skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wondering what the liquidity is like for BTC. I'm not familiar with it at all but should 1000 BTCs try to convert to USDs, would there be enough bids to maintain the price within a certain acceptable level?
yeah you probably could, but you would have the price slide on you if you liquidate that much, most people get off the train at price stops, let other people on.
No with crouton you can install Linux distros in a chroot, it's a few keystrokes to switch to guest wm in practice however.
> Even Genesis has direct geographical references to it. It has directions.

Treating Genesis as a single book is insane. Its a collection of oral traditions. Multiple authours, genres, and hundreds of years separate each tale.

> geographical references to it. It has directions. Calling it a metaphor is moving the goalposts. Ad reductio Abrahamic religion is simply that god made whatever we can't understand.

Eden isn't a metaphor, its an allegory, using as its basis a common Mesopotamian myth, as was common at the time. Its origin lies in the story of Lilitu.

The directions to the Euphrates are in Babylonian and Egyptian myths too. It was an area considered symbolic of the spiritual world. You get similar directions to forests that never existed in Japanese myths.

And as a people, the Caananites, and their descendants, were incredibly symbolic. See Kabbalah's number system, and references to it throughout the Bible.

> The introduction of Yahweh to the Semetic religion was very visibly followed by a shift in personal names referencing El (eg Michael) to names referencing Yahweh.

Firstly, "Yahweh" was a best guess about an unspoken name that wasn't allowed to be written in complete form. We are fairly certain that guess was wrong, and the actual name was "Elohim". They're the same name, and yes, the same spelling. (We transliterate to English using sounds in this case).

El wasn't replaced, nor were his attributes. The Caananites set out to seize their promised land, backed by their warrior god.

> the thing called YHWH is a sole god.

Not to begin with, in Biblical record. Or commands such as:

> I am a jealous god, you will have no gods before me

Wouldn't make sense. Nor would the Caananites hospitality to those of the Ba'al religions.

The Biblical record shows this, and it doesn't undermine the record. The Psalms frequently reference belief in other gods.

The first reference to monotheism comes in the Davidic era, after Israel has been established, but it isn't entirely fixed, and instead is something that slowly took hold over a great deal of time.

Different scholars and theologians have different theories on the why of that.

> that alone massively undermines the bible.

I wasn't arguing for or against it. I was simply explaining a couple of documents in a large collection have different intended meaning than that which you gave it.

We don't simply lift out parts of Herodotus and think that we should take his mentions of Achilles literally.

The Bible is a collection of documents. The meaning ascribed to them doesn't exempt them from treating them as ancient documents.

I'm sure they seem insane to you, but no moreso than our ancient Greek records, or the Roman ones either.
If you are looking for a pretty cool technical stack on a coin, ETH seems to be the most promising.
Bought my first Bitcoin at $15. My second at $30. 20 more at $100. Through a series of bad trades, I barely made a profit once it reached $250. I sold all of them, got some more at $750, then sold them at a loss at $250. I'm an horrible trader...
So maybe your project is comfortably nested at the “simple”
end of the spectrum now, but what about six months down the
road? Isn’t it better to pick a technology that leaves you
room to grow, rather than one that pigeon-holes you into
bad practices?

Given that there's a nonzero chance that "using React at all" will be counted amongst the "bad practices" in that future time, this seems like a bad idea. Write the code you need today and worry about six months from now in six months.
That ... seems like an issue with periodically changing passwords.

You can't take the human factor out of the equation here, no matter how much you might want to. Passwords exist because of the human factor, otherwise we'd just use 4096-bit keys or something.
Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEfedtQVOY

i.e. it's kinda unwise in some applications (e.g. arbitrary / untrusted schemas) to have to implement & run languages that are powerful enough to perform pretty much arbitrary computation.
My point is that you do not need Babel if you plan to target modern browsers anyway.
Bitcoin never promised anonymity. Bitcoin transactions are not anonymous and never were.
I feel like the one thing that probably does make it much easier to hit than an airplane is it's larger size and slower speed (though I'll admit I have no idea what altitudes dirigibles are able to fly at)
Neat. This reminds me quite a bit of the dhall language: https://github.com/Gabriel439/Haskell-Dhall-Library/blob/mas...
Ask HN: How do you organize and store your notes?
It has and in another 6 months we will have .NET Standard 2.0 that will have much better tooling and almost full parity with API surface.

It's not hype, it's real and it works.
Hahaha I wasn't rooting specifically for Madrid over Barcelona - it's just my experience is from there. I actually believe the english aspect might be a little bit better over there...
MOND might explain rotation curves of galaxies. But it doesn't explain all the other places in astrophysics, where one needs dark matter. Especially MOND (and any modification to gravity) cannot explain the Bullet Cluster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to...

The Bullet Cluster is especially significant, because it shows gravitational lensing by dark matter spatially separated from visible matter. No modification to gravity can explain that without giving up the idea that gravity is a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_force .
Developers and Social Responsibility
Steve thank you so much for your detailed answer to my queries of pure curiosity!

Next time I'm in Atlanta I would love to meet in person (btw thank you for putting your real live info online. I love learning about new people) and grab some beers (or whatever).

I went to GaTech and my company is technically based in ATL albeit we are virtual. email is whatever @ snaphop dot com
The Walk-In Processor
If you ever wondered how a processor operates - James Newman in Cambridge scaled one up to roomsize so you could walk in and watch it working.
What do you mean by API?

Both Glympse and PathShare have fairly elaborate set of APIs on iOS and Android. Not sure I understand the distinction.
That's been true of Bitcoin for several years now. Even if you have free electricity, "very little" is a bit of an understatement.
That's my experience as well.

IKEA furniture is pretty much designed to be assembled by anyone. And that makes me wonder whether the "IKEA" effect as described in the original link even applies. I agree with the general observation - understandably people value things they created, things that took effort. While this applies to that old coffee table you restaurated carefully, I really doubt this is true for the cheap IKEA console you're pretty much expected to assemble without problems.
failed to answer the question for similarities
Relevant: https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki (I highly recommend; does have journal support as well)
I've used Windows since 3.1. The old DOS shell is woefully lacking compared to even Bourne (let alone bash or ksh or what have you).

PowerShell is a godsend, on the other hand. Even the better POSIX shells out there are woefully lacking in comparison to PowerShell. It's what the Unix shell should've been from the beginning, and I'd sooner use it over WSL any day (despite my home being a Windows-free environment of Linux and OpenBSD boxen).

On the third hand, I've recently taken up Tcl, and it's in turn a godsend. There are some things from PowerShell which I miss in Tcl, but they're minor in comparison to having Tk at my fingertips and a vast array of tribal knowledge encoded in the Tcl wiki. It also integrates reasonably well with both Windows and Unix.
Well - polemical and rhetorical... but I think people forget that there was a time before the internet as we know it now.
I hear you. Estimation is a skill just like coding or documenting or management. Some people have a better knack for it than others. But it is an important skill and a part of being a professional engineer.

My rule of thumb is that if you cannot estimate your work to some degree of confidence up front then you haven't spent enough due diligence time and the design before writing code. If your task is too complex to estimate then estimate a time boxed proof-of-concept and then turn around with a solid estimate at the end.

Its my personal belief that any programmer who expects a check from an employer or a client for unbounded unscoped scope work usually isnt unreasonable. Just like any other profession.
.NET Core is not hype, it actually works, today. We have several services doing billions of requests daily on .NET Core while being faster to build, deploy and run than the Windows + full framework combination.

Every single example in the .NET Core documentation compiles and runs, please stop spreading FUD.

Version 1.2 with the release of VS 2017 now has all the appropriate tooling to make everything work well. The whole project is less than 2 years old and by the end of the year we'll have .NET Standard 2.0 with most of the APIs back, almost full compatibility and even better tooling.
you're correct, but it is very strong evidence for dark matter in general.
https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-for-individuals#anonymous
Key with most investments is not to panic sell when the price starts dropping. Diversify then just accept that some investments will go to zero, some will 2X, and maybe a couple will >10X, which is where you'll make your money in the long term.
I got in at under a dollar, then at $5, then at $15. At one point I was holding 20k worth with a cost basis of $12. I rode it up to $1136 on the second bubble. I am not sad or feel like I missed out on this wave. The price is simply unjustified. The Bitcoin ecosystem was a lot more stable a year ago. I have lost faith in Bitcoin's future, the market lost faith too, it is just the bag holders that are getting ready to dump after their lucrative pump.
DOCKER SWARM CLOUD on AWS using edge edition
With IKEA, at least I, don't value my efforts, but the savings compared to having to pay someone for a perceived(!) zero-skill job, while still getting the same product.

For me it's the over-embellishment of the general trend of transitioning things over from the production and retail to the consumer, charging only marginally less to beat the competition, while reaping in the profit, while marketing the whole thing as empowerment.

The build and material quality of an IKEA furniture is almost never anywhere near a well made furniture, it's only big plus is in being affordable due to economies of scale and low transport and storage costs.

Recently IKEA seems to get just outright greedy. Their material quality and thickness went from solid to barely tolerable in the last 10 years. For me they are at a borderline point of becoming disposable furniture, where it makes no sense to disassemble to move furniture even in your own house due to the one-time only quality of the connections.

Peddling in an urban or more relevantly marketing myth, doesn't even help either:

«The key marketing innovation that Dichter’s analysis spurred was not the fresh-egg cake mix, but rather the repositioning of cakes as merely one element of a larger product, an overall creation that entailed a much greater degree of participation and creativity from homemakers and emphasized appearance[!] over taste»[1]

It's a trick! You get a less tasty product, a mere product transitioned into an outlet of ego. I you're not only into marketing, but also want a good product it's important to be aware of that deceptive effect.

[1] http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/cakemix.asp
This one? https://blog.ycombinator.com/kat-manalacs-whale-ama/
> forgetting that someone wrote those inhuman rules.

and people voted them in.
I think this mostly has to do with barriers to entry. 15 years ago it was orders of magnitude more difficult to launch a business online than it is today so there was far less competition. But it's important to remember that it was much more difficult.

If you look at it that way, there are always emerging areas that have little competition because they are so difficult. So if you had the ability to and were smart enough to create an innovative product in your basement, I think you absolutely could grow it into a behemoth.

Starting a computer company today would be very difficult and costly. Starting a computer company at a time very few people understood them or knew how to build them would be a lot more feasible if you were an expert (Woz).

Companies get disrupted by companies that are almost by definition starting in a seemingly completely different area.
Really? I'm from NYC and FDR Drive is absolutely shaped by the East River, and most the other stuff in the video checks out there too..
This was a terrible article. The complaints have nothing to do with the buy box. I can think of three ways that "publishers aren't getting paid" could be true:

1) Books are stolen

2) Books are counterfeit

3) Books were purchased through "unauthorized" channels, e.g. free review copies

None of these is a problem with the Amazon buy box. We don't complain that "Samsung doesn't get paid when people buy Samsing TVs at Best Buy" and I don't see how this is any different.

I think Amazon is guilty of a lot of shady practices that harm businesses (like co-mingling potentially counterfeit Fulfillment by Amazon inventory with Ships From and Sold by Amazon.com inventory). But this article makes no sense.
No one has time to post on MacRumors unless they are super pissed off. These posters are representative of little to nothing.
All I need is a browser and a terminal since my development environment consists only of tmux/vim via Crouton chroots and Plex Web/Youtube/Google Music for entertainment.
I hear you. I moved to the UK ten years ago, because I fell in love with this beautiful, mature, tolerant country. It hurts to see what the populists are trying to do. It's neither good for the people of Britain, the economy, nor the rest of Europe. Shame on you, Theresa May. Shame on you. I say it while I still can.
Musk claims that it costs too much to move the mass required to build the space stations into space, but energy is actually quite cheap if you harvest it efficiently (solar), and anyway the cost of moving the mass is a amortized, so it's small relative to operational costs over time. It just seems to me that there are only two planets that we are likely to ever colonize, and one is already a wreck. Putting in an enormous amount of work to wreck the other just seems to put off the inevitable ... one way or the other.
Apple and Accessibility and FCPX – Forgotten Again
Really? Sometimes, especially when I'm trying to quit, I wish cigarette smoking was forbidden in more places.
Not really. Calling your girlfriend 'Baby' or refering to a girls-night-out as 'Mädelsabend' are perfectly common for example.

I agree though that I never heard a professor refer to his students in this way and would definitively find it strange if that happened.
Do you actually buy things on Amazon? Have you bought things from third party sellers?
Maybe third party sellers aren't selling fake books yet, but no doubt they will be soon.

I spends thousands of dollars a year on Amazon, and I simply won't buy from third party sellers because they're notorious for selling counterfeits, having terrible shipping, problematic returns, etc. It's easier to avoid them altogether than it is to go through the hassle and disappointment of dealing with the bad ones, and there are a lot of bad ones. On top of that, Amazon apparently just doesn't care - I've seen product pages where 50% (or more) of the reviews claim they got a counterfeit that didn't work, yet the counterfeit seller(s) is still the default option.

The third party seller program has completely undermined the trust I had in Amazon. In the past I'd buy on Amazon because I could trust I was getting a legitimate product with a solid return policy that would arrive on schedule in a few days. All of that disappears with third party sellers.

If I can't find an item sold directly from Amazon (which is getting harder to discern), then I don't buy it on amazon.com.
Watching the newly-released HD version helps quite a bit with that perception of age.
I'm not judging what should or should not be the case. My recently acquired lay understanding of a temporary visa to the US is that an applicant has the burden of proving that their intent is not immigrate. For me, the tweets do not create proof for belief that the applicant has no volition to immigrate. The tweets do not create proof for a belief that the applicant has an overwhelming volition to return.

I suspect that the US State Department has more sophisticated tools for analysis than my hand scrolling through the last three weeks of the 46,000 tweets. For example, I'd not be surprised if it had tools for looking at social graphs and demographic data that correlates applicants marital status,socio-economic status, educational status, and country of origin for temporary visas with visa compliance.

None of which is to take a stance on whether the process is fair or right or just or moral. The only stance I am taking is that it is the process and given that it is the process the result is understandable and that there is actionable intelligence based upon what happened.
What I wish was that an illegal contract clauses be taken as evidence of bad faith on the part of the employer in labor disputes. Means, illegal contract clause -> proof of bad faith -> any labor violation -> 3X damages.
A Tumblrism gets a wikipedia page?
I think the nature of these revolutions is that they happen slowly but invisibly until one day all of a sudden everyone is aware of them. I wrote "AI", but it's not just AI, it's a lot of things that are coming of age.

Some "Minimum wage jobs" are disappearing -- a local fast food joint now has about 1/3 of the employees it had a couple of years ago: they have better automated machines in the kitchen, and a smart ordering kiosk that most people use (though there's still a person at the register, for people who are uncomfortable with the kiosk or requests that are not available through it).

Translators, as a job, have almost disappeared (relegated to those needing "an official translation"). That happened in the last 10 years, starting with an awfully funny and weird altavista or google translate that would give you results that could only be meaningful if you had some familiarity with both languages - down to modern translation which, while not perfect, is readable and understandable.

Professional photohgraphers for newspapers used to command a $3,000/day salary just 10 years ago. Now it's closer to $300/day, if they can get it at all - because there's already someone on the scene, with a smart phone camera -- the pictures are horrible, but people are willing to give them for credit, so a photographer is unneeded.

The army of people working for Google/Facebook/Amazon to moderate user content, is being decimated.

It's started to happen to lawyers; It's not prevalent yet, but it is eating the more "mechanical" parts of a lawyer's job - finding relevant historical cases and summarizing them. Computers are now slightly better than the interns that used to be assigned to these jobs. In 5 years, they might be better than the experienced partners at these kinds of jobs.

It's closer than most people think in many, many jobs. Truck drivers will likely not be completely replaced in 5 years, but their jobs might change to "24 hour shifts" in which they are allowed to sleep until the automated truck wakes them up to deal with some condition.

You know, writing down what's in a picture, was almost sci-fi 10 years ago, and right now you have Google, Microsoft and ClariFi offering this as a cheap API.
ETH has done really well, especially considering the huge speed bump they had with the DAO hack/blockchain split. Just peaked over $100 USD.
Agreed, I really didn't enjoy Season 5 and it was a disappointing end to what was otherwise an epic TV series. McNulty was always an edgy character, but planting evidence and feeding it to the media just felt a little too contrived.
Typically I am rather skeptical when a solution that works in other countries is proposed for US. Scale matters and something that works nicely, for example, in Norway (population of 5e6) may lead to very bad results when the population is 320e6. But Spain is sufficiently big with population of 46e6 so some extrapolations are possible.

Also, as far as I know to get access to the government-run healthcare in Spain one still needs an insurance. But its cost is just about 100USD/month per adult even for foreigners that live in Spain on private money and anybody with work is covered through taxes.
Ya, we need some gas with more lift, or, well, a way around gravity. It might work on a planet with a really desnse atmosphere, like Jupiter.
Well, no one is paying millions, everyone is paying a dollar or 10. If you'd rather use that for a few drinks, go for it.

I'll pay my taxes knowing that someone got cared for or saved, and that one day I might be the one needing that saving.
Check out the nofap community. Not because they are right, I think they are all about pseudoscience, but to get out of your bubble. They should be easy to find, they are on most online discussion sites.