skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel very badly for the people in the article who lost their life savings on a failed investment.

I also feel very badly for people who went broke on Beanie Babies and tulip bulbs, for almost precisely the same reasons.

Edit: I'm serious. Medallion prices peaked in 2014, well after the start of Uber and Lyft's explosion onto the spotlight. It seems like a bad idea for someone in 2006 to have invested a life's fortune in an arbitrarily limited commodity, but fiscal insanity to do the same in 2014. Those things were only ever valuable because the government issued so few of them, not because of inherent worth. When the demand for them fell below even their meager supply, they became (relatively) worthless - as predictable.

I wish the people in the article had sold their medallions to corporations in 2014 when they were still worth a mint. Failing to do so was a tragic miscalculation.
I don't follow BTC news often but it seems like anytime the price goes up or down it is somehow tied to an event in China. Makes me wonder how much of bitcoin's skyrocketing value is actually based on China's market rather than natural growth. I guess we'll find out soon. In more positive news, it looks like Russia is on path to legalize Bitcoin [1]

[1] https://cointelegraph.com/news/russia-is-working-on-legalizi...
They do the same thing with housing. If supply adjusted to demand a starter house would not be 500k to 1m. Nothing about it costs that much.
A Lot of commercial products have the functionality there and disabled/locked (Windows is an example and some other cars are just a software update away from higher power) Unlike TFA I don't see any issue with this.

More interestingly it seems Tesla has now set a precedence for any other disaster or has it?
Very beautiful. Where is this quote from?
time for a BTC crash.
"Concern troll: a person who disingenuously expresses concern about an issue with the intention of undermining or derailing genuine discussion."

Yep, that's name calling. It's also poisonous to the discussion. It's not "criticizing behavior" when I wasn't doing it.

More importantly, it makes for boring reading. You can see how unproductive the conversation became.

But whatever. Just have thick skin, right? We can't simply expect people to be civil.
doesn't that mean 'almost free foreign currency' for the Chinese? why block free money? it's not like yuan is leaking out...
I totally agree. Like I said in my first post, I think this is great. But I think the way it's being framed as not killing jobs is disingenuous. It is killing jobs, and that's ok. That's the way progress works.
ARKit on iPhone as a hololens controller
Google will take a shot at a 1990's problem that desktop browsers have done away so long ago, that people hardly remember?

This seems rather analogous to digging up a corpse to give it a spiteful kick in the ribs and bury it again.

Given all the SEO spam in the Google search index, it is a misplaced priority to make a target out of sites with popups.
No. Outline is to make the text more readable. But, most of the times, pass the Paywall
Or wife...
It would be interesting to see how this unravels from a game theory perspective. Right now the crypto coin market cap is at around 150 billion USD (up from 15-18 bn in january this year). Not a huge amount by any means when compared to a big country's GDP. The daily traded volume is about 5-10 billions.

If China bans the exchanges now, they basically opt-out from the value created by the flow of some of these billions. Sure, the prices and daily volumes would drop on the short/medium term, but this would only give one last chance to people left out to join and buy crypto at low prices. When the market cap and prices would grow back, China would be left out. Who would trust them anymore to start a blockchain business there?
One of my favorite questions to ask about this topic is:

"Given what you know today (and how blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and decentralized networks work), would you still design the financial system and other systems (ex. identity, currencies, etc) the same way they are designed today?"

My answer is no, and that's why I'm still bullish on decentralized technology and systems winning in the long-term. In that case, investments in Bitcoin and Ethereum are merely call options for an entirely new financial world and a risk still worth betting on.
Today they are very nice and super profitable company. But are sure that they will be this way in 5 years?
I have no interest in going back to tribal living, but I'm not presumptuous enough to think that tribal members want to give up the pressures of tribal living and replace them with the pressures of modern life.

