skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It sounds like ridiculous hyperbole, but sadly that is literally how it's turned out. Start by offering development loans to build infrastructure like ports, mines, etc., but then all the proceeds from the resource extraction or agriculture or whatever go back to paying off the loan. Often that's not enough, so the IMF imposes conditions like services to the local population being cut or infrastructure being privatised (usually to foreign companies) to pay back the debt.
Wondering this too. Why don't they sell tracks directly? I'm always wondering what various tracks are in the house mixes I listen to and would love to add them to my cart right there.
Spoke my mind.
+1 for Obsqr, great app. And I use Talalarmo from the same devs as my daily alarm. Love that team's no frills style.
Thanks. Looks like worth giving a try indeed.
Yes, Ether has $1.5bn in trading volume for the last 24 hours [1].

1: http://coinmarketcap.com
So there's a party that takes n% of a big percentage of your purchases, yet that doesn't affect the prices? How?
For the reasons stated, I would not give in. This is a slippery slope.

Raising the pay of one employee out of band will usually lead to group behavior, meaning others do the same for the same reasons.
I was also mostly budget constrained in the past and could not raise budget to significantly (say 20%) pay raise several employees.

If the employee for whatever reasons earns say 10% below average of the other employees, I would get her a pay raise.
Have you seen Elixir's doctests[1]? They're docs with a code example that gets run by your tests, and if the example doesn't work, your tests fail.

[1]https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/mix-otp/docs-tests-a...
At the most basic, yes.

Take a look at this chart, it explains it way quicker than words could.

http://cdn.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/T...

Note dropping from 100% equities to 70% equity and 30% bonds drops your return by about a percent while dropping your risk (variance) by just over 4%.

Taking on additional risk leads to a higher expected return, but you can see that more and more risk leads to increasingly marginal amounts of additional return in exchange for large amounts of risk.

The comment I was responding to felt distraught that he had to be exposed to the heavy risk provided by only investing in equities, when he could sleep better at night using investment diversification (ie different types of investments, not different stocks) while still maintaining a great ROI (certainly better than the negative ROI of just hoarding cash).
iOS and Android have both had WebRTC support for years now, so I don't see this as a differentiating factor. If anything, apps have the advantage of having access to some very low-level APIs that would allow you to develop your own P2P protocol.
Amazing piece of work
I'm not sure what you mean by "it's not". Are you saying that ethereum was not twice as valuable a month ago? Or something else? I don't know how this would be connected with whether it can be used as a unit of account—obviously ethereum is only really used as a unit of account for ethereum contracts, due to its volatility.
At Facebook, I normally work from 8-4. I'm an early person, have kids to pick up from afterschool in the afternoon, and am on a team of people with similar schedules, so this works for me. Most people seem to work ~10-6, though.
There is a paid plan: SoundCloud Go.

https://soundcloud.com/go
> Sometimes stasis exists because valuable people are paid extremely well not to leave. So well they can't actually find a job that will compensate them comparably despite repeated attempts to find one.

Sometimes you work at a different kind of unicorn too, there are companies that offer reasonable raises to valuable employees and provide new challenges on a regular basis. I've gotten two raises since I started at my current employer 3 years ago, and I make out well for a work-from-home employee in Idaho. There's always an interesting new project for me to work on, new technologies to explore and potentially integrate, and my input and experience is valued at a personal level by the lead on our team as well as our new manager.

Also, there's always standard benefits to consider - my employer matches 150% of my 401(k) contributions, plus profit sharing contributions. I'd easily have to put a hefty chunk of my own money into my retirement working somewhere else that might negate any salary increase I'd get.
I worked at a small startup in Santa Clara for about a year. The team was small and generally a bit older than me (35-37 and married).

The team was expected to generally work well beyond "9 to 5" and work / be available for calls on weekends.

Long story short, I no longer work there. As a young developer I did learn a lot though.

EDIT -

In hindsight, I'd worked at three startups in college prior to this job (in Austin and Boston) and I think it boiled down to my boss being an incredibly smart well intentioned guy, but he just couldn't manage people nearly as well. I was mostly turned off when we'd work so hard that we'd miss possible problems or build features we didn't need that could've been avoided by simply taking a step back and maybe thinking about it for an extra day.
You're right. What I said didn't make sense. I was just trying to communicate that although webrtc is sold as a peer-to-peer technology that can avoid the use of intermediate servers, there are compelling use cases for client/server communication using webrtc and that requires a server-side webrtc implementation.

