skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By far the most memorable book I read this years was "When Breath becomes Air" by Paul Kalanithi. It's a quick read an immensely impactful.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-bec...
I'm not sure any banks have crypto on their balance sheets so you may be a bit ahead of things there.
Wait 2, 10 or 20 years and a pizza may look like a good value again. Think of it like the Hindenburg or the Wright biplane. Yes, it works and demonstrates a principle. That doesn't mean it will keep flying.
Some of us think that burning coal at 250kwh[1] per transaction isn't sustainable.

[1]https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/bitcoins-insane-...
Its considered best practice for corporate governance - mainly as the independent non exec chairman can hold the CEO to account on behalf of the share holders - this should have happened in the HP scandal a while back.
Not at the moment. I'm guessing this information is available in the EXIF properties?
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> It seems like the way news propagates, it should be possible to eliminate bad posters IF most people on the network are either running their own server or posting from a friend's server. If spam is popping up, you can look back at the path it took; if the spammer's feeds don't stop propagating his messages, then they themselves will probably get disconnected by their feeds.

The Usenet Death Penalty (UDP) is what was used in the past against ISPs or spammers, but the wikipedia article [1] indicates that it relied on cancel messages rather than reconfiguring the peering arrangement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet_Death_Penalty
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It’s no inconvenience! That’s why we’re there :)
After years of Objective-C I don't blink unless a line is over 140 characters.

Some things just look better that way.
If by "it was explained there" you mean "there was a discussion there and some people agree with me", then sure "it was explained there". In fact, neither of those quotes were debunked, the only attempt to debunk them is based on the idea that there were two revolvers before systemd-resolved, and only one of them held this behavior. That is a really silly arguments because the main complaint is that systemd-resolved is being used as a drop in replacement that doesn't obey the defacto spec established by its predecessor.

The irony here is that there are real arguments for changing the behavior (and real arguments against it), but you are ignoring them to instead insist that any complaints are "debunked" when they clearly aren't.
I don't personally use them, but you can use them to gamble online, black markets, transfer funds, etc.. much easier to move than gold (gold tends to be heavy, unless you get gold "certificates" or whatever they call them, then you don't even know if you really have real gold).
No. It requires opencv and image processing
It’s freezing to a static version, everyone would have the same static (frozen) version from now on, not a build number. So you can’t use it as part of a finger print.

https://github.com/WebKit/webkit/commit/4bc237458115ac916f39...

Also suggests you’d need to do capability detection other ways in future.
Ah, actually, the author's github repository has notebook, data, and additional tutorials. It's just that he did not link them in README.md. For example, you can see "Beginner MNIST" here ( https://github.com/Andrewnetwork/WorkshopScipy/blob/master/N... ) Since every collected project is periodically updated, the links in README.md might work sometime later.

I'm usually very careful when selecting a project, and his project gave me a hesitant moment. But, I thought the amount of material gone into building the project would outweigh inconvenience. I think I was short-sighted there. I'll make a note on this, and try to make clear communication with author in the future.
Most transactions fall into the first -solved- category, a minority is in the second.
I wasn't going to say it... But somebody did
Coolmath.com
freedom of movement is in the
universal declaration of human rights

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_movement
I started my own project free libre open-source project. It become quite popular in a year. I even found a guy who wanted to "invest" XXXk (I said no), and I won a grant of 25k from one non-profit accelerator (but never able to receive it). Also, I already had couple of job opportunities I rejected, and already spoke with some legendary folks from Open Source world about the future of the project. So it is definitely interesting and worth doing. The only downside is you need to invest some time into it. So it's better to do something what's really interesting for you.
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I agree. I "missed out" on purchasing some bitcoin assets early on. So seeing a lot of the rise right now, I don't share in the excitement as -- I would imagine -- someone who's holding a few thousand BTCs.

Having said that, I think there's a bit of (healthy) skepticism amongst those of us who hold "traditional" assets regarding BTC.

As someone who holds real estate as part of the investment portfolio, I understand and see the return from the rental properties. Stocks give me dividends. Bonds give me interest payments.

Currently, all these yields are in dollars. But would I gladly accept BTC as payment? Currently -- no. It's too volatile for it to be useful. And the entire issue of blockchain transaction backlog is worrisome.

So if a tenant comes to me and says, "I'll pay this month's rent in BTC," I'd still have to say, "No thanks. I'll take dollars please."
I use vim bindings in visual studio and do a lot of custom binding to resharper functionality. It's quite magic, the only thing I really miss from Vim is easy motion and the vim emulation is not complete so for some editing tasks I have to open a file in Vim.
And people had had less food than normal Germany especially had major food shortages.
While not explicitly mentioned (at least from cursory searches), the manga "Koroshiya Ichi" is based on a dense complex very much inspired by Kowloon where it's basically a lawless city where criminals, triads, prostitutes lived amongst the downtrodden and regular people who are just trying to carry on with their lives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichi_the_Killer_(manga)
> because of the extreme brittleness of their mechanisms.

