skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The major problem with buying mining rigs is that they may be pre-mined. Often the developers will use the rigs for mining and then when the rigs stop becoming profitable (assuming the bitcoin price is stable), sell them as 'new'.
You're implying that religion has something to do with it when it's the wrong factor to be looking at. The birth rates in Brazil and Philippines are high as well, but those are very Christian countries. Meanwhile Russia, arguably Christian (Orthodox) has a very low birth rate which drags down the average.

That article also shows declining birth rates in the Muslim world, which is to be expected as poverty and education issues are addressed.

> Those kids eventually move into the cities and use the modern amenities everyone else uses. Unless you think all those people will stay poor and underdeveloped for the next 50 years.

It really depends on the country in question and how stable their political future is. I can see Malaysia making big gains, but South Sudan and Syria still being a total mess.

There are some countries which were resource poor to start with and will never get ahead without some kind of political partnership, while others have huge, largely untapped sources of potential wealth.
Yep, SMS 2FA just makes my account less secure, therefore it doesn't count as 2FA.
DHS has delayed the effective date of the International Entrepreneur Rule
What you are saying is that it is possible in theory, but no one has done it yet. So in some future were someone rewrites all C++ compilers to not be so slow then we won't need to compromise.

Most C++ devs have to work with tools that currently exist and so we are stuck with what the compiler devs give us. Believe it or not C++ compiler devs are pretty smart people and have largely optimized it as much as possible without a language redesign.

That language redesign is in the works with modules, but the dust hasn't settled yet, so that is also a discussion for the future. In the mean time no other language delivers the performance C++ does right now. So if I want to ship product right now the very real dilemma is fast product with slow builds (and a bunch of tools for dealing with that) with C++ or use some other language for a faster compiler and a slower product.

Then there is Rust, but that is another whole can of worms and not in use in most shops yet (Just switching to something has a huge cost).
Don't know where you are from, but with the company and pre-paid plan I use, I can't receive an Australian SMS from my Australian phone when I'm not in Australia.
Ask HN: Why can't OS have dedicated cores and memory?
Have you ever experience your mouse and keyboard input start to lag?

Why is it that you are not able to dedicate a core or a thread to your OS so, third party apps do not have access to them? This can prevent your entire OS from locking and your entire experience being jerky.
Google Patches Critical 'broadpwn' Bug in July Security Update
I agree. Once we develop the ability to upload and modify brains, it will be easy to morph them. We can extract the primal desire to defend yourself, to become angry, to want to own property. These emotions will be reserved for the founders.

It will take time to get there. Many will resist, so we have to keep our goal a secret. But people are gullible. With our morphogenic brain technology, we can give people experiences they've only dreamed of. Think of it. The high of heroin, with none of the downsides. The ability to know instantly when any of your loved ones are in distress. The ability to shape yourself and your children into any form you desire.

If we appeal to base emotions, if we appeal to their need to control, to own, to shape, then we can implement our plan.
> it's probably too cold in winter to not have any interior climate control

Trust me, these miners put off enough heat that it's not an issue.
The nice part about AWS MFA is that there's usually multiple people with IAM access. So rather than use backup codes, we rely on co-workers to help us resynchronize. It may not work for 1-man shops, but how many AWS accounts only have 1 admin?
Why I Stopped Ghosting
Serverless Web Applications on AWS Lambda with ClojureScript Part I
”Cerberus äter sparpengar”
I remember the weird company name due to frequent TV ads. I don't remember the product. Only the weird name and the confusion about the unclear product stuck.
Touché. That's why I'm not getting a brain implant :-D
If any webdev want to convince me that mobile "is working" then please make a layout that will not jump like it's having a seizure during page load. Don't make hovering, floating, overlaying and gesture controlled elements. Basically don't make stuff that makes your site harder to use.
> Why on earth do we still design and implement user interfaces by hand? Shouldn't 99% of development be about creating semantic models and let generic clients take care of rendering it properly based on form-factor, context, preferences, etc?

Oh look, XHTML2, oh wait, it's dead ...

https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml2/mod-i18n.html#s_i18nmodule

> Today, every single app needs to re-implement the user class, authentication system, profile management interface, responsive design, loading indicators, caching and offline support, third-party access, sharing, filtering, theming, localization, accessibility, etc. This is insane.

You're mixing up server-side and front-end development. The client shouldn't take care of authentication or profile management.
men and women are different
What seems to be missing is actually mentioning that it was the opinion of the original authors, as well.
So normally, you can't leave a job you don't like after 1 month? What is the process for quitting like? Here in the US, I've only ever seen '2 weeks notice' be a courtesy - you could just stop coming to work, or announce that the current day is your last.
Are NPR or any of the affiliated stations backing the News Media Alliance collective-bargaining initiative?

