skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a portal to crypto I meant. You buy bitcoin to buy other currencies.
There is no intrinsic value in gold. Or any other thing. The only value things have are the exchange and use values humans imbue them with.
I've used this several times and worked great. The conversation was super HD.

I think it even has phone-in support (at least for a few minutes...)
I think Lambda should do this. Lambda seems like its a more managed version of the concepts in inetd + CGI: Like inetd, Lambda will start a server, if needed, to handle a new connection, and like CGI, Lambda passes request data to user application code in a standardized way. You could implement a Lambda-like service using inetd + CGI to run functions in Docker containers, and then destroy the container once you get the result.

Spawning a process in a container is expensive. Not only do you need to wait for the container to init and mount its filesystems, but you then need to wait for the inner application to boot on every request, on top of that. So, allow containers to linger with applications booted, like Lambda does to save on those starts.

Since we aren't launching a new process for every call, we can't use CGI with its environment variables, etc, so we'll have to describe a new protocol for calling your functions, like... HTTP! The interface could be POST /call with JSON params.

I'm not sure how this model would differ semantically from the fully-managed, in-process system that Lambda uses. The management system can always kill containers that go over their memory limits or seem to be doing suspicious amounts of system calls when they're not executing a function. AWS can still go about providing in-process libraries for "supported" languages that implement these protocols, but if they also describe these protocols, then the community can go ahead and develop libraries for other languages that could eventually be adopted and officially supported.

In fact, the community is already producing libraries that use AWS's supported languages to allow hosting lambdas in other languages, via a CGI-like model! Just look at https://github.com/apex/apex - a NodeJS shim will spawn a command in the language of your choice, and then return the result back to Lambda.
If I type "its" and "it's" correctly, they are regularly changed to the incorrect spelling. If I don't bother, they are not corrected. The only way to get correct "its" and "it's" is to go back and fix them after auto-correct has screwed them up.
Let Mexico take the manufacturing the US doesn't want -- heavy industrial, low wage, quick turn assembly. You get to cut China/SE Asia, boost Mexico, and provide a competitive advantage to US business.

Imagine if Mexico had the manufacturing capability of China, plus a growing middle class, fueled by no-education-necessary manufacturing jobs.

As a business, you don't have to deal with BS joint ventures, no time zone delay, no 3mo ship journeys, etc. The US is more than capable of boosting Mexico to this state.
> You only need to take a look at http://jepsen.io/ to be proven that basically every single system out there (except for like RethinkDB and one or two others) fail miserably at being strongly consistent even when they are suppose to be.

What a terrible assertion. Most of the systems that Jepsen tests are AP systems. Basically all of the systems that are supposed to be CP (e.g. etcd [1], Zookeeper [2], CockroachDB [3]) have been shown to be more-or-less fine at what they are supposed to do.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/316-call-me-maybe-etcd-and-consul

[2] https://aphyr.com/posts/291-call-me-maybe-zookeeper

[3] http://jepsen.io/analyses/cockroachdb-beta-20160829
NVH?
The next Ethereum? I'm still waiting for the current ethereum to show any kind of reason for its existence beyond an admittedly cool tech demo.

I'm not seeing anything in this offering which couldn't be done more easily and cheaply by a ton (sorry) of other payment options. Notably they say they want to be WeChat - and they've done it all without any need for blockchains.
It's interesting how long lasting the reaction to french terrorism is in NZ.
I've reported that at least once.

After that it started working again for me within a couple of days and has been more or less working as expected (hmmm. That's what I thought at least) until recently.

Frustratingly they refuse to send any feedback so I just had to try again,

Yes, and I've also gotten the capchas.
The original purpose of Bitcoin was disintermediating transactions. So "unbanking the banked" would probably best describe it.

It doesn't work for that use case any more unfortunately due to its high fees.
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Both are hosted, this is a no go. Both are also proprietary, skype has just taught us why this is a bad idea. In addition, discord is an electron app, I'm going to avoid it as long as I can.
What else would they denominate their mortgages in? Their respective national currencies were abolished after the introduction of the Euro.

Although it could be argued that joining the EMU may not have been their best interest in the first place, but that is the fault of their politicians, rather than the banks.
I too like to dwell on the negative side. When you're the boss everyone really is looking to you so it is important to keep everyone's morale up.

Hopefully by the time you're a manager you realize the grass isn't perfectly green anywhere, and every team has good and bad points - remind everyone of the good that is happening. Maybe you have to start policies that people will like ie interesting tech or tools. Even if things are going badly you can have team lunches or drinks that are non-work related - it really helps team spirit.
I spent a bit of work on my resume which i made open source: http://leepenkman.appspot.com/

Your website www.getfractals.com and https://beaver.digital/ looks beautiful and works well, with your C.V. your marketing yourself just as you would market a company, make your C.V. hip like your websites

Also do as many comments suggest here, reorder things, i think your website and fractal experience is a huge selling point, My games probably got me a job here at Weta doing visual effects, Also Weta is hiring https://careers.wetafx.co.nz/jobs?search=&sort=recent

Your experience developing fractals would be useful e.g. in writing Shaders here in Visual effects i'm sure.

