skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let the people decide if they want to get ripped off or not, you cant regulate this, and you cant do nothing about people asking for crypto currencies in the internet.
This is the old wild west and you cant do nothing about it. If the people buying tokens are not smart enough to see that ICOs are a scam 99% of the time, that is their own problem. This is wallstreet trying to stick their nose where they cant rip off people under their "law".
Because it's harder to corrupt a "pure" democracy. If you have a policy that is bad for the population at large, but good for your own interests, in a "pure" democracy then you will have to convince a majority of the voters to vote against their own interests.
I'm very happy about this development as well. Especially looking at Intel's fiasco with ME... I just don't trust proprietary chip makers anymore.

And yes, I am willing to trade in performance, for more security. My MacBook should be every bit as power conserving as my iPhone, perhaps with a GPU for multi screen and playing videos.
Here's an interesting use of blockchain, supply chain tracking from origin to Point of Sale: https://www.provenance.org/tracking-tuna-on-the-blockchain
> So maybe that article was the straw that broke the camel's back.

Yes, I wonder why it was THIS particular straw that broke the camel's back. Gamergate was the video-game version of "wake up sheeple, the feminazi jews are running the media!." It's not meaningfully different from the rest of the culture wars.

> The very fact that you compared that article to fat shaming should show you that the article was "gamer shaming".

I didn't disagree, and tbh, neither does TFA. I'm not here to defend anything anyone has ever said in the media. In fewer words: ignoring the sexist dimension of gamergate is inappropriate revisionism. You're trying to say that there is something SO offensive about that article that it justifies what happened to Alexander afterwards. You also want to twist anything I say into some "example" of how "hosite" I am and how I'm everything wrong with PC culture or something. I'm not interested in continuing to discuss if you don't want to assume my good faith when I haven't questioned yours.
Not really a bug, but..

An early release of our product (not to be named), contained a database that contained a perl script that was written out to a web server. The person who took over maintaining this script looked at the original author's code and put a comment line in containing the descriptive phrase "Chicken Goat Fuck Logic" (aka "CGF Logic"). We accidentally forgot to remove that comment before producing the "gold" CD.

A couple of weeks later, a very large national youth organization (also not to be named) contacted us, saying they would be unable to use our software, because their CyberNanny software had detected swear words in the output.

Arguably, if this hadn't happened, we would have become Amazon before Amazon became Amazon. Ooops!
I've mentioned this on HN before, but: calorie and nutrition intake monitoring.

Imagine an app that tells you how many calories you've consumed and the nutrition you've consumed in real time, with reasonable accuracy, without you having to manually input the food you've consumed. Like hands free MyFitnessPal. Couple that with what's already available in activity monitoring...
> It's just a way for pass of FUD as a "scholars approach", when in reality nobody knows if it is a bubble or not since it hasn't yet crashed.

No horses in the race (except a sense of regret I didn't buy more sooner), but isn't this exactly what the majority opinion is about every contemporaneous bubble? I was a Finance major back before the crash when my professors used to say homes were the only asset that always increased in value.
16:10 is the best aspect ratio still to me as well. I have a hard time upgrading my 24" Dell 1920x1200 Monitor. I refuse to have the limited vertical space of a 16:9. Sure it's just 1 aspect ratio off, but to me it makes a huge difference.
Also buy the replacement for wearout.
But there's another reason to save: early retirement. It may not seem interesting to you now (I know it didn't for me at 26, I was programming and was getting paid for it!) but when you're 40 it's far more appealing. Unfortunately I didn't make a ton of money at 26 or I would've beaten myself with a stick for not saving more for the future.
>A high-potential human 10,000 years ago would have been raised in a low-complexity environment, likely speaking a single language with fewer than 5,000 words

This is a pretty bold claim. Why so few words? Why not 2300 words? How can anyone know this? I think quite a few historians would disagree with the statement that pre-history was low-complexity environment.

>Of the people who have attempted to take over the world, hardly any seem to have had an exceptional intelligence.

How can the author even know this? We aren't particular good at measuring human intelligence when given direct access to a living cooperative subject and yet the author wants to pin his argument on calling Alexander the Great or Genghis Khan stupid?

> Our brains themselves were never a significant bottleneck in the AI-design process.

How can anyone know this?

We should be skeptical of the Strong-AI crowd's predictions of intelligence explosions but that skepticism should not take the form of unfounded and absurd claims.
Fair enough. I think you have ignited a spark in me to think more about this. Thanks.
Except with cash I have to physically interact with the person. With BTC I can operate 'as cash' with anyone who has internet access.
ChromeOS is already capable of running Android apps.

