skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought that Thunderbird (along with Firefox) was based on the Mozilla application suite which itself was open sourced from the code that Netscape wrote for their browser, mail and news client, and html composer/editor aka Netscape Communicator.

I still use Firefox as my main browser, and Thunderbird as my mail and news client and have been using their earlier incarnations since the Netscape days.
I use this regularly.
Stats without Tears (2016)
It's obvious to you and me.

It's not obvious to Joe Voter who wonders why the South Australian government spent millions of dollars on this battery boondoggle by some American millionaire.

The more the message gets out that the battery is working, today, and is already covering for shortfalls / screwups by large scale (non-renewable) generators the better.

So, yeah, fluff piece.
AI in Voice Forensics with Rita Singh [audio]
Yet, many big, profitable websites take 10-30 seconds to load on even the fastest connections. We can reconcile the theory later, but the fact is, much of today’s internet doesn’t optimize for load time.
> I don't think that's something you can really do with voting systems

You can sometimes, you can't others.

> Lots of voting systems are based around the same input assumptions, i.e., people are submitting a rank-order of preferences

But FPTP is not based on that input, so changing from FPTP to a more proportional system (many of which rely on that kind of input) provided a clear opportunity to have a clean break without false familiarity.

> And nothing's saying you'd have to switch to PLACE from STV rather than from FPTP.

The false familiarity is FPTP -> PLACE.
Ask HN: Freelancers, do you miss working on a specific tech? Why?
Things like this make me think that it's a shame humanity is duplicating all this work instead of collaborating to do it once. One of the awkward failures of capitalism, I guess.

At least when your product is something physical you end up with twice as many outputs. When it's just data you just do the same work twice.
I wonder how much driving style effects that too, racing around vs Driving Ms. Daisy?
>>After all, the only people actually working on alternatives to Google and Facebook are the alt-right who have been de-platformed.

That's just false. You paint this as either one or the other missing the point that someone like me might like many.
Sure, the Bitcoin Investment Trust is no different than any other stock. Buying shares of GBTC entitles you to a share of its assets and earnings, same as any other company.

But what are those assets worth? AAPL owns patents, inventory, raw material, real estate, subsidiaries, investments (stocks, bonds, commodities, T-bills, the whole shebang) and straight-up cash. You can add all those together and you can evaluate each of them based on how their value can change over time and under different market conditions.

What assets does GBTC hold? If the answer is "Bitcoin", you've just recursed on "What is the value of a Bitcoin?"; if the answer is "Bitcoin, cash, other cryptocurrencies, and a whole lot of other assets", great, you can evaluate each of them independently and add them all together. But again, you're recursing on the value of cryptocurrencies without really coming any closer to an answer.
But that would mean it's good for nothing except warming the planet!
If wikelvosses were from an intersectional/protected group you could bet your life the narrative would be a photonegative of the prevailing one.
Yep. And when you think that's bad, then you see some of the comments here which appear to be aping it for free...
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Up to a point. At that point an autonomous system needs to be able to interpret and react to the physical world as it actually is at the moment as opposed to how it's supposed to be.
Yes, it's called the "mempool". A higher fee means it'll be executed more quickly, because miners prioritise transactions with higher fees for obvious reasons.

It's possible for a transaction to get stuck and never be confirmed if it's fee is low enough. If that happens, then you'd need to send a new transaction, which cancels out the stuck one.
I love Godots Python like language. Its kind of disappointing to see the C# stuff take centre stage.
Bitcoin Cash is now trading on GDAX/Coinbase, it probably will help alleviate the burden a bit.

https://www.gdax.com/trade/BCH-USD
> He found the data was sitting in an Amazon Web Services storage "bucket," left open to anyone with an account,

This is hard to believe. S3 bucket names are unique. I can't make a bucket named `bucket`; I'd have to call it `dashkb-bucket` or something (a common convention is to prefix with your company's domain)... anyway...

