skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a joke, right?

We are building drm into the browsers themselves now. We are letting companies tell people that "there is no way to access media, unless you go through our walled garden" and defending the company! The open web is farther gone than it's ever been.
forgive my shock but are you saying there is one single private key out there that unlocks 1.8B USD?

edit: nvm you linked it second. that seems insanely risky to put it all in one address, right?
So true, I sometimes quip that growing up shoveling manure on our family dairy farm was excellent preparation for the corporate world I now work in. This life is so much easier, everyday, I'm warm and dry.

The image of Blaske on the farm, illuminating the darkness, is a powerful one. “Sometimes the batteries were low and the light was not so bright,” he wrote, “But when you found the cow that was missing, you also found a newborn calf, which made the dark of night much brighter.”

Winter was the worst, fumbling around in the dark, the mud, the cold. Miserable existence.
I get that that's a problem, but when trying to get a MVP out fast and validate an idea I think privacy policies & TOS' seem like a formality that will be figured out later if the business does actually happen to become profitable. Correct me if I'm wrong?
In Germany employee costs are roughly 1.5x of gross, i would guess it's similar in Spain.
You can pick the fee with most Bitcoin wallets - the amount will determine how fast it confirms. This site gives guidance as to amount:

https://bitcoinfees.earn.com
How does this suicide rate compare to small business owners overall? It seems that owning a farm is the suicide risk. Not working on one.
Would it be possible to use passive RFID with a sensor to measure if the door is unlocked or the stove is on?
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Second this recommendation for the book and miniseries. Jeff Kluger and Jim Lovell's Lost Moon (retitled Apollo 13 after the movie based on it) and Kluger's Apollo 8 are also good reads.

For podcast listeners, these episodes of the Omega Tau podcast cover the Apollo hardware at a very high level of detail:

http://omegataupodcast.net/239-the-saturn-v-launch-vehicle/
http://omegataupodcast.net/83-how-apollo-flew-to-the-moon/
http://omegataupodcast.net/97-how-apollo-explored-the-moon/
http://omegataupodcast.net/167-the-apollo-guidance-computer/
http://omegataupodcast.net/218-a-life-in-apollo/
Google beats class action sex bias claims, for now
You people must be terrible drivers or have a sufficiently liberal definition of "grass" to include most swamps.
Phones vulnerable to location tracking even when GPS services off
Have you tried GCP's Preemptible VMs? They are like Spot but without the bidding. If you have, what do you like better about Spot?

https://cloud.google.com/preemptible-vms/

(I work for GCP)
Oh for sure!

My claim is that you need to hire some expensive people if you want that performance, not that there aren't reasons to run your own database instances!
I do a substantial amount of personal shopping on Amazon -- 6-7 orders a month -- and they are rarely the cheapest option. Shipping & hassle-free returns is the value-add.
I think the link would be more useful if it weren't done in an explain-like-i'm-five manner. Some of it does seem to apply, especially if you look at the things on the list:

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1961

section 1343 (relating to wire fraud)

section 1028 (relating to fraud and related activity in connection with identification documents)

...and I could go on but meh. I believe that the link started out with "complicated conspiracy" law to describe what RICO is...isn't that exactly what I was accusing Comcast of?

I understand that RICO is an extremely difficult case to make, and it probably should be so, so that the law isn't used flippantly. But I also think we need much more powerful tools to control these corrupt monopolies that control large parts of this country's infrastructure, especially as they seem hell bent on controlling even more of it. IF Verizon is found to have controlled a massive identity theft racket to bombard the FCC with fake comments, it seems to me that RICO is the exact tool to use.
If you refer to statistics, and there is official international statistics on that matter, please provide reference. So far I never see any evidence for your point of view. You refer to it like commonly "known" fact, but it is not.
IOpipe v0.9.1 Released: An AWS Lambda Analytics and Tracing Agent for Python
Ah great! That makes this very cool all of a sudden. How did I miss that?
> To me, $1 of recurring revenue, paid on any schedule, is worth at least 4x-5x any sort of one-off project revenue.

Congratulations, you have discovered Present Value.
I’d tell them to begin work in a portfolio of whatever they’re interested in doing. If they want to work in IT then take the time to learn some cloud platform and Linux sys administration. Try to obtain the A+ asap. If they want to be in data analytics then learn python, excel (for the HR departments of the world), and statistics. Then make a code example repo and/or blog with some analytics. Be prepared to start at a very low position and work up as quickly as they want.

That would also apply to anyone wanting to get into those fields. I’d argue a solid math background puts them in a strong place to specialize.

