skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That Wikipedia article on repeating decimals is probably where I started looking into it, but the article is somewhat weird. For many problems Wikipedia articles say we know this and that but those other things are still unknown, this article has a lot of information but does not talk about unknown things at all. The length of the repeating fractional part of 1 / n divides φ(n)...and then nothing. Is this all we know or is there more but just not in this article?

I still remember that quite well because that was probably the first and only time that I was unable to find someone stating that we do not know any better, and not only the Wikipedia article but everywhere I looked there was no such statement to be found. I eventually gave up after a couple of evenings but it obviously kept stuck somewhere in my mind and that is why I wrote the initial comment.
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What happened to "do no evil"?
UK: Muslim rape gang repeatedly raped teen girl , nothing was done by police
I see tptacek's comment as anti-cynical rather than cynical.

Cynicism would be saying, "pff, a YC startup couldn't actually do anything about global warming". Maybe they could, maybe they couldn't; if you can figure out how, maybe you should apply to YC. But either way, the question is irrelevant because YC has good reasons to include it in their RFS anyway, so now we can stop wasting our time arguing about it on HN.
I think the abhorrent trend is the outsourcing of the people who should be assassinated, and that those people on the kill list will be selected by an ML model.

Google will just a be a processor in a long chain of steps, the actual killing will get passed to a drone team in Las Vegas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creech_Air_Force_Base
The Wikipedia cryptocurrency list and the pages that it links to are not bad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cryptocurrencies
Until you need to differentiate a quaternion ...

Also, you don't pay the sin/cos costs when converting to a rotation matrix. For angle axis

R = I + (sin x) * S + (1 - cos(x)) * S^2

Where S is the 3x3 skew symmetric matrix.

A unit quaternion representing a 3D rotation is sort of like angle axis

q = cos(x/2), sin(x/2) <axis>

But

sin(x) = 2*cos(x/2)*sin(x/2)
(1-cos(x) = 2*sin(x/2)*sin(x/2)

Where you pay the cost is in the construction of the quaternion.
Can't you have a dual currency bank account (e.g. a pound sterling side and a euro side) from your EU country and then pay from that? Or maybe there's some reason that won't work..
The baseline / timeline you're suggesting doesn't really fit the discussion.

Looking at a Bloomberg article from this past January, the period in question is "at least two decades", which would put us back to the mid-1990s, but not five decades-plus into the 1960s:

Between 2000 and 2015, global clothing production doubled, while the average number of times that a garment was worn before disposal declined by 36 percent. In China, it declined by 70 percent.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wa...

The article is also dated in 2018, seven years after the most recent date your Wikipedia article cites.

It's entirely possible that 1) total garment fraction recycling grew from 1960 - 1998, 2) has fallen since 2011, and 3) the total quantity of garment and textiles production has climbed since 1960.

I'd put a fair sized wager on all three points.

Of which your example addresses precisely none.
That sounds like a problem with depressed wages, not the price of the coat.
> a US citizen telling their UK proxy-holder to start moving money from one into the other has nothing to do with US financial regulation, only UK financial regulation

This would be reported to the IRS by the UK financial institution under FATCA [1].

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/corporations/foreign-account-...
Garment production doubled 2000 - 2015.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-01-15/no-one-wa...
Yeah it would be great if the post office was a bank but the check cashing lobby would fight it tooth and nail. Basically any time USPS does anything innovative or makes money, Congress comes along and guts it.
It's always interesting to see how different people read the same text. The sentences I focussed on were:

> "There's not much point in debating it. If you have a good idea in almost any field, they're going to consider it."

And I read them as basically saying (a) if you're working on something cool that's not on this list, don't let that prevent you from applying as it's likely not a list of criteria; and (b) while it might be a jumping off point for conversation, it's likely missing the intent if you spend much time criticizing what's omitted and included.
> The IHS is not staffed by elected officials.

It's accountable to elected officials in Congress and the White House, OTOH, those elected officials are not in any meaningful sense accountable to the population served by IHS.

> The ONLY solution therefore must be a private one.

The structural problems with IHS incentives and accountability don't mean that there is a better private solution, and private services to Native American communities often are poor, too, because private industry isn't really all that interested in solving problems for people that have very little money to pay for the solution.
None. The state of smart phones in 2018 is complete bullshit. You either get fucked in the wallet or you get fucked in maintenance. It's extremely frustrating if you aren't wealthy.

The closest right now is maybe a used iPhone SE? Or maybe something old that happens to be well supported by LineageOS, if ADB is your idea of a fun time. Neither seem like great options to me. I don't have a good answer.
An example of meddling with history, at least in South India, is how Tipu Sultan and Hyder Ali are portrayed.

