skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And even then I think that it's important to realize that you can only get that far in terms of predictability. First off, it's a complex system; your sampled data set is incomplete by definition. Secondly, your theory is part of the system that it's measuring, at least if it ever becomes popular enough to influence policy.

I think economics has some valuable insights into human nature -- not necessarily applicable to every human but applicable to enough of us to be of use -- but they should stop cargo culting mathematics. Or more accurately, everyone else should call their bluff.
this is like 90% `data` and `case`. show me a language where type declaration and case statements aren't readable.
This dear Abby stuff on hn is getting annoying.
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"Google’s control over images and information about its data centers was so strict that rumors that the company literally erased its data centers from satellite views on Google Maps abounded."

When I was in Omaha NE for the Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting, we decided to drive by the Google data center in Council Bluffs Iowa. Not much to see except a very notable security kiosk at the front and a large industrial building.
>"a cryptocurrency where the founder owns 5% of all the currency that will ever exist and deflation is builtin and fixed seems like it fails some fairly basic things we know about standard economics"

This is the flaw I was pointing at. Others have said that while there's some research there doesn't seem to be a solution for it. A cryptocurrency that scales it's size in rough proportion to its trading and thus keeps prices in check with maybe slight inflation would be interesting. It's almost surely difficult to accomplish given the restrictions in what you can do in a distributed consensus type of setup.

I'm not convinced it even matters though. Of all the important things we need solutions for in the world cryptocurrency doesn't seem to help any than I can see.
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The tablet virus is the idea that tablet computers can replace desktops.

I, personally, don't disagree [tablets] can cover a good portion of the layman's usecases; yet it is important to teach (to) and have people realise the strengths of the freedom desktops give them.
100mbps guaranteed is not the same as best effort. Besides it's an average which would max out on bandwidth from time to time unable to process data at full speed.

And with that kind of cost, forget about individuals hosting.

Also since each block is so huge, others miners will take something like 30+ seconds to validate a block leading to an unfair start on the next block. (5% of a 10 min sounds like some serious gain.)
Well, on the other side, we could simply stop paying for Israel. U.S. tax dollars, and preferential treatment, that keep them there.

I'm not saying we do that. I am saying that some of Israel's positions and lobbying do not engender my favorable attitude.
There is a built-in escrow, which uses Bitcoin 2-of-3 multisignature. This means that if both buyer and seller are happy, they are the only two of three parties needed to release funds, but if either of the parties is unhappy they can bring in the escrow party.

Escrow is provided on a marketplace as well, anyone can act as an escrow agent.
don't forget the seller who may also need protection. Traditionally companies like PayPal would offer some level of protection to both the buyer and the seller. However I imagine transaction insurance would just become another business on the network.
I cannot upvote this enough. The "silver bullet" bit is the primary point, though I'll say I've found very few actual uses of OOP-as-described-in-the-mainstream in my ~30 year carreer.

Polymorphism, sure! Composition, sure! Information Hiding[1], sure! Modularity, sure! Implementation inheritance, ooh, sounds interesting[2].

The only problem with that sales pitch is that you don't actually have to combine all of them into a single concept ("OOP"). They are pretty much all orthogonal.

[1] That's was actually called Abstraction before "OOP" was invented as "a thing" in the mainstream. Well, it still is, but it's just that it applies beyond "public/private/package" scope (and the like). For example, O'Caml has "modules" which give you abstraction at what would be equivalent to Java's package scope. Amazing, I know. /s

[2] To be fair, I was absolutely entranced by the promise of implementation interitance[3]: What can I say, I was young and naive, and knew only Turbo Pascal and Delphi. With considerably more experience I consider it a fundamental mistake to include such a construct in your language.

[3] As was the rest of the industry, at least I had the excuse of inexperience. Such mistakes we've (collectively) made! :)
This sounds to me like reading statistics without understanding them, or finding a gap in BLS numbers.

I worked at CompUSA in the mid 90s, which was a big box format computer store similar in size to a Bed Bath and Beyond or Staples. We had like 75-100 employees, 5-7 were salaried, and only 15-25 were full time. Most part-timers worked 25-28 hours a week. (They wanted to avoid state health insurance requirements which kicked in at 30)

I don't think that Amazon is replacing those manhours 1:1. I'd guess that they need 1/5 of the manhours. Most of the supporting people (UPS, FedEx, LTL freight, soda machine guy, cleaners) are a wash between retail and ecommerce.

The retail->logistics displacement hurts a lot of marginal workers like kids, single mothers and others. It also creates a permanent underclass of temp workers who as contractors will always be treated worse than employees. There isn't much of that in retail.
one annoying thing about go error handling aside from the copious `if err != nil` statements is that if someone somewhere doesn't handle an error there's no way to find! yes I know about errorcheck or whatever that library is called but I think it's silly you'd leave something like that up to a library.
This sort of thing always gets on my nerves. Plenty of sellers do it on Amazon (almost always before the product has even arrived), many apps do it, etc. I always leave a negative review in such cases.

