skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had an instance where the withdrawal to my wallet seemingly didn't even make it to a block on the chain. This happened on Coinbase and took over 2 weeks to resolve. With their non-existent support I pretty much considered that money lost until the whole thing finally got resolved. But I can definitely see somebody fat fingering the wallet address being one of the bigger reasons.
Email is a "changing field"?
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Seriously, I've never heard of anyone getting arrested from some home address on a server or bitcoin data. At the very minimum the police would need to do what's called a "controlled delivery" to the persons house and confirm the recipient identity and confirm they are receiving the package. Then they'll have a warrant prearranged and verify they opened the package upon entry into the house.

Alternatively, they'll nab someone as they pick up a package at a post office and driving home.

Even in that advanced scenario the people still have a significant degree of plausible deniability, as anyone can send anyone else a letter. So there better be some good proof the person was also the person who bought the Bitcoin and good proof that it was sent to some dealer/drug site.

Plus most of those sites required the user PGP encrypt their address when sending it via the web app, so it's not necessarily accessible on the server even if they have the raw DB.

This article is spreading complete FUD.
Nope, they're against hardforking. The current measure being taken is just tainting the hacker's accounts and blocking them at exchanges.
Thunderbird is a popular mail client that has at times had a pretty uncertain future. I imagine that azdle posted this less as a notification of a job listing and more as a sign that Thunderbird is going to stick around and evolve. That's the difference.
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Thanks for all of your insightful comments on this thread.
Playing devil's advocate here, we don't know the conditions of usage. It could be just inactive, or become active after X date or whatever other condition they wish. Speculating on use/non-use is a bit pointless until someone analyzes these in-depth.

What we do know is the intent of those functions, and it paints a quite horrible image.
Official confirmation: http://www.satobs.org/seesat/Jan-2018/0203.html
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When I visited, I stayed in a business hotel in Ikebukuro, a ryokan near Chidorichou station, a youth hostel in Kyoto, and a hotsprings hotel in Hakone.

The business hotel's room was tiny (as described by the person your replied to). The ryokan's rooms were a very nice size. The hostel's were tiny (either 4.5 or 6 tatami?), but the bathrooms were down the hall, at least. The hotel in Hakone had decently-sized rooms, but not as large as the ryokan. I don't remember them being any more cramped than when I've visited cities in Europe, anyhow.
The entire comment was meant sarcastically ;-)
I can't speak on car play, but I switched back from GMaps to Apple.

I hadn't used it since it first came out (when it sucked) but have found it's a lot better now. I especially like that it gives me the speed limit, a feature I wish Google had. I have removed Google Maps from my phone altogether now.
Yes. Surveillance video now has far less value as evidence. Especially if cops had access to the chain of custody.
As far as I can tell the news hasn't hit the mainstream news yet. Might be a further dip when it does.
I wonder if I can set up a system where I buy the bulk items, and then sell them to communities in need at cost?
No. but it's one. And, since we don't quite know which one will pay the bill, we need each and every model we can get.
So here's a question that popped into my mind: Is it possible to define two computable functions, f() and g(), such that the truth or falsity of f(x) < g(y) is not computable?
I think outside of the US Apple Maps is still super average.
You're missing a big part of how these Bitcoin markets work. People would use PGP encryption when sending their addresses through the web app to the dealer/vendor, the vendors PGP public key.

So even if law enforcement got access to the database they wouldn't necessarily have any customer addresses, except for the minority of people who got lazy.
Well, first, we have to decide for each whether the sentence is meant to mean all in that category have that characteristic. I think that's nonsensical, so let's say it's clear she wants white men who are bigoted fired and black people who are lazy fired. So then the difference in the sentences is whether you expect to find many bigoted whites or lazy blacks. Lazy black people probably isn't a real problem at Google, but white bigots are probably easy to find.
Actually I was thinking it would do exactly the opposite - even if a legitimate tape is leaked, now the victim can say, "that's fake" and it will be completely believable.
OUT.
I've been running one of the largest writing communities online for many years now, and the first thing I always tell writers when they say they want to self-publish, is that after the novel is done, then your work is only just beginning.

Marketing is just as, if not maybe even more, important than actually completing a saleable novel. Unfortunately like many of us, writers are usually only interested in their specialty--writing--and so find marketing difficult and tiresome. Lots of great novels have languished due to an author's disinterest in marketing. Likewise lots of mediocre or bad novels have succeeded thanks to clever and diligent marketing.

