skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm looking at it as a total system. You've got, say, a 12V battery with some internal series resistance. And, say, the two coils are 6 ohm each. Let's say the internal resistance of the battery is 1 ohm, arbitrarily.

If the two coils are in series, you'll have a total coil resistance of 12 ohms (13 ohms incl internal resistance), and will get 0.923A (12V/13ohm) through the motor, with a terminal voltage of 11.07V (12V x 12ohm/13ohm).

If the two coils are in parallel, you'll have a resistance of 3 ohms, and a current of 3A through the motor (12V/4ohm), and a terminal voltage of 9V (12V x 3ohm/4ohm). Lots more current, but lower terminal voltage.

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This is wonderful! This is kinda like a project I'm working on where we're instrumenting memory accesses across each memory cell in a data structure to be able to visually profile how the data structure is being used.

Plotting each cell individually over time had never occurred to me, and I'll definitely try this!
Right, but we're not talking about housing, we're talking about Amazon.
Gustafson's comment on the plagiarism in recent “Bounded Floating Point” patent
The point is that people can still use it for things, and the various dark net markets that exist prove that there's at least some kind of use for unofficial (pseudo?)-anonymous currency.

Though, by no means are darknets the only way of getting some use out of unofficial currencies. There will always be desire and utility for such systems.
As much as tiltmaps.com is a copy of google maps.
Stefan Seifert authored or maintains both the P5 and P6 versions of Inline::Python, the Inline::Perl5 for P6 and the Inline::Perl6 for P5.

Three of the four are at the first stage. They work in much the same way, using `.run( ... )` to run a line of code at a time.

One of the four is at the second stage. It works as easily as using a native library. No need for `.run` etc.
Easy peasy! Seriously, I've been skeptical of LN's success for its complexity. But reading your and others' comments here I can see that many people understand it clearly. It turns out I've been biased by my own ignorance. The more I learn about LN, the more hopeful I'm becoming. Thanks for helping.
Eh, 2 hours, hike for 10 hours, 2 hours - you can do that all while it's still light quite easily in the summer time, and 10 hours of hiking is a damn good day :)
If we give the government the ability to appropriate funds for social programs and safety-nets, rather than merely enforcing the rights in the constitution, it is inevitable that these funds will inevitably be misappropriated and allocated in ways that benefit the politician and his buddies, primarily.

As we continue on, we discover that, lo and behold, the programs need even more money, time for a tax increase!

Further down the line, we discover that further tax-increases are not politically-viable... no problem, let's just add to the entitlement-burden and let's re-visit the issue.

Later still, it's time to start paying for those unfunded liabilities but, damn it, there's no money in the vault. No problem: let's just print more money, and while we're at it, let's loan it to ourselves and charge "ourselves" interest (the second "ourselves" of course means "taxpayers, LMAFO).

Repeat until your currency, economy, and society collapses.
Sure, maybe you offer "zero fraud" from a chargebacks-line-item-on-the-balance-sheet perspective. The impacts of fraud on customers' perception of a company, and the effects those perceptions will have on the bottom line, however, can be significant. This is not say I assume your service is deficient in any way...the marketing is just a little snicker-inducing from someone like me who works in the field. The only sure way to have zero fraud is to turn off sales.

Final control over force-approving rejected transactions is a nice feature on its face. I understand why your merchants don't use it...they'd have to soak the expense of paying someone to monitor accepts and rejects in an attempt to optimize sales (which is what they are paying you to do).

If a merchant does not have full visibility into and control of their anti-fraud program (and the expertise to know what to do with it) approval/reject/false positive rates are always going to be in the hands of people who don't know their customers or business as well as the merchant does. That is why larger, mature businesses invest in anti-fraud people and technology. That's certainly a bridge too far for the typical small business, so services like Bolt can certainly deliver a ton of value. I just advise a merchant who thinks that just because they can't see fraud there isn't any impact to their business that they're missing a potentially crucial part of the picture.
Locksmiths Accepting Crypto Is Today's Sign Hodlers Are Screwed
For the oddball crimes, that is true. Kids aren't actually getting swiped off the streets.

