skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> They are buying the cheapest “bitcoin” without actually understanding what they are buying.

I doubt people really understand what they are buying whether it's bitcoin or litecoin. If you think you do, well, then most people do. Don't look at "crytocurrency" as the future "payment method", invest it like an asset. Go in low, come out high.

I invested in litecoin because I believe the market is undervalued. It's like a blue chip but will continue to rise for a while. If litecoin is to continue to rise, my bet is stopping at 600 then stabilized until bitcoin pops again. Litecoin in my view will never pass Bitcoin, but it's nonetheless a fun investment to play with.
The use of christian symbology in evangelion is both meaningless and deep.

like, the use of christian symbology is arbitrary and it poses basically no meaning to the plot, merely being used for texture; but someone with sufficient knowledge of it can use it to predict some short term plot points.
The only tricky part to me is that its use is often highly idiomatic. There are so many German phrases that don't translate literally, but their English counterparts might translate okay and at least make some sense. The phrase "Es tut mir leid" comes to mind.
Net Neutrality: A History of Common Carrier 1884-2018
Kubernetes vs. Apache Mesos
this reminds me of, http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/08/world/fresh-air-britain-china-...
It is sort of a sniff test. It is hard and time consuming for an individual to parse the validity of these studies. So people look for basic facts they know to be true, which seem to be contradicted by the global warming claims. One of these is that water displaces the same volume of water whether frozen or liquid. Thus it would appear melting sea ice would have no impact on sea levels.
> When a protocol can’t evolve because deployments ‘freeze’ its extensibility points, we say it has ossified. TCP itself is a severe example of ossification; so many middleboxes do so many things to TCP — whether it’s blocking packets with TCP options that aren’t recognized, or ‘optimizing’ congestion control.

> It’s necessary to prevent ossification, to ensure that protocols can evolve to meet the needs of the Internet in the future; otherwise, it would be a ‘tragedy of the commons’ where the actions of some individual networks — although well-intended — would affect the health of the Internet overall.

On the other hand, I've done a fair bit of work getting TCP based applications to behave properly over high latency high congestion (satellite or radio usually) links and QUIC makes me nervous. In the old days you could put a TCP proxy like SCPS in there and most apps would get an acceptable level of performance, but now I'm not so sure. It seems like everybody assumes you're on a big fat broadband pipe now and nobody else matters.
I've worked with TFS and SVN for more than 10 years, and Git for maybe 5.

I find TFS the slowest of the lot, by quite a large margin.
I just hope cryto speculators won’t ask to be bailed out when everything will fail.
I don't know details on stock options, but for RSUs, my understanding is that it works like this: your signing bonus and part of yearly perf bonus is in equity. Signing bonus matures in four years, incrementally. 25% vests at the end of 1st year, the rest vests incrementally by month. Perf bonus vests in 1 yr. Once a RSU vests, it's yours. If you leave the company before a RSU vests, you lose it.

At IPO, RSUs get converted into stocks, however, there's a restriction that you can't sell them for 1 year from the IPO date. Tax obligation is handled by subtracting a portion of the units, rather than by paying out-of-pocket.
> How much daily volume is it currently supporting?

(for varying degrees of support where without a transaction fee of ~$5-20, your transaction may be silently dropped, and even without may require multiple hours for confirmation)
For high voltage distribution they are very efficient and change relatively little about the ecosystem. Moving the same power through the earth is not only more expensive (counter-intuitively, buried power cables must have thicker conductors to carry the increased reactive loading due to the cable itself; and you obviously need insulation; and digging trenches is more expensive than erecting a steel tower every few hundred meters or so), but puts quite a lot of heat into the ground, apart from a lot of digging. [1]

(There are actively managed buried cables which are oil or gas filled, but this becomes impractical for longer cables, or extensive networks. It's extremely expensive as well. This technology is mostly used in the catacombs underneath cities, to get 380 or 220 kV to power stations inside [or underneath] cities).

Low or medium voltage distribution is a different story and has been buried in most of central Europe for many decades. I don't recall seeing power lines in any city.

[1] Just to avoid someone from posting it inevitably: No, HVDC does not solve this.
I disagree. Buying can be 100% rational as long as you believe some other fool down the line will buy it off you. As soon as the supply of irrational buyers dries up it’s game over. But that doesn’t look like it will happen anytime soon, just look around!
Looks interesting but I think WebAssembly remains the more promising path for compiling to web browsers at this point. x to JS transpilers are likely on the way out.
Laundering Bitcoin through iTunes
A few years ago, Cards Against Humanity ran a Black Friday campaign where you send them $5 and get absolutely nothing in return.

https://cardsagainsthumanity.com/blackfriday/
Why should soldiers be any different? It’s just a job.

