skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks, yes, I was going to say the same thing.

Video is a supply- rather than demand-side phenomenon. Or rather, it's an interaction between publishers and advertisers rather than publishers and readers.
Some of the cryptocurrencies have a hard cap which makes them deflationary, other cryptocurrencies don't have a hard cap, which makes them inflationary and more similar to fiat. The deflationary cryptos will probably be seen as an asset to invest in while the inflationary cryptos will most probably be the coins which are used in day to day transactions.
I'm not surprised here to see comments here blaming them for using Gentoo in production, even though I argue that wasn't fully the cause of their outage. Hell, I use Gentoo on my personal boxen because I love it's package management, and even I winced when I read that. "Oh man, I hope they're keeping on top of their system administration. Damn, nope got bit by the libstd++ change, and the recent profile change. This is gonna be painful."
I feel incredibly lucky. In late November (IIRC), I was mulling over whether I should upgrade from an R9 270 to a better card that could manage VR someday. I sat on the thought for a week, unwanting to buy a graphics card at above MSRP. I finally pulled the trigger, as gaming is something I do a huge amount of, and I have disposable income that I really need to learn to not be so stingy with.

As of today, the card I bought costs over $720[0].

I paid just over $300

[0]: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V66483...
The gulf between free and $1 is vast. Do not underestimate it. I'd be surprised if the could convert 10% of their current user base to paying customers at any price.
I've been keeping an eye out on this study and had hoped there were more results, but this article hasn't said anything about that. Not sure where the no-self part comes in, but it looks like the article title has changed.

I've been listening to a lot of Adyashanti's talks and interviews lately. He's not saying anything substantially different from any other non-dual teacher is saying, though I find that he is very clear when he does speak about this. One of the things that come up is that the experience of "no-self" is different from "unity consciousness" and "identification with witness" though those are each awakenings and realizations someone might go through.

I wanted to note that because "no-self" is often confused with "unity consciousness", but what's clear from Adyashanti and some of the others is that the experience of a unity consciousness will still have a very subtle landing space, whereas "no self" doesn't even have that subtle self-referencing either.

Also, these people are experiencing "no-self" and "unity consciousness" as an integral part of their daily, ordinary experience, usually while simultaneously experiencing an individuated and relative sense of self. These are not altered consciousness in the sense that many psychonauts might speak of, or a one-time mystical or peak experience, and the experience itself is a lot simpler, if impossible to put into words.
It's unfortunate that a short passage from an article not even written by either of the authors of Mu would be taken as evidence that SCB thought that strictness was better than laziness.
I encourage you to just enter the working group and engage them via whatever medium they're using. There's nothing to lose, really, and much potential win for both them and you.
That page makes it seem like only the Thermostat has Farsight. You mention smoke alarms.

I do know that my Nest Protects (smoke alarms) have motion detection though. Very handy nightlight in the middle of the night. Though if tied into the sole source of an alarm system I know it'd be a problem because my dogs can activate the nightlights in the Protects.

Pets really make home security hard, I'd bet.
That is of course correct from a technical perspective, but not from a trust perspective. I can’t remember that Apple has done anything like that on purpose. Sure, devs get wild, people hack, but I’d never expect them to do this systematically. With amazon, I’m not so sure. But maybe that’s just me
chbl wrote: "Ten strangers that are almost certainly not technical, since lawyers always try to dismiss smart people from juries"

The point is that smart people are not always dismissed. Different legal strategies work better with different jury selections.
2015 MBP, I upgraded because I got tired of being nagged. I haven't noticed a single difference. I don't use OSX apps generally, most of my time is spent in Firefox/iTerm/Sublime.
I have been waiting for some kind of audio fingerprinting for security systems for years. Though personally I'd prefer a training model which would also let you teach the device other sounds (like "this beeping means the stove is on"), I'd rather be able to set up notifications for those, but even having my phone tell me "I heard breaking glass at home" is a start. Otherwise I don't see much here that is new, presumably there's still no voice recognition on the non-wake-word speech (it's just noticing there are people around, talking to each other, or that you talk to yourself, your pet, etc).
Are you suggesting we stop 'hoping' (I don't hope investors act morally, I expect the regulatory apparatus to force them to, or penalize accordingly) altogether?

