skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Require that companies that provide these public goods be run democratically, transparently by their workers as a public co-op.

In addition to everything else wrong with this, what do you do when the workers decide that your niche interest is terrible, horrible, and shouldn't ought to be available to anyone at all?

Using a competing product isn't an option because, in your world, there would be no competition, just the state-owned product and nothing.
As I see it - ICO is a very quick way to bypass 100% of regulations to raise money.

As long as buyers are ok with potential to lose 100% of their investment - everyone (but government regulators) are happy.
Your argument boils down to claiming that a pump and dump scheme is sound investment because those who enter early can still earn some cash when the bubble bursts.

Ponzi schemes are similarly profitable but for some reason they are frowned upon.
CosmosDB: Serverless NoSQL for the .NET Developer [video]
Ownage Pranks - haven't downloaded the app but it sounds like someone you know can download the app and call you with a scripted prank.
Banks and brokers are required, by law, to report similar information.

Cypto-exchanges might be able to skirt those laws for now, because they're slightly different, new, and small, but if cryptocurrencies become mainstream the laws will be updated to include them.
Ask HN: New IoT Book structure
Dear

I'd like to hear you opinion, experience and recommendation.

We have task: Write a book about IoT for your students 17-18 years. Books should be used by teachers at schools, but will be also available in printed form in normal bookstore. Book also should motivate students for next study technical science. I know, goals are little bit contradictory. Teacher and students have different needs and expectations.

We have following ideas about structure (areas are just illustrative):

Choice A:

-Electronics

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|- Project A

|- Project B

|- Project C

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- Software

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|- Project A

|- Project B

|- Project C

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- Network

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|- Project A

|- Project B

|- Project C

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- Security

|

|- Project A

|- Project B

|- Project C

Choice B:

Project A

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|- Electronics

|- Software

|- Network

|- Security

Project B

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|- Electronics

|- Software

|- Network

|- Security

Project C

|

|- Electronics

|- Software

|- Network

|- Security

What do you think...which structure it more suitable ? Why do you prefer certain choice?

Thank you indeed for your views.
I added z-wave switches to my house, but honestly they function enough like normal switches that I would just leave them if I sold the house (but take the controller with me). I never used any cloud services though.
I brought the book for Black Friday. Its on my december readling list. I will look through internet archive. Thanks!
BTC does have inherent value if there exists a class of transactions that cannot be settled in any other form of payment.

Extortion where the extortionist demands payment in bitcoin fulfills that predicate.

Not saying that this is what drives the daily ups and downs of BTC (or rather: ups and even more ups, recently), but if you are looking for inherent value, this is what you get. Just like the use of gold in manufacturing is very much not the driver of gold price fluctuations, despite being the base of the inherent value.
Not sure why people claim they lost everything, on the bottom of the page it says:
Things to Know

There are no additional charges for this service beyond the underlying compute and storage.

c9.io continues to run for existing users. You can continue to use all the features of c9.io and add new team members if you have a team account. In the future, we will provide tools for easy migration of your c9.io workspaces to AWS Cloud9.
AWS Cloud9 is available in the US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), US East (N.Virginia), EU (Ireland), and Asia Pacific (Singapore) regions.
I can’t wait to see what you build with AWS Cloud9!
those reasons have largely boiled down to "lose money on each ride", that's not going to last.
"Paying a Google employee to steal their designs and sell them to you" is vastly different than regular industrial espionage.
People think others are like themselves. If managers would skip out given the opportunity, they believe their reports will as well.
They've announced the majority of cuts involve terminating a few speculative R&D projects and cutting international sales staff.

