skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking of taking routes 2 and 3... I wonder what are examples of companies who have done this successfully?
This. If you throw darts at the stock page you have a 50% chance of beating the market.
I'll never know for sure, but it's a long run over eight years or so. I rarely buy shares in specific companies, and even more rarely sell, so I can see that they outpace the index funds I buy. I could be just lucky. I buy individual companies basically entirely based on reading the news, and if I'm reading it in the news, the professionals knew it long before I did.

I used to assume that if I read it in the news, it was all priced in and there was no point in me buying, but I noticed that often, it wasn't. Maybe I just got lucky and I miss the news reports on the companies that subsequently crash.
I really liked that people voted with their wallets. I funded $10/month to a couple of people and pulled everything out. I'm glad they reversed the fee. Will start funding again.

I wish we could all do the same with our taxes to make a point to GOP.
pgcli was a huge help to some former colleagues who had some trouble working with relational databases and SQL for the first time. I'm a big fan myself as well. Thank you for building a great piece of software.
When you write a program/app/website and someone uses it, is there nothing of value created?
I wholly reject the type of argument where "you can't blame people for being self-interested in a given incentive structure". You certainly can. To take it to an absurd extreme, it is a bit like saying you can't blame people for not standing up to Nazis in Weimar Germany. It is indeed suicidal to have done so, yet, you can blame them.

That said, I also wholly agree that it is foolish to expect change before changing their incentives. Public exposure of the racket that is scientific publishing is one such minor incentive change.
It looks more like a photo piece than anything else. I'm not sure why they chose to use that in the photo op, but I highly doubt they're creating their own batteries this way.
Your criticisms of my comment are fair, but you are also defending an animation of hot air balloon that somehow describe attributes of cryptocurrency transactions.

There's nothing wrong about making visualizations that look interesting and appealing, but do the most salient features of this display actually encode the data? Or was it designed mostly to convey a subjective view about Bitcoin?

Didn't Tufte call designs like this building a "Duck"? https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
Agreed. Was hoping to find a spot as a designer.
Like Europe, right?
"fees were higher because they chose to no longer batch charges. "

Why did they decide that??
(sorry did not read all blogpost in case it is there)
False.

The real answer? Being good.
It might not be able to mass produce their changes. Vehicles are designed around the production line. Think ikea flat pack furniture vs a custom carved table.
What is stopping somebody from not publishing in a journal and simply putting up a PDF on their own website?

Otherwise, if you ran a Journal, how would you setup a free system to curate high-impact research? Or alternatively, how much would you charge to run such a journal?
Or, they could have grandfathered existing users. You know, that's usually how you appease and change at the same time.
The people of Zimbabwe and Venezuela suffered a fall in productive and/or export capacity (agricultural and oil respectively).

Never mind the currency, crypto or not, you can expect inflation when real resources are reduced and you have to grow the monetary base to keep the economy working. See (1) for more details.

I didn't say anything about risk.

I didn't say that crypto fans can't separate economy from politics, quite the opposite, I said that, it seems to me, crypto fans think, erroneously, that economics can be separated from politics.

(1). http://bilbo.economicoutlook.net/blog/?p=3773
Yep, it's misleading. This loaded question in particular made me close the tab:

> Which software engineering roles are you interested in?
> I and most of my friends had unsupervised internet access.

I don't know how old you are, but personally (in my early 30s) the internet of my youth was pretty vastly different than the internet of today, i.e. as you say:

> And guess what? 99.99% of 90s kids didn't use webcams.

Well now most kids have a high quality webcam in their pocket at all times.
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As a male with long hair past my shoulders, there seem to be no such hair option when creating the profile
Reading. One of the main things here is to read to them.

Kindness/empathy. I'm not sure how to teach it, though...
China has lots of factories, are always building them, and have a lot of expertise around the practice.

Expertise means that the architects and construction guys have done it before. The regulators get it.

When I was in the business of building out and managing on-premise data centers, our team could get a project off the ground in a few days. We knew the vendors, the contractors, etc. Now? It would be tougher.
Patreon nixes controversial fee over backlash
On #1: I think the more important thing is that a unit of BTC is well defined and non-zero fraction of all possible bitcoin.
They do... It's called ACH.
As your edit notes, trust solves a lot of the technical hurdles that Bitcoin and Etherium and other protocols intended for use against adversaries must leap.

Many of the proposed and actual uses of blockchain are layered on top of existing trust networks. For example inter-connected electrical grids operated by separate companies already trust each other and already have working settlement mechanisms. Potentially a blockchain can improve/simplify/quicken an existing flow of settlements between trusted parties by eliminating phonecalls, faxes, snail mailed bank drafts, and so on. It may reduce manual processing and human error and banks in the middle.

