skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Religion the Next Frontier for AI?
Given how slow BTC transfers are now (can be 1+ day out of gdax), you would need to keep sizable amounts of BTC on each exchange and rebalance periodically.

While technically opportunities exist daily (compare the huge difference in prices this moment at https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets) but tough to execute due to BTC transfers or fiat transfers being high-friction.
I would think those would just be made of different kinds of atoms but OK.
“Being hired without much fuss when you are a qualified applicant for the role”.

If we’re saying experience and training are things that exclude “easy” then we’re in crazy town.
> publicizing the immense virtues and magically perpetual low value...

This happens every day in securities. Those "pumpers" are called "analysts". They sometimes work for investment banks and research firms. You can choose to follow their advice or you can bet against it.

Apple shares were $0.50 (unadjusted) in its early history. By your definition, anyone espousing the future of Apple and computers at that point is a pump and dump scammer.
Was he a programmer?
Are there any databases successfully in production in high-value transactional environments other than oracle or DB2?

Yes, Postgres is often used and in-house developed DBs are fairly popular too. On the commercial side, Sybase still exists too! And of course SQL Server, tho' I am not aware of anyone using it on Linux in production yet.

The inertia keeping DB2 in the BO is all the third party apps running on it - if they move they will need to persuade all their vendors to move en-masse to whatever comes next. FO software is a lot more bespoke and anything from outside tends to be chosen by people who know what they're doing.

I have to believe a lot of the pain coinbase is experiencing stems from their decision to use mongodb

Almost certainly. I would go in-house before Mongo any day of the week. That's if Postgres wasn't already a better JSON store than Mongo is...
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Instead of IFTTT, I've been using node-red for my automation needs. Really enjoying it.
Data conferences in one csv
As we approach the limit (of zero) that tail will just continue to get longer and longer. And by “indefinite” I do not mean “forever.” I mean that there’s no definite date that the ‘mainframe industry‘ will end— IBM hasn’t published any roadmap to end their use, and many institutional users are happy making few changes to business operations.
How did you get into consulting? What do you do?
Step 1: Be popular/famous enough that people know your name.

Step 2: Be good/accurate enough at opining in ways that make sense.

Most people won't have either 1 or 2 going for them.

There's one more thing - charging a lot is how to signal value, which is a a huge thing. I know a guy who used to manage an A-list rock band (everyone knows their songs) who went into consulting, and started out lowballing people, for $1k/week or something. People didn't take him or his advice seriously. After increasing his rate to $20k/week, people were hanging on his every word.

The advice didn't change, only the perception of value.
He used to be but then he advised on enterprise software like SAP and Salesforce.
I'm not sure where you went to eat, but I found the food in KL to be of lower standard as compared to Melaka (which is famed for its hawker food) and Penang. In KL, I had to be shown to the good places[1], but in Melaka you'd be pretty set where ever you rock up!

But the fruits are amazing! There is so much variety of tropical fruits! But my comments about the pricing were based on my observations at the supermarkets -- it felt like the costs were quite high for fresh fruit & veg compared to simply eating out.

[1] Shout out to Klang Bah Kuh Teh. It's been my first stop many times once I've arrived in M'sia!
For those saying this doesn't happen any more... it still can, and does. However, the bigger issue most people face is finding those people who can actually get that sort of value from our knowledge/skills/etc.

I can give the same info to 2 companies, and one can make several hundred thousand dollars (in savings, new sales, etc). The other may not even be operating at a scale where they'll see $10k in increased value, even doing the 'same' thing the other company did.

Determining who those companies are, then connecting with the appropriate people, that is still the hard part. Meeting someone for coffee, giving them $15k in 'value' from a conversation... probably does happen now and then. I don't think many 'consulting engagements' actually happen at a coffee shop for an hour or two ending with a $15k check being handed over, however. (but maybe I'm too cynical and it does happen a lot)
BTC arbitrage is very risky due to transaction times, volatility, and volume. And it's often not worth it depending on your region due to potentially high fees. It's not something I would recommend to people who have never done it before.

As an experiement, go on to a site like CoinMarketCap. Click on BTC->Markets. Sort by price. It looks like a ton of arbitrage opportunities, right? Well... now try to take advantage of it.
That is a good point. If you were in possession of world-changing, society-breaking, panic-inducing information, how else would you prepare society for eventually hearing the full truth?

You would do it as a laughable joke over a long period of time.
Would you call yourself a highly-paid consultant? What do you make?
>This is a particularly political event so reports from both sides need to be treated with scepticism.

So basically, you don't like these facts so we must be skeptical of them?

These were not two hostile countries in a war of whataboutism like the US and USSR.

China ≠ USSR - this was long after the Sino-Soviet split and by the late 80s the UK and China had good relations.

