skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember an article where someone said they were doing this in the Army, writing / saying "this guy has the potential to be great" or "this guy will wash out quickly", and discovering 20 years later that their predictions had no relationship to reality. (Can't find that article anymore though.)
XT/Classic was a mere skirmish compared to this.

On one side you have Chinese miners and one developer gunning for segwit2x because it gives them a significant advantage related to their hardware.

On the other side you have the other dozen or so core developers who want a more conservative approach. As a side-effect this version levels the playing field for miners.
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This is referring to taxes.
If this technology merges with conversational AI improving, I think we could be in trouble. I remember that article that used machine learning on someone's chat messages who passed away and had some interesting conversations based on what the machine learning process could create that wasn't perfect but somewhat believable. Pair that with this tech and we are on the road to passing the Turing Test.
Author here. I just learned about esdoc this morning; thanks for mentioning it! But it doesn't appear to be much of an improvement over JSDoc for my purposes, as you still get little control over the organization of your content. It is alphabetical reference docs plus a few predefined bolt-on pages (https://esdoc.org/#integration-manual):

Overview
Design
Installation
Usage
Tutorial
Configuration
Example
Advanced
FAQ
Changelog

You can't add more. And, as far as I can tell (the documentation I can find is silent on the point), those pages are islands, with no ability to call content out of the code. (I'd love to be shown wrong. Did you find otherwise?) However, I do applaud esdoc's better support for more modern JS features!
Is there a VAX emulator/VM for x86 that would allow running VMS?
> I don't intend to be confrontational

Of course you do, or you wouldn't end the comment with "I suggest you read up on."

Stenography is only useful when it's unknown or impractical to investigate possible payloads, either do to volume of possible hits or lack of knowledge how to decode the payload out of the source. If you tell an opponent: here is the decode technique and here is where the message is likely to be, you've basically defeated your own stenography.
...especially with Apple's acquisition of Whole Foods.
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This. I played as a kid with all the traditional house rules, which really drag it out. As an adult I've tried it straight up with box rules and wow -- it's quick and brutal. Still not very fun but it does make a point.
you're right about the detail of his point (people won't buy 100x just because a 100x increase in efficiency), but the point he was trying to make is correct. given a fixed global investment, a 100x increase in efficiency won't reduce costs. it will just increase the difficulty level to compensate.
Amazon, not Apple
I used to faithfully report telemarketers and robocallers to the FTC using their claim report site. Then recently, there was a case where one of those outfits got fined $100 Million (going on memory here, don't quote me). That's when it hit me, if they could be fined that much and I know I do get multiple calls to my numbers from the same callers then the FTC must be farming cash from them through fines. Now I just block the caller's number and move on.
Oooh, I forgot to mention the transfer time was approximately 3 seconds.
Saw this neat service when looking at the IBM mainframe z14 thread.
This ban makes no sense, to the general public back in my country. No wonder no one wanted to use their state-run centralized currency.

I hope the new government come to its senses.
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Would you not agree that distinguishing between free-market capitalism and crony-capitalism brings important value to the discussion?

The inclusion of government force or government collusion is hardly a secondary consideration. The ability to wield what is essentially a monopoly on force, is THE most important factor when discussing capitalism vs cronyism. The world bank is the physical embodiment of cronyism, and I maintain, not capitalism.

I think it's kind of BS that you can point to THE distinguishing factor between something I argue for and something I argue againsts and say "pedantics"...
Uhhh, a civil war is exactly how Id describe it.

People are talking about doing a freaking proof of work change, so I'm not sure how much more nuclear you can get.
I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that because such an exchange is plausible there is no meaningful distinction between online and in-person communication.
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Why, and/or helpful to whom?
I'm actually using azure, but basically I didn't want to dedicate a port on the cluster to the website, nor did i want to use any of the existing external networking infrasture/services for the website so it limits anyones ability to try to connect to my cluster directly. Also loadbalanced services on kubernetes are really quick to set up and azure sets up the loadbalancer automtically.
If i were to add a second website to host on the cluster, i would probably do it through the nginx ingress controller though, and do host based routing to the correct service. That way i'd only need 1 lb and ip for all my services and deployments.
Is quantum mechanics relevant to the philosophy of mind? (2014)
How long did the transfer take? I have Bank of America, and a transfer to another. And would take 3 business days.
If they really didn't see anything in it (be it profit or wanting to get to market "first"), then there wouldn't be so many large firms investing in their own blockchain tech.
Not bad advice, but be careful to calibrate "like" correctly, which can be difficult. In the land of the blind, a one-eyed man is king. It's easy to get comfortable in a group of nice people that just aren't very good developers, and believe that you're becoming an expert at something, and then by the time you get slapped in the face by reality, it might be too late. Switching jobs every few years ensures exposure to a much wider range of people, skills and group dynamics.

