skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meanwhile, I managed to move from New Zealand to Australia and didn't have to fill in a single form.
Midlands of the UK, then various places around Europe, then Australia (since well before Facebook). I think we're probably seeing "the plural of anecdote is not data" in effect?
Right, the source isn't important. What matters is whether what you've received is, for practical purposes, actually currency.

If your boss showed up and said "from today we're going to pay you in bananas, and our exchange rate is $1000 per banana. By the way here's a raise too" and drops a bundle of bananas on your desk... Would you consider yourself paid?

Bananas aren't even fiat! You gotta grow them first

This is a silly example, since in the article there's clearly consent on both sides of the equation. But if the coins remain as "e-points" in their system and there's not much incentive on the buy side, they're not super useful as currency.

In practice the crypto currency markets seem to fuel a good amount of liquidity. This is a pretty neat side effect of the block chain boom.
> The line between a buyer and a backer/builder isn't so clear.

It is pretty clear, if you are funding someone'e kickstart project then you did help them build it but if you pay for a product which was built using the creator's(or some other investor's) money then you did not build it.
When it comes to racing, the new push into e-sports is really exciting to me because it adds a huge element of accessibility.

It could also break down gender barriers where either rules or physical intensity of a sport results in segregation (e.g. soccer) or a lack of female participation (e.g. F1).
Google Finds Your Location Even If You Turn Off Android GPS
Deep networks have more layers than the previous generation. They seem to work better in engineering practice than mathematically equivalent short wide networks.
Ecma TC39 Meeting Agenda Nov. 28-30
And censoring anyone who speaks of it, even if it is in an exaggerated way, is probably better in the long run than letting it fester until it really blows up with much more force.

I'm guessing that this was mangled in an edit and some essential word was left out. Or are you saying censorship is the opposite of "letting it fester", and that if we can prevent issues from being spoken about we can prevent them from ever exploding?
Reminds me of the HN guy who sold his sun stock to by a car..
It is those opposed to the demonstrations tapping the "Report" button, and shunting those posts off into Facebook Review Oblivion. The "Report" button on Facebook means the reported post (and by implication, the reported party) is guilty until proven innocent.
Drive by downloads are very much an issue regardless of NATing. Taking advantage of browser exploits or bugs to download and execute arbitrary code/executables.
note: this is common in compromised or malicious ad networks, so just safe browsing habits are not necessarily enough.
I was thinking of a very simple idea not for a real business. More for fun.
I’d let it expire and use the money you were going to spend to renew it on a lottery ticket.
Wait, why are interest-free loans the only kind of economically rational loans? Commercial debt contracts include interest, and are executed exclusively between sophisticated buyers and sellers of debt.
Is this true, I heard it a while ago: They will be forced to release the same financial information to the public as public companies do once they have too many investors however they do not have to go public in the sense of floating their stock.
Multiple Writer Single Reader queue. Each on its own thread. A reactor is just an actor that read input from such a queue, then reacts to it. It's the basis for an actor model.

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Yeah, C++. I don't know of any mocking framework there, and I'm not going to look for one —my current opinion on that stuff veers towards "worse than useless". (You just reinforced that notion by the way, see below.)

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27 is a number you arrived by fantasizing about how mocking make your tests more thorough than they actually are —and you're not even testing under real conditions! Just an outsider's scepticism.

Your exponent is also driven by the number of dependencies, whose increasing number requires an exponentially growing number of tests. Property based testing on the other hand (search for "QuickCheck") generates as many random tests as one feels like using. (Of course, one has to test for several properties, but then each property can be thoroughly tested.)

> It's safe to assume from this comment that you don't really understand mocking.

Indeed, thanks for the explanation. But that just showed mocs are fundamentally incompatible with property based testing: I'd need to generate a moc for each random test case. Nope. I'm keeping my property based tests, they're much more powerful.

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So you were talking about using your test suite like a type system on steroids. Good. Just keep in mind that there's a stark difference between maintaining a good test suite, and bending the code around some narrow idea of testability. I only do the former. Oh, and I tend to write tests after I write the code. Property based test don't make sense before the module is done anyway.

A quick note about unit vs integration test: in our little A->B->C example, testing C, then B (without mocs), then A (without mocs) are all unit tests in my book. A few internal dependencies aren't going to change that.

By the way, I'm talking about compile-time dependency, of the kind that don't involve runtime shared state. Shared state open a whole 'nother can of worm, and I do see the need to separate unit and integration tests for those. (I also see the need to avoid shared state as much as possible.)
Have to say it again: I love Rails. Thanks guys.

Active Storage looks amazing.
> English-speaking financial world uses 'k' (which also makes little sense to me)

It likely comes from SI prefixes. While there's not a standard base unit for currency, the fact they work for so many other units lends them towards easily inferred usage when applied to others.

