skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is certainly true that money has diminishing returns. Think of it as an asymptotic function approaching a maximum level of happiness as income tends towards infinity.

However, it's also important to take into account the cost of living. That $400K/year figure (accounting for inflation), which marks something like 90% of the way up the asymptotic curve, is an average across the US. But if you're living in very expensive parts of the country, you need a good deal more than that in order to be able to afford a nice house, with separate bedrooms for all of the children that you (would like to) have, with a short commute, and then a bunch more in the way for child care, college tuition, maybe private school, extracurricular activities, and a whole host of others if you have those children.

To give you an anecdote, I know a guy who's making $500K/year and has all of those expenses, except he does not live in the city, and he's barely treading water. He's experiencing significant financial stress that more money would be a solution to. And this is at $500K/year, which is not quite enough to support his lifestyle.
History will think of you the same way we think of the Xerox executives handing Apple some of the most important technology of our generation.
By your account (them not fighting the IDF), they are pussies in the same way that you are for choosing not to fist fight an oncoming semi truck. It would have been suicide and humans, for the most part, are looking out for their own skin.
GoLand’s Take on Go Development
ES6 for beginners, part 3
According to the CBOE

>XBT futures are cash-settled futures contracts that are based on the auction price of bitcoin in U.S. dollars on the Gemini Exchange.
XBT futures are designed to reflect economic exposure related to the price of bitcoin.
(http://cfe.cboe.com/products/bitcoin-qrg.pdf)

I think scam is a harsh word. One feature of trading futures is to hedge or "lock-in" in the price of btc. What this allows people who actually own bitcoin or accept it as payment, to reduce uncertainty in the price of it.

Apparently, to the best of my knowledge, when a transaction is initiated it, it queued in the network. You as a user have no control on what price the transaction will be cleared at.With futures, you can get more certain so that the price doesn't fluctuate wildly away from the agreed transaction price.

Where I think you are seeing it as scam, is that the futures are levered meaning someone can buy a bitcoin on margin, without having to put up the full notional/total value of the entire bitcoin, up front.
Your argument for why you think it's madness is more constructive than your frustration that others here don't echo your feelings.

If you have made your case before on HN, post a link and we can discuss it. If not, please make your case.
My 6s with no battery replacement has significantly slowed down after ios 11

My geekbench single-core score is 1045, vs expected 2500
zoz
Sorry you can't see the value and potential of Bitcoin. I hear there's a new social media platform selling ads; you should keep your money with them.
Jealous of the unicorn points?
Maybe this isn't the right place to ask this question, but how is Monero any different than the Bitcoin example you respond to, when the vendor you sent your crypto currency to to exposes your identity?
Logical fallacy or not, people still have the ability to make choices the choices in life that lead to success (or failure).

I'd argue that poverty is the result of complacency and contentment more so than any other factor.
The use of "Lesbian" to refer to female homosexuality is a 19th century construction. And lots of text from antiquity have been preserved even though they represent values counter to Christian morals.
Which Is the Right Java Abstraction for JSON?
I second that. The NodeSchool [1] workshops are awesome.

[1] http://nodeschool.io
Show HN: Flyway 5.0.0 (DB migration tool) with new Pro and Enterprise editions
It's not quite "identity" that we need to verify, but rather uniqueness. Centralized approaches are theoretically easy; I'm not sure there isn't a possible decentralized solution. The one proposed does seem to be a partial solution, but probably not enough of one.
Jaynes and Rescher et al. were the first to pop into my mind. Prima facie, sounds like some kind of epistemic logic with probabilities.
Text-IO v3.0 released
You only need a powered user to modify HKLM. It's a group between users and administrators, not often used or known.
Ask HN: What's *the* book for your tech subject?
Every couple of decades or so there's a single classic text which most people regard as a classic.

Examples would be:

- Unix and Linux: The 'UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook' (aka the Unix 'purple book' or the Linux 'green book')

- Networking: 'TCPIP Illustrated' and the unofficial sequel 'The Illustrated Network'.

