skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Wow the Sex Pistols a corporate created punk band aka the Nsync of punk."

What an incredibly uninformed thing to say. I guess you don't know that it was their legendary gig in Manchester in 1976 that actually kicked off the whole "Punk" movement? See:

http://www.openculture.com/2015/06/the-sex-pistols-1976-manc...

Also Paul Cook and Steven Jones had a band called the Strand years before they met Malcolm McLaren. And it was Bernie Rhodes(the Clash's manager) that got Johnny Lydon to join the Pistols. Malcom McLaren ran an independent clothing store that sold t-shirts and bondage inspired clothing. How is any of that even remotely corporate? Or even remotely comparable to a boy band?

>"I have no idea why anyone even cares about this band band .."

There are so many great bands that formed because they were inspired by the Sex Pistols - The Clash, Buzzcocks, The Smiths, The Fall, The Pretenders, Magazine, X-Ray Spex, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees [1][2]. In fact probably most of the great post-punk that came out of England between the late 70s and early 80s.

Their whole ethos was "anybody could do it." You can not get any more DIY and any less corporate than that. They were actually a reaction to the corporate state of music at the time.

You might want to read up on your rock history a bit.

[1] http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/music-nightl...

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/dec/21/rocks-backpage...
I've mentored people into their sixties.

It's mainly about finding the right relation. Nobody wants to mentor someone they don't see something good in. Most will mentor someone who "gives back" through aptitude, attitude, or gratitude.

Also, try to find an online community or forum. Answer questions from those newer than you, abd ask questions of those more experienced. If you put in the effort to help out, you will likely be helped out in turn. Unevenly and sporadically, but on average, it's true.
Nuclear weapons, like chemical and biological, should be abolished and never be legal again.

It's quite absurd to me that nuclear weapons are legal to possess, but not legal to use, even in self defense of a nuclear attack. [1] What a contradiction that is.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Court_of_Justice...
I'm still unable to use cron properly. i'm too lo-tech for this
Well, people smart enough to be the kind of contestant they want, are still fulfilling what the producers want.
Nothing to do with each other, in the way that internet protocols would have nothing to do with how we purchase goods. Crypto creates a validated economy in a VR/AR world. Digital goods have a certain tangibility with crypto inside of a VR/AR environment, that creates true ownership.
Out of curiosity, how do I find companies like the one where you work? Your comment resonated pretty strongly with me.
Same here with my pixel 2 XL .. I hope to keep it at least until 2020, maybe a bit more (with a battery replacement in the middle).

I would have said the same of my Nexus 6P .. but it has many hardware problems that manifest after a while. Fingers crossed to do not see the Pixel do the same.
1. Super Nintendo
2. Creepy Crawlers
3. Nintendo 64
4. Apple Cinema Display (Old style)
Also - text only automatically involves a standard that avoids bloat of all kinds.

Once a graphic webpage has traffic but isn't a front-runner, there's a temptation to keep adding more little graphic pieces of crap that slowly the site becomes completely unusable - see slashdot and yahoo.
It has been a rumor for ages but so far we are still waiting for this SoC :/
Most leagues in the U.S. have fairly open methods of getting on the team with the athletic talent required. For the NFL, anyone can pay a tryout fee and walk on to one of (usually) 8 spots. The other 45 are normally used by the veteran players good enough to have a multi-year contract or the new draft picks from college ball.

And the consequence for failure are huge: 90 players start the pre-season, and after training & a few pre-season games, teams have to drop that to 53. 10 extra can be part of a training squad, which represents a 75% pay cut compared to the league minimum for the 53.
The links don't work on mobile. Is it just another JS miner?
> this is meant as a compassionate program.

No, this is meant as a business making money off accused petty criminals. Basic human decency suggests that you take the purse back to the shelf, let the lady in the wheelchair roll out the door, and make a note to watch her if she comes back. If she's shopping at a Goodwill, she's hardly wealthy, and if she's stealing $2 purses, taking $500 from her won't solve any problems.
You scroll down a bit, an obnoxious overlay jumps out "GET THE BEST TIPS IN YOUR EMAIL" ... with an even more obnoxious cancel button "No I'm dumb and don't want the best tips in my email".