I’ve also always wondered to what extent math would be useful in law school.
That's not true. If the donation helps enable a societal outcome that you benefit from (i.e. a donation to a local environmental cleanup nonprofit organization results in a cleaner park for you to enjoy), then you can benefit. You can't derive an exclusive personal benefit from it, of course. If you did, it would be tax fraud.
It could also be the tensor tympani muscle tightening in response to a visual event that would normally be accompanied by an extremely loud noise.
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Bitcoin cash, a hard fork from the original Bitcoin. Super low fees, and the community that supports Bitcoin cash considers themselves the Bitcoin for the people. There are apps/wallets to use them. Coinbase will support Bitcoin cash by Jan 2018.
Could intelligent machines of the future own the rights to their own creations?
I have a PhD in mathematics, and have been working in the public sector (NASA) for a little under 10 years. A mix of interest in numerical linear algebra and software engineering helped me work into a niche in scientific computing and engineering software development.

Math is a very, very broad professional interest area. It branches into education, academia, and several areas in several industries around the senior year of an undergraduate program. I'd recommend undergraduate math majors try and get into co-op or paid internship programs as soon as they feel comfortable with it. But that's advice that I'd also give to ANY student these days.

Most technical organizations will hire folks with a mathematics background or entertain the though for a promising applicant. But there are almost no job titles out there called "Mathematician". That can be confusing to some.
Serious question: I'm curious what you're talking about for high-income professionals?

If I'm making six figures as a dev in the US, I probably have fairly generous benefits, including healthcare, vacation, parental leave, retirement plan contributions, disability insurance, etc. And I'm probably paying less in overall taxes than most Europeans (though it really depends).

Of course, I don't have the safety net things that lower-income Europeans do, but I almost certainly don't need them.

So what would the equivalent person in the EU making half as much be getting from their government that I'm not getting from mine?

(Btw, this isn't an argument for the US approach being better overall, but just which system is better for the selfish high-income professional)
Being intentionally obtuse about the use of the word "fair" in that context doesn't help you prove your point to anyone who disagrees with you.
If you use Gemini exchange I believe they only support Authy, at least that's what I had to use. Which is a little annoying having to use both Authy and Google Authenticator depending on which exchange I'm using.
Yeah, and large corps totally don't lobby politicians to keep those loopholes open or create new ones. Besides, sometimes legal is enough and sometimes it justifies not buying their product, which is also legal.
Maybe we are not doing a good enough job of promoting civic duty, including payment of taxes? After all those taxes are used mostly for Medicare, Medicaid and the Military, all of which seem like worthy causes to pay for right? Not including State and Local taxes used for more immediate local functions, of course.
Where then, would you draw the line between a currency and a non-currency asset?
NYT Games Team dev here, happy to answer any questions.
If you have not made a payment in 7 years and they don't sue you then it goes away.
OT requires a centralized server for intention resolution.

CRDT does not. It can be fully P2P.
I would like to say I meditate everyday, but I don’t. It was - and still is - my plan to do so, though.

These days are very busy; working 15-18hs a day is normal routine. Being in meetings, talking to clients, making business decisions and still being involved in coding, which requires a lot of focus stresses concentration and eventually health.

I know that meditation can help me. Every time I take the time for it, and may it be 5 minutes, helps me a bit already. I have not yet been able to do it on a daily basis at a fixed point in time even though I had the chance to do so.

How does it help me? I experienced me to be calmer and more thoughtful when I practiced Zazen (my mediation style) over a longer period of time. Days become longer, that is, I am more focused on every small moment. I am not stressed by external factors that much, not angry, never in a hurry mentally - my inner self stays calm even when I am faced with a difficult situation.

I highly recommend meditation to everyone I talk to about topics like stress, work life balance or being more thoughtful. Mediation does not only mean to sit concentrated on a cushion. Going to the gym, taking a walk or “just” sitting on a chair - all of these can be some kind of meditation when practiced with mindfulness. Meditation is not about doing that one thing, it’s about finding your own right way, and thus I think everyone can benefit from it.
Fake restaurants aren't only a thing bored journalists create. I went to a pop-up restaurant at a vegetarian food festival. The food and drinks were so bland and terrible I can only imagine the man running the place was a scammer.

For example he was selling a "rasberry lemonade" in a beautiful glass jug with fresh rasberry and lemon slices floating at the top. It looked delicious. The only problem was the lemonade had been diluted by about 100:1 so it was effectively over-priced water.

The fake "meat" was so terrible, he might as well should've just sold the ingredients he made the meal with.

After loosing $14 on this meal I could only conclude this man just travels around with his fake vegetarian restaurant scamming people.
>However, getting the transaction confirmed can take many hours at the times of high demand and then it still fails because thanks to the volatility, the transaction fees have gone up in the meantime. That is creating unsustainable problems for the customer support and makes BTC unusable for actual payments.

This is precisely what Lightning aims to solve, and at least anecdotally so far, has done so in the case of LTC.

