skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or perhaps people get quickly tired of the same formulaic garbage. Endless superhero movies in every scene that go exposition, cgi action, witty one liner. Repeat.

That nearly every 3 minute pop track follows the same formula as the scenes in every James Bond movie.

Some things are just popular. Snakes and ladders technically isn't a game. You have ZERO agency in the outcome of events but it's based upon a game that's been played at least since the Indus Valley Civilisation 3000 BC. It's when committees and statisticians get involved that the fun goes away. Hence the endless reboots and sequels of exponentially more funding yet almost always fall short of the originals.
the gp means General A.I. aka Artificial general intelligence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_general_intelligenc...
So if I have coin on, say, coinbase, what should I do? Should I withdraw it to a wallet before August 1, so I can access both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash?
Thanks for the feedback! Definitely not planning to trick anybody, we’re just trying to keep the top navigation simple. We’re actually also considering moving the blog and support links to the footer. But we’ll keep an eye on it!
> IMO, the biggest problem is software startups unwillingness to hire other types of engineers.

As someone who co-started (and later sold) a small privately funded company doing embedded software development about 15 years ago I think I can give some insight. We were a 3-person startup, all with a software background. Most we knew was how to use a multimeter and solder a jtag or DB9 connector, which we also needed on a regular basis - but that was about the extent of our knowledge.

One of our very early projects however involved requiring some custom hardware. So we started looking for electrical engineers, and quickly found out we were absolutely clueless about how to interview or evaluate these people. With one guy we interviewed it 'clicked' - and after talking to him, we quickly realized we knew nothing about hardware design, production and everything involved. We would have hired him, but he was very honest about thinking that would be a bad idea and rejected our offer. Looking back, he was absolutely right. You don't just need electrical engineers, you need people with experience in production, hw testing and following up on all those things.

We ended up outsourcing the hardware design and production to another company, and actually recommended them the guy we found, who ended doing most of the design for our project. Stick to what you know best, if you're small and need hardware designed, try to find a company that can do this and believes in what you're trying to achieve. It's easy to lose focus when you suddenly have to learn a bunch of new things - which includes failing a lot, something you can't afford in a startup.
A high end Ferrari goes for about $400,000. So $10,000 is only about $4 billion. For Gates at least, he could do both.
Why don't they just go make their own coin? Nobody is going to have confidence in a currency if the threat of forking is constantly over it's head.
Postmark has been excellent for me. Transactional only. I believe you get 25,000 emails for free, and then very reasonable after that.
If he can't transform into a God Bird he's not a real god :P

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYRYcEw0svE&feature=youtu.be...
I'm using a Pi to capture the speeds and pictures of cars as they travel down my road. We then report the speeders to local law enforcement. I recently decided to expand to a 9 camera system (8 security cameras and 1 piCamera) and start capturing video, stills, speeds and car data. I then am able to show that the same car speeds everyday (or however often) and have a lot of useful data to hand over. My next step is to mount a large display on my property that shows the cars in big numbers just how fast they are going.
Well, a loan would have set terms and schedules of repayment and default.

For investors, the 3x & 20% figures I gave are not formalized terms of payback. Instead, they are desirable financial targets for the investor so they can be considered a prestigious firm that attracts capital from more limited partners. Slack won't be in "default" if they provide 0% return to Softbank. However, future limited partners like university endowments or police/firemen pensions will avoid underperforming VCs that deliver low or negative returns. (If VCs don't perform to expecations, the market will punish them and they will shut down.[1])

To trace the causal chain, VCs want 20%+ because your grandmother and her pension plan investing in the VCs want 20%.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/death-of-venture-capital-2011...
I think I am misunderstanding you, but isn't paragraph 2 an argument for staying in normal Chrome OS (as this article suggests) instead of enabling developer mode?
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

- Henry J. Heinz
In Firefox Developer Edition everything happens faster than in regular Firefox, though they seem to end at the same result. I wonder why that is. Animation doesn't seem much faster.

