skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are very wrong. If you look at transaction volume and value it has been growing with the price this time around we may see another bubble but we aren't in one right now.

Most drug markets have moved on from Bitcoin to coins that offer strong privacy and because of the transparent ledger it is a poor choice for money laundering. Don't take my word for it though the UK Government issued a report recently placing the risk of people using Bitcoin for money laundering at low.

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

Edit: There was a good article on Forbes.com about how to think about Bitcoin's value using the Network Value to Transaction Ratio.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/wwoo/2017/09/29/is-bitcoin-in-a...
Email lives on.
"Learn Liberty" is an ideologically driven organization whose goal is to promote pro-corporate policies by masking them in radical free market libertarian rhetoric.

It's propaganda.
Ask HN: What was your worst interview experience?
My friend made exactly this (https://www.ericsson.com/en/press-releases/2016/5/soundvisio...) but it ended up not being marketable so they abandoned it and sadly never opensourced the code.
There is a solution for this and it's Early Retirement Extreme. But it's not what you think. Ignore the "Retirement" word and think "Financial Independence" and ERE is a way to get there. The whole idea is you live well below your means and save like crazy. As much as you can percentage-wise. Eventually, you will have saved enough to be able to live off of your savings by at the safe withdrawal rate of 2.5-4% (depending on your conservative/optimistic bent).

The funny thing is the more you save, the better you become at living on less and therefore the less you need to be financially independent. There are all kinds of facets to it so go google.

It does require effort but in our industry, you can do it. Also there are loads of software dev jobs for older people in the midwest.

I'm doing ERE though so I can be financially independent enough to work on my own businesses (I'm bootstrapping one as a side project, already profitable but only 1/40 of way to replacing full time income). Partly due to fear of agism but also due to being sick of the VC startup world and working for big companies. A life of fear gets old. Why not take it by the reigns and exert some control?
And this explain why JS is "sucesfully".
But not as strong as with python. And certainly PHP/Node is biased heavily for web-apps. Python is a bit more broad.
same logic can be applied to a native app that is using libpng and an attacker exploits the lib in one way or another.
There are papers on PubMed that can point you in the right direction on that; but I just wanted to point out that if you get a DNA test (23andme and others), you get tested for a mutation that makes stomach bleeding more likely if you take aspirin. So the answer to both may be "it depends on your genes."
Any example in how this is done? The info I have gathered is none what you have described!
Static languages make refactoring easier, not harder. The more information you have at compile time, the more automated tooling can do for you.
> Testable code is not a good thing in and of itself. Code should only be testable at its high level interfaces i.e. interfaces that are close to the requirements. So if the code is a library then the high level interface may be the public interface of a class.

Perhaps I misunderstand you, but I have to disagree with this.

Testable code is absolutely a good thing in and of itself.

When something breaks, being able to isolate each piece of the codebase and figure out why it's breaking is essential.

Far too often I've got bug reports from other developers saying "System X is broken, what changed?". When I ask for more detail, a test case proving it's broken, etc - they can't come up with that. Their test case is "our entire service is broken and I think the last thing that happened was related to X". Sometimes it is a problem with System X, but more frequently it's something else in their application.

The smaller you can make your test case, the better, and the easier it is to get a grasp of the acutal problem.
browser security vulnerabilities are expensive and heavily scrutinized. Just because they are on top of it for reporting vulnerabilities and fixes so that you become aware of it doesn’t make the alternatives more secure. You just wouldn’t be aware of them which is more dangerous.
How'd you get into hardware design from software? I'm trying the same thing but have never really got past blinky LEDs and breadboards.
I was going to release a side project based on QPX Express API that allows comparing prices for a flight in different countries. Guess I won't bother fixing the last details and will just add it to my list of never finished things.
That trick no longer works at all, to my knowledge. The GFW is wise to it.

That's why Tor had to implement HTTPS-like fake traffic padding in its obfsproxy modules, which also need to keep evolving...
> "It is completely dependent on it being the US stock market."

Not really. It's only dependent on stock prices inherently reflecting all of the information buyers and sellers have about their expectations, including expected risk and reward. Trying to "time" the market basically means trying to find a signal other buyers and sellers haven't figured out, or at least not enough of them to cause prices to shift accordingly.

