skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Raiblocks is garbage, quit pumping
From Nazi Germany to Australia the True Story of History’s Longest Kayak Journey
> Yes, but many of those people will be moving from other neighborhoods in the same city; when they move they vacate an older, less attractive, lower rent dwelling.

You should probably provide a source on that one. Rents are sticky. Its equally likely they are already wealthy and want to move to a "hip" neighborhood which tend to be recently poor/urban. Rents don't fall as quick in the place they left but rise quickly in the place they're headed, which just raises the average rent in both places.

It also creates demand for people who wanted to live in the former neighborhood and can now move there because there is a vacancy (or after any slight reduction in rent brings otherwise marginal renters).

This is all just conjecture without data, and there is very little data studying this because, as the previous poster says, its complicated and there's no way to do a controlled experiment.
Take home assignments can take little time or a lot of time. Interviews that consist of round after round after round after a bunch of phone calls take a lot of time too. I actually prefer a home assignment of similar length.

I don't believe cheating is such a major concern. The applicant should be able to talk about their solution and all the choices they made if they actually wrote it and understand the solution.
Has there been articles or research done on how much energy is used to coin, print, distribute, and utilize fiat currencies?
If the Planet Is Warming, Why Am I Freezing? NASA Scientists Explain [video]
Do you want to chase targets or build products ?
Starting therapy. It's been amazing to help overcome anxiety that was holding me back for years.
On the other hand skills like object permanence require the development outside the womb. I am sure nature would have found a way if it would be possible otherwise.
> There are going to be some people who read this and assume she must have interviewed poorly, or have really bad grades or something.

There's a paragraph in there dedicated to just that; in that case, the HR person that handled her application was fired / quit and the whole application apparently went down the shitter.
What worries me the most is the fact that monitors and phones are outputting light directly to our eyes. Almost everyone, at least in the U.S. has both computers and phones and those devices output light directly to our eyes. Where as, even in 1997 most people weren't spending all of their time looking into light. We were looking at things with reflected light.

Somehow I think this direct light into our eyes is impacting our not only our eyes, but our brains negatively.
Are you talking desktop workflows here? If this is a service, why are you paying for RAM that never gets used? Get a smaller instance.
> People on this thread are making comparisons to 300k/yr Google salaries.

I did this upthread. The thing is, it doesn't matter that this is overblown. The average startup is so unlikely to actually pay out that those odds are what dominate whether taking equity in compensation for salary is rational.
Tragedy of the commons is used to describe negative externalities: where private parties get the benefit of using a shared resource, but socialize some of the costs of that activity. Since the party getting the benefit doesn’t bear all the costs, they will do more than an economically efficient amount of the activity.

Private ownership and regulation are just different solutions to that same problem. So you can have a regulated amount of grazing (where in theory scientists decide what level the land can sustain), or you can privatize the land and force the grazer to absorb the loss in land value from his activities, thus internalizing the externality.

That out of the way, I don’t think the article is correct. History is replete with societies whose self-regulation mechanisms failed and resulted in environmental disaster.
See my post below about energy credits. Perhaps proof of work does not achieve this like I think, but "precise data on both energy & resource consumption" should not be necessary if the value of the currency is directly linked to the abundance of energy.
I don't think so. Computers and software are simply more accessible for laymen to dig into and teach themselves something.

You can't learn and practice surgery yourself. On the other hand, you can teach yourself software engineering. You can be practitioner with nothing more than a computer - and so many people are.

That doesn't mean CS degrees are a hoax - it just means the field is more accessible to those without college degrees (though its definitely going to be a more difficult path).
The good friday agreement was essentially brokered by ignoring it. That seemed preferable to me to the decades of sustained bombings.

It seems to me that no government can make a fully plausible promise that they won't yield under pressure and, in any case, terrorism is extremely ill defined.
South Africa at higher risk of data breaches
That's actually fantastic news!

I haven't really used GraphQL all that much outside of playing with it a few times, but it's something I really would love to use in a few projects as it solves some very real problems in a really elegant way.

And having something like this layered on top might make a switch over to GraphQL possible in a timely manner.
Retail apocalypse? Walmart isn’t buying it
The point of "code is law" is to replace the legal system.

Laws are, after all, code. Programmers are the new lawyers.

The problem with the "hack" was that our laws/code are still incredibly primitive.

I don't have an issue with the rollback - because that's part of the design, and I really doubt they'll be able to do that again if the ownership of ETH spreads out more.

These problems will work themselves out.
Peter Linebaugh in "Stop Thief" expands the argument and claims that the "globalized economy" is just another move towards enclosure, which results in the inevitable destruction of the resource by a mechanism over which the affected communities have no control. https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Thief-Commons-Enclosures-Resista...
I was confused how this compares to PostGraphQL at first, until I read in the footer:

> “PostGraphile was originally authored as PostGraphQL by Caleb Meredith.”

