skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While turning down the job is just fine, here's what happened instead:

- Someone else with similar capabilities as OP's probably took the job.

- This person will make significantly more money than what OP will be making (as OP points out)

- This person will have learned way more about the implication of the technology, whether it actually is as bad as what mainstream media says or if those are all coming from ignorance.

Even if this whole Bitcoin thing comes crashing, accepting a job that's much higher paying, and lets you explore a new edge technology, all while being able to work remotely, all sound like a game you can't lose.

p.s.

All this narrative about how proof of work == global warming, and how bitcoin won't work because of such and such are mostly based on lack of deep knowledge.

Sure, they say "yeah i've read the whitepaper and I totally understand how it works", but that's not enough. I've been there and now that I know more about it I feel ashamed of blabbering my mouth to people about these things because to people who actually know things, these words immediately turn on red flag and they mentally mark you as "don't know what you're saying".

It's funny how most people who criticize bitcoin and blockchain for all these things actually haven't gone deep enough to have the expertise to say these things. They are basing their "opinions" on what someone else--who is most likely also less than enough informed--said.

If you really want to talk shit about Bitcoin, at least spend about a month, learning everything possible. Otherwise you'll be ashamed of yourself ever saying those things (just like I did) when maybe later on in your life you learn more about the technology.

[Edit] To those who are saying: "if you know so much, why don't you just show us what you've got? Prove to us that proof of work can work" or things like that, if it was that simple to explain in a single comment, would I say learn for one month? (Actually one month is not even enough. It took me a full 3 months of doing nothing but teaching myself to get even closer to understanding the landscape) Even if I did my best to explain to you here, I would fail to convince you because it not only involves technology but everything around the ecosystem. I'm not trying to be condescending. I'm saying do yourself a favor and teach yourself wth is going on so that you can make informed decisions about whether you do want to jump in or not. Don't believe what uninformed people are saying.
Spencerian cursive is by far the least easily read script I've ever encountered.
> Go figure out ways to remove custodial risk, so that we may not need as onerous financial regulations that stifle innovation.

FWIW, this is the best video I've seen on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dla42bY7k90
Funnily enough I will be taking a month's holiday shortly. I will be swimming in an open air pool, diving some wrecks, eating some great food, reading, climbing some volcanoes, relaxing and luuurvin'...
it puts the block on the chain or else it gets the hose again!
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No trans fat are extremely dangerous and should never be eaten in any large quantity. FDA trans fat ban: Proposal makes clear no amount is safe:
http://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-fda-trans-fats-2...

Saturated fats are a bit more complicated. There's a little bit of Sat fats in everything, even vegetables and fruits ~0.5-2%. A certain amount is okay, up to about 5-6% of your diet can be sat fats. but you don't want to go more than that, or you risk increasing your LDL. Some people can handle more, some can't, this will vary from person to person. But, if you get back from a blood test and it says your LDL is too high, you'll need to cut back on Sats.
Others have talked about the discipline to do things, even things you don't like or want to do. And they're right.

Here's the other side, though: The single thing from high school that had the most impact on my life was none of the classes. It was the hour that, instead of paying attention in calculus class, I instead read the TRS-80 Basic manual.

You've learned that you can do this stuff. You aren't scared of anything, from assembly to Lisp. You've learned that you belong in this world. That's huge.
"Message queues, streaming services, specialized DBs, etc" have no intrinsic properties making them "cloud-provider capabilities".

All of these "cloud-provider capabilities" are just normal software that you can run on your own hardware. In one or two cases, the software was first exposed via a particular provider's platform, but similar, and very likely superior software that accomplishes the same goals, is now available for self-hosting (Dynamo -> Cassandra or Riak, for example). That's about as strong as the connection gets.

It doesn't follow that "microservices and cloud-native apps hang together" because the cloud provider charges you a lot of money to access their Redis server, when you could run your own Redis server.
Reasons your company will never adopt BeyondCorp:

- Your company does not do real inventory management, or if they do, they do it partially, and poorly.

- Your company does not manage all the infrastructure in a single place. Adopting this kind of authentication+authorization requires putting more trust in your local network in order to allow your internet gateway access to all your internal resources.

- Your company's network traffic is made up of a bunch of random protocols, authentication+authorization realms, and edge cases, half of which won't work with this system.

- You don't need it.