"<company name> sent a nag asking for a review/rating. As the product hasn't arrived yet / just got installed 10 seconds ago, I can only rate what I've seen of it: no product whatsoever. 1 star! If they'd waited a week or two I might actually have a positive opinion about <product name> to write here."

If they ask later on instead (after at least a week of use) I'll instead leave an actual review of the product.
> islam has a 'violent fringe' in the way the revolutionary proletariats or nazi brownshirts had a 'violent fringe'. the violence is rationalized through ideological structures.

Well, no, Islam has a 'violent fringe' in the way Germans had a violent fringe. Are you claiming that every Muslim is the equivalent of a Nazi brownshirt, when not even every Nazi was a brownshirt, and not every German was a Nazi? It seems like you're making my point more than refuting it.

>when your dialectic is unable to articulate or recognize the extant ideological structures that rationalize, justify and endorse violence, the discussion must then pursue things outside of religion if it pretends to explain anything.

I do recognize them, I'm just refusing to recognize that they only exist in Islam.

I'm attempting to draw an equivalency between radical Islam and radical Christianity, and trying to point out that while similar claims about the violent ideals and tactics can be made about both, particularly when taking a literal interpretation of the canon of each religion, neither represents the mainstream view of that religion.

You're kind of proving my point, here. The problem with radical Islam isn't Islam, it's the politics of the radicals and the states that support them.

>this supports the postmodernist and terrorist sympathizer claims that every dead westerner brought it upon themselves for being evil westerners

But, that's not a claim I'm actually making, so no it kind of doesn't. It seems like we're typing past one another.
Maybe they had an accident or something.

I mean good people die all the time, just like regular people...
so the current version isn't audited?

if they changed the code and design after the audit, then much worse bugs might be hiding now, until that version is audited.
Whatever they say, they're measuring production of lead and other metals that occur with it. Silver, copper and zinc would be the main ones, I think. Not iron, however.
He used a personal email address in an old forum post when trying to recruit help building a censorship proof market place.
If Apple updated the Mac Mini (I, too, hope they get their act together), it would not be in response to the HP announcement. The two machines are meant for different customer groups, I think.
Because an unpersuasive argument doesn't degrade civility the way an uncharitable one does.
ORM frameworks in the languages you listed primarily act as mutating state functions. So, to be honest: no, they haven't improved enormously at all.

If your framework doesn't work first-and-foremost on immutable objects on which defined state transforms can be applied, you're putting your foot in a bucket that's very hard to extricate yourself from.

Data mappers are pretty much the only reasonable mode, it seems. And they kinda suck, but they suck much less.
I just have to whine that I have always hated the construct "convert to string".

You don't convert a car to a photograph when you take a picture, and neither do you do any "conversion" when you construct a string that represents the same value as is represented by the bit pattern of your double or float.

This sounds like some weird linguistic pedantry, and perhaps it is, but I suspect this usage causes confusion for a number of beginning programmers.
mesh and distributed networks.

unless you think providing Bluetooth is "darknet" .
I worked in a company selling equity research to large pension funds - and one thing that I tried to push was it was possible to give everyone of their pension-holders a vote at every AGM (sonfor exampleninstead of one investment manager block voting 10% of coca-cola shares, the 10 million fire fighters of America could decide for themselves which way to have their 1.4 shares voted).

It still is a feasible idea imo. And would lead to an lot of new agm items !
Actually, most people can jump higher, because they don't know how to jump properly. Most people don't know how to stretch properly, or how to engage momentum properly, or how to break past basic mental blocks in movement. Training can teach anyone that. You can go past that and also train precision jumping, or skills that build on jumping like wall-running, or something more simple like jump-rope skills, or something difficult like flips.

In addition to the skill of jumping, jumping with weight will gain muscle and endurance. It also improves the fast neurologic response that is required for the complex series of movements when changing direction. It also trains specific muscle fibers in ways that aren't in strength training.

Much like squatting, all you have to do to start is to jump a lot. Trainers can point out how to optimize your jump. But a lot of the potential to get high air, land on top of something, or reach something high, is mental.
tangentially related, but this reminded me of The Iron by Henry Rollins

http://www.oldtimestrongman.com/strength-articles/iron-henry...
The EU? You mean NL, Germany, and Scandinavia, anything south for that and even English is rare. Though, even in those countries, any program to learn any other language than English is too lazy, besides people seeing little value and getting too little exposure to these languages.
only makes it worse imho
Interesting article but I feel like the metaphor is a little shallow. There are plenty of troublesome topics in computer science that could be compared to Vietnam in the same way, it just feels a little excessive to compare those things to war.

