skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because we aren't trading actual goods, but notes that are "guaranteed" to be worth something. That's fiat money. You aren't trading actual gold coins, or even coins or notes guaranteed to represent a specific amount of gold or silver, but notes guaranteed to worth something as long as well still believe in them. It's a system of trust, and if enough people distrusted that the notes were worth anything, it would collapse (as has happened in other countries in the past).

So, even if an entity had $1 in reserve, but gave you notes representing $1,000,000, that money is valid as long as both the person you are trying to pay with it trusts that the issuing entity will honor the note, and it is worth the trade being offered (services, goods, etc). It might not be a good idea to trust that entity, but if the system persists long enough, and the entity makes enough money on fees and interest to actually cover the extravagant lending before people try to claim the notes, then in the end it was (or may be, depending on the parties involved) a net success. The issuing entity made money on the loan, the person taking out the loan was able to use it to provide needed liquidity (hopefully leveraged to make their situation better), and the person paid with the notes was able to redeem them at the issuing entity, or use them with other people successfully.

What we have currently is that the government issues, but does not want to be responsible for vetting individual loans, so only loans to large entities that then re-lend (and these lenders may take deposits as a bank or have other sources of cash to lend out). They also require these lending entities keep a portion of the amount they lend in reserve (the $1 from above), but at a certain percentage rate such that they expect in most instances the re-lending institution can weather most cases of increased demand to make good on the money for their loans (otherwise a lender could over-leverage themselves with far too much lent to deal with even normal economic events).
Nothing's perfect and it could likely be improved. Like democracy, problems do not necessarily mean that the entire system should be ditched. It's more likely that there are improvements that can be made a bit at a time to improve how it functions.

Nothing else has worked better: basing the expansion of the money supply on the amount of gold that people dig up did not prove to be a winning idea either. No serious economist regards it as being something we should return to, at least.

What alternatives would be worth investigating?
In the late 60's I wanted to call my girlfriend for free across the country using tones. I looked up the phone company spec's in the college library. After figuring out the tones needed I went into the EE lab and made a tape recording of an audio oscillator. Then to make a call I played the tape into the phone. Worked great.
Its awesome. The problem is that only specific types are supported by a bunch of these types of libraries. In the case of gopy you cannot do anything with a nested slices in structs which limits things a bit.
This is a bit reminiscent of the X11 toy "blast". I'm pretty sure having multiple different map versions bound to e.g. the function keys, for use in a "blink comparator" style, would be way more productive.
Can you imagine, Notepad celebrating 1 billion monthly users?
Just switched over from Sublime to Atom yesterday. Couldn't be happier. The community around Atom is active, and exciting, much unlike Sublime Text.

I hope subsequent updates make it faster, since ST still has an edge there.
Are you under the impression that it's not possible to have two browsers installed simultaneously?
I make video games. There's no such thing as a package manager that supports Linux, OS X, Windows, iOS, Playstation, and Xbox. So from my perspective no. No you aren't forced into something that doesn't exist. ;)

There is a line. You shouldn't include operative systems. Nor language tools (C++ compiler, Python installer, etc). Nor hardware SDKs (DirectX, OpenGL, etc). But beyond that? My vote is strongly in favor of including dependencies.

Compiling OpensSSL on Windows is a god damn nightmare. I shouldn't have to fucking install StrawberryPerl. SQLite is beautiful in comparison. It's two .c files and two .h files. You can also download pre-compiled libs if you want.

Almost all open source projects could easily be single file. If it can be single file then, in my opinion, it should be.
These used to be up in a slightly different, less nice for humans, but easy to scrape UI.. So I did and stitched them together. 16870 x 12000 @ 300DPI came out at 56x40in
I hope the person who bought this knew that it wouldn't make free phone calls any more.
Google Wants to Solve Robotic Grasping by Letting Robots Learn for Themselves
You may also want to check with your HR department to see how they interpret it. Your employer may even be willing to sign a statement clarifying they won't attempt to appropriate your other works. You could also consult a lawyer I suppose, though you've got to weigh the cost/benefit there.