The point is: for the bucket to be named `bucket` Alteryx must have had one of the very first AWS accounts, and from there isn't it reasonable to assume this bucket has been exposed for many years?
This has been troubling me for a while. We mainstream liberals seem to be calling for more diversity, but the most vocal amongst us seem to want only superficial diversity (i.e. a variety of physical appearances) instead of diversity of thought/ideas.

Take, for instance, the firing of Denise Young Smith from Apple. She correctly argued in favor of ideological diversity being a worthwhile goal for an organization, saying: “There can be 12 white, blue-eyed, blonde men in a room, and they’re going to be diverse too because they’re going to bring a different life experience.”

She was crucified by (ostensibly?) mainstream liberals, who apparently felt that such a comment didn’t reflect the true goal of diversity: having a variety of phenotypes in a room.

This is only one concrete example, but it’s representative of what I’ve noticed is a growing trend. Not sure if anyone else here has seen it as well, but I suspect some of you have. I hope we all wise up and recognize that what we truly want is a mixture of experience and viewpoints, not just mere phenotypic variety.
> If this is possible without insurance then it’s possible with, and every insurance company will mandate the structure to limit payouts.

You can't limit insurance payouts this way, because the entity has to carry the insurance. You only limit the exposure of the larger entity after the assets of the liable entity, including any insurance coverage, are exhausted. But the more the mandatory insurance level is, the less likely spinning off to protect the parent is to ever be valuable, and it never protects the insurer, so they won't mandate it.
Just like why no one would spend $100s of billions on wars that just perpetuate violence.. surely there's no incentive or gain they'd have by causing such disruption.
They get one BCH for each BTC they held, but it's not double in terms of USD. Bitcoin is currently selling for around $17k, and BCH will open at $3k
I think you're missing the point entirely.

If your business is such that a tax penalty on a breach would make you no longer able to afford to do business, then you have two options:
1) don't store the data in the first place - your risk no goes to 0
2) scrap your business plan as the cost of holding the data given the impossibility of preventing every breach is greater than the economic value it would generate

Today you don't have to really think about what the cost of losing the data is because your portion of it is 0. That's stupid. It's like every startup deciding to include a new type of coffee machine that includes a small nuclear reactor - sure, we can't prevent all possible disaster scenarios, but the marketing people and data people REALLY LIKE having this type of coffee available, and the government isn't giving us any reason NOT to have it, so why not?!

So if a tax either makes you put money aside to account for the risk, or shuts down a bunch of frivolous examples of personal data collection, it's solved a huge part of the problem.
Sort of. They now hold as much BCH as they had BTC on August 1st. However, BTC is worth significantly more than BCH in terms of dollars currently. The gain is more like ~20% in dollars.
Also, I saw a demo of a similar technology in the 1990s at Sussex University, in which a projector was used to create an interactive table where one could write calculations with a pen and the results would appear projected (the numbers having been recognized) and sketches could be augmented with shape-recognition
Isn't open street maps exactly that? I guess the shame is that big corporations don't all contribute to that rather than try to compete? It is a thought provoking idea but I struggle to see which side I prefer. I think competition is one of the things that drives innovation.
A relative of mine works in IT for a non-US hospital. (Avoiding naming it because of backlash potential, both for him and myself.)

When he started there, as bottom level IT support, he had access to everything. Admin passwords, doctor's passwords, he could write prescriptions and put a doctor's name on it. He could order anything and everything, and send it anywhere. He could read your medical files, if you were a patient there at any time. There were no restrictions, only some logging.

The place is only >>this week<< securing the network, because the last security guy quit and a new guy started.