(Though its hard to compare LTC to a chain with a market cap of over $200b even if the former has a skyrocketing trade volume)
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Booking.com and expedia alresdy exist as competitors who could enter the space more aggressively. Right now I think cross listing is an actual burden for room owners. That could change though if competitors start accepting "accepted to do business on Airbnb" as a pass to be on their network.
Maybe I'm wrong but I would suggest you looking for a job and show them what you can do.

I've been working as a developer for a few years now and although I don't have any CS degree and I'm pretty young (low 20s) employers trust me after a couple of weeks.

Look for startups or entities that don't have too much burocracy and show them what you have done before. What usually happens is that you will get a freelance job for a couple weeks and they will hire you.

Real companies need real people doing real things, they don't care about bullshit.
If you ship you are in.
You're right. I didn't pay for it, so I'm not entitled to get to use it.

Correct. So what was the point of the rest of your nonsensical rambling? Or do you have some other explanation of why you're entitled to you use that specific tld namespace? You can't just use arbitrary domains that you don't own, why should tld's be any different especially given the advent of gtld's which radically expanded the namespace?

You're also ignoring that that that you can still use .dev. The case where Google's ownership of it prevents you from using it (for internal use anyway) is a very specific, limited scenario.

does not entitle me to get to use some part of the internet in the same way as a single corporation with a lot of money

Nothing about this prevents you from using any part of the Internet. At worst it restricts, ever so slightly, the way you can name your resources. But there have always been restrictions on how you can name your resources.
That's a totally different project than the one this submission is about, using totally different technology. The 3d-printing one is modulating things in the range of few Hz, you're not making packets with that.
Except that in the situation described, this wasn't "I am reinvesting in my business to turn a higher profit in the future" but rather a case of "I am buying something that will not improve my bottom line in order to avoid paying taxes."
>Repeating that ‘creating a hash function is stupid’ doesn’t make it true.

There's a process for everything. Cryptographic functions are supposed to undergo atleast half a decade of peer testing before they can be used with any reasonable sense of security. Creating them isn't stupid. Creating them and using them in your application without proper security testing is.

If 'ternary' logic based hash didn't exist, then sure, create one. But don't tout it as being anywhere close to ready when it is important to the overall security of the system.

The project justifies their decision to do so about 'spearheading technology for a new paradigm', which further solidifies the fact they value short-term risky benefits over long term research which is what science is supposed to be.
Not something you'd need to worry about, since you won't get fired from there.
No, it becomes an asset, like gold.
No I quoting a fact not an opinion. Please read my comment and sources before claiming I am factually wrong.

"In this backscatter system, an antenna embedded in a 3-D printed object (middle) reflects radio signals emitted by a WiFi router (left) to encode information that is “read” by the WiFi receiver in a phone, computer or other device (right).University of Washington"

Screenshot:
https://i.imgur.com/rzX4RXX.png

> They're not magically encoding new Wi-Fi packets

Yes, these are NEW signals powered by the radio signals that specifically in this article is wifi since it is so widely used.

"The chip uses a technique called long-range backscatter to communicate with other devices. Instead of creating signals from scratch, it is able to selectively reflect radio waves that are already passing through space to create a new signal." https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/608869/a-new-m...

Just because they are using residual radio signals (They could use TV, Wifi or FM signals) doesn't mean the new singals aren't new. They are just using the energy in the signal itself doesn't make them magic. Instead of using electricity from a battery or a cord they are using the power of the radio wave. They can even power themselves off of the Gollakota’s radio frequency power scavenging technology. You could light up a led without any on board electricity and communicate between two devices https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gX9cbxLSOkE

Here is a speech about HitchHike: Practical Backscatter Using Commodity WiFi at (SenSys 2016) https://youtu.be/4tmatoD0I1o?t=3m48s
A friend who works at PopCap (now an EA subsidiary) once told me that the Plants Vs Zombies slot machine has made more money for EA than the entire rest of that franchise. Yay gambling.
> They go against the core tenets of transparency and fairness that make democracy work.

The reason for the existence of electronic machines is often something as mundane as the cousin of the governor owns a company which happens to make the machines.
Liquidity, probably - how fast can you exchange how much of it.

Though I do personally think there's a lot more to a currency than that.
Why is Reddit down?
OpenStack Foundation announces new open source container project
But it is true that the marginal earnings decrease. If I suddenly am making less on the margin for working more, that might be enough to tip the decision to "not worth it."
>is ReactOS going to keep up with drivers for current hardware?

They don't need to. They do implement whatever needed to have ABI compatibility with actual Windows drivers, so the vendor driver should work.
“Malware-free” attacks mount in big breaches, CrowdStrike finds
Paper ballots are more secure, precisely because they need a lot of people in the process.

If most of those people is chosen randomly between the population, as it happens in my country, the system is pretty robust. As this is HN: It's a distributed system, every node making its own checks.

