skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you’re mis-interpreting the overbooking ratios. My understanding is that a 20:1 ratio means that for 1 mbit you can serve 20 customers 1 mbit.

Your point still stands though. That means if 1 mbit cost $1 then it costs $0.04/customer.

The real cost is in deploying the wires and countless studies have shown the ROI on that, especially given the exorbitant rates, is typically 5 years or less per hookup. Can you imagine how much Comcast etc have made per house they’ve run coax to? The ROI must be mind boggling.
haven't you read manifesto? that's wtf is going on there, white male can't get a job if quota for colored and women is not filled
Well, Austrian Business Cycle Theory claims that it was indeed fundamentally caused by excessively loose monetary policy.

As to plausibility, I guess that depends on your personal views.
What I never understood with the blockchain is the idea that it would change the politics of finance in favour of the little guy.

As far as I can tell, financial institutions are exceedingly well practiced at co-opting new monetary systems, as they have been doing exactly that for a very long time, so I never thought that a new model of ledger was ever going to really faze them.
That has to be the most idiotic emoji implementation - clearly not what the Unicode Consortium intended, and borderline against the specification.
It wasn't "The sort of activity which led to the financial crisis" that inspired bitcoin.
After the crisis happened the US government funded the massive bailout by printing more money. It turned out to be a "good" decision since it prevented a catastrophic economic failure but it did cause more inflation and some people weren't happy that a government can just print more money on a whim.

So that's how the bitcoin came about to make a currency where there are no central governing body that can just print more whenever it wants.
My wife and I struggled with fertility issues and ended up adopting embryos. We have twins now :-).

FYI, we have a couple of embryos left and are looking to donate them....
This seems to me to be naive at best. Risks were obscured due to the mathematical structure of CDOs, not by hiding money transactions.

You could spend all day real time looking at the fact that few of the mortgages in your CDO are failing, and then when they fail systemically, you could watch in real time that a lot of assets that were thought to be pretty robust are not.

Your argument seems to be simply that radically more data would enable better predictors. Whether that is true or not, it's unclear whether bitcoin et.al. could help much with delivering that data. If we agree to a contract that I will pay you 5 bitcoin tomorrow in return for 4.9 bitcoin today, that contract is not publically available on bitcoin. Nor is, the fact that a certain money stream is part of a mortgage.

So unless you force every contract to be public, blockchain technology will not help you that much. And if you force every contract to be public, then you don't need a blockchain.
I hope they turn this course into a MOOC.
Hope they don't screw up the SPG program over this.
One of America's Last Pencil Factories (photo Essay)
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If you aren’t a cpu designer than any split between paths of execution is a branch. It gives the right idea, even if the terminology isn’t precise.
Wouldn't this be a word made up in the early 20th century? Many Hebrew words were created pretty much from nothing at that time to revive an ancient language into modern use.
Forcepoint CTO: Blockchain can and will get hacked
"As for me, I'd rather spread memes than genes anyways"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tIwYNioDL8
The Encyclopedia of the Missing
As a counterpoint, I'm an agnostic theist and I agree with a good amount of what you wrote. (Except that my hobbies are a bit less exciting...) Which, interestingly, is also why I don't fear any eventual judgement. I try to act in a compassionate manner -- and I mess up a lot, because I'm human. And I certainly believe in leaving things in a better state than I found them -- and I mess up a lot, because I'm human. And I hope that's good enough.
As famously seen in dads army when they converted Jones the butchers lorry.
I'd go even further and say human beings have worked it out multiple times - the little bit of Buddhist literature I've read, or, from the Chinese angle, the Dao De Ching (Tao Te Ching) both contain a lot of wisdom. I'm sure other cultures have worked out part or all of it too.

The sad thing is so much good stuff is out there, however people often don't listen, or take it to heart.
The only way to get the last mile competition we need in the US, and make net neutrality irrelevant, is for org-run fiber builds in which the org doesn't offer services. The org operates a multi-tenant fiber infrastructure in which you and I can pick (n) "service providers"...part of what I am hoping is a 2018 full of decentralization and distribution:
https://goo.gl/DkpmU5
Get a pet; dog, hamster... even bright aquarium is nice.
America has never been a melting pot - more like a salad palette, with clear boundaries between constituent parts. Melting pot is but a nice-sounding rhetoric. Racial bias aside, people usually prefer to live closer to their own kind. For minorities, this is usually because of better access to their ethnic groceries and cultural engagements.

I do not disagree with general idea in your post - I would just change the first sentence to "The salad palette is what makes America strong."
> who would

The financial services regulator in the appropriate country. In the UK that's mostly the FCA, in the US it's apparently the guys listed here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_financial_regulatory_a...

> (or even could) stop them from raising their rates for payment processing

Using financial services regulation. It's not like they're immune to laws.

