skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what you're missing is that the blockchains depend on network effects to function. They scale naturally with adoption, being decentralized. Facebook does not scale naturally with adoption, because it depends on its own private funds to purchase more servers and bandwidth to handle the scaling, whereas decentralized technologies do scale easily because each player pays for their own equipment.

So, no, they (blockchains) won't be "maintained by a single player". The code may be centrally maintained, but not the network, and it is the network that holds the value. The crowd is fickle, and bitcoin could turn to nothing tomorrow based on the whim of the crowd. Still, the internet has this same quality, and it's still going strong. It (the internet) is simply too useful to be discarded. It remains to be seen if bitcoin is that useful as well.
If only I had known this existed last year... I linked in Google's C++ library compiled for ARM to a project and it bloated the binary to ~12 MB...
If we were catching terrorists on the regular with programs enabled by these sorts of laws you can bet your ass they'd be trotting out each and every one of them in front of the press while singing praise to the dragnet programs that made it possible.
What you're asking for is nothing like what this process is designed to be.

The Human Rights Act is designed as a way to allow courts to push back on certain kinds of legislation - this ruling is a normal part of the legislative process not any indication of criminal wrong doing by anyone.
I don't really envision a single spheron supporting more than a few inputs + outputs (although it could). I think 100K inputs would be achieved using a network of spherons (my next project)...

With reference to tuning the architecture, I am experimenting with building out automated evolution (survival of the fittest). This is a great approach used in frameworks like neataptic.js!
1. Have an emergency break button somewhere in the car that the user could press at any time to have the vehicle break. Note that we already have those in all trains, buses etc.
2. Have a warning light up next to the button asking the user to press the break button as soon as they feel safe to do so. Note that we already have those service lights in all regular cars. Simply add a buzzer as well for people asleep etc.
3. ‎Have the circuit that breaks upon button activation be sealed off from the internet (make it hydraulic). The only action of the "good C&C" is to turn a light on.
It's true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Keelhaul
We’ve moved from trying to get to single-payer government provided healthcare all the way to tax cuts. This change of mindshare for the USA means more believe that health issues are more self-inflicted than random unluckiness.

There is truth to both sides, and I am in the single payer camp. However, I know that most doctors visits in the US are the result of obesity, lack of exercise, and lack of education. These things need to change much earlier down the funnel, but they don’t.
It sounds like you answered your own question. Yes, society has clearly decided that everything he created has lost all value.
I do not live in a region with lots of snow or ice. Would there be any concern about melting the closest 'layer' of snow over pavement and creating a snow 'shell' over the road? If an area is getting sufficient ice precipitation I wonder if such a system could keep up and what the dangers would be of a road that was not salted/sanded in this condition.
The Global Phenomenon of Video Streaming Apps and How Korea Is Leading the Way
The Shallowness of Google Translate
I don't follow your logic, I could see either

1. The issue is that "child rapist" implies "poor judgment of character". This implication cannot be made because there are plenty of accounts where "child rapist" have "good judgement of character".

or

2. The issue is that "poor judgment of character" implies "child rapist". This implication cannot be made because there are plenty of accounts where "non-child rapist" have "poor judgement of character".

being at least a logical (regardless of correctness) statement
Oh interesting. That actually makes a ton of sense; the institution of libraries have been around for long enough to have the historical context around that. Maybe in a few hundred years, tech companies will be so wise.
Also as a biologist by trade and an audio dsp nut by hobby I loved that they were using algorithms initially developed for music information retrieval to extend the capabilities of a sequencing instrument.
The takeaway is that one shouldn't predicate success on lawyers creating a Borges-fidelity 1:1 mapping of the real world into law.
They're labeled with the same word precisely so that they can get conflated. Language is fuzzy, and this fuzziness is actually used as a feature in communication. If you want to talk about honorable hard work, you have plenty other words to pick from; when you say "hustle" to mean hard work, you accept the slight semantic nudge towards something shady, or bending the rules.
Yep, and not having to click "Display" button each time.

Also, partially highlighting the text you write is a pretty hard feature to implement, I did it once. Kudos to debuggex.com for working correctly even with browser zoom on.
This. If I had "misplaced" someone's money for 5 months I would be in prison.
Cisco drops a mega-vulnerability alert for VPN devices
> Confirmation screens might have given the operator a moment's pause to consider whether or not they were certain.

There was a confirmation screen.

I have seen no suggestion how a different confirmation than actually existed would have helped, and I don't think we want to introduce more delay in the critical path of a live alert without clear and massive benefit.

> A UI that makes it easy to make a mistake, even when the mistake is intended, and makes it almost impossible to correct that mistake, is a badly designed UI.

