skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://enigma.co/
Literally nobody knows what Bitcoin is going to do, so comments like this are not only blatantly false (you have no idea what's more likely), they serve zero purpose.
You're failing to draw the correct analogy in each case.

> The difference is that legislative coalitions don't have to be permanent, the way parties are.

Just like the parties that make up a legislative coalitions can change, the voters making up a political party can and do change.

> Various factions in the legislature can come together for a particular bill, or series of bills on some issue that's relevant to them all. But on something else, they might realign differently

This happens all the time on individual bills in a two-party systems as well. ("Crossing the aisle".) But the coalitions forming control of the legislative body rarely change except immediately following elections (in both PR and two-party systems).

> Also, even when coalitions are more persistent, the terms are effectively renegotiated every election - party platforms are much more stable.

The analog of a particular legislative coalitions in a two-party system is not a particular party but the party in power. And the platform of the party in power changes dramatically when power shifts from one party to another.
I think out of the two options, Apple picked the far more deceptive one, or at least the one that will be perceived to be deceptive (which IMO is the same thing). Few people would be surprised that batteries degrade over time, eventually causing noticeable drops in battery life, many people seem surprised that performance is intentionally and artificially reduced over time.
That's always been the kicker unless things have improved, I had a hackintosh for a short period but it borked when it came time for 10.x.x update. I decided Hackintosh life wasn't for me.
What an insufferably smug post.

But anyway, Mastodon exists as a good Twitter alternative, and it's not made by alt-righters. It's decentralized so no company or politically-motivated group can censor it.
Up 50% from past 24hs. Previous ATH was ~2500, now at USD 3100 at Coinbase.
I was wondering what triggered it. This morning was already at a high price ~2100. It was somewhat stable around ~1700 just two days ago.
I grew up there and left in '99... they've always been a mystery. So excited to see that they've been (at least partially) deciphered!
Which is exactly why no one would spend the crazy amounts of money it takes to execute a 51% attack. It would be like self-immolation. Billions of dollars in equipment and energy and you'd have 51% of a worthless network. In practice, you would have to control much more than 51% of the network, because you'd have to catch up to the 49% that are still hashing away.
These Cities Have Reached 'Peak Millennial' as Young People Begin to Leave
Thats besides the point. Is it possible to design phones that can be serviced in some ways by your users? the answer is clearly yes. Does Apple care about that? The answer is clearly no. They have been making designs that can't be easily opened for a long time now.
Fair enough; it still seems pretty promising, especially because my experience developing native Android apps did not make me feel confident in doing very advanced UIs with native Android - it just feels complicated, and the compatibility layer stuff seems like no fun. (I had trouble linking the jars in for reasons I was not able to fully understand. I've worked with Java stuff before, but the Android toolchain still has me confused.)

I hope that Flutter, with its massive backing, manages to stay up to date with mainline without putting too much burden on app developers. We'll see I suppose.
You made me curious so I dug into the paper.

> For our final study, we selected a progress bar that featured Backwards Decelerating ribbing, as this was slightly preferred over the pulsating behavior in study three. This was compared against a standard, solid color progress bar. The test interface, instead of simply recording participant’s preferences, used the responses to warp the duration of the ribbed progress bar (the solid color progress bar had a fixed duration to act as a control). Specifically, if a user felt the ribbed progress bar was faster, its duration was extended (to slow it down). Conversely, if the user felt the ribbing was slower, the duration was reduced (to speed it up). Equal responses left the duration unchanged. The goal was to allow participants to converge to a duration where they believed the two progress bars “felt” equal. (For an extended discussion on method of adjustment experiments,please refer to [3], “Difference Thresholds”).

So I want to guess they were given some kind of interface that would let them decrease the speed in increments of 1%, perhaps.
I'd ask your doctor or nutritionist, not some rando on HN. There are lots of smart people here, but none of them knows anything about your medical history.
I am absolutely not criticizing your decision; you’re perfectly within your rights to refuse to deal with all the rigamarole of GDPR compliance. It’s easier and only 5% of your revenue, so why even bother.

