skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Speculation is worthless because unlike bitcoin it seems to be infinite supply. Tell me that you're able to predict what the cryptocurrency scene will look like 1 year from now and I'll call you a fool.

Your thought process to reach that conclusion might prove more insightful however. So far it seems that cryptocurrencies move alongside each other for the most part, when the big ones go up the smaller follow. If you diversify in crypto and everything crashes at the same time how do you win? How does one diversify "impartially"? What if it turns out that in the end only IOTA remains?

For all the talk about real use cases and replacing fiat cryptocurrencies are 99% speculation and get-rich-quick schemes nowadays. It seems we still have some wild times ahead of us before it settles one way or an other.
Request for article (yellow fever research)
I am an independent biochemical biological researcher. I am looking for a way to access scientifcic papers on the biochemical activity of plant medicines inside of the human body. I live in Sao Paulo, Brasil, close to the atlantic forest.

An example of a paper:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26554835_Brazilian_medicinal_plants_used_by_the_Dr_Joao_Ferreyra_da_Rosa_according_to_his_Treatise_on_Pestilence_in_Pernambuco_at_the_end_of_the_17th_century
Even in the case of a long delay - this is a one-off event, as opposed to login which could be a daily occurrence.
> It does mention that that usage is a class marker but then conflates it with the pastry-and-tea afternoon snack practice of upper classes. They are two radically disjoint uses.

Yep, that looks like a serious mistake. My impression is that 'tea' or 'high tea' describes an all-class, or primarily lower class, nighttime meal. "Afternoon tea" describes the ~4 PM snack with sweet pastries instead of a primary meal.

A bit of investigation says that our mutual impression is correct, but complicated by Scotland, where "high tea" may be served with the size and timing of "afternoon tea" but with heavier, savory dishes on offer.

https://www.thespruce.com/afternon-vs-high-tea-difference-43...

https://afternoontea.co.uk/information/what-is-high-tea/
I think what you're missing is that if you don't use AMT, all of the other boot security built into the system can be bypassed. Presumably this is important because if you don't want to use AMT you probably would assume that it's secure by default, but it turns out it's not.
You can still love your job and feel that someone else is a freeloader. I'd think the same would apply here.
Pathetic attempt of another white hetro male trying to demonize diversity in a shallow and transparent attempt at retaining white privilege through the world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=000al7ru3ms
No shit, Sherlock. You can log in with the default password.
Do you mean background uploads? I believe that is because the iOS APIs don't allow apps to run in the background keep uploading data.

I've never had uploads failed while the app was in the foreground. I agree this is inconvenient, but it isn't the app developer's fault.
I'm glad we finally got postcodes. Now I don't have to waste energy getting pissed off with that defect in online forms any more, and it presumably adds an extra layer of redundancy, a bit more reduction in the probability of a package being mis-delivered.
> var BASE_ADR=zzzz;//Make BASE points to a random 256 bit currently uncached memory block that appplication has access to;

That should be 256 bytes.
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> If growers are willing to break the law to grow an illegal crop, what makes you think they won't break the law to bet better yields?

That's like expecting an illegal gambling den to follow OSHA laws on floor mats better than a casino in Vegas with service union employees.

Growing is highly illegal, and using illegal rat poison techniques is a tiny offence in relation to it. Whereas legally growing and illegally using rat poison is a large offence in relation to no offense at all.
"real address" is a misnomer. There's a difference between who you pay your taxes to, and who delivers your mail. These are two different things, and when delivering mail, the latter is the one that matters.
What is the definition of a "hostile" hardfork?
Anorexia is a serious mental illness, and there is nothing that's self inflicted about it.

---Edit---
So, I think you're not saying it's self inflicted, but you're wondering if that's the perception that some health staff have, and if that's why they provide poor quality treatment. If so, yes, I agree with you.

