skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not quite right. The old way of doing it actually worked like this: Bank A in country X transfers money mega-bank B in country X. Mega-bank B transfers money to mega-bank C in country Y. Mega-bank C in country Y then transfers it regional bank D in country Y.

Bitcoin will allow smaller banks to transfer money without the help of the giant banks who have built up relationships (and binding legal agreements) over the years.

Honestly, even though some large banks bullish on bitcoin, the real benefit will accrue to the smaller institutions.
GDPR isn't to blame for all the permission emails you're getting
Apps using Electron are – among others – Signal, Slack and Zoom:

https://electronjs.org/apps
*doesn't
Yes, Russia is not the US. Cell coverage is excellent, even outside cities. If you get deep into the Taiga of course there will be no coverage, but in this case the camping ground was not too far outside a city of 200,000 people.

Almost all the cheap Chinese phones, such as Xiaomi, come with call recorder built in. My exwife has one, for better or worse, I need to be careful what I say!
Hiring remote
The Wizard of Q
Most of googles products are not based on addiction. You use google search because you have to find something. You don't spend hours randomly browsing search results. Youtube will take a hit from this but the rest of google is not an addiction business.
I, too, have a small-talk module running nearly constantly. It is English-based, but sometimes doesn't translate over to actual words.

However, I'm different: I form mental images all the time. I create them too. I might be putting a mountain here or there, all narrating it with my spoken inner monologue. I'm like this when making art (visual art) as well - I narrate the motions, making noises with pen strokes and finishing paint brush strokes with something akin to a sports presenter on the radio.

The combination of these two means I can get a mental image in my head that I've narrated to myself to build it, yet cannot describe it aloud in words without changing thought modes.
Wouldn't that just classify as fraud? I think existing laws already have that covered.

After all, impersonation done by people is nothing new, this technology just makes it easier.
Ask HN: Which payment gateway do you use?
I think this cuts both ways.

In my case I came from the opposite direction. The first time I learned economics was through conventional lens of what's considered as the "norm" in modern economics, where Austrian economics is largely dismissed for the reason you point out. All economics books do cover Austrian economics but they are still biased against them so if you're a newbie, you come away thinking "OK these classical and Austrian economics theories are interesting in theory but I guess practically they don't work and it's outdated and nowadays it's all about Keynesian".

So coming from this point of view, reading this book did open my eyes, even though I knew exactly what the book talks about even before reading the book. I guess the general tone of the book was very effective in giving me a balanced point of view, since I at the time had a biased view towards Keynesian.

My current point of view is that there is no right or wrong answer, but there is only difference in context. In certain contexts Austrian way of thinking makes more sense, in certain contexts Keynesian makes more sense.

But it's looking more and more likely that it's time for Austrian economics to shine in the next decade, because of trends like globalization, increasing chaos in the world, and cryptocurrency.
"Shush" and "Wind Down" are already on Samsung phones, and FB is in good relations with Samsung (see oculus), so doubt this would be Facebook killer.

Additionally, Facebook already turn down video in newsfeed (it decreased time-spent), and changed goals to 'meaningful social interactions'. Long term, being useful is more important than grabbing attention (and FB plays long-term game). The fact that FB, Instagram, Youtube, are "grabbing attention", is only byproduct of thinking that time-spent like metrics are good proxies for usefulness (and they were really easy to optimize), which turns out not to be true (or at least they don't tell the full story). Hackernews is grabbing my attentions the most for me, should I blame the ranking model?

Most engineers, managers, designers, ... in these companies are people who want to build useful stuff, rather than maximizing short term gains for share holders (additionally none of these companies are paying dividends, so if you maximize value for share holders, you should play mid to long game). If you can make these engineers realized that what they are building is harmful, they will change it.

