skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably just a troll, but for sake of the others reading this: Pilecki was the officer of Polish Home Army, which was a branch of Polish Underground State - which in turn was basically the pre-war Polish government, with its top officials being in exile in London.

So, Pilecki was by no means a spy: he was a member of legal Polish intelligence agency, reporting to legal Polish government and passing intelligence information to our official allies (Poland had signed military pacts with both France and Great Britain in 1939).

What wasn't legal was the communist government that killed him in 1948, government formed by usurpers, backed by Soviet occupants.
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Why the name?
>Based upon momentum I believe the Electron based ecosystem has already won, yes.

Based upon momentum Nicky Minaj is better than John Coltrane. So there's that.
My Nexus 6P went into bootloop failure just after 1 year when the warranty expired. Neither Google or Huawei are willing to replace or repair it. Apparently they used up all the spare parts due to massive number of failing phones. Now I'm stuck trying to get a refund from my credit card company.
The key difference being that the intrinsic use of gold is proven by thousands of years of use and a current robust market in the $100 billion/year range [1], while the "intrinsic value" of Bitcoin has no historical track record and approximately $0 current demand.

An important second difference is that creating a replacement for the intrinsic value of gold is somewhere between difficult and impossible, whereas it appears any hustler who can scrape together three programmers can launch a Bitcoin alternative. Even if Bitcoin's intrinsic value were real, approximately infinite supply means the effective intrinsic value would be approximately zero.

[1] https://www.gold.org/research/gold-demand-trends/gold-demand...
Ok don't get me wrong, agile dev has its benefits but usually its not used properly especially where I have worked in past. Project managers just care about completing features in days , when in fact the analysis and design of such features would itself require days or even weeks.
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Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/sec-halts-one-of-the-largest.... Thanks!
Emails blocked by SmartScreen, Microsoft won't help
That reminds me of the Web of Trust a browser add-on only without the actual monetary reward.

I've never heard of steemit.

edit: without not with
My father worked on this system.

Last time we checked, there's still a plaque in the office warning about "Rotten Ralph" (his nickname). Many family stories. My sis and bro would ride unattended, monitored from the control room. They loved helping reboot the system by manually entering the hexidecimal codes.

I remain disappointed we don't have PRTs every where.
> Quality of ads is a huge goal

How you do that is part of the lifecycle of an Ad platform. The ephemeral "quality of ad" is completely subjective and will forever be inadequately measured (to anyone's satisfaction for very long). Eventually all ad networks are subject to market pressures in pursuit of margins. Third party ads eventually arise from the existing technical implementation of ads (tons of untrusted code running in js and vpaid applications), even when "prohibited". There's nothing special about Amazon's platform. Lots of platforms have been the "new hot thing" with "total control".
That's a view worth keeping in mind. Does the kit you have mentioned above work for you in that way?
When I read "one line" I thought you were serving full-map images tweaked by query parameters.

(Of course I ignored the "interactive" part, but it seems like a good idea nonetheless.)
If the user was not aware its location was being uploaded, then yes, it is Strava's fault. They should not be using your data, on the assumption that it is not sensitive, without explicit consent (preferably opt-in).
They are only following the "industry standard" though. I bet the military would be surprised on how much location data leaks to Google location history, the only difference being it is not publicly available (yet).
https://lccn.loc.gov/03003442
I usually end up doing W2 contracting when I'm contracting and I have a network of good recruiters.

W2 contracting means they take care of employment taxes. I am officially working for them.

Recruiters mean that jobs usually just fall in my lap without any major marketing.

I get insurance through my wife.

This makes my calculation much simpler.

2080 total weekday hours
-80 hours paid holidays
-120 hours paid vacation
-120 hours gap in employment.

Desired market based salary * 1.04 (usual 401K match) is the minimum I'll accept.

There is a premium for doing work based on technology I already know well and have experience with vs. using technology I want to learn.

There is also a premium for commute distance, and if it's something I know but really want to avoid (project management, anything dealing with stored procedures, out dated technology, C/C++).
Atom and VS Code definitely haven't won for me. I don't use them, and personally I think they mostly suck. The plugin ecosystem seems to be the only benefit. But I actually need to use my system resources for things, so I'd rather not waste them for some minor conveniences in my editor.

Based on this video, I feel I'll almost certainly be using Xi for most of my editing in the future.
I get what your saying but this is a very hard balancing act for Apple.

I have an iMac from 2008 that is still working really well. I love what a fantastic machine they built, and for almost 10 years I could continue to upgrade the OS to get all the new features they developed.

With the "High Sierra" update I found out my computer was too old to receive the new OS. This made me really upset at first, because there are a few apps I want that I can never have on that machine.

But at some point if they continue to allow me to run the new OS it will result in an unusable device, like you are experiencing. But on either side of the fence you will have angry customers.

