skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The San Francisco board of supervisors and most of the voting public would almost certainly declare themselves to be progressive and environmentally friendly, and I don't think they are cynical or manipulative here. They really mean it, and believe they mean it.

The problem is where policy becomes enforcement. San Francisco, I believe, isn't good at translating intent into reality.

Pave overs are actually a good example. San Francisco has very specifically illegalized front yard pave-overs, and the board of supervisors voted to increase the fines. However, very little budget (in a massive, massive city budget for a city SF's size) is allocated to enforcement. They're also in a bind now, as they have allowed the practice to go on so long, with such light enforcement, that it's going to be difficult to roll it back.

Another experience I had was replacing my windows with energy efficient, double pane, insulated windows. The Bush administration (George W) created a tax credit for energy efficient home improvements. Gavin Newsom, SF's liberal mayor at the time, talked quite a bit about about the importance of "Green" San Francisco.

Gavin Newsom's San Francisco collected permit fees that more or less confiscated George W Bush's federal tax incentives to encourage energy efficiency. Savor that for a moment. Ironic, isn't it? But to me, this story, along with the pave-over debacle, kind of gets at how SF goes wrong on so many things.
Yes, and I've done that in the past; it's still somewhat laborious though.
I find it interesting how many of those are attributed to project zero members
mod should be part of the signature of the ring, so you are not looking at pure multiplication. Then the domain would be still integral. Why wouldn't it?
Some good ideas here, but we have to aim much higher than this.

I like some of the ideas Bret suggested in his call for climate change: http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/#media
> Description: A logic error existed in the validation of credentials.

No shit! No one thought of that... Come on, for writing this, you better don't write anything at all...
In Brazil, there’s a capital called Curitiba that use rivers and parks with artificial lakes to control flooding with great success.

http://i2ud.org/2013/08/flood-management-in-curitiba-metorop...
I am going to share a secret with you, I am not all that clever either. I just substitute it with stubborn doggedness to figure out a problem, a willingness to be wrong often and a slight dash of creativity. This has so far made me reasonably successful. If you can get past the necessary, but confusing symbolisms and formalisms, its pretty good.
Gut answer is No.

Honestly, they are no experts, or they wouldn't need you, so them reading and interpreting your code is a patently ridiculous request.

However, there is a huge opportunity here, based on the fact this is new ground for you and them. If they are truly worrying about justifying later the decisions to be made, then you CAN agree to design a report based on whatever your engine is doing, that shows addditional useful data (i.e., not just the correct decision in each situation, but the likelihood of it being correct or expected return). Invent a middle-ground solution.

Then make them agree TO PAY FOR THIS REPORT AS PART OF THE CONTRACT.
IMHO integration tests are not there to validate the functionality that you're building - Kent is right here, if you rely on integration tests to find bugs, either your modules are either, or your design is bad (e.g. cross-module code paths that break encapsulation, etc).

Integration tests are a god send when refactoring something that used to work in the first place. I'm currently switching 3rd party API providers in a system developed by somebody else long long time ago - all gritty corner cases need to continue working. The documentation is way outdated, especially the design docs. But, thankfully, the system has really good integration tests; so I'm super comfortable replacing modules one at a time, and knowing that functionality is preserved.

Integration tests have their role, and, while they shouldn't be there to validate your building blocks, they should be there to validate that the customer is getting the functionality they're paying for.
It's the little things that make life worth living
This is true and it would be ideal if all lawmakers were well-versed in the process of science, as well as the subject matter relevant to their decisions.

Unfortunately, that's an unrealistic assumption in the messy real world. In fact, I doubt even the most genius of researchers could be reasonably expected to verify the veracity of all the scientific claims that are advanced in defense of various policies that lawmakers must form opinions on.

> Because of the prestige that science garnered - it gave us airplanes, radio, tv, internet, landed a person on the moon, etc, many knowledge disciplines branded themselves as "x science". Thus, has the word "science" become devalued.

This is perhaps a bit off topic, but I'll just note that this includes Computer Science [1]. Also, you can replace "science" with "engineering" in that quote ("Software Engineering").

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_science#Etymology
um voting should not be transparent you don't want "Vinny" or "Paddy" the block captain coming round and saying "Mr Falcone / Mr Murphy Is very Upset about the way you voted"
> I see real benefit in a central loan ledger that doesn't have a single point of failure.

Sure, but you can get that with a conventional database replicated between several instances hosted by different entities (which do not have to be government entities).

Think about how records of loans would be used. All the use cases that are coming to mind for me don't involve any of the things that block chains do better than conventional replicated databases.

(I'm assuming that the records would be signed by the borrower, and would contain unique identifiers so that recording the same loan more than once would be detectable and could be ignored).

