skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know it in my heart of hearts. Nice try.
Wake me up when OEMs actually do push updates on Treble certified devices, as Google is not requiring them to do so.
I detected slight sarcasm, but you may be more right than you know. We'll see in 3 years, or less (please)
Coinbase is not an exchange, it is a direct seller. Gdax is the exchange.
My wife nearly jettisoned the smart plugs after 5x attempting to get them all to turn on at once. Worse, sometimes a command will hang, leaving two lights on and the other one just randomly lights up a few minutes later.

The eTekcity 1Tx/5Rx remote outlets running on (I'm pretty certain) 433.92Mhz that these TP-Link smart plugs replaced work every single time. (Going back to those is sounding better, now that I think about it.)
I don't know how I feel about this. You open to discuss it @miraj ?
Whatever your politics that $500 million comes from profit in healthcare. Aetna has an economic incentive to denvy as much care as they can. That $500 million to one person is part of the overall cost of healthcare in the U.S. Is this really money well spent on healthcare?
FWIW, the MacBook Pro (late 2016 model with TouchBar) that I'm typing often gives kernel panics on attempting to resume from sleep, but on my new ThinkPad T25 (running NixOS, of course), suspend and resume work OOTB and I've yet to see a problem occur with it.

The GNU+Linux world is always changing, and Linux's hardware support gets better every year. I get the joke-- I've lived through suspend/resume hassles on laptops running Linux before, compiled the custom `tuxonice` kernels, etc. But no manufacturer who sells Linux computers has to ship laptops that have any trouble with suspend/resume, and my luck has been pretty good with a lot of recent, formally non-supported hardware I've tried.
when was their last home run? their cash is their only real asset
From what I know by 1944 pretty much everybody around Hitler knew that their cause was lost. I doubt anybody else would have had the power to continue. And yes, he had a spell over the people around him when you read biographies.

Obviously we will never know but I think at the present taking out Kim Jong Un should be worth consideration.
We have a system like that. Its called taxes and free education. Everyone is offered free college education, including basic living expenses. In return everyone pays a litle more in taxes. And those who choose college, often earn more, and then pay more in taxes. (Im from Denmark)
It's nicely coded but leaves out an important part of that algorithm: the regex derivatives never get simplified for comparison, so equal states appear different, so the set of states blows up as you march along the string. If you're OK with an inefficient matcher like that, then a backtracking algorithm probably gives you even simpler code.
Look to history: https://99bitcoins.com/price-chart-history/

Speculation: When Mt Gox froze withdrawals and closed it either triggered or participated in a massive correction. If Tether allegations are true, I would speculate increased volatility in a bearish direction. It should start with rising volume on USD exchanges and shrinking volume on USDT exchanges as traders withdraw BTC, USD/USDT volatility on Kraken, BTC/USD and BTC/USDT price diverging across exchanges. Chicago futures if they open will set the reference price. If BTC anchor price is volatile alts will probably get hurt. KRW fiat rates will probably be affected. If it dips in the long run it could be a good buying opportunity.
1998:
- Don't get in strangers' cars
- Don't meet ppl from internet

2016:
- Literally summon strangers from internet to get in their car

https://twitter.com/carols10cents/status/749109677431021568
>Another solution is to let you go to school for free and then pay a percent of all your future earnings back to your college, or at least in to a pool that pays for the next generation's college.

We basically already have that system. If you get federal loans (which most people who take out loans do--90% of all loan disbursements) you can sign up for an income based repayment plan.

You pay back 10% of your disposable income (income over 1.5x the federal poverty limit), for 20 years.

If you make less than 1.5x the poverty limit, you pay nothing.
You might enjoy (or have already read ;)) "The Incorporated Man", a fiction novel which has this basic premise: Everyone's a minority shareholder in their own personal corporation. (except the main character). It's pretty well written, and both the main character and the antagonist have points of view which make sense, IMO.
No, they are starting to piss themselves realizing that their swindle went out of control. They also remember what happened to CEOs of other funky enterprises that attempted to screw what US thinks are its interests:

* Think of other bitcoin exchanges

* Think of betting companies
> Some piece of controversial research, e.g. GMOs or vaccines

Who or what determines what is controversial?