Your argument is for more regulation, not a deregulated cryptocurrency.
Would you say that to a lesbian?
Just the cost of business. They’ll write it off as a loss and move on. Maybe banning you If they think it’s fraudulent.
Thanks again for the response, I understand it might be better to put a warning note at the top of readme. Thank you again for the advice.
Unless you think concepts like "genome" and "propagation" are somehow encoded in our DNA, it's ideological.

There are clear biological drives to sex and caring for young, but I don't see evidence for a direct biological drive for being fruitful and multiplying.
Apologies for asking but how does a company like MS steal thousands from you? Enterprise SW?
This sort of translation is definitely part of our syntactic sugar mission. If anyone wants to beta test particular languages for us just reach out.
Everyone loves talking about nuance and how great it is. Kind of a worn-out point nowadays in my opinion. Brevity has its own appeal, you know.

Anyway, the great thing about Twitter is you're under no obligation to a) say who you actually are, b) follow anyone who posts stuff you don't like. These two things together mean you can make your own feed full of things that you do want to read. If you don't like your feed, guess whose fault that is?

I use it as a joke machine, and it's still pretty great though admittedly not as great as it once was. If people are not funny, that's what the unfollow button is for.
The McLaren Senna
>happens to limit messages to 140 characters and that happens to create, unintentionally, a subtlety-free indignation machine, which is addictive as heck, so this is the one that survives and thrives and becomes a huge new engine of polarization and anger.

I am glad to see someone definitely smarter than me find this opinion too. As far as I can tell the only value in twitter is network effects and the total removal of nuance.
Peter Thiel explained it for you: competition is for suckers
Actually, this is incorrect. You're abusing map here. The purpose of map is to map an existing array onto a new array. You're using map here to mutate properties on nodes in the original array, and creating a new Array, which has the length of the initial array, where each value is the return value of `node.style.background = 'yellow';`

forEach is much more indicative of what you're actually doing here, which is running through an iterable and mutating properties on each node.

Simple rule of thumb: if you're not using the results of `map`, you shouldn't be using it.
You call ptrace and ask to read another process's memory. The kernel has to turn the requested VA in that address space into a physical page (walking those page tables, not yours) then copy the memory (from some VA in kernel space). This is quicker if you can turn a PA into a VA by simply adding an offset.
Related to joke DogeCoin: One of the US crypto exchanges "Kraken" went dodo. It has been offline for more than 30 hours without prior notice. Maybe another joke, or MtGox -.-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16131750

***MAINTENANCE ANNOUNCEMENT***

Kraken is presently offline for maintenance.

While maintenance is underway, the website and API will
not be reachable, and orders will not be able to be
placed or canceled.

The Kraken Team

https://www.kraken.com - a former(?) major US crypto exchange
They probably just didn't think of this possible flaw in data. I mean, it's not like the university researchers caught wind of any problem, either.
> What does a pregnant single mother of one do when she goes in to labor? Where does her child go? In to state care??

Crazy to think, isn't it? It is hard enough during those first few years for a couple with a stay-at-home parent. I can only imagine how hard it is for a single parent who has to not only pay the bills, but take care of somebody who needs an adult 24/7.

I don't think people can begin to fully appreciate this stuff until after they have kids.
“Known medical reasons” and “medical reasons” aren't the same thing. I've known quite a number of people who were late in their childbearing years when the latter became the former, and I suspect it's more common among the large portions of American society that don't have well-above-average access to healthcare because of jobs that provide the income to afford it out-of-pocket and/or top-flight insurance that makes it not out-of-pocket in the first place.
Under the article you can read most ironical comment I've ever read.

> This article is not only an uneducated embarrassment to modern scientific progress, but also a dangerous attempt to spread misinformation by somebody who is simply too lazy and/or incapable to understand and accept the scientific and mathematical facts of the matter. The only real achievement here is that you managed to write so much content without really saying anything of value.

> To summarize: You, sir, are an idiot, as is any person who unironically believes in any flat earth theory. Educate yourself, and stop spreading lies in an attempt to feel important. You’re not.

> Feel free to reply to this comment and try to deflect or argue, or maybe even take the “Thanks so much for your feedback!” approach so that you can feel like the good guy in the situation. In the end, though, the simple fact is that you are wrong, and that’s all there is to it.
Here in Pennsylvania counties play an important role in real estate, taxation, and dog licensure, but not much else.
They are made from batter rather than dough, which I think disqualifies them as bread. On the other hand, corn bread and banana bread are also made from a batter, so you could call Yorkshire pudding a bread based on those. If I really wanted to assign them to a more common category than pudding, I would say they are a cake.
artificial as in not 'natural' and natural as in set by market forces, which a central bank setting a short term rate is not a 'natural' market force.
You can adopt or you can become an "uncle" of a less favored child. In my city there are "uncle" programs in orphan homes where you visit them, play with them, help them economically if you can, even take them out on weekends if you and they want.
That's to prevent your average Joe from swiping your password.
Apparently, People Say “Thank You” to Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Vehicles
Pricing a CDO is an NP-complete problem, so having them "transparent" on a blockchain does nothing.

https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=44818
Same as C. Rust is basically C with hardcoded checks enforced and put in by compiler that good programmers already know to put in.
> It baffles me how seemingly capable people have had the idea that a cryptocurrency would counter 2008 style stuff. It seems like a reasoning short circuit: Big institutions failed us, so something without big institutions must be immune.

