skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I published a code walkthrough tutorial yesterday on this: https://hackernoon.com/full-stack-smart-contract-development...
Bitcoin mining is fairly diversified, with new players about to enter hardware business.
I thought this was mainly used to improve first load speed. The site won't be very useful if you can't interact with it beyond that.
There are many lock-ins, first there is iMessage, second there are some apps that still work only on Mac OS X I don't remember the name of the software but I once was sent a design file and was only able to open it on a Mac OS X software (there was a windows alternative but it didn't allow me to edit the file as needed). Another example is XCode, you need a Mac to properly create iPhone apps. For programming, there are also issues with symbolic links on Windows.

I personally prefer Windows, but as a software developer I had to buy a Mac, I grew tired of having to always power-on a Mac OS X virtual machine. My job is so much easier now then it was on windows.
uBlock Origin describes itself as "a wide-spectrum blocker which happens to be able to function as a mere ad blocker". It has the explicitly stated goal of allowing the user to personalise their browsing experience in whatever way they choose.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock
It's also display quality. If you're doing design work you can use a MacBook pro and be pretty sure that the color is accurate with no calibration. If you switch platforms you have to sort out the enterprise and gaming displays, which have totally different selling points (price and responsiveness, respectively). Getting a good display and accurate color on a Windows machine requires a lot more knowledge and effort. This is definitely less true since Apple abandoned their display line (one more bit of evidence that Apple doesn't care about the professionals that established their brand anymore).
Ask HN: Anyone use Codefights for job search?
What was your experience with Codefights or similar companies?
Here is a graph from Wikipedia data until the AMD 8-core Ryzen: https://twitter.com/azwinkau/status/869461530324107264

As soon as a plot like this shows a "stop", there will pop up lots of possibilities for research and funding thereof. Physical restrictions predict this stop within the next years.
Passwords, medical records and credit card information are so sensitive that it's irrelevant that there are good uses for the tech that captures them or that at some point in the pipeline they get masked.
Increase growth, yes, but not at any cost. My point is that Apple may have decided that at this time they don’t need the growth as much as they need internal developers to work on other things than macOS.
That’s probably the least “passive income” business there is.
That's mostly fine, but it should be clear to me (the user) that it is happening.
This is less of an infinite town, and more of a camera loop. You can see the houses end up being a simple repetition, and if you find a place that repeats a bit later, and you go very fast, you can see that the cars are also exactly the same (colors) in the same area. So it's definitely a loop.
Having worked several years for the largest real estate franchiser in the U.S., I can tell you that getting into real estate - at least as a realtor - for passive income is no longer an easy thing to get into. Maybe years or even decades age, it was considered the kind of job that people can obtain some easy passive income, but nowadays - at least to make any worthwhile money - it takes quite a bit of time and commitment. Many home buyers - especially younger buyers - often question the value of real estate agents. Younger buyers buy stuff online all the time - they figure - so why not simply use online services like zillow, etc. - they think to themselves. So if you do get into real estate you have to constantly fight to show your value. Furthermore, nowadays, being in real estate means you have to build and manage yourself as your own business AND brand...Even with an affiliation to an established real estate brand/franchise and any tools and support they might provide, it is still a very time-consuming (and often a capital-intensive) operation. You have to build up your network of clients and potential referrals...You have to build your brand within the geography that you will sell within...Current and potential clients need to know that "when they think real estate, homes, rentals, etc.", that they think of you. Then, you have to compete against other real estate agents who got into the job years ago when they lost their earlier careers to a recession (and are not leaving this job)...And, then you have to fight against any start-ups trying to dis-intermediate the whole concept of needing human real estate agents...And then, you have to consider any dangers with the large real estate companies trying to acquire the disruptive start ups as they try to bring costs down by lessening the need to pay humans for "doing" real estate, etc., etc., etc.

I don't mean to make real estate sound like an awful/dead-end career...I simply want to clarify that it is not the easy career that people think that it is, or that it perhaps used to be so many years/decades ago. And, while it may start as a passive income job for many at first, in the long-term it requires the attention of a full-time career.
> number of very valid reasons

I'm genuinely curious what steps are executed once this data is collected.

Also, in theory, you only need to do this after design/layout changes and only for a while, so what justifies collecting it all the time? I might be wrong though.
How to Choose a Technology Stack for Web Application Development?
Some very good points. I recall that the mainnet once had a gas per block limit of 4.7 mil before it was increased. The increase is something that is voted on by the miners, and has been fluid over the years. (Btw, it is something very similar to a block size limit in BTC, although it limits the storage + CPU usage, rather than just storage like in BTC)

About the point on using floats, one should never use floats when working with money, this is because floats are not precise and result in rounding errors (eg. 0.1 + 0.2 results 0.30000000000000004, see for details http://0.30000000000000004.com ). One of the simplest approaches to solve it is to work with the smallest units, so if working with dollars then you can use cents and that means you can use integers which give more precision, which is how Solidity currently deals with it, by working with the smallest unit of Ether which is 'wei'. Some of the units listed here https://etherconverter.online
My city was 95% of the parents just on phones till this year. Now the vast majority of us parents are actually playing with our kids. Serious kids are the best thing I have ever had in my life and they are a blast. Sometimes they really know how to humble you but it is so worth it. (Dad of 5)
Doing this without explicit user consent (explicit, detailed and with risks shown) is illegal for all 'good' use cases. (At least in the EU). It is criminal for all others.

