skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I left a comment on the author's page (awaiting moderation), but I'll copy it here: if you're going to try this at home familiarize yourself with local laws. I'm all for getting more people on bikes, but some of the suggestions he makes are illegal in my state. Be aware of power limitations, braking requirements, and how the resulting vehicle would be classified (and should be labeled).
I use Yalp Store to use apps from the Play Store and even though almost all of them "require" Play Services, most work just fine and worst case scenario they have a nagging screen about requiring Play Services but work just fine.
“improved” App Store... it really is terrible. I used to quite often click through different categories looking at the top games / apps etc. Now I hardly bother going into it because its such a cluster fuck to navigate.

* I will note though that I do like the editorial type landing page they added to the store during the big "improvement"
Not sure what you are trying to do by taking a sentence out of context.

> 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.

The point of the paragraph was to show that it is not sour grapes as suggested.
Easy access to guns in this country means it’s plausible that anyone the police encounter may be armed. As a result all the police also have guns and are reasonably concerned about being shot themselves – especially in tense situations. That’s a pretty direct connection from more guns in the public to more heavily armed, twitchier police.
Shouldn't they prepare for the most likely scenarios, i.e. it's a bogus call or misrepresented whats happening, or that the perp just wants to surrender?

How often do these calls turn out to be actually dangerous? One in a dozen? A hundred?

Should cops wearing body armor use sniper rifles to shoot someone on their porch several hundred feet away just on the off chance they might have a pistol in their waistband?
>No, he didn't predict (at least, not in any of his public works) that the socialism phase would be brief.

That's interesting. I had always read it would be brief, but I am not an expert on Marxism, so I am going to assume you are right. So let me ask, how is Marx defining socialism (I am guessing he meant there was still a state), and what did he think needed to happen to move from socialism to communism?

>even if that was Marx’s prediction of what would occur if his program were adopted

Huh? Everything I have ever read about Marxism indicates that communism was supposed to be a utopia. What did Marx say that indicated that it might not be one, and in what specific ways?

Also, let me ask again, what is your political philosophy? Are you a non-Leninist communist or a non-communist socialist or what?

And do you agree that it would be good if everyone knew the history of Marxism, and that at present very few people do?
Philosophical framework not an economic and or political system.

Communism isn’t philosophy it’s an economic and political system.
MAX78700 uses a pulse transformer for isolation from the MAX78615, and is powered by the '78615 via that same transformer. It uses resistors for voltage and current sensing.
I had my own ebike startup 2 years ago (Lectro). What killed it was the fact that large lithium battery packs were classified with hazmat status. This classification might have been spurred by the exploding hoverboards. Product shipping and liability became too high for profits. I would assume big box retailers have similar concerns. If the BMS in the battery had an issue, It was very difficult for the customer to ship back.
Ramen price-fixing class action headed for U.S. trial
That's also a use case for having two phones. I know that's not ideal for a lot of people, but your use case is essentially putting convenience above security.
Replying to throwaway7312

America doesn't have much in common with those countries listed. They are much poorer countries where law and order isn't upheld as well as the US.

I think the key is not just gun ownership rates but WHO is owning the gun and WHY. The Iceland and Finland examples make me think cold countries with higher rural populations and hunting as a sport or necessity.

OTOH in USA perhaps more ordinary people buy guns for self defence purposes with the intent to shoot a person not an animal.

Edit: weird I can now see the reply button for that comment I didn't before. Apologies
> Side note: Before you demand someone provide a citation, try googling it for yourself. This result isn't hard to find.

Or the person making a claim can actually provide a citation for their claim. It's not on a person challenging a claim to prove it, it's on the person making it.
A low-latency prediction serving system for machine learning
Why not buy a cheap 1960s plane? A cheap 2000s car? A cheap piece of land in the middle of nowhere with 1910s era medical assistance. Freedom, in the sense of not needing to work (FU money) is easy to come by for anyone browsing HN. Just requires dropping expectations somewhat — still well above 1916 Rockefeller levels.
1.5 per 100k (most of which are suicides), gun culture isn't big here.
> We really need to quit forcing programmers to take calculus.

I used Calculus one day to solve a random business problem.

I noticed the pattern was a Taylor Series.

It had been over 10 years since I learned it, but I immediately recognized the pattern.

I solved it via brute force on Excel. It took over 50 pages of Excel calculations to reach the answer. (About 2500 lines of calculations, which is easy to do in Excel.)

And once I noticed the pattern, I was able to turn it into a formula.

And now, I had a one-liner formula, that I was able to use to solve my business problem. Then, I plugged this formula into Excel too, and now I had a little Excel app that could get the answer for me.

Did this make me any money? No. Did this directly make the business any money? No. But, it did help the business by now having a mathematical formula that they can use to solve that specific question, if another customer asks for it in the future, specifically during the initial sales process.

