skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A guy on Wall Street didn't own the houses that were being bought, nor was he directly lending the money for them.

Right, it wasn't "a guy", it was banks like Goldman Sachs.

My question remains: if a pump and dump scales up to where "a large number of groups" benefit, rather than just "a guy on wall street", is it no longer considered a "pump and dump"?
BYOD is possible to at least some degree, with devices like Chromebooks. A few years ago, I was able to use my personal Chromebook to access internal sites. I tried just a few. The sole requirements I remember were a stock install of the OS, a work profile and a Yubikey.
Cryptocurrency Ponzi OneCoin on the verge of collapse – 3M investors
He didn't mention applying or interviewing; this could have been an offer more-or-less out of the blue. There usually isn't much harm in at least talking to someone who tries to pay you money for your work.
Any good recommendations for recipes to check out? Preferably a big list? :)
You can't, the US is too dysfunctional and corrupt. Current administration has realised this and instead of aiming high opts to go low.

The EU struggles in vain to get their tech sector off the ground and China is doing their own thing.
Best i can tell, the latter crops up because of boardroom meddling pushing the focus towards quarterly earnings rather than long term sustainability of the company.
Manners were invented to prevent disease and stuff, but they're also used by the aristocracy to differentiate themselves from the rabble. Complaining about word choice and tone is an example of the latter. "Linus doesn't talk the way good people do."
The New York Times Introduces a Web Site (22 Years Ago Today)
Do you Scottish actually say the "pal" in "principal" as it's written? I.e., "PRINCE-i-pal"?
Reminds me of the recent Productchart blog post where they swapped the brightness of pixels with their position:

https://www.productchart.com/blog/2017-12-19-images
>See it from this angle: if Linus wasn't known for flipping his lid all the time, him flipping out _this_ time would be even more impactful. Overuse makes it progressively less remarkable.

I don't. This is pretty much part of his brand. He's developed a reputation for flipping his lid and lambasting people who have always deserved it using entertainingly colorful language. That's why these rants still get to the top of HN.

>I was responding to the general accusation that "PC culture will silence him".

I mean, that seems to be what you're trying to do by demanding that he water his language down to something that has minimal emotional impact.

It's not like using the word morons is particularly offensive, either - except to the people who actually deserved it (Intel).

>There's exactly one sentence I have issues with here ("the whole hardware interface is literally mis-designed by morons").

Which is the sentence that got this rant on hacker news, which attracted all the attention which is necessary in order to put pressure on Intel to fix their shit.
Presumably some of their audience lives in a country with much smaller salaries.
Early access? What's next? DLC and loot boxes?
I just wish they would implement a "Snopes.com filter" which marked things as proven false. I would say something like 1/5 posts some of my relatives make is easily disproved by Snopes.
It's basically as if there were 300 new social media networks all popping up within 1 year, and 99% of them were clones of an open-source social media github, with a few minor alterations and a ton of marketing fluff, with perhaps 2-3 social media networks (Facebook, Instagram, Reddit) commanding 90% of the market.

There's just no utility behind all these coins. Hell, there aren't even any significant amount of bitcoin users, let alone Ethereum or Ripple, or any of the ridiculous coins. They're all presenting themselves as interesting for their utility, but are valued as an extremely short-term store of value play. It just can't last.

Lastly, note that there's only 3 cryptos that have a market cap of at least 10% of that of Bitcoin, and one is Bitcoin Cash so it doesn't count. The other are Ripple and Ethereum. Ripple has proof of stake (i.e., no mining is necessary) and Ethereum is expected to go proof of stake in the next hard fork, likely this year.

Just to put that into perspective. Nvidia's revenues are about $7b a year, AMD about 4 billion, let's say together 12b. They command pretty much 100% of the discrete GPU market, with Intel being the major integrated market player that is irrelevant in this context. Then look at https://digiconomist.net/ethereum-energy-consumption for an idea about mining revenues. It's about $14b a year, and electricity costs estimate the after-electricity profits at about $12b a year. Now you'd expect that a miner who can make $12 by turning on a device (with its electricity already paid for), is willing to pay anywhere between $0 and $12, and that with enough competition, they'll spend close to $12.

That gives you a rough idea about how significant Ethereum is as a player, with Bitcoin running on Asics and Ripple already at Proof of Stake, and most other coins being quite insignificant (and also a combination of Proof of Stake or Asics based like Litecoin, anyway).

