skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin transaction times aren’t much better - I see recent times in the 15-80 minute range on average, well in the thousands range earlier this year.

It’s also odd not to acknowledge that banks have had electronic transfers for decades. You wait seconds for a card transaction and almost every financial institution allows you to do transfers without visiting a physical office.
Strange how the article blames the workers and unions while also admitting it's not their fault.

- cheap and worse brakes appear to be the initial error beeing made

- lack of control over their signals and blaming the workers for it is not excusable. Also there must be some kind of cheap and reliable assistant that can calculate the maximum velocity and help the driver.

- badly organized maintenance is also not the workers fault.
Pâro: The Feeling That Everything You Do Is Somehow Wrong [~2 min]
This thread claims it’s only hidden SSIDs that are broadcast:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/244171/ios-10-warn...
There are a few pipeline tools/frameworks written in Go: http://gopherdata.io/post/more_go_based_workflow_tools_in_bi...

(Full disclosure: I'm developing SciPipe)
Elon Musk Outlines Plan to Get into the Brick-Making Business
I don't agree with people talking about a deflationary spiral (has it ever happened?), but there is another issue.

In a deflationary model, old money gets more and more valuable with time. In 50 years, it's possible that one Bitcoin will be worth 10M€.

What happens then when someone finds a stash of 100k BTC on their grandpa's attic? They can destabilise the whole economy.

With inflationary currencies it's never an issue - a money is either in circulation, or "evaporates". If you find your grand-grandfather's savings on the attic, they won't be worth too much (even if it's still a fortune). If you find your grand-grandfather's crypto-savings, you're a trillionaire, and a king of the world.
This is not a real distinction, though. You can have N instances of a monolith if it's written smartly (generally speaking, where "smart" equals "is a twelve-factor app").

And frankly, for the 95% and probably the 99% case, running a copy of each monolithic application its own auto-scaling group is probably significantly less work and less hair-pulling than the chasing the microservice dragon.
For sure. It was the first time I saw it articulated so well.
Congrats!

Go to https://admin.google.com - there's a lot of cool stuff you can do there that isn't usually possible in a regular Gmail account, including for example recovering emails and drive files up to 3-4 weeks after they've been deleted.
Are you not using celery with airflow?
From drone swarms to tree batteries
I really like this!

I bootstrapped the ETL and data pipeline infrastructure at my last company with a combination of Bash, Python, and Node scripts duct-taped together. Super fragile, but effective[3]. It wasn't until about 3 years in (and 5x the initial revenue and volume) that it started having growing pains. Every time I tried to evaluate solutions like Airflow[1] or Luigi[2], there was just so much involved with getting it going reliably and migrating things over that it just wasn't worth the effort[4].

This seems like a refreshingly opinionated solution that would have fit my use case perfectly.

[1] https://airflow.apache.org/

[2] https://github.com/spotify/luigi

[3] The operational complexity of real-time, distributed architectures is non-trivial. You'd be amazed how far some basic bash scripts running on cron jobs will take you.

[4] I was a one man data management/analytics/BI team for the first two years, not a dedicated ETL resource with time to spend weeks getting a PoC based on Airflow or Luigi running. When I finally got our engineering team to spend some time on making the data pipelines less fragile, instead of using one of these open source solutions they took it as an opportunity to create a fancy scalable, distributed, asynchronous data pipeline system built on ECS, AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, and NodeJS. That system was never able to be used in production, as my fragile duct-taped solution turned out to be more robust.
I tried this as well.

I'm yearning for a tool that lets me drag & drop an email, and it automatically creates a task based on the content. I can obviously go and edit it after setting deadline or assign to project etc.

I was hoping to create this workflow with MS Outlook(on Mac) and its inbuilt Tasks, but apparently they don't support it :-(

I would pay for such a feature.
'AWS Lambda' Questions Answered by AWS Lambda Team
The Maori translation is a bit off, as it says that the (poorly translated) hovercraft is made with a peak amount of eel (not plural). It seems a fair number of these translations do not connotate that the hovercraft is filled with eels (plural) but rather that it is an eel (singular) that is taking up a lot of room in the hovercraft.

