skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If your intent is to defraud, you'd want to avoid a domain that's 1) scientifically accountable, and 2) subject to heavy oversight and regulation. She seems smart enough to know that.

I would like to comment jokingly here with the saying "If you wish to [defraud] go into politics." But let's not support people in that cause.

Seriously, in this case it appears to me it was more and more a series of cascading lies that had to be added to cover the original lie. Which either stemmed from hope, misconception or lack of due dilligence.

If she thought actually her idea was going to work, and nobody raised a flag from her peers, faculty, ..., I think after some point the weight of capital invested made the executives follow the "fake it till you make it path".

I think in that case there was a lot of emotion, pride and "our name is on the line" that came into play.

However, in that case I wonder, if it is believable that major investors did not do their homework? Or are they also part of the game. Cass Grandone bailing on such a promising project should have been a red flag for any serious investor. I bet in that case, a lot of major investors knew and chose to follow the path. In that case they are accountable.

If the story reported about Tyler Shultz is right that means that George Shultz, and his peers, knew but turned a blind eye. In that case, I wonder if Holmes ended up as the scapegoat just to keep the boat floating a bit longer (or even recover). In that case her mistake was writing down a lie in an official document and signing it. Alas, I see clues everywhere that the whole board and investing body are complicit in this deception.
I'd be willing to give up windows in planes if they had the ability to switch to different perspectives around the plane from like a tablet or something. Like being able to have a view from the Pilot's perspective or being able to look directly beneath the plane. That'd be pretty neat. Maybe add the ability to link up some type of account where you can save photos from the flight if you saw something cool.
Those who have most impacted my development are the creator of Ruby on Rails David Heinemeier Hansson and John Resig who started the JQuery library.
The Constitution has been null and void at least since the Civil War, so it doesn’t really matter.
PostGres, Redis, Go, Vue.
Why? because I am able, not able to understand anything else.
https://github.com/carols10cents/rustlings
From the intel press release:

>"As we bring these new products to market, ensuring that they deliver the performance improvements people expect from us is critical. Our goal is to offer not only the best performance, but also the best secure performance."
https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/advancing-security-sil...
I think I’ll wait for 9th gen to see how this all shakes out.
That's exactly the problem. C/C++ has undefined behavior as part of the language spec, so it can never be safe unless you use a compiler that promises to reject programs that invoke undefined behavior.
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Strange attractor, 3 dimensional quadratic
So... You have to trust these edges/connections? Who will enforce this? How would you know the largest transaction that has occured somewhere else in the network?... trustlessly? Why 100x?
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=raiblocks
https://www.statista.com/statistics/268225/countries-with-th...

You do not see it because you likely fall outside of the demographic of cryptocurrency first users: businesses and citizens in countries facing hyperinflation, black markets, gambling, porn users seeking anonymity, legal pot businesses in the west cut-off from traditional banking in the west, legal porn businesses cut-off from traditional banking in the west.

Bear in mind there is a lag in adoption of the best technology. Just 4-5 months ago bitcoin was still the dominant currency on darknet markets, now it is monero.
This is an interesting narrative. However it cannot be the only one. Let us explore some alternatives and side notes.

Who was responsible for picking IBM?
Are they still working for the CA gov?
Have they passed the hot potato to someone else?
How were their technical skills and soft skills evaluated?
Did they receive any donations for the contract?
Where are the safety clauses in the contract?
Is IBM the only benefactor of this contract?
Any political implications?

Remember that Gov. point person also bears a lot of the responsibility for shopping for IT services in a magazine or trough their business network.

If IBM has been so ineffective at delivering services there would be more cases like this and it would ultimately hurt their bottom line. If this was wide spread practice across their business units. Maybe their business as a whole is insulated by the other better performing parts of it's corporation.

It seems to me that these "Governments" should investigate anyone who touched these contracts.

To the widespread corruption present in Eastern Europe. It does exist. However this article goes to show that corruption is present at a larger scale in some of the "most" developed nations on earth.
That gets studied using assessments of household income and relative poverty and the like.

(those studies will often separate earned income from other income, so they do measure the impact of employment)
>A single outage, even if its only a minute long, can possibly lose you all your money in all channels

do elaborate on how that's the case.

edit: nvm, already discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16595042
It's pointing towards goatse.ru

After enough time on the internet, I'm thoroughly afraid to click that link.

Can anyone confirm if that's a real sci-hub link, or has someone actually manipulated this site to point at goatse?
From the Hitchiker's Guide:

A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wave bands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive--you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure, of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same program.

