skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is still pioneers and early adopters time, people seeing bitcoin as the first possible single currency for the entire planet. We will see how it goes when the masses and legislators come. Utopian it is not anymore and even technically feasible nowadays, so we will have attempts.
I don't think anyone who understands how computers work would compare the active process of a server responding to an HTTP request to the entirely passive phenomenon of shining light into a window and capturing the photons that bounce off.
Nope neither can my late 2015 MBP...

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Operating System: macOS Sierra 10.12.1 or later

Connection: Thunderbolt 3–enabled Mac

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/HKN62LL/A/lg-ultrafine-5k...
"don't steal, the government hates competition" - some bumper sticker
Brave offers DuckDuckGo as private tabs search option
>You do know it is impossible to stop all cyber attacks?

This is a fallacious argument, specifically the Nirvana Fallacy. Perfection not being achievable in no way means that there can't be standard best practices that are a minimum requirement, nor that liability cannot still exist. Certain types of cyberattacks are in fact possible to stop perfectly merely by virtue of not holding onto information at all. As a trivial example, there should be no plaintext password leaks (or even easily brute force password leaks) at all, ever. Adaptive hashes/key stretching have been a thing since the dawn of security, Robert Morris described CRYPT for unix password usage in 1978. bcrypt is from 1999. There has been no reasonable basis at all for plain text or even raw fast hash primitives to be utilized, ever, yet they have been. In no other industry dealing with these kinds of privacy and safety concerns is that sort of practice considered acceptable, not should it be.

Holding personal private information at all long term should fundamentally be considered a liability situation, because it's not necessary, it's a commercial choice. Can't be hacked if it doesn't exist. If businesses choose to hold it, they should also be taking reasonable steps to protect it, and accept liability for failures. That's the natural balancing flip side to them getting profit from using it. If they're allowed to turn any costs of holding it into externalities that distorts the market.
Good point, and that's kind of where I'm coming from--when I said "people are trained" I meant implicitly, for regular people who would only encounter this rarely. So is this similarly just a question of user training to break from the "natural" interaction?
I was just reviewing the avg tx fee on major coins.

Micropayments aren't possible on any widely accepted coin. BTC has hit 20 USD a tx (albeit without segwit).

It's looking a little rough.

Might be time for a draw back.

EDIT: I was pulling together the avg tx fees from https://bitinfocharts.com/

$BTC: 24.4 USD $ETH: 1.07 USD $BCH: 0.17 USD $LTC: 0.632 USD $DASH: 0.62 USD $XMR: 5.49 USD

My other thoughts on the subject: https://twitter.com/placeybordeaux/status/941122240623423490
Does the author actually define surprising anywhere other than "George Shackle's definition"?
Student loans are the stupidest form of loans. Do people need a college education? Absolutely. What's the best way to provide it? I have no idea.

Here's why student loans are dumb.

1. They are practically guaranteed to anyone who signs regardless of their future ability to pay it back.

2. The majority of people getting them are children and have are terrible at perceiving future outcomes. Ask any 18-year-old starting college if they will make more money than average after graduating, most will say yes.

3.College drop out rates are high. This site says 56% https://www.collegeatlas.org/college-dropout.html . Taking out a loan to help you make more money and then not making more money puts you at higher risk not to pay back.

4. Relatively speaking all majors are valued at the same cost within an institution. If I get a bachelors degree in computer science I pay the same tuition and costs as someone who gets a bachelors degree in ancient history, even though our potential earnings are vastly different.

The entire student loan and college education market is a mess. I suspect this is a sign that college should be a public good or has been messed with by folks that think it should be.
It was mostly European countries that wanted to do it. That doesn't mean they did it. Just googling "Libya no fly zone" looking at the headlines and dates will tell that story. It had to be a NATO operation so it needed active US support and it couldn't have gotten UN Security Council Resolution in support without the US.
The Bitcoin bubble has already burst, multiple times in fact.

