skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there was no abuse for financial gain and everyone lived happily ever after
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15959425
Google maps is probably the only service I couldn't live without. I could get a new email address or visit some other video site but maps is just too good and important.
I don't. I literally don't care about them making money, so I can't propose any method. My problem is that they demand the monetization of the Web and crud up my PC. My solution is 'block everything but text and images.'
The issue here, I think, is that you assume they have a blanket right to access the data. But EU regulations restrict not just transfers between companies, but set down principles for how personal data should be handled.

And those include among others that data should be collected for specified purposes, and should only be used for the purposes the person consented to, unless you obtain additional consent.

If I consent to sharing my data for use on site A, and site B buys site A, the fact that they are now owned by the same company is not necessarily relevant unless the permissions collected very explicitly allowed the data collected by site A to be used for purposes related to site B too.

That the sites suddenly have the same corporate owner is no guarantee that the consent collected made it expressly clear to users of site A that they could expect that their data might be shared with site B in the future.

Some sites do collect very broad consent and make very clear to their users that data may be transferred elsewhere, but even if they do this, they also do need to ensure the data is still treated in accordance with EU Data Protection regulations.
If I had to bet, I'd say Bascom Ave also used to be a railroad.
There may well be something of value here, but if there is, this website doesn't communicate it. I'm strongly repulsed by the way this project is presented. It reads like a quasi-scam hatched by a pretentious art student. I wish they'd spared a paragraph to say what it actually is.
> Additionally, Monero has a dynamic blocksize, so as usage increases it won't experience the transaction backlog that Bitcoin faces.

I am kind of confused with the block size thing. Sure, increasing the size means more transactions can be added into the problem. Bu, as far as I know bigger block size has it's own share of problems - block propagation is slower which can cause double spending and frequent orphans means the blockchain has to keep re-organising frequently too.
No it would have required 5 minutes of reading and too many clicks.
Remember "Occam's Razor?" It is so incredibly difficult to travel through interstellar space that "aliens" is not the simplest explanation. Any civilization so advanced that it could bridge such distances in space to study earth would definitely have the technology to be undetectable. They'd have molecular sized drones collecting info. They wouldn't be detectable on radar. And it certainly wouldn't be the aliens themselves travelling, collecting data, it would be thousands of tiny robots. A more logical explanation is that this phenomenon is terrestrial in origin. The object from the pilot's video in 2012 was tracked and seen for several weeks by a Navy ship. Where are those records? Maybe this whole thing was an experiment to see how the military responds to an advanced piece of equipment. The fact that the object appeared on radar at the pilot's rendezvous point 60 miles away is very suspicious.
^^ This. Competition in this way shakes out inefficiencies inherent to an approach that would otherwise linger and soak of resources the the dynamics of path dependence.
Please read the white paper at attentiontoken.org. We do not dream of monopolizing the browser market, of course.

Apollo phase of the roadmap will have multiple clients supporting BAT, with as much endpoint (client and site/creator/user, hard KYC issues here due to centralized fiat currencies and governments) logic moved on chain as we can given future Ethereum scaling and anonymity support. Web standards for particular innovations as apps join the platform and gain enough scale.
I usually use Google maps, but after being led astray like 3 times while visiting LA recently, switched to Apple maps there. Google maps seemed basically broken in LA while I was there. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Agree, Google has fundamentally understood the power of information/data since the very beginning - its part of their DNA.
Learn math while you play with it
The grass is always greener...
Don't start freelancing like I did
If you can put your bots in more seats at the table, they can share information and collude in their betting strategy. No amount of smartness in a single player's strategy is going to beat cheating.
super useful given that the hard part now is architecture design
At what price would you go off of? The price when Coinbase granted access? Or the price of BCH when the actual fork happened?
In a democracy, to stand by while other peoples' rights are stripped is to be complicit with the stripping of those rights.
V4 actually.

The older IIDX used a hardware overlay for music videos, grabbing the video output from a DVD player controlled with a sort of serial connection. Of course, this component is prone to failure, but someone did devise some scripts that allow a Raspberry Pi to emulate this component and play the videos from rips instead.
bahahaha please write my children's bedtime stories
> And when when so many people start to perceive cryptocurrency as a legitimate currency, the price will eventually go up for bitcoin.

Bitcoin doesn't work as a currency. It's slow, expensive and can never ever scale to handle even the needs of a small town.

> This is an early stage mainstream...

Keep dreaming.
Early this past summer when AppleCare for Mac became AppleCare+ for Mac.
Since the paper has not been published, just be conservative and wait for peer review before making big announcements.
I was using Apple Maps a few weeks ago, and wanted to get something to eat. I saw a place called “Shake Shack” and decided to go there. Not only did it not exist, I checked online, there has never been a Shake Shack in my town, there’s only a handful in my country.