What's the book for your subject?
DeMoN: Depth and Motion Network for Learning Monocular Stereo
I had to refresh the page once or twice throughout my play time because of key issues.
Most people have this idea that either you get paid less and have a good job environment or you are highly paid in a bad environment. From my experience it's the opposite. Companies that pay well also have a good environment.
I'm not in the music industry, so it's hard for me to feel the pain for many of the writer's muddled points:

> As an industry insider once explained to me, digital strategists have identified “lean back listening” as an ever more popular Spotify-induced phenomenon. It turns out that playlists have spawned a new type of music listener, one who thinks less about the artist or album they are seeking out, and instead connects with emotions, moods and activities, where they just pick a playlist and let it roll

I can't see what's wrong with this. Is it a sin to consume music to meet an emotional need or match a mood?

> One independent label owner I spoke with has watched his records’ physical and digital sales decline week by week. He’s trying to play ball with the platform by pitching playlists, to varying effect. “The more vanilla the release, the better it works for Spotify. If it’s challenging music? Nah,” he says, telling me about all of the experimental, noise, and comparatively aggressive music on his label that goes unheard on the platform.

This artist doesn't have to be on Spotify.

> If Spotify is just feeding easy music to everybody, where does the art form go? Is anybody going to be able to push boundaries and break through to a wide audience anymore?”

Again, Spotify is a platform whose interests are for itself.

> Spotify’s ambition to superannuate labels is evident. In its quest for total power and control, Spotify has prioritized its own content, and it has made it notably more difficult to find albums rather than playlists.

Of course Spotify prioritizes its own content. No one forces independent artists to be on Spotify.

The writer is lamenting the death of an entire industry, but to blame Spotify is absurd. Blame big labels for pushing Top-40 pop nonsense for the past twenty years. Blame every single person for not valuing art. Blame modern culture for consumerism. Blame the internet for creating an expectation of instant gratification.
Only a convention. Participants can fork / change the algorithm easily.
A person that knows that you can use tab to jump between form fields probably uses a password manager anyway.
>and there is no point trying to stop them.

Then don't? I fail to see why you would care so much about anonymous strangers gambling away their money. We've all heard both sides of the argument countless of times, it's not really worth reiterating "it's a bubble!" "it's not, to the moon!" in every slightly related thread.
I've deleted my facebook account a decade ago, the last time I logged in when facebook revived the account and told me it was hacked.

I don't think I've ever really had the desire myself to reactivate it, my fellow students started posting into some shared group there but eventually everyone moved to whatsapp as that was more widely deployed and direct.

FB, for me, has no actual value other than capturing users like a venus flytrap.
>"Also, “Decentralized” is a technical term."

No “Decentralized” is not a technical term. "Distributed" is a technical term, Google runs a large, "distributed" architecture.
Pretty much any uncontrolled explosion propels highly toxic material over a large area (rocket fuel is not lickable). I don't see how alpha radiation is inherently worse than hydrazine.
Lately I've been thinking that something inspired by the Belt idea could be applied to making an innovative homebrew 4-bit TTL CPU. The concept is, feed each of the 4 output bits from a 74181 ALU into a separate chain of 74HCT595 shift registers. (Instead of an implicit accumulator, every machine code command would be an implicit push-result-into-belt.) Taking a slice of each parallel data out pin across the shift register lanes, you get a "belt" slot. I.e. the 4 shift register chips' d0's give you ALU out from time t-0, the 4 d1's give you ALU out from t-1, etc. The effect is that instead of an accumulator register, you have 32 bits of ALU output history (or 64 bits or more if you chain more than one 74595 for each bit). Then, having created an ersatz very wide demux, connect all 4x8 or 4x16 lines to a group of 74151 mux's to get back down to 4-bit register bus values - with the capability that different groups of mux's can independently point to any nibble in the history-memory.

