skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ICOs are an all-encompassing term. They cross cut utility tokens, security tokens, and new crypto currencies.

So an ICO for something like Filecoin, which is monetizing a storage protocol built around IPFS, that's a utility token. There are plenty of legitimate ICO projects out there that have either 1) already shipped 2) have a working beta or 3) are risky but have strong teams. It doesn't take a lot of time to look for them.

I'm not a lawyer, but security tokens and the tokenization of private equities, and everything from startup shares to real estate to gold-backed tokens, these are positive developments. Raising money for business IS hard, and especially so if you're not one of the privileged tech elite in Silicon Valley. Author seems to forget this.

Furthermore, there's other sectors of the economy too. Have you ever tried raising money for a non-tech business? It's not easy. Money isn't exactly abundant in these sectors. Blockchain/token fundraising has the potential to bring more efficient capital markets to underserved industries and underserved jurisdictions (including other countries with different securities regulations).
On Mobiles you can get a block list. Otherwise it’s worth transferring your number to something like google voice and have it ring your main line or lines.
Well we've certainly come a long way from fiddler on the roof, haven't we? Or the best romantic prospect being either your cousin, or the farmer girl that lives a mile away? I think that theory holds.

>But only long enough to bootstrap into having spent enough time around each other to get attached

Yea, in my experience that's how a huge swath of relationships usually work, especially for people who haven't been in many relationships or who have big enough relationship gaps that they feel the need to cling. People getting caught in relationships that aren't all that great but "hey, wtf else are we gonna do, at least we aren't tearing each other's throats out, right? Maybe having a baby will help us love each other." We've all seen it, many of us have lived it.

I'm arguing that the proliferation of dating apps is helping that go away. Either because a highly specialized interests based site like OkCupid lets you zero in on quite nearly the perfect partner, or because you can shotgun across a zero cost app like tinder, you're far more likely to find an actual meaningful relationship.

For the record, I know there's a higher tier of relationship than "familiarity breeds love" due to personal experience.
Airplane mode when not expecting a call.

Many of these services will only call "hot" numbers - numbers that pick up/give some interaction. Hitting "decline call" actually gives them an indication the line is hot, since the call went to VM earlier than if it had timed out, and will lead to more calls.

So I let the calls ring until the other side ends the call.

Having the spam call ringing is annoying though, so I've taken to leaving my phone in airplane mode if I'm not expecting a call.

(Most people communicate via email or Signal with me anyways)

In my experience if you leave your phone in airplane mode when not expecting calls for a week or so, it'll drastically cut down on the robocalls.
Is it pronounced jupeeter or jupieter?
>If it's someone who needs me, they'll leave a voicemail

Then the next step is for spammers to leave voicemails
When you look at other modern nations, all with better performing healthcare systems than the US, there is a mix of arrangements. The common factor is public gov't control of drug prices and procedures. The arrangement of how the administration of the care is allocated varies all across the spectrum, from fully nationalized, to hybrids, to mostly private administration. But I'm inclined to think that public health experts setting cost ceilings by drug & procedure is the critical element.
Do you have a link to the Twitter comments that you can share?
You'll get no concessions from a political ideology that refuses to disassociate from, or even recognize the existence of, extremist elements on it's side of the spectrum.
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The list was "common argument by American's against the Canadian system", so why would they argue what you are saying?
I had a Comcast phone service a few years ago. Hours after it was activated I was getting telemarketers asking for me by name.
This sounds nice, but what about supporting operating systems besides for Linux and MacOS? A big part of using continuous integration is being able to test your code on the various platforms you deploy on. People have been asking for FreeBSD support since 2014[1] and Windows support since 2011[2]. For lots of projects not having Windows or FreeBSD support makes Travis CI not even an option for a CI tool. And from the outside looking in, it seems the Travis CI team doesn't care about adding support for other operating systems, it's been 7 years since the windows support issue was opened and there appears to be no progress.

[1]: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/1818
[2]: https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/216
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>The US has been developing its health care system, uninterrupted, longer than other nations.

