skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>All of these are cyclical repeating events. Look at the historical data. This is how humans function.

Yeah, that's kinda my point. It's awful when left unregulated. And with the great depression/housing market crash, government stepped in to help people out and get the market going again once it was obvious the market had failed/was failing.
Steam's survey reads the platform - the user has almost no role in actually filling it out beyond saying 'yes, you can collect this data'. This makes it significantly better than requiring each and every user to act to specify their platform.
Agree that more info is needed to proceed, but lovely theme though! Is this a bootstrap theme or something made from scratch?
The average house in Palo Alto is well over a million dollars. Despite popular opinion, the rank and file staff in tech companies can't afford this. I'm a software engineer and can barely afford to rent in Oakland...
I am pretty sure the point of these graphics is to get people deeply pondering what the #*#$ "drinks" represent in the analogy and, while they are staring into space, sneak up on them and steal their wallet.
i didn't ask for sympathy either. i know i'm breaking the law, i'm explaining why
I got a couple of offers from NYC, the living costs are still much higher than seattle.
If you read policy documents YIMBY support all sorts of housing for everyone. Generally ambivalent about inclusionary housing requirements because a) it depresses the production of market rate housing by 2.5 to 6 units per one BMR unit and 2) historically it hasn't been very effective at adding new units. Post Prop C the housing pipeline in SF dropped off a cliff.

Targeting BMR is going to be insufficient in SF anyway when 96% of the city rents units that reset to market rate when someone moves out, only thing that's going to help is a lot more new units of all shapes and sizes, hence the legislation listed above.
Londoner here. Building housing is not the biggest problem to solve though. I live in zone 2 and even there the housing density is not massive. You could probably double it without too much problem.

The problem is that the transport network is at capacity: road, bus, train, tube - everything is packed at peak time, the main roads are a continuous stream of busses, there are 3 train in 20 minutes, a dlr every 3 minutes, ... If you double the density, you need to double the transport links too.

Then there are the nurseries/schools/hospital. My GP has literally thousands of people registered despite a 3 street catchment area. It take at least a month to get a GP appointment.

What's the point of living in a cheapass flat if you need to pay 2000 GBP for nursery or similar for private school, you need to go to private GP when you get a cold and you are still miserable in the public transport and ambulance do not get to you faster than if you were in the middle of the country side. London is at capacity for people working in the City/WestEnd/CanaryWharf. You need to expand it outward (eg: Crossrail ) and start encouraging business centers off the convergence commute route.

BTW I don't think the cost of building is really a problem. The new build quality is appalling, a luxury unit cost little more than 50K to build and will be sold off plan for close to 1 million, years before the builder gets the council approval.
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I have just realized that all the time I have been reading the pizza-as-a-service graph the wrong way (that is, the way the author suggests instead).

This is the key point: "The [original graph] doesn’t allow customization, which is what IaaS and PaaS offer".
This isn't how real security works.

There is a concept for 'defense in depth', saying that every component should be secure on its own and not rely on other components.
Setup is a bit of a pain, but what workflow is required? I just keep a Cygwin window or a Bash on Ubuntu on Windows window open and tab over when I need a password. With the shell auto-completion I find it easier to use than other password managers, tho I prefer not using my mouse so I'm surely biased about that aspect.

I was previously using Password Safe, on Windows, and various compatible alternatives on Linux and Mac OS. Years ago I had tried using a single 'safe' synced via Dropbox but that was a big pain in the ass because sometimes I'd inadvertently lock the safe file by, e.g. starting to add a new password but not finishing. So instead I created a separate safe file for each computer or device. To sync new passwords or changes to existing passwords I'd have to periodically merge all of the safes and manually cleanup any conflicts between them.

The main reason why I switched to Pass is that syncing the password stores on each of my devices is so much easier using Git.
No, but we're not talking about human lives. We're talking about an ecosystem that is, as I understand, built on the premise that code is law. I may be mistaken.
I agree with you. If the point of a smart contract is that "code is law" and "judges doesn't make decision, the protocol does", that surely sounds like naive hacker thinking.

If that's not the point of smart contracts then what is a smart contract? How is it different from that thing which we call just "contract"?

So either the smart contracts are just contracts, or they are product of naive hacker thinking.
>Once she's had sex with me she'll marry me.

From my experience this is the last thing men are thinking in these situations.
another hardfork?

ethereum oldskool?
Other than the 'totally fine' part that accurately describes the situation with basically all cryptocurrentcies. How many coins you have is stored in a distributed ledger which can be arbitrarily modified with a majority of computing power.
I thought so as well, I hope to see more answers to this post.

