skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
since there really arent that many fundamentals to bitcoin's value, at least obvious ones to me, i think its mostly a gamble. not that that is bad or good. just that i dont think its worth attributing to much credit or blame to winning and losing parties. ive followed it since it was a dollar in 2011... i still dont know what makes it go up and down except hype, china banning or unbanning it, and exchange thefts. someone got rich off beanie babies, are the people who didn't "too chicken shit" too?
Cherry picking from the “opinion” section is hardly a representation of “Guardian as a whole relative to Murdoch’s 3 mouthpieces as a whole”

I’d rather the business model of the web be “beg boxes” out in the open versus “opt-in to data collection or stay offline”
totw/126 `make_unique` is the new `new`
It's really interesting to me that Premal Shah, the CEO of Kiva, was a part of the Stanford Review. It always seemed to me that a prime philosophy of many in Thiel's orbit was "to keep government out of the way so I have the freedom to get rich." But, (clearly?) Kiva is not a vehicle for Shah to do that. Or, maybe another one of my mistaken assumptions. A thought provoking article for me at least.
> https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/tenth_amendment

The internet is textbook interstate commerce, and therefore not subject to the 10th amendment. You're getting internet from an ISP who's likely headquartered in another state, who's delivering content from a provider in a third state, and routing that traffic through a half-dozen other states. It would be an absolute mess if every state could say what constitutes "network neutrality" and the ISPs had to deal with different laws at every routing hop.
People just really like fire.

A friend described how they accidentally created a fuel air explosion, at the Tag fall cave in when lighting the bonfire, strong enough to knock over the front row the the crowd.

Nobody was seriously hurt, and peoples general reactions was they thought this was intentional and where disappointed it was not repeated next year...
I may end today in tears.
Don't like it? Don't invest. No reason for you to go around poo-pooing it though.
So like 99% of politicians?
I went to a rural high school from 2008-2012. It was hideously underfunded, and if it wasn't for enormous effort from underpaid, overworked teachers putting their sweat, blood, and heart into everything they did, nobody would have learned anything. The school struggled to heat the building in the winter, which seems okay except this far north, "winter" is really 90% of the school year. If you were even slightly different from the "norm" normal school days were hell. Out of 150 students who entered my year as freshman, 95 walked during graduation.

The fact that there are so few people means it's incredibly hard to share interests, and because you live in a rural shithole, the only interests people have are: drinking, drugs, driving around in the mud, and making fun of "different" people.

While I appreciate "small towns" allow you to "know everybody", that has it's own downside in the complete inability to have any privacy. I also hate thinking about all the possible opportunities I missed from growing up in a poor rural environment.
And people who are genuinely concerned: https://prestonbyrne.com/2017/11/26/the-bear-case-for-crypto...

How can this possibly scale of the net value of created bitcoins grows at the rate of $10 billion dollars per day?
I have fond memories of the first PPC gen 8100/80. They really did amazing perf feats with the PPC CPUs. Apple managed to get lots of "faster than Pentium" ads out of those CPUs.

Also m68k IIci was really durable and upgradeable computer. They also lasted a lot longer than they were really needed <3

Been thinking of buys 6100/60 with PC Compatibility Card so I could have a retro gaming station with two different architectures.

Apple had bunch DOS/PC compatibility cards for handling best of the both worlds. The recent ones run even Windows 98...
I've read comedy science fiction and horror. I don't have a problem with it per se. I just haven't expected it in this case and it was really stupid.
Dead men buy no products.
I think part of the problem was the content began to congeal into the same kinds of posts. Even the exact same posts. The reblog feature meant a lot of content was just being endlessly re-posted, sometimes with a comment and sometimes not.

So there were much fewer unique posts, and thus less reason/interest to invest time into making new posts.

At least this was my perception as a somewhat regular user among friends several years ago and why I ended up stopping using the platform.
> They are already extracting near maximum value from monopolistic pricing

Not true. When you remove net neutrality, you open up new possibilities for price-discrimination for the monopolist and they can extract more revenue for providing the same service.

Simple illustrative example: Suppose for the sake of argument that almost all VPN users are willing to pay an extra $1 / month for VPN access. Then Comcast can make strictly more money by charging everyone exactly the same as before except VPN access costs an additional $1/month.

(Also, I know you didn't bring it up, but there are lots of important free speech NN issues as well as economic ones, for example, Comcast might easily decide to completely block sites like Wikileaks.)
What is your experience with corporate leadership training?
I'm working on a startup idea, so I want to know what is working and what isn't when it comes to corporate training on "leadership" skills. What's your best experience? Your worst??
I'm not talking N64 days, e.g. typical EA example is Dead Space - the first one sold 1 million copies and was considered a huge success. Such a success that they bootstrapped a whole franchise. And that's not a N64 type game.