On top of all that, we're still entirely unsure how the system is going to function once all bitcoin has been mined and it becomes a pure transaction system.
Primarily, with another use being those who lack a proper banking system.
fwiw, a play director will be off stage signaling, giving cues, and advise. She may not physically be on stage, but she's definitely involved during the performance.
I was a heavy customizer and used it with all sorts of plugins, but maintaining it across computers with little incompatibilities between OS's and version just got to be too much. I finally came around to the tmux side and now use vim as the editor and unix as the IDE. Going to give kakoune another shot in the new year as well.
"for me at least it is an opportunity to keep my own wealth. "

This is a really poor reason to use BTC.

A) BTC is supposed to be a currency - generally, a currency is not where you should be storing wealth. Currencies are not designed to be 'stores of value' - they are there to facilitate economic activity and transactions.

If you want to 'store wealth' - put it in real estate, bonds or equities. Commodities. Other currencies. A broad mix/basket of many of them.

B) There's no reason at all to think that BTC will necessarily be worth more/less than another currency. Why do you think BTC will 'always go up'? Much of the BTC hype may have already been had.

C) By simply keeping your currency in a trivial savings account, will roughly protect it from inflation.

In addition - most bank accounts are Federally insured - in case something goes wrong, you get up to $200K back etc..

D) Risk. BTC could go to zero tomorrow. Probably not - but possibly. It's extremely volatile = bad store of value.

People have this really odd view that 'currency = value' ... it's not ... currency is just a 'medium of exchange' - so you only need to hold it when you want to transact with someone else in a common/liquid way.

Over any reasonable length of time, currency is generally not a good place to hold value, and it's not designed for that.

If you have lot's of currency, trade it for something else, spread it out.

There will never, ever be a currency or any other magical currency store of value that will provide what you are kind of implying. Never. This is because the ratio of 'things people need' and the 'amount of currency they need to transact for' is constantly in flux, ergo, a 'fixed' currency constantly in flux relative to that.
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The primary concern is that if BTC wins, we will all be subservient to an algorithm which no one has any incentive to change. We'll lose all financial controls.

Worse, people with massive crypto fortunes can act as evil as they want, and society can't do anything to stop them. Right now we can take the money away from the powerful, if society collectively agrees to. That will become impossible.

If BTC had no upper limit, I would agree with you. But Satoshi capped it, and theories abound as to why. The most reasonable explanation is that he wanted to incentivize network strength: more participants, the healthier the network, and deflationary currency encourages adoption from a game theory point of view.

But think about the endgame. What do you think will happen when coins stop being minted? When there are only 400 BTC left to mine? What will happen to all those miners and the vast worldwide mining apparatus?

If Satoshi were still around, he would likely want to remove the hard cap. And then we'd be in a different situation. But he didn't, so we're not.
I think once people start cashing out a large amount of bitcoin, the value will drop (due to additional supply). I'm afraid with all the latest hype and new investors, a drop off would trigger a massive selloff.
Nit, but an interesting subtle one:

bitcoin-core can double the amount of bitcoin overnight. They can commit new code which does that and shows up in the next client.

But, that would presumably be noticed: either in the oss repo, or in the blockchain itself.

So I think more accurately, it's sort of in between a fiat currency and a commodity. It's a fiat currency whose operation is completely transparent.
Most of the c++ and c# code I see lately has so many things declared as auto, it's hard for me to figure things out too.
They say there is a holy land called Haskell, but it is only revealed to the truest of believers without the weight of the chaotic-neutral entity “Shareholder” weighing ever so heavily on their shoulders. For those in Shareholder’s clutches, one must forgive their prayer. ‘Tis the best they can do.
I don't know what you think I said, but yes, sure, investigate all of them, that sounds great? What is your point exactly? Nobody ever said Russia is unique in this regard. That doesn't make it a waste of time to investigate the extremely current and ongoing Russian interference. It's literally affecting people's everyday lives at this very moment. Priorities are a thing.
I doubt it with the insane transaction fees and confirmation delays, they're better off using Western Union on both counts at this point
It can be an equalizer, no doubt about that. Probably the biggest reason I hope it works its way into our culture the way credit and bank card transactions have. That and privacy, which these exchanges have none of.
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> The interviewer asks this woman about the future of Bitcoin when she's clearly not an expert because shes says, Bitcoin "will be too high for individuals to invest in." One could buy a fraction of a Bitcoin to "invest" as little as $5.