NPR seems to exist in its own ecosystem where its consumers know that they have to pay for the content, but since they haven't tied their product to exclusivity, they don't seem harmed by the shift from the old "pay-to-read" model to the new model. And I'm unaware of their reputation being called into question in any serious way.
There was a reform, maybe sometime around 1985, that replaced "usual, customary and reasonable" with 'what should this procedure actually cost'. Your wikipedia links to this page:

Resource-based relative value scale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource-based_relative_value_...

It took the government 20 years to figure out that they couldn't give the medical system a blank check.

/methinks a helpful medical reform would be to get insurance-paid doctors on fixed salaries. Under the present status quo, some doctors bill insurance companies for as much as they can get away with.
Huh... I think you're actually talking about the Peter Principle, where skilled programmers are promoted to the point where they stop being skilled. The parent topic seems to be closer to the Dilbert Principle - people being placed in management who would never have gotten the job below theirs.

Unfortunately, both of those things are pretty common. Promoting "up the ranks" gets you Peter, and hiring "for management skills" gets you Dilbert. Avoiding both at once seems to be an almost unsolved problem.
This is disgusting behavior from Soundcloud upper management, they need to be held liable for breach of contract. How could upper management be allowing recruiting at the same time they are planning massive layoffs. Ridiculous.
The big problem is no so much that 2FA is broken but bitcoin makes breaking 2FA so much more lucrative.
My First Three Months of Selling My Own Software
Apple users are hit again by iCloud Ransomware scam
"The United States remains one of the only advanced industrialized democracies in the world without universal coverage.

While this in and of itself is not a problem, the United States also spends more on health care as a percentage of GDP than any other advanced country in the world and has worse health outcomes – with lower life expectancy, higher infant mortality and higher obesity rates than comparable countries like Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France and Japan."
- http://theconversation.com/three-reasons-the-us-doesnt-have-...
This has little to nothing to do with multitasking.
Thank you! Just serve me HTML. Stop messing with scrolling. Get rid of the pop-ups and prompts for me to sign up for your newsletter. Stop permanently attaching buttons to the top or bottom. Throw away your "navigation bar". If I wanted an "app" experience I'd download an app.
Yes, to the point where YouTubers get their accounts hijacked so often that it's best practice among them to use a secret burner phone for 2FA
Does this kid want to be rich, famous or ubiquitous? Because he will never achieve any of that without playing politics.
I understand the want to get out. Digital is pretty overwhelming, it's not like it used to be where it was another tool. It's a complete, whole world that operates within itself anymore. I don't always enjoy that.

Our plan is real estate. My wife and I have started with single family rentals and hope to add enough inventory to sustain ourselves on that. We're both handy and try to live within/slight-under our means right now in order to do something like that successfully. Plus, it's nice to accomplish something (tangible) with your hands.
Jai, though unreleased and in development, is an language that explicitly aims to have extremely good runtime and compile-time performance.
>zero legal real world use cases

I pay my VPN using bitcoin.
Also have a GPU bought with bitcoin.
Just saying.
That's part of the reason, another big reason is the Google is eating so many businesses. Thus why Yelp is pushing their app so hard, they can't compete in the browser with Google's restaurant reviews.
> if you can't do the job of the people you're managing, then Peters Principle is in effect

Wait, Peter's Principle? If that's "promoted to their level of incompetence", shouldn't it describe managers who can do their subordinate's work but not their own?

This sounds closer to the Dilbert Principle, honestly - people who get hired as managers but could never have held the job below theirs.
You can, at least in Linux. But in general the OS will do a better scheduling job than you will.
How about death of the Earth by overfunding? How many social network apps does the world need? This whole structure of VCs is ridiculous. It's just a cover for the ones that are gov sponsored and will win out in the end, anyway.

All these VC millions (and billions) could be invested in schools, farming, roads, hospitals, parks, free sauce.
Even a $3000 fridge only has a 1 year warranty these days, and speaking from recent experience spending $2k on a fridge does not make it more reliable - in fact most refrigerators are made with the same internals and body but minor tweaks and sold at 3-5 different price points under different brand names (see Whirlpool - Frigidaire - Kitchenaid). Nothing that's changed between the different brands changes the reliability, only the aesthetics.
It does seem self-contradictory to attempt to be a news media outlet with exclusive access in a day where information is this easy to replicate and distribute.

