skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes.
When I started to learn Webdevelopment through a course on Udemy I would be playing the video on 1.5 to 2 times speed.
Most of the time everything said is of no difficulty and I would also pause and think if needed.
Since then I speed up almost every video I watch.
I prefer to turn on subtitles if available.

In this fast progressing world it is better to get to the critical part as fast as possible and "watching videos in higher speed and not lose its message" is definitely a skill I want to enhance.
For most people yes, but I surmise that it’s easy to manipulate up and down and therefore predict as well for maximum gain.
Such a help line, if actually known to regularly be helpful changing the ranking position of websites in search results, would be constantly spammed by "SEO Experts" looking to get result-bumps for their sites. This has three possible outcomes, none of them good:

- The spam-support-call volume is too high and the hotline becomes so clogged that users with legitimate complaints don't even bother. As in, a ratio of 1000 SEO assholes to 1 user, 10 hour hold times, etc.

- The hotline is so thoroughly staffed that this becomes the "new SEO" technique (think: robocalls to improve rankings, or contracting firms of humans in $cheap_location to make calls on the SEO person's behalf). Even if legitimate complaints are addressed in the process, the rest of the search results become even more spammy.

- The hotline operators develop an intensely high suspicion threshold for any requests to change a site's appearance in rankings. It becomes known by users with legitimate complaints as a near-impossible uphill battle to get their position back, and is not used by many.
How much are the LED bulbs? I don't think I'd bother taking the time to save fifty bucks on a house move.
> I cannot understand why...

Sounds to me that your understanding is the real problem here. There are a lot of resources you can use to read up on the value proposition, and while I do think AWS is pretty expensive and perhaps priced a bit too high, it's a great platform that goes way beyond just the speed of the VM tech.
The "partial victory" was small. The "partial loss" was much larger.

The IRS still got 14,000 people's data in bulk. It just wasn't all of Coinbase's customers, as the IRS initially wanted. But it's still a far cry from investigating each person rather than fishing for crimes among thousands of people.
"mining stuff" i.e. all owned e-coins. Please don't be so pedantic when you can optimistically derive semantics yourself by just giving a little bit of good will to my statement instead of expecting a text-book definition.
If you look at their chart of "any bubble", it's pretty clear when they expect the crash:
https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/money/article11613204.ece/ALTER...
Apparently the creater modeled it after Ruby on Rails, so I guess it's easier to use if you are used to that platform.
I think a similar effect has been why power generation and efficiency systems (solar, "geothermal" heating/cooling) have been slow to catch on—for every buyer who sees them as a nice thing there's another who's turned off by them, and another who doesn't care enough to pay much extra. And even the ones who think they're good probably won't pay the pro-rated cost of putting it in, so you're still losing some money. Kinda like having a pool. Also why builders don't usually put that stuff in when it'd be easiest and cheapest, I think. Even at those lower costs they can't make the money back when they sell.

So they're a good idea if you think it's very likely you'll stay in a house 15+ years, but not so much otherwise.
> This tone of this article is pretentious and just plain douchey.

I got that same feeling. First a "What?! KVMs are no longer sold at all?!" followed by "wait, no, he's lying - KVMs are still sold, they just don't meet his standards." It's clickbait.
Come on, the Mirror is hardly the bastion of credible reporting.
Ah, understood. I don't spend much time over there. Seems like a nice area. Amazon has a pretty swanky office near Monroe and Wacker, which I think is your neck of the loop.
Cavium is still no where near intel on single core performance; they just threw way more simpler cores onto a chip.
In all likelihood, they'll use the date of sale/purchase to set a exchange rate.

This is a recordkeeping and tax form nightmare, especially if there is a lot of trading. It may be possible to report the net gains over the year for frequent trading similar to security trading, but the details are somewhat foggy at the moment. The theory is not though, and the IRS has had the position for some time that gains in bitcoin imply taxable capital gains.
It Looks Like Nobel Economics Laureates Don't Like Bitcoin
When a company that I worked at was doing some testing with testnet bitcoins, I thought it would be useful to maintain an office pool based on a brainwallet, so that anyone could just use the testnet coins for experiments, and then send them back to the brainwallet. The passphrase was a dictionary word with a couple of trivial substitutions -- something like "company" => "c0mp4ny!" -- to make it easy for developers to remember for ad hoc testing.

After I sent some testnet coins to the address but before I could even send out an email telling people about it, the coins had been stolen (it might have been in the same block that my original transaction appeared in, I don't remember). This was ~3 years ago, and on testnet -- the only thing I could imagine is that someone was testing out a brainwallet-stealing bot on testnet before deploying it to mainnet. I was very impressed.
Similar, I used to work for a guard company. We implemented a process where employees reported to work by calling from an assigned set of phones at each client. they also signed out of work by calling from the same number.

needless to say we had all sorts of attempts to use other numbers but that never would work. since we had ANI numbers I doubt they could be spoofed.

now we never went as far as having them call in hourly, likely that would be dependent on client requirements. still I understand why the guy in the article was fired and honestly if he was skipping out then so be it
I agree, ThoughtWorks tends to make generally sound technical decisions. Years ago, I worked on a team that was 90% TW people, and learned a LOT of techniques and tools I still use to this day. Their senior devs are unusually active in mentoring.
> you can take your cloud devices, and a new owner can just buy a new hub device with their own cloud account and connect the devices to it.

That sounds like a pain in the ass.

> if I was ever to leave home automation hardware behind, it'd be a "if you want to pay x on top of the already agreed upon price for the property, I'll leave it

I don't want to buy new crap to deal with the crap you left behind. I'd argue that you ought to pay me for dealing with some arbitrary hardware that I've now inherited. This is the equivalent of leaving some finicky boiler system whose spare parts can only be ordered from a single factory in Germany.
And the best way of verification is obtaining a copy of my passport?
All cryptocurrencies are down today. BTC lost 25%. I wonder if it is because of this news or sth else?
Newegg is not obligated to collect sales take from you if they don't have a nexus in your state. Amazon has a nexus almost everywhere and thus collects sales tax from you regardless of where you order from. That's only true for orders place with Amazon itself; independent sellers at Amazon are responsible for specifying their own taxes that will be collected.

None of this, whether it's collected or not, eliminates your requirement to pay the sales or excise tax of your home State. In fact, if you go out of your way to order something or perform a transaction in a way that explicitly evades sales tax then you could be in legal trouble with your State's tax agency.

They might not care about a $200 graphics card but they do go after large offenders. Here's an example: http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2017/05/broker_from_princ...

> > "I'm smart for not paying taxes." - The president Source: https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/26/politics/donald-trump-federal....

> This is also why people shop in Delaware. I wonder how many of those people reported their purchases to Pennsylvania.

Avoiding paying taxes through legal means is smart. Evading paying taxes is illegal.
I think we’re on the same page.

Well.. This is inevitable if for internal or external reasons, something on the internet needs to verify your identity. Either (A) they live without this verification (B) we find some way of verifying or (C) every tom dick & harry has a dropbox folder full of people’s "scanned copy of official ID.”

To me, it seems like “verifying people” in this manner is stupid. The whole premise is that there are documents that only I have. By sending the document to you, I show that only I could be me. Using this process widely breaks the premise. I know for a fact that several parties’ employees, contractors and such have scanned copies of my official ID …I sent it to them.
JavaScript Promises are equivalent to Python's asyncio
Coinbase now top 10 in the App Store

https://twitter.com/FEhrsam/status/936014373562195968
The birth of the body of modern internet
Why wouldn't you do that in the dev database, then push to test, then push to prod?
Thanks for that! Always good to know how to block new trackers.
Don't you have an equivalent to football (soccer) wherever you are?

I've heard many parents of teenagers complaining that it's hard to get them off their football matches (5-a-side soccer is huge here, and any street can become an impromptu pitch).

Of course, depends on the kid, you couldn't take me off books and computers (when available) as a teenager.
Side question: why did you name the application Joplin? (My hometown is Joplin, MO and I'm curious if you're also from or living there.) My other two guesses for its etymology are Janis Joplin and Scott Joplin.
You're not wrong, but this would require a radical re-architecting of huge swaths of how marketing and entrepreneurship currently works in most of the world.
> Took GNU/Linux “only“ 12 years to begin to catch up.

What does Linux have to do with this? This is a new hypervisor backed by hardware virtualization, it isn't remotely related to Linux. Sure, you can run Linux on EC2, but you can also run literally any other OS as well.
Or you could just change the password.
Totally agree. But this seems like it's something up their alley.
I went into ICFP 2007 with two other dudes, only one of us knew Haskell (not me), and yes, it was a death sentence.

However, ICFP is 4 days, not a month, and the experience was good enough that it made me want to actually learn Haskell properly. I had fun and benefited in the long run. :)
Meh, the furnace is perfectly operational and you could hold a screwdriver across two terminals to force it on. Not convenient, but not dire need.
I hear Somalia is looking like a lovely Libertarian paradise these days, if that's what you're after.
I wish this app's creator had a Patreon so I could donate to it's development. Money is far more portable than development time especially since there is a sunk cost in starting up.

Please set one up and msg me and I'll gladly contribute. I'm a daily, heavy Evernote user and I would love some competition to this great app and the ability to have an open-source option.
“Realization” has a meaning in accounting and swapping property for property does, generally, realize the gains.

This might or might not generate an informational return to the IRS. Most transactions in the economy don’t. They’re still taxed. The tax system functions on a combination of informational returns and auto matching, human-intensive audits on a small selection of returns each year, and the honor system.