So, the answer to the complains is that the slowness and the expense are a feature, not a bug.
‘Saluton’: the surprise return of Esperanto
NSA is great for mathematicians, but competition is tough. The best way to get in as a co-op early in your college years, since it takes a year to get a clearance.
Maybe they should have just switched to dogecoin instead of turning off crypto payments.
Very very few things being claimed by the average person fall off immediately, almost all of them scale such that you are still netting an increase, even if that increase is less pronounced.

In fact, I can't think of a thing where this isn't the case. Can you provide an example?
There's a grant from the NIH (assuming you're in the US) called the K25. It's designed to get math/engineering people into health related fields. It's for the postdoc level (it might also be applicable for someone with a BS/BA, not sure). It can pay for 3-5 years of salary for the individual to work with a mentor and to learn the field - no knowledge of the medical-related subject is expected since the applicant is explicitly there to learn the field. As such it's widely applicable to math people who want to do research in medical fields.

Caveats: I think you need to be a US citizen or permanent resident and you have to find a mentor willing to take you. This shouldn't be impossible though, since your salary will be paid by the grant so it's not a financial burden and many fields need people on the math/statistics side of things. Look for biostats researchers and contact them even if they're not hiring since again the grant pays the salary they might take someone even if they aren't looking for someone. The application is open three or four times a year, next one in February. I think the October round better matches the typical graduate' time frame, which means students should plan this at least a year before graduating.

As someone going through this process right now, thanks for thinking of your students' careers! I wish more math departments encouraged options outside of pure math and finance. There's definite demand but a difficulty finding the appropriate positions for us.
That makes it a security. By definition, currency is something you can exchange for goods or services, while securities are financial instruments that hold value (i.e. can be exchanged for currency).
Some ideas along these lines (spongy waterfronts) for SF bay area cities at https://neighborland.com/resilientbay
Javascript takes control from the client and gives it to the server. This is a terrible idea, that has ruined the web. Are there good sides to JS? sure, but they, by far, don't outweigh the bad.
If you are running HA in AWS RDS, how would you compare your experience with the above? What are the types of RDS failures modes that you have experienced?

So far I've discovered that TCP keepalives are quite important, otherwise your queries may hang forever after failover (or at least for the default timeout which is like 30 minutes). The connection does not get broken otherwise by the failover.
So much to analyze here, but I would just say one thing: I think that the majority of devs in the US don't know or believe that there are tens of thousands of their peers making 2x - 5x as much as them. I routinely see people here on HN essentially refuse to believe that there are devs in SF getting $300k to $500k at Google/Apple/Amazon/Facebook/etc. So maybe it's more that they don't know it's an option as opposed to not being able or willing to do so?
Patreon will pay out 95% of pledges going forward
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Not a direct response but for the multiple login problem have you considered using some kind of ldap like active directory ?
Is that really a thing? Like you I also try to read the negative reviews. If they're for dumb complaints like "the waiter had an attitude" or "the food took too long to arrive" I ignore them. It's only when I see more serious problems arising in a pattern that I'll discount the restaurant.
My question is: why isn't someone brute-forcing those lost wallets? I imagine a billion dollars would be worth it.
That's something I didn't know actually, so +1 to you.

I've been migrating away from MySQL for a number of years now.
Dom Hofmann hints at the return of Vine
Also there is no middle ground, it's one or the other.
IOTA has an awful site, and their github isn't impressive (in terms of commits/contributors/pulse). I don't bother with coins/tokens that have sites that resemble scammy ICO sites, and if there's a github I can look at - I prefer to see lots of activity/commits/a pulse.

Maybe IOTA is great. But I can't bring myself to look further into it because of the site + github
Stocks are a thing because no one thinks of them as liquid assets. Steam is making the same argument about bitcoin essentially.
I was thinking just this as I read the article. If I had the money I'd just pay this guy to chase these people down.
"Go fast and break things" works for companies for Facebook for a lot of reasons. First: $, which they have a lot of. You can literally afford mistakes. Second: Monopoly, which they have a lot of. You can figuratively afford mistakes because your user base won't go anywhere.

If you're not operating at FB scale, quality is often your best asset. People tend to choose things that "just work". Getting things to the "just work" phase takes discipline in developing and testing.

If I could add one thing to the list, it'd be "stop writing clever code". Rather than finding a unique solution that shows your technical prowess, write code that's boring but clear in its intent.
They seems to have ignored the spot market on AWS which is actually a huge reason people do sizeable ML work on AWS.
>> "In the past, a creator’s income on Patreon varied because of processing fees every month. They could lose anywhere from 7-15% of their earnings to these fees. This means creators actually took home a lower percentage of pledges than their patrons may have realized."

I got $7.94 out of $9 pledged this month, so this is a welcome change. It's only going to get more significant as the number grows. People who depend heavily on smaller pledges will probably be hit hard.
Trump’s Latest Pick for the Fed Is No Fan of Paper Money