skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose I should have limited my claim to police - the anecdotes abound there. There is SWATing, which can be deadly, there are stories of cops getting fired for NOT killing the suicidal person waiving a knife, etc. But with the military I was thinking more of pilots, drone and otherwise, who's whole job is to kill stuff from afar. How can they show discretion?

But yeah, maybe a marine on the ground has more discretion than I realize. The other cases, though, I think are valid.
Thanks for posting this, this makes history so much better and I have only been using these changes for 20 minutes.
No, there's a distinction between cryptocurrency and the underlying blockchain technology. There are a number of applications of blockchain that are promising such as in settling financial contracts that don't require issuing a speculative token to go along with it.
You can do what Singapore does and just pay senior bureaucrats more than what the private sector can afford to pay them.

Good public administration isn't cheap, and excellent public administration is expensive. The benefits are enormous, of course.
> Either pay the market rate, or move somewhere cheaper.

Yes, I am sure that this is what the home owners who own multi-million dollar properties would want. Either leave or drive up their housing prices.

But another solution is to vote for new laws that would increase their taxes (an thus incentive them to sell), or vote for laws that would drive down the price of their investment.

The renters in the city are slowly but surely increasing in voting power, as less and less people are able to afford owning property, until we are soon able to outvote the rich property owners. And when that happens we can pass laws that will reduce prices, raise taxes on the rich property owners, and ruin their investments.
> if you really want to appreciate modern literature you need some grounding in canonical works

Cultural literacy can be raised in lots of ways besides studying the musty canon. And why limit yourself to the slice of modern entertainment where the canon is prerequisite?

Deciding for yourself what art you value -- after questioning the canon, ignoring academics, critics and other authorities -- is the highest form of appreciation.

Each individual owns their experience. The author is not the authority.
I don't doubt there's a market for that service.
The usefulness of cryptocurrency is not abstract: cryptocurrencies are useful for sending value over the internet and over international borders. Doing so without cryptocurrencies is very difficult and costly, requires large banks and multinational law firms.
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Every time I'm reminded that Washington was only granted statehood after the Civil War, I realize how young an area this is and how little we truly know about it. We live in the wild out here and every day we seem to discover a new way that it'll kill us all.
If its an e-ink haptic keyboard, I wonder if its not configurable to whatever degree -- or will it only run one US-Centric keyboard version? I would like to be able to configure the thing in any way... given that you can write on it with a pen, that implies that its 100% touch-surface, so I don't see how you cant just assign whatever touch interface you want to it...
I have that brown Pyrex casserole dish, shown in picture #23 at the bottom. It was a hand-me-down from my parents for when I left for college. I never had the lid, because it broke long before that.
However not all cryptocurrencies share the same issues as Bitcoin and the article lumps them all together.

I'm a developer on a cryptocurrency called Nano whose goal is to be usable as day-to-day money. I think we are successful to a large degree.
I said You mean the rich, temperate parts of Western Europe, most of which could fit inside Texas? Sure.

You said I live in Norway, in a city of 180-200k people. Folks use public transportation or walking all the time. With children. For everyday food shopping.

Is Norway not one of the richest WE countries? (Not temperate though, fair enough.)

The country has a very high standard of living compared with other European countries...

According to United Nations data for 2016, Norway together with Luxembourg and Switzerland are the only three countries in the world with a GDP per capita above US$70,000 that are not island nations nor microstates.[18]

Yes... yes it is. It also has a bit over 5 million people, with about a million Living in Oslo, or 1.5 million if you go for the whole metro area. That’s great, but doesn’t have much to do with most other cities on Earth in terms of population density, population as a fraction of the country’s total population, and wealth. For example NYC has a population density of about 27,000 per square mile, and Oslo has about 8500. How does street crime compare between a major American city and Oslo?

Sadly, the diversity of cultures, politics, and incomes which define a city like NYC also make it hard to just say “let’s have a better environment for bikes!” I’m. It sure how you’d go about changing that, but I’m pretty sure articles like this and comments about Norway may not inckude realistic solutions. If I lived in Oslo, I’d bike a lot too, but if I lived in NYC I wouldn’t because I like living. Public transportation in the states varies massively, but either way simply saying “fix it” without a concrete way to make it happen in the real world of vested interests, cultures, and politics is sort of pointless.
The problem is that deep learning should not be allowed in safety critical systems, because (1) the accuracy is always less than 100% even in known test situations, and (2) we don't know how it works and under what conditions it breaks down.
It’s cool that any kind of space elevator experiment is happening at all, but temper your expectations with the numbers: this is a 10m cable. It is literally a 1:9,600,000 scale model of a real space elevator.
Unless you think Skynet is impossible, all impressive leaps are an incremental step towards Skynet.
Anyone has watched GUNDAM OO?
Are you counting electricity or fees? Both are higher for cryptos of what I can remember.
I agree that we need to be very judicious in choosing the right books.

