skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At first I thought Marie Kondo hated stuff, and wanted me to be minimalist. That is absolutely wrong.

She doesn't mind of you have stuff. She wants you to only have stuff you enjoy. All those extra things that are like a load on you, weighing you down, get rid of those.
This is the soundest commentary I have encountered regarding the Bitcoin phenomenon since 2008. Sure, a lot of people will denounce Bitcoin, even central bankers will assign doom to it, but never assert why. Is your background in economics? What literature or resource do you recommend I read to understand more of what you understand? May I contact you?
Happens and I wont pass judgement. The IoT explosion has been the best thing to happen for me in years career wise and now I get to combine the best of both worlds.
They are not trying to avoid fines, they want to prepare for the possibility that the company will be forced to split into multiple (truly) independent entities. When the split is done carefully beforehand, the loss to shareholders is minimized compared to a much more abrupt split done by a court of law.
> It also kinda hurts that the isolation of people is seen as financially viable. I would argue, but with very little to back me up, that there is an intangible (and perhaps a tangible) benefit from closeness to those we associate or do business with, that we are losing.

As an introvert, I appreciate that there are services that isolate me from unnecessary contact with people.

Where I live, taxi drivers often try to strike up conversation and get "friendly." Not only that's awkward and uncomfortable for me, here it's also generally not very safe to indulge in chitchat with strangers (you can get marked for scams, muggings or worse.)
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I'll say this -- and I'm in the "this is a stupid fucking product" camp -- but I think sending updates to your appliances to keep you from using bad food is actually the right way to go.

I barely read half my mail, snail or electronic. The chances I'm going to see and read and act on a "your food is bad!!!" email (assuming it doesn't get eaten by some filter) before I eat the food in question is low, low low. Some device getting the message and physically stopping me is really the only way to be sure.
Someone should create a wiki to collect these types of math books/resource recommendations.

Basically a definitive list of math for AI/CS with subpages for the various branches (ML, NLP, haskell-esque typed FP, etc) and focused on self-learning or even hobbyist entertainment instead of focused on being good for formal university classes - which is hard to discern from just browsing Amazon reviews which are mostly full of anecdotes from people's old college days.

I remember when I started down the relearning math rabbit hole last year and found so many threads on HN via the search feature recommending different math books in each.

It also doesn't help that there are 100 math books written each year thanks to the backwards university-fueled incentivize systems to write new ones each year.

I ended up spending a ton of time hunting down the best ones for each subject. Which always seems like a great opportunity for optimization if someone takes a crack at it.

Although once you get past the basics of math I've found a good general rule is to get one the Dover [1] math book series for the particular subject. These were written largely in the <1990s but are almost always still relevant and always my favourites. And notably frequently far more succinct than the university professor ones.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/s/field-keywords=dover+math
Yes. Your post goes into the first point about serial entrepreneurs, but fails to see the value of learnable entrepreneurial skills, and the value of coming from a successful startup, or with deep domain expertise.

If you're addressing fresh grads, then telling them doing a startup vs learning about a startup vs working in a startup are of different value, would be better. Even Mark suster and Ben horowitz and Steve blank suggest working in a fast growing startup is very useful before doing your own. So there is a way to learn those skills without risk, with a good salary and some small upside potential. As one of them has it, a time to learn and a time to earn...

I guess I reacted a bit to the language which speaks about taking risk very lightly.
So its ok for a group of masked citizens with no legal authority to physically abuse another human being for what that person thinks and says. I'm not talking about moral equivalence nor condoning his beliefs. I'm simply interested in the lengths you see as reasonable to silence a person with those beliefs.

So I'll ask again. Are you condoning extrajudicial violence by masked vigilantes?
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I am obviously not suggesting that they buy the servers now.
By hacking the planet, duh.

But seriously, I got started by writing exploits for long tail web apps.
Is there large demand for this? I just cook when I'm home and ensure to turn the oven off when I'm done. I'm sure there are people out there who appreciate the automation, but a) how many and b) how much would they pay for it?
You're probably premature on the oil bit, the latest oil boom is over but it was a good run for high paying, manual labor without any education requirements.

Coal jobs had the double whammy of cheaper energy sources for power reducing demand and replacement of mining veins to mechanized mountaintop removal reducing need for manual labor.