No, it isn't. People who serve in the armed forces and their families have a different lifestyle to almost anyone else. They make many sacrifices and lack many protections at work that others enjoy, for obvious reasons. They are trained in ways that profoundly affect them psychologically, because they may be forced to see or do things that in an ideal world no-one should ever have to see or do, and neither their mindset nor their experiences of those awful things just magically change back to normal when they're discharged. While serving in the forces may develop some admirable character traits and in some cases some very useful practical skills that would serve them well in other fields after they leave, that does not go for everyone, and many ex-forces personnel have great difficulty adapting back to civilian life, even if they've had a good military career.

Abandoning people almost immediately after they've been through that, as if they're just leaving behind a web site they used to run or some clients whose accounts they used to put in a spreadsheet, is somewhere near the wrong end of the inhumane/unethical scale.
By content-centric networking systems do you mean IPFS et al?
The few times I've used them they've been fantastic. My wife has fairly frequent ear infections, on the last occasion we paid for an online GP consultation as it was 8pm on a Friday night, meaning it would either be at least Monday to see our GP or a £20 taxi ride across town to see an out of hours doctor. Instead she was seen within half an hour, and a prescription sent to our local pharmacy and ready to pick up within an hour of starting the process. Thankfully it seems the NHS are catching on and have started offering something similar in London.
Make college more accessible by providing low-interest financing > college prices rise due to supply and demand > students end up in more and more debt > college presidents (and profs, and the colleges themselves) profit massively.

All of these things are direct consequences of each other.
Because those probably are not the ones who would shoot up the place.
Apple’s Phil Schiller on how the iPhone X 'seemed impossible at the start'
Not all of our self-driving cars will be electrically powered
If you have the dollar amount and the # of shares, then you can backtrack it to a rough percentage.

Also options are a % increase in share price play, so $100,000 strike price can at least give you some information wrt how much $ you can make if the per share price of the company triples, etc.

It's not always better to know % and % only. Let's say you get 1% options of a company valued at $10B. Options are priced at the preferred price, no discount. The company IPOs at $10B. Did you make $100M? Nope you made $0 so far!
Nvidia’s new graphics card is $3,000, painted gold, and not meant for graphics
FCC docs for this machine: https://fccid.io/2ALZTCMR

Photos:

* housing and antennas: https://fccid.io/2ALZTCMR/External-Photos/External-Photos-35...

* internals: https://fccid.io/2ALZTCMR/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos-35...

edit: I only really know about part 15 as it relates to amateur radio, but I am confused at how this device was certified. The device is noted as being licensed under part 15F, and 15F, § 15.521(b) clearly notes that § 15.203 applies to these devices. Relevant part of 15.203 below:

> An intentional radiator shall be designed to ensure that no antenna other than that furnished by the responsible party shall be used with the device. The use of a permanently attached antenna or of an antenna that uses a unique coupling to the intentional radiator shall be considered sufficient to comply with the provisions of this section.

Clearly from the photos that isn't the case, those connectors are not special in any way and those antennas aren't permanently affixed.

I think that is why this document exists, where they try to say that they're an unintentional radiator: https://fccid.io/2ALZTCMR/Attestation-Statements/Part-15B-35...

Which is completely absurd at face value. They're obviously not unintentionally radiating (like a plasma TV, for example) and they're purposefully putting out the signals so that they can detect things, and the fccid site clearly says that they're licensed as a 15F device, not a 15B device.

Can someone explain?
http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170515-the-entrepreneurs-...

Of course, this just shows how bad the air pollution is in China. Then again, water bottle brands like Nestlé's Poland Spring Water are just using "Poland Spring" as a gimmick and a ad-bait. So you definitely can sell thin air at different price based on "where the air was collected."
Another interesting protocol, perhaps underused, is SCTP. It fixes many issues with TCP, in particular it has reliable datagrams with multiplexing and avoiding head-of-line blocking. I believe QUIC is supposed to be faster at connection (re)estabishment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...
Tulip mania lasted 9 months. Bitcoin is 9 years old.
Somewhat related question:

Is there an easy way to power an IDE drive so that the motor does not eventually spin down?

(I don't care about reading/writing, only spinning)
I think this image is meme-worth:

http://professionalwargaming.co.uk/17-20170906_192955.jpg

"Oh no, not THAT story again..."
Whoa. From UCB's DS admissions page:

For Master of Information and Data Science students starting the program in academic year 2017-2018 (July 2017 – June 2018), tuition will be $2,333* per unit, plus a $693.75* semester fee. Tuition is charged per unit; datascience@berkeley is a 27 unit program.