Somewhat related, I read Madame Bovary a while ago and the back of the book said something about it being one of the first modern novels (or something to that effect) and so I read it in that light, and it occurred to me several times throughout that if it were written today, it would be completely ignored. There were like 50-100 pages in the middle that I thought would have definitely been cut out by a modern editor. Maybe it just wasn't my thing.

It was exceptional in the time it was written and it's special for that reason, but if you want to read a romance involving a really moody lady, there's probably tens of newer better choices that are also considered "classics".
These are all outdated already.

Serverless is a meaningless term. The real name is platform-as-a-service, which is decades old. Running individual functions was just taking that to an extreme but any complex app will have multiple functions working together so it's right back to the same thing.

Many "serverless" environments are in fact converting to running an arbitrary docker container for as long as it needs to run, effectively becoming the next-generation of PaaS where you container can be whatever size you need, while still not worrying about infrastructure and individual servers.
I’m no bitcoin maximalist, but boy was that a lazy write-off:

“Economists define a currency as something that can be at once a medium of exchange, a store of value and a unit of account. Lack of adoption and loads of volatility mean that cryptocurrencies satisfy none of those criteria... as things stand there is little reason to think that cryptocurrencies will remain more than an overcomplicated, untrustworthy casino.“

That bitcoin is a poor medium of exchange and unit of account is hard to argue against at this stage of adoption. But store of value? I’m more confident in the maintained value of Bitcoin than that of a Venezuelan Bolívar. That’s not a strong enough reason for me to hold bitcoin, but if I lived in Venezuela it sure as hell would be!

Moving from the realm of currency to usefulness, there’s no faster & cheaper way to transfer money across national borders.

Viewed in this light it’s just a younger, more easily stored, more fungible, more easily transferable gold.

Now I do hold more gold than bitcoin (in USD, combined about 6% of my portfolio atm) because certainly risks remain. But to say it has no utility is just crazy! I guess precious metals are useless too. What’s their market cap again?
If you work at Algolia, can you address (pass along) the issue that you can't use your search boxes with browser search keywords? (ie, right-click > "Add keyword for this search"/"Manage Search Engines")

At this point when I see the Algolia search box on a site, I know I won't get a full search experience it will be slightly crippled with a custom interface and a forced auto-complete with JS only interface support.

An example of this is vuejs.org vs developer.mozilla.org. With Mozilla dev site, I have 'mdn' as my search key (both Firefox and Chrome) and I can type "mdn grid-template-columns" and I get results. With vuejs.org and Algolia, I have to go through multiple clicks and visual hunt and peck to find what I am looking for. It's a productivity killer.
By concentrating all of the wealth creation in the Bay Area itself, isn't that also a form of income inequality? As opposed if companies spread themselves geographically, thus distributing the wealth generated and the beneficiaries? There ought to be income equality both in the Bay Area and outside of it.
What does it require over and above what you'd need for development anyway? The vagrant provision script for my Ubuntu VM installs this lot before grabbing the CMake source and building it:

apt-get -y install subversion git make gcc g++ subversion emacs git-gui zip gksu synaptic gdb valgrind

I'm pretty sure that not all of these are actually required. You do need gcc and g++, I'm sure, but I expect Valgrind and GDB are strictly optional...
Only the first generation needed the special driver, because it connected via USB. The second generation (and newer) use standard HDMI and work fine without drivers. (I tried both since I managed to crack the panel on the first one while travelling.)
The status quo is neural nets already are allowed in safety critical systems - humans.

And with the amount of drivers snapchatting behind the wheel, I'd rather take my chances with a self-driving car.
There's a lot to be said for sites like this: http://lite.cnn.io/en

It's fast, non intrusive and just gives you the information you want without the annoyances.

It also works far better for disabled people. I know some partially sighted people and some websites are a no-go now as screen readers can't cope
TIL forwards acceleration is called "eyeballs in" and backwards is called "eyeballs out".

It looks like 6 Gs is about as much as is feasible for an extended period of time.
I find them useful. Bitcoin maybe not as much, but Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash and many others are great. The easiest way to pay for things without getting screwed on the fees and silly local government controls.
You don't need a 35kW charger to charge overnight. Low power overnight will be good enough to top off most cars' daily usage.
But the original sentence is ungrammatical either way. Under your interpretation there’s still a missing “and”: “each measuring 18m x 7.2m and holding 30 people”.
You might find this useful[0], basically removes clutter. Found on some recent topic.