I'm confused?

But 'this woman' is completely right

at ~15k$/btc only the wealthy are able to invest

Did you put quotes around "invest" because you think btc is a bad investment?

Or to protect you from people saying:" 'this man' is clearly not an expert because he thinks 5$ is an investment"

Or perhaps for some other reason?
Yes. And tons of articles and people are also making the mistake of thinking the sites tracking BTC transfers are actually transactions either purchasing or selling Bitcoin for cash. In reality, they are mostly internal transfers.
Pytorch and Chainer are more transparent. Sometimes you need to do custom gradient and stuff. Keras abstraction is too leaky
It's a little bit more tricky than that. What the EXIF might tell you is the camera calibration parameters like focal length, distortion, perspective center, etc. That can be used to fix systematic errors in images like pincushion/barrel distortion.

To unwarp photos that were taken at odd angles you need to do some image processing. The mathematics aren't particularly difficult, it's a homography transform in most cases (rectangles). The problem is robustly detecting the page.

Dropbox has some nice write-ups on this: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2016/08/fast-document-rectifi...
cool. I want wget now
:D Sounds like there will be no Windows 11 but instead

"GNU Windows" ;-)
I think the point is that this is a group within Facebook, when Facebook has claimed that its status as a platform means it's not culpable (for hate speech, Russian sock puppets, age-biased job postings, etc.).
There is something else, in the darkest reaches. It has many incantations, but the non-believers have a singular name. Lisp.
Edge cases:

A. If you give the equity to the startups:

1. There is a risk of activist or corporate acquirers getting a substantial share of YC after buying out startups. Contract clauses can eliminate that, and prevent dilution, but value of extended network advocacy is lost too.

2. Do dead startups lose their share? If they do, you would see more zombies, which is not ideal. If they don’t who keeps the equity when founders part ways? If it’s the founders based on equity share - see (B)

3. Competing startups could have shares in the successful one, and potential vote, which leads Oracle/Salesforce type battles. Potential swinging votes during corporate governance, but also potential helpful behavior, which while nice could be seen collusion by regulators at scale. That said, startups win with monopoly characteristics, so that may be less of an issue.

B. If you give the equity to individual members:

1. There is selection bias where alumnae help friends and go through the program multiple times - you risk having portfolio maximization and groups voting buddies in for control over YC. Even if you don’t see clique battles, there will still be: Vote these guys in because they were Stanford alumns too. Over time you will lose even more diversity in the network and a broader network that captures the next wave of breakouts not seen by the less diverse YC will gain speed.

2. The resume stuffing and portfolio padding motif to join YC will be dominant to the “let’s build a unicorn” motif. People who pursue status and do YC as the next Harvard will have more easy access (B1) and more reason to go for it.

3. To boost the unicorn incentive the above equity distribution needs to continue only if you have a startup within YC that is actively growing by certain criteria or has had a meaningful exit for the YC network. Another way to protect integrity of the network, is to allow equity in YC to be stacked only if the person has been a founder of more than one startup still growing or with a meaningful exit. This scenario may be enhanced with some incentive for people who join other YC startups meaningfully, but how complicated a structure will be too complicated for investors in the YC startups themselves?

This is first layer of brainstorming with minimal info.
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I might be wrong, but doesn't modern Windows just silently installs these from windows update, without EULA or user consent?
Who is this new Microsoft?!
Whenever a Vim post mentions grep, ack or ag — especially in conjunction with fzf/fzy — I'll make sure to mention the even faster rg (ripgrep): https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep BurntSushi's write-up about the internal workings of ripgrep is also super interesting: http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/)

It's a really amazing piece of software. It has also recently been included in Visual Studio Code to search in files.
No, I was suggesting they will make colonialism look armature eventually. You only have to look at their behavior in ever other facet of life. They eat species into extinction. The west is a meal to them.
I still wish I could have gotten in on the railway mania. Rail is truly amazing.
Thanks for the link. That blew my mind! I wish it could be added would, my phone would replace my scanner instantly.
Daily volume of $16b according to what? The ledger? If coinbase moves 10,000 bitcoins to a different wallet, you see that as a transaction. If I move all my Bitcoin from coinbase to a private wallet then back to coinbase, you would see those as separate transactions on the ledger as well.

There is not $16b in daily liquidity in the BTC market right now.

Moving money from one pocket to the other over and over all day long is not a sign of liquidity.
It bleeds when you floss so it seems like it’s pretty open. But I’m not positive.
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> I'm conflicted. I personally waver between "stallman is always right" and "free software misses the point" near constantly, myself.

I haven't heard the phrase, "free software misses the point", before, and a quick web search turns up too many links to stallman's "why open source misses the point" article. Could you elaborate a little or link somewhere that does?

Thank you!
I started a website for my final capstone project for my Bachelors degree in software/mobile development application and website design.

I am going to be working on finishing that up in 2018.

It's a huge project that is going to take me quite some time. I want to keep the site 100% ad free, so I trying to put together some ideas on how to monetize it. For now I an just asking for donations. But at some point I might need to figure out some kind of way to monetize it.

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http://unitedstatesghosttowns.com
So, you have curl and tar, but no pipe (|) on windows.
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How? Where?

Coinbase has daily and monthly limits. And you have to build up to them.

You would either have to find a billion dollar buyer somewhere or somehow manage the logistics of selling to thousands and thousands of individual buyers.
This micro-UBI thing is a bad experiment with good intentions.

UBI only works if it's fairly 'U'.

If you give UBI to 'one village' - that village will have tremendous leverage over the surrounding villages. Any rational application of commercial knowledge will - knowingly or unwittingly - drive competitors out of business, and that 'UBI village' could theoretically come to control a lot.

It only took a very small marginal advantage in transport costs for Oil companies to put others out of business and to create massive monopolies.

If you run a little 'sim village' experiment on that, you might find the UBI village owning all the regional real-estate over time and just extracting rent.

Another way of saying: a consistent, stable fixed income, even a not very big one, can be a powerful asset.
Illegal transactions? On a public ledger system?

BTC was always about reducing control from a few centralized parties. I don't want my bank or paypal account being arbitrarily frozen.

Nowadays BTC is not very good at transactions due to exorbitant fees + very slow confirmation times, but things like ethereum, bitcoin cash, and altcoins offer options. ETH is very quick.
Their market cap is $24 billion, while Apple is at $900 billion, and is in the race to become the world's first trillion-dollar company.

Even Acer (remember them) is worth almost 3x what Dell is today.
>If he hasn't, this is a terrible and misleading analogy, and a violation of the Principle of Charity.

It is using an analogy the parent made in their argument.

Take it up with them if you don't like it.
These resolution charts are based on what level of detail humans are able to resolve at what distances, and that is not going to change anytime soon.

This is the entire concept behind 'retina' displays. The max DPI that humans are able to resolve at typical usage distances.
Is that true? I keep seeing community run WoW servers for example.
As both a dynamic and static type enthusiast, back typing dynamic code is extremely problematic. Fluent use of a dynamic language will use and create constructs that are nearly un-typeable. If you want to make typed code, start typed. If you code with implicit types, use a good type inferred language (ML, F#, etc). If you want to use type checking in Python, use the annotations and MyPy from the beginning.

That said, I am not saying this tool is bad. It could very well help a lot of codebases, but I would warn against using it as part of the operational workflow.
Still no X, correct?
Yeah, doesn't it seem a little weird that they seem to want to enforce the distinction between gaming and industrial cards, but they also went ahead and included tensor cores in that new Titan card?

Did they not think that through and have an 'oh shit' moment when they saw all the news articles or something? Or is this a 'the first hit is free' sort of deal where they want people to learn about using the product on a startup budget, without giving up the ability to squeeze if someone has a good idea and wants to scale?
Ok, I kinda got sniped on this. Here's a first pass at a micro lib to do it using Proxy object:

const $ = (() => {
function listProxy(arr) {
return new Proxy(arr, {
set: (t, p, v, r) => {
for(let x of t) {
x[p] = v;
}
},
get: (t, p, r) => {
if(t.length > 0 && t[0][p] instanceof Function) {
return (...args) => { Array.prototype.map.call(t, (x) => x[p](args)) };
} else {
return listProxy( Array.prototype.map.call(t, (x) => x[p]) );
}
}
})
}

return (sel, root) => {
if(root === undefined) root = document;
return listProxy(root.querySelectorAll(sel));
}
})();

// use like this:
$('.my-elements').className = 'Important';
$('.my-elements').style.color = 'Red';
$('.my-elements').classList.add('Another');

demo: https://codepen.io/anon/pen/RxGgNR
> Someone must answer questions such as these if a performance is not to sound indecisive or chaotic, and it is far easier for one person to do so than for 100 people to vote on each decision.

It strikes me that this is a bit akin to the role of a good CEO, or an active monarch in a democratic monarchy: not to direct, but to roll with the flow, and influence things just a bit — like a harmonic knocker, giving just the right impulse at just the right moment.
Cool cool, no worries. You’re quite welcome!