skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So what do you guys think of this?

I believe all BTC trading spikes are driven by some of the existing owners swapping coins and cash every now and then to keep the trading volume high. It is in their best interest to get the prices bounce back higher whenever it goes down.

Once the price is manipulated higher, they can sell and keep the cash when someone who thought BTC is the next "I-Dont-Know-What-It-Is-But-Its-Going-Higher-Everyday" buys it. Since there are no regulators to protect against market manipulation, it's a fairly easy thing to do 'legally'.

As per GDAX you only need 10s of millions of dollars worth of coins to manipulate and mint money on this. Ordinary folks can't do it, but those who have been holding a few thousand or tens of thousands of coins can easily do this. The bitcoin billionaire brothers for example can do this. Buy every low priced limit order until it hits the price they want and then sell it off based on the frenzy buying on the back of the "always-bouncing-back-safe-harbor-currency".

Rinse and repeat every time price takes a dip.

I hope at some point someone will step into regulate things around bitcoin so that the real market demand will determine its prices. I read an article that people are mortgaging their homes to buy BTC.

If nothing changes, we might be looking at a sequel of the movie "The Big Short"
Reviews: Echo Spot is Amazon’s cutest device yet, but it has a few issues
Amusingly, I just saw a video about the famous McDonald's case regarding coffee. That is one where the common narrative is complete shit, because people have bought into the idea that America is full of frivolous suits. Largely from a smear campaign resulting from that lawsuit.

False narratives like this move people from reasonable open mindedness to closed viewpoints. They do not help.
I look at JDK codebase it has about 360 factory classes. I look at popular Java project: Gradle, it has about 350 factories. My project at work has about 50 factories.

I agree that Factory* is not Java's fault. However I think Factory phenomenon did not start with corporate IT but by people working on core JDK or big open source projects.
I think the problem is two fold. Its this ideal that you should be working on "hard problems". Which for developers, means working on things one step above their current competency. Well that is great if you're doing research, but if you're shipping something or doing anything on production, you want to hire someone for whom this problem is easy, not hard. You don't want the wild-eyed fresh graduate with 'crazy' ideas, you want the old grizzled veteran for whom this sort of stuff is old-hat and boring because they've done it a million times. The first solution you come up with to any problem is never going to be the best solution. Its only when you've solved the same problem a few times that you will get better at solving it.

The second problem that I see is that of 'free' speedups. If you get a free speedup from hardware tech (like SSDs), you're thought is never going to be how can I match this speedup with my own code optimization, it means your production time is now cut in half or you can go focus on other things. Its only when you're forced to come in under a certain performance budget that people bother to optimize. As it is, this only seems to happen in fixed-hardware situations like console games/embedded systems, etc.
"What about the gold standard?
Well, it didn’t really work."

Saying the gold standard didn't work after central banks printed far more than their gold reserves (i.e. effectively went off the gold standard) is like saying vaccinations don't work after people stop getting vaccinated and start getting sick again. It would be more correct to say that parties responsible for maintaining the gold standard (the central banks) failed and therefore "don't really work".
My god, how do you leave over 11k crimes just sitting in a store room... in one county. I'm glad they're addressing this gross miscarriage of justice. Hope it's an isolated thing (but not actually expecting it to be so)
People are buying tulips not currency at the moment, it’s who blinks first...
I would love to the media look into how Israel got hundred of our politicians to do their bidding.

I doubt a Josh Rogin wouldn't write such an op-ed though.
> Avoiding the debate of whether there are any widespread real-world usage for cryptocurrencies, is it possible that cryptocurrency is valuable (and has long-term staying power) simply because the ecosystem surrounding it is so much fun for a non-negligible swath of people?

Yes, but that is the basis of a fad, not something with long-term value.
Washington state leaders announce first-of-it-kind plan to defend net neutrality
Yep. That is the important tip, right here.

$ pushd ..
$ cp -a my-project my-project-before-I-did-git-surgery
$ popd

Then relax. This is extremely important before playing with nasty Git surgical tools such as huge rebases. Borked it up?

$ pushd ..
$ rm -rf my-project
$ cp -a my-project-before-I-did-git-surgery my-project
$ popd

Undo is a great thing, and it's also important to triple check the entire state of the repository before you push, because pushing is basically committing to whatever surgery you've done. If you're having to fix stuff with -f, you're going to run into trouble; try to avoid -f ever.
EmojiNet has a comprehensive list emoji with their machine-readable meanings. Check out the papers for more information - http://emojinet.knoesis.org/dataset.php
Nothing significant until we have many more qubits. With 128 qubits you could crack 128 bit RSA encryption in a few mins.
> Like you, we are driven by a deep mistrust of power. We hate absolute authority, like decentralization, and are especially interested in out of the box thinking.