This is one of the many reasons why self-publishing will never overthrow the big publishing houses, like so many people predicted a decade ago. The fact is that going from manuscript to financial success involves lots of different skills that most authors just haven't been trained for, like cover design, copyediting, printing, and marketing. In the traditional arrangement, publishing houses do all of that non-writerly work for the author in exchange for a profit share.

One can self-publish and keep all the profits, but most writers don't understand that that also means you must also be a pro-level cover artist, copyeditor, printing expert, and marketer (or have the money to hire them yourself).

(There are other good reasons why publishing houses aren't going away anytime soon despite technologist's frenzied predictions, this is just one of them.)
For the longest time I had this fear of looking at a pristine piece of paper and being afraid to put anything on it, because my ideas might not be worth the effort and materials it took to make the paper. I had collected stacks of beautiful clean notebooks as a child from friends and family who got promotional business materials, so I'd have plenty of paper to write on, once I get wiser (culture of scarcity in Eastern Europe didn't help matters).

The biggest allure of dabbling with computers at 8 and learning to program was because you can play and undo things with no material impact. Today I pick my mediums of ideation carefully - scrappy paper notebooks, whiteboard or iPad and only pencils for creative work, but no fancy notebooks or permanent pens.

Whether its time or medium the fears are the same - we just need to give ourselves permission to be kids again and go play.
People shouldn't be surfing Hacker News at work anyway, and the title should make the nature of the content obvious.
NEM (the coin that was stolen) doesn't make any local wallet user download the chain. Instead, it uses a client server model.

https://nem.io/

As such, the wallet is super lightweight and easy for an average user.

Doesn't protect you from exchange hacks though.
This comment is both rude and dumb. Please do not post like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Clearly, a candidate for inclusion in one of the fine academic journals on mathematics. Or the Martha Bakes cookbook.

Either way, bravo!
As much as I want to agree with you, from a product perspective, it's problematic: do you offer only one option and give Google virtually a monopoly in the navigation market, or do you offer multiple options and potentially confuse users (a la the Paradox of Choice?)
Well, technically only their altcoins were kept in a hot wallet - still, unbelievable incompetence. This is where regulation is sorely needed.
the wire had something like 30M viewers at peak and was absurdly well received....
Did you watch the movie Contact?
Wait a few more generations for Western birth rates to plummet and you'll start seeing more breaks. It feels good to know that even the most intimate aspects of your life are actually controlled by society through elected/selected governments.
Depending on how good you are on the thing you're applying for you can get jobs as much as $60/hour (only tested upwork). You also have to apply some country filtering, don't hope to get paid $30/hour by some Pakistan company. Higher than that is really difficult.

But there is other coin too, once tried to hire some `solr` experts ($100/hour rate) whom after I asked about some extension development went out of touch (1 agency & 2 contractors). So it can suck on client side too.
I am sincerely trying to understand this line of thought. Is it that since white people have more power and more numbers we should focus extra hard on white bigotry?

Starting with the assumption that all people should be treated equally than all bigotry is morally objectionable and we should treat all bigotry as such. The only issue that comes in is that since white people have the power and numbers white bigotry happens more than other bigotry and thus we by chance we object to it more.

I don't see any way that this allows bigotry against whites to get a pass, it just gets called out less because it happens less.

Am I missing something? I feel like I am because I still don't feel like I grok your responses.
I see. Those things, except for the popularity, also apply to Mailpile. I guess that's the big difference.
Hehe I was joking. Really enjoying the cache busting functionality in webpack :)
Go for it, and report back to us.
In the past few years I have experienced a full spectrum of meeting philosophies. At one point I was required to attend 25 standups per week! I cried mercy and got it reduced to 15. It was still miserable. Mostly I reported that I accomplished nothing since yesterday, and if you really need something done today, see me after 5PM. My current meeting schedule is as follows: a) once a week, 30 minutes with my manager, b) once every two weeks, one hour with my team, c) once a month, 30 minutes with the whole company. Somehow work still gets done without all the meetings. Or wait... work gets done when people are not in meetings! What might be surprising is that in the environment with fewer meetings there is also less chaos, less confusion, fewer mistakes, fewer disasters, and less stress.
I made a very specific claim which I can back up with actual data if necessary.

I will make that claim even more specific:

Less than 5% of the email:password combinations in the linkedin dump work today as email logins. “most” suggests a far higher success rate.
I think this would be more useful if the color bar had a slider that tracked the user's mouse across the map.

Also, where does the color bar information come from? Is it from observational data of the dimmest magnitude stars or objects visible at a particular location or is it just integrating data from satellite based night-time passes to show light received on clear-sky passes?

Seems to be moderately useful but the actual utility of anything like this is dependent on the source and processing of the data used to create it.
When it becomes trivial to generate convincing fake videos, nobody will take said videos seriously.

The real issue will be in politics, misinformation, etc. And I think it's coming (if we're not already there) and it's almost unstoppable.
We'll bee in a situation described by Iain M. Banks and similar sci-fi authors, and we will need similar solutions (i.e, only accept as true videos that are "certified" in some way, preferably by multiple reliable institutions).
Incels don't practice noFap. If you actually check incel forums, they heavily ridicule the idea and the Redpill types who do.
So, like an arms dealer that will sell to anyone?
It just means that image forensics will be a much more profitable business in the future than we probably thought it before.

+ don't forget that if the source "vehicle" video is found, then it's a proof against who filed it, so it might not worth the risk.
Waze shows speed limits.
Loopring as well
I attended the ACL talk where he presented this. While the method was reasonably well-justified, it seems clear that the data was flawed, leading to a flawed model, leading to a false result. The author failed to ask himself the question "what if this didn't work?".

Here's what I would identify as the main flaw: To identify the language of a centuries-old document, he trained his model on a modern multilingual text -- the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

(A questioner in the audience asked "If you needed a document in hundreds of languages, why didn't you use the Bible?", to which he had no real answer.)

So he ran this somewhat anachronistic model and it told him that the text was a good statistical match for being in... Esperanto. He threw this prediction out on the basis that it makes absolutely no sense. You'd think this would be the first sign that the model did not fit the data.

The #2 prediction was Modern Hebrew, which of course did not exist in the 15th century, so he said "that's close enough to biblical Hebrew" and claimed that as the result.

He asked a Hebrew speaker he knew to decipher a couple of sentences based on the model. The Hebrew speaker could not actually decipher them. The author pressed on and the Hebrew speaker obligingly produced some unsatisfying guesses at sentences, which sound remarkably like sentences from unsuccessful attempts to decipher Linear B texts.

And I don't understand why anyone would so confidently report a modification of the #2-ranked prediction of the model. We might as well go ahead and say "AI confirms: the Voynich Manuscript is in ancient Esperanto!"

The much more realistic interpretation is that the Voynich text matches the statistics of none of the language samples that the model was trained to recognize, and the model is overconfident in the probabilities it outputs.

I think the fact that the method was cool must have been part of the paper's acceptance at ACL. But it does not give us a real answer about the Voynich manuscript.
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No exchange has a full insurance on their cold storage. Not a single one.
There is already non-ag ambient carbon capture happening at commercial scale. Also, if you limit yourself to what exists today, you can easily draw a straight line to “doomed”. I don’t mind if you choose to limit yourself, but I am going to try and create the future I want my children (and others) to have vs settling for status quo.
I think the original article is ok, since it is generally interesting (news about Thunderbird, opens discussion about Thunderbird, Mozilla, their technologies) and not just a job ad.

I don't know of a rule against job ads in general. I would guess generally such would be mostly just not interesting.

YC company job listings are a special case though, they appear on the front page without voting possibility. This had been the case since the beginning of HN.
I use duckdns.org. They are free and simple.
I asked this same question and got down voted for it. After probing some more though, I found out it's only any use for people that have many MBs of JS files. Which I can only assume comes from piles of npm dependencies getting sucked into their projects.

Also, it's not for websites with some interactivity, it's for big giant web apps... apparently.
This is a great resource for astrophotographers. I always check it prior to traveling somewhere new (particularly the western US) to see if it's worth packing equipment and taking a detour for photo opportunities.
Anybody knows why there is such a large area with light in nothern/central russia?
> Through financial products, the rich actually get paid simply for having money, while the banks charge fees to customers simply for being poor.

Concise explanation of the absurdity
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If you think "forking" is a broken readiness protocol, than you have misunderstood what the forking type is.

