skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That being said, I'm one of the people who have always mocked bitcoin. There are so many obvious problems with it, and some of the people in the cult built around it lack a hilarious amount of self-awareness.

Don't lump supporters in with a "cult." Just observe: it's been here for a long time and if there were a way to turn it off it would've happened by now.

IMO it's never going away. ICOs will come and go. Altcoins will come and go. Bitcoin is here to stay. It's not tulips, it's not a ponzie scheme.

Will it obsolete credit cards or cash? No, that's unlikely.

Will it obsolete precious metals? No, that seems unlikely, too.

Will its value stabilize against fiat currency and become a real safe store of money? That's unlikely to happen soon IMO but maybe in some decade or two?

Bitcoin is new and the use cases don't completely 100% overlap with cash, credit cards, bearer bonds, stocks, precious metals, contracts. But it does line up really well with some uses of each.

The defeat of bitcoin would only happen if its mathematical or functional model collapsed. For example: transactions execute Too Slowly, disk space required for node operation became Too Large, node operation became Too Expensive, hashing algorithm no longer considered Safe. Transaction speed, disk space, computation -- for the most part these are all fairly negotiable/reconsiderable by the humans who see some value from bitcoin's continued operation. If global changes make these things not work, the market will find a balance. See all of the recent pushback regarding transaction speed/cost and how best to solve the problem. Even if we end up with Bitcoin[0], Bitcoin[1], Bitcoin[2], I would argue that each of them Are Bitcoin and individually and collectively continue to illustrate bitcoin's success.

EDIT: actually one huge risk could be united global censorship by treaty -- this would destroy a lot of its value and utility (but the network would never stop, it would serve the black market exclusively).
IMO don't generalize unless you find out later you need the same algorithm somewhere else.

Otherwise, just leave the specific version in and stick some info in the comments (like a link to the high level description of the algorithm, if it's a common one that has a name, plus some pointers to your specifics).
Customers care about the quality of the product, which is arguably influenced by how happy workers are. But of course this link is very indirect and very different for different types of workers.
This list is a biased joke.
The "12 metrics from 10 carefully chosen online sources" must be very bad chosen.
Just get out of startups and into more established companies, 9-5 not only exists, it's the norm. It's not a dirty little secret, you're just in a self imposed workaholic bubble. If you're consistently working 12 hour days, you're simply allowing your employer to abuse you.
Have you used a Keurig? Or Nespresso?
And coordination problems, so that if we succeed with anti-vaxxers we won't get killed by farmers abusing antibiotics on farm animals.

Nice side effect of solving coordination problems include: solving poverty, solving peace on Earth. :).
I was reminded of a brilliant example of prefacing feedback aimed towards improvement. Ask this kind of simple question: “if my zipper were down, would you tell me?” > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/russell-bishop/self-help-are-y...
Actually the free fall has seemed to have slowed, and bottomed out.

It's just a different cultural value -- not every culture values the green dollar as much as America or the UK or likewise. Is it the best for your GDP? Probably not, but it's honorable. "Cash is King" is not something you hear many Greeks say about one another
I haven't used Ember Data much. I'd be curious how you think it could apply or could be ported to React. Maybe you'd have time to write up a short gist of what you wish you could write in React?
This is the first time I’ve seen sea-lioning in action on HN. Well done on refusing to rise to the bait!
> First of all, there will be a lot of false positives. For example, you might write

total_cost = p->base_price + p->calculate_tax();

> This would raise the warning because the compiler observes that the calculate_tax method is not const, so it is worried that executing the method may modify the base_price, in which case it matters whether you add the tax to the original base price or the updated one. Now, you may know (by using knowledge not available to the compiler) that the calculate_tax method updates the tax locale for the object, but does not update the base price, so you know that this is a false alarm.

I think the warning in that case is still fair, and I'd be perfectly happy to get it. calculate_tax() could be modified to affect base_price with this compilation unit being none the wiser.
> Both in terms of embedded systems application: What makes micropython safer and easier to develop compared to C/++?

Python is a GC'd (reference-counted in CPython and probably µpython) and memory-safe language so it should be less prone to memory corruption, although it is more likely to open you up to resource exhaustion.

> In terms of safety, is there better memory allocation and hardware control through Python?

These are not what is usually understood by "safety" in programming.

> I would imagine micropython would be more inefficient

Definitely, the overhead of micropython would be substantial (even more so as it can't leverage compiler optimisations) so it's a tradeoff between hardware requirements and ease of development/time to market. IIRC micropython also supports only a relatively small subset of all embedded systems.