There are two webrtc implementations that I know of google's native implementation from chromium and openwebrtc. That project uses google's.
In this case the middleman actually provides a very valuable service--fraud protection.
It did say that explicitly. The original version of the game was "The Landlord's Game"[1], and it came with two sets of rules: monopolist, as you know the game and anti-monopolist, with a land-value tax. You were meant to play the game with the former rules, and then again with the latter to see how much nicer it was. It turns out that being a monopolist is more fun, so, over time, the game was shortened to just that part and gained popularity through a bunch of rethemes. Parker Bros. bought one of those rethemes, though not from Elizabeth Magie, the creator, but from some other guy who claimed to have made it.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Landlord%27s_Game
Bananas are a food, and hammer blows to the head are well known to have health effects.
It's better if you're buying heroin online
Yes. There is no such thing as a free transaction, because payment methods and networks take work to administrate. I mean, take cash. It's expensive to make, to process, to transport, to safely store. These costs are, obviously, passed on to the users of cash in the aggregate.

Cryptocurrency transaction fees are just very direct, but it's the same deal. The difference is that clearly inefficient transaction costs, like centralised middlemen with limited competition skimming a cut from all transactions, can be eliminated. Remember that bitcoin transaction fees are a completely open market.
Porn ID checks set to start in April 2018
Pay is for many not a motivation but a hygienic factor. So I do not dispute that people go to work for the money. I do.
If you see Geometry as flowing from something like Euclid's axioms, and (complex) numbers as flowing from a long line of advances in essentially bookkeeping/accounting, it is quite nice that they have such a neat synthesis.
If it is possible to strip the private key, e.g. by re-encoding, then an intelligent and determined leaker would simply do that before distribution. They likely won't be tempted to take the reward for themselves, given the consequences, and by stripping the private key they can prevent anyone else from claiming it. I suppose this would catch less savvy leakers, though.

Edit: To be clear, I understand that digital watermarking techniques can be resilient to a simple re-encode, but since Custos is providing the tool to claim the reward for free to pirates, it should be possible to reverse-engineer the tool to identify and destroy the watermark.
The World Bank and IMF aren't central banks.
In computing there were relatively few mitigation against breach of physical security. Almost no one uses encrypted volumes, though that is growing rapidly. Even then it says nothing of on line connected access to the medium whilst the volume is mounted.

If someone steals your gold the logistical complexities are much more onerous to being caught. Again, a 3000 year problem almost entirely solved.

The risk of the medium of value is priced into the medium itself.
I wonder if the author is running an ancient Erlang? The code looks very old school, with the lack of maps, no rebar, deprecated functions, etc.

From Erlang release notes:

The pre-defined types array/0, dict/0, digraph/0, gb_set/0, gb_tree/0, queue/0, set/0, and tid/0 have been deprecated. They will be removed in Erlang/OTP 18.0.

Instead the types array:array/0, dict:dict/0, digraph:graph/0, gb_set:set/0, gb_tree:tree/0, queue:queue/0, sets:set/0, and ets:tid/0 can be used. (Note: it has always been necessary to use ets:tid/0.)
ElasticSearch Consistency Model
Well, maybe this doesn't actually answer the question but the obvious "legitimate" use would seem to be military/intelligence psy-ops.

E: maybe dubbing foreign films could work better
Once again, keep in mind that HR exists to benefit the employer, not the employee.
The technology growth and the technology labor market is quite different from the rest of the economy; we're seeing a much higher GDP growth in this sector, much lower unemployment than the average of all industries, and incomes haven't really stagnated in our domain.
> 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.

Without more efficient means of off-chain transactions (such as payment channels) the cost of on-chain cryptocurrency transactions is typically much more expensive than credit card transactions (except for very large amounts, as credit card transactions charge a percentage, and cryptocurrency transactions have a fee not related to the amount transacted).

For some of the cryptocurrencies those fees are currently somewhat hidden, as you don't directly pay them as transaction fees, but as miners get a block reward that contributes to inflation. If you include the miner revenue a Bitcoin transactions currently costs about $20 in average: https://blockchain.info/charts/cost-per-transaction
> but it can also be frozen due to the whims of the bank, garnished by the IRS, taken by wire fraud...

If given the choice between the whims of banks vs the whims of cryptocurrency speculators, and the potential for wire-fraud vs the potential for wholesale 'hackfraud', I think I'll take the whims of the banks please.
I see a lot of employer hostility on HN. While it's good to watch your back, the constant call to go in with guns blazing doesn't seem helpful to me.

I know that personal relationships aren't exactly the same as business relationships, but to pretend that they aren't somewhat analogous doesn't line up with my own experiences. I've had a lot of personal relationships in business. Almost every boss I've ever had has been my friend on some level and the same goes with a lot of people who've worked for me.