For example, block chains are good at dealing with double spending when they are used to track currency or commodity balances. But I don't see anything analogous to double spending for a loan existence tracking system, so that strength of block chains is not relevant.
This is their way of saying: upgrade from Sierra to the seemingly still supremely buggy High Sierra or you'll get owned?

Gee, thanks.
International money transfer and store of value that can't be meddled with by another entity.
From a cursory glimpse, it seems Apple only pathes CVEs in OSS components when the OS itself gets an upgrade.

The next time there is a problem in Apache, the chances seem pretty high it will remain unpatched on macOS for weeks, if not months.
"The RAID controller logged the simultaneous loss of 3 disks from the array. All subsequent read and write operations against it failed."

People seem to forget that adding a RAID controller creates a single point of failure instead of removing one. :-)
Why aren't scarce resources like gold and oil going up the same way? I think gold made a low this week. Your theory doesn't align with what happened in Germany.
Master the Rebase
Neptune technology group. Water meter company since 1892.
They started making ultrasonic meters a few years back and are looking for an applied mathematician.
I've always wondered why data for some huge meta-analysis studies isn't availabe. If you're not a researcher you can practically never verify the result that there's no link between vaccines and autism, or any other similar studies.

Most of these are just number crunching (increased risk of diet influencing disease, intervention experiments in psychology, medicine etc.), yet the number crunching is concealed and the numbers are the only thing presented, and I should trust the researchers that they didn't play with the numbers.
Have you actually dealt with enterprise sales? Source code is a fairly typical request, and there are software escrow
and audit companies specifically set up to address concerns.

Microsoft, for example, gives source code access to paying enterprises and governments under the Shared Source Initiative specifically for security vetting and other auditing purposes.

OP: Consult a lawyer who specializes in these matters.
I'm aware of the history of Cuba's opposition to the US after the revolution, but the Cold War has been over for 25 years and all signs point to Cuba attempting to rebuild solid relations.
Ranking Some Generals in the History of Warfare
And if the people who have to use those roads are ok with roads like that why should they pay taxes so the state can turn around and use those taxes to pay for pavement they don't need?
Fees are set as a "flat rate" per transaction, but normally expressed as a fraction of "price over size"

So if a fee is 150 "sat/byte" or satoshi's per byte. A satoshi is 0.00000001 of a bitcoin.

So if your transaction is 250 bytes (which is average for a single transaction to a single person), then you will pay (250 * 150) satoshis (37500 sat), which is about $5.

If your transaction is larger, you'll pay more, if it's smaller, you'll pay less.

But they are "ranked" in terms of who is picked first by "sat/byte" since the amount of room in the block is only 1MB.

So a 500 byte transaction with 37500 sats in fees is worth less than a 250 byte transaction with 37500 sats in fees, because the 500 byte transaction takes up more room that other higher paying transactions could fit in.
> targeting drones to kill people or government jailing people. That doesn't sound like a commercial company in any event.

https://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/what-we-do/aerospace-defen...

http://www.corecivic.com/
There is a whole paragraph from someone who "who researches the sociology of technology and scientific knowledge at Colorado State University, wrote in a 2008 paper about why objective knowledge is not enough to resolve environmental controversies"

> These controversies are really about values, not scientific facts, and acknowledging that would allow us to have more truthful and productive debates. What would that look like in practice? Instead of cherry-picking evidence to support a particular view (and insisting that the science points to a desired action), the various sides could lay out the values they are using to assess the evidence.

This is pushing the idea that the facts don't matter. What matters is "values" and emotions. It's an elaborate setup to push a view from certain segments of the humanities and social sciences to dismiss the epistemology of science and an "objective reality" entirely.
I'd venture to guess that the unspoken issue here is that when Valve originally announced it was accepting Bitcoin, Bitcoin was cool and exciting and trendy. Just accepting it made Valve seem and the leading edge - part of the future.

That’s really not true any more and so a large part of the value of accepting it has simply disappeared. Really, why should they bother any more?
Most of the people in this thread clearly don't understand the situation as Analytics/ML is quite different to normal IT.

1) The company is not going to acquire you nor will they sue you.

2) They absolutely want to replicate what you've done. It's not so that they can build their own startup and compete with you. It's because they genuinely want to understand how you got the results. Companies are increasingly basing their decisions on ML models and it's not acceptable for them to just "trust your black box". Especially since your model could be based off a misunderstanding of the data.

3) If you decide to say no then chances are they will walk away. Especially in the ML space companies are not going to let their core intellectual property be locked away in someone else's vault. They will simply not work with you.

4) The best way to handle this is simply to get them to sign a NDA or something equivalent that protects you in the case that a rogue employee decides to build a startup him/herself.

