jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I don't think Bitcoin solves the main problem of new currencies: confidence of their acceptance.

John Law introduced paper money into France by getting the government to accept it for paying taxes. Every Frenchman and woman was confident the state, no matter who took over, would still collect taxes. And the state, knowing the currency was valuable to everyone--even foreigners, could also use it.

Where's my confidence that people will desire a bitcoin in future? Even if, say, every Starbucks in every country started accepting them, it'd only be as valuable as the trend for coffee and the stability of Starbucks. Could I, when planning a mortgage, bet on Starbucks' popularity over 25 years?

I can see how game currencies can come about. But the market for these games is limited and ephemeral in the long run. If you want to compete with banks, you need to think about long term confidence. I've yet to hear how Bitcoin, or any other startup currency, solves this problem.
There is a small increase in probability because the pool is aware of the participants and thus reduces redundant work done by each participant. It becomes a slightly-less-than-random brute force operation.

If you mine on your own, then your targets are effectively random.
Bitcoin is a fantastic idea, with one crucial mistake: the finite nature of bitcoins. The fact that coins will one day "run out" will almost certainly lead to increased speculation, which will in turn lead to a deflationary spiral, followed by a "bubble burst" when speculators sell all their bitcoins and average coin holders are left holding the bag.

Infinite coins would tie the value to the opportunity cost of computation, which is actually a really cool idea. Inflation based on the log of moore's law would ensure a steady inflationary rate based on computing power. This would deter speculators and incentivize innovation in computing power in order to more efficiently mine currency.

My hunch is that an uncapped bitcoin competitor would have a more difficult time getting off the ground, since the finite nature of bitcoins favors the first mover.
Does that have anything to do with the HN or is it just their way of saying, "We've read SICP"?
If they posted highly objectionable/obscene content as you, would that not harm your reputation? It's at least a possibility. Reputation is everything.
In the US, a employer's cost per employee is roughly 2x the employee's salary. If a company pays someone a $100K salary, they are also paying about $100K in benefits (dental/medical insurance) and "invisible" (the employee) payroll taxes.
TrueCrypt doesn't really work because you can't mount it from several places at the same time.

I looked up for other solutions which allow this (for example by doing the encryption separately for each file; but I could also think about other things).

I only found http://www.arg0.net/encfs so far but I didn't tried yet. It does the encryption separately for each file.
> Nobody attacks data centers. No really they don't.

I suggest that these "facts" are too general: nobody currently physically attacks this sort of datacenter in the US.

There are clearly many examples of physical attacks on other sorts of datacenter, eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_McDade.
I think someone is working on a thunderbolt -> USB3 + more hub. I personally can't wait until the next gen macbook airs have thunderbolt and hopefully usb3. There would be finally a way to transfer data to/from them in a quick way, their biggest flaw currently. It would also allow me to have a two connection laptop dock too.
>universe could be a type of cellular automata itself

The problem with this idea is that the universe, unlike any grid, is isotropic (or appears to be). That must be the reason why you don’t see examples of, for example, circular waves here.
Svelte seems to be set on having a server side build process for the front end. That is an even bigger no-go for me.

The complexity of React and the OPs framework at least be contained in the frontend. With a server side build step, the complexity of the frontend spoils over to the backend.
You're pretty much right on all of those. I do own a house (don't remember getting any calls, but that was a decade ago) and I do occasionally get food delivered (why would they call?). Otherwise you're right, I've never done any of those things.
> I think he just sees the writing on the wall and wants to become king on Mars while Earth goes down the drain.

That's a false dichotomy. We could explore and colonise space while also improving conditions on Earth. The same way we could shelter the homeless and feed the hungry; or build rockets/cars and treat employees respectfully.

> I'm not so sure Musk's vision is so exciting.