- If you have a couple hundred thousand employees and a millions to burn on building universal integration systems, you're going to write your own stuff anyway.
I don't necessarily disagree with the author here, but I would be genuinely curious if the job offer was for one of the "scammy cryptocurrency ICOs" or for one of the industry use case that seem to be destined to survive after the current round of scamminess passes.
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The main reason for android phons to slow down is the storage, most of the android phones run cheap emmc chips, even some of the more high end ones. Even with a new battery and an AOSP rom, my Nexus 2012 is unusable even when I reverted to the version of android that that tablet came with, which is JB. So I don't believe that this will solve the hardware obsolescence problem.
Strangely, everybody gets Pinocchio right.
"even though modern FE devs end up creating much more code and html and css than "the old days""

And yet, most homepages today can't be viewed without javascript.
You are correct, for the end user the complexity has absolutely not resulted in better homepages but worse.
Telegram is a great example for me to finally start understanding how this is supposed to work.

It seems like a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem (at least in the way I keep seeing it described): you fund your project/app/scam with money from your ICO, but you only get money from your ICO when people believe in your project enough to put ("real") money in it prematurely.

At best, this is basically the Kickstarter model that everybody likes to trash, is it not?
When was the last time you played a VHS tape. For that matter, when was the last time you played a DVD?
Clojurescript today is probably the best, most pragmatic choice to do web dev in. It's not difficult to learn, FFI isn't cumbersome, compiled code is extremely optimized, tooling is pretty nice, syntax is a joy - writing Clojure is like poetry. I would never ever touch vanilla JS or TS (unless I really have to).
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I don't understand the high horse.

Accept the offer, rake in the cash, move on.

Whether or not the company eventually becomes a success does not affect the money you have raked in.

Be greedy, the investors are. If you're an engineer, you're the needed fuel they need for their fire.
Well fine, but who do you listen to? Is face to face interaction still a thing?
Doesn't that study basically suggests that there is institutional sexism against males?
Do you mean non-gunpowder based "firearms"? My understanding was something even as small as a .22 is significantly deadly
The thing that kept me from trying Ada (back a couple of years ago when I was writing firmware and so was kind of on its home turf) was a lack of good resources for learning it. I got a copy of the book "Programming in Ada" by Barnes, and did not find it very helpful. Often the advice seems to be to go read the Reference Manual, which I agree is highly readable for a language standard, but it's not aimed at users of the language. If anyone here has any other resources to recommend, I'd be happy to hear about them.
Still no Canada :(
Making calls is ironically one of the least used features on my phone, personally speaking. SMS I only use for 2FA.
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Do you have an argument why making people upset (e.g. by ugliness) should be the criterion of good art?
The rise and fall of diesel in Europe and the impact on German carmakers
Note: it requires 30 sentences, not a minute as stated in the article.
I'm curious, how were the round corners important? I like them, and I buy his argument that nothing in the real world has sharp corners, but Android has had sharp corners forever. (I'm asking because I'd like to know the answer, not because I'm asserting the opposite.)
Dr. Seuss’ arms race allegory
Skype with headphones and a keyboard for the secret stuff?
And some of the biggest assholes i have met have come in the gym and make-up form...
Complaining about low pay online “destroyed my life”
You just contradicted yourself.
Because of bugs that affect security?
True. And we'd have the same issues with this processor family now...

Don't get me wrong, I love Linux and loved FreeBSD back when it was more easy to choose... But I do think the 'free UNIX' movement has had unintended consequences like the demise of Sun, and perhaps now also this exposing of a failure in what was a desktop class chip architecture that was elevated to server usage.

Everything has a cost is all I'm saying.
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> accepting a job that's much higher paying, and lets you explore a new edge technology, all while being able to work remotely, all sound like a game you can't lose

If that's what you want. But, the author didn't.
Part of their motivation to maximize costs is to minimize tax exposure.

Since 2008 Walmart has paid $64B in corporate income tax, while Amazon has paid $1.4B.

(Source: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=97664&p=irol-sec)

Amazon is taking NYC's lunch money - New York City has the power to stop Amazon and to restore middle-class equilibrium.

(Source: http://www.adamtownsend.me/amazon-nyc/)

Jean-Claude Juncker and Luxembourg's exclusive relationship granted Amazon illegal tax evasion.

(source: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-17-3701_en.htm)

Only 13 percent of Amazon’s profits went to federal, state, local and foreign taxes from 2007 through 2015, according to an analysis by S&P Global Market Intelligence.

For the sake of comparison, that’s about half the average amount S&P 500 companies paid over same period.

Amazon paid just a 9.3 percent effective federal income tax between 2008 and 2012.

Source: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jul/...

Amazon will unemploy millions of people.

Source: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/amazon-is-going-to-kill-mo...