I don't know what it's like in the US, but where he is there should be regular audits and criminal negligence charges for this kind of thing.
In the next 100 years the amount of gold above ground will triple or quadruple. Growth in Bitcoins will be far less.
After having retired a couple of phones due to crappy battery life, my most recent phone purchase has a removable battery. I'll probably buy a new battery in ~4 months, when the phone is a year old. I'm happy I decided to follow that path, because I really like the phone (LG G5), and a replacement battery is less than $20 USD.
The markets aren't unregulated, the regulations just haven't been enforced much yet.
I plan to write a bit about that when I finish (Dec 27 will mark one year from when I started). Here are a couple things I noticed:

1) This was my big goal for the year. One book a week that I've never read, instead of getting in better shape, learning a new hobby, etc. Judging from prior experience, it felt difficult, but doable.

2) It was mostly about time management. This was either accomplished with reading incrementally (infrequent) or bingeing over a weekend (frequent). I think if I was going to do it over, I would shift most of the reading into the first couple months of the year where the weather is dreary and not conducive to being outside.

3) Cheating. I've had books (like GEB) on the list the whole year that I haven't gotten to because I knew that they would slow me down and ruin the average. When I would read something that I couldn't get through quickly, I would make up for that by reading books I knew I would plow through quickly. You can see that more towards the end of the year.

4) I truly enjoy reading, and it's something I'd rather do than many other forms of entertainment. This helps immensely when deciding to devote a large amount of time to it.
How much is spent on war directly (that we know about) every year globally?
Real talk though. Why does it matter? No skin off my back.
An "equal balance of Bitcoin Cash", as in 1000BTC becomes joined by 1000BCH. BCH is right now worth about 1/10th the value of BTC, so people have 110%ed their money.

Also, people who just had money sitting around in a private wallet on the blockchain—that is, outside of any exchange—have also 110%ed their money; there's nothing special about Coinbase, it happened for any and all BTCs that existed on 2017-08-01.

(What is special is the accounts at the other exchanges, who have thusfar mostly not provided their users with access to their equivalent BCH gains. It can be argued that the gains were made to the exchange's float, rather than to the users' accounts, so the BCH isn't "inherently" owned by the depositors, any more than capital gains of leveraged investments using a bank's liabilities are owed to the depositors of said bank. Really, since this "debt" has no (legal or smart-) contractual existence, it's up to social norms whether individual exchanges capitulate and hand over the BCH gains they've accrued.)
"There aren't that many metals that behave similarly to Gold" is not equivalent to "there are no metals that behave similarly to Gold".

You cannot invent a new noble metal. You can't fork an existing noble metal.
Exactly the first thought that came to my mind.

BCH up 30%. I wonder how many Coinbase employees bought BCH throughout this past month.

Also. it's easily predictable that introducing a new currency will temporarily affect the other currencies negatively.

Very gray area.
What else can take the role of supplying the bulk of electricity to grids that doesn't also have it's own environmental concerns?

Gas fire plants

Hydro

Pump Solar

Liquid salt storage

Geothermal

Wind + Large Scale Solar + Storage

Tidal

Decentralized PV solar plus decentralized storage.

There are enormous numbers of combinations of solutions which don't involve coal or nuclear. Both coal and nuclear power are slow to respond to changes in demand (or supply problems), and both are very expensive centralized solutions.

Much more efficient solutions can be built using smaller numbers of smaller, faster, cheaper power stations (ie, gas fired) plus a diverse combination of other sources.
That's actually consistent with other currencies though. You can inside trade on forex markets.
are you suggesting the philosopher is at the apex ?
Ask HN: Is anybody else affected by this recent ruling on TN Economists?
https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-issues-clarifying-guidance-nafta-tn-status-eligibility-economists

TLDR: If you're here on a TN visa (a NAFTA visa crafted for Canadians and Mexicans), and you're an Economist class, you'll be strictly relegated to the government definition of an economist (prepare statistical reports, look at macro trends etc.) Given that startups in Silicon Valley do hire for more broader roles and people's TN status is determined on a case-by-case basis, this is bound to cause trouble for anybody trying to leave the country on a TN Economist class visa.

