skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I could think of one advantage not mentioned, which is that you can make sure to be out of town that day, and thus miss all of the havoc that is spread out throughout the year otherwise. Sort of like those towns where all the bars turn their drunks into the street at 2am, and you just know to not be driving then because the percentage of drunk drivers will be at its highest.
That’s probably it: I never had a client who saw rates that low but these were also online sales with presumably higher fraud risk
The presence of a very diffuse plasma in outer space is well established.
Thanks for sharing, I thought maybe it was a one off - it helps to avoid similar issues and luckily there is plenty of cloud competition.
Paypal, Patreon, Visa, whatever. They do all the same.

Remember Fetlife? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13483998

And there are 1000 other examples too.
> This gutted California’s education funding so severely that the state’s public schools, which had been ranked best in the nation in the 1950s, fell to among the worst in a few decades. (They now hover around 35th.)

Stopped reading here. This statistic is useless without adjusting for change in demographics (the time period coincided with a massive increase in percentage of students from ESL backgrounds).
Yes, but civilizations and empires are not representative of the progress of humanity as a whole. Besides, isn't Dark Ages a rejected term by historians now? In addition, what is 200-400 years in the history of civilization? Of course there will be volatility - just like life on an individual level, the stock market, annual crop yields, etc.
The prisoner introduces "not being hanged" as an outcome.

However the prisoner doesn't include that outcome in their analysis.
Can this concept be generalized to the point where NOTHING is a surprise? For example if a surprise party is planned for someone at some point in $TIME_PERIOD, it can't occur during the very last hour/minute/second of $TIME_PERIOD because it wouldn't be a surprise. The surprise party can't occur during $TIME_PERIOD - 1 because this would be known as well. Repeat this ad infinum just like the weekdays in the article.
Gambling is super high risk compared to porn.

In fact, high risk is just another way in which VISA and MC will squeeze merchants, it doesn't matter to VISA because they pass all of the risk to the merchant anyway.
In the weeks leading to July 1st you are pretty last-minute and won't have great choice. Lease renewals/non-renewals are due for the end of March (IIRC), so starting to look around April is a good idea.

In case someone is thinking about moving to Quebec next year ;)
Yep. As an example, higher level governments will attach stipulations to grants or other types of funding in order to “encourage” lower governments to do as they’d like them to. Our tax system is such that this almost always works.
> Either sign a proper SLA agreement with Google

How do you do that?
French is an extremely easy language to pick for someone who already speaks English.

In fact, English took from French over 30% of its vocabulary. French was the official language in England of the highly educated until mere centuries ago.

Most researchers in France already speak English.

The huge advantage of the US/UK is one: money, you could become rich and apply your ideas to real products(in a bigger market) much much more easily than in France.

The huge advantage of France: quality of life.
If the prisoner considers “I won’t be hung at all” from the start, his argument falls apart on its first day—on Friday he could still be surprised, since he doesn’t know if he’ll be hung at all. Thus getting hung would still be a surprise.
You can use Request for this. It's a payment app that uses ETH and 5 other ERC-20 tokens including DAI and soon BTC support as well. YC backed too.

https://request.network/
Amazon sales rank data for print and kindle books
I became an "independent researcher" after I left my physics research job and moved to the country. With my trusty iMac and Internet access, I write and run computer codes using Xcode, do graphics and some analysis with Mathematica, read and get journal articles remotely (electronically) from a friendly university library, and write up the research using Lyx. I post my papers on arXiv (at no cost); there they are freely available, searchable, citable, and forever archived.
There's lotteries or live gaming everywhere but Utah and Hawaii.
find some interesting data - aggregate.
If you like, you can reserve the term "engineering" for detailed currently-implementable designs (or for work by a licensed professional engineer, or whatever). But that doesn't mean it's impossible or useless to explore what's conservatively doable within the laws of physics using resources we don't yet have.
Censorship resistant money is a nice use case. The lightning network will create microtransactions, I imagine devices negotiating for bandwidth and paying few satoshis for the privilege. Its too bad there is such an energy requirement built into the system, that's my I'm keeping my eye on Chia.
Hey Mark, thanks for taking a look and appreciate the feedback.

You can think of Cleargraph like a proxy for geth with some bonus features. You can point a local instance of Cleargraph to your own JSON RPC API endpoints using the helm charts we provide: https://github.com/dsys/charts. We're looking to make it even easier to use, so if you have suggestions please let me know.