1: http://www.npl.co.uk/reference/measurement-units/si-prefixes...
You're right, I mean (many) of those too. People have been discussing negative and positive effects (on all sides of the political spectrum) of television and TV ads for a long time.

Now we're discussing Facebook, because it just recently gained so much of this power, and it seems to be uniquely good at causing these negative symptoms.
Actually very much NOT like pay to play games. User A pays User B for something User B created. The company that creates the platform is just overhead and gets paid indirectly through transaction fees. There are working models of this sort of in the porn industry with "web cams" (again not like in app game purchases :-)) and actual dollars.
Yes! And I was surprised that the conclusion to the hunt for a "favorite bug" was just to ignore it. It's definitely not clear that the diagnosis was correct.
There was a note taking service I used. They hired students to type up lecture notes. Available the next day. On red paper so it could not be photocopied. It was money well spent during my undergraduate tenure.
Shipping containers go through real customs obviously. Suitcases just go through the x ray machine on the way out from baggage claim. If you have milk powder in half or even all your suits see, they aren’t going to care much. If it’s a suitcase full of iPhones, well, that’s another story.
What's the difference between this and socialism?
It's more of a continuum than that. Yes deep blue had more hand-tuning and custom-built structure. AlphaGo had less hand tuning and of course waaaay more brute Force on top.
Ok, but there is no grade for attendance in my classes, and I keep reminding people that they don't need to take comprehensive notes.

The expectation that a class should be more useful than the book seems odd to me. In a typical undergrad class, you're teaching a subset of what's in a decent textbook (with maybe a little additional meterial thrown in for color). So I mean, sure, you could just read the book if you're smart and motivated. The only way to really make the classes more useful than the book for smart and motivated students is to do exactly what you don't want - grade the students on note taking.
This was going to be my response too. You can update your installed software fairly painlessly[1]. You can do that with Ninite too, but the range of software available with Chocolatey is larger.

[1] Except for the occasional package or two that the maintainers don't keep up to date, which is a shame.
How did it kill if this sort of content attracted people there in the first place? It was the Tumblr's "culture".
The truth is, even in its real-world incarnation, this always was a pretty lame sport, and now in a climate-change context, it's even more lame. So it's actually great if the esport version takes over. Entirely. Auto racing is pathetic.
Burning Man is a week of crazy spectacles in the desert.

I went for the first time in 2007. On one of the first nights there, I went to see the Man itself and was in line waiting to climb up into it. The people waiting behind me were discussing the fact that someone had fallen off an art car and died. I couldn't help overhearing, and clueslessly was like "oh, no! does this risk the event not happening next year???"

The group laughed and informed me that people die almost every year, if only one person bit it during a particular burning man that would be a good year.
Just for some background on what this is, TC39 is one of the committees that decides what goes into the ECMAScript standard which is the standard for JavaScript. If your interested in seeing the meeting notes you can find them here[1]. I'd expect the notes to show up in around a week.

[1]: https://github.com/tc39/tc39-notes
uhmm... are you kidding? they all do... only exception might be WhatsApp.
Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs
Those two statements don’t jive. It’s not impossible to trade hours for a return significantly better than a normal diversified portfolio, but less than being an early bitcoin miner.
Gee, sounds like you shouldn’t have had kids if you wanted to fly into Chicago or New York every night. Having children is a choice. Looks like you’ve made yours.
Arguably it works better. Minnesota Public Radio has 127,000 members [wikipedia], which is a bit over 2% of the population of MN. They do a far better job covering stuff like city politics than any other news organization in town.

The Guardian has 300,000 members [this article], which is 0.4% of the population of the UK. (And arguably, the better denominator would be the entire anglophone world.)
"You have to set up routing tables..."

Not true if using an overlay at layer 2. I use one. In case of any doubt, I am not referring to OpenVPN, OpenSSH or any other software mentioned on HN.

The "VPN" interface (/dev/tap) can be assigned an RFC 1918 non-routable IP address. To software, it looks like an "internal network".

The user wanting to run servers over the "VPN" binds those servers to the tap interface's IP address when she starts them.

VPN is in quotes because what I am using allows users on the private network to connect to each other without going through a "VPN gateway". With a VPN there is usually a "gateway" computer that each user must connect to in order to reach the other users.
And they say romance is dead.
I kind of wish that Apple would just make a "barebones" x86 case + mb... take a stock intel design, add in a "copyright" chip (to cover OSX license/boot) and let you add your own CPU/GPU etc (GPU from supported list, or onboard to start).

Of course paired with an apple designed ATX/mATX case. I'm not sure full ATX is really necessary, but at least mATX would be nice. Then leave it to the tinkerers to put together their own... Most that would want a more powerful desktop mac would be perfectly fine putting their own together. Then just do a motherboard refresh each year with whatever the current chipset is.

