skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case however it just makes it more complicated, especially when the matter at hand can be as easily described as here. Basically it's a layer model, Software (SaaS) is built on Platforms (PaaS) which is build on Infrastructure (IaaS).
Who is profiting here?
You just described how the adjudication of all contracts works. Smart contracts are no more above the law than paper contracts are.

> And the participants to such a contract have agreed that the execution of that software is the entirety of their transaction.

How would such an agreement be communicated or enforced? The same thing happens with paper contracts: when you sign on the dotted line, it's understood that the contract encompasses the entirety of your transaction. However, there always remains the possibility of appealing to the judicial system later to argue that the contract is void/unenforceable.
macOS/iCloud keychain does the job for me, but agreed that that user experience can be much better. If not a Safari password that's not setup for autofill, opening Keychain access, searching for the right credential, then authenticating to see the password gets tedious real fast. Same with being on iOS of opening Safari > Settings > Passwords, authenticating, and scrolling through a list of passwords to choose from with a final Copy/Paste action in the end. At the very least Apple should make credential management a lot more easier.
Y Combinator is reportedly raising a $1B fund
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I would love Lean to become both reliable and fast tool. I suggest, it is in its infancy right now to judge it seriously. As for now, I would rather invest in well established tools.
Ask HN: Are compilation times really a problem nowdays?
With modern CPUs mass parallelism, hosted build services, microservices, can't we build even large Project quickly?

If it compilation times are a problem for you, how did you resolve this issue and how much of an improvement did you have?
I don't understand what exactly this is? Is it just starter scaffolding in the vein of create-react-app or one of those hackathon starters?

I'd put some time into showing some examples of what exactly the service is and how it works. What problem does it solve specifically?
> I don't understand why everyone hates capitalism now. Its like "what the cool kids do".

You probably never played Monopoly as a child then :)

Also, perhaps you will find capitalism less cool when, say, Google decides to go into the exact same business as you are in now.
Your perspective on residents of SoCal is a huge generalization of literally millions of people. Of course there is some of that and it varies by area, but you can definitely find large cities in SoCal where that is definitely not the norm.

Equally, NorCal is not full of militant vegans or Bernie Bros. I recommend you spend some time in these areas before forming such a negative perspective on their societies.
My fav thing about Escape Pod is their reviews of previous stories. Quite frank, and usually give an interesting perspective.
Refer to my list of Windows shortcomings here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14819706

I'll also add:

- WAY more customizable and flexible

- Can enjoy a smug sense of satisfaction as Windows users are hit by ransomware

- Does not spy on you

- Runs great on everything, including >10 year old hardware

It's also not driven by corporate interests. The #1 goal of Microsoft is to make money, and they'll put that before the needs of the user. Things like Windows 10 forced upgrades, spyware, ads in Windows explorer, etc - none of this would fly on Linux because Linux is made by people who just want the best possible operating system, not the one that monetizes uses the most effectively.
this isn't really a useful point. social sciences necessarily rely on this kind of research because you can't do a controlled trial on people's long-term behaviors really.
I mount my pass dir with encfs. Mount when I need access to passwords, and no need to remember to close it before I shut down (or if the machine randomly crashes).

I can store the encfs encrypted tree on cloud storage (spideroak in my case) and have it synched across machines. Works pretty well.
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing.

It's especially interesting that female software developers seem to marry other devs, whether they're gay or straight, but gay male software devs tend to marry fitness workers.
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Traditional financial systems have established administrative body and practices, risk monitoring systems, fraud insurance and "slowness" that actually helps in cases as these (eg. You very often can undo transactions, by freezing funds somewhere across the world and then resolve those issues later on).

Imo cases like these will be crucial in adoption of crypto currencies and smart contracts. And if there will be no (administrative) safe guards against cases like these, it might as well be the end for crypto currencies, simply because of lack of general trust in them.
That's funny, I find the linux package management far cleaner than windows. There's nothing that prevents an MSI or EXE installer from dropping files anywhere on your PC. Sure it may ask whether to install to a directory but it can install anywhere. In particular rooting out a random bunch of numbers from your registry is no simple task when you decide to uninstall an app and the uninstall author chose to leave behind remnants.

On the other hand unless a linux package has a post-install script that moves things around, I can just dump where everything landed by a simple package query. To each his own, I suppose.
If we create a UBI then people will have the time to be better educated, to be healthier, to raise healthier, happier, and more productive families. We're almost there, automation will strongly facilitate this.

