skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that is true, why not throw things into some P2P cryptographically secure user account system like this[1] (disclaimer: ours).

From a technology perspective, it is non-trivial for corps/companies to do this (since they don't value that). But the technology to do it already exists, so if laws are forcing people this direction, what is the best way to market the availability of systems like this?

Any thoughts/clues? Thanks!

[1] https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...
Another: "Abstraction is selective ignorance. - Andrew Koenig."
They simply show a desire to learn. Too many devs are happy to reach a comfortable level and coast forever there. I’m sorry, but side projects, especially simple ones, have been a great hiring metric.
You can use Unicode escapes for < and > if you need them to be escaped. (Which is unfortunate, but defense in depth I guess.)
Antecdotal, but I knew something was wrong when a coworker of mine who thinks he can pick stocks bought into bitcoin at about 16k
Sorry could someone explain to me why this is $999? ( Apart from because they can.)
Yeah mine too, followed by me installing one.
In a practical sense, people DO have their own expectation of privacy in being "lost in the crowd" when in public places, regardless of what the legal systems project & rationalize.

Regarding public roads, we need licensing and insurance because we can severely damage other people sharing the same space, but that's not necessarily linked to consent to eliminate privacy there. We expect as reasonable for license plates to be recorded when something bad or suspicious happens, and that things like comprehensive license plate tracking is an invasion of privacy.
> Do I want my team to value the number of tickets closed, or do I want them to value our critical business KPIs?

How does this look in practice, in large organizations? Is everyone empowered to freelance on whatever they think will improve said KPIs?

At some point, someone needs to have the power to decide what is being built (hopefully with an eye towards KPI-impact), and others need to fall in line and close some tickets.
I have read about juggad! But I haven't studied it closely so my knowledge of the details is limited.
some distributed pseudo-identity could be, as long as it has strong privacy protection and identities can be deleted / obfuscated in a way that becomes untraceable. but here you still have a centralized identity provider.
The moment fossil fuels get more expensive you'd like a more efficient engine.
Donkey Kong scoreboard strips Billy Mitchell’s high score claims
Does ublock allow to block all javascript and cookies by default, and manually whitelist javascript or cookies domain by domain?
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

You can know that bitcoin is doomed to fail, but that doesn't help you if there's a temporary price spike and you get a margin call.
remember it only took one really abstract thinking Willy Wonka and a bunch of oompa loompas to make really great candy

An interesting difference between software and mass-produced physical goods is that a single Willy Wonka can do a fair without needing oompa loompas. It’s not an especially fashionable way of doing things right now, but don’t dismiss the possibility.
I really like the idea of pairing exercises too. I’ve done an interview before as the interviewee where I didn’t actually do the typing but did all the dictating to build out a class with a TDD approach. It never felt like I was under heavy scrutiny and there was so much conversation. It’s amazing when you walk away from an interview feeling like the experience was positive/educational regardless of outcome.
Smartphone shipments decline 6.3%
"Ah, surely this professional, educated economist has not studied bitcoin and doesn't understand crypto and the value of unregulated currency as well as me, your local pothead with no economics or tech education! And in any case, surely Etherium doesn't suffer from the same problems despite being fundamentally similar!"
Its a casualty of their philosophy on code. If the numbers look good it doesn’t matter whose idea it was or how crazy it sounded. They tell you this pretty much at the top of the indoctrination material.

It certainly keeps them out of analysis paralysis, no question. But any armchair psychologist can tell you this is essentially numbing. Not listening to your fears or emotions can be as unhealthy as dwelling on them. Zero is not the only alternative to Too Much. These things take balance.
> They’ll need a warrant to pull the data from the manufacturer.

Can you elaborate?
it could be based on some other identity provider perhaps an anonymous one, even trustless. persona was flexible with regards to authenticators. the point is, if the browser had control of the SSO, then the user could control it, not facebook or google or twitter.
Worth noting that the term Web 3.0 was previously used to describe the Semantic Web, a revolution that seems to be largely dormant.

https://www.w3.org/standards/semanticweb/
What is the best way to learn to code from absolute scratch?
We have been hosting a Ugandan refugee in our home in Oakland for the past 9 months and he wants to learn how to code.

Where is the best place for him to start from absolute scratch? What resources can we point him to? Who can help?
This post has nothing to do with tickets, Jira, Agile or actual in pocket cash. It just says "do a usability test" some time before shipping.
> rest is vegetarian

does that mean you consume eggs and cow's milk?
A lot of people just made money shorting bitcoin... it literally just dropped 50%. Are you trying to say that that wasn't a crash? Or that it's not a bubble? Doubling in value then losing half of it within two months seems like the very definition of a bubble popping.
I agree, Ethereum is an example of something that took the concepts underpinning Bitcoin: distributed immutable legder and verifiable trust and created an platform that I think can be very interesting for building decentralized marketplaces.