How Apple Maps got that wrong, I honestly don’t know. Where did the data come from, and why is it that incorrect?

I reported it, and it’s since been removed, but I can’t do that for everything in my town, and there’s so much missing; I can’t report that, or edit the map like you can on OpenStreetMap.

Honestly, why does Apple Maps exist? Either it needs to be like Google Maps (and just work), or be like OpenStreetMap and let Apple fans edit the map and get more involved.

I gave them a lot of patience and understanding years ago (mapping the world is hardly an easy task), but my patience has run out. It’s been a shit show from day one and I honestly don’t see that changing anytime soon.
The crazy thing to me is that it's pretty decent at estimating even in dynamic traffic conditions. Consider US101 in the Bay area at rush hour - if you leave San Jose around 6pm, you'll drive straight into traffic, but by the time you get to SF it'll be significantly lighter. A lesser algorithm would give you a time prediction based on current traffic speeds at all points along your path, which would give you a wildly pessimistic estimate when you leave and only converge when you get close to your destination. But Maps has enough data to know that at that time of day traffic is trending better, and by how much.
Imagine a 1000 people ...

... send you an email

... send you a letter

... call you

... visit you

What will have the biggest impact/influence on a politician?

A full email-inbox: Impressive, but ignorable.

A full inbox: Impressive, creates a lot of work, even just to trash the letters.

A always ringing phone: You can either ignore the people or listen to their problems. For sure it blocks you in some way

Your home is surrounded by people: It's probably the hardest to ignore that.
Nope. Insider trading is a unique prohibition in the equities market, regulated and enforced by the equities regulator.

Shoutout to the rich guys that spread the misconception that an information advantage is illegal
What about a consumer group to assert pressure?

Edit: a consumer group could have monopsony powers and be capable of negotiating concessions. Such as an open api.
Personally when I was unemployed my side projects helped me learn new skills, and fit my desire to do something with my spare time. Applying for jobs was a pain, building something was enjoyable and gave me hope
> (can you imagine if doctors had to memorize random trivia to get a job)?

Comparing yourself to doctors, with the implication that it's easier for them, is pretty silly. Doctors have to memorize perhaps the most shit to get a job, and are frequently reevaluated on it through examinations to keep their license.
I have to ask. What roles were you in? and what languages did you develop in?
"reserve currency" may be the wrong word, but the fact remains that for the vast majority of exchanges, you add value by depositing in BTC and you trade in terms of BTC (not USD). So any crypto you want to sell usually has to be converted to BTC first before your native currency.
They're completely different in functionality...I've never been able to get quick-scope working FWIW and not sure what the value add is for it (after reading the README many times).
Um, I don't mean to be rude here, but "victimless" usually means that there is no victim, and that's the point. To paraphrase your question, "In what way is there no victim?" seems a bit like trying to prove a negative, so let's look for the positive instead.

Let me try to identify the potential victims here:
1. The victim might be "the guy who bought the BCH that the employee was selling", seeing that he could have bought for a cheaper price had the employee not insider traded.
2. The victim(s) might be "all the other investors of BCH", with the thinking that the insider trades devalue BCH (somehow?).
3. the victim(s) might be "the customers of Coinbase", because ... I'm not sure, maybe jealousy?

I'm trying to be reasonable here, but everything I wrote up there seems outlandish or silly. (1) a person who enters into a buy for X agrees to buy for X, and calling somehow who willfully enters into a trade a "victim" is an incorrect use of the English language; in (2), nothing is devalued, the additional buy from the employee should actually increase the coins value, as it represents a higher demand; and (3), 'jealousy', seems like the only thing left. If you're upset that someone at Coinbase managed to earn $$$$ on their trades, but you only earned $$, then we call that emotion "jealousy", and that would be the harm. It would be a harm to your ego, and now you would think that you were a victim. It seems ludicrous to me to support the tearing apart of families (as was suggested earlier) simply because someone is jealous of money.

I can't come up with a reasonable definition of who the victim is, who was harmed, how they were harmed, etc. This isn't proof of the negative, "victimless", and certainly there could be other real victims here (maybe Coinbase itself is the victim? or the US Government? or "the whole of the American public"?); but, it should probably not be assumed to have a victim unless some real, actual harm can be identified. IOW, there is no victim without an identifiable harm.
wild wild west babyyy
Thanks! I work as a Data Scientist now, but my start was heavier on the econ/data side, with the goal to push more into the data-dev world. The only thing I hate more than spending all my time writing bad code, is the idea of not spending all my time writing bad code.
Let's not pretend that Apple's hand was forced here. This is the company that dreamed up a proprietary screw to keep people out of their phones and computers.
That doesn't happen in nature because the small fish can fit into hiding spots the large ones can't. That's why people who own ponds toss in things like pallets and felled trees. That'd be easy to replicate.
They should be applauding though. We can always fork Firefox if it's not acting in our best interest. We cannot fork Comcast.
This is what needs to happen. "identity theft" is what people fear. It would not happen if the banks got sued for big money and lost every time they lied to credit agencies about debts you did not default on. All this data breach stuff is mostly a bait and switch tactic from the real problem stemming from bank slander.