This should probably be made more obvious from the get-go.
Why oh why would you do something like that on twitter?!?

If you need to make multi-thousand character argument there are many better mediums. In fact, I'd be hard pressed to think of a worse presentation than 100 letter chunks surrounded by wasted space at 8 chunks per page (on 1080 vertical lines monitor).
Soon bitcoins will be replaced by patacones.
Options for Addressing the GTLD Program Applications for .CORP, .HOME, and .MAIL
I can see the appeal, if pricey right now. Portable stuff is portable so it gets 'ported' lots of different places that don't always include being back in my suitcase when I leave for the airport.

To date I have solved this by buying tons of portable batteries and playing the averages that one of them will end up in my suitcase at all times. But my suitcase is probably always going to be in my suitcase, so that does solve a real problem for me.
I have a hard time understanding proof of stake. I haven't found any discussions that make sense to me.

Do you have any good easy to understand descriptions of proof of stake you could recommend to a layman like me?
London has direct property taxes. They are set low, but empty property does not require a much in the way of city services.

Granted, increasing property taxes would put pressure to rent out empty property. However, the occupancy rate is also very high so it's not currently a meaningful issue.
2017 WebRTC Industry Mergers and Acquisitions in Review
Ah okay. What kind of flaws and what kind of unsolved problems?

Note: I am not trying to contradict you here, just looking to understand this whole thing from a different angle.
Cool project. But potentially dangerous if used as a CRUD ORM layer.

I'd only recommend using something like this for the read model of a CQRS/Event Sourced system.

Capture the commands and send them to business logic, that then updates the database. If you let a generic framework handle writes, it is like putting the business logic in the client. In that case SQL would be simpler.
great library. been using it in some GIS projects I am involved in. glad to see development continues.
Security audit of SoftEther VPN finds 11 security vulnerabilities
That's not a problem if you never want to communicate with people from countries where they don't speak Spanish nor learn Spanish in schools. It is a problem however if it's an international city like Barcelona and most people I've met between 20 and 30 have very hard time understanding or speaking English.

I didn't say the English literacy rates are decreasing, I'm simply stating that they speak a whole more English in the north than in the south as far as young people go and it generally surprises me how bad English among young people here is. Is it because while they do learn English in schools, they don't practice it enough? Certainly can't be the case in Barcelona, right?
I did a bunch of analysis on proof of burn, and came to the conclusion that it cannot work in practice because it relies on transactions in order to burn, which themselves are subject to consensus.

You can read my detailed analysis here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1182677.0

Cheers, Paul.
I believe the phrase is rational for and applied to ransom situations - just generally pursuing peace with opposing parties is not encapsulated in that phrase, to my understanding.
A much better article on this topic:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/284/5412/278.full

Any serious discussion of 'debunking' the tragedy of the commons should mention Elinor Ostrom, the only woman with a Nobel prize in Economics, which she won largely for her work on governance of the commons.
Does anyone know why does checked-in luggage presents more risk than carry on (presumably). Is it temperature and pressure difference or just visibility and accessibility for someone with a fire extinguisher?
Energy taxes are even more regressive than sales taxes. All it would do is increase the vast wealth subsidy.
We should expect that as Moore's law slows down specialized hardware will more and more often become a viable solution. As new process nodes take longer to come online the optimal number of different designs per node goes up. At some point computation will probably end up switching to a different substrate because we're not particularly close to the efficiencies allowed by physics. But I expect quite an interregnum after MOSFETS get as small as they can.
Sure, email in my profile. Shoot me a message.
There's a good subreddit dedicated to the book: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMindIlluminated/

And if you really want an app, someone made a beautiful one for android, free and without ads, that follows the stages described in the book: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ragone.io.quie...

I found the light gamification useful to establish my practice.
>If you don't need it, you don't need it. The other question is: how much swap exactly should I have? And why wouldn't I just add that much RAM instead?

Because adding RAM costs money, adding swap space is a config setting.

It looks to me that your boxes are idle. Sure, if you're not doing any work, it doesn't matter...

>1) Bad assumption 2) it doesn't help you either, so why bother? Actually I might have a use for that disk space. In that case the swap just hurts.

1) Is it? Can you source that claim somehow?
2) It does help you, that's the point. It makes your disk reads faster
3) Your answer to needing memory is 'buy more ram', but you 'may have a use for that disk space'? Buy more disk.
GraphCMS goes Open Source to provide alternative to proprietary Contentful
Yeah, it's far far less.
Hmm, isn't that nearly exactly the same what PostgREST has been doing?
Then I get poisoned because I didn't clean my bathtub as a often as I should.
It’s Hard to Study If You’re Hungry
Summary: There is no way there could a commons could be abused because no one in a pre-capitalist society would be selfish enough to need to. Capitalism (privatization) only cares about short term gains. Tragedy of the commons is a political myth designed to extract resources.