To me, vaccines are not controversial at all. You can pick and choose specific ones to argue about, but the concept of vaccines is literally proven, beyond a doubt.

As for GMOs, there's a lot more room but even still, the fundamentals are nothing controversial. This is also proven in pretty much anything you can buy in a grocery store today.
Yes: Rootstock ( https://www.rsk.co/ ). This exists as a sidechain to the bitcoin network and implements the Ethereum virtual machine. It launched on mainnet yesterday.
> with local system access

The discussion linked from the github issue sounds like "kill SIGKILL -1" at a shell prompt is enough to trigger the issue. That just requires a shell, not local system access.

> and the ability to send kill signals to arbitrary process IDs

This is precisely the part that is _not_ required but should be.
They aren't securitized the way mortgages were, but you also can't walk away. Student loans are immune to bankruptcy so it follows you forever.
Was curious .. google turned up this http://rabi.phys.virginia.edu/1060/1999/final_answers.html

A satellite dish is actually a mirror telescope for microwaves, with its receiving antenna located at the real image of the distant satellite. But unlike the smooth, shiny mirror of a light telescope, a typical satellite dish is made of dull metallic mesh. Microwaves reflect almost perfectly from this mesh because

Answer: (A) its holes are much smaller than the wavelength of the microwaves.
Has anyone tried running Sketch App for Mac on a Virtual Machine or Hackintosh? How does it perform? The only the holding me back from switching to Windows is the limited applications for design but my preference for Mac is dwindling.
This is the most important issue. The system is rigged in favor of the incumbents in many, many ways.
Central Computer. Don’t let the compactness of their stores fool you.

There are a few in the SF Bay Area, and they have a much better selection of top-reviewed and hard-to-find components than Fry’s (especially for things like heatsinks and power supplies).

They also have a formidable selection of cables.
"Rewrite everything in Rust, exactly the same way but in Rust it solve all problem." - some Rust programmer
The bottom line is the college loan system needs an overhaul.

As just one example, the founders of Collegeloan.com made close to a billion dollars each prior to new laws passed in 2008. The founders have since left daily roles but themselves and current execs are still raking in money off student load debt.

This is just one of the founders houses that has been on market for 4+ years. This house was paid for off the false hopes and high interest payment loans the schlepped to kids who have long since graduated and still paying off debt.

https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2013/feb/20/unreal-casa-...

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/14385-Cypress-Pt-Poway-CA...

Another house he sold in Vegas.

https://www.realtor.com/news/unique-homes/ceo-and-poker-pro-...

He also likes million dollar buy in poker. How many interest payments did kids make for him to afford this?

http://www.pokerlistings.com/cary-katz-wsop-big-one-for-one-...

Do some research... this is just one company that was in the upper top 10 prior to 2008 shake up. Many more made far more of the backs of kids in this country. After the shake up the companies adjusted and went back to lobbying to gain back the insane profits they once saw. Obviously by the headline we are back to all time highs.
I'm not an expert, but wouldn't this almost all be taxed at capital gains rates? And those aren't changing.

Even if they are taxed as income, the top rate is (probably) changing from 39.6% to 38.5%, so he'd saving less than 1% on $499 million of this.

So where is he getting a big tax cut?
Couldn't the intermediate conversation be stored and sent when there's connectivity?
Futures are opening for trading in the next two weeks on regulated US exchanges with daily / weekly USD cash settlement and central clearing. For every long futures position, someone else is short. I think that's a lot safer way to short bitcoin than holding tether.
It would be awesome if apple comes out with an new mac mini at all.
There's an old Bitcoin in Python project called ArtForz's Bitcoin "half-node" (or maybe "half-a-node") which is a compressed, single file, easy-to-follow simplified Bitcoin node. No wallet functions, just the basic networking and validating.

