skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The theme is often money, but here's where I think NYC (and the U.S.) get it wrong, and how other countries like the UK and France get it right. I'm no civil engineer or government contract negotiator so I'd love to be corrected here, but here goes.

The U.S. prides itself on local government, private industry and so forth, public-private cooperation ideally leading to more money efficiency since private companies 'care' and governments are 'wasteful'. Great. However, some problems I've noticed here:

-- Local government is actually more inefficient. The ARC project cancelation which would have already dug a tunnel under the Hudson river between NYC and NJ in the biggest commuter hub in the country was canceled because three government organizations, NY State, NJ State and the Port Authority, couldn't agree on funding and were playing politics. The NJ governor (Christie) later allocated the moneys to lower the gas tax before his re-election campaign as well as for highway repair

-- MTA, the parent organization that runs the NYC subway system, is said to be woefully underfunded and so forth.
Yet, the Port Authority, a totally unrelated organization FUNDED BY TAX MONEYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORT TOLL COLLECTIONS, spent $4B to refurbish a single station and erect a dinosaur skeleton and called it the "World Trade Center transit hub." While the subway system this transit hub is attached to is utterly failing apart due to repairs. A strong centralized government would have made this less likely.
Fulton St Station was refurbished for the cost of 1.4B, again at the same time that signals are failing and trains are breaking in other parts of the subway system this station is attached to.

How do either of these projects get away with giving billions of dollars to select contractors, to select private corporations, (st)architects and so forth? How do we ensure that someone in power didn't get in bed with one of these private developers?

-- The NYC Mayor and the NY State governor fight seemingly daily over blame for the disastrous subway system. The Mayor himself is something of a scatterbrain, getting involved in issues when he gets screamed at, while the governor cares more about his constituents upstate. Both are fairly corrupt.

There IS money, the money just goes to insane places due to the scattered players: private organizations, cross state organizations like the Port Authority, city governments, state governments, federal governments...

Isn't this one of the reasons why NYC transit construction and repair costs are so much more than places like London, where A) the system is WAY older b) the tunnels are MUCH deeper and narrower and yet C) they override these problems by establishing new lines like the Overground, the DLR and the Crossrail.

London (a city I lived in a few years) seems to be moving at a much more rapid evolutionary path than NYC, which seems like it's crumbling around us.
The critical point which everyone (including OP) missed is that on pirated websites : you'd get ALL movies under one roof. Even with streaming, you now have 10s of subscription services : Netflix, HBO Go, Disney/Hulu, Amazon Prime etc.
They're starting to phase in desks at my current job where you can save a few preset heights, and push a button to shift to one. It's pretty cool, though 90% of people with them only sit.
The term "hacker" depends on your viewpoint. Put another way, a user executed a function on a decentralized smart contract platform that transferred $150 million to the possession of the function's caller.

If the value of smart contracts is that they will execute as written with no possibility of third party interference then Ethereum is not a smart contract platform. It is a very inefficiently designed public ledger governed by a highly centralized group of developers who can change it on a whim.
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I think the only real alternative is to get rid of the 8+ hour work day.

Correct me if there is evidence to the contrary, but I don't think humans were designed to sit or stand in one position for extended periods of time, habitually.

Unfortunately I don't see the 8 hour work day going away any time soon, so imo the best option is to alternate sitting/standing and take as many walking around breaks as possible.
There two good use cases I can think of.

When you do a captive portal with some sort of timer (hotel, airplane, etc), they will sometimes do a pop under with a timer that has the option to pay more to renew. That can be slightly useful.

Or when you visit a site, and it does a pop under of a survey about that site. Then you see it when you close the window and maybe fill out the survey. That one is less useful but at least legit.
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I've been using MBPs daily for over ten years and haven't noticed anything like that </anecdote>
I went from .NET to Java to Python.
Thanks. I will look into this.
Here. Apple Mouse.

https://www.geek.com/apple/design-before-function-apple-magi...
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That's bullshit and hearsay. Until content is provided in convenient standard formats, DRM free (it does fuck all beyond annoying paying customers already), offline friendly, region lock free, etc. it's an apples to oranges comparison. An often offline/mobile binge watcher's only choice for watching conveniently is piracy or paying way more than the price of the content itself his in mobile data fees due to streaming enforcement. You can't even rip your own DVD or BluRAy legally due to DMCA supposedly.

I wanted to get my favorite anime ever legally and this is the end result (TL;DR; - I maybe could get an Amazon Fire TV and pay 20 dollars to stream into it in SD quality while BluRay 1080p rips mp4s are floating around torrents): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15989321

Or are you going to tell me I should get a Fire TV and watch in half the quality and only on it, or hunt and get that DVD or BluRay from a private person on an auction site, just so I lose money and not get stuff for free, despite the studio not getting any from that purchase?