Because a new technology seems exciting - and gains adoption because early adoption means potential for an individual to turn $1000s of into $1,000,000s with very little individual effort of working towards mass adoption; along with the ecosystem of VCs pumping $100s of millions into creating platforms to support this speculation - doesn't mean we give up on the existing system.

If you don't think the same demagogues, special interest groups, or simply evil/bad actors won't attempt to takeover - then you're already proven wrong by this blackhat 'abuse' of sending themselves money. And it can get much worse than that.

The value of the blockchain is the public ledger IMHO, and the way $100 can because $70 million just because demand is higher, that has too strongly incentivized it and has and will attract very bad people - even if there are good people involved in the ecosystem.
Well, I guess if you had no master password, any script you expect people to run could have a surreptitious "pass <some args> | curl" to post password data to some web service of your choosing.

Still, if you use a password manager without a master password, I don't think you can be protected from consequence, regardless of what your tools do. Pass could refuse to allow the no master password scenario, or could force some type of blatant user interaction to allow it to work, but ultimately, that user is screwed by something somewhere.
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Peter Schiff predicted the housing bubble. He also claims that the current housing bubble is even bigger as the market imbalances have not been fixed (government interference and bailouts intervened in the natural free market process, if left to free market forces there would be a lot more failed banks).

He's also a gold bug. Other than housing bubble he claims there is a massive bubble in stock market and also that the next crisis will be a currency crisis as people lose confidence in US dollar.

He would probably suggest to invest in gold and in markets outside of US/EU.

Disclaimer: I am not saying I agree with Peter Schiff just describing his view, so please don't down vote me.
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Portal 1 kind of was, but Valve got in on it. So half and half I guess. But portal 2 was not indie by any means :-)
I'm betting student loans are going to have something to do with it.

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Cryptocurrencies offer the opportinity to test the waters with new models. If we go by the thinking "keep what works", society would have never changed. I agree that they have big failures to show, but i think it's still early to tell.
Rocket League started out that way, but I'm not sure its still that way. It started small, but is now one of the most popular online games and competitive e-sports - to the point where actual soccer clubs are supposedly setting up e-sports teams for it. Psyonix is building an empire around it.
I always thought that roman numerals would be a simpler way to do basic arithmetic and might lend itself more to simple commerce. For example: III represents 3 things, so III + II = IIIII For simple commerce application that is simpler, I just have to then remember that IIIII = V, and VV = X and XXXXX = L, LL = C. Armed with just those simple rules I could probably get by in the market place in Rome.

With Arabic numbers, I have to learn that 1 is one thing, 2 represents 2 things, 3 represents 3 things and so on. Then I have to remember that 2 + 2 = 4, and 3 + 2 = 5, there is more memorization required.

Where Roman Numerals for someone with little or no education could get by in the market square with some simple rules and even use twigs as a primitive calculator. It is not until you get to much more complex ideas that the Arabic notation wins out.

So perhaps, different notations lend themselves better or worse depending on the application ?

Just some random thoughts that this very interesting post brought to mind.
Shortly after that, it goes on to say they are all being merged, so I don't put much stock in that as an indicator of the purpose.
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Note To Self
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Who are you and what have you done with Rayiner?

Don't get me wrong: you can totally stay!
Ask HN: Moving into Sales Engineering?
I've been doing software development for over 15 years now and I've got an opportunity to consider a referral for a job in sales engineering. It feels an awful lot like "the dark side" but I can't overlook the really excellent compensation there.

I like the idea of working directly with customers, and I've considered changing focus to be an FAE before but never made the leap.

Over my career, I have seen lots of engineers and scientists who work closer with customers get much more praise and positive attention from peers and management. If I sound bitter, I'm not -- this makes sense, the customers are who make our business successful. While I'm not bitter I am probably a little jealous. Whenever I have the opportunity to be more engaged with customers, I take it. I ever-so-rarely am able to help make my own opportunities, too.

In my/our daily grind, whatever triumphs and perils the actual customers face is far from my/our primary focus. I usually find it very grounding to take myself out of the esoteric design debate and ask, "Which of these options (if any) will matter most to our customer? Which would deliver more value sooner?"

I love developing software, I love technical work. But I'm getting older and I have a much better appreciation for all of the other elements of business now.

