skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either way, those rises don't seem to be "priced in" in any way that means they won't actually go up. Maybe it'll all turn around soon.
Its probably impossible to quantify (mostly because those people using crypto are largely doing it at risk of imprisonment or death) - I'd imagine its a small number of tech savvy individuals.
> Udemy

Stephen Grider's courses on Udemy were good enough to get me going with my own app in just a week or so of video+coding. Went through all of his first and ~1/2 of his second course on React Native.

My only complaint is that he doesn't do a great job explaining a lot of the underlying principles of React Native that well. Strange issues with View, intricate details of the Flex model, React-Native seems to have lots of edge cases around almost everything. Heck it took me the better part of three hours to get the keyboard so it wouldn't cover my input boxes[1]. But overall it does a good job getting started.

Then again this is the same framework that has multiple Medium articles published about how to get an image to expand to the full screen width, with rather conflicting advice being given at times. If anything, React-Native is the best jobs creation program I have seen in a while, it has generated a lot of blog posts of people explaining how to do what should be basic things! :)

All that said, if this book contains explanations of why things happen, I'd pick it up in a heartbeat. Unfortunately I can't tell that w/o giving my email. :/

[1]Facebook's component for this, KeyboardAvoidingView, is 90% undocumented. After a number of other issues, my final one was forgetting to call the magic UIManager.setLayoutAnimationEnabledExperimental(true) function, without which things just tend to Not Work on Android.
The way to prevent such future issues is to move to a decentralized platform, perhaps using a blockchain.
Merchants absolutely can pass on the fees or give "discounts" for cash, at least in the USA. Gas stations are one of the major businesses that practice this.

Anecdotally, I worked at a company store years ago where we would charge customers paying with cards a 2.75% fee, which is what we were paying. And that store was operated by a Fortune 500 company.

Also, virtually every small private business I go to in Los Angeles charges some fee, or has stipulations, for credit card transactions.
> the company is on track to soon have $300 billion of cash, almost all of which is located abroad, and $150 billion of debt
The US
You're looking in the wrong direction, you can always add a trivial trace of some additional wavelength and have no measurable effect on what people experience. That remains true no matter how many finite sensors you imagine they have. That part is simply not interesting.

What's interesting is differences in the MINIMAL set of physical things that need to be detected to get the experience.

The objective truth is that if I hand you a machine that generates just single wavelengths of photons, you can cause "Normies" to say "yellow" but you can't do the same for "magenta".

That asymmetry remains even when you talk about adding more sensors. You can frequency-shift an R/G/B cone to get a new kind that "peak-triggers when normal people say yellow" but you cannot do the same to create one which "peak-triggers when normal people say magenta". You would need to create a fundamentally different kind of sensor.
Weaponised paywall may be behind alleged comment attacks in Hacker News
Wealthfront: A Bit About Bitcoin
What the SATs Taught Stitch Fix about Finding the Perfect Fit
Ok, "sub standard" is entirely the wrong term for this. When you replace it with "unconventionally small", I'm unreservedly in favor.

Also, "SRO" is ambiguous without the expansion. Even when I googled "sro housing", the result seemed to be an organization, not a type of housing unit. I still don't know exactly what you're referring to.
This is a terribly uninformed opinion.
> The established value of the consensus is the transactions contained within the block.

Which of them? Because every node has a slightly different view and doesn't
know how it differs from anybody else's view.

> That's the point, one should not have to consider the values of other nodes to reach consensus. If the network agrees on something, that's consensus. If a certain node doesn't, that's their problem.

The problem is that every node has slightly different view. You can't tell
"this is the agreed value", because no particular node has this value as its
state. Yet somehow it emerges as network's agreed value? By what means
(algorithm) anybody can take a list of transactions and say "this is the
network's agreed value"?

Not to mention that the list of transactions constantly changes, you didn't
address the problem that agreed value requires the protocol to terminate
first.

