skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure why nobody has mentioned it, but at the end of July, someone transferred $468.5M worth of BTC for $374.98. It's much faster than a wire transfer, too. So many afternoons I'd have to sit at the bank and sign papers for wire transfers...
Same issue as wealthy elderly gifting all their assets to their kids ("pre-inheritance") so they can get on Medicaid to pay for their nursing home care.
Please add Xendpay (for GBP to ZAR)
None of those airports are actually in London.
Men are sexually attracted to women. Following your line of reasoning women should NOT use that sexual attraction to their advantage and should not have sexual relationships with men.
C will be replaced, as soon at the last dev that keeps religiously using C89 with language extensions retires.
Keeping buildings cool without air conditioning
That guy sucks at tetris.
As I've gotten older, I've come around to the idea that perhaps there was some nobility to fully entering World War II. But every subsequent military conflict has been motivated by economic empire building. If "fellow Americans" want to "survive", the straightforward answer is to not sign up for an organization that attacks and occupies foreign lands.

Every "reduced risk" for the military is an increased incentive to launch a new war.

And preemptively responding to "But what about real threats that could need to be defended against (eg China)" - if this is your bigger concern, then you need to figure out how to mitigate the moral hazards that have eroded trust in the institution.
Also buckwheat, which is not wheat. Delicious.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasha
This is a pretty conceited view. The article makes some decent points and cites at least one expert. I was particularly interested in how the author argued that criticisms against Brazilian government from Europe ring of neocolonialism.
> Private companies do not do the lending, the DOE does. Stafford loans, both subsidized and unsubsidized, are issued directly by the DOE to the university. There is no middleman. What private companies are you talking about?

Thanks for the info. I'd have to go back through my old papers and find who I was paying, but IIRC the domains were all ".coms" and not ".edu". Basically what I'm saying is there is a huge private business in servicing these loans, even if it's the U.S. Taxpayer that is on the hook for the principal.
Detectorists Find Chew Valley Norman Coin Hoard
You mean like a Commodore 64?

https://youtu.be/zBkNBP00wJE
The fact that Stripe ever used MongoDB is dubious enough, but that they've endured on it well past the fad's expiry is reason enough for me to avoid doing business with them in the future.

Handling money is serious business and if one insists on using the unproven flavor-of-the-week to do so, they'd better make sure it has at least the fundamental requirements to accomplish its task, e.g., transactions/MVCC. Stripe apparently failed to do so, and has chosen to propagate that failure for many years.

One can make excuses for the spunky startup with a handful of employees needing to save time by using what they know or whatever, but Stripe is well past that point, and serious people should've taken over by now. I'd expect "replace Mongo with a real database" to be near the top of the todo list for any serious people.
Sweet. I had to purchase something for my Synology NAS fairly recently to support an ExFAT device. It’s great to see this contribution to open source.
You arguments are bit like: if you can't afford a car just move to place with good public transportation. Problem solved. Yet in the US that's not possible to do a larger scale. There are just not enough places to accommodate everyone that needs that. Hence you end up with people paying predatory car loans.

I am not questioning that for one particular individual, it is possible to get a good education for far less than the average. Good for them. But that approach neither scales well nor is applicable to population levels, hence people try to game the system to get ahead. This is an example of gaming the system after all, we're looking at what leads here.

As a note to the career prospects, how much you make in 10 years is not such an optimal measure. 10 years is a long time, and you do benefit more early on. The opportunities and overall quality of life is more impacted.
Lies My Calculator Told Me [pdf]
I'm trying to work out whether there's a constituency who's in favour of mass surveillance but not gun control, and what that landscape looks like.

Given the prohibition on building a database of gun owners, I wonder if we'll end up with a situation where everyone's face is recorded but the guns are blurred out to protect their rights.
They're 45m-1h by train from Central London.
Prolog-ish interpreter written in Rust, intended eventually for use in compiler
> There is an active lawsuit against YouTube for issuing freezes on hiring white and Asian males, on the premise that they needed to hire more people from other racial/ethnic groups.

I've interviewed with Google multiple times without issue

> whose successes in this "white supremacist" nation throw a bit of a wrench in their world view.

Interesting that you should mention that, because perceived/actual white supremacy is a reason why Asians are voting overwhelmingly against Republicans today.
The U.S. Senate has killed many bills from the House not by voting on them and the bills failed to pass, but by not bringing them up for a vote. It's just procedural.
Maybe I'm missing your point but... we are?

Many or most adults in the U.S. operate at the level of what we expect of children, but not what we expect of adults.

I only specify the U.S. because it's what I know directly.

