skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>or the inherent history and math behind Bitcoin and many proof of work cryptocurrencies distributing the supply to only a small group of users and cutting off the ease of producing more coins as easily to later users who use the software.

Keep in mind that the value of money derives from the net utility it provides in all of the trades it is used in throughout its lifetime. By implication, the only scenario where a new currency would displace old ones through market mechanisms like competition (as opposed to political ones like state mandates) is one where the value added by swapping out the old money with the new one in trades exceeds the cost for the economy to purchase the new money from those that minted it.

In other words, it's a net gain for society for a new money to displace the old one through market competition, regardless of the initial distribution of the new money.

The effect of the initial distribution on long-standing wealth distribution also diminishes over time, given a particular holding of currency can only be spent once. For long-run wealth distribution, what matters most is avenues to extract economic rent on a recurring basis, like regulatory capture, political privileges, etc, and new forms of money like cryptocurrency could alleviate these.
I'll try this
Yes. Go is all about writing simple, boring, code that works (to paraphrase another comment here). And works really fast.
The story mentions 98% of the coins were "clipped" but the photo only shows a few that would fit the description.
It's hard to describe the ruthlessness of Microsoft in the 80s and 90's and how ruthlessly Gates ran the company. Bill Gates was 'Gordon Gekko' of technology. He was an angry office bully and nightmare boss (he admits this himself).

Gates didn't run Microsoft as a technology company. Technological merit was very low in the decision making. It was all about "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (phrase used by U.S. Department of Justice to describe Microsoft). MS threw lawyers and dirty tactics against competitors. OEM's had to follow directions from MS. Only after Bill Gates resigned his position as a Chief Architect you started to see technological quality improve.

Software startups and VC companies in that era needed so called "Microsoft Strategy". What to do when MS shows interest? Immediate sell out or fight until death. If you demo them your product, they can make a copy. You can sue them, but they just throw in more lawyers, buy out your chief architects with millions. If the company wins the court battle years later it's too late. MS could afford to lose in the court and still win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_litigation
I use the Hacker News trigger in IFTTT to filter out top articles related to TypeScript, Python, or Go, and send them to my private slack.

https://ifttt.com/hacker_news
Yeah, I just meant that winter time is closer to solar time than summer time (and then argued that we should get even closer to solar time). I have no problem with using full hour offsets, since they make calculations about times in other zones so much easier. The Netherlands was one of the last countries to switch to a "modern" time zone, in fact it was again a foreign occupier (the first being the French) that forced us to modernize (except that they put us in the Central European time zone instead of the Western European). Until 1937 we even used an offset of +00:19'32.13", using the meridian of the Westertoren in Amsterdam.
The blue marble: 2D reaction maze [video]
Personally, I’ve had a mostly pleasant experience, however, I had a lot of trouble with small niche tools and such. So if you’re an average user, I don’t see any reason not to, but if you’re a poweruser, ymmv.
While I agree with your sentiment, it is worthwhile to point out that Linus is a villain (or at least not a shining hero) in the eyes of a lot of people because of the behavior he displays on mailing lists.
I wish your comment was higher. You describe her personality quite accurately, based on what I know. That being said, "borderline crazy person with no fear of consequences" is the exactly the type of people that can push humanity forward.

Richard Stallman is another example of such a person, I think. You have to be an extremist to make other players in the field to yield.
Accessing a network-connected TV or other home gadget is also "using a local server", do you really suggest people should not do this without a networking professional? That's just not going to happen.
It links to the opinion/comment of one German police officer who has never been to the US and has only a lay understanding of American history.

Remember, the "wild west spirit" wouldn't have happened without the systemic, government-backed military fighting the Indian Wars.
Amazon said to launch delivery service to compete with UPS and FedEx
Highly likely that they are feeding all the data into a deep network for ad recommendation engine.
> Don’t think “villain” works - its just business.

The biggest trick capitalism ever played on us is all the horrible behaviors that are justified as "that's just how the system works".
In general (as far as I'm aware), no, it's not usually the case.
Yes, we build it natively. There are tons of native applications: sublimes, Dropbox, chromes etc... and many ways to cross-platform. I don't want to spend 2GB for every electrons app (slack, vscode, database app...) so I build TablePlus natively.
Basically, I split the project into 2 pieces. Logic and Interface. The logic can cross-platform because it is pure C/C++.

Dropbox does the same way with djinni: https://github.com/dropbox/djinni
Can we make a minor exception for this case? Please? Let's trust the OP has a good sense of humor and can interpret critique apersonally.
Except for the fact that de Vere was dead before 12 of Shakespeare's plays were published it's a great theory ...
Hmm...This should be in Show HN, not Ask HN

Seem really cool, I think an SVG would be more appropriate here, to allow non-pixelated zooming into smaller words. Or at least a higher reslotion one, it would be a "working" solution, but not the "right solution
Skim, read comments, and for things I want to remember, add them to an appropriate Are.na channel.

