skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep asking people this simple question, which goes something like this:

Before the internet, I would wake up in the morning and have to go to a store and buy clothes, then the travel agent to book flights, then Blockbuster to get a movie to watch. After the internet I could wake up in the morning and do all that myself. That was valuable.

Before smartphones I would wake up in the morning and print out my airline tickets, then call a taxi service and have to explain to them where I was, and I couldn't tell where the driver was if I didn't see him.

OK, got all that?

Now, with cryptocurrency I will wake up in the morning and do what? I could send money to buy drugs, that's a pretty killer use case. There are some things like transferring money out of a war torn country that maybe it would help that have some value, but I'm not in a war torn country. So... where's my killer use case?

It's important to note that all the internet/smartphone examples above are INCREDIBLE use cases, and that's just scratching the surface. Booking travel used to SUCK now it's better. I can get books instantly. I can collaborate on music or video production across the country. And so on, these are big deal things. There are TONS of examples. The business opportunities here were utterly massive. Nearly everything people and businesses did on a daily basis changed in consequential ways due to the internet in ways that opened up opportunity for profit.

And even with that said most of the people who saw the promise of the internet in 1997-2000 and put money into passive investments got creamed.

Now, in all seriousness, what's my morning going to be like with crypto as a mature technology, how will it be different and better and why will I care? When will this happen, why hasn't it already happened, and how are all these people going to profit from the change?
is this paper available to public?
Maintenance is time too. So pulling over and getting gas, bringing a car in for an oil change/replacing air filter/shocks/tire realignment etc.

You have to get smog checks regularly. Parking tickets, speeding tickets, street cleaning. Maybe even a parking sticker.

Also, don't ever get into an accident. I think a range depending on your risk profile makes more sense. Low end would be $3178 high end might be double that.

Do you drink/smoke weed/sleepy as hell and drive ever? Owning a car puts you at a higher risk for paying much more for making poor driving mistakes whereas a comparable situation wouldn't hold you personally liable for the same mistakes if it happen in a ride-sharing car.

On top of all this, you run your car into the ground and regularly buy a new one?

You've grossly underestimated the cost of owning a car to a frustrating degree. Owning a car blows if you live in a city.
here is a better question: why the hell did a guy that supposedly made at least 120MM from google alone not pay his nanny's salary?
Lawyers have about the same gender breakdown as computer systems analysts, so I don't think this is the case. CEOs are even more predominantly male, at a fairly shocking 73% by 2016 numbers (we'll have '17 soon).

The problem with tech in particular is that we're often viewed as an inclusive and progressive industry. But when you run the numbers, we're no better than the law firms.
> the perception of dissonance isn't musical, it's cultural

This is a good point.
By far my favourite computer ever. I recommend it to everyone that asks me which computer to buy.

The battery life is what makes it. The first time I could leave the house without a charger and not be worried.

Interactive performance feels the same as my MBP. Development is fine, from JS to Common Lisp.

Great systems. I'll keep buying the as long as Apple keeps making them.
It's very easy to wreck in racing games which could easily have the opposite effect.

Consider, the normal case with driving is nothing bad happens until you get desensitized. Regularly losing control in a video game makes that possibility far more visceral. I don't play racing games much, but I found my reaction was to both pay more attention and drive slower after the fact.
PoS doesn't solve the problem of concentrating power on miners
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What about the value of fighting financial censorship?

There are lots of governments and people that attempted to censor perfectly moral and reasonable transactions.

Just because it is "the law" doesn't make it right.

Do you also dislike Tor because it allows political dissenters to hide from the government?
Thank you for making this!

I've done this conversion by hand many times and I'll certainly try your program for the next untyped component that I want to import.
I have a family member in DFW who has really embraced Uber, and wait times for the area are minimal, and they are around 20 miles from the Downtown area of Dallas (very mid-cities). I never thought that Uber would catch in DFW, and I'm really surprised to see how it's changed life for a few people I know there.

Maybe it's been some time since you've tried Uber there, but I'd recommend trying it again. Also my family members there now swear by it for trips to either the DFW or Love Field airport.
You are inventing "just so" stories whose only point is to justify stagnation.
I also derive tremendous personal value from getting the opportunity to meet the people driving the cars.

Hearing different perspectives, sharing interesting stories, and generally engaging in real human interaction are something I don't get enough of in my regular life, and Lyft has materially changed that. Of course unfortunate that I don't get enough of that outside of a transactional transportation arrangement, but it's real for me.
> In the limit, would we really be surprised if a hyperrealistic video game had at least some of the same effect as basic training?

