skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally had to leave a company because women were promoted all the time and men were ostensibly discriminated against. Both ends of the spectrum are annoying, those who don’t care about progressism (Uber), and those who give all power to accusers (90% of SV). If given the choice, I’d work for the workplace that gives me equal chances of promotion and recognizes presumption of innocence against the one which discriminates me (Google et al).
Does your code work right first time? Probably not. Activism proceeds incrementally and makes false starts and pivots like anything else.
It's still decentralized by design, though, even if not practically.
Daily trading volume of Bitcoin is around $500M: https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/volume/24-hour/

Obviously they wouldn't place a single sell order for the whole lot. If they wanted to get out of Bitcoin entirely, they'd do it gradually.
thats correct but because of these sanction level, the market of Iran still named as blue ocean
I think with little risk every body can get more benefit specially Investors
Don’t forget power consumption - this is also a huge factor in the down-selection process for computing hardware. This is in addition to the others you mentioned, sometimes referred to as SWaP-C (Size, weight, power and cost).
We call it "servant", but in fact still treat them like royalty. We never fully made the transition from royalty to servant. Why do so many governments put their high officials up in special house/palaces? We don't do that for any other jobs. It would be much healthier to treat elections like a shared effort to hire someone to do a job.
This is very true. Thanks for this comment, group dynamics might in fact be more important than personal ethics.
Never understood the appeal of the reverse polish HP calculators. TI-59 all the way.
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You've strangely already answered the question you asked.
...but the official results show that he got 8 votes?

http://phillyelectionresults.com/Citywide_Election_Results.h...
The Samsung battery issue was a Black Swan event; unpredicted, rare and genuinely a surprise to the manufacturer.

A bootloop due to a date value is just sloppy.
I'm going to frame this a little different... More as the difference between a high growth startup, a big public company, and a small stable company.

The large public company aims for predictability. They thrive based on economies of scale, which are achieved through standards. They work a lot on systems. Decisions frequently seem irrational, because things that look good in a unit get sacrificed for the benefit of the whole. Depending on the company, compensation can be better. Benefits usually are. (Google outpays YC, but Walmart may not outpay a small retailer) There is a long gap between idea and impact, but the impact can be huge. (One person can help a big company cut $20mm in costs - if the PE is 20, that's $400mm in enterprise value) But you may spend months fighting petty battles. Bigger companies tend to be more cost focused. Hours tend to be more predictable. If you're a superstar, you can usually stay employed even if there are ups and downs. (Big companies have layoffs, but the top 10% can usually find work elsewhere inside)

In high growth startups you have a lot of autonomy to make decisions. The distance between idea and implementation is very small. The energy and urgency is much higher, even on things that may seem small. Compensation is much more equity based. Hours are much less predictable. You can do a fantastic job and still get fired if the company implodes.

Small stable companies are usually family businesses, and frequently run as such. You get treated well by the owners, but you'll never be one of them. Benefits can be good, though overall comp will not be outstanding. They can be very friendly places to work, where everyone knows everyone.
That sounds like premodern punishment --it still exists in some societies as a common way to enforce morality where the central govt is weak.

I'm sure I'm not an exception thinking this is a backwards approach to influence behavior.
The guidelines are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I think the part that applies is:

Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say face-to-face. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

So I guess "idiot republicans" is a bit uncivil; but on the other hand rushing the approval of an important bill drafted under the influence of sleep deprivation is pretty idiotic. Whenever a political committee or similar announces that they will discuss until agreement, even if that means working through the night, I take it to mean "We are going to get drunk until we're too sick to care and just sign that stupid paper to get home.", since the result is functionally equivalent.
It’s seen as a cowardly defense in that you argue against any personal resonsibility for something you were ordered to do.

In the particular case of the Nuremberg tribunals, no the superior orders defense did not work because the Allies had jointly decided to not allow it. However, during the My Lai massacre of 1968 US soldiers successfully used the defense to reduce their sentences when they were court martialed.
So the main point of the article is that China controls > 50% of the mining pool. Is there any reason what-so-ever that multiple companies would ever want to collude and fork it, and thus crashing the value to 0?
A semisynthetic organism engineered for stable expansion of the genetic alphabet
I used https://ticktick.com/ for quite some time and then moved to Memorigi - https://tinbits.io/ (Android only). I have tried wunderlist, todoist and some others but nothing clicked except these two. Recurring tasks are what I use todo apps most for and these two supported it best
I think there is additional important context which is that this is the opinion of the author not the judge. For such a good piece otherwise the author is a bit up their own ass stating this so matter of factly.

