skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe it is important to look into other consensus algorithms that are not as energy heavy, but I don't think mining should be considered a crime. Also, it is important to remember that the detrimental cost of energy waste is dictated by how we are getting that energy. If the source of energy is clean, efficient and abundant then there is less need to ration our energy use.
"I can see by my watch, without taking my hand from the left grip of the cycle, that it is eight-thirty in the morning. The wind, even at sixty miles an hour, is warm and humid. When it’s this hot and muggy at eight-thirty, I’m wondering what it’s going to be like in the afternoon." -- zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, robert m. pirsig

For some people, there are some times when a watch is _way_ more useful than that phone in their pocket...

(Also, I can trust my 1962 vintage mechanical watch to not be silently tracking me and selling me out to advertising companies...)
> There is a marginal bonus - not having to fish out your phone.

There's a non-marginal privacy bonus - not having to take your phone with you...
Softbank's press release [0] mentions that a total of 11 countries were affected by the outage. I can't seem to find any information on what other countries were affected though.

[0] https://www.softbank.jp/en/corp/group/sbm/news/press/2018/20...
LED Strain
directus.app maybe
7 reasons why to adopt a beagle
For a book length version of how soil can help the environment in many ways, I suggest "The Soil Will Save Us". http://www.kristinohlson.com/books/soil-will-save-us
If I had a nickel for every time a PM didn't create a ticket…
That seems like an orthogonal point. I say that making no judgement either way about the quality of his governance.
You should check out the Structure add-on. Does unlimited hierarchies in a very intuitive way. Only for on-premise.
WRITEPAD open source handwriting recognition
Depends on the licenses of said projects. It's pretty easy to whitelist MIT/Apache licensed code.

Even still, it's unclear whether an abstract machine learning model that "saw" copyrighted IP during the training process is infringing on said IP. A self-driving car sees many billboards during test rides.
It literally justifies it's cost because they buy it. If it didn't justify it's cost they'd use other metals, no?

Large corporations don't usually light money on fire for no reason.
That’s what Nietzche argues is humankind’s ultimate drive — https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_to_power
Is this Coinbase throwing a Hail Mary on the way down?

What happens to the wallets if they go under? Is it hard to disentangle the coins?
This is why people dislike the crypto space. Someone is always shilling their project. I'm not saying intercoin is a scam but it certainly looks like one and it's ridiculous for you to be calling Bitcoin and Ethereum "the myspace and friendster of the industry" when your project has literally no advantages over it, lots of disadvantasges, and no public code. When projects like this get burnt out of the space from the bear market, we can finally start realizing the potential of decentralization.
That existed on many platforms for a while. Yet, they are getting abandoned. See https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/04/06/ui-...
Worked out for Yahoo and Softbank and their Alibaba investment.
Personally, I prefer to use https://www.passportindex.org - how does this compare?
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Cool article, but the info about the timezones don't make sense. You say SFO/T-7 means SFO is 7 hours behind GMT, and LHR is at GMT¥8 meaning it's 8 hours ahead of SFO.. but if LHR is at GMT and SFO is 7 hours behind GMT, how can LHR be 8 hours ahead of SFO? That doesn't add up, and honestly it made me wonder if you were just making up your own interpretation of the info...

Also, looking up the Tango timezone in maps shows me it's not Pacific Standard Time.
>I should not have to shell out 1500 EUR for a 256GB phone

Yes, we're lucky that a lot of people in the world are not in a position to fight for higher quality of life for the resources coming out of the land near them or their labor, nor do we have to pay for environmental damage from manufacture and disposal of our devices, otherwise it would be much more than 1,500 EUR.
While funny, it's actually not easy to verify the quality of manure.

> Animal manures are a valuable source of nutrients for crop growth. But, since every farm operation is different, each manure will have unique characteristics. Make regular laboratory manure analysis an important step in your manure and nutrient management planning. Understand that the total nutrient content in manure is not available the first year and that some nutrients may be lost depending on management practices.

