skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is bitcoin? There's probably been more purchases value wise in land than in bitcoin. And it is/was used as currency.
You see the same thing in simple data consumption patterns. It's become normal for your average app to suck down tens or even hundreds of megabytes a month, even if it barely does anything.

It's so normalized I figured there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it, until I noticed Nine sync'ing my Exchange inbox from scratch for something like 3MB. Then I noticed Telegram had used 3MB for a month's regular use, while Hangouts had used 10MB for five minutes of use.

Despite living in the first world, I'm kind of excited for Android's Building for Billions. There's so much flagrant waste of traffic today, assuming as you say that you have a big fat broadband pipe, with no thought to tightly metered, high latency, or degraded connections.

(I switched to an inexpensive mobile plan with 500MB, you see)
I agree with you, and it feels dirty, but we're going to end up with neither if we don't start with one. If you have a better idea that can even plausibly attempt to get both, I'm all ears.
How surprising.
Yes, it was. I happened to be interviewing at Groupon as a fresh faced new college grad that day and it was super weird.
I've been sitting at both sides of the table via TopTal. First I went through their interview process, which I didn't like and the experience afterwards wasn't great. More recently I helped to hire people via Toptal to work on a project I consulted for, and that was good. Really great developers, and what I can see they have a lot of flexibility.

However, have you considered remote work instead? There is more companies open to that setting and you can also have a good time flexibility. I work for game studio in Dublin - we offer fully remote setup, "unlimited" holidays and flexible working hours. Your skillset matches exactly what we need. But even if you aren't interested in making games for a living (python & java fullstack development) there is tons companies like us. I know because we have to compete with them for the best talent.
Very slick, congrats! I was hoping that it would come back with a list of companies that matched the criteria, though :)
Please make the mechanics and fees clearer on the website. Linking to and explaining the contract would be great for transparency. With that done, I think your service can be useful.
Co-Browsing or Screen Sharing: Which One Is Right for Your Business?
Wow can't appreciate this enough. You put this together really quickly!
I might be missing something, but it looks like it would work with most 12 or 13-inch laptops, not just Macbooks.
> they. do. not. care. about. us.

One might wonder how they got half the votes when the other side cared. so. much. about. us.
Not necessarily. If the goal is to reduce bot activity, captchas and hashcash are two ways to do that. Captchas are hard for bots to pass, whereas hashcash wastes a fixed amount of CPU time. The result is that robot operators have to invest more effort to abuse your service at scale than they're willing to (hopefully). In this sense, hashcash is a captcha alternative—it's not a captcha, but it helps with the same problem. An alternative captcha might be using something other than reCaptcha. At least, that's how I'd interpret it.
Have you considered that maybe there are thoughtful reasons why people might disagree with your policy views? If you really can't understand conservative policy aside from it being "corrupt, craven, citizen-hostile and spiteful", then I don't think you're giving the issues an objective analysis.
Nice, works with iTerm2 too - thanks :) I have an iTerm button in Finder which opens it in the current folder, so it's okay - but Windows has right click > open powershell here, and if you have git bash then it has right click > open git bash here - which feels more natural to me. I think the Linux desktops I've used all had right click > shell too.
Ahh! That's what Key Values does (aka the main product and homepage)! I will suggest companies on the Culture Queries results page in time, but decided to launch it before adding that feature. It's validating to hear you ask for it though. Thanks!
What PHK misses is that the messiness he observes is not inherent in "the bazaar", but in the environment which gave rise to autoconf and libtool: multiple, competing cathedrals that didn't share knowledge and couldn't agree on the basics. A standard set of options to ld(1) for dynamic libraries would have been nice in 1988, but I too want a pony. In the 1980s not everybody agreed even on how to do dynamic libraries. There were three major competing implementations: loading dynamic libs at fixed memory addresses (e.g., old-school a.out Linux), position-independent code (e.g., modern Linux), or monkeypatching the in-memory image to point all function calls to dynamic symbols to their proper locations (e.g., Windows). Which one an OS chose had profound implications for what the linker could do and how. So getting a universal standard for dynamic-lib linker flags at the dawn of POSIX was a pipe dream. hence the need for libtool.

In a universe of abundant open source these problems are sometimes stupid easy to solve. The x86Open project was a consortium to define a common ABI for Unix implementations on x86 hardware. But since all the vendors involved (including a couple of open-source BSDs) already shipped Linux kernel personalities for their OS, the only business x86Open ever did was to declare "Linux ELF binaries" the standard and then disband itself.
Let's say it this way: People you would prefer not to have to deal with in your life. If I give a more direct descriptions, the "guards of political corretness" come out their holes...
Agreed.

