skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, sure, it's feasible that Israel unseated the US at no. 10, but also the US gives Israel tens of billions of dollars in support.
Yep, true that.

The browser itself is very snappy an enjoyable now (apart from high res videos, which drive up CPU load a lot).

But the devtools are unbearably slow. They hog down performance to a crawl.

I use FF as my main browser now, but when I need to do some web debugging I switch over to chrome.
I consulted for 5 years. I bought my own health insurance, and short and long term disability. I budgeted properly so that I could easily weather periods of time between contracts. This is all while being a single father. It's really not difficult, the hardest part for most people seems to be being responsible with your money. It's certainly not a matter of luck though. The only reason I stopped is because someone offered me significantly more than I was able to make on my own.
Your comment is not strictly "wrong", as you say, it's just that the law is changing. The new regulation comes in* on May 25th. Your comment correctly describes the current system, which is being replaced.

* By "comes in", I mean begins being enforced. There's been a 2 year grace period as advance notice.
99% of the population would have never uttered the word "cryptography" before "cryptocurrencies" started to catch on.

In either case, crypto is an abbreviation.
> housing prices aren't solved by keeping out newcomers or being against development.

Housing prices aren't solved by forcing homeowners to subsidize commercial development, either. Ml
But the USSR failed anyways, and it failed to innovate enough before it failed to overcome the downsides of communism. That's the point.

You can have lots of people with post-grad credentials whose creativity is not fully utilized. Or who don't really have the requisite creativity in spite of their credentials. The USSR may have had quality and quantity in spades (maybe it really did!) but their economic structure wasted that advantage.
I commend the position of Toronto's mayor John Tory who said (I am paraphrasing here): "no tax breaks, if you come - come based on our merits as a city alone".

Toronto is not likely to get Amazon for various reason (political climate being probably more important than tax breaks)
> "in any way benefit from their presence"

how did you reach that conclusion?
Whoops, I should've read that phrase "new country" in context.

As for your edit about NZ's economy being mainly "services", if you subtract industries owned/controlled by Australia/US/UK (e.g banks, TV content), re-apportion industries servicing the Ag/Meat/Milk/Wool/Forestry/Fisheries industry as being part of that industry, and do similar for industries servicing "Human Arrivals" (e.g. house construction being part of Immigration/International Ed), then you end up with the two big drivers of New Zealand's economy: Human Arrivals and Primary Production. They don't fit into the official categories in the govt's accounting system, but they're the real engines of NZ's economy. The rest are just hangers-on.
Looks like it's slated for 59 though:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423725

Didn't read much, but hopefully it allows hiding without unloading.

Patiently waiting..
Bitcoin cash is much closer to the original implementation by Satoshi Nakamoto. It's simply a much smaller, and IMO, cleaner codebase that just increased one parameter to achieve scaling.

Bitcoin core (what we call BTC) has many more lines of non-Satoshi code that was added to facilitate off-chain scaling.
Interesting. I am now better informed.
The gradual distrust plan for the Symantec certificate authority
"It doesn't work on my machine" is a new one.

The benchmarks have always been respectable. I'm sure there are some configurations that made it work poorly, and that's a problem. That isn't true in general.
Patents are to let you grow your business
Are you hiring interns for the summer 2018 season?
Might depend on your browser but CTRL+left click will do the same as the middle mouse button--that is, open the link in a new background tab.

CTRL+Shift+Click opens the link in a new tab and switches to it.
#StartupsEverywhere: Grand Rapids, Michigan
or a network.
Phone-addicted teens aren’t as happy as those who play sports and hang out IRL
I'm not sure who "you" is here but, yes, lots of American cars are sold in Europe.
Anyone running Quantum on Linux with a 4k monitor? I switched from Chrome for a couple months but the lag/jank/choppiness (especially when scrolling) finally drove me back to Chrome. Still loving the new FF on my HD screens though.
Looking at the docs (https://docs.bolt.com/v1/docs/step-2-load-bolt-checkout) it instructs the reader: "The onSuccess method will be called when Bolt successfully processes a transaction. This can be used as a way to create the order (...)". This opens up a massive security hole if the merchant is making decisions based on this method being called client-side, right? What prevents a malicious actor from calling that method directly and thus simulating an order as far as the merchant is concerned?
They don’t have to cripple the speakers as a music player to integrate siri; siri could just work with apple music for people who want to use it. Itunes certainly manages to mix and match just fine!

