skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are specialist ISPs like Gigaclear who have connected up villages in Oxfordshire, for example[1,2]. I believe the model is you get a bunch of families to commit to the service and they deliver fiber to your community, if it's within their service area.

Deploying fiber can be done in a fairly low-impact way and as long as planners don't put up roadblocks, deploying fiber to remote locations isn't a massive challenge, as a number of rural deployments demonstrate.

[1] https://www.gigaclear.com/about/case-studies-testimonials/
[2] https://www.gigaclear.com/fastershire-rollout-schedule/
You are the quintessential example of how flawed the US immigration system is.

p.s. If you are looking for work, I would love to chat with you (simone at fabrica.city), and help you eventually come back to the US (L-1?).
When I'm short on time I do the following routine that I got from my wife's fitness mag:

3 sets of 12 reps descending / ascending of:

* frog jumps - plank pushups

* reverse lunge with overhead press - spiderman crawls

* burpees - leg raise sit ups

Eg: do 12 reps of of frog jumps and one rep of pushups, then immediately do 11 reps of frog jumps and 2 reps of pushups, etc down to 1 rep of frog jumps and 12 reps of pushup. NO resting in between. When done, take a two minute rest, then immediately start the next set. The key to this routine is not resting, and maintaining good form. It offers me a great burning sensation when I do it correctly, and I'm done in less than 25 minutes flat.
This repo is beautiful. The README is detailed and clear, and the contents seem pretty exhaustive. As a native JS guy I'm especially excited to check out the implementation of non-tree graphs!

Having said all that: The algorithms I've had to tackle at work tend to be fairly trivial or total one-offs involving scheduling events in human time.

How much algorithmic work do you other JS folks end up doing?
The demise of r/science AMAs on Reddit
I wish I could be that confident about things that I don't have inside information about! Working against that theory is consistency of the reports, the physiological evidence, and the high likelihood that the affected would be high value espionage targets.
Facing CFO Shortage, Silicon Valley Tries Training
It sort of happened, just 20 years later, and the details are different. The web's user experience proved to be superior to that of physical media you had to switch out, but Internet speeds had to get fast enough (and the usage billed in a lenient way) for rich multimedia to be delivered smoothly.

In the meantime, the TV screen lost relevance to first desktop computers, then laptop computers, then smartphones. Microsoft was the only large company who consistently hammered on this idea (Encarta, DHTML, MSN, HD-DVD's HDi, Xbox 360's dashboard), and with a vested interest in the health of the desktop ecosystem, but they couldn't execute this first convergence -- and ironically, neither the second convergence of desktops and smartphones. Apple and Google leapfrogged them in critical ways, and this interactive consumption revolution took place on the latter two's portable smartphones instead.
The article contains a footnote about UUIDs as primary keys.

> UUID as a primary key is a terrible idea, by the way — cryptographic randomness is utterly designed to kill locality of reference, hence the performance penalty

Is there anyone who can go a little bit more in detail?

We planned to migrate our database to use UUIDs as primary keys. This will allow creating new rows on clients knowing the new primary key before sending them to the server (simplifying client and server code).
Except maybe .. China
How Japan’s Pacifist Constitution Shapes Its Approach to Cyberspace
Silly me, I didn't know "white" is a term that describes age.
Given that we have never actually defined what »time is a local phenomenon« is supposed to mean, that may or may not be true. But given that relativity puts time and space on a more equal footing than Newtonian mechanics, where you now can turn time into space and space into time, I remain pretty doubtful that something that can be summarized as »time is a local phenomenon« is likely to be interesting and correct because it seems to point in the direction of not treating time and space in a unified manner.
Agreed! People who think Companies wont go this far, need to look no further than the wage suppression agreement between Adobe, Apple Inc., Google, Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
Intelligence agencies are. They are exempt from it and get a monopoly on data collection.
> Was the Weather Channel forbidden to do these kinds of partnerships and if not why didn't hey do some?

They probably didn't reshare anything because they are already a part of NBC Universal. Thus, they already have other sources of funding that would dwarf anything that product placement or paid placements could achieve.

Keep in mind that video itself is ultimately TWC's main product, not whatever they post on Facebook. As long as they can broadcast their video somewhere, they will be okay.

There's also the clickbait issue. Pages that begin to repost as a revenue generator face a death spiral down to clickbait posts. TWC probably wanted to cut it off before such a thing ruined their brand.
That is the point of a GAN. We’re missing something about the problem space and/or human cognition or their output would already be indistinguishable from reality to all humans.
That question has a very complex and complicated answer, hence why McGilchrist devoted the entire first half of the book to it, I can hardly summarize it here. You might want to watch the RSA Animated talk by McGilchrist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFs9WO2B8uI

If this reminds you of Julian Jaynes, then yes, there exists some similarity, but, to quote Wikipedia:

"McGilchrist, while accepting Jayne's intention, felt that Jayne's hypothesis was "the precise inverse of what happened" and that rather than a shift from bicameralism there evolved a separation of the hemispheres."