Sure, I hope HSBC won't launder money for Mexican Cartels.
And when they do, I hope that some world government decides to toss the executives in jail and fine the company out of existence.
And yes, when the settlement is just a slap-on-the-wrist-fine, a low VP getting canned, and the execs sitting pretty I hope for a return in the guillotine.
And they all hope that I get fed up with hoping and become hopeless.

Is that what you hope as well?
Soros and his ilk; he likes strife and hides behind his philanthropy to misdirect his exploitation of markets and people's fears; are simply upset they don't control social media as they used too. If they had not lost their recent political bets we would hear nothing of this issue and instead have heaps of praise about how these now vilified outlets actually saved democracy.

never believe anyone on the political stage let alone those who manipulated it from behind the curtains. these people know how to tailor the image and views they want you to have and prey of petty jealously to simple irrational dislikes.
Or 3) just don't worry about it
George Soros is a self-appointed alchemist and currency trader.

Powerful and wealthy currency traders, going back since the very invention of moneychanging, have routinely made their fortunes by either waiting and hoping they're lucky enough to have the surfboard ready for massive geopolitical tsunamis... or by being proactive and intentionally creating geopolitical volatility with social engineering, cultural destabilization, and semantic apocalypse.

Pathological altruists often whine about war profiteering, but even that sordid business is downstream of and part of a brilliant and comprehensive currency traders arsenal.

HackerNews is so goddamned disingenuously oblivious to the realities of currency trading and the thousands of years of misery it makes possible.

Soros did break the Bank of England and is finally citing my work almost by name in this article, so... I guess I'm a forex princeling nao? :D
I think the thing here is that Amazon is trying to fill a lack of capacity. There have been times where Amazon has effectively exceed delivery bandwidth in some places.

I’d imagine they are thinking that bad shipping is better than no shipping and try to improve from there.
i think the article misses some details. from what i understand, here's how alexa operates in the superbowl ad context:

- ad plays on tv

- alexa hears its name

- alexa sees that name contains the digital fingerprint

- (maybe alexa sends this to amzn servers so they know how may people r watching the sb & have alexa on)

- alexa stops listening for additional commands

therefore alexa is still only listening for its name
Even within; between funding sources or position switches, you might lose access to your institution's library, or your institution might be small with significant gaps in their subscriptions.

Ultimately, Sci-hub is often an easier and more pleasant way to get papers you have legitimate access to. At this point, I don't think there's anyone in my department that doesn't use Sci-hub from time to time. It's basically expected that anyone on filing fees for dissertation writing will use sci-hub rather than go through the hassle of requesting a special library access code (since they're no longer 'paying/earning' tuition).

There's no going back.
They've never been focused on P2P and have made that clear to users--obviously they didn't hear, "Be your own bank." when that was said.
There are lots of other options too like LizardFS:

https://lizardfs.com

Seems really nice and easy to deploy.
To the extent that grass is well adapted to beig walked on, that just makes it easier to avoid leaving visible signs of walking on it.

But lawns are largely decorative, which is why people with lawns also tend to have more durable (e.g., concrete) walkways connecting the front entrance of the home to the sidewalk (if present) or curb.
I love MPC-HC and still use it on a Win 7 box plugged into my TV but sadly it is no longer actively developed[1]. Because I strictly use it for local videos and don't run anything remote through it I don't worry too much about the lack of updates. But I imagine a day will come when it will no longer work on some new version of Windows.

[1] https://mpc-hc.org/2017/07/16/1.7.13-released-and-farewell/
> These barriers may not be artificial, but they are real.