https://extension.umn.edu/manure-land-application/manure-cha...
A few years back I had started outlining an alternative history scifi story with the premise being that
both the technology and the civilization behind the Antikythera Mechanism was not lost but continued to
progress up until today. Sort of like William Gibson's "The Difference engine" but with a 2000 year
head start towards the singularity.
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After re-reading the blog, I feel a bit bad about the negativity I and others expressed here. If you do read this xylon, don’t take it to heart! Also thanks for sharing your circuit, it certainly provoked an interesting discussion.
Cross border payments is one use case that I have heard a lot and makes sense.
So the official website, visa application link, fees and document checklist are not available on Wikipedia. VisaList tries to aggregate all this info and show it in a simple and useful manner.
Another win for embedded languages/inside-out FFI in my book, since controlling the outside world (C in Snigl's case) makes it trivial to register a trampoline with whatever state needed to deliver the call.
if you are making no judgement, then you are simply ignoring the evidence. I can make a judgement because his work affected me directly. It was an extremely negative outcome for 5 months of work. So the point that you mention is wrong. How can this be orthogonal?
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Because when Jira was made, Jira didn't exist, so Jira didn't have the benefit of using Jira. /s
Myst and even riven were great but very poorly designed and thought out. When you play for the first time there’s a huge hump to get over because you don’t know where the puzzle makers are coming from. I tended to overthink the puzzles and over-estimate their difficulty on first finding them, something I think can lead to people abondoning he game when they don’t need to. The witness did a great job of easing the player into things. You know exactly who is behind these puzzles and so you never lose your sense of direction so to speak. Also, the interface of myst and riven are very clunky. Clicking the side of the screen sometimes makes you do a 180 but other times only 90. Your sense of space and ability to navigate is totally fucked in myst and riven. I think a game that cleaned that up and added animations between stationary scenes would be very good.
And at that point why not Bugzilla?
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That’s taking a strictly algorithmic approach, and assumes the rules are equally understood by all parties and have no inconsistencies or undefined states. And as an example, I happen to know TaxCycle is unusually responsive to customer feedback on releases and offers early previews. Here’s a list of improvements from 2017 feedback: https://www.taxcycle.com/News/Your-feedback-becomes-features...
There are some missing entries. e.g. Travel from Australia to Taiwan
This is supported by the fact that Softbank in Japan experiened a similar network outage at the same time. They too blame Ericsson.
Ask HN: Who owns received email message?
Here's a simple and well known scenario: You sent me an email.

Who owns it?

A) You do. (Why can I delete it without you knowing?)

B) I do. (If so, can I do with it whatever I want, like publish it publicly online or maybe sell it's content?)

How does this work? Who owns received email message?
The 12 Insecurities of Kubernetes (a Christmas Spoof Song)
That looks great. I never thought I would find better IDEs than the IntelliJ, PyCharm, RubyMine, etc. from Jetbrains, but: in the last year I find myself usually using VSCode because it starts faster and is more responsive.
To agree with you and wilsonnb3 at the same time- I highly value OWNING the things I buy and am also willing to pay extra for the privilege of convenience.

When I buy movies I generally buy the Blu-Ray with digital download. If it’s a kid’s movie I usually just buy the digital download. I almost never pull out the Blu-Rays, but I know I’ve got them. They usually come with the DVD as well, for even more compatability in a pinch.

When I buy books I generally buy the Kindle version first. I generally only take time to read on planes, trains, and travel/vacation. I’m good for maybe one a month. If I really like the book, I’ll buy a hardbound copy for my library.

Music is the part where I have internal consistency issues. I love music. I love all kinds of music. Motown, classic rock, hard rock, EDM/Electronic in general, classical, folk, rap. I have music on ALL the time. Probably 6-8 hours a day on average. I own no music. I pay for Apple Music because it’s convenient to share a subscription with my wife. I last bought physical album in probably 2008-ish. I buy an album or two on Apple Music a year. Where I really spend my music money is concerts. I’ll pay hundreds of dollars without thinking twice to see my favorite artists up close and in person.

So yeah, I agree that all the convenient ways of purchasing media are nothing but a long term lease and I would not consider anything I’ve bought through those channels as something I own. But if I flip it around and consider that I’m paying some third party to host a copy of the content in a convenient way, I feel okay about it.
"On the whole, today's ultra-rich seem less-inclined to give a damn"

That view seems inconsistent with this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/31/14-billionaires-signed-bill-...
In 1978 I went overland from Greece through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to India. I later learned the route was called the "Hippie Trail", but I never heard that term at the time. The route shut down just a few weeks after I passed through: Iran closed because of the Iranian revolution. Afghanistan closed because the Soviets were moving in.

The feel of travel was different then because no internet, no cell phones. I communicated with friends and family using letters, single-page blue "aerograms". When I see them now, I'm amazed how tiny my handwriting was. To receive a letter I would have people send mail to the American Express office upstream.

My trip ended when I noticed my urine was the color of Coca Cola - a sign of hepatitis. I got a flight out of Delhi the next day to London, for the free health care.
They want you to have as many Ponzi schemes as possible to invest in.
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And yet they don't support Bitcoin SV, the only coin that's still Bitcoin (the idea) at this point, and gives their company its name. How ironic.
There are comparisons being made that 1 gold coin used to provide 1 Roman toga, a good pair of leather shoes, and a good belt. And the comparison suggests looking at the cost of today's fine suite, with good leather shoes and said belt.