Yes, absolutely. Because there is a difference between images and reality. Not just a theoretical, ivory-tower conceptual difference. Physical difference. An enemy soldier is not 2 inches tall and shown to you flat while you sit on a comfortable couch. The report of a firearm is loud enough to blow out your eardrums. The preparative mindset that you know you might be killed at any moment with no notice is never transferred to a digital fictional character who respawns eternally.

When considering videogame violence, why is it always done with such extreme selectivity? Why pick out the fact that red pixels are used and that in reality blood sometimes appears red... but ignore the fact that fictional characters have no capacity to feel pain, no friends, no family, no hopes, no desires, no sentience, can be resurrected in a blink, and basically recreate not even one, not even the smallest, reason that violence is actually morally objectionable.

If violence in the real world worked the way it does in videogames, violence would not be morally wrong. It wouldn't be 'violence', it would be something completely novel. Yet, despite the vast gulf between the two things... somehow people get confused enough that they think pressing a plastic button to make red pixels appear on a little flat projection (the situation will not change one iota when VR gets huge, though I bet people are already preparing their arguments about how 'increased immersion' increases the nonexistent significant effects) of a character will prepare them for squeezing a steel pistol that will kick back against their hand faster than their mind can process, cracking off a shot loud enough to burst their eardrums, potentially ending the life of a human being who their mirror neurons is mapping onto their own self image. I don't see it.

Military training does not seek to desensitize recruits to killing. That has proven ineffective. It seeks to train them to kill without thinking, to kill before their conscious mind has an opportunity to intervene and give them chance to reconsider. It is only through that killing faster than the conscious mind can catch up that the rates of successful engagements increase. Unfortunately, of course, when a conscious mind would have refused to take an action, but has to process already having taken the action, a psychic rending occurs. Identity suffers a cataclysmic blow of the greatest trauma, training having made the soldier do something they would have chosen not to - yet it was themselves who did it, and they have to bear the burden and benefit of that act. This is the source of PTSD. It is a physical structural change in the brain, and it is horrific.

Kids are not doing this to themselves regularly for fun in their moms rec room.
So what is our option for securing BGP-like functionality? The thing that triggered me to tell this story in reply was the part about how most routers don't have the CPU to do the security necessary for more enhanced security.

At the time I was deploying Pentium D in the multi-GHz range routers, the hot-shot Cisco routers were running 100MHz MIPS CPUs, IIRC.

I know they put a ton of emphasis on the ASICs, but seems like they maybe need to splurge a bit on the CPUs. :-) That being said, I haven't really been doing much networking these days, I now just work for a single org, we let the facility do the heavy routing.
The killer feature for me of the 2nd-gen Airs was the battery life. It’s the first time I’d been able to go all day without plugging in (for light management-type work).

All day was a step change. I was sad when my new 13in MBP needs plugged in at lunchtime. The screen and other specs are much better of course but I’d become used to leaving my PSU in the office all day while zipping around.
> in the absence of a Shuttle fleet they cannot be refuelled.

Judging by the publicly-released payload specs for the DoD-operated Boeing X-37 spaceplane, it should be able to deliver about 2000+ L of hydrazine, compressed Xenon, or other suitable fuel in a single launch.

Edit: It looks like DARPA has been experimenting with "space gas station" experiments since at least 2007.

https://www.space.com/3644-prototype-satellites-demonstrate-...
Headline? I didn't realize an app could cause pregnancies, last time I checked those were caused differently...
I really appreciate you mentioning this. I occasionally drive for Lyft just to meet new people.
ReasonML is OCaml. The syntax is different but the semantic is the same, it uses the same OCaml compiler
> Thus, a state law saying "arbitration is awesome, but banning class arbitration is against our public policy", if they exist, should be valid. Preemption must be very clear.

Concepcion seems to make it very clear that such a rule would be preempted by the FAA. The nonsensical reasoning in Concepcion applies just the same if the rule invalidates class waivers specifically (that is, permits the arbitration agreement to be enforced but strikes only the part prohibiting class actions, which would result in arbitration proceeding on a class basis) as it does if the rule invalidates the entire arbitration agreement (as the CA Supreme Court rule did).
On the other hand, the downtown area of Chicago was raised up from natural ground level in the 1850s.

Seattle was raised in the 1880s.

A portion of Atlanta was raised in the 1920s. They actually did rebuild new lobbies on the upper floors, and a lot of the old storefronts are still intact down below.
> A 64 GB SSD option was available for a whopping $999.

