skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wouldn't get sick if you ate lots of it all the time.

The article is about PFOA which is not the same thing as teflon.
Oh, I definitely would've preferred email. I probably could have asked but I didn't think about it. I figured we were already having a brief conversation over DM, we could just continue with that.
Oh well. No big deal.
Twilight of the Bomb
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Kinda depends I guess...

The 10 year US bond is often used as a risk free rate and it's about 2.2% right now if I remember correctly, and it's been as high as 3% in the past five years. And of course you can sell bonds too so it's not like they're illiquid, it's generally known as one of the most liquid markets on the planet.

But there's a bit more risk than than a 3 month bill of course which is also used as a risk free rate indicator quite a lot, and that's really low with inflation being so low right now.

Anyway I wouldn't call 4% incredible but it's definitely good and something many would be quite happy with.
Alternatively you can cut/paste the GAS syntax and use gcc.

gcc -nostdlib hello.S -o hello

This example uses the old 32-bit syscall invocation mechanism, which works fine under 64-bit Linux. It might be a useful exercise to try porting this program to the 64-bit syscall convention.
To clear a common misconception: BTC is not anonymous. The world knows where you got your coin, and where you spent it; it's there in the journal for all to see. It might not be tied to your name and social specifically, but if you want to give or get goods or services, you'll be interfacing with meatspace at some point and then it will all be tied to you.

So no, BTC is not much good for illicit goods.
Same for me.
That's really cool, and perfect for people like me who do everything in email (as opposed to having offline reader apps)!
> Classic tragedy of the commons

You're absolutely right on that, but you have the issue backwards.

Each individual miner has an incentive to build a block which pays the most in fees.

That means that as long as the transaction rate is less than the absolute limit, fees will tend towards zero. (Any fee is marginally better than nothing).

The size of the block and propagation time are no longer strongly correlated thanks to the hard work of Matt Corallo on the relay network ( http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/ ).
Not true.

Steel is about 5.5 - 6.3 and Iron is around 4.5 on Moh's Hardness Scale. Higher numbers are harder.
I think part of the problem is that they vastly underestimated the logistics of getting these physical items produced, and I think the GP's point is that you're doing exactly the same thing. You don't just go to a local printer and say "make me a booklet" and write a check and you're done.
> Linux is 32-bit, runs in protected mode, has flat memory model, and uses the ELF format for binaries.

Well, that's a touch out-of-date :)

All the same, I do find it fun to see the set of articles recently trying to show modern programmers that assembly isn't as terrifying as people make it out to be. My own opinion is that, though asm tends to be a bit more verbose and tedious than other higher-level languages, it looks like it's also dramatically simpler in a lot of ways.

For examle, the Heavything[1] library from 2ton suggests to me that asm can still be used for high-performance applications today.

Good find and a fun read!

[1] https://2ton.com.au/HeavyThing/
What's the difference between this and the former "Github" app?
I've been using Github on Mac for a while now. It won't do all the fancy things that the CLI will, but I love it for the ability to break up large bunches of files into separate commits, for when I forget to commit for a while or my local repo gets a little messy.
I agree it has always been contentious. I disagree that it was "prohibitively expensive".
Twitter finally drops the 140-character limit from direct messages
Peter Thiel has a famous Venn diagram with two circles: "good idea" and "sounds like a bad idea". He says that the best opportunities fall in the overlap between the two circles.

Here's a picture of the diagram:

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-venn-diagram-shows-why-s...

Calling an effort a project (or even, an experiment) helps free us up to be more flexible and receptive to the market, and removes a bit of our personal identity from the mix. Sam's great point is for a "project" we're more likely to pursue an idea inside the magic overlap zone of Thiel's diagram
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Lol! Never knew svn blame existed :-). I suppose tracking a change over multiple merges may not be easy?
When growth justifies a marketing staff, it will be much much easier. Sure the first cost will be higher, but the overall cost will be much lower and you will have data to back up the decision.
I think many people are getting the wrong impression on this thread - as you pointed out, it's the company that failed, not the project. They delivered on the project, but not in a sustainable way for their company.

For everyone interested, check out gameplay footage from the beginning of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGadziSy_kM I hope my failures are as beautiful as this.
> Miners will likely omit transactions that offer a fee that is lower than their cost of mining (at least eventually).

The marginal cost of each transaction in the block is approximately zero.

