skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoins inherent value is utility. It facilitates things that were difficult or impossible before it existed. It allows you to transact online without middleman businesses. It allows quick, easy, and cheap international transactions. It allows you to not need a bank. It allows you to transact anonymously (if you do it right). Plus many more applications that have yet to be revealed.
I think he might just mean "the ability to work with other students in a specific place" rather than the app itself. I agree, Piazza is kinda. . .over-engineered.
Single income with a kid in the Bay is not going to be luxurious, you'll want to prep for some cuts in lifestyle if you were used to nice things. That 150k gets decimated by taxes real quick, + the 4k for a 2 bedroom which will have to be further away from most of the "sexier" spots where it will cost a lot more, hence more commuting.

E.g. you're taking home 90k after taxes, minus 50k for housing, that leaves 40k for you + wife + kid. Yes, you're not going to be starving, but you won't be living large either.

Can you consider a remote gig with a SV company? You would stay in Ohio, get a big bump to your current income stream, the wife and kids would not have to move anywhere etc. You'll just have to fly into to the Bay once in a while to spend time with the team, otherwise you'll be fine.
A daemon app that saves my slack messages to gmail or even local text files, so I can find older messages. I know this is not difficult, but wish I had some bandwidth to work on this...
After quickly skimming it it seems well done. Leans towards mathematical rigor, which may not be ideal for some people. On the other hand, it'd be pretty hard to avoid math: quantum computing is linear algebra incarnate.

The only thing that caught my eye as off was totally minor. They say the many-controlled-Z gate used by Grover's algorithm can be done in O(n^2) constant-sized gates with an argument-by-reference, but with that type of argument you might as well give the tight bound of Θ(n).
I've been leaning toward that perspective recently.

I actually had a remote job in the pipeline but they ended up not being able to pay a commensurate salary or benefits (i.e. it was a significant pay cut from what I'm making now).

At least this process has got me back to studying data structures and algorithms again, so perhaps I can interview at Google Pittsburgh again and try for a better outcome this time. Any tips for finding a good remote position?
Western Union can do this, too. Even into a lot of regions where nearly nobody has internet access. Depending on the state of the Bitcoin network, sometimes also cheaper than Bitcoin.
More specifically:

> The Ragel code we wrote contained a bug that caused the pointer to jump over the end of the buffer and past the ability of an equality check to spot the buffer overrun.
I wouldn't do it if I were you. Working at these companies is nowhere near as cool as it is marketed to sound. They're just jobs. Your cost of living will probably go up 3-4x and your salary won't even double.
"Seriously though, anyone care to do the math on the impact of 1bn trees wrt. CO2 absorption?"

That should be a fairly simple calculation, as children to your post have shown ...

More interesting (and difficult) is the carbon costs of actually planting the trees in the first place ... 40% of the trees were saplings[1] that were moved and planted with labor that was fed and moved, etc.

I have no idea how those figures pencil out - if the best-case absorption is 1.5 lbs/tree per year, is it obvious that less than 100-150 lbs of carbon is spent in planting the tree ?

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/billion-tree-tsun...
Freedom from financial security?
because a Ponzi Scheme has a meaning more specific than "scheme" that Bitcoin does not fit
If you want to go all the way back, UNC still hosts ibiblio.org, which has links to the first website at CERN http://info.cern.ch/ and TBL's first page.
The internet penetration in the US last year was 88.5%, it's higher now. What is this "large percentage" exactly? What important information can't you get through a cheap smartphone and public Wifi?
Alternatively, that could be an argument for digitalizing those textbooks and offering them for free.

Maybe Bezos should fund Libgen :)
It also appeared precisely when Uber needed a distraction from the news that they'd entered into a settlement with the FTC over mishandling of customer data. So I'd say that's a pretty fair assumption.
IPFS is good and useful, but it only retains what people choose to retain.

If geocities.com/aoeu isn't popular, then IPFS won't store it unless someone bothered to pin it. And as soon as they stop, it'll disappear.

