skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m just a casual observer of the market, so I only know what can glean on the internet. My observations are purely anecdotal.

A fundamental problem, in the entire “crypto” market is that it’s hard to get dollars to crypto exchanges. As far as I can tell, this difficulty is asymmetric: it’s harder to get dollars out of exchanges than it is to deposit.

In either case, it is hard to get an account with an exchange that can handle dollars, if you are not willing able to jump through the hoops of AML and KYC regulations.

Even if you are, exchanges like Coinbase (regulated, in US) or Bitfinex (unregulated, located god knows where) present significant friction in actually transacting with dollars. (See the relevant reddit forums).

In addition, transferring dollars internationally is costly. So, somewhere, people exchange their dollars for bitcoin, or whatever. They can then easily transfer these digital tokens to any exchange, even those that don’t use dollars (which are many).

When such a user wants to avoid exposure, they can sell their bitcoin for tethers, which they can hold or transfer between exchanges.

The question is where this Tether comes from. It enters the system via Bitfinex, who generates the tether token (their sister company manages the network and creation/destruction of tethers).

What people are suspicious of, is that Tether is generating tokens at will. They can then use these tokens to exchange for real bitcoins. They then avail themselves of whatever actual points of exchange they can to obtain real currency. Or they can just trade the bitcoin.

The point is, in a panic sell situation, the exits are very blocked. If you hold your own tokens (off exchange) you will be that much more screwed, as these blockchain based networks breakdown under load.

In some ways, maybe this lack of liquidity helps stabilize prices.

But the total crypto “market cap” is at least an order of magnitude greater than the total dollars invested. (This is a hard concept to grasp, essentially it is the sum of the last price paid for all tokens in the market place.)

If tether is being is being generated without dollars to back it, that means there is even less real liquidity in the market, and “Tether Inc” is scamming everyone buy siphoning of some of the real demand for crypto coins.

These digital “currencies” have so far only shown utility as a pure commodity for speculation.

This is all mathematically trivial to see. The thing that many skeptical market observers wonder is why the “bubble” hasn’t totally deflated. Bitcoin has shown surprising price stability between $6-8k for a few months.

There is speculation that market manipulation is the thing providing the support, including the shenanigans of Bitfinex and Tether.

Bottom line is that this is a (sub) zero sum game. Any dollars won have a balancing loss from another player. It seems highly likely that this already highly risky game is being “games” by entities that play dirty.
Just had a really good experience using a free online service [0] and using a home made reflow set up. I guess it depends on your end goals of the PCB deployment?

[0] https://easyeda.com
I can't speak for the others, but UPS definitely doesn't use climate controlled facilities or well ventilated trucks. In particular the semi trailers that transport packages between facilities are saunas in the summer and ice boxes in the winter after hours on the road.
Living in the United States both google and apple maps have been really good for a long time. After moving to Vietnam I’ve found both to be not accurate. Many times I’ll find a place on google then have the map show a completely different address and street then the actual address.
Unfortunately, a very small minority is trying to argue that polio vaccination is a conspiracy by [pharma companies | government | rich people] :(

Not without some justification:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/11/cia-fake-vacci...

This CIA-backed program should have been seen (and prosecuted) as a crime against humanity, but for some reason, it wasn't.
"I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men."

To which I might retort, "Historicaly, what is it about women which makes the men in their lives want to potentially travel great distances, and then maim, mutilate, and murder each other rather than, you know, spend more time with their women back home?"
I loved it even when it launched and everyone was complaining about data and it was hyped up. A brand new app had data problems but the user experience was, in comparison to its peers, quite excellent. I still find it my preferred map especially on iOS/MacOS, even though nobody beats Google in certain aspects (functionality for one)
In 5 years we'll all be watching drone light shows anyway
I did a crit bike race in Melbourne in ~42c a few years back; it's amazing what you can get conditioned to. I did put electrolytes in my hydration though..

I went back to the Norwegian summer following the summer of Black Saturday in 2009, where we got a few 46c days. That was a shocking summer even by Australian standards. When I got to Norway it was around 35c - unusually hot for them; my family really couldn't handle it. I just found it mild and pleasant... they all looked at me weird.

The reverse was true when I moved to Australia many years before that. Arriving in June, coming straight out of the Norway winter I couldn't understand why Melburnians were complaining so much .. to me the "winter" felt hot!

Of course I also complained that they should close the windows in the office because of the road noise, only to discover that double glazed windows aren't standard everywhere. They really don't know how to build houses here.

I've seen below freezing point temps riding to work now so they really ought to introduce some proper building codes ... it's just sad how much energy is wasted pumping heat through the metre wide gaps under the main doors. Really, Australian builders have NFI about energy.
NYC was pretty brutal today. 35C/99F and high humidity. Shade has no effect. The thing that works for me is to walk slow and think cool thoughts.
> Does anyone take the different approach displayed above?