I think you misunderstood what people mean by saying "counter 2008 style stuff".

The aim isn't to prevent 2008 from happening again, but if 2008 were to happen again, then be in a safe situation.

Also you're taking the input from your opponents, but plugging that input into your own model, without realizing that bitcoin proponents do not share your model.

Your model is: "Lack of regulation caused 2008 to happen", but not everybody agrees with that model.

There are multiple models, but the most common model is that central bank inflating the money supply, and manipulating interest rates caused 2003-2007 to happen. 2008 was merely the well desired correction.

Same model applied to today, it means that we are currently in a major bubble and this bubble will pop in the coming years. Alternate financial systems such as bitcoin and smart contracts, are 'customizable' enough (For lack of a better term) that they give people a fighting chance.

1. Capital controls can't be imposed
2. Bank accounts can't be confiscated
3. If regulations have to be bypassed to make trade happen, then they should be more easily bypassed (for instance minimum wage laws).

So when the next crises happens, people are able to flee nations with their capital, their bank accounts will not be able to confiscated, and they will side step any regulation which screws people over. This is the aim of cryptocurrency proponents, irrespective of what is being said.
My main point was simply that moral positions that are not human-centric can and do exist.

It strikes me that the difficulty with accepting the possibility of human responsibility for non-human parts of reality may simply be a consequence of the moral position that is currently quite widespread - something like the one you describe. That position requires a line to be drawn (as OP noted), or perhaps rather values to be assigned, to the human and non-human, but that valuation is impossible in practice, and so really it just allows us to accommodate our own interests whenever the need takes us, and ignore our hypothetical responsibilities.

As to the specifics of your point, I think the answer has to be no: if your position is explicitly to not elevate humans over other living beings then surely it is a contradiction to err on one side or the other?
An ICE car of the same era is also high maintenance as are say cars from the 60's
Seconded. Following a class syllabus on your own time and without grading or feedback except knowing whether you did it is under-rated :-)
It is, and for certain types of goods it might make sense to wait for the full six confirmations. High fraud rate industries have had years of experience with similar strategies for the credit card system.

Payments on the globally replicated blockchain can not be both quick and secure. Many soda machine experiments faced this exact problem. What all of them did in practice was the same thing as all restaurants and pubs do, eat the risk. Any guest who wanted to leave without paying, or pirate your game, would do exactly that anyway and not bother with faking payments in the first place. Every pub and café owner takes the exact same risk even when settling in cash. People leave without paying all the time.

The specific example of game keys you mentioned has some interesting aspects to it however! Trustless zero knowledge swaps have been demonstrated between them and Bitcoins, which could open for some exciting business ideas that were not possible before.
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Many years ago I was in Gibraltar and needed medical assistance (non-life threatening but I was sick as heck). So I called my traveller insurance.

The british-sounding lady at the other end wanted a zip code. I didn't know of any zip codes and looking at letters in the building's mailbox I could not see anything looking like a zipcode.

She said she could not direct me to a 'nearby' hospital if she didn't have a zip code.

Told her to just pick randomly, that took some convincing. How far could you be from a hospital in Gibraltar anyway?
I don't think you're supposed to feel anything. I think this article is just a PR move. Probably went something like this:

Kid: I'm gonna publicly tarnish the family's reputation if you don't give me my money

Dad: I dare you, but if you do, you won't get a cent.

Kid: I care more about hurting you than the money because (I feel that) you abused me all my life
I should have clearer, I meant the roots of the phrase 'tea'.

That said I used to confuse some very northern friends by talking about dinner as my evening meal. They literally only thought of dinner as lunch and the evening meal was only called tea.

I think the roots were from when only the father of the house had a cooked evening meal, and everyone else had tea and sandwiches or similar. But that was distant past I believe.
So mostly an attempt to address the fear of death?
Higher frequency on power lines would be less efficient, not more. High voltage DC is the most efficient, but is most expensive because you can no longer use transformer for step-up and step-down.
Wrong type of hackers. Try in another forum.

From the owner of this site: http://www.paulgraham.com/gba.html
Intractability of Financial Derivatives
>In the UK right now you cannot get surgeries from the NHS if you're a smoker or overweight

This seems like such a broad statement that it can't be accurate. I'm assuming you're referring to some non-emergent and elective procedures, right?
In fact I believe the rating agencies that mis-rated the risk of these CDOs had full access to all this information anyways.
Is there a hacker-news-esque site for programmers? I look at the front page, see 90% articles about world events and trends.

Is there a filter already available for "articles with code" or is this a "spend an afternoon" project?
This anchors motives too much in economic determinism. It's a useful mental model to remember this is a factor, and it can come to dominate and cause problems, but it is not always the one true factor to rule them all through which we should view all motives.

You basically end up arguing that it is all about money, and real journalism cannot happen under profit-seeking organizations. It also trivializes that journalism's big challenge right now is how to do real journalism when the big tech players have vacuumed up their ad revenue.

I also wouldn't treat 538 as the same as CNN writing about a thing Trump tweeted. They actively talk about and discuss their journalistic goals. They try to be openly self-critical about what and how they cover topics. They are trying to compete by not doing the same thing as other organizations.
Pinyin IMEs are still much more popular than Wubi IMEs because of the latter's steep learning curve. Pinyin was designed by Chinese for Chinese learners, and is only incidentally used by westerners. It is based on the latin alphabet yes, but its how all the school kids in China learn standard pronunciation of mandarin words (indeed, this is pinyin's main purpose). So pinyin isn't really a foreign concept to any Chinese who has went to school since the 60s.
I live in a borough that has its own governing council, mayor, and police force. Half a square mile and a few thousand resident. However, everyone's mailing address is the name of the city we're adjacent to, which also has its own governing council, mayor, and police force. Putting in my town's name results in mail not getting delivered. Mailing address != physical address, at least when it comes to city/township/borough organization.
In the early days of the web, you used to be able to tell NY v. CA dev shops online because all the NY shops only had "search by state" while CA had "near my zip-code".

When you can pass through 3 states in 3 hours, it makes sense to "search for all McDonalds in NJ". However in TX and CA, "all McDonalds in TX" is worse than useless for what the customer is actually looking for.
Spoken like someone who doesn't have a mental illness.

Anorexics can fix themselves! All they need to do is eat!

Depressed people can fix themselves! They just need to be happy!

ADD sufferers can fix themselves! They just need to focus!

Do you honestly think these things would be called mental DISORDERS if the solutions were this easy!?
technology is awesome! haha
It should be a bonanza for them. Unregulated market. Every trade/contract they want.
It hasn't had an update in two years. What about when a vulnerability is discovered?
Ah, contemporary art. In which the goal, per Duchamp, is to produce the least art-like thing you can and still get away with calling it art. And if that doesn't bake your noodle, remember this: you're not creating art unless you're trying to pass off non-art as art! For what is the meaning of art, but that which challenges and questions what is the meaning of art? This is how we get pickled sharks and books instructing you to dig holes for clouds and hide until everyone dies.

The asymptote of this development is art which is completely inaccessible, for if we think of art as something to be appreciated, then the truest art is art which is impossible to appreciate!

So this is where we are: a web page designed to be, literally, pert-near inaccessible, containing only a banal message when you succeed to access it, being hailed as an avant-garde work of profundity. I'm a bit reminded of Maurizio Bolognini's "Sealed Computers" piece, which features computers programmed to algorithmically generate images but not display them (their video ports having been sealed with wax) and strewn about a floor. The audience gets the notion that something aesthetically interesting is being produced, but doesn't get to see it or know what it is because fuck you, audience. All they get is the sight and sound of those haphazardly strewn beige boxes, slowly adding to the entropy of the universe. (One could, presumably, exfiltrate the images via side channels, as in Van Eck phreaking, but I get the vague sense that would be considered cheating and earn you a swift boot right out of the gallery.)
This happens all the time. In this particular case, speculative execution timing attacks were "in the air" for the last year. A little while ago the C.W. was that Anders Fogh had kicked this off with his blog post from last summer, but Fogh actually posted a chronology taking this work all the way back to December '16:

https://cyber.wtf/2018/01/05/behind-the-scene-of-a-bug-colli...

Once there's blood in the water, people race to find exploitable flaws (that's the goal of the game), and so it's not surprising that you'd get multiple teams disclosing, especially with something this egregious. Also: there's a Nyquist Frequency thing happening here: remember that we're dealing with months-long embargoes. So there's a lot of time for people to have found these bugs "separately", and all we're really seeing is a colliding disclosure.

But having said all that: straight-up collisions happen a lot. We all have favorite stories. My favorite is when Vitaly McLain (then at Matasano, now one of my partners at Latacora) found an nginx bug that was identical to Heartbleed, 2 years before Heartbleed was disclosed. A fantastic bug. We were on a client engagement, so we had to coordinate with the client before reporting it upstream, and in the one hour it took to do that, someone else reported the same bug.