skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My impression is that as general currencies only a few will survive. Where it might blur is where the blockchain aspect is getting used over the currency aspect, and there one might think of it more as apps or exchanges of 'currency' or work tailored for specific markets. Still, I'm pretty skeptical as I think so far all the uses are more hype-supported than providing wide scale value, but that's balanced by a lot of people exploring a lot of possibilities.
Do you think there isn't already ongoing research on cold fusion? on curing cancer?

Do you think money just gets allocated to these projects by some black box of a process?

Do you think there are things that humanity should just flat-out not know?
No, it is worse than that.

If you think of two generators connected together in a power grid, they need to have the same frequency and the same phase. If one of the generators slows a little bit, it begins drawing current from the other. It in effect becomes a motor. Power flows as a proportion to the difference in phase angle.
That isn't remotely how that works. There is no circumstance whatsoever where your child has a 5 percent chance of having CF.

CF is a homozygous recessive disorder. Both parents have to contribute a defective gene in order for the child to have CF. If one parent is a carrier and the other is not, there is zero chance of the child having CF, barring random mutations which have been known to happen. If both parents are carriers, there is a 50 percent chance the child will be a carrier, a 25 percent chance the child will have no defective genes and a 25 percent chance the child will have CF.

If you actually have CF, you have two defective genes and you can only produce children who are either carriers or who have CF, depending on the genes contributed by the other parent. If the other parent is not a carrier, the children cannot have CF.

As someone who both has CF and has raised a child with it, I absolutely do not want more children with CF. It's a horrible burden for the parents and only a deeply sick sadist would wish such a thing upon their child.

I have never lacked for male interest. I don't know why the hell that is because I'm quite open about my medical situation. I am now menopausal, so it is a moot point. But I absolutely spent some years agonizing over how to screen out CF carriers from the dating pool. Having another child with CF is one of my worst nightmares. I would rather be taken out and shot.
I feel somewhat vindicated now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16503558
First of all, some people do play games like that. But put that aside for a moment because it’s immaterial. Look at what Taleb is essentially saying: if there is a chance you will be ruined, and you play long enough, you will eventually be ruined. Even if that chance is 1%, probabilities add over time. 1.0170 = 2. If the chance of ruin is 1% then after 70 plays the chance of ruin is 100%.
Uber provides insurance for drivers while they are driving for Uber: https://www.uber.com/drive/insurance/
That's exactly what I'm talking about. I would completely assume this is an automated task.

Edit: are there specific companies that live at the top of that niche?
The Vision fund is about half Saudi money

http://money.cnn.com/2017/05/21/technology/saudi-softbank-te...
> it's still way too low for a "non-tip" job. Hell, it's probably even too low for a job with tips

Tangential to your main point, but Uber does have tipping
Yes, and as I have been trying to go vegan I’ve noticed how many animal products are put into food needlessly. I shouldn’t have to eat egg or milk in a tortilla, salsa (animal stock), bread, burrito, McDonald’s French fries (!), cupcake, etc.
FWIW, I've used OpenID for login on my personal wiki [1] for a few years and haven't had a spam issue [yet].

To forgo the bother of managing being provider or even relayer, I just use a Dreamwidth (the LiveJournal fork) profile [2]. Always interesting using a url as a login. For those who say that's confusing for the masses, there was a method of mapping e-mail address to OpenID profiles. [3]

I was a bit confused as to why OpenID Connect turned out the way it did, moving focus from federated to the closed "Login with Facebook/Twitter/GitHub/Dropbox/Google" thing (if they is Oauth/OIDC based?).

I guess the above could be related - I get no spam because federated OpenID didn't take off, and federated OpenID didn't take off because companies wished to sidestep a future spam problem.

[1] https://wiki.thingsandstuff.org

[2] https://www.dreamwidth.org/openid

[3] https://mashable.com/2008/09/30/openid-email-addres
Discussion elsewhere has turned up when this happened in the UK https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xnxQfGl8qfkC&pg=PA3&lpg=...
Cool! Any plans to port to Windows and Linux also?
After meeting various nsa and US cyber security heads at RSA and having dinner with them and hearing their “war stories” about shit they have done, sure they are people, but IMO the people I met were straight up psychopaths.

This is my opinion of the type-a “hacker-types” that palantir hires...

(Had dinner with the head of US cyber-security and his minions and military contractors (This was when I was with Lockheed))
I think the term "loner" sends mixed signals. It has a negative connotation and to me at least, it means that you want to socialise but find it difficult or awkward.

