skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know anything about physics research, but it would seem that there is a more nuanced balance between basic research and things that can be applied soon. Basic research requires a high risk tolerance and deep pockets, but a potentially huge return.

For example, I can't imagine how much money Google has sunk into self-driving. And, it's now looking like they'll make it back thousands of times over. But, years ago, it could have failed after a 9 or 10 figure investment. To sustain that (outside of government funding), you have to be doing something else that pays the bills.
Don't worry - scaling solutions won't matter when Tether bubble pops and takes crypto market down for two years. BTC and BCH both are going to suffer equally.
I wouldn't want my town to say, here's 400 million for your 20 million community arts center
I don't disagree with you, I just have a hard time memorizing Cabinent Member <insert current shithead's name here> names.
The original point was that SU never achieved much in any area (which is clearly not true). A point could today be made that lots of research in the USA with its growing inequality is also not being used to create 'an abundance for all people to lead better lives'.
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How is "tracking protection", as nice as it may be, a "performance boost"?
Does that mean you charge 0.10 * (new_revenue - revenue_before_bolt) in addition to the fees? For a company that keeps growing, that would asymptotically approach 10%.
I'm concerned that I'd be handing over data about my browsing habits to DDG and its partners in order to use some of the features described in the article:

- The Privacy Grade rating (A-F) when visiting a website.

- Scoring of websites in terms of service and privacy, by partnering with Terms of Service Didn't Read.

I'm not sure how these services can be provided by DDG and its partners without them knowing which websites I'm browsing to.

IMO, it's none of their business, even if they promise not to keep the data or give/sell it to anyone -- a promise which is not verified by any trusted third party, as far as I know.
Why stop there? Why not allow people to pay with stocks and stock options?
To use an in-thread example - online forums are created with free work. Should all forums be forced to make their archives available for free download as well?
I’d join in a heartbeat if you supported Windows. Why do almost no VPS providers support Windows?
I'm not sure. It may just be a lucky name-snipe.
Bitcoin transactions take hours to confirm now, making Bitcoin useless as a transactional medium. When people are paying 25%, 50%, and more to send Bitcoin of typical levels of purchase, it's time to get out. Stripe is honestly a bit late in dropping Bitcoin for transactions.
Very little though. If the demand for gold were merely industrial it would not need to be mined in such quantities as it has throughout history. I would put jewelry in the 'sentimental' category as well.

Not only is Bitcoin purely sentimental, it represents has huge costs in the form of raw energy.

Bitcoin's only claim to value is that it is an artifact of an act of ritual sacrifice. One might imagine a precedent in some system of tokens issued by some ancient priesthood.
I wondered about that too. The professor at Bristol has the following tweet - https://twitter.com/sonic_bruce/status/669560944234774528

It says you need ~7.6kW of sound power to levitate a human.

That's sound power, so I'm not sure what electrical power you'd need too, I'm not sure how efficient the transducers are.
What if I want to work more than 40 hours/week in exchange for more money. Should I be prohibited from doing that?
This is blocking Google Analytics, Facebook Connect and New Relic on my site. How would DuckDuckGo prefer that startups measure traffic, ad ROI and site performance? What's the "right" way?
> It's my firm belief that the world would be far better off if crypto-currencies had never been invented.

That's a level of dislike I don't see too often
They are. You've just accustomed yourself to the hostility.

Germany isn't even top-tier for active transportation; that title goes to the Netherlands. And even in the Netherlands, more money goes to cars than biking or walking, usually.

You can tell yourself all you want that walking is treated okay in the states, but budgets tell the real story of where priorities lie.
Who ever buys a solid gold bar? nobody. Even gold coins etc as an investment are very unusual.
I believe ncr doesn't really work for this purpose anymore as searching on google.com will give you results for the country you're in without redirecting you to a different TLD.

However you can set the region you want results for in your preferences. https://www.blog.google/products/search/making-search-result...
I won't say that you don't have a valid point in general.

But in this situation, IMO Petersen did a fantastic job of being personable, clear, and helpful. Especially considering he was granted one sentence at a time.

If it was any less "intellectual", it'd be a interview with a fifth-grader.
How does one end up in a position to do this work at Mozilla? I'm currently looking for a new SWE role, would absolutely love to work on Firefox.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-transactionfees...
Gold isn't reasonable for the average Joe to use for anything either.
I actually don't know the risks. Have a short version?
> The answer is yes, since Satoshi's paper back in 2008 a whole subset of CS research has propped up just on consensus algorithms.

That's been an active field of CS research for decades (it was an active field mentioned, though not explored in depth, in an introductory-level class I took in 1990), and (from Google Scholar) seems to have been hugely active starting about 4-5 years before Satoshi’s paper.

