skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the investment strategy of venture capital, though; they're not trying to be "smart" by picking a few good bets. They're placing a lot of small (small for them, "overfunded" for you) bets in order to increase their odds that one of the bets is really, really good. The more bets they make, the more likely they've bet on a 100x winner.
The term rich is relative, depending on the context, and we had various contexts throughout this thread's discussion. It seems you have a higher threshold for the term than I do.
I hear you. I'm of two minds about this.
Must hate their customer support reps. But yes the feature set looks cool.
I think the mistake is assuming that software can be intuitive. I think the correct model is that it's more like language. You memorize a few fundamental concepts and then you amass a catalog of rote steps for accomplishing your goals. Then there will be a moment where it all clicks and you realize you're fluent enough for your purposes and can understand the unfamiliar in the context of what you already know.

Going from Windows 7 -> 10 is like going from English to Scottish. The grammar is mostly the same but a lot of the words and phrases are different.
Seems like Robocode (http://robocode.sourceforge.net/) but is language independent.
Yes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15984381 (This commenter at least hedges at the end, but this kind of reasoning could be found all over the relevant sub-reddits and other corners of the internet this week. Every bubble has a "this time it's different" motivated-reasoning thing...)

Edit: Here's another from the same thread, with a motivated response to "sell when the shoe shine boy gives stock tips" on why "this time that's different" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983811
I'm sure the solution to a bad school is not helicopter parents blaming the teachers for their child's issues. The rest of your examples are pretty on point though
I think it's not a chaotic result as such (as the Lorenz weather prediction models you're referencing are) - which would mean large differences in outcome from very small differences in input, but a case where multiple different outcomes can arise from identical inputs.
> so people choose "next to free" instead of "completely free" exactly why?

I mean I am not one to bash Microsoft out of principle, but this is easy to understand - people choose Windows because that's what everyone is already familiar with.

The battle over the desktop space is over, and for the same reason Microsoft couldn't gain any traction in the mobile segment.
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The key moment of bubble insanity for me was overheating the security screeners at Heathrow talking about how they just signed up for “this new app called CoinBase” which was going to make them all rich.
Because Linux is a kernel? It's just one piece in an ecosystem.

It would make more sense to ask why the Year of Gnome Desktop hasn't happened. And the answer is easy if you compare the budget that Apple or Microsoft has to create an integrated environment. Even with free helping hands, I bet that RedHat is nowhere near the number of bodies that big corp can throw at it.
time to cash in some bitcoins if you need to lower your income to get in a different tax bracket
Neither do most people. Thus, blockchain's limited utility over something like what CT does.
Do Social Networks Need Companies?
You could use XSLT which was supported by Firefox and IE over 10 years ago.
Flint had nothing to do with old pipes. It was about bad management and bad engineers whose incompetence resulted in poisoned water.

Those individuals were held criminally responsible. Unfortunately, society and the citizens of Flint bear the cost and consequence of their misbehavior.
higher highs mean lower lows, probably...
Christmas carols from Turing's computer
no matter what term you invest on it's a gamble.
I'm a Linux Desktop user. IMO, the thousand cuts can be boiled down to some few major apps not being natively available for Linux, namely Office, incl Outlook, and Photoshop, Autocad, and AAA games. And the eventual niche Windows only app - but for those you could use a VM like Apple users do.

When using a stable distro like Mint in my laptop, everything just worked and the desktop UX is quite similar to what you get in Windows.

The average user couldnt Care less about the OS nowadays. They just want their apps running.

For corporate OTOH, Windows desktop is much simpler to support. Linux, or Apple, has nothing not even remotely close.
> This reveals the fact that regulation has nothing to do with the tool itself

There are many regulations are about how certain things should look, for example, construction code, or food quality control. Even internet has been changed by regulation, like the EU data protection plan, it is just behind the scene, but greatly affects the way how company operates.

So I don't think there is a clear cut between regulation and things affected by it. There are intrusive ones and there are reactive ones. As to Bitcoin, I think it is probable that the regulatory body will require transparency for recognition of its legitimacy as a demand.
Remember to sell before the Friday before 2018 Christmas
The point is that sites generally leak this anyway via signup. With github it's even easier, e.g. https://github.com/someuser -- I looked through my settings and their doesn't appear to be any way to "be invisible", though I could be missing something. When you can do a simple query like that, sacrificing UI at sign-in seems totally pointless.
This is true for the username but it's possible to make your email address private on GitHub in which case the message that your email is taken can still be considered an information leak.
Gnome is not that great. You can't even put the panel on the bottom of the screen. Which is just incredibly basic configurability and even that is unavailable.