Actually, I found a copy here: https://pastebin.com/ZSM7iHZw

It's public domain, and it may help you figure things out (it did for me).

The main hurdle is understanding the message types: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Protocol_documentation#Message_ty...

Once you understand these, it's pretty much all serializing, deserializing, validating, and passing these around over TCP/IP sockets. And then building the chain. And then adding wallet functions.

It's been a while since I've done this so now I'm thinking of building another one in some new language.
Maybe the world should support any country with nuclear weapons in their efforts to build domestic ICBMs. If a nuclear power attacks a country, having it arrive on the tip of an ICBM leaves no doubt where it came from and who is responsible. Using a submarine, shielded shipping container, 4x4 across the Mexican border, etc. to plant and explode a nuclear weapon in the USA or other country would cause much greater long term harm to global political and social systems.

On the other hand, one does not want North Korea armed with hundreds of atomic weapons and the ability to end civilization single-handedly. How about this as an opening offer to North Korea? We will accept you with 10 warheads and end the embargo. You allow full inspections of any location at any time, so the number of warheads can be verified. Seems like new approaches to the North Korea problem are needed as they now have detonated a ~100kT device.
There are two relevant things to realize about this:

1) Student debt is much different than normal consumer debt in that it is not dischargeable if the holder declares bankruptcy.

2) For years, many politicians have been calling for the massive increases in the issuance of student loans, presenting the issue as though the only hope for many people to obtain education is to take on massive amounts of debt.

If there weren't lots of bankers, politicians, and lobbyists getting rich off of this bubble, it might be possible to believe that they genuinely think that saddling teenagers with massive amounts of non-dischargeable debt was a good thing for society.

Student loans are the biggest handout to the financial services industry in decades, and both parties are reaping the spoils of these deals.
I know this is off topic from this thread, but I’m honestly curious as to why you think this. What evidence exists to support your statement?

Normally, I would just assume this type of comment is simply trolling, but I looked at your profile and it seems you are a real person with generally intelligent comments so now I’m curious.
Thanks. Makes sense. I guess the "instant buy" on some exchanges gave me the impression that they kept coins in stock. (edit: I just saw the other comments regarding Coinbase, which answer that issue)

However I'm a bit confused by:

> An unsustainable price of bitcoin will lead to the collapse of other exchanges since people cashing out on these exchanges requires enormous amount of real money.

To cash out, other people need to buy, typically with fiat currency, so it's unlikely that their bank accounts would empty overnight? (assuming no fraud, bugs, not running the exchange at a loss, etc)
More importantly, how would you forbid someone from using their contacts?
For APIs, I've used net/http and httprouter with great success. I've recently discovered Buffalo (https://github.com/gobuffalo/buffalo) which looks great for full-stack development but I have not used it for a production app.
Ah that damned remote
IBM announces new Power9 chip built for AI and ML
It feels true, therefore it is true.
Not sure what "thicker than the frequency" means, but it's because they're much smaller than the wavelength, which is a few inches, as you can demonstrate with some marshmallows. (Google "measure speed of light with microwave oven".)
This is what regulation is for. No regulation? Then people are stealing. History suggests it's that simple.
You've got it backwards: the holes are smaller than the wavelength of the microwaves, and the material is thick enough that the eddy currents induced by the microwaves don't generate enough heat to melt the grating.
There exist many more friendly ecosystems than a desert island my friend. Capitalism is indeed a desert island, with fortified garden paradises hidden behind insurmountable walls.

The fundamental question is whether or not man can evolve enough to not be a greedy piece of shit that's willing to claw and stab his way to the top.
Isn't a philosophy/CS double major kind of like a math/CS double major? In that it expands your knowledge in the same domain, rather than a completely new one would (like, for example, studying German literature or biology would).

