skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For my last 2 companies (both SaaS), the stack made a difference in 2 ways:

1. Because we knew it well, it stayed out of the way. We usually knew how to accomplish what we needed to.

2. We enjoyed using it. Work didn’t feel as much like, er, work, and we did it more.

Our stack may or may not have been the best, but even if it was, objective quality wasn’t what made the difference.

To use an analogy, imagine a painter who knows their current paints and brushes very well. We used good supplies that we knew and liked, even when they weren’t the one that the art store was marketing. Our goal was to finish a painting (MVP), not re-learn how to obtain the texture we want with “the best” brushes.

For a typical small business or tiny new startup, I’d use whichever modern stack let the team work most efficiently (including hiring/staffing, if that’s in the plan). The difference between “any great modern stack” and “the best stack” is smaller than the gain from the 2 benefits above.

(Tiny nit: rather than “ROI,” I think the term you want is enterprise value, revenue, or profit)
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It's not hard to make it work, but for those of us at work it's nice to have a warning that we shouldn't just blindly click it.

That said, I wouldn't visit jwz's blog at work anyway.
You are long USD if you believe USD will remain relatively stable while many other securities actually diminish in value for various reasons. Even if the investor is not ultimately correct, this qualifies as investing.

Investing involves risk management, not just positive returns, and hedging a long position with a position in something like USD is not comparable to shorting.
I wonder if someone actually just made a Electron equivalent from the XUL + ES6 combination.
Isn't the "value" of a currency in it's relative stability over time? That is, the confidence by those who use it that it will be exchangeable for roughly the same amount of goods and services today, tomorrow, six months or a year from now (accounting for nominal inflation, of course).

If you accept that premise of what a viable currency should be, then it seems like the volatility of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have thus far made them failures. I mean, if a national currency had similarly rapid changes in value, wouldn't we see financial chaos, riots, and revolution?
Makes me wonder if it would be possible to make a 3D video camera by quickly sliding a regular camera back-and-forth in sync with the framerate.
To make it more even, add Google Play and App Store statistics.

Google Play would be all Android software, which is Linux.
This was great perspective and excellent points. Love that the Silicon Valley boys are redoubling efforts in this area.
Kinda funny that the user viewed it as merely a solution to another user's account problems, rather than a gaping security hole.
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Anyone who count in a unit less than kilo dollar is a waste of time for AWS/Google. A big business doesn't care about "hundreds of dollars" of savings, it's like cents.
Sorry. I posted this to the wrong thread.
For those who are out of the loop here the posting that spread the rumor that Elon Musk might be Satoshi Nakamoto:

> https://hackernoon.com/elon-musk-probably-invented-bitcoin-9...
which class did you take?
For those who may be interested:

Fr. Alphonsus Rodriguez, S.J.[1] (d. 1616) has sometimes been called a "Christian Seneca".[2]

I had never heard of him or his major work Practice of Perfection and Christian Virtues until 2004, when someone I met on a retreat recommended that I hunt down a copy of Joseph Rickaby's[3] masterful translation from the original Spanish.[4]

I had the opportunity to read through PPCV over the period of about a year back in 2007–08, and I can only say that it leaves a remarkable and lasting impression. I would think his treatises on humility, examination of conscience, and mental prayer (meditation) would be of great interest even to those who aren't particularly religious — i.e. the practical wisdom contained therein is like a toolkit for coming to "know oneself" for true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alonso_Rodriguez

[2] http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2540029

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rickaby

[4] https://archive.org/details/PPCV-Manresa
I’m definitely not an expert here but isn’t less time with parents a characteristic of the Industrial Age? Before that when movement across jobs was fairly static I believe the family craft would be passed down with the parents as teachers. I could be totally off the mark here but would definitely like to know more
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Wow !!! This is the Best Startup advice one can receive .

> So many people worry so much about failure that they don't even bother to start

>You can't possibly plan for every roadblock and eventuality.

> The only thing you can control is your execution, and there are no short cuts.

> Hard work won't guarantee success, but lack of it will guarantee failure.
Makes you wonder what triggers people have for themselves to sell their 'stash'. 10 fold increases in a year won't last for very long.
It’s not. There’s no canonical reasons, and there’s multiple non-canonical ones.
$500 a month isn't really a "Basic Income" Level for the Stockton area, will go a log way towards rent, but doesn't cover it and food, which is what the general idea of Basic Income is, to cover the basics.

Will be interesting to learn how it goes nevertheless.
I noticed that too and was curious. A quick search doesn't say that's where it came from, but I agree it would be ironic. Maybe that planted a seed in someone's mind.
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The name has multiple origins, Graydon notoriously gave a different story each time he was asked.

One of the origins mentioned is that Graydon thought that rusts (a kind of mushroom) were pretty cool (they are! they have a super complex lifecycle and it's pretty interesting).