And I completely understand the issue of people sending unsolicited data. I’m sorry that my comment came across as though I was targeting you specifically.

I’m just excited for a world where data is no longer a “yeah let’s just store everything with no thought”, and instead is a hot potato that you keep a trail of and want to get rid of as quickly as possible. What a difference that’ll be from the situation we have today. This article is just highlighting how just accepting random data puts businesses “on shaky ground” as you said. The GDPR will require everyone to be a lot more thoughtful about their data retention policies, and that’s just great.
Thought Experiment: The TextNet
My reading of this is that anyone who "just want's to see the world burn" needs to pay $40k to Experian and then post this data on the web.
Practical applications of reinforcement learning
can someone explain why bitcoin is rare? there are COUNTLESS cryptocurrencies out there. The only reason bitcoin is believed to be rare is blind belief, much like believing in santa claus.
What an incredible post. I just love this guys blog, I wonder how long it took to research all of this.

As a side note this gives me great confidence that Waymo will come out of the self driving car race in pole position.
As I understand it, the iodine in dairy typically comes from the products used to clean and sanitise the milking and storage equipment (iodophor). It's not inherent in the dairy itself, otherwise we could just eat the cow's grass to obtain iodine
Its fairly common in the temp employee industry that if a temp worker gets injured the temp agency folds and restarts to avoid the penalties.

It would be nice to require insurance or a bond to hold personal data so a company can't just disappear when data is lost.

[0]: http://projects.thestar.com/temp-employment-agencies/
Content Caching on macOS 10.13
QM did not go into blind math mode. The way physicists usually do QM is by glossing over a lot of the subtleties of Hilbert spaces and act as if the results from finite dimensional linear algebra work. Concepts physicists have been using for a long time, such as the Dirac delta function and path integrals, only got formalised much later. Many revolutions in QM, such as Feynman diagrams, are very much based on intuition. You can transfer all of that back into formal math, as Dyson did, but Dyson could not have done so without Feynman having invented them first.

Especially in mathematics it is fashionable to write proofs in a style that completely erases the reasoning that lead to the proof. I think that's a pity. So much unwritten knowledge gets lost that way when the originators die. Differential forms, for example, have a beautiful geometric interpretation, but the way they're taught nowadays obscures that completely and makes it seem like they're a formal algebraic tool only. In fact, we're now several generations later, so even some of the instructors may be unaware of that, because their own instructors failed to transfer the original geometric intuition!
> You do know it is impossible thwart all data breaches right?

False. No system, no breach. No data stored, no possibility to lose it. Accept the liability for having the data or don't have it.
No I'd take the the court, because I wouldn't do that without a contract.
Ok...last 10 minutes proved your point. That was bananas.
I'm pretty sure simply being available on Coinbase/gdax triggered it. There are tons casuals like me who just use that.
Instead of a tax, how about extending the cumbersome PCI Compliance regulations to all personal data? How many of you would store credit card numbers willy nilly today even if asked by a client? :-)
Seems so perfectly timed for the latest drop and issues with bitcoin its self
It was counted. How long until it counts again? If I got the H1-B in 2016 and apply in 2019, it's still not counted?
Those "assets inside" AAPL are still dollars. User payed dollars for AAPL share which ended up in a dollar account or a treasury bond. Stop being so obtuse.

Otherwise I can also say the same thing, that you can literally put dollars into Bitcoin by buying GBTC shares, since the dollars become "assets inside" the Bitcoin Investment Trust company.
I ran about 800 from http://sacredwindowrescueproject.org/ through this.

Some of the companies that do this work have been around for many decades and have tons of photographs / scanned images, so I'm investigating ways to ingest images into a search engine to help locate old projects.
Wow. A 6 or 7 year old car that is completely useless. A 3 hour charge time to go 65 miles. If it's highway driving - only 35 miles - unless there is a headwind.

