skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be cool if the position and rotation would be synchronized between the two, so I could choose a nice view in the Real-Time tab and switch over to Photo Realistic to get the raytraced version.
"nearly everyone actually using it to exchange value is really just using it as a just-in-time proxy for some other currency"

And this is fantastic! It demonstrates clearly that the payment processing aspect alone (without even arguing about the currency aspect) of Bitcoin is a killer application. Being able to receive international payments from any country, in a few minutes, 24/7 (no bank holidays), with extremely low fees, with zero fraud (thanks to transactions being irreversible) beats any current payment processing platform. Quite a few business and financial leaders have noted this.
These are also the reasons why Bitcoin is starting to provide great competition to the remittance industry (eg. http://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/in-depth-review-bitpesa)
No EE input in this story at least WRT docsis.

Too many HFC plants with enormous capital and labor investment in bidirectional amps which boil down to amplify 30 MHz and down and send upstream that direction while amplify 50 MHz and up and set downstream the opposite direction.

Maybe in all new construction or retrofit or after a hurricane rebuild... Maybe.

The biggest problem I see is Shannons Law will not be denied, and if the DSP to pull this off burns more watts than just transmitting a couple more milliwatts to get a better SNR you can spend on higher speed...

What I'm getting at is if you want a TX RX ratio of 50:50 then merely increasing TX power by a cheap 3 DB will give you enough SNR margin to double your speed, making it possible to run "full speed" while listening half the time. The real world is never quite that simple. Then again real DSP processing is neither free or low power.

(Let me expound on Shannon's Law... If you double your transmitted data by doubling your power to double your SNR at the same bit error rate for less power than perhaps a couple watts of DSP, then you're better off doubling your power. For, say, wifi, or bluetooth, or cellphones. Or if its cheaper to spend a couple watts on DSP than to double your tx power, maybe for satellites, then the DSP obviously wins. I'm thinking low power wifi is perhaps the worst case scenario for this new tech despite the implications in the article...)
Perhaps I just lack imagination, but if someone blew their week's money on nonessentials, my sympathy is rather limited, and they can figure out a way to survive the couple days they've run out of money. Maybe some TaskRabbit jobs or panhandling. As far as children, I don't think this offers any new tools beyond what we have now (CPS) to help make sure they're taken care of.

I do have concerns about disabilities in particular and medical costs more generally. Someone with a real disability (instead of the fake disabilities rampant now) has extremely high costs that far exceed any reasonable amount provided by the BI. Are they just screwed? Condemned to private charity? What about cancer patients, or even just old people as a class?

And I suspect these very expensive tail-end cases make up the majority of the costs of existent programs. Banning age-discrimination in health insurance and an individual health insurance mandate for catastrophic coverage might account for the medical aspects, but that doesn't address the disability portion.

Not sure of the answer, here.
This would be awesome. The one problem I've had with Spotify's radio service is only being able to pick up on genres and such. Many times I might like only 1 or 2 bands from a more obscure genre, but spotify radio does not understand this no matter how many songs I downvote.

In fact, my "starred" playlist radio is currently stuck on some kind of 80s metal thing. I have no idea how it got that way, but it refuses to play anything but metal, when that's not really what I like. If I make a copy of my starred playlist and make a radio from the new playlist, it reflects the actual songs at hand..

There's also the matter of unique bands that while fitting into a very wide genre, don't really fit into any widely known sub-genre. Meaning radio for the band is almost useless in many cases. There is the "related bands" bit which helps it a bit, but this only works with popular bands and still is very mismatched often times
Either we get a handle on the NSA or 10 years from now we find out that the NSA was targeting X political group illegally.

What happens when we find out that the NSA was combing through data more thoroughly for democrats? IMHO this is 10x more of a 'threat to our freedom' than any terrorist.
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Stellar doesn't deserve the title of "cryptocurrency". It is centralized. It's basically just a fork of Ripple; it was never used because it wasn't really an improvement over fiat systems in any way. A small number of nodes have all the power. If they want, they can freeze your funds or steal from you via arbitrary inflation. Stellar is just as bad.
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This might be what I am looking for since I looked at the datetime docs the first time years ago.
Gotcha. Makes sense. Time for money tradeoff. Thanks for the answer!
I don't have time to skim the papers now, but here's the research project the CTO worked on while at Stanford that the tech appears to be based off:

http://sing.stanford.edu/fullduplex/
http://sing.stanford.edu/pubs/mobicom11-duplex.pdf
Exactly what i was thinking. Which the author probably would have been told over and over if he had comments enabled -.-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_miss_(safety)
How much rampant identity theft has to occur before our government admits that it's broken? Leaving things like credit ratings in the hands of 3 incompetent companies like Experian, Equifax and Transunion that control our livelihood is an affront to common decency.

