skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have encountered this bug the other day. Literally unplayable but fun watching the guests vomiting all over the park.
All centralized power structures will transform into threats. The future of information technology will be in decentralization/anonymity... not centralization and always-public models.
Ok, you have a point.
Beautifully said.
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Inequity doesn't mean much wrt Bitcoin IMO.

However, it's good data regarding how much of the currency being held is put to use and how much is just hold-and-pray/FOMO.

As a supporter of bitcoin, I recognize that there's so little backing its value. Once some piece of devastating news would be released, it could send bitcoin tumbling all the way down to zero. There would not necessarily be any residual value to the currency if the news were bad enough. The only thing I could imagine that would obliterate all the value might be "algo for PoW is vulnerable to trivial double-spend, no software workaround available". The next most significant thing would be "global consensus among UN member states to outlaw cryptocurrency transactions, transactions to carry criminal penalties including imprisonment." But then it would just slip to merely black market use, which would likely preserve some residual value.

Bitcoin's power/lure is: invulnerability+deflationary+novelty+utility+ubiquity.

Invulnerability: its value will fluctuate as demand cycles, but the network will continue to churn out new transactions regardless.

Deflationary: yes, as everyone says this is a bad quality for a currency, but it helps explain why people keep investing.

Novelty: there's some things that you can do with bitcoin that you can't/couldn't ever do before.

Utility: it's a truly useful technology and there's innovation going on to find new ways to leverage it.

Ubiquity: why bitcoin and not other cryptocoins? Its marketing/brand/ubiquity is its strength. Admittedly it is not irresistibly strong. Support for some other coin could easily overtake it (and that's why there's some investors hedging on other coins).
We had something very similar only it morphed into an explosion of other games such as one where a person drew an obstacle course and a range of items the second player could use once or another game involved drawing a range of soldiers (which shot using pencils) and tanks (which shot using thick markers) which could be moved using a dot system (i.e. you had to draw a 1 cm line, draw a dot, for a single step) with tanks being allowed to move 1 move, soldiers 2 moves, ninjas 3 moves, etc.
Yeah you're right, I would lie to you about other things.

I would lie to you about the extent of the server problems I dealt with on a weekly basis, so you don't have to worry about what a rickety POS your technical stack is. I'll meet deadlines and you're going to be a great reference.

The bar? The bar is much lower. You are worried about employees that are going to make excuses like "their dog died"? See, those aren't the kinds of problems us perpetually employed people are trying to get around.

Us perpetually employed have clearly adapted. We move through whatever random screening you've made up, and work with integrity. That is mutually exclusive from honesty.

What does that makes us, sociopaths? Okay sure, all the employees that pass your random screenings are sociopaths making their way to the top with the other sociopaths. Comes with the territory.
> Ross Baird, president of the venture capital firm Village Capital, noted that when ProPublica[click-through link] tried last month to buy targeted ads for “Jew haters” on Facebook, the platform did not question whether this was a bad idea — it asked the buyers how they would like to pay.

Clicking through to read that article[1], it's clear that the categories were created by an algorithm rather than a human, and when reported, were removed without fuss. The way the main article phrases it is highly misleading.

The click-through article also says that while "Jew Haters" was a group that could be selected, it was too small to buy a targetted Facebook ad for by itself. They added a few more 'jew-hating' categories, and a few 'Hitler' categories, and the target demographic was still too small. So they ended up adding the category for a small extremist political party in Germany. At this point, the target demographic was big enough to allow them to buy a $30 ad.

Painting this as "Facebook is facilitating the rise of antisemitism just for a buck" is extraordinarily disingenuous.

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-enabled-advertis...
Most fish markets in Japan are like that. Tsukiji is just bigger. Actually it's dirty there and it's in a poorly maintained area of Tokyo that was never made for that in the first place. The fish market in Sapporo is much, much nicer.
Then Singapore doesn't belong on that list.
> And I honestly can't understand why anyone would get up before dawn to go to a 5:30AM fish auction if they didn't work in the business and understood Japanese.

You know why. Hipsters do it for bragging rights.
you need it to pay taxes.
Why AWS and Microsoft?
Why not Amazon and Microsoft?
and their use is purely optional.
i keep posting this to hn, but it keeps being relevant: http://prog21.dadgum.com/21.html
No, if you are taking the long view, then Dollar Cost Averaging or other strategies are recommended. This eliminates the risks involved with trying to chase the trend.
coinbase makes it simple. I think they'll be able to hold onto it as well.
More or less, assuming you can predict it. But there's a penalty for misprediction. So it boils down to whether using % frequently (either as a native instruction or as a sequence of instructions) is more or less expensive than predicting a branch frequently, given a certain misprediction rate.
> There may be legitimate concern that the employee is just looking for a short term paycheck while they look for something more senior.

