skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey, Austin from Assembly here.

Here's an example of what an ownership breakdown might look like: https://assembly.com/helpful/partners

When a new product is created, 10,000,000 App Coins are created, and 500,000 of them are allocated by the idea creator (often just to her or himself). Going forward, each bit of work is put in a bounty. The community can offer their opinions of how much a bounty should be worth – and the impact of those opinions is weighted based on how much ownership a user has in the product.

Additionally, each product has a "tip contract" to reward idea creation and product management. The default is that 5% of each bounty goes to the creator of that bounty, and 5% of it is split amongst the Core Team (this could just be the original idea creator, or could be several people).

Anytime the Core Team awards a bounty, the corresponding number of coins is minted and distributed.
No hesitation, I'll talk to the laywers who specialise in O-1 to see if I'm eligible and if not, what are the missing requirements.

And yes, I'm on a tourist B1/B2 visa.
I also wonder if the Google drone uses a symmetric airfoil (no lift at level flight) like the QuadShot, or if they use a standard wing design. The symmetric airfoil obviously makes control easier when in vertical (quadrotor) flight, but loses efficiency and stability in horizontal (plane) flight.

I have a QuadShot and it's not too difficult to control. I think with a good control system the airframe could work pretty well. The QuadShot is quite lightweight, has all its mass centered, and has a pretty large wing cross-section which makes it difficult to fly in the wind though. I also don't feel that the QuadShot's firmware was ever quite nailed down completely - I feel that there's still a lot more stability to be gained by tweaking PIDs and improving the control system, or by adding additional inputs like optical flow.

The Google device probably benefits a lot from being bigger as it's difficult to substitute for inertia.
Notably, unlike many organizations that accept bitcoin, Apache is taking bitcoin directly, and not instantly converting to fiat. They plan to pay vendors in bitcoin where possible, and convert the rest to fiat.
If you could somehow identify the posts that have significant flamewars or pun subthreads, I would find this the single most indispensable tool in the history of the internet.
Nice, its about time someone re-invented the old Technorati concept. Doing sentiment analysis on news trends seems like such a useful idea, I'm really surprised there are more sites like this.
Oh, so this is your thing right? Checking people's background...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8183055

;)

And as I'm saying in following comments, even in 2006, this was poor performance.
SVG in general falls over with very large datasets, I find html canvas based libraries such as maybe Flot better for thousands upon thousands of datapoints. I love d3 as much as anyone and all of it's offspring, but SVG is too slow in most browsers (especially Firefox) for lots of datapoints.
It works for Europe's right to be forgotten, for silly definitions of "works".
Zynga’s first foray into WebGL, and how it runs on IE10
Some Imporatant URLs You Should Know as a Google User
I thought this was a pretty good analysis:

https://www.academia.edu/7666373/An_Order-of-Magnitude_Estim...

tl;dr:

"This means that we can expect our current industry best efficiency of 0.733 W/GH to reach 0.0000000873804 W/GH – so even the most ignorant, arrogant, narrow-minded and pseudo-intellectual critics and arm-chair academics should note that in the event that Bitcoin scales to a million times its current size and market cap over the next 30 years, it’s environmental impact will still be insignificant compared to existing systems."
Basic research is the foundation of all engineering. You can't design things without understanding how the universe works. If you need examples, look no further than to particle physics, which has had a huge influence on medical imagery since at least the fluoroscope.
> economies of scale built in.

You've chosen a particularly odd phrase here, since BitCoin mining was fundamentally designed to get computationally more expensive over time.

So, no, an economy of THE OPPOSITE OF SCALING was built in.
Yeah you're right, I was lining myself up for this one :-) There are plans to merge the first three args, merge the dimension args into a Shape enum and more. Still early days with lots of refining to do!
Super cool! Very impressive that this all came together in such a short amount of time. Having "real-world" projects like this in Rust is essential, and this library looks great, so kudos.
Self-reliance I guess. You don't want to be depending on a third party if things get serious.
I'd love to hear any ideas you guys have, or any thoughts on what we should talk about.

We're in prototype phase and we have done some overseas testing. We're also going through the process of building it for HomeKit.
Also have the privilege of still working on these types of networks; one of the things that fascinated me was the money and effort that telecoms companies are spending these days on tracking boats/ships/fishermen by their transponders.

There dedicated people, equipment and networks just to track these offenders, as the telecoms obviously want to work out who to send the bill onto once they've fixed the cable, or which insurance company ;)
Is there any word from Mozilla on their position for an official UI toolkit for Rust?

I am past caring if it is a totally native looking toolkit, just as long as it looks good/consistent across all platforms with hardware acceleration I am good to go.
Not even close to profitable.
> Poor people in the US don't have credit cards.