Oil demand will probably come back for the same jobs - until they can mechanize oil/natural gas drilling like mountaintop coal removal.
What is funny is how every time the difficulty bomb for Ethereum hits so far, the price also increased soon after.
Having spent a long time doing data analysis, now called data mining, I recognise that there will be lots of benefit to those doing it but not for those whose information is being used.

AI won't fly. But we will build tools that will fool people into thinking it exists. The problem that exists is that the correlations being made are as shaky as the lack of foundations in the veracity of the data being mined.

Dystopian future is already here and has been for decades. We are only just seeing it now. Recklessness and a lack of understanding the past will ensure that the majority of people will simply fall into place. Fear is the marketing game now, by corporations and governments and others.

Ruling the world is a catch-cry for those who, in the main, only care for themselves and their own.
How is that going to work? Trump isn't running for office!
Ask HN: What maths are critical to pursuing ML/AI? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15116379 (135 comments, 4 days ago)
Printing money would encourage the ad bubble, because the economy would grow based on how much of the basic income consumers spend.
I've heard a lot of managers complaining that it was hard to find security people who could code well, so while getting a generic web dev job may be hard due to bias, it should be relatively easy to get a security engineering position where you write security-related code, as long as you're good at the writing code part.
It may be ridiculous, but I'm not spending a million dollars on CPUs with information gleamed from a forum post.
Hello fellow libertarian.

The problem is that very many welfare recipients get more than $1,000/month per adult. Disabled? Single mother with children? You'll easily get 2x that (including check, food stamps, subsidized housing).

And no one is going to want to take away from the poor.

$1,000/adult/month replacing welfare is an impossibility. We'd have to use much larger numbers.
Unless the supply was initially distributed through PoW, and then the system switched to PoS. That is the plan for Ethereum.
Naming is the hardest problem of all possible universes, in all possible universes.
The quote. "We agree to disagree".

Or else.

War begins!
considering that the "Italians" are a younger grouping of people than the Romans (2200 years ago), one has to wonder what else in the article is lacking accuracy.
Part of the problem is that it isn't an expiration date, it's a use-by date. They imply entirely different things, and it is great for consumers because it provides real penalties for selling bad food.

That said, people need to be a lot more literate in this sense.
Another way to look at it is now it's easy to divest some of those entities
I brought up the same question awhile ago, maybe the responses there will help [0]. My favorite one was:

"Money is a religion. Bitcoin offends some people's gods."

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9711738
I don't agree.

The best case scenario for bitcoin is it becoming the de facto monetary standard, meaning there would be no reason to buy or cash out, as everything would be priced in bitcoin.
My mistake, it's not like you were saying all Irish are drunks, or the Irish are the only drunks, just that the Irish like their whiskey more.

Since there are only 1.4 Billion Chinese, these sort of sweeping generalizations are perfectly reasonable.
There's not much to it. They're just md5 hashes of well-known English words and names. If you just google the hashes you'll get the answer.
BATTERIES.
Learning is certainly about memorizing, whether that's facts or ideas or skills.
The tone of this comment is harsh and inflammatory. But I agree with the sentiment.

The tech is genuinely interesting and certainly doesn't lack hype. That is usually a formula for positive comments on Hacker News. So I'm genuinely curious why so many users here are against Bitcoin.

Is it because they didn't buy in early and want to justify missing the boat? Does it make people feel their own startup is somehow less relevant? Does it threaten the traditional VC funding model?
Sane UBI plans do not change the scarcity of money but use it as a way to re-distribute money from the rich (those with capital making all the money with robots and technology) to those that only have their labor to support themselves (which is getting inferior to technology by the day).
How to use jpegoptim and optipng in Linux to compress many images
All recorded time. 200 years is a blink of an eye on planetary scale.
You are highly underestimating the mental leaps required to understand infinity pre Cantor. It's not surprising at all that people should find it ridiculous and get especially angry about it because they couldn't really explain why it was wrong, despite it just seeming like complete BS to them.

It's like telling a lay person (or even many mathematics students for that matter) that 0.999999.... = 1. They understand the proofs, but it's so against their intuition there is a visceral negative reaction to it.
"I know the volume I can promise is effectively nil, and I read this article from the standpoint of knowing I have an extra job of convincing to do because of that."

