skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be funny, but I think if you actually tried to do it, you would very quickly run into overheads which make it unviable for most individuals. A lot of tax havens outsource the cost of compliance by requiring all financials to be independently audited, for instance, and when you have a couple of layers of shell companies that's 15-20k right there.

That, and you probably still end up having to pay income tax on it when you bring it into the country.
Before asking "how", the first question should be "why"?

Is it because the president is not very popular with some groups? The previous president has the exact same problems, with just different groups.

Have we just stopped believing that even if you do not like the person, maybe they will just do their job in a time when immediate decision must be taken?
> If it werent for browsing the internet (eww in emacs is nice though) and gaming, I don't think I'd even need a desktop environment.

I switched to EXWM[1]; Firefox looks and acts like an Emacs buffer.

[1] https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm
I often read frugal tips and tricks on reddit, and it's phenomenal what you can get in the states for little money. That's not possible in a lot of places in Europe.
Thanks, I've seen this said a couple times online, will go ahead and fill out a complaint.
People have been saying this since 2013. Not saying it's not a bubble but holding through the "bubble" and the pop might be more profitable in the long run unless you're an oracle.
(STEP-BY-STEP IN 20 MINUTES) start blogging
I agree the whole thing is just plain silly. I don't need a CoC to be a decent human being. I am an adult and don't need a code of conduct on how to behave.
Interesting. I log into a handful of other sites using Google OAuth and have never had a problem. Let me know if you get it figured out, I would still like to check out your service.
What bothers me more is the fact that the article seems to compare LAPACKs function for solving any-sized systems of equations with a specialized function for solving 5x5 systems.

I mean, it's neat trick and all, but the comparison with LAPACK does not really stand on equal ground.
You're definitely right. My point got a little side tracked by my own partially unfounded frustration. I'm just trying to say some level of abstraction is worth it. Not always, and not in every case, but at least in some. Yes the code wasn't written with abstraction in large part because it's old, but it would have been better if it had been.
There's a button with waves which I assumed at first was swimming but seems to also trace boat routes.
Chainweb: A Proof-Of-Work Parallel-Chain Architecture for Massive Throughput [pdf]
Net Neutrality explained in Whopper terms
What you say is all true, but its also a local maxima that we're all caught in. I think there's a critical threshold at which we could achieve accelerating good with computing instead of today's computing doing a lot of harm. What the path to that threshold is, is an interesting conversation to have.
I didn't criticize kids for their naivete. I was pointing out that I don't think that sort of naivete is something to aspire to. If a kid breaks something because they didn't think through the foreseeable consequences, I don't necessarily attribute that to malice. But I hold adults to a different standard and I don't consider avoiding destruction of public or private property to be an issue of "conservation" but one of respect for my neighbors.

I'm all for people trying to recapture the wonder and excitement of their youth. Maybe it was just two unfortunate examples that struck me as things that adults should not be aspiring to do...
Because placing the ability to destroy cities in the hands of a single individual is objectively a bad idea.
In that case file a Consumer Finance complaint, and/or bring them to court.
>A land deed for a farm in Wales

Hrm - does that technically mean you own that land now?
SSC had a great article on cost increases in a general sense. One of the more depressing articles I've read. Makes it sound like we are dying by a thousand papercuts.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost-...
The acrobatics people go through in order to consider themselves rich and successful.

There's a fashion term for this, essentially "low-end luxury" (that's not the term, I forget it). People that are not fabulously wealthy enough to say, hire a chauffeur, not even impressively wealthy enough to always rely on lyft or uber, are marginally wealthy enough to just not take the bus - so they stratify where and what they can as a metric of success.

High end fashion stores sell pendants, socks, scarves, belt buckles, and other minor mementos of wealth at sub-$100 prices (such as a $50 pair of socks). These are some of the most popular items because millions of consumers, if they so desired, could afford to spend $50 on something.

A single pair of socks with the most coveted luxury brand logo, for people who value such things, is a prized purchase.

edit: designer socks are genuinely 50bp (~$70 us) a pair (http://www.versace.com/gb/en-gb/men/accessories/socks/versac...)
> Well there's a notional $2.2bn worth of Tether that someone's holding on to, which is certainly enough to have got the price of a perceived buy-and-hold asset like BTC moving a lot.

This is what I don't get - who on Earth thinks that being long USDT is a good idea. Are they expecting the USD to dissapear? USDT to go to the moon?

I understand having to own USDT to get your money out of exchanges that don't deal with fiat... But you need a counterparty on the other side of the trade - someone who will give you perfectly good USD for USDT. How has that ecosystem managed to absorb $2.2bn?