“They can’t tax us if we don’t write stuff down!” is believed by many people, including Bitcoiners, and they are often surprised to find that the IRS has thought of this clever strategy before. For example: “I see you own a boat. What year did you buy it in?” “Oh I dunno.” “2015. Let’s try again: how much did you buy it for?” “I dunno.” “List price, great answer. OK, you understated your income from 2015 by $65k. Here’s your bill for $150k.” “You can’t do that!” “I get that a lot.”
So two people out of hundreds of thousands, who were running significant money-trading businesses through the network? They weren't targeting regular users or many people at all...
I was pointing out that I am very well aware of the difference between government initiated censorship vs. Google just randomly filtering something that it disagrees with.
> It is limited to 21 million units, which means that it cannot support a growing Bitcoin-based economy without rapidly appreciating in value versus other currencies, and depreciating the price of assets.

Gold is like that too, you can't dig a lot more gold even if the global economy suddenly explodes. Yet gold is a reasonable way to store my assets. Why do you think of BTC anything different?
google can destroy businesses in an instant, and they are too large to not offer proper support, and their damages are too great to not face legal liability to any damages they inflict upon companies at their whim.

this is quite baffling. tech companies are making money hand over fist, they have massive margins, a company like google can afford real support and if they dont think so they should pay in court
Isn't BIM an extension to rather than alternative to CAD?
Yea well you have to dig through a lot of trash to find the gems. But since it is part of the deal you need to take the time into account that you need to wander through the mud.
Officially I won't count the hours that I use for this at home. But at least for me that is definitely work related.
> Is a societal rule against, say, polluting waterways also not a regulation?

Absolutely. Societal rules recognizing the rights of property owners would deem pollution as a trespass and violation of property rights. Unfortunately 19th century courts gave in to the wealthy businesses and essentially voided that societal rule in favor of a kind of Coasian analysis of pollution.

> How exactly do you draw this line and why is that line more natural than others?

Societal rules when you break them down are obvious to people and reflect how most people live their day to day life. It is typically when the basic societal rules are first voided in favor of something else, that government regulation is considered. In such cases it makes more sense to just restore the base societal rule.

> Is the idea of a division between "societal rule that isn't a regulation" and "societal rule that is a regulation" even coherent?

Sure. As I replied to someone else, this is a fallacy in equating government regulation with the will of society. They are not always equivalent.
Normal profit taking for the asset. Many projections continue to look upward...outrageously upward. Not sure where it goes, but I put a little bit of money in just to satisify my FOMO.
What one could do to prove this type of abuse would be to do a daily search for terms you think should match your site and record how high in the results it appears, and do it for various search engines.

If you plot this over time and see a sudden drop you know Google has identified you as a threat.
This is the bottleneck of Bitcoin. The real money<->bitcoin exchange places. And for me it's also the most frightening part on Bitcoins.
Our testing is by hand, we have a QA lead and entire team helps.

Verification isn’t offloading testing, it’s monotoring real world usage to find out where it differs from testing. The hard part is the logs can be a torrent of data, you need to have a process to monitor and escalate.

i’d like to automate testing. But it has to be no more work than manual testing, and/or it has to be as effective or better than manual testing. And i can’t see either of those being true.

Most of my bugs can’t be caught by unit tests. For example one common category is where previous devs made assumptions where code normally works fine, but fails in specific edge cases from multiple thread timing or view controllers being disposed. i don’t know how to automate those tests.
The stuff you buy has value. By law you have to report that value. It would probably be harder for them to catch though, but if suddenly you have a new house you couldn’t afford then they would probably audit you.
Is leaving lights in the house you sell an American thing? Unless it's built in lights like spots, all the bulbs and even fixtures usually move with the person where I'm from (the Netherlands).
You're not smart, you're an asshole and probably deserve to go to jail if you're evading significant taxes. You live in a society, you were raised in a society, and you've benefitted from society's investments in things such as the internet that have facilitated your ability to gain wealth via Bitcoin.

So please, spare us the libertarian horseshit. People like you just want to take, take, take.
The thing is, these central parties also provide an enormous amount of benefits.

Take your average stock exchange. There's an enormous amount of regulation governing its operation, with the goal being to protect market participants from mischief.

Enforcing this protection requires control.

Forgoing this control also means forgoing this protection.

The shit-show that was Mt. Gox (and a few other exchanges) -- and I don't mean just its demise, but all the market manipulation going on when it was still active, etc. -- would have been all but impossible if these operations would have been governed like modern exchanges.
Personally, I would not agree to being tracked by an employer, unless there was a really good reason, e.g. safety concerns, as it invites abuse of power, even unintentionally.

