skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most places that it's shown up are workplaces with powerful, almost untouchable figures (a TV star or a 'rockstar programmer' or a CEO or an elected representative, or, of course, a priest, going back a bit further), and defective or non-existent HR. I suspect it's less common in more normally-functioning workplaces, simply because people would feel safer in complaining to HR, and special accommodations for the predator would be less likely to be made.

Also, of course, it was not exactly advertised that this was going on.
I would expect that you're right. Someone who is likely to do the second and third likely would not have the clean record needed for the first.
Is that such a bad thing? Any game dev that's not going to use Vulkan will use a game engine, which will pretty much handle vulkan for them.

I'm excited because Vulkan support will mean better GPU compute support across platforms.
I'm not aware that kona is working on the speed aspects of K, though, which seems like one of the major reasons to use K.
Why would ICOs make startups less reliant on VCs, other than the fact that (for the time being) ICOs let startups skirt investment regulations they'd otherwise have to adhere to?

I agree with tptacek's general thesis here: there's not any inherent difference between ICOs and "normal" early-stage investing that justifies an utter lack of regulation of the former but not the latter.
That doesn't make sense. That's one of the purposes of promises. The only escape hatch is to throw asynchronously which you just don't do.
This subthread was about class barriers and investors. You expressed ICOs might not be harmful to them, so I mentioned a way they might be. Not sure where the financial sector topic came from.

What exactly would the problem be with letting people crowdfund startups (i.e. equity)? Why not follow Filecoin's lead? I've been reading your arguments and you haven't really articulated your concerns; just persuasive cases that the status quo should be maintained.

The next Google/FB/Netflix might very well start using the model here, if you let it. But only if they have access to capital. And right now, that means VCs.
For PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows I just unzip three different zip files and and then add some standard configuration. Done.
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Here is the discussion where a16z gets flogged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11963551
No it’s not. There are pockets, but virtually all of the innovation in Africa is happening in Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa. That’s a small slice of an enormous continent.
>Also, what justifies Bitcoin's value at ~17k ?

Rich people in non-democratic countries worried about currency export controls and sanctions. Other methods of parking money externally (real estate, etc.) are subject to restriction and seizure.
Interstellar asteroid checked for alien technology
Sure, but would they ever have been published prominently? Historically, there's been a bit of a code of silence about this sort of thing. It's quite plausible that the Uber story loosened things up a bit.
The best way to understand Evangelion's uniqueness is to become familiar with all the tropes in anime/manga. Then it becomes obvious how Evangelion turned them all on their heads in some of the darkest possible ways -- and became one of the biggest hits of all time in Japan; something truly "generational" like Star Wars.

Anime and manga had long excelled at high drama; the space operas and melodramas and such.

And the creators of anime and manga were certainly not lacking in self awareness; there were lots of parody and comedy in anime and manga over the years, much of the light parody focusing on other works in their own genres or the general tropes found in those works.

But Evangelion was arguably the first major work in which those worlds collided. It never breaks the fourth wall, but the subversion of anime's tropes and conventions is utterly central to its drama.

1. The protagonist is a teenage boy. No surprise there -- the protagonist of any show is usually representative of the target audience. But instead of a simple "boy becomes a man" narrative, he more or less descends into depression and PTSD. The act of piloting a robot in bloody combat against incomprehensible is not healthy for him (because it wouldn't be, for anybody) and he is simultaneously loathable and also incredibly sympathetic because god damn is he put through hell. He responds to these traumatic events in ways that we might - imagine if your abusive father abandoned you and then forced you to become a child soldier? How screwed up would you be? He's probably the first anime protagonist to say: "Wait, this isn't fun. This is seriously fucked up." (And going further down the rabbit-hole of self-awareness, Shinji is painfully aware of how messed up he is)

2. Giant robots. They are a staple of anime for a number of reasons, chiefly because they sell toys, and toy sales help to finance these shows. Evangelion give you "robots," alright, but they are utter nightmare fuel in ways both visual and psychological.