Plus so much good music never made it to itunes.
True, but if you are going to be that paranoid how easy is it for you to take your gold across the border?

“According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), it is legal to travel with any amount of cash or other monetary instruments in and out of the United States. However, you must declare your cash to customs if the amount exceeds $10,000 or its foreign equivalent.”

http://traveltips.usatoday.com/travel-airline-cash-9937.html

Traveling with more than 10k of gold or cash is much more noticeable than 10k plus of BTC, aka a piece of paper Wirh some words scribbled on it.
The most immediate benefit is never having to think about and munge class names.

Your Button.scss would typically look like:

.Button { ... }
.Button--primary { ... }
.Button--small { ... }
.Button--alt { ... }

And then you need to repeat all those in Button.js (but really they're globals and anything could be using them...)

return (
<button className={classnames('Button', {
'Button--alt': props.alt,
'Button--primary': !props.secondary,
'Button--small': props.small,
}, props.className)}>
Click Me
</button>
)

(I even skipped over the very first issue you run into, which is building up the className string, which is why people use the classnames helper everywhere.)

And that's the simple case with only one child component – usually there are even more dynamic class names to consider for all the possible states, and other children that need their own classes as well. Once you use a solution like Styled Components, building up classes using that damn classnames helper just seems so primitive and tedious. The duplication involved in keeping selectors from the CSS in sync with those actually used in the components also drives me nuts.
Vue and Angular 1 are in the same family. For the React family, there's Mithril.js.
I wonder how Firefox compares to Edge on a tablet like a Surface Pro. I really like the gestures and general touch and touchpad support in Edge and Edge should be quite efficient on battery life as long as you stay away from monsters like Facebook.
> I prefer negotiating the best rate then minmaxing I’m buying my own “benefits” rather than having my employer pick for me.

This isn't always true though. For example, health insurance. My employers package is far far better than anything I could get as an individual, and costs 1/5 f the closest comparable package that I could buy on my own.
Thanks brod!

Main differences:

- Stripe = APIs to build your own payment stack.

- Bolt = fully out of the box payments stack. Checkout that doesn't only do payments but also shipping/tax/user-auth. Also w/ 100% fraud coverage.

Also to set the record a bit more clearly: we launched in stealth 1.5 years ago, have been moving $100Ms, and have dozens of case studies.

Appreciate the kind words too!
Nassim Taleb wrote in one of his books that he intentionally articulates his beliefs in a somewhat difficult to understand fashion otherwise people wouldn't take him seriously.

Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Kahneman (author of Thinking, Fast and Slow) both credit Nassim Taleb for a lot of inspiration in their books.

Someone mentioned to me that Benoit Mandelbrot (author of (Mis)behavior of Markets) inspired Nassim Taleb for a lot of his thoughts.

So there... read Mandelbrot, Gladwell and Kahneman to understand Nassim Taleb.
8 Deep Learning Best Practices I Learned About in 2017
Contract work in Toronto was pretty good, especially with clients from markets with higher cost structures. You still generally want healthcare coverage on-top of the public system in Canada, but you can often get a better rate through either small business groups or an alumni association or other such alternatives. The downside of contract is you work some unpaid hours on the business itself (although you bill every hour you work for a client if you bill hourly, or use judgement on how much to work if you bill weekly). The pay tends to range from above market to way above market but some of that is absorbed by benefits. Taxes tend to be potentially lower in Canada for contract work in Canada depending on your structuring. Trudeau did attempt to change that with a policy to alter how holding money within corporations works so the way you achieve lower taxes does put some of your income at risk of some version of this policy eventually passing.
Yeah, sorry if I was unclear -- it's supported by the product but no runners are available for the gratis service.

