skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding the "Pocket fiasco", I would suggest that Mozilla resolved that in the best way possible:

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/02/mozilla-acquire-pocket-op...
Yup, though a group got fed up with that and forked to create Bitcoin Cash which has a spec and multiple teams and implementations. Much healthier situation.
Hrm. I'm not really sure exactly what he's referring to there but it does kind of come off as something someone would say if their ideas on race realism were being shot down by people. Not that Tim Ferris is such a person (I have no idea) but you can see it all over the internet and wider media these days. Small, seemingly innocuous, doubts being sewn into the greater conversation of the time. The current cultural battle is an enormous push for civil rights, recognition, and acceptance. It's faux-pas to attack people who have generally been targets in the recent past (transgender people, for example), so the proxy war is "free speech". "My free speech is being encroached because I can't speak realistically about [transgender people, black people, whatever]".

Note: I do not live, and have not lived, in Silicon Valley. So it could be my context is wrong.
> you should probably ignore all airbnb reviews, amazon, and totten tomato reviews when making a decision

Those are reviews of businesses and products, not individuals. It's not equivalent.
Can anyone explain? I don't get it.
I am more and more under the impression that the best satire is written without the intention to do so. There are so many things said and written by public figures nowadays that a sane mind could never come up with, even if they tried.

So, from a certain perspective, yes it is.
Brush up your German and see this recent report of a day in a Waldkindergarten... Kindergarten in the forest - which is a popular concept in Germany.

http://www.ardmediathek.de/tv/Landesschau-Baden-Württemberg/...

The video speaks for itself: It shows a day in the Waldkindergarten of the Sonnenkinder, the 'sun children'. A woman from Canada has her son for the second day there. Another father reports that his son made problems at home and here is busy at any weather. When every child arrived, they walk 20 minutes together to the Waldtheater - the Forest Theater - the green living room. The first group made fire, already - a daily ritual. They also get something to do with various tools. One of the youngest is 2 y 9m and has somebody looking after him. The small children see it as a magical place. It's not allowed to harm the nature. At the end of the day every child has made its own personal experience, they walk back together and are looking forward to the next day in the forest.
>I believe that one of the most universal determinants of happiness is the length of your commute.

The unemployed must be immeasurably happy.
> I was only suggesting that an add-on is a reasonable place to implement an easter egg, since it's separate from the core browser code.

It was not a common add-on but an ad disguised as a "study." The question is still: why?

Why did that marketing team need that treatment instead of giving to the interested users a link to the normal add on? What was the actually planned scenario? Was it planned that that "study" (the studies are apparently officially "a way of making more informed product decisions based on actual user needs") uses some functionality not available to the normal add-ons? Was it that the normal add-ons wouldn't have access to the API that the "study" would use but that is forbidden to the normal add-ons since v57?
You're capable of doing the same.
I think this definitely depends where you live in the UK and how much your local rail network was screwed by the Beeching cuts. I live in Somerset and the two nearest railway stations are more than a 30 minute drive.
The one problem with server side component rendering is that the cost is massive compared to simple string based templates. Gatsby seems like the most sane way to do server rendering of react, you can render content into HTML offline and then publish the static HTML.
I was this close to migrating back to firefox and investing time in customizing it to meet my workflow.
You're technically correct when thinking of only the transfer of money, though that's not the whole story. Many here would call tax breaks to regular businesses a tax subsidy to those businesses... after all, there are services those tax advantaged businesses are using that are being paid for by others. In this sense, there is a transfer of "something" from taxpayers to the business, it's just not hard "taxpayer dollars".

However, we see that the USPS does get a lot of advantages that are effectively subsidized by others:

http://fortune.com/2015/03/27/us-postal-service/

There are real subsidies that the USPS gets that are funded by taxpayers, it simply that those are not paid in cash. So I think the person you were responding to has a completely valid point. They are not competing and doing business on the same terms as other businesses and squandering their cash is enabled because of the subsidies of other expenses that they don't have to bear directly.
> The other was at night in the Kazakh steppes, watching a triangle of lights dance in impossible fashion, before zooming up into the sky and disappearing - although given that I was near Baikonur, I give more credence to this one being man made.

I was struck by your account, as Thomas Pynchon mentions in Gravity's Rainbow a mysterious phenomenon called the Kirghiz Light, seen on the steppes.

https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?titl...

Maybe a coincidence, but Pynchon drew a lot on real history and events, and I wonder if there was not something on the steppes people have been reporting for a while. I never could find anything on the Internet about it, but it makes me wonder.
I'm going to stick with TouchID. Even if my twin brother chose the same passcode as me and was able to unlock my phone with FaceID, he couldn't get past the fingerprint scanner.
Scenario: I'm driving, my wife tells me I got a text. I tell her my passcode, so she can read it for me. iPhone considers this an opportunity to train the face recognition to recognize "me" better.

