skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As regards understandability and minimising "magic boxes", this means it's pretty much just core OpenBSD (kernel & base system). The moment you add the usual desktop environments or a huge monolith like Firefox, you've lost these benefits. Same with drivers. More drivers you have, more the system becomes byzantine. Keeping things minimal and well designed yet useful must be a continuing challenge for OpenBSD!
please illustrate how my example is flawed without hand waving.
Forget 2030, let's think bigger: 2070.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yFhR1fKWG0
uBlock Origin seems unaffected (but private browsing still trips it.) Overall, I just exit the page and don't even consider switching off my adblocker, so it hardly matters to me, personally. I imagine most people are on the same boat.
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Okay. I'm not a zealot about these things, but I think the author underappreciates the nicer aspects of agile. My favorite book on agile looks at it from a mathematical / risk management / process model standpoint.

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Principles_of_Produ...

The concepts used in the book - batch size, uncertainty, feedback, control, queue size and latency - these really are useful things to think about when scheduling work.
There are no hotel rooms quoted in bitcoin. They are quoted in real currencies.
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Gold isn't worth $1.2K per ounce because of its "non-financial use", and has been valued throughout human history for its scarcity. I'm fairly certain kings weren't making crowns from the stuff 500 years ago because of its conductive properties.
It's "thought-provoking", not "thought-prevoking".
In some languages you can use property-based testing to generate thousands of inputs and check that Method(x) == OldMethod(x). See Hypothesis for Python, QuickCheck for Haskell, ScalaCheck for Scala, etc.
No that's simply not how it works and won't give you an accurate picture of quality differences between providers. I don't know how to make it any more clear.
That's a good way to put it. Instead of optimizing for the causes (stable job, being suave, sending kids to private schools), optimize for the effects (money, good wife, well-adjusted kids).
Ouch, that's not a good look at all.
You also want to check what the current state of the art is and if you really need your procedure right now.

Personal example : a decade ago using ultrasound to remove thyroid nodules was at the clinical trial stage with good results. But surgeons were still in the mindset of "remove everything even if you could keep half your thyroid, and enjoy your levotirox". Now ultrasound are a go: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434558/ so if you bet on progress you won.
Apple Agrees to Deal with Ireland Over $15B Unpaid Tax Issue
I'll provide a brief story from somebody I once knew (we didn't keep in touch).

Person founded a startup during the .com bubble. He took on a lot of personal debt to fund it. In his words, "Went from driving a Ferrari to losing everything and having $600K+ of debt."

He had a spouse and kids and was a business person, not a tech person. For whatever reason he decided not to declare bankruptcy and spent the next 10 years digging himself out of that debt. Since he was a business person, he ended up much lower down the ladder in a sales role and climbed the ladder again. There was nothing romantic about his climb - he had to live in some really cold and often disparaged parts of US and worked for companies that are derided on HN. Basically going wherever he could get a job.

The last time I had talked to him we was doing very well financially, had paid off the debt, had just purchased a home, and was living in the part of the country that was a good fit for him and his family. You could still see the scars of those years in his health and his relationships with his spouse and kids.

Note that when some people say they "lose it all" they also lose their spouse/relationships and end up homeless. I guess it could have been much worse, but his situation was still awful.
To add to this, the closing speeds are so fast that you would need to detonate explosives far in advance for anything to happen anywhere near the target. If you detonate at the usual anti-aircraft distances (a few meters), the time it takes for the detonator to fire and for the shock wave/chemical reaction to propagate though the explosive mass would leave the shrapnel cloud way behind the target.
> provide poor communication

I see that as efficient communication. No BS
If your question starts with "Can't you just..." the answer is probably "no" because if the answer was "yes" somebody would probably have thought of that already and implemented it.
> PlexCorps marketed and sold securities called PlexCoin on the internet to investors in the U.S. and elsewhere, claiming that investments in PlexCoin would yield a 1,354 percent profit in less than 29 days.

Is this claim the crux of the securities violation?
> I sometimes get the feeling people spend more time writing defences of these languages than they spend time writing programs in them.

Programmers love language wars.
I tend to agree. Every ICO page mainly struggles with number 3. I never get what they are selling, probably because they're not selling anything other than the idea of buying in to their ICO.

Let's take a (somewhat snarky and definitely superficial) look at a few of the "top gainers" & market cap from https://coinmarketcap.com/gainers-losers/ (as of Dec 2nd)

Gainers:

1. Petrodollar.. Website isn't even an owned domain.

2. BTCMoon - Well their website works, but it speaks just heavily of the token offering not what it does. Personally I like the first question in the FAQ: "Q: Why BTCMoon are there? " Which is as close to the pseudo-philosophical question of "why is the moon" as we can get.