Desktop Linux on the whole is kind of annoying because on each new install, I will inevitably end up spending hours just to get everything working properly again.
https://coinbase.com/ is down.
Looks great!Something to try after the holidays!
Dollar cost averaging makes sense, but does it work?

http://www.moneysense.ca/columns/does-dollar-cost-averaging-...
No there isn't, Google developed a CUDA frontend for clang/llvm which targets PTX (nvidias virtual machine instruction set), in principle someone could come along and implement a different backend for this frontend targeting for example AMDs gpu instruction architecture or something different. The other ingredient missing is a reimplementation of CUDAs runtime libraries.
In theory almost certainly yes...but if you are serious talk to a lawyer familiar with these matters. [1]

The hard part of the theory is selling. The hard part of that is identifying potential buyers and talking to them and being rejected by many, most, or all of them. The potential for rejection makes that harder than buying the components and then trying to sell them. On the other hand, buying the components and trying to sell them is the most direct route to learning what is feasible and what isn't. It is also the only way to get direct experience in the process.

Good luck.

[1]: or not. But consider that "it's not worth talking to a lawyer about this idea" can be a useful filter for the importance of ideas.
Agree, the pair username, password can be invalid for 2 reasons:

It is the intended user, but the password is wrong

It is the right password, but the user is mistyped

The login screen has no way to know when is one or the other.

The OP wrote a whole article based on the wrong assumption, and since the title is a click bait, it made it to the front page of hacker news.

Sad.
I use synclient at login now, but your paragraph about it alone has a few great reasons why a civilian might be turned off by linux on the desktop.
The much needed Enterprise level features.
Except IE11 is 4 years old and no longer has any feature development. Use Edge.
I've been using https://ohmyco.in for the last couple of months.

It's got order books and charts for quite a few coins and exchanges, which makes it easier to see if there's a market-wide trend or just one coin/exchange fluctuating.
> That's why ubuntu is a popular choice.

I stopped rooting for Ubuntu to win the casual user, when they moved the caption buttons from right to left, and deliberately didn't provide an option in the UI to turn it back.

You may think it's trivial, but it showed attitude that was, in my opinion, totally user hostile. Even Microsoft wouldn't go that far.
I don't get the 80 char limit at all. But then my display is 43" at 3810 pixels horizontally, so at my normal font size I would be able to fit, what, 7 or 8 windows side by side at 80 columns wide?
Agreed, it's almost like the asset has no fundamental value, and is driven completely by speculation.
The more blockchain regulation I see, the more I have to question the technical competence of regulators or the actual policy and implementation goals they have in mind.

Do they have technologists telling them, “yes we can track this.” Or do they not actually care about what they claim to, eg: money laundering...?
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That is exactly my point. I said it's the same as coins.
Facebook has taken its first real steps into the music business
To be fair, it probably will be pumped to $50k some time in the future (before crashing again). It's what Bitcoin does. After ten years, it's all it does.

In 2011 (or something, I'm going by memory) it rose to $30 before crashing back to about $5. In 2013 (still the days when all people had to do was spam a few forums) it reached $10, $100, $200 before stagnating until MtGox and Willybot pumped it up to $1k.

ISTR some people back then were predicting $10k BTC by the end of the next year (end of 2014). Instead it was about $500 or something, and BTC didn't reach $1k again for about three years (the start of this year or end of last year).
Since Service Workers were enabled in STP as of a couple of days ago, the next upgrade to Safari in a few months will likely have it—it’s not 1-2 years away as you suggested.

I’m pretty sure I’ll be running PWAs on my iPhone 5s the first half of 2018.
What do you consider a "bottom" price for bitcoin ? or a "high" price ?

This thing has no possible valuation, because it has no utility, no intrinsic value. The whole thing is just crazy.
Right, Armenian sources obviously not independent in this case.
Azerbaijan has a beef with Armenia about non-recognized territory that this guy visited and wrote in his blog how he fooled Azerbaijan military and same crap that he wrote about Belarusian jail. Azerbaijan started criminal case for Lapshin using fake Ukrainian passport (renounced in 2011) to enter the country and of course Armenia supports him for visiting the territory that they consider it's own. I don't want to dig into this conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia and take sides, but I understand why Armenian sources will be writing anything against Azerbaijan.

I think decision to transfer this guy to Azerbaijan was the right one. He violated the law, used the fake passport and wrote crap about them as a country. Why Belarus should cover up his shit and decide who's right and wrong in this story? They got the warrant and send his ass there. Done deal.

