skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Basically every time I can pay with PayPal I can also pay with iDEAL (local equiv. of IBAN / bank transfer). PayPal just works quicker. It wouldn't surprise me if my current bank (Rabobank) did the same but then I can compare it with other banks available in my country and consider to (finally) make the switch because I've been considering to switch banks for quite some while (one of my options is Triodos [1] who resort to ethical banking / investments). I also want to start a savings account for my child for later. YMMV.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triodos_Bank
In the USA children born smart like me have to attend special schools to reach their potential.

Instead if your family is poor like mine, they could not afford the special private smart schools and instead sent me to public schools that are paid for by property taxes.

I can tell you I was picked on a lot by bullies and did not know how to stand up for myself. At the age of 5 I was bullied in school, sent to a child psychiatrist given an IQ test and scored 189. I am and was socially retarded and emotionally retarded and was considered autistic but they did not know why I had an 189 IQ and knew how radios work and could take one apart with a screw driver to show people how it works, etc. That was 1973.

My siblings had it too, and they wondered why Generation-x got so smart with technology and science.

Had I gone to that special school and had tutors like the wealthy have, I would have reached my potential and taught to improve my social and emotional skills.

In the old days they would call us addled and put us in mental wards for life, but they can to figure out some of us have potential and a high IQ and can be useful with the right edication.
I'm o.k. with a resonable sales tax. Growing up I felt 7% was reasonable. Now at 9.5% it's too high for myself.

I would rather see fees/fines tied to income. Be it a traffic ticket, bail, or even procuring a Building Permit; a rich man would pay more.

A poor man get a $500 traffic ticket. It affects him, and his family greatly. It might be the last straw?

A rich man gets the same ticket, and casually mentions it over dinner.

I won't even get started on bail. I've seen it financially ruin poor families-- just recently.

I heard Sweden takes income into account when issuing fees/fines/etc.

I feel we have the data to implement a system, and it might alleviate the---what's the word--resentment, rage the poor/middle class are developing towards the Wealthy in America?
Yes, a known example is Monero. The question is, first and foremost, if you should trust cryptocurrencies.
Thanks, that's encouraging! I was worried they might not last that long, especially at low temperatures.

I am using a Sonoff RF Bridge[0] to talk to 433MHz sensors. It is also supported by Tasmota[1].

[0] https://www.itead.cc/sonoff-rf-bridge-433.html
[1] https://github.com/arendst/Sonoff-Tasmota/wiki/Sonoff-RF-Bri...
In some ways it's been closer to tick/tock/tweak/tweak/tweak, which is just another sign that improving process nodes isn't something that we should rely on anymore.

For this cycle the 'tick' (Cannon Lake) was pushed back a year (with two 'tweaks', Kaby Lake Refresh and Coffee Lake, taking its place). Cannon Lake devices are due to be released to the mass market this year, and according to Intel it was able to manufacture some Cannon Lake devices last year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon_Lake_(microarchitecture...

"At CES 2018 Intel announced that they had started shipping mobile Cannon Lake CPUs at the end of 2017 and that they would ramp up production in 2018."
Get a proper hobby. I would suggest miniquad/fpv. Check YouTube for Mr Steele to see what i‘m talking about. Its a wonderful balance to everything else.
Is x-ray safe during pregnancy?
My favorite part: “I diffed it against the sendmail.cf in my home directory. It hadn't been
altered--it was a sendmail.cf I had written. And I was fairly certain I
hadn't enabled the "FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES" option.”
I've done this in the past. I had 3 false displays set up using virtual desktop and HDMI dummies. When I got used to it, it was very pleasant. One day I sat down, did some working, and then watched some shows. I actually fell asleep with the headset on once. It was, to say the least, confusing when I first woke up in outer space.

It was very pleasant. I wish I had a Rift to try it with, the lenses on the Vive are rough, with my only experience before the Vive being the DK2. http://www.roadtovr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/wearality... This effect was highly noticeable for me.

