skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If companies were, all of a sudden, no longer required to subsidize health insurance, who wants to bet that they will immediately pass all the savings on to each employee in the form of a raise? I guarantee you shareholders pocket the difference.
So it's a PD controller.
Don’t let ... The only one that can do that is the US Supreme Court.
Grocery stores already obscure prices with specials.

$3.75 each
Or buy two and get the second one at 25% off with bonus card.

I suspect that few customers do the mental arithmetic to figure out what their final cost will be.
I can definitely think of worse places than San Marcos. Though being outside Austin proper means giving up anything remotely resembling usable public transit. And in all honesty, Austin could be reasonably characterized as outgrown and gentrified already.

Plus, SA has already played this game. It got them Rackspace. Which, uh, could maybe be going better.
One of my 'must have' plugins for firefox stopped working. Luckily they have a desktop version... which runs in chromium (Electron).
Funnily, I learned about PID controllers first while playing a Minecraft mod... but yeah, this definitely looks like one.
If employer-based insurance goes away, it will be replaced with nothing. The effect will be to lower compensation -- a win for employers, and a loss for workers. That's the lesson of the Gig Economy, perhaps even the primary reason that the Gig Economy is so heavily sold: it is advantageous for employers.
How could they provide no fraudulent charge back? It's up to the bank and Visa not to the payment processor
I have Firefox, Chrome and Edge on my Surface Pro 4. I prefer using Edge there because it's touch gestures seem to work better.

Firefox works just fine, but I feel it is more difficult than it should be to hit the tab close buttons with my finger.
I had no idea you could select multiple tabs in Chrome. That's awesome--thank you!!
Or we start mining exponentially more of it on asteroids. After all, more than 90% of the Earth’s gold has been mined since 1848.
Hang on, let me get my tifnfoil hat.
I really got into it in a little over a year ago. I first heard about it about 4 years ago though. I'm sure there are ebbs and flows, but this time around does seem different, given that my tech-illiterate family members were asking me about it over the holidays.

Maybe I'm overthinking it, but it seems inescapable.
The entertainment industry has always had pop culture icons making more than skilled-professionals. Are you getting social media confused with companies who innovate just because they both use computers?
Another confounding factor is that the workforce tends to be left leaning. Left leaning population, plus new money for taxes means more social services for the homeless. More social services means homeless from less accommodating communities will move in.

I'd also be curious in a study on Amazon's effect on the homeless.
Ervaren “verwarde personen” in meldkamer
Not innovative it was...

American measures of creativity are narrow minded, short sighted, taken from singular point of view.

The first two domestic microwave ovens in the Ussr were: first one, built without a magnetron, with "surplus" solid state RF emitters because all magnetrons were spent on military radars; second one, made with multi-kilowatt, water cooled klystron and weighted 60 kg, because the designer thought "with klystron, we can modulate the power with a cheap rheostat" without having to use "complex, tricky, always breaking mechanical timers."

"USA does not have talent to build kitchen appliances out of super duper expensive mil-spec components?" - will ask some. No, but US simply never had conditions that would've required creative solutions to problems like "how to make consumer goods when the whole country has been turned into a munitions factory?"

What I can jab commenters above with is that behind each "particularly creative" article an American big co. releases, there are thousands of anonymous engineers, designers, software developers and many other highly skilled people working in outsourcing sweatshops in Asia.

For each "creativish" GUI app, there are thousands of research hours of anonymous geniuses that went into fundamental research in computer science and electronics engineering that made it possible that you can carry computing power of a supercomputer from few generations ago in your pocket.

Now, how many artsy, creativish, anorexic tech CEOs there are in US who are, say, epitaxy metrology specialists who know how to grow 3D transistors with 10 times fewer mask scans than a competitor?
Yet nobody quantifies what long term is.

