skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're starting from scratch, I'd recommend this Khan academy course (it's short and sweet): https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-fi...

There's a lot more advanced stuff out there (as you can see in the other comments) that I would touch on once I have a rough overview.

A lot changes in the crypto world month-to-month, and so forums like Reddit and Twitter are usually the best to stay up to date. Unfortunately, there's a lot of useless chunder on these forums you'll have to learn to filter to get access to the quality stuff.

Personally, I avoid the fanboys/girls and like following people who are more critical of the space. Because of this, I've discontinued following r/Bitcoin on Reddit (I'm sure there're smart people out there—there was just too much I didn't agree with and decided to leave).

Some of my favorites today are:

- patio11 on Twitter

- prestonbyrne.com website and Twitter

- buttcoin on Twitter

- Tim Swanson (ofnumbers on Twitter)

- Bitfinexd on Twitter

- http://thereformedbroker.com/2017/11/27/it-just-got-real/

I know this is more of a crypto pessimist crowd but I tend to agree with their views way more than the rest of the herd. I think they're a lot more rational and highlight some great things to look out for.

I would encourage you to fish for some of the rational optimists as well. If anyone has recommendations, I'm all ears!
I attempted to set up a laptop for my daughter before Xmas with my own admin account and hers as a managed account with parental controls on. We fire it up on Xmas morning and it's forgotten almost everything I set up - in particular the whitelisted apps. I switch to my user, set it all up again, switch back, it's forgotten again. Did some googling and it turns out this bug has been around for at least two years [1][2]. This seems like absolutely fundamental functionality, there are effectively no parental controls as it's unable to remember any of the settings.

[1] https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7275030
[2] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/220067/cannot-save...
nice! I like that it's even done in dotnet!!

Does it support active directory for an external out of the box?
Would the recent Spectre vulnerability be an acceptable example for you?

There are a gazillion others, but this one is nice and sweet and exposes the whole web app strategy as completely bankrupt from a security perspective.
How would you implement a GUI app in Netsurf that according to their release plan has no support in the rendering engine for JavaScript dynamically changing the DOM? Not to mention the JS support being incomplete anyway even though they are only supporting old standards ("most of HTML 4 and CSS 2").
Breaking the Overton Window
Or you could take the route which others have taken, and show them why their ideas are wrong through your actions. There are plenty of examples of extremists being converted through friendship.
It's extremely odd that we don't see autonomous probes from other civilizations that are used to monitor and disable technology that exposes existential risk to them. (For example, runaway AI would jeopardize all life if it were to expand at light speed.)
They used to. It's 5%.

Effectiveness for quitting cold turkey...is 5%.
booooo! /s
Not to mention the huge amount of work it takes to communicate ideas clearly and get people to pay attention to them. Making money from an idea gets people to pay attention, but that only works for some inventions -- lots of great ideas will never turn an immediate profit.
> And one of the very best: Lisp.

Got any hard numbers to back up that bold claim?
Reverse Job Search: I will pay to work at your company
I am a coding bootcamp graduate who is having a hard time finding my first dev job.

PROBLEM: Most internships want students who are in college (I'm not) and most junior positions want people with at least 2 years of experience. I'm looking for my first front-end development job.

ABOUT ME:
- I changed careers from the medical field.
- I'm African-American.
- I live in NYC.
- I graduated from a good coding bootcamp, so I know basic HTML, CSS, and JS.
- I briefly helped a friend with a React / Redux app, so I know the fundamentals of React.

Because I've had a hard time finding my first job, I was thinking about going back to take more web development classes to build up my portfolio. The school I was looking into is about $10K and it lasts 7 months.

So instead of that, I wanted to see if there are any companies out there that I can pay who is willing to let me learn on the job. I know it's a rather crazy idea, but you never know, right?

JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- I want to be treated like any other dev in the company (work with PMs, designers, other devs, and be assigned tasks).
- I'm interested in front-end development particularly.
- Since I have started learning React, I would prefer to work on a React app.
- I would like to work with someone who is patient and is good at mentoring beginners.
- The company should be located in NYC ideally (but open to remote if you think it can work).
- The job should last full-time, 7 months at least (ideally).
- Since I'm paying and the whole point is to learn on the job, I'd expect the interview process to be more lenient.

PAYMENT / "TUITION":
- Up to $10K

Message below if there's an opportunity out there for me! I'm hopeful.
> do you know how many bona fide members of the counterculture themselves exploited and back-stabbed others, especially for petty power politics and fame/recognition?

I do, and fair point.

> It's some particular Americanism (or protestantism relic?) to believe agents of change, national heroes, great historic figures etc, must also be good, altruistic and warm people

I don't think it's a Protestant relic, it's more of a general simplistic perspective that there are through and through good people.

But still I agree it's unrealistic to think this way.
Was the xray plate like a thin film of plastic with a metalised coating; would act as a large flat capacitor??
No, "forced defaults" is a trivial definition for consistency, as then everyone could be lauded for being consistent simply by removing all the options. Consistency is presenting a familiar interface despite having options. It's like how you can't have courage when there's nothing to fear.

Thanks for the command-tab-plus shoutout, I later found Witch (IIRC) that did the same, but it was a bunch of annoyances that drove me to switch (no "Cut" in the Finder, homebrew didn't exist, the Spaces thing, etc). I do miss Photoshop and Lightroom, but I have a second Windows partition I use for those.
Summary: The goal was the create a unique identification number for every citizen. This was largely done, but no effective access controls were installed, such that basically anyone on the system could look up any data and even print fake IDs.

This now makes all the numbers useless, since all the data stored may have been duplicated and the means to produce fakes is already out of the box. Somehow, the world's greatest bastion of humility will not submit to omnipresent technical surveillance - should we be at all surprised? India is famously corrupt. Even with rate limiting, search scope limitation, and other techniques it would appear that such data can never be truly secured.
For very large values of large enough that is always true. Even on the condition that they use the Latin alphabet and have exactly the same set of words and exactly the same set of meanings of words, there are still n factorial ways of assigning a meaning to each word. For n=1000 words that is already gigantic. Even if there is a civilisation that speaks English words on every planet in the observable universe, the probability that any one of them assigns the same meaning to words practically zero.
Except you can't "buy civilization" as an individual. Civilization is a system of participation and, yes, enforcement of rules.
Sadly nothing out of the box for AD. However, Cierge uses OpenIddict, so this might be helpful: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38470683/is-it-possible-...
If you look at the history of patents, I think you might be surprised at just how little patents drive technology forward. I think you will find many, many examples of technology moving forward after patents expire.
BIOLOGY ARTICLE
In their article; Impact of invasive plants on the species richness, diversity, Martin H, Pysek P and Jarisik V (2009) investigated the negative effects of alien plants on resident plants by looking at the effects of 13 invasive neophyte species. The study was carried out between the year 2004 and 2007. They sampled vegetation in invaded and non-invaded plots of 4*4m with similar conditions. All vascular plants were recorded, and their covers estimated and used to calculate the Shannon diversity index and evenness and Sorensen index of similarity. A total of 260 vegetation plots were sampled in different regions ranging from sub-alpine meadows to lowland alluvial meadows.
In their findings, two of the invasive species, species' diversity, richness and evenness were reduced in the invaded plots. Some invaders exhibited low or no impact on both the measures of diversity. The species' richness also reduced between the invaded and the non-invaded. The decrease in richness in invaded plots relied on the type of the invading species. On the other hand, the decrease in the diversity if species in the invaded plots highly depended on the interactions among the invading species and the native species, their height and the cover of the invading species (martins, 2009)

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I last poked at this game a few years ago. Back then, it was just called "Not Tetris". Anyone know when (or why) the author added the "2"?
I'm not sure that's true in this case, if your timer doesn't have the resolution to ever detect a cache hit, how can you measure impact?
I am in the UK.

