skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like your optimism, but I would like to remind (scare) you:

If you decide to put your effort into customizing the framework, you increase your risk of building

> [...] your poorly cobbled-together "framework" for the next 2, 3, or more years. If anything changes and pages stop working "right", you get to pick up the pieces. Yes, "you", because since your framework is something that you pieced together, there are no "tutorials" nor stack overflow questions nor manuals to refer to.
One small improvement would to make sure that all the options with "--cached" also have "--staged", and make sure that all the documentation uses term "staging" (deprecating "index" and "cached"). The git UI is historically terrible, but it's gotten a little better over time... it could definitely be improved further with a little more effort.
Not generally, because there's no promise of any future utility or increase in demand, at least by the manufacturer. People buy them because they hope they'll appreciate in value, but that just makes them the subject of speculation, not a security.
Take a net, dip it in water, boom! Mesh networking.
25.1-25.2: Avoid the left bomb first. Cut the right bomb risk to 50%.

25.3-25.5: Photons don't care about the direction of time. Fire one backwards in time from the detector to the emitter.

31.1-31.2: To avoid the bomb, the light must be polarized horizontal ASAP.

31.3-31.4: A sugar and a rotator in series, or a rotator and a mirror will preserve polarization going one way and rotate 90 degrees the other way. You may have to flip the rotator over by clicking on it.

31.5-31.9: Go backwards from the detector to figure out where the polarization has to be horizontal, and where it has to be vertical. You never need to consider interference.

34.1: Without rotating the polarization somehow, you'll never get enough photons through the filter.

34.2-34.3: Avoid hitting the rock and the top bomb.

34.4-34.5: You only have one option left for reflecting away from the bottom bomb. And you'll need vertical polarization to use it.

34.6-34.8: You can only absorb 25%, and it should be obvious by now which path you have to absorb from. Now arrange glass and vacuum to produce the correct interference.
> Why should a global decentralized currency be beholden to local regulation?

I dunno why can't you declare your house an independent country and live under your own rules?
Just got my HAM license and callsign. Gonna try this out.
I would not pay a lot (because if i had to pay a lot i would simply reduce my digital footprint) but i would pay something.

I'd say 5-10 bucks a month to keep my digital tracks in my own cloud or on devices i physically control and no one else.
My main issue is the terminal emulator. MinTTY is the only I can get to work like I want with colors and fonts, but I still miss ligatures and the performances are bad.

I'd really like something faster with full color and font support I can SSH from.

By true color support, I mean this: https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-shell

I use it to change my colors depending on the machine I am on. If I log onto a production server, the color scheme switch to high contrast with red background.
The part I’ve never liked is that Satoshi Nakamoto only mined for 10 days and got ~1M bitcoins. Today, if I mine for 10 days I’ll probably get 0.001 bitcoins. Even if you adjust for increased computing power, why are my hash calculations valued a billion times less than his? Why can’t I get 1M bitcoins for a similar effort? From a market value standpoint, his computing effort is worth $18B. If, today, I put the same computing effort in as he did, I only get enough for a nice lunch.

I understand the technical reasons why due to the 21M bitcoin limit, hashrate difficulty increasing, etc. It just seems like a rigged system with the people “on top” getting huge rewards for very little work whereas the people lower down who do many orders of magnitude more work are getting very little reward. From that perspective, it has the scent of MLM, if you will.
Almost positively that answer is Google. Notice they are behind multiple of the new protocols here (HTTP/2 and QUIC), and are used as an example how bundling DOH with an existing major player can prevent blocking DNS.

Google is effectively the actual determiner of Internet standards. As the article notes, Google implemented QUIC on their servers and their browsers, and therefore, 7% of Internet traffic is already QUIC-based, despite it not being officially accepted at this point. This is essentially the same as what happened with SPDY at the time.

As Google controls both the primary source of Internet traffic (up to 35-40% of all Internet traffic, depending who you ask, and a browser share in the what 65% range), Google can implement any new protocol it wants, and everyone else needs to support it or be left out.

Arguably, the IETF is no longer the controlling organization here: Google is. Should the IETF not approve Google's proposals, Google will continue to use them, and everyone else will continue to need to support them.

As the parent notes, Google both essentially determines these standards, and has an interested in faster networks so they can shove fatter payloads down the pipe. This is in part due to the ability to implement pervasive tracking, and of course, they operate a lot of content distribution products like YouTube.

Note that every method here that makes it harder for governments to censor and ISPs to prioritize also makes it harder for people to detect, inspect, and filter out Google's pervasive surveillance.
Simply to limit scope because Coinbase does not support Monero.
Show HN: Culture Queries – The best questions to ask during your job interview
You want top talent, you have to pay for it. Otherwise they will just go work somewhere else.
An interesting real-life example of failed economical incitements is a case here a kindergarten started to charge an extra cost for "late pickups", ie later than the what the contract stipulated.