I've been following this administration closely in the past year. It appears that they do nothing in good faith. Just look at how Congress tried to pass the health care bill and tax bills. If you want to fight for net neutrality you better turn out to vote for candidates who support your position. At the end of the day control of Congress is the only way to ensure this.
Like the idea of using github for physical bluprints.
its not really moral, but its incentived behavior
Windows Defender Antivirus and layered machine learning defenses
Intro to x86 Assembly
Yo,

I clearly don't agree with this guy, but I don't see any reason to downvote/flag him into oblivion. I both upvoted and vouched this comment, not because I agree or think it's valuable, but because it doesn't deserve to be disappeared. Comment if you feel like it, or page on by if you don't. Ironically, his words will live on forever.
Poor article. "Piloted for 20,000". So I assume it's not everybody. Also a quick calculation confirms that there must be millions of youth having their 18th birthday each year. So the essential question is: How are the tickets granted? Lottery? Applications? ...
That video has some good analysis but around the 27 minute mark he starts talking about the poor sales of the RX480/580 by again referencing the Steam Surveys as support for his analysis but doesn't have the 2016 numbers. He simply points to last quarter revenue numbers from Nvidia as proof of his hypothesis for the future.

However if you look at this year's numbers for AMD's graphics division you'll see they're waaaay up despite AMD being almost absent from the Steam hardware survey.

So what's going on? Crypto currencies.

AMD's current GPUs lend themselves very well to mining crypto currencies and as a result they have been virtually unavailable on the market for the last year.

This is both good and bad for AMD. In the short term it's getting money but in the long term it's losing market share and mind share to Nvidia.

The conclusions drawn in the video might be correct but only time will tell. Things will also be interesting when all those RX 480/580 GPUs start getting dumped on ebay as the DAG file sizes for crypto currencies exceed their RAM capacity. That probably won't be until 2019 or later.
The OP wasn't talking about users, but rather best practices on how to get the App Store makers to feature you. I've heard the App Store editorial team specifically give the "go native" advice.

It's definitely not required, it just helps. Our app got featured in one of the App Store's daily stories despite it being written in React Native.
Actually, they didn't get half the votes. And the tribalism that's rampant in our politics today means that many voters are making choices based on lies and misinformation.
I actually dislike that fact very much. Oh, I don't disagree that github is that for so many users...and i can not disagree with the convenience of what github provides...I simply dislike that it is all controlled/owned by github...a single point of technical/infrastructure failure, and a single corporate entity where so much content (content beyond raw code, that is) is hosted...not unlike the facebook effect. I wish people hosted their content in a more decentralized fashion.
Not really a criticism, but this read a bit like a slimy dating guide. "Remember, like everyone else they want to feel wanted for more than their money". "Keep them all interested until you've made up your mind". "Subtly let them know that you're wanted by others".

On an unrelated note: I don't know why I can never contribute constructively on this site, but here I am.
Disagreement is no longer permitted. No matter which "side" you're on, the other side is relegated to a platitude.
Coinbase might need to transfer more funds from their cold wallet.
Gold is worth $8tn globally

Drawing comparisons between gold and a fiat currency (BTC) is completely confusing.
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First thought was the website http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and book.

Edit: low and behold under "License"...

"This work is based on instructions from Linux from Scratch project and provided with MIT license."
Any other downsides? Management has been convinced and we're apparently switching to it at work soon but there is so little information and most of that is marketing, so it's hard to get an idea of what we're walking into.
I have a suggestion for wishy (if you're not doing this already of course).

Extract out the most popular items that people are sharing (no identifying information connected, only extract out super items that you can identify well, like "Wonder Woman on blu ray"), or similarly build your own curated lists based on what's popular right now (eg a new PS4 game). Build some categories that they belong to ("video games" or "clothing"). Then enable people to quickly browse for things within those segments to add to their wish lists. It should boost wishlist item adding substantially over time and give people new ideas. You could also build a gently curated top 10 or 20 item list in a given week or month (manually reviewed for potentially inappropriate items). You can track various metrics for what's moving socially right now for a link/item to get an improved idea on what matters to provide some further ranking (eg facebook sharing acceleration or deceleration).
My view on this administration is about more than their policy positions.

For the record, I grew up conservative, my whole family is, I'm fairly libertarian in my views, and I didn't vote for either major party due to their policy positions. I understand conservative policy perfectly well.
But good thing you know for certain you’re above all that!
Just think about crypto-backed real-world assets and compare that against "market capitalization" (which is ridiculous to even call it that in my view). This is why ICOs are nothing more than buying into pump-and-dump stocks or at best microcap biotechs.
Smart solves problems. Least principled gets deals done. Brown got a shit ton of deals done. Still, you would think that after a certain level of success that he wouldn't care about the next deal. But that appears to be all there is to the man.