3.iQuant - Nearest I can tell, a blockchain trading platform. They're the closest to actually telling me something, but their ICO ended so maybe thats why.

Market cap.

1. EOS - Just talks about the ICO offering over and over. No idea

2. OmiseGo - "OmiseGO is a public Ethereum-based financial technology for use in mainstream digital wallets, that enables real-time, peer-to-peer ...." I'm sorry we've reached our buzzword quota for the day.

3. Tether.. Well we'll leave that one where it lands.

Ok so its super snarky and highly superficial, but in all cases, the basic question of "What are you selling" isn't answered clearly and concisely. I just don't get it but if the requirement is either;

A. Drink the ICO cool-aid and you'll get it

B. "You have to think beyond how they'll sell to consumers, these are like platforms with boundless potential"

Then I don't want to get it, because ambiguity is definitely something investors should avoid.
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I'm so sorry! btw like the imagery 'shows scars of sprints' - well said
US dollar is backed by :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_carriers_of_t...

and other things like that. Which is why even drug dealers that are hunted by the US trust US dollar.
I had no problem accessing the page with uBlock and Ghostery (maybe they're listening?). However I was blocked via private/incognito mode.
Finland would do well to eliminate or reduce that tax for used goods as it would seem to hurt commercially facilitated reuse.
You didn't address my argument. If bitcoin being deflationary would truly prevent people from buying things, then why doesn't it do so already? You can already buy bitcoin instead of anything else you want to buy, so why do people buy things other than bitcoin?

If you can explain why people might want other things more than they want bitcoin, you can explain why the existence of bitcoin won't prevent people from buying those things. And whether they already hold bitcoin or not is totally irrelevant.
Every generation thinks they invented sex and drugs, and theirs was the last good generation.
It's easy to feel contempt for a generation who's response to a generation-defining economic collapse was as toothless and misguided as Occupy Wall Street.

It's absurd to draw that equivalency, but good, bad, or indifferent, that is what society at large sees as the Millennial generation's only foray into public life.
Yeah, in a native app you'd use something like MapVirtualKey [1], but I don't think there's a web equivalent yet.

You still see native apps getting this wrong, though. On a UK keyboard Sublime Text's view menu says that "Show Console" is Ctrl-` (backtick), but the key that actually shows the console is Ctrl-' (single quote). Took me a while to find that.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms6...
I see. Were there research into non destructive interception ? a missile catching up another one and binding to it to divert it ?
This is really good to see. Separating the scam ICOs from the non-scam ICOs is only going to become more important in the future.
I second your recommendation. Any product manager or engineering manager who hasn't read that book is probably working on the basis of many flawed assumptions and optimizing for the wrong metrics.
Thanks for your sharing your thoughts!

> One missing ingredient is a probabilistic model of the thing you're imaging

Ooh, this (making the prior for the true image signal more informative by incorporating knowledge of the structure of the signal) is clever.
Here, when you say model, you mean a description that is based on the (bio)physics of your sample? (E.g., knowing that objects being imaged obey diffusion equations informs your maximum likelihood estimation of the true signal?)

> Secret because I have a dream for a crazy startup based on this idea which I don't have the means to do now. Although I generally hate being secretive about, like, knowledge and for sure the value creation happens during execution - but just humor me this time, ok?

Of course; such is the right (and joy) of an innovator to define how one's own idea is disseminated/actualized! (~:
It is intriguing that you feel your idea has the character of best being pursued via a startup (addressing some crucial unmet commercial need), rather than via the academic model (e.g. transformative Nature publication) more commonly used for improved microscopy techniques.
Best of luck in this pursuit; I look forward to seeing your startup's innovations someday soon!

> You need to understand the whole picture, how it works on each level, and how the levels fit together - then you can run thought experiments. A good generative model of the world.

This idea of developing a "good generative model of the world" is a beautiful aspiration for all of us to have. Thanks for your insights!
"The can kicks back" is a good example of one of the more blatant attempts at this.
While companionship and fulfillment are goals of mine, I do agree that having concrete goals is important. Right now I'm aiming to write a page of anything every day. Gotta get better at writing somehow.
'Brexit would prompt stock market and house price crash, says IMF'

https://amp.theguardian.com/business/2016/may/13/imf-warns-s...

'How bad could it get? Morgan Stanley warns British stocks could lose nearly 20 percent in a Brexit win scenario. Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes U.S. stocks could lose upwards of 7 percent. Citigroup sees European stocks down 20 percent. Deutsche Bank sees 10 percent downside risk.'

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/could-brexit-vote-cause-a-s...