You need a dedicated host (like archive.org) to retain it, or volunteers willing to coordinate and commit their resources. Otherwise it's just more resilient (a good thing), but not permanent.
RMU in Pittsburgh has a very close working relationship with IBM. They also offer z/OS and DB2 courses.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15011636
The news is so behind actual crypto performance. Shocking, as it's all readily available.

This is like the 10th time the news catches up to a surge only after there's actually been a quick drop (like today. BTC, ETH, LTC all down 5-6% over 24h).

The volatility itself (in crypto) creates amazing short turn-around opportunity for those willing to take some risks and set up basic limit buy/sells (gdax makes this very easy).
Large part of the issue is any downtime of existing systems is generally considered completely unacceptable in health care.
I was a very small Goldman client for a while (they typically don't take people with less than $10M and I was way less than that). A buddy of mine got them to let me in as a client.

He had $110M with them and he thought that would be enough that they'd treat him well. Not the case, they tried to sell him crap. He thought, at the time, that you had to be worth $1B before you were "in the club". He was pretty disgusted and moved elsewhere.

I'm not really sure why anyone would want to be a Goldman client.
Why do all these products have "insecure by default" configurations, anyways?

Didn't we learn anything from register_globals?
> that topic would not threaten his family so much as it would threaten his career

with what data or experience do have to make this assertion?
Or to try and persuade techies to come and work for them on more CRUD plumbing.
Ubuntu Server Development Summary – 15 Aug 2017
Fix traffic and housing in Seattle.
> the entire cost of all equipment needed to connect your computer to the Blockstream Satellite network is only about $100 USD

So you need to buy a SDR transceiver in order to operate...

https://blockstream.com/satellite/blockstream-satellite/
and even if that reality was certain, there's no one "running" Bitcoin to determine who to pay dividends to (such as in a Ponzi)
> could expect around $130k - $150k

I make that working remotely from Michigan for a company on the east coast.
Costs and stress in SF will likely be substantial.
I know, I went to college in the bay area.

> Renting seems in the $3K+ range for a two bedroom

Thats like half your monthly paycheck, no? Doesnt sound safe.

Unless your wife also got an offer making a comparable amount there is no way it would be worth it. I say this as someone that loves visiting Northern CA.

You should switch to remote and leverage your skills to make at least 120k. Enjoy the good life in the Midwest and travel.
> A library is free, even if all of the world's knowledge is online it would cost money to access in addition to paying for internet.

I wish that were true. It's not.

Libraries cost money. Acquiring, storing, maintaining a book in a room, with climate control and a proper shelter, costs more than storing the same book digitally. Providing access to copies of a physical book, to just a million people spread across the US, is extremely expensive compared to doing the same thing digitally via the Internet. Someone should run an estimate on that, it's such an astounding gap in cost as to be absurd.

There are many good arguments for libraries. That they don't cost money or are somehow free, is not one of them. They're subsidized systems of knowledge, primarily for the benefit of people lacking resources to otherwise access that information inexpensively (along with other various community and peaceful space benefits they usually provide).
Libraries have such an enormous impact on people that need them! It's as if you read the article and completely ignored all the points the author made -- musical instruments, tools, and art being loaned out. Makerspaces, computers with internet access, free classes, resume help, job applications -- a politically neutral meeting space!

These are actually amazing investments because they're getting incredible duty-cycles out of all of those objects when they're being shared. One purchased instrument or computer for the library is access when it's needed for dozens if not hundreds of people. It's like the argument for self-driving cars being shared because normally cars are idle 95% of the time.

Think of the library as the efficient distribution center of Common Good.
If savings is your goal I wouldn't do it...