I think the "neither instance seems to actually make physical sense" is due to a lack of friction.
Go also returns 0.

https://play.golang.org/p/M_AJXIBAeX
A basic primer is linked below for you. I'm sure you'll have wonderful, super duper insightful, and super smart commentary on it. Looking forward to it!

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/theory/marxism.html
FYI: I created an app that converts any YouTube channel into a podcast. Just type 'epi' right before 'youtube' in the channel url.

https://github.com/amtopel/epi
Have a look at The Spider Network by David Enrich. Real eye opener.

But a long way from MS Paint.
> Some adblocker decided to remove that div. The script then failed to grab that div for the reminder of the animation.

Blockers do not remove DOM elements, they just apply a `display: none;` style property to them.
What do you think the exchanges will do here (aka Coinbase) [Yes I know you should pull all your BTC off...].

If there is a hard fork, are they just going to wait until the dust settles and then give people access to both coins? I.E. BCC would magically appear in your account. Or do they seriously intend to not support one of the chains and just have all their users holding BTC worth X% less?
I don't feel I have anything to prove to you, one way or the other.

Either HN readers will see the validity of what I'm saying or they won't.

When someone goes into every interaction with a chip on their shoulder, there's no satisfying them.
For quick jobs, you can look for contract opportunities. Especially in software development, there should be plenty. Sometimes it might be worth to think about lowering your rate in order to secure something and build some trust/goodwill first before then raising your rate. Note that I'm not saying lowering your rate to the point that it's dirt cheap - just low enough to get something going to build trust with a client.

Look at all the job postings for contractors and freelancers and start with those. Build up your portfolio and share your skills online.

What I've also done is track relationships, make notes and pay attention to details using a self-made app. It helps keep me organized. I started off with a spreadsheet but it became too cumbersome and I needed to make sure I maintained relationships with my previous clients while still on contract so I can minimize the time where I have no work.
You can, but only using the Apple Music app. I've asked Google Play music repeatedly to have something similar on the watch, but they don't seem to care. Like you, I wanted to have ONLY my watch while running (I like to minimize any external clothing/devices while doing so).

So what I do now is use an armband as a place to keep my iPhone while running or exercising. The watch DOES let you seek forward/back once you have any music app playing (this works for podcasts as well) so effectively, I use the watch as a convenient "controller" for my iPhone.

Protip if you're oncall/devops: I LOVE the watch when running because I can quickly acknowledge pages from PagerDuty since you can scribble and send text right from the watch itself. Once ack'd, I finish my run and get back to handling the page
Anybody can run a LN hub just as easily as they can run a Bitcoin node. You don't need to be a company to run a LN hub.
CakePHP 3.5.0-RC1 Released
I wasn't able to find actual data on his performance, what I found is that: "Cascade does not publicly disclose its performance results". If someone has actual numbers I'd be happy to see them.
us-west-2 (Oregon) and us-east-2 (Ohio) are the same price as us-east-1 (Virginia). At least that's true for most resources, I didn't check the full price list.

I don't know about Ohio since I don't use it, but we've had far fewer problems in us-west-2 than in us-east-1
Facebook social engineering is hardly government espionage. I would expect that every country is doing stuff like this. Where are the real spies and what are they doing?
Angular and React and node.js
Are the TDP figures to be trusted? How does the heat produced compare with Intel offerings? The last time I bought an AMD my PC felt like a hair dryer, will I regret going AMD again?
> There's simply not enough incentives for Bitcoin users to spawn a node so most people prefer to use a light wallet.

Bitcoin users are important economic entities.