It doesn't bother me that she can unlock my phone, but I bet the facial model my phone has for "my" features is a weird hybrid.
Tensorflow does have compile-time optimisations, but it will warn if you're running a binary missing out on, for example, AVX when the hardware supports it.
Microsoft claimed the partnership with IOTA -- not the other way around: https://blog.iota.org/iotas-data-marketplace-setting-the-rec...

The quote that set off this confusion:

> We are excited to partner with IOTA foundation and proud to be associated with its new data marketplace initiative. This next generation technology will accelerate the connected, intelligent world and go beyond blockchain that will foster innovation real world solutions, applications and pilots for our customers. --Omkar Naik, Microsoft
That would help too and robust telecommute options as well, although for some government office workers that may be more difficult.
> It also has a hex editor, because no proper lady or gentleman should be caught in public without one on the wrist.

I'll hold this thought dear for the rest of my life, thanks for sharing this amazing project.
I think you just validated Sara Huckabee Sanders, to the extent that she speaks her independent thought.
I had to get myself to school from the fourth grade on and still walked or biked myself sometimes to second and third grade. My daughter is six right now and wants to walk to her friend’s house down the street but which I’d be fine with if she didn’t get lost walking out the front door. Maybe in another year...
Where to get referal links to gain commission?
For example I want to write articles about a smart phone, and want to add the shopping link to amazon/ebay or other sites. Do you know if there's open service/site to get the referal links for commission?

Thank you so much!
EU doubles down on Net Neutrality
From the linked Forbes article:

> They came up with the ePacket, which is actually meant to be an improvement over the rates set by the UPU. In exchange for providing tracking and faster delivery times, ePacket partner countries agree to pay slightly higher rates.

So the Chinese pay more for ePackets than they would for standard mail by UPU rates.
Well, add one. "I am worse at interpersonal interactions than my brother-in-law for genetic reasons."

I'd also say that this is actually very easy to say, since you can also pick out genetic anomalies: I could say the sentence about swimming and Michael Phelps, or running and Usain Bolt, without a single person being offended or disagreeing.

If you want to make the sentence controversial, you need to replace "person Y" with "genetic group Y"; i.e. men, women, caucasians, blacks, asians, mongoloids, or so on.
There is a rather good summary of the settled science here:

http://nas-sites.org/ge-crops/2016/05/17/report/
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Nonsense.

Proof? I use it as a currency all the time. I also use Monero (which btw is specifically designed to be a real currency) yet its price keeps rising. QED. And by the way, these are not dark web purchases. Not that it matters at all.

How do I use it as a currency? Easy. Actually use it. If you worry about price going down, just convert it to USD when you receive it. Think of it as a settlement layer. Because... it is. There. Now you get to try to tell me why what I said is false.

Surely you're not saying that Bitcoin cant be a currency because it hasnt taken over the world yet, therefore it still has relevant volatility.

By the way, exactly 0 of the 5 properties of a currency are "no volatility".

And this is part is funny. Would you care to quantify the bounds of volatility at which a security tranforms into a currency?

Does market manipulation NOT happen in foreign currency exchange?

Do you consider USD Tether a currency?

/me gets lawnchair out

Guess this means no one is able to refute my price vs value claim either.
This is great. Just last weekend I did the same thing, coding a very basic blockchain in Python for educational purposes. You tackled wallets, which I didn't get to yet, so that was really helpful.

I'm still a little unsure around exactly how miners and nodes communicate with each other. Especially things like broadcasting transactions and new blocks. Any good resources for that?
> It still doesn't work on Linux

What are you talking about? I haven't used the wallet on anything but Linux, and I've had no problems.
The main problem I have with your attitude is that it places more burden on me to prove I'm not "one of those women".. if I even get a chance. It means that I don't have a chance when there is an equally qualified man. And I'll never know. It means that I don't get as many chances to support myself or any family I might have (I was the breadwinner with my ex, for example, as he was on disability).

Sure, some seemingly reasonable folks act irrationally in the workplace. Not all are women just like not all are men. I understand being aware of it happening, but assuming everyone is or treating an entire class of people differently because they might be the crazy one winds up hurting folks and makes it harder to get over the stuff we already have problems with. Especially when there are other ways of dealing with some of the same things.
The point of the article was in encouraging writers to hone in on an individual voice as opposed to being influenced by thousands of competing tones.

Perhaps an analogy to songwriting will make things more clear: how well received are the works of someone who writes rap-funk-metal-folk-electro-bluegrass songs?

