skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't read the previous comment as a suggestion that they were looking to Venmo as an alternative to a checking account, but rather as a purse where money goes temporarily until it ends up at the final destination: said checking account (or another user or service that takes payments from venmo). That's how I and many services I use-like the furniture movers I paid a few weeks back-the App

Or have I misunderstood something, perhaps?
Zelle is usable out of the box with Chase and Bank of America in the respective banks apps (and I'm guessing other participating banks) it's kind of a paypal for banks that just works.
This is my favorite translation: https://youtu.be/lhtZc-nFNt0
maybe, but I don't recall encountering any of these years ago
Facebook Cash does this for free and instantly.
For US accounts, you even get 500k of coverage thru SIPC in case your brokerage goes bankrupt. You don't even need to be a US resident for this protection.
Snowboards were definitely controversial when they came out. A lot of it was probably "Get off my lawn" driven by the fact that snowboarders tended to be younger and more aggressive. So people didn't really like them although the same snowboarders running over their skis would have been doing it no matter what they had strapped to their feet. But people sort of justified their attitude with claims that snowboarders scraped the snow off the slopes, couldn't really see where they were going, etc.

In the US there's only one major and one smaller area that don't allow snowboards today. I didn't realize it but there was a lawsuit against one of the areas a couple years back but they won and still don't allow snowboards.
There was a puzzle in the MIT mystery hunt a couple years back that involved sorting large numbers. Graham's number was somewhere in the middle.

http://web.mit.edu/puzzle/www/2016/puzzle/identify_sort_inde...
I think this misses the point.

I belong well into the (anti authoritarian) left, and I agree with your last sentences, but the problem here is not that a lot of people see libertarian and anarchist socialist/communist ideologies as equally bad as Stalinism and Maoism - often because they don't know or accept the distinction -, and so sees blocking far right sites but not far left sites as taking a stand against the right, rather than a stand against totalitarian ideologies.

We're better served with a society where communications providers are not allowed to deny service based on their customers views for the simple reason that as long as we allow them to censor, chances are someone who is clueless about distinctions like the ones you make get to make those decisions,

Case in point: Several countries have legislation against spreading communist ideas or using communist symbols that are ill defined enough that they would just as equally hit someone promoting Stalinism as someone who would be first against the wall if Stalinists were to gain power, because they don't understand that the same name encompasses ideologies ranging from those that wants a totalitarian state to those who wants no state or authority. (In other places such laws have been struck down or revised exactly because of that ambiguity)
You can't ban them, but you could put together a "blacklist" on tokens from a particular origin that exchanges could agree to honour. It wouldn't stop anyone from trying to sell their coins in other ways.
you'd need a very thick bagel
The page being quoted points that out:

> Of course, in reality none of this could ever happen. Sorry to break it to you. The truth is, the Pacific Ocean will boil off as the Sun becomes a red giant before you could even take your fifth step in your first trek around the world. Somewhat more of an obstacle, however, is the fact that all the stars in the universe will eventually burn out leaving space a dark, ever-expanding void inhabited by a few scattered elementary particles drifting a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero. The exact details are still a bit fuzzy, but according to some reckonings of The Reckoning, all this could happen before you would've had a chance to reduce the vast Pacific by the amount of a few backyard swimming pools.
The tricky bit isn't running the ones that halt and noticing when, but reasoning about all the ones that _don't_ halt in order to convince ourselves that they really never halt. The larger and more complex the machine, the harder it may be for a human to reason about it in this way.

For example, suppose it's 1985 and you are examining a machine which seems to be checking all integers X above 204 to see if it can find a^X + b^X = c^X. Does it halt? Unfortunately the only way to answer that question is to wait until 1996 when a proof is published which says Fermat was right, there are no values of X for which this is true. So the machine never halts.

