skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Brittle" does not necessarily mean "bad". If that one marketing channel is really all you have, and perhaps the entire reason your company exists; then it might be fineto just admit that, make the most of it without overextending yourself or making lots of commitments, and then prepare for starting the next business.
Our rules handle derivatives correctly, including swaps. Otherwise it would be trivial to avoid the long-term vote weighting
This is a training issue, absolutely. But Police should be trained to deal with the population, never the other way around. No one should be shot because a police officer is spooked by a hand that isn’t where they can see it. Suspects should have the benefit of the doubt and police officers should carry all the risk.
> If most Americans get seriously sick at the same time they've lost a job, then they're on a one-way road to poverty.

Source? I don't believe "most" is even close to being correct.
People do realize that it was a random address, not any of the call of duty players addresses'.

A random person was killed over this stupidity.

This is so enraging it's not even funny.
Docker as a software product may die pretty soon as people switch to containerd which includes more or less all the functionality you want and none of the bugs you don't want.
Ironically, reading the comments it seems that this is written from some right wing perspective of "everyone should be happy with their lot". But counting wealth in terms of nice things you can eat and cosmetic surgery itself betrays a massively out of touch perspective. Almost everyone in the world spends almost all of their time working a job that they hate, because they have no choice about it.

The people who view work less like this are mostly the upper classes, because for them work is much more likely to be vocational, fun or semi-optional. If you meet someone working in tech or trading in finance, there's a skew but they might have a rich or poor background. If you meet a journalist, or anyone with a "cool" or "fun" job, they're almost certainly very wealthy by background.
On the contrary, unlike most systems today, our rules are very favorable to both retail investors and employees. Anyone can register their shares for Long-Term voting, not just founders or big institutions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests
People seem to think that financial software, artificial i telligence, map software, math libraries they use, graphic software etc all emerged due to magic. They did not and all required calculus.
I like this idea a lot, and hope to have more to say about it next year sometime :)
A village in Kenya is quietly disproving the biggest myth about basic income
I would assume facebook and such social network would love fake news, puffed up news since they are more likely to be sensational, raise controversy, get people talking/sharing. A win win for them. Who cares if it's right/wrong, truth/false. More clicks mean more money.
A General-Purpose Counting Filter: Making Every Bit Count

A better alternative to bloom filters and they provide a well written implementation as well https://github.com/splatlab/cqf

https://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/~ppandey/files/p775-pandey.pd...
It wouldn't really replicate my multiple notebooks scattered precisely across my table, unless I had like 5 ipads. Also, not really a fan of Apple's mobile ux, so it's not the solution for me.

I have managed to get rid of some paper usage by having multiple dry erase boards of various sizes. One digital solution I have considered is something like the boogie board. If you're not familiar, it's basically a 10 inch digital whiteboard that can save the screen to an image and costs around $20. That's cheap enough I could have a pile of them and mostly replicate my current process.
At the moment 50% of all Bitcoins are controlled by less than 2,000 people(assuming 1 wallet per person).

It is becoming exponentially more difficult to mine them, and there is only a finite number of bitcoins in that can be mined.

Buying bitcoins is making these 2000 people richer.

I really don't understand people who put money into Bitcoin. Actually I don't understand anyone that puts money in a cryptocurrency that is supposed to have "intrinsic value".
I still don’t see how calling a phone number associated with that address and seeing who picks up could hurt anything.

This phone call could’ve occurred while SWAT was deploying to the scene.

They only could’ve gained by doing this.
I'm familiar with the era, and Germany in that era, and no, I wasn't wearing shoes from a later time and a different place.

In fact I don't own any "structured shoes" like the article mentions as leading to heel-walking, although I do wear wood patten overshoes when it's muddy.
The video of the shooting was released, and you can tell from the video that, with the amount of interaction the police had with the victim, they can't really tell if he's the supposed hostage or the hostage taker. So even in the interest of rescue, the police fucked up big time.
Right, but that's only slightly less silly than claiming programs are non-deterministic because of the quantum handwave equation. Similarly, programs behave non-deterministically because you might drop your phone or spill bongwater on your laptop.
The government want to be able to control the currency minting new money in cooperation with private banks. With bitcoin governments does not have that control. What says government central banks with zero interest rate creating new credit money out of thin air is not also a Ponzi scheme?
NYC then should see a larger drop then as it reverts to the mean. Those cities may no have had peaks as high as New York, but their peaks were during the same time period. Half of Berlin was in the GDR where heavy handed surveillance networks tracked most residents, so it isn't really comparable.
The fake reviewer will buy the product first and then the company will reimburse and reward the reviewer on the side once a review is posted.
Ha, no kidding! You should see what they say about LS.