Folks who have made a career shift like this: did you regret it?
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Well, I'm talking from a non-developer perspective. I don't use Git daily, so I had to stand up my own Git instance or pay Github for a private repo.

PassFF works well for Firefox on my Mac, but no equivalent for Windows. If you're willing to forgo browser integration then that's less of an issue.

Lack of browser integration might also be less of an issue in Linux with dmenu or rofi plugins like others have mentioned, but that still doesn't solve Windows issues.

I had considered the Bash/Ubuntu/Windows option (instead of qtpass) but haven't tried it yet.
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Web Browser: Firefox, Opera (non-free)

Email Client: Thunderbird

Terminal: Tilix, gnome-terminal

IDE: Atom, gnome-builder

File manager: Nautilus

Basic Text Editor: gedit

IRC/Messaging Client: telegram-desktop

PDF Reader: Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: gnome-calendar

Video Player: gnome-mpv, smplayer

Music Player: gnome-music, Spotify (non-free)

Photo Viewer: gnome photo viewer (don't know the name)

Screen recording: don't use

Photo editing: Darktable

Note taking: QOwnNotes

Research source organization: Zotero
It's not the government that's profiting, it's the private prison companies that lobby the government to keep themselves in business and for a steady supply of prisoners from the enforcement of the aforementioned victimless crimes that land people in the prisons they own.
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I think the point is that they bundle together the agreement with the actual execution of the agreement. The execution is performed by public code that everyone can audit and verify for themselves.
It is tough, if not impossible to know for sure in cases like these. The most effective way is the use of controlled studies. The population is split such that the only difference between the groups is one variable. The very simplified version is that sometimes you find that there is only evidence for a correlation (between say relationships and good health), and other times you can find evidence for causation.

In this case it looks like they found the later.
People being better off now than earlier times in history is a straw man argument. That would be true regardless of the system we were under.

That's a natural result of human intellectual progress and knowledge being passed down through generations.

So people now get to live a little longer, travel farther and faster, and absorb more banal entertainment than ever before. Who gives a fuck? None of that matters in this context.

The point you should focus on is how much of a share in the overall wealth and prosperity of their nation does a person have today? How much power and personal freedom?

Is it growing or shrinking?

It's shrinking and has been for decades. It's the increasing consolidation of wealth and the power and influence that naturally comes with that is why people are raging against a system that they can see has become totally unrestrained and rigged against them from birth.

GDP is held up as the gold standard metric of measuring how well a nation is doing, but all it really tells you is how prosperous it ther 'country' is as on the macro level.

It doesn't tell you that most of that wealth is concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people that are becoming obscenely wealthy while the lowest classes in society are becoming objectively poorer and less empowered to act.

You rephrase the argument and a working class stiff what he wants more, a shinier, faster car and a higher-resolution TV , or a greater stake in the economy and the resulting benefits that naturally occur as part of that and he will tell you the latter every damn time.

The problem is thinking like yours, where the proles should be happy that they get to be more consumerist and materialistic than ever before while the ones filling the world with shit nobody needs steal away the actual benefits of our system and entrench themselves for generations.
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"hugging" and "touchy feely" != spending time with someone.
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In what fantasy does the US Dollar collapse, and our society is still stable enough to trade in something like gold? I'd invest in agricultural and blacksmithing skills if you're really worried about that.
When you screw so far and wide, it becomes really hard to hide.
Ah, so you've encountered jQuery.
I'd check out Random Walk on Wall Street. Read what it has to say on trying to time the market, and decide whether you think it applies to Real Estate. Then, think hard about why you're buying a home. Is it to live in for a long time? Or are you hoping to resell it in a short time frame? Are you thinking of Real Estate as an investment?

Burton Malkiel – author of random walk – says that in general you can't time markets. There's a ton of evidence on this. (Most is related to stocks and bonds, so take it with a grain of salt.) But what you can look for is irrationality.

Irrationality is what was identified by the folks who made a killing on the last crash. See "The Big Short".
Apropos vc-mode comes with vc-annotate-mode (C-x C-v g) which is the best way to go through the history of the file
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I'm not a compiler dev, but it looks fairly new and appears to have many other special Unicode ranges too, including camels and beer mugs???

https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/beec02a6fa69e3ac290b4d...
If you believe foreign speculation is playing a role in inflating your market, I'd watch China carefully, who didn't take much of a hit in the last crisis and has very bubbly real estate of its own ($1000 rents for $1 million apartments). For examle, when Japan's asset bubble tanked, it took California real estate a decade to recover.

