skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great catch, I missed that.

EDIT: Wait, I rushed and misread your comment. Why wouldn't they eliminate these schools if the new schools produced better candidates? I would imagine it was the opposite: remove schools because the new schools produce better candidates, and time is finite.
I never understood how this works. If you donate $X to charity, you reduce your taxable income by $X but now have $X less. If you paid your tax on $X, you would still have $X-Y. How can the former approach save you any money?
California (not bay area), but primarily interviewing for remote roles.
YouTube TV reportedly has 300,000 paying subscribers less than a year in
How I let drinking take over my life
> Your company's network traffic is made up of a bunch of random protocols

Basically anything other than HTTPS
aka "A hipster makes a poor life choice for attention"
Mark Zuckerberg is ‘rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic’ – Andrew Keen
My biggest complaint with PowerShell is that it's unnecessarily inscrutable -- filled with Bash-like and Perl-like syntax and semantics without the legacy to justify it. I wish writing in PowerShell was as easy as writing C# but instead it's almost as bad as writing Bash scripts.

It's not good for programming or scripting. There are so many good ideas in PowerShell but it's wrapped in a weird body.
> you'd have a huge amount of money tied up in this network, and people would be spending it as if it were real bitcoin when it isn't

Note that when you have 1 LN channel open, that doesn't mean you can only transact with 1 person. You only need 1 channel open to get on the network, and then you can transact with everybody else on the network.

How is it not "real bitcoin"?

> the double spending problem is truly only solved when the channels are closed.

How are you going to double-spend on a LN channel? Your counterparty knows the state of the channel just as well as you do. You physically can't update the channel state without your counterparty's approval. Part of updating the channel state is revealing to your counterparty the secret hash that will allow them to steal the money from the previous state if you broadcast that previous state's HTLC instead of the updated state.

The double-spending problem is solved by it being possible to settle the channel on the blockchain. The blockchain is still required, but it's not like you can cheaply or easily double-spend a channel at any point in time before it's settled on the chain. If you try to do that, your counterparty will just take all of the money.
You have secrets, some of them worth a lot:

- cookies (e.g., for online banking sessions)
- keys (e.g., for pushing to git repos)
- browser history
- identities (oh, did you post anonymously somewhere?)
- ...

PoC code that runs in-browser exists. It's only a matter of time before it's weaponized.
I bought $10 worth, and that was my 'research'.
Siemens.

https://electrek.co/2018/01/11/aes-siemens-launch-fluence-en...
Another commenter replied to your misunderstanding between peak supply and peak demand, but I’ll address the issue you actually mentioned too.

Since 1980, we have never had a year where we found more untapped oil reserves than were consumed[1]. Can you explain to me how oil production can continue keep up with demand when demand outstrips new discoveries — and has, for nearly forty years?

[1]: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/11/peak-oil-perspective/
I am betting on bitcoin and blockchain being important in the future just like I am betting on a given stock to do well in the future because of the way I believe the world is going. The major world currencies do not have to default for that to be a reality so not sure why you portray it as if that's what I said.

All investments come with a risk the longer your perspective the less the risk depending on which asset we are talking about. Bitcoin/blochain is one of those that will be less risky over time unless the world moves in an anti-technology direction and I don't see that happening.
...and the Kenya Space Corporation in Artemis.
The year petroleum usage peaks is unknowable at present, but it obvious its coming. But the year will only be significant in hindsight. There have been many plateau years before. In 2007 Worldwide usage was 86.3 MBPD, in '08 it was 85.8, in '09 it was 84.3, then in 2010 it was back up to 86.4. All due to the economic slump, of course, but now every pundit will saying with every tiny slowdown "the end is nigh".
And furthermore, that shit is going to $0.
Have you factored in the energy costs of running the thousands of financial institutions and associated infrastructure required to maintain them? I personally don't have time to run an energy audit of the entire financial industry, but I can tell you theres a lot more infrastructure required.
factor in the engery required to:
- construct giant buildings for financial offices
- maintain financial offices
- commute to and from offices
- construct, deploy, and maintain ATMs
- construct and maintain physical bank locations
- server infrastructure
how much of the energy required to build and maintain all of this infrastructure is from a renewable source? Proof of Work miners are at least incentivized to find the cheapest possible source of energy. Renewables! Almost free, unlimited energy!
I thought there was a change to the protocol that prevented ASICs from being as effective?