Convincing of what - people to work for effectively nothing? Because according to your logic, that is what you are trying to accomplish. Convincing people to work for nothing. But it's not just you, it is the majority, dare I say nearly everyone, that comes to China. Nearly everyone is trying to get something for nothing. People just seem to lose their ability to comprehend that people in China have the same constraints on time, and particularly the value time, as everyone else outside of China.

I own a factory in China and I see this all too often. For example, people come to us with complicated electromechanical projects with half-baked designs. Designs that would require at least 3 additional months of prototyping before we'd even be ready for tooling. That means we are very likely going to spend 6-12 months working on your project. Too often, they don't have a dedicated engineering staff so there are a lot of gaps we must cover. Verification and validation of designs. Resultant CAD changes. Circuit design changes. Prototyping. Strategic sourcing. Lifecycle testing. Safety and agency. Packaging, packout and shipping. More, much more. It can easily consume 1000+ man-hours even 2000+ man-hours from a team of 8-10 professionals working on it. And then, lets say I quote $35,000 USD nonrefundable engineering fees or labor and overheads for 1000+ manhours. That's about the cost of a secretary with an associates degree from my home state in WV. What do I usually hear? Crickets. I hear nothing back because people are too busy expecting that they are going to work with a factory here in China and get something for nothing.

And in the end, they are all wondering "why didn't I get what I tried to buy from China?"
Speaking of booking way ahead of time, how would you go about making a reservation for the 2024 total eclipse in Mexico? Most booking site allow booking somewhere close to a year in advance, but wonder if anyone had experience with reaching out directly.
> But seriously, I got started by writing exploits for long tail web apps.

I lovingly refer to this as "clubbing baby seals" and it is overwhelmingly common among younger hackers looking to polish their skills. :-x
Eudaemons
This post is a weird mix of advertisement and stating the obvious.
How are miners fees practically different from credit card companies' transaction fees?
I think it can. People hate on the lightning network proposal, but I've read it and it seems like there's no reason it wouldn't work. BTC would then be used as a finalizing ledger, not for day to day transactions.
Shameful appeasement of Business interests against legit health concerns for coal workers and communities nearby.

All part of the "Keep em ignorant" brigade within the GOP.
Everyone does indeed know coal is bad, but how bad, or any other effect on public health, from new methods of extraction etc will now remain hidden in darkness.
Your comment would be relevant if it weren't for the fact that there is an abundance of evidence that the Earth is overall warming and that the climate is changing.

EDIT: Do people think it's relevant to mention that recorded time is minute compared to the age of the Earth whenever a weather record is broken? Such sentiments are prevalent amongst global warming deniers.
"San Francisco summers typically mean coats, space heaters and high heating bills. Air conditioning in city homes, well, it’s not even a thing."

Author used the wrong tense here. He should have used the past tense. Air conditioning is an absolute must these days though so are coats and high heating bills (mainly in old buildings with bad windows/insulation). Same thing in the northwest (except the coats). I don't see many new places being built without AC in either location. This heat has been the norm for years and it's not going to go away. It's global warming anyone can feel and experience. Only idiots still cling on to their climate change denial bullshit at the expense of the rest of society.
Technically, x86(and probably others) are turing complete with just MOV: https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/movfuscator
So is it a 500 year heat wave? I need all meteorological events reported in terms of centuries now.
Sure, but that still makes you a security lifer.
> You already have banks doing the exact same thing for free, while insuring your money, you don't get hit 3% for transferring it into the bank, and there's interest accrued

So much wrong with this statement.

First, not many banks in the U.S. do "the exact same thing for free", actually almost none do. Most ACH transfers take 1-5 days, instead of ~10 minutes with Bitcoin or ~15 seconds with Ethereum. Yes, I know about Zelle, but not all banks support that, and clearXchange isn't always same day, even.

Second, some services like Coinbase[1] insure your holdings, even while in crypto.

Third, almost all services that use ACH, like GDAX (Coinbase), Gemini, etc. don't do a 3% transfer fee through ACH, it's actually free. But it's next business day, like most ACH, where as crypto would've been an hour at most.

Lastly, some countries, like oh I don't know, Japan[2], have negative interest rates, so your money shrinks by the day instead of growing.

[1]:https://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/articles/166237...

