skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of companies do exactly this. For example, in Japan, where I live, the train and bus companies will give you a card. You can "put money" on the card and then spend it on travel. You can also use the cards to buy things in the convenience stores, some restaurants, vending machines, etc, etc.

You can think of this as a "coin" that's pegged against prevailing currency (in my case, the yen). It's not a "cryptocoin" since there is no "crypto" involved, but as there is barely any "crypto" involved in cryptocoins anyway, I think that's a bit of a moot point.

There are problems with this model. First you have to trust the central authority with your money. They could do a runner and there would be nothing you could do about it. In fact, when I lived in the UK, I discovered that London Transport often mischarges - it forgets where you "tapped in" or "tapped out" and charges you the maximum possible charge for your journey. In order to get your money back, you have to register your card and apply within a specific time period to get refunded. If you don't know the procedure, don't want to give out your person information, don't realise you were mischarged or wait too long -- sorry, your money is gone (Really big piece of advice for anyone using an Oyster card: Register it and check the charges every day. Unless things have gotten better in the last few years, I'm sure you will be extremely surprised at the charges).

The problem here is that the payment processor has all the power in the transaction. They can just take your money if they feel like it. Also, they can refuse to pay for things if they feel like it. Finally, they are a single point of failure. If they have technical (or financial!) problems, then you may not be able to spend your money.

Whether or not you assume initiatives like Bitcoin were started as a scam, the implementation potentially solves a lot of the problems of these payment processors. Importantly, if you put your coins in a central exchange you are right back to square one! No amount of crypto goodness will save you from the exchange shenanigans because they control your wallet.

This is why things like the Lightning Network are interesting. It allows for centralised payment processors, but with distributed guarantees about who owns the coins and where and when they can spend them.

I find it incredibly unfortunate that "cryptocoins" endure such incredible hype and involve so much real (and imagined) money. So many power plays, so many scams, so much FUD. But at the centre of it, these are interesting real problems. Once the dust settles it will be quite nice to see what useful results actually emerge.
I disagree and I have a kid. I'd be happy to let an automated car pick up my kid if it was demonstrated to be safer than I'd likely be.

Car related deaths are fairly common, I can't see any rational reason to not switch to autonomous driving as soon as they are statistically likely to save lives.

Do you really want a large (35,000 a year or so in the USA) people to die every year until autonomous cars are perfect? Not to mention nothing is ever perfect.
A family member was a teacher and quit for reasons quite like yours.
Chapter 9: Boostrapping Culture of The Manager's Path [0] discusses this directly. You might also be interested in the earlier chapters on building and leading teams.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Managers-Path-Leaders-Navigating-Grow...
At least she hasn't yet learned of the foetid influence which seeps through the aether and will destroy the balance of your body's humours: wifi.
I find this to be one of those things in life where people with negative experiences are just significantly louder than people with positive ones. It's like hunting for an apartment - you're only going to find bad reviews, because when something works as expected people don't usually feel the need to praise it.

I've had a generally rock solid experience with iOS11 so far (and I have a 6+ with a degraded battery to boot - things still operate fine, never needed to reinstall fresh or anything).

I _will_ say that Tinder has a huge issue in their app, where whatever the hell they're doing in the background balloons out of control and seems to cause some kind of memory pressure on the device. I don't use Snapchat so I can't comment if it's the same issue there, but on my phone it's Tinder-specific: literally no other app has this issue, but the simple act of opening Tinder and swiping through a few will cause the device to go crazy and silently kill other apps in the background for some reason.

I originally thought this was just my 6+ (i.e, maybe the degraded battery or something), but I've tried it on some development devices I have and it exhibits the same thing for me. My best guess is that the crowd that uses Tinder is willing to ignore that kind of issue because... well, it's Tinder, people are on there for a reason.

Re: wifi/bluetooth, I actually vastly prefer the way it is now. It took some getting used to but it just makes more sense.