From the high point of $31 all the way to $2 in Dec 2011.
From $266 to $130 in May 2013.
From $1200 to $200 in Mar 2015.
From $5000 to $2900 in Sep 2017.
From $7300 to $5500 in Nov 2017.
From $18000 to $14000 in Dec 2017.
> Who are these people? Having lived in both rural and urban environments, I don't think I've ever succumbed to boredom.

I find it interesting that you've seemingly lived a life devoid of meeting ANYONE who was bored. I can name more than I can remember and that's JUST from university peers.
It's not at all a reasonable response. A small bit of malware could eliminate the need for physical intervention: programmatically logout, login with the thief's account to sync, then log that one out too.

The response smacks of an attitude that "once a machine is even a little compromised it's not our responsibility what happens. Physical access is a compromise, therefore we don't have to fix our own loop hole."

This is like a safe company saying, "Well, of course someone that breaks into your house can also open the safe by saying, I'm the owner out loud."
Maybe that's how they spell kangaroo somewhere. Like color and colour.
I've had my iPhone go into thermal shutdown in the Bay Area, so this is not SV arrogance, it's a physics problem. When I lived in colder climates with snow I never had a problem with their headphones falling out, or even using the capacitive touch screen (I just took my gloves off).

It sounds like you need the ToughBook equivalent of a smartphone, which is fine, but most users are fine working within the limitations.
IIRC they only announced that Disney content would be on the service.
Can you provide an example of Russia denying Soviet Union's obligations when it was not convenient?
Ask HN: `fake job` postings. Did we `riched` above 50%?
If I leave my front door to my personal residence unlocked, and someone comes to the front door, opens it, and walks inside without permission --- is that illegal?

I'm actually not sure.
Do people honestly use FB to keep up with what others are doing? IMO it seems like the primary use-case is to let everyone else know about what you are doing.
NatWest bank spat prompts web security changes
Well, you’re not alone in wondering that. In fact it was noted in the Bible as part of God’s curse when we became “enlightened” by eating fruit from the tree of knowledge. We’ve at least known it’s harder than it should be for a very long time.
Before humans, lightning was THE primary way to start fire on Earth.
Prior to modern medicine, childbirth killed perhaps a billion women. Even today, it's still a major cause of death for women of childbearing age. I sure wouldn't call it "just fine."
At some point, there are limits to our ability to empirically test large-scale predictions because we have no ability to run history more than once.

This certainly applies to macroeconomics -- how does one empirically 'test' any prediction from a macroeconomic model based on real-life inputs, other than to see what happens? But this shouldn't preclude us from asking the really difficult questions that we care about, rather than restricting ourselves to the realm of physics, where we can get 5 sigmas in classical statistical tests.

With regards to Robert Nobel's criticism, the whole point of the Club of Rome's approach is to model a simplified, 'low resolution' view of the world economy in order to embed it in a larger network of information, goods, and energy flows constrained by the environment -- because the boundary conditions matter a lot to how the macroeconomy functions.

Sometimes you can get away with a much simpler modeling approach if you actually get all the inputs right. The biggest criticism the Club of Rome has on most macroeconomic models is that it doesn't model the environmental inputs in sufficient detail, and these things really matter a lot in the long run.

It is not simply sufficient to take current 'wage levels' or 'capital stock' or even 'level of technology' as a direct input to your DSGE RBC model -- our macroeconomies perform a quasi-ecological function of converting flows of matter and energy, largely taken from Nature and the environment, and converting them further for human use. Understanding the Nature-human interface, then explicitly modeling the stock quantities of the inputs into the macroeconomy must on some level be important, because they are key to how our entire technological society functions.

I you're inclined to learn more about their modeling approach at a high level, I highly recommend Thinking in Systems [1]. Read it a week ago and it blew my mind, as its intuitions match up with a lot of patterns that we see over and over again in dealing with any complex network, but presented in a systematic and convincing manner.