Is anyone on Hacker News long USDT? If so, why?

Every time Bitcoin/Eth/etc is discussed, there's always people admitting to holding on to it because they expect it to increase in price. I don't agree with them, but that's speculation - you can still make money, even if you disagree with the fundamentals.

Why Tether? There's no speculative gains, and there's no fundamentals.
So far the quality has been better than ikea for me. CB2 is crate and barrel's 'urban' division.
Godot 3.0 game engine released
You're the one proposing the enumeration of affected programs and services and restarting them as a solution!! How is using a GUI a foreign concept? Are you debating the merits of a GUI in 2018?

In any case, my assumption here is we're trying to help the user and give them an easy way to know what to do, instead of leaving their software in an undefined state.
Why is accurate (by which you mean 'consistent') better than correct?
Here's an answer: no single human being, popular or unpopular with any group, should have the sole authority to commit a nation to a nuclear conflict.
Ask HN: Why don't I believe blockchain will change the world?
I've been watching all the buzz surrounding blockchain and cryptocurrencies over the last few months. I can't say that I understand all the technical details of blockchain (why POW, how/why miners, how a 51% attack works, etc). But I think I'm a reasonably intelligent person and I have been reading about the merits and use cases.

The problem I have is that after reading and thinking about it, I'm mostly in agreement with this article: https://hackernoon.com/ten-years-in-nobody-has-come-up-with-a-use-case-for-blockchain-ee98c180100. I think it's a neat idea and does have some use cases (especially for illicit transactions), but nothing like the hype that is surrounding it.

It seems that everywhere I'm looking, people are talking about how blockchain is going to change the world and people are starting ICO's left and right. The problem is that most of the applications I see don't really seem like they need blockchain and have some built-in speculation component. I feel like it's the current solution to a lack of effective business model.

I also have technical doubts. Example a 51% attack - While this maybe hard with Bitcoin because of the network size and age, I don't know about the other currencies/tokens. I'm also not clear how the coming wave of quantum computers will affect this technology.

But I keep seeing the articles coming - how blockchain is going to change everything - and my doubts are eating at me. How can I be so blind? It seems like everyone sees this truth except me (and the the guy that wrote that article and Warren Buffet).

Can the HN community point me to some articles or explain it to me so I can see the light? Does anyone else here have this problem?
After complaining to support that my bank account would not verify after I made a SEPA transfer, I suddenly had my coinbase account locked. A few days later, I got an email from support telling me my account had been locked for security reasons. I wasn't home so I couldn't do anything. The fun part is that, when back at home, I realized that my coinbase firefox tab was still open (after 2 weeks) (I had only 100$ on it, so I wasn't really careful). I was still logged in, and I was able to transfer those 100$ to uphold.
Nobody (even those who thought he was the devil) thought Obama was going to be reckless with nuclear weapons. So that is false equivalence.
> The reality is that the grid needs to work when there is no sun or wind for days or even weeks.

Renewables do not need to provide that capability today or tomorrow. Renewable penetration will take a few decades to reach that level where we have to worry about that and by that point storage will hopefully be up to the task. Right now just a few hours of storage is already enough to shave some peak demand off fossil fuel plants.
Sure a company might want to fund development of a proprietary way to reduce their costs but why would they want to make that available to their competitors in a global standard for free?
Tesla battery tech leader Ernest Villanueva leaves
Stop lying to me, email marketers
I'm not saying it's impossible. I'm saying I know of 0 reports of this happening - and if it had, I'd have heard, and I mean there's not even bitcoin advocates saying they've done it - and one well-documented one of failing to do so: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/12/05/bitfinex-rat...
OSM is just maps, there are plenty of routing tools available. I've used and been impressed by OSRM

http://map.project-osrm.org
I suppose if you have a very good camera, and are super-humanly precise at aiming the camera, and you have perfectly consistent lighting, then maybe.
Software Complexity is Employing Us
This mindset set me off writing my own. ;) It's been a lot of fun.
I'm in the same situation. I'd even be willing to pay a much higher transaction fee for them to resolve it, but they don't seem to care. I switched to Gemini and have been much happier with them.
Lol, gov and startups... all that’s missing is more tax revenues.
Am I the only one who thinks it is ironic that Elon Musk gives so much money to research regarding the existential threat of AI to humanity, while also basing a business on putting AI in devices that can so easily kill humans?
So your options if you don't want a computerized car are:

- Live in the country and get really good at repairing standard transmission cars and dodging emissions inspections, or

- Live in the city and get really good at dodging in general (it's a city, you'll learn that skill anyhow)
IME, the UI/UX distinction is almost entirely artificial buzzwording anyway. People either define UX so broadly that it loses any useful meaning, or sufficiently narrowly that it's just stuff good UI people were doing long before anyone started buzzwording it.