Then as you attempt to exit the tab the "exit intent" crap kicks in "NOOOO don't go!".

Sometimes I miss the days when no one cared about the internet.
Significant portion of my days (maybe 30%) is doing repetitive things I do every day. So really thinking about how to improve, automate, or save a few minutes during the morning or evening routine would pay off greatly.

When I think of personal automation api. It would be to help me with my routines

1. Shower
2. Shave
3. Brush teeth.
4. Check email
5. Plan my day
4. Make breakfast
5. Exercise
6. Sleep

Any of the above could be optimized to be excellent.

For example playing my favorite podcast automatically while I go to the bathroom would be nice. But knowing/using the best shampoo, soap, or toothpaste is also of great value.
Same with what breakfast to prepare/eat. Or the gym/workout routine to follow. Technology might help a little, but some active thinking about what and how to optimize is needed.
Always glad for a new exposure to the subject. Many thanks to your professor!
This algorithmic method is a useful addition to the insomniac's toolkit. Please don't berate methodologies based on logic and then describe anecdotes with poor english (wtf is "singlest"?).
More like they are a historically well run company.
You focus a lot on how well the free market works.

Another aspect here is that reliability is a hidden cost the individual consumer can't see.

My point being this is just as much about hiding the real cost and making things look cheaper than they are.

Most shops will happily guarantee delivery before the weekend. And almost nobody will be held accountable for cries of children neglected by Santa :)
You want people to mine for you for... nothing in return?
Wait, did not Bitcoin enable SegWit already?
The iPhone wasnt an innovation, it was an iteration.
Working on an in-app PDF viewer in a react side project. I am working with PDF.js and experimenting with tracking page views, per page views, and total time interacted with a document. Once I have that initial data I would like to use some nice charts from ReCharts to really make the data look pretty.
Bitcoin's value is connected to the costs to continuously mine it and consequently keep the blockchain intact and secure.

These costs include electricity, mining equipment, personnel, and warehousing.

As with normal equity valuation, these costs would be transparent, allowing for valuation to take place.

Since Bitcoin is decentralized and its "employees", or miners, are disparate; costs are not known.

This information asymmetry is one cause of Bitcoin's unbounded price discovery.
Can anyone layout a path to becoming as skilled in chip design as these people like John Bruno? As though I would be able to do a competent Verilog implementation of RISC-V or 68040 in my own workshop.

As a hobby (back when I had the luxury of time) I designed several ALUs, and two CPUs featuring datapaths and register transfer control. I did them as digital circuit diagrams on paper, on breadboards (which teaches the valuable lessons of signal fanout, wire layout, debugging), and in squirrel (which teaches the value of good tooling, one way or another). I've toyed with VHDL, Verilog, and FPGAs, and am competent in assembly and C. I'm interested, but I don't know what the path forward looks like to gaining the chops that these famed designers have.
Bernie Sanders will face Donald Trump in the 2020 elections, Democrats say
I believe this is a misinterpretation of a news story about Palo Alto considering subsidizing housing for households making under $250k. It is not the poverty threshold, it is just a hypothetical cutoff for qualifying for housing subsidization in one housing plan that Palo Alto considered.
Oh absolutely. I was only playing devil’s advocate - in practice even 2A is enough juice and my iPhone 6S would pass out at 60% _within a year of buying it_ when I was doing nothing more than reading Hacker News - I can’t imagine that takes up much power at all!
Or placebo effect, we don't know. It's self experimentation, there's no control group, no accompanying data, etc.

The perceived improvement could be due to other reasons rather than the therapy itself.

Usually you establish a relationship between the therapy and results through something like statistical significance but this was not the case.