That's crazy.
Just wish Amazon would give Twitch back to the Roku. Amazon anti competitive behavior lately is a bit out of hand.
I mean, ultimately I don't agree with this perspective. Nobody would maintain that only Burgundians can make Beef Burgundy, or only Ukrainians (what's the demonym here, Kievites?) can do Chicken Kiev, right?
>People are buying now because of the potential and because of exponential increase in price

This is the problem though. People are buying it for the price increase, rather than technical merit. It will eventually result in some middle aged couple who took out a mortgage holding the bag when it comes crashing down (if it does. If it doesn't, that's even scarier because that tells us how uninformed most people are.)
> The forces which have caused the previous project to accumulate technical debt are still in effect, so after the rewrite reaches feature parity you will probably have exactly the same amount of technical debt.

I would expect, based on both theoretical grounds and on past experience, that the rewrite will have more technical debt by the time it has reached feature parity.

Assuming your primary source of technical debt is all the little corners that get cut in order to meet a schedule, and assuming that the rewrite is being given far less time to get to a certain level of functionality than the original software took to get there, then one would expect the team to need to cut more corners to finish the rewrite. The code may be in a fancy new language, and it may be built on a more modern technology stack, but, in the mad rush to get a death march project done as quickly as possible, corners were cut.

If it feels otherwise, it may be because the project you're replacing was particularly messy. But probably it's because the design tradeoffs in the new system were made by yourself and your colleagues instead of that deranged pack of yahoos who were running things in the '00s.
tldr; exemption from SEC disclosure laws that protect investors of all classes are limited to club members only.
These are always great reads. Its good to see larger companies becoming more flexible from their old architectures and embracing the new tech. Serverless and Lambda are invaluable for us!
Or sell 1/n after price increases by n, for whatever n fits your risk/reward preferences.
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This is if you hit AMT, if you have ISOs. One positive for startup employees of the GOP tax bill is that it seeks to repeal AMT for individuals.

If you have NQOs, this tax always happens.
Exactly this. People should ask around for advice all the paper-millionaires from the 1999-2000 era. Lots of paper millionaires were made, most didn't materialize.
Coinbase is an exchange, you're exchanging with other Coinbase users. Wallets only come into play if you're moving crypto in or out of Coinbase. That's a good thing, wallet transfers can be slow and would really make trading a pain.
What, no integration testing?
Instead, look for jobs where more than 10 years of experience is an asset.

I've been a professional programmer for more than 30 years. I bring way more to the table than someone with 10 years of experience, and I expect to get paid for it. If you're not looking for what I have to offer, then I'm not looking to work for you.

I haven't been out of work at any point after 3 years of experience, so this attitude hasn't hurt me in terms of having work.

I'm in embedded systems, though - this approach might not work in, say, web programming.
In that case, the original buyer is the one who is receiving the goods and then sending to their counterparty.
libtool's goal is actually smooth over the fact that dynamic linking is hard at compile-time. It's not a good abstraction and must be deeply ingrained into your project because of this.

I typically do not use libtool but rather have an autoconf macro [0] to determine how to interact with the linker. This has the disadvantage that each "./configure" invocation can only produce either static or shared archives, but not both (since the object files that make those up may require different compile flags). libtool's solution is to compile the object file both ways, but it does not really go well with the autoconf mechanism.

I also have a different set of macros for managing the ABI [1], and I'm not sure how that's managed with libtool.

[0] http://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/autoconf/artifac...
[1] http://chiselapp.com/user/rkeene/repository/autoconf/artifac...
> Solve that and NN doesn't matter, plus you solve a bunch of other problems as well.

Sounds great; I'd just like to have the new solution in place before dismantling the old one.
Is this the reason why? I've been scratching my head all day as to why LTC would pop today beyond the fact that the BTC rally cooled and people saw LTC as cheaper and thought "hey, thats cheap, let pump it!".
> It is no secret that the average person is going to see no workplace gains by going to college, otherwise incomes would be going up and/or job quality would be rising with increasing attainment.

Incomes do go up and job quality does rise with increasing educational attainment, and empirically the average person is going to see workplace gains by going to college.

People are not going to college solely to gamble on a chance to make million dollar salaries. That's a bizarre outlook that excludes every middle class job that increasingly tends to require a college degree.

Hell, most college administrators don't make more than middle class salaries.
I recognize the name Jim Wallman from "megagames," which are board games/wargames played by 30-60 players over several hours. The most popular of these is Watch the Skies, which pits nations against each other as well as unseen aliens.

This video is long, but a good introduction to Wallman's work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN71v9H_gg8 Prior to this video being released, megagames were mostly played in the UK, but now they are played all over the United States.

