skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am writing this on a 2011 macbook air -it's my battered lightweight notebook computer and still my main device. My next laptop will be a chromebook. I only really continue to use the mac for a small handful of mac specific hard drive run software programmes such as Adobe Creative Suite 4 (the last disk based version).

I replaced the battery last year and am unimpressed by newer Mac products.

Apple have completely lost me as a customer after years of my buying their hardware. I use an Android phone and consider Google to be the new Apple at this point in history.
This is a bizarre ad homimen way of not answering a fairly simple question where a guy looks at a tool and says hey what can this tool be used for.

Especially when people have invested a couple billion dollars in the tool.

I actually asked this question of Joseph Lubin, a founder of Ethereum, when I interviewed him for a podcast. Unlike you he did actually have some answers for it, he mentioned peer to peer insurance markets, crowdfunding, seamless payments to content creators.

He fits your description and was happy to explain. It was an interesting discussion. I remain unconvinced, in the sense that I think the hype is out of control and 99.99% of the initiatives in this sector are essentially scams, but clearly there are some smart people working on it. Who knows.

As an investment I still think it's a dumpster fire, and my question is still an excellent one in my opinion.
Sounds like the real expensive thing is living in Seattle.
Agreed. Crypto is experiencing manipulation like stocks, bonds, debentures, CDs and derivatives of all kinds. Sharks, snakes, wolves are part of the game now for all kinds of reasons but the development communities also have a real chance at creating a better balance with assets based on the blockchain.
No, but there are extremes that can be easily labeled as such and this one is clearly speculation, not investing.
> Korea may already be at the point where a 50% sustained drawdown plunges a significant fraction of the population into hardship. That, in turn, could trigger a recession.

That seems unlikely. Something like 2M of 51M people have any crypto there, and only a small fraction would be overextended significantly. Anyone buying a couple months ago would still be up.
So I guess I'd say my point is that you say "I'll mine, so that won't happen" NOW, which is both fair and rational. But let's say tomorrow we discover a critical vulnerability in the bitcoin source that's been overlooked and causes the whole thing to be destabilized and, effectively worthless. Everyone moves on to BTC 2.0 (or whatever the fork is). Will you still mine original BTC? No. Why would you? It'd be a waste of resources.
I remember when former threads about this came up, some people were certain that it was impossible that a mistake like this could come down to "pushing the wrong button," because surely there would be safeguards and sanity checks in place.

Ironically, moving the ballistic missile alert to an actual physical button separate from everything else would have been better than... this. This looks like it's literally just an HTML page on an internal network. Do they send the alert command through the query string or something?
Yes, absolutely. Because there is a difference between images and reality. Not just a theoretical, ivory-tower conceptual difference. Physical difference.

Would we then expect that people with disorders that make it harder for them to distinguish reality from non-reality, would be more affected by video games?
(author here) I debated adding MikroTik because I heard a rumor that they were backing off on their wireless products and focusing more on routing / switching. So I should at least add them as an option routing/switching hardware.

But then they just released a 60Ghz short range radio ... so maybe the rumor was wrong!
Going for the 'technically correct' award, are we?

Yes, the correct term is indeed 'cartridge'.
A way to ask these questions that sometimes works better, is something like "can you explain the business value added by doing this, so that I can be sure my implementation achieves that?"

Asking "why X, why Y, why Z" can come off as challenging their knowledge, and questions like "would you also need W?" tend to get answered "yes, sounds good" so now you've just made more work for yourself.
Again, how is this different from a threat to sue? Should out-of-court civil settlements be made illegal? All of them are coercive in nature, and a lawsuit almost always results in a lot of dirty laundry being aired. Does this make every settled lawsuit 'legal blackmail'? If so, does the word even have any meaning?
It's just a hassle.

For you the cost in time and money is worth it. For other people like myself it's just not. I know "virtue signaling" is the hot new way to disagree with people on the internet but you should use it in a more discriminating manner.

Getting a permit is not free in terms of time or money. Getting a license takes even MORE time (pointless outdated mandatory education classes) and MORE money (lessons). That's not even considering taking the written and driving tests themselves. Or going to the DMV.

Yeah I know, all of this is super easy, look at the kind of people who drive, how hard could it be? But you know what I could be doing with my TIME and with my MONEY instead? All the things I want to do that I value more than driving.

Obviously this thinking is just amplified when you take into consideration gas/insurance/maintenance. And this doesn't even get into the psychological impact of driving a car. You know what one of my favorite things in the world is? Reading a book on my 2 hour commute home on the train. My sister just recently got her license and I can honestly say (no virtue signaling I promise) that it has taken a psychological toll on her. She would admit herself that being a driver has made her a more angry and on edge person than she was before.