Perhaps I misunderstood in the context of Bitcoin, but in the context of the investment in GPUs providing support to pricing, I think that is validated just from the news a few days ago that GPU pricing because of crypto demand was causing pricing issues in PC-gaming. And the same principle should apply to whatever "effort-based" mining technology is in use; any significant investment in hardware will be a disincentive to allowing improvements in the efficiency of said hardware.
These kids started a book club for minority boys. It’s the most popular club
More importantly pain in chronic cases may be only a sign of neurological deficiencies rather than an indicator of anything in particular.
I was under the impression that transaction malleability is more of an issue on the legacy chain. Where can I read more about the issues you mention?
1. Integrate donations using a blockchain-based payments API

2. Mention on your CV that you've integrated with blockchain-based payments APIs.

3. Recruiter searches for CVs with the word 'blockchain' and finds yours.
1) Create smart contract with some use case. For example a secure Chat message system
2) Make the register function of your smart contract (solidity in this case) payable. Meaning that the user can register with his public/private key pair only when he's sending eth with the transaction.
3) make his pair valid for example 1 month to enable some kind of subscription.

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Thats only one idea, another would be make the smart contract and charge for your android/ios app accessing the data in the blockchain. In the second scenario users could bypass the pay wall by using the contract directly, but most wouldn't want to bother with that.
It's absurd to me that chemical and biological weapons are banned, but nuclear weapons are not.

There is an international campaign to ban nuclear weapons, and I hope more people learn about it. The organization won the nobel peace prize in 2017.

Many nations last year signed on to the ban. Let's encourage the rest to also sign it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Campaign_to_Abol...
Other newer cryptocurrencies don't have the same power requirements.

Your comment sounds repeated from somewhere else. Do your own research, everyone is trying to manipulate everyone else in this space.
A company that develops a blockchain-based product/service is not necessarily an ICO company officially for administrative and legal reasons. For example, in the USA, company A can release a product B via ICO. The product has an ICO structure, but company A is legally a "corporation" with shareholders, doing business as usual. Looking at the issue that way, developers will receive their shares/options as it has been done in the past. Hope this makes sense.

Note: This is definitely not the only way companies are structured.
I've found this to be the case in most things, even not as complex as financial services, if you look close enough. Sometimes what you're seeing is a local maxima, where there's a rough period required to get to a better state that nobody is ready to take quite yet, and other times it's just that complexity is much more common that we like to think.

The obvious example is dumb laws. Almost every dumb law has at least some good effect it imparts, which is why it was put in place. Unfortunately the problems it causes are what is usually trotted out to explain why it's dumb and should be changed or removed, giving little or no credit to the problems it actually prevents (or disincentivizes at least).
It basically boils down to

> On Wayland we are able to test the code. Let’s take an
> example: we get input events through libinput. For this we
> have unit tests through mocking. Thus we can automate the
> testing of the lowest layer.
> ...
> What we did in the past was taking these new features and
> bring them to X11. But there we cannot test. There is no
> way on X11 to e.g. fake a touch screen. On X11 we cannot
> test how this behaves if we lock the screen or used
> Alt+Tab.

I'm not a fan of the move away from X11 (or away from an X11-like model, at least), but it's hard to argue with the above.
I see that the author has done significant open source work, so it's possible he just received an offer. But I'm thinking the more likely path was that the company reached out with a pitch and asked him to interview, and I wonder why his principles didn't stop him then.
San Francisco or Mumbai? UN envoy encounters homeless life in California
Here is how Linus Torvalds describes a good commit message.
https://github.com/torvalds/subsurface-for-dirk/blob/a48494d...
I realized.

