skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI: This is for a very different substrate (quantum dots, which are basically individual electrons trapped in special silicon defects) compared to the substrates that have seen more attention for quantum computing (superconducting circuits and trapped ions). They are behind in terms of raw qubit counts -- which are not that meaningful -- and in terms of their overall abilities, but they hope to catch up by building higher quality components that cross the fault-tolerant threshold first.

If, like me, you don't already know a lot about quantum computing experiments, this article shouldn't interest you. At best, this is a small step of many thousands that will be taken on the way building a working computer.
Would you say the law disincentivizes private companies from allowing their stock to be bought/sold by "poor people"?
Sounds like the OP would prefer the Gitless[1] porcelain; it removes the concept of staged files, and significantly simplifies the number of concepts required to work with Git.

(This is a fun project because there's also a paper[2] that analyzes the design of Git from a conceptual level, and comes up with the simplifications that Gitless implements.)

[1]: http://gitless.com/
[2]: https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/10/24/whats-wrong-with-git-a-c...
> I don’t buy your scalability argument

Oh, that was what I was told during new employee training. I'm not in the infra org and tbh, I don't really buy the do-it-in-house-for-scalability argument either. I've also seen other employees express sentiments similar to influx's wrt infra.
Thanks for bringing this up. I didn't realize just how lax the rules regarding being a Regulation A Plus company are.

You don't need to be an accredited investor to invest in one. You just need to limit your investment to no more then 10% of your salary, or net worth, whichever is greater.

There are currently over 150 Reg A+ companies in the United States. I am eagerly waiting for people lambasting how the accredited investor rule keeps out little people... To explain why little people aren't falling head over heels to invest in RegA+ corps.
Cisco.com domain served by a discontinued 'ACE product' line
No, the screenshot shows a window containing the real Stripe overlapping a window containing Ian's site:

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/safar...

Ian was not impersonating the real Stripe.
Patreon’s Silence Is Destroying Their Two Greatest Successes
How long until there are libraries that wrap vulkan well enough that you don't have the bootstrap time though (apart from initial learning time of a new api, that will affect current devs once and future devs never)?

I believe gfx-rs is one such effort in rust, as an example.
I love this kind of posts, by sharing the anecdotes of what worked and what didn't, they provide a glimpse into the inner workings and strategies for one of the biggest challenges for any startup, plus most likely will generate a considerable influx of new users from the post itself. Everybody wins.
Isn't the $100,00K in this case the premium on the option? Taking the price SoftBank is offering, $33, those 20,000 shares are worth 660,000 so a net profit of 560,000 and a tax of about 35%. This seems a little high still so there might be something I'm missing.
Good point. ISPs do not want to be dumb pipes because frankly there's no money in that. Every ISP is looking at the lucrative media market, bundling their own services.
I was following you for a while...but can you explain how this is different than taking out a home equity loan, going $200-300k in debt, and buying lotto tickets for a chance to become a millionare? Aside from the fact that you wouldn't know whether you would or would not have won that lotto.
I personally use an mStand[0] by Rain Design. I was using a small cardbox box before that and my employer at the time gifted an mStand to me.

The difference is night and day and it made me appreciate my MacBook's display much more even when it was connected to an external monitor. I also found myself using multiple (virtual) desktops so much more as well.

If you're able to afford it, I really recommend shelling out the extra cash for a proper stand. If not, and you have an employer that might buy it for you, go out on a limb and ask for one. It might really improve how you interact with your laptop.

[0] http://www.raindesigninc.com/mstand.html
Thanks, I'll check it out.

We solve an huge number of extremely important problems for our users. Some things just off the top of my head:

- Find local daycares that have spaces available, which is pretty important when you need to work

- Find a nearby restroom or changing table when you need one RIGHT NOW (and when you need one, it's usually RIGHT NOW)

- Get parenting advice in real time on just about any topic

- If you're someone who doesn't fit in with traditional parenting groups (mostly moms, mostly married, etc), connect with a community of parents like you (single parents, stay home dads, etc)

- Find places where you can nurse or pump safely

- Get suggestions for things to do with your kids, because they are bored and you need to get out of the house

- Locate family-friendly restaurants and businesses when traveling

Etc. In some ways this is actually a challenge as there's no single, dead-simple value prop that we can use. But I love Winnie. We're genuinely helping people be less stressed and more successful as parents.
I think there's some information-theoretic ideas about compressibility or codelength that are relevant.

The appeal, I think, is in being able to succinctly represent a random or irrational mathematical object with some other object that's not exactly the same, but is simpler to describe and equivalent to some high degree of similarity. Normally these ideas are applied to things that are thought of as random in a physically stochastic sense, but you could apply them to things that are random in an information-theoretic irrationality sense also.

I'd say the polyhedra they discuss are kind of examples of this, maybe in reverse or something: they are simplified constructs that work as representations to some close extent.

There's some interesting ties here to pseudorandom numbers, in that usually we think of them as approximating true randomness, even though they're entirely reproducible and predictable. This seems similar to me at some level.
>this technology is completely different and has absolutely nothing in common with millimeter wave scanners

Do you have a source? It's described as using an antenna and a receiver, which is exactly how the naked scanners at the airport work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millimeter_wave_scanner#Techni...

They may use different frequencies (airport scanners are in 24–30 GHz band) but it's the same technology.
Could you elaborate for those of you who don't quite understand?

I understand the reference, but is there more to this comment than a joke?
Nah, many of them can't -- won't -- block Google over this.

A huge number of them are absolutely reliant on Google, for things like (org-wide) Google Mail, Google Docs, ChromeBook deployments, and so on -- not to mention basic Google search.
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Reminds me of former Oakland Mayor Jean Quan's surreal "driving around with local rappers in a prius" video:
﻿﻿https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i1NxQ83oEQ

What's with mayors and weird campaign videos?
> Who said you should use this as a gauge?

Implicitly, all the people in this thread—including you—pointing to the current US male life expectancy at birth.

I just say that if you are going to use life expectancy at birth, at least use one applicable to the birth of the person in question.
Reflections on Random Kitchen Sinks (NIPS “Test of Time” Award Speech)
> You have the capacity to set your own txn fee on the Bitcoin network. If you don't mind waiting a couple of blocks (1-3 hours) to get your transaction confirmed , then the fees fall down to single dollars and even lower.

This is infeasible because of insane volatility that BTC is experiencing. You either pay through the nose for a fast confirmation, or you are overpaying, or underpaying your counterparty.

Not to mention that VISA tends to be able to handle a bit more then 3 transactions a second. For some reason, BCH's market cap has not surpassed BTC's crippled protocol... Perhaps it's because nobody is using Bitcoin to transact.
The Android app is US only, but you can also sign up on Winnie.com. We do have some Canadian users :)
SEC Halts a Real Initial Coin Offering
drive is irrelevant, as long as you have the private key on a piece of paper you can reconstruct your wallet anywhere
While both are filled with low quality content, personal experiments without public importance, etc. I think github has some high quality, community relevant content that DeviantArt lacks. I see it like both DeviantArt and something like ArtStation.
RSA encryption has been shown time and time again to be a really bad idea, to the point that it was removed from TLS 1.3 early on.
Neither does the technology in the referenced article...
APL isn't really readable by other humans either.

