skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi sorbits,

Yes, you must have some trust in the ledger owner, although, as mentioned in another post, depending on the type of asset it may not be such as issue.

We built the system so that the issuing rules and payment guarantees were separate because we think that's a good thing. We have some ideas as to how we can improve trust and transparency in issuing parties in the future, but that can evolve separately from the payment rules.

Also, we think there is a benefit to payments not being centralised, even while issuance is. For a start, the ledger is signed by multiple parties which increases trust and resilience against faults (malicious or not). From the other point of view, if you are an honest issuer (and most should be!) you don't have to worry about creating a trustworthy and reliable payments platform.
No she didn't.

A Google executive committed accidental suicide by heroin and she ran away - probably in fear for her own life.
I wonder if the same may hold true for other public networks like Twitter, Instagram etc., although [unlike Pinterest] they have a higher abandonment rate.
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I'm interested in the "Version control for data" feature. How does that work? I have data that is still changing in both content and structure. As the test suite grows, it is becoming a burden to maintain every time there is a change to the data. It would be great to be able to write tests against snapshots of the database, and be able to rollback to a different point for each test seamlessly.
There's a reason for that too: text posts aren't meant to create privileged, sticky comments. You can see that here: the poster didn't just ask a question, but tried to answer it (proposed answer: "it's just wrong that these weren't on the front page, and here's evidence").

If the poster wanted most of that content to be prominent in the thread, they could have added a comment to their question.
and i can put cinnamon on my oatmeal but sodium benzoate sounds disgusting
Yes, they're implemented with Polymer, but that does not mean they're "Polymer specific". You can use them in any HTML page - just import the element, and use it. This is the promise of web components.
I thought that was what he meant. Is there any sharp distinction between "interpreting" and "evaluating" in python that I am unaware of? I've always used the words more or less interchangeably. But now that I think about it that might be a little naive since I have no idea how it works under the hood
didn't G+ out some transgender people?
http://www.zdnet.com/google-outed-me-7000025416/

now imagine the same with Google having access to all medical records.

regulation around this exists for a very, very good reason.
How do i grit
Less regulation with respect to healthcare data would probably save lives, but increase discrimination.
This is for Fibre to the Curb, Fibre to the Cab (junction box ) is what is more commonly used and you can already get plenty fast enough bandwidth for consumer's with VDSL or SDSL at that range.

Btw Cab is UK tlco slang for it not sure what the USA Telco term is
If table-flipping over package management quirks isn't a fundamental part of the Unix heritage, I don't know what is.
Lots of money was spent to connect things like schools and libraries with fiber, and were.
In a linear algebra class, we were asked to prove that a theorem is true if and only if X. (I think X may have been that a matrix had a nonzero determinant.) I had no idea how to do it, but I noticed the theorem was trivially true in the case of a 1x1 zero matrix. Since this matrix has a zero determinant, it spoiled the "only if" part. I wrote it as a counter-example, showing that "if AND only-if" was false, and didn't prove the "if." Full credit!
If 9 out of 10 authors from Scottsdale, Arizona are known to be corrupt, is it unethical and racist to be biased against authors from Scottsdale, Arizona?
You need to get used to the notebook concept. In the end you'll find that it's much more convenient for interactive work than a traditional command line. For non-interactive work you can still use Vim if you like.

In fact Mathematica shows its advantages most when used interactively (compared to languages, like Python, which were not really designed for this).
As long as the laws continue to adapt in order to protect people from discrimination, we are on the right track.
Academics are judged on stupid factors depending on the quantity of publications and citations rather than on the quality of their research.

This reminds me of pagerank and SEO. In fact this ring is basically the equivalent of black-hat SEO's link-farms for academic journals.
Not surprisingly, most of the results for common words/phrases seem to be unavailable. For a simple domain search, that's expected, but not so much for a suggestion tool.

If I'm going to wait for a small handful of domain suggestions, I'd prefer to only see what is available (which may require a lot more queries on the back end, but would improve the user experience in my opinion).

Also, I've gotta throw in a shameless plug for my own domain suggestion tool for new gTLDs:

http://endless.domains
Because it's in the top of the page of the story you're commenting on? I'm sure we can keep hn from turning into /. for a couple of more years yet... ;-)
Any reason not to do the first one more compactly?

','.join(headers)
"Heavy regulation" doesn't just include HIPAA.
How much time you wasted reading spiegel... i can't imagine. You go back to the cold war era as if nothing happend the last 20 years and blather about meaningless surveys and feel gooderies. Very long message without any content.
Maybe I'm missing something... (I'm newerish here), but it seems to imply there are more HN users who do want NSA coverage more often and more prominent, as evidenced by the need for any "weighing down" at all, no?

Why not allow it to be organic? If it's true that most are being flagged down, then that will be the same regardless of any added weight.

I can understand the want to avoid obsessive flame wars, but simply suppressing important articles isn't going to do that. I understand this weight has been in place for a year now - perhaps the weight should be removed as a trial, and see what happens...?
I sense a financial stake in the companies is what's at play here.
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Interesting. Is that an absolute position, or would you be more willing if the benefits (longevity, better health) were more apparent?
Yes, because we all know heavily regulated VA hospitals haven't killed anyone.

Oh wait.
Not really that important, but I think map is a better name than associative array.
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This article has a good point, which I never had thought.

Headphones are also a fashion accessory. They are very visible, the most visible piece of technology you are carrying.

Same thing goes with watches. For many people its about brand and fashion, not so much about the features.

Maybe Apple wants to be in the fashion business. If you have watches and headphones, you pretty much cover all the technology people are currently wearing. And it makes very much sense to have both products inside the same company so that you can provide matching pairs.

If the pricing is reasonable, you could even imagine selling multiple sets of products for same customers. This headphone/watch pair for jogging, another one for your business look.

Also the Apple Store chain would fit in the picture quite nicely. One problem could be that Apple is getting lots of people to the stores, but they currently have a limited range of products to sell for them. You don't need that many iPhones or Macs, iPads are a little bit expensive for impulse purchase.
The first time a Google car crashes and Google lawyers have to sit across from a now paralyzed child on the witness stand, Google will quickly think twice about the Vehicle market.

This was a huge problem we faced in Automotive. All big automotive companies are VERY cautious about safety, to what would seem like absurd levels.
Regarding the Napkin Ring part of the problem.

Had the author simplified the formula for "Vanswer" rather than plugging in values for h & c, he would have gotten:

Vanswer = (Pi/6) * h^3

From which is it easy to see that the answer in this particular case is 36 * Pi but it also makes clear that the answer does not depend on R.
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RocketSkates let you zip along the sidewalk at a top speed of 12 MPH
That might work for a private network, but what if you have a /24 and need to use the entire range?

Maybe find molecules with the corresponding molar mass, e.g. glucose = C6H12O6 = 180?
I highly doubt any data about my health could give me enough benefit to warrant such an intimate invasion of my privacy.
Anything else is sophistry to promote the idea of releasing data in general

My prejudice is certainly toward the release of data in the case of datasets of clear use to research that lack obvious harm to the participants. I feel that because of randomwalker's work, datasets such as those used for the Netflix Prize may never be released again, and I feel that this is a net loss to society: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1193417

What bothers me is that you're playing to a whole slew of fallacious reasoning, if I was being less charitable I'd say you're trying to go congress on "the debate."

I'm not familiar with the phrase "go congress". Could you explain? I'm not trying to play to fallacious reasoning, although I certainly might be susceptible to it. I genuinely would like more discussion of what is lost when data is not released due to fears of violation of privacy. Could you be more specific about the fallacies involved?
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Interesting side note on the history of the US Forest Service and its interest in the study of loneliness:

In the 1930s and 1940s (and probably later, too) the US Forest Service employed something like fire-watchers, men who would hike out on their own with little equipment into the forests to their station, which was a single fire lookout tower in the wilderness [1].

There they would sit on their own and scan the horizon for fires until their replacement arrived, usually after a few months. If they would see smoke, they had to walk (again, on their own) to the smoke and try to put out the fire with the little equipment they had.

If they couldn't put out the fire they had to go get help - quite an undertaking since the towers often were not connected to any telephone network.

Norman Borlaug, the father of the green revolution, did exactly that to support his BSc in forestry from 1935 to 1938, always sitting alone in the forest, usually not seeing anyone for months at a time.

Source: Vietmeyer's 'Our Daily Bread, The Essential Norman Borlaug'

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_lookout_tower
This was always an idiotic premise. The Federal money laundering statute refers to 'monetary instruments' which it then defines:

(i) coin or currency of the United States or of any other country, travelers’ checks, personal checks, bank checks, and money orders,

or

(ii) investment securities or negotiable instruments, in bearer form or otherwise in such form that title thereto passes upon delivery;

If you could convince a judge that Bitcoin wasn't currency, it would still qualify as an investment security / negotiable instrument by just about any definition.
True, but that was the one specifically mentioned in the article so I figured I'd address it.
"On experiencing psychosis", written by a woman who believes she is dead
Does 2600 count?
Do you also match the names with the technologies they're related with? It would be awkward to call a Windows server "Torvalds".
This isn't even close to being on topic, but I upvoted you because 'fat basslines on Novation' reminded me of the Wu Tang Clan! Triumph is a great song...
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Proper Python would use the csv module for this operation, as your CSV export would break if `header` or `dataset[key]` contains a comma.
I don't know if it is launch-day blues, but on new MacBook Pro, the demo notebooks are sluggish, and some of the examples throw errors.

And it uses "CTRL" to mean "Command", throughout.
Tantalizing, but not a perfect first-impression, and it reinforces the feeling the I'd be let down if I stray from the path of polished examples and into real work.

...and it seems I corrupted the master copy of the "Things to Try" notebook -- clicking on the link again, from the home page, launches the corrupted notebook I made earlier.
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I think we call it Fiber to the Node.
I'm not sure if you can assume this. I'm not sure myself, but the path that sodium benzoate finds its way into the bloodstream (or wherever it needs to be) is a bit more complicated than just "eat this pure sodium benzoate".

Apparently, cinnamon can be used as a vehicle for moving sodium benzoate to wherever it needs to be.
Maybe they will sue Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn next... you know... because the website in question was using TCP/IP.
Beats Headphones are fashion items, which is really most of the innovation they provide: making a normally geeky or tacky piece of equipment into something stylish.

What it looks like to you is besides the point, it's how they look to the people around you.
In short, I think the X240 improves incrementally on its predecessors, but the rest of the market has moved fast enough that it's behind the curve now.

Slightly longer:

For $1000 today, I can get a Macbook Air with:

- An SSD

- Twice the battery life (yeah, the X240 has nice removable batteries, but that kind of defeats the point of an ultraportable)

- A higher res screen that's only half an inch bigger

- A far nicer trackpad

- A nicer graphics chipset

I'd be giving up:

- Alloy roll cage and spill protection

- Powerbridge (hot-swappable batteries)

- A touch screen/digitizer (an Intuos2 ($40 from ebay) fills that gap nicely for me)

I don't think the X240 is a bad laptop, but, right now, the costs far outweigh the benefits.
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Would you consider it an invasion of your privacy if the data was anonymized?
Why I quit Facebook and we are sharing much more than you think
I'm floored that I had to find out about this story on television because the story fell off the front page so quickly. Something about the process here is broken.
It's not entirely true. Even though the vast majority of tobacco-related cancer deaths may be caused by polonium, cancer deaths are still only around a third (iirc) of total tobacco deaths.
How many of you guys actually hook up any of your equipment to a hard line? I've used nothing but wifi for years. I'd be more interested in ultra-high speed wireless that could stretch to 30m and get me to that fiber node.
My impression is that you don't hate to be that guy, but actually love to express this opinion.

Open source systems like Sage always look desirable, simply by virtue of being open source. But every time I look at it I'm left with a very bad taste in the mouth because of the constant badmouthing of non-open-source systems that is going on in that community. Companies do that sort of thing, and it doesn't inspire trust. But we know that it can happen just because a few people in the management made bad decisions. But when a community (!) around an open source (!) system takes on that attitude, it looks much worse. Don't you realize you're driving people away?

Why not put all that energy into improving your own system instead of trying to actively hinder others? Examples of that are forking GMP and making in GPL (not LGPL); actively pointing out to people (as Mr. Hermoso did to me) that no you can't link Octave to Mathematica because Octave is GPL (which is just a hindrance for my research, as well as to others); building on the fallacy that results obtained with Sage are inherently better because Sage is open sourced software is _theoretically_ verifiable. All software is buggy, and the only thing that makes a research result more trustworthy is if it is indeed verified, not if it's theoretically verifiable, but no one ever does it. Practical verification is almost never about reading the source code. It's about making sure the result is consistent and computing it with alternative tools.
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> I feel that this is a net loss to society

Is this just a random feeling or is there something to back this up?

How are you even assessing things like the value of the difference in precision caused by doing something like creating (mostly) distribution equivalent (but fake) data and the cost of leaked person details to hundreds of thousands or millions of people?
By "outed", G+ exposed the user's public name to someone, connecting two public pieces of the user's data, that the user intended to keep separate.

It was a poor UI experience, but it wasn't a private-data leak.
It's most likely internal, you run your own org ca.
The data would be anonymised. No one would be connecting your records to _you._
Doesn't show useful info. Window load time is 1809ms, workspace load time 94ms, everything else is under 20ms. I hate being nitpicker, but thats a lot of time to load window.
I think the most illuminating thing about HIPAA is the fact that it lays bare just how poorly doctors and lawyers and healthcare administrators actually understand logical security in the computer science sense. I will point to the use of fax machines as a superb example. The law essentially considers PGP and a fax machine to be security equivalents.

