skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Because bitcoin is measurable scarcity one can provable show it’s a good store of wealth
One can't, provably, do anything of the sort.

You don't understand how Bitcoin and Proof of Work works. The block hash in the following block is a measure of how scarce or rare it was to produce the bitcoins that were minted in this block:
https://insight.bitpay.com/block/0000000000000000002c8fe4629...
If you don't understand how scarcity works in a blockchain, the rest of your points are pretty suspect.

>Your example currencies all tanked against USD. BTC is appreciating, heavily, against USD.

Yes currencies have tanked against each all throughout history, whichever is the weakest tanks the first. Quantitative easing and other forms of inflation executed by the Federal Reserve.

>are you suggesting that there's currently a run on USD? Because I'm pretty sure there isn't.

Yes literally this is what the BTCUSD price plot is showing you. Wake up. the ZWDUSD looks the same. People dump bad money. They are dumping USD for something that doesn't inflate away their value.
Apart from giving you access to all these features, being based on the beta also means that you can discover potential breakage in new Firefox versions before those hit the general public.
Time Management Quiz
We're approaching year-end when there's typically some inflows resulting from 401k and IRA investments. Does this cash sit on the sidelines waiting for the crash, or does it go into the market?
Sure, it's only a few minutes...

...if you're making a relatively small change to a non-mission-critical, non-distributed system that can be taken offline briefly while you migrate; then you can just shut everything down, migrate, roll new versions, and start up again.

If you need to keep everything running while you do a gradual rollout across thousands of DBs, this gets more complicated very quickly - and that's not even taking into account more complex migrations that involve more than just "add / remove this column".

You're definitely right, however, to point out that implicit schemas don't make this better: you have all the same problems, but with less documentation / validation helping you not screw things up. It's also a good point that many businesses / applications never reach this latter stage where migrations become much, much more complex; when you can get away with the former approach, you definitely should.
Galactic Scale Energy
Lightning was on hold for so long because of the segwit politics. With that out of the way it's just testing and validation at this point. It's not a question of if but when for me.

If you think that Bitcoin is a Ponzi, that's fine, but many many people don't, and they see real value in what it provides, and allowing quick easy small payments will fix the last major issue I have with the currency.

And many people currently keep nontrivial amounts of wealth in BTC, but I'm talking about keeping "PayPal" amounts of wealth in it if you want. Charge up your BTC address with $200 and then use it on little shit for the month. That's the kind of thing that lightning enables.

Also, lightning is optional, if you don't want to open a channel, you can use it like it currently is without having to do 2+ transactions just to make one, you'd only open a channel if you wanted to. There's never a situation where you are forced to use lightning.
Google can tell if someone is looking at your phone over your shoulder
A technical analysis of what the service is doing would be nice. Right now the article is basically just a collection of user complaints from the HP forum. And to be clear, I don't doubt that it's happening, but some actual analysis would be nice. Even if it's just a screenshot of the system resources monitor.
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Convenience kills. All you needed was a button on the fob.
Oh well.
Governments needs to be aware of the problem before they can suppress it. So, their was a wave of social media unrest, and their likely will be gain however it's going to be on new systems not those who are being monitored today.

The printing press sparked many revolutions in the past, newspapers and radio continued the trend. The internet is just part of a long line of technology that exposes society's discontent.
That's what hedging is for, you bet that for example, in the overall energy landscape, renewals are going to go up more than "legacy" energy companies, but still protect yourself from overall sector moves.
And according to the author of the article, they would be objectively superior than the other predominant culture framework in the U.S., namely the regressive authoritarianism of American conservatism.
I'm evaluating some WebVR options right now and wondering what you think is state of the art. Are things like a-frame and react-vr a step forward or a crutch? Is Unity viable for web-first apps?
>It should be also noted that "x years epxerience" is not always a hard rule, but just a guidance.

Absolutely: if a place is looking for 10 years of experience in software development, and you have 6-7 but apply, you have a chance of being considered. If you never apply, you have no chance of being considered.

In some ways it's like the truism that lottery vendors bandy about, "you can't win if you don't play".
Don't broadcast the signal used for ignition at all, and require key insertion, even if you have keyless entry. Simple solution.

2FA defeats the purpose, but you could have biometrics directly on the car instead of a broadcast signal.
> As I said, when I was a kid, one of my hobbies was model making. I got to be fairly good at that and it got me into the industry. But when model making turned into a profession, it sort of killed it as a hobby. It's not much fun to build models all day, then go home and build more models.

> Since I was interested in motion control, I got a computer and started building motion-control systems for it. That became my new hobby. Because I knew people who were shooting motion-control elements with the models I was building, I began getting work as a camera assistant on motion-control stages. Then I got hired as a motion-control camera assistant at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM). Pretty soon I was doing motion control full time and its appeal as a hobby was greatly diminished.

