skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All businesses complain about regulation when they could have no regulation. I honestly don't care. What I'm saying is I'm not hearing any actual complaints regarding Title II, and not something that doesn't boil down to, "It's haaaaaard. I don't wannna dooooo it" whining from ISPs.
The common stock is one of the most direct way of screwing workers. I guess anything is okay as long as it is part of fine print.
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> and often the db calls are <10ms

Most are <10ms. Those nasty few ones with 100+ms (or sometimes 10+s!) are where the best money is spent optimizing. However good query/db schema optimization is a skill many developers do not possess... which is why a good DBA is worth his weight in gold.
because it is nothing like MLM or a pyramid scheme at all? Other than the fact that people have made a lot of money from them.
When travelling across continent(Europe in this case) I am always 100% certain that McDonalds will have fresh food and that the staff speaks English. When you're spending 12 hours a day in a car you don't want to get food poisoning from random roadside restaurant or risk spending an hour waiting for your food or not being able to understand the menu. A BigMac is a BigMac everywhere. If they have a health-ish option, I will take that.
It's not a tech job. When they say war games, they mean guys running around a field.

The ideal candidate is probably a retired soldier.

In the UK, regular soldiers are paid much less than in the US, and have far fewer benifits and protections after they leave, so this would be a good oppertunity for someone.

Also, it's only 10% less than Atmel are offering graduate R&D engineers at their touch screen R&D facility down the road. Outside California and London, people just don't get paid very much.
I haven't had any trouble with Linux desktop on mainstream laptops for the past 15 or so years.

How do you define "mainstream laptop"? Or is it a laptop that can run desktop Linux without problems?
Having purchased several cryptocurrencies recently, I can attest that I am certainly not acting rationally. But at least I'm having fun!
I’m about to buy $15000 in Litecoin, we’ll see what happens.
> This is the case for pretty much every privately-held company in the valley

Many companies allow employees and ex-employees to sell shares.
He probably honestly believes that he is making the world a better place. And there is probably not much feedback to him indicating otherwise, so why would he not? Don't see why stunts would be needed. As long as one believe that a small group of people can (and possibly should) take responsibility for so many others - a quite common belief for his demographics - it is internally consistent.
How in the world do you know Google employees are bias? Maybe they are not and you are?
It's always fascinating to think about how few people realize the near miss (better called lucky approximation) of 2^7/12 ~ 3/2, which is the basis of the equal-temperament musical system, i.e. music as we know it.
Obviously somebody in those corporations chose it.

Running a large fleet of non-Windows computers means writing your own software to manage them, just like Google had to do [0]. Not every business wants to do that.

[0] https://9to5mac.com/2013/11/27/how-google-manages-over-40000...
Considering how difficult it is to keep guns, phones, and other contraband, out of prisons, the biggest threat will become employees.

So I would probably task them to break it. Give them the full run through of how it works, where it is deployed, then deploy real and fake setups randomly. Encourage within limits employees to bring stuff into the facility given them by those managing the setup.

The public is easy to put off by just implying it with a few out in the open examples. However long term technology like this will be widespread and the real concern is who has access to the data and how long is it retained. Within the US the right to bear arms is sacred so tracking becomes a real concern. This is wholly different than the idea of tracking cars by license plates.

I love unobtrusive security and cannot wait to see airports move that way. I still imagine a Running Man security type wall where just walking past highlights for security objects of concern
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Looks like it's back up again!
When Your Fear Is the Remote Control: Karen Palmer’s Immersive Cinema
Quite true, but I think the other users are probably right that it wasn't posted qua ad but repurposed for curiosity. A salt shaker isn't a chess piece but it is if you use it as one.
> And yet, that worthless fraudulent garbage is one of the few ways to get rich.

...for the founders of said fraudulent garbage and perhaps a small number of very lucky people.
Much clearer, thanks.
I'm inclined to agree with you but I remember a ton of people saying the ship had sailed when BTC was at $2500 when I bought.

I certainly wish I can kept putting money into it instead of selling at $4k though.
How many times has bitcoin hard-forked because of the protocol being compromised? How much daily volume is it currently supporting? How does the velocity of the codebase compare to other coins?
There is a reason you need to be an accredited investor to buy startup stock, and it isn't because the elite banksters are trying to protect their monopoly (startup venture capital for early-stage --- anything prior to, say, a B-round --- startups is a rounding error).

Changing the word "stock" to "coin" doesn't change any of the underlying dynamics.
But how are you going to make the coin available for liquid trading in the future?
Where is the data come from?
Given that many of the readers here have never (knowingly) encountered someone with such a position, it might be a good time for you to elaborate on why you want NN regulations repealed, and expose HN readers to that viewpoint.
Good news: ICO's are now technically a security!

