skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO only the first makes sense. The third would imply a "non-market" setting which kind of defeats the purpose of an ICO.

The company I talked with was in the loan business, so if you set a target rate of 10% on every interest rate payment, it's possible it's gonna break your neck but then you didn't have a very good business model to begin with.

The idea is that after 5 or 10 years you already bought back a decent amount of your tokens and initially you can set different buyback rates (e.g, X% for the Xth year up to 10) to "soften the blow" in case you're entering a highly competitive market (aka shark pool).

The good news is that it's kind of self-regulating: if you underperform, the tokens will be worth less so your buybacks in terms of coins will be higher and your subsequent buybacks therefore cheaper.
This isn't unique to English.
Because it beats getting a multimillion dollar fine from the EU?
Antennas on towers, like for cell networks.

Starlink doesn't work for mobile users, either.
Your friend sounds like a jerk
Baseball Cards Are a More Sensible Investment Than Bitcoin
There's this one really cool bunker like house in Sweeden or one of the Nordic countries that has blast shutters that come down at night. It looks like a black cube.

I've been looking for more details about it. I saw it on cracked first.
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Elected Politician: what so you want?

Union: pay raises!

Elected Municipal CFO: we can't. No more money.

Elected Politician: what about retiring 5 years earlier?

Unions: we will take that!

Elected Politician: retiring earlier costs nothing right now correct?

Municipal CFO: yes but...

Elected Politician: Fine let's give everyone 5 years earlier retirement. My successor will deal with that when I will be gone.
>The last time I received an actual piece of valid mail was probably years ago. The USPS has become an ad-delivery network subsidized by my tax dollars.

The Post Office's job is to deliver mail sent to you, not to presort it by "validity" on your behalf and then only deliver the mail they think you'll want... if advertisers are sending you junk mail and it's getting to you then the Post Office is doing its job.

>Why should junk mail literally nobody wants be subsidized?

Again, it's not the fault of the Post Office that junk mail is a business, or that no one wants to send you anything but that. As far as it's concerned, mail is mail, and the junk treated like any other correspondence. Junk mail isn't subsidized, "mail" is subsidized - that so much of that mail is junk is not the fault of the USPS.
Can you explain what exactly you mean by private and public? I'm honestly confused. The statements that you are making sound like they come out straight from an Ayn Rand high school essay....
I'm an engineer on our CMS team and as Albert mentioned we're currently seeking both back-end and front-end team members. We're not opposed to hiring skilled developers that don't have deep experience the specific language or frameworks we use. There's also always the option of joining the back-end and transitioning over time to a more front-end role. If you're interested, I'm happy to answer any questions or connect you to the hiring manager.
Very true, let me correct that my comment mostly applies to what I have seen in France ;)
Or he saw a bug go in and said nothing.
Article 2 of the GDPR says:
2. This Regulation does not apply to the processing of personal data:
(c) by a natural person in the course of a purely personal or household activity.
I'd say this fits your personal blog; no action is needed.
Power9 Benchmarks vs. Intel Xeon vs. AMD EPYC Performance on Debian Linux
This would be trivial to solve with a vertical mounted LIDAR. You vertically mount it and if the horzontal distance measured level with the bumper of the car are significantly closer than the horizontal distance at a lower angle you can classify that as a stationary object, if it's a continuous lengthening or shortening then it's a ramp. The classification is almost trivial (though the hardware may be expensive or difficult to implement for high speeds).
I doubt because every ISP must install a special hardware (Revizor) manufactured by Roskomnadzor, which constantly checks blocked resources inside ISP network. If you don't block all the resources you will get fined. And there is a huge fine if you will try to trick this system.
> Obviously this would destroy most "free" online services over night

Why would it? TV and radio advertising is not individually targeted, and still exists.
So everyone else is force into being surveilled as well? In the US military, there are health and comfort inspections. They have a legitimate use: inspect the living quarters on base to ensure that personnel are living in safe, habitable conditions. That's not what they're used for.

Word had passed that there was a small Rx drug ring in the barracks. Why search only the accused rooms when you can search the entirety of the barracks all at once. I didn't have any contraband in my room. I don't think I ever had any contraband. Did that matter? Nope.

Sometime between 5 and 6 AM, we were all made to unlock all of our drawers and cabinets, exit our rooms immediately, and wait. If you didn't unlock something, they'd cut the locks with bolt cutters. You'd return to a room that was absolutely ransacked. Seriously - it looked like a thief was quickly sprinting from room to room tossing everything in sight while hoping to find a hidden stash of jewels.

Sounds a bit far-fetched for the general public right? Hardly! This is the same thing as a summary no-knock warrant.
Einstein was the first to truly grasp James Clerk Maxwell's work. If Maxwell hadn't died in 1879 at only 48, then I like to imagine he would have produced Special Relativity – most of it is there in his famous equations.

Einstein also had the benefit of knowing the null result of the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887), and Hertz's experimental confirmation of electromagnetic waves moving at the speed of light (1889) predicted by Maxwell.

Einstein, of course, explicitly recognised Maxwell and kept a picture of him on his office wall.

While Einstein's theoretical work is fabulous, it was Maxwell who first broke away from the mechanical model; something that even his illustrious contemporaries struggled to understand.

If you appreciate Einstein, yet know little of Maxwell, then The Man Who Changed Everything[0] is a great introduction.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29442.The_Man_Who_Change...
First they used it on those that had committed crimes, and nobody spoke up. Then they used it on (etc.) and nobody spoke up. When finally they used it on me, there was noone left to speak up.
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As ever, it turns out that however brilliant your design spec, data structure, or algorithm is, it breaks as soon as it comes in contact with the realities of human nature, business processes, legal requirements, and the universe itself. This is an insight huge swaths of tech culture fail to grasp, and it explains the massive problems of crypto currency fraud, Facebook privacy gaffes, and the continuing delusion that self driving cars and AI assistants are just over the horizon. If only the world would match up to my assumptions, then my code can save the world! But it never will. You have to build that mismatch into your plans or you’ll eventually fail.
The cumulative result of years of overpromising to employees. Only seems to happen with one party...
If your toaster can collect 500 signatures door-to-door, I don’t see why not.
In that case tesla's autopilot is a red herring. It's not a fully autonomous system. If you're willing to sacrifice human lives then please sacrifice them on systems that actually have a chance of working. Tesla's autopilot isn't one of them, it's most likely never going to reduce the fatality rate below the skill of a sober human because it's just a simple lane keeping and cruise control assistant.
That is mostly false. Neither Tesla nor SpaceX depend on government funding.

SpaceX absolutely does not depend on NASA for funding. The majority of SpaceX missions are not for the government. The majority of their developments and research are not directly funded by NASA.

> Congress can absolutely decide to fund SpaceX less

They can hurt them by telling NASA and DoD to not use SpaceX even if they are the cheapest. But that would absolutely not kill SpaceX in any way.

It would also massively hurt the government since it would cost them billions.

> or charge SpaceX more for use of government facilities

Unless they break their contract that were already negotiated for the long term, no they can't. But that's a stupid argument, of course the US government can destroy any company in the world if they really want to.

> Elon Musk is very good at designing companies built on government handouts. ;) Not that there's anything inherently wrong with that.

Not really. First of all, in the case of SpaceX they were not handouts, but rather competitively bid contracts that SpaceX can execute cheaper then anybody else. In fact SpaceX had to sue the government multiple times to even be allowed to bid for some of the contracts.

Kistler for example was not able to execute and NASA cut their funding and they went down.

These actions actually saved the government a shit-ton of money, rather then the government giving handouts to SpaceX.

The same goes for Tesla, its mostly successful because it a good product. The tax cuts they get are nice, but again, any other company has access to the same tax-cuts as well.

> We are past the "pioneer" stage of space launches

The BFR is absolutely a pineer project.Pretty much nothing like it has ever been done. Not the engines. Not the structure. Not the fuel. Not the orbital refueling. Not the full reusability.

And of course then landing it on Mars and hopefully flying it back, that's absolutely a pioneer project.
I find this new wave of going after people’s pensions to be super unseemly. All of this information has been public for decades, if you view the voter as “the board”, there’s culpability in not managing politicians and allowing this situation to spiral.

If we are going to be adults, these pensions are contractual and need to be paid out. It’s not a responsible behavior to use retirement plans as weapons at the 11th hour.
A subscription model at a few Euros a month might attract only those users with high spending power, and whose ads (presumably) generate much more than a few Euros a month.
Maybe that is a serious problem.
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What about preventing this from happening going forward?
Walking/Biking also allows me to instantly change my plans, even more so than driving does (try turning around instantly in a car). What do you mean "low large countries work"? The absolute size of a country is irrelevant (what New Yorker cares what malls there are in Kentucky?), what matters is population/service density. The US has a 50% larger population density than Sweden, so it should be able to support at least as dense cities and services. The difference not economic or technical, but cultural.
> AUTOSAR has updated their guidelines to use C++14 instead of C.

Really? Interesting thing. You mean for "standard/legacy" autosar, or for the new "dynamic" variant?

When I was back in automotive, the autosar design(s) where probably the ones software people were mostly complaining about.
When I read about Van Eck Phreaking in that book I thought for sure it was just some nonsense for the book. Couldn't believe it was real. That book was pretty amazing. It's hard to believe a book about cryptocurrency was released all the way back in 1999.
Any list of unusual houses is incomplete without Robert Bruno's steel house. It's actual architecture/sculpture, not just a novelty based on the way it looks.

http://res.dallasnews.com/interactives/steelhouse/
Well, we certainly have exponentially more consumption of treatments for depression, allergies, obesity, pain, attention disorders, ... . That these are very lucrative for the companies supplying them (under a state-covered monopoly agreement) is also correct. Whether those constitute 'cures' is highly debatable.
That's awesome. Similar story...location in profile. Parents had a house, 2 cars, and raised 3 children on UPS salaries. Until one retired, both still worked there, and doing quite well for themselves.
The fact that sensors reported the driver didn’t have their hands on the wheel

...says nothing about the hands. It only says something about the sensors, until there is conclusive evidence from a secondary source.
I definitely got a sense of something like that while visiting earlier this year. It's a place where things are working as they should, at least on the surface, so there isn't much to complain about, but it's also built on momentum and institutions left over from when Japan was the industrial power of Asia, stuff that just hasn't broken yet, so nobody has reassessed it. And there's a conflict likely to emerge in that setup, but it's not going to be a full-blown crisis until later, so "contentment" rules the day.

Contrast with the USA; the crisis - social, economic, political - is here, and it has been for a while. Everyone has something to scream at each other about.
Russia orders immediate block of Telegram messaging app
Oh, maybe in 2005 it was invite only so I couldn't.
They're objecting to the simultaneous existence of two DOM standards, to the procedure used by W3C to move forward on the W3C's standard, and to substantive issues in the W3C's fork. Each of the objections refers to the W3C's DOM spec as a "fork". The objectors are members of the WHATWG steering group. The title seems about as neutral a description as can be written.

This is a hazard of posting into message threads rather than articles and blog posts, but "all the mainstream browser vendors object to a W3C standard" seemed interesting enough an event to override that concern.
Ummm... there is no encryption key for WhatsApp and Messenger to hand over. That's what end-to-end encryption means.

Now WhatsApp could theoretically push a malicious update, but there is no way Signal could even theoretically hand over the encryption keys, because the entire freaking point of their product is for them not to have a copy of those keys.

Since Telegram isn't end-to-end encrypted (outside "secret chats"), they do have a private key that decrypts all the messages, since they only encrypt in transit. Therefore, there is a private key to hand over to the government.
China, Russia are developing space weapons, bolstering case for US Space Corps
Last Episode of “Request for Commits”
For some clarity:

- Mozilla's Objection: https://github.com/w3c/dom/issues/175#issuecomment-380771954

- Apple's Objection: https://github.com/w3c/dom/issues/175#issuecomment-380534425

- Microsoft's Objection: https://github.com/w3c/dom/issues/176

- Google's Objection: https://github.com/w3c/dom/issues/177
It's sad to see the relationship between WHATWG and W3C has deteriorated to this point. Trying to wrangle a standard from a "living" (i.e. constantly changing) specification was always going to be tough but I'd have hoped both WHATWG and W3C would be able to maintain a working relationship.
In Kentucky, we're going through a pension reform as we speak. Of course, the Republicans are claiming to have fixed it and the Democrats are protesting it, saying they're hanging future retirees out to dry. What no one is saying is that the hole is so deep there's no way to get out of it. If I were a state employee, I would start planning now for my pension not to be there when I retire.
Ask HN: How do you scale a one person consultancy to an agency?
Would love to hear any tips from someone who has made the transition successfully (or unsuccessfully!).
Typically pensions themselves are the largest underfunded government obligation - consider California, where Gray Davis passed a retroactive pension benefits increase with a reduction in pension funding. At the national level, the math is different because of the military, but state and municipal governments pay a ton of their budget to retirees.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-pension-crisis-davis-d...
The issue is that Chinaman became a slur and was also used to refer to all people from Asia.
Several times now various bills and projects have relied on withdrawing funds from social security/pension pools. On the promise that the money will be returned of coarse.
I had to check the definition of hypertension, it seems I'm using the alternate definition being a state of psychological stress. In my case prolonged sitting at the desk in a frustrated state led me to hyper-extend my neck region, kind of puffing out my chest. By the end of the day I would invariably have a ball of pain above my sternum? (right where the nucktie knot goes)

The necktie prevents any pressure from building up there and subtly changes the way one swallows to support the adam's apple. It's very comforting once you get the hang of it but I can understand why people find it uncomfortable, especially if the fit isn't right.

Essentially the tightness afforded by the tie alerts one to the pressure buildup earlier than more 'comfortable' collars which provide less support, thereby allowing one to take a rest or breathe and allow the pressure to dissipate.
That is right, and I guess it would count as objection to marketing.
Really nice to see service worker in Safari.
Now all major browsers support at least the bare minimum of SW - we'll see a big improvement in the web landscape though that :)
Right, but you seemed to be arguing that illusory images meant that the curvature itself was illusory, whereas in my toy universe space really is toroidal, and anyone using the existence of multiple images to suggest otherwise would be wrong (because I set up the universe that way). In fact, such images would be convenient evidence that space was actually toroidal. I don't see how Einstein rings are any different- they can't be evidence against actual curvature of actual spacetime. You'd expect double and triple images if spacetime was curved.

One prediction of GR is that if there were enough mass in the universe, the global curvature would be positive everywhere and the universe would close in on itself and be connected more like a sphere than a plane. If you moved in a straight line you would eventually return to your starting point. That doesn't seem to be the universe we live in (as far as anyone can tell, it's flat) but that certainly seems like a prediction about the actual curvature of actual spacetime.
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That is what will happen. Each US dollar will become less valuable, and the nominal debts will be satisfied. Hope you're invested in inflation resistant assets. Some of the pension recipients who don't have enough clout to force the federal government's hand will lose though.
Well it's essentially eat right, drink water, get some rest, etc.

This is just healthy living. I don’t think we should ascribe it to Traditional Chinese Medicine.
What I will never understand is simply this:

1. A position is advertised as independent contractor

2. A person chooses to fill the job as an independent contractor while being compensated EXACTLY as agreed

3. The person sues to be considered an employee

In situations like that, it’s really difficult for me to side with anyone but the business.
I think as mentioned in the article - the family started making public statements and Tesla figured "Oh, you don't want PRIVACY (read: to STFU) then we're going to be TRANSPARENT (read: slander your dead relative to boost our shareprice)"
I work from a home office, so I rarely wear anything.

BUT when I leave the house, its in full kit. Because I like to. Its nice to look good.
As I understand things, Prevent Cross Site Tracking allows all requests, but blocks all third-party cookies. This allows cookies on requests it makes, but blocks requests that match a commonly-used blacklist.
There is an app called Franz that bundles the web versions of many services that have them. That doesn't sound very appealing to me either, though.
Price increases to accommodate higher wages will drive down demand. The net result is fewer jobs, or replacing those jobs with other things... Robotic fry cooks aren't economical at current wages, but from what I've heard it's a near thing.
The underfunded part is sadly not unusual or unpredictable and neither are the unrealistic performance expectations. On the other hand, the poor returns some of the funds have seen in recent years is quite a surprise. How badly designed did the average portfolio have to be to only gain 1% in 2016?
The only way that'd happen would be via a direct ballot measure[1]. Even then it'd be a tough sell.

More and more I'm thinking the only outcome for a lot of these States and municipalities is going to be bankruptcy. The long term austerity measures that are needed are too onerous and the entrenched powers are too corrupt to do anything about it until it's too late.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballot_measure
The murder that shook Iceland
Generally, I try to avoid criticising others but this logic is really disturbing and dangerous and I am very worried about people who stand behind it. It hasn't gotten us anywhere. It never will.
>”You must log in first.”
Thank you for the response! This is true.

Must not look at the answer with false confidence and think.."Oh yes I get that. Now let's move on to the next problem."

I like the three questions you state from an analytical perspective. I am going to make this a checklist with these three when reviewing a solution.

Cheers!
Partial Java types proposition
I'm not "insanely wealthy" and I am getting a benefit from the tax cuts, as are most people. Or we can get rid of other obligations like welfare to fund it as well - give money from the non-working (and in some cases arguably useless) to the working.
You may want to have a look at this old thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9210505
and
https://gist.github.com/drkarl/739a864b3275e901d317

If you want something with deduplication, encrypted, incremental, versioned and cost efective you could try duplicati with Backblaze B2 as backend (for the cost effective part).

Anyway BackBlaze B2 is quite good on price, and has a lot of integrations: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/integrations.html
It's not politically practical, but why would you expect that paying for the stuff we already pay for is too expensive?
It's common on Reddit.
Human cloning just got a little bit closer
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My memory of the statistics is that the median voter does not save. The government's approach to creating reserves of wealth follows on from that naturally.

An aspect in this that I find very interesting is the realities behind the numbers which will be revealed as the situation plays out. The money is a bit of an illusion, retirees need an available reserve of wealth (be it in the form of productive land, goods, labour, rock solid infrastructure and houses with little need of maintenance) to sustain them when they can no longer produce.

Where will this wealth reserve come from? Who will have to go without? What compromises will be made?

Undoubtedly one part of any proposed solution is 'tax the rich', because there are no other wealth reserves in America, but if this is a more fundamental problem of demographics and ratios the real resources might not be available to meet peoples expectations. Somebody is in for a very rough 20 years.
It's interesting that a post asking a very hacking-like question is being downvoted on hacker news.

I mean, this is the kind of stuff you would have found on phrak, 2600 and the likes back in the day.

(no snark, just an observation)
Telegram hit with block in Russia over encryption
Can't get to Starlink II, without Starlink I ;) I'm excited about the possibilities, and really hope they can, as you suggest, continue to iterate and improve.