But I think the relevant point is that there has been progress since Satoshi, not that the progress is due to or solely in response to Satoshi.
There was a recent bit on NPR (Planet Money?) where they interviewed young people in Seoul - they had so little faith in their ability to earn a living and save money by working a regular job in Korea they were putting all their savings into Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and hoping to hit the jackpot. It was alarming.
Homelessness is not Amazon's problem.

Automation is good. Do you want us to ride horses to work?

Agreed.

Agreed.
I think the math is a bit wrong in the article.

> 85-volt, 10-amp General Electric motor
> They each produced 16 HP when new

85V 10A -> 850W of power provided to each motor

16HP is just under 12000W, so the motors had an efficiency of 1404% ?
> other 198 variables match up

With what exactly? 198 variables will be the same between two cases I described.

The follow up question is what your false-positive rates are. As I said in another reply - there is a set of simple and common cases when both fraud and legit purchases look the same, so by having a zero fraud rate you will be driving the false-positive rate up - and that is bad. People won't be able to pay even though they are already with a wallet in hand.

This in turn means that merchants will need to implement a fallback option to cover this risk... which is going to be PayPal, probably.

All of this is why Stripe Radar implements _provisional_ blocking. They let purchases through, but flag them for a human review. I am going to make a bold prediction and say that you will converge to the same approach sooner rather later. There's no magic recipe.
A correction to the bottom?
Prices seem ridiculous even without the discount.
> This reads a bit like the sort of things people say when breaking up so as not to upset the other person too much.

Probably wise considering Bitcoin's strange cultish following.
Intel Halts Some Chip Patches as the Fixes Cause Problems
Are you factoring business expenses into that $20/hr, or are you confusing raw revenue with income, and failing to take into account all the risk that Uber offloads onto its contractors?

If you're confused, then you have a lot in common with many Uber drivers!
Compared to America's current health care regulations it's not zero sum at all.
What....what part of the interview had "a vitrol that's absent from most of his other work"?

Or are your comments reserved exclusively for things other than the posted link?
Cool to see you built this on Floydhub! The tensorboard URL is only meant for monitoring running jobs, not for sharing. For showcasing your work, I highly recommend you run your code in jupyter mode and share the notebook instead. Floydhub renders all notebooks into static htmls so you can view it anytime you want. For example, see: https://www.floydhub.com/redeipirati/projects/deep-learning-....
And yet they didn't produce that much stuff that people actually wanted. If you went to a grocery store in Moscow in the 80s the shelves were empty unless you knew when the store would buy the allotted inventory.

Not saying the USSR didn't produce a lot of good research and science but they weren't the best at transferring that research into technology the people really wanted. Because of the free market the US and Europe could try all different kinds of hardware and software ideas that lead to the ecosystem we have today, for example. Same thing with finance.
traffic and ad roi is exactly the type of thing I'd like to keep private! The correct way would be not to measure these things.

for performance, chrome and firefox have built-in profilers, and chrome connects quite well to mobile.
It's the only browser I've used that gets less useful over time instead of more useful. Losing half my extensions makes it a dealbreaker.
Nobody is arguing that.

They're arguing that the states are giving away money. Not that they aren't providing services.

And nobody thinks Amazon moving to their town will create a silicon valley 2. Plenty of cities host huge employers. They don't become magnets for that industry. They just get fat tax breaks.

Many cities actually get worse with these giant companies throwing their weight around. Under Armor is single handedly reshaping southeast Baltimore, which of course is not only upsetting neighborhoods but pushing people out, not to mention small businesses replaced by national chains.

Finally Amazon has hundreds of billions. They do not need a handout from a poor city.
I got the same feeling while I was still in university. I mean if the mathematical notation would at least make it more concise, because there are definitely computations which are easier explained using this notation.

But more often than not I look at papers, where I know what they were doing and how and just have to ask myself: Why would you go through the work of translating what you did back into formulas, which bring exactly zero benefit and are harder to understand than the code you wrote?!
Bloomberg - 2007

"The big competitors in the mobile-phone industry such as Nokia Oyj and Motorola Inc. won’t be whispering nervously into their clamshells over a new threat to their business….The iPhone is nothing more than a luxury bauble that will appeal to a few gadget freaks. In terms of its impact on the industry, the iPhone is less relevant."

Not that this speaker looks like a huge game changer, but coming out of the gate late is something Apple has proven adept at.
Political climate is something that could go either way.

A city like Seattle would be comfortable for existing employees. It would do nothing to attract talent that dislikes that political climate.
There are basically two options for disability insurance, 50% or 75% of what you currently make. I'm sure there's other options, but those are the default choices. The minutia of what's covered basically the same across the industry and if you just choose the first provider you talk to it's not really different than getting it from your employer where you had no choice of providers or coverage. The big barrier is realizing you have personal agency and can do basic things like shop.
Crypto's value collapsing now and then isn't rare either
Congrats on shipping!

