skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But the more 'real' the test is, the more of your own assumptions get about how your dependencies work get tested. Assumptions are where most bugs are born and hide.

Very well put—I like this.
I looked it up before I started mining with them and concluded they were based in Amsterdam. Incase you’re wondering, I lost approx. $120.
Homelessness Is Booming on the West Coast and I'll Give You One Guess Why
I'd rather not, sorry!
Because upper middle class earners in blue states, and blue states in general, already pay out more in taxes than they get back. Rural areas don’t.
I don't think it's paid product placement.
His being asshole otherwise is not relevant to the context. Question was "do you regret it" and context under which its asked is clear and its not about general amicability of Weinstien. What does it matter if he was an asshole to deal with.

"Mr. Weinstein’s final, failed round of manipulations shows how he operated for more than three decades: by trying to turn others into instruments or shields for his behavior, according to nearly 200 interviews, internal company records and previously undisclosed emails. Almost everyone had incentives to look the other way or reasons to stay silent. " [1]

Don't you think its media's job to ask tough questions to his business partners? Instead of letting them off the hook with "yea he was an asshole" type of non answers.

1. https://www.msn.com/g00/en-us/movies/news/weinstein%E2%80%99....
Where high externalized cost is a long-term negative impact on a community, which ranges from undesirable to unethical depending on context.

"Kicking the can down the road" should be called out and minimized. The HN hivemind usually frowns on regulations, but I don't see another practical solution for protecting the community from environmental hazards?
I may not understand what you mean by double spending because this whole article appears to me to be about double spending: different lenders are claiming the same loan is owed to them even long after the original loan has been paid off. A central ledger that clearly tracks loans and repayments and is publicly accessible could be a solution to that problem.
1 Share = $0.5 USD – BitDegree
> the body's own wax removal process is good enough

It really isn't, though. If I go more than a few days without cleaning my ears they get really crusty and it gets harder to hear.
I bet Uber was hacked long before 2016 as 1k was stolen from my Uber account in May 2014. It was supposedly for a ride in London while Im in DC. When this happened I searched Twitter and saw ten to 20 ppl a day complaining of the same thing.

Uber's PR response at the time was it's the users fault for not choosing a complicated password vs. owning up there's a problem and or being concerned for their customers. What a great company!
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If you grab the latest angular-cli and do `ng new foo`, you will get the latest 5.1.0 update. Or if you have an existing app, run `npm install` but make sure you update your package-lock.json file.
Coinbase seems to be the quintessential "sell shovels during a gold rush" company. Definitely provides a good case study about how to create a successful business during new industry booms.
Error handling in Upspin
> I'm one of many people kicking myself that I didn't buy Bitcoin years ago when I first heard about it. And now I'm wondering if I should buy some now, because there is a decent chance it will continue to go up (in the long run). But if I could pay a modest fee for someone I trust (like a very big bank) to look after those Bitcoins for me, I might consider it.

I'm one of those who looks at the 2013 spike and 2014 crash, and wonders what's different this time around.
The result is very different from this one[1], for a family with 2 kids.

Which one is more close to the fact?

[1] http://taxplancalculator.com/calc
Marriage deduction is not yet fully implemented.
~$120 here. I will stick with mining Zcash now.
I have been working on an internal, form-heavy, app for a bank client for the past 6 months as my day job. I wouldn’t say I love Angular 2/4/5, but it does get the job done. Since Angular has a rather steep learning curve, having someone who has experience with it on the team will help avoid a lot of headaches and gotchas.

There are certainly some issues with Angular. For example, starting Webpack Dev Server is really slow (a minute or longer). Running a lot of tests with Kharma can be slow. If you know what the issues are and can either live with or work around them, then it is not that bad.
Ah; makes sense
(Coinbase: YC S12)
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Lol sounds like a settlement but without the lawyers.
In the disclosure it says that the attack included names, email addresses and phone numbers. It did not contain any passwords or social security numbers, so your passwords must have been compromised in some other way if your Uber account was compromised.
What is too high and what is too low in Bitcoin world and how do people come up with those values?

If people were keeping track of Satoshis (0.00014 USD/Satoshi) would they also think it is expensive?
here's one backing TM: http://www.tm.org/healthpro/downloads/circulation-aha.pdf

there are more, just google it.

i was skeptical as well, but i've found that TM has helped me be a bit more relaxed and 'aware'.
Every discussion of Microsoft and the IBM PC Contract seems to gleam over the fact that Bill Gate’s mom was on the Board of Directors of United Way with then IBM CEO John Opel.

Did this affect the final outcome? Idk, but it can help you get your foot in the door.

It is easy to see Microsoft as a scrappy software company trying to edge it out, and executing well.