The technology is new so there are going to be hurdles but in terms of scaling and obviously a lot of speculation, but I think there are also a lot of socio/geopolitical factors that will continue to make cryptocurrencies a thing.
I worked on a Hackathon project that received an award from the sponsor and seemed like a good idea. My team of 4 was stoked and ready to continue building the service but one more experienced dev was hesitant.

He advocated putting up a beta sign up page with some mock images; to wait and see if we were going to get traction.

Sure enough, he was right. We got tweeted by Etsy and expected a rush of sign ups- we only got 1. It was from a guy I met at the airport whom I told about the project.
Take a breath.

The biggest bubble in history?
Compared to the mortgage and banking meltdown in 2008?

History must be short.
Standard SQL features where PostgreSQL beats its competitors
> If you've ever transferred Etherium to a friend to pay them back for the pizza they bought you, you'll feel that value in a small way.

I think it's hard for people to appreciate this because this is already a pretty trivial task using tools like Venmo (or whatever your choice might be).

> There was a massive housing bubble, but we still have houses and they are, mostly, recovered above the peak of that bubble ten years later.

There's not really an alternative to houses (assuming you include e.g. apartments under that umbrella). You have to live somewhere, you don't have to use cryptocurrencies.

I think a more apt analogy would be the dot-com bubble. If there truly is a use for cryptocurrencies (as there turned out to be for internet-based companies), they'll stick around and we'll see them again.

That said, I also think it's a bit dangerous to rely on historical bubbles for predicting the future here. There are plenty of "bubbles" that never recovered at all, and we just moved on to the next thing entirely. We tend to forget about them.
Why would that matter? Hong Kong was originally seceded to Britain without asking whether that was what the inhabitants wanted. Territory is a matter between states, not inhabitants.
Pattern matching logic fails for both educated people and potheads alike. Bitcoin is unlike anything seen before and no one knows what’s going to happen with it.
> The Windows 95 UI was innovative and trulky groundbreaking. People like to say it was a rip-off of one thing or another, but it really wasn't.

Say what‽ I like this ad from Apple[0]:

Introducing Windows 95

It lets you use more than eight
characters to name your files.

It has a trash can you can open
and take things out of again.

It lets you drop files anywhere
you want on the desktop.

Imagine that.

The funny thing is that it's now 23 years later, and Windows is still not as usable as a circa-1995 Mac. It's a bit crazy!

[0] https://www.cultofmac.com/386189/how-apple-responded-to-the-...
Can someone summarize the technical tradeoffs they made in developing this OS vs. say Windows and Linux for example? Also, anything that is just plain better and represents recent innovations in OS design?
I honestly thought object/array spread/rest were already in ES2017. Maybe it's because I'm in my own little Babel/React world. I literally just had to stop and go create-react-app and see if that specific use of rest/spread works and it does. Then I went to babel's docs and found it's part of TC-39.

Maybe this is meta, but I wonder what it means for us in this ecosystem. Some of us have totally lost touch with whether the language features we use are supported by the runtime, or are even "canon". Right now I'm probably using a bunch of language features in different projects that are still proposals. I have a few handwoven .babelrc's in different projects that use all manner of things.

I'm almost 40 now and looking back on my programming career, what we do with JS and language features is truly bizarre.
Two more:

"The abstract is no more than an instrument, an organ, to see the concrete clearly." —José Ortega y Gasset

"Good general theory does not search for the maximum generality, but for the right generality."—Saunders Mac Lane, who knew a thing or two about abstraction
> “Policymakers and regulators are getting worried. Pretty much every G20 policymaker is talking about a crackdown,” Roubini told Bloomberg Television. “We can’t allow it to become the next Swiss bank account for use by criminals and people evading tax.”

I've heard the "prevent the next Swiss bank account" thing a few times now, and it still looks like the most baldly corrupt aspect of this whole show. Actual Swiss bank accounts are still a thing people have, and are still being used by the wealthy to avoid taxes on a routine basis, and everyone knows it. But actual Swiss bank accounts have a stable legal status and no one's really going after them.

What's the difference between "the next Swiss bank accounts" and the current ones? Perhaps it's that Bitcoin is available to much less wealthy classes of people. Or perhaps the right people have big Swiss accounts and haven't gotten around to diversifying into crypto yet. But I haven't seen a good account of the difference.
On the other hand, everything is doomed to fail eventually, so that's no prediction at all.
* Total Freedom by J Krishnamurti

* Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

* Wit and Wisdom from Poor Richard's Almanack by
Benjamin Franklin

* Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
Vega M ( On package Vega ). I dont understand how this will work.