Forgoing a solution that works temporarily, even if only for a year or two, isn't very bright if the alternative is this. Bitcoin is quickly loosing the network effect, the only thing it has going for it vs other altcoins.
They're "fundamentally the same" in the way that handing you $5 now is "fundamentally the same" as mailing you $5 in 3 to 5 days. They're the same in a lot of ways, but different in a way that is a dealbreaker for transactions that are impacted by time.
> You're certainly more exposed to downturns

At the same time, companies fire by the millions in aggregate in a recessionary environment. Or worse, your employer simply vaporizes and goes out of business, which similarly happens in droves.

If you're a contractor, your exposure depends on who you're doing business with, how strong their circumstances are, just as it does when it comes to who is employing you.

The U6 went up to ~17.5% during the great recession. There is a very small group of elite tech companies that weathered that storm without firing people. Google is up at 80,000 employees now, Microsoft is at 125,000. Do they avoid layoffs in the next recession? I'm skeptical. Microsoft has almost no growth, any recession would hit them hard. Google's growth is 1/3 what it was ten years ago, a recession would slam their ad business and bring their growth down toward single digits.
It's hard to do that in a physical store since everyone can see the same price display. I doubt many people would be happy in a store where they need to look up every single price on their mobile device.
I feel confident that Amazon will not pick a place with cold weather or hurricanes.
Fundamentally the same... except for the differences that were pointed out.

I don't understand the point of your comment
The price of gold could significantly decrease, that's for sure, but even purely as a material it still would be reasonably valuable, significantly more valuable than silver. It has a price floor; bitcoin does not.
I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Lol, this is not the first time that I am mocked here :)

How does Stokes' theorem in a discrete setting just amount to associativity?

Manifolds are modeled by graphs, and calculus on manifolds becomes linear algebra using the matrices naturally associated to these graphs.

Consider a graph with n vertices and m edges.

The most important matrix is the oriented incidence matrix B, of size mxn, that has a single +1 and a single -1 on each row, indicating the vertices connected by the corresponding edge.

Scalar fields := functions defined over the vertices = vectors of R^n

Vector fields := functions defined over the edges = vectors of R^m

When you interpret matrices as linear operators:

B : R^n -> R^m is the gradient operator
-B' : R^m -> R^n is the divergence operator
-B'.B : R^n -> R^n is the laplacian

A subset of the vertices is given by a binary vector M \in R^n. The integral of a scalar field f over M is M'.f

The outwards boundary of a subset M is -B.M. The flux of a vector field F through this boundary is (-B.M)'.F

Stokes theorem is thus the trivial identity (-B.M)'.F = M'.(-B'.F)

(I use a dot for matrix products because the star breaks the formatting. You can also define the divergence without the minus sign, but I like my laplacians to be negative-definite, it feels weird otherwise.)
> Tsunami warning ends for B.C. after large earthquake strikes off Alaska
I first interpreted this as “There was going to be a Tsunami, but then an earthquake struck which nullified it.”
Decompiler authors should take a look at the library, Remill, released with McSema 2.0. It lifts more of x86-64 than RetDec or fcd currently do.
That's not a problem at all; just ban them. For example, I would predict that Coinbase and Gemini will never support Monero or ZCash.
It would perhaps be more interesting to look at cities, or for the us at least states.
> I especially have issue on Google sites (Docs and Drive)

And YouTube. And Search. Hangouts, Gmail, Maps, Calendar, Groups, everything else? I don't buy it for a second that it isn't on purpose, even with the polyfill justification.

