skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances that BTC (or any given crypto asset) goes to zero right now (or in the near future), with the information we CURRENTLY have, are low...market gyrations will happen, things will fluctuate +/- 20, 30, 50%, maybe they'll all go up 10x, maybe 100x, etc.

As long as folks believe there's a get rich quick possibility (or believe in the viability of crypto assets, or whatever), things will keep on as they've kept on.

HOWEVER: What that line of thinking misses is the possibility of new, external, market-shocking information. I don't know what that is or could be (the ol 'we don't know what we don't know'). Maybe someone discovers a massive and fundamental bug that renders them useless. Maybe quantum computing advances faster than we think and factoring large numbers becomes trivial. Maybe ______, maybe _______, maybe maybe maybe.

THAT is what could bring it all to $0. That's what you should be worried about. That's why this isn't a sure thing for ever and ever.
Yeah why ask to be empowered to fix your own problems when you could just beg someone else to fix them?
Apple isn't immune to WiFi issues. They have had plenty of issues with WiFi reconnecting after a resume on MacBooks.
It is kind of annoying when the solution to "our public transit is slow and shitty" is "make the alternatives worse".
Leap and similar communities are not essentialist, they are safe spaces for those people who share the experience of existing as a woman in the tech industry. It is a false equivalency to conflate Leap with terf essentialism. Additionally, why the quotes around men and women? Is this an attempt to be subtly transphobic?
It's environment specific, but in general w/ web workers it is a thing, but they can't update the same var (used to be able to update a shared array until just recently though :-)
> For them it is about playing pieces perfectly regarding their technique and adding personal expression. Therefore, the choice of fingering is crucial. Jazz pianists, on the other hand, concentrate on the "What". They are always prepared to improvise and adapt their playing to create unexpected harmonies

I minored in music at college and studied both jazz and classical composition/theories. One key takeaway I had from my education is that notes that may considered to be dissonant in classical music are in many cases acceptable in jazz, given the chordal context and how a player chooses to resolve it as progression goes.

I'd even expand a bit further and say that not only musician's brains work differently, but also brain activities of the audiences might differ when listening to jazz and classical pieces. Typically a classical audience might be a bit uncomfortable hearing a dissonant note and treat it as a "wrong note" while a jazz audience might think a dissonant note as being temporarily "out of box" to create tension and expect it to be resolved later.
Study: No priming in video games

Citation: Dr. David Zendle, Dr. Paul Cairns, Dr. Daniel Kudenko, No Priming in Video Games, Computers in Human Behavior (2017).

Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.021

DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.09.021

Abstract: Video games depict a variety of different concepts. Models of learning in games like the GLM (General Learning Model) and GAM (General Aggression Model) predict that exposing players to these in-game concepts can lead to important changes in player behaviour.

Priming effects are thought to be key to determining these changes in behaviour. However, recent research has suggested problems with the priming effects that have previously been observed in the video game literature. Indeed, widespread methodological issues with this body of research make it unclear whether priming effects occur at all in video games.

Two experiments (total N = 532) investigated whether priming effects still occurred in video games when known confounds in the literature were accounted for. Priming was observed in neither study. However, in both studies a novel negative priming effect was observed instead, in which exposure to a specific concept inhibited players’ reactions to things that were related to that concept.

These studies support previous research which indicates there may be serious confounding in the video game literature. They also suggest that the priming-related effects of video games may be overestimated. Finally, they highlight the potential existence of negative priming as an effect of video game play.

Highlights:

• Priming is not seen when differences in gameplay between conditions are controlled.

• Popular models of learning in games (GAM, GLM) are challenged.

• Negative priming inconsistently observed: Playing a game sometimes inhibits reactions to in-game concepts.
I can think of two obvious mitigations that would have helped a lot.

1. Separate items intended to be tests from items intended to be live warnings. Draw a green (or yellow) box around the test items and a red box around the live items.

2. Require a confirmation before sending out a live item, and not just clicking a button. Put up a big red flashing warning that says, "You are about to send out a live warning, are you absolutely sure you want to do this?" and require the operator to type "YES".
When did you try GitLab, and was it self-hosted or GitLab.com? We've been working on improving performance, especially on GitLab.com, for the last two years now. Having started around then I can definitely say it was pretty miserable back then, but it's infinitely better now.

You can see our infrastructure issue tracker for more info on what we've worked on over the last few months and what we're doing now: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues
>Realpolitik is a bitch, but better to understand the real world than pretend that some fantasy of how things "should" work is a useful guide.

Well, the worst hypocrites when it comes to forgetting that "realpolitik" being a bitch are the US though.
But US wealth is controlled by less than 1%. So, what is the difference
It's also the fact that the author's family is heavily admixed. That makes assigning them to any one group precisely, a very difficult task with large margins of error.
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> Bitcoin may be the best proof yet of how deeply flawed the libertarian free market ideology really is.