'Unemployment would rocket. Tumbleweed would billow through deserted high streets. Share prices would crash. The government would struggle to find buyers for UK bonds. Financial markets would be in meltdown. Britain would be plunged instantly into another deep recession.

Remember all that? ..It hasn’t worked out that way. ..it is obvious that the sky has not fallen in as a result of the referendum, and those who said it would look a bit silly.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/20/brexit...

'To the shock of many — not least business titans who bankrolled the Remain campaign — the instant collapse doesn’t seem to be happening.'

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/that-brexit-apocalypse-i...

Somehow I doubt you would be so scrupulous in asking for sources for generally known facts if they were not so inconvenient for your position. I'm also interested to know in what world you think 'immediate and profound economic shock' does not correspond with a stock market crash.
Don't know why you're getting downvoted, valid goal IMO.
Gold in industrial applications will probably be used at atomic-scale in integrated manufacturing processes sometime within the next three years.

If you look at an ATX motherboard from 2009 with an Intel processor and a MacBook Pro mainboard from 2017, the amount of material consumption to create a similar product has fallen dramatically. You can actually see Moore's Law, it's kinda beautiful.
Making that handle is hard.
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To be fair, the actual title was "How Stripe Designs Beautiful Websites". I'm not sure why it got edited. I could see how you made that assumption based on the current title. I was more just briefly touching on how they spice up the design, not the entire process. That could be a whole separate article.
I was trying to find some global sporting event television audience figures for 2017, but haven't found a good consolidated single source.

The UEFA Champions League final in 2016 attracted 350 million global viewers.[1] I am supposing the 2017 event wasn't too much less than this.

The 2017 Indian Premier League (IPL) final had 324 million viewers according to one source.

[1] http://www.pennlive.com/sports/index.ssf/2017/02/super_bowl_...

[2] http://www.espncricinfo.com/story/_/id/19660717/billion-peop...
It's important to consider reality even if it seems unpopular. Blacks are convicted of more crimes in the US, that does not mean they commit more crimes.

Just look at all the collage students not busted for drugs. We have a long history of intentionally creating systemic issues.
Just out of curiosity, did she report this to the hospital itself? If I were placed in that situation, it would make more sense to go to a more impartial authority, such as the state medical licensure board.
If you're already a multi millionaire, gambling a few million on bitcoin isn't really a risk. If you're poor, you aren't "afraid to" take a gamble - you can't afford too. Maybe this is all fair by the rules of the current economy. But maybe the rules aren't fair to begin with.
Also if you are able to circle between top-bottom or left-right then the balls get confused and change their direction constantly so easy to kill.
OP means applications that aren't used by developers for development related tasks. I.e. someone who doesn't know how to program could use it.
Yes, I know that. I lump the US military under "network trust."
Here’s what people in tech had to say about JavaScript when it debuted in 1995
If at any job you are using some methodology "exactly as it was written" (orthodox-style), without adapting it to the needs and vagaries of your company, your team/org/company is being run by someone who has probably never done the job themselves. I would advise polishing the resume and shopping it around.

If you use a software development methodology for something that isn't software development, you should again probably find a different company to work for, because things aren't going to end well there.

If every single project and task you work on uses only one methodology, the people in charge are either morons or full of shit. (Or you are actually a robot in a factory, in which case, hello, I appreciate your intelligence, please do not harm me)
I met a guy, had a child born sick and bills had taken all his money and debt besides, then the child died. Very low point in his life.

So, I was hiring for a startup, got him on board (a dig-in-and-do-it kind of guy), got him stock options and a raise as things progressed.

By the time we got bought out he was out of the trailer park, bought a house, another child on the way. Now he's a responsible managing engineer with his pick of projects and opportunities.

I like to think about how I did what I could to help at the time. But it was all him, character plus never-give-up attitude. Still, somebody had to be there with the opportunity.
Funny, a modern day waterfall method example.
Patriot tech is completely different now vs Gulf War...the issue here is likely that making a high-performing missile defense system and actually operating it properly are two different things. Especially given the Patriot system's integration with various detection platforms. This is not an Apple product that just works out of the box. Combine the technical challenges with the Arab tendency to sweep embarrassing stuff (e.g., training failures) under the carpet, it's not at all surprising to see the fielded system fail in real life.
I suspect (not OP) a tool with a target audience different than developers.
Unless water starts costing 10-100x what it does now.
Try switching the labels "USD" and "BTC" and try to work out where your argument breaks down.

When one person buys 1 USD for 400 BTC, that means the 400 USD is worth 160,000 BTC, but where are all the BTCs?