I agree you should try and tailor to a specific job e.g. that might mean removing things about hardware/fabrication if its not relevant to a job and adding other things that are.
I prototyped an AI feature I'd like Digital Audio Workstations to have
Gold has not intrinsic value either. Nothing has to be honest.

What it's all based on is trust whether FIAT, Gold or Bitcoin.
Just searching around. This may be a little too large but I like the combination of visual and adjustable auditory indicators.

https://www.timetimer.com/collections/timers/products/time-t...
how is it?
This is a gross oversimplification, but why not just dole out the good projects round-robin, where you're just one of the members of the cycle? There's no reason why a manager should never be able to contribute work, just that they probably shouldn't always take the 'good stuff'.
The actual recorded sound could be a diversion I guess.
With Lightning Network you pay fees once to create a channel and then you can use that channel to make smaller payments for very low or even no fees. Channel can stay open for a very long time (e.g. a year). So, you end up paying single Bitcoin transaction fee instead of hundreds, and it also reduces load on the Bitcoin network freeing the block space lowering fees even more.
In Chattanooga, TN, municipal gigabit will set you back $70/mo.
Why not paypal accounts with paypal debit cards? .. paypal can credit instantly and the card pulls to cash.

How about western union?

I don't think crypto coins or their blockchains solve billion dollar problems. I'd guess VC's have bet almost a trillion and the public a few trillion ~ this means a lot of trouble for investors and also perhaps it could wind down slowly and last for 10-15 years...
I wouldn't mind supporting a FOSS teleconferencing solution on Patreon.
I've had far better experiences as a passenger in Y and C (I rarely fly intl F) on 767, 777, 787, and a340s than on any A380. With some airlines I actively seek out the 767 flights because they pre-date the "maximum density seating" trend, and there are a bunch of airlines where mid-life refit aircraft are better than 3-5 year old newer aircraft.

I'm much more Boeing vs. Airbus as a meaningful distinction, or which generation of a particular airline's seating system (especially in C and F) than a specific-aircraft carer, though.
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There is also Abine Blur (I just signed up today) which can be a password manager, email/phone alias/blocking manager, and has on demand credit card generation features.
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I find that pessimists miss a critical factor a lot of times.

Things that are empirically bad are just going to suck.

Things that are just "hard" are going to suck too.

In business RARELY are things actually bad (site outage, layoff) and often just "hard" (I need you to work late).

When things are hard you can say they are HARD and let them be HARD and use the occasion as a chance to create camaraderie. Stuck late in the office, then start singing show tunes badly - bring in food and beer (if appropriate) or good coffee the day after - hard times build great teams if they aren't "every day"

Find a things to have with your team to make it more entertaining - I worked in an office that ran on the back of quoting film, and there is a film quote for EVERY situation. A good friend of mine works in a "nerf gun" office, and I used to work in a place where "team lunch" was a thing that was sacred (you would leave every day for an hour). Alone these things don't do much but when it is HARD (or bad) the activity restores a sense of normalcy for you and your staff.

Be honest about hard, sometimes you just need to STFU about bad (layoff).
My partner struggles with pessimism, usually caused by focusing too much on the work ahead and too little on what has been accomplished. One technique we've found that helps is to keep a "done" list, separately from the "todo" list. The size of the todo list can be intimidating, but having a separate list which only records accomplishments that you can look over when you get stressed to remind you of just how much shit you've got done. From the perspective of a team, this could just be making sure that you spend enough time celebrating your wins.
CS229 Materials (Autumn 2017)
Ha! Not sure how I screwed that up. Intended sources instead of WebMD were:

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/adult.html

https://www.vaccines.gov/who_and_when/adults/index.html
Why python in particular? I’m just curious.
Not sure why you and the other person mentioning lightning have been downvoted. I’ve noticed increasingly it’s not possible to have reasonable discussion about bitcoin on hacker news. It seems the folks from /r/btc have found this place.
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Musk is really into the idea of everybody having their own cars. So he came up with The Tesla Network so if you want your Tesla making money for you, you can put your car on it.

He came out with a fabulous idea for a steel vacuum tube that moves shit 700 miles an hour, so you can put your car in it.

He's sick of all the cars clogging up his commute from LA to Fremont, so he decided to buy a boring machine with the goal of a 10x cost reduction in tunnel digging. So we can build awesome subways? No. So you can put your car in it.

