skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but that's not what we're talking about is it?

I'm happy to switch the discussion to Lightning.

As a consumer, I don't always need to be online. I can open my channel and only come online when I want to send a payment to a merchant.

As a merchant, I need to be online only when accepting payments. I also need to monitor my open channels to make sure no one's trying to cheat. To monitor a channel, I would need to check roughly once per day -- though I could require channels created with me take 4 weeks to close if I desired.
The defining moment for me was Sandy Hook, when it was "decided" that the murder of 20 six to seven year olds was an acceptable "but regrettable" price for the freedom to bear arms.
Wearable scanners will be able to read our minds
This was absolutely amazing! Reminds me of lambda maths a lot.
American Revolutionary War death toll 25,000 people who believed in scenario B
> A trivial example: government funding for any abortions I might have is of zero value to me, since as a dude, I'm not likely to fall pregnant any time soon.

For young men, especially poor young men, this is an absolutely terrible example (child support laws, for example).
They have. It’s called Mapbox GL, it’s fully open source and there’s a whole open source ecosystem around it.
The solution to arming the teachers would be purely opt-in, as in, remove legal barriers to teachers defending themselves and their students. I'm not suggesting any sort of new program.
Venezuelan here.

This won't work.

Our problems go way beyond having a way to store our wealth

It's literally impossible to do bitcoin transactions in normal circunstances because this is not San Francisco and your regular store doesn't even have internet access, we have one of the worts internet acess in the world [1].

Then there is the problem created by the violence/crime[2]. I myself have to leave my phone at home everytime I go out, there is no way to take public transportation regulary without suffering a robery, it's just so common that it became a meme within Venezuelans.

There has been so many cases where people has been killed over the most stupid and trivial things to the point that if you google from venezuela "lo mataron por ______" (Murdered because ____) you get pages and pages of crazy reasons of why venezuelans have killed other venezuelans. Fast examples:

Murdered for playing carnival (throwing water ballons to other ppl during carnival, venezuelan tradition) https://www.el-carabobeno.com/lo-mataron-de-un-disparo-por-j...

Murdered to steal 60$ he had on his pocket: http://runrun.es/nacional/337760/monitordevictimas-mataron-a...

So now imagine someone figures out that I have bitcoins and that they have a value of lets say 300$. There is no fucking way I will risk my life that way.

So in order to use bitcoin in Venezuela i have to do this:

1. Risk my life by having to pull my phone or using my phone outside.

2. Risk my life by letting others know that I own/hold bitcoin.

The merchant has to:

1. Fight all the problems to be able to accept it (electricity problems, internet access).

2. Hope that someone doesnt just come into your store and steal your hardware.

3. Gov crazy actions.

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[1] http://www.speedtest.net/global-index/venezuela

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Venezuela
i agree totally, perfumes are almost exclusively suffocating. i feel like there's this arms race going on, where you get used to one level if fragrance and then a more potent one lures in people, and now the cover ups are getting pretty close to at least as bad as the stinks they're trying to cover up.
Fired Google Engineer Loses Diversity Memo Challenge
The author is making an excuse for not including an intro chapter and tool in his book to get the reader to a place where they can start using the book. My sixth grader checked-out a Python game programming book from the school library. He was able to install all the tools necessary to follow along and learn from the book.

Today you have Google, Youtube and every programming language available from scratch to assembler at your fingertips. There is no way it is "harder".

Yea the C64 dropped you into basic. But this was my first experience on a Commodore 64:

"Play A Game"
-Syntax Error

"Play a Game of Chess"
-Syntax Error

"Let's play Global Thermonuclear War"
-Syntax Error
oh I agree, and understand. You lose compile time enforced type safety against nulls when you approximate it, and I do think it is the right approach to use option types instead of null, and that more languages should do this.

But it is just one parameter of a thousand affecting how easy it is to write good code, it sometimes has runtime costs.
First thing I thought after reading the headline was "another windows user complaining about updates" and i think that's just how it is after reading the whole article. The author shows up some problematic points of the development of handling updates. But if he spend the time thinking about these problems in actively doing something about it, there only would be a few things left to complain about.
I'm sure there are some services that are not replaceable and use update methods like mentioned in the article. But this doesn't happens by accident. If the developes of a service choose such update methods, either it's likely that you can see some other problematic decisions the developers made, or the old service you are trying to run is not safe to run and has to be updated before it's safe to run.
As i notice such problematic decisions, I avoid these services or search for alternatives before I would complain about it, and this never happend.
NC stands for "Naked Capitalism," the Web site on which the linked article appears.
Meet the Amygdala of the Self-Driving Car
Desert Essence tea tree vegetable soap bar is also really excellent. It has only a mild smell going on, and leaves no scent behind. Also a killer lather and lasts a long time.

