skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. Sure some do that, but a lot don’t and focus on data on customers and are hard working. Even bad companies are hard working. It’s just sometimes the founders can’t get the product to have a product-market-fit. And product-market-fit is a lot harder to achieve than an outsider (of a startup) would think.
Yep. Beanstalk is great for that exact use case. I've used it quite a bit and was easily able to attach different tools in different languages with no problems. PHP, Go, Python, and Java with no issues. Great tool for async workflows.
I dunno if sitting is bad or not -- but ever since I got a fitted desk and put a Deskcycle under it I've felt super great. It's a bit awkward always being a little bit sweaty though (I put in ~50 miles a day).

https://deskcycle.com/
There was a halving of miners subsidy in 2016, that is what drives the price. For some reason the effect is delayed, but it was delayed during previous halving too.
Coinbase is the one exchange that's looked like a legitimate business. Between insider trading and execution problems, it's pretty alarming. (Who am I kidding? Clearly this is actually good for Bitcoin somehow.)

Worth noting Coinbase has two kinds of systems risk. There's the technical risk of writing and running code correctly. And there's also the financial risk of them making the market in Bitcoin. Both of those tasks have gotten a whole lot harder recently as Bitcoin transactions have gotten slower and more expensive. Turns out building a global currency with a global 7 transaction / second limit may not be a good idea.
The latter was a quote[0] from Thomas Sowell[1], who lacks neither qualifications (Being an Ivy League economics professor), nor privilege-blindness (Black man born in 1930).

[0]https://twitter.com/ThomasSowell/status/943248573222850560

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell
Flagged, because too political. This is just outrage (even though I agree with it being a very bad thing). There's no way this news "gratifies someone's intellectual curiosity".
Slovenia can abandon the Euro at any time. This power sit's on top of any other they gain being part of the collective.

Countries use the Euro because it's useful for them to use the Euro, if it's stops being useful they drop it.
Forks aren't Bitcoin
Why are they talking about moving stairs? Why is this first on the list? What is this madness? The stairs don't need to be moved. They simply need to add more brand new lines and stations and invest in infrastructure to improve reliability. That's it.

The NYC Subway is not "broken" because the stairs are in the wrong place. The NYC Subway isn't even "broken."
At home I have a desk I can take up and down. Some days I sit, some days I stand. I think that's the best
Well, yes?

Inheritance is deeply ingrained in most cultures that I know of (so, western first-world cultures), but it had never made sense to me. Inheritance is pure unfairness.

And people far more versed in the economic arcanes than I am have the same opinion: see Karl Marx
This is the history of Bitcoin. Booms and busts with no taxpayer funded bailouts. A decentralized and trustless currency is, in my opinion, the safest asset to have in the long term. The world's broken financial system is built on fraud and corruption. It won't end well for fiat bag holders.
So why not just hold dollars?
Normal government workers in NY cost about 150% of salary due to benefits and pension costs. A big part of this is that NY law requires that the pensions get funded... many states ignore pension contributions and operate at a lower cost.

MTA has other unusual issues... they have a very powerful union that has negotiated wacky deals over the years. In some areas, pretty much everyone retires with dramatically more expensive disability retirements. (See: https://nypost.com/2014/08/06/nearly-all-lirr-workers-have-d... )They also have the ability to "spike" pensions with overtime that most NY government workers outside of police and fire cannot do.
The Atlantic did a good piece on the origins.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/01/pa...
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And historically there's a lot of evidence this can work. But not if gains are concentrated in the hands of the already rich. Which had been the case in America for decades.
> Whose Tor Onion Service? Wow, my phone runs an Onion service?

Seems like it https://github.com/guardianproject/haven/blob/0fd6f690ef6303...

I guess battery life is less of a concern for the suggested use case (e.g. turning a cheap, extra commodity device into a primarily stationary, plugged-in security system).
"Lightweight" is really becoming a turnoff for me when people use it in their description. It (mostly) means "I haven't worked on this long enough to add the features all the other projects in this space immediately found were too useful to go without" or even "I haven't worked on this long enough to produce much code".

"Lightweight" is really only interesting to me in two cases: First, you're designing it for limited resources, like an embedded system, for which the standard answer is simple too large to even consider. Second, when the standard answer in the field is so "heavy" (an ill-defined term itself, but moving on) that it causes problems of its own. JVM solutions sometimes get to this point, where the act of administering the solution itself gets bogged down in merely administering the JVM.

I do not personally have the problem that my job queues are too heavy, nor have I heard anyone else complain that ZMQ or Redis are just so heavy for what they do.
Will try it out as well. Thanks in advance!

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> as a plain MP4/MKV/AVI file in the language you want (not necessarily the official language of your region)

Not to mention being able to download subtitles in almost any language there is and then play the movie with those subtitles.