It's third installment, Dead Space 3, was slated to sell minimum of 5 million copies. With less than 5 million, EA decided that it's not going to be profitable enough. It also had microtransactions and DLCs on top of those required 5 million copies sold.

Who's greedy here?
I used to believe that too. Just eat low caloric density foods, right? It makes a lot of sense. So, I calculated the precise caloric density of Everything and ate nothing but <0.8 calories/gram foods with increased emphesis on 0.2 I had to eat truely vast amounts of food to get anywhere near full. We're talking many many pounds of spinach and 8 zero calorie jellos, pound after pound of vegetables and high fiber fruits: like berries.

It does NOT work well at all. Don't get me wrong, it helps a little, but your stomach is extremely smart and it knows alot more about calorie counting than we do. Like it or not, it keeps it's own account of your calorie intake and adjusts your hunger and appetite accordingly.

If you're like me and you're already eating a very healthy diet and you exercise regularly and your still gaining weight, you only have one option: go hungry. Very hungry. Right now, it's the only way. You could exercise a lot more, but either way, you're going to suffer.
Several years ago during the MTGox collapse, /r/bitcoin over on reddit had a suicide hotline pinned to the top as multiple evangelicals had sunken their life savings into BTC. It's going to be a very difficult situation if / when BTC crashes again, and it won't end well for just about anyone.

Edit: changed "has" to "as", as it was a typo.
The rule change was fully known about in advance, it didn't suprise anyone. And you could contend that the work is now worth more. For a long time mining was economically unrewarding, miners created a blockchain and provided it with power at their own cost and without any guarantee of success or return. Those who joined later were joining when their work would be immediately rewarded with profit because it became economically feasible to mine. These late arrivers actually pushed out a lot of the early miners by using more powerful and efficient equipment. So they may have taken more of a capital risk but less of a risk in terms of knowing a return was possible and would repay their investment.
It's true there's nothing perfect under the sun. But I think the financial judgement of MSFT vs some guy's hobby project is pretty sound, and in general price signals work pretty well as a message to producers.
Hmm, I see your point. So you don't think that reputability of the source plays into what makes it to the front page?

Generally, and purely anecdotally, I find HN content to be both interesting and either a) from a reputable source, generally for opinion pieces such as this or b) supported by facts, with sources, or with broadly-accepted knowledge held by the audience (such as with technical posts). Either a) or b), establish for me at least, some metric of reputability of the arguments presented.

I found this particular post to be interesting, but neither a) from a reputable source in the field (not trying to put down the author of the blog, just don't think based on his bio that this is more than one dude's opinion or he's just summarizing the content of the video) b) backed up by facts to support his opinions and assertions.
Of course they horrify an American regulator - people believing they're free to do what they want with their property?
Migrating to Linux: disks, files, and filesystems
Running Chromium with Ozone-GBM on a GNU/Linux Desktop System
Ask HN: What is the funniest bug you encountered?
Not informed enough to comment on the others, but the wealth tax in France had a massive backlash and likely impacted their economy for the worse. The mistrust of the French Government due to this is affecting their bid to replace London as the financial capital of Europe. People are very, very wary of moving there.
Saying evil is a matter of perspective is relativism.
Current parameter store user - one feature not mentioned in the comparison is the fact that accessing / updating a secret in parameter store will show up in Cloudtrail. Is there a similar audit trail in strongbox?
Transactions aren't tied to your known identity, unless you do it yourself.

Empirically, BTC is used a lot for this kind of stuff - ransomware payouts, Silk Road type marketplaces etc.
> "Robots are racist and sexist, just like the people who created them"

to quote the simpsons, "it's funny because it's true."

(still, funny comment, i upvoted, fwiw)
how about you get six different guides and you end up somewhere based on your choice, it intermingles with your previous choices, as your guides change come and go.
Where do you guys live? I WFH all the time and only pay $35 for internet and $35 for cell.
"May" = pointing out a possibility vs. making a prediction.

Ken Griffin "may" find a $10 bill on the street today. He "may" see his stock portfolio flash crash 30% this week.

Why is this even news?
Literally the same line about tulips has been repeated for the last 4 years. It's probably true, but at this point I'm curious why anyone is interested in yet another article saying exactly the same thing with no new information, content, evidence, anything.
Interesting.. I wonder if these profiles fall under HIPAA.
Reminds me of PreCrime from Minority Report https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrime
I completely agree.

Here in France, there are few truly independent newspapers, all the big ones like Le Monde, Liberation, Le Figaro are owned by billionaires like Niel, Drahi or Dassault. It's quite dangerous as it breaks the independence of these newspaper (for example Niel declared in 2011: "When journalists are bothering me, I buy a share of their fucking newspaper, and they leave me alone").

It's quite dangerous.