Of course, your mileage and experiences may vary, so what do I know.
Are you sure yours does not? Most large tech firms use Equifax for The Work Number.
I stayed on iOS 10 because of these reasons. As for the wifi/Bluetooth issue. I can't believe someone at Apple can't figure out a triple toggle: On/Disconnect/Off
Yeah I don't know though, git is usually the first thing I do for a demo or prototype so I'm not sure I see it.
Wow, the plasma-balls one's from 2015!
Blockchain: Where the Opportunities Are
Why do things using CUDA often require older versions of compilers?

E.g. ccminer. Try to make it, but it finds my modern gcc or clang too modern :(
Buhari’s Low Bar of Governance
Thanks a lot for the kind words! :-) talking about safety and integrity, have you seen how Scuttlebutt works? Check the secret handshake part of:

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/#handshake

In essence, your connection to a given peer is encrypted in a way that only you both have the keys, even if someone breaks that key (such as the peer being a bad agent) it would not compromise your connection with other peers as they will use different keys. It is quite an awesome protocol.
My gut says that eventually prices will reflect a major player like this. Eventually it will get harder and harder for a government to borrow money to pump into other investment systems, or the other investments will get more and more expensive giving a lower yield. Couple this with the fact that the government still needs to deficit spend occasionally (or at least politically it's nearly impossible not to run a deficit) , means that they can't just buy and hold, but will inevitably have to cash out some of their holdings.
No, this isn't true. It's something Peterson now claims, but it's not true.

Go to ~9:30 in this video: https://youtu.be/O-nvNAcvUPE

He claims that he wouldn't use preferred pronouns even if there was no law mandating it.

I'm not condemning this choice, just pointing out the falsehood.
That's fair, I think I read your initial comment too quickly. And I should know better, I think we've spoken on here in the past :)
Strange position; you don't think the user already knew they were required to press the correct button? Your solution seems pretty passive aggressive.

Be kinda like putting up a 'your code must compile' signs in a software dev office. Unhelpfully obvious.
I give directly to paypall and patreon to support creators. I couldn't give a damn about Google itself making money at that point. i block all ads, no discrimination. If you want me to support your site, ask for a donation, like the Guardian does. I don't accept ads anymore in my browser.
Beyond Dynamic Product Ads: 5 New Ways to Use Your Facebook Product Catalog
Man I really wonder what your brain is doing when you try to comprehend those numbers.

> thinking about Graham’s number has actually made me feel a little bit calmer about death
I'm guessing it's very sensitive to air flow since the photon "shells" are literally trapping the particles.
The Japanese press conference - English translations are here: https://twitter.com/kanemoneyqian
This looks fantastic! Hardware enumeration on linux is so painful. What I would give for a copy of Windows' Device Manager on Mint...
This works if you set "width: 100%; height: 100%", yes (and "object-fit: contain").
DUMMY-MODE ON
Sudo install....
I think his point was a hypothetical without the advertising component. Like if they just embedded bitcoin miners in every page that displayed a youtube video.
Thanks for this - That actually looks like a much more pragmatic approach than an all-new DSL.
This is primarily pre-2011 CPUs, though? Looks like everything since Sandy Bridge and Bulldozer will be okay.

I guess we never know what's running on our cloud instances.
Is poop doping the next big thing?
To your original question: They're emacs bindings. Back and Forward, Word, and such. Not all make perfect sense, but there are mnemonics.

For the update - this is a problem with the built-in terminal. You can use iTerm and get the expected (within a terminal) key bindings, or remap the option binding within its preferences panel.
I used to work for https://www.interpolls.com/ in 2007 so tech may has changed quite a bit but here's how the business worked then:

We were allowed 30kb of JS file to load which could (depending on the ad network) serve ~300kb of a Flash SWF file. We ran Cold Fusion hooks in the SWF to radio home to our JS file to trigger 1x1 pixels for 3rd party trackers. We scraped our raw Akamai HTTP request logs after the fact on a CRON job to create our reporting system. There was a small cluster of FreeBSD servers that crunched the HTTP request logs. Every mouse-over / click was registered via these pixel HTTP GETs. We had timers too that would trigger every few seconds. The reporting system probably had a 2-3 hour delay due to the immense amount of traffic we received.