The photos in this article look similar to my recreational experiences playing megagames, so I'm not surprised that he is able to handle wargame design for an actual military.
I’ve given up on NFS entirely and just use one of the big 3 cloud file storage services.

Out of 8 downtime events, 5 were related to NFS mounts.
Last mile connections are a natural monopoly.

The only realistic suggestion I have ever heard for how to break that monopoly is essentially an even more restrictive version of network neutrality: last mile providers are required to lease network capacity to anyone who wants it at reasonable and non-discriminatory rates.
Another "me too!" for MobaXterm. Sessions in tabs, easy file transfer, built-in and automatic X forwarding.

I like PuTTY, and have used it a lot, but MobaXterm has been great.
Update breaks Chrome device connectivity
AFAIK, J. Michael Straczynski was the first person to get a successful arc-based television series on TV, with _Babylon 5_ - the pilot aired in 1993.

He had tried earlier with _Captain Power_ in 1987, but that only lasted a single season, and it was kind of doomed to be thought of as a kid's show because of the toyline tie-in.
Answering my own question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UY3BFewPYB8

Last time I had this problem was before youtube :)
> That in no way negates my point.

I thought you were genuinely confused as to why I was offended and was responding as such.

I had no idea that you believed your lack of opinion and offence somehow invalidated mine.

> One unknown language reusing part of another's name means that nobody's gonna be legitimately confused or misled here

I'm not going to agree that q is generally "unknown" just because you don't know what it is.
PeerTube – Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
It's what happens when some businesses fail to act fast enough and use their loads of money to buy actual expertise. They had four outages in June. That's plenty of warning.
You mean they're obviously not /planning/ to shoot up the place.
Palantir is worse. Far worse. They are still on options when they're valued at $10B+.

They're smart though. This reduces their employee comp cost significantly through cheap internal buybacks.
The much-maligned "things you may have missed" box helps. Also giving up on reading every tweet.
If you're a fan of that concept you should watch some Hey Duggee (you should watch some anyway, it's a masterpiece of children's TV), in which a crocodile character is adopted judging by his elephant parents. The really beautiful thing is that this is never mentioned explicitly, he just has elephant parents, and that's fine.
Part 2 mentions two quantum algorithms that could be used to break Bitcoin (and SSH and SSL/TLS; and most modern cryptographic security systems):
Shor's algorithm for factorization and Grover's search algorithm.

Part 2: http://davidbkemp.github.io/QuantumComputingArticle/part2.ht...

Shor's algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm

Grover's algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm

I don't know what heading I'd suggest for something about how concentration of quantum capabilities will create dangerous asymmetry. (That is why we need post-quantum ("quantum resistant") hash, signature, and encryption algorithms in the near future.)
Don't search engines ignore `#` anyways?

Searching `q#` vs `q` seems to bring up the same results for me.
Right, no question that fundraising is an important, perhaps the most important, part of the job. I'm just saying that making mission-critical decisions about the whole institution is also in there.
How do you correlate existent material wealth with any of your claims?

What's to stop an inheritor from making a poor investment with all their capital? Or a lottery winner? Or ANYBODY with that kind of money, really?

Why is it presumed that at "arbitrary net worth 1 million," a person is "financially sophisticated?"

If the sec wants to I guess "protect people from themselves," why don't they have an actual certification system that is based on a demonstration of knowledge?

Finally, why aren't people with a net worth of under 1 million protected from other poor financial decisions, since in your mind they are not "financially sophisticated" and thus are more likely to engage in payday loans or other predatory financial institutions?
> It seems that most ICO do both the things.

That doesn't make it OK. I think what's happening here is that ICO's are raising large enough funding to finally warrant involvement by the SEC.
Which is why, in general, you shouldn’t exercise them unless the company is sold/goes public.

Could be worse; in Ireland I’d pay a little over 50% on my options if I exercised them. Which is why I don’t.

I certainly wouldn’t be interested in taking a job in a private company where options were a significant part of compensation.

EDIT: Just noticed from the article, Uber employees had to exercise within 30 days. Wow. 7 years seems to be normal in this country.
More or less like the Three-tier system (alcohol distribution) in the USA? Large brewers cannot distribute their own product.

That might of helped prevent, unproven, Intel from exploiting Anti-Competitive tactics since DELL and HP would of had to go through a distribution company instead of Intel.
Imagine it's a network-connected resource like server time or file hosting. Those aren't securities right?

So now just imagine a token that has the same functionality.

You receive a token that does something useful. Do you use that token wisely? Or do you make bad business decisions?

There are tokens that people are buying to use, not just to HODL.
I don't think that's true. You've been able to execute windows tools from WSL for a while now.
https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/940627577059778560