Zaphod waved a hand and the channel switched again.
I'm genuinely interested if you ever do write that blog post
So if you're going to be putting them in a db, why did you 'port' them to airtable? Wouldn't it be cheaper to store the files on s3 and insert in the db when you get your schema and everything solidified?
Well you can easily drill down through the murk, the BLS provides a plethora of data.

For example, a common criticism about the US employment picture, on sites such as zerohedge, is to claim that it's all part time work. We have these numbers however, so there's no need to speculate.

Part-time workers as a percent of the total employed, is at the same level it was in 1999. Around 17.7%. That rate continued to move lower until mid 2000, when it hit around 16.7% before the recession.

Employment for 27 weeks or longer (1/2 year or longer), is back to a healthy level, where it was during the good times in 2005-2006 and matching 1996-1997. Employment for the other duration periods has seen a similar recovery.

The long-term unemployed as a percentage of the total unemployed, is back to 1995 and 2005 levels.

All the more impressive, these vast improvements are coming down off of an extreme hammer to the labor market from the great recession. The ~2001-02 recession was a blip by comparison, and yet the labor market has managed to get back to what would be considered healthy numbers in both the mid 1990s and mid 2000s. In fact, compared to the 1970s and 1980s, current numbers would be considered amazing.

And further to the positive side, the benefits of this labor improvement have been entirely wide-spread. Black, white, asian, hispanic, everyone is seeing a labor boom.

https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cps_charts.pdf
Private Internet Access Goes Open Source
> > as long as we’re following these rules/ guidelines

If that's an assumption, it's not worth much. A safe language is one that enforces the rules, not one that hopes the program authors self-enforce.
Anyone else freaked out by the fact that "ANA" is the same name used in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_Saga for a distant future governing cyberintelligence?

Great coincidence
I'd prefer to learn from a 'teacher'. The sort of person who specializes in transmitting knowledge, adapting to the learners issues, bridging gaps between one concept and another.

Learning from folks who did well in college means they may think everyone will do well if they repeat their experience. Which is a far cry from 'teacher'. Heck, its not even 'expert'.
Snap Declines Amid Uproar Over Rihanna Domestic Violence Ad
pruning was added almost 3 years ago https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-n...
Design Arsenal – a desktop app to work with fundamental design resources
You could use ".get()." instead of "->", but I don't see how that helps.
Or, another related attack by the CIA against the USSR resulting in a catastrophic natural gas explosion.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/...
Instead of blur, microlens arrays can be used to increase the pixel size to cover the gaps.

The microlens can also be designed to blur the RGB together to provide a true white pixel from the approx three coloured subpixels.
Will you be including software that allows for crypto-trading on desktop? Assuming Robinhood still plans on releasing the option for their app.
RC4, which this paper is based on was the original choice for the CipherSaber project:

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

The core goal of which was the idea that people should have basic access to some sort of reasonably strong cryptography as a matter of personal liberty.

The theory goes that if it's an easy enough algorithm to do manually if you had, that makes it an easy enough algorithm to reimplement as needed in a situation where you have to forge your own tools if need be (all you have is a deck of cards, pencil, and paper, or all you have a TI-83 graphing calculator and its BASIC programming manual; can you securely send a message?).
> for Free — Forever

Nothing is ever free forever.
0-conf transactions are instant and work great on BCH.
I was trying to get at how long we’ve known that it’s what you do when your senior management needs replacing, but you’re right that it’s been a continuous problem.
If this were available right now, I would likely buy it! I am tasked with learning Django in the next couple of weeks.

This got me realizing that I usually purchase and consume tutorials on an as-needed basis and I usually want to start right away. I used to collect them but found it wasn’t very optimal because when I found the time to do the learning, I wanted something a little different. For what it’s worth, I don’t think your Kickstarter numbers would account for people like myself.
This seems to be about a change where, if you search for "time toronto", it'll show you the time in Toronto in a mostly blank page and a button labeled "Show all results".

Very clicky-batey title.
>to hear your rebuttal

When gold is mined from the ground, planet Earth has less gold.

When a coin is mined, there's a bit less solution space for the class of crypto problem.

But when a Blockchain/protocol is forked, nothing of value is lost. In fact there's a gain in solution space. Eg BCash fork doubled the quantity of BCoin protocol solutions.

> Gold is practically useless day-to-day for a lay-person except as decoration,

And vehicles, phones, computer chips, the industrial applications that keep the planet functioning etc
I use it to manage purchase orders overseas and use it as a traditional product database. Anything that I would use MS-access for I use airtable instead.

On this page, https://airtable.com/templates, there's a database called "Product Catalog". Thats what I use
Legal pad. I've tried tons of different software options but never used them and never reacted in the way I needed to. Plus any cloud based solutions of logging into things just adds more cognitive overheard. Often times I'm jotting notes down or like to draw little diagrams or use some other reasoning for emphasis. I feel by writing things down I remember it better. There is also something very special about hand-writing the date everyday (well, work day at least).

