skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It amazed me at the time of the 'red line' incident how little credence most people gave to the threat intimated by Russia should the US take action in Syria. Those on the right took it as a turn to jab at Obama over perceived weakness and the Left was in a frenzy to initiate some kind of 'humanitarian police action' with neither side seeming to give a damn that their leaders were standing toe to toe with their Russian counterparts in the first credible example of brinkmanship in the new millennia.
That doesn't actually tell anyone if they can afford it. What sorts of things does the money go to? Salaries? Food for folks? Other obligations and contracts? Infrastructure? Health care? How much do they have leftover afterwards - can they meet their obligations? How much of that GDP is the government able to capture as a tax? How efficient is tax collection and what is the rate?

The second, though. Fair point.
The top 10 cryptocurrencies are all plunging in a big sell-off
It has not been a guarantee for several years, now. At best it seems to be a slightly firmer suggestion.
Fingerprint authentication moves from phones to payment cards
There are a bunch of coins that lost over 20% in 24h, and the 7d-situation looks even worse with even huge coins like Ripple taking a 45% drop in value.
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This site lists 1450 different cryptocurrencies. I wonder how many of them can be used as actual currency. Bitcoin adoption has stalled and at least one big vendor (valve/steam) dropped it because of the price instability.
What is a standard keyboard, anyway? As a native German, I am accustomed to my local „standard“ keyboard. So, no one prevents them from defining a standard keyboard for their new language.

And, as someone brought it up, on smartphones your options are basically limmitless, with the option to fully customize the keyboard as it‘s all virtual.
Oh, so, in other words, you are suggesting that part of the reason it happens in the US is precisely because of the possibility that it will turn deadly. That this creates a thrill for the caller lacking in other countries.

And somehow in your mind this makes the caller less guilty of the death that results.
And if you allow experiment and fail, you end up with 20 different frameworks in your app.

And that means a huge cost of inconsistency. Every time you need to make a little tweak you have to learn how that part of the app works.

When you just want to get shit done, being able to go into any part of the app and knowing it's built exactly the same way as every other part means you don't have to spend any time learning insert X framework, you spend time doing, implementing business rules and fixing bugs.

A lot of programmers want to spend time playing with tech, not doing because playing with tech is more fun then doing the job.

Worst still, juniors (including me back then) are woefully unaware of just how clueless about programming they actually are, as alluded to by the parent, and that means they have massively over-inflated opinion of their views. They also tend to be wildly optimistic about how long a change will take and totally disregard the human cost (the cost of re-training and loss of productivity) of changing a piece of tech.
Are you aware of any location where Lithium was added to the drinking water? Your cited link appears to talk about measuring natural prevalence only.
Have I missed the link to the actual leaked 132-pages white paper?
> Microsoft did some shitty things. But really, the main thing people worry about was bundling a browser with the OS for free 20 years ago.

That's not the thing people worry about, it's the thing Microsoft got convicted for. Stifling competing operating systems is still far worse in my opinion. Although it's true that the legacy of Internet Explorer still haunts the web development industry.

Still, credit where it's due: I really appreciate how he's been using his wealth to fight disease ever since he left Microsoft.
Medical blunders cost local NHS trusts 110M
yes, Cuba in 2014-15 wasn't that important/noticeable in Russia given the other things going, ie. Ukraine.

Just an addition to your timeline - the opening bell was as far as i see the Georgian war of 2008. That clearly put Russia on notice about NATO expansion not stopping with Poland/Bulgaria/Romania/etc. and that the warm&cozy period has ended - at least it was perceived that way from the Russia POV.
A confluence of factors:

1. China cracking down harder: https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2018/01/16/business/16reuter...

2. South Korea cut off access to banks by cryptocurrency exchanges in December, and access to exchanges by foreign traders. As a result the prices in the country spiked, and the largest price aggregator CoinMarketCap removed Korean exchanges from the index because they were skewing the averages. This caused ~$150B to appear to have suddenly vanished, gapping prices down. This is when the sell-off began in earnest. Then recently the South Korean Minister of Justice said he wants to shut down exchanges, but then the PM says that would require a vote in the National Assembly on new legislation. They are consulting with Japan (who are positive on crypto) and China (who are not) to create a new regulatory framework. http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20180116000817

3. Indonesia just banned cryptocurrency transactions, stating only their native currency is legal tender. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2018/01/15/bank-indonesia...