Then, it is important to be responsible when offering health related advice to people. If you are not a healthcare professional, start saying:

1) Follow this advice at your own risk

2) I am not a healthcare professional this is a casual exploration of my sleep cycle.

I think this is more responsible than implying this followed some sort of scientific approach.

PS: rather than the ad-hominem try to add value to the discussion staying on topic.
Semi related, I had occasional trouble sleeping at the designated time (I would sleep an appropriate amount, but but not when I wanted to.) After reading gwern’s page on melatonin I tried it since it is easy and low risk, and now I can fall asleep consistently when I want to, by taking melatonin X minutes before.

https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin
Agreed. I used to notice that there were many Microsoft products like the Surface in the show Arrow. But it was subtle enough that most people wouldn’t know unless they can recognize the logo on the device.
unregulated equity funding...
Here's what works for me:-

Where blue-blocker glasses 2-3 hrs before bed. This has a big impact for me.

https://www.swanwicksleep.com/products/swannies-blue-light-b...

Swanwick make prescription blue-blocker glasses which I havent seen anywhere else.
Try Uvex brand if you want something cheaper.

A teaspoon of magnesium powder in a glass of water (about an inch full) before bed

A hot shower about an hour before bed.

Nasal spray before bed to improve breathing.
> As a hobby (back when I had the luxury of time) I designed several ALUs, and two CPUs featuring datapaths and register transfer control. I did them as digital circuit diagrams on paper, on breadboards (which teaches the valuable lessons of signal fanout, wire layout, debugging), and in squirrel (which teaches the value of good tooling, one way or another). I've toyed with VHDL, Verilog, and FPGAs

Not an answer to your question, but I'd love to read some blog posts about this please.
Just in case someone reads the above comment the wrong way: Rent control in San Francisco is not tied to a tenants income but rather the age of the building.

It’s entirely possible for someone who works in a wealthy person job (tech) to have a rent controlled apartment.
It seems yes. From the website:

What is this site?

Part social experiment, part desperate attempt to pay for grad school. My dream school will likely cost around $100,000. I have set a goal of mining 1,000 Monero (with your help!) to cover this cost.

The site was inspired by The Million Dollar Homepage, which itself was a (very successful) project to pay for the owner’s university education. This project is also a take on the new ways sites are trying to monetize their content. Similarly to how The Million Dollar Homepage was entirely a site of ads, turning the model of ad-supported content on its head, this site is entirely dedicated to mining.
I did some research with an old boss of mine and we found 2.5 years was the average based on the resumes we received. It's different now and specifically different than what it was in the 80's and 90's. I'm fortunate, I've been at my company for 13 years.
How do you enforce that law against nuclear powers?
IIRC their board was composed largely of people with deep connections to the government.
Well, that's still the right direction that you should pursue.

The buck stops somewhere, the history is not that long - if you trace all the ancestors and key influencers of a single language, that's generally 10 at most; and if you trace another language, half of them will overlap.

You can't really skip that step anyway, it's not like you can make an informed decision about a particular syntax feature if you haven't taken a serious look on how that feature works or doesn't work in a dozen languages; and the more obscure languages tend to be very useful in this regard because they explore a larger variety of features and their combinations. Getting a short overview of syntax of at least some 25 languages would be a reasonable prerequisite before designing another one, and that overview would still be the easy and straightforward part.
The proposal pretty much suggests that.
Bullshit. None of that worked for me. I'm sure lots of it works for other people, but rest assured you don't have all the answers about insomnia.