Can you describe this vis-a-vis England or France? I am confused as to how you think the US has been at healthcare longer or how an interruption occurs.
With money, of course.
Ya, that about covers how I feel about it. The GOP strategy is to "starve the beast," unless the beast is military or police spending.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
What company is monetizing your address book?
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> After Apple’s latest results announcement, one could knock it yet again for its stable dependence on a single mature product — the iPhone...It shows that a stage of useful progress is over and doesn’t tip over into overhyped uselessness

Stagnanation isn't acceptable for any company. Apple has always been about "overhyped uselessness"(eg. Touch Bar, animoji). The article makes claims that Apple "offers a fix" referring to the battery throttling, but any company of that scale is obligated to. They were shamed publicly. I agree with privacy commitment, but that alone, isn't enough.
It's a pretty great format for rapid prototyping, but very complex and wouldn't deploy it as a public API that needs to be supported for a long time.
Outside friends, family and a few important contacts (i.e. kids schools, doctors, etc...), I don't give my actual phone number out. I use Google Voice with message/call forwarding turned off. If I need to give my number out to a company or something I use that number. Really the only other companies that legitimately should have my number are my bank(s) and credit card company. They can call, leave a message, and I will call them back. Everything else gets pretty much deleted. If I notice the number of spam calls increasing (rarely) I just change the Google Voice number (probably have only done this 2-3 times) and update those who had it accordingly.

I used to carry a secondary phone that I would use for non-life-critical contacts, but have since stopped carrying that phone, although I still keep basic service active on it.
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Huh, this is not what I expected. Ana Bell is my undergraduate advisor at MIT. I do not think that these choices are particularly the best for someone with no programming or computer science experience whatsoever, as others have said. What strikes me as particularly odd is that I believe she teaches 6.0001, which is a relatively new "very much a complete intro" half-semester course for programming, taught in Python. I suppose I would have expected more truly beginner-friendly material in her recommendations.
I would say it's more reckless to depend on undefined behaviour at multiple optimization levels. Doing this ensures that you have the same bugs with all -O levels, which would be an ideal state.
> Sometimes you are asked to bring your own medicine, and basic medical supplies because hospitals don't provide you with anything. The system is overcrowded and no one gives a shit about you unless you bribe them.

Sounds like Venezuela, which I would not hold up as a gleaming example of good governance.
Counterpoint: I've found that using self-checkout lanes lets me get out of the store a lot faster than waiting for a cashier. People use them because, in general, people hate waiting.

Of course, while Walmart has 30 cash registers, there's only ever 4 staffed at any given time, so you could argue that if they just had more staff they could get people in and out at the same speed.
iOS now transcribes voicemails (I suspect Android does the same), which makes it incredibly easy to go through them.

"Hi! This is Rachel from card[DELETE]"
Multiplayer gaming has more issues with latency than a lack of raw bandwidth.
For small stuff almost certainly, but if you get medical "tourists" explicitly travelling for say cancer treatment?
What are distance limitations at 400?
Turn any phone into a magnetic reader
HPV could be considered transmittable cancer. Some types of cancer only occur because of an HPV infection.
> You dont read books on software development methodologies when "learning to program".

In the article she already states that anyone can learn to program -- by programming. The title of the article is "The best books on Computer Science and Programming", not "The best books to learn to Program".

Interviewer: And then, after this introductory book
on programming, if a reader finds they really are
interested and want to learn programming, this would
be a good point to choose a language. Is that right?

Ana Bell: Yes, the first book tells you
about the hardware. Then if you want to learn how to
program, you’ll need to learn a programming language.
To do this, you don’t have to use a book, there are
many tutorials online.

Honestly I think you missed the fact that the books are about going further.

Petzold's Code teaches you to look at what your instructions are doing on the machine. It teaches you a little about architecture -- and probably all most people will need to know about computer architecture, and let's face it -- the rest can be gleaned from the thousands of blog posts people have done about X unix feature, or measuring performance of Y, or otherwise from reading the code.

Code Complete and Clean Code teach you how to deal with other people's code, and how to structure your own code in clean ways. This is not something that most people will pick up on their own at the time when they actually need it, it seems to be something mostly learned from trial and error. Important skills for contributing to an open source projects, etc.

Types and Programming Languages teaches you more about how languages and Correctness work on a lower, general level. And Algorithms is about looking at the specific structures of the code you write, and learning to optimize them and design new ones efficiently.

As she says:

It’s not a book for beginners, but it’s a good book
if you’re interested in the theory behind programming
languages. In the first book you’ve learned about the
hardware, and in the next books you’ve learned about
good code, and then algorithms. Now you can learn about
programming languages themselves: how to write one,
and how they do what they’re supposed to do.

Honestly the only one I'd really swap out is Algorithms. I'd replace it with The Algorithm Design Manual by Skiena.
Our initial thoughts for pricing model are to be based on compute and keep as low as possible - we want this to be accessible to as many people as possible and do things like enable local training with Tensorflow.js for free. For cloud API deployment, we will price around the backend compute cost on AWS/GCP for gpu instances plus some margin for us maintaining the distributed setup and scaling of serving a machine learning model.
Some viruses, like HPV, are transmittable and can cause cancer
[citation needed]

The link you sent just shows that they have zero days on Android: but they also have similar exploits available on iPhones.

