skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to know what platform someone like him can use to transact $250MM out of Bitcoin into USD (in his personal trading acount he said, actually $250MM was the profit).

As I understand, its not easy to convert to cash, especially in large volume.
I always use Firefox, although admittedly I don't watch that many videos. Same goes for Facebook, Twitter, etc.

There's a few apps for which I think native is important, but I'm generally happy with mobile websites. uBlock Origin really makes mobile web not suck.
In my experience it's the video that's the problem.
The Beginner’s Guide to Investing in Cryptocurrencies
Yep. And although there are many bad things you can say about Amazon, they're known for having excellent customer service in general (at least relative to other popular tech companies).

Some customer service stories might exemplify typical interactions (maybe it is really hard to get customer support from Google), but one-off stories such as this one seem more interesting simply as curious tales than as anything that would shape ones opinions of a corporation's service.
Honestly, that's quite brilliant.
This is total bs. Segwit transactions are under a dollar.
What Restaurants Know About You Before You Walk In
What a brilliant article!

Protecting populations from risk certainly feels good in the short term - but at what long term cost?

Is our overapplication of antibiotics making us more at risk?

Is quelling disappointment encouraging more in the long run?

Is preventing skinned knees encouraging greater harm in the future?

So much of popular society seems to focus on the short term risk avoidance at the expense of the long term benefit.

On the other hand, we do live longer with less crime and easier lives.

Where is the right balance?
Hey @MobiusHorizons, thanks for the suggestion; was planning on adding to the readme... just haven't found the time to commit to it, so hoped the header comments would be sufficient for a while. It'll take me some time to try and translate my thoughts into something understandable since I'm kinda' bad at communication, but will get around to it sometime soon.
I can't speak for everyone, of course, but I know a few self-made HNWI's and you might be surprised just how stingy they can be. I've seen one of the richest guys I know send a bill back in a restaurant because using a different rewards card they could get 15% instead of 10% off their meal. And we're not talking a huge bill either, maybe $60.

Most of the guys I know could take first class everywhere and not even notice but nope - economy all the way, and UberX to the airport. Not all rich guys blow hundreds of thousands on private jets. I get the feeling that the more you struggled to earn it, the more you watch every penny.

And the richest guy I know (capital-B) is far more concerned with upholding and preserving his family legacy than with ostentatious displays of wealth. It really weighs on him. Sure, he's not hurting, and life is pretty good, but a baller he ain't. Shows up at the office at 9am just like all us other schmucks. Hell, he shares an office!

Those guys you see living large on instagram and what not aren't universal or, as far as I know, even typical.
It has occurred to me that the discussion has shifted towards programming vs mathematics, instead of the actual discussion proposed by the OP to focus on MCMC.

This happens a lot here, focus is lost very easily.
Just my cynical view, but I'm thinking it's because is got a friendly looking whale as a logo and the developers took the approach of making it friendly to use for someone who doesn't understand the underlying quite complex technology.

I was involved in making the decision about introducing containers to my workplace, my original recommendation was to just go with chroots or buy into something that we could get vendor support for on RHEL6 (so not docker) and when asked to explain how this would benefit out desired outcome, the docker website basically had copy-pasteable words that did that job for me, chroots however just described he technical implementation of a chroot.

So eventually I just went "fuck it, we'll run unsupported and take the risk, then well move N thousands of servers to RHEL7 because I don't want to have to explain to managers how cgroups and Linux kernel constructs work". About a year later most of the enterprise has a plan to move all their existing EL5/EL6 workloads to EL7 just in case they need to use docker some time in the future.

Which, if I'm honest, I kind of regret, but it doesn't impact me that much so meh.
Seems they are both used, with blinders being slightly more common in America: http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?614445-...

This made me do a double take as well though!
I largely disagree with you.

It'd be nice if you could still win 'points' or have some other reason to stick around. But I still do feel fulfilled even dropping out early. I think it makes getting further feel even more special, because you're simply in the game longer than normal.

Money is a great incentivizer to get people excited / interested. It's already fun but the _potential_ of actual cash makes it feel more exciting. It's also a better word-of-mouth hook.

The simplicity of multiple choice makes it easier to play with multiple people and still select an answer. It gives framing (you know one is correct), but 3 choices is still enough drama after it starts to get hard.

