skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, centrally authorized systems can be extremely fast and cheap. Postgres outperforms any blockchain. The issues are about authority and power, and also the barriers to innovation and access which that power imposes.

Payment channels can solve scaling issues in blockchains just like various settlement layers solve the slowness of bank transfers. Some people don't want such a solution, but it's still a solution.

Development doesn't happen the way we want. Some people want cryptocurrencies to stop existing, which seems unlikely. Bitcoin's development is really thorny because of diverse interests and general incentivized hostility; that's just reality.

Maybe a faster blockchain will gradually take Bitcoin's market share. Maybe Bitcoin will remain quite valuable. If you know a certain answer to this, there are large profit opportunities!
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I agree and this is what we want whoever we hire to do as we currently don't have the skill-set/human resources to test out the different propositions.
SPF & DKIM are only the start of the story. Use a non consumer IPv6 address, TLS, and DMARC. Have perfect DNS (including correct reverse lookups). Sign your zones. Monitor your IP and domain status with every reputation list on earth. Sign up for the postmaster tools at Google and Outlook.

Running your own email ain't a hobbyist thing anymore, you gotta play like you're in the NBA. I'm doing all the above, my deliverability is solid. And pay attention to the changing landscape - for example, I will be implementing ARC real soon.
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Aren't contests normally under huge time pressure? I would think that a lot of people could solve even quite hard problems given ordinary conditions like having lots of time, colleagues, and reference materials available.
Lessons learned, I suppose...
As an applicant, I'd be all for going the work sample route, but only if it's paid for and if it were used in lieu of the typical face-to-face hazing session rather than in addition. I notice more and more companies are asking for work samples (or "homework assignments" or whatever they want to call them), but they just pile it onto their already onerous process.

The major pain point in interviewing (at least for me) is the massive time sink for a very small chance of success. I'm spending a few hours on the application, then a few more doing phone screens, then a weekend doing a work sample, then I blow a VACATION day (which has monetary value and of which I have only 10 per year), and at the end of it all who knows what my odds even are? Multiply that by, lets say 10 companies per year, and: I've invested 31 days of my life, have no vacation left, and I still may end up with nothing.
The more you can move, the better.

I've done a 24 hr foot race, a 12 hr race and a 100 mi race in the past year. There are diminishing returns. :-)

(Somewhere around 100K I think you reach maximal discomfort, though maybe I just haven't pushed through to that next level of suffering yet.)
I had hopped that they would do that much earlier. WoSign and StartCom acting in a shady way has been known for quite a long time.
A web bookmarking app: http://newsconomy.com/

I built it many years ago. Some people use it. Never made a cent from it.
Also, I found this guy on Reddit and was impressed with his knowledge and results:

https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing/comments/4sbu78/im_a_22yo...

Here's his up-work profile: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01d666ef2195a368dd

Any thoughts on this?
I started a web app some years ago called UppIMG where you could upload images. Basically it was a competitor to the predecessors of Imgur at the time. Too much porn led me to taking it offline.
"They finally started tracking it and it was barely above 5% (all foreign purchases)."

I don't closely follow that story and I haven't seen your sources, but in general a 5% marginal increase in buyers can completely transform a market.
Cool, I had to come back and post this link of a block diagram of the Moog:

http://cdm.link/app/uploads/2016/03/dangeroussynth.jpg
anyone have some statistics/research on how badly chatbots perform in delivering services?
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I'm very interested in learning to write compilers, starting with just a simple made up language.

Can anyone share resources? I prefer bound books, but anything is helpful! I've been reading the source of TempleOS for tips as well.
> PS: I went ahead and deleted everything anyway. Out of spite.

Yeah, they still have the photos though. IIRC, when you upload a photo to Facebook you grant them a worldwide unlimited license to your photo, so there's really no reason for them to delete it. I suppose they can even use it for marketing purposes.
In Vancouver it was over 5%. In some suburbs - Burnaby and Richmond - (not neighbourhoods) it was over 15% of purchases. When you consider that most of these purchasers aren't selling houses at the same time, then it becomes an even bigger % of actual demand.

edit: just looked at the stats. Metro Vancouver was at about 12.5% of sales, and Richmond was at nearly 25% of sales before they put in the foreign buyers tax.
It is true that simple software can generate interesting audio effects. However, I think the parent comment underestimates the appeal of modular synthesizers.

I really believe that there are sounds that are achievable most easily with a modular system. One example that springs to mind: the west-coast school of additive analog synthesis often uses circuits classified as low-pass gates (more or less combining the low-pass filters and voltage-controlled amplifiers of east-coast subtractive synthesis). SuperCollider is one of the most actively-developed systems for experimental audio synthesis, and the only plugin emulating low-pass gates I’ve found is in one of the SuperCollider developers’ personal sandbox repo. A google search indicates that apparently someone has written a PureData low-pass gate emulator, but I can’t speak to its quality. My point is, not everyone who wants to try to make music in one of these systems is going to want to write their own C++ or FAUST plugins, or compile a buggy early version of a plugin. So it seems to me that if you want to just make the sound, a eurorack modular system might be the most accessible way to do so.