I don't know if it is mainstream or not, but idn magazine is a great design mage; see here: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://....
The code nay the language (solidity) is obscenely too complex and rich to serve as the basis for tendering money transactions in a block chain that executes 'code contracts'. gotta dumb it down.
You can setup a password store with Pass to use multiple keys – much better than sharing keys among multiple devices.
Does that exist for the majority? It seems the majority from my research are poor, under educated, and have their work expropriated for less than they need to survive and so they're required to keep coming back to the wealthy masters

Please, sir, may I have another days labor such that I can eat?

Heritage Foundation is a known conservative group with obvious biases

I'm not against the technical details that make up capitalism

I'm against power brokers dictating what it is we work on what tools we use and how it's divided up, where one guy with an island and 4 houses automatically gets the loudest voice

Starting to think you're an astroturfing voice here. Some pretty banal views that gloss over the reality

It's easier to fall in line and "hoorah capitalism!" Which it's then funny to sit and read Pro-capitalist talk about working hard

Why, I work so hard swallowing up whatever religion people put in front of me! Reading books and believing every word is difficult!
I clicked on it because I immediately thought, "oh that sounds useful". Most "Show HN"s don't immediately trigger that response in me. So I suspect the upvotes are because the idea resonates, even if the landing page needs improvement.
No harm to any sentient being was caused by the unintended DAO usage ("hack").

A more apt comparison would be: Someone found a flaw in my distributed MMORPG and now the game isn't interesting / useful anymore to some people. Should we collectively change the rules, even though we previously committed to not doing so? And before you say "Ethereum is no game", consider how serious some people take their gaming worlds and how much resources (time and money) they invest.
The reason some people are complaining about this chart is that the weighting of the sources they use seems to bias towards new technologies.

They aren't listing this based on a single metric such as 'jobs in this programming language' or 'sites run on this programming language', but more a level of how trendy it is.

They have 12 sources scored out of 100, the defaults are:

-100 "IEEE Xplore" (Publication): This will bias new popular and emerging languages as a journal is more likely to cover topical interests.

-50 "Google Trends" (Trend Tool): Google trends will also bias as the results from the trends tool are relative and not absolute. If "Arduino" leaped up in searches while "PHP" stayed the same, Google Trends would overweight Arduino.

-50 "GitHub Active" (Code Repo): This one I'm ok with, but it depends on the definition of active and how much weight is given to the size of the project. Does two projects having at least one commit in 30 days mean that WordPress' PHP repo is just as active as my_fist_Haskell repo?

-50 Google (Search): It's unclear what's being measured here, volume of searches? Volume of results? Quality of results? The other consideration is if you know a language well or have sources you trust in that language you might not be searching at all.

-30 GitHub Created (Code Repo): I think this is overweighted unless it filters out inactive repos or those with only a readme file?

-30 Stack Overflow Views (Q/A Site): This seems like it should be much higher.

-30 Stack Overflow Questions (Q/A Site): Unclear if this is questions this year, or questions total. If it is new questions this year that will heavily bias the results to emerging languages. It's also unclear if this counts specialty stack exchanges.

-20 Reddit (Social): Seems like a bias sample to include as some projects choose this as their homebase for communication and others don't.

-20 HackerNews (Social): We're also realistically a bias sample as we're more likely to talk about trendy languages even if it doesn't have a large following.

-20 Twitter (Social): I don't use Twitter enough to comment on this, but I think it is important to define what is being measured here. Raw tweet count? Reach? Engagement?

-5 Career Builder (Job Site): ...Why?

-5 Dice (Job Site): ...Never heard of it.

What's missing?

I would have liked to see jobs from LinkedIn, AngelList, Stack Overflow Careers etc included, as well as volumes of subscribers for educational sites like Udacity, Udemy, FreeCodeCamp etc.
Wasn't that literally a decade ago, not adjusted for inflation?

How do the financials compare with other, unregulated sectors over the same period?
YC edging to become more like a typical VC?
>do you still get to claim a fork of your contributed code as copyrighted to yourself?

I believe so - as long as you license it with the GPL.
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I read that and said to myself "So....it WAS a vulnerability in Parity"

The article stating that it wasn't a vulnerability with Parity AND THEN IMMEDIATELY AFTER stating it was a vulnerability with code distributed BY PARITY is throwing up all sorts of red flags with me.

Like the Wizard of OZ with "There is nothing behind the curtain"
This is already outdated! Here's the 2.0 update https://media.licdn.com/mpr/mpr/AAEAAQAAAAAAAAtXAAAAJDJkNTlm...

Original source and context here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pizza-service-20-paul-kerriso...
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> Why don't people just explain it with actual computers instead of pizza?

People use mental models and heuristics and metaphors to make sense of all sorts of things. Very smart people do this, too.

Simplified maps can have their uses, even when you might personally be comfortable with a more complicated one.
Decent cities have parks scattered throughout its buildings, so that you're never more than a few minutes on foot/bike from one.
> Portal, Portal2, Tomb Raider, Kerbal space program, Shadow of Mordor, Rocket League, The Talos Principle are some of the AAA games that I've played on my linux mint box in the last few years.

https://xkcd.com/606/
Scale your code podcast is quite good.
I use Dropbox but I also use git-remote-gcrypt[0] to encrypt the entire Git repo so that even the file names and sub-directories don't leak outside any of my computers or devices.

[0]: https://github.com/spwhitton/git-remote-gcrypt
Yet the whole point of smart contracts was that the code is the contract. Descriptions of what the contract was seeking to achieve were explicitly non-binding. It will be an interesting legal case if something like this ever goes to trial.
Spin up a 2gb+ DigitalOcean server and toss Dokku on it. Feels like Heroku, very reliable, very simple to understand by just reading the Dokku source.

AWS is a great great thing, but has opaque pricing and a lot of nuance to getting everything running smoothly. 99% of projects can survive on a single beefy server for a long time before scaling becomes a concern, at which point that is a good problem to have. Don't make it a bad problem now by making things too complex.
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Seattle housing market is still crazy. Not a lot for sale. Plus it rains for 6 months and miserable. If you like that then it's great. I love it in Seattle. You don't get as many startups here though. It's just the big companies doing business as usual.
This isn't an insurance issue, it's a science one...

> Neuro-rehabilitation

> As of 2012 there is insufficient evidence to support using hyperbaric oxygen therapy to treat people who have traumatic brain injuries.[51] In stroke, HBOT does not show benefit.[52][45] HBOT in multiple sclerosis has not shown benefit and routine use is not recommended.[44][53]

> A 2007 review of HBOT in cerebral palsy found no difference compared to the control group.[54][55] Neuropsychological tests also showed no difference between HBOT and room air and based on caregiver report, those who received room air had significantly better mobility and social functioning.[54][55] Children receiving HBOT were reported to experience seizures and the need for tympanostomy tubes to equalize ear pressure, though the incidence was not clear.[54]

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Hyperbaric_medicine
Create laws that criminalize trivial and victimless actions -> Sentence them to prison -> provide cheap labor as an alternative -> prisoners like cheap labor better than prison conditions -> achieve moral high ground? Nope.
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That's a really cool story. I'd love to read about your experiences in greater detail. Any chance you might have a blog?
For treating brain damage? No. Because no doctor would sign off on that as a treatment. There's no scientific evidence that oxygen therapy helps with brain damage.

Like most "alternative" medicines this one gets pushed hard as a solution for everything, regardless of evidence.
Wouldn't Keybase's secret shares be better?
>I mean, just look at the data.

I look at day-to-day - or even month-to-month- variations as noise, not cycles. How far down the time-series fractal is considered a cycle? All of this variance might look hilariously insignificant in 20 years. Perhaps we have a difference of perspective.
Those will get handy when the next crisis strikes (amplified by the vast capital held by index funds and resulting selling spree, infrastructure credit defaults, another round of real estate depreciation, etc.)

If "the market moves in the direction of maximum damage" maxim is correct, I'd also add some runaway inflation to the mix.
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All is well if you are cooking pizza. But if you are cooking meth, the kitchen the XaaS provide will not do any more.

Full stacks are legacy unless you need them customized. For example, not everyone is doing the horizontal scalability trick.

In the large enterprise, Oracle on one big iron is common, so common the newest versions actually concentrated improvements for those use cases, unlike what the marketing department keeps advertising.
> Any contract that has all the outward aspects of being a smart contract but that allows a judge (or anybody else for that matter) to influence the outcome once it is activated is by definition a failed smart contract.

I think the crux of your argument with Marco is that he is viewing the "outcome" in a larger scope than you are. You seem to be focusing on the "outcome" as only the output of the smart contract, while the is viewing the "outcome" as the real-world consequences of the entire situation, as embedded in our political and legal systems.
You are cool. Thanks fo being cool.
I've been an IBM intern for the last 4 months and I can say that even there they've used the pizza example.

