skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Anyone is free to launch a satellite service to compete with Blockstream. This is called permissionless innovation. If you don't trust their data you don't have to use it.

2) Blockstream is not the only developer working on LN, in fact, the main development team is called Lightning Labs, plus there are many open source developers working on LN. The bitcoin community has decided that it wants BTC mainchain to be settlement layer and the momentum behind LN proves this.
Bitcoin is a functional and innovative technology. Blockchain scams are all scams. Their claims are nonsensical and they can never define what this new definition of "blockchain" they commandeered off bitcoin is if you ask them. Just ask these snake oil salesmen what a blockchain is and you'll see a look of confusion appear on their face. The media is doing a great job of propagating this scam.
Missing Pieces for a Winning Agile Project
Usually your credit card company will ask you if you've at least tried to cancel before doing a stop
Even a sedan will do if you just want the bed. Not ideal, but definitely possible. Used to haul drywall, gravel, lumber, etc. in a little trailer hooked up to my freaking Corolla.

Trucks are great because the extra degree of freedom is a PITA, but unless you're towing serious loads they are mostly just the country version of a lexus or BMW.
Pentagram’s ‘Range of Possibilities’ for Slack
Anything for non-US residents?
The article states that the product was initially solely web-based, and for a good reason: they expected the majority of their traffic to come from content-based SEO. That's the kind of product insight that can and should drive technology choices and might drive it away from "solved" mobile development practices.

(Having used react-native-web for a project once, I also question whether it actually would've improved things: the HTML generated by react-native-web is terrible for SEO, and they might never have gotten to the point where they had users asking for a mobile app if they'd gone this route. Hindsight is 20/20 and often forgets about obstacles on the path.)
You will be downvoted to hell but this is mostly true.

I would argue though that it isn't necessarily malice that has driven this kind of policy on the part of Americans. Its mostly the abdication of Foreign policy to the hands of "economic experts" who were always very wrong. And the fact that foreigners don't vote for US politicians and thus there is no political price to be paid for being that way to non-Americans.

Oh wait that does sound like Malice. But on the part of American representatives not necessarily the people. But I guess that distinction is kinda irrelevant.
If you’ve tried to cancel a service, stopped using it, and stop payment... well, the rest is their problem.

If you're going to play that game, you'd better be very sure that you can prove you made all reasonable efforts to cancel the service. Otherwise, blocking a payment method does not absolve you of any obligation to pay for something you agreed to, and you can be pursued for the money (and often interest/fees/legal costs), and if that's all there is to it then you will lose in court if things get that far.
We've had them in Australia's north west for a long time. Interestingly they come with their own set of problems.

https://www.perthnow.com.au/business/mining/derailed-bhp-tra...
>it should be an obligation on the card issuer, enforced. By financial regulation, worldwide.

Which worldwide financial body will make this happen? Mastercard did this without any prodding from a government, as far as I know.

>I'm not a fan of industry self-regulation.

This simply seems like a case of a company offering something that customers want. Is Mastercard working with these companies to the extent that we can really call it "self-regulation"?
Ask HN: What keeps you going?
How does one deal with apathy like feelings?
Same reason why some folks like Gatsby. Navigate around his site and you'll see it loads in very quickly and with push state instead of full reloads. It's been done many times over for every stack and client side tool (pJax!) but that includes the next.js router.
We were on Aurora MySQL with the highest tier available. Switched to RDS MySQL 5.7. AWS has a database migration tool that we used to migrate over.
What are buyers agents for? I've lived lots of places around the world and nowhere else has buyers agents. Its just an American thing. What do they do that's useful and costs so much? Search online for you?
van·guard
/ˈvanˌɡärd/
noun
noun: vanguard; plural noun: vanguards

a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas.
Well if Blockstream satellite proves to be a profitable endeavor then you can expect competitors to come.

You can also expect different channels of propagation to emerge if demand builds up.
What would you replace Draft.js with? Slate?
Universities Face Pressure from Job Programs That Generate Results Not Just Debt
This seems like a pretty naive viewpoint. Don't you think the SEC would have thought about that? This kind of thing seems to me like it would be very easy to detect and penalize.
palos and orland are pretty reachable by metra, though the times aren't ideal. Once you're there my memory is that it's walkable enough to a bar with gambling. It'd also be like a $5 uber/lyft from the metra.

My suspicion is that urban gamblers mostly take the blue line to the shuttle to Rivers.
All the rewards?
Although I did have one of these in the early 2000s:

https://www.mobilegazette.com/siemens-sl55-08x10x26.htm
In Norway even in countryside people do not get pickups. It could be that trucks are just not very good in winter with snow and ice on mountain roads. Or people are not going to pay for extra fuel consumption with prices like 7 usd/gal.