Never had an issue with my mouse or KB. I went onto the app where you were in a living room, with other people in the online room around you, and you each had your desktop in your lap. It was pretty cool to play Overwatch and this guy comment when something sick happened.

I don't believe VR belongs in the gaming scene. Business / EDU all the way. I'd be curious if there's any plans to research trying to get kids to develop synesthesia using VR.

I do also sit at a desk chair. I ended up stopping using it a lot unless I'm trying to drown out everything around me because I am very paranoid if I can't see all exits/entrances to a room with my back to the wall. Still probably the most eye-opening experience for VR for me. Being able to come into my office, with only my desk in a part of the room, sit there with my KB&M and virtual displays, and then move around my room separately for things like Tilt Brush would be amazing.
While that wasn't mentioned directly, one of the quotes was:

> I would also have to overcome the fear of the work shower room (singular). And figure out how to dry my hair and do my make-up to make myself presentable for work - all in the confines of one slightly grotty space.

This points out that "fresh smelling" isn't the only factor. In general, women are held to higher standards regarding hair and makeup than men are.
+1 for OSTEP
Yes. The third paragraph is:

"Commonly cited reasons for shunning the benefits of getting into the saddle include sexual harassment, fears about appearance and concerns about safety. So what can be done to get more women on their bikes and out on the road?"
These are not falsehoods. They're intentional limitations of the build system. A build system that attempts to avoid all of these is useless.
> I think the only people who hate cryptocurrencies are those bloody conformists, big brother lovers who never experienced first hand how shitty traditional financial system is.

And the people who profit from the traditional system. Don't underestimate that group.

And in some regards the group you talk about and the group I talk about are overlapping. In first world countries you are really rarely screwed by your bank (when it comes to international transactions at least). But that these countries populace is allowed to live so freely might be the reason of the banks being able to screw people from shithole countries even more than them. So a change for first world country citizens might very well go the negative way and it's reasonable for them not wanting to change as it is.
Take a look to Yandex ClickHouse, this is open-source append-only analytical database. It offers ultimate performance of OLAP queries and data like events log, and its SQL dialect includes a lot of specialized functions for metrics calculation.
I would also recommend reading Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, 3rd Edition.
Find a problem that does not have a solution yet. Make a solution to solve the problem and offer free for life licesenes to companies that want to beta test it and give feedback and bug reports.
It seems, in practice, that a robot is what we abstractly imagine, but once implemented in the concrete, it's demystified and everybody goes, "Oh that? That's just a machine".
There's no such thing as a trustless stable currency. If you want a proof of it in the fiat world, you can just read how Soros shorted GBP [1]. At the same time the volatility (especially the negative volatility) of BTC already gone down tremendously compared to just a few years ago, and new technologies are coming that make it even more useful as money, which decreases the volatility.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/the-trade-of-the-century-when-georg...
TLPI is a fantastic reference book to have when written code.
he published also a now kinda old, but still great trading introduction/summary:

https://www.quantopian.com/posts/max-dama-on-automated-tradi...

The pdf link seems broken, but through Google you should easily find the pdf (maxdama.pdf)
The internet you're talking about doesn't exist (have you been to rural Africa?), but Blockstream satellites do ( https://blockstream.com/satellite/ )
I cannot tell you since I do not study the subject but if smoking was just an addiction to nicotine then I'd expect nicotine gum and patches to be a really effective cure for it.
> Are there any justifications for Bitcoin that cannot be explained by a cognitive bias?

Are you aware that you can put nearly everything in this sentence instead of Bitcoin and it still holds just as true?

Free markets haven't really made the world totally fair. Democracy hasn't really given all people the ability to choose. Your job hasn't really paid you as much as you've produced value for your boss. Marrying your wife was a questionable choice, to some degree. And your parents also don't really love each other anymore. Your life isn't really meaningful to anything but the fantasy you run yourself in your head to explain it.