I don’t mind, part of being in public with new ideas is putting up with a lot of snark and cynicism. It’s a bug in the human reward system - skeptics are right 99% of the time.
This was not a dangerous situation. They should not have had their weapons drawn.
I don't really care if it fits the definition of mental health disorder or not. What matters is that we recognize self harming addiction arising from digital toxins, optimized to release quick dopamine hits to the user, and help them rehabilitate.

Similar to how some people believe depression is not a mental disorder because it's not "physical" and that they just need to think more "positive" like the non-depressed people, I think any sort of addiction, be it drugs or games needs to be addressed from a medical stand point of view.
Yes, but many people are. Think about pyramid schemes or gambling as similar "greed" or a desire for easy money driving the victims.

They must, however, be protected from these scammers and shouldn't carry any blame.
Handguns are (perhaps surprisingly) lethal.

Here (Sweden) officers somewhat controversially use hollow point in order to reduce the risk of stray bullets going through walls or suspects.

This has the side effect that suspects shot in thighs, nearly anywhere in the abdomen etc are often instantly in critical condition.
> […] by tying the voting power to the entity that has the right to obtain the benefits of the stock price going up.

If I own shares in a holding company, which owns shares in an LTSE-company, don’t I have this right? If not me, who else?
I'm very sad and ashamed to voice such an evil idea but I think the only way to change US police into something resembling first world country law enforcement agency is to have mass anonymous random swatting campaign with dozens, perhaps hundreds of causalities.
So you would sacrifice antibiotics, advanced cancer treatment, air travel, the internet, telephones, etc. to have more free time to talk to your friends, read, and think?

I wouldn't.
As someone else mentioned here, the only risk is that spammers will blacklist mnesty.com .

There should be some type of domain rotation (or you can test spoofing, just to see if spammers use the same anti-spoof software everyone else does), just like how spammers do so.

As an aside, kudos for using gitlab instead of github.
(Note: Australia has 1/13 the population of the US; England and Wales, 1/6.)
LTSE = The Long-Term Stock Exchange

Yes, it is in the same regulatory category as NYSE or NASDAQ. Yes it allows you to buy shares of listed companies in all the ordinary ways, including retail brokers.

The best of the next generation of companies :)

Not a bad guess, but not quite right either. Our detailed rules (all 900 pages of legalese!) will be public soon enough.
> I think in terms of American politics, there would be some resistance in requiring people to have a bank account.

I think it's fair from the government (and employers) to stick to the most effective way to deliver payments, and not enable third party check-cashing business (which doesn't exist here anyway) and/or companies issuing high-fees prepaid cards.

Since we are specifically talking about checks, I'm not sure you were ever able to cash one out without having your own bank account anyway. And even assuming the scenario where you want to walk in the issuing bank, what if they have zero or limited physical presence?
This User Made 462 Ether ($210,000) in 3 Days Trading CryptoKitties
I could see the point around dental and healthcare (if you can afford it now), but otherwise the stuff they mentioned as supposedly making us richer - wifi, movies, Skype (wtf?) - is the shit barely anyone needs, other than for entertainment and escapism from otherwise not particularly different reality.
Espple: A Wireless Apple 1 on an ESP8266
The Tleilaxu use a whistled language in the Dune sequels to control their gholas.

http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Whistling_language
So it would be hilarious if you connected the spam asking for manuscripts[1] to the fake manuscript generating code [2]. We would end up with bot published journals.

[1] https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/cjubnfdx/

[2] https://pdos.csail.mit.edu/archive/scigen/
You could check if the MX records still point at your service, or, better yet, send a test e-mail to that domain every so often and see if it reaches your service.
List of web conferences in 2018
Let's regulate ads that show unrealistic body images of people about men and women. They already done so in France.
I wish articles like these would also discuss what would be superior about being the rich guy in 1916. I tend to agree with the overall point, but it's so one-sided it makes me suspicious.

It's absolutely true that my medical care, personal entertainment, and climate control options are way better than his were. But it's not quite as one-sided as this article makes it sound. For example, I have to spend a decent chunk of my time working for other people, otherwise I'll lose all those fancy modern things I so enjoy. What is it worth to be able to do what you want, when you want, all the time?

For example, I own (one third share of) an airplane that's far better, in the aspects I care about, than anything that existed in 1916. I also flew it less than half a dozen times in the past year because it's hard to find the time among all the other stuff I have going on. Is it better to have a vastly superior airplane I get to fly a few times a year, or to have a state-of-the-art 1916 airplane I can fly whenever I feel like it? I don't think the answer is obvious.

What's better, the ability to call people on the other side of the planet for essentially free, or the ability to hang out on the beach for weeks or months at a time? Again, this is not obvious.

Or just to get down to the very basics, what's better: lots of technological toys, and medical care that will probably keep you in good health for decades if it doesn't bankrupt you first, or the near certainty that no matter what you do, your financial future and that of your immediate descendants is certain?

The comparison makes me think of slaveowners handing out little baubles and telling their slaves, "see how good you have it?" while growing fat off the fruit of their labor. Some lower-middle-class American has a nicer car than existed in 1916 and a smartphone and good heat and air conditioning at home, woohoo! Never mind that he needs the phone so his manager can call him in at a moment's notice, needs the car to get there quickly because he'll be fired if he's late, and is one paycheck away from losing that nicely heated and cooled home, while the company he works for makes more in profit from his work than he does.

What is financial security worth? How much is it worth to have control over your own life? Maybe it really is better to have modern technology instead, but it should be addressed.

Aside from these concerns, the article also suffers from terrible temporal provincialism. It spends several paragraphs talking about how much richer we are today because we have rock and roll and modern movies. I'm pretty sure that 1916 had great music, and even if it didn't have the technology to reproduce that music with high quality, who cares when you can afford to just pay top-quality musicians to come play it live? And I'm pretty sure that 1916 had great stage plays too, and like music, the technological weaknesses in reproduction are easily erased with money.
> Bitcoin's usefulness diminish

No, you mentioned it yourself: Bitcoin is a store of value. Moreover, it's one with a high liquidity, strong brand, limited supply, available in 180 countries, without banks involved and super reliable (gold doesn't have that features and please show me any other asset that has these features). So, it has a use and value.

That it has evolved to this is no one's fault and btw this might change (the cash part) with the lightning network again.

> more like a Ponzi scheme

That would mean that all operators of Bitcoin, so everybody who is just investing or running local wallets with full nodes deliberately intend Bitcoin as a Ponzi scheme?? This is utter nonsense. If I launch an ICO tomorrow. Just a landing page and a BS white paper, you could allege that I deliberately plan my ICO/coin/token to be a Ponzi scheme. But you can't allege millions of BTC investors that they intend a Ponzi scheme eight years after this things started. Maybe you should check the definition of a Ponzi scheme again.

However, do you own or did you ever own any BTC?
A heuristic is a model. A successful heuristic encodes knowledge of the distributions at hand. Heuristics are designed by people who had good insight into the data rather than learned directly from data, but they are models in the same sense.
The "sour grapes" and "jealously" has been the go-to explanation, if it can even be call that on each of the cryptocurrency thread.
> It's been amusing to watch HN's overwhelmingly negative reaction to cryptocurrencies

Not all cryptocurrencies. Only the ones with "intrinsic value". Just because I print pieces of paper in my basement, doesn't mean that there is an intrinsic value in them.

> It's too bad, since there actually are some interesting technologies beginning to come out of the cryptocurrency sphere

100% agree with this. There are some interesting ideas and technologies.

> What I suspect is that many startup types have sour grapes over how they could have made nearly as much money speculating on digital tokens as they did building their web or app business

I can only speak for myself: No. No sour grapes. Since day 1 I thought Bitcoin was a pyramid/Ponzi kind of scheme. I would never have taken part in such a system.
This is a good point. In the interest of a constructive way to go forward, I think a "how can we make this better" process will save more lives than outrage. It's the outrage that the unions are so skilled at skirting.
2 to the billion is still constant....
Stupid question: Why not get hold of an image of the facebook app and check if there is suspicious code? If it were an android app, you could even try to decompile it, but even so, there should be suspicious calls to the clipboard API somewhere in the code, shouldn't there?
> Well, no you can’t make that equivalent reasoning

And yet I seem to have done it.

> People blaming communism makes a lot more sense

You're entitled to your opinion.

> because it does deal with what the political regime should be (once again, a dictatorship).

Since you persist in arguing about "dictatorship" instead of communism, I don't see any point in continuing this.

Edit: instant downvoter I think you missed one of my posts; here's a link to make it easier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16034997

Feel free to check out my comments page and obsessively downvote others you may have missed, if any.
If it was real, and the hostage taker picked up, he could say everything was fine. What do you do then? Calling seems like a good idea but I'm not sure it provides any actionable information.
>Shotgun slugs are a lot less penetrative than .50 BMG though; they're proportionally heavier and travel slower.

What does the word "proportionally" mean in this sentence? Because factually, the slug is about half the weight of the BMG round.

>You need significantly more thickness of armor just to stop the .50 BMG at all, by which point you've added so much more mass that you've gone much of the towards solving the higher impulse as well.

You're looking at elephant-stomping-on-you levels of force, and you're trying to say it'll be mitigated somewhat because you have 5 pounds of steel on your chest rather than 2 pounds. You will be a person salsa even if you strapped a kitchen stove to yourself.

