skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Wit token plays a really important role in the network, so we want its initial distribution to be as fair as possible. We want it to end up in the hands of its end users (developers), not speculators.

That's we we're conducting a highly compliant token offering open to the general public through the Republic crowdfunding platform:

https://republic.co/witnet
Here Maps is great for offline, unlike Google Maps you can search for POIs and will generate routes offline.
You should try Gentoo Studio, very nice 64-bit desktop real-time Linux audio production, based on Gentoo (duh). Works very well.
Though I agree trying it yourself provides little useful information, your broader statement is still confusing.

An individuals reaction to stimulants varies based on a large number of factors. Though age may be one of the factors, it is not a large enough one to say "children react differently than adults." If they did react differently, stimulants being common for both children and adults with ADHD wouldn't make sense.

I mean no disrespect here, but might you have misremembered things doctors said about "your children" and changed it to all children? As people with ADHD do generally react differently to stimulants, with drowsiness being a common side effect.
Lawlessness also produces some good things, that people like. Most people are not fuundamentalists, so idk if libertarians looking for theoretical purity are all that relevant (especially here in europe).

One of the things lawlessness produced was internationalization and de-censorship of media. That hasn't been without cost, we've had several (mostly failed, but still) political revolutions as a consequence, from Cairo to Hong Kong. At the heart of it was the ungovernability. Countries had to deal with a more or less "take-it-or-leave-it" proposition. China was the first to really break out of that restriction, and I don't think it's a coincidence that (a) a powerful country led the charge or that (b) political cencorship was the leading reason.

Another benefit (again, in my view) was a relatively open playing field, commercially. We're worried about power concentrating in the few hands fo FB, Google, and such. But, the internet economy is still a lot higher resolution than most other markets. The big markets are usually highly concentrated (eg, supermarkets, FMCGs, financial services, media, logistics, transport...) or practically confined to small scale niches: local services, real estate...

I think we've been getting cynical about this as the winners dig in, but the internet really has been a place where part time tinkerers could compete with $bn mammoths.

This is not an anarchist statement, or part of an overarching political ideology. There are, as you say, tradeoffs. There are choices that can create more or less good or bad.

Anyway, lets not count chickens just yet. We've seen China regulate the internet effectively for political control and industry protectionism. We've yet to see any country be effective on privacy. We've got the GDPR playing out this year. We've got a more active courts & legislatures. Lets see if privacy actually improves.

The worst case scenario is that we end upp with all the negative trade-offs, but all we end up with is a privacy bureaucracy that doesn't affect privacy much.

remember that we've seen one (IMO) embarrassing failure go unacknowledged: the cookie law. We got nag screens and compliance audits. We didn't get any privacy.
(Taleb) What Do I Mean by Skin in the Game? My Own Version
All men killed by drones count as combatants.
Nerds and men with wizard beards near loads of young women, almost all of whom are still in high school. Men with lower than average social skills, grooming and attendance to the normal rituals of social behaviour. American high school stuff, basically.
While Turkey was only a half-democacy before, the current situation is far worse than in the 90's up until about 2008. Post-coup era 80's can maybe a good comparison, but the generals did leave power on their own, and free elections did take place. They won't now, for the foreseeable future.
He's... preaching. https://balkanist.net/the-islamic-sex-cult-supporting-turkey...

> Followers of Harun Yahya wear drag make-up and practice a “sexed-up, Disney version of Islam” that helps promote conservative Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s vision of a modern, Muslim Turkey.

Of course, he also writes for the Huffington Post: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/harun-yahya
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62.7% of the US population lives in just 3.5% of land area: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2015/cb15-33....
a sale or merger of the company. maybe a company like MSFT or Google would buy it, along with all the data. just think of the integration opportunities!
I don't think corruption is the worry so much here, it's the erosion of the rule of law when regulators and courts are seen to bask in the popularity of enforcing the law against certain high-profile targets, especially when the perception is that this target has been particularly zealously pursued, instead of dryly and boringly applying the law equally to everybody without passion.

That erosion is not corruption on its own, but can lead to it.
But is in this case an EU institution selecting FB or a civil rights organization selecting the biggest offender?
If the citizens complain about FB and going after justice why are you asking the citizens to find first other smaller and non US company that maybe did much less damage and start with them. Citizens should have the right to demand justice for illegal behavior of US company that makes business in EU without having the other camp calling protectionism.

It is like the Microsoft anti competition case would not take place until we find some small non US OS vendor to punish first so the Americans won't get upset.
SQLite3 Hash Code 2018
The physical version brings a level of ritual/ceremony that I suspect is helpful. It's the discussion and change out of the digital into physical that's more value than the colorful output I suspect.
Hello !

