skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I normally don't comment on "guides/how" design posts as I know there are a lot of caveats and personal opinions involved (not the least my own).

However I don't think this post is about minimalist web-design as such. I say so because if you want to learn to do minimalist web design this isn't a useful guide (I am aware it's not mean to be a tutorial but it does offer some observations that can lead you the wrong way)

The number one thing you need to understand as a designer if you want to do minimalist design is typography and to do so properly takes years. It's a very refined art to do well and most people get it wrong when they try.

Putting few things on a screen is not minimalism and the Google screen is in itself not an example of minimalism. It was never really a conscious effort but rather a "lets remove everything and just add the search bar and a logo".

What google screen however is a good example of is first principles. I.e. going from the categories based search engines of it's time to a purely search focused approach and using pageranking rather than humans to determine results.

If you want to understand and do minimalist design learn typography first. Besides practicing a lot, a great book to do so with(a classic) is "Elements of Typographic Style" by Robert Bringhurst. It wont teach you typography on the web but it will teach you about typography which is one of the keys to understanding minimalism on the web. Would also recommend Grid Systems by Josef Muller Brockman which also provide a good foundation for understanding typography.

What google screen however is a good example of is first principles. I.e. going from the categories based search engines of it's time to a purely search focused approach and using pageranking rather than humans to determine results.

Just my five cents.
> In web design it is quite the same, it is about keeping only the most essential elements that let users quickly and easily solve their problems.

Is the dickbar really essential to solving my problems? Maybe think about removing it?
Ant Simulation Code: https://github.com/juliangamble/clojure-ants-simulation
I think that the difference between investing and gambling is that in investing there is at least notionally a capitalistic enterprise like a corporation being invested in.
They just patch those out.
I know Debian has lofty goals with respect to reproducibility, but on a purely "I hate waiting for builds", getting deterministic object files can prevent spurious linking. For example: change a comment, watch your code link for 10 minutes.
Measuring Decentralization of Chinese Keyword Censorship via Mobile Games [pdf]
> No doubt this is because of the ever increasing cost of going to college in the USA.

Yeah- the focus on admitting 'well rounded' students has a disproportionate impact on the poor.

It's hard to take 50 AP classes, participate in 100 clubs, and buy a humanitarian experience[0] when you're working two jobs outside of school.

[0] https://www.globalbrigades.org/ and such.
Docker is part of a broader "reproducible build environment" strategy, but doesn't really help with some of the things that cause problems (timestamps, kernel version, random IDs).
Well of course mining the coin itself will be more "profitable", NiceHash is charging about a 4% fee (closer to ~2.6% if you play their game). So on average mining ETH directly will most likely net you 4% more.

But I don't want ETH, I want BTC. And while it's not a knock against ETH (It seems like a really cool technology!), I just don't want to hold my money in it and deal with it separately than I do my BTC. And I'm more than willing to pay that 4% fee to be able to hold my BTC securely with the ecosystem I have setup to sell and convert it to USD if/when I need to.
I can assure you that people are shamed more than enough for their faults. I volunteer with people who come in with the stories of people shaming them for their faults every week.

The issue is that there is fuck-all support for people to overcome their faults - we've become a society in which if you can't get out of your situation on your own, you also can't get help getting out of your situation - because we don't believe that anybody can possibly be in that position. Individualism at its worst. The faults are usually a result of the shitty environment you're in, of course - nobody becomes an alcoholic because they're happy with how their life is going or feel they can do much to change it.

I don't think you understood my post. I mean we, as a society, need to help vulnerable people in our society - we need to invest resources into helping them. We can do that ourselves, we can do that through charity, we can do that through mutual aid, and we can do that through Government policy and services. Broadly speaking, as a society, we choose not to.
Shapeshift still requires a buyer on the other end, though I'm not entirely in agreement with the op. Seems like most relevant coins have some real volume
$150,000+ in software developer course sales with no following or paid ads
I'm usually not skeptical of comments but this comment definitely feels "artificial".

I think Google has better things to do than to pay people to comment on HN, but I do think either this person is trying too hard to sell us on Google Cloud because they like it (which isn't a bad thing per say)

Edit: I thought about it and they probably aren't related to it, probably just really enthusiastic about it (good thing) but they want to sell us on it (eh, not sure how I feel about)
When people talk about "disruption of education", they usually mean either online courses or boot camps. I think that's unfortunate. There are huge benefits to learning stuff the traditional way, by taking a class in person, on a schedule, with a curriculum and a teacher and an exam at the end. There are also huge benefits to hanging out with working scientists and picking up their enthusiasm. These are the important things about attending a university, and they aren't even that difficult or expensive to set up! Can we get that kind of "disruption", please?
One of the big problems is that in the US school districts are highly local, so economically depressed neighborhoods have far fewer resources to educate children. The US really needs state-wide or metropolitan-wide public school systems that assign students by lottery (assuming that good schools are over-enrolled). This will do a lot to level the playing field, however it's far unlikely to happen for reasons of both class and race.