In general, if you go to google translate, you'll see that this phrase is not well translated. Hovercraft is a tough one in general, and some languages don't have an eel in their vocab. Still, it shows that text translation is not very easy, as environment, persons speaking, and context really matter.
Interesting side note, one of hte companies that Shkreli tried to buy was KBIO. This became exhibit #1 for people to point to whenever someone ask them why they don't short a stock if they are so sure of their convictions.

The stock went from $0.90/share to as high as $45/share overnight. If you were short you were very screwed as your broker bought you in at h igh prices that dropped pretty quickly after that.

Never hold a short overnight unless you are really really sure and even then never hold a short overnight no matter what if its a penny stock. They are just too volatile and can see 500% + price spikes.

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13374131/1/kalobios-pharmace...
Those dollars continue to circulate, contributing to a functional dollar economy. Those bitcoins don't, so we don't have a functional bitcoin economy.
Interestingly, macOS Safari seems to handle scrolling fine.
Not only that, things you need like energy food and education aren’t included in core inflation.

So what happens is, the finance people use freshly printed money to buy up the things all the poor little people need. But let’s not call it speculation.

Crypto is a democratizing force in a corrupt and unaccountable world.
> Bitcoin can be sent for free using exchanges or on a piece of paper or about 1000 other ways.

What about the transaction fees? Someone has to pay for all of the mining hardware and electricity.
Are you mixing this up with TPUs? Tensorflow is HW independent, as it is just a SW library.
3 freed American detainees on way home from North Korea, Trump says
> L'aéroglisseur a moi est plein d'anguilles

This sounds extremely stilted and unnatural. If you really wanted to emphasize it was your hovercraft, you’d say “mon aéroglisseur à moi est plein d’anguilles” but even then it sounds heavy handed.
> Why is 3:2 better than standard 16:9?

It's not better. It's usually just people projecting their personal preferences as though they should apply to everyone else.

Every one is different, so as long as the individual is content with what they've got, it doesn't really matter what aspect ratio they're using.
A solution I've heard to this problem is selling equity instead of debt.
We don’t charge a retainer, but do bill in advance. This can solve a lot of cash flow issues, and even out your billings. I’ve written about this approach here: http://www.erickarjaluoto.com/blog/how-we-fixed-our-studios-...
Ok, thanks. I tried to find the github issue that gave me this impression. Probably something related to game development, i’m not sure ( maybe this one : https://github.com/flutter/flutter/issues/179). I may have confused the two issues.

Glad to hear the map story is moving forward. Good job.
Pension Funds Still Making Promises They Probably Can’t Keep
Once a week-ish practice sessions. We were doing it for fun.
Also described in xkcd:

https://xkcd.com/1377/
Qualcomm’s New Smartwatch Chips Promise ‘No-Compromise’ WearOS Exp Later This Yr
He was not convicted for raising prices
^ this. People always appreciate when you invite them, and then they might decide to invite you to other stuff later (even if they don't show up to your thing). A decade ago, I used to organize "volleyball" afternoons. I hate volleyball, but I would just do it and invite anyone I could. Made a lot of friends like this :) 5 year later (and earlier) I would organize drinks every Wednesday along the docks of Bordeaux during the summer and I would invite all the people I could. What started as a few people became dozens and dozens of people.
iOS11 has drag-and-drop between apps, including todo apps. Bonus 4:3 screen on iPad Pro.
patriot <-> insurrectionist

freedom fighter <-> terrorist

interrogation <-> torture

free trader <-> smuggler

saver <-> hoarder

We've been conditioned to respond to certain words in very specific ways. Politicians and media know this and will always use it to their advantage.
Monolith: a->b

Microservice: a->async->serialization->network->serialization->scheduling->b

A monolith is extremely simple to traverse with a debugger, a microservice is not. I can make a dozen jumps over/into/out in less time than it would take me to open Fiddler or man tcpdump.

I have heard that some companies have tooling that makes the microservices debugging situation tolerable or sometimes even better than monolith (e.g. writing tests for you by snooping the network layer), but I have yet to play with any. Do you have recommendations?
> It's no different than a bomb assembly video (which is illegal).

Those videos are illegal? I use to build them for fun (homemade fireworks). As long as you aren't trying to harm someone or someone's property, you are allowed to do such (well at least in my state). Fireworks are basically very pretty bombs (and anyone who plays with fireworks would do well to remember they are explosives and they can harm you if you aren't careful).
OpenAPI and JSON Schema Divergence: Part 1
> It’s an off-patent, decades old drug ... It costs pennies to make and generates little profit. Only a few thousand patients need it each year.

Sounds like the old price of $13 was way too cheap. Given that its off patent and still no one else wants to make it I'd think the new $750 prices is probably not crazy.
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> a now outdated and unused bus - everything is PCI Express now, which is completely different

To be totally fair, the PCI interface is delegated to a sub-FGPA on this design, so it probably wouldn't be that big of a schlep to convert.

> It’s also worth noting - more to the point of the paper - that there are companies offering FPGA-based gigabit NICs right now. You can define custom packet-handling logic in silicon. Pretty neat.

That existed then too. This paper is about an AVNet board.
Not at the frequencies that those LP antennas are tuned for.
Agreed on all counts. The only time I recommend multiple services, rather than just load-balancing across monolithic applications, is when part of it's written on a different stack. As an example: I'm writing a gizmo with a Ruby core and a NodeJS ingest endpoint, and yeah, I'll probably run them on separate machines.

But here's the dirty secret: if you have a load balancer in front of your application, you already have a way to send requests for feature X to a separate pool of machines if that feature is a hot spot for you currently--and unless your application hits some really degenerate cases your base RAM load Simply Should Not be that high for your application in the first place, making the marginal cost and machine sizing floor less of an issue.

There are benefits to microservices in some environments, chiefly to reflect your org chart when your human protocols are breaking down. They tend to be marginal, and whether they outstrip the increased overhead of dealing with more moving parts (whether in your code or not; I quite like k8s but I still wouldn't want somebody less comfortable with it than I am running it in production, and plenty of those folks do!) is in many ways up in the air.
I feel as though your understanding of the relationship between wealth and political power is somewhat naive.

Rich people can and do seize political power for no greater purpose than to lower their own taxes, and possibly also loot the treasury in the process. The voters do want higher taxes on the rich. But the rich own the news media outlets, and buy the attention and gratitude of the legislators, judges, and prosecutors, and own the contractor businesses that provide elections services to counties and municipalities. Whenever someone asks, "why are we not raising taxes on the rich?", someone has already been well paid to divert the conversation into an acrimonious distraction. Note that the wedge issues commonly used for this purpose are universally of low importance to the wealthy class.

What makes you think that the rich will pay what the poor ask of them, when they have no effective means of enforcing their will?
Oh, actually I continued the interview, took the job, and work there now. They just didn't (and still don't) care much about my knowledge of SSL.
This assumes a sudden collapse event happening within the 10 minutes that it takes to reset the hash rate. I'm struggling to think of global scenarios where that can happen so quickly.

What are the chances that collapse is a sudden event vs a cascading deterioration event?
How to Fix the 'Black Dot' Unicode Bug Crashing iMessage
That's the theory. But the practice has shown that people who have Bitcoin spend it both on their living expenses, and on investments.

Ergo, there must be a hole in your theory somewhere.
> After an EMP wipes out data centers and cell phone towers

If such a thing happens on a large scale there will be hundred of millions of deaths. All major cities will simply collapse.

See recent articles how London can only survive for 4 days without electricity, after that there will be no food.