As an ineffectual prole, without PayPal/emerald money or political connections, I'm happy to watch someone kick the space industry back to life (after ULA & co. turned it into a pork barrel/cash-cow). I'm also happy to call out Musk's poor labour practices (and other crap, like pedogate), for whatever little good my tiny voice will have. If nothing else, I'm also happy to watch giant fuel tanks exploding and crash landing on YouTube.

> Musk is not much different than Bezos.

Of course. Probably worth pointing out Bezos has his own space company too (although I hear he's more focused on space habitats rather than other planets)
> He advocated for immediately nuking the USSR!

Considering the oppression that his native country experienced at the hands of the USSR, and the fact that the implications of nuking an entire country weren't really understood yet at that point, this view is hardly surprising.
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I've heard it's common in India for people to get a mobile phone contract that gives them the Facebook app and Wikipedia but not universal web access.

I would guess that there are a lot of people in the UK who use Facebook from a smartphone but for various reasons (old phone, poor eyesight, dementia, ...) can't in practice access a web site.

OK, I admit the article is about "Americans", but some of the comments refer to other countries!

Anyway, it would be good to know more precisely what Internet services people can and do use, rather than just "use the internet" with no definition given. For example, how many people use e-mail? How many people have an Android or iOS phone? (How many of those are able to install an app? Some can't because the phone belongs to an employer ...)
> but please think about it first

This is not an adequate advice for somebody who has a family to support.

I'd argue that for the most of us, once we go beyond 18-19 years old we can no longer afford to "think about it first" all the way to retirement age.

So I am really not sure what actionable point you're making here. "Find a better job", maybe? Yeah, a lot of us are trying that. I guess it's filter bubbles thing because I keep being contacted by HR agencies and companies that I want nothing to do with.
It stifles innovation and rewards big business. Why risk developing something if it will be taken from you? A winner-take-all kind of situation. It leaves little room for the platform's authors to generate revenue other then hiring themselves to said big business, and probably at depressed rates.
Barista FIRE is a term used in the FIRE space that could fit this. You build up less savings but keep things ticking over with a lower level (in terms of stress, pay, and time) job than you might have otherwise. It seems like the OP is looking for a tech equivalent of a barista job.
Like the other commenter mentioned, you should look at Svelte. I had the same perspective as yours and I've worked on multiple modern JS frameworks and Svelte is the closest I can get to mapping my mental model of how a web page works (HTML, CSS, JS) with the framework.

Actually, I should correct myself - yes, the breakdown in terms of technology is HTML, CSS, JS but the underlying abstraction is actually - structure, presentation and functionality.

This is where, imho, Svelte really shines. It helps you to map your mental model of structure, presentation and functionality to it's corresponding implementation of HTML, CSS, JS with a sprinkle of syntactic sugar. This goes way far in keeping the code easy to understand and maintainable in my opinion.
In Chrome, the domain name in question shows up as:

http://xn--55gaaaaaa281gfaqg86dja792anqa.ws/

This is to prevent phishing. Hardly ideal, but it works.
Here's HQ2x done as an OpenGL shader:

http://gitorious.org/bsnes/bsnes/blobs/master/pixelshaders/G...
Many/most sites do A/B testing and there is nothing inherently wrong with it, so why would it be classified as spam?
"voluntary trade" makes it sound like said trade wasn't actually illegal (in

other words, like something the police are actually supposed to stop, peaceful

or otherwise.)

No it doesn't make it sound like that. "Voluntary" is not synonymous with "legal". The quality of voluntary trade is that both parties to it want to be in it: it's consensual. Many consensual actions are illegal, and some would argue that is oppressive.

Left completely unmentioned, is the fact that Bitcoin is designed, and intended,

to make it infeasible to track users and enforce laws against transactors.

Yet they tracked Ulbritch, who was using Bitcoin and Tor. If they dedicated the same amount of resources to catching this extortionist, I think it's pretty likely he would be found.
"The differences in lifespan are independent of the seasonal distribution of deaths" That's important of course.
I'm surprised the alleged Niels Bohr baromoter story did not show up here yet:
http://www.snopes.com/college/exam/barometer.asp
"It's a documentary on a 85 year old man named Jiro who has spent 75 years of his life learning to make sushi."