Also it's pretty rosy speculation to suggest access to national parks has anything to do with motivation for car ownership. I think it's safe to say that can be covered almost entirely by "I need it for my job."
Well it doesn't matter what it was last month if you just took the plunge... So many stories of people putting in their college funds, taking out loans, using credit cards, exchange margin, etc.
I'd be interested to know how many DefinitelyTyped contributors agree with the "usually" part. My impression is that problems specifying types for existing libraries are the exception rather than the rule.
Fun chart from Reddit today:

https://i.redd.it/dnlduddb5ha01.jpg
Depends on your car, they said it's a beater. Of course an insurance company will give you significant price reduction if you have, say, a late 90s Toyota Corolla or Honda Civic with a 80 hp engine, as compared to something more modern and fun with twice the power.
The question is whether people have invested a significant amount of their life savings in bitcoin, not whether they own a significant amount of bitcoin proportional to the total market. For people who have, they may be panicking about how they'll support themselves in their later years, they may have invested in a lifestyle with the expectation that they can pay for it with Bitcoin's growth, and so on and so forth.

People's lives may be ruined by this - they've often essentially been scammed into investing in cryptocurrency because they cannot understand the risks. If a financial adviser were promoting bitcoin to most people, it'd be illegal. I don't think it's fair to say this is OK because it won't affect people you know.
> defining how data is being processed using column operations is easier, more intuitive, less error-prone and easier to maintain than using purely set-operations.

And every APL programmer just nodded in agreement.
Fewer and fewer fools left to fool each go-around.
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I've had similar problems in past relationships - for some of my partners, if they were anywhere within earshot of me, I could not get anything productive done. The mere feeling of their presence made me think of them, feel like I had to interact with them, etc..

The partners with whom this did not happen were people who were as, if not more, driven than me when it came to working on side projects. They might be 3 feet away from me, but they're so deeply focused on what they're doing that it's contagious. It's hard to retroactively put into words, but the reality is that for some partners, any presence of theirs distracted me whereas others were so good at behaving as if they were alone that it made me believe that I was alone as well.

My take is that some people, even if you really like them in many ways, are just not great for you to be around.

(It is worth noting that I have a hard time focusing in general.)
Marriage creates a legal protection between partners which as far as I know is stronger than the employer/employee relationship, so the company is rational to be uncomfortable with such situations in competitive situations where court is plausible. Part of the big money game is playing by more restricted rules.
Did you ever consider Cap'N Proto [1] as well? How does it compare? It looks like it could easily be integrated as a third transport encoding besides JSON and ProtoBuf.

[1] https://capnproto.org/
Ahh the "time to buy cheap coins" rally of the die-hard bitcoin shysters. Your own post says "It's not liquid enough yet, creates no need to middle men and Bitcoin itself is now being manipulated by futures contracts based on supply being increased artificially." Does that sound like buying now is a good idea? Doesn't to me...

Bitcoin is, was and always will be a highly manipulated penny stock. It spiked from $1000 to $20k for absolutely no reason, and now it is dropping down to $10k for absolutely no reason. Any price bitcoin spikes or drops to has no reason behind it... what kind of "store-of-value" / "currency" does that?
Beyond the concentration, there are a lot of millionaries out there. Much more than 1k. I always tell that I know more crypto-millionaries than startup ones.
It is still popular with newcomers, people that don't come from a structured CS background, etc. Because the barrier to entry is just so low. Meaning, it's a built in, working option on hosting providers, deceptively simple in the beginning, etc. Also, PHP still dominates the "host it yourself e-commerce" space, because of Magento, Opencart, and PrestaShop. Oh, and WordPress...it's some insane percentage of all sites. And lousy plugins are everywhere.

We could ignore that crowd, but guiding them down the right path is better for everyone.

Edit: I'm also not convinced that node.js, which is gaining ground with the same crowd, doesn't have similar issues. Footguns aren't unique to PHP.
A lyft line at 10pm on a sunday cost me 5.30 U$S. I did not have a direct bus from those two locations, and we were two people.

Its a lesson on basic microeconomics. If its cheaper, more people will use it. And it is now way cheaper than cabs.
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> Taxi's are usually exempt

From local laws. From physical laws they are not. As a kid long time ago, I was sitting in a Fiat 124 when a bus driver wasn't paying attention to the road ahead and hit the stationary car on intersection in full city speed, thankfully it was direct hit from behind and there was nothing in front of the car, so there were no serious and only some very light injuries, but it was ugly.

But I cannot image having a kid sitting freely in a lap nowadays just because the car in question is exempt from regulations. There doesn't even have to be a collision, emergency braking (either human or autonomous) is enough to throw the kid off against the car interior and sustain injuries (yep, had that too in the old no-rear-seat-belt-times when an ambulance without siren appeared oncoming wrong way, almost bit my tongue off).