What makes a laptop a laptop is a decent keyboard and a reasonably large screen. There is a fundamental mismatch between the screen size comfortable for the eyes, keyboard size comfortable for typing, and device size comfortable for holding in hand. Because of this, I don't think phones and laptops will ever converge; tablets and laptops are already actively converging, though.
Is it me, or are Google services kinda unstable? For being one of the most respected infra companies in the world, I've seen their hosted services have a lot of issues.

Years ago GAE had some component outage it seemed almost weekly, now I use GCS and BigQuery mostly and these are the services for which I most often see 503's as compared to services on other platforms.
What Silicon Valley startup did he land in after he was fired?
Right? Imagine an AI from 1955, with a Ms. Manner's style of ethics. Imagine trying to deal with that 'frozen' AI for 25k years. yeesh!
It’s not weird that they feel threatened, they have a lot to gain from that behavior and some may be dependent on it. I think it’s normal to feel threatened by it given their potential lifestyle.
In my opinion, for certain psychological issues mushrooms are much more beneficial than medical marijuana. However like the article states, mushrooms need to be treated with the respect they deserve and must be taken carefully and in a safe and comforting environment. I don't see this taking off yet though. The potential a mushroom trip going in the wrong direction is much more likely than THC and can be and extremely terrifying experience. I speak from experience, but if respected properly and approached in a good manner, I think they can be extremely beneficial.
Did anyone really think that with a Yahoo acquisition this would go any other way? Great for the original Tumblr team getting their probably deserved payday, not much else.

I did love how Tumblr embraced the mess of custom styling etc they supported - was refreshing to visit a crowd driven site where everyone's profile isn't the same stale standard template.
The bigger problem, mentioned in the comments, is that these seem to require you to prove you're not a robot, by failing to follow instructions in a similar way to most other humans.

Do those tiny street signs or vehicles in the background count? It seems most people don't include them, so you have to do the same if you want to get through.
I'm a past blogger, but I haven't kept up with it for a while.

Here's what my dad wrote when I asked him:

The work often involved transmission line impedance calculations. These and other power calculations required a great many translations of rectangular to polar coordinates and back again. We had an Oliveti vacuum tube machine in the office that would only do this one operation in one direction or the other. Otherwise it was back to slide rule, pencil and paper. We had an IBM 360 in the basement that would do grid system power modeling. These calculations required 24 hours to get an answer.

Mom got me an HP-35 for Christmas. It was like touching an alien spacecraft technology.

Later on around 1976, I operated a consulting and substation design business. In this activity I needed to do hand calculations of short circuit current for industrial customers again using the HP-35. The HP-35 was an important tool and a real game changer for electrical engineering work.
There's an interesting NYT article about all of those questions: "Can Bitcoin Conquer Argentina?" (2015) - https://nyti.ms/1JRVRmL
I had this bug that can reproduce only on a specific hp notebook, after running certain stress test for days.

The issue (a crash) was in a device driver we were developing, but the root cause was because 1 single bit in the host memory was flipped randomly.

My coworker joked that this bug was due to strong sunspot activities during those days (We indeed saw news about strong sunspot activities at the time.), so that strong universal radiation altered the data on the memory. I guess that batch of memory the notebook used had some issues.

My background is purely software, I always thought that computer hardware is rigid and trustworthy. But I learnt from this bug that it's not always the case.
An embedded system written in C++ had a Singleton. The Singleton pattern means that you have one instance, which has to live somewhere. This implementation had the instance as a static variable in the getInstance() method, e.g.:

Foo* getInstance()
{
static Foo;
return foo;
}

This is perfectly valid.

Unfortunately, getInstance() was implemented in Foo.h, not in Foo.cpp. But in C++, functions in header files are inline by default. This means that every caller of Foo::getInstance() wound up with their own "static Foo" in their own inlined Foo::getInstance(), which meant that each caller got a different instance of the Singleton.

Most interesting bug I've seen in ten years.
Because those things are not in and of themselves scams. Is it a bad idea to buy a $2M car or a 6k hand bag? Probably but at the end of the day you still get something out of it, an overpriced car or bag. The very nature of some of these ICO's is that you are getting literally someones word that something with no intrinsic or useful value will be worth something in the future. That's fine if you actually understand the risk, and are prepared for that but because these ICOs are open to anyone with a BTC you can't really make that assumption of those investors the same way you can with an accredited investor. This would all be fine and dandy but because of the sheer amount of money involved in this it can theoretically have destabilizing effects on other money markets. Not to mention the huge potential for money laundering, ponzi schemes and other financial chicanery
> This is probably why they are so popular even though the risks are ludicrous.

I'm thinking a lot of investors don't care about this and just have dollar signs in their eyes.
"Software VPN" such as OpenVPN has two main use cases fighting each other.

The usage you mention is the roadwarrior, where the physical network is untrusted and you want to route all traffic through the server. This is what commercial VPN providers provide.