But the founders were lucky from birth.
Except the “city slickers” have been cutting checks to the “hicks and rednecks” for decades, and furthermore, the “hicks and rednecks” vote against this and rail on the “city slickers”for doing so, while simultaneously falsely believing they cut chekcks to the “city slickers” and also complaining about any time their checks from the “city slickers”are reduced (try campaigning in Iowa on a platform of reducing farm subsidies).
I'm in Seoul as we speak, and it's an insane mania here.

It has absolutely nothing to do with North Korea. If Koreans want to keep money safe, they can, for example, buy US stocks and bonds. They can buy US Treasuries. Bitcoin they buy out of greed and fear of missing out. Korea is the land of the trend, of bangdwagonning.

I feel bad for all of the people who are going to be burned.

I saw an ad on YouTube, in Korean:
VOICE: How easy is it to make money in Bitcoin?
[Shot of a finger pressing a button. The price goes skyward. Finger presses again to sell, showing screen of juicy profit.]
VOICE: That's how easy it is.

I literally hear random people in coffeeshops and the subway talking about their BTC schemes. I met someone at a coffeeshop and a group of four well-dressed guys at the next table were talking about their bitcoin scheme.

I went back about a week later. A different group at the very same table were chatting about their bitcoin thing. "We know it's not very original, but we're thinking of making a new bitcoin exchange... with a twist... so we're thinking about what the twist should be!"

Go to the unrelated programming meetup, it's half about bitcoin. A few guys are working together. Their project? Something bitcoin. They weren't sure what. But gotta be bitcoin. "I'm gonna make a new cryptocurrency business based on Bitcoin! We're gonna be big boys on the blockchain! Oh, what's Ethereum? I've never heard of it."

When I go online my browser windows are festooned with various bitcoin ads in Korean.

Although quite different, this has a very similar smell to the real estate boom in Los Angeles, when every waiter and wannabe actor and person between jobs was talking about buying their million dollar shack.

That's to say, it smells like doom.
Great ! Thank you for your answer.
My comment was for the US. I should have specified.
Eliminating the map, named functions or not, makes it pretty clear:

var r = array.reduce((total, num) => total + (num * num), 0);
I'm from India and I can watch Prime on my OnePlus 3 Android phone. Not being able to watch, is it a US thing? I don't get it.
Basically, I don't accept what you and most people accept - that humans have free will, we could have made a choice X instead of Y, etc, etc.

I know its not a popular opinion, and I don't expect to convince you of my views in a couple sentences, but generally speaking I think the notion of punishment should always be viewed in the context of societal functioning.

If we do as you suggest and punish an executive, does that actually lead to decreased occurances? If so by how much? What about the next time it occurs? Can we completely prevent another occurance? Can we decrease its probability? At what costs to the person and society? What caused it in the first place?

These are all much more important questions to mold a system of punishment than our current focus which almost completely lacks any measurements and analyses and is still steeped in vague moralities derived from historical accident and our own intuitions which are perforated with biases and flaws.
That's kind of inherent to someone billing their business as a "startup". The very label assures you that you get to enjoy the service 2, 3, maybe 5 years at most, but it's being built out in order to, and financed by the promise of, being sold and then either gutted for the parts the acquiring party really wants, or shut down as unnecessary competition for a preexisting service. Or, if no interested party shows up, go down into the sea of obscurity as another startup come and gone.
its hard to say how fast progress will continue, but I do think by that time we will need substantially less than today, maybe 10% of the work force we have now.

23 years ago it would have took a team many years to do what a single person can put out in a weekend. I dont think AI will be the single biggest driver though, mostly APIs getting more sophisticated. we (those that work in tech) have been lucky that the more efficiently we do something, the more demand out there is for our skills, and there was a ton of pent up demand for tech.

I dont know if its the situation I am in, but I already feel like demand for programmers is starting to drop. many engineering jobs is moving data around. just a new type of database administrator
You do realize that the miners' purpose is to order transactions right?
Wow - one of my first jobs in computing was changing the backup disks (huge things - bigger than an LP record) on an old Vax PDP-8 and PDP-11 system in my boss's parents business.

Mounting and dismounting those things was one of the factors that made me swear I would get more into the software side of these new fandangled 'computer' thingies rather than hardware... :)
Legal precedent is moving from "you can say whatever you want" into "you can be thrown in jail for speaking the wrong way", where "wrong" is defined by a small unelected bureaucratic entity [for example, Ontario Human Rights Commission]. There are softer ways to handle improper language, like social shunning, up to job loss, etc. Your argument is essentially an argument to regulate every aspect of life under penalty of law.

Just leaving this here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_dirty_words
Coinbase has a key difference from traditional brokers such as Charles Schwab, Scottrade, etc.

It doesn't charge a flat fee for buy/sell crypto currency, but a 2-3% fee based on the transaction value.