The only effort is from propagation speed, however thanks to the relay network that effect is almost nothing.

http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/
How to Choose the Right Remote Development Team
I'm not sure, I've used 'fn' in toy programming language concepts before I ever heard of arc or clojure. I mean, its not impossible and I certainly don't know about the others, but its also not impossible that they were independently named.

However, I do think its very likely that arc influenced Clojure, even if just a little.
I like the idea. I thought of adding a feature in my app to allow a fixed amount of posts a user could make. Maybe in the future.
The goal of private (and charter) schools in the US is segregation. It works exceptionally well.
You are fine. He is overreacting. Teflon itself is completely non-toxic.

Heating teflon to extreme temperatures will make it smoke, but it's way hotter than the smoke point of oil.

i.e. it's a far far higher temperature than anyone cooks at. (Maybe some specialized cooking methods, but they'd have to be without oil.)

If you did the same thing with oil, the oil would smoke and be far more toxic than the teflon.

i.e. teflon is safer than oil.

If you are not heating the pan beyond the smoke point of the oil you have nothing to worry about.
Deep learning is definitely "the new hotness" for machine learning but it is a big mistake to assume that all other techniques are now irrelevant. Depending on your problem space, DL might produce decidedly inferior results. For example, if you do not have a massive database DL probably isn't going to give you the best results. Or, if you have limited computational resources DL is probably not the best choice.
Right, and if to achieve that style of learning I have to give up half our salaries to private school, I'd choose homeschooling to get the added benefit of lower stress (on wife and kids) and generally more convenience and life comfort.
The right of property in inventions (1851)
Down in the UK - homepage loads but 500 server error on login

first noticed 6:40 PM

https://downdetector.com/status/paypal seems to be widespread :(
I think the middle road between a project and a company is a small business.

Company over project is probably a bigger problem in SF/SV than anywhere else. I see a lot of people in both hardware and software making very elaborate and technically successful projects that never graduate from being projects.
Also see Chesterton's Fence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton%27s_fence
Female Founders
There are two questions there: what's wrong with email for Twitter and what's wrong with email for users.

The first is easy: they don't control it. Twitter handles are already a broad system of public identities and Twitter wants to double down on that.

The second is harder. The value proposition—if any—comes from letting people stay within a single service. It lowers the barrier to starting a conversation on Twitter since you don't need the song and dance of exchanging emails first. It also helps people keep their public identity consistent, especially for those who (for whatever reason) treat their email address as semi-private.

Is this enough to make people use Twitter messages more? I think so, especially on the first point. If you make something easier, people are more likely to use it. I doubt it will replace email to any great extent, but rather lead to out-of-band conversations that wouldn't have happened otherwise. We'll have to wait and see.
Every week or 3 when I restart my machine and reopen SourceTree, it tells me that there's an update. Maybe the issue that you're talking about hasn't been logged or they're not working on it.

I'll try GH Desktop, but for the past few months mine's been broken where it loses my repos, so I've been using ST exclusively :)
But the enforced brevity (in the form of a 140-character limit) is probably precisely why this works. Otherwise the same companies would be doing support over email.
> Starting a company when there are already established and strong competitors probably counts as "looks like a bad idea".

First-mover advantage is overrated, and in the tech industry, you'll notice that many if not most successful companies were not first-movers. Often, first-mover advantage is a disadvantage.

In even the most established markets, you can find meaningful niches and adjacencies that the big players aren't tapping. Many times, the untapped adjacencies can expand the overall size of the market significantly (see Airbnb).
They do scratch it, that's why they keep it smooth, but the iron is not a coating and is non-toxic, so it doesn't matter about wear.
Vernor Vinge also made the observation, that if most civilizations undergo an exponential increase in technological and societal progress, they're likely to disappear within a dozen generations after inventing radio. I'm not so sure we can reasonably imagine the signature of a civilization "subliming" to put it in Iain M. Bank's "Culture" terms.

So if the likeliest outcomes of industrial civilization are environmental self-destruct, self immolation in war, or "subliming" to something we can't imagine, then this would handily explain the Fermi paradox.
Isn't this something you could do easily via an IDE or, say, magit?
> This might change if Gavin's IBLT proposal [0] gets implemented.

Such a thing already exists, blocksize has little to no effect on propagation time to other miners.

http://bitcoinrelaynetwork.org/

Edit: not that this is not IBLT but another actually implemented setup
Why Agencies Can Suck For Startups and Small Businesses
Getting more than 2% annualized return isn't terribly difficult. Getting 10% annualized return like the OP says is super-hard.

There are lots of pretty safe investments that get you 3-4% real return. Now, are they zero risk? No. But I'm not suggesting that anyone bet their life savings on this, I'm talking about buying a car, something that people will generally do a bunch of times in their life and won't be spending their retirement on. If you can get 2% APR on your car purchase, and you invest the money you save, you should more than cover that APR the strong majority of all times.
Police search Uber offices in Hong Kong and arrest 5 drivers
In Canada. Ethnic looking, but it doesn't matter. Feel a little lighter than the feeling of cops in London. They're there to help, but don't waste their time or distract them. I feel safe enough to call if I were in trouble or safe enough to go to a station for official business.

Reminds me of that old saw, Heaven is where:
The French are the chefs
The Italians are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time.
> Obviously, when you see smoke in the oil it is not good either.

Exactly. The important takeaway here is that teflon becomes toxic only after the smoke point of the oil. i.e. oil is more toxic at high temperature.

So putting in the oil doesn't protect you from toxic fumes since you get those from the oil, but rather it gives a visible signal (smoke), that you could quickly turn off the heat because you are about to damage your pan. But as far as toxic fumes go it's too late - you already had those from the oil.
Is there any experts here? Does this look like a gas station explosion?
no doubt the size of the codebase has grown as well during the span you target; would the curves look any different if you normalized issue counts, let's say per 1000 loc?
But Github has electron (atom shell) :-). Maybe it's not mature enough for production yet :-)
> Can you please explain where exactly you got the idea that BLAKE2 was length-extendable?

No, you're right: I misunderstood the algorithm; an extension attack has not yet been found. My core point still stands though: choosing a cryptographic anything should start with a consideration of the security properties of the algorithm, and only then should we talk about speed.
This may well be true, but the takeaway there is not "2% APR is bad debt," it's leading into the confluence of issues about how to get people to invest.
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This is all from the top of my head. Credentials: I play a lot of video games.

AAA game (typical example: Skyrim):

* Sells for $50-$60

* Has cutting-edge graphics and (generally) runs on the newest generation of hardware

* Is available on most/all gaming platforms

* (Nowadays) Usually has some celebrity involvement (Skyrim had Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Michael Hogan. Oblivion had Patrick Stewart.)

* 20+ hours of gameplay

AA game (typical example: Far Cry: Blood Dragon, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger):

* Sells for about $25-$40

* Made with last year's AAA engine

* Runs on last year's hardware

* Typically available on fewer or only one platform

* 8 - 20 hours of gameplay

Anything below that is either a classic game remastered (for example, the recent Homeworld remaster), or an indie title.

Frequently a AAA game (like Diablo III) will have a AA game come out at the same time to compete with it (Torchlight II.) In a lot of cases, like Torchlight II and Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, the AA game is actually a far superior game to the AAA games its competing with. ;)

Sometimes the sequel to a AAA game is a AA game, I'd say that's the case with Wolfenstein: The Old Blood.

Some games, like Portal and Portal 2, straddle the line. But I'd slot the Portal games as AA.
Inflation of good ideas
Using Aluminum cookware does not result in a significant ingestion of Aluminum, hard anodized Aluminum even less so.
Just to clarify: user namespaces will be a great additional layer in security, but they are still a relatively new feature, with very little actual use in production. You can already use them in runC [1] (Docker's low-level container runtime which we have broken out as a standalone tool). And once we have sorted out the hairy side-effects on UID mapping and network namespaces, we will integrate it into the Docker engine itself. But even then, we won't recommend running untrusted code as root inside a Linux container until the community has more time to battle-test user namespaces.

[1] https://github.com/opencontainers/runc
> 10% was an example to simplify the model.

It also just so happened to quintuple his returns. Not exactly comparing apples to oranges when you have a 4% (realistic) v. 10% (unrealistic) return built into the model.
I don't think these can differentiate between Self-Destruction and Murder by other parties?
I want to learn Lisp, but don't know where to start
I have never really programmed, except for some basic and html back in the day. I'm not very familiar with text editors/compilers etc..

I want to learn programming and would like to start with lisp for personal reasons.

However, when I go to certain sites like 'learn lisp the hard way', it seems to be already geared toward people who have a decent understanding of editors and programming. A lot of it seems very foreign to me.