I suppose the big question is how valuable you expect your side project to be. In most cases it probably isn't a big deal, though if you think it's gonna be the next Instagram or Uber, you might wanna make sure nobody comes after your money once you're popular.
It's sad that a lot of these programs are created explicitly to curtail illegal drug trade. Following Portugal's model of legalization would make this kind of invasive policing almost irrelevant.
SCache: a unix command line tool for securely storing secrets
In principle there is no difference, in practice until relatively recently some popular compilers would fail to inline calls via function pointers. The reason is that the inliner would need to run after constant propagation and after the HOF function itself, i.e. sort, has been inlined. With function objects and templates you get a distinct instance of sort for each callback type so the target is known statically even before any optimisation starts.
I'm surprised it's not using material design.
It checks for updates automatically, so I think that gives them the stats, same should be valid for Sublime.
Dammit, thanks for throwing a monkey wrench into my VR excitement. I just started having neck issues recently. These headsets probably aren't too great for my neck, especially first generation models.
> you can still walk into the bank and withdraw the $100 any time

This is true, but if everyone did this at once it would constitute a run on the bank and it would fall under its reserve ratio. Not to mention the amount of money in the banking system is far far more than physical currency in print.

This is part of why some types of accounts (trading accounts etc.) require a few days to clear transactions. The expansion of the money supply is throughout the banking system and not just cash and deposits.
Having tests can help you ensure that, when you do change one part of your application, unrelated parts don't start breaking. And I don't really buy the argument that, because something might be invalidated later, we shouldn't put in the time now to make sure we get it right based on the info we do have.
> Much as I like Sublime Text, the fact that it's proprietary has prevented me from using it.

Same here, and when I recently ran into some built in limitations with gvim regarding its inability to easily deal with proportional width fonts, I switched to Atom. I've been really happy so far -- the vim mode plugin is nice. Atom isn't perfect, but it's good enough for now, and the extensibility model makes me confident that it will just keep getting better.
Bitcoin and Ethereum investors who put a few thousands of their own money on the line years ago have seen it rocket up in value into a considerable fortune.

Naturally, to the extent an investment makes you "rich", the investment occupies a proportionately larger share of your net worth. And to the extent it's a major component of your net worth, especially if your net worth allows for you to retire early, this makes for a situation where you will justify doing and saying anything and everything possible to promote your own interests, which are now dominated by, in our case Bitcoin or Ethereum.

This is why distinguished readers can practically see the greed pouring out of people's eye balls as they discuss these "technologies". Pro tip: call it a "technology" when you're invested in it, but call it an "investment" when you're not.

As you've noted, this gets incredibly frustrating to deal with in the cryptocurrency world. Not just because it applies to so many people, but because cryptocurrency itself is all just a confidence game of trying to get people to buy into a particular unit of account.

For example, I doubt if any of the Ethereum people actually use smart contracts, like ever. They're only using that as an angle to poach investment capital off Bitcoin. We all can see this is true because no one is making any money on "smart contracts". Ironically, the only people who have ever made money on smart contracts - cough Ethereum - did it by selling other people on the idea of smart contracts. Buy smart contracts now!
If that creeps you out, you should probably run a completely closed firewall, where you specifically enable applications' access to the network. I don't know if it is new normal, or old normal, or even normal, but many applications have been doing it for a long time now.
Maybe sandstorm.io?

https://apps.sandstorm.io/app/d9ygf47xrtnw12j92cyt6cu8ut75es...
https://github.com/atom/metrics#collected-data

Metrics collection can be disabled by the user, and this option is also presented to the user on first load of Atom.
Google employees don't get stock options anymore, but "Google Stock Units": https://www.quora.com/What-are-Google-Stock-Units-for-new-hi...
So although the stock price rising makes everybody happier, there is no such problem of out of the money stocks.
> Probably the best way to understand money is still the engineer's, "I do something that someone finds useful, so they give me points in this augmented-reality game where the rules force them to give those points out of their own personal stash. As long as we collectively agree that useful things are happening, those points have some form of meaning as a way to symbolically trade hypothetical goods and services. When we lose this collective confidence then the points will no longer matter to us."

Money is essentially a distributed IOU. It enables people to trade goods and services for IOUs. The IOUs are then exchangeable for other good and services at a later time. Obviously there's more complications then that but that's the general thing.

Like if write code for a living and want a taco, the taco vendor doesn't want your code. Instead you sell your services (labor) to somebody who values that who gives you IOUs in return. Then you take those IOUs and you cash them for a taco or you can combine them with other IOUs you already have for bigger items like a car or a house.

Then you can do all sorts of abstract things with your IOUs such as hold onto them, or lend them out (to somebody who needs a bunch of IOUs at a time and will pay them back slowly) or convert them to other kinds of synthetic IOUs (stocks). Then later on these other kinds of IOUs get covered/replayed back as money IOUs that you go buy your other tacos with.

And lets not even get to IOU appreciation or deflation.
I also made this switch recently. I'm loving it.
Freedom is the right to be wrong. If I am free only to agree with the popular consensus, I'm not free.