4. France's central bank has been whining about cryptocurrency for some time and finally convinced the Minister of Finance to make a public statement and authorize a draft of new regulations. https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/905169/bitcoin-France...

5. A speculative theory: the Bitcoin futures contracts are about to expire, and some investors will have bet on lower BTC prices. There could be large market players deliberately pushing prices down to meet those futures bets. Or just market makers wanting to get in at a lower price point.
How to Start a Company in US as Non-US Resident/Foreigner
I am in the process of starting a company in North Carolina (the chosen one). I am living in the Philippines and a non-american citizen. Can someone help or guide me? I want to know about creating an LLC, having a bank account, and ways to receive payments from US to PH.
> Not sure why you and the other person mentioning lightning have been downvoted.

Because it's a ridiculous proposition. Just opening and closing a channel will require a transaction on-chain, with the accompanying fees.

And if someone sends you coins, you can only spend them if there's a route to whoever you want to pay, otherwise you have to close the channel....and again pay the damn fee.

Lastly: it's not even a network. A network implies that there are multiple connected nodes, and AFAIK the number of merchants using LN in production is exactly zero.
AWS lambda supports dotnet 2.0
स्त्री हो या पुरुष, सोने का तरीका देखकर जानें कैसा इंसान है II sone ka tarikha
I mean, it's not a "let's punish the prankster OR the police" - we can do both. Charge the officers with actual murder, the prankster with whatever charge is appropriate here. The responsibility lies with both parties, it's just that I think the murder charge should be on the people actually pulling the trigger since it's their whole job to not kill people.
Last author here. The paper itself comes out this week on PNAS, but the press embargo is lifted already. When it comes out, you can find it here: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1715640115

What we have done is compare the rise and fall of daily or weekly mortality levels during plague outbreaks against three models of plague transmission - two that are generally accepted (rat-borne plague and pneumonic plague), and one that has been speculated about for a long time (human ectoparasites like body lice and fleas). We allowed the models to achieve the best fit they could within biological parameter constraints, and see how well each of these models could mimic the observed mortality curve.

There is a bit more detail in this interview: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/rats-plague-blac...

The code/models we used are available online for one of the outbreaks (Barcelona 1490) https://zenodo.org/record/1043924

A pre-review version of the paper is available as a poster here: http://www.mn.uio.no/cees/english/people/phd/katharrd/kd_yer... Note that we changed the lice model a bit since then, on recommendation of one of the reviewers.
That would be pretty hard to sell to the bioinformatics crowd. My Bash scripts are long, but easy to read. I'm just setting some environment variables, running some algorithms (many output to stdout and can be piped directly to other algorithms), moving the results around, write to a log here and there. Easily over 50 lines. Why would you force me into Python or what ever? I'm just gluing different programs together and moving files around.
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Pretty sure gold scales better than bitcoin as far as transactions over time.
>My men­tal mod­el of the Web is as a per­ma­nen­t, long-lived store of humanity’s in­tel­lec­tu­al her­itage.

And that's where I don't agree with the author. I've been thinking about this and to me it seems we need to try to foster a culture of forgetting. Just because we can store everything forever, doesn't mean we should. That kind of thinking is exactly where this 'track everything everyone does'-mentality comes from, governments seem so keen to apply in the name of 'terror prevention'. It also values regular stuff you do way too highly.

Let's face it: A huge portion of the web is garbage and most information on it is ephemeral. The really useful stuff, like encylopedias, will be used regularly and thus keep indexed anyway. For the rest: Just let it go. Forgetting can also be relieving, you know?
BlackRock's short positions in the UK.