Every time I've switched jobs, I've had my eyes opened to some things that we did at my previous jobs that might not have been helpful.
> the real rules

The Parker Brothers rules, rather. The game was a folk game before its acquisition by Parker Brothers, and their rules are a slightly simplified version of the Quaker variant learned by the man responsible for the graphic design of the published version of the game. House rules trace their lineages to versions of the game before Parker Brothers published it, and are equally valid. Although money on Free Parking introduces a ton of randomness, lengthens the game significantly, and is bad, it is no less real.
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Exercise and fitness in general has worked for a while. I know 75 year olds that have exercised their whole lives and others who haven't - completely different.

Sure, it's not guaranteed but I think we can all agree that it's a good start.
This is kind of a slap in the face to anyone who's considered themselves a journalist, as well as anyone who bought a newspaper for the news. It also makes me wonder how the news industry ever got started if it never sold "news", but only something wrapped in that veil.

I don't know anything about the history of news; do you have any good reading material to recommend?
The one game I play regularly on my Mac is Hearthstone. It's great that Blizzard made a Mac version, and it runs well enough (it should, since it's also a mobile game), but after 3 years it still doesn't support retina monitors. The Windows version does, of course. It's built on Unity, so I don't know what the problem is.
This seems unsavory to me (pun intended). Would the trademark take away Blue Apron's ability to operate?
Vulcan was the answer imo. I haven't seen any evidence that Metal is catching on - but would like to.
I will say that my route hasn't necessarily been easy either - I am the fastest coder most people I have worked with has worked with, and I have worked with few who match or beat my capability for strong scalable abstractions prior to my current job (and those handful are working/have worked for the big tech giants, i.e. Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.). I also have had to work 60-80 hour weeks for 2 of my 3 years in the area.

I have also seen many people not able to attain such compensation boosts as well - the market is fierce for developers here, where if you don't measure up to a certain level, it can be difficult. The number of extremely smart people I have encountered in the tech industry here dwarfs anywhere else I have been (although percentage-wise not as high as where I went to grad school, UIUC).

However, those who spend a couple of years here (or even one if you choose right) can take those benefits with them when they relocate away from the Bay Area in compensation and knowledge. I once worked with a junior developer who spent a little under a year in the Bay Area - he used the opportunity to level up his skills, and when he moved back to NYC after the company fired him, he got into a unicorn and boosted his compensation dramatically (went from $130k base to over 100% increase in total comp - a little less than half in equity) since he was able to take the skills he learned working in code bases of various qualities at the company (very strong to very weak) and apply the knowledge to companies that have no concept of such knowledge or thought processes.

Just food for thought - obviously many factors come into play in choosing what to do, foremost being personal situation.
The link goes to an unrelated comment thread about iOS keyboard password entry - should this be linked to the root of the thread instead?

https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/6nhyur/t...
Really? Do you think people are wildly overpaid by their employers?
Oh yeah, i mainly use visual studio online because i use .net a lot. Bet it makes website development so much easier now huh? bug fixes can basically be instant! :)
One of my closest friends in college was accused of rape by a girl in his class. She said on her way home from a frat party he raped her.

My friend was arrested, and the whole campus had posters of him up. Eventually the girl said she lied and just wanted attention.

After that, she got off without anything but a warning - but my friend would go around school and people would cuss him out and vandalize his things and eventually he went from a 3rd year CS student to dropping out and now lives with his parents and has deep depression (it's been 5 years?).

No one ever did anything to help him, the girl never got any penalty and it ruined his life.
Do not buy anything right now. Too risky. When BC bleeds, the whole ecosystem goes down.

Go on a holiday, enjoy the sun, do nothing.
"If the employee is only motivated by money"

One thing employers need to realize is that this is 95% of jobs. I'm not a developer solely for money. But I am a developer at your company mainly because of money. I would have to imagine that the vast majority of people are in the jobs they're in because of the money.
They have literally no point in comparison. Django deals with data, business models, form validation, messaging, and backend. You can render to templates or you can use it to host an API server, or whatever you desire.

React does literally none of those things. aiohttp is just a barebones http server with no built-in functionality.
Presumably robocalls are a numbers game, i.e. they work because somebody somewhere is choosing to respond to that offer of a free vacation? You only need to sell one $500 vacation or warranty replacement to cover thousands of calls.

Technically, there is a pair of standards called SHAKEN/STIR that basically puts a trust model into the call flows (certificates, signing, attestation etc.) but it's not yet widely deployed. Kind of like DKIM/SPF for SIP. Companies like Neustar and Metaswitch have software to do this for example.
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> If the employee is only motivated by money,

Is there any other type of employee? You think it's a bad thing that people work for money? I'm not spending 40 hours a week out of charity. I only do it because I need money. I'm tired of people trying to make employees feel bad because they want more compensation.
I admit I always prefer iOS over Android, but I already use a 2nd device as a music player. I can use another spare Galaxy now as my music player and as my podcast player with MortPlayer. Thanks!
Why even link to a comment in the first place? The comment in question seems to be talking about iOS, which isn't at all relevant to the article being discussed.
It signals Amazon's entry into the market.
Yeah, its going to be hard. I'm not sure how to read that move they made, moving the control of the digital money to the private banks. Lets hope what they really want, is to give incentive for less cash use.
That is correct. My wife runs a retail service that charges monthly. The percentage the business pays depends on cards. Cards like Amex, and those high end one with good rewards - charge a higher percentage in fees, and Square passes it on.

Right now she will only accept the first month payment by credit card. Cash, check, or ACH for recurring payments. ACH costs $.99. If everyone decides to pay credit card she will raise cost by $5 (almost 3% of the charge).
Sorry I was not being racist but trying to point out that culture plays big role
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Worked fine for me with a 100$ China phone too
But the price you pay for removing those middle men is forcing the network to perform a truly astounding amount of computational work to verify the same transactions.

There's an efficiency trade-off here, and I think for at least many of the older crypto currencies, the amount of work to process transactions is literally unsustainable without some additional tech or service layer.

Which often leads us right back to clearly inefficient transaction costs.
Is Metal not squarely aimed at iOS developers though? iOS (casual) gaming is a sizeable market- I doubt it was developed with macOS as its primary focus.
Tell me more?
When an open source package author releases a pile of source code, that person typically also releases a cryptographic checksum of the code.

In the future, when the President (or CSPAN, or CNN, or Fox News, or whoever) releases a segment (which they do all the time), they'll need to release (in a public, 'timestamped' way) a cryptographic checksum of the content.

I have many of the same fears as people here about future fake news, where the reality of something already comes as a distant second behind the outrage produced. So even if we had this big pile of content and checksums, the outrage echo chambers will still be going nuts.

But it's at least a partial technical solution to these problems.

(And I'm glossing over all kinds of other complications too, such as 'what format' and 'where does it get stored' etc etc)
It is true that my intention was not to be rude. My "I suggest you read up on" comment was in response to your claim:

>You just can't effectively watermark data intended for human consumption, our tolerance for intentionally induced noise is too high.

Which is simply not true! That kind of misunderstanding suggests that you are unfamiliar with the kinds of digital watermarking that are used TODAY, hence my suggestion that you read up on it. If the comment came off as rude, I certainly apologize, but I stand by the point I was trying to make.

>If you tell an opponent: here is the decode technique and here is where the message is likely to be, you've basically defeated your own stenography.

I agree with you on this point 100%. I also made a post to that effect elsewhere. But that is not the same argument you made in your previous post!
Nope, I mean capitalism. Not going to change the definition because cronyism is an easy target to criticize. Crony-capitalism =/= capitalism.
This is a good point. In general, predatory lending has been a favorite tool of imperialism, and it continues to sort of be that way even though you don't see explicit imperialism anymore.

The crux of the problem is that non-developed nations still have something that developed countries want: either natural resources, or human resources. The IMF is basically a modern version of the Paris Club, and is a tool used to make it cheap and easy to extract these resources/make them available to the global economy, without the explicit threat of military invasion.

I don't really see a good solution for "Poor" countries. You can't have people dependent forever on foreign aid. But perhaps the developed part of the world becomes so productive that at least the necessities for productive lives, such as basic education and healthcare, can be provided to "poor" nations. This is what I view the Gates foundational work as doing.

It is in the interests of the global community to have stable and safe economies all around the globe. I really hope we can reach that goal sometime in my lifetime....
I agree. The attempt to port Emacs in Rust is honorable. However, I believe a successful port does not depend on a safe C backend. I am a long-term everday emacs user, and I didn't have a single segmentation fault in emacs in all those years. Actually, emacs is the most reliable PC software that I ever encountered. Code safety is not an issue at all here. Emacs is heavily based on Lisp which leaves almost no room for segmentation faults.

IMHO, a potentially successful Emacs ports depends on a new plugin system which supports code in other languages (Rust for instance) rather than elisp so that new developers get attracted who dislike Lisp. In other words, don't attempt to clone emacs but develop a completely new editor which uses the successful concepts of Emacs.

