skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the discussion yesterday I estimated 2-5 cents per 24 hours of mining on a users machine (based on quoted hashrates and current prices). That's really not much, even if people actively let it run to help and there is a medium efficiency gain to have somewhere.
The bubble seems to be back. My parents bought their house in 2011 (my dad had the foresight to buy at the low point). The house has miraculously gone from $700k to $1.1m in less than a decade.

I've come to terms with the fact that unless I win the startup lottery (or there's another 2007-2008 crash), I'll probably never be able to afford a house in California.
There's certainly no consensus on it. Many people think he is but probably not a majority.
I applaud what these guys are doing, there are definitely serious flaws with the current credit markets driven by government regulation, but I’d like to draw attention to one aspect of the post:

“In countries rich and poor, access to credit is a fundamental cornerstone of social mobility. No matter your age, gender, language or nation, credit is the key driving force to boosting prosperity.”

To be clear, this is simply untrue. Access to stable SAVINGS is a cornerstone of social mobility. Look at the industrial revolution, which drove the largest increase in standard of living for the largest number of people in human history, and it wasn’t due to increased access to credit — it was due to having a relatively stable currency and increased SAVINGS (without savings there can’t even be credit as there’s nothing to lend).

The path to increased freedom and equality in society isn’t more people being in permanent debt on their house — it’s having a stable currency that allows people to save their money and pay mostly cash for assets like their house (ceasing to rely on credit to purchase a house will lower the average price of a house).

Bloom could do much more to promote equality and freedom in society by facilitating access to and promoting stable currencies (e.g. by dismantling central banks and letting the market return to more stable currencies such as precious metals or by making it easier to buy and store Bitcoin, which could potentially replace all fiat currencies used worldwide even if governments refuse to dismantle central banks, which is likely).
Easy for them to say such things and devalue the engineering effort that goes into miniaturizing such tech and having the software to match it.
It's a little unfair to unload on you, I'm just sick to hell of straw men, and it feels like there's no way to make sure people will engage with what I'm actually saying target than what they think I'm saying. It's a pervasive problem. :/
That's why (almost) nobody understands closures.
mmap isn't available on Windows. On those platforms it is available on, there could be subtle differences. If you don't care about memory protection, there is no reason not to use malloc.
It is hoisted at runtime. There is no compile/transpile step that physically moves the declaration to the top, so syntactically the declaration can be after variable usage.
Reminds me of Churchill's quip on democracy: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."

HN users will definitely downvote challenges to their deeply-held convictions, but so will any other community, and almost always more vigorously. I say this as the proud recipient of many such downvotes. :)
USD can satisfy your tax burden to the US government. It is the only object that can do so.
This is how my home works. My automation devices use Insteon, which is local only communication, and then my computer has an adapter for it that I wrote the software for.
And I thought this was pretty quiet in terms of UI and simplicity
I think that look was supposed to be cutting edge back then:

Google Image:
"citroen karin" ( https://www.google.ca/search?biw=1288&bih=633&tbm=isch&sa=1&... )
or
"sttng bridge" ( https://www.google.ca/search?biw=1288&bih=633&tbm=isch&sa=1&... )
Most attacks (most like in "98%") are prevented before the crazy guy even goes out of his room, by intelligence. At least guys from local special forces share and approve that in regular talks. If they lose all tracks, they become completely blind. CCTVs and detectors are there only to calm down people and are somewhat useless, in a statistical sense. If it began, you'll know it anyway.

These acts happen because intelligence made a single mistake in a day-to-day work, not because terrorists invented yet another way to do it. The key points are communication and identification. No one will crash into a crowd without talking about that with co-crazies. It's also naive to assume that they prepare actions only few times a year. They really hate you, your life style, your everything. If you turn your defenses off, car accidents will appear like an insignificant loss in few weeks.

Why I'm stressing this? Because intelligence methods are naturally contradicting your freedoms. Blissful ignorance should not drive a freedom train.
You don't even know what my card game is.

It's a decentralized uncensorable poker game with no rake that makes money from light client-side mining of relatively cpu efficient coins - you don't think I can build a single school from that?
Interesting. The way I read the article, I got the sense that it was emphasizing exactly that, by highlighting examples of how far the tech has progressed in less than 10 years.
Leaving the problem with battery life behind for a moment, this really has the makings of a perfect solution to the monetization problem imo. It's decentralized, democratic, etc.

