skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first interaction with a Mac (late '90s), I watched the Mac user:

* Drag the disc icon to the trash can to eject the disc.

* Pull the power cord since there were no other way they knew of to turn it off.

Mac's reputation as a usable computer was severely impacted, needless to say :).
> SatoshiDice is a dapp that was built using bitcoin.

But SatoshiDice was not trustless; it was only provably-fair. By sending your dice bet to satoshidice, you were trusting them to actually pay you if you won instead of just keeping your money (though you didn't have to trust that they were using a fair die).

An on-chain dice contract is completely different, because there's no central operator that you have to trust to pay out the winnings.
I have both bitcoin & ether apart from hundred other coins; earning profit is different from technical merit. I spent a long time studying ethereum as a promise for something incredible but in the end I realized its just the power of blockchains & can be done using bitcoin too. What I do not like in ethereum is the nature of origin of ether which makes it just an IPO coin.
I think the bigger driver there is inland vs. coastal (though Atlantic vs. Pacific circulation makes a big difference, too).
Can't even bother to localize to the US for shipping.
someone isn't telling the whole story eh ?

call me when it's 0.49 to ship.

jrjr
I worked on trading engines in a past life and worked with good ol Martin. You can do all of that in under a ms these days.
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How many SQL queries end up getting run if you are loading a simple page with 1 row read out of 1 table as the actual payload?
Skype is not accepting new accounts, you have to make a Microsoft account of some type.
Yes, it would run on Android the way it runs on Lunux, as an OS process. The benefit is extreme parsimony with respect to RAM use.
That's a lot of conspiracy theory in one sentence. I'd be disappointed if the WHO ran after every breath of witchcraft published in somebody's blog.
Detroit is right on the border. I assume you meant Chicago? Lake Michigan is entirely within the United States. Saying Chicago is "practically on the border" because it's on a lake which connects to another lake which contains the border doesn't make any sense to me. You might as well say that San Francisco is near Canada since it's on the Pacific Ocean.
Not just "south", but actually way south; Toronto is about 43.5 N; Central London is 51.5 N. There's 60 nautical miles between each degree of latitude, so for an 8 degree difference, that's a bit more than 888 km.

Roughly the same distance further north from London and you arrive at Uppsala (north of Stockholm), and St Petersburg.

Toronto is on roughly the same latitude as Cannes, Nice, Toulouse and Monaco -- the Côte d'Azur / French Riviera.

Edmonton, Alberta is between Manchester and Leeds in England, and close to the latitude of Hamburg.

If you really want to bend your noodle, consider that Los Angeles is at the same latitude as Rabat, Morocco and Miami is at the same latitude as Luxor, Egypt.
Toronto has a huge temperature range. -30c to +30c is not unheard of over a year.
A better article about how this works: http://abc.cs.washington.edu/

"As computing devices become smaller and more numerous, powering them becomes more difficult; wires are often not feasible, and batteries add weight, bulk, cost, and require recharging/replacement that is impractical at large scales. Ambient backscatter communication solves this problem by leveraging existing TV and cellular transmissions, rather than generating their own radio waves. This novel technique enables ubiquitous communication where devices can communicate among themselves at unprecedented scales and in locations that were previously inaccessible."
Thanks for the link. Was a fun read

Google wants you to think they will be here forever
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Unfortunately, I'm trying to obtain a small amount of ethereum currency to experiment with this..

And I just killed my thread doing 1M hashes a sec, because I found out that 6MHash/sec = 5 Eth/month on average.

I'll spend my time learning other things, mainly because this is inaccessible to me.
Well how many mistakes do they make with those 4 clicks? That's part of the point of automation - remove chances for humans to flub.
You are right my example was wrong. Yet dapps can be done using bitcoin nevertheless.
What possible advantage to the individual could that convey? You don't get to say "it's good for the species" because that's not how evolution works.
Surely the only variable that changed was the entire stack? I'm assuming your static generator basically means you're firing a bunch of bytes, probably sitting in RAM out over a socket. No CPU/processing involved, no dynamic anything.

I'll be the last person to defend Drupal, but I don't think it's fair to say that Drupal was the only variable that changed. What about the amount of stuff coming off disk each time, the removal of an interpreted language, the database access?
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Seconded. It's a great introduction to OOP written in a very approachable manner.
The lesson to take away from current events, and from the history of the FBI, NSA and CIA is that none of the them ever be trusted, with anything.

They have wilfully and repeatedly acted against the interests of freedom and liberty and the progression of civilised society.

They will keep doing it. Resisting change, even positive change is core to what they are.
I agree - Google needs to promote GCE more. Maybe they should buy some adwords :-)

Having used both AWS and GCE, I find GCE is just a better experience.

