skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For what it's worth, there are many different types of cryptocurrency enthusiasts, and trying to lump them all together is going to yield a ton of contradictory statements. Many see Bitcoin as a "disruption" of banking, or credit card companies, or Western Union, or gift cards, or contract law, or existing settlement/clearing systems, etc. But what I see Bitcoin disrupting is _central_ banking. The genesis block for Bitcoin doesn't say "visa transaction fees are too high", it says "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks".

What happened to the outrage at the bailouts in the 2008 crisis? How have we completely forgotten that? Opinions differ as to the underlying causes of the 2008 crisis: was it reckless bankers and insurers, was it criminal bankers and insurers, was it the repeal of Glass-Steagall? Many people, myself included, place the blame squarely in the hands of central bankers. The crisis was created by them, and then glossed over by them by throwing money at the people who took the most advantage of their manipulations.

The problem is not that someone else should be in charge of central banking, it's that _nobody_ should be in charge of central banking -- the central banking, really, and the notion of a "lender of last resort" should simply not exist. Part and parcel of that is that we need a new currency -- one that cannot be created on a whim based on some "understanding" of macroeconomics that is completely incorrect. The goal here is so absurdly ambitious that people have stopped talking about it -- replacing Visa is nothing; Visa can exist and spend Bitcoins, just as Visa can (and does) exist and spend Euros and Yen and whatever the hell you want. But Bitcoin is the first serious attempt to make a currency that is independent of central bank manipulation (second, I guess, if you count gold).

> There aren't many legit use cases where bitcoin beats fiat nowadays

So here's the use case -- the US government cannot literally quadruple the amount of bitcoins in existence in order to pay off a bunch of bankers who lost their shirts, and a bunch of auto manufacturers that lost their ability to compete. I get it, this is not going to make it easier to buy your coffee, or whatever "mainstream" means to you. And there's a good chance that Bitcoin will not topple the Federal Reserve or the European Central Bank, or whatever, but it's an avenue to start opting out of a financial system that is increasingly dependent on massive government actions, and supporting the massive covert and overt international economic warfare being waged in our name, supporting the contemptible level of corporate welfare that threatens to undermine those aspects of our government that are essential to a free society, and resisting the attempts to use inflation as a hidden form of super-duper-regressive taxation to punish those who try to save money.
You laugh but it is no laughing matter. Securities fraud is a big problem, which is why the SEC takes it so seriously.
I've been using a standing desk for about three years. At first I used two anti-fatigue mats, doubled-up. I found one mat wasn't enough, and three felt like I was floating (hard on the ankles, like walking on sand).

Then about a year ago I tried going without, and found I didn't need them anymore.

So basically I suggest using them when you're getting started, but after that do whatever works for you.
This is false.

There are many types of targeted attacks on passwords that don't come close to including state-level actors. Divorces. Corporate Espionage. Any one of the people on Judge Judy who posted information online about their co-workers.
Which adds further proof to my theory that all JS is bad.

First, it would display gibberish w/o JS enabled, after enabling it froze the browser for 5 seconds before continuing to load the content.
I'll have a crack at it.

ICO's like with most new tech are going to be plagued with get rich quick schemes, and there's a lot of FUD going on, but the concept it's great. When you have a token, in a given platform, you align the incentives of the people using that. It encourages people that are part of the network to create value for it, since it also impacts positively on their money.

Take decentralized storage platforms for example, Storj, FileCoin, Swarm, IPFS. It's a software that you install in your computer, you asign how much disk space you are willing to contribute, and in return it pays you in that network token. People that wants to save their info on the platform, have to use the same token.

I've been part of the bitcoin economy since 2013 and i've seen a lot of shitty and awesome projects alike. Right now is the wild west, because since there is no legal framework, the regulation has to be as well self created by the ecosystem. So , I think in around a year or two, we'll start seeing a much better ecosystem, with more knowledge, and less scams. It just takes time.
I think it's simple: fat unhealthy men have lower sperm counts and America has way more fat unhealthy men over the last 40 years. Doesn't look like the meta analysis dealt with this.
As someone who wrote a newspaper column for the Chicago Tribune in 2013 titled "Why Bitcoins aren't Tulips" this particular argument is starting to get a bit tiresome at this point.