What's the tech stack you used? I see from your comments buried at the bottom that you are not a designer, so will give you a pass on the usability issues that others are whining about.

Would suggest you buy a HTML template off of wrapbootstrap or themeforest and customize it. If you can't do that, hire someone from upwork to do the customization for you.

PM if you wanna chat more. Email in profile.
That's useful, didn't know about that; but it doesn't show per-tab usage like Chrome's does (I think).
What kind of electric motors? Brushed DC by chance?
A full-scale LN needs one transaction to get on the network, then loading and unloading can happen entirely on the network, as well as keeping the channel open indefinitely.

Obviously getting to that point will take quite a lot of work, but there is no reason why you ever need to close a payment channel unless someone is trying to break the rules (and if that happens, you'll be happy, because you'll end up with all of the money in the channel, which will more than pay for the TX fees for 2 more transactions to close then reopen the channel).
What's the secondary use of all the shares of AMZN one might have in their eTrade account? That's also just data, right?
you can use !s instead, which goes to startpage, a proxy for google search results (i don't think it will completely hide you from google, but it's better than a naked !g search).
From Latin: trahere, past participle tractus. Drag, haul.
I love this imagery. Probably what Neal Stephenson was going for in Reamde, though your simple analogy resonates with me more.
It’s a serious article from the Washington Post?
> can someone point to the analog of this https://docs.perl6.org/language/grammars in Python, Ruby, Groovy etc?

Those language grammars, if they've been properly implemented, could be the Perl 6 killer feature if well promoted. It could even lead to a sudden fall in brogrammers using regexes to parse html.

Looking at the ranking of those languages you mentioned on Tiobe, i.e. Python (4.7%), Ruby (2.4%) and Apache Groovy (0.3%), I guess if Python 3 took the initiative and implemented them, that would work as well.
Or maybe think like a corporate raider: buy a substantial piece of a company and demand it move to your city?
Whatever inherent value gold has is far below it's current price though. If gold wasn't seen as an asset and was purely valued based on it's utility like iron and copper, it'll be priced far below the current price.
Has the ritual sacrifice angle been explored elsewhere? Would make for good video.
> A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a financial institution.

Is your argument that Stripe is acting as a financial institution or that their exit as a middle man is inches us closer to a peer-to-peer system?
Cost of housing going up also increases the wealth of homeowners in the area. This is not purely bad.
I don't know if you're American but wouldn't it then be reasonable to say that the idea of supporting Israel with billions of dollars was America's own idea that it has to take responsibility for? The US is free to spend its money and political power in any way it wants and will take the consequences for it.
User experience is what we are all excited about. A speedy benchmark means absolutely nothing if it FEELS slow when I'm using it.

Besides, there are some things benchmarks don't check. Examples:

Chrome startup takes at least 3 on my machine. It's does heavy disk activity during this period. Firefox on the other hand takes at most 30 seconds.

Ram usage is also way higher on chrome than Firefox.
And vice versa. Though actually, I can care less than I care about "what the world accepts", for example about some person speaking for the world. If you accept it, make your case; if you don't, leave "the world" out of it.
This is not the "Do Not Track", this is a block list from disconnect.me.

If someone used a single pixel beacon, only mined referrers, that wouldn't be the case, but the additional javascript does cause performance issues.
Take a "sick" day.
I've watched the interview a couple of times. I did not see that his tone or vocabulary were over her head. However, I would like to know what you're referring to. Could you give one or two examples please?
In certain industries, absolutely. If you're a professional driver you can't drive more than 8 hours a day in EU(9 hours once a week) even if you're perfectly willing to do so, in the interests of your safety and everyone around you. But outside of those select few industries, no.
I don't really know.

I just installed Chrome besides Firefox back in the days and it was much snappier. This became my new baseline.
The US doesn't have the NHS.
You might have a flaky device and/or configuration. Some chipsets and devices aren't as stable, but OpenWrt usually maintains a good compatibility list.
Wait, what? You do things differently when the goal of the exercise is learning instead of production?

Of course you do. Why on earth would you think that's a bad thing?
That's why I said "wait". Do you know how long it's been in testing? Do you know how close it is to readiness?
All of this calculation happens on your device, and is not handed over to us. Additionally, our privacy policy is to not store or collect any personal information at all: https://duckduckgo.com/privacy
Any proof of that claim?
(that it is intentional from google and not just a ff issue?)
For reasons already pointed out by others, this isn't a pragmatic idea. i.e. Amazon could just restart their search, etc..

imo what's more realistic is that cities on the top 20 list that are geographically close enough, should band together and offer combined benefits e.g. New York & Newark; Montgomery County & N Virginia & DC
That's only recently. Gold had a perceived asset-value for thousands of years before we knew what electricity was.
They left off "frictionless". I hear that all the time as reasoning for leaving out security and privacy considerations.
In fact, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures contract is deliverable, whereas the Bitcoin contract is settled in US dollars. I.e., the biggest US commodities exchange literally considers live cattle to be more practical to deliver than Bitcoin.