Good programmers never stop learning. If you have ability to learn on your own this is the only skill you will ever need. Everything else comes naturally.
I think I made an alternate version that speed up the time and opened a handful of browser tabs to watch the games. Most of them do end up in insufficient piece draws or the 50-move rule.

I also made an alternate version which runs faster, and I added some code to count games. About an hour on Chrome got me to this point:

44 white wins.
415 ties.
41 black wins.
500 games played.

EDIT: Another hour, and the stats are now:

74 white wins.
847 ties.
79 black wins.
1000 games played.
Communication. Excellent and precise communication.
Of course not, this is a gross oversimplification. I was just surprised at how well the numbers worked. I would argue though, that it is a good rule of thumb, i.e. their revenue is not sustainable given the number of employees that they have.

IBM like any company will employ support staff, admin/HR, cleaners, managers and so on. Plenty of those people earn over $100k and plenty of people earn a lot less. Ultimately we don't know the mean salary of the people they're (maybe) laying off.

But hey, it's a Fermi problem, order of magnitude. I would guess it's not too far off.
Huh, I had no idea Evernote used to do that. It's one feature I've really wished for.

They really seem to be trying hard to push away their current userbase and attract...something else.
This is technically correct, but does not result in a very useful information, as P(A|B) can be a very different beast than P(A).
also: swim, cycle
Don't forget the best line in the movie, usable anytime there is a bit of malfeasance afoot:

"Holy shit, that’s just fucking crazy. That’s fraud!"

I find myself quoting this a hell of a lot in the last few years.
That's like saying email was bad since none of the people you know have an email address.

Just wait and see which solution will come on top.
"Plaintext" is ASCII binary that is overwhelmingly English. The reason people like plaintext is that we have the tooling to see bits of the protocol as it comes over the wire. If we had good tooling for other protocols, then the barrier to entry would be lower as well.
If on a satellite not that big. Not even Hubble-big. Wide field of view would be more important. Depending on how wide the field of view is, about a dozen to a few dozen of them to get full all around coverage? Maybe even less if you go 'super fisheye'.

edit: For having full coverage of every sector of the sky at all times, to enable automatic detection of change by whichever means.

edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_camera
> How can Coinbase be valued at nearly that of large banks that process orders of magnitude more transactions and can actually earn money on balances? NYSE and NASDAQ are surely not valued at anywhere close to $100b. Does that mean Coinbase can acquire them? Bubbles are bizarre.

I wonder how many folks here remember that AOL (yes, the dial-up folks who put CDs in magazines) acquired Time-Warner in 2000, thanks to the internet bubble. They even subordinated their brand to AOL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/business/dealbook/aol-tim...

By 2009, TimeWarner spun off AOL for a fraction of the original deal size.
They have "floating IP addresses" as droplet-agnostic IPs for exactly this purpose.
Good post. I never thought of potential for macro idioms. Are you talking purely about loops or other things like synchronization or memory model related stuff? Can you give a few examples of these macro idioms?
> The stock market is not about buying ownership in long-term stable, profitable companies

Good - CloudFlare has never been profitable once.
I'm surprised it's using fuse-overlayfs instead of the overlay2 driver. Is it that you're using rootless containers in production? For rootful containers I think you'd have the same experience as docker here (or at least much closer).
I find it ironic that it's posted on msn.com. "Microsoft Says..." on msn.com.
Oddly enough Time Magazine recently detailed how the very same people prevented Donald Trump from taking office.
Here’s my take on linkedIn,

1) If you are looking for a job then it’s great to use linkedIn since a lot of companies put their listings on the platform and its also perfect to remain in touch with your old colleagues

2) If you are a passionate technologist/programmer who loves to discover new technologies ,software , tools or what’s happening in the industry then I must say linkedIn might not be a great place since its more like filled with people who are just posting content to gain likes or visibility just like every other social media.