But trailers are widespread and gardening/furniture shops provide them either for free or for a very low price.
Criminals are using Fortnite to launder money through its in-game currency
A simple table alter operation such as adding a column or modifying a column on a big table would break once the instance reached maximum disk storage space due to copying.

These solutions offered a way to alter the table without using all the disk space available on the instance. Thus bypassing the storage issue.
This video about how an electric motor is made has almost solely machines doing the work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zttC2x9nMEw
Cramer: Apple should buy private digital health records operation Epic Systems
Thanks for taking your time to explain all this. It's quite cool. I spent some time with your link and also with the wikipedia page about GRACE. This is quite an ingenious experiment. First I thought the two satellites were at different altitudes, one in LEO and one in, let's say GSO. The high altitude satellite perceives the Earth more or less like a mass point, while the low altitude satellite is much more sensitive to the distribution of mass, especially at the Earth's surface. You could in principle use several satellites at different altitudes, and do some sort of "triangulations". This way, you could potentially learn about the mass distribution deep inside the Earth. Anyway, the actual way it's done is also cool, a lump of mass, like a mountain pulls faster the leading satellite, Jerry, and the second satellite, Tom, lags a little behind. Later on, Tom goes over the same mass and catches on.

That being said, the complexity of this model sounds absolutely humongous. Complex models are exciting for mathy guys to work with, but are inevitably subject to more model risk. As coders say, the number of bugs is roughly proportional with the number of lines of code.

You're going to say that this numerical calculation is bug free. A numerical calculation with 4 thousand mass element (mascons) and distance measurements probably in the billions, and lots and lots of approximations and contributions from the sun and the moon and the planets. Of course you are not going to say it is bug free. Should we trust ice loss calculations coming from GRACE? To be honest, after I read your explanation and all other things about GRACE, I'm less skeptical. I don't fully trust it, but I don't fully distrust it either.

But as you said, this is not that relevant, since the actual result published was not based on GRACE, but rather on ice flow models. Now these models I take with quite a large grain of salt. Why? Models produce estimates, and the estimates generally include an uncertainty level. The uncertainty reflects only how the uncertainty in inputs propagates to the uncertainty in the final result, not the model uncertainty per se.

Take a look at the figure 1 in [1]. It shows the precipitation in Antarctica over 2.5 decades based on several models. The average number (labeled "multi-model mean") shows very little variability from year to year, and you could infer that very little uncertainty as well. However, this is just an artifact of taking the average of several not very highly correlated time series. The model uncertainty is better reflected by the wide range of the numbers produced by the different models. If you look at this range, it's about 200mm/y, which is 10 times the net ice loss we are talking about here.

Do you see why I'm a bit skeptical?

But anyway, thanks again for taking your time with me. I learned something cool today.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187396521...
Very cool. Found one on eBay for $5700 so luckily out of reach for the casual snoop. That would be virtually undetectable.
Exactly; my Dodge Caravan Sport w/3.8L would turn the 16 tires easily, handled well, fun to drive, and hauled all of my family, building materials, and machinery. 19 years and 240k miles, was cheap to own, not pretty anymore but still runs well.
Again, depends on the workplace. And the meeting context.

I walked into a meeting today and said “some people think it is disrespectful to have your laptop open during a meeting” and everyone laughed. And it was a diverse group, men and women, a wide age range, from different parts of the world. People are professional, respectful and notably productive in that meeting. With laptops.

Regarding a high-level executive, it’s just that those kinds of meetings are not engineering meetings.
I get this when I try 'password':

Oh no — pwned!
This password has been seen 3,645,804 times before
It’s obviously a joke. Sad (and terrifying?) that an actual news site decided a joke app update description was worthy of a story without even attempting to contact the subject to confirm.
Each open postgres connection requires about 10mb of memory overhead IIRC
It's not exactly fair to say "No air conditioning. In the middle of the fucking summer." When they had AC that goes down to a very chilly 73. I keep my AC at 77, and my wife is still cold half the time.

The construction issue was pretty valid and shitty of them.
I agree with this but I think it underestimates how far the central bank's printing of money can push us out of equilibrium. Also, the ability to create real value is harmed by regulations like labor, zoning, and health codes.
I'll also point out Teampay.co that creates single-use CCs (with specific limits) through Slack similar to "I want to buy a MacBook Pro from Apple for $1,845.50". It's been an amazing tool. Also supports recurring weekly/monthly/annual charges and sends a Slack message every time the cards you approve are used.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18919129
> So it's illegal "when an insider makes a gift of confidential information to a trading relative or friend." But if you read that too literally, you run right back into the first problem. There you are, at your job, talking on the phone with a company's investor relations department. The IR guy helps you with some questions about your model. You get off the phone convinced that the company is a buy. You go to buy stock. But wait. Your relationship with the IR guy is pretty cordial. You mentioned your love of fishing, and he said, "Hey, we ought to go fishing together sometime," and you said, "Sure, that sounds great," not that either of you meant it.

