jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's getting wider ownership over time so BTC supply is increasingly limited per person/entity interested in it, and the increase in supply is at a decreasing rate over time. This wider ownership and the (ultimately) fixed amount means that it will, even if not monotonically, be a deflationary currency (to the extent that it even is a currency). The rate of new BTC production has to overcome this deflationary pressure, and since there's always less coming out over time the potential inflationary pressure of minting new BTC will become increasingly insignificant.

Any currency with a limited supply will tend to be deflationary over time, though not necessarily experiencing a deflationary spiral depending on the overall economy around it. An active economy will see enough movement of the currency that deflation will, hopefully, be small. But an inactive economy (like bitcoin's) with people hoarding rather than spending will see higher-than-healthy (from an economic perspective, it's great for the hoarders if they can use it later) deflation rates.
>Spending cryptocurrency would result in selling that cryptocurrency, which would drive the price down. That’s not what cryptocurrency investors actually want.

That's a misunderstanding of how these things work. If selling drove the price down, then the price would never go up! Why? Because nobody can buy without a sale on the other side of the transaction. The common belief that selling lowers the price comes from the fact that if you put out a big sell-now order on a market, it will eat through the asks sitting there already. However in the slightly longer term others will put up new asks, up to the equilibrium where the price is close enough to the perceived value that there's no money to be made, after tax, by going in to move it closer. The phrase "Sell! Sell! Sell!" is based on the idea of selling at any price because you want to get rid of it so badly, but that's not a normal sale. That only happens when a party suddenly realizes that they have too much of something, not when they are doing everything as expected.
Economic activity is the process of changing things.

For example, a lumber will chop down trees and sell them for $5000. He changes forest into logs. A house builder will buy those trees, and then take the money he has saved and pay someone to make the planks, another person to nail them, and another person to do all the other things needed to make a house. This person changes some wood and metal into a house.

He will then put this house on the market and someone will offer him $30,000. His total cost was $15,000 and by selling this house he has paid back what he invested and has an additional $15,000 he can reinvest.

This person made more money than you (the laborer) because he changed more things. He changed some wood and metal into a house, while you simply changed wood into a plank as directed by him. Sure, he hired you and 3 other guys who technically did all the work.
But this is a situation where the sum is vastly more than the total of the parts. You were the cogs in his "house building system".

If you don't like where you are, figure out how you can change this world more so than how you are now.
Good news on the colon cancer, though. Exact Sciences released an effective screen for it recently, catching pre-cancer as well. It is a slow growth cancer that can be treated very well at early stages. My guess is that they will drop colon cancer way down the cancer mortality list.
Cannot actually agree! I have recently discovered a perfect WordPress theme that looks absolutely different. Here is actually the link - https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/monstroid2.... . It’s highly customisable offering a simple drag&drop interface.
Intel Xeon processors don't seem to ship with this. Then again intel doesn't expect many people using a xenon on a workstation motherboard as their PC.

I got lucky getting this.
You can use bitbucket with git. As far as the repo is concerned, all you need to do is change the remote urls.

I understand if there are post-commit hooks that depend on github integration and bitbucket integration is not available.
There's a huge inefficiency in the hiring market, and someone is going to make some money solving the problem.

There are huge inefficiencies in everything. That doesn't necessarily mean there's a problem. The only ones who think that hiring is a problem are those who haven't solved it.

Think of it as a bell curve (what a surprise). Some companies suck. Most are mediocre. But a few have it figured out.

I've been on both sides of this process more times than I can count and I've noticed that the companies that do it well have a lot in common:

- They rely on up front third party aptitude and personality screening to eliminate 95% to 98%. They pay, but it's a bargain.

- They use interview quantity (lots of them, by phone and in person).

- They use interview quality (peers, supervisors, customers getting well below the "surface").

- They use variety (interviews, testing, get-togethers).

- They check references without a canned checklist (logic path driven, in-depth).

- They use HR primarily for formalities.

- They take their time.