The Sino-British Joint Declaration (which would return Hong Kong to China) was signed in 1984, and Queen Elizabeth made a visit in 1986.

Also, a photo released in 2009 of "Tank Man" from another angle clearly shows a bulldozer:

https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/behind-the-scenes-...

Larger image (direct link): https://static01.nyt.com/packages/flash/photo/Lens-Single-As...
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Trolling on HN? Good luck with that.
Ask HN: Invest in cryptocurrency?
I am from India. I want to invest in cryptocurrency. I am hearing a lot about bitcoin, ethereum. What are options for me. Is it safer. How can I start investing?
I've been part of exciting conversations with desk heads attempting to justify database licensing fees in flat/falling trading environments where traders and people are being let go.

Given those experiences, I personally stopped optimizing for today's flush tech budget. I now budget for what I know is a realistically shitty future state of affairs where we have to keep the lights on [1] while spending as little as possible.

[1] The one worse thing you can tell a trader during a 2008-level crisis than "I need more money for databases" is "you can't trade, we don't have enough capacity to handle the additional market vol".
What does talk to a CEO in their own language even mean? That he knows typical MBA jargon and concepts? Anybody can learn to talk and think like a CEO by picking up a few DIY MBA books. You have likely misjudged his actual skill.
It's not as if the US ever killed off a bunch of innocent people outside of war, and still ignores them when it doesn't suit their interests (see keystone XL pipeline):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_indigeno...
Why not run arbitrage on ETH etc. which have far shorter transaction time than BTC. That surely is a much safer bet with essentially the same API. With the current transaction time BTC arbitrage doesn't seem to be a wise idea at all. In between the several hours the price could have easily changed more than 10%.
Ask HN: What do you use to run your company blog?
Coinbase uses Medium, my own company rolls a custom solution, fly.io tells me to use ghost on my primary domain. I feel like I need to setup our start-up's blog post someone soon but can't decide.

What do you use? Why? Do you regret anything?
Pip install of a directory is super slow (2014-now)
I've had both positive and negative experiences at different companies.

ProTip: It really helps when your manger is remote as well. It's harder to bias themselves to preferring local employees that way.

Positive: I worked for a software company that had a solid mix of remote and co-located (in the office 3-4 days a week) employees. People and offices were located around the country. Since there were a solid number of remote employees, things like picking up the phone and web meetings were never an issue. No major issues with career or visibility. When we had a massive restructuring, many of the people I worked with moved to other remote positions and that helped me move on as well. Important: Traveling and meeting people in person really helps others remember you exist.

Negative: I worked for a company were there was an obvious headquarters. All decisions came down from there, and anybody who wanted to have a upward career in the company eventually moved there. Being at an office location outside the headquarters definitely stalled your career, and being remote was even worse for your career. Even people who had the option of being remote would come into the local office a lot for visibility reasons. Even if you were remote, it was useful to be near an office where your manager or manager's manager was located so you could meet them on a regular basis.
Assuming it is a real situation, would you rather do per week billing or per hour?
Is it working for you?
Thank you! I am getting into consulting and while I found a client, I know this is just the start for me. So I estimate a probability of 70% I will read everything about consulting on your blog.
Would that all of us could be Liam Neeson.
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Two notes. First, as others have said, while the market may contain inefficiencies, they tend to close fast especially with a public solution. That said, this may be a good starting point for you to go nuts on for generation 2.0 so enjoy the code.

Second, while I won’t comment on this particular strategy, I want to note that many so-called “arbitrage” systems are actually sleeves for another important risk: liquidity. These strategies typically assume normal trading behavior and don’t take into account that exchanges break during crisis events, the exact events (even if they’re rare “black swans”) which can leave you half in a trade and wearing massive exposure during extreme volatility. The analogy is picking up nickels before a bulldozer... use at your own risk.
> Knowing the battery size (which also limits the total peak power draw from the battery) and software system in play, Apple could have (and I would argue should have) designed a processor that would provide consistent performance throughout the life of the phone.

> Yes, this would result in lower peak performance for iPhone devices.

Aren't they essentially arguing that Apple should enable the throttling on day one instead of waiting until the battery degrades? How does that benefit anyone?
The tone and attitude of this post is so obnoxious it almost seems like satire.
You have to be able to size up their market, their company, some idea of sales/volume/revenue/etc. Sometimes it's easy to ballpark, perhaps based on headcount (even assuming part time workers, you could probably ballpark $50k per person - a 50 person company would be grossing ~$3m/year just to stay open in the US, I'd think, but in most cases it would probably be 50-100% more than that, depending on industry, location and type of workforce).