See http://docs.micropython.org/en/v1.8.6/pyboard/reference/spee..., http://docs.micropython.org/en/v1.8.6/pyboard/reference/cons...

> As for the ease of development, wouldn't C/++ be better?

Generally speaking python is more expressive and more readable than C++ code, which makes it easier to write (develop) Python. C++ is more finicky, thus harder to develop.
Livable wage? Researchers at Silicon Valley powerhouse companies aren't exactly toiling away for peanuts, are they? Also, the implication of my statement is that blowhards tend to prioritize their desire for recognition, not that the desire for recognition makes you a blowhard. Hardly an "obscene" assertion.
Disclaimer: I do not know what I'm talking about.

Assuming both numbers are accurate (I haven't double checked any of the numbers above), the discrepancy could be with time.

Your body doesn't just have sugar in its blood. It uses it. At any given moment "Average blood sugar" needs to be 5grams. However throughout the day your body burns up 97.5 grams (I.e. 39 grams is 40%).
Services like these give Tor and related projects a bad name. Taking down illegal market places is part of the police's job and this is definitely a success story. The article is lacking in details a bit, but it seems they've taken it down using regular old police work as they mention an "undercover operation". This proves once more that the weakening of security for everybody is not needed to catch criminals.
Dutch police secretly ran a huge dark web drug marketplace for a month
A fiduciary is obligated to put their duty to the principal over their own interests, not to put the interests of the principal over all other duties.
>I will sometimes counter with "if you're offering a rate and no one is taking you up on it, by definition, that's not the market rate"

And what do they say to that? Blank stares? Acting like you're crazy? When I say stuff like that on boards like this, I usually have people arguing with me that no, there really is a "shortage" of workers.
They used Earth based telescopes to find a more accurate information about MU69. In order for New Horizons to get good pictures they need to know exactly where it is, how big it is, and how reflective it is.
I'm curious how you would construct a switch that couldnt be bypassed by the police once they have full access to the servers.
One thing that strikes me as weird is the reference to ASN.1, I always thought that bitcoin only uses DER encoding for the signatures themselves (because that is what is usual for ECDSA, even thought it is suboptimal for multiple reasons) and the rest of the protocol including transaction format is specified in terms of bytes and varints. Have I missed something?
The PR world of building momentum is probably a bigger win. This is the third time I've seen this so far today, for example. The single tweet being rebroadcast out a bunch, despite just being verbal confirmation, might build some inertia that could help later when dealing with real confirmation in contracts
I have a poor sense of smell (used to have a good one as a child) and my grandmother had dementia. What is the peanut-butter test?
I think "carbs are bad" is sort of overgeneralizing the problem. The problem isn't carbs, it's processed carbs that are low in fiber - i.e. not vegetables.

That said, I've experienced all this same stuff with processed carbs and sugar. I'll beat it for a few months and then end up binging/getting right back hooked.

The best recipe I've found for managing weight (personally, since YMMV is super applicable when it comes to fitness) is low-carb, high protein/fat, and weightlifting 3-4 times a week.
I like how they try and color the site by associating it with sites that sell weapons and child porn.

> It is Hansa Market, currently the most popular dark market in the ‘anonymous’ part of the internet, the so-called darknet.

> ...

> The darknet markets enable large-scale trading in chiefly illegal goods, such as drugs, weapons, child pornography, and ransom software. ... No weapons or child pornography were sold on Hansa Market.
Wait, how do you prevent mid life hearing loss?
Not sure I would equate that to alcoholism. How about rather than a scoop of ice cream every day. You have a bowl of it on Friday night watching a movie? Rest of the week, eat healthier. It's all about calories consumed, and used. You want to eat a ton of ice cream, go for it. Just be aware you've used up all of your caloric intake for the day.
wonder what prompted Microsoft to give up on Xenix

They reassigned the Xenix devs to OS/2 and sold Xenix to SCO (who were a real company back then).
The fact that we were together for 7 years before we were married, and the experiences that came with that. We were a thing long before I had any money to speak of (or any real financial prospects), and she's supported me through quite a bit as I've supported her. If she's milking me for my money then I have no shame, because she'll have outdone Machiavelli several times over to hide it this well for this long.