I remember helping my sister with her philosophy home work, and being surprised by the amount of elementary logic and set theory being taught.
These discussions often become "either/or", ignoring the possibility of studying STEM and other pre-professional fields while also receiving a thorough introduction to the humanities.

You can study Computer Science while also learning a bit of art history, or architecture, or psychology, or the sciences, or business, or...

And doing so might even make you more valuable to your employer, to yourself/your family, and to society.

> You are a burden on society if you don't have a productive job paying your own way... We believe is education required to be productive, so we subsidize education to get more productive people in society.

This mode of thinking is a great way to churn out lots of well-behaved, competent corporate employees. From this viewpoint, it follows that the path to the upper class is reserved for the already-rich.
The "March for Science" that happened earlier this year had estimated attendance of 1.07 million.

Now go to Google Images and search for "March for Science". Nearly every sign I see is either political in nature, elevating science to a level of religion/infallibility, or casting science as a fashion/meme ("Scientific is the new chic", "Science isn't wrong", "In science we trust").
Yes it does.

Aetna employees almost 50,000 people.

Aetna owes some success to their CEO. They owe most of their success to their employees.
I recall seeing a technical presentation by one of these larger organizations (probably Netflix), where they explain that they have to do these tech talks in order to spread the knowledge enough so that they can find people to hire to work on their stuff. Staffing was explicitly the reason they were speaking so freely about details other shops typically consider proprietary.
If you're baking or cooking, your hands are often covered with things you don't want to smear all over your phone, and saying "Alexa, how many tablespoons are in a quarter of a cup?" starts to seem pretty practical.
What a wonderful idea, putting your savings in an highly volatile currency! Have you ever heard about people buying gold to store value?
It was an example of what happened when everyone believes the so called "smartest people in the room" without questioning. It also represents what happens when the market adjusts to what you're doing but you fail to adjust and also the nature of tail risk. Was their model dumb? Tough to say, they did win a nobel prize in economics for it. I think warren buffet has some quote about how they were "risking a million to make a nickel".
I am sure someone enjoys it but it is less fun when you dont have a choice
Seems like a good thing: "using up" the (currently very small) available transaction space per block, will put pressure on the Ethereum network to move more quickly to Proof-of-Stake (which will have the same blocks, but a much faster mining rate, so it won't matter nearly as much); which will in turn put pressure on Ethereum clients to develop more space/bandwidth-efficient strategies for retrieving and storing those blocks (i.e. more things in line with Parity's "warp" sync.)
Middle class meaning net worth between 20-800 million dollars?
Oligarchy at its best: Aetna/CVS workers mostly making minimum wage and doing all the work while the CEOs earning insane paychecks. Would this guy really be worse off if he only made 50M and the other 450M would go to the employees?
Well, duh, of course it is. Monitoring writes to memory would be pretty interesting
I would write a book, cycle a lot, and improve my drawing and music skills. I would fill my entire day with creating, exercise, and people to love.
Bankruptcy is yet another thing though. And I agree, by the way, the laws as written are unfair and don't help anyone.

But bankruptcy isn't the ability to "walk away" from a loan. You literally need to be bankrupt: you can't hold any other assets beyond the statutory minums. Most people suffering with student debt aren't literally destitute (obviously some are), they just have a cash flow problem. Bankruptcy won't help them.
I didn't know there was a name for that. Thanks!

Civilization has typically been tied to the water. We have a Chicago-New Orleans-St. Louis triangle. My guess would be that the interstate highway system and container shipping have severely diminished its importance.
I think that it allows for a request for removal from the model unless it can be proven that the PII cannot be retrieved from the model.