People with mental illness often find themselves at A&E. This is usualy because of their physical health - they are appropriately using A&E. (MH medication and illness can have horrible impact on physical health). But also people are often told to go to A&E if they're in crisis and not already under a MH team. That's not a great use of A&E and it's something we try to prevent, by providing better access to "crisis teams".

---end edit---

In the UK a considerable amount of money is spent on inpatient treatment for people with anorexia, and some of that is NHS funding of private for profit provision - for example Priory Group provide a lot of in-patient eating disorder treatment.

The reason it's paid for is because people who are ill deserve treatment, and a death is usually more expensive to the state than the treatment.

The reason so much private for profit provision is funded by NHS is because the NHS has underfunded mental health treatment for many years.
Clean air, low noise, safety, land, large living spaces, nature, usually better schools. Unless you're living on farm land, suburbs are full of roaming children. I never had any issue with finding people to hang out with.
Math is hard!
Reusing and Composing GraphQL APIs with GraphQL Bindings
If this fascinates you as it does for me, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies [0] is an equally fascinating read, although there are arguments against the hypothesis.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/0...
> It seems like a critical part of life to have kids or a kid at least.

Please, do go on cargo-culting your life. Some of us will be over there, trying to find our own paths.
I doubt anyone can give a very good answer to this without saying anything confidential, but suffice to say no, I don't believe that's the case. Perhaps others will chime in.
#2 is not entirely true. It appears that in the U.S this is a state law that can vary by state. In Arizona it seems that they leave this up to the employer which means obviously they will choose not to pay out that balance.
The Grunge Gold Rush
My grandparents (Scottish) use "afternoon tea" for the light meal you describe, and the evening meal is interchangeably "tea" or "supper". Confusingly, the lunch meal is "dinner".

I knew there was a heavy class difference here, but apparently there's also substantial regional difference even within the British Isles.
BTW, this is what /r/childfree on Reddit should have been about: providing advice and support for people making this choice. It's a damn shame it's turned into such a toxic community (that, sadly, reinforces the idea that folks who choose not to have kids are "baby haters")... sigh
The Year of Programmable Banking
You asked "how" not "whether". I'm not an economist, I'm some dude who read a book once, so I don't really know what's going on. That said, if the banks "loan out more than had been deposited" they do it by ledger legerdemain.
DOGE is a pretty good currency to use for moving money between exchanges. That is why its used. If BTC had low/no transaction fees and was fast, people would have less incentive to use DOGE.

Overvalued? Its possible but I think the entire crypto market is actually insanely undervalued. I was talking to my financial advisor the other day and he said pretty much 100% of people now are asking him about crypto and are considering putting money in. This seems like it is just the start.

The figure for the .com crash was around a 7 trillion dollar market cap. Crypto is 0.7 trillion today and its more of an international market then the .com days. Easily cypto could 10x in size over the next year or two.

In the end its super high risk speculation. You can figure the entire market is overvalued but there is no doubt that there is money to be made in several sub-sectors of the crypto market.
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BASIC on the ZX80 and its variants encoded keywords as bytes in memory but displayed them as English-like words; there's no reason those keywords couldn't be displayed in another language, regardless of their internal representation.
Diversity and social justice type topics have become political wedge issues unfortunately, so everyone.
And whoever uses those exchanges has no purpose, and so on, until no one has any purpose.
It would be great if there were some sort of small group of people that you could call on to help get unstuck; perhaps to have a short video chat with about your problem and brainstorm solutions.
Ask HN: Remote teams and interns
There is a lot of talk on HN about remote working. for those that work in an organization with a lot of remote team, do you host interns? If so, how does that work?
Those were great, the hug for example is so much better.
Tranliteration, particularly into English, is fraught with myriad difficulties, the least of which being English orthography itself: there isn't a consistent mapping of sounds to letters. And there are often different systems of transliteration: from Japanese, 茶 (tea) can be transliterated as cha (Hepburn) or tya (Kunrei).