The problem with correcting the mistake is not a UI problem, but a deeper planning and procedure problem.
Err, certainly this would just result in vertical integration (IE one of these companies buying Qualcomm), or any other situations, rather than "everyone sucks except for Apple" as you posit

Or, it could result in vertical integration and "everyone sucks except for Apple."
Yup, that's right. It was a Transavia flight
> It is the experience of being with the other person and their acceptance of your pain that does so much of the work

I disagree with this, at least for myself. For me, talk therapy is essentially an alternative to 'writing therapy,' where the act of just somehow collecting my thoughts and talking verbally through them (rather than them flashing about in my mind) has more of an impact than the other person accepting whatever it is I am rambling about.
I don't know how much isolation they had. The Sahul Schelf was walkable ground only 18,000 years ago by our current knowledge.
ESPN: College was taken over for a single day as "The Ocho" last year:

https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2017/8/3/16091446/espn8-the-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jow5hZPF3zY
Agreed. Kaiser does well for the vast majority of problems and for the averafe person, but anything specific, out of the norm, or challenging Kaiser fails. You sometimes need to see someone not in network and that's the main reason for insurance. Anyone really can help treat you for common ailments, but when something unique comes it's better to have the options to see the best in the field.
Everybody who publicly excoriated the UI (or what they thought was the UI) of the Hawaii public alert system here should think about their role in spreading misinformation. This story was catnip to computer people, and too few people waited for any kind of confirmation before deciding they knew all about what happened, and how to fix it.
You can't blame people for making inferences based on the news that was reported.
It's not that Medicare is simple, it's not. It's that there are thousands of private insurance companies each holding thousands of lines of insurance each with their own set of rules comparably complex to Medicare.

Medicare is by volume the larges provider but size is actually a benefit because it means that it's dealt with more frequently and is more familiar to care providers.

A care provider isn't multi-regional, thus when they deal with Medicare it's mostly consistent. The interface is at least similar. However they can have 100 patients with United Healthcare and each patient will have a unique and different line of insurance.

Medicare isn't simple, it's just a small piece of a very big shit sandwich.
A Forum Dialog on Beethoven's Godhood and the Supremacy of Classical Forms
That's not reproducable. Hashes are reconstructed from the original data even if it no longer exists as a formal in memory object. This is just a random ID.
If Shirley lost £1,000,000 and a body part as a result of the ISP’s actions, she’s affected more than somebody who’s merely annoyed and feels their human rights have been breached.
I can't help but think that his blog on persuasion is an attempt to lead the enlightened through work samples.
The worst civil air disaster happened in part because the controller said “you are not cleared for takeoff”. Alas, there was radio interference, so the “not” didn’t get through.

As a consequence, the words “cleared for takeoff” have been removed from the ATC/pilot vocabulary except when actually cleared for takeoff.
Two ex-Google engineers built an entirely different kind of self-driving car
Worked in the Park Service for four years. Worst days for most visitor conflicts was always, always, the free entrance days. Everyone dreaded having to work on one because everyone was super expecting.
>Now, all you need is a string of alphanumeric characters, no account, no verifiable identity

To the average person how are these features?

I don't want a string of alphanumeric characters, I want 16 numbers printed on a card I carry in my pocket. I want a company who maintains the account and secures it and handles all the hassle if something goes wrong.
It's quite possible they are simply setting up a captive third party administrator company. All of the companies will fund health insurance which will then have benefits designed for employees and care overseen by this third entity which would be a not for profit. This entity would then have to go out and negotiate contracts with providers, drug companies, lab testing facilities etc. Given the size of these entities, they would have significant negotiating power with providers and hospital systems which could keep costs down for members.
Hash codes aren't actually exposed in JavaScript. It's an implementation detail. The only requirement is that key lookup is consistent with equals [1].

For a string key, the hashcode field is probably a cached hash of the value, since that's how an equality comparison works. Most objects are only equal to themselves, are mutable, and get moved in memory, so storing a unique identifier is the only way to know if it's the same object that you saw before.

For a hash code, the identifier doesn't need to be unique since all that matters is that it's consistently placed in the same bucket. All you need is to store a sufficiently long random number.

[1] SameValueZero equality as defined at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Equa...
Apples and Oranges.

Distributing knowledge, like Carl H was doing, does not involve the kind of sensibilities required to be a referee, judge or notary.

Were Carl H a federal judge, his crime would definitely put all trials presided by him under scrutiny.
While I appreciate the agony of economy class these days (I am a frequent flier in cattle class), I think this is a disingenuous statement about buckling up and I'm not sure why you felt you had to make it.

In abnormally heavy turbulence, you will be tossed around to the point of injury if you are not buckled up. 4 inches is enough to damage your vital organs.