Besides, the NSA having zero day vulnerabilities is nothing new and not limited to Android. Saying they have "remote sudo access" is misleading also and implies that they were deliberately built into android, although that may not be what you meant. Either way, the NSA will always have the type of people employed who can find zero days on smartphones and most importantly, not tell anyone about them.
Sweet! Skycap also released the container delivery pipeline today. Can’t wait to use them together with DO Kubernetes. https://blog.cloud66.com/deploy-your-applications-to-any-kub...
I assume you are also pushing for multiple roads between 2 towns, all competing on toll price.
> Lower average cost of medical care

All derived from figures that don't account for how much more you pay in taxes for that "free or cheap" healthcare.
> Simply put he was a master at finding good things and refining them into great things.

Every great creator has stood on the shoulders of giants. That doesn't diminish their greatness. I can't think of a single creation in the past 50 years that isn't a pretty direct consequence of the knowledge that preceded it.
He could spend 500k a day every single day for 50+ years and still not spend what he has. I think at some point the money doesn't matters.
This should work, if you email support@travis-ci.com we can look into it for you.
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Guys it works for all phones no ads 100% free too. I worked sooo hard on this you have no idea I appreciate any and all support . Thank you so much for no. I hope you guys try it out all phones have a magnetic reader and this app will give you magnetic readings of what's around you!
>I press the remove button

what is that?
I assume these college students are using messenger via their cell phones, correct?

Is it no longer possible to reach people via text or phone?
In that case Foxconn isn't an example of an average company paying average wage. The disposable income per capita in China was 36396 chinese yuan in 2017, which makes a little over 400 USD per month. Median disposable income is even lower. You're not even close to buying iPhones with that kind of wages.
Don't fork via github and just push the code to a new repo and you can add CI to that.

Edit: Or maybe that's the workaround for coverity-scan, I don't remember.
You don't need universal or publicly funded healthcare for this.

You just need it to become the norm for employers not to provide healthcare insurance.

So for example (and I am NOT saying we should actually do this) if they would simply pass a law forbidding employers from including health coverage as part of their compensation packages, then everyone would be buying their own insurance (on exchanges or wherever) and startups along with every other business would be relieved of the burden.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16975199 and marked it off-topic.
Send 'em to Lenny :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/
if you have a really beefy single bare metal hypervisor (typically xen or kvm) it's totally possible to give it 100GbE to the switch now:

http://www.silicom-usa.com/pr/server-adapters/networking-ada...

I don't have anything this serious in my own production use, but I'm thinking of machines like dual socket x 32-core per socket xeons, or amd epyc, with 512GB to 1TB of RAM.

then pass vlan tagged traffic off one switch port, to each specific guest VM, of which there might be dozens to 100+ VMs, as subinterfaces of that.
Everyone is running closed source somewhere, even Stallman. He says in his web page describing how he does his computing that he uses credit cards sometimes, uses closed source software running on public computers that he doesn't use often, and doesn't consider anything that doesn't regularly update it's software a computer.

You might be in favor of Stallman's compromises but he has a selective argument just like everyone else.
Europeans also have private care, if they so desire and can afford it.

I've lived in the US and in more than one country with universal healthcare, and know quite a few people in similar situations. Some prefer living in the US, but I'm not familiar with a single person who, given a choice, would take the US model over the European model. Do you?

I wonder if "better cancer outcome in the US" is actually a result of selection bias, because the really poor people don't even get diagnosed, e.g. the money quote from [0]:

"""Danielle Scott, an employee at the store where Savastano bought the winning lottery ticket, told WABC that Savastano used the money for a visit to the doctor because he was uninsured. It was then he learned he had cancer, she said. """

[0] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/02/02/lotter...
Bloomberg should be doing a retraction of their previous stories that were factually wrong about "struggling iPhone sales".....
Thanks for the feedback. I can promise you we are looking into this, and hope to have updates on these issues in the near future :)
IIRC Debezium is RDS compatible since version 0.7.0
They supplement it, I don't believe they are leaving it, unless they are wealthy and can afford to pay out of pocket because they want to use a doctor that is not participating in the medicare program. Do you have a cite?
Am I the only person in the universe who doesn't like Jupyter? I much prefer tools like Rmarkdown and Sweave.
OpenAI is throwing a RL (and Transfer Learning) contest right now, I am using it as an opportunity to learn and re-implement the current best RL stuff. https://contest.openai.com/

If you end up joining the contest, shoot me a message on the discord, I would love to chat about RL (I am `lyons` on the discord).
Review of clustering and network analysis techniques for quant finance
In this case, enforcing their Terms of Service does constitute siding with oppressive regimes. You could argue that it's not AWS' goal to help oppressive regimes, but in the struggle against censorship, that is the side they have put themselves on in practice. On one side, there are people all over the world who want to communicate freely. On the other, there are authoritarians who want to suppress and surveil that communication. AWS policy used to help the former, and now helps the latter.

