skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw the exact same thing at one of my jobs! Kids barely out of school convinced everyone over 30 was completely out of touch and unable to learn new things. After two years of working they all expected to be "architect" this and "manager" that. Of course, this was 20 years ago, which is to say - the more people change the more they stay the same
So, to those who are skeptical of Tether...you know that you can convert Tether 1:1 for USD by depositing it at Bitfinex, right? They'll then wire you that USD to any Taiwanese bank account[1] (the only banks that haven't frozen their wires). AFAIK, there are no reports from Taiwanese account holders of trouble with these wires.

[1] - https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/203
Are these guys serious?
What Should You Do When It Is Not Valentine’s Day?
A dynamic visualization on the web 13 years ago? He may have been the first.
It's not “old news” if it wasn't publicly known in the past (and if the market had known it already, no one would be panic selling based on it.)
I don't know the kind of therapist you're going to but I was able to still see my therapist after I changed over to Kaiser. You might want to contact yours and ask if they're under the Beacon Health options plan. There are sometimes roundabout ways to get it done and I managed to do such.
Ok, so it's an app. An iPhone one. I would love to try it out (I could use some CBT), but I don't have an iPhone. Is there an Android version? (Edit: no, coming soon.) Or a web one? (Edit: the messenger bot seems up, assuming https://woebot.io/ is the official site.)

Also, going through comments, it seems to be an Eliza-like chatbot. I.e. not very complicated on algorithmic front. I wonder, what it would take to have it instead of M-x doctor in my Emacs?

EDIT: trying out the Messenger bot. God, I'm already in love with the humour and the flow. Nicely done!
WebAPI Manager: limit website access to Web APIs
Here's the actual release notes instead of medium.com blogspam: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/6.0
This is good for Bitcoin because...
I believe xi-rope counts as a persistent data structure. We have plug-ins in separate processes now, for isolation, but might explore having them in-process but in separate threads. The underlying data structure should support that just fine. Is there something I'm missing?
My girlfriend is a doctor and says that working for the private care system she spends more time fighting with the insurance companies that treating patients - they want to pay for the cheapest drugs she wants to prescribe what is best.

Fortunately we have the option of publicly funded health care here in Europe which is what she recommends for anything serious.
It's not old news if we didn't know about it until now.
Delisting is probably the best case scenario imo. If the dung hits the fan with Tether while many exchanges are based on it, it could be a very bad thing for the entire cryptocurrency market. I could definitely see that scenario causing a massive "bank run" where many people try to pull their money out at the same time and several major exchanges go insolvent, resulting in mtgox style loss of confidence in cryptocurrency in general.

Delisting would hopefully signal that "we know there's sketchy stuff happening there, so we are working around it and finding solutions." And it would insulate the exhanges from huge price swings on every USDT/* trading pair.
Ethereum seems legit.

For modern answers: WTC, SNM are two that I like
In mathematical notation it gets confusing because several italic letters in a row are otherwise interpreted as separate variables.
Assuming rumours FB is developing their own cryptocurrency, along with Amazon and Google, as has been suggested on various forums, isn't there a risk here for them?

Banning potential competitors in what you could generously describe as the dawn of the next internet (in many ways the crypto wild west is v similar to early dot com days, complete with all the shysters and con artists) seems unethical and may bring up anti trust issues eventually?
Roads are much older than cars and bikes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_Way
> Is it possible to write a post on HN that isn't pointlessly critical of Facebook, or have we dropped the facade of "intelligent discussion" when it comes to things that the hivemind doesn't like?

I don't represent or consult any hivemind when I look at corporations, especially the winky-smiley "let's connect the world!" with jaded cynicism – but my conscience.
They just updated the article that the subpoena was actually sent on December 6th. So this is already technically old news. Just more FUD being thrown around by news outlets that should know better.
Asphalt in Arizona can get as hot as 170 [0].

[0]https://gizmodo.com/5807171/phoenixs-emerald-colored-cool-pa...
>I was contacted by local law enforcement who had gotten my email address from Strava via an "official legal process" because I had ridden my bike in an area around the time a homicide occurred.