We have no uncontacted natives in the USA AFAIK, we have Natives that had their population decimated (through disease and outright war) and lost their land, then we parked the survivors on isolated reservations in a world that's nothing at all like they once thrived in.

There is an alternative, it's just not economically viable or socially popular, but it would be to quarantine much of the Amazon and prevent modern humans from moving in.
I think they have very few options to control or destroy btc:
1) Force chinese miners to perform 51% attack for them
2) Use their own super computers to do so

At the worst btc will fall and another might take its place. I would see these developments are exciting because the decentralization part hasn't been tested much. certainly not by a nation state actor. If BTC survives this, it will truly shine.
Innocent until proven guilty.

This is a principle of the US criminal justice system not a law of newspaper reporting and/or nature.
Sadly, this reminds me of a line from Star Trek: "Resistance is futile."
MS vs device markers using dos
> for infringing some other software patents I hold, I lose the patent grant for any potential patents Facebook might hold concerning React.

Not just React - you also lose status on Caffe2, React Native and ReasonML.
#1 - the fact that they don't have to specify, and we both know they mean spanish says it all. We have immigrants from Africa, from Brazil, from Italy, from Poland, but where are the Polish "bilingual" classes, Italian, or Portuguese? Everyone should learn a second language, I learned Spanish in Middle and High School, and German in College. The problem with Prop 58, and the old system in California, is only learning one language, and that language not being English. We know kids learn languages faster when immersed in it. When you take a kid who only knows Spanish, and you teach them in Spanish, you are either crippling them, or you have an ulterior motive to put Spanish on an equal level as English. I believe the second is the intent, and the first is the outcome.
> A 2016 survey of the 350 largest U.S. law firms found female partners on average received $659,000 in annual pay. Male partners, meanwhile, averaged $949,000, or 44 percent more.

> “Studies find that male lawyers are two to five times more likely to become partner than female lawyers,” [Professor Deborah] Rhode [director of Stanford Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession] says. “I think a lot of women lawyers are fed up.”

For almost 20 years, around half of law school graduates have been women.[0] At least in IT, part of the problem (certainly not the whole thing) is that there are few women in the pipeline. What excuse does the legal industry have?

The cite has some other interesting information. For example, "In 2015, white men represented about 74% of all partners." Remember that white males are only 33% of the U.S. population.

[0] http://www.catalyst.org/knowledge/women-law-canada-and-us
If any of the events required for this incredibly speculative thing to happen occurred we'd probably have bigger things to worry about.

I hypothesize that hypertornados would go along with it, and since we're speculating about things that could be triggered by large asteroid impacts, I imagine there will be hyperquakes, too. We could call the long, cold period after hyperwinter.

This link is stupid.
I mean if you are genius who has written all parts of OS/compiler/whatever software you use, then maybe it is a negative for you. But most people can't do so and FOSS is actually a blessing. If you like to pay for wall-gardens, where you can't read any code without an NDA/paying a million dollars, they exist. Feel free to use them.
Sure, but sadly they're not safe. At what point is it ok to let them die?

On one hand, that would be letting nature take its course, since humans are a part of nature. On the other hand, we could do something.
My gut feeling is there's some truth to the rumour. Related resources:

• Original Caixin Report that sparked all this: http://finance.caixin.com/2017-09-08/101142797.html

• (RECOMMENDED) Good English translation of above article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sNYGpwj3EKkRhlejoycytZLq...

• Shorter English announcement from Caixin: http://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-09-09/101142821.html

• Coindesk article pointing out Caixin has been spot-on in the past (re their Sep 2 leak regarding ICO fundraising): https://www.coindesk.com/report-casts-doubt-future-chinas-bi...

• Related official news out of China regarding ICO ban: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/6ywtkt/the_actua...

• Tweet from CEO of ViaBTC saying "China will shut down all exchanges": https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/viabtc-ceo-china-will-ban-bi...

It's not the first time China's cracked down on virtual currency <--> fiat trading, but if true this could be more intense than their prior efforts.

