skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine it would cost 10$ to produce 10$ (imagine all money would have to be real paper bills and those would be really expensive to make).

Certainly this does not work - all economic activity would be spent to make the money bills, and no activity was done to produce food or build the power plants that are busy producing energy to calculate the next "coin".

So the price of Bitcoin may be related to mining costs in the short term, as miners quit when it gets too expensive. Ultimately the price would have to be much lower to be practical, or higher if it turns out Bitcoin becomes highly useful for something. Or Bitcoin takes over the world and replaces all other currencies - then the 21 million Bitcoins would equal the entire human wealth - if you believe this then you should buy right now.
Are you a Facebook shill? See, the paranoia cuts both ways.
I wonder how many "specialists" this eliminated?
Your last paragraph made me smile at the idea of having prisons filled with bankers instead of drug dealers. Do your point is certainly valid.
Complete Open Lectures on Quantum Computing
"I don't believe it's my position to enforce the amount of whitespace another developer has to use in their editor."

I suspect this might not be my most popular comment, but I honestly think that this is why tab users might actually make less than space users on average. On average, it's more productive to enforce things than leave everything configurable, thus different everywhere, thus harder to make sense of and debug. I knew brilliant people who don't want to "enforce" and decide and dim people who happily enforced and decided and it's always amazing how badly the former do career-wise relatively to their talent and effort, and how well the latter do relatively to theirs.

(Of course there might be another explanation for the data and I don't claim that my just so story is in any way scientific; though I think it should pass as a scientific theory in the social sciences.)
Canada to teach computer coding starting in kindergarten
A funny consequence is that Order vs. Chaos is almost entirely dependent on the scale you consider.
Apple IIe Design Guidelines [pdf]
> Even the most bureaucratic corporation stopped working on the Y2K bug 17 years ago.

Source?
Plus Facebook has a lot of C++ and some Java services as well, in addition to the Hack/HHVM stuff.
I guess it's less stressful once you're at 100x ROI in a few short years to see your ROI at "only" 70x.
It's been great for my 401k, though. The best months in the past ten years were November 2016 and January 2017.
The full quote is:

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

- Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Review, May 1985
This is the analysis I make based on what someone with a lot more experience in the markets told me a few days ago, related to $SNAP.

- Apple was a company that sold computers. SJ being kicked was an relevant event for the company, but it still sold computers and was worth something.

- Amazon was an intermediary between sellers and buyers. Today is a company that invested a lot in other things and is worth something.

- Facebook could be monetizing something, but it's still just a webpage. Remains to be seen if it's worth something, so their shares are crap (this is from a fundamental point of view, regardless of whether they keep rising)

- Nike sells shoes. It's worth something, though it's not a fundamental company for the market.

SNAP, on the other hand, has some face recognition algorithms, and created a free app. That's it. It produces nothing. It's a worthless company when it comes down to the assets it has and the product it sells.
Try this https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit
So insider trading is causing 26% short interest?
> Since correlation requires transitivity

What? This is certainly not the case.

A standard correlation is the cosine of the angle between two vectors in an n-dimensional space. The correlation is 0 when the two vectors are orthogonal to each other - when the angle between them is 90 degrees.

So consider three vectors in 2-space: (0, 1), (1, 1), and (1, 0). (1, 1) correlates with each of the other two at about 0.7, the cosine of 45 degrees. The correlation between (0, 1) and (1, 0) is zero.
Lithuania: Phone plans aren't that cheap, I assume because there are only three main operators and they don't really make much money. People here don't have money for the latest iPhone which you would pay €60+/mo for, so their main source of income is service plans. Typically contracts are sold without a phone, and I'd say people would spend on average, under €10/mo. That would get you unlimited calls and texts and a few GB of data. Prepaid plans are usually a bit cheaper, I currently (a special offer for a few months) pay €3.99/mo for unlimited calls and texts and 1.5GB data.

I also have a portable 4G hotspot with unlimited data (I've used around 50GB this month) for €4.90/mo, including rental of the device. It's limited at 6 Mbit but that's fine for my needs (you can pay more for up to 25 Mbit). However the main reason why it's so cheap is because it's from a smaller operator, so you only really get coverage in big cities and even then it can be patchy (like Three when they first launched in Europe).

Home internet is a different story though. I pay €9.90/mo for unlimited 100/100 FTTH, and I can get up to 1000/1000 for €19.90/mo - downloading a 6GB Steam game in under 10 minutes seems fast enough though. In 2015 home broadband coverage (>= 30 Mbit) was 99%, with 62% of subscribers on fibre [0].