If it makes you feel any better they probably filtered out all the "less likely to murder people" demographics, went though everything they could dig up on your and your friends/family looking for interesting things (e.g. traumatic life events that could possibly give you a reason to murder someone) before they bothered contacting you (and likely a handful other people). They were only contacting you because you were one of their best leads based on metadata and circumstantial evidence.

/s
> Do they expect people to land on those pages and drop money without reading anything?

Huh? I assume those are just aimed at people who speak/read the language.
Nice talk!

I wonder, in the talk you say that you took some ideas from the design of Chrome; do you think that --in turn-- browsers could learn from the concepts in Xi?

And another question: you are using multiple languages. Doesn't that make it needlessly difficult to express the same operations in different (concurrent) parts of the system? E.g. a character update is rendered on the screen (in Swift), and simultaneously the operation is sent to the core (in Rust) to reconcile the change in the core data structures; both operations are essentially the same, but now they have to be written in a different language, which means more development work and increased likelihood of mistakes/inconsistencies (?)

PS: I'm not sure if this makes sense; I couldn't finish watching the talk but will watch the rest later!
Can you share a list of banned domains?
Legitimate as in lawful? Maybe https://blockmason.io/? They have been quite keen on justifying that their ICO is lawful by publishing their legal advice. e.g. (PDF) https://blockmason.io/Blockmason_2017_12_19_Supplement.pdf and https://blockmason.io/Ethereum_Opinion_2017-08-14.pdf
Two areas where the "free market" capitalism of America seems like a stupid idea.
It's sad that even a publication like NYTimes refers to Native Americans as Indians.

It was an acceptable mistake at the time of Columbus, now not so much..
Im still trying to grapple with this one. Its not like Goodyear doesn't have other tires. If they know these things will cause accidents(or over the years learned this was happening) why did they not alter the design? I know it must come down to a cost vs benefit analysis but I cant see how they would come out ahead with a "deadly" tire.
Not tracking active ones, but participated in Qtum ICO. Has successfully launched and delivered. As a smart contract platform, Qtum itself has launched several dapps which were offered over ICO: https://eco.qtum.org/dapps

MakerDAO (https://makerdao.com/), Status (https://status.im/), BAT (https://basicattentiontoken.org/), many, many others.
Javascript Maps and Sets key off of the object's identity, not its contents.
The problem the US has is that the constitution has two roles. Firstly it specifies the relationship between the federal government and the states (a kind of treaty). Secondly it specifies the rights of individuals.

While the treaty between the states and the federal government has very little reason for change, the rights of individuals need to change as society changes.

But the US constitution does not lend itself to easy modification, so in practice the Supreme Court is used to "interpret" further individual rights into existence.
I suppose that depends on what type of user you're targeting. I'm a front-end engineer, not a designer, so I want to be able to smoothly integrate with tools with minimal conflicts. I don't think it's asking too much of a user to add a class to the body. Consider that even if you're targeting non-programmers (designers), they will still customize the UI on top of your library and therefore know how to add a class to a tag.

On the other hand, I've tried somewhat- or very-opinionated UI kits and if there was something I didn't like or want to use, I had to find a way to opt-out, which was always ugly and not sustainable.

Additionally, this helps semantics and readability, and helps keep things scoped. What if I want to use your UI kit in a subsection of my document but not the whole thing?

To me, that is the holy grail of UI kits.
Not to make excuses, but there were widely varying levels of discipline in the Red Army.

My understanding was that the "A team" shock troops and mainline motor infantry/armored divisions were well disciplined, but the later echelon of conscript infantry went into combat and gunpoint, didn't have functional unit leadership and were raping and pillaging.
Sorry, forgot to add that I don't know any Chinese and I don't have any reason to believe that Facebook thinks that.
The Control Lectures series by Brian Douglas on YouTube is a fantastic resource (https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures). Also U. Mich. has a great set of control tutorials put together with a focus on implementations in MATLAB/Simulink (http://ctms.engin.umich.edu/CTMS).