For more normal crimes, the lifetime chance of being a crime victim is serious. For stranger-on-stranger violent crime, there is a total lifetime probability of about 5.3%.

You might think "oh that is just 5.3% so no big deal", but the chance of dying in a fire is only 0.09% and we still bother with smoke detectors.

Violent crime is a life-altering event. Given the potential for horrific consequences, it is reasonable to be concerned about the possibility. Transportation choices change that risk.
Well, the reason I am somewhat incredulous is that health insurance rates have only risen as more and more people get vaccinated. Perhaps it is cheaper for the insurance companies but they are not passing this along?

Obviously, there are many other factors in play as well but I don't think anything has been "objectively suggested" just because someone created a model that hasn't been (and probably will never be) tested.
I would think best to split up amongst a few at least, I like to aim for coins with a definite real world use, and avoid POW coins as I think their days are numbered.

Hard not to like Stellar Lumens with the IBM connection, working tech and real world use already happening.

Universa issues today, it seems they aim to take on Mastercard and Visa, if true worth a punt in my opinion.

TEL aims to internationalise the MPesa branchless banking system which works via mobile phone - there are 1.5B bank accounts and 5B phones in the world, the gap is the potential.

Disclaimer: I have been wrong many times before.
DuckDuckGo Moves Privacy Beyond Search – Viral Docks
Not the OP but I'm a Freemason, too. Anything in particular you'd like to know?

There's nothing secret about Freemasonry anymore today. All the rituals are available for everyone to see and for the most part have been since Prichard's "Masonry Dissected", published in 1730: https://freemasonry.bcy.ca/ritual/prichard.pdf

Masons don't usually talk publicly about the specifics of the ritual or the traditional tokens, words and grips. We still don't "divulge" those "secrets" (as mentioned before these are publicly known anyway) because discretion is considered a virtue.

Masons also don't reveal that someone else is a Mason (simply because he might not want this to happen).

Other than that many Masons will talk openly about Freemasonry.
How Arafat eluded Israel's Assassination Machine
Allo web has been available on browsers other than Chrome for a while - http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/10/03/allo-web-adds-suppor...

This gives a good reason why Google Earth is only on Chrome - https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/66ao68/new_version_o...

Disclaimer: I work at Google but not any of the related teams. I was curious myself about these so I Googled and came across the above two articles so these opinions are of my own.
Do these trackers actually add direct value for users? 99% don't, things like the Facebook like button and so forth shouldn't require I hit Facebook's server when loading the page initially.
The top three Perl 6 features that make me say "Wow, programming is fun" are grammars, concurrency and gradual typing. There are many other features that also make Perl 6 a joy to use.
> McGill the Harvard of Canada

You seem to have an axe to grind. No published ranking I know of ever uses that phrase. The phrase really only appears in newspaper articles, and only because American reporters want to pep up their piece about universities in Canada, which the average American knows close to nothing about.

McGill is a good school. It's silly to be a "Harvard" of anything.
I really wish this was a podcast. I always digest my history in podcast form
The main reason is the devolved nature of government in the USA in the UK Amazon would have its arm twisted by the government in a you scratch my back ill scratch yours.

For example BT had development centres in all 4 countries that make up the UK mainly for political reasons - and why the BBC forcibly moved people to Manchester as part of the negations over the BBC charter.
Do you deal with international duties and tax as well?
What makes you sure convenience will not improve?
Facebook acquires ID authentication startup Confirm.io
I sent ~$5k in btc last night for a $3 fee and it confirmed in around 30 minutes..
I agree, "Javascript is an inconsistent language" and "all you smelly nerds go back to your caves and leave us normal people alone" are pretty much equivalent.
After reading this I couldn't think of anything I personally use that depends on perl, so I tried `pacman -Rs perl` to see what needed it. There's a surprising amount of packages that depend on it - openssl, git, automake...
Ultimate Guide to the Southwest Companion Pass
At the moment I use uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, NoScript. Can this addon replace all of these?
I have been involved with Swissnex and been advising Swiss startups for some time. I also go to Switzerland every other year if not every year and meet with startups there.

