skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your metaphor doesn't make sense. Are you saying that the token lets me write on it and make toy airplanes? Because if so, then the token wouldn't be regulated...

If you're saying that the piece of paper represents ownership of something, then the paper is most likely a security or derivative, in which case it is already subject to regulation. A token with the same functionality as this piece of paper would be regulated, and vice versa...
Yes.

The page has no javascript whatsoever, and no <meta> refresh. It can't reload itself. Manually reloading the page for hosts that have been in the queue for more than an hour yields no change. Does anyone have any evidence the test server feature does anything at all?
Yes and no. People spoke up before Fowler; why are we hinging the culture on her? Something I think a lot of people are overlooking is that she was heard on a larger scale than anybody before her, but lionizing her as a result is actually disrespectful to the plethora of examples who came before her and were just unlucky (I guess?). I can think of a number of prominent examples within tech that didn't get any of the attention outside of tech, but I will not rehash them here.

That, to me, indicates that something else shifted culturally to allow the Uber thing to help contribute to that environment. What is that? Was it the scale of Uber? Was it something about Fowler? Was it that the same power dynamics that suppressed revelations about Weinstein were starting to degrade within insular tech? I'm personally curious about it, and I don't think Fowler's blog post was solely responsible and folks should start making conclusions about cultural shifts, is my only point.

Edit to your edit: Careful; you're lightly claiming that accusers before Fowler were unbelievable and easily dismissed.
Is this going to be in Go?
But this sort of common sense approach to the problem doesn't fit with the neoliberal gospel, and what is clearly a political issue is construed as either an economic or technological issue.

OP's premise also entirely ignores the fact that our "digital footprints" traverse spaces of others' (think email) regardless of our individual choice.
Wouldn't that be much easier to do with PowerShell? I haven't ever attempted, but I'm assuming...
Bias is not just in our datasets, it's in our conferences and community
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So, it took Microsoft 17 years to catch up?

I ported openssh to windows in year 2000.

http://download.jgaa.com/ftp/pub/OpenSSH/
Imagine being French and having to explain you code in Q.

(I am not certain if my comment follows HN's guidelines, apologies if I offended anyone)
So set a limit order at half the current price, or whatever.

Placing a market order is equivalent to saying "I'll accept $0 for this asset, so long as that was the best price available." Only most people assume it means "I'll pay the number shown, or something close to it" which is only true of relatively stable assets on markets with plenty of liquidity. Making only limit orders available forces the market participant to choose what range of prices they would find acceptable.
Sounds great, but other than Estonia conquoring the rest of the world, I just don't see how anything even close to this would be implemented in, say, the US.
You can go to Vegas right now and blow your life savings. Should that be illegal too? We need to stop the mollycoddling and let people make their own decisions (and yes not bail them out if those decisions turn out to be wrong).
How did you manage to do it

Same way everyone else manages it, including myself: abject ignorance. You and I (as a now more experienced git user) know that it is extremely unlikely to actually be in a state where blowing away the repository is necessary. Like you, I can’t think of how one would pull that off. That’s why I tell less experienced users “if you’ve committed, even just locally, you can’t lose your work without really trying. If you get in trouble, don’t use the ‘-f’ switch, and come get me, we’ll get it sorted out.

But that was not me nine years ago as I blew away the repository again because I got in a confused state (me, not git). And be honest, that was you nine years ago, too, before you wrapped your head around git.
There will be a lot of blood on the floor though. The rise of Bitcoin as a speculative asset (and its inevitable crash) will do some damage for sure.

I'm bullish on blockchain technologies over the next decade or two, but we're gonna have to clean up for awhile.

My hope is that blockchain enthusiasts are taking their profits and using them to invest in building something better.

(There's also a lot to be said here about the hucksterism, shilling, get-rich-quick schemes, and an almost-fanatical belief in the power of a pure free market inherent in the BTC community from the beginning, but that's best left to another post)
I would say even the 8-core one is pretty much fast enough for mostly anything 2D you can throw at it and a buy-and-forget option for the next couple years. Also, keep in mind even Apple thinks this is a stopgap computer - they still mentioned the future modular MacPro on the last event.
So: Your one example of a CCW isn't actually a CCW?
Coinbase is a joke of a service. They're telling me it will take 8 days to buy a Litecoin.

Is this for real?
What I said... It's not a new idea, but it didn't made a genre back then. It was a very different internet world, too.
It wouldn't matter if they're located outside the US. The SEC has jurisdiction over all securities that are sold to US persons, and most countries where you'd want to be located have similar laws.
Hi Matt! First congratulations. This is a very interesting project, one that I look forward to trying out.