We specialized in "polls" which were plain old HTML radio buttons overtop of the SWFs which after you answered gave you a quick answer and sometimes had digital takeaways in the popup answer window (Icons, Wallpapers, etc..)

At the time all of our ads were handmade, we had a design team and a programming team that would create these together and code them specifically to the clients request. By the time I left we had started to automate it into a drag+drop system for clients.

Sidenote: Biggest job screw up that I've ever done was not putting in the correct 3rd party tracking pixel into an 300x250 that ran for 1 day on AOL.com homepage. It ended up being fine since we got the results back for the typo from the raw logs, but it could have been a $200k mistake!
How does this compare with the plasma dots approach? https://www.popsci.com/secret-interactive-holograms-plasma-a...

(Thanks @iliis for posting about this research)
From Emacs: F/B are forward/back, D=delete, K=kill. E=end, and A was probably used because S was already Search. W=word, maybe? Not sure how U came about here (it's something different in Emacs).

BTW, if you're using Terminal.app, you have to explicitly enable "Use Option as Meta key" in the preferences.
Just one datum, but...download counts?
tldr ' A scorecard issued annually by Navigant, a consultancy, puts GM ahead of the AV pack of carmakers and tech firms, with Alphabet’s Waymo in second place'.
Please don't include a tracking id in the URL.

Regarding the concept, helicopters don't provide mass transit.

This is yet another example of "rich people think everyone should travel like they want to travel."

While it's true that "These helicopters have proven history", part of that history includes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetLife_Building#Helicopter_se... . Note the "inadequate passenger loads", even for NYC.

You don't want your mass transit system to halt in somewhat bad weather.

"given their speed it would take no more than 10 minutes to fly from Franklin to downtown". That's about 20 miles, so average speed of 120 mph. Sounds like the goal is to push the helicopter as fast as it can, then slow down. Probably not good for longevity.

During the commute times, those helicopters won't be carrying much when going in the other direction.

Even if it's a 10 minute flight, It's going to take time to load/unload those people. With light rail there are a lot of doors to help out. Not on a helicopter.

Good luck too on bringing a stroller or wheelchair on that helicopter.

"MI-26 Halo ... which can transport between 150-200 people". There's a discrepancy with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-26 . That says "Capacity: * 90 troops or 60 stretchers; * 20,000 kg cargo (44,090 lb)." while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_Khankala_Mi-26_crash says "The Mi-26 helicopter was designed to carry 80 troops, while the one that was destroyed was loaded with at least 140 people"

We can figure out the capacity. Assuming 3 trips per hour for 4 hours of commute time, all carrying 150 people, and with 50 helicopters, that's 84,000 people who could commute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_440_(Tennessee) says "I-440 was built to carry 60,000 vehicles a day. By 2008, the average annual daily traffic (AADT) was 106,219 vehicles." Assuming only one person in each car, going each way, that's 53,000 commuters.

In other words, this helicopter service is at the impossible best about equivalent to building a new 6-lane highway.