[0] http://outline.com/3JqpTH
I’ve meditated a lot and come to the clear conclusion that this whole thing is just pattern matching and pattern generation. We’re not that special.
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I disagree. What he is saying is that there is a special rule for languages that he doesn't think you would get at without an enormous amount of data. So a passive learning algorithm wouldn't uncover this structure in a reasonable amount of time or data (I guess it is poor sample efficiency he is worried about). A learning algorithm that has a distribution over it's own internal model of language would be able to ask questions that minimize the uncertainty of the model.
As companies like Transferwise have proven, this does not need Bitcoin.

Hell, my bank even has direct integration with Transferwise so I can send money back home to Australia instantly for next to free right within my iPhone app
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> They've been failing at that for two decades.

This is a defeatist attitude.

SF Yimby / SFBARF were started in 2014 and have been impressively successful since. They played a decisive role in the latest mayoral election, and SF now has a Yimby mayor.

Change is possible.

Apathy and disengagement from tech people and youth is v advantageous to incumbent Nimby constituencies. Those are mostly older, mostly homeowners or rent-control beneficiaries and therefore personally insulated from the housing crisis. They vote reliably, and there's no reason ppl with a more inclusive vision can't do the same!

Step 1 is letting go of cynicism. Change in fact already happening.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=y...
I don't know how to quantify the electricity/carbon use of large banks and multinational law firms, but it probably isn't small?

The current "safelow" gas price on Ethereum is 2.6 gWei, or $0.016.

https://ethgasstation.info/

Stripe/Paypal both charge more than $0.30, or 15-30 times more.
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So far, for humans, that lives within same realm that warp drives occupy in science fiction.
Useless ? The primary function is to protect individual wealth against central banker meddling and corruption. My btc are up 1000x since 2011. It isn't a smooth ride but its definitely working great.
I think it has been changed. It didn't involve Blackrock when I commented.
How? I personally can decide, but unless many millions of other people agree, and make it a voting issue then my decision is sort of masturbatory. How can public transit be improved in NYC, or SF, or The UK? How can people make that decision and make it stick, get political support, financing, and avoid common pitfalls of large public works projects?
>silly local government controls.

Like what?
Someone patented space elevators in 2015.

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?patentnumber=90858...

No comments...
I'm in the East Bay, so don't really need AC and have gas heat so the EV plan works for me. What part of PG&E service area do you live in?
Companies that produce bad founders
Useless? Useless like Paypal or Stripe? I forgot to get the memo and I have purchased products with great satisfaction with Bitcoin - oops.

Oh and I found the page hard to read with ads and popups, so:

https://outline.com/yaRUTm
In this video b(at 55:55) Paul Graham mentioned that alumni from certain large companies make bad founders. Anyone know the names of these companies?
Every dependency increases the fragility of your program. What if you update the dependency and it breaks your program? What if you have two programs dependent on the same library -- but different versions? This just scratches at the surface of the problem.

Sometimes the risk is worth it: you need some complex functionality not worth writing yourself. In that case it's a good thing. But understand that it's a tradeoff.
I see, I didn't read closely enough. Oops.
Really, articles like this are good for Bitcoin.
If you're revisiting the classics I can't recommend enough Doug Metzger's Literature and History podcast [1]. It covers literature starting with Mesopostamian stories, at about the level of an undergraduate course, but is entertaining and insightful throughout. It's clearly had deep research put into every episode, but at the same time takes great effort to make the material relatable. Great stuff.

1. http://literatureandhistory.com/
I think this is a misunderstanding. If I understood correctly, you are saying the company needs to reduce its size and therefore randomly eliminate people at some positions (say, need to reduce engineering by 10%), while the other commenter was challenging the fact that the company needs, as a whole and independently of the position to reduce its staff by x%.

Both are possible.
How tongue-in-cheek. Love it.
We can already make CNT based fibers at scale fairly cheaply. Would happily sell you a shoelace for much less than the $1M that a Nobel prize comes with...

http://news.rice.edu/2017/10/16/long-nanotubes-make-strong-f...

(Though note that this is not one long nanotube, but a macroscale fiber made by extruding micron-scale CNTs in a special way so that they align.)
> I think we are successful to a large degree.

Where, and how, can I use Nano?
Even if you could react and cut the cable in 1 ms, if the counterweight is disconnected, the rest of the cable is coming down to Earth.
How does a drone pilot, or a pilot in general, show discretion?
I hate and am deeply suspicious of dependencies but I just did 'brew deps cmake' on my machine and it printed nothing.