I would make a couple of points.

1. This article quotes Marx unironically as an argument.

2. Even if I bought the argument that commons were actually great and capitalism ruined them, Tragedy of the Commons is still a useful way to describe collective action problems.

3. Corporations choose long term viability over short term profits all of the time. (A great example is Gifford Pinchot convincing the US lumber industry that it was in their interest to effectively manage forests long term).

4. Community ownership is not the same as government ownership.

5. There are cases where privatization or local ownership can lead to great outcomes: (https://www.npr.org/2011/10/10/140445502/to-save-wildlife-na...)

I feel like framing environmental problems on capitalism is a big mistake (socialist countries arguably have had much, much worse track records). Good environmental policy is usually just that - good policy; not overtly socialist or capitalist.
This is not a useful rant. 90% of it is bad and completely unconvincing argument by analogy.

> Everything in our world ultimately translates back to energy, at the lowest level. You are energy. I am energy. Blockchain is energy.

The remaining 10% could plausibly be gesturing at a real argument, but it's way too vague and hand-wavy. It repeatedly says PoS is impossible, but then ends up admitting that it boils down to complicated questions about the stability of certain equilibrium.
This is an odd post because Fred closes saying:

> I don’t have any specific recommendations to make on this topic except that Boards should be thinking way more deeply and creatively about this issue than we are.

Equity compensation came about as a way of paying employees when cash was tight. It also tends to (arguably) align incentives between the company and the employee in the long term.

Now equity compensation exists largely because the likes of FAAMG pay senior engineers $300k+ in total comp and, again, smaller startups just can't afford that kind of cash outlay.

So what "creative" way is going to "solve" that problem (from a VC's perspective)?

Consider if you had 50 engineers that you pay $100k + equity to and these are 60% of your costs. Your burn rate is just north of $8M/year. Now if those engineers were paid $300k/year instead and your other costs didn't change, your burn rate is now north of $18M/year.

Equity compensation is your way of lowering expenses and reducing your burn rate. That extra $10M/year will mean you'll need bigger funding rounds more often and then you end up diluting your stock to investors rather than employees. Is this better? How?

Another point: when it comes to mature companies (ie publicly listed), equity is a pretty tax effective way to pay someone.

Say an engineer joins an FAAMG company for $170k base salary, target bonus of $30k and $400k in RSUs (4 year vest, 1 year cliff). That's notional total comp of $300k. More when you consider annual refresh grants. Assuming $100k refresh grants, total comp is pushing $400k by year 4.

But there is risk attached to that, namely that the stock could go down in value. If that didn't interest you, that same engineer could go work for Netflix and just get a $300-350k salary with no equity (which is fine).

But if that stock goes up 20% before the cliff, you've made an extra $80k over 4 years without doing anything.

If you approach the problem from the other way, imagine you wanted to make a $400k investment in an FAAMG company. You have some options that include:

1. $400k in after-tax money invested

2. $150k after-tax plus $250k on margin

3. $400k in pre-tax money in a 401k

(1) is expensive, (2) is less expensive but riskier (ie margin calls) and (3) is really putting a lot of eggs in one basket plus you'd need a substantial amount of retirement savings even to consider that option.

I bring this up because in the all-cash case (eg Netflix), if you do want to invest in your employer's stock this way, it's really expensive to do. Those who say you can just take the cash and buy shares miss or gloss over the leverage you can obtain from an initial stock grant. If you plot even modest stock growth, you'll quickly find the $400k grant with $300k total comp will quickly outpace the guy whose earning $300k (or even $350k) per year as they have to pay taxes on that money then invest it.
> Cóilín Nunan, scientific adviser to the Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics, told the Guardian: “It is scandalous that [government rules] still allow for poultry to be mass-medicated with fluoroquinolone antibiotics. Twenty years ago, a House of Lords report said this should be stopped. Even the US banned the practice over 10 years ago because of the strength of the scientific evidence. So why are British and European authorities still refusing to take action?”

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-on-track-to-cut-antibi...

> Use of antibiotics for non-medicinal purposes, such as in animal feed, has been banned in the EU since 2006. A number of additional measures ensure food does not contain antibiotics when it reaches the table. Those using antibiotics in livestock for medicinal purposes must observe a safe withdrawal period before an animal can go to slaughter or its products be sold to consumers, which is set by the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) and European Medicines Agency. Stringent rules are also in place for meat and dairy products imported into the EU from the rest of the world.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/record-low-for-sales-of-a...

> A Defra report released today shows sales of antibiotics for use in food-producing animals dropped by 27%, from 62 mg/kg in 2014 to 45mg/kg in 2016, surpassing a government target of 50 mg/kg set following recommendations in the 2016 O’Neill Review on Antimicrobial Resistance.