If I can't have a quiet chat with friends in public making clear I'm a gay, atheist, muslim, vegan, witch, then I'm not free. If I can't have a private chat with any other member(s) of the populace, I'm not free.

Someone will always think I'm living my life wrong.
Atom is very nice. The Emacs of 2016.
I really don't buy that argument. And generally, when we talk about "slower", we're not talking about a long period of time. Maybe a couple days.
Sort of the inverse conclusion of "Privacy Protects Bothersome People" by Martin Fowler

http://martinfowler.com/articles/bothersome-privacy.html
Pretty much. Almost everyone does it, if only for software updates. I block the obvious ones like Google Analytics using Little Snitch.
What makes you think so? Go has pretty solid native drivers for most SQL databases out there: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SQLDrivers
>in the era where results-oriented project managers run the show, magical places like Bell labs are a thing of the past.

To be fair, also in an era when Ma Bell doesn't have a virtual monopoly over telecommunications in the United States--may have worked for the time but really wasn't such a wonderful thing. Bell Labs did do a lot of wonderful things but they resulted in part from the fact that they were funded by an organization which was essentially insulated from market competition.
Chamath Palihapitiya says most of the things VCs have funded are "mostly crap"
Why would you want proportional width fonts in Vim? Forgive me for asking, it's probably pretty obvious to you.
Atom actually uses Google Analytics too: http://i.imgur.com/bXwEDes.png
In this case they are using Google Analytics, which I consider to be malware, so for me I couldn't use the editor.
Not really, automatically checking for updates on startup is very commonplace with desktop applications.
Wikipedia disagrees with you:

> “Procedural programming is a programming paradigm, derived from structured programming, based upon the concept of the procedure call. Procedures, also known as routines, subroutines [emphasis mine], or functions (...)” [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_programming]

Procedural programming is all about decomposing programs (descriptions of tasks) into subroutines (descriptions of subtasks).

Maybe you were thinking about imperative programming instead? Procedural programs are certainly imperative, but not all imperative programs are procedural.
You may find this thread useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10302879, though it's about CRUD on the JVM specifically.
None of the other generic containers library got anything to do with OOP.
Somewhat off-topic, but does anyone else hate the fact that the official Node docs are not in alphabetical order? It drives me crazy. It might be ok if there was a logical order, like open, write, read, close, but there is no such order. It takes me forever to look up a function.
was at the Apple Store in NYC At 1am yesterday. None of the people there knew how to solve it. I looked online and there are, by now, thousands of users in several threads in Apple forums complaining that links don't work. Here is some more info:
This isn't just affecting 9.3, it's true also on 9.2.1
Don't bother wiping and restoring your phone, the problem comes back. My guess is that it was triggered by something in the Apple WebView APIs that happened recently, because it started happening on my phone for no reason this Friday (with 9.2.1) and most of these forum messages are from the past few days.
Apple hasn't responded yet and 9.3 doesn't fix this problem.
For now, use Google Chrome. Long-tap on links in Safari and other Apple apps crashes the app. However, thankfully in Chrome for iOS, it works (even though it also uses Apple's WebView). You can follow links via long-tap and copy-pasting the link into the Address bar.
Finally, if you're wondering why some mobile links still seem to work - those are the ones enabled by javascript handling of tap events, that don't use the regular mechanism of loading a url.
> Why wouldn't you just track the keyboard, and superimpose it over your virtual desktop when needed?

There's no substitute for having physical keys your fingers touch. I can't touch-type on a virtual keyboard.
Thanks, I'll definitely give it a try this summer with xpra. Did not know about it.
Hmm, what was misleading? That certainly was never the intent.

A decade or history lead to the knowledge that a particular style of monitoring was needed. That knowledge lead to cAdvisor. Is it perfect, of course not, but it fills a need and is directly derived from Google's experience. I fail to see how that misattribution, personally.
A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territory, which accounts for its usefulness.
— Alfred Korzybski, Science and Sanity (1933, p. 58)
How is Atom for non-web languages such as C?
We even have an Angry Joe review... :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87IJU1AtcAw
Jokes from people with power are more than jokes.
Show HN: Hexameter 2.0.0, a GUI agonostic hexagon library has been released
I think they're all pretty bad tbh. They aren't very good at guessing age, and guessing gender is harder especially if you're young or have rounded features.
I think it'd be awesome if they could also offer some migration path from Android in order to attract more users.