[Edited to try to get HN to format the question properly]
That is unbelievably stupid.
There's a lot of talk about "AlphaGo" and "MCTS" around here. But people should understand that MCTS is built on top of a particular statistical problem called the "Multi-Armed Bandit Problem".

The Multi-Armed Bandit Problem describes a gambler who is trying to optimize their gains. There are a finite number of slot machines in front of the gambler, and every slot machine has a different probability of winning.

What strategy should the gambler adopt to maximize their winnings? In general, the various algorithms balance "Exploitation" vs "Exploration". Exploration looks for better machines, while Exploitation plays the machine with the best statistics gathered so far.

In the case of MCTS, the different branches of the search tree are seen as a multi-armed bandit / different slot machines. UCT (Upper Confidence Bounds applied to Tree Searches) is the UCB algorithm (described in this survey) applied to a search tree.

Marketing experts have also used the Multi-armed bandit as a mechanism for A/B testing, determining the best placement of ads.

Finally, there are applications to business and research opportunities. Which research efforts should be funded for example, is very much a multi-armed bandit problem.

As such, the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem is a fundamental component to a lot of Hacker News discussion, even if people don't yet realize it. That's why I'm posting this excellent survey by Bubeck1 and Cesa-Bianchi, which can provide a good introduction to the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem.
'Am somewhat associated with the team'

Can you please be more specific? It was almost not worth saying unless you'll be more specific IMHO.
How does BFT fit into the new proof-of-stake research?
What the future of research writing and publishing could look like
Oh yes it is, we have around 200k users and fighting with old leaked passwords is like a full time job. Very easy to abuse as well, the attackers can make low frequency requests from scattered IPs and thus are almost impoasible to prevent
This article is the best thing since sliced bread.
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So long as that's the meeting's agenda.
>And since transaction costs and times make arbitrage impractical

This can be mitigated. Exchanging to a less congested coin can be done quickly for fast, low-cost transfers. Keeping a buffer at each exchange will lower overall rate of return but also reduce the frequency of transfers required.
OK, I kind of agree with you. Logically, it doesn't entail that, but it would be insane to treat natural language as pure logic. Pragmatically, taking context into account, I think the original statement is more likely meant to imply that "All (or a vast majority of) bigots at Google are white men" than "All white men at Google are bigots."
Huh, I was going to post this story, but I thought it was not allowed because it's a job posting and I had to wait until the Who is Hiring thread.

So, if posting jobs for working on free applications is ok outside of Who Is Hiring, let me try to advertise this job for another free email client, Mailpile, which got killed when I tried to post it earlier:

https://www.mailpile.is/jobs/

I currently use Evolution for email, which is ok and I've gotten used to its limitations, but I would love a more modern client!

Edit: I guess it's not ok. I'm confused.
I would like to know why it was established.
This is actually something I've been thinking about lately. I'm nearing the end of reading The Information Diet (which is just OK IMHO) but that one thing that stuck is that he mentions getting more information about your local news so that you can get involved in your community.

I can't stand the local newspapers because they are very regularly inaccurate. But there really isn't much else in the form of good local news source.

Only problem is, I fell out of love with Google awhile ago. I don't really want to use their products due to how much data they gather and also fear of them killing the product within 5 years.
There may be reporting bias going on. I suspect a high percentage of people who lose BTC by themselves will report it in a forum, since, as far as they know, their case might have unique details in which a more knowledgeable person might find a solution. But a low percentage of people who lose BTC due to an exchange hacked will report it, since the information they need is already in news and blog posts all over the web.
I think the category "fear of outsiders" is certainly partially true, but also a somewhat oversimplification. Having said that, a healthy dose of "fear of outsiders" isn't necessarily a bad thing either. We are all xenophobic, the question is how xenophobic are we, or how xenophobic should we be?
Interesting...I must be grandfathered in because all my transfers are still instant/free.
I never knew I needed this information. I’m gonna go buy some bagels now.
Can anyone recommend a similar company that isn't violating privacy?
It's been a really long time when I saw the milkyway in the urban area.
I don't expect I can see the milkyway in the city (maybe at the total blackout?), but I hope to see it within 30min drive.
Also, I hope to see more nebular in my backyard w/ decent telecope, I only could see a few famous nebular such as Orion, Omega, faint veils...