So set up an employment agreement that addresses those concerns. Use a vesting schedule or clawbacks on a signing bonus.

> Most managers are probably not thrilled with the idea of investing in someone who may not even stay a year.

Most managers aren't optimizing their technology for productivity, especially when new team members are concerned. This is a solvable problem. That is, "we're concerned they might quit in nine months" can be rephrased as "we're not capable of onboarding an experienced new hire in a reasonable amount of time".
Or you know it's actually an interesting experience. Have you done it?
As a Lyft driver, I can confirm that this is way too real
> Based on the idea the overqualified implies the job role is beneath them...

So offer them the job and provide a path for more responsibility and pay as they prove themselves. I don't see the downside for the company. There's probably a downside for certain middle managers, I guess.
*shell forks
take one look at the manipulation of the political systems in us and pr by monied interests and tell me its poor people’s fault.
>>They're not gonna accept "I watched a bunch of videos on YouTube" as an alternative.

Soon they will.

If the internet people come at cheaper prices.

There isn't much difference between people who watch a lecture on the internet vs those who watch it live.
ReSharper (and presumably IntelliJ) supports expression-based search and replace.

Here are some commits where I used it to remove boilerplate from some test cases. The code was written long before MSTest added support for Assert.ThrowsException.

https://github.com/dbremner/PowerCollections/commit/a364a154...

https://github.com/dbremner/PowerCollections/commit/1de2f916...

https://github.com/dbremner/PowerCollections/commit/183e3c7c...
I wonder if there is some universal way to increase DPI for SDL-based apps. I am on linux and I can't read anything =(
I really don't understand all the hatred for Bitcoin. Perhaps it's envy from those who wish they got in earlier.
This is the real insight.
This sounds rational until you realize this is the only reason the price continues to rise.
More than a milk shake?
I would argue that a useful definition of consciousness is a process whose input is partially comprised of its output.
No, you don't need yellow pieces of rock to pay your taxes.

Gold is quite a good comparison to bitcoin. Gold has very little "intrinsic" value and isn't backed up by the government.
> Hyperinflation is real

For all practical purposes, it really isn't. Hyperinflation is a boogeyman used by deficit hawks and Bitcoin supporters to scare people into supporting their way of thinking without providing real arguments.

Think about it: people talk as though hyperinflation is always just around the corner, waiting to pounce at the slightest misstep. But in the last century, through all the ups and downs of the economic cycle, amounting to thousands of "country-years", how many instances of hyperinflation (other than countries totally destroyed by war) have there been? The answer is: three. Weimar Germany, Zimbabwe, and Yugoslavia. Don't you think it would be more frequent if it was really such a serious threat?

And none of those three examples are even really relevant. Germany's hyperinflation happened when we had a pre-modern grasp of monetary theory, and Zanzibar and Yugoslavia were both ruled by ignorant despots. I'm just gonna come out and say it: in a modern country with even a marginally competent central bank (which we have, whether you want to admit it or not), hyperinflation cannot happen; it is a myth.

> bank runs are real

Have there been any bank runs in the developed world in the last half-century where people actually lost their deposits? Again, a government with even the minimum amount of competence to institute deposit insurance makes it not an issue.

> Bitcoin never fails an audit

Only for a uselessly narrow definition of "Bitcoin". The protocol itself, sure, but for almost every company that actually does business in Bitcoin, it's a different story. Every Bitcoin exchange either has gone bust or will, most Bitcoin mining companies are scams that only ship once the difficulty has increased to the point where the hardware is no longer useful, etc.
Anyone have an idea why they would spend resources to do this? I have a feeling this has to do with the recent $18 modem article, but this is every iPhone.
Reading the tea leaves in someone's personal situation is a path towards discrimination in hiring, however unspoken or unintentional. I've heard interviewers question someone about their decision to move to another city, not thinking the reasons may be entirely personal and inappropriate to be brought up in the context of an interview.
Let me be clear. I was talking about criticism of Musk specifically. Pretty much EVERYONE in the aerospace industry thought he was nuts, and yet SpaceX made it to orbit. Even a couple months before their first stage landing others were saying it was impossible.
It's a shame because the game uses IAP for a good reason.

But I don't blame you for being reticent, I am too.
> Novelty: there's some things that you can do with bitcoin that you can't/couldn't ever do before.

You can do the same things with a variety of other cryptocurrencies for a fraction of the cost, though.. and it will usually be a lot faster, too.
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If you need to get downtown from the Toronto airport, take the Union-Pearson Express aka UPX.
When will Apple dump Broadcom?
Bitcoin is a bubble, the biggest one since fiat currencies ;-)
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The future of information technology will be in decentralization/anonymity...