Bad news: ICO's are now technically a security!
I suppose that's when you get quietly asked to participate in pat down or search. Traditional security scanners (and even "modern" airport fully body scanners) suffer the same flaw, requiring the person to be pulled aside and double checked.
but if a VCS came along that natively knew about some languages it could unlock some really cool features

Absolutely, although hopefully it'll be implemented using langserver or similar.

Conversely, I think programming languages (and code- and configuration-generators) of the future will be judged in part on how VCS-friendly they are. A few smart decisions when designing syntax could make diffs smaller and conflicts easier to resolve. (This kind of change would, I am convinced, also make experimental changes to code easier--think rewriting SQL queries to make them faster.)

For now, I've been adapting my own coding style over time to be more VCS friendly. It's made my life easier and has indeed made making experimental changes easier to boot.
This is supported by the fact that there is $50-$100 difference between gdax/coinbase and other exchanges. This happened with BTC last week too: on gdax the price hit ~$19000, and remained close to $15000 on the others, before reverting.
Not in the least, I'd fully expect them to have each and every job that one would normally find in a government either staffed or an open position.

If you feel that it is interesting then you're welcome to upvote the entry.
Both of those typos pass spell check ;) The "Who use them?" one bothered me too!

The first few words on the Tim Berners-Lee page I saw were: “Simplicity is easily to quote but often ignored in strange ways.” which is another typo that passes spell check, but makes no sense as-written.
I think 'senior executive officer' is the second-lowest grade in the Civil Service that is not an assistant.

'Executive' in this case means 'getting on actually doing the work', and 'officer' means you are responsible for a particular job.

I know in the US 'executive' means management but when you think about what the actual word means that isn't universal.
Can we get a mod to update the title?

;)
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When you take out a mortgage to bring more capital to a craps table, literally everybody involved knows you have a problem. The same is obviously not true for securities and speculative assets.
This article really hits home in terms of how people sometimes think about React components, and how I’d like them to think about them.

I sometimes hear, from other engineers working on a complex React app, that the point of React’s components is that every component is written to be “reusable.” Every component. This is used as a justification for “going general” immediately when writing a component. In reality, there is real work to make a one-off component into a reusable component, and that work can only be done in the context of having (or at least realistically imagining, not dreaming up as an exercise) multiple use sites.

What React components actually provide are the same things that modules and functions provide: encapsulation; limited dependencies; a calling convention. When you write a function, you try to keep the arguments to a minimum; you might say it makes the function more “reusable,” but there is still a big difference between a library function that is designed to be used from anywhere, and a private helper function that is not. React components are “reusable” the way functions and modules are reusable. A better word might be “usable.” :) You can reason about the use, even if there is only one use.

Making something “reusable” means making it general, and we’ve all had the experience that the article points to of taking some code that was intended to be general, but in fact is used in only one place, and remaking it so that it’s actually possible to use in a second place.

That said, I have many times in programming succeeded in boiling something down to its essence in advance, and writing the general thing first, followed by the specific thing. I suspect this is actually more about simplicity than generality, however. I’m thinking of cases of “bottom-up” development where you write the primitives and then the higher-level parts in terms of the primitives. Actually, maybe it is about generality too, and when you are testing out your primitives in different combinations, you are doing the work required for good generality (seeing lots of different cases and basing your decisions on that).
Wrong. Google still has the expense of serving the video without the ad revenue. They do not benefit but instead the exact opposite.
Albeit very slowly. Unless they fixed it recently, writing to a vast amount of files is very slow compared to native Linux. Anyone who has cloned a large repository I'm sure is aware of this.
Ignite: A high-level wrapper for pyTorch
I know I'm weird, but I feel like email clients automatically loading remote content by default is a security hole.
So these devices need real kernel drivers? Windows doesn't provide some kind of emulation through its own drivers? I guess that makes sense although it didn't occur to me.

If that's true, will those new drivers also work on a regular non-Windows Linux install? That would be really great news, and pretty ironic, if device manufacturers or even Microsoft itself were suddenly writing more/better drivers for the Linux kernel. :-)
Nothing new, markets are never rational
Isn't it just ConEmu[1] bundled with some other utility?

[1] https://conemu.github.io/
What exactly is going to inform them within the 4 years they spend at a college that they should not go to that college? Will one of their professors politely inform them they're getting scammed?

And when will they be adult age? Even if they somehow became aware 2 years after attending that it's a waste of money, then they've already lost the ability to leverage community college for general courses with automatic acceptance into state (one of the less expensive paths) and racked up a ton of debt. Why not just finish it at that point?