We think it's important incorporate decentralized systems where it is practical (i.e. ENS). I'm aware of projects building the Ethereum blockchain secondary index features (for things like transaction filtering) in a decentralized manner, but haven't seen one live just yet. Maybe when they're live we can switch to them, or if you have ideas regarding Gun, would love to hear! :)

The primary "centralized" component is the privacy-preserving contact discovery, which we believe is a necessary evil. Afaict, any decentralized hashing scheme is susceptible to pre-image attacks due the space for phone numbers is small, which makes publishing the entire hashed address book leak everyone's info. Signal has a good write up on an improvement we may eventually incorporate that uses SGX: https://signal.org/blog/private-contact-discovery/
They want freedom from interference so they are free to interfere.
> are the ones who have already bought in and will benefit most from others being convinced of its value and buying in as well.

Yes. Pyramid scheme. Rather than passively waiting for others to be convinced of it's value, most of the scam coin ICOs actively pay influencers on twitter[1], reddit and telegram and other channels a lot of money to shill / "promote" their sh*t coins...

[1] $105K for McAfee to tweet: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/2/17189880/john-mcafee-bitco...

Related: If you ever wondered how ICOs get a lot of attention even if they suck here are some hints. => https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8g8opf/if_y...
Discussed in 2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744353
Swing is musician accounting for inertia modulation in the player / instrument system. The stick / cymbal pair for instance, a cymbal swings, further strokes will be different depending on when it happens (cymbal coming back or still going ?). Energy waves between both and if the player play with the transfer back and forth he can modulate the swing feel.

The ease of flow you can feel when listening to swing comes from the fact that there's a lot of reuse, kinda like a tuning an antenna.

My 2 cents.
The surprise is a surprise in relation to the week. If we use the relation of truth value of surprise to week day, as the prisoner uses to reason, there's a chance it won't be a surprise. That's because the prisoner is treating the statement value as though the judge stated each day, that the hanging will be a surprise. I agree it's not a paradox.
I just recently graduated and here are my insights for material absorption:

-I don't like it when lecturers used slides. Most don't do it right.

-I learned more from programming projects than exams (it's a hand's on thing).

-Open exams are a true test. Classes that offer these challenge students that learning is about understanding.

- Multiple Choice is BS. Free response rocks. Partial credit is commendable. Human knowledge isn't binary. You can know bits and pieces of information and derive the truth.

-The problem with college and grades is that we're wired to think that doing well on exams is a good measure of how much we know; in reality, that's not the case.

-The professors I gave the highest reviews were, in fact, the easy ones, but that's because in those classes I was more focused on learning about the stories, the concepts and the presenter instead of my learning "strategy" (gaming the class for the highest outcome). I learn more in "easy" classes. Easy doesn't mean no work. More like do the work and get the grade

- I've found incentivized answering to be more effective than cold calling. Discussions are powerful tools. To get people discussing, incentivize with points on an exam or something. I also appreciated when lecturers offered extra points for attending outside class events, that helped encourage interest in the subject. We often lose sight of real world applications when we're absorbed in theory.
I don't know. I think I'd rather have my head crushed "instantly" by a 600 pound block than asphyxiate over several minutes breathing in hot ash.
I think Oliver Sacks (RIP) had the same impediment. It’s very pleasing to my ears for some reason.
What arrogance and ignorance.

France has its own MIT, it's called École Polytechnique. There's also INRIA and other institutions...
Here's my take. The prisoner considers the statement "I will be hanged, and it will be a surprise", and after "proving" it false, takes its negation "Either I won't be hanged, or it won't be a surprise". But this is not correct. The prisoner actually disproves the statement "I will be hanged, and it will be a surprise no matter which day it happens". When you negate this statement, you obtain "Either I won't be hanged, or there is a day that it would not be a surprise", which is consistent with the outcome.
Streak (YC S11) Is Hiring Back End Engineers in SF
So, you think this is okay?
Teacher accused of sending nude selfie to go before grand jury
>People would often want to make a living by making money from their craft, [...] People rightly or wrongly, depend on such platforms for their livelihood [..] I become self-censored, chilling effects.

oh please, stop making it sound like one artisanal widget maker's livlihood is being destroyed by The System. the truth is that they're producing and selling adult content, which (among other things) is riskier to transact than artisnal beads. the "mainstream" payment processors simply do not want to deal with the hassle, pure and simple. as other commenters have mentioned, there are payment processors that cater to such "high risk" businesses, but they don't come cheap.
I miss nascent movements like pre facebook era. Maybe it's a psychological profile. I'm a contrarian and/or an early adopter. When things become too massive and somehow impersonal (even though it's a social network) the magic vanishes to my eyes.
Oh yes? How are their crash safety ratings?
This is common in Australia.

You move everything that isn’t part of the rental.

So you move your fridge, washing machine and dryer, and microwave.

The stove, oven and dishwasher are usually the landlord’s.
I'm convinced the death of Snapchat will be its failure to expand to new international markets like South America. Insta, FaceBook, WhatsApp, etc (all FB owned) have exploded and maintained themselves overseas. Meanwhile, a year ago reports came up that Evan Spiegel of Snapchat said that his app is not for poor countries like India.

