skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've got an iPhone X in the mail that I'm waiting patiently for, and I've got the 7+ currently. It's a really good camera ... for a phone camera. But it absolutely sucks compared to a real digital camera. They are all basically pinhole cameras with no optical zoom and a really small sensor size, so they will always be worse than a real dedicated digital camera, especially one with interchangeable lenses.
Well, one type of paper ballot probably tipped a presidential election. There was a sudden push to get rid of any ambiguity. It was an overreaction but that is why it happened.
>This is precisely what Lightning aims to solve, and at least anecdotally so far, has done so in the case of LTC.

Which LTC wallet support LN in production?
I think for a while MySQL had a much better replication story but that has changed now with logical replication now in postgresql. What most concerns me about MySql is how the configuration can shoot you in the foot. At my previous company the slave replica for a database was writable and I'm not even sure how this is a valid configuration :/ and of course someone ended up running a query on the slave and corrupting its data.
To be clear I only meant "testing" to apply to the CIA. I imagine the other groups would be using it as part of some operation.

As for why I imagine the CIA is testing this, the CIA has experimented on unwitting American citizens and servicemen with drugs and poisons in the past[1], so it's not outside their ken to do such a thing.

Perhaps the CIA is testing their new stealth harassment/assassination/mind reading tool and wants to test it on realistic targets but also not risk exposing the device to a hostile party. With US intelligence agencies perpetrating and investigating attacks on realistic targets, it may make a good test environment.

I'm not saying I believe it is the CIA, obviously I have no evidence and this is just speculation. I'm just saying I'd consider them as suspects.

1 - http://healthland.time.com/2012/03/23/the-legacy-of-the-cias...
Great idea, will keep looking in on it for content. Thanks OP!
Hurt?

Their net worth is negative.

They'd love nothing more than seeing their net worth rise to $0.
For most formats it achieves >90% of the performance of the hand-tuned assembly implementations in cuBLAS.
Google has also done some foundational research on learning with privacy:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.05755

https://research.google.com/pubs/pub45428.html

It's hard to know for sure what they (or any company) are doing in production, but I'd be surprised if they don't use these things internally.
Does this imply that unit tests are a symptom of poor coding?
I don't think you're really disagreeing with Kent.

And I haven't found that integration (system) tests have a higher ROI – because they're usually much more expensive to write and maintain. And they can be more brittle than your actual code.

If your code depends on an external service, should your integration test actually make a (test) request to the real live service endpoints? Maybe! But the more 'real' the test is, the less of your own test it covers relative to all of the other external dependencies.

I'm not sure there's much disagreement among you and I and Kent. I can imagine always maintaining some non-zero number of integration test for suitably large code-bases.

But I think I get what he's getting at in terms of – ideally – wanting to minimize those kinds of tests by transforming previously unreliable parts of the system into something we can use "as a given" (like integer arithmetic).
A burger chain beat out Google as one of the best places to work in the US
Hand counting is very likely less accurate than machine counting.
Cynical long-term prediction ahead:

The powers that be have wanted this for years. Energy interests from the time when oil was MUCH higher priced, politicians from the favor it would curry with their lobbying interests, etc. The trump administration has simply given them a wide open window to push it through, even if it's not immediately useful. In the long run, given legislative trends, it will likely be harder to unwind any of these decisions, so they've "locked in" their gains, so to say.

Look at the broader scope of anti-reserve legislation; many reserves are being shrunk in a manner that will lead exclusively to states selling off public land to private interests. There's 0 compelling public benefit from this other than deriving a small amount of revenue for the states in which they're located; (/s since the US is clearly lacking usable land, _of course_ the answer is to lay claim to some of the more precious unused land we have /s) ignoring even a potential decline of sport/tourism dollars. All of this seems like a bunch of maneuvering to trade American natural heritage for a small amount of political favor and economic benefit for handfuls of empowered/aligned entities.
Does amazon let anyone develop their own prime client? Not sure google being somewhat more open in general is a good knock against them.
That's not an example of a market inefficiency. It's an example of Amazon having a structural advantage that allows it to be profitable at a lower cost to consumers.
It's quite possible to do more via lawsuits, especially in California. One guy got a judgment against Bank of America and showed up at a branch with sheriff's deputies and a moving van to seize property.[1] He was paid very quickly.

I once had a business refuse to pay me after a small claims judgment. I paid the sheriff's office for a "till tap" and an "8 hour keeper".[2] That means a sheriff's deputy (usually two of them) goes to the business, shows the court order, and takes the money out of the cash register, arresting anyone who gets in the way. If there's not enough money on hand, the deputies stand behind the register and take in money during the business day until the judgment is paid. The fee for this is about $85, which gets added on to the judgment. It worked for me.