You only make it easier for people like me to continue ignoring Chrome (if I even needed more reasons).
Stripe is getting rid of bitcoin because it has proven to be impractical at scale. It is impractical at scale because the fundamental technology, proof-of-work, is impractical at scale. The two alternatives mentioned are the same in this respect, with only the smallest differences.
My thoughts on the new Elon Musk stock incentive plan
I was going to say that my Firefox on Fedora 27 works really well, but now I realize I did set that force-enabled setting. I have no idea how it works without acceleration.
Is it correct, though, that the checkout experience for users is a modal/overlay? And apart from the ability to display a custom logo, how customizeable is the design? (custom fonts, CSS, etc.)
Now try collecting.
3 weeks ago Bitcoin was just as horrible to use for payments as it is now. Just no one investing in it knew that, at all. I'm sure it will be around for a long time as an investment, but they refuse to innovate.
Thank you, I did read the post. I asked if anyone here (participating in this discussion) was using it.
IMHO, if the broken sites are broken because of their "need" to download trackers, intrusive ads, and any number of other dark-pattern based tools... we're better of with those sites broken.
Forging a Swiss Lens: How Zurich's tech scene changed my view of SV
They're not from Google+. really. it's spammers/marketers.
yes, it requires a transaction on the blockchain (with TX fees) to open a channel. But once a channel is open, you can keep it open forever (assuming the person you opened the channel with is willing).
Wouldn't the default assumption be that you can use either a scalar or vector?
That's fair, but that is just the cost right now though. The gas price necessary to get into the next few blocks has varied a lot over the past couple of months. Ethereum is definitely not immune to transaction cost difficulties as currently designed.
Another serious question: is having state-level net neutrality laws even Constitutional?

The FCC's repeal of net neutrality contains a preëmption clause preventing state and local governments from imposing their own inconsistent restrictions (1), and it will be using its authority under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to defend it (2). I understand their claim to be that it's impracticable to distinguish between interstate and intrastate network traffic, and that states would only have authority to constrain the latter. (3)

I'm not sure how my dear state of California is working around that, or if this action is just kicking off a ball that will be headed directly to the courts.

(1) FCC 17-166, https://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/201... , para. 195.

(2) Ibid, para. 197–204. (FCC's authority under the Commerce Clause is established in the Communications Act of 1934, updated under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. These and existing case law are cited as legal justification.)

(3) Ibid, para. 200.
I'm a huge fan of the Pomodoro Technique. TL;DR I do nothing but work - no email, no Twitter, no Hacker News, nothing - for 25 minutes and then take a mandatory 5 minute break. During that pause, I give myself complete permission to do whatever I want as long as it's not the thing I'd just been working on. Although it's probably not for everyone, it works brilliantly for me. There's a lot of research showing that the unskippable break gives your brain a chance to consolidate memories and your subconscious to pick away at new ideas while you check your Coinbase account. I also don't feel any guilt at all about taking breaks because I know they're good for me and that I've earned them.

The blog proposes the diametric opposite of Pomodoro, and I would probably be able to sustain that slog for about two weeks before having a breakdown. I am highly skeptical that anyone can work like that regularly while maintaining high productivity.
If you want to make a "mutual fund" so to speak I would suggest looking at the top 25 by market cap and investing some in each one. Keep in mind the top 25 by cap will change every so often so I would check back every month and re-allocate.
FYI, Stripe has been very transparent in the fact that they believe (and have pumped millions of dollars into) Stellar.
How much data do you think Google collects from it's free services?
How much data do you think Google collects from it's free services like DNS, CDN (Google Fonts) etc.
I'm not referring to obviously data driven services (email, search, analytics, maps, translate, captcha etc), nor services that have a clear commercial purpose (Chrome, Android)
There's a whole body of theory on Adaptive Control (what the control systems community has called what we would now called "learning based control").

This is one of the classic texts: https://www.amazon.com/Adaptive-Control-Karl-Johan-Astrom/dp...

In short, many techniques that look a lot like modern machine learning have been in use for decades in control theory for tasks exactly like you describe (e.g. automatic tuning of PIDs). If you want to dig into this a bit deeper you might look up the "MIT Rule", which is a gradient style approach for dynamically tuning (and re-tuning) adaptive control systems, and is fairly common for PID tuning.
Seconded... I use DDG or Google + Verbatim mode. I set DDG is my browser default, and use `!g` to hit google if I don't like the results. (or !gis for google image search)
I am not a developer. I don't make a lot of money. I wouldn't say I am happy with my situation.

But, I am medically handicapped. When I had a corporate job, I lived in fear of losing my job for taking too much time off. My life revolved around getting myself together enough to make it to work 5 days a week.