[1] http://wtf.tw/ref/meadows.pdf
Yes, in the last section:

> Roughly speaking, it’s rational to be surprised by an event if and only if that event requires investigation and explanation.
There were also plenty of reputable political science models that actually did predict a Trump win, so, it all depends on who you put your faith in.
Top Security Vulnerabilities of 2017
Look at the value of gold between 2001 and 2013[1]. There were multiple years with 20-30% gains.

I grant that a +1500% gain in 1 year is a different animal. But combine the store of value along with rapid technological innovation in all cryptocurrencies (ICOs, alt-coins, etc). I submit to you that there could be something here besides baseless mania.

1. http://onlygold.com/Info/Historical-Gold-Prices.asp
What? The page linked has drivers for macOS. They work on a hackintosh and on any regular Mac. Nvidia wouldn’t release official drivers that only work on a hackintosh.
Odd that this is downvoted?

Maybe I'm just an old fart, but "usability" of apps seems to be going down everywhere. For example, making "near" user-definable would be an easy fix, and I don't think it would cause any implementation problems on the mapping side, would it?

I notice feature after feature like this these days, where something has been implemented, but it isn't useful due to lack of attention to detail.
This is not a pro machine, no one can upgrade the RAM or open this up for anything. This is suitable for rich YouTubers. Apple is now pretty much clueless.
"It is small contribution to the vast corpus of complaints about what happens to product design when an engineer’s focus on problem solving blinds them to the norms of social interaction."

Product design is part of engineering. Good engineering entails solving the actual problem within the actual constraints. In this case, ignoring the constraints of social interaction is bad engineering.
It's not illegal to lock your house door, that's only locks that require a key to unlock from inside. Normal deadbolts are fine. You just can't lock people in.

Example here http://www.ahouseonarock.com/chesterfieldhomeinspector/doubl...

People have used these thinking "Someone could break the glass, reach in, and turn the deadbolt to open the door," but it's really not worth the trade-off of "My house is on fire and I can't get out."
All your cost is upfront in R&D, manufacturing an additional copy of your product is free. There's more.
well then, how about you tell everyone where you grew up, so you can actually help someone out with some data? because that's certainly the exception, and not the rule.
> Russia yearns for the good old days.

Russia picked up all the Soviet Union debt obligations. All those successor states have been essentially debt free on day one.
> I have this theory that they've noticed that the platform is being used less and less, and is why we're getting so much ads mixed with our friends' posts. They're milking the cow before it dies.

Um, no. Facebook remains the most popular app in the United States with a comfortable lead. It's surpassed only by its own Whatsapp and Messenger globally. I think I read that in terms of time spent in an app, Facebook still beats Whatsapp, but I can't find the stat right now. Facebook just crossed 2 billion MAUs this year.

Its advertising revenue grows at close to 50% a year. Obviously part of that is showing more ads per user, but it's also growth in app usage. I'd say the cow keeps sprouting new udders and they are feverishly trying to keep up with attaching the pumps.
Everyone pours money into the MPAA which lobbies on their behalf. The reason every major studio supports the MPAA rating system is because the $25k/film fees mostly go to lobbying, concealed as a cost of doing business.
It is legal until you inform them they are trespassing and ask them to leave.
I disagree strongly with your take on story points:

First, if story points are an indirect measure of time, then the "psychological game" you're playing will be immediately revealed if your engineers are as smart as claimed. There is no reason for me to point something a 2 over a 3 unless you're measuring the time it takes to deliver software based off those measurements. On the opposite end of the spectrum, my confidence in whether a story is an 8 or a 13 becomes significantly weaker as the numbers get bigger.

Using numbers, specifically, is a hint that whomever is handling process just wants to predict when the project will be done. Numbers trick you into thinking they can be added, margins of error are not additive. My go-to question in these situations is why don't we just estimate with abstract sizes? (Small, Medium, Large, etc) Surprisingly I'm often met with resistance.

