skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a very interesting analogy, and shows the terrible and wrong mentality that managers like 'scaryclam' have.

Work is NOT like having a girlfriend. Like the other poster said, a better analogy is your relationship with a prostitute. But it's good you brought up this incorrect analogy, because I think it really shows the horribly wrong mentality that bosses have, because they believe this to be a good analogy even though it isn't.

I'm not showing up to work every day because I have any warm and fuzzy personal feelings for the people there (especially the management). I go to work because they give me a paycheck. That's it. It's no different than prostitution, except not quite as icky. If my girlfriend tells me she needs to spend less time with me for a little while because she's going to spend some time with her family for some family problem, or she's working on her own start-up business and needs to spend extra time on it to make it successful, etc., then sure. If, however, employer tells me they need to cut my pay in half because they're having money problems, I'm immediately going to look for a new job. I don't have any personal feelings for my employer, and I don't expect to grow old and retire with them either, and I also know that if they don't need me any more, I'll be out the door with a pink slip that day.

I think this analogy really shows how many employers think (wrongly) that employees should have some kind of loyalty to them, even though the employers rarely have any loyalty back to the employees.
"Chrome extension not found"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_3T-Af57Pg
Meanwhile, a June 2017 ethereum is 2 etherium in July 2017 ethereum…
I love a low-tech approach to solving a problem! Kudos!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029872

http://archive.is/Mjfg0
There's a positive bias here too - there are all sort of surprising things that happen in life. Some you miss because you don't pay attention to everything. Some you dismiss as relevant.

But alternative therapies at least put the thought of causation in you head, which make you track it more than anything else.

Then survivor bias makes random positive results more visible. How many people did alternative treatments not work for? But then, such a result would be inconclusive for dismissing the treatment, right? That means the domain has a natural positive bias if negative results are not weighed equally against positive ones.
> UI is pretty but often breaks. Is unusable when you have a pipeline with dozens of concurrent jobs.

Are you running it on a potato? :) We have massive builds that have never had problems in the UI.
Maybe bitcoin. Not gold: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2642475/nasa-to-explore-astero...
Similar project in Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/tigermuecken-in-deu...

However they use gamma rays to sterilize the mosquitoes instead of bacteria.
It works better in places that have tap to pay (you know, the developed world), you just tap your card on the terminal and it's done, quicker than swiping, quicker than cash even.
Yeah, it might need to be a custom-made camera, made for news organizations and wealthy vloggers. And each device would need to be audited regularly. It would be a nightmare but not as much of a nightmare as not knowing whether anything you see on video is real or computer-generated.
- San Juan (2-4 players)

- Haggis (2-3)

- Dominion (2-4 players, box is nice but you can just have a stack of cards)

All the other suggestions are good, but it's nice to have flexibility with player size.
Greedocurrency is a much better name, right!
Yeah, sorry, my mistake. iCab started in late 2009.
I wonder what happens if someone wants to liquidate this amount to USD immediately. Has ether got enough liquidity to handle it :)
No Country for Private Blockchains
I've written naive markov chains that appear way more coherent than Donald Trump on a bad day.

Politics aside, I think it is amazing that anyone would vote for the guy - I suppose it indicates how great a distance there is between the average voter and the average politician, if most can't seem to tell the difference between those that are able to string together coherent sentences and paragraphs, and those that don't.
> when was the _last_ time you launched a startup?

6 years ago. After that, I was an early (< 10 headcount) engineering hire at a couple companies.

> all but guaranteed to grow in cost in lock step with the size of your wallet?

Check your premises. My general understanding - again, mainframes are not my area - is that IBM almost guarantees falling per-transaction costs over time with Z.

> a technology stack alien to most everybody

Let IBM maintain the mainframe and let your engineers build on top with whatever tech stack or platform they are comfortable with. IBM invented virtualization in the 60s. And there are quite a few more mainframe engineers out there than you might think.
Depends on the model honestly. You purchase the maximum capacity frame you would ever want to run on the z14, and then you purchase the capacity you actually want to run right now. IBM has 4 models listed in the specs, so you purchase one of those models, then you configure the z14 to run at a certain capacity. You are about dead on with it being $300k for a basic frame, but then you have to add the "maintenance" to run your stated capacity. And then you pay a monthly fee for whatever capacity your company actually runs.