Real and non-artificial? Could it be?! :P
The US dollar isn't "stable" and "predictable".
Multiple Inheritance in JS – Part 2
works with ad blockers now
And they probably have to.

The quality of delivery services went downhill in the last years. :/
I unplug it when I don't want to listen to music or put together a shopping list.

Also, I wouldn't have one if it wasn't given as a gift. I can't believe these are even for sale. They are clearly not ready for consumers. Nearly 90% of the commands I try to give result in Alexa not knowing or misunderstanding. Why should anyone pay to beta-test the product?
> Did you ever think when stuff like this come out there is some guy at the NSA going "Damn it, there goes another one"

Maybe the opposite. Have other spend time on something that has little practical use given the actual utility instead of spending budget dollars on something else.
Chris Wallis, author of Tantra Illuminated had written to clarify what makes someone a "tantric master", specifically, one is a master of self. I think that is a useful distinction when you are searching for guidance.

Another way to look at it is something I've heard Adyashanti (another teacher) spoke about in an interview on batgap.com -- someone's relationship with their teacher is often a reflection of of their relationship with the whole of the spiritual search, whether that be idealization or cynicism, both responses to that searching for perfection.
Up vote for "science-heave", did you say that on purpose?

"What happens when one scientist goes head to head with EXTREME SHARK ATTACKS!!!11???" heave

Am I the only one who thinks pop-science shows have gone down hill a bit since reality tv came in to fashion? When I was younger Nova seemed like a dignified scholarly affair, but these days it seems like something always has to be exploding or attacking. Maybe it's just nostalgia...
In an abstract sense (meaning, not coupled to the current economic situation), the journals provide archival services.

This may include scanning old publications, OCR'ing them, and making them available for search and retrieval; a service which wasn't expected when the research was done.

This may include continuing content curation. I have sent corrections to a journal because their system contained incorrect information, such as in incomplete title. In one case they combined two letters to the editor into a single DOI entry, and needed to break it into two. They have staff which can handle those corrections, and those staff need to be paid.

They may also provide addition search capabilities beyond the free ones available from, say, Google Scholar, and they may update the interfaces for improved usability and for better integration with tools like citation managers.

While I don't see how those activities justify the current high prices, I disagree with the idea that public funding for the original research means there should be no additional funding for continued archiving and access.
Thank you for this information. So the bottom line is that, when comparing to more traditional distros, it's a lot of work to do it right.
No offense, "my video collection" is vague. What are you trying to watch? With which applications? Like, do file file_name_of_file_which_doesnt_work and post it here, or on their forums. For MPEG2 and VC-1 you need a license key for hardware acceleration. [1] They already give you a H264 license with the device but I think the default ffmpeg doesn't have support for OpenMAX by default. So you gotta compile ffmpeg with that. Instructions are on the forums.

[1] http://www.raspberrypi.com/license-keys/
Amazon’s ambition is getting a little, hmm, out of hand. Eventually Amazon has to split up its businesses into multiple subsidies like Alphabet and Google. It is dangerous for a single company to hold such high valuation forever. Although I have to admit, Amazon’s top managment seems very competent... perhaps I am wrong about the whole danger.
The only item on my wishlist is a tiny 100KB daemon with a status bar icon to watch for mail so I don't need to keep a 150MB behemoth open in the background all day. Otherwise Thunderbird is already more than I'll ever want from an email client. Calendars, contact managers, and other nonsense should really be independent programs cooperating via IPC.
If I am correctly recalling a conversation I had with Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins on IRC a couple years back, Portage was originally intended as a tool for building binary packages, not necessarily the end-user package management.

As for reproducibility when building from source, that depends on your practices. Is every box a special snowflake with it's own USE flags and package set? Well then yes, good luck with reproducibility. Or are you standardizing your targets and building one package to deploy to them all?
As long as they were otherwise able to contribute to the team, which is what should have been found out in the interview. That's what the boot camps are selling. The gaps in CS knowledge were what the article is saying was one of, if not the, deciding factor in choosing a CS grad over a boot camp grad.
> // We are using doubles (64-bits precision),

> // so you would expect Zero

> // or 1e-1000 ....