All of my own experience in controls (both as a student and professional) uses MATLAB/Simulink to model and generate controller code. Other tools are out there, but I don't know much about them.
To quote Spock, "There's an old Vulcan proverb: Only Nixon could go to China."
Various people have tried to incorporate AG-like techniques into their Go programs. One you might wish to play with is Leela Zero, which is low to mid dan (amateur) now.

To get this working:

* Acquire a GTP-capable GUI, such as Sabaki

* Acquire the latest Leela Zero release

* Acquire a recent Leela Zero neural net

* Set up Sabaki to use LZ with the net passed as an argument, e.g. "-t 1 -p 1600 --noponder --gtp -w d16fa4c3801e55ec21e0df7ead67980fe8d4ee49188a3516818207ad28b017a6"

It's a bit of work but nothing too hard. I should mention that this may require a semi-decent GPU (my old GTX 750 works fine).
trumps and putins in lowercase as archetypes, not Trump and Putin specifically.
In ARMv7 and previous, the program counter is an ordinary register, so you can perform a load relative to the PC for anything that doesn't fit into a register's literal field. Compilers typically emit so-called literal pools before the entry or after the exit point of each function (or sometimes before a basic block inside very large functions). Some compilers support literal pool merging as a code size reduction technique, too.

Edit: Also, ARMv8 has dedicated instructions for for pc-relative loads and jumps.
In the world of text editors, VSCode sure does seem to outperform Notepad++. I can open larger files with ease and while in those files it feels more responsive.

But for extremely large files, I use EditPad Lite.
Since Apple doesn't have anywhere near a monopoly, a consumer is free to choose between the trade offs you get from buying an Apple device or any other phone.
My friend had an insurance company that reduced his premiums if he checked in at the gym a certain amount of times per month.
Intrinsic value of bitcoin tokens is the ability to use them to append a hash value into immutable eternal excel spreadsheet with no censorship possible. You can use this to prove some data existed at some point in time (proof of existence) or that some data was published (proof of publication). With these primitives you can build some interesting digital infrastructure (ledgers, smart contract platforms, etc.). That is exact equivalent to industrial use of gold as gold's intrinsic value.
I’m surprised somewhat less by that and more by the fact that the staff isn’t doing a better job keeping them clean.

After all, how dirty could a typical Tesla storegoer be? I can’t imagine the answer to that would be “very”.
> How trustworthy is Kraken?

They spoof their order books and use wash trading bots...so draw your own conclusions :)

Eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz-ziPfP00M
Someone should make a cryptocurrency social platform that rewards it's users for sharing content and attention. Like the steemit of facebook. Anyone know of any projects like this?
I forget who said it, but I once heard something along the lines of, "if we get into a situation where the value of gold goes through the roof, it'll be because things have gotten really bad. And if they're that bad people are going to realize pretty quick that they don't want gold. They want water bottles and gasoline."
The very first sentence of this very short linked page is "An interesting piece from Wetzel et al., who find no evidence for a commonly reported narcissism epidemic over the past 10-20 years, based on the perception that today’s popular culture encourages individuals to engage in self-inflation"
This is literally the exact kind of no-evidence comment the link is meant to refute.
Living proof narcissism is dead is the very existence of hackernews.
Bitcoin Battered on Report Bitfinex, Tether Were Subpoenaed Last Month
What would it mean for the US Constitution not to apply to a law within the US?

For a federal law, either it's within Congress's specifically enumerated and limited powers (as interpreted by SCOTUS) and therefore valid, or else the law is invalid.

For a state law, the US Supreme Court will only base their ruling on the US Constitution if anything legally binding at the federal level (including but not limited to the Constitution) forbids or allows that state law.

Otherwise, SCOTUS and every other court will defer on state law to the state Constitution as interpreted by state courts, but from a federal constitutional perspective, states can pass whatever laws aren't federally forbidden.
I used to be super gung-ho about Tesla. I've preordered the X and the 3. Never pulled the trigger on the X, and probably gonna give back my 3 reservation too.