Second, if story points are not an indirect measure of time, then why are you pointing stories? What does the pointing gain your team other than fluff? If you say it's for prioritization then you're just invalidating the premise and we're back to an indirect measure of time.

Finally, I have not seen, and you have not presented, evidence that engineers are good at estimating. In fact all that I have read seems to indicate the exact opposite, that engineers are very bad at estimating (in fact that they are largely too optimistic). One could argue that this can be trained, or that you'll get better at estimating as you gain more experience. Which I will concede that you will get faster and better at estimating and implementing the same exact feature, but that is not what we do. We implement new features, things we likely haven't done before.
> At the risk of aggravating the moderators, to ask this a third time what is so special about telecommunications companies, that, unlike other monopolies, need a whole different form of regulation?

I mean, you could ask the same thing about electric utilities. What's special is that as a society, we've decided that we don't want dozens and dozens of companies running infrastructure through public land. We grant some private companies space, for rent, but that also comes with the burdens of public process. In more space-constrained areas like telephone poles, streets, and conduits, it's often better to have a small number of companies utilize the space, but at the cost of additional regulations.

Electric, gas, phone, and water companies have captive audiences, but at the same time need the PUC to approve rate increases and are required to meet certain performance guidelines.

I'll also ask for the third time: Why should ISPs be different than the phone company?
Did you guys see this thread on Twitter a couple of days ago?
https://twitter.com/TedOnPrivacy/status/940588631709896704

Have you had similar problems selling bitcoin?

EDIT: saw -> see
Bitcoin is like gold, except we have alchemy, and an infinite series of new elements between 78 and 80.
Yes, pity. The lack of systemd is a major driver for use of Amazon Linux for us and our efforts to get away from Red Hat. We won't be adopting AL 2 because of this (not if I can help it anyway). I had actually thought that AL not adopting systemd was a sign of clue, but it seems it was just slowness. Let's hope they leave the original AL around long enough to find alternatives we can trust.
> Trump winning the presidency when the best models we had gave him a 30% chance is not a failing of prediction at all.

How accurate the "best models" were isn't really relevant to the accuracy of the predictions of experts as a whole. The media was running that Clinton had a 98% chance of winning the morning of the race.
Larger organizations use ISO-27001 and SOC-2 to audit this kind of stuff. But even so, sometimes the devil is in the details and it's possible to comply with the letter of the regulation while still being unprepared for the kinds of attacks that your service attracts.
In a related noted, 4% of economists are bitcoin holders.
As an American, I've always found it mind-boggling how average Americans cheer these types of M/As. The argument is that consolidation leads to more "efficiency" and "synergy", but those benefits are usually not passed down to consumers (actually, market domination allows a company like Disney to price-gouge even more on movies and merchandise).
But then that one time is actually different.
OK, fair enough. Let's see ... 100 years. How about nationalism?
For me the biggest problem with Facebook is that you bust your ass to obtain an audience and then you can't reach them all because they change the algorithm and you have to pay extra. So you're paying initially to advertise and reach an audience and then you pay again to actually be allowed to say something to them. That's fucking pathetic. I mean come on Facebook, get your shit together. Either you'll make money from advertising or from promotions. You can't have it both ways. You're pissing off businesses, especially the smaller ones.
It's a bit like shouting in through the doorway "Hey, how much is your coffee?"
Monitor your Segment events through Datadog
syphilis increased the crazy of many many important people until antibiotics came into common use
The problem is the subways misuse their delay systems. A few months ago BART was using their delay feed to warn about a shutdown that would occur over a long 3-day weekend. Sure it's a "delay", but it's not an active delay that impacts riders now. Google Maps doesn't seem smart enough to figure that out. But honestly the operators should find better ways to alert riders about upcoming planned delays.
We need to give up on the idea of bitcoin being used as money. It wasn't designed in a way that would encourage holder to spend it like money until a stable valuation is found when everyone in the world is holding it. As Yellen said, it's a highly speculative asset. Small chance of massive yield, large chance of small failure.
The changing perception of open source in enterprise IT
Not only how difficult labor is, but how helpless a child is for so long. Years before they can walk, for example. Compare that to a fawn, which stands up and follows its mom after just a few minutes into the world.
Yes, but at least it can do 60hz http://www.dell.com/ae/business/p/dell-up2715k-monitor/pd

The GPU doesn't emulate anything, it sees 2 displays so does the OS.
Which causes the problem, you effectively have 2 panels which can have difference in color recreation and there are some sync issues which can cause tearing with full screen applications.

