skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
US authorities dismantled global cyber theft ring known as InfraudOrganization
Do I understand you right that Github, Basecamp, Twitter are or were zombies?

If that's what you are saying, I'd love you to elaborate, because I can't see how one could see this.
Borenstein: Ain’t seen nothing yet; California pension cost rise just starting
No different than the $5000 credit line from your credit card "created money".

The Fed creates money supply by manipulating accounts. But it never prints a physical bill. But this practice is almost the same as how your credit card can have $5000, $10,000, or $20,000 credit line created out of thin air.
Agreed. It's not hard to see that the fear of regulation/bans has a direct relation with Bitcoin's price, which means it's not a completely unregulated free market and thus hardly proof that free markets don't work.

He also seems to disregard other cryptos which can easily be used for regular transactions with low fees.

Just a bad article really.

EDIT: Just realized this was submitted by "Bitcoin_McPonzi", so I doubt they would care about the article's accurate depiction of Bitcoin.
Legally this is most likely correct. But you can't have your cake and eat it to. If you support political censorship (which you might have a good reason to do), then you have to own that. You can't support political censorship and then justify it by saying it's not censorship.
Drivers are on all of the ride sharing apps, simultaneously. A driver sees two ride requests - one from Lyft and one from Uber - and selects the one paying more.

At that point, I don't understand how could anyone argue they are an employee (in the traditional sense of the word) of either company.
They have 50% of the US market, and control 75% of the app store spend. (iOS users spend 4x as much in aggregate), ergo, they are the gatekeepers of 75% of the mobile software economy, take a 30% cut, are using their closed ecosystem leverage to inflate an inferior music streaming competitor (Apple Music) vs Spotify, etc. I mean, there's lots of current market power abuse or potential market power abuse, and had it not been for Android, who knows how much of a monopoly they'd have.

That said, I don't think they need to be broken up, nor do I think Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, or Google do. The problems of wage stagnation in the advanced economies have nothing to do with tech.

The "whataboutism" this time is correct, because we're quit literally talking about spending political capital to break up these companies on mostly theoretical harm, with unknown consequences, while ignoring decades of much much nastier abuses by other corporations that have actually killed lots of people.

You're not going to seriously get me triggered over Amazon blowing away Walmart, at the same time, you have chemical companies dumping toxic waste into streams. On the scale of needs, I'm worried about Amazon last.

There's a tendency of #firstworldproblems, of people in cushy white collar desk jobs, to hyperbolize relatively minor effects on their own life, while they consume products from companies that ship misery abroad, overseas.

You lose your shit when someone removes a feature from Snapchat because it affects you directly, but continue to enjoy your Sweatshop manufactured clothing, or your durable goods made with blood minerals because you don't see who it's hurting.

No good deed goes unpunished it seems. Many of the tech companies have been at the forefront of corporate responsibility compared to old industries, have reliably contributed to progressive causes, have responded to publish criticism and pressure without needs to be sued into it, and yet, all of the focus is on them.

I mean, good lord, Paul Manafort worked with defense contractors, right wing think ranks, and Congress and shipped small arms to a Angola, which was in the middle of a peace talks to end a civil war, and re-ignited a fight that got 100,000 people killed. Whataboutism in this case is justified, if you're going to spend your time lobbying for something, spend it on something that's going to help save people in actual danger.
> is a regression in workers rights and benefits.

But, it also brings an expansion in available jobs, and much greater flexibility in deciding when to work.

For a LOT of people, those are worthwhile tradeoffs.

> of some smartphone app having been created.

Piecework (which is basically what this is), long long long predates the smartphone.
Diets are important in what they exclude.
Yes, these companies seem far along. But do keep in mind that this is somewhat of a biased sample -- the dozen or so companies that "launch" on HN months before demo day are likely to be the companies that are the most far along.