Looking at a small company that's pulling in $500k, there's almost no way anything you do for them service-wise would be worth $300k to them (short of you taking over operations or similar). For a company pulling in $50m, there's almost certainly $300k of value you could bring to some department, doing probably the exact same work you might do for the $500k company.
That seems like a silly statement to me. Obviously, huge amounts of code that "allows someone to make money" is available publicly, for some definition of "making money" or other. I am guessing your statement is specifically directed towards code that is meant for trading markets and referring to the efficient market hypothesis. That may or may not be true but I think it would suit you to at least back up such a claim, especially when it comes to crypto currencies which are obviously a very immature asset class.
Why one Bitcoin could well be worth one million dollars
It definitely is a problem. For instance there was a recent post about trying to teach a robot to put a board with a hole in it into a peg. It would just learn to shove the board next to the peg.
This is by a wide margin the most bourgeois shit I've heard on here apart from the constant cryptocurrency posts. "Make disgusting amounts of money by doing nothing instead of your actual job!"
I think it is more than only words. I think it is about being able to sell, gain trust and establish clear expectations.
Why would it matter? Mentors just want someone who learns quickly and works hard. They want someone they can watch avoid much of the pain they went through to acquire their skills.
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For people wondering, does it work? Short answer. No.

Long answer - The biggest flaw lies in the "advantages" section:

Unlike other Bitcoin arbitrage systems, Blackbird doesn't sell but actually short sells Bitcoin on the short exchange

The problem is only Bitfinex allows short selling. So, the example is an excellent case of cherry picking.

There are other issues with their strategy too.
OK, so to take just one example, say 50 or so Tiananmens died in the latest US appalling invasion/massacre of Iraq. So that was 50x as horrible and unforgiveable, and should 'forever be held against the USA' in the same essentially horrified way? Something comparable happened every few years of the last century. I get the feeling most people reading this will hold more against me for saying this, than against the US for its countless slaughtered 10,000s. Well, I guess it horrifies Americans because they empathetically imagine the US government not killing brown people in other countries by the million, but its own people, and that is scary.
All my skills are not unique, and you could probably find someone else who has them, except for one skill which I am almost certain I am currently the best in the entire world at.
> Given that we discover new elements[1] from time to time, it's not impossible that we'd discover a new alloy.

It should still be relatively simple to identify each of the elements in it by it's atomic number. Our periodic table is complete to the 7:th row, and any unknown (un-named) element with a higher atomic number would be very likely to have a very short half life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table
I've made a lot of money from Apache and Python, and they're public. ;)
China is projecting their influence across the world in myriad ways. They are experimenting with soft power in Australia, with money and increasingly combative diplomacy.

There are increasingly significant trade agreements and loans with Latin America. They are striking deals across Africa for oil and minerals, and have a permanent naval installation in Djibouti, and seem comfortable supporting antidemocratic regimes on the continent.
Ask HN: Any front end stack recommendation?
I'm a system programmer trying to build a mobile friendly web interface. The backend will be basically a django application with an API (data heavy). Any recommendation on the best stack to go with? It should be easy to work with for a python/C++ developer.
I don't have the ability to meet a CEO at a convention, strike up a conversation and keep them interested. This is not only about knowing MBA jargon. It's about manners and other things.

In corporations you see the same thing. Some guys meet the big VP and make a lasting impression while most others don't. This is not about skills or knowledge but about the way you talk and behave.
>> obsolete language

>Huh?

This is an oversimplification, but basically Cantonese is the main language in Hong Kong and Macau and in parts of southern China (Guangdong) that border whereas other parts of China use Mandarin.

You can probably work out why someone who speaks Mandarin would call Cantonese a "dead language" in a thread about Tiananmen Square.
@putnam thanks for reviving that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15994410
Stop worrying about age. Shit... 30 is young. You have plenty of time to follow these dreams.

Depending on what type of back end development you want to do pick up a book and start learning back end languages. Java, Go, Javascript (Typescript) etc. Also, start learning databases like MySQL or Redis etc.

Just make a simple web based notes app or something that will allow you to hit all these back end technologies.

Just start!
Google had earlier (well, 7 years earlier) bought AgniLux, a follow on company with people from PA Semi which had been bought by Apple. That looked an awful lot like an acquihire. Dunno if they went on to do TPU or what.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/04/googl...
2013 Magic Leap “Confidential” Presentation
Is that what Noam Chomsky seems to believe? That would be stupid and crazy, wouldn't it? Half-witted.
Thanks for asking. To be reductive: I mostly build webapps for my clients, but of course it's a lot more than just that. I got into it quite intentionally because I wanted to trade lower variance for higher pay and flexible lifestyle. That is, I'd rather make $3x one month and $0x the next (where I work on my personal projects or read a good scifi novel in the sun), rather than $x one month and $x the next.

