skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like the big worry would be getting undercut by cheaper alternatives, as happened with some kinds of solar when the prices dropped.

On the other hand, if you compare the risk of getting stranded to a big nuclear plant, it probably looks a lot better in comparison.
idk, perhaps passwords?
People who are stressed out have hypertension and will look for ways to take stress away specifically using marijuana for that purpose. I wonder if that was factored in as you might have a pre-existing condition to make you more susceptible to hypertension. This type of study is questionable to me as it would be better to have a controlled double-blind study rather than manipulating data alone via questionaire.
I imagine if you are a VC investing in this space, hedging between hardware, currencies, and exchanges/merchant services would probably be smart. If the market cap of BTC drops, does the market value of e.g. Intel or Coinbase drop proportionally?
We still have people buying Blackberries on their own. There are plenty of people who want a phone that's good for work.

A phone that works great with corporate networks, allows for editing Word and Excel documents, could have gone very far a few years ago. Even getting corporate app developers to port their apps to Windows phone would have been easier than chasing Zynga down.
Sorry about that, I put a note at the top of the page. Also you can follow up to five topics for free, which I think is sufficient for most people.
That's certainly true but I have to believe that, for most people, effectively having a private driver at their beck and call would increase the amount of time they spend in a car.

You're right that it's not infinite; I don't want to spend 8 hours a day commuting just because someone else is doing the driving. But, speaking as someone who lives about an hour outside of the nearest large city, I would absolutely go in more for the evening--as well as take more weekend trips--if I didn't have to drive.

That's likely typical of a lot of people, albeit not everyone.
I think he deleted his Facebook post. I got "the page you requested can't be displayed right now..." message when I clicked the link.
> Maybe. If the input and output are the same, but the efficiency is larger, or the quality is greater or more controllable, then you have some value-add.

Ya, but if I may re-summarize that objection it's, 'except for all the things that it does improve'.

> If the input and output are artificially constricted and the business case is basically undefined then skepticism is expected and logical.
> I never denied there are use cases, just stated they are very limited. I stand by that assessment.

I don't disagree per se. I think we may just disagree over how limited is 'very limited'. I think, even just interbank transaction settlement (e.g. Ripple) is an enormously valuable usecase for blockchains. Some smart contracts make sense as well, keeping in mind that you can always offload parts of a contract to human auditors and mediators. People sometimes equate there being any human involvement with trustless execution being worthless. However, that's not really fair. For instance, suppose you are in a country with a corrupt legal system. You can't enter into a normal contract safely, because justice there is disbursed to the highest bidder. So, what do you do instead? You enter into a smart contract that specifies a mutually agreed upon 3rd party outside of the country as the arbiter of disputes, and gives them a private key that they can use to enforce their judgments. Now, you've created a functioning judicial system (admittedly, only for finance) in a country that didn't previously have it. I'd say that's a pretty valuable use case for people in say, Venezuela, or Russia.
I was thinking about the CFC thing the other day. We'd still have that hole there today if it we're for sane politicians willing to do the right thing. I fear we're doomed this time though.
They have been doing this since 2012 when Bitcoin was essentially free...I guess they took the money just in case.
Are the records from trees included in this article?
>... all those realities is what has largely given up on that Single Source of Truth vision in favor of microservices or data lakes or choose your buzzword du jour.

>If you weren't able to make a centralized data store work with a sql database, you're not going to make it work with a distributed ledger.

The solution is clear: blockchain microservices. Each microledger is localized to the team using it, allowing for individual ledgers to be reused and composed to facilitate organizational agility across the enterprise. Stakeholder mindshare will soar.
Also, consider the context within which we are considering such a trip: survival of the species long term. Maybe adjusting to the gravitation and day/night cycle of a new planet is absolutely terrible. Choosing that over extinction is still the easiest choice in the universe.
> "The internet will never work because Pets.com is stupid" - would be a perfectly valid position to hold after the dot com bust.

No it wouldn't

> I guess that's why some people get rich and others sit on their hands and complain.

I honestly don't know what your point is. There's a lot to criticize in the crypto space right now. There's also a lot of money to be made. Those aren't in any way mutually exclusive.
Amazon has always been happy to DDOS your wallet - one of their whitepapers a few years back on how to survive a DDOS attack was "out scale it".