So that leaves universities to level the playing field. If the US ever gets the K12 education system overhauled maybe can argue against this interventionism from universities, but otherwise how do we start fixing today's problems today?
The different between gambling and investment is that the latter serves a larger economic purpose while the former does not. I agree that in some cases this line might get blurry but I don't think that it's blurry when it comes to, say, playing blackjack in a casino. That is not a poor / risky investment, it's just gambling.
The second question is based on faulty assumptions. Bitcoin uses orders of magnitude more energy per transaction.
You can't "mine" using Proof-Of-Stake (POS). I don't know which algorithm they will choose when/if they eventually do switch to POS, but one method is that the wallets that store the most ETH have a higher chance of being selected to perform some inexpensive computation. You get paid for performing these computations.

So to answer your question, you could potentially use your old PC to host your POS wallet and earn ETH. The amount you will earn will depend on how much you currently have and how long your are connected to the network.
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.
You look for where the markets are?

Were you speaking in hyperbole? I don't even think you can mine any of your examples but lets entertain it:

Golem has $3,000,000 in daily volume and is listed on 17 distinct exchanges (separate sources of liquidity, some of which are on the same website)

Pepecash as upwards of $40,000 in daily volume and is listed on 4 exchanges.

You are going to be making pennies to maybe a few thousand dollars daily from mining and you think there is a liquidity problem that is even applicable to your low-income class?
And at least the Swindon one has markings. Paris has the same kind of thing without https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2RCPpdmSVg
Debian builders already run on sbuild[1], which uses chroot, so it's already a contained environment.

I'm not sure how the reproducible builds machines works for forcing two different build results, but i'd bet they're using sbuild too.

Here's a diffoscope of one of my packages which is not reproducible right now[2].

I also highly recommend the reproducible builds talk at this year's debconf with the repro build folks[3].

[1]https://wiki.debian.org/sbuild

[2]https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/debian/rb-pkg/unstable...

[3]https://debconf17.debconf.org/talks/14/
However there the problem is immigrants not getting proper school education.

https://www.thelocal.se/20110524/33968
And let's quantify the waste of resources by storing vast buckets of useless data people put on the internet. Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, Google Plus. What about the PoP's the house the IP transit traffic? How about the thousands of advertisement/Spam companies that just add to the noise? Telemarketers and their like (legal and not).

Surely there is a better argument to be made here. Speculative "mining" on consumer purchased hardware is hardly near the top of global wasted resources.
Psychology--people will try to remain close to places and people they know. There are many examples such behavior especially during natural disasters when they are commanded or know they should flee but don't.
I have a conspiracy theory that cryptocurrencies have been created by security agencies to conduct massively parallel calculations (mainly to break crypto) with costs offloaded onto the private sector.
Any of my friends who have young kids, they all have a different Disney/Pixar movie on a loop.
Sorry I don't get it. With B2 I have to pay if I want to say download 100GB of data in B2. From what I read, you say this isn't so. But the pricing page state otherwise
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coinmarketcap.com

but there are many others like that site, its just historical price data.
This won't fix the problems of certain groups being excluded though. We have free public schools in the U.S. and these are still some of the most segrarated insitutions, the overwhelming majority of children go to school where their ethnic group or race is the majority.
Aah, but your dad doesn't care. It's just so much easier to use the VR software than to fiddle with the keyboard, especially as you hand-eye coordination fades with age. Spend a minute fiddling with a tiny on-screen keyboard, or a few seconds and a minor social gaffe?

People have been speaking to their phones for decades now; the only difference is there isn't someone listening directly.
looks like this isn't available in the US
The "build number" is actually the version, which is determined from debian/changelog. A hash shouldn't change when its input doesn't change. Timestamps can be faked by intercepting system calls.

I'm sure there are many, many more techniques involved in making a build reproducible. Hey, they achieved >90% already!
We need a 100% pre-mined coin.
I wish more people would talk about this. It seems like a completely ignored aspect of cryptocurrency. It's not even just the electricity but the raw materials that go into all these GPUs that are being bought up (to the point of real scarcity and crazy price hikes), and tossed away when a more performant chip comes out. Like you say, it is seriously perverse.
... hence the War on Cash.