We need regulation at the federal level to fix this.
I bought BTC to use as currency for transactions not as an investment. It should be used for that purpose. MLM only has one purpose - to recruit others into it. I don't ask other people to buy BTC so I can make a profit. MLM usually has a pyramid commission structure.
IMO, it doesn't behave like a single page app. It just performs like one (aka, it's fast as heck).
I'm surprised that of all the Altcoins that you could have picked, you chose litecoin as the one that is better than Bitcoin.

Litecoin has never been about actual utility or usage. It has always just been about being a store of value, and just copying every development from Bitcoin.

There are definitely altcoin that are different and interesting in meaningful ways. But not litecoin.
It's a crypto that offers fast and cheap transactions. People are using it to move money around in the crypto space - exactly what it was meant to do.

The people saying it is noobs buying on coinbase have no idea what they are talking about, or are mistaken about how big the crypto economy is.
I’ve owned BTC for years, ETH for a little over a year but never had LTC until last week...just a single datum but would not be surprised if this is quite common.
Author here. Really excited to see Quantum Game on HN! :)

Just in case, project repo is here: https://github.com/stared/quantum-game

For more on learning (and teaching) quantum mechanics, see: http://p.migdal.pl/2016/08/15/quantum-mechanics-for-high-sch...

And BTW: a question to you (as I guess there are many JavaScript whizz kids): how to make it more reactive?
Can I ask why you'd still go ahead with a token after all that, instead of doing a normal security? With all the same reporting and other regulations as a security, what does being a token get you?
> I think people are viewing this as an attack on crypto, when its actually just common sense.

> […] The problem is these companies essentially reserve the right to disregard that contract and could then sell their company, domestically or overseas, for cash, without recompensating any token holders.

> Securities regulation and law stops that. But the tokens do need to be lawful securities in order for the court to recognize them.

This. IRS regards coins and tokens as capital gains taxable things regardless of whether they qualify as securities. SEC exists to protect investors from scams and unfair dealing. In order to protect investors, SEC regulates issuance of securities.
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You mean, exactly like authorized shares of common stock?

How is this any different than traditional corporate capitalization?

Did you set aside a large pool of tokens for a potential investor who prefers convertible equity?

A reserve for an option pool? How will employee stock options..erm..sorry..'token options' plan work?

If your company is successful, and a great offer comes up to exit, what's the plan for M&A using tokens?

Most importantly, why would investors want coin over stock? Are they given all the same legal company equity rights as traditional stock?
bubble or not, emotion plays a big part of the normal markets too
Wow those guys are fast

They're pretty good at scaling to meet that crazy demand
I don't know what "class lock out" means, but the restriction is pretty obviously there to prevent people from staking their livelihoods and financial futures on unvetted offerings.

The idea is that people who have high incomes or high net worths (a) either are financially sophisticated, or can trivially afford financially sophisticated advisors, and (b) are unlikely to be staking so much on a single deal that their long term outcomes will be at risk.
There is nothing in your post that suggest Google is a bad actor. They do not benefit in anyway when fine content is demonetized. It actually cost them.
It's 100% plug and play

Is it still necessary to research whether a piece of hardware is supported on Linux, and how well it's supported, before buying the hardware?
Bitcoin had those things a year ago, too.
Just my notes on moving from Jekyll to Gatsby.
"Regulation is damage and the Internet will route around it"
> I do wish git had some notion of sub-commits with their own messages, and a better UX for cleaning up a set of commits before merging them.

Does rebase -i handle this adequately or am I misunderstanding what you're describing here? My workflow sounds like exactly what you're saying here, where "subcommits" are my development commits and the UX is the rebase -i editor.
If you ignore our requests to stop taking HN into religious flamewar again, we will ban you. I'm not doing that yet out of appreciation for your many positive contributions to HN. But these other ones are not ok.
Not to mention this is still basically a spare time project for all of them.
Can you make fish pellets or pet food out of it?
I don't claim to understand economics very well, but I'm led to believe the Georgist Land Value Tax is a good way to combat 'landowners' aggregating wealth sans labour or adding value. How would this marry with our theoretical impact of UBI?
> Google et all would rather impose their bizarrely puritanical morality on the world, than do their jobs and build a system that actually works.

I'm having a bit of trouble with the idea that something that is generating around $80 000 000 000 per year revenue and has been growing ~20% per year for the last several years is not something that "actually works".
Yup, I was using chrome and was totally lost.
This Is How Steve Bannon and Breitbart Tried to Sabotage Twitter
What's that supposed to mean? I'd think of it as America's "one piece."
There's a cool Systems We Love talk about that:

https://systemswe.love/archive/san-francisco-2016/you-are-no...
I meant conceptually. If the startup ecosystem embraces ICOs, then that type of thing can happen.