Using LinkedIn does become depressing when you start seeing posts from people saying “ohh they landed their dream jobs while you might be searching for jobs and then you start comparing yourself with other people on linkedIn. You become depressed.

And that’s one of the reasons I stopped using LinkedIn its nothing but a place full of
people who are chasing likes

LinkedIn is great for marketing and looking for jobs but if you are technologist/programmer who wants to learn something new or expand their knowledge I would suggest using specific programming related subreddits or hackernews

Honestly I have gained so much knowledge just by using these platforms and I’m really thankful to people who contribute to hackernews with amazing links
It's kind of ironic that the example of "simple" code is a shell command which has many hidden gremlins. Just off the top of my head:

- It swallows extra spaces between the arguments.

- If the first argument starts with a hyphen the behaviour is implementation-dependent.

- In Bash, if there's an exclamation mark anywhere except the last character of any argument Bash tries to do event lookup instead of treating the string as a literal.

More fun examples at https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/65803/3645.

I would trust the second piece of code much more than the first, despite the complexity.
Windows also works this way, IDK about linux.
FWIW Samsung's ultra wide monitors are supposed to support splitting the screen up into multiple areas for the purpose of window management, even when using a single cable.
I wonder how many of these opt-outs are going to end up on the no-fly list.
This doesn't make sense.

If any of the candidates they are refusing are capable of doing the daily work at a FANG but can't pass the interview, they're artificially constraining their supply of candidates and increasing the cost they need to pay for developers for absolutely no reasons.

The type of work in a FANG is mostly not that dissimilar to other companies (the exception being teams working with machine learning, performance optimization, dealing with tricky scale). I understand hiring specialists for specialist jobs (and I still wouldn't test them on leetcode; ask domain specific questions).

It's just ego driven over spending on developers.
Sure; I’m not claiming that everybody on this site is those things (I’m only 1 of them myself.)

The point was about the average reader, and I think that holds. But I don’t actually have statistics to support that.
OpenTTD isn’t a Sim City copy. Its a reimplement of Transport Tycoon. It’s a strategy game that focuses on business that covers multiple cities and industrial works. While city builders are a subset of strategy games, not all strategy sims are city builders. Examples of how the strategy genre covers more than just city builders would be: Theme Park, The Settlers, Theme Hospital, Railroad Tycoon, Populous, Command & Conquerer and Civilisation.

Sim City isn’t even the first city builder, let along first strategy sim. The genre has existed since the days of text-based games. Though it’s fair to say Sim City is one of the most iconic and successful entries in the genre.
Unreal is far too big for one unity blob. It still requires a build system for many other reasons.
under the free software philosophy (free SOFTWARE), art assets are allowed to be non-free, but stallman believes the game code itself should be free. considering games rely heavily on art, this model still lets you sell games.

Stallman isn't a free culture person
So you are trying to say that any action of the US military is a white action?

Maybe check the statistics on that one.

If anything, what you are saying is racist and discounts ever person in the government and military that is not 'white' , a bizarre category of not actually being a race that is invented for arguments like your own
So what questions do you have? Perhaps you should give an introductory post in this thread.
I am going through the link, thanks for sharing. At the same time, you might also search other links on HN. There's been a lot of discussion on meditation here. Here's a thread from just a couple days back. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1915750

I am still going through the youtube's pointed to in various posts from that thread.
It saddens me that people who don't wish to be subjected to consumerist bullshit are labelled 'entitled whiner[s]'.

It's perfectly reasonable for someone to _not_ want, what consumerism brings them. People who decide they don't like receiving marketing emails - trying to dupe them into making a purchase - shouldn't be required to opt-out of society.
It's ok that it takes some time for the idea of the necessity of Monads to spread. I bet it took at least the same time for the Haskell guys to understand the necessity of IO. ;-P
A healthy engineering company should have high level positions that are still engineering positions.
What's the problem with sending "Content-Length: 0" as part of the PUT headers?
Finding the solution is often easier than finding the problem to begin with.
Which Iambic Pentameter finder is this?