That hubris is dangerous. I can't wait for the company to go under.
I recall but I’ve been living in Europe for 6 years and it seems odd now especially when phrased as ‘adult content creators’
Product Owners Attempting to Monetize with Garbage:

Hey, I bet we can use dark patterns to
manipulate our users into counter-intuitive
behaviors, for cash and prizes!

API Developers:

Here's ur data.

UX designers:

This will force people to help us
make money, because eye tracking,
and lowest common denominator
and, of course, dopamine.

Product Owners:

Brilliant! Just imagine the ad impressions we'll collect!

Focus Group Testers:

Do u think u would like this?

Focus Group Users:

Uh, yeah this looks great...
Where's my ten bucks?

Product Owners:

Release it! We'll all be rich!

*pops champaign*

Actual Users:

Wow, I... ...what? wowwwww...

*deletes app*
Here's what a dump of Spotify looks like https://twitter.com/mikarv/status/1012386696934182912

https://howtogdpr.me/ collects how to contact companies and what they replied (and how long it took).
Tezos Libre was announced long before the KYC requirement occured. It is a scam, based on an ethereum token. They have not even succeeded in finding the github "fork" button for Tezos yet. There is no there, there except a scammer trying to get paid.

It was only after the KYC announcement that TzLibre changed tack to claim it's purpose was anti KYC.
Sure. Google "inflation adjusted price of gold since 1980". Or view https://b-i.forbesimg.com/rickferri/files/2013/04/GoldFig22....

The giant saddle does seem to support the idea that gold is hard to value.

Then the next search phrase to look up is "inflation adjusted price of gold since 2011". It's not a pretty chart. I would not use the words "steady upward trend" to describe it. "Steady downward trend", maybe.
That looks to me as though dropping the road 10" would solve the problem nicely.
The backwards induction argument assumes the time of execution is a discrete variable.

However, at least as far as we know, time seems to be continuous.
because of the grey area of our tech

The nature of the tech in question seems important in this story.
Grad students complain about a lot of things, but I’ve literally never heard one complain about having to write good papers.

They could complain, however, that PhD training contains shockingly little on how to write effectively, given the skill’s importance to most post-PhD jobs. To make matters worse, any training is often front-loaded at the beginning of a program so those skills are atrophied by the time PhD candidates have their own data to write up.

If I am ever in charge of a graduate program, I’m putting everyone through a 10 week expository writing class around year 3.5-4. I took one in grade 12 and that public high school class literally beat most Ivy League grad seminars for (academic) career prep.
Perhaps, but it looked like it worked. Somehow. For now. At the time I write this, the comment you are replying to is still positive (edit: oops, no longer), while it clearly breaks the stated rules of this forum (sated both officially and by you just now).

And I'm pretty sure that if I didn't do it, my "who cares" comment above would have been further downvoted. I observed this several times on several forums, sometimes votes have a momentum, and breaking the rules like I did can sometimes stop that momentum. (This works the other way too: popular comments often stop having further upvotes after the first reply that disagrees.)

Incidentally, I really think a good proportion of downvoters hit the button before reaching the end of the comment. Not because they're personally offended, but because their troll filter judge quickly, from the very first words (thinking back with a cooler head, I can't blame them). Starting a comment by something that looks offensive if taken out of context is a pretty sure way to get it downvoted to oblivion.

Still, the threshold looks pretty damn low.
The Failure of Psychology and the Death of Psychotherapy
Teaching them how to write good papers takes way more time than writing papers yourself.
What It Costs to Be Smuggled Across the U.S. Border
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So do I. Made a few very close friends via LJ. All non technical oddly enough.

Up til that point, people would type. If they were having a bad time they'd type A LOT. You couldn't help getting to know them better than you did.

Then Facebook etc arrived, and now it's "Life's shit. Inbox me", if that, or a photo of lunch/cat/coffee.

I think we took a wrong turn somewhere along the way.
Perhaps, but it looked like it worked. That's not the reason you shouldn't whine about downvotes or goad other users. Not a 'perhaps' thing.
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I sadly agree that federalism is de facto dead as a framework of policy and ideology. But as a legal and bureaucratic infrastructure, it has quite refused to die, for better or for worse. City, county, and state governments still do their thing, and anybody dealing with property, construction, zoning, etc in any capacity will still need to negotiate through each of those layers separately.
Maybe we're doing it wrong, but we use IPS for the same reasons that we use signature-based antivirus---as a backstop. Ideally, they wouldn't do anything, but we live and work in a less-than-ideal world with imperfect information security policies (and configurations), mobile users and visitors and students, and IT staff who aren't all infosec pros like you. And in that less-than-ideal world, both intrusion prevention systems and antivirus software mitigate enough risk to make their procurement, deployment, management, monitoring, and maintenance worth my while.
There's lots on that list that seldom appear in standard libraries let alone language cores.
Ask HN: Your independent research?
In the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430740, some people mentioned they did independent research, but I'd love to hear more details! Independent researchers -- what have you been working on?
Same here. Total nuke of the project with no warning even though we were an established paying customer, and there was no fraud involved.
Google's custom service is ridiculous.
They ever suddenly emailed me that my merchant earning (accumulated in about three years) will be escheated to nation government until I provide valid payment information in one month. However, for some reason. it will take more than one month for me to get a valid payment information.

