skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Programming Languages
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C++ as most of the cryptocurrencies are near fork of bitcoin which was written in C++

2. Good understanding of cryptography

3. Game theory

4. Distributed computing

Extra - Economics and market microstructure - I believe most devs in cryptocurrency lack this. They think everyone acts rationally in a given situation so everything can be coded according to game theory.
Well paid job in future? Program games as a kid
So, do you have other kinds of future to offer?
Can you tell me which one of those uses Quest? I used Life Extension as well for vitamin D but had to go pretty far to get to a LabCorp facility. I've got a Quest facility a few minutes away I'd rather go to.
Maybe this is because of the immense increase in the number transactions during a dip? (really just guessing)
What settings did you use to get that dark theme on the extension?
Stuck in traffic, you might as well be stuck in prison. Say your loved ones are counting on you to be somewhere. When you are stuck , you're letting them down! Suddenly you have an option when there were no options previously. Now $40 looks pretty cheap in the face of fighting a spouse, disappointed children, etc.
A high tolerance for risk
Reducing Your AWS Spend with AutoSpotting and Rancher
Fun fact: Spending more on engagement rings, the wedding itself, or a honeymoney is correlated with higher rates of divorce[1].

[1]: https://www.shape.com/blogs/sex-and-love/study-shows-engagem...
This seems like a reasonable conclusion. I was thinking the author was trying to play it as safe as possible to not only be fair to Amazon but also to prevent them from having a way to blame anything else but their product or service, however your conclusion seems reasonable for not just the author's motivation but also worth considering in general when dealing with products that protect us or our belongings.
Wait, what?

That's not an argument. Desktop browsers have features and add-ons for the privacy conscious right now. You can block trackers, third party cookies, JavaScript execution and anything you need. Personally I feel much, much safer loading a website than when executing a binary on my computer or phone.

You can block any elements on any website from loading, but you can't inspect application binaries and block specific elements from it — only requests to certain IPs or domains, if you had root access that is.

Can you block Facebook's in-app advertising on your iPhone? You can't and even more so, the app insists on opening all URLs in its own dumbed down view instead of Safari, which means they track those visits and their duration as well, probably without content blocking active, because AFAIK it doesn't work in web views.

Well I can block Facebook's ads and tracking in my Firefox for Android, since it supports extensions and it probably works using iOS Safari's content blockers as well.
I saw the quoted text, but missed any explanation. I would love a clarification on whether they claim the skin is not getting exposed to sun or, even when exposed, does not make any vitamin D, which is how I read the above.

This is an honest question -- if it is the first, I am not too concerned. I grew up in a colder climate and, while living far in the shaded area today, routinely wear short sleeves and walk a lot outside from early spring to late fall. If it is the second, I would love to learn the underlying causes at least as a scientific curiosity (and start thinking about vitamin D supplements).
Which is why I said that IOTA is more risky because it is a new concept. The justification is that to stand up "The Tangle", the Coordinator is necessary at this time. Nobody has been giving any other ideas than FUD.
Still, when you look at the games, it's hard not to think something genuinely new has happened. Several grandmasters have expressed amazement at the style of play. AlphaZero won some games in a romantic style that's reminiscent of old champions. It's definitely not the kind of play we've been accustomed to with chess engines : AlphaZero seems to rely on a deep strategic understanding of piece placement and dynamism opportunities.

It's difficult to attribute some of these wins to a simple superiority in computing power.
> Creating standalone executables / installers

Python's Achilles heel, this is what caused me to walk away from Python. I usually make short very specific programs and I work on multiple of sites. Python was a pain to make executables. I now try to use Racket for everything and it makes executableson Windows, Linux and Mac.

Has things really improved the last 2 years?
THE AMERICAN DREAM IS KILLING US
The spiritual successor to the venerable psion 5 is here and it looks amazing
a number of other threads on this service contained comments from folks who had limited mobility, or who had relatives in such a situation. they suggested having someone able to come in and just set the package on a table or other surface that doesn't require bending down would be valuable to them.
That was mostly political decision, many American/Norwegian/... are legally taking performance enhancing drugs.
Arguably negative, but still advertising.

I just learned about amazon key from this article...
Not if the device has to be at absolute zero, it's not.

I don't see that requirement relaxing in the next ten years.
IMHO our current economy has a lot of slack in it. We could easily increase minimum wage without noticeable inflation because people are being squeezed from so many different directions. We've let the minimum wage lag behind overall economic growth for too long.
> Impressive backing by the big name companies.

From someone who works at big name companies: this should not impress anyone. Big companies love slapping their name on things that give them "innovation" credibility. It's like Pepsi sponsoring the X Games.

> why a separate project like this

This is an OpenStack project, so it's not vendor-specific. It's also supposed to be a new "standard container", which I highly doubt will happen because they're just slapping together two other projects.
It’s actually double lock-in, so 2x worse.