I love the cloud console and the cloud shell. The CLI tools work well. VMs start quickly.

For development, preemptible VMs are an incredible bargain.
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Adding a couple more, i.e. 3 of mine - tried to comment thoroughly.

https://github.com/thelooneyfarm/contracts

In my experience it is not that much of an uphill battle to start, it is quite similar to the stuff devs do in their normal dayjob.
Damn, I regret not knowing this when I was high school. I was putting together HTML websites for companies in the mid 90's for $50 and a free video game. The game wasn't even that great (Warbirds).

I was still learning at the time, but if I realized so much money was already on the table at that time I probably would have worked harder at it.

I'm sure even back then I was better at HTML than quite a few companies out there. It was fun for me and I was recreating my personal site with a totally different look and feel on a yearly basis back then.
I'm speaking specifically of the price rise then fall in the last couple of weeks.

The fundraiser, of course, was a pre-mined altcoin.
It's quite simple.

Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, et al. do not have the power to arrest you, and never will. They can't find out you said or did something in the past and put you in a gulag for it 10 or 20 years from now when you're considered a political enemy of the state.

It's the critical difference between economic and political power. Google has no guns, much less the all-powerful legal authority - and then some - possessed by the government.

Microsoft can sell you software. Amazon can sell you a blender or ebook. Apple wants to sell you a phone. The US Government can kill you, destroy your life, put you on a no-fly list, proclaim you a terrorist to be constantly surveilled to the highest degree, punish you for speaking out, sic the IRS on you, blackmail you by tracking every single thing you do digitally without any consequences to themselves and then use it against you at their convenience or for their benefit (Google execs would go to prison for that), and dozens of other things using their countless agencies (and if you happen to be a leaker or journalist, the context is that much more amplified). And that's just what they can do to you today, the fascism in America is blatantly going to keep getting worse, they keep reaching for more and more power. Tomorrow, the things you do today, will be held against you. There isn't an example of a fascist system in which that hasn't been the case.

Google et al. are the absolute least of your worries. The free market profit motive is predictable and functions at its most efficient under systems of high degrees of freedom (thus free market). Increasing political power of the sort going on in the US however is always violent and always trends toward an ultimate restriction of liberty. One need understand only the very basics of history to grasp that.

A quick look at what governments have done over just the last 200 years, versus what corporations have done, tells you everything you need to know. It isn't a close comparison. Show me one modern big corporation like Google that has done the kind of evil things that eg Mugabe in Zimbabwe has done for example - there's one simple example, and hardly the worst I could reference (how about Pol Pot?), and it demonstrates how clearly absurd it is to be frightened by the 'big bad corporations.' The notion we need to be afraid of corporations is almost entirely a myth, typically pushed by people that then turn an intentional blind eye to the endless murder, war and abuse by governments. It's power-seeking governments you should be absolutely terrified of.
Right, but the headline is not the main point of the interview.
> It kind of surprises me that software, a creative and digital medium like the above, is not futile and that you can still make a good living at it.

The thing that differentiates software is that it often enables other people to make or save significant amounts of money. That's something you usually can't say about music or photography, and when you can say it, like with advertising, there's money to be made. If you look at software that doesn't make or save anyone money (e.g. most mobile apps) there isn't actually a ton of money in it for your average creator, just like other creative mediums.
Please give me an ethereum use case & I'll try to tell you how you can do it with bitcoin.

I have previously answered a few use cases here [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10846788]
What sort of posts are you considering making?
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Practically, and also actually.

The Detroit-Windsor Tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge both cross the Detroit River, which is only about 600m wide under the bridge and 750m over the tunnel.

Both of those links get a lot of cross-border traffic, and there has been a new bridge under construction since 2012, I think.
Nope, nope, nope.

If it was just about registering a company somewhere else and your home tax authorities had no jurisdiction, every company in the world, small or big would be incorporated in tax havens like the British Virgin Islands only.

If a company is controlled from the UK, you can bet your bottom dollar that the UK tax authorities have jurisdiction. Only a very small minority, mostly less well-developed countries allow you to incorporate elsewhere without having to pay tax and report where you are.

Corporate tax residence internationally tends not to be a matter of where a company is registered, but from where it is effectively controlled. This is a matter of fact, not a matter of paperwork, so you can't get around it by just appointing a buddy to sign papers who lives in the right country.