No, this is wrong. The real tragedy is that poor people do have credit cards. The credit card system overwhelmingly favors those at the top -- people who automatically pay off their balances each month and enjoy 30-day interest free loans the rest of the time, versus people at the bottom who have a perpetual negative balance on their cards and who pay exorbitant interest rates that would be illegal in a civilized country.
Take a look at OneBusAway (if you haven't already), you might find that useful and thought-provoking.
You may also be interested in checking out iubenda (http://www.iubenda.com/en).

Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with this company other that I use it for MailCharts (http://www.mailcharts.com/).

Edit: Your first license with iubenda is free: https://www.iubenda.com/en/pricing
Especially if said miner could pay to the chip makers offshore bank account with his offshore bank account funded by bitcoin mining.
This is also where passing arguments by name would come in handy.
Ah, no, that's a completely different sense of scale invariance. In a fractal you still have to measure the sizes of different similar structures, and generally pay attention to length. It seems that this article is discussing a much deeper abandonment of length.
The thing is, the universe and mathematics are totally separate entities. The universe did not start off "as math", nor is it defined by it.

We, as clever little beings found similarities and analogies between the universe and mathematics and leverage those to make conjecture regarding the form and nature of the universe. However, having a "complete" knowledge of either mathematics or the physical universe does not confer complete knowledge of the other.
The difference is that you are exchanging money for a service between two willing parties. Bitcoin miners don't take anyone else's money in exchange for verifying transactions.
So, more concretely:

* I found a project

* I create a task and put a bounty on it of 10,000 coins

* awwstn does the task

* awwstn is awarded 9,000 coins

* I get 500 coins for being the sole member of the core team

* I get 500 coins for creating the task

At the end, I have 501,000 coins and awwstn has 9000. Is that right?

Edit: One more question. When my project starts earning revenue, assuming nothing else has changed, I get 98.24% of the revenue share and awwstn gets 1.76%? Do the unallocated coins figure into this?
I don't believe Go intends to be used for Desktop applications. I believe that's more Rust's goal.

Go I suspect is intended for more service related stuff, backend, server, processing, etc.

Though I'm not 100% sure about this.
Are people still adopting XSLT for new projects? It seems it has fallen out of favor.
Or you can use a hash generated from multiple market values around the world. That way it will also work 7/24.
Nope. It's totally not a thing we're concerned about at the moment, given the language's immaturity.
My question is how do hosting and credentials work for sites built through Assembly? Who makes the $$$ outlay for a site? Does the project creator have to front and control things personally to begin with? Or is there some sort of arrangement where a particular company hosts in exchange an ownership stake and special status project members have rights to push changes through to 'live'?
Warning: I am not involved with the project, and it has been a while since I heard anything official.

With that said, the last time I heard, the reason for Rust's existence (Servo) did not have any plans for implementing anything outside of the browser rendering & javascript engine. So, no browser chrome, which would be the only reason I can think that they would develop an "official" UI toolkit.

I would love for someone involved in the project to correct me, though :)
I find it hard to believe you were among the first to use this phrase for social media and/or advertising services.

It seems in fairly widespread use even for that use case.
You're right, I don't know what I was thinking... Anyways, about your second paragraph, doesn't that only work if the number of desired outcomes (children) is non-prime?
You mean as an employer I can't just use 'contractor' as a way to skirt paying payroll taxes, unemployment, workers comp, etc and then hire the cheapest dev I can find and refuse payment if the work isn't top notch? As far as I've been able to determine, as an employer I am entitled to software. I am entitled to workers who produce things that amplify the earnings of my company by an order of magnitude while paying just enough to keep the workers complacent. This is America, is it not?

(note: This post has been sarcasm.)
A soul, if one exists.

Also, I understand that there is a school of thought that "you" are not only the physical body, but the ongoing electrical impulses in your mind. Reviving a brain that without its functional state might be akin to turning on a PC with no operating system installed.
I'm trying to OS what I can in another PistonWorks project called rust-dsp

https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/rust-dsp

It only has a basic DSP-chain atm on top of a PortAudio IO callback, but hoping to contribute some synthesis, sampling and effects work soon! Especially now I have some widgets to design instruments with :)
Google Glass app detects human emotions in real time
The (left,right)_seperators for me are | instead of the cool looking arrows. How do I enable these?
From their website, they appear to both provide services to talk to inmates (of which I have a few friends from my time growing up in a poor, crime infested neighborhood) and to act as a data broker about the prison system and inmates, something I've had a long interest in and is related (tangentially) to my professional work in data analytics.

I won't be using their services either, neither as a communication method nor as a data supplier, and will try to steer any companies I work on data analysis at away from using their data.
Biometrics, or how to lose an eye
Ralph Lauren Debuts Biometric Shirts at the U.S. Open
yes absolutely thanks for clarifying what I meant
Since the USA owns GPS they could turn it off whenever they feel the need to sanction Russia, therefore they have created their own infrastructure.