Mind boggling.
> If you consider browsers an integral part of the internet infrastructure, it is. If not, it isn't.

No, it simply doesn't have anything to do with whether it is internet infrastructure. Prioritizing stuff according to the user's wishes/under the user's control without price discrimination is not a neutrality violation, even when network operators do it.

> But glad that you agree that Firefox preemptively delaying those sites is not OK.

Idiot.
Let me choose performance vs time?

They already let you choose lower mode on charge < 20%, why not extend it for older devices.

... unless they would rather I just buy a new device.
But if this process is as you describe, won't the moderate voters eventually start electing independent candidates?
Lost me here, but are you trying to say the US is ahead of the game in terms of card payments? Because the States is clearly miles behind the EU.

Do you guys even have chip and pin everywhere yet? Last time I was over, you didn’t, and we moved onto contactless in the UK years ago.
The reason the frequency dipped is because not enough generating power was online to supply the demand. In order to bring it back up to nominal frequency and keep it there, something had to keep supplying the extra power required for as long as it was being used.
Canada PR doesn't further yor chances for US Immigration. US Immigration depends on your country of birth and not your country of citizenship.
What is the difference between “cactus fruit” and “prickly pear tuna”?

The genus of cactus whose fruit people eat most commonly is called nopal or “prickly pear” (and according to a web search is the state plant of Texas), and “tuna” is the name of its fruit in Mexico.
> Most Android devices seem to do the opposite (lose screen-on time, but keep performance relatively unchanged).

I'm guessing this is why my previous Samsung phone used to unexpectedly restart, and semi-predictably do so when I activated the torch. I never realised it could have been due to the battery output dropping.
>"Yeah, good luck collecting, suckers."

They don't have to collect, they just ruin your credit and make your life difficult. That's what they do now.
I replaced the battery on my 6P, and it's like a new phone.

It is a bit tricky, but well worth it.
Yeah, but it's only valid argument after China has become a major world power.
Cool. What I'm saying is that it lacks privacy, and therefore is a poor store of value.

As for it being a store of value akin to gold? I don't think so. For various reason, even disregarding the historicity, and the physical nature of gold, the primarily reason I think it won't be comparable to gold will be because of the nature of technology. That being the lack of long term, and I'm talking centuries, hell even a few decades out, type of stability, and I just don't see Bitcoin being stable for such a long period of time. Technologies improve, and fundamentally demand constant change,and so superior competitors will emerge. Hell if anything even a state sanctioned E-Coin system would obliterate Bitcoin.

Fundamentally at this point Bitcoin is reliant on the network effect. As of even today the technology behind it is in constant flux, experimentation, and competition, what keeps bitcoin afloat is that it's a first mover, and a lot of people use it. The network effect is really a short term moat for most technologies, including Bitcoin, and as such it will not last long enough to be a Long Term store of value. So any sort of comparable "Long term store" of value in any comparable to gold is out of the question.
This seems like an interesting experience. But the wording on that page is as much of a turn-off to me as the most the most cliche PR lorem ipsum. I feel dumber having read it.
I can't find anything about this re-encode - do you have a link to read about it?
Veles – New open source tool for binary data analysis
Even in the US, not participating in on campus recruiting makes the job hunt much harder as a new grad (from personal experience). That being said I agree that the penalty is much less than in Japan where entire careers will close their doors on you for basically the rest of your life. In the US we have opportunities to claw back even after we have setbacks.
I know plenty of people with jobs that supported them just fine who were able to acquire a lot of bitcoin early. Most of them abandoned it, and it had nothing to do with privilege or immediate need.
Personal data is already a liability in the medical space. How’s HIPAA made that any different? Are those databases breached just as often, but of little interest?
I’ve seen those! They’re definitely better, but we’re not really _supposed_ to choose.
I was annoyed at the way the victim was portrayed. They just kept dancing around it.
Git repository for movie torrents
Was just about to link to this. I'd also mention that gold confiscation was heavily used by the Nazis.