2a. A trope in anime is when the pilots of giant robots "feel" their robots' pain. Evangelion takes this to the darkest and most literal extreme possible, with damage to the robots resulting in physical and emotional damage to the pilots.

3. Weirdest. Love triangle. Ever? It would be spoilers to say more, but it makes Game of Thrones look wholesome by comparison. Romantic tension is a given in... just about anything... but maaaaaaan does Eva make it weird. Another expectation, subverted, darkly.

4. Misato is something of a surrogate mother to Shinji. That gets, uh, interesting.

That said, Evangelion is not good just because "it's dark." There are lighthearted moments, and happiness, and some characters grow and become better people. It never feels "dark for the sake of being dark" in the way that some series like Game of Thrones are, where you almost dread the happy moments since those happy moments because they are immediately followed by some sort of gruesome tragedy, as if the viewer themselves is being punished for daring to be happy.
You really do not want to use too much power because when that string dries up you'll end up frying your end stage if the stars don't align.
They're using it as a specific example of typical American-style animation. The argument is that it's representative of a genre.
HIP [0] is particularly promising, because it may free scientific institutions from their CUDA shackles.

It's disappointing to see GPLed scientific software which won't run unless you have the closed hardware and software of a particular manufacturer.

[0] https://github.com/ROCm-Developer-Tools/HIP
> you can't send money from bank account to a different bank to your unsophisticated friend (plumber, maid, or mr sandwich) just knowing his phone.

Banks in the USA do not allow deposits into accounts without account holder permission. They won't let you stop by a branch and deposit into a friend's account (to pay them back) without a formal arrangement, so it's easier just to find your unsophisticated friend and give them cash directly. I'm not sure if this is due to a law, or our culture of security theater.
My one example? Yes, I gave one example. You're a bit of an ass, aren't you? OK, here's 6 more from the top of Google.

https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2017/04/armed-citizen-p...
Step-By-Step Fundraising Tactics from an NYC Founder Who Raised $750M
If you turn on the JS console, you will get quantum state printouts (with all nifty complex numbers and polarization vectors).
I had the same experience, except it was my fault. I crimped a cable poorly. But I had no idea anything was wrong. I didn't even bother testing it because it Just Worked.

The phone company (Centurylink) just one day called me, "Hey, we think we see a problem with your line, and we're sending someone over to check it. Is Saturday okay?"

It's the most proactive I've ever seen a huge ISP be, and it really impressed me. Almost as much as getting nearly my full rated speed out of a single wire.
If I had $5,000 to spend on a computer, I would absolutely build it myself. It would probably be powerful enough to gain sentience.
HF will jump that small gap easily enough due to capacitive coupling, POTS is a DC current to begin with as long as you're on-hook and very low frequency when off-hook so you're out of luck.
There are better ways to manage employee equity, and lots of even the smallest startups do so. E.g. switch to RSUs as early as possible, and have "double-trigger" vesting so taxes are only owed when the shares have a real dollar value.
I think it might be stoking the fire now, but there wasn't really all that much of a response when allegations were made about Trump, either by voters or the media. It's really hard to see that as the jumping-off point. As a result of the current climate, indeed, Trump's allegations are being re-examined by the media.
Also agree. It seems many people are convinced that others will just keep holding forever. Eventually there's less money flowing in and people will realize they aren't getting rich. When people aren't making more money they will start selling.

Worse, the people buying in now aren't true believers. They are "investing" because they think it is easy money. These folks represent a larger percentage of the market cap and are also least likely to have confidence in bitcoin for it's utility. They also stand to lose the most because their buy in point was so much higher. (people who bought in at say $1000, are just losing profits)

A panic sell will happen at some point.
Didn't always agree with his policies or politics but sad to see this. Condolences to his families.

