skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question is how soon is soon. I remember saying the exact same thing 3, 4 yrs ago when these 2 same guys were then saying bitcoin would go to $10000. It was something like $600 then and I thought they were totally nuts and that was a sign of a bubble if anything. Now I wish I had bought a few coins back then
That is, if they ever see the e-mail. They're hosted on Gmail, which tend to
mark e-mail from smaller mail servers as spam.
Numerical Integration Over Brillouin Zones
Should the slowed clearing rate actually reduce the value? Increased perceived value driving the price up / speculation actually causing a drop in value due to the system underlying Bitcoin?)
In Australia, being green or anti-green is a big part of politics. The party currently nationally in power is anti-green.

Interestingly, because of the combination of great solar conditions and long distances, if you want to build a house in the middle of nowhere, it's cheaper to buy solar and a battery than hook into the grid.
Should just point out that gold was made illegal in multiple cultures on several occasions.
The hardware comparison is fun and all but aren’t the hackintoshes an absolute bear to keep working after the initial install?
Interesting idea. It has a some troubling flaws, though.

First, in order to make the lockout in #5 work it would seem that the votes need to be tallied in real time as they are cast.

This could be addressed in a couple of ways.

(A) Allow votes of the form:

Vote for candidate C1
If C1 is locked out, vote for C2
If C2 is locked out, vote for C3
...

That would allow processing votes in batches, ordered by time stamp.

(B) Instead of a lockout, allow a candidate to receive more votes than the #voters/#congresspeople threshold. Each voter starts with a weighted vote with weight 1, and provides a list of alternative candidates similar to from (A).

If C1 gets a total weighted vote above the election threshold, choose t such that if each voters weight is multiplied by t the total for C1 will exactly equal the threshold.

For each C1 voter, split their vote giving t of it to C1, and 1-t of it to their C2.

Iterate through this until it converges. (I think it must converge, but offhand do not have a proof).

Second, you need to know the number of voters in advance to set the threshold. Note that you need the actual number of people who will vote, not just the number of eligible voters, because if you use the later you will be setting the threshold too high.

Third, if the number of people running is large, it is quite possible nobody reaches the election threshold. You need a procedure to whittle down the number of candidates.
We're conjecturing about hypothetical bugs. No one in this thread knows what bugs were encountered nor how easy they were to fix; they aren't real bugs. They're symbolic of the bugs that we encounter every day, which give us the experience on which we base our conjecture.
Centrify announces Zero Trust approach to security
This is referring to the minimum cost in fees for a transaction to get copied from the mempool to a block.
Only when a transaction is in a block is it a valid transfer of bitcoin.
Its nothing to do with trading or exchange rates or energy costs or fiat.

Bitcoin is working exactly the same as it has always, however now because of the backlog, transaction fees are very high.
In the order of Western Union + Visa Fees + Bank Wire fees all at the same time!

I made a very small transaction for a friend a week ago (~$50) and paid $2 USD in fees. That is not enough and the transaction will sit waiting until the backlog decreases, it may never clear.

Bitcoin is kind of broken right now.
>Missouri

>Kansas

We have very different ideas of what states qualify as the midwest.
Fiat liquidity will come once we get some more professional exchanges run doing bigger volumes.

The coin itself is of course quite liquid although transaction fees mean you aren't buying your weekly shopping with bitcoin. But maybe you can pay your monthly rent.
Don't use anything like this - it's morally bankrupt.

If everyone who sold anything used tools like this to maximize revenue, we'd all be bled dry, even more than we are now.

Protect your customers, remember they're your top stakeholder!

Your goal should be to find a balance between meeting costs, providing affordable value to your customers, and generating a reasonable profit.

Otherwise, you're part of the disease.

WILDE.TWAIN.
The issue is if you are not the exchange admin. In most IT departments the default answer to everything, including "please turn on IMAP" is No.
While the actions were beneficial in this case, that argument would be more convincing if the spec itself weren't a constantly moving "Living standard" maintained by the exact same organisations that also develop the browsers. And even that spec is sometimes consciously broken in an "intervention".
how so? another comment without context.
Let's Bury the Hustle
A good, if depressing, argument can be made for defining philosophy as "that which happens in academic philosophy departments." Ideas have a quorum of people that you have to convince in order to be taken seriously, when your thoughts aspire to the philosophical, then that quorum exists solely in the academy and related organizations grounded in the academy.

Any attempts to get outside of this mean expanding the quorum to "anyone, really." Which means the standard publishing cycle where your idea's merits are judged by sales figures. Which means that every single book out there is a philosophy treatise.

