skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stellar is more bank-friendly: it can handle fiat currencies and fiat exchanges, and it supports regulatory compliance (KYC and AML).

Also — Lightning reduces fees and transaction times, but these costs still matter. The time and cost to open and later close a payment channel is a multiple of the latency and transaction cost of the underlying chain. Not very transaction will need a new payment channel, but other things being equal (in particular: connectivity of the Lightning graphs, average transactions per payment channel), the network with lower non-Lightning costs will have proportionally lower Lightning costs too. The cost matters when there’s lots of transactions; the latency makes a difference to both mean and worst-case Lightning transaction and settlement time.

Stellar also uses less energy.
Everyone is already using other messengers and do not understand or value encryption and privacy enough.
I'm conflicted. I once spent 200 days in prison as a conscientous objector. As far as prisons go, it was about as humane as it gets. It was a so-called "open facility" in a Nordic country. We had rooms with doors that were locked st night. We worked making traffic signs in the daytime, for which we were paid a little, and the work was, in principle, voluntary. We could leave the prison compound for an hour each day for a jog or walk in the woods. It would have been easy to just not come back. It would also have been stupid. No-one ran away in the time I was there.

For all that it was barely even a prison, I resented it, and still do. Taking a person's freedom is wrong. It may be necessary for society to function, but it is still wrong. At best it's the lesser evil. And even if there was no prison, no walls, I know I would resent being told what to do in the way your system seems to require.

That said, what you're proposing still seems like it would be less bad than prison, especially prisons as I understand they are in the USA. Of the inmates I knew, practically all were addicts of some description. One young man could not grasp the idea that 110 millimeters is 11 centimeters when I tried to show him with a ruler. I don't imagine them being in prison helped very many of them, or society, in any meaningful way. The one person I felt might not return had apparently quit crime well before but been convicted of some old misdeeds when someone ratted him out.

So it sounds like your ideas are better, at least. Still, I can't say much more than that I think you're entering an enterprise that does evil in the name of the greater good. It probably needs doing, and it sounds like you're trying to reduce harm. I can't applaud you, but I hope you can accomplish your goals and live with yourselves, given the world you're entering.
> Can you imagine the company that made this getting into bed with IBM!?

Remember PowerPC Macs?
You mean the daft Oprah people right?
Why would it be any different than a taxi driver in that situation?
How do we know WhatsApp doesn't cooperate? It's closed source, and owned by Facebook no less, so how can we know there's no backdoor?
A technology/IoT solution to a problem that should never exist in the first place, brilliant!
It might not be a health risk, but I found this study [1] interesting. It showed impaired decision making at CO2 levels that you could encounter indoors.

[1] "Is CO2 an Indoor Pollutant? Direct Effects of Low-to-Moderate CO2 Concentrations on Human Decision-Making Performance" . https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3548274/
Interesting, that's good to have more options.

Performance charts in the article are for training of CNNs on CPU. Are there non-educational use cases for that? How does CPU CNN inference speed compare?
Thanks for this!! I’ve started pitching my idea to incubators and accelerators (cold) but now I don’t think I’ve done a well enough job of showing progression beyond the idea phase. Time to start making my software more publicly accessible. Scary. Can’t wait though. :)
The UK is still an influential country, and data protection laws here have teeth. The risk for Facebook is that stronger regulations adopted in the UK may spread to other countries.
Coinbase Lashes Out at US Regulators for Slowing Innovation at Recent Hearing
You see Russia is in a unique position. They want to fight dissent online, they have a very competitive ISP market with lots and lots of ISPs that are hard to control, they have a lot of foreign companies taking a huge share of internet usage, they alienated IT professionals and don't really have smart loyal people who can help them figure these things out. So they seek guidance in China and follow Chinese ideas to monitor and filter online communications. Meaning that they are trying to figure out how to pressure foreign companies like Telegram to cooperate, how to pressure ISPs to cooperate, how to block access to the services foreign companies provide, given how many different ISPs there are. So at this point it's more like a process, not an actual end goal of getting access to this one particular platform. And family is definitely not the line they would want to cross, as it would undermine the whole process if the word gets out.
Introducing Java SE 10
> Maybe the problem is that they've actually done something objectionable here, and it's not just a conspiracy against them.

That is very clear, and I think you missed the point.

We've seen numerous examples recently, including Equifax and Wells Fargo and Mylan, of objectionable situations where the strategy of "say as little as possible" allowed the companies to move on and show even greater profits. None of those companies represent a threat to the media entities. What makes the current Facebook situation different from those is the added incentives.
> Uber driver with a severe dog allergy has a disability that needs accommodation?