As for London Breed, I've met her a few times at community gatherings. She seems like she has a good head on her shoulders. We'll see, SF has lots of problems.
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do, but if you leave the terminal icon in your Dock, dragging any folder from Finder onto it will launch terminal in that directory. Any good?
The information you need is in the certificate. The problem is it doesn’t fit in the UI.
I've been saying this for a while: Twitter is essentially an annotation platform in reverse.
What Is Segwit? A Beginners Crash Course
Man, I wish my dad was technical. Treasure that relationship.
Stick a SWR meter inline and keep your eye on it.
Yet with a tweet, you can see all the reactions to a given fragment in one place.
"Totally Kenya's mobile payment system evolution from SMSing minute refill codes, to an actual legally recognized form of payment is the original Blockchain in my mind"

which aspect of that SMS technology in Kenya embodied a secure distributed ledger? Maybe blockchain doesn't mean what you think it means?
Modern Front-End in Rails, Part 2
I think you misunderstood him.

What he said is that others countries that doesn't have a solid electronic transaction system are actively trying new stuff. In that case, M-Pesa won that race but the fact that it was centralized isn't why it won, it won because it was needed.

Now does Bitcoin is needed for another country? No idea, but I would have said the same for M-Pesa.
Nobody is saying that crytocurrencies 'in general' are going to be declared securities.

This is about ICOs. IE, a tokens that are a 'FUTURE' promise for something that doesn't exist yet.

If Bitcoin was a security, the statement from the SEC head would be very different.
Reg A+ is indeed easier than an IPO. I've seen some companies doing that, and it's 1 year pushback, to say at least.

One year is an insanely long time these days!
Read the article (point #4). He explains why.
That mobaxterm 777 bite me bad one time.
which means it would take that household an entire lifetime to save up a million dollars.

Well, then, I guess they best not be pissing away what little they have on dodgy ICOs. I mean, perhaps I’m wrong on the math, but you still haven’t convinced me of the case that those making $65K/year should get to dump their retirement money into dodgy investments. Rather, you’ve furthered the case against.
This is a totally wrong analogy. Books were burnt for religios/political reasons. Storify is giving up because of lack of financial instreams for the owners.
Large Bitcoin Exchange Says Hackers Are Attacking Again
I keep hearing pundits talk about cryptocurrencies as being "outside the regulation of any government" over and over. They need to stop saying this.
Show HN: RedFI – Redis Fault-Injection Proxy
I don't see anything bad with working on social network. That being said, that chain of thought is wrong. If you take that job, you share responsibility for what you do and you are no better then that other dude. You don't get points for someone else theoretically being worst - that is just arrogance.
That graph has a couple doglegs that make it look exponential.

The last dogleg was January 2015. And since then it’s been linear (with a little stall this month) at about 5% of the Internet converting per year. That’s another 15 years to convert the rest, unless there’s a new dog leg up.

Also percentages don’t work the way humans think they do. Especially when the number of devices is constantly climbing. That may just indicate that some fraction of new hardware is ipv6 but little old hardware is being updated.

We may well have ~2 billion machines on ipv4 pretty much indefinitely, slowly being diluted by addition of new hardware.
Great concept and website (and kudos on the witty domain name!). The questions (at least the ones I could see) are useful and it's great there are explanations of what you might want to pay attention to in the answer.

The only negative: I'm not a huge fan of having to enter my email to see all the questions. Isn't there some other way?
> This is only software I have ever seen that actually got smaller over time.

I agree, this is admirable!

Even if it is under different names (which I think is a far better approach), Sustrik does this too: http://250bpm.com/blog:50 He went from AMPQ (not his own creation) -> ZeroMQ -> nanomsg -> Libmill (essentially Go in C/UNIX style)

Also, OpenBSD comes to mind (LibreSSL for example).
I'm not sure that they were that interesting, really. Macron was arguably inevitable unless you assumed that for some reason France would abandon its tendency to reject the far-right candidate when it came to a one-on-one vote. While there was a lot of talk that it might do this, there wasn't that much evidence. Xi continues to exist; there'd definitely have been a year where it'd make sense for him to get it, but it wasn't this year. Bezos ditto. Musk ditto. MbS is the only one that I'd argue of these as being truly significant _in this particular year_.
They're working on more important stuff ;)
To me, this kind of comment drives home the insanity of the crypto craze right now.