I think you run the real risk, when you make your content exclusive, of simply being run over by media that doesn't. Unless you can compete on quality, which they usually do but how long and to what end? Facts aren't copyrightable.
I seriously hope they don't do it.

Go being bootstrapped is a good argument against people that don't belive it is suitable for systems programming.

Depending on C or C++ as implementation always gives arguments it could not have been done differently.

Also we should not turn our FOSS compilers into a LLVM monoculture.
You sure do get a lot of suspiciously dusty gear from some of these vendors.
I am an American.

When I'm particularly exasperated with the healthcare system (usually in the weeks/months following some kind of medical engagement) my answer would be "I don't give a damn which we choose. Let's just make a decision to either socialize medicine completely or let people die."

(My mood is unreasonably caustic after dealing with anything medical. The stress of dealing with healthcare billing, health insurance, and the patriarchal attitudes of medical practitioners raises my blood pressure and gives me near panic attacks.)

When I'm in a more calm and normal mental state my answer would lean toward socializing as much of the healthcare system as possible.

Literally nothing is a bigger fear-factor in my life than medical expenses. The fact that the entirety monetary value of my life's work could be destroyed in a moment by a medical issue freaks me out. The fact that I cannot, in any financially viable manner, insure against this kind of event amplifies that fear.

I feel comfortable in saying that, at least in an abstract way, I am less afraid of death than of leaving my family destitute as a result of unforeseen medical expense.
We should move to a service economy. If instead of buying a washing machine, I could buy the service of washing my clothes, the company has an incentive to keep that machine working.

As always in politics, getting the incentives right works wonders.
Perhaps I am missing something, but aren't vectors and lists almost equivalent?
YES. Salaries are not that high, either, for people in medical academia and now in HMOs as well. One can justify paying a neurosurgeon 430 per year - after 8 years of post-graduate training, and if you count college and medschool, that is 16 years. During all that time a future neurosurgeon mostly acquired debt, while working 120 hours per week.
If government decisions are overturned for Wednesbury irrationality and Wednesbury irrationality requires that no sane person could have arrived at the decision, does the court imply that the government is run by insane persons?
Yeah, and people have bought pizza, too: http://uk.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-pizza-day-passes-2000-...
>As long as Americans can't stomach the idea of turning away people who cannot pay for emergency care to die we have socialized medicine.

Seems a tad callous even by my standards as a staunch classical liberal; may be all other medical services but not emergency services.
No im getting this also...might have ended not sure tbh.
Preventative care means less risk of catastrophic care. Its cheaper for insurance to encourage you towards preventative care than pay for the catastrophic care.
Sad story for the new hires.

A couple of thoughts:

Large companies fail too in much the same way so I'm not sure how much "startup" specific this is.

Businesses that are struggling may continue operations as normal, including recruitment, while they seek additional funding or some other inflection point.

Companies are often transparent when the times are good and much less so when struggling. It's self-preservation. If they say were in big trouble, the top talent leaves first. It's manifest destiny. So, they put their heads down and try to steer the company through it.

It's a terrible situation all around when a business fails, everyone loses.
For those thinking, "now's a great time to join the party!", the price surge happened from about March to about May of this year, with BTC more than doubling in USD price. However, it's been completely flat for over a month now -- longer than any other point in recent history -- and there are currently some big questions about the future of BTC that are being addressed next month and may result in a loss of value for some number of people, depending on how things shake out.

Smart money right now isn't in BTC, unless you think you can predict what's going to happen in the next six months and you're willing to keep it for a longer period. And, even then, you'd be better off selling it back to USD and re-buying when it likely falls back down to sub-$2000 in a month.
Please don't submit puns which can be found in other comments already. In general, you should only comment if it brings something new to the discussion.
At the risk of spiking my blood pressure I will write a few words on this topic. I will start by saying this:

The whole system is fucked.

I am referring to the system that facilitates American residents getting healthy and staying that way.

What is the basis of my claims? I admit that I am a healthy 33 year old white male and I probably have only seen that tip of the iceberg. I am also a father of 3. My oldest daughter was born with a chronic health problem, diagnosed at 19 weeks gestation.

Since her birth, a little over 7 years ago, we have received a bill from the hospital that provided her care at least once per week. This continues today, despite not having had any services provided in almost a year.

If I paid all of these bills, bankruptcy would be my only recourse. I try to communicate with my insurance provider (employer provided), to determine what's legitimate, and what should be covered. In the end, I'm mostly left to my own devices to pay for the services that I think I received. Every year we pay the deductible, and every year we get billed for significantly more.

As another example, not along ago, my third daughter was born. Due to the complications of my wife's first pregnancy we received care from two different OBGYN facilities, one local to us, and one at the delivering hospital.