Which isn't to say it's impossible. You can be among the first to notice something is awry. It just probably won't be "the P/E is off"; lots of people look at that. It'll be something like in the last housing bubble -- "huh, I noticed housing prices are way out of reach for median income earners, so I looked into loan practices, and apparently risky loans are being repackaged and sold off in a way that masks the risk" and then watching things like loan default rates like a hawk, and then selling as soon as loan defaults started affecting the market.
If you are starting a new bulk mail service, you have to be very careful about the IP address. It can't be from a known suspicious IP range (e.g. any part of Amazon EC2). It can't be an IP that already has a bad reputation from a previous service running on it. It can't be an IP that is currently running a bunch of other services and sites.

Even then, you have to "warm up" the IP by slowly increasing the send volume from it, over about a month, while maintaining low spam scores.

It's a pain in the ass, which is why email service provider is a business model.

There are alternatives to email, like targeting and boosting social media posts. But generally speaking, they are all more expensive than email, even taking into account service provider fees.
Like DLL Hell all over again.
Microsoft has an extremely long history of doing business with companies from small to very large enterprises in size. Google as a productivity software company that deals with business clients, is still using training wheels by comparison. Why does that matter? Microsoft is less likely to make mistakes like this around any of their productivity tools businesses (including storage).

Besides that, Google is currently on a fanatical binge about censoring content they disagree with. Microsoft is not, which vastly reduces the likelihood of such a mistake in the first place.
Embrace, extend, extinguish. It's the SaaS business model.
Calling it 4MB is a bit ludicrous. On first run (on linux) it downloads half a GB worth (508 MB to be exact) of 'browser content'. On first run.

So this isn't light or native. It uses the same Chromium codebase, but atleast twice the size of Electron apps.

https://hardbin.com/ipfs/QmNttGPf65DZ3eeuNCCWemrxyNzaHxLhpAZ...

If the rest of you are wondering where the bulk of it came from, check libcef.so (466 MB)- which is Chromium Embedded Framework.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_Embedded_Framework
आज तुलसी के खा ले 5 पत्ते, चुपचाप छत पर फेंक आएं ये एक रुपये का सिक्का फिर देखें
I'm not talking about association, I'm talking about engagement. You don't have to like someone to consider that their views are worth grappling with.
I know that the rights came quite quickly. I know the hole starts near one of the Tesla buildings, I believe that would help quite a lot.
Implement.js -Create interfaces to enforce and refactor properties of objects
The key word missing from the submitted title is unmanned.

An "aerial vehicle for cargo delivery" could be any aircraft.
Yeah, don't give up a signed driver on Win10+ at all - Microsoft are making it prohibitively expensive for new drivers: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/windows_hardware_certificat...
> these ads that the Dems have been hyping up

The post under discussion is an article by Republican senator Lindsey Graham.

Here's an interesting example I saw in [1], although I don't know if it was foreign-originating. It's an official-looking ad for Democrats that tells them they can vote from home by texting "Hillary" to a 5-digit phone number.

[1] https://www.c-span.org/video/?436454-1/facebook-google-twitt...
Maybe relevant wasn't the right word. But it's what makes slack slack, over say, irc.
I think that's a very pessimistic view of the world. So far technology empowered as much as it destroyed individual liberties. There is still hope. With the upcoming decentralized technologies, I hope that the power returns to individuals again.
I wanted to look into self hosting because it's the only way, for security reasons, my company could use it.
The whole idea of "cloud computing" is innately terrible on virtually every level. Those willing to entrust their data and the integrity of their data to any third party are either not very informed or not very smart(especially given the virtually daily reports of hacks, data breaches, and corporate malfeasance). This is especially true for word processing, which even the lowest capacity machines have the capability to perform without issue. If you value your data, your intellectual property, and your ability to perform technical tasks without disruption, you will be well-served to write all your own papers and documents on your own computer. Store them on your own hard drive and back them up to a flash drive that you physically control. Entrusting your data and your capacity to work to a third party should be avoided unless you have absolutely no other choice.
This app is making me ride the nostalgia train (circa 2005?) when AJAX was hot shit and everyone was making cloud OS.

It has all the same elements:

* window manager

* apps

* document editor

* dock widget

I wish you all the best OP!
FUCK HL7! Holy shit, I’ll never get the time back I spent implementing our standard HL7 data extractor and all the other software needed to get that into our billing system. Our poor EDI team has the worst of it though, they’re the ones responsible for mapping all the edge cases various EMR’s (and their per-hospital customizations) into our standard formats.