That's messed up. It should be a breach of fiduciary duty to continue to interface as investor relations with an investor who you have established a friendship with. Being friendly on the phone is one thing, but join family vacations? As the relationship becomes closer, the fishier any exclusive information provided should smell.

You become friends with someone? At a certain point both the investor and and investore relations personel should have to hand off the professional relationship to colleages to avoid the risk of insider trading charges.
The most interesting are coordinated human and machine traffic manipulation
You don't need an agent or broker to get an appraisal. In fact an agent arguably has a conflict of interest because a lower priced house will sell faster with little effect on their payout.
well, to that I prefer the capability of having a dark mode for every website, especially when the result looks good is beautifully readable.
My bank (Bank of America) lets you create temporary credit card numbers. They are linked directly to your actual card, but can be revoked individually.
Very roughly, a 3 minute song is ~5MB, and so 100 TB ~ 60M minutes ~ 114 years; needless to say, this is many times the amount of music one person could listen to in their lifetime.

Edit: additionally, it's possible (likely?) that the music is downsampled before training, so this figure may be something of a lower bound.
> would the US economy be where it is today without index funds? Or is it the index funds like Vanguard that allowed millions of Americans a cheap, safe way to predictably grow their wealth?

Yes.
For each payment thereafter, the merchant will have to send a receipt to the cardholder for each transaction by email or text message with clear instructions on how to cancel the service if the consumer so desires. In addition, all charges that appear on the cardholder’s statement must now include the merchant website URL or the phone number of the store where the cardholder made the purchase.

This looks like a significant change in policy. I wonder how merchants are supposed to know about it unless they happen to have read a source like HN today and found their way to the original MC article.

I also wonder what the consequences will be for non-compliance and what will happen if a situation is misunderstood by a payment service like PayPal or Stripe. For example, if we have a regular subscriber who is changing to a new card, we will typically use the payment service's "trial period" facility to delay the first charge on that new card until their regular renewal date so they don't get double-charged for the period in between. That's not a trial period in the normal sense of the term; to the customer, it just means they carry on paying exactly as they have but payments start coming from their new card instead. But there's not necessarily any way for a payment service to know that.
Tesla same; drove one a few weeks ago, had 6 adults in it, and room for more I think. More than enough room.
The same can be said of all CC companies. They've been playing this game for 50+ years.
Luxembourg: Save the Internet from the Copyright Directive
In practice this never happens. I wouldn’t worry about this unless it has happened to you at least once.
The Secrets of Surveillance Capitalism (2016)
Good grief the bed heights are ridiculous now. Forget about reaching over the side and grabbing something without having to climb in: and I'm 6' tall! I've mastered this maneuver where I jump up and land with my stomach over the edge of the bed. It's uncomfortable but I can actually reach something. My father is three inches taller than I am, but it was still something of a revelation for him a couple of weeks ago when he realized what I was doing. Now he's doing it too.

It didn't used to be like this, before every pickup had to be 4WD with tall suspensions to handle towing heavy trailers. I'd like to buy an old truck just so I can actually reach my tools. Instead I'm thinking of getting one of those dinky Ford Transit Connects, because it will keep everything dry as well as accessible.
" the most obvious of which is that the prices of those services simply rise until it becomes worthwhile for those people to commute further, or that they can start to move back into the city." - This is what should happen in a true free market. But the real world has zoning laws, building restrictions, slow and unreliable public transport and NIMBYs who will oppose any housing projects. That can make it impossible for new workers to meet the demand.
There's also TxTenna (https://txtenna.com).
Will this help in any way with gyms that are easy to sign up for, but impossible to leave?
You should open your mind to new ideas and investigate the link between wealthy market-oriented countries and environmental concern.
“there is no absolute truth” sounds awful like a statement of absolute truth
The technology's only really been perfected in the last 10 or 20 years, well below the normal replacement cycle for this kind of heavy infrastructure. Give it time - it's inevitable.
Aluminum is good for resisting corrosion, but it is usually less rugged than steel. For a truck bed there are really tough plastic liners. Can also get a Lear or some such cover for the bed.

