skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You try and buy a shirt in H&M for your gold.

People mined gold because it was very valuable, gold have also been doing it's ups and downs the same have currencies historically (before the central banks).

Bitcoin is gold for the digital space. Bitcoin can survive any one company or institution going down it can survive wars too.

Bitcoin is 9 years old gold is thousands. Golds value could easily go to zero in the future.

Most bitcoins are in the hands of people who didn't buy beause of it's growth but because they believe it ads value to the digital space.
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I've been working on a network of student-led coding clubs. We just finished our 4th semester and are already in 1% of US high schools. With the right support, I think we could make it to 20% by 2020.

zach@zachlatta.com is my email if at all interested.
The names of his machines "speed" and "mass". Very cute.
3 Examples of How AR Is Improving Customer Experience in 2018 – IQVIS Inc
Software contractors?
Seconded, it's a good book. It doesn't only cover how to estimate but also, to some extent, whether to do so. Finally, it allows you to get very far just reading the first few chapters, a must-have for technical books IMO.

My biggest takeaway from reading this book is that making point estimates is hard and often unnecessary. Saying "umm somewhere between 2 days and 2 weeks" is a much better response in many situations as it conveys to the listener that there's a high degree of uncertainty.
>By your logic, if homosexual attraction had genetic causes, could it not also be seen as "some inherited disease"?

Since it doesn't affect one's capacity to live, work, perform, etc and general health, then it could be seen as such (if one was willing to) but not justifiably more than e.g. having blue eyes.
Don't overthink it. Do only as much estimation as you need, not more - relative estimation ("project A will take twice as long as project B" ) is often much easier than absolute estimation, and is often all that you need to base decisions on.
Yes they reinforced the keys on v2 not too long after initial release because they have low durability especially when dust gets in as it causes the connectors to break when the keys are depressed.

Not sure how nice Apple is being with replacements. My IT department was lazy and just ordered some replacement keys off the Internet for $20/each...
I thnk Brexit is a good thing .. for the EU. The UK has refused to adopt the Euro. The GBP is totally overvalued. The UK/Ireland have no plans to join the Shengen zone (which is a good thing for American backpackers I'll admit, as when you're 90 days in the EU run out, you can stay in the UK for 120, until the reset period). Politically, the UK is more closely aligned to US foreign policy (that of war mongering) than the EU.

With such a long transition period, I'm guess most UK citizens living/working in Europe have hopefully started work visa application processes, in case the EU parliament decides to not allow a bi-lateral work agreement.
On this subject of not having a choice in accepting rules: https://medium.com/@gordonguthrie/no-deal-wont-happen-e185f9...

"This is a tale of three dates. On 13th August 1969 the Irish Taoiseach went on television and called on the United Nations to send a peacekeeping into the United Kingdom to protect Irish people in Derry and Belfast.

On 30th January 1972 the Parachute Regiment massacred 13 people on Bloody Sunday, and an Irish mob burnt the British Embassy in Dublin to the ground — thankfully with no deaths.

In between on 15th February 1971 Ireland decimalised its currency, the same day the British did. It introduced the new 7-sided 50p coin — designed by the British, identical in weight and shape but with the Harp on it, not the Crown.

Britain was a rule-maker for Ireland and Ireland was a rule-taker: and all its bile and hope and hatred and determination and pride and desperation and anger and fear and dreams could do nothing about it.

Its not as if Ireland didn’t have sovereignty and wouldn’t fight for it. Before becoming Taoiseach Jack Lynch served under Éamon De Valera and Seán Lemass, veterans both of 1916, with Dev coming within inches of being executed for his part.

This is where the UK stands now. There are three rule-makers, the US, China and the EU and everyone else takes."
I hate to say it, but the best way to learn to estimate dev time is to do a ton of dev work and learn by bitter experience.
What if that computer is running something critical, say a reactor, and elevator or some device in a hospital? Computers are everywhere these days... Todays proof-of-concept becomes tommorow's metasploit module - and could cause large damage even in incompetent people's hands.
Varoufakis resigned the day after the referendum, before the Greek government accepted the bailout.
>You're talking about rationalisations.