That's what we do anyway. Companies can run full capacity frame and not do the sub-capacity pricing, but that's a lot more up front. Better, IMO, to pay the monthly rate and spread the cash payments out over 5 years.
Do you still need a server for signaling or is it actually P2P at that point?
But when has government betrayed that faith (in recent times, say after WWII)?
Indeed. Combine this technology with something like the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VZ3LGfSMhA) from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14101405. Instant panic.
This is the sort of email you don't spend a lot of time spellchecking.
Ask HN: What 5 software tools do you use most for work?
What 5 software tools do you use most for work and what is your job? Another way of asking this: What software tools would someone need to learn if they had your job?
Why doesn't SoundCloud want my money ? There are no ads, and no paid plans for listeners. A lot of songs in my library disappear once the artist gets big and wants some cash from iTunes. I would have no problem paying for access to these songs but it's just not possible. I would also like to buy some band posters / t-shirts, vinyls, cds, show tickets etc, not possible either. It's like they are actively avoiding revenue streams. I don't get it.
> - There was no way of retriggering a CI run on a single PR (without force pushing to the branch, which removes Github reviews)

A CI that runs one job (test) for lots of branches is differnet than a multi-pipeline CI that runs lots of jobs for a single branch (which is what concourse aims to be).
Generating value is only a small part of it. You can get fired or laid off for any reason in most places in the US. You can be doing great work personally, but if upper management screws up, or the business environment is just bad (despite management's best efforts), you'll get laid off as soon as it makes financial sense for the company to do so. You can also get canned or at least mistreated to the point of misery because of interpersonal problems having nothing to do with your performance, a terrible manager, etc.
Revolut launches personal Euro accounts with your own IBAN
Linux, Windows, MacOS Affected by 21-year-old Kerberos Protocol Bug; Patch Now
Of course it feels less native than with F#, but we have created and used CSML (https://github.com/LexiFi/csml) specifically to allow our OCaml code base to interact with .NET.
Digital solutions for manufacturing industry – Mobiloitte
> Truth is, these things are so much more stable and secure that most projects running on large hardware (think Oracle anything) would end up saving money by running on a mainframe.

Stable, maybe, but probably not secure. The software stack on these was designed well before anyone had any real interest in network security. I saw a youtube by a security researcher who took a look at one and found all kinds of inadvisable stuff. He also said there were very few people looking at these from a security perspective.
Right, but it can also be frozen due to the whims of the bank, garnished by the IRS, taken by wire fraud...

Obviously cryptocurrencies are sharp tools, but they're stronger financial primitives than what we have. We just need to use them to rebuild the consumer-facing components.
Just to pick up on this one small point: as I understand it, the cashback you get with a credit card is more or less taken straight from the card processing fee charged to the vendor, which of course, raises prices overall and is therefore not really cashback at all. Without the fee, you would likely have just paid a lower price in the first place.

The only party benefitting from the cashback scheme is, of course, the middleman. By offering it, they give you an incentive to use the card more, which in turn gives the vendors more incentive to accept it. More card use equates directly to more money for them.

One of the hugely compelling benefits of cryptocurrencies is they entirely eliminate the necessity for such middlemen taking a cut and driving up costs for the parties actually partaking in the transaction.
Right. People are still going to have mortgages in a world where cryptocurrency replaces fiat money, assuming that we don't have much bigger concerns than electricity use. People are still going to need banking services. It's not like you can replace the whole banking sector with Bitcoin.
The webserver, or you know, their wordpress website (at least according to reddit).
> - Just trying to find logs is a pain, and getting the UI to show a full log output is basically impossible

What? It's just STDOUT.. Are your logs going to a file or something?
This sentiment is how normal people feel about all cryptocurrency.
I'm learning about Ethereum and I just read about their previous hardfork. I won't touch this (as a developer) until this kind of shenanigans stop happening.
Your advice is in direct contradiction to common wisdom on career path building and offer negotiation because:

1. Even though you may be able to get a 50% more offer somewhere else, your value to your current employer (note not perspective employer) is mostly determined by your contribution to the team and comparable peers at your team/position in the company. Your market value was already considered when you first offered/joined the company, after that it's usually not a major factor to determine how you worth.

2. Your many short term tenure employments and the tendencies to job hopping is a STRONG bad sign for the long term health of your career development. And it deters future employees. It may be fine to be a junior engineer to hop jobs frequently BUT it's really hard to move up the ladder to management. More importantly, it shows that you have no loyalty to any single past employers and will not willing to invest in a long term career development track to rise up (with a few exceptions). For example, I was told anecdotally that BridgeWater Associates would not consider anyone who hops more than 3 jobs in a ten year period.

3. You rarely accrue long vacation where most companies offer that based on tenure, again with a few exceptions (companies with unlimited vacation days policies).

4. You have to build up personal relationships with a new team every other year (assuming you job hop less than 2 years in every job.) Trust me, your personal relationships with your close teammates is a big factor in job satisfaction. Meeting new people new team every other year could be cumbersome and tiring. This matters if you are aiming for a long term career development.

