skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been in crypto since 2011. If critical mass/adoption/press/uptime/wallets/ matter to you, then there's you know what. The problems ETH has had would be predicted by anyone looking at their choices. They will continue to have the same problems for the same core reasons. Good news for people long ETH though, it seems the market doesn't really care about the downtime, or forks, or risks of dual codebases or the halting problem of turing comleteness in smart contracts. Hell, they dont' even care about user wallet adoption, or retailer adoption, so, it would seem that the price can just keep going up without really hitting any of the metrics other crypto's have cared about.
The positive usage of "hacker" has deep roots. The author of this article wrote a classic book that documents the early scene.

https://www.amazon.com/Hackers-Computer-Revolution-Steven-Le...
Could someone elaborate on the "cons" the article mentions? I don't totally understand why those would be problems.
I routinely pay for things with ethereum - and if the target only accepts btc, then I can just shapeshift.

The "Halting Problem" is a red herring here - eth transactions are technically not Turing complete since they automatically halt when they run out of the finite supply of ether attached to the transaction. Saying that ethereum isn't feasible because of the halting problem is like saying cars aren't feasible because an object in motion stays in motion - there are countless practical ways to manage it, and if nothing else stops you, in the end you'll definitely run out of gas.
An in depth, partially subbed video on Caliber 89

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPWCl2FDKe8
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I am almost certain that I would hate using the Minority Report interface, as it was depicted in the film. If Tom Cruise's character actually had to use that every day, his deltoids would be the size of bowling balls.

And I'm sure his manager loves to see exactly what he's doing from 100m away.

If you stuck that UI into a pair of VR-AR goggles, and replaced the huge gorilla-arm movements with barely-visible finger twitches, I might consider it.
24B clicks show mobile ad fraud is rampant: 8 networks are 100% fraudulent
By your logic, if Windows was a good enough OS to be a differentiator, everyone would just build their own PCs to save a hundred bucks. Because everyone has the free time, inclination, and skills to build one, and everyone enjoys tinkering with their PCs when they don't run right, instead of actually getting work done.
Writing a custom replacement for malloc is relatively common.

You... can't be serious. That's common to you?
LXC (with LXD) or OpenVZ containers are typically shipping full OS in the container. Docker is different in that it typically only have a few processes per containers.
They forgot the feature where if a smart contract doesn't go the way they want it, they create a default-opt-in hard fork of the currency.

Sorry if I don't trust the "small group of legends" more than the government.
SCMP seems to be a little more independent than say the Renmin Ribao, but skepticism is warranted.

I would add to your list that Chinese capital has been completely misallocated. Roads and bridges to nowhere, ghost cities. They've poured more concrete in the last 5 or so years than the US did in the first 100 years of its history [1] to give you a sense of the scale. There are cities that are unoccupied - entire cities. I'm still unclear on how these were financed, but my guess is with liberalization of the financial sector these were packaged up somehow and sold to Ma and Pa. It's going to end like it always does, with lots of tears (except for those like Kyle Bass who have positioned themselves to profit).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/03/24/how-c...

More on ghost cities:
https://www.wired.com/2016/02/kai-caemmerer-unborn-cities/
http://www.businessinsider.com/china-ghost-cities-satellite-...
Not to mention TLS VPNs like openvpn.
Python recursive solution for generating permutations:

s = 'abcd'
prefix = ''
permutation(prefix, s)

def permutation(prefix, s):
n = len(s)
if n == 0:
print(prefix)
else:
for i in range(n):
permutation(prefix + s[i], s[:i] + s[i+1:])
What makes you think that all the worst aspects of our myopic culture won't follow us into space?
Apple to (sort of) put $1B into US manufacturing jobs
> As neuroscience, computer science, and information technology progress, it will eventually become possible to precisely manipulate and/or create/simulate consciousness.

There's a good word which describes that sentence: 'faith'
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The author talks about making Ethereum more humane and user-friendly, but jargon like "The Internet of Agreements" and "Humanizing the Singularity" makes me think he's mostly interested in becoming a thought-leader through Branding™. Those terms and his bombastic language in general will not help bring Ethereum to the masses like he claims to want to do.

Also, the idea that Ethereum at $100 implies this amazing decentralized future is simply wrong, because that also implies that Ethereum at $1 didn't mean anything. Instead his argument should center around the many different businesses, products and experiments being built on the platform.
I would just guess off the top of my head that, because of the sheer volume of the earths interior and the amount of energy stored there as heat, the energy to run our entire civilisation for 1000's of years would be trival compared to it.

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Geophys/imggeo/ea...

The 4.7 km well is still in the earths crust, not even reached the lithosphere.
As far as the earths interior is concerned it might just be like an era of slightly increased vulcanism.
Honestly Python's hardline on consistency is very nearly my favorite thing about the language.
Really? I use these features daily. Pretty much whenever I want to share something that isn't just plain text...
Oh man, all of those things are so convenient once you start using them. If you've never used them, great, irc is probably fine. For me, I could never ever go back to irc, having gotten accustomed to all that stuff on slack.

For example, want to share a screenshot? Hit print screen to capture it, click to the browser, click to the tab, hit ctrl-v to paste, done. Instead of, what, uploading an image to an image-sharing site? I wouldn't even know how to do that at this point.
That's true, but your toe prints aren't taken! xD Maybe someone can put toeprint scanners in shoes and add bluetooth...
Just sometimes, because is the only place that has subtitles for some old movies. But I personally prefer Subscene.com.
We understand it very well but not completely!

https://beyond.asu.edu/workshop/unsolved-problems-gravity

We don't go around declaring that "No talk about gravity till we know everything about it and have solved all open problems."
The license seems to be MIT: https://github.com/totaljs/premium-messenger/blob/master/lic...
> isn't there a finite amount of heat under Earth's crust?

We can't make meaningful change over the next million years which is vastly past any reasonable projections.

The earth is 6 * 10 ^ 24 kilograms. Changing that much mass by 1 degree would take ~2000 Joules * 6 * 10 ^ 24 kilograms, but we don't get 100% efficiency so let's say it's 10% for a nice low estimate to get 1.2e + 27J.

Worldwide energy use is 5.67 × 10^20J / year. So circa 2 million years of total worldwide energy supply for a 1 degree change. Of course it's not a static value as nuclear reactions and tidal friction are also adding energy, while energy also slowly escapes though the crust.
Scratch is not far off from growing with you. Back in 2013, I taught a 30-hour summer class for elementary and middle school students aimed at this.

It was bout 20 hours of programming concepts in Scratch, and then 10 hours of transferring their learning of Scratch semantics into Python syntax.

Most of the younger students in the class wanted to keep playing with Scratch, but the older ones intuitively understood they could go far with Python -- and that Scratch was a nice place to test/debug algorithms before implementing the "final" version in Python.
Pinky: What are we going to do tomorrow night?

Brain: The same thing we do every night, Pinky - try to take over the world!

- Pinky & The Brain
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Where does a modern digital or intellectual-property pirate fit into that spectrum?
Can you comment on the experience with the alternatives? This rejection happened right after I left, so I have been curious. Austin has a pretty bad DUI problem.

Also, I think it's more accurate to say that Uber rejected Austin, since Austin merely voted in regulation it did not want to comply with.

Is it true that UT-Austin has partnered with the rideshare company (Fasten?) to analyze the ride share data?
I wish those e-ink monitors didn't look so much like children's toys- I'd love to pick one up.

In 20 years, I think we'll look back at LCD/OLED monitors like how we currently look back at CRT/pre-CRT monitors, and wonder how on earth we stared at bright configurations of tiny lights for 10+ hours a day.

Transflexive LCDs are, in my opinion, the future: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transflective_liquid-crystal_d....
I can't wait until phones/watches/laptops start using these. My eyes will be very happy when that day comes.
I can see the allure in that, but perhaps this is a false vision used to exploit people, similar to the "American Dream". Are you sure you're moving humanity forward? I can see those working in medicine, food, etc. helping people, but many of this technology is aimed at purposes that are detrimental to humans or at best conveniences that still contribute to climate change.
> What's Tesla's real endgame?

Batteries. If no one buys Tesla cars but all the car makers buy Tesla batteries, Tesla still wins. Gigafactory 1 at full production will be making about as many batteries as the entire planet produced in 2016. They're already working on Gigafactory 2. This is why they released all their patents - Tesla wins if electric cars win in general. Doesn't need to be Tesla cars.

(Disclaimer: I own a moderate amount of TSLA, specifically because I think investors missed this point)
> But you won't accept that because this isn't really about what's fair, it's about what you want.

Actually, no, it's not. I'm not even arguing that the source code shouldn't have been returned to Blizzard. I'm only pointing out that most of the arguments (that I've seen here, anyway) against it haven't been good ones.

> EVEN IF you ignore that, SC is still televised in South Korea. Releasing that code could affect the integrity of the competitive scene for SC.

This actually strikes me as one of the more defensible arguments I've seen here.
It's not like you need to buy everyone in the majority party. Just a few influential members and the rest will follow
Redux gives you a combineReducers() function for splitting your reducers into separate files. The way I structure it is by which section of the state object they modify, so that I have a reducers/stateA.js, reducers/stateB.js, which correspond to a state object that looks like { stateA: { ... }, stateB: { ... } }.
Buy Tesla. Groom Musk for CEO of Apple.
As a Netflix employee, I echo this sentiment. Netflix is the best place I've ever worked (and I've also worked at Google). I'm sure any takeover would ruin our culture of freedom and responsibility. I can't imagine dealing with siloed secrecy that I've heard about from Apple employees.
In college I took a single credit Scratch class where we'd go out in the community and teach an after-school lesson for about an hour once a week to 4th and 5th graders. Honestly, it was one of the best parts of my semester. Seeing them grow and explore was fantastic.

In line with the hacker ethic, we decompiled Minecraft as a demo and started playing around with the jump math with them. It instantly clicked, based on their experience moving Scratch characters, what the changes we were doing were going to do before we ran it. That's a powerful link, even if they didn't realize that "jumping to the clouds" still causes fall damage (Which was subsequently turned off in the code).
"First, it says that iPhones are bought as statement pieces, ie their hardware". The author said nothing of the sort, you are projecting your own (incorrect, imho) opinions.

The author said that iOS is significant differentiator and that's why people buy iPhones. Except not so much in China now, because WeChat.
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I agree with this. Aside from simple inertia, switching phone platforms (at least between iOS and Android) these days is pretty painless -- after the first time that is. When I got my first Android it hurt a lot because iMessage. After convincing a bunch of family that it would be fine to get a Hangouts account, I can switch back and forth pretty comfortably now. Apps are basically equivalent. I'm back on iPhone right now because I tired of not getting updates and I no longer trust Google is living up to the "don't be evil" ideal.
No. The total heat energy down there is astronomical. And earth is heated by the sun. And the heat removed from the rock isnt being flung out into space. Much of it will return through the ground. We are just moving it a few km up from where it is. The earth is thousands of kms thick. We are toying with heat within the pond scum atop an immense ocean of hot rock.
Trying to de-clutter the images by separating paper would fit the observed procedure too. It seems a little odd that it would start only now. Maybe screener testing recently showed better performance when paper is separated out.
I don't think this guy is a journalism major. He's an MBA with experience working marketing and strategy at Apple, Microsoft and WordPress. He's probably had a stats class.
While he may well have had a Jesus number [1] Je >> 1, he would still be wet from e.g. splashing waves.

[1] The Jesus number is a dimensionless number in fluid mechanics; it is the inverse of the more commonly used Eötvös number, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eötvös_number
You can replace redux with any FRP library. Your state is a signal/stream/whatever that folds over an initial state with a signal/stream/whatever of actions/messages. Your top level view component should listen and render based on that. Example: https://github.com/twfarland/sprezzatura-acto-mario
If Apple's brand is their only problem in China, then they have an immensely bright future there. The author disagrees with you.
My company did standup for 3 years either in person or over hangouts (once we became distributed), and recently switched to an async model over slack. Much better engagement, and much better quality updates.
> What's Tesla's real endgame?

To be the catalyst for change, at least as an outsider looking in. Showing electric cars can be mainstream, and set the blueprint for others to follow (which they are, which is why Elon did this https://www.tesla.com/blog/all-our-patent-are-belong-you). Making lots of cash, adding shareholder value, etc, are all added bonuses, but not the objective. Good on them.
I believe you can't ever get cleared. The only way to confirm mad cow is to dissect the brain, so obviously it can't be tested for in a living person. As a result, anyone with over a certain amount of risk for mad cow can never be allowed to donate.
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That's a tough preference with Python, because of the semantics of what [] and . mean and how ingrained those semantics are in the language. Put another way, the following should hold:

x.y == x.__getattr__("y")
x["y"] == x.__getitem__("y")
assignment == set{attr,item}
del x.y, del x["y"], etc
len() and slices of items, not attrs

etc, etc. If you start messing with those semantics, it can become very confusing very quickly in Python and you probably want a data type. Remember that Python gets nervous about cleverness.

One way I've approached your problem before is a recursive helper where I borrowed some concepts from jq:

val = fetch(result_dict, "foo.bar.baz.plonk[0]")

Because then you can also isolate the missing key handling and all that stuff into your helper, rather than changing the semantics of an untyped dict. Aside from typing the responses from APIs -- the way better option -- I found this a reasonably Pythonic approach toward dealing with the annoyance.
So true! We love Scratch.

There is also an open source project called Blockly run by Google. It's the "puzzle piece" portion of Scratch, which is an amazing resource to integrate into other kids learn-to-code projects.

I am using Blockly at http://block.school

We are the first live online school teaching kids to code. We've paired the Scratch concept with a 3D block world sorta like Minecraft. We're building out the curriculum now but you can try a demo here:

http://course.block.school/demo

We have some pretty amazing students building things at ages 6+ :)
This is really a case of "If you have to ask, you'll never know."

That's not meant to be derogatory, just that if you don't have a problem with GNU, you won't have a problem with GNU, because there's nothing wrong with it, it's jut a matter of opinion (usually about the GPL).
> On the head end of the blockchain there is a sort of roulette wheel.

This is interesting. Where Bitcoin seems to reward miners based on solving NP hard problems, Etherium is just handed out randomly?
Gaming on the iPad or iPhone or Apple TV are big money makers.
Mariel (his granddaughter) might. Her kids probably don't.
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Hacker always was positive. It gained popularity to mean the people who played around with hardware to make home computers before the PC became a commercial product, or who found novel ways to play around with the phone system- like you could record and play back touch tone sounds on a tape recorder to make calls.

The negative connotation came from the bust of Kevin Mitnick and the American public's shameful lack of knowledge about computers, combined with 1984 style propaganda to scare the public.

Hacker or hacking always meant someone who approaches problems in novel ways. Cracker, like a safe cracker, is someone who breaks in for malicious reasons. The kids on 4chan who follow a guide to DDOS a website are script kiddies, by the way.

That's what these terms always meant, and we're starting to move back after an era of propaganda.
apt has significant limitations vs. a more flexible package manager. I would never use an apt-based distribution; I would use a Paludis-based distribution: see its feature list for many of the reasons why.

Bloat is a concern because I don't want unnecessary system processes running, nor do I want cruft installed that can be done without. Gentoo is good at minimizing cruft, and others in the same spirit as well.

Can't help you with systemd and GNU, as I am comfortable with both.

The writer seems more like a Gentoo or Exherbo or Arch user than any of the more popular distros. In other words, one of the people who used to use Linux when it wasn't as mainstream.
If Etsy's collapse is seen as a crisis, that's a really big difference between New York an Silicon Valley. Silicon Valley does not think the sky is falling when a company implodes. The New York City analogy is probably Broadway where expensive failures are common, and Cats makes up for all of them and then some.
I'm confused what Slack has to do with Craft?
How old is your child? That's awesome!
Totally insane scenario: Apple buys Tesla and Musk runs both. Right now sentiment towards Cook send too positive for this scenario, but as a Apple shareholder I'd like that scenario.
An example can be helpful:

Given Set A = {1, 2, 3}

This is the power Set of A P(A) = {{}, {1}, {2}, {3}, {1, 2}, {1, 3}, {2, 3}, {1, 2, 3}} (All the subsets of A including the empty set and A itself)

3 choose 2 = 3 (If you look in the power set, you'll see that there are only 3 ways to choose 2 items out of 3)

Note that order does not matter.
Allright! The article nor the FAQ page didn't mention why it was hated so much haha.

Thank for the answer!
Netflix imho nowadays is trying to be the HBO of cord-cutters -

In the primarily mail-dvd days, they were like the awesome video store that has everything; netflix online only has a (admittedly large) handful of titles, with ever more emphasis on the ever increasing quantity of self-produced titles...

While I was once very pro-netflix as a consumer, imagning one day that I'd be able to watch anything at all ever produced with a low subscription - I'm more ambivalent now imagining the future when the dvd rentals (and associated vast library) are dropped entirely and never digitized..
They're mostly matters of personal preference or opinion rather than real issues.
Sorry about some of the negative comments posted on here, apparently some people in this community don't understand the entire purpose of "Show HN". The game itself is very fun, congratulations on making it!
To be fair, I'd estimate about $5k, considering the flight + hotel fees.
This is my only experiences with the NHS and I don't think it is fit for purpose.

The answer to all your gripes above is to stop starving the NHS of funds in a climate where it has to take care of more and more elderly people, and simply increase funding - we spend significantly less on healthcare than other developed nations.

The gameplan is this:

1. Starve the NHS of funds for years

2. Create false crises by continually setting unrealistic budgets, putting hospitals in 'special measures', cutting GP funding etc.

3. Enforce longer waiting times, poorer service, and low morale by funding management and private partnerships but cutting front line pay.

4. Ditch the NHS, since it clearly isn't fit for purpose (nice sound-byte)

5. Make people pay for insurance to pay the private providers - and we get Trumpcare

Astoundingly, this seems to work, as evidenced by your post.
But Dropbox wasn't just rebranded rsync; it made remote backup easy-to-use for the average person. Rsync requires other servers and command-line expertise.

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