> It's agreed because that miner solved the block problem first. If you have a different view, you must fix it. This is how it achieves consensus.

In what way is "solve block problem" consensus?

> Not sure what specific consensus problem Nakamoto consensus doesn't solve,

Yes, this is typical problem with blockchain enthusiasts. They're usually too
uneducated and don't know the fundamentals, like the definition of consensus
problem. I pointed you to Byzantine generals paper already, it should have
been easy to find even with just "consensus problem Lamport" keywords.
Running a Distributed Database on Kubernetes on Azure
Hey guys. I was with involved with Shipt for a little over a year. I honestly left because I am an entrepreneur at heart and have my own business that I did not want to see die.

It would have been easier to have stayed at Shipt. Being a CTO is a relatively easy job for me. But I don't measure my success by what is easy or what makes sense.

I certainly would have made more on this acquisition if I had stayed longer, but what can I say... being an entrepreneur is both a blessing and a curse!!!
>The US government is not why Snowden is in Russia, Snowden is why Snowden is in Russia. He went to Russia intentionally. He wasn't kidnapped, he chose Russia as a destination specifically due to their reluctance to cooperate with the US.

He chose Russia as a layover location, Hong Kong has a limited number of outgoing flights and that likely was the one the US would be least able to grab him. However, the US is why he is in Russia now. You mention that he had a flight to Cuba booked, and his ultimate goal was Ecuador.

There is no proof that he took "state secrets" to Russia. By his account he had destroyed any of his remaining copies before leaving Hong Kong. This is a far more egregious error than confusing a layover stop for being forced to land.
> 2. articulate and implement a plan of action so that it doesn't happen again.

It seems to me like they did? The plan of action is articulated here:

"we’re going to fix them in a different way, and we’re going to work with you to come up with the specifics, as we should have done the first time around."

And it is implemented here:

"If you haven’t sent us a note yet, or if you don’t see your concerns listed above, please leave us your feedback here[LINK]."

(And of course part of the implementation is actually listening to the feedback in the future.)

I understand that you don't find this satisfactory. However, I don't know what you would find satisfactory. What would a response that legitimately addressed #2 look like, concretely? Could someone give an example response?

EDIT: Ah, you say elsewhere that the people involved in the decision should be "replaced, retrained, or otherwise required to alter their behavior". Do you want Patreon's press release to say, e.g., that people were fired/demoted/retrained as a result of the decision? If so, you should have said so!
I'm always interested in reading about the inner workings of gangs. It seems like these biker gangs are not particularly sophisticated nor well organized, though. The main one in the story immediately lost cohesion when their leader fled the country and were absorbed by the Yakuza. In many ways, they seem less robust and effective than biker/street gangs in America.
> A big problem (that we arguably created ourselves) is a patron could pledge to a creator on the 25th of a month (granting a patron 5-6 days of access), get charged, and then get charged again on the 1st of the next month (granting the patron 30-31 days of patron-access).

A simple solution to the "patron pledges near the end of the month" problem would be to have two batching dates, one at the end of the month and the other at the middle, and chose the one farthest from the current date, so the initial charge of a pledge would always be for at least a couple of weeks. Though personally, I would find that solution a bit annoying; having everything aggregate into a single charge per month is very convenient for patrons.
A little nudity in a movie is harmless. A little nudity being forced into a movie as a sexual power play isn't. The problem isn't the nudity, it's why it's there. If people are naked due to an act of symbolic rape in the real world and not as a device to enhance the story, that's a problem. However, if no one forces anyone else to do something that they don't want to, I have difficulty seeing that as a problem.

The nudity isn't the harm. Being forced into it is.
Thank you for the feedback, that is a very good point!
AWS re:Invent , all presentations with audio,YouTube and slides links
The assertion was the EV skip the tax completely. That said the majority of the gas tax goes to the state level(at least here in WA state).