Although the same end result could be accomplished without going through a 4x16 "bit matrix" or "crossbar", the setup has some nice properties, particularly for a hobbyist TTL CPU:

* Generating 16 bit address lines and 8 or 16 bit memory-data IO lines could be done by grabbing 2 or 4 nibbles at a time.

* You could drive LED's or a (decoded) hex 7 segment display directly from the bit-matrix lines to see all N history values.

* If you have at least two mux units, the "A" and "B" inputs of the ALU chip could be pointed at different history values.

* The two mux units could be ganged to feed the wider RAM-address and RAM-data registers.

* When doing math or logic on 8, 16, etc. bit values, you wouldn't have to change the register selectors (mux addresses) to change nibbles: the act of pushing the result moves the next operands into position under the "tape head".

That last point means that a fairly simple TTL circuit could flexibly support 4,8,12,16,...,64 bit ALU ops (provided enough 74HCT595s were connected to provide 2x that many bits total). Just set up the initial data and operation, load a TTL counter with the desired number of nibbles, and let 'er rip at the max speed the 74181 can handle.

I call this "The Suspenders" CPU architecture.
I had an interview screening question once that was very similar to Project Euler type questions. I solved it correctly, and quickly, and that probably helped get me in the door.
Catch Up on the Istio and Service Mesh Excitement from Kubecon 2017
What a very well executed fun game. And it performs extremely well on my lap top. Great job!
Yahoo to stream every NFL game for free on Mobile
Which noise music artists actually broke through to a wide audience before Spotify?
I had to enable hardware acceleration to get more than 1 frame/second. It was smooth with hardware acceleration turned on.

I'm running chrome on ubuntu on a dell xps 13
i meant you can install any other keylogger without admin.
Random fact: Ripple, IOTA, and Stellar Lumens are not decentralized and trustless.
> What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars, the protagonist makes a big discovery. He remarks that a fellow called Joe Siegel, the most active trader in a commodity called “green lumber” actually thought that it was lumber painted green (rather than freshly cut lumber, called green because it had not been dried). And he made a living, even a fortune trading the stuff! Meanwhile the narrator was into theories of what caused the price of commodities to move and went bust.
>>> If you, me, and everyone else was excited about the new Miley Cyrus album, think of how much more together we'd be as a whole.

The day I'm excited by the latest Miley album is the day I hang up my uniform.
Just to give credit where it's due, I believe why3 is developed purely by LRI, a public french research lab (see http://why3.lri.fr/). It's indeed used as a proof backend in several tools, including frama-C and Dafny (Microsoft Research), but otherwise it's from academia.
Your desire to insult falls flat because it was my young and naive 20s when I was at my peak powers of being a mercenary and prostitute for money. Prioritizing money above all else was wrong for me -- but I'm not saying it's wrong for others.
I am in management at a company that pays top quartile salaries and I concentrate on exactly the sort of selling that the FRC article talks about.

Geat candidates get multiple offers, so I want my offer to be money plus valued intangibles, while my competitors just offer money. That way they have to outbid me to get the candidate; whereas I just have to _match_ them to win.
When people say waking up at 5am/sleeping at 10 or earlier is hard, they don't mean the physical act of waking up or sleeping early is hard - that just takes some time/body adjustment.

In my experience people fail to do it because of social reasons - if you are young it is likely that your current social activities or groups might lead you to get home past 10pm.
Loggy: An opinionated logging library for rust
If it is important to you to be able to mock your employees, and you wouldn't run your business without being able to be a jerk like that, then you might want to pay that extra money.

Good business? No, but not all businesspeople are good at business. People get into it for very different reasons.

I've worked for a lot of acerbic bosses. I charge extra. Right now, with things so tight, it's approaching a 100% premium. You know what? The "jerks" keep paying it, because they can't find anything else.

