belief, you've got nothing?

>I will never vote for Donald Trump because I stand with certain principles. I stand with small government and free markets and religious freedom and personal responsibility. Donald Trump stands against all of these things. He stands for Planned Parenthood and trade restrictions and targeting of political enemies and an anti-morality foreign policy and government domination of religion and nastiness toward women and tacit appeals to racism and unbounded personal power. I stand with the Constitution of theUnited States, and its embedded protection of my God-given rights through governmental checks and balances. Donald Trump does not. I stand with conservatism. Donald Trump stands against it.
I stand with #NeverTrump. ---Ben Shapiro

FYI Scientific evidence does not support your belief on the side of nature vs nurture
YouTube terminates largest Climate Science channel in the World
Stratis (built on Top of Bitcoin) Test Launches ICO Platform
Write Tcl procedures in LuaJIT
There are lockup periods that prevent them selling.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answer/12/ipo-lockup-period...

>For example, Facebook's IPO lock up prevented the sale of 271 million shares during the company's first three months of public ownership. FB hit an all-time low of $19.69 the day its first lock-up period ended, a price about 50% lower than the share price on the day the company went public. Further restrictions prevented the sale of another 1.66 billion shares through mid-2013. Facebook's unusual lock-up policy released insider shares at five different dates.
at 144GB it's definitely very big
Winners besides Lyft? Their financials are on-par if not worse - https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/unpacking-lyfts-projected-...

Part of Uber's increased losses are stemming directly from massive burn on Lyfts end to try and capitalize on Uber's problems.
Yes, that's of course a potential issue with any distribution. The good news is that's relatively easy to tweak their recipe to build your own version.

$ conda install conda-build # prerequisite...

$ https://github.com/conda-forge/fftw-feedstock && cd fftw-feedstock
$ emacs recipe/build.sh # Add --enable-openmp

$ conda build recipe
$ anaconda upload -u mychannel ${CONDA_PREFIX}/conda-bld/*-64/fftw-*.tar.bz2

Now you can install your custom-built version of fftw and easily share it with your friends by telling them the name of your channel on anaconda.org.
Gemini PDA: 20 years on, meet the all-new Psion Series 5
> I guess because it's by the IPFS developers

And is intended to run on an IPFS network. After reading the replies to this comment, I started looking into Sia, and wanted to try it out, but it seems that I first have to buy some Sia before even being able to become a host (!), which is an instant turnoff.

At the same time, I am already able to try out IPFS and have been able to develop apps using it for quite some time. I am not sure what the plans are with Filecoin, but IPFS also has a default-public (hosting) use case, while as of now Siacoin has private-only.
put a table in your documents, see what happens.
So disappointed with this!

I teach coding courses online...I've published dozens of courses teaching many different programming languages to thousands of students. In every single course, I recommend and use c9.io as the dev environment.

In one stupid swoop, Amazon has made all my courses obsolete.

Now people watching my videos can't create an account on C9, they have to sign up for aws and use the completely different interface. People can no longer follow along with the thousands of videos I've created.

I get that you bought C9 and want to integrate it. But why close down c9.io to new accounts? Why can't they both exist?

So very disappointed...
Maybe. I've interviewed people eager to leave Uber and the name was mixed for us. I see it as an indicator of technical talent, but a culture risk for sure. Clearly a lot of people at Uber at least acquiesced in the face of unethical, abusive, or outright criminal behavior. That's not a character trait I'm excited about having on my teams.
Blocking font loading. I'm not sure where fonts show up in uMatrix and there is at least not a specific fonts category, which is what I want.
Honestly, I think it's mostly to assert their power over workers. It's natural for people to do this if they can: it feels good and makes them feel in control, even if it's not very effective or is downright detrimental to the bottom line. It's also natural to search for plausible excuses for such behavior - nobody wants to admit that they just get a boner (metaphorically) from bossing others around.

Just my general opinion, I have too little information to say if the tracking, in this case, is actually a rational and net-positive policy and not someone's power trip.
You can buy drugs with git?
If Uber had to, they could flip the profit switch. They haven’t chosen to because they’re reinvesting in growth, but if it was an existential question they could survive in the short term.
If we do away with the US military, we will promptly be invaded and taken over by someone else. The military allows the country to exist at all. The world is not full of live-and-let-live hippies who all love the US and its people.

The military is also a source of medical training, new medical knowledge, various forms of stability, and research that helps create new products.

I am advocating for people not being bled by the 1 percent to begin with. Charity never provides anyone a secure, comfortable life. It makes you their bitch and thus de facto undermines quality of life.

I want people to have the money they deserve, but not by saying it is okay for the rich to first bleed us and then we will ask for some piddling check afterwards and kiss their butts and say "Thank you, massah."

They outlawed slavery in the US. I would like it to really die and not come back from the grave with a new name.
You need good engineers that build products that are reliable and well tested, to work 24/7

So did newspapers - the very definition of mission-critical computing is the the paper HAS to hit the stands the next morning. Didn't save them from half-arsed competitors running glorified blogs...
Honest question: if I get paid in USD but then change all my money to British pounds, do I need to pay tax when British pounds increase in value and I trade back to USD?

Is this different than BTC?
It supports RDF/SPARQL which gives you migration options to twenty or so triple stores such as rdflib, Jena, Virtuoso, AllegroGraph, etc.

No lock in at all.
I teach courses online too...now all of my videos using C9.io as the dev environment (thousands of videos) are obsolete. This sucks.