Don't use restraint systems just when they are required by regulations. And especially in nowadays tenfold traffic.
Yeah, nice use of log chart there.
(author here) great suggestions, thanks. If you don't mind I'll probably add these links to the site somewhere.
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Anyone have experience with hyperboria? Looks like there is a node in SF, I'd be interested in setting up a node in the south bay.
Memo: Foxconn cost to Wisconsin nearing $4.5B
People make bad decisions. While it would be odd to be suicidal if you held bitcoin over the period you mentioned, there will be people who bought in at the top. There will also be a smaller subset of people who overextended themselves and bought in at the top. All I'm saying is that there could be people who are genuinely in trouble now, regardless of how short the time was.
This is what happens when you have high correlation and low exchange liquidity . All it takes is 150 coins sold ($1.5 million) to make it fall 1000 points, and then the other exchanges and coins mirror this. If the major exchanges were consolidated there would be much less volatility. http://https://greyenlightenment.com/why-bitcoin-is-so-volat...
i first thought about a is a volatile (in C/C++) and external clock is incrementing A just right
or
easily you pass some PC (program counter) as reference to fn(int &a); protoyped function
Nice work guys. Selecting by country would be great.
I agree with you. Thanks to a multitude of cases in German one can jumble words around without losing their intended function within a sentence.

English can be more fun because of the inherent ambiguity, but any parallels to jazz and classical music are a little far fetched.
I love that it is a classic bitcoin log chart designed to hide the massive volatility of bitcoin. The financial prowess of the average bitcoin "investor" never ceases to amaze. As they say, a sucker is born every minute and a fool and their money are soon parted...
Actually, rssing.com has nothing (directly) to do with your RSS feed. It seems to be a content scraper and mirroring/archiving "service," if I'm feeling charitable. And it looks like a site that wants to redirect users to its copy of users' content in order to get ad revenue if I'm feeling less-than-charitable.

In fairness to Google, that's always been a problem, and even in the good-old-days in which keyword-based searches were more effective, there were content aggregators that would copy the entire contents of phpBB-style bulletin boards (and USENET newsgroups) in order to rehost them and get clicks.

On the one hand, I want to say that it's precisely the sort of SEO/spammy practice that Google should be deprioritizing in search results. On the other hand, sometimes these copies/mirrors of content are the only extant copies of content when an original blog goes away. Although the motivations of the owners of these sorts of sites may not be as pure as that of archive.org, the result for the searcher is equivalent: the desired information is found even if it's only a rehosted copy.
Interesting points. I suppose that's one possibility, but I'm more of an optimist.
Well, I think that might be explained due to the popularity of cryptocurrencies amongst an audience that is otherwise not economically inclined. They end up spending some money on bitcoin due to "hearsay" or what they read in the news, and think they can quickly make a lot of money.

Without an understanding of how much can actually be lost. So when this happens, they might not think in percentages but in "how much did I just loose". Combined with the regret of "I wish I sold earlier".

This is just me speculating, I have no idea if that's what goes on in their mind, I just imagine it is.
Their solution to the problem was to add an additional "BDM False Alarm" entry to the list of alerts which will send out the message that the previous alert was a false alarm and there is no threat.

Perhaps they should also add a "false alarm that this was a false alarm, there really is a threat after all" option in case the "false alarm" option is selected accidentally after warning about a real threat. /s

I don't know how anyone in Hawaii can be expected to trust or take these alerts seriously after this.
> The Enterprise doesn’t care about mobile — it really doesn’t.

The enterprise didn't care about minicomputers, until it did.

The enterprise didn't care about PCs, until it did.

The enterprise didn't care about Web applications, until it did.

In each of the above cases, there were people insisting that The Enterprise would never follow the general market. The Enterprise has special needs, they said. The Enterprise needs things the new tech can't provide, they said. They kept saying that right up to the moment The Enterprise finally moved and made their objections irrelevant.

Enterprise customers see the hot new stuff general consumers have access to. They want it. And they command big enough budgets that someone will eventually get the hot new stuff up-armored and Enterprise-Readied so they can use it to peel off a share of those budgets. By the time this actually gets deployed the hot new tech isn't hot or new anymore, but that doesn't matter. Once the first enterprise domino falls, the rest tend to fall pretty predictably.

You can make a good living for a long time selling legacy tech into the enterprise market. But "a long time" does not mean forever. Enterprise software buyers move slowly, but they do move.
I think you've identified the right problems--security, pain of maintenance, performance. I don't think you're solving in them in the best way, but don't let that stop you! Hope your business is successful.
Yep, these comparisons between Bitcoin and other successful technologies are like a new type of fallacy (techno-fallacy?) where people assume that because it's technically-complex it is somehow destined to succeed like other technically-complex successes.