Maya development doesn't seem slow at all. The new UV toolkit in 2018 is pretty great. On the backend, they migrated to Qt 5 last year, and 2018 introduces major changes to the plugin API aiming for greater stability and backward compatibility.
Then you can't get your ring professionally cleaned.
Wind power blows past coal in Texas
So you're saying that Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, and Winklevoss Capital didn't know what they were getting into?
Well, they should not. They are perfectly capable of doing so. Try telling them that your business building and selling pipebombs is paying well. Law enforcement will get wind.
Yes transactions are digital, but they are neither open nor transparent. The information itself is heavily guarded, as it essentially ring fences the competitive advantage of banks and stops plucky start ups coming in, adding value and thereby reducing the perceived value/utility of a traditional bank.
Finance Pros Say You’ll Have to Pry Excel Out of Their Cold, Dead Hands
It's Wet Down Here
I didn't downvote your previous comment but I'm guessing it got downvotes because the blog post you're criticizing is about PostgreSQL not MySQL. PostgreSQL can store UUID in 16 bytes.

As a side comment about MySQL, there are various techniques to store UUID more compactly as 16 bytes inside of a "binary(16)" type like this:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/28252188

... or similar technique shown at the bottom of the Percona blog:

https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/12/19/store-uuid-optimized...
Especially for the businesses doing the lobbying not to be regulated.
https://www.julian.com/learn/muscle

Kind of a long-form marketing style but free.
I can add team members if they already have an account...if not, there seems to be no way for them to sign up.
NVMe is just how the storage is surfaced -- the hardware programming interface for the block device. Hardware iSCSI initiators (HBAs) also have a hardware programming interface, but at the end of the day you talk SCSI over that interface.

NVMe is a better match for the the storage operations supported by EBS. A bonus is that by surfacing EBS over NVMe there is a common storage interface for both managed storage volumes and local NVMe storage.
Apple Platform Layer Bugs
It's a fair point ... but ...

Making an email product and hiring PR to promote email I think is a little bit different than 'owning a stock and hiring PR to promote that stock'.

BTC is purely a speculative thing right now - and so hiring PR to pump up a purely speculative thing? "It's going to $10K and it's only going up, up, up!"

If they were promoting BTC as a medium of exchange and as currency, sure ... but as a purely speculative asset it's smells like a pump and dump.
What is your point, exactly? That we shouldn't care about hardware-backed virtualization because we have zones?

Yes!

That AWS should go home and re-write EC2 to just be zones instead of VMs?

There is no reason for AWS to exist.
> It has a nervous/pedantic air (no offense intended

No offense taken :). Most prominently, I do it as a courtesy. A lawyer's comments on these matters should carry more weight than my own. Second to that, one might characterize me as nervous and pedantic about such things.
It's unfortunate. People behind c9.io should have thought about existing users etc. AWS did, what they do for all.
-=-=
Do you want to modify your offering to include free AWS trial offer (i think, AWS offer 750hrs of ec2 something) OR do monetization of your courses and u foot the bill of AWS.

Something like that.
Probably because they were first trying to sell an ML internally and it sounded like OCaml/Bucklescript didn't catch on. I think the new syntax is the raison d'etre to some extent.
I don't think this is a very surprising result, just going by the title.
I don't get how you make the connection from Torvald's arguments to what you say. His complaints are on a fundamentally different level: ~"Programmers over-abstracting are a timeless problem, the more complex the language/standard library, the easier it is for programmers to get lost in abstraction. Bad programmers just get lost, mediocre programmers even defend what they do."

I despise his choice of words and general attitude towards programmers "less capable than him", but I do think there is some truth in what he says there: Imagine we'd all be writing asm only - we'd spend much more time on the drawing board and find much more elegant solutions to problems that we today solve with mindlessly writing hundreds lines of code within a "framework".

Side note: I wrote C++ in 1998; it was more "bloody massive" back then than it is today, in my humble experience.
Git hash function transition plan
> More and more people are getting introduced to bitcoin, understanding it and buying into it.

That's pretty much the definition of a pump-and-dump scheme.
> PHP 7.2: The First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library

https://dev.to/paragonie/php-72-the-first-programming-langua...
The government forces people to pay union dues even when they choose to not support the political groups unions give money to.
Not just for new users. I’ve been using SO since 2009, have over 7k reputation there and 375 answers, but recent changes make me want to stop using it.