I'm sure the employees feel that contribution

https://shorttracker.co.uk/manager/blackrock-institutional-t...

https://shorttracker.co.uk/manager/blackrock-investment-mana...

https://shorttracker.co.uk/manager/blackrock-advisors-llc/

https://shorttracker.co.uk/manager/blackrock-advisors-uk-lim...
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Couldn't they pick an existing, established cross-language RPC system like Thrift or gRPC?
From my American perspective, the national health systems of other countries have their own barbarities. There is a reason why so many people from other countries come to the US for health care.

When I was looking to have a very serious health problem taken care of, I heavily researched getting the procedure done anywhere in the world. It was pretty obvious that all the best places to have it done were in the US. The facility we went to had quite a few patients from other countries - and we're not talking 3rd world countries. Many of these patients had already had care in their own country, where the care was botched or insufficient. They were coming to the US to get it done right. On their own dime.

Not sure how Germany is, but average wait time for an MRI in Canada is over 10 weeks.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/waiting-your-turn-wa...

In the US you can go right into an MRI on the same day. This is key to getting an appropriate standard of care.

In Canada, average wait time for an ultrasound is 4 weeks. Our pets get better care in the US. I really don't see how people tolerate such things.
> Finally, what is it with sysadmins maintaining large scripts while at the same time quipping that they are not programmers? A script is very much a program, and a scripting language is very much a programming language.

You are correct, but I mostly use this preface to let people know I don't have the detailed formal training in programming most devs do. So while I can wiggle my way around perl/python/bash/awk/sed and other "systems languages" just fine I am constantly finding out how much I don't know.

I suppose in the early hacker days sense of the word most of us are programmers.
"Units under construction" seems like a pretty useless metric. Like, skyscrapers take way longer to build than, say, townhomes, so they'll remain in the under construction pool a lot longer.

Why not use "units started" or "units finished" instead?
I guess the great intel compiler switch had already happened between the old PE based Metrowerks and the "new" gcc. I can vouch that stuff from PR1/PR2 still more or less runs under R5.03 on PowerPC (for example, I managed to get the Metrowerks Java implementation to "somewhat" work under R5.) But stuff from the R3 Interl relelease really just does not work on R4.0 Intel because of the compiler change. I guess if it was still ELF base, it might not have been so bad.

Question/observation - with the CELF (Crushed ELF) format, would that not have been enough to make moving the compiler either justifiable (you were crushing the EXE, so the format was different anyway), or impossible (the tools would need to be altered to handle the newer format)? I kind of think the former. I don't really know enough about how the apps were crushed (other than that it was a real PITA if your OS didn't have a map* dictionary* with the right symbols in it.)

* Been over 10 years and everything I learned I learned from hacking on BeIA after Be closed shop as an enthusiast, so forgive me if I use the wrong terms.
Visa to ditch signatures for cards
This one? http://www.wiltshire.gov.uk/librarylocations.htm?act=show&li...

It seems that context-sensitive search is a curse as well as a blessing. Wikipedia at least offers you disambiguation pages; perhaps a search engine should let you pick a "domain" to prioritise search in.
If it does not affect corporate email, it does not have real world implications?
> you just have no idea whatsoever what it takes to be both psychologically and logistically prepared

And you do? Based on which expertise.

> A kinder, gentler SWAT team is one not actually prepared for the serious situations

This is false dichotomy , nobody is asking for 'kinder,gentler' swat team, we are asking for professional who can professionally appraised the situation before using lethal force. It's about precision not about kindness whatever that means in this context.
> I get rather tired of blow hard Europeans imagining they know what is best for internal matters of the US

I guess we could try to hide our empathy, after all if it's only Americans killing other Americans, who cares? I don't get the impression that Americans do.
Ask HN: What's the recommended method of adding authentication to a REST API?
Any referred domain had full access to the referring domain (even across multiple redirects).

