skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's be clear, there was no private property at the time in the Soviet Union. Moreover, what was called "personal" property, was very limited. For instance, the ownership of pretty much any gun was prohibited (maybe with the exception of hunting rifles). Therefore, the word "bought" is highly misleading. Even if she could buy a tank, let's do the numbers. Based on the following page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34 the tank cost would be at least 135,000 1943 rubbles. Making a comparison to M4 Sherman, which was about $45,000 1941 dollars, we will come to about 3 rubles to 1 dollar hypothetical exchange rate. Therefore the donation to mother-Russia of 50,000 1943-rubles is an equivalent of about $17,000 1945-dollars, or about $214,000 in 2017-dollars.

Now we finally can understand what piece of KGB-knitted propaganda this article is. I lived during the soviet times, and the median salary was barely covering food and clothing. Even today, the median income in Russia is less than $1000 per month. Did she work all her adult life without spending anything? Please keep in mind that productivity today is much higher.
if you watched the interview on fast money, you could tell they were going to start trading bit coin cash. obviously he couldnt come out and say it, but it seemed pretty apparent to me.
| 2. Databases mapping all American households exist.

And they can be pretty comprehensive. Short anecdote but the last time I moved, and before I had updated any address information on my accounts/ID, the first piece of non-forwarded mail I received addressed to me was a credit card offer from AMEX. I still have absolutely no clue how they knew where exactly to send it to me.
This would all be fun and games, but I suspect the SEC will want an explanation and I'm not so sure Coinbase has a good one. I wouldn't be surprised if they are shutdown tomorrow before sunrise.
Ask HN: Would you switch to Win 10 from OS X on a MacBook Pro?
I feel like Apple's QA recently is really bad. Several bad bugs. I'm still plagued by "Month 13 out of bounds" and many of my apps won't run currently.

Microsoft has seemed to make a log of improvements over the years and perhaps it is time for me to return to Windows. With Windows services for Linux, I am at home in a terminal. My other needs are c++, markdown, etc. I could still keep a small OSX partition for Final Cut Pro and some very Mac specific tasks I still have.

Has anyone considered this? Am I foolish for running Windows 10 on my MacBook Pro? Should I just wipe and downgrade back to 10.13 before I had problems and wait to see if Apple gets better?
Looking less like a security and more like a scam.
the resource-intensive aspects all fall off with population as difficulty plummets
My understanding is that there is no consensus expert opinion on this.
Rubber hose...
IANAA but I imagine it is like a stock split.
It’s really sad that so much power will be wasted on mining Bitcoin.
The advantages you give aren't directly related to the cards being real credit cards, though. Visa debit cards work fine all over the world, and with Stripe. (In my experience it's very common in Europe for debit cards to be dual network, domestic and Visa or MasterCard. I don't know about Germany, though.)

The real advantages of credit are spending money you don't have, and points/cashback.
Given solid English skills and good internet connectivity, things like Fiverr might be more lucrative.
Well they shouldn't, because it's probably Ontario.
+1 for davmail
Still does not really explain why my 4S suffered from both after an iOS update: Reduced screen-on time and degraded performance at the same time, that was a couple of years ago tho.
As a user, it's just utterly baffling how apps that used to work fine suddenly became near impossible to use, like messaging apps taking ages to type a word, the phone felt like a computer with too much bloatware running in the background, struggling with the most mundane tasks.

Since that happened I've been putting off installing the iOS updates because this degradation in performance, after an iOS update, has been way too common of a theme over the years.
That plus the prohibition of non-compete clauses.
New cost for a T-34 mid war would be 150,000 to 200,000 rubles.

A US Sherman tank from the same time would be around $46,000 then, or about a half million in today’s dollars.
Mining gold is extremely expensive. And more environmental issues than just the waste of power. Gold processing uses cyanides and refining companies have in the past just dumped them anywhere.

Also, the effort and energy goes into building and maintaining vaults for gold.
Well, I'd invest my time.