I saw that issue before but it refers to "gold subscribers" which I'm not (just another freeloader).

Definitely keep up the good work, it's an awesome product and it's awesome that you offer an open source release.
Google inbox is terrible on ff, this is vendor lock-in by google, the new MS
> At the 50-75 year timeframe we are talking about at least hundreds of billions of dollars of economic value, if not trillions. The clustering effect of becoming Silicon Valley 2 cannot be overstated.

Back in 2004 when I was working at Microsoft, I remember sitting in a bar in downtown Redmond and tossing back some local brew IPAs. This guy sitting next to me was an older dude and longtime fisherman. He was going on and on about how in the 80's, the eastside (the collective suburbs i.e. Redmond, Bellevue, etc) was just farmland, and that Seattle's main industries were fishing and logging. He was both lamenting and boasting how Microsoft came in and transformed Seattle and surrounding area into the tech mecca it is today.

So you are right. All it takes is one anchor company to totally transform an entire city. Too bad they chose cities with established infrastructures and talent pools, and not a city like Milwaukee or San Antonio that would have had the same dramatic transformation as 80's Seattle.
Beyond Kubernetes: building a complete orchestration platform
> But the USSR failed anyways, and it failed to innovate enough before it failed to overcome the downsides of communism.

You mean “the downside of starting off as a poorly-developed state engaged in a multi-generation combination of outright war and proxy wars and military spending races with the most advanced countries in the world”.
Snapchat to Let Users Share Stories Outside Its Mobile App
I really hope this trend takes off, but ideally I'd like to see both the states and the federal government enforce net neutrality, regardless of which party controls either entity.
Benchmarks aren't user experience and never have been. It doesn't matter how fast you render if you feel slow. And, for me, Firefox has felt slow on any hardware I've tried it on for more of its existence than it has not. And it is the only browser I have used in the last decade that hard-locked when a tab got crunchy.
Is this a precursor to pumping their own shitcoin Stellar Lumens? I see they casually dropped it in there after naming a couple others to appear unbiased.

They claim to be interested in Lightning Network, but aren't interested in using it? That's a bit lame. Or a lot lame.
DuckDuckHack is now in Maintenance Mode | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15199489 (Sep 2017)
I see no updates on APIs for missing add-ons. Looks like I'm going to have to stay with Firefox 55 a little longer to even be able to use Mozilla's own Tab Center add-on.
Why companies need a container strategy now
Given that bitcoin isn't a medium of transaction anymore and a store of value this makes a lot of sense.

Too bad they aren't replacing this with another cryptocurrency at the moment.
America may be getting left behind as an innovator
> But then I pop open the dev tools and they're unbearably slow - like I simply can't do real dev work in FF anymore, have to use Chrome.

+1

I've had to sit patiently waiting for sourcemaps to load or finally hit breakpoints in FF, I usually try to test changes in Chrome and hope that they work well in FF. Minor inspector usage for CSS styling and what not.

(It's still my primary browser at work, though.)
I work from home. Drive very little. I have a barebones wrangler with no power locks, no power windows. No airplay. No backup camera. The only amenity is AC. Is it the safest vehicle? No. But it's an old body on frame, and because of that I tend to drive slow anyway. I'm a little jealous of your 2002.
Matrix Calculus Machine Learning
Single father and consultant of 5 years here. It's easy if you're conservative/responsible with your money. Buy health insurance, get short and long term disability. Keep 6 months of expenses in your emergency fund. Don't have any consumer debt. I think the hardest part for most people is being able to not burn through their money as fast as they get it.
There should be some sort of value threshold or something similar. If your holdings of the hard fork's resulting coin is worth less than some trivial amount, then it shouldn't be necessary. But if for some crazy reason the market decides that another joke like Bitcoin Cash is actually worth some significant amount, then it seems hard to argue that this should somehow be immune to tax.
Algorithms Explained: Diffie-Hellman
Well in that case I guess American idealism has little to do with post-war American foreign policy.
Good question. Definitely need to add to the site.