Too bad for little people to be able to see that amazing nightsky .
I have fond memories of XPCOM and XUL... Back in 04 we had a desktop application mostly a collection of C++ bindings to the Firebird database and for silly reasons I started the GUI with Gtk+ but as we continued to struggle with porting to Win32 (like we sell this to people in Win32 not Linux) and I started to find a need to embed web content (cause like we should have written the whole thing as a web app - native apps are silly). I recall hacking the event loop to get Gtk+ and gecko to play nice in Win32. Anyways, XPCOM allowing me to write IDL files and expose my C++ work as JavaScript was at the time amazing and allowed me to quickly rewrite most of the UI in XUL and keep all the SQL work we'd done such that if I recall correctly we were able to port the application some 500k lines of code over to XUL. This was right before XulRunner... I still to this day feel good things about IDL/XPCOM and XUL for converting to see the light with JavaScript and HTML. XUL is just like a basically less well supported version of HTML and so is that MS markup language and event Gtk+'s Glade is just an XML editor for a UI... I beleive even OSX via xcode has an underlying XML format to describe the UI... and IMO HTML is light years ahead for UI.
Bagel, lox, cucumber and cream cheese has become my new favorite thing lately (bonus points for a squeeze of lemon, capers or some red onion if those things are to be found).

However, I of course have no bagels or bagel accessories on the one day I read about mathematically correct bagels :(

So yeah, added to my grocery list too!
Another feature I love that I wish were in more than just Chrome and Firefox: BroadcastChannel. If you want to post to an iFrame or Window, you gotta find it's object. With BroadcastChannel you just join the "channel" and post away, and anyone can listen to that channel, each channel is unique as well. It's so much better than hunting down the DOM element and then doing postMessage. Apparently it is also available to WebWorkers. Makes sending messages through iFrames / new windows / tabs a breeze. Don't ask me why I'm using iFrames in 2018 though :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastCh...
The papers explain what you're supposed to give up in return for your severance check. Decide if what you're giving up (your freedom to speak about the company? You won't sue them? You'll keep their algorithms secret?) is worth the 3 weeks or worth more.

Just remember: If you are in the USA and in an at-will state, they don't owe you anything upon termination (other than unused vacation pay, etc, as per your state laws)
The 1st amendment only applies to government control of speech. You may have the right to your speech, but the company doesn't have to employ you [0], especially in an at-will state.

[0] https://www.americanbar.org/publications/insights_on_law_and...
Looks like SF Mono.
You Can’t Fire Equifax, but Your Employer Can
Granted, but I think the domain registration would be debatable.

Having a domain held wouldn't prevent them from issuing a newsletter or press release or visit affiliated forums and passing off an IP address.

I imagine there are all kinds of pretty nasty domain names that wouldn't be appropriate to rent out.
Yea, at some point you really can't tell if function 1 grows faster than function 2. Anyway to pick a large m(x).

m(0) = 1; m(x) is the recursion of all finite functions defined using k(m(x-1)) symbols that produce larger numbers than their input defined at stage m(x-1).

So a 1 step function F1(x) = X + X and F2(x) = X ^ X,... including any function that has been included in a mathematical paper to this point that takes one ore more finite numbers as an input.

And because these are all finite functions call them recursively in whatever order produces the largest output starting with the initial input (x). Now, to size this depends on what initial notations are allowed, so m(1) is a finite number.

Next level could then include F#(x) where F1(F2(x)) etc.