(This should not be considered legal advice by me.)
It's becoming something we're increasingly hearing from production users. To some of them, low, stable memory usage is almost more important than some of Rust's other features.
What is the EV for a drama degree? Some actors make millions in their 20s. Probably .01% of actors?
Yup, so the best thing to do now is only buying phones with Android Oreo installed at launch. If that means not buying a phone, so be it. Or, if your situation demands a phone, buy a temporary, cheap 2nd hand.
Create a shortcut with this as url (or simply paste it in your address bar):

javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
Everyone already owns smartphones, which are at least as bad as home assistants in term of privacy, so what’s the point of this paper ?
You can get really great quality voice audio taking as little as 2KB/s(I work with VOIP solutions so I have some idea). At that rate, that's 168MB/24 hours. But then if you consider that you only need to record when someone is actually talking(don't record below certain threshold) you probably only need to store 5-10MB of data a day. You can just write that much to ram, I'm sure Echo has enough to do that. Then upload data periodically when someone sends an actual command to the server.
Well the plans drawn up seem to match very closely to when the generals themselves tried to get Hitler removed via a bomb.

And even if Hitler was removed, there was the remaining SS to contend with.
During a major bull market
My point was that treating people as enemies makes it nearly impossible to win them over to your side.
There's no evidence Proof-of-Stake can work as a replacement for Proof-of-Work.
ha! I hadn't seen that one
The first object oriented language was Simula 1 and 67. Smalltalk was a modern (for 1970's) new implantation of the OO concepts.

Smalltalk (-80, described in the books) was a great language and programming environment for one smart, experienced, 10X programmer. It was not designed for and could not support teamwork. All of the source code for all of the system libraries, compiler, and environment was available for editing. Any change to the system makes your code no longer portable. Imagine a C programmer, in a moment of arrogant hubris, changes libc or the standard io modules. Really fatal to portability.

Changes to your code were tracked in your workspace. There wasn't support for external source code control or merging changes from different programmers. Git and other source code control systems have lots of features to manage and track TEAM work on an evolving code base.

C defined a number of conventions for code syntax, the operators, '{}", ';', English word operations, layout. Smalltalk started over, so the code looks 'weird'.

Concepts in Smalltalk influenced later languages.
Didn't see any info that would give me an impression of the possibility if this getting any traction which I think would be even more important than any specific benefits.
Great comment. I found these problems in myself as I transitioned into management years ago. I was blocking good changes...

These days I try to just be a tie-breaker for the team, instead of laying out the plan and looking for "feedback".
I don't think it's really about science, it's more about reddit. You'll find the same thing on any discussion on any somewhat popular subreddit regardless of the subject. There's almost always a reddit hivemind sanctioned Good Answer to any issue and if you stray away from the Good Path you'll get buried in downvotes, regardless of how much effort you put into arguing your point. Conversely if you make a completely useless one-liner comment agreeing with the Good Answer then you'll be showered with upvotes and propelled to the top of the page.

Upvote/downvotes are de-facto agree/disagree buttons on reddit. As a forum it's completely useless to discuss anything beyond cat pictures and funny gifs.
> Why can't you just stand up and, you know, flick the light switch

I can, but I don't want to. Is that unreasonable?

I've quite enjoyed adding automation to my home. My outdoor lights slowly brighten as it gets dark outside - not by a timer, but by checking the actual times of sunrise / sunset as well as how cloudy it is, which might make it darker sooner. I can check my phone to ensure my doors are locked and my garage door is closed and my yard lights are off. I get a notification when the washer / dryer are finished. When I'm done working, I say a simple command and my office lights fade as my desktop locks.

I can set timers and check my laundry and then wait the extra 5 minutes it adjusted to finish. I can log out and hit the switch on the way out. I can get up every evening and turn on the outside lights and then turn them off in the morning. I can adjust my thermostat once I get up instead of 15 minutes before. But I don't really want to.

As a programmer, having an API for my home has been tons of fun. Controlling some of that API with my voice has been as well.

That said, I've made sure everything still works when my pi is down, because sometimes a light switch is, you know, simpler.
Correction: Amazon Australia, which ships some items to New Zealand, just launched literally a few days ago :)

I had a look at Alexa availability a few months back and while none ship here to the US, I'm sure there are those who import plus freight forwarding could get one. Just depends how keen you are really.