SpaceX wants to deliver a preliminary payload to mars orbit and try out the Falcon Heavy. Maybe deploy something useful like a satellite or a rover? To heck with that, let's put a car in orbit!
I am struggling to see how cryptocurrencies would have any tangible advantage over US Dollars in developing nations.

Remember that in many of these countries, most people don't have smart phones, and there's a lot of people who don't even have phones. Electricity and internet connections are intermittent at best.

Good luck convincing Cambodian street hawkers that your magic internet money is better than a good old fashioned Greenback.

And another reason that cryptocurrencies will struggle to catch on: it's hard to bribe people with magic internet money. There's no paper trail or proof if you bribe someone with cash.
The Autumn 2017 materials have a lot of breadth - notes now cover deep learning, reinforcement learning, and gaussian processes.
There are a lot of accusations that Tether is being used to do this kind of fraudulent price pumping right now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...
The dev forums are dead-ish†, but the docs are still around; I was just trying to pick it up the other day and I found everything I needed (including modern things like a Rust libgba: https://github.com/tbelaire/rusty-TONC).

I decided against pursuing GBA homebrew in particular, though, because Nintendo DS homebrew is slightly more fun while not being particularly higher-level than the GBA. You've still got sprites and backgrounds and scale/rot/shear effects; but now you've got two GPUs (where either GPU can address either screen), and a 3D layer sandwiched in amongst the background layers and sprite layers.

† Though, I mean, that's a matter of interpretation; all the modern 3DS and Wii U homebrew is still released/discussed/developed on the GBATemp forums, which—obviously—had its roots in the GBA homebrew scene.)
Especially if you are poor. People making $150k/yr in the bay area are actually pretty poor, compared to the cost of living.
>The average Bitcoin fee is now $40

Deception and inaccuracies in your statement:

* You're using an average function in a non gaussian distribution.

* Fees in a blockchain are a function of the transaction size

* You can have multiple payments per transaction

* The median fee for a typical transaction in the past week is about $1.50 USD. [1]

[1] https://anduck.net/bitcoin/fees/1008_blocks.php

Median is between $8/kB and $4/kB. $6/kB*.25 kB typical transaction size = $1.50
Great tip about the intext: operator from @wahnfrieden. I'll admit I was unaware of this. Many of us could probably benefit from learning how to actually use Google more skillfully, instead of expecting the algorithm to spit out a 'perfect' answer every time. http://www.powersearchingwithgoogle.com intext: operator is covered in the Power Searching course, section 3.5! I share many of the same frustrations I've seen in other comments, but I'm going to work though these courses & hopefully become a better googler.
> it seems to suffer far less turbulence

That's not a coincidence. It makes perfect sense that a large heavy aircraft like the 380 will be harder for wind and air pockets to push it around, just like big ships are far more stable than smaller ones. There's a world of difference between coming into (say) Singapore with its turbulent tropical air on a little a320 and a giant like a 380.

I've been on narrowbody flights where we bounced around like we were inside a washing machine; in a 380 i've barely ever had to even pick up my drink!
I wonder why I got downvoted. Thought I was being pragmatic and useful; who knows?
Where has Google claimed they don't index certain terms?
No, in these S/370 models, the keyboard was built into the desk and the monitor was embedded in the console/control panel.

That's from memory, which in my case has no parity bits and is vulnerable to a variety of exploits.
> why fedwire is not more popular than, say, ACH?

To understand this, we have to compare two classes of systems: real-time gross settlement (RTGS) [1] and net settlement [2].

Suppose you and I are banks. At 9AM I send you ten dollars, at 10AM you send me ten dollars, at 3PM you send me another ten dollars and finally, at 4PM, I send you ten dollars. At the end of the day, we're back where we started (minus transaction costs). If we actually moved the cash between our banks, that would be RTGS. It's as fast as funds can travel. It results in a lot of paperwork and means we must have the cash for potential transfers immediately available. No exceptions.

We grab a beer and say "let's settle, on the net, at the end of the day." The same transfer instructions come in. This time, though, no cash moves intraday. At the end of the day, we tally everything up and find we're balanced. We move money around internally an call it a day. Much easier, and therefore, cheaper. Moreover, between when I deducted the funds at 9AM and may have had to settle at 4PM, I might have made a margin loan. This is net settlement.

The next day, at net settlement, I owe you ten more dollars than I have. We grab a beer and say "let's settle the day after. That way, we can sell or borrow if we come up short." This is net settlement with delayed settlement.

From top to bottom, the system gets slower and more profitable. Many of these costs, e.g. intraday liquidity and risk management, don't go away with cryptocurrencies. Net settlement will always be cheaper than real-time settlement, and delayed settlement cheaper still.