(I suspect European adults overall are better socialized to behave in an adult way, but are not necessarily actually any wiser than American adults. Just on average. There is an enormous variation from person to person.)

edit: I feel like this needs an example. I'm not saying American adults are incompetent at their jobs, for example. I'm saying they hold childish beliefs, like believing in Santa Claus, but not that one in particular. In other words, they lack intellectual hygiene. Another good example is what came up earlier in the thread: people rationalizing their bad actions so that they are not bad in their own "story."
You can also make fire with two stones.

That is the difference between using C++/CX, C++/WinRT or the existing Rust libraries.

So how do you integrate Rust with VS debugging tools?
It is recklessly ignorant to compare ownership of animals to humans
From what I understand there have been various attempts at this, as well as other data storage solutions, but they always run into issues. MongoDB is being used as a database and data warehouse and there are always complications.
Also, the products are not crap. Can't argue with rockets going to space for cheaper than ever, whatever the CEO says on twitter. Rockets aren't earrings.
If you send it to an email address that doesn't exist, does the transfer go through? If so who ends up with the money?

It's been a while since I sent funds to a new address but I am pretty sure my bank's UI provided protection against that, and now when I send future funds to the same account, I just pick them from a drop down box instead of entering it manually.
> I also heard someone say at some point that Americans are very wary of having people transfer money to their bank account.

All it takes to extract money from my bank account is the routing and account numbers. Print a fake check with that info, take a couple crappy photos with one of those mobile deposit apps, and boom my money is gone. This happened to me just a couple years ago. The signature on the check was literally "John Hancock." Perhaps things have improved in the past couple years, but I doubt it.

As for replacement programs, I trust banks no further than I can throw them. You want me to sign up for Zelle, or whatever new money transfer program is? What's the catch? No way I'm trusting any program introduced by a bank.
France doesn't really have any big deserts for their own Yucca Mountain. So they would need someone willing to import their nuclear waste.

Also, you don't need to process nuclear waste to build a weapon. Attach some Caesium-137 to an air-burst weapon and you can ruin lots of land really quick.
I'm not sure it's the independence being defended so much as local grift of one form or another.
“How did you go bankrupt?” Bill asked.

“Two ways,” Mike said. “Gradually and then suddenly.”

- The Sun Also Rises
Yup. Just transferred $2K from my PayPal account (ebay sales) to my checking account. Slight clarification: PayPal caps the transfer fees at $10.
That would be nice. How many else are going to be focusing on that transition?
To put things in perspective; The second rate state school I went to was still $40k to get a degree
The real news here is the specification being opened.
We use Julia for data science work and specific computationally intensive parts of our backend at Zoba: https://www.zoba.com/
.... on FAT partitions
Or was it that he decided to come clean, because he felt shame for what he had done, and didn't mind the consequences?

I think it was unlikely but just posing the question.
I don't know if your links support that claim. Or, at least I could use help getting from the bankruptcy law change to a systemic rise in education costs.

It doesn't seem to follow that an inability to discharge debt will lead a college to continually increase tuition costs. By the time the discharging of debt comes into play, the college is mostly out of the picture. Help me understand how that incentivizes a school to increase tuition. If anything, it seems like it would drive the cost down as it increases the risk to the borrower, incentivizing the borrower against taking excessive loans.

It does however seem to make better sense that an over supply of loans will allow colleges to increase tuition.
Yawn.

Yes. But even C was considered too slow for something like a Motorola 68000 back in the day. Of course it's possible.

Besides, C++ can be just as performant if you ignore a huge proportion of its language features and abstractions, but what's the point then? Just use C.

And this is precisely why embedded engineers do so.
Was the entire idea behind Libra (from Facebook) that the entire "sending money abroad" market would get revolutionized over night? (Faster, less fees, less regulations, easier to do?)
I never left Thunderbird.
I never really got in what way gmail on browser was better.
There are large number of other texts/journals that tells his story differently. He was defeated so badly at the entrance of Indian peninsula that he had retreat and finally succumbed to his injuries.
Follow the money.

Google and Facebook are built on renting our privacy out to the highest bidders. The minutiae of our lives are their raw materials, and to make more money they have to find new and exciting ways of exploiting our information.

Apple is built on making things we want to buy, then selling us stuff to do, watch, play, read or hear on those things. They’re also very good at telling us about those things and why we might want to buy them.

So yes, privacy-first messaging comes across as more genuine when it comes from companies that aren’t designed from the ground up to scrape every bit of information about us that they possibly can.
He’s provably referring to ghg emissions, and sure no one pays that (it’s also not something we can conceivably pay for)
Sex, in a situation with a major power imbalance, is problematic. Also, do we know she had sex with him because she was attracted to him, and not because he pressured her into it?
I wrote a basic one, and I think the answer is that there are just so many moving parts (many of which I didn't attempt).