To me this suggests Bitcoin is not actually a good medium of exchange.

http://www.cmegroup.com/rulebook/CME/II/100/101/101.pdf

https://www.cmegroup.com/confluence/display/EPICSANDBOX/Bitc...
Location is a strange thing. Who would have guessed that some forsaken desert by the sea or a muddy island could be this expensive. So are this islands nearstreams of people, data or goods.
I don't know why this in on HN, but in the spirit of serendipity, I ask: Why not?
In Steve Jobs' case, it was meant to instill confidence that he was in it for the long term - at the time, Apple was on death's doorstep.

He also had enough cash in the bank prior to re-joining that he didn't really need the money.
If you aren't setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true in about:config, Linux GFX performance is pretty bad. Its a night and day difference for me, and I haven't personally had any issues with it (I use relatively up to date kernels and Mesa on a variety of Intel GPUs, YMMV).
Except they don’t work yet (in the US at least):

https://www.google.com/search?q=ford+catapult+aircraft+carri...
Those shares represent the stake in value of a corporation that exists in the real world with real services. Very very different than Bitcoin.
> It's a great ID.

A few years ago i started telling people "I don't have any ID" and, remarkably, they all found ways to do business with me.

As it happens I do have a driver's license but I leave it in the car. 99% of the time I am walking around with no ID at all, and my life works fine. You can fly without ID.

I do carry a passport when flying internationally.
Yep, already run uBlock Origin and Cookie AutoDelete. The problem has always been there with or without the extensions. But on faster devices it's not that much of an annoyance anymore.
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My take away. React has moved ahead of Angular in demand and thought it was interesting that Go scored higher than other languages in interest.
Wait until the Vatican announces their ICO IndulgenceCoin
If I get the 16GB RAM plan can I scale up at a later stage and what processes on my part does that involve?
Yes, that national average of $20/hr is after expenses.

That language, offloads, is loaded. This idea that it's someone else's responsibility to handle even the most trivial of life's decisions for us is toxic. If you don't understand the basic concepts around running a small business, there's plenty of books on the subject in the library.
Crypto Taxes for Dummies
But (correct me if I'm wrong) payment channels are connected to particular sets of recipients, but not necessarily any and all recipients. Your money is locked into that channel until you close it. You might need to open a different channel to reach your actual recipient.
I just read that article: it was super interesting.

The author there found that many people recommend using cookies over web storage -- that's actually the exact opposite of the advice I've seen. This was written a few years ago, however.

Anyhow: I disagree with the author. I think what he's missing out on in his analysis is how common/easy/widespread XSS actually is.

XSS is far harder to defend against than CSRF. Because of this the surface area of what you have to protect against is much greater and usually out of the control of an individual developer on a project. I'm actually doing a more thorough writeup of this currently which I plan to publish sometime tomorrow.
One side effect is that stores of value tend to have smaller and more expensive infrastructures than media of exchange.

People are hoarding, so there are fewer transactions. Miners still need to pay the bills somehow, so transaction fees are likely to increase.

With fewer transactions the price discovery mechanisms, i.e. exchanges, are now somewhat illusory due to thin trading volume (not like BTC exchanges were the paragon of transparency before). Unlike NYSE or Nasdaq, which support trading lithium or platinum ETFs but also make money from other sources (just in case precious metals themselves don't bring in much revenue today), Bitcoin exchanges are heavily concentrated on Bitcoin, and even the ones that support expansive lists of cryptocurrencies generally peg it to BTC, not USD.

So now that exchanges are not such a swell business, this will lead to a wave of consolidation, reduced price discovery and higher fees/commissions to transact.
found "fake teeth" recently.
Seems rather rare to me.

If a Dotcom type of an event affected bitcoin ecosystem, it would not have recovered - it had millions of participants actively winding up and unwinding positions in real time, which is not something that bitcoin is capable of supporting at this time.

If a Housing Bubble type of an event affected bitcoin ecosystem, it would not have recovered. Lots of special purpose leveraged positions needed to be de-leveraged. Something that bitcoin is not capable of supporting.

If LTCM type event affected bitcoin ecosystem it would not have recovered. I dont even want to think about the effect of LTCM type event on a bitcoin.

All three were absolutely survived by the modern economies.
Nothing better than torpedoing your own RFP to get people chomping at the bit to give you more free stuff.
And teeth.
Calling out linguistic prescriptivism is almost as bad a social faux pas as the linguistic prescriptivism itself.