Are they good bosses? Hahahahaha! No. About the only thing I do is make it really clear is that I'm there for the money, and I will walk off if I don't like it. So, I get the extra pay, without the abuse.
Object vs. set: getting unique values in JavaScript performance comparison
Sorry if you make 500k and have financial problems you are either stupid or you fool others by complaining a lot. A lot of well off people complain about money all the time. I guess that's what motivated them to make more.
> What are the tax implications of playing with Bitcoins?

In the US, presumably? It's ever-so-slightly different from other investments. AFAIK it's a real grey area regarding mining. If you mined the coins, maybe those were taxable income then (offset by big capital expenses?), at the market value at that time. I think that's where the differences might end. Now that you have them, plain old capital gains tax likely applies.

> how will the IRS ever find out? ... What if you just keep the gains and keep quiet?

You end up accepting some risk that you don't end up being investigated. Very much of the taxes that you pay that are not part of withholding operate this way. Be honest and have nothing to fear or risk an audit.
Bandcamp is great. For the artists which I discovered either through Soundcloud or YouTube and have a Bandcamp page, I will follow and receive updates via email. It's a nice system for smaller artists who don't have newsletter support from small to large labels.
How Mobile Devices and Cloud Computing Changed Security
> Do these exchanges report 1099s to the IRS?

Not usually:

"With the exception of some business accounts, Coinbase does not provide 1099 forms. Coinbase does however provide a specialized Cost Basis for Taxes report which will help with filing your taxes." [1]

After this hypothetical transaction you will likely owe capital gains tax. It would be hard to hide any significant amount from the IRS if you actually want to convert it to USD, for example by transferring to a bank account [2]. Regardless, the IRS is definitely paying attention and going after back taxes on large exchange accounts [3].

[1] https://support.coinbase.com/customer/en/portal/articles/149...

[2] https://pocketsense.com/deposits-reported-irs-7557.html

[3] http://fortune.com/2017/11/29/irs-coinbase/
I'm willing to bet the exact opposite will happen.
It seems like the real challenge here is solving the identity issue. That is something which would require a brick and mortar solution, and those have existed for quite some time with varying degrees of success. Identity companies like Equifax have done a shit job, and they try to pass the liability on to end users who then have to deal with the fallout of fraud.

There are a few identity management on the blockchain startups already, but I'm not sure any of them will be more successful than the DMV.
Top Web Application Attacks by OWASP
Unified Platform for Projects, Notes,Spreadsheets,Bookmarks,Passwords and Calendar
Do you mean savings in a single overvalued highly volatile $100bln commodity are more sustainable than savings in the overvalued international market diversified between sectors and countries?
Did you open a bug?
I disagree with this. I'm motivated by money for two reasons; 1) I have bills to pay. 2) I want to be paid a fair rate, in line with other people with my level of skills and experience. So beyond fair pay that meets my needs, money is far less motivating for me than having a fulfilling, mission-focused career.
Why hosted on one very specific platform? Smartphone-hosted is ideal. If anything Android should be the platform of choice for smartphone-hosted since it's more ubiquitous.
This PDF from 2016 looks like it's discussing the trial for the drug http://huntingtonstudygroup.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/H...
Serious question, how many people in finance really make $3.6+ million in just a few years then retire? Honestly that's enough to pay off every cent of debt for both my wife and I, and then pull off over $100k/yr for the rest of our lives.

Give me $3.6 million today and I will never touch an office door for the rest of my life.
>Is it worth 2x your normal rate to get you to work overtime? Maybe, but that's pretty expensive. They would be better off if they could get another person to do it at a normal rate.

>So, you might be willing to put up with those things for more money, but for the employer it is usually a waste of money pay that. It doesn't make sense for an employer to pay extra for those things unless they are really getting a lot of value out of it.

Good. The whole point is to make it painful for the company to have you work overtime regularly. In fact, 2x is quite cheap and a better way to accomplish that would be to charge more for each overtime hour (so that 16 hour days would cost much more than 2 normal 8 hour days).

