skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't fully understand why with the best universities and the best startups, the U.S. is not number one. Of course, it's a big country with not only tech companies in the economy, that seems counterintuitive to include this in the calculation though.
Ask if the Masons changed their signals for distress every time a lodge has their charter withdrawn.
http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/73...

> Low-income South Koreans are finding it harder and harder to rise to the middle or high-income classes through their own efforts and abilities, a recent study shows. Just two out of every ten households saw their economic status rise through increased income and assets over a three-year period, the findings indicate.

Crypto provides an alternative economy where class mobility isn't broken in the same ways. Youth will continue to flock to it until the local economies sort themselves out.
Another day, another HN title changed without any clear rationale. Was the original "Stripe ends Bitcoin support" really so bad that it had to be changed to "Ending Bitcoin Support"?
There is nothing in this article that says anything about petrodollar. The U.S. will lose the global reserve currency once it's no longer used in oil exchanges. The U.S. will do anything in its power to retain that right as already proven in the Iraq war and countless other debaucheries.
> There is currently a shadow-banned question in this thread which asks the following > How prevalent is masonry in the bay area and the startup world?

That comment was killed by HN software which is based on past abuses by spammers and trolls. To my knowledge, our software hasn't been inducted into any secret societies.

It's off topic to complain about killed comments and especially to post wrong speculations about why they were killed. Instead, if you see a dead comment that shouldn't be dead, vouch for it by clicking its timestamp to go to its page, then clicking 'vouch' at the top. When a dead comment gets enough vouches—often just one—it gets resurrected. This way the community gets to override decisions made both by the software and by moderators, on a comment-by-comment basis.
New film from the creators of Wallace and Gromit is a plasticine masterpiece
Being Better Than Google at Machine Learning
The parent was suggesting a superior risk pool. One big risk pool nation-wide isn't superior. The bottom 50% of healthcare consumers represent a mere 3% of all healthcare spending each year. That's the ideal risk pool, we know who that pool consists of: overwhelmingly younger people.

5% of healthcare consumers, are responsible for about 50% of all healthcare costs. That pool consists overwhelmingly of people over the age of 50. That's the high risk pool. Including them into any pool, isn't an improvement to the pool's cost structure.

What you're arguing for is that including them is superior morally. That's a perfectly legitimate premise obviously. It's radically inferior financially/economically, if we're talking about building risk pools.
Somehow it always ends up there, like that's a "legal no go". I.e. "that would have to go through the supreme court" or "that's the constitution". I realize it's hard to change some things (like how is Gerrymandering for political views allowed?) but is it that hard that it's meaningless to attempt? Doesn't that mean (in the case of the Gerrymandering example) that US democracy is fundamentally broken AND can't be repaired?
The UK dev salaries are shitty compared to their counter parts in the US, even though living in London is far from cheap.
Because there are other cities not in these 20.
Nobody would have funded or volunteered for that work if they were concerned with getting enough food put away to survive the winter.
No, because “evolutionary purpose” is an incoherent concept, since evolution is inconsistent with purpose.

Now, asking if it is a trait that contributed to fitness directly in the environment in which it arose (rather than a side effect of the underlying mechanism of some such trait or combination of traits that is not, in itself, a contributor to fitness in the environment in which it arose) may be a useful and legitimate question to ask.

OTOH, this article doesn't really seem to have much to offer but speculation that segues into a really unrelated (and poorly considered) argument about treating depression that is about equivalent, borrowing the article’s own broken leg analogy, to arguing that because broken legs ultimately may be caused by, e.g., uneven stairs, that doctors are obligated to fix the stairs before treating the broken leg.
There seem to be two general responses to problems: anger or depression.