As a technology, blockchain may be more like double entry accounting or an abacus than the many other things that the word "technology" tends to conjure up in our minds.
Good sports. I have about $50/mo going to creators on the site. I would follow wherever they went. Hopefully they managed to keep this stuff from disrupting too many people.
but it does help with conversion

Well yeah. I mean, isn't it a conversion unto itself?
Dull minds are gullible to fake news
> Jack was/is a creator himself so he should have known this dynamic and therefore predicted the bad outcome ahead of time.

I thank that might exactly be the reason why it happened. From what I recall as a fan of their artistic work, he (& his wife) never asked for straight up donations, but either offered something in direct exchange (via Bandcamp) or the money went towards a specific project (Kickstarter).
Or it could be that computer science (what most people refer as "tech") came to be dominated by the boy's club videogame/nerd culture from the early 80's, which pushed women out.

It goes back to another topic here on HN: I don't know of any other career so dominated by a culture as SWE/tech.
How does unbundling help refund rates?
This screams like "hey we'll charge the creators rather than you". As a creator there's no way I could trust you for getting a fair deal and the competition is so fierce nobody needs to use patreon. If patreon needs help paying the bills, they should make their own account on their own system and rely on the service to provide like everyone else.
> "It’s time we in the tech industry acknowledge the bubble nature of bitcoins"

You can only call things a bubble accurately in hindsight. Please provide data to substantiate your claim.
Be bought by another company ;)
You mean the party pushing for tax cuts?
The Chinese consumer.
>Credit cards are super quick to use at the register.

At least they used to be. Chips ruined that. Now I have to stand there staring at the screen for half a minute waiting to respond to prompts and to pull the card out at the end. For most transactions, cash is probably faster than using a chip.
YC is building out more of their pipeline? What are the implications for this? Is this to capture more data?
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The usual name for this is "late binding". It became popular because of Smalltalk, and it's a core principle of the "pure OOP" languages (like Self, Obj-C and Ruby) that Smalltalk inspired.
Debit cards are subject to the durbin amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment) so the fee for these micropayments is $0.21, or $0.22 rounded up. Debit cards have percentage fees formed on the basis of points, or ten thousands of a percentage.
Increasing vehicle volume does not do as much to increase weight as you might think. A Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport is a 4,400 lb lbs 2 seater. In comparison to the original 4,323 lb 5 seater Tesla.
It is a good investment until due to mismanagement they don't make enough revenue to pay up. PREPA is already in default on their bonds so I don't see how they can convince anyone to lend them even more money. The previous bondholders probably have dibs on the income stream already.
Getting randomness from an Apple device with particle physics, thermal entropy
Bitcointalk is down?
> but I have a hard time believing that foreign tech investments in China really pay off.

If it didn't pay off, apple wouldn't be the most valuable company in the world.

> The Chinese strategy seems to be to woo big foreign companies, build a critical mass of local users who want the product, ban or otherwise limit the foreign company's influence in China

What else do you expect them to do? Cede their entire market to foreigners? Every country did the same thing. The europeans did it. We did it in the US. The japanese and the south koreans. It's really common sense.

> If Google accomplishes anything worthwhile at this research center, won't China just shut it down and re-employ those researchers at a domestic company?

If they did, why would google invest in china? It's been 40 years. If investing in china wasn't lucrative, it would have ended a long time ago.

> Why do high-tech companies even continue to try to break into China?

The real question is why is it that we get the exact same type of comments in every thread about china?

Go through every china related thread on HN and every single one has the exact same comments. Why?
Scroll way down on this page https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure ... apparently people were getting confused by the batched charges
Yeah but a >1% fee is ridiculous. We all know visa, Mastercard, PayPal are drowning in cash.

I had high hopes for bitcoin like currency having a flat fee in cents and an optional percentage few for insurance if you do want a charge back and other nice credit card like features.

But bitcoin is riddled with its own charge mania nowadays.
I have done research and haven't found that "plenty of schools have random assignment for students yet teacher A's students vastly outperform teacher B's students".

I'm very well aware of studies showing that teachers make an impact. That much is obvious. What I'm not aware of is any significant group of schools that regularly use random assignment.
Well the whole universe believes that matter behaves the way it does. A few billion lumps of gooey brain tissue isnt going to change it. But cut that matter off from the experience of the rest of the universe and it's free to do anything it damn well pleases. Until you look at it again and then it becomes something that fits with what its supposed to be doing wrt the universe at this moment
Yeah, it frustrates me a lot too. If I need to pick the squares with street signs about half the time they want me to choose the squares that have the pole and half not! Ditto with the square with the tiny corner of the sign.
> The sort of emotional hyperbole on here about "cryptocurrencies need to be banned by the loving, paternal, incorruptible government to save the world from ourselves" is not just getting old, its absurd.

