skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This isn't a ranking of number of people killed. It's a ranking of how many battles were won given their resources. You don't necessarily win a battle by killing as many people as possible.

I think anyone who is remotely reasonable would agree that sometimes war is necessary, such as in wars of national survival like for the UK in the Second World War.

If we've agreed that war is sometimes necessary, we better make sure that we have people who are extremely good at it, which this is recognising and analysing.
Thanks a bunch. Exactly the kinds of things I'm trying to absorb at the moment. I'm inching my way into solopreneurship so it's great to learn these things.

PS nice blog :)
While I tend to agree with that, I would love to have a Postman/Insomia style client for SOAP. I still do some work that requires talking to (legacy-ish) enterprise applications that only do SOAP :-( On the CLI, that's just a bunch of unusable XML.
Amazon is charging $249 (plus installation costs) for the Amazon Key In-home Kit, which includes the smart lock and cloud camera. That’s more then the cost of a bolted-down box with a smart lock. The reason Amazon prefers this is described in the video. For Amazon this is a literal “foot in the door” and a path to selling you other services like cleaning and dog-walking. It’s not just about delivering packages.
If you don't mind my asking, what state was this in? And did you get the impression that it's treated as a norm locally?
So, what is stopping people from adapting some other blockchain currency technology to do their trades? Why does it have to be bitcoin?

I really don't get how you can't separate the technology and one implementation of the technology.
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Bring Togas Back, Pants Are Obsolete
I've decided pants suck for modern life. Pants have actually been around at least since the Greco-Roman times; however, they were associated with equestrian warriors and slaves, and thus never caught on as a mainstream fashion. Pants came into widespread use during the industrial revolution because they were convenient for rushing around the factory floor and less likely to get caught in machinery.

However, as one bulks up around the middle as they mature, pants have difficulty staying up and fitting right. Tightening one's belt to compensate is not comfortable. Suspenders may solve some of that, but it seems the Greeks and Romans were on to something. Being the slaves did most the work, they probably got chubby around the middle also, and found togas and tunics more comfortable. Machines are the modern slaves.
Sometimes I wonder how far Amazon will go, and if/when antitrust mechanisms will start tapping the brakes. They went from an online bookstore to the entire breadth and depth they are now with still higher aspirations. Where will they stop? Healthcare? Utilities?

2027: "We want to own all the water companies so we can plumb Amazon-Basics-knockoff Soylent to your faucets."
There is a U2F firefox extension that's open source. Maybe looking at that could be helpful.

https://github.com/prefiks/u2f4moz
Why would you be upset if the models are not?

The models might be really upset if they don't get that job where they make $200 an hour. That might be the difference between presents under a tree and no Christmas for their kids.
That's ketoacidosis
That's the problem with centralization, walled gardens, and proprietary protocols. You won't ever have a problem if you just don't go into the gardens. Self-host with mumble, teamspeak, matrix, or something.

They all use the same Opus voice codec so it's not a quality issue.
There are fees to any position you hold so even though going long is indeed the safe bet, having a longer timeline requires deep pockets.
I use both.

Sometimes it's more convenient to use command line, and sometimes (especially with more complicated queries that you want to modify and fiddle with a lot) a GUI is more convenient.
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Better headline: "Rumors on Reddit lead tech journalist to assume that AMD has done something right"
Thanks! You should flesh out some of this usability info in the README.
Bitcoin bootstrapped from nothing. Every other coin since then bootstrapped from Bitcoin.
You should take a look at IOTA's github repo.
Arbitration is actually a really good dispute resolution mechanism, but mainly between two commercially equal parties :)

That is what it's main use used to be.
Yeah, guess it varies, but a lot of ISPs block incoming port 80 connections. Common enough that noip.com has a "port redirection" feature, interestingly enough: http://www.noip.com/support/knowledgebase/my-isp-blocks-port...
Discussed yesterday in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15865613
I'm not really sure, but it's a form of concentrated sugar, so I try to avoid it as part of my overall goal of limiting carbohydrates/sugar/calories.

It's also similar to nuts/cheese in that if I allow myself unrestricted access, I tend to overeat them.

They're probably not that bad though.
Clearing the trades means both buying and selling.
Good to know, I’ve never gone past reading the actual mailing list, was curious about that process.
This could dramatically reduce boilerplate and still produce idiomatic OO code. I'm very excited about this.
This should give the big Wall St banks the ability to muck with crypto prices however they choose, just like they can do with gold and silver and other commodities (for example, Goldman magically closed gold positions and sold short 2 days before historic 25% price drop in 2 trading days in 2013[0])

Hopefully people will read those contracts and understand how delivery actually works and realize that COMEX or whoever can halt delivery and settle in cash if they want to, etc.