There are ~100 other companies in the current batch [1] that haven't launched. I imagine many of those companies are not nearly as far along as the ones mentioned in this article, and some are still pivoting / navigating the idea maze.

That said, it does seem like in the most recent batches, YC companies get to demo day with significantly more traction than the early YC companies. I wonder to what extent that's because YC's reputation has gotten better over time (thus self selecting for startups with traction) or because it's gotten easier/cheaper/faster for startups to build a product and gain traction.

[1] I don't know the exact number of companies in the current batch. Last batch had 124 companies so using that as a proxy http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-summer-2017-stats/
Yet setting up HTTPS on s3 is still non-trivial, and an additional ongoing expense.
Good point on long-term rates, but on short-term rates, this seems like a distinction without a difference?

The Fed can create unlimited amounts of money so at least in theory, they're always going to be able to prop up demand for treasuries in dollar terms. (Possibly at the expense of inflation.) If the short-term interest rate rises, it's because they want to let it rise. And they can always change their mind.
note that they slashed spending as well. Given all of the talk of regulation I don't think they are out of the woods yet. If increased regulation does happen it will have an enormous effect on the business.
Ready to Arbitrage among cryptocurrency exchanges?
Alas, this is more complicated than just including a link. The mp3 needs to be served with permissive "CORs" headers, and most are not. I made the call, that it would be too confusing for users to try to support loading from URL.
Anyone know of a markdown editor that has quick, notational velocity style file search/creation and just saves files to the hard disk? (So I can sync the directory via Dropbox or Google drive myself)
https://www.investopedia.com/articles/bonds/09/bond-market-i...

Sorry to leave you with a link, bed time ;)
Do you realise that you are implying that sexual selection is in favour of light eyes in general? This was not what I stated.

I merely talked about differentiating in- and out-groups, which is localised, meaning the homogeneity of an eye colour within an ethnicity can be explained through sexual selection.

Regarding the prevalence of brown eyes, light eyes and hair are a recent and recessive mutation. That is all that is required to explain why it is localised and less common: it is limited to people who descended from the point of origin of the mutation. In this case that would be Northern Europe.

http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/patterns/
Corollary to that is that it makes work available where previously it was uneconomical to employ somebody.
It's an exchange. The freedom of the gig economy vs. the loss of rights and benefits. If it's worth it for you take it, if not, don't.
> eating meat only can be sustainable. Not sure how long, though.

I've heard of several people who have eaten nothing but meat for decades and swear by it. It's fascinating.

There's a 2 hour podcast with a seemingly smart guy who has eaten meat for a few years now and has also become a proponent of the idea. I can recommend checking this out for anyone who wants to get a better idea how this carnivore diet works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj_Bc9hdHa0
The dev still has the power to choose the default; the user just has the ability to veto it. That sounds like a massive positive, from the user's perspective.
Probably :( https://github.com/captbaritone/winamp2-js/blob/0cf2d7292fc9...
That is also my understanding, you can of course not make absolutely arbitrary choices or you could trivially turn two distinct physical states into each other but as far as I know you still have huge freedoms.

I read the paper some time ago but I don't remember it as especially enlightening. Maybe I will take the opportunity to read it again over the weekend, maybe I can get something new out of it now that I missed the first time.
A free and online PDF toolkit (edit, lock, sign, merge, etc)
After studying and felt in love with machine learning, I think I have succeeded in analytically dealing with my perfectionism. In my case, I was always trying to achieve a local minimum with the cost of 0, and it was overfitting. I was more into integers and algebraic equality rather than floating-point numbers, analytic inequality, probability, and statistics. But after studying machine learning and the related stuff, somehow my mind changed and I now embrace the latter. What is important for me now is to visualize a cost, try to minimize for a general case, stop when passing a threshold, and carefully monitor the whole process. I can plot my current position or cost and see how it change over time and happily stop when things not go well, which I couldn't do in the past that harmed me.
Could you paste a full stack trace?
Younger investors are remaining calm during the recent market correction
The guy who cofounded Google's $3.2B smart home company is stepping down
You know what they say:

Bad case, bad case law.
My brain knows this. I am unlikely to panic sell.