So even though I'm sure they've been making cash hand over fist this past 12 months, it makes any sort of future prediction extremely difficult. They not only have to predict customer growth (which leads to transaction volume), but also the price of those cryptocurrencies. It's akin to calculate position from nothing but a accelerometer, and that double integral would be quite a bit of margin of error.

But in the end it may not even matter, as far as revenue growth and even profit wise I'm sure they are doing absolutely amazingly.

Hell, I wouldn't even be surprised if Coinbase has higher daily revenue (definitely more profitable) than Uber at this point.
This advice is generally very sound but misses the mark slightly.

> underpriced by a factor of 2X to 10X.

The OP never asked about price, so this is pure speculation. Why is the conclusion that this is a sales objection?

> It's going to cost you $20k and some legal wrangling regarding non-disclosure and non-competes

It sounds like they haven't even gotten through procurement yet, which means they can't even suggest charging $20k for NDA's etc.

> Is this just somebody who wanted to sound smart in a meeting?

This absolutely does happen, but it doesn't happen when the company is discussing POC plans.

> We know that they have lots of resources and are building up internal data science team. And yet it was pointed out to me that their goal might not necessarily be to outright steal our IP, but rather to cover their bases. But we are still worried they might be "inspired" by the parts they see and get their internal teams to replicate across other sites or use cases. And we don't have the resources to litigate, nor any way of knowing they do this.

> Is this a business unit head sniffing for new things to build?

These are both hypotheses based on observations, but they are not conclusions to the situation.

The OP's company needs someone who has experience in this realm (a "grey haired enterprise software sales guy") and help them come to a conclusion before they make decisions to move this forward. There's way too many variables and open questions to offer any real sound advice.

TL;DR - for situations this complex and high stakes, relying on a HN comments will not bode well.

For the record since someone asked in another comment, I have navigated a procurement process with a financial services company with $1T in AUM, working on a $50M/year software project, as an example of experience.
The for loop is definitely easier to debug if that is necessary. Map reduce is more concise of course.
The biggest issue I have is with this step:

> - We're going to take that and add it all together

Here, we have an imaginary variable: namely, "that." Something that we need to keep track of and is not explicitly referenced anywhere. It's relatively easy when you only have one of these things, but with complex map-reducer logic, you can end up having a whole bunch of these.

In the for-loop, everything I use is explicitly referenced. There's no "that" -- everything is "r" or "x" or "j."
No specific order:

2 Acura RDXs, 2 Dodge Stratus (coupe and sedan), 1 Toyota Prius, 1 Nissan Murano, 1 Hyundai Elantra (wife's car)

Current - Acura RDX (lease) and a Ford Mustang (buy). And that's just me. I don't think anyone in my family is brand specific. Dad likes Ford but drives a Chevy last 2 cars. Has a used Saab SUV also.

Whatever looks pretty / getting good reviews / fulfills a need. I wanted a convertible this time around; Mustang fit the bill nicely.

Would never say I wouldn't buy a VW - just haven't liked the style yet. I'd buy (lease) an Audi Q5 or Porsche Macan though - their in the VW family. I'm trying to get a Macan when the RDX lease runs out.
It doesn't matter if this was a bug bounty or not. It doesn't matter whether blackmail occurred.

The difficulty for Uber is that the existence of this a bug was kept a secret from the public, whose information may have been stolen. Nobody knows that this bug was not exploited by other parties.
People are constantly quizzed on map-reduce, spark type of stuff in interviews.

Resume 1:

> Did simplistic programming using for loops.

Resume 2:

> Map reduce using spark.

Guess which resume gets picked up by filters? Noone wants to get caught with their pants down when they have to look for their next job.

Pressure to "keep up" is unfortunate reality of our profession. Resume Driven Development is a thing.
> it makes any sort of future prediction extremely difficult.

People will always buy $100 worth or whatever regardless of what percentage of a bitcoin that gets them.
There are already many layers of hardware/software that we don't have to code to use even going into the OSI layers stack. However the top most layer will always require programming and architecture because that is where innovation that matters to humans resides.

Even machine learning, big data, artificial intelligence, language processing and more all take some initial design and goals i.e. you have to train machine learning and architect what it is used for.

AI/automation/generation are currently great at reproduction but not inception/prototyping/creative aspects of development. There are areas that constantly move into automated layers though, where machine code is better. For instance, optimizations like WebAssembly are forming to solidify the application layers standards/platforms that may not need to be done by humans much longer, just as assembly wasn't used as much directly by programmers once C/C++/Objective-C came along in that wave in the 80s. When layers are standardized and automated, programmers just move up the stack to the new blue ocean of development built on top of everything else.

Similarly to AI, people have been saying visual coding will take over actual coding for a long time, same with automation/generation/AI. The automation still takes architecture, choreography, creativity and innovation to come up with something. Coding is automation once it is developed and live. Coding is part of the takeover and there will always be a top most layer that AI can't do for some time and possibly never on the creativity side for things that matter to a human or market need.