Gold is great as a store of value when things are good, and incredibly shitty when your government turns on you.
I wonder how much money Coinbase employees, friends and family made by insider trading on this announcement. Gotta love unregulated markets!
I've had good success with using davmail[1] with the exchange server at work. It's still hosted on sourceforge, but some extended/community repositories have it as well (like Arch's AUR). It's Java, so relatively portable and easy to get working.

It even works with the calendar!

[1] http://davmail.sourceforge.net
This is an interesting example because the kernel's open() interface blocks for 4,000 ms all the time. Heavy swapping or the ext3 journal is full and some other app just called fsync().

Apps have to handle it. If they don't, because for example, they access the disk while also trying to be a display compositor, then they are simply broken. It does not matter if the kernel is usually fast enough. Because sometimes it isn't.
How well you think bitcoin’s potential worked out is likely to depend on exactly when in the next six months you decide to sell.

Then again, being able to anticipate irrational investment in bitcoin is arguably also a skill, assuming it’s not just dumb luck.
Job Titles Mean More Than You Might Think
Had no idea such a thing existed. Thanks for the information.
> Do you degrade screen-on time but leave performance relatively unchanged?

I don't think Screen on Time is the concern (though I admit that article isn't extremely clear). Given that devices were shutting down at 40% capacity I think it was more of a brown-out condition, where the device shut down despite having more energy left in the battery.

Given:

1. Battery voltage decreases as charge decreases.

2. Battery voltage sags as current draw increases, due to internal resistance.

3. Internal resistance increases with battery wear.

4. If battery voltage drops too low the phone will turn off.

a moment of high current draw could cause a device to suddenly shut down. Since this issue was endemic to 6S devices, perhaps some unusually large number of those batteries had unusually high internal resistance due to wear.

If this were the case the fix would be to reduce peak power draw and thus peak performance. This change would be especially evident in geekbench, but could also affect regular usage since mobile devices typically try to alternate (sleep) -> (high performance) -> (sleep).
Yeah this is definitely the biggest point of the article, thanks for highlighting that!
Bitcoin Cash Trading Now Available on GDAX
Sigh, Amazon S3 bucket scavenging is today's version of 'war dialing'
Sound like wise people. At least, no-one will be able to judge otherwise for quite a while yet...
In extremely basic hi/low card counting, if you had the information to suggest that most of the high cards had already been played, then yes that was a bad decision not to hit or weigh it more objectively to come to the same conclusion.

This is in line with whatever analogy you were going for, and OP, who had information.
I came to this thread to write something along these lines of "have a place to go to". This can be beside club, swim club, the Parisian cafe, etc. Church certainly qualifies as well.
If it grew big enough, I would imagine GitHub would remove it on copyright grounds.

Although it does seem like a good idea, you could also develop a simple search front end, allowing people to simple clone to repo, host a simple php search page to search the repo.
Google maps is improving since the day I first saw it - that must have been around 2003 or so. The improvement on the data is phenomenal if you look at it over then past 10+ years; The amount of times I blindly trust GM to go somewhere increase every year. I suspect the edgecases will be solved slowly, like navigating to a shop inside a mall, a market stall, an ad-hoc gathering, a planned building, et cetera.

Typing in an address, going there by directions, verifying the building front without extra time needed for travel is truly magic.
Haven't replaced the battery (yet) but did have to replace the screen on my iPhone 5, it really wasn't that bad all things considered...and by "all things" I mostly mean having to pay something like $120 to Apple.

Battery should be a cake walk.
Swedish hiding behind Bitcoin.com: “Bitcoin is virtually unusable”
Unfortunately in a child pays for parent scenario you need to pay double fees. Otherwise it's not worthwhile for the miner to confirm both transactions in order to only get one fee. So they'd need to pay $44 in fees in order to free their $50.
Another ICO Draws a Securities Class Action Lawsuit
> Nuclear is obsolete to what? As far as I understand, nuclear is the replacement for coal, nothing else comes close to being able to provide a stable constant supply in large quantities.