Their liquid soap.. no so good, doesn't lather well and doesn't go the distance.
> Any reason why the Venezuelan Government would continue to keep SMS BTC transactions live?

How would they stop them?

I could send the transaction via carrier pigeon if I really needed to. I can encode them however I please.
I mean, I'd own a gun or two if it wasn't such a hassle to get them. Just for fun. But as it is, I can just go to the local shooting range on the weekend and be done with it.
I do appreciate your response, and it certainly sounds like you were between a rock and a hard place.

The end user experience, not so great.
Just cut the Bronners with water 1:1 or 1:3 and that liter of soap will last a looooong time.
OK, so gather signatures and organize more funding?

Dynamics of mass transit infrastructure in the Seattle region is dominated by a multi-decade absence of adequate funding and building. Seattle spent several decades through the mid-20th century in decline, but even as jobs and residents started flowing back (beginning in the '80s) Seattle nevertheless squandered additional decades failing to build out infrastructure. Only recently has that changed, and the process has to overcome a reluctance towards taxation and government spending in the area (Seattle specifically has very low taxation levels compared to a city of its size) and the deep hole of those lost decades. The only way to counteract not building up transit for decades is either spending decades building up transit or taking a hard short-term financial hit to accelerate the process.
Who said they did nothing to stop it? If you would like there are plenty of reports about tactics used. Primarily, any initial entry into one government system they would use to snowball access to others, largely by spear-phishing attacks using government emails to gain higher level and wider access through legitimate accounts. By that time, it's a cat and mouse game.

I'm not sure about your anecdote regarding alleged surprise. The only surprise I really caught were the public reactions to the news.
Our brain is designed to prioritized comfort, there is nothing crazy about it. In a society decreasing material constraints and increasing opportunities to be in ones comfort zone, you will see it more and more.

The problem is that most of the fulfilling things in life exist outside of our comfort zone. Hence we have a society full of comfortable unhappy people.

It's ironic, given that the previous generations were unhappy because of the lack of comfort.
I would assume he has WAY more responsibilities than just reading stories.

That said, I agree on the evictions front. One of the worst things I saw in the debate about evictions in SF was tenants getting compensation based on how much their rent would go up post-eviction -- so they're PUNISHING landlords for letting tenants have cheap rent for decades??
The problem with Venezuela isn't just inflation. Inflation is a symptom of the political and economical chaos they are going through. Before you can attempt to fix their inflation you need to first get them out of the borderline civil war they are going through.

This is also not the first time I see these suggestions that bitcoin is going to solve all of Venezuela's troubles. Overall these suggestions strike me as foreign bitcoin holders hoping that the venezuelans will push up the value of their speculative investment.
>Making a big deal over that stuff is hypocritical given US actions abroad over the past hundred years, but that's a separate issue.

How is it a "separate issue"? It seems to me the entirety of the issue. If you park in front of my house every day for a hundred years and block my driveway, you have forfeited the right to cry foul when I park in front of your house and block your driveway. By your actions (which are far, far more important than hollow rhetoric) you have declared that this behavior is completely legitimate. Your habitual and repeated engagement in the proscribed behavior has precluded you from credibly complaining about said behavior. Those who can't wrap their minds around the concept of moral authority and reciprocation simply cry, "whataboutism". Spreading foreign propaganda and influencing foreign elections (both kinetically via invasions and subversively via NGOs, funding and other methods) is not only "something we do" - its been the main thrust of our foreign policy for over a century. This is especially important in this case, because not only is this true as a general principle, but specifically as regards Russia. Our interference with Russian elections (actual interference, not a few twitter posts) is substantial and has been well-documented.

>Last winter Yeltsin's approval ratings were in the single digits. There are many reasons for his change in fortune, but a crucial one has remained a secret. For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,136204,...
Careful, last time I made this argument here I lost over 100 karma
Looks like AntMiner S5 runs at 350Mhz, and this interference is at 700Mhz. Also 700Mhz in cell phones is relatively new.
Exactly! Making mass transit more feasible as a primary method of commuting requires more affordable housing near where people work.
You can rebind caps lock to escape.
Apple's CPUs were affected. They're ARM based: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208394

AMD's press release on their susceptibility to Spectre:
https://www.amd.com/en/corporate/speculative-execution
> If OSM had a mapping solution like Google's, it would thrive.

It does, it’s called Mapbox.

Plus a number of excellent smaller providers - Thunderforest, Geofabrik, Graphhopper etc.
All your post submissions are for that domain. Your post history has several off-topic replies with links to that domain. I assume you're just shamelessly spamming us with that site?
You don't necessarily need a massive sample size to make a solid conclusion, depending on the effect size. You can use statistics to control your error rates.
That's pretty disingenuous though, given that FB and Google both track you across the net whether you have an account with them or not.
Logging out of your account doesn't stop them or increase the difficulty of them tracking you, or associating that trail with you.
I attempted to do an offline map with OSM/Mapbox/etc. I found out that it's a major bother even if you're willing to pay someone for the data.