I'm wondering if Promises are the right way to compile goroutines though. Promises don't run in parallel, and they actually do block; they don't defer to the event loop. I wonder if compiling to web workers would be possible though...
I think that would put a price target of Litecoin at somewhere around $4000-$5000. Not bad considering it's current price today.
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I don't know too much about Go, but I think that background computations can be converted to web workers. Looks like Joy doesn't do it right now, but again, it doesn't seem fundamentally impossible.

(Also, it wouldn't surprise me if the majority of goroutines in practice were I/O heavy and not computationally heavy.)
Thanks for the kind words. Yah I think you're right that I should make the current state more clear, not just where it's headed. FWIW, there's some more information on that lower down the page: https://mat.tm/joy/#next-steps
I remember my (hippie) mother telling me this as a child. Of course, she also thought it was bad to drink water when eating...
I never quote adoption. Bitcoin isn't a currency, it's a store of value. Just like gold which it seeks to emulate. It's useful as the collateral for fully-backed smart contracts. Not paying for coffee.
Thanks for pointing out this mistake. I'll let the right person know to get this updated.

Some context:
Every article on docs.microsoft.com is written in markdown. However there is some additional metadata front matter that is easy to overlook (and new authors may not always be familiar with it). I certainly have done that before myself.

Disclaimer: I'm a Developer Advocate for Azure. My parent group also owns the docs.microsoft.com infrastructure.
Lessons from a wounded unicorn: Apple's $400M purchase of Shazam
Schools don't generally spend their endowments; what they do is use the profits (if any) from investing the endowment to fund the school's budget (academic and otherwise), because tuition alone doesn't nearly cover the cost of operating a college let alone a university.
People want a coin that can give them 1000x gains, the next iteration of "buying btc in 2010." Far < 1% of those people has ever used a cryptocurrency to make a purchase.

Related, but not directed at prev comment...
If anyone actually cares about sound, uncensorable money, then they should look to the $300B network that has been battle tested and withstands constant attack. BTC has prioritized stability and security, and done very well in that regard. I understand that btc businesses, and the small minority that purchase from them, are frustrated that the digit cash use-case is more difficult right now. From my perspective though, the proven stability and security is far more valuable in the long run, and is something that other coins only talk about. I think btc has to go through a full financialization to complete its price discovery (eliminate the massive volatility) before any mass adoption of a cash use-case is practical. Luckily, futures and ETFs are incoming, and lightning network is testing on mainnet.
Does UPenn accept average intelligence people like myself?

I think Susan is great, and she did amazing work, but she's also clearly top 1-5% brilliant. These stories give people like me false hope. As if I can pick myself up by my intellectual bootstraps and just study hard to be a physics/CS major and I'll just be able to make it into a top university.

In university I was a C physics student and maybe a B CS student. And that wasn't at a school known for academic performance. In fact, when I took calculus (with little secondary (high school education) education because I worked) even with free tutoring and doing hundreds of practice problems I only barely passed with Cs.
I think this is easier said than done.

You most likely need to wait until it's close to 3 X the value you bought it because you'll need to pay short-term taxes after you sell it.

And once that happens, why sell half of it, vs all of it? 3 times the current value is a LOT of money and that usually takes at least 8-10 years in the equity market. Now that it happens, you're cashing out just to recoup your costs? Cash out everything, or cash out nothing and let it all ride until it's an even larger amount.
I absolutely agree that lots of non-ancaps think the SEC should stay out of ICO regulation. But so far as I can tell, they haven't these arguments through. I've seen only two forms of pro-free-ICO argument on this thread:

(1) Special pleading arguments that suggest that despite the fact that tech startups have little to no inventory, trivially simple expenses, no financing obligations outside their equity raises, and, for the forseeable future, no significant revenue --- that is, despite the fact that tech startups have virtually none of the attributes that make producing audited financials expensive --- they should be exempt from SEC disclosure rules.

(2) Arguments suggesting that adults should be free to enter into contracts without protections because regulations have been obsoleted by the Internet.

Argument (2) I get, and acknowledge. I do not agree with it, but fine.

Argument (1) though makes no sense, and if someone would take the time to pursue it carefully, I'd be thankful.
Weird, maybe a DNS issue? Can you try again?
I was using this heuristic for a while and then realized i hadn't left the house in 3 weeks... SO it might not be the best thing for serial introverts.
FTTC is copper

FTTC literally stands for "Fiber to the Curb"
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I live in Canada but even when I lived in France banks were silly. I remember asking them to close an account and they said "Oh no... once you open an account we never close it."
Introducing: Verizon's post-net-neutrality definition of Broadband-ready "fiber" lines.
Yeah, we're talking about users who don't really understand phishing, and yet you want them to understand it enough to know not to use the browser that came with their macbook/iphone?
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I don't think it's possible to know. There are so many cultural factors that led to where we are today that it's all but impossible to draw a straight line. No doubt Susan Fowler had an effect on that culture. So did the first female Presidential nominee losing to an incredibly unqualified man (before anyone starts, no, I'm not saying that sexism is the only reason she lost), as did the fact that Trump himself had numerous accusations against him that were all but dismissed in popular consciousness...