Disclaimer: I worked at Facebook and it from inside, so have different "trust" model for these companies, and expectations how they work internally. I don't believe that there sinister master-plan behind every feature they release, instead, they are complex organisms with many players that are optimizing for different goals (sometimes sometimes seemingly opposite).
If Bitcoin is such a good solution, why do they have to mislead with news about banks that aren’t banks?
> Similar to how Firefox, the privacy-focused browser,
> has telemetry on by default to help improve

This is just Mozilla propaganda. See how they inject
and use Google anti-privacy to spy on people.

https://twitter.com/nicolaspetton/status/884694176515936256?...

They use telemetry to spy on people, allegedly to
"improve their products" but god knows what they
do with this mass surveillance data. Since Google
also pays to Mozilla (funding agreement; I don't
know the actual percentage share but it is a LOT),
Mozilla is dependent on Google.

So we have a network of spying going on here, with
Evil corporations and Evil organizations claiming
that they "only spy for the greater good".

> I hope you love using Caddy, and if you don't,
> you don't have to use it.

I don't use it, but the topic of privacy, spying,
net neutrality etc.. is important.

Why should we accept any organization that spies
on people, no matter how they call it? Be it
"telemetry" or any other fancy propaganda term
that is coined by them for this malicious activity.
Sure, if you don’t factor in the conversion to and from money that can be used to buy groceries and petrol.
many much thanks
I asked in context of the original post about free Bitcoin transfers on LN. The options you mentioned may be free, but are not Bitcoin LN.
The issue is that you SHOULD NOT HAVE TO OPT OUT.

Nobody forces you or them to spy on mankind, so
stop it already.
Tricking implies intention. The computer has no such intention yet. Google has it, or, most likely, Google just want to get data efficiently, tricking is a side effect of how good their speech processing is.
If you check out the show on Rotten Tomatos it has a tomato rating of 90% with an average audience score of 95%.

That seems really high to then cancel the show?

I'm guessing the problem is it is highly loved by a small group of individuals? But given Sci-Fi in general is a wide enough demographic for many other shows - it seems strange this is not drawing in the ratings?

[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_expanse/
Don’t really get this tbh. Why should I care if I’m talking to an AI or not?
As a Russian who speaks fluent English while most of my coworkers don't – YES.
Friend smarter than me ran into a bug where when DMA was active on a multi-core uP you needed to do a read op between two writes to a IO address or the first write wouldn't happen.

I think on an ARM processor if it's normal memory you can't guarantee ordering. But ARM supports a device memory type which disables caching and reordering memory accesses by the hardware.
> That's why one of the first 2 will probably replace Bitcoin until the end of 2018.

It may be time to evaluate if you, yourself, are the mark.
And even with the epstein drive they still show acceleration and deceleration changing at the mid point of the journey. They don't have inertial dumpers like star trek invented to work around the issue.
Also, yaourt has a lot of warnings and prompts at each step along the way to make absolutely certain that you understand what you're getting yourself into with the packages you're installing. The process is certainly not for beginners. Ubuntu seems to go for a more user friendly process instead.
In the UK netflix have the rights, but for some reason it doesn't show up on the service until months after the season has finished on syfy.

Meaning most of my friends who have Netflix ended up pirating it.

I waited until season 2 showed up on netflix last year, but if it's being cancelled anyway I don't see much point in waiting this year.
Yes, by stealing all users privacydata and selling it to highest bidder is very good start.
I think the real lesson here is "don't use man pages". Seriously, that's often my last resort.
Hmmm ...

* governments want to improve public health

* parents in a given geographic region can opt-in on birth of a child to enroll their child in a longitudinal data-gathering regime

* parents' and child's PII (personally identifiable information) is stored in a special private Fluree instance (or other DB), and each is assigned UIDs that can be public without disclosing their identity

* the child's UID, along with basic demographic info (that can't be used to resolve their identity) is pushed to the public Fluree DB ...