Also when taking the problem with battery life into consideration, if the website notifies you that it does this you're free to find another website.
Really interesting stuff! I tried out some higher-order examples:

INPUT >>>
function add(f, b) {
return f(b);
};

let a = add(function(x) {return x + 1}, 3);

OUTPUT >>>
function add(f: function, b: number): number {
return f(b);
};

let a: number = add(function(x: number): number {return x + 1}, 3);

and I noticed that the flow type annotations are added to the call site, rather than on the argument f in the definition of add. Are all the types that you generate first order?
I suspect Tesla will face significant legal issues with the way they lock down their platform in the near future. The wealthy folks who can afford the S and X can afford to only deal with the manufacturer, and are likely to buy a new car when the warranty expires. But with the Model 3, a lot more people are going to take issue with Tesla's rules.
I recently encountered this video about an interesting possible reaction that could have been done by alchemists that might explain where the idea of turning lead to gold came from (in particular, wanting gold as an end product is no surprise, but why lead specifically as the source?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzsdORUPk48 It doesn't quite use period materials, for safety and convenience reasons, but I was satisfied that the described reaction could have been done, with more effort. And it does take "lead" and turn it into something that seems awfully close to gold. If you don't have an atomic theory of matter and understand how elements work, you know, I would submit that it's not even that "magical" of a thought to think that you're so close and surely there's just one or two last tweaks you can do to get there.

It's very easy to imagine that as being part of the inner mysteries of a mystery religion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries

Now turning lead into gold is pure 100% unmitigated magic, because we know a lot more stuff. But if we didn't know that stuff, it would not be an obviously magical belief.
>I don't know that there's anyone out there twisting an evil moustache, counting the profits from keeping anyone fearful.

Doesn't have to be some actual singular person.

Businesses, media etc work as collective entities, alone and together, towards their goals, that is optimizing their environment for maximum profit -- similar to how our cells, which are living things in themselves, do.

If profit is the basic measure of success for an organization, it will reward those individuals behaviors that help it grow -- to the point that a perfectly normal company, like WV, from seemingly decent people, will create execs that lie about their pollution emissions, bribe politicians, etc., and -- among tons of similar examples.

Similarly, it would try to expunge those in the organization that do moral or consumer friendly stuff that costs the organization money.

>Anyone whose job it is to compete for people's attention, knows this very well. To pretend there's people far above who are 'bad', or 'good' is a coping mechanism to avoid seeings people and life for what it is

People that do "what works" because it brings money in, other considerations be damned, are bad, end of story.

Everything else is a coping mechanism to avoid seeings people and life for what it is (and for them to rationalize to themselves that they "just do their job").
BUT，WE Chinese live a way far more free.

There are laws but we don't care, we live as we wish and we don't need other's permission.

However when it come to a group, or a company, you are right, there are laws just right for you.
You could easily use unit tests to get better coverage.
I care about the comments. I use http://hckrnews.com/
How about women wearing burka and niqab?
Note that we're not talking about the specific details about the licenses. We're talking about "companies setting a precedent".

> > This point is irrelevant even granting the assumption that it does. You're inspecting the wording of the patent grant and gauging whether it is theoretically effective in deterring patent litigation and thereby conferring some kind of benefit to users of the software is (correct?).

You are also talking about the irrelevant stuff here.

I have no doubt Apache is a better license. But what Facebook is doing is by no means something new.
He's just one of several candidates[1], although I think the late Hal Finney is more likely to be Satoshi.

Another theory is that the Satoshi persona was created by a group of individuals (cypherpunks) who were involved in the early Bitcoin community, including Hal Finney and Nick Szabo.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto#Possible_iden...
I've not studied this, but doesn't that theory seems to conflate "likely to persist" with "likely to emerge"?

For example, the US prison population tends to be far more violent than you would expect - in my state's prisons more than one out of four prisoners are there for either homicide or rape. This is because the longer sentences for those crimes. Because of their "persistence", there are sixty times more people in prison for thirty year crimes than for six month crimes, compared to the relative conviction rate for those crimes.

However(!), this persistence tells us nothing about the base occurance rate. There aren't sixty times more murders and rapes than six month sentence crimes.

So it also seems that the persistence of life does not affect the probability of life's arising in the first place.

Or am I missing something?
I visit mostly for the comments.
Why do people put up with California? This is a 3 bedroom 2 bath house in a completely generic charmless suburb almost 40 miles away from the city. For $2.4 million. A similar house where I live (about 35 miles east of DC) would go for about $400,000, with a water view (also, fiber internet).
Want a more 'authentic' tourist experience? There's an app for that
When to ship it, when to kill it
Also, Gutenberg is still quite a young library (about 8 months old), and just hit 1.0 in the last few weeks, so it's not too late to rewrite.
>> Why is object oriented programming so popular of it doesn't meet needs of software it helped to write?

Perhaps because the vast majority of programmers learn to program in an OOP language first, and then find it very hard to learn a different paradigm. Or maybe they have very little time to do so.

I think this leads right back to the point alankay1 is making (if I got it right): that given a hammer and sufficient time, you become a hammerer; someone who can hammer nails and can't do much else.

So asking "why is OOP so popular" is a bit like asking "why do people watch Holywood movies" (i.e., if they're not good cinema). That's what they're used to.
The Internet Archive is willing to pay to preserve your content even if you aren't. One could imagine a system where your hosting fee includes an "archive tax" that pays for your content to be archived forever.

In general, I get the impression that Xanadu was designed for a world run by five mainframes and it was never really able to adapt to the Internet.
OT: interesting you put Charlottesville in that list. Do we have any reason to believe James Fields planned to drive his car into a crowd of people that day? I think to call it a terrorist attack would require establishing it was planned / premeditated. From what I can tell the prosecution will be hard pressed to prove even a hate crime, let alone terrorism.
There are a number of things that concern me about this and make me want to avoid using this product for the time being:

Hardcoded keys by default - https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost/blob/8ca349b53a7a9c..., committed to git

Images being hotlinked off free icon sites - https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost/blob/8ca349b53a7a9c...

Outdated versions of frameworks, like https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost/blob/0242a7433fe327...

Hardcoded CSS styles all over - https://github.com/CloudBoost/cloudboost/blob/0242a7433fe327...

It's also requesting Redis 3.0 on readme, when stable is 4.0 - a full major version behind, and the vast majority of commit messages are things like "fix [something]" or "cleanup" or "staging",

I am normally not picky, and especially not if it's a personal project, but this appears to be a company with a commercialised product not meeting basic minimum standards - I don't see tests, I see public slack API tokens committed to the repo...
In a previous discussion of the sale, it came up that it is about a mile from the new Apple campus.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15238835
As far as I can tell this isn't dynamic, it just builds an AST. Am I missing something?
It sounds nice in theory as a cheaper way to de-prioritize certain roads. But in practice it also means a lot of dirt and dust kicked up, mucking up the air. Not really great if you're living or working alongside these roads and used to the fresh air.
Some forums don't have downvotes at all, and I find that controversial discussion flourishes there. The moderators also are much more laid back than in HN; they enforce rules like spam and illegal content rather than the task the HN mods have tasked themselves with: preventing flamewar, even when good discussion and education results from it, i.e they see themselves as parents, acting in a preventative measure, we are the children. To further the analogy, there is literally an account flag that the HN mods can put onto your account[0] which puts you into a 'timeout', like sitting in the corner wearing the dunce hat.

This was done to me, such that if I post too quickly, I am banned from posting except for twice every two hours for a while. This, I believe, will stick with my account for as long as I have it - because I apparently post too fast, engage with too many people etc.

One gets the message: "You are posting too fast. Please slow down." Mother and father dang and sctb have told me off. I must therefore go to bed early.

I think it's also a fabulous bit of trickery pulled here - there aren't "rules" for HN, there are "guidelines"; this leads you to believe it is laid back, and being guidelines, they are not enforced. How wrongly one is misled! They are rules in evey sense of the word, as rules are differed from guidelines only in their enforcement. I know many places which say they have rules and enforce them less than HN enforces its "guidelines".

Slavoj Zizek made a point here I think is relevant - when the father tells his son "Visit your grandmother, for if you don't then I will punish you", the son is much more likely to rebel, to complain - he reacts against authority. But another father may say "Please see your grandmother, she is very sick and old, she misses you" -- the circumstance is the same, but the mode of violence used is different, and agruably much more powerful. Few sons can resist this kind of force.