[0] - https://www.cnbc.com/id/100630626
Technically it was around $1800 but bought in two $900 lots, but my first 5000 shares in a promising mining company. Bought in at $0.33, sold at $1.12 two days before the CEO got caught being rather naughty and the whole thing tanked.

Monetarily, not massive returns, but as a percentage that was by far my biggest return on any investment.
>Because the poor are less likely to pay for the roads, they on the average pay less taxes

That is assuming that this isn't a critical road that poor people would want to use.

Anyway, I'm not talking about this specific case, I mean more generally that this isn't as simple as was made out, e.g. what if this road is good overall for balancing out wealth (if you view that as a good thing...), but then another case happens where it is a critical road that causes poorer people to have to extend their travel by 20 minutes to avoid the toll? (Ala sydney).
> It's easier and faster to just hit the window with a rock, grab some stuff, and run

Or put a quick kick to the door. The idea that a hollow door with a inch of metal hanging onto the frame is going to stop someone is laughable. Most homes aren't secure.
They're charging 0.35 for moving some balance from one big transaction they charged me into accounts of the people I support. It's basically charging for an atomic move.

You seem to assume that each pledge is a separate transaction. But the entire advantage of patreon over doing pledges directly is that all my pledges are one transaction with them, and all pledges someone receives are one transaction. Sure, charge me 0.35+small % once a month as transaction fee.
It definitely is. I learned to play Othello and Backgammon by randomly trying things vs the computer as a child. It is also relatively easy to learn card games' rules, even Poker (albeit some very edge-case rules could take a long time to grasp).

The key is that you give the kid a computer version of the game, that doesn't allow rule breaking and makes it clear when a reward or penalty is applied (YOU WIN!).
So assuming this is yet another VC-funded firm being pushed to only go after "whales" and cull undesirables... Who are the whales, and who are the undesirables? My tinfoil hat says adult art is made up of more/smaller pledges and they're hoping this will run them off the service. That's typically why companies do this.
Isn't that just Rust's move semantics + `Box`?

Instead of improving a detail, you can just improve everything and move to Rust... :>
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So they are the market maker?
Key part being that they'll let client's play that game. I don't see any enthusiasm from them to put their own money into futures layered on top of what looks decidedly bubbly.
Hit Command+R to refresh Slack and it'll release any memory it was accidentally holding onto. It's basically a page refresh.
Compared to speculation and illegal transactions, I believe it is negligible. The number of places accepting cryptocurrency is not growing at anything like the rate at which the currencies are appreciating. There's just no incentive to use such an incredibly deflationary currency for purchases, given the difficulty compared to using ordinary credit. Except in markets that have no viable choice.
Coinbase is an automated mechanism that matches buyer to seller, although it does you the extra favor of storing your private keys for you (something a lot of people don't trust, probably for good reason).

I don't know what external hooks there are that add liquidity, perhaps some of the other exchanges including the one it owns. Otherwise it would feel more like an E-Bay auction than a fast-paced market.

If everyone withdraws at once, you'll have 10 sell orders at the same time that need to be filled 'someplace' on the other side.

If no one wants it anymore, the asking price will have to get lower and lower. Coinbase shows you some sort of average price, but you can see a list of the orders put in if you log on an actual exchange like Bittrex. When I saw the sell and buy orders sitting in a queue waiting to be filled, some low-ball, etc., things starting to click for me.

The above is what I've gleaned from observation and reading. I could be wrong - and if there's one thing about this crypto bubble craze, is it's motivated me to learn about markets/exchanges, money, cryptography, and more. And to think about this things more abstractly and even critically.
Expectations are rather more mixed than that.[0] Sure, the price could spike even higher after futures go on sale. But volatility will increase dramatically. And you can't count on exchanges, if the price collapses.

0) https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-futures-make-way-new-kind-w...
One interesting thing about software methodology that most people seem to like, such as testing and version control is that it prevents bad coders from screwing up a project too badly.

I also think that languages like Java have become popular in big enterprises filled with lots of coders because the language makes it hard to write difficult to maintain code by doing away with any features that would make it easy to obfuscate the intentions of code. This concern also had a big influence on the design of Go and all the features it left out.

The upshot of these coding methodologies that stood the test of time is that they protect the project from bad coders and they prevent really smart people from writing code that is too clever such that noone else can maintain it.
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> Does that happen when the compiler assumes you'll never take branches that lead to UB, and then finds a path through your branches that more or less does nothing? Or can it happen even if you're not branching at all?

Yes and yes. How far it will propagate these backwards depends on the compiler.

> Is the compiler really allowed to produce a program that doesn't print?

