skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good place to remind people that currencies that are not designed to lose value over time can never be stable (that's why normal currencies are designed that way).

Intrinsically worthless tokens engineered to have better than market risk adjusted, liquidity adjusted, real returns compared to real productive investment will always be unstable and fluctuate increasingly wildly as they get more popular.

This is a result of physical limits of production. As people hoard worthless tokens, their price increases which causes more people to hoard them instead of investing in real businesses with real production capacity.

This eventually causes production capacity to drop. That's right, when enough people do it, token hoarding displaces investment in businesses and factories and lowers global production capacity. This means token hoarding causes a drop in things available to buy with these tokens.

Eventually there will be people who want to buy real things with their stock of tokens. The tokens will be chasing fewer goods which means prices for stuff will rise (tokens will lose value). This might happen suddenly when people with large stockpiles of tokens notice that value is droping and that there are tons of other tokens waiting on the sideline to make it drop even further. Hoarders might rush to get rid of their stockpile all at the same time before they're worthless which will cause their fall to worthlessness. This drop will bring the tokens closer to their natural intrinsic value of zero. The cycle can then start again, such is aggregate economics.

The 1920s and 1930s suffered from this type of cycle but with gold tied currencies instead of cryptocoins. It happened to a lesser extent in 2007 when western world central banks failed to keep inflation rates high enough. It's important for the world's sake to not let deflationary currencies become too popular.

When savings or financial promises are insufficiently tied to future production or to accumulation of real goods, there will be disappointment when a lot of people try to exchange them for real stuff. That is true for crypto currencies as well as government currencies (that is why the system is designed to make banks invest people's money in real businesses and minimize the proportion of money that is stockpiled idly).
> It is not like this costs any more than the existing system

The budget estimates indicate that it would be about 50% more expensive than the status quo, after accounting for private expenditures.
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Chinese dotcom LEECO boots its chairman
It was forked before vim 8.0 was released and neovim doesn't try to keep its fork compatible with vim. Consequently it is not.
Haha, oh man, history lessons from the dotcom period should be a mandatory part of any CS education..

> I thought it was expensive one year ago when it was at 13 dollars, but today when I see the possibilities created by the technology I think it's cheap.

...

> He explains he's most important reasons why cryptocurrencies aren't a bubble:

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> They really believed in Aragon, even before we had a real product, so they agreed to convert an investment into ANT tokens during the token sale.

...

> Right now we have infinite runway

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it - get in while the going's good people.
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Yelp's model is extorting small businesses

if Google just blacklisted yelp no one would mind
But so do inconsistent spellings. There is a reason, most languages apart from English have no use for spelling bees. [1]

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/05/30/spell...
Makes sense, thanks for clarifying clishem
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From what I heard in Malaysia's Intel sites, IoT are used as reasons to open new departments or new turfs for some second class managers. No wonder it is missing the mark in what it is doing.
Given that this requires root already, what's the benefit from it being a kernel module, vs. just running a few iptables commands to add a new rule?
If these men aren't working, where are they getting the money to buy vidya and keep a roof over their head while they play? Their parents?
I know solidity and would love to be your friend.
Why is physical access needed? Any exploit that gives root to the machine could also be used to install the kernel module.
Since DHH started writing, there have been 800 generations of starry-eyed startup people with unexamined motivations. He can do his thing and there's more than enough regard for the value of it.
Well my whole point is that it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to talk about whether one language is or isn't appropriate as an international one because the idea that one is just objectively harder than another doesn't really hold.
>Yeah, ripgrep is "a grep," not an awk. I'm not sure how they wound up being conflated here.

Simple: a lot of people use awk just as a grep.
This is a fantastic resource, really well presented, I can't wait for the next instalment!
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I blame https://twitter.com/InternetOfShit
Oh. Well romance languages don't generally have a neuter gender so that's not an option.
Counter-opinion from twitter: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/881862753115230208

"Table from their latest paper. 1) Nonemployed 21-30 men devoting less time to leisure overall since '04-'07..."
Of all of google's services Finance is the worst, it seems to be supported by cheap contractors in Elbonia. I mean Flash charts??? Sometimes stocks that were removed remain in the lists for months. The stock screener seems to be a student take home test where the student failed.
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Intel's main problem is that in the age of commodity OSes, bytecode executable formats, bare metal runtimes and SoC that rival a Pentium class processor, the processors doing the work are kind of irrelevant.

