skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price we usually see for any traded asset is a weighted average of public exchanges. It's a somewhat artificial number insofar as it only tells you that somebody in the past was willing to pay that much for the asset. There's no guarantee that you'll find a seller in the future for that price.

Consider if you wanted to buy a large amount of Bitcoins, like 10000. If you look at exchanges, you will see that the sell and buy offers are public and you can only buy as much Bitcoin right now as are offered on the orderbook.

If there are more than 10000 BTC for selling, you can just drop your money on it. But those Bitcoins will be with different price tags. The cheapest offer will sell 1000 for $2400, the next 1000 for $2450, etc. If you blindly buy, your average buy price might be much more than the average price was!

Now that you cleared a portion of the orderbook, you have cause a price imbalance. On this exchange A, the cheapest sell offer might be now $3000 but on other exchanges B, it is still around $2400. Now bots and people will scramble to take advantage of that price imbalance. You've create a volatility wave that affects all public exchanges. And you never know how people will react to that. Will the price keep increasing as people think "the price is skyrocketing" or will people start selling massively because "oh, better cash out before the price drops again".

So, you bought an asset which you payed more for than the market thought it was worth before you bought it and you are uncertain what price it will settle on afterwards.

Also, you might want to buy more in the future, so you don't want to let people know that you are interested in acquiring it. If you buy publicly, people will notice.

If you do an OTC, that is much more hidden and you don't create volatility, especially if your OTC agents get them from miners directly and are not accumulating them from exchanges in small amounts themselves.
4. Oh my god, the spam! Every single Facebook update I post, there's something in my notifications. Either it is to boost the post, or is it more popular than X% of my previous posts, or my page had X views, Y likes, and Z shares, or some random guy is somehow ranked higher than the rest of the likes enough that his like deserves his own notification. Like, whatever I post, there's some bullshit notification that I don't want to see, and there is no option for me to fine tune it.

I have buckets of hate for this. And they seem to be obvious bullshit. Though, you forgot the infamous, "you haven't posted in 3 days! People want to hear from you!" ... which truly isn't true nor possible. My page is an art page, and I don't have new content twice a week.
Here's the ETH contract address: https://etherscan.io/address/0xb56d622ddf60ec532b5f43b4ff9b0... over 20,000 transactions in Ether alone.
Rhymes with 'hag' too :)
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Exactly my point, they could and should market them as such.. Even could be forced by the government for it, because it is a different product than a seat that is available..
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I would guess that the market value of Bitcoin will sink a bit due to the muddiness of this announcement. Which suggests that a centralized party (Bitcoin.org) has a great effect on Bitcoin after all, despite its appeal of being a decentralized currency.
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> … to make a URL with markers for all these?

Here ya go: https://goo.gl/t6pdMt
> How come this is not already obvious to everyone?

Because other people have different priorities and have come to a different cost/benefit ratio value than you?
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I did not expect Audi to be at the forefront of autonomous cars!
But what do these level exactly mean? 'Level 3' and 'level 4 by 2020'
De-privilege the personal automobile. Run all automobile traffic underground. Every motor vehicle road has a strictly enforced bus lane in each direction. Reserve at-grade in-sunlight travel for pedestrians and cyclists. (Probably with exceptions for emergency vehicles headed directly to and from an actual emergency, running with lights and sirens on.)

Having lighter vehicles on the surface might have the additional advantage that you could bury utilities in such a way that they could be accessed for maintenance and repair without digging. Perhaps with just some sort of sturdy lid over the trench. That would save a ton of expense and inconvenience for maintenance.
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I'd argue the other way. They didn't get involved in this mess and are just warning their users about possible disruption. What you wrote is your point of view which people might agree or disagree with.
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as well behind Mercedes-Benz even on way cheaper cars, it works on same conditions and up to 130km/h.
I would have thought the sheer speed of highway driving makes it harder to recover from simple errors like not spotting a pothole or a deer crossing the road.

In both highway and urban driving I think the "hard" bit is dealing with the unusual, like a line of ducks crossing the road, a civilian directing traffic because and old person has collapsed in the middle of the street, or any situation in which a human being is providing important context via voice e.g. don't drive down there, the road will be blocked until this truck reverses out to avoid a low bridge.
Should have seen it coming. Though it seems to be a one man show for now.
> SoundCloud has really re-defined how new music is released and how new artists promote their music.

For promotion Soundcloud undoubtly serves its purpose, but actually releasing the music has to happen somewhere else. And in my opinion the actual re-defining service in that regard is Bandcamp. After all, you can't buy music on Soundcloud, can you?
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the appreciation over the past year

*Speculation
I feel like this is describing a solved problem, and what's more, the author knows the solution. Lock files eliminate the issue of mysterious build failures and allow almost trivial creation of automated canary builds to detect problems early.
Use the same system for near future reminders and far future reminders. Because it has your near future reminders that you check daily, you won't miss the far future reminders.

For me that's a to-do app, but for many people that's a calendar. Many calendars can also be set to send you email reminders in advance of events, in case you don't check your calendar daily.

Use whatever works for you.
No, it's not. Scala can call Java easily, but not the other way around. Calling Java from Scala is awkward at best (in many cases) and sometimes impossible. Scala was never engineered with a smooth Java/Scala mixed mode in mind. The opposite is true: In Scala almost everything from Java gets reinvented sooner or later.
I've invested some BTC, which I earn passively, and ETH, which I've held for some time and have seen enormous capital gains. It makes sense to me to invest to diversify my crypto holdings and try to catch a nice increase in another project.
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I am very much ready to pay a single digit percentage of ticket price in return of guarantee of no-bump seat.
I sort of missed this in the bit, volume numbers and query times.
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The multi-vendor/best-of-bread system integrator has been for the most part replaced by exclusive partnerships. The platform owner's demand for 'loyalty' has grown significantly over the last decade.
And who can afford to have $15,000 taken off the top
of their salary between $51,000 and $100,000?

Anyone who's BATNA is making $46,000 or less, i.e. the median working 25+ year old with an associate's degree or lower in the United States [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_...
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Pretty disappointing article. All the arguments are pretty weak. For example, the article argues that FP is necessary going forward because immutable data helps avoid race conditions. However, immutable data does not make a programming language functional. I could just use Rust, which (although it incorporates functional constructs) is still clearly imperative, and avoid race conditions through its particular implementation of immutable data structures.

The most upsetting part is when the author brags about how Clojure programs can manipulate itself at run-time, on a website that's literally called "Clean Coder Blog". Self-modifying code is a clear opposite of clean code. Also:

> Maybe we don’t have to worry about chips with 32,768 cores on them.

Author apparently has never written a GPGPU program.
My best customer support experience was calling an American ISP (I guess a small regional one but I have no good way to judge their size). I had been emailed billing details for a customer - the customer had presumably mistakenly entered my email address. I was expecting the usual 40 minutes on hold but it was answered promptly and politely by someone who understood the problem as I presented it.

This contrasts greatly with my experience calling any UK ISP.

The only other phone support I've experienced that has come close to that was (the now sadly defunct) Icesave, which I believe shared their phone support with Newcastle building society.
So which of those don't depend on an unsafe runtime?
Err... no.

CSS custom properties are interesting because they are dynamic. CSSNext just translates them statically, hence why it restricts definitions to `:root`. So the only thing CSSNext gives you over other "variables in CSS" preprocessors is that the syntax looks like actual CSS.

But good luck swapping out colors at runtime without recompiling the generated CSS, which is trivial with "CSS-in-JS" solutions like styled-components or glamorous.

EDIT: Also CSS variables are often advocated with `@apply` replacing preprocessor mixins. But `@apply` is pretty much dead outside faux-css preprocessors: http://www.xanthir.com/b4o00 so you probably shouldn't rely on CSSNext for this unless you understand that even if it looks like CSS what you're writing won't necessarily ever work in a browser.
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But who would you give command authority for that? Here in the UK, where we wouldn't even have 7 minutes in the event of an attack from Russia, we rely on exactly that strategy (possibly - the contents of the prime minister's "letters of last resort" to our submarine captains are secret and destroyed unopened when a PM leaves office) - but the flipside is that individual submarine captains have both the authority and the means to launch nuclear weapons without requiring approval from anywhere further up the chain.
Obviously one can do without but it's useful.
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Who needs bootcamps? All you need is a decent machine and an internet connection to learn. That's how we learnt "web" back in the day. Cynical me hopes all commercial (and often spammy) bootcamps and conferences and meetups die a quick death. Also death to the hipster culture in tech. /rant over
How do you define user support?

All the definitions I heard are able to be manipulated easily:

-The/r/bitcoin consensus? Is mainly in existence because of censorship

-User wallets online? Can be easily created with AWS instances

-Bitcoin core? Who decides these bunch of people are in charge to represent all users and not a bunch of other developers?