Still - everyday I check how much my investments have made. I'm not used to having enough money to invest, and it goes against my instincts a little bit.

It just takes some getting used to.
But if you contract a person to paint your office building, you do. That doesn't make that person into your employee.
You’re going with Jim “No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble.“ Cramer on this?
Excellent, thank you for those links. I will read them carefully.
I’m guessing so? You’re the only one who brought up Hamachi. ZeroTier seems to be the preferred code. I might try that. Right now I use Hamachi.
They told them based on the most recent address of the contact on record. Why should it be the responsibility of the tax collector to make sure this is up-to-date and accurate?
Ampere Launches to Accelerate Hyperscale Cloud Computing Innovations
> Obviously this is bad for workers in the short-term.

That's not obvious at all.

Why is this bad? It means people can have lots of flexibility on when to work, and for who. For some people this is very valuable.

It also means a lot more flexibility to those offering work (i.e. they can scale up or down based on short term demand), which means there are now more companies willing to offer work, and again that's a win for the worker.

To me, it's a net win because it results in more work being available, and more work being done (i.e. people getting paid).
They will eventually recrawl it and update an index but your ranking will be in the toilet by then.
Sure. It's an exchange. It's an exchange designed to consign the poor into being ever poorer. But hey--you get your food delivered for two bucks and you never have to talk to a person. So that's great.

The "gig economy" is designed to break employment. It's designed to turn people who already are living hand-to-mouth or worse into always-available scutworkers for the upper class and the (smaller than one would expect) middle class that serves them in ways the participants in that "gig economy" cannot. But you can choose to not do it! And when, obviously and inexorably, that becomes the game in town available to vast swaths of the working poor, what then? There aren't even any workhouses anymore. Scrooge can't even offer that whatabout.

Most people may not have much of a choice about feeding themselves (ourselves) or their (our) kids into the thresher, but the people who do can have the minimal decency not to oh-but-it's-fine about it. And that includes most people on HN.
OP seemed to be asserting that owning a house implied owning the road in front of it.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, but a ketogenic diet is sustainable indefinitely although it becomes challenging. The majority of calories are taken as fats, rather than carbohydrates/starches/simple sugars as is the typical western diet. The liver quickly adapts to burning fats rather than converting sugars and avoids the associated insulin conversion response.

Nevertheless, after being inundated with the food groups adn "healthy" food pyramid favoring carborhydrates ('healthy grains'), it does feel very odd to put four tablespoons of butter in cup of coffee, then follow that with a breakfast of 1/2 pound of bacon with eggs and cheese, and convince oneself you're eating a healthy diet. My results speak for themselves though -- lower serum cholesterol, weight loss, and lower blood pressure.
Yeah but the example the author used had nothing to do with Bitcoin.

And you could also argue that if you took precautions you could setup an anonymous wallet that isn't directly linked to you.
Running Couchbase Natively on Kubernetes and OpenShift Platform – Beta
You're assuming that it's a choice people want to make. If you talk to a few gig economy workers it becomes pretty clear that many of them would much prefer a 9-5 job with decent pay and benefits, but are unable to find such jobs.
Fire treated wood is called 'shou-sugi-ban' in Japanese and is occasionally used in commercial and residential applications. Fire treated wood has the benefit of being naturally fire-resistant, insect resistant, and water/rot resistant while also being a natural treatment (as opposed to a man-made chemical treatment.)

https://shousugiban.org/

https://www.treehugger.com/sustainable-product-design/materi...
I have been trying to spin up projects for years since my early teens and the best project I've have had traction on so far is my open source Tetris Attack-like clone.

I think it has come the farthest then any of my previous projects because I didn't take it seriously which made the barrier to entry for contributors easy since I set my standards very low.

