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Why would today's spec bump require 6 months of planning? They didn't introduce new components, just moved the price points down a level.
Example:

1. I have 0 bitcoins, price is $1250

2. Price drop 20% to $1000

3. I buy 1bitcoin for $1000

4. Price rise to $1200

5. I sell at $1200, earning 20%, not 40%

Am I missing something?
The impacts i clude the possibility of humans being literally unable to survive on some parts of the globe if wet bulb temperatures become high enough. And a constantly shifting coastline requiring recomstruction of the coastline every decade.

That's if we keep burning all the carbon. Yes, causes are important.
Hm. I agree the original title from the article was clickbait, but ... could it perhaps be titled something that emphasizes the cooperative nature? It's not really an April Fools' gag as much as a social experiment.
For anyone not that familiar with Android, "must use okhttp" refers to the fact that it is the best solution, not that it's the only solution.
Also made of plastic. And not Kevlar, either.
> The thing that irks me about this the most is how it's the people who were doing exactly what they were told that got hurt the most. The good kids who went to the best school they could get in to, studied whatever they were interested in, and if that thing happened to be literature or women's studies or a wide number of other things you might just spend the next 20 years figuring out how to live with debt you can't pay off.

Are they REALLY telling kids nowadays to go major in whatever interested them? Because when I went to college (nineties), nobody told me to just go major in women's studies or medieval history. They were telling me, "Study medicine or engineering because that's the only way it'll be worth the cost." The "what does a liberal arts major say" joke was very much a thing back then, as I assume it is today, now that job prospects for anyone not in STEM are even bleaker than when I went to school.

I don't think the guy who took out $100K in loans to study literature for 5 years was really doing exactly what they were told to do.
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Buy and hold is only a good strategy if you have a diverse portfolio. The goal of the strategy is then to keep the value of your assets, and maybe make a nice percentage associated with growing economies.

If you are operating however with an edge on the market, that is to say you have knowledge you think some percentage of the market does not have. For example you profoundly believe that Bitcoin will increase in value, as the author of the article does.

In that case, buy and hold is only a mediocre strategy. At most you will make whatever the percentage is that the asset will grow.

If instead you make use of the idea that between now and the mystical future bitcoin value increase, it will go both up and down, you can come up with strategies that make you more money than that value increase.

I think it's possible to come up with a strategy that are guaranteed to make you more money, based solely off those two assumptions "Eventually it will increase" and "there will be fluctuations". Some simple ones I've come up with I think come close to it, but I've never dared to execute any of them. I wonder if there's people here who have.
That's the view traditional financial market people have, and also the view that they have of apple.

Their perspective is not the only one, but definitely the sexy one that media can profit from.

As for the exchange of services, that is the basis of ethereum. Instead of computing Sha(Sha()) over and over again, the mining network is a global turing-complete computer designed around arbiterless smart-contracts.
Problem: Track players on an ARK: Survival Evolved (Steam) server, to better manage inter-tribe aggression. (When does another tribe have more players online - at what hours should we be diplomatic, and when can we be aggressive?)

Project: ARKData has been an ongoing project since mid-2015, when it began as copying player names from the arkservers.net page into an Excel spreadsheet. Having transformed this into a static site generator has taught (and retaught) me a great deal about front-end technologies and application architecture - from data ingestion to browser rendering.

I'm currently working on 2 upgrades - first, porting the SteamQuery application from PHP to Powershell, to natively use it instead of having to depend on another data source. Steam servers reply with a blob of information, when given the correct command over UDP. Arkservers.net just runs a PHP application called SteamQuery that queries a server with UDP and parses that into JSON. I rewrote my port yesterday - output is only missing a few data items - player play times, & server name/map/filename since these are not delineated. It's a series of pre-parsers, parsers, and post-parsers - Valve, why do your servers not speak JSON directly?

Second, using SQLExpress as a back-end. I'm currently using numerous CSVs and JSON flat files as a data store. Hopefully, this will improve application performance somewhat, and allow for better statistical analysis. With flat files, it takes several seconds to build a list of players seen in the past 24h.

The application isn't currently running - I only run it when I'm playing, against the server I'm playing on, and I'm not currently playing on any servers. There's a demo site still up, from the last time the application was operational:
http://gilgamech.com/ARKData/_Wiped_2_4__NoobFriendly_8xT_3x...

Github (Slightly out of date): https://github.com/Gilgamech/ARKScrape
I would probably be a lot more indirect about it.

Thank you for helping us find the issue. We will work tirelessly until it is fixed. If at some stage you are satisfied we would be delighted to turn your one star review into a five star one.

to

Thank you for helping us find the issue. We will work tirelessly until we turn your one star disappointment into a five star experience.
What is the use case? Why can't you 'enhance the resolution' CSI style?
Lemonade, insurance powered by AI, launches in Illinois
> The team I joined was around 5 engineers (all former developers and technical leaders), which grew to around 50 of more mixed experience across multiple locations by the time I left.

Unfortunately, it's difficult for the audience to determine whether the author's success is attributable to the philosophy in the post, or the 10x growth in staff.
Speaking for myself: I'm a massive nerd. I need friendships with other nerdy people to be sane. There aren't that many nerdy people in my middle American home town of 300k people. There are many, many nerdy people in San Francisco.
Here's a map of Mexico with intentional homicide rates (data from 2011) by state:

http://www.geocurrents.info/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Mexic...

FWIW, Baja California Sur, though not near Gulf/Yucatan is pretty low on the list too.

Baja California and Sonora have significantly lower rates than Chihuahua, but all three border the US.
Tips are fun! Here are mine:

- Make sure to provide a text version of your talk online, in a sane format.

- Keep text off your slides. Use them to show code, or kittens, but not bullet points.

- Remember that you're speaking to an intelligent audience. They'll have more fun if you leave some stuff unsaid, and let them come to their own conclusions.

- Go through the painful process of watching yourself speak on video, to identify and correct the many verbal tics you didn't know you had.

- Have a single shot of booze ten minutes before liftoff
"Half of the landmass", wow. Do you know where your teachers found these numbers?
Just an FYI update for those still looking.

Admin posted a response:
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Ok, calm down everybody. Save your pitchforks and torches for your elected representatives. This only lack the death treats now.

The firing of the customer was never about the Amazon review, just wanted to distance from the toxic individual ASAP. Admittedly not a slickest PR move on my part. Note taken.

A quote from a random guy132.

PS: Anybody has Streisand's phone number?
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Because they won't appreciate historical context?
Perhaps, but it was the real title. I thought that was what we should use on HN.
I live in Atlanta and this article is false. First of all, it's spring break and the schools are closed which reduces traffic. Surface streets have become parking lots as people find alternate routes around the interstate. This has affected lots of the local businesses. It's dangerously affected emergency response times for firetrucks and ambulances.
Well, keep in mind that we also don't know the timescale this was over. If it was $120mm in a year, then that's perhaps crazy, but 120 million over 5 or ten years?

With 80 billion in revenue and ~75K employees according to a google search, that means that there's an expectation that an average hire will drive $1 million in revenue per year. To be paid 120M/year you'd need to drive significantly more than that, but to be paid 20M/year, that's now someone who is 50x the average employee, not 200x the average employee, and that's reasonable. I think we all know an engineer or two who is extraordinary.
I live in Pittsburgh and a single disabled vehicle during the morning commute changes everything.

A closure on one of the less traveled routes into the city also has an enormous impact on the commute for everyone.
nginx doesn't have defaults for most things. If you don't specify a feature then it's not used. Consequently reading a config file makes it very obvious what's happening - to debug a server that's acting up you can look at the config and if you don't see a value then you need to specify one, and if you do then something is clearly broken. In a Caddyfile it appears that wouldn't be the case because it could be using SSL even if the config values are missing.
LaCie Thunderbolt 2big here for high def and 4K projects - works great.

Then a Synology NAS for long term storage - also contains my entire iMovies library since gigabit is plenty fast for SD video.
Just like adding housing doesn't improve costs, because more people will just move in.

Just like adding fiber lines doesn't improve internet speeds, because more data will be moved around.

Just like using renewable energy doesn't reduce pollution, because more people will just use renewable energy.

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Except, that's not true, that's not what happens. On roads, or any of these other situations.

Induced demand is a small and rare situation only applicable when multiple other valuable alternatives exist with which to pull from. To slap that label onto any piece of infrastructure is simply not accurate.
Working on a video mosaicer. Gist of it is:

Extract frames from video

Replace each AxB tile in each frame with another frame which has the closest average colour

Rebuild the video from each mosaiced frame
Macs (maybe with the exception of a Mac Pro) are only silent at idle, not in full load. By my definition of 'silent' at least. If you can't hear the system while gaming because you use headphones, sorry, it's not silent.

If you just randomly build a beige box hackintosh, it will be noisy. If you spend some quality time on silentpcreview, you can get one that is silent even under load. I know, I have one.

Still, I'd very much like to get a decent Mac Pro instead. Devil's in the details, let's wait and see. My hackintosh isn't becoming obsolete any time soon.
That sounds very generic too. How do you even define fake? How do you know it's not fake?
I agree with your paragraph 1, not with paragraph 2. The US Dept. of Ed. could have come up with any number of solutions including outright forgiveness, work programs, access to cheap fee-based financial planners, more scholarships, changes to the tax code for the borrowers, or hiring incentives for employers. Instead, it chose to sell it off the debt in order to keep the accounting balanced under the desired time frame.

Navient should pay what the court compels it to if outright deception is found, but let's not overstate their role in the general problem around the structural non-sustainability of federal education loans, and the short-sightedness executive decision to spin off the liabilities into private hands.
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OK, but you also need to consider the quality of life for people living or working near the roads -- that increases when there is less traffic.
But choices like that are inevitable. There are only so many places available at the top schools. Somebody has to make the choice about which students get to go there. That somebody may be the students deciding whether the cost is worthwhile, or it may be the school deciding which students to accept, but the decision is inevitable.
> SSH / SFTP are fundamental tools

They are provided out of the box (and newer versions than OSX ships with) by WSL. As is vim, emacs, apt, etc.
Problem: the Metaverse should fundamentally be a web application: open to everyone, based on open standards, uncensored. But tools like Unity and Unreal don't play nicely with the web. Their emphasis on proprietary editors causes vendor lockin for anyone who puts in the time to learn them, and presents a barrier to entry for anyone who isn't interested in learning yet-another-platform-when-the-ones-we-have-are-just-fine-thanks. And their compile-to-webgl stories are a joke. A "metaverse" of siloed applications living as gigantocorp platform exclusives is not a metaverse at all.

Project: https://www.primrosevr.com is a web-oriented, immersive environment for building applications. In Primrose, you write idiomatic ES2015 JavaScript code to define interactive objects and let the framework manage the VR-ness for you.

I've been a web developer for 20 years, and I've been building VR and AR apps in browsers for almost a decade now. Primrose started as a collection of my habits for building browser-based VR apps to become the first WebVR framework in the world.

I've built a few apps using the framework, including this one for a client (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-06/goldman-s...). Y-Combinator was interested in us, but I most emphatically do not want to leave DC (y'know, cuz the metaverse isn't just one city).

Definitely open to taking on collaborators. I'm open to taking on motivated beginners, even open to mentoring people, so long as I don't need to constantly chase you down to see how you're doing or spoon-feed you answers.
Two things:

First, my torrent tracker, "Notorious" (https://github.com/GrappigPanda/notorious). This has been a constant project of mine for at least 7 months now. There's still a lot of improvements which can be done, but this brings up the second project I'm working on: "Olivia" (https://github.com/GrappigPanda/Olivia), a distributed KV store. I'm currently reading through Paxos papers and geearing up to implement Paxos, Raft, Epaxos, or something (by myself because I like difficult things) so that the KV store has consensus.

I plan to have a horizontally scalable torrent tracker, for no other purpose than to have said I did it.
Tim Berners-Lee Receives ACM'2017 Turing Award
C# has a growing community momentum now, too. Very interesting to watch.
Is it just going to open/shut at predetermined times? Or is there some "smarter" behavior?

Going to release it anywhere? There's other hackers out there with chickens (me!)
As prirun says, you have a conversation, not a quiz.

Quizzes are a terrible way to assess skill; they're used in academics because they're, sadly, the only quick way to get some sort of consistent feeling over the memory and information retention in a group of dozens of students. No intelligent company should be copying this; companies have the luxury of dedicating significant time to exploring the potential of each candidate.

You say "Hey, here's a real problem that we'd need to solve. How would you go about it?" And let them talk. They'll be able to speak in informed terms about how to approach the problem even if their algorithms memory is rusty or if they're self-taught. If it sounds like they're on the right track, you win, if not, you move on. Repeat until end of interview, evaluate at the end.

I've used a basic code competency test for an interview pre-screen before. This is a take-home project that should take a competent person about 30 minutes, 2 hours if they go all out and add a bunch of bells and whistles.

People say this, that their take-homes are non-intrusive, but don't mean it. I mean it. The quiz is seeing if they can make a single API call to a prominent API and return the results according to a very simple format.

These pre-screens should be well below the competency requirement, which can only be assessed in the interview. It's essentially a fizzbuzz that they can't easily copy and paste by searching for "solutions to fizzbuzz".

Other than an extremely simple pre-screen like that, your decision should be based on their ability to reason, discuss, and solve problems on the fly, not how well they remember the particulars of compsci curriculum. That selects for the recency of their last class, which, ironically, is usually inversely correlated with their much more valuable real-world experience and what people think they're trying to test for.

This doesn't apply if you actually are doing deeply theoretical work on the cutting edge of compsci that may require frequent cooperation with academics. But that's a tiny minority of positions.
Problem: I don't know when the optimal times to go to Krispy Kreme for hot donuts are.

Solution: http://hotdonuts.info/

And yes, this is the most important problem in the world.
Maybe a better title for HN would be a "One of Collin Wright's Favorite Puzzles" type of shameless self promotion...except that that might not be the same Collin Wright as you metaphorically. That you're not that different Collin Wright is probably a matter of luck and if you were, you might not be the Collin Wright for whom such a title might succeed on HN. So at least at one level it's probably luck.

For what it's worth, I think the puzzle article is more intellectually interesting than the polemic.
Excellent news!

I'm looking forward to being able to land on moons in Elite Dangerous Horizons in VR on a Mac at some point.

In the meantime I got a Zotac EN1060, a machine the size of a Mac Mini that runs any game I throw at it at 60 frames per second, which makes booting into Windows tolerable.

Graphic design and coding work remains in the realm of a 2014 Macbook Pro.
> Window management is one of the strongpoints of MacOS.

Can you give an example of this? I regularly switch between macos, windows and ubuntu and I have a hard time coming up with much positive to say about macos window management (unless a third-party tool is used).
Canary Wharf - noone lives there - super safe at night...
I'm not sure it's the hackintosh... now and then I hear a lot of complaints about a particular version of xcode even on native macs. I don't use it, but I have work colleagues who do.
Why is that beneficial for the society? I don't think that's as clear cut as you make it to be. Cities are pretty efficient things.
It could be cron, but mostly I'd just recommend using whatever you are comfortable supporting. Cron is great for simple batch jobs (I would imagine this would fall into that category). Cron isn't ideal when you have to chain a bunch of jobs together. But, if you have a script that loads files, cron could do the job easily enough.
Shaming others is one of the basic acts of culture reinforcement. It's everywhere in one form of another, not just America. You might notice it here if you're a foreigner because what we shame might be different than where you come from.
Ask HN: Is anyone using Ractive.js?
If so, what are your thoughts? I'm considering using it for my next project instead of Angular.

http://ractivejs.org
I can't think of many examples, but I do like these sort of projects - Twitch Plays Pokémon comes to mind. Interesting how an entire subculture can develop: inside jokes, wars, and more. It's amazing because it's a microculture, but it develops far faster than any "regular" culture would.
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This is beautifully thorough.
I can't say I'd purchase items based on their appearance in TV shows. But, the idea of a catalogue of the items and the time it must take to create this is beautiful in an artistic way to me.
A tree structure editor for S-expressions.
It DOESN'T "consume" the rest of your project. Your code does not have to use the GPL as its license!
"living in constant anxiety of my friends and colleagues being in danger"

How much of this terror is coming from "war on drugs"?
Note that those making such arguments rarely extend them to bike lanes. If cutting lanes really reduces unneeded trips, that principal should apply to all modes of transport. Closing a subway station would certainly reduce the foot traffic cluttering up nearby sidewalks. Those people will work from home instead.
Numbers Show That Uber's Self Driving Cars Are the Worst
I think it is funny they are scrapping the entire line because of GPU thermals.

A big chunk of their pro market just wants a pile of ram and cpu cores. They could offer that now with an intel integrated gpu for $1-$3K. Also, it wouldnt surprise me if intel gpus can already drive 5K, so you'd be able to actually plug it into the nice LG mac monitor (unlike the thing they are shipping). If not, they could sell a high end, but single gpu config, which is still a waste of a gpu, but at least it could drive current apple-approved monitors.

Also, delaying the entire line 12+ months for a heatsink is madness. Surely they could slap together a water cooler or something for a single high end gpu config.
> We think it’s really important to create something great for our pro customers who want a Mac Pro modular system, and that’ll take longer than this year to do.

So perhaps starting in 2016, or 2015, or 2014 would have been a good idea?
Perhaps not physically threatened, but I've been pick-pocketed both in Rome and Naples. In that regard I definitely feel much safer in, say, Berlin.
Atlanta resident. Commutes are longer by a factor of 2 if not more. A co-workers commute from Roswell to Cumberland that did take 25 minutes is over an hour since the bridge fell. And, that commute doesn't go anywhere near the bridge.

Additionally, many schools are on spring break this week further reducing traffic.

While it might not be total gridlock, the traffic is being impacted significantly and will continue to be.
Yes, I've been using digital currencies since early 2000s, and when cryptocurrencies first appeared the idea of a decentralized payment system was a godsend but even back then it was investment schemes that received the most attention sadly.

One great idea that never materialized was anonymous services could be insured finally, so you could bootstrap your hobby exchange with an insurance guarantee held by semi-trusted people in the scene. For example a small instant exchange requiring no sign up, with a $10k multi-sig insurance fund and since the blockchain is open you can at all times verify that said instant exchange is not exceeding their insurance.
The first release of Apache Open Office was 2012, almost a year after LibreOffice. Open Office itself stagnated while still dual licensed under Suns proprietary license and LGPL. I think one of the complaints was that they took too long to merge patches by contributors.
Project: I'm implementing several machine learning algorithms in (near) base-python. I've almost finished the Naive Bayes classifier, then on to decision trees (and boosting and random forests come almost free from that), linear and logistic regression. I want to give a good depth of control and make it easy to share classifiers by writing dictionaries and exporting them as JSONs

Problem: Validating inputs is tedious