skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incorrect. The gold itself was valuable, and specifically gold because there were ways to tell in ancient times that it _was_ gold, and how pure it was. It helps that it's easily malleable for coinage too.

I believe there was an episode of Connections that I saw as a kid where he explains why gold was used as currency. I'm searching for it and will link if I find it.
GDPR isn't really a revelation. In many European countries there already was data protection legislation. The only thing that changes is that now its more enforceable in a unified market.

American companies had a huge unfair advantage compared to their European competition. Now everyone has to deal with the same laws.
Thankfully that was just our marketing site! Our team has fixed it (and re-issued any api key that could have been potentially compromised).

Our product isn't a monorepo (and has a much more rigorous release process than this site), so even if the main repo that does the build is ever exposed, the secrets aren't in there :)
> Not a Python expert, but I think tuples might be enumerable in Python

Yes, they are. More generally, they are sequences and they support indexing, so they are also iterable. In other words, this Python code works:

list(map(str, ("tuple", 5, {}))) == ["tuple", "5", "{}"]

There is also a variant of a tuple which assigns names to its positions - it's also iterable. They are also allowed to have any length. Other than that, I'm not aware of any superpowers of Python tuples.
My money is on humans adapting to AI.
I don't want anyone preloading anything on my mobile connection other than the absolute necessary. Period.

Everything else wastes my bandwidth and I don't care that it is only 100kb, my monthly, effective datacap is about 50MB and I always browser without images.

The "100kb or less" is only about 500 pages preloaded, not accounting for the size of the google webpage itself. I'd rather not have any preload at all.
This is something different from what game engines do. A game engine can typically just walk the scene graph, emitting draw calls as it encounters potentially visible objects. The equivalent approach on the Web would be walking the render tree/frame tree, issuing draw calls as it goes.

This is indeed the traditional method that Gecko and WebKit used to use, but it has a lot of problems, which are why Blink and Gecko use display lists:

1. The CSS 2.1 Appendix E painting order is complex: it's not enough to traverse the tree in breadth-first or depth-first order. You could get around that by traversing the tree multiple times, as Blink and WebKit do, but that gets complex. It's a lot more straightforward, not to mention cache friendlier, to build display items into a list and then later sort them into the proper CSS stacking order. This is actually similar to what game engines do for transparent objects (assuming they actually care about rendering them properly and aren't using any fancy OIT techniques).

2. For security reasons, these days you don't want direct GPU access in the same process as JavaScript. Display lists enable an elegant solution to this, as they can be transmitted over IPC to a trusted process.

3. Display lists can be rendered in a separate thread from the layout and/or JavaScript execution, enabling better use of concurrency.

4. Unlike a typical game, which has the luxury of being able to build up vertex and index buffers beforehand and can cache them on the individual nodes in the scene graph, on the Web each individual display item only has a tiny amount of GPU data. Slow rendering on the Web is often the result of "death by a thousand cuts", where the GPU is swamped in draw calls from lots of unrelated items. The only scalable solution to this problem is to batch across display items, using knowledge of the entire scene to construct VBOs and IBOs. This is only possible if the renderer has a global view of the entire scene, and the display list is a natural way to achieve that.

I certainly think that Web browsers can learn a lot from game engines (and WebRender is designed to do just that). But display lists are one of those cases in which the problem space is just different: trying to do exactly what a game engine does doesn't work well.
Have you read his blog entries? He did not start out making money on his blog. Maybe he is a bald faced liar and is drinking bottles of Dom Perignon in a secret penthouse apartment in NYC, but he reports his spending for 2015 for a family of 3 was $23,941 and ballooned up to $30,193 in 2016 due to Obamacare caused rises in healthcare costs[1].

He is almost the antithesis of an Amway salesperson. His philosophy is mostly don't buy stuff you don't need and you need way less than our consumerism based world tells you to need. He also is very much "find your own way".

[1]http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2017/05/19/2016-spending/

PS - When you are trying to live on $25,000 a year so you can choose what you work on, a $200-$500 a month air conditioning bill some people have for half the year is significant.
> Note that GPL advocates spread FUD about the BSD license. In my experience the GPL advocates completely ignore the concerns of the BSD people

Um ... people who advocate for GPL are not a uniform group.

> Calling the concerns of the other side FUD is in fact not helpful.

I fully agree with that statement, though.
> He would probably have never invested in Netflix, or Facebook, or Google. Yet any investor who did made a killing.

Buffett's strategy is to avoid losses -- not to worry about missing out on possible gains. He believes you avoid losses by investing in companies with a long, successful track record of doing the same thing for many years and that are likely to continue doing that same thing for many years into the future.

