skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the Darknet, Reputation Is Everything
Caro's first book on him is excellent and I'm ashamed to say I haven't continued beyond that. Inefficient time scheduling and all that. It's eye opening to see how far and calculating climbing the ladder of power can be and the multiple forces that can swirl in a man like LBJ to motivate him to his means, towards that end.

As for the actual effect of his policy... Social apocalypse in the (non-professional) black community. Talking about "feral blacks" is half crude racism and half honest everyday empiricism. Churn the males into free prison labor and subsidize the creation of more prison labor bodies by subsidizing single motherhood and overall dysgenics. It's a cluster you can't talk honestly about in this sort of political climate. Tribal feelings take over global facts, so to speak.

And of course you have the weird effect of technology masking what would normally be complete squalor. When I was homeless, my online persona was the same as when I was housed. The type of boredom, that churns into action, was slaked by following the everyday tunnel of links and bits of random information. A king of all but bounded within a smartphone, so to speak.
More article-quoting:

"As computer programmers, our formative intellectual experience is working with deterministic systems that have been designed by other human beings. These can be very complex, but the complexity is not the kind we find in the natural world. It is ultimately always tractable. Find the right abstractions, and the puzzle box opens before you.

The feeling of competence, control and delight in discovering a clever twist that solves a difficult problem is what makes being a computer programmer sometimes enjoyable."

I recently asked a friend whether he thought people were deterministic. He didn't think so (I don't either.) What do you think?
I am but one person and, despite me doing everything you suggest (well except submit, because others always beat me to the punch there), it's a massive uphill battle. This place is slowly turning into reddit, where folks upvote buzzwordy article titles and move on to upvote the next.
Why do you think it "costs nothing" to create a successful crypto-token?

I can create a business with a hundred dollars and a trip to the local government building, but that doesn't mean i'll be successful, or that i'm a competitor to facebook. Just like how anyone can fork a cryptocurrency, that doesn't make them successful or a competitor to bitcoin.

And I disagree about how creating a business can cost the creator everything, isn't limiting liability one of the biggest reasons to start a company? So that you don't lose everything if it doesn't work.

But I think you need to really look at what it takes to build a cryptocurrency, let alone a successful one. You seem to be ignoring my point that a currency isn't just the code, but the network, the users, the trust, the amount of hardware and software written for it, the number of implementations, the amount of acceptance at vendors, the number of reputable exchanges, and the amount of decentralization. Replicating all of that isn't going to be any easier than getting everyone to switch from facebook to "klathmonbook" would be.

The fact that there are hundreds of cryptocurrencies created all the damn time that aren't overtaking bitcoin proves my point. If you replace the word "business" with "cryptocurrency" in your last paragraph, it still holds true. A good cryptocurrency needs to provide a benefit, and in bitcoin's case (at least to me) that benefit is decentralization, "push based" payments, the ability to be your own bank, a network of users and vendors that trust and use it, and not needing to trust anyone to transact with them using it.
Well, now it is a good time to buy.
Beating the CAP theorem checklist
This, I highly doubt that the person who last used the bike (and derived the benefit) is the one who chucked it into the river.
revive the trend? its still in full force so far as I can tell.

One of our offices just moved to a new building and got (small) motorized standing desks for everyone. I thought I would hate it, but honestly having the option is nice. Plus, its a lot easier to look at something with a coworker standing for some reason. Sadly I'm almost never in that office, I kind of wish I had it all the time.
They rolled it out without warning, the price spiked massively, they froze everything, and then revised the pricing charts to hide the $8500 price it peaked at. Their charts now falsely show the high price was only around $4000. All this has caused a lot of speculation about insider trading.
The hand points at the Moon. The dog barks at the hand.

Math is confused with arithmetic, which is one tiny subset of math, and notation, which isn't math at all but is merely a tool mathematicians use to communicate more clearly because some concepts are too bulky when you attempt to express them using words. The essence of math is careful reasoning, following step-by-step processes to derive new truths from existing ones. If you do that, you're doing math, and if you do it without arithmetic or notation, people will say you're doing math without math.
What do you mean by "Dante inferno"? Are you saying it's torture? I stand my entire work day and I'm not going back. But no one is forcing anyone to stand all the time.

Cardiovascular exercise is torture for me. But that has no bearing on the utility of it.
>> I have almost been hit a number of times while crossing the street. Here it is cars first, then motorbikes, then people.

I think a lot of the conflict arises from the fact that legally pedestrians have the right of way but in practice it's cars first and stay outta my way.
Of course they are a factor. So is not having billions lying around to rip up every street and building connection to water. Especially in impoverished cities that can barely afford street lighting.

Without the crisis created by criminal negligence, you had a much more sustainable situation that could have been addressed while controlling impact to consumers of water.