- mail transfer and delivery (IMAP/POP3, SMTP)

- organization, folders, tags, database, search, indexing, etc. Performance becomes a big issue.

- Email threading (conversations) is a whole thing.

- Email file format, MIME standards, parsing emails is a WHOLE thing. (What is an rfc822-formatted email and why I am getting them?)

- For non-text email, need an entire HTML rendering engine.

- The graphical user interface is not trivial, should be intelligently multithreaded.

- More features: spam filtering, encryption/digital signatures. Vacation replies. Address book. Calendar integration is a whole (optional) thing. Todo-lists.

- For some reason, Thunderbird has a live chat system.

It also seems to be the kind of thing where the last 10-20% is a lot harder than the first 80%.
No. The “pair” in “pair instability collapse supernova” refers to positron-electron pair production.

Specifically, it refers to the situation where the star is hot enough that some of the photons inside it turn into positron-electron pairs which (because conservation laws) move slower than the original photon in the brief time before the positron is annihilated, and therefore contribute less pressure, which causes the start to collapse and get hotter, causing more photons which have the energy to create positron-electron pairs.

The big bang was too big to be a star, at all. If all the matter had been in the same place, it would’ve spontaneously turned directly into a black hole, if not for inflation, which I think is not yet well understood but had effects including causing spacetime to expand by an amount which makes “a lot” seem like “almost nothing” in comparison.
Uh, how would I produce the Caesium-137 without using a nuclear reactor?
Fine then. Make it 1hr on the east coast and 2hr on the west coast. If you don't mind living in a city/town that makes your upper middle class coworkers cringe you can still find places with a reasonable cost of living. They won't have the greatest schools but living somewhere for the "good schools" is overrated (that's outside the scope of this comment).
Well, if they're not authorised, dispute it with the bank?

https://www.directdebit.co.uk/DirectDebitExplained/Pages/Dir...
This has exited for a while. Not at my desktop to find the setting at the moment, but I've been using it since I found it a few months ago.
Podcast sounds interesting. What's it called?
It's the complete opposite of what you said, at least in terms of numbers.

The U.S. historically had many more banks than in Europe as the banking industry in Europe has historically been more centralized at the national level. Whereas in the U.S. not only did we have 50 states each regulating their own banking system (similar to Europe), but you had many more smaller banks rather than a few larger ones in each state.

It appears the U.S. now has fewer banks, but that's only because of a precipitous decline over the past few decades, and it's only been in the paste several years that the number of E.U. banks surpassed those in the U.S., long after the E.U. saw better payment systems.

So the reason the E.U. banking industry has more convenient payment systems, especially retail payment systems, is because they were historically both more centralized and less in number, which made consistent adoption of newer payment systems easier. Whereas the banking system in the U.S. was more fractured and far more diverse, and even with the dramatic drop in number and increase in centralization, we still see the repercussions.
It's free, but not open source.
Low-tech scientists are using their eyes, ears and intuition to make discoveries
Sallie Mae/Navient is the servicer for the DOE, but they don't issue anything.

See my edit. I think you are drawing on experiences with a system that hasn't existed for nine years, at least as far as newly-issued loans are concerned.
The former.

iPhones and Intel CPUs have hardware that decodes many different codecs, including vp9 and h264. iOS and OSX have drivers that make hardware decoding available for h264, however they do not make available vp9 decoding, despite the fact that the hardware is perfectly capable of doing it.

So you fallback to software decoding, which is problematic at 4k/60fps. People falsely blame YouTube/Google, when it's actually Apple's problem.
I recently read a plausible theory as to why Ben Shapiro keeps coming up: YouTube's algorithm is being gamed so it ends up believing that Shapiro videos have something to do with what you just watched. So some group of people/bots "watches" a lecture on the mating habits of the red-tailed swallow, then Shapiro, then another lecture on birds, then Shapiro again. Eventually, YT thinks Shapiro vids are related to bird lectures, and makes the recommendations.
The older versions were faster. Every new update becomes slower and more bloated.
> main downsides is the $25,000 cap

I suppose this isn't inflation indexed, so RTP will become increasingly useless over time? -- halving in 35 years per fed plans and much sooner under monetary policy twitter-proposed by the president?
A Decentralized Approach to API Gateways for OpenShift
In addition to some other suggestions, xoom was bought by paypal a while ago - before transferwise and before they were bought by paypal, they were my go-to for international transfers.
I started renting a studio a couple months back. They gave the option to pay with a paper check or with a credit/debit card online. Online transaction came with a $20/statement "convenience fee". Meanwhile a mailed paper check is $0.50 including postage. Paper check it is.
There may be some kids from well-off families getting bullshit diagnoses to justify IEPs that include accommodations like extra time on exams. There are definitely kids from not well-off families who have legitimate needs that are not met because they can't afford to pay for the medical evaluations to justify the accommodations.

American colleges and universities have already been trending away from emphasizing high-stakes standardized tests in their admissions decisions. The tests themselves should be changed to make speed of answering not such a critical part of test-taking strategy. There would still be students with serious disabilities who would need additional time and other accommodations but there would be no need for extra time for kids with ADD, ADHD, etc., real or imagined.
TypeScript 3.6
Discharging loans and the predatory nature of them are two different arguments.

If they loans are predatory, make the loans harder to qualify for. It won't fix the predatory nature if they are easy to get rid of; if anything it will make them more predatory by likely increasing the interest rate to compensate for the increased risk to the lender.
There is a reason people are still staying with gcc-4.8. This pass in question (ssa-tree-copy) is just horrible, esp. in the latest versions. I had to blacklist gcc-9 because of similar issues with that.
I didn't know that it did start with gcc-7 already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_distribution
One can think Apple's decision was wrong while also thinking it wasn't intentionally malicious.

Five or more years ago, I gave FB & Google the benefit of the doubt—when the first few major privacy fiascos came to light, making it clear that it was a big deal and privacy needed to be cared about. Sadly, Facebook and Google have repeatedly shown themselves to be actively hostile to user privacy, and continue to double and triple down on invading privacy and breaching trust. They've been the giants who have proven the need for making privacy a primary concern of all tech hardware/software—because they are dependent on breaching and invading privacy to earn their income.

Apple does not depend on providing third parties access to identifiable data and profiles to better target ads, identify users, and destroy privacy and anonymity to earn their income. This pretty much means a wholly different default outlook from Facebook and Google. Apple continues to not just market, but take active steps toward increasing privacy and data protection for its users across its hardware lineup. I'm not at all suggesting Apple isn't worthy of criticism when they fuck up—they absolutely are. I'm only responding to the question of why a certain feature may not have been opt-in to begin with—when it appears obvious in retrospect that it should have been.

In short, Apple still has my reserved, cautious trust. Facebook and Google have long since lost it, and I can't even imagine what they might be able to do to ever earn it back.

When Apple starts building the privacy-related reputation that Google and Facebook have, I'll be all over the hate train. As it stands, as someone who believes he really cares about digital privacy for himself and others, I never thought about the fact that a Siri recording might be listened to by humans—but now, in retrospect, of course it was (I would have wanted to listen to recordings to grade my own software's responses), and of course it should have been opt-in to begin with.
Apple Macbook Pro Banned on Flights Because of Battery Issue
My main issue with Thunderbird - old annoying UI, seems like designed in begin of 00's.

So I've switched to https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Geary - blazing fast modern app with nice UI.
The US Army had previously pointed out a similar issue to the BBC article, where a lack of internal guidance and oversight was leading to analysis and collection of non-optimal data [1]. Just like in academia, there seems to be a bit of a tension in getting to useful predictive insights to issues.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/Afghanistan...
Probably the most important C++ ideal is that you don’t pay for what you don’t use, and you _still_ get a more expressive language than C if you don’t use those features.

Your cons:

- Virtual functions. Don’t use them if you don’t want to incur an extra indirection.

- STL. Don’t use it if you don’t want to.

- Large binary size. Don’t spin up hundreds of template instances, problem solved.

- No RTTI? Literally a compiler switch away.

Some pros:

- constexpr

- true type safe generic programming (at the cost of code size if you get crazy with it and like TMP)

- type safe no-overhead containers (std::array, std::tuple)

- RAII ownership semantics (I.e. std::unique_ptr)

- Can still emit a C ABI

- Multi-paradigm at a language level, rather than procedural with other paradigms bolted on ad-hoc

The reason C++ (IMHO) is always a better choice than C is that if you don’t want to incur the cost of feature X, drop down to how you would do it in C and it works exactly the same and you can still use the zero-cost C++ features that will never land in C.
How does the US know that they don't just have offline backups?
if you're saying stansted and gatwick aren't really in london, then neither is heathrow. it's a small list of airlines that fly to/from london city airport
They do but it's a little different. (P)NaCL still allows memory safety and data verification bugs that don't compromise the integrity of the sandbox. sel4 goes a lot further by verifying that the total behavior of the application matches the machine readable formal specification. So (P)NaCL probably would have allowed the bug in question to get into production, whereas it would have been caught as a build error by sel4.
^^ this.

Southwest has one of the best, if not the best, safety records of all major air carriers.