And yes, this is also relevant for the military, Russia needs the ability to strike any adversary if they have to, as does the US and China.

No block is going to lower their guard (I'm not so sure, that the US wouldn't strike Russia right now if they could without being punished), so everyone is going to race to a first strike potential where they can't be punished by an adversary.

Once that point is reached by any side, nobody knows what will happen, which is obviously the reason, why Russia resisted the US missile defense in Poland.

We couldn't even tell what would happen, if all sides had friendly relations to each other. Someone will have the upper hand, therefore someone could be submitted. And I'm sure that none of those countries mentioned would accept submission.
Outfit7 Limited [Makers of Talking Tom Cat] GitHub DMCA Takedown Request
You should be sued for wasting Google time!
I just double checked, in case of update, no such option.
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I'm not sure how typical that is. It would be interesting to know the demographics of age, occupations, and locations of HNers. One of the reasons that I come here is that I can almost always count on reading posts from non-startup, non-computer-tech, smart and interesting people who have knowledge and viewpoints to share about a wide variety of topics. Just today there were posts to another thread by astronomers and physicists, possibly in their 20s but just as likely not, and unlikely (I would think) to be in SV. My impression is that there's not some diversity here, but a great deal of it, and it's not limited to tech people.
At the very least, it's successful for Google, since they appear to be making some money from it.
People from assembly fronts the initial costs of running a company/product and take 25% of the profits every month once it's profitable.

Their FAQ is at https://assembly.com/help/basics
At the end of the day these submarine cables are just optical cables, that is a really long strand of glass that you can send optical light (laser) down, and it'll pop out at the other end.

So the capacity is really based on the equipment at either end (and repeaters if required), the cables can degrade overtime due to hydrogen impregnation and damage from ships etc... your also limited by distance before you need to repeat, however basically there will be newer and faster hardware on the market every day meaning there is no way to work out the total capacity.

I've seen unrepeated short span submarine cables only lit/working at 10Gbps, the equipment at either end can support substantially faster (100Gbps+) with some small hardware changes, however simple business sense means your only going to provide capacity for what your customers are only demanding.

Prices are also more relational to the traffic going over them cables (and demand) rather than the distance, for example it can be cheaper to get from London to New York on one of these cables than it is to get around the UK.
The material looks to be the same as the wicking filters used in HVAC humidifiers. They're typically recommended to be changed every couple months under normal usage, though they'll usually get clogged up with dust/dirt and sediment from the water before the actual cardboard/material gives out.
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> 10,000,000 App Coins are created, and 500,000 of them are allocated by the idea creator

What happens to the other 9,500,000 app coins? Who 'owns' them for purposes of profit distribution and opinion weight?

> Anytime the Core Team awards a bounty, the corresponding number of coins is minted and distributed.

I'm a little confused about the term 'minted' here. Are additional coins created, increasing the total past 10,000,000 coins, or are they subtracted from the 9,500,000 that were created but not allocated to/by the idea creator at product creation? If they are taken out of the 9,500,000 coins, what happens when there are no coins remaining?
You could require some other kind of block interleaved between proof-of-work blocks. For instance, imagine you do proof-of-stake as follows: Any account with more than X btc (as of the previous block in the chain) can mint a block by including as the nonce the previous hash value signed with their private key, constraining the rest of the block such that the only thing to vary in the new block is the time value, adding a rule that between two chains with equal difficulty the one with the earlier most recent POS block wins, and forbidding acceptance of blocks "from the future".

This would seem to lead to a situation where, after a proof-of-work block is minted, those minting POW blocks relax and those minting POS blocks march things forward for each of their accounts until they find the earliest time that satisfies any of them - at which point they simply wait until that time arrives (for themselves or anyone else playing).
That is certainly one option. It is also the most pessimistic version, which is why a pro tech forum like HN is not likely to take it as the majority view.
Do you have a car? Go in your car!

Don't have a car? Go in a park!

Generally, you can take a nap fine in the day. Bring a book and sleep with the book on your chest. Nobody is going to disturb someone that fell asleep reading a book.
> This shows a lack of understanding of the structure of late stage VC deals. These are convertible notes, not straight equity.

Capital structure doesn't change the enterprise value of a company. Call it equity, venture debt, mezzanine, super-duper late series H, etc. Enterprise value is what is. The capital structure can be 100% equity, it can be 99% debt and 1% equity, but valuation, which is what the article talks about refers to a $2bn to $10bn change in value. I think you should check some corporate finance theory[0], it might help clarify things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modigliani%E2%80%93Miller_theo...
Why we should avoid Kaspersky
The bank bailouts had a huge negative return in real terms, just not in nominal terms.

