skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "I think users are expecting more, but not necessarily in the ways you are imagining. It's about how much of the process users expect to be automated vs how much needs intervention."

To a limited extent, yes, but if we're being honest here, the main "additional demands" that most users have for most new pieces of software are "simpler" and "prettier", neither of which automatically requires additional complexity under the hood.
That's why for every single transaction that I do on venmo, I put "payment" as the descriptor.
Agile dev has also contributed to complex software.
> I'm the author of EasyBCD

Thank you!

Also, maybe you can answer this: what's the 'correct' way for systems to handle multiple disks with an ESP partition each? In other words, if I'm using software RAID and clone the partition tables, should I assume that the UEFI firmware will default to the first disk's ESP, or is that set when boot configurations are updated?
>Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade

The interesting aspect is that by the time a nuclear power plant is online renewable energy and battery storage might have advanced enough to make it uneconomical.
Not quite. Alabama voted for a Democrat last year. They are normally red.
But in all of those cases there was a mitigation. Apps that weren't 32-bit clean could be run in 24-bit mode, at least for those machines that supported it. The '040 had a cache switch. Heck, there was an IIe card for certain models (though I think the Mac vs Apple II example is a little unfair; the systems really have almost nothing in common architecturally, far less than even Intel and Power Macs have in common).

For that matter, the 68K performance problem was mostly an issue for the 603. It wasn't an issue on the 601, which had sufficient cache, nor for the 603e which quickly displaced it. And when the PCI Power Macs came out, Apple had a much better dynamic compilation translator available.

In none of these cases was the answer "too bad."

To flip your question around, would you argue that Apple's backwards compatibility right now about the same as it was previously? Objectively I don't think the evidence supports that.
That's not how debate works. The initial burden of proof is on the person making the assertion, you're just shoving off your responsibility onto others.

You complain about substance-less objections, but so far you've just made a substance-less assertion. It's hypocritical.
>>> Better still - if you can make this a class action by eliciting similar victims to come forward, you may actually get them to change their ways. Right now it seems like they can simply fuck with you without consequence.

That's what exchanges do, screw their customers.

In fact, the biggest issue is the owner running away with the money, that's why exchanges are regulated.
Sure, if you're willing and able to quit your current job and work full-time fixing cars.
Every payment service provider is required to filter transactions if they offer payment services to consumers. (Part of AML, anti-money-laundering legislation) In essence, there's a set of things that money can't be spent on, and it's their responsibility to take measures ensuring that their customers don't spend (in significant amounts) money on that, and show that these measures are reasonably effective (i.e. that they're not just for show - if they assist their customers to circumvent their filters, that's a crime) or not offer payment services at all. For some of the wider restrictions (e.g. payments to cuban nationals) it may result in quite wide-catching automatic filters; and it's the choice of the company whether just to block the payment or spend time and $ to have a human look at the payment and make a decision on whether you can spend money on that or not.

If you want to use services that ignore what you can spend money on and what you can't, you literally have to use illegal services - no legitimate company in the western world is allowed to offer that.
What happened to the 4th amendment?
Alan Turing was doing statistical modeling to make sure we didn’t blow up more U boats than could be mistaken for bad luck. That was more than seventy years ago so who knows.
> If they're successful, programming will become an industry like mining - steady jobs that people enjoy.

This description of mining seems, at best, a few decades out of date.
It also works perfectly fine with all 3rd-party requests blocked (via uMatrix) for me. So other than the CSS none of what you mentioned is necessary to get a readable article.
Very closely related is the concept of cost disease: https://www.the-american-interest.com/2017/04/11/notes-on-co...
> I know things change over time, but the old advice on hackers was that most of them are not as malicious as they seem. For instance, many viruses have been accidentally more damaging than the creator intended.

That hasn't been true in a while. Most malware these days is about money or political goals.
Except that people who actually understand cryptocurrencies tend to think Eth is largely hooey and definitely dangerous and that it won't be around for long. At least not in its current form. By the way, the same people tend to think Monero is in the top 2. But you can change the definition of "top" or "quality" to include anything. But in reality I'm sure most people don't actually care. :)
Extra credit if he has an ashtray in the waiting room that looks like a mariachi band made of taxidermied frogs.

(The best transmission shop I even saw.)
Finney gave the WSJ a bunch of private emails between him and Satoshi from 2009, linked below. I suppose it's theoretically possible Finney spent a lot of time faking this convincing set of emails, but absent that possibility, I think this seals the case that Satoshi was not Finney.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/finneynakam...
What about if it's just government waste/corruption mostly? Who is going to be able to hire someone to say that with such authority that things change?

EG: We find out that 30% of road costs are being wasted by nepotism/contracts given to mates. I just can't imagine how it would work that someone could point it out and anyone would even care.

If the county hired him, he wouldn't get any coverage.