As a victim of identity theft, and as someone who took extreme measure to protect himself from identity theft before it occurred, I can tell everyone without a doubt that the only reason why you're not a victim of identity theft is because of random chance. There is no mechanism to protect yourself, and your information is readily available. The only reason why you haven't gotten your identity stolen is because the thieves simply haven't gotten to you yet.

It's infuriating that these companies can get away with what is essential libel and not have anything done to them. I shredded all my mail, I haven't given any real information about me on any web site since 1997, never gave out any information about me willy-nilly including applying for too many credit cards, and I never fall for phishing attacks. And yet somehow I found myself victim of identity theft, and it took 2+ years to clean up, and it's still not over. Since so many web sites use Experian data to verify my identity, I've lost a lot of opportunity to get credit, loans, etc, because Experian has mixed my information with the fraudulent information, so I get answers to those automated question wrong.

It's truly infuriating, and the system is completely broken, yet no one in government cares.
There's always quite a bit of handwaving when it comes to how much overhead would really be saved. How many of the federal government's 2.7 million workers have anything to do with qualifying welfare benefits? The social security administration employes about 70,000 people, and the centers for medicare and medicaid services employs about 4,000 people. A lot of people, much larger reductions in the federal workforce have been accomplished before. Plus, it's not like all those jobs suddenly go away. SSA does a lot more than qualify welfare benefits.
> I've got an 8k word essay ...

I hope it won't be a Gish gallop. It indicates that there probably is not one single big case against Bitcoin but many small cases. There is an interesting essay about that here: http://www.gwern.net/Bitcoin%20is%20Worse%20is%20Better
Stellar is a direct fork of Ripple, with basically zero significant changes.
To me it begs the question why there is an exempt class? To me its like saying some people are exempt from the realities that inform the 40 hr work week. Things like productivity research, health and wellness research etc.
This is the key. As the author describes eliminating things like the mortgage deduction - but if you implement a BIG while still leaving legislators the ability to levy taxes against certain constituents over others, we remain at exactly the same place we are now.

The Fairtax proposal at http://www.fairtax.org has long advocated a lesser sort of BIG (called the 'prebate,' which would give everyone a check for their standard deduction each month to avoid people paying taxes on essential goods). After that, all would pay a flat sales tax on goods. Prices of goods would only increase minimally, given the absence of tax compliance costs for businesses. One could conceivably expand this type of BIG and do away with the welfare programs altogether.

But without doing away with the IRS, the system remains corrupt.

Sadly, neither of these proposals will ever happen, because both would require the federal government give up its ability to pick and choose to which constituents and special interests they dole out favors.
Why does it have to be that way, though?

Why can't I just have a list of "high priority apps" and "low priority apps", or even just "highest priority" and "everything else."

It's not something an app can solve; but I personally spend a long time trying to ensure that my phone is safe to use as a navigational aid. Currently this usually includes voiding my warranty (to root, jailbreak, etc.) so that I can bypass the stock dialer. -- That just feels _wrong_ to me. I should not be voiding my warranty to make a device safer.
Well, it's in base 10 rather than base 60. But, yeah, perhaps it's even more quixotic than Esperanto..
Async computation is not the fad, it's poor syntax is.

C#, F# and coffeescript have excellent syntax that remove the line noise caused by writing async code. Actors and channels also nicely remove line noise from async programming.

If anything as computers become more powerful and distributed you'll see threads and locks disappear rather than async computation. Async computation in an imperative style is what most want, threads and locks are what we have.
I'm currently hacking on a toy webserver in Haskell, and from my point of view, I spin off a thread for each request, but Haskell's runtime environment manages all of these as a group of green threads doing aynch IO behind the scenes. Best of both worlds as far as I'm concerned.

I just change

serve request

to

forkIO (serve request)

And magically I have multithreaded aynch IO that seems to be extremely performant.
> Not all at once... just retrieves them for searching and really quick usage. launch the app, type in "m....a....n.." and hit the mandarin option

And now you have two problems. Why would you be searching for mandarin which is the anglicised-ASCII translation for Guānhuà. More correctly, you should be searching for ㄍㄨㄢ ㄏㄨㄚ.
Still not there for me. The devil is in the detail - the sauce and the strawberries in the food picture, the books in the desk picture. Also, I still haven't seen a rendering of a human being that looks genuinely photorealistic.