You used to have to just be afraid of lock-in, which I don’t think is as big an issue as it sometimes seems.

But with Google, you’re not only locked in but might be LOCKED OUT when they kill your product.
Honestly, everyone reaches for shared_ptr way too quickly/easily. In the majority of cases it's a sign that you don't have a clear owner of a component and you've just deferred the decision to whatever (non-)deterministic behavior your code has.

I've found using unqiue_ptr + proper move semantics tend to lead to cleaner, single-owner architectures that are much more sane to maintain/scale.
I live in New Orleans but am not a native. Visiting DC this past fall (although not for the first time, I have been there when I was little), coming out of the Metro station on King St (in Alexandria) was absolutely cause for my jaw to drop.
I'm a happy Amazon Key customer. I live in a reasonably dense part of San Francisco, and the nearest Amazon Locker to me is a mile walk from my home. The Lockers also tend to be at capacity, resulting in packages sometimes getting rejected and returned to Amazon. There's also the difficulty of getting bulky or heavy packages delivered.

My case is atypical though because I installed it on an outer gate, meaning delivery people are not actually entering my home.
Xkcd: Self-Driving Car Milestones
Even an unskilled lock-picker can open locks without destroying them. Beating them up with scratches is another matter, but who inspects their locks regularly?
3) You're giving them things that cost you nothing to produce which they can then sell for money.

I actually think this was a bit of an aha moment for me re: cryptocurrency and government.

It's possible for a government to setup a market for a public good, create a currency for that good and distribute that currency equally to people. All without spending actual currency(ignoring administrative costs of setting up a blockchain).

The value of the public good for people then determines the USD exchange rate, but poor people are never excluded from using the good and at the same time you are not massively inflating the money supply.

edit. In fairness, nothing about this requires a cryptocurrency/blockchain. It's more a general argument in favor of governments charging for public goods by creating custom (maybe fiat) currencies which they distribute equally to all citizens.

There might be administrative and/or psychological benefits to running all these custom currencies on blockchains.
After the frustration I faced when google killed iGoogle, I decided that I would never again become invested in anything from Google other than search and email.
Antidotes are not data. We have no reason to believe from your story that your would not have got skin cancer if he had spent all his time in a cave. Or maybe he wouldn't have, because he would have died of something even worse at 45.

Science is trying to work this out, it is complex. We know that sun exposure both protects from and causes skin cancer depending on the study. This is a complex subject, the only thing I think I can safely say is don't get a sunburn.
Unless the song is called "Error establishing a database connection", I think the site is down.

Google Cache:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:on34qG...
> Nielsen is eager to see what other disciplines will be refined or mastered by this type of learning

> of course it goes so much further

> The ramifications for such an inventive way of learning are of course not limited to games.

>But obviously the implications are wonderful far beyond chess and other games. The ability of a machine to replicate and surpass centuries of human knowledge in complex closed systems is a world-changing tool

Okay then. Let's go beyond games already!
Consider that taxpayers fund and build airports. Available seats on an airplane are priced using demand based pricing.

Taxpayers provide land and (sometimes) fund rail infranstructure. Most long distance rail uses demand based pricing (the last seat costs more than the first).

Taxpayers also (sometimes) provide/pay for land and the costs to build roads. Until now, we haven't seen demand based pricing (the last slot costs more than the first), but it actually fits well with other modes of taxpayer funded transportation.

This approach also considers the cost and value of a road network in a congested area. This could possibly fund other new transport in the area if it really is such a valuable commodity.
Show HN: Web-linked “For Sale” signs
It's clear there are a lot of strong opinions about R!

One kind of obscure problem I run in to is R's embrace of a global namespace. Package developers sometimes assume people are using this namespace, and access it via the globalEnv() function. This means that to use the package anywhere else, you basically have to patch their code.

(in contrast, I don't even think about problems like this occurring in python packages. Worst case scenario, can just use a subprocess )
It wasn't included in the installers fee, it is unclear if they knew how to address it or not.
The benefit of using an assert is that it makes the error condition known immediately to the caller and the reason. Otherwise, whose to say when the NPE will occur. It could be raised just a couple lines down, or it could be a couple methods or a classes away which increases the complexity of diagnosing the actual cause of the error.
The anti-Electron people's complaint isn't really the look as much as performance and mostly start up time. To me I sue several electron apps all day and they have held up well.