I don't know if 45mg/kg is a lot or a little.

You can read the Defra guidance here: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/antimicrobial-resi...
If only the blog post didn't have a blatantly click-bait title.

The boundary lines between the Model, View, and Controller always tended to be a bit fuzzy (with each technology providing their own interpretation of it).

I'm alright with a clarifying name change. But it certainly doesn't mean that MVC is "dead".
I recommend using Ethereum Wallet / geth in light mode.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/669cn9/how_to_use...

There is an option for this in the GUI version as well.

Developer > Sync with light client (beta)

I couldn't sync with the full node because it would take ages + ~100 GB. Light mode has worked like a charm.
I'd say that's exactly what it does. The Action (Controller) gets data from the Domain (Model), and calls the Responder (View) with the data which is then appropriately rendered and returned to the client.

I don't doubt that the pattern is useful for web sites and services, it just looks like plain old MVC to me and thus not meriting a new name.
Why such backlash from people that don't want to build any side projects? Doesn't go without saying that if you don't want to build a side project you don't have to?

I was expecting to read comments here about people that are interested in how to ship side projects. Instead, I mostly see people with the urge to be vocal about how they don't want to ship any side project.

I assume this is a reaction from some societal pressure for developers to always be building side projects. I wasn't aware that there was such pressure. But if so, by whom?

EDIT: Contrast with this other HN thread: "How to Write Articles and Essays Quickly and Expertly": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16005460

Not a single comment about how people do not want to and do not care to write essays and how they have much better use for their time. I think that is the norm for "How to..." threads in HN. People who don't care about it, just don't care about it. Don't even bother to comment why they don't care, probably not even click on it. Why is it different with side projects?
Really great library, I had to use Bing Maps v8 API and it was not the best mapping library, the documentation is not very impressive, and it's just not as feature heavy as I'd hoped and the features get confusing really quickly.

We wound up using Leaflet to handle everything else but the imagery is all from Bing Maps instead. I've run into edge cases I've had to figure out with Leaflet, but at least the JS ecosystem is big enough to where you can always find generic solutions that work with the existing mapping library.
The Iraq journalist kidnapings from a decade ago showed that all governments negotiate with, and pay terrorists.
Use less reinforcement and more random forest.
Razorpay (YC W15) raises $20M in Series B funding
Yes the mechanical complexity is by no means trivial, but I wouldn't call it unreasonably difficult. Reaching for an object in 3D space is bit of a path planning headache.

"what's currently done with a jet of water..."
I didn't catch this. Do you mean the current dishwashers ?
Clementine is the simplist Spotify replacement application I could find to avoid using their clunky app.
PoS: rather than buying mining hardware, let’s pretend we did. Now let’s randomly allocate block rewards amongst us all
New Subway Line Will Destroy Secret Algorithm That Runs London
Data? According to the EPA nearly 2/3rds of electricity is consumed by businesses and industry.

https://www.epa.gov/energy/electricity-customers#commercial
MVVM seems to be the way most of the world has gone. The common model is translated to a view model and exposed over REST.
Proof of burn is leveraged by Counterparty [1]. Counterparty is a colored-coin system that uses Bitcoin. You can create tokens in it just like Ethereum.

Bitcoin's enormous popularity and ensuing transaction fee growth has made counterparty much less useful IMO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterparty_(technology)#Use-...
I'll be soon transitioning from a team lead to manager (with a new company). Can anyone add any recommendation to my list of resources?

Books:
Peopleware,
5 dysfunctions of a team,
Ziglar's Top Performance,
Pragmatic Programmer
(and others, but these are the top ones)

Websites:
askamanager.org,
Joel on Software

Podcasts:
HBR ideacast
Think of bank accounts that don't allow instant access to your cash, where you gave to keep it in for a year or whatever to get your interest.

With PoS, the more coins you tie up, the more chance you have of 'winning'.

That's my understanding anyway - someone more knowledgeable, please feel free to correct me!
Please accept my apologies, I should clarify. All the data I've ever seen on induced demand in major US cities suggests very strongly that building units in major cities does not create demand for a greater number of units than are constructed.

The last study I saw on the subject in San Francisco showed that for 100 units of newly constructed supply, about 85 would be consumed by extant demand, roughly 15 would be consumed by new migrants, and less than 10 new units of demand that would not have existed otherwise gets generated. This is admittedly not obvious, and generally looks like purely generated demand when viewed at a very coarse level.

Incidentally, induced demand is an idea I often see advanced as an argument against constructing housing.
Exclusive networks of teens are making thousands of dollars by selling retweets
A well run organization should also be mandating regular bi annual meetings between employees and managers for goal setting. Both as an employer and as an employee you want to know what each others expectations are, so you should be following up on this continually. It's crucial for job satisfaction on both ends.