For a steel bed, get something to protect against corrosion, and for an aluminum bed get something to protect the aluminum if it is too soft.
VISA sent Netflix my new card details. I thought since my card was new and they didn't have the numbers and happened to lose my job at the same time thought I was safe and was just going to quit Netflix. Instead visa sends them the new numbers so I don't have a "disruption of service". Not cool visa.
https://positivedisintegration.com/Webb2008.pdf
More disposable income and larger living space.
It may be a service people want but why do they almost all charge the exact same fee? The market would look less dysfunctional if they all competed on price as well as service.
Because we evolved intelligence and developed electricity, motors, greenhouses, etc. We have all the world's knowledge accessible from just a few clicks from anywhere on the planet. We have massive communication networks for coordinating efforts to stave off events.

I think shy of a meteor hitting the planet, we'll be fine. We still might suffer big consequences, if sea levels rise too much and whole cities get displaced, but extinction is not even within 1/10th of a percent of chance of happening.
In practice this never happens.

Why do you think that?
2018 Dapp Market Report – 1423 Dapps, 1045 Ethereum,235 EOS,97 TRON,46 Steem
Yeah I thought the same. Would be nice, they'd get massive toque monsters and non-truck people would have to deal with less idiots 'rolling coal.'
Several examples given that article seems to conflict with the explanation given in the other article linked in the replies, particularly situation 7.

Your article justifies it "Yes" answer because you were told the information was confidential, but then the "case study" used to back this up includes envelopes on cash being exchanged for this information. My reading of the other article seems to indicate that you would be fine because the CEO was not compensated by you for providing the information and there is nothing to indicate that this information was given as a gift.

Other article:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2015-07-31/when-c...

Edit:
Given the bloomberg article cites relevant supreme court cases, I'm more inclined to believe it.
AI’s Growing Impact on Chip Design
Agreed. Truly a hacker in the broader sense of the word - a simple automated kludge that does the trick, despite seeming inelegant to the experts.
Wow maybe I'm out of touch.
Your comment does one thing that has always bothered me during these kinds of discussions: you seem to assume that there is nothing at all between "bucolic suburb with frolicking children and wide, empty roads" and "dystopian hellscape of methheads in RVs terrorizing everyone in a Mad Max wonderland."

I'll also get this out of the way: yes, lots of us in Seattle are well and truly tired of the unsanctioned camps at places like Northgate and the RVs parked everywhere. What we're NOT willing to do, at least not yet, is to slam those people with more arrests and more trips through the criminal enforcement system prior to having services in place that will cover a high percentage of needs. (No, our existing shelter system, whether within Seattle or without in the suburbs, does not meet this requirement.) That's mostly humanity but also because the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit says that it is unconstitutional to run someone off from a place to sleep if there are no alternatives and "you must be stone-cold sober in order to enter this shelter" doesn't work for people who are addicted. (That's one reason why the region needs places like needle exchanges and substance abuse centers. Why shouldn't we concentrate them all in Pioneer Square? Well, for one, because the "junkie homeless" are already in places like Bellevue, sleeping out of their cars and scrounging for food, but they camouflage it better.)

Now, as to my original rebuttal. There's a huge need for missing-middle housing in this region. You know, for the people that serve your coffee, deliver your groceries, educate your kids, clean your parks, and paint the lines on those untrammeled roads. The people making well under six figures who shouldn't have to drive for two hours or live beyond the reach of public transit just to get to a job where someone making five times their salary can look down on them for not living in a "good place." That's the kind of housing Microsoft proposes to kick into gear here.

We need all kinds of these services because it's humane and it's fiscally and economically prudent to not sprawl all the way from Bremerton to the Tri-Cities.
I've had varying Airbnb experience but always positive. A couple were just cheapo rooms to lay my head. The best was on a private vineyard, the house rules said no one in the hot tub after ten. We asked if it could be 11-11:30 and we will be respectful of noise. "Sure no problem". The hosts cooked us breakfast and we chatted over coffee. They were the perfect balance of leaving us alone and engaging. Even gave us a really cool tour of the property before we left. They had no complaints about us, we wrote a glowing review. A couple weeks later we got a small gift in the mail.
Light and reliable electric trucks + solar seem to have a decent shot at some kind of cultural resonance. 21st century rugged individualism.
My sister gets food stamps. Food stamps are for food (generally) where as money is for anything. UBI is often held up by proponents as a replacement for all other support. Given them $1k a month cash instead of whatever they get now. But what they get now is trying to solve a problem not solved by UBI, namely that they can't be responsible for themselves (for whatever reason, physically unable, mentally unable, kids, etc...) UBI doesn't fix that problem so the existing programs will still need to exist.
Well for me it was the opposite, I had a lot of services attached to the same card and when I got a new card it was such a nice feeling that I did not have to go through the trouble of updating each of them with new card information.
http://docs.citusdata.com/en/v8.1/cloud/availability.html
Because I’ve done it a few times and nothing happened.
Illegal mining “epidemic” in the Amazon could be combated with high-tech mapping
Concentration of power is always bad, no matter where that power is concentrated.