FWIW, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_rail points out that "a well-designed two-track system can handle up to 30 trains per hour per track, achieving peak rates of over 20,000 passengers per hour in each direction." That's 4x the capacity of this hypothetical helicopter service, using proven technology which can handle bad weather and is ADA compliant.
Douglas Adams: Hyperland (1990 documentary about interactive technology)
Where does the cellulose come from? Is it just ambient particles or are they emitted from the machine? Where does it go?
The algorithm looks nice. However, the comparison to Bayesian optimization doesn't really hold as-is. The slowness of naive O(n^3) Bayesian optimization is well-known, and while I've never personally needed a faster solution, there's literature on eg. using approximate matrix inverse or special factorizations to speed up the process. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone actually suffering from the O(n^3) limitation.
Does Chrome's ad blocker block those? I wouldn't know because I don't trust Chrome.
Armed Robotic Systems Emergence: Weapons Systems and New Strategic Realities
Yes VERY nice diagram.
A year undercover inside the alt-right (Kickstarter)
"inconsistent GPS service" for 3 hour late-night windows each day during the exercise does not justify the clickbaity title.
Great another medium from which failed reality stars can convince an increasingly stupid public to vote for.

Edit: This is funny, no one was a sense of humor. Just imagine Donald Trump's holographic head spinning slowly while he gives the state of the union. That's the future.
Killing with Autonomous Weapons Systems
This, shortly after youtube went all JS. With JS disabled, it's just a blank page now. I'm glad I disable JS. Saves me a ton of data bandwidth and protects me from advertisers. There's just not a lot of upside to my using JS anymore these days. Some big sites might not work, but that turns out to my benefit.

These antics put the whole JS ecosystem at risk. Remember how normies figured out cookies were bad and turned them off? Even Tony Soprano was talking about turning off cookies. This can be much worse. Might actually kill the web and push everyone off to native apps for good.
yeah, good point, but it's hard to differentiate between malicious ad and, say, some widget displaying real-time NASDAQ chart.

Sometimes I want some pages (or even iframes in those pages) consume my CPU and be as smooth as possible.
Many if not most are from emacs. As to why I have no clue, but could be for historic reasons, i.e no overarching logic.

Bash also has a vim mode which makes sense to use for vim users. This connection with the editor really helps a lot.
He was a super villain already.
> Actually they can't. They currently have somewhere north of 5 billion in unpaid invoices.

There's a difference between not having the money to pay debts as they come due (which is insolvency) and just paying late by choice, incompetence, or -- as happens with in some jurisdictions with budget delays -- legal prohibition on using existing funds [0] (none of which are insolvency, though they may be default on the individual debts).

[0] Which, looked at one way, is a subset of choice, since the actors not making the necessary choice to remove the legal roadblock are the political leadership of the state.
"Do technologies drive our values, or do our values drive our technologies? As artificial intelligence and robotics become increasingly sophisticated and capable, this question is increasingly exigent.

The recent United Nations Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) Group of Governmental Experts on lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) served again to raise important questions about the morality of these systems.

In the era of facial recognition and other advances in microelectronics and open-source software, current technologies could soon allow robots to kill independently of direct human control. So which comes first, technology or values?

The answer is somewhere in the middle: our values must shape our development and use of advanced A.I. and robotics, but we must also recognize that the U.S. cannot be caught flat-footed by potential adversaries that develop and deploy these weapons systems."
It was not incredibly popular during it's time on the air. This is part of the reason for multi-year gaps between seasons. It has become somewhat of a post-airing success / cult classic.
Google can build software that can autonomously learn how to beat humans at the hardest games in existence (or buy a company that builds said software), but it cannot detect malicious code in ads before serving those ads...

I call bullshit
>Which leaves only one possible reason: the layoffs could only have been a Union-busting move,

Is that legal?
> It makes web pages actually usable.

Overriding the default scroll behavior, so as to make the user have to scroll to the very top of the page to display the browser address bar is really annoying though.

Besides that, I often do prefer AMP pages due to them loading faster and wasting less data.
I'd say that by far the greatest potential in process optimization still lies with improvements in areas that don't require machine learning, such as:

- fully or partially paper-based processes

- digital systems that can't easily exchange data with one another

It always makes me want to cry when I sees systems where due to the lack of a proper interface between software components the API between these components essentially can be described as "Print it out on paper and hand it to someone else to type it into another software."