Righteous anger properly channeled can be a force for good. But if your current crappy situation is the least worst answer you can come up with, depression is the lesser evil. You shouldn't rock the boat if there is zero upside and a lot of downside to doing so.
It's super easy. Just log into the dashboard and select your server, then "Upgrade" to see the options. From there, choose the package you want and your KVM server will be automatically scaled up (with zero downtime).
Big fans of crypto. I co-started the Stanford Bitcoin Group back in the day. Dropped out of school to re-engineer online payments originally inspired by crypto.

We realized crypto's shortcomings in mainstream payments (after a valiant year long quest) when we also had an aha-moment about how to re-engineer traditional online payments. Thus, the Bolt you see today.

News on crypto for online payments to come :-)
One of the McSema contributors here.

McSema 2.0 has been a very big release for us with a complete re-architecture of how we do instruction semantics definitions and lifting. Aside from architectural improvements, it is also much faster than before!

Transpiling from x86-64 <-> AArch64 has been something we thought should be possible and we were very excited to get it working.

We're planning some more blog posts in the near future to talk about other McSema features and some use cases for x86 to LLVM translation.
Just to be clear, those containers are only a barricade against falling rocks while the road is still open. If the ridge does let go, those barricades are going to do exactly nothing.

https://wsdotblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/crews-monitoring-land...
Could you please rephrase or elaborate on this? I'm not sure if I interpreted it correctly.

> What I'm saying is that we paper over the contradictions of the illusion of self determination peddled to us in rich Western societies by making depression seem like a personal, idiopathic problem.
> Bitcoin isn't functioning correctly

Please unpack this statement. Which part of the Bitcoin system is functioning incorrectly?
https://forum.quartertothree.com/t/how-to-play-my-itunes-app...

I'd have to move my music off of my iPhone or maintain two music libraries. Neither are more acceptable than the status quo.
This shows how invasive the income tax is. I would argue that any effective enforcement scheme for taxes on entirely digital exchanges would require banning public key cryptography.

In any case, these types of transactions are extraneous to those tax authorities tax now, so I don't see tax revenue declining as a result of these going untaxed.
I had Dell in mind (being located north in Round Rock) in mind. I have friends in Austin and most enjoy living closer to downtown, and I guess commuting sucks there going north, so heading south seems like a logical choice to build a HQ.

Besides Rackspace they have a bunch of defense contractors and USAA, but little else I believe.
The simple answer is the laws don't enforce net neutrality. They say that the state government (schools, agencies, etc) Can't purchase any networking/etc from companies that don't follow net neutrality.

Kind of like forcing "prevailing wage" on construction contracts, instead of raising minimum wage state-wide.
We will definitely add support for Fedora in the future.
IIRC pyrite does not possess the important qualities of gold aside from sort of looking like it. For example, you can't make it into a chain like you can with gold. For jewelry you're limited mostly to using it as a rock.
It's good to see this. Most of the time "states rights" ends up being used for something discriminatory "we reserve the right to tell women what to do with their bodies" or at best something that's just annoying "why do these laws have to be different, just to be different". In this case it is an example, that at least to me, justifies having that ability.
Plus, in a world where you can mine asteroids for gold, suddenly there's potential for growth not only on Earth, but in the solar system at large, and there have to be industrial uses of gold on Mars...
I have major doubts about how it will work in reality.

The routing of transactions just won't work in a fully peer-to-peer network. Inevitably large "Tier 1" hubs, interconnected together, will surely be needed.

Djikstra or Bellman-Ford type algorithms won't scale to where they need to for anything else, likewise users won't maintain enough funds in channels to make potential routes usable.
Okay, so the first google result I found had an inflated number. I don't really get what point you're trying to get to. If you think I'm arguing Uber is a good/lucrative place to work, I'm not.
It's been said that depression is anger turned inward.
I came to it from the web development world, and after getting into speaking transferred internally onto our DevRel team. We're a small team- we encourage any Mozilla employee to speak about their own work if they want, so there's only a few of us for whom it's a full-time job.