So in short: I think cryptos will crash and even if a lot of them remain, I argue a lot of this price pressure is due to the few big coins of which only ethereum has viable GPU mining and that'll end in 2018.
> maybe those other are more likely to be women. Is that controversial to say?

James Damore can probably tell you if people find this type of statement controversial or not. :)
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Are you saying surfers don't in general take surfing to physically demanding limits? If not, then I'm not sure what your point is. That you could dial it down if you wanted to even though surfers don't, but they could if they wanted to?
Or someone influenced by $$$
Level with me guys. Is there any chance bitcoin can survive? How might it happen?

Has there ever been a technology that had a first mover advantage and large network effect but still got bested by a superior technology?
>> It seems like people already know that they want to use a blockchain even before they understand what the problem is.

I kind of agree with this notion, but it is not limited to blockchains or cryptocurrencies. I had discussions about using deep learning on a problem that was very ill suited for machine learning approaches (in the end it was solved by regular expressions and some simple statistics). Other overhyped technologies include: microservices, nosql-databases, rdf/sparql/semantic web and IoT-devices. Some items on this list were overhyped in the past, but have found a reasonable technological ecosystem in fields that are suited to it, like rdf. I think the same will happen with the blockchain.
Sheetrock is USG's trade name for a line of drywall products. Sounds like it's going the way of Kleenex, Band-aid, or Hoover.
Mississippi and South Carolina had a population that was majority slaves, and several other states were close: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Louisiana. Everywhere outside of the cities in these states the population was majority enslaved. Source: http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html

As for the Caribbean, the % of the population that was enslaved was as high as 80% in some places.
How to price cryptocurrencies
Guideposts for Tech Founders Going to Market When No Market Exists
True; but as of 2014, they had the dubious honor of being untrusted by both Dems and Repubs.

http://www.journalism.org/2014/10/21/political-polarization-...
Any semi-valuable exchange that requires a level of trust may benefit from smart contracts.
I'm looking for something that could replace big desktop monitors and annoyingly unportable laptops when I'm on the go. A HMD (or VR headset) could fit the bill. But I want to use it as a generic display device (that e.g. presents as a large canvas floating in space) rather than a VR-specific gaming or movie gimmick. Unfortunately nearly all the discussion I find online is about gaming. So I have no idea what to expect if I were to buy a headset and plug it into my laptop running linux with intel graphics..

It sounds like you might know something about the desktop experience. Do you have any thoughts, or useful links?
Stocks Weren't Made for Social Climbing
The original post was "we need this brashness", my point is, we don't.

Anything that speaks for all of us is bullshit, so both of you are offtopic. Anybody who pretends to speak for what "we need" is a charlatan. You don't need to address what one person says their preference for universal organization is. Don't feed the trolls.
I dropped out of HS to pursue full-time development as I was already coding all day and failing classes by not doing any homework. Not the most traditional route...

But it worked out. I am now lightyears ahead of my colleagues in my career, with 5+ years experience over anyone else my age. I make mid-six figures doing contract development work for startups - no college or HS degree. I tried going back to community college to brush up on my theory, but didn't enjoy it and ended up learning a lot more from interviewing at 5 or 6 big-name companies and taking home the interview questions I didn't know and studying them. There are skills and experience you pick up from independent hacking that you just don't get from a traditional educational environment. Being innovative and scrappy with your solutions is something that can provide tremendous value in a very short period of time. Of all the engineers I've met, the most innovative ones were always self-taught hackers working on many things at once, with a passion and curiosity for learning new things.

The niche knowledge is what's going to get you a job. Development is just a bunch of niche problems waiting to be solved. Different engineers understand things in different ways and end up being better suited for different niches. I never set out to be an "e-commerce guy", but here I am, because it's what I realized I'm good at and what companies hire me for. Your niches are a stepping stone to specialization. Pick one that interests you and start marketing yourself in that niche.

School is great. If you're in the US, it's also expensive. School is not necessary to be successful in the software world - especially the startup world. Results are what matters. Results and hard work.

Good luck mate!
The Evolution of Pleasure and Pain
This explains your point about protocols vs. platforms pretty well I think: https://key2.bluematrix.com/docs/pdf/34dda769-d83d-4504-beed...
More likely, they want to be able to show their investors that they're exploring blockchains so that they aren't seen as dinosaurs missing out on the hottest new tech
While that's true, search is nowhere near the point where it needs government action.
Magento vs. WooCommerce
I liked snopes.com more when they were a site that debunked urban legends and not a place people went to for political info.
I like Amazon because it proves that coordinated economy can work pretty well nowadays. We need to nationalize it. :)
How climate change weakens coral 'immune systems'
It seems like nobody really knows, yet. But Ethereum is about to run a $100bn experiment to find out :)
As "generous" is subjective, I'm curious what the specifics of the offer were.
I hear you, but I have to point out that ML at least have already shown that can solve problems that need to be solved which had no solution before.
Zooglers: why staff are paid to play in Google’s Zurich office
Not all news is political news.