If you instead of stopping at the title read the actual post you linked, you'd notice that it explains that the issue lies not in the forking protocol, but in that legacy applications cannot signal readiness. See the third and fourth paragraph in the "No-one speaks the forking protocol" chapter. It also explains how daemonizing is a bad idea altogether, but that's separate.

The essence here is that init systems predating upstart/systemd/... did not have a readiness protocol. Instead, they generally assumed that a daemonized service was immediately available after the parent exited, as that was when the script continued. Forking is meant to pug

The "forking" protocol is only meant to plug such an application into systemd, nothing more. It grants you zero readiness information (just like when it was started by a sysvinit script), as such information does not exist. It would be stupid to try to implement this protocol. It is nothing but a compatibility layer.

If you have an actual counter-argument (so far you have only posted a link, and then restated that you posted that link several times), please present it. I don't mind being proven wrong.
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Right. I was imagining the reaction wheel unloading using the propellant. But I don't know anything about this particular design, so the concern may or may not apply.
Lying - Sam Harris.

Behave - Robert Sapolsky.

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Ariane currently has a better reliability record than SpaceX. Cost isn't everything - saving $100M on a $10B satellite like the JWST (which will use an Ariane) doesn't do you any good if the $10B evaporates in a launch failure.
There's a lot of sentiment against Solidity as a language, for fairly good reason. See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14810008
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14691212
But then you can't spread on the soft side.
Multiple definitions of cruel fit nature, with no reference to willfullness:

3. causing or marked by great pain or distress:
a cruel remark; a cruel affliction.
4.
rigid; stern; strict; unrelentingly severe.
"Dorn and his colleagues find that when towns and counties lose manufacturing jobs, fertility and marriage rates among young adults go down, too. Unmarried births and the share of children living in single-parent homes go up. Meanwhile, places with higher manufacturing employment have a bigger wage gap between men and women, and a higher marriage rate."

It seems clear which way the cause and effect goes from that.
They're bringing it up, just not by name. It's anti-Semitic conspiracy theory accessories. It's garbage.
> This is where regulation is sorely needed.

The need for financial regulation and trusted authority is supposed to be the problem cryptocurrencies exist to solve - free market forces and reputation alone should be sufficient.
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Mosaics are a core feature of the platform. Think of it like an ERC20 token, but the creator of the token can impose fees (among other features). The fees are set to another token that the hacker doesn't/can't own - as such the account is stuck owning the asset.
I have to say I think Mozilla is a complete shambles of an organisation. It must be one of the richest charities in the world with the billions of dollars of commission it earns from search from Google et al.

I can't actually believe this is something they're excited to post a blog about. Charity with 9 figures revenue is hiring a developer (finally) to work on a product which has 25 million users.

I think Mozilla's mission goals are fantastic but something is going seriously, seriously wrong with the way they allocate resources.
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Just based on the quality of tools available, not the quantity or specific language quirks.
The Elusive Quest for Growth by W. Easterly -- read it when I was in college hoping to study development (poverty, growth) economics; changed the way I look at poverty, economics and politics in general. Likewise I helped me ditch modern liberalism for classical one.
Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived by Laurence Shames & Peter Barton
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert Pirsig
http://readdesert.org
Otherwise Brunch is still here.
I should document this and make it my first HN post.
Why not? By using a usd-token like usdt it become possible. Bitshare usd also has been very stable lately and it is fully decentralized.
The entire map is the light pollution. The key there at the top of the screen. Find where you are, and look at what color the area is around you on the map. From personal experience, if you're in a downtown metropolitan area that the map shows as white, then you'll be lucky to make out Betelgeuse or Rigel in Orion, Sirius would be visible, as well as Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Anything fainter than that will be difficult. Using binoculars will improve things quite a bit though. As you start to get into the orange colors, all of the stars in Orion would be visible. I have been able to make out the Milky Way in yellow areas. In the blue areas, I can see the Milky Way quite clearly. In the black areas, it takes me a bit of time to adjust to find Orion/Big Dipper/etc because there are now so many stars visible that the very obvious constellations are harder to see immediately.
This raises the question of what it means to "tell someone how big it is". Does it mean to write it using some particular notation (such as positional notation or exponentiation)? Does it mean to instill a satisfactorily good image in someone's head of how big it is? I mean, mathematically speaking, any definition of a number is as good as any other, and Graham's number can be defined perfectly well.
I'm curious how a dive buddy would have helped. Wouldn't that just have meant two people were in trouble, instead of one?