If I need it to be multiple places and accessed by a computer I'll use the basic notes app from apple that I can open up on my phone as well.

For a more complete answer I really like using gitbooks to write my own version of tutorials or documentation. It's a nice bit of software to organizes pages and markdown is fun.
I don't know man, I might not be the target audience (MD of a software company) but I just don't get this.

It seems only slightly more useful than say a Google spreadsheet on a platform that yes might have blocks and templates but I didn't see anything there that made me want to switch away from Google Spreadsheets, Trello and a couple of other systems I use to run my 20 person £1mm turnover business.

I'll keep it in mind but having played with Airtable I just don't see the value. Still, wish them all the best.
How to evaluate supplements: the difference between significant and valuable
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That's great. Do you have a source where I can read more on this? Googling has only turned up information on sabotage by forced (Polish, Jewish, etc.) labor at munitions factories, which is interesting in its own right, but not from begrudged ex-union workers from Germany.
You might pick Electron if this was something that'd run on every platform, but this is macOS specific, so using Electron instead of WKWebView just seems really lazy at the cost of system resources for the end user.
>currently ~50M

actually, 2.7G https://statoshi.info/dashboard/db/unspent-transaction-outpu...
The main thing Segwit fixes is transaction malleability (which is necessary for Lightning).
OK, I was technically wrong about ABI. Still, the ABI is (effectively) mandated by C which is (effecitvely) mandated by POSIX.

Do we still have any quarrel over wording?
Because government contracts have to be transparent, the award process tends to be overly bureaucratic and algorithmic. There's no real mechanism with which the Canadian government could bar IBM from bidding, and they're obliged to take the best bid. Usually this is lowest cost per rated point, scored against a large matrix of must-haves and nice-to-haves that are assigned weights.
My point is: why do people still store full copies of the chain? If there are no downsides to this, why didn't we purge that 150 GB of useless data from the network a long time ago?

And if people still _do_ need the full chain, then obviously that solution isn't sufficient to eliminate the problem I outlined in my previous comments.
Why not go with ablative packaging and ballistic atmospheric re-entry?

Then the airbags deploy at altitude and it does a mars lander bounce, or better yet stick the landing with a controlled bursting airbag.
At the SXSW Music Festival, outrage is in the air
Just went to sign up using my Google account... why do they need to view my contacts?
During the Sonoma County fires we had over 60 volunteeers editing Airtable verifying shelter information, fire locations, developments, lost and found and more. We essentially put a light Rails app in front of it to serve as a front end for the site sonomafireinfo.com. I don’t think we could have scaled and gotten volunteers onboard as quickly as we did without Airtable.
Thanks for the correction. I was looking at the # of transactions. Still, quite small though.
... or distracted, or tired, or angry, or ridden with testosterone and a poor sense of risk...
(OT: Suggestion to not use software...)
I'm aware that this is answering only the implied question, but many recent studies have indicated that handwriting is still the best tool for learning. I use a good-quality bound journal in quadruled or dot format. It's organized by date, so all my notes are in one book, but I add indexing notes and topic references. I use a variant on the bullet journal (bulletjournal.com) for integrating my notes with task information. I've been in IT for thirty-five years, and have spent a substantial portion of that in classrooms as a student and as an instructor. I have yet to find a digital replacement remotely as powerful, and I've tried most of them.

NB: I do sometimes photgraph and ocr important pages that need to be archived or machine searched. It turns out that I don't need that nearly as often as I thought I might. It also turns out that, if you were the one to write it, you can actually find the page you're looking for in even a large and full journal extremely quickly because of the way your memory works with physical objects.
True in the general case - however, it gets strange when that argument is used to defend monopolies, i.e. markets that, for whatever reason, are not open.

E.g., I personally don't see why it's bad when an elected government passes legislation but totally fine when Apple uniterally updates the App Store ToS or Google excludes certain things from Search. In both cases, participants of the respective markets won't have any choice than to comply.

I believe YouTube is comparable. Yes, there are alternatives. However, YouTube's popularity is important for content producers. If you make your own video content and are banned from YouTube, you'll likely have a significantly harder time to be discovered.