And morality is all about rationalizations.

>The subjective ethical considerations depend on the context in which the decision is taken, and none of this discovery changes the context.

Of course it does, as it adds another factor one can request an abortion for -- and the preference against or for that (having a gay baby) is not morally seen as neutral as e.g. not wanting a sickle cell anemic baby.
A global downturn, yes definitely, but BTC will probably not be affected by a crash (or hyper-inflation) of a small-ish economy.
Because in the windows world- every ui-interface holds its contract, everything explains itself and does what it supossed to do.
There is no disk-icon that doesent save.
There is no set of shortkeys ignoring controll s.
Design is meeting the users expectations without additional instructions with functionality. VIM is not designed very well.
Losing access to the free market would be fine if we gain access to the global market, at least in the medium to long term. The ability to drop tariffs on imports would be a big deal even in the short term.

In reality, though, I don't see us leaving the trappings of the EU with this current govt: we'll just lose our seat at the table (to coin a phrase). This was never going to be quick, though: the Brexit issue will be at the centre of politics for at least a generation.

I'm actually more interested in how this has shone a light on the issue of the slow erosion of our sovereignty and our traditional British liberal values. On this point I agree with the author that the younger generation seem to be far more ambivalent about freedom of speech, democracy, et al. to the point that they seem to be actively suspicious of it.

The severity of this division has been a bit of a shock, but I'd rather we deal with it now than not at all, especially when Trump shows us that the alternative could have been to vote in a radical populist party instead, which would have had far more power than Trump has.
“Patient dumping” outside hospital in Baltimore
and by 2050 will be the largest in Europe, whereas Germany's is predicted to fall by about 10%
Yeah, anyone who is surprised by shitty things done by the "Justice" Department has no clue about them: they exist entirely to do shitty things and that's basically all they ever do. Once you're on their radar, you might as well emigrate, because your life here will suck, no matter what you do or don't do.
Re -MMD: without automated dependency discovery, make was half a tool: if a dependency was omitted, it might do a less-than minimal job of rebuilding, introducing regressions into the build output that did not exist in the source. For this reason, make was quite often used in an unconditional manner, and if you are doing that, you can get the same result more simply and clearly (and without surprises) with a procedural shell script. It is surprising how long it took for that gap in capabilities to be closed.
Finishing the sentence with "probably" would be a bad idea, methinks.
Lets blame the users, it lost us the desktop wars- what more damage can this paradigm do?
Isn't the UK a net importer of software contractors?
I'm only speaking from experience and can't really talk about Hungary.

As for Poland, I can tell you that the difference with Italy is like night and day.

As Italians, we are often asked to make sacrifices for Europe (and we did, look up "tesoretto"), like if we were in danger of being kicked out of the EU.

It's a complicated matter, but in general Italy is more corrupt and hardly takes any meaningful step to improve its citizen's lives, while Poland (although barely less corrupt if I remember correctly? Not sure) looks after Poland's interests first, and then at what Germany would like Europe to do. The result is that living here is about 100 times easier compared to Italy.
This article is probably true but this is just typical clickbait from CNBC.

The author begins by saying

> Admittedly I'm green with envy for failing to foresee the explosive rally in the price of bitcoin when it was first brought to my attention several years ago.

That should be enough to stop reading right there.

I don’t know how articles like this make it to the top of hacker news.

Just because Warren Buffet doesn’t think crypto currencies don’t have a future doesn’t mean they don’t. He also still uses a flip phone, and didn’t invest in tech stocks at all until recently. He admitted to not understanding crypto currencies at all.