So, it's not that Buffett doesn't "get" technology, he just can't make intelligent guesses about what tech companies will be earning 10 years from now. He sticks to his circle of competence and it works.
If you pick it up and put it in your car, it's mostly lost control of where it's going.
New York City residents pay some of the highest taxes in the country.
> In contemporary times, they have some value because everyone that lives in a particular country is legally required to pay taxes and those taxes can only be paid in the relevant government issued currency.

You've got it half right. In most countries, private individuals and organizations are also required to accept the state currency for at least some purposes. In the USA, for example, creditors are required to accept US banknotes in payment of debts. This places US dollars firmly at the core of the US financial system. This doesn't create any legal obligation for US businesses to accept dollars, but it does create a very strong incentive for them to accept dollars in some form. That's the currency in which their finances will almost certainly need to be conducted if they want to have access to things like banking.

That creates a situation where the US dollar isn't just valuable insofar as you can use it to pay your taxes. It is, de facto but also very nearly de jure, backed by virtually the entire United States economy.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, really is backed by nothing but its own popularity. And the problem there is, it's really not that popular. It does have a lot of users worldwide, and those users can communicate over the Internet, but the same is true of Esperanto.
Money trumps principles plain and simple. My guess is this will continue until the day Apple sales in China decline below a certain level, then they’ll be a ‘brave, principled’ decision announced that they are shutting down iCloud in China or withdrawing from the market altogether.
For linear functions (in the article's second, linear algebra sense), the image of zero must be zero, and that doesn't hold for (most) affine functions, so makes sense.

Note that he shows the trick of making affine functions linear by tacking on one more dimension.
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> [Bitcoin] is the first currency that is entirely digital, which before bitcoin wasn't possible

It is absolutely possible. Sweden is close to achieving it [1]. The hurdle isn't technological. People like physical cash. Consider the shitstorm that would erupt in America if the Treasury announced it would stop printing and minting physical currency.

> it's still a very interesting technological development

I agree.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/04/sweden-cash...
No, but who cares? Tencent, Baido, etc are not globally competitive, but they are very fine.

You know what else is not going to make European tech industry globally competitive? The chronic lack of money, because it's all siphoned away by google, amazon, apple, and such. Do we need a global competition? Why?

An internal competition in a huge market is good enough. China encouraged the development of a strong internal market: and they are innovating like crazy. Europe is big enough to do the same.
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It is not an argument. It is a statement. OK. What about short DNA fragments in a solution of DNA replicase. They are built from DNA, they are replicating, in a few billions years they can evolve, they aren't much more complex than a toilet bowl, undergrad molecular biology student can create them by billions.
Privatization.
Thanks for that link - I was aware of the Stingray (Bitsquid) development blog (http://bitsquid.blogspot.com/) but didn't know about those videos.
Decentralized private messaging doesn't sound too hard. With the e2e encryption that already exists it doesn't seem to difficult to add more servers as you don't really need trust in the first place.

I could be wrong though.
You still trust the server, unless the encryption is done with code that wasn't delivered from the server. E2E prevents your content from being stolen in a data breach or from being accessed if the server was fine when you sent a message but compromised later.
Buffet is first and foremost a reader and an investor second. He reads A LOT! If he does't like bitcoin it's because techies have failed to explain it or he truly thinks it's not valuable (perhaps he has knowledge of money/currency/banking that most of us dont?).

Not only does he invest in things that are undervalued but they also must provide value. Crypto currencies themselves do not provide value. The companies that make the hardware for mining provide value. Power generation companies that make the electricity for mining provide value. But a crypto currency provides no value by itself, it's just bits and bytes on a harddrive.
A conference calendar for people in tech
CES 2018: AMD Drops Ryzen CPU Prices by Up to 30 Percent
1st DefCon Announcement (1993)
How do you explain both parties gerrymandering for decades across the US?
They make a fine display device to plug an updated Apple TV, Fire TV, Chromecast, or Roku into.
Looks like a logging outage for it to be that dramatic of a drop.
Birth tourism brings Russian baby boom to Miami
Dual Enrollment Homeschool Community College
Well, it appears some OS makers are between a rock and a hard place, which means they're actively blocking off updates. https://doublepulsar.com/important-information-about-microso...
I could see it going either way. I actually have become more likely to use transit since ride-hailing is so much easier—if I'm ever stranded anywhere (lack of good bus route, after hours, etc.), I just have to open the Lyft app.

Furthermore, when car ownership is no longer considered a necessity (as it is today in most of the US), the economics will change. Right now, my personal vehicle is a sunk cost, so I view car trips as costing close to zero—unlike the up-front, immediate transactions inherent to taking the bus or Lyft. Once I no longer own that vehicle (I'm not planning to replace it), all of my options will be on more equal footing, since they'll all be priced per-trip. Even self-driving vehicles will not be able to compete with mass transit when they're both priced similarly.
I'm sure the Max Take Off weight is even lower at altitude and in warm weather. I've noticed most R22 pilots are pretty skinny.
> But there are new altcoins that have solved both of these, that exist right now!