The article pretty clearly demonstrates that grid-scale battery storage systems are able to provide very fast reaction times.

More battery storage systems, along with other forms of energy storage such as Solar-Thermal and pumped-hydro can take daytime generation and make it usable at night. They're proven workable grid-scale technologies.

Large widely distributed deployments of Wind generation can also provide a lot of capacity. For those who claim wind doesn't always blow - well, it's always blowing somewhere.

Having a lot more individually smaller generators plus energy storage will inherently permit a more stable grid - one smaller generator tripping offline doesn't cause a massive issue.
Edit: I was able to login after several minutes of downtime.

I would urge others to buy a hardware wallet and not store your coins with Coinbase.
Google Maps is my pick for the coolest website on the internet. Truly a killer app.
I don't think it made them seem unintelligent at all, I love that freaking movie, inspires me to write software every time. However, I do think it did make them look bad, even if they aren't but then again it was made from the POV of Facebook and not Winklevoss
How does the volatility not make it a bad store of value?! Surely by definition that is exactly why it is a bad store of value!
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You need a consensus about what software to run, what it does, what version, and you need the consensus of the community to run nodes and mine.

Imagine that a large majority of miners bet the wrong way on Bitcoin at the CME and go in hoc up to their eyeballs short BTC. Let's say 80% of the BTC mining community is short big and they need BTC for delivery now. As a general proposition, that community could reach a consensus to modify the software they are running to inflate away their debt. The consensus is just like any other fiat currency, and it is very unlike the core nature of gold. The very scarcity is determined by consensus.
if you sell in the next six months you lose. at this point crypto is a hedge against our mad max style post apocalyptic future.
Because American Lives Matter? Because the Chinese are more willing to go to war to protect themselves, and there are more Chinese than Americans?
While this approach is reasonable and practical for credit card data, I doubt it's possible (let alone practical) for most businesses to do the same with what the GDPR considers personal data. You'd have to avoid email addresses, names, postal addresses, phone numbers, ... - even in fields where such data is not even supposed to be, like comments or emails.

Might be possible if one just sells ebooks or similar digital goods without much customer interaction. But for anything more complex than that, you're pretty much out of luck.
The commenter you're replying to is saying that he "was wondering." My reading of his comment is that earlier today he was wondering why Bitcoin Cash was up so much (prior to the Coinbase announcement).

Now the price action makes sense. There were insiders who knew today was the day that Bitcoin Cash was coming to Coinbase and the price was up on that info. It's really a comment on the nature of unregulated crypto markets and insider trading.
All customers who held a Bitcoin balance on Coinbase at the time of the fork will now see an equal balance of Bitcoin Cash available in their Coinbase account.

Pardon the naive question, but does this mean Coinbase users who held Bitcoin have essentially "doubled their money"?
Can maps be a killer app?
> Snow

Ehhhhhh, about 15 minutes after the first snow you prep yourself for spending the next 5 months or so sloshing through giant deep puddles of pitch-black semi-frozen slush. Plus everything ends up with a fine dusting of road salt.

Source: six years in Manhattan.
> If it doesn't need to be insured, you could just spin off a smaller entity responsible for holding the data for you, and shut the company down if the data leaks

If this is possible without insurance then it’s possible with, and every insurance company will mandate the structure to limit payouts. Mandating insurance simple entrenches the insurers. Why, for instance, would you want to require Apple purchase insurance against its users’ data?

Side note: beneficial ownership [1] and affiliate definitions [2] are useful for such cases.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/beneficialowner.asp

[2] http://rule144opinion.blogspot.com/2014/02/rule-144-are-you-...
The parent made a good point, and your comment is completely unrelated although it purports to be an argument against it.
Minimally Actuated Robot Arm Has Lots of Joints, Just One Motor