Your security clearance report stolen by the Chineese from the US government OPM database[1]. This could be a real problem for you. Information anyone can get by paying for it? This would not be a problem if credit fraud and credit reports were not such a big problem.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/breach-in-a-federal-co...
Folks writing production crap would opt for no source control? Well, fair enough I guess. But I (and probably most competent sw engineering folks) would never hire someone who was completely oblivious to using source control. So hopefully that 'practice' would die through attrition.
That still boggles my mind. I thought the whole idea was to remove middle man that not only authorize (or not transaction) but also charge hefty fees? I was told for long time it is free to buy or sell with bitcoin. What am I missing?
Exactly. You forget who makes the rules.

For instance, employees of the SEC, are not prohibited from trading on insider information (they are to an extent, as in they can't do leveraged short-selling before in investigation is made public, however, for instance, selling out of a position before investigations become public knowledge is obviously common).

https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b15dlrvg8cxkmv...

This is like asking "do high-level (and even medium-level) government employees have to pay taxes ?" (I'm European).
Man this article is so flawed, it's not even funny. I was going to comment earlier today but I was certain it would get buried. I'm a bit disappointed that it's still on the main page. Here's my take..

> Make sure your side project isn’t a waste of your time

A side project is never a waste of your time. It's a way to build something new, to exercise your creativity and passion, and to (when it's all said and done) ship something! I'd wager that 90%+ of "coders" have never built something from zero to hero. That is inherently a valuable thing, regardless of what your future boss thinks.

> Your side project, by itself, probably won’t get you a job

Okay, so? I'm pretty sure no sane person is going to go through the hard work of building a side project to impress during an interview. Not only that, but for a side-project to be successful, it also needs marketing, PR, networking, and so on. You probably won't have to do any of those things at your next programming job, but you most definitely need to do it when launching a side project.

> 1. Is your side project relevant to the job you’re applying to?

Again, who cares? Side projects should never be contingent on what jobs you're applying to.

> 2. Does your side project have depth?

Doesn't matter. A side project can be as shallow as Snapchat 1.0 (disappearing images? Sign me up). Run with it. Build something awesome and win at life.

> 3. Has your side project at least had 2 iterations?

I actually agree with this. Most of my MVPs are kind of shitty until I show them to a select group of friends and family that more often than not rip them to shreds. Fail fast, fail often.

> You have to bring attention to your side project

Yes, yes you do. But guess what: looking for a regular 9-5 programming job is completely antithetical to "bringing attention" to your side project. The latter of which involves emailing zillions of people, setting up mailing lists, getting featured on blogs, product design, going to talks, giving talks, and so on.
First book: "The cat in the hat loses his hat" a story of crypto currency
I don't recall that HackerRank allowed to read and write to the filesystem. I've never seen any stock test doing that.

The default test settings generate code for parsing the stdin input and create the body of the program.

That company really went out of their way to make a terrible test. That's not representative of HackerRank.

I used to write tests for one company. The tool is great and totally flexible. A test should be taken as a representation of the company writing it, not as an example of the platform.
This Map Shows the Largest Employer in Every State
Hi Peter, Thank you so much for taking the time and helping us out.

I am on H1B with I-140 approved under the EB2 category. My priority date is in the year 2013 which means it will be current by the year 2025.

Is there a way to move from Eb2 to Eb1 category? You mentioned a couple of options regarding journal/conference work. I want to learn more about it and explore these options.

Thanks again.
They fly their own planes these days.

https://blog.google/topics/inside-google/google-earths-incre...

Too bad it's a video. Fast forward about 2 minutes.

Or: https://youtu.be/suo_aUTUpps?t=121

Fly plane. Zig zag. 5 cameras, then photogrammetry. StreetView, from planes.
Wow, besides the obvious (Walmart), health care is huge business here in the States.
Commented code is a negative now? Damned if you do, damned if you don't in this industry.
> Which is exactly why no one would spend the crazy amounts of money it takes to execute a 51% attack.

There was a recent paper shared here on an article about new type of currency or exchange system. Although I don't understand details, it explained that since 51% of coins are already mined by just a few pools, if these pools orchestrate together, then can break the chain. But unsure how true this is (cannot find the post anymore, sorry)
Innocent until proven guilty (“the one who asserts must prove”) applies in courts because it is a fair standard — it’s not a standard limited to courts.