I don't read the article and the spellings as prescriptive with respect to pronunciation. I'm not familiar with transliteration of Hindi or Urdu (if someone more knowledgable on the subject would chime in, I'd love to learn a bit more), but I wouldn't read too much into the spellings.
Seconded, I have about 320 HVM instances and have received only a handful of reboot requests.
> A critical part of life would suggest to me that you die without it. Food and water are critical. Kids are not.

It depends on your perspective. For instance, if all your cells decided to totally stop reproducing one day, you'd die eventually.
> The first thing my now manager asked me was what steps I would take in the next 3-6 months to create the department.

Am I going to have a hiring power? Is sufficient budget guaranteed to launch the department? Double yes or fuck off.
I think I remember reading that they can still detain you "indefinitely" even if you're a US Citizen. Is that not correct?
yep, corrected. at the end it is a bit more complex than that as cache is populated in 32-128 bytes increments but I leave it out for simplicity
Exactly. I'm realizing now that we need to be much more precise when we talk about centralization of currencies to have meaningful discussion.
No it doesn't. Kids are not analogous to bodily cells and you will not drop dead by deciding not to have any.
There's also a Taiwanese system called bopomofo or zhuyin, which is basically a Chinese version of kana.
How we consulted TechCrunch writer on no-code programming
It's an attempt to co-opt the Bitcoin name/brand.
I'm happy to say that I do everything to make Border Control life miserable. I have big clients in US and while I generate for them big profits, I cannot accept payments due to my ethics. So I complained to legal divisions of my clients and asked to funnel money there. Every time I cross US border I refuse to show any data and insist on contact with my lawyers. And by my lawyers I always have big co legal divisions in mind. At average I spend 6 hours per border entry but I feel good about myself. I believe that Border Services still had worse that day.
And it’s the reason why we have such an incredible economy.
No, the United Kingdom.
Ah that makes sense. I glossed over "Documentation" originally, so I thought it was somehow cleaned up from vanilla Stack Overflow answers. Was wondering how that cleanup got done
Partial Correction - numbers - according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro#Technical_specific... 15"MBP use 2 TB3 chips, one per pair of USBc ports. This raises the total of PCIe lanes to 16 which corresponds to the max affordance of the i7 Cores used https://ark.intel.com/products/97185/Intel-Core-i7-7700HQ-Pr...
"Speculative execution" is a term-of-art, with a specific meaning. I can serve you a warmed up Hershey's bar, and it is literally "hot chocolate", but it is not what anyone would expect from that description. When discussing technical matters, it is important to use the right technical terms - hence why the Meltdown and Spectre authors were so careful.

But more important than the term is that the submitted description explains the Meltdown attack in terms of branch instructions, which is not how it works. A reader of the submitted description will come away with an incorrect understanding of what actually happens.
From the bottom of the Customs Declaration form:

PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT STATEMENT: An agency may not conduct or sponsor an information collection and a person is not required to respond to this information unless it displays a current valid OMB control number.
Only left leaning rants are allowed, you are just like my old soviet censors. Pazor!
That describes virtually all crypto papers. RWC is distinct for inviting industry practitioners and for selecting talks of interest to the industry. It is the most industry-engaged cryptography conference in the world.
I remember the war on pidgeons in my hometown by some farmers. They would mix some grain or corn with a fever reducer for pigs or cows. Pidgeons would eat that and fall from the sky, when there metabolism was reduced to a human- aka unsubstainable rate.

Worst of the worst parts was that the resulting "falling birds" spread this stupid panic about the avian flue.
Those clinicians did that because they are unlawfully discriminating against someone with mental illness.

And because UK funding for mental illness is so piss-poor there's not much service for those doctors to refer into.

The lack of funding is a political choice, it's got nothing to do with the socialised nature of funding.
A giant rube goldberg apparatus built around a worthless central premise is just as worthless as the central premise itself.
Of course, but almost everyone asking questions and acting on the answers, in the framework of virtue ethics, would do it.