Let say AMD makes a profit on their Vega Chip sold to Intel.

Intel will now have to sell this CPU+Vega chip ( Raw Cost ) @ Intel Margin.

So Intel either sell a very expensive package, or sell it at the same cost ( or slightly higher ) to customer as if they were to buy them separately, which hurts Intel margin. ( Because Intel earn less on Vega )

And it has been a long time Intel dont care about margin at all.
I was thinking something similar. The first few levels of "abstraction" seem to me to be more about visualization skills and spatial reasoning. For example, we'd expect a painter to be particularly good at those, but not necessarily good at math or monads. The 4th level seems like a totally different kind of category from the first three.

Which, come to think of it, matches my personal experience. I have zero spatial ability---back in the 80's in California they actually gave us standardized tests in elementary school including a spatial ability section, and my scores were always like 90+%-ile math, verbal, and like 20%-ile spatial. Never been able to draw for shit. But was always advanced in math, 99th percentile lsat (logic-heavy) scores, top grades in stats, etc. So am I at the 4th level but not at all at the first three?
Neither is Windows 95, because essentially the only feature that makes an OS "for [most] consumers" is that it comes pre-installed on the appliances at Best Buy.
What do you think happens if lots of miners abandon bitcoin?

(this will have occurred in the scenario where a few (or few hundred) bidders matter)
Windows 3.1 always runs in some kind of protected mode, either in 16-bit PM on 286 or as a process inside 32b hypervisor-ish layer on 386 and up.
China had accumulated a lot of the world silver reserves by selling tons silk and porcelain but buying basically nothing. Selling Opium to China "solved" this problem.

Today the have the idea of exporting everything to the world and buy nothing besides a few raw materials, creating a giant trade deficit. Let's see how it ends.
All I'm stating is that I do not think the price will reach exactly zero. Of course it's a crash, and of course shorting it is profitable during this, I was short myself in it for a bit.

But the bubble has supposedly popped many times, keep in mind Bitcoin has had crashes far greater than just 50% before (closer to 90% has happened multiple times, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_bitcoin#Prices_and_...). So if this is 'the' bubble pop, rather than just another large crash, will remain an open question for quite some time.
Apparently there's a "security check". I have to wonder what's being "secured".
Writing Space Invaders with Go
Recent drops in cryptocurrency valuation coincide with futures settlements dates on CBOE and the other exchange. Perhaps someone is gaming the market and exploiting arb opportunity?
That happens on Reddit already, so no surprise it would happen here sooner or later.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16290574
How much money would Second Life currency be worth if Second Life went bankrupt and offline?

How much money would World of Warcraft gold be worth when that game eventually shuts down?

How much money will any amount of Bitcoin be worth when the Bitcoin network frays apart and ceases to function?
Is Postgres RDS any different? Isn't it also run on EBS?
don't you think that eventually people will basically only use a couple of coins, and that bitcoin could not be one of them? this is what most crypto guys i've talked to say. at most i can see one coin used for anonymous transactions and another for more legitimized purposes, and then maybe some with unique effects like filecoin could also be used. but bitcoin only has network effects and entrenched users, that's it.

retired currencies like yen from the 1900s have a novelty collectors value because they're physical objects. coins don't have that, so a dead coin has literally zero value.
I should have prefaced that my comment was initiated in light of one peer’s suggestion to get out of startups to make a living. The fact that salaries presumably at established companies in one region can come in well under startup salaries in the Bay Area highlights the generally understood regional differences even more.
For me it's XP. That thing was perfect - and would be even today if it had 64bit and 4K support - and of course modern apps and drivers.
That's a good idea, but if I were a German citizen I'd rather they use something that's tried and true like shibboleth. I can't speak for the rest of the world, but shibboleth is what most of America's colleges and universities use to allow students to access research material the institution has paid for. Something that isn't obvious though, is anyone can setup a shibboleth identity provider, the only difference being that it's not on the whitelists that academic identity providers are on.
bitcoin is NOT money.
I just read all three posts. Very silly, very entertaining. I remember seeing that "clock diagram" of ordinals years ago, and wondering what happens if you take it further. Now I know!
Secure Text Encryption WithNode.js (2016)
Are progressive web apps really the future of the web?
An easy way for anyone to invest in fine artwork without millions of dollars
> I would say the cynical answer is because our credit cards are valuable

This, but not for the reasons you think. In America, it is stupidly easy to get credit in general, and credit cards have high limits. Europe is much, much more conservative in that regard.
I think you are lacking imagination here, would you still pay 1 cent for BTC that everyone has completely abandoned and doesn't care about any more? I am pretty confident this will happen at some point in the (maybe distant) future.
They presented this at FOSDEM today, and ran the entire presentation (and a demo afterwards) on the actual hardware. They used PCI via an FPGA to interface with a standard ATI gfx card iirc. I don't know if the video is out yet, but have a look!
TL;DR riding the blockchain hype wave...