I can't imagine this changing.
How does a large, slowly-spinning turbine materially harm aquatic/bird life after the construction?
If DARPA can't it's own UI, what good is it?
This looks like it doesn't share any context between cells, am I right? So I can't use functions defined in one cell in another.
>It's shocking how little appetite there is for redirecting 50% of the budget which is currently allocated to the military to space exploration.

50% for the military? All the figures I can find say it's 16% of federal spending.

Edit: As others have pointed out. OP may have been suggesting we redirect 50% of the military budget to space not that the military budget is 50% of the national.
From what I gathered, yes. Unquestionably! In a message board with the name "pc-considered-harmful"

What did they think was going to get posted onto that board, if not this memo?
That's what I had though, was just surprised by the lack of client support.
> I'm dismayed that the very environment we all share somehow got politicized to death.

Largely in the US; the very existence of anthropogenic global warming is not a partisan issue in most of the world.

> I wonder what would have happened to the Ozone Hole if it too got politicized at the time

It did; there are people who deny it _to this day_, amazingly.

> or the link between smoking and cancer

It did; tobacco companies lobbied and continue to lobby mightily, and politicians were arguing that tobacco wasn't unsafe for a long time.
I'm sure there are some "bitcoin purists" who think someday bitcoin will be used to buy everything, but that's certainly a minority viewpoint.

There's a more pragmatic way to think about it.

Bitcoin can coexist just fine with national currencies, and with other cryptocurrencies, and with precious metals. Bitcoin doesn't need to "win" by replacing any of these.

Bitcoin is valuable because it's a secure way to store and transfer value between people.

If bitcoin is never used to buy your morning coffee, that's OK. If only 1% of the population finds bitcoin useful, that's OK, too.

Dollars, euros and yen are better than bitcoin in many use cases, and bitcoin can do things that dollars, euros and yen cannot do in other use cases.

The simple fact is that many people find bitcoin useful, and that's what makes it valuable.
Yes, in NYC, never worked or interviewed anywhere that gave engineers their own office, probably looked at 50-100 NYC startups
Jeez. No. But when Brendan Eich was CEO, it would have been totally fine for him to fire people who distribute internal memos arguing for gay marriage. See the difference ? You can be for or against whatever you want, work is for work though
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This was merchant payments. Essentially bitpay guaranteed the USD you would get at the point the transaction occurred. They didn't send the USD, that happened a day later.

So buyer pays in btc, bitpay handle the transaction, probably sell the same amount on an exchange at that point, tx confirms and they pay out the USD. The BTC then goes into the bitpay reserve for the next merchant.
I don't disagree with your assessment of his character. But I do think that his insights about risk are, while not novel per se, are interesting. Particularly his concept of 'antifragility'. Now, is that a new idea? No. And it's likely not his idea, either, and he also thinks that it applies way more broadly than it actually does. He's a jackass. But the mental model supposed by Antifragile is an interesting and useful one, and I don't regret having waded through his idiocy to obtain it.
Been using it since the beginning of 2017. Great IDE with good Unity integration. Especially as I use IntelliJ/Cursive for the server side of the application.
So cool! I can't wait for this to be released.
Leave the bars when they close at 2:00 a.m and take an Uber home; call UberEATS for McDonald's because you're too drunk to drive. I don't know if it's true or not; but, my local McDonald's does a lot of UberEATS business between 3:00 and 4:00 a.m.
In between different companies, I have seen some dumb implementations of an "electronic signature" (both homebuilt and using decrepit, ancient technology). Having one universally-adopted tool for establishing trust between parties, whether that's medical patient information, contract work, or supply-chain handoff could be revolutionary.
As with many things, "It Depends"™

You're absolutely correct that a true mise en place, for most dishes, is more of a hyperoptimization for people who aren't cooking on a line. Things like quick stir fries are an exception, mind you.

I started, as most people do, prepping as I go. My cooking sucked. Not just because I prepped as I went, but partially so. I'd get to step 3 and see for step 4 I needed chopped onions, so I'd start chopping onions. But step 3 was supposed to cook for less time than it took me to chop onions, so step 3 went on too long. In this sense, a full mise en place helped me get better at the actual cooking parts.