There is no distinction between a "consumer" and a "business" in Bitcoin. Everyone is a user. Everyone sends and receives payments.
Push notifications are the new pop-up window. When every app has and uses push notifications, it makes any app having them almost pointless unless you deny half of the push notification requests you get.
Better Exploration with Parameter Noise
The cost per byte would go down but the number of bytes would go up.
Thanks for the clarification! I interpreted Rails as 'Rails' not 'Rail's' and 'template' as a verb (sorry for the specifics, but I'm at a linguistics conference after all). I've been using Pyramid/Pylons recently and particularly happy with the experience so far. Not sure why it's not more popular, although it's also not particularly a bad thing this is the case.
nearly all technological improvements are built, at their core, on work that was done by publicly-funded research or volunteer/non-profit work. the internet is a good example
If you want to look at precedence or what other people have done successfully in this space check out http://brm.io/matter-js/ matter JS. It's pretty sweet.
Personally i have found that the problem with programming these days is not the language, but finding a solid reference for all the libraries.
ES6 for a React frontend (probably with some gradual migration to TypeScript where possible), either Ruby/Grape/ROM or Kotlin/Dropwizard/Kwery for the backend.

I tried, I legit tried, to go with TypeScript on the backend. But SQL is a continual sticking point in Node; Active Record is bad-and-wrong (immutability removes such classes of failure as to be a no-brainer) so Sequelize has minimal value to me and TypeORM, which definitely has a more reasonable approach with its data mapper design (though it then also commits the sin of decorating your entities), doesn't...seem to...work very well yet? It's early for them, so not throwing any shade. The lower-level libraries will result in me basically reinventing the world for them, and...well...no. Ruby and ROM are as close to doing-it-right as I know, but I think I want a type system to catch my stupid mistakes and Kwery, while immature, does work very well and doesn't rely on object metadata or annotation in order to do its thing.
FireEye FLARE VM: for malware analysis, incident response and penetration testing
Not everyone running a node has a plethora of available resources for it. It would be great if we could keep scaling bitcoin by just increasing the blocksize, but by the time you get to a block size like 8MB or 32MB, things get really difficult.

From a Bitfury paper on the subject [1]:

8MB blocksize requires: 411GB/year extra space, 1184kB/s average bandwidth, 35.4TB/year bandwidth, and 32GB RAM.

If that isn't enough to scale, which it won't be if Bitcoin is to fulfill its goals of being able to compete with the currently leading payment networks, take a look at something like 32MB blocks:

32MB blocksize requires: 1643GB/year extra space, 4736kB/s average bandwidth, 141TB/year bandwidth, and 128GB RAM.

Although these numbers are possible to meet, it's obvious that not everyone is going to have hardware like this just to run a Bitcoin node. So it's predicted that so many nodes will be excluded for larger blocksizes (90%+), that the decentralization will take a huge blow.

[1] http://bitfury.com/content/5-white-papers-research/block-siz..., page 4
Adding Docker CE to CentOS 7.3 is broken
running this command:

yum-config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

getting this error:

Could not fetch/save url https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo to file /etc/yum.repos.d/docker-ce.repo: [Errno 12] Timeout on https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo: (28, 'timed out before SSL handshake')
I think most people don't realize just how much money the richest people have. People generally think of normal(ish) distributions like height, where if you're 10% taller or shorter than average, you're a tall or short person, and 40% taller makes you the tallest person in the world. In comparison, wealth has a very, very long tail, making it hard to comprehend.

Here's what I've come up with to visualize wealth in the United States. Suppose you start counting, going up by 1 million dollars every second, and people sit down when you reach their net worth. Most people will sit down immediately. After about 9 seconds, people in the "1%" will start sitting down. Near the 17 minute mark, billionaires would start sitting down. Donald Trump would sit down just before the hour mark. A day later - an hour and 10 minutes into the second day of billionaires sitting down - Bill Gates would sit, followed by Jeff Bezos just three minutes later.

The point of this is there's a huge range of billionaires (analogous to comparing 17 minutes to a day). The 1% hardly even registers on this scale (a few seconds). (I should also mention that there should be huge error bars on reported net worth numbers.)
Author here. Curious how many on HN knew anything about the various hacks Cubans use to get online: the 'paquete' (a giant sneakernet), or SNET (a respectably large adhoc mesh network covering a good chunk of the island).
Total Solar Eclipses, Visualized and Animated
That argument would hold more water if the economy were a zero-sum game.