Seat belts are important.
KP was in North Caronlia in the 90's and if it wheren't for boneheaded mismanagement would have been completely dominant in the market there now. One of those other futures that slipped away in the night :(.
Gravel spread on roads can also be partially recovered in street-cleaning, and used again the next winter (unlike salt).
That must have been a very long time ago, because even in 1998, I remember a friend who was a barely competent programmer making $44/hour and the contracting agency she was working through was charging well above that.
Superpowered Chinese Lasers Could Soon Rip Open Raw Vacuum
Plausible nuclear attack scenarios do not necessarily mean wiping the entire island off the map. Here is a fairly pessimistic scenario:

http://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/?&kt=15000&lat=21.3069444&...

You can also choose "North Korean weapon tested in 2017" from the drop down menu, clear all effects, and click "Detonate". Also note the mountainous nature of Hawaiʻi.
Ultimately the definition of what is or isn't a glitch isn't the most important question because it's often such a fuzzy question.

Like how some competitive gaming communities often have informal rules to keep competitive play interesting by banning specific overpowered mechanics, the more important reason for allowing/banning specific glitches or types of glitches is to keep the competition interesting for speedrunners and viewers.

Obviously some games are more interesting than others to speedrun, but like in the example of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, by ruling out specific glitches you can make sure that speedrunners continue to explore the surface area of the game rather than only trying to optimize a specific glitch with outsized impact on run-time.
I for one am very grateful for the continuing efforts of the open source community to develop this. Thanks.
In fairness, the article is quite a sneering review of a book by a professor who, I'm guessing, was disappointed with the advance he was offered and so went on a bit of an anti-literature venting.

It was a vaguely amusing read. Could have done without the Trump-ety bit that seemed to be a ranty digression.

But I can't really say I was enlightened in any particular way. I mean, literature professor thinks most people are Philistines, shocker.
Technical review of IOTA cryptocurrency
NREL Scientists Demonstrate Remarkable Stability in Perovskite Solar Cells
Just come to Canada.

We already figured out how to do Health Care where everyone pays.
You may indeed be right about the fireflies.

And yeah, it's very clear that waymo is interested in moving towards full autonomy faster than the California legislature is, and so it's making advances in areas where such things are allowed.

Elsewhere you said the move to AZ was because of the difference in reporting required. While I guess technically true, I think that the real answer is broader. What waymo wants to do isn't legal at all in CA. The looser reporting required is just gravy on the ability to actually test the cars.
Hi. I have personally been developing open source media codecs for 20 years. I've had a lot of help from other open source developers.

I have been paid by Mozilla to do this in some capacity for a decade. The budget for our entire team (which is the largest it has ever been), is less than the cost for just Mozilla to license H.264, by a non-trivial margin.

Here are some of the things that team has done:

- Made a Theora (VP3) encoder easily superior (in quality/bit) to what Youtube was shipping in Flash at the time (VP6), and (favorably) comparable with H.264 baseline.

- Developed and standardized the Opus audio codec.

- Provided infrastructure and maintainence for Xiph's older codecs (Vorbis, Speex, FLAC, etc.).

- Provided some minor assistance to VP8 and VP9 development.

- Made a from-scratch video codec (Daala) competitive with HEVC while avoiding the patents (i.e., with one hand tied behind our backs).

- Made significant contributions to a video codec superior to HEVC (AV1).

Now, maybe you want to call all of that almost nothing, but this code is in every Apple and Android handset in existence, and every current desktop browser, and used by some of the largest websites in the world (Youtube, Wikipedia).

The major concern with open source development is the free rider problem: why should Media Company X spend resources on an open source codec when Google will build one for them?

But the value current patent holders are attempting to extract from an individual licensee is larger than the cost for them to develop the technology from scratch by themselves. That value isn't created by the technology. It's created by having a common standard. And we don't need patents to incentivize that.
I like the notion of charging my clients more but obviously the clients are from this world and they know the market rate. I need to be exceptional to charge 4x and get away with it. That, or the client has some pretty free money to burn.
> where are they planning to go?

Shelter, basement...depends on your situation.

I’m in New York and don’t have a go bag. I did look up our nearest shelter, though, and thought about what I’d grab (water, cat, knife, extra glasses, bacitracin, band-aids, battery + cable, nuts, kibble, phone, flashlight, duct tape and masks).
"We might soon learn that the Russian Collusion story was mass hysteria in hindsight."

To be fair, the article is from August, two months before Papadopoulos pled guilty as the first in the investigation. Still, it doesn't exactly bode well for his guidelines to spot mass hysteria.
Why those weren't not split AT&T style to avoid the 100000ft pound corporatist rule, I don't know.

Or rather, I know.
I think rape (at least in those contexts) is mostly about power
This is ridiculous. They're claiming that merely associating himself with the government is a tacit support of Trump's attack on science. Bill is there to promote NASA's space exploration initiative.

If you withdraw from participating in the government for the mere reason that it's connected to Trump in general, you're not gonna push any of your agendas forward.
A highly used system would be able to do it all, cars to take you to a bus, to take you to a train, bus at the other end, and then more cars, all scheduled JIT.