Witty, I'll give you. But you'll have to give me an example of him being smart.
It's in the article. Provide the supply yourself (content) while you build demand (users). Do things that don't scale.

One specific example is that we saw a lot of demand for information on child care, so we researched over 5000 local daycares & preschools and created very comprehensive pages for all of them. This sounds like a lot of work but it actually wasn't that bad. Once we had done that we were instantly the best place in the SF Bay Area to research daycares and find open spaces. Word spread like wildfire and we climbed the Google rankings quickly as well. Now, we no longer have to collect data manually, because the daycare providers come to us to reach their audience of customers. So it delivered growth on both sides of the network in a sustainable, ongoing fashion, and only required a one-time upfront investment in content creation.
Yeah, as I already explained twice why the life expectancy at birth in 1950, would not apply. That number includes a lot of premature deaths that no longer apply.

Ideally, you’d apply a conditional probability.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/768215/conditional-...

If you go to the Social Security site, for example, you can calculate your life expectancy.

https://www.ssa.gov/cgi-bin/longevity.cgi

For a male born on Dec 1, 1952, your current life expectancy is 84 years old.
That's true of a lot of large cities in that age group - as you start families, you tend to start to value cheap housing (for more space) and good schools more than you do when you're single. I remember a stat that said if you move to a city after you're 30, you have a >50% chance of staying there long term, and that's why cities will target that age group when trying to get people to move. I'm guessing that means for people 20-30 the % that stay in a city is less than that, so it would be normal to see most folks you know eventually move out of town in that age bracket in a major city.

SF has a lot of turnover, but the few studies I've seen say it's not particularly high by US standards. Nashville, for one, is higher. (Notably this study is by MSA so it wouldn't consider someone moving from SF to say, Burlingame a departure.)
https://www.abodo.com/blog/so-long-to-the-city/
Perfectly said, but ironically, since I'm not on "the other side" here from a political perspective. I voted for Bush twice, Obama once, didn't vote in 2012 (sadly) but would have voted for Romney, and wouldn't be saying any of this if Mike Pence was president. But amusingly, you assume that my disapproval of Trump means that I'm "on the other side" and just spouting platitudes. Ironic.
OS X’s filesystem isn’t case sensitive by default.
I have this one and the thing that sticks up pokes my wrist all day. I don't think a human tested it for any amount of time.
US Congress is trying to define what artificial intelligence actually means
If there were pictures of nude children involved. But that's not what's happening here. Your hysteria borders on strawman.
I understand that at the moment it may seem like all the cryptocurrencies are in a bubble but honestly, I don't mind because it is forcing the banks to stop their stupid cash grab and loosen up some of their rules.

What about the stupid fees that bank charge you to have the privilege to have you as a customer?

What about the fact that at the moment it takes 3-5 business days to make a simple bank transfer to another bank?

What about those insane fees when you try to buy another currency through the banks?

What about the fact that I have to call my bank and plead my case when I want to transfer an unusually large amount of money to somebody else because of them blocking the transfer and now I have to spend 1 hour on the phone to solve that issue and prove that I am the one who initiated the transfer?

What about the fact the bankers have brought the world on the edge of a great depression due to their greed and left millions of people underwater on their mortgages?

Bitcoin/LTC/ETH may not solve all the problems that we are facing now, it may not have much practical use at the moment either, but I 'll be damned if I give more money to the banksters.
Forming a company duplicating a big name in another jurisdiction is a problem. It's a clear trademark violation and may be prosecutable as fraud. At least you know who to sue.

Ran this one through SiteTruth. It does display that the company is in Kentucky, but that's not too helpful.

The EV cert has something I haven't seen before - two StreetAddress fields:

streetAddress=STE 100
streetAddress=212 N. 2nd St

Is that allowed? It's out there in the wild now. The SiteTruth engine didn't handle that properly, and ignored the second field. So the picture of the location didn't appear. Something to fix.

[1] http://www.sitetruth.com/fcgi/ratingdetails.fcgi?details=tru...
Please note the word "plus" in the comment.

s/instead of/in addition to/

For example, DNSCurve-enabled nameservers are in the form key.name.tld, cjdns addresses have a key fingerprint embdedded in the users IPv6 address, etc.
They are using APL. This style is used in APL/J/K/etc implementations as well as the languages themselves.
Creating a game title using envelope deformation
I agree. This fight is already lost.

Other than that, I'm not going to wade into politics here on HN today (learned that lesson the hard way a few times) other than to say I think we are at a point where actual representative democracy is at stake over the next couple years, and net neutrality, while a huge deal, is small potatoes compared to the fights we need to figure out how to win.
Lemme tell you about the most successful program I ever wrote
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Depending on the certificate, this could be quite a lot of data, the certificate is delivered on every new connection, right now they're commonly a kilobyte or so of data.