They can also convert bank deposits into 'yellowstuff' and put that in a vault, or safe at home. However, the mining inflation rate in 'yellowstuff', plus fees for storage, come to a depreciation of about 1.5%. So if the WoC is successful, and NIRP policies demand less than about -1.5% interest rate, then there has to be a War on Yellowstuff too.
First of all, past increases in price shouldn't be used to calculate mining profitability. If you want to speculate on the price, just buy directly on an exchange.

It's a bit misleading to only show coins that have appreciated in value.

It's odd the article doesn't mention the different mining algorithms. It's definitely not profitable to CPU or GPU mine any SHA256 coins, given ASICs are ~10,000 times more power efficient. Yet he suggests CPU and GPU mining, then says he's considering buying Antminers?
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I would hope someone on HN would disclose a conflict of interest when presenting their opinion.

Disclosure: Work for one of the cloud providers, but not on cloud itself.
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It's incredibly hard. I don't think you can convince strangers, you have to get them interested a little bit and let their own curiosity work it out, at their own pace.

I call conspiracy theories a "cancer of the mind". Anybody with opposing evidence is classified either as a liar (co-conspirator) or a person being manipulated by the conspiracy. Effectively, people who do that shut down all the input, and so they can get any result they want. There is literally no way out.

I think people should set up a "canary" in their minds against conspirational theorizing. If the thing you're thinking is true requires conspiracy of at least, say, 10K people, then a big red flag should come up, and you should re-evaluate all the evidence.
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Does it? How many employees does bitcoin have?...
(I am generally not a fan of capitalism in its current form, so I'm playing devil's advocate here to a large degree.)

> Oh come on, individual salaries compete against other people offering their services (and ultimately against the choice to starve by not working for the accepted rates), and has nothing to do with the value people generate.

For the special case of high-demand jobs like software engineer, I don't think this holds up. If you are out for fair compensation in a "stable" job there are plenty of startups out there that will offer you equity. The easiest way, however, to be compensated as close as possible to "the value you generate" is to freelance.

Yes, those options are not optimal and you won't end up earning 100% of the value you generate but are generally the best way we currently have to approximate it. If we now would tweak some other parameters of our overall (international) economic system, like maybe higher taxes for large corporations (or one of X other possible solutions, I'm not trying to predict the right one), we could even end up with a system where injustices like severe wealth inequalities are minimized.

> but this was supposed to be different...

Yes, it was supposed to. They tried and failed, which is something that happens. If you invest too much (not necessarily money) into something that is not proven or even likely to be viable, that's just naive.
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Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let go of secondary benefits like LPG subssidy etc). Such an option doesn't exist as of today. I, as an individual, will exercise my right to privacy by deciding whether to give my biometrics or not. Govt should not decide on my behalf.
repeating double sha256 would be a rather inefficient way of going about this
Currently energy use is about 0.01% of energy that the sun sends us (if my googling is right). If energy use increases 5% per year, it doubles every 15 years or so, so after a hundred years we still use so little energy that it doesn't matter compared to solar heating. I think the oceans are safe.
"Adult supervision" refers (at least in my experience) more to guidance from people who are focused, results-oriented, practical, and experienced in using process and procedure to drive quality and efficiency.

One example I know personally is a company where the senior staff were all in their 60s but have been winging it since their late 30s and had very little documentation and no real method. They hired an operations manager in their 40s who managed to reduce the amount of overtime required to produce the same result by about 30%, purely by eliminating busywork and making sure everyone knew what they were doing. In this case, the operations manager was the "adult supervision" required.
My University, Huddersfield, isn't broke and is debt free to boot.

> In addition to the Creative Arts Building which opened in 2008, a new £17 million Business School opened in 2010, followed by the £3 million Buckley Innovation Centre in 2012, the £22.5 million Student Central building in 2014, and the £27.5 million Oastler Building for Law and the School of Music, Humanities and Media, in 2017. £5.5 million invested in University Campus Barnsley.

> The University now attracts students from more than 130 countries. With an annual turnover of approximately £150m each year, it estimates it is worth £300m annually to the local economy.

And yet there is rabble rousing concerning the Vice Chancellor's £337,000 salary

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/west-yorkshire-news/universit...
Perhaps this is the secret - and should be made the default.

I don't use raid, precisely because I'm worried that failures will take down the entire set, and all of it will be unrecoverable.

I'm not at all suggesting that BTRFS is "buggy" unreliable, just, as you say, with certain kinds of disk errors (possibly rare, but it got me), the entire volume becomes unreadable, whereas I've always been able to recover files from extX or xfs volumes.

Perhaps it's just my bad luck though.
I wonder how much of this underrepresentation reflects the underrepresenation of poor students in general.