You don't seem to be understanding the magnitude of the forces involved.
It is not a mental illness for somebody to feel discomfort from living in a body that's not congruent with their gender identity which lies in their head, not genitals.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16030107
Not sure if this is the same map you're talking about, but Ordinance Survey made a map[0] using data they had in 2013, and then again in 2014. This was based on height data at 50m resolution.

It's hard to see how OS capture height exactly, I imagine via aircraft[1]. Not sure whether they are the source of the existing data the Environment agency has; I doubt it as their data has a max resolution of 5m while the government's is 1m.

[0] https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecra...

[1] https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/international/knowledge/dat...
Does it matter who it comes from? Free water is available. The anti-American snipe of "Soda [is] easier and cheaper than plain good tasting water." is wrong.
Same here, in Gmail.
Most medieval pattens bend near the ball of the foot, and you can heel-walk or toe-walk in them just fine.

I own a pair of modern hiking boots that bend in pretty much the same way as pattens -- they have a huge shank that keeps the arch stiff.
Fraud protection (at least as I was thinking of it) encompasses a lot more than banking fraud.

A couple of years ago, a vendor charged me $500 instead of the $50 they had claimed a service would cost. When I complained to them, they called me a liar and refused to do anything.

I disputed the transaction with my credit card company. The money never even had to be refunded to me because it never came out of my account.

This is a rare occurrence, but having an intermediary preventing $450 that I don't owe being directly debited out of my account is vastly superior to the alternative of complaining to my bank after the actual money is gone.
Two types of people and all that. OP is clearly a tinkerer. Telling them that they shouldn’t value their time this way seems silly.

If I was the OP, I would do this exact thing: after putting some more miles on the bike and saving up that gas money, get a nicer bike and swap the motor. Better yet, sell this e bike for $2k now that it’s all upgraded and use that money for a full upgrade.
I see this all the time and have assumed it's related to difficulties correlating outbound messages (to the spammer) with responses. Also within a message thread the service sometimes fails to respond to the most recent email from a spammer. An example thread showing both issues: https://spa.mnesty.com/conversations/caabzkyg/
What adapter library?
Enjoy your pickled herring.
What sort of support?
I think that disarming the police would improve things even with no changes to civilian gun laws in the US. The US obviously has a severe civilian gun problem, but things are nowhere near bad enough to justify the trigger-happy attitude of police. The danger police face is drastically overblown, and homicide is a tiny portion of the danger police face on the job (more police deaths are from traffic accidents, health conditions, and suicide).

Policing is also becoming a lot safer, despite the rhetoric that things are getting worse and police are increasingly “under attack.”
In this case, I would have voting power for each of the thousands of companies in my pension plan.
There are smaller players but the problem is most people have lost interest because of facebook so people are disconnecting rather than switching.

Other countries like Russia has there own successful facebook.
The muscles you use to stand up on your toes are quite distinctive, if I dance on-your-toes enough I end up with a bulge in my calf similar to women who frequently wear high heels.
It isn't making them richer unless they sell, at which point the wealth is further distributed. Also exchanges and custodial wallets skew the distribution numbers.
> Not all cryptocurrencies. But the one with "intrinsic value". Just because I print pieces of paper in my basement, doesn't mean that there is an intrinsic value in them.

Basement paper doesn't have a guaranteed fixed supply.
The US military rules of engagement disagree.
I broadly agree, but why does the US seem to have a higher frequency of this sort of thing? It isn’t a problem everywhere, so why not do what other places do?
Los Angeles man arrested in 'swatting' call that preceded fatal police shooting
Those were just examples, in reality it's more free time to do absolutely anything.

If you take the health side, I think Rockefeller would have had a higher life expectancy than me. I could be wrong but if you account for the higher life expectancy of the rich and the detrimental effects of stress, I think it would be close. But say he had a five year shorter expectancy, well if you say that time working a job is worth 50% of normal time (and also consider that most people would value 20-40 more than 60-80. Then he has an effective life expectancy decades longer.

Screw the internet, phones and flights I'll trade for a grand tour, a private theatre, my own university, a private harem.

If I'm lucky I'll get ten years to be completely free, in the other case I get 70 (?).
So, would you take a bet that this won't have been used in any self-evident way within the next 5 years?

Because I would take the other side of that bet. :)
I don't see much of a plausible argument that lack of gun control makes American police more trigger happy. And I say that as someone with no particular stake in gun rights. America doesn't have that high a murder rate, it just has a high rate of killings by cops. Lack of training, poor training and overall problematic police-culture seem to be the main offenders.
Just googled what that is. It could be!
Indeed, but it's added complexity and I'm not sure how many people would bother setting the DNS records I asked for. I might try it at some point, though.