Instead, I think what this article is getting at is simply setting time aside in your agenda for yourself. That's it. Whether it be to hone some skills, relax, meditate, plan your future, whatever. It's super helpful. I live in a small village and commute every day by train or car. Sometimes I take one hour walks with my dog and talk with myself. I look forward to it sometimes. It's like catching up with a friend after a busy week.

Tiny definitions like these can really make a difference. I wish we were more careful, specially in an era where people only read headlines and feel they gained knowledge.
This is still median profit from a sample group where > 80% worked less than 40 hours per week.

The median is someone working well under 40 hours per week.

I wish they would release the overall income distribution based for their model instead of just one number.
Prevalence trends tell us what did not precipitate the US obesity epidemic
Alex Tabarrok pointed to the well done study, that of course never got anywhere near this level of attention: https://twitter.com/ATabarrok/status/969651065695227904

"Dubious. Cited paper uses self-reported data from 1100 drivers. Cook et al. use exactly measured data on 1.8 million drivers and calculate average wage after expenses of $13 per hour. https://web.stanford.edu/~diamondr/UberPayGap.pdf "
I'm more or less in the same boat as you :). But to look at it in a more positive light, that discomfort at looking at your past self just shows how far you've come. So it can also be an indicator you're on the right track.
Good luck with implementing this policy. The problem typically was that with positive birth rates development was way behind demand.

Additionally where do you want to build those houses and how do you want to prevent these areas from becoming ghettos?
My desire of being alone most of the time is what has made me avoid marriage. But if I continue down this path, I'm sure that in my old age I'll regret it and long for company. I don't know whether to favor the present or the future.
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> However the company is supposedly a mess internally - with huge management and political issues.

This typically happens when there is high pressure to deliver, but you have zero revenues. So, it wouldn't surprise me.
This is an amazing resource.

Anyone know of similar documents for other families of 8-bit computers? c64, TI 99/4, TRS-80, Apple ][, ...
That makes sense; thanks for your response!
Beans, gluten, rice, potatoes, etc are all commodity goods and very cheap. Nuts can get pricy but they’re so calorically dense that you don’t need many of them either. You’re not going to convince me that cooking a baked good with a chia substitute for egg is more resource intensive.

Where this argument fails is probably due to lack of economies of scale. Ie if those substitutions were made with the subsidies and scale of their animal based contemporaries they would be dramatically cheaper.
Are you forced to resort to DI or verbose composition to make it reasonably testable? That's my metric for when languages feel too java-y.
Exciting time for Chicago startups!
Do you even know your checks and balances?
This is not about government, it's about court. Facebook only has to pay because individuals (or in that case, a privacy organisation) decided to sue Facebook
Best calendar app designs and how to prototype your own
If you make 100k and are relatively young, you have roommates or move to Oakland.
Can Food Co-Ops Survive the New Retail Reality?
Yeah, the "you're being quiet, you must be sad!" thing is awful. No, I'm really just enjoying myself, alone.
Wikipedia's notability policy means that many cryptocurrencies don't get included, even some major ones. Even Bitcoin was deleted as not notable at one point.
Hey, author here, wanted to explain what the latest changes since last time are:

- The documentation system has been completely overhauled, and is now in alpha (it is unfinished), we'd appreciate your brutal feedback on how to make it better.

- One of the coolest things about the new documentation system is the interactive coding tutorials, we developed a MD markdown annotation system that combines with a git diff algorithm, to automatically generate tutorialized step-by-step guides. At some point, I'll do a whole post on just that system.

- We've added support for P2P/Decentralized cryptographic user accounts. This enables fully realtime social networking dApps!

- Our current progress/work is doing automated distributed load and correctness tests against it (see our PANIC distributed testing tool to do your own! Will have to do a post on this as well). Our current finding is that it isn't quite production ready yet (we have to fine-tune the ad-hoc mesh-network daisy-chaining algorithm to be more efficient/scalable in traditional network topologies not just physical mesh networks) but we're making good progress on that.

Happy to answer any other questions :)
Lots of healthy stuff that doesn't take long to cook!

Sprouts or similar type stores have pre-prepped ready-to-cook (sometimes even just microwave!) fresh veggies and the like. Lentils will get you a bunch of protein and fiber and cook in ~30min, without a bunch of excess carbs or sugars. Legumes in general are going to be your friend. If you want meat, do something like get a bunch of frozen tuna steaks or chicken breasts and then toss one in the oven - under an hour total, most of which is just oven pre-heating. Beans take longer to cook, but it's mostly just occasional stirring, so not that big a deal.