Also the dollar as reserve currency is the weakest argument I can think of as to why Bitcoin can’t be a global currency. I personally trade crypto from time to time, and I care much much more about the Bitcoin (satoshi) value of my portfolio than the dollar value. In the crypto world, Bitcoin IS the reserve currency. Most other tokens trade vs. it. It’s not that insane to imagine a world where people’s net worth are expressed as a number of Bitcoin. Do I think that is likely? No, but it is certainly a possibility.

Just because CNBC and other mainstream media outlets use dollars to explain net worth “Winklevoss twins are first Bitcoin billionaires” that has less to do with Bitcoin as a currency and much more to do with explaining things in a way that is easy for regular people to understand.
I would assume that a CSO at a F500 company is mostly responsible for things like budgeting, hiring, and high level strategy. I would think not knowing these specifics is reasonable. What isn’t excusable though is these companies ignoring advice from internal and external sources. Companies clearly make deliberate budget choices by weighing risk/reward and a CSO at a big company often rationally doesn’t make the right security choice because the risk is small. IMO, bills like this are needed in order to force companies to properly value the risk of bad security.
> All cryptocurrencies are burning money on electricity costs

The work performed is required for the currency to be secure. My browser burns electricity verifying SSL certs.
Sure. Based on..?
Farage was never officially part of any the UK power structure, except the media.
Germany's dominance mostly just hurts countries that have to depend on the Euro, so not the UK. They experienced a little bit of the Eurozone's double dip recession brought on by premature tightening in 2011 but that was mostly a matter of trade exposure which isn't something that can change just by leaving the EU. And since the whole reason for the UK's trouble then was getting less trade from Europe then abandoning that trade altogether would be strictly worse.
Things can only be found in places you can look.
I kind of feel the whimper came before Christmas, in the talks discussing Northern Ireland and the status of the border there between the UK and Europe. I can't remember the details exactly but the Good Friday Agreement [0] provided a constitutional footing whereby the UK effectively gave an undertaking to abide by the rules of the EU trade area, while not being a member of the EU trade area.

This to prevent the erection of a "hard border" (i.e. one you couldn't freely traverse without a Visa) which would be required as a customs barrier, rather than for security.

This agreement completely undermines a lot of the wackier ideas around free trade that have been floating around and defangs some of the nastier aspects of brexit.

The UK is still free to set her own internal monetary and social policy but she's effectively bound to EU trade rules, and the EU of course must consult her in setting these.

It's an epic compromise on both sides that basically allows for a continuation of business as usual without undermining the "brexit means brexit" doctrine.

A lovely example of how peace once established can be the gift that keeps giving.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Agreement
> If anything because they'll have to rewrite thousands of laws and procedures that came from the EU times, and deal with the caos that that will cause. That only would justify stay in the EU.

No, we'll keep most of those laws, because in order to trade with the EU we'd have to comply with them anyway. We just lose any ability to control them.
Take the most pessimistic estimation and multiply it by 2.
> the younger generation seem to be far more ambivalent about freedom of speech, democracy, et al. to the point that they seem to be actively suspicious of it.

Oddly enough, I suspect that the younger generation probably think that about the Daily Mail reading older generation.
We don't have bilateral work agreements with Canada. Americans and Canadians still need visas to live and work in the other country. Depending on the deal, UK/EU citizens may lose the ability to work in the others' area.

Interestingly enough, Australia and New Zealand have a bilateral work agreement, allowing citizens of either country to be instant residents of the other State upon arrival.
Using Meltdown to read from uncached memory
What's your point? Or are you just reading the headline?

He is saying a second referendum could show the politicians who have been pushing for a soft brexit recently that this is really what the British public want.

What point are you trying to make?
You're right about the polarisation. The same forces in play in America are in play in Britain right now. It's no accident that Trump described himself as "Mr Brexit". Authoritarian voters support Brexit, liberal ones don't. The major parties split right/left not authoritarian/liberal and are terrified of losing their voting base. I know a die hard leaver, she's one of the few people I'd trust my children with. She's also an authoritarian leftist who can't understand why we're not out already and wants to get rid of immigrants.

The London Tech scene (which skews left/liberal) seems to be hemorrhaging talented people to Berlin and other places. All of these people are what I think of as natural Londoners, but they're deciding for their own reasons that Britain isn't the place they thought it was. (Me, I've got a wife and kids, it's harder to up sticks. That and I love this country.)

Meanwhile, inflation is so bad the supermarkets are quietly reducing the quantity in boxes to avoid giving shoppers a heart attack at the prices, and Brexit _hasn't even happened yet_.
Which is pretty stupid tbh. You could look at the results of the original Europe referendum in the 70's and say that of course as the old die off, the Remain will just grow and grow. And then we got Brexit. People's opinions change as they age.
>limit the ammount of bets

small typo.
Hopefully that was sarcasm and you knew that Roy Fielding co-wrote the first version of Apache
Ask HN: Would you really pay for a social network?
All the big social sites and apps are free to use but rely on advertising for revenue. I often see complaints about this and many people say they'd rather pay for a social site, but I wonder. App.net was supposed to be a next-generation social platform but it fizzled out, even under much fanfare. Does a paid social website model really work, or are we fooling ourselves? Are there any good examples?
This guy's estimation is pessimistic.

Multiply it by 2.
Prometheus 2 is out

https://prometheus.io/blog/2017/11/08/announcing-prometheus-...

For google cloud, stackdriver is usually sufficient for most queries

https://cloud.google.com/monitoring/
Not just good, but skills. Remember there is a work agreement for EU nations. Right now, essential skilled human resources can easily be grabbed from both sides of the channel, with little to no immigration paperwork.
> the ability to drop tariffs on imports would be a big deal even in the short term

That is, the benefit is the ability to replace British-made goods with cheaper foreign imports? I'm just saying because normally people make the argument the other way round.
Semantics I know but should be called "CoinSim" and not "SimCoin". At first, I thought it was a physics simulation running on Ethereum, but it's a coin simulation framework.
>but probably around Z hours

But maybe significantly longer. Programming is a little special, because if you done it before, then doing it again takes no time, you just reuse the code from last time. So you're always doing something you never done before, or at least in a different context.
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For people interested in searching code using an open source solution, you might be interested in Zoekt too, github.com/google/zoekt.

There is a demo site where you can search 30G of source code (including the Linux kernel, Android and Chrome) supporting regular expressions, and file name search:

https://cs.bazel.build/?q=%20

For example, https://cs.bazel.build/search?q=+r%3Atorvalds+craz%5Byi%5D&n... looks for craz[iy] across the Linux kernel.
this is incorrect: Article 50 states that the withdrawal agreement only requires a Qualified Majority, not unanimity

Poland's consent is not required
The simple answer is 'yes' - the government and opposition parties are committed to implementing GDPR in full.
That is really a shame. React is hugely better than Angular 1.x in just about every way in my opinion.

When we switched productivity went through the roof and the site rendered faster.

That's not actually why I switched though. I switched because of the whole mess with Angular 2.x planned lacked of backwards compatibility. It was the nail in the coffin for Angular for me.
Bitcoin-crazy South Korea may face a ban on cryptocurrency trading
It's win-win for him.

Leave wins. He's a hero.

Leave loses. He gets to keep his "job," and remains a martyr for the cause.

The problem here is referenda and "winning" or "losing" them. Any sane system would have interpreted an outcome like 48-52 with a soft approach (exactly what happened in Norway), not a winner-takes-all mentality. Maybe it's an outcome of FPTP and a two party system.

As long as referenda are treated as football matches, the outcome doesn't really matter. They will sow discord and divide society. "Discord and division" is exactly the sort of environment the likes of Farage thrive in. It doesn't matter to them what the outcome is as long as it creates strife and hardens opinions.
You're not the only one to feel this way.
I think this is a very valid position, there is nothing superstitious about it.
Any user of (the English in this case) language is able to (easily learn to) write without major mistakes, make their sentences proper, make their thoughts clear. If they haven't done so, it definitely hints at a lack of care, or being in a rush, or simply not respecting the language and/or their readers. Not respecting them in a sense that the author tries to overlay a part of their own work as a writer (the work of forming coherent and correct language structure) onto the reader, making them decipher author's thoughts which were not formed into a commonly accepted standard.

Are there published documents out there with a lot of mistakes that definitely have high quality information and research? Yes of course there are. But the odds are not in their favor.
Not a list of resources - but my rules (to myself) for estimating are below. My personal bias is that I really dislike under-estimating, and I typically over estimate how long tasks will take (by design) - but usually it's pretty close (i.e. not an order of magnitude off).

1. Usually, the smallest unit is a week. When people say something will take a day, it's usually wishful thinking - they forget about meetings, other commitments, etc.

2. Think about what "done" means for individual tasks when estimating. Often more junior engineers will give estimates where "done" means the code is submitted to source control - but really think about the work that it'll take to get that code into production. Testing, configuration, documentation, monitoring/metrics/alerts, etc. I think a lot of under-estimating comes from this, where the estimates are just for writing the code, and all of the other stuff comes either as a scramble at the end, or a ton of time to actually launch as tons of bugs and missed features are discovered late in the game.

3. Think in latency and throughput. Estimates typically have both baked in - if something takes a week of "at-keyboard' time, it might take a month to get done because of other commitments. Both estimates are important.

4. Think in probability distributions rather than absolutes. I usually set my threshold around 90% confidence - i.e. my estimates are based on where I am 90% confident I can have something done. When you think about how long something takes, if the stars align, a 10 day task might take 5 days, but if things go wrong, that 10 day task could take several months or more. Things can only go a little bit better than expected, or a lot worse than expected. But when people make estimates, I think they are often biased toward the "stars align" case, and forget about this fat tail.

5. With team estimates, add a friction value to longer term estimates to account for vacations, sick days, distractions, etc. Usually around 30% seems to work. So that one month task (20 days) I plan for it taking 20 * 1.3 = 26 days.

6. Work backwards from the end goal. This forces you to factor in things like testing and productionalization. This also helps with coordination too, as you can figure out when to parallelize tasks to get to the end goal.

7. Write estimates down, and go back and reflect. When something that you thought would take a week took a month, sit down and really think about why. This will help you recognize and refine your biases.
Interesting. But they make an experiment that simulates a 4 dimension system in the real world (each use 2 connected system of 2 dimensions).

This is not an experiment that shows any of the extra dimensions. (Yep, probably the real world is not 3D https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_dimensions )
Could you please explain how this relates to Brexit?
(genuinely curious).
The Good Friday Agreement basically makes the UK (or Ireland) the single worst country to attempt to leave the EU. The biggest problem with the December declaration being that it's hard to trust the government to make good on it. (The consequences for being seen to be negotiating in bad faith are too awful to contemplate, but the government seems to be post-rational a lot of the time.)
> Indeed, the string of early derivative traders taking their own lives grew long enough that one writer gave it a name: the “crimson thread of suicide.”

I fear the day that Bitcoin & friends come crashing down.
IMO, the specifics of how to secure are less important than ensuring proper cost of not securing your systems. I think having rigid rules like PCI would be significant burden and not allow flexibility as technology and business changes.

On the other hand, simply ensuring that the financial penalties are in line with the damage done should be enough to solve the issue. You said yourself that boards won’t agree to spend money. If they saw a huge financial downside risk they would be more likely to invest in security.
Did you just "coin" HODL as a verb, hodling? Because I gotta say I have not read that usage before. Hodling is my new word of the day.
There was some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16114809
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