I'd normally try to build something to scale with a monetization plan from day one, and I was so burned out on failed projects I thought I'd just work on something I wanted to do, without care of generating money. I figured if I got one of my serious for cash projects going it would free up time for such a project but I got tired waiting.

The seriousness has scaled with the project. Some team members stick around, some sunset, but this is fine because my project keeps attracting people who are suited for the current stage.

Will my project go from toy to business? I don't care. I'll just ride the project for as long as I can, and its possible I will sunset from my project where people better than me will take it somewhere I can't.

https://github.com/omenking/swap-n-pop
If this means the ultimate death of captive networks, that would be worth it on its own.
Technical analysts are the financial equivalent of diviners, and it amazes me that anyone takes them seriously.
Windows 10 detects this by trying to go to msftconnecttest.com in a browser if it detects using some heuristics that the wifi requires signin which should redirect you to the wifi signin page. Android also detects this as well by going to some Google-owned page that redirects you to the wifi signin if it detects that it is needed. What are you using that this is still a problem?
How is that the case when looking at ridesharing services? Using uber instead of a cab takes away work from one and gives it to another by undercutting them. As much as it's 'creating work' for a lyft driver, it's also taking someone else's job. I don't mean to defend the cab industry herr, but it's not like this work wasn't being done elsewhere.
Efficiency isn't an absolute good. It can, in cases, be an unambiguous bad.

If, for example, we're going to premise a society on "having jobs" then efficiency-ing those jobs out of existence might not be the wisest move, all in — especially if, to The Fine Article's point, we do so in a manner that adversely affects some regions disproportionately.

(Yes, there are always alternative jobs. They may not be palatable, or the society in question may not offer meaningful forms of skills transitioning. Or people might be stuck where they are for reasons beyond their control. "But efficiency!" isn't very comforting to someone who's out of work and starving.)

EDIT: phrasing.
That’s the link I was looking for, but couldn’t find for some reason. Thanks dude!
How about battery powered quadcopters with camera feeds and remote control? The Parrot AR.Drone was introduced in 2010, the first (AFAICT) consumer-priced drone to offer this kind of functionality. It was just a toy. Today similar low cost drones are used in film and TV production, wind turbine blade inspection, mapping, surveying... Consumer drones have even been weaponized by ISIS with small droppable grenades. Not that the latter is exactly a positive development, but it's not a toy use either.
Didn't Atlassian buy Trello some time ago?
Regular consumers and millionaires and billionaires have limits on how much they can borrow. This special trillionaire doesn't (for all practical purposes).

My point here is that I don't think your characterization of the FED as just a market participant is very useful, nothing more.
"More efficient" how? At saving developer time? At producing shippable end products? At debugging? Will using GTK result in a better product that increases the end-user's "efficiency" more? Or will it really result in the developer shipping a product with 1/10th the features, or nothing at all?
Nothing. My only point was most roads are public.

I was referring to public side walks on the right of way not private ones.
> If FED raised rates a couple percent, US would bankrupt in a few days after.

Setting aside the fact that the fed funds rate can only wag the short end of the yield curve, I'd like to point something out.

If the coupon on ALL issued Treasury debt suddenly went to 10% overnight, then yes, we would be looking at possible solvency issues.

But that's not how it works. The coupon the US pays to creditors is fixed until the maturity date of the bond. The average maturity on issued bonds and bills is 69 months. Meaning that open market yields would need to remain at (2*(10-current average yield))% for nearly six years in order to get to that point.
Actually, the Reason team is basically made up of experienced OCamlers who wanted to attract the JavaScript community and figured that a familiar syntax would help a lot (I think they were right). See https://reasonml.github.io/docs/en/what-and-why.html#why-rea... for more details.
> that contract looks like it's demanding exclusive employment for a particular company within a given time range

The ruling specifically says that this is not the case:

"The driver is not precluded from doing business with others and Grubhub does not have the right to restrict the driver from being concurrently or subsequently engaged in performing delivery services for other companies, even those that compete with Grubhub."