[0] https://github.com/wting/hackernews/blob/master/news.arc#L15...
Given how hard it is for any group of people to keep a secret, I've always thought it much more likely to be a single individual.
Also include the Stasi in East Germany.
And for those curious about Hal Finney, here's a fascinating post he wrote before his death: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155054.0
Not a huge fan of the little face camera dingleberry at the top, but what I really find ugly on the iPhone X is the sides. You've got the screen, then a tiny little bit of black, then a tiny bit of bright, shiny silver.

It just looks all wrong and the shiny silver is horrible - too close to the first gen iPhone and it'll take all of about 2 days for it to get covered in scratches and fingerprints.
GOLD Targets Further Weakness Towards Psycho Support at 1,300.00 Zone
I am not sure if one can trust any 'don't be evil' pledges. With Apple products one is often required to use the appleid - and this can be used for tracking purposes. Also Apple is also a media company (iTunes among other things) so it's not just a pure hardware vendor. They too sit on a big heap of user data - beware. Also they are required to comply with local regulations - and these may not be compatible with your high expectations on matters of privacy and confidentiality.
It's 40 miles from San Francisco, but just a fraction of that to San Jose, which is the larger of the two cities. People paying 2MM for a house in south bay likely work in south bay.

The charmlessness, though, I agree with. People live in charmless apartments in Manhattan, too, but they live in Manhattan, which is an amazing place to be. South bay, though, is just bleak.
I believe this research fed into the design of the F2FS filesystem, which is in the upstream Linux kernel (also from Samsung).
> Of course they could and have done that before, so really there is no change.

It's almost never about acquiring new power, they don't need that. It's about enforcing policy through a more specific enlightenment (ie don't do this, this isn't acceptable, etc). In other words, it's encouragement to aggressively keep with the line they've drawn. The party goals are dramatically easier to achieve/uphold if they have lots of lower level hands willingly helping.
every time someone writes about this they talk about the teachers, janitors and minimum wage people. Although they struggle they have some assistance (discounted day care or affordable housing). What no one talks about are middle class with dual income, that still can't afford a home, and don't qualify for anything at all. The dependent care spending account covers only about 2.5 months of my child's preschool cost. It's much much worse than it seems
Sunnyvale is near Apple and Google headquarters. Dual income families where both adults earn $250k+ per year are the type of people I imagine buying these places.

They appreciate in value, so it doesn't really matter if the price is inflated as long as it continues to inflate. You throw some money down, make payments, and cash out and move away when you're older.

It's still annoying, but it does make some sense to me.
Don't worry too much. The American economy generally runs on 69 month cycles (on mobile, sorry for no source). In about 6-7 years you will be able to buy a home again.
Similarly, CλaSH and MyHDL also compile to Verilog (or VHDL).
Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney) (2013)
> The for loop is now completely extinct in my codebase. If you do happen to stumble across one, point it out so I can kill it.

For loops in JS are significantly faster than .forEach() or .map()

When performance matters (WebAudio, WebGL etc), you can't easily get rid of for loops just yet.
That is not a meaningful distinction. A car attack planned 30 seconds in advance is as dangerous as one planned 3 weeks in advance.
So You Want to Use JavaScript in the Next Freelance Project – Async
eliminating mortgage deduction could help with the prices, but overall, probably wouldn't affect how much each people end up effectively paying. I could pay 10K before the deduction, and effectively pay, say 8K, out of pocket. Remove deduction, i still pay 8K. Effectively nothing changes.

Also, in the bay area, plenty of houses used to go for cash (to chinese). No amount of mortgage interest deduction cut could help with that.

The demand & supply problem is somewhat due to prop 13, but still not entirely.
This article doesn't say anything at all, other than that all the major tech companies denied the original Greenwald claim that the NSA had direct access to servers (claims that every major outlet who published them have subsequently walked back), and that they had anything to do with "PRISM".

Other investigative reporters have worked out what PRISM was. Now we're all pretty sure we know. But that doesn't mean the tech companies at the time had any clue. It is somewhat unlikely that the thing that sent them 702 directives was, to them, referred to as "PRISM".

Generally, I find, when PRISM gets introduced into a discussion about Internet privacy, the discussion gets rapidly dumber. I'm not saying that's happening here, but it's a risk. If you're going to talk about it, you should have better sourcing than whatever the hell "The Cheat Sheet" is.