skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple Siri promotes Google over Bing for billions of dollars. Net Neutral.

Mozilla promotes Google over Yahoo and switches user search preferences back to Google. Net Neutral.

Google blocks YouTube access from Amazon's streaming devices. Net Neutral.

Netflix throttles AT&T and Verizon customers. Net Neutral.

You know why I don't care if Pai "repeals" NN?
Doesn't this program require an undergrad in CS? Why would it be more apropos for another field?
I agree with you - I actually implicitly meant everything you said.

The crux of the matter lies with your last sentence: "They simply need to be desired by the market"

Ergo, the quality of an asset as a "store of value" (the point of contention I was addressing in my comment) is directly mapped to the desire. BTC's desire is insanely volatile, automatically making it a poor store of value.

My point is precisely that all assets used as currency are oftentimes intrinsically worthless. It's the demand - and the liquidity it provides converting to and fro said currency from other goods or currencies - that makes it a value storage vehicle. BTC, as a "value storage vehicle," is a very poor choice. Gold isn't.
Is it actually profitable? "Profitable" is a fun term to throw around to make your business look good, but it can mean a lot of different things (net margin profitable, gross margin profitable, pre tax profitable, etc). I'd be surprised if they really were all that profitable (meaning they would end each year with more money than they started with).
What They Don't Tell You About Data Science 2: Data Analyst Roles Are Poison
And that welcome message about how its a fantastic "brand" makes me want to simultaneously slap him in the mouth and vomit.
> This only happens if you're pulling more energy than the long-term capacity

Well, of course that's true. The problem was the capacity was too low to be cost effective.
What do wallets have to do with buying and selling?
Well, like all social things there are degrees. One obviously has the option to talk about things pseudo-anonymously, indeed that's what my handle here at hn is, but there are levels of effort and plausible deniability involved in connecting that handle to my actual identity.

But in doing so, one is talking about topics that one feels relatively safe about: either because one is expressing opinions that are in some ways culturally mandated, or which are so trivial one doesn't view them as controversial, or because one holds a social position whereby even though those views are contentious one feels they have enough social power to get away with expressing them.

But we don't have a perfect idea of what is deemed contentious in the future or what future contexts will be, so if you're not in a position of relative social power, and are assuming you're going to stay in that position for the plausible future, you're taking massive risks...or alternately your not really discussing very controversial opinions.

I'm lucky, in that I don't have anything that society currently views as a strong negative and I'm now in a relatively powerful position, but even I have to wear a "social mask" when I go out because my brain doesn't seem to work like most people's, and common topics of conversation dont really interest me.

But imagine others, or even me hypothetically investigating opinions I don't necessarily agree with. Indeed, back at university, for example, I attended various religious groups and meetings: I was interested from an anthropology perspective, but if someone had taken my name out and associated me with that group, that might kiss goodbye future employment.

