skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same New York Times that reported as late as November 16th that Clinton won 50.4% of the popular vote (with no qualification)?
A Bitcoin has no inherent value. The only value attributed to Bitcoin is that someone, somewhere had to spend electricity to create a Bitcoin.

Sort of like when you eat in the morning, go to work and get a paycheck, your work has value.

Now, is the Bitcoin price crazy? Maybe a little bit, but it's reacted very strongly to the Donald Trump election since it's considered to be alternative to existing remittances that cannot be taxed (IE, remittances to Mexico).

Now in regards to your scammers, Mt Gox was the only exchange and you know 'power corrupts... I forget the saying'

Butterfly Labs got raided because they took a lot of money from the community for mining gear and delivered nothing.
The fun used to be that you needed to figure out the object dropping thing and then the thing that you need to think about the rooms as an abstract graph instead of something that makes spatial sense. (Zork started off as a mainframe game whose audience was pretty much all computer scientists, so they would've been expected to know about graph data structures.)

Once you know the trick, the rest is annoying busywork, and adding a maze has been considered bad design in most text adventures made after the Zork era.

The generally annoying thing about text adventures is that if you hit a puzzle you don't get, your progress can grind into total halt. There's no alternative strategies or just getting lucky like there is in roguelikes. And there are plenty of badly designed games where after having the puzzle explained, you'll go "how was I supposed to figure out THAT?" (Zork 2 has a couple infamous puzzles like this.) If you want to get text adventures, you might want to just use hints when needed to get through a few so you'll get a sense of what the games consider appropriate hints and puzzles.
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The scammers do tell me something. In my view Bitcoin has some real utility and 'value' precisely for the same reason that it attracts so many scammers. As long as people want some form of digital, hard to track, irreversible way to exchange things that can't be duplicated then Bitcoin will have some value. Drugs, guns, donations to political organizations, scamming, etc etc. Those are big forces with a fair amount of market value; If Bitcoin is the best way to trade in them then of course it will have value.
I think people reduced their consumption of commercial media in general when they found, partly as a result of being able to see unfiltered, original sources via the internet, that they were being spun (and outright lied to) by those very news services.
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Ahem...

I don't think the issues is two URL's, I think the issue is two separate corporations.

If you read the article, you would see that the fact that the corporation was registered in 2012, and then a new company by the same name with the same owner was registered in 2015. This is the smoking gun.
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So either the missing girls where aborted, killed, or once the family had a boy as the first child, they stopped having kids. Or people just ignored the policy altogether.

And central planning works how exactly?
Sounds like you're after the select() filter, which evaluates a boolean expression and passes the input to the output only if the expression is true.

So your example would be something like: select(.request.headers|map(.[0] == "X-My-Header" and .[1] == "my target value")|any)|<pick out some keys to display>

I realise though that your point wasn't the specific example, it's that the docs for these kind of cases are poor, and you aren't wrong.

I guess my main advice is to not think of jq as something like cut or sort - instead, it's more like awk or sed. You can do lots of crazy things with sed, but it's not immediately obvious how just from reading the man page. These kinds of tools require a little more time investment but are very powerful.

(edit for code typo)
> was previously smart, frugal, and sensible gets baked in as the norm

I love that smart, frugal, sensible behavior becomes the norm. What could be bad about that?
I disagree with your first point, at least from a personal perspective. I find Rust more expressive than Go, and slightly more productive.

You're right about maturity though. Hopefully the Rust library ecosystem continues to make strides.
Explain why you believe my logic makes no sense.

I did not say Bitcoin would take off or be worth millions. I merely said the only bad time to buy Bitcoin is after every person on Earth has some, at that point, it may be too late.
I agree, proof would be nice. I don't know Android well enough to connect UI pauses to IO. Suggestions are welcome
Well, I could easily have made it "func Now" or whatever in my current package.

The point is, adding type alias just gives you the ability to do for types what you can already do for variables and functions.

It's true that the driving case (as presented by rsc) is co-reorganizations, but I think inevitably it'll get used for more than that. (Which is what many people who are opposed are afraid of.)

I would not personally be a fan of making the feature so deliberately painful to "discourage" use. Either add it and make it as nice as you can, or don't. Why add ugly things to your language on purpose? :)
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The best kinds of voting machines blend a paper trail and digital counting. For example there are machines that use fill-in-the-bubble ScanTron ballots like are used for multiple-choice tests, or machines that provide a digital count and a paper trail.