5. Less than two years of employment might not be long enough to really build up your values. According to Jesse Watson[1], as a software engineer, your value really lies in "the synthesis of programming skill and deep context in the business problem domain, in one skull." And it's unfortunate that less than 2 years does not strengthen that synthesis one skill but rather makes your more vulnerable to be replaced by outsourcing as a commodity monkey coder.

I used to work for TheLadders.com first job out of college and gained a lot of insights because of that. And I am very thankful for the valuable advices my former colleagues gave me. Although I job hopped a lot when I was a junior engineer but not anymore given all the reasons above.

So next time when you are at the crossroad for a switch, make sure you truly understand the consequences of pros and cons. And be sure to ask yourself, is my career development ready and worthy for short term 50% bump?

[1]: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hard-thing-software-developme...
Does Ethereum not have an escrow like Bitcoin where a 3rd party can confirm a transaction first?

But also, if it's really as easy as replacing some arbitrary address with another I'm surprised Coindash wasn't more careful.
Central banks create poverty and maintain power structures; this isn't news.
China has been has been capitalist under the CCP (including the time spent pivoting towards it) longer than it was ever actually communist. Their "roots" in communism aren't that deep.
And you have to set a value in about:config to whitelist your domain. Or has that changed?
i'm putting in at least 50 hours
I won't name them. One I had in mind is known to be a kind, gentle fatherly figure on screen. In reality they are an asshole.
If I were a pirate/leaker/sharer, I would be very tempted to just paste the key on some completely unrelated forum to lay down a false trail.
claimed to be the fastest processor in the industry.

Defined how?
This is one of my favorite games. I love how while it has a "spiritual" theme, the mechanics feel like pure deduction/scientific method.
I think he is being sarcastic. He just means that they call it decentralized except when there's a problem that affects the core developers; it's then that they allow themselves to make exceptions, like I believe it happened a year ago or so.
While I won't resort to posting acronyms, I'd be lying if I say I didn't do the same upon seeing the headline.

There's an old adage that you can't fool an honest man. People who lose out from incidents like this knew exactly what they were getting into. It's not that I don't have sympathy or even empathy for them, it's that I know deep down they're just gambling and the risk of losing it all due to hacking is just one of many risks they're willing to accept.
I think in most cases ArchiveTeam's actions have been copyright-infringement on some level. They just don't care and find that keeping user content safe from unrepentant deletion to be more important.

If you've ever seen a Jason Scott talk, he isn't the sort of guy who gives a shit if you DMCA him while he's sucking up all of your bandwidth archiving your content two days before your servers shut down.
I stopped reading the BBC 4 years ago because of their biased coverage. Here's a reputable source to my statement: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/nov/25/what-how-and...

The relevant section, "a sentence was slipped in that gives a regulator powers to act against sites “making prohibited material available on the internet to persons in the United Kingdom”" - That means any website hosting said content, whether they accept money or not.
This is wonderful. I just became interested in this subject but had difficult finding resources that weren't simple copy/paste examples, as you mentioned, or semester-long courses. Thank you!
20% of people get comped meals by their employer, meaning they eat in the office, most if not all days. This includes Google.

35% of people eat in "subsidized" onsite or on-campus cafeterias and foodcourts. This tends to include Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple.

15% of people will go to local area eateries, grab their food to-go, then return to the site to keep their time offsite to a minimum, then eat at their desk. Personal orders to Grubhub, etc. fall in this category, and this category is growing.

15% of people will go to area eateries, dine in. These tend to be upper management, as it's easier to argue that it's a working lunch.

15% skip all meals or snack on food brought from home.

If you're making $80/hr., a one-hour lunch break unpaid makes your lunch about $100, so it's a very expensive decision to take a continental-style lunch offsite.

If you think as a big part of your job, your employer derives a free benefit from your time spent offsite. If you lose focus by spending time offsite, your employer derives an expensive benefit by feeding you free lunch.
You can claim the bounty without leaking the film, though as you point out, this could prevent you from being sent films in the future.
All possible moves in chess?
Is it not possible now a days or at all?

https://chess.stackexchange.com/questions/5135/can-the-total-number-of-possible-wins-draws-losses-be-calculated
Users of hacker news might skew the results a bit. If you are doing 60+ hour weeks, you might not want to waste time on here.
"We cannot decide if an activity is valuable or not based solely on if it creates jobs."

You are right. However Bitcoin is not pointless and comparable to digging holes and filling them up. The simple fact that this financial network is censorship-resistant is a huge benefit to society, already positively impacting many people.
There was an Ethereum contract called The DAO which had a bug in it that got taken advantage of. They decided to hard fork all of Ethereum to retrieve the appropriated money.