The price of gold isn't stable because the visible hand of the govt has stabilized it, or if there is any law which protects it.

If you have convinced yourself that this is the reason why it is stable, then you're drinking your own kool aide.

The price of gold, or any currency is stable because its market has been discovered, and huge financial assets have been created which allow people to profit off it's price movements, which results in price stability.

Even with that, Gold market can move up and down quite drastically, for instance when in 2009 and 2010 by 25% and 30% respectively, then dropped by 27% in 2013.

The reason why price of Bitcoin moves so much up and down because it's true market hasn't realized yet, once it does, it's price will stabilize too. No govt can make it happen.
So there's something like 260+ million [1] vehicles registered here in 2015. That 250k number seems like an impossibly high percentage of people that have given up on owning a car because of ride sharing apps.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/183505/number-of-vehicle...
Which one ? The one I'm using is not that great
Absurd but very common.

It is important to capture terms when you sign up for things commercially and fight/negotiate terms that allow changes without notification.

I’ve definately run into situations where vendors decide to change the rules after the fact, even with things like shrinkwrap desktop software.

If you cannot negotiate with the counter party or it’s a goliath like Microsoft/Google/etc who wont negotiate with you, make a practice of downloading terms every quarter as they change.
IANAL, but as far as I understand this is grey area and some courts/judges will see something like this differently, because there is a set of rules that courts find irrelevant whether you put them in your terms or not. For example, you can agree to the terms where point 1.2.3 says "you agree that our employee can break into your house in the middle of the night and strangle you to death". The mere explanation "they agreed on the terms" clearly will not suffice; furthermore courts have found that terms of service have to be reasonable that a sound person would have to agreed upon (sorry not enough time to find citations). Whether the judge will dismiss lawsuit because corporation told them "no in-court litigation" or not is really up to a judge and not a cover-them-all type blanket.
>I would like to offer another point of view

Honestly, I don't give a shit about "another point of view," and that you think it matters here is a great illustration of why women would run for the hills, whichever hills don't have you on them.

This is not about someone's experience as a "social reject," this isn't about sad boys not being cool in high school because they like comic books. This is about women wanting a place to talk to other women about an experience that they feel isolates them from their male colleagues. That men sometimes feel lonely too has nothing to do with it.
If they aren't police, the employees aren't likely to risk being shot by for locking down the computers. It's only if they believe that they are police that their actions make any sense.
I think it's a natural flaw in the mining concept. Any coin that people use in a real sense will create heavy mining competition. That in turn raises the amount of computing power needed to successfully mine, meaning that transaction costs exponentially rise.
Work isn't the place to proposition people for a romantic relationship. At all times, but especially when there's a power dynamic.

When that happens, along with a gazillion other little things women are disproportionately on the receiving end of, it has the effect of dissuading women from pursuing their career in the industry.
In a team lead role for a big telco, (build my wealth trough stock trading robots, can retire anytime) and every year cannot get myself to leave and retire early...

Too much fun, interesting projects and great team to lead (also working from home helps a lot)...

Maybe next year :-)
IMO (as someone with 45k rep on StackOverflow, largely in PHP) - the best way is to modify the "flag" option on answers - and have an extra option called "out of date". If someone flags an answer as out of date, then anyone with a gold badge in that tag (i.e. PHP) - can review and accept or decline the flag.

If 5 gold people accept it - then the answer is formally highlighted as out of date, or even deleted.

You could raise this on Meta Stackoverflow as one possible way to start: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/

edit: There probably should be another flag option - called "security" - where even if an answer "works" and is "in date" - people can flag it as insecure due to a better option. Think of all the stupid SQL injection answers. You can downvote it to hell - but sometimes they should just be flagged/deleted.
Appeal to authority is a logical fallacy--you cannot use appeal to authority to create a rigorous argument. I agree with that.

But you can gain some idea of probability that something is correct or incorrect. For example, if 99 of 100 doctors agree that vaccines do not cause autism, that does not necessarily mean that vaccines do not cause autism. But chances are really good that the 99% of doctors are correct.

Nice job giving the formal name of a logical fallacy, though. Adds a lot of credibility to your argument!
I don't have detailed knowledge of the project but from memory, the proposition was to leapfrog the govTech infrastructure needed for land registries. Traditional infrastructure can be expensive to maintain and in many regions the paperwork is still just that; paper.