Ideas are 1% implementation is 99%.
What's wrong with .\example.exe? Or .example.exe, .$exampleWithPath for PS1 files? Just examples that I see in the wild
Powershell has short aliases (and you can define your own too) for the most frequently used commands, and I find the process of reformatting text output between commands to get them to pipe to each other and not choke on formatting differences more cumbersome and time consuming than any extra verbiage added by powershell.
University of Waterloo also recommends Three Easy Pieces as a supplementary text for their OS course.
In contrast, those are the reason that I carry a phone and pay for service. An internet connection is a bonus, but the phone features are the only thing I use it for that I wouldn't rather do on a more traditional computer.
You can also opt to skip handling these edge cases by either copying (decreasing performance) or unwrapping (decreasing reliability). The great thing is that Rust gives you the choice.
In large part, those startups would never be profitable on their own, and so rely on the tech giants in order to pay back investors. The investors, in turn, only invest because they believe the startup will be bought out. The viability of the startup thereby relies on the giant.
It's one of the most boring game out there. The losers and the potential winners are decided after a couple of turns. Then you're just powerless and waiting for the game to finish.
> cross-platform automation

> bash

Nope. Show me the script that gets a list of mounted filesytems for locally attached disks and flags any that are larger than 20G and are more than 90% full.

Since it is cross platform it will run the same on linux/bsd/os x and windows, right?
> The median salary for women working full-time is about 80 percent of men’s.

I don't need to read any further because I've read it all before. Women tend do different jobs to men. Easier, safer, less responsibility and less stress. That's not a wage gap, it's just a different choice of career. Which makes the next statement downright offensive:

> That gap, put in other terms, means women are working for free 10 weeks a year.
Because investing in coins is non-productive, those coins don't generate anything besides demand. If one believes in the technology, one should be investing in companies working on expanding blockchain tech. Also blockchain != coins.
> Demonstrating the value of, and rationale for, those "onerous financial regulations" has been the one actual good result of this blockchain nonsense.

It's also helped demonstrate that plenty of financial regulations have nothing to do with preventing scams and fraud and everything to do with deputising the financial system to act as a law-enforcement body that goes after violations of awful laws such as drug prohibition.
Yes, I wish I knew those techniques way back. But her methods have been great and I have been able to do a number of coursera and other MOOC classes
A big problem is latency even today anything above 3s is unacceptable for mining, half of miners are not validating blocks before starting to mine because it takes to "long", miners spy on other miners and then try to mine empty blocks, Bitcoin doesn't have a lot of orphan blocks today because mining is centralised in China, do you think increasing the block size will help with any of these problems?

One thing is to test on a controlled environment another completely diferent thing is to test on real world.
I concur. For me personally, PowerShell's dependency on the .Net Framework just makes me write what I need in C# and then deploy to clients using GP. In my environment the client computers don't have a consistent .Net version which follows that they don't have a consistent PS version installed either. For a recent data collection program it was faster and easier to write it in C# and target .Net V2 then to fiddle with PS, and its execution policy https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4037939/powershell-says-...
The world's second-largest economy, with over a billion people and 20 percent of the total world population, has the type of capital controls that inspire people to find creative ways to move their money. That same country accounts for 60+%, a majority, of Bitcoin mining.
I would say, er, this time, partially. On the patches pushed by David, apparently he confused an acronym, and the patch Linus ranted about being garbage may not be so garbage-y. At least, David pushed back on his messages with some of his reasoning, and a kind note to tone down the shouty (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1801.2/05282.html). Linus's rants on the general Intel situation still seem to apply. :)

People get angry, it happens (a bit more with Linus than some, it's a personality flaw, but it's not like any of us are perfect). I guess the general thing is more that, for some reason, people are way too overly fascinated with Shouty Linus compared to Linus the general kernel developer. There's a lot of posts on the Linux Kernel list... but the odds of a single post from this list being shared on social media dramatically increases for every Linus swear word included.
Darwin’s theory wrong, nobody saw ape turning into man: Minister Satyapal Singh
Is Native Linux App Development in Decline?
Vanguard chief: You will never see a Bitcoin fund from us
Really?? That would be great! What’s your source?
If you're going to buy a car anyway, it might already be today.