I don't have those issues anymore. I can take time off at will and resume working when I feel better. My access to paid work is not threatened by that.

My income is portable. This has allowed me to repeatedly move to improve my quality of life. Historically, this was a luxury enjoyed by only the jet set and well off retirees, not working stiffs.

I think we need to provide national healthcare in the US to make the lack of benefits less of a problem. But I think if gig work is well designed, it can raise quality of life for ordinary people.

I wish my life were easier. I am really grumpy about it not being easier. But gig work is a viable solution for me under circumstances where most normal jobs simply are not. This has helped make it possible to make headway on my problems when I should simply be doomed with no real hope.

So I think we need to just focus on making gig work a positive. I don't think it is a given that it has to be a terrible experience, even for people who aren't making tons of money.
In what way is control of your daily activities transferred away by a smart kettle? Is it not going to boil the water when I want to boil the water? If it doesn't, I'll throw it away and get a regular kettle. That's pretty much the only daily activity my kettle is involved in and no amount of Internet connection is going to remove my control of it.
The Euro and GBP contracts are delivered 'physically', not cash-settled in USD:

http://www.cmegroup.com/rulebook/CME/III/250/261/261.pdf
> it sounds about as useful as a bar of gold in a world where nobody considers gold to be valuable

Nah, if civilization collapses then you'll still be able to use your bar of gold to bash in someone's skull and steal their canned beans (which, in the grim solar-flare induced darkness of 2020, will be worth their weight in bitcoins).
The difference between Bitcoin and gold isn't in how either stores value. It's in maintenance costs.

For gold to retain value, you need to maintain human civilization, so that gold can be used in trade. For Bitcoin, you have to maintain it too, plus you need to keep paying an unbounded, ever-increasing, absurdly high price in energy use. This is IMO why cryptocurrencies are a serious problem, and also why they're unsustainable in the long run.
Ask them [1]. It's fairly easy to hunt down a Lodge and most Lodge secretaries will answer inquiries. Who knows, you might grab a beer with someone interesting.

Source: Master Mason in NY.

[1] https://www.freemason.org/index.htm
>Did you ever require care that was not covered by insurance or maxed out your coverage?

Not that I recall, but that situation could happen to you if you had employer or government provided coverage.

>Or have an expensive pre-existing condition?

No, but there are other options like health-shares. These are usually tied to religious organizations and works almost exactly like health insurance, pooling costs. Obamacare grandfathered in existing health shares but made it illegal to start new ones.

>There's certainly an element of luck involved, especially when it comes to the US healthcare system!

There's a certain element of luck to life in general. I'm certainly not dismissing the unfortunate souls you're referring to, but we equally should not pretend like these things are all that difficult for the average person to do.
What do you mean by PWA support? Service Workers etc already are there, and have been for quite some time.
If your domain has a mixed past, I'd strongly recommend registering a new clean domain (boltapi.net or similar) and loading all your checkout critical components from that.
I run a midsize ecommerce site and, from where I'm sitting, Stripe looks at least as essential in a crypto economy as they are now.

We don't want to handle the mechanics of refunds. We don't want to handle the mechanics of disputes. We don't want to get scammed because we screwed up some small detail of our payment layer. We certainly don't want to do our internal accounting in more than one currency, crypto or otherwise. We're a tech company, not a financial services firm.

From our perspective trusting a third party is a feature not a bug. It means less work for us and less surface area that we could conceivably screw up, and I for one am happy to pay a small premium for the extra insulation.
3 scientists from country with population ~200 million and during 70 years period?
"California is not on the coast because it doesn't fit my narrative where I bash poorer parts of the country"
INTJ Gifted Kid Burnout
I'm a Mason. I must not be a good one because to date I've been asked to participate in exactly zero schemes.
we're in a time when taxes are being shifted more and more away from those who have (rich & corporations)

Actually the exact opposite is happening. The top quintile is pay a bigger share of taxes than before.[1] In 1960, the top quintile paid 56.5% of all federal tax revenue. In 2005 it was 69%.