Payers prefer ACH because it gives them time to scramble, if needed. Receivers prefer to receive by wire because it produces immediately-available funds. What gets chosen depends on negotiating leverage. I struggle to see the advantage of a crypto-currency based RTGS, which is less reversible than EFTs, slower than wires, and more expensive than both for most participants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_gross_settlement

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_settlement
A thesis I've been hearing a lot about recently goes something like the following. It doesn't speak directly to subsidising food production costs, but is related to the same idea - what is wrong with cheap and plentiful food?

Here is the thesis:

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Ongoing food and clothing donations to countries in need cause more harm than good.

While short term donations are able to help bridge emergency situations, such as after a natural disaster, ongoing donations lead to dependence.

Local producers of food and clothes are unable to compete with free, donated goods, and so switch their production to other goods or stop producing altogether.

If and when the supply of donated goods runs out, the country has already lost their ability to provide for themselves.

Thus, when supplying aid to countries in need, it is essential to promote local independence in addition to filling their immediate need, taking care to avoid the creation of a dependency.
wow, used it a few years back, time to check it out again.
This, also, is the direction the industry is going, regardless of cloud provider.
The ORNL next gen computer is Summit. Lots, and lots of Teslas in there. https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/summit-early-science/
Why not have the same thing for both store of value, and medium of transaction? It makes no sense.
> Why not paypal accounts with paypal debit cards?

That's a fair solution. I trust my bank more than PayPal, but that's a matter of preference. Both systems are cheap, real time and covered with decades of institutional protection.
But it's not in English and French.
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A book by Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty, argues in favor of this approach where, wealthy individuals or nations help write off debt of poorer countries. The cost of servicing this debt is often crushing enough that no meaningful uplifit is possible from their current poverty.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Poverty
> composition via pipes

That’s a good, big one in favour of shells.

Re: file system, std err/out, I’m not convinced, but pipes alone are worth a lot. I wasn’t thinking at all of pipes, and you’ve tipped the scales, but is it enough? Do Tcl/Perl/ruby/python/... compete in that space?
Hypercube routing seems Similar to hypercast: http://www.comm.utoronto.ca/hypercast/overview.html
Sites allow search engines to index them (instead of telling them to go away with robots.txt) because the search traffic is worth it to them.

Search engines don't allow people to scrape them (resorting to blocking after scrapers ignore robots.txt) because they don't get anything similarly valuable in return.

(Disclosure: I work for Google, though not on search.)
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Look what happened with Kik's KIN though. That had similar positioning (though not the same vision). 1.2B seems insanely high, even with their numerous goals.
Not sure how you can write “that’s not necessarily true” when your numbers confirm what I wrote: the vast majority of the traffic goes to the “hubs”, the connecting traffic is in the minority.

So when total traffic doubles, that’ll be a 160% increase to JFK even if you remove all the “hub” traffic, which is unlikely, and you assume the increase will be evenly distributed, also unlikely.

UPDATE: I don't see how the "direct to smaller airports" is anything but a temporary reprieve that will be overwhelmed by the overall trends: concentration of population in ever larger cities and increasing travel.
Maybe every photo using the front camera is a selfie?
Do you know how much was being transffered at $1.50?

I remember when people were debating putting "almost feeless" on a bitcoin website because transaction fees were so low as a percentage of the amount, but I don't know if that still holds.
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Those $900 of extra assets are balanced by $900 of extra liabilities. 0 net money is created.
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If it's a particularly challenging feature or problem you might consider pair-programming as a solution. It allows you to apply your expertise (and scratch the itch of wanting to do things) while also letting another engineer contribute, learn, and/or demonstrate a different view.

The two things that a good engineering manager does well is handle the internal bureaucratic and process needs of the business and to improve the people those you manage. Often the best way to improve people is to teach them how to think about problems, and in the case of pair-programming they will be exposed to that teaching either intentionally or by osmosis.
Only by abstracting away hundreds of teams that manage the actual hardware.
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Hold on there. Dropping that 2nd fact seems to be more race baiting than not. The indication of AA population shrinking could be explained by the increase of the AA population in neighboring counties.

According to http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov, the AA population was increasing throughout the 80s - 2000s in all 8 other bay area counties. They could very well left SF to get better opportunities elsewhere.
The original reddit thread was apparently deleted. More info https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/7qndw7/the_current_...
Sorry, not a direct answer, but for me the perfect reader is android tablet and moon+ reader pro. It's not eink, but it's cheap and experience is amazing.

Reads DRM-free books in any format, highly customizable.
Istio is a networking project for Kubernetes (and other orchetrators) that uses Envoy as the proxy. It understands quite a bit about what's going on at the container level. https://istio.io/docs/concepts/traffic-management/handling-f...
Coinbase bug let Overstock users pay Bitcoin Cash, get refunds in Bitcoin
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Explain to me how you'd cheat then?