If you're deciding between a used Nissan LEAF and a ~2005 Honda Civic, the Honda is still going to be cheaper all-in. By a lot.

I daily drive a LEAF and like it a lot. It's still cost us a LOT more than my wife's 2005 CR-V over the last 3 years, because of depreciation and carrying collision insurance (due to financing the car at a 0% interest rate, but I still need to carry insurance, so the collision insurance is effectively the finance charge for me).

Per mile, I pay about 0.25 kWh, which at MA electric rates comes to ~$0.05/mile for power. That would equate to a 35 mpg car buying gas at $1.75/gallon. Plus, the car needs no oil changes and is very easy on brake pads. But a 12 year old Honda (or Toyota) will be tough to beat with an electric on an all-in basis.
By the estimate, peak oil is still a long time off, and just crossing peak oil does not mean that oil will become unimportant over night.
I'd argue having an easy way to snooze the alarm would lead to more health damage than dealing with acute pain promptly (i.e. burst appendix is something you really need to take care of now, not when it's most convenient).

However, I agree on having an off switch for chronic pain would probably be better than what we have now.
A Eulogy for the Headphone Jack
Somewhat unrelated, but hte first concern that popped into my head is how the information contained ties to specific version of its subject?

Like, the Python book looks awesome but I have to use Python 2.7 day-to-day (don't ask). Are Python 2/3 stuff clearly marked?
Root Cause of Reboot Issue Identified; Updated Guidance
Perhaps it would be good to port Ekiga, to allow for VoIP calls to be made without fully working phone baseband drivers:

https://ekiga.im/
> Accusations of being autistic as an explanation for abrasive behavior are almost never sympathetic. They are almost never an attempt to understand why someone is coming across poorly and find a way to better interact with them. They boil down to a suggestion of incompetence and a dismissal of the person's position, as well as any legitimate anger or frustration they may be feeling.

Completely disagree. The OP said "blunt(/direct/honest)" is a common feature of autism and autism is common in the tech world. Just because some people may take issue with others being blunt or overly direct doesn't mean it's a negative thing, nor an insult or an attack on autism.

Acceptance of this trait may be cultural but primarily it seems to me to be a personal preference.

Every person's personality is built on a multitude of positive/negative traits, nobody is perfect and it's not that big of a deal having a few flaws. Flaws are often the the type of thing which makes people interesting. But I'm not even convinced this is even a flaw in the first place.

Some of the smartest people I know are blunt/direct and it's a personality trait that I personally seek out in my friends/partners. I find it makes for the best type of business partner and reduces significant amounts of drama and long-term conflict. But I understand it's not for everyone and lots of people misunderstand their intentions or are uncomfortable with raw honesty. But outside of the person not being rude, talking out of place, having basic social grace, etc... that's on them if they don't like it. It's not a flaw in itself, only if it's used incorrectly.

Of course not all people who are blunt/direct are autistic either. I don't think the OP made the implication either. That's common sense, we all like to make generalizations or identify patterns of behaviour, but that does not mean they believe it applies to all people or that they are implying correlation always equals causation.