Just the difference in your housing costs (about 30k after taxes) wipe out your salary increase. On top of that it sounds like you'd be losing a 2nd income as well by moving so it looks like a net loss. On top of that other things in the area are going to be some what more costly.
The phone numbers accompanying the phat 90s slang scrawled across my 1996 yearbook no longer are a way of contacting my old classmates.
>Current bitcoin holders can only see gain if new "investment" (I find that term funny since it's a "security" with no fundamentals) comes in. That's pretty much the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

Equally true of most other commodities and currencies, right?

If you have a gold bar, or a stack of 10 Euro notes, the only way you make money off of it is if enough more people want to buy gold/Euros that the price goes up. Neither asset does anything on its own.

A critical ingredient of a Ponzi scheme is fraud.
> But my understanding is that they can't just stop charging for tickets (or cut prices significantly) "since they're not seeing it anyway"; there are uniform ticket prices in those same agreements that prevent such tactics.

Isn't this practically a cartel?
> that just means they have more money to spend on on good causes later.
> to spend on on good causes later.

And you know the money is being used for this, how?
Ask HN: Would you join startup doing ICO
I'm in process of interviewing with early stage startup for role of CTO. They're after small founding round, build prototype with outsourcing company and are looking to go live soon. They seem to have good traction with product so far.

Conversation we had were very positive. But i've found out that other two founders are considering implementing part of the product using blockchain tech just to get potential of rising founds with ICO. As much as i believe blockchain is interesting tech I don't think it's useful to solve this problem. It would be just a way to get a lot of founds fast.

I've decided that i don't want to put my name to another 'scam' ICO. Because of that i'm passing otherwise very attractive role and potential to work comfortably on ICO pile of cash. I wonder how would you behave in my position.
Hey now don't sell Ethereum so short. IMO it's the real transformative platform for blockchains. It isn't just the features of Ethereum, which can be easily cloned, it's the massive and growing community around it already building exciting new products/services.
Those restrictions are to prevent people sharing it. A single ticket is much more expensive than $10 already, without those restrictions, you bet people will share it with their family and friends, event "rent" it out to strangers. How long do you think that will last before the company goes bankrupt.
The definition of ponzi scheme is a scheme where dividends to early investors are paid using the investments of later investors. That's a significant difference from simply an appreciation in value. By your logic, precious metals could also be ponzi schemes.
But what makes something a currency? If in an alternate universe Bernie Madoff printed MadoffBucks and made agreements that you could use these as currency in some online stores and Pizza Hut, does that make it a real currency? Unfortunately I think the only way something becomes a currency is when a government calls it one.
I would love a remote gig, assuming it was as an FTE with benefits (healthcare being important for family and all). My wife's company cannot afford to provide any benefits whatsoever.

It just seems like recently, the move is toward in-office employment with little to no work from home. I've talked to a handful of companies I'd love to work with, but I'd be willing to bet that they would all balk at remote employment.
I concede, I've only ever been in a large campus library in the US.

Also I agree, if a few percent of the population cannot afford to access the internet there is a serious problem.

I just doubt that libraries are an effective way to solve this problem.
I have been wanting to find or build a tool that checked if a link was dead before redirecting my browser. If the link turned out dead, just redirect to the appropriate internet archive[0] link. Problem somewhat solved as long as the archive doesn't go bust.

https://archive.org/
> Current bitcoin holders can only see gain if new "investment" (I find that term funny since it's a "security" with no fundamentals) comes in. That's pretty much the definition of a Ponzi scheme.

That's 1/2 a Ponzi scheme, the other 1/2 is an entity promising you a return. I think you'd need to commit some fraud along the way too. If someone said "For every 5 dollars given to me, I will provide a share, and dispense 1/(2*N) dollars to all other shareholders, where N is the number of other shareholders (N=0 for the first donation, 1 for the second, etc)." Would that be a Ponzi scheme? There's no fraud, so I don't think it would be, despite having identical mechanics.
"I'm talking about new investment in a security being the only source of increased value in that security. Which is what a Ponzi scheme is."