I am someone who works in ML for an enterprise company. For god sake give them the code and be grateful they are even doing a PoC with you.
Thank you! I was planning to mention some technical details but I totally forgot! The website mainly uses Vue.js for frontend (which was a total pleasant experience for a somewhat not small project (12,000+ vue LOC)) and Python (Django) + Golang for backend. I really want to share my experience with the vue community. I was more than satisfied dealing with it on a daily basis.
We can debate the worth of stars all we want, but these kinds of curves generally aren't linear; there's a big difference between "hundreds" and "a thousand". From TFA:

> Only 12k have more than 1k stars, that is gopass is now within the 0.6% most popular GitHub projects!
But this is not necessarily a good thing. If you don't need a new truck, buying that truck is worse than paying the taxes and getting some profit. The truck will be sitting there unused and it cannot be resold for the full price paid.
The original idea was that one would exchange local currency for BTC only when needed, then transfer. The person receiving the BTC would then immediately exchange into their local currency. The result would be that either party would hold BTC for such a short period of time, BTC fluctuations would be negligible.

It should be a medium of exchange, but for now its a speculative gamble.
Despite all the comments here denouncing electronic voting, I think it could work if done right and provide a better security than paper ballots. This, however, would involve something like some blockchain voting proposals I've seen floated around. Being able to provide a paper trail that's extremely hard to tamper with (as opposed to paper ballots which really aren't), along with, depending on how it's implemented, allowing easier access to voting by allowing remote options like internet or phone.
Cause AWS infra is managed by magic monkeys.
All that technology, and yet a bunch of Vietnamese living in small villages and mud huts put up enough of a fight to create a permanent sore spot in US military history.

Also, those guys we've been trying to kill for the past 15 years in the middle east keep coming back fiercer than ever.

And who do you think operates all that fancy technology? Men who own guns and whose fathers owned guns before them. No, not all of them, but by and large. So I wouldn't be so sure that they would be on "your" side if push came to shove.
An integral domain is any commutative ring with no zero divisors (a,b are zero divisors if ab = 0 but a != 0, b != 0). In this case 2*2 = 0, so 2 is a zero divisor, so Z/4z = Z_4 is not an integral domain.
Haha that's what I got a lot. Though I think that's why it might be easier to get into programming at an engineering job.
The article doesn't give any indication there was a decrease in drug use:

> While drug-related death, incarceration and infection rates plummeted, the country still had to deal with the health complications of long-term problematic drug use.
I do the same with anything I'm purchasing, I want to understand what it's flaws are if it be a service or a product.

Sure as one of the other comments points out, it could be created by the competition - but usually looking at the like-to-dislike ratio can tell you how much you should weight the opinion of the unhappy reviews anyway. (If 100 people review positive and 1 reviews badly, chances are you can dismiss that one bad vote).
Thanks! I'll see what happens with the email route!
All of which is speculative & counting on a future where BTC usage will be more prevalent.

And how exactly will it become more prevalent when it can't be used for transactions.
Most of the CVEs are fixed in Sierra and El Capitan as well.
When deciding to go with Patroni, did you have a look at CruncyDB? We're deciding between the two and kubernetes support on CrunchyDB and documentation seems to be more comprehensive.
So how does one make money as a miner via processing these fees? Is this money being taken by pools, individual miners? Who is the middle-man that is actually taking this profit?
Unfortunately appropriate project name? (A maulfunctioning pacemaker can kill you)
Insurance companies. Look into the actuarial profession.
Relevant: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/08/14/beware-isolated-demands...
Bitcoin cannot become "widely used money". It is technically impossible. It is transaction rate limited to 6 txn/sec. Worldwide. Even band-aids such as increasing the block size won't help enough.

I'm not saying bitcoin prices will crash anytime soon. Simply that the dream of bitcoin replacing fiat currencies in daily commerce is just that: a dream.
Extremely low tx fees may never get into a block, but I just checked the the current price for a target of 24hs max (the same window time that fiat users currently have for returns) and it shouldn't be more than $0.35 USD for a simple 1 to 1 transaction (14 sat/byte). I know that this still isn't good, specially when you may be sending just $5 for some cheap game, but it's not that terrible either in my opinion...
Thanks for acknowledging my admittedly weak humor ;-) I agree with your points.
It's easy to subvert that. The Nazis established compliance through a mix of rumor and intimidation; creating the belief that ballots were secretly marked or numbered in some contexts, or simply forcing open voting in others.

http://www.newsweek.com/tainted-electoral-victory-hitler-554...

https://books.google.com/books?id=iG4ud0PxeDMC&pg=PA110&lpg=...