If the company can't extract enough value out of the employee's time, maybe they shouldn't ask them to work overtime.
What I learned when I tried to hack my smart vibrator
That resonates, but few people are in the boat to make those demands. They are competing against people who would gladly be "exploited" if it meant they could work on technology-X. You basically can't get hired at companies like WayMo or SpaceX with this mentality because there are too many people that would gladly take your place with half the pay.
The eternal mainframe
How about BLE Secure Connections in BLE 4.2 as ctz mentioned?
I theorize it's the opposite way. If you take less money, you'll be respected less because you were willing to work for less.
For some reason when I read the headline and the intro blurb I was really hoping this was going to be about OpenSCAD the opensource CAD software. Sadly it was not.

http://www.openscad.org/
That’s ridiculous. Conservatism is about smaller government and not using the government to pick winners and losers. The implementation leaves a lot to be desired, but in the context of manifestos, you have it completely backwards.
The Tornado (3 missile) can take one out if the shots are well timed, i.e. waiting for other players to attack and it uses a number of deflects.
>> why not install some other key logger that would send info to the attacker's site?

Because one would assume that this software/driver has been signed and would not be recognized as evil by any protection system, at least not one on the laptop.
Here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7TtwckPCUI&feature=youtu.be
Self-Organizing Maps and Applications (including deep learning)
> Why would there be anything more dignified in an old man washing dishes in a restaurant over an old man just drinking his days away?

I don't know if you've ever seen anyone die of alcoholism, but sadly it's very painful and undignified.

It seems to me that an abstemious old dishwasher would have a much more enjoyable and dignified old age, regardless of any moral judgement about the two.
There is https://www.kaiko.com/, they collect and sell bid/ask and orderbook data for most of the exchanges that are active now or were active in past.
This was my first thought. If you print money on a fixed schedule, the natural market response is to devalue the currency according to the same fixed schedule. Nobody gets any real income; they get a fixed lifetime endowment of buying power, granted in predictable intervals, and the only thing that changes over time is the denomination of the currency. Interesting idea: "universal basic lifetime income", UBLI. But perhaps not what the author was going for.

It's been a while since I've done serious economic analysis. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Also, the whole thing is predicated on a web of trust to prevent Sybil attacks. Fine, but PGP has shown pretty conclusively that a web of trust like this is a failed model. A single trust authority makes far more sense for this application.

In the PGP case, casual users like myself don't personally know anybody who uses PGP. I would have to go out of my way to acquire a reasonable degree of trust on my key: I'd basically have to start asking people I hardly know "hey can you sign my key?" which I'd rather not do. That's fine, because PGP is for hacker nerds and not everybody needs or wants to be a hacker nerd.

The problem, however, is that if this is to be truly universal then you need to guarantee universal access. What if I've been in prison for 5 years, I can't get in contact with any of my family, and my old private key is long lost. So I start up a new account and... what? Who trusts me? I basically have to start asking random people to trust me. So people have to trust each other. Then what's stopping a con artist from going from town to town, getting store owners and locals with bleeding hearts to trust each of his multiple duplicate currencies. The Sybil attack can proceed with trivial social engineering.

You're in a Catch-22: either people are skeptical, and the system is decidedly non-inclusive, or people are trusting, and the system is insecure. You need centralized trust: it's the same problem we have today with domain names. You need an authoritative list of valid domains, and a single source of truth for accessing that list.

The nice thing about a trust authority is that it doesn't need to be physically centralized. Just record everyone's citizenship on a blockchain like Ethereum. But at this point I'm just speculating.
No, I wasn't.

Maybe I'm just unlucky to be in a user cohort where promoted songs are inserted into my top 2017 songs (to test how many extra plays they can get this way). It sucks that they do this to paying customers though.
Which is likely the reason why they were unusually successful. There are probably dozens of terrorist organizations run by would-be conquerors which never get very far because their leaders are not competent.
In a democracy you have no choice. If it was an autocracy, maybe you could, but eventually people would grab their pitchforks.