> The best hopes for decentralization lie in genuinely decentralized solutions that give power back to workers, like worker cooperatives, democratic labor unions, and political protest.

All of these "solutions" have been tried. They all failed at your stated goal; instead they ended up leading to enough centralized power to kill tens of millions of people.

The only way to decentralize is to empower individual people. As soon as you form a group, any group, based on any interaction except mutual affection or trade, you are centralizing, whether you realize it or not. That's the hard lesson the 20th century taught us; unfortunately many people have not learned it.
>"Goldbugs / conspiracy theorists have a line of argument where they describe all the fiat currencies that have ultimately experienced corruption and hyper-inflation"

And they are, practically in all the cases wrong. What we see is in history is a mismanagement of the real economy or external factors affecting the currency. They confound the symptom with the cause.

When the 'real' economy goes wrong, never mind if you have bit-coins, or whatever. In a desert, a bag with a million dollars buy you nothing. Of course, you can make a case for gold or similar because it could make easy run away to another place, but that it's not the argument they are pushing normally.
It can be something most American would get behind regardless of party affiliation but we both know that specifically one party will be against it regardless of the benefit to society and democracy.
> Now, what I've see is disappointing, I don't like this and it shouldn't be like this at least on Hacker News. We have more than enough people in the world who wants more government, more authority, more religion.

I agree, HN discussions should be more than just saying "I don't like this and it shouldn't be like that", don't you think?

> I imagined "a hacker", an individualist person, who likes to find non-standard solutions to problems, who thinks out of box, who don't blindly follow authority, who likes decentralisation as opposed to centralisation. "A hacker" is a person who almost by definition right-libertarian.

That's a huge jump you made there, from someone "who doesn't blindly follow authority" to a "right-libertarian". Your whole "argument" hinges on your perception and interpretation of what "hacker" means.
The legal understanding is that the employer will make up wages if tips fall short of minimum wage.

The social understanding is that the merchant doesn't need to advertise higher prices, and the merchant and the employee get to evade taxes. The customer gets to feel like they're a big shot, rewarding people for "serving" them. In reality, it's just a big old loophole around paying taxes and having to account for the actual cost of things, while spreading around the real costs onto a collective that doesn't have enough incentive to work together to stop it.

Basic price obfuscation strategy, and it works well.
But you buy casino chips, because you don't have a choice. With crypto you have tons of options, especially on Bitfinex.
> How we end up in situation when huge portion (if not majority) of hacker community turned out to be die hard socialists? (nowadays they call themselves social-democrats)

They've grown up. They've come to understand that the biggest problems humanity faces all come down to them not being able to coordinate shit. They've learned that governments, bad as they are, are the natural and one of the few working mechanisms to coordinate at scale. And in particular, they've realized the folly of libertarians who ignore the fact that free markets have stupidly obvious and dangerous failure modes that come from insufficient or invalid coordination.

They've also been observant. They've noticed how private industry took over and utterly corrupted computing. They've noticed that it's private companies who create apparatus of the totalitarian dystopia they feared. They've seen how the market abused people, and they themselves have been disappointed by the market, which left them behind and continued to create shitty computing toys for the masses instead of useful tools to build the future with.

They comprehended topology, discovering that decentralization can be more robust, but is usually also less efficient - and sometimes a situation calls for more efficiency.

But hey, there's plenty of decentralization-loving, government-hating anarchist "hackers" out there. They're busy trying to cook us all on this planet by worsening climate change with cryptocurrencies.
One claim is the near instant factoring of large integers...breaking a class of encryption that's widely used currently.
> "Just a thing" is a conveniently abridged version considering capitalists can only own anything physical in the first place because their government took it from someone else under threat of (or actual) physical violence

But it's not really wrong, it just ignores that the same is just as true of other economic systems, what differs is simply the model of property rights.

To address the (unfortunately dead, because while wrong it's a point of view which is common enough that its worth correcting, and not present in an inappropriate way) grandparent post:

> Given that "capitalism" is a word used by socialists to describe the absence of socialism

No, it's not. It's true that capitalism was coined and defined by socialist critics, but it doesn't refer to the mere absence of socialism. (Marx distinguished capitalism as much from the feudalism that preceded it as from the socialism he saw following it.)

> ("capitalists" think of "capitalism" as just a thing that happens when property is respected and contract law works),

The only difference between that and, say, the Marxist view is that Marx recognizes that the capitalist system of property rights is a specific view of property rights distinct from other historical and conceivable views of property, while capitalists are prone (as you just did) to confuse their model of property with the general concept of property. Feudalism (and for that matter socialism) is just as much a thing that happens when a particular system of property rights is established, enforced, and respected, and contracts consistent with that model of property are given weight.
But that's the thing and was kind of my point, too. People have been building where other people didn't like it for a really long time but now it's in the city so all of the city slickers[0] are more vocal about it. Those four-acre ranchettes I mentioned? Those were built on native prairie that had been farmed or ranched by the same family since Texas was its own Republic. Then some developer comes in, clear cuts all of the trees, and plops down a bunch of "garish monstrosities" (to quote the Dallas Morning Snooze[1]) and, poof, the town of Prosper is now a city.