I've worked on OSM, AFAIK I've got nothing back from having done so other than learning a little about maps.

Your position is flawed, because you're focussing on a single element of a social system. If I invest in mapping, it doesn't remove resources, it improves them for everyone. Without the waste of resources of solely profit-driven activity then we have ample resources to meet basic needs and develop technologically too.

No, I don't yet know how such a system can work. I've been working on it ... transition is the biggest problem and the one I've been addressing. At some point I hope it will benefit us all as a species - probably at a financial loss to me and many others.
Maybe all those smart engineers could put their heads together and figure out how to not zoom into street view when I want to view a picture on a review. And maybe return me to where I was in the review list instead of taking me back to the top level business information. What a feat of engineering that would be.
Unless they are a government, shorted bitcoins, or own a massive stake in a competitor etc.

PS: Remember the value of Bitcoin is limited as a function of the cost of that 51% attack. If the price increases by 10x the transaction fees need to also increase by 10x or Bitcoin becomes less secure.
Much of this discussion is missing that the point is to _speed up_ page load/display. It is NOT like a compiler generating sleeps.

The bazillion tracking scripts loaded by pages is slowing down time to view/interaction on the page. Firefox is taking scripts that are _already_ being marked as loadable asynchronously/delayed, and delaying them until the page is otherwise loaded. That's it. It's not an arbitrary 'sleep', it's an attempt to prioritize UI responsiveness over tracking scripts.

To the extent it breaks or _slows down_ pages, that's an undesired side effect, not the goal. If it does that to a lot of pages, the feature won't be succesful and will be rolled back, I bet.
Coinbase prohibited employees from trading BCH in the weeks leading up to this according to their twitter.
> Why are software engineers the only ones with this problem (can you imagine if doctors had to memorize random trivia to get a job)?

Because we don't have professional organisations like doctors and lawyers do.

> What's the value of my degree if it doesn't tell employers that I know what I'm talking about?

Well there's an open ended question. For one, assuming you went to a reputable university, the degree says that you understand the foundations of computer science, which isn't particularly relevant to what most of us spend our days doing. Understanding computer science fundamentals isn't a huge help when your building a CRUD web form and sticking data in the database.

Then there's the profit driven centers that universities have become, it's in their best interest not to fail anyone, that would decrease their revenue. I've had interns that are freshly graduated with masters degrees that would fail a CS101 test if you put it in front of them.

> Why do I have to build side projects and memorize algorithm trivia to prove to employers that I know enough to do a job?

Because employers are trying to compensate for the issues I mentioned in the cheapest, quickest way possible. Sure they don't do a great job of it, but neither does anyone else in the pipeline.
This seems to be attacking a strawman. The original comment was bemoaning the duplicated effort instead of cooperation amongst parties.

If you had a single company, you wouldn't have 10 teams doing the exact same job. The competition here isn't fruitful because so much of the work is shared. Competition is more effective when there is a diversity of approaches.
Serious products don’t have to be serious
The biggest concern in my head is not the prices of cryptos, but how much of a headache it will be to calculate taxes at year-end
I switched as well, for different reasons. Some things I found that I liked about apple maps: its navigation has speed limit information and I much prefer its design. It seems less busy, and it gets out of my way. Something about google maps just felt really cramped. I know that sounds really subjective, but I enjoyed using one more than the other.

That said, google has better directions and estimates. And maybe that should trump all. It hasn’t been enough of an issue to convince me to reinstall.
BMAA is the neurotoxin (implicated in Alzheimers and Parkinsons). It also bioaccumulates over time, and potentially up trophic levels. So definitely not fish wonder food until there's some serious testing done.
Just because it’s interesting to compare: it was worse for me. My 6 Plus (three years old) ran at 600Mhz most of the time according to CPU DasherX, fully charged or not. Normal is 1400Mhz. I replaced the battery this morning and it’s back to the normal level and is quite noticeable in real-world usage doing practically anything.