There are three questions there: is an severe dog allergy legally a disability, is the driver in a relationship which entitles accommodation (regular employment would normally qualify, being a contracted supplier of service might not), and is a reasonable accommodation available.
Could have been the same cause as the one that made Raspberry Pi 2 power off -- https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/xenon-death-flash-a-free-ph...
Yes, but for the right to use that house or condo, they don't need to pay property taxes, whereas most of the rest of the world you have to pay rent (property taxes) to the government. If you have to pay vast sums of rent to keep it, do you really own it?
You can (and should!) brake and swerve at the same time. Unless you are driving an oldtimer, the car is capable of doing that.

In my driving lessons I got told to
swerve for humans. Pedestrians and cyclists are the least protected participants in traffic. If you swerve and hit another car, the resulting crash will cause a lot of damage, but injuries to humans will likely be much less severe, if they even happen.

Animals, especially small ones are a different matter. Using the same argument, it is better to risk hitting the animal than risking sverving into other traffic.
I wouldn't be surprised if there was some kind of classification problem involved. But wouldn't the AV by default treat a solid object on the road as a hazard to brake for? There's no possible way to specifically train for every variation of thing that could be encountered on a city street (imagine Halloween, for starters).
> Of the inmates I knew, peactically all were addicts of some description.

Americans, culturally, seem to have little problem with spending a lot of money per year to keep a person incarcerated: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-prison-costs-201706...

But they will balk at taxpayer money being used for preventative programs which intend to stop people from becoming addicted to hard drugs (heroin/opiates, meth, cocaine) in the first place, and also balk at paying money for treatment of current addicts.
CORBA was the rage back in the 1990s. CORBA, WebObjects, and COM all were part of the push to package services into “replaceable components” (like microservices today).
Not for group chats
The 5th Circuit disagrees with this assessment and has allowed independent contractors to sue for ADA violations (http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/15/15-50314-CV0.pdf).
I agree completely that Apple’s cloud services aren’t very compelling right now. I’m just worried that they are trying to use IBM’s cloud instead of building out their own capabilities.

If they are going to improve integration with third party services, I would love to have better integration with Google’s services, not IBM’s..
That would only be relevant if their was absolutely no other way to allocate capital and maximizing ROI was the only relevant metric. Building, a X$ Yat may count to GDP as X$ worth of healthcare, but society does not care about them equally.

What's important is the outputs of society, not the accounting that occurs between effort and consumption.
Global Digital Finance to Manage Code of Conduct for Cryptocurrencies
From a signal standpoint, checkout frequency hopping techniques for jam resistant communications. Specifically, Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System (SINCGARS) for VHF nets. Automatic Link Establishment (ALE) provides similar advantages for HF as a byproduct, but it's solving quite a different problem.
Don't forget the ADA also protects disabled veterans.

The political fall-out would be terribad.
Stuff that's heavily reliant on text, mostly. So we'll try to use logo marks that are identifiable as the brand instead of using the full place's name.
That’s what people were saying in 1991 when Apple first partnered with IBM:

https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/04/business/ibm-and-apple-gi...

Since then, the Apple-IBM relationship seems to be the longest “on again, off again” in computing.
They are allowed to choose to pursue such work, but it may not be a good idea.
>you are saying the rights of a blob of cells supersedes that of a grown woman.

There are many ways to philosophically argue against a 'life begins at fertilization' position. I don't know why you feel the need to assume things that were not said.
So you agree that "time will tell". So what's the point of releasing a statement, except virtue signaling?
It's also straightforward and to the point, and no dancing around.
> They make the company pay them dividends while saddling the company with their debt.

Yes that is true. Is the sum of dividends over X years >= the amount of equity wiped out in a Chapter 7 liquidation? Impossible to say... the company is private.

> They make

They didn't make them do anything. They bought the company... they can do what they want as owners. That's just how this game works.
You're less caught up by external influences that may distract or pain your mind. IIUC you're in a introspective state, exploring your sensations, ideas and emotions.

Grief forced me to learn that, it's an effort at first, and absurd because you're forcing not to move mentally, in the end you drop most your thoughts and a calmer part of you may fill the room.
I think you mean "Users" instead of "Customers".

If you're not paying for it, you're the product.
Why a company like FB would do anything right for their customer ? They never did. It was always about FB. How does that surprises you ? They are not Mozilla.
Yes. I can imagine it because they've already done so repeatedly. The first case I can think of was Apple working with IBM on the Taligent operating system (designed to compete with what became NT and NeXTStep) circa 1988. Then the PowerPC chip at the center of Macs for years was co-developed with Apple, IBM, and Motorola, and in later years IBM supplied the actual chips. Also, the Apple Network Server machines (circa 1996) ran AIX.
Unfortunately, I am unaware of any of those. It stands to reason that police officers speaking openly in this manner about lying under oath don't face repercussions and consequently don't get tracked much.
I have had to, on the opposite end, had an Uber take me home/cancel after a few miles because the previous rider had been wearing thick perfume and it was too cold for the driver to drive around with all the windows open. If someone with pet allergies responds the same way I did in a closed environment, I have sympathy for them.
> Besides, most proper cabs have bullet proof glass between the front and back seat

That seems very location dependent.
The NYT just published a graphic that purports to show the location of the vehicle and the victim: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/20/us/self-drivi...

This is the first report I've seen that indicates the Uber AV was in the right lane. Remember that the victim was crossing from left to right, and that all of the visible damage on the AV is on the right-side bumper. It's very hard to imagine a scenario in which a 49-year-old woman walking her bike manages to cross 3 lanes of traffic so quickly that the Uber AV, moving at 40 mph, had no time to react, in a location with good street lighting and with clear weather. I would think most humans would be able to at least hit the brakes, if not completely avoid a collision.
There is a category of full-time professor that is not tenured. At least there once was such a category ... one migh even opine that most professors should be in that category.
Taxi drivers can't do any of that either, so I don't see the problem.
I highly disagree. They’re not a jaded professional. It's exactly what a professional goes through. Part of the beauty is in the “months of flailing around, trying to understand one thing”. It’s that “Aha!” and “Eureka!”. The history mathematics is riddled with this. And what if they don’t see this beauty? They’ll give up and not realize they have to persevere.
The ethical thing to do here, if asked whether you will treat the word of a law enforcement officer as always true, is to lie.

It's along the lines of jury nullification. The people have some recourse in overriding court rules and court rulings when the court is not behaving in accordance with justice.
That's moving the goalposts.

Pick a threat model and stick to it.
How to get rid of Facebook
Because the vast majority of passengers don't need dog handling. Why should millions of people who don't need dog handling be forced to subsidize the thousands that do?
i.e. Slack is making everyone in your office less productive.
I have had 4 retinal detachment surgeries on my left eye, with the last rendering it blind.

I had one retinal detachment surgery and a subsequent cataract surgery (since vitrectomy almost always results in a cataract) on my right eye. It's fairly stable but my vision is not great.

I'm hoping for stem cell therapy sometime in my life to help repair areas of my right eye that are no longer great (retinoschisis and general rod/cone dystrophy) and to make sure I'm seeing well into my later years of life.
The system that gathers data for California birth certificates and related [pre]natal health stats reporting is written in MUMPS/M/Cache.

I’ve not worked with the code for that, though - we are in the process of replacing it. The fellow that originally created the system decades ago has been in “semi retirement” for quite a while, and it’s hard to find people that want to work on the platform. So, we are doing a replacement in (mostly) Java, of course. And I don’t even especially like Java, but it pays the bills in the Sacramento area.

I suspect the bigger scaling issues with the codebase are “people-ware”, and thus the push (in most shops and projects) to go least common denominator on programming platform choice, sadly.
If that was the case, you have have been charged with Attempted Murder on a LEO and I'm quite surprised your not still in prison right now, unless it happened like 15 years ago.

It's a very serious charge to attempt any sort of violence against a Law Enforcement Officer (LEO), and at least where I'm from, prosecutors like giving the max sentence for cases such as those.
Startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
Because a police officer is trusted to be impartial.
I've never before seen such a crude, off-the-cuff answer be so accurate.
How is productivity measured?
Transaction costs.

With the lighting network you still have to make 2 on chain transactions. 1 to establish the initial channel, and 1 to close it.

And this is PER channel that you establish.

These transaction fees could be quite high, if history is to be used as an example (only a couple months ago, fees hit something like 40 USD).
> This is a big part of why I bristle when Uber fans claim that ride sharing makes public transit obsolete.

Is public transit where you live like, insanely expensive? Quick back-of-the-envelope calculation reveals that public transit is around 1-2 orders of magnitude cheaper than Uber for me.
I just convinced my political discussion Whatsapp group to move to Signal. The client is not as polished, but works well, and we feel more comfortable sharing political opinions. I'd say it was worth the hassle.
Or maybe there is a difference of opinion on a forum. On the other hand some people just only comment on China related news with a xenophobic spin.
At least at public institutions of higher learning the downward trend in funding per student started well before bankruptcy reform.
If Zuckerberg would ever has the balls to do right with facebook...

He got lucky in life, there is not much at how he became what he is by having any special character or much of experience.
Ex-Obama campaign director claims Facebook allowed data mining
According to the UK DOT the estimated pedestrian accident survival rate is 55% at 30mph and just 5% at 40mph (due to kinetic energy rather than reaction times) so 3mph in this range is not exactly an insignificant difference. The strangest thing about watching this story is that people who are apparently ignorant of this still feel sufficiently certain of the relative unimportance of speed differences in this range to sneer at other people for commenting on it.

Of course, as others have pointed out, human tendency to ignore speed limits and react badly to vehicles driving slower than ambient traffic speed creates another potential hazard to trade increased accident fatality rates off against when deciding if and when self driving vehicles can speed. It's trolley problems all the way down.
>IBM is not a company that comes to mind when I think of cutting edge cloud services

"Cloud services" is a pretty nebulous term. When it comes to ML cloud services I don't think there are any clear leaders. AWS services don't really compare to this.
I recently got a subscription to newspapers.com to get access to archival data. Surprised no one has mentioned them. It's not super cheap, but I think it's worth it for the amount of information available. TBH I don't use it much for some reason but when doing research it will let you access sources most people ignore, because it's not google or facebook.
The problem with moral is that it's in the eye of the beholder. While legal is described very clearly on paper.

And how is it moral to be nice with immoral people ?

Now I do believe it's good to let a chance to do the right thing. But if not, it must be followed by actions.

E.G: I would add to the licence that it is illegal to give technical support or to provide a commercial service related to the product with a violated licence, for all the product with the same licence. If you can't get support for any of your linux servers, or you can't even rent a new VPS, you'll think twice about compliance.
> Promise offers a perhaps much-needed band-aid but the entire system is broken and should be revisited.

That's actually my biggest fear with private services like Promise — a new for-profit bandaid both reduces the pressure to reform the underlying system just as it is gathering real steam, and creates a new set of parties with a profit interest in preserving the underlying system.
Coding Bootcamps Aimed to Retrain Coal Miners Miss the Mark
You can easily remove it by ditching your full Bitcoin node. Of course, you can't really do that if you're doing some sort of business that relies on it.
Your experience may be common, but it is not universal.

https://www.aaaai.org/ask-the-expert/dog-anaphylaxis

https://www.anaphylaxis.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Al...

"In a
small number of cases, particularly among asthma sufferers,
there can be the risk of a severe asthma attack, and there
have been very occasional reports of the most severe, lifethreatening
form of allergy (anaphylaxis). "

"You may also be advised to use a preventer (steroid) inhaler and nasal spray
starting the day before any unavoidable exposure, for example a planned visit to a home where you know there
is a cat.
As stated above, if your doctor believes your symptoms could be very severe, you are likely to be prescribed
adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) The adrenaline injectors prescribed in the UK at present are
Emerade®, EpiPen® and Jext®."
my combat load minus body weight was > 90lbs

I assume that's why you hear of so many veterans in their 20's and 30's with bad backs and trashed knees?

Even 50 lbs would be brutal.
Files Created Per Minute [FCPM]^(Creative Insights per hour)
As a Canadian, the thing that always astonishes me about working with my American counterparts is how many calls you want to have, and how often the topics discussed are the exact same points as the previous calls.

No agenda? No Call.
The problem seems to be rooted within the EU itself with Ireland, Luxembourg and others allowing these companies to pay little or not taxes.
> binary star system

Not Tatooine-like. For it to be a Tatooine-like star system then for sure there would need to be a Tatooine-like planet in it. Which for this case there is no mention. Flagged as ridiculous clickbait title. It may have come from a binary star system. Simple.

And why even do all this? Surely the headline does more to mislead and disinform than it does relate to a common reader.

Edit: For the record, I clicked on this link specifically to understand how we had advanced so far as to not only detect this planet and know of its desert-like surface and atmosphere, but also to trace this asteroid back to it! Incredible! Wow! Feat of modern magic! But it's all fake, with headlines meant to deceive and not inform or even entertain.
I think your optimism has a fighting chance of being mirrored in reality at some point in the future. I don't object to the idea of Promise. I object to absolutist statements claiming that companies who plan to do great good by carrying out operations that could easily be subverted to great harm are unequivocally a net positive.

If what you're saying actually comes to pass, I'll celebrate it. But to gas light the devil's advocates who simply want to ensure that this isn't another group of Elizabeth Holmes style charlatans, is transparent and fully deserving of being called out as grade A, corn fed bullshit. I can almost hear the raspiness in your voice as you describe these situations. There's a Sean Colvin song playing in the background.

One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter. How will you deftly strum my heart strings if its an objectively guilty rapist who is allowed to take care of their family, rather than sit in the cold concrete box where other possible victims are safe from him?
The institution of police needs to be abolished and replaced wholesale by something better. Measures meant to temper the systemic problems in the institution put in place by the Obama administration have been ripped out[1] by the white supremacist[2] sitting in the Attorney General's seat.

Their actions are counterproductive to the preservation of an integrated, fair civil society.

1. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-announces-...

2. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/01/10/...
It looks like the BLS measures productivity as the dollar value of goods and services produced over the hours used to produce them.

Not much detail on those the dollar value is calculated, though.

Edit: I found a (somewhat patronizing) slideshow designed for K-12 students: https://www.bls.gov/k12/productivity-101
True - but not too shure about the 90%.