> $1k is not expensive for a high-quality Ultrabook...In fact, I'm pretty sure the Macbook Air is still around that price.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I read that as being $999 for the drive upgrade option itself. The total price for the laptop would have been higher.
In this case I think you can since I think && is a sequence point.

a + a on the other hand would be undefined.
I think there's a pretty good chance that said article was written in jest, and Bob then saw all the comments that didn't get that, and decided to go along with it by reverse-trolling/answering the comments as if he wrote it seriously...
i lived in boston during (the tail end of) the big dig and remember the excess costs were largely due to corruption and maybe some incompetence. look at how much nicer it is there because of it. i'd vote for it again in a heartbeat (with some better processes and oversight of course).

but yes, underground infrastructure is expensive (maybe the boring company will help drive equipment costs down), but we're a rich nation and we want nice things. i think we can do it if we want to. plus, it creates working class jobs and that makes the economy go 'round.
How looks great!
After looking about the BaaS, Framework, and now Prisma, I don’t really have a question about the relation between them.
I feel that it just a “wrapper” or something else, because it combine with the binding and yoga package, so it’s not really clear what is the role played by Prisma inside this ecosystem?
(but soon i will look at it very closely)
If you use a cookie for an API, it will look like you don't know what you are doing. Also, there are extra rules around Cookies (expiration, length, etc.) that may bite you if you use them outside a browser context.
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Well, if the car doesn't hit you, then clearly there was enough time for the driver to yield :)

So you get get punished if it hits you? Or how does this work...
Think of it this way. Let's say that to get 1 Bitcoin I could just install an app on my computer, and within 1 second get a Bitcoin. Then everyone in the world can make as many bitcoins as they want, there are no limits on the number of bitcoins, and the process to get more doesn't increase in difficulty.

So now we have bascially infinite bitcoins so the value of them is zero, because why would I buy one, when I can just make one at any time.

The opposite of this is where Bitcoin derived it's value. First there is a fixed number of Bitcoin, so you can't simply make more past a point. Secondly, the effort required to mine Bitcoin increases over time.

This effort requires real world currency exchange. I need to buy a powerful computer and then pay a lot of electricity, cooling, space.

So effectively my mining operation costs $x. Now as time goes on to get the same number of Bitcoins I need to increase my spend because the computational needs increase as well.

Effectively, I'm exchanging my USD to equipment and energy, which are giving me Bitcoins.

A reasonable value for Bitcoin would be to calculate the total amount of hardware and energy invested in mining and there you have a decent floor value. You can then extrapolate this for the future, since the total amount of Bitcoin to be created is known, you could say that multiplying that out you get a total amount of value.

To say that they are overvalued would mean that the total current dollars invested in mining bitcoin is far less than the current total market cap of said coins. If you look at the price of Bitcoin 2014 to the start of 2017, you see a gradual increase in price, which would be explained by the amount of money going into mining and with some markup.

In 2017 you see a 20x increase, but that isn't matched with a 20x increase in spend for minting Bitcoins, so the increase is irrational.
Not mixing drills and real alerts in one list costs just two headings.
China tried something similar in the 1950's. It sent all the people it considered surplus out to farm. But they didn't know how to farm. Guess what happened.

It's the reason parents until recently would tell their fussy kids, "Eat your food, there are children starving in China."
"Trustless" systems require you to trust miners. I think miners are pretty much the last people you would want to trust.
Honest question: Why is it anti-feminist to think that a woman ought to say no to experiences she is not wanting a part of?
Senate Hits 50 Votes in Bid to Save Net Neutrality
This would be good. Takes 15 min to code this in and you dont have to go redesign a bunch of stuff like some on here are suggesting. Obviously they dont care what it looks like. Fine. But safeguard for such a monumental action they should have had.
This would imply that all cryptos are handled by 10
bots, which isn't the case. Coinbase added 1 million users in June last year, and that's just one exchange, so think if
crypto owners approximating 100 million people. They sure also buy cryptos, not only
bots.
Yes; motorways (and other 'special roads') are restricted. It's not a matter of crossing them, though - just being at the roadside is an offence.
I've always envied the JVM's class reloading abilities. Edit-n-continue in Visual Studio has so many "it doesn't work if you do this" cases, that's it next to useless.

I would love to be able to put the C# debugger into interpreter mode and be able to change anything, anywhere while debugging and keep on trucking without having to stop debugger, make changes, restart debugger, etc..
The order in which you install add-ons, such as the provider for Google calendar and Exchange calendar support, matters. I've spent too long jiggering with add-ons to get them to play nicely together.

Once I have a functioning setup,I copy the profile wholesale from machine to machine. I use Thunderbird every day and have done for years.
Only because the value of the underlying company would plunge as well, due to loss of revenue. But it wouldn't hit zero. Google would still have other products than search, a lot of valuable IP and patents, real estate, etc.
We actually kinda agree. I'm fundamentally saying that crypto wont go away.
It wasn't 5 years ago.
I would imagine most people ditching their cars rely on some combination of transit options.
I did not have a working relationship with him. We worked at the same company, but we never worked together. I was already expecting to leave for unrelated reasons.