Some CMakefiles have many and gratuitous dependencies but that's the fault of those authors.
I don't know how you define "very difficult" but plenty of immigrants are transferring money to their families and they don't seem to be using cryptocurrency. Western Union and similar firms seem pretty popular? This appears to be a well-developed industry with a fair amount of competition:

https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/banking/best-ways-to-wire-mo...
What about SoCal? Why isn't there a Silicon Valley South in LA or San Diego yet?
I mean that regenerative braking when you lift the accelerator slows the car sufficiently that it is rarely necessary to touch the brake pedal. So most driving is done just by modulating the accelerator.
To clarify, SE does not modernize grammar. 99% of the (very light) modernization we do is one-to-one spelling changes for wildly archaic spellings like "shew -> show" or "swop -> swap" or "to-night -> tonight". Grammar is left alone.

Whether or not you prefer slightly modernized spelling is a matter of taste, and something I've discussed at length in previous HN comments. (So I won't repeat myself here.) At SE we take the same stance as editors going back generations, who have all been quietly modernizing spelling right under everyone's noses as a matter of course since Shakespeare's days.
Congrats on the move! How's the tech scene?
I'm over my article limit with the Economist. If only there was a way I could pay for a subscription without a bank account.
I could also recommend Craig Scott's recent CMake book: "Professional CMake": https://crascit.com/professional-cmake/

IMHO it's the best available CMake book available right now. I especially liked the recommendations at the end of every chapter.
Yes, but it's a completely different market from folks desiring a space elevator.

Also, it makes the need for muzak nonexistant because all your passengers are dead and can't hear it anyway. Seems to me that defeats the purpose of trying to time the trip to coincide with the length of a particular song.
This seems to work well for Sinagpore. Competent people actually want to work in government.

There's another key element: government officials are also required to open their personal finances to public inspection. This goes a long way to rein in corruption and graft.
How do you define success?
Thinking about a "counterweight" orbiting a planet to which it is connected by a cable:

as the cable offers resistance to the planet's atmosphere, and as the planet's atmosphere is active/changing, the "thing orbiting" would still have to have an excellent aerodynamic shape to survive the planet's atmospheric effects, right? (as e.g. the lower part of its cable would probably soon or later be "pushed" by winds therefore initially speeding up the counterweight but lowering its altitude - and/or later after some iterations of push/pull generating maybe a slingshot-effect, sending it into a potentially full crash-course towards the atmosphere/planet's ground).
I have a graduate degree in mathematics and my field of study is cryptography. I will echo what another commenter said about there being more cryptographers than there are positions available in industry to work on "hard" cryptography. As a result, approximately all cryptographers - both applied and theoretical - have graduate degrees. Successful cryptographers without such degrees (like Moxie Marlinspike) are extraordinarily rare.

There are basically three sectors which will hire people to predominantly work on cryptography.

1. First and foremost you have academia and the public sector. You can try to get tenure at a university or you can join the NSA. This has a healthy mix of applied and theoretical work.

2. Second you can join an industrial research lab. The biggest ones are Microsoft Research, IBM Research, Galois Inc and Google Research. For the most part you'll be working on publishable research with an eye towards things that can be shipped in some way. Isogeny cryptography originally came out of Microsoft in the early 2000s and Craig Gentry (the person who invented the first working example of fully homomorphic encryption) now works at IBM.

3. Third you can join a security consulting firm which is either focused on cryptanalysis or which has a division dedicated to it. The most well known in this arena would be NCC Cryptography Services, Riscure and Cryptography Research (now a division of Rambus).

This is kind of a continuum. You won't get tenure as an academic researcher without a PhD and it will be hard to get into the NSA without one as well. Likewise the top industrial research labs only rarely hire people without PhDs to be research scientist (though it can and does happen). It is comparatively easier to work in cryptography in the consulting industry: I know several people working in side channel research at Riscure who have "only" an MSc, and NCC employs consultants in Cryptography Services who don't have an MSc or PhD.

If you're interested in cryptography as a career path, the most valuable way to pursue that is to be someone with a graduate degree in mathematics who has significant expertise in implementation, performance and cryptanalysis. In particular it's very lucrative to be competent in side channel analysis and hardware optimization. With the exception of speculative blue sky research projects like indistinguishability obfuscation, multiparty computation, homomorphic encryption and post-quantum public-key cryptography, most work to actually be done is in implementation, implementation auditing and implementation optimization. We already have secure designs for most common use cases in AES and ChaCha; working on verifying a given implementation or removing the ways mistakes can be made is much more important.
That’s literally what we used to do for our cluster colour grading systems for films.

We had hardware that the would merge DVI from up to 8 GPUs, in separate nodes, and produce a single image.
I haven't gotten the impression that most people know classics well via osmosis, and often critiques and summaries of books (classics or otherwise) are rather imprecise, inaccurate, and biased...

Sometimes you can get some surrounding information about a work, but you generally cannot replace reading/viewing/playing the work, if only due to a basic law of information density.