Any of them solve the fact that you have a eternal database fully replicated across hundreds of thousands of machines which could, by design, grow to infinite size? How about the fact that every one of those machines have to verify the integrity of every transaction ever made? Any of those could scale to handle even hundreds of transactions per second?

How about any that solve the absolute piss-awful amount of energy wasted by PoW? Any of those not pre-mined scams designed to enrich the people who "invented" the coin? Any of those useful for anything outside of paying for murder, fentanyl, or unlocking cryptoransomware?

What real-world problem, exactly, does any of this solve anyway? All of the problems we have in the financial world are political and social problems. You gotta solve those before you can start throwing tech at it...
Exactly! The "limited supply" argument for the value cryptocurrency totally ignores the fact that anyone can fork or create a brand new token every day of the week. Nothing like gold or any assets tied to the physical world.
The law does require you to understand road signs and behave accordingly. It doesn't require you to get a piece of paper from a bureaucrat to attest to it.

I very much doubt that you would be arrested if you tried to drive a car without a license. Anecdotally, I've never had my driving license checked by a traffic officer. The large number of undocumented residents who are presumptively driving without a valid license is another point.
I hate how governments do that. It's as if they're interested in not letting people know how much things cost to run, and making them feel that they're getting a lot for their (seemingly) low taxes.
Maybe it's time to stop using geography? Geography was an important consideration in the horse/trail era where if you were stumping around trying to get people to vote for you, how far you had to travel mattered.

Plus, before skyscrapers and other sorts high density developments geography had an okay correlation with population density, but that is no longer the case anymore. There are often far more people in a single block in a city than on an entire knob out in the knobs, or an entire mountain in mountainous areas, etc. You can't easily "circle" just a floor or three of a single building on a 2D map with any accuracy, but to balance population density fairly you may have to consider problems like that.

With TV, radio, the internet, skyscrapers, and urban density, maybe we need a whole new solution for representative democracy than where physically you collect your snail mail?

I don't have any good theories on what should replace geography, but I do think geography is a problem we could eliminate by ignoring that variable.
And transit can't really pick up the slack since there is no core target that large numbers of people want to reach. Successful transit can take a dispersed residential population to a central core or a centralized population to dispersed employment zones but not both.
Re: [Groff] man pages (tangential to Future Redux) (2014)
The BMI chart maxes out healthy weights at 192. So unless you have two NBA players or something, it should work well for most but perhaps not all healthy people.
Blockchains do not provide digital scarcity. This a myth promulgated by the early days when “there are only 21 million” was a fact. Now, it is trivial to fork, copy or derive tokens to instantly bring millions of new “assets” into existence.
I'd prefer that China allow its citizens to freely access the global internet.
Good point. The (variously named) security code should allow you to withdraw even that trust (assuming you verify the security code and the binary on your client...), right. Or does it? If the server knows the secret, it can invisibly MITM you, right?
The End of Education
Best I can tell, people are still publishing papers on messaging. For example, this very paper published in RWC. Where have people given up?
Have you ever been poor? Have you ever been poor and had kids?

It's not as simple as taking a 15 minute drive to the DMV and waiting in line. Many of these people lack access to proper transit systems to get to these places. At least where I live, the DMV is open during normal business hours which may be impossible to get to without taking time off of work. Many of these people are paid hourly which makes this a financial decision as well. It's really hard to miss an hour of work when that could be food or rent.

It's really hard to come up with a solution when large swaths of the country or totally opposed to anything that slightly resembles a national ID. While I agree that we could probably be doing something, it's not as simple as telling everyone to go to the DMV.
A lot of interesting research and opinions has been published during the last ten years. Here are a few links:

"Vitamin D deficiency in undifferentiated connective tissue disease". https://arthritis-research.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.118...

"The Big Vitamin D Mistake". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5541280/

"For health professionals: Position statement on supplementation, blood levels and sun exposure". https://www.vitamindcouncil.org/for-health-professionals-pos...

"The effect of vitamin D supplement on the score and quality of sleep in 20-50 year-old people with sleep disorders compared with control group". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28475473

"A Statistical Error in the Estimation of the Recommended Dietary Allowance for Vitamin D". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4210929/

"Dosage of Vitamin D Needed To Achieve 35 to 40 ng/ml (90-100 nmol/L)". https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/589256_8 (open in an incognito window to avoid the login screen)

"Vitamin D Status and Acute Respiratory Infection: Cross Sectional Results from the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2001–2006". http://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/7/3/1933/htm

"Additional 4 ng of vitamin D reduced chance of infection by 7 percent". https://www.vitamindwiki.com/Additional+4+ng+of+vitamin+D+re...