I love the way the car drives. The driver experience is amazing, with the way it just goes where you want and autopilot just driving it on the freeway for me. If it was just me, I would get one.

But the interiors are awful. They let me test drive an X for a day, trying to convince to act on my reservation. Right after that test drive, instead of the X, we got a Honda Odyssey.

Sure it uses gas, but my family is way more comfortable in the van, and I saved $100,000. After driving the X, my first thought was, this car costs $140,000, but it feels like $30,000 on the inside. The seats were barely adjustable. There was nothing for the kids, no climate controls in the back for my wife. The back row was tight and uncomfortable for my mother in law.

I hope one day Tesla does an all electric van. But I suspect I'll get that from Honda or Toyota before they ever get around to it.
Quite annoyed is a bit extreme. I'm miffed but annoyed? Rocking the boat mate.

Not having a written constitution isn't as bad as it seems. The government can't do what they want. The courts do rule against them.

We have quite a deep history of law that sets things out. Thousands of years. Sometimes we get silly things, like until recently pregnant women having the right to piss in a bobby's helmet, but it's very much a case of a complex set of rights wrestled from the ruling classes over those thousand years or so.

The government is in a precarious situation at the moment. They are extremely weak. It wouldn't take a whole lot to get this legislation outright neutered. If Tom Watson is working on it, I imagine Labour are doing just that.
> Its shocking how they have been allowed to continue printing "fake money" for so long. There were rumours going around long before christmas.

The subpoenas were issued December 6; just because the news just broke doesn't mean that the government just got involved.
Don't get your idea, could you be more precise? Tor and other solutions work beyond DPI.
> why don't you see ads for other commodities, like rice or iron

No one buys rice or iron on Facebook, but Bitcoin is mainstream enough where the Facebook audience is a good target.

> Well one difference is that bitcoin has no intrinsic value, ie, it's online gambling in disguise

While there are cryptocurrencies that are pump and dump and scams, there are legit ones that are being used as actual currency in transactions for actual products all over the world. I can buy coffee with cryptocurrency, but I certainly won't be able to pay for it with gold. Calling bitcoin 'online gambling in disguise' is like calling the stock market and forex trading 'online gambling'.
An email I sent to my brother regarding a data corruption service call
Small correction: Intel didn't buy Digital, but got StrongARM with it's design team (and IIRC some tangentially related products like 21152) as part of settlement of some kind of patent dispute.

Also of note is that Success of HTC is to some extent also coming from DEC and it's StrongARM reference platforms (mainly Itsy) which Compaq then commercialized as iPaq which was manufactured by HTC (with pressumably HTC-designed "HTC ASIC" which contained most of the various PDA-specific glue required for StrongARM).
I am not a fan of 'the city' and I am not a Facebook user. However, today Facebook have earned a small bit of respect from me. As for 'the city', regulation now seems a very good idea, sure we have all been ripped off by the fat cats of 'the city', however, the toxicity of traditional investments is along the levels of 'sweets laced with sugar' instead of 'heroin laced with fentanyl' which seems to be what the ico-scam-coin-nonsense is peddling.

I would like to see a crypto-addict brain under a MRI scan to see if those graphs in tiddlywink prices light up the same bits of the brain that physical addiction to a chemical makes.

In some way this story reminds me of when Lance Armstrong was discovered to be cheating. Some people wouldn't believe it until he came on Oprah and spoke about a few things. The evidence was overwhelming and yet there were some devoted fans that held out. They didn't even have skin in the game (taking PED's) but still they wanted to believe the comeback from cancer fairytale. It did not matter to them that all of his team mates thought him to be toxic, dedicated fans held out.