Yes. A program which contains UB is illegal, there are no guarantees about any of its behaviour, including behaviour which precedes any possible actual invocation of UB, this is pointed rather clearly by the standard:

> However, if any such execution contains an undefined operation, this International Standard places no requirement on the implementation executing that program with that input (not even with regard to operations preceding the first undefined operation).
I do that with a monthly clothing service and it works pretty well, so I guess YMMV.
I plan to. The blockchain is here to stay no doubt. and I skimmed over the IOTA whitepaper, definitely very interesting
Hey man, there may be a LOT of things going on here, but I can relate. If I don't get my day STARTED by 6am (or so), I see it slipping away from me. Others below have alluded to it, also. Diet and exercise are important (but the world is jacked when it comes to 'exercise', pushing gyms and supplements and dumb sporting events. Honestly, just keep lights low at night before dusk, don't be on devices after dark, read only paper books after dark, and start getting up early (tons of info out there if you search). Get up at 5am, go for a walk and get a coffee (not a sugar bomb - just a small coffee like your grandfather probably would do) and be back at 6:30a to start work. According to you, you'll be done well before lunch. Make plans for a lunch date with friends/family (sounds like you can afford it) and have a healthy fun salad-ish eating out time. Then go do something fun - or go see a movie matinee - or go do things for other people (volunteer, visit your kids if you have any, go make some if you don't... ha ha, or go help other business owners solve problems since you sound like you have good ideas in that area, or go talk to wayward youth at schools... something! Switch it up so you look forward to that afternoon 'you-only' time. Then, do your personal errands at end of day (like the rest of us working stiffs) like groceries, laundry, house cleaning, etc... one last check of devices before dusk, then it's either date night, relaxing at home, maybe a night out 1/2 times/week on the town, etc... No coffee after noon, no alcohol before noon, walk everywhere you possibly can (and keep stretching that), no devices after dusk, and I promise you, no matter what, you'll be feeling at LEAST 3x better in a month or so. Happy holidays, dude.
I've had life insurance from my last two and current employers and haven't been to a doctor at all during that time, so I guess you can?
Me too, but there are some incredibly shitty people out there.
Is it accepted economic theory that the value of the dollar comes from the requirement that U.S. taxes be paid in dollars?

Does the same hold for the Euro?
Putting aside the question of whether qualia arguments are ultimately based on appeals to plausibility, it does not matter in this case, because the behavior of an artificial p-zombie (APZ?) would be indistinguishable from a conscious AGI, and therefore potentially present as much of an existential threat as the latter.
Because the best way to trade is to announce your intentions 2 weeks before you execute...
I have good experiences with the free version of SoapUI. It is branded as a test automation tool, but can also work well as a client. Just import your WSDL and it will generate requests for you.

https://www.soapui.org
In my experience "listen to your body" is most often an excuse that people use to continue making unhealthy choices about food. Is there any research data on the correlation between food cravings and actual nutritional deficiencies?
Yes I did as well. One of my requirements in shopping for a house was >50 feet above sea level. It won't matter in the short run but it definitely will matter in the long run. Unfortunately if the sea rises 20 feet, I will still have a house but my whole area will be a lot less lucrative...
Do you know where Patreon said that? I had a hunch that what was what Pareon was doing but I could never find a source for it.

I think it's way more likely that Visa/MC came knocking on Patreon's door and told them to stop doing that, forcing them to either eat the fees, or pass it on to someone else, and now Patreon has to eat the bad PR.
Ask HN: Any undergrad engineering students interested in MakeMIT?
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It's where Goldman would net off trades between their own clients, effectively acting as an exchange for their clients using the prices on the official exchange. They say in the article they won't act as market-makers or hold their own positions. That means they won't perform their usual capacity for clients, where they act as middleman between the exchange and their own clients. ie they won't make a price for their clients to buy a bitcoin future the client wants to sell, and then turn around and sell the bitcoin to someone else the exchange later in the day. They won't do that. What the will do is buy the bitcoin future if they have another client that wants to buy it at the same time, because then they will never assume much risk.
I partially agree with this assessment, industry for whatever shortsighted reason sometimes implements bad academic policy, as was seen in the Harper administration in Canada.

However it is fully well possible that in a complex world such as ours that there could be more than one serious threat to the very large set of institutions which is academia. It is also possible that one of the threats, lets say the internal threat, could be used as a smokescreen by a second threat, lets say these nebulous billionaires. We do not need to be worried about either threat at the exclusion of the other.
Ask HN: Books or papers on large-scale architecture
Over the years, what books and/or papers have influenced you in your large-scale software, database, and infrastructure decisions?

For me, I thought Google File System, Big Table, Spanner papers have huge impact on me in understanding modern distributed file system.

Doesn't have to be software-oriented. Building architecture, business are also relevant (essentially they may influence how you think about software architecture).
It's not really hypocrisy. There's money to made by clearing futures and some of the banks want that money. What's being traded doesn't really matter.
So, exchanges don't trade real bitcoins... They can trade more than they own, etc.
It being done by a 3rd party doesn't mean that it is an established delivery company. Per https://logistics.amazon.co.uk/ :

> Drivers are independent contractors with a delivery provider.