I do. I find getting people to reason about code is a great method of finding who can program. Given we read a lot more code that we write, it's a critical skill. Often people seem to get hung up on the stylistic issues though and don't recognize obvious bugs.

More importantly, it's code _they_ didn't write, so it removes the natural inclination to be defensive about it.

One time an interviewee told me the problem was that the code was in Java. I told them that the majority of the code we write was in Java (as per the job description). They told me that our best option was to rewrite everything in Ruby.
I have an original manual around here somewhere, I wonder if anyone would shoot me if I scanned it and made it available :-/

Some more info (I'm surprised at the response here!):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Boolean_Expression_La...

"The ABEL concept and original compiler were created by Russell de Pina of Data I/O's Applied Research Group in 1981." This is false. I don't know what de Pina did, but ABEL was developed from scratch by the 7 member team listed in Wikipedia, and the grammar and semantics were designed by myself.
> That story is cool, but it's missing at least an additional plot twist that "people familiar with Google's thinking" cautiously chose not to mention. I doubt the Apple side would bring it up. Hopefully in ten years someone will write a memoir about those crazy days.

This sounds definitive. Is it a conjecture, or do you know something that you're not mentioning (or possibly it is widely known and just I don't know it …)?
Phoenix resident here. I find that in summer I need to limit my caffeine and get plenty of sleep.
I buy Nuun electrolyte tables for runners and drink them all day in my water while just sitting in the office.
Get your AC looked at, make sure your duct work is not leaking any air.
It is kind of expensive but I installed a mini-split AC just for my bedroom and it is incredible. I highly recommend a mini-split (or ductless ) AC for the room you sleep in.
Maybe I’m not like the interviewers/companies to which you’re referring, but I ask a DAG topo sort question (dependency resolution/task ordering) not because I expect the candidate to regurgitate the algorithm but because I legitimately want to see how they work through a problem - especially one they may(hopefully) not be familiar with.

Most of the time I don’t care if they get the optimal algorithm, rather the can think through something and know where problems might be.

Might not be how/why the “others” use that question, but its worked well for me.
Asking someone to evaluate code that doesn't mean or do anything seems like a very poor idea. 90% of the important questions are whether you're doing the right thing in the first place, not whether you're using the Hot Trick of the Day.
Yeah, that seemed like an action with obvious and really unfortunate consequences.
Humans have a 1/3 lifetime cancer risk, and I suspect it will go up if we extend lifetimes. It's a wall to longevity. If we get past that wall, there's still proteopathys. There's no real approach to curing those yet (at least not that I'm aware of.)
> Why would you need to see the name of the street? You're much more likely to pull open a map to go somewhere instead of learning about street names in your own neighborhood. If I want to see every street labeled I can just zoom in, but 99% of the time I just want to go somewhere.

Your comment literally seems to say "Why would you do this thing, since I don't?". Surely that reasoning is just as specious as (say) asking why someone would want a vegetarian restaurant, since you eat meat?
CFIUS Reform: What's Next?
I mean, there's other map providers as well. OpenStreetMap is generally good with providing lots of map detail (whereas they are not good as a Google at providing the sort of in-depth information like opening times or that this shop has been rated 5/5 by the owner, their mother and their alt account).

https://www.openstreetmap.org/

Popular app that uses OpenStreetMap-data:
https://osmand.net/
In humid heat a simple towel to remove sweat works surprisingly well.
I don't know that putting GPS responders will trigger any backlash. You don't need pervasive surveillance to track theft. Just lo-jack the hives at random.
Lessons from the SEC’s First Cyber-Disclosure Enforcement Action
But aren't streets just a way to get to a places and therefore places are more important than street names?
There's two ways to look at compromised legislation:

1. It doesn't go far enough, and sells-out to the opposition.

2. It's better than nothing, and future legislation can address it.

Holding out exclusively for 1. or settling for 2. are bad strategies. There's nothing wrong with trying to get as much in a bill as possible, but the damn corporations push back on everything for the people.

Until, as Larry Lessig / Aaron Schwartz noticed, either the political OS gets changed (unlikely) or it crashes and burns.
20 year old Juul addict living with two others! AMA.
Google Maps, last time I checked, is extra bad in third-world rural areas. Next to useless when the pavement disappears and it's all dirt roads, which is a lot of the world in poor countries. I guess there are no Starbucks, i.e. not enough people to sell stuff to.
Well what do they expect when they're not Google Maps?
California Passes Sweeping Privacy Legislation
(1) nicotine gum is used as a weaning assist, not an ongoing alternative

(2) you chose to overlook his point that vapes are also an on-ramp to smoking, not just an off-ramp.