One obvious alternative is to let Bitcoin follow economic incentives: Bitcoin miners gain Bitcoin, so they have a vested interest that their income is and stays valuable. Thus why not let the miners decide. This is also the only place where you can't influence/manipulate Bitcoin easily.
I hope and expect it to be within the next 5 to 10 years, tbh.
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I obviously don't understand this at all. I thought it was distributed and that that was the whole point.
Mac OS here and I'm getting 60fps in FF, Chrome and Safari
Former A/a grad here. The average graduating salary in SF for App Academy is 105k [1]. They charge around 20% which is 21k. They also have other revenue streams, so on average they likely make more per student on average than that.

[1] https://www.appacademy.io/
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United Airlines piloting technology to close barn door after horse has bolted.
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I'm pretty sure the announcement on bitcoin.org is about the BIP148 UASF.
Can you explain reason behind annual pass?
I've seen it once. Enough for 10yrs, maybe a lifetime.

P.S. I do understand hobbies ;)
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On invitation only, but cool concept to react to the latest news and submit an ad design to a brand.a
Can't go without whatsapp. Though facebook is out. Never was very active. Heck, I am more on HN than on facebook, twitter combined.
>In these cases you'd have to freeze the version of every layer beneath the editor(browser/env, OS and so on), otherwise any regression in these layers is going to break your app.

You only need to check periodically whether new updates are ok. Same way you don't freeze all your non-editor dependencies for eternity.

And I doubt you need to care for layers below the browser ("OS and so on") changing when it comes to your WYSYWIG component in your Electron app.
>Please explain how to make a slippymap[1] in C.

The same way Doom has been compiled and run in the browser.

https://github.com/kripken/emscripten/wiki/Porting-Examples-...
Or,

Any distributed payment network will asymptotically approach unusability over time.

Otherwise miners are leaving cash on the table.
Don't assume English is everyone's first language. It happens to be mine, but don't assume everyone is sober either!
I don't know that I'd describe either of those places as "mild" so much as "hot."
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I should have made clear I know that some of the rights already exist, but this was really my most important point:

> They should also be required to make their best effort to find the available seats for the passenger.

In other words, it should be their responsibility to get you re-booked immediately on all available flights. This should be something that should be verifiable afterwards (i.e. if you as a customer find out they didn't send you on a certain flight by another airline that was better, that should mean additional fines). This should be strongly enforced by regulators to the point where it actually occurs.

Unless I'm missing something (didn't see it in [1]), those rules/enforcement are not currently place. Under these circumstances, I could _maybe_ accept overbooking as an acceptable practice, but without them I don't see why it should be acceptable.
If you're not having luck with UK ISPs, try https://www.aaisp.net.uk/

They have technical people running support who talk to customers as peers. Also you can use IRC if you don't like the phone.
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Ah, the good old "I know nothing about this but assume it must be easy"!

It's materials processing. They're only "basically sand" in the sense that glass or microchips are. The key step is purification of silicon, which is like distillation in the liquid/solid phase. It's very energy-intensive. This then gives you a solid cylinder of pure silicon.

To make cells, you slice this like a ham. Except it's extremely hard, so you need a diamond saw: http://www.asahidia.co.jp/eng/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/B51... and, like sawing wood, the material from the cut ("kerf") is wasted.

A surprising amount of recent cost reductions have been due to making the cells thinner and making the cut as thin and clean as possible.

They are then run through some annoyingly toxic chemical processes, given an antireflective coating, have silver wiring attached, and packaged into a glass or polycarbonate fronted housing.
Thanks for writing this Abi
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As another alternative, I used SimpleMDE (https://simplemde.com/) for IPFessay (https://gitlab.com/stavros/IPFessay), and, while not this light, it's pretty good and featureful. It doesn't expose all the features I'd like it to expose, but I'm quite satisfied by it.
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Nope, this is a pretty good summary of all Chinese tourists and, for the most part, a good summary of what it's like getting around China.

As others have said though, I wouldn't let this put you off visiting China. There are some really incredible places in China, and most people are really, really friendly. Most of the time, people are more than willing to help you out, especially if you're white (sad, but true). And as long as you don't go during Chinese holidays (Feb or Oct) then it won't be too bad travelling around the country.
Although the point where we reach 1.5 Ms since the Epoch actually occurs slightly earlier at 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000 , as can be seen on a system using Arthur David Olson's "right" timezones.

jdebp % TZ=right/UTC date +"%s %F %T %z" -d "@1500000000"
1500000000 2017-07-14 02:39:33 +0000
jdebp %

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/327403/5132

The timestamp in the headline is actually 1500000027 seconds since the Epoch.
And the really fun thing? Just write the HTML that it would have written directly, and the result is also under 2KB, this time ~585 bytes gzipped, and with the same functionality (though as written here `onChange` is kind of a global now). It looks like this (with line breaks added):

<div class=pell-actionbar
><button class=pell-button title=Bold onclick="document.execCommand('bold',!1)"><b>B</b></button
><button class=pell-button title=Italic onclick="document.execCommand('italic',!1)"><i>I</i></button
><button class=pell-button title=Underline onclick="document.execCommand('underline',!1)"><u>U</u></button
><button class=pell-button title=Strike-through onclick="document.execCommand('strikeThrough',!1)">
S
</button
><button class=pell-button title="Heading 1" onclick="document.execCommand('formatBlock',!1,'<H1>')"><b>H<sub>1</sub></b></button
><button class=pell-button title="Heading 2" onclick="document.execCommand('formatBlock',!1,'<H2>')"><b>H<sub>2</sub></b></button
><button class=pell-button title=Paragraph onclick="document.execCommand('formatBlock',!1,'<P>')">¶</button
><button class=pell-button title=Quote onclick="document.execCommand('formatBlock',!1,'<BLOCKQUOTE>')">“ ”</button
><button class=pell-button title="Ordered List" onclick="document.execCommand('insertOrderedList',!1)">#</button
><button class=pell-button title="Unordered List" onclick="document.execCommand('insertUnorderedList',!1)">•</button
><button class=pell-button title=Code onclick="document.execCommand('formatBlock',!1,'<PRE>')">&lt;/&gt;</button
><button class=pell-button title="Horizontal Line" onclick="document.execCommand('insertHorizontalRule',!1,'<PRE>')">―</button
><button class=pell-button title=Link onclick="var s=prompt('Enter the link URL');s&&document.execCommand('createLink',!1,/^https?:\/\//.test(s)?s:'http://'+s)"></button
><button class=pell-button title=Image onclick="var s=prompt('Enter the image URL'));s&&document.execCommand('insertImage',!1,/^https?:\/\//.test(s)?s:'http://'+s)"></button
><button class=pell-button title=Undo onclick="document.execCommand('undo',!1)">↺</button
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Exactly.

A friend in collage used say a little alcohol would help him calm down and code. A few decades later he accepted that he was just an alcoholic. Another friend refers to nicotine as his work drug...

20 years ago I met a guy who said he was using LSD to avoid wasting time sleeping and to boost his creativity. IMO, it's the same deal where people self justify whatever drug they want to use.
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I doubt this? contenteditable is pretty stable in Chrome/WebKit.
I almost feel like they should go non-profit a la wikipedia.
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Many people were morally opposed to nuking Japan in ww2 yet the president still went ahead and issued the order. Not sure what you expect from the military, they are formatted to follow orders.
> I remember having a party for the billion seconds, which was on September 8, 2001

I was going to ask if anyone did!

My first thought was Oh 2B not far off then, I wonder if there's anything being organised -- oh, 2033, there's still time...

It's also interesting that this is a UTC (or at least, it is universally coordinated, whether you can call it UTC or not I suppose depends entirely on the epoch) event - unlike NYE celebrations which span most of the day throughout the world, Unix 1.5B celebrations all over would be at the same 'time'.
Only time I went it poured it down solidly - still an awesome childhood holiday and will treasure the memories, but not entirely sure the climate is the best for it.
I have heard of it, but I've never used it. I'm far, far behind the curve when it comes to anything involving web development. It's on my list of things to look at.
A quick shell version:

while true; do if test $(factor $(date +%s) | wc -w) = 2; then echo -n '|'; else echo -n ' '; fi; sleep 1; done
Which means you end up shipping a huge chunk of "bloat" to your end users - it may be a library or "runtime" rather than your own code, but it adds up to the same thing.
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I took a bus from Changchun to Harbin once and watched the mercury outside drop from a balmy -18C to -35C, damn. So not Liaoning, but north of it.
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regarding java - take a look at:
http://nebula-plugins.github.io/

Haven't worked with them myself, but colleagues are singing high praise.
If you're a producer or DJ, it actually is incredibly useful.
I was being sarcastic.

But to your point, yes that might be true today. But that about tomorrow? Will there be perceived (psychological) threat by the people.

If SA didn't have oil we'd marginalize them for their form of government.
Why would they hide sale prices like that? since it's public information.
Also living in HK and used to live in Guangzhou. Most of the time you wouldn't know if you were stood next to someone from China or HK on the MTR. However, I do find it kinda funny when a loud, obnoxious, suitcase wielding tourist steps onto the train and you can see people thinking to themselves "Yep, mainlander". Or maybe that's just me, who knows.