When you treat people with respect, consideration, and friendship in your work life - you'll be surprised at how often you get the same from them in return.
The author seems competent and honest. It is nice to see that the public Ethereum network was chosen because it has features that are needed and not available in other networks. It's going to take a while to get through their white paper, it looks very detailed.
You are the exception rather than the rule though. Most people don't lug around heavy kit. I don't think anyone is saying there won't be special cases. For most of us EVs or ride hailing would make a lot more sense. Personally myself and my partner have moved from two cars to one car, which is about three years old, and we share it quite happily. Our next car will be an EV and for us we'd have to be nuts to buy a petrol car next. However, I don't think my brother, who is a builder, will be getting rid of his pickup any time soon! By the way the move for us to one car (I got rid of mine) and then to an EV (in the future) is primarily a financial one - we are saving a ton of money by not running a second car, and an EV is a lot cheaper to run than a petrol car. At the end of the day it's about what works for you personally I guess. If ride hailing coverage improves in our area (we are not in a city) then over time we would most likely be quite happy to give up owning a car altogether.
You are right, I should have said "temporarily" not "completely". They abandoned the idea of switching to 100% PoS right away, and instead are trying to work on a hybrid PoS/PoW. Source: https://twitter.com/vitalikbuterin/status/851503370250661889 (100% PoS remains the ideal goal, but they have been unable to work it out yet)
Show HN: A Systems Integrator That Does the Right Thing
While reading about the repair shop thread last week, a comment was made about System Integrators, that didn't put us in the best light. I replied about how we at Corso do things differently and got more Karma for it than expected.

So with that, I decided to show/tell everyone about Corso and how we started because we saw what others were doing and we wanted to do the right thing. We work with all the major platforms, build our own software, and will work with anything else to get some experience. This may seem like a strange place for us to be roaming, but I know at least two of us frequent the HN, and most of us us wouldn't be out of place in a Startup or with other developers (this is a lot of our background.)

Long story short: I wanted to let everyone here know that if your looking for a Systems Integrator, we'll give it to you straight and do the right thing. If we're not the people to do your integration, we will point you in the right direction to someone that can help you better.

Feel free to get in touch with me here or Dave@CorsoSystems.com, check out our website ( http://corsosystems.com/), and see our content, we make a pretty cool newsletter, and YouTube Videos that I like to think get better every week.
Last time the problem was that a weakness in the contract's definition was exploited, right?

This time it's a "hack" where someone gained unauthorized access to a webpage and modified it somehow?

IMO if there were ever a case for hardforking around problems it should be for the latter and not the former. Maybe Ethereum could publicly declare itself to be a "not-too-centralized" consensus-audited-by-this-particular-committee-of-humans.
On subject of going stale, there is valid-jsdoc ESLint rule that will ensure doclet comments are kept in sync with ever-changing signatures.

http://eslint.org/docs/rules/valid-jsdoc
Cryptocurrency is not a solution for a fundamentally broken central government and this is especially true for countries like Venezuela where access to computers and reliable internet is not a given.
Show HN: Noauth SSH server just for port forwarding; like ngrok using SSH
I paid ~$0.60 to transfer ~$900 of Bitcoin the other day. For that amount it's not too bad, but you'd pay basically the same if you are paying for a $3 coffee.

The transaction fee is based on the byte size of the transaction, not the monetary amount, so in it's current form it doesn't make sense to use Bitcoin for low-value transactions.
People always equate being treated properly with a higher salary, but from what I've seen there's a lot more to a job than pay. I watched several people leave a department for "better" jobs (meaning: higher pay) only to be miserable a year later for reasons unrelated to salary.
Since when is an $8/hour professional job 'run-of-the-mill'? Are you seriously saying that that is a typical example of a professional?
Marge-bot for GitLab keeps master always green
It's a great idea from a game theory perspective, but I think an adversarial neural network plugin built into vlc as a preencoding step would probably defeat it pretty quickly with minimal quality loss.

You just can't effectively watermark data intended for human consumption, our tolerance for intentionally induced noise is too high.
I think this is a disingenuous argument. Yes the vast majority of the IT field are not experts but if you don't hire one of these experts to secure your system, a system which is aiming to raise $12m, then you shouldn't be surprised when you get hacked.

Also, just because you're not an expert does not mean that you have any excuse to be completely clueless and make stupid mistakes.
> I also live in Ohio, with the exception of one year I spent in SF. I imagine I could double my current salary moving back to SF or over to NYC, but I'm happier here.

I once joked to a recruiter in SF that California dollars aren't worth much. He understood.

Have you tried/considered charging SF/NYC rates to companies that are based there?
It makes you wonder just how far fake content--and fake content involving real people--can go.

Imagine a world where a service exists to which you can upload a dozen images of someone, along with a voice clip. In response, it can generate all kinds of videos--from the benign, to the person saying horrible racist things, to the person starring in graphic pornography.