It's a form of survivor bias because you never see or think about the technically-complex failures, or "not-successes", like the Tamagatchi, Laser disc, WebTV, Webvan, etc. I mean, how come none of it's proponents compare Bitcoin to the Segway? Sure, you can say we have hoverboards now but those are not Segway, the same way Eth and Monero are not Bitcoin.
I always think there will only ever be 21 million bitcoins in existence ever. Ever. So what do you think is a fair price for that?
When you tie yourself to a single manufacturer then you're going to be disappointed very often. It's impossible for one manufacturer to have the perfect product for everyone.
Well, you don’t, so if that’s a requirement you’ve got to do it some other way.
It's more a comment on the volatility than anything. People see that something is up 100% in one month and assume it won't lose 25% of value the next. We humans are not super rational.
I cannot wait for video cards to flood the market and become reasonably priced again
I've been getting a lot of "This is the 'penny stock' of bitcoin!" ads.
Luna (Programming Language) Hits Its 1.0 Beta Release
It's funny, in discussions about webmail vs local email client, people often say "why would I want a local client anymore, webmail is all I need".

Well... this is why you might want it. Your data under your control. Your choice of tools.

If you're using GMail and Google decides to turn GMail to crap, well, bad luck.
By that logic if it goes to zero there technically is no uncertainty about the price nor any volatility
I don't think Kazakhstan is currently on US radar. But for Russian's it's definitely attractive territory to steal. They're just waiting when country will be weakened like Ukraine to steal everything possible. Nothing basically changed after USSR: steal and conquer if not possible bring chaos and degradation. This can be clearly seen in: Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic, Abkhazia, etc.
BitConnect is shutting down its lending and exchange platform
Why would the answer to this ever be no?

If you identify as female, you should obviously be allowed.
>> ... get some Rust code in.

Maybe I misread it, but to me it sounded like Mozilla did not have Rust support in Thunderbird, but it seems that there is some already ...
> there are road conditions you cannot drive in without snow chains

Where is this? I live in northern part of Scandinavia, and we manage just fine with normal winter tires. Snow chains are pretty much only for semi trucks. Most people even use studless winter tires these days.

And of course rental cars have winter tires in the winter season, anything else would be illegal.
I have walked in that temperature. Its only something the young and very healthy can do, and the wind cuts like a knife. I wouldn't bike in that weather due to wind chill and the slushy nature of most roads, as well as the fact its very hilly where I live.

I cannot see an entire society doing this, in areas that range from small towns to medium sized cities.
The author does a fair job explaining what he means:

> The few mobile enterprise apps currently out there are more about productivity triage — a quick glance while your getting a latte — nothing more.

Do you disagree with that assertion, or just his general statement?
What do you mean "no reason"? Supply and demand are the reasons the prices are shaped the way they are. It's a near perfect market.
Careful, given the current atmosphere of sexual politics I'm not sure it's safe for even a woman to suggest women are more timid than men.

(in the past this would be sarcasm but these days who knows)
> Something like 2M of 51M people have any crypto there, and only a small fraction would be overextended significantly

How do you know that?

For traditional securities, we have margin and prudential lending rules. These systems aren't perfect. But they incorporate lessons from crises past. One of those lessons is about how system risk can grow exponentially unexpectedly quickly.
Good to know, what is it based upon? I know you can spend coin to prioritize a transaction, is it formulaic?
I can get a car from AVIS for $30 to $40 CAD per day (not including gas: typically that is another $10-12 or so).

I have a membership in a car share, but I rarely bother with it for the above reason.

For an hour or two or something, it's good.

Most recently used it for trips to emergency. I mean, the co-op car is out there on the street, walking distance, whereas you need a reservation for the rental car, can only get it during the opening hours, from an outfit that is several miles away.

Yet, there is no guarantee that the share cars will be there for emergencies; it's just luck. If it's 3 a.m. the odds are excellent. 3 p.m. on a Saturday; not so good.
You are missing the distinction between a numerical solution to a set of equations and an analytical one. Usually, the analytical solution gives you the dynamics of a system at any point in time and space given a set of parameters.

For numerical solutions you have to run each individual set of parameters to find the corresponding values in time and space (not even considering stochastic equations). This is very computationally expensive.

This is the value in solving these things analytical — hence the prize.
It doesn’t help that every news organization in the world is talking about bitcoin and even worse, some of these people are predicting $100,000 price tags. Who wouldn’t want a 6x return from the peak?
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So you're saying it's "different this time"?

Curious, none of the things you mention indicate how this speculative bubble is any different from houses, stocks, or tulips.
No public, known, good investment suddenly becomes a bad investment in a few weeks, unless something terrible happens in between.
Compared to some currencies, it is. Brazil Real has lost 80% of its value relative to the dollar since 2013. I think this is overdone considered the last time Korea threatened regulation it only fell 10%.