(It wouldn’t surprise me if the GPU or something else in the rendering pipeline was even more affected than the CPU. There were previously long delays in things that just seem to be screen rendering. Those delays aren’t just faster now, but are completely gone.)
I find this link it looks mine gold cost far more energy consumption. (6.6 vs 123.3 In 2016)
https://srsroccoreport.com/bitcoin-vs-gold-which-ones-a-bubb...
Apple had a huge head start with Siri but has been surpassed quite handily by Google and Amazon for some time now. I'm not sure we can simply rely on the passage of time for Apple to improve these large projects.
PHEVs are like EVs only they are terrible cars in EV mode. I guess that doesn't bother you, if you haven't noticed.

If you've looked at sales, you might notice that Chevy Bolt (pure EV) sales tripled in the last year to pass Chevy Volt (PHEV) sales, which are flat.
I have bad news for you: things like the Uniform Foreign Money Judgments Recognition Act exist which makes it possible to enforce foreign verdicts. Even if no such law applies, most US companies that do business with EU customers have by definition some assets in the EU even if only briefly (or else they couldn't charge them anything).

The US doesn't sue foreign pot shops because the sale happens abroad and they have decided to not bother with that but they absolutely could enacted such a law if they wanted. Who is there to stop them? The US actually does apply some of its laws abroad. Here is an example that is similar to yours https://www.insightcrime.org/news/analysis/as-us-prosecutes-...

Again, the problem is only enforceability. If they can't get hold of any money, a verdict is useless.
Does anyone else find it highly suspicious that Coinbase goes down whenever there is any major movement in prices?

You can explain this as just the natural result of too much traffic, but that's not convincing. This is a business valued at over 1 billion dollars that has been operating for years. If this is still a problem, it's either unbelievable incompetence, or because they see no reason to fix it.

And here is a worst-case theory, by way of speculation not accusation. Being down whenever there is a lot of movement lets them beat all of their customers. When there is a crash, they can sell before their customers can. When there is a boom, they can buy before before their customers can. And because such a big portion of the market trades through them, this is more than trivial gains.

I have no way of knowing if this is what's happening, but it seems to be worthy of discussion, given how many people are placing trust in them. They don't really have an adequate explanation for the constant downtime, and I think they owe one to their customers.
I had a really good tech interview a while back, where I had to reverse a string in place, and then reverse only the words in a string in place (so "this is a test" => "siht si a tset")

Anyway, I had a couple of off by errors. The interviewer asked me if I was sure I didn't have any, so I had a look through, stepped through the code, and lo and behold, I did. While I was doing this process, we ended up having a discussion about how unit testing would help avoid problems like off by 1 errors, and would make iterating through the code and refactoring a lot easier.

That's what a good tech interview should look like, not expecting someone to write perfect code, first time.

On a side note, I didn't end up getting the job, since they had apparently hired someone the day before I came in for the interview. Apparently I managed to apply for the job the day they closed applications, but they asked if I wanted to interview anyway, out of courtesy.
That wouldn't be any different from now or what they do with laptops.

For laptops, as part of their hardware test they had a chart for the battery. The expected cycle count was listed in quite a few places (it was 200 for removable batteries and jumped to 1000 when they started making them non-removable). X was the cycle count and Y was the battery's maximum charge (I tried to find pics, but couldn't). The chart had a diagonal red line marked "defective." They replaced your battery if it was within the defective range, but not if your cycle count was too high.

Phones aren't any different, they're just more hand-wavy about the battery (they don't show or mention cycle-counts).
Windows 10 is not without its own bugs and corrupted drivers. I actually like it for work.. it feels like if Windows 7 & Windows 8 had a baby... Windows 10 is that child. Still a stubborn sob at times, but for the most part, it works.

Both Mac & Windows have their pros and cons. My wife uses Windows 10 for Adobe Premiere Pro but she really wants to get her hands on a Mac OS (iMac) for further design purposes, as both systems do come with their own benefits for videography & graphic design.