I was certainly welcomed to the meetings and at no point felt uncomfortable or was made to feel 'bad' for my non-belief. I just find when everyone talks of how Jesus helped them, and the hand holding prayer sessions an obstacle to my participation.

I believe it's possible to get sober without needing a 'higher-power'.

Interested to see the downvotes to my comment. HN is a funny place indeed!
5 keys to a killer Go CLI
Many of those APIs listed by me were written in Objective-C.

Which affected the way Objective-C was being used on Apple platforms.
NSA isn’t allowed to intercept purely domestic communications.
Windows Guidance to protect against speculative execution side-channel vulns
I didn't see it first reading but I can't be 100% sure
>Sure you could do it on paper, but something about standing in front of the chalkboard makes it more compelling.

Yes.
IBM sues Expedia, alleging it built its business on Big Blue's patents
I applaud transparency in general and the intent here is noble. One of my companies considered adopting the old model for a time.

However:

> The new formula now includes an elastic part that adjusts to the cost of living and market influence of salaries for different roles.

The transparency and simplicity of the old model was its key value. The more complex and hard to assess terms you put in, the more you lose transparency and make salary assignment something that can be "massaged" to fit the circumstances. And I think having a formula is supposed to be the antithesis of that.

But this is a really hard damn problem. Markets aren't the same, and people's egos are real. Algorithms don't tend to do well when one of the things in the balance is "people's perception of fairness" since fairness is an emotional and non-quantitative concept.
An earthquake? I thought HN was tech and business and more broadly intellectually stimulating stuff. Is it becoming a generic news aggregator?
Yes, they are much better than your example, which is one of the worst things that could happen. :)

But paid software in the 90s and 2000s was fine, no network connectivity, didn't even check for updates. Heck, a lot of freeware was fine.

Then the market changed and spyware as a service became very profitable. The genius of this Spyware 2.0 was that it offered some benefits while not abusing the collected data in any obvious ways, like stealing your money. Browsers are helpless against this, in fact they are enabling the whole business model through their support of web apps and increasingly complex APIs.
how do you quantify the inventions to say "nothing much" was invented?

I have the feeling we underestimate how much stuff has been invented and forgotten.

For example, if you consider architecture the romans used half a dozen kind of opus to build walls, different varieties of arches, cement mixtures, hollow bricks and sunken panels to allow for lighter domes, both rib and barrel vaults, and likely a bunch of other things I never heard about.

A lot of that stuff has been superseded, so we don't really care a about a dozen old cement mixtures, or pure wood techniques, but it doesn't mean they were not invented.
awesome! thank you very much!
Good luck with making your own wheel or rope from scratch (i.e. alone and naked in the woods)!

This comment (by my interpretation) implies that the process is difficult. I agree with other comments stating the concept is difficult, but the process for those two inventions is quite manageable - even if you are "alone and naked in the woods".
How many users of HN live in the Bay Area do you think?
>The number generally thrown around for getting a new drug researched and onto the market is $200 million.

How much of the number is:

1) due to BS (as opposed to useful, e.g. for safety) bureaucracy

2) padding from the pharmaceutical, just because they can?
Self-Driving Car Startup Aurora Joins Forces with Volkswagen and Hyundai
Game Design Deep Dive: Bringing Arizona Sunshine to the PSVR Aim
Hacker news is whatever is interesting to hackers. A lot of them happen to live in the Bay Area.
I use (N)VIM. I only use small amount of plugins, which are mostly plugins to enhance syntax highlighting. I write code a lot so I know the linting rules from the top of my head. More often than not the linter won't complain, so I don't really need linting on the fly. For type checking, same thing, I most likely have to look at the code anyways.

I run the linter, type checker and tests in a separate terminal tab (with split views). So before I commit I quickly switch to that terminal tab, see whether everything is ok and I am good to go.