This means badsite.example can have access to your Google account just from clicking on a Google search result. I made an exploit that worked on Twitter and Reddit to retweet/upvote/etc.
Are there any good Artifactory alternatives?
Artifact and binary management shouldn't be something, that most of development teams want to spend time maintaining or building your own. So, it's obvious that would opt for SaaS or other solution.

But, hell, Artifactory SaaS is super expensive. We've got about 50 devs, working with Java/Scala, Ruby, Node and others. Some build binaries, some build Docker images.

100 GB HA repo costs ~ $700+.
Correct. I wanted to include that, but I couldn't fit it in the 80 character title limit.
Helm for kubernetes
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Since I never suggested otherwise, I have no idea why you are arguing with me. I am only suggesting that not holding the prankster responsible cannot help but increasingly warp things until SWAT teams have an impossible job to do. That doesn't mean their role should not be investigated. It means that it is unreasonable to say the caller is fine and then let this crap get increasingly crazy while only holding the police responsible in a situation where clearly they are equally victims of the caller's bad acts.
> Do you really wanna try to frame the DNA analysis thing as an insane conspiracy theory?

No. Of course this is real. What I meant was that even using Pakistani staff would not help to restore trust. The CIA really did the world a service...
> it seems pretty clear-cut to me

Yes it would. That's the whole point of Public Relations, you, as part of the public, now relate differently to something than you ordinarily would.

> It's hard for me to take seriously the idea that things like aggressively stifling competing software

Well, that is because you are a terrorist, and your ideas are a cancer on society.

The above is basically a post-2000 translation of Microsoft's 90's "stifling competing software" tactics for software development they could not squash outright.

> helping [..] people in the developing world with basic things like nutrition, sanitation, and disease prevention.

By taking away education, self-determination, local opportunities? Yes, not quite as dramatic as people dying, but equally important for long term stable development.

> and I have no shame

No, you have a different frame of reference. I'd say one that lacks a complete historical record.
Mafia existed long before that though. The Camorra for example had a defined structure and was known as a phenomenon even in the Kingdom of two Sicilies.
I am not sure how you don’t see that asking the most influential phone maker in the world to focus on the effect of its devices on children won’t numerically improve outcomes? Of course it makes sense to focus on the market leader that influences the industry rather than marginal down market devices.

Also, I don’t think apple’s controls are all that good. MacOS X has quiet time for kids, etc. I don’t think iOS has that. Android also allows more invasive apps to take over more of the OS if parents so desire to exert more control over the device. You can see some of the rigmarole that this parent control app has to deal with on iOS: https://screentimelabs.com/help/ios-differences/
What about Ruby.. ?
according to reuters, "Bitcoin extends slide to trade down 18 percent on day at $11,191 on Bitstamp Exchange, on track for biggest one-day fall in three years" - so, pretty significant move.
Why businesses might not use Bitcoin:

1. Bitcoin remains speculative and volatile. This will cause it to be adopted by smaller businesses that can "do things that don't scale". We won't see big businesses support mainstream crypto payments until the demand is high enough to justify the risk.

2. Bitcoin itself is a clamped network, as such the fees are very high. You can't sell Lemonade at your stand with Bitcoin if the fees are much greater than the cost of a cup of lemonade.

Other cryptocurrencies aim to solve these problems.
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> They have a right and an obligation to serve their clients' collective long term interest.

Two points: (1) they have a right and obligation to serve their client's financial interest, as regarded to the money invested in them. They don't have any obligation to serve any other form of their client's financial interest - if you talked to them on the phone in a sad and depressed manner and then they used your money to hire a psychologist to get you out of it, for example, it might be in your interest, but it certainly wouldn't be what you hired them for.

(2) It's their obligation to serve their client's interest, not the society's. If the client would want to help the society as a whole is his decision to make, not this institution's.