This is idiotic.
WOAH there... Brown might be a lot of things, but he's no Donald Trump. Friends and foe alike describe Brown as "the smartest guy in the room." Brown is an intellectual powerhouse compared to Trump and way more politically savvy then Trumps ever been.
Ask HN: What was your one hit wonder?
I recently was browsing a friends very old and outdated personnel website and ran across links to a video he created in the early days of Youtube/Google Video that had gone viral (Digg, Reddit, TV interviews, newspaper mentions, etc). So I'm curious, what have you done that maybe hasn't resulted in financial independence but is (or would have been at the time) recognizable to the 'internet' public at large?
I recently released a stand I made for my ThinkPad Yoga. It'd probably work for a Macbook too. They're very close in size. I like mine a little better because I can put the dock and cables under it.

https://github.com/KeenRivals/ThinkPad-Yoga-Laptop-Stand
Long live the web!
9 skills every SAP Basis engineer should learn (especially #9)
> - Go true native, not hybrid

What about for games? Unity is extremely tempting, especially when the alternative is to write the game twice in two different languages...
I've been trying really hard to put myself in the shoes of the user. This is exactly what I would have done, so there you have it.
I work in the app / WAN optimisation space, and periodically do some work with SCPS -- I'm guessing you're referring to the tweaks around buffers / BDP, aggressiveness around error recovery and congestion response?

I think there'll be a few answers to the problem - first, it'll be slow to impact many of the kinds of users currently using Satellite, second for web apps it's either internal (so they can define transport) or external (in which case they are, or can, use a proxy and continue tcp/http over the sat links.

Later on I expect we'll get gateways (in the traditional sense) to sit near the dish ... though I also would expect that on that timeframe you'll be seeing improvements in application delivery.

Ultimately I hope - hubris, perhaps - that the underlying problem (most of our current application performance issues are because apps have been written by people that either don't understand networks, or have a very specific, narrow set of expectations) will be resolved. (Wrangling CIFS over satellite - f.e.)
It might seem trivial but, until selecting text is easier, I’ll struggle to use any iPad as a Mac replacement.
Could this problem be fixed by allowing registered trademarks to be incorporated into EV certificates, and prominently displaying the trademarked name? It seems as though Stripe isn't a registered trademark, but most companies that go for EV I imagine have a legally unique name. It could be incorporated in to the green lock by doing something like "Bank of America Corporation [US] (Bank of America ®)"
Someday, we will have stable SIMD and we’ll see several of the Rust numbers go down even more.
> As far as I know, mostly news sites used it to capture online opinion about a topic without having a big number of separate embedded tweets, Instagram posts, etc.

So, will a lot of these stories break (unless a lot of effort is taken to save them by exporting the storify content)?

> After May 16, 2018, Storify.com accounts and their content will no longer be accessible
You could just use fake users like Reddit did.

https://venturebeat.com/2012/06/22/reddit-fake-users/
I use five little 4oz paper cups (also not a joke).
Even if it is a bubble, that doesn't mean it can't go another 20x from here, depending which crypto you put your money in.

There's cheap liquidity (ho ho ho said the FED and the ECB), there are institutions (pension funds) that are starting to buy in, and in comparison, the dot-com bubble (which was mainly a US led bubble, not global) went to $5.7tn to $1.7tn. Gold is worth $8tn globally. Why couldn't Bitcoin get to part of that level, e.g. $2tn?

It sure looks like a bubble, and it probably is, but it could literally be the largest bubble in our lives -- unlike one stock in the market, this is a global phenomenon + you only have a few currencies that matter.
Corporations and governments are not two entities you can divide for conquering.
It's not actually a delusion, in the case of the stockmarket. That's actually happened a couple of times, now.
thanks for doing these, really appreciated
Were I live packet inspection is illegal, regardless if its wired or mobile.
both of you are correct:

on init, the Hyper-V driver hijacks the running Windows instance, schedules it as the 'root partition', and runs it like just another VM.

unlike 'child partitions', the root partition still has non-virtualized drivers, which run unimpeded by privileged instruction traps.

when a child partition (guest VM) is started, it's scheduled as a peer to the root. its Virtual Processors (VPs) run alongside the root partition's VPs.

when the child partition traps into the hypervisor, or uses one of the enlightened drivers, the hypervisor dispatches a bus request to the root partition, which handles the IRQ using a Virtual Service Provider implemented by the host Windows kernel.

so the hypervisor is kind of a bridge between the host Windows and the child VMs, but the host Windows actually runs as a sort of privileged VM itself, just one with full hardware access and scheduling priority.