Sure someone still needs to write those AOT/JIT compiler backends and virtualization layers, but it has become a thin layer in the overall stack.
She's an ambitious girl. You have to wonder how much of this is just piling on the public flogging to get more attention for herself?
I think EFF's privacy badger [0] can block this kind of tracking, depending on how sophsticated their tracking methods are.

[0] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
That would explain a lot. But why does Intel allow it? They already lost mobile.
I like this article much better:
https://www.1843magazine.com/features/escape-to-another-worl...
> Are private cars the primary means of getting around any city today?

Guess it depends how you define city. I like in a town that is on the top-100 list of "most densely populated cities in the US" and I'm right next to #1, #2, and #3 most densely populated. (Manhattan and others aren't on this list, but "NYC" is).

My city, yeah people definitely use private cars to get around. There are cars literally parked on both sides of EVERY street!
Or, the IoT market is massively over-hyped. Umm... smart cities, smart cars (used to be called embedded), buh wearables ... $267bn market no way. Security nightmare, drone stalkers, fridge attacks owner etc. (OK exaggerating.)

There will be some cool stuff, sure. But IoT won't take over the world. Will eat my hat in 2020 if I'm wrong of course.
You are correct. It is strange to see multiple claims of physical access being needed.
In Spanish there's usuario and usuaria depending on the gender of the user.
> Yeah, except 10 years at certain companies could teach you less than 6months to 1 year at one company that's actually doing it right.

Is it common for programmers that have been on a job to not realize the ways in which their software sucks? Knowing what to avoid and the consequences of doing things wrong is an important factor of experience; additionally, maintaining a bad system gives insight into mitigating problems.

That said, I do agree that experience isn't just a passive function of time (as in "interest earned"). Instead, it's more like a landscape that needs to be explored (and to your point, some companies will allow a programmer to explore more productive areas).

> ...the equation you posted wouldn't the intellect variable be pretty much equal to experience, and you could make up for one with the other?

I suppose the answer to your question would depend on just how much variance you place on intellect. Is it:

- 0.0 (rock) to 1.0 (cleverest human on earth)

- 0.0 (rock) to 1.0 (cleverest intelligence across time and space)

Either way, I wouldn't take the equation too seriously--it was just a model to show a trend :/
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> Also slow.

Only on gitlab.com, on prem here it flies.
Sure, the abstractions can be different. I didn't say React is literally the only answer. I said it's fast and it beats the naive approach (i.e. jQuery crap.) But even if binding is fast, I think most people who moved on from stuff like Knockout to React do not have any desire to move back. I know I don't.

But if you're going to accuse React's value proposition as being just a marketing pitch, I'd love to hear what evidence that virtual DOM is in fact pointless, and then why Angular 2 and Ember are doing the same sort of thing despite this, even though they have vastly different programming models than React.

Also, regarding your last point, I really doubt Facebook accidentally made DOM diffing without realizing it would improve performance of reactive programming in JS.
Even without bytecode and VMs, a x86 machine has virtually no advantage over $otherARchMachine in these niches.
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> Are private cars the primary means of getting around any city today?

There are a lot more cities (and a lot more total people in them) like Dallas, Houston, Baltimore, Detroit, Phoenix, St Louis, Pittsburgh, Miami, Los Angeles, San Diego, Columbus, etc where cars are the primary means of getting around.

It is San Francisco, London, and New York that are the outliers.
Seems its hard to to trace causation either way. It could be that people play video games to escape the tedium of being un- or under-employed, rather than are unemployed because they play video games instead of seeking work.
AFAIK the official keyboard driver for the DIN 2137 T2 layout is avaiable only for Windows. I think you have to rebind the keys manually...
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Don't forget that most academics cannot code correctly. Yes, even CS academics. In the AI field (not ML, but "real", symbolic AI), top-level open source academic software is, 90% of the time, pure shit. Sure, it does work, provided conditions don't change too much (for example, undefined behavior that will break if you compile with a newer version of gcc), but I hope you won't have to maintain it.
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The IO of Quark was problematic as well [1]. It's SPI interfaces are basically the same speed as an 8-bit MCU, which is kinda problematic given that SPI is fairly common to push a dozen or two megabit/s (implementation is much, much easier than reaching for USB or PCIe, while serial is simply too slow).

[1] Disclaimer: When I looked at it when they were released. Perhaps it was addressed later.
It doesn't replace Awk though. I think the point of this post is that you shouldn't do `<search tool> <pattern> | awk ...`, you should just do `awk /<pattern>/ ...`.
I've done very little marketing, and I am effectively a nobody without a huge following or elite credentials unlike some of the people behind the most popular frameworks. It would be completely unfair to judge me based on popularity and making negative assumptions about my experience, rather than merit.