[0] http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/document.cfm?doc_id=44449
Another one https://github.com/arthepsy/ssh-audit
Isn't the only entity that could conclusively determine if the agreement has been violated the very one who would violate it?
There are strong arguments for either case, but I think it comes down to this: Helmet laws make intuitive sense in situations/jurisdictions where cyclists and cars share the road directly -- i.e., places without dedicated infrastructure to separate the two.

Cyclists riding on roads with cars (even with painted bike lanes, but especially without them) are presumably at much greater risk of experiencing a fatal conflict, although statistics about this are less available than one would hope. Cyclists on dedicated cycle paths are at scarcely greater risk than pedestrians, who would probably object to being made to wear a helmet.

Given the above, I would support a compromise law that mandated helmet use on public (car) roads, but not in residential areas or dedicated bike paths.
WOW!
THANKS
DEEP
LEARNING!
At one point I searched for the book worth the most points in our system, and it was Les Miserables, at around 125 points. That was more than twice the value of any other book and enough points for the whole year with a good score on the test. So I went out and got the full unabridged hardcover version - a stupidly massive and ponderous tome for a 5th grader - and I didn't even make it past the opening digression to where the plot actually starts.

I then picked up a little abridged version, breezed through it, and easily passed the simple multiple-choice test. Looking back, there was really no reason for that book to be in there.
Tell what to email? I'm deep into the process of telling it to shut up and forward the anonymous, encrypted data here: https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis. It's still an excellent transport for async messaging.
Well you see, all the Scandinavian troublemakers got onto boats and went a conquering. Eventually they started settling instead of conquering. So all the pansies stayed at home and bred more pansies and that's why modern Scandinavian countries have few troublemakers. As an example, the area around Manchester England was settled by the Scandinavian troublemakers and many of their descendants immigrated to the Americas (those who didn't became Football hooligans). Therefore the American troublemakers are actually a result of the Scandinavians shipping off all of their troublemakers. So it's all the Scandinavians fault.
I wonder what the percentage of Linux kernel devs who are paid for doing it versus the ones that do it on the side. I bet the paid percentage is higher.
That's not entirely true. The information from the type annotations is available at runtime. ApiStar takes advantage of this, for example.
Yes. But more and more, you can easily photograph and OCR it.
>Given how deep it is in a company's workflow you could think of it almost like an operating system where apps can attach to

Off the top of my head, both mattermost and rocketchat provide compatible webhook apis that make them drop-in replacements for slack.

So not that deep into peoples workflow...
How Superfluid Dark Matter Mimics an Old Idea About Gravity
You'll just end up playing whack-a-mole, only the moles getting whacked will be real people being treated unjustly. This is why I'm a deontologist. The pursuit of maximal utility is a fine thing, but people tend to vastly overestimate their powers of foresight and where that overestimation causes human suffering it's better avoided altogether. We already have comparative examples of systems that seem to work vastly better than our without being so radically different as to be beyond analysis, so I don't see why you're so desperate to preserve the possibility of a profit opportunity here.
That, and the hardware relevancy, seem like plausible reasons: but why limit yourself to only the rock-star engineers willing to work in secret and for extreme hours? It doesn't seem like they had competency, competitive, or budget constraints that would have prevented them from using more engineers, more openness, or, again, more engineers on the project.
Yup. Great read. Just right for a weekend
> Slack doesn't have any new ideas behind it. It's just another chat app.

Billions of dollars can be made on old ideas positioned properly.
Hmm, Perl6 has real types, although they're completely optional.
Have we made sure we can handle Year 2038 properly?
This is sort of an aside, but when I first became a parent 6 years ago and I started reading "DD," "DS," "LO" etc all over the internet in parenting forums, it was my first indication that all parents (myself included) have lost their minds.

What an odd shorthand convention.
Or at least at a discount like amazon does. Apple Music lacks the third party integrations and web player that Spotify does, I'd need to see a couple of bucks off for that to switch. As it is I don't see any advantage over Spotify otherwise. And, even then, I'd be hard pressed to switch as Spotify has superior discoverability imho.
Cool. I was waiting for it :)

Question: would you have examples of TLA+ specs that are not related to distributed algos (raft, paxos, etc.) or puzzles (die hard, etc.)?
Be careful with this though. I learned recently that the hard way when a check was sent and lost in the mail. I had to petition with the bank to explain the issue, which they had to investigate, and then determine the outcome.

Bill pay services usually deduct the amount of the check to be sent from your account and put it into a holding account before sending the check. The check sent acts more like a certified check than a personal check (because in a personal check, funds aren't withdrawn until the check is cashed).

I have always thought this is a little fishy - why the bank can't issue a personal check for me without withdrawing the funds from my account... but there may be regulatory or liability issues involved for the bank.

Bottom line, if you count on the bank to send a paper check for you, it's not EXACTLY the same as if you send a personal check yourself.
Although to be fair, if it weren't for his pancreatic cancer, Randy Pausch wouldn't really be famous.
>that everybody uses

You're spending too much time in the tech industry. Even if you double the daily active users from a year ago, that doesn't even reach 5% of the US population.
They are, however, correlated :)
>Taxation is more of a tricky topic, but yes, we all agree everyone owes taxes so not paying them is a crime.

So... If someone does (perhaps completely legal) contract work, accepts payment in BTC and makes their purchases with BTC, how are you going to know what they owe in taxes?
It's best to compare Slack to MS Lync (which is now branded as Skype, was built out of MSN Messenger). In Windows environments, it's a pretty important piece of communication software. I use it constantly everyday to communicate and meet with those across my province (Alberta).
How Pasteur’s Artistic Insight Changed Chemistry
Trust me. We are not totally stupid. We need synchronous actions under some circumstances.
Look into vipassana or insight meditation.

It's something _everybody_ can learn and do, there is nothing mystical or religious or secret about it.

You usually start with samadhi (or concentration), where you simply observe your breath - either as air movement through your nostrils or as movements of the abdomen.
In the beginning you can count your breaths 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, and 1 again.
Most people lose track at 4 or 5 and get distracted by thoughts in the beginning. If that happens just start at 1. No blaming, just start again.

You can do this for a very long time without getting bored.

After a while you can stop counting, and naturally drift into the vipassana (insight/wisdom) part. Just observe your breath and start noticing whatever else is going on. Sounds, your thoughts, feelings, fears, joys, etc, etc.
I'm guessing you mean workstation/server scale implementations? There is a shipping microcontroller implementation and has been for a while now.
Off topic, but I found it interesting that James Corey's Expanse series also has "Belters"
I know about forward secrecy but my question is how you could protect future seasons, not past seasons.
All of these are decades-old talking points which have been largely shown to be factually incorrect. Why are you repeating them without justification?
Canadian government should get involved with a billion dollars a year pumped into the startup scene via seasoned VCs that only see a dime if there is an exit or an IPO.
I presume the source is that the year 2000 happened 17 years ago?
Amazon IPOed at $438mm in 1997. Inflation adjusted that's $668mm. Snapchat's current market cap is $20bn. Not even in the same remote universe.

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-com-ipo-skyrockets/
I think inheritances are immoral :)
That is useful, thanks!
It looks like they didn't correct for multiple comparisons. Given the number of questions on the survey, there was bound to be at least one surprising correlation that looks significant without correction.

(Am I wrong? I would hope a Data Scientist would know a basic thing like this, but I don't know R so I can't tell for sure from their code.)
FYI Project Aon have mapped their structures, for example:
https://www.projectaon.org/en/svg/lw/01fftd.svgz

The differences are interesting, like which are more linear and which are more branching; some have relatively early choices that fork into two long separate branches.
Granted, it's the middle of the afternoon, so I might be braid dead... but which "bunch of things that should be measured" are listed in that comment?
Anytime someone says excel I immediately think that they would be better off with a real database. I'm rarely wrong.

This is defiantly a case where you want a database. You want all data to go into a write-only table (when you make a mistake the correction needs to be noted and tracked). Then use queries to do your analysis on the raw data assured that you won't make a mistake.

A database also does well for collecting meta-data: who entered this data when.

Finally a database is very useful for meta-analysis which is starting to become important.
I think that the basic interface for the iPhone was fairly inevitable.

We could have had a long detour through Blackberry-like devices with keyboards. But comprehensive smartphones in some form were to be expected as the electronics got cheap enough.

I find it plausible that, absent Apple's existence, we'd be using clunky GUIs on desktop computers

Without Apple, we probably would have had something like lower-priced Sun or Apollo workstations on the desktop. For most of the 1980s and 1990s, people at well-funded companies did have Sun workstations on the desktop. With, though, crappy GUIs. XWindows is from that era. It would never have occurred to Sun to hire Susan Kare.

Sun didn't have the volume to support software companies. Interleaf had something better than Microsoft Word by 1983, before the Mac had even shipped. But their business model was to bundle a few Sun workstations and a laser printer with the software, for about $60K. Software for Sun machines tended to cost a few thousand dollars per seat.
AMEN to that!
Yeah but this isn't a new problem, I remember the whole Polly Klaas thing well, and if you look into history it's abundantly clear that this sort of sensationalism has long been a fixture of media. I was visiting the Museum of Oakland not too long ago and was struck by a letter written in the 19th century from a new arrival observing that 'the canard [a french term for a bullshit news article] is a fixture in American journalism...'

I'm not ascribing all responsibility to the media, though - it's one factor among many. I somewhat agree with the poster above about the US not having the same sort of shame/duty culture that prevails in the EU, and suggest that to some extent this derives from the coincidence of different philosophical and social cultural traditions in the US.
The endowment of that venture fund (Viva Technology) will be around 10 billion euros. It has just been announced so the news hasn't come out in English media yet.

Here is a reputable source in French: https://www.lesechos.fr/tech-medias/hightech/030386245787-en...
Technology Will Erase Jobs–But Also Make Everything Cheap or Free
If you're trying to address the topic of simplicity you're being awfully ironic about it.
I don't have the statistics here but it would be interesting to see what percentage of prisoners were serving 5+ years, maybe the ratio of prisoners serving shorter sentences would make this kind of solution more plausible.
absolute/relative
I agree pay isn't the only factor, but country-wide averages of happiness are probably misleading here. The US average includes both very happy and very unhappy areas. In particular the US has areas that are really suffering, in ways that are rarer in Canada. And those areas are probably not relevant in this discussion which is about tech workers.

I'd be surprised if the average tech worker were happier in Canada than in the US - but I could be wrong of course.
"Officials at the agency estimate the changes could save tens of thousands of man-hours across the federal government."

So, since an employee works around 2000 hours/year, this is something on the order of 10 employees.
If one kid is doing macaroni-level coding while everyone else is literally gluing noodles, that's still a pretty strong predictor of future skills.
It's going to be devastating over the long term.

Those of us even in Australia are wary now of travelling to the US because of (a) fear they maybe mistakenly detained, (b) having to turn over social media information and (c) visa problems at the arrival gate.

Places like Berlin, Amsterdam etc are looking far more interesting for startups because of the access to the European market and the sensible policies that seem to be enacted e.g. roaming.
why not let prisoners rate the prison, and withhold payments for poor reviews?
I wonder if these were actually effective regulations, if the government agencies were really reporting about this. I suspect they weren't. That makes the elimination of the rule mainly a PR-stunt. But I'm not an American, and I'm not a civil servant.
The author's points are valid. However, there's no recognition of the tremendous marketing, documentation, training, community & ecosystem surrounding the platform.

These things are real, they are as real as any code that's written. They are as real as any hardware.

So yes, the Raspberry Pi is a great, fantastic introduction into this IOT world. The security problems are real, that should be the first thing attended to.

And then yes, once you get the basics down it should be easy to move to a better platform/device/doohicky.
Technically this is only correct if a and b have the same length so you would need to do a length check prior:

foldZip a b
| T.length a /= T.length b = Nothing
| otherwise = foldl' step 0 (T.zip a b)
where step acc (l, r) = if l == r then acc+1 else acc

This is slightly awkward because T.length is an O(n) operation, though. I think the optimal implementation would be a hyper optimized variant that depends on correct byte alignment and this as slow fallback method if that fails.
You might get better at playing guitar. You are unlikely to get better at currency speculation.
Officials Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter for Flint Water Crisis
Ableton Live Redesign
The Fake News Machine [pdf]
SNAP might be a terrible investment at this point (I tend to think so because I don't think they can overcome challenge from Facebook) but based only on your points above, we'd have to conclude Google is "worthless" as well no?

Selling something vs nothing is a good metric to think about, but "advertising" is certainly not nothing. In fact, it's a multi-billion $ industry. It just so happens to be dominated by Google and FB currently, who are both "fundamentally" selling something real.
> Brace yourself: I use two spaces after the end of sentences too. [1] I am quite the rebel.

The paragraph above this one seems to use single spaces after periods. Is this a Hacker News formatting thing, or are you conning me?
Woah, woah – you're telling me people voluntarily help each other pay their medical expenses without the government forcing them to?!
I don't know an accurate answer to your question, but lets presume unions did it all.

I the GPs point is that having the power to change culture over the course of decades does not guarantee the ability to fix a single problem for a single individual.
If you concede that PACs, lobbyists, bribes, or simply paying to make yourself a politician are overwhelmingly more effective than form letters to congressmen, ethereum-distribution of power looks downright egalitarian.

ether whales have nothing on USD whales. 8 people control 50% of wealth[0]. There is also income disparity and monetary controls making that dilution of individual power inescapable.

And that's just personal wealth. There is also corporate wealth and government reserve currency.

I don't think it's taking "vote with your wallet" to the extreme. It's already there. On the contrary, I think it's making it tenable.

[0] https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/economy-99
would you mind listing those totally-great headphones used for making music?
According to the linked memo [1] it was ordered by Mick
Mulvaney [2]. It will be interesting to see what else has been cut that's not such a trivial item.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/me...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mick_Mulvaney