skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Empirically speaking there's already four verticals where blockchain is dominating (in terms of market share growth YoY):

1- Illegal goods [The deep web]
2- Fundraising (both good for individuals who previously could not act as angel investors and rip the xx,xxx% returns because of wealthy discrepancies and good for companies who do not need to drink 75 coffees with VCs) [Companies: Ethereum]
3- From fundraising thru blockchain-based assets came out a new speculative open 24/7 international market [Companies: Exchanges]
4- As an additional form to store of value (Like 1-digit % of your belongings). A blockchain-based asset it's divisible, easily transportable, encrypted and finite. Possibly it also serves an use like gold in the aerospace and electronic industry.

There's also one more vertical that will eventually be dominated by the blockchain:
Micro Transactions. If a transaction costs 0.00001 cent, then you can easily buy data for 1 cent a piece. Something akin to IOTA (or a working version of IOTA itself) will inevitably be built with a trillion devices connected to the internet. Banks wont ever be able to process 0.00001 transactions.
Al Jazeera Might Have to Register as a Foreign Agent
Given the eagerness of the CPS to prosecute, seems like paranoia was a good strategy, no? There's some hidden agenda here, and it's hard to believe it's something as mundane as CPS bloke doesn't want a new case before he retires when emails conveniently get "deleted". I think you can expect better from lawyers. But it's especially galling for a lawyer who works for the government, they should have procedures to retain this information.

The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is fleeing to the UK, who's government isn't known for it's integrity.
And, in the most heavily-impacted areas such as Verdun, they estimate that it will take not less than 700 years to clear the areas, at the present rate.
Ok, but then a very simple approach would do just fine, where you show a warning (instead of blocking the user).
I thought that the statue of limitations requires you to not leave or flee. Since he's in the embassy, isn't he technically on foreign soil?
The fundamental problem here seems to be that Conversations doesn't run on iOS, so it's hardly a realistic option even if there was some reason to choose it over Signal.
That's a good point. Crypto could definitely serve a purpose in areas where there is runaway inflation or instability, if they are easier to get ahold of than another currency.
Empire: an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress.

>It does however have states that are second-class citizens

Colony: a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

>lots of other countries which are independent but also to some extent economically and militarily subordinate, in which the US State Department feels entitled to influence policy
Um, I think I said nothing of the kind. I believe you need to reconsider how you approach different topics. People are free to move about these days you know.
> Justify most features by data.
What kind of data do you mean: data related to "this is something the customer wants", or "we've done studies showing this shade of blue has XYZ effect", or...well, I hope you get the idea. An example of what you mean would be interesting.
IndexedDB may be backed by SQLite. I think it likely is in Firefox?
They already look like idiots.
How many such "entirely different elements" are there?
I know people consider it condescending if they are actually a competent programmer. However as a person that has done hiring I can't tell you how many people have a CS degree that they supposedly attended school and passed(as in their credentials check out) but can't even do the FizzBuzz test.

Once time for fun I used one of those online code collaboration tools. I had a couple of "programmers" that were still actively working on the Fizzbuzz question 4 hours later. I went to lunch and forgot about it after I came back until the end of the day and realized there were still people working....
I generally agree. But we've had customers who share an email address, whether businesses or personal, who want distinct accounts on our site.
Depends upon folks' mood. This is generally a serious forum. Humor does better if part of a real point being make (not just a throwaway post).

Also, jokes come thru very poorly via typed text.
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Ask HN: Where do I start in Machine Learning?
I am a beginner and a little confused as words like AI/ML/Data Science are thrown at me as in everybody should have a degree in each of those fields by the time they graduate. Researching a little bit on the internet overwhelms me with the number and kinds of resources that exist.

I am average with mathematics. What is the most appropriate approach to take so that I get to learn the applied mathematics along with Machine Learning and be able to reason myself into why the system behaves the way it does?

I am good with programming.

I would love texts' recommendations in ML with applied mathematical background explained in detail.
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Brain structure mediates the association between height and cognitive ability
Not to mention that since people aren't actually conducting business exclusively in bitcoin they are forced to transfer back to fiat currency constantly which is a transaction that has all the same risks.
Him skipping bail is a UK crime he has committed and is wanted for.
Someone at Dell/HPE headquarter - When can we start selling "Integrated TPU" machines. ;)

Google aspiring to be leader in Cloud machine learning. Let's do On Premise.
a wiki?
> Banks wont ever be able to process 0.00001 transactions

Why not? Nobody processes at that quantum because no demand has been shown for the service. Blockchains are inherently less efficient than the databases modern financial systems run on. That tradeoff is core to the technology.
More details: https://cloud.google.com/billing/docs/resources/vat-overview
The author makes the point that the proof-of-work is expensive enough to have the transaction costs still too high to compete with the current financial environment.