The problem I encounter most often, the community tends to closevote hard questions instead of answering them.

E.g. I recently asked a question on SO, for Linux C API to monitor WiFi signal strength for the connected network.

10 minutes later it got a vote to close “migrate to superuser”. I immediately updated the question explaining that I only interested in C API. An hour later it got closed as offtopic. I flagged to mod, nothing happened. It gathered a few votes to reopen but not enough to reopen. And now it’s just deleted by “Community” saying “RemoveAbandonedClosed”.
People keep comparing one currency to another currency? Preposterous! If you have something that is similar to the dollar it will and should be compared to the dollar. All those problems are real.
1. How does the entire network just agree to switch to a new algorithm? How do they decide what the new algorithm is?

2. When everybody forks off of the compromised chain, haven't we effectively created an altcoin? What is the value of this nascent altcoin?

3. I'm thinking the value can't be very much, otherwise it would be way out of proportion to the difficulty considering there are not yet any ASICs for the new algorithm. Wouldn't it then be very much worth it for someone to attack it again using, say, a botnet?
Show HN: Connect a Raspbery Pi to a Sonos with 100% On-Device Voice AI
The short answer is that Reason's syntax is simpler and more enjoyable to use. I simultaneously learned both OCaml and ReasonML syntaxes and find Reason to be much easier to work with.

Perhaps people in Reason core will chime in with a more detailed answer. Here's some official information: https://reasonml.github.io/guide/ocaml/
One thought:

Back in 1997-2000, the Psion 5 was anything but niche; it was the leading paradigm for PDAs aside from the Newton/Palm tablet. (It died out due to a bad coincidence: Microsoft pre-announced the Windows CE 3 "Jupiter" platform, configured to look like a Psion killer on paper, right as Psion's CEO David Potter became seriously ill. Psion was sold off and left the field; meanwhile, WinCE 3 failed to set the world alight, and Potter survived.)

But back then, selling a million PDAs meant you were huge. Integration between featurephone OS and PDA functionality still lay in the future; indeed, the leading platform, Symbian, was a direct descendant of the Psion Series 5's EPOC/32 OS.

Today, we've got smartphones everywhere, but they mostly look very similar — small tablets with cameras and multitouch screen UIs. Probably not that many people will prefer a keyboard-driven PDA style of device. But there are so many more smartphone users out there that even a 1% niche market is probably bigger than Psion at their peak. Which is why Gemini is of interest: the Android market has gotten so large that it may now support odd alternative device formats.
I'm baffled: If you're going to make up your numbers, why go with something preposterous instead of credible?
Codemy.com is my website. I don't host my videos on youtube.
> Whenever I've seen it, it has been a band across the sky, not an arc

That photo is most certainly a composite of some sort. It was also taken in the Southern Hemisphere (Australia).
The growth comes from transitioning from a costly model of hiring hundreds of slick guys in suits trying to convince customers to upgrade every year or so, to a simpler model of collecting credit card data and assuming customers are going to pay annually.

What happens after the transition is a more interesting question.
My roommate gave me a book to read about blockchain yesterday, and that was my thought exactly. A lot of 'advocates' like to tout the decentralized consensus as useful for all kinds of application, but imo they constantly overlook the -financial- incentive that supports the bitcoin network (you could attack the network with a bunch of hashpower...but it would be more profitable for you to mine).
yeah logically it seems like it would be impossible to have patterns of synchronicity without asynchronous neurons.
Those examples are for public service announcements which aren't technically advertisements.
> I get that Lightsail isn't intuitive, but what could be more simpler or easier to comprehend than Relational Database Service or Simple Storage Service?

Nobody calls those products by their expanded names though. Why not just AWS Storage or AWS Database?