Programmers are also the first to really take advantage of AI. I am hoping for a future where small teams or individuals can build AI armies that code like they want on a massive scale. Here's to coding for your bot army that will do your bidding in the future and make a small team competitive always through the help of automation, machine learning and artificial intelligence.
I have recommended Coinbase to many people. But, a few days ago, I had a double charge on my bank account from them and have learned since that their customer support is essentially non-existent. It’s been 8 days with no response by e-mail, their posted phone number results in a busy signal, and the alternate numbers I found posted on forums go straight to hold music before hanging up after a couple of minutes. I filed a fraud report with my bank.
Would that not have worse security implications?
Use cases for ProxySQL: many.

- failover

- query routing (e.g., for sharded deployments)

- caching

- workload stats/metrics

- query rewriting

etc.
Parent point: Why do farmers see taxes paid as providing no value to them? Don't they want roads?

My point: Nobody wants to pay taxes they don't have to, and farmers are no different from upper-middle class blue state residents in that regard. It doesn't mean they literally don't want roads.

That blue state residents already pay more in taxes than they get back is irrelevant. Nobody wants to pay more in taxes, and that doesn't mean nobody wants roads.
Perpetuation of a trope communicates group inclusion as domain-specific language. And it's unusual for the actor in this trope to personally benefit.
> 23 years ago it would have took a team many years to do what a single person can put out in a weekend

That's an interesting aspect. I think the advances happened mostly in the areas of UI and intra-system communication. If it's about coding business logic for, say, supply chain or payroll system, the effort is roughly the same, despite bajillions invested in all the purple farts like BizTalk and new fancy functional language paradigms.
This comment is at least a bit more than a LOL, since it's a reference to an internet meme. Also, why are you on a (presumably) throwaway? I mean, given that you're aware of that about commenting on HN, wouldn't you have a more long standing account? ;)
I would think miners are purchasing ASICs now, not GPUs.
U.S. Comptroller halts plan to remove in-house bank examiners
Some support for their assertion:

- Maternal death rate is worse in the US than any other developed country, and it's rising (even though health overall is getting better)

- Until the ACA passed, insurance covered very limited birth-control options for women, but it did cover Viagra[2][3]

- Women earn less money, which means they have more difficulty getting appropriate care in the US, where money buys access to better care[4]

- The US is still run by old men, many of whom believe that birth control has no medical purpose and is instead a "lifestyle" drug

1. https://www.propublica.org/article/die-in-childbirth-materna...

2. http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=91538

3. https://daily.jstor.org/cover-viagra-but-not-birth-control/

4. https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/gender-d...
Are you aware of Rust?
Anecdotal - for a large publicly traded financial services who wants to manage their book of record software (i.e. the software that holds the truth of "dear client you hold this many assets"), you're looking at $3-5M/year in license costs.

Depending on the business context of a ML solution for a company like the OP describes, you're likely looking at $500k+, but this is pure speculation and requires more information about the customer situation (e.g. is the ML solution going to save the company money or help them sell more).
> Your earnings at age 25 determine your total lifetime earnings

Do you have more info on this?
Too easy to reverse engineer,I can not see hardware vendors getting on board.
Exactly for those reasons.

Most people can't pick out intervals by ear, but they can manage "higher" "lower" or "the same".
Part of this is that a lot of states have agricultural exemptions or lower rates for farmland. Even if it's not effectively farmed. Or McMansions in the countryside exploiting the same law via what my dad called "Noah's Ark farms" (just two of every animal).

So yes, if you want to game the system and sit on land, there's little tax incentive to sell it.
The giant balance up top is an incredible FOMO machine. In the best findom/gamification, you can increase your "score" simply by giving them more money. The volatility makes the game more difficult to predict than most free-to-play games, but the daily graphs going up so fast make it hard to resist.
Whose disclosures? Uber's ... lmao

Can we trust anything they say? I just know my account was hacked in 2014.. money stolen from me and then seeing tons of others suffering the same fate. All the while the company who let it happen laughing at it's users... blaming them.
I had a similar experience as well. Tried to call support and they had a prerecorded message telling you to go away, you're fucked, unless you're calling about an account takeover.

It reminds me of the time Washington DC had a baby earthquake and verizon's network promptly fell over. When it flops under non apocalyptic loads, you get a dark glimpse of the inevitable catastrophe when the big one rolls around.

When (not if) the next bank run occurs, you'd better hope you can get yours via the vanilla coinbase UI, because you will be all on your own. (FWIW I have money in coinbase after this experience, but only an amount that would not cause me to need therapy were it to catch on fire)
This makes me sad. I love the services Final offered, especially having separate merchant locked card numbers. Does anyone offer something similar?