If the state government did, they would probably just bury it to cover their own ass.

The federal government maybe, but then you have issue of jurisdiction and dealing with 50+ audits at once and trying to explain to every state voter about what is happening in their state.

Only other option is independent watchdogs or companies but it still like it would be almost impossible to be even get a proper view of the real corruption from that angle as the government would never let you close enough to the deal making process.

In the end, I really don't know how you can overcome the losses due to government corruption unless voters make significant changes in their behaviour. That or just wait for a whistleblower to blow the lid off it all in some spectacular way.
I agree that corporate tax avoidance is a problem and needs to be addressed on a global basis.

But as an Australian, I think we're missing the elephant in the room. We hold up these prominent brands like Nike and Apple, but ignore the fact that they are products designed and manufactured elsewhere. All we do in Australia is open the shipping container and distribute the goods to stores. Very little value is added in Australia. Regardless of tax changes, the tax revenue from simple distribution is always going to be low.

If we want to improve our corporate tax revenue, we need to create things in Australia, whether that's manufacturing, software, services or whatever.
How do you choose which points of interest to throw away when downscaling? That data set is continuing to become richer and more complete over time.
Costs, start there. In Rome, you'd have a better chance to seek justice if poor (if a citizen, and most people weren't.) But you'd have been better off decades ago as what counts as "small claims" has been totally trashed by inflation.
Some constitutional protections only seem to exist when it's in the government's best interests, not the people's.
Isn't Dr. Pepper currently distributed through Pepsi? I wonder how this will affect that.
One may adjust the 'centralised' in "decentralised" to include anything. In reality it is just BTC.
Pretty tired of "$REGION is too big and sparsely settled for transit" argument. British Columbia is over 2x the size of California, with about 1/10th the population but the city of Vancouver, the only large urban area in the province, has consistently high transit usage and investment. In fact, projections for transit usage have understated the growth in transit usage.
Bitfinex have been offering real USD withdrawals to bank accounts for a few months now, in theory at least, though there's a certain amount of shadiness surrounding them.
Postfix has a very clear separation of concerns and least privledge in the use of lots of helper daemons. Exim4 doesn't not have this architecture and is less secure because of it.

http://www.postfix.org/OVERVIEW.html
> My TomTom doesn't have any of these problems.

Funnily enough, I used the TomTom app with offline maps on my Treo 650, and then it was released for the iPhone a year or so after native apps became available and I got that too. I used it for quite a few years, but eventually Google Maps overtook it in quality and data got cheaper (and stuff like factoring traffic into travel times is a good feature), and I only then used it when there was no cell service at all, which is becoming rarer.

You inspired me to fire it up again just now. TomTom discontinued the original app last year and moved to a subscription service for the new one, and at least they've given everyone 3 years of updates (and it's usually $20/yr), so I'm pretty happy with that. And the old app still works at least until it breaks with iOS updates beyond 11.

Not bad for a $70 purchase, 8 years or so ago.

(I also use OSM maps for my time off-road.)
Even that was close, and the Republican candidate was a child molester on top of being an incompetent wingnut. It takes a LOT to sway American voters.
Bot support sucks. Revolut is a case study in this #fail. Make things clear and idiot proof is a better path to avoiding time answering simple questions. I missed the days of some human on the end of a mechanical turk task copy and pasting some loosely related canned answer when with dealing with bots.
RFC: Rust 2018 Roadmap
It was called MPEG2 Layer III, right? And the licensing around mp3 is why many Linux distributions didn't offer mp3 in the default install, without adding "non-free" repositories.

We also saw open standards emerge, like Ogg Vorbis and FLAC (although neither were widely adopted by hardware vendors compared to Apple's AAC/ALAC)
Zcash is most certainly not private. Just one recent aspect of that: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7hnw08/turn...
> Offline navigation systems with detailed maps have existed and still exist for more than twenty years now.

When a dashboard GPS is out of date, it's irritating. When your car's autonav system is out of date, your car is useless.
"Why doesn't the government start paying bounties?"

They employ NSA workers to find and exploit them instead.
Isn't the real risk that cryptocurrency becomes the new laundry service?

Buy FOOCOIN, spend FOOCOIN on asset, don't report to the IRS, repeat.

Other direction:

Sell asset for FOOCOIN, buy $ with FOOCOIN, don't report to the IRS, repeat.
> Companies will slash their investments in video compression technologies. Thousands of jobs will go and millions of USD of funding to universities will be cut.

that's quite a lot of FUD. hosting providers have very aligned incentives to invest in better - and not necessarily proprietary - compression technologies, as do ISPs who have to carry the packets.
Generally speaking, law enforcement can do whatever they want as long as they can give their superiors a reasonable explanation of their side of the story and there isn't overwhelming evidence. Most people can't get the EFF to file lawsuits. Many jurisdictions can just charge you with resisting arrest, even if they can't file other charges that justify the arrest in the first place.