I'm not saying there's no possible improvement, but I feel like they've really hit the nail on the head with this one, and their growth curve seems to agree.
Quoting from my root level comment:
"Hey @MobiusHorizons, thanks for the suggestion; was planning on adding to the readme... just haven't found the time to commit to it, so hoped the header comments would be sufficient for a while. It'll take me some time to try and translate my thoughts into something understandable since I'm kinda' bad at communication, but will get around to it sometime soon."
Sorry, new to HN; didn't notice the 'reply' button.
You haven't read the post at all...
Only in the US.
This isn’t mining is it?
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You'd be surprised for how many technology-inept users that wouldn't make a difference. They'll still mark the email as spam. It's easier for many people to understand and easier to click.
I'm working on better automation and alerts for my newsletter, Daily Coding Problem (https://dailycodingproblem.com/). Specifically, I set up a bot on Slack and now I want it to message each day's stats (emails sent, open rate, click rate) as well as notify on events (subscribe/unsubscribe, email).

I'm also working on a new landing page!
7 Reasons Why Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrency Hard Crashed – Viral Docks
It's a hedge against our own mistreatment. If companies see that their customer interactions are visible to the market as a whole, they have more of an incentive to make sure those interactions are good ones.
Business accounts already have payed support built-in, and are able to contact a human (I know because I did).

Why you'd use gmail professionnaly without a business account is beyond me.
Unwrapping the New Framer
Also of interest, the less 'predictable' nature of the show made me completely loose interest in it when they modified the format.

I felt like the old format rewarded the contestants for studying and knowing the answers, even if unintentionally by just buying stuff in their life. The luck element was more about where / when you got selected and how well other contestants used their advantages.
Jails is an absolutely terrible name when you need to sell your company, rather than your friends, on using this technology.

"Pff, yeah right, no one rejects a technology just because the name has negative connotation in a different context", except that is literally what happens.
It's not like that at all in any way.

You're using existing OS packages in your base (apk in Alpine or apt in Debian/Ubuntu) to pull in all your dependencies and then placing your app on top of that. (Or using the base go, python or ruby container and letting it use pip/bundle to pull in dependencies and put your app on top of that).

It only runs a single process, unlike a VM (or even an LXC container which is more similar to a VM).

Containers are (mostly) immutable, so you're typically not running security updates on the same thing that provides all your dependencies. You should rebuild your containers when there are security updates .. but people rarely scan for those or do that; relying more on isolation and cgroups to keep those containerized apps safe.

There's very little tooling within the container, so when things go wrong, you're either execing into a single container and apt-getting all the tools you need (which you gotta do each time you rebuild it) or you need to use something like sysdig.

It's popular because you can create an easy to replicate artifact that doesn't rely on a ton of system dependencies with a really basic (although kinda primitive) package building system (Dockerfile) and that is way more lightweight than a VM while providing a pretty heavy layer of isolation.
The book recommendations had pretty specific titles, it wasn't Amazon sending "book recommendations".

You mustn't have read that bit in the article otherwise you wouldn't have made this comment.
As per the other comment, I meant latitude, not longitude.
me too. i consider it spam because i don’t want people sending me random crap and i could care less if it hurts the person sending the mail. either way it gets it out of my way.
Even though I know I should focus on my simple projects, what I can't wait to get back to is this on demand/ peer to peer "micro consulting" marketplace. I want to be able to get help in home maintenance, car repair, or any other real world query and get someone to show up and guide me through it via a video call. Even though we now have great diy websites and YouTube videos about just about everything, it's one directional. If you have a specific question or if your situation is slightly different, then you're in for hours of digging around, or giving up.

It's also fun to make use of new technologies I don't get to play with at work like webrtc,react native, node etc
The problem is that this reaction is at least somewhat understandable.

It may have something to do with how muslims treat buddhists (or any non-muslims), near Myanmar ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Banglad...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_Pakista... (note: relevant because Pakistan used to be a neighbouring country to Myanmar/Burma)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion_in_India

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India (you can argue which side instigated this ... except not really ... the issue started with the basic idea, pushed by muslims that muslims cannot live in a state they do not control (which is of course a rule in Sharia) ... and ended with somewhere between 2 and 10 million deaths, and that number is ignoring the fact that about 8 million Hindus that were in Pakistan in 1951 have "somehow" dropped to less than 2 million today despite very strong population growth)

But back to Myanmar, given the above backdrop, then this happens:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohingya_insurgency_in_Western...

So whilst this is a very serious insurgency, can please establish in this discussion that:

1) the Rohingya are not looking for peace. They're trying to conquer (the land where they are a majority, but still they're trying to conquer it). That is the big source of tensions. This is a failed conquest, not an unprovoked ethnic/racist conflict.

2) the Rohingya islamist separatists have attempted to massacre Burmese cities. They have (thankfully) only failed attempts at a large scale massacre to show for it, but there is no doubting their intent, and there were plenty of victims (dozens to hundreds, depending on what numbers you believe).

3) the immediate cause of this conflict (the match that lit the fire) was a synchronized attack on 24 police stations in the state, resulting in the deaths of 24 police officers. This attack was perpetrated weeks after a Rohingya group of youngsters decided to murder a young woman (for reasons that probably had nothing to do with religion or ethnicity, but the event incited sectarian clashes).