And what about other groups and genuinely controversial opinions: gay men in religious communities, women in Saudi Arabia, minorities and ethnic groups, drug users, pirates, criminals, anarchy/communist/separatists/far right groups, fetishists and swingers, racists and religious fundamentalists (again, I did some work on the latter back at university). Even being interested in such topics in any serious fashion is enough to raise a bit of "social suspicion" from a social capital perspective...
Interesting. This looks similar to http://knexjs.org/, but without drivers.
I once sent him a letter (snail mail) addressed to Donald Knuth, c/o Stanford Computer Science Department (address at bottom of http://www-cs.stanford.edu/). He got back within a couple of weeks, so it seems to have reached him fairly efficiently.
/r/recruitinghell worthy post
Terrible analogy. To be more accurate, you would copy america and change the policies you want. Then the market decides on what they believe in and want.
That was beer's last chapter.
That's cool and all, but maybe just focus on fixing the overly-tight bottle caps now? I can't drink it and buy more if I can't open it...
Can you say X comes at the cost of Y and Z? A and B in the previous example were products. Y and Z in your example are attributes of the products A, B and C. Pedantic, but less confusing.
I've turned my phone to gray scale. Everything is a lot less interesting.
Nuclear isn't inherently safe, though. It can be safe if the people do their jobs correctly. Whether you believe it is safe really comes down to whether you believe that regulatory agencies can provide adequate oversight to prevent people from cutting corners, making bad risk/benefit trade-offs, or sweeping problems under the rug to protect their jobs. That's more of a political problem than a technical one, and I don't really blame people for being skeptical that oversight in real-world scenarios is 100% effective.
I love that idea!
Exploring ZFS ZIL with Intel Optane and NAND
well, yes, actually. use the viewframe to your advantage. understand the reader's scope of interest. whatever part they're focused on now can fill the canvas... anything else is visual noise until the reader is ready for it.
Rolling out new physical cards in just a quarter of a year may be some feat. – Is there confidence in achieving this? Or is the key regeneration tool a complete replacement for the procedure?
Does it make sense to start learning EcmaScript today? More and more people are migrating to TypeScript as the coding language, WebAssembly has arrived to replace JavaScript as the browser native language other languages will compile to. Isn't EcmaScript going to become legacy soon? I'm actually curious, seriously, not trolling.
Two opposing headlines, Woz, and the iPhone X
I'm paying for a specialization on Coursera, and while the content is good (also I really like the professor's style so far), there is next to no support available with assignments. The starter code is typically out of sync with the specs, and a lot is left for you to figure out by reverse engineering the test-runner scripts. I kind of enjoy this process, but I know people who got frustrated and gave up (and no, posting on the forums yields absolutely nothing in a reasonable amount of time).
This reminds me of a comment (here on HN I believe) after David Sacks took over Zenefits after its compliance debacle:

"When the old CEO writes the announcement letter, it was her choice. When the new CEO write the letter, it was the board's choice."
Are you referring to the fake problems with the delicious snack bars? Or something else? I don't keep close track of Soylent as I only consume their products now and then (its shelf life is one of the things I love about it... and now I fear they'll cut that because it stunts repeat sales and encourages the kind of consumer they don't want) but that's the last I know of. Was bummed when they discontinued them, I ate loads of them and never had an issue. When they accepted returns and proceeded to eat them to prove they were fine, I appreciated that response and felt it the appropriate one but I know they backed off of that and apologized.
According to MacRumors, it's a deal "that could be worth $400m". If I were to guess (based on just public information which is almost nothing), the stock is not going to be worth much. Obviously Apple is going to pay the least they can, so I wouldn't be shocked if they're paying exactly what investors need to either get their money back or maybe a slight profit (if the recent investors had conditions for it). Employees will probably get nothing, except a new plan. The total sum of that new plan would depend on hitting some very aggressive numbers, that are unlikely to be hit (no idea what they'd put the metrics on). And the bulk of that is probably going to the CEO who has to stick around for 4 years to cash in.
The easy part? If you're apple, google, or microsoft, maybe.
Yes. I own the SE, switched from iPhone 6 because I knew the SE form factor is perfect for me back when it was released.

I really hope that Apple continues the iPhone SE and upgrade it. It's still the cheapest but powerful enough phone you can get. I love it.
Coinbase is insured via FDIC, so I don't think "poorly" as an appropriate adverb.
I'm a "regular" guy too for the same reasons as you. My scroll wheel on traditional mice dictates how I scroll trackpads.

Potentially related datapoint: I hate inverted controls in FPSes too. (Though I use them in dedicated flight sims!)
Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861123
Just curious, do you do any comp sci in your developing role, what sorts of stuff; or is it mainly programming.
Breakthrough Listen Project to Observe Interstellar Object ‘Oumuamua
I get the argument about the ex-Verizon employee - the much bigger conflict of interest is that such a person is a future-Verizon employee, as the fate of other such officials in e.g. finance sector illustrates; we get regulatory capture because the industry lobbyists promise and hand out lucrative deals to individual regulators after their term is done.
The economics are different for trains, though. The economic benefits of shrinking seat sizes are far smaller. And no, the TSA line is not inevitable.

