skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also because it's so slow. You're tying up a lot of personnel on the train, as well as capital equipment, for multiple days, rather than hours for a plane. With the same personnel (which cost about as much as pilots/cabin crew), you could run ~10 equivalent flights. Capital equipment is cheaper for rail than in the air, but the portion of rail capex/opex (either directly, or usually via fees to freight lines) is also high.

This video is a good analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwjwePe-HmA
Some dude on reddit sold btc in December for ~$100k profit. Bought random coins in January and lost almost all of it. Is looking at a $30k tax bill. Can’t offset the loss because he crossed a year boundary between the transactions. His annual income was only something like $35k.
Do you have those studies handy? The ones I’ve seen have been inconclusive.
Qapital provides some of the features that you've mentioned: https://www.qapital.com/spending/
It really shouldn't be relevant. Your title company will usually handle closing (apparently where you are form the agent does this? Here, the agent usually helps you so you don't have to deal with the title company, but the title company is responsible), and they will deal with the previous mortgage company. Usually you should have title insurance in case a problem does crop up (required for most lenders)- and your title company can deal with it. So the real nightmare is when your title company handling the transaction is a problem. (Usually the seller chooses the title company, but this can be negotiated between buyer and seller, and many sellers are more than happy to use the title company of your choice- if you pay for it).
Then I learned career matching is not a great fit for that[1]. Rather, doing whatever job you're good at and applying the strengths is more useful. So maybe a service that automates helping you use your signature strengths in your current position. That would be a hard problem, but seems like it would benefit society an incredible amount.

1. http://www.viacharacter.org/blog/use-your-strengths-to-furth...
People perform tasks better when others are watching
I presume your friend had title insurance, and the title company dealt with it?
In fact, in Germany any Terms and Conditions which have not been presented to the customer before a purchase contract are completely unenforceable, not part of the contract. And in those he has been presented before the contract, any "surprising" clause is also automatically void, plus various other restrictions apply.

There is also a EU-wide regulation ensuring similar laws exist in all EU countries.
Awesome, initial AV1 support!
The press release is vague for the same reason why I can't directly answer some of your questions/challenges.

However, the fact that we're using a permissioned network does not automatically say that trust is absolutely granted. In this case it is more of a wall for a rather large and weird garden and at this stage of development it is helpful to know at least who is walking around in the garden. What they are up to is a different matter.

Also, the press release mentions the problem of many provider directories existing and not every directory contains the same information. Provider data is a tent pole in the American healthcare industry and it is used in just about every area of it, from claims processing to personal health record management.

You ask why not just have a central database for it? Well, the answer is simply "why do you think there are so many directories already?" The field is littered with directories that aimed to be "The single master directory for everyone!" There is a large amount of "not invented here syndrome" and an equal amount of "we have 20 years of data models that wont fit your commercial directory." So every large payer ends up building their own and then spends a lot of time and effort maintaining the data in it. Other consumers/producers of provider data may also maintain their own directories or subscribe to a commercial product.

The network we constructed is not simply yet another provider master database but-on-a-blockchain. It goes beyond that and really does use key features of what most consider to be a blockchain's major benefits.

I apologize for not being able to share details of what I consider to be really neat stuff but more news is on the horizon.
Have these "studies" taken into account maintainability? There is a whole class of bugs that won't happen with a statically typed language. There also a whole class of automatic refactors that you can do with statically typed languages.
Bus? (Sometimes operated by Amtrak, even)
Two mental steps towards cryptoasset diffusion
Samsung CHG90 monitor review: We’re gonna need a bigger desk
11 Republican members of Congress on Wednesday sent a criminal referral to the DoJ and FBI seeking an investigation of ex-director James Comey, ex-AG Loretta Lynch, and Hillary Clinton in connection with the 2016 campaign. Clapper is (elsewhere) alleged to have been pushing a fake "Russia dossier" to/with Lynch and Comey.
Distributed databases with a consensus algorithm in the backend existed for quite a while. What does this provide over (search for: raft log database, and pick one example).
“Enhance” seems to be exactly equivalent to what would traditionally be called “plugins”.
As a non-driver[1], I totally look forward to the day when my taxes are no longer used to fund the road network and its deleterious effects.

[1] can drive, choose not to, don't own a car
Syntax Color Themes for Xcode
> hoping

*knowing
They seem to just be reaching reviewers finally[1]. Looks like a great machine, tiny footprint, enormous horsepower (comparatively).

1: https://www.anandtech.com/show/12572/the-intel-hades-canyon-...
Electric Scooters Are Causing Havoc?
Read "The Used Car Salesman Defense" section in this issue of Matt Levine's "Money Stuff": https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-03-20/explainin...

It boils down to this: "Banks are always trying to get customers to think of them as trusted agents, while reserving the right to act as rapacious counterparties."

I like Matt Levine because his "I was on the inside" voice is pragmatic and straightforward, and often makes me stop and say, "Huh."
I seem to remember it’s also dramatically lowered phone theft rates.
>Whats the fallacy for when you think you've identified a fallacy and simply assert it?

Not this.

>Anyway, back the to topic. I do believe, you missed the central point and latched onto a tangential irrelevant point. The point is identifying the company culture, understanding peoples personalities, their motivations, and then figuring out a way to work together - even if you have an annoying boss, even if your coworkers are incompetent (as they often are), even if you think you know how to fix all problems - is WAY more important than doing something because you think youre hot shit who can prove people wrong.

There are a few people saying that. Nonetheless, I do believe that there are a number of people on this thread who are happy to use that as an excuse to say "shut the fuck up and kiss the ring" (e.g. the guy who said 'wait six months before proposing anything new'). That isn't healthy either, a and if you work with people like that the healthiest response is to leave and try and find somebody who isn't a jerk to work for.

>Okay, but that is not the only way people start companies.

I didn't say it was. Nonetheless, the most common unifying feature of entrepreneurs isn't a propensity to be trailblazers who take risks - it's access to spare cash, and, shockingly, not every employee of every company has capital just lying around.

If we're talking probabilities, the average entrepreneur is more like my boss than Mark Zuckerberg.

Bosses like to feel that their authority is deserved though, and it's easier to think that if you spread the myth that just "anybody" can start a company.
Alibaba's quantum computer
I don't think CL is attracting a lot of new developers or there's a lot of new libraries getting developed. But I would be glad to be proven wrong. Perhaps Racket will eventually become a CL replacement, now it's adopting a lot of Chez low-level stuff and it's multiparadigm efforts keep growing.
My studies go back years, my residence here only weeks. I'm fixing the gaps in my education, but slowly.
> I really want to believe there's something better. But I think the real choice is between "local bank" -- shitty website, hard-to-use ATMs that require putting checks in envelopes, bad hours OR a big national bank, where you're a number, but the software is good, there are branches everywhere, they have a good mobile app/good ATMs, etc.

My relatively large regional credit union has all the advantages you list for a big bank except branches everywhere when traveling, especially good ATMs and mobile app. And doesn't have the “your just a number” problem.
Warning! Folklore.org link detected! Please be advised that you may lose many hours reading charming stories with a goofy smile plastered on your face. It's happened to me more than once.
JavaScriptCore is already running on WASM, https://github.com/mbbill/JSC.js so all you need is a WASM execution context and you get a great ECMAScript engine.
Yup, that's why Elon is making a company rule to leave a meeting when you think you don't contribute to anymore.
As part of your disclosures, lenders that plan to sell your loan will usually be required to disclose this fact, so you can deal with a lender that keeps their loans in house. The last house I bought the company disclosed that they might sell the loan, but they remain the servicer on the loan, so I don't even know who owns it.
> it requires understanding every word of the consent and no penalties for saying no

That sounds noble. However, the actual practice of getting patients consent for medical trials is pretty much the same as a website ToS click-through [1].

[1] Source: it used to be my dayjob to sign patients on consent forms.
We can run our helloworld sample (https://github.com/Moddable-OpenSource/moddable/tree/public/...) with the xsbug debugger attached in 6000 bytes of RAM on the ESP8266. 5456 bytes for the stack and heaps, 256 for the dynamic symbol table, and 288 for the alias array.

With the 26KB RAM Duktape needs for "Hello world" we can run apps like the Sensor hub described in this blog post (run on a Thunderboard that only has 32KB of RAM total): http://blog.moddable.tech/blog/moddable-tech-presentation-to...
I thought about this recently but based on the big cut I would end up taking it makes it basically not worth it. Living in Texas I have no state income tax on top of a tax ecosystem which is being cut I make out more just staying.
Well, if you're building a wall yourself, you can't use a whole truck load of concrete all at once. You pretty much have to mix it incrementally.
We need that money for more adventures in the middle east and urban welfare though.
Human Brain Organoids Thrive in Mouse Brains
One thing I have observed is that engineering roles at national labs tend to have a lot of paperwork needed for an interview. I can understand a faculty role requiring recommendation letters, a long application form to fill up but an engineering role requiring all that makes it rather annoying.

Not sure if Oak Ridge does this tho. :)
Pulitzer Prize Winners Moving to PR: What Does That Say About Future Journalism?
Nature Paper:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nbt.4127
Mapping the whole internet with Hilbert curves
Why would you expect this to work? In fact given that API a map from another java library(say guava) would have crashed you just as well
Presumably, to get the truck pricing you have to buy by the truckload which is too much concrete for some projects. If doing it onsite was cheaper at quantity, you'd never see a concrete truck on the road -- all the big construction sites would be saving money by mixing onsite.
This is super interesting. And, even as someone who studied neurobiology, kinda creepy.
That's good advice, I appreciate it, thanks.

I finally started understanding some of the code today, and things are starting to get better on that front.

I agree with you, I'll stay humble and play my cards well, being employed is more important right now than taking possible risks and losing my job.
Oh I'm sure, I didn't follow it all that closely but I remember it being resolved within a few weeks, but the headache was apparently enough for him to want to avoid sellers with BofA in the future.
Federal highways are about 30-50% funded by gas tax in the US; I agree fuel taxes should be increased to the point where they pay for the road network. (State/local roads are separate, and are much more multi-model in use, at least in cities, so it's harder to apportion costs.) (https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2009/09/17/do-highway-users-pay-...)
I think "How confusing is this going to be to the one consuming this" (assuming you're not writing the front end as well) is the more important question to ask
Is that a US thing? Here, all the customer-having banks have all their services available through the app, with very quick and helpful support through chat. I didn't even had to come to their office to open an account – they delivered the card together with the documents I had to sign. This industry has been radically transformed in the last few years, just as taxis. I thought it happened everywhere, especially in US.
Probably not. Though when comparing killing one of the Founding Fathers and (allegedly) conspiring to make significant portion of the US into a separate state, anything that modern politicians do kinda pales.
I mean, can you imagine, say, Joe Biden killing Jeff Sessions on a duel and then conspire for the West Coast to secede and form a separate independent country?
This guy is definitely annoying to work with. The question is whether he's also the extremely knowledgeable and competent person he paints himself as and whether his coworkers were the bumbling and ineffective people he paints them as.
The Yellowstone supervolcano is a disaster waiting to happen
Are there any chat/messaging alternatives in the dat/ipfs/beakerbrowser space?
> how can anyone who has stayed at IBM for 30 years be anything other than a deadweight who is just there to collect a paycheck?

This is blatantly absurd. What makes you think that?

According to the story, in general, older employees received good reviews but were discriminated against by a point system that gave an edge to new, young employees.
Summary of “Deep Learning Scaling Is Predictable, Empirically”
>Sounds like they are copying the education system here in the USA.

>the USA.

>USA

Yes, of course. As always and forever. It is really all about the USA. And Americans. Please tell us more about where you live. As we all know, the USA is so much more interesting than the subject of the article. Which has absolutely nothing to do with the USA whatsoever. But that's boring. So, why don't you take the floor and tell us about what we're really all here to discuss. The USA.
Lots of hardware acceleration:

- Intel QSV-accelerated MJPEG encoding

- NVIDIA NVDEC-accelerated H.264, HEVC, MJPEG, MPEG-1/2/4, VC1, VP8/9 hwaccel decoding

- Intel QSV-accelerated overlay filter

- OpenCL overlay filter

- VAAPI MJPEG and VP8 decoding

- AMD AMF H.264 and HEVC encoders

- VideoToolbox HEVC encoder and hwaccel

- VAAPI-accelerated ProcAmp (color balance), denoise and sharpness filters
Why don't the non-tenured (and non-tenure track) faculty unionize? They seem like more obvious candidates: Terrible pay, no job security, and a smart, highly educated group of people. They have nothing to lose but their crappy jobs. I'm sure they can see it as well as I can; can someone here shed light on it?

I would guess that they didn't historically unionize because they were a much smaller group - a higher proportion of faculty had tenure and thus job security. Also, I wonder if they were better paid before universities in the U.S. became focused on money as their primary mission (income; expenses; patents; spin-offs; research grants; tuition; and of course the whole purpose of education became future salary, not trivial things like knowledge, understanding, thought, and the welfare of civilization).
Istanbul Closes the Books on Its Public Scribes
> People whose favourite language is Go, will probably not move to Scala (and vice versa). Kotlin vs Scala is an easier to understand competition.

That said, in terms of language features and type system, Kotlin is arguably closer to Go than it is to Scala. Yes, Kotlin competes with Scala on the JVM, but it's a very different language. Scala is much closer to a language such as OCaml than it is to Kotlin.
>Although primitive, the video that you linked to is also based on previous technology/knowledge...

Yet one is possible to do literally by yourself without another human being alive as long as you possess the knowledge.

It is a real difference.
Very excited for this. It's quite disappointing to see the one/only popular photo sharing app (instagram) work so hard to restrict usage to phone apps.

Sometimes you want to share photos from a non-phone camera, or look at photos on your computer screen.

Rooting for you flickr!
Since then I've bought 2 houses, and both mortgage companies I've worked with had that clause.

Is it actually possible to find someone who won't? Or is it just a false sense of choice like the ability to "choose an ISP that says they won't sell your information"?
How much does the US subsidize air travel via FAA, airport subsidies, etc? What about road subsidies? It’s like somehow rail has to be profitable on its own, but not bus or air.
Most of those trips appear to be under 3.5 hours each way... Why not drive since it's likely faster and cheaper than the train?
I mean, if you want to go right ahead and admit that you have so few users/your users use your product so little that build time is a significant metric for you vs runtime performance costs, I won't stop you
Over the road truckers are limited to 11 hours per day for good reason, your brain thinks falsely it can safely do more, but studies show otherwise.

I have found on my cross country trips that there are plenty of small towns scatters across the US to make finding a hotel within an hour easy (though I'm sure you can find exceptions). I have also found a lot of interesting "small town" parks and culture because I forced myself to stop and find something (anything!) to do after 11 hours on the road.
So I guess we can expect to be asked this once a week in an increasingly deceptive way until people either by accident click yes or they click yes just to get rid of the popup.
Honestly, the science is still incomplete. We do know that there is quite a bit of genetic variation that comes into play with regards to how THC affects the user though.
What are the current things that people with that problem are doing in order to solve (or hide) that problem?
It’s microwaved. It’s not good.
I apparently violated the Bundler CoC by disagreeing with their implementation of --jobs <n> that actually runs n - 1 jobs. When I questioned what I had actually violated, he accused me of making a joke about racism and blocked me. https://twitter.com/swrobel/status/984894874330656768
My wife and I celebrated our 20 year anniversary with a 7 train, 3 week trip last year. The food was good for the first couple of weeks, but I think 3 weeks was a week too long - All things can eventually be monotonous.

We went out and scored a bottle of horse radish in DC to spice up the surf and turf... That helped.

The most picturesque of the routes we took for us were the California Zephyr and the Empire Builder.

https://raintreesbytrain.wordpress.com/
I've been Simple customer for years- never heard of this "no long term travel" policy- can you elaborate?

Edit: I just looked, and they indeed state that they may have close your account if you are traveling for "a very long time" or moving out of the country... odd, I wonder what their definition of "a very long time" is?
It is pretty unusual for grad students even the humanities to pay tuition. For undergrads there is great value in teaching this material even to non-majors.
I'm genuinely curious if my perception that the Ruby community has more drama than other communities is actually true.
Something is obviously broken for a prominent contributor to the ruby community to decline funding from Ruby Together, regardless of the cause or reasoning.

So sad to see this drama arise in the ruby community, but sometimes there are no other option. I commend those who tried to resolve the issues quietly having the resolve to stand up for what they believe is right, even if it rocks the boat.
Do you know people using React because it’s cool? What do they mean that’s React is cool? And why they should not?
A creek splits the US in two at the Parting of the Waters
U.S. smackdown of ZTE proves Xi’s point
There should be a feature that matches the url of your link against posts within the last 7 days, and alerts you to possible reposts prior to submitting.
> Given that we don't know what his private conversations look like now

I don't get it - he knows what our private conversations look like. Why don't we know his?
> Storage might be cheap, but keeping it cheap is tricky.

If it's really for pure backup, not continuous sync, Glacier is $4 per TB.
Doubt that's legal. I've had a few hundred bucks I lost track of in an ING account a decade ago that I was able to collect through CA collections. They can't just keep it. Smells super shady.
Berlin's N26 Bank Is Coming to the US
An Exercise on Seeing Your Future
>Is this a thing people actually think is...well a thing?

The answer to that question is always going to be yes.
No. I don't know these languages but color me sceptical.
Boxing clever and the fight of my life
In Sweden bank provide two forms of services. All digital services which is what they are strongly pushing for, and ATM machines where customers withdraws (with a max of $1500 per week) and store owners can deposits in a few special machines in the "large" cities. Practically no office deal with cash and the few remaining is purely for consultations.

Through all this digitization and cost savings the numbers of banks has gone down. From a infrastructure perspective it has never been as cheap and easy to start up a bank, and yet what we see is the opposite. Now why do we not see new competition in banking?
Why does Uber inflate wait time for Pool riders using Commuter Benefits?
When riding UberPool, if you toggle payment from a credit card to Commuter Benefits, wait time will often substantially increase -- usually from around 2 minutes to 9 minutes. The wait time will drop back down if you toggle payment back to a credit card.

What is the reason for Uber to increase wait time for Pool riders using Commuter Benefits?
> You expect substance from the comments while these articles lack any form of evidence?

Yes, actually. Or silent flagging, like the guidelines ask. Being important does not make something on topic.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, in the US that is definitely taxable. Keep in mind you can also write off losses though.
You'd probably need to go with an MVNO plan like PagePlus or Mint SIM.
Bits of me are impressed, and bits of me think "but the icon for a uber X car on my phone takes up about 30 yards of the street anyways, so i don't mind the accuracy"

I mean I have never really looked into it but how bad is plain old GPS anyways?
Technically yes, but if I had to take a bus for 20+ hours I'd want to shoot myself.