If I want to learn lisp, how do I build enough of a base so that I will understand how to learn it?
You can however add most 'non-dumb' features you need as custom actions so it's only two clicks away. Now they just have to add customizable keyboard shortcuts and I'd be all raving about it, but still I use it everyday mainly for the staging area.
Alternatively you can cut/paste the GAS syntax and use gcc.

Oh, interesting. I didn't know you could do that with gcc. Thanks for the tip!

This example uses the old 32-bit syscall invocation mechanism, which works fine under 64-bit Linux. It might be a useful exercise to try porting this program to the 64-bit syscall convention.

I wasn't familiar with the difference, but some googling turned up this SO discussion which seems relevant. Maybe I will try making the change and see if I can get this to run with pure 64 bit code.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8510333/x86-64-assembly-l...
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it doesn't have a monetization strategy and it doesn't rely on a modern single-page web interface. also, it has a low barrier to entry so any old chump can run an email server. these are all bad things now
That's quite a broad "ban-hammer" they're using to swat this fly.

I wonder how many Russians use Reddit. When Googling for that info, I only found links to /r/russia and news articles about "Russia threatening to block Reddit about Marijuana tips" which obviously predate the blurb in this thread. Does anyone have some statistics?
> As long as they don't force users to adopt their way or the highway with every update, you can keep using Twitter as you like it, while others can forge their own experience.

Of course they do. They axed 3rd party clients.
I am 25 years old and the youngest in my team at www.ideatory.co which is a completely sales driven company selling a B2B SaaS product. I am also the CEO and head of sales and our clients include some of the largest banks and tech consulting companies in the world.

Sale to a large Asian bank: Met an influential person at the bank who thought I am smart and sincere. He pitched to 5 departments at the bank on my behalf that got me meetings. I reinforced mine and my team's credibility at the meetings and committed to delivering. (revenue over $200k from this client)

Sale to a large US Bank (we're based in Singapore): Contacted via cold email stating our exact value and past client work. Ended up being the right guy who sold us to 5 departments internally. One worked out immediately. Took 6 months to complete legal procedures but the sale happened without ever meeting face to face. We said the right things which showed we understood their problems exactly, had solutions and credibility.

Conclusion: You need to present yourself in the most credible way possible, show that you and your team are resourceful and are committed to delivering no matter what. Then most importantly, you need to find a "hero" within the organization who sells you internally. Stick with this hero.
Proof of Stake does not work.

https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
But those Java and android developers will use android studio, IntelliJ or eclipse, which all have good guis. I don't see how that is an issue in this case.
Meanwhile, JS shipped inside of a month, and look how far it's spread.
Magic School Bus into the mind
Sticking to the theme of US elections, it also came out for Barack Obama in 2012. That's pretty contrarian considering The Economists history and Mitt Romney's policies on Wall Street.

The vast majority of economist articles can be summed up as "you thought it was that way, but it's actually this way."
Yes! It is amazing!

I listen to it during my commute to work. Plus I get the issue on Thursday evening, as oppose to the physical copy that arrives Monday or Tuesday the following week.
http://us.sinaimg.cn/000wGOwWjx06UAlFMAzd01040100tS4x0k01.mp...

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Newspeak on Squeak (2014) [pdf]
That all ended in 2008. The best you will get is <4% today. Compare that with the real inflation rate, and the tax rate and things are not so great.
> This is about ideas that seem bad to others, i.e. ideas that seem okay to you, that you probably even verified in the small, but still have trouble convincing others.

Won't a skeptical person find flaw in every idea he is confronted with? In that case, I guess it all boils down to execution. In my opinion, the "idea" need not be very clear but it is okay for it to be filmsy. Building a minimal product with a filmsy idea can help "project" to head in the right direction when you start seeing the facts.

Perhaps, the reason why Google and Facebook succeeded wasn't that the ideas were seemingly bad but "idea" didn't exist in the first place. They just wanted to build something for their own and started getting serious when it got traction.
> Federated cryptocurrency isn't new.

Links? (seriously I'm interested)
You should publish some screenshots of it.
I'm just curious how people share projects with modern Squeak these days. I learned Squeak at GaTech and while I some what appreciated the language I really hated Squeaks tools and development style (basically monkey patching and sending big changesets and by god I want to use emacs not Squeaks Mattel/Fisher price kids editor... I'm sure its better now).

Sadly Squeak was the start of my slow and gradual hate of OOP languages (Java later on did not help) but it did have some really cool things like traits and continuations.
Cashew milk is similarly low-calorie.