PS: The above is roughly equivalent to saying infinity +1 and is not interesting IMO. I can also drop the k from the above, but again the point is to use the dumbest approach that works.
“On Sea of Thieves, GPU Prices Skyrocket, and Twitch's $1.3M Bot Lawsuit”
Introducing Voice Insights Connectivity Dashboards
I miss the old easter eggs Firefox had. https://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.x...
You are not protected when the bank robs you.
Accounts frozen, inflation, using your money for dubious corruption and money laundering schemes - see Nordea.
From the perspective of a CUDA beginner, this doesn't seem simpler than writing CUDA with C(not C++, just C). If you're going to pick up CUDA, starting with C means you get the best tooling support and community docs. Not to mention that managing pointers and explicit types in C will genuinely help your understanding of how CPU-GPU works.

If you already know Clojure, this is probably the best chance to extend something you already love using. If you don't, you're probably better off learning either CUDA or Clojure rather than both at the same time. Debugging CUDA errors are already painful, I wouldn't add a new host language on top of that.

For context, I'm currently taking my school's GPGPU course. We've just started actually writing non-trivial code.
IIRC the only thing remotely close to breaking a crypto we've seen is the DAO hack; otherwise, it's generally incompetency somewhere along the chain, so that's not at all surprising to hear.

Rather astonishing in magnitude (a single hot wallet?), but such is tech.
Leave it uncut. It already has a continuous surface.
I didn't say your reason. It's the reason the vast majority of people would use it.

It's even alluded to on the project homepage:

> jq is written in portable C, and it has zero runtime dependencies. You can download a single binary, scp it to a far away machine of the same type, and expect it to work.
Fix your PC with a crystal pendulum

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-MM0Z_jCrGo
To be honest, I'd be pretty happy if apple would just let me use google maps with carplay. Can we make that happen before we figure out robot cars, apple?
My team at work thinks of every excuse possible to get bagels. Recently for a birthday, a work anniversary, and being restacked into new cubes. But this is the best possible excuse for bringing in bagels again on Monday.
There are 2 resorts in Utah that don't allow snowboarders - are those what you're referring to?
> Remember Google’s main business, Search, is still about getting you away from Google as quick as possible.

As a googler, you don't even know that your own company provides analytic tools for websites, as well as personalized integrated search for websites? ads on third party websites? webmaster tools? script cdn? font hosting? AMP cache ? ...

getting out of "google.com" doesn't mean that the user stops being tracked by google.
In case you're not aware, local news has been on a pretty steep downward trajectory for awhile now[0]. I doubt this app will have a significant impact, and it seems more geared towards so-called "citizen journalism".

[0]: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/01/circulation-...
should and can, are not the same thing.
Kind of an incorrect analogy. Exchanges aren't banks, they're more like open bazaars.

Your own cold wallet is the bank. Once you take the money to the bazaar, it becomes possible to be pick pocketed.
Sigh. Call me when there's a translation.
As far as I know, the only "occult" concept that has any merit is lucid dreaming.

Harvard also did a study on meditation which showed lowered blood pressure as compared to a control group which took a health class on high-blood pressure management techniques (diet, low stress, etc). I can't find the study now.
I have worked remote for most of the last 12 years. When looking for new positions I tell them my expected rate which is for remote. Then tell them my on site rate is my expected rate + 50% inconvenience fee.
Agree completely. Encryption or tokenization is great but a much easier first step which covers the first order problem of employees abusing access privileges is simply a secure audit trail and someone to actually look at the logs and discipline or terminate employees who misuse their access.

There are probably innumerable reasons to have access to a particular ride’s exact route, or a particular users ride history, or feedback history, etc. Just like the police have many perfectly valid reasons to run a plate.

Audit logging and request throttling are the low hanging fruit. If your system can tie each request to the service ticket which prompted it, even better.
Folks commenting here are missing how dangerous this escalation is. This isn't some polite discussion about politics and diversity; this is a few Google employees sharing internal discussions with hate groups to have them harass and threaten employees. It leads to stalking, threats of violence, and potentially actual violence.
Care to elaborate on these hopes? And the underlying humour…
That's basically forming a government. Who decides what goes in the list? Who ensures they'll keep honest? Who watches the watchers? What recourse does a user have against arbitrary measures?
Poor western Europe!
Yes, this.

