skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Insurance companies and paper magazine publishers like using them for payouts.

I know an eccentric person that also uses them. When I cashed such a check the eyes of the employee lit up and it was shown around among the tellers after asking if that's ok (which is a bit out of the ordinary as they usually act very discreet and professional) so I'd say that's a rare thing.
Even blacks?
Answer: They are buying Google ads

I still have questions with NYT's perspective on that issue. Are they seriously expecting Google to evaluate the scientific proof behind every ad that is placed? Those website do nothing illegal, most probably don't even lie but just present very selective facts. Or is that just about the next level of trial by internet and the NYT is already scouting for next potential victims they can target?
If this is true the caller has to be tried for murder
I can't say why it hasn't caught on yet, but in my opinion, it is fragile, at least when compared to other coins.

Here the reward one gets purely depends on the score they get on specific BOINC projects, which can be seen as a single point of failure. So if someone is able to fudge their BOINC scores, they're able to create Gridcoins that they shouldn't get.

While other coins aren't as resourceful as this, I feel their network's security is backed by (atleast seemingly) air-tight cryptography. Not to say that Gridcoin is insecure currently, but the centralization with BOINC shows it doesn't have a bright future.
Thanks, I have thought about it.

I see some upside, although probably less than you. Even if the market ends up being large, though, that only matters if a) they have a large share of it, and b) competition doesn't drive margins to approximately zero.

Facebook and Google are worth a zillion dollars because there is little competitive pressure. GM's market cap is less than 1/10th of Google's because they face stiff competition. Or compare with airlines. The top 3 airlines by revenue bring in circa $120bn per year versus Google's $90bn. But the market cap of those airlines is only $70bn combined versus $729bn for Google.

I think airlines are good comparison for the pseudo-taxi market. Barrier to entry isn't huge, and lots of well funded people like to play in the space. That means that consumer price competition is cutthroat; profit margins and market caps thus stay low.

But Uber's in a worse position than an airline. A 777 or an A380 costs upwards of $300 million, and you need more than one of them to be a plausible airline. For pseudo-taxis, though, you just need some software (likely available via white label), a few drivers in one city, and a bit of local marketing muscle. It costs 3-4 orders of magnitude less to start a 1-city Uber competitor than a regional airline.

And there are an awful lot of people who want a slice of the future transportation pie, including every single car manufacturer (who can have custom cars at cost), every car rental company (which combined have 2m cars and 20k locations, a number of major tech companies (certainly Google, possibly Apple and Amazon, surely others), and possibly anybody with a strong brand (e.g., perhaps Virgin, GE, Ikea, LVMH).

So no, I don't think Uber's valuation was justified. Neither does Softbank, obviously, or anybody else with the money to buy in. But I think it will go lower still.
> In some circumstances, we even celebrate these effects

The gang mentality that gets trained into police is problematic. They are told they are "warriors", they're told to use lethal force quickly, they're told that the sex they'll have after killing a human being will be the "best sex of their lives". It's sick:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2016/09/30/...
I can see how you'd be terribly bored. Since you already have a pile of money (congrats) why not deposit it with some reputable wealth management firm and save yourself the time reading the investment books? It sounds like you're optimizing for its own sake - investments, videogames, whatever it is you do at work, and as you say accumulating more is not a satisfying challenge.

But I'm sure you can think of something worth learning that you do for its own sake rather than as part of an overall gameplan, whether that's playing violin or teaching wolves to play backgammon. Since you're suffering from anomie I challenge you to identify 3 things that you would actually find difficult to accomplish and which would have value for other people (not necessarily altruistic, but in terms of being recognized by others as difficult to accomplish).
What do hackers plant into your computer to steal data?
>I've hurt myself far less playing rugby than soccer,

Respectfully, self-assessment is exactly the wrong approach here.

Play soccer, break a leg. Obvious - leg is broken. Play rugby, lose 5% mental ability - less obvious especially in a self(!)-assessment of one's mental ability.

>Also, the objective of Rugby

I've been on the receiving side of some nasty rugby tackles...including the type where I don't remember a lot about them. So yes I do understand the objective of Rugby and all that great stuff.

>In fact, we were often encouraged to avoid contact whenever possible and to pass the ball whenever we could.

If everyone plays a clean textbook version then that works out well. In my experience putting a bunch of determined testosterone fuelled guys on a field does not result in textbook clean though. Not even close.

Rugby/Boxing/NFL/whatever...consider this. 99% of NFL post mortems show CTE. Not just a few - 99%. Lets suppose Rugby is way better like literally halves the risk despite both similar contact sports but lets pretend Rugby is way better. Can you really "recommend the sport to anyone young enough" at 49% CTE risk? Telling me about training how to fall is just not going to cut it.

