skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oliver - as a fellow marathoner, I'll disagree on this. 26.2 is just a long run, with ever degrading legs. Even with the drafting behind the phalanx of runner, one's legs are being put through some rough work. I watched the Kipchoge doing this race. He was a beast, not a lab rat. Note that two other runners, with all the advantages, couldn't come close to what he did.

For me, this was confirmation that humans do indeed have room to push the current world record further down.
Generally I think the importance of a cover letter correlates inversely with log(company headcount). At a couple of places, I have had people remark positively regarding my cover letter. In those cases I was particularly able to show good technical fit and experience with the product space. But the biggest company where that has happened had 200 employees.
Sounds like a great service. If I lived in the US I would probably sign up and go to a lot more movies. I am down to going to the theater once or twice a year now, and I really like movies, but the prices are dumb.
Stellar is a distributed ledger that has a native currency to make payments easier.

After reading up on Taler, it sounds like a very similar idea to Stellar, but Stellar removes some of the need for trusted authorities.

From the Taler overview: "The system requires an external auditor, such as a government-appointed financial regulatory body, to frequently verify the exchange's databases and check that its bank balance matches the total value of the remaining coins in circulation."

In Stellar, this service is provided by the ledger and the nodes that validate it.

There are other interesting features of the Stellar native currency such as providing a way to transparently convert between currencies when making a payment: https://www.stellar.org/how-it-works/stellar-basics/explaine...
Yet there are differences between people, and between groups of people. Different cultures have different values, and social pressures push those values onto those around them. It's important to recognize those differences.

For example, I recognize that Nazis are people too, but that doesn't mean that I want to support them in our society.

If we can determine that Nazis are bad due to their toxic culture, then that shows that certain cultures are bad. Where do we draw the line? How do we determine what cultures are good and what aren't?
You're mixing cost and price. Let's say the cost of a Visa transaction is 0.1% and the price is 2.5% while the cost and price of a MobileCoin transaction are 0.2%. It costs more but it's still cheaper for merchants.
I feel like GP was referring to the scene in Social Network where the original use of Facebook was basically a never ending yearbook party for fraternities and sororities.
There's an extension for that called privacy settings[1] it exposes all the settings in one easy place.

I also recommend waterfox instead of firefox.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-setti...
[2]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
Given the growth in transaction volume, it's pretty clear to me it will be the second, or possibly Ethereum will take the role of Bitcoin and fulfil the first:

https://etherscan.io/chart/tx
I'm not really "all change is bad" kind of a guy, but I've already lost the damn dongle 2 times and had to buy a new one. I think bluetooth headphones are the future, but for now they're simply way too expensive if you're going for quality :/
>>Stellar is a distributed ledger, but not a currency. There are no coins as such.

From the Stellar FAQ[1]: "Lumens are the native asset of the Stellar network.

Native means that lumens are built into the network. Asset is how the network refers to an item of value that is stored on the ledger.

One lumen is a unit of digital currency, like a bitcoin.

While you can’t hold a lumen in your hand, they are essential to the Stellar network—they contribute to the ability to move money around the world and to conduct transactions between different currencies quickly and securely."

[1] https://www.stellar.org/lumens/
>It is also incredibly easy for people to set up their own online echo chambers now

You nailed it. Look at the elections _ Hillary was winning in almost all online conversations (certainly in my limited social circles = echo chambers)...then the reality proved otherwise.
I went to the trouble of creating a free account to read the rest of the story.. There's basically nothing there beyond a link to the documentcloud pdf[1] that is already linked in the non-registrant-viewable part, except a text version of the pdf.

Essentially, the story is the availability of the pdf.

The pdf itself is quite an interesting read, I thought, though I haven't been following the case of which it is a part.