You don't need machine learning for that. You need APIs and first and foremost you need people to talk to each other and agree upon joint requirements for different components and the system as a whole.
If you're going to levy an accusation, please include some evidence.
How was XPCOM better than MS COM? Feature set? Nope. Tooling? Nope. Language support? Nope. Ecosystem? Nope. OLE components? Nope. Distributed COM? Nope. Doesn't trigger knee-jerk anti-Microsoft reactionaries even though it's a shallow clone of Microsoft technology? Check.

Did you know that "decomification" was a word?

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194385
How America Fell in Love with Vodka
Take ETH and ETC for example, they both have the same address format and accidentally sending from one chain to another results into your crypto being locked away forever.
The manner of delivery is reminiscent of Steve “Protopod” Sutton’s [0] famous iced tea video. [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/protopod

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSkT77010fE
No. There are a number of open complaints about Tesla's union-busting efforts at the National Labor Relations Board.

But nothing's been proven yet and Tesla claims the complaints are "entirely without merit".
I feel like I've seen reports of research demonstration with near future commercial possibility in this field every couple years since sometime in the mid-1990s.
Are you referring to this?
http://www.rense.com/general44/soros.htm

The ADL complains that any statement that Jews contribute to anti-Semitic feelings, is anti-Semitic. This is also a tactic that right-wing Israeli politicians use to deflect criticism.
I didn't know that but that's a great tidbit and example
The most human experience involves free will. This is doublespeak designed to enhance the social media properties of the band and protect what they view as their intellectual property.

I'd opt to avoid a band that enforced or suggested this.
> Consequently, if you looking to build a machine learning based SaaS company, find a really expensive internal process and automate it.

so basically the "how to" is "find a problem and improve it"

this falls short of the expectation I had going into the article...hoping this was some sort of framework to identify markets

I feel like this is clickbait
Kickstarter uses “Swift Playgrounds for iterative development and styling. Most major screens in the app get a corresponding playground where we can see a wide variety of devices, languages and data in real time.” (The Kickstarter iOS app is open-source [0]; see their playgrounds [1].)

Here’s [2] Brandon Williams’ talk Finding Happiness in Functional Programming (starts at “Playground-Driven Development,” but I suggest watching the whole talk), [3] the Swift Talk episode “Playground-Driven Development” (Brandon Williams and Chris Eidhof), and [4] the Swift Talk episode “Test-Driven Reactive Programming” (Lisa Luo and Chris) wherein they build a small but complete PoC all within Playgrounds.

There are many more examples, such as Chris Lattner’s own Dynamic Member Lookup proposal [5] Python Interop playground [6] and Reactive Swift’s getting started playgrounds [7].

Playgrounds are very much entangled with Swift’s core (value proposition).

[0] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss

[1] https://github.com/kickstarter/ios-oss/tree/master/Kickstart...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0VaIKK2ijM&feature=youtu.be...

[3] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E51-playground-driven-devel...

[4] https://talk.objc.io/episodes/S01E53-test-driven-reactive-pr...

[5] https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposa...

[6] https://lists.swift.org/pipermail/swift-evolution/Week-of-Mo... (download the attachment)

[7] https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveSwift/tree/master/R...
Looks like pictures taken in Kruger National Park or elsewhere in the northeast of South Africa. Don't expect giraffes in Cape Town or the garden route.
Cavalier collector: how Charles I gained and lost some of the world’s best art
Apple has captured the consumer market extremely well. They have something like 90%+ of the market share in dollars. The middling response to the iPhone X suggests there's little room to grow on the high-end consumer side. So I'm cautiously optimistic they'll move into enterprise and servers more. But it's more likely they drop Server.
The cellulose comes from the black liquor on a spoon (see 0:46 in the video). The put the spoon at the focus of the laser and with luck some particles get confined. After the trap is lost, the particle just sort of drifts away in the air, since they are only tens of microns.
Do you think using XML external entities declared in DTD files for localization was a good idea?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu...