skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there’s nothing to hack except from stealing private keys in which case the damage is limited to areas that this key is covering (usually very small).

On the contrary. Let's say that you institute a blockchain to trace the chain of custody for evidence (not much different than tracing the chain of custody, cough supply chain cough, for mangoes). From the creation of a piece of evidence to transferring custody between different law enforcement officials, each block on the blockchain contains the private key signatures of law enforcement agents who have testified that they have taken custody of the evidence at a certain period of time. In theory, the benefit of a blockchain here is a publicly auditable record of custody which has clear value for the admissibility of evidence at public trial. Imagine that we wave away issues of latency for the sake of argument.

With cryptocurrency, actors are motivated not to share their private keys, because sharing their private key means risking irrevocably giving away all the currency in the wallet controlled by that key. What is the similar motivation here, for law enforcement agents not to share or otherwise compromise their private keys? If one cop tells another cop "hey I need you to do me a favor and sign custody of this evidence now while not actually taking it, so I can take it somewhere else and mess with it to make sure we can for sure put this guy away," or "hey do me a favor, I'm not going to sign custody on this now, but I'll do it later on" - what prevents this from happening?

Is it supposed to be the threat of perjury? Because the courts already have a problem with testimony which has been found to be false, where perjury cases are rarely subsequently prosecuted. Put it this way - just because something is auditable, who will audit it? And how do you police domain violations which are still valid blockchain transactions?

A blockchain where you have a publicly auditable, irrevocable record is meaningless if it doesn't really mean anything for blockchain actors to "act in their own interest". In this case, undermining the private keys is everything, because that's what undermines faith in the entire blockchain.
The Viscous Coupling is really neat.

The design consists of a series of plates with holes cut in them and relies on a dilitant fluid (silicon paste) filling the holes to have a significant resistance to shearing. This allows the outputs to run at different speeds than each other, up to a point where the paste gets hot from shearing and the pressure increase locks the plates to each other. When the output speeds are similar, the diff doesn't lock up but will allow one to overspeed the other.

One main benefit to this design over others, is that by changing the number of plates you can change the amount of torque sent to the outputs. When installed with twice as many discs to the rear than the front you end up with twice as much torque to the back wheels, as in the transfer case of a E30 BMW 325iX. Effectively there is no mechanical connection between the engine and the wheels until the transfer case input starts moving which starts to lock up and transfer torque to the rear. The rear diff outputs are not mechanically connected until the shearing in it causes an increases in pressure. But the increase in pressure happens so quickly, lockup being within milliseconds, that you wouldn't know it while driving.
Which is not the goal of this component. Progress here can be a lot of things, such as of a task, or your fitness goals, or world domination.
WhatsApp is part of Facebook. Claiming Apple is on the same level as a Facebook-owned entity is absurd. Apple can’t see who your contacts are (it’s encrypted in iCloud) but Facebook can.
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And maybe it can be mediated by fungible electricity transmitted over a grid of conductive wires. Or an electricity market.
A lot of the best sites for pumped storage are already developed as pumped storage. It's kind of the opposite of other storage technologies. As sites get developed the economics of future sites get worse.
The brilliant stroke of Musk was to market the electric car to sports car buyers. They don't care about high cost, short range, and performance at sub zero temperatures.
No, you did not. The point of information is how many different things you can encode, or could have encoded. Among rules about like yours (but reversed, or only the even numbers, etc) this will be about 10.
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> As the robustness principle goes [...]

"The Harmful Consequences of the Robustness Principle" https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-thomson-postel-was-wrong-0...
There are so many buts. For instance, but this doesn't work in other countries where you can't downpay so little or where you can't get that kind of credit on a house. Or, but what happens if you default and you live in the house? And I'm not so sure they can't come after your other assets without further protection. If they can't turn that house into money then they'll certainly try, or if you did just the slightest mistake and they find out about how to leverage that.

If you don't have 100+ hitmen with guns, 5 lawyers and a politician in your back pocket always assume they come after you.
I'd rather go by train, then.
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I believe you make a lot of good points, except for one: Walking as a white man through a black neighborhood, the police won't stop you. And even if they did, their attitude would be very different than if it was the other way around.
extremely poor performance
Referring to HAWTs by the name "windmill" is part of the common vernacular in North America
I don't know of many lenders that will give you a mortgage with 10% down.
Been there. That's why I rarely comment on StackOverflow; it could easily become an addiction, and I can't exactly add it to /etc/hosts like I can other distractions!
It's important to keep Poe's law in mind when you're posting plain-text parody; you don't have tone of voice and body language to help convey your real intent.
Funny, I would consider many ML usages to be toy problems. Coming up with funny nonsensical Shakespeare plays or generating random Pantone colors or Pokémon names isn’t something you hear from Bayesian systems. That’s the domain of ML. Recommending related products is again simple statistical analysis. And I can generate a prediction based on past performance real easy with some SQL and a couple of “if” statements.

Just because Bayesian isn’t over-hyped doesn’t mean it doesn’t solve real problems. Not everything can be solved with ML, unless the problem is getting more investor money.
How long until they abandon this one?
The compensation for being bumped is defined in consumer law in the EU, and it's very punitive - ~300 euros minimum.
So much this. There is a certain kind of European that loves to sneer down their nose at Americans, but show me the European country that has elected a black leader.
In practice, however, doing your research is hard - it can take me up to an hour to decide on the best way to travel for a certain event, across multiple booking sites, some of them unknown to the general public (such as TrainSplit). Sometimes it turns out that the best way to travel involves booking three separate journeys, and then I get to worry about delays - nobody will take responsibility for onward travel if you do that, and you may end up stranded in the middle of nowhere. Megabus winds up incredibly pricey - sometimes moreso than the train - on arbitrary days, so I have to keep that in mind. Sometimes flights are actually cheaper than a train, even when booking several weeks in advance, but then there's the worry about public transport at either end properly matching up - and again, a flight delay could cost me the better part of £40 if I booked an advance train ticket rather than a flexible one on the other end.

There's also the fact that long-distance travel in the UK is priced significantly better than short-distance travel. There's been times where I've been able to get to London from a small town for cheaper than it'd cost to get to the nearest city. First class on East Coast used to be priced at a rate where it was cheaper to upgrade (and get food and drinks included) than to get food on the go - on local services, there's often no competition aside from a car, so prices even for standard class can be raised almost arbitrarily, especially if there's any tourist traffic on the line.

Even for long-distance journeys, pick the wrong date or need to be there for the morning, and my options become far, far more limited, and far, far pricier, since we don't have sufficient capacity for peak dates - we barely have capacity for everyday services on some modes of transport - and we have very few overnight services.

Edinburgh to Paris next month - we were stuck with the choices of taking the bus, or flying for 2-3x the price. Train was more expensive than the flight - a remarkably common occurrence, even for travel entirely within the UK. We eventually chose the bus, despite it being a 24 hour journey.
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> Lower costs, though, have also made wind power more appealing elsewhere. Once mostly concentrated in northern Europe, Mr. Nauen is optimistic that new markets will emerge in Asia and the United States.

South America too. In just the last 12 months, installed capacity in Brazil went from 10.4 GW to 12.5 GW (source: Boletim Mensal de Geração Eólica - ONS).
Facebook face recognition error looks awkward ahead of GDPR
Careem has identified an incident involving unauthorised access to customer data
Simply turning them off would be running backwards since water would build up behind them.
What is the difference between PhoneGap, Cordova, and Ionic?
Bad assumptions in the article. Firstly, rent in major cities (like where many of us live) is higher, sometimes much higher, than the mortgage payments for similar properties (home prices in my area give a mortgage payment of around 1500... rents are at 3k).

Secondly, you can get homes for way less than 20% down without huge jumps in total cost these days through various programs. The people making the choice between renting and buying are those who would be taking advantage of programs like FHA loans.
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http://jay.law.ou.edu/faculty/Jmaute/Lawyering_21st_Century/...
The interesting question is what effect clean energy has to the usage of hydrocarbons. Will it bring reduce global demand or just reduce the price of energy.

The good news is: CO2 emission intensity is going down globally and emissions per capita in US, China and EU28 are going down.

The bad news are: Emissions per capita are still going up globally, and hydrocarbon usage and CO2 emissions are breaking records year after year. http://folk.uio.no/roberan/img/GCP2017/PNG/s09_FossilFuel_an... Economic downturn was the only thing causing temporary decline.

It looks like clean energy reduces the demand in developed countries, thus reducing the prices of hydrocarbons. It will not reduce the CO2 emissions globally, it just moves them from the developed world to the developing world. Maybe it slows down CO2 emission growth rate?

http://folk.uio.no/roberan/learnmore/more_warning_signs.shtm...

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EDIT: Just to point out how complex the dynamics between clean energy, hydrocarbons and policy are, here is nice recent research paper from Acemoglu and Rafey:

Mirage on the Horizon: Geoengineering and Carbon Taxation
Without Commitment https://economics.mit.edu/files/14855

>Abstract: We show that, in a model without commitment to future policies, geoengineering breakthroughs can have adverse environmental and welfare effects because they change the (equilibrium) carbon taxes. In our model, energy producers emit carbon, which creates a negative environmental externality, and may decide to switch to cleaner technology. A benevolent social planner sets carbon
taxes without commitment. Higher future carbon taxes both reduce emissions given technology
and encourage energy producers to switch to cleaner technology. Geoengineering advances, which
reduce the negative environmental effects of the existing stock of carbon, decrease future carbon
taxes and thus discourage private investments in conventional clean technology. We characterize
the conditions under which these advances diminish—rather than improve—environmental quality
and welfare.
I'm also in Australia. Most of my messaging goes through other apps, mostly WhatsApp or FB messenger. I do have a few friends that are holding out on SMS but mostly I just treat it as a backup service for when I don't have data.

SMS has already been replaced by far more secure and mature apps. It's good to have it there as a primitive option though.
Charging for what? The messages? Yes, supposedly RCS is designed to allow for per-message billing, like SMSs.
Pummel me for not having the time to read all of this tome, but did the author include the Federal tax mortgage interest deduction in his calculations ?
>The market tends to decouple from that logic in an appreciating market.

I don't know how decoupled but I definitely know of cases where someone bought and has a good longterm tenant and that tenant gets a pretty good rate because they're profitable, a known entity, and low maintenance.
Your comment is close to hitting the weak point: you have to trust Apple. If you can’t, then this single / multiple devices detail doesn’t matter: they could find a million ways to silently subvert the encryption in a closed source app on a closed source OS. But if you can, then waxing on details doesn’t matter either: you trust them, so you trust them.

The thing is: it is valid to trust a company to keep their explicit word. That’s a different issue from trusting a company who never explicitly said they wouldn’t listen to your data: companies can be held liable for these sorts of public statements. If Facebook silently (knowingly) subverts Whatsapp E2E, they’re in trouble. But reading regular Facebook messages for ads? Storing them plain text? They never said they wouldn’t.

This is why Apple explicitly stating they E2E iMessage is a data point with value. It is valid to trust Apple more now, simply because they’ve upped the stakes for themselves.

Compare this to a bar bet: someone makes a claim, I am sceptical. They say, honest! Still sceptical. They say ok, bet you £300. I suddenly am much more inclined to believe them. No money changed hands :)
In YNAB at least, all of those can be scheduled as recurring and you only have to mark them cleared when they've happened.
Well, for starters, the holographic principle hints at the sheer level of symmetry in the state space of the universe -- so redundant that a whole dimension can be shaved off. (3d space -> 2d space.)
The clash of expression
agreed! my first thought was someone had rigged electric generators in the old actual windmills of the Netherlands. My second thought was, last I checked, they're not remotely as big as jumbo's....
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Sorry to hear of your predicament. Have you looked into HMOs yet? The insurance situation is pretty horrible in the US now. Even having “good” insurance is no guarantee of not getting a large bill since hospitals employ outside of network doctors and you have no control over that.

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/11/16/many-get-hit-with-surprise-o...
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Because your shell isn't slow enough
I don't mind that people recline their seats.

I do mind when they just smash it back as hard as possible the instant the seatbelt sign switches off. I also very much mind when they do it while I have stuff on the table in front of me, especially since the seats seem perfectly designed to smash cups and water bottles. Or even worse -- laptop screens.

It's fine that people want to recline their seats, but they should be just a tiny bit mindful of the person behind them.
This is the best way to think about it. You're renting the money and choosing to invest it in a house.

Of course no one would ever give you half a million in cash with a 50k deposit, so even if there was a better place to investment the money (e.g. stocks) you couldn't put it there anyway.

A mortgage is probably the only way a common person can get this kind of leverage and invest in any asset class. It's really unlikely you have access to some other capital at a cheaper rate (even though a mortgage at 90% loan to value can be expensive, it's almost always the cheapest form of a "normal" person will get), so it usually makes sense to get one.
I went through all of the languages you mention, and OCaml/ReasonML are what you're looking for (if you want a typed FP language). More than 50% of FB messenger is written in ReasonML so it's clearly a good long term investment. If you don't like the ReasonML syntax, then you can just use OCaml because they're 100% interoperable. It's also a very practical language, which unlike the others doesn't militantly enforce purity, and lets you directly write imperative code.
In Europe the PSD2 regulations are just about to come into effect which means that all banks will have to provide a public API. You can also use an aggregation service like Tink (https://business.tink.se)
Nothing wrong with exposing as many children as possible to coding. Forcing them isn't good, but making sure that in grades 1-4 they get to play good logic/coding games in computer lab time is a plus.
This is a quaint sentiment, but marketing, sales, PR is all about misleading and creating unnecessary want. This is a major tenant of running a business and living under capitalism. There is also a moral argument for doing what you need to do in order to survive the difficulties of the market in order to survive it and change it into something more akin to your honest attitude about it.
A word against hasty generalisation - just because you don't interact with it on a daily basis doesn't mean it isn't being worked on elsewhere.

There is an increasing number of ML-first companies out there. They are solving problems like object detection, portfolio strategy optimization, medical diagnosis, etc. Things that are 100% not possible to do with just SQL and Bash, and much less expensive than to have humans run those tasks. In those fields, these companies will outperform their competition on average.

I think it's smart for investors to look for in knowledge and talent in the companies they look into. If there's AI/ML talent in the team, their value for acquisition (acqui-hire) is higher.

If you want to solve problems for your existing company, you certainly don't need AI/ML. You can tackle many, many low-hanging fruits with just SQL and Bash.

If you want to build the kind of company that will be around in 30 years, you need to have an ML-first mindset, and you probably need to start now.
E2E currently nicely converges with Apples business and brand.
> And somehow I find the VSCode's multi-cursor feature so much more convenient than Vim's macros.

That’s not an unpopular opinion, I suspect it’s because multiple cursors provide an extremely tight visual feedback loop (feedback after every action) as compared to macros where you kind of just shove actions into a black box and pray it works correctly for the next location you test it on
According to Wikipedia we have 15 GWh of pumped storage capacity in Scotland. Per annum we use 27,000 GWh. So by my calculations we have a pumped storage battery that lasts about 5 hours.

(NB: I didn't check whether the power output of this battery is enough to actually meet demand, but wikipedia says it can run at full capacity for 22 hours, so no)
Just be a bit polite and mindful of the person behind you. They may have something on their table. It doesn't hurt to just ask if you're going to hit anything.

And believe it or not, some people actually have long legs, and physically cannot fit if you recline your seat. Should they optimally have gotten a seat with more leg room? Sure! But that isn't always possible.
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Mind naming the 4 big failed projects?
I’m thinking, GDPR is not live yet. They might expand the type of data they export in a month.
I'm pretty sure thoroughness and self-discipline is what actually matters. Going to a site and actually buying the darn name is actually work some dreamers are too lazy to even start. You have to be pretty convicted that this is the name you're going to plaster all over the place for a while.
You also have to be pretty darn sure your name might go very soon if you don't stake it asap.

I bought my domain name (my user name) relatively early (before I had even learned Node) because as Chinese names often go, vtang was already taken and many easy alternatives as well. I ended up with an "e" at the end for "engineer" but as we all know there is probably a Vincent Tang out there in the world who is also an engineer. Checked all social media and hammered things in asap.
They're milling electricity.
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Our mission is to make everyone happy by offering our free premium software. We don't just provide our server just for the sake of it. We want others to be happy so that's why we invested large amounts of money to make this all possible. We operate our business through government funds and sponsors so all we ask is to spread the word to all your friends so we can help as much people as possible.

Our mission is to make everyone happy by offering our free premium software. We don't just provide our server just for the sake of it. We want others to be happy so that's why we invested large amounts of money to make this all possible. We operate our business through government funds and sponsors so all we ask is to spread the word to all your friends so we can help as much people as possible.

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Just because it’s a self-serving pitch, doesn’t mean it’s wrong. I love Matt Levine, but this take of his is a little too glib/snarky and short on analysis.

There is a coherent, rationale analysis that certain tokens, once live, are “utility tokens” that should not be considered securities. For example, USV has invested in Filecoin, a distributed data storage network. Given the network is not live, this was sold via a SAFT (simple agreement for a future token) to accredited investors only, with the tokens to be delivered once the network is launched. At that point, since the tokens are used to pay for storage, is the token a security or a utility token? Reasonable arguments can be made for the latter, and regulatory clarity to that affect would be extremely helpful to this developing space. It’s great that these VCs are working with regulators to explain and advocate for positions that are helpful to the crypto community. They are NOT, I’d sure, arguing that any company should be able to ICO freely.
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Well it's out already but it's likely being rolled into Go in the next release.
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In case, anyone is wondering how to get to the "Your Categories" option on Facebook. Go to Settings -> Ads and the tab will appear.

I have always been paranoid about sharing information on social media. So, this section has only Facebook access information - 4G, Ipad etc. Couple of categories are even incorrect.