A move from paper copies to a digital format would already be a good enough solution, which I think is your point, but here there is an opportunistic use of a single tool to avoid the costs of a couple of servers with remote backups times the number of locations needed for full coverage.

edit: I was responding to the wrong thread but I'll leave it anyway. This refers to the use of blockchain for land registry in Ghana.
This is what you need:

https://dominicstpierre.com/using-typescript-to-publish-a-te...
Why does one need jet bridges? Setting up the portable stairs seems like an easy solution to this problem.
Your comments have been crossing into incivility in this thread—not principled incivility, just garden-variety internet swipes like "I don't give a shit", "this is nonsense", and "you're pretending". All this breaks the HN guidelines, regardless of how wrong someone else is or how right you are or feel. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and get on the right side of the rules if you want to keep commenting here.
Ask HN: What should I include in my undergrad software eng course?
I musta got a position at my old university in the U.K. Teaching software engineering and id like to ask what HN what you think should be included.

It's a team based project course FYI.
You cannot overload operators in javascript
Damn I always get left out of everything :-( lol I posted "Man it's weird having my house in Philadelphia" or something along those lines when it was saying that and I saw a friend that I hadn't seen in a while the other day and he was like "Hey I thought you moved to Philly? What're you doing here?" haha
This is what I came up with:

var i = 0;
window.__defineGetter__("a", function() { i++; return i; });
if(a === 1 && a === 2 && a === 3) {
"Wtf";
}
I seem to forget to save sometimes also (granted, that would mess me up with javascript also), I'm just so used to straight C# in Visual studio!

Typescript also isn't a very fast compiler, it doesn't seem to be incremental or retained at all, so when you build your project, it take a few seconds when your project has grown beyond a certain size. Sometimes I build and then hit run too early (before the build is actually finished).
I took the plunge with the second gen MacBook Air after seeing fellow devs at WWDC haul them around as if they were nothing. I initially noticed the slower HDD and performance hit, but didn't miss it after the first week. The mobility was a huge boon. I was working for myself and often meeting clients or working from the coffee shop, bar, etc. I held on to it until the MacBook caught up in size/weight.

Source: me. I write iOS apps.
>It is US business because if Europe was overrun by Soviets, the US would have to get involved, if not for their own interests, certainly the interests of the now subjugated Europe.

So, it would have been equally OK for other nations to invade the US in the interests of the black slaves, the native Americans, the other peoples all over the world it harmed, etc?

>It sure was welcomed in 1917 and 1941.

You'd be surprised. That's how Americans tell it themselves, and also how, via Hollywood, they taught modern historically illiterate people to see it.

In surveys and polls the decades just after WWII, when the thing was still fresh in memory, most Europeans placed the biggest role in defeating Nazi Germany with USSR, not the US.

In 1945, most French people thought that the Soviet Union
deserved the most credit for Nazi Germany's defeat in World
War II — even though the Soviets didn't play much of a role
in France's liberation, relative to the US and Britain. By
1995 and 2004, however, the French had changed their minds,
and were crediting the US as the biggest contributor to
victory in Europe (...)

https://www.vox.com/2014/6/16/5814270/the-successful-70-year...

Scholar addresses question, ‘Who won World War II in
Europe?’

There’s no easy answer, said Norman Davies, an Oxford-
educated British historian and Poland specialist who has
written widely on the 1939-1945 conflict.

(...)

Among the Davies so-called myths:

That D-Day was big and decisive. (About 80 percent of
German forces were lost on the Eastern Front, he said,
where the biggest battles raged.)

That the West triumphed over the Third Reich. (Germany was
all but defeated by the Soviets well before the Allies
landed troops on the continent, he contended.)

In fact, asserted Davies, it was the Red Army that played
the decisive role in defeating Germany, “and they were in
the service of an evil tyranny.”

Sheer numbers alone help dispel myths about the war, he
said. In 1939, the United States had half as many trained
soldiers as Poland — and it took until 1944 to muster 100
American divisions. The Germans fielded 230 divisions, and
the Soviets as many as 400.

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2007/09/scholar-addres...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-soviet-union-hel...
> 96% of it is controlled by 4% of people

Is that true? Source please
Flawed? How so?
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0.1% is large, but not impossibly large.
I may not have been clear, Java was only really relevant for hosting onsite. Other comments in this thread mention competitors using other server-side languages that can be served from a RaspberryPi. The only way it'd slow down the client is if your server was poorly tuned or underpowered. In my own experience, managing Java applications have their own set of skills.