Not only that, incorporating elsewhere opens a world of complexity, pain and double taxation.
A simple example:
A US LLC with more than one owner is usually taxed as a partnership - eg, US tax is due at individual marginal rates.
The UK on the other hand treats US LLCs as "opaque", which means they'd want to tax it as a corporation (there are legal cases to this fact).
So a UK resident LLC owner could end up having to pay up to 39.6% tax in the US, then 20% AGAIN on the very same income in the UK, before having extracted a single cent from the company.
Then if they extract money from it, there's an additional up to 38.1% dividend tax, for a whopping 90% marginal tax rate.

Now, double taxation treaties _may_ come to the rescue, but I wouldn't bet on it being without a fight through the courts to prove they apply.
I recall maybe 25% of the Continental US is farther north than Windsor Ontario.

Gotta love geography!
Not the person you replied to either, but roughly speaking a resonance is mathematically the same as a particle. However the two concepts differ of course philosophically. So the shorter the lifetime of a particle is, the more one is inclined to call it a resonance rather than a particle.
Starting from scratch – what language to choose?
I'm looking at opening a new dev office and I've been given latitude to choose the entire stack end-to-end for our web-based service.

If you were given the choice to start from a clean sheet of paper, what language would you choose to develop the product?
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This seems like it could have been avoided by people using braces around every block.

Omitting braces in this case leads to a lot of problems.
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It's only a question of priority ;)
I mostly use UPX to ship small binaries running as a single instance on embedded devices.
It would look something like:

contract Hello {
string greeting;
function setName(string name) {
greeting="Hello "+name;
}
}

The solidity compiler will automatically produce a "getter" function to retrieve the greeting.
I see what you're saying, and I know that I'm the odd man out here. My original comment stems mostly from my own messed up familial situation. My parents, (most) siblings and I don't get along very well, and I'm single.

If I were to die today I wouldn't want my personal photos, online history, or private writing to fall into the hands of my family. Hell, I don't really even want my physical assets to go to them (something I really should address in a will one of these days to donate it all to charity).

There has been a lot of fighting and backstabbing over who gets what when relatives have died in the past, and the more emotional items (like photographs) have been used to selfishly garner sympathy online through "likes" and "favorites" and it makes me sick. My position is that if you didn't make the effort to get to know a person while they were alive, you should lose the privilege of using their private thoughts for your own emotional gain after they're gone. And I do realize how selfish that sounds on my part, but in my current position I feel like it's justified. If I got a long term partner I would probably change my mind on that.

So yes, an opt-in would be ideal for me, but I don't think many online companies provide that right now.
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I get a fair amount of criticism from men too -- in fact, every overt attack and criticism I get comes from men.

I seriously doubt it's because I'm a woman though.
Our lowest advertised rate is $.25 per 1000 for 5MM emails. After that you need to talk to us, but obviously we work with companies all the time.

(Sendgrid's lowest advertised rate is $.45/1000)
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PHP isn't that slow[0] by itself. Notice it's 10th on the list (Php5-raw), it outperforms Nodejs, Python, RoR and many others.

Drupal, on the other hand, is so slow because it has a terrible architecture.

[0] - https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Lets define a universal programming language/platform
I don't care it is unpractical. Just help with some ideas.

I decided to get back to that "fruitless" conversation about a universal programming language, that could serve to all environments and purposes.
I know that, nowadays, it is impractical. But I just wanted do post a little idea that I just had. It may be silly, yes, but I think it's worth the conversation.

And I also decided to post this here because StackOverflow is not the place for such kind of conversations.

So, I think that a "language" (strictly talking) is really impossible. But what should be done is create a modular, unpluggable platform, where one would be able to configure a target environment before start coding.

#Paradigm selection:

paradigm functional
code...

paradigm object-oriented
code...

paradigm aspect-oriented
code...

paradigm structured
code...

=========================================
#Virtual Machine handling

through VM #for code that does not worry too much about hardware limitations
code...

through Hardware #for embedded, high-performance code
code...

==========================================
#Garbage collector handling, for the same cases as above

turn on garbage-collector
code...

turn off garbage collector
code...

==========================================
#and some way do degrade code little by little to high abstraction to low abstraction
From Wikipedia: The town is notable for the huge self-contained structure containing apartments, stores, schools, bars, a hotel, restaurants, a supermarket and swimming pool which shelters a community of smaller apartment buildings and homes on its leeward side.

I had no idea. I'm kind of ashamed I didn't know that being from the same province.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Zm6HzN5YVI
The most notable one I'm aware of is Dropbox, who are reportedly using Rust in production for some low-level parts of their storage platform.
Speak for yourself. Texas Winters with Alaska summers sounds awesome! The best summer weather I've ever experienced was 70-80 during the day and 60s at night. Absolutely perfect weather, until snow started to fall from November to June.