I don't care that much, but I guess a lot of people would be very happy if they could run Android applications using something like Alien Dalvik, like Jolla does. In the foreseeable future, I don't see many applications developed for other platforms apart from iOS and Android.
The R8 isn't exactly new - it's apparently the exact same die as Allwinner's ancient A13 chip, which in turn is a cost-reduced version of their first single-core A10 chip for Android tablets.
What are the main reasons to choose Atom over e.g. Visual Studio Code?
So does Sublime Text if you have auto-updates enabled.
Show HN: Mancy v3.0.0 released with ClojureScript Support
Tell that to a compiler writer.
"I'm pro calzone" sounds like a parks and rec reference
Owning a VR headset does not (yet) act as a prerequisite to get most jobs.
Is it me, or are there horrible stability issues on Windows 10? I cannot have more than one editor open without one of them crashing. This is an issue on 3 of my W10 machines.
> he exaggerates what Verily can deliver, launches big projects on a whim, and rashly diverts resources from prior commitments to the next hot idea that might bring in revenue. This has led to what they describe as difficult meetings with business partners, and resignations by demoralized engineers and scientists in the face of seemingly impossible demands.

Someone has already made the comparison to boston dynamics, but doesn't this also sound just like the recent problems within dropcam/nest?

Does anybody have a counterexample of somebody with this personality leading a team to greatness?

It feels like a personality type like this is mentioned more often than not when my technical friends leave companies. Somebody has to frame the memo that guys like this (they're always guys) will kill your org.
It was the new normal like 15 years ago. Almost every major application phones home to deliver bug reports, telemetry, check for updates, etc. Read the terms and conditions of apps when you install them next time.
I'm a solid Debian user but I still keep the Arch wiki around since so much of the information is completely transferable.

>I switched though, because the only questions I'd get was of people using my commands on Raspbian and getting confused.

Not to attack your blog but was everything that Arch specific?
> it's "making promises they know they can't keep".

If that's the case, how do they keep fulfilling those promises? Not fulfilling the promised is the exception, not the norm. You should check your assumptions when they don't align with reality.

If you believe any lending when you don't have the full money on hand to account for all the loans is wrong, then you need to apply the same level of scrutiny to borrowing. Borrowing money to do something you didn't have the money to do initially would be just as wrong. The system works because both sides are taking on risk. The borrower's risk (and the risk of everyone using the money( is spread throughout the entire system though.
Just out of curiosity, are there any risks of corrupting the cartridge?
> I said "I could issue a number of these notes".

Not in our current system. Only the government can issue notes; for anyone else to do so is illegal. That was my point.

(It's true that, in our current system, most money creation is actually electronic--entries in accounting databases--rather than physical notes. But all of that money creation is still done under rules set down by the government, and denominated in the government's fiat currency. So it's equivalent, for my purposes here, to the government printing notes directly. And nobody can just decide to create, say, a new bank deposit any time they want, or denominate it in their own currency.)

> There is no difference in printing my own notes than the government printing theirs beyond the trust of the people that it's worth something.

In principle this is, of course, true. But I wasn't arguing that our current system is the only possible fiat money system with fractional reserve banking. I was only arguing that, in our current system as it exists, the government is in fact the only entity allowed to print money (with the qualifications I gave above).
Phones get very warm when you charge them while playing 3D games. I doubt you would want to have that much heat with an enclosed headset for very long. Unless you can get a lot of ventilation without letting light in.
You haven't detailed any evidence showing why and to what degree products that broadly and vaguely affecting fear/pain/resource scarcity

Ok, if that's your point -- kind of vacuous. That resource scarcity is one of the big underlying causes of violence is well acknowledged in psychological, sociological, and historical fields. Is there any evidence that products can affect resource scarcity? Certainly.

Even if we take your assertion as "common sense," it could very well be that for every 10% change in resource scarcity, you have a 0.001% change in domestic violence.

Oh, for Finn's sake! Just Google "study wealth rates of domestic violence." Are you sure you're thinking clearly here in command of the evidence? Your sentence above would indicate you're not in command of the facts. I'm just pointing out a possible avenue of lateral thinking about this problem, citing a well known underlying mechanism from multiple fields of study. What's your point, exactly?
Bitcoin wallet service Coinkite closing down
If this is so desirable, why haven't people been shipping open source C and C++ software this way? It's not like Go invented static linking.

Not just C and C++, either -- Python, Ruby etc software could be shipped as statically linked executables.
C? It has syntax highlighting, but it's very obviously geared towards web development.
This sounds awfully like #NotAllMen but for s/sexism/racism/