It's fine if the wealthy choose to give away some or all of their wealth, but it must be voluntary. Anything else is called "theft" - or the closely related concept of "taxation".
Transaction fees would go down while the cost of operating a fully validating node would go up.
I was tasked with finding an internal knowledge base solution for our small development team last year. I stumbled across Nuclino and we've been very happy users since last December.

I think what makes it so great is just the pure simplicity. I absolutely hate dealing with all the cruft of Wikis and similar solutions. With Nuclino we just go and write the information down without all the hassle.

Couldn't recommend it more, keep up the good work.
Users don't have to run a full node to use it though. I'd bet that most users just use a 3rd party web wallet (such as Coinbase), and thus are contributing nothing to the network in terms of decentralization.
> What do you think the exchanges will do here (aka Coinbase)

Here's what they say: https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/284421...

Notably:

> Coinbase will not support the new blockchain or its associated coin.
Interesting, I hadn't thought of using forms-mode to do that. It doesn't seem to support it out of the box – are you writing other functions to dump the results of a postgres query into a file, and then using forms-mode to edit that?

Editing and entering structured data is still one of the most annoying tasks I do, and I still don't have a good solution to it.
peep the faggot OP
As someone who first used Rails on the very day it was open sourced, built many Rails applications over the years, worked with other technologies in the meantime, and have recently returned to working on a Rails app I have been somewhat disappointed about the productivity compared to what I became used to.

If all you have is a plain old text editor, you may still have a point, but I feel like the time-saving tooling (static analysis, etc.) in other systems have improved considerably over the years and the Ruby/Rails ecosystem hasn't kept up nearly as well.
You are not alone. The community and... apparently AMD as well are working on it.
tl;dr: there is a machine hang problem and a spurious segfault problem. Both have maybe acceptable almost reliable workarounds. AMD takes RMAs. For most(? - at least some) people the replacement CPU is without the known problems.
https://community.amd.com/thread/215773
To add to that...Tesla is worth more than General Motors. The market cap for Tesla is $57 billion. General Motors is $52 billion.

General Motors produced 10 million cars in 2015 (per Wikipedia). Tesla produced 47,000 so far in 2017.

I understand the stock market is 'forward looking'...but huge difference there.
Who's making good portable digital music players nowadays? In particular, looking for a replacement for the iPod classic.
Whoa, easy there on the css effects. Might come out a bit silly otherwise.

http://imgur.com/a/Dk9Jl

(No, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight - this is a 100% crop from Chrome.)
This Is How a CEO Tells a Great Story
That's basically Roko's basilisk, isn't it?
Most of those people are have a low tweet frequency though.(it would be great if Twitter provided better statistical insight into these matters)

if people start spamming or their signal/noise ratio goes down I unfollow them quite quickly.
I would not keep coins sitting in coinbase either way, so the decision is easy. Move it off. If you aren't planning on selling anytime soon then do it to a paper wallet or get a Trezor or the like if you want to actually use your coins.

But don't trust any third party with your coins, especially Coinbase which isn't sharing the private keys with you.
Inescapable, Influential, Misused: The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment
Down-voting for disagreement was specifically countenanced by pg, as I learnt when I complained in the past.

Here's an example post about this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3760275.

I still think it's broken. A slight fix would be to only grey-out flagged comments and use a separate (or no) way of indicating a comment is down-voted. Grouping poor comments so tightly with unpopular comments is moronic IMO.
Right, and that's a lot like agreeing on an acquisition price in the case of a merger. There too stock in the acquired company is commonly traded for stock in the acquiring company at agreed upon prices.