In my opinion, it seems like a better question to ask then consists of asking if what McGilchrist describes holds 'all the way down', and I lack an answer to that.
The irony of condescending to your readers is that it's only the people you actually want to impress who will notice.
Speed Cruise Control System Using Simulink and Stateflow
> Congress didn’t give anyone money to replace these devices,

Seems more like the U.S. Government doesn't want to get rid of Kaspersky. They choose not to replace compromised devices. Doesn't seem like it is a hard technical challenge at all, rather the lack of action seems more intentional.

Surely we can all agree this is an issue of National Security. And if the task is to be done with no Federal assistance or financial help whatsoever, it seems clear that the government is compromised.
> you have to opt in to giving us all of your personal data, before you are allowed to use Facebook.

Isn't that "you pay with your data"?

Or do you mean it would allow things like "$5/month, or free if you consent"?
This is true, but there are a number of data errors in BT's own inventory, so you will need to take this with a pinch of salt. For instance, according to this (and therefore in BT's internal systems as well) I am eligible for G.Fast -- I am not.
When my ancestors came here in the late 19th and early 20th century, they were dirt-poor peasants in central and eastern Europe. I know at least one of my ancestors was a draft-dodger, too; he fled Russia because the tsar tried to have him conscripted to fight in the Russo-Japanese War.

The idea that the US always only accepted highly-skilled immigrants until very recently is false.
$2 million in reserves seem like peanuts, any serious attempt to enter this business would imply investing enough money that mere $2 million is just a reasonable cost of doing business. Paypal needed $200m of venture capital to get started, a $2m requirement isn't prohibitive.

As for the delay, a common practice to enter a new market in finance is to "just" buy an existing bank that has all the required permits and all the legal and technical connections to the settlement infrastructure. There are thousands of banks, many of them small and relatively affordable for any investor trying to make a serious entry into the market. E.g. if some foreign financial company would want to start business in a new market, they usually would not start from scratch and bother with the licensing delays but buy some existing institution to absorb, rebrand and grow. If Amazon or Google or a new VC-backed company would want to enter the market, they're likely to do the same. If Amazon can spend a dozen billion on WholeFoods, then spending ten or fifty million on a small bank to get a banking operation running much faster is just natural, and not even a waste of money, as they'd likely need tens of millions of capital reserves anyway to justify holding immense amounts of customer money.
ACH bank transfers are free in the US too, just takes a few days. Personal transfers with Venmo or paypal are free too in most cases. The fees are for credit cards which make up almost all online transactions and have fees everywhere in the world.
Socially? Agreed. Legally it's pretty black and white though. They are choosing one sex over the other.
Take a look at this product: https://techcrunch.com/2014/11/03/cocoon/ How do we know something like this or an advanced version of such devices that use infra/ultra sonics could not have had adverse side effects?
Atlassian open-sources auto-Scaler for Kubernetes
Show HN: Checkout Page – quick, code-free way to sell with Stripe
It would be better to see the difference between average age of members of Congress and average age at which people died in the year considered.

What I suspect this would show is that seniority in Congress, at least on a relative comparison basis, has actually not increased. Length of tenure obviously has, but the numbers must be put in the context of their age to be properly interpreted.
How is this specific to blockchains compared to any other kind of append-only book-keeping?
I made Checkout Page to create a way to use Stripe for both developers and non-developers.

Checkout Page lets you really easily create one page sites where people can pay you on. The use cases are endless, but think of selling courses, ebooks, physical products, advertisement spots or getting invoices paid.

With future developments I aim to make Checkout Page an unopinionated way to sell online. On the roadmap are things like Zapier integration, dynamic pricing, webhooks and dynamic return URL parameters.

I would love to hear your feedback!
The EU has been way too overbearing lately. I have to say, it's made me a bit more welcome to Brexit happening; taking out one of the more economically-important countries from it should cut its power a bit, along with insuring that there's a decent chance of small businesses and the like to expand into Britain sanely.
Like everyone else, I've been bombarded with numerous "we've updated our privacy policy" emails over the past few weeks.

I'm not sure updating privacy policies with CYA language will suffice.

The evidence suggests European regulators really want companies to change their behavior.
The author of the article does not use "great white males" as a personal pronoun. Nor does the article you linked include any mention of race.
Robot submarine finds “holy grail of shipwrecks”
An attack on diplomatic missions in China is an attack on China too.
Here's some research: https://neuroresearchproject.com/2013/02/19/1289/
Thirteenth stepping is common enough to have a name, but the other side of that is that people in every AA group I've been in are extremely protective of newcomers. Thirteenth stepping a newcomer is a surefire way to get castigated by your fellow AAs.