It's still not 100% perfect. The ScanTron machines are really accurate but there is still a <1% error rate in ballots and in a really close election you will get some variation from doing it a second time. And then you get the idiots who filled in two bubbles, or connect the dot, and so on, and who knows what happens there. Hopefully just a rejected ballot but who knows. The usual recourse if a machine screws up during the test is an upset student coming to talk to the professor but you don't have any way of validating how your ballot was counted.

The problem is that when you start letting humans interpret a contested election it all still goes to shit real quick. You suddenly have lawyers fighting to interpret what each individual voter meant with each individual ballot and it just takes forever. We tried that with the 2000 election and it sucked pretty hard. In the end it may be the most accurate but it literally takes months to play out even with just a disputed county or two, let alone a whole state/province.

Constitutionally, we hold elections on "the first Monday after the second Tuesday of November" and the electoral college (which actually counts) votes on "the first Monday after the second Wednesday in December". No I am not making this up, they are based on arcane 18th-century logic about when farmers would be done with harvest and what day they could come into town and shit like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_Day_(United_States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_Stat...

Anyway, the point is there's a hard constitutional date limit and the only way you go past that is the Supreme Court pulling an equal-protection ruling about how halting the recount would invalidate people's votes. Which just comes down to a party-line ruling anyway, like it did in 2000 when they halted the recount.
> Bitcoins have no value

It's money (a currency). Money has value because someone says it has value and someone else agrees. Congrats, bitcoin has value!

The nature of that value may be volatile and doomed to drop severely or go away entirely in the future, but that doesn't make it non-existent now.
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There are some developers that do. They're mainly outside cities, building out townhouse style multi home communities. From what I've seen the build quality for all of them is universally terrible. They can't splurge like a high end condo but they have to make it look "not poor", so they end up with the worst combo. Cheap and low quality.
To offer a different viewpoint on this: http://observer.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-presidential-run-...

The war on "fake news" bothers me. The Ron Paul Institute & Wikileaks, both won a badge of honor by being claimed to be "Fake News" and "Russian Propaganda" in the Washington Post's "news" section.

Sources:
[Article in question](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-prop...)

[The Source that Article Cites](http://www.propornot.com/p/the-list.html)

Truly shameful journalism by the Washington Post.
Can you elaborate on his being a "trained cryptographer"? I'm not sure what that means.
As a UX designer do you use heatmaps as a tool to determine if your audience is taking the actions that you expect them to take?
I fail to find the connection between the first half of the article criticizing Prop 13, and the second half listing the sins of supposed "progressives".

I mean – you can certainly argue that people are wrong to try to protect the unique character of their neighborhood. But that argument seems to be completely separate from Prop 13, except maybe with regards to the line of "protecting incumbent residents".
Card transactions also take days to settle, cost orders of magnitude more in interchange (depending on the value transferred), and can have significant chargeback risk.
I was watching Seinfeld recently. It was a 90s skit of him talking about the answering machine. How sometimes you would be disappointed if someone answered the phone.

I was thinking, wow, he is just talking sending sms messages. The crowd would laugh or woot in what seemed to be agreement.

He didn't know what he wanted, but there was a problem that he and everyone wanted a solution for. At the time in the 90s, it was a social problem (not wanting to waste time with an annoying person on the phone) but in the 2000's that problem was solved with technology.

A lot of times, customers do not know what they want. Imagine what Jerry's answer would have been if we had asked him a question about pinging his contacts list to know if they were available in 1991. He wouldn't have understood and honestly, no one would want to carry around a massive rolodex at the time, so the answer would have been silly at best.

I did find the video .. someone else noticed the same thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UeINnBMFA4
No worries. In the future, you can almost always get a reply button by clicking directly on a post. (Click on the "time since post" to get to the direct link.)

I think I see the point. Yes, he is using hyperbole. However, I have found it is more accurate than not. In particular, the point that many projects feel a lot more cavalier about doing breaking changes.
Is there a trick to playing Roguelike games? I usually explore the first few levels and eventually get killed by an enemy which has whittled down my HP or get ganged up. How do you get strong enough to last a reasonable time? Or is it really a matter of luck and I should expect to die often?
Is there a working and practical implementation somewhere? I was under the impression it wasn't practical yet.
>Housing isn't manufactured in large factories where you can optimize every step of the process

True it isn't, in large scales but it could be. Both for single family homes (manufactured homes) as well as for high-rises (PoC in China: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/30/chinese-constr...) or apt bldg. in Brooklyn http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2014/04/16/building-...) but most people aren't just into "utility" and want something which projects themselves and their values and sensibilities.
What kind of mobile filesystem wipers and SIM wipers are available?

I use Signal for txts, and while I believe it does not store plaintext txts on the SIM card (haven't analyzed it), SSDs strew cleartext data all over the place. Border guards using a disk imager like EnCase or something similar would get significant fragments of browser and communications history.

Key thing is if you have an iPhone, don't use TouchID, or as I call it, "Apple Bad Touch," because they can just hold you down and run your finger over it.

It's best to travel with a burner. Maybe we need a cyanogenmod image that includes a "duress key" like TC had, and old RSA tokens, but if there is anything on your phone that could be used against people you know, don't take it across borders.
Bit of a rant. The site is the mouthpiece of people who are suing the city of Lafayette, for violating state law by not building enough housing.
I wrote about GraphQL on here before [1]. I don't share the author's enthusiasm that it's "awesome" that "the schema is all backed by arbitrary code" -- I think this is a bad trade-off, because you still have to have some custom data-munging layer between your GraphQL acceptor and your backend datasources, just like you had to do to, but with different code, to implement a REST service.

However, once canned ORMs or datastores that natively understand GraphQL (like dgraph) become available, the ecosystem will definitely enable rapid integration -- provided we keep in mind the lessons learned about user-supplied queries from the early SQL-on-the-web days.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=niftich%20graphql&sort=byDate&...
The common answer is that it's survivor bias.

Every once and a while I run across a home from the 1800s that probably shouldn't have survived, and the shortcuts the builders took are similar to today's shortcuts. Improperly sized beams, improperly spaced rafters, etc. In some ways, you could consider an 1800s rubble foundation and irregular framing spacing worse than today's shortcuts.
Differential access to civil rights are a big part of why I gave up my driver's license.

Pulling over a driver and pointing a gun at them? Trivial. Pulling over a livery vehicle and searching the passenger? Complicated. Demanding someone in a car give you their phone's password? Trivial. Doing the same at the airport? My weekends filled for a month hosting fundraisers for PACs.
Wait, isn't that actually true? And doesn't she have plenty of qualifications? I mean – she's passed the bar exam, right?
Would much of the problems with housing cost be alleviated by deregulating the market?

I remember my neighbour many year's back being blocked, by his town, for building his own shed in his backyard.

I have travelled around the world and seen many homes people live in that they've built themselves. I have never seen that in the US.
Yes. There was a strong stigma attached to voting for Trump, which made people to falsely claim they were undecided or voting 3rd party.

Andrew Gelman (who wrote the textbook on Bayesian Data Analysis) says:

> Yes, the polls were wrong, but as I’ve written, they weren’t that wrong—they were off by about 2 percent.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
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He has a postgraduate degree in it.
People become risk averse.
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Not only that but they get paid for every signature that is turned in, regardless of whether the identity is valid or not, and regardless of whether the person votes or not. Each form is serial numbered and they have to turn everything in, period.

The intention was to keep people (read: southerners and Republicans) from using a sharpie to mark out every LaQuan and Shanice who registered to vote, but the flip side of that is that they have to let people register as Mickey Mouse too. And they get paid for every signature they turn in regardless.

Shocker right here: a lot of those registrations are bad and Mickey Mouse doesn't actually turn up to vote.
Why can't it be both? Isn't "investing" in the stock market also gambling?

Bitcoin is a pretty great investment asset actually, since there is a finite, limited supply, and any sum can be transferred nearly instantaneously.
How is it "gambling" any more than, say, stock is? Because stock prices vary based on actual real events? Well, bitcoin prices vary based on actual real events as well.
CyanogenMod's logo/mascot/whatever is beyond retarded looking.

Some stupid, almost-impish little Napster-type cartoon character? It's non-facial expression is, somehow, even more annoying in its tepid inoffensiveness, than if it were to emote as some puckish, edgy dork.

I spent hours unlocking some bootloader on my $600 phone so that I could look like a Linkin Park fan, who's into Saturday morning cartoons?

I don't remember CyanogenMod looking quite so cheesey in 2011.

ClockworkMod's logo was an example of faux 1337 w4r3zd00d chic done well.

CyanogenMod looks like ass, and I won't be caught dead with it.
It's an editorial, for sure.

And yes, the site is connected with the Yimby Party[0] and SFBARF[1], who have been featured in HN before.[2]

FWIW, I helped put together the website, which uses Armin Ronacher's Lektor CMS.[3] And as far as this has gone, it's been a tremendous success, for putting together a straightforward news site that is usable for both tech-savvy operators as well as those unacquainted with the command-line.

[0] http://www.sfyimby.org/

[1] http://www.sfbarf.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12310151

[3] https://www.getlektor.com/
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Most boarders are pirates, so I wouldn't want to cross them either.
Land lots are getting smaller, but houses are getting larger. The average new home in the US has increased in size by 1000 sq ft since 1973.

http://www.aei.org/publication/todays-new-homes-are-1000-squ...
Yes but the chargeback risk protects me as a consumer.
Congrats on your book, I'm looking forward to reading it. What was Rackspace's role or interest in the project?
Your investment philosophy is based on the hope that Bitcoin soars in value, possibly driven by some type of global uptake. Neither of those is going to happen.

Why would everyone on earth have Bitcoin? The vast majority of people don't have any non-cash assets, and many don't have any cash assets either.
I have a different take on this.

Coming out of university with a BS, graduates today are far from well-equipped to perform in corporate upper middle-class jobs (the jobs promising upward mobility). I think this has most to do with an increase in the amount of data companies deal with. White-collar employees need to know not only the ins-and-outs of their industry, but they must also know how to use increasingly complicated enterprise software, and possess more advanced analytical skills to operate with more complicated data. As a result, graduates with a 4year degree are stuck for 5+ years in internship limbo. Companies will bleed money training interns who literally can't offer anything of value and instead will use up the work hours of the skilled employees who train them. Hence, <30k salaries.

I think this is why there is a trend for the more math-heavy STEM fields to flee the coop earlier --they spend less time on the software and analytics training to become valuable sooner.

Certain degrees like health, or design are unlike general STEM fields in that they train students for specific technical jobs rather than teaching broader critical thinking/problem solving. So, they get jobs right out of school (5year engineering programs...?).

PhD's are in the best position to flee the coop quickly because they are paid a livable wage (in most cases) while in graduate school. It's also not terribly difficult to get into a PhD program (completing it is another story). After receiving their doctorate, PhDs rely on tight-knit academic networking within their field of study to do their post-doc. However, this is where many of them get stuck, receiving a salary <70k (often far <). Increasing competition for faculty positions has pushed many a post-doc out of academics (though, by this time I feel they can compete well in the corporate sector).

What I can't explain is law students. I thought there was a bubble leaving most of them jobless. I presume that maybe a law degree is relatively more helpful in scaling the world of big-data (and 'big-regulation') making them prime pickings for corporate jobs earlier than the rest.
Absolutely and recurring customers with a certain gained "reputation" should have more weight than new customers without much buying history. Maybe require a reviewer amass x-amount in previous purchases before allowing them to review as well as t-time before they can review to avoid fraudulent reviews.

I constantly get asked to review my purchases and have yet to do so. Some people are just not into doing reviews like that, specially if it feels like you're getting badgered.
Well, for one thing, this is an artificial limitation set in code. The only thing right now preventing them from upping that, is caution.

I believe, though, that there will be an upper limit transaction speed on a decentralized network which will be slower than that possible on a centralized network. This is why folks have talked about using bitcoin as an end-of-day "settlement" currency and doing the day-to-day in your local fiat.

Here's the thing- Bitcoin will thrive whenever the shit hits the fan somewhere (see: Venezuela right now). A currency controlled by no government* and weighing 0% of gold while being completely electronic, suddenly becomes quite appealing under those circumstances. Which then makes it a pretty good hedge.

* arguments about chinese miners controlling most of the mining market are allowed
The article comes off as a little rant-y, but I found it to be quite an enjoyable read. A lot of sources water down prop 13 as "maybe bad", but any of us who've moved to San Francisco (or even California) in the past 5-10 years should be far more outraged about the situation than we are.

This guy is eminently quotable too:

> “Revolt” sounds too noble to me, even “populist.” I prefer to call it feudalism.

And on the popular anti-tech sentiment:

> New, young computer programmers with six-figure salaries may easy to scapegoat as the emblem of the Bay Area’s 21st Century inequality, but even if they can afford real estate, their privilege is chump change compared to that of pre-1979 homebuyers and their descendants.

A few key observations in there:

* The power imbalance between buyers and renters in the country is already bad due to the interest rate deductions, but Prop 13 adds insult to injury. While rent control (for renters) is not widespread, owners in California (who are often the upper class stratas, especially in the Bay Area) have built-in rent control everywhere, forever. You can even pass it down to your kids!

* He uses the term BMR (Below Market Rate) instead of "affordable housing". There's been a concerted attempt by politicians to conflate these terms to buy more populist votes. As noted in the article, an important aspect of BMR is that its cost is passed on to new buyers; the perfect political tool: a tax that's not called a tax!

* Many of the local anti-development politicians are riding off the aforementioned "feudal" privilege. Kudos to the author for pulling information on a few of them. Of course the data is anecdotal, but it's amazing how many of these high-income people inherited their primary residence from their parents during their working lifetimes. That's very hard to imagine in most of North America.
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