Things I noticed:

1. Incredibly smart people.

2. Behind Silicon Valley on best technology and product building practices by at least 2 years.

3. Great work ethic and social responsibility.

4. Do not have world conquering ambitions - which kinda works against them. One of the founders was talking about an idea and was being very conservative with market size estimates. So I suggested to him - Think about how you can conquer the world. And his reply was - We are Swiss, we don't conquer the world.

I think one of the biggest challenge for Switzerland tech scene is that there is no viable immigration path for a non-EU citizen. Even after decades, you might not get a citizenship [1]. It makes it difficult for them to attract talent from outside, especially those with Silicon Valley experience.

Not that US is any better for Indians. Based on current estimates, if someone from India applies for an employment based Green Card now, they might get it in 70 years. And life is a pain because you have to do a lot of paperwork throughout.

If there was a viable immigration path in Switzerland, I would move there tomorrow!

1. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/naturalisation-controversy_amer...
Maybe its possible to forge something together with emscripten?
But on the flip side, I can't imagine that people living in Detroit were thrilled by the decades of urban decay there.

I think I'd rather live in a city that's so popular that infrastructure can't keep up than to live in a city where entire neighborhoods are empty and are razed due to neglect and criminal activities.
You could try np.isscalar() and np.array().ndim in NumPy.
The title may imply that they downed a commercial jet but failed to assassinate Arafat - which is definitely not the case - but I couldn't fit "Israeli officials reveal 1982 plan to execute Arafat by downing a commercial passenger jet aborted at the last minute."

This is also the same title that NYTimes uses to link to this article.
Automation is only good if the benefits of said automation are shared broadly among the populace. For the time being, that is not the case. Instead the benefits are held closely by only a tiny percentage of the population, who use said automation to collect enormous power and force an increasingly large number of people to live in increasingly precarious circumstances.

80% of corporate stock is owned by a mere 1% of the population. That 1% are the people who, right now, benefit from automation.

If we reach a world where corporations are replaced by worker cooperatives, or a 90% top marginal tax rate (and similar wealth tax) support a generous basic income -- then automation will be good. Right now it's an acute danger to the survival of most people.
In terms of speeding stop lights are a floor function. Make the cut and save 2 minutes fail and lose 2 minutes. You only see cases where they lose that bet, but it's just a numbers game.

As to speeding, we have actual data on this stuff. So it's easy to demonstrate the risks are very low directly from accident rates vs # of speeders. The risk of early death vs time saved actually favors doing 5MPH over the speed limit on highways.

As to personal experience I only have ~45,000 cyclists which may be high or low. But it feels like a very large number.

PS: People try any justify their behavior, but statistically bike riders regularly risk death.
Funnily, if you look at the description in the app store, it makes it look like a completely skippable update, especially if you don't use Messages.

> This update:

>

> * Addresses an issue that could cause Messages conversations to temporarily be listed out of order
> This opens up a massive security hole

Have you considered that discussing API design decisions regarding security in a public forum is a bad decision of your own?

After literally 10 seconds on the site, I found this: https://bolt.com/security
It's 5 bucks not ~10-20. Stop using "Currently" if you don't know what you're talking about.
What is the source of the autogenerated favorite places? Is it looking for the most+highest rated places or something? I ask because I was impressed with what it came up with
Medical and Ethical Concerns Regarding Women with Hyperandrogenism and Elite Sport
Not _always_; titles change when they're linkbait. Here, though, Stripe is already in the story title, and the "Stripe ends" preface suggests that it's a story being written about Stripe, rather than Stripe writing for themselves.
evidence of this is the smoking gun that would finally bring down google. can you find any?
Skyhawk Therapeutics Launches with $8M in Seed Financing
Hey all! Original author here.
Seems like the server might be down. Bumping @jotaen's comment on the cached link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:0W2gpfw...