"Since 2008 Walmart has paid $64B in corporate income tax, while Amazon has paid $1.4B. This is despite the fact that, in the last 24 months, Amazon has added the value of Walmart to its market cap. The most uncomfortable question in business, in my view, is how do we pay our soldiers, firefighters, and teachers if a firm can ascend to $460B in value (#5 in the world) without paying any meaningful corporate taxes." - Professor Scott Galloway

Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-09-19/why-wal-m...
> Bitcoin Cash is fast and as low fees but if it manages to scale to something like a Visa network number of transactions, it will be centralized

This just isn't true. Today's commodity hardware can already process gigabyte blocks[1], which corresponds to approximately 3000 tx/s globally. In addition, Moore's and Nielsen's laws will bring down the cost of cpu power and bandwidth, and will enable terrabyte-sized blocks within the next decade or two - all while still running on commodity hardware.

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/gigablock-testnet-researchers-mine-...
>But this makes zero sense! What purpose does the coin serve here? Imagine coins had somehow gotten tied in with email protocols. The person who came up with the protocol somehow gets to magically siphon off money every time someone sends an email? Why? How?

They don't, why would they?
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>the new spin doesn't even make logical sense.

Sure it does. The appearance of a wide division in our political landscape leads to a wide division in our political landscape. People tend to "pick sides" in political fights and when something gives the appearance of a serious political dispute, people are motivated to pick sides and entrench their opinions. This is in keeping with getting Trump elected, as a large part of his support was due to the fear created by the appearance of growing civil unrest. None of this is particularly hard to understand.
Well sh*t, where my investment money for donating to the red cross.
This is a great comment. I don’t necessarily agree with the conclusions, but I like the argument and I’m impressed it’s being presented dispassionately. It’s tiring to see breathless anti-big company rants or conspiracy theories about dystopian surveillance state involvement. But I find your point about power imbalances to be pretty compelling - both in principle and in your neutral presentation.
Yeah, I guess I agree with everything you say, really. But since you emphasize asking about the "ridiculous" quality, I'd just propose what's ridiculous (kinda? but too strong) is that switching from Google to DDG is just a matter of changing URLs for most people. Even going to a different search engine URL probably assumes a way more sophisticated mental model of how the web works than most users have. Second, the input box at google.com is just one way to do things through Google, there's also OK Google for example (which is built into many people's only internet devices), and of course the browser address bar.

I do wonder how problematic it is that the fact Google has it's fingers in a steadily increasing amount of stuff---from medicine and cars to music and home management, all centered around capturing and storing an increasing amount of our personal data---isn't as explicit to most people as it ought to be. Personally I don't have an opinion on whether or not Google should be considered a monopoly, though I'm glad other people are considering the issue more seriously than I.
I suppose I've got three tiers:

- Stuff that I routinely open is actual bookmarks in the bookmarks toolbar of my browser (timecard, RSS reader, team development servers like Jenkins and Git, etc)

- I use Pocket for a "need to read this later" queue. That includes articles and libraries to add to my React/Redux links list and Redux addons catalog, Github issues to review, and random fun stuff

- Pinboard works great for long-term tagged archival for stuff I might want to refer to down the road.
It needs changes to usage patterns, similar to segwit.

99% of people won't be able to run their own nodes, so a huge amount of infrastructure and services needs to built around it before it's useful for more than a few percent of people.

I'd guess in a years time we'll still be hearing about how lightning will save us from fees soon
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> I read that even with their own facility they would still be affected by a shutdown.

In what way?
Timing is one of the most important parts of getting "hits" on social media, and while it can be optimized for, it's not always controllable. A post may succeed because someone made an attention-getting comment, for example, and that's just the luck of the commenter running across the link when he or she had the time and inclination to leave a note.

Social is fickle that way, and since most social algorithms strongly consider post recency and other time-sensitive factors in their ranking, duplicates should be allowed within a reasonable time frame, because you never know when the critical path will get hit.
99% it was just some marketing drone wanting to find any developers to cut a ECR20 for their scamtoken. You are right to avoid this. BTW if any engineers read this, treat 99% of unsolicited 'blockchain jobs' as the scam that they are.

Cutting and pasting solidity smartcontracts doesn't make you a blockchain developer :-)
You think Canadians aren't harsh on the natives when compared to america. I have never heard such open racism. Egyptians not racist, tell that to my buddy who was just beaten for being white. France, I mean, your kidding right?
Short story is that bitcoin is a ledger that keeps track of where coins go.

So if I give you a coin, and you give it back, 1 trillion times, we have a huge database with two trillion transactions. But at the end of the day, nothing changed, I still have a coin and you don't, because you gave it back each time.

Much of that data (i.e. 99.9999% of it, in this case) can be reliably thrown away for all practical intents and purposes.

That's the gist of it. I'll spare you the technicalities (which I'm not intimately familiar with anymore myself, in any case), but the basic idea is that you don't need all data to run the network reliably.