For professional use especially video editing the best monitor I can think of is the UP2718Q.

The UP2718Q is a true 10 bit panel.
It supports a very wide color spaces: 100% of sRGB/Adobe RGB and Rec.709, 97.7% of DCI-P3 and of 76.9% Rec.2020.

It supports HDR which is becoming important for content creators these days and has a peak brightness of 1000nits which would allow you to produce HDR content and verify the end result in the same workflow without having to push it to a secondary true HDR display.

And since it's a PrimeColor display from Dell each monitor is individually calibrated at the factory and you get a full calibration chart with each PC monitor (they used to do it for each Ultrasharp, but these days it has to be US Primecolor) like this one: http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/images/dell_up2718q/img061.jpg

And most importantly it supports full hardware calibration so you can actually go into the OSD start the calibration process and update the hardware LUT table in the monitor itself rather than having to rely on color profiles.
I give the example elsewhere, can I be prohibited from shining a light onto a menu you posted in your front window in the middle of the night? I had to take the active step of turning on the flashlight and sending photons onto a "physical piece of property to" bounce off the menu.
The Director of Security at a bank should at least be fired if their bank is robbed by a guy brandishing a banana. I'd speculate that that's the nature of most data breaches: amateur attackers taking advantage of grossly incompetent security.
It's completely possible for Bitcoin to be in a speculative bubble but also not overvalued.

I'm somewhat bullish on Bitcoin, but there's no doubt that there's a speculative bubble -- people with no knowledge of Bitcoin other than its price history are getting more and more eager to invest to ride the wave. This is the definition of a speculative bubble.

The main question is what side of the bubble we're on -- where are we relative to the point where Bitcoin has passed its fundamentals.
>any semantic similarity to the K2 GUI system is probably coincidental.

Hardly coincidental! I very much had the K gui in mind when I originally architected it (and I'm not sure I'd describe it as a "reasonably conventional web application"...)
That's like a James Burke Connections episode.
> many people have strong ties to the bay area which serve to keep them there

It sounds like you're saying that something there is important to them, so they choose to stay. We all make choices and live with consequences.

> but moving would only make those circumstances worse

How can anyone be sure of that? But let's say it's true that moving anywhere else would make their situation worse. Then what are they upset about? They're already in the best place, aren't they?
Liquidation of course is often insufficient to pay back all creditors. The risks which have to be assessed before making student loans vs. business loans differ by degree, not kind.

The systems of laws in our society are constructed. A choice has been made to privilege entrepreneurs over students.
Ask HN: Are app update schedules a good indicator of company culture?
It seems like mobile app updates are pushed out starting from noon until 1-2am every day, and there are some like Uber and Venmo that I've noticed often get updates on the weekends, even in the evening. Do these mean that engineers had to be in then, or is there some delay in app update pushing? Are these a good gauge of a company's work/life balance?
Research into this is still ongoing:
https://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/projects/activities/copa...
What Is the Business Model of OYO Rooms
Doesn't this headline actually violate Betteridge's law?
>Isn’t Facebook and it’s algorithms that sell you a pretty hefty gatekeeper in deciding what you see?

Good point, I would say however that you create/add the sources first (by following), Facebook then guides what you see, based on your behavior.

Facebook doesn't decide upon, and broadcast a pre-determined message - they simply work off of your preferences, and try to give you more of what you want (not need) with a healthy side of advertising.