skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here are some general thoughts for those interested more in this topic:

- Ethereum and Bitcoin both let you lock up the cryptocurrency and provide a series of rules that are required before the money can be unlocked; this has a lot of power, because unlocking can be done by a single party (a standard payment use case), but also by a series of other people/groups or external events (currency price, weather, etc)

- The rules for unlocking cover a wide gamut from requiring several users to agree (e.g., multisig like a multi key safe deposit box to voting for a dividend), to requiring an external action to happen (e.g., unlocking if the temp is below a certain amount on a given day for weather based insurance contract); these actions replicate many current real world interactions like an insurance contract, a voting mechanism for corporate governance, and escrow (just to name a few); the OP has also written about Distributed Autonomous Orgs (DAOs) on TechCrunch

- A key benefit for letting these be programmatic is that they can cut out a middle party (or at least reduce the dependence on this middle party with a network of oracles) - cutting costs and reducing dependence on this third party

- Some key value props where this could help in the early days:

1) cross-country transactions, as the contract language is international (legal systems can be hard to enforce across geographies)

2) Small amount transactions (as fixed costs may be high in a real world contract today for each party)

3) contracts where middlemen have monopoly-based pricing

4) contracts where the middle parties have a low degree of trust (more likely today, certain markets don't exist due to this reason)

5) Contracts in a country where legal systems are weak/expensive

- For Bitcoin vs. Ethereum, many Bitcoin enthusiasts will argue that Bitcoin provides a similar functionality, but Ethereum's high level languages are generally much easier to write (I'll likely get some push back by partisans, but Ethereum's Serpent and Solidity might be closer to JS/Python/C, while Bitcoin's Forth-inspired/stack-based language is closer to a higher-level assembly); there are also some specific differences like Bitcoin requires all or nothing unlocking, is not turing complete, has restrictions on the transaction byte size, and has some miners enforce transactions that only have a few of the contract op codes, not all; still, some Bitcoin devs (like Gavin) note that the surface area for security holes is significantly larger with Ethereum

(See my other post for an introduction to the language)
See my two comments, and feel free to reach out if you want to learn more
I agree with the author, and I think the idea is somewhat applicable to everyday tools like text editors. This is partially why I've switched to Emacs (Spacemacs/evil) after using "conventional" text editors like Sublime Text for ages. Although GUI of ST3 may feel nicer at times, the UI (in a more general sense of this term) of Emacs is far more logical and is definitely a lot of fun to use.
> I eventually ended up leaving and not exercising my options

Knowledge of this law might not have helped directly, since you're not a shareholder if you haven't exercised your options yet. It may have spurred you to exercise some/all of your options, just to be able to peek into the books, though.
AFAIK the only way to do 3 masters in vanilla mysql is ring replication. That means C is B's slave, B is A's, A is C's. If that's what they do, then yeah, it's a noCAP deployment. No consistency if you insert the same UUID at the same time into 2 masters. No availability unless you implement it yourself by retry to another master. No partition tolerance, because if you break one replication link, half the writes are not replicated between other servers and you can't really both reconfigure the ring and replay the transactions.

(Yes, they say active-active-active, not master-master-master, but then they say across DCs... It could be just M-S-S with config switch on failover, but for me the post suggests it's not that)
Peter Thiel was secretly funding Hulk Hogan's lawsuit against Gawker
They sometimes mentioned a public option, but it was never central to either Obama's or Hillary's pitch.

See here for an evaluation of Obama on the issue: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/dec/... It was included in his platform, but as an "also, too" kind of thing. And if you took your evaluation of his position from what he said on the stump, you'd never have known it was in his platform at all.

(I'm omitting Edwards from this discussion because he flamed out so early.)
I am probably in the minority here on HN but I don't completely grok bitcoin (granted I have not put in much effort to understand it). I have asked many of my techie friends and none of them understand it either - I follow the Einstein (?) principle. If you cannot explain it, you probably don't understand it.

On top of this, there is now Ethereum and DAO which are also completely incomprehensible to me. But the reason for this comment is that I totally blown away that there are people out there who understand it and are willing to fund this to record levels.

The context for this comment is that I ask myself this question about products and startups all the time. Who uses them? Why are they gaining traction and nobody I know even knows about them let alone use them... To conclude, I find all this bitcoin talk very motivational - not everybody needs to understand what you are building. You just need a passionate following of people who do.
For those that have done this, I'd be interested in the performance gain (say, IOPS at an equivalent hosting + hardware cost). I'd also be interested in RDS vs. Heroku Postgres.

Do people do this for security / policy purposes, or are they motivated by cost savings? Does removing all that virtualization buy improved performance?
McDonald’s ex-CEO: $15/hr minimum wage will unleash the robot rebellion
I'm not an expert on Bitcoin's scripting language, but here's a few main takeaways

* Ethereum allows shared state between transactions, Bitcoin doesn't. That means one application can state "The price of Eth is $10USD" and a totally unrelated application can reference that value. The result is that each application provides an API that all other applications can call.