Fine- Let's just call them "tulips" so we can all go home and enjoy the sunny weather today.
Nothing in particular. I just wanted a way to view the temperature and humidity in my apartment when I'm out. Also I wanted to know what affects the humidity in my apartment and by how much (for example, you can see when I take my morning shower). In the future I may use the data to control a humidifier to turn it on whenever the humidity drops below a certain level.
I think it was an unintended consequence of the wording chosen by the ANSI C89 committee. The reality of pre-ANSI C was that if you wrote ‘+’, the expectation was that you'd get the target machine's ‘add’ instruction, no more and no less. It might overflow, it might not; it might crash or hang your machine on overflow or trap values — but that is all your problem, not the language's or compiler's. I worked on a commercial compiler at the time, and at the time, people took ‘undefined behaviour’ as acknowledgement that sometimes the effect of generated code could be surprising to people unfamiliar with the particular system, not as encouragement to screw the programmer.
Proxy Re-Encryption Playground in Python
Having a certification can help in some rare cases, but it is by no means necessary. For reference I have never taken an AWS certification exam in my life, but my career so far has taken me from college dropout, to working at a startup that was interested in migrating to AWS, to working as a senior developer, then a backend system architect and team lead, and finally I ended up with a position working at AWS (on the EC2 Container Service team).

It's not about the credentials as much as it is about how well you can explain what you know in an interview. Any decent company would rather hire the person who is fluent and well spoken about what they know about AWS over the person who has a certification but lacks the communication skills. So the best way to get hired is to practice explaining (and whiteboard diagramming) what you know about AWS, and also detailing why what you know can be really helpful to a company's business. That will give you much more of an advantage than a certification will.
The title is a bit click-baity. The tl;dr is that rest and breaks from work are essential to sustaining effort, especially for intrinsically motivated people who have tendencies to over-work themselves.
> silly situations like being half-way on the wrong lane while passing a green light

You're not supposed to change lanes in an intersection. It's confusing to people trying to turn and figure out what lane you're in. This is why they fine that activity.
Ruby on Rails is out: major coding bootcamp ditches it, due to waning interest
You can't give your implant to someone else very easily.
I was going to say that this isn't new nor limited to the SF tech industry. It has been common throughout the US for at least 30 years.
No.

This is not a cryptographic attack on the hash but on the text that is being hashed.
> Both give total control of head unit experience to Apple or Google.

Which is to say they give total control to the device the user already has and uses everywhere else, so that they get a consistent experience. Anything the auto vendor provides will never be able to match that.
> embed the "legacy" address space

They did. Every IPv4 address is in a reserved area of the IPv6 address space.

a.b.c.d # v4
::FFFF:a.b.c.d # v6

http://www.tcpipguide.com/free/t_IPv6IPv4AddressEmbedding-2....

> software could be, technically, all-v6 all-the-time by now.

I started using v6 in the late 90s.

Software developed post-2000(-ish) should already be compatible. Unfortunately, there are a lot of developers that think this is hard/impossible (or they are lazy), and so we have software that is defunct by design.

> that address would be all you need

Regardless of how the address was represented, software would still need to be updated.
Studded tires, like the Schwalbe Marathon Winter, are pretty popular amongst winter commuters here in Montreal.
i blame skinny jeans. stop wearing skinny jeans if you want to save humanity.
If we have an AGI equivalent to a mouse, wouldn't it iterate itself to a human intelligence pretty rapidly? Safeguards and intelligent thinking now could be the difference between:

Mouse -> cat -> shark -> Evil human mastermind -> problems

and:

Mouse -> cat -> dolphin -> helpful friendly human -> better world

The end situation is highly theoretical, but a self-modifying AGI will think differently than a human does, so it's hard to predict what could happen with our existing preconditions. With such a broad range of potential divergence, and a steep difference in desirability of potential outcomes, it seems reasonable to ask some pointed questions sooner rather than later.
I cannot imagine any way of practical (ab)using this flexibility that could not be covered in Python with its only way of handling arguments.
I remember back when I was a kid it was often talked about in certain circles that the mark of the beast that is discussed in the Book of Revalations of the Bible would be a microchip planted in the back of your palm.

The Book talks about how those who fail to get the mark will be outcast and unable to function in society. So it was said (in these circles) that it is likely these chips will be used as a kind of credid card, and without one you will not be able to conduct any financial transactions such as buy food etc..

It is the start of the end times!
Show HN: Auto-updated docker image combos (e.g. python+node)
Interview: How to pique your curiosity in cryptography
No. Birthrates have been dropping, but this makes getting pregnant less predictable. There are other forces at work reducing the birthrate, and I think those would be enough without complicating people's lives.
In order to be punished for a false accusation, prosecutors would have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that you lied. If the prosecutor can prove that, you should have the book thrown at you. Making a false accusation is a very serious thing; it's an attack on someone else's life.
At this point in my career I've reached a salary plateau for the technical track. Short of landing a high-profile project at one of the major tech firms the ~6%-7% raises I've had the last couple of years are about the max of what I might expect from a "hop." Instead I'm looking to both exit this industry completely and, while I build the cushion necessary to do so, switch to management (which has ample support, currently).
Yes. They could open those hyperloop tunnels for commuting, when there are no vehicles coming. With some snorkel equipment everything is possible.
What's more, almost all content in Minetest is implemented as a mod with this Lua API. So, you can really do essentially anything you want. Changing a crafting recipe or what a block drops when mined, is a matter of five minutes. Don't know the scope of Teachcraft, but I doubt it's as big.