Apple can protect customers from updates that won't work correctly on their devices, or it can deny them access to new apps and features they want on old devices. Either way the customers will be disappointed.
>I am not a psychologist

Clearly.
I dunno if I buy the separation of "survival concerns" and "personal concerns." There are narcissistic ways of responding to survival concerns. In fact some responses are more advantageous in meeting those concerns than the less-narcissistic responses.
I wonder how this compares with Gogoproto.
Nobody in their sane mind uses the standard protobuf package anyway.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN. This one is unsubstantive because it has become almost a Betteridge-level cliché. Curiosity and predictability can't occupy the same space, and HN is a site for curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
KodakCoin’s co-creator says the stock surge has been ‘a terrible distraction’
AI May Have Finally Decoded the Bizarre, Mysterious 'Voynich Manuscript'
I remember the museum I read it in. If you are really interested then I could go there and talk to the staff but there are probably easier ways.
Moreover facebook is banning cryptocurrency and ICO Ads in their new Ad policy
https://www.facebook.com/business/news/new-ads-policy-improv...
Pony is such a cool project, it's what Go could have been if it wasn't stuck in the middle of the eighties : it has a super expressive type-system, and a bit like in Rust, it gives you the data-race freedom.

I really wish it gains traction.
it will always have value as long as it in the only thing the IRS accepts for taxes due
I use the Notes app on iOS. It's decidedly lacking in a lot of features that other richer apps have, BUT, it is the only thing that is constantly there, whenever I need it. It's followed me around for years on all my devices, and I can search through it rather easily.

For me, for the sort of quick/random thought logging, quick accessibility trumps features any day.
In the long term, perhaps, but in the short term there's going to be MtGox-or-worse level carnage in the markets if Bitfinex/USDT is exposed as a scam and people start panic selling to cash out.
Where is the Xi plugin documentation (as in, how to write and install a plugin, what are the APIs).

I found https://github.com/google/xi-editor/blob/master/doc/plugin.m... , but it doesn't have anything technical (or a tutorial).
> Latency while typing is a jarring experience.

This is so true.

I grew up on the Commodore 64. The machine was usually pretty responsive, but when I typed too quickly in my word processor it sometimes got stuck and ate a few characters. I used to think: "If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption...". If you'd asked me back then for a top ten list what I wished computers could do, this would certainly have been on the list.

Now, 30 years later, whenever my cursor gets stuck I like to think:

"If computers were only fast enough so I could type without interruption..."
The tire was not in wide circulation. There were only around 160,000 ever made, and most of those were presumably sold for delivery vehicles, which is what they were supposedly designed for. The problem is that some number of those 160,000 were put on RVs, where they're seemingly a time bomb.
The difference is when you're on something like BlueCross you have a "network" of hospitals and independent doctors and labs and pharmacies that you can choose from. But those are not on all on one IT system and a lot of times they have no way of communicating with each other. With Kaiser it's all vertically integrated under one company that can impose a system-wide IT system.
thanks abarrera :)
I am fine with people having no degree and learning computer programming , but do not understand why people get masters in mechanical or electrical engineering and then enter programming web apps..if its all about money why do they waste the mechanical/civil engineering seat at the university ?

If argument is that they need to pay loans, then computer degrees should also be allowed to learn on the job and do mechanical/civil stuff ?
For that case, maybe, but I'm correcting parent post's presumption that trading in tethers necessarily imparts some huge risk onto the exchange.
In school, I didn't make it much past basic calculus/algebra. As a self-taught programmer (my highest level of education is a high-school diploma), I seriously wish I could go back and put more effort into math. I love looking at these types of topics, but I have absolutely no clue what I'm looking at.

If anyone can recommend any books, courses, or any other material that starts from high-school level math, and gradually increases in complexity, I would love to look at it.

Cheers :)
I converted from PHP/Laravel to Go about two years ago. Performance is amazing. Plays well with k8s. There are several good frameworks, but I'm, so far, just using straight Go.

IoT integration is fabulous - see https://gobot.io
It is tragic but I think Stalin is responsible for most of these deaths.
Why care about the exterior? You don't see it when you're driving.
I'm biased but I'm running one. I've been a long time member of the hacker/dev community, heck, you can even come to our office and visit with us.

I also run the Crypto Builders meet-up out of Noisebridge here in San Francisco. Come out and hack with us.
It doesn't work like that. The hourly rate they are charging for your time also goes to support overhead and employees who aren't directly billable.
I'm still undecided on that one.

I have seen the website, whitepapers, and different videos.. from promos to some guy giving a talk.

But the only access you get to actually use it is a waiting list, unless you consider some of the underlying IPFS technology it uses that you can get from other sources (which is a different beast entirely).