You can accept a credit card from anywhere in the world. We also support 50+ localized currencies.

However, we can only settle to a US/Canadian bank account. We can do an instant transfer to an intl bank account, but some companies don't want funds touching the US/Canada for tax reasons.

If you are ok with that on the settlement side, you're in good shape! Adding more settlement countries and local acquiring is a top priority for the next year.
This is way more interesting than the actual product, I can't wait to read the post!
How to do machine learning efficiently
I don't know what you mean by ASCII name. It's two characters, ‘>’ (ASCII 03/14) followed by ‘;’ (03/11). I guess the ‘;’ is mnemonic for the sequential nature of the operation, i.e. renaming the temporary file after the command completes, as well as forming a combination that is a syntax error in sh.
> that they're building a base for repeatable, safe-as-airplanes space travel versus the get-to-Mars approach of SpaceX.

Er, SpaceX is "building a base for repeatable, safe-as-airplanes space travel". That's the whole point of BFR and point-to-point transportation on Earth with it as well. Safer than airplane travel is a must-have for space travel, SpaceX included.

It's nice to know Blue Origin thinks like that too, but if you think that SpaceX doesn't have the same concern for safety, then I think you've drank too much BO kool-aid.
This is being shown on HN, not Facebook.
Machine Learning Model Metrics
That's sort of like saying because you're rich, you shouldn't haggle over the prices of stuff.

How do you think Amazon got all that money? If cities are willing to cut them breaks for them to open up a headquarters there, of course they're going to squeeze the cities.
> I like the technical ideas behind cryptocurrency, but the terrible political views are off-putting.

Which political views? I read the article and only saw a view on money, not politics.

What’s being criticized is the very idea that money should involve politics.

The argument is that we should be as free to choose which kind of money we use as we are to choose which kind of car we use. There should be no law giving competitive advantage — in the form of legal tender law, and the absence of choosing which numeraire to use as the basis for calculating capital gains tax — to currencies issued by central banks with whom the government has an account.

It’s entirely possible to deliver an argument for the separation of government and money without criticizing either in and of itself. It’s very much like arguing for the separation of church and state without saying anything negative about either of the two in isolation.
It would be great to have a website where the writers of the paper, or well, anyone who understood it well, would write an article about it in a more accessible way with some examples included etc. I am a big fan of blogs explaining such things.
You are correct, if Amazon Go stores end up being targets for robbery that would damage roll out of additional stores the problem is that I can't think of how any one could rob them blind. The primary problem being that there is no cash to steal in the store and the goods all have low price to bulk ratios making them just plain difficult to steal. They just aren't worth robbing. Not that someone won't try anyway.

That isn't to say they couldn't be targeted by shoplifters, but that is a huge difference from being robbed blind. And even here the store has two advantages in that login with the app is required to even enter and the whole store is covered with sensors and cameras in addition to the staff.

As for the PR fallout I'd actually be interested to see how that goes, how much biometric data Amazon was able to gather on them even with a mask and/or bulky clothes, how the security features of the store actually work.
What Is the Difference Between Machine Learning and Human Learning?
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant and I am definitely not your accountant.

Heads up that you can only contribute 20% of your earnings up (up to the limit) to a SEP-IRA. This is because you can contribute up to 25% of your taxable income, but your contributions are deducted from your income.

For example, if you make $1, and put $0.20 in your SEP-IRA, your taxable income is $1 - $0.20 = $0.80, so the $0.20 you put in is the full 25% of your income.