Complaints of "only" making a 2.5x return.

Or proposed strategies elsewhere in this thread of buying a coin, selling half "when" it doubles, not "if".
A Wannabe Tesla Rival Appears to Be on a Knife Edge
Ed Lee advocated for the right housing policies. As mayor, he created the Affordable Housing Trust Fund after California ended Redevelopment and created several efforts to increase the housing supply, including the Public Land for Housing program (http://sf-planning.org/public-land-housing-formerly-public-s...) and the executive directive to streamline construction permits (http://sfmayor.org/article/executive-directive-17-02). On housing, my only criticism of Lee is that he was too slow to recognize the affordability issue.
Or maybe they know what they are talking about?
100% of new construction where I live in Oregon uses underground power lines. It's easy to do when you're putting in first time infrastructure. Super expensive to do it for existing housing though.
Yes, they develop an animation package named 'Presto' that allows them to do super customized character rigs.
AI algorithms to prevent suicide gain traction
Joy is coming up on 15 years without a release, there should probably be a statute of limitations on this sort of thing.
Isn't the high volatility a major drawback to this use-case?
What if I want to use my router to block telemetry domains? Or other malware sites? It’s looking like the only way forward is running my own CA to mitm all encrypted traffic.
Show HN: Spectrum – Tool to aid the colour blind
AA provide true fail-over if you buy multiple lines from them with different backhaul providers, and have a separate solution that will provide true fail-over with lines from other ISPs(!!)

I had it for 2 odd years: you get a few dropped packets before the system realises a line has become unavailable

if it hadn't been for the email telling me I'd never have noticed that a line dropped: connections remained established and downloads continued (at a lower speed)
I selected an option from. Each section and hit the button - nothing happens? I'm on Android if it makes any difference.

Also, what exactly is your product/service? How is it monetised (or planned to be)?
The problem is one sided contracts, black box, no transparency, one size fits all solutions. The whole point of free markets is choice but that's not really what's evolving.
The average "unbanked" person in a third world nation couldn't afford a $20 transaction fee for their ordinary transactions. But bitcoin certainly looks like a way for some portion of this group to protect their capital since it's not controlled by states want capital controls.

Of course, there's a reason third world countries want capital controls - a lot of the people seeking to export capital are corrupt non-owning possessors of resources. Just as an example, whatever rank administrators within state oil companies and such who want to take things that actually belong to the nations - because such nations have rather weak administrative classes (not that the US isn't moving closer to "kleptocracy" itself).

So everywhere, bitcoin certainly looks like a device for protecting value - except once all the money that wants to move in has moved, then bitcoin's lack of actual practical use (see $20 fees) will make it not terribly valuable and all that money in it will be at a bit of risk.

Plus, phone-based money systems already are coming/in Africa. They solve the ordinary transaction problem. The problem of "how do you get money out of X currency or resource" isn't a logistics problem, it's a power-struggle. The reason Y person is fighting to get money out of X currency is Z person wants to stop that happening. But overall, remember neither Y nor Z are likely to be less than fully corrupt.
I've used some pretty dicey end-fed half waves but that takes the cake!

Probably harder now that we're in a solar minimum but you'd have decent luck on CW.
> "we tap our Visa card to pay instantly with no fees"

That's just not true, these fees are baked into the prices, since the seller pays them.