It's likely I'm not meeting some prequalification requirement for the access, but this unfortunately means I can't get excited. If I can't test it anywhere and have never made it run myself, I have to withhold judgement.
which would still leave the question why he was offered it in the first place
Good data points: half of America don't visit their public library even once a year. The rest, maybe once a year.

If we curated public buildings like libraries curate books, we'd all sell our libraries for $1.
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Isn't Apple cheating?

They're taking their CPUs and clocking them at speeds the device can't support, except when brand new, then letting the device slow down over the corse of its usable lifespan.

It would be interested to compare an Apple and Qualcomm CPU after a year and a half, to see how the benchmarks have changed.
You may be amused to hear about the programming language they use.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS
There's nothing that prevents them from assigning 50 employees starting from year 2020 to mop up every ICO offered up until now. And they won't only going for the companies, but against the founders / CxOs individually - it's a poor consolation if you're not getting criminal charges because they haven't looked at your case yet, since they have quite a few years to do so.
First, this is an unattributed claim, and it's referencing 120F ambient, not 100 ambient the above claimed. (Well, it's vaguely attributed to a company trying to sell a solution....)

Given the all time high temp in Phoenix was 122F [1], I suspect this article is playing loose with the facts implying this temperature is a common occurrence, casting more doubt on the accuracy of the 170 claim. From a quick search, only two months in history recorded temperatures above 120, while the article implies this is common. It is not.

So yes, you can find people (like the above) stating these temps without attribution. I've not found anything in academic research with temperatures anywhere near that high, and there is a lot of papers on exactly this topic, with plenty comparing models to actual measured temps. I've been unable to find anything empirical in such papers near these claims.

I'm beginning to think these numbers are more folklore than fact.

[1] http://www.intellicast.com/local/history.aspx?location=USAZ0...
It's still a work in progress, we're revving the plug-in protocol. I'm looking forward to the time we can point people to a stable interface, but sadly it's not there yet.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News, and certainly not political flamebait? We're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Who is "you"? From the terms of service:

"Absent a reasonable legal justification not to redeem Tether Tokens, and provided that you are a fully verified customer of Tether, your Tether Tokens are freely redeemable...
Furthermore, residents of certain U.S. states are not permitted to be customers of Tether; are not permitted to cause Tethers to be issued or redeemed; and, are not permitted to hold Tether Tokens. Beginning on January 1, 2018, Tether Tokens will no longer be issued to U.S. Persons."

So if you hold Tether Tokens but are not a "customer", you have no claim to be paid. I suppose Tether customers (whoever they may be) might be willing to pay you dollars for your coins, but there's no reason for them to give you 1:1, for sure.
They are about to launch their own coin[0]

"For example, one of the most interesting questions in technology right now is about centralization vs decentralization. A lot of us got into technology because we believe it can be a decentralizing force that puts more power in people's hands. (The first four words of Facebook's mission have always been "give people the power".) Back in the 1990s and 2000s, most people believed technology would be a decentralizing force.

But today, many people have lost faith in that promise. With the rise of a small number of big tech companies — and governments using technology to watch their citizens — many people now believe technology only centralizes power rather than decentralizes it.

There are important counter-trends to this --like encryption and cryptocurrency -- that take power from centralized systems and put it back into people's hands. But they come with the risk of being harder to control. I'm interested to go deeper and study the positive and negative aspects of these technologies, and how best to use them in our services."

[0] https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104380170714571
I wanted something short, and it felt kinda futuristic. The similarity to "vi" was also intentional.
Why I’m microdosing LSD
How We Killed Expertise (And why we need it back.)
I just can't see driving an RV at 65-75. It's not a sports car.
It's the only thing the IRS accepts for taxes, it's the only thing that Saudi Arabia accepts for oil, etc. There's many good reasons for the dollar to have non-zero intrinsic value.
You figure out how much to charge by picking the right market. Pick something worthwhile! Customers doesn't care how much you think your time is worth. It's all about what your customers think it's worth.
Nope. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2010/05/01/misbehaving-childre...

I would say this is an example of Abraham Lincoln's famous observation "you shouldn't trust quotes on the Internet", but that one predates the Internet, so you probably shouldn't trust quotes in newspapers either.
It's pretty fun that "leadership" is correlated with "vanity", "narcissism", and "entitlement". I'm not actually sure what these measure, precisely, but the graph is good for a laugh.

http://dericbownds.net/uploaded_images/narc.png
*Alphabet's
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One thing about narcissism is it’s terrible AND ALSO horribly annoying / pretentious.

I agree with the commenter’s below point that narcissism is definitely not the root of all evil. I don’t think Germany or Japan qualified as narcissistic society by any means before and during WWII (where there was lots of sublimating yourself for the state).

That being said, there is just something sooooo pretentious about narcissism I am driven to hate it while also being curiously fascinated with it. I sometimes wonder if I’m part of the problem in that case.