Another story: anybody remember what used to be under what is now Jerryworld out in Arlington next to the Ballpark[2]? I do, a bunch of houses that people had owned since the the 40s, all bulldozed so somebody could build a new stadium and eminent domained out of existence by the city. Think that stops anybody, new arrival or long-time resident, from going there for a football game or a concert? Nope.

I dunno what my overall point is except that things change, people do things that other people don't like, and life moves on. That's the way it has been since before I was on this planet and will be that way after I'm gone unless the heat wave of doom kills us all. Just, now, it's happening more in those areas that used to be "crime-ridden inner cities," which is probably more good than bad given we're covering the rest of the state with pavement at our own peril.

0 - Great movie.

1 - Not to be outdone by the Fort Worth Startlegram's breathless editorials about how development in Far North Fort Worth is going to ruin everything.

2 - Lest my Rangers get off the hook, they've also begged for taxpayer money to build their shiny new stadium and Arlington used eminent domain to boot one landowner (versus 150 for Jerryworld) off before the stadium could be built.
If the taxi is 3 times the price, then they certainly won't.

You can already look at Uber pool, which is a direct tradeoff between cost and speed.
So, would that mean, if this low velocity money where to engage with crypto currencies, it would be distributed to regular people who would actually spend it? Enabling the equivalent of helicopter money?
The impression isn't strictly necessary -- it's for convenience and, if needed, solid proof the physical card was there. At most you write down the license number on the carbon paper. If you lose the machine you can hand-write the card number just as easily.

Think about how an online transaction works -- punch in the number, no ID needed. Believe it or not that didn't start online ;)

Source: took "offline" payments when a retail store's power went down many many years ago.
This is purely anecdotal but lately I've been getting more and more delivered via Amazon's own carrier service. 100% of the time it is late. Some things have completely disappeared and never left the SF carrier facility. It's made me not order from Amazon a handful of times this past week out of being burned on a consistent basis.

It seems very un-Amazon of them. They clearly have the metrics to track this so I'm shocked they aren't diverting or doing something to fix the problem, whether that's incentivizing slower shipping or using other carriers (I realize the carrier deals they have are very complex and affect a whole load of other data points).

It's just odd to me that consistently the Amazon delivery service is what is being used and that it's consistently bad/delayed/etc.
So if the Fed was somehow able to increase money supply by getting money into the hands of the average consumer rather than wealthy individual and institutional bond holders, monetary policy would be more effective?
You might want to try Sourcetree if you haven't already. I felt the same way about Git GUIs for a long time, but Sourcetree actually does a good job of getting out of my way, and has a very nice commit history tree viewer to boot.
>Oldenburg believes there's a brighter future for Bitcoin Cash

Considering Bitcoin.com's CEO, Roger Ver [0], has been pushing BCH for quite a while [1], this shouldn't be surprising.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin.com

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash#Supporters
Cartel Mexico?
Haskell Performance Debugging
I can't say I've ever had a problem trying something so easy as a new soda. In fact, I've switched sodas a lot for various reasons including taste, often trying new ones when they come out.

I thought this article would be about learning new skills like art or programming, which I actually do find hard to get into.

For those, I know why it's so hard: I'm so good at the things I do daily that new things are quite painful to see how much I fail at them. I end up just going back to the stuff I'm good at instead.
Get this rape shit off HN, are we suffering a feminazi invasion or something?
2. See my reply to 1!

3. I'm not personally familiar with OpenMined but decentralization is a pretty active space. SSB and Dat/Beaker have a few things in common: overlap in the communities, a focus on p2p hypermedia protocols, and not a lot of love for cryptocurrency solutions. That last point may change over time, but currently the usability, performance, and waste of the coins has left us all saying, "can't we do this without them?" And we think the answer is yes.

(That's said, I respect other people trying the coins. Everybody has to place their bet somewhere.)
Yep. You can expect the same type anti-chinese comments in every china related thread. It's become comical at this point.
I cannot access the article. Has anybody an alternative link? Or a summary? Thx
Stick around :)
I think you misread the comment. The poster says that the classes did not have the word «factory» in the name. The functionality was the same.
Welcoming the Era of Deep Neuroevolution
Send Crypto People Tupilis when the bubble bursts
I only know a few die-hard libertarians personally, but the few I've talked seemed to be primarily motivated by the opportunity to ruthlessly and amorally exploit their fellow citizens. Maybe they're fringe, but they were the "living in a walled compound protected by their private militia" type libertarians.
Another FORMER biotech NOW crypto stock RIOT https://medium.com/@jillcarlson/the-riot-act-f29a2557498f
TBH, I've been an hg and git user for about 10 years now, I have only come across simple things that you'd expect to work in git but doesn't. For the longest time, you have to resort to contortions like this[1] so as to not lose commits after reverting a merge and then merge again.