Throw in a standardised luggage system and lockable storage boxes at stations etc, to keep all the stuff you have around in your car, and you're getting somewhere.

Charge someone who wants to travel alone by car 10x as much as those who share and move between modes of transport
This short link seems to work:

http://1b.yt/exfqj

(regexper.com doesn't seem to cache results, so this is going to hit their site hard...)

[edit: oops, it's all client-side so no problem for the site]
It's the same message the officer heard, just without "Exercise. Exercise. Exercise." at the start. Bad UI.
It's sometimes possible for a small business (like a single-member LLC) to bid on government contracts. You can try to cut out the middleman.

My personal style is to avoid getting into bidding contests. I've invested years into building my personal network. That means enthusiastically following up with strangers that I meet to turn them into acquaintances and semi-friends. It's exhausting, but has paid off. For example, sometimes I get a call out of the blue from someone I haven't spoken to in 3 years asking me to help with a project.

Don't expect people to sign contracts right away. Give them time. Years, perhaps. Just put the word out there that you're skilled and available for work.

Edit: Also, you need a specialty that allows you to accomplish something useful in a few months by yourself.
They could give everyone a year of free credit monitoring.
U.S. To Probe Apple Over Updates That Slow Older iPhones
Crazy kind of Bicycle only an Engineer would like
The actual lie of "intellectual property" is that such a thing exists at all.
Most delta 3D printers use steppers and a linear rail of some sort to gain the required resolution (and height for volume), but I bet you could use BLDC motors in a similar control fashion as used in stabilization gimbals for cameras on hobby drones and similar. I'm not sure if it would be better resolution than micro or continuous "stepping" or not...
> It doesn't actually mean that everything they did was a lie or a crime

But only because that'd be pretty hard to pull off.
Why CPython is still behind in performance for some widely used patterns?
I think that you saying you are not served by libraries is about like saying you aren't served by publically-supported vaccination. We are ALL served by having human knowledge available to ALL of us.

Unfortunately, every library cannot necessarily afford to be the best university library. That's largely a public policy issue where funding is directed elsewhere and then librarians have to perform triage to keep operating.

I do think there are interesting questions about how the information age could or should change the face of libraries. But I certainly hope it isn't by closing up shop and saying we can just use Amazon or pound sand. Something like the Google book scanning project seemed like a perfect idea for me, particularly if it went after the rare/university library scenario to have a back catalog that would not quit.
Bill Nye routinely speaks out about the dangers of climate change. This "guilt by association" attack is nonsense.
Nobody opposes economies of scale.

What we oppose is being forced by the government to accept a 1 size fits all plan, and not being allowed to buy the healthcare plan we want.

It is the difference between everyone using Facebook because they like the product and the network effect, vs everyone using governmentBook because the government outlawed all competing social networks.
U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether
Bloomberg:  Crypto exchange Bitfinex, tether said to get subpoenaed by CFTC
Bill Nye is trying to further science by working with NASA. Scientific American is trying to politicize that act.
Yes, your head would hit the overhead bin after 4 inches. Unfortunately, your body would do that inertia thing and continue, folding you tightly somewhere along your neck.

This has happened, not just during crashes but far more often with turbulences.

Regarding economy class: this is simply the result of people‘s preferences, as expressed by their buying choices. With all the complaints you can hear and read, you’d think those exit seats or economy+ tickets would sell like fresh bread. But every time I check in online, even when most seats are gone, most of the exit seats (about twice the leg room for 20$ extra) are still available.
While I’d agree with you I’d submit that a lot of the science community has odd feelings about Bill Nye so I can see how that can exacerbate people into writing things like this. Maybe they wouldn’t normally believe that and would agree with you but this circumstance changed that. Idk
Fixed point often works better, as it has better resolution because it doesn't need the exponent. The flip side is that the range of a fixed point is very limited (because it doesn't have the exponent). Practically, that means you need to do some analysis to make sure don't overflow or saturate, and use the bulk of your fixed point range to get the resolution benefits. If you do that, fixed point is great.

If you don't have time or knowledge to do that, floating point works better because you can be more ham-fisted with your scaling and still not overflow or saturate.
Good to see that nuance is alive and well.
HRouter.js: 906 bytes client-side routing library
A standard working year is 2000 hours (40 hour weeks, 50 weeks a year, 2 weeks for vacation - the pathetic US usual). So dividing by 1000 means double your salary's hourly rate. That is, this amounts to 2x rather than the parent's 4x.
Arguably you can get most of those benefits now by chartering Uber, Lyft, Waymo, etc. to run private bus lines. They could run bigger and smaller vehicles as needed and let you schedule your pickups and dropoffs from their apps.

Plenty of countries around the world let people start up their own bus lines to meet demand.