HL7 claims to be a standard, but it’s a hell of a lot closer to JSON in terms of standardization (that is, a serialization format) than say ANSI X12 (an ugly but generally standard data interchange system).
I'd like to see OVH take a stronger stance on actioning abuse requests for hosts serving malware before hearing about some paid protection offering. For those not fortunate enough to deal with OVH, if you report abuse, your information and report often find their way directly to those committing the malicious actions - the "customer". This results in the actor simply removing their content to appease OVH and then continuing business as usual. In the face of clear evidence, OVH will often cite privacy issues for why they can't or won't take action. At this point, anytime I see their infrastructure in an investigation, I know it's a waste of time.
I think this is interesting, but I'm having trouble seeing how it'll be used. Personally, when I want to do things like this - I roll my own custom solutions because I want more control.

Given that, I guess I'll be giving it a shot (although I think Firebase in general is super over priced)
If only we could buy 1000 square foot houses in expensive areas. They don't get built anymore.
As a non-marketer, you presumably have not had the experience of customers being mad at you because they thought they signed up for something but never got it.

Email marketing has got to be one of the top "HN readers are not like most people" subjects that get discussed here. Most people do not go through life in a defensive crouch about their email inbox. They sign up for things on a whim and then unsubscribe if they don't like it.

Double opt-in works well for some audiences but definitely not for all. And BTW it's been possible to operate Mailchimp as single opt-in via API calls for a while now.
Say hello to VR Maker
things you can do in the native app to mitigate this risk:

* run rendering in a sandbox

* closely monitor your deps for vulnerabilities and ship patches as quickly as possible

* choose deps with a better security track record, when possible

* independently scan, test, and validate the deps you bring in

things you can do in an electron app:

* pray
Any reason why there's not more support for the Progressive Web Apps standard on desktop browsers [1]?

It seems to me that many Electron apps these days are super-thin wrappers around a web app that don't actually need the full desktop access offered by Electron (things like local filesystem access, multi-process execution, multi-window management, arbitrary node APIs, etc).

They just need a way for users to "install" the app so that it 1) has a separate shortcut and appears in a separate window from the browser, 2) can send notifications through the native notifications stack, and use a fallback on systems where one isn't available, 3) is available for use offline.

The Progressive Web Apps spec has answers to all of these problems, and it would vastly improve the resource usage model compared to Electron because each PWA would share the same browser runtime as the user's browser of choice, which is more likely than not running 24/7 anyways.

Security-minded apps like Signal might need more guarantees such as asset verification and version pinning on install, but surely those could be added to the spec, as they would be beneficial for other Progressive Web Apps as well.

I know PWA was designed with mobile apps in mind originally, but it'd be a shame to limit it to that use case, as there is clearly a lot of demand for building desktop apps with web technologies, and PWA sounds like an excellent alternative to the current status quo that's dominated by Electron.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Progressive
How about airborndocs?
Large companies IMO aren't setup to take advantage of arbitrary levels of ability. They're antifragile in being able to ingest common denominator type skills and plod along despite bad engineering. The lynchpins are already in place BEFORE the hiring/growth phase. New hires that can actually compete with the established lynchpins only scatter the attention and increase the failure rate by questioning leadership.

A lean chain of intent is necessary to hit a goal as the slack compounds each layer down the chain. This is terrible for exploratory action because the output space is myopically limited but necessary for goal setting. Fatter chains often produce more total value but that energy is dispersed and the revenue streams often cannot take advantage of the innovation.

An analogy I like to use is trebuchets and daggers. JavaScript ability is like a dagger, generically useful but fungible and always in some sort of demand. Trebuchets are much more complex and much better at doing certain types of damage but the only buyers are castle seiging kings who may have already invested everything in a catapult producing supply chain.

Most fields like archaeology or art history don't expect their specialization to be highly compensated but often fields that go through periods of hype don't realize their skills can lose relevance. There are a lot of people learning ML now for example but once commoditization of tools and techniques happens the actual number of jobs may become too low to have market liquidity. Unlike A/B testing consultants.

Currently everyone in software can have their cake and eat it too but it's a position of privilege and luck and often this is forgotten.
You wouldn't build a datacenter directly on top of the supervolcano. It's in a national park, after all. Any sort of relatively minor incidents from the geothermal plant wouldn't affect datacenters located outside the park (and they could be a few hundred miles away, if need be). The degree of devastation from an eruption would be so great that the normal risks associated with "hey, build sort of near a volcano" don't really apply in the traditional sense.
To offer a different use case: as a high school English teacher I will commonly work through a paragraph with a student, commenting and modifying as we discuss. The lock out would be quite frustrating.
If you are 40 and just getting started, how does that feel?

Do you have any capacity for empathy or understanding a life situation that is not your own?
Disagree.

The key thing Slack offers most 'customers' (even those who don't pay) compared to something like IRC is the simple setup/use.