And I also think the music people make using modular systems is ideally consumed in a manner very different from, say, EDM tracks on soundcloud or spotify. If you are in the bay area, I highly recommend attending Robotspeak’s regular Church of the Super-Serge concerts to get a sense of this (one performance I enjoyed a lot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8Xn6IbItT8). Members of the eurorack synthesizers group on facebook are also constantly posting little snippets of modular music. This stuff isn’t for anyone, but it is certainly interesting. Patches people create on modular systems are ephemeral and meditative, so they're often described as sand mandalas. The user explores the capability of their collection of modules, they find an appealing or interesting sound, and develop some minimal accompaniment around that sound. The graph of possible connections in an even medium-sized eurorack system is quite large, and there are many manual controls on each module (at minimum 3-4). “Saving” a patch involves painstakingly recording each knob setting and patch connection. Re-creating a patch exactly is therefore quite challenging. So people leave their system patched, come to the show, and perform a single 10-20 minute long composition. That’s the set. Very idiosyncratic, hit-or-miss, but usually interesting, at least. I hope this conveys some of the unique appeal of putting together a large modular systems.
I just hope I don't hurt myself exercising while I'm relatively young in such a way that makes it hard to exercise when I'm old.
fwiw, I also created a javascript port of pinhole a few weeks back. https://github.com/tidwall/pinhole-js
I've never used a buyer's agent and always written into my offers that the 3% buyers agent fee is to go back to the seller (and of course adjust the top-line offer accordingly).

I've never tried to buy in SF, but this strategy has always worked for me and saved a lot of money over the years. Frankly I can't understand the purpose of a buyers agent in this era, and taking 3% off the cost of a house is very substantial.

When the closing statement (HUD-1) is finally prepared, usually I can see that the seller's agent took some of the buyer's agent fee, e.g. they will end up with 4% instead of 3% in the end and the rest goes back to the seller. Since these offers usually mean more money for the seller'a agent they go to the top of the pile.

It's also important to disclose that you've purchased houses before, that you have funds, and that you are ready to close immediately. You don't need a buyers agent to tell you this.
Super cool. Is US Census data easy to work with as a developer? How much of your work was spent on parsing out the data to be a useful format?
Mostly (2013).
It's apparently not a crazy idea.

https://news.uoguelph.ca/2014/04/high-school-students-study-...
If you don't know the difference between an appraiser and a real estate agent, you should stop commenting in such a condescending tone.
They appear to have a wildcard for the *.wordpress.com subdomains, though.
>You are embedding biases toward younger (and therefore less experienced) male coders

Younger maybe, but where does the male part come from?
Which is easily remedied by using MIDI controllers.
I would also add
5.http://dev.stephendiehl.com/fun/
In the 10 or so real estate deals that I have done over the past few years, I have to say that the realtor (even the exceptionally good ones) never pointed out any of the nuances of the perils related to the entities you mentioned above. In all cases, it was me, due to bad past experiences with HOAs for example, who was proactively demanding that I be given the HOA restrictions before making the contract; there were plenty of deals I walked away from when I thought the HOA was power hungry and ridiculous. EDIT: I am not dismissing the role of realtors - they had good tips that I use to this day. Here is one: start the homeowner's insurance purchase/quotes during the option period to ensure that any related surprises here will enable you to walk away during the option period than trying to deal with killing the deal with the much-higher earnest money amount at stake.

I have to say that the most insightful article I have ever read about realtors came from the controversial Freakonomics. It clearly outlined the separation of concerns and interests and made it clear to me that if a real estate deal is to work well, the only person responsible is me and me alone.
> At what time, during any job you've had, have you needed to instantly write code on a whiteboard, in front of peers, in a matter of minutes.

Fairly regularly. Like when I'm explaining to someone how something works after they've asked me about it.
Doesn't adding "site:example.com" to google search do the same thing (assuming google has indexed your static site)?
Thank you & I hope I'll be able to show such a positive attitude after 30 years on a FOSS-project. I'll print out and pin the resignation later above my desk as a brutal reminder what I failed to do so far: friendly exits from projects I put my heart into before.
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The thing is, if no humans can spot the flaw, then what difference does it make if they cheated in school? Either way they'll do flawed calculations if we assume your logic.

However, I wasn't really talking about people wanting to become actual mathematicians - those probably wouldn't use Wolfram just because they actually love crunching those numbers manually. The people who we're talking about here just see math as a roadblock they need to get through to do whatever they really want to do (programming, etc), and in this case this "cheating" is totally fine by me.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. If you bring the customer to Udemy I think the cut is ~97% so definitely worth a try. Looks like you have a great platform on YouTube, I've subscribed. Best of luck!
No, I'm saying he is deliberately quoting only part of the US Code definition of the term "international terrorism", with the clear intent that it be taken for the whole. It would not be too strong a statement to say that I regard this as a lie of omission. On his motives for so doing I can only speculate, and indeed I have done so above, but the nature of his statement in its own right seems only too clear to me.

I've had the opportunity to get to know a few veterans. To the extent they've opened up to me on such a sensitive subject, I have never developed the impression that it was drudgery and boredom that tended to inspire soldiers and veterans to consider suicide. This strikes me as quite a remarkable statement on your part, and I would very much like to know more about how you have reached this conclusion. Perhaps you will convince me.
The CSS is correct. Abusing code formatting for quotes is the problem.

(The fact that HN has no dedicated markup for quotes and very little available markup at all is also a problem, but using code blocks for quotes is not a solution, or even a good workaround, for that.)
Highly recommend stronglifts as well + the book: burn the fat, feed the muscle ( content is really good, the website of Tom Venuto is awfull though)
Fair point! A realtor can still walk a property to perform a market analysis, which is still more accurate than an automated valuation.

I'm exhausted by the never ending comments here "it's easy! Anyone can do this!" when it's clearly not. I'm simply countering the disingenuity, whether the source is ignorance or arrogance.
Assuming Facebook's numbers represent two-thirds of all web users then I'm saying I'd be surprised if LetsEncrypt have more than 30,000 donors.

If we're quibbling about "the public" then the GP comments only make sense if "the public" means "people who aren't IT professionals", in which case I'd warrant that there are far fewer donors than 30k who aren't IT professionals, indeed it's got to be ~0.

Can't see donor details on the LE pages though? Mind you at approx.av.300k certs issued daily (https://letsencrypt.org/stats/) I concede I could easily be orders of magnitude out in my guesswork.
The search text input is disabled until the RSS is fetched. So it's because of UI design. If there's an error, the search box will stay disabled. Users are more OK with something being disabled, then something appearing to work, but doesn't. It also makes the search slightly faster.
Right!? And imagine if Ireland went to war with the US! /s
What's the reason DRM can't be implemented as an open-source solution? Is the closed source just to prevent people from easily accessing the secret key or are there other reasons it needs to be closed source?
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To add on point 2), most big companies have a strong bias against 'smart' solutions. If something is too complex to be fully understood by half the engineers:

a) it won't be trusted

b) it won't be maintainable by any random staff, which puts an additional risk on choosing that solution.

The maintainability argument will usually be enough to can any idea that only few people are comfortable to make evolve.
It says worldwide, but I can't view countries other than Brazil.
(Don’t) drop the hint: communicating with technical people
I think paying for interviews is problematic for a bunch of reasons.

On the other hand, I agree wholeheartedly with people who reject "homework assignments" layered on top of a standard interview process.

The onus is on people who want to take advantage of work samples to:

* Ensure that the time they're asking of candidates is offset by lowered time demands elsewhere

* Ensure that they're using the work samples objectively, so that people aren't asked to do coding work as part of a crap-shoot application process.

The process we used at Matasano and NCC was less demanding than typical job interview processes. The challenges were simple and self-contained, and when they were completed we could tell you with a decent degree of confidence whether you were likely to be offered a job at your (shortened) on-site interview.
The problem isn't that real estate agents are offering the service, it's that you're pretty much forced into using it.
Seems like a win-win to me - companies get a list of somewhat-vetted potential employees, and if looking for a team can potentially hire a team already used to working with each other; the people get their details seen by a wider pool of employers and may find a new role quicker/with less effect on their part.

I don't think it in anyway implies they couldn't find a job using the more traditional routes; this is just an alternative avenue to try.
Open browsers have open, auditable Javascript engines. There can be vulnerabilities, but you aren't waiting for some company to put out a closed patch containing a fix. EME blobs are like Flash plugin blobs.

So, it's similar in the sense that enabling JS increases the potential attack surface, just like installing EME/Flash/whatever does. But at least the JS engine can be examined by whoever wants to.
Where are the Asians on these graphs?
How does this affect any modern browser?

don't they all follow https://whatwg.org/ over W3C after W3C wanted to lock in HTML5 rather than a living web standard that evolves with the web
I created https://SauceNAO.com, a primarily anime focused reverse image search engine in 2008. While it's purpose has never really been to make money per se, it's been extremely expensive to operate.