Alsup's words:

> I did not know this recursive feature of the definition. Once it was explained to me, I was like, ‘Okay, that’s kind of cute.'
Probably true, but not everyone has a Medium account or would like to make one.
Looks similar to one of my favourite meeting planner across Timezone tools.

https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=...
It helps to start out rich and then go to Harvard.
Not much would happen if recent history is a guide. One day in mid-September 2017, $4.2 billion of Bitcoin changed hands, and the price that day went up about 5%. That volume followed a rumor that China was cracking down on cryptocurrency exchanges.

I can't say I spend much time watching the tape, but I have seen >100-BTC trades on GDAX in the past, and at current prices your what-if scenario involves a sale of about 909 BTC.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/11-billion-24-hour-cryptocur...
If you are trying to import a baby, yes. The price can be considerably lower, if not free, for foster to adopt, especially for older children.
Wow, admittedly my perception of these guys was totally skewed after seeing the movie The Social Network. When I read about their original investment in 2013 I totally wrote it off as being a hairbrained move. Clearly succumbed to my own biases in passing that unfair judgment. Good for them for being so savvy.
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It's objectively a matter of bad optics for a product marketed towards general professional audiences. I'm personally unoffended, but I recognize it as a mistake because I know business. I don't think you know how to size a suit.

If you're interested in making this about my personality, click on my username.
It's a 5k screen with laptop parts. What's so great about the hardware? Surface studio is much more impressive, hardware and design wise.
It's ok. I'm not Heyting them. I'll let them through the turnstile into my Church
The statecharts paper provide a solution to this "state explosion", in the form of hierarchical (nested) states which I also talk about in the slides.
Integrity is always an option, but it's definitely not always an easy option. I'm glad you're in a place where you don't have to test it and hope that I also won't find myself in a difficult place where it will have to be tested, but I do know that it's the only coin that is really worth anything.
True. But surely this isn’t the only reason for their success. Kudos for their being successful, given their predisposed privilege, as there are many in their shoes who would have otherwise squandered it.
I'd wait for the ecosystem to mature before building a business app with Phoenix. You never know what taken for granted library is missing in Elixir, and it's going to be damn hard to hire a developer experienced with Phoenix. Everyone on your team will be slow and will be making a steady stream of mistakes as they learn the framework
Not sure which line you’re reading, I see under “21-10” that 3 write in votes were cast and the article says the two others were potentially disqualified.
> Plenty of well-executed ideas don't ever go anywhere because the ideas were wrong, to begin with.

Or, to put it another way, the founders made an MVP from their initial (for argument's sake, poor) idea, and then couldn't find product-market fit before running out of (bootstrapped or VC-funded) runway. Your argument, then, is that some ideas and MVPs make it impossible to find product-market fit, no matter who the founders / executive team are, because there is no market or whatever other reason beyond the startup's control.

And you would be correct if it wasn't possible for startups to pivot. But they do, sometimes multiple times, and sometimes successfully. Part of the reason why execution is everything is because good executives can take what the startup has learned about its product and its market, understand that the startup's current trajectory leads to bankruptcy, and make the necessary pivot which presents better odds at viability.
The article seems to focus on China's share of the miners, so I'll address that: I'm not that concerned about the Chinese miners. If they wanted to disrupt the network they have had plenty of chances to.

The author assumes that all Chinese miners are controlled by the same entity. Which, while I do believe that the Chinese govt. can shutdown any miner they want to, I don't believe that 100% of the miners are operated by the Chinese govt. If you break down the pie chart into the different Chinese entities that actually operate the miners it begins to look more decentralized.

After reading the paper that was posted here the other week about forking the network using BGP to effectively create two sepereate Internets, I think that if a country did go rouge, we could all just set our firewalls to drop all connections from Chinese nodes and that would be that.