Other countries that deal with terrorism operate train systems without people groping your privates. Yet another problem with airplanes is a tiny bomb can cause explosive decompression. That's not a worry with trains - you're not going to kill 300 people with a bomb you can hide in your underwear.
It all depends on how you want to delegate the work. As companies grow, the founders will hit the limits of their own experience. They then need to hire help, and place that help within in the organization. Eventually, with success, they either step up and build the skills needed to succeed as CEO, or they realize they delegated everything to others. In that latter case, it makes sense to just step aside and let the team you built do the job they were hired to do, and give the CEO title to someone else. When the founder is still the largest shareholder, the true decision making authority does not change... but they can reserve it for special occasions, and the rest of the time get out of the way and let their team carry on.
All the popular exchanges are facing scaling issues: I know about Poloniex, Coinbase, Bittrex, bitfinex.

It's all because of the higher and higher interest in bitcoin and crypto currency in general. Even CBOE had issues earlier today when they launched their futures, even though they were not doing active tradings and have many more years of experience (and time to scale).

There are interesting times ahead. Something we've never seen before in the history of humanity. Not even the internet was so disrupting as the blockchain technologies will become.
What if, as in this case, they both wrote it?
If your goal is "become a software engineer", I would recommend you consider other online options. Your rough ROI equation should be "cost = (tuition + time-to-job * delta-in-salary) + cost-of-failure * odds-of-failure" and "odds-of-failure" is the product of graduation rate * job placement rate. Online CS programs tend to have higher time-to-job and unpublished job placement stats. They may still be good options, but this is how I would evaluate.

Other online options:

* Hack Reactor Remote http://hackreactor.com/remote
* Disclaimer: I am a cofounder of Hack Reactor
* "Online classroom" model (work with peers and teachers over videoconf, etc during set hours)
* Time-to-job: 3 months program + job search, plus you may need a prep class to pass the entry interview
* Odds-of-failure: See CIRR.org for grad and placement rate
* Thinkful
* "Mentor-supported" model (some meetings, lots of flex time)
* Time-to-job: I think there is some info on CIRR.org
* Odds-of-failure: See CIRR.org for grad and placement rate
* Free Code Camp
* "Self-driven" model (all driven by you, with online text communications and lots of local meetups)
* Time-to-job: Not sure there is good data on this.
* Odds-of-failure: See CIRR.org for grad and placement rate
NASA actually has enough money.

SpaceX Falcon 9 FT (mostly re-usable)
50,000 lbs to low earth orbit (LEO)
Cost: Substantially less than $62M with re-usablity

SpaceX Falcon Heavy (mostly re-usable)
140,000 lbs to LEO
Cost: $90M

Blue Origin New Glenn (mostly re-usable)
100,000 lbs to LEO
Cost: expected under $100M.

SpaceX BFR (fully re-usable)
330,000 lbs to LEO
Cost: Expected less than Falcon 9

NASA SLS (Space Launch System) (disposable, destroyed every launch)
Block 1 (2020): 150,000 lbs to LEO

Block 1B (2022): 230,000 lbs to LEO

Block 2 (2029): 290,000 lbs to LEO

Cost: $500M+ per launch
$1B+ a year in operational costs (for 1-2 launches a year)
$20B+ in developmental costs

NASA is blowing at least $3B a year paying Boeing and other contractors to build the SLS when far cheaper alternatives are either available or imminent. The cost of your Lunar or Mars exploration program is directly determined by your launch costs, and Congress has forced NASA to choose the most expensive possible launch system. Because it's built in Alabama. Using commercial launch capacity to operate the manned space program would not only free up billions a year, but accelerate it (the SLS won't be carrying humans until mid 2022 at the earliest).

$3B a year could pay for a half dozen to a dozen Falcon Heavy manned launches a year with capsules, support, everything, starting in late 2019. They could be used to assemble lunar and mars size transit ships in orbit, and actually send people to the moon and mars before 2022. It could also pay for as many as six huge interplanetary robotic probes, every year. We could re-visit every planet yearly with ever more capable scientific instruments. Or a combination of the manned and robotic plans.