Next time when you travel, use valid passport, be respectful to the locals and you get the same treatment in return. Always worked for me. He did totally opposite and got burned. Good thing he's doing OK now, at home and hopefully learned the lesson.
Well count me in, sounds like an interesting tech
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Hopefully this crash scares away the door guy. Cant have poor people around in the big boys market. /s
Only if you like catching a falling knife and holding a bag. :)
The experience is dismal, even basic crap still doesn't work. I installed mint a couple of months ago (clean install), right after booting, the mouse doesn't work. THE PS2 MOUSE DOESN'T WORK!!!

It's fine for servers, but for a desktop, you have to be masochistic to want to use it, unless the only thing you use it for is to build software.
Senator Robert Byrd was a Democrat and a KKK member. Although, when it become a bad move politically to be a KKK member he left and started saying he regretted it.

I don't think all the Democratic politicians who were originally racist suddenly had a change of heart. It's my personal opinion that politicians are generally sociopaths, so it isn't a strange thing to me that most of the Democratic politicians suddenly started singing a different tune when they saw the writing on the wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Byrd
Chrome already syncs data between platforms. Seems reasonably straightforward to include client certs in that data.
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Faster shard creation in cluster
Creating collections is what all ArangoDB users do. It’s one of the first steps carried out. So it should be as quick as possible.

Definitely very Interesting!
Why call it a "zero math introduction" to a math topic? Kind of twists my guts a bit to read that. Seems to suggest some of a wannabe or love-hate relationship with math that you don't want to know any math but you find this math topic interesting?
I’m a mid level security architect (governance, risk, compliance) and I’m a below average developer, coming from DevOps/infrastructure before. In my security roles, no development or software engineering skills are required.

I might work on improving eventually, it's just not a priority. Any upward trajectory now is going to be from experience and soft skills.
Show HN: One year devoted to open source and I've almost made $2 – horrraaaaay
Some expected the 19k last week will go to the moon. Haha
Considering the company that bought them runs on PHP, perhaps we should all ditch Python altogether.
> The current prevailing economic policy consensus is very much misguided in that it only focuses on increasing investment

This is a straw man [1]. Consumption is generally recognized as being the dominant component of market economies' GDPs. The IMF's position with regards to China has been, consistently and for years, that they are prioritizing investment over consumption to the detriment of stability.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
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More than that:

Even after ten years, that early success mutual fund won't be investing in entities that actively try to appeal to them, specifically.

Contrast this with YC, there is probably a whole ebook lurking somewhere in the depths of the Amazon catalog that claims to coach would be founders in how to best pitch to each individual star VC.

Founders are already winning if they only get funded, but investors need an entirely different kind of success. This misalignment (the funders' success is only a subset of the founders' success) is what I think Altman is talking about when he says "too many YC companies are getting funded". At the point where the two success metrics do not overlap (stretching the runway of an eventually failing startup for the maximally viable founder lifestyle), funder and founder are adversaries, which makes it a different (more difficult) situation from mutual funds.
I wanted to short bitcoin, I predicted a price correction of -50% after the CBOE and CME futures came online, and well, here we are. Unfortunately I can't post 200% margin even on a 20k contract :(

edit: The futures markets may not have even been the catalyst for this drop, more likely it's this: "The market has also been artificially pumped up by Bitfinex and their money printing machine Tether."
Bitcoin, Bitcoin cash, ethereum and litecoin crash on Friday December 22
We lose money on each unit, but make it up in volume.
A giant technical leap in speech recognition – GCN
Ultimately I feel like the payday comes when you’ve bought something you actually want. Prices of all things can go up and down.

If you goal was to buy a house and house prices suddenly increase, even after you cashed out your bitcoin, you might still be disappointed.
Global Undersea Cables Vulnerable to Russia's Special Ops
Then she should get a better mic. I'd no issues with mics over the last decade I've been using linux on the desktop.
When it's been moving sideways for a while
Any chance of this leading to a 3rd party Vulkan driver on Mac?
They didn't know what they were buying; bits in a database. A very poorly implemented database that was

- not scalable

- not rare

- didn't have any government backing or big institutional backing in case the price dropped from 19,000 to 11,000

- easily hackable (tether, fake trades, scam exchanges, etc)

- too expensive to do a single transaction

this applies to most crytocurrency
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DC has this plague now. Zero to, what must be five or six, dockless bike companies. They're such a nuisance, people throw them in dumpsters, in rivers, park them in the street, block the sidewalk, break the locks and ride them normally. It's awful.

It definitely could fill a niche because sometimes the docked bike stations are too far or empty, but right now they're a huge nuisance and I'm seeing a bit of a backlash.
AVX-512, what’s useful for us
As someone who owns and believes in cryptocurrency, I'm actually glad this happened. I was getting sick of all the get rich quick people who've been driving the price lately, even for the coins that shouldn't be pumping.