The smallest number that can be represented with a normal double precision number is approximately 1e-308 (with subnormal numbers you can get 1e-324), so 1e-1000 is completely unrealistic.

But each calculation is done with a precision of approximately 15 digits, not 308 digits. In particular, if you see 0.87 the actual number is something like

0.8700000000000002365426121879219

0.87000000000000094383991287

0.87000000000000026190262019827

I'm too lazy to lookup the exact number, but the error is something like 1e-15.

Moreover, each calculation is rounded with approximately a precision of 15 digits. So the most optimistic possibility is to get a result that has approximately 15 accurate digits, not 300 or 1000 accurate digits

But in this example you are repeating the addition N = 4000000 times. With some hand waving and unsupported assumptions, you can estimate that if each sum has a relative error of 1e-15 and you sum 4e6 of them, the final relative error will be 4e-9. [You shouldn't add relative errors ...]

The final value of RxN in the example is 3480000.00030716, so the relative error is 0.00030716/3480000 = 8.8e-11 that is 100 smaller that my easy hand waving argument. So it's time to use wild guess ...

a) You are lucky and the error is smaller. ???

b) The rounding is sometimes upwards and sometimes downwards (look the details in the standard) and they somehow cancel. [If they were random the error would grow as sqrt(N) instead of N.] ???

c) In the first 1000000 iterations the value of RxN is smaller, so the same relative error gives a smaller absolute error. So we can ignore the error in the first millions of iterations. ???

I'm not sure if a), b) or c) is the better explanation, but an error of 1/1e11 is not surprising for me.
When was the last time you actually comparison shopped? I don't find Amazon's prices to be particularly great in those categories, more than "average to poor." Your "free two day shipping" isn't free, it's prepaid.

For electronics, for example, I find that Newegg provides much better service and lightning fast shipping at compatible prices.

Also "stores" deliver too (target.com, walmart.com, bestbuy.com, etc).
> So, it's not spent from your wallet?

Huh? I think this comment shows you don't know what a hardware wallet is. When I spend bitcoin, I spend it using my hardware wallet.

> If it can be used to gain access to your wallet, then how is writing it down safe?

You need a passphrase along with the security words to figure out the private key. Passphrase = something long that I can easily remember.
Completely agree with this. I'm working on a startup with a somewhat legacy codebase where we're not following any of these practices, and it's completely a mess.

For example, the only way to know something happened is when the public website goes down, and when that happens I have to stop what I'm doing to SSH into the server, read journald logs to try to find out what happened, and tell that to the devs. Only recently I decided to just pipe them to a public log file and let other devs do their thing with that just so I can focus on my tasks.

Higher ups just won't let us invest time on setting up proper logging because "there are other priorities".

There's also a lot of dead code, files where some lines have 20+ trailing spaces, JWT sessions with our custom invalidation tracking, a hand-made XML parser (wtf)... It's honestly a complete mess, and I don't expect this startup to survive even a month when it's launched.

So much could have been better had they followed these practices from the beginning, instead of ignoring all 8 of them.
OpenBoard – An interactive whiteboard for schools and universities
I chuckled too, but mainly because he didn't download the most recent exe file and tried syncing to his own out of sync node when he could have more easily used a lightnode. It was almost like he was going out of his way to make it difficult. Hmmm, wonder why he'd do that?
The mechanics of transactions worked for currency purposes, but the fundamental architecture of bitcoin has always been hostile to its use as money.

The fixed coin payouts per block, the halving every four years, and the eventual final and finite fixed supply, combined with arbitrary blocksize limits means bitcoin was always designed to hit its limits at 2014 transaction volume.

I traded btc back then for the novelty and bought stuff with it in physical and digital to say I did, but even then the architecture promoted hoarding over spending, and anyone using bitcoin as a currency then is likely lamenting the things they traded it for now which is just about rule 0 of how to make a dysfunctional money.