But instead, the huge flow of money keeps the congressional delegation in Alabama secure in their seats, while crushing the dream of any actual NASA manned space program to the moon or mars ever. The SLS has missed every schedule date, and it's really unlikely congress is going to fully fund the program when the SLS is working. And the SLS spending is gutting actually super cost effective robotic probe spending.

Even if funded, NASA's plan never has more than 2 launches per year, and it's first Mars launch is planned for 2033. If nothing else ever slips.
This is not how we do things these days - you will have an option to buy an accessory on every delivery for $9.99 extra.
I would say that submitting a public comment under a pseudonym is OK even if it was against the law.
Shazam operates on my street! Was an interesting surprise...

This feels like a natural acquisition to compete w/ some of Googles offering w/ the latest Pixel 2.

The fact Shazam is 18 years old is crazy. Pre-dates "apps" with the "2580" service and was one of the first apps on the iPhone.
With the lottery, you are at least partially funding public education (35% of the revenue if I remember correctly). Are there any social benefits to Bitcoin mining?
Never easy to do this. But most founders' mindset is to do whatever is best for the survivability and growth of the company. That's the path I took.
Why you need a shower filter
You should mark this day. This is probably the most positive customer experience you're going to ever have with a Comcast employee. I had a choice between Verizon and Comcast. Comcast was cheaper and I still went with Verizon.

Edit: typo.
> Doesn't this program require an undergrad in CS?

No it doesn't.
I remember using Shazam back in... 2008 on my whatever Nokia phone I had back then. It was pretty good.
you are right, and why deflation better than inflation?
> Why do people assume HSR will not have TSA lines?

Because in places where HSR does currently exist, there are no significant security lines.

Trains have fundamental safety advantages compared to planes, so the payoff of an attack is less.
Mine was pretty good actually. From time to time you find some track you just can't stop listening to - start every morning with it, put it on every time you get home, then hit rewind as soon as it's done and so on - my top songs consisted pretty much of those.
sshhhhh. We're not supposed to say anything positive about BTC on HN.
What's going on with Soylent these days? They've been out for a while, so I'd be interested to learn about any (relatively) long term studies that came out about the health effects of a soylent-only diet.
Nintendo’s Resurgence
You mean selling a chassis with a a single seat, huge motor, stick shift, and the rest of the "car" being made up of a ginormous sound system wouldn't work? o.O
Throughout my 20 year career? Of course! Probably more than 99:1. I’ve applied to many hundreds of jobs through the years.
Bitcoin is the conservative approach to any change that decreases the keystone of decentralization that allows it to survive. The market is deciding what it values.
How can this be the top comment? Making fun of someone's look? Is this what we've become?
The system as described does create real income in those coins - the newly printed money goes to everyone equally, but the inflation affects those who hold existing money. In this manner, it's an ongoing redistribution of the coins (assuming they stay fungible) from those who have them to everyone else.
Not all government jobs are intended to serve the public, many of them exist at the request of businesses, in particular regulatory agencies. Some of them work better than others, the FAA has a contrary agency in the NTSB that I think keeps it more honest than some of the other agencies.

Ajit Pai's position on net neutrality is not news. It was not news when he was nominated by Trump, and confirmed by the Senate. And sufficient numbers of the public got those people elected despite their position on net neutrality. By being single issue voters, they are getting punished on everything else they might value.
I read a news announcement on, I believe, IEEE, that Intel had gotten a manufacturing process down for a 17-qubit chip and had shipped it to their research lab in the Netherlands. There are certainly developments left and right. It will be interesting to see where quantum computing ends up... I could certainly see big possibilities for it in the communications sphere, guaranteeing link integrity and things like that.
When I bought a new car I did this. The salesman warned me that the weird combination of options I wanted was not popular. I bought it anyway.

When it came time to sell the car, the salesman was right :-) When you buy an unpopular mix, you pay twice - once for the options, and again when you have to sell the car at a discount because of those options.