1: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4330118/Jacobs-Le...
Not really.. Microsoft is killing off internet explorer
I've had plenty of conservative colleagues in the Bay Area who've been able to treat all of their co-workers with respect.
That's just "meritocracy" in action. The founder of a project gets all the credit for it, and when there are multiple founders the most famous one gets all the credit.
The title has nothing to do with the actual content. Why do publishers do this?
Visa level transaction scale only requires gigabyte sized blocks.

We can't don't gigabyte blocks tomorrow, but that is within shooting distance.

Bandwidth costs have gone down by 20% every year for the last 20 years. And they will continue to go down, making on chain scaling absolutely doable.

Micro transactions will never work on a blockchain. But coffee transactions are definitely within shooting distance of possible.
The rule to read the author list, simplified: first author did the work. Last author funded the research. Everyone else contributed somewhat.
If what you say is true, please point me to where I can find the following privacy settings in the main preferences:

network.websocket.enabled
network.IDN_show_punycode
dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled
dom.storage.enabled
dom.indexedDB.enabled
dom.battery.enabled
dom.enable_user_timing
dom.enable_resource_timing
dom.netinfo.enabled
layout.css.visited_links_enabled
browser.safebrowsing.phishing.enabled
browser.safebrowsing.downloads.remote.enabled
browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled
browser.send_pings
beacon.enabled
privacy.donottrackheader.enabled
privacy.trackingprotection.enabled
dom.enable_performance
datareporting.healthreport.service.enabled
datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled
toolkit.telemetry.enabled
toolkit.telemetry.unified
media.peerconnection.enabled
media.peerconnection.ice.default_address_only
media.peerconnection.ice.no_host
media.eme.enabled
media.gmp-eme-adobe.enabled
webgl.disabled
geo.enabled
camera.control.face_detection.enabled
device.sensors.enabled
security.tls.unrestricted_rc4_fallback
security.tls.insecure_fallback_hosts.use_static_list
security.ssl.require_safe_negotiation
security.ssl.treat_unsafe_negotiation_as_broken
I don't think there's any way they could mess with the state, since every block header has a merkle root of that block's state.
Are those imposters usually prerendered or are they rendered at runtime, just at a much lower framerate? In any case, both could be seen as temporal LOD.
Manufacturing GPUs doesn't give a company control over how the buyers use the GPUs. GPUs are by market necessity general-purpose. And all of the full nodes in a decentralized cryptocurrency network like Ethereum will validate the blocks generated by the miners.
Fascinating how all the comments explaining that for fast and cheap transactions there is Litecoin (which has SegWit and Lightning) and pointing out BCash (still vulnerable to transaction malleability because it does not have SegWit) technical and governance problems immediately got downvoted into oblivion.

Edit: including this comment.
I agree!
If you're including a cover letter, don't add it as an attachment to your email, put the contents of the cover letter into the email body.

I think email messages are especially important if you're trying to preemptively explain resume issues like career switches, geographical relocation, taken a gap-year, etc
So you and I start the race standing next to each other, then we run to the finish line. One of us wins. Why is that not competitive like a fight or basketball?
Ikea sells a city bike with belt drive and a mount system for racks and a trailer for $400. It is a better-documented assembly process that the you-get-what-a-bike-shop-gets experience of ordering the cheapest online bike, but still a bit challenging on the Ikea scale of difficulty. It has a 25 year warranty on the frame and a 10 year warranty on the belt drive.
Visa scale only requires gigabyte blocks.

That's not doable today, but it is not TOO far off.

And by the time adoption catches up, maybe the technology and bandwidth costs will be capable of supporting it.

The blocksize does not need to increase forever. All it has to do is replace all of the world's financial transactions.
You seem to be severely confused. Please Google realized and unrealized gains and do some reading.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic_Revolution#Social_ch...: ”Average height went down from 5'10" (178 cm) for men and 5'6" (168 cm) for women to 5'5" (165 cm) and 5'1" (155 cm), respectively, and it took until the twentieth century for average human height to come back to the pre-Neolithic Revolution levels.”

Smaller people, but nowhere near what’s needed to make such a short paddle usable.