As a far less dramatic example, this morning I had a TSA agent called me "stupid" because I left my toothpaste in my luggage, which I did because the last time I took it out of my suit case, I got yelled at for following the sign instead of heeding shouted instructions to the contrary. 10 feet away a different agent also called me "stupid" because I had removed the toothpaste from my luggage instead of the small Kindle which is obviously bigger than a small iPhone. I guess that's the new threshold for devices that must be removed. And what recourse do I have against verbal abuse over arbitrary judgments? Well if I want to keep flying without excessive effort, none.

edit: I should add, generally speaking I've found American LEOs to be very polite and pleasant, ESPECIALLY compared to some other places I've lived. They have to deal with some truly shitty situations and I'm not anti-police at all - but systemically there is large potential for abuse and some places where that abuse is clearly happening.
Indeed, safety isn’t really a thing in the crypto market either.
Neat! I was hoping to see an idea of what strength the self-taught Minigo can play at, e.g. on KGS.
I wish people could start with that premise in healthcare, that there isn't 1-2 big things causing the US healthcare system to be so expensive.

So many people seem to always have a point about "Oh if we just moved everything to medicare" or "if we just repealed obamacare" as if there is a silver bullet.

The only thing i think we can know for sure about why the US healthcare system is expensive, it's because of what you said, so many special interests groups that all work within the system and gouge each other every day to keep their heads above water.
Why anyone in this circumstance, US citizen or not, deserves this treatment is beyond me.
Relying on a map at runtime for identifying traffic lights g is preposterous. A self-driving car that ignores any temporarily modified or new signaling would be a disaster.
One of the most popular problems to be solved in modern IT systems is that of keeping the state of your application distributed across a number of machines.

Paxos is one of the algorithms that solves this problem by giving you a protocol that allows the sets of machines to agree upon a set of operations that would all be applied to their states thus giving you a set of machines in the same state.

A simple example, is if you had a set of 3 machines starting with state of “0” and wanted to add “1” to their state. Paxos would define how they should communicate so that in the end, even if one of the machines failed during execution, would all end up with a state of “1”.
> If you want to use services that ignore what you can spend money on and what you can't, you literally have to use illegal services

Cash between friends is not illegal. Venmo, for lots of people including me, just replaces cash for paying your friends back. That's even their #1 example they have on their website for why you might use Venmo.

There is no agency or anyone in charge of asking what I'm spending the money on when I give my friend a $5 for lunch. If Venmo wants to replace that experience, they can't refuse the payment because they think I'm suspicious and expect to keep my business.

I understand the pressure they are under as a payment processor. But the alternative to Venmo to keep payment privacy intact is not illegal, it's just plain old cash.
From the video, they can't actually plant 100,000 trees. One drone only carries 300 seeds so you'd need a lot of them to get 100,000 in one day. Reminds me of that "1,000,000 rounds per minute" machine gun that fires every bullet almost simultaneously then it's empty after one burst.
Hi Jeremy, i have an computer running ubuntu 17.10 with 16gb ram and 4gb nvidia gpu. Is it possible to setup my system to run the exercises locally without having to use paperspace?
Thank you.
Honest question. What's wrong with using a calendar widget for DoB.(engineer here)
I personally was thinking this too. I think the main obstacle to this is that there is no main organizing body for melee.

Because anyone can host a tournament, that makes it very tricky. You can assign a points breakdown for points for the top 64/128 based on number of entrants, prize money but that could inflate people's rankings for doing well in an easy region.

For example, there are very few top 100 ranked players in Europe. Under this system, the 4th-8th best players in Europe could get a huge rankings boost over American counterparts that perform worse in American tournaments where there are many more skilled players. Tennis benefits from that fact that top 50-100 players are usually required to play in most major tournaments. There's not enough money in melee for that to even be a possible requirement for players. (Another example would be small strong regions like Florida or SoCal would be treated equally to weaker regions like Texas/Arizona for local events)

Invitationals would also throw things off, as they often have a large prize pool, but only 16 players invited. With melee, these would need to be treated as an exhibition (worth no points) which would probably lower the stakes for players, lower seriousness, etc. or only sanction certain well known invitationals which might reduce outside investment in Melee.

Another common complaint to this is how it favors seeded players. Although this would have some impact initially, I think this would level off over time once an official ranking was adopted by all tournaments and individual tournament organizers lose seeding powers. In fact, I would expect this to be even less of a factor than in tennis, since in tennis being a top 100 player gets you auto invited to most major tournaments. In smash, anyone can compete at any major tournament, regardless of rank.
20 seconds?

It's a default action for me and takes less than 5 seconds to plug in and drop into (or practically nothing for shorter journeys since I don't bother to plug in), and I'm going to get a wireless charging dock some time now that my phone supports it.

I'm glad our 2009 car doesn't have sat-nav. :)
Looking forward to single-serve barcoded doctor pepper keurig cups.
Black Box: "The unseeable space between where data goes in and answers come out is often referred to as a “black box” in artificial intelligence, and there’s particular concern about this in health care. But these fears about the implications of a black box are misplaced: AI is no less transparent than the way in which doctors have always worked -- and in many cases it represents an improvement, augmenting what hospitals can do for patients and the entire health care system. After all, the black box in artificial intelligence isn’t a new problem due to new tech: Human intelligence itself is, and always has been, a black box."

From a liability perspective a doctor takes responsibility with a code of ethics and a standard of care in a way that software developers have yet to.
Really, A completely flash site in 2018? I am not turning flash on but can only assume this is the original site from 1997 when the domain was registered.
We've put it on KGS as "somebot", and it can play at somewhere from 3-5d level, although amusingly it still can't do ladders, and almost always plays 3-3. Our strength seems to have plateaued recently, and we suspect it's because of value net overfitting issues.
Volkswagen Admits to Testing Diesel Fumes on Monkeys
Hah. They've been "ramping up" for over a year now.

That message has been pushed all through 2017.
In the US, yes. In many other parts of the world it can come to you through Coca Cola.
The java ecosystem is great. One of the best of all languages in existence.

Software development in big companies and outsourcing firms is usually terrible and it gave a bad reputation to everything they use, including that language.
Its split in the US between Coke and Pepsi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr_Pepper#Distribution
For what it's worth, I was prescribed the oxycodone-acetaminophen combination last month for an extraction of my four wisdom teeth in the US. My extractions were apparently some of the hardest in the surgeon's 30 years, so I'm not sure if this is the norm.
And when there was a breakthrough, Groklaw would hit the top of Slashdot, so I never had to go to Groklaw specifically :)
Parts of the old control panel are public API, like the mouse control panel. You can add tabs to it that fit the old dimensions of the dialog.

And of course it’s Microsoft so half of the company doesn’t want to switch to the next new technology the other half is going to abandon in a few years.
Ripple's cryptocurrency XRP solves a real world problem and they have real world customers already using it. I'm not saying it's going to change the world in some grand sense but it's quite possible Ripple's XRP will speed up the time it takes for banks to settle balances. No more waiting 3-5 business days for cash to hit your account. The money would show up almost instantly (3-4 seconds) because XRP + bank adoption enables instant transfer of value.
It depends what you mean by "better".

More advanced video codecs have higher visual quality at lower bitrates, but are more computationally expensive. All of these video codecs use the same underlying ideas of 2d transforms, intra- and inter-frame compression, motion compensation, entropy coding etc., but using more complex techniques to preserve video quality.

I wouldn't say it's a simple as "Moore's law in action".
To the contrary, it can and it apparently has. The question is whether that power can be taken away.
That is the key question, I think - especially since the people trading Bitcoin for USDT would've been doing so at prices which value USDT for slightly above face value. (That is, on all but a handful of occasions they could've got more by selling their Bitcoin for actual USD on Coinbase. The main exceptions were after the Tether hack and during this recent bout of negative news coverage, if I remember correctly.)
Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked Voynich Manuscript
Hmm, that screenshot is from first tests, it is clearly a bug -- but hopefully fixed now :)
The Death of Sponsored Content
demos prevent buyers from making impulse purchases of games. I'd say on the whole, it decreases sales more than it increases
There's a huge market out there for honest auto repair shops.

I'm a former mechanic, and usually astonished at what most shops get away with.

I've seen $1200 tune ups. (Six cylinder Ford Vallant, and the shop owner told my friend business was slow that week, and he needed money.)

To a Franchise owner at Aamco (San Rafael, ca) who told he the tranny was going into limp mode when he test drove it, and then brought me into the office to look at the cutaway model. (It was never even driven because he didn't have the key. Plus--when he realized I knew the lingo; he started kissing my ass. He knew he was caught. He was a new franchise owner, but that's no excuse.)

My point is there's some real business opportunities out there. An honest shop is gold. Its a very tough business though. I've even met some people who sware their "guy" is the best. They are usually the ones who are being taken the most.
nothing better than a nice hot cup of doctor pepper to get me going in the morning
What, and turn down the money faucet?

Sure, that'll happen. Coinbase just sends out a quarterly tweet that "hey, we're ramping up support!" and calls it good.
Thanks for the tips, parent and grandparent. Will have a look at those.

I use a Quadlock mount case on my phone so I can attach it to the bike, but the wife likes slightly more fashionable cases :), so I want something dock-ish I can just drop a phone into.

I'm keen on a Qi charging dock for the car now that it's on iPhones, and am looking to get something that'll last a few years.