There's also a simple solution to the federal tax, add it to registration just the same way the state tax works.
Nothing like voting with your wallet.
California lawmaker proposes “killer robots” ban
Historically the most reliable way to break a CAPTCHA was to pay a human to solve it via a sketchy service, for eg $3/1000.

The round trip time of those services can be quite long, narrowly within the CAPTCHA timeout window. By forcing some users to solve three iterations of the puzzle (the exact instructions are “stop when there are no more images containing <cars>”), Google forces multiple round trips to a CAPTCHA solving service. Also, the solving service and its client need to account for the expectation that the final image will have no <cars>, increasing complexity.

This increases cost 3x, slows solving rate 3x, etc. Ultimately google can never stop the problem of outsourcing CAPTCHA solving to a human, so their best option is to increase the cost and complexity of doing so.
You could organize a taxpayer's strike. Obviously not paying your taxes is illegal, so it's a risky move. If you get enough people to join your strike, you'll probably have a lot of leverage. But good luck getting enough strikers.
What measure are you using to determine the performance is terrible? As a developer, I have always had issues with Antivirus. If your compile times are crap then AV should be one of the first things you try disabling.

Hell, I've had overly aggressive AV (McAfee) locking files in temp data folders causing performance to falter in running applications (Visual Studio, Pidgin, Outlook, Office).

Why does the end user care about compile times?
I'm not blaming scientists, which should be obvious given my proposed solution of solving this at the funding level.

Of course some scientists derive value from publishing in prestigious journals, but if that's the case they can pay for those fees themselves out of their own pocket, not out of their research grant.

If those journals demand exclusivity, which they often do, the scientists can of course continue to publish in them if they so choose, but then they can also fund their own research.
5 Tools for Monitoring Kubernetes at Scale in Production – The New Stack
Isn't this the kind of thing that was missing from the "go on different platforms" benchmark a little while back. The intel platform has crazy optimization for encryption algorithms on Inteil, while ARM was severely lacking.
Many languages use "inline method caching" - that is, a "call_dynamic x_named_method" bytecode is replaced with a "guard_and_call_static 0xfffffff" once the callsite is evaluated. In some languages invalidating this cache by calling a method with polymorphic arguments or altering the receiving class can be extremely expensive, so there are usually second-order optimizations applied.

Objective-C: Takes one method pointer indirection / jmp trampoline forever, but caches "selectors" on the class so that they become a simple lookup rather than a full evaluation. See sibling comments for better write-ups than I could find.

Most JS runtimes: Trace JITs mean many method invocations are compiled into traces and become either inline instructions or native function calls. Also uses "hidden classes" to implement inline method caching, where the callsite is replaced with the specific address of the call once the dispatch is resolved. https://github.com/sq/JSIL/wiki/Optimizing-dynamic-JavaScrip... , https://blog.ghaiklor.com/optimizations-tricks-in-v8-d284b6c...

Ruby: Also uses inline method caching - when a method is resolved that callsite is replaced with a jump straight to the resolved method in the bytecode. Invalidation used to occur any time a class was modified in any way but has been made more specific over time: https://github.com/charliesome/charlie.bz/blob/master/posts/...
The pursuit of knowledge in technology can be an end in itself. Very often there is another purpose, such as your daughter wanting to make movies, so the tech knowledge happens through that greater desire. However a (small) percentage of children in my classes will quite happily play with BIDMAS equations in Python for an entire hour-long lesson, and then come back at lunchtime to see how addition and subtraction are affected by parentheses. They come back just for the kick of seeing maths equations calculated in a coding language, and they are an equal mix of male and female.
> "You honestly believe that "record low sea ice" doesn't refer to the lowest amount of the year?"

That's right, and this shouldn't surprise you. As an example, when the news talks about about "record-low snowpack" in a temperate mountain region, do you think they're talking about the "lowest minimum extent", measured at the end of summer when it's normal for snowpack to be low or zero? No, that would be stupid. They're usually talking about the "lowest maximum extent", or the lowest at some point early in the year, because that tells us how much water will be available from snowmelt, how much reservoirs will refill, potential for flooding/drought, etc.