If you actually did have the answers, you'd make a billion dollars solving insomnia and you won't have to worry about people like me trolling you on HN. You'd be too busy popping the corks of Cristal bottles onto the firm rear ends of women leftover from a rap video.
Launch erc20 ico with 0 coding skill
I think everyone here is being a bit cavalier when they say "it's never too late". Sure, just like it's theoretically never too late to start a company or even run for president. In reality, mentors tend to gravitate toward younger mentees. There are various reasons for this. Younger folks tend to be, in general, more enthusiastic and less knowledgeable and experienced -- fertile ground when you have something to give as a mentor. Obviously not an absolute but definitely something to consider when you are older yet still looking for a mentor. I think there is also something alluring to mentoring younger folks you think are talented that has to do with getting the chance to help have a hand in some outsized success the young mentee might experience. Ostensibly younger folks have more time to achieve this success so perhaps they seem like a better bet to invest time in as a mentor however unconscious that decision may be on the mentor's part. I'm well into my thirties and do plenty of mentoring but I wish I had mentors of my own still. They get harder and harder to find every year of age and experience I get and I find it to mostly be due to the reasons above.
Damnit HN, why must you repeatedly post things that are destined to steal all my free weekends.

This seems pretty awesome; this might be a cheaper alternative to 3d printing for certain scenarios.
you know it got to a point where, and I've read other people say it; whenever I run into an html4 days webpage, I feel all relaxed. I know there's gonna be zero shitty tricks to monetize anything. Even a crappy geocities page feels better.
3PL allows DtC companies to scale along with demand. These are companies that warehouse and ship products for multiple companies. They receive shipping containers, unload them into inventory, and ship orders. They're able to ship same-day and their inventory management software is able to interface directly with the ordering systems and ERP of the other companies.
How is their calendar?
I thought you were being hyperbolic about Tether tokens being worthless. Turns out you're completely right:
https://tether.to/legal/

> Tethers are not money and are not monetary instruments. They are also not stored value or currency. There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers by us for money.

> We make no representations, warranties, or guarantees to you of any kind, including with respect to any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers for any property.

That doesn't make any sense. Those are absolutely outrageous terms of service for what Tether purports to be.

I thought the entire point of Tethers is that they're redeemable for USD on a 1-to-1 basis with a fixed exchange rate. That's exactly what the Tether FAQ says, but based on the actual ToS, I'd have to consider these statements to be absolute bullshit:

> Tether Platform currencies are 100% backed by actual fiat currency assets in our reserve account. Tethers are redeemable and exchangeable pursuant to Tether Limited’s terms of service. The conversion rate is 1 tether USD₮ equals 1 USD.

https://tether.to/faqs/

The FAQ says "Tethers are redeemable[] pursuant to Tether's terms of service" and the ToS says "There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money"

That is just fucking outrageous. I'm sorry, but it is.

I do not understand how or why anyone would use Tether without a contractual guarantee from the issuer to redeem each token for the underlying currency that it reserves. Without this, there's no reason for Tether to have a value.

I thought that the concept of Tether had sound technical merit -- essentially, a cryptocurrency with a fixed exchange rate backed by a full-reserve central bank for each currency -- but when offered with those legal terms, I have to consider it a scam. Under their ToS, money can flow into Tether but not out!

I can speculate about all sorts of reasons why they might have put up those ToS, but at the end of the day, it's a morally wrong contractual relationship for them to have with their customers. They should operate like a bank or otherwise with a guarantee that customers can convert Tether back to the reserve currency.

Edit: While doing some searches on this topic, I also found a news article about their questionable ToS, quoting this statement from the company:

> Our Terms of Service have been carefully picked apart by various malcontents and twisted to suggest that Tethers would not be redeemable for currency on some bizarre, malicious whim by Tether. That is untrue. https://cointelegraph.com/news/tether-really-isnt-a-scam-com...

Yeah, okay guys ... this interpretation is not carefully picking apart the ToS with malcontent. It's just a basic plain English reading of the ToS. I would stay away from Tether, and any company that responds in this way to completely reasonable criticisms.
We always assume these fund manager types are smart but history has shown they're often as dumb as the average joe public.

A company with no product, casual relationship with the truth as far as its technical capability goes, tarnished reputation and totally unqualified CEO is worth $0
I have to admit I’m a bit disappointed. I was hoping to see a real, full-size car battery.