It's not that a successful country music songwriter can't listen to and enjoy hip-hop but you'll find they tend mainly to listen to and be influenced by country music.
I bet the security is still pretty good even with similar-looking people. Otherwise we would have heard a lot more stories like this by now.

In any case, I’m not trying to defend against my brother, I’m trying to defend against a random thief. They probably won’t look too much like me.
This article is paywalled.

I'm not sure what the appropriate response is to that on HN. I'd probably downvote if I could downvote submissions, but flagging seems unduly harsh.

I found a Chrome extension to bypass the paywall: https://github.com/njuljsong/wsjUnblock
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How is that different than any function call that start something in the background? I have used and even written myself simple job code (with threading) that has functions like (simplified):

int start(void (*job)(void*), void (*done)(void*), void* tag);

`job` is called on a separate thread at some point (goes through a job scheduler) and once it is done, `done` is called at the "main" thread (at some synchronization point, usually during the event loop), `tag` is just passed around for context. `start` returns zero on failure.

I don't see RPCs as anything different conceptually (after all the job might also fail). The only issue someone might have is when expecting a synchronous API, but even in non-networked code there are tons of asynchronous APIs.
So, don’t do that? Systems don’t have to support every conceivable use case.
To me, the smartphone conditions us to experience relationship with other people through single-finger swipes.

There are many other positive effects that smartphones bring but I don’t think we’ve fully internalized the negative side effect of the constant dopamine Drip of social media.
I imagine it has just become her routine now and she is comfortable with it and another 2 years of it until she retires is no big deal to her.
I think the problem I have a hard time with HATEOAS is that I really can't see what difference it makes to the API. I mean I get that it's always better to return a URI rather than simply an ID. But the link relations feel like they are from a time when we all thought the semantic web (RDF and OWL) was going to be a very big deal.
There's nothing stopping a malicious actor from acquiring a passcode by force as well.

https://xkcd.com/538/
If you are going to be a racist dick, at least be overt about it...
This cranky comment written on an iPhone 6S in a Walmart parking lot.
Well. If he knows your passcode, TouchID won’t be of any help anyways. Neither will FaceID of course
> And in some areas, we are finding that there were more issues to dig into and solve than we expected,”

Who could've thunk it?! The people who think we're going to have real Level 5 autonomous driving in 2 years (not the "we're bullshitting you with Level 5, but it's really more like Level 3.5" kind) are insane.

There's no way we're going to simulate every single condition a car could encounter anywhere on Earth and get the cars to do the "right thing" 100% of the time by 2019-2020.

I'll be impressed if they even deliver Level 4 (working perfectly only on some types of roads) by 2020. But I think even then car makers will "encounter the unexpected".

It's going to take many years to test these things. And no car makers seem to even mention how they're going to address all the security issues self-driving cars will have.
nice walkthrough.

also, not sure why folks are nitpicking about minor things like security disclaimers, number of sha256 hashes, md5, etc. while ignoring nontrivial gaps (eg no merkle dags, one of the cornerstone concepts).
So where was all the opposition and outcry to disrupting all small biz taxi drivers by Uber, or all the mom and pop bookstores by Amazon, etc?

It's no different. People celebrate disruption, until they don't. There is no difference in why on the one hand Uber is celebrated but Bodega isn't. Or any number of disruptors who displace small biz and automate and make the biz more efficient, etc.
These housing issues are a man-made problem.

Do you know why you can buy a single-family, 4-bedroom home within 15 minutes train ride of downtown Tokyo for less than $600,000?

Two reasons:

1) Japanese zoning laws are set country-wide as a federal matter. There are a fixed number of zone types and local governments (cities and towns) can only choose how to zone their land by assigning land in their control to these different zone types. Examples of zone types are things like: heavy industrial, light industrial, high-density mixed-commercial/residential, residential, etc.

These zoning rights preserve a delicate balance between the rights of the property owners and the rights of the city to prevent construction that would cause externalities. It is virtually impossible in the Japanese system for filthy, greedy, piece of shit, bastard landowners to capture local government regulations and use that regulatory capture to push up their property prices by restricting future development. The mix of rights in the Japanese zones is set at the Federal level, local bastards can't add in their own idiosyncracies. You can't do, for example, what San Francisco's dumbshit homeowners do, and turn neighborhoods into no-build zones.

In America we try to solve the issue of housing supply by applying band-aids in the form of rent-control, under-market housing, etc. Millenials constantly gripe about not having access to rent-controlled apartments, when really what they should be complaining about is the fact that their parents' generation is not allowing housing to be built.

Everyone wants to be one of the lucky ones that gets a rent-controlled apartment in SF. But that's just another way of asking to win the lottery.