The end result was that "late pickups" increased as the shame of being late was replaced with a transaction fee, signalling that late pickups where allowed by the rules.
Hi everyone, Lynne here! I built Key Values and launched it on HN 3 months ago. It's been a lot of fun as a solo founder, but definitely challenging too. One thing I'm trying to do is provide more valuable tools for anyone wanting to take a culture-first approach to their job search. So, to help people make the most of their interviews, and as an alternative to traditional content marketing, I built Culture Queries.

I'll continue adding questions over time, so feel free to contribute some if you have any! Thanks in advance for your feedback, and I'll be around to answer any questions you might have.

Ps. This is my first attempt at side project marketing (so much fun), and I highly recommend it to other developers.
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... and can you use the 32bit version in commercial use? (Last I checked, no...)

The license already changed once (for the worse, IMnsHO), so what's to say that won't happen again. Too risky to touch.

No, can't use it (32bit version) for commercial, so this is a non-starter. Sorry.

kOS? really? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8475809
Come back and talk to me in a couple years. Markets have this ability to cure people of blind confidence.. lol
Ironically, Ed Lee was viewed as the competent one. Get ready for what comes next to be worse.
Thank you. I really get the feeling that the people pleading a special case for ICOs are really lacking historical knowledge and perspective. They ask questions like "why can't the market decide what a trustworthy investment is" like we didn't already have a period where that was the case.
I should have said a read and macroexpanded lisp source has a 1-1 relationship with the AST.

As an aside, the bigger distinction between something like C++ template metaprogramming and Lisp metaprogramming is that while C++ uses a template language completely orthogonal to the runtime language, Lisp macros is nothing more than Lisp code executed at macroexpand-time rather than eval-time.
The only downside I see to this is that the Vulkan space for AMD will leave OpenGL development in the dust. The OpenGL drivers for AMD cards have been sub par on Windows and Linux for a long time. This doesn't matter much for AAA games but smaller games and most non-game applications don't need and shouldn't want to use Vulkan.

That said as someone who does a bunch of Vulkan development on AMD platforms on Linux I'm really excited. There's nothing bad with some healthy competition.
That's not quite correct. There were also 'Latvian vikings', the Curonians. Latvia was also ruled by Sweden for centuries. There's not much difference there, apart from language. They were a mix of Baltic tribes, some combination of which formed the modern nation states.
Beside the point of the GGGP's wish that tax liability on an unsaleable asset could be satisfied in kind?
I wish more science were taught using this kind of thing as a starting demo to provoke a lot of wonderment.
It's not about what's available it's about what people use, and the power that these companies hold
Steve Bannon and Breitbart spent months trying to sabotage Twitter
The Un-banked are coming to Crypto and there's a lot of them
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Eh. Anything that stands between the raw code you write and the code running on the production serer is a "tool" that has to be managed, configured, etc... The implementation language isn't as important as the fact that the code you wrote requires tools written by third parties executing a sequence of intermediate steps to be in an executable form.
We have more and more remote workers around the world. A few of them are being paid with cryptocurrency already, saving a lot of headache for them.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15908810
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...and this is how the collapse begins
I'm confused. Isn't that exactly what this is?

> current regulations that helps telecom monopolies that govt needs to destroy but it isn't

There are regulations at the state level. The federal government has the authority to stop these regulations. Yet they don't.

Whether the bad regulation was implemented by state or federal government seems rather inconsequential.
iOS (and android?) have the option to only share gps while the app is running. so for the taxi app example you're sharing no more info than you need to really. turn it on, call a cab, cab arrives, close app. The only info shared is your pick up location. Of course the cab itself could share your destination but I don't see how you'd prevent that as that info is also relevant to the taxi
I am well aware of that, the emphasis here is the prevalence of coinbase in an ecosystem that is supposed to be decentralized
Sorry, this was all created in a rush. I must have removed the reloading metatag.

At the moment the queue is overfull anyway...
I will make sure I improve this tomorrow, in the meantime download our tool, use testssl.sh or use the ssllabs dev test.
London Breed is a native San Franciscan. However, she's also a Willie Brown protégé. Willie Brown was/is the Donald Trump of San Francisco. Of course, when Ed Lee was elected many said it was Brown's third term.
> It's been a while since I've done serious economic analysis. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

=)

> If you print money on a fixed schedule, the natural market response is to devalue the currency according to the same fixed schedule.