[1]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/howto/r...

What can't you do in Mercurial that you can in git these days?

BTW, I think we are talking about the same book.
> You _cannot_ build a society on individualism. We have shared needs that only scale with our shared contribution.

And the only way to scale that shared contribution without leading to all the problems with centralization that you refer to is to do it based on interactions between individuals--i.e., individualism. So you _have_ to build a society on individualism: nothing else works.

> We have the resources to ensure the health and well-being of every human being on the planet.

Who is this "we"? There is no single "we" that has all the resources. Nor should there be; that would be centralized power.
Quantum computers can be used to simulate quantum physics and approximate solutions to optimization problems.
Here is a purely fictional example. I frankly don't know how feasible something like this would be:

The search index could be build using blockchain technolgy. Each transaction is an entry of the search index. For efficiency, such an index could then be mirrored by many different institutions. For example, universities. Each snapshot of the search index could have something like a sha256 sum. If the server you use per default returns a hash that differs from other institutions you rate trustworthy then you should be skeptical.

As for search queries, since the index should be standardized in some way there could be many open source apps that require their own syntax for queries so that they suit different purposes and preferences.
Highly Anonymous Cryptocurrency Monero Peeks Out of the Shadows
You cannot do anything interesting with 10 qubits. Anything you can do with 10 qubits will likely be faster on conventional computers. IBM says you need at least 50 before it gets interesting.
I think you misunderstood what I said.

I made no claim that $7.25/hr is a livable wage. That is the current federal minimum. Employers are required to pay the minimum, if they aren't, they're breaking the law.

Money management is certainly no silver bullet, however, it plays a role. If you net $13k/year then you have to manage that money so you don't spend more than $13k/year. Most would agree that it is extremely tough to live on $13k/year. No matter the difficulty the money still has to be managed.

In my student loan example, if you have a loan schedule of 30 years @ 6% you will pay $46k in interest on a $40k loan when only paying the minimum of $240. That same loan if paid off @ $440/mo, nets you $33k over that time period. Here you would manage your money so that you can pay as much as possible on that loan as often as possible.

Making more money doesn't solve money issues, it just covers them up. Saying that there nothing to be done because the amount spent is greater than the amount earned seems rather foolish. I'm not saying that in any given situation there exists an outcome where you can manage spending less than you earn, but managing money wisely will always improve the situation.
You can be factual without inciting an immediate negative reaction.

It’s same idea as the difference between “Terrorist blows up/shoots something” versus “Christian shoots up abortion clinic” or “Muslim suicide bomber”.

Those people may be a part of particular sects but what you choose to highlight (especially in a headline) about them says a lot about you and the agenda you’re trying to push.
Thanks, I am new to git and already made some dumb mistakes with my real repo and had to start over. Now I'm terrified to try anything past pulling and pushing to master. Hopefully this helps me understand branching so I don't feel like I will break it all again.
https://outline.com/L2ESsK
> but because it's sexual assault, for whatever reason, it's very easy for some folks to sweep this under the rug

Wow. Just wow.

I get that resources are limited and they must prioritize. But to view sexual assault as a low-priority item is just sick.
I'm from Florida. Born and raised. I'm not sure what they have been succeeding at. Opioid crisis is rampant, inequality is insane, the education system got worse and worse throughout my education and seems to have gotten worse since I graduated high school and left. Miami is partially underwater every king tide because of rising sea levels and yet under Rick Scott's government the phrase "climate change" is forbidden in emails and correspondence, so people are hamstringed into doing nothing about it. Charter schools have been given tons of leeway and there are tons of accounts of them discriminating against students who are less likely to be academic achievers on the one end of the spectrum (so that their stats look better), and on the other end of the spectrum they neglect and abuse the children in the classrooms.

As an individual it seems great to go work there as opposed to here in CA because there is no state income tax, yet I still make way more money here in CA because there is practically no industry in FL unless you're a lawyer or a doctor.
The gold standard doesn't work because it's deflationary. The Eurozone effectively functions as a gold standard. And now we are re-learning why the gold standard is bad when we look at the impact austerity has had on the Greek financial crisis.
If you don't believe that unchecked capitalism can be a danger to civilization, you've completely disconnected from reality. Also worth noting: your Paul Graham-inspired libertarianism is funny to all of us who are still connected.