If I never had to experience 100F heat again (excepting saunas), then I would die a happy man.
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Thats funny. I wonder if the same coworker from Atlanta would make the same comment about a city like Chicago? I've spent years in both Chicago and Toronto in the past and it seems like the climate is almost identical. Toronto maybe being a touch colder in the winter, but not by much. Summer I remember was almost identical (hot and humid). Chicago also has that classic continental climate, as does most of the upper midwest.

Actually, I think the climate on the south side of Lake Ontario is a bit warmer and wetter (thus the lake effect snow). The cold air is moderated a bit as it crosses over the lakes, but it also picks up all that moisture. In fact, I think the windward side of all the Great Lakes are similar and might be in different climate zones vs the leeward side of the lakes. I know in Western Michigan for example there is a bit of a fruit belt because of this.
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You can buy the Ether on an exchange.
Yep.

Running it is about as far as I got with my investigations.

https://www.ethereum.org/greeter
Bad guys posting internet selfies are now going to get hunted by law enforcement which is a good thing.
That'll be 10 drupal requests (invoking PHP, all the Drupal stack, DB queries, etc).

The static assets will be served directly by the webserver, without invoking Drupal, without any of that overhead.
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> Interestingly enough - there's even ways to make the answer to any computable problem the keys to unlock a Bitcoin payment

Sure, bitcoin script can in theory compute any computable problem (as can any turing machine). But it doesn't have native access to the data it needs, so pretty much any input you'd want to use needs to be put there by a trusted "oracle" (through a clever encoding into UTXO logic). For example, bitcoin script can't compare the amount of coins sent to two different bitcoin addresses, so you'd need to use oracles to do that [1]. In ethereum script it is trivial to do it on-chain (no oracles needed), since it was designed from the ground up for such use-cases (i.e. "smart contracts").

1. http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36229/bitcoin-scr...
Interesting. I would have assumed that this kind of check should be done by static analysers.
> Why is it "patently absurd" to retain a window of such data for

He said it was "patently absurd" to pretend that they haven't "captured" any data until someone searches for it.

> long enough to identify the communications of interest and discard the rest?

I have no reason to think that they wouldn't keep all of it, forever, period. Or at least retain a long enough window to render this statement pointless.

> Is there an alternative?

Old fashioned police work? Only gather data with a warrant?
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the bitshares, nxt, insert any blockchain project all say the same thing yet none of them comes even close to the amount of dev taking place on ethereum. hmm why is that....
PHP's speed is here is a bit of a red herring. I dislike linking to benchmarks, but https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r12&hw=.... In I/O bound situations, PHP performs within an order of magnitude of C. You don't have to be Facebook, you literally just need to enable APC or XCache.

Let's focus on how horribly awful Drupal is. Or, to the point of the topic, let's congratulate the author for discovering that yes, you can in fact replace a single server with any number of cheaper computing devices (you just have to disregard all of the other reasons why we use servers).
Second-largest, longest coastline, but borders one country.
Ask HN: Advice on getting scammed by peopleperhour.com
I do some freelance work on peopleperhour.com

I've built a site for a client according to their spec, I had to make a couple of small changes to make it work properly and more secure, adding functionality that wasn't in the spec but also makes the site better. The client is extremely tech illiterate and wants it his built his insecure way...which I have relented to and offered to do but he submitted a request to refund his deposit of £1200 ( 50% of the total is held in escrow by peopleperhour.com )

For me to dispute this I had to pay a non refundable £120 to peopleperhour.com which is pretty insane but I paid it any way as I had no response from their customer support in 3 days ( now 4 ) as you only have 72 hours to either accept the refund request or dispute it.

The dispute was resolved quickly by pph in my favour but the client has now submitted another refund request meaning I now have to pay another £120 to dispute the refund which is ridiculous and this can seemingly go on forever with no risk to the client.

In four days I've received no response from their customer support despite assurances from their twitter account.

What can I do?
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This warning is a practical solution to a real problem (of which the famous "goto fail" is an example).

Using braces everywhere is definitely good style, but it isn't a practical solution because there's a ton of existing C/C++ code that doesn't use braces.
yes, I second this. Reading this book has always clarified core javascript to me. I go back to it all the time for reference.
Fun fact: the time from the discovery of the neutron to detonating an atomic bomb was a mere 13 years. From the discovery of nuclear fission it was only 7 years.
Tiobe is consistent with pretty much any other measuring approach (job boards, github, stack overflow, etc...), so yes. It's a pretty reliable indicator.
> Why honor him?

Another reason: encouraging more people to speak up when they see a problem.
You don't need to keep all the transactions. The original paper addresses how to compact the chain. Basically, you only need to keep hashes.