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U.S. Regulators Send Tether and Bitfinex Subpoenas
I highly suggest sitting in a Model 3 before giving up your reservation. My expectations were not high from the pictures, but we took delivery 2 weeks ago and it is a phenomenal car and the interior is gorgeous. It reminds me of a mid-century modern piece of furniture.

I'm coming from a Model S, have done a couple of week-long test drives of the X, and the Model 3 interior is IMO far superior. I think they'll need to update the S/X interior to align more with the styling with the 3 because they look dated in comparison.

Also the seats are a lot more comfortable in the Model 3 than the ones in our S. Though I never thought the S seats were particularly uncomfortable.
Model 3 competitors paying upward $500,000 for design data from engineering firm
Matrix calculus is a bit screwy when you realize that there are two possible notations to represent matrix derivatives (numerator vs. denominator layout; numerator layout is used in this guide). Plus, the notation is not very "speaking" for doing calculations unless you commit to memory some basic results.. which is why, as a physicist, I would recommend working in tensor calculus notation during calculations, and translating back to matrix notation for writing the results.
Digital technology is not to blame for our hyperfast lives
I love your idea of clicking on facebook ads just to see what would happen for a person that did happen to be in that cohort. Other things I have thought of that would be interesting to do this experiment with is multi-level-marketing BS, political ads catering to the opposite side of the isle, and "Preppers". I would find that much more interesting than my current facebook feed that just feeds me more of what I am already into.

Tangentially related, I recently spent a week in Hawaii and listened exclusively to a local radio station the whole time. It occurred to me that my view of what people did for fun, or where they grocery shopped, or what issues were important to them, and generally "what the locals do" were largely determined by who happened to be paying that radio station to play their ads. And it was just an "ah-ha" reminder that in every group, culture, hobby, or community there are a few advertisers that have an outsize influence on what people think their own grass-roots culture is.
Three roles — it gives individuals rights versus the federal government, which on the one hand is a fairly logical extension of a treaty between the states and the federal government but which on the other hand has the problems you describe — and it also gives individuals rights versus the states, which is a totally different and very weird kettle of ball games.

On the plain meaning of the text, an amendment like "Congress shall make no law …" wouldn't even bind the states in the first place, but apparently it does.
Interesting.

Of course proposed Voynich Manuscript decipherments are a dime a dozen, and even here on Hacker News accounts of various ‘successes’ crop up about biannually.

That said, I particularly like how diligent they are in acknowledging the risk of false positives.
Everyone differs here, but I think the X is actually pretty ugly at the front. The hood and grille just seem like a fussy child's face.

I still love the look of the S, and think it's aging pretty well, but I couldn't bring myself to get the X in part because of the exterior design. I ended up with a 2018 XC60.
Yeah iterm2 is pretty unacceptable. For me alacritty is still missing some polish (i.e. text size keeps on changing when I attached/detach monitors), but it's really solid for using nvim.

I've actually been using nvim as my terminal multiplexer instead of using tmux.
The SEC further said in its complaint that AriseBank “omitted to disclose the criminal background of key executives — most notably, Rice, who is currently on probation for felony theft and tampering with government records."

Seems there is something extra that the founder is forgetting to mention - something that makes him not eligible to found anything bank-related.
This technique has since been disabled by Strava.
I didn't even think about the exterior when I bought it. It's for my family, so all I worried about were features that will make my family comfortable while giving me a good driving experience.

I suspect that's why all those old vans were bought too -- you don't get a van for its styling. :)
What the Heck Is Blue Noise?
not to be confused with the yi editor https://duckduckgo.com/?q=yi+editor&atb=v59-2__&ia=software
If I understand this correctly Xi and Alacritty are both using OpenGL to do the rendering and recently I heard that Rust supports compiling to Web Assembly.

Sounds as if it should be easy to port those apps to the browser world (WebGL + Web Assembly)? Does anybody know of any plans to do just that?
Even emacs is not installed by default on most operating systems. Even worse a lot of people customize their emacs setup so much that using the default setting can be painful.
I dont understand your question.