Why is it "getting old"? It's a fair concern that something so volatile should be examined critically and relentlessly. People don't just "get a stiff drink and accept they'll lose money" if it goes down---they jump out of windows.

I'm hesitant to jump in cryptocurrency discussions because 1) I know too little about them, even at a technical level and 2) they're consistently filled with "emotional hyperbole" (that we agree on) from both ends.

I think governments/regulators should have some say the same way you'd want them to regulate any financial instrument and punish Ponzi schemers and pump-and-dumpers.

I'd like to think about the motives of both sides from being so passionate. For naysayers, I imagine it's a bit of sour grapes. For yaysayers, it's a bit more obvious---once the hype dies, they'll stop making money.
I love vue.js because it has made front-end development bearable for someone who has hated web front-end since 1995.

A bit of apples and oranges comparison but writing Vue felt just like first time I wrote Python many years ago: FUN

I write a lot of embedded Javascript (based on Spidermonkey) so I was happy to find that vue seems to make the same decisions I often make in my own code.

I am sure React is great for full time webdev of heavy SPAs but learning curve feels longer, plus the whole framework feels heavier.
We put olive oil on the pan and then wipe it with a paper towel so that it is only a very thin layer. I then use a tablespoon of butter to cook scrambled eggs. If the pan is the right temperature it is usually super easy to clean.
> patrons were happy knowing that this change will send more money to creators.

That could depend on how they asked patrons.

If I was asked if I were in favor of more money going to creators, I would say yes.

If I was asked if I were in favor of paying more to make this happen, I would say no. If I want to send more money to creators, I would opt for a higher patron tier.
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I am "old" to the market. But I was interested in an out-group view.
Ask the Washington Post.

By the way, the fracking diference between 2015 and 2016 low maximum was less than 0.02%.

I ythink, you're trying to find anything to deny the data, even the most absurd minute word, why?
Every HN thread about china has the exact same anti-chinese comments. Every single one.
Thanks for saying that. I find this behaviour slimey and disgusting tbh. A honest business should act like professionals
The established value of the consensus is the transactions contained within the block. It's established because it's what the network accepted, regardless of individual node states.

That's the point, one should not have to consider the values of other nodes to reach consensus. If the network agrees on something, that's consensus. If a certain node doesn't, that's their problem.

It's agreed because that miner solved the block problem first. If you have a different view, you must fix it. This is how it achieves consensus.

Not sure what specific consensus problem Nakamoto consensus doesn't solve, but it does provide a consensus based on the specific rules of the network. So yes, it's a consensus system. You might want to be contrarian and dispute what consensus means to you. But that's what it means to to the miners and that's what matters.
War stories are usually not good...

For starting here is my advice: get a small linux VPS or just install python on your laptop, get as much back data as possible, covering at least one market cycle (this will be your initial expense) and start back testing every trading strategy you can find on the net or in books (library) for free...

Never pay for strategies, because they will all fail, but by testing them one by one you'll come up with your own ideas and one day hopefully you'll find your edge...

It's not going to be easy or "get rich quick thingy", but it is well worth it in the end...
Well, for one, drawing conclusions about the market circa market cap of 15B is very different to assessing it now at 275B.
In case someone wants to flag the post, the link to the actual fund is: https://pineapplefund.org/

They have a signed messaged with the funds and verified transactions already sent including $1,000,000 going to the EFF.
True, companys just have professional liers, called marketing/pr.

But well, yes. It might be an exaggeration. To look at it positively, marketing people are just good at communicating ... only the borders to missleading and plain lying are very blurry ...
With the new chip system I swapped to cash for many transactions because it's faster.
I have thrown a dozen or so darts, and my rate seems to be around 80%. But then, I'm not just throwing darts; I'm reading that companies are going to do better in the future and will see a rise in stock price, and it makes sense, so I sometimes buy them. Maybe I'm just the lucky one. I started with ARM a good eight years ago, when I read that they were going to do really well by supplying Apple. Of course, if I'd done the same thing with Imagination technologies 8 years ago, it would have been a less happy ending; I can only assume that the news I read at the time was more effusive about ARM.