I do not send money to my wife on bitcoin, I use venmo or bank accounts and it is free and immediate.
Do you actually live near London City Airport? I live a mile away from there and the noise level over here in Woolwich is negligible. Perhaps we're not under the flight path.

I used to live in the flight path of another airport but even there the noise from road traffic was orders of magnitude worse than any noise from air traffic.

That said, I don't doubt that some people are badly affected.
"robust and well implemented"...

... links to a twitter comment.
I f*ing hate clickbait titles more than anything, AND THEY PISS ME OFF!
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Do inner city schools play basketball outside? Although, I can see maintaining a hockey rink has increased costs over a basketball court.
> "... not exactly the middle of nowhere."

Anecdotally, a of my friend moved from the Bay Area to Fresno and explicitly claims it's in the middle of nowhere.
Wouldn't you be a little salty if the runner up for President of the United States once asked if she could order your extrajudicial killing because she didn't like what you were saying about her?
Scary possibility: what if there is no good formal theory to explain how it works? What if intelligence, both animal and machine, is purely random trial and error and "this thing seems to work"?

I don't believe that's true necessarily, but it will sure hamper the authors hopes.
Yes but blockchain also introduced a new risk, or magnified it. Your funds can get stolen without you knowing about it and there's nothing you can do.

That cannot happen with a bank account.
It works for us, with GitHub private repos. We already have each repo checked out locally, though, so perhaps git is already aware of our credentials?

Also, it may not be hanging but merely running for a very long time. Sometimes I'll start dep, then head to lunch.

It's … not the fastest thing ever.
And fairly regularly French farmworkers are killed by ww1 shells - there is also a similar area near Berlin with a lot of unexploded ww2 ordinance
This is brilliant and evil: LuckyFizz!

Quick nit: FizzBuzz is supposed to print the number if not printing Fizz, Buzz, or FizzBuzz. So the output is not correct.
Asking for references is one thing, but this “citation needed<EOF>” trope is growing old. It’s dismissive , and as lazy as it accuses the poster of being. It’s flippant and disrespectful.

Let me put it this way: if someone then does provide citations, it suddenly sounds harsh, and could do with an apology. But in that case, why not be civil to begin with? Like you were, for example.

Or, if you’re actually interested in the pursuit of truth, why not try and truly contribute by spending 30 seconds looking for references yourself, and adding those??
Oh yeah, dictatorships are famously irony-free.

cough Democratic People’s Republic of Korea cough
Airports usually suffer heavy contamination from fuel dumping and exhaust, so it's not really somewhere you'd want to build a home. Normally these get turned into garbage dumps or similar usage, to reclaim it you'd need to scrape off a good chunk of topsoil for miles around.
He was charged with rape and molestation. Those are crimes. But if you want to call them "infractions" I suppose that is up to you.

To look at your logic in the reverse direction, you are basically implying that in light of Assange's political activity he cannot be credibly accused of any crime, because it will be a false accusation trumped up by state actors.

That doesn't stand up to any logical scrutiny. Just because it could be the case doesn't mean that it is. It doesn't mean it isn't either, but you can't just assume it is because it is "strikingly convenient".
Not the greatest solution, but you should be able to compile to asm.js or WebAssembly.
Many investment opportunities are closed off to willing participants by government regulation, investment minimums, transaction costs and other factors.

Looking at most (not all) of the non-currency alt coins, there is clearly demand for cheap access to new investment opportunities. Yes, a lot of people are going to lose to scams, some have already. At the same time distributed ledgers do solve a very real "access" problem.

Similarly, contracts and banking have not integrated well with the technologies most business uses. Yes, Stripe has reduced payments friction beautifully, and Paypal has brought credit applications and approvals to the checkout process. But big dollar transactions that use Letters of Credit, structured loans, milestone payments, etc... these areas have few programmatic solutions.

Smart contracts are a fast approaching solution to this need, they have no analog in the conventional commercial world, and yes - they will be a game changer.

If my customers can issue an irrevocable L/C, denominated in Etherium for example, that is self executing based on terms mutually agreed in advance, then my business will chose that route over lengthy and expensive bank L/C's. It also means we'd probably choose Quantstamp for contract security, and perhaps SALT Lending to fund the Ether, and possibly expend BNB to covert the currency into Litecoin for storage until such time as we convert to fiat.

That is the promised ecosystem. It is no more expensive or complex than the universe that surrounded EDI, or that describes most business process integrations in common use today.

Its just difficult to look at all this from both a business and programmatic point-of-view simultaneously.
China's advantages to a booming economy in the early 2000s are all withering away, however. Demographics: China is actually projected to have less than 800M population by 2100. Foreign direct investment: leaving to higher growth areas like India and Vietnam, partly also due to capital controls. Cheap labor: wage inflation is causing manufacturing to move out of China. Large labor force: China will have one of the oldest population by 2050, with working forces retiring. Tech growth: surveillance, great firewall, pollution, economy slowdown will spur talents to leave China.
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Are you thinking of WebSQL? I don't remember a SQLite interface client-side in any browser.

Well, yes and no. The whole problem with WebSQL was that it effectively meant using SQLite and never anything else that wasn't completely bug compatible.

So the whole problem with WebSQL was that it was, de facto, a web standard built around giving an SQLite interface client-side.
>Banks wont ever be able to process 0.00001 transactions.

My bank is processing 0 cent transactions and IIRC in Q3 they're going to support SCT Instant, meaning the bank transfers will take under a minute within the SEPA area while still being 0 cent cost.
> Now I am curious — what are programming clothes?

For me, slacks & a button-down shirt with an open collar. Not as constricted as a coat & tie or jeans, not as uncomfortably exposed as a T-shirt & shorts: slacks & a shirt feel Just Right™ to me.
Russian Nuclear Scientists Got Busted for Mining Bitcoin Using Supercomputers
I remember that incident quite well. But cases like this (or worse than this) are luckily a rare exception given the number of bombs that are found.
The Ryzen 7 2700U and Ryzen 5 2500U have integrated Vega GPUs.
A water-cooled Vickers or Spandau barrel with its cooling jacket is a similar diameter
Drillers turn to big data in the hunt for more, cheaper oil
Programming Journal: Call for Essays
I completely agree. It would set a terrible example. Thing I find annoying the most, is that as there is no US extradition warrant placed, if he did come out he'd probably do 18 months for missing bail and be released. If the US wanted him, really wanted him then they would have a warrant out now for him.

EDIT : Down voters - why are you down voting? Are you down voting because I've made an error or breached the posting guidelines or just because you don't agree with me?
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> I think that the area where you want fault-tolerance the most is decentralized cash.

...Really? That's one application, sure, but I hardly think it compares to the generalizable usage of cryptographic fault-tolerance assurance in distributed systems. I would consider the elimination of trusted third parties in more well-established and widely used cryptographic protocols (like CAa) or improvements to e.g. NTP node fault-tolerance to be more presently and practically useful than decentralized payments (in particular, because blockchains are much more useful for the former examples than the latter in the present day).

> Many people don't care about it today but there are those who do. That's why cryptocurrency is the real killer app for blockchain, like it or not.

I don't have an emotional investment in what use case becomes the most successful for blockchains in perpetuity, so it isn't a matter of "liking" or "not liking" any particular application. Rather, I'm speaking in terms of present facts, and purposely not making any points about the future.

Sure, people could become passionate en masse about seizing control of their assets in a decentralized, trustless, permissionless, etc systems. I'm not discounting that possibility. But in the present case, blockchains exhibit far more utility for resolving hard problems in domains of computer science than they do for cryptocurrencies.

> To your comments re bitcoin, it sounds to me like somebody complaining that Internet is slow back in the 90s/00s.

I never considered the internet slow in either of those decades because it was all I knew. More to the point, I think you mistake me for someone who is bearish on cryptocurrencies or blockchains in general - I'm emphatically not. I just think that Bitcoin is not going to be the actual winner for that use case, and regardless of future innovations, it is pretty clearly not succeeding now, either, for the reasons I've already outlined.
What about the argument that since email is built atop an open standard, you can (theoretically) migrate to different email servers and clients, but with Slack, your "organizational memory" is owned by Slack?
Yeah but you can get Eurostar tickets for £59 too.

Whereas going to Marseille's airport is a right pain.
Sure, but that's got to be a massive download. Probably not really an option for most sites.
Professional blockchain researcher. Huh?

From the witer's bio:

I’m a PhD student at Aalto School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. In general, I’m interested in evolution – specifically, how complex entities evolve over time.

FWIW, those who are shut out of centrally managed payment systems most definitely understand the point of Bitcoin. For example, see this recent article on Sci-Hub:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/8/16985666/alexandra-elbakya...
>> Modern settlement and clearing is efficient.

If this is true, why oh why does it take 3 days (in the US) to transfer funds between my own accounts in two different banks?

Why does it take 5-15 days (including multiple "fraud" verification emails, calls etc) to send money from the US to my Indian bank account?

>> ...it is certainly the easiest to upgrade.

It is 2018... why are these systems not upgraded yet?
So, sticks and skates as more equipment than football.

Although, someone pointed out elsewhere that good skates can be expensive and requires maintenance. I didn't consider costs of keeping skates sharp. But I'm still curious as to why high-quality expensive equipment is required specifically for hockey when it seems to me that every other sport has a large number of kids with substandard equipment. Do hockey players not use hand-me-downs or used equipment?
If you as a service provider can't accept that you shouldn't be offering those free trials / benefits at all. This isn't an issue.
cTDP down to 46W sounds about OK for a "workstation"-type laptop.

Unclear whether it will be BGA-packaged though.
Could be. But if it were a really big issue, I'd think that the minimum process size could be reduced, which might be a useful change in any case. After all, on the first Unix system I used, 64K was the MAXIMUM process size...

The point is that there are always tradeoffs, whose resolution is affected by how important an issue is perceived to be.
> Unfortunately for this central value proposition of blockchain, there is no lack of trusted enough intermediaries in the financial/accounting sector.

I am not sure if _lack_ of trusted intermediaries is the issue here. The problem is with their current form and shape, not with the lack of trust.

Blockchain is trying to reshape how the trust _works_ not its lack or abundance.
It explains a lot in the startup/tech industry though.
The point about the blockchain is to create physical properties (scarcity) in an otherwise abundant digital space.

Think TCP/IP + History (blockchain) that's the value.
A very common limit around the entire US is the municipality-wide building height restriction.

Basically, the city outlaws any building taller than 40' above grade at its highest point. Between that, and minimum setbacks from the frontage line and other property lines, 90% of the work to prevent densification is already done. Once a building plan has grown to completely fill its legal envelope, there's nowhere else to go but down, and that becomes prohibitively expensive fast.

The remaining 10% can be handled by mandating a minimum square footage per residential unit that is slightly more than half the theoretical maximum from a building at maximum height and minimum height on the mean lot size for that zone. Then no amount of building up or out can allow you to squeeze another unit onto your property. You have to resort to tricks like lowering ceiling heights.

If you enact a law at the state level that triggers automatic lessening of restrictions on building heights or setbacks every time a municipality fails to grow enough housing, zoning boards will be a lot more tractable when a developer wants to build.
A lot of things about this piece irk me but probably the two biggest ones are 1) the author kind of doxes the PT guy. Yeah he revealed his name on FB but he clearly preferred to keep it anonymous so I think it's wrong to be throwing his name around. 2) a lot of this is grasping for literary connection and some kind of academic prowess. Primitive Technology as a name is not an oxymoron. He's creating technology...that is primitive. Why complicate things.

Kind of ruining a great channel here.
Russian weapons engineers caught ­­­­minting blockchange with supercomputer
Agreed. The + thing probably is "only" unfriendly to powerusers, but stripping dots can easily get in the way. Several of my e-mail addresses have "duplicates" that just differ in a dot and are owned by entirely different people.
Apple’s iOS 12 strategy: Take more time to squash the bugs
Reacting to website failure: A foolproof process (infographic)
Any UI change large enough to be an overhaul is likely to get the same kind of reaction as people go through whatever learning curve there is to using the new interface. Overtime people just get used to it and the new interface becomes the interface. Admittedly I wasn't scrutinizing the whole rollout of the several bemoaned Facebook overhauls but I don't really remember them really changing much of the design once it was pushed out.
Scientists identify hundreds of atomically thin materials
I'd like to give this a shot. Have any promo codes available? Thank you!
The state is diverse, but perhaps typically the people with serious power are far less diverse. There are many voices, but only a subset get to be heard in a way that matters.
I don't think he was "fleeing". When he left Sweden, the issue seemed closed, and he was just going on about his life - had tons of contacts in the UK so he went there to continue his work. He was constantly jumping from country to country before this; it just happened that he was in the UK when Ms. Ny escalated proceedings.

But yeah, we've seen over and over in the last decade that the UK is one of the last countries you want to be in, if you have anything to do with cybersecurity and digital rights. Assange, the Guardian computers after Snowden, the Snoopers' Charter, DNS censorship...
Yeah, Mozilla killed it out of concerns that there was only one implementation (which admittedly has some quirks)...so the question was, do we standardize SQLite and all its quirks? That didn't seem like a good option to them. Plus this is the heyday of nosql fanboi-ism, so you have all the sheep at mozilla clamoring for NoSQL in the browser. "Devs don't want SQL" Mozilla said.

It's hard to say which reason was more compelling for Mozilla, but my gut feeling is that they were betting hard on NoSQL and came up with convenient technical justifications afterwards.
No, I'm just asking questions trying to understand how it is that hockey is apparently the most expensive sport for kids and only the highly privileged kids get to play.

I don't understand all this negativity I'm getting by just asking questions. A person couldn't possibly propose a solution to a problem without asking questions first.
No paywall link:

https://archive.fo/XeXLZ