- They "solve a long term problem" for all parties involved.

I admire your desire to solve a problem that affects so many, but I wonder if your approach is the best way. Maybe it's better for the mediocre to do what already works by copying the excellent. Then they wouldn't have such a big problem to solve.
1. Check https://github.com/nextdns/nextdns
2. JS can’t set a custom resolver, I don’t think DoH can help with that. If yes, source please
Steal?
Except simply surviving in a non-urban environment is even more mundane and exhausting.
That's an obvious lie, people payed by blockstream directly or indirectly have been in control of the sub for years, deleting any thread or comment that contradicts the narrative they want to push.
Lots of reasons. Statistical fluctuation. Equipment malfunction. Misunderstanding of setup. Underestimation of systematic errors. Improper data analysis. Sometimes, new effects that were previously unknown but don't involve new physics.

I once asked a senior physicist what to think about a 4 sigma anomaly that looked like it couldn't just be a systematic effect. He instantly replied "then it's probably two systematic effects pointing in the same direction".
You can go straight to review articles, which are generally available for free on the arXiv. Or if you want the firehose, you can scan for papers whose abstracts contain words like 'hint', 'anomaly', 'excess', 'discrepancy', and so on [0]. No individual has made a global list across all fields, because this would be a thankless and kind of pointless task; nobody has the time to be interested in every anomaly.

0: https://arxiv.org/search/advanced?advanced=&terms-0-operator...
If he has no employee shareholders, exactly what is the benefit of structuring as an S-Corp?
This isn't a tax increase. People taking this informal tax "deduction" are counting on the IRS never reviewing their tax returns. As it stands today, and as it stood when Obama took office, if the IRS gave any of these shady returns a second look, the filers would wind up in tax court.
This paper [1] says coercion is a kind of ad-hoc polymorphism.

[1] "On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and Polymorphism" http://lucacardelli.name/Papers/OnUnderstanding.A4.pdf
We were in my last job. Never again if I can help it.

The codebase was close to a decade old, and a lot of customers were subscribed via a recurring payment feature where our payment processor held their CC#. So transitioning away from ever seeing cardholder data was the least economic option for us.
This is a nice little utility. It'd be good if it supported more google services (reader, gmail?) but hopefully they'll add to it as time goes on.
Also, to people asking for invites, if you sign up on the list, you will generally receive one within a few days.

Additionally, if you are a student you are guaranteed a free one: https://www.google.com/voice/students (though it took nearly 48 hours for mine to show up rather than the advertised 24 hours)
The approach taken in writing the book was not scientific. There were no studies to determine if the phrases and methodology actually work better than a placebo (whatever that would be...lorem ipsum?). It's possible that this approach is no better than anything else, and it only seems to have a positive effect on people because it's what they happened to be doing.

Not being scientific doesn't mean it doesn't work. Plenty of tools and techniques have been invented and developed without science that turn out to be effective when subjected to scientific analysis (example: many plants used for medicinal purposes). It seems to me, though, that many more turn out to be hogwash (examples: many plants used for medicinal purposes, blood-letting, homeopathy, prayer-as-treatment).

In short, P(tool developed w/ science is effective) > P(tool developed w/o science is effective), and I don't know of a methodology more effective than science for determining the effectiveness of a tool or technique.
I've seen prominently labeled tilt sensors in use on freight shipments of computer equipment.

They're not electronic. Tiny (<1mm) beads and adhesive are ensconced in an oddly-shaped plastic bubble. If the freight pallet is tilted more than a few degrees, the beads move and get stuck to one of the adhesive patches. Simple, but effective: I never had to call the company about damage.
Clickable link: https://www.stratismo.com/
Actually, I think Ashton Kutcher can buy a server to deliver 10M emails per day. The idea that somebody else should pay to deliver your marketing is the anomaly; distributed protocols just return to the old status quo.
Are there shapes that are non-geometric?
I get your point that all founders are, or should be rounding their skills out to "wear more hats".