Most recently (13 months ago - this isn't a regular thing), a British pasty retail outfit named Greggs. The news said things were looking good, I could see their stores were busy, I bought some shares, they're up about 40% in 13 months (which is unusually good, I freely admit, and I certainly didn't expect that). That's really all I do, and it seems to work out (and it really is rare when I do; typically, I just dump all my pennies into index funds - easily 80% of my pennies are in index funds). I think some of the big name successful investors do something similar, but obviously on a much grander and more informed scale. Plus the British house-builders. Every time the UK government announces another plan to help young people get fifty year mortgages, it's time to buy some more of them! They will crash eventually, I'm sure :(
Can we filter out sellers/buyers by country, to make sure?
The only reliable way to do large transactions internationally without percentage based fees are wire transfers.

Even they have a $15 fee and sometimes a $15 receiving fee as well.

Ideally you'd have zero fees for transactions under $5. $5-$X0000 would have a percentage based fee and thereafter a flat fee for large transactions.
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Or, we could pass a American Worker Trade Bill?

Something along the lines of, if you want to make your product in the cheapest country; move all of corporate workers along with your cost cutting move. In other words--get out. Put the mansion up for sale--good luck!

Let's see how many companies decide Globalism is the answer?

Take advantage of our schools, our legal system, the opportunity to find yourself after college, and then decide your county's tax rate is unfair.

Cry me a river. And yes--I stopped buying Apple products awhile ago.

I'm not debating Art Laffer’s famous curve--a curve the cheap skates love to fall back on. It basically says wealthy people will go to great lengths to avoid paying taxes--nothing new.

Hell lower the corporate tax rate a bit, a bit, but don't let them get away with exploiting this country.

"Hay--you want Ireland's tax rate--move the spaceship there Tim. Adios! Bye--Bye! Have a pint!" Let's see how much whining there is?

(I don't want to argue. I just don't like the way they use the American system when it's convient for them--when they are young, and begging for money, in a non-corrupt/kinda fair system to invent their widget. I'm talking about all of them. I'm not picking just on Apple.)
thanks for the feedback! yep, we are planning to add exactly the tweaks you mentioned. plus eye color.

will do this soon :)
I would have gotten in trouble for playing on a Gameboy in class when I was a kid. This isn't much different.

Though the ban seems like an over-reach of authority. Kids should be able to use their phones during breaks. And I'm sure many will.
> We messed up.

If they are acting in a clear manner they would explain how they undo the damage. This is a business after all and they can be sued for things they "mess up"
hmm, obvious mistake. will fix.
A Google Engineer is trying to sell Bitcoins
That was my first impression as well. As someone who likes to understand what my computer is doing I was never aware that Windows Defender was anything more than the typical definition based AV.

Does this mean that Windows Defender is now something to disable on HIPAA compliant workstations because there is a chance that Defender thinks some medical records look suspicious and it decided to upload them for analysis?

But for the home and small business this stuff is amazing. It really continues the anti-"virus" analogy by effectively creating an immune system comprised of most Windows machines.
Putin's approval rating is in the 80s.

That should be enough to tell you what they think of you without looking at polls.

(IIRC they were trying to shut down the one independent poll firm recently)
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1) Stock trading robots

2) see 1)
What do they do to decide if a user if real or fake? I am not remotely surprised that none of them work well
https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...
Fuck them. Their crippling/abandoning of Picasa should make it clear not to trust their efforts.
I'm still optimistic that we'll have a digital currency solving this problem well in the future. Distributed, auditable, scalable, international transactions at ridiculously low fees.
What to do about all those hardware interrupts? Can't imagine how you'd port a dos game to say Windows. I guess you could replace them with calls to an external runtime dll that acts as a kind of vm layer.
Do also remember Apple also has over a $100B of debt which you subtract from the cash.
And I hope founders plow some of this money into local venture.
Here is one interesting example: http://www.nber.org/papers/w21407 However, this really comes down to researches not being idiots.

If you mean at the school level, that's a policy choice which is far from universal. However, their are a lot of schools and a meaningful number do random student assignment.
Yeah that’s an assault rifle.
All shipping between US destinations - not all shipping.
in the short-term, people are very willing to pay for gift/status-boosting content related to faces and identity. plus stickers. LINE is a $10bn public company basically off of selling stickers. this has very high margins combined with viral nature of product that has low distribution cost. so good economics.

longer-term it is about the data and using it for other technologies.
I really liked the idea of websites mining some cpu-mineable cryptocurrency in place of having ads there. I suspect that might be a more widespread solution in the future. Maybe even in the long term, the mining will be done through webGL or some other API so that the browser can take advantage of the host's GPU/GPU equivalent.