It doesn't matter whether you actually mark the ballots or not if a sufficiently large number of people believe you might have done so. And considering how we're regularly reminded that laser printers leave tiny microdot patterns that allow the identification of which individual unit printed something, what makes you think voters could not be persuaded to believe the same thing about ballots, regardless of the fact that they're produced by offset lithography? Most people already live in a world where the technology is indistinguishable from magic. Rationalists often mistakenly believe that everyone or at least a substantial majority of the population are as rational and well-informed as they are. They're not.
Sure, income is revenue minus expenditures so the easiest way to avoid income (and income taxes) is to just spend everything you make.

Which is what the parent of this thread was saying.

The consequence is that in bad times, the company has to borrow (if it can) or goes bankrupt. Which happens often. We don't generally shed tears over this kind of thing, but this story points out the human tragedy that passes when individuals follow the same strategy.

Personally I kinda feel a little meh about the subject. My heart goes out to every struggling business(wo)man - it's hard to make it on your own. But farmers are especially insulated against market forces by a giant morass of subsidies and land use regulations. They're already getting a much bigger handout than they deserve.
Postal voting does have problems like granny farming and stealing postal ballots.
Typical jerk move. This is not only taking the ball with you but closing the field and locking it requiring keys that only you have.

Not only is this problematic but so is HSTS, and the push for increasing reliance on CAs and in effect making self signed certs pointless.

The great concern for SSL by many people is simply ad supporting behavior masquerading as concern for privacy and state actors. Apparently ssl which is routinely mitm'd by small time corporations can protect privacy. Accept that with straight face while mitm vendors interests are paid attention to in standards meetings.

And Mozilla, the so called 'defender' cashing in on the public good will whenever it suits them conveniently caves in to Google at every opportunity.
I wouldn't say it's been the norm in my experience, but I've definitely been on the receiving end of requests for source (both when working at a large enterprise and at a startup). In my experience, this is much more common when selling something that will run on-prem or in process, however.
1. There is an upper bound on price, same as any other asset. The upper bound has yet to be determined, however.

2. Everyone who thought the price wouldn't* continue to exponentially increase was wrong. So far. But this statement totally forgets the fact that shit changes. Anyone who said Yahoo was overvalued before 1999 was proven dead wrong. But after 1999, they were pretty much dead on.

Everything else you said has a 0% chance of happening. Objectively speaking, Bitcoin will probably never become legitimized by any government. We're just testing how big a bubble gets.
with pin + chip cards debit/credit cards are 100% push for physical transactions. for online transactions almost every single provider offers one time use card numbers

the push/pull problem has been solved for a decade, and not by bitcoin
By the way, there is a saying in negotiating that you may want to repeat to yourself a couple times: "If you're not willing to say 'no', then you are not really negotiating."
I've seen my company ask countless time for source code and your financials. If your financials are iffy, you might not even get past the RFP process.
That's possible, but, still, even though I find the Z-80 a rather kludgy and inefficient thing (compared to the simplicity of the 6502 and the 6502 machines we had at the time), if felt much neater than the 8086 family.
The flip phone is back Leaked video claims to show dual screen Samsung handset
I work for an enterprise company and we demand the source code for machine learning models from vendors all the time. This isn't like asking for the code to Excel. It's a model derived from our data that has likely no use for anyone but us and is highly susceptible to misunderstandings of the data. We absolutely need to verify your work.

Models are the output of the process. It's like going to graphic designer for work and them not giving you the PSD file. It's just not acceptable.
Ask them what their real needs are. Odds are they really want one of the two following. Protection in case you go out of business; Protection in case you have a legal violation (ie you use GPL code and they link to you - suddenly their code is GPL).

If it is the first, code escrow is very common. You should probably set this up as a gesture of goodwill even if they don't ask for it.

If it is the second, there are tools that you can run to ensure you don't (you should anyway - though the tools tend to be "enterprise software" and thus expensive for what they do). Once you are sure you are free from that type of them a lawyer can draw up legal indemnification documents.

If it is anything else, this is done - for an additional fee. 20 years ago a company sold us an OS, as I recall the price for source code was $100,000 on top of all other costs. My company refused to pay even though it would have saved far more money if we had been able to understand what the code was doing, and thus been able to integrate our code better.

I'm not sure what legal requirements were in place, but you should defiantly have a lawyer who knows this area of law create the agreement. Not just any lawyer, one with experience is worth paying for - find the lawyer first and pay him $200 to give a high end estimate of his costs to draw up the agreement - this is your minimum price for seeing the code. (which is to say you expect to make nothing after the lawyer is paid unless a second customer also wants source code)

Unlike most I wouldn't reject it. However it should be an additional expense, and it should be covered by some strong legal language.
Coal ash spills have caused big problems in my state, and the nuclear plant has caused none that I'm aware of. I'd imagine part of that is because people are more reckless with something that they view as safe, and vice versa but yeah dumb move for germany.
Yes, I know, that's what I am talking about. ;-)

That's exactly what good branding looks like!