* I work for MS, but not on any of these things.
Alaska is warming so fast, quality-control algorithms are rejecting the data
I mentioned ReSharper because the article is about a rewrite of a .net project.

But if you have a large bloated code base in a dynamic language and no tests then you are definitely in deep trouble. A rewrite is not going to help you with that though, you will just end up the same place again.
Seems like a roundabout way to avoid using an external monitor.
>Which ones?

ChainLink, as this project is aiming to incorporate outside data into the blockchain and smart contracts. This has plenty of real world use cases. This could be what the internet is to a computer, but for blockchain. Zen Protocol is also working on a similar idea, but they incorporate smart contracts into their project and have improved upon ETH's model a bit (not charging gas for failed contracts to name one example). I see no reason why this wouldn't be adopted if they can deliver.

Request Network, a project backed by this very website, is working to create a currency agnostic payment platform that may compete directly with PayPal and demands far less fees. There is a pretty incentive to adopt this over vendors listing individual currencies for payment methods, and everyone saves money due to lower fees.

RaiBlocks and ByteBall diverge from the blockchain and instead rely on DAG tech, and have extremely fast confirmation times because of this, and scale upward excellently. There is incentive to use these in the crypto space because transfer times and tx fees are too high, but we'll see how the outside world reacts.

Ripio Credit Network is working on making a decentralized lending platform to allow (currently) South Americans access to reasonable lending solutions, but I see this extending to a much larger global scope if successful. There is pretty clear incentive for adoption here, you can read about their potential customer base.

Just to name a few, I invite you to research a little more as a lot of these products are pretty amazing, and I'd be curious as to why you think the above are "worthless". But yes, adoption is the biggest concern. Personally, I don't see cryptocurrency ever going back to $0, the technology is better than existing models of centralized banking and middle men. Unless something comes along that disrupts the disruptor, I think it's here to stay for the forseeable future.
> I do not understand the underlying logic of this argument.

Just because you don't understand the logic of the argument doesn't invalidate it.
Credit card processors also pay the user of the CC a cashback on a significant portion of that fee... And are also liable for fraud.

Who do I chargeback when an online merchant takes my BTC, and doesn't ship the goods I bought? BitPay will tell me to pound sand. VISA will process a chargeback, no questions asked.
One of the better fundraising guides out there for sure.
If that is the case, then the GGP is asking for something that would be a huge privacy leak.
time for colleges and universities to issue IPOs. I want to buy shares in Harvard or Stanford. Certainly the presidents of the schools will be baited with the prospect of EVEN MORE money as their shares hit the stock exchange. Options could be used to attract post graduate students?! By monetizing the sport of education maybe we'll get Americans interested in higher education again?

And then the rascals in the bureaucracy will learn to fear the SEC. Schools will become politicized. Campaign contributions will flow to politicians from major universities to foster favorable legislation.

I cant wait to see how complicated we can make the lives of our children. Eventually people will choose to stop reproducing, just like in Japan, because of the complexification.
There is no evidence that bitcoin is or isn't in a bubble. It is a conjecture either way.
Tons of valuable books and records have been burnt because someone thought they weren't valuable or didn't have the money to house them. It's true, it's more likely they were just thrown on a trash heap and left to rot, but trash incineration is a thing.
I keep meaning to do an Ask HN about this. "What does living in San Francisco mean to you?" I am curious what other peoples experience with the city is. There's so many lifestyles possible and ways to enjoy the city.
>My C code has become faster, simpler, shorter and less buggy after I dabbled in K.

Interesting. Can you explain why you think that has happened?
> Is 65 considered young? Honest question. He was born during the Truman administration...

I used to think 65 was old. Then I turned 50, and it suddenly seemed kind of young.

-- Born in the last 2 weeks of the Kennedy administration.
https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/609756/as-it-t...
Funnily enough, we also sort of failed to capitalize on push. We didn't even ask for push permissions in the first version of our app! Eventually we found the right push product for our users, but it's still the case that a lot of people have them off by default or prefer to be contacted by email.
> Amusingly, in the UK it's nurses who have been resisting the professionalisation and expansion of ancillary roles.

What's the reason behind this - government wants them to do more work without more pay? An innate sense that they're doing exactly the right job and why change it?
Pairing is "extreme programming's" (XP) peer review. I'd probably replace Pairing with something that's inclusive of both Extreme approaches as well as run of the mill code reviews.
Disclaimer: This a lay-man's understanding...

So you join a shiny new "start up" and they offer you some stock options as part of their compensation package. This is typically done to improve compensation without requiring additional liquidity which is typically a limited resource for a start up.

These "ISOs" (Incentive Stock Options) are usually option agreements where the company agrees to let you "purchase" shares of the company in the future at a strike price equal to current valuation. So even if you "exercise" (purchase) the stock 2+ years later you pay the same price you would have if you had purchased the stock on your first day at the company.

The problem with tax here is that in those 2+ years before exercising your "options" your company may have grown/raised more money with greater valuations...so the value of the stock may have doubled, tripled, or increased in even greater value. Well lucky you! According to your ISO you can purchase the stock for the value it was worth 2+ years ago!

"Hold on just a minute," the IRS says, if you purchase a share for $5 that is "valued" at $25 now...what you actually have is an immediate realized gain of $20. Since you spent $5 and acquired an asset worth $25...you should be taxed AMT on the realized gain of $20. Makes sense.

The issue is with "valued" here. In the case of pre-IPO startups the stock you purchased cannot really be sold. Value of a pre-IPO company's stock is more or less correlated to what investors agreed to in your last round of funding (e.g. I <insert_investor_here> agree to give your company $XXXXXXXX for YY% of your company). But at the end of the day, you pay $5 for a piece of paper that says you have stock in a company that is estimated to have the value of $25...but isn't actually worth anything since you can't actually turn it into money. You can't sell that piece of paper for $25 (in fact, you can't sell that paper at all).

Which means you end up owing taxes on a $20 realized gain on an asset you can't sell. That is, you can't turn around and sell some of that newly acquired stock to pay your tax...again it's not really worth anything...it's estimated value is just higher than what you paid for it.

So the question is...where do you come up with the money to pay this tax? Well, in the case of these individuals, you go into debt.
The chance of winning the lotto is much much smaller than the chance of Uber surviving to an IPO with value at/above the fair market value that triggered $300k in AMT.
So is there anything congress can legitimately do to stop Pai when he inevitably ignores these calls to delay the vote?
I don't see how this is much different from the establishing shots, panoramic shots, still life shots, etc. that exist in other genres as well. That being said, I do see these types of shots less often in modern non-anime film and I appreciate how anime has been carrying this tradition. Lots of classic films also have a taste for the scenic and contemplative, and it's one of the things I love about them.
Regarding the part about native apps, would you go as far as even restraining from publishing any app, if native app developers are not available (or not in the budget) in the beginning?
Babylon 5 was even called a "space opera."
Will this support network drives? That has been a sore spot in every ssh on windows attempt I have seen so far.
Isn’t this how we ended up with people like Donald Trump? Risky behavior pawned off on everyone else?
I would not pin the troubles the city is facing on Ed Lee. The Board of Supervisors has an outsized influence on policy, especially housing, and for the most part continues to obstruct development single handedly.
For those on this thread who still think Bitcoin as currency, try flipping this on its head and think of Bitcoin as a store of value and ask why it would not make sense. Like most things in this world, value is perceived- we attribute vakue to Gold, Diamonds, etc. Why wouldn’t Bitcoin be in the same bucket as a store of value?