Right now we'd just have to settle for "If Oculus got acquired, the price probably would have gone up." But you could imagine starting a company that promises to incorporate tokens into the structure somehow: Perhaps the founder would say they'll only sell to acquirers that are willing to offer token holders $x, where $x is based on the price over the last month before being acquired. Then it'd be in the founder's best interest to sell as little of the token as possible to cover operations, since otherwise it reduces their chances of getting acquired -- just like normal investment.

Also it incentivizes founders to make the company do well: if they can tap into funding when needed (because they have premined coins they can sell), they're less beholden to the valley. That means a smart 18 year old can single-handedly launch and fund a company; no permission needed from some cabal of investors.

Moot was 15 when he launched 4chan. If you believed in its future, you could've (a) supported it by buying their token, and (b) possibly made some return on that belief.

Obviously, all of the normal caveats apply: most investments don't work out. But everyone knows that.

If I want to put $2k into a company, why is the government stepping in to stop me? I can go waste $2k at the casino or squander it however I want. It's my money.

Bitcoin itself can be thought of as an ICO. When people buy Bitcoin, we're buying into Satoshi's vision for the future. It's not merely because it's useful. So why is that legal, but ICOs aren't?

The overall point is that this is a powerful model, and it could become even more powerful. The rest of the world is embracing it, so the US could find themselves left out by getting too draconian.
Anecdotally, this weekend I've seen 4 (non-technical) friends throw $500 - $5,000 into the three CoinBase coins this weekend, all individually. Before this weekend, they were merely familiar with Bitcoin but no interest in investment, and they did not know what alt coins were. All it takes is for someone to see the hockey-stick growth on the coins to want in. It's too exciting to pass up. The atmosphere is "If I lose a few grand, that's OK, if I miss out on 100,000, that is not."
That is true but it also hurts Google. So Google is not a bad actor. It is unfortunate and hopefully Google can figure out a way to change.
Not for long. The creator has stated that they don't plan on increasing the blocksize.

They've swallowed the poison pill of "copying everything that the bitcoin core development team does", which means they hate low fees and on chain scaling just as much as the bitcoin community does.
It happened to Opera https://www.sitepoint.com/opera-10-user-agent/
>That means internet service providers can compete only on price/speed as everything else is supposed to be otherwise identical. 13 different companies, let alone 50? How? Users would simply pick the company with the lowest price for their desired speed. And the cheapest service is going to tend to be the largest due to economies of scale. The end result is a natural trend towards monopolization when companies are allowed to only compete on price/speed.

They won't be identical, because every ISP will have different peering and transit arrangements. And depending on those arrangements the access speeds for netflix/hulu/youtube will differ. Traffic that's internal to the ISP's network will always be the cheapest. Which is why an ISP can subsidize streaming services if they are hosted internally. I have had this debate with some NN supporters, and they do not seem to appreciate this basic commercial angle.
I'm sure misattribution happens all the time in exactly the ways you mention. Did you get well because you popped Vitamin C's, or because you would have gotten well in the same timeframe anyway?
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I don't get how the SEC differentiates between ICOs and kickstarters (not considering the ICOs that promise their token value to increase over time). How can there be any kind of innovation in fund raising space if the SEC wants every thing to be registered as securities. What bugs me the most is that many ICOs are funded by virtual currencies (btc or eth) and still SEC considers it self to have jurisdiction over the transactions that grown-up individuals do. Instead of considering $1mil net worth investors are accredited, SEC should have a certification test that an individual can take to prove he understands finance. If someone has $1mil, it doesn't prove a damn thing. It could very well be that they inherited it or won in a lottery.
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
That's gross average wage and it's inflated by Lisbon region that have crazy rents. One-bedroom flat costs 600/500 euros, more if it's in city center.
Why would they need the actual coins to allow trading? Only transferring would require access to a wallet.
why is ethereum itself not a security by this logic. Clearly the purpose of buying ETH in the ICO was appreciation, no?
Local loop unbundeling
christ you must have made ridiculous money with this
> It protects the monopoly the investor class has on investments like these.

False.

If anything, it exposes consistently larger "chunks of value" to the risk involved in the investment. Given accredited investors are used to evaluating risk it simply allows the to participate freely in the unknown risks of these types of investment vehicles without getting smaller investors involved in the mix. (It also prevents them from using their position against lower investment amounts made by lower accredited individuals.)

The "protection" afforded here is to the common investor, who by definition does not carry a large store of value with them. By preventing them from investing directly, by way of limiting their involvement based on their stored values, the SEC is protecting the "collective stored value" of the lower classes. And, this makes sense, given the dollar's value is based in part on what people are willing to pay for a given set of objects. This is the responsibility of the Fed to US.

An analogy would be the Yap allowing their children to go and mine Rai Stones by themselves. No sensible society would allow this to occur, given the dangers. And, yes, I'm comparing lower accredited investors to children, when considering the amount of knowledge they may carry with them regarding risk.