The secret to keeping cook time down is to minimize prep and ingredient count but experiment a bit to find good combinations of minimal seasonings and such. Or just accept a blander main course as a trade for not spending hours prepping and all.
It depends on the animals and fats. eg red meats correlate with heart disease and some cancers.
Definitely too low for a primary job. However, it might make sense for people to do as an extra 5-10 hours a week, or during peak festival times when the taxi system is overloaded. If a person needs to turn their extra time into money, but don't have enough extra time to get a second job, it could make sense. I'm not sure either Uber or Lyft could survive on those kind of drivers, though.
While you've made a cogent point, brevity is often your friend when it comes to communication. Becoming a more effective communicator is the ability to say more with less. Not say the same amount with more.
So interestingly I found a way. I am not in a major city though. Whole Foods! They have cooked food inside this magical place. I eat there every single day.
Ah the good old "self-explanatory code that needs no documentation".
"Kelly maximizes utility of money modeled as a logarithmic function."

Absolutely true, but consider what log utility also creates a decision rule that leads to growth-rate optimization under multiplicative bets.

You may find these notes from Ole Peters interesting https://ergodicityeconomics.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/ergo...
"Oh would some power the gift give us, To see ourselves as others see us."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Louse
Maybe you’re both like me— more of an “I don’t want to miss a moment” person
Sometimes we are too quick to agree with things that reinforce our beliefs. In this case that ride service platforms are squeezing out the last penny from their captive servants.

Do, hats off to you for doing some due diligence and doing some back of the napkin calculations proving a study incorrect in its assertion.
>TI 99/4
That was a 16-bit machine
Starvation, Stress Resistance and Cancer: Trends in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Are all the products I purchase produced within the high-wage country, or are many of them produced in the low-wage country? If so then I'm shielded from paying high-wages to a great degree and so get the best of both worlds.

Lots of people retire to (or work remotely from) low-wage countries (or regions) because their money will go further there.

Manufacturing keeps moving to the next poorer country as wages rise because people don't want to pay more for their t-shirts or other manufactured goods as countries industrialize.
Just my opinion, but the original sentence containing the vulgarity is more clear and concise. It feels more human because that's how lots of people talk when they are in an informal setting (which an internet message board certainly is).
The Two Sides of an Error (and a Short Survey in the Go Language)
Dutch IRS and DigiD Under DDOS Attack
If there are $15/hr jobs, why do you believe so many people are willing to accept half that to drive for Uber? I wonder what their total pay is after tips.
You are right about the role of emotion in the enjoyment of food, but I think you are actually underestimating its effect on the hypothetical food reviewer.

I think it actually is very possible to earn a Michelin Star serving a Hellman’s recipe. If the atmosphere is good, the service and presentation of the food high quality, and the overall experience classy, that potato salad is going to taste really good to even the most critical of food critics. They are susceptible to the emotional parts of the food experience just as much as anyone, and is in fact part of the review.
Just for context what's your opinion on other tip of the spear military types, such as SOF personnel?
I've always delegated my address to a provider of choice, so as providers fall I've been able to adjust my delegation. That ability to delegate any domain you control (or even different pages on the same domain) to any provider you wanted to use was one of the best features of OpenID, and something that is lost in most of the "OpenID" Connect systems like FB/Google login where provider is locked as soon as you click the button.
Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation
I wonder if the hourly would increase for larger cities because of more individuals hailing. Though certainly increased expense from fixing the car because of city driving.

I wish Uber would release the numbers for review but that won't happen.
There are (extremely untrustworthy) rumors circulating around day traders' Twitters of a potential takeover by Microsoft.

e.g. https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=amd%20msft
I'm disturbed that writing actually determines your thoughts more than thinking does.
California has very serious economic policy issues in housing, not only prop 13, but the ability to NIMBY and the high cost of regulations (building and construction is most onerous in california).

The economists of both SF and California agree on the issues. Its official. The problem is political.

The conclusion is that unfixed, california will hit a ceiling on its growth, and people will move out.
Well life imitates art http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980210/
MongoDB Go Driver Alpha 2
Climate Change and the Political Landscape
OK from that perspective I can relate. Even before using C++11 I was using a lot of the new STL through Boost. If you use Boost, the only fundamental differences are syntax like auto, variadic macros, constexpr, noexcept, and lambdas all of which are familiar enough to get by. The only practical differences that have no equivalent in C++03 is move operations and maybe the threading/chrono stuff. Effective Modern C++ covers that so that's all I needed to "upgrade."
Ask HN: Where can I find Java development contract jobs?
I am looking for a remote Java/Spring/Hibernate contract jobs. Which websites/resources are good for such jobs?
Please advise.
This isn't quite correct. Modern rendering libraries aren't going to recreate an input from scratch unless they absolutely have to, vdom or not.