The quality of these newspaper also tends to go to "click-baity" contents and it's really annoying. A few years ago, I interviewed for a position at Le Monde (as a sysadmin, not as a journalist), and from what I understood, there was rampant tensions in the redaction between those coming from the web publication and those coming from the "paper" one (the two were historically separated), no wonders...

They still reveal major scandals from time to time (ex: Le Monde and the Panama Papers), but it is rarer than it used to.

Fortunately there are a few independent newspapers, the 2 main ones in France being "Le canard enchaine", which is still "full paper", no website (it's a weekly however), and the other one being Mediapart, which is an online only, ads free, subscription based newspaper.

I subscribed to Mediapart a few years ago. It was at the time a complete emotional reaction after Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris. But more than 2 years later, I still subscribe to it, and keep reading it daily. One of the big dimension of why I keep paying for it (it's around ~10 euros/month) is that it's a way to support a free and independent press (the other being simply to stay informed).

There is clearly room for an independent and quality press. It doesn't take that much subscriptions to maintain a decently sized newspaper, 100 000 subscribers at 10e/m gives you enough revenue to sustain around 100 employees.

The press is a powerful counter balance of the political. It should remain that way. It will if a somewhat large number of individuals agree to pay for it.
I mean beyond any explicitly stated rate limit. Or do you mean something else?
>> Or maybe I'm missing something important here?

Yeah, individual authors may not want someone else to specify how they enforce compliance. If a company wants to play nice that's fine, and I see Redhat and friends are agreeing to play nice with GPL2 code that they contribute to. FSF also has a history of playing nice - they prefer to get compliance rather than collect huge monetary awards. But that's my point, you don't have to encode being nice into the license itself. I found it rather off-putting when I first read it. It imposes restrictions on the original author of the code. Note that v2 imposed nothing on the original author.
The point of CC0 is that in countries (like the US) with the concept of releasing works into the public domain—relinquishing all copyright claims on the work, that's what you are doing with CC0.

In countries where you can't legally release works into the public domain, CC0 is a license that tries to do as much as it can through a license in those countries.
This is generally what I see as a better solution to a UBI; the silicon valley/start-up model of giving employees equity in the company and a wage. Just extend this to every hire (not just engineers) and at all stages of the company (not just start-ups).

A UBI is just a round about way of distributing the wealth generated by automation when the real fix should be having broader societal ownership of those productive assets.
Yes, but that's not what OP was talking about. Within an assembly, an unsafe block still doesn't taint any code that calls into it. And between assemblies, an unsafe assembly doesn't taint a safe one that depends on it. So it doesn't "propagate outwards".
End of life is still a thing as maintenance cost grow over time.

Demolition derby cars for example need to be able to run, but that does not stop them from being nearly worthless otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby
My thinking is this: bitcoin and other digital currencies are becoming more and more “popular” (literally). More and more “ordinary” people start investing, the barriers of participation are coming down. As long as there is a large enough pool of people willing to join the party, prices will continue to rise. The question is when to pull out. I always get nervous when cab drivers start giving me free stock advice. Hasn’t happened yet with coins. So: way to go!
Why has it gone from P2P payments to store of wealth now?
What exactly do you mean by "Avoid projects where the value you are delivering is a multiple of your normal fee?"
This is an underappreciated factor in the industrial revolution.
> Another reason not to use it is because the FOSS alternatives are free.

Free as in "free beer" isn't free. There are many costs beyond the cost of acquisition that are often overlooked.

Usability isn't nearly as good with the FOSS alternatives. Microsoft has a paid team of usability experts designing and testing the usability of features for many different user audiences, including disabled users who rely on special usability features.

People likely have some familiarity with Office applications, so training costs are lower. For the training employees need, there is a large wealth of training resources out there, from free to pricey.

There is also no question about being able to get support in the future, as Office as been around almost 30 years, and is going strong. Office has no real competitors in the marketplace, so as long as there is money to be made in selling word processors, spreadsheets and other office-centric desktop software, those document formats and applications will be supported.

Office has a very flexible plug-in architecture for customization by thousands of software devs who can develop for that.

Microsoft isn't naive to the needs of European governments, they have government editions of their software and cloud services to align their software with government regulations.

The foreign company argument isn't really meaningful these days. No country is an island (except island nations!). Everything in IT is dependent on foreign resources, PC parts from Asia, tech support from India, Software from US companies, cloud services, etc. If you don't want to have to rely on foreign companies, go back to typewriters.
You are right, but that isn't at all why I referenced 10A.

I referenced it because, in the U.S., the residuary (or "police") power resides in the states. Large ISPs have tried to fight municipal broadband in the courts, but [the point I am making here] is that states and municipalities have extremely broad discretion in terms of what projects they can undertake. And building a local ISP is something they certainly can do.
I meant the keyboard thing in general with regards to their apparent engineering direction. My current hackintosh does have a very loud keyboard otherwise :)
I think this was a big part in why pen-and-paper outperformed typing for me.