The cars on the lot tend to be the most popular option combinations, meaning the most sellable cars at the most profit. The dealers aren't fools.
What if the idea you have is for a real need/issue you face but its trivial for an established player to build in as a feature?
Fortunately I use trackpads w/ my two desktop Macs, so of course they are set to match the default MacBook trackpad action.
Congress came up with the money. And forced NASA to spend it on the SLS to ensure we'd never explore deep space.
I don't find net neutrality regulations to be "good". The saving grace for me would be if they did block companies like T-Mobile from zero rating, but they don't. And not only that, but Title II actually currently exempts ISPs from FTC regulation, which is horrendous.

This isn't a "perfect is the enemy of good", this is "I can't really find an upside to what everyone is advocating for".

And Binge On being disablable doesn't solve the primary issue with zero rating: It provides consumers and incentive to stick with the big companies over the new guys, who probably can't necessarily cut a deal with T-Mo. It creates a strange gate for newcomers to get through, even if they do allegedly "allow anyone to join". (Because it isn't just a checkbox, T-Mo throttles Binge On content, effectively.)
Hackers hit key ATM network in crime spree that clears $10M
Stripe is not in Estonia, so we applied to Braintree. It took us a couple of weeks and we were rejected at the beginning, but finally they accepted us.

Also 2checkout can be an option too.
"Preferred qualifications for admitted OMS CS students are an undergraduate degree in computer science or related field (typically mathematics, computer engineering or electrical engineering) from an accredited institution with a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher. Applicants who do not meet these criteria will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis; however, work experience will not take the place of an undergraduate degree."[0]

So unless that other field is Math or computer-related, then that's not really going to work, which is why I specifically mentioned "another field".

[0] - https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/program-info/admission-criteria
Indeed, it seems to be a Photoshopped, color corrected version of the picture from this 2016 article:

http://www.businessinsider.com/soylent-ceo-rob-rhinehart-has...

(pic only: http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/53986ac46bb3f7d3114...)
Building the service is not usually the hard part, but building the ecosystem around it is. There were/are countless services similar to Facebook or Twitter, but only a few of them can be really successful because of herd mentality.
I don't think it runs on the same V8 ( chrome ) that the one runs JS, I remember 2 engines running.
Aren't government officials supposed to be working FOR the public, rather than some vested interests by a few?

And shouldn't you be listening when the people who have made internet possible today (Tim Berners-Lee, Steven Bellovin, Steve Wozniak and Brewster Kahle to name a few) is very much against it?

The vote, the process and the resulting decision otherwise should be done in an objective and transparent manner. Just the way that the internet has been envisioned to be.
Farm as a service
This formula also discounts getting re-hired in a poor job market, no?
Completely agree. This is "how to become a programmer with a general knowledge". Far, far away from a Computer Scientist.

I can't see any of the "basics" stuff like calculus, algebra...

BUT, it is truth that most of the enterprises are fine having a programmer rather than a Computer Scientist... Probably most of them can't even tell the difference.
Facebook wants NN gone, so that they can sell their curated "Free Basics" plan with ISPs, blocking everything outside of Facebook and maybe Wikipedia.

They want to lock low income people into the Facebook bubble.
My apologies on not voting your submission up. I completely missed it.

Jealous of those that attended. Glad to see the recordings are easy to reach. I didn't realize they were in YouTube. So, I encourage everyone to see the article I missed, since it looks there.
I'd say try keeping that pop up open after you upload...even though it says it will email you the results. It may or may not work for you - could be a coincidence for me. On my 3rd day of trying I just kept it open and got an email a few minutes later saying I'm verified.
This is low level trolling. Visa and Mastercard are not decentralized. Centralization is an easy way to scale. They are not apples and oranges.

Also, Bitcoin settles transactions in 30 days, merchants get their funds in 30 days if they are lucky to not have the charge back.

Apples and oranges.
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Sony isn't a good example because it's phones are outrageously expensive relative to competition.