It's essentially a threat of deportation for about 10k people, most of whom are in the Valley.

Has anybody had experience with the recent policy changes here?

Asking for myself and a few friends.
Start a business then! But I think investors may be hard to find - because most of that hasn't proved cost effective.
And then later on transfer it to your main wallet and pay another fee, and trust that whomever your first address still isn't paying attention to it, or hope they didn't get their coins from a tainted source?
> mostly left wing propaganda on social media

You don't go on Twitter, then
Netflix gets to keep its "original" Marvel programming.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alishagrauso/2017/08/09/disney-...
how does computing-resource-and-network-intensive digital currency have any value at all in most Mad Max post-civilizational-collapse scenarios?
> We need a new system where knowing the right pieces of information does not allow you to buy a car in someone else's name.

Identity is information. Ownership as a coherent social process is contingent on shared information.
Yeah, the contracts are ridiculous. Santos et. al. are locked in to exporting too much of our production to countries like Japan (more than they even need anymore I beleive), there isn't enough of the gas produced being sold domestically so prices locally have jumped significantly, but at the same time the international price has dropped so I don't think the export is even breaking even, and I've read that at this point we could import the surplus back from Japan (that we sold them originally) for less than what we pay on the domestic market!

This is a huge problem because gas is required for a lot of our industry, but also because of where it sits in the energy pricing mix, the gas price almost entirely determines the price of electricity - https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/07/truth-behind-electr...

The economists at MacroBusiness (I linked an article from their site above) believe a gas reservation policy (requiring the producers to sell a larger portion of their supply on the domestic market) could fix a lot of this.
Now getting error message: Bitcoin cash purchases temporarily disabled.
Well you can rate limit via a lot of things, definitely by IP is a good idea, but for ipv6, you typically want to limit by blocks(since every ipv6 user currently usually gets a full block of IP's), but you also probably want to also limit by username, i.e. if you keep trying to login as user 'root', you only get 3 attempts/minute or something.

After X attempts via the same IP, you can block/ban that IP via a FW rule/etc for say 5 mins. or 30m, or whatever.

It all depends on your security posture, you could go crazy and actually lock the account after 3 failures, but then you hand bad people a free DDOS... so you have to be careful about doing that.. But you could soft-lock and require a correct password and an email address verification after X failed attempts(i.e. correct login, plus they have to click a link in an email).

Anyways, see what I'm saying here? Authentication access is something you really want to get right, and it's a complicated topic.
Keeping personal data is fine. The issue is that everyone involved with handling the data has a cavalier attitude. They just shrug when it is leaked because it is no skin of their back.

The solution: lawsuits. The laws need to be relaxed where if a company leaks data, we are entitled to damages. Just like if someone assaults you on the street you are entitled to damages.

The most famous case is McDonald's. When their hot coffee scalded a woman, she was awarded damages. Suddenly, everyone food serving establishment too care to make sure the temperature was right, printed warning labels, and told customers to be careful...it's hot.

Pretty sure if some of these companies get stiffed with huge fines, everyone will take notice and clean up their act.
Back in the day (20 years ago) you could buy a CD with everyone's name, address, phone number and so on..
100% Amazon. Kindle unlimited locks you in. But, worth it for what I publish. Physical/print on demand book margins are pretty bad. I have some physical books. But most are ebook. All of my bought/rereleased are ebook.
I think I understand what you mean but I think that is actually the proper functioning of capitalism not a failure. If Apple/TomTom/etc. didn’t create maps, Google wouldn’t invest resources in making theirs better.
Maybe focus on fixing the broken bits of your site, like ID verification.
I don't think anyone (except the coal lobby) is against solar power.

It does have a problem that we do have nights here in Australia, and it is only recently that batteries have got close to the break-even point in terms of cost.