That's one of those things that drive me crazy about Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and such: there's a ton of movies I can't watch with my wife because her English isn't good enough yet.
What successful products are out there? Developers can be one of the worst markets to try and sell to; even Microsoft gave up and decided to give away VSCode (which, despite having little to actually do with Visual Studio, is still them acknowledging that it's a hard market).
Show HN: MathJax with Jekyll aka Latex Math in Jekyll
It's almost as if it's lack of constant (even low-grade) activity that's the problem, rather than whether you're sitting or standing. Perhaps not moving all day is the cause.
Storing your coins on coinbase (or any other exchange) is pretty much always a bad idea. If you don't own the private keys, you don't own the coins.

Coinbase is not immune from failure, government intervention, or fraud. The insurance no doubt has limits, and if you've ever filed an insurance claim you'd know that if something goes wrong you'll probably be up a creek without a paddle.

Insurance companies almost always win, that's how they make money.
Shh. airbreather has money in bitcoin. Don't confuse him/her with facts. :)
So, downvoters, how is this like the 1999 internet?

At least engauge if you disagree.
But why were you ever telling people to store anything on coinbase? That is downright terrible advice to be giving anyone.

One of Bitcoin's selling points is that it's decentralized. By keeping coins in a cloud operated wallet that you don't fully control, you're willfully giving up control over your own wealth, and needlessly putting your coins at risk.
> There's an argument that you need math to explain it because it is math

Sounds like circular reasoning. There's an argument you need logic, because math is logic.
The Sinclair outlet in my area is a cesspool of right-wing conservative blowhards and biased news. Very sad..

I'm sure they're glad to pay $13 million in return for the appearance that the FCC cares about broadcast standards. They're making billions - they can afford it.

I wonder where the fine money actually goes?
Does it have inertia as well as resistance? I bought one several years ago that had absolutely no inertia and it was just horrible to use.
Quite impressive, in this case he should know about key management (how to secure a private key), though probably he didn't want to spend the time to do it.

He doesn't understand the problem Bitcoin is solving (inflation/double spending on all levels in the current financial system)
Such cliche reasoning. If Bitcoin is going to be a successful currency and/or store of value, everyone and the brother needs to be talking about it (just like they talk about gold or the USD). I bet these same barbers have discussed the S&P500 and index funds, is it time to get out of those too?
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You're wrong :-(
One of our network's primary goals is to maintain a sizable collection of exclusive and AOR offers, including adult. Doing so successfully for 10 years, we're considered "top-tier" by our publishers and advertiser and are able to offer very competitive payouts. In order to accomplish this, we've filtered and pruned away publishers of the sort.

EDIT: Just realized OP is taking about incent stuff for hosting sites. We, and most "reputable" ad networks 100% disallow incent traffic and have a zero-tolerance policy.
Hoping the introduction of the Lightning Network (or really any tech that can batch transactions together) will help here.
I have wondered this also. Coinbase clearly benefits from BTC and other cryptocurrency being "a thing", and rising prices help that happen. If the price of BTC that market watchers and news orgs quote is impacted heavily by the price on Coinbase, then their actions could have an outsize impact on the overall trend.

I would be curious to hear from folks savvier than me about suspicions like this.

EDIT: wondering why this is downvoted — I make a conjecture and then openly ask for perspectives of those who are more educated on these matters. If you disagree, responding would be helpful. We downvote things not because we disagree but because we think it doesn't add to the discourse.
They're hidden under the "advanced" button when placing a stop-loss order. GDAX (the exchange side of Coinbase) actually have quite a plethora of order types... though they don't seem to let you change the time in force for the resulting limit order when the stop-loss triggers, for whatever reason.
Ramit Sethi and Patrick McKenzie on Getting Your First Consulting Client
Either you're a ignorant moron or you're a dumb astroturfer. Choose one.
I tried running the nightly on virtualbox, got through the partitioning and then it just froze...
I call BS. The TWU has no say over signal upgrades and the MTA has not even hired union members to install the new signal system.

The more likely answer is that the MTA has hired shady contractors who did incompetent work for years.
Bitcoin is the least risky of all the cryptocurrencies. It has the largest user base. It has the most widespread infrastructure. It has financial products and derivatives. Every other coin is unproven, many are mostly unheard of, and are the highest risk.
Of course it's about making money. If authorities really want to put a stop to this they should ban ad networks that provide monetizing options to these websites. It's much easier than hunting thousands of such websites going live everyday.
I've only heard the opposite and frankly, experienced bad backwards compatibility since win7.
People loose millions every year without consequences. It's only considered a crime under certain circumstances and if you don't fulfill the general expectations in terms of behavior, dress codes, legal structures, etc. Maybe this guy just made the mistake of using a way of loosing the money that made him personally liable. He used the wrong form of investment and legal structure.