"Vitamin D supplementation to patients with frequent respiratory tract infections: a post hoc analysis of a randomized and placebo-controlled trial". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553208/

I have more links to relevant material, but I have to stop somewhere ;-) As you can see, the body of evidence is growing.
> A traditional rotary-wing helicopter with collective pitch can autorotate safely in to a controlled landing in the event of an engine failure.

But not in the event of a propeller or pitch-control failure. Also probably single propeller failure in this quad will mean "we lost 1/8 of power, we must land". Also if you lose gasoline engine, you have battery backup for 5min.
The problem is it's increasing faster than inflation right now. That also means at some point it has to go down again to match the inflation rate.
I have been sick over 10 days. I can't get anybody to give me antibiotics. I am going to a new doctor today to see what can be done. But this is not the story I wanted to share.

When I was in middle school I had fallen very ill. I was sick for over 30 days. I was also low income and the process of going to the doctor made things worse. I could hardly move or swallow. I was not eating and loads of green stuff. Chills and fever over and over. I had taken everything the local doctors had prescribed. Nothing was working. I was not getting better.

My band teacher at the time was very concerned. I had missed over a month of school. So he made trip to visit family in Mexico. He smuggled back a big bottle of amoxicillin. Mother crushed them into honey and after only two doses and one night I was already improving. I was able sit up and eat and things progressed on until I was healthy again. If it were not for my band teacher I am sure I would have died.

Thank you Mr. Garcia.

It is a real shame that people abuse these powerful tools. That we allow cooperate interest trump that of humanity's.
Well, it's a novel superconductor or a portable fusion plant.

Still, when you pasted it here, the 10^5 A-turns become 105 A-turns. For anybody that looks at it and thinks "hum... seems almost viable", it's just a formatting error :)

EDIT: Oh, but the proposed conductor is plasma composed of solar wind particles. It is reasonable to get a coil much larger than 300m with those.
Please list "take a lot of other" ?
>You're being distracted by actions of those in power vs. the common mentality of the people voted them in.

At some point you have to draw a line connecting the two groups, right?

Otherwise, if these groups differ significantly, then they'd be voted out. On the contrary, polls show overwhelming support from within that party.

>but the shared mentality amongst the party members, of both parties, is the same: our team must win at all costs.

Sorry. That's simply not true. Look at the House Russia investigation and the behavior of people like Nunes.

You'd be hard-pressed to find an equivalent dereliction from the other side in a matter as significant as that implied by the allegations and evidence to-date. Think of it: there was more emphasis on HRC's emails.

We can say it's a matter of opinion, but at some point we must converge on reason. There is no equivalence here.
Taking an official action that is then ruled unconstitutional is typically not a criminal violation, though sometimes a criminal statute is enacted to further protect constitutional rights (e.g., 18 U.S.C. § 243 makes it a federal crime to exclude jurors on the basis of race or color).
IIRC CBDR is not really in the FAA PPL curriculum at all. I only recall a quick mention from my CFI when I went through it. It's much more heavily emphasized to military pilots as missiles are designed to predict an impact point and fly towards that rather than the aircraft (lead pursuit) so pilots are trained to determine if a missile is maintaining guidance towards them by seeing if it appears stationary in space.
You can't really compare these two.
No disagreement that reverse engineering Linux patches is not the optimal disclosure policy.
> no value is ever destroyed

Well, a metric shit-ton of nonrenewable fuel took a one-time conversion into global-warming causing greenhouse gas. But let's all just paper over that little fact, eh?
"Daily Viewed Snaps" is a media metric — the number of media items opened — which means that a single snap sent to many people is counted multiple times. "Daily Viewed Snaps Unique Users" is the number of unique users who viewed a snap, i.e. a user metric.
If you view a snap twice that will increase daily viewed snaps by 2 but daily viewed snaps unique users will increase by one.
I think(I hope) as more people in China come online they will realize that they are missing out.
looks like you guys are working on some improvements for this great idea. what platform are you using to manage the recurring billing part?
Clinical trial reporting violations (data investigation visualized with D3.js)
AWS Lambda is still only supporting Node.js 6.10, they need to move faster...
Show HN: Truck.app: a graphical SSH browser and rsync transfer engine
It depends. If the company hasn't generated revenue yet, then the process is relatively straightforward, and we have an option to work with an attorney to get it done for a fixed $500. https://stripe.com/docs/atlas/next#dissolution

You can probably imagine that closing a company with actual assets / liabilities / pending legal claims / etc can get much, much more complicated. That sort of thing would be solidly "you need to ask a lawyer" level.