Edit: It also needs to be stored anonymously, though even people I know who build wifi/bluetooth tracking software&hardware say that is almost impossible.
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Moore's law is number of transistors.

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law
In the UK programming was taught on BBC Micros in pretty much every school from the age of 5-6 years old as part of the school curriculum. I'm in my late 30s and learned Logo and BASIC almost 35 years ago in the early-mid 1980s. I then went back to it when I was 11 and learned BASIC "properly", and then by 14 was writing C which is around the early-mid-1990s.

Most of my colleagues from the UK went through a similar curve, taking in Atari and Amiga machines at home not just as games machines but piqued by their capability to produce software of their own.

The UK 8-bit market was one of the biggest economic helpers the country has had in generations. We then went about squandering it.

Whilst I was a teenager the school curriculums moved to teaching PowerPoint and Excel which basically meant STEM entrants at University fell off. I was one of the last years to be able to learn how to code at school.

Detecting an impeding and urgent skills gap, a couple of years ago a proper computer science GCSE was kicked off (by the much maligned, but on this occasion perhaps quite right, Michael Gove MP), but only 11% of pupils in the UK sat it last year, and most schools are struggling to hire teachers so the quality of the kids they're turning out is a problem for us as a country and economy.

This is something I'm spending a lot of time thinking about right now. An open-source set of text books with teacher notes might help a lot of kids get exposure to the skills they need for the workplace in 30 years, the way I got exposure.

Yes, the RPi and microbits stuff is part of that, but there needs to be some steps beyond that. Kids need to be able to go home, look at the PC or laptop and think "I could make something on that", and get the guidance needed to do so.
Usually if someone complains to support, their session can be tracked down and sent to the devs.
Even cats aren't only in it for the food.

Although they will eat you if you die and they have access to your corpse..
What If Autonomous Cars Just Never Happen?
So, to be clear, the way at least the tools I've worked with operate:

- websites implementing these tools need to specifically opt-in text fields they want to capture the inputs for

- for HTML-side capture, the javascript will obfuscate PII before sending it to the servers

- some of these tools will not capture password fields under any circumstances

Does that address some of your concerns?
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You might be right, but in Zimbabwe it actually was driving the price like this. There it already reached 10K at the end of October. Why? Hyperinflation of the local currency.

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/10/31/africa/zimbabwe-bitcoin-su...
> We’re using WordPress as the core of our launch platform

I guess it makes sense to stay with PHP and reuse your infrastructure knowledge. Still, I believe Wikipedia is successful despite not because of the WikiMedia software. Wordpress is not exactly the hallmark of software engineering either.
That makes a lot of sense, that way the person is also running a business etc also
If I jump on a ship and travel near light speed (Not possible yet) and then land on the same spot I would not have spent the same time as those on the earth.

Now at a tiny level anyone ever on an airplane also will have spent less time than those who never have flown.
Dan Ariely: How Understanding Money Can Help Your Career
o.O
that goes massively against data protection laws.
We use HotJar at work, and it's super useful to see heatmaps of what people click on and what they ignore.

This article is a little clickbaity- it implies your passwords and other private info are being stolen, instead of just webpage clicks.

Maybe people can hack those tools for ill but that's true of almost any web software platform.
Thank you! I was looking for a workaround to avoid leaving my system vulnerable until the patch lands in App Store.
Interesting point on the lack of floating-point support. I've dealt with storing fiat in real world software and using floating point is a big no-no due to the fact it is only an approximation by its very design. We therefore always stored money as integer cents/pennies etc. How is this approached with digital "money" where there is no smallest divisible unit?
Three ways to design social networks that make our lives better
Well that's debatable. The technology of chrome (better sandboxing) is an advantage.

I've alternated between Chromium and Firefox. Some sites seem to work better in one browser or the other.
According to this casestudy,
https://www.purevpn.com/blog/how-i-made-1000-dollars-by-beco...

VPN seems to be a great niche right now to kick off affiliate marketing. You can run a review blog and join affiliate programs of different VPN providers. People search for VPN reviews, affiliate links make money.