It seems technically feasible in the medium term. But how do we react to it? Strict limits on the production or storage of these pseudo-artifacts? Criminal penalties for distribution? A cultural rejection of pretty much all video and audio evidence?
That's probably a different breed of scam. One in which they claim some tenuous relationship with you. Could be a form or survey you filled out, sweepstakes entry etc. For these, I would try the "take me off your list" response. It usually works for me for persistent, non-spoofed calls.
Ask HN: Legality/ethics of archive.org to get pre-published versions of books?
There are some computer and math books produced for university courses placed on the internet pages of those courses. These books or lecture notes are then formally published and removed from the course webpage, but a copy can be found either on archive.org or some other site.

Is it legal or ethical to obtain the previously published pdf from archive.org or some other site? One example is "Algorithms" by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani, which was previously available on Dasgupta's webpage but later taken offline when the book was published in paper form.

The other situation would be course notes that were publically accessible but later removed from the webpage but still available on archive.org.
Seems pretty self-defeating. I'd just strip the keys and not claim the bounty. This whole system depends on pirates wanting $5 more than they want to pirate the thing, which from my 10 years around release and fxp groups in my younger days, I can say is barely ever the case.
I see lots of questions about who uses OpenVMS. In general, places where downtime and security breaches are frowned upon, as well as markets where VMS has had a long-time presence, and where moving away doesn't solve any problems they have and just costs money (in some industries, particularly the cost of re-certifying systems).

Without giving away any specific customers, I have personally dealt with VMS customers in the following markets: nuclear industry (power plants, research reactors, reprocessing plants, research labs), military (weapons systems, logistics), law enforcement, railroads, airports, healthcare, manufacturing (process control, logistics), retail, and I may have overlooked some markets.
>This paper[1] gives a couple interpretations

If we're talking grammar, then it is "a couple of interpretations".
Design Hunt for Chrome
Where'd you two meet? On the internet.
Because handling cash is expensive too, so the transaction cost was probably already priced in.
What does that get you? If I understand correctly, I don't think the content owner finds out who uses the private key. They find out that the key has been used, which normally means that someone leaked the file to a pirate, and tells them who leaked.
10-6/7pm or 11-7/8pm. Sometimes I flip to a night schedule 7pm-7am if a lot needs to get done. (I'm much more productive at night, and my previous bosses would let me work overnight in the office when it was quietest).
Don't use it. It's crapware. We have 100+ hosts. Problems include the scheduler assigning tasks to nodes that report their ecs agent as crashed. Just use kubernetes it's going to be more stable and have more support. I wish execs didn't take aws seriously when they promised features 6 months down the line.
rsync.net donated online storage for the original geocities backup efforts in 2009.
- wholemeal view

- knowing out of ignorance (probabilities)

- compression of knowledge
Amabrush has raised over $1.7M with its 10-second automatic toothbrush
Why Playing Capture the Flag Will Make You a Better Hacker
Generally, people who really need to get a hold of you will find a way.

The great irony of this era of connectivity is that there's no single way to definitively reach me. I'm so inundated with spam and notification noise that I tune basically everything out.
I understand, and as a development manager who needs to hire and retain technical employees i'd rather make the case to pay an extra 10-20k a year for a well-performing employee rather both risk losing someone for an intermittent or extended amount of time (clear value lost) and than spend time retraining someone (more value lost). All of which lowers productivity and hits the bottom line. Also takes a hit on team morale.

It could also be an opportunity to add valuable responsibilities to the employees role to justify the increase in wages, if thats applicable to the situation. Win-win for everyone.
Which is what the sentence you quoted means. Line managers aren't mind readers though so sometimes you'll need to talk to them about things.
From the material posted it seems that this is basically a high-tech, convincing version of those late-night sketches where they have a fake version of their mouths moving; it doesn't actually solve the audio problem.
One of the big things in the next couple of years is the development of Lightning Network, which requires the upcoming SegWit patches.

The basic protocol allows you to move bitcoins between two entities without putting every single transaction on the chain - only 2 blockchain transactions are needed for unlimited Lightning Network transactions.

Then, on top of this, there's a framework for moving money through the network - I send money to someone I have a Lightning Network payment channel with, they send it to someone they have a channel with, etc, until it gets to you. The great thing about this is that I can prove everyone isn't cheating, and if they are, I can immediately reverse my transaction - I haven't lost any money.

So the result of this is the creation of a network of payment channels which have very very low costs to process payments, aren't embedded in an industry that's difficult to get into (you or I could process payments just by joining the network), and have no ability to try and take a larger cut under the guise of a "points" or "cashback" system as you can easily switch to a different channel which takes a smaller cut.