We live off of the cognitive biases that we are able to believe in. Enjoy having some cognitive biases left as long as you still have some.
The only reason to invoke NSA in this context is for their ability to make a 10000x investment, with no concern for this being (directly) economically viable. The question then is, what will they do with control of the blockchain?
> I don't know who made these decisions, do you?

No, but I do know they are incompetent, don't understand the fundamentals of their business, and are out of touch with their employees and customers.

This empty shelf scheme fails hard in two important and obvious ways:

1) negative effects on customer perceptions from seeing empty shelves.

2) stores are in the business of selling stuff and shelf space is a scare and precious resource. Empty shelves means no sales and lost revenue for that space. If you run a store empty shelves is a 100% sign of incompetence.

Now, the overall scheme seems to be based on a theory that having empty shelves will lead to them being restocked with the correct items more quickly. That is plausibly rational on the surface but actually comes down to magical thinking.

If you lack the organizational ability to get shelves stocked correctly in the first place leaving them empty will not magically change that.

What you have here is management trying to increase revenue and instead of having a real plan for how to do that they have put in place a set of policies that rely on it happening by magic and then blame people on the floor when it fails.

This is pretty much the definition of incompetent and out of touch management.
It was a mixture of the two. Some of the phones were purchased by the company, some were personal devices.
Any task tracking apps like Trello, Jira or Mingle. And relates GitLab commits with hooks.
I think your comment raises some very interesting points, but that you go too far.

There are costs (in the wider not just monetary sense) and benefits to various approaches. The reason you had to resort to crypto-currency first of all seems to me to be the problems in the countries you lived in. If they had working institutions, if you had lived in a Western country and had had access to the banking there, would you have come to the same conclusions?

Also, there is a reason why Western banks and Asian ones too, it seems, prefer losing business over dealing with customers from some countries, and I doubt the reason is spite.

Having completely anonymous money sure benefits some small businesses (mostly those living in places with bad institutions), but it also enables a lot of very questionable businesses and people. I would suspect that as far as volume goes the latter might actually be far bigger than the former. As always those who have most to gain are those who have a lot of money to move (same with the question about who benefits from government more - the rich or the poor? The rich! Any "redistribution" is dwarfed by the amounts of money people get to make and to keep under the protections of strong government institutions). Anonymity, not just for money, always works for those who have their eyes closed to all the horrible things humans do when nobody is looking - and that is not a negligibly small amount. Of course, the extremely wealthy already have "anonymous money", tracing who owns what is very hard even for the government, but I doubt giving everybody access to anonymity would be a net positive.
When I was a child I had some sort of focusing problem (maybe 'lazy eye'). I recall having two exercises given to me to help:

1. Card with two cat ideograms. Each was missing different parts (e.g. tail and ears vs. belly and eyes). I had to hold it at some distance and merge the two cats into a single one.

2. Rectangular card with a notch in it. Hold the card parallel with the ground, and count down the numbers on the line (10, 9, 8, ...) from the one farthest to the one nearest, whilst keeping the lines crossed next to that number. (There was only one line, but it looked like two everywhere except at the point of focus.)

I don't know if those exercises worked, but I certainly don't have problems with focusing on objects at different distances.
It had potentials but none of that matters with lack of protection against overhyped valuation. It's not a currency if it what you paid for a cup of coffee could've bought a Ferrari the next day. And blockchain is more like plumbing than some star-fangled magic. Last time I got excited about plumbing is...never mind.
I think Stack Flip is the optimal solution, as it requires very little code and can handle any number, even values the code has never encountered before. The library simply calls out to a web service that posts the question on Stack Overflow.