I used to love that technology was pushing towards this point when I was a kid. Now it scares me. Maybe I'm getting old..
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I dislike crypto currencies and agree with the countries banning them. All "money" trading should be regulated and taxed for the benefit of society. Russia does need to go after their oligarchs, though, like Putin did to the one guy several years ago, and use the money to further society. I dislike when people get filthy rich off the backs of others, and I doubly dislike when people play shell games and other BS loophole nonsense to avoid paying Ceasar what he's owed.
How to write a Yelp review that won't cost you
Congrats Sol. I know you've been working hard on putting together a great source.
> what happens to people who blow their money on nonessentials? Is there a secondary net for them, or are they allowed to starve?

Simple tweaks can help make it harder to fall through the net. For example, rather than cutting a BI check once a year, you cut 52 checks once a week (or once per pay period for those getting it as part of their paycheck.) Blow through your check and you starve for a few days rather than the rest of the year.

It may be paternalistic, but it removes a lot of the need for additional safety nets.
First off, I have no idea what I'm talking about here - I have no idea how other countries run their educational institutions and my understanding of international (non-U.S.) cultures is limited.

I know that here in the U.S. there's been a great deal of effort put into providing equal opportunities for people of all races/ethnicities/gender/backgrounds. We've also been trying very hard to prevent our educational system from instilling a sense of failure or inadequacy in our children. The motivations for these initiatives are complex, and effectiveness is subject for debate. However, I would assert that they do exist and that effort has been put towards those ends. I wonder how much that does or does-not detract from the objective of boosting our math and science scores against other countries. Do other countries have these same struggles - and how have they dealt with them? Do other countries sacrifice children of immigrants, lower economics, etc... at the expense of the children with the abilities to nudge the math/science scores? Do other countries even have challenges comparable to ours? I don't know but would be curious to hear.
Nice. One thought: why do you call it arrow? I know you can call it anything you want, but one reason requests is so popular because the name totally makes sense. My little 0.2 is why not rename it to pydate or something more intuitive.

What's the difference between .utcnow() and .now()? Is one supposed to be an alias or is .now() default to the time the platform is set to?

I've opened an issue regarding calling convention. What do HNer think?

https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow/issues/125
> the real cost of welfare comes from those few who have major medical needs

Are large per-person medical expenses a significant portion of total US welfare spending? Do you have a link to that data?
But now that you explained it's no longer funny.
Any plans to support Windows stacks?
> "I have never been good at learning new frameworks for just the purpose of learning"

Could not agree more with this statement. When I get into a software project really deeply, my work ethic is insane. Obsessive. As I need new technologies, I learn and assimilate them quickly because I'm so motivated to get to the end point. There's never been a tech I've given up on when plowing through a project -- well, maybe OpenCV.

Anyway, I've tried, as the OP has, to teach myself Rails or Django or whatever on the side as a "resume builder" and have lost interest each time. I just don't care enough to learn the not-totally-necessary tech to a degree that would actually do me any good in a job interview if I'm not doing it as part of a passion project where it is required.

From the other angle, when I get an idea and want to build it really fast, I don't have the patience to force myself to learn a new language or tech when, fuck it, I can just do it in Java or whatever.

Catch 22.
One key difference is that the reader is compensating the author for some product. Presumably, a product (series) that doesnt conclude has a different value than one that does.
Will wait for a review before putting money down - there are a lot of unused Leap Motion devices out there, I'm going to be cautious in future.
When you get all hyperbolic and say stuff like "every country on the planet" or the other favorite, "the rest of the world" you make it simple for people who disagree to seize upon the lie and ignore your point.
Or if you think that getting paid overtime is important, you are free to work in a field that pays overtime.

I am fairly certain that even if you include work outside of the 40 hours, my hourly rate is better than I would do otherwise.

On top of that, I can probably continue at this career for the next 35 years without a significant physical toll on my body.

If I thought otherwise, I would probably want to be an electrician; where if I owned my own business I still end up as an exempt employee.
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> For starters there is a whole portion of the population that will see this as people free loading. This a sizable part of the population that believes all "hand-outs" are bad even if it ends up saving us money in the long run.

I suspect another problem is that a significant portion of welfare recipients get way more than a feasible basic income system would provide. I bet this wouldn't get much traction for progressives or conservatives.
My team is using a home made async framework in an embedded project right now, straight C. Suffice to say we all miss the syntactic sugar, but not having things like an MMU or wanting to pay the overhead for a proper threading system means that using an async type system made a lot of sense.