But saying the business founder "is dead" almost doesn't warrant a comment it is so silly.

So, I am a business founder with $$, an idea and a vision. Think I will be learning wordpress? to code or anything? remotely technical? Nope. I will hire a smart, experienced and efficient team to build my vision.
And common prefixes like 2a00:: or 2001::, not that many are in use (yet). And I prefer typing ::1 over 127.0.0.1 any day (though most software accepts 127.1 as well).
Woot! Local story on front page of HN. I cannot believe it!
The net value of your home is Equity-Debt, so at first the net value of the mortgage will about what your down payment was
Is it the patterns themselves or how, what the patterns represent, are put to use that should be illegal?

I'd always argue the latter; as I can kill someone with a rock, but making rocks illegal seems unreasonable.

contents of his harddrive is "jUsT aN iNtEgEr" and no integers are secret.

Right, but the pattern is secret right? If someone happens to derive it by brute-force then, well, secret's out.
>ipv6 allows everyone to be an equal on the internet again. Right now half of the computers hooked up to the 'net aren't even given a routable IP address.

Given how sht the security on IoTs is I'm not convinced giving everything a routable IP is a good idea frankly. At least not until the IoT players up their game significantly
> Correct code would be: ...

Nah, it's still really broken :-)

Here, let's take all the confusing stuff out - no arrays, sinc functions, etc.. This compiles cleanly with -Wall and -Wextra

#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
size_t len = 6;
double scale = 0.1;
for(size_t ii=0; ii<len ;ii++) {
printf("%.2lf\n", -scale*((len+1)/2-ii));
}
}

Using size_t, it prints:

-0.30
-0.20
-0.10
-0.00
-1844674407370955264.00
-1844674407370955264.00

If you change it to use to `ssize_t`, you get the desired result:

-0.30
-0.20
-0.10
-0.00
0.10
0.20

> This reinforces my belief that unsigned integers [...]

I hope to show you that's wrong :-)

> they (occasionally) make off-by-one errors explode loudly

The problem isn't an off-by-one error, it's unsigned underflow.
Yeah good docs aren't as incredibly rare as they seem from the wards, which they're not allowed into under "fuck the law" terms. Weird that they exist, I've had so many.

Of course a good psych is like finding a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk, whereas a shrink is getting mugged. They don't have the same absolute value.
Regulations that they, at least initially, mostly ignored until they started to become banned in many jurisdictions.
UX is incredibly complicated, and it is lacking in most open source projects.

It's needs designers who can tell developers what to build, and that level of specification just isn't present in most open-source which tends to be code-driven rather than design driven.
A very high probability of being wrong doesn’t make it right though.
"I don’t fault those that choose to lay it down. Do you"

I fault those, who say anyone capable of doing a emotional hard job, must be a sociopath.
That's the chink in the armor right there, you're being super assumptive about his mother saying she was worried when obviously "you" have never met her. He's known her his whole life you get your impression of her from him and you think you know more about her than he does? Most charitable interpretation of what you said: her soul can be compressed down to a hundred bytes. That says everything.
I think a lot of that is just to advertise the car ("this the future, people!!"). For example, the article notes how large parts of the F 015 is made of "plastic that changes shape in hot weather", which Mercedes (or any other self-respecting auto brand, for that matter) is never going to put in their actual cars that they sell.

So I don't think we can take the cosmetic aspects too literally as to what Mercedes' design team will actually go for with the final product.
'Atomic Consistency' is used in the CAP proof. YMMV, but I've seen it more used than 'linearizability' (it's easier to pronounce...). Agreed, there is no confusion when you use linearizability.
It can be maddening to see both how little vision and how much time change-resistant people have to protest.

Polk Street in SF could have been the coolest public space in the region if they'd simply had the balls to say "Cars dominate every other street within a mile of here. We're going to make Polk into an open-air promenade that you're welcome to walk or casually bike through." They could have even razed a building within a couple blocks of there and put it ample parking if that's what it took to make progress. Our commercial districts should be destinations, not thoroughfares, and Polk was so close to becoming that before they caved to a propaganda war by some frightened old-timers.