So yes "risky at best" is my assessment of the situation.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/25/health/cte-nfl-players-bra...
Rational or not, I haven't been worried about this kind of abuse of my security form data. Instead I'm paranoid about divulging some very personal facts all over the internet, such as elementary school or details about growing up. It feels like it's exactly what various three-letter agencies might love to get their grubby hands on. As a result anything made up is enough to allay that fear.
And then they'd be arraigned within a few days (max -- often, within 24 hours) and given the opportunity to post bail.
Favorite quote:

> Delivery dates have often irrelevant but very simple to understand impacts. Good and bad solutions have dramatic but very difficult to understand impacts.
For what its worth I would watch just based on your description alone. May be better to just make one and get feedback than focus on making it interesting. Also, please let me know once you do. :-)
"next big thing" == "next pump 'n' dump"
Guns are an expensive hobby. You'll want to have several different nice guns, and lots of ammo, and some targets, and a safe, and time at the range. It's easy to spend thousands a year.

If you just want a gun for self defense or murder, they are cheap. Buy a Hi-Point or a Ruger LCP for $175 and a box of 50 9mm and now you can kill more people than you'd ever have a reason to.
I didn't really do the math when I replied before, but if you lived in or near that mobile home park and were a kid ~30 years ago, we almost certainly went to the same schools at around the same time, which is pretty surreal. I don't really run into many folks from my hometown in nerd circles (or anywhere, really).
Kodi (XBMC) architecture is the first thing comes to my mind as a best example for cross-platform application architecture.

I've amazed by the seamless performance of Kodi in every platform I've tried it in. But recently when I tried the android version of Kodi on Celeron N3060 based ChromeOS, unfortunately HW acceleration wasn't available and it reported the CPU as ARM. I wonder whether it has to do with intel houdini ARM instruction translation, other android apps report correct CPU and HW acceleration works in chrome browser.
> Answer: They are buying Google ads

So Google search results are just ads? I can't reproduce the NYT's results, though looking at Google search results for the first time in awhile, I'm surprised at just how trashy they've become.
I do like CFD
>Wrong, he thought that capitalism would be replaced by socialism, which would itself transition over time to communism.

You are correct that Marx predicted a brief transition period between capitalism and true communism, which of course is not what ever happened.

>Marx’s socialism is not a utopian state.

But his communism is supposed to be a utopia, which is what I said.

Let me add that the vocabulary is not consistent here. Sometimes leftists refer to communism as a form of socialism, sometimes they are spoken of as two different systems.

>No, non-Leninist Leftists say none of this is relevant to non-Leninist communism and the broader non-Leninist Left, because all these systems were Leninist vanguardism, and non-Leninists on the Left reject vanguardism and generally also the Leninist deviation from classical Marxism in bypassing capitalist democracy as a necessary part of the path.

True, but non-Leninist communists have never come to power in a state, and as far as I can tell there is no particular reason to think they ever will. And even if they somehow did, there still remains the question of how good a society they would actually produce. Leftists have attained power (ie Labour in the UK), but have not done so well over the long term.

By the way, what are you? A non-Leninist communist or a non-Leninist socialist or what?

Also, I am going into this because when leftists say "but that wasn't true communism" they seem to be implying that it could have been if the leaders had done things right. However, when you look at the circumstances in Russia/USSR, it simply was not possible, much less for any of the other communist countries.

More generally, I went into this whole history because I think everyone should know it, but very few do. Do you agree?
Is it still that slow? Since a few months 95% of my transactions between Germany, the Netherlands and the UK (EUR account) happen the same day. It's not like banks actually can earn interest right now anyway. If anything it costs them to hold money currently.
America has always been hostile to unions. American business especially, but Americans generally. In America even union workers hate unions. It's baked into our cultural DNA. (This is my takeaway from reading the excellent American history book, There is Power in a Union, by Philip Dray.)

By contrast, European elites settled into a power sharing arrangement with unions long ago, at the end of the 19th century.

Because there's less conflict over power in Europe, there's less tension between unions and business. But because even at the height of their power (circa 1930s) unions were perpetually under siege in the U.S. by business and political interests, American unions are constantly fighting just to exist.

In the past few decades, as American unions face extinction in the private labor market, they're literally left fighting for survival. This manifests in a lot of defensiveness--i.e. the conference workers, Hollywood workers. Even in places where they're seemingly secure, they don't feel secure, and in truth aren't actually very secure. Even the most liberal, union friendly corporation or municipality has trouble resisting the pursuit of cost savings through automation and out-sourcing.

In some places unions have literally pivoted to selling themselves as jobs programs. Some government worker unions and contractor unions are in many respects a tool for wealth redistribution. In some cities and states politicians and policy makers will openly tell you that, e.g., the point of having so many unionized workers manage a conference hall is simply to provide stable jobs--jobs to gainfully employ people that might otherwise stand on the corner all day, jobs that pay enough to support a solidly working- or middle-class family.