Care to revise your position based on that?

[1]http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29861648/ns/politics-capitol_hill/... (table on right)
Safari's JS engine is different than Chrome's though, no?
The problem is that when humorous grammatical mistake overlaps with divisive personal and social issue, lightheartedness gets lost.

We've been thinking about building software support for something like what you're suggesting here. Not sure yet. But we'd like to give users more of a meaningful feedback loop, instead of generic reprimands, so there's a practical path to improvement. If you'd like to say more about what you think would accomplish that, we'd read it with interest.

The reason we don't often include specific links in moderation replies is that it's significantly more work, and these things already consume a huge amount of time, energy, and spirit.
> If they screw that up, well that's on them.

Giving the incentives is the screw up. Not how they implement it. Even though they often implement stupid policies and ignore the things they actually need to pay for. In many cases, states and local governments lose hundreds of millions, if not billions, trying to attract investment which doesn't pay off.

Kansas City lost 331 million in tax revenue due to horrible policies that incentivized moving jobs a mile across a river to a different state. https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/05/04/476799218/epis... http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article183014956.html (video embedded, pls 2 watch)

Kentucky gave tens of millions in tax breaks to build a Noah's Ark theme park. http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/07/us/noahs-ark-kentucky/index.ht...

New Jersey wants to give Amazon $7 Billion in tax breaks. It still has not invested money in fixing its broken public transit system. https://www.wsj.com/articles/newark-offers-7-billion-in-ince...
Chicago keeps trying to be super-technology-world, but it doesn't always work.

More than a decade ago, Google promised to bring free wi-fi to the entire city. The idea was to put an AP on every light pole. Lots of press. Lots of TV interviews. No internet.

It never occurred to Google that when the light on a light pole goes off, the power to the entire pole is turned off. And not just that pole, but every other pole it's connected to. Big G was counting on powering the AP's off of the light circuit, which is actually turned off miles away. Simple, reliable, century-old "dumb" technology.

But Chicago keeps plugging along. There are victories, too. But the failures are more fun.
That number is much too high. The average is much higher than for usual transactions because many wallets are overpaying and very large transactions with many outputs and inputs are driving it up.

$0.01 transactions (or 1 sat/byte) transactions will confirm in the next block. This is lower than for Litecoin or Ethereum.
Is there a transcript or summary? Freemasonry is a fascinating topic with a storied and disputed history, but also a magnet for conspiracy theory lunacy.
Realistically pasting hollywood actresses faces onto porn star bodies
Introducing audiobooks on Google Play
Talk about medical screens and their interpretation (eg., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql2jEJ-6e-Y)
>What does this have to do with the store's ability to scale? How does pre-packaged food (perishable) differ from fresh produce (perishable) if they decide to stock produce?

Unless it's all packaged, produce needs to be weighed. Produce is one of the main ways that self-checkout, even for small purchases, really breaks down in grocery stores today. One of my local supermarkets has switched to mostly self-service and I've largely switched to a different chain specifically for that reason.
The shutdown was a $31B gift to the health-care industry
I can see it now: "Amazon HQ2 Candidate Cities Decide to Collectively Bargain."

"Boise, Idaho - previously not even in the running - is officially the home of the new Amazon HQ2!"
They should have rolled them all up into the EU. It infuriates me that no one does. Not for crime reports. Not for economic reports. The media doesn't do it right.
Monero is fast as well.
I can see flaws in that potential approach too. For example, if a country has high R&D investment/capacity, but most manufacturing or commercialisation activities happen abroad, then simply measuring output of new technologies doesn't account for the R&D.

Using the Bloomberg list, Austria ranks 12th overall, but 5th on R&D. Their figure is dragged down by a 26th rank in High-Tech Density. Then, Germany's High-Tech density is ranked 3rd overall. Perhaps one could hypothesise that much of Austria's R&D effort ends up commercialised in Germany.
It looks really promising. Unfortunately, it can only be bought on two relatively unknown exchanges.