[1] http://business.time.com/2011/06/06/homeowner-forecloses-on-...

[2] http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/small_claims/collect.shtm...
I imagine quite a few GM customers use CarPlay or Android Connect. This sounds like a move designed to ensure that even more use them. If there's anything in it, I fully expect Apple and Google to develop something better for their platform that is better - would GM disable it?
I've always been told gold isn't a good place to put your money so proponents of bitcoin comparing it to gold is concerning to me
Especially when the truck depreciates so much. That's several thousand right there.
If you have proof you provided the correct information to them it's probably time to talk to an attorney.
Again?

Yes, it hurts that Jimmy Wales is famous and nearly nobody knows you.

But why should Everipedia achieve what Citizendium hasn‘t?

Oh, right. „Blockchain“.
I assume it's so that I can run Bugzilla on my laptop.
Germany decided to gradually phase out nuclear energy in 2002 (after two years of deliberations and negotiations), 9 years before Fukushima.

At the end of 2010, the center-right coalition extended the duration of the phase out; a few months after Fukushima, they essentially backtracked on that extension. This resulted in the oldest 8 plants being shut down, most of them built in the 70s.

As of now, there are still 8 plants operating. In 2016, it provided about 13% of overall electrical energy. In the same year, regenerative sources generated around 29%. At its peak in 2004, nuclear power provided around 32%, and regenerative around 8%.
Thanks, I'll give it a try. I have a 6S as well.
This was a good metaphor but I don't understand the last line. Our tests can never 'really' clean 'real ears' can they? [Actually, that's kind of an interesting idea. Send a real order thru your inventory, order management, etc. systems ...]
Same as the difference in price between costing 2$ and 1$ vs 1$ and 0$.
And the impression i have is that the pixel products are in part an attempt at getting them to dogfood Google's own stuff.
> It exposes a REST json api, as well as a JSON-RPC api.

So a bridge server.
Bringing up Microsoft is neither here nor there.

Microsoft made the decision to create Shared Source Initiative only after they were very successful and only after a very, VERY detailed cost vs. benefit analysis.

Furthermore, they are handsomely paid for it (e.g in order to be eligible, you need to pay for at least 10k Windows licenses as per https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sharedsource/enterprise-sour...) and it's ultimately up to Microsoft to grant/deny access.

And since we're talking about Microsoft, in the early days they were infamous for pumping competition for technical information under the guise of due diligence and then crushing said competition by developing competing products.

The person who asked the question is clearly not at the "successful monopoly" stage as Microsoft but more in the "there are legitimate concerns someone might steal our core ip" stage.
> We've conditioned ourselves to pay close attention to pain for obvious reasons ...

Have we conditioned ourselves to acknowledge pain? It seems to me that we evolved the ability to have pain, which is, by definition, a sensation that grabs your attention right away.

> If you're not afraid of death, it won't bother you at all.

Am I understanding your phrasing correctly? That, if you're not afraid of death, then physical pain won't bother you at all? I don't think that's right.

Another q: What kind of benefit/enlightenment do you achieve by leaning into the pain of a stubbed toe? Why lean in to it and pretend that you're "above the pain", instead of shouting out a swear word, complaining about it for a minute or two, and then moving on with your life?
Problem is that the minimum fee for 24hr target could change a lot in an hour or less because some news story happened or simply when enough people noticed a lull in fees and decided to move their fees when it's still cheap. In that event 24hrs coild easily turn to days.

Wallet developers and payment portals gets a lot of flak for overcharging fees, but ultimately it is still preferrable to using a conservative estimate and deal with the likely support call when the payment fails to confirm, and there is nothing they can do but watch it get bounced between nodes.
Okay. Now do you get my point?

You don't get to call someone a bad Christian if they don't hold up to your idea of Christianity. Especially when (guessing here) that OP is not a Christian but an atheist.
> It is the kind of move you play when you absolutely must win and must win now.

I agree Ncxe5 looks crazy, but the weirder thing to me is that Stockfish offers a repetition the very next move. So it can't be caused by having high contempt (favouring wins over draws).
Lessons learned on the road to product market fit
That's not really good advice in this situation. There's a decent chance that the collectors would then ding their credit report or possibly sue.
I have reservations about this program even though I hope it is a success.

The program provides partial funding and reduced permit fees if homeowners arrange for at least four houses on a block to remove the concrete. Citizens are encouraged to become “ambassadors” and knock on neighbors doors and try to convince them to remove it. If the citizen fails to get enough neighbors on board? No funding.

To me, this program takes an issue of permit enforcement of critical importance to the infrastructure and pushes it out to people with zero authority, and asks them to knock on doors, explain the law, and ask if they’ll please consider complying with permits.