It should only take a few seconds for someone to post the answer. And the service will then upvote the answer, thus motivating Stack Overflow users to keep providing those results.
And here I set in front of 1680x1050 with an ATI Radeon HD 5770 playing Rocket League on Minecraft like graphics so the the splitscreen with a friend does not stutter noticeably. :D
Interesting article, but more an argument for why a large class of cryptocoins might be valuable, or even more so, why an ecosystem of cryptocoins might collectively value, rather than an argument for why Bitcoin specifically is valuable.
> Flood a network with a few million of these nodes, don't relay addresses of valid nodes and the network will split eventually.

Could you direct me to the theory supporting this assertion? Was considering doing a simulation of this but need some kind of model.
In Europe.

I am very dogmatic about hours, because when the next layoff round comes, HR won't care 1 second about how much overtime people were doing when considering who to fire.
> I'd buy one, having a laptop with multi-day battery life would be awesome

Apple wouldn't use the technology for a multi-day battery life, they'd use it to make the laptop thinner/lighter (they've already started making MBP batteries smaller than they need be, leaving empty space in the case)
What chx said, but in our case we have custom racks with higher density of servers due to spacing constraints so it's not standard Supermicros.
Ask HN: Has cryptocoin mining changed your Deep Learning hardware choices?
The prices of powerful GPUs most suitable for Deep Learning have gone through the roof due to the ROI on mining cryptocoins like Ethereum.

For your Deep Learning needs, would you currently build a less powerful rig (perhaps with more GPUs), cough up the money for the higher-end graphics card(s), or just avoid the capital investment through the use of GPUs in the Cloud?
How to Install MacOS High Sierra Final on VirtualBox on Windows – Techsviewer
Is quantitative traders' role in the economy similar to that of cryptocurrency miners: they form consensus on the state of the market?
Open source beats Microsoft to win Barcelona's backing
Yeah, but the biggest ones are not inflationary, so they end up as exclusively hype-driven speculative investment vehicles. That's not good for a method of payment.
Looking at CVs, everyone knows git. Using anything else would require not just licence costs. Also training and potentially reducing the pool of possible hires.
> I am using Coinbase since the new year.

Why put money in a gold rush after the rush? Can you explain the logic behind it? Like, have you never heard about it before 2018?

Honestly if Bitcoin stabilizes around $300/coin it's still a huge profit to the people who started it and invested early (I bout around $90/coin). $12k/coin certainly is ridiculous. But I don't understand why people would even put a single dollar into something at such a point.
He is a public figure.

Edit: Also, please don't ban me.

Edit: I will refrain from future attacks in return for not being banned.
You seem to imply that once you understand make, you won't dislike it anymore or don't want to see it replaced or will stop criticizing it. For one thing, the better you understand a tool the more correct your critique on it can be.

I learned quite a bit of make and msbuild and cmake (yeah it's not a true build system but that doesn't matter here) at practically the same time. I can't say I really really like any of those. I also don't truly hate them. Yet one thing is clear: I understand how they work and how they were intended to be used. But none of them are the perfect answer.

No matter how well e.g. make works, that doesn't somehow magically make it's sometimes awkward 'let's cram as much meaning as possible into as little characters as possible like we're still programming on 75 character terminals' syntax good. Just like msbuild's overly verbose xml is no better. Though it still is more readable to me.

So just like you understand make, you should try to understand why people build replacements. If you can't, you're just blind for the downsides of your favourite build tool.
I remember watching a video of Grace Hopper giving a speech on how less is more in code because memory is limited. This was about COBOL and the mainframes that used wrie wraps for core memory. Captain Hopper had a wrist band made out of decommissioned wire wrap and said see how much memory you are wasting?

Modern programming languages and Pcs have gotten rid of pointers and garbage collection etc, and Pcs run faster and have more RAM. This happened around 2001 to 2002 when super debuggers who reduced code were no longer wanted as they got 500 plus resumes a week for my job. I fixed memory leaks, closed off data record objects and freed up object memory when it was done. They no longer cared about that and measure how good a job is done by lines of code rather than good quality code that runs faster, does not have memory leaks, and gets more done in fewer CPU cycles and less memory that the Bloated programs that don't have all those things.