The other use case is routing a set of domains though the tunnel, since the local network is trusted. This is useful when you are at home with your personal computer and want to access the work's LAN, but still want YouTube or large traffic to keep going through the local network. Since you are not exclusively bound to an uplink, you can have multiple VPN of this type connected that "expose" different sets of domains.
This is possible if you dig through docs, since everyone and their mother are trying to do the other kind.
Yeah, I was going to say: this sounds like a bond issuance lol. How boring is that!

That said, how cool would it be for companies that make products to issue you a portion of the company with every purchase, so that you could actually support them and be supported by them?
While I don't disagree with this, I don't think that Georgism can justify a large enough payment to have the effects that people expect of UBI. The value of land (meaning all natural resources in their natural state) is ultimately pretty low compared to all the other value in the world. Per wikipedia, all US land is worth less than two times GDP.
why not named?
Given the tips in your bio I assume you're trading on some set of metrics you've developed yourself. If I may pick your brain, and I understand that you may not be able to answer.

- Are you trading on the order of minutes (or greater)? I assume from your bio tips that what you're suggesting doesn't require hft.

- Do you have a book recommendation for the actual quantitative part of things? The domain knowledge of trading if you will. I'm most curious about this because I have plenty of experience implementing autonomous systems that act under risk but have little guidance for going from raw market data to signals.

Thanks!
I suspect the can was Jobs last hurrah of sorts.

It seems to be kinda like a followup to the Mac Cube, where priority is put on surface design.
Isn't a co-op that's run as a dictatorship basically a corporation?

The whole point of having wealth is that you can choose how you spend it. If one person chooses how to spend it, you don't actually have the wealth, they do, and it's not much of a co-op. If multiple people choose how to spend it, then you run into all the coordination-of-disparate-interest problems common to co-ops, communes, clubs, and other social ventures.
The SEC came into being because without it a bunch of people were being scammed. Which is exactly what we're seeing with ICOs. I don't see what's horrifying.
Difficult:

- Learning/Teaching

- My money, not earning it (although that would be nice) but if there was some way to automate investing/saving/budgeting

- Cleaning

Less Difficult:

- Transportation

- Setting up new programming projects (depending what language you're using this has been done)
Some good points. So what would you estimate and how?
Generate a list of urls from a website using Python
The only thing that horrifies me about them is that the US and the UK both went through these kinds of stock swindles at the turn of the 20th century and on into the 1920s and the run up to the Great Depression and yet since nobody reads history anymore they are completely unaware of the lessons brought forward.
Technically, no, but I would imagine something could be worked out on a case base case basis. They might, for example, let your kids finish out the current academic year and in some cases they might let you finish the school you are at (e.g. a junior in high school). You may also be able to find another job in the same district as well.
I will outline the Bulgarian perspective of events.

By the mid 1980s, "perestroychiks" in the Bulgarian communist party had prevailed over the old generation of die-hard communists. Despite officially calling themselves "communists", these people were avid pro-westerners and believers in market economy. One such key figure in Bulgaria was Andrey Lukanov, a minister of foreign trade during that time. When the Berlin wall fell, he headed the first democratic government and remained an influential force until his murdering in 1996.

Andrey Lukanov spoke eloquent English and was actively seeking economic ties and advices from the US. He even went so far to ask two American economy professors to devise a detailed economic plan which would guarantee the optimal transition to a market economy. Even the long-time president and communist dictator Todor Zhivkov officially admitted during his final resignation speech in 1989 that "communism was ill-conceived and we must be welcoming all foreign western capital". The trouble is, western capital didn't come as quickly as expected. We were left with factories and enterprises which were unable to compete with their western counterparts and our market was quickly flooded mostly with foreign goods. Everything else follows from this.

The privatisation therefore was more of an emergent act of saving the failed state enterprises. They were sold for pennies because they couldn't export their production and the domestic market was dire.

Nowadays, we have tens of US-backed NGOs (most notably "Otvoreno Obshtestvo", America for Bulgaria Foundation, Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, etc.) which work very hard to persuade us that gay rights, minority rights and saving the polar bears are the most important problems on our agenda, without ever acknowledging the deep economic problems that cause social tension and emigration.
The question isn't what percentage of black-market sales are BTC; it's what percentage of BTC sales (excluding speculation) are black-market.
Food. Millions and millions of hours are wasted everyday by people as they scramble to prepare dinner. So many hours would be freed, so much health improved if all we had to do was grap a tasty, nutritiounes brick, that also filled us.

I mean if you want to make food, that is great, but just like making your own furniture or sewing your own clothing it would be something most people didn't have to do.
Why are bitcoin prices going up? Because there's no reason why they should go down.

People who buy bitcoin are largely trying to buy in "early". This raises the price, which makes other people want to be in "early". This raises the price, etc etc etc.