I am actually pretty impressed with the efforts Grubhub was making for compliance here.

"The driver may (1) lease insulated delivery bags from Grubhub in exchange for wearing Grubhub t-shirts and hats"

Since requiring someone to wear a uniform or use your logo is a strong sign of an employment relationship they make wearing the uniform consideration for a separate contract. Clever.
I agree with pretty much everything you said and it's very heartening to not be the token Cloud Foundry person in the comments.

As a nitpick:

> This is why I don't understand why this article lumps, e.g. Cloud Foundry in with K8S - they solve entirely different problems.

In fairness, the reference was to Cloud Foundry Diego, which is the most analogical component to Kubernetes. And they are of comparable vintage. Diego never found any independent traction outside of CFAR.

> I've helped run multiple thousand TPS using Cloudfoundry, driving one of Europe's biggest retailers using just a few services.

We have customers doing millions of payments per hour, billions of events per day. Running tens of thousands of apps, thousands of services, with thousands of developers, deploying thousands of times per week.

CFAR doesn't get much press out of enterprise-land, but it works really well.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal. We have commercial distributions of both Cloud Foundry (PAS) and Kubernetes (PKS).
> if the central banks ran out of money

This cannot happen. The Federal Reserve can issue digital U.S. dollars. (Through a quirk of history, only the U.S. mint can print or coin physical dollars. But those are a minority of money, negligibly so in financial markets.)
So? An app isn't meant to hang in a museum and look pretty for the developer.

If the end user thinks it would be better with a different font or larger text or a different background, then they're right.

And realistically once an app ships to the end user the developer has forfeited all control anyway.
This case aside - if I exclude legally mandated terms when I hire somebody and they accept the offered terms that doesn't mean I'm exempt from the law.
> The Fed can create unlimited amounts of money

This is where "money" is no longer a useful term. The Fed has no means of creating M0: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/m0.asp

Only the US Mint can create M0.

What the Fed can do with QE is create new accounts. And as I described to another poster, the concept is very similar to how a credit card can "create" money out of thin-air by creating a $5000 credit card for you.

Does the money really exist? Not really. Its just a number, and the reason why it works is because you, the credit card holder, will do your best to return the money at a future date.

Similarly, QE is fine as long as the Fed draws it down and sells the bonds back into the market (or alternatively, lets them mature and doesn't buy any back). Which it has begun to do.
The fractional reserve banking system has inherent limits as the bank must keep enough reserves in case of a run. But the fed has no inherent limit. Root access to the USD.
Any “exchange” that’s premised on the “loss of rights” is just the Capital class leveraging their power to further exploit the poor.
Agreed - my issue is not with using whatever libraries make your life easier, it's with having those libraries under the control of a third party. So if you run your own npm mirror and vet updates (and can roll back versions if an update does break something) then you're good. Anyone who complained that they got to work one morning and their production code was broken because of a change to something external to their building should be sacked.
That doesn't seem accurate, the unpublished document was selected first before being matched using the software.

I'm not sure how they are dating the unpublished document so as to be certain which is the earlier source. The NYT just says McCarthy claims the production date.
> As a native of... nowhere in particular, I think "up" and "down" are pretty universal among Americans for "north" and "south."

You're probably right, but I think it's relatively new; IIRC traditionally 'up' & 'down' refer to elevation. And of course maps used to be drawn with east, rather than north, at the top (hence the phrase 'orient a map' — 'orient' just means 'east').

I always use 'up' & 'down' for elevation, but I'm weird:-)
Because the government exists to serve the people, not to rigidly enforce laws like a mindless automaton no matter the consequences.
To add one, we launched on HN couple days ago (Supermedium, a full VR browser for Web-based VR content) and missed the blog post. We'd fall into VR :)