I've been looking ath the HASHCODE 2018 competition and got interested on the problem proposition:

Task
Given a list of pre-booked rides in a city and a fleet of self-driving vehicles, assign the rides to vehicles, so
that riders get to their destinations on time.

For every ride that finishes on time (or early), you will earn points proportional to the distance of that ride;
plus an additional bonus if the ride also started precisely on time.

It took me a while to get something working and at end I saw that I was basically using sqlite3 capabilities to do the data manipulation tasks and only needed a few calculations for the rest.

So I tried to see if I also could make those calculations inside sqlite3 and after a while I could get it to work:

https://github.com/mingodad/sqlite3-hashcode-2018/blob/maste...

As I stated there:

By no means I claim that solutions like this (stretching sqlite3) are good practice. Take it as an example that demonstrates several capabilities of sqlite3 in a hack/compact way.

So I'm showing it here just in case it can help/invite other people to find imaginative ways where sqlite3 can be used to solve problems.

Cheers !
He died in the late 80s

A lot of people don't live that long even without exposure to radiation or coal dust.
My thoughts exactly. A day of reckoning is coming.
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You missed the part where it's unencrypted HTTP traffic. So, any 'malicious party' sitting at a café with free wifi.
The GP said nothing about startups, though. They were only talking about access to a good Internet connection at a reasonable price. Not to mention, GOOG etc. is not a startup, is it?

Anyway, going on this tangent, Europe is different. We've had our share of global domination already (which was expensive and unsustainable in the long run), as well as our share of innovation-by-any-means-necessary (which resulted, among other things, in pollution and WWI). We've decided we don't really need either to live a good life. We can still easily buy whatever innovation you come up with if it proves to be safe and useful. We're happy to leave beta-testing to others.
Stupid ones are.
Yeah but the great-GP's statement is incorrect if he means the European Union as it is now, so he logically must mean something else, e.g. EU before the 2004/2007 enlargement (he might not know that it happened, the most corrupt countries joined during those and thus moved the average) etc. He also might've meant the EU as in the organization itself which is a completely different meaning with completely different results.
I just use sessions, backed by cookies.

I find with JWTs you end up dealing with cookies in the end, because on browsers you're definitely going to want to persist the token in a cookie so the user can have access in between requests.

Also, for the apps I develop, I often need to request the current user from a persisted database, so I'm doing a DB lookup on every request no matter what. Sure, I could cache this request in Redis but even on apps that have had to do this hundreds of thousands of times a month, it never caused any performance issues reading it directly from Postgres.
If you care about privacy I would suggest uMatrix. Block all JS and cookies by default and manually whitelist domains.
"The privacy lawsuit dates back to 2015 when the Belgium privacy watchdog brought a civil suit against Facebook for its near invisible tracking of non-users via social plug-ins and the like.
[…]
The same year, after failing to obtain adequate responses to its concerns, the Belgian Privacy Commission decided to take Facebook to court over one of them: How it deploys tracking cookies and social plug-ins on third-party websites to track the internet activity of users and non-users."

If I go to the police to complain that my neighbour is spying on me, it's only natural that the police only investigates that neighbour.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515299 via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16515310
> If you do try, it's a straight path to extraordinary renditions, drone strikes, assassinations and other such joyous things. I'm not saying that it has to lead to this, but it could, it did in the past, and we've instituted a rule to prevent that.

Could you elaborate?
So it wasn't a desert after all, and all those people claiming 'all' of LA's problems are due to idiots building a city in the desert are just... false?
EU is working for years on laws to protect the citizens rights from this internet companies, the laws take years to be created and when done are announced and it also takes a long period of time before the laws will start to apply.

Do you prefer that we create laws for fixing problems that do not exist yet?
I am starting to wonder if this concept simply works better for some viewers than others. I seem to always very deeply notice that the shape of the head is always sort of wrong... I'm wondering if I use "shape of head and typical hairstyle" as a major way I recognize people. Maybe other people are really focussing on facial features like "lips eyes and nose"? Honestly, what I keep thinking when I see stuff like this is "this just looks like Paul Rudd wearing a lot of makeup" not "this looks like Jimmy Fallon with a narrower head and a different hairstyle".
That model has a downside for the customer: the company has no incentive to invest to upgrade your speed, as you already pay them the one fixed amount.
Not tracking users.