I honestly didn't get it until an actual IT architect explained it to me with real-life IT example. (I'm a SW programmer, not MBA btw).
not typical, probably more like a Full-Stack VC.
> I've never heard of a system where users couldn't write to their own home directories.

Neither have I, but I have heard of (and been subject to) policies that don't allow installing unapproved 3rd party executable code, and have not seen one that made exceptions based on path.
The rules put in place are a joke. Next bust is coming and everyone will pretend again that they didn't see it coming. And again nothing will be fixed and the tax payer will pay the bailout to the banks and their investors.
Thanks for pointing this out. I assume because he pushed the fix that he was the developer, my mistake! Have amended the article.
>Storing your money in a bank in a western democracy has centuries of history with extremely rare losses.

While I agree with your overall point, I think you're glossing over the historical instabilities in the banking system. Bank runs, failures, and physical robberies were pretty common until comparatively recently (in the US, at least - the 19th century was chock full of them).
Right, people seemed a little too relieved that that happened. Sure it's better than "bad guys" getting the money, but will the white hats swoop in next time?
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This is a common feeling. People call it imposter syndrome. It's completely normal. Most companies know that new grads aren't going to be great at their jobs right away, and they'll provide on-the-job mentorship and training.
All right, I'll bite. If me and my SO wanna buy a house, how should we go about approaching the next financial crisis to get a good deal on one?

Who predicted the last one correctly, and what are those people saying now?

I'm under the assumption that the regulations put in place after the last financial crisis are impotent, and that the people in the finance industry have little incentive not to do it again. Is this an accurate statement?
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Are there any SteamBoxes in existence that actually run SteamOS?
In 1Password's case, I understand their desire to switch over to subscription pricing, and also have some sympathy with the notion that moving people to a cloud-based model reduces confusion and complexity (including their support costs). I also have no doubt that they now intend to take security as seriously in the future as they have in the past.

Beyond the not-insignificant risks of them screwing up, despite the best of intentions, there's nothing that prevents a change of company direction/priorities that could greatly increase the risk of a significant security breach. New senior people get brought in, crises happen that lead to poor decisions for financial or other reasons, and companies get sold to people who may well have completely different priorities.
What are the other benefits from your perspective?

To me, they are:

- license cost (a small hurdle if you're buying $60 games)

- open source (mainly a moral/ideological advantage rather than a practical one)

- developer tooling (minimized if you use tools like Docker or Vagrant)
The single point of failure is my own memory. I never commit passwords to anything else. Frequent user of password recovery for online sites. Will never use a password manager trojan for obvious reasons imho.
Assuming by "safer form" you mean a bank account (since that's what "most folk" use instead of physical cash), it's hard to know how safer it is. In the early 90s, my country's government froze almost all the money on everybody's bank accounts with no warning; obviously, whatever physical cash you had in hand wasn't affected by the freeze (though it lost its value fast, due to the inflation).

On the other hand, recently another country changed its note design, and made the older design no longer valid. Whatever physical cash you had in hand instantly lost its value, while whatever value you had in bank accounts was automatically converted.

As you can see, sometimes cash is safer, sometimes bank accounts are safer.
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s/they/he/

Pass is pretty much a glorified bash script using GPG and Git.

Adding filename encryption on top would be a nightmare, not to mention that terminal suggestions would be pretty much broken.
Complaining about housing prices and city living are easy targets; there's a secondary question - what are SF founder pitching VC's? and how does that compare to what founders are pitching down in the valley?

Is everyone in SF pitching yet another subscription box food delivery services? Drones? VR?

Also keep in mind this is VC investment money - it comes with a price, and in the graph of rounds, by region, series A rounds are down from a peak in 2014, but SF and SV are fairly close - it's the other rounds where SF has really fallen. An alternate explanation (based on the very limited data presented here) could be that SF companies are to keep going without accepting VC funding; either with large cash infusions from the blue chips, or by having enough customers give them enough money.
> If, somehow, this stuff is to make it into the real world [...] it will have to be VERY different from what it is now.

Either that, or the nature of expectations in the real world will have to change, kind of like they did in the 90s when, after a few technological iterations, real people decided that shopping online was not so batshit crazy after all; or like people did in the late aughts when they decided that sharing every damn thing they were doing, and taking pictures of their tacos, was how one conducted oneself socially.