That's one of the reason cryptocurrencies are advantageous in the long run, they can eventually provide the transaction fees close to what they cost in electricity and infrastructure amortization - pretty much sub-penny to transfer any amount.
I'm wondering why a lot of cryptos (eth, ltc, many more) use price is going up since circa 4 days. Like something happend or is going to happen.
I really like those questions! They seem more thought out than most of the stock interview questions a google search will show you. I definitely stopped as soon as I was asked for an email though. There's no way I'll give you my valuable email space just to see some interview questions.
Yes obviously. But you earlier stated that "Already happened basically!" in reference to a crypto bailout. So again, how is "seek" equivalent to "ask" here?
Entering my email gave me the error "Substitution data too large"; probably because I ticked all boxes.

{"response":{"name":"SparkPostError","errors":[{"message":"Substitution data too large","description":"Transmission-level substitution data must be less than 100000 bytes","code":"2002"}],"statusCode":422}}
A '17 iMac 5k 27" costs $1700 (base), $1900(mid), $2200 (high).
The base price of the iMac Pro is $5k

The reviewer is actually comparing the iMac Pro to the 2015 model iMac (R9 graphics)
A long time!

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-...
Other than the cost because there is no upgrade path, I am a bit worried that they will have done a bad job at estimating the thermal. Given the iPhone 6 and some of the portables, I am worried that a user won't get the full performance for long periods of time. I guess I will wait for the eventual Mac Pro to see what to order next.
Then they put a sign up saying "please remove trinket from pocket". This really doesn't seem like a huge problem.
> if you compare bitcoin with gold, bitcoin is better

If you have access to a computer that has many many gold plated connections.

Gold is still superior for restarting civilization after an apocalyptic event.
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1) Yes, but that's not huge by modern standard.

OP could have phrased it better, but I presume his point was that 500KB is extremely small by modern standards. The whole executable fits comfortably in L3, so you'll probably never have a full cache miss for instructions. On the other hand, while it's cool that it's small, I'm not sure that binary size is a good proxy for performance. Instruction cache misses are rarely going to be a limiting factor.
I've got a rather old iMac. Even though it has screws on the back, you replace the drive (which I just did) by going through the front -- step one, attach suction cups and remove the screen. (Shout-out to iFixit for their informative guides.)

You've confirmed this truly not user-servicable?

(edited typo)
Pi is within 1% of 22/7.

Edit: Another way of putting it, pi is not infinite. It's a number between 3.14 and 3.15.
Rarely are people truly inherently smarter than everyone else. All of our brains work differently; some of us respond to learning environments, others don't. Take things like IQ tests as a grain of salt; it's just another tool of hierarchy. Find the environment/learning style that works best for you.
That blur is clever. Kudous. One suggestion I have is to have another email submission field since I just got rid of the last one. I don't want to have to go looking for it. It actually took me a moment to remember where it was, since those pop ups are never something I pay attention to.
There is also Quantum computer playground by Google:
http://www.quantumplayground.net/

Here's list of various QC simulators:
https://www.quantiki.org/wiki/list-qc-simulators
From the looks of it, when you give you email they're adding you to a job posting list... (main monetization scheme)

An additional feature might be to allow posters to also select which characteristics they have and tailor it to you...per say?

Just a guess.
> Xi, Bezos,and Musk

Xi has been around for ages, as has Bezos. It's not really their year. Musk has done very little to impact anyone's life; maybe some of his stuff might in the future (though I would argue probably not), but at most it's unrealised potential. Save it until there's an impact. The change in culture around sexual assault and harassment in the US and more broadly the west in general is already having a large impact, and going forward its impact may be dramatic.

You could certainly argue to what extent Fowler was involved in that, but if you take the position that she was key, and there's certainly an argument to do so, then it makes sense.
Rust programs versus C++ g++ (by benchmark task performance)
Sure, but much of this depends on BTC exchanged for fiat. I suspect that if governments really try to put their foot down, they will inadvertently fuel a shadow economy similar to how failed states try to set an official FX rate.
How to get your first 100k active users
regarding victimizing criminals, I found the recent trial of the Katherine Steinle to be very surprising, yet perhaps emblematic of the city's climate.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/jury-reaches-v...