But if a crash happens, you'll need to be liquid with lots of cash because banks are less likely to loan then. Putting that cash in the bank means you won't much upside from the current boom...its a tricky balancing act!
EconTalk is awesome.
- The Changelog Podcast
- Talk Python To Me
- Podcast.Init
As I recall, he was actually talking about the 1700's, not the 1800's, and said that by the mid 1800's, that had already changed, if in fact it was ever as rosy as he painted it to be (I doubt that, as I studied political discourse during the period of 1779-1860 fairly extensively).

In that same book, he also argued that the telegraph enabled news without context. That hit most of the US market by the 1850's. Yellow journalism and the general sensationalist nature of news writing in the late 19th and early 20th century also don't support his argument about the written word's innate superiority to oral argument and television.
Okay, that's one way of looking at it, but the core value proposition of Ethereum over i.e. Bitcoin was that you could write contracts. Whether or not they've succeeded at that goal, they're called contracts because the goal was for them to be contracts.

If you're saying that they have failed at that goal I'd agree. The contract language they implemented is too error-prone for writing secure contracts, and the only solution they have is to break every contract in the system except the one large enough to perform a 51% attack on the blockchain.

But if we call these programs or code instead of contracts, are they useful for anything? Why would we invest our wealth in programs that lose that value if the code isn't unrealistically bulletproof and the largest program in the system? Calling it a program instead of a contract doesn't make it any less useless.
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How to Build a Blog Using Froala-WYSIWYG
Coffee With Butterscotch - A Game Dev Comedy Podcast. Super entertaining, and also interesting to hear from these brothers (Butterscotch Shenanigans) who managed to build a Game of the Year winner[1] (Awarded by Touch Arcade and others) using Game Maker of all things! Very informative to hear them as they make business mistakes and learn from them, and occasionally make a decision that actually positively affects their bottom line. This is what passion sounds like—the kind of dedicated passion that breeds success against all odds.

[1] The game? Crashlands - https://www.crashlands.net
Peter Schiff is always predicting a crash, his call on the housing bubble is more of a stopped clock type scenario.
Software Is Eating AI
I like Hardcore History, but I find Dan Carlin's style a bit over the top, which gets tiring.

I have since found Mike Duncan's History of Rome[1] and Revolutions[2], and I much prefer his writing and delivery, including his occasional dead pan humor. I can listen to him for hours on end. (Note: the early episodes of History of Rome are not representative, he and his equipment have much improved in the first year).

[1] http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/the_history_of_rome/2007...

[2] http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2013/09/index.html
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EconTalk
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So Money by FARNOOSH
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I like that the Euler notation makes it more clear that derivation is a higher order function.
Translate to a non-Latinate language and back.
That's what a vocabulary is for. schema.org[0] has something semantically equivalent to a user, a person.

[0] http://schema.org/Person
This little USB stick is designed to make AI plug-and-play
The quote "if you can't explain it simply you do not understand it" has been mis-attributed to Einstein or Feynman in various iterations; whomever said it, the point stands. Analogies help people understand the layers of things, especially for something as abstract at software. Software devs often struggle to explain the difference between containers, PVM, and HVM. It has nothing to do with a person's intelligence, MBA, or sales, otherwise.

Pizza is both tasty and fun - relating complex "serious" dry and boring work stuff to something else is a time-honored teaching technique.
It says Continuity and Early Stage are being merged, not that everything in YC is being merged.
I think it's an understatement to categorize the changes as "tweaks." In the U.S., the prevailing view seems to be that social services are a concession capitalists make because they're forced to. We glorify and fetishize capitalists and achievers and optimize the system to benefit them. Even our left does that (e.g. HN). You can have free markets without that mentality, and that might be a good thing because I think people are chafing at that.

At the end of the day, the actual change in the mix of social services might just be tweaks, but you're also talking about a very significant change in worldview.
Data Skeptic (love this podcast)

Data Driven Discussions (new podcast)

Linear Digressions (good shorter discussions)

Pod Save America (awesome)

Coaching for Leaders (great interviews, the best soft skills podcast I've found)

Software Engineering Daily (a little hard to keep up, mostly listen to specific topics)

a16z (general trends)
By that logic, these arsons will help reduce rents in Oakland... it makes no sense.

No. That is a fallacy on your part, denying the antecedent.
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