I actually have three absorbent glass mat batteries hooked up to a Noco Genius battery tender and a 1000W 12V inverter to provide battery backup for my sump pumps (long story). Losslessly converting that to 5V shouldn’t be too hard.
Googling LeNet, Reset, AlexNet or other well known architectures will provide you with links to the network weights.
Powerful entities that aren't geographically concentrated like traditional nation-states. Not sure what that looks like...
Checkout Civic or HelloBloom
Investment groups that buy troubled assets are beyond my scope of understanding, but is that what is happening here? It sounds like Theranos is purporting to have a functioning product/business plan in the near future.

I work in medicine so my colleagues and I have been following this farce for several years. When so many advancements and biomedical research can benefit from such funding, why throw money at this fraudulent company?

Edit: Many thanks to users hkmurakami and ukulele above for explanations/clarifications.
>Phil said people may wonder why vehicle dwellers like himself don't move in with family. Well, good for those who are able, but easier said than done, said Phil. His son is already sharing space because of the high cost of housing.

Again, this just boggles my mind.

I understand there are people who are on bad terms with their family, but sans that, I cannot imagine a situation where my 60+ year old parents living alone in a van is in any way better than all of us sharing a studio apartment, even if we were sleeping on the floor.
Meh. I'm hoping for a better crop next year.
> I'm trying to put strong, static typing and laziness onto Smalltalk

This actually sounds quite interesting. You're starting from a good language (Smalltalk) and adding a feature absent from it but widely regarded as desirable (strong static typing).

> and clean up its syntax a bit (it's already pretty clean, just a few things could be improved)

If you go for type inference instead of having types explicitly declared, you might be able to avoid both run-time type checks and changes to Smalltalk's syntax.

> essentially a faster Smalltalk.

Bryce Kampjes (http://www.kampjes.demon.co.uk/index.html) was working on compiling Smalltalk byte code into machine code to speed it up, but that didn't involve changes to the language, so I think run-time type checks would still have been necessary. Making static type checks would result in a further speed-up.

Good luck.
If only the Internet was resistant to losing connections. I guess all we can do is give these guys more money to defend us from the big bad bear with a military that is a tiny fraction of ours.
I'll bite even though I shouldn't. What do you mean by the "folly of gender diversity in the workplace?"
I am astounded that anyone would touch Theranos with a 100-mile pole.

Their claims about their super-special tech were deliberately misleading, taking advantage of the general public's lack of medlab knowledge. They never released details of their "miracle" tech, and even if their claims were true, Holmes' entire "vision" fundamentally misunderstood the lab business and the way data and decisions flow from patient to doctor.

Maybe there's some savvy investing trick going on behind the scenes that I don't understand, but as a former medical lab professional everything about Theranos was giant red flags from the beginning.
UPS software developer from Lutherville- Timonium, MD office.
My manager, who been with the company for over 20 years went out delivering packages in his car few years ago. Any employee, no matter how high the rank, if needed, should hop into her/his car and deliver packages. We are United Parcel Services.
For everyone saying Fortress are idiots: this is a loan and the amount is conditional. That means 2 things:

1) If Theranos fails, Fortress can claim its assets.

2) The money is not released until certain milestones are met.

So either Theranos misses the milestones, folds, and has Fortress take over its assets, OR Theranos meets the milestones and is actually a valuable business.

Depending on the terms, Fortress could have easily structured this deal such that they win in either scenario. I would imagine that Theranos was desperate ("distressed"), so the terms are likely pretty onerous.
We uses Paddle as our payment provider. We love it.

https://www.paddle.com

Pros: It has everything needed for subscription billing. UI looks awesome.

Cons: Your amount will be credited only once in a month. Other payment providers offer weekly credit.

PS: Stripe is not available in my country.
Debt collectors calling and having your credit score dinged isn’t the definition of violence.
check out the epa blue book. the conclusions of beir vii point towards linear no threshold for solid cancers and a slightly different curve for leukemia.
What value do they create? Sure they burn electricity and energy but they don’t create any value other than the bitcoin value itself.