> I started at ILM in 1986 and had just gotten a Macintosh, my first sophisticated computer, and started writing little graphics programs as my new hobby.

...And created Photoshop. You know I think this guy should definitely be encouraged to change hobbies as often as possible.
Entropy grows. Quantity of information drops. Interestingness falls. Is not it a natural process?
Shut down the Hype to generate value
would love to know when google is looking at my phone :)
> is there any unavoidable reason

Unless the economy fully decouples from energy and matter [1], then Thermodynamics [2]. Solutions to this include Steady State Economy, reduction of population or the decoupling mentioned above (for example making our lives virtual)

[1] https://jancovici.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/energie_gra...

[2] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/

edit: Obviously my answer is meant long term, as in a couple hundred years.
Healthcare index funds weathered the last recession very well (e.g. https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundIntExt=I... )
Agreed. I've never come across this particular metric before, but intuitively I would have expected something more akin to a P/E ratio in the 10's or even 20's, not a factor of 1x.

Can anyone explain here why the stock market cap isn't much, much higher than a single year's GDP?

Is it because GDP is essentially "revenue" while market cap is "discounted future profits" -- and thus 20 years of 5% profit is going to be on the same order of magnitude of 1 year of revenue?
The report states:

"In general, the results do not show robust statistical evidence of displacement of sales by online copyright infringements. That does not necessarily mean that piracy has no effect but only that the statistical analysis does not prove with sufficient reliability that there is an effect. An exception is the displacement of recent top films."

The difference is not for all Hollywood films, a finding that I recall other studies have found before the EU one when they looked at movies that got leaked before a cinema release. But comparing Cinema DRM to EME is like Apples to oranges, they are not the same thing. Cinema DRM is not intended for end users.
I still can't believe that every stupid streaming app still chokes and reloads if I want to backup ten seconds to catch something I missed, even in cases where I have more free RAM than the size of the entire video file. Come on, you have to buffer forward anyhow, just buffer backwards a minute or two or something. If we're in some hyperconstrained environment where that isn't possible, fine, but in 2017 even a lot of "embedded" environments have more than enough RAM to pull this off in comfort.

Oh, and if I do back up 10 seconds, can you explain to me why you apparently just dumped your entire buffer and have to reload it from scratch before you're willing to play anything? Did the movie change because I backed up ten seconds? No. Sheesh.
Ahhh they mean the per-application HUD. That is indeed tremendously useful, like the OS X searchable menus and Sublime's command palette. I can't see why anyone would be against that functionality.
The "." symbol is not called a decimal point. It's called a period or full stop.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_stop

You only call it a decimal point because of your cultural bias.
was this posted before?
IP delivered in other forms will be converted to online by smaller players if that activity was legal. We would see more content not less.
I agree with your disagreement. In fact the writer seems to have it backwards.

The hard part of SQL is learning complex queries for "ad hoc exploration of data or for building aggregates over data sets": joins, unions, window functions, recursive common table expressions, etc. (Nevertheless it's still shorter than doing the same thing in some procedural language.)

The easy part is "programmatically accessing data." What is meant by "programmatically accessing data" anyway, besides "select * from . . ."? The writer's main criticism is:

> If you want to insert data,
> you’ll probably end up constructing the string (?,?,?,?,?,?,?,?)
> and counting arguments very carefully.

With PHP's built-in PDO library, you can use named placeholders instead of question marks:

select *
from fruits
where color = :color and calories < :calories

No question-mark counting required.
No, I have another Ubuntu 16.04 machine at home - same kernel version, same settings. He must have installed kernel 4.11 manually , because linux-image-generic currently pulls kernel 4.4.0-101-generic on 16.04; settings depend on kernel version.
It's probably just me but this website is in no way in competition with YouTube, it kinda sucks.
"power", 81 = 3^4
IT is ideology, you should check the gog.com entry in wikipedia, DRM does not work, the movies and games still get cracked so what DRM gives the users? DRMed games are slower, cause issues for legitimate customers, add the risk that in future the game will stop working and it will be illegal to patch or mod it. For video it adds hardware requirements like I must buy a new CPU from Intel.
There is no benefit for the users, content is still easy to pirate. the only advantage is that they can now use the law to cause problems for people that want to use their legitimate copy as they want and for software maybe they want to also modify it(If I bought this game it should not be illegal for me to mess about install a mod or fix a crash)
how much does it affect performance?
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It's not as simple as making caveman noises and saying "China junk bad" there's economic forces at play that dictate what does or doesn't go on a store shelf. Consumers usually want the cheapest. When everything is coming from the same five factories in China whoever has some other advantage (like economics of scale, lack or morals, etc) will be able to sell at the lowest price while still making a profit.

Most of the cheap stuff on the bottom shelf at $LocalStore can also be bought at Walmart. The difference is that at more specialized stores you have options other than "value-priced" and big box stores tend to have house branded products that are as cheap or slightly cheaper than the cheapest thing at a specialized store.

I can go to my hardware store and get Lenox blades for my reciprocating saw or I can get Black and Decker. I might or might not be able to get the lowest end product line from a reputable brand or some Chinese re-brand that's an unlicensed copy of said lowest end product line. At Walmart I can only get whatever the cheapest product line Black and Decker is because that's not their specialty.

In cases where there only consumer options available are the "value priced" options there's no difference. The one tube cutter you can buy at your local hardware store is going to be the same one you can buy at Walmart, Harbor Freight, or from an eBay drop shipper. If you want a Reed, Rigid or some other "professional" brand you'll have to go to somewhere else. If your local hardware store specializes in plumbing or HVAC you might find one but I wouldn't count on it.
As it happens I do:

https://blog.steve.fi/tracking_aircraft_in_real_time__via_so...
Any discussion of morality is moot in a society where genital mutilation (of any gender) is tolerated.
This is not necessarily true. To avoid volatility, invest across asset classes with low correlation [1]. E.g., bonds will probably not tank when U.S. equities do.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coefficientofvariation....
It must be possible to implement some kind of simple response time check.

Given that the speed of light is ~1ns per foot then a total response time greater than (2d + p) where d = max distance in feet, and p = processing time within the keyfob in nanoseconds would provide a bound.

I suspect however that making the keyfob response time consistent might be the hardest part of the check, closely followed by an accurate timing facility within the car.
>EOL for IE9 was almost 2 years ago.

tell that to the people that use it
You probably don't want microservices, just small, normal, sane, "context bound" services.

Microservices come at a huge cost if done well. Just watch a talk from netflix/uber/... method calls become remote requests, so you need fallback strategies, log tracing, service discovery, circuit breaking, ...

As long as you can do merges on your codebase without horrible problems, you almost certainly don't need microservices.

Splitting a huge laravel/symfony/cakephp app into a few smaller ones, that is probably a good idea, and you don't need any particular tooling to do it.
First, I don't care where you're from and I generally dislike engaging with people who will say things like "American imperialist", particularly when it relates to communications standards.

Second, it's okay to have opinions, but in this case, groups with significantly more clout (ie - the Conference on Weights and Measures) disagree. In the early 2000s, the conference resolved that the symbol for the decimal marker could be either a period or a comma. Both are completely acceptable. The Conference on Weights and Measures also does not approve of the use of thousands separators, so technically, these are both correct:

1 000 000.25
1 000 000,25

But this is always wrong:

1,000,000.25
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Similarly a generalist software engineer should know what things are realistic and possible with data mining and machine learning.

This is impractical. A generalist software engineer should know that machine learning is possible, and have some idea of who they would ask for help if it became relevant (or to ask if it were relevant). They should be able to design systems which depend on these capabilities in collaboration with a domain specialist, and based on their advice.

In this context, ML is like FPGA design, cryptography, network security, or embedded real time systems. A generalist should know they exist and that they contain hard problems.

Likewise, a GP does not in general have a good understanding of cardiology. Rather, they have a good understanding of indications from basic tests that mean they should send their patient to a specialist.
the median is $95k and the mean is $94k.

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I've worked with this. I've dealt with blackbox player blobs with >100 undocumented tuning variables, and with TVs whose manufacturer didn't really know what worked and what broke.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if some TV manufacturer broke some streaming variant (such as high-bitrate unencrypted smoothstreaming), discovered after a few months, and silently fixed it in new models without issuing an update for the old models.

EDIT: I wouldn't assume that TVs are better at playing DRM. Just from my experience, non-DRM works better (less code that might be buggy). What I'm saying is that once Netflix had a few hundred working devices that worked with DRM, avoiding player bugs became a really good reason to stay with DRM.
Colorado colleges overflowing with huge wave of computer science students
Why is December the best time to job hunt?
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> Of course you can (and it is what many people do) avoid the problem at the data level and "fix it" at the application level (for example, checking every time if you have a single string or the new list), but if you really want you can do the same with a SQL database (keep the "phone" field on the table, but add the new table for the list of numbers).

This is essentially how my team handles things while using HBase as our main DB. At first it felt weird to not write a migration at the DB level and maintaining compatibility is certainly something that you have to keep in mind at all times, but we have a pretty solid internal library for handling de/serialization in Scala.

> A disadvantage of the SQL approach is that many are less versed in it than in the application language, but there are many tools available to handle SQL migrations in your framework's language.

I was surprised by this at my previous job. One of the first things I learned about when starting to do web development was database migrations (Miguel Grinberg's Flask tutorial). Sure, I had to learn Alembic when I started the job, but it's a pretty straight forward API and the main issue was the lack of transactional DDL in MySQL that we constantly had to keep in mind. Besides that it was just writing SQL statements wrapped in Python.
Just another human still imply's you don't relax by selling yourself on fire. Specific instincts are not quite universal, but they very much shape behavior.
Before beta/vhs the thought of owning a movie/tv show was ridiculous. Now the thought that i cant is ridiculous.

No wonder it is impossible to find dvd & vhs recorder combination units. Hard to find a dvd recorder too.
Perhaps a blind audition would to for tech what it did for music: there aren't any "junior" orchestral musicians. If a musician makes it through to win the job (no matter their age or time spent as a professional) they don't need any mentoring. Winning a blind audition against 200 highly qualified players who are desperate for paid work and who went to Juilliard too (or the comparable) affords the winner instant respect on the job. It's only the "Michael Phelps" who make it through in orchestral music and everyone knows this. No intelligent musician already employed by that orchestra would ever think they could count on winning another audition in that orchestra or any other. With every passing year, employed players fear having to win their gig again against those who have spent months doing 7 hours of orchestral rep practice and nothing but. It is similar to whiteboarding but allows for no errors in a winning candidate. It is just too competitive. I suspect those who fear a blind audition in tech fear that their main/only real qualification is culture fit. Perhaps they fear they would not win in a skill-based audition. Every player does need to adjust to a new band though. It doesn't take long for a musician at that level. This isn't remotely the same as mentoring. Musicians don't get paid when they need mentoring like swes do. That happens in the practice room and at school and in apprentice programs which the musician pays for.
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A working distance-bounding protocol would address it.

I think ultimately you would be relying on a 3rd party evaluation of the systems automakers are using because salesmen aren't going to have a useful knowledge of the specifics.
Lenovo only got fined 3.5M? Cheap, not counting the reputation hit anyway.

If anyone knows how to slow down systems with their software, it's definitely HP. Haven't used one in awhile, but you could get a boost similar to going from a mechanical hard drive to an SSD by reloading the OS without all their bloatware. I wonder, has any security researchers ever thought about going back to circa-2005 printer software to see what it was up to?
Any individual endeavor could lose money forever. They could be scooped by Waymo. Their super-popular RSS software could be cancelled. The future of communication could be WhatsApp, not Wave.

But they're able to invest in the future because they have the spare resources. Maybe one of these random side projects will become immensely popular. Maybe one of these crazy side projects will become the most popular email interface ever. And even if they don't, the people are still valuable.

I'm not saying that some people won't just coast, but the potential for innovation shouldn't be locked away because "we can't afford it" - we obviously can.
Fisherman's Fritz fishes fresh fishes...
Some versions of some browsers turned DNT on by default. Respecting DNT in this instance would have always made this flag a choice by the user.

There is still room to argue that the user's choice was to install a browser that made DNT the default option.

But it's a moot point, since the sort of web services that were in mind when DNT was proposed largely ignored it. They never set the evil bit in their responses, either.
I would love to see an overview on their top page. it would bring a lot of transparency.
He's given it several times for sure. I guess he's saying he's more frequently talking about other things? Talking about his life story isn't his actual job.
> I'm trying to convince my management to switch to microservices.

I hope for your own sake that management will refuse your request.
What's the valueprop over Linux Fondation backed coredns?
Agreed, but they created this paper because they actually found malware using Discord and Telegram. Apparently it can have alternative uses, such as being a direct interface to ransomware victims ("join this Slack channel to send me your bitcoin")
Asset bubbles always create an unholy mess when they burst, but in this case the kind of people will lead the fallout from it are going to exacerbate the problems.

A toxic mixture of naive technolibertarians, money launderers, and far right extremists have all stumbled into the same bubble at the same time, and when that cesspool burst open, everyone is getting covered in it.
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10554391
A lot of F1 fans complain about grid penalties, but watching guys like Vettel, Hamilton, and even Ricciardo - guys with a legitimate shot at a place on the podium - make up time and set fastest laps to move up in position has been a lot of fun this season. For better or worse, the very front of the pack tends to be more quiet. If you're in front and your position is safe, you won't generally set fastest laps, you'll preserve the car.
There is no advantage for Netflix in allowing you to freely download their content. So why would they?
> People would be pretty pissed if someone did that to a book wouldn't they?

Alexander Smith was based in Japan and got Matsuno's blessing for the changes.