The modern society is incredibly fragile. Everything is just in time, there are no stocks or buffers. Bitcoins will be the least of your worries in such an event. Your Krugerrands will also not be of much value. Nobody will be stupid to give you food or gas for a piece of metal.
i think you're arguing semantics. if most people dont view the forked chain as valid and prefer the original, then a new bitcoin isn't created per se.
I wish that this site also translated the translations back into English, similar to what many people are doing in this thread.
the docs animations inline add to casual-browsing fun
https://github.com/mara/mara-example-project
> Inflationary currencies encourage consumption

You mean "investment"

> deflationary ones encourage savings

I'm not sure why encouraging people to bury their wealth in the ground instead of doing something useful with it is something we want to be doing.
Life isn't outgrowing Earth's capacity to absorb sunlight (nor Earth's capacity to radiate heat). Earth's energy flux is good for supporting life for the next 2 billion years.

Cryptocurrencies are designed to waste increasing amounts of energy that grow both with time and the popularity of the system. Right now we're not able to pull energy from Sun fast enough to power them (see all the global energy issues, fossil fuels, etc.). And even if we eventually could, cryptocurrencies would only grow to consume all available energy. And even if we could keep up with that, it's an incredibly unnecessary waste if you compare all the other uses that energy could be put to. The guarantees that cryptocurrencies give are not worth the upkeep.

And that's all without discussing the other side of the coin - waste heat.
"Just" being "simply", rather than sticking with VSS.
> If he believes that we should still spend as many resources in healthcare and researching individual diseases, then why is he portraying these as futile and misguided tasks, that have "become their own purpose"?

Where are you getting "as many" from? You realize that it is in fact possible to spend less money on a thing without spending $0? You're acting like we have no choices between "spending 1/7 of our GDP on healthcare" and "ban all healthcare forever".

> The king "got his priorities wrong" because he went after lesser evils. That doesn't seem like a resounding endorsement of continuing the research on "individual diseases".

Lesser evils are still evils. We should spend more than $0 on eradicating them, but less than we spend on eradicating greater evils. That's what having proper priorities means.

> After all, Bostrom seems to believe that most causes of death will vanish if we can halt ageing. So he's advocating that we stop bothering with every other cause of death and focus our research on "the underlying cause" of all of them, so we can save everyone in one go.

These inferences about what he believes are nonsense and unsupported by the text.

> How many people in the developing world have iPhones?

Far more than did 10 years ago.
It’s even worse than that. I actually scrolled all the way down on an iPhone and the last third of the article was cut off and only accessible through reader mode.

The irony of a paean to command line tools being housed in unnecessarily compromised UX is a bit much.
Awesome visualizations.
A deflationary currency regime would raises the bar for both investment and consumption. Investors would be choosier about speculative opportunities because the yield on the risk-free asset would be much, much higher. Consumers would still buy essentials, but they'd be extremely incentivized to hold currency rather than spend it.

Regardless of whether or not a deflationary end-state is better or worse, it seems non-controversial that the transition from our current situation to a deflationary one would be absolutely brutal. We're talking about turning the global economy on it's head.
That may be an argument for stronger regulations, not no regulations. As the bitcoin world has repeatedly proven that abuse will happen without the same institutions — ever notice how the various scam/incompetent exchanges end up in the same courts for the same reasons? It’s just harder and less likely to be successful because they weren’t practicing any semblance of responsible practice before.
American vets are joining All of Us research program
Indeed. My caution is against keys that are already in the clear in a written work.

Bitcoin is cryptography's biggest bug bounty.
Gun ownership is a Constitutional right because it a fundamental human right.

But you may have a different view of what counts as fundamental human rights. And a representative of the Chinese Government would have an even different view.

One might even ask if fundamental human rights even exist, since they are constructs of societies and are relative between different societies.
Asserts itself? Circles the wagons more like. On HN you can't even "abrasive", hahaha... "asserts itself" in the sense of "making bald assertions and tuning out any response they can't handle".