May as well go back to what you know works for you.

And if you can partition for use in both, why not? :)
I don't agree with the stock split comparisons.

Bitcoin Cash is not something that existed inside Bitcoin and was then spun out. It's more like a new company was formed and it's cap table was initialized as a copy of another pre-existing company.

I think there just isn't any precedent for the concept of "forking" and how the internal revenue code applies to it.
Outsiders: Bought at $500, sold at $3,500, 600% gain in five months.

Insiders: Bought at $2,500, sold at $3,500, 40% gain in a few hours.

So yeah, insiders could do great on an annualized basis if they could do a bunch of insider trades in a row.
Hmm, this really does make me worried for OpenStreetMap. If the competition is so powerful and has a moat protecting it that will only grow larger, how can it ever hope to catch up? This isn't a case like Wikipedia where it entered a market that was barely there (e.g. online/software encyclopedias). Instead, you have to face off against giants with enormous resources and the money for any type of data. Amateur volunteers working on their own areas won't really be able to keep up. And it'll be even harder to recruit more workers because the competition is so entrenched/good while OSM can be subpar in some aspects. Oh, and these volunteers will instead give their time to Google because it's something they already know and use (I have a friend who does things like answer questions, take pictures of places, for points).
> You're right that if anything, this will increase the load-times of companies who rely on advertising revenue. Perhaps it's preparation?

The _intention_, if we believe the statement (I understand you may not) is actually the opposite of this. To _improve_ perceived load times (time to display/interactability) of sites that use lots and lots of tracking scripts. If a site does not use many or any tracking scripts, it actually won't effect it at all.

There are sites that use lots and lots of tracking scripts, and it actually slows down UI. The intent of this change is to _speed it up_ again.

If it doesn't do that, and instead makes lots of sites load more slowly to the user's perception, it will not have been succesful at it's claimed goal.
Because 99.999% of email from smaller email servers is spam
The USDA will want to have a word with them as well. However, neither has any regulatory authority over Coinbase.
The word for this is called front running.
If you find yourself asking "Is it illegal to do something not explicitly barred by the law but something that seems dishonest?" then you should be prepared for consequences.

Prosecutors, judges, attorneys and even jurors aren't stupid. There are remarkably broad statutes out there, fraud or theft or something could reasonably be brought to bear upon you.
Tell the dead they should be a bit more patient.

Most gays don't come out of the closet in religious families, they fear for their life for a reason. The mere fact those who do come out sometimes are a potent change for their families, proves how impotent the religion is when it comes to protecting those same LGBT who put their lives on the line when they come out.

Just two days ago, a southern evangelical asserted to me, "literally gays brought about the end of nations, being gay should not be legal let alone gay marriage." Listen to a translation of this: Gay's are seditious, they are traitors to their country, they commit treason. In the U.S. the only crime that calls for the death penalty is treason.

Considering this merely cringeworthy, needing patience and persuasion? I think the body count of dead LGBT, black, brown, women, children, Muslim, Jew, and many other minorities, is sufficiently high that no more such coddling should be on the agenda.

Advocacy of violence and discrimination should be taken seriously, not suddenly papered over with calls to patience and persuasion just because it's backed by religious belief. Too many people in urban areas have no concept of violent religion and probably think it doesn't exist in America. Newsflash city people! You're ignorant! I for one am not amazed at all, I'm appalled and feel betrayed by how long the progress thus far has taken.
The benchmarks for Tyk here seem somewhat off - it doesn’t look like it was set up correctly for production use.
payouts to users whose data is leaked/stolen

What would the actuarial standards be for something like that?
Wow, I thought Apple did this to make people buy newer iPhone. But Apple did it not only for that but also to hide the battery issue. Well done Tim :/
Do you ever manage to get where you're actually trying to go though? ;)

In all seriousness, I've found Apple Maps search to be absolutely horrendous, either missing places or having them in the wrong spot.
Finally some country even can say anything about facebook!!