Project got canceled so I don't have a final opinion, but i'll avoid OSM next time...
I find just going on a walk makes such a huge difference compared to nothing at all. Every little bit helps.
Both of the opinion columns you posted seem to allege nefarious intent because classified information wasn't broadcast to the public during an attack and subsequent investigation. I'm not sure what your assertion is.
For me, if I don't use deodorant for a couple of days I can really smell myself. Doesn't help to wash with or without soap either, I almost smell worse after soaping when not using deodorant.

But it does take a few days for the smell to kick in.
I originally wrote "extreme" but thought someone might take offense at the use of such a loaded term. Sometimes there's no winning, I guess.
Yes it is definitely true that coming to a nearly-complete understand of Go is very very easy compared to Rust, F#, or Nim.

I haven't used it with teams of people on any way yet but I imagine it makes it somewhat easier to drop into code that isn't yours and understand it. There are less ways to create voodoo. Which can be a pro or a con, depending!
The dictionary of definition DEFINITELY does. (Caps for emphasis, not yelling.)
Not at MSFT but no. Easter Eggs aren’t worth the security risk of added code.

See ‘Trustworthy Computing’ initiative from the 2000s.
Leisure is defined as all non-working hours ("non-market time" in the paper). Household chores, taking care of kids, etc. is all considered leisure hour activity in economic data.

In this analysis, the researchers include 7 hours per day to sleeping/eating: "We include a sub-set of time spent on eating, sleeping, and personal care (ESP) in leisure. In particular, we treat 7 hours per day as non-discretionary ESP, and the residual as leisure."

So they're really looking at the breakdown between labor and everything else in an average 17 hour day.

http://glossary.econguru.com/economic-term/leisure
>> While one of the primary goals of crisis preparedness is to develop a sense of empowerment and control, armed assailant drills not conducted appropriately may cause physical and psychological harm to students, staff, and the overall learning environment.

This is the most interesting comment in the article. The purpose of a school is to introduce a functioning person to the society. How long will it take till kids feel school shootings are a norm, they are terrified or worse a viable approach to release your frustrations and end your life.

I don't think people realize the effect various solutions have to future generations. One could consider Metal detectors in schools as a stepping stone to feeling it is normal to be considered as a threat by the society as a kid and ok to be watched by the Big Brother. (Where I grew up, I remember they added a fence at some point and people were negative (on average) as "it will make kids feel like they are, or it is acceptable, to be caged and not free citizens." To that society, saying you are doing a shooting drill will appear as a post-apocalyptic universe idea.)

P.S. FYI gun ownership is high in that area (from hunting rifles to operational WWII assault rifles).
You criticize society from within society, not from some cave in the desert. Well, maybe if you can leave a scroll for future generations to misinterpret. Also, just because you find some things wrong with society doesn't mean you want to ditch all of it.
tl;dr: stainless steel reacts with the stuff that makes onions, garlic and fish smell, thereby neutralising that particular odor.

So scrubbing yourself with stainless steel can replace soap but not deodorant. Unless you're literally rubbing steel particles onto your skin there's no lasting effect, it just kills the smells (if they are sulfur-based).

EDIT: of course this assumes you trust the article to be scientifically accurate.
How white nationalists fooled the media about Florida shooter
> , part of the team working on a cryptocurrency called Nano

Please, stop shilling.
Insurance does not cover it unfortunately
If you could choose between bolivares and some valuable cryptocurrency, what would you choose?
The point is, the one thing they respond to is bad PR -- when it gets bad enough.

They have the financial resources to do a move into this field -- or most any field -- right.

Until they actually demonstrate doing so, they deserve the continued criticism.

Still waiting on my Android updates, so I can turn wifi back on on my 6 month old phone. And I'd have them, if my year and a bit old Nexus 5x hadn't bootlooped.

Google Fiber got one town away, and crapped out. Granted, they don't "owe" me service, in that case. But another venture we started hoping in, effectively snuffed out.

As for self-driving cars, I spent 3+ months helping someone get back on their feet, who'd lost their license. Uber were a real "godsend" for her. But at the same time, I watched Uber breaking regulations and grabbing marketshare by burning investor dollars, pushing towards an effective monopoly or duopoloy. The exit strategy for same apparently being to switch to self-driving vehicles to reduce costs, before their runway ran out. Dumping all their "non-employee" drivers at that point.

And learning more about how drivers, especially after eating vehicle expenses and such, weren't actually making that much. And this at a time when, eventually, "free market" Republicans were pushing to take away the primary health care option (the ACA) available to those drivers who actually pursued the work as a full-time job.