I don't mean to diminish Fowler at all. But the moment we have arrived at is a huge collection of interconnected events, not a straight line from A, through B, to C.
> To me, even with super short lines, braces at the end of the line are messy, and consistently messy is still messy.

To me, they're just harder to spot. I think having them on their own line "frames" the inner block nicely.

That said, brace location is not the hill I'm willing to die on. It's a minor thing, not worth getting religious over. For my own code, I'll do it how I want. For a team, though, consistency really does matter. I'll make my case, and then I'll shut up and do what the group decides.

(And actually, I think consistency within a file matters more than consistency between files, so I'm fine with "The file author/main maintainer sets the style for the file. If you modify the file, keep the existing style.")
Thanks! I'll let the authors know!
Agreed. My deep dive (reading the academic papers, etc.) trying to confirm that the TSA millimeter wave scanners are harmless came up with more questions than answers. If this tech uses the same spectrum then I'm giving casinos a +1 for potential cancer risk.
Hedge funds would be the ones to use kdb over Oracle, wouldn't they?
More leverage = much higher chance of getting caught.
I connected with a few guys who run consulting shops, who outsource skills that they don't have in-house. Also, some recruiters who can get me contracts with big city corps. I've also gotten in touch with 2 startup founders who are looking for a CTO.
Can confirm: clicking mirrors registers as a drag in Chrome 62.0.3202.94 under every circumstance I can find.
I always found an iterative refactoring of the old code a better engineering approach: small changes that do not modify the external behavior, but end up extracting a better design. Martin Fowler expressed it clearly in a 1999 book: "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code"

Another approach that I would advice using is studying the usage pattern of the current code base (analyze the logs over a long timespan, and/or instrument the server), in order to avoid making assumptions about how the old codebase is used.

The idea is that an old project, albeit ridden with awkward technical debt, is a project that is currently delivering business value, and - as such - it is important to have ways in your toolbox to extract meaningful information from it, filtering out the bad parts
https://respectfulinsolence.com/2017/11/29/christopher-exley...
I supposed I was thinking of trade associations (like the NFL) when I said not all non-profits are charities. Now that I say that though I wonder if there is a legal difference between the terms "non-profit" and "not for profit" and if one of those applies more appropriately to trade associations.
Los Alamos lab ‘near miss’ probed
That's kinda a problem with a lot of the so-called traditional wisdom. There are accidental or intentional nuggets in there but they're mixed up with so much crap that you can't separate the wheat from the chaff.
Please, read this before upvoting:

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/move-over-christopher-shaw-...
Nice comment, thanks. GigaClear etc are new to me. I left the UK 5 years ago, but was heavily involved in the telco business. Agree with your statement (and benefits) of heavily and fairly regulated monopolies.
PM on docs.microsoft.com team - already working on fixing this, thanks for the feedback!
It applies to things besides your credit score and your medical records for a start.

The FCRA isn't comparable. It's allowing a private agency to collect data without your consent, and then give it to those with a "valid need" without your consent. Only employers have some limitations.
They also ruled the world last year, and will rule the world next year. "Person of the Year" awards tend to highlight people that have had a particularly atypical effect in one particular year. They'd be pretty boring if they didn't.

Another way to look at it: while Bezos has done plenty with Amazon in 2017, it's a continuation of what he was doing in 2016. And I suspect 2018 will continue this year. It's not that his achievements aren't notable, it's that they didn't dramatically change the course of this year's events, or inspire a dramatic change of direction. By comparison, 2017's awakening to sexual assault/discrimination claims is an absolutely huge deviation from existing patterns.
> precisely because it's permanently one pen stroke away from being eradicated

So NN is not a problem, just a temporary fix. And it doesn't limit competition (it costs nearly zero to comply). The problem are _other_ regulations. So why are some people so obsessed with removing NN?
Or the query execution plan: Plan Q
> 1) The in-memory DB .exe was around 500 KB. Imagine that

It still is, but the hot path is much smaller than that.

> 2) The Q language syntax, while consistent, is fairly arcane and throwback to decades past.

I can't comment about this. I don't mind the syntax. I prefer k syntax though.

> 3) The documentation and driver support is abysmal.

This is getting a lot better. The fusion API[1] goes a long way towards better "drivers", and the new documentation site[2] shows a lot of energy being put into organization. There's also Q for mortals[3] which is linearized for people who like that.