My past job, I would have political discussion with coworkers but they were people I had formed extremely close and trusting bonds with. We may have disagreed at times but it came from a place of respect and knowing someone a little.

After the US presidential election, the lead execs of the office sent out emails about the results and commiserating with the staff (we had people call in sick, crying, etc.) but, despite the office being 99.9% on their side, lunch conversation later that day revolved around how most didn't think what they did was appropriate because, if there was that .1% that could feel alienated, why do so from on high?
Sadly, it appears this will kill most of the Wine projects on macOS. It's a bummer as I've used it for a couple Windows projects to run on mac.
Took me about 5 seconds.[1]

[1]https://grapevine.is/news/2016/10/27/unicef-red-cross-icelan...
The UK is implementing GDPR in full in UK law.
More information... looks like they only kept their Bitcoin in cold storage. Their altcoins were not. Dear god, the stupidity:
https://bitpinas.com/news/coincheck-press-conference-japanes...
https://docs.gdax.com/#get-historic-rates

There are more APIs there, publically accessible, small rate limit, have fun.

GDAX == Coinbase API. Trading on Coinbase makes, AFAIK, a market buy/sell through GDAX.
+1 Mail in a box is great.
I wonder if they will oxidize(oxidate? rustify) it...
Democracy without a Bill of Rights is simply dictatorship of the majority. That's why modern democracies have a Constitution and a justice system that is independent of the election system. You are technically right that if someone from outside tries to influence the result of some election that would be meddling with the democratic process but at the same time if that democratic process is considering getting the majority to vote against human rights of certain ethnic groups I don't think it deserves much defense to begin with.

In other words, democracy is a tool, not an end in itself.
Are you sure? I used Google Wallet a couple weeks back.
Because helmet laws and bike share schemes don't mix well. Very few people carry a helmet with them on the off chance that they might want to use a hire bike. Fewer still like the idea of being the nth person that day to use a shared helmet, and providing disposable helmets is likely to significantly increase the cost and environmental impact of a bike hire scheme.
Note the word Interactive. That's not something you'll get in the plain C tutorial.
Honest question. How is this possible? Isn't it as simple as copy and pasting the public address?
How much will the meltdown patches cost the industry in electricity?
based on the performance penalties
Looks like NextDoor was getting too popular.
There is likely a team working on this. The job posting said for someone to come on board.

And yes, hiring a single developer to work all alone by himself would be akin to killing the project itself as just understanding the codebase, design, technology and architecture would be too much for one person to handle.

We’re looking for an amazing developer to come on board to help make Thunderbird the best Email client on the planet!
Sorry, I'll clarify. I'm in the chat group quite a bit and have contributed to the wallet source code. I said partially as I'm not involved as an "official" capacity.
When I used Venmo for the first time, I had this concern as well, but the cost of the transaction is private to everyone outside of the parties involved (and this isn't an options choice). I switched all my transactions to private, personally, but the public by default nature of Venmo seems very intentional. They're trying to create a social network like atmosphere around payments it seems.
Ask HN: What books have most influenced the way you see the world?
People catch viruses by using crummy plugins. The WordPress core is comparably safe to other CMS choices.
This is good news to hear. I use Thunderbird daily and it's not a pleasant experience.
If I have on my shopping list "yams," do I fill the rest of the sheet with explicit exclusions like "not pudding?" No, they are all excluded by simply not having been included.

If we propose a raceless society, why are we mentioning a race? That's the weird part.
Awesome, can I recommend integrations with ticketing systems like Zendesk & Freshdesk or even non-traditional systems like Frontapp.
Cow walks on wild side with Polish bison