Please, stop using this multinational human mind programming service. Check interviews of former bosses, what they say about facebooks mind terror!
Yeah thats true it’s a tradeoff, but by that definition there are no solutions to anything.

So I’d argue it’s both a solution and a tradeoff.
GM saved us from missing a wedding using an near obsolete razr i over 3G while the in-car GPS was directing us into oblivion.

Not only GM was generally right, the overal intertial refresh rate was smooth .. extremely surprising.
So let's imagine you buy $1000 worth of AAPL, $1000 worth of pork bellies, and $1000 worth of BTC. Then, simultaneously, AAPL decides to close up shop, no one is interested in buying pork bellies anymore, and the Bitcoin network shuts down.

What do you now own in each case?

AAPL liquidates all of its assets, pays off its debts, and distributes the balance to its former shareholders. You probably don't get $1000, you probably get something like $50 or $100.

Someone delivers some number of physical, frozen pork bellies to you.

And from Bitcoin you get nothing.

This is what I mean when I say all of the buying doesn't actually "put money" into Bitcoin: it is an investment with no underlying value. With all other markets, what you think of as a two-party trade, between the buyer and the seller, is actually a three-party affair, between the buyer, the seller, and the company or asset being traded. "Putting money" into a company ultimately results in that company having more money to build out their business with; "putting money" into a commodity ultimately results in more producers producing more of the commodity. "Putting money" into Bitcoin ultimately results ... in nothing.
Exactly how do you "prohibit" trading a crypto currency?
Do you have any insight on the recent change to the TN Economist class? https://www.uscis.gov/news/news-releases/uscis-issues-clarif...

It looks like a hanging threat of deportation for maybe 10,000 people +
Google maps absolutely obliterates my battery life (iPhone 6S+). Last time I travelled it I was down to 40% at noon.
Nobody knows what IRS says on the matter, but everyone I know of is treating it as a stock split with the holding period of original bitcoin . You do have to calculate an adjusted cost basis for the forked coins, at time of split (most common) or sale (sounds iffy).
Competing with BigCo
Short term capital gain with a cost basis of $0 makes the most sense.
Both very bad for humanity and privacy of people. I wonder when people would understand to avoid these services.
Dude - don't bother! And don't get me wrong, I would love to see you succeed and prove me wrong - but the chances of success in this are like the proverbial "ice cube's chances in hell" - there's so many obstacles to success - regroup and solve a solvable problem...
1) yes there are a few privacy zealots, and they may care, but consumers do not - they will talk a mean streak about the importance of privacy but give it up in a second for any bit of freebie or customization (I know having worked on the PrivacyFix app - look it up)
2) The ecosystems are against you. No developer wants to write to and support their app on some obscure platform with a handful of users. Hackers may target your users just as a lark and to make press for hacking your unhardened app eco-system
3) Data storage is not free, and won't be. Users will upload troves of garbage photos and data and expect you to maintain it in perpetuity - that will not be free
4) Read up on asian hardware relationships - even if you get a few million dollars and spend all of it on a handset OEM - you'll need to be there on the ground every step of the production run and you'll probably get nothing but the crap that no reputable brand would take
5) and on security; why do you think that your team will be able to build and maintain a secure device and infrastructure? HomeDepot, Target, Experian, the NSA - have all had leaks and breaches - why would someone trust three guys working remote to do better at this than a meg corporation or the government?
* that's just the tip of the iceberg; not trying to be harsh - just don't want to see you waste a lot of time and crowd-sourced money on something with so little prospects of success
I don't agree.

The price which maximizes revenue isn't always the highest price.

This API could equally suggest a lower price, bringing in more customers who get more utility of your service.

In a good market with lots of competition, the best strategy for the seller also leads to the best result for the buyer.
Google also uses (used?) a great deal of human judgment in Maps (note: these sources are a few years old now) [1, 2].

[1] https://www.wired.com/2014/12/google-maps-ground-truth/
[2] https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-g...