And also in my opinion really important, is that Minetest is a real thing. What you're writing isn't some elusive Scratch project that you're gonna find several years later collecting dust on your hard drive, nor is it some Python thingamabob that you've glued onto Minecraft. Your mod is something that you can use as long as you're using Minetest (which itself is something that you will always be able to use, as it's out there for free) and your mod is something that you can post on the Minetest forum to share with others. That, at least to me, makes a huge motivational difference.
No, I don't think you should write a blog post, that is possibly what the author is hoping you will do. Then they can use it to claim you're being insensitive to important racial issues, etc. It's a trap.
Conservatives must reboot capitalism
I agree. Another group that is socially acceptable to generalize is "whoever does not think like me and my bubble people." (noting that my statement applies to both bubbles)
HN isn't in the mood for levity today....
Me, albeit a small project, it was really fun to work on; it was an interactive blog.
I don't think there's a way to become involved with HARC directly, unfortunately, but it's really not important to work with them.

An analogous question for music would be something like a musician asking how to work with the Velvet Underground because they want to innovate musically. The answer is right in front of you: start researching. You don't need a degree; you don't need a company. Just look at the pain points, explore previous research, try to find some insight (was something not tried or missed?) and develop it. Just because you haven't done anything like it before doesn't hurt you and could, in fact, let you bring a fresh viewpoint in.
Not sure why the above fact is being discredited or not deemed as a worthy contribution to the conversation?
After debating and procrastinating, I finally got a standing desk. (Ikea) Should have done it a long time ago. I have a floor mat was well. I usually stand during the day and sit / stand at night.

People should note that with any new position it takes a little time for your body to adjust to the new position. So if you are standing, your legs will hurt for a week or two. But then you will get over it.
FTA: "The results, published in the journal Human Reproduction Update, showed a 52.4 percent decline in sperm concentration and a 59.3 percent decline in total sperm count among North American, European, Australian and New Zealand men."
Standing desk doesn't mean you stand for 8 hours a day. And standing for 2-4 iirc is perfectly fine. Nothing wrong with standing for short periods of time and breaking up the standing with sitting. Some people, like me, also enjoy the standing portions. Being in different positions literally gives me different perspectives on problems at times that I'm feeling lethargic / uninterested and helps me (personally) work better.

You do you, I'm glad it works, but sit/standing can be done healthily too.
One time I was so irritated with security questions when registering online with a financial organization that I answered "I fu_____ hate these g______ fu_____ security s_____ questions" (use your imagination on the blanks) and tacked on a trailing random number string. And dutifully recorded that answer in my password manager. Done!

Well, about 3 years later, I had to complete a financial transaction over the phone. Out of the blue, the young lady asks me for my challenge answer. Oh my, I was so embarrassed by the quiet snickering and muted snorting when I read her my answer.
Oh god, don't get me started on Toyota's infotainment system. It is absolutely horrible. Clunky and slow interface, unnecessary restrictions.
Good luck being the world policeman and shutting down ICOs (most of which copied ethereum's model and are based in Switzerland), and the investors. The SEC is there to ensure bankers and early investors (those who by virtue of large wealth are "accredited" to invest early and make out with most gains) get the largest piece of the pie of any IPO. ICOs liberalize this landscape.
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What I learned from giving $600 to AWS to run a benchmark on a 400 node cluster
Well I'm still buying a small amount of bitcoin every week, and ethereum every two weeks. I have an automatic purchase set up, and I've been doing that for over a year now. If the market does good or bad, it doesn't matter, I'm still investing the same amount. It just means I get a little more or less fractions of a coin that week.

I'm using the concept of dollar cost averaging and holding long term to help minimize the risk I'm taking, but I am certainly taking a risk. I did make a larger purchase early on with Ethereum but I'm still buying now.

My point is, if you bought two months ago when it was near its peak, and panic sold two weeks ago during the middle of the crypto downturn, you might be looking at things a bit too short term. I made a larger investment during a downturn two years ago and watched my investment go down to 25% of what I paid, and stay there for over a year, but now two years later it's up 300%.

You need to be patient and only invest what you can afford to lose, just like any other investment.

That being said, I don't disagree with you in regards to ICOs or the speculation on some altcoins feeling like the penny stock market. It absolutely does, and I mostly stay out of that (I have put small investments into some 'penny altcoins'). But I mostly stick to the big three (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin).
No! Low population growth leads to a smaller labour force, and a growing elderly demographic. It's not a solution to overpopulation.
One idea I've heard is that Wall Street has solved this problem in the form of bonuses.