If he had taken a better lawyer and fund manager, this wouldn't have happened.
You might want to give Binance a try. No affiliation, it just came recommended to me from some successful traders I’ve met when the topic of reliable exchanges came up.
Something a bit more like this every morning at work?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI
Hm, I've been looking for a lightweight, language-neutral job queue. RDBMS-backed is my preference since I don't need massive scalability, but do want persistence that's easy to reason about (so not Redis), transparency (so not beanstalkd) and a long-lived history (so not most of the other ones).

But, RDMBS only makes sense if you can use your existing installation, so MySQL-only is a nonstarter.
Too many things going on here:

a. Are you aware of the Ethereum DAO hack? The whole Ethereum vs Ethereum classic. Short story - The largest ethereum contracts was hacked and money stolen. Then a patch was released saying that the hack didn't happen.

People who accepted the patch were "ethereum" holders and those who refused are now on "ethereum classic".

So, changing the rules in a patch doesn't matter. If there are enough people helping user x and the currency is still accepted it can be called 'currency classic/cash'.

b. There is a lot of confusion on whether cheating n blockchain somehow requires a patch or 51% support. It doesn't. 25% is enough to try and cheat within the rules. Read:

https://steemit.com/ethereum/@dhumphrey/update-f2pool-manipu...
A lot of places separate out the email/username field so it's a 2-step form. They will show you your avatar and maybe some other public info when you enter the password. This is a better way to do this I believe, although it does make logging in with a password manager [slightly] more annoying.
> I found NYC's subway a pleasant improvement. Yet I keep seeing articles about how it needs to be fixed.

Decades of underinvestment means that it's not as good today as it was ten years ago, or as good ten years ago as it was a few decades before that.

That said, even with all its problems, the NY metro area still has far better and more extensive public transportation than any other metro area in the country. Over a third of all subway stations in the country are located within New York City's city limits, and that's not even counting the three separate commuter train options, Amtrak, bus service, or Staten Island railway.
The dollar is only "backed by oil" if you can take your dollar bill to the US Treasury and get it exchanged a dollop of crude of an equivalent value.

The last time the dollar was backed by any asset was when it was under the gold standard. Boy was that a mistake.
Author here. The estimates could go either way. Kindly note that the stats are incomplete, notably the welcome page is missing.

Some ads are cheaper, some countries are cheaper. Put 3 ads per page from 3 different networks to counter balance. Then force the page to refresh once or twice. There are many ways to optimize revenues when one really care about revenues.

I hate to break it up to you but your site is picture hosting, it's low engagement and low value. People will not try the wrong "download" button 3 times until they find the right one, only to do the same thing again next week for the new episode of games of thrones.
This is good for bitcoin!
Even less that that. The exclusions and reductions for pass through are permanents - the savings for regular folks are temporary.

When you figure out how much more health care will be middle class folks will lose out. Just as the Republicans planned.
Ask HN: What is the most painful problem you have day-to-day as a consultant?
A Blockchain in Common Lisp: Scheme Coin #showmethecode
It depends on the holdings, not everything you can have in a bank account is FDIC insured.

Update: By "everything" I mean not all kinds of financial instruments are insured by the FDIC. They do not cover mutual funds, annuities, bonds, etc. They cover pretty much just cash and cash equivalents.
I ve gotten these but never had an issue with any of these phones or iPads.
You're correct that cooperation is key and that if you get "enough" people (50% of hashing power in most cases) behind a plan, they can change the rules of the game. This could be used to steal coins.

This has actually happened in the past. When massive amounts of Ethereum were stolen from the DAO, the community got together and decided that those coins did not belong to the hacker. With >50% of the network, they forked the coin and created a refund contract where people could retrieve their stolen coins.[1] The dissenters remained to form what is now Ethereum Classic.

So, what prevents this from happening in a malicious way? The first hurdle is building that consensus. Many people involved in cryptocurrencies today believe that the future value is much higher than today's value. Paying them off would not be easy, especially considering that cashing out a large sum would crash the price of the coins, and thus the profits from your maneuver.

That being said, a core assumption of cryptocurrencies is that 50%+ of the network is not malicious. Another way of looking at this is that whoever controls greater than 50% of the network cannot be considered malicious from the network's perspective. They are they consensus.

The last point I'll make is speculative. If you created (or took over) a cryptocurrency and built consensus out of malicious actors, what value do you think the outside world would place on that coin? You would win lots of coins, but would anybody pay you dollars for them?

[1] https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/the-dao-the-hack-...
You're comparing coinbase to an idealised version of a private wallet–which doesn't exist. In reality, a lot of money was probably lost to hard drive failures and other human errors. We just never read about it in the news, because each individual case is too small to warrant news coverage.
Best of luck, whatever you do and believe.
Hard Crash of Bitcoin and Other Crptocurrency Today
You are right, people could be using PropertyWebBuilder to earn good money without me knowing.

