skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can only grow an organization so fast, and it's unlikely that money is the bottleneck for Coinbase's scaling challenges. Throwing money at problems only helps so much.

So if they're growing as fast as they can to handle demand and take care of their customers, but they still have a huge (growing) pile of cash, why not put a few people on a team to look for places to invest that cash where it'll get a return and help the ecosystem that your company is built on?
> open payments layer API that is supported by the most popular mobile wallet

Does it only support Apple Pay? Kinda of a downgrade from Chrome and the W3 specification:

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/payments/

https://www.w3.org/TR/payment-request/

Oh, and WeChat Pay has 600 million active users, far more than Apple Pay:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/744944/mobile-payment-pl...
> And net lives lost = 1001. So, we've killed 1001 people to let another 1000 live. We [exchanged] their lives.

No. Net lives lost = -1000. Gross lives lost = 1001.

We killed 1001 people to let 2001 live.
Trump Urges $100B in New China Tariffs, Stoking Tensions
This is how Zuckerberg’s Facebook will likely get regulated
A lot of startups do this with their extra cash when a more thriving ecosystem in whatever area they operate in will directly help them. E.g. Slack has a fund investing in chat bots.
The technology is not yet safe, as should be evident by now. It's being promoted as safer than humans, but it's not anywhere near that, yet, mainly because to drive safely you need at least human-level intelligence. Even though humans also drive unsafely, they have the ability to drive very, very safely indeed under diverse conditions that no self-driving car can tackle with anything approaching the same degree of situational awareness and therefore, again, safety.

For the record, that's my objection to the technology: that it's not yet where the industry says it is and it risks causing a lot more harm than good.

Another point. You say nobody is being forced to use the technology. Not exactly; once people start riding self-driving cars then everyone is at risk- anyone can be run over by a self-driving car, anyone can be in an accident caused by someone else's self-driving car, etc.

So it's a bit like a smoker saying nobody is forced to smoke- yeah, but if you smoke next to me I'm forced to breathe in your smoke.
I thought the issue was they do this regardless of whether or not you officially have an account.
The EU is trying to force Facebook to take customers’ privacy seriously
"I feel deeply personally responsible, because a lot of mistakes were made," Sandberg said in an interview with Bloomberg.

[ Dont feel bad. You are doing a fantastic job! ]

"What we didn't do until recently and what we are doing now is just take a broader view looking to be more restrictive in ways data could be misused. We also didn't build our operations fast enough -- and that's on me," she added.

...

Sandberg addressed that comment as well, emphasizing that "all of that was public information."

...

"This is a forever process, because security is always an arms race," Sandberg said during an interview with Bloomberg.

[ No worries! Take as much time as you need. ]

Source:

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/05/facebook-coo-feels-deeply-pe...
Same shit. Basically a wisp of charged subatomic particles.

It’s like 400,000 times smaller than the sun. Worth maybe 5 billion coronal mass ejections, which are weekly events on the surface of the sun.

Figure the overall mass of venus is 100,000,000 years of CME ejecta all at once. But the sun’s gravity will override the planet’s hydrostatic forces and suck much of the planet beneath it’s own surface, in hours maybe. It wouldn’t dent the gravity well of the sun.

The atmosphere of venus would be gone before it reaches the sun. That might be the fun part. After that, the outer surface of rock on venus would melt and start to spew something like a comet’s tail, and then parts would peel away and drop into the sun like a large dark sun spot for maybe a day or so, as it gets closer. Eventually, a portion of liquified the mass would uneventfully fall into the center, and join in the sun’s general fusion reaction.
........ huh? GTK uses native controls on Windows and Linux (and I think Mac?)

The fact that you have to care about DNS rebinding attacks on a desktop app, where presumably that app does not do anything special with the network or DNS, is all kinds of smelly to me.