Then they really escheated my earning to some a nation government after 30 days. However when I requested them for the escheatment ID so that I can contact that nation government to find my money back, they said they don't have the ID! They eascheated my money without any recording! Which is almost the same as throwing my money in ocean.
In North America the refrigerator and clothes washer/dryer are usually the landlord's, but sometimes people own their own clothes stuff -- I think self-ownership is becoming less common with time, but only have anecdata to back it up.
This is delightful!!! Especially their attempt at MPC or CAS, and they get huge points for their research on CRDTs (something our Open Source library handles for you https://github.com/amark/gun) and OT (not P2P, requires a centralized resolver). Key quote:

> We have opted for a centralised repository-like approach that would store editing operations from different users. This is also the basis of the per-user undo system, and we combined that with a local database to store transient snapshots (canvas is bitmap based), so that we can redraw any point of the repo history with minimal number of operations. Repository also implements automatic pruning of older history to limit complexity for longer sessions.

They then mention a star configuration, yet they clearly demonstrate the app working without WiFi, could somebody on the team explain more what they mean by that? Just that the data is in a star configuration (not the network)?

Incredible work :) :) :) it is very rare I see legit P2P tech out there, definitely worth the upvotes!
Author uses IntelliJ which is a $1000 IDE ghat steals focus as you type in it...
How do you approach a coworker in a different department?
I'm crushing hard on a coworker but I never get a chance to talk to her.

What I am trying to do is figure out if she is okay with me going for her. If she is, I will. But if she isn't I'll drop it and move on.

I want to just walk over to her little hidey-hole cubicle and introduce myself. The problem with that is we've had a conversation before and my inner feelings just exposed themselves directly to her and I think she either reciprocated or was embarrassed beyond belief.

So if I go find her exact cubicle it's going to be super weird and uncomfortable for her if I am just this weird guy who is crushing on her.
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I think they mean this stuff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading
Looks like I went to the Bloomberg one. Was both really over my head and very fascinating.
Tezos is fairly unique in that it had something working before the ICO rather than just a whitepaper. It took them a while to polish it, but all along, they had something working.

Tezos is also atypical in that since the ICO, it has flown extremely under the radar, rather than selling hype. It hasn't had ERC20 token that you can trade in the absence of the network being live.

The Tezos value proposition is "contracts that should be much harder to screw up" which it attempts with formal verification. Along with that, it has proof of stake, and a built in governance system intended to improve on the Bitcoin style of governance.
I forget where I first saw this quoted, but it's relevant here: "There is no 'cloud', only someone else's computer". That's part of why I store very little data online, compared to most people (or the data I actually have/want). Anything I'm not okay with someone else having on their computer is backed up and stored on hard physical media. No cloud provider can be trusted - the moment the government wants in, they'll get in; and the moment it's considered more profitable for the provider to quietly snoop in your stored data, rest assured that they will.
We did have the same issues back in beta and we're forced to build choas monkey degrees of robustness into our platform. Was this experience of yours a while back? However, there are now a few people at work who even run VMs on it as their daily driver.
In this case, "ill-suited for automatic recurring payments" is arguably a feature and not a bug. The porn industry has a history of shady, abusive practices in this area (though to be fair, these days publications like the New York Times are apparently catching up).
Unfortunately our planet isn't.
> Maybe I’m just more progressive than I realize, but I see stuff like X-Art as actual art

You can go to a museum and see highly lauded art with nipples in it. But put a picture of that painting online and you're a pornographer.
What about a scenario that describes an event occurring during a discrete amount of time during a set length of time? For example: A teacher says that he will give the class a surprise pop quiz at the beginning of class some day next week. How does reverse induction fail here?
I’m very glad to see this article reach the homepage of Hacker News.

I met Joe DeLoss while I was studying at Ohio State and he was working at Lutheran Social Services (mentioned in the article). He is the real deal as a social entrepreneur.

He has been studying and working on the problem of employing the homeless and those with criminal records for well over a decade now. This was not an overnight success but took many years of tweaking his approach and optimizing between all his goals (a viable business model that could provide employment for the disenfranchised).

With Hot Chicken Takeover, he finally found the right business that had a product that had a wide appeal and could be provided by those he wanted to help. His career has been inspiring to follow and made him a hit in the Columbus, OH community.
I agree, maybe he should try another strain