That is not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is giving someone payouts on their investment funded solely from people putting the money in, while fraudulently telling them that the money is coming from real investment. You can't have a Ponzi scheme when on average both sides of the transaction are (generally) aware of the situation and aware of how the value is flowing, because you lack the fraudulent aspect. Also, for any given transaction, value is flowing instantaneously; when someone sells their bitcoin, they aren't getting paid in funds being fraudulently kept aside from somebody else's previous purchases. It's an instant commodity exchange.

Again, in a nutshell, the reason why this doesn't fall afoul of laws against Ponzi schemes is that it simply isn't one.
I like this because she is a professor at Harvey Mudd. They took steps to make CS more inclusive, with great results. I appreciate her attitude on accessibility, which is in keeping with that institution's philosophy.

That she ran into a paper wall doesn't bother her because she's openly publishing is even better.
I've also wondered if the 5% back isn't something of an offset for the sales tax they've agreed to collect in some states. It doesn't totally cover the difference in high tax states versus ordering from someone else with free shipping with a 1-2% rebate card but it makes the delta small enough that many people may just default to Amazon.
Equally true of most other commodities and currencies, right?

No; if I hold a stock I receive a dividend from the company and a vote in their governance; if I hold a bond I receive interest payments; if I hold bauxite I can use it to make whatever you make with bauxite.
I'd like to mention Grako/Tatsu: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tatsu

> TatSu (the successor to Grako) is a tool that takes grammars in a variation of EBNF as input, and outputs memoizing (Packrat) PEG parsers in Python.

(I'm familiar with Grako, haven't used Tatsu yet.)
By design, the tool is dialect-agnostic.
Well, and the likelihood that the subscriber will bring at least one friend who would pay full price for a ticket makes this less risky. Also, popcorn and other concessions are the real profit drivers for theaters, so losing a bit on tickets isn't as big a deal as it might seem.
In a way it's convenient. The URLs fail instantly. Trying to find things referenced by an old book can be pretty painful.
> Any tips for finding a good remote position?

Always be looking, and don't relax your criteria (compensation, work/life balance) because its remote.

Just because a position is advertised as on site doesn't mean you can't negotiate it to be remote.

Here are some remote job resources I keep bookmarked:

https://remotebase.io/

https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job

https://remoteok.io/

https://weworkremotely.com/

https://stackoverflow.com/jobs/remote-developer-jobs

https://www.wfh.io/

https://jobmote.com/

Salary negotiation cheat sheet: http://salarytutor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Salary-Tut...
People often get confused between Ponzi schemes and pyramid schemes. Bitcoin could be described as a pyramid scheme in that it relies on new money constantly coming in so that people who previously committed money can cash out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_scheme
http://dilbert.com/strip/1999-06-06
The conception of reality in Quantum Mechanics
Precious metals have absolutely been operated as Ponzi schemes before (remember the dude who pump & dumped the silver market in the 70s?)
It's definitely possible to live a middle-class lifestyle with a $150k/year salary in SV, although you'll likely have to give up some comforts you may be used to (and also remember taxes are much higher in CA). Would your wife consider working once you move? $180-200k of household income is much more livable.

The biggest thing you might want to consider that you may not be thinking about is the lifestyle difference. The weather is mild year-long here, which means not having to deal with Ohio winters. If you like outdoorsey stuff, hiking/camping/etc are huge here, and it's a day's drive to ski resorts. You'll need to own a car here, but depending on where you live you may be able to take public transport to work, and towns are very biking-accessible.
Oh my goodness, loss of liberty is a death from a thousand cuts. Do you think the PATRIOT act will ever be fully expired or repealed? No way. Do you think the NSA will ever be barred from collecting data on US citizens? Hell no. Those are liberties we've lost forever, and not just us, but our children and our children's children, in the last 20 years, because of complacency. Think of all the rights because of the drug war that will never end. We will lose plenty of others. It's a constant assault.