In other words, these unions are doing precisely what so many conservatives claim the country should be doing with entitlement reform--predicate it on working. But assuming it's not just an insincere excuse, the reality is that you literally need to manufacture and distribute work in ways that are at odds with a meritocratic and especially market-driven model. Unions are literally structured to distribute work and maximize employment, which means they're a better mechanism to distribute social payments in exchange for nominal labor. Even back in the days when corrupt union leadership siphoned wealth, the disparity between leadership and wage workers wasn't nearly as great as in private business. That's especially the case today, as union financing is much more heavily regulated while, conversely, in the private labor market shareholders and managers have substantially increased their share of the profits.

Of course, these social arrangements create weird incentives for inefficiency and corruption, especially when they're as informal and ad hoc as in the U.S.
Well, I'm looking for component wrappers.

For example I'm using quite a bit of semantic-ui today. Makes the job of building interfaces really simple and easy.
That doesn't really disprove my statement. That shows almost 20% of iPhones being iPhone 5 or older, roughly on par with the amount of Android phones running KitKat or older.

The successors to the iPhone 5 and KitKat were released around the same time (late 2014) but new Android devices, especially low end devices, continued to ship with KitKat long after that. KitKat was still supported by Google until 2017.
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Yeah I was also thinking (orthogonal to this specific post) that if you show people ads of things they were already going to buy, then you can attribute your impressions to the conversion. The business can become predicting what people will buy versus directly influencing what they buy. That isn't to say that there is no value to advertisers, but it might be oversold, especially for large brands.
Note that this rule doesn't apply to the whole SEPA area. Switzerland is a notorious exception, Euro SEPA transfers to there often incur a charge.
I agree with you on that last bit as I'm basically a sysadmin/dev that gets stuck maintaining the systems when "top performers" move on to the next project. ;)
> I cannot think of a single good reason to impose this.

Good? Definitely not, but my money is on CHAR(8) and a lack of understanding.
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This is true. Sometimes you have to let go of problem employees, but this should really be a last resort. Fire fast doesn't take into multiple considerations, such as the amount domain knowledge does this person possesses. If the person you want to get rid of has been there for 5 years, and knows certain systems in and out it may not be so easy to replace them.

Constant firing can also negatively affect your personal reputation. As a manager your job is to get people to succeed. Firing someone means that ultimately you failed in that. Sometimes this is unavoidable; there are times when people just aren't redeemable. Sometimes it's not. Good managers know the difference, but you have to remember that every time you let someone go for cause, that person probably didn't see it that way. That person has friends who work other places and all of them have a long memory. If word gets out that you quickly remove people who you can't seem to handle, people will want to stop working for you.
“A male came to the front door,” Livingston said. “As he came to the front door, one of our officers discharged his weapon.”

This has absolutely nothing to do with Call of Duty, full stop. The issue is the threat de-escalation training used by the Kansas police and their inability to safely and competently serve the general public. "hostage situation" does not translate to "shoot to kill." The proper response is to establish a perimeter, establish communication, and work to neutralize the situation without a violent escalation.
According to Lichtheim's book on Marxism, Marx was inspired by the French Revolution and wanted to succeed where it had failed.
This comment leads me towards a question that I think is ignored in most of the article and the rest of this thread - the Danes' sovereignty notwithstanding, what was the gain / loss to Greenland as an entity as a result of this deal (or lack thereof)?

The island has been beholden to external parties and interests for centuries, seldom actually enjoying more than a modicum of self-determination. I see the autonomy granted them in 1979 (and further powers in 2009) by Denmark as being uncharacteristically benevolent for international standards, and something that would never be realised in a million years under the USA (particularly with their military presence).

I'd understand if Greenlanders never felt much kinship for the Danes, but I'd be hard-pressed to accept they'd feel any more for Americans. And I can't find any source referencing Greenland's sentiment towards this offer of acceding control to a global superpower they'd likely never enjoy independence from. Do we know if Denmark just did them a favour out of altruism here?
Science lags behind stoners. Duly noted.
TFA these comments were posted under ;)

https://www.ricksteves.com/about-rick/trinity-place
No need for the cop to be in jail.
Extensive foray in music composition with deep learning (samples included)
But why would there be a liquidity shortage?

It's obvious that this would be the case in a fractional banking system, but assuming that Gemini or Coinbase aren't complete crooks, through which mechanism would they not have enough cash on hand?

For each transaction on their exchange, they'd receive money from the buyer and pass that on to the seller?
Here's the source code (PowerPoint compatibility will be added soon, but Google Slides works): https://github.com/Decagon/muto
When a police officer kills an unarmed man, the excuse of feeling endangered should never be allowed, since the officer was never in danger. At the very least, this police officer should be fired because they committed the ultimate sin: incompetence in their job resulted in the death of a completely innocent person.