I did end up getting sucked into reading a lot of history about the actual war, turns out TFA should probably be split into two, one about the tech aspect and one about the pure history. The history section was well written.
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I think you are just a few steps too ahead. We aren't at billion users just yet but needs a solution in the near future and scaling to billion users can be discussed a little later.
They are only black holes because very few of them rank well in competitive niches. I have a client in a non-top 3 TLD and he does just fine in the serps.
It's odd to complain about false advertising? I've seen computer manufactures avoid showing cables by hiding them, but the images on this website seem to imply that it operates cordlessly.
Versatile connectivity? What does it have that a Mac mini doesn't have? Macs have twice the number of USB?
As with everything else, I suspect learning more languages will just make you good at just that, learning more languages.
GreenAddress has lost/deleted my bitcoin wallet with 13K USD
I think a "modern" 16:10 should be 3840x2400 (like the IBM T220, released in 2001) or 5120x3200. Neither of these exists in any display currently made.
> In parts of the world where squat toilets are common, the pose is used for resting or waiting, a regular sight on train platforms or at bus stops.

My mother didn't like us squatting because she associated it with Japanese occupation. The soldiers would squat like that to eat a meal or have a meeting, and in the latter case it was generally a sign you should make yourself scarce.

I find this interesting because, being almost 30 years younger than she, and having heard this a few times (like when my sister and I would try to "sit squat" I just cannot adopt the same opinion. Thank goodness!
Since this article isn't asking you to trust Harris, I'm not sure what your comment has to do with it.
I'm skeptical. As pointed out in the article, automation at fulfillment centers will ramp up quickly. Warehouses are pretty easy to make into "clean" environments, and automating them should be a lot easier than, say, driverless cars or fruit picking.

That said, one thing that makes sense to me is warehouse workers are a highly efficient use of labor, and as such it makes sense that it pays better than retail. Pretty much all of their time is spent doing something in service to a customer, while in retail there is a ton of standing around doing nothing, or worse, pestering customers with lots of "Can I help you with anything?"
Our next major version has Tor support.
Limit was to stop spams to bloat the chain. If there wasn't one, you can have a million tx and block size gets insane.
>What am i missing?

Sharding is possible because you trust the db.

Blockchains are databases built on trustlessness.
Your post [1] was autokilled because rfa.org is on the banned domains list. Try submitting something from rfa.org and it doesn't show up on new [2]. pg wrote a bit about banned domains here [3].

I don't think rfa.org should be banned, perhaps message the admins and they'll take it off the banned domains list.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14785838

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=rfa.org

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=499044
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If they drive off a cliff when using the system, would they not be more eligible for a Darwin Award?
It's a useless metric in any project. A million line code base can have a lot of value or negative value. If you wrote that at 10 lines/hour your productivity is anything between -X$/hour and +Z$/hour. What does productivity mean in software engineering? Not # of lines of code produced.
Solved, maybe, but apparently not in this case as the replay mitigation's are opt-in.

What would stop someone replaying a regular tx from core chain if this network accepts either replay protected or not tx's?
> It's not like English is the only useful language.

True, but in most of the U.S. the number two language isn't all that useful. Also I should add it's not just a matter of utility, it's also a matter of opportunity. I mean sure, if you go looking for speakers of another language you can find them, but it's not ambient. I hear many different languages spoken here in Seattle, but almost all of these speakers speak English well.

Also I should add that I'm not arguing against bilingualism, I'm just saying there are practical reasons why it is not so common here in the U.S.
Basically "It's a place for product-loving enthusiasts to share and geek out about the latest mobile apps, websites, hardware projects, and tech creations." the reason that I was thinking on PH first and looking for similar niche.

I would like to use all resources available for marketing but Im concerned that maybe that approach is not healthy at all.
They could have at least set up the shots to imply the cords were just hidden behind a table or something.
Also the Economics "Nobel Prize" isn't even really a Nobel Prize.
An obvious minimum link is that the area which has melted and broke off, also coincidently happens to have elevated temps recorded and indicated by modelling.

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/warming_antarctic...

There is still the whole "correlation isnt causation / aint necessarily so" caveat, but the correlation with AWG is obvious.
> I'm curious then, who were the authorities/what were the theories (if any I guess) that were used for your management degree?

It felt like a very sporadic hodge podge of names. Porter's five forces, tech cycle, a load of case studies.

That's looking back a decade later, so maybe I'm missing something.

But it all seemed very vague. I remember thinking how on earth did Porter get his name on a "theory" when really that's just common sense? A company is going to tend to have customers, suppliers, entrants, and substitutes, and internal rivalry. I mean why would you think otherwise? Also, creating those categories is no guarantee that you're not going to miss out something.

If anything I've learned more about management from reading agile type stuff like Scrum, because those kinds of things are usually grounded in experience from a specific industry, with specific pain points and specific solutions.
I find it a bit difficult to believe that he was actually "lost". For example, using the same data, tensorflow has not learned the concept of being lost yet.
The point of StrongLifts is that you increase weight every time. Doing too many reps makes that harder, which in turns make building the habit of lifting consistently harder.
> as much security

Yeah, who should I call if someone double spent on me?
Trustless system needs to be better than that.
Ran into this same issue. Peeked into the developer tools window. Looks like a bug in:

onboardingModal.js:177 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'css' of undefined

Had to change line 177 to this so I can move forward:

var oldPos = 0//parseInt(this.accWin.css('left').replace("px", "")),
Is that website only for Premium products? I saw only products from Amazon, Apple, Google, etc.
I think it's answered by this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion

(I can't vouch for the specific wording, but search for "American".)
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For the past couple of days a phishing site has been pushed via SMS spam across Canada: 1td.availablepoint.com. It is a fairly classic "enter your credentials or your account will be suspended" attempt, in this case trying to take advantage of TD Bank customers.

When I come across these I immediately submit it to Google's phishing database, and report it to the abuse email of the DNS and hosting site. This has always yielded an almost instant take-down of the site.

Not this one. Emailed it to GoDaddy's abuse email and got a giant robot form letter demanding that I carefully categorize the problem using their online form system. The best part is that the form system doesn't work. Finally I just emailed their media department, and a half day later the site is still taking advantage of gullible Canadians.

GoDaddy is trash. It is a pox on the internet. They do everything worse than anyone.

Excuse this rant.
It's not only FP.

Just look at Rust and Go, they are more like C than C++ or Java.

Or the different kinds of OO.

Classes like in Java? Prototypes like in JavaScript? Methods like C++? Messages like Objective-C? Multiple Inheritance like C++? Non inheritance at all?

OOP? I don't even...
Interesting comparison of business vs states. The thing is there are an awful lot of businesses larger than states.

Just take simple comparisons of population (I know I know) and the smallest states like islands have tens of thousands - of the 233 nations in the UN we reach only 100k people at 200, and companies like Bank of America employ more people than "real I have heard of them" places like Iceland.

So I like the idea of just letting companies fail - but putting half a million people out of work is pretty bad.
> ...it seems like being a trader in NY would be more prestigious and probably way more lucrative in terms of compensation.

Basically this is the case. In the case of compensation you get a piece of a much larger n (how many deals does a single VC do (and how much of the proceeds does an associate get -- none or almost none)). And in terms of private equity the VC industry as a whole is a barely visible bump -- there are many private equity firms each larger than the entire VC industry.
OpenBazaar is non-profit project built by multiple for-profit groups. Us at OB1 are just one group. https://duosear.ch and https://mubiz.com are two others.
People who promote convenience without talking about the cost scare me the most.
Good question!

I don't mean to say that Snap won't cross the chasm, just that it hasn't yet.

If it had, its position against Facebook would have been strong enough that Facebook would not have been able to clone its core feature into Instagram and cause Snap's growth to stall.

Twitter is a more interesting question.

Twitter's product and position are unique, yes, but IMHO, the company pursued a market (advertising) where they had no clear advantages over Google or Facebook.

The result of that mistake has been stagnation. Barely evolving product, flat user growth, declining revenue growth, and no clear path to long term profitability.

In other words, Twitter not only did not cross the chasm...they fell into it and got stuck.
> A cryptocurrency that scales it's size in rough proportion to its trading and thus keeps prices in check with maybe slight inflation would be interesting.

These already exist, with all kinds of incentive schemes and target inflation rates. If you're saying that deflationary Bitcoins can't possibly "win" in the long term, but something else could, I guess it's plausible and I don't know a lot about that.

I do know that Bitcoin was started partly in protest of inflationary Fed policy.
> reference counting is part of what makes removing the GIL such a challenge

Interesting, I would have expected that switching reference counting to atomic operations would be pretty trivial. What about CPython's design complicates this?
Indeed. Flesh is some pretty impressive nanotech.
This is what sounds to me the reason smart contracts exist. But maybe that's just a different method for accomplishing the same thing?

Anybody have any idea what the main distinction [if any] would be here?
I had a very similar issue (running e18s) with uBlock Origin after restoring my computer from backups.

I narrowed down the problem to that add on by selectively disabling them.

Uninstalling and reinstalling uBlock fixed it.

YMMV, but figured I ought to speak up :)
But deflation of a cryptocurrency is not general deflation in the economy, because there are lots of cryptocurrencies and we can make more whenever we want. It's not like the gold standard, it's like Hayek's vision of privately-issued competing currencies.