This is wrong. Price levels of a currency are determined by the volume of spending relative to the volume of trade. Furthermore, it's not the volume of any trade that matters. It's the volume of trade of goods whose prices you care about.

Money does not spread itself evenly over the course of the economy. To take an extreme example, if we just throw the printed money down a hole, it doesn't affect prices. Or if we spend all that money to buy stocks, it might drive up the price of stocks, but we probably don't care about the price of stocks when calculating the general price level for our currency.

Additionally, people borrow in order to spend. The amount of spending in the economy increases when people borrow more. In this sense, an increase in credit and debt in the economy has a very similar effect to an increase in the amount of money.

As I alluded to previously, there are places in the economy where money flows in faster than it flows out. Money tends to accumulate in these places. The spending that people would have used that money for must be continually replaced or you end up with deflation.

But let's imagine a world in which people are able to buy more of the stuff whose prices we care about. This is the basic income scenario. Assuming that we have the capacity to produce more of that stuff, we will produce more. Note that doubling the number of people who can afford to buy stuff is very different from doubling the amount of money that everyone has. In the former scenario, more people are willing to buy at existing prices. In the latter, people are willing to spend more on the stuff they already buy. The second scenario is always inflationary.

Anyway, I could go on and on about this. And I have. The bottom line is that it's complicated. And you always need monetary policy keeping your currency stable regardless of whether you have a basic income. The effects of a basic income could be either inflationary or deflationary. It probably depends on the amount of the basic income. In either case, monetary policy has got you covered.

I agree with you though that Circles doesn't seem to have any kind of sane monetary policy.
My guess is that when people look back on this era, Macron will by far be the most influential of that list. But it's hard to explain why now, and Fowler is very much the start of this year's zeitgeist.
I think you could have been a bit more tactful there.
Just make sure not to use too much power - ten watts is plenty to start with.

Oh, and congratulations. You're in for a treat. (Though I would suggest not using wet string as your only antenna. :-))

73 de LB1LF /OddE
I recently switched to AA from Virgin Media due to the unreliability of Virgin's service, but have found AA's to be no improvement.

I currently subscribe to both services and toggle back and forth whenever one of them stops working.

I recommend AA for their philosophy, and the debugging tools in their web interface are second to none, but in my brief experience the quality of their actual service is no better than anyone else's.
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I hadn't thought about that (I use PowerShell for most tasks so that is still my "home" shell and it's bash that's the rare one), but I half remembered something to that effect, so I went to the docs:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/interop

Calling Windows EXEs from bash will automatically retain the current working directory under /mnt/c/*, so it should just work out of the box. Looks like you might be able to get away with just adding native Windows git to your bash path.
what makes kdb so special and why isn't there an open/libre alternative?
Which is frankly horrifying considering the reference implementation was released in FreeBSD 7. That really ought to scare people from purchasing any of those routers/firewalls that don’t support it.
We can show by rising tuition prices the money's going "somewhere". And given administrations stratospheric rise, I'd say it's a safe claim to start looking at the university presidents, the long list of VP's of $stuff, assistant VP's of $more_stuff, the piles of directors... And the list goes on.

And I can damn near guarantee that the "433 students tuition" will instead be spent on "Philanthropy" via constructing more buildings. I'm seeing it right now in my town, with skyrocketing rents everywhere, gentrification, and school pricing run amok (wife is trying to get in grad school).
What I think is naive is the idea that opening investment in something up to the public would somehow harm the financial sector, rather than generating billions in profits for it.
Seek = ask
My rant on my frustrations with the NVidia Linux drivers obviously struck a nerve a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15877262

Between ROCm and GPUOpen, the AMD software team really seems to be setting themselves up for success. If their hardware team hits a home run or Nvidia makes a misstep, perhaps we could see a significant shift in market share.
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Most scalable systems have some 'singletons' somewhere in the stack. At a certain scaling point, the singletons must be made scalable to multiple instances, which often entails making a new singleton to manage these instances.

In this way, scaling often gives you an order of magnitude or two of available additional capacity, but periodically requires new dev work to support further increases.
Assuming a Linux fleet you can use config management tools just as easily for desktops as servers.
It should be noted though that the creators have been historically unreliable about the interpretation of the show, and there is an undercurrent among the fandom that this answer may not be wholly truthful.

Yes the Christianity/Jewish mysticism is in part about exoticism, but the accuracy with which they have deployed some of its concepts and symbols also appears to go beyond mere "spicing up."
It would also help for accessibility reasons, photos of text are impossible for a screen reader to read.
In the US, we pay our rights: taxes.
Hey, thanks for the reply. Will do!
I would say their situation is unusual, but based on Uber's valuation in 2016, they would have been accredited investors under the asset test if they held more than 20,000 shares.