It was almost as if the entire cryptocurrency space had turned into a huge unregulated casino.

I was at a couple of Bitcoin meetups recently and was surprised to find that most attendees were proudly saying that it doesn't matter if they understand how the technology works. It's one thing to not understand what you're gambling with, it's a whole another matter if everyone is actually proud about their very ignorance and even thinks of their ignorance (yet I'm still making money!) as being clever.

Unlike what some people pointed out in this thread, the price going down is not from people who got rich quick and sold. It's a panic sell.

That's what happens when you gamble with something you don't understand.
I pay about $110/month for 105, so... a lot.
Doing it every time a user login failed is probably infeasible if you have even a moderate number of users, but you can presumably do it on an ad hoc basis unless you have a ton of users. Or am I missing something?
Amazon's Polly?

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/
Just created this account so that I could comment, and stay (reasonably) anonymous. I'm the CTO of a reasonably well known security company, for what it's worth - and I've been doing this for a little over two decades in a few countries.

This first misnomer, is that there's one security thing. There are several. The offensive security folks (penetration testers) are far different than the advisory folks (think PCI, HIPAA). Vulnerability scanning, SOC (Security Operations Centers), secure development, and more - it's a wide field. The first thing to ask yourself is "what does security mean to me, and what do I want to do with it".

Give the first part of your question, I'll assume you're interested in software-based security (development) as opposed to infrastructure (network security, physical security, systems security), or the offensive side.

On the other hand, if you just want to 'get into security' - then learn a little bit about networking, and go find a job as a 'Network Operations Engineer' or 'Security Operations Specialist'. These are fairly low-level jobs in the security industry, that can serve as entry points, and help you learn about the other parts of the industry in depth, whilst getting paid.

Echoing what @santigobalsuto and others have mentioned.

1. CS - Understand how software works, not just how to code, but how things happen on machines. What are CPU registers? Write some assembly - nearly every single week my staff uses assembly to test an exploit. It's one hell of a lot easier to make a good developer a decent security professional than the other way around - just trust me on this.

2. Take philosophy and propositional logic courses - Good security folks are terrific critical thinkers. They learn to understand what risk means, and how to contextualize it for an organization. In other words the approach to risk and tolerance is completely different for Home Depot than it is for Evernote.

3. Learn Software Testing (not Quality Assurance). Combining this with critical thinking means you can start to pick apart software, even networks, from varying vantage points. If you combine this with your CS knowledge, it can really help you understand how to attack an application, or an organization.

4. Build lab out of cheap, garbage hardware. For about $300-500 you can get 4 servers on Kijiji that can be used to run OpenStack and VMWare. Get a physical switch, ideally something with a TAP port (but you can replice with VMWare easily enough). Create VMs, play with things like Security Onion, create and destroy networks - use traffic generators... have a great time.

5. Read about standards - it helps to understand what NIST is for, what CVEs are, CWEs, OVAL. Explore a few vulnerabilities (CVEs), and understand what they are, why they matter, how they apply. Then grab a copy of Nexpose Community Edition, and scan your lab - play around.

6. Rebuild your lab, iterating on what you've learned above.
You mean, like the US dollar ?
I wonder if companies consider filtering out older workers with families to be more of a feature than a bug.
> I think decision to transfer this guy to Azerbaijan was the right one

That's cool but not what we're talking about. OP said Belarus jailed a journalist. You said it was in response to an Interpol warrant. We have impartial evidence of the jailing. We have no impartial evidence of your claim.
"This page (https://www.coinbase.com/dashboard) is currently offline. However, because the site uses Cloudflare's Always Online™ technology you can continue to surf a snapshot of the site."

If only the coins were the only things that continued to crash in this saga.
I'm no expert on the subject, but isn't it possible to create a new transaction with higher fees, so that it is processed first. This transaction should also transfer enough out of the balance, so that the previous transaction won't ever be able to execute due to insufficient funds. (I'm not sure your wallet will allow it, but going at the protocol level I think you can (signing a transaction and posting it should do the trick) ).
I'm not going to say it doesn't suck.

Unrequited love sucks. Losing an election sucks. Being kicked out of a community sucks. Losing your job sucks.

Doesn't matter if you "deserve" it or not. Still sucks.

Maybe it sucks more when there's malice in the revelation, than if someone just sent an email to the wrong mailing list or if two people unexpectedly ran into each other somewhere neither expected the other to be.

But the bell has been rung. What do you want people to do, to treat their feelings like jurors, "that evidence has been obtained improperly, you are instructed to disregard it."?