It's been pretty successful usage wise, but paying users are another matter entirely. Donations and account upgrades keep the lights on, barely covering the hosting costs of the main collocated front-end server, but lack of funds is a constant struggle. I've spent tens of thousands over the years on hardware and hosting costs, and expenses keep going up as coverage expands. As for why, I guess there's just not enough of a reason to upgrade at the moment. Free is hard to beat, I'm my own best competitor.

The site's current design is basic to say the least, and the account creation page does not leave users feeling especially comfortable about the site. Everything about everything needs polish.

Related to that, I'm almost finished with a redesigned and much nicer looking front-end, but that probably won't magically solve all my problems. ;)
Why does arcGIS have the non conforming UI where scroll of the mouse wheel moves the map vertically instead of being the zoom?
Elsewhere in the fertile field of morbid Conservativism, there's good rumination to be had in the shady corner that is Book III of the Alan Clark Diaries. Despite being likeable and witty, the man's an aristocratic snob, a bigot, a serial womanizer - and his miserable end, retold explicitly, renders him palpably futile. The last chapter is written by his observant wife, as he lies wrapped in sheets gurgling and voiceless.

I pose it as if I enjoyed it, but I didn't - it was a terrifying read. Makes you wonder, you know, what to do with your own life (which is to plug the gap with a platitude). Maybe Alan Clark would have been saved if he'd regularly procrastinated on Hacker News? Fingers crossed.
Minor correction: It's Richard Brautigan.
If people knows how to make it go down, then they can easily earn from that.
DRM is fundamentally security by obscurity. Being closed source is the only way to maintain obscurity, and thus the illusion of security.
I once had an online discussion about the difference between competitive programmers and professional programmers, and which were better. Someone argued that competitive programmers were better, because they had to perform in more extreme circumstances. As he put it: they were sent into the forest with a knife to kill a lion.

Everybody else ran with that metaphor. Someone asked what a lion was doing in a forest; don't they live on the savannah? I asked whether he was sure there was a lion; plenty of times I've been sent to kill a lion and ended up having to kill a goat or an elephant instead. Are we even sure it needs killing?

I think that's the difference between a competitive programmer and a professional programmer. The competitive programmer will be much faster with a solution to the given problem, but the professional programmer will solve a better problem.
And so begins the push to require that all drones be registered with the police and equipped with an ID transponder and a remote kill switch...
> For example, Flash was an entire black-box, top to bottom, with a runtime, codecs, UI, a JS engine, etc., which downloaded code from the internet to run it.

And, notably, the DRM modules can be sandboxed far more than Flash can.
Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Providence, and others have started from a low baseline. Many are still very affordable.
How many "Canadian citizens" are a wife and kids with zero taxable income and free social services while the husband is back at home earning money with no taxes paid to Canada? We'll never know the real number because Canadian home owners and the government are happy to turn a blind eye.

https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2011/02/24/hong_kong_asi...

"There is one Canadian citizen in every 13 households in Hong Kong, says a new survey by Vancouver-based Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. About 300,000 Canadian citizens are living and working in the metropolitan city and 8 per cent of households there reported to have at least one Canadian over the age of 18 among them."
"Only 16 per cent of the Canadians surveyed considered Canada as their home “all the time,” while 37 per cent said “never.” Worse, 35 per cent said they would “almost never” or “never” consider returning to Canada."

Some more interesting anecdotes can be found in threads like these, such as:

"I've had a number of them come into my dental office. They all get their kids on the Healthy Smiles program which pays for dental care for children of low income families in Ontario. They claim they're low income so they qualify for it and they roll up to their appointments in brand new Lexus' and Audi's. Not only are they pricing Canadians out of real estate but they're abusing the social security system."
https://www.reddit.com/r/canada/comments/5krd4n/canada_overw...

Canada serves two purposes:

- free education and healthcare

- escape plan if the sh*t starts to hit the fan at home

And it's the perfect country for abuse due to a culture of extreme politically correctness. (e.g.: Citizens of Chinese ethnicity won't be audited as it could be perceived as being racist):

http://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-cana...

http://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-vanc...

You can hardly even get any truth from social media any more, /r/Vancouver moderators will ban you if you post anything implying any wrongdoing may be happening. /r/Canada still seems to allow it, for now.
You'd have a point if the article was intended for people trying to bootstrap a React stack but this is specifically a deep-dive on Redux. It's equivalent to people proselytizing Rust in any thread that mentions Go. Believe it or not some of us are not ignorant -- we know what MobX is and still choose Redux every time.
Yeah, I understand the anger part. The thing is, I've read this in at least a couple of books. I think Tim Ferris suggested it in The 4-Hour Work Week and I also think it's mentioned in The Lean Startup. Oh well; I like building stuff.
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Thank you! They seem to be about $60 on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/D-Link-SharePort-Companion-Certified-...
who is ELP? only decent analog stuff i know is from junkie xl and baseck