In fact I refuse to market my pet project as if it is something to be bought and sold. or to assign it a valuation based on how many big companies are using it.
Skip awk, use perl....

The alias below sets perl to loop over STDIN splitting each line on more than one whitespace character and populate an array F. The -nE will then Evaluate an expression from the command line looping over the input line-by-line.

alias glorp='perl -aF"/\s+/" -nE'

So now we have the command `glorp` to play with which has more familiar syntax than awk and all of CPAN available to play with!

$ [data is generated] | glorp '/Something/ and say $F[2]'

We have access to any Perl module by putting -MModule::Name=function after the command, the following will parse a JSON record per line and glorp out what we wanted:

$ echo -e '{"hello":"world"}\n{"hello":"cat"}' | glorp 'say decode_json($_)->{hello};' -MJSON=decode_json
world
cat

Maybe you are used to using curl too. There is a nice web framework in Perl called Mojolicious (http://mojolicious.org) that provides a convenience module called 'ojo' for command line use. So grabbing the summary sentence from Wikipedia articles is as straight forward as below. Notice Mojolicious lets us use CSS selectors!

$ echo -e 'grep\nawk\nperl' \
| glorp 'say g("wikipedia.org/wiki/$F[0]")->dom->at("#mw-content-text > div > p")->all_text' -Mojo
I mean, how many others are there? I think there was a pretty strong undercurrent, even to the point of it being the dominant narrative back when Basecamp was getting started in the mid 2000's, but since 2010 or so, most of the startup world has focused on the venture-backed "rocketship" approach.

Yeah, it's usually not hard to predict what DHH's stance on growth vs. sustainability is going to be, and yes, he's prolific, but it's worthwhile to have opinions that go against the prevailing consensus, even if you don't agree with them.
I'm working in remote Zambia at the moment, in a place which only has a poor satellite connection and WhatsApp has been the only service which allows me to friends and family outside of the country.

I live the UK and have been spoiled with high speed internet. I have been working on around 50kB/s download speed and WhatsApp really shines. Skype sometimes works well, with a much more noticeable delay.

Coming somewhere like this really makes me appreciate small webpage sizes. Hacker News loads much, much quicker than just about any other site I regularly use. Granted it's known for it's light bandwidth size... I've been finding myself slimming my projects down considerably, which a really nice side effect of being somewhere with terrible internet for some time.
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I still follow a handful of channels that don't feel like they exist to advertise/monetize. They are far too passionate about their content matter for that to be the case. That said I hope the creators are being compensated well for their efforts.
Rust is asking for experiences. The political/ideological bias here lies with you.
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I don't see any problem with that.

It's not like people should have exclusivity over who has access to the photons that hit them...
The drop in employment is mostly that men in college aren't also holding down jobs. Maybe video games have something to do with that but I'm not very concerned.

https://www.economy.com/dismal/analysis/datapoints/295750/Ar...
Maybe there are cpu's where it isn't possible, but I don't think there are any non-joke systems where it isn't possible.

There are just too many ways of doing it. E.g. on most architectures there'll be a straightforward way of doing it using an add/sub operator and taking advantage of overflow/underflow to set a carry flag, and then another operator or three to get the least significant bit set to the carry flag.

Or you can do a straight lookup into a table on any architecture that supports a load from memory and an add, though it'd of course be hugely wasteful.

On any architecture that also supports a right shift / integer division plus AND you could make that use less memory by shifting, masking, lookup up (any set bit =>0, no set bits => 1), and then and'ing the results together with an initial 1.

And many, many more. I have a hard time picturing what an instruction set that would make it impossible to do that without branches would even look like.

Of course that doesn't guarantee it will be the most efficient choice, and of course also doesn't guarantee that a compiler will know how to do it.
I didn't run this by HR, but I would say it's very likely. Finland in general is very welcoming for this kind of things, so I don't see any obstacle to it.

But please get in touch so we can figure something out! :)

For more info: http://www.migri.fi/working_in_finland/an_employee_and_work/...
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Create your own car parental control and Teen Driver Mode with AutoPi
I'd be glad to review your portfolio and resume if you're at all interested. I work mostly in web but might be able to give some pointers, I've done this for lots of people. My email should be in my profile.
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Clicking on the title brings you to the project page which shows the latest activity for that project. I can understand being frustrated as you most likely expected to land on a page with files and a readme. Clicking on the Repository tab will bring you to this view. Project owners have the option to make the repository view the default view. It looks as though this was not enabled on this project.
We've had part-time positions for students before. Email me at mevan@fullfact.org and we can see if there's a fit.
This is similar to how we moved away from depending wholly on newspapers, TV etc (old media monopolies) to Google, Youtube, Facebook (new media monopolies). Even though we can reach more audiences than ever before, 99% of it are being controlled by the Big Five.
Games have become more popular and potentially more addictive, not necessarily better (for my definition of better, games nowadays are generally worse than in the 90s and early 200s).
The reason must be video games for sure, surely not because you need 5-year experience for a shitty part-time cashier job paying minimum salary because the job market collapsed.
This is a problem that can be solved in a low tech way using a medical bracelet / necklace for patients who have chronic diseases that doctors might need to know about.
A paragraph of well thought out text will be ignored. A critical remark on the web framework du jour will be carefully deconstructed, rebutted, and shamed. Funny how that works.
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They have already created Saas based on that : https://gyrosco.pe/
If I tap it I get the option to react with different emoticons to the specific message, similar to iMessage's tapback.
I know women who play puzzle games on their phone but don't consider them games.
Whats your definition of better
Satellite-to-ground quantum key distribution
Not in cryptoland. The guy who bought ETH at $0.1 could have sent the ETH out of the exchange minutes later.
Sadly the Android's react version seems to lack any share features - the app doesn't appear in any 'share to' dialogues, nor can I share pictures or such from the app itself (For example using rocket.chat I can long press on an image and I will be able to share the picture to other apps). The issue appears to only have around 100 combined votes on uservoice (https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/sugge... + https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/sugge...) so I'm not holding my breath for this to be implemented anytime soon, but it would be a really useful feature to have for when you need to move graphical assets around and you want to take a quick look on your phone for example.
A typical year would more likely be 220-230 workdays a year, maybe less if you have gaps between short term contracts.

Also, the dividend tax has closed the gap a bit, along with the flat rate scheme being effectively killed.
Umm, what?

You can know vastly more about something than average people without developing and projecting a sense of superiority over them. That's actually something pretty much every professional ought to do with regards to whatever their profession is.
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“Code never lies. Comments sometimes do.”

I forget who that quote is attributed to.
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The "awkward interaction" here is being physically intimidated by someone who doesn't respect being told No, who is big enough to overpower you and who is in a position. Of power with clear conflict of interest.

It's great that you wouldn't be terrified in this kind of situation. It's also important to know that not everyone feels the same way that you do, and that it's entirely reasonable and expected for someone to be scared shitless given the situation described. It's not their fault to feel that way, and they're not the ones who should "grow a pair". Everyone here needs to make sure that physical intimidation doesn't happen, and if you're not sure about whether it's wanted, get a clear approval before you storm onto someone.
Another variant of 'pay peanuts, get monkeys'.
It could, but I do agree the use cases are pretty thin.

Probably only when porting binaries, or Assembly/intrisics heavy code.
We haven't done much benchmarking at that end of the scale, but I can't think of any reason why you wouldn't be able to run it on a single server.
It looks like you're still using Neo4j 2.3. Have you tried using newer versions of Neo4j? There have been some pretty substantial performance improvements.

Additionally, Neo4j does support clustering with their Enterprise edition. It also has much better tooling (better metrics/logging, backups, etc.). It is AGPL licensed, so there's no reason not to use it really.
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A good point, but a grossly over-generalized one. Men "not taking no for an answer" after rejection is the exception, not the general norm, even if it's over represented in the VC scandal. That's why it's a scandal.
Ugh, wouldn't be working either if I could find a switch already.
That's exactly why I never keep any important files on system partition. I prefer to keep Windows all by itself on a separate partition, then I don't have to worry about it messing up my things.
Ironically, I just saw an ad to this webcast:

"Get into IoT with Intel" - https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/108829149494036582...
this link seems broken: https://bogdan-lyashenko.github.io/Under-the-hood-ReactJS/pa...
Nice. Related, if you need some old-school look bitmap fonts, but need more unicode glyphs: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
Maybe she was crying because she felt the encounter was more than awkward. Seeing as it she believes it constituted assault, she may have been emotional because she had worried that it could have become much worse for her, McClure being bigger and stronger than her, and also likely inebriated. She was probBly emotional, based on her account, because she was put in a terrible situation where she had to keep silent for the sake of her company.