It's unusual because the offer values the stock at significantly less than last year's valuations, so they might not be accredited investors anymore...if the Softbank deal goes through and sets a new FMV for Uber stock. (If the deal falls through, then the $33 offer isn't a useful gauge of current Uber stock value.)

The issue becomes when do you assess whether they are accredited investors: before the deal, using 2016 valuations, in which case they should qualify; or after the deal, using the deal's offer price, in which case they do not?

I've never actually dealt with this situation before, where the deal itself could change a potential investor's accredited investor status, so I couldn't say what the outcome would be.
yes but IMAP does not help with meeting scheduling, conf. room reservations etc.
Refreshingly simple, this is one of the better display of what an MVP is. Congrats!
Did you try out its tmux integration?

https://iterm2.com/documentation-tmux-integration.html
lol, powerpoint guarantees ugliness. But have you seen the excel artwork? http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2013/05/28/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel...
Sort of Tumblr meets Genius :-)
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Outlooks is far.ore than email. It's email, scheduling, calendars, meeting room bookings etc.. and it's all integrated. Not using outlook in a corp environment is a quick route to madness.
Please don't do stock comments here, especially when their best-before date was so long ago.
Going to a top university doesn't necessary correlate with having a successful career. You can definitely make a lot of money or find a lot of success even if your college academics were lacking.
A single photon QM is basically classical wave mechanics.

My original intention was to do many-photon QM game (and wrote game engine for that). But in development I discovered that even wave mechanics offer quite a lot interesting, and counterintuitive, puzzles.

With one photon there the only thing that does not have a classical analogues is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman_bomb_t..., which can be easily assembled from the blocks (well, the idea for using a light-sensitive bomb comes from there!).
@op How long did this take? Was it all just you?
J.o.k.e.?
Laboratory layered latte
I'm not sure if the message has become garbled, but I can't seem to get the conclusion there. That the American system instills more innovative thinking at the expense of thoroughness?

The original English/European Guild/Apprentice system roughly went Apprentice -> Journeyman -> Master.
An Apprentice would learn from a Master and become competent in basic techniques, no innovation was expected at that stage. A Journeyman would travel around and work for different Masters, learning more and different techniques and transferring them between Masters. Finally a Journeyman would produce a "Masterpiece" to become a Master and setup shop somewhere. Innovation was really only expected by Journeymen and Masters.
> Is this only an issue if you print money to pay for the UBI? If UBI is payed for by taxes then it shouldn't devalue the currency.

The amount of money the government can spend without causing inflation has very little to do with the level of tax revenues they collect.

One way to think about it is that the economy has a certain amount of spending that it can productively respond to. Beyond that level of spending, you start running into problems such as inflation, interest rates that are too high, etc.

It doesn't matter whether you took any money from the rich to fund that spending because the rich people weren't going to spend very much of their money into the productive economy anyway. The productive economy can still absorb the same amount of spending as before.

But you're right that there does have to be some kind of mechanism to keep the currency stable and I don't see such a mechanism in Circles.
Impact on this year specifically is a big part of how these things are chosen. Fowler's story had a ripple effect.
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>People don't go to twitter for lengthy paragraphs or op-eds.

If this was true, don't you think people would stop posting tweetstorms that are 50-100 (sometimes more) tweets long?
Coinbase halts ether and litecoin trading as crypto market cap nears $500B
because it's strictly better than BTC. Faster and cheaper transactions.
There are two things here:

* It's not OK to raise 200M with no team and product;

* Compliance only creates obstructions, not protection.
I'm not quite clear on what you're saying here. Whose nerve did your rant strike?
This has been downvoted as it seems like a racist/troll comment, but Lee did in fact have connections to a Chinese gang, as does his new successor, London Breed. This might not be well known to people outside of SF, or even people within it.

Here is an article about it.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/08/04/san_franci...

> The investigation into Shrimp Boy's Chinatown gang empire has already resulted in California state Sen. Leland Yee pleading guilty to racketeering after he was implicated alongside Chow in a weapons trafficking scheme. Chow's defense team now claims that a Yee associate, businessman Derf Butler, also funnelled "untraceable debit cards for clothing and trips" to San Francisco City Supervisor London Breed.

Real life is stranger than fiction sometimes.
Probably because a large percentage of their customers don't actually care about expansion. I don't know - I don't have access to Apple's sales demographics, but I would be hard-pressed to think the reason was "malice".
Will third-party clients be able to use this feature via the Twitter API?
> Rather than protect the 'investment class' it protects people who can't afford to lose all of their investment.

The problem is that this isn't a binary. To protect the hapless grandparents from losing their retirement, it also restricts knowledgeable but not rich people from making informed decisions for themselves.