That's what they promised us back then: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Now, instead of Usenet we have Reddit, instead of email we have Google and Microsoft, and instead of bookstores we have Amazon. Even Bitcoin is centralized.
Standard Notes – A notes app with a focus on longevity, portability, and privacy | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13421927 (Jan 2017, 282 comments)

Ask HN: What do you use to take notes? | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13218918 (Dec 2016, 136 comments)
> ...if it takes 6 months to get a new developer up and running on the codebase, and then they leave just when they are getting productive.

That's something you can optimize for. An overqualified engineer shouldn't take six months to earn their keep unless the codebase is a huge mess. If the overqualified engineer is worth the salary they're really qualified for, they'll be able to describe exactly what parts of the system need to get fixed so the next engineer can be patching code in much less time.
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Android does the same thing, more or less, now. For quite a while Wi-Fi has not been truly off unless you access a buried setting—it's scanning for access points for location data. Now in the latest release the Wi-Fi will turn itself back on after having been turned off once you're near a known access point. I never really had an issue with this, as you say it is not that hard to notice the icon in the status bar, but I will admit it is a nice touch. Granted, I have already signed my soul over to Google so I have little to care about.
the categories were created by an algorithm rather than a human, and when reported, were removed without fuss.

I think that's the point:

a) Automatic categorization means offensive categories will be created

b) It takes a complaint to have them removed.

The click-through article also says that while "Jew Haters" was a group that could be selected, it was too small to buy a targetted Facebook ad for by itself. They added a few more 'jew-hating' categories, and a few 'Hitler' categories, and the target demographic was still too small.

It is unclear to me why the fact that this particular phrase was too small to buy for means it isn't a problem. The fact is you can target ads based on it, even though currently you also need to buy other groups.

Additionally:

The Daily Beast, which briefly ran its own ad campaign to test the company’s tools, says Twitter’s platform shows 18.6 million accounts “likely” to engage with the word “Nazi,” while another 14.5 million users might be drawn in by the N-word. For Twitter, the process seems entirely automated and there appear to be no safeguards in place — The Daily Beast tried a number of different hateful words and phrases and none were blacklisted by Twitter’s tools.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/15/16316352/google-twitter-a...
This is an alternative, making your keyboard your mouse for other instances [1].

Thanks for this. I really needed it.

[1] https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/1093-using-keyboard-numpa...
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Sounds like gradual abstraction.
It's crazy how the first iPhone is just ten ICs crammed together, vs now when they fab their own parts on one tiny board. Really shows how ahead of its time the first iPhone was.
> I've had jobs where I didn't feel really comfortable with my understanding of the entire scope of the business until I'd been there a couple of years.

I've had that problem, too, but I considered it a failure of architecture and design, not an inherent property of the space we were operating in. Often this is a sign of a lack of separation of concerns at the system level.
Huh?

Might I suggest that you might not know enough 40- to 50-somethings to sling around that word "most"?

Sure, as an old fart, I don't like the new culture of the young snots that change jobs every 18 months before they've started to add value, or even really learned anything, but that's about as much time as you'd get from an overqualified person looking to bide his time before he moved on anyway.
Many apps will prompt before doing a large download over data. Spotify has separate settings for mobile data and Wi-Fi streaming quality. One could imagine a video app would prompt before streaming on mobile data. I'm pretty sure this is the solution—perhaps the Android or iPhone media framework itself could implement something that would warn people if app developers are often forgetting to add this feature?
For starters the shiny metal does, as you acknowledge, have industrial application. Moreover, you wouldn’t be able to post that comment nor would I be posting this comment without that shiny metal in our respective devices.

Additionally the shiny metal is limited in supply, that is there is a finite amount and you nor I are going to make anymore of it. As OP suggested bitcoin is manmade, it may be artificially limited (21M coins) but anyone can just create a new blockchain and/or cryptocoin for next to nothing.

I myself learned how to create smart contracts and deploy them on the Ethereum blockchain and I have created YC Coin; Reddit Coin; Facebook Coin and Instagram Coin. For just a few fractions of an Ethereum Coin I have decentralized karma and likes across networks with billions of users combined. Separately, I have created tokens backed by real life assets allowing users to buy/sell/trade interest in actual assets on exchanges.

I’ve even begun offering coin/token creation as a service so anyone or any business who wants it’s own community cryptocoin can have one. Now I don’t question why my coins/tokens are worth less than bitcoin, but at the end of the day “why is bitcoin worth more than other coins when they are both artificially finite stores of value functioning on immutable blockchain technologies, providing the same functions” is a fair question. Once precious metals can be reproduced for next to nothing, like blockchains and cryptocoins, then it’s fair to challenge their worth until then I think it’s easy to argue their worth as a store of value.
Isn't that more of a customer/vendor relationship? Do accountants lose their CPA for stuff like that?
I saw this coming when reading the original comment and thought a more fitting analogy would be something that gets better with age.