And yes, it could be a badly made paddle, but I think that’s very unlikely. Just think about how you use a paddle; you hold it with one hand at the pommel and the other about halfway down the shaft. In this case, halfway down is about a foot between your hands. If you want that to be body-sized, you need a body that’s quite a bit less than a foot wide between the shoulders.

Also, to have this ‘blade’ enter the water, the hand on the pommel can’t be much more than a foot above the water shoulder height. That hand starts each stroke at about shoulder height.

I also guess (but can’t tell from the photos) experts can see the product was finished from its smoothness. If you cut wood, you start by cutting it into a rough shape, and only then care about finer details. You don’t make a smooth looking but oversized object and remove millimeters at a time.
The difference of course, is that bitcoin isn't a company. And the arpanet turned into the internet. But companies come and go. By your analogy, raytheon owns the internet.
> completely reset me installation to stock

I'm picturing a very upset buccaneer.
The author was trying to analyse the effect of loaded dice on a game of Catan, not test whether the water-soaking method produced loaded dice. It doesn't really matter where the loaded dice came from.
That was it:

https://www.querystorm.com
Known genes associated with hip bone size in women (but not men) are found on chromosome 2 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2522269/). But the expression of those genes is likely controlled by estrogen (http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/woman-s-pelvis-narrow...)

Individuals who have androgen insensitivity syndrome (XY chromosomes, but that don't respond to testosterone and are, for most intents and purposes, sterile females) will have large hips/pelvic bones.

So, yes, hip size takes a few modified base pairs (although probably all within one gene, or pretty close together on the same chromosome), but evolution only needs to "decide" (heavy emphasis on the quotes there) that this physiological change is hormonally triggered. Many skeletal changes are hormonally triggered, so this may have even been the easiest/most likely path.
Ah...transactions...that get's me thinking...someone needs to create a cryto-coin for this ("listencoin"?) which you receive by listening and then can spend to get other people to listen to you...
This is amazing. IMHO Ubuntu, Elementary, OSX and other OSes that are trying to be practical, easy and pleasurable to use out of the box should offer this by default, together with tldr.sh.
> Probably some good research even came out of it.

Which they didn't publish, so it can only help Nike and their friends. That's the least good kind of research.
Wow, what an impressive move.

I don't trust Moxie ever since he argued that Signal will not be a decentralized network due to the technological complexity (just BS as Matrix, XMPP and other have shown). While I suspected that he had other plans in mind, I didn't see that coming.

Using your wide spread chat app to deploy a global payment system. Just wow. If he will pull that off, Elon Musk gets competition for the title 'Innovator of the Century'.
the real question would be, why not the europeans?... (EADS (Airbus)).

why not invest into it.
basically I already now the answer. but it's a shame..
(they probably want another disaster after eurofighter/eurocopter/whatever every project where the german governement was directly involved failed, wasn't working as expected... (g36 precision...), or costed a lot more than calculated (not just inside the military..))
You burn more calories and do less dammage to your joints if you increase the incline instead of increasing speed.

For most people that's a worthwhile tradeoff.
Memory Matters: A Special RAM Edition of Dirty Coding Tricks
The squirrel is pretty unlikely to care about the relative warmth of its tail vs other tails.

I tried to ask my mother once what women typically considered to be the dimensions of female attractiveness (e.g. breast size is something people commonly care about, while toe length isn't). Instead I got an answer consisting of a list of things a woman trying to be attractive would do before appearing in a public place. I asked whether facial features weren't considered a big part of attractiveness, and the reply was that yes, they are, but women devote almost no time to their facial features because they are basically impossible to change.

SImilarly, a squirrel may be too cold, or too hot, but it can't really change its tail.
2017 for sure. The MacBook has the same problem. Run the run until it throttles and tap the keys around the middle right.
Those same gerrymandered districts and electoral college elected Democrat Congresses and a Democrat president for the last 8 years. To suggest that it's completely rigged when they lose the following election is absurd. This coming from someone who also hates the current outcome, but come on now. If the Democrats ran someone who most of the country didn't hate, they would have won easily. If they hadn't fought themselves in the primary and nominated a much better candidate, they would have won.