[1]: http://code.kx.com/q/interfaces/fusion/

[2]: http://code.kx.com/q/

[3]: http://code.kx.com/q4m3/preface/

> 4) It's supposedly extremely fast, but I can't help but wonder if this is a lot of successful PR and hype

There are a lot of good benchmarks of kdb[4] unlike Oracle :)

[4]: https://stacresearch.com/m3
Either something odd's going on and past submissions have been removed, or there's only two things from service.gov.uk. One of which is this and the other from 531 days ago doesn't appear to be allowing comments. Not saying you're wrong, but your link isn't backing you up so you may want to double check it's the one you intended.
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Documentation for kdb+/q. MS had a posting for their new Q# language today on HN so that might have inspired someone to post this.
The Tax Foundation has been called a “deliberate fraud” by Nobel laureate Paul Krugman. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Foundation)

Also, 10,000 households in the 1950s is roughly equivalent to the top 1% of the top 1%, and exactly who i’d expect to be taxed at a rate of 90%+.
> These are some of the highest values for aluminium in human brain tissue yet recorded and one has to question why, for example, the aluminium content of the occipital lobe of a 15 year old boy would be 8.74 (11.59) μg/g dry wt.?

The phrase, "one has to question" in the abstract jumps out at me as unusual in science writing.
I agree with you. Argument 1 makes no sense.
What a coincidence. I was thinking when would something like this be out yesterday and it stayed just a thought. Didn't bother to google and now I see it here. Something I would certainly love to try.
I get that this doesn't happen every day but I paid for a certified check. Their method for certifying it involved 5 people and will take a few days before it clears.

People do certified checks whenever they buy a house, a car or transfer significant money from one institution to another.

And don't get me started on sending money to family members overseas!
My non-hippie mom threw out all our aluminum pots and other cookware when I was about 10 for fear of its contributing to Alzheimer’s, which coincidentally she just passed from.
I’m a layperson, but these sample sizes seem small. Is this a legitimate concern?
The blood of patriots is the only price worth paying for the right to privacy.
I've seen a lot of people on HN take a middle ground - that blockchain and crypto have real use cases, but that crypto is currently way overhyped. I think the key is that people can have a negative outlook on the financial characteristics of BTC, while still believing in the underlying technology. Certainly I can agree with you that cryptos can solve real problems, while you say that they are currently inflated - we're essentially in agreement, it seems.
No one is watching the scanners with eyeballs, that's the point - they're using machine learning to pick these things out.

It shouldn't take much to add to a pistol, for instance, to make it unrecognizable to this. In fact, I'd be very surprised if it works well with small handguns today like the Ruger LCP or the Kel-Tec P-3AT.
Estonia, however, is more Nordic than it is Baltic, other than in geography: its people and language are Finnic (neither Indo-European nor related to Latvian/Lithuanian) and it's been part of Denmark or Sweden for most of its history; there were even Estonian vikings.
I agree with you that it's not fair that the employees got screwed, but they got screwed because Softbank and Uber decided not to make the offer open to the employees that didn't have at least 10,000 shares.

It has absolutely nothing to do with US securities law (or any other US laws), as the current laws don't prevent acquirers from buying stock from unaccredited investors.
You can indeed do that. But very few people do, because when you try to mortgage your house to bet your life's savings at a craps table, your spouse refuses to sign the paperwork, because everyone knows that for a working class family, spending $10,000 at a casino means you have a problem.

The same is not true of investments, which can be very persuasively marketed to normal people without gambling problems. Which is why the SEC cares so much about how securities are marketed and promoted, and why you can sell stock in virtually anything as long as you (1) register and (2) publish audited financials documenting how crazy your business idea is.
I wish I know :). Its not really a derivative if volatility is capped while the underlying is free to move around.
New plan to replace aging copper networks.
Leading a shift in the workplace dynamics for 50% of the population could arguably have a much bigger impact than decreasing the cost of rocket launches
I assume they were referring to intermediate caching, not client side caching.
What a waste of adjectives not to mention logic or reason. The author should sit down with On writing well and have a good long concentrated read.

> ecological collapse will spawn nothing new. No Boschian hellscape of strange and shuddering hybrids will emerge. Environmental disaster is fundamentally uncreative.

The only evidence we are provided to support this claim is that due to a lack of fossil records we don't know how many jellyfish existed in ancient seas.
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> it isn't because the elite banksters are trying to protect their monopoly

To quote The Dude "Well, that's just like your opinion, man". I think your point is that the intention of the law is so that people are manipulated into buying securities they can't afford (e.g. scams). This is true, however some would argue that this legislation is yet another reason the rich continue to stay rich, which is a legitimate argument. So I wouldn't be so dismissive of that opinion.
more importantly if we wish to avoid replication in other domains it would be helpful if more people understood what happened. Our thoughts and culture are easily changed by those who know how to flip the right switches as you put it. This can work for or against any particular interest.