Here's a wild thoery. This whole situation was an attempt by islamist separatist forces in Myanmar to create an ethnic conflict, because they believed it could result in their own state, or in an annexation of their region into Bangladesh. So they incite the riots, execute terror attacks, and attack the authorities in Myanmar, in very quick succession.

One slight issue: the conflict did not go their way.

And yes, this totally sucks for everyone. Most of all for the Rohingya themselves, but it really, really sucks for everyone. Every side in this conflict has hundreds of dead, and incredible damage inflicted that will take decades to rebuild.
Most people use LXC to run containers that run full operating systems right? (Where it loads init/systemd and then processes .. basically a full VM but lightweight?)

The others are all more single process isolated, but how many others have the image building/hashing/layering system of Docker.

I personally wish Docker was more of a first class citizen on FreeBSD, but the official port was way out of date the last time I checked.
There are absolutely mom & dad class investors among HN's reader base.

It doesn't literally mean 'stay at home mom and dad that owns a corner store'.
Are the Daily Doubles not randomly-placed? How do you "hunt" them?
My wife and I do that with The Office. You never have to pay attention, but you can have it as background and catch jokes here and there.
I am sure this has nothing to do with it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Human_Rights_Co...

Nothing at all I say !
first mover advantage
After having gotten my ass kicked (figuratively) a few times in real life business situations where I was too smug for my own good and thought I could get an advantage using my (limited) knowledge of game theory, and watching discussions of shows like Survivor and how people play 'strategically', I've wondered - are there any resources on real life applications of game theory? Things like war gaming (the real military kind, not c&c) sort of go there sometimes but I'm not a general so military applications are of limited use to me. Anyone know of business oriented literature for those of us to whom street smarts doesn't come natural?
What's interesting in what you describe about the greek situation, is that it's exactly what one should expect when a government lose its control on the monetary policy : instead of solving the problem by just printing money (at the cost of inflation) it needs to be much more intrusive in people's life in order to deal with difficult times.
Often techies sudo apt install packages and these packages might have a nodejs/python/ruby as a dependency.

Why python/ruby would be ok but nodejs is not?
Don't need home internet connection that fast. Just rent a server at a datacenter near an internet exchange point, and could get plenty fast bandwidth.
Haven: Snowden's New App Turns Your Phone into a Home Security System
For me, the questions and answers are always served but the video rarely shows. Which honestly works for me because I find the host pretty annoying.
Can you, or someone else, point to an alternative to gmail that won't decide to lock me out of my account and still offers generous data storage?
It is interesting that they look at the impact on college student behavior rather than society as a whole.

I am far more terrified by the idea that newly trained cops are so fragile that they think perceived rudeness is a mortal threat.
SpaceVim language server protocol layer
That much caffeine is a serious health risk.
Well, A) given that the article was from BBC I doubt the HN upvotes were much of a signal boost, and B) would this story have made it to the front page if it were, say, an auto insurance company rather than Amazon?
Just a heads up to save you time down the road:

Docker works well for small deployments and extremely large deployment, it is extremely mismatched in bringing your average three tier app into medium size cluster because swarm doesn’t do routing well for that and because the underlying assumption is that each service is perfectly identical across each node - so even having a cluster id to ddcide who’s master in a nosql development is extra weird.
Their point was that npm doesn't make it any easier but it's possible.
shady... shader... bad pun.
I've always wished there were a big online community that could consistently keep Diplomacy games going smoothly...
It's the "free range kids" person. She has a point, but she's made it before.
Satori is the latest Mirai #botnet variant that is targeting Huawei home routers
Is it weird that I think this blog post invokes the same sentiments as the anime "Your name"? Sometimes human life is like being alone, swimming in the sea, only for brief periods finding other swimmers that share your fate.
It's as if somebody had been quoted saying "The UFO appeared to be surrounded by some type of brightly glowing plasma" and Scientific American were to go get the opinions of plasma physicists about whether or not this was possible with plasma.
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Could it be that BitCoins are limited (I think they can total 21 million BTC) and their applications are growing, so a shortage of supply and increase in demand causes high prices on BitCoin?
"Docker for Windows" runs Linux containers in a Linux VM, with a thin Windows CLI and quite a nice install screen. It required no special help from Microsoft.

The product that runs Docker containers natively is called "Windows Server 2016", and this required a vast amount of work from Microsoft. Native Windows containers are not seen much in the wild.
I think Blockchain in general is not a bubble, as described in Gartner 2017 Hype Cycle. But BTC - one specific application of Blockchain - seems to be a bubble.
https://www.fcc.gov/general/wireless-local-number-portabilit...
Goldman Sachs to set up cryptocurrency trading desk – Coinpedia
Bitcoin seems to have experienced an exponential growth in price ever since 2009.
> Does it make sense to make your most SHADY kickback deal based on Aliens?