The crpytocurrency that is actually a currency is one that can use its design to promote its practicality as money - the goal should be no fees, instant signature ledgers that don't consume power on national scales, and an adaptive but predictable algorithm for money creation that can respond to the market to try to keep the currency stable - when transaction volume and coin turnover are high the currency is inflating so you want to reduce minting to try to curtail the effect. When money slows down and starts squatting in wallets you turn up printing to drive deflation.

Anything else in my mind at this point is just a cash grab using the proven mechanisms of bitcoin and an out of control hype train to rob people.
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"taxing physically, mentally and emotionally" it's supposed to be "Rewarding, stress leaving, and healthy" human contact is important. If you have had some shitty relationships re-evaluate where you are shopping for dates.
I use https://github.com/pulb/mailnag for "simple mail watching", does the job and features a discrete icon and/or a sound notification. Frontends available for Shell or Unity.
Google has an in-house litigation team that would have already been on payroll. Sure they had to pay for expert witnesses and court fees, but the total would be far less than what they settled for
Ask HN: What are the chances that we'll see a dominant Open AR platform?
I'm asking because right now it looks like we'll end up with another walled garden.
Fortnite  PUBG, Activision's 4B Microtransactions, and the Cost of Saffron
> lawyers always try to dismiss smart people from juries?

Lawyers don't “always try to dismiss smart people from juries”, or even try to identify smart people.

They do try to remove people that they expect will be more likely than average to be unfavorably inclined to their client or specific arguments, or that they expect to be a wildcard because they will be unable to restrict themselves to the courtroom presentation.

Neither of those, in general, is particularly correlated with intelligence.
Recently I complained that UPS left a valuable package at the end of my long, and somewhat snowy but recently plowed driveway. The oil deliver, the USPS, and the plumber were all able to make it up the driveway.

The response I got from UPS was pathetic and passive aggressive: my driver will no longer even try to get up my driveway.

I suspect Amazon gets a lot of similar complaints with similarly unsatisfactory outcomes.
That actually doesn't sound like a terrible idea. Structured markup in the email could be parsed by a client that knew what it was, and other clients would just have a folder of emails with contact info in them.
Except the left/liberal side (as defined in US terms) mostly rejects the extremes.

The right/conservatives have turned a blind eye toward (and in some cases wholly embraced) their "fever swamp".

The truth is not in the middle.
Bitfinex’ed Twitter Suspension, and Bitfinex and Tether Updates
I agree with you, logically, but with most men it's not about what's logical, it's about emotions. You somehow feel attracted to someone and you feel desire to do different things with them. This complex and powerful feeling makes certain things extremely rewarding. So much that some people get totally conditioned by that.

On the other hand, if you don't have that feeling, or if it's not that intense, you're right. The company of people you have nothing common with makes very little sense. It would be awkward to do things against yourself.
CNCF’s Vitess Scales MySQL with the Help of Kubernetes
Thank you, that's a very interesting point. I suppose shared hosting providers already do their own builds of PHP, MySQL, Apache, etc. so a distro that's designed for that can work well.
AWS only goes up to 9.6.5 - I don't know that PL/v8 is the reason for that.
I'm not super interested in debating this philosophy and your response reads to me as pretty flippant and entitled, so I'll bow out. I hope you receive everything you're entitled to.
These new techs do not "exploit the same mental vunlerabilities that addictive drugs utilize" in any meaningful sense. Everything positive from learning to driving to reading a book has a similar effect and it is going beyond rational discussion to try to argue FB and drugs are the same or even similar.
Finding it pretty hard to muster up any kind of empathy for millionaire professional athletes.
Hmm I'm a bit confused. Why did they decide to do this ?
The Complete Web Developer in 2018: Zero to Mastery
"I want to do more of this type of thinking that focuses not on if but when."

It involves shipping a lot of bugs so brace yourself.