If true, gold's value has not risen, the currency's value it is being measured with has gone down.
Golds value comes entirely from the fact that we as a society give it value.

The beauty line doesnt work, because then platinum shouldnt have any serious value despite its rarity (it just looks like silver basically)

The industrial value is laughable, but read comments below/above to debate that more at length.

The scarcity line doesn't work, because you have elements like bismuth which are also (Arguably) more beautiful than gold https://66.media.tumblr.com/61ce390242a79a767772d4b2027eb902... but command prices far less despite being .025 vs .0031 on the PPM abundance on earth.
Or even look at ruthenium which has a similar look to platinum and is even rarer than gold. Did I mention it also goes for about 400 an ounce? Quite a savings over gold.

The only thing that makes sense is that we as a collective have decided gold has value of X.
I've worked with JIRA (and Confluence) on a daily basis for the last 6 years. During that time, I have personally spent months of time working on JIRA, to make it do what we wanted. Before that, I worked with JIRA on-and-off for 7 years (with Trac and Rally tagging in here and there).

Which is all to say, I know me some JIRA.

The fundamental thing that this article points out is that JIRA tickets are about work, not software, and as a consequence of wanting to track our software, most users of JIRA spend a considerable amount of time and money approximating the tracking of software.

(No, Confluence isn't for tracking software either. It's for filling in the more flexible pieces of data that JIRA doesn't handle so well.)

This is correct, but I would say calling it an antipattern is going too far. A well-customized JIRA is probably the best system in existence for approximating the tracking of software.

But (probably) it doesn't have to be, which is hopefully where the author was trying to get. Something like Github issues, for example, binds code to "tickets", which at least conceptually is a step in the right direction. But software is quite a bit more than code, which is why our JIRA has tickets related to provisioning infrastructure, deploying, managing data, etc. I'm not aware of any JIRA alternative that considers all these facets of software creation holistically, though it's been a year or two since I looked into it seriously.

there are a lot of ways to develop software, and maybe designing a useful system that encompasses all potential aspects becomes too abstract to actually be efficient.

What I can conceive of is something of a mash up between JIRA and BDD, where desired changes are first described as a new end-state, and then the necessary work to achieve (and automatically validate) that state is broken off in tickets that are linked to that end-state description in some way. The key being that that first description is always your source of truth about the software, with the linked tickets helping organize the work before it is ready, and serving as reference information afterwards.

We are close to approximating something like this with Gitlab, JIRA, and Radish-BDD, but it's a lot of wiring and educating about conventions. I think you could do it in a single piece of software.
The cover letter #10 in the document checklist is the itinerary
I found this very useful website to check visa requirements for different countries https://visalist.io/italy/visa-requirements/india
This is my MVP, I plan to add photo details soon.
Agreed. I do some EOS smart contract work on the side (personal tinker projects) and its incredibly impressive.

If you haven't played around with EOS and are interested in blockchain computing you should check it out. Being able to write C++ code and deploy it on chain is pretty dope.
Manure is basically a monoculture of whatever the cow ate - i.e. decomposing grass.

Worms and bugs need a balanced diet. So a farmer will, presumably, add crop and other agricultural waste to cultivate these helpful aerobics.

(I'm only a backyard horticulturalist. Gardening experts stress adding a balance of leaves, grass clippings and miscellaneous 'organic material' to one's vegie scraps for a healthy urban compost.)
Or 洋人 、 洋大人

I think there's an important aspect of China is that the gov just has so many tools to sway the economy, and status quo will always be tolerated and supported as long as there are enough people are benefitting from it.

People has been worrying about the housing bouble for a decade now, but in China, the gov owns all city land, can dictate land price and supply，control condo price，it's like the perfect tool, it keeps enough people happy since the price is always rising at major cities, it keeps people loyal cause your fortune are on it, and it absords most of the money non-stop printed to prop up the Chinese economy.
I think you forgot that O2 won't lose that money because they never refund to their customers. But I might be wrong. So basically the clients lose the money.

Also average monthly can't be so high maybe you're including the device cost as well.

Remember that many might have prepaid and no contracts.
Thanks for clarifying. I had read that she probably wasn't traveling with a Chinese passport. I didn't know about the Hong Kong passport until now.

http://shanghaiist.com/2014/07/01/why_hong_kongs_passport_mi...