We also have large amounts of wind power, but again it comes at the cost of not being on 100% of the time. Again, storage can solve that as it continues to drop in price.
As the article shows, there's always some subjectivity in mapping. It is essential that there be competition and different approaches to that enormous task.
Informative article. In practice, using ostringstream is the most useful technique.
You can say that about every single instance of competition. Yet when governments run things they don't generally do as good a job...
Troy Hunt just published and article today (Dec 19th) titled "Fixing Data Breaches Part 2: Data Ownership & Minimisation" , which discusses this exact topic [1]. The entire post is worth a read, but he offers an excellent summary:

> Summary
This whole post is about giving control of data back to the rightful owners and minimising the impact on them when a breach occurs. This is equal parts a fundamentally simple objective to achieve and one that is enormously difficult. It's simple not to request that someone provides their date of birth to a cat forum; neither the site nor the user themselves lose anything by not collecting this data. Yet it remains a difficult objective because not only do so many services continue to view our data as an asset, they never expect to be the victim of a data breach which then turns that data into a liability.

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/fixing-data-breaches-part-2-data-ow...
That would cost Apple a lot if those people had Apple Care. Better for Apple if the minority people who perceive a problem come in and ask for a replacement/
Are you looking for an explanation for existence of insider trading laws?
Bitcoin Cash was added to the public API yesterday I believe.
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For the first 100 years, we just arrested folks who actually faked records or stole things. Now we do it if they don't make it impossible?

I know, networks change everything. But inside a secure facility its often (always) the case that personal integrity (and maybe some audits) is used to ensure correctness most of the time.

Somebody working in a hospital could steal prescriptions off of patient's tables, could lift wallets and purses, heck could even take a knife and attack people. But instead of hobbling everybody and locking everything up, we instead trust folks. And take action when somebody un-trustworthy violates that.
The cheap jabs are all incorrect, as well. Any compiler from the last 10 years will warn you if you don't match your printf format string to the arguments. printf also supports reordering arguments using the %m$ syntax (read the man page). And yes, you can extend printf with your own types.

A better guide to using strings in C++ is here: https://yosefk.com/c++fqa/io.html
Also commodities if I remember correctly, which are regulated as well.

Also there's a big theoretical and serious discussion in financial economics on why insider trading is even net bad. In some ways aren't stock analysts "insiders" with respect to your average SV engineer investing, and isn't an SV engineer who is able to fully understand a balance sheet an "insider" with respect to gambling grandma in Iowa?
it's hilarious how many suckers will get drawn to this scam over and over.....

1.) omg this cryptocurrency is so transactional/rare

2.) nope. this isn't transactional at all! it costs me $350 to send $350!

3.) nope. it's not rare, coinbase just added ANOTHER transactional/rare crytocurrency!

4.) time to lose 80% on another cryotocurrency!
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I don't think the export is even breaking even

That's not true. They signed long term supply contracts with a price that was profitable.

at this point we could import the surplus back from Japan (that we sold them originally) for less than what we pay on the domestic market!

This is true. That's the problem with long term contracts! But on the other hand they did guarantee the revenue needed to develop the gas fields.
> My company doesn't share or sell data with third parties (it's in our TOS – and could obviously change in some Orwellian future, but we'd have to update the TOS), it's the customer's data, they can use it in the same way they'd use any other data they collect. We don't do cross-domain tracking, or aggregate behavioral information across customers, and the way we've built it, it makes it pretty hard to tie any two visitors together across sites if you were to hypothetically acquire our dataset.

Are you the CEO and do you currently own controlling interest? Because if not, then everything that you are saying is worth about as much as a slice of pizza someone dropped in the NYC subway.
There's a difference between "early" and 2013. In 2013 I knew one person who'd gotten wildly lucky and already retired from buying and mining Bitcoin early, but the people buying hundreds of bitcoin at that point, with the prices in the $100+ range already, were all pretty well-off to have that much disposable cash to toss on a gamble.

Investing 100K then to have 18M now or whatever is a gamble you can only take if you're already doing quite well.