Another is that Rust is actually not something with new concepts in it, everything in Rust is a very well established concept from earlier PL research, Rust just packages them nicely.
Most comprehensive all-time Bitcoin price history chart you will find online, to give some perspective: http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/ (Chart is interactive, see instructions at the bottom. I made it.)
Einstein, Wozniac, Been Franklin, Tesla, Watson and Crick, Plato.

All lone or paired up geniuses. All changed the world without much teamwork.
7 years ago: The first bitcoin article on HN with comments!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1532670

One of the posters says the feds will shut it down. I also thought this too. This remains one of the most enduring mysteries of Bitcoin to me. Why has the government taken such a hands off approach?
There's a FOMO narrative of "$1,000,000 BTC if it goes mainstream" going around which has fuelled speculative investments from some people I know (myself included - obviously using money I am totally OK with losing given how far-fetched an outcome it is).
> as usual, downvotes but no response

The very comment you are replying do lists a reason why disclosing huge vulnerabilities without providing upstream time to patch is irresponsible: "because it puts millions of Apple customers at risk in the process."

Your comment doesn't refute the reasoning the comment you are replying to provides, and it also doesn't tell us anything about why you think "There is nothing irresponsible about disclosing huge vulnerabilities in software by any means necessary." You state your position, but offer no rationale, no reason for it; why should I accept your position as the correct or ethical thing to do?
He was referring to the military version, would that be the same?

It would not be surprising if he was pulling my leg, we were a group of practical jokers. And this story made me swear off ever doing anything to him; in retrospect maybe that was the intent.
this time, it's for real... (the last time a 10k value was posted on HN, I could not find 1 bitcoin for 10k on my exchange (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15796503))
Meh. Bitcoin has seen 5 or 6 years with 10 fold increases.
"This time is different," amirite?
Leaks can be incredibly expensive. Millions of dollars of lost revenue.
Agreed. For people from a C, C++ or Java background ";" on it means an empty statement. Braces are much more common for this. Or do something like "endif" or "endfor" or just "end"
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Personally, I really think that fundamental R&D is too important to rely on Congressional or parliamentary largess. If we want to fund research, and hopefully we do, then I think we ought to fund it out of direct taxes on its own products, a direct economic contract that knowledge belongs to everyone.
"This time, it's Bitcoin." (tm)
Yes! Thank you! Men overwhelmingly populate traditionally low status dangerous jobs.
One trigger to sell is when you have enough to retire. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are creating a lot of millionaries. Probably more than startups and in a shorter time. Can't back up this, it is based on how many rich people exist around me in this field (where I also work) vs. friends struggling to make their companies scale even if they are doing well at a tiny scale.
I would like to see a calculation of $1M/BTC and the assumptions.
I had the same experience (an expert of an industry had an idea about a industry problem that "desperately needed to be solved", so I got excited and then built a solution).

After the solution is built, the expert decided she's "too busy" to return emails.

It happens all the time. Experts have ideas because their 9-5 job requires them to have ideas. They have to push hard for ideas so they will be taken seriously at meetings at work. That's why they are "experts". It's natural for an expert to "push" for her own ideas--otherwise she can't get buy-in from the rest of the organization for their ideas/initiatives and won't thrive.

The quality of the idea is not ass important as the act of pushing for it. Because if an idea does not get support, it's useless, regardless of if it was good or bad.

The moment you ask them to be use your product, they cease to be an "expert" and is now a "user", or even a "paid customer". Suddenly, they don't find the problem so "major" anymore. So you have to really qualify them before diving into the problem. Really make sure they are committed as a user before you start building anything.
If this keeps up buying $100 in Bitcoin would seem to be inexpensive ransomware insurance.
I don't follow it but I read somewhere the other day that it now costs tens of dollars worth to actually make a transaction on the blockchain.

If this is true then it seems to me that it's effectively become an inter-bank settlement protocol (which may not be that surprising or bad of an outcome given its inherent latency)
You should fix the Y axis. Completely misleading.
Yeah, but...

It seems to me (somebody who has no chops in this domain) that this is such a basic bug. Like something a child would have found just messing around.

And it came from a corporation that has around $200B of cash and cash equivalents. Apple has the resources to test and find bugs like this.

That Apple didn't find it is down to leadership and priorities more than some inherent limits of producing reliable code. One spends on what one thinks important.

But who knows, I've got no domain expertise here. Maybe a fifth of a trillion dollars C&CE really isn't enough to fund production of more robust code. But really?
It broke 9000 yesterday, didn't it? That's more than 10% in a day.

Is there any reason it is up, other than speculation?
Thanks. This is 100% accurate. I think OP was either a troll or we have Duterte on HN.
“Rosenstreich at online trading firm Swissquote said bitcoin’s surge harks to the surprises of the U.K. referendum on European Union membership and President Trump’s election.

“We have underestimated the populist movements,” he said. “There is growing unease on how central banks and governments are managing fiat currencies. Ordinary people globally understand why a decentralized asset is the ultimate safe haven.””

That’s the reason for 10k and it will be the reason for 100k. 100k puts the market at cap at a trillion, it’s not that crazy if you remember that Gold is several times that and other than looking good as jewelry it has no other real intrinsic value. No one likes to talk about that though, they like to demonize bitcoin which actually does something gold could never do. Force trust in a world where you can’t trust anything.
I second this. I asked a bunch of dumb questions on IRC, Reddit, and the forums and every single time the responses were so patient and helpful.

I work at GitHub and I’ve been telling people that for the future of open source we really ought to be looking at the Rust community, both the amount of automation they have and also their general communication style.
Ok, that just crossed into the T-shirt threshold.
For most people that'll require either almost all their savings in bitcoins for 10x or a significant portion for 100x. Neither is "easy."
Back in September I've written down my thoughts on how Bitcoin price is determined in a two part blog (the second part is about pricing), and back then I concluded that Bitcoin will falter if it does not reach the cap closer to that of gold, which has to do with the total "capacity" of Bitcoin as store of value, which is its market cap. It still has more than 10x of growth to get there.

[1] https://grisha.org/blog/2017/09/22/bitcoin-value/

[2] https://grisha.org/blog/2017/09/25/bitcoin-value-2/
In my course on chatbot building (shameless plug https://cognitiveclass.ai/courses/how-to-build-a-chatbot/) I cover some of these important design decisions and recommend creating a prompt that, while concise, removes the guesswork. Giving it a name and injecting personality is a good idea, but you should announce that the user is talking to a chatbot.

In fact, two of the worst chatbot design flows, in my opinion, are: 1) Having the user try to figure out whether they are talking to a real person or a chatbot 2) Prompting the user to ask you anything (e.g., "Hi, how can I help you?") rather than guiding them on the scope.
This isn't just a problem with the address bar, it also applies to HTML inputs and textareas.

From my understanding it stems from how Firefox renders and synchronizes frames.

I've filed a bug two months ago, but really unsure when it will get resolved.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408699
No one else has mentioned it seems, digging through the twitter comments I found a tweet which states this was already known by Apple, and posted on the forums in the form of a solution...

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235#277225
The funniest part about all of this is Apple's support twitter account; you can see some social media team is copy-pasting their "Hey no problem, let's just talk about it privately" message faster than I ever thought possible.
Gold is used in electronics. It's actually a good conductor. Bitcoin is not even good for transactions, its supposed primary purpose, right now.
Yale's Endowment Chief Swensen sees low volatility as 'profoundly troubling'
My point was exactly the opposite of putting the onus on the researcher. I support responsible disclosure. In responsible disclosure, the researcher informs the vendor (Apple) and leaves it to them to coordinate informing people of mitigations and pushing out a patch. If the vendor fails to respond or make progress in a certain period of time, the researcher can inform the public. It specifically puts the responsibility for dealing with the vulnerability in the hands of the vendor.
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A logarithmic scale is the proper way to show an exponentially increasing value.
Lots of stuff is used in electronics but it is not worth as much as gold.
I don't think "after it, therefore because of it" describes the fallacy identified by the GP.
No bank would use it because of volatility.
In almost all cases immediate disclosure is better for end users who actually care about their security because they can take appropriate mitigation measures.

Just because the vulnerability is not disclosed does not mean it is not being actively exploited. It probably is.

Users who don't care about their security do not deserve to be "protected" at the expense of compromising the security of those who do care who benefit from immediate disclosure.
Tether hyperinflation.

Edit: I should clarify. Bitfinex printed 95 million worth of tether in the last two days, and used it to buy btc. When your prices are denominated in Monopoly money, the sky is the limit.
It's dropped back to about $2 now, still expensive but not insane.
This blog has a good example of the jank you are reporting. I am observing noticeable jank on the "slideup" animation on #fixedcontent.firstvisit vs. Chrome (62.0.3202.94). (macOS/10.12.6 FF/57.0 late-2013 MBP)
You wrote and I quote "other than looking good as jewelry it has no other real intrinsic value."
I feel like the $10,000 mark was a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. There were a number of people early in the year saying $10,000 by the end.

It will be interesting to see where it goes from here.

Last few bubbles had phases of

* hey, bitcoin is going up

* Bitcoin is going way up, This rate seems unsustainable.

* OK, this is fucking crazy now. (this lasts about a day)

* <POP!>

I'd say we're in the late stages of the second phase.
The most remarkable aspect of bitcoin is that if Satoshi is a single person, it's the first time in history someone has become a billionaire by themselves.

It's not quite that clear cut, but it's not too far off.
Wow, you completely redefine what they're saying and then attack your own redefinition.

"People that are happy about the way something is, are less likely to complain about it."

This isn't even what OP was arguing. It's more along the line of "People that are happy are less likely to voice that satisfaction than people that are unhappy are likely to voice their dissatisfaction".
If you do an example less trivial than "Hello world", it also lets people see a concrete example of the semantics, rather than just getting a high-level description of it
I'd recommend a Swingomatic...but they don't make them any more. This is about the same thing: https://www.amazon.com/Graco-Slim-Spaces-Compact-Swing/dp/B0...
op calls himself a purveyor of "truthism". I thought the blog post was pure satire when I read it and still do. Did anybody take this seriously?
"Perhaps nobody noticed two weeks ago when the root login vulnerability in macOS High Sierra was shared as a helpful tip on Apple’s own Developer forums. https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/79235 "

https://twitter.com/fristle/status/935670476214378496
MYTH: FCC Chaiman Ajit Pai has the best interests of the American consumer in mind.

FACT: FCC Chaiman Ajit Pai's plan to gut net-neutrailty will give ISPs more power over consumers in that they will be able to exercise their monopoly to control what we watch.
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Pretty much - even opening the air lock will do it.

> The former cosmonaut, who spent nearly a year in orbit back in the 1980s, said that outer surface of ISS is “heavily contaminated” by the waste products from engines of the arriving spacecraft, atmospheric discharges from the station during spacewalks by the crew and other factors.

https://www.rt.com/news/181472-iss-marine-plankton-space/

There is also evidence that bacteria get carried up on air currents and the ISS orbits low enough that it can intercept this stuff. (note that while this is widely reported, there doesn't seem to be anything actually published, and the air current theory is, well, a theory).

There are several papers on interior contamination though, e.g http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0923250805...
Ctrl-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab already work on Edge (as does Ctrl-PageUp/PageDown) so i'd expect this to work in a similar way. Not sure how it will handle applications that need those keys for themselves though... but probably if an application lets the event reach DefWindowProc, it'll be assumed it doesn't use the shortcut for itself (for Win32 programs at least).
I bought my first Bitcoin at $10.

Of course, I had to sell it at $20...
Because it's awesome from a government standpoint with every single transaction being public it's very easy to track.

Various proposals to generate anonymity have been created, but with the sky high transaction costs none of them are currently viable.
Let me thank you for providing the excellent write-up. I eagerly wait for news from lowRISC in hope for a SBC with general purpose Linux support. This would open up the hardware in general, and thus be a major step in a good direction.

I do have a question, though. Is there any plan for working on an architecture for massively parallelizable workloads, like graphics, artifical neural networks and simulations? Especially the talk by Dave Ditzel seems relevant to this. Even without competitive performance, that would be another major step. It would not only improve the situation by the amount of the necessary efforts for that, but by raising the bar for all the other vendors by being compared to that.

There is a factor between your work and the impact on the ecosystem, and I guess it is significantly higher than one.
You would use something other than a logarithmic scale? Seems like the right choice here.
The 'sign in as root with no password' method cannot be used to trigger the vulnerability initially via remote desktop. I tested it via SSH, File Sharing, Screen Sharing and Remote Management. None of these will enable the root user if it has not already been done locally.

Once the root user has been enabled locally, the only sharing settings I found to permit anyone remote access with the root/null combo is Remote Management.
it used to be
Yes, that was written at the very beginning of bitcoin. The thought is that bitcoin can be divided into 100,000,000 satoshis and a dollar can be divided into 100 cents, so to make 1 satoshi = 1 cent means 1 bitcoin = 1,000,000 dollars.
That's why I use LTC.
Same goes for financial firms.
Thanks for all the work you do, Alex!

Will we also ever see quantum-based waterfox?
raw number crunching doesn't parallel speedup(!)?
I've seen comments saying "unlike bitcoin, gold has intrinsic value!" on HN for years. It never made sense to me. Like Bitcoin, gold is only valuable because we think it is and we want it to be (and because it's relatively scarce, too, just like Bitcoin is). Same with diamonds. Their functional value is relatively small in comparison to their "beauty" and scarcity values.
This is kind of a weird corner case; OSX tries really hard to hide the UNIXiness of its system, including the special nature of the username "root". So I can easily someone not thinking to test it out super thoroughly

A lot of security vulnerabilities are of this type: "let's do crazy shit X that the system was not built for and see what breaks." I'm sure this will be in their test suite now though.
Gold is used in electronics in free market economies, meaning marginal price <= marginal utility.

This does away with the idea that gold has no relevant value outside jewlery.