This sounds to me like a misguided attempt at protecting people from any type of potential discomfort, while ignoring the context of the use of such language and the situational context. This is a primary issue with this political correctness fad. Not to mention valuing hypothetical/potential feelings over honesty, truth, and reality. Certain words, descriptions, or generalizations such as this are not inherently wrong or insulting or malicious. They may be used wrong or be insulting in certain context, but what the OP said is not one of those situations.
My girlfriend has chronic neuropathic pain. Like everything else in life, moderation is key. Some pain is useful but too much of it is not a good thing.
My guess is politics. If you want voters to push to end the shutdown, make it hurt regardless if the shutdown requires it.

This also happened with national parks. They actually chained up the entrances during the shutdown as if people can't access a park if the gov't is shutdown.
The Death of an Angel
The IQ's of Academic Elites
For those of you doubting that this type of market signalling happens, look at Kodak: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-09/kodak-sto...
It was not an advice, it was a comment on HN (I'm not a lawyer either, so I can't provide advices.)
Is this what they use for self driving cars?
Facebook invests in French centre for artificial intelligence
Didn't work for me, I think you have to prepend with a & so

& notepad.exe

Which isn't complicated I agree but annoyed me.
Once we have reached a point where we can diagnose all conditions that may cause pain, this may work. But we are far, far away from that.
A lot of altcoins have come up that are ASIC-resistant. A lot of these use memory as a bound, but GPUs sill have the memory bandwidth to make mining fast.
Which benefits exactly? I've yet to see a problem where Blockchain is the best solution except doing ICOs which is not a problem. Also comparing the internet (having utility form the start) to blockchain (since 10 years nothing but gambling) does not make any sense...
An Interview with Matt Cutts: Can the Government Grow a Money Mustache?
Bit of pricing advice: businesses making a lot of money don’t mind paying for software. I think the $10 flat fee will come back and bite you in the future. SaaS metrics was so important for us and we were dropping $150 a month on ChartMogul when our MRR was only $3000.
Erdogan is an incredibly dangerous leader. Did you see recently how he had his secret service openly and brazenly beating up peaceful protestors at events in Washington DC?

And he recently got the Turkish constitution changed in his favor, openly citing Adolf Hitler's Germany as an example of an effective presidential government.

I recommend doing some reading to understand the situation in Turkey
How to Think (and Not to Think) During Database Design
"Less than absolutely total standard compliance" != "a significant challenge compared to absolutely total standard compliance", especially if the differences are clearly documented.
The whole post sounds more like virtue signalling than any serious critique to me.

While the hype surrounding the space may be a nuisance, especially for idealistic people like the author, it's a necessary add-on to the jumpstart of anything groundbreaking.
Bitcoin is still using (and probably will always use) SHA-256 as the proof of work problem, which ASICs are great for since it takes negligible memory.
I love how Americans immediately forgot the time when Erdogan's goons beat the shit out of their own people with the tacit and satisfied approval of the orange shitstain.

http://dailycaller.com/2017/09/22/erdogans-goons-beat-up-som...
Show HN: A simple, anonymous collection of awful (or awesome) wedding stories
That's the problem with "rockstars and "benevolent dictators", the Linuses and the Elon Musks, isn't it? Everything is great until they go away for whatever reason and nobody can fill the void. Hell, there's people still doubting Tim Cook on whether he can fill Jobs' shoes.

I wonder if something like FreeBSD is better suited for sustainability - from what I can tell, there's no "dictator" figure there, no critical single point of failure.
monopoly analysis feels outdated.

most government policies are rightly evaluated on how they impact society overall, not a single issue group (SIG). for instance, it benefits society overall to tax cigarettes even though it harms employees and companies related to the tobacco industry.

why not view monopolies with the same societal lens?

for argument's sake, assume google does have a monopoly position in search and abuses it. the resulting cash flows enabled self-driving cars, free worldwide communication, and cheaper smartphones.

so google hurt search but helped other industries, increasing competition in automobiles, communication, and smartphones -- all of which are larger industries. is this better or worse for society?

understanding how tech should help society is a complex and critical issue, but the pursuit of truth requires a balanced, dispassionate analysis from the perspective of society, not one SIG.