Similarly, you seem to be using a particularly narrow definition of "designer" here, as if the only people designing web UIs come from print backgrounds and the only thing covered by "design" is aesthetics.

If you have a team where you have someone from that mostly unrelated background doing your UI design, sure, they're obviously not going to make great decisions. But even then, there's still no reason to assume your programmers will do any better, unless those programmers happen to also have genuine UI design skills (which they certainly could, but it's mostly orthogonal to their role as programmers).
No, not really: if you take a picture of something, it won't have the exact same pixel values every time you take it. A QR code would be way easier.
Link between health spending and life expectancy: US is an outlier (2017)
And Elo, optimized for pencil+paper calculations, is obsolete for computer games. Glicko supersedes it.
For me it would be I only want my vehicle to update when I say so on a network I trust that is probably firewalled. I would prefer this rather than my car updating OTA via someone else's wifi or even the cellular network. This would reduce the risk of a hostile actor taking control of the vehicle when you are most vulnerable. When you're actually driving it.
What should really happen is mandatory mental health assessments for every president. They have physical health assessments. We need to stop stigmatizing mental health and treat it just like physical health. It's only a matter of time till we get someone with serious mental health issues during their term. Germany had a president who developed sever dementia.
> Here are a few, out of close to 180 standards: MP3 for digital music (1992), MPEG-2 for digital television (1994), MPEG-4 Visual for video on internet (1998), MP4 file format for mobile handsets (2001),

well mp3 was mostly frauenhofer, not mpeg (yes they created the standard, etc. but the most patentable work was done by the frauenhofer) also the date... on 1992 it was not (yet) called mp3. it's silly to actually name it in the mpeg sense...

Edit:
not a fan of mpeg, but if I would be them I would try to form a non profit and actually try to collect money like that instead of being a super duper not obvious big licensing company.
I mean H.265 was released in 2013 and it's still not as widely used as it could be and better fully open source alternatives emerge quicklier than ever.
I heard this interesting tidbit a while ago that fits your sentiments perfectly. Can't remember who to credit it to, unfortunately.

Software is really about codifying process -- pun completely intended. What happens is some slick new software comes along that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently. Then business complains about the 20% falling into the gap, and starts adding features to reduce that, thereby slowing down the processing. This keeps going, until someone has an idea and implements slick new software that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently...
Docker Compose and Typescript
It's scaled to 32x32 black and white. The pixel values don't have to be that similar, only reasonable close.
Sure it is, if you weaken the sign and make it lean, or even worse, fall. Adults brains are wired to not take those risks, even if they are unlikely, because they are dangerous and bad.

The kid has weaker arms, doesn't know the importance of the sign, and is vastly less likely to do damage. That's why we generally let them do it if they want to. But if 10 million adults all started doing it, you can bet there would be arrests.

It's not a bad thing that adults are less likely to go to town shaking stop signs uncontrollably. That would be risky and it's a-okay our brains know that.
If you read between the lines, this is an admission that patent licensing is now simply too complicated to make proprietary codecs viable. Especially when enabling an extra compression "profile" requires extra licenses.

Also, that the indirect value of having an open-licensed codec to the big players in AOM is far more than the possible license revenue.
There is a young man, probably a Navy officer, who accompanies the President. This young man has a black attaché case which contains the codes that are needed to fire nuclear weapons. I could see the President at a staff meeting considering nuclear war as an abstract question. He might conclude: “On SIOP Plan One, the decision is affirmative, Communicate the Alpha line XYZ.” Such jargon holds what is involved at a distance.

My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.

When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, “My God, that’s terrible. Having to kill someone would distort the President’s judgment. He might never push the button.”

Fisher, Roger. "Preventing Nuclear War", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1981)
TRUTH OUR MUSLIM BROTHERS WHO DID Not EXIST TILL 500 YEARS AFTER JESUS
isn't optimizing for "resume driven development" exactly building overly complex systems so you can say you worked on complex systems in your next interview?
> the very possible opportunity for 30k in one mass-hack exists

It's fortunate that terrorists are both very incompetent and very low in number. How else do you explain the fact that there's been exactly 1 very serious and successful foreign terror attack on US soil (the highest value target in the world) in the past 50-ish years?

Currently there's the very possible opportunity of a power grid/infrastructure attack that could kill tens of thousands. But nobody should be truly worried about it.