For a developer, who understands Virtual Private Networks and its use. It can be a great passive income making project.
Dang you got there 3 minutes before me!
Don't feel bad, your pet dreams of walks and running exurberantly around the park - dogs have been breed to love their servitude... as have we.
also one link causes https issues, but can be read through the WaybackMachine

https://web.archive.org/web/20151012023906/http://mercure.ir...
Deliberate Work – Frequent and deliberate work on goals that matter
You forgot about "repair permissions" and "do a SMC+NVRAM reset"
Curious if you have read Brooks Mythical Man Month (the classic) and/or Augustine's Laws (a personal favorite)?
Looks very nice. I've recently written a bunch of Racket, which also encourages tests to be written alongside definitions, although they're not run as part of compilation. However, I've actually ended up with similar functionality, by packaging these scripts using Nix and having a dependency which runs the test suite and aborts on failure.

It's nice to see more investigations going on into the nuances of programming "stages", rather than the usual compile vs interpret dogma.

Another approach which seems similar in spirit is Zig's use of compile-time execution http://ziglang.org
> I'd like to hear from people who do/did sideprojects

ITT: almost exclusively people who didn’t do the projects they’re spitballing.
> Would it be possible to have a generic browser that isnt controlled by any vendor, but perhaps contributed to by all of them, which could be used as a dev standard?

It's possible, but there's no financial incentive for them to do so, so it's incredibly unlikely. Open source browsers already exist, but because a company wouldn't earn money from contributing, they won't do it.

It's also unlikely that businesses will start building websites for different browsers. Chrome is currently the industry standard, and to maximize viewers while minimizing development cost, developing for Chrome will capture most of the market share.
WordPress has been re-written in a Node stack

https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso
And Litecoin just hit $100. And of course bitcoin hit $10k.

I invest a little bit each week in a lot of coins. I'm a fan of cryptocurrencies. And I gotta say, this is crazy. I've had a few people ask me if they should invest now, and my answer is: I have no damn clue.
Commute pretty much anyway but door-to-door driving. Bike, walk, walk to transit, bike to transit, etc. Just that small amount makes a huge difference since you do it every single day.
Responsible Disclosure? How About Responsible Behavior?
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Good Products Don't Need Marketing
If you invested 1BTC in the ethereum presale in 2014 (about $600 at the time) and kept that ether, you now have the equivalent of $1M in ether.

Has that much value really been created?
The numbers that show SNCF, France's proud rail service is struggling
That popsci article should really be "10 pieces of evidence that are consistent with the round Earth model". Most of them aren't super easy to reproduce either.

> Blanket skepticism no more intellectually valid than blind faith.

This sounds vaguely like a moral judgement to me. What does "valid" mean here? I find it less inciteful, and more useful, to take a pragmatist approach. Was Newton wrong and Einstein right?

Even if we call Newtonian mechanics "wrong" it's certainly super useful. In the same way, thinking of the Earth as flat is pretty darn useful in daily life. I'd bet a pretty penny that almost everybody operates with an implicit "flat Earth" model in their head for mundane tasks.

On the other hand, the Round Earth model is probably super useful to sattelite engineers. If the Flat Earthers start doing cool space science or something, I'm more than happy to encourage them.
There are definitely SaaS tools that let you watch a user's session on your site. They stitch together page transitions, show you the mouse cursor moving around, what they type. It's like watching a remote desktop session. Creepy as hell.
It's not the specific comment, the whole account was (hell)banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15725778
It's not a reflect of value so much as present and future value and returns.
> You can even have a "do not disturb" sign on your door.

You can't. At least not in modern open plan offices, nobody except management loves.
Why you need to touch your keys to believe they’re in your bag
Been reading more about what's actually in food and what you need to stay alive.

Intermittent fasting and fasting on water (with some salt) has been working very well for me. Burning away 3kg per week. Not really losing muscle, just burning away my fat at an insane rate. Just don't consume carbs or sugar (or "zero sugar" crap). Eat vegetables. Read labels.
If you want passive income with no work, then you have to supply capital. If you don't have capital, then work is required. Unfortunately there are no passive income businesses that require zero capital and zero work. They just don't exist.

Passive no-coding ways to make money:
>Public market investments: stock market, ETF's, bonds, derivatives, commodities, real estate, bitcoin
>Non-public investments: start-ups, business ventures, hedge funds, private equity, etc.

There are other businesses which people think are passive but they are not. Having a website that makes money is not a passive income. Ask anyone that has one, they have to put in some sort of work. If they don't the money dries up. You have to create new content and really target your ads to actually make money.