And all this, because I had been forced to study Calculus in college.
And German, French, British and list goes on and on.
oldie but goodie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cIVfrBFc5og
Not likely. If I was laundering money I would rather have a low profile and spread the money over several apps while making sure that none of them end up on the top 30 list. Seems like a pretty straight forward scam: Get suckers to buy the app and an in-app subscription service with fake reviews.
It's not asking them to be super-human. Its asking them not to shoot until they actually see a weapon.
Even with the fairly flat and modestly-sized parcel of property that I keep mowed around the house, it's just one of those tasks that I don't care to do and which needs to be done on a schedule. Some people find fairly mindless outdoor chores a good excuse to get out of the house but I don't generally speaking.

It's not inexpensive to have your lawn cut and the quality isn't always to my liking. But I've found the tradeoff to be worthwhile.
The best way to discuss compilers with people is probably to pick an active open source project in the specific area of your interest and have discussions with other contributors.
> When I complained to them, they called me a liar and refused to do anything.

Atleast in germany you have a multitude of options you can pull even without a lawyer getting involved. You can also file legal complaints easily and most fraudsters will drop the money at that point and apologize.

Added to that is that most online payment in germany works with a push system, which means you'll see the amount you'll transfer on your banks online form or whichever webservice you use (GIROdirect or SOFORT). If they charge more, don't pay.

SEPA Debit, which is a pull system has more fraud protection and vendors are very unlikely to ever do anything like fraud over Debit as the bank will go after them like some 80s slasher movie killer if they do. Plus you get the money back.
Some of those whale addresses are exchanges themselves.
Because if you consider average case scenarios, logic will inevitably force you to make a choice: what percentage of cops should die during their career? The police chiefs decided the answer is zero. That leads to extreme aggressive tactics.

Too bad the owners of mines, oil rigs, logging operations, etc. don't share a similar concern for their employees' lives.
Any cop who shoots an innocent person during a no-knock forced entry should be automatically charged with murder.
I dunno? Maybe 99.9% or even 99.99%
Flat vs. Depth for UI Design in 2018?
Well this was a long time coming. It is not reflection on bitcoin per se rather the use of the coin.

Let me try and explain why this is happening. In India, people don't warm up to "internet" only companies easily. What this meant is while bitcoin and cryptocurrency FOMO has caught on, people don't go and buy coins online. There are exchanges but none of them are household name like Coinbase.

So, a new industry has mushroomed - people offering "investment" opportunity in bitcoin "funds". These guys are not authorized investment professionals. They collect any where between 25-50k and promise a fixed return.

No investment opportunity can claim fixed returns unless it is a Ponzi scheme. Hence, this announcement.

My personal take on these opportunities is that, if these "funds" are in trouble - prices increase or decrease lot
- they can simply claim that they have hacked. So, it is not even a ponzi scheme rather outright fraud.

Even though I have tried convincing otherwise couple of colleagues have invested in such opportunities. They find the whole bitcoin process - wallets, keys, pass phrases etc very cumbersome but can't miss out on the supposed gains. And these guys are software engineers.

Lastly, if a person with above average technology experience finds it difficult to use bitcoin, I think it shows how true cryptocurrency's dream of banking the underbanked in 3rd world country is going to be.
40 hours a week plus a commute leaves you weekends and late evenings, which you won't enjoy because you're tired. And a lot of these people are trapped by a mortgage, and spent a lot of their energy and health worrying about bills.

Maybe you or I wouldn't swap but the idea that most people in the town I grew up in wouldn't swap is actually absurd. Fear of insecurity is absolutely brutal.
By making it clear that being able to use Bitcoin to pay for stuff isn't prioritized.

And yes forcing a 1MB blocksize totally destroys Bitcoin being usable as digital cash. When average and median fees are $30 - $100 it simply doesn't make sense.
i don't think kenya is a good study for other countries
Not to be too blunt, but that's why they call it law enforcement. What's causing all the cognitive dissonance is the fact that law enforcement was summoned inappropriately -- i.e. on a an innocent person in a situation where no laws were broken and no enforcement was needed.

If the drug-lord whose assassins raped and killed your sister is confused and groggy in the middle of the night and gets shot accidentally or even "accidentally," there won't be any conflict in your mind. That's the kind of situation the process is designed for. Unfortunately it's also designed for a world where you can mostly trust what a 911 caller is saying. They'll have to tighten that up, especially after this incident. I just hope it doesn't get so bad that real victims have to beg and plead for 15 minutes and show two forms of ID and receive an auth code on their 2FA before a cop can show up to save them.
How did you figure out that the cause isn't "getting the most Federal money spent in Alabama"? Newspace doesn't have any Alabama facilities, except for Blue Origin offering to build a factory there if their BE-4 engine is selected for ULA's new Vulcan rocket, which seems likely to happen.
You're right, data warehousing seems like a compelling use case for learned indices. I'm primarily worried about OLTP systems, though.
There have been some publicized cases about Everquest...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/addicted-suicide-over-everquest...