Any marketplace of ideas has to have its gatekeepers. Otherwise we all drown in a deluge of shit. Traditional literature, art, architecture, really any serious creative endeavor has an industry of people that serves as the gatekeepers that determine both the current status and the zeitgeist of the art. Outsiders must build their own audiences and fight their way in, rather than be able to tap the extant audience that the gatekeepers are the guardians of. It's difficult to see how it could happen any other way. Otherwise you get legions of wannabes proffering crap. Philosophy is no different.
I'm pretty sure that Switzerland has a considerable amount of homes, lakes, mountains and all that.

I also think it has much smaller occurrence of people on welfare selling and buying coke, drive-by shootings, rusty factories and young-earth theorists in schools. Much much smaller occurrence. Of all that kinds of stuff.

I mean, no. That fancy restaurant is really "almost twice" as good as your McDrive. The latter does have its uses, but it's laughable to compare. It's Swiss for god's sake.
iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
I love an example in this direction of `That Indian Drink`. When I first saw a label of it I read it in my mind as spoken by a Southern California Valley Girl accent. http://www.thatindiandrink.com/behind-that-drink/
Pretty funny play on likely found ignorance by others mixed with self-deprecating humor.
We could pick any number of gold-like commmodities, but like Bitcoin, gold has had a history of large expenditures to acquire it. Both are buoyed by that past.

I would have put that the other way around ("like gold, bitcoin ...") but even so the scale of the relevant histories are not even in the same ballpark. Bitcoin has had held value for seven years. Gold for more than seven thousand years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
Making Heart Attacks History: Caldwell Esselstyn
I'm curious why the first required version is Android 8.0 (API version 26), instead of Android 8.1 (API version 27)...
Thanks for your kind words. If you ever find the time to learn it, you'll find the gitter channel useful for any questions.
10. New smartphone available Amazon
I'd say that's the best to buy a lambo.
If bitcoin is becoming even more successful (in the sense of high transactions number) and if blocksize remains at ~1 MB, what will be the impact on fees? And could we imagine unsustainable fees?
> Both are in fixed quantity so none is more rare than other.

There is 80% more gold aboveground today than there was in 1980.
So instead of click-to-play Flash, now you have unstoppable, auto playing audio and video ads that spy on you...?

Yes Flash with it's weekly or sometimes daily security vulnerabilities was bad, but HTML5 is not "better".

It is design by giant corporations (DRM inside your CPU, inside your browser, etc.) FOR other corporations. It is not designed for people, for freedom. It is regulatory capture by Silicon Valley "techbros" of... Internet's standardizing bodies instead of government regulating agencies.

Hence when I recently used the browser (designed by an advertising company BTW), websites just freely play annoying sounds.

This is not "better". It's worse IMHO, since at least with Flash you had click-to-play.

/Rant
Azolla = free fish food. It obtains both nitrogen and carbon from the air and can double in mass every 2-3 days. Protein content is 17%. Needs only a few inches of water, sunlight and trace minerals.

I've done the math, and while Azolla can't provide 100% of fish nutrition, it can easily provide the majority of it. It can also provide human food and chickens love it. So do pretty much any domesticated animal: many papers have been written about studies on azolla raised hogs, ducks and cows.
Super exciting Bret Victor publicly launched this project! On a related note, A professor at MIT, Hiroshi Ishii, has done a lot of work in tangible user interfaces around 2003-2005, you can see more work here: http://tangible.media.mit.edu/projects/

Definately the visions/goals are differently motivated, but interesting to see more examples of adding tangible control to computing.
Plenty of people already have. Even if they come out with only 10% of the value of their holdings that is still a Huge return for what they initially put into it
I feel like you took the specifics around how your evaluation was done and your choices regarding how you solved the problem and conflated those with the entire HackerRank platform, which seems at best disingenuous and at worst intellectually irresponsible.

Regarding the idea that "they expect input and output in a necessarily contrived form", they are giving you a problem to solve. You could say any expectation around input and output is contrived. As a professional, you will not always be able to control this, and need to be able to work against the constraints that are imposed on you.

Regarding the idea that "there is no communication or creativity involved", this is just flat out wrong. You might have had a bad experience due to the way the exercises were set up by the interviewers, but that's not because of HackerRank. What I did is limit the allowed languages and progress people from initial code puzzle screenings to pair programming sessions, where the communication and collaboration evaluation comes in. In every case (puzzles included), there is plenty of room for creativity. In fact, in my own hiring, I have seen a very wide range of different solutions—some very interesting and creative!

I found your choice of Bash to be pretty odd. I'm not sure I'd allow people to write their solutions in Bash, because I realize that a lot of it comes down to fiddling with things like the sed expression you described, which I don't care about. If, as an employer, I want to evaluate your problem solving skills, I'd prefer languages that abstract as much as possible away and force you to focus on the problem as a whole. If, as an applicant, I wanted to highlight my ability to solve problems with code, I would never in a million years choose Bash.