> The programme is open to single driver owner-operators as well as larger companies.

I've certainly had deliveries come in unmarked white vans without the driver displaying any sort of company affiliation.
No doubt. I'm not here to say any company can have ~50% female engineers if only they did what we do, but this idea that a more reasonable expectation would be 16% strikes me as bullshit.

So I'm boasting a bit, not claiming this is normal, but just to say... come on guys, think bigger.
Can this be used to make lazy and clueless politicians smarter?
So, you think that the age of my account specifically indicates how long I've been on HN? That is come serious lack of logic. I guess I could drag my old laptop out, and retrieve my downvote-able credentials, and come after you. I would prefer to discuss issues, but I guess you should be on the lookout...
I understand there are two ways Bitcoin is affected by a crypto quantum-computer:

1) A QC is able to derive the private-keys for a wallet's public address, allowing for the theft of bitcoin

2) A QC able to perform the proof-of-work algorithm to mine new blocks at an order-of-magnitude faster rate than currently possible.

Fortunately for 1) (I think) it currently takes 2^512 (?) operations to break the private/public algorithm which is unfeasible to brute-force on normal hardware but a QC brings it down to 2^128 - but that's still on-the-order-of unfeasible - and in the event it ever does happen the blockchain could be changed overnight to use a new keying algorithm. And for 2) it would cause the blockchain difficulty to be pushed-up so high that people with QC machines would see the same ROI as today's industrial GPU and ASIC miners see - plus given that QC computers are horrendously expensive (think: billions of USD for a 50-bit general-purpose QC) it questions why you'd ever try to break Bitcoin as you'd already be a billionaire.
A lot of people with sedentary lifestyles will gain weight on a 2000kcal diet.
This is a really cool paper with impressive results.

An interesting property that this paper doesn't consider (I believe the language described does not allow it though) is casting pointers/references to integers. Many languages consider this unsafe, but Rust does not. Considering casting pointers to integers unsafe prevents 'address disclosure' vulnerabilities, which is relevant in the context of any program that incorporates (potentially buggy) unsafe code (read: all of them). This can be used to defeat ASLR.
I'm not suggesting that it's a quasi strip club environment or nearly as egregious a violation as taking employees to a strip club. Just that it's along the same spectrum of making beautiful women available for men's enjoyment and that that's what causes it to be a source of discomfort.

And if my company hired a bunch of gorgeous models - most female but a few male - for our holiday party, I would be outraged. The male models would probably make me uncomfortable first off for the same reasons some male commenters here say they're demeaned by the assumption that their company needs to hire people to speak to them.

But I'd also interpret the presence of the male models not as a way to make the female attendees happy directly (unless it was a horribly tone-deaf attempt by a man) - I'd probably interpret the choice to have them present as a way to excuse the presence of the female models in an attempt to titillate the men. "Oh, no, we're not objectifying women for the sake of our male employees! See? We have male models here too!"
Last week, their rates were about 4 BTC to rent 1 TeraHash/second of mining capacity for 24 hours. Today, according to a mining calculator[0], that works out to about $2.62 in BTC per day.

[0] https://www.cryptocompare.com/mining/calculator/btc?HashingP....
Which is what differential geometry is based on - you take a surface (for example - the one dimensional functions you mentioned work too, but those are too trivial). Then you associate to each point a plane (re-centered at to the origin). The collection of all vectors that fit into the plane is a vector space called a tangent space, and the collection of all tangent spaces is a tangent bundle. And now you've set up differential geometry and can study it.
Why would it? Patreon can batch them, charge you $16.55, pay out $11.40 to creators, pay out $0.61 to stripe, and pocket ~$4.54. Of course Patreon wants to pocket that $4.54. That's patreon taking a 27% cut instead of a 5% cut. Follow the money.
... because you don’t understand it?

It’s common knowledge people fear what they don’t know.
Can we aim lower? I'd settle for one that auto corrected "the" and "they" whenever I (frequently) get it wrong. After that I'd like one that could sort out the "there", "their" and "they're" thing for me.
“Also, could we stop using the term 'slave' to refer to distributed compute or storage nodes?”

Sorry... I don’t get what is wrong with it? We use that word to refer to distributed compute a lot in my org.
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I don't know. I mean, if Lenin did use psychedelic mushrooms, maybe it did boost his charisma, creativity, etc.

But the title? It's just silly.
Or the other alts for that matter
I've always used a client inside my editor:

- vim: https://github.com/aquach/vim-http-client

- emacs: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el

Seems to me it's hard to overcome the advantage of being able to immediately work with and edit response data. What are the major advantages of these standalone clients?