Since we're a small team, it's pretty uncommon for a specifically devrel role to open up, but the sibling reply from my teammate callahad is spot-on for how to get involved with Mozilla and Firefox!
They have a policy of _always_ changing it to match the title of the linked article.

Most of the time this is either an improvement or (as in this case) neutral.

I do wish they'd allow a little more editorializing, quite frankly. The linked title is not _always_ an improvement.
[that page may 404 if you have a bunch of anti-spyware on your browser. It worked when I popped open an incog window.]

How should I interpret that chart, considering things like wealth versus income? There's some sort of transition between those -- I would guess more wealth was held in non-taxed trusts or investments back then, compared to now? Does the estate tax change behavior?

I think the point is to look at how much of the government is paid for by the top quintile than the others, over time, compared to each group's wealth. Is that correct?

(I am not an economist, just have an amateur interest in complex systems.)
The 16/32GB RAM options are actually the lowest we offer. We did the side deal thing in the past, but having different pricing on the main site and a landing page just made things more complicated and led to unhappy customers.
The signs change as you move from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Heck, in some jurisdictions, they change from lodge to lodge.
yea, you can do it if you keep just enough fuel to get back on the ground and take a good break and some spa and refueling afterwards
Did you get your genome sequenced for Christmas?
Checkout https://blog.acolyer.org/
Technology is why we have the prosperity we have.

There are plenty of countries without automation. And many allow anybody to immigrate to them. But don't expect air conditioning You'll have to hire a person to wave you with a fan.

And don't expect those job-killing tubes to bring you your water. Hire a water carrier like everybody else.

And in the truly pure countries, be prepared to drag your stuff with you without labor saving wheeled contraptions like the wheelbarrow.
I was on FF 56 because of addons until Meltdown/Spectre happened. Just be aware FF 56 is missing the mitigations for those.
Yeah, it would be great if Mozilla made FF 56 into an ESR.
An "innovation" ranking that doesn't have the U.S. in the top 10 is like a ranking of U.S. universities that doesn't have Harvard or Stanford in the top 10. It says more about the ranking methodology than what is being ranked.
A business cannot operate a payment system that isn't working for them for "months" until a long-promised alternate solution arrives. Be realistic.

There is also no guarantee LN will ever see required adoption and scale to the level to solve the problems.

If they were smart they'd just move on to an altcoin and leave Bitcoin, at least till LN is up and proven working at scale on mainnet.
That's exactly what the authorities will do. In fact it'll be extraordinarily trivial for the G30 to regulate Monero et al. out of common use in larger markets if they want to. If you want to use it, you'll be a financial criminal, 99.9% of people in the G30 will avoid it accordingly.
Why do you even respond when you don't know the basics of Bitcoin? It has an inherent way of reducing difficulty.
Charles Stross' Laundry novels, at least, posit a connection between number-crunching and the occult, though unfortunately the series predates Bitcoin, which would have been perfect fodder.
Of course with enough effort and investment you can probably stop many things, the point is whether the increasing marginal costs of enforcement are worth it to the government and society.

By that same argument, the US could round up every illegal immigrant and deport them, or every casual drug user and lock them up for life. We don't do that because it'd be ruinously expensive (not to mention immoral) and transform us into a police state.

The combination of privacy coins + tumblers + crypto + VPNs + TOR will make it very hard for a government to punish motivated individuals short of extremely draconian measures, and changes the strategic calculus for the society as a whole.
Are you allowed to divulge that information?
Right. The title and the domain are both a bit baity, but the historical material is off-beat and unpredictable enough to make for a good HN post, as long as the salacious aspects don't drown out the rest. Which admittedly is the likely outcome.
Yes, I had the same thought about aluminum. Another example is, in older parts of the Iliad, iron is considered a precious metal, while in other parts it is not.
It's more likely that technological advances in mining techniques allow us to extract the millions of tons of gold closer to the upper mantle.
Dude there are more degrees there, don't think you know anything while cleaning the lodge....
SEC completely fails to acknowledge that their regulatory burden is way too heavy for small blockchain startups.