Google for example has Google Cloud Storage and Google Cloud SQL. I get that it becomes trickier when you've got overlapping products but you can't even guess the domain of AWS products from the name they're so obtuse.
I'm a co-founder of https://snips.ai, and we are building a 100% on-device Voice AI platform which protects your privacy

It is free for makers, forever, and we plan to open-source it over time, we are interested in what you can build with this!
Were any of these trials interesting enough to be attacked?
The title is offensive. Flagged.
This is at best deeply unproven. We don't have a good idea of how much their volume would be depressed if they raised prices.
We wouldn't want to hurt Amazon's feelings.
I've installed some smart switches from both Lutron and Leviton, and both work just fine without an Internet connection.

My hue switches also control their hue lights just fine without any internet - although they do need the hue hub to be powered up.
I think the problem isn't that + +. and ^ look different, it's that they are symbols.

That's also what makes scala so unapproachable, you get stuff like ++> or =*= that doesn't make any sense.

x + y makes sense to most people

x ^ y not so much
it can't get any simpler than this .

> Case 2: taxes. BTC is an asset. If you buy at price X and sell at price Y, guess what, you owe taxes on Y-X. I don't understand how this is news to anyone.
Coinbase partly brought this lawsuit on themselves (and you) by not sending 1099s to their customers. So the IRS overreacted by requesting all the data.
One of the greatest investments that i have ever made . I have been with the devslopes team as a free student all the summer and then a subscription was logically the next step, but then the lifetime access was the perfect solution for me. i got all the content for life at only 599$. Yes it wasn't cheap, specially if you come from a country with low paid jobs or you work as a freelancer like me, but considering the fact that you get over 300 hours of content and it grows continually, considering that only an app sells to a client with 500 euro is more then a great investment. And even without the commercial part, investing in your passion and in yourself to get better it is priceless. So knowing the team, the teaching method and the great community always there to help, I undoubtedly recommended devslopes for both new or old developers that wish to be better in what they do, create and love. invest in yourself and in other people around you and you won't regret it!
The video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabltEXk0VQ
Hmmm, that's a possibility I haven't considered. I suppose because I'm having trouble imagining what that in-between space looks like.

If an ad is targeted at a user, doesn't that necessarily mean they were tracked to some degree (i.e. some data is known about them, and an ad is being shown to them based on whatever that known data is)? Conversely, if nothing is known about the user (they haven't been tracked at all), how can an ad be targeted at them (besides knowing they are viewing a webpage on a certain topic, but then we're back at being content-targeted)?

The only possibility I can think of that's somewhat in-between, is a site tracking a user across their own site (first-party only), and targeting ads based on that collected data, rather than contracting that out to Google who can follow you across many sites. Is this what you have in mind? Other than this, I'm having trouble thinking of possibilities that exist between content-targeted and user-targeted via tracking. It's interesting to consider though.
The issue here is the fragmentation in the authors system. While not as feature rich as the flavor of the day automation toy, I did my full house with Insteon. If I move, I would just change the email on the account to the new user and hand them the password and leave the $100 controller hub with them. Simple.
This might be of interest to you :) -- Probability Through Problems[http://www.springer.com/in/book/9780387950631]
This. Yes.
The kernel is called XNU. https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/ It is mainly written in C.
I would particularly interested if it curated best practices for maximizing eye health as a software developer. There have been some comments on recent eye glasses discussions.

If anyone can link the recent HN discussion about eye exercise building some device to slowly move books away while reading I can't find it.
All "block chain" is is a Merkle tree. You can do all sorts of productive, interesting stuff with Merkle trees.

If you want to do interesting things with a trust-less, decentralized system, you need the mining and mining rewards.
Ask HN: Where can I learn about fourier transformations?
I've been looking for a easy to understand explanation but couldnt find any.
Dont care which one.
FWIW, my definition of slavery is that the value of your productivity is owned and controlled by someone else, not you.

I see, so you too consider capitalism a form of slavery.
A half-dozen lightbulbs, and that long for taking the new ones out of the box and moving the ladder around.
Coinbase is a centralized exchange. People's money was ALWAYS at risk.