As time went on I developed better cooking habits. I'd understand the full recipe prior to cooking. I had a better body of experience to estimate how long chopping those onions would take so I could plan ahead on if I should be doing it ahead of time or while some step < 4 was going on. I also had a better conception of the economies of scale in that perhaps it would be faster prepping items A, B, and C at the same time instead of separately but item D didn't matter.

Once you get to that point I think you're absolutely correct in that a hybrid model is better overall, but I think one needs to go the full mise en place route first to develop better cooking chops (pardon the pun) prior to going that route.
> But they won't change their position. If anything, their position will be radicalized. For example, from classical liberal to alt-right.

You make an excellent point. I am a lifelong feminist, anti-racist, pro-LBTQ atheist who passionately desires a fair, just, egalitarian world.

In the last three years I've discovered: Many conservatives actually share my fundamental values, and do so with more integrity than most liberals I have known.

I seek out honest, rational, factual people to listen to - only to have the media and my liberal friends try, absurdly, to defame them as "alt right"

What does "alt right" even mean, any more? I understand its racist origins, but going by actual usage, it appears to include "good people, with good intentions, who also value reason and evidence"

Edit: To clarify the relevance of this to your comment - I would never have been exposed to so many views on the right if it hadn't been for the irrational, hateful, totalitarian intolerance that I've experienced in recent years from some parts of the left. Not all, obviously!
There was an NPR story that dug way into this myth. And while they weren't able to track down any actual suppliers of pig bung, they did make their own pig bung Calimari supplied by a local butcher. IIRC, the blind taste testers all preferred the pig bung over the real deal, and they all considered themselves to be Calimari "snobs."
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Thank you for the kind words and the helpful feedback! On your points:

1) That's a great point -- we should make that more clear that the user answered the question (and not seem like its broken if the questions are similar)

2) The way it currently works is we wait until the symptom checker has reached high enough confidence to render the results. Sometimes this can take 15+ questions, which we've found to be frustrating to the user. So we've designed the tool to give the user lots of ways to exit the symptom checker toward taking action (learning more about a relevant condition, or getting help to find a doctor, etc). To your point, I think we definitely need to make it clear that step 3 isn't the goal per say -- that there are multiple ways to exit the tool, and it's not just only answering enough questions to get to a high enough level of confidence
Initially people did use to to buy stuff, but it there isn't really an advantage over credit cards. Now people just want to buy it because it keeps going up in price. Classic Pyramid get rich scheme.
From that same article, the average repair cost is $387/year for a typical vehicle. Nowhere near the scary list with >$1000. You feel right into OP's literary trap, which is my problem with the whole article. Overly optimistic sensationalism. 8 years to rebuild our entire infrastructure!

I'd like to see a source for the second, I think you're making the mistake OP lead you to, in the assumption that simply because of fewer moving parts, the vehicle is necessarily easier to work on.
This is Marketing brilliance. Get your irate customers to talk to you through text and you're much less likely to have to resolve something displayed for public on the internet via a review.

Not saying both won't happen, but you give yourself the option to fix the issue before it's really "a problem".
>To me, appeals to "rational discussion" represent an unwillingness to accept that humans are messy, irrational creatures, and that rationality itself is but a tool, not an end-goal (and by extension, a denial of one's own irrationality). We're not modelling our society on Skinner-boxes for a reason.

Whoever told you Skinner-boxes were the end-point of rationality was... deeply wrong, and probably doing such damage to public discussion that they should be reprimanded.
> What I'm worried about though, is that once we stop talking, you will charge down to the bailey, and decry Damore as a sexist who should never have opened his mouth,

You're wrong. I've met him in passing, he didn't strike me as worth considering, then or now. I deliberately avoided prior conversations precisely because of how clear it was that he was going to be fired for this. He had to know it would happen. There's only one outcome that COULD have come of writing that memo.

Is he a sexist? I think he holds some sexist notions. This is an unsurprising outcome if you believe that historically society has been quite sexist. Is he a card-carrying MRA of the school of Roosh? I do not think so.

> That the science he quoted is "broscience observations"

This is a misunderstanding I can clear up. I don't really have a problem with observations of behavior based on gender. I'm sure observable differences exist and I suspect mechanisms for these differences are at play in my personal experience of gender.