Let them run their own chain where they can manipulate their coins price like the do the yuan.
Have you ever filled out a form that uses that system? It will be rejected if you use any "weird" characters. You know, characters like a period after the abbreviation "St." for "Street". It's ludicrous.
My polyfill to support back to ie11 takes less than 100kb, raw. If you're polyfill is 259k, you're probably doing something suboptimal
Hiring good people is not cheap!
"Mozilla's highest-paid official, chairperson Mitchell Baker, now enjoys a pay package that tops $1 million. In 2014, she got a $400,000 base salary, a $594,000 bonus and some other benefits that pushed total compensation to $1,035,114.Nov 30, 2015"
Storage is a fascinating issue, but I doubt the enteric nervous system would store or process any of the information we find in the central nervous system including personality or personality-related memory.

Instead, we do know that the synaptic and hormonal communication between the brain and ENS allows for bi-directional influence. This is to say that no information about personality is expected to be stored in the ENS, but that signals from ENS and gut microbiome can influence the brain systems supporting the person-specific complex of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors known as "personality".

We see very short term behavioral, emotional, and cognitive changes when people get grumpy from hunger and everybody can remember feeling their stomach growl or feeling hunger pangs. We might consider these as "bottom up" signals from the digestive system to brain. Similarly, top-down signals also have an effect on digestive systems. Just thinking of a taking a bite of a big juicy burger, smelling and sipping a freshly brewed cup of coffee, or eating a hot cheesy slice of pepperoni pizza along with a cool refreshing drink may precipitate salivation or other responses from the digestive system.

When looking at the ENS, we also need to look at the gut microbiome. It is clear that sensations and activity within the enteric nervous system and the gut microbiome influence central nervous system function, including behaviors we would associate with personalty.

For an study of correlations between gut microbiome and infant temperament see (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25449582).

For the semi-famous mouse gut microbe swap resulting in behavioral change see this article (https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/accumulating-glitches/b...)

For a 2014 review of human and animal studies on gut microbiome, brain, and behavior relationships see this article (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4259177/).

For a study about the influence of gut bacteria on different aspects of memory in rats, check out, "Long-term multi-species Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium dietary supplement enhances memory and changes regional brain metabolites in middle-aged rats." (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28602659).

If you like considering the location of memories, one of my favorite concepts in memory is the role of the "perineuronal net". There are now many articles on that topic. For the longest time memory research focused on neurons and neuronal information processing so it is good to see more attention paid to the structures outside of and around neurons.
I switched back to Firefox 57 about a decade after abandoning it for Opera. I remember the advocacy movement around Firefox 1.0 which I was quite involved in. I thought (and still think) it was great.

I don't plan to go quite as far this time, but do plan to try and convince all my friends and family to get on board. It'll be a harder task for sure since Chrome is not IE6, but as the resident IT guy that everyone asks for help, I know I have some sway.

I'm just waiting for Quantum to land on Android, because I know enough of them will have issues with the current version and I want to skip over those problems to leave a good first impression.
Never trust a hollywood adaptation to be remotely historically accurate or honest.
If Bezos just hopped into his Etrade account and hit the "sell all" button (just pretend it works that way), the stock would absolutely crater, at least for a bit. In practice, he'd find institutional-ish investors who were interested in buying a sizeable investment in Amazon, and he'd sell directly to them in a private deal. That kind of stuff happens all the time; I think, it's called a block trade... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_trade
Terry Pratchett has a lot of good aphorisms, but one that stuck with me is some etymology from a cop and a Machiavellian dictator:

> "It's all for the good of the city, sir. Do you know where the word 'policeman' comes from? It means 'man of the city', sir. From the old word polis."

> ...

> "You're a man interested in words, captain. I'd just invite you to consider something your predecessor never fully grasped."

> "Sir?"

> "Have you ever wondered where the word 'politician' comes from?" Said the Patrician.

These roles have a very specific purpose, and that purpose is service. They've veered sharply away from it, but that is still their job. Also, I think in real life the root is 'politia' or 'politika' or something, but the definition is similar.

And another word from that book: 'polite' apparently came from 'behavior befitting someone living in a city.' I guess social norms maybe became more important with the density?
I'd love to show this to everyone who thinks Unreal blueprints are a great idea
This site is hilariously partisan, so while "idiot democrats" certainly does violate the comment guidelines, "idiot republicans" does not. I've seen a few banned comments to that effect.

As someone who isn't American, I find it very disturbing and it makes me doubt both this whole site and YC itself. Has YC become some sort of political activist foundation recently? It was not this way a few years ago.
I always think once you are lucky, twice you are good
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Must say, I'm not a fan of yours or similar services, or whois databases for that matter. Privacy should be easier on the internet for people owning domain names.
No. A flowchart does not have any concept of state. Here's a good reading about the difference: http://www.stateworks.com/active/download/TN9-Flowchart-is-n...

In essence: Flowcharts do not inherently have a concept of waiting for something to happen.
That's why they say "based on a true story" instead of "this is a true story". They can change whatever they want and call it artistic license.
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Yeah, exactly. It's also much easier when you have a hierarchy that communicates and responds reasonably to criticism or questions.

Not everyone does, though. I feel like insurance companies should really start demanding independent 'inspector general' sort of offices to be retained by companies above a certain value. At some point, there just gets to be too much money at stake to trust people to act properly.

Some companies actually are starting to invest in that sort of thing, mostly because of all of the sexual harassment news flying around. I think it's a promising idea, to give employees a point of contact outside the company's usual chain of command, and it could help with all sorts of toxic power imbalances. I can also see how it could maybe cause issues, but I'm all for trying new things to see how they work.
Not as long as they own a lot of the coin itself, no. If any of these miners sells their stake, freak out immediately since their next step would be to short bitcoin through some means before causing a value crash. And you’ve also got to consider market reactions; if any of the miners sells a decent amount of their stake, freak out immediately- because they’re liable to sell more soon, causing everyone to freak out and crashing the market. And so on. This doesn’t sound stable- perhaps the whole thing could be taken down by a miner deciding he needs a bit of cash to buy a house.
An integral can be thought of as the infinite sum of infinitesimal areas below the graph (look up Riemann sums). I think what he is saying is that instead of summing these, you instead to the product. That is, multiply each infinitesimal quantity together.
You don't need to guess people's name and address.
And it can be systematic.
And you can, with little effort, make it hard for a group of people to go to vote.
The biggest single problem is that businesses accept data as identity, but then are allowed place the consequences of that (improperly confirmed) identity on individuals. Currently they get the best of both worlds (all of the benefits of trusting random strangers with almost none of the consequences). This gives them no incentive to properly verify their customers are who they say that they are.

The "rework" to the system would be minimal if the impact of identity theft was a business' responsibility to handle. Businesses would reshape their processes based on the risk that they'd be willing to accept. Instead, we have a system that's broken, where individuals are punished for companies' (deliberate) incompetence.
Goddamn SU socialists and SJWs...
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This is such a tired argument. It says more about the author than it does about Bitcoin. The point isn't to have perfect decentralization. The point is to have good enough decentralization that the system works. In the case of Bitcoin "good enough to work" means at least three separate entities mining with none having greater than 50% share.
Yes, because the voting system on HN has nothing to do with how long articles stay on the front page.
If resurrecting dinosaurs via ancient DNA could possibly be a thing (pretty sure it can't), I wonder how big dinosaurs could get on the moon. I believe gravity was the limiting factor in how big land based dinosaurs could get, so how big could get in Lunar Jurassic Park in ~1/6th Earth gravity.
When you lease an apartment, you agree to a lease term that secured that apartment for a particular amount of time. That's the arrangement. 99 year leases are possible, if that's what you're looking for.
Hi! The only way on the current Internet to remain anonymous is to obscure the domain registrant from right when the domain is initially registered. It's also important to use a service that pools a lot of domains together or have diversity in the hosting providers so they can't be easily correlated. We try and help people understand and make the problem visible. You bring up a good point that it should be easier.
...and ideally, we should also encourage the use of the "lesser" browsers like Dillo, NetSurf, and all the text-based ones. They can't really run "web apps" and the like, but will be fine for viewing the "long tail" of content-focused sites out there (including this one.)

What has become quite obvious to me within the past few years is that the whole "move the Web forward" thing seems to be really about coming up with and implementing as many complex features as possible (and advocating for their use in new sites), making it harder over time for smaller efforts at creating independent browsers to produce anything useful.
The fact that it keeps happening repeatedly.
Hmm, well clearly in this case I was wrong about these guys, but I have to disagree on your comment about never trusting Hollywood adaptations to be remotely historically accurate or honest. Personally I think Hollywood adaptations generally get the broad points correct, so they are generally accurate and honest (eg Howard Hughes was a reclusive hermit toward the end of his life, as portrayed by Leo DiCaprio in The Aviator).
Probably not. There are jobs that might require some decent may, so stay away from them. But you're average programmer won't run into a math critical issue.