I remember seeing the Everquest demo trailer video in an Electronic Boutique store and reading about it in PC magazine, I was astounded by the sheer level of depth. Especially the part where you could setup a physical real estate and sell stuff you gathered form the virtual world (I'm not sure if this existed in Everquest, just recall seeing bits of it in a magazine).
On his stated income I presume he won't be left destitute and can still save some money and invest too.
Three, three schools:

* Model checking/high level formal specs. Lamport's TLA+, Alloy, possibly Z. There are some good TLA+ things online, I just couldn't get into it. (I feel bad.)
I think there's at least a plausible argument to be had. A lot of bad guys get guns through holes in gun control, getting a gun out of state, etc. If it were harder for the wrong people to get guns, maybe there wouldn't be such a need for a militarized police force, or at least officers might not fear for their lives during stressful situations.

That said, I'm a believer in the second amendment -- I just think there's definitely an argument to be had.
German cops have fired a total of 52 bullets in 2016, which killed 11 people. I think it’s very likely that situation would have had a different outcome.
Network latency right now is the biggest issue we have. If we could magically (using your term here!) get computational resources and data dramatically closer to end users, it would easily give 2 or 3x improvement. Doing this safely of course means consistently in this case, and being able to solve things like safe replication of large data sets. I dunno how to do it, but you asked and that's the biggest thing I can think of.
40h/week doesn’t feel like it’s leaving me with a lot of time at all - I would much rather work 4 days a week for 80% of my salary or even 3 days for 60%.
Some excerpts from recent Alan Kay emails
After experiencing what iOS 11 has done to my iPhone SE, I'm pretty sure the "Software Engineers" Apple employs these days can't tell the difference between obvious trash and legitimate attempts at useful, working software.
This isn't the movies, cops should never be kicking down the door in a hostage situation. They should be guarding the perimeter and trying to talk to the perpetrator.
Yea this answer is total and utter crap. We aren't asking law enforcement to be super human, we want them to be educated and competent. The fact that the U.S is both lacking in training and competence is a well established fact. Law enforcement in the United States has proven itself to lack training and discipline by firing on innocent unarmed citizens many many times. I don't believe any other country in the world has this problem to our extent. We have a very dangerously trigger happy law enforcement. These issues correlate with lack of training. Civil crime is not like a battlefield, people should be presumed innocent until proven guilty as is law. If someone can't handle this reality, they shouldn't be allowed to wield a weapon that kills. With great force and power comes responsibility. We should be far more selective at the type of people that can go into law enforcement, only those with a grounded temperament and proven track record should be allowed to use deadly force after extensive training. In the U.S, any Joe shmoe hungry for a power trip can attain a legal license to kill by going in law enforcement. That is the actual problem.

I'd love to hear an actual solution or alternative if you have one. But the U.S isn't a special snowflake. It should take a leaf from other countries like Germany, England and France and foster a strong culture of policing by consent rather than the bullshit we have right now.

Also when was the last time an American white law enforcement agent was imprisoned for discharging his or her weapon on an unarmed suspect?
I've had terrible experience with coding standards... and really don't think their worth for most orgs... especially if there isn't buyin from management to enforce this kind of thing
Or incompatibilities or drivers/firmware that need updated or... There's just a lot that can trip you up and I've run into a lot of quirks and issues over the years that--if I were just starting out--I'd just assume that I must be doing something wrong.
> Seems especially in modern societies the actual cost, effort required, and difficulty of finding a mate and raising children responsibly (e.g. so that they might also be in a position to have children if they desire) is much higher than it was in the past (hence the sharply declining birthrates in all modern nations).

No, not at all. Sociologists do not at all believe that declining birth rates are because its harder to raise kids. It’s never been easier! Healthcare in most of the developed world is taken care of for the majority of people, basic education is free, and food is so cheap and abundant you’d have to actively try to raise a malnourished child today.

The idea that delivering and raising a child was easier or cheaper 100,200, or 500 years ago is ludicrous.
Firearms are deadly force. The decision to use them is the decision to use deadly force. People can disagree with the use of deadly force. If deadly force is allowed, it still makes sense to make its application as precise and limited in scope as possible. Hollow points, compared with full metal jacketed bullets, reduce penetration, reducing shoot-throughs and the potential of injuring those who are not the target. They also increase the likelihood that a lower number of rounds will be needed to be effective. Limiting the number of rounds limits the time of the encounter and the number of rounds that potentially going to be off-target.