I can write a C program using the command line and text that will run faster than a GUI program with bells and whistles due to feature creep.
Thanks for the input Orionblastar.
About early age children using VR, there was a warning of potential risk for children using VR, two/three years ago:
https://uploadvr.com/study-vr-children/

it’s not a big study nor does it comes to any concrete results, so I was wondering if you knew of more data on the subject, or knew of any real word feedback on the matter.
Hey, thanks a lot! Went through some pages around, and looks like a very informative book. Is there a printed version?
I don't understand people who cite current network speed/overload, transaction problem/cost and co as the reason why Bitcoin (or any crypto) will fail in the future.

Nothing is set in stone - its software, all of these things are fixable and are being worked on. Its still so very early in the game.

If you compare crypto to a traditional startup project - I'd say user engagement and growth is more valuable than a perfect product from the start.
> If EMIB wasn't saving money while offering sufficient performance, then Intel would have integrated the AMD GPU into this product using the off-the-shelf silicon interposers that AMD's own products use to connect the GPU to its HBM DRAM.

That is a nice claim, based on no evidence.

Intel spends billions subsidizing non-competitive products in order to try to build market share all the time. (mobile, ultrabook, etc, etc)

Unless you can present any evidence to the contrary (still no bandwidth numbers) it is just as likely that this product has EMIB because they couldn't get anyone else to use it and they need some shipping products with the tech to try and sell it.
MCM in itself is old: Xenos in XBox 360 was MCM, IBM's POWER chips have been MCM's in many generations, Intel's Pentium Pro was MCM 1995, etc. Going back to the 80's/70's.

MCM has been relatively unpopular because of cost and that's why most of its applications could justify it only to put chips from different silicon proceseses in same package (cache or EDRAM + CPU usually). Except for some high end chips like the POWER stuff.

The interesting bit is how and why AMD put logic chips in low cost MCMs. Probably involves the time or $$ budget to make and validate additional high end variations of the silicon.
"Crypto" Is Being Redefined as Cryptocurrencies
> Having completely anonymous money sure benefits some small businesses (mostly those living in places with bad institutions), but it also enables a lot of very questionable businesses and people.

I'm not in favor of this argument at all. The internet has incredible benefits, but enables a lot of bad actors. Encryption has incredible benefits but enables a lot of bad actors. Lots of good things also enable bad things, that doesn't mean we shouldn't allow them.

Outside of third world or financially repressive countries, cryptocurrencies are great for "global citizens." I have done contract work while living in a different country, for clients in other countries, both parties have found it much easier to pay each other using cryptocurrencies as opposed to fiat.
To learn which traps to avoid in C, have a look at SEI CERT C. It's written very well with examples and explanations, and is structured as a coding guide.

https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/display/c/SEI+CERT+C+Cod...
Do what interests you. What are you interested in? Fish, sports, books, travel, food etc. Choose a domain first, then select something to apply to that.
Why are people eating laundry tide pods? what is tide pod challenge?
The first stage seems to be very vertical compared to other launches; any explanation why?
Forced migration != slavery, forced prostitution and mercury poisoning of drinking water. Yes, I am well aware how electricity generation degrades the environment, but there is a ray of hope that renewables will kick in and take some or most of that degradation away. I don't see such a line of sight for the issues raised in that article.
Just the same way I would if I wasn't remote. When working in an office, it's not like people come looking at my screen behind my shoulder anyway (I would hate it).

Basically my activity is visible on the source tracker through the PR is submit and review, the bug tracker, Slack discussions, and we have a daily team meeting where everyone shared what he/she's doing.

We also have a Geekbot on slack so everyone can share what he's done in the day and what he's planning to do the next day.
Bitcoin is valuable because demand currently outstrips supply.

If this happens for a long enough period of time it will become like gold, pretty much useless but wanted by lots of people.
Looks very interesting. All the luck getting your project (dreams) forward.