Can you even think of one government protected right we've gained in the last 20 years? Don't say pot, because we lost that right in the 1900s. As a citizen it is your duty to be diligent to protect your freedoms, for your self and future generations. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, and we're well down it.
This. I'm really excited about projects like IPFS but I'm not totally comfortable with the "everything persists forever" philosophy as it stands now. Preventing link rot is a very worthwhile cause, but content creators should have control over what persists and for how long (see: "Right to Be Forgotten").
As long as a copy of the Blockchain is on the satellite (which seems likely given the mission) then the headline is accurate.

It could just be a bent pipe comm satellite, which would make the headline mostly inaccurate, but it seems like having a copy of the blockchain on the bird would be a big win. A lot of the queries could be completed without having to bounce back to the ground if a copy of the blockchain was available on the satellite.
Hope I am retired before it's mainstream :)
"Windows is a service..." is how the update message dialogs start now. (Please don't ask me why I know, it's embarrassing. ;-P)
I think the more significant impacts will be in the new wood resource, and in combating soil erosion (which, through dust, is a big air pollution problem all across that side of the continent). If they can scale up demand for lumber immensely, and staff good foresters, they can probably do a lot of good. A mature cut tree is a great way to store carbon "forever".
School district homes in SV (3b 2b 1300sqft+) are in the 1.5M range or higher near the top employers in the Peninsula. If you're ok accepting a 40min+ commute, the cost reduces to about 900K Townhome + HOA in a good school district.

A family of 4 in the bay area with household income at $105350 is low income (http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/04/22/in-costly-bay-area-eve...). At 150K you'll be living in rented accommodations with $3K - $3500 in rent per month.

If you consider that your wife will start working, please be aware that daycare starts at about $1.5K++ per month (it might be advantageous for your wife to be a stay at home mom below a certain salary level).

I would recommend targeting a 200K+ total household income for this to work for you.
It's all open source - https://github.com/tom-james-watson/breaktimer

I haven't had much time to work on it for a while. Contributions are very welcome!
The public sector. I got my first dev job at the local state university. They pay less than the private sector, thus making it harder for them to find solid talent. Put in a few years, and then jump ship once you've accumulated the requisite experience to no-longer be entry-level.
The lesson of history is that people don't learn from history.
Govt should be in space flight and fighting disease.
That O'Reilly GNN site is beautiful. I miss this simplicity.
Ask HN: Research that shows when one language is more optimal than another?
I'm interested in seeing when certain procedures or types of work benefit more from the syntax, structure, or features of one programming language over another.
> Maybe there's a good book on the subject?

Shameless plug: I wrote a book exactly on this topic, and you're my target audience, so hopefully it answers a bunch of your questions. https://www.manning.com/books/securing-devops

And I'm genuinely interested to know if you find it useful. Feel free to reach out!
I'm glad that Dreamhost is opposing the order. I'm glad to give them my business. To me, it would be no more different if it was an alt-right site.
I think "from mainland" or something similar is correct instead of mentioning "culturally Han". The current culture difference was mainly formed over the process of having different rulers for both places in the 20th century. "Han" is a way broad notion for us Chinese. A fair amount of Chinese derived from "Han", an ethnic group.

The reason I want to point this out is "Han" means a lot more than the current status quo, which was transformed badly after the ruling party dominated the main land.
Linux is secure, right?
Getting Started on Geospatial Analysis with Python, GeoJSON and GeoPandas
This makes me think a recycle/reuse program should exist. "Our" old hardware is newer/better than what they have. I know this program probably does exists but I usually assume they are just breaking my device apart and pulling out gold/metals. If I knew the library needed a gently used device, I'd have no problem giving them my old stuff.
Maybe it's me, but I don't see this data as all that valuable. Say I go to the movies 8-10x a month. Given that my local theater probably gets about 20 new movies per month, does knowing which half of the movies I see really provide analytical value over aggregate box office numbers?

I wonder if the app is spying on you in more nefarious ways. I guess I could dedicate a retired phone to be my "movies" phone.