Note that I'm not agitating for old pipes. Far from it -- but in a world of limited resources, advocating for magically conjuring up money to do wholesale replacements of water supply (and sewer, as disrupting old pipes will disrupt old sewers) is a fantasy that distracts from solutions to these engineering problems.
I think you refer to this article: The Opioid Epidemic Hits The European Union [1]. Note that the title of that article contradicts the contents though. There is a big difference between the current opioid epidemic in the US, and an 'increase in non-medical drug use for prescription painkillers'.. One of the researchers is even quoted to say: "We can learn much from the E.U. in terms of how to prescribe opioids in the context of a national healthcare system"

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/cjarlotta/2016/08/09/high-rates...
In addition to the other fine replies, weather forecasting's inaccuracies are dominated by the lack of information, then by lack of processing power. Lack of closed-form solutions to NS or better solutions rates quite a ways down the list of issues it has, or put another way, even if we had a magic box that completely accurately solved NS for weather forecasting, it would not get that much accurate. (My suspicion is that it would literally be measured in "minutes" more accurate, rather than the "days" you'd like, but I concede I can't prove that... but bear in mind that it may well be the cases that it would be milliseconds more accurate or something, not just that I could be wrong about it being "days", as the errors in the initial data compound over the course of the simulation no matter what math you throw at the problem.)
I rarely point out grammar (or spelling) mistakes. "Alot" is one of those run-together phrases that people need to be told isn't a word in order to stop using; clearly nobody has with you, so I thought I'd do you a favor. :)
DRM, lock-ins etc. are a problem for sure, but this is a narrow view.

It's disingenous to depict torrents ("download a pirated movie") as a problems-free, conventient, alternative, since there is a certain set of associated problems.

There is malware lingering at each page. The movies are typically in english. Torrents may be very slow at certain times. Subtitles needs to be searched, generally separately, and generally, are available only in english. Subtitles may even be malware (happened a few times to me).

For a part of the audience, using torrents is worth the compromise, but it's not the very convenient and generic option that is generally depicted.

In addition, most of the people I know switched to streaming long ago; those who are willing to pay, use Netflix, the other ones, use streaming websites.
What's wrong with a trend in standing desks? Nobody is forcing you to use one.
So you think one of the highest trafficked sites out there can run this fraud scheme and continue to make money out in the open? I think that sort of stuff works spread across hundreds of sites, but not on singular high traffic sites like the one mentioned in the article.
Do you genuinely believe domestic violence is an issue in more than 25% of marriages that end in divorce?
Setting up psql, the PostgreSQL CLI
Yes, Corewar! A programming game going back to ancient times [1]. Corewar had as inspiration the apocryphal story of the Creeper and the Reaper. The Creeper was a real program that would copy itself to other computers. It was probably the first computer worm [2]. The Reaper was then created to also move across computers and delete the Creeper when it was found [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creeper_(program)

[3] http://corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm
GraphQL: A Year in Review
What don't you get about it? I can understand you having a different preference. That's normal, we all like different things. But not getting it at all? That's just weird.

I'll explain why for me. On my 24" 1920x1200 monitor, I want to be able comfortably fit two editor windows side-by-side where neither window auto-wraps the code. 79 columns works well for that. This is a function of my ability to read the text, which in turn is a function of font size, monitor size and viewing distance.

(I actually have many more horizontal pixels than you too, because I have three 24" 1920x1200 monitors. My center monitor typically is where my code lives, while my other monitors have other terminals open doing other things, like searching or compiling code.)
Like saying how is gold supply finite if you can break a piece of gold in half. When Bitcoin forks the value is split between the two forks. If the market cap of Bitcoin before the fork is $10 Billion, the combined market cap of both sides of the fork afterwards will still be $10 Billion. There are double the number of coins because of the fork but now each person who had one coin has two and each coin is worth a fraction of what is was before. It's an increase in supply but an increase that is perfectly distributed among the previous holders.
I did predict a few weeks ago that if things fall quickly, the systems will do down and people will not be able to sell:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15869668
Victor often refers learning and education as his hobby.
It's a terrible currency, and I doubt many people are buying it because they believe in the underlying technology. It's all about getting rich quick. It may be a cliche but the logic is sound I think.
I posted my comment before I read this. So repeating from here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15988939

It seems Coinbase's go to strategy every time markets are volatile.
In case people are wondering why is this a recurring problem - this simply perils of Market Making in a volatile market. As a market maker for customer orders Coinbase needs to fulfill both sides. So to make money they buy from customers at low price and sell back at a high price. So they are collecting spread between bid and ask to make money.

But what happens if the market moves rapidly in one direction? They end up selling low and buying high.

So, they need to reset the market making algorithm. Or shutdown the site for a "fix", long enough that the volatility comes back in their range.