When I started consulting, I was living in Seattle and I had a single long term client. Now that I live in San Francisco, there is high paying work everywhere.
Stacks and Overflows
I saw it can give you notifications over Signal. Does anyone have any info about how it sends messages without a phone number? I thought you need a phonenumber to have an account.

If I can send messages without a number then I'd like to try to add some feature to my VPS so that it sends me status updates :) Can you imagine getting a notifications when a build was done or sometching like that? It'd be really handy
I hope you are trolling, because this comment sounds like it was written by someone with some sort of mental issue. OP isn’t “required to edit” anything just because you say so.
Totally off topic but I just grabbed that book of my shelf to reread over the holidays while traveling
Wishing you all the best!
Oh, I understood exactly what he was getting at. I was hoping he would use the opportunity to apologize, but hey, internet.
I found a client in one week. I have no portfolio but have worked at a local online ERP company for one year. And before that finished university in CS. Headhunters was not the way for me. Nor the big websites for freelancers. I found a website for freelancers in my region and applied to two projects. Got one. But went in with a hourly rate.
$20k a week to get the opinion of a Bingo game/app developer.
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On my mobile so I can’t poke around... what did they do to make page loads so speedy? Even images seem to be quick.
Geologist here: while overly managing of the Mississippi does make a difference, that only controls where new sediment gets deposited. Even if new sediment was deposited in sinking urban areas, it wouldn’t ameliorate the problem of subsidence because it would be deposited on existing infrastructure, burying it.

The real reason for the subsidence is that the sediment that makes up river deltas slowly compacts under its own weight, expelling pore water and becoming more dense. This is natural and unavoidable, although it might be marginally enhanced by oil and gas extraction (it is a bigger problem with groundwater withdrawal in other areas).
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Good point, whereas in America the Republican and Democratic parties have since been dismantled and replaced...

Yang Shangkun must have had one heck of an influence if he was able to dictate who would be president of the country 15 years after his death... Of course Yang was forced out of the party in 1993 (the last time he had any influence), but don't let history and facts get in your way.
This doesn't actually ever send coins over the network. It shorts on one exchange and goes long on the other.

As such it is market neutral (since prices should converge) and transaction time doesn't matter.

Still doesn't work too well.
There's a repo and a very preliminary document.

A key concept re disconects is that downloaded data stay downloaded.

Ads: there are existing tools, e.g. uBlock, which are effective. Borrowing or reimplementing from these, including host/IP blocklists, page element logic, and other heuristics, buys much of the win.

Distinguishing local v. remote ops is something to think about.

This is in respects a tagged FS, but with yet more elements.

Recognise this is prelim and very fluid:

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/1aJOIlyFMLzLrY...
They can charge it because if you really need Oracle, there really is no substitute. 12c is genuinely state-of-the-art, Exadata does things that only mainframes can otherwise do and a bunch of stuff that they can't.

There are far fewer people however that do really need it, than believe that they do... The vast majority of Oracle shops could probably switch to Postgres for less than their annual licenses, then start saving the money from the second year on...

My rule of thumb is that Postgres gets you 50% of Oracle for 0% of the price. Most of what most people need is somewhere in that 50%. SQL Server gets you 90% for 25% of the cost. I think Oracle will lose a lot of seats to SQL Server once it's stable on Linux.
Easy for you to say. Last time China had a radical change of governments there were a few speed bumps.

It's not nearly as cut and dried as you'd make it. How many Chinese deaths would be justified for such a transition, in your opinion?
Do not ship it
I interviewed with Informix shortly before IBM acquired it, and after they acquired Illustra (a commercialized Postgres, company started by Stonebraker). My recollection was that Informix was a mess having decided to basically build their next major version on the untested Illustra. Different locations, lots of politics, two massive codebases. I remember thinking that Informix shot themselves in the head, and that IBM then acquired them cheap.
Hong Kong is not China under the two systems policy, hence why flights between the mainland and HK are considered international. Until recently, the laws were completely separate with the communists basically not interfering with legal aspects of HK society. Then they started abducting booksellers and prosecuting human rights activists, it’s safe to say that the two system policy is winding down quickly.
they prop up dictatorships in Iran, Pakistan, North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Venezuela
That pdf does not address the case of (hidden) recording devices placed in the home by the homeowner. As a hypothetical - if two robbers are caught in conversation while in my home, do I first need their consent to record them (as even in the one party rules I would not be a party to the conversation)?
No one would have blinked if Apple had just built the throttle into Low Power mode and documented the X% cut to clock speed and left stock performance alone.
This strategy used to kinda work (before it was exploited by people) manually across multiple exchanges that allow short selling. It's just that Bitfinex is the only one that's supported by this software.
What is the most painful aspect of consulting for you?