On a completely separate note, if you're interested in cycling policy and working with stubborn merchants like those on Polk, chat with Gary Fisher. He's a smart guy who's spent a lot of time thinking about how to work collaboratively with people who are nervous about changing street priorities. He also is pretty easy to bump into if you hang out with cyclists in SF or Marin.
https://consul.io/ is mentioned as an "exciting" technology. What is a "boring" alternative for this... that is, a multi-datacenter, service discovery/health-check/config-distribution software that'll "just work" ?
Feel free to comment on the issue explaining why, or make a PR.
This is normal. I think Pandora and Grooveshark are the only services that don't require a distributor for unsigned artists.
Having some sort of dedicated home office space is soooooo key. Otherwise there's almost no boundary at all between work life and home life. It becomes hard to mentally get into "work mode" when the work day starts and it's hard to fully out of "work mode" when the work day is over.

Over the years I've found that the vast majority of work-from-homers share this opinion. Almost unanimously.
It doesn't turn off the screen, and it doesn't turn off the ads. It stops the moving video and audio, and replaces it with a mostly-static blue screen with a few ads that jump position on the screen now and then.
This is for AWS. Kafka isn't designed to work well in an environment where partitioning occurs with any frequency. AWS is such an environment.

https://aphyr.com/posts/293-call-me-maybe-kafka
> In your scenario, the webhost would leave the content up but they would have to identify the uploader.

What part of 47 U.S.C. Sec. 230 do you read as a requirement to identify the uploader?

Obviously a plaintiff who wants to sue the uploader might be able to get a subpoena (assuming the webhost can identify the uploader), but how is that different from the DMCA?
I still get Chrome updates. I don't have "Google Update" as a plugin.
I'm happy to report that I have zero experience in the postgrad industry. While I'd love to spend most of my time working in pure theory and potentially influencing an entire field, I really don't think I'd be able to put up with some of the antics I've heard about. There is plenty of silliness that occurs in the corporate world, with the information silos and kingdom building, but at the end of the day money talks and bullshit walks - with little delay.

This problem is being worked on, and I'm pretty confident that the solution will be based on the principals of the semantic web. I have a feeling that academia will be pretty late to the party when it comes to implementation though, if half of the stories I've heard are true.
Honestly, # and * on the dialer are mostly anachronisms from another era. I haven't heard "press # to continue" in ages, everyone uses numbers now. ("Press 7 for STFU")

As for "hashtag minor", it's a reshare of a second-person story, so I trust it about as far as I can throw it.
> retail margins are disproportionate to the amount of cost it takes to sell garments for a list of reasons out of the scope of a Hacker News comment

I think it's perfectly appropriate for HN. Do tell us your thinking about why apparel is expensive relative to other goods. I've wondered this myself.
Go for a run, hit the gym or do some yoga. Runner's high does miracles for coming up with better approaches to tough problems. Even if it's midnight and you feel like passing out, just say fuck it and go for a jog - you'd be surprised how much energy you actually have.
Leverage existing equity as collateral and purchase one or several investment properties (very carefully of course). There are some incredible deals to be found right now.
It is amazingly annoying to users, but the fact remains that crudding up the title tag does actually provide tangible SEO benefits.
Totally academic debate. HttpOnly is a band-aid; being able to inject Javascript still lets me do almost anything that I'd ever want to do with that cookie in the future.
But of course you need affiliate links. Kind of undermines the message.
Putting SEO keywords in the page title (a) doesn’t actually help your page’s rank in search engine indexes, and (b) makes things harder for people trying to tweet a link, bookmark your page, or scan it from a list of currently open windows and tabs in their browser. Trust the Googlebot to figure it out.