At 38 colleges in America, including five in the Ivy League – Dartmouth, Princeton, Yale, Penn and Brown – more students came from the top 1 percent of the income scale than from the entire bottom 60 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/01/18/upshot/some-c...

No other kid from my block in East Flatbush was so lucky. At their truly public schools (not charters, not magnets, but common schools available to every family in the neighborhood), they routinely faced atrocious conditions including gun violence, overcrowding, and a curriculum that emphasized obedience over innovation. As outsiders to the college-prep “feeder system,” which includes a small number of competitive high schools including Philips Academy and Trinity, the students who persevere despite these formidable demands and manage to graduate, are rarely seen as “high-achieving” by schools like Yale. From the perspective of prep schoolers who have no grasp of the challenges presented by economic scarcity, the Collegiate Honor Roll Lacrosse captain easily surpasses the Benjamin Banneker High B+ student who lives in a shelter and works at Target after school to help out her single mother and younger siblings. The fantasy that all young people are running the same race blinds many university trustees, administrators, and admissions committees to the reality that they undervalue students who always have to run uphill.

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/why-iv...
A slower speed is dangerous to everyone. One car slows down and everyone else needs to get around them. That results in people who would otherwise be content to flow with traffic making aggressive moves to pass the obstruction. These actions catches some people in the other lanes unaware and some of them insensitively hit their brakes (kind of like the people who brake for curves at low speed because "it's what you do") which exacerbates the problem.

Now add in a poorly marked road dense traffic and construction. Other drivers (as a ground) don't really have the spare attention to allocate to the fallout of someone who's slowing down.

edit: This is backed up by traffic studies When everyone is driving the same speed things are safer because there's less "friction" (I think that's the correct term) between traffic elements.
I feel like this is a common semantic disagreement.

Some people want to encourage disconnecting yourself from external stimulus, and just enjoying your own thoughts, and use the word "boredom" to describe this. Whereas other people feel that "boredom" means the frustrating state of being entirely unengaged.

I sometimes wonder if people who don't disconnect very often haven't experienced much of the latter kind of boredom, and so aren't as aware of it as a negative thing.
It's an ugly, ugly exercise of power.

I have the odd tie in of having lived near an airport in NC where the CIA was operating small jets to conduct those "renditions" (read: kidnappings) overseas during the Bush II years.

The other place in the US that is weird: The base known as "The Farm" right next to Colonial Williamsburg which is neither fish nor fowl--a lot of people and things get moved in and out of the US from there with zero accountability.

We badly need to get the US government back under control because the things done in our names are simply evil.
Putting on the tinfoil: cryptocurrecies are a defacto bounty for hash algorithms, bitcoin is excellent proof that sha2 and ripemd160 arent broken
You might want to checkout this recent thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13254983
>> I know folks who wouldn't think lab grown meat was very clean simply because it was created in a lab.

I'm confused, it's not clean because it was grown in a lab, or is there some other factor?
In the US all Bitcoin ATMs are required to ask for picture ID
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I heard very good opinions about this podcast.
I realise that I might be off an a tangent but this is a not a good analogy. If I were an alcoholic, I would rush off to the nearest drug store and get a fuckin' beer. I would not even own a fridge. :)

A book that has personally helped me is Kick the Drink....Easily! The idea is that there is no such thing as will power. The more you fight it, the more the psychological crutches grow, and then its difficult to jump off.

What the upper thread mentions is very true for porn addicts. They do this all the time. Program the router to shut off at certain times. Does it work? I doubt it.

Distraction is a very real thing. Hell, distraction is recommended as an aid for anxiety disorder :)

Get distracted, be human. Get back to work.
So your argument is because it's not the "top of globally wasted resources", we should ignore the waste? It's a large enough industry that GPU stock and prices are hugely affected by it, and its much more conventionally wasteful than the services you're trying to compare it to. Plus if the goal of cryptocurrency is to become more mainstream, this is a super important argument to make against it in its current form.
When space was limited in game cartridges in the past I can imagine such a rule actually existing in a real buisness setting.

One line of code in, one line of code out.
That would lead to some really weird software, and it would take longer, but it would probably improve the software in some metrics like performance
But virtually all mining is done near cheap renewable power.

People talk a lot about how much energy it uses, yet to see attempt at quantifying co2 emissions, they are likely quite low.
No worries ;)
I think it depends on the nature of your spike.

AppEngine instances can typically start in 30 seconds or so. So if your spike is because your video went viral on facebook and lots of people are looking it it, that's fine.

If your spike is because you have 10 million clients with an app set to do an HTTP request at exactly 10:00:00pm, and they all arrive within a quarter second, thats a problem.
There are conspiracy theories in history that did turn out to be valid though.