"After the handover to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, Hong Kong continued to maintain its own passport separate from that of the standard PRC issue. Replacing the erstwhile British National (Overseas) passport, the HKSAR passport inherited much of the privileges afforded to UK passport holders: free access to commonwealth nations such as Canada and New Zealand as well as the European Schengen area."
Correct but Wikipedia is not the only source, I have manually gone to every government website and gathered the document checklist!
Most POW mining is powered by renewables, and the fraction that isn't is continuously motivated to power-optimize by innovating in either computing or power efficiency.
Now that edit window is over, I finally noticed the massive error in my wording in the second to last sentence. Instead, let's pretend I wrote "why would we want Id_zi to equal zero when the population is less than the threshold?" It would also be good to note again that I haven't read the paper closely, and very well might be misinterpreting what it is doing.

---

But since I'm still in this edit window, I'll add an update here. I downloaded the per zip population data from here: https://blog.splitwise.com/2013/09/18/the-2010-us-census-pop.... Then I wrote a quick Perl program (parallel to Cook's Python simulation) but using the actual per zipcode populations rather than a fixed average. After confirming Cook's 84% number with the fixed population, I ran it on the actual populations (but still with a flat distribution for age and sex) and got 63% uniques.

Presumably this number would drop somewhat further with actual age distributions, but I don't know how far exactly. My current belief is that Sweeney's paper does a good job of calling attention to the fact that risk of identification is high, but the methodology and exact numbers should not be trusted. The actual percentage of Americans identifiable by (zip, dob, sex) is large, but something less than 63%. It might be interesting to run the simulation with actual age bracket data, but I didn't find this in any easy to download format, so I think I'll stop here.
I know Scrum so I'm writing from that perspective.

I'm not sure about "agile." In my experience, "agile" means "we have no workflow and it's a fucking madhouse."

> In most scrum processes 3 weeks of effort would
> not be accepted, and the story would be "broken down"
> into smaller issues such as "implement an upload
> button".

Yeah absolutely. But what's wrong with that?

At some point, this will need to happen.

One of the primary values of Scrum is that it forces you to break a story down into discrete tasks and estimate them as a team before the work begins.

This is a great chance to pool your knowledge as a team. Suppose a team consists of developers A, B, C, D, and E.

Well, implementing the Excel imports might involve 3 smaller stories. The first story might involve concerns that A and E have, and maybe there's actually a really easy way to do it that C knows about because she's done it before, and D's done it before too and knows about some pitfalls. That's a friggin great conversation to have.

Now, you don't need Scrum to have that conversation, but Scrum's cool because it makes it nearly impossible to avoid it. Now, naturally, you certainly don't need Scrum to have that conversation! A healthy team of high achievers with great communication skills would have it anyway! But, the reality is... that conversation often doesn't happen without some kind of process (Scrum, or whatever) to make sure it happens.

> Even worse scrum projects emphasize anti-patterns of "parallelizing" efforts

This is really not my experience with Scrum at all and I'm confused as to why you think this harmful sort of "parallelization" (the kind proscribed by "The Mythical Man-Month") is some intrinsic part of agile/Scrum.

Not familiar with Jira, but we used Pivotal Tracker and it lets you specify which stories are blocking other stories.
The app assumes I'm driving, rather than taking city transit.
CPM in advertising. Cost per Mille (per one thousand views).
Well, the developer didn't need it in the first place. It is not a useful tool for developers as we have better tools for developers. It is management that wants to see the work up in pretty JIRA lights and they want to see it before the project is already done.
I have a feeling you need to call and waste a lot of time, so most people won't bother... They won't lose near that much in real life.
Both underscores (because against standard) and SHA-1 (because old and weak) were removed from browsers.

On underscores: https://www.digicert.com/blog/digicert-pushes-underscore-ext...

On SHA-1: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2015/10/20/continuing-to-p...
More reading: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie_trail

As the Middle East and Southwest Asia became less hospitable to tourists, the Hippie Trail kinda fell out of favor. The "new" trails are the Banana Pancake Trail (same idea as the Hippie Trail, but in booming Southeast Asia) and the Gringo Trail in South America. Although these "trails" are much different because of a lot of reasons discussed elsewhere in this thread, such as less hitchhiking, more "flashpacking", and generally increased connectivity.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gringo_Trail
Australia's tech industry savages the ALP for backing anti-encryption bill
"Including the measures of people who both couldn't identify Tory Burch, and have never shopped for clothes at Walmart. That's how branding works."

If someone sees the value in something, never having heard of the brand, then that's not 'branding' - it's the opposite, it'd seem there's a universal appeal of Birch beyond what Wallmart provides that is not derived from brand.

+ Starbucks didn't wipe out 'coffee' - coffee was a total commodity and there were no 'varieties'. It was just called 'coffee' by everyone.

Moreover, Starbucks spread Italian style coffee: Cappuccino, Late, Espresso - without that, there'd be no Starbucks.
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“Attention Is Currency”: An Individual or Tribe or Nation Divided Is Doomed