* Both Bitcoin and Ethereum have a stack based scripting language. However Ethereum also has a higher level language that compiles to the stack based language. That means you can right reasonably readable code without OP codes. Functional program is so much mentally easier than writing a stack

* Ethereum (unlike Bitcoin) is Turing complete. It can have code that loops and recurses based on the state of the chain
India and China aren't too far behind. The former enables religious extremism and the latter hammers public opinion into a blind acceptance of the solitary ruling party.

Here's what should concern you more: the 20th century was the age of strong states, from the active citizenry of the imperial United States, to the Communist dominance of society in the equally imperial Soviet Union.

The 21st century is the age of the corporation. This forum salivates at a man whose goal in life is to retire on Mars, presumably in a society of his own creation and ownership. Everything in this age is available at a price, even control of society.
Hmmm, you need some how-to-manage-living-and-jobs instruction. Wow. Here you go:

Step 1 is to get a job. There are jobs all over the country. The concentration may be highest in the tech hot spots, but most of the jobs are elsewhere. Pick some place like Melbourne, FL. Pick a job that has long-term potential.

Step 2 is to fly out there and look at rentals. Pick one. Move.

Step 3 is to start looking for a home, casually at first. You want to learn about neighborhoods and traffic jams. Meanwhile, see how you like your new job. If the job doesn't work out, go back to step 1. If you need more time to figure out the local housing situation, rent for another year. Also, if you own a house in a different part of the country, get it sold.

Step 4 is you buy the house. Move.

Hopefully you can work there for decades. I've done a decade already. When things start to go sour, go back to step 1.

Sometimes you may lose on the "closing costs and market fluctuations", but remember that it's no big deal when the houses are cheap.
oh wow...beautiful jason_slack.
how...how do you do that prioritize thing?
how LTE connects to the internet? do i need to set-up a BTS?
Technically, you don't know your text will render the same on someone else's device. For all you know, they could have their system font set to Wingdings.
Having tried the Kindle expiremental browser, I can confirm. Granted their tech may be more primitive than this!
Look, I sort of get where you're coming from but this wasn't exactly Snowden here.
While Square Enix may tend to make great series, their financial situation isn't all roses either. The huge production delays on their games out of Japan have made those projects huge risks. Take a look at the amazing amount of money they seem to be putting into the launch of the new Final Fantasy game to try and recoup costs.

Their subsidiaries (eg IO Interactive and, Edios Montreal, and Square Enix Montreal) seem to be doing better overall.
>there are people out there who understand it

Not to mention that the creator of Ethereum is 22 years old.
Commenting to bookmark for future use...
My wife got a pebble time last year after upgrading her OG pepple. It scratched like crazy and had tons of issues.

She bought a Garmin Vivoactive after xmas and both of us havent looked back. We get 2-3 weeks pf battery with moderate gps use. Alerts work way better then the Pebble watch. I highly recommend the garmin. I forget I have to charge it, but it takes 2 hrs to go from 20%-100%.

Also, I only know one person who wears a pebble, and it was a hand me down. Eveyone I know who owned a Pebble switched to Appl, Android Wear, Microsoft Band or Garmin.
Priority number 1 is not living in a place referred to as "fly-over country".
Never said it was, just a personal viewpoint. But just because there are no long term studies doesn't mean that's safe. In the U.S., we assume products are safe unless proven otherwise. In Europe, they have to prove they are safe before they are available. GMO manufacturers and scientists submit limited studies on their products to the USDA which is why they are OK in the US, but rejected in Europe.

To your point, yes people have always had allergies but I can only speak for myself. I didn't have them as a kid, didn't have them as a teenager or young adult. I developed them in the '90s and now they're gone by eliminating wheat. My wife also had the same experience. Just a data point, but to discount it out of hand isn't much of an argument.
Is there a non-Forbes source? I'm not turning off my ad blocker.
Is your contention that Bankrate made all of that up? How about the gas buddy link below (showing a difference of 30%)?

You're right about online, obviously, but the evidence for the other stuff is abundant.

Edit to add: Of course big retailers set their prices based on the local economy.

https://www.quora.com/Does-Wal-Mart-charge-different-prices-...
Overall a nice post. It doesn't quite get into all the options for pg_dump as there's a number of other flags that can be useful to reduce downtime. It's also probably worth taking a look at Amazon Migration Service as well (though I haven't personally used it or heard from others that have yet) - https://aws.amazon.com/dms/.

One tool they did miss for continuous archiving is WAL-E, which tends to be the one most used including by us at Citus Cloud and Heroku Postgres - https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e
Have you seen this WIRED article? http://www.wired.com/1997/05/ff-digitalink/

I worked on one of the fairly early E Ink use-cases in '96 for a really interesting summer job, as part of a DARPA-funded project. Wrote a graphics driver for it in assembly; learned how to use an oscilloscope to debug.
I don't care about that (see my comment, "They're shoehorned into unicode instead because that makes it technically easier to send them in text messages, not because they're textual objects"). Text is grouped into several equivalence classes. I only need them to recognize any L that I send as an L.

If I send a facial expression, I need to know what I'm sending. Those do not have defined equivalence classes.
Bitcoin doesn't seem that indecipherable to me, just a dumb idea. It's a network that uses proof-of-work to transfer value. (I say it's dumb because decentralized currency is a bad idea, viz. all the dumb things you read about happening in bitcoin-world)
Cisco licensed QNX and turned it into a nice operating system called IOS XR.
line-of-sight between what and what?
can't internet be accessed through satellites?
how much money may i expect to offer to the project?
Big Brains, Small Minds
Since the oldest supported version of IE is now 11:

http://youmightnotneedjquery.com/

"jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

"If you're developing a library on the other hand, please take a moment to consider if you actually need jQuery as a dependency. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, and forgo the requirement. If you're only targeting more modern browsers, you might not need anything more than what the browser ships with."
Please do not equate publishing the sex tape of an unwitting victim with freedom of the press... or Gawker bloggers with journalists, for that matter.

I don't agree or disagree with your statements about Thiel as I don't know enough about him to form an opinion, but Gawker seems to very clearly be in the wrong here. If Thiel in any way helped justice to be served here, for whatever motive, good on him.
My Kindle paperwhite can change pages a bit faster than I could turn them, plus it's lit so I can read at night without a light over my shoulder. That said, I'm eagerly awaiting my oasis!
The answer may be specific to the carrier, so I would suggest adding the carrier to the title.
Sadly, you remind me the DBA-is-everything system design style. In modern system designs, a system need more than just a database system to store business states, and to encapsulate business logic into higher layer is not just have flexibility also have scalability. Take sometime to think about the following three scenarios:

Scenario 1: what if a system need to migrate to different database system, then the whole business logic are need to totally re-implemented with the destination system DSL.

Scenario 2: if system need more just one storage system to persist business states, for example, I use db to store image metadata and use s3 to store the image? I don't believe the foreign key constrains will still works.

Scenario 3: if we have system need to process business state in asynchronously, for example, use message queue.

Also think about how to do unit tests (this is also how we keep the business logic correct) how to do CI/CD. System design is more than just a ERD design.
I cannot agree. I think lots of people (myself included) didn't read the original article and responded purely based on the title. I think that by admitting that he didn't read it and that he corrected that later, he's showing humility (that he too is a fallible human) and that gives his article -more- credibility.
Google’s summer plan: To become the OS of your life
I read it as "free as in hipster"
> imagine that CPU for probably 50% or less the cost

Intel is raking it in right now because AMD doesn't have an equivalent product. If AMD produces a competitive chip Intel should reduce their prices.

So it is possible AMD releases this chip and Intel reduces the price of the 5960X. End result => people still buy Intel.
They're not. But they'll get a lot of working people off food stamps and Medicaid, freeing up welfare resources for people who aren't working.
Garmin's bike computers are the technology of 5 years ago, today! IMO the 520's display and user interface are garish and outdated. It's too bad they don't have any good competition in that space.
It's on archive.is - http://archive.is/JK6N7
Stop trying to be special.Please
In my case, it was a controlled experiment. I was suspicious that it might NOT have been wheat so I let it run for this year too and so far so good with pollen season almost over. Of course, the real test would be to consume large amounts of wheat this year, wait til next spring and see if the allergies return.
Bitcoin is a distributed p2p database where nodes can agree over the updates, which is incidentally used as a ledger for a digital currency.

Bitcoin is nice, but the real geniality of it is the blockchain.
This is another one of those situations you can excuse away through specific context (Valleywag did plenty of crappy things) but the broader play here is worrying: billionaire finances lawsuits he has nothing to do with, in order to take down media entity that he dislikes.

I try not to think about the specifics and look at the broader precedent something like this sets and... erk.

EDIT: all specifics aside, I think what bothers me most is that he can do this in secret. We only found out because of, wait for it, the media. Maybe he'll fund cases against Forbes next?
On top of that, in a step function you really want to see what's being modified (that's kinda the point...). I suspect that monstrosity is easier to maintain than having state updates scattered around and having to jump to definitions and back to step() to understand the thing.
It is not generational wealth transfer, it is wealth transfer from the poor/middle class to the rich.

It just so happens a lot of the 'rich' are boomers and not rich are millennials, but that's current happenstance.
because I'm happy to give up my freedom to carry a gun in return for the knowledge that other people are similarly unarmed and therefore unable to shoot me.

It's what we do in a polite society; restrict our freedoms to respect the rights of others. I don't play music loudly on public transport for the same reason.
> You just get to try and elect people who will HOPEFULLY do what's in your best interests.

You get to do a bit more than that, though few ever do.

Making full use of representative democracy means continuously contacting your representative, not leaving them alone until you're convinced they'll act in your interests, and not leaving your friends/family/community alone until you've got as many other people as you can badgering your representative just as much. It's very time consuming and won't work at all if there aren't enough people with the same problem but, in the case of the author of this article, the relevant problem is quite widespread.
You seem to have missed the point of the article. The $15 minimum wage will most likely help the precariat. This is a good thing. But it will do little if anything to help the unnecessariat.

> ... no matter how tenuous, the precariat had jobs. The new dying Americans, the ones killing themselves on purpose or with drugs, don’t. Don’t, won’t, and know it.

Overtime and wage increases are not going to help people who don't have jobs, and can't be trained for high paying jobs. UBI might help them, but might have some other unbeneficial social effects. And maybe if we invent Soma we could give people a safe way to escape a crushing reality.

But the gist here is that for a certain underclass, things are not improving, and no solutions are being offered. No one even cares that these people are dying, no community is organized around helping them. Nothing. It's bad enough to make one want to take heroin.

So vote Trump! If you can't save the world, better to watch it burn. Fire walk with me.
I'm not impressed by snark about being "stuck in STL for some odd reason." You shouldn't be either. It's not particularly clever.

But, to further the point, the same would obviously apply to houses in higher price ranges. $500k can buy a house in the Midwest that could fairly be described as luxurious.
Taken from Pascal and other Wirthian languages. Nim actually looks vaguely Wirthish in some areas. Interesting.
E-paper != E-Ink. Pebble's "e-paper" display upset more than few people who assumed it was have the contrast, clarity, and zero power consumption abilities of true E-Ink. I stead it turned out to be a marketing term for an ordinary LCD.
It will also take more people out of the category of "working people".
This is why his Trump/Sanders/Clinton passage lost me. OP seems pretty smart and well-informed, but also seems to believe some pretty simplistic and fatalistic narratives about what democrats do and don't care about.
Great overview, thanks. I'll have to do some more reading and perhaps try it out myself.
> the various C compiler vendors could get together and agree on a set of them, making a "technical report".

Yes, they could. But they don't.

> Anyhow, what other problems?

The lack of a real multi-dimensional array type is probably the biggest problem with regards to the goal of making code run fast. The fact that strings are required to be zero-terminated arrays of signed 8-bit integers is another huge problem. It means that you can't have native unicode strings, and that to create a substring you have to make a copy. The lack of exceptions and automatic memory management means that you need weird calling conventions if you want to return composite types, or if a function can fail. The lack of generics and namespacing means that you need to use weird naming conventions to avoid collisions, and there is a significant cognitive load placed on the programmer to figure out the right operation to use for a particular set of operand types (except for native arithmetic, but that can't be extended to any non-native types).
Not sure if it's of any interest (or if you've already seen it), but Garmin does have something comparable in an analog watch form with their recent Vivomove tracker.

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/into-sports/health-fitness/v...
~850 million US-based passenger * flights per year

~15 minutes in TSA waiting per passenger per flight

~80 years in a life

850,000,000 passengers per year * 15 minutes = 12,750,000,000 minutes of passenger time per year ≈ 24,241 years of passenger time per year

24,241 years of passenger time per year / 80 years per life ≈ 303 passenger lives per year.

The TSA effectively kills ~300 people per year just by wasting our time.
Your choice. But if you choose it, don't complain about the consequences.
Oh that we could all live in a world where the most terroristic organisation in our lives is... Valleywag.
Hey are you posting under two accounts ("ryanlol" and "ryanl0l") to avoid some kind of rate limiter or something.
Christopher Alexander talked about that in A Pattern Language, and the New Urbanist architects talk about/design for/build it quite often (the usual solution is the "carriage house" or "granny flat" but more generally the idea is to restrict zoning to address patterns of activity in public spaces, thus legalizing more variation in demographics and behaviors across time and short distances). It does not really fit into the mainstream (suburban) scheme of fastidious homogenization of uses and forms.
Then again, the prevailing opinion of the 19th century was that "inalienable rights" are so last century and the only true rights that exist are those that can be won from a free market.
Uber and Toyota confirm strategic investment and auto leasing deal
Really?

http://www.britannica.com/topic/Tea-Party-movement

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement

There might have been some reactions to the Bush Bailouts, but what is the Tea Party does not come into being until Obama is sworn in.

Don't fool yourself, if Obama was White, there would be no Tea Party.
I'm not sure that the article moved to bare iron. The author could have just set up postgres on a regular ec2 instance.