And what was wrong with the BCH rollout?
Running Go on Android (Without GoMobile)
Bitcoin absolutely could go full bust. It is not a physical commodity, there is no utility outside of its perceived value. It is not a company, so it doesn't even have book value as its floor. And the technology is open source and well known, so there is nothing special or scarce about Bitcoin technology at this point. Even the companies that have capital investments in Bitcoin hardware could just repurpose that for a forked coin or possibly some other purpose altogether
I believe these questions are exactly what is driving the current crisis. Let's not be confused here. People getting more rich, and prices rising doesn't mean we don't have a crisis.

The problem is that nobody knows yet, what this world will look like, where the formula value = number_of_people * output_per_person holds true. So where to put all the capital, power, and information wealth that one has created in a system based on that formula? So everything that gives the impression it may make it over the leap into the next system, start-ups, new currency, tech gimmicks, gives some of the people hope that they have finally found something that will protect them and bring them into a good position for the next cycle of politcal evolution.

Truth though is, there are no systems that hold forever, or which could predict something which is not part of their system. There is only flexibility, intelligence, and a few tricks that sometimes work. E.g. making fire will probably the same, even if capitalism has ended. A useful trick to surivive cold and food-sickness. Also the ability to build trust relationships may survive as long as humanity survives. But few of these really enable one to continue living in the luxuries wealthy people are used to.
Also if you are doing the username/password is incorrect you should also add an artificial delay if it's the username is wrong. Because you can tell which one is wrong my seeing how long it takes the server to respond.
Yes. Consider that the ramp up in Bitcoin has been happening since June. I recall they were adding 50,000 accounts per day. Suddenly, all the new folks that haven't experienced a bloodbath before are all trying to jump on and sell. I'm not surprised at all, really.
Show HN: The Doomsday Algorithm will blow your mind
They lock, other than scaling issues, because of liquidity. Bitcoin cash opened with a thin market and ran up to $9,500 in 4 minutes before they halted the market. Was still trading at ~$3k elsewhere at the time.

An open/close or restart isn't needed because all assets are being heavily traded elsewhere. If they switch to post only the arb bots will fill their book over time.

Leverage will rip your face off.
Apple’s New iPhones Get a Lukewarm Reception from Buyers
FYI for both of you. The site closed their stats after 2015 and moved to google analytics.

Being a shady website is rarely an obstacle to using the same thing as everyone else.
Almost everything else is traded against BTC (or ETH on some exchanges), very few of the "shitcoins" can be traded directly for USD (or even USDT). So when BTC and ETH go down in fiat value, so do the shitcoins, even if they might be up in satoshis (or mETH)

Anyways, it's still higher than it was 3 weeks ago and appears to have found supports. Nothing goes straight up forever.
At the moment, Ethereum is still up 8000+% for the year, Litecoin up 6300+% for the year. I think this is end of year profit taking. I do think these ecurrencies are all speculative (my bias), but today's event doesn't strike me as a crash. When the bubble pops we'll see these currencies in the vicinity of their starting prices.
What are the advantages of this compared to the risc-v vector extension?
Why isn't FSF thinking about naming it Freedom Software Foundation? No wonder, programmers are bad at naming things (including me)!
I don't have any other recommendations for studying, but as someone who made the transition from IT to GRC, I can offer some advice about getting practical experience.

A Big Four firm is a good place to get started in a GRC career. You'll get pretty broad exposure to the field, and you'll have the opportunity to develop expertise in specific GRC domains.

If you're already working in a regulated industry (especially for a publicly traded company), you may be able to move into a GRC position at your present company. Compliance, internal audit, third party risk management, business continuity/resiliency and disaster recovery are common areas that fall under the broad GRC umbrella.

I worked in various IT roles at a financial services company, and I was able to move into a risk analyst role, then I went to a Big Four firm, and I'm now back in industry.

As far as certs go, CRISC, CISA and CISSP are the most common I've seen among GRC folks, although most of the people I've worked with didn't have any of them.
The 2016 Klan leader endorsed Clinton for President.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/ku-klux-klan...
Yeah but if it falls to 2016 levels it will spike and fall many times as people try to get it back to 2017 levels.
- Feb 27, 2016, "I wish I could be paid to work on my side projects like @TheTweetPile and Paperless". (https://twitter.com/danielagquinn/status/703629488932970500)

- Mar 13, 2016, "Added Gratipay" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/500cee1d9d06...)

- Mar 13, 2016, "Gratipay sucks because it depends on PayPal. Long live bitcoin" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/705a5b8a8468...)

- Apr 9, 2016, "Added reference to Mayan EDMS" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/674d54ec3878...)