The client side bloat I've noticed are both in visual clutter and performance using the Atlassian hosted version...so I doubt it's related to Java (outside of maybe scaling issues?). I don't doubt they have a modern front-end. It feels like one of those hip, new, modern, chunky sites that take too long to load and I try not to revisit. I don't mean to knock on React or modern frameworks, they have their uses and fill needs, but the end result often isn't a pleasant experience. The version I remember using years ago was a bit slower than most static sites, but almost seemed boring and corporate in use (which is a compliment for something you rely on for your job).
Same could be said for many desktop programs. MS Office also has its share of decade-old bugs. I guess shuffling the buttons around is more important.
Thanks, the Omnibus team has worked incredibly hard over the years to make GitLab easy to install :)

Out of curiosity, is there anything we can do to make you a fan? What are we lacking?
Bitcoin mining (not even counting other cryptocurrencies) uses more electricity than most countries in the world. If you look at transactions per Watt, I would guess that the banks are doing better by multiple orders of magnitude
It looks like you can resize droplets using the control panel or API already, and I'm test resizing one server now. Basically double the RAM for the same prices, plus a few new 'flexible' instances where you pay $15/month and choose from more CPU vs. less RAM.
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One easy case can be attributed to the improvisational nature of jazz - it is hard for the average listener to predict where a solo is going, how a pianist is going to voice their changes with their left hand while operating in another separate but related space with their right hand.

I can't speak to to technical strictly music theory definition of jazz, especially given that jazz now is really just an umbrella for myriad sub-genres, but from my experience the beauty of jazz is that the resolution is not predictable, and more often than not it may make one feel vulnerable, or sad. See classics like Miles Davis, Bill Evans, or for someone alive today, Dr Lonnie Smith.
I would expect that if you send the opt-out mail that will weaken your standing in court. Everything you give the other side makes the other side stronger and gives them more vectors to argue and attack.

For example they can use it to argue that sending an opt-out mails indicates that you have read the clause. It also indicates that you have read the TOS in general. It also indicates that you agreed to the rest of the TOS. Etc etc.
> Also this guy sounds like the American Psycho guy of Tech.

You can easily be the next 'American Psycho' if a trust fund kid decides to smear you. You can also be the 'thief' if a company that you worked for decides to throw you under the bus for liability reasons.

Careful.
Have a look at the content provided by Startmate and Muru.d .

I would hold off incorporating until you have paying customers

If you have zero connections in the US, you might want to also look at Stripe Atlas.
I almost wish this would be kept quiet. I'm afraid that if news of it gets out, corporations with an interest in extending copyright will wake up and start lobbying.
But what about blockchain apps?
Why is 1 in 1000 too high? I used to recommend that new San Francisco residents keep a car if they could afford to. I no longer make that recommendation. Even my suburban parents decided against a second car because of Uber.
The key words in that sentence are "criminal prosecution". This is a civil suit.
"Panic", "liquidity crisis", "run" -- when the end comes, it's always much, much faster than players in the market had imagined until that point.

What will happen is that animal spirits will change, and liquidity will slowly recede. At some point many market players will say, "Yes crypto has value, but I prefer to hold more dollars for the time being."

Price levels drop and volatility increases, and the feeling compounds. More people prefer to hold more of their wealth in dollars.

Those who have bought with leverage are force to sell, driving the price further down.

At that point there is a full on panic and crypto exchanges which are unregulated at best and sketchy at worst, and under no legal obligation to clear trades, will first front run their customers and then fail.

Stocks and bonds at this point would hit a floor at the value of the liquidation dividend, often, but not always, zero for the stock, slightly higher for bonds.

Currencies have no floor, but typically have capital restrictions (you can't get out) or a central bank with reserves and an interest rate mechanism The central bank would buy with reserves or raise interest rates to support it.

Cryptos have no central bank and no capital restrictions.
There is reason to believe that letting oppressed minorities connect in the absence of the majority group is a peaceful, effective path forward that makes them more able to put their baggage down, turn the other cheek and participate constructively in the main group.

If you are interested in assessing this through some idealized, absolutist lens, it is totally sexist and discriminatory against men. If you are interested in pragmatic solutions that help genuinely reduce the sexist drama in the world, this model has a track record of success.

So you need to pick one. Do you want to double down on abstract ideals? Or are you interested in what works?

Women who are interested in the latter can potentially find benefit in seeking out a sisterhood and turning a deaf ear to the accusations of "reverse sexism" that inevitably get leveled, typically by people who have no constructive alternative to offer and who aren't actually interested in being supportive and inclusive of women.
I think there's an argument to be made that ride sharing apps means people have an easier time relying on public transit, though, given they can use the apps to fill in gaps, making the leap from owning a car easier.
That worked fine back then, but in-kernel routing/switching does not scale beyond 1-2 Mpps. Much less if you have complicated iptables rules.

We're getting there with DPDK and similar technologies, but right now, if you're running a high-bandwidth network, there's really no alternative to buying ASIC-based routing equipment from the big vendors. Even more if you're targeted by DDoS attacks, which represent the worst case: tens of gigabits of <100B packets.

Source: work for a SaaS company, we tried it all