Well, if you don't face the backlash, the backlash will face you. So welcome to Berlin, Google. We'll make you cry, and then charge you to clean up your rotting corpse. One pathetic, spineless cunt at a time.
For reference it's 13.55€ for a box of 20 in EU.

http://www.lepharmacien.fr/produitafine/medicament/substance...
> Inflationists / consumptionists have been demonizing savers and sound money since the 1700s, if not earlier.

And as we all know, it's been one long, slow economic collapse since the 17th century.
His punishment seems quite unique compared to similar corporate crimes.
This looks awesome. Using those scripts I think I could actually do this myself.
What? You're overlooking an enormous number of factors.

If it's cheap industrial land alone that made Silicon Valley how did Texas, Nevada, The Midwest and other places miss out on a tech business boom?
I tried typing amazon.com, and was shown studios.amazon.com

Feels like it needs some work...
Light could solve one of quantum computing’s big problems
As much as they would be willing to go.

Given the results of Bada and Tizen, Google would have little to worry about if Samsung ever decides to go rogue.
They are trying to get their points across to entrenched public officials and bureaucrats so maybe it’s needed.
You’re right, but seems to include implementations the user may be able to leverage? Specifically "In Use" and "Data in OSM format (XML)"
Seems interesting, but I'll have to dismiss it for now due the total lack of tests
Nice. How come no one can ship it across the pond and stock it then?
GDPR doesn't regulate anonymous data. Unless you put PII in your analytics (not the default, and you really shouldn't) you won't have a problem.

As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure part of Google Analytics response to GDPR is "Don't put PII in there if you want to be GDPR compliant" (they are providing tools for compliance though).
At some point, after the last central bank and Buffet bought bitcoin reserves, it will stop appreciating in value. Then it can start to circulate.
TFA mentions train operators will preemptively slow down to keep their job.

Nothing to do with a union, but keep trying to shoe horn that in.
I don't hate SOAP, and I think it gets a terribly bad rap, but it's pretty easy to spit out a WSDL and not follow it in execution. Ditto OpenAPI, of course, but at least anecdotally it seems like less of a problem. It's not no problem, of course, and one of the reasons I wrote Modern[1], for OpenAPI 3, is to have response validation in development mode, not just request validation mode in dev and prod.

[1] - https://github.com/modern-project/modern-ruby
The employer has the option to pay you your salary (not bonus, which is a big part of your income!) to not work at all instead of you going to a competitor.

I think that the comp part is necessary to make it enforceable at all.
Okay I will stop doing this because what you say. Well also because it always works.
Because it's interesting to someone.

I don't understand why my girlfriend likes to watch Youtube videos of other girls doing their make-up and hair but, then again, she doesn't understand why I need all the computers that I have.
I use a variation on inbox-zero: if it's unread, it still has to be dealt with. Sort email unread-first. Works well enough for me (I have lots of "automatically mark read" filters for noise emails).
Not just recruiting, but evaluation and screening as well. Most people here are probably only looking for high-paying white collar jobs but Indeed does a huge business in front-line and blue collar postings. Now they're offering screening between application and in-person interviews and can take care of a lot of the filtering work that used to mean a huge pile of resumes. I see the GD purchase as breadth while they're also moving up & down the HR pipeline simultaneously.

Recruit is kind of a funny setup - itself it's not that large (I think around 800 people) but it owns/controls companies totaling tens of thousands of employees worldwide.
> you probably don’t need an ETL, just a simple script.

+1

> Unless you need multiple servers processing data through multiple steps and you need the auditing and process control

I'll stress the "multiple servers" part. You can add in a substantial amount of multiple, sequential steps and auditing and process control in a simple script. The part that adds orders of magnitude worth of complexity and operational overhead and points of failure is being able to distribute it to multiple servers. Distributed architectures are operationally and architecturally expensive. And far more often than not, completely unnecessary for a given use case.
The L train already uses CBTC (i.e automatic train operation); fast speeds are issued by the computer.