If you want to be fully complaint with SEC to issue your tokens as a security you have to spend shitload of money on laywers and wait for approval for months if not years. In fast-paced world of blockchain, it's equal to suicide.

Another thing is deeply discriminatory concept of accredited investor. They said that it's to protect investors. In reality it means that most lucrative deals will be out of reach for not wealthy individuals. And I hate whole concept that the big brother prevents me for taking risks because they think I'm too stupid for thinking for myself.

And constantly referring to ICO scams is not excuse at all. They don't want to shutdown scammy ICO, then want to shutdown all ICOs including ones with exceptionally brilliant ideas.

SEC is not friendly at all and they don't want to adapt. If they were friendly and willing to provide lightweight regulatory framework for ICO and cryptocurrencies, they would be very welcomed by many in blockchain world.
We're definitely planning on offering Windows in the future. There are some licensing headaches, and it also means having people on staff that are experts in both Linux AND Windows (for customer queries, etc). So it's a bit more involved than just having a Windows install, but we're working on it.
Still no status bar :(
For projects like that, you don't connect anything to the mains at all. Specifically:

- At least in US, thermostats control is low-voltage (24 V AC), and come from low-power transformer which will just stop working on overload (ask me how I know :) ), so there is no electrical fire danger

- You never plug anything into the AC outlet directly -- you always use AC/DC adapters (and not the ones bought on ebay for minimum price, too)

- To prevent freeze hazard, you also leave original thermostat hooked up, but set it to really low temperature (10C/50F).

- Overheating house is possible, and you definitely need to consider this in your software (for example, require periodic control messages to keep your boiler on). However, I do not think it is an actual fire hazard -- likely, there are hardware safeties in your heater to prevent that. Still, if you are worried about this, you can install a second thermostat in series with your relay and set it to max temperature you ever want.
Automation is a tool that has both good and bad effects.

It is great that we are improving productivity but automation also furthers concentration of wealth by distributing fewer profits to workers.

It is not simply good. If we don’t understand the negative effects we are more likely to become victims of those effects. If we do understand the negative effects we can make sure to prepare ourselves for the change in the landscape.
We would not even understand environmental pollution without automation. You can't send a human to space with binoculars to do a satellite's job, for example.
The stat you cite is actually 1979, but if you look at the income proportions[1] at that time relative to current by-quintile income proportions, the growth in taxation of the top quintile between 1979 and 2005 is slightly greater than linear with that income growth.

[1] https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/income-p...
That may be. I guess it’s within reason for the multi-room solutions. But

1) How big is that market?

and

2) It doesn’t do multi-room at launch

This all just feels odd to me. Like it slipped through a hole in Apple’s process.
I just used the bitcoin stripe thing couple days ago. Time limit was indeed quite scary: they had a timer on the side running with something like 15 minutes to go until you need to request a new temporary address. Mine ran out but luckily it was still accepted.
The article itself is a transcript, and there's a "read transcript" link in the top box.
I always wonder about this when I see films where criminals mastermind a plan to steal diamonds.
A Domesticated Dingo? No, but Some Are Getting Less Wild
"Where did you read that it's impossible?"

Grandparent of my post, no further research.

Bear in mind that as I posted doubt, that I am indeed doubting it, so don't expect me to be too surprised if you confirm that it is worth doubting. :)
A few that come to mind for me:

Docker socket timeouts have been floating around for a long time with no resolution: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/issues/2408

Intermittent HTTP auth errors causing build failures: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/30670

More generally, tuning the runner's polling interval to minimize latency is also tricky, especially with multiple independent runners, and the runner doesn't handle 429s well in my experience (getting stuck in a tight retry loop without backing off sensibly, thus continuing to exceed its request limit).