Stuff like this exacerbates disrespect, distrust and suspicion in employer/employee relationships, in a way I believe no one benefits. Employers tend to use these tools to aggressively police minor infractions, though pretending to only want to catch the few bad apples, driving away the good employees in favour of those who think they can game the system anyway with a tit-for-tat mindset.

In the end trust is eroded, everybody is unhappy, and the underlying issues as to why those bad apples aren't doing their jobs in the first place is never resolved or even investigated.
This comment deserves a github gist, and a separate top-level post.
I wish Apple would work more on icloud.com as a fully featured extension of their ecosystem. But they seem to be removing small features that are really useful, and I don't get the impression it has any priority. It used to be a nice way to manage mobile photos. Mass deletion was quicker and easier than on the phone, for example.
Yea.... I'm sure you report all your purchases at the duty free as soon as you get to American soil.
The other thing is that they have partially fixed the most "wat" bug in PHP: for some arrays that aren't even all that hard to come by when interacting with JS, the following code could change `count($arr)`:

foreach ($arr as $key => $val) {
$arr[$key] = f($key, $val);
}

The issue is that `$key` could be a string describing an integer, but `$arr[$key]` will automatically see that you're using a string-int and convert it to an int-int, setting a different key than the internal one.

It's only a partial fix but it hits the most common case: you have a JSON payload that happens to have an index of objects which happens to have been given numeric keys:

{
"abcdef": {"prop1": "hello", "prop2": 123},
"987132": {"prop1": "world", "prop2": 456}
}

If your framework hands JSON to you as a StdClass object then you would typically convert this to an associative array since that's semantically what it is: as opposed to the internal entities, which in this case appear to be full-fledged objects. (The difference is that the keys of a full-fledged object should be known in advance at a data-schema level and have a control structure of getting/setting `->prop_name`; the keys of a dictionary should be user-settable and have a control structure of `foreach ($dict as $key => $val) {}`.)

So the bug still maybe exists in some fringe cases as the underlying cause is not treated, but it is now autofixed by the common idiom of casting `$dict = (array) $params->dict`.
Heh, it'll be less than 1% of the total time I spend doing touch-ups and such. Maybe three minutes to save, yeah, $50-75. A tiny extra amount of effort on the actual packing and move, but time saved buying new bulbs when the ones in the next house start burning out makes up for that. Besides, I've got most of 'em in in-socket splitters (makes one bulb socked into two) in crappy basement fixtures which I'm pretty sure will make an inspector look twice, so probably worth taking down ahead of time anyway.
I mean, it actually covers the subject well at a level palatable for its audience.
I always think of this quote from the movie, "Body of Lies":

"Our enemy has realized that they are fighting guys from the future. Now, ahem, it is as brilliant as it is infuriating. If you live like it's the past, and you behave like it's the past then guys from the future find it very hard to see you. If you throw away your cell phone, shut down your e-mail pass all your instructions face-to-face, hand-to-hand turn your back on technology and just disappear into the crowd"
Interesting app. I'm currently using todo.txt [1] and am quite happy with it. It's not really a note taking app (although I could use it that way) but rather a todo app and it uses a pure text file and syncs with dropbox nicely. I use an Android app as well [2].

There's a bunch of plugins for it but I haven't used any of them yet.

[1]: http://todotxt.org/
[2]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nl.mpcjanssen....
FWIW, I like grid-paper, so I use "graph-ruled" composition books.
And who's face is on the bitcoin? Pay Satoshi what's due to Satoshi?
Taxes paid to another country are (generally) deducted from the tax to pay to the US. There is also a rather high total income exclusion. In practice most US citizens living and earning money overseas do not pay significant tax to the US, but they must still file the paperwork (most expats who renounce their citizenship do so because of the expense/time to do so, as well as the difficulty of banking as a US citizen overseas due to the restrictions the US effectively enforces on foreign banks who have US citizens as customers).
I do it at the maximum speed whenever possible, around 2x. I can just pause and rewind whenever.

Personally not a fan of videos to learn. I usually learn faster from books because of speed reading. Speeding up videos makes them tolerable for me.
Disingenuous.

There are ample examples of robust, thriving, civilizations that had alternative monetary systems before the Private Finance Oligarchy ate the world.
>until very recently

Was meant to cover those particular cases, which were created specifically to deal with the lack of anonymity within Bitcoin and its derivatives, as far as I know.
The Evolution of Security at Riot
Though I find Project Euler to be pretty heavy on the math problem solving, and not much on the day-to-day programming problem solving.
What is your point, exactly? That we shouldn't care about hardware-backed virtualization because we have zones? That AWS should go home and re-write EC2 to just be zones instead of VMs?
You should probably start by changing the litterbox...

More seriously though, this is a major pet peeve of mine. Many of these devices will also become completely unusable when the manufacturer decides to terminate the service. This is a big reason why I hesitate to pay for products that don't adhere to open standards, and allow for local/offline use as a primary mode.