I agree with you that this woudn't really be an issue for GitHub, since there is neither a market nor any lock-in effects or monopoly.
We've tried out Airtable but ended up using Podio and eventually, Fusioo - http://www.fusioo.com. More of a database (not spreadsheet) for bigger companies though and they don't run a freemium model.
Absolutely something I was thinking, but not sure what the right terminology is! "Microlens" sounds fancier than you need, I'm really happy to just diffuse it but with a limited blur so that they don't bleed.
Building a Highly Available WebApplication Using MongoDB and Elk Stack
Do you know what documentation tool this uses to handle the layout? It looks awesome.
I do like to keep an idea pad. But I am working through the 2001 version of the Getting Things Done book. I have started organizing things as projects and am using the ios Things 3 app to do this.
BCH's approach would eventually centralize the network.

Remember that at least one of these blocks is generated every 10 minutes, and more than one might be flying around during a chain split. Remember also that nodes do actually need to iterate over all the transactions in the block to check they are valid when they receive a new block. Proof of stake prevents malicious actors from wasting CPU/DiskIO on full nodes with spam attacks, but the transactions in a block with PoS signature still need to be validated, ideally before the next block arrives.

Originally with the 1MB block, there were quite a lot of full bitcoin nodes running on raspberry PI's under peoples desks in places with really shitty internet. Segwit kinda-sorta actually increased the block size from 1MB to up to 4MB. 16% of Malaysia gets internet slower than 256kbps. Running a bitcoin node today takes up ~20% of a connections total bandwidth in these places. Increase the block size to 20MB, and it will not be possible to run a node in some areas of Malaysia, because 20MB/10min is too fast for the connection.

At 20MB of transactions per 10 minutes it's also possible that the diskIO on a gen-1 Raspberry PI using a cheap SD card might not be enough to scan and validate every transaction in an incoming block. Remember that a node might have to scan very far back in the blockchain to find the last time an unspent output was interacted with. I'm not sure how big a block has to be before that IO overhead starts eliminating entry-level hardware.

But you don't actually get much for increasing to 20MB blocks. Another poster said that bcash going from 1MB to 8MB blocks increased the throughput from 7tx/s to 62tx/s. Lets take that as gospel, assuming that's 1MB blocks vs 8MB blocks, and extrapolate like madmen. To get to that posters desired 7,000tx/s "Visa scale", we'd need blocks of around...1GB.

That's 13.3mbps 24/7. Now most of Australia and the USA can't host a full node, and that's before we start talking not just about disk IO but even hard drive space. If new blocks are being created at the rate of 1 Gigabyte per 10 minutes, you'll need to provision 4 terabytes of new storage every month to compete with Visa.

Look, short version is this: scaling by increasing the block size eventually ends in performance requirements that force datacenter scale hardware requirements. If bcash ever reaches that point, it will have lost the decentralized, censorship resistant attributes that make cryptocurrencies valuable in the first. If your cryptocurrency isn't decentralized, you might as well use a bank. There's better regulation and much less uncertainty in being a customer of a bank.

So anyway, the Lightning network developers think that LN provides a better scaling solution. Maybe they're right. If they're not, someone will try something else. Maybe there's no solution that can scale to Visa scale, we just don't know. But bigger blocks is definitely not that solution.
Think Waymo still s pretty far out in front and theirs to lose.
Great news! I’ve always liked PIA, but the closed source nature of it did require a certain degree of trust. No offense to anyone, but “trust” and “vpn” should be an uneasy combo. This way I’m not in forced to trust my demonstrably untrustworthy ISP, or a VPN. Thanks PIA.
Not relative to the direction of travel over the ice.
What watch do you use?
This is why the Lyft/magna announcement yesterday was interesting. Magna kind of already is the auto industry's version of Foxconn. If the car companies aren't leading the pack in terms of autonomous tech, and aren't willing to be the manufacturers for the companies that are leading, they're going to be shut out of this race.

I can understand GM wanting nothing to do with waymo, they've actually got some promising autonomous tech. But FCA should be jumping at the chance to work with waymo, unless they've got some top secret autonomous research happening that's a lot further along than anybody could guess.
That's a fair concern. We are very serious about privacy. Existing cameras today focus on security so they have to store your data. Piccolo on the other hand is for real-time interactions so images are never stored.
> It means, for example, that if you have to go to war, and sometimes you probably have to go to war—I'm not talking about a belligerent country starting war or fomenting discord, but if you have to go to war and to engage infantry—you do not send 18-year-olds into it, because their brains aren't set.

Unless the enemy infantry and fire-support are utterly incompetent or horribly outnumbered, the vast majority of such 18-year-olds will be killed in action. (And in the outnumbering case, the younger infantry are likely to be lower-rank and therefore could be easily selected for the more dangerous tasks.)

What consequences remain, then, of using 18-year-olds instead of 25-year-olds? Is the author actually implying that 18-year-olds' emotional deficiencies make them less competent as infantry?
They just uploaded a video as well.

"Introduction to Wear OS by Google Development"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penkgJBJdv4