The government gets to duck the awkward business of enforcing a law that turned into an entitlement, while pretending to do something ang getting a smiling feel good photo op (win win!)

Meanwhile, where I live, pave overs continue apace with no apparent enforcement at all. Houses flood with raw sewage. In one recent storm, a dog was electrocuted in the flooded garage. This area is one of the few parts of sf with a high percentage of children, including lower income children.

It turns out the government does need to establish and enforce sensible laws.
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I suspect the key is definitely in its focusing mechanism that allows for high powered bursts to be relayed to its target with relative efficiency.
I've had to pay tx fees of ~$5 twice recently. The second $5 fee was to move my coins to a segwit address. Now the fees are under $1 again, i.e. actually viable for many real world txs again.
Gold is not growing in demand, and is not in the process of being "established". Almost everybody who wants gold already has enough, and people entering the gold market are approximately balanced by people selling gold. People who use gold (e.g. in industry) are supplying themselves at the same rate as they are using it. There is no reason it should continuously go up.

Of course my argument doesn't align with what happened in Germany, that is my point. What I am trying to say is what seems at first glance like an overvaluation or a bubble could actually be in-/deflation, or in other words: currency supply and demand.

If you assume bitcoin eventually becomes as big as a typical national currency, it is currently even undervalued.
watching bitcoin implode will be a glorious day..... the volatility in that market is astounding..
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They both must have single side modulation for anything to work. If not than Wifi and FM and AM would never work since everything would confuse the receiver.

I thought maybe I am missing something, but I see that the objects are encoded with bit and transmits.

Printed Wifi Paper

"PRINTED MAGLINK
At a high level, by varying the magnetic properties of the material used within a single print job, we can embed multiple sequences of bits across the object. We consider the 3D printed object that modulates the magnetic field as the transmitter and the smartphone as the receiver.

Maybe it is the word modulates that is the issue?

Modulate Definition - In electronics and telecommunications, modulation is the process of varying one or more properties of a periodic waveform, called the carrier signal, with a modulating signal that typically contains information to be transmitted. Most radio systems in the 20th century used frequency modulation (FM) or amplitude modulation (AM) to make the carrier carry the radio broadcast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation
Another data point, but I worked for a company that made an expensive DSS for a very lucrative industry. We showed a potential "partner" our code and how it worked and everything. They took our ideas and made their own product as a direct competitor. Reminded me of Apple and Xerox.

Definitely get legal council involved.

A possible way to protect yourself is print it out and put it in old fashioned binders and let them see the binder while you are watching. Not sure if that will fly, but it would be hard(er) for them to steal it. Tell the company your concerns (which are valid) and what methods they would accept. I don't think it's unreasonable for you to bring it up with them.
Github stars are a strikingly fickle metric. There doesn't really seem to be any correlation between # of stars and quality of project or how novel the idea is or similar. It's just a number, basically
Unit tests are great if you need to drill down and verify a very specific piece of logic. Integration tests on the other hand are very useful if you need to test the overall system, especially if testing smaller parts is not possible or does not make sense.

For instance, in my company we have developed an internal tool that allows external translators to directly translate resource strings in our database and VCS. Parts of this system are in unit tests (like the parts recognizing what the language of a file is), but the interop with the VCS is not something that makes sense to isolate. Therefore the only tests for that parts are through the integration tests.
Ask HN: Business opportunities for GDPR
GDPR[1] is less than six months away from being enforceable. What are some (technology) businesses that could spring from it coming into effect?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation
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This is a disgusting perspective. The civilization they live in is bankrolled by taxes. The TV they watch, electricity they use, everything they purchase, the customers that purchase their crops... All of this is possible because people pay taxes for the greater good of society.
fantastic question. Just because the software complied with the requirements at one point doesn't mean it will in the future.
You might want to remove Yelp from your featured clients, they aren't exactly known as a moral company.
I worked at Three Mike Island inspecting a steam generator during a refueling outage. A robot arm operated by a person ran a sensor down each pipe to inspect its integrity. After completion a random set of pipes were chosen for verification. If even one pipe in the verification set differed from its original scan, the entire steam generator had to be reinspected.

We had a huge incentive to get it right. Counting ballots should be just as verifiable and accurate.
Eh? The volatility is a HUGE problem for bitcoin as a currency.

If I run a small business, accepting payment in bitcoin just creates risk. The state of my business not only depends on the quality and success of my product/service but also on the volatility of bitcoin because by accepting bitcoin I am forced to effectively take a long position on BTC. The price could crash by 25% before I sell the bitcoin and now I've a cash-flow problem - struggling to pay wages and rent - even though my business is successful in that I made a profit on selling my products or services.