I think the math is fairly straightforward. There is a USD/USDT driven cross. Creating and destroying USDT is straightforward there. There is also a BTC/USDT cross. That creates a drive for USDT. If that demand to sell BTC and buy USDT bids up USDT, then USDT would be created, and the BTC would convert back to USD. I agree that Tether is not forthcoming that this happens, but yes this is exactly what I would expect to happen. Its not mysterious sounding to me, or necessarily nefarious. I dont understand why Im beimg downvoted, its a discussion about generic market mechanics. We can leave bogeyman words out of it.
And you know that, in reality, it's not guaranteed, right?
That's correct. However, in practice, they do do it.
even if we could, so much of our experience and perception is in the body as a whole - what would it even mean to be a brain without a body (which contains other major neural centers like the enteric nervous system) - how dissociated from your own body do you need to be to think you could replicate consciousness with just the brain?
Please keep nationalistic flamewar off HN. This is a highly international community and the last thing we need is old regional resentments breaking out all over the place.
Free Software Foundation Receives $1M Donation from Pineapple Fund
Hi Jeremy, thanks for creating so many great learning resources. Myself and a fellow ML enthusiast are starting a deep learning meetup here in Phoenix next month. Do you have any advice for creating a welcoming environment for people to learn/teach? Thanks!
Most, if not all, of Todd's scores were entered by a single referee. At the time, each 'platform' (console, computer, arcade etc.) had its own referee that would verify scores. That referee clearly was not trustworthy. However, Todd's scores were as equally valid as any other score on the site - all verified in secret by a single other human.

There has been years of doubt about Todd's scores, among those by other gamers. TG was recently purchased by a new owner. That new owner launched a 'dispute' system whereby any score could be challenged and examined by the community. There was never a formal process until now that would have allowed for this, regardless of how many doubters there were.
Can you?

Any actual, verified customer of Tether here willing to provide a demo?
An interesting article about "illusory superiority" (people that have it may be perceived as narcissistic):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority

I think that people that avoid highly difficult and frustrating tasks tend to overestimate their capabilities, importance, etc.

Happens a lot in software engineering as well. Some people learn important, but rather mainstream topics like imperative programming and basic OOP and think they've mastered programming.
I haven't seen these ads, but this is probably the right move. The irony is that Facebook has built its perceived value to advertisers, investors, businesses, and audience alike on its ability to use deep learning to process all these posts and images and ads and understand what they mean. But here they are explicitly admitting they are unable to do that. It's a healthy thing to do. But it's interesting that it's financial fraud for which they might be directly liable, and not political propaganda, mental health, or explicit racism that brings them to admit their limitations and draw a hard line.
That hasn't been my experience at all. The young people I've worked with work hard, don't have overly high expectations, and are generally fun to get along with. Perhaps this is a reflection of the kind of people your company is hiring (newer hires tend to be younger) rather than young people, in general.
Yeah I won't give up on the 3 until I actually get to sit in one and drive one. Both of my wife's brothers pre-ordered too, so I'll probably get a chance to hear about a lot of first hand experience.

Thank you though for the details, it does help to hear that the pictures aren't doing it justice.
Yes, operating systems got a lot better. Arguably apps got worse.

Things that are now routine for apps that used to be considered unacceptable:

- Don't start if you're offline

- Limited or crap drag/drop.

- No app icon or start menu integration.

- File type associations, forget about it.

- Generic object linking/embedding, gone.

- Scriptability, gone.

A well written Windows 95 app would work offline, integrate with the Explorer, have an icon, might be able to embed itself into Word documents, and probably exported an API via DCOM. Modern apps? Uh, well.... they do similar things but at the same speed at best, quite possibly slower. They routinely barf if they can't reach the internet (e.g. any web app). Every resource dimension is 10x larger. Quite likely, I can't actually save stuff to a file. They crash less, but experience other kinds of flakyness more. And they probably find scrolling through any kind of non-trivial dataset a monumental challenge. Slack in particular is terribly flaky.
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Activities marked as "Private" Don't leak. But in "enhanced privacy" mode your activities can be seen via the segment leaderboards. In any declared privacy zone, you stay off those boards, irrespective of options, and (allegedly) heatmaps. So really, it's "slightly more advanced privacy"
You is anyone. You can go open an account right now and do it.
Hiya. That's funny because it's exactly what caused us to write this article. Jeremy and I were working on an automatic differentiation tool and couldn't find any description of the appropriate matrix calculus that explained the steps. Everything is just providing the solution without the intervening steps. We decided to write it down so we never have to figure out the notation again. haha
> It's becoming a public issue

Pardon me, I didn't mean to say it isn't something regulators should go after. I was merely commenting on their incentives.

If you're an ambitious regulator, an easy-to-explain high-profile bust is worth its career weight in gold. "I got Martin Shkreli convicted of securities fraud" is potent and messageable. "This cryptocurrency scheme...what's are cryptocurrencies?..anyway, this scheme in Hong Kong sold other cryptocurrencies called Tethers in exchange for Bitcoin...no, we're still fighting for extradition..."

That is messy. Maybe you get a promotion. It could also backfire if it's perceived as preferential treatment of Silicon Valley.
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Depends where you work. At my site (hp, engineering R&D) we've hired a lot of young employees lately and I'm very impressed with their attitude and maturity. Popular current opinion had me fearing for the worst but now I think our future is in good hands.

There is a shift in communication styles and processes, but even though I'm an old fart I have no hangups about trying new processes. Just don't take my email away (or my statically typed language).
The Great Sci-Fi TV Boom of 2018
Exploration vs exploitation. If the ad has a high CPC and there isn't enough targeted inventory, it's worth showing it to random folks to see if a new target market can be identified.
I really hope you are not being serious.

Well I cannot install the terminal without the terminal. :) brew install terminal hum...

The fact of the matter is that FTP is pretty much a no-op for 99.9% of the MacOS using public. Apple has to maintain, test, etc. everything they ship (I hope..).

Now given that a Mac is pretty much the default laptop here in the valley for SW dev, I would say unlike FTP, the terminal gets used.

Removing stuff that is not used by most of the users only makes sense. As long as they do not stop a power user from installing what they want all is good.
> willing to consider technological fixes for unfair distributions of economically valuable allies, such as embryo selection and direct genetic modification

A short story about the consequences of normalized post-birth genetic alteration:
http://compellingsciencefiction.com/stories/thelittlegods.ht...

A short description of the pre-birth and post-birth conditioning present in Aldous Huxley's famous Brave New World:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_World#Fordism_and_so...

The Last Book In The Universe takes a different approach to the issue. A cataclysmic event called The Big Shake destroys society, and only a small group of surviving scientists hidden underground were able to genetically modify their offspring to be superior to the rest of the world. This creates an immensely divisive class system, and the genetically altered humans live and govern separately from the rest of the planet.

This will not be an easy problem to solve, and there is no telling what the future effects will be. But it seems precise genetic alteration is the inevitable holy grail, doesn't it?
I'm sorry about your buddy, but please don't channel that grief into personal attacks on Hacker News.
Just found https://github.com/acheronfail/xi-electron but actually I was more thinking of running the whole editor in the browser, not just the frontend.
...but they're totally OK with political ads paid in rubles. Fuck Facebook.
"Easy" is not the right word for this, but it's possible. One challenge is that browsers don't export an interface for "shaping". For Latin script, that means kerning and ligatures, and for complex scripts, it means being able to render it correctly at all. Currently, alacritty doesn't really deal with this, but xi-mac does, using the interfaces provided by Core Text.
Not sure, but I saw this video:
At 26:16 Gopherfest 2017: Upspin (Rob Pike) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENLWEfi0Tkg
They are the main healthcare provider for a large swath of federal government workers in the DC area.
Is Cryptocurrency the Future of the Music Industry?
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That's assuming you can't find anyone to trade goods and services for crypto directly.
That constraint is not necessary as the problem only asked for the two numbers, not the values of x and y respectively.
Take I-70 across Kansas. Or I-80 across Nebraska. If you're not doing 75, you'll be run off the road by traffic (including RVs) going much faster.

You don't need sports-car maneuverability on big, fairly light-traffic interstates.
I dont think the author of that comment expected people to take that one literally. I interpretted it as how the op felt older generations view younger generations.
> if there was a true smoking gun, they would be shut down then

That's...an unwarranted conclusion.

If this were all done and resolved, then Bitfinex would have a strong incentive to say that clearly, specifically, and unequivocally. The fact that they aren't and CFTC isn't commenting strongly suggests that the process starting with the subpoena is ongoing.
Reducing interdependence in human society mitigates systemic risk. It absolutely is a virtue to be collectively working towards.
Why wouldn't you make a profit? You sell that technology to hospitals and such the world over.

You just might not have the option of telling someone it's 10 grand (with ridiculous profit margins) to get an earlier diagnosis and a chance at actually living.
I'm not offended, even though you're trying to offend me.

Just a suggestion, consider dropping the snarky, aggressive attitude and actually contribute to the discussion I initiated, or move on.
Which account holders?

No one has provided proof of withdraw from Bitfinex USD or Tether since they've gotten kicked out of their banks.

Recent wires from Bitfinex have been associated with a rural bank in Poland which is normally only used only by farmers.

https://www.trustnodes.com/2017/11/22/bitfinex-reveals-new-p...
My town hosts a sale twice a year. The materials are a combination of community donations and withdrawn from circulation items. Typically the sale lasts a week then on the Monday after the sale, teachers are allowed to claim whatever materials are worthy of classroom use. Everything else gets donated to a third party or trashed.
https://medium.com/@espano/why-tethers-latest-statement-abou...
What I see is the quality of a JIT compiler implementation, not the use of cores.
Fascinating discussion by both of you that expanded my depth on the issue. Perhaps the shortcomings can be solved (at least for reasonable numbers of candidates) by "Approval/Disapproval/Neutral" Voting.
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A modest JavaScript framework
Rationalists are familiar with Pascal's Wager, arguably to a fault. (There's a lot of discussion regarding how it ties into strong AI. The darker theories look something like Stross's A Colder War.)

It's certainly true that long-odds betting isn't an inherent winner, and crypto better is long-odds betting. But BTC was the first blockchain currency, and is credited with being the first decentralized answer to the double-spend question. People who understood the tech and the importance of that idea at the beginning might well have made a prediction that this was different than your average investment bubble, and given that BTC and ETH are clearly the 'safest' cryptocurrencies they'd have a solid point.

It was still a long odds chance. It could have dried up regardless of technical merit, or crashed when the selfish miner problem was unveiled, or been supplanted by a more-usable version of the same insight. But it's quite reasonable to argue that 2011-2013 BTC was a much more justified bet than early-stage Ripple or Litecoin or other cryptos.
Do people visit the pyramids to appreciate their unexplored parts? You can think about the mysteries of the pyramids from anywhere in the world; people visit just to see something impressive in person.
The need for proper tire inflation is literally just about the first topic of conversation or item covered when introducing new owners to an RV, be it a class A/B/C motor home or a trailer.

Every dealer who provides RVs to consumers does a pre-delivery inspection walkthrough covering proper operation of all the systems. Tires, their safety implications, how to read pressure, what proper pressure is, what kind of guages and inflators are needed are all quite prominent in those briefings.

This is not to say that owners aren't negligent about inflation pressure, in fact too many are. That's why it is covered so extensively. But it's negligence and plain old bone-headedness, not lack of information that is to blame for those who run with improper inflation.
To be honest, Google Street Maps and Google Earth already do this for me. There are a lot of places that I've wanted to visit, but after seeing them on Google Earth I've found that my desire to visit such places is gone. I look at it as a cheap form of tourism without the risk of pick-pockets ;-)

However, I still want to travel and experience places that are not man-made. I love to hike and there are trails all over the world I'd like to explore.
> Because Facebook (and most others) can't tell the difference between a legitcoin and a shitcoin

And they shouldn't have to. We tightly regulate securities-related promotional content because we learned, the hard way about a century ago, that left to itself securities markets breed scams like rabbits.
Which is more expensive. The new system that google is designing? The fine that they will have to pay? Or the oversight they will have to have to comply with EU law? (or some combination of the previous?).

On the other hand could Google just quit putting ads on requests from the EU?
I was also surprised when I saw that there was no standard notation for Jacobian matrices. We use the numerator notation in the article, but point out that there are papers that use the denominator notation. I think I remember from engineering school that we used numerator notation so we stuck with that.
It is probably insignificant for most wars, but it isn't uncommon in history. For example, throughout ancient Chinese history, it was common for bandits to serve in army either after they had surrendered or when government paid them to fight (mostly because these bandits knew the terrain well and had strong combat experience). Many of the bandits were rapists and killers, as one would expect.
OpenPGP.js push to include ECC to encrypt/sign messages with digital asset keys
Of course ! I was just wondering about the real technical improvement... Talking about bitrate/(video quality) is forgetting about (computation complexity) that's all
Lambda School (YC S17) graduates first class, raises $4m seed round
Artificial Intelligence May Have Cracked 600-Year-Old Manuscript
How many pages had links to source code or white papers ? Or had any visible code at all?
Spring's auto-wiring isn't like that because of language limitations. You don't need DI to write Java. It's like that because some people love writing reflective frameworks. It's easier than modifying compilers but harder than just doing it the "obvious" way, so it satisfies a lot of programmers i-want-to-stretch-myself itch.
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> Allegedly now that many banks/credit card companies have cut off crypto exchanges that the only way to cash out is to match your SELL order with somebody buying in....

I don't know that this is fully accurate. Most exchanges support some amount of self-service withdrawal without KYC verification into private crypto wallets.

Where you do need someone to match your sell order is when you convert back out to fiat currency. But if you're on one of the "trusted" providers here like Coinbase (I recognize the irony of saying this in this thread, but they're still an American company that can't commit blatant fraud a la BitConnect or BitGrail) or Gemini, you should be able to send them cyrptocoins out of your "sketchy" exchange and eventually get fiat.
FCC report: https://www.fcc.gov/document/presentation-preliminary-report...
I use and develop Standard Notes :) Simple and private. https://standardnotes.org