(Note this is a repost of my comment made to a previous HackerNews article on the topic)
This feels like a false comparison to me. When you write ASM you pretty much know what it's going to do.

When you ADD two registers, you really are making two reads in the register file, which really is a piece of physical hardware, and those reads really do go to a physical adder and get written back to the real, physical register file. And languages like Go translate reasonably (but not exceptionally) straightforwardly to assembly. Even if you don't know all of the details that go into making it fast, your first guess of what it's doing is pretty much right.

In contrast, adding some lazy FP callback into your latest node.js framework on DOM objects might be doing something, somewhere, but who on earth really knows?
IANAL, but this commenter, whose profile claims he is a lawyer, says BSD carries an implicit grant which is broader in theory than Facebook's explicit one, but still has some untested characteristics: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9113515
Superficially, that sounds more like a release process issue than a bad commit issue.
The Innovation Experiment: Year 4. – Inside Innovation
Essentially it prints out control sequences. Here's some documentation on them. http://xfree86.org/4.7.0/ctlseqs.html
Eh, people were saying the same thing about silk road. Surprise: silk road got shut down and BTC's price didn't drop at all.

I believe BTC's price is inherently a weighted random walk driven by speculation rather than rational reasons. Not everyone shares this belief, and it's human nature to look for explanations when there aren't any.

(An unknowable explanation is still unknowable.)
> I think they have very few options to control or destroy btc: 1) Force chinese miners to perform 51% attack for them 2) Use their own super computers to do so

Or imprison/execute those found participating in cryptocurrencies. China does both fairly often for other crimes.

https://xkcd.com/538/
The source for this news story is an anonymous government employee who told Caixin: http://www.caixinglobal.com/2017-09-09/101142821.html
> Of course, it is.

The funny thing is, I've never met a single person who has read much anthropological or historical literature who holds this view. Truly. Not one. It's only ever held by people who know nothing of so-called 'tribal living' (as if pre-modern 'tribes' in different parts of the world have much in common!).

Human cultures can be so vastly different as to be truly incommensurable. Have a read of Bill Gammage's 'The Biggest Estate on Earth', about the Australian indigenous nations. They managed the entirely of Australia a single 'estate', providing ample, easily-obtained subsistence from a massive variety of sources, using a variety of agricultural and hunter-gathering techniques. For 60,000 years. The depth of culture and development of rich social interaction this engendered is literally unimaginable to us. A contemporary American or Australian, with our love of comfort and trivial gadgets, philosophical naivety, absence of acquaintance with the nonhuman world, and lack of concern for conspecifics may well seem like an unfathomably ignorant and petulant child to an Australian of 1000 years ago.

There's far too much to say about this in an HN comment, but the notion that modern living is objectively and unambiguously 'better' than that is plainly false. Particularly when you consider that our culture is very likely to destroy most natural systems in the next 100 years. The fashionable lingo is that our societies are 'unsustainable', but the plain accurate truth is that, so far, we have proven to be unviable. Maybe we'll fix this, maybe not. But indigenous Australians have a 60,000 year proven track record.

Note I'm not claiming the converse of your claim is true, but just that you're being grossly simplistic.

> If you didn't believe that, go back to tribal living.

That's an unworthy and silly rhetorical jibe, as you surely must know. We are moderns and must make our lives where we are. That doesn't prevent us from taking a fair and knowledge-based look at premodern cultures.
Wouldn't you expect the wage share to decline in aging society? Labor force participation has been on the decline https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000 the number of Americans receiving government disability benefits has been hitting the new records https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/10996... and the only massive new opportunities are in self-employment sector (Uber, Doordash, AirBnB, app store), whom wage share explicitly excludes.