Good luck!
What is dog, that thou art mindful of him?
I kind of love how you frame it as "everyone who has switched has switched" as if the job is done. As if there would be no market to capture. Which isn't true. And doesn't even consider the reality that there are young computer buyers who they need to capture because existing users don't buy new machines or won't last in the long run (people die).
"Don't be evil"
Stop eating so much. Make it difficult to eat. Walk or shop in order to eat - no fast food. Hunger is 'ok'.
The guy is a self professed "Agile Software Craftsman". I could give some leeway to my average friend finding this, but he's pretty involved with this community.
It's important to point out that EVERYTHING to do with the MicroPython work on the micro:bit was done by a community of volunteers working in their spare time. Source code here: https://github.com/bbcmicrobit/micropython Documentation here: https://microbit-micropython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I estimate around 80 people volunteered time to bring Python and associated tools (such as the browser based editor, command line tools and a native editor called "Mu" https://mu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) to micro:bit.

At the heart of all this work was the creator of MicroPython, Damien George who volunteered a huge number of hours to bringing a full reimplementation of Python3 (without standard library) to micro:bit. Check it out, it's awesome. MicroPython is both a reimplementation of Python 3 but on the micro:bit also has music, a simple speech synthesiser, funky display functions, radio and a simple file system all built in. :-)
Thankfully Hollywood got that figured out for us by simply using all the adresses above 256.
Funny, but on the other hand, if Bitcoin reaches 1 million dollars, how much will the dollar still be worth? So first part could be rise of Bitcoin, second part fall of dollar. 1 trillion dollars is within reach! ;)
And it's exasperated by the fact that most Tokens use 18 decimal places of precision. So "1" would be 1000000000000000000. As a programmer, I just found it harder to reason about numbers like that.

I ran into problems testing my solidity contract with javascript, because javascript isn't great at big numbers. Or division.
> the ultimate arbiters of the truth are the facts of reality.

This is, relative to what?

Some possibilities:

- relative to your geography
- your personal biases
- your priorities
- relative to 'what you do not know what you do not know'

We may not like to see it this way, but facts if reality are also relative. Just span things across longer period of time and you'll see.
Is HN now a cryptocurrency ticker?
This would be awesome to do with one of Hasbro's "Furbacca".
Of Evolution, Culture, and the Obstetrical Dilemma
It's all about daily routine. If you can stick with a lifting program and start eating healthy for the next month you'll notice a difference. If you do it for 3 months, everyone will notice a difference. One big thing that I always advocate is that it needs to be a lifestyle, not a temporary change. You shouldn't be upset going to the gym or not eating a cookie, it should be something you actively want to do.
Surprising that someone like Krebs wouldn't require more solid proof of an exploit/leak, such as performing the demo in a new clean VM (the information leak reported in the headline doesn't actually happen, and appeared to happen in the demo session he viewed because the user was already authenticated and it was displaying the data they entered).

I think you could argue though that the site perhaps should not display all the detailed financial information even to the user who entered it, after some time has been allowed to review it for correctness.
Thanks! Will update
Whenever someone complains about a website not working without javascript enabled, someone inevitably responds "it's 2017, you can expect javascript to be enabled". I think that piece of knowledge is outdated:

- Late 1990's: static html documents + forms
- early 2000's: shitty DHTML scripts that added nothing
- early 2010's: javascript + gracefully downgrading sites
- 2015/16: required useful javascript everywhere
- early 2017: trackers everywhere, html5 popups, trackers, spywhere, trackers, bitcoin miners, trackers, etc, etc.

2017 is the year where you NEED a javascript blocker. What's the use of having any security at all if you're going to leave the biggest attack vector in modern times completely unprotected?

Plus, the web has become completely unusable without a script blocker.
> a modern kid

I think it's a mistake to assume modern kids need high powered things to be interesting. I've been at a maker faire where the kids were amazed at seeing an old broadcast camera hooked up to a TV. All it was doing was recording and playing things back, but they liked it. I'm sure lots of them even had phones which would do the same thing but with higher quality.

The local science museum always hads kids running about in the discovery section playing with things like pulleys and shouting into the long tube that creates a delay, or the glasses that turn things upside down.

Kids still play with lego which has absolutely no moving parts or complex interaction.

I'm sure if you start by telling kids it'll be boring they'll hate it. Otherwise kids seem to be able to have fun with anything as complex as a cardbox box upwards.

> games, robotics and interaction.

I mean, several of my examples are games, robots and involve interaction.

I can easily see how to use two of these to make a robot wars robot, one for the controller (steer with tilting and a button for "go" and a button for "fire") and one for the robot. Don't tell me kids wouldn't be interested in making fighting robots.

> It was a huge mistake not to ship this with a video port.

I think it'd be a huge mistake to try and make something like the rPi. That already exists if you want to do stuff connected to a screen with a full OS and internet access.

I doubt it would have fitted into the budget for production either, given that these needed to be given to every year 7 in the country.

I think you're trying to make it boring, and have fun with that, I'm going to go and make a robot. Or maybe finally build the sensor to see how far my degu runs in a day on his wheel.
> or "zero sugar" crap

What's wrong with it?