Though the local facility was only responsible for less than 10 checkups, they claimed that we still owed our entire deductible to them, prior to delivery. We paid half.

A week prior (this much is hilarious in itself) to delivery by a doctor from the other facility, we received a bill for the full deductible amount, due to them also.

When the delivery actually happened, it took less than 2 hours, and we stayed one night. We also had 3 checkups at this other facility. Our bill of course is the same as everybody else's, regardless of whether they had a C-Section and stayed for 5 nights, or had 30 hours of labor. I could actually be OK with this (I'm onboard for socialized healthcare), if they could get the billing part right.

Again:

* I am constantly billed directly by healthcare providers over and above what my insurance policy says I should pay.

* I pay almost 25% of my yearly earnings in insurance premiums.

* I end up deciding what I will pay and what I will not pay. I admit that this is probably not the best situation for anyone.

The whole system is fucked.
> Wasn't large compilation time driving forces behind writing Go

yes, that was one of the tenants.

> Is a garbage-collected language not suitable for a web browser?

In theory its fine; but there's a lot of historical baggage that comes along with garbage collection and the majority of languages that support it (e.g. almost no value types).

Golang fairs pretty well latency wise for a GC'd language. I'd be curious for someone with more experience than me to talk through a deep dive of instances where go's latency/throughput characteristics are and are not good enough for specific applications.
Deep learning  in the brain
> 3. Nonsense.

What tangible benefits do you see?
This is available for rich folks. This is "boutique medicine". Possibly the way of the future - to coexist with social medicine, of course.
That sentence says nothing about the goal of the study's authors.
I assume you mean something that does it automatically, but you should also know that you can tag notes, which would be a manual way of achieve this.

(For developers: just take the most frequent words that are not "a, the, if, but" etc and convert them to tags)
This analogy makes it sound like there were a certain number of Bitcoins inside the computer and they are all already discovered... why does it matter if a computer is used or not: all that should matter is how fast it is (and that would be difficult to lie about as you would notice immediately upon receiving it if it wasn't as fast a second claimed), and the buyer should know how fast of a computer they are willing to buy at a given price.
I used to track where large bitcoin mines were.

Mostly they're concentrated around cheap hydroelectricity, with major mines in Labrador (2c/kwh), Central China (varies, but <4c/kwh), and Georgia (unknown, bitfury likely has a special deal with the local government). A few exceptions are Northern China (coal grid @ ~3c/kwh) and Iceland (geothermal @ maybe 5c/kwh, this isn't too clear either).

Solar panels are not effective for bitcoin mining, because hardware needs to run 24/7 (a shitload of batteries are needed) and the upfront cost is high.
They don't even mention the harm caused by fraud that involves inventing conditions and treatments out of thin air. Those doctor's notes follow you around forever when you go to do things like purchase disability insurance or seek treatment.

Suddenly you are no longer a healthy individual you are an individual with a history of condition X and Y which you have never even heard of. And because a doctor wrote it down it's now a reality and the patient is a liar!
Was the title different when you clicked on this story? If you clicked a story about how Linus no longer trusts init and expected some deep discussion of init/kernel separation, I kind of feel like you were destined to be disappointed. The topic was clearly Linus's distrust of init, not architectural purity.
What's interesting is that there's nothing in the article that's actually specific to "non-technical" managers. In fact, reminding one to ask "what's the customer value here?" is advice that's probably more suited to highly technical managers rather than non-technical ones.
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This is why I'm so concerned about the trend that SUV sales are outpacing Sedan sales. Whereas sedans used to be the "default" car a decade ago, SUVs are now taking their place [0].

All things being equal, a smaller car (sedan) should get better MPG than a larger car (SUV) [1].

And yet it seems that people's efforts to reduce their environmental footprint is focused on recycling a plastic cup here and there [2].

A very general trend over the past few decades shows us that the price of gas / gallon has increased. So Americans' response to this is: I need to buy a bigger car? A pollution tax would certainly help but is far too big of a thing to accomplish in the short-term.

I've been contemplating a sort of "big car" tax for a number of reasons, and increased gasoline consumption / environmental impact is a key item on that list. (Non-environmental items include (1) the danger they pose to other drivers in smaller vehicles, and (2) the race-to-the-bottom condition no. 1 imposes, since more and more people will want larger vehicles when they feel threatened by the presence of large vehicles on the road, leading to a positive reinforcement cycle)

[0] http://www.driveprime.com/blog-suv-and-crossover-sales-outpa...
[1] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=37918&i...
[2] https://youtu.be/eNx9tvCrvv8?t=1m10s