But sadly, any institution large enough inevitably forgets these two points and gets too big for it's constituents to enforce them, governments being first and foremost example.
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48 now. Ripple's being hit hard.
Below 11.5k now and picking up speed.
When’s the right time to move from front end development to management
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Why Offshore Staffing?
> SWAT teams cannot be expected to be fully prepared for both a hostage situation and a so-called prank.

Yes they should, and they are in the rest of the world. Being a competent police officer is not supposed to be an easy job, and not everyone has what it takes to be trusted amid civilians with deadly weapons.

> Pranks [...] should be labelled serious crimes and prosecuted accordingly.

That is also true, but not the #1 priority. Most unnecessary uses of deadly force by police aren't triggered by pranks. I sure expect Tyler to rot in jail for quite some time, I'd be mad if he weren't. Ditto for the wannabe Dirty Harry who killed a civilian he swore to serve and protect. The thing is, I'm confident the former will happen, and I fear the latter won't.

> I get rather tired of blow hard Europeans imagining they know what is best for internal matters of the US

What baffles me is that even when a problem is solved in all of the non-US developed world, looking at how it's solved by everyone else isn't considered worth debating in the US. Or as the Onion puts it every few months, when a US mass shooting occurs:

https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na...
The Lightning Network, coming soon to Bitcoin, will solve the performance & fee problems too. Stability will come with increased liquidity.
Oh absolutely. You can turn around a small plane in under an hour, a feat you'd be really pushing to do with a 380. Even refuelling for a long haul can take longer than that.

And different constraints apply to different airports. If you have plenty of gates but no landing slots, like Heathrow, you don't mind if the planes hang around a little longer. Atlanta would have the opposite issue with their 5 runways, which could theoretically fill all their gates in just over an hour.

It's a fairly interesting optimisation problem.
Some of BlackRock's other disclosed short positions.

BCOCK INTL GROUP PLC, BALFOUR BEATTY PLC, BRITVIC PLC, CARILLION PLC, CONVATEC GROUP PLC, COUNTRYWIDE PLC, CREST NICHOLSON HLDGS PLC,
CYBG PLC, DAILY MAIL & GENERAL, Dairy Crest Group, DEBENHAMS PLC, EMPIRIC STUDENT PROPERTY PLC, FLYBE GROUP PLC, GREENE KING PLC, Greggs Plc, HALFORDS GROUP PLC, J.D. WETHERSPOON PLC, KCOM GROUP PLC, KINGFISHER PLC, MARKS & SPENCER GROUP PLC, METRO BANK PLC , N. Brown Group, PATISSERIE HOLDINGS PLC, PETRA DIAMONDS, PETROFAC LTD, RESTAURANT GROUP PLC, RPC Group plc, SAINSBURY (J) PLC, SIG PLC, TalkTalk Telecom Group PLC, TED BAKER, WM MORRISON SUPERMARKETS

Is your argument the govt. should be doing more to support the UK retail pastry market? (I'm joking)
Yes, do that. And while you are it, spare me your sarcasm, superiority complex and contempt.

Thank you.
The reason is that Go is more mainstream.
BeIA was quite clever. The OS compressed the binaries by using a one way (?) process to pull out common code segments in to a common dictionary. The OS then read that code somehow in to memory when the apps started. You could run the OS uncrushed, but it took up a lot more space. One could fit the entire OS on a 16MB CF card in crushed format. (YES, MB not GB!!)

The crushed apps have a magic symbol CEL instead of ELF in the file header.

The file system was also compressed. It was called CFS, rather than BFS (BeFS) and a lot of stuff like attributes and metadata was very broken in the pre 1.0 builds I saw.
But isn't that the way it's supposed to be?

I have always thought of reputation on SO as a measure of the total usefulness of your answers. When people find your reply useful, they upvote you. It's thus only natural that long-standing useful answers will keep gathering points, because people will continue to find those answers useful. When your answers are no longer useful (say due to technology change), your points too will stop growing.
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Both sites could use a little SEO. Google being imperfect isn't a new thing.
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