And that person whom Uber helped out, turned out to be as big a user as they are. A rather symbolic synergy, in anecdote.

Meantime, Uber now proposes [yes, that change in verb case is intentional] that they have an effective monopoly on driverless vehicles in urban areas.

Yeah, so I've been paying a bit of attention to this.

Now, some effective competition would be nice. And my parents are going to need it, pretty soon.

But they're my parents, and they're going to need more than the typical Google level of non-support. They already have that with their smartphones.

So, if Google wants to do this, they should... Well, I think it was actually better when the engineers ran the place. Things would get missed, but once they were pointed out, the engineers would honestly -- if not always effectively -- be interested in addressing them. Problem solvers.

Whatever's going on with Google, now, it seems to transcend the "why doesn't everyone just understand this" mindset.

If you're going to have thousands upon thousands of vehicles interacting with ordinary people including a lot of seniors who are more or less just "getting by" with their phones. Well, then, you'd better provide some effective human oversight and involvement, down to the customer level.

When I call Google Fi, I get actual U.S. based associates who seem, some at least, relatively smart and engaged. That's a start.

Next up, stand behind your product. Doesn't matter who made it, you're selling it. And for those pointy-haired bosses: Yes, "goodwill" does have a value -- to accountants, even.
Downvoted for asking what is the evidence?
One refreshing thing with a language w/o classes and inheritance is that you aren't worried about having the design make use of those features. That's one problem I had with C#. I was constantly redesigning my class hierarchy instead of getting things done.
Agreed -- it's going away on the next update. The only reason it's there in the first place is that it's built in to the template.
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/

Already happening. But everyone called RMS a kook. He looks funny. He talks funny. He's a socialist. He smells. And here we are. People are praising Apple--Apple--for letting people pay money for closed software that, at the very least, lives on their own device.

That's a low bar.
Indeed. I felt into this trap as well. I had to run 2 marathons before I realized it was too much for me, and stepped down to only running for the exercice.

If you always overdo it, it will not stick. And continuity is the most important part.
Thanks! I am comfortable using Docker so I'll try to come up with a Kubernetes + AWS project.
to answer you question, with water and your fingers, right? i wash with soap, but i don't put soap up my ass, (or on my face, or in my eyes...)
Negligible... I run an APU1 w/ dual WLAN cards, and am using all of the internal NICs, and running a pile of services on it. It uses less power than a light bulb, even under full load.
Fascinating story but disappointing uninterested article.
Yep, the money part was easy. Even back then most assets were sitting in a vault and on offshore bank accounts.
True. But we are not the average consumer. We know better and can make an informed decision.
I love OneBusAway -- thanks for your work! We've got it in active use in Detroit, powering 100s of thousands of requests a day. Wish I could contribute to the core (I'm not a java dev) but it's a truly impactful system.
https://cloud.google.com/spanner/ and the open-source https://www.cockroachlabs.com/product/cockroachdb/ both provide scalable ACID transactions; however, both introduce added latency compared to traditional databases.
The evolutionary legacy of having been prey
You're getting a lot of flak for this from people suggesting it's not proven.

Just to add to the anecdata, I've known for some time that if I rub my fingertips on a stainless steel spoon after cutting garlic it greatly reduces the smell. This doesn't seem to work with a wooden or plastic spoon.
Except for the fact that facebook tracks you even if you do not nor have ever created an account. We can survive without facebook, but it is a leech that cannot survive without our data.
How does facebook and google track me if I, say, install ublock or adblock?
Thanks. I actually don't think blockchains are all that interesting a technology, but the hysterical mania around them is interesting from an economic and psychological perspective. When will the bubble burst? I'm serious that I would actually consider working in this field for awhile to understand exactly how insane it is.

You're absolutely right that some people are honest-but-confused. In fact, I think particularly with large firms, they're all just shit scared about this newfangled blockchain thing and they all know their competitors are investigating it so they desperately want to get in on it before they're destroyed by it. Unfortunately, I think their manic pivot towards blockchain is a very bad move long-term. It would actually take more bravery on their part not to waste resources investigating it.

And again, you are right. It's hilarious to watch them reinvent the wheel. Often, the penny drops that they don't want to really have a bitcoin-like blockchain, so they accidentally reinvent either a Wikipedia or a Github. Github in particular you could (and they do) argue is a chain of blocks of data, so a blockchain. It's like cutting off the hump of a camel and then calling it a next generation horse: it kinda works, but it's not originally designed for that, so why not just use a horse?
That's unappealing, but car fumes, noise and using up 1/4th of the city isn't all that appealing either, not to mention accidents are worse. You just get used to it if you live in a big city, probably like how people got used to horses and manure.
This guy definitely knows better
Well these are the terms of using the site. You are not entitled to anything.
Pleasanton USD now blocks all ports except 80 and 443