I don't think it is time to tease crypto-obsessed-people but once they have lost all their monopoly money and tiddlywinks then I am sure they will start to get the story. Fear and greed gets the better of people, so I am looking forward to on-going 'so where is your lambo then, did you leave it on the moon'? comments. Shame I didn't quit my job and spend all day investing in tiddlywinks tethered to monopoly money. Oh well.
I'd like to verify that myself; I even made a bitfinex account (with vpn). But the withdraw USD option (both wire and USDT) are disabled unless you can verify your account.
Well Bitfinex is a special case relating to Tether, but I'm sure all exchanges hold some amount of money in some way to support operations. It's just misunderstanding how exchanges work to think a price drop in a thing being traded puts exchanges at risk.

It would only do so if the exchange has a strange unrelated agreement (like to trade 1 USDT for 1 USD), or were holding the money they're using to run their operation in that asset. Except for maybe Bitfinex (because of the special case), no exchanges are doing that with USDT.
A new pair of dark-coloured jeans is enough to mess up light coloured seats; it's probably not 'dirt' in the traditional sense. (I agree with you that the staff should be ensuring the showroom stock is spotless.)
This is nice, glad to see that people in Asia aren't sleeping and are trying to innovate!
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Yeah, I guess that's kind of what I'm saying. If your family has always told you that you're of Spanish heritage, and that's important to you, you're going to identify more strongly with that, no matter what your actual heritage is. She's 20% Irish, too, I think, which just goes to show how tens of generations removed from your "culture of origin" can make the whole thing kind of a wash anyway. :)
Did water-based life originate without water?
Read as far as “Tether has yet to verify 2.3 Billion in reserves” and started laughing so hard I have tears running down my face right now.

Good god how could you even write that and not immediately understand the whole thing is a shitshow scam run by a bunch of clowns?

Someone fancies themselves an offshoot of the US treasury and is taking their new printing presses for a spin.

Hell if I had my own little US mint I’d be running it 24/7 too!
> I'm never in danger of unexpected shutdown.

This has little to do with remaining charge. The batteries of the older phones could not, in certain cases, deliver the necessary power when it was demanded, which is what led to unexpected shutdowns. It was not directly correlated with your current charge.
Nope, it's still alive now more than ever[0]

0. https://www.whitehouse.gov/
Do these products have a planned lifespan? Perhaps the objects is to recoup fixed development costs before the scheduled end of the product's life. Also, it seems like once the manufacturer knows there is a problem based on real failures, the cost of litigating to obfuscate information is small compared to defending many more cases after allowing an unfavorable legal precedent to be set and letting more injured consumers and PI attorneys find out about the problem.

For example if 1,000,000 tires with a %1 failure rate were sold and each claim costs 1mm, the break-even on litigating to seal evidence would be 1bn.

So the product is already out there, it will be discontinued eventually anyway, and aggressive litigation in a small number of cases is cheaper then painting a bullseye on your back with a recall. Makes sense to me.
That was my first reaction too, but I think the authors make a good case that by attending with Rep. Bridenstine, Nye tacitly displays support for a right-wing anti-science agenda. If he went as a guest of Nancy Pelosi, say, it would send a very different message.
Cynical much? This kind of response is one reason I rarely mention ideas on HN. They all seem to be met with instant criticism and/or suspicion.
Can you show us where we can find these transactions?
Filecoin.
How is it that text editors are all the sudden this weird competition where you have to win?

I get what you're saying, but I think you worry too much about social proof and momentum. It's also grossly unfair to Xi, a project in its infancy. As you mentioned earlier, there is room for another great editor. If the same logic had been applied towards the Electron based editors a few years ago, you'd be arguing against them based on 'pragmatism' because Emacs/vim exists.

What I'm trying to say is, people remember when you try to improve on things, even if you don't quite make it. Nobody remembers the guy commenting on a thread shooting it down. Decide which one you want to be.
The difference with dieselgate is that the cheating was known by European regulators, who did not bother enforcing the law.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/20/european...

VW was surprised by the American response, since they simply did not expect the law to be enforced (they were apparently unaware of a similar diesel scandal that occurred with US truck manufacturers in the 90’s).

Source: Faster, Higher, Farther: The Inside Story of the Volkswagen Scandal
Book by Jack Ewing
Congrats to both GitLab and Gemnasium teams, both truly fantastic products I’m very proud to use!