Thanks @jotaen!!! Really appreciate it.
Hey, but at least you get paid more in U.S., right?
It looks like perhaps it has some sort of scene graph that it re-scans on every frame - probably not to redraw the screen because games have been pretty smart about that for a long time, but perhaps to check collisions between objects / particles. Then again, this is NES, so who knows!
Yes.

Man is a featherless biped may work to describe the category. But if you give a tax break based on the number of men living in each home, you'll find a lot of people plucking chickens.
That's only if you ignore Boeing
If that system was ever popularized, rich people would just have poor people shop for them. More so than they already do I guess.
Sharpen up your pitchforks.
China online quiz craze lures prize seekers, tech giants
Significant diamonds still hold their value when resold.

It's kind of like art. Spend $5k on some locals work and you might get $50 at a garage sale later on if you're lucky. Spend $5mil on a big name and you'll likely make it back, maybe profit, when you move it. The high and low end are basically different products that function differently in the market.

It's only shmucks overpaying for mediocre diamonds that lose out.
Hawaii Governor couldn't correct false missile alert;forgot his Twitter password
At the very least, we can push back against the notion that this upheaval is "for the best" simply because it's the outcome of the market. It's Panglossianism at its worst. Sometimes things that benefit capital are bad for the world and for the rest of society. Wealth doesn't trickle down except by political will. That political will can only organize when we, the very fortunate few who have better resources and education than most working class people, begin to give a shit about something other than what is technologically possible or efficient.
>it became harder to steal and reverse engineer than simply make themselves.

That

The very same thing is with China these days I say from my first hand experience.

Here is one example from great many:

I once worked with Rapoo, a PC peripherals and cellphone accessories manufacturer. They had a guy who was a brilliant industrial designer. He authored ALL of Rapoo's Red Dot award winning products (and they have many.) The only problem with him was (or how it looked to company's managers) that he had no degree, and he was a vocational school grad. He first came to the company as an unpaid intern, and he then designed their first award winning product while still receiving no salary. That product was his first design work at the company. He singlehandedly made them known and distinguished from the sea of noname OEMs all making products that looks like half-used soap bars.

It took his extreme efforts just to get his design being chosen over a yet another boring one bought from product design sweatshop.

When it became news that it was his design that won the company fame, the reaction from managers was not encouragement, but disdain! It was only enough to get him hired full time on a measly salary. He continued to work and win awards for them.

After years without any recognition, he thought it was enough when it came to yet another design review where he had to defend his vision in front of bimboish mid-managers. Contending with his design was one from a recently hired mediocre Italian designer (hired for an astonishing salary of 50k CNY per month, while his was just 12k.) After hours of intense debates with the "jury," they were both told to "just to do it like that Apple style" for the reason "Apple style is expensive." That was the last drop for him.

The guy now lives a comfy life and enjoys a dream job in one idyllic Alpine country.

What I wanted to say here: just like Soviets killed their own computer industry out of their own sense of insecurity and fiery inferiority complex, Chinese industry alienates its best genuine talents by not being able to admit over insecurities of the affluent class that Chinese tech specialists can produce superior original works themselves.

If only even 1% of Chinese corporate functionaries had little bit more of believe in themselves, along with self-esteem and self-confidence. If they thought in a way where they don't think "there is no chance that we can do this better than foreigners" before even trying, Chinese industry would've been like nothing it is today.
Sauga and Markham are outside of Toronto municipality and - strictly speaking - are already not on the list. From the shortlist, they do not look like something Amazon is shooting for. They are in Seattle proper, not Kent or Everett.