The purchaser of my services is effectively on the other side of this trade and is exposed to the opposite risk wrt to BTC/USD. The only way for the two parties to minimize this risk would be for the customer to convert fiat currency into bitcoin just before paying, and then for the vendor to convert the bitcoin back immediately on receipt. With high spreads and transaction costs, using bitcoin in this manner is incredibly expensive and makes no business sense.
In Australia, the government has been issuing debt notices[1] to some of the poorest citizens (beneficiaries) without first confirming the debts actually exist.

It's been called the 'Robodebt scandal' and it's been going on for a year now.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-03/centrelink-debt-contro...

[1] Not strictly speaking debt notices, but the gist is the same: "We think you owe this money. If you can't prove otherwise, we will issue a debt notice."
The biggest impact has definitely been with an increase in my self-awareness, especially in the presence of great pressure. Such an increase is not as consistently present as I want it to be, perhaps, but it's present enough to make me realize that practicing meditation, and mindfulness as a whole, helps me.

My meditation tends to be simple - wherever I am, I pretty much just take a seat, time a few deep breaths, keep my eyes closed, and either reflect with an objective in mind or just let my mind wander for 10 to 15 minutes. No mobile app, no fancy bells or whistles, nothing like that. No set schedule either, though I'm sure some sort of set schedule would be a great way to approach meditation and be more measured about meditating.
That's an interesting choice of analogy given that boxes of Q-Tips warn you to never try cleaning your ears with a Q-Tip and so do most professionals: http://time.com/4290668/q-tip-ear-wax-removal/

Current professional wisdom is that you shouldn't even bother cleaning your ears because wax buildup is healthier and the body's own wax removal process is good enough.
And as in the radio episode on NPR and this article, a lot of times, that "proof" is nothing more than a list of names, addresses and amounts in an Excel spreadsheet, and the original statement is long gone, or 5 steps removed.

Used to be that judges would take such Excel spreadsheets as gospel, but a lot more often, especially recently, not so much so, often due to the shenanigans we see here.
What exactly is the potential liability for a GPL violation?

I've gone 12 rounds with IP lawyers over these theoretical violations (static vs dynamic links). But I found it odd that I could never find a single case of significant liability due to infringement. The nature of damages is unclear and the landscape of counter-parties (with an incentive to sue) is amorphous. It seemed like worst-case, a proven infringer just had to re-write the offending module and make a $10k donation to an open source foundation. I've never knowingly infringed GPL and am not advocating that anyone should; it's just as I said, I found the legal community's focus on this area out of step with their otherwise well-measured calculations of risk and reward.
>Fair enough, but it seems arbitrary and capricious

In the current context of super-widespread collections abuse, I'd say such a suggestion is anything but arbitrary.

> it requires a specialized body of skill and knowledge that many businesses would rather not have to develop in-house.

If that specialization and skill was a real thing, then we wouldn't see widespread abuse committed by the agencies like we do today. After all, virtually every abuse involves inaccuracy on the part of the agency.
Steam does not hold onto BTC, BitPay collect the user's payment, tells Steam to release the order and writes a USD.cheque to Valve once in a while after taking their cut. The system worked until network congestion and market volatility made it impractical.

The only major online retailer that actually keep their own BTC is Overstock.
The "Jeff Goldblum" era is still alive, just not in the minds of people trying to sell cloud-based alternatives
This looks like a fantastic site! Is there anything similar for Shogi?
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I am on Win10/1709 and it really does not work.
Yes, at that point they revealed some of the classic symptoms of a crank:

> One professor at the University of London, who asked for anonymity so Padgett wouldn’t follow up, called Padgett’s theory an “attempt to create a reality effect through the excessive presentation of material which the reader is meant to assume is somehow evidence.”

Cranks are fascinating in that, while they have boundless time and energy to produce voluminous work on a subject, they can't quite be bothered to educate themselves about what does or does not constitute a logical argument, or about little details like the fundamentals of mathematics or physics.

> He also contends that English scholars are too protective of their prized composer to consider the theory of a layperson such as him. “I’m an outsider, you know. I’m not one of these credentialed academics. I’m not published,” he said. “Who am I to presume that I could fathom the dark secrets of one of their foremost composers?”

Another hallmark, the crank feels mistreated strictly because they are an outsider and questioning the insiders.
If the validation process to obtain a certificate is rigorous then you have little deniability if and when you are held accountable for any shenanigans. Where I work, if the process to obtain a certificate is rigorous enough, certain entrusted CAs can issue certificates with legal non-repudiation (legal signature) and identifying power. This is written into law. You can bet your car this will create tons of case law when GDPR lands.

The EV-cert doesn't help twitter or facebook (other than making them seem more trustworthy), it doesn't provide any extra cryptographic or operational security, it helps the user better ascertain who is accountable and where when the shit inevitably hits the fan.
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