I think I must have communicated wrongly because most comments seem to suggest that I am sad or begging for money. I know open source won't make me rich. I earned very good money for many years and saved a ton. I'm not feeling sorry for myself or wanting to squeeze every penny from this project.

I would however like it to earn enough interest and money to keep it a sustainable long term project. Over the next few months I will do more to sell it directly to end users.

I'm also hoping some smart developers will be motivated to help me improved the code, design etc.
Robocode was my introduction to Java in highschool. I attribute a lot of what drove me to programming from trying to figure out how the wave surfers worked.
> It doesn't really make any sense.

Whether it makes sense to you or not market price manipulation absolutely does work as shown by hundreds of lawsuits filed by SEC every year.

>The order book has a lot of orders in it. This appears to me to be one of the stupidest things anyone could ever try to do. It would move the market, but it's not clear that there's any reason to believe that it would be anything but massively unprofitable.

Given enough cash/coins you can easily manipulate order book (see "wash sales"). Even easier if you are running an unregulated exchange, duh!

The goal of bidding price up is to attract buyers and establish an upward trend, which later you can sell into at a higher price. Works even better when it causes a "short squeeze".

Works in other direction too, obviously. All this is rather pretty basic and also highly illegal in _regulated_ markets.
I really like the Guardian Project[0]. Their stuff is some of the first stuff I install on any new phone; it's part of what makes Android such a great OS for the privacy-conscious. It's also great to see that — contrary to what Wired reported — this is not just a product of Mr. Snowden's team. He's not trustworthy, but the Guardian Project are.

[0] https://guardianproject.info/
There’s a shocker.
Went to an orthopedic doc for an achy leg/back/knee.

Gave me the usual prescription: strengthen some core muscles, physical therapy, anti inflammatory meds for a couple weeks, and should be good to go.

Also, however, he prescribed that I read the book Deskbound, by Kelly Starrett.

Reading that book will definitely give you an incentive to not sit for long periods of time.
It's fairly trivial to make sure everything's FDIC insured, and being wealthy enough to care about the per-account caps should mean you've got someone to advise you on doing so.
A List of Machine Learning (Ab)use Cases
It's not exclusively those coins; everything is down across the board.
Quick feedback:

Having the Next buttons not also save your information is counter intuitive.

Wasn't expecting to lose everything I typed in every time I hit Next.

Same with the Add button vs Next button.
I can't help find it funny as the libertarian cryptocurrency fans slowly realize why we have all these dang laws. There are plenty of financial regulations that could use updates or tweaks, but an overwhelming majority are put in place to protect people and try to ensure transactions are as fair as possible. Cryptocurrencies too often throw the baby out with the bathwater.
> The TWU has no say over signal upgrades

The TWU has immense leverage over the projects that get prioritized. In fact, of the six suggestions that the article lists for fixing the subway, the TWU has actively fought against five of them.

> and the MTA has not even hired union members to install the new signal system.

This is an issue that's been going on for decades. Talking about what's happening in 2017 with the new signal network misses the entire point of why this project wasn't completed back in the 90s.
Why not just use a longer salt? The username is only going to reduce randomness. Moreover, I don't buy the presumed advantage: nobody is really parsing that message to mean someone else could have the same password.
Without more explanation, 'put my faith in logic and mathenatics instead of a person or institution' sounds like an empty statement to me. You are still betting on your belief that other human beings will want to buy bitcoins over time. Economics is about human beings in the end.
It's pretty terrible advice to tell non-technical users to manage their own wallet. Keeping it secure is a non-trivial (understatement!) task.
A lot of those choices need multiple selections; radio buttons won’t cut it.
Something like this happened last year with Ethereum. A hacker stole $150 million, but the funds were conveniently trapped on one place for a month. People rolled out a patch that moved the funds back to their original owners.

Some people thought that was a bad idea and kept running the unpatched version. That caused the blockchain to split into two separate blockchains, the patched (ETH) and unpatched (ETC).

After that, it was up to the market to determine which version was more valuable. So far ETH is worth a lot more, so apparently the market was fine with this action in this particular case.

If people were to roll out a patch that committed a theft instead of repairing one, it's unlikely that many other people would go along with it. There'd be another split, the thieving chain would drop to a low value, and the original chain would keep rolling along with funds unstolen.
A friend just bought Ripple on Bitstamp and it's taking upwards of two weeks to verify an account? I can physically walk to a bank and get foreign currency in person 1000x faster than this. I think all of this is speculation and hype, and only a small percent of people now have a use case met by these products.
Now sell your coins...bitcoin is only worth something if it works. you'd also have to get bunch of people that have invested most of their lives to it.
I got locked out of my Google account for a month
I've wondered about this. Specifically, how can you make a market in a product that has high violatility and fairly low trading frequency?

Seems like anyone doing so would inevitably get fleeced.