That, plus moore's law's equivalents for storage and networking, google them. They're not as strong as for CPU, but they're quite good anyway.
Misleading title, blockchains and coins are closely related, but you can do blockchain without any coins and PoW.
This doesn't answer the question. It reminds me of "homunculus argument" that consciousness comes from a tiny human inside our brains. The question of consciousness is not solved by this explanation, because it just means we now need to explain how the homunculus derives conciousness.

There is an "off-chain" network that we are being assured is trustless, and you say nobody verifies the ordering of transactions. It just doesn't make sense. Either it requires trust or requires some alternative non-scalable consensus mechanism. There is no magic algorithm that doesn't have tradeoffs.

If bitcoin core agreed to ensure that opening a channel freezes both wallets until the channel is closed, then that would prevent one kind of fraud. But there's still other kinds of fraud, like double spending, or changing the ordering.

You say that a counterparty can "present a proof" but to whom? Isn't timestamping itself a hard problem, and one that it is said only the blockchain can solve in a trustless way?
Well that's the thing with a VR space - the only requirement is square footage and a fast computer, so it's nothing much to look at from the outside. As far as content, we don't tend to "watch" much of anything as the real fun in VR is in interactive content.

We still watch traditional movies, but do so now in our living room on a regular flat-panel television and are none the worse off for it. My 92" projection screen is hanging on my call without a projector, and nobody is in a hurry to get it running here in the new space.
These look great, a couple questions:

1) Are these deployed at scale anywhere?

2) Any known security audits?

Thanks!
Well, on the one hand - sometimes a "failed" idea is just too early, or fails for some reason other than being fundamentally "bad". It may be that taking another stab at this could be fruitful. But I'd recommend doing more customer research before jumping back into it, especially if this is going to be a big time commitment.

On the other hand, it sounds like you may not really be passionate about this idea at this point. If the whole thing really doesn't enthuse you, and it's going to be a big time sink, I think you should think long and hard about investing that time in something you're not really excited about. Also consider the opportunity cost - what else could you be spending that time on?
But the appraiser is part of the game too.
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Lange’s Oxford Union speech defending NZs rejection of nuclear weapons is worth watching if you haven’t heard it before. The second link provides some background and the transcript.

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/sound/oxford-union-debate

https://publicaddress.net/great-new-zealand-argument/nuclear...
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Thanks for your informative explanation. However…

> "boot an older os and it's vulnerable since it doesn't know to call this"

Presumably the hardware that fixes this is not even available on the market yet. How likely is it that somebody will go out of their way to install an obsolete OS version on their brand new hardware?
Wasn't the 2008 stock market crash caused by the housing market being "pumped and dumped"?

"Pump and dump" requires both a "pump" and a "dump". I'm no expert on the housing market crash, but there doesn't seem anything close to a singularish entity that "dumped" after the housing market had been "pumped".
Well said. I couldn't have said it any better.
Are these public groups? How are they discovered?
Study estimates that AVs will shift ~$1T USD in Real Estate Value
Am I mistaken in my impression that the bulk of innovation actually happens outside of titans, which the titans then buy? So even hamstringing them wouldn't actually stifle innovation?
> Regulators could oblige platform firms to make anonymised bulk data available to competitors, in return for a fee, a bit like the compulsory licensing of a patent. Such data-sharing requirements could be calibrated to firms’ size: the bigger platforms are, the more they have to share. These mechanisms would turn data from something titans hoard, to suppress competition, into something users share, to foster innovation.

This is a terrible idea, and would be massively destructive of user privacy. "Anonymized" data can very often be de-anonymized.

Maybe I'm dumb, but I actually trust a fair amount Google with my less sensitive data. Google is secretive, and a bit paranoid, and they don't like to share. Data goes in, but historically, not much has come out.

I do not, however, trust Facebook with my data. And that's the point: Just because I've looked at the tradeoffs and decided to share certain data with Google, I don't want the government ordering Google to share it with other companies. Ditto for LinkedIn: I'm happy to give them a resume, but I don't necessary want to share that with scrapers who are repurposing the data.
This feels like it’s going to provide a horrible amount of friction as a user. It’s basically adding multiple use specific currencies to everyday life. I predominately work across pounds, dollars, euros and Icelandic krona the latter for day to day and the rest for occasional transactions. If I have to add to that multiple service tokens just to access storage or chat or services x, y and z it adds a whole lot of trading and market following overhead. Particularly given the volatility we’ve seen in crypto currencies, especially amongst those with niche uses. Further following Bitcoin it seems like the decentralisation aspects are theoretical rather than practical as those able to provide a service such as mining seem to do better at scale and end up centralising anyway.
The author rejected the offer on principle, which is a very good reason to do so.