I think you're insisting on your own particular interpretation for the sake of argument, but it's certainly no more statistically useful or grammatically proper than the other ones.
> Now Foxconn is outgrowing China, and is building factories elsewhere.

As I understand it, the problem is that China is getting too expensive for Foxconn.

Wages are rising in China, so Foxconn is hunting for somewhere cheaper.
Thanks for your comment. I enjoyed reading your article.
For anyone wondering about the image in the header with a stylized Stallman as a Vishnu-like being, it's from Hackaday staff artist Joe Kim.

http://theartofjoekim.tumblr.com/
New? Y'all don't have antique stores or flea markets where you live?
China. Regulators. Uh, yeah ...
It's more useful to those designing the game than to those playing it. Auction sites, financial regulators, traffic planners...
Yes cast iron doesn’t really heats up that evenly it just hold a lot of heat.

The problem is that a lot of cookware these days is made super super thin as a cost saving measure and to provide fast heat transfer.

This means that you lose a lot of control as thin cookware overheats easily and has hot spots, especially on direct transfer electric or gas stoves.

I do still own a large cast iron skillet and use it to sear large chunks of meat but I actually polished the hell out of it with a few polishing heads on a drill.

For seasoning I used vegan lard/cooking fat which is made out of pretty high smoking point oils and it still holds up for 2+ years.

It took like almost a day to get it done with 8 layers of seasoning, if I’ll have to completely redo it I would likely just say fuck it.
Recently I tried the chip and it failed, then I tried the swipe and it said to use the chip, then I used the chip and it said I had to use the swipe, and finally the swipe worked. First time I ever had a chip fail, and it's a pretty much brand new card, so it was most likely the machine's fault.
This is great. The examples are really good.
Are the semis being subsidized, or the consumption habits of end consumers? Wear on the road network is just one of the externalities of trucking that is incompletely priced, but shipping companies aren't driving trucks around for their own amusement.
Possibly I'm confused, but in what sense is this "in Pure Go"?
How does a phone ban stop this from happening? Not to mention the challenge of actually enforcing it. I suspect the kids who want to take pictures of others and upload them mockingly will still do it.
If people cared about litmus tests, whatever that means, JavaScript would never have left the browser.

I only care about what Computer Science books and ACM SIGPLAN papers accept as systems programming languages, not random opinions in online forums.

Thankfully both of our opinions are meaningless to Go users.
Per the report, road wear does not increase linearly with weight, so more semis at or near the weight limit will end up damaging the roads more overall.

Page 9 shows that even pickups cause 7x more wear than a passenger car.

Additionally, any extra weight comes from the haul capacity of the truck, this means that more trips will be needed to move the same amount of cargo, and again causing a disproportional amount of wear on the road.
Ask HN: Is There Such a Thing as the “Snow Crash” or “Neuromancer” Threshold?
Threshold, Quotient, Coefficient, etc...

A lot technology these days is already or on the verge of creating tangible examples of fictional ideas, dare one say, prophesied by classic cyberpunk novels.

The post by Mirror AI today prompted this thought.
Dividends are less likely than share buybacks as it's a one time windfall and makes everything easier for management.
Absolutely. I told anyone that would listen to cancel everything because I feared that would be the only effective method.
The Man from Red Vienna
Wal-Mart Will Allow Workers to Have Early Access to Pay
I teach Computing from Years 1 to 11, and amongst the Lower Primary school students (Years 1 to 4) I use Espresso quite a lot. The children love Espresso. It has a variety of characters, and the girls in my classes will happily select characters such as vampires, monsters, cars, trucks. Equally many of the boys will choose rainbows or flowers. The gender divide differences are much more obvious in Secondary, where the students are then feeling societal pressures to conform to certain stereotypes, either consciously or subconsciously.
Could this function as a pastebin replacement as well? On mobile now, so can't test too well.
There is a tension on how organized you make your gang. Too organized and the power concentrates at one person who is easy to arrest or assassinate and then there is a power vacuum that pulls the organization apart.

Basically you trade off being more effective for being more robust. When any member can be arrested at any time it makes sense to retain only loose organization even though you won't get as much done.
This brave payments system seems like an awesome idea! Though I'd really like to have it as an extension for Firefox than have to use a whole new browser.
> LOL Techmeme River :

Oh god.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/11637697/Catcal...

Yes. There are bad people everywhere. Did you lock your children in the basement? I'm not denying there are dangers in the world and on the internet. My point is that those threats are overblown.

And there have been clickbait fearmongering articles every decade.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/technology/personaltech/28...

> Research absolutely proves that children need to feel safe.

And you telling your kids that there are dangers everywhere must make them feel real safe.

> Again I am not for helicopter and over protective

Okay. But everything you've written and the "research" you've done says otherwise.

> Did I say every?

You kinda implied it.

> Yes when the 4th grade boy wrote down the url to where he saw a man having sex with a dog and gave it to my daughter, yeah that kid had some issues. He also had a tablet with Netflix when he was in Kindergarten and still has unlimited access to the internet. Sadly that kid ins't in school anymore due to his mother not protecting him physically or mentally.

Anecdotes?

> Hey buddy if I could swear at you I would.

No need for that.

> The first step of parenting children is that you make them feel safe from day one till they are mostly adults.

And I posit that you did just the opposite. I doubt there was a day in your kids life that they felt safe.

> That's how we have Alex Jone's audience members.

What? Oh my god. I now am very concerned for what you did to your kids, if you had any.
The difference in wording when describing gang members is interesting to me - "hoodlums" kind of describes a paternalistic disappointment, but in the US the language usually describes them as sub-human.
Drivers already have to keep log books. Make them submit them and pay per mile to the states they drove in.
I have been used cards with chips for years and now contactless payments and they are a lot quicker than swipping the card. In less than 5 seconds is done

At least in Spain
Really cool. What niche is this serving that TripleByte doesn't? My impression was that if you wanted to apply to any YC company at once, TripleByte was the way to go.
I have the same experience in Orange County.

Everyone hates the chip.
> A ledger has value

Why? Based on what? That's like saying "a state machine has value". That might be true in some contexts, but an arbitrary implementation of a concept is not necessarily valuable. Certainly, the value prospect of the ledger has no relationship to how many cryptotokens the ledger accounts to one's balance (that is to say, buying up cryptotokens is purely speculative because owning more does not make the ledger more useful)
Any possibility of integrating as iOS iMessage Stickers to avoid using a custom keyboard?
Really? CNN said it was closer to $80,000 when the Napster cases were breaking.[1]

Maybe they offered $2/song for the settlement, but according to this article the settlement offer was $5000 for 24 songs. The 2009 article says the statutory penalties were between $750 and $150,000 per willful infringement. I don't know where you're getting $2 from.

[1]: http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/19/downloading-mom-fine...
Agreed, although in fact I have found that the younger children tend to be pretty gender-neutral in what interests them when coding. It is only really when they hit 9 or 10 and above that I have started to notice the girls favouring pink or flowery items more than the boys.
You effectively have to be able to debug other processes, copy data to and from a process, and a lot of other control. What would it run as that would have all those permissions?
To clarify, I was specifically responding to the gp comment's point on needing to use one-liners in npm scripts.

The most complex "shell scripts" I've actually written for this specific purpose are simple ordered command lists, with occasional exit code checks, where appropriate. So I'm not so much talking about "writing and debugging" - this is more "replacing semicolons with newlines in a very long one-liner"

I do actually put one-liners into npm scripts instead quite often - it's a trade-off, depending on the pipeline.
It doesn't use CGO.