RStudio
VS Code
Discord / Slack (Well slack has not been rock steady)
I wonder what was the reasoning behind adding those spaces for everybody.
The Practice of Management: Reflections on Peter Drucker's Landmark Book (2003) [pdf]
They can rewrite it again on the next cool lang (rust,kotlin etc) using nanoservices and some new per-column/second-pricing db.
Workers have been generating increasing productivity for decades—Americans have never created more wealth. Yet wages have stagnated, companies have trillions of dollars squirreled away, and the richest families in the country have more money than many millions of the rest of us. Who's getting robbed?
Actually, 1975.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

"The Cray-1 was the first supercomputer to successfully implement the vector processor design. These systems improve the performance of math operations by arranging memory and registers to quickly perform a single operation on a large set of data."
This is just a guy with a cult. It's similar to a startup/technology company in only the most superficial ways. The guy who runs this cult plays ping pong and wears sunglasses indoors? Oh what a scathing indictment of Silicon Valley culture.
Infographics on no-code tools that can help you build your startup
Or this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWa2PPUL9a8
A good idea with bad usage: /dev/urandom (2014)
> "It means that we reach a level of maturity to where we as a collective are able to be contacted openly without us freaking out anymore, without it needing to be kept secret anymore, we have become > are < own government.”

Apparently being god means you don't have to use the right words when communicating.
And a willingness to accept consequence.
Kind of a weird article - it's very long, describes in great detail how everything works, and the regret is hidden about three quarters of the way down, and I am still unclear about what the regret is. That he signed up to a walled garden, and the key doesn't work when you want to share it with your dog walker? The walled garden response is "you should've known as much" and the dog walker response would be "this is version 1"

Anyway, this feels more like an ad for amazon key than a real takedown. Oh wait... WaPo, Bezos... right.
This appears to be Massaro's response: http://www.bentinhomassaro.com/read/our-first-official-respo...

It contains a sentence that may be the most perfect thing an "Instagram guru" could ever write:

I have modeled many different jackets, teachings and examples within a short period of time.
To be honest, if ads were more like that comment in the "These are our performance statistics relevant to the topic" vein, then I would be happy to see more ads.
A Neato vacuum robot and a ScanSnap scanner. Automate your chores.
Nobody. A real mathematician can make an entire private world. Freedom may scare and block from keep walking. Some people may pay for some "magic tricks" but that small payments are not the end of an infinite path ahead. Keep in mind that rich people things money equals mathematics, which is not true. money is accounting, mathematics is nature hidden language.
If you study the history of economic development, you'll find a lot of things at complete odds with the statements you make here.

For example, while government expenditure can and usually does help drive income, massive taxation isn't necessary for economic development or to avoid the system grinding to a halt and total economic collapse. I'd point you to the latter half of the 19th century in the US for good examples of this. Lack of taxation wasn't the problem.

Feudal economies functioned in an entirely different manner than modern economies, and even then you can't really describe them as a whole with the term 'endless economic depression.'
> The bad news is Amazon missed four of my in-home deliveries and charged me (on top of a Prime membership) for gear that occasionally jammed and makes it awkward to share my own door with people, apps, services — and, of course, retailers — other than Amazon.

I don't understand this. Are there any APIs for Amazon key which will allow other people/apps to use the key? If yes, how do the damages work?
Track Record: Computer Simulations Improve Goodyear Tire Designs
Canadian Start Up Is Branching to the US
Preparing for an engineering interview
Semiconductor Engineering .:. Hyperscaling the Data Center
Countries Around the World Tackled Net Neutrality in Different Ways
Yep! I contacted customer support over a month ago as I am unable to make withdrawals. Still haven't heard a thing from them.
Quite a terrifying read, but not unexpected.

These types of cults pop up in America, and usually at least once in a generation there is one that somehow captures peoples imaginations (People’s Temple, Branch Davidians, Heaven's Gate, etc). I don't include Scientology in this list - no matter how insidious that organisation is, it's never lead to a mass suicide.

The people who follow these leaders are lost, usually from broken background - some run away from home and fall in to it.

The leaders tend to be diagnosed (mostly after the fact though analysts) as narcissists. Polyamory is usually a feature of their style, as well as mental and physical abuse of their followers. They have no problem in "breaking" people for their own sick fantasy.
I agree. But despite the bizarre fact is that there is a real market for these kind of "Gurus" to fill, but unless someone is forced to join or kept in the cult by force then what's the problem?
he chooses to lead and followers choose to follow.
I'd like to see a game where each player can take a variable number of actions each move. For example, Risk. (Probably not too difficult an enhancement)

I think the best current Poker AI (which can beat good humans) doesn't use neural networks, but expect that combing counterfactual risk minimization with neural networks shouldn't bee too hard.

RTS games should be the next bigger challenge. Not only do they have incomplete information, you also have to handle widely different scales (both space and time) and have a large number of units. I expect this to require an interesting new approach to integrate large scale strategies with small scale tactics without getting stuck in local strategy optima.
Accounting practices, professionalism, standardization, etc have obviously evolved tremendously since then, the same way any technology does as adoption increases. Math wasn't fixed between the invention of numbers and the concept of zero, but it became far more powerful when you incorporated it.