What's "broscience observation" is attempting to use these studies to suggest (as he absolutely did) that the current crop of googlers has a problem and this problem is caused by the proposed proclivities as a way to shape the experiences of women at Google. Almost by definition, women at Google are precisely the people who wouldn't fall into this category and therefore are mostly asking for simple consideration for their unique needs in the services provided. James's complaint is that any special treatment is "discriminatory" towards him, but that's a somewhat absurd claim that when reduced to its elements actually somewhat deflates his own points.

I'm not sure what "practices" he's specifically talking about, but he alludes to leadership and mentorship programs that are primarily focused on specific groups. Giving him access to those would probably be about as valuable to him as putting a sanitary napkin dispenser in his cubicle, but he seems to take great offense at the idea that of the many leadership and mentorship opportunities afforded to him, one a small handful are not targeted specifically at him.

Biological essentialialism is a very difficult subject to discuss because it's so easy to become prescriptive with it and such prescriptions often greatly damage even modest outliers in the population. And for what? I'm fairly certain google saves money in the long run by attempting to improve employee retention and increase the supply of technical talent they can hire.
Not only the delivery fee, but certain food discounts/specials don't apply if you order through UberEats.
TEE is a joke. I don't even trust the newer SGX [1], which some blockchain companies like Corda [2] are adopting now, let alone TEE, with its myriad of security issues [3].

[1] - https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/01/sgx_secure_until_yo...

[2] - https://www.corda.net/2017/06/corda-sgx-privacy-update/

[3] - https://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh09dc/Attacking%20...
This was my first thought after looking at their site. Amazing job by the UX guys.
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Yes, but that isn't always the right answer. If your system is starting to cost "a lot" is that because of a bug (this case), or is it because your idea just "went viral" and you are not getting tons of paying customers signing up?

If it is the latter you do not want any rate limiting, you want everything to scale as fast as possible (I hope there are no bugs on your end). Rate limiting means that your new customers get a poor experience and so they are more likely to ask for a refund, or not renew next time.
For all those looking to make a SoundCloud clone: What is HN's opinion on its failings (from a user perspective) — i.e. how would you make SoundCloud better right now?

Also interested to hear those who can balance with commercial viability.
> From the tone you used, it feels like you have witnessed something more akin box-ticking than strategy, cargo-culting over rationality.

I guess my summary sounded a little harsh. Here's a typical example[1]:

>> When the employees of an organization better represent their users and desired users, they will build more effectively for those groups. When YouTube’s almost entirely right-handed developer team built the iOS app without considering how left-handed people would use it, for example, 5% to 10% of videos were uploaded upside down as a result. This factor may be especially relevant for leaders of consumer tech companies.

I have heard of/read similar anecdotes about various groups of people that certainly have different perspectives, but it always seems extremely anecdotal to me.

This study sounds more promising in my opinion[2]:

>> When a black person presented a dissenting perspective to a group of whites, the perspective was perceived as more novel and led to broader thinking and consideration of alternatives than when a white person introduced that same dissenting perspective. The lesson: when we hear dissent from someone who is different from us, it provokes more thought than when it comes from someone who looks like us.

> That is an interesting observation.

I've tried to verify that my experience wasn't a complete outlier; it seems that PMs really have a more balanced gender ratio than engineers: https://www.knowledgetrain.co.uk/resources/careers/women-in-...

> Also: if PM roles can have a 50/50 gender split, does that mean that women are more likely to seek promotions that lead to PM type positions?

...but now I realise that we must work for very different companies/clients. I don't see project management as a promotion from engineering - in my experience, it's a completely separate career path, just like design. Also, since I am a freelancer, my clients' offices are often full of other freelancers, and promotions aren't really a thing.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2015/07/21/why...
[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-diversity-mak...
A "ssh://..." URL can result in a "ssh" command line with a
hostname that begins with a dash "-", which would cause the
"ssh" command to instead (mis)treat it as an option. This is
now prevented by forbidding such a hostname (which should
not impact any real-world usage).

Why not simply use "--", which is the standard way to separate option from non-option arguments? OpenSSH uses getopt(3) and so fully supports this behavior, as should any other correctly written utility. At the very least, "--" should be used in addition to hostname filters.