Sometimes people actually love each other. I'm lucky in that regard.
Unfortunately there are still some people who don't believe it today :(
I thought it was illegal to ride a motorcycle/bicycle without a helmet? I'm trying to find a flaw in your argument...but it's not easy. Though I feel as if we shouldn't go back on safety standard progress just because there is a subset of vehicles where there's not much we can do in terms of the vehicle...but I'm sure there is a lot we can do in terms of what the rider wears.
Embarrassingly bogus, just click and see for yourself.
Dan's video courses are an excellent way to learn the core concepts of Redux. Past that, I keep a big list of links to high-quality tutorials and articles on React, Redux, and related topics, at https://github.com/markerikson/react-redux-links . Specifically intended to be a great starting point for anyone trying to learn the ecosystem, as well as a solid source of good info on more advanced topics. It includes links for learning core Javascript (ES5), modern Javascript (ES6+), React, and much more. I also published an "Intro to React (and Redux)" presentation at http://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2017/02/presentation-react-... , which is a good overview of the basic concepts for both React and Redux.
Why Initialized Capital Invested in Open Listings
HoC based React forms state manager, Support for validation and normalization
Great! If you don't mind me asking, what do you think about the crisis - the reasons for it and the proposed and implemented coping strategies - your country has fallen into?

You seem to suggest that the Greek work ethic is, in part, responsible for the crisis - if so, when that ethic became commonplace? And how come it formed in the first place? And why didn't it disappear naturally?

I'm asking this, because in my country - a post-Soviet one, after 50 years of nominally communist policy - we used to also have little to no respect for work. But that was because there was little correlation between your work and the money it got you. Once we started getting all capitalist in the 90's that started to change and by today most of the society understands that if you want more money you need to work harder.
Unsuccessful entrepreneur is still an entrepreneur. Somehow the image of entrepreneurs tend to be someone who succeeded in the end, but plenty did not and they should count too - whether the cause was own mistake or bad luck.

I agree that there are also entrepreneurs that are not privileged and basically can afford risks because it can not get worst. And also enterpreners that don't take unreasonable financial risks - if you know you can get well paid job whenever you want to (as a coder or in friends/familly company) then it is less of risk.

Nevertheless, an original attempt to label responsible decision making as "excuse" and stigmatize it in favour of "following passion" or proving whatever to yourself or other emotions based decision was misguided. I don't know why some people treat it as decision you are supposed to make no matter what circumstances and skills. If they are really naturally ok with it, they should not need others to make the same decision.
I (painfully) found out I was pre-disposed to gout only after going on a high protein diet. That said, if you're careful to avoid too many high purine meats, you can avoid that side effect.
Call roaming or data/text roaming? I'm on their latest plan ($75) and data/text works for "free" in a ton of countries. I've used it in Peru, Mexico, and Iceland so far.
I visited Hansa a few days ago and the first thing I noticed was a banner that read something like:-

"New registrations are disabled because of high demand caused by the exodus from AlphaBay"
Apple Reportedly Working with Chinese Manufacturer of Electric Vehicle Batteries
"in a business setting" ... I wish we'd all stop accepting crappy work environments just because they're a "business setting". There's no business setting certification that they have to maintain ... nothing is set in stone, and we don't have to accept stodgy work environments.

If this isn't an environment where you feel comfortable talking to your coworkers ... then gtfo of there and find a better work place (not directed at you or OP, just in general :) ).
> i have used python before, and it was slower to develop in and more error prone than labview for system development.

Exact opposite in my experience. I've been there, tried that. Re-wrote it in python for a more than 50x productivity gain.

At my first job out of school, I inherited maintenance for a couple of projects. All were extremely expensive custom test equipment, written in Labview. One was the central project, the whole point of this group's existence. It had been in development for more than two years. It routinely destroyed thousands of dollars worth of hand-made sensors during its power-on self-test. It was a far cry from being finished. It couldn't even be considered a prototype.

In a two-week period, I taught myself python, quickly cloned the existing calibration procedures, and finished the entire thing. My boss thought I was a genius rockstar, but no, I'm not. I just had the sense to evaluate every available tool and came to the conclusion that Python (mostly due to the ctypes module and a robust Windows ecosystem), was the best option.

Personally I'll use C whenever possible for embedded work. (And later I did port the entire project to a DSP running C, because Labview & an AD DAcq board was too expensive.) But if latency doesn't matter, Python is fine.

edit: Side note, I was already conversational in Labview. Admittedly only for school projects, but at that point I knew more Labview than Python.
> but the network would never stop, it would serve the black market exclusively

All the computers required to keep Bitcoin running would be an easy target for law enforcement.
Just an observation, but if a soda has 10 times more sugar than you need in your body, and it is about half the daily value of sugar you need, then I suppose it is a rate problem. Drinking a whole soda at once puts way too much sugar into your system, but it may be possible to drink a sip an hour.
>Do you also have huge neighborhoods of million dollar houses and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cars in the driveway, but there's no tax base because everyone's income is below the poverty level?

Wait, how does that work? I'm obviously doing something wrong...
Show HN: Meemo – Learn Scrum on Mobile (YC StartupSchool)
I don't know. I think there's a benefit to having anonymized research. It forces the work to stand on its own. Sort of an extension to blinded peer-review processes. Plus, I highly doubt Apple researchers, or researchers at any other tech giants, are toiling away for peanuts.
I agree with a lot of this, and I think it's helpful to remember that people perceive things differently. In much the same way that cilantro tastes like soap to some people, certain images, tropes, and turns of phrase will not resonate with some people - no matter their quality. If the work is of high quality, it will resonate with some people/some groups - in your lifetime, if you're fortunate.

Take your work seriously, but don't take your art seriously. Do the best you can, experiment, test your limits, but at the end of the day, have perspective. Even if you reach the highest level of your craft, you're still just you. If you spend time developing yourself, trust your instincts and creativity, and you're a brutal self-editor, you should put out work representative of where you're at as a person/artist. To my understanding, that's all you can do.
Thanks for the suggestion on alignment. I've been hearing that feedback from other users and I'll add some tools for it.

I've tested the editor again because a 1cm offset is unacceptable. It looks like the field boxes (the transparent blue or orange rectangles you can drag and resize) appear in the correct spots on the PDF. If the text is too large to fit in the rectangle, we shrink it to fit. What might be going on is my backend is in disagreement with the frontend about what font size to use if we need to shrink the text. Then a larger than normal offset could appear on the right-hand side of the text. I'm working on fixing that. But rest assured that the field boxes are put in the correct place on the PDF.
Firefox Focus Hits 1M Downloads Today We’re Launching Three New Features
http://neo900.org/news/neo900-update-2017-07-18
Not a chance. The volatility surrounding this event was at or below the normal levels of BTC volatility.
You don' think they'd be impressed by how the people with busted kidneys don't simply die in days?
Amazon Considering New Cloud Service Based on Kubernetes
well I meant it to be far-fetched. If we had no access to the other plane, there's not much we could do to understand the brain calculation happening there.

whereas if it's not an antenna then it's just 3 lbs of meat.
Undefined Behavior in Rust
DFS+Fanduel+MLB+Picks+7/20/17:+DraftKings+Top+3+Pitchers
> The fact that the top commenter (as of this writing) sees this as "Star Trek levels of medicine" should clue everyone in.

Clue in on what exactly? That the current top commenter, and others - including myself - got baited? Hard to blame them, IMO. That's the effect when popular press is literally lying to people. :/.

(Also that's why I usually read HN comments even before the original article - in case there's an expert who debunks the story, which happens pretty often.)
There are TV commercials pumping up gold, from the companies that sell gold (like Goldline).
Shameless self-plug. I developed a design pattern I call "vacancy observers" that solves a subset of the Ajax problem. Basically, fetching data for display; AKA the "R" in CRUD. My POC implementation is on Github.

https://github.com/greim/motel
Indeed. I've always found this a thoughtful discussion:
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/free-will/v-...
Greenhouses work all the way to the arctic circle. At which point your not going to be getting much energy from solar power. (One trick is to use reflectors to collect more sunlight then concentrate it onto a smaller area, same result as having solar power at a tiny fraction of the cost.) Other option is to use a lot of insulation then tilt the structure. ex: http://waldenlabs.com/5-northern-greenhouse-examples/

Further, solar power takes the same area as you can use to grow crops anyway.
That page does not say dry drowning doesn't exist and does not contradict a single thing that was said in the link I posted.

No shit swallowing water is not the same as aspirating [breathing] it and nobody said it was!

"And I’m pretty sure everyone understands that a child who is down in the water, gets pulled out, and requires resuscitation needs immediate medical attention, even if they seem to recover." - No, they might not!!! And that's the point!!!

The takeaway is:

If someone has a serious near-drowning episode they should seek medical attention even if they appear fine.

If someone exhibits symptoms listed after aspirating water, they should seek medical attention.
My understanding of this licence is "we're making open-source software, play by the rules and don't sue us or we might find other ways to put you in trouble"
Mechanical Binary Counter
> Failure to complete secondary education was a major risk factor, and the authors suggest that individuals who continue to learn throughout life are likely to build additional brain reserves.

Somewhat related, but I wonder how video games will affect this also. People from the 70s and up who grew up on video games, and continue to play them into their 30s and up, are engaging their brains more than older folks who probably watch a lot of TV. Especially daily playing of competitive or difficult games, like Overwatch or Dark Souls, that can tire you out mentally.