Another way to think about it is with cars. Cars today bear no resemblance to what they looked like or were capable of when they were invented, but nothing around the core idea of putting an engine on wheels has changed. The airplane was different. (But so was the Segway)
IOTA Whitepaper [pdf]
Yes. Rural customers can definitely benefit from this.

I grew up about an hour from the nearest UPS facility. A closer one still doesn't exist to this day. I didn't have to worry about people stealing a package from my house, but if you go five minutes into town, you get to neighborhoods that are much more dense. If you wanted UPS to hold your package, you had a 2 hour round trip to get something you paid to have delivered to your house.

I'm not a strict advocate for Amazon Key, but I can definitely see the use case for it.
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Exposed: Ethiopia’s nefarious, comically bungled spyware campaign
> binding arbitration should be made illegal

Binding arbitration and non-competes, are both disgusting anti-business, anti-American, anti-worker, anti-innovation, anti-rights that need to be killed.

These two horrible tactics have crept in since 2000 into nearly everything.

Signing away your right to compete and your right to use the legal system should both be illegal and have no place in America. How did we let this happen?

For non-competes, NDAs should suffice.

Arbitration should be a step towards legal rather than supplanting it. Many times arbitration is better for both parties in terms of cost/time but when it isn't people shouldn't be signing away the right into forced arbitration to go further.
This is what my uneducated hunch is, so I'm glad to hear you say it, but I'm enjoying reading all the countervailing opinions too, to educate myself further!
Android Wear gets updated to Android 8.0 Oreo
Is the expectation that Google maintain products even when they're not profitable or beneficial for them? I can understand if they don't provide a reasonable sunset date but investing yourself in any company's product is a risk. At least with Google you'll get notice instead of a static html page one day announcing the shuttering of the service.
I'm the interviewee and here is my raw opinion:
http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/latest/blosxom/mozilla/2017-12-07_f...
(*Note: written in Japanese, very long article.)

As I wrote in the article, indeed I worried about death of addons in last 2 years. But, from various viewpoints I analyzed Mozilla's statements around addons, and finally I decided to forget past and shift my mind moving toward to make things better. So the story of the interview is almost correct.
They have to do a lot more work to render that UI. The framebuffer on an iPhone X is larger than the entire main memory of the Cray 1!
>You're telling people you have a right to seize their earnings for their labor.

You don't think this is happening now?

A hypothetical, though not a very abstract one: A wealthy investor uses some of their money to buy a corporation. Thousands of people drive to work every day and sit at a desk for more than half of their conscious hours, making money for that company. The investor stays at home, doing whatever he wants. At the end of the day, the investor is many thousands of dollars richer, while the employees have all make $70 in wages.

Capitalism is explicitly about seizing earnings generated from labor. You're not defining "taxation," you're defining "corporation."
You've got a point, and I tried to be understanding about the slow customer support response, but after a certain point the _growing pains_ excuse just does not pass muster. Coinbase has been around for years and their business model would seem to be dependent upon rapid adoption/growth of BTC/ETH/LTC. So, they knew this day would come and should have had processes in place to handle the influx (of traffic and related customer support requests). I just cannot _understand_ how a business could misplace $NON_TRIVIAL_AMOUNT_OF_BTC and then not respond to their customer's inquiries about it for _days_ at a time.
Do the people who owe the debt get hit with a tax payment on the portion forgiven? Because if not, that may be a highly effective form of charity.
Since on most platforms the tabs go all the way to top of the window now, there isn't room to grab the window to move it around. Those spaces act as extra drag targets.
> I would think survival chances when a criminal is attacking with a knife are much higher than if they had a gun.

The problem with this statement is that it is injecting an untested hypothesis in a discussion about the lack of facts when making policy.
Apparently This Is What a Swimming Dinosaur Looks Like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_128K#Expansion

Given that this was the result when Jobs didn't have Woz vetoing him, i doubt it.

The guy was obsessed with looks and "experience". To him, a computer was to be a magical black box that people powered on and powered off. To open up the case and poke around inside was "dirty".
> I'm able to tell the difference thanks.

I must've interpreted that the wrong way then. We'll have to agree to disagree then because I do think there is a big difference in UX.

I really think the limits of providing a nice UX with web tech is the elephant in the room here and everyone is ignoring it because it is simply cheaper and easier to work with and/or because of idealistic reasons. Which I think is a shame because it's responsible for a trend where we're moving towards good-enough software on all platforms, instead of nice software for specific platforms.

Turning Slack and Spotify into native apps can upgrade them from just being functional, to actually being a pleasure to use, something of which I'm convinced is not possible with web tech no matter how hard you try. There is a huge amount of platform specific UX details (much appreciated by Apple users especially) which you will not be able to emulate.