And I say that as a doctor.
Ya...part of the design goal is that a microkernel as envisioned by AST should be able to able to have interchangeable userlands, including multiple different userlands running at the same time. So in that sense, AST was spot on.
How do you know he did a good job if you didn't read the book?
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Like GM? http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/gm-recall/lawsuit-says-gm-h...
EA taking notes from Supercell, King, Gungho
I should add that every time I asked WRI support about implementation details, I did receive an answer with references to the method used.
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No.

In the way that villagers aspire to be people who wear fancy suits and order people about for a living.
What would this break, theoretically? It's clearly not as rigorous as something based on HM, but I'm curious what the specific disadvantages are.
You can also self-sign for internal machines, and leave your public ones one wildcard deep.
I ran the benchmark multiple times and I got very consistent results. I know that doesn't eliminate the VM factor, but it certainly minimizes it.

Also, this test wasn't meant to be scientific. I'm not selling docker, postgres or digital ocean, just satisfying a personal curiosity.

Benchmarks are touchy things in general, I understand that.

I published the results and I'd love to see someone publish conflicting results, or verify them. I've tried to be as transparent as possible.
Google should take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7951019

Then buy Theranos.
Absolute position. The benefits are not that appealing to me.
The anonymization rules for PHI are strict enough that it would make a lot of the interesting mining you could do difficult if not impossible. Specifically the restrictions related to dates and locations.
While well-meaning, sentiments like these are part of the problem.

The proposed frame is "mathematica is somewhat better in polish and functionality, but we should stick to OSS on principle."

The problem is, by this argument, no will actually ever know what Mathematica is, what it does, and what cool ideas it had that could potentially inspire further work.

All the examples of alternative software have lots to learn from Mathematica; but thinking of Mathematica as a collection of algorithms for math is both wrong and misses the point. Mathematica is increasingly about knowledge computing; its moved on from where other systems are now just thinking about getting to.

Instead of competing with and replacing mathematica, everyone would be better off first learning from it, and then trying to apply and extend the fundamental principles in their own work.
No, I don't love talking about it. I actually find it saddening and arduous.

I don't consider what I said "bad mouthing". Maybe it was. I tried to be as respectful as possible, and provide links where I could.

I am certainly trying to improve existing systems. I've written a library for doing computational group theory, for which a paper was just published, and I plan to include it in Maxima.

Regarding verifiability, Sage has a lot more going for it than "theoretical verification". Professional mathematicians, especially those in algebraic combinatorics, regularly hold conferences and write software along with papers to show correctness of the system, and write new mathematically grounded functionality.

I apologize to both the authors of open source systems and to potential consumers of such systems if I am driving them away. My goal is to at least spark the idea for one to step back and evaluate what it means/implies/etc. to make use of proprietary mathematical systems, especially in professional or academic settings.
One aspect of host name syntax is hereby changed: the restriction on the first character is relaxed to allow either a letter or a digit. Host software MUST support this more liberal syntax.

-- http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1123#section-2
Do you have a timestamp?
Actually, Linus Torvalds is on GitHub and Google+. And he still actively gets into 'flame'-fests in social media: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/pull/17#issuecomment-56613...
When "anonymization" is done poorly, it has consequences.

It was bad enough with Netflix recommendations getting de-anonymized; imagine what could happen with actual health records leaked.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2009/09/your-secrets-live...
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> Selenium seems very heavy-weight to me

Fair point. Perhaps try Sulfur?
The rest of the world will welcome the Google car with open arms.

The US will have to make do with their automobile deathtraps and continue to live suboptimal lifespans (35th worldwide) for a country with such a high GDP per capita (6th).
But clearly the legibility penalty didn't help them to realize this subtle distinction before posting. Any number of alternatives (limiting the post length, auto-commenting after a certain length, limiting the number of links in a post, giving posters the chance to revise if a post is too long, reducing legibility as a factor of length, or just letting people downvote the posts, etc) might well have resulted in better behavior. But all the current solution seems to accomplish is penalizing everyone else.
I don't care what people wear to work, as long as its not the horrible (for men that is) dress shirt with jeans and dress shoes. Gah, that's like the generic men's uniform of Palo Alto, and its an ungainly hybrid. Dress shirt untucked of course. And throw in a sports coat with the mix, and you have hte ultimate in ungainly, hybrid outfits that (before I transitioned and I wore such clothes) to me always seemed extremely awkward.