I'm slow at handwriting; to keep up with a lecture I basically have to use shorthand and restrict myself to the most useful observations. But typing, I can just be a pipe moving every word from powerpoint to a text file. That distracts me from the content of the lecture and doesn't do anything for retention.
Be scared when everyone is greedy, be greedy when everyone is scared.
Sympathy for a disaster and belief about its causes are different things.

If you think a natural disaster is the result of God's plan (and not e.g. climate change), it is perfectly congruent to both contribute to healing in the form of charity, while also being disinterested in climate change regulation.
I would say that Basic Income the way Finland is just testing, is much better than random 'it makes me feel good' donations.

To clarify, it's better in the sense of creating better infrastructure/peer structure/social network.

It's also a difference not unlike between tips in America and a fair salary for waitresses in Europe.
I beg to differ, it is hard to overestimate the importance of CRISPR. There have been gene editors like zink-fingers or TALENs before but CRISPR is in its total capability is a true breakthrough.

NGS on the other side is more or less a gradual development. While the exact technology may be novel or unique the whole process is not as can be seen by the various competing technologies that existed and still do exist within about 1 or 2 orders of magnitude in pricing over time. And gene expression read-out especially is not that novel at all given arrays existed for some time. Sure, the single applications are cool but quite a few could be done with related technologies.

But sure, in the end its not whether one thing matters more than the another as all together make a great progress.
The Love of Joy Texans game for us mineal any
Urbanization was certainly important in the development of industrialization, in that urbanization is essential for all forms of specialization; but I would dispute the notion that having a large supply of cheap labour was important. To the contrary, since industrialization is the process whereby capital is invested in order to increase worker productivity, it is less useful where there is a cheap workforce, not more useful.

I agree that the rule of law didn't protect peasants who were forced off their hereditary lands. You'll note that it wasn't the peasants who led the industrial revolution.
this is not Communist or Left wing propaganda. But once you understand the dynamics of how economies work, you can appreciate that Capitalism is fundamentally broken. For the US to work, they would've to break Capitalism as we know it. And bring forth a hybrid system. You can't have a functioning system when half the citizens can't afford healthcare.
Don't forget Facebook operates worldwide. Suicide is a crime in some places.
Agreed. Instead, I'd hope for more interest in steganography.
Maybe they have a quota on how many impressions they need to get per quarter?
Over what time period?
There is no question this is yet another bubble due for a pullback because there are no fundamentals supporting it.

Bonus points if one can point to a well researched article on positive catalysts for BTC in 2018.

Only thing is no one knows when and how deep the pullback will be.

It could go up to 12-15k and then drop to 3-5k. Or it could go up to 20k and drop to 1k. No one knows.

Disclaimer: I've only mined and sold my BTC since 2011 no speculation.
For the same reason that urban areas need tighter building codes than rural, tightly linked economies need to more closely regulate what our neighbors do lest we be caught in the consequences.

ICOs externalize many consequences.
This is all about the minimum wage.

> The annual earnings for a full-time minimum-wage worker is $15,080 at the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. Full-time work means working 2,080 hours each year, which is 40 hours each week. [1]

GDP per capita 2016 = 57K [2]

10% GDP per capita = 5.7K

20% GDP per capita = 11.4K

15K - 11.4K = 3.6K

So my options are:

- no work + ubi = Gain 40 hours of personal time per week; lose out on 3.6K if we didn't have UBI.

- work + no ubi = Better off by 3.6K without UBI, but at the cost of 40 hours working a shitty job.

[1]: https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/faq/what-are-annual-earnings-ful...

[2]: https://www.google.de/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...
Does this mean they have created a training set of posts/behaviour prior to suicide?
relevant
https://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking
Devils advocate here, why must we prevent suicide?
I'm not sure how common it is but I agree with your basic point. Physical distribution is actually surprisingly a surprisingly small part of the cost of most books but unless there's some very funky royalty agreement or whatever in place, there's no reason for eBooks to cost more.
Each act of homesteading is an act of force against everyone else, who previously enjoyed free access to that land/resource. A UBI is a payment for the lost access.
Do folks on HN actually think this is the only psychological metric Facebook is tracking, and that this is something new?

A slightly obsessive, insecure state of mind makes for the most engaged Facebook user. If they can give people a bit of a nudge in that direction, it’s great for business. Suicide, while resulting in increased engagement among friends and relatives, is bad for business overall — you’re losing users, and people might start to really question what you’re doing to their heads.

It’s amazing that this gets turned into a feelgood story by the press, rather than an investigation into what Facebook has known about their users’ mental states and for how long. This is like congratulating a tobacco company on warning people not to smoke 3 packs a day.

I want their PR team.