I'm pretty sure point (a) is false [1], and I'm absolutely sure that the conclusion (trust the Googlebot!) is. You should probably optimize for humans first, but not humans only. That's just not the way the web works.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

EDIT: I realize the SEOMoz data is based on SEO experts ranking what they believe is most influential, but what else are you going to go on? Maybe patio11 or someone else on here who is an SEO whiz can offer some of their experience.
This is the same thing that the iPhone jailbreakers do: look for security holes to open up the window to "root" (or install another OS: http://www.idroidproject.org/) on the iPhone.

The sad part is that Android is supposed to solve this problem, but (for many of the devices) it doesn't seem to change it at all.
I would imagine that the release of this software outside of Apple would imply as much.
I don't know, but just thinking about it gives me a piloerection.
Their behavior makes Firefox unlike literally every single other program with a text box, except the singular other browser people actually use. Neither browser should be different for the sake of it.
Thanks for writing that! I hadn't realized it before, but after reading your comment it seems obvious to me that an interviewing process should be designed like this:

a) Acknowledge and minimize the unavoidable stress of the situation.

b) Use more general questions where candidates can choose their preferred approach.

c) Allow them to show their strengths instead of seeking out weaknesses.
If you don't store credit card information locally, then it's pretty easy to be PCI-compliant. Just make sure everything's secured and only a few people have access, pay for security sweeps, and you're good.

If you're storing credit card numbers, things get much more complicated.
Explanation they give is that they don't want to annoy visiting gamblers.

In principle, it's entirely reasonable to close certain roads to cyclists, as long as these roads are not the only path to get from A to B. Requiring cyclists to walk 400 m is not at all reasonable.
It was in Alaska in the hold of a tender boat.
Never say never.

'Real AI' may require new hardware like quantum computers, and may take a very long time, but even 400 years ago, did anyone expect us to be sending small robotic vehicles around and out of the solar system?

I do believe that real AI will happen, but it may seem very alien to us.
I agree with you. Also, I don't believe humans aren't limited by the same issues that machines have. Halting problem comes to mind, nothing shows that humans aren't bound by it too. I believe (another belief ;p ) that theoretically machines can be as intelligent as human considering that were both bound by the same limits. But I'm no AI expert as my post will probably prove. IANAAIE
what? according to your conclusion no politician or major corporation should need locks on their cars or front doors.
I remain unconvinced that there will never be cases where execution is justified.

At the very least, when comparing life in prison to execution, do not forget the sheer cost to keep them in jail for life. It may seem inhumane to say that, but these people are hardly humane themselves. Plus, in being forced to board them, citizens are negatively impacted for the rest of the criminal's life.
Yup, you're right on the money re saving to FolderBoy. Our plans include:

* Android + iPhone app (very simple app: one text box).

* Browser plugin so you can save the page you're on to FB, or save text to FB

* Email to FolderBoy: send an email to a secret address, and your data is imported.

Email...oh boy. Wouldn't it be awesome if all your email contents could be under search-as-you-type? Email makes up such a large chunk of our personal data. If anyone has any ideas on this front, we'd love to hear from you.

Re Evernote: we also think it's better (although they have far more features than us), in fact FolderBoy was partly born of our frustrations with the rigidity of Evernote.
By convention, "Ask HN" posts don't have links; put the link to the PCI standard in the text of your post.

The short answer to "how should my startup deal with PCI DSS" is "don't accept cardholder information". Outsource the handling and processing of credit card information. There is a "self-attestation" questionairre the PCI-powers-that-be apparently want you to fill out even though you're not handling credit cards. Uh, fill it out.

What you should not do is pay for consultants to checklist your app if you're not taking credit card numbers directly. If you are collecting cards, you already knew you were in for a whole big bucket of drama.
>They're still married, their wealthy husband pays all their bills

>The husband appreciates that his uneducated wife can bring in an extra $10k over and above her part-time waitressing job.

sorry, but this narrative falls apart on the misuse of the word 'wealthy'
Paint on a canvas doesn't waste the same amount of electricity as the country of Argentina.