What's tricky about reconciling app state changes and dom state is dealing with things like cursor position if e.g. the input value change comes from a socket and the user had the input focused and the cursor in the middle of the text. But this has nothing to do with vdom
So they still don't make minimum wage and some lose money.
A better lawn ;-)
I think this goes against the YC thesis.
Correct. The doom adage was in reference to ceiling and floor casting support; wolfenstein painted the ceiling and floors a solid color.
Reasonable conclusions that don't stretch evidence get less attention
Thanks for the link! But I think you have an extra double quote at the end
Atomwise raises $45M for drug discovery
The tricky thing is that most (possibly all) of these cos are basically dormant. None has production-ready tech.
"OpenID" Connect is absolutely not the same thing as OpenID and should never have had OpenID in the name.
My Productivity Toolkit for App Development
For Two Months, I Got My News from Print Newspapers
"Admits error" meaning they were given the choice between litigation and fudging the numbers.
Given my age, I would bet that it is great technology, but also that they are spending money ridiculously. Most likely outcome is probably something like what happened to the Iridium satellite network from 1996-2002:

a) massive profligate spending

b) great tech, but not much money from customers

c) bankruptcy and acquisition by a new corporation formed to acquire the assets of the defunct company, new acquisition-corp renames itself to magic leap.

d) new company which has acquired everything for pennies on the dollar proceeds to become successful and profitable.
> Spotify might decide to kill the free service (or just make it a timed trial.)

I doubt this will happen. A lot of teenagers right now have only have a free spotify subscription because they don't have any money, and spotify probably wants to keep them as subscribers so in the future they do become customers.
If I follow you around with a gun held to your head, is it fair to characterize you as my ally?
One of my tricks is to invest time on the weekend to making something very spicy and flexible. I can stir my vegan “carne adovada“ into a can of cooked vegetables and have a decent spicy soup in microwave time.
Yes, I didn't cover what goes into the documentation, as that is mostly site-specific, but I mostly agree with you... mostly. Instead of documenting run apt-get, ssh, etc to start up service X, now you have to document how your tools are setup, Ansible, Terraform, etc. Plus your code needs documentation about why it's setup the way it is.

You still need high-level stuff, policies, etc. Security guides, none of this has changed.

You also have to document your snowflakes, how you handle the wacky snowflakes, why they exist, etc.

Ideally your documentation should be such that it would pass the hit-by-a-bus test. I.e. if you or your entire team got hit by a bus, someone with a clue could come in, read your documentation and continue.

My docs are not at that stage, but every time I mess about with something I try to read through the docs attached, and verify and add to them, so that hopefully someday we will get there.
You mean like at the end of the day so you can remember what you were doing the next morning when you sit back down at your computer? :D
Is there any way to short these guys or otherwise get exposure to a value decline?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but why do you associate chia substitute for egg with health?
I found LA absolutely horrible to get around.

Second city I had visited in the US. Got a hotel room near Hollywood because that seemed like a decent idea as a tourist for a long weekend. On the first day I find that parking is $60/night. So I park a half mile away where it's closer to $10 and walk. That half mile turns into close to thirty minutes of walking because it involves crossing roads with three lanes in either direction. So I decide to try public transport: except for that there's no metro line near West Hollywood, buses take exact change only and I can't find one to begin with, and to get a TAP card I have to drive to the nearest vendor anyway which doesn't sell TAP cards past 5pm. Fine, so I'll drive. Except for that I have to take route 10 or 101 to get anywhere, both of which are almost always at a standstill. In the evening I decide to go drinking and realise I HAVE to get an uber.

So I can't drive, can't walk, can't use public transport...admittedly I booked a hotel in a bad location for sightseeing since it was very last minute, but I have NEVER had any issues with getting around European and Asian cities in similar situations.

Only typing this out because this is how I'm guessing a very large percent of tourists see LA: it's an absolutely beautiful city completely ruined by the fact that you can't see any of it easily.
There are theories in psychology and there are experiments. You could read these papers and perform the experiments can come to the same conclusions (if they were reasonable to begin with and not biased).

Politics and social structures evolve in