* some info, such as genetic profile, very specific outcomes of educational tests, etc., might be stored over time in a very secure DB not open to the public

* basic measures of health, education, nutrition, could be stored publicly and available to researchers ... with more and more info stored over time

* more info about a child's "history" that might be useful in correlating with positive / negative outcomes also might be stored publicly

* public health researchers could analyze trends, etc., to determine what education and nutrition programs, environments, etc., contribute positively to good outcomes

* public health and other researchers, such as medical, pharma, nutrition, etc., researchers, could use public data to find "cohorts" of children that might be suitable for studies ... and reach out in the system to families (whose identities will not be disclosed until appropriate) of those children to give them more info about why their child should become part of a study, and give them a chance to opt-in or contact researchers for more info

That's just one very interesting application off the top of my head, and Fluree (I'm not associated), as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) who states they eventually plan to open-source all or much of their technology, might be a good venue in which to deploy such a system ... a system that would require high levels of confidentiality, trust, while still being open to the extent possible and advisable.
> And free markets are far more powerful and adapt far more quickly than regulation

Agreed, but free markets rarely exist. There are almost always market forces that prevent them from being free. The broadband internet market is Exhibit A. Most consumers have only one choice of broadband, and very few have more than two choices. In many markets, there is effectively no competition, which allows the utility to act as a monopoly and due whatever it wants.

I would be okay with dropping net neutrality if every American had 5 choices for internet service. But that's not what happening here. In the US we have a handful of companies that act as monopolies (the exact opposite of a free market), and exert the market control power for richer profits.

Any free market proponent would agree that this is not just unfair, but economically inefficient.
What is GDPR
Realism? Really? Who would setup blue backlight on everything in spacecraft (i'm talking about cliche blue-orange camera; and given toxicity of blue light)? Sound in space??? Protomolecule? uh. I really tried to watch last season; 't was impossibiru :(
It's not powerful enough at the same time as being overly verbose.

After using python for a bit I came back to Java and tried to do all sorts of things that just were not easy without a lot of faff.
With noscript it doesn't even get a chance to load.
I think C/C++ developers would love nothing more, but there is no standard package manager for those languages.
I don't know about your jurisdiction, but laws against impersonation already exist in many places.
I've never really understood the concept that something can smell bad and taste good because so much of taste is smell. -- that's why when you have a cold, food tastes like nothing. Maybe people who like stinky cheese really like stinky smells.
It has not, historically, been in the nature of companies to think or act in the long term. People inside companies have incentives to bring short term profits, while long term profits benefits only the company as a whole, not any individual internal actor who may be positioned to make them happen. Therefore, they don’t happen, and large organizations basically always act only in the short term.
Does Google have intentions? Or do only individuals have intentions? Serious question, I am sure philosophers have thought about this.
Visualizing Changes to Rail Services
> "But maybe I'm wrong."

I don't think you are wrong. Timing APIs are tricky and complicated. The small print really matters. Experienced engineers will know this, and so the answer in this instance, as annoying as it may be - absolutely RTFM. Also, funky documentation/APIs exist everywhere, unfortunately.

Quoting the article:

> "You're a new coder, and you find yourself tasked with taking a Unix time_t type value and turning it into some kind of human-readable format"

I'd argue that's exactly the kind of mistakes inexperienced coders are prone to make. Hence we have code-reviews.
Have you watched it? It’s not bad... but not really good either. Much better shows were cancelled in the past.
Emergency call takers are trained to detect callers who are unable for some reason to clearly express the emergency and therefore can only have a mundane conversation and maybe say where they are.

They also deal with calls initiated by small children who don't understand what's going on beyond that they were told at some point to dial 9-1-1 (or 1-1-2 or whatever the local equivalent is) if anything bad happens. "Mummy won't wake up" is a common complaint which can signify anything from a drug overdose, homicide, through carbon monoxide poisoning, animal attack...