We've had this same electoral college in place for a long time, and everyone knew the rules ahead of time. It certainly has flaws, and you can argue a popular vote would be better, but it is the system we have and everyone knew it going into the election. It absolutely qualifies as an elected government.
Protonmail down
Or perhaps he's not an asshole and considers running to be whatever the runner is happy with.
The challenge Sam Altman would not dare - try to go to Tiananmen Square on June 4th and talk about what happened in 1989.
I almost never need to write my own cover letter. The closest I get to a cover letter is if I have an opportunity to send an email to a company I like, and I know the email will go to someone not in HR. If I have no choice but to interact with HR, either I'll see it as a red flag and won't bother applying or I'll apply with no cover letter. Yes, this does mean I won't get interviews at most companies.

Writing cover letters that go to HR is like writing a custom message for every attractive person on a dating site. Everyone says that's what they want, but your extra effort will go unappreciated 95% of the time while the goofball who just sent "sup?" actually got some dates. When it comes to searching for a job, best to not waste cumulative hours of your life writing material that won't be appreciated.
This Is Now the Official Babel Song
Little anecdote.

With the rise of racial tensions I got interested about violence against jews (among others) and absurd claims on their financial lobby etc.

Some told me that jews were segregated in middle ages, only allowed as clerks, thus their presence in finance.

Someone then corrected me, saying it's in the ballpark but not true. The reason why jews ended up in banks, is that Christians (and probably other groups/religion) despised loans with interests, usury. They saw it as immoral and fake value (as opposed to work). But it was allowed for other non christian groups to lend money as long as interests weren't indecent (say 5%). From the few I read, jews had a long history of being clerks and were good at math and bookkeeping (at a time where education was rare) so they fit the bill (sic) perfectly. There are a lot to say about the dynamics there, associations, then violence, cycles.

Now reading this in the 2000s I was shocked that the old church guys didn't allow to profit from another's need and multiplying money for nothing. It felt so much more humane, social.. honorable, candid.. And that the subject of money was sensitive even that long ago; somehow amazing.

Nowadays banks, finance, ROI, etc etc are all unquestionable, but it used to be different.
> MS have always been known for producing poor quality software,

The core thing imho is: the software quality has gone up

- security - just remember Win9x which didn't even have security as a concept and exploit-ridden WinXP

- native Linux subsystem, ssh server

- decent shell if you care enough to learn Powershell

- a well set up AD/Exchange is blowing away all FOSS comparables due to the insane level of integration - it all feels like it's cut out of the same block, from an admin POV

What has gone downhill is the lengths of where MS decided to go to earn money. The market for selling an OS just isn't as huge as before - Apple provides OS upgrades for free since 2013, Linux was free the whole time and Googles Chromebooks don't need any major OS as they're essentially Chrome-in-a-box - and selling Office also went downhill since the competition in form of Google Docs and Libre/OpenOffice became actually usable even for corp and government environments. In addition, revenue from Bing fell through the roof because Googles dominance keeps growing and growing.

The direct consequence is that MS must keep earning money somehow: corps and governments will continue to be the biggest buyers (but the numbers are set to fall, given the rise of Apple but also the trend towards Linux in governments), but ordinary people? MS has to compete with Apple and Google's "free", and so has to subsidize with ads and boatloads of tracking.

Anyway I've gone off the rails a bit - what MS, or rather, power users, desperately need is Win 10 LTSB actually available for sale and not just for embedded stuff. Plain good old Windows Classic UI, no ads, no "magically appearing" "features"... aka Windows 7, only with optional features like the Linux subsystem.
"I decided to crowd source the writing process and ask people to submit jokes. I received 22 million submissions."