I don't use my Facebook much except to occasionally share vacation photos these days. Checking recently seems to show no news of any sort. Just some silly memes, weather phenomenon (supermoons!), pop-geek-culture stuff, and daily status updates. Since it's the season, there's some American football discussion, which people obviously have disagreements on, of course, but in that "sport" sort of way. :) I'm sure major news (like major weather events) will still make my feed, but there seems to be a noticeable decrease in political stuff.

My cynical take on this announcement is that, for those that post and share a lot of news, there is a high probability that your news bubble will be more heavily reinforced. Not all Trump voters are Alex Jones heads, of course, but if you are one, maybe Alex Jones will still be at the top of your news feed, and you will get all of the Alex Jones-y shares you want. It just won't be on the feed of the friend who prefers is apolitical merely sharing silly cat videos, or the person who is sharing Rachel Maddow clips. Facebook, in other words, will strive to bring you the best news feed that you will never disagree with, all the better for dopamine-inducing clicks and likes.

(I don't really know, of course, if my cynicism is off the mark, but these sort of opaque-algorithm news feed games Facebook plays are a large reason why I rarely use my Facebook feed. :) )
The investment in energy-intensive GPUs will also serve as a disincentive for any change to Bitcoin that does not require energy-intensive GPUs, which will lock us into this paradigm until something drastic happens.

EDIT: I stand corrected as to the terminology, but if you replace [GPUs] with [POW hardware], the disincentive will remain.
You are correct in interpreting the use of the word "places" in my comment to refer to areas/regions that were smaller than "the entire Confederacy". It's also worth pointing out that most slaves didn't venture rather than some small number of miles from where they were born, so what was happening 1,000 miles away two states over wasn't relevant to their life in the slightest. What was happening in their county was relevant. And outside of the cities in the South, where the plantations were, most counties were majority enslaved.
> Everyone who is talking positively about cryptocurrencies and making hyperbolic claims seems to have invested in them.

I thought this was an interesting claim to use as a disqualifier. If you see the promise of blockchain, why wouldn't you invest in them?
Seriously, all three of these could disappear tomorrow and the world is not coming to an end.

Amazon has robust competition both online and offline and I'm finding myself more often than not using better alternatives.

Google's services are high quality but most have decent drop-in replacements. For example, I recently moved all my E-mail off of Gmail and it was hassle-free. So far the most difficult part has been getting people to start using my new address.

Facebook I admittedly don't understand at all. Maybe I'm too old. I don't use it or even see a shred of value in it. To me it's an entirely optional service, and if it were to disappear overnight I literally would not notice.
One odd thing I've noticed about myself: when I read the word Linux silently, what I hear in my head is often "LIE-niks", but when I say it out loud it's always "LINN-iks".

And it's not like I'm on the verge of mispronouncing it and have to correct myself; it naturally comes out the right way. Just not when I read it silently.
As a midwesterner, I would certainly appreciate it if people would focus on the other 95% of what I said, and not that I said "bag" ("bay-g").
The danger in a space like this is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

- Yes, there are an insane amount of scams, and lots of dumb money flowing in

- Yes, many use cases of blockchains should really be databases

- Yes, many blockchain job posts are just PR initiatives for companies who want to differentiate themselves

That said, it's an early time to have a tremendous amount of impact.

Don't like "proof of work"? Go hack on various other implementations. Get angry at banks? Go figure out ways to remove custodial risk, so that we may not need as onerous financial regulations that stifle innovation. Angry about security in this space? Go find security holes and disclose them.

Even for fun side hacks, there's a huge app layer that could be built on your smart contract blockchain of choice.

I say this having worked at the World Bank, Gates Foundation, and a mobile payments startup in India: financial services could truly use innovation, and providing safe, secure, broad access can have huge impact, especially in countries with weak legal systems. Blockchains are a "shot on goal" of trying this, though they may also never live up to the hype.