Regardless, this is why I subscribe to these subreddits:

- https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart

- https://www.reddit.com/r/ihavesex
Modern ARM actually has a 16-bit immediate version of MOV, plus MOVT which is the same but moves to the top 16 bits of a register. With a pair of those, you can load any 32-bit value in 2 instructions, without polluting the data cache like you would with LDR [pc+offset].
Well, you keep clicking the ads.
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16268152
Out of curiosity, what is the hottest background temps you think you've checked in? Any around 100 F ambient?
No, but it's the closest I've seen yet. It applies some pretty tame styles on inclusion, and every class is namespaced.
Filecoin hasn't even been coded yet and no one has access to it. Once something is already developed they wouldn't need an ICO.
Play it forwards, and it hijacks Siri, Alexa
I know how annoying it can be to run across internet comments that seem insufferably pedantic. But would you please not post unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? As much of a problem as pedantry is, empty, name-calling comments are much worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why is this form of self-reliance a virtue? To me, it looks pathological; certainly not something we should collectively be working towards.
To be fair, many of those games are rather uncommon and may just not accessible for public play by anyone. TG arcade scores must be done on original hardware. So some scores are a testament to rarity more than anything.

Particularly on the MAME (emulator) side of arcade scoring - on a previous incarnation of the TG website, the rules for submission to a game were not public until a score had been submitted for that game. Some folks with many high scores were simply submitting any score at all so that others could even play along.
Unicode to the rescue! Here's how to make 𝗯𝗼𝗹𝗱 text:

http://qaz.wtf/u/convert.cgi

Looks a bit ugly, but works.
I'm going to miss the "crypto genius" ads.
I am writing a book that I hope can serve such a purpose. Would you be interested in taking a look? If so, shoot me an email at mathintersectprogramming@gmail.com

Fair warning, I have shown it to a programmer who claimed some level of "math phobia," and they said the first chapter was too difficult. I rewrote that chapter since, and I think it is better, but I could use some feedback :)
Uh nope, single threaded performance is the key parameter. It’s what made intel (et al) blow up with Meltdown and Spectre. It’s what they’d still be pushing if it weren’t for physics.
They don't operate in US jurisdiction or do business with any US corporations so they can run for a while ignoring the subpoenas and the wheels of justice grind slow but it will catch up with them.

Look up E-gold if you want to feel the experience of history repeating itself. For bonus points check the dates when E-Gold was shutdown and when bitcoin was created.
There was a Japanese novel called Library War that later got turned into a movie, TV series, and so on. The story took place in a fascinating if somewhat implausible near future where certain books were banned from the public, but libraries were exempted from the ban and could actually defend their rights under the exemption by any means necessary. This occasionally led to armed confrontations over the possession of these banned books.
I seem to be impervious to malware and viruses. Maybe because I don't download and run random exe files, don't get involved with suspicious e-mails, don't go to dodgy websites, have a firewall at home on which I can monitor all connections, etc. I refuse to use anti-virus software as well, it is the cure that is worse than the disease.

My PC did get hacked in the 90s when I was running something like kernel 2.0.36.

Look at all the trouble people are having with the meltdown/spectre updates. I haven't updated, I have no trouble. The odds of trouble if you update I think are much higher than the odds of any trouble from not updating.

Keep in mind I'm talking about a PC behind a firewall not an internet facing server.
Does not match: 10.1 -> 10.0.0.1
(Not the author) I presume a reference to one the many mathematical/scientific usages? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_(letter)#Mathematics_and_sc...

I particularly like the "No change of state" meaning in "Z notation", apparently a formal language for specifying and modeling computer systems.

Edit: never mind, author beat me and debunked my overly-complicated analysis
It's pretty much like using a surrogate key in a database.
I'm not sure what's questionable about that, we "erase" things from western culture (doctors being proud of bloodstains and never sanitizing for one example) to improve its effectiveness fairly often.
> Unfortunately, that means we have to shut down Gemnasium soon.

Which is a shame as a non-GitLab, GitHub user, although now I have a reason to migrate to their dependency graph feature introduced last year.
If it's Synapse.ai you're talking about, and it's "legitimate", why did you run a time-limited whitelist application process to drive scarcity for the coin you're selling? Are you registered with the SEC? If not, what's an interpretation of what you're doing where you're not promoting an unregistered security to the investing public?

https://imgur.com/a/99K2Y
You have minutes before the missiles hit. Waiting around for Steve to get back from the toilet could cost a lot of lives.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-elon-musk-schedules-a-typ...
Kremlin social media trolls aren't actually that influential, study finds
Basic Attention Token

https://basicattentiontoken.org/
after all these hundreds of comments about bitcoin this is by far the best explanation why it is (asymptotically) worthless