In fact, I've seen three people ever asked to stop coming to a meeting, and all three were for thirteenth-stepping or similar. Being asked to stop coming may not seem serious, but for some perspective: the third tradition of AA is "The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking." People show up disruptively drunk or tripping and don't get kicked out. A large portion of our membership have spent time in jail for violent crimes. Before these things were accepted in society at large, people of color and gays were accepted into meetings. We take the third tradition very seriously--the only way someone is asked to leave is if there's justification from the first tradition ("Our common welfare comes first") so you have to be seriously impacting the welfare of other people in the group before you'll be asked to not come back.

I'll also add that there are resources available to protect people. There are tons of women-only meetings and most areas have LGBT meetings as well. It's also explicitly not against any traditions to involve law enforcement if sexual harassment, stalking, etc. occur--there's a safety card which explicitly announces this and it's read at the beginning of many meetings.

When people get more sober time, dating becomes more accepted--generally after a year. But generally this is done with strong admonishments to put the sobriety of both parties first, and we still look out for each others' safety.

I don't look at AA with rose-tinted glasses. It's a human program and it's imperfect. Certainly as an atheist I wish there was a lot less god nonsense. But the flipside is that I'd probably be dead if I were still drinking, and instead I'm 20 months sober and doing really well. Certainly 13th stepping is a problem, but it's a problem which many groups deal with fairly well, and I wouldn't want anyone to not get help because they are afraid of being 13th stepped.
Absolutely, given that Paypal can freeze your money indefinitely for arbitrary reasons (and has a long history of doing so).
The Rust HashMap and HashSet implementations are generic over hasher: you can pick a faster one if you don't have to worry about getting ddos'd. Last I checked, the go-to fast hasher was fnv: https://doc.servo.org/fnv/
> [2] When I say Postgres is great for analytics, I mean it. In case you don’t know about TimescaleDB, it’s a wrapper on top of PostgreSQL that allows you to INSERT 1 million records per second, 100+ billion rows per server. Crazy stuff. No wonder why Amazon chose PostgreSQL as its base for Redshift.

Correction: Amazon chose ParAccel, which was a data warehouse forked from PostgreSQL.

Many data warehouse products have followed this path due to licensing. MySQL is GPLv2 which means you can't ship derivative works without releasing your code. PostgreSQL has a permissive license similar to MIT/BSD. You can do anything you want with the code. That's still a major consideration which the article omitted.
Implementing an e-voting protocol with blind signatures on Ethereum
“Robotica” – First Book on Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence Published
One way councils can force the issue is to deny planning permission unless builders can show they've engaged a telecoms company (doesn't have to be BT, could be Virgin or Gigaclear or Cityfibre). After all, we don't accept houses built without electricity and water. Why should we accept houses with subpar connectivity?
Ad at one point it was all set to go just needed the signature I know some one who saw all the paper work laid out ready for signing.

A lot of the slagging off comes from hobbyist "entrepreneurs" who think either that they can run an office on home adsl products and or/that all the consumer customers should subsidize their business

Oh and that nice Mr Murdoc whos upset that BT is competing with him for sport don't see the tabloids complaints about the Murdoch tax to watch football.
Uber’s Flying Taxis
Dear Haskell it's not you, it's your tooling
Yep, they're a 3D reconstruction of points from a 4D space a (massively simplifying the fact that the 2D video frames themselves are high-dimensional data) and that's just the video. Bring a 3D camera into the game and the underlying distribution and see if hilarity ensues IMO.
Regardless, having lost access to my first Google account, it's still a good cautionary tale.

In my case, for whatever reason, Google stopped believing that I was the owner of the account, even though I knew my password and secret questions, and was coming from the same IP I had been for years. In addition, a friend inside the company who personally vouched for me was still unable to fix the problem.

Google is a point of failure. Be sure you're prepared for the day your account disappears.
there are a couple important things to consider here

- who is liable or who will make it right when your money is stolen?
- retail banking in the US sucks in every way except that they will reimburse you for fraud

if it was up to me all my payments would only happen on a cryptocurrency layer and all my cash storage would happen in an account you could only withdraw from in person to the crypto account. the pull model without credentials banks work under is totally flawed and wont last much longer.
>No cash means banks can lend an infinite amount of money as they aren't bound to the liquidity ratio.

that's not how fractional reserve works. banks have capital requirements (some of which may be cash), not cash requirements. moreover, even if it was somehow cash requirements, they're not obligated to hold physical cash.
> I believe we had some Encyclopedia software, too

Was that Compton’s Interactive Encyclopedia by chance? I had that one! Had a nice feature on the Bell X-1, if I recall.
The UK implements GDPR like every other EU country. Maybe they roll it back when Brexit is done, but I wouldn't hold my breath for it.
Well it didn't make any odds last quarter so they're only preparing for it now...
This seems really common. I categorize 'finishing' as a whole other skill/category than programming/hacking/building stuff. Recognizing that the last 10% is the hardest part is daunting and not as fun a lot of the time, but the reward and payoff can be worth it.
Building Levels.fyi in Coffee Shops and Growing to Profitability
I had a summer job at 3T productions in ~1992, who did Cluedo for CD-i; while I spent my time on a CD-XA project on a PC, dev for the CD-i wasn't easy; given video compression was so early, and the video-decompressor module was optional, it was difficult to do any useful video on CD-i, and the specified seek time on the CD was ages. Remember that doing CD dev for anything in 1992 was hard - CD writers were >£10k (and blanks ~£10+ each) with the CD writer connected via phono to a CD-i dev machine wired onto a Sun workstation. And that 600MB+ hard drive you needed to store the image was full-height 5.25" (and I hate to think the cost).
Hackers Stole a Casino’s Database of High-Rollers via a Fish Tank Thermometer
I sympathize

Listen to some Alan Watts lectures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0FUsy5pqa4
Pardon my ignorance but why do you need to leave the US again?

Based on my limited understanding - if you already have a EB-2 petition approved, you should be able to continue working on H1 as long as your employer is sponsoring you unless you're moving out of frustration due to long wait times.
I really want to switch to part time work and this article is really motivating to take the leap. My skill set is in desktop support and I want to free up time for studying programming. Right now the job I have is fairly intense with a weekly ticket count regualarly reaching over 100 at times.

I'm nervous about asking my boss for less time at work, but at this point I'm prepared to quit just to get some of my sanity back.
Hence they probably shouldn't make it public for it to be effective.
Well, I've also gotten a ton of "please, please, please confirm that we can keep sending you the e-mails we're sure you really don't want to miss" from companies I don't remember ever dealing with, which I've gleefully ignored, so it seems quite a few companies are changing their behaviour in as much as they seem to be purging their mailing lists. Even if that's all that's achieved, it'd still be a big improvement/
China's social credit system has blocked people from taking 11M flights
I was just about to mention this, the relationship between life expectancy and age of politician would really help to interpret this data.

My hypothesis is that late stage capitalism has moved the ability to have the resources and freedom to run for office into later years since 1995 as inflation adjusted income stagnates.

Edit: anyone care to explain the downvoting? I clearly marked this as a hypothesis as signficant economic changes have occured during this time frame. I have asserted nothing as fact.
Till recently, best and the brightest meant physically fit and having a gumption and desire to achieve something better.

So US did get the best and brightest till recently!

In today's connected world and population explosion, there is a higher class of highly-skilled immigrants which can't stay in US, due to quotas based on country of birth. Because of this, best and brightest from India aren't moving to US anymore!
Because blockchains have what most other append-only systems don't, a mathematical requirement that the data NEVER change in order for the system to continue running.

In an append-only system the enforcement comes from the software running around the data, if you need to you can modify the data in the past, and tell the software to just pretend it wasn't changed. You can't do that with a blockchain without throwing the whole thing away, so it brings into question what happens when legally you MUST remove information.
Digital Capitalism’s War on Leisure
QE, Fractional reserve banking is basically printing money on every loan, us gov't budget deficit prints money. In terms of inflation, it does seem the supply needed to keep expanding to prevent a liquidity collapse of the economy - though my suspicion is it needed to keep expanding because the finanicialized sections of the economy basically keep sucking it up, somehow locking it up from liquidity in the economy.
For a one time 'hit' on a target, knowing fake news spreada faster than true news. By the time its shown to be fake, the damage has been done to the target.
Also true: The news maximizes fearmongering.
Virgin is very poor experience and they de facto have monopoly on fiber in some areas and that enables them to piss on customers who cannot get any alternative.
Recently I had a fault and I was 3 weeks without the internet. I am sure that could have been resolved quicker, but their staff was completely incompetent.
Cherry on the cake - I am also nowhere near the advertised speed.
This.

Also those payment apps are like PayPal in the sense it provides very little fraud detection and protection. You are petty much on your own. They process almost no chargebacks, for example.

The Chinese consumers have vastly different expectations when it comes to money because the lack of protection throughout history. To them, it looks very unsafe to just swipe a card without a PIN, and chargeback is an alien concept.
Looks nice, but doesn't Stripe already offer this functionality via Stripe Checkout [0]? Why would I use your third-party service over the first-party offering from Stripe?

[0] https://stripe.com/checkout
Edutainment was always a critical part of the sales pitch from children to their parents trying to get a computer to play games on.