[2]:https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/business/international/ja...
Know own personality by birth month
The strangest thing just happened to me. I was literally just writing in my notebook that "I should write in my notebook more, and I should do that by writing down 10 ideas a day". And then I saw this article. I wonder, is this just Baader-Meinhof? Would I have seen but ignored this article had I not been thinking about it? Or would I have seen it anyway and ended up deciding to write down ideas daily, keeping my outcome the same but with an inverse causation?
There is no clarification to be made. There is no way to reduce taxes on RSUs by holding onto them longer. When $100 of RSUs vest, you get taxed on $100 of income. You can either keep the stock or immediately sell it with no further tax event related to that initial $100 whichever of the two options you choose. If you keep the stock, it is equivalent to having bought $100 of stock at that instant. Psychology aside, the hold versus sell-on-vest decision should be predicated entirely on whether you would have bought that amount of stock with your own cash at its vest price.
toptalkedbooks.com is a side project of my friend and me.
I'm not talking about toptalkedbooks.com here. ICO is true and $15M (50,000.0 ETH) in 9 minutes is true.
Ceasar! The heat-wave is flanking our western border as we speak!

The cold-front is to the north!!

We have enough food and blankets to last the month, but once the winter hits, our troops shall be decimated!!!!

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Oh I thought you said centurions
Recent thread on exactly this question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15074139

I liked my answer and some other people's answers there.

Edit: something apparently not mentioned in the other thread is the way current cryptocurrencies consume enormous amounts of power.

While this power is used for a useful purpose in some sense, the economics of Bitcoin hardware in particular haven't produced the kind of decentralization of mining that the original paper seems to foresee, yet there has been an incentive to use tons of energy. So, it would also be great to see cryptocurrencies find a way to do proof-of-work that achieves greater decentralization with significantly less energy cost. (There is of course active research on this and I wouldn't regard it as impossible, but many people see the energy issue as an extremely disturbing source of waste.)
Ask HN: Secure chat for teams?
Is there a serious slack-like chat app for teams that doesn't store plaintext messages on external servers? I'd think this is a common requirement for companies with commercially sensitive info and I'm wondering what other people use.
Michael Dell is worth $22.9 billion; $36m is 0.157% of his wealth. For you to donate an equivalent amount, you only have to donate $157 per $100k of your net worth.
It is important to note that the police officer arrested her because his supervisor ordered him to do so if she refuses.

Due to that it is possible that the officer, seeing his job threatened, did not feel he had another choice.

Source of this information: http://www.sltrib.com/news/2017/08/31/utah-nurse-arrested-af... - "Payne [...] said he was advised by Lt. James Tracy, the watch commander on duty that night, to arrest Wubbels for interfering with a police investigation if she refused to let him get the sample [...]"

Pretty sad that the washington post would fail to report such a crucial detail.
According to a report by J.P. Morgan Chase, just 0.0002% of Overstock’s revenue last year were conducted in Bitcoin. Overstock announced BTC support 3 years ago, in 2014.

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/merchants-arent-accepting-bit...
Ok, private entities can refuse you business--or can they? The court system told us that we actually do have to bake that cake. In other words, we can't selectively serve customers based on our disagreements with their personal lives or politics.

But if you're a libertarian congressman, and Google doesn't like your videos, apparently that is not the case anymore.

If you dont think these infringements on free speech will be used to serve the 1%, empower authoritarianism, and be selectively applied: you are already wrong.
> But we can screen everyone involved to reduce the risk of LE infiltration.

Criminal conspiracies always seem to think this, and its a belief that quite often leads to their downfall.

Because (1) law enforcement can pass screenings designed to weed them out, (2) law enforcement informants can pass screenings that law enforcement might not, and (3) law enforcement can turn people after they are screened.
Right, but it's really not about birthdays at all.

It's specifically about coincidences in a randomly distributed set.

It just says "birthday" in the common name because that's a relatable, if imperfect, example.
... While costing roughly exactly the same amount? :)
Of course. My point was that it's fairly common to write slow/unsuitable applications in spite of a stack's strengths, while stack limitations (or strengths) are generally overstated, depending on trends.

Proper engineering and design are required no matter what you choose.

No silver bullets ;-)
I fully agree with this. Big enterprise MVPs are often about cutting scope -- not cutting corners.

Of course, by the very nature of enterprise customers, sometimes there isn't a whole lot of scope that you can cut.
C++ is obvious. I wish C wasn't on the list. I'd wish something with a good type system was the standard for cars.