For longer articles I want to read eventually but know I won't get to for a long time, I use the "Save this page" feature of Inoreader[2].

Since I've started using Inoreader, I haven't gone back to any of these articles, but I'm ok with this – I tend to review the cache every 6-months to a year when I happen to have uninterrupted free time (like between jobs or on vacation). Previously I had Are.na channels called "To Read 1", "To Read 2", and so on.

[1] https://are.na

[2] https://www.inoreader.com/
I believe this is a mis-reading.

while attempting to teach flight instructors that praise is more effective than punishment for promoting skill-learning

The claim is that it does make a difference; being nice is better. It's easy to misread reversion to the mean as the result of praise / punishment.
Yes, they can block me, but that's just annoying, not insecure. Intercepting unencrypted stuff is the reason for this whole thread. And if they change my computer's date, they might get one malicious cert working - assuming they can change it enough, since NTP has mechanisms for avoiding large leaps - but they'll break every single HTTPS connection besides that one, which I'm sure the user would notice almost immediately.

Meanwhile, routers are generally known to be insecure, and who knows how many viruses my guests bring onto my Wifi network when they ask to connect.
C so I can work on most of the stack (and why not write my own languages if needed).
The example you bring up in Sweden is exactly what I'm talking against. Stuff was outsourced to other companies for the lowest bidder, who were not held remotely as accountable as the government.

>IBM took over the agency's IT operations, and "IBM used subcontractors abroad, making sensitive information and an entire database of Swedish drivers’ licences accessible by foreign technicians who did not have the usual security clearance".

IBM used subcontractors, which is the profit maximizing stuff I'm talking about. When you pass stuff off to a for-profit corporation, they're going to do what they can to maximize profit, even if it screws the government over, because people will blame the government, not them.

>When the cost go up by 200%-300%, suddenly the idea of running your own data center sounds much cheaper. It ended up being the highest single cost the departments had, excluding salaries and rent. you can get quite a nice data center for those billions.

The costs never were lower though. They just looked lower on paper because the bill was less. But they weren't actually getting what they paid for.

There are already cloud providers certified for government use (at least in the US). But you don't need to pay a company to pay some other company. Government employees can do that fine.
Also worth a read, for context: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2534391/microsoft-wind...
It's getting to the point where the Gorilla packages could be considered part of the standard library ;)

I agree, but the point is that you can do this with just the "almost official" package. It's not like you have to use the gorilla package because there's no standard library package.
while attempting to teach flight instructors that praise is more effective than punishment for promoting skill-learning

The point is praise is better. Not futile. Easy to misread reversion to the mean as the consequence of praise / punishment.
Thank you <3
Let's see... Cancelling your account without warning, accusing you of fraud, refusing to give details justifying their actions, providing no form of formal redress and revoking any payment due. Yep, that sounds like Google alright. Amazing it's taken this long for them to be called out on it.
also Opera.
People in the highest income brackets tend be working full time significantly more in large part because people near retirement get both dividends and a full time salary, but people in retirement are generally drawing down their wealth.

So, they may not be making 420k exclusively from their job, but 200+k / year is surprisingly common.
Navicat has a high price tag but its still a better tool and I wish everyday if I had to use a GUI it could be Navicat over TablePlus.

TablePlus looks good but its design is confusing and downright stupid.
> We also have people who were heroes and stayed heroes. For example, Linus Torvalds or Richard Stallman. It's unfortunate that our society values Gates (the converted villain) more highly than Torvalds or Stallman (the hero from the beginning).

I can really identify with this, but I also disagree.

We reward effort, and it takes a lot more to become good than staying good. In the same way that we reward a struggling child who in the end manages to climb an obstacle or finish a task, while not recognizing the other kid who has already done both 20 times with ease.

I will never claim I'm a better person than anyone else, but I definitely was a well behaved and quiet kid, and I remember seeing this a lot as a kid, at which time I too wanted praise for my behavior when some frankly shitty kids got it for occasionally not being jerks to the other kids.

But kids (and many grownups) aren't rational. I don't think kid me was right. I think I wouldn't have grown as much, and I think my values would've been a lot worse had I been constantly rewarded for something that came naturally to me.

But perhaps it is different with grownups where we don't (or shouldn't) have the expectation of shaping them. It's probably not shocking that I've always valued Wozniak more.
Whereas I would find it irritating if it didn't have that behaviour. Sure it's not the most common operation, but it's still quite common to want to overwrite an existing file.
>websites they were essentially invited to

Using an analytics pixel is _not_ an invitation to crawl a website.
Which reminds me of Runaway (1984): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/
Ask HN: A (free) Rails editor for newcomers
I recently made a career move and ended an eight year run of Lisp development. As you might have guessed I used Emacs exclusively.