I say this as someone who hates Slack, but has had to endure it on a number of client projects.
Dissecting the tuples in C# 7
I'd assume so. More potential fake "subscribers" mean more bounced email and higher volumes which could be used as a early warning indicator for spam or reputation flagging. Slightly related, but I've noticed countless delivery issues with Mandrill, Mailchimp's transactional service. Their portal claims messages have been delivered, but many organizations relay back to us that their message never made it past the mail gateways.
that never happens though
google site search, but i'm sure there have been some others.
I had encrypted wallet.dat file.
It hasn't been very scary. It's been pedestrian to be honest. I faxed in some details with my credit card, got an account setup with the state, sent in my business paperwork, paid the fees and... Company started. I did this a couple years after getting the product going. I waited until we actually had checks to cash that required a business checking account. After I had my paperwork from the state, I got a FEIN online, filed my federal tax return for last year (no income), and opened a business checking account.

There isn't any magic to it.

If you add VC money into the mix, odds are you will fail and have a lot of stress failing. Or you can go bootstrap something and have a lot less stress and still be successful even if your company only makes $400,000 - a couple million a year. Odds of success are still not extremely high. But I think it's a better angle. I moved to the SF Bay Area and worked at startups for a while to get a feel for if I was wrong to think bootstrapping was better. I left much more assured that I was right.
No GPU Instances sadly. I use AWS P2 from US west region and sometimes the transfer speed to and fro my system is really low.
I would say that people mostly participate in the sex market until they find someone they’re willing to settle down with.

If you were seeing someone who you considered “marriage material” you wouldn’t be on the sex market. Until that time happened I can’t see why you wouldn’t participate in the sex market.
Last time I tried Hashcat, it didn't support my 18 character password.
What's the output look like ? Is it comparable to MRI?
> what are the chances of smaller, non death of all mankind leaks that would damage the data center?

I think it depends on the type of volcano. There's some volcanoes that only go boom, and some that only go ooze, and some that are in the middle. And, IIRC, yellowstone is one that's big-boom or nuthin'. But it's been a while since sophomore geology class.
Correct, but IL isn't 'native code'
Will this work in browsers too? It would be very cool if it did
Cryptomator is another alternative.
https://cryptomator.org/
Respectfully disagree...group chat has been a long solved problem. The interface, features, mobile app, and simplicity set it apart.
Do you think market will return to this level with your current basket of equities? There is an argument that the market has too much liquidity due to QE and low rates within the fractional reserve system. If the market crashes, will the monetary policy be there to get the market to these highs within 5-10 years?

Also, if you think the market is going down, one doesn’t need perfect timing. You can get out and have cash on hand to buy later. If everything goes down 25% and you sold out 5% below the max value, you now have more money than your peers, which started in the market, to get gains in the future.
I didn't vote for Trump, but I now believe he was the best candidate.

Hillary's cheat against Bernie and her shaming of Bill's victims is the primary reason I find Trump the best choice.

So you'd have to call me a Trump supporter. I think if you find the above arguments stupid, we'd have a disagreement.
I completely agree that most of them are extreme memory hogs. I was just pointing out that the previous commenter's definition of a desktop application made almost no sense to me.
Well it's up again.
> I think for FreeBSD kernel-land, there will have to be significant rewrites, anyway, since the Linux code is fairly Linux-specific.

Probably true!

> At some point though, I'd love to do a kernel implementation for the BSDs

If BSD developers can reference the Linux implementation's source, it is easier for them to go ahead and do it independently :-). Do you anticipate having time to do a BSD kernel implementation soon yourself, or is it just a would-be-nice idea on the infinite TODO list? I'm trying to gauge whether we should wait for you or try and do it ourselves.
1) one can introduce a human component by having an escrow. That way one can deploy contracts which can be changed at runtime. Correctness is important, but it is always the question to what criterium? A program can be "correct" and still fail. Actually pure notions of correctness are maybe counter productive here. If we would start to see these things use in the real world we would discover quickly that there is an element of modeling here.

Yeah, this "language" is really not going to be useful anywhere. A big company raising many millions of dollars should have tested their academic ideas in the field before releasing sth like this. I'd be far more impressed by some actual use cases.
Even with the side effects and risks it might make sense for almost everyone who is aged 60 to take aspirin every day.

There is now good evidence [1] that if 10,000 people aged 60 took aspirin for 20 years there would be:

174 fewer deaths from cancer and heart attacks

24 more deaths from strokes, ulcers and gastric bleeds

So it seems that the benefits far outweigh the costs.

[1] http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2014/08/06/aspirin-a...
Short promo video on their youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORrvrVEHJz4