skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless BitPay have changed their policies, the exchange rate is only locked in for 15 minutes. If the transaction doesn't get its first confirmation before then, it expires and if the exchange rate goes up even slightly they consider the transaction underpaid. That's almost certainly what happened here. They used to be more sensible and only require the transaction to be broadcast to them within the 15 minute window, but they quietly changed it a few years back.
What do you do when all youre plates and bowls are dirty but the small plates and some utensils aren't dirty yet? (For example)
> Its gathering telemetry, running live traces on your software, gathering statistics, everything gets packaged and uploaded to the mothership regularly

but GP has 64 GB(!!) of memory. They don't need to write the information to disk. They could just ship the data from the memory straight back to the mothership, no? I mean Office 365 has a heartbeat and nobody complains about the near constant network chatter. It just makes Microsoft look insidious (is that the right word?) that they're collecting all this data.

The fact that gaming mode [xbox on youtube] exists makes me think that Windows is driving with one hand tied behind its back when not in game mode. Why would they do this?

[xbox on youtube] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zc-ka42BMls
10 Years of Icaros Desktop
It seems like it would be hard to control for the obvious feedback loop: Are children less successful when their parents are predisposed to lower moods; or do parents’ moods reflect their children’s achievements?
I like to use both, depending on what I'm working on. If I'm writing code then a vim / tmux combo can be great but if you're editing markdown or an html / css website having the live preview and same developer tools as the browser is really nice.
I don't understand. Aren't we commenting about what we (the public) believe should or should not be legal? In other words, isn't it about choosing new laws rather than interpreting legality of existing ones?
I've worked in industry long enough to suspect that there's an excellent chance that any quoted numbers are so adjusted by whoever is most politically powerful that my intuition is to just shrug my shoulders and move on to the next article. Dishonesty is so prevalent in so many "news" articles today a person should just read things and have a little chuckle before going about their day.
Do you what one would use to generate professional looking report PDFs?
Lyft seeking additional 500m investment on top of recent 1bn investment
It can have strange behavior though.

The other day I went into iTerm2, changed to the top of my Xcode projects top directory and did "find . | xargs grep abcd". Nothing was found. This wasted my time for 30 minutes and then I did a cd to the directory where the Swift files were and did the same command. Immediately I saw the file with the abcd string in it.

This type of thing doesn't happen to me on Ubuntu.

That said, things like iTerm2, Homebrew etc. do make using MacOS somewhat tolerable.
To flip the question: Why do people blame capitalism as if it’s not possible to have another system but maintain capitalism?

Capitalism doesn’t imply lack of a social safety net or regulations. Even its most classic proponent Adam Smith saw a role for the state in providing public goods and regulating industry.
Why install git from Homebrew? Git is included in macOS. Sometimes the Apple version of a program is outdated or just different but macOS Sierra has git version 2.13.6, less than six months old.
I don't blame you :)

I'm sure I'm less intelligent than the average HN commenter and I'm certain there are many here with greater infosec expertise. So what explains the salary package? It's the combination of skills in this case. People are usually either good technically or good at sales. Rarely they're good at both. That's why most technology companies sales organisations pairs up an account managers with a tech guy. My talent was not being the best at either, but being uniquely good at both.
>In fact, from what I've seen most of the media and politicians lack basic maths skills.

FTFY. Or maybe even:

>In fact, from what I've seen most people lack basic maths skills.
> I'd be quite surprised if it was completely clean.

I understood that LTSB was intended specifically for semi-critical/continous usage applications, like airport kiosks and the like.

To me, it would seem a bit irresposible to pollute LTSB with telemetry and cruft, when Microsoft knows full well that businesses bought that distribution for that specific guarantee.
you wash them again
Interstellar, Gravity?
Linux is a lot harder to maintain and it's usually for servers (read: important), companies pays for the experience. Any dude who can administer Linux should rebrand himself to devops and double his rate.

Windows is easier to maintain and more intuitive. There is always a dude who can make it work with a bit of point and click.

People who can administer both will eventually end up on a Linux jobs because they pay more and they don't risk being the monkey who maintains the printer.
>The Second Law of Thermodynamics states that the state of entropy of the entire universe, as an isolated system, will always increase over time

My understanding (which is very small) is that the multiverse theory takes care of not violating this law, since it’s not an isolated system.
Noise has samples that are statistically independent from each other. Diffusion has samples such that their increments are independent. But it's path dependent.
The problem is there are too few socialist societies left because they’ve all failed. My parents lived through one (Poland) which had all the same shortages and pollutions. It’s the same story anywhere socialism has been tried in practice.
There really aren't a lot of high paying jobs that are needed in quantities that software developers are. Take this data: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm sort by Employment per 1000 jobs and then look for jobs with median wages no less than 15% below the median wage for "Software Developers and Programmers". The only ones you will find with a higher employment numbers are "Engineers" (all engineering occupations combined just barely beat out software developers and programmers in number employed) and a variety of management and executive categories. Lawyers have a bit more than a third of the number of jobs; physicians and surgeons are less than a fifth.
I don't mind dishwashing. I mind having to remember to put dishes away.
I've tried different virtual reality glasses on different occasions and using different interactive simulations and it never feels real to me. I can see that everything is in 3D but I really don't feel like I'm there. I don't find it more immersive than if I was playing it on a normal screen.

The strange thing is that it seems that different people can have different opinions about how immersive the experience is; even when trying the same simulation with the same VR gear.
Browsers can barely open a simple web page without getting owned. They're probably the number one infection vector nowadays...

This has lead to some pretty bad hacks. I'm not sure what more you could want really, a vulnerability where people can be punched in the face over the internet?
I'm really surprised we haven't seen the functional style of elm, react and friends backported into modern gui frameworks. A react-like framework for native apps written entirely in swift would be killer - swift is a much better language than JS, and the resulting apps would be much smaller and snappier than what we get with electron or react native.

C#/F# would be a great candidate for this kind of thing too.
The real question I have is how would you ever stabilize something as powerful as a black hole.
If I read that correctly, you are never able to travel back further than the creation of the wormhole.
Right. That was "Edition Zero" - naturally, UNIX version count is zero-based!
I would say transparency and a formal written statement between business, versus an agreement that is so unethical or illegal that nobody wants to put their name on it or officially declare it to the public.
> If the transaction doesn't get its first confirmation before then, it expires

I don't think that's true. To the best of my knowledge, they lock-in the rate if the transaction appears on the network within the 15 minutes window, regardless of when its confirmed.
I'm old enough to remember when buying Minecraft Alpha included a promise that the code would be made open source some day. IIRC it was "when I'm tired of working on it", which given the success it's been is probably never. (For some value of "I" that's not Notch.)
The most popular "how to synthesize" article series is Synth Secrets which ran in Sound on Sound Magazine over a period of years. You can find those online.

Regarding what tool to use, a modular like this(albeit in physical, analog form) is the "original" way to do it. Modular sound can do just about anything provided you have the modules and will to program it. Later on in the commercialization of synthesis manufacturers built smaller semi-modular or fixed-path synthesizers which don't let you patch anything anywhere but are considerably simpler to achieve a result with since their basic architectures expose all the essentials of sound character without being so much of a programming exercise: the Minimoog and Oberheim SEM, to name two, just sound good out of the box and generally sound good no matter how you turn the knobs, and their designs are widely cloned even today.

This era lasted roughly from the early 70s through the early 80s after which synth programming soon became complicated again, this time by digital technology allowing everything to be tweaked and patched and perfectly recalled from memory, provided you were willing to dive through menus. Synth programming turned into a speciality in this era; everyone who just wanted a sound used the built-in presets.
This is nice, but considering the animosity the modding community receives from official channels I'm really surprised why FOSS Minecraft clones that specifically focus on mods, like MineTest, haven't taken off comparatively.

https://www.minetest.net/
Smith also said division of labor makes people as stupid as creatures can be. Smith was pre capitalist.
They can export in an open format for publication, probably pdf. It shouldn't matter what's the format for edition.
'I Don't Believe in Science,': Flat-Earther Set to Launch Himself in Own Rocket
When I was in college, I did one in C https://github.com/kev009/craftd. Looking back, there are trivial concurrency bugs and some critical arch flaws that are somewhat embarrassing and would be easy to fix now. But wow that project set me up with a lot of useful experience I don't know how else I could have ever gotten.

Another fond random memory was, during a scalability test with over 500 users on a cheap linode, Notch joined thanks to a friend that became a popular live streamer. I long for the free time and lack of organizational soul suck to do stuff like that again.
We've already got a 2x block-size/capacity increase in the form of SegWit.

> increase the block size, but unfortunately Bitcoin Core developers refuse to do it

This is simply untrue.
Are you suggesting that only legal arguments or facts are relevant?

So an actual analysis (which would necessarily include predictions that are not certain) of the impact of a decision is irrelevant?
The fake account voting and commenting.
Psychology’s power tools
Went to a 3D movie once,

3D effect was so small, seemed like to size of a foot ball in front of my face, with a 2D backdrop on the main screen.

Seemed like they had filmed with the cameras too far apart.

Very disapointing.
Cultivating Burning Desire
> Why do so many people think the alternative to our current system is to be Venezuela?

Of course that's not the inevitable alternative, but if you have no understanding of what capitalism is and is not, as seems to be the case with Ms. Arden (and 95% of the rest of the people on this planet), that's where you can end up before you know it.
It's not a Go program but Microsoft Office or Apple's equivalent can make "professional looking" reports you can export to PDF. You could also use Photoshop if you want to be more creative or LaTeX if you're going for a minimalistic look.
It's certainly possible they fixed this at some point, I gave up on using them after a bad experience with this a few years back. It just wasn't worth the hassle of trying to use Bitcoin for payments, especially after the Humble Bundle stopped accepting it for most things because they wanted to track purchasers' IDs.
Fickle Fortunes: Jane Austen and Germaine de Staël
Prisoners of war aren’t supposed to be punished. The basic idea is that they’re detained to prevent them from returning to the fight. The Geneva Conventions allow them to send letters, buy things, receive pay, recognize their own hierarchy, etc. The Geneva Conventions also allow them to be detained without charge until the end of the war.

If they have committed certain crimes, then they can be convicted and held after the end of the war, but that’s something of a special case. Many Confederate soldiers during the Civil War never understood this (remember, the Union declared that the South couldn’t secede, which would have made all Confederate POWs US citizens).
Qt QML is JS with a declarative UI language and C++ when you need it.

On the other hand you have JS with a document markup language combined with style sheets.

And the first one is embarassing you say. And declaring UIs in HTML and CSS is easier than in QML.

Why do you even post this. I mean... it's trivial to disprove it. Do you subscribe to the idea that if one makes enough noise their arguments will win out?
One proposal is the Novikov self-consistency principle.

Imagine a billiard table with a wormhole, which curves and goes three seconds backwards in time. It's set up so you can roll a ball into the wormhole, and it will emerge three seconds earlier and knock itself off the path, so it doesn't enter the wormhole. Paradox!

Except actually it emerges with a slightly altered path, and strikes itself only a glancing blow.

And why did it emerge with an altered path? Because it was struck a glancing blow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_princ...
> You aren't interested in the service, fine.

Not if unions get a foothold in my industry, then it won't be "fine". If that happens then they will be able to implement rules and regulations that force me to join them.

And yes, there ARE movements to get the tech industry unionized (they aren't very popular, Fortunately).

No thanks. I'm a not going to let my industry be ruined like that. I'd rather stop all of that in its tracks by making unions powerless nation wide.

They can't enter my industry and force me to join if they are powerless EVERYWHERE.

Also, if it is seriously "fine" for people who don't want their "services", then how about we implement right to work laws everywhere?

Shouldn't it be "fine" for everyone to not join them if they don't want to?

Fortunately for me, though, unions are continueing to become less powerful. So fortunately, less and less of them will be able to force people to join in the future.
Show HN: Spatsu – A new way to shop for your sports clothing
It could simply be an energy minimization strategy, since it has little or no consequence (perhaps due to pre-existing status or dominance) there's no point in spending energy on that.

In a sense, to succeed you need to choose what you are going to be bad at. It's impossible to be great at everything, so focus your energy on what's important, and let the unimportant slide.
Noncitizens in the US also have the right to a trial. Actually, the US has something of a tradition of declaring that noncitizens outside the US have somehow come under US jurisdiction (e.g., the people who killed Daniel Pearl).
Here's some pretty cool footage of how they compiled a few of the shots in Gravity. Lots of SFX, plus practical shots to get the actors faces
https://youtu.be/rCm3FYp4hdI
Spatsu – Addition of the China market area and Chinese language support
You could probably create a pretty 303-style voice pretty easily. One osc, a filter, a vca and an envelope should get you 80% of the way.

For keyboards are you meaning a soft keyboard or hardware? There are a ton of high quality hardware keyboards under $100 available and they'll all use class-compliant usb midi so work painlessly across platforms.
A few years ago I built a home theater in a dedicated room. 135" screen, 3d-capable projector, etc. I built it to watch Avatar, and it succeeded very well at that. I can absolutely say that 3D worked very well in that specific instance.

Saying "good 3d is hard" is very different from saying "it doesn't work and never will". I'm sad to see good 3D on the decline. When done well it's rather spectacular.

Can't comment on 3d on a TV -- never done that. Avatar is the only 3D movie I can remember seeing in a commercial theater. There may have been others, but they weren't worth remembering.
Data Science Weekly = Newsletter Edition #209
The earlier comment was a response to someone asking about how criminal laws apply. You’re right that it isn’t necessarily a criminal question, but I think the original commenter was confused, not the person you replied to.
universe> ssh god@blackhole-42

universe@backhole-42> configure

universe@backhole-42> set stable MAX_VALUE

universe@backhole-42> commit

..changes successfully committed to blackhole-42

universe@backhole-42> exit

universe>
Sadly, this case is not unique. Jose Padilla was held for years without being charged. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Padilla_(prisoner)
That's interesting. Their published terms of use do NOT say that, so if so that's shady as hell.
Java has generics, Go doesn't.
I would switch to Google fiber in an instance if available. They just data mine. I don't think They throttle. We have time warner and AT&T. That is it. How is that for competition. At least in 4 years this president will be voted out and the new one will probably get rid of this.
5 Reasons You Should Hire a Specialized Web Design Company
Organic vs. Paid Traffic and Why It Is Important to Know the Difference
> Don't be disingenuous

"My interpretation is objective reality, but your interpretation is dumb". How about don't be an asshole, man?
Just get a $5-10 folding board makes folding a lot easier and faster.
Every ISP is now legally liable for every posting made by their users. Including the White House ISP Trump uses to tweet from. So anything abusive, insulting, threatening, etc - they are legally liable for it. They are no longer common carriers like phone companies. If they transmit pornography to a minor, they are legally liable for it, not the site which hosts it. The loss of common carrier status can, and absolutely should, bring these companies to their knees.

Bust out the class action lawsuits.
Never quite explains what is meant by open source money. And cryptocurrency evangelists in this vein alwayd seen to assume money can be decoupled from the underlying economies it flows through and the individuas and institutions that make use of it.

Here's a hint though. The statement "if Bitcoin can’t deliver those things, another cryptocurrency will do that" isn't something anyone wants to hear about their money. No one wants a massive or sudden devaluation because a rival currency supports a shinier newer feature. When that happens people don't just get upset. When that happens, social contracts get broken and we rediscover why Hobbes wrote his book, and why the hardest currencies usually belong to countries able to back up their fiat with more than words or market forces.

So take note, this should be axiomatic to anyone thinking about currencies "at scale": the demand for a currency will be inversely correlated with its volatility.

Research the historic role of clipped coins, and consider the impact of receiving coins that can be clipped after receipt. And dont stop there, thats the beginning.
Almost accurate tl;dr, it was a mix of perl and php.
I've already done most free material from pentesterlab.com
May I further suggest: hackthebox.eu and https://lab.pentestit.ru/
Less taxes in the UK means higher take home from the 55k than you would have in germany. And you have to factor in that the 55 figure is probably from a time where GBP to EUR was still 1.4:1. Consider that 55k GBP might have been ~4.5k EUR/mo take home not too long ago vs ~2.5k EUR/mo take home from 50k EUR in germany. Still shitty, but not as shitty as it seems now.

EDIT: Also, using current exchange rates, the cost of living in one of the larger cities (Berlin, Munich, etc) in germany isnt that much lower compared to London anymore.
> matter/energy has been created

This is where the “exotic matter’s” negative energy comes in.
Yeah, I couldn't agree more. The original effect is really interesting and evokes nostalgia of old Mac games, as the developer intended. I think he's reacting too harshly to criticism, or overthinking things, because my reaction to the pixel swimming effect matched his first assumption: "yeah that's how dither works."

The screen-space solution for stable dithering looks fine, and I'm glad it will be an option in the final game, but the sphere mapping looks weird. With non-screen-aligned "pixels" it looks like it's just a normal 3D game but with a "dither" texture on every object, rather than a true 1-bit game. I just hope the aesthetic from the demo isn't watered down too much for the final game.
I think the last part is key: comprehensible to humans. I see the paradox but it’s a logical one not necessarily a physical one. I’m not even sure what time travel really means. Do you look at a river and think to capture it exactly as it was an hour ago? Would it really be the old river then? If you did capture it and add a few extra drops then set it in motion would there really be a problem? I’d posit that the past does not exist except as a mental construct to begin with. A “present moment” doesn’t even exist, how could you have a past moment to return to?
Show HN: Display a random cognitive bias in your terminal
Can you provide a source for this claim?
Regardless, volume of work and general conditions might not align with pay. In this instance, it sounds to me that Amazon is expecting to push very high / recond volumes but not adjust compensation to align with that.

Long to short, there are reasons to strike beyond just pay.
I wish there was a dead-simple, you-cannot-get-it-wrong, step-by-step, nothing-left-out, no-knowledge-assumed, all-in-one-document, not-spread-out-over-various-pages, tutorial/checklist on how to ensure your Electron app is as secure as possible.

It shits me that it is a research task with all the attendant uncertainty about whether or not I did in fact make it secure.

I do appreciate that security is complex and even such a document would not guarantee security, or that you had not somehow created your own security hole, but I just want to do the very best possible effort at security and currently that is too hard with Electron.

UPDATE: this post has led me to attempt to redesign my application to not use Electron. I just can't afford some misconfiguration or coding error leading to user machines being cracked.
This hit a nerve. I think I hate my life as a developer, but then I see this janitor, in our office, cleaning the floor and windows, cleaning and unblocking the toilets, etc., and is always greeting me with a smile.

Makes me wonder why I deserve to be living such s luxurious life, while this guy has to spend his days waking up probably around 5am, commuting for a hour just to clean somebody else’s shit just to earn 1/3 of what I do.