Though I wish the author were right about privacy, anti-monopoly, data ownership, and decentralization!
Retain all sensor data forever: absolutely not, and the storage requirements would be insane anyway, especially in a harsh automotive environment (think industrial SSD pricing)

Push back e.g. updated model data to help with updating routes, real-time construction developments, new driveways, ways humans make mistakes on the road, etc? I believe that every AV company will be doing this, and hopefully this data is useless to law enforcement.

OTA updates? Tesla already does. It won’t even be a choice, and that’s probably a good thing. Many people who don’t work with computers professionally don’t see the importance of updating things. In a situation where software updates could literally prevent deaths, I’m pretty sure that it will be mandatory to have vehicles receive OTA updates that can’t be disabled.
> Aren't ability to abstract and experience sort of similar?

No. They are distinguishable from each other. One may feed the other, but they are separate.

> I don't really consider the ability to write a generic function (instead of copy-paste) to be the same as the ability to abstract. To write a good abstraction you need to understand both the underlying system and the consumption pattern to avoid abstraction leaks, boilerplate, hiding of useful features, etc.

You are confusing abstraction with data and function hiding. In the article abstraction means the ability to meta program, translate one problem into a simpler generic problem, etc. This is a skill most of the industry lacks _in practice_. It is a skill that all 1% coders have, but it also doesn't make experience go out the window.
It is worth it most of the time.
It claims that Meltdown can be used to read from other memory address spaces and break cross VM boundaries which is categorically false. Spectre v2 does allow you to execute intra VM and VM to host attacks Meltdown does not.

SeV will not help in this regard.

Games are already optimized for AMD GPUs and pretty darn well due to consoles I’m not entirely sure how much difference would the KBL-G provide considering that at least in the mobile space it’s going after the MX150 it needs 100W to compete with the 1050 so that would be on desktop only.
I don't like the idea of considering a language "good enough" and here's why.

First off I must be careful and acknowledge that a language which changes at a pace faster than the body of programmers using it can safely absorb could be considered an anti-pattern. As it stands I'm not sure if JS fits this.

Look at how Java has changed over the years. Back when it was created the syntax was appreciated by many as resembling C++ enough and being OO enough to be "good". Obviously there were many nits to pick by purists but programmers adopted the language and many people touted it. Java did not become popular because non-technical people were pushing it. Programmers liked it well enough.

I was a religious zealot when it came to OO. Now I find myself loathing large OO systems and trying to write procedural functional code as often as possible and only using classes when necessary. The Java language has evolved to add lambdas, streams, etc.. Should Java have added lambdas or should it have stayed the way it was, "good enough"? Even if one is a programming paradigm zealot of any persuasion one must acknowledge that a great deal of production code was written just fine using only the early Java language features. Should we have stopped there?

If code should be written first and foremost for programmers to understand and only incidentally for compilers to then it should stand to reason: as our collective understanding of how to express the behavior of a computer program evolves, so should the language(s).
Not sure if you're joking or if you genuinely don't know how bitcoin works.
The difference between your first two examples and the final one is that Bitcoin is decentralized. It only takes a single miner to keep the Bitcoin network functioning (in practice you'd need to wait for difficulty adjustment and it wouldn't work out very well, but the point is you don't need to rely on any single entity not going bankrupt).

It's true that is the price goes low enough mining would decrease significantly, but after difficulty adjustment it would still exist to a nonzero extent.
Bitcoin can absolutely still function as a system even if 95% or even 99% of all miners end up quitting it over the next few years.
You can't measure lost users, only installs. 1 > 0 so it's inevitable to show an increased number of installs with popup vs without.
How would that work? Everything in the blockchain is public. You can't automatically have something be revealed in the blockchain; if that worked, what stops someone from simulating blocks being added to the blockchain and seeing what your contract does? Unless the decryption was somehow linked to the set of the proof-of-works involved, but I don't think anyone yet has an idea of how that could be done.

You could later publish a decryption key into the blockchain that the contract uses, but I don't think that's "automatic" in the sense the earlier posts were hoping for.
The grid is back up, a VPS host issue occurred and a fix is underway.
Considering that Intel can pretty much raise the end price as much as they want and consumers will still make a bee line for it, I'd say Intels margin is secure here.
yeah but the oompa loompas keep you entertained with song and dance too.