I have a certificate in GIS. In the 5+ years at that company, he was the only person who knew what GIS was without me having to explain it. It never crossed his mind that I might have IT ambitions or that my technical training might have value for the company. He just saw an attractive woman, and that was it. This helped convince me that the company was simply not fertile ground for a serious career for me.

My department was a pink collar ghetto. I had no desire to remain in an underpaid pink collar job and use the company as a means to marry well. He no doubt made at least 3 to 5 times what I made.
Meanwhile in Berlin, i just paid 14 EUR on uberCab to get to work last week because i had an important meeting and was late. For a 5km trip that took 10 minutes. Since uber is not allowed here and the normal stuff is so expensive, this whole market does not even exist here.
It'd be awesome if Apple made an anniversary Macbook Air with upgraded internals, like Lenovo did recently. Would buy one in a heartbeat.
> Not everyone can immediately think out of the box at a moment's notice, especially during an interview which can be quite stressful.

Yup. This is sometimes a skill you want to test for - I have had a job where I would occasionally get paged at 3 AM to diagnose and fix novel problems in parts of infrastructure that I hadn't previously interacted with, for a high-frequency trading company where every minute of downtime had a financial impact. If you're hiring for that sort of thing, asking people if they can figure out stupid problems under time pressure and in a high-stress situation is exactly what you want to select for.

If you're hiring someone to sit at their desk, write code, and go home after 8 hours, where "time-sensitive" problems have their response time is measured in days and not minutes and where there's plenty of time to Google for similar situations or try to reproduce the problem in a test environment, responding to weird questions on short notice with someone staring at you until you figure it out is a much less relevant skill. And I think most tech jobs fall in this category. Ideally, give them interview problems where they can go home, get some sleep, drink some tea, and figure out the answer in the morning. I've done a bunch of hero work on O(minute) timeframes, but my actual quality work has always taken days of thinking about the problem quietly.
I’m still not happy with this characterisation. By “genome testing” I suspect you mean whole-genome sequencing (WGS) [1]. First off, this is also a form of genotyping. And, depending on which definition of accuracy you’re using, it’s no more accurate. It just provides more signal (because it looks at much larger parts of the genome than microarray genotyping [2] does). The technology used by 23andme and DNA ancestry services (microarrays) will miss some information, compared to WGS (= lower recall [3]). But importantly its precision is no lower than WGS (in fact, until very recently it was higher).

The fact that DNA ancestry estimates are inaccurate for some people is largely unrelated to the technology (microarray vs sequencing), and rather to the fact that our reference set for ancestry is too sparse (especially outside of Europe).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_genome_sequencing
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_microarray
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precision_and_recall
I really don't get all the high levels of excuse in this thread. Think about the victims here: think about putting your (terrified) kid a storm drain. Really think about it, let the feelings about it sink in.

The only correct solution is to fire the person involved, as the next guy will look closer. Yeah maybe not fair, but when working with landmines you have to pay attention - and it is politically much more feasible than redesigning the system.

However I also object to that system in the first place, since it doesn't matter where you hide if a nuke falls close to you, and you probably don't want to survive.
Apparently a typo:

https://github.com/jbtronics/CrookedStyleSheets/commit/c5d59...
Insider information that is publicly disclosed is by definition no longer "insider information".

Indeed, if this had been an equity, it would have been illegal for him to trade the equity without disclosing the insider information prior to the trade.
> Yes, except, personal computers didn't have negative side effects

I disagree with this sentiment. In the early days, the dissemination of information like pornography and texts like the Anarchist Cookbook, which had instructions on how to create bombs and other weapons, were two examples of why the internet was a bad thing. Using a computer was considered by many to be antisocial due to the perception of people staring at screens 12 hours a day without talking to others in person. Even today, we have those arguing that the proliferation of computer technology has been detrimental to societal interactions.
I'll accept that there are reasons for having a car related to child rearing, especially for the first, say, 5-10 years of a child's life. After that, ditch the car and get back to using public transportation or human-powered locomotion.

When I was growing up my family had a car, but around middle school it was possible to bike to any school/sports/extracurricular activity within 20 minutes. My parents kept the car for a number of reasons, but getting to work was numero uno. If getting to work was simpler with public transportation then we would have been able to get rid of the car much more easily.

Now living in a big city - Amsterdam - makes living without a car magnitudes easier.
Ask HN: StackExchange-like for non-IT new businesses?
Hi there, is there something like StackExchange or even HN where people ask and answer and debate about non-IT new businesses (I would like to use startups here but the IT bias is too strong)? Apparently there was a SE for startups but it was shut down.
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Not everyone has beater cars that they work on themselves and park for free. Where I live it's $300 or more a month to park which would be more than your whole annual cost even if you get free parking at either home or work.