I think maybe you're trying to express that under a free market ethical framework, AWS has done nothing wrong here. Which is true, and an insightful indictment of the free market as an inherently liberatory force.
> Americans need to change their underlying notions of what it means to be a society.

We want it (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/62-percent-u-s-want-fede...)... Our politicians just aren't doing it.
Thanks Artur. Golang+Postgres on backend, React+Redux on frontend. Golang is really powerful for such heavily parallelized app as TensorCharts
Ugh, you're right. The political robo-calls have already started doing that to me, I keep getting calls from the Orrin Hatch campaign. If it starts happening with all of them, I'm going to resort to whitelist only. Auto-block all unknown numbers.
> One random app (Facebook in this example) can NOT access another random app's (sms in this case) data on an iPhone where it can (or could before the very current version) on Android.

But it can. You're just wrong here. The Facebook app running on other nodes in the network does have access to at least part of the data you are suggesting is totally private. That data is duplicated and not only on the phone you have 'control' over. That data is not private. Facebook can and does still get it.

Also, Facebook is not some 'random app', and you know it.

Facebook even has a history of having its own code embedded inside of iOS itself. This is not trusted and not safe and clearly not 'random'. Apple does not randomly include code from other 'random' apps into the core of iOS.
I post this review of mine here to gather feedback and other constructive comments. I would be interested in elaborating more the connections to the behavioral finance literature and the industry biases; I would like also to add more alpha (trading strategies) ideas that can be found in the literature, if any.
Still 100% relevant nearly 20 years later.
You can audit the code of every Electron app, so why are you acting like it's full of spyware that you'll never be able to have privacy with?
Reducing Computer-Based Harassment, Improper Use, and Incivility at MIT (2000)
Amusing idea: use Bitcoin's blockchain as a peer announce mechanism. Does your country want to be involved in cryptocurrencies less than they want to censor?

On second thought, the countries most interested in censoring are probably also the countries most interested in blocking people from using Bitcoin? :)
Magnum engine 2018.04 released with custom renderer, glTF and LeapMotion support
Even better if it just says "your password does not fit our requirements" :)

I was signing up for a bank account and had to make a password for my online account in the branch. Turns out my 16-character randomly generated password made the system unhappy. Tried 6 more times with newly generated passwords (character-only, alphanumeric only, alphanumeric and "#" or "$" only) and it just said the password was not acceptable. So in the end I used my probably ~15 bits of entropy super easy to crack password from when I was 10, with a few randomly generated characters on the end (because more than a few would make the system complain again).

The pervasiveness of poor UI and security design baffles me. You would've thought that one of the largest banks in the world would have a little more competency but nope.
Or maybe it's the very high resource/population ratio?

The petroleum sector accounts for 40% of Norway's exports.

Fishing is 10% (!) of Norwegian exports.

Both of these things have an incredibly high extraction efficiency in the modern era. It would be nice to believe it's the social safety net, but I don't think that hypothesis is backed up with much evidence. The much more obvious reason is staring Scandinavia in the face. I'm intrigued to see how Norway does when the rest of the world stops using petroleum and goes vegan.
> Wealth equality cannot save you from the basic mathematical reality that you can't uniquely assign N homes to N + 1 households.

There are enough homes in the US, as far as I know.

> I'd argue this is actually the arc of humanity for millennia - America's decentralization is a mistaken aberration, and one that's ending.

Yes, I think you're right. And I think it's generally a good thing that the suburban sprawl phase is ending.

> People who can afford to overwhelmingly choose cities.

In the past, "can afford" was generally "yes" for cities, it's just that you may have had to choose a working class neighborhood. But now we have the population density of the 2020s and the income inequality of the 1920s. The result is that the zone of affordability for many cities is now so far out that you can no longer get close enough to even be able to commute into the city.

I'm not sure what the solution is. Reducing inequality would be great, but doesn't seem likely any time soon. Maybe a larger number of smaller mini-metropolises instead of concentrating in a small number of giant ones like NYC/LA/SF/Seattle, etc.
"Press 9 to be removed" or whatever the recording says.