Unfortunately, plugins require dynamic code generation, and AFAIK only scripting languages like Lisp, Scheme and Python are able to do that. Emacs has that already. Emacs's plugin system has an unmatched simplicity and reliability, and that's likely the reason why any clone has a very hard time to compete.
A meal kit from Amazon sounds gross.
Just came up this weekend on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14766966

https://medium.com/@kennwhite/who-moved-my-cheese-1password-...
Were you able to fully understand what the comment meant from the link provided? I wasn't. It's helpful to the reader to have context when a comment is in response to another.
Hah. That is true.

Actually I have extensive time stamped notes for hundreds of podcast episodes including their ads starting and ending, but personally I'm against ad blocking. I've been in the process of removing those parts before publishing my bookmarks/notes.
I made a little file archiving tool for Windows, because I wanted to be able to archive stuff and find it again quickly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7wimDNTZ8
> This seems unsavory to me (pun intended). Would the trademark take away Blue Apron's ability to operate?

My understanding is that this is a strong suggestion that their niche is being invaded by a formidable player.
Ubiquity and the inability to correct the record are two different properties. As it is, I already can take money out of an ATM in a different country, with my ATM card. Yes, there is a fee applied. No, I don't consider that a large downside, as currency exchanges are the price a society pays in order to avoid getting into Greece's current situation, where the currency can't be adjusted to help the economy.
Consider signing my petition btw: https://www.change.org/p/asamblea-nacional-por-favor-se-leva...
It happens every time a company has more than one person who is technically capable of doing the same job. Companies have to do this once they grow large enough, so that the company will survive if any one person in it is hit by a bus (or leaves for greener pastures).

Every day I go to work, the implied threat is that my company could assign all my work to someone cheaper--generally speaking, give 1/Nth of my work to each of my N co-workers, then advertise an open position if that puts the team over capacity--and abruptly end our work-for-pay relationship. Or maybe they allow a tester to jump up into development, and give them tester+1 pay instead of developer pay. If I meet with my manager with competing offer in hand, that may invert the status quo of the power balance for all of 15 minutes. How unnerving for them.

You always need the company more than the company needs you. That's a corollary to the whole point of having a company, which is to produce an entity separate from and greater than its constituent parts.

Personally, I'd just keep silent about the amount of the competing offer and ask for a raise. They can do their own calculations about how much they can afford to give, and if they can't match the competing offer without knowing what it is, I'd take it. Telling them what that offer is makes as much sense as divulging your salary history when seeking out competing offers, which is to say it does not make sense. Let companies do their own calculation regarding how much you are worth to them, instead of copying the answers off of each other.
My numbers, my wife's too, have been on the FTC's DoNotCall list for over a decade and I check every 2 or 3 years to make sure they are still on it. We still get a total of around 250 calls per year. I also used to actively report each call until I realized it seems like the FTC is farming robocallers for cash using fines. Now I just block the caller and move on.
With this much uncertainty, paying ~$2000 for 1 bitcoin seems insane to me. But that's why I don't invest in cryptocurrencies; too much volatility for my taste.
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Yep same here for sticking with 1PW. Anything goes too bad with it, I'll probably go open source.
It depends on the company and the culture. Here I usually take 30-45 mins to eat my lunch brought from home + talk to other people eating lunch. Some go out and take a full hour. A lot of non-developers, interestingly enough, always eat food while working.
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As a sysprog/admin? Yes.

I can understand perfectly well why they kept JCL around, what I do not understand is why they have not come up with some successor.
> I'd apologize for going off on a tangent if it wasn't such an accurate analogy.

> I don't think it's inaccurate at all.

an accurate - not inaccurate! :)
It would be a great fit given that the main challenge is logistics which Amazon is already a leader in. With Amazon Fresh they even have the ability to pick up the previous week's boxes and cold packs (along with delivering the rest of your groceries at the same time!).

Blue Apron spends a fortune acquiring new customers, possibly up to $460 per sign up as of recently [1]. I bet the percentage of Blue Apron subscribers that are also Prime members is amazingly high. Amazon doesn't have to pay a dollar to advertise to these people, let alone $460.

[1] https://www.recode.net/2017/6/1/15727182/blue-apron-ipo-s1-a...
I have no idea how easy it is to pick up our "national" card game in Switzerland. It is called Jass and you can use a conventional card set and use 6 to Ass of each color.

Most common play form is the Schieber where you play a 2 vs 2.

To reduce the "luck component" I'd recommend dropping the melds and the factor for the different trump.

https://www.pagat.com/jass/schieber.html