To contribute $55K in 2018, you will need to generate $275K of income.
If you have ever been treated in the NHS and can also compare it to other systems such as in the US or in Germany will realize that it still offers the best of all approaches. Doctors are excellent and dedicated and everybody is being looked after. Also, everybody is free to buy private health insurance if s/he thinks it has more to offer.
Yes, Apple’s iMessage is totally screwing up the order of your texts
If only all the people in a given country were united under some common organization that could negotiate on their behalf....
what i _really_ dislike from Google is how they offer downgraded UI's to non-Chrome browsers like firefox on android.

so no 'tools' to specify filters, and no 'Related images' in image search.

i looked why this was and its apparently intentional.
brr.. evil :)
I became interested in this topic after listening to David Goleman, he has nice talks [1] on Youtube about emotional intelligence, one of them at Google[2], he often mentions in his talks about the marshmallow experiment and how it predicted success on long-term better than grades.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=david+goleman+e...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hoo_dIOP8k
Serious question: Is having state-level net neutrality laws actually good policy?
...or maybe he is just tired of trying to get people to understand.
not in germany. you would only get one which is only usable for 5 years.
The lack of this feature probably accounts for half my !g searches – happy to hear it's on its way!

DuckDuckGo is a beacon of hope – thank you.
Why do you call it a shitcoin?
55 here because 56 breaks Mozilla's own Tab Center add-on. I see no mention of new APIs for add-ons in the release notes...
More relevant to the topic under discussion would be a future where cities go to war to keep each other from winning the favor of massive corporations.
Don't know why people are saying Firefox is fast, Speedometer 2.0 shows a score of 47 where Chrome is 67 on my MBP. And on my PC, Chrome gets 76 whereas Firefox gets 64.
Choice is good. Big fan of Google and use a lot as super curious person but if does not work for you good there are other choices that work for your needs.
> I like Japan --I think for a mid-sized country they have done well for themselves... but their representation in foreign reserves is a bit outsized.

They were the world's second-largest economy until a few years ago, were they not?
Since release 57 I have almost exclusively started using Firefox on Android. I know most quantum enhancements aren't yet in the Android version but something improved leaps and bounds at 57.

The ability to use sync and various privacy enhancing extensions mean FF has a great appeal on Android. Now only if they can fix the remaining URL load delays and improve video playback compatibility it'll be a great experience.
> But we didn't find much else to go on.

Don't make claims based on unreliable data. I am not sure how else to express this.

see similar comments here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15704407
I’d argue that the last century and a half were a state of inevitable decline for Britain’s imperialistic ambitions - the vast majority of their time was occupied with putting down (or failing to put down) insurrections and vainglorious military conquests which served to continue to project the image of empire both domestically and internationally, as the structure itself hollowed out.

The period of decolonisation following the war was just that - decolonisation - but the empire had already ended.

There is a corollary argument, founded by PKD and expounded upon by Baudrillard and others, which is that “the empire never ended” - and while that relates to the Roman Empire, which we arguably reside within the vestiges of, it could perhaps be applied to the lasting effects of any empire.

Anyway. I’ve just argued against myself so I’ll end this here.
Ethereum transaction fees are still in cents. They should start supporting it as a form of payment.
I can remember Hetzner has been around for as long as OVH. Why has OVH expanded now way beyond France to US, Asia etc while Hetzner still EU only?

With Google, Microsoft Facebook as well as Amazon leading the way in layering out cables across continent, having a server in US means you have a high probability most ISP in the world has tuned the networking route around those traffic. The same cant be said for EU.
This is good for Bitcoin
Is the lack of replacement option an example of the "they will ruin it for all of us" or maybe an overall decrease in confidence in cryptocurrency altogether?
Flushing out 'zombie cells' could help stave off Parkinson's, study suggests
They should have replaced it with Lightning Network, is amazingly fast and cheap and works on top of Bitcoin. I'm running a test node, this stuff really works!

> Lightning is a decentralized network using smart contract functionality in the blockchain to enable instant payments across a network of participants.

In case you are curious https://lightning.network and another good resource here https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7pwna9/lightning_n...