That does not preclude GDP from growing as iPhones are still selling and Google searches are still returning ads.
I may have read too much Nietzche and Schopenhauer but I belive using a fleeting emotion such as happiness as the sole basis for measuring the quality of one's life is a terrible idea, yet sadly it remains an incredibly popular concept in pop-science self-help books.
Yet the Google and Facebook interview questions are decidedly not trivial fizzbuzz problems. They're more on the order of the second midterm of a 300-level algorithms class. This is not stuff that most 10-year engineers have in their heads.

I'm not commenting on your company's interview process; I'm merely affirming the earlier poster's claim that there is a serious issue with the Google interview process and its cargo-cult-followed successors (Facebook, et. al.).
This realization is incorrect. The amount of BTC generated globally[1] per day is minuscule compared to CNY/BTC volume[2]. Besides, they're selling the BTC they mine for more yuan.

[1] $7M
[2] OKCoin.cn alone does $100M a day on the BTC/CNY pair.
I use MailChimp for newsletters and postmark for transactional email, and between the two have great deliverability. Both services, and many others, guide you through the process of setting all this up.
The article omits a key point. Compensation at Chadbourne was based on a point allocation, which was supposed to be tied to revenue generation. Campbell alleges that she was awarded less compensation points despite being a top revenue generator at the firm. Moreover, she was compared unfavorably with men who brought in less revenue than her but were, essentially, better at playing up their potential to being in revenue in the future.
I read your comment, opened snapchat, pinch&zoomed in-an-out everywhere. I couldn't find the map. I'm more than 30. I'm putting down my phone and reading a book.
The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)
Yet the evidence from major tech companies suggests that physical presence is worth the time and expense to bus most employees to a central campus. Apple is spending $5B on their new building to house 13,000 employees together. Amazon is committing $5B to their new campus to house 50,000 employees.
I wouldn't call adults who casually smoke weed stoners though. We're talking about people who are long-term or chain smokers. High school pot smokers do not yet show the long-term signs of marijuana use typically.
People typically max out their housing budgets on urban apartments for themselves/their partners, but want kids to have their own rooms. To get the additional bedroom(s) for no more money, you have to compromise on something else, like location.

Also, suburban housing has the price of a decent school district built in, while in the city you need to pay private tuition for access to an institution which isn't completely non-functional (i.e. overwhelming majority of students are far below the extremely unambitious academic standards).

If urban schools were high quality and middle class families could afford family-sized apartments, things would be different.
Thanks for the synopsis. Given what you've written here I don't see how that would be in opposition to what I've written above. A team could have a goal of writing simpler, composable code and use CMM to measure their capability against CMM criteria. Or am I misunderstanding?
Even if cities decided that it is in their best interest to limit the number of taxi drivers, there is no good reason why the license should be transferable property that can be bought, sold and rented.

If a taxi driver quits, the city, and not the previous driver should choose who is the best candidate to replace them.
WHY THE US IS WARY OF INVOLVEMENT IN MUSLIMS FLEE CRACKDOWN IN MYANMAR?
Side note - please don’t use a code block for lists like that. It is unreadable on any screen narrower than the length of the lines, and there are no line wraps.
How is something defined as distributed and decentralized when it is regulated by each country? If China tanks the value of the major cryptocurrencies by 20% with just 2 regulations is a week, isn't the rest just academic?

As everyone saw one day the founder of Ethereum was meeting with Putin and sending out press releases of potential partnership, the next Putin is putting out his own press releases questioning why he would ever embrace any foreign blockchain/crypto, that Russia will launch its own.

If cryptocurrency can be regulated by individual countries like we saw with china this last week, then I expect the underlying blockchain technology can be regulated too, and we will begin seeing countries picking winners, basically who can be a node on the blockchain and who can mine.