It is a powerful programming model that unfortunately quickly devolves into spaghetti code if not carefully maintained, but properly done it is quite nice and alleviates a ton of worries about synchronizing threads.
you still have limited plans for internet in the US?
Actually, on Twitch you can only stream gaming related content. It does include programming, but only if you are programming a game (or related tool or such).
In my experience, all ESL Russians speak like Russian characters in Hollywood movies. I do find the dropped articles to be quite amusing.
Ah, this is lovely. If there's one routine thing I trip up over again and again, it's times, every time. Big fan, nice work. Will definitely look at using this next project.
Currently a hosted solution on a custom domain or subdomain.
I presume it's a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow_of_time.
The Biggest Challenge in Understanding Our Brain: How and Why Are We Conscious
I imagine it's because of "time flies like an arrow".
Lawyer up and sue. I'm assuming you're American because you referenced Experian. FCRA gives you two years.
quit.
If there were no timezones, then worldtimebuddy.com would show you sunrise, midday, and sunset, or typical start/end of work.
FTA:

"[T]he Russian hackers have been able to capture credentials on a mass scale using botnets — networks of zombie computers that have been infected with a computer virus — to do their bidding. Any time an infected user visits a website, criminals command the botnet to test that website to see if it is vulnerable to a well-known hacking technique known as a SQL injection, in which a hacker enters commands that cause a database to produce its contents. If the website proves vulnerable, criminals flag the site and return later to extract the full contents of the database.

“They audited the Internet,” Mr. Holden said."
How the World's Biggest PR Firm Helps Promote Climate Change Denial
Interesting article, but a bit far fetched. You can sync your clocks to GMT, nothing stopping you do that. But I doubt you will convince anyone else to. And what about daylight saving time? As much as I hate daylight saving, its still a custom that is used in many parts of the world. There was no mention of this in your article. In the end of the day, we are all quite used to syncing our clocks relative to sunrise. 9am means the same thing where ever you are in the world. So in some ways time zone keeps us all in reasonably in sync to sunrise
Texas didn't ban direct sales of Tesla motors, they just have a law banning direct sales of cars, such as those sold by Tesla motors.
Who decides what is worth compromising basic security and a zero-day?

Ultimately, lawmakers and the people who elected them. Additionally, elected presidents and the people who elect them, as well as the court system.
I don't see how basic income can work without also providing free healthcare.
If you're going with BI you might as well also have universal single-payer healthcare to solve the cancer patients aspect, and severe disabilities could be covered as an additional program.
If you do weekly payments, then a few people will just rack up debt, or will just squander the money every week. I think the problem would still exist, and progressives would still push for a secondary net.
I'm not advocating experimentation on the patient population. I'm just saying it is frankly unethical and immoral to withhold a potential cure from a patient with a very high chance of dying, when you have that potential cure at hand and they are making an informed choice that they want to give it a try.

I don't see how treating that one patient will prevent "treatment and control of future outbreaks", either.
this seems to be a visualization of data already present in the logs (behind some labs addon IIRC), but while useful it's a far cry from what new relic does (i.e. insights into _what_ is taking time and why, not just how much/when).
The main point of the parent is this:

"people who don't demand overtime pay are deluded/stupid/victims of false consciousness/act against their own interest"

right? This is was I took him gnu8 to mean when he said "... the startup culture stock option lottery deludes them into thinking they are a part of the ownership class rather than the working class. Thus, they allow basically all of the fruits of their labor to be stolen from them." What other point am I missing?

I think my post and the follow up make a pretty coherent argument that no, in fact, mass delusion on the part of tech industry workers is not the best explanation. The delusion argument is an argument from the "left wing," especially when given in terms of capital and labor and conflict between classes and so forth. That's just a positive statement, not a normative one, so I don't understand how that can constitute a "rant."

What I think might be illuminating to Europeans who are incredulous about how our workers would allow the "fruits of their labor to be stolen," would be to hear why they might not consider working unpaid overtime to be being stolen from.
> The transcript of a court proceeding is the historical record of that event, what will exist and inform the public long after the persons involved are gone. The government's attempt to change this history was unprecedented. We could find no example of where a court had granted such a remedy or even where such a request had been made. This was another example of the government's attempt to shroud in secrecy both its own actions, as well as the challenges to those actions.

Reminder to donate to the EFF: https://supporters.eff.org/donate
Although we are all quivering in anticipation of all these 8 thousand word essays, the fact remains that bitcoin is being used and works well.
the web api [1] looks like it just lets you play with a users play list.

I agree listing history is more usefull

[1] https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/
Same where I live (Belgium), typical limit is around 150 gig.
Handlebars does the same thing with it's "templates". A little irritating when I don't get HTML syntax highlighting since it's in the script tag. I'm sure there's a sublime plugin out there somewhere to fix that.
Although you could see this sort of product coming years ago, the creators are ignoring the fundamental lesson that more mature US industries learned the hard way: Regulate yourselves, or raise red flags and force the government to step in and do it for you (and most likely gut your business model). Or at the very least, show some tact.
Looks promising! Although author said that moment.js was an inspiration, I'm glad that he didn't implement .replace functionality as mutation like moment does. It was a constant source of errors.