Not everyone is streaming the latest Game of Thrones or something. Niche stuff goes out of print, into copyright hell (NOLF game series), studios go bust (so no one who produced the content gets compensated for it, thus moral argument is gone), there are region locks (and Poland is no small or poor market for anime), arbitrary restrictions (on what languages and subs you get, on quality, on devices you can use, stream only enforcement, etc.) and then it's "theft" to want something you actually can't buy (and that would be feasible to be available with 0 impact on profits, and that's is actually available illegally and conveniently).
Looking forward to the privacy policy update.
These things always remind me of brains and borgs for Bolo, and the AI competitions people would have between brains.

Wish I'd gotten in on that, but Bolo still exists, so I suppose I still can.
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On the other hand, it's great job security for them, knowing that what they've been asked to do is temporary and they'll be needed to do it again soon.
BTC: peaked just shy of $20k, now in freefall to where it was around the beginning of the month, maybe further.

BCH: peaked around "$4k" (if we ignore the $8k that Coinbase was briefly showing in the first few hours of having it publicly available to trade there), dropping back down towards the ~$1-1.5k it was at beforehand.

Pumped. Dumped. Done.
If you're not willing to help make it better, comments like the one you posted just make it worse by adding unhelpful noise, as is this one. The "place is slowly turning into reddit" trope is old and likewise does nothing to make things better. Yes, it does take effort: most good things do. It's much easier to vandalize than to construct. Please help, not hinder.
Notably, there's been complaints that the TechCrunch article is too negative (https://twitter.com/sm/status/944087102982995969), which has the inverse problem.
> you are now making the interviewer do your work.

To clarify, by "what requirements are missing" I don't mean "what is wrong with my code" (as in, in what way does it not meet the requirements that were already given; please debug my code for missed requirements). Of course the properties of the solution are clear and remarks are made about that in the course of writing it up and discussing. The "what requirements are missing" question is purely about new/different requirements.
order a Trezor and wait for it to arrive in February... until then, breath deeply.
If you can get away with it, try out native css grids.
As banal as this question sounds, I am really interested in hearing opinions. These are not mere teenagers pirating movies -- they run massive operations (sites receiving 20 million+ hits a day).
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As a crypto trader Binance is where I do business.

Their PC app is phenomenal for the most part, doesn't lag out like a lot of other exchange I've used.
I still really love Ruby! I come to conferences sometimes. There's just not enough hours in the day.
Read Tufte's books. Huge amount of good advice for presenting complex data.
I just tend to recognize the patterns in any timeframe. They're everywhere. If I were a day trader, that was a trade I would have taken, but I don't have the patience to sit and stare at the screen like that all day.
So...just like real life drug/arms dealers? Shocking.
No you can't do this. Disregard the DAO comments. Yes, a hack caused a hard fork - but the fork itself was not a hack.

You can't update an account value without issuing a valid transaction (requiring the private key). What you can do with a majority hash power is roll back transactions. But this is limited to your ability to generate a longer chain which becomes more improbable with each mined block.

This attack vector isn't that great because transactions worth larger amounts will wait for more confirmations. You're essentially left with an expensive DoS.
When you deplete glycogen (you can store about 500 grams of it), you also lose 3 grams of water per gram of glycogen. So in total, you lose about 1.5 liters of water once you're fully glycogen depleted.
All these years and the .org domain still works fine.
What makes it so hard to block it, does the Internet Society has something to do with that?
^^ this has not been my experience
The article says the union did exactly what I said the union can do: prevent the MTA from cutting jobs. That does not prevent the MTA from modernizing the signal system -- the entire context of the dispute over the L line was the MTA's effort to reduce trains to a one-man crew, from the current two-man crew, after a modern signal system was installed and operational. The MTA is busy installing that same modern system on two lines in Queens.

The TWU is not a massive force in transit projects. At worst, they block cost-cutting measures that modern technology can enable through automation. CBTC has benefits beyond automated trains -- it allows trains to run closer together and it allows more flexible usage of the tracks (the current block system does not allow track directions to change as needed, for example). Like I said, the reason this was not deployed in the 90s is that the MTA wasted 15 years trying to build a single tower to control the entire system; things are proceeding now because the MTA went back to its previous approach of consolidation. The TWU had nothing to do with it and continues to have nothing to do with it.
Well, one-generation away from consumers being able to buy the chip. And maybe 5-years away before a sizable number of consumers upgrade to that chip (or newer)... since the typical Desktop is at LEAST 5 years old in my experience...

The Users who really need the feature are likely upgrading to AVX-512 computers already. IE: Mac Pro. So adoption is not as bad as my hyperbole above. But its still going to be a while before we can assume AVX512 support on machines.