When we are in the position of having to determine if someone did something wrong, and what to do about it, we are faced with the problem of determining what is just and administering justice. The same basic rules apply to us, because we have the same basic problem: not allowing the tribunal or committee or even the court of public opinion to become another source of injustice.
Fry are typically separated from the larger fish with netting. Sure, you could keep them all together, but a huge amount of system resources will be consumed by the endless cycle of breeding and cannibalizing and you will won't get fish to a useful size.
1) Many existing networks, including the Qtum network were sold on ERC20 contracts (https://qtum.org) originally as an ICO method before moving to their own network where they trade the tokens for coins on the network. In that case, Qtum continues to issue new coins on a proof-of-stake basis. There's other examples out there, this is just one I'm familiar with.

If you can point to 90° drops on GDAX, I'd be interested to see them.
The point is that older batteries don't produce as much current as new ones do. So the CPU has to be speed-stepped down in order that the system doesn't brown out.

Not that this will stop the conspiracy loons foaming at the mouth in their apple hate, obviously.
This year I read 31 books. Only 8 were non-fiction. I'm hoping to finish another 2 before the year ends.

My top 3 were.

1. The Mistborn series by Brandon Sanderson. This series did a good job of balancing big and little picture, while givings us a neat form of magic to learn about.

2. Stock Market Cash Flow from the RDPD series. In 2016 I had read several books on fundamental(or value) investing, and this book helped me bust out of the thinking that, that style is the only way to look at, and earn in the stock market.

3. Snow Crash. This book was just fun. The characters were enjoyable to watch, and there was some clever stuff in this book.
A hacker-rank screening test is exactly that, an initial screening test. It tests basic aptitude and ability to implement a simple program to spec. It's not a substitute for face-to-face pairing interviews and projects.

> 1. they expect input and output in a necessarily contrived form

> 2. there is no communication or creativity involved

1. aka a spec
2. not the job of a screening test

This whole post assumes the premise that a screening test needs to fulfill all the requirements of a full interview process.
I feel like the impact of this e-book would be magnified if the author simply took the effort to improve its design and layout.
That's a two-dimensional matrix, not a triangle. Love on one axis and knowledge on the other
>The solution really is a revitalization of antitrust policy.

It really isn't because the free market ideology never grasped the full complexity of how our world actually works. It's a false ideology that rulers preach to the masses, see here for a talk on "the free market".

Protectionism for the rich and big business by state intervention, radical market interference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHj2GaPuEhY#t=349

I'll give you an example of what happed to PC videogames. Over the last 20 years corporations have taken full control over PC videogame software by a campaign of propaganada and selling games where they fraudulently take advantage of the publics ignorance and irrationality to steal game software by rebranding this software mmo/online. It's a way to cheat the population of owning their own software.

Games like Overwatch and world of warcraft and diablo 3 all normalized basically taking freedom away from customers. Markets can't work in a post technological society because corporations have all the power in the relationship to force policies. The human brain never evolved to live in a high tech capitalist society which is why we now have videogame dystopia out in PC game land.

In the 90's we had full blown level editors and server executables, post mass high speed internet. Game companies can simply take the software hostage and chain it to a backend server committing fraud on a mass scale. No law or anti trust can prevent this shit since most people are too technology illiterate to comprehend how they are being defrauded.
The Duke Lacrosse case was a fine example of wrecking the lives of the accused, despite eventually being found completely innocent.
Uh, that's an obvious mistake. I fixed it now, so it should be correct somewhen after the next deployment and parsing of Schaffhausen.

Thanks for the link to Termdat. I always felt very unsecure using any of those google translations I found.
This idea comes back many times... but I don't see a reason why government would want to short bitcoins or disturb the market to get their hands in it.

1. They have BEP printing press; instead of stealing or brute forcing into bitcoin and then selling the loot for $, the might as well ask Bernanke to print few thousands more sheets of 100 dollar bills (of course not legally but i'm sure there is some overprint like in any business).

2. screwing people out of bitcoins would mean screwing US citizens as well. Why would any part of government do that just to upset Congress and get themselves in front of bunch of congresspeople for grilling? Doesn't make sense.
Hi, yes, it's open source. My web site's github repo is at https://github.com/duetosymmetry/web-site/tree/customization . The JS for controlling the web toy is at https://github.com/duetosymmetry/web-site/blob/customization... . This relies on a modified version of Polynomial.js which I will hopefully get accepted upstream, but for now it's just on my fork at https://github.com/duetosymmetry/Polynomial.js/tree/Aberth (though this is also behind my local repo).
A code screening doesn't need to measure communication. It only needs to measure basic coding ability. You can either write fizzbuzz in a reasonable amount of time or you can't.

There will be plenty of opportunities to evaluate communication during the other stages of the interview.