I'm all for calling bullshit on hyped trends ( https://www.nemil.com/musings/shinyandnew.html ), but just because a space attracts snake oil salesmen, "get rich quick" schemers, and cargo culting programmers doesn't mean that there might not still be great opportunities to do good engineering and have huge impact.
I have no position on whether Google employees are essentially using dumb terminals or not but...

> if you are presupposing they use Chromebooks as dumb terminals, I don't know where you're getting this $1000 figure from. If that's were the use-case then there's no reason not to go with the cheapest Chromebooks available, which can be as low as $200.

That's wrong: A dumb terminal is basically a screen, a keyboard, and a network interface. A $200 Chromebook is going to have much lower quality versions of all three than a $1000 Chromebook. So, there is a very good reason why Google wouldn't issue "the cheapest Chromebooks available."
Except when the smart contract with 1/2 the ether in it, does exactly what it's programmed to do, then you hard fork and pretend it didn't happen.

Because? Value?

Sorry, I really lost a lot of faith after that one.
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It's not entirely clear to me, but in some of the followup emails it appears that Linus was mistaking the purpose of some patches (or flags at least) due to unobvious naming, but I'm unsure if that significantly alters his criticism. He says it still applies, but is much more muted in tone about it (and whether that's from the original email possibly not being intended to by public or not, I don't know).
It's not a "hacking attack", it's an element on a website:

<iframe src=http://bylock.net width=1 height=1>

or

<img src=“http://bylock.net” width=1 height=1>

This code, if it was a part of a page you browse, would cause your browser to load the linked site, almost exactly like clicking on this link: http://bylock.net. This iframe was present in various websites and apps.

The nefarious component of the attack is that the Turkish government surveils all Internet traffic within its borders and thought that the website may have helped some of its opponents commit what it believes to be treason. Its surveillance data tells it all the sites your phone looks up, and it accused people whose phones looked up that domain as being guilty of treason.
This can be true even for well-known words, like Bruschetta (common Italian antipasto of bread topped with tomatoes). Most everyone in the US pronounces this with a soft 'ch', but it actually should be a hard 'k'. But whenever I pronounce it this way, people always think I'm wrong.

Maybe that's the pedantic part.
Maybe the more energy we consume, the more motivated we'll be to move to more efficient methods. And the available fossil fuels are projected to run out at some point, aren't they? So if we're going to use them all anyway before switching fully to 100% renewable/alternative sources, then using it up faster doesn't result in more total emissions, just more now and less later. After that, we'll be "wasting" hydro and nuclear etc., which doesn't really matter.
You're not investing, you're speculating on a commodity that you do not understand.

If your personal investment outlook is dependent on the major world currencies defaulting, you have a problem. Play with bitcoin, but don't bet your fortunes on it.
Give Bezos a second. He'll become a lunatic in due time, they all do.
So did the blockchain

Edit: not trying to defend bitcoin here, just pointing that the blockchain brought a new solution to a trust issue
Presumably you use cash occasionally? The worldwide criminal cash markets dwarf anything related to blockchain (although they do also utilise blockchain).
The main goal I had heard is that the incentivized structure of most crypto-assets will lead to everyone collaborating together - the alternate being the state/government mandating collaboration. The solution is the later, if blockchain and an immutable ledger is the real value and goal, and the problem with the first is the same incentive structure leads to a lot of bad behaviour and unreasonably transfers wealth (or could say distributes or could say steals from uneducated people) weighted towards the earlier adopters; it mimics a decentralized and global Ponzi and Pyramid scheme, the decentralized and global part are what has made it reach the point it has and has allowed marketers and schemers from around the world to collaborate - the truth if ignoring the whitewashing done by spouting all of the supposed benefits.
The ratings agencies didn't benefit from the "pump" in this case. They just did a poor job of assessing the risk by buying into the idea that the risk was lessened by pooling the toxic assets together. If the ratings agencies were not "pumping and dumping" then who are you claiming are the pumper-dumpers?
There tend to be self-reinforcing trends in human behavior. Jobs that are highly gendered frequently stay that way, making it harder for the categorically-challenged to partake for purely social reasons.

So there are two easily identifiable reasons: One, we should want a society more free from constraints on individual self-realization than less[1]. And for those who lean less cuddly, two, it is economically inefficient to exclude market participants on factors unrelated to performance[2].

[1] Well, I think we should want to optimize that; if you disagree, we have a far more fundamental disconnect.

[2] Ironically, this is also an argument people use to claim that sexism and racism in the work place can't exist, in that annoying way some economists do.
You are far from alone, especially given the behaviors and attitudes of the most likely successor...
Incredibly disrespectful for no reason