"Some folks at the New America Foundation gave me a great joke but they said I had to get it approved by Google first."

https://gizmodo.com/leaked-video-shows-fcc-chair-ajit-pai-ro...
Database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL
One metric used to evaluate publication history is the combined count of first and last authorships for this very reason.
The idea is free speech and that's it. Full stop.

Just because you wouldn't fire someone doesn't mean someone else wouldn't.

And free speech is a controversial opinion these days, depending on where you live.
It seems they only considered fancy-UI lots-of-features browser-integrated commercial password managers. I would never use any of those.

For a graphical password manager, consider instead PasswordSafe, KeePass, KeePassXC. They're not complicated. Don't look for or enable any integrations. Manually copy your encrypted password database to google drive or dropbox. It's simple and secure.

Anything more automated and "easy" is almost always found to be vulnerable. LastPass and OnePass have both had problems with their fancy online accounts and recovery systems and browser integrations. Just don't bother with all that crap, you don't need it.
"Is Spending Time on Social Media Bad for Us?" - YES. Dot.
I've never written a cover letter
Well that assumes someone reads it. Unfortunately that seems pretty unlikely. I used to personalize stuff like that but I got worse results than when I just used a cookie-cutter template and mass fired. Anecdotal of course
Ever heard of debian ? Then maybe you've heard of debian backports ?

I'm asking because debian and backports are doig exactly that: separating security patches from the rest, not for a browser but for a whole OS and every applications including firefox.

also this xkcd is not relevant. the point here is that mozilla has quite a history of breaking userspace earning them the reputation of "making far-reaching and very short-sighted decisions in a vacuum."[1]

[1]: http://forums-test.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=14736466#...
The mp was a grind to get more money out of people, for a game that shipped unfinished. It had great moments and bones, but was an unfinished cash-grab by the end. Kojima was wasted on Konami.
Most theatres are not at all scared of MoviePass, they're getting paid the full admission price. In fact many chains and independent operators love it, and are looking at implementing their own version.

> because theaters have all decided on a ticket price customers must pay for the premium of that big screen and sound system.

Not really, no. Studios are the ones driving up movie prices since they keep demanding a bigger and bigger cut. The new Star Wars film for example has the highest royalty of any movie ever released.
Some papers are also just very useful as citations. My least interesting paper is my most cited for this very reason.
So both instructions and memory uses something called gas. Right now 1 gas = 0.00000002 eth.

Now a MUL costs 5 gas and a ADD costs 3 for example. So you have to pay for contract complexity.

Now memory costs are not linear. The current gas cost equation for memory is Gmem * a * (a^2/512) where Gmem is a constant that is currently 3 and 'a' is the number of 255bit words (ints) you are storing.

This is for EVM internal memory that can later be accessed by the smart contract or other contracts. There is a way for contracts to output data that can be read out-of-band called logs but that is for getting data out of the EVM, not in.
Makes sense- for a prehistoric adult, with very little cultural guidance to go on, to be able to empathize at all with a tiny version of him/her-self, it would probably be crucial to be able to remember a time when they themselves were that small. And when else would a hunter-gatherer be called upon to remember events more than a few years back?

Dealing with children could be the only evolutionary reason we have very-long term memories at all.
Regarding your comment about animation being expensive, I feel that at least some of the audio tapes in the game were probably meant to be cutscenes. Despite the criticisms people lay on this game, it is probably my favorite game of this decade.
This is the same as measuring developer productivity by counting lines of code: perfectly objective, but worse than useless.
Cross-talk was an analog problem related to center frequency drift on muxed lines. As soon as phone companies put in ATM networks it went away.
I use KeePassX, because of this: https://mobile.twitter.com/taviso/status/817065731703468032?...
Firefox 59: Marque maintenant le HTTP comme insécurisé
I suspect that will require more powerful processing in the mobiles themselves.
Google's application form has a section for a cover letter. It says something to the effect of `We think your experience speaks for itself. A cover letter is not required.`