This is a very different security model than that provided by the underlining base layer of many cryto currencies.
Do you run Candyjapan.com? If so, how'd you get into this?
The tapered income tax idea has value.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/5/30/15712160/b...
Build your own Google Clips kit
To me, it sounds like what's really happening is that the amount of content has vastly outstripped the amount of available, ahem, monetization.
Fintech, a Failure?
The nature of it is not meant to be easy, sorry
Oh great government can issue us currency we cant see and track everything we do.
Protonmail's terms of service are better than Fastmail', IMHO. Fastmail TOS says that your service can be terminated anytime whatsoever on the whims of fastmail, whereas from what I remember, protonmail's TOS atleast laid out conditions under which your service could be terminated, like doing something illegal.
OnePlus have always looked v good. But they don't work on Verizon so that's a non starter.
Yes, many devs know stuff with C/Java/JavaScript like syntax.
At least according to the article, they didn't just pay him, they paid his lawyer too.
Why 2017 Feels Like a Media Apocalypse
From the article:

> Aluminum is not a great conductor—it heats up when a lot of power is pushed through it—so a snack bag would potentially melt if it was used to try to block a strong radio signal from inside. But the signals from GPS satellites are weak and can easily be interfered with, intentionally or not, in many ways.

I imagine that if the twisties bag had been grounded, it would be even more resistant to melting if the signal had been too strong for it.
Funny thought: Imagine taking bitcoin so seriously that you signed a union contract in 2012 to pay 1 bitcoin per hour.
What I miss about KVM switch is the ability to switch to another system using a keyboard hotkey, such as double-pressing the "Scroll Lock" key on the keyboard. Most high-end KVM had this feature, so that I could use a hotkey to quickly switch to different system. Once anyone gets used to this, there's no going back to rotary dials or slow physical push buttons, etc. I had 3 or 4 systems connected to KVM and nothing was faster.

I've tried using modern HDMI/monitor switchbox/splitter and USB switches, but they require awkward physical reaching for the buttons, as I have to reach out for a button or two, every time I need to switch to another system. The old KVM did this in split second and I didn't even have to think about it, sort of like Vim once you get used to the keys. I was able to work so much faster, switching from one system to another, whenever I needed to. Now, I have to think about it before switching, not that I'm lazy, but I don't want to exert so much energy just to switch to another system.

Edit: I also miss PS/2 and VGA, for their ability to switch quickly as well. USB devices and HDMI monitors take awhile to switch.
So I got to be at dinner with Joe Taylor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Hooton_Taylor_Jr. who himself received the Nobel Prize. He mentioned Joclyn Bell and how, in his view, she was overlooked. That opinion carries some weight with me.
Just leave your mouse upside down.
>It's interesting to me that your employer isn't a privacy concern to you.

Well a part of it is situation specific - it's a professional service organisation. Everything & everyone is up to their eyeballs in confidentiality agreements so the whole "we'll sell havoc's data for 200 dollars" mindset just isn't a thing.

>I'm curious why you assume that the data your employer has about you hasn't already made its way into the hand of "big companies

They take security very seriously - far more than I do in a personal context. So I don't feel exposed on that front.

So as I said - big brother google is my primary worry here. God knows what they can patch together with their black magic. Supercookies and assorted bullsht. And their eco system is quite difficult to escape (part of the reason I switched to iphone).
It's not just asthma. Black neighborhoods are more likely to be in areas where poorly regulated industry used to be so they are closer to sites where industrial waste has been casually dumped in the environment. Resulting in higher incidences of various diseases and also depressed growth in personal wealth since real estate near toxic waste, highways, etc. tends to be less desirable and grows in value much slower than in nicer areas. As for asthma, a lot of that has to do with freeways being built through black neighborhoods, resulting in higher exposure to diesel exhaust, pm2.5 particulates, ozone, etc. (which both makes development of asthma more likely and also aggravates asthmatic symptoms in people who have it, leading to more health issues and hospital visits).