Hell, with so many people running Sandy Bridge (i7-2xxx series), you can't even assume AVX2 support today.
If you own an electric car and are wondering WTF Amazon is doing getting into the car charging business, well, it isn’t this Blink: http://www.blinkcharging.com, it’s some video camera company.
In contrast, donations by Roberto Rosario:

- Gold sponsor of Django schema migration work (http://www.aeracode.org/2013/04/11/whole-load-kickstarting/)

- Gold sponsor of the Django multi template engine work (https://myks.org/en/multiple-template-engines-for-django/fun...)

- Gold sponsor for the Django REST framework work (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/topics/kickstarter-anno...)

- Gives money and time to groups looking to increase participation of women to STEM fields like #IncludeGirls (https://medium.com/ladies-storm-hackathons/include-girls-137...) (https://aldia.microjuris.com/2013/10/07/ciclo-de-conferencia...) (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/python-django-workshop-tickets-...).

- Has started initiatives like PythonLatino and DjangoLatino to increase Latinamerican participation in Django and Python.

- Was chairman of the group that got the PyCon started in Cuba after travel restrictions were relaxed.

- Author or many Python and Django popular projects that help a lot of people like Awesome Django (https://github.com/rosarior/awesome-django).

- Sponsored STEM books.

- PSF candidate with endorsements by Python leaders like Anna Ravencroft, co-author of the Python Cookbook along with her husband Alex Martelli, fellow of the Python Software Foundation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Martelli) (https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation/BoardC...).

Many more but links are dead and don't want the spend the rest of the day on the internet archive.
Who you were talking to doesn't seem to know what they were talking about.

alephnil mentioned a real problem, but the solution in that case is to not use NS. From a practical standpoint NS is a good model of fluids in many instances because there is a certain minimum scale of motion due to viscosity (the Kolmogorov scale) and this usually is much larger than the size of the atoms or molecules. If this is true then a continuous approximation is fine. No present climate simulation can afford to compute everything down to that scale, so a low pass filter is applied to filter out the small scales and turn their effect on the large scales into a single term that can be modelled. This turbulence modeling approach is called large eddy simulation (LES), and it relies on the fact that outside of certain special cases (e.g., major chemical reactions) the small scales have a universal behavior. (Kolmogorov was the first to propose that the small scales are universal back in 1941.) This approach works pretty well usually. If the person you were talking to said the small scale model was wrong, I'd give them more credit, but this approach is generally the most accurate moderate cost turbulence modeling approach.
I suppose I phrased it badly - I meant I don't get why anyone would have a limit as low as 80 unless they're coding on an Apple II or a 10" netbook. But you fill your 24" 1920x1080 with 160 characters and change? That's like font size 18, just sounds huge to me. But hey, it's your display.

Also, I do quite a lot of numerical code where it's more important to me to line stuff up so that physical symmetries are reflected in the code, makes coding much easier and less bug prone. So I guess that also explains my bias.

But like you say, we all like different things.
Sorry I pasted the wrong URL I've since corrected it.
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Ugh. Guess I'm going back to BlueIris.
tpb could for what its worth run from aws free tiers. The site is, with the exception of search, entirely do-able static html. It doesn't cost much money to operate, only thing you need is solid provider for hosting and a couple hundred grands for lawyers...
Isn't that pretty much the same amount of ads you'd have seen if you'd actually watched it on MTV in the 90s? Or actually probably less?

I avoid Hulu because of the ads too, and digital advertising is often more invasive (I haven't seen the "interact" thing you mention but it sounds awful). It's just interesting to me how much lower the tolerance for ads is between media.
A "stablecoin" allows traders to move in and out of cryptocurrency positions to a stable currency quickly, without converting to true USD, which is slow to process.

It also allows the transfer of stable value (payments, remittances) on the blockchain, rather than transferring volatile currencies and converting them to USD, incurring the risk of price fluctuation and conversion fees.

A stable coin is a very valuable asset to the ecosystem.
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How much was Sinclair paid to air the content? I mean... how could you possibly write an article without including this sort of information? It is impossible to know whether the fine levied was at all reasonable without knowing how much Sinclair profited from breaking the law. If they were paid $13.4 million + $1 or more, then the FCC has guaranteed that airing such content will become standard business practice. Only if they were paid less than $13.4 million is there even the slightest hope that their actions will be modified in the future.
It doesn't even require a human advisor. Many banks participate in CDAR, which spreads large deposits across multiple accounts at other banks in the network. Fidelity isn't a bank, but their cash management feature includes checks, an ATM card, bill pay, and can send and receive ACH and wire transfers; they also implement this hack.

None of this applies to securities. Presumably you could insure them. It's not obvious to me from first principles that the cost of insurance would wipe out any incremental appreciation value, but I've never heard of anyone doing this so probably it does.
Might want to also think about SSL. Certificates are free from Let's Encrypt.

That said, props for the IPv6 support!
A lot of Dijkstra makes it into TAoCP books too, and Knuth will cite any Dijkstra papers relevant to a chapter.
You know what is more crazy. Having most of the movies in the movie theaters dubbed to the local language. I for the love of god can`t understand why people prefer to watch those lame versions and not with the original actor audio/voice. Especially when some guy is doing voice overs for several actors. It hurts my brain so badly I can`t watch it.
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
GDAX shut down trading a few minutes ago, unfortunately. Performance issues with the REST API apparently. I think they've been seeing a lot of volume these past few hours.
Couldn't you use something like GCC function multi-versioning?
With native APIs, jQuery was only useful for providing an abstraction layer over browsers' differing implementations, but they are mostly standardised now.
Someone has been waiting for this with great anticipation. You wouldn't give your kids the Christmas presents "early next year", would you? ;)
Maybe we can figure out what we need to do, at a minimum, to alleviate the problem. 20 push-ups, 20 squats, etc every couple hours?

“But even slightly elevated troponin levels, lower than those involved in heart attacks, are worrisome if they persist”

If we can measure the right things, we can “treat it”

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HN-TIME:For those tracking, this story was posted 3 times in two days. 12pm EST on a Friday got over 50 upvotes in a hour. Lunchtime EST.
Yep, a lot of people who are in to fasting will add lite salt to their water to prevent that.
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I'm actually happy they listed something as "trivial" as station configuration first. The list is full of things that are either politically fraught, or are already in progress and just take of a lot of time.

Reconfiguring individual stations may be a big win, because they come with only a modest one-time cost (y'know, sixty-to-a-hundred million, also known in the US as "cheap"), but result in immediate and appreciable gains in particular spots. The nature of these projects makes them easy to brand, boast, and sometimes fund, and you can do them (largely) independent from other, large-scale things you have in the pipe that will take years to come to fruition.
cryptos seem to reflect society in that way: you can be an ideologue and go your own way, but you ll suffer the consequences (ETC value). the design choices that most coins have are that the currency reflects the ethics of the majority of users. Would be interesting to devise an algorithm that makes itself immutable.
Matt Levine has some amusing commentary about how crypto currency is going to rapidly reenact the entire history of the evolution of the modern financial system.
I went from pirate to Netflix once it became available in DE. Still too bad that e.g. ST Voyager or pretty much anything old is ultra gross quality... no wonder when the stream is 300mb per episode when a DVD rip is easily 3x the bandwidth.
thanks, this was interesting.
Min looks pretty cool, it's a shame it's no longer maintained.
Do you think the author was sitting down when he typed this?
A better analogy in my mind is that Bitcoin can be gold coin, and a fork is someone making cardboard coin, coloring them gold, and then calling it a type of bitcoin.

Forks are completely separate from bitcoin and are worth nowhere near as much.
Popularity of both Steam and Spotify is a strong argument against that. I'd count Netflix too, except it has abysmal catalogue and often years of lag behind initial content release.
Potentially better than nothing! However, as a single repetitive motion, it might carry its own long-term risks.

Maybe one of those giant human mouse-wheel things with variable terrain? Tripping would suck, though.
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It is unfortunate that the course can't be taken anonymously and requires either a github login or an email and password.
I understand the general motivation for that (a quid pro quo, an exchange of a bit of information for a valuable resource) but even then it is a disappointing trend to require personal identification for such type of valuable resources.
No....
You buy from a dealer in a club or somewhere else -- there is no reputation.
I feel like you didn't get the whole gist of the article?

Would you buy a toaster oven from someones cargo van on the side of the road in a shady street or prefer to purchase it form Amazon?
Use general wide-used web development tooling like Webpack.

I'm in a classic .NET web development team that started using web forms, we now use a CSS preprocessor LESS via BundleTransformer the last few years and Typescript using the tooling in Visual Studio. It works, but it misses good stuff like live reloading and LESS source maps. I know from my free-time project that Webpacks works quite well, but I don't know how I can sell this to my team.
It certainly was, until the advent of hardware wallets. I wouldn't quite say its easy enough for Grandma to do it, but it makes things much more secure and its no more complicated than setting up a wallet on your machine (give or take a couple of steps).
What did eventually work for me was using the following path:

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

I'd actually resigned myself to using the rEFInd boot manager, as I'd used it in the past, and I'd read that others had better luck when implementing dual boot systems with two OS's both using EFI. I had that all working when I decided to to have a closer look at how grub works, and used the path applicable to my system. I didn't even have a grub2.cfg, and I have read today that others have also had this same issue after resizing Mac partitions. I'm just glad it's working as I want now.
Not to mentioned regional modified versions of the movie/tv show, especially in regards to music, where it will be replaced with some random song that often doesn't make any sense.
2008 was about over leverage and speculation.