Terrorists just aren't that good at what they do. Why would they somehow be better at hacking cars than they are at anything else?
CVSS scores are like Ouija boards; you can make them say whatever you want them to say. I wouldn't take them too seriously.

That's not to say that this isn't a severe vulnerability, but rather that plenty of vulnerabilities that don't get a "10.0" are just as bad.

The pragmatic, conservative way to look at these kinds of announcements is:

* Assume any vulnerability that refers to memory corruption (really, "memory" of any sort not qualified by "reading", which is itself a pretty bad vulnerability) is remote code execution.

* Assume potential remote code execution is remote code execution.

* Assume remote code execution or denial of service is remote code execution.

* If the announcement doesn't clearly indicate that the vulnerability requires authentication to exploit, assume it's pre-auth.
I actually founded a company that does ML-based customer service alongside humans. https://www.abotlabs.com

If anybody at Coinbase wants to reach out, I can probably automate 20-50% of your queries with integrations into your backend systems. Email is in my profile.
You have a number of points I agree with, but I find other points troublesome.

For instance, the costs of censorship are, interestingly enough, also the costs of not censoring free speech. Slowed scientific progress (due to the rise of anti-intellectualism), emotional distress (pretty obvious how some types of free speech cause this), and atrocities (e.g. Charlotesville) could have been avoided through censorship. Those are the material costs of allowing unbridled, "hate group" free speech.

On a side note, I am very personally conflicted on this topic. It was strange to read your comment and strongly agree with some statements and then very strongly disagree other statements.
I always thought it was weird that when you sign up for coinbase they make it clear they will take a % of your transactions... like a bank! So where is the magic?
So they can get adoption in the market?

For example you need hardware acceleration for it to be a feasible alternative on mobile.
Therefore it's crucial to have a nice work culture. When employers only think of themselves, employees copy that. On the other hand the people doing the actual coding must also be able to learn something new, that's just how the technology world works. If the employers don't help with that, the employees are doomed eventually.
That was what I'd thought as well.

I'm not his biggest fan, but the level of hysteria that surrounds Trump is more amazing to me than almost anything he does.

The worst part of all this is, what many people don't seem to realise is, by acting out the way that they do, they only strengthen Trump's support with his core voters.

There was an article I read (that I'll try to find), that described how the Italians got rid of Berlusconi. I'll dig it up, because as the old saying goes, if you don't learn from history you're doomed to repeat it.

EDIT: Here's the aforementioned article...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/21/if-berlusconi-...

EDIT 2: Actually, I think it was this NYT article I was thinking of:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/opinion/the-right-way-...

I'll keep the Guardian article on this post for the additional comments on the parallels between Trump and Berlusconi.
> if all 7 billion people expressed that they believe "murder is wrong" this would not establish that murder is wrong.

How else do you propose we establish morality if not by consensus?
Ten days in Shenzhen
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. I'll redirect to my other comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16261510

"Software is really about codifying process -- pun completely intended. What happens is some slick new software comes along that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently. Then business complains about the 20% falling into the gap, and starts adding features to reduce that, thereby slowing down the processing. This keeps going, until someone has an idea and implements slick new software that implements that happy 80% path on the process, and does it quickly and efficiently..."
While I agree with the author about the undervalued risks of autonomous vehicles in the light of careless security practices his proposed solution is just insane.

In my opinion the demand for a government controlled kill switch in every piece of hardware that is somehow able to harm people is much more threatening in so many ways than the insecurity the author is trying to reduce. Just a few:

1. Based on the asumption, that ones current government/state is for the good of all people, what gives him the confidence that this will stay that way? What if your beloved government goes rogue? That's a lot power for an autocratic regime.

2. Why even trust the government in the first place with that kill switch? They are the same people which are careless about infrastructure critical ITSec since decades.

3. An univervsal security module which is highly standardized is a very profitable target. While the author is aware that finding an attack vector of one particular vehicle can mean that all vehicles of that type can be compromised, he doesn't come to the conclusion that the same logic applies to his security module.
> he would definitely lose to LAPACK on big problems, purely because of using Cramer's rule.

More importantly though, the code would probably take ages (as in, "age of the universe" ages) to compile, as Cramer's rule is O(n!) (using a naive implementation, I think one could get to O(n^4) if determinant was computed using LU factorization, but what's the point of Cramer's rule then...).
This is a damn shame. I wish his family well.

I had the pleasure of having worked with Shawn on a few projects. He was a fantastic person and engineer. On one occasion — and completely unprompted — he mailed me a 0.5 cubic meter box of stuffed Diffy-the-Kung-Fu-Code-Review-Cuckoo plushies to distribute about the office: https://www.gerritcodereview.com