On my first week in Ruby I've been trying out different editors to see which suits me most: Emacs, Atom, and Sublime.

I would like to know which other editors do you rubyists suggest to newcomers'?

(Thanks in advance. :-)

Edit: Although I'm looking for a free editor feel free to mention paid ones if you don't like any of the free ones.
Dbviz certainly looks very enterprisey, checks all the boxes: java, non-native UI, tons of toolbars and sub-windows, vertical tabs (that's why enterprises need monitors that swivel). Btw, the row height in TablePlus can be configured in settings.
I'd just like to clarify this:

> However, you don't pay to submit, you only pay if you're accepted.

I should have been clearer that the main Nature journal does not, I believe, charge for accepted papers as it charges readers instead. However the general setup is that with open access papers people pay only if accepted.
To be clear the ONLY reason this is happening is to make sure that any ad served from Google is not tampered with. This is protection for their money making machine. Plain and simple.
> 3- employers have lost a source of low-wage workers and are now rising hourly wages

Why is this a good thing?
>she enables the lay public to read and interpret science rather than awaiting the interpretation and approval of academics from high-status institutions

>science becomes accessible to everyone with basic scientific literacy

The thing is most research papers are simply not accessible to neophytes; you often need to dedicate a significant portion of your life to the study of a given field in order to understand and critically evaluate the latest research in that field. It's not that academics are sitting in a high throne, dictating what is truth and what is not, its that you need to be an academic with many years of formation in order to understand, let alone improve, the research that is being undertaken. A "basic science literacy" isn't enough.

Still, it's very positive that, in principle, anyone can grab a book or three of libgen, study hard, become knowledgeable in the field, then grab as many papers as they want off libgen and read and interpret them. That's undoubtedly very positive.
> Out of five major journals in my discipline, four are "Preview Only."

What discipline?

> What a surprise. "Huge list," indeed.

The journal list there lists ~13100 journals, of which ~9200 are available and ~3900 are preview only. Seems reasonable huge to me.
No, merely posting it on a public server was the invitation
Announcing Giraffe 1.0.0 – Functional web framework
For anyone else curious, £1.75M in 1992 is about $4.7M today.
(Apologies for the poor formatting; time to brush up on my Markdown!)
NY Regulator Demands Vigilance Against Market Manipulation from Bitlicense Firms
That query looks fine to me, I'll tweak the code.

Yep I need to fix up Q10 a bit.
If it were addressed in a way that would break captive portals forever, so much the better.
I agree.

> What I mean is that "buying your way into heaven" and being a saint with tons of money doesn't have any meaningful difference.

It doesn't at the act of doing the spending, yes. The difference I meant was of history - by "a saint with tons of money" I meant someone who never did anything questionable throughout their entire life, and yet somehow still ended up in command of millions (or billions) of dollars. That pretty much doesn't happen (especially because there is always someone who'll find something questionable in everything and will spin it as evil; even Jesus got tried and executed for pissing off the establishment).
Exampls?
you are correct. I'll fix that.
Drones are still a lot more expensive than a 60 or 80mm mortar tube, though. I haven't seen many drones that could put an equivalent payload on target, and unless batteries get wildly better, I don't see much advantage in range for small, home-brew drones.
No-one has pledged that it will never redirect to HTTPS, and neither is it forbidden in any standard. Technically, they could easily change it.

In fact, I'm not happy that there is anything responding to example.com at all.
Couldn't you use unpkg.com for this?

unpkg.com/:package@:version/:file
I guess you missed the whole IPv6 scoped addressing architecture memo.
I could have sworn that paragraph wasn't there when I read the article, I remember reading the paragraph above which reads, "Martin Meisel, professor of dramatic literature emeritus at Columbia University, said in another review that the book is “impressively argued.” He added that there is no question the manuscript “must have been somewhere in the background mix of Shakespeare’s mental landscape” while writing the plays." and the one below which starts, "In the dedication to his manuscript, for example, North urges those who might see themselves as ugly to strive to be inwardly beautiful, to defy nature. He uses a succession of words to make the argument, including “proportion,” “glass,” “feature,” “fair,” “deformed,” “world,” “shadow” and “nature.”"

Though I'm far from being an expert in this area this is the first time I've heard of the above mentioned software being mentioned in the digital humanities or humanities computing context. Generally scholars use R or Python to perform computational stylometry. See this representative paper, for instance: https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2016-1/eder-rybicki-ke...
How poetic that the author invented some of the key concepts behind Bitcoin and Ethereum (a proof of work based blockchain, the smart contract, etc) which introduced a new paradigm for money, and could potentially change how humans trade into the future.
It makes me a bit sad to hear you are distressed from this news. Would you like some help setting up SSL? We could go over Certbot & Let's Encrypt, as well as provide some advice on things like HSTS, Mixed Content, etc...

My email address is in my profile. I'm happy to help you however I can. I may not be able to make any code-level changes, but there may not be much work that needs to be done.

Edit: I just saw your comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16338576 -- I understand there's potentially a lot of one-time work, but it could be done very gradually, and with this announcement, I think CDNs and widget makers would adopt SSL as well. Once the site does support SSL, you can make SSL-related upgrades (like disabling old ciphers or protocol versions) without much disruption.
This makes a lot of sense right now, especially that the next major version of Chrome will mark HTTP websites as invalid
One arm of Google paying another arm of Google money should end up being a zero sum game when it comes to profits.

For a global corporation, it may (and likely does, potentially advantaged even) have tax implications -- but from a general profit/loss perspective it's still basically zero sum (though may actually cost them money in lost revenues/inventory in practice, which presumably gets booked as a liability if it's without compensation).
I appreciate you sharing!

Here's what I paid attention to:

"because there is regression to the mean"

and

"I immediately arranged a demonstration in which each participant tossed two coins at a target behind his back, without any feedback."

I think the important part of that last sentence is "without any feedback" -- this is why I assert "It doesn't affect the outcome".
> Before you reply that detectives might/would have done that anyways, the point is that at least that is identifiable and addressable

I think you're handwaving the difficulty of identifying and addressing bias and discrimination. I'm not sure it's any easier to do for people than for computers. Computers have a huge advantage here because we can open up their brain and examine how they think, and once we create one that suits our tastes, we can replicate it faithfully. Humans are much more of a black box than a neural net would ever be.
Scalingo, european PaaS
Obviously every site is different, but I've developed a few styles before for sites like DDG and wikipedia, and it's a job measured in hours, generally. Nowhere near the amount of work involved in most OSS, and plenty of people here work on OSS.
Also, MDF makes a bad material for speaker cabinets. A good speaker cabinet not only is heavy, it have a really good characterized sound qualities that MDF, plastic or cheap plywood can't give. Because that are expensive!
Report reveals that South African retail spending grew by 3,8% during December
> Bitcoin is a great example of exactly how to do tech. I'm pretty sure we probably fundamentally disagree on most things :)

I disagree about that, but I don't really think we have that many fundamental disagreement. For instance, I get why many honest people like the decentralization and censorship-free ideas in Bitcoin. I share some of those values, too, but I put a different priority for them; for me, in case of Bitcoin, all those benefits are heavily outweighed by the energy footprint.

> None of the technologies I listed are private enterprises.

No, but that part was referring to the second part of your comment, about "taking Google over government intervention any day". Maybe I worded it too strongly, though.
That's a reasonable point, but I'm speaking from the perspective of the bar owner - I feel I have a duty to provide better security even if the patrons have no reason to trust me.
I'd be very interested to see the code for this.
You should put it in that repo as well ;)
The true OSX experience from TablePlus won my heart
Whether you are a hero or villain is more a matter of perception and whom you ask. In the past Microsoft under Bill Gates did many things which people considered as evil and damaging, and some were even illegal and they were convicted for it.

Now, instead of doing more businees or investing in new technologies to better the world, like Elon Musk for example, Bill Gates invests his money and time into wellfare-projects. This of course give the impression that he wanna cleans himself from the past sins. Whether it's true is a different case, but the impression is simply there.
Professor isn't the only career possible with a PhD.
>I fully expect the short-length, autodidact or mediocre students to be entering a saturated market within the next five years.

That cuts against every labor demand projection.

Frankly, even mediocre programming jobs are a great option for most people. The lower mode is still much more than most entry-level jobs pay.
In Hebrew we use "up" and "down" to refer to permanently moving to Israel ("up") or moving from Israel("down"). These are such important social concepts that there are nouns too: Someone who moved to Israel is an "Ascender" who just did an "Ascent". In the other direction is a "Descender" who did a "Descent".
> Not a problem, you put it on the web and it will be crawled. Did you ever use Chrome? They report every URL you type to the Google Crawler. Read that anywhere lately?

Do you have a source for this? I Googled (!) and found this: https://www.stonetemple.com/google-chrome-discover-pages , which implies the opposite.

I don't use Chrome personally, but I do occasionally dump [none-too critical] preview files on open but otherwise 'hidden' urls on a domain for clients to view. I just find it easier for clients to deal with than inevitably lost passwords, etc, and tend to ask them to let me know when they're done so I can delete the folder.

I'd be interested to know whether their likely use of Chrome means that Google has a pattern of understanding of my domain space!