It would only make sense to filter out non-emergencies if you're able to achieve an _extremely_ low rate of rejecting true emergencies and your cost to service false alerts is high. For example the analogue COSPAS SARSAT system was phased out because it had more than 99% false alerts and servicing an emergency typically means dispatching helicopters and/or coast guard vessels to a distant location. False alerts (now often caused by human error, ie typically somebody did press the button but they didn't mean to or they hadn't appreciated that "I'm bored" isn't an emergency) remain a majority of all COSPAS SARSAT alerts with the digital system, but at least it's not 99% any more.
I will agree about Bobby but Avasarala is by far one of the best characters. The best casting decision obviously is Thomas Jane's character.
The main goal is to steal your privacy data with more hidden ways.

Best way is that it become just way of life.

Who would not want to embed google under they skin ?
Yes - personally I like it.

But I'm trying to be objective and note the lack of correlation between a shows percevied quality and how that does/not translate into ratings.
What is the most sophisticated piece of software/code ever written?
It's less profitable, and that's a way more important problem. (/s (but also !/s))
> the mawk flavor is extremely fast

Fast, but partly because it's not Unicode-aware: it treats strings as 8-bit character sequences rather than UTF-8. Often that's fine, if non-ASCII characters are only passed through unmodified, but requires some care to avoid problems.

$ echo $LANG
en_GB.UTF-8

$ echo "ÜNICÖDE" | gawk '{print tolower($0)}'
ünicöde

$ echo "ÜNICÖDE" | mawk '{print tolower($0)}'
�nic�de

I ran into this in practice because I was using awk to convert paper titles from "Title Case" to APA-style "Only first word of title capitalized" case. The garbled output led me down a rabbit hole where I discovered that only some awks support Unicode locales, and the default awk on Debian (mawk) isn't one of them.
it's not common to see a TV show here on HN, what's different about this show?
Google is not the only company that is trying to optimize both profits and user experience/benefits, that is a priority where I work also.

I have been trying to live in Apple’s walled garden because they are more of a privacy company. But, I periodically turn Google Assistant, Google Maps, and Gmail on - largely turning my iPhone temporarily into a Google device as far as tracking goes. I do this when travelling or when I need the better ‘AI’ experience that Google provides. Google Assistant really is very useful, and sometimes turning over my life event data is worth it.
Location: Cambridge, UK
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: C/C++, Python, Java, JS, Clang/LLVM shenanigans
Résumé/CV: https://goo.gl/vsxJGA
Email: ngt26@cam.ac.uk

About: Ex-AMD and graphics programmer. Currently completing a PhD in Approximate Computation (basically: Compilers/ML/Optimisation/Error-Efficiency) at the University of Cambridge.

Generally interested in optimisation, compilers and large data.
Touching C is an even bigger one.

It took C++ about 20 years to reach maturity in this space, with help of several OS and compiler vendors.

You might be willing to bet the house on Rust, most business aren't, not in the current state of its toolchain.

In 10 years from now, yeah I can clearly see it.
Frankly I'd love a bot framework to turn the tables and call into my ISP's IVR to log a complaint.

A bot that would do all the waiting, trudge through the options, deal with the transfers, tell them I did the standard debugging steps and get back to me the complaint number.

That would be just incredible.
Sorry, but I think this is one of the worst use-cases of a distributed database. Many government databases are, by definition, centralized, no matter what technology it uses. The record the government holds is the official record.

As a result, copies of the original document are pretty valuables unless they are certified by a court/agency as being official. Governments should definite move towards more modern databases and technology, but given that they "are" the central database, I don't see the benefit of decentralized one.
There are few hard sci fi shows on television right now -- having this cancelled is a pretty big blow to a type of entertainment that a lot people on this board take very seriously.
Yeah Pepper was just some PR effort. This is a dumb robot with an integrated tablet that is asking you to click on it. Its just ridiculous.
I would prefer talking to an AI for business calls, because then I know I can get straight to the point without wasting time on being courteous, without having to worry about hurting someones feelings.
I don't appreciate articles from paywalled newspapers. I can't read them and don't want to do any tricks to gain access. The net is large and full of well written articles that are accessible to read. Let's ignore the paywalled bunch and focus on the open and free.
How to Use Materialize CSS with Phoenix
Most of Google's revenue is based on addiction. You see more ads the longer you use the internet.
And in Switzerland [1] (text in german). Blood samples from newborn screenings are stored for 30 years. For the screening to take place, the parents' oral consent is required. Opting out of the screening or blood archival is VERY rare. Though personal information is destroyed after analysis, attribution is still possible using LIMS (an electronic laboratory database).

As far as I understand, access to this data is generally restricted [2].

"If illnesses occur later, which can be clarified via tests on this sam­ple, the responsible physician can request it from [Children's Hospital Zurich]. Part of the remaining material may also be used by the screening labora­tory during quality control measures and for the development of new research methods. In this case, the samples will be anonymous, having undergone a procedure to make them unidentifiable." [3]

[1] https://www.zh.ch/bin/ktzh/rrb/beschluss.pdf?rrbNr=1053&name...
[2] https://www.admin.ch/opc/en/classified-compilation/20011087/...
[3] http://www.neoscreening.ch/display.cfm/id/100489/disp_type/d...
She looks like she's in a Bollywood movie. Over the top cocky confidence that's not really justified by anything that she is conveying through acting.

Jane - yes, agreed. Excellent choice. Alex, Amos, Naomi are all good too.
End of season 3 is a key decision point (the expanse in the expanse :)). Stop it there or finance another 6+ seasons. I really hate it, but it is the right point in time.
No show is safe in a world where Firefly was canceled after one season.
>Wouldn't that just classify as fraud?

20 years ago, much of the ToS you blindly accept on many websites, would land the developers and company management in jail. At least in my country. That is for counts of misuse of personal information, defrauding the customer and potentially espionage.

Also if they sold physical devices, lying about the function of the buttons, installing erasure buttons that don't erase anything etc, would also cause a class-action lawsuit and the district attorney to press charges for fraud.

I can totally see companies, especially the ones that don't care much about keeping a good face, like dept collection services, using this kind of service in extremely unethical ways while retaining plausible deniability in court.
out of curiosity, do people now use exceptions when programming on embedded? It's been 10 years years since I've really programmed embedded systems, but at the time exceptions were a big no-no. It was often unclear how an exception would mess with the stack, how far up things would go, and what information was (and its size) being passed up.

Instead, we just checked return values of everything.
Like?

I really like the show. It is quite dense.
People obtaining the show from other sources before it is released on Netflix might be a reason for the show not doing well enough on Netflix to be worth picking up. Plus the marketing probably was only half-hearted, since Netflix doesn't own the US streaming rights.
It might be more like a couple months.

Amazon is a logistics company that nails delivery in volumes Blue Apron cannot even fathom and Whole Foods adds pipelines for ingredient acquisition and physical locations in exactly the places where Blue Apron clients live.
Note: I forgot the “--max-args=1” option to xargs.
Probably not up to the risk, on average.
>One guideline states that an attempt at reduction in the total amount of human damage is defensible (Rule 9, pg. 11), which supports killing 5 people.

How does this make sense? 5>1 therefore _diverting_ to hit 1 person instead of 5 is reducing total amount of human damage.
Just what the world needed: another personal config full of ugly antipatterns, myopic hacks, and useless plugins marketed as a turnkey IDE.
Perhaps it's a good sign if a company allows/encourages remote work. Since politics is often 'personal', a more impersonal setting would reduce the opportunities of people who like to play politics instead of working. It also makes it harder to hide incompetence, and since the politics players are often at least semi-incompetent in my experience, that would also work against them.
I was missing the "wow, awesome!" effect. Only watched S1 so far and it was.. nice. solid. interesting. But it didn't spark joy or made me a fan. (Killjoys did, for example.)