If companies want their talent to stick around, a bonus structure would go along way, especially since a quick job move can get a person $10k bump.
Capping uploads for Wikipedia Zero to a reasonable limit per user wouldn't work?
I have a sit/stand varidesk. I find myself being lazy with posture when sitting, which leads to neck/shoulder problems. Being able to stand helps this immensely, however I do about 1 hour standing, then 30-45 sitting (meetings, lunch, sometimes work from sitting position). I do tend to shift a bit while standing, and the choice of shoes becomes important.

Definitely would not go back to just sitting.
> That's certainly a fine position to take but it doesn't change the results of the study

One might reasonably expect that if I wanted to comment on the broader issue of the study rather than the issues of polygraphs, I would.have done so.

HN discussion threads aren't simple two-sided structured debates, and there are reasons to respond to comments besides rebuttal to the central thesis of the comment to which a response is offered.
That's where Ford gets it right. They too are working on SmartDeviceLink, but also offer AA and Carplay so consumers have a choice. Toyota are currently offering nothing usable, and plan to one day only offer SmartDeviceLink.

I love Toyota's vehicles (reliability, looks, features, safety, etc). But when our Prius V gets replaced, we won't even consider Toyota as their infotainment units are antiquated, voice recognition terrible, and smartphone connectivity non-existent.

Toyota reminds me a lot of Nintendo, in the sense that neither company really grasps how consumer behaviour has changed with smartphones, digital services, and the cloud. Toyota are literally losing sales due to their obstinance on this, all to save a few dollars in navigation upgrades.
> is it something that any similar language would have to contend with?

it's something any language could _potentially_ have to deal with. C's penchant for undefined behavior comes from two factors, i think:

1. it's ancient. we've learned a lot of lessons since its inception about how to design a language. it also comes from a time when CPU architectures varied wildly -- even within a given manufacturer's product line.

2. the developer culture during the time when C was being designed was of the "i don't want a language to tell me how to write code. if it's possible in assembly, i want to be able to do it in C." mentality.

> is that because the problem really is intractable?

by "safer C", i assume you're talking about the likes of rust et al.

C is used largely in the embedded space, and the embedded space, i think, is notoriously stuck in their ways. most embedded projects accrue a lot of third-party code (the kernel being a big one) and that code is written in C. so you already need C developers. why wander into unexplored territory, especially when it's at the cost of an additional necessary skill from your developers?
It will kill my fiber to the home network box that my telco installed, and provides DHCP. It isn't a load issue, it is a "the DHCP server died" issue.
What an incredibly toxic, and factually incorrect, mindset to hold.
It will kill my fiber to the home network box that my telco installed, and provides DHCP. It isn't a load issue, it is a "the DHCP server died" issue
I started using a treadmill desk in 2007 and switched to simply standing around 2011. I like it largely because it helps counteract lulls in energy, e.g. after lunch.

Your ability to concentrate while standing will improve over time, but for certain tasks like intense coding, I often prefer to sit, even after this many years.

I have an Ikea Bekant desk with motorized adjustment and probably alternate 2-3 times a day.
We can only hope. This would be a great example of natural selection at work if fat unhealthy people couldn't reproduce and thinner healthy people could.
No there's no evidence to indicate that would happen. Mice have been around for a long time. How much smarter is a mouse today relative to a mouse a million years ago? And why would a simple mouse level AGI have the intelligence to improve its own abilities?
Which is one of six ... not quite "most" in my book.

Yeah, that's the only one where I can see a use for security purposes, but even then, that's not the only reason why it's used.
Difference in cultural expectations? If these sorts of skills are deemed important (for a significant period of history) I don't see why the nurture couldn't affect the nature in the long run though. I wonder what the math talents of Asian children adopted into families with different parental expectations are like, on average.
Yes, obviously. They both make head unit more appealing to the user. The cost for car vendors here is that they are suddenly dependent on a third party if they want to push any features on top of that experience.
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The brokerage only owns the stocks in your account if you enable margin on the account (you dont even need to use margin, if you enable margin they own what's in the account and if they go bankrupt your account is gone too).

If you keep margin disabled, you'll eventually get it all back even if the brokerage goes bankrupt.

During the financial crisis, I asked a broker to disable margin on my account (never used it anyway). It took weeks before that happened. Some "technical holdup" that they assured me had nothing to do with loaning or pledging the contents of my account.
Pretty awesome this can be done in one command. At Kyso we deploy a lot of data-science images to GCP, it can be tricky.

Is the API support for this coming?
If this works as advertised, it's awesome. It's like AWS lambda, without language restrictions, CPU or RAM throttling, etc. Truly serverless
Optimizing our website at the millisecond level
Old is relative, but there aren't many alternatives to Tcl that are older.
"How does £35k sound?" "Like a three day week."
If they had that much money, keeping it all in an exchange instead of a wallet is a very foolish thing to do.

It was also known that MtGox was having problems months before they halted withdrawals.
Why I Program in Erlang (2012)