For a typical DV certificate, maybe the CA has done 3.2.2.4.6, so they have a log showing the DNS look-up they did from first principles (so it's the whole thing from the root, not just a cached single entry), then the HTTP transaction, with the Request Token inside it, and they've matched the Request Token against the expected value. That could easily be several kilobytes. The CA is required to store this, but burning it into the certificate is extra data all so that what, one person in a million can look at it, and go "Eh, that looks roughly like I'd expect" ?

For an EV certificate there's going to be stuff they found in a government data source, then the stuff from Dun & Bradstreet, then... what maybe a WAV file of a phone call to the number listed in D&B? PDF scans of headed notepaper? And it tells you... somebody, somewhere said this was fine. So what?

As I've stated on m.d.s.policy the ability to make companies in the US and UK that can't be traced back to their real owners without a heroic effort by law enforcement is not a bug it's a feature. Your government (if you live in the UK, the US, or even arguably the EU) tacitly supports the dirty business done by this route so long as they're able to disclaim any knowledge it's going on.
There's three ways to deal with the git index/staging area:

- always commit everything, merge/push that (Mercurial style)

- always commit everything, then eventually do a rebase where you merge/split commits into logical units

- always git add -e then commit logical units

I do mostly the latter, but since I don't usually write code the way I want it in the end before pushing, I almost always have to go back and rebase to reorder, merge, and/or split commits prior to pushing.

Like you, I'm sympathetic to the idea of "save everything", and I emphatically agree that it's fantastic that you get to save just the changes you want because it allows one to produce minimal and logical commits.

I suspect that the author of TFA does not produce nice, clean, logical, and minimal commits. Instead I bet their upstream is full of merge commits and the merged branches are full of huge commits with lots of unrelated changes, and/or full of "fix a typo" commits that should never appear in upstream histories.

Using a VCS effectively to create clean, useful history upstream is hard, and some VCSes make it harder than others. Mercurial (and Fossil, and...) make it supremely difficult. Git makes it easy (though one does have a bit of a learning curve to get there).

Ironically, all the Merkle hash tree VCSes are git-like under the covers: there's a bag of commits, and some sort of branch name resolution. "Heavy-duty branches", like Mercurial's, are extremely confusing -- I never know how to recover from having multiple tips, and I don't even understand why that's at all possible. Whereas "light-weight" branching (like Mercurial's bookmarks, which still aren't reliable, or like git's branches, which are) is much much simpler -- even Mercurial's community gets this, though they still shy away from light-weight branches for some reason that I still don't understand. Fossil is exactly like git under the covers, except far, FAR superior to git in that it's relational -- Fossil is easily the best VCS ever in terms of implementation. But Fossil's dogma is highly opinionated and Mercurial-like: it has light-weight branches, but the UI is merge-happy like Mercurial's, and there's no rebasing (there's basic cherry-picking functionality, which of course is always the basis of rebasing, but that's it).

I really don't want a Merkle hash tree VCS to hide its tree nature from me.
The backlash that involved the requisite "three days of hate because something changed on the Internet" and then moved on to "everyone is using it and pretending that it was always that way"?

Yeah, I saw that.
This is a follow up on the tutorial on the last step-by-step tutorial on creating an engaging title screen. I just dropped the logo/title into the last scene with a brief comment - which was picked up in the comments with a request to explain it a little more.

http://www.2dgameartguru.com/2017/11/creating-engaging-game-...
I'm not above falling victim to bad sources, confirmation bias, or other foibles of human knowledge, but I try to be aware of that and guard against it. Not perfectly, I'm sure, but that imperfection doesn't mean that we all have an equal grounding in the truth.

This downward spiral into a crisis of epistemology ("who can really know anything for sure? there are so many lies out there! there is no way to discern truth!") is a fundamental strategy of authoritarian regimes (Russia), and it's being put to good use in this country.

EDIT: typo
Not to defend this administration, but we had to fight Obama on this too.
It's strayed so far from fundamentals that it's bound to crash. I really hope it's not that big when it does...
Best takeaways from the article (no particular order):

- Retool ads as a way to test for and identify demand.
- Bait people with truly useful content where they're already looking, and then direct them to your app.
- Simple changes in wording or flow of UX can increase shares dramatically.
- Get featured in app stores. How?
- Integrate with latest device features being pushed
- Adhere to vendor design standards
- Email is still very effective, so use it.
- Have 10 enthusiastic users that will spread their enthusiasm before you start.

That last point is good to know, and perhaps the most important, but it's way easier said than done. Especially if you aren't a social butterfly.

Also, the "don't use cross platform" preached in the article isn't very convincing. You can get excellent performance with well-coded cross-platform build tools, and in far less time.
> we need to flip control of Congress.

Yes, that will fix everything.