And technically, I think it must remain possible as long as you can always simply issue a new token with a certain starting distribution.
Many (most?) people have a 1TB/mo cap.
Still wrapping my head around the Bitcoin ecosystem, but listened to an interview of Nick Szabo by Tim Ferris where Nick pretty explicitly indicates that increasing the block size isn't a good idea and shouldn't even be a debate. He makes it sound like anyone in the "know" understands this.

What is the argument for the other side?

A Reddit post has the quote here, but I recommend the whole interview.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6fhmge/nick_szabo_...

https://tim.blog/2017/06/04/nick-szabo/
"To read news on this site, you must give permission to:
Your phone
Your camera
All your files
"
I've never seen that on a web app, but it's de rigeur for native mobile.
Everything you said is correct AFAIK.

> It's not clear to me why an increase to 2 or 4MB wasn't done though. Perhaps to force the issue?

Yes, and it seems also out of spite. They could have increased to 2MB in order to avoid the horrible congestion on the network for a couple years. Once that was in place, they could have continued the SegWit work.

In fact, originally, everyone was in support of SegWit. Even the big-blocks camp (we can see that from the New York Agreement, where virtually the whole industry supported both big-blocks and SegWit). The only reason so many like Bitcoin Cash are against it today is because the debate has become emotionally-charged and us-versus-them. SegWit is an all-around good idea.

But the Core developers held out from a blocksize increase because, once they had declared that going from 1MB -> 2MB would be the end of the world, the network would become "centralized", etc, they didn't want to walk it back and simply compromise.

IMO, this is the main reason the ecosystem is migrating to Ethereum. It's not because of the Turing-complete scripting that is possible on Ehtereum, it's because development has been a lot more sane.

Despite the problems they've had (e.g. the DAO), the Ethereum ecosystem is more diverse and professional. They rationally discuss problems and make tradeoffs. They encourage alternate implementations, whereas the Core folks have engaged in baseless fear tactics to ensure theirs is the only implementation on the network[0] (and not talking about protocol changes--simply alternate implementations of the same protocols and consensus rules).

I think unless these leadership problems are addressed somehow, Bitcoin is going to fade into obscurity as others, like Ethereum, lead the way.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160316061949/https://blog.conf...

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EDIT: Corrected "Bitcoin ABC" to "Bitcoin Cash"
The argument is that higher cost of node operation is actually what kills the "peer to peer aspect." Trustless second layer networks such as Lightning use "third parties" to route money across the network, but never in a trusted/custodial fashion.
Or... perhaps those companies are just able to paper over MySQL's deficiencies at a lower cost than switching to Postgres with a product that's already in production. MySQL is very, very well-documented to be a poor database engine that does some terrible things with your data without warning.

There's several good alternatives - Postgres being free, MS SQL Server being a reasonable paid-for option, and there's Oracle and IBM's database systems at the high end.

One of the only reasons to develop a new project for MySQL (assuming your developers are at all capable of writing queries for Postgres, which is hopefully the case) is that you know your deployment environment is going to have MySQL. Which is probably the case here - LAMP is still a popular stack among PHP developers, so there's a very good chance that anyone wanting to deploy Ghost already has a MySQL server.
How to launder $4B worth of Bitcoin
Ravens OL John Urschel, 26, retires abruptly, two days after CTE study
Yep. You're right, it doesn't mean anything.

What they're trying to say is they'll support multiple implementations of the software on the same network (unlike Bitcoin ABC, which is a fork of the software and a fork of the network).

But Bitcoin already supports that too. There is bitcoin core, bitcoin knots, bitcoinj, btc1, bitcore all running on the same network.
Any effort to understand the political divide over health care inevitably turns up the pioneering study — and its susceptibility to partisan spin.
Even if we start describing things in the way the Author states, it won't really make a difference.

Real or not, the effects are what matter. The literal description of the thing won't change how we interact with the thing.

The only way to prevent information overload is through self discipline. That's a conscious choice to make, and it won't be made by simply re-naming "news feed" to "bullshit" or something similar.
Usually when you do that, you get another version of the same item back. I highly doubt that the IRS will share your view.