Bitcoin has legitimate uses, but most people who buy crypto don't plan to use it. They plan to sell it. And they rely on the newcomers to inflate the price. Very much a pyramid type model. I think the most real threat is legislation restricting its handling.

Until then, bitcoin price is not going to stop rising.
Here is code for "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" https://github.com/aimacode

Norvig wrote some of the Python version https://github.com/aimacode/aima-python
You're saving more than 50% of your pre-tax money? That is impressive and unusual.

I guess from that savings rate and the fact you only make 70k that you are fairly young with no kids? How much do you pay for rent/mortgage?
Only if they have a fixed, non-growing amount. Which isn't ever the case.
We are also past the era where someone like Shannon or Turing noodling on a sheet of paper could invent a war-changing idea.
17 funding sources besides investors and lenders' money
Thanks for the share, that's an excellent video. I also found this to be really helpful. https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...
White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban for Staff
The process is still very broken. I've applied for multiple jobs where I've been forced to use a site called successfactors.eu, and the interface leads you to think it's integrated with Linkedin ("apply with Linkedin" button), in reality you're forced to re-enter your CV data multiple times, or the data is all over the place after being imported. I'd much rather send my CV attached as a PDF along with a cover letter directly to a recruiter or HR person.
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This happened as this related article (http://foreignpolicy.com/2017/11/07/facebook-cant-cope-with-...) was on the front page of HN yesterday.
You're right that Bitcoin is only a store of value (thanks for reminding me of that word, btw!). It could definitely be successful with that purpose, particularly for short-term storage or for those in physical danger.

As a sibling comment mentioned, it could be a gold alternative. Bitcoin is much more volatile, however, and it already has a $160b market cap. The total value of all gold ever mined, from what I've found, is $1190b. Gold has gone up in value while Bitcoin has been rallying, which is a small but nonetheless existent indicator that people are not changing their store of value.

Bitcoin will only be stable when most of those invested in it view it as that store of value, however even then it will be shaky compared to gold. Though it may receive commercial adoption due to its popularity, the slow transactions you mentioned really disable that.

In conclusion: Thanks for the list of cryptocurrencies, as I'll certainly be looking into buying them rather than Bitcoin ;)
>Originally Bitcoin became popular because it simply let people transact over the internet quickly with low cost. This was what gave Bitcoin its utility, and thus value.

It is a severe misunderstanding to think a coins market cap is a reflection of its current utility. "Potential" drives valuations, and bitcoin has the greatest potential to be the currency of the future, despite its limited current utility. The fact that almost every alt-coin has cheaper/faster transactions, and yet are worth tiny fractions compared to bitcoin should clue you in. Bitcoin is still the most valuable because it has by far the most name recognition, and this name recognition will carry it to success down the road when things like the lightnight network are implemented and in widespread use.
Bathing
There you go! How many of them have an account yet?
I don't think ICOs are popular because sophisticated investors with unpaid child support claims suddenly have a place to park their cash.
If you want me to remember more than just some big picture, let me write it down. And if you let me write it down, please let me use my tools.

Just teach people how to use tech right, the younger generation is surprisingly much better at this. I have a full screen white on black text editor and turn off the display while not typing (sometimes I even keep it off while typing).

And yea, lectures... just gave me the stream so I can play it at double speed and repeat the interesting parts.

The only things I need paper for are geometry, layout and surprisingly: math. With math for me it's super valuable to keep something like nested contexts. I write things down to free the brain for more, but need to be able to jump back in on demand. Easier on a 2D pane than in a linear way.

With OpalCal/Soulver i tend to do more on the PC though, variables are damn nice.
They are top 5th grossing app on android in social category. I think they have decent revenue from app.
The CDC may use zombie apocalypse as a lighthearted framework for training (and, even more, public preparedness) for a generic disease outbreak, but with the military, if they actually use it at all, I expect it is more as an emotionally convenient framework for preparing for the potentiality of widespread domestic counterinsurgency.

> A false flag attack which attacks US or allied property is just a justification to lie to the American voter and to co-opt American tax dollars. If anything, the author who suggested it for such a purpose

The false flag use wasn't a prominent suggestion, and the highlighted false flag uses started with a false flag attack on a Soviet-allied threat. Elevating a secondary variation of what is itself one of many possible uses for acquired MiGs as if it was a standalone or primary justification for the exercise is dishonest.
Yeah after people on Hacker News find out about Bitcoin the price will skyrocket and imma cash out
How about the government just taxes all income at some appropriate rate?
Use the same judgement any VC would when approaching what to purchase. Every inch of doubt is where you're gambling.
Yeah. It’s a sign that the bubble is going to pop soon. Honestly the stock market is getting to be the same way. People should start moving money into safe investments and be prepared to ride out a storm.