From what I understand, the GDPR also disallows denying users access to a site if they don't consent to an unrelated data collection.
An API should always take a transaction object as one of its parameters. This allows you to safely run multiple services inside a single atomic transaction. Without this possibility, complexity inevitably ensues.
Seems like there are an awful lot of journalists being jailed for anything you say to be true.
Exactly! That, and actually ordering the bricks on Bricklink and implementing Lego workstream visualization for your dev-team. :)
You're confounding two entirely different things: media bias and the scientific process. The whole problem is that the media filters data that fit their agenda, even if its half-baked and incomplete. Then, when more info appears, if it contradicts the media's bias then they won't report it. They turn a blind eye to the facts and keep parttong their talking points.
Which regularisation techniques have you got in mind?
He never said it is not over-hyped. Most people who work in the field think it is over-hyped.
Standards, ethics and legality are unconnected.
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You’re just handing over unearned power and status to whoever happens to speak the dialect you’re formalizing around.
Brown here... I dropped out of Engineering at least in part because the maths was too hard, and in CS I skipped several of the more maths-based classes and concentrated on programming, operating systems, and networks. Basically my maths never progressed a good high school level, and by 2011 it had certainly taken some steps back. I don't even consider myself to have the standard of an amateur mathematician. (It's only since I got into psychology, and hence regression, that I have learned what an eigenvalue is.)
:hug:
Explicit consent is the principle I'm most curious (and pessimistic) about. It's one of those things that are very easy to describe in everyday terms, but almost impossible for legal enforcement to work with.

There are rules about things banks have to inform you of, or pharmaceuticals. On the academic side, this can be effective. Disclosure and making information public. On the consumer side it is almost always disingenuous. Small print meticulously written by compliance officers and reviewed by regulators. No one seems capable of stepping back and asking "are consumers better informed."

When internet service X wants you to know your card is about to expire, they make sure that you are informed. When a regulator wants you to be informed about cookies.... we get small print, and a nag screen making us promise that we read it.
What a twist of fate. I find myself holding your exact same thoughts, but yet I try to mimic the community and "fit in."

All I'm saying is that Citadel is no Rennaisance. It's not LTCM or Medallion. Maybe it's like Boston, but sure it ain't as beneficial as the valley. If there were spoiler tags, I would tell you what I really think, but I don't want to be a Pats fan at a Steelers game.
Christianity doesn't dictate a political ordering (it's highly uncorrelated with Western Capitalism however!), nor does it demand subjugation of people of other religions, and none, as Islam does (in the Koran and Hadith, and in Islamic states).

Christianity has no physical constraints; nowhere you have to go, nothing you have to do (beyond the initial acceptance of salvation, which is spiritual), no particular foods to eat, no particular clothes to wear, no particular people to venerate.

Mohammed was a warlord who took up political power ferverently; Jesus only association with violence is in stopping it, and he never sought any political power.

Roman Catholicism and Papistry perhaps resembles Islam somewhat, but that's in contradiction to the New Testament.
> Sometimes you don't have cookies? Like with mobile apps.

A cookie is just an HTTP header. Any mobile app that can speak HTTP can use cookies.
Avoiding taxes does not lead to less military spending. Amazon and GE usually pay less federal taxes than the average US citizen but have plenty of lobbyists shoving money into politicians' pockets, just like most defense contractors.

You're better off fighting the influence of money in politics if you want your taxes to be well spent

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I would 100% do that commute if, like him, I had my own prop plane. Flying is awesome.
I'm pretty sure Medium at one point was a decent low level solution to the problem they set out to solve - it just doesn't scale to the multi million/billion dollar solution the founders wanted.
> And they have gone to vote in unusually high numbers ( 73%, never seen before! ).

In 2013 we reached 75% and in 2008 80% (http://www.ilsole24ore.com/speciali/2018/elezioni/risultati/...), so it was seen before. Still, given this election was one day only, it's an impressive result.
For anybody scrolling through... the Lockharts Lament link is worth the read!
> I would really like to see someone come up with a standard English

I think that would be easier if you everyone agreed who'd set the default:

- the most (Indian English)

- the most powerful (the US) or

- the closest to the root (the British)
Do you think that the code that tracks loggedin and not loggedin users differs much? I assume is the same tracking code, but if you are not loggedin FB and Google will give you an unique ID but after that they collect same data, they will need to add some code for merging data if they find that 2 different IDs are the same person.

I am not defending FB, my point is that you do not need an army of geniuses to extend the tracking to everyone.
> GDPR requires consent to be freely given. If customer A rejects the terms and you "walk away" and deny the service, then if customer B clicks accept, you still can't interpret it as freely given consent and nothing customer B does will give you the permission to process customer B's data.

Are we conflating two things here?

There are agreements which you ask the customer to sign which are required to provide the service: e.g "In order to send you the goods you required, you have to give us your postal address. These must only be used for the purposes of the business - you can't sell the addresses, without consent.

Then there are consents which are for non-essentials. e.g "We would also like to send you our newsletter and for that you need to give us your e-mail address".

The agreements are things that everyone needs to sign in order for you to carry out the business with them. Consents are the optional things and should be separated out.

Or am I misunderstanding you?
You could say that Google Fiber was a response to Comcast's announcement of its intent to acquire NBC in December 2009.

Google makes no money if they can't show ads to people, and at the time Comcast and friends controlled Google's access to a majority of US audiences that Google's customers (advertisers) wanted their ads in front of. Advertising in the US was more than half of Google's revenue then. Comcast had the only network nationally capable of reliably delivering video and video ads, which was prioritized for growth within Google around then.

I think there was a real fear within Google about the leverage Comcast and other national ISP's had over them. TLS wasn't common, and advertisers weren't nearly as interested in mobile audiences in 2010: wireless data use was a fraction of what it is now. A well-capitalized Comcast without the regulatory restrictions of AT&T or Verizon could create existential trouble for Google if they really wanted to. Google Fiber could have been Google's way of showing they'd be willing to play hardball if it came to that. Any positive PR that came from it was a great bonus, but they almost certainly never made money from Google Fiber.
You're right, I think I was just getting a bit carried away on my soap box.
Democracy failed repeatedly in Europe and has really only been in place throughout the west for a little over half a century and is under sustained attack from within and without right now.

For centuries, Christianity was believed to be incompatible with democracy _by Christians_, keep in mind.
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This is news to whom, exactly?
Have you tried lazy loading as it is implemented specifically in Medium, while on a slow connection? (Just head out to Medium, find a post that has several pictures, and then you can simulate being a slow connection using developer tools). Basically the previews are completely useless (just an unintelligible, extremely blurry splash of colour without shape or form) and they are not progressive (not many intermediate steps between the initial splash of colour and the final picture, so you have to wait a long time anyway to even figure out if you are interested into that particular picture or not), in addition it seems to be computationally expensive (whild guess: perhaps because of the overdone gaussian blur effect), which you notice when you try to scroll and the scroll motion becomes choppy (even though I'm on a gaming PC with decent specs). I much prefer the "blocky" look that many other lazy loading solutions have, rather than the blurry look in Medium, because with the blocky look you are more likely to guess what's depicted in the photo.
And all Russia-based criminals, bots and trolls will be off the global Internet too? Really? Promise?
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One page checkout vs. multiple page checkout
I read a lot about this one page checkout addon. As per the store owners, it helps to increase the conversion rate. is it true?
Generally that may be true, but in Switzerland they are so much better than the competition (big phone/cable companies), that it doesn't matter.
There's a simple solution to this really - force ISPs to charge the same price to everyone. The fact that there are different prices in different areas is really weird and I don't think it happens in any other country.
>- it was on by default. You shouldn't have to 'opt-out' of invasive surveillance.

Conmppanies did not liked when IE did this but I think the solution would be simple,
when you start the browser for the first time you will be asked if you want to get tracked or not, you will have 2 big buttons to chose.

Then FB. Google and others should ask the users to switch this because they want to track you on a different website and explain to the users why.
No, especially five years on. :-)

Seriously, there's no obvious way to do this in a "quick run-through" that is quicker than what we wrote. Look at the calculations in our article on arXiv (and if necessary, look up the 1962 Lorenz article and find the relevant equations). 2.9013 is actually an abbreviation for a recurring decimal representation of a rational number(!), which on its own ought to be a sign that something is wrong.
I am talking about the Prestashop one page checkout addon by Knowband.
Are you referring to these?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_School_Mathematics_C...

I'm not in the US, but both of those seem to be greatly focused on the curriculum. OP is instead talking about the style of teaching and learning, which could be applied to practically any curriculum.
Your interpretation of Christianity seems biased by the modern, largely apolitical liberal Christianity practiced in Europe and in some of the United States and other allied countries.

Christianity prior to the 19th Century had quite a lot to do with politics, and some particularly large sects in the United States would still insist that their faith commands them to engage politically in ways you might consider "subjugation".
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That sounds pretty similar to Sonos Trueplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QgJHUy93T0&t=138s
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> this type of thing is certainly within the realm of possibility

That's the same kind of thinking that makes people so scared of being victimized by violent crime even though things are safer now than they ever have been.

It's possible, but it's also possible that all of the carbon dioxide in the room randomly collects around your head and you suffocate.