Other economic problems of Millenials stem from the lack of housing. Millenials can't easily move from economically depressed parts of the country to booming parts of the country (like SF) because housing is so unattainable. Kids that in earlier generations would be moving to new markets and growing their careers are now stagnating in their hometowns, unable to move to brighter pastures. Or if they do move, the move, and the financial burden created by the cost of living at the destination fucking decimates their ability to get a decent start in life. They can't start new businesses, they live in shitty circumstances that prevent them from accumulating a safety fund.

Man fuck the baby boom generation ... just writing this comment is getting me so mad. The WORST generation ever.

edit: just realized I didn't even get to point 2. Well I have to start work, so I'll have to come back and edit this at some point.
When the "deal" (international postal agreements) happened, nobody could foresee a country sending 10000 packages for each package received. They guessed the balance would hang close to 1:1, with the western industrial powers (i.e. major exporters) probably sending more packages than they received.

Thus it made sense that USPS carries Chinese parcels for free, if China post carries US parcels for free in return.
From what I remember, T-cells (or was it B cells?) hang out in the lymph nodes.
Unless your an expat from dodgy places and fear kidnapping when I worked for a Arab company in the UK some of the directors cars where the special order armoured up ones.

Like wise in Germany senior business men have armed guards as a result of RA / baader meinhof.

Politicians also have well founded fears of nutters of political extremists trying to attack and kill them
> So… Your response to why I’m wrong is that you’re going to change everything in the future?

Well, you got a reply from Come-from-Beyond who wrote the damn thing. You've got some attention from the developer and you couldn't handle your emotions, so I'm not sure what your angle is here. Do you mind if I ask, why didn't you engage them and evaluate your own understanding? Why did you resort to a snarky one liner?
It's the UPU, or "Universal Postal Union"
http://fortune.com/2015/03/11/united-nations-subsidy-chinese...

It's a function of the United Nations: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union

Basically, China is being subsidized because they qualify as "third world".
Communication is possible if you talk to the right people. Keep in mind that the people who are actually working on the technology itself or it's adaptation and implementation are not hanging all day around on reddit or #speculation channels.
I'm running an iota network statistics page, so people assume i'm more educated about iota and I receive clarification, technological or simple development questions on Slack on daily basis. I do answer all of them as best as I can, a lot of them have been evolved in pretty long discussions and I have received the same attitude from other iota community members.
You could always switch to Dogecoin, which is similar to Bitcoin, but has very high inflation. You could even fork Bitcoin and make a Federal Reserve Board including yourself that could decide to issue more currency based on economic statistics. You could call it KeynesCoin. That's the great thing about Crypto. It's all open source, so do whatever you want.
Why is this all contained in one big json document? Am I that out of touch with modern coding??
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

https://partnernetwork.ebay.com/

more advertisers via https://www.awin.com/us (doesn't include Amazon,ebay)
And the purple hair is a dead giveaway
If we can prevent just one Tank Rampage [1] it would be worth it.

[1] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/lifestyle/people/sdut-ta...
This Game Teaches You How to Build a Quantum Computer
nope it was from existing Common Law the right to self defence its why in peaky blinders the blinders can legally own a SMG
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...

Bypassed the paywall for me on Firefox.
Pony 0.21.0 released: Runtime scheduler now supports backpressure
This is obvious for anyone who does game development. Matrices are use to convert between 3d game coords -> screen coords. Also almost all movements/rotations/scaling of objects in game is done via matrix multiplications.

I used matrices once to draw 3d spheres efficiently! It's very computationally expensive to calculate the points of many sphere's of varying radii every frame. What i instead did was pre-compute a few small sized spheres located at the origin. I then matrix multiplied the pre-computed vertices to position spheres at the desired location and size in the 3d world. This was so much faster my fps went from ~5 to a smooth 60!

Very useful knowledge!
Incredible. Mozilla really screwed up on this one.
Run yarn install on Git checkout, pull, merge, rebase
Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15803725 (90 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15945651 (17 comments)

Also:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15944653
Sounds like a story from Rake,
..mate :)
Is the Koolaid finally running out?
I call shenanigans. about:mozilla is an Easter egg, this was an ad and it put a big dent on Mozilla's reputation. I hope said "active internal discussion" leads to something beyond a few corporate hollow apologies.
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I might. Don't know who see is, not an American, had to google her.

Do you have anything that can be considered an argument?

Because my point, that a story doesn't have to be factually correct to still be indicative of a larger truth (and vise versa: a factually correct story might just be an outlier that doesn't prove anything universal of what it suggests) has been known since time immemorial.
They are about to prove their network works after making unreasonable assumptions as prerequisites to the proof.