I'd be interested to know how it works out syllables, especially for proper nouns - for example, how does it know that Mugabe is "Mu-ga-be" as opposed to "Mu-gabe"? A large dictionary?
I followed the link about the "olestra fish". You have to eat over 6 ounces. You eat two days worth of meat in one meal, you get what's coming to ya'.
Mind if I ask why this exists?

The operations side of me sees nothing but a massive security hole.

The developer in me sees anything built with this to be a maintenance nightmare, even more so than many Rails apps tend to be.

What benefit does this library provide?
I guess I have coder's block... the thought of a big project makes me more reluctant to start.
Do you have many users in Russia? You could block the whole country ;-)

Russia has no GDPR or something. So you could put (special key in) a cookie? They probably do not process it so subsequent requests without a cookie are to be discarded?
The irony of a blog posting of holier than thou, about security, then posting direct to the page where people have commented with tags for js popups.
secure your blog comments - amateur hour was earlier on this morning!
Let's hope Facebook's move will lead others to try and get the same market.
A lot of sites already do that.

In reality it should work fine because searches also include the URL so you can easily see the source (same idea as used by HN items). Titles are easier to fake so can't be entirely trusted anyway.
I remember a time when people spoke of Facebook as being for "The college aged crowd" and Myspace for "the high-school aged crowd." But now the perception - accurate or not - seems to be that pretty much everyone has abandoned Myspace (teenager or otherwise). I've noticed that all of my teenage relatives seem to be on Facebook... so what happened? Did teenagers leave Myspace and go to Facebook en masse? Or are teenagers still using Myspace, and I just don't notice it because I'm not part of that circle anymore? Are most teens actually on Facebook now, or are my cousins all just weird?
I know who he is. As I've said, I've dealt with him before.

He's free to put up whatever defenses he wants to put up. Other people are going to try to tear them down. That's the way of the world.
Yes, as mentioned in the very first line of the linked article.
If I may wax polemic...

Here's Adobe/Macromedia's fairly recent tech history:

* Use AS2, so much better than AS

* Use AS3, so much better than AS2 and soon to be the ES Standard. Whoops!

* Use our new 3D API, it sucks less than our non-3D API you hacked to kind of do 3D.

* Use our new, new unreleased incompatible 3D API, it sucks much less than our existing 3D API.

* Please continue to use our runtime because it has three virtual machines for three different languages, a 15 year old graphics engine we still haven't really modified to take advantage of modern GPUs, and an IDE that's a cruel joke.

And that's just Flash. They also spent two years hyping Atmosphere before abandoning it. They added a 3D API to Director, then ripped it out, then added another one, then basically left it without an update for five years.

So, basically, yes there's a use-case for Flash. Animated / interactive ads that run on a lot of platforms and custom video players that let you implement ads overlaid on video. Oh, and some casual games where you can ignore the fact Flash doesn't like to handle dynamic screen refresh rates.

Any new functionality Adobe bolts onto its carcass needs to be avoided like the plague.

That's really just about it.
Note that the ":-" isn't strictly necessary: both Ambrose Bierce and Vladimir Nabokov, independently reflecting on their desires for the addition of a "typographic equivalent to a smile" before one ever existed in popular culture, proposed a simple "supine round bracket" or "\___/".
I have no idea how doable it is or isn't with kids. I don't have kids, but I know that a lot of families have jumped off the ledge and managed to be just fine. I hope I have the courage to show my kids a life without boundaries.
I'm telling you, they're on Tumblr. They were kind of forced over to Facebook, but never seemed to really adopt it like everyone else.
There are several rights underlying any imprisonment, as laid out in the constitution: namely the right to due process and to a speedy trial. I think you could reasonably argue that either of those are violated by this type of seizure.
Hard work is not always a necessary condition for success.