The first thing that came to mind was a cast iron skillet. Would you rather get a brand-spankin' new unseasoned skillet or would you rather get one that had cooked breakfast everyday for 3 generations of Appalachian homemakers for the same cost?
Only one that I know of, but that's still probably more than ancient Greece.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-do-you-put-out-a-su...

It's an interesting bit of trivia that St. Louis had one of the nation's first cyclotrons used for atomic research, but radiation is the gift that keeps on giving. We're more or less stuck with it now, though; too bad we aren't using more for energy. Why, my pops has stories of scrubbin' the hot room floor what'd raise your hairs...of course, that was back on the East coast. Grandpop always was fond of hands-on lessons.

Well. Hands-on lessons, ignoring the IRS, and losing his company's license to produce radioactive material. Still, he considered it a win when he was still cogent because 'those boys at oak ridge saved him from the draft.' Can't argue with that. Or at least, I sure as hell can't, especially since my other grandpop served in the Pacific theater and was very quiet about the whole thing besides using certain, uh, racial epithets to his death.

Let's all stop and appreciate the lack of serious global conflict around now, yeah?
>And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Well, anyone with a measure of decency, of course.
IHS tries to track market trends by looking at what devices are made of, how much they think items cost, etc. A large reason for this is for the financial world so investors can say "ok, the if the last iPhone sold x devices, the new one will sell y devices. It has a Bosch sensor that we think costs 10 cents so Bosch will effectively sell z million dollars of those sensors."

They don't do this with just iPhones fyi, they do it with a ton of different things.
The cost section is Interesting.

I see the iPhone 7 cost of materials is $237. No wonder Apple makes so much money!
How is BTC centralized? Someone did decent research on this:
https://news.21.co/quantifying-decentralization-e39db233c28e
They’re derived from public records. Anyone who wants to hire the staff for legwork and pay all the individual municipalities for access can compile the same database.
> there's so little backing its value

What exactly is backing its value? Is it just marketing fluff?
If they're that good, give them a better offer (a promotion, more equity, a raise) first. There are worse things than finding someone ambitious who can back it up. Most companies spend piles of money trying to identify and recruit that kind of talent.
Not true at all. Google and Facebook have a profile on you and track you all over the net even if you don't have an account with them.
Also, the リニア will cut travel time between Tokyo and Nagoya from about 100 minutes to 40 minutes, which is a big difference for people who do business between those two regions.
Oh man, that sounds pretty bad. Why didn't she try consulting/remote work in the U.S.?
I like this idea for fostering relationships that I either get anxiety or not sure what to say.

What do you ask them to hang out with? A calendar invite? Or SMS?
It's like when the threat is to our own profession it finally starts to sink in.
Unfortunately B2B sales tend to have a longer sales cycle so you're definitely in trouble. At this point you probably need some financing and you need some sales. Anything else right now is a distraction.

Sales/marketing advice:

Most security companies partner with MSPs/MSSPs to sell/implement their products. It may make sense to work with them and/or sell to them.

You're currently targeting people at random. Instead of just looking at Directors, it probably makes sense to include CISOs (Chief Information Security Officers) and maybe some devops folks at startups/small companies.

Financing:
You may need to look at alternatives to VC such as raising money from friends and family, raising money from smaller angels, getting a small business loan. As others have mentioned, you should look at cutting expenses. You may need to layoff some staff or cut some expenses.
You disagree with the very first line of the article, but don't say why.

"It is dangerous for an employer to assume that it owns an employee’s inventions merely because its employee invented them."

Did you perhaps mistake this for an "Ask HN"?
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You consent to X when you do Y, where Y is not explicitly consenting to X, is not a valid argument.
Good job being confused by nonsense! Antisemitism (and similar styles of racism) has always been based on a level of double-think: that the enemy race (in this case, the Jews) are both strong enough to be mortally threatening, and weak enough to fall to the first solid blow.
DKE = lowest skilled people think they are a little above average. Low skilled people do not think they are as good or better as a very high skilled individual would be.

Look at the graphs in the actual study:

http://psych.colorado.edu/~vanboven/teaching/p7536_heurbias/...

It's more like the range of 10-90% actual skill is simply transformed to 50-80% perceived skill. The absolute ranking of person by skill order is still accurate.

If Elon Musk is actually at about the 75% percentile of skill which maybe he is, if you turn the graphs that DK reported into a function of actual to perceived skill, if you fed 75% into that you would get like maybe 73%. The real vs. perceived skill curves cross at about 70%.

Versus the popular supposed version of DK, being something like "you are wrong and you do not know it." It's easy to describe the DK to sound like it's a profound explanation of that, but if you look at the data they reported, it's a much more timid effect than it sounds like it is.

To put it another way, low skilled people think they are better than most of the other low skilled people, but they themselves do not perceive themselves to be better than someone who does in fact know what they are doing. Low skill people would think they are a bit above average, not a superconfident expert.