- Finally on Dec 26, 2016, "Give to the UNHCR" (https://github.com/danielquinn/paperless/commit/9ea39aeecb4f...)
At least in ordinary stock exchanges with HFT, stop loss orders are perfect devices for the HFTers when the price is approaching some psychological limit (say $100), they can push the price down momentarily and buy from all the average Joes whose stop loss orders just triggered, wait for the inevitable bounce and sell at a nice profit.
I remember when many alt coins collapsed in 2013/2014 one problem was that with miners dropping off, difficulty stayed. Many coins with longer difficulty adjustments couldn't get back to reasonable confirmation times.

So let's say BTC difficulty drops 10x (China cracks downs on farms or simply miners moving to a different more profitable coin, who knows)

Currently this would be ruinous, as difficulty adjustments are every 2 weeks, so that would be 140 days until things get back to normal.
I assume for the usual reasons argued in favor of cryptocurrency: anonymity and decentralization. But the exchange rate and contraction/expansion algorithms presumably must be consensus. And the more heuristics you constrain the system with at the start, the greater the likelihood of forks down the road.
Right. It’s already known that NS solutions can be chaotic. It would be a big deal if they turned out to be non-unique.
But people do work on contingency, all the time.
I honestly was expecting this not to be anything interesting. And then he opens up the van and it looks quite legit.

Never thought about one of these including a toilet before, but that makes a lot of sense.
So this essentially implies Coinbase needs to manipulate the market in order to ensure their profitability?
The /s was pretty clear before the fact too.
So how does this coin make or save me money, to compensate for the risk of buying it and trusting the "algorithmic" central bank (which apparently has a tweakable algorithm, and therefore requires trust in the central overseer?)
Ask HN: How can I learn to present my data effectively?
I am a data analyst and suffer from producing overly-complicated data visualizations and presentations[1].

Topics: criminal justice

Software: [R, ggplot2], [python 3, pandas]

Are there any online courses or Washington DC Metro Area in-person classes that could teach me how to prepare [for] effective data presentations?

[1] PowerPoint :(
The comments to the article address the PowerShell alias: it sounds like PowerShell is hesitant to change that alias and break the users that do expect curl to alias Invoke-WebRequest, so the suggestion was to get into the habit of using `curl.exe` as your invoke in PowerShell for real curl.

A deprecation warning would be a good idea, though, to suggest to developers that are using the curl alias to move to iwr.
Well, some can't sell 'cause coinbase has turned off transactions.
> I don’t think you understood what parent meant by “single track”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-line_working

I understand what they meant; I'm explaining that even when running trains on dedicated tracks (e.g. the local line is shut down for maintenance, but the express line still runs), it causes delays that many find unbearable. Running trains in both directions on a single track would degrade service even further. At that point, it may very well just be better to shut the entire line down temporarily, which is what they generally do.
If you have USD in Coinbase that you'd like to buy with right now, you can use your Coinbase account at GDAX and transfer USD instantly to GDAX.

Trades are working fine at GDAX.

Pretty sure GDAX is also owned by Coinbase.

I did it just now.
Unfortunately this auction ended in July:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1989-Classic-FBI-Surveillance-Van-S...
It's telling to me about the hype bubble that this article is coming from CNBC.
There probably are some employers that mandate sending desks.
Georgia regulators say dramatically over-budget nuclear plant can move forward
The split value is in theory but didn't seem to follow in practice. Anyone can create a fork, and the market will not be that efficient, even in the long run. I don't think the metaphor works for that reason.

Simply, forking makes a coin that is not Bitcoin, and people can value it however they like. The only question is why they would value it at all. There are usually technical differences in forks that people believe are better.
What kind of non-technical person is trying to buy and manage a bitcoin wallet in the first place?

If the user is only willing to learn enough to keep the coins in Coinbase, then this person has no business dealing with Bitcoin at all.
So if we shouldn't be leaving our coins on coinbase, where do we leave them? A full wallet is not an option for many of us. I don't want to have to download 100's of gigs of data just to store my coins... I even tried to move from bitcoin to etherum since I thought that wallet might be smaller. And it was, but after leaving it running for 2 days it still had a ways to go and all the IO it was doing was really trashing my SSD.

At that point I looked into hot wallets like jaxx. But then on /r/jaxx, there were many people complaining about using jaxx only to have had their private keys stolen. So at that point I just left everything on coinbase :/ Is there any decent hot wallet out there or anything else?
It's included in "Paper Wealth Delusion", btw.
Indeed. the operational risk is huge. even for tech savvy participants
True. But for average people at popular banks, it's very sufficient.
Every exchange has gone down, Kraken is far worse than Coinbase. Poloniex used to go down constantly, but they are holding up remarkably well lately.

Gemini's spread used to be pretty bad and they didn't do much volume outside their daily auction. They really aren't focused on retail investors so they don't see the same scaling issues as Coinbase.
The Clay problems are pure math problems. Any approximate application they have to the real world is just an accident.
Isn't it a complexity optimization? In the broader system there is no coordination of attempts so multiple nodes 'waste' resources trying the same invalid solutions if I understand correctly.