To be clear, there's a lot that should go into the decision to use deadly force, and it's one that should not be considered likely. People can disagree with when the decision is correctly made. Once it's made however, hollow-points are more effective than fully-jacketed rounds.
I wonder how they address this problem, which affects all attempts to spot fake reviews: How do they know how accurate their results are?[0] What are the false negative and false positive rates? To measure your accuracy objectively, you'd need an independent method to verify, with high reliability, the legitimacy of the reviews. (You may think you can spot them manually, and maybe you can spot some obvious ones, but false negatives are perilous: You don't know if the reviewer is simply better at hiding their trick than you are in discovering it - and they likely have far more expertise and experience than you do. Consider: Could you write a fake review that would trick someone like yourself?)

Fakespot's FAQ says the following. I think the use of machine learning is a good example of the problem: The machine needs a good data set from which to learn, which means they'd have to flag reviews in the training data as legitimate or not - but they have no way to determine that. Basically, they are training the machine to make the same judgments, of unknown, accuracy, as the humans (in fairness, I'm making some presumptions about their use of machine learning).

What criteria are used by Fakespot when analyzing reviews?

Fakespot utilizes numerous technologies to validate the authenticity of reviews.

The primary criteria is the language utilized by the reviewer, the profile of the reviewer,correlation with other reviewers data and machine learning algorithm that focuses on improving itself by detecting fraudulent reviews.

The technologies include: profile clusters, sentiment analysis, cluster correlation and artificial intelligence intertwined with these functionalities.

https://www.fakespot.com/faq

[0] As Richard Feynman said, "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -- and you are the easiest person to fool."
Good steel frames are not necessarily significantly heavier than aluminum frames but they ride much much better (have more flex). They also can be repaired if required while aluminum is probably toast after anything that damages the frame. In anything that is not a race or cargo bike I’d always prefer a steel frame.
I'm not sure that's the best example. Probability of precipitation (PoP) is simply a misleading measure by itself. It has a threshold of >0.01 in for what is considered "rain". So if there's only a 20% chance that you'll get a minimum 0.01 in of rain, you'd naturally expect a low chance for it to be be much higher, and hence would expect not to get wet that day. The problem here is that a guaranteed 10 inches of rain over 20% of the area would still give you a 20% "chance of rain", which would still result in a 20% PoP, which is not what you would want for a useful measure of rain.
From a duckduckgo search of "median savings us": https://www.valuepenguin.com/banking/average-savings-account.... Half of households with savings accounts have a balance of $5,200 or less.

That's barely one month's worth of basic expenses (rent, food, utilities) in the Bay Area. It's perhaps 3-6 months' worth in a less absurdly expensive area, depending on housing situation and how austere one can pare down the life to. Throw in even a non-serious, but serious-enough sickness and that's cut in half (or worse).

According to Here's a marketwatch article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-have-less-t..., 21% of households don't even have a savings account. They'd have zero months' worth of anything if they lost a job.

So, yeah, "most" might even be a bit optimistic. I'd have used "vast majority", "almost everyone", "just about anyone outside the top 5%-10% of income earners", etc.
Moped = motor + pedal
I hate articles like this. Studies of hunter-gatherer tribes isolated from the rest of society [1] show that, without technology, humans sleep for 6 to 8 hours in one chunk, starting a few hours after sunset, exactly as we do today. The only difference is that they don't get insomnia.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
Japan has its medieval way of walking too: http://asaikarate.com/what-is-nanba-walking-ナンバ歩きとは何ぞや？/
There may be no way to satisfy the demands, and countries will ban companies that don't comply. It's not a new problem; here's a 2003 article about Microsoft having trouble due to shipping a timezone map.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p=...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

It's a bit 'noisy' because there are a lot of 3rd world places that are simply quite violent. The US has a lot more than, say, a lot of Europe.

Also, don't discount suicide: guns make that easier too. Some will find a way without, but some would be prevented if it's 'too much effort'.
> However, I'm contrasting it with my country, where calling in such a situation would be very unlikely to get someone killed, because the police are much more reticent to shoot people.

Yeah, but I don't think that's reasonable to do. If you live in the U.S. you know this is a problem, choosing to still do it is more damning.
> Couldn’t the store of value thing just be temporary, while Bitcoin gets well-known?

Sure it's possible but we're already seeing a massive growth in altcoins which can actually be used for everyday payments while Bitcoin's relative marketcap is shrinking rapidly. For example Steam recently dropped Bitcoin support. BitPay, the payment processor Steam used, recently announced they will start supporting Bitcoin Cash (which have transfer fees of < $0.01) despite being Bitcoin maximalists until now.

This is why I predict Bitcoin will be surpassed by other coins with more user adoption.