People think/thought blockchain equivalent to an automated unregulatable technology, but once you are talking about billions you impact people with power, they will raise and lower price at their will and take the people's technology from them through regulation.
There's only around $8M a day in mining, at today's prices. So half that a month or so ago. Minus actual costs for ASICs and electric (a significant amount!). It's some flow, but can't justify the trade volumes right?
I don't really have an answer, but you may be interested to know that the retail half of Amazon has a program in place whereby all employees (up to a certain level) are required to visit a one of the warehouses. This is a 3 day affair with a mix of "classroom" time and floor time. While this is obviously far from the unfiltered reality of associates, we (corporate) are at least not totally oblivious.

I don't know about Clark, but I'd imagine he has a rough idea, at least of the general state of affairs. The quote about wanting associates to have less monotonous jobs rings true- I've heard that notion before, and it's good to know that it comes from that high.
What's your experience?
Siddhartha Mukherjee had a fantastic point about this on a recent Sam Harris Podcast - "The more specific we make tests, the more likely we'll find genetic reasons".

If we define beautiful as having blue eyes and blonde hair, of course beauty is genetic! That's equally analogous to how we define intelligence and find it similarly heritable. More work needs to be done on the former before we can for sure talk about the latter.
It's a principle of the US criminal justice system that is derived from a moral intuition of justice. I hate seeing the US policy discarded because it's "irrelevant" to the context. The basis of the law is a moral issue that is always relevant. If murder wasn't illegal it'd still be wrong.

If you want to disagree with the moral principle, go ahead (but I suspect you'll sound like a tyrant).
Hypercanes are thought to have played a role in the biggest mass extinction ever, the end-Permian.[1] Back then all the continents had converged into the massive Pangea supercontinent, which was surrounded by an equally massive global ocean. Bear in mind that today's most intense tropical cyclones are the ones in the Pacific, the world's largest ocean. Back during the Permian, the global super ocean would've been an even richer feeding ground for cyclones.

From the article cited below, "there might have turbocharged 'hypercanes' of almost unbelievable intensity assaulting the supercontinent Pangaea—the result of runaway global warming." Also bear in mind that the supercontinent Pangea was assumed to be habitable almost exclusively along its coasts, with an immense desert covering most of its non-coastal land. So if life was mostly concentrated along the coasts and the coasts are constantly getting slammed by hypercanes... yeah, not good.

Certainly lots of things contributed to the Permian extinction. Some have referred to it as the "Murder on the Orient Express" extinction: everything caused it. Pangea, an asteroid impact or two, volcanoes, methane releases from the ocean floor, maybe even a gamma ray burst hit the Earth too. The sheer scale of death seems to imply multiple causes. But regardless of what the primary causes were, the hypercanes part of it always fascinated me.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/07/a-road-t...
Given the history of strong government control of economy in China, I am kind of surprised this didn't happen sooner. Personally, I think the recent ICO fever is likely the final straw.

In Chinese society, the citizens expect the government to protect them from harm, whether the government is responsible for them or not. On the other hand, the government values stability above everything else, in order to maintain their regime. Now, there's this ICO thing, which has the potential to scam millions of Chinese (and trust me, it will happen), who will inevitably protest until their money is returned, you wonder what's gonna happen…

People have received DEATH SENTENCE before for scamming investors[1]. Let that sink in.

edit: someone mentioned capital control. While I agree this is probably one of the reasons, I doubt it's the biggest. Sure, having money flowing out of the country gives the government headache, compared to having thousands of people on the street holding signs, it seems like a rather minor one. Plus, if you want to move millions of dollars, you probably won't trust whatever-coin to do the job. There are tons of ways of doing that, and the government has bigger fish to fry.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yilishen_Tianxi_Group
The odds are much lower than 1 in a million. It’s any kind of patent. Facebook aren’t just a social media software company anymore by any means.

What this means is they can infringe on your patent on say “tinder for dogs bark swipe mechanism” and they can infringe all day long knowing you would have to migrate off React Native and GraphQL before sueing them over it
Innocent unless proven guilty.

Until until is normally how people treat a suspect rather than a mindset where it’s innocent unless proven guilty.