skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can see how the State of Oregon would be annoyed that an unlicensed environmental engineer would be touting his engineering credentials when arguing with licensed civil engineers, especially since the State of Oregon licenses engineers.

Engineering is a field where if you mess up, people may die, so just as we license doctors, we license engineers.
> It was not predicted in the original Bitcoin whitepaper.

> Every decentralized protocol suffers from unintended centralization caused by economics.

> That's why protocols consolidate towards big players in a power law distribution.

Hmm, given the amount of foresight in the original whitepaper I'm surprised the current situation wasn't predicted especially if it's common with other protocols that are intended to be decentralized.
Given that all the production costs are sunk at this point, the incremental cost of offering as part of a streaming catalog or filling up some AMC broadcast slots as part of an "event" is pretty low.

Pre-streaming, I'm sure a lot more people bought DVD sets of favorite series than actually rewatched them from beginning to end. The same principle applies today I'm sure even in the cases where the content is effectively free.

I'm not sure this example really counts as a fad though. While successive groups rediscover older TV shows (not that the ones you list are very old at all) viewership is rarely going to be more than of a fraction than it was originally. Perhaps there are marginal exceptions for shows that never really had an audience but develop a bit of a cult following over time.

ADDED: The other issue I have with the author's broader theory is that much of what he says is just as applicable to episodic TV shows like Seinfeld as it is to serialized shows.
The two biggest dangers in life: scorned women and inconvenienced bureaucracies.
Speaking about buying TPUs, yesterday I vaguely remembered that the company that sells mining ASICs like the Antminer was planning to start selling AI chips ala Google's TPU. I checked their website and they have actually started selling them already https://www.sophon.ai/

I think it's pretty exciting seeing how we are getting increasingly more specific chips for AI tasks. I wonder what their performance is like compared to GPUs.
The currently proposed CME and CBOE futures are cash settled. No actual bitcoin is involved. Neither the buyers or sellers of the futures, nor any other entities involved, will need to buy/sell/hold any bitcoin.
I think the author confuses reason with common sense anyways. They're not the same thing.
This bothers me too, especially since many communities require you to integrate it with other platforms too. Want access to N channel? Connect to Patreon to prove you contribute. So many integrations, so many communities controlled by a single entity. Oiy.

And this doesn’t even touch on the attention cost... it gets stupidly demanding of your attention with all the @ mention options. If you’re part of more than one community, you had best prepare to be quite liberal with the mute feature.
The NYT made one for commuter rail a few years ago. It is one of my favorite graphics.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/17/nyregion/nyregi...
Actually, there is: if both users are on gmail, you can attach big files to your mail, and it's automatically uploaded on Drive (and retrieved seamlessly by recipient from mail). If recipient is not using gmail, you can still use Drive to upload your file and share it. And obviously, there are many Drive competitors, like dropbox and Box, to name the biggest ones.
Fun to see the apple mouse at the end. Someone should make a wall print of this and gift it to Jony Ive :-)
My apartment is somewhere around 1,800-1,900 per month and that includes all fees and what not. It's also a studio, but it's condo grade (3 feet of sound proofing on all walls and ceilings), concierge, built in Sonos and speakers, ethernet, and option of having Google Fiber. Not sure I ever want to move. I'm kind of content actually.

It's tempting to consider buying a condo downtown over at 360 or even Seaholm for the reasons you list. I would put down 20-30% though. I do not want to live outside the city. I like being in the middle of everything. I've toyed the idea of moving back home to Minneapolis or trying out Portland. I don't want to deal wit cold weather. My parents are retiring and just bought a home in Sarasota. They have invited me down with them. Which is tempting.
Math is universally accepted across country lines.
digiconomist has a more "realistic" estimate by including real world factors like cooling costs, the operation of older, but still profitable hardware etc. into their balance sheet. Their number is 32 TWh over the year (vs 9,6 TWh in the article above)

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption#assumpti...

Also, their yearly estimate was only 26 TWh a month ago. If we project this into the next year, then we'll end with 130 TWh at the end of 2018 - or roughly 40% of what the UK consumes.
Our data scientist left because instead of data science, he ended up doing more ETL and data engineering support than what he originally had signed up for.

A full-time data engineer should probably have been hired.

I wonder if this leads to an analogous discussion as http://wiki.c2.com/?ArchitectsDontCode.
One of the things that's very, very difficult with individual certificates and LetsEncrypt's rate limits is to provide subdomains per-customer without leaking details (e.g. usernames) of other customers. If you don't want bob.example.com and alice.example.com on the same certificate, you can have a grand total of 20 users before you hit the rate limits.

This also affects systems like Sandstorm, which use randomly generated, unguessable subdomains per user session per "grain" (document), which may have (small) privacy concerns in some cases. Certificate Transparency would publicly publish every subdomain generated, even if the rate limits weren't a thing.
>Holders of large amounts of bitcoin are often known as whales. And they’re becoming a worry for investors. They can send prices plummeting by selling even a portion of their holdings.

That's not indicative of something that's a store of value.
My memory isn't good enough to make "likely" work out here, so that wouldn't be a good fit for me. Right now it's more about "will I use this soon enough", and of course that changes depending on how much time you've got available anyway. And when that happens, I file them away on pinboard or discard them. It does work, but better integration and UX would improve things.

And you might got that wrong: I don't want to assign priorities to tabs and/or bookmarks, I just regard both as being in different "priority" buckets, and maybe finer-grained distinction and ease of moving things back and forth would be a good approach. (Never mind: "all the time visible"? Not in my tab tree ;) )
Any thoughts on these(they show up alot on whattomine.com):

Monacoin(MONA)

Vertcoin(VTC)

Zcash(ZEC)

LBRY(LBC)

Monero(XMR)
I'm actually reading the paper...

> GNUnet is an overlay network, as it is initially supposed to primarily operate over the existing Internet network. However, GNUnet does not assume that this is always the case. For example, GNUnet can also operate directly over WLAN or Bluetooth to create an ad-hoc wireless mesh network, and with the GNUnet “PT/VPN” subsystems we can run TCP/IP over GNUnet. So in this configuration, GNUnet would be an underlay network, a bit like MPLS or B.A.T.M.A.N. [NAL07]. In reality, we in fact expect to see both at the same time: some peers will run over the existing Internet, while others may connect to GNUnet on Layer 2.
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> It is also easy to make this number look very small:

Most of these comparisons sounded pretty identical to the ones from the "If I had the intention to lobby for a ban of Bitcoin mining, I would use references like the one below" list to me.
Engineering and medical licensing laws prohibit commercial engineering work (resp. medical practice) without a license. They don't prohibit free speech about engineering issues, and they certainly don't trump the First Amendment. Geez, HN would be illegal if you accepted that ridiculous interpretation.
Most of these "whales" are hot and cold wallets for various exchanges, investment fund holdings, seized coins waiting to be sold.

It's nearly impossible to map an address to its owner (or owners).
I struggle to think of any other way bitcoin could have caught on without early enthusiasts getting a huge number of coins.
Not too familiar with the data-this, data-that space. What does a data engineer do? What does a data scientist do? Does either code?
>The Amazon Cloud Cam live streams and archives deliveries with Amazon Key

Are they absolutely crazy? The camera obviously needs to be operated independently from Amazon, being able to be remotely switched on or off by the very people it's supposed to watch completely defeats its purpose.
That sounds more like a finish line than a milestone, but if it ever becomes available, sign me up!
I know someone who is hired as a data scientist and is mostly doing the same ETL work. The science is literally 10% of the work anyway, and all DS should know that.
LOL, welcome to the new century :-)
Kinda weird that they have the exact same shade of blue and monospace font as https://www.blackbox.cool.

Anyway, it's probably good for everyone that someone's trying to compete with Patreon -- market forces and all that.
That's very well put reasons. But another significant reason is very often a highly accurate model is not the right model that an organization wants. Hence when you are taking this modelling exercise to the next level, the whole effort of modelling fails because you have spent your time on something that is not required. Hence the accuracy-sophistication obsession of data scientists - irrespective of they are leaders or just ICs - make it tough to establish their credibility and broader organization vision.

And in many other cases, Media has created a myth of Data Scientists as Magicians, hence a lot of people expect a lot of unknowns from Data Scientists while a lot of people become Data Scientists always expecting to create unknowns and magics which is not going to yield any good better than a mere Exploratory Data Analysis based Insight from Microsoft Excel
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A traffic light camera timing problem is worst base high school math / phys (best case primary school matter). How do we need somebody "licensed" to determine it is unfair?
I'd interpret it as "once I have planned what I want to type, I can type it faster than I can come up with new things to type." So you always end up pausing occasionally to gather your thoughts between typing.
Yes, Ideally, A data scientist works on creating the model or logic while a Data Engineer works on the part of deploying the same.
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> The senate has the filibuster provision to give the minority party the ability to slow down or block legislation.

In theory, that's not the purpose; the Senate has a tradition of unlimited debate, to assure proposals are fully vetted before being decided, though, yes, they clearly have that effect.

> To overcome a filibuster, 2/3 of the senate have to vote to end it.

No, to invoke cloture, 3/5 of the Senate have to vote to end debate [0], which is why you hear about a 60 vote bloc being filibuster-proof.

[0] https://www.rules.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=RuleXXII
Do we know that people with degrees conform at greater rates than people without degrees?

Is an uneducated blue collar worker, for example less likely to conform to authority than a person with a degree or advanced degree?
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They both code. The engineer would pull the data from various sources and structure it in a way that the data scientist is happy with. (Tidy format) The DS would the code the models based on the engineer's work, which takes considerably less time.
The whole business of red light cameras is pretty dubious to begin with. It seems more like a tool local municipalities use to tax through traffic rather than a means of protecting public safety.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2013/08/13/211723717...
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Lol down voted...

I see the $heep are in full force :)
Who gives you the right to destroy the brain of a cow or an octopus for eating? Humans kill animals all the time, animals kill animals all the time, if this one ape happened to die slightly differently and got us all closer to data nirvana then isn't that a nobler way to go?
Is there any currency or commodity or derivative for which that statement is not true? It seems self-evident that if you own a lot of something like gold, dollars, BTC, sterling, etc. and you sell it, its value relative to what you're selling it for declines.
The best tool in any court case is time.
All those problems and I sit here with my Moto and the last patch from February...

Good my guarantee runs out soon so I can switch to something I can patch myself.
I think that's more because if you sell a huge percentage of any thing the price will drop, a huge sell order at market price will eat through an order book
Races to suggest 'Hitchhikers Guide To Python' but then sadly realises it was from 2016
I have cash in my pocket. I'm not a bank. Therefore you don't need bank to store cash. Simple?
And I use cash on a daily basis.. We're far from being the cashless society you claim we are.
Depends on your skills of course, but most dev jobs on seek / I run into and hire for are paying quite a bit more than that, particularly contract. When the AUD was stronger than USD this was an even more compelling argument.

However I acknowledge the opportunities of equity returns are far higher in the states.
Isn't the US Gov one of these whales ever since SilkRoad was seized?
While I wholeheartedly agree to your points, and I feel it really is bad to focus on someone's disability when there's so much more there to inquiry about (a whole human with skills, stories, wisdom, successes, failures, interesting and differing points of view), I must offer a counterpoint:

In most humans, the different is intriguing, and while a disabled person has all of the same (and good and interesting) attributes I've listed above as all other people, they also have this extra bit of experience which is their disability and which most people don't have.

I am with you that you should be genuinely bummed at watered down compliments and empty shit like 'warrior', 'brave' and all that awkward stuff that just makes you the center of attention for no reason. In essence, We are ALL warriors and each day we win at making money, getting fed, and breathing is a victory and a blessing (another chance to do it again tomorrow, possibly better!).

But, please notice that some people are just specifically curious about how do you go about your day, how different it is to tackle the same challenges they have but with your perspective (people normally like to compare, so it's not gonna be different with you and it shouldn't if you wanna be level). So if you recognize an honest and genuinely curious person among those other in the crowd that are just bringing up your stuff because they have ran out of subjects to talk, well, telling them those tiny details of your life is a sure fire way to get past that awkwardness and condescending membrane and will bring you together in a deeper way than most watercooler conversations you've been caught up.

Have a good one, man!
> I can see how the State of Oregon would be annoyed that an unlicensed electrical engineer would be touting his engineering credentials when arguing with licensed civil engineers.

Sorry for nitpicking, but the State did not get annoyed; a few bureaucrats did, probably because correcting the camera cycles deprives them of "extra revenue" in the form of fines.

That said, whoever at State got annoyed should get unannoyed. If an unlicensed engineer does the work that requires a license, state can intervene. Other than this everyone, licensed or not, should be able to argue that any state decision is inefficient / harmful / stupid and offer better alternatives. I suspect this is protected by the first amendment.
In our environment, the scientist builds the models, the engineer makes them run. Both can code (the scientist to build models, the engineer to execute models).
There is always the possibility that a go fix tool makes a transition to version 2 super simple.
An oversimplification, but yeah. The same reason anyone does anything: Because somehow and in some way it makes them feel good (or at least they anticipate that it will do so).
Different arguments you could make will work for different people, but I have to say - my daughter needed heart surgery when she was two, but scientists had experimented on animals to perfect a procedure that allowed the surgery to be done through a catheter, rather than open-heart. That gave my daughter a much greater chance of surviving the procedure, without complications. So I'm delighted they did the experiments.

I greatly appreciate how much scientists try to reduce suffering when they perform these experiments - you should really look in to what the approval process is for experimentation here in the US, and the extent that any given animal can be experimented on.

But when it comes down to it, my family is not vegan, we eat meat, we rescue animals (four cats so far), we donate to the Humane Society, and we're THRILLED scientists experimented on animals to learn how to save our daughter. Some day illness could rob her of sight or hearing, and some day these experiments could lead to restoring her senses. This is not a difficult equation for me.

I absolutely will agree that science needs moral and ethical oversight, but this is far from "just trying out what seems to be possible." And I personally think they should have permission to experiment like this on the brain of an ape, and I do not consider these activities dubious.

So, perhaps your arguments will work on other people. But probably not on anyone like me who has had their child's life so dramatically improved by science just like this.
The notion of 'building up a tan' is dangerously wrong advice.

I know, I acknowledged that in my comment.

My main point was only about the extent to which people with genetically high melanin levels are at much lower risk of cancer (which your first link confirms), but how their risk might increase if their melanin levels drop.

I don't dispute that it's a complex and dangerous topic. And as someone with genetically very pale skin, I most certainly steer well clear of direct sunlight and make no efforts to develop a tan.

I'm curious as to whether your educated guess derives from a clinical background, or reddit?

That's a low blow :)

I rarely go anywhere near Reddit, certainly not for anything to do with health. I have spent 10+ years researching health topics for reasons to with serious, chronic, illnesses I've endured, and have now largely overcome thanks to what I've learned.
Nice, can't wait to try it!

Btw, this is the official source code:

https://github.com/getinsomnia/insomnia

But I find it a bit odd that I couldn't find a link to the source code on the website.

Edit: There is one, I just wasn't looking very well.
Something is seriously strange here. I work at NASA as a system administrator. That system should not still have the asset tag attached. Those are removed when an item goes through excess. Also, NO hard drives are to leave NASA with any data on them. I wipe all hard drives before I excess a system and I think the inventory people do it again. It's possible that this system was disposed of before that rule went into effect but that seems unlikely. I was able to zoom in on the photo on Ebay and get the asset tag number. That item is not in the asset database any longer, so it seems to have been legitimately excessed, and isn't stolen, but still, this is very odd.
That Google search doesn't really say much about the content of the arguments, or the distribution on any political spectrum except "people have different opinions" - but AFAICT the critiques of capitalism either argue that it inherently leads to inequality and corruption - ultimately dooming efforts to fix "cronyism[...] etc." within the system - or that the neoliberal school of thought enables it by dismantling unions and the government's ability to affect the market. Either way, the issues spring from capitalist systems, and so arguing that they're "really complaining about something else" strikes me as odd.
It's redistribution of wealth. Old money being transferred to new owners. New fortunes are being made ever day. It doesn't matter.
the major difference between fiat and bitcoin in this case seems to be that the whales in case of fiat currency are either the central banks (like the FED and ECB) or large international banks who own a lot of currency?
I can agree there are more opportunities elsewhere, but ive never met a developer or similar in Aus struggling to do well, and have generally found US devs shocked by our salaries and living costs.

On the other hand, if you want career advancement there's something pretty cool to the US idea of "have managed 15 people after 2 years experience" which just doesn't happen here in Aus.
I've put my eggs in Ark's basket.

https://ark.io
Don't be too confident... it was a close thing:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/805/did-a-state-leg...
I think we have to ask that question _in the context of a job where degrees are the norm_ (whether justified or not).

It could be, for example, that a person with a degree working nights as a security guard is less likely to conform, while a person without a degree who gets a job that traditionally requires a degree is less likely to conform.

Maybe it's all about being "intentionally different."
Disclaimer: I work for RStudio. I previously worked heavily with SciPy.

The difference kind of goes to the fundamental difference between R and Python. R's nature as a statistical programming language is something you have to install packages in python to achieve: numpy, matplotlib, etc.

What you gain with RStudio are environment inspection tools[1] built for the kind of vectors, data frames, etc. that you'd only get with `numpy` in Python land, and therefore PyCharm and VS don't know about (or would need a plugin to know about). Same goes for the plot viewer and `matplotlib`.

Beyond that, a sizeable portion of RStudio's runtime is written in R itself; you can actually write addins for the IDE using R, as opposed to PyCharm where you'd have to know Java or Kotlin, and I assume VS where you'd be required to use .NET.

It's always going to come down to "what is the best tool _for the job_?" Knowing people who use python for data science, they don't seem to indicate to me that they're particularly fond of PyCharm (which is what I'd use for Python if it's too big a project to effectively grok in VIM). They tend to use Jupyter notebooks (not even iPython!) because more important than static inspection and quality tools (which devs care about) is a richly-featured REPL that saves detailed history forever (which a researcher cares about).

[1]https://i.stack.imgur.com/ASgJs.jpg
in the case of diamonds, it's deBeers.
what the heck are you guys real hackers
Not anymore, they all got auctioned off. Cheaply too, they averaged around ~$290 per bitcoin.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/acting-manhattan-us-att...