It seems like the way the company you applied to set up the HackerRank platform, mismanaged their communication with you, and selected and configured the questions combined with your choice of Bash, as well as your own personality idiosyncrasies (like getting stressed about the countdown instead of focusing on the problem & remaining calm) came together to create a perfect storm for you, but in my own experience, I've really enjoyed doing their puzzles. I've also had great success using their platform for my own hires and have found that the platform does a great job of highlighting exceptionally skillful engineers and reducing bias in the hiring process. Our team avoided several very bad hires who looked great on paper with the help of the HackerRank platform. So, I think that while it's easy to blame HackerRank, that's not where the real problem is IMO.

The thing with HackerRank is that a LOT comes down to the hiring manager. If s/he doesn't do a good job managing the candidate pipeline, communicating, setting up the puzzles, doing the pair programming sessions, running interviews, etc., then people are going to have experiences like yours. There's no magical platform that will solve for a bad hiring process.
Series the 530e is what £45k? The weight of the car doesn’t matter here if anything the Tesla performs rather poorly because it’s breaks and suspension aren’t that great for its weight class.
Amazing how technology allows people to create value out of thin air.
@Rudism actually convinced me you're correct (in spirit) unless there is some other portion of information we're missing. However a client-application is not the same thing as a user-agent.
Just because their software is on my laptop does not mean I'm in control...What makes you think client-side requests preclude this being about net-neutrality?

Latency is additive...regardless of what layer we're talking about. increases in transport latency can be compensated for at the physical or application layer...time is time, the OSI model isn't involved.
And as the article states: "it is largely symbolic since oil and gas produced in France accounts for just 1 percent of domestic consumption"

I don't understand who/what this "ban" is for actually. If the current oil/gas production is that ridiculous, ban it in 5 years, won't change much anyway, but that would make a nice statement/publicity. Doing this in 20+ years, why?

Also, if they had taken the "matter" seriously, they could have banned all refineries as well. but that would be a risky move, Total is quite large in France's industry (actually n°2 by revenue - https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classement_des_plus_grandes_en...).

On a positive note however, this may be a small part of a bigger plan: Paris seems to have plans for a ban on petrol cars by 2030 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/12/paris-ban-petrol-...) and France seems to have plans for a ban on petrol cars by 2040 (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/06/france-ban-petrol...)
I cannot totally separate the content from the man, nor from the actions of the man.
I am looking at converting 40k lines of action script right now. TypeScript is my top choice, while I like HAXE, I dont feel that is has a large enough ecosystem. Also ActionScript to TypeScript is really easy.
Probably because they are reaching backwards by some internally defined amount of time.
Thanks, and just so I understand correctly, these pending orders are waiting within the blockchain to be executed, similar(ish) to a task queue?
The most interesting thing for ne about this article is they use a dynamic bitcoin price ticket inline. Ive never seen that in an mainstream article, it always looks so dated when looking negatively at $100 or $500 bitcoin...
I'm not sure, but I'd imagine so.
I think the authors would argue that the statistic tells you more about the situation where there is a gun in the room, a toddler, and an adult who looks a bit foreign. Who should you be more worried about keeping the gun away from?
It's confusing because the terms are different internationally.

The RER B is not a direct train link - it's equivalent to taking the Piccadilly Line from Heathrow, you will take a long time through many stations and share with commuters. Think instead Hong Kong's express train or the Narita Express in Tokyo: a fast, clean, premium service that takes you from airport to city centre core locations in a couple of stops (the Heathrow Express is actually pretty bad for this as it arrives somewhere far from most places of interest which is why they're building CrossRail).

UberX/Pool in most of the world (although this is changing - e.g. license now required in Singapore) means the everyday salaryman who happens to commute by car and decides to pick people up on the way to bump up his end of month. Many people end up doing this full time but usually in between jobs. In some countries it's lucrative enough to become a career.

How nice an X/Pool car is depends on the local market. In Singapore it used to be old, entry level Toyotas but as the rental company business improved it became small SUVs (like the Honda Vezel). In Sydney you get anything from a Subaru WRX to an E-class.

Black in most of the world means "professional driver, new-ish sedan used for professional transport" and that depends again on the price locally. In Ho Chi Minh City it's a local market 8 seater van (like a bare bones Honda Odyssey with leather seats). In Singapore you can get the odd Mercedes E-class. In Hong Kong you get many Teslas, with the rest Audi A6 or larger.

In France, X/Pool now use professional drivers, and the cars are sedans: Renault Laguna, Volvo S60, etc. In that sense, the service is equivalent to Black in the rest of the world.

I agree about insurance and tax, but it really depends how you implement it. In Singapore, the license is very cheap and requires a few hours of training (for safety and to know your obligations). This is a stark contrast to 300k+ EUR/USD medallions.
It isn't. If you look at the EU's information about it [1], you must be able to refuse processing of information that's not necessary for the functioning of the site. Virtually no site outside the EU's own ones does that. Ironically, there are some that have them even though the only cookies they use are ones that are necessary for the functioning of the site, and so are exempt.