If that's not a good argument against the US dollar's viability as a currency (and it's not!) then your version is also not a good argument against Bitcoin's viability as a currency.
And if the end user is unable to compile everything, i386 would be only half-supported (or maybe, for the austere OpenBSD maintainers, not supported at all).
I agree. It makes the community looks childish and inexperienced by association.

I think I recall reading somewhere on Rust's website that telling project maintainers to switch to Rust was frowned upon, however I can't find it right now. Sometimes I feel like it should be written in a 20pt font on the home page. Or maybe written in blinking letters every time you run rustup.

I always feel it's very presumptuous and somewhat disrespectful to second guess the devs of a project, in particular if you're not a big contributor yourself. Pay your dues. These messages are effectively not a whole lot more useful or insightful than saying "Rust rulez, C droolz" or "have you considered indenting with spaces instead of tabs?".
What I have realized is some people are just naturally good at this. They are able to get to the nub of the issue, anticipate a pointless back and forth and get things done.

It's not simply an issue of length, its communication and I guess maturity, experience and savvy.

Of course if you already have authority then it's no longer a communication thing but a power thing, as things will anyway get done and some are inevitably waiting for opportunities to suck up to you. So no point aping a CEOs style if you are not a CEO.
Oh yeah, I learned this lesson this month.

My stock holdings doubled in a relatively short time a few weeks ago... and then this last week (and now today) they came back down. I'm slowly learning the lesson that for nearly most people speculative investing is a waste of time and money. I'm now going to be deleting all of my apps where I "check" things like I check the news when I wake up every morning, will now just peak in every other month or so.
The issue with standardizing on two word replies is that people will eventually stop writing you in the first place. This can feel good, but it's usually a bad sign, whether you're an IC or a manager.
Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) explicitly has that useful best practice built into it.
http://www.scaledagileframework.com/refactoring/
So even though Windows 10 still ships IE the fact that it's not a default is enough to not support it? Bad news for Firefox and Chrome then.

Using Firefox or Chrome is a step sideways to use an alternative browser. That's great. The more up-to-date browsers people use the better in my opinion.

Using IE is a step backwards usually to support a specific technology that isn't supported by other browsers (and IE is often used along side another browser if that's the case), or because the user is looking for a particular experience. I don't see either of those reasons to avoid using WASM on a new website so long as there's also a fallback to support browsers without it, even if that's a limited version of the site.
Like most things it's not purely one thing or another. It has propped up the communist party by reducing the suffering of the Chinese population. I have a hard time calling that a bad thing, but it did create many problems.
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I don’t understand why people flaunt their unread counts. To seem important? To me it just says you are indecisive or unorganized.
I cannot answer your question but BTC comprises $191 billion market cap out of $342 billion market cap of all crypto currencies. Perhaps they'll diversify into other coins, withdraw to Fiat via this too.
Not at all. I don't work for Stripe or have any affiliation with them. Just a fan. I work at Workiva - https://www.workiva.com/.
> gambling a few million on bitcoin isn't really a risk

They didn't just invest a few million, they also stuck their necks out in a very public way and made efforts to bring Bitcoin to the investment masses (via the ETF). A failure in Bitcoin would have reflected very poorly reputation-wise.
Right. We're a species of clannish behavior. Whoever fills a niche first, favors (consciously or unconsciously) those in their clan. Niches include law, government, medicine, entertainment, engineering.

This is at root of most discussions about problems in these areas. And never gets mentioned, instead lots of intellectualizing about what should and shouldn't be.
You really keep your savings in cash beyond your emergency fund? (I'd think most people don't)
I emailed Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and star of TV’s Shark Tank, because he is known for responding right away to anyone who emails him, and because now I can give this story the headline

Really? What's his email? I think I direct-emailed him before at blogmaverick and didn't get a response.
That frequency is small because the central bank targets an inflation rate of about 1-2% (and does so by pumping currency into the market, more or less). This does two things: makes it not worth it to save your money, and makes it not worth it to invest it it anything with less than a -1% yield (unless it is a good or service of some kind).

So you’ve not answered the questions of “why would I spend this currency on _anything_, including other investments, if holding onto it is the best investment out there?” And how does bitcoin not consistently stay in a deflationary spiral?
There is basically no technical reason to replace the X server which works very well to this day.

There is, the architecture is not made with the modern-day world in mind: an X11 application can read all keystrokes, mouse event, and do screen grabs of other windows. An X11 application can emulate your screen locker to grab your credentials. X11 does not support different scaling on different monitors that are connected to your computer.
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In that case, the only incentive they have for you to fail is to pack more gym memberships in the same square footage. Still, I think as a perverse incentive it's a lot more indirect.
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The Russian translation of Pinocchio is actually a different book!