There are many areas in Karnataka that have suffered from their plunder, and all we see in text books is that they are heroes, because they fought against British.

Now, if you are a muslim in S.India, you'll not speak out against this portrayal. If you are a Kodava (people from Coorg), you'll be seething red with any such portrayals of Tipu and Hyder Ali, because they plundered, massacred, raped and forcefully convereted hundreds of thousands after every attack.

Now if Osama Bin Laden was a figure from pre 18th century India, I bet he'd be revered as a hero in Indian school textbooks and movie industry.
Key Binding Home/End, Shift+Home/End on MacOS
LED Control Using Arduino Bluetooth and Android
TL;DR create ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict containing:

{
/* Remap Home / End to be correct :-) */
"\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; /* Home */
"\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; /* End */
"$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + Home */
"$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; /* Shift + End */
}
Comparing Ruby-like frameworks, You'll be amazed
>but let us not pretend that they haven't been trying to get rid of that article or sent their defense force to play war in the middle east "strictly for defensive purposes".

The PM and his party (the LDP) in coalition with the Komeito party have been trying to push that for years, without success. Mostly because the Japanese people don't seem to support it.

And to be fair, revising Article 9 and not going on a romp through the Middle East is also an option. I can see the rationale for doing so, besides right-wing nationalism on Japan's part.
This is a great move by Coinbase to make "owning more crypto" easier for the average (accredited) investor. But 4 coins != the market.

Like others, we've tried to maintain our own index of top cryptocurrencies, and experienced all the same repetitive issues of calculating asset shares, etc.

So we created a tool to help ourselves, and hopefully others: https://thecoindexer.com. It takes an input portfolio (on CoinFYI or others) and periodically calculates and emails the optimal* rebalancing trades to match a target index. Current indexes are based off CoinMarketCap's top 5, 10 and 25 assets.

We've still got a lot of kinks to work out, but feedback/suggestions are welcome.

*optimal = fewest # of trades on preferred exchanges
You are completely right, and I agree fully.
What made it not worth it? No real overall gain in value? Not worth your time?
They didn't return it to the German Naval Observatory! The instructions were quite clear. I would have instantly mailed it in.
Welcome to the USA?
This is super cool! Note that even in California there was an avalanche in-bounds at a ski resort last week. The problem is real.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/03/rescuer-describes-har...
The trick with sin and cos is to never use atan (or atan2).
Show HN: Disabling View Source in Firefox and Edge
Sounds like something that could be enforced by giving the passenger trains the ability to lock out switches further ahead of them. Like, say, an hour ahead of them. (Though, without signalling the particular switches that lower at-grade crossing guards. It’d be a rather fraught thing to engineer, all-told.)

Sure, you couldn’t run densely-packed passenger trains very well on such a system... but they’re not densely-packed. If they were, the system would have been a success and could then be turned off. ;)
Then why did they sell Boston Dynamics? Or did they ...
It seems like a strange time to buy a nationwide chain of truck stops[0] with the oncoming electrification of vehicles. Unless... there's an opportunity to provide Supercharger access every few hundred miles.

[0]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-03/buffett-s...
Great design... Only nitpick with the UI is the slider control: it feels scroll-jacky and doesn't offer a manual number input.
JUST PREDICT 40+ YEARS INTO THE FUTURE AND PICK THE RIGHT CAREER GOSH IT'S NOT HARD DERR.
Hi! :)

The purpose of Amber is not to create yet another framework, but to take advantage of the beautiful Crystal language capabilities and provide engineers and the Crystal community with an efficient, cohesive, well maintained web framework that embraces the language philosophies, conventions, and guidelines.
So if you read babies boring books for months, then their expectations are that books are boring. (Not boring = named individuals and recognizable faces.)
That's a good one to be prepared for.

I don't know what Dropbox's account recovery procedure is (which does have a support ticket system available), but if you also back it up to Google Drive; you can recover the Google account by an automated phone call to a specified number.

Accessible off-site backups are obviously good, but for various reasons it's unlikely everybody does this so I think the method above should be reasonable.

If it's something as dire as a fire where all devices including the phone are lost (by the way, for Android I favour Keepass2Android which comes with Dropbox syncing & fingerprint reader support), you would probably need to get replacement identity documents as well as a new phone & SIM card for the same number (it's probably quicker in the meantime to have the Google Account Recovery robot call another number you've previously listed to reset a 2FA/password).

Additionally, I don't think using a Diceware passphrase is a bad idea so long as it's never reused. After all, a solid passphrase is required for the password database, so learn two (or three - quick local system login might also handy). The process with real dice is quite fun to do and feels meaningful enough that it's adhered to and memorised.

I think a combination of no more than a few Diceware passphrases combined with password manager-generated passwords for all other sites is a balanced option. For typed passphrases, I no longer use anything except Diceware - not only are they easier to remember and enter, they're also more "expendable" and don't require any particular attachments to be formed since the generation process is robust and unbiased (unlike "hashed" passages from books and song lyrics).

For English-speakers, I recommend the EFF's list linked at http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
It's astounding to me how Republicans can be so schizophrenic about the free market.

Healthcare? "Let the market decide!"

Investment in public infrastructure? Net neutrality? "Let the market decide!"

But give Republicans control of the Presidency and all the sudden we're talking about putting tariffs on steel because the U.S. steel manufacturers don't want to have to contend with market forces.

To be fair, there are plenty of Republicans resisting the President's proposal, but if tariffs (tariffs!) are being considered then, you know, maybe some other less intrusive measures shouldn't be so anathema?
I'm not nearly interesting enough to anyone besides myself for anything that doesn't already have a controlled exfiltration path to need one. My assets will go to various parties if/when I drop off and the rest of it is so uninteresting that it'll probably just be thrown out after collecting dust for a few years.
Maybe the real difference is that some of us lack the empathy and imagination to consider the plight of some poor bastardized having their wedding, school, or hospital drone-striked, and some of us do. For those who can’t, this is never an emotional issue, just a sterile cost/benefit analysis. Formthe rest of us, worlds die in those blasts, and were partially responsible, and that matters.
Write a note on your iPad. Remove that silly pin number, turn it off. Put it in a bag. Put it in the attic. Live your life and forget all about it.

130 years later, the now obsolete technology is found. Boy they are gonna have a hard time reading that note you left.

This is when we get to appreciate a medium such as text. Our information is becoming more and more complicated to the point that it might become impossible to decipher, or near impossible.

Edit: missing word
I remember hearing stories about how the British hired toy makers to make guns and furniture makers to make planes back in world war 1.
Exactly. And if you understand what you’re doing, you can avoid referencing the angle explicitly. Because macro arc length is rarely needed.
For anyone wondering why this is better than just buying the coins yourself, here are some reasons:

1. Non-technical investors don't know which coins to buy. There are some genuinely good coins, and lots of scams, and they look pretty much identical to the untrained eye.

2. Non-technical investors don't know how to store coins safely. Words like "cold wallet" and "Trezor" don't mean anything to them. Even if they wanted to learn, it's hard to separate useful information apart from scams. There was a guy a while ago who bought a hardware wallet on ebay and lost all his coins. Even smart people sometimes do dumb things, and in this case it could cost them everything.

3. Investment firms with more than 1 person involved have additional challenges. Who gets the coinbase login? Who gets access to the safe deposit box where the private keys are held? If only one partner has access, he might steal the coins and say "we got hacked" and no one can prove otherwise. Or he might get hit by a bus, and then no one else can get the coins out. If multiple partners have access, one of them might screw the others and steal the money and there's no way to know who did it. Crypto nerds will say "use multi-sig wallets," but that's way too complicated for most people. Screw-ups when creating a multi-sig wallet could render your coins unspendable.

4. If you make a crypto portfolio (as opposed to just holding bitcoin), you'll trigger a capital gains event each time you rebalance. Many people don't seem to realize that crypto-to-crypto trades are still taxable, but it's true. If you want to rebalance more than once per year, it becomes short-term capital gains and your tax rate goes way up.
Absolutely, but my point is that the cost is reasonable, the wages are not, and that implies a fix. Moreover, the fix doesn’t lie with Patagonia. Even more, if the true cost of things like clothing weren’t extermslized brutally, Americans would be far more aware of the pressing need for said fix.
> Then you subtract that number from your total savings:

You subtract your annual spending (3%) from your total invested? Why would you do that? To arrive at the total amount you'd have invested after you spend for a year?

This paragraph reads like a markov chain generator.
That Lego are durable and don't rot is, I would say, a feature not a bug. (It would be better if they were practically recyclable, OTOH.)
But the beautiful thing is if you don't like the plan you can opt out (or only invest up to the match) and invest in an IRA instead. Can't do that with a pension.
>i'm not clear on the basis for the outrage here.

Rough guess, it might be that we're less than 10 years removed from "Do no evil" being part of Google's motto. While completely unsurprising, it's still disappointing to see how money wins versus ethics. But hey, shareholder value!
I think for whatever reason you've gone aggro and painted me as some sort of NIMBY "let's round them all up and toss them in Sound" person, but what you're responding to is who you imagine I am, not what I said.

I certainly didn't depersonalize or "deplatform" people.

> If you don't recognize the fact that a majority of those issues you listed are committed most frequently by traditionally housed people, in other neighborhood than your own, then you'll be blind to the larger systemic issues that need to be addressed to fix the problems.

I certainly never claimed homeless people are the only ones who commit crimes, but I am pretty confident that the homed neighbors around me do not get into screaming matches in the street, shit in my alley, jam trash in my bushes, or dump blackwater on the street.

It's not because they're better people. It's because they have access to sewers, trash pickup, and soundproof walls. Any "solution" for homeless people that lets them continue to live in an environment without the physical infrastructure — shelter, sanitation, and trash — needed to live safely isn't a real solution.
At the casino your risks are known, and well-defined. In blackjack with basic strategy your expected value is, what, 49%? Craps, it's similar. Just look it up. Nobody at the table playing, or even running the show, can manipulate the outcome except by changing the parameters of the game as posted in the (I assume) regulated odds boards.

Investing in an unregulated market is absolutely nothing like that. Your outcome is undefined, but you're subject to front-running, tape painting, wash trading, fake news stories and tens of other well-known scams.

The regulations aren't to stop the poor from making money. If it were a sure-fire way to make money, everyone would just do it all the time. It's the Trumpian "trade wars are easy to win" argument. If it's easy, everyone would win, so nobody would win, end of story. It's to limit people to what they can afford to lose (or at least try). And it's done in the social good also, as people who become insolvent then utilize the social safety net to get back on their feet.

Yes, we need the real consequences, and what you're describing is literally regulation.
Whatever engages your kid!
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A weird comparison. I wonder where he took the numbers from.

I can tell from experience that the Australian taxation authorities make the US taxation authorities look like a gift-giving Santa. I also dealt extensively with Europe, and Europe is by far worse than Australia in that respect. (A note to the dear Americans, I am not an American who went to Australia, it's the other way around.)

And then they mix in mandatory pension contributions for some, which makes the comparison even weirder.

Also note that this comparison is for long-term residents, not for expats or entrepreneurs that are there for a few years and may not be as interested in the social programs.
> kill people incorrectly

"Patches welcome!"
Casinos (and lotteries) are subject to heavy regulation, including oversight on the odds of the games they offer.

The problem with back-end enforcement (and those laws do exist) is that it doesn't remove the incentive to try issuing a scam-ish security and hope you will evade prosecution, and the damage done can take years to unwind, if it's even possible at all. This is why there are regulations on public offerings of securities to non-accredited investors.
Yeah, but if you're going for most bang for your buck, improving and making accessible renewable tech is still better value. I also think you'll have an easier route to profitability with alternative fuel over carbon removal.

Ultimately, I think carbon removal will be a necessary technology if we want to maintain a similar climate to what we have now, but it's farther out there. Would be awesome to see something come out though!
$360 using Fiverr. However, that was split across three designers. I hired three designers, told them what I wanted, and used the best one. Each was about $120 each. To get started I looked with designers with a fairly large portfolio and good reviews. I then asked some basic questions to see if they were capable. I used the questions to screen out designers that simply responded with canned responses or obviously didn't grasp the concepts. I also looked for designers that were willing to provide feedback on good/bad ideas I had (i.e. color schemes not working, logo utilization across mediums, etc..). The end result was three entirely different logo concepts that were honestly hard to choose from. On the good side, I found two designers I would work with in the future. One of which I have used for several projects since. $360 was about what I would have paid using most other services and I think the end experience was good.
it's not particularly diversified, it's basically just 70% btc/bch and 30% eth
I was primarily in gaming....

Gaming is to programing what sweat shops are to the fashion industry. It is a big big world find something lower key and lower stress would be my recommendation.

As for the gaps and the year stints, your young (in your career) no one is going to think twice about it if you move into another vertical.
Inverted Pyramid.

It's Good Journalism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
The discussion is about a small town that kept Walmart out but can't do anything about Amazon, not a place like San Francisco.
+ Because they aren't listed on Coinbase yet, that is obviously subject to change as time goes on
Neat. How do people even discover a hack like this?
Yes, but that would be communism, so let's just let people who were born into or stumbled into their wealth amass more of it. I think in general we need to start being more thoughtful about how the things we do can sometimes be hurtful to billionaires.
I already pay a premium[0] on GBTC over the underlying crypto so I can have easy exposure in my IRAs, and would gladly do so for ETH, LTC, BCH etc.

0. Average 52-week premium 56.18% https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/GBTC:US
I'm admittedly not up on rebalancing policies. With a fund of highly volatile assets, would rebalancing more frequently be necessary? I'm not thinking daily, but perhaps every month or so?
> " ... The note was damp, rolled tightly and wrapped with string. We took it home and dried it out, and when we opened it we saw it was a printed form, in German, with very faint German handwriting on it.”

It was damp? How does a slip of paper last 130 years when there's water in the bottle?