(3) people really oversell the whole “vape isn’t combustion” bs. Both the solvent and the flavors form toxic aldehydes when vaped, and their long term safety has not been assessed.
FYI mods/editors: this article is from 2001. Sad she passed away recently.
Actually, when she used the exploit, it was around the year 2000 in the matrix. And this exploit was discovered in 2001 in the real world. So it would not have been patched yet as it was a zero day.
It's also extraordinarily addictive. That's an ethical problem in and of itself.
They have a much clearer plan than Mozilla. They're not trying to make an Android or iOS competitor, they are trying to make a feature phone OS. Firefox OS actually had some success in poorer markets, but that wasn't considered successful enough to continue investment. KaiOS is actually already successful, they are on the JioPhone which is almost being given away by Jio in India.
> The problem is that while Google Maps is very popular, it's not easy to find and use these features.

While talking about hard-to-find-and-use features: sometimes, when I try to get directions, Google offers to download them for me for offline use.

This is frustrating because it only happens sometimes, but I want it almost all the time. There's a relatively easy way to download offline directions for a specific region, but I can't find a way to download offline directions for a specific route (including, presumably, a small fuzz of nearby information—I don't know what it downloads when it offers, since I find this hard to reproduce). Just downloading all the regions involved is impractical for, e.g., cross-country drives.

Do you know how to download offline directions for an arbitrary route, when Google doesn't prompt me to do so?
Oh yea I was totally exaggerating since obviously the prices vary tremendously upon the what you are trying to do. I’ve previously worked for a semiconductor company, so there is sort of a “you can pay as much as you want” option always avail if you want a super awesome mixed signal chip. For the general public, do you have a particular place you are aware of that you would pay the 4 digits for the mask plus few prototypes? I was not aware that there was even simple chips you could get in that range.. I mean 4 digits implies what like say 5k... so that’s pretty low cost.... really?
Doesn't your screenshot show that these Safari Suggestions are powered by Google?
But the anti-vaccination movement is arguing that real vaccinations are a conspiracy - the post you linked is about CIA agents infiltrating a vaccination program in order to attempt to verify Bin Laden DNA in a local population.

I've read several articles about this incident and none of them claim the vaccines themselves were tampered with, or poisoned, so it seems neither the article or the operation described support the premise held by anti-vaxxers that vaccinations either don't work or are actively and intentionally harmful.
FWIW, this appears to be de Pina's contribution:

http://www.swtpc.com/mholley/PLD_History/ABEL_project/Russ_d...
And re the demo:

> Your graphics card does not seem to support WebGL.

So NoScript is blocking WebGL, as promised.
My father was convinced that Quark XPress was written that way: once they had the core functionality figured out, they wrote the manual, then implemented it.
I agree very much. I'm a native English speaker as well and that post sounds very off and ungrammatical.
> Spotlight is just the (confusing imo) branding

Wait, isn't Spotlight the name for Apple's local search (and maybe it's now used for whatever kind of unified search iOS likes to do?), whereas Safari's feature of treating things entered into the address bar that don't look like URLs as search queries is just a common redirection feature (analogous to the Firefox Awesomebar/Omnibar/whatever it's called now) that has nothing in particular to do with Spotlight?
I love it. Pasted in the column headers to `iris.data` from the Iris website. Voila, up and running per instructions on Github. For prototyping / exploring ideas, for the syntactical layman, but conceptuallly familiar, what a boon.
Because you set a goal and did not meet it with 100% completion does not define failure. If that's the case your argument holds true to, likely, every auto manufacturer quarter over quarter. That's a very diluted perspective across the board.
Trading Words Sets the Stage for Fear
Girl accidentally says the wrong thing Caught on camera
I, in fact, possess no such misunderstanding. I can certainly appreciate that holding the tar up as the boogieman, to give coverfire to nicotene, makes good marketing material for up and coming businesses looking to disrupt established tobacco companies. However, there is a faulty assumption in your copy. And that's to defang addiction as a problem, and to anchor all of the negative effects of smoking to the respiratory system.

Of course tar is bad for lungs. It turns out that products such as tobacco can have multiple health hazards. I do not besmirch people for improving the health of others. I simply detest marketing that acts as if addiction is something to strive for.
My friend doesn’t have the phone number linked with gmail account anymore, because it was set almost 13 years back. Anyway he can recover his account? He has already tried all the options available.
This looks like a good porcelain to sklearn. Many including myself find it intimidating at times.
Feminism, safe-spaces and microaggressions will be moot when there's no food, no jobs in ~30 years and billions of people migrate to near the heavily-fortified scraps of arable land. Instead, most people will have more pressing worries: not being gang-raped, mugged and extortion rates.
GPS signals bounce off skyscrapers so it doesn't work so well in any city. But hopefully the AR they showed at IO will solve that problem: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/08/maps-walking-navigation-is...