It's seen as some as an admission that the Ethereum ethos of "the code is the contract" is unrealistic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_DAO_(organization)
went thru many comments here and despite lots disagreement between people, I believe one thing people will all agree with is: in this game, individuals are much weaker than companies and much more vulnerable regardless.

company can never go bankrupt because of loosing one super star, but a worker and his/her family can be in a bad situation if company decides to do something to him/her.
So the whatever negotiation between company and works can never be a fair game at any point.
Your link really helped me sharpen my thinking.
The Security of Things: How will IoT impact data security?
Over €6,000,000 at current prices.
Also factor in the operational costs with running your own data center and people to keep things running 24x7. Floor space, storage, power, disaster recovery, people = $$$. Companies have moved away from mainframes and the long term costs by migrating to high powered blade servers, vmware, cobol emulation software.

I'm sure these servers still find homes but the computing choices available today make boxes hard to sell IMO.
It's not. If you're trying to say it can be used as a unit of account, well.. okay, but same for the dollar. But it's inflationary on top of the obvious speculative swings, versus eg Bitcoin that's got a capped supplY.

EDIT: misread! Obviously ETH lost a lot of value.
>1. If the employee is only motivated by money, he will be gone rather sooner than later as there is always a higher offer around.

What else would they be motivated by? It's not their hobby.

This doesn't mean they are also not into programming and coding challenges -- but those are constants that they can find in another employer too.

if they like the programming, it's not that they can't find a programming job elsewhere.

>2. If you give in once to this, the employee will come back 6 months later with demanding the next pay rise.

Sounds like the slippery slope fallacy. Even if they do, you can deal with it (and e.g. let them go) then.
If you are going to take on follow up money someone is going to get diluted. So where is it going to be? Squash the founders until they have no upside? Then why would they stay? When the money is this early, it has to be the existing investors. Some come in on the next round for a smaller number to keep their percentage fixed.

From working in a lot of very early stage companies, the two things I have seen is that some of these angels don't understand that the 10K they put in will probably need two more fundings of the same size before things get to an A round. Also, too much funding isn't tied to the right kind of metrics from the start. It is mostly about being cool and disruptive with no plan for the early customer and measuring everything from the beginning to truly know the health of the startup. ymmv
The world bank (and central banks in general) are extremely antithetical to the central ideas of capitalism.
How many advance copies do they send out? Paying a thousand dollars on advance copies of a big blockbuster estimated to earn millions is nothing.
The DAO was hacked by an unknown attacker who stole Ether worth around $50 million dollars at the time. After much debate, the Ethereum community voted and decided to retrieve the stolen funds by executing what’s known as a hard fork or a change in code.
I think it's pretty well established that food has an impact on one's health. So it seems a reasonable assumption that supplements can also have an impact. Comparing that to hammer blows just shows that you are not willing to have a reasonable discussion but want to kill the argument.
This is just me talking, but I'd never buy a GPU that's been used for mining.
I think it's news to (or at least poorly understood by) 99% of people.
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What's the breakdown between power drawn by card and cooling? You seem to be suggesting they are equal...

(1kw would cost $14.4 at 2c/kwh) and you say $30.

I don't know much about stuff but i didn't know cooling is that expensive.
> Wait what? I'm not up to date on all the cryptocurrency going-ons. What's this referring to?

I am also not up to date on the cryptocurrency du jour, but I believe this is in reference to the current civil war going on in BitCoin about the block size. [0]

Basically the majority of mining power will decide which proposal is selected going forward. I only follow BitCoin tangentially, but I believe a majority of mining power is concentrated in a few mining pools, themselves controlled by a few people. So in reality "decentralized" really means "whoever can organize the biggest army"

[0] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/segwit-segregated-witnes...
wow nice.
Then I have things to do on my flight now.
Unless you live in Venezuela http://www.businessinsider.com/venezuela-hyperinflation-char...
> In general, folks who switch jobs every two years are the folks who are not getting offered big raises by their current companies

I think the selection bias works in the opposite way that you assume. The employees switching jobs every two years are the ones that are in higher demand and are easily able to get and pass job interviews. They're the ones that better know their market value and the ones that are most easily able to leverage one offer against another to negotiate a better offer.

It's this phenomenon that leads companies to even consider morale zapping policies like always laying off the bottom X% of their employees. The theory behind that idea is that if you just allow other companies to poach your top employees, you'll be left with nothing but your bottom employees who have trouble landing other work. Having seen this play out in a few of my employers, I believe it's a very real danger, though forced layoffs are a really terrible way to deal with it.