My VIM is blazing fast and barely uses any resources. It launches nearly instantly and rarely gets in my way.

Quite efficient for me personally. I am not saying it would work for you, I am merely showing the way I use it. It's a bit of a different approach. You're trying to use VIM as an IDE. For me, my entire terminal is the IDE, of which VIM is a small part.
There was a paper "A Javascript Side-Channel Attack on LLC" in 2015 which seem similar to me, maybe it drove some research toward timing/caching mechanism at the CPU level and its exploitation with a 'side channel' attack.
The humour reminds me of http://oneweirdkerneltrick.com/
There are dozens of earthquakes of this strength every year. I understand that this one is in the backyard of many of you but it's ridiculously CA-centric to be upvoting this.
Although the submission is a bit tangential to HN content, I've found this article which describes it more:

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-bay-a...
Chromium-based browsers such as Google Chrome run on Blink rendering engine. Blink was forked from Apple’s Webkit, Safari’s rendering engine.

But Apple does not allow third-party rendering engines on iOS, so Mozilla and other vendors have to build theirs on top of Webkit.

Google has made iOS code available in Chromium repository by supporting both Blink and Webkit. See [1]. Not sure about Mozilla.

Note you cannot read the blog article without turning off Focus as content blocker (but you don’t have to quit (see 2).

Also, when I was young I was very confused which rendering engine was used because the user-agent header in HTTP was such a piece of mess (thanks to the browser war in the 90s). You are going to see webkit, blink, mozilla and NT in there.

[1]: https://blog.chromium.org/2017/01/open-sourcing-chrome-on-io...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16069623
> The adblocker is worse than ublock origin (eg. try to google Kindle)

Could you elaborate on this? Granted I'm using ublock origin only on Desktop, but I'm still kinda confused what's the issue there for you because for me ublock mostly does what it's supposed to and when it doesn't it's usually an issue of "not blocking enough".
What was your marketing budget and what channels did you target?
An earthquake near where many people on HN and the SV scene live.

An "are you all OK" is more in order than "where has HN come to".
The inventions we care about today are only useful to a certain sort of society, and it took a long time for that to emerge.

Imagine you're in a jungle with your tribe. You basically have plants, animals and rocks with which to make stuff. You live marginally, and people sometimes die from starvation. Your tribe migrates, meaning you have to carry everything you need with you.

If you happened to figure out some metal working, it's probably not worth doing. Your tribe can't set up a mine, and gathering fuel is a huge effort.

Realistically, that sort of thing probably needs an agricultural society that can afford to feed people who aren't farmers.
Did you think that it would remain completely free (and ad-free, which was its major selling point) forever? I actually quite like what they're trying to do with their new business model.
Stronger than the miniquakes I felt over the last few hours in San Jose, CA.
Used Mithril (think React but smaller API and much simpler) in my first developer gig and I love it. It's my go to for quick prototyping and development.

In my last gig I used Vue and even though I would much prefer writing my views in hyperscript, using a popular framework has its advantages in terms of tutorials, libraries, established practices etc.
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I rate it 10/10. What kind of numbers are you expecting exactly?
Its generally pretty unambiguous in American English. I've only ever run into people claiming to have an odd way of using this and next differently online.

For everyone else, there is an understood "week's" inserted into the phrase "this Monday" or "next Monday" (that is, they mean this week's Monday, even if it was in the past, and next week's Monday, respectively).

Context cues help as well. The question "what did we talk about this Monday?" is obviously past tense and couldn't be interpreted to be referring to the following Monday. But if someone asked me today "lets plan to meet this Monday", its a nonsensical statement that would require clarification, because Monday was 3 days ago.
worth revisiting the article from 2015 in the New Yorker. Probably one of the most terrifying things I've ever read.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big...

N.N. Taleb is right.
> worth the "cost" for me. I have 32 gigs of RAM

I can see this conversation in the future:

"I have 128TB of RAM"

"Why the hell do you need so much RAM, what's the point?"

"I use electron apps."

"Oh..."
I really dislike adjusting salaries of remote employees by location. Oh, you live in San Francisco, where everything costs a lot because it's trivial to network and get a multitude of job offers the minute you change your LinkedIn status? Let us pay you for the privilege double what we pay someone in Kenya who has none of these opportunities!

Or, alternatively, "You don't live in SF so we don't have to compete with a bunch of other companies for your salary? Haha, sucker, here's less money for the same job."
You don't have to give everybody 10 acres of land, and in any case, not every 10 acres is as valuable as every other.

You can let everybody rent their land, according to its value from the state and distribute the income equally. That way the land will be used efficiently.

The incentives that creates are better than the incentives we have right now. Either you pay eye watering rents to the state to live in a house on the immensely valuable land of downtown San Francisco or you yield the land to a property developer who will build high rises that will match the massive demand there is for people to live there.

There are more (and better) solutions to the tragedy of the commons than just privatizing everything and, as we can see, people don't necessarily take care of the things they do own. Anti-dumping laws exist for a reason.
That was the one I was actually looking for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40CXVrMf8bs
I put together a guide for buying cryptocurrencies in the UK.

The basic approach is to buy Ethereum on Coinbase using a card/bank transfer, transfer to GDAX and then transfer to Binance.

Here's the guide, any feedback is appreciated:

http://tradinghall.com
Sure thing, I think the current soft limit is set by your doctor, who will e.g. postpone your non-essential (e.g. cosmetic) treatment. Blindness is just that - blindness. I see no slippery slope here.

Currently experienced three health systems: Polish, US and German; first is woefully underfunded and public, second is ultra-private, third is a properly funded public system.

In Poland, I used both public and private, using private whenever I could (think dentist, blood test etc.); in US I never went to the doctor because I had to pay extra; in Germany I feel comfortable and happy with the fact that I get public healthcare for my taxes. Actually planning a string of visits to the dentist ;)
Ok, Google, Apple, whatever. When I see the Firefox brand I'm hoping for a product that focuses on privacy. Not an Apple product with a Firefox sticker on top. Apparently this is just my misconception.

EDIT: I say "google, apple, whatever", but I should clarify. There's this talking point on HN that Apple is so good for user's privacy. It's not, hence "google, apple, whatever".
You mean evil-mode?

/s
I felt it. Thought a tree went down.

Got me thinking how California needs to self-insurer. I believe the pool of applicants would be big enough? I wonder why the Insurance Commissioner isn't talking about it.

I just don't get for-profit Insurance these days.

I believe now is a good time to talk about options. The earthquake insurance offered is a joke, and they are going to raise rates through the ceiling using the fires as an excuse.
>> A more fair comparison might be to compare the amount of territory controlled by the average pack of lions versus the most dominant pack of lions.

The article addresses this and notes there is no great difference in this respect:

Although the surprising similarity between inequality of species
abundances and wealth may have the same roots on an abstract level, this
does not imply that wealth inequality is “natural.” Indeed, in nature,
the amount of resources held by individuals (e.g., territory size) is
typically quite equal within a species.
Simple, yet accurate description :)
When I was in primary school, I had to memorise the "times tables".

I realised that the digits of multiples of 9 that are under 100 always add up to 9. I was surprised when I discovered that other students didn't notice this.

Others tables are easy: 10x (just add a 0), 5x (half of 10), 2x, 4x, 8x (keep multiplying by 2). That only leaves 3x, 6x, 7x, and 12x to memorise.

Now I have a calculator watch, I don't need to remember the times tables. But when I was younger, it was very important to my teachers. I wish methods like this were taught instead of "just memorise it".
You shouldn't have to pay. Have you tried for volunteering? Perhaps working for free for a short term rather than paying to work? That sounds quite extreme.