Thanks for taking the time to solicit feedback.
I think css-modules requires a bit more wiring up (though CRA 2 will bake it in without ejecting, I believe). Of course, styled-components and css-modules have the same lead developer, but it appears that css-modules isn't getting as much love, as discussed:

https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules/issues/187
> As would be expected given the size of the US population.

How about california innovates more than germany or UK combined? How about massachussetts innovates more than France? Would that be better?

The beauty of stats is that you can manipulate and twist to for whatever agenda you want to show.
I wonder how much of a stereotype this is.

One usually does not hear about a labrador or a chihuahua killing its owner or a child. This is usually a pit bull, or another not so kind looking dog.

We had two dogs, all of them were from a refuge and were a mix of labrador and squirrel (or whatever was at the party that night). They were more of less intelligent, very friendly (we do not deserve dogs). I wondered how much they would become beasts in worse conditions, compared to z pit bull.
I know enough Internet history to recognize that ca.gov is a United States URL. However, I'd still like to request that HN headlines disambiguate California and Canada.

Edit: As of this writing the title is "Net neutrality bill in CA". I hope the title gets changed soon enough to make my comment make no sense to most of the people who read it.
Dirt also has intrinsic value.

If you don't have enough dirt, then you can't grow food and everyone dies.

But why is dirt not valuable? Well, that's because the supply of dirt vastly outstrips demand.

The same could happen for gold.
But what does it matter which one has a larger "intrinsic value"? Both prices are determined more by speculation and group consciousness.
And yet everyone's knowledge of masonic signs comes from the 20,000 masons who renounced themselves and joined the anti-Masonic party?

Wouldn't it be more efficient to dissolve and rebrand?
Yes, some of the "dark web" marketplaces are starting to accept Monero now in addition to Bitcoin, for the reason you mentioned. I looked into buying Stellar but it was surprisingly difficult to buy, and the Stellar Desktop client was just confusing. I love Stellar conceptually but am not sure it's a good "investment" (if it was hard for me to buy/use I'm thinking it will be hard for others, too).
If they refuse to answer the points we are raising by attacking us trying represent us as regressive idiots then attack them back. Make them feel like greedy pigs willing to let the world starve to make more money.

Is there any doubt that if Amazon or any corporation would not hesitate to eliminate 90% of the jobs in this world if they had the means to do it cheaper with robotics/ai/cloud tech? They couldn't care less if it meant plunging half the population of this planet into crippling poverty.

Its beyond frustrating the amount of attacks you face for inquiring about the livelihoods and future of people whose jobs are replaced by AWS processes.

You want to automate the world? Great. Ease it in over 2 generations and only when humanity overcomes the greediness that allows us to accept wealth inequality and more money than we can ever dream of spending despite half the world living in poverty.
You can buy Bitcoin worth 50k USD in one country, cross the border and sell it in another, with no documents required . This is useful for a subset of people .
You can add “* unless you’re rich enough” caveat if you like, but it doesn’t change the general rule.
I am doing pomodoros (30min increment) without timing my breaks works for me as well and is easier to implement. So, I can do long break or no break depending where I am.
It seems like a very good alternative hardware for the same purposes as USB Armory, for a fraction of the price.

I wonder how soon a nice security-oriented package set will emerge. I suppose the USB interface should work as a USB-connected NIC, offering https / ssh / u2f access to the host on the card.
Money is serious business, why would anyone rely on a network that was released days ago? Also it defeats the main guarantee of Bitcoin - that everything can be trusted.

Bitcoin would have had a great future if the big guys werent so greedy and sacrifised a little of their wealth for the benefit of the whole community. Since they refused to do so (=refusing any attempt to make BTC transfers faster and cheaper) the network is choking itself (=it takes days for a transaction to be confirmed, it costs >$30) and the community is thorn between altcoins.

We will see how this will play out, but my hunch is that we will see a huge market collapse and a "restart" by one of the emerging altcoins that solves the issues that came up with Bitcoin.