Don't even try to be everything to everyone, and leave it to "developer" macs. Just imho.
Already done https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/935275838492332032
AlphaGo is an application of general tech, just like Deep Blue was an application of general tech.
You might look at the discussions of the Boox devices on the mobileread forums https://www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=220

I've not gone through them recently but there are some things that sounded like that when I was on there a few months ago.
In the US, our funds aren't at risk. If someone hacks my Amazon account and steals my credit card info, the credit card company will cover any losses (and presumably go after Amazon to recover them.) The incentives of the various parties are actually pretty rationally aligned here.

So I'll thank you for not making it more of a pain in the neck to buy stuff online than it already is.
And now they can try and total each others cars on purpose, and not be in a morally dubious place.
Show HN: 3D Game Programming using bitblting in Windows
Yay Rails! Kudos to the whole core team for the continued work on the platform.
I think I put too many negatives in that sentence. I am claiming that interest-bearing loans are the only economically rational ones (because otherwise you're taking on nonzero risk for definitely zero reward), and interest-free loans used to be widely acknowledged as the only morally justifiable ones.
Your instincts about pharma may be badly wrong. Many hackers are shocked that pharma stocks generally go up when they downsize in research -- it seems wrong to our builder instinct but it makes sense in terms of short-term opportunity.
I am no security expert, but if a machine in the local network gets infected and tries to access your ME, then NAT can't prevent the attack. That's the only other vector I can think of.
Not just for Macs, but for full Windows 10 laptops, too (soon):

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/18/16495010/microsoft-windo...
It's hard to stumble on the truth when the entire basis for their group is lies.
Thanks. This must have taken you a little work to dig up again.
The notion of local optima is centuries older than the invention of the first .org
Curious. I've heard this about trees. What about tomatoes? Cucumbers? etc? Or is this comment only referring to the "substance" of a plant and not its fruit(or similar)?
Show HN: Unum – a cryptocurrency worth $1
Bazaarvoice to go private in $521M deal
>I think, in general, they do good work in exposing corruption, and bias.

Where is an example where they've done that? I haven't seen a single one.
Ah, you're right. It's just the sentence structure that confused me.

(I asked another question here but decided I'm having a hard time reading or composing standard written English today so, some other time!)
A great breakthrough for preclinical test
> it's totally unapplicable to our discussion

Wait, we're talking about the Unix man command, and you're saying that the fundamental philosophy upon which this command's entire design and purpose is based is somehow unapplicable? Really?

> but it's [EMACS] a much beloved part of Unix tradition.

No. EMACS is not part of the Unix tradition. EMACS was invented before Unix at MIT. Unix was invented at Bell Labs. EMACS was designed for an OS called ITS as a successor to the TECO editor (developed in 1962). You're getting mixed up with vi, which was created for Unix by Bill Joy in the 70s as a separate mode for ex, which was a successor to ed.

You're possibly thinking of GNU EMACS, which would be ironic, considering that GNU is an acronym that stands for "GNU's Not UNIX".

The Operating Systems you or I have used aren't really relevant to the discussion. I can see that you may have filled in context that wasn't there and assumed I'm some old unix beard telling you to get off my lawn. That's not the case.

I have two points:

1. Man exists because of specific documented conventions. Man pages are the way they are because they're expected to follow conventions built over the past 40 years.

2. There are places that howto documentation belongs in most Unix-derived OSes, certainly for anything BSD derived and anything following the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard.

Take a step back and try to see what I'm seeing. I see someone who seems to insist that we should change a specific 40+ year old convention to suit environments that implement other 40+ year old conventions, when there's already a place for the things they want (again thanks to explicit and implicit convention and documentation). It's not going to happen.

You are not going to get Apple, Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu and the BSDs to change the way they've done things forever to suit your whims. You're also definitely not going to get them to change them when perfectly functional alternatives already exist.
I am glad that they are not. While I would like to invest in them, them being public would mean that Elon has to spend a lot of time doing what investors want (making the most money) instead of doing what he envisions the company to do (going to mars). There is a reason Elon regret ps that Tesla is public but it was the only way it could have survived.

By staying private, Elon can choose whom to allows to invest in so that the missions stays what he wants it to be. It’d rather not make money from SpaceX then have them going on the wrong path and become yet another government competing space company that does little innovation and just sucks up government money.
The Times of London

The Wall Street Journal
> I would much rather have $102M in the bank and get taxed on half my savings over $100M than have $99M in the bank and get taxed on half my savings over $100M.

This is the best distillation of how marginal tax rates works I have ever read.