I think we should take away this excuse from cops to kill innocent people with a flimsy excuse like this. They should show actual danger before being allowed to shoot people. Just feeling in danger should not give them any protection. The Arizona cop who killed a man crawling on the ground is a prime example of this. If it results in some cops hesitating and getting injured, then so be it, that's what happens when this privilege is abused the way it has been over the last 10 years. Better a few cops get injured that absolutely innocent or unarmed people getting killed.
Like everything, not all of it will stay but the stuff that does still will become something equivalent to a google or facebook in significance.
Folding coin appears to be another in this genre.

http://foldingcoin.net/
No, ironically because classifiers are trained to be robust to noise. Adversarial examples are generated by altering the original in one specific dimension of a high-dimensional vector space. Random noise is vanishingly unlikely to undo that transformation, so the classification will stay wrong.
Blockchain is the new gold rush. I wish I knew how to capitalize on it :(
Or like getting their name and address so they can verify in person?
That's really interesting. Do you know of any sources that list these sorts of properties for strains (and that are reliable/empirical)? I presume the tags on sites like Leafly that mark a strain 'calming' or 'good for depression' are anecdotal and not based in chemistry?
I'll be having a talk with my kids about the consequences of ‘swatting’
A cop who perceives danger when there is absolutely none, and results in the death of an innocent person, should be fired with prejudice.
debit card transactions are all ACH then?
I'd love to know if the cop that pulled the trigger is ex-military.

Also, how did the cops "know" that the guy answering the door was the perp and not a hostage?
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I don't know if I'd call this a swatting but it is definitely a classic case of Ohio police murdering black people.

1. Cops didn't order a single verbal command before Officer Sean Williams shot him to death -- first murder.

2. A woman in the store had a heart attack and died as a result of their insane recklessness -- second murder.

BONUS: Knowing there was no gun they still interrogate his girlfriend in custody for 90 minutes. At the end of the interrogation they let her know Crawford died. Months later she dies in a car crash.

Zero charges for anyone involved. Everyone in the department should be facing prison for not taking action against murderer Sean Williams, it was obvious he was far too dangerous to wear a badge much less carry a weapon:

> Beavercreek police officer Sean Williams used force 10 times more than the staff average during his first eight years in the department. His 36 “response to resistance” incidents from 2006 through 2013 does not include the Aug. 5, 2014 shooting death of John Crawford III at Walmart.[0]

He was not fired.

[0] http://www.mydaytondailynews.com/news/crime--law/officer-who...
Have you considered using the EFF's diceware wordlist? It's designed for this.
https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt
My previous credit union had a default password of the last 4 of my Social Security number (the least secure digits of a completely insecure number).

You were not required to change the password before using online banking.

The maximum length of the password was 4 characters (thankfully you could use letters, numbers and special characters).
Considering Android apps run in containers in ChromeOS,I noticed that apps (media player) doesn't have HW acceleration support. Does the VM and Containers mentioned in OP, offer HW acceleration ?
They list both as a dependency, that's why I mentioned it.
That is not life in the US at all.
Thanks! - I was also having major performance problems on my 2013 MBP with the 750M GT. These drivers seem to have fixed it!
Holy cow, I forgot how toxic slashdot comments were... first non-modded comment is like Xbox Live level racism.
If your car is plugged in it can use wall power to pre-heat before your commute, similar to remote start.
It's interesting how XRP enables any group of individuals to nearly have the same remittance abilities as international banks. I think that if XRP doesn't get taken up by banks, there may still be a large enough market for Western Union style transfers for personal international payments.
I like uBlock Origin:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
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A lot of domestic violence ends badly because police actions ensured that it would. E.g. instead of leaving the bastard the woman develops a sort of codependent relation with local cops so that every busted lip she suffers means the bastard gets a tag-team beatdown from everyone on duty. Nightly entertainment for the whole neighborhood!

I'm no fan of wife-beaters, but somehow every other nation on earth has figured out less violent ways of dealing with them. Yes, in many cases "the way" is to simply accept that wives will get beaten. Admitting this is no more an acceptance of police violence than admitting that not all nations are governed with perfect justice would be an acceptance of all of our damned wars. This is a "won't somebody please think of the children?!" level of argument.
Which makes it less secure. Customer support rep may find it reasonable to dismiss it as random characters and let the attacker bypass the check entirely.

If the attacker knows it looks like gibberish, they can try "Heh, whoops, I just put in random characters at the time. Can we try something else?"

I think a false, convincing, and unlikely answer is reasonable. "My childhood dog's name was Alexander Hamilton."