Yes, I mean US political climate. Ontario Provincial govt created the commission headed by Ed Clark and issued a bunch of statements[1], but I had the impression that above city level they are like whatever.

[1] https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2018/01/statement-from-premie...
Still a lot of 'must have' extensions do not work with Firefox Quantum (57+) like UnMHT for example ...
No, obviously you can. You're confusing the bits covered by a signature with the real-world interpretation of those bits.
That seems a weird choice of tangent space, surely a circle and a disk should have different tangent spaces?
> So you're saying having that independent high paying job, in your experience, really helped things?

The job didn't cure my depression but the money let me do the things I need to do to be happy. I stayed with my parents for a bit when I got my first programming job. Moving out was one major positive thing for me.

Money doesn't make you happy, but you only really have power over your life when you have money. That's the blunt truth. Most of us, even us relatively well off programmers are subordinated to the system that gives us money. My mental health would be in even better shape if I didn't have to consign 40 hours of my life per week to work.

If one needed that time to get their life in order to cure their depression, it would be impossible unless they were rich, right? The way we talk about depression often ignores this crucial point.
Nice that you mention "deep dive". :-)
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Or it creates its own mini environment of tech companies form by alumni of amazon - one large company tends to do that.

Take games workshop in nottingham there is now a large number of spinoff games and mini companies formed by ex GW alumni
That lifestyle is possible in SV too .. it's a matter of how you choose priorities. At www.compilerworks.com we are purposefully bootstrapped to enable a high quality lifestyle (there are 3 of us in the Bay Area and 5 internationally).
Why is everybody all suddenly so excited about gold? Maybe btc is modestly better gold. So? Who tells typical people to invest in gold other than foxnews and infowars? I own precisely zero dollars worth of gold. Why should I buy btc?

Transactions are not always buying goods. If I transfer 1btc to somebody and then send me $10,000 there will be a transaction. But btc was not used as a currency to purchase a good here.
Picking risk pools is not smart and I doubt it's economical either in the long run. You can pick young, healthy people first. That works for a while but then these people get older. Now you have to kick them out. This is good for short term profit but you can't run a system like that long term. If you eliminate thinking about risk pools and just insure the whole country the same you can also eliminate a lot of bureaucracy.
Please don't make up quotes to attribute to other people, especially when it's not at all clear --- because you'd have to go read through a whole Twitter thread to find out --- that you invented the quote.
put in my address and got "oops something went wrong?"
How a fix in Go 1.9 sped up GitLab's Gitaly service by 30x
I think the key is that you must have a shared secret in advance, which is probably something you won't have in most cases unless you're building a point-to-point encryption.

I'm afraid I don't have such an article, and I'm not an expert (just a dog right) but the article that explained Diffie Hellman in a way that made me feel like I was understanding it, you each get a paint color, and you have a pre-negotiated shared secret color. You mix the paint colors to send signals and you know what the colors look like when they are blended with the secret, because you've seen them before.

What's missing from this to make it safe from replay attacks? (It's obvious that if this is the whole setup, if you could observe the color transmitted, you could simply pass the color again if you wanted it to appear that the message was transmitted a second time.)

The answer I think, is a Nonce or IV (Initialization Vector.) I'm not particularly clear on how a nonce is different than an IV or if you would only ever use one or the other, or if you might use both in certain cases, or in all cases...
> Do not have world conquering ambitions - which kinda works against them.

Works against them towards what? Not wanting to conquer the world is legitimate, I don't see why everyone should absolutely want to become the next Bezos.
> Toronto is not likely to get Amazon for various reason

Which is the reason this competition happens. The top few candidate cities could all call truce and trust that they'll come out ahead over many iterations, but cities that expect they're not in the running without perks will never win the collective bargaining game. So they put up money, and the original strongest players respond to secure their positions, and the race begins.