There still are taxes that don't work like this (usually in the form of benefits that cut off at a certain income range) so unfortunately we still have messed up stuff. The feeling isn't completely unfounded
I've long felt that a price-stable cryptocurrency is vital to increased acceptance of cryptocurrency by businesses and the public at large. There are a few solutions to this problem out there, but, in my opinion, they are either too centralized (and require too much trust) or they're too complicated. I wanted something simple, distributed, and trustless, so I made Unum.

https://unum.one

Unum is implemented as an ERC20 token smart contract on the Ethereum Blockchain. If you send in $20 worth of Ether, you get 20 Unum. If you send in $100 worth of OMG, you get 100 Unum. Whatever you send in is held in reserve by the smart contract. I can't touch it, and you can exchange your Unum into any currency held in the reserve whenever you'd like. Both buying and selling Unum incurs a 0.05% fee, which I plan to use to pay for the Ether needed to maintain the USD price oracle contract that's used to maintain the dollar peg. For every $100 you send, $0.05 is held as a fee.

Right now Unum is deployed on the Ethereum Ropsten testnet. I'd love feedback on the contract itself, which is on Github, and on the website. You can buy and sell Unum on the Ropsten network today if you have MetaMask through the Unum website. Buying and selling is done directly on the blockchain, there is no backend to the unum website itself. If you'd prefer, you can also use Mist to interact with the Contract directly.

I plan to move to the main Ethereum network soon, baring any major bugs being found.

If you're interested more in my thinking behind Unum, you can read the blog post, below, or just ask any questions here.

https://github.com/UnumOne/unum

https://medium.com/unum/from-many-unum-8c8493a8db9d
It doesn't. :-)
You seem to miss two important points: facebook provides a) convenience (most people can't be expected to find a web hoster to "share their opinion with the world", especially in the age of social networks) and b) enormous reach
There was a reality-show about it once called "Startup U": https://freeform.go.com/shows/startup-u
The ruling class decides of course. That's what all the hand-wringing over populist 'fake news' is about. The politicians, media, think tanks, and other powerful special interests are used to being the arbiters of truth, only allowing effective public debate on the narrow disagreements between them. They are as dishonest as anyone else, but have the resources and sophistication to be less crude about it. Instead of outright lies, they usually misrepresent the truth with selective emphasis, rhetorical tricks, and omitted facts and arguments. Now the internet threatens their control of information and they are trying to use their remaining power to protect their dominance before it's too late.
That was average age of getting married 25 years ago. Honestly, it’s not that complicated.
There's a real 'trees in the forest' effect here - you're mad at cars on the track, not the hundreds of thousands of cars that drive people to go watch the cars on the track.

Racing is probably a carbon reduction program, it's where car companies learn to make better cars. Formula 1 used to help create new technology but I don't think that's the case any more. Endurance racing has always been beneficial though and it continues with the le mans cars. Manufacturers are slashing carbon emissions though new materials, better engineering, and more efficient motors and the race track is an excellent place for them to develop that technology.

Auto racing is important as a place to try new things and shake up the status quo.
So why doesn't the government pay people who make more money? Won't that incentivize the right things?

(I mean, I think this is obviously silly, but it seems to hold up by exactly the same argument.)
But people who disagree generally don't communicate, regardless of whether they use Facebook or not. I find the notion that without "filter bubbles" people would have rational discussions that would be concluded by the truth being discovered and accepted by both parties a bit of a stretch.
You talk about something being: 'wrong, full stop'

How can you tell if this full stop "wrongness" is occurring?

Any answer you give is going to be an explanation of how the full stop "wrong" thing violates some set of principles or reduces something you value. Not all people will agree on which principles or values to privilege as the arbiters of right and wrong.

The whole thing will become a game of definitions.

To your last point: No. My way of looking at things is not "better" in any cosmic sense. My question would be:

"Better at what?"

I value what I value. You value what you value. There's a whole planet of people with their values. Many will align, many will conflict. This is normal.

I don't believe those with values different from mine are "wrong, full stop" or "evil, full stop."
There are flicker-free (no PWM at all, or at least no PWM at mid and hi brightness) models, and you can find (unfortunately that's usually not that simple because vendors are mostly hesitate to specify it) a model with minimal possible brightness low enough for comfortable programming work.
It's how democracies work

And? "Democracies" aren't inherently good, just, noble or virtuous. As the old saying goes "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome".
bad_user please use VPN in your country!

And to everyone else, Facebook had tremendous oportunity to stand their/our ground and pissed the FTC off with some sort of minute/minutes/hour blackout in terms of net neutrality. Where was Zuckerberg then??? I know when you read it online its just a news; masses won't care. Instead of your profile, if Zuck would put a black page with number to your local representative and inform it will stay for 10 minutes, imagine the outbreak - FTC president would be out of door by then. Instead Zuck did nothing. Truly despicable that was a moment to create history in the name of freedom that Zuck praise his record on. As bad user said -- Facebook IS poison.