I wish I could show off some of my work in this area but we took an old JS/HTML/CSS 1.0 stack and did our 2.0 in GTK (with all the fancy graphics and everything), and we are much happier now -- a ten-year-old single-core Celeron system with little RAM runs our stuff great (whereas before we had issues)
I've found FB mostly irrelevant for socialising, but very useful for interest groups - what used to be Usenet, then eGroups/Onelist, then YahooGroups, then Google (sort of.)

There are only so many possible applications in the social space, and the idea that friends/family, work colleagues, hobby/interest, and professional interest groups should all share the same space was always eccentric.
Ooh more source code for classic Mac games! Most of the big PC games that have source releases (like the id engines) just came with DOS/Windows source, not the Mac ports.
From someone who stopped eating beef a few years ago, it’s the first fake burger to satisfy my burger craving, and none of the others come close. Maybe if I were still eating real burgers I’d know what I was missing.
Using a throw-away to protect my identity.

I currently work as a senior software engineer for Google and I am looking for a part time job as a software engineer. I am very well compensated and very happy with my current job, but for personal reason need some additional income for the next 12 to 18 months. I have extensive experience with Rust, Java, React, nodejs, ruby, mobile app development and distributed systems. I can generally pick-up any language pretty quickly.

Below are some of the things I can do for you:

- Write high-quality code,
- Set-up or improve your CI/CD pipeline to improve your engineers productity. Great tooling for engineer is something I am generally very passionate about.
- Set-up and build rich and interactive mobile, web apps with the ability to work on either the front-end or the back-end.

Is there anyone here looking for an experienced engineer to join their team or to build their prototype? Is there anyone here that have done that in the past and could you share your experience.
Disclaimer: Obviously I will only be able to help if you operate in a field that do not compete directly with my current employer.

Thank you.
Jezebel Regrets Its Decision to Hire Cannibal Witch as Writer-At-Large
Vitalik's tweet was a call to direct effort to more important projects (quoting Vitalik directly):

- So total cryptocoin market cap just hit $0.5T today. But have we earned it?

- How many unbanked people have we banked?

- How much censorship-resistant commerce for the common people have we enabled?

- How many dapps have we created that have substantial usage? Low added value per user for using a blockchain is fine, but then you have to make up for it in volume.

- How much value is stored in smart contracts that actually do anything interesting

- How many Venezuelans have actually been protected by us from hyperinflation?

- How much actual usage of micropayment channels is there actually in reality?

- The answer to all of these questions is definitely not zero, and in some cases it's quite significant. But not enough to say it's $0.5T levels of significant. Not enough.
That’d likely eliminate the scamola of a business known as “title insurance” as well.
thanks, installed :)
By "built-in", I was mostly talking about the fact that the literal syntax doesn't require a header. Case in point, here's some code I took straight from a toy AVL implementation I wrote a while back:

auto children = {&grandparent->left, &grandparent->right};
auto child = elvt::find_if(children, [parent](auto &child) {
return *child == parent;
});

Yes, it's an abuse of initializer_list being a convenient "array-like" structure, but it does show that not every use of initializer_list needs to be used as you've mentioned. (In fact, I probably use initializer_lists more this way than in their "intended" way. I'm sure someone is going to yell at me some day for it, but nobody's done it yet).
What's unethical about collaborating with the military? We don't exist in a vacuum. American military hegemony has been an extremely powerful stabilizing force, post-WWII. This idea that it is unethical to build weapons is profoundly wrong, short sighted, and morally selfish.

Not to overly pick on your comment, since you did say that it can be ethical, of course. But i've seen this sentiment that military work is unethical echo'd a bunch of times here lately, and I think it's an incredibly naive perspective.
Cox, a major cable operator, allows you to sign up and add any services you want online. However, partially removing or cancelling services online is expressly forbidden. For example, if you wish to keep Internet service but cancel cable TV, a call is required.

I know it’s a different process, but wanted to reilluminate the some of the measures taken against disconnecting a service in general.

Once you do call, which I had to do for some older relatives recently, they invoke a high pressure sales pitch in the form of a question decision tree script.

The script requires the reps to start down the decision tree asking questions like, “Why are you disconnecting your service today?”, and then using that answer and others to slowly incent/coerce you into a corner intended to make you feel it would be an absurd decision to downgrade service.

I recorded the call (legal because they are recording it as well) to avoid misunderstandings about the precise details of what was being politely requested.

In response to every script question, I gave one simple answer. “Sir, why are you downgrading your service today?”. I reply, “It’s a secret”.

After a few seconds of hesitation, another question follows. “Is there anything you are not happy about with our service?”, “If we could save you more money than any other service would you be interested in hearing about it?”. Sorry, that’s also a secret.

Surprisingly, it short circuited the script pretty quickly without any social discomfort or feeling a need to justify myself. They allowed the changes to proceed, fully documented.
The very first line of the article states:

“We’re pleased to announce that Safari 11.1 on macOS and Safari on iOS 11.3 now support the W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions on the web.”
Rebrand marketing into a data science'y name to attract quantitatively minded applicants (already starting to happen in some orgs)
Clearly my opinion is quite unpopular. I am fine with that. If you gave me $10,000 today and gave me the option to put that money anywhere: Stocks, Bonds, Savings, Gold, Silver, etc. I would choose Bitcoin 10 times out of 10.

Yes, Bitcoin has lost a lot of value since Christmas, but it is still up around 600% from last year. I am taking a long term view here. It is unfair to criticize Bitcoin’s decline because in terms of an asset class it is still miniscule. I consider it in the early price discovery days. Amazon stock declined from $107 to $7 around 2000-2001 so you could make the same argument that buying Amazon was a bad investment then, but you would look pretty dumb today. For reference, just last year, Bitcoin’s market cap was around $15 billion. That would be the equivalent of buying Amazon at around $32 based on the current price.

The Bitcoin volatility will stabilize over time, and I think it will become a legitimate asset class. I would like to ask you in response to

> There might have been people orchestrating surges and crashes, but that's pretty much the best case scenario for assets which people have no reason to value at all.

Why would you say that fiat currencies have value (other than because the government says so)?
Trump seeks an additional $100B in tariffs against China
You seem to be exceptionally well funded, and/or have few deadline constraints

I wish! :)

you get spammed with "good ideas"

Again, I wish!

In the subfield I'm focused on at the moment (efficient mapping of NN algorithms to specialized hardware, low precision computation, model compression) I don't see good ideas very often (fewer than one good paper a week). Previously I worked on music generation - also didn't really feel spammed with good ideas.
Isn't this kind of thing part of the reason why you log to stdout instead of handling disk writes in your app?
Sorry to dissapoint but see below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#Slave_labor

"More people died building the V-2 rockets than were killed by it as a weapon"

...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernher_von_Braun#NASA_career

"American authorities then chose to use von Braun and his German team's experience with missiles to create an orbital launch vehicle. Wernher von Braun had such an idea originally proposed in 1954, but it was denied at the time.[60]"
>If it makes MIT feel better, I don't think "ethics" when I think of MIT.

You and every Tom, Dick and Harry. And that's okay why?
This site has an Android app to do just that. http://www.heavens-above.com/
Hi. I've got something to show you. I have the same problem as what you describe, and that's the inspiration for what I've built. I can let you try it if you'll give me feedback. How can I reach out to you? My contact is my username @opdig.com.
Nontrivial. There's a significant amount of Mac-specific code in the application, including some PowerPC assembly.
Associations of individuals do not have fewer rights as associations than they do as individuals. Individuals have the right to free speech, so does any association of individuals. Why is it so problematic?
We did think about those issues before writing the piece.

It's safer to figure out how to get AI systems to be robust, reliable and safe in civilian contexts before rushing to weaponize them. We need to understand how to avoid technical problems like adversarial examples, and how to recognize and avoid accidental action-reaction-escalation pathways, before militaries start deploying this stuff.

Objectively speaking, the US is one of the planet's more belligerent nations. But if there was evidence that other belligerent countries were already deploying AI weapons systems, there might be an argument for the US keeping pace. If there isn't such evidence, the US should think more carefully about whether to move first, and how to move first, or whether certain kinds of restraint in this space might be in its long term strategic interest.
> When potholes need fixing the community should meet and figure out how to get it done.

OK.

> They believe we can do all of these things with out needing an organized state

Well, see, we met and decided that that's how we're going to get things done. It happens at the time a town decides to incorporate. How does it decide to do that? Usually by a referendum passing among the town's voters.
I haven't played System Shock 1, but this sounds like great news - I'm excited to check it out.

System Shock 2 is the precursor to the more recent Bioshock franchise (Bioshock, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite). They're not part of the same universe, but they share some of the same lineage, and the themes of the game are similar.

To be honest, I didn't know there was still interest in System Shock 1. Normally, Bioshock fans say to skip System Shock 1 and go right to System Shock 2, but maybe that's just because the themes of the first wouldn't appeal as much to Bioshock fans.
Oh absolutely, I'm not saying the general technology is worthless.

Just that this implementation in particular, and a similarly advertised one in the past both stink of marketing bullshit with no actual substance behind it.
ALL available meta data should be exposed and forced into tags, categories and folders.

Move everything file-like into the file system. Make emails into folders with tagged files. Link Torrents to their files and folders. Treat zips like folders. etc

Bit more on date range sliders, colors, files as tags and 3d models here:

https://steemit.com/filesystem/@gaby-de-wilde/how-a-file-sys...
This holds even at the largest companies. For instance it is reasonably well documented that when working for Microsoft the only way to get promoted is to work on new stuff.
It's complicated to do. We've to use proxies, and CAPTCHA solvers.

SerpApi use cases are rank monitoring (main one), but also other kind of result monitoring, ML data collection (my personal use case was collecting images for an AI project), Knowledge graph scrapping, etc.
Last time this happened I said Instacart is a middleman and I didn't see their opportunity to break out and be a market maker.

But I just realized a potential endgame: Instacart will be Amazon Prime (the subscription delivery business) without the need to be Amazon (the retail, global-scale logistics, and marketing company).

Do I want to pay 30% extra on every individual order from local stores to have Instacart handle the delivery? No.

But would I consider paying something like Amazon Prime fees, every month, to have 'free' delivery on orders over $100 from my grocery store, Costco, Trader Joe's, pet store, J. Crew, etc? Very likely.
Of course you can animate voxel models - there are game engines that do it now - the trouble has been doing it on a large number of voxels in real time.

This is why existing voxel games tend to look super blocky and pixelated.

That said - they seem to have solved that for non-organic forms at least (their video forms are very cool, but are basically frame by frame volumetic animation - a little different).

Lighting will be the big issue, though not always a problem in all games.
I couldn't find - high score or fastest time? Totally different skills.
So are you suggesting that it was intentional? Unless it was intentional, it was an accident. Even if someone screwed up, it was all an accident.
It's disagreement, but based on emphasis not axioms.

Singularly focusing on the tax aspect while ignoring the rest of the government-created conditions produces a biased conclusion. Basic Income seems to have gained appeal because of people's need to meet rent. But said rent is itself almost entirely due to government created conditions - the natural cost of building and keeping up dwellings is a small part of their budget.

Similarly while I do agree that taxes are inherently theft, applying this condemnation to any specific topic will just gain legs or not based on who stands to benefit. Condemning any new proposed program based on spending (rather than considering it in the context of rearrangement) is fallacious, and more befitting conservatism rather than libertarianism. I would be in favor of generally disbanding USG. But I'll be damned if such a push is going to result in cuts to eg NPS, NSF, NIH, EPA, NASA, and even USPS, while leaving eg NSA, FBI, ATF, DEA, and Raytheon intact.

FWIW, This is my specific critique of BI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12782244

Regarding taxes and jurisdiction, there really is little point in going back and forth between wildly differing perspectives, and I've stopped asserting that I have the answer. I will say that I've come to view libertarianism heuristically (as opposed to axiomatically), and things like the federal government collecting lots of money just to dole it back out to the states with strings attached can still be pointed at as decidedly broken.
I suggest you actually come out and visit us as you clearly have no idea what its like. We do get "wildfire of potholes" after every major rain season - exactly what the article was talking about. Last year was records for us.
May shed some light:

"How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment: The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun. Today, millions believe they did. Here’s how it happened."
https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/how-nra-rewrote-secon...
Among liberal circles like hn and MIT,Jesus Christ dude. But appealing to you people is useless because my polite and correct comment gets flagged, flagged for nothing more than offending someone. Iran's influence is overblown? Are you serious? Where are rebels getting their supplies? If Iranian support ceased completely the resistance would dry up and the whole thing would grind to a total and complete stop. Same more or less for saudi Arabia. Iran has committed directly and indirectly heinous terrorist crimes that match or exceed the acts commuted by Saudi/us. This is basically a war between two countries and as has always been true, trying to reduce the thing into a framework of good and evil or right and wrong is a fools errand and an intellectual molestation of the truth.

In actual fact mbs is a force for reform. He is perusing reform both because it is plainly in the best interest of his empire and because this is a trend that goes all the way to the beginning with for example the introduction of television to the masses despite huge resistance from religious bodies. Anyone who claims to favor reform and simultaneously condemns mbs knows nothing about the history or international politics of Saudi Arabia. I have been watching mobs and his behaviour indicates very positive direction indeed. Do your homework. Astoundingly the people at MIT seem to have not done theirs.
> the suicide rate at Foxconn during that period was lower than the overall Chinese or US suicide rate.

Please allow me to change your opinion on this. The comparison being made there is the ( number of suicides at Foxconn / number of Foxconn employees ) vs number of suicides in China / population of China. At first glance, this looks like a valid comparison. But it is not. It is actually comparing apples to oranges. The real comparison is against number of employees who choose to commit suicide at their employers premise / number of employees. A useful way to paraphrase this is:

Lets say Google has 100,000 employees. How many Google employees commit suicide at the Googleplex per year? Not how many google employees commit suicide overall.

When phrased this way, it becomes clear that other companies have much lower suicide rates than Foxconn.

That's what is critical to compare. It turns out Foxconn's suicide rate is massively higher than equivalent Chinese employers and the inference is the alleged egregious mistreatment of Foxconn laborers by Foxconn is the cause.
Yes, I read that part:

"W3C Payment Request API for conducting Apple Pay transactions"

My question is: is this only for Apple Pay? Safari won't support any other payment method/service?
Shell foresaw climate dangers in 1988
Getting Your Green Card at the US Border
You're pulling things out of your ass. I'm interested in comments like yours. At some point between reading the previous comment and responding to it, you must have had some thought that goes, roughly, "Hey, I'm just going to make some shit up now and post it." Right? How else does it happen?

Apple's is not the only ecosystem that settled on carriage return. Who do you think was around for them to deliberately break compatibility with in 1977? Kildall?
If we log on from the UK or another European company after the 25th and delete the account from there, will they apply the GDPR based deletion, where they actually delete the data?
I'm so pissed right now!!! I was on Polyvore for over 4 years and now... Everything is gone!!!
Good to know about OCW. Are there often videos as well as assignments? My issue in the past was that they often didn't have many of the teaching resources.

Intro to coding is a fascinating one. From a marketing/business standpoint it makes sense, but 3-4 it was extremely frustrating to see dozens of intro coding courses, but practically nothing for intermediate programmers. Thankfully we're past that point for the most part.
I managed to get the same effect by going to "News Feed Preferences" and unfollowing everyone. I don't think this was possible years ago, but now it is.