If not, the current strategy I use is to google map search a business I see and the street name and that usually works.
This is such political Grand standing. It's utterly meaningless and stuck in 20th century thinking. Once again the GOP prove once again that they don't understand the times we live in today nor that they have a vision for the future.

It's virtually the same damn form as before with just about as much information. They cut the old one in half so they could use both sides of a postcard. It's worse since I've never filed paper taxes. I can't imagine very many people that have or will become adults within the 21st century won't be filing digitally.
> Guns and bombs are cheap.

No, they are not. Go look up how much the military spends on such things. It is a lot. (Per unit and in aggregate.)
Machine Dreams (2015)
A coworker introduced me to Caffeine which I think shares authors with Guava's cache. Kind of a 2.0 /lessons learned iteration.

https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine
They also agree with that, but they use a model that can never reach 0. So starting with nearly 4000 105yo individuals, only one remains at 115 years and never dies.
I our quantum mechanics class, there was an 80 year old woman with a degree in statistics taking the class with us. You can do anything.
How does that apply here?
>Some people claim it means that your representative in the Union will be liable for any fines you incur from EU regulators or any damages a plaintiff wins in a private lawsuit over GDPR if the regulator or plaintiff is not able to force you to pay up.

I very much doubt this for a few reasons, the first being that it would be completely out of scope for the GDPR to have any say on what happens or who should be sued in a private lawsuit. The recital itself would also be contradictory, immediately before it says that the representative 'should be subject to enforcement proceedings' it says,

>Recital 80(4), The designation of such a representative does not affect the responsibility or liability of the controller or of the processor under this Regulation.

Additionally,

>Article 27(5), The designation of a representative by the controller or processor shall be without prejudice to legal actions which could be initiated against the controller or the processor themselves.

The wording of these two alone make it clear, to me, that the responsibility or liability lies solely on the controller/processor. The term prejudice also has a very specific meaning in Civil Law, and while it may have different meanings in Common Law (UK) I'm sure the more specific Civil Law version is intended and relevant. The wording of recital 80(6) as well as (5) '[the representative should cooperate] with the competent supervisory authorities with regard to any action taken to ensure compliance with this Regulation.' also tie in with other areas of the GDPR, particularly article 31 and 58(1)(a) which essentially state that supervisory authorities have the power to order the controller/processor as well as the representative to provide information that is required for the authority to perform its tasks. I think recital 80(6) with this context is basically just confirming that representatives need to to be present when supervisory authorities undergo enforcement of legislation.

If it were such a legal headache for representatives, it is concerning that no law firm has put forward an analysis of the situation. As far as I can tell from a brief search it is only amateurs interpreting the GDPR that have come to the conclusion that representatives may be liable for fines. With DPOs, who have many more responsibilities and requirements, there was much analysis by the legal community on what those responsibilities would include and whether DPOs could share liability. The WP29 even put out guidelines for DPOs[0] stating plainly that DPOs are not responsible for non-complaince, only the controllers/processors are responsible for non-complaince. It just seems odd to me that representatives who receive almost no mention in the legislation may be responsible for non-complaince where DPOs aren't responsible.

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_... [very bottom of page 24]
> However more cable can always be added, so what would actually happen is that the pie would grow.

This assumption is the same one behind energy grids, and assumes an ideal world with no bad actors.

Instead, what happens is that incumbent players with the deepest pockets buy up all the (relevant) competition and then corner the market on capacity.
GIRL ACCIDENTLY SAYS THE WRONG THING CAUGHT ON CAMERA
So, basically, yes. Particularly if you consider most concepts in mechanical engineering. What you're talking about is the real implementation of what we call physics, just working as expected, automagically.
The really bad thing about cigarettes is that it harms other people. If people want to exchange a little bit of their future for some pleasure now, then I don't think that's so bad. Some do it with alcohol, some do it with adrenaline rushing activities, some with sugary desserts, or unhealthy sitting and lounging around habits, etc. Everyone's just trying to get that hit of dopamine or whatever in their brain. But just do it without causing inconvenience to others, as much as possible.
Teletext is such a clever usecase, it's a shame it's not more widely deployed, and on the way out. It fills some of the empty space among frames of a broadcast with dense text about news and current affairs, giving technologically effortless dissemination of popular content from a central source, scaling to infinite receivers with no congestion and no loss of quality. And the production of the content need not even be vertically integrated; individual programs and segments can be sourced and syndicated from third-parties.

In our rush to go point-to-point, full-duplex, and on-demand, with both cabling and wireless, we have occasionally reimplemented services that are one-to-many simplex on top of lower layers that aren't made for that, whereas broadcast has always fulfilled the same usecase with a different set of tradeoffs.

It's a bit ironic that new tech like HTTP/2 Push's cache fill is basically the same idea as Teletext's pages transmitted one at a time and cached at the receiver, but over a vastly different, pull medium.