It's the pragmatist philosophy.
That comment was a reference to the fact that money itself operates on belief systems and motivations that are distributed and decentralized
"Non-mathy" cryptography is unserious cryptography. The math doesn't go away when you take an industry job.
Surprisingly little if you used good, israely drip irrigation.
Also of interest: Tom Nichols, The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters (https://www.amazon.com/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-...)
Minting new coin is not difficult, there is CrptoNote project on Github you can fork and in matter of minutes you can have your own "Coin" and start mining on couple of old Linux boxes.

I understand the network and traction, but this is not very different from each bank having its own currency notes back in the day (1800s?). The biggest problem is they are not stable enough to be currencies their volatility makes them more like commodity/asset and their Transaction speed does not make them huge transaction payment systems. They fail at both promises when they gain traction, of course, there will be ultimate winners in this space. Instead of calling them Cryptocurrencies, calling them DLT (distributed ledger tech) is more appropriate for most the coins anyway.
Maybe they are real, after all.
This is so cool. I love using it to quickly transfer Facebook ads I like from my phone to my desktop for further analysis.
This feels like a Resume Generating Event for the DBA team. Sounds like their DR plan doesn't work or doesn't exist. Even if the devs drew up a breaking schema change that wasn't adequately tested and can't be rolled back, the shot-caller would have moved them into disaster recovery mode a long time ago.
Yobit, where dead coin bags are traded with DOGE due to them being worth less than the smallest fraction of BTC or ETH whenever they aren't being pumped.
Boeing, SpaceX have razor-thin margins to fly crew missions in 2018
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Unfortunately they don't discuss two of the biggest disparities I've seen in reporting on broadband internet access:

1) How do they define "Access"? Does it mean actual subscriptions? Does it mean the building/home is connected? Or does it mean a line passes the household, but there's actually no way to connect to it? (Look up New York City's lawsuit against Verizon's FIOS rollout.)

2) How do they define "Broadband"? In 2010 the FCC defined it as 4 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up. In 2015 they redefined it as 25 Mbit/s down, 3 Mbit/s up. Currently I have 50Mbit/s down and 1Mbit/s up which Comcast absolutely defines as "Broadband", but it doesn't meet the FCC definition.
This is the kind of dangerous thinking that fuels speculation bubbles. Bubbles go up and up and up until they plummet all at once. Everyone looks like they're winning all the way up until everyone suddenly loses together.

Maybe Bitcoin isn't a speculation bubble; maybe it's something new. But if you ignore the underlying tech and just look at the price chart it sure looks like an old fashioned speculation bubble, and those traditionally don't end well for the median investor.
Isn't the real problem the lack of organization at the state/city level in these African countries? Is a postal code and street address system really that impossible?

> Look at that form. It has things like street address, state/province, zip code? What is that? I can only tell you that I live in Kanyanya, a Kampala suburb. If you need my exact home, then I’ll either have to send you a GPS location via apps like Whatsapp, Telegram, Google Maps or engage you in a long phone conversation in which I’ll try to describe landmarks, building and trees leading to my house. But street address, zip code? Hell No.

I mean GPS coordinates sent by WhatsApp + name + simple description seem like a decent alternative but it too should be standardized then. But it seems bizarre to me to have local governments not attempt to set up a basic system for mail/package delivery.

It's not just bad for ecommerce but all business, law enforcement, and even democracy.
>Marijuana can and should be grown

This is illegal in the US, which includes California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gonzales_v._Raich
Word Basic (this was around '96, '97) used to translate the tokens, and I can not express how much I hated it, probably because I spent far too much time dealing with a codebase that had been written in Danish Word Basic and had been transferred to Norwegian Word Basic by someone who seems to have cut and pasted the code, and so ensured that the "automagical" translation of the tokenized keywords didn't happen.

This was pretty much the worst combination of languages, because Norwegian and Danish is similar enough that the code looked completely sane - it read as pretty much as valid Norwegian in most instances, but the keywords and function names deviated in all kinds of subtle ways.

While I understand why some would like to code in their native language, the big persistent problem is that it is not clear that it is a net improvement in communication - so much of our communication about code is international, and as not nearly all of our tools are context sensitive enough to understand when we are talking about code that would need to be translated in a very specific, and (programming-)language specific way, we're creating some very tough challenges.
That something wrong with fiat, in my country all political parties battle for control of the national bank that issues money, why, well there are stories of powerful political leaders, kicking the door and just asking for money.
That was pretty cool, thanks for sharing that, I think I started down a rabbit hole with Jordan Peterson youtube clips. :P
They do serve a purpose -- pumping and dumping dead coins that can't actually be withdrawn from the exchange. I didn't do my research and sunk about $100 into one. I'm technically up $20 on it (if converting to ETH/BTC, which I can't actually do because there's too many other sell orders at the exact same price necessary for me and others to make a profit ahead), but would be down as soon as I converted it to doge and paid the transaction and withdrawal fees.
Disproof by counterexample: The Japanese word for tea is cha/ocha, which must surely have arrived by sea (Japan is an island archipelago!).
Don't be too quick to dismiss metaphor based explanations. You'd probably be surprised how many developers need the metaphor.

Similarly, many folks explaining this are likely doing so as much to increase their understanding as anything else. If there are problems in their explanation, help make it clearer.

None of this is to say that folks should skip the originals. But it is also not helpful to constantly send folks back to them.
Empathy maps for UX designers: what, how and why?
Americans use such a grossly disproportionate share of the world's resources that the US is drastically overpopulated compared to African nations. We could fit the entire world's population into a city the size of Texas at a perfectly liveable density, but we can't magic up more oil or copper or neodymium. We have enough arable land to easily feed 20 billion people, but not if we squander 95% of those calories by raising cattle. Population growth is a total non-issue if we're halfway sensible about how we use finite resources.

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0956247806063978
http://data.footprintnetwork.org/
That is equally crappy. To me the great crime of most religions (those that are thought of traditionally as religions as well as just philosophies) is that they brainwash the young in the most deceitful manners who become members by the sheer chance that they were born to believers.
It is an extreme option, but you can pay if you want to have a child, and I don't mean abortion. If you have the money and the time, and a supportive family, it is doable.
Well done, I like how simple and quick this syncs to my device.
How the industry-breaking Spectre bug stayed secret for seven months – The Verge
Blogs, not quite hacker news style:

Seeking Alpha for equities

xconomy for pharma

econacademics for econometrics

Fermat's library for mathematical critique
Careful about this. This is one of those policies I can easily see changing at least for US citizens. (Hopefully they adjust the policy for everyone, but I'm less optimistic on this front).

The Supreme Court, in Riley vs. California (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riley_v._California), unanimously held that warrantless searching of a cell phone is unconstitutional (violation of the 4th amendment). The ACLU and EFF have filed a case largely on this basis. (https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/alasaad-v-duke-complaint)

My armchair thoughts on this is that it looks like their case is very strong, and the likelihood of this policy being struck down at least for US citizens is pretty high. Wouldn't mind a lawyer opinion, but at first glance I don't see a huge difference between the circumstances of Riley vs. California, and the cases represented here.

There are unfortunately people in this nation (as everywhere else) who are authoritarian oriented in nature, but there are also many in this country who push back. For US citizens, the best way to react to this is less Internet outrage, but ensure that one supports the ACLU and EFF, two organizations that have been critical in pushing back against the erosion of the 4th Amendment.
> all of our time we spend with each other, we travel 4-5 times a year to different countries, on the weekend we go for hikes in some national parks close to us.

This gets old eventually. This shifts from being novel to repetitive. Having children lets you have a whole new set of experiences.