Note that this isn't just about cookies. It's pretty much any information being sent from the user's computer or stored on the user's computer: "Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store information or to gain access to information stored in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned is provided with clear and comprehensive information in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia about the purposes of the processing, and is offered the right to refuse such processing by the data controller."

As far as I can tell, this is mostly because member states capitulated before online advertising exchanges (it's a directive, not a regulation, so it is implemented by member states) and allowed them to work around the clear intent of the directive.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
If you're in the US most Mexican places serve at least one dish with cactus, even here in the Northeast.
Nope. It's because one of the things that WebAssembly did to succeed was stay small. Instead of a huge kitchen sink spec, it's lean and mean, and will add things over time. DOM access is one of the first features to be layered on.
That is in fact why mathematics is referred to as the "queen of the sciences" -- philosophy is king.

And PhD is literally "teacher of the appreciation of knowledge" -- until recently you had "the PhD" and were qualified to teach, theoretically, any subject.
You do put money into a company when you buy its shares ... during an IPO. Meanwhile, owning shares of a company convey fractional ownership of it, its assets, and its future earnings. People will consider the stock price of a company relative to its assets and earnings (P/E) as an indicator of whether the company is overpriced or under-priced.

No one really notes the "total volume" of the trades of stocks, which is what you're asking for for Bitcoin; it isn't really a meaningful number. If people pass a stock
- or a Bitcoin - back and forth for 10 trades for [$99, $101] or for 100 trades for [$99, $101], it isn't really meaningful.

The best you can do for Bitcoin is to try to gauge the "depth of the market" right now, ie, how many "buy" and "sell" orders are out at what prices, how much Bitcoin you could buy or sell right now and what the average price you could buy or sell a large quantity of Bitcoin at. (Eg, if you wanted to sell X Bitcoin, you might be able to sell X/2 Bitcoin at $PRICE and X/2 Bitcoin at $PRICE/2, for an average price of $PRICE*3/4.)
We really really want to support parallelism and we've had some basic successes so far. We're very confident we want this, and we're confident we can come up with a performant solution: despite being a different language our parallelism solution will likely end up close to Go's which has largely solved this already.

We're not there yet but I'm confident the main barrier is time and manpower to implement it, not willpower or technical reasons.
Yeah, we already saw how that went on China [1].

The reality is, no board will in any circumstance quit doing business in the largest economic area in the world by far [2], at least if they want to keep their job. Thinking otherwise is just naïve, I'm afraid.

In fact, my impression is that these policies encourage all involved actors into developing a better business model that can accommodate different sensibilities, and hopefully explore new revenue sources. I'm sure something good will come out out of this for FB and the rest of data moguls. The 'we sell your privacy for peanuts' is a rat race no matter how you look at it, and it is in fact slowly declining for everything but mobile according to some [3].

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/13/business/google-ai-china....

[2] http://ec.europa.eu/trade/policy/eu-position-in-world-trade/

[3] http://www.businessinsider.com/online-ads-revenues-going-to-...
U2F fob for Christmas?
The article clearly says that HR offered to switch her to another team, but she didn't want to because she liked her current team and her current boss. Other than this it would require switching the guy to another team, but then they probably wouldn't force someone to quit their team without first doing an investigation (or letting the police force finish their investigation), which is what they did.
One disadvantage of gold I can think of is you cannot hide it in your head.
Okay, ignore the people saying bittorrent isn't illegal: Who cares that it's illegal?
The thing about Socratic debate is that to do it well, and actually produce NEW information that's not the two sides yelling stuff they already believe at each other, the two sides need to agree to not engage in any of the informal or logical fallacies. Not a lot of people are familiar with the informal fallacies. Since they are arguments that can be used to support any argument, when I'm debating something online and I'm in the mood for putting work into it, I will use fallacies used against me to prove the exact opposite of the argument the fallacy user is trying to make. Anybody who has some education in rhetoric can adopt this technique. It makes arguing on internet forums kind of fun because it at least allows for an opportunity to demonstrate the reasons behind rhetorical rules. This is what these free speech platforms are good for, because you can really get into it with people in a debate before it gets cut off for not being polite enough to popularly held fallacious ideas.

For example, I sometimes go on to right wing forum and argue that the Jews are unfairly targeted for criticism as a group. It's a challenge to bring people around, but for some reason I kind of enjoy it. It's like fight club for my brain.

I think the fallacious arguments are getting more automated lately. I was once on a thread where there was some sort of auto-insult bot that would just hurl insults. I would reply with the insult back with the terms switched around. The lazy shill, or the bot would reply back. This went back and forth for a while until I asked the other guy if he was a bot and then it stopped.
Do you sell them on Amazon? As physical books or just Kindle?