They required the devaluation of the dollar via Fed 'printing.' The Fed had to take trillions in nuked assets off the balance sheet of Bank of America, Citi, and others.

The primary bailout was not the Treasury program TARP, but the Fed programs.

That stole purchasing power from everyone that uses the US Dollar. That purchasing power will never be returned. Trillions in real wealth were destroyed, that is gone. Even if you supposed all assets returned to their previous value, the time cost, wrecked credit ratings, debt accumulation, etc. that was involved in that loss of wealth is still massive when it has to do with tens of trillions in total asset value.

The collapse of Mt Gox isn't even a rounding error compared to the real wealth destroyed by the Fed in the last five years through dollar devaluation. It's equivalent to about ten hours, from one day, of QE the past year.

Not to mention, any bitcoins lost in the collapse of Mt Gox, increases the value of all other bitcoins over time due to the reduction in supply. To be like the bank bailouts ala the Fed, Mt Gox would have had to create a lot of new bitcoins in the process of being destroyed.
Christopher Meiklejohn on “A Note on Distributed Computing”
https://scott.arciszewski.me/public/kasperspy/ - Another mirror of the original blog post
Its a relatively naive statement. What is 'before' and 'after' time is defining time in terms of time. While it does seem ridiculous to say something is 'before' time, it doesnt seem anywhere as ridiculous to say something is unrelated to time, beyond time, or independent from time.

The naivete is that a sophisticated philosopher would understand this, and at the very least not push forward a philosophical argument that really hinges on connotations of words instead of logical/philosophical pillars.

Anyways if the statement didnt have a famous philosophers name attached to it i doubt it would have gotten any response, its a pretty baseline/naive reaction to a complex scientific idea.
No, no, no. Don't work for free. Apprentices don't work for free in any other industry. Why should you work for free?

Go out and get a job that trains you to be "production ready." You will get to to work on bigger projects, "code, refactor", and do "grunt work". Plus you will get paid.

Nothing wrong with seeking an apprenticeship. I just don't understand why you would think that "free" is a good idea.
That was the impression I also got from the post. It would be nice to have someone from coinbase clarify.
I wanted to provide feedback on the website, but no feedback form. Ugh. No, I don't want to write email. Oh well. I wonder how much feedback they are losing on how they could do things better, and why they don't think about this. /rant
The End of Gamers
"Bitcoin miners don't take anyone else's money in exchange for verifying transactions."

Yes they do. Your whole point, I thought, was that they're being paid to do it. They presently take a small fraction of value from every bitcoin. They also receive any transaction fees offered by any of the transactions they are processing, but in practice those are presently (almost?) always zero.
Are there any particular resources that you recommend for a high-level overview of this kind of stuff? I'm an engineer with a solid grasp of classical mechanics and strong math background, but very little exposure to modern physics (basically, anything discovered after 1905) and I would like to be able to read about and appreciate this type of work. Where to start?

Apologies for taking the conversation off on a tangent, but you seem passionate about this.
Yes, (replying to all here) you are correct. I found the claim distasteful to say the least, and reacted after reading the article. In any case, I couldn't have done a better job of pointing out the fallacy of it than the mongabay.com page. I would've edited again right away had I thought anyone needs more convincing of the overall point.
Bonuses Are the New Raises
Regardless of efficiency, there is an equilibrium where energy cost = mining reward.
Yeah, the other funny thing is that there are only a few boats in the world that can repair breaks. So if there are too many outages, you just have to wait for them to finish and then sail across the world.
You're relying on brain that has ingrained, complex, pattern matching "functions" that have many known exploits. See various optical illusions, and it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteers be at the rghit pclae.

Also issues with fonts having identical visuals for one and el and sometimes lower case eye, capital oh and zero, etc. And soon, probably (already?), unicode and other escape codes in urls.

DON'T RELY ON HOVERING OVER.
> The insurance covers losses due to breaches in physical or cyber security, accidental loss, and employee theft.

I'm not convinced that this even protects the online wallet against Mt Gox style corporate malfeasance, where much of the damage was done as an intentional corporate decision by the leadership. (I'm conjecturing that's what happened at Mt Gox; regardless, this seems not to cover against them trying something intentionally with their coins related to trading, and then losing them all.)

Additionally, as you pointed out, this only covers a very small portion of their holdings - a percentage smaller than the number of Mt Gox coins that were "recovered" (about 25%).

Finally, Coinbase being insured against the value of the bitcoin loss doesn't translate in to you being covered, as Coinbase may accrue other debts they have to pay off before your holding in the event of a hack large enough to cause a serious business disturbance, such as paying off creditors with higher standing.
Um, so obviously duty doesn't stop poverty or wars.
The benefits of this model include less attack surface area and much leaner code resulting in less bugs. It doesn't fit every project, but the "configuration" code for this WM would likely be larger than the WM itself.