Oh I can just see it now.

"Don't tell a soul, it's off the books. This is..." The Senator looked around nervously and began to whisper, "top secret alien technology we're dealing with here."
Small correction: Docker containers can run any number of processes. For example the standard apache container runs five.
The first two are not really OSes and don't offer binary compatibility (they require recompile-the-world). And Symbian is dead, perhaps partly due to C++'s brittleness.

Any others?
Ask HN: Moving to the bay area, any tips?
I'm from Canada and I'm moving down to the bay area for work. I was wondering, is there any advice/tips/stories/recommendations you wanna' give to people who are moving down there?
Its quite a good example of the old saying: "You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself becoming the villain".

As well the blatant irony of her Nobel Peace Prize status, I can see a lot of international fans' heartbroken.
I think thI discussion should no longer be about bitcoin but about blockchains and how they are going to make the current financial system obsolete. Take for example EOS and Cardano, the two are 3ed generation blockchains that will enable all sorts of uses for crypto coins. Yes the median is fixated on Bitcoin, and I say let them be. People are overlooking what will be the most impactful technology of our lifetime and that is a damn shame. But hey, what do I care; I'm one of those greedy bastards scooping up virtual land I'm decentraland, investing in amazing projects that will eliminate billions of waste in financial and healthcare world and will connect the other 4 billion people currently not participating in the virtual economy.
If you look at Skylake-SP architecture vs. recent GPUs, the chip design at first glance doesn't seem so different anymore between these two, CPUs are just much less focused, which pays a 2x price in theoretical performance for the same die space, even using Intel's superior process technology. Now that being said, I think the GPU/SIMT model of vector computing is just much smarter. Why let me jump through all these hoops of masking and compiler optimizations if all I want is a branch and an early exit for a specific set of values? GPU schedulers and drivers make this easy to use and with somewhat predictable performance results. Furthermore (and probably more importantly), why is Intel putting this amount of compute power on a CPU without significantly upgrading memory bandwidth? A 28 core Skylake-SP using full vectorization now has 3x (!) the FLOP/Byte system balance compared to NVIDIA P100. Seriously? System balance was once an argument against GPUs, but not anymore apparently...
Yeah well I got locked out of my hotmail account 5 years ago and I never got back in. There was a bug in an iOS release that caused the Mail app to make repeated, unnecessary requests to authenticate hotmail/outlook so Microsoft determined that there was suspicious activity and locked me out. They have an account recovery process for situations like this and I tried, and tried, and tried, and failed to regain access. I just tried again last week. I tried contacting them directly, too of course. No luck.

So I know what happens when you don't know someone on the inside: you are out of luck. You lose important emails, photos, notifications, bills. You have to change a lot of your other accounts. No fun at all.

Wait...you want to know the worst? That's the email I used for coinbase that I think still has a few Bitcoin in it. I can't log into coinbase because I don't have the same phone with the same phone number for Authy, and the recovery email is the hotmail email I am locked out of. Of course I have open support tickets with coinbase bu you can imagine that I'm not exactly real high in their priority queue. So being locked out of my email has cost me a lot of money in the long run.
> it attempts to disprove alien tech using human tech

Not even that, it just goes babbling “impossible! Impossible!” - no trch nor science involved, they basically asked two random scientists if they believed in aliens, the answer was as predictable as pointless
What I'm really confused about with Bitcoin is this 21M coin cap built into it.

I know it's there to keep the Bitcoin money supply finite. Emulating the properties that make gold such an attractive commodity to back a currency with.

But every coin is infinitely divisible, so doesn't that defeat the purpose of the 21M cap?

When every coin is infinitely divisible, isn't Bitcoin's money supply is effectively infinite?

Why does the 21M Bitcoins cap matter if every coin is infinitely divisible?
I have a laptop coming after Christmas. I've got plans to pick up Elm, practice some of my core fundamentals and help my sister's e-commerce business.
Any Hollywood persona with botox is innocent for the lack of them? Innocent by injection your honor. I rest my case for lack of expression
> The problem overwhelmingly and vastly disproportionately affects women.

Any proof of that?

> Focusing mostly on women ... would solve most of the problem

Any proof of that?

Everything you wrote is simply sexist to the core.

Why does there need to be a focus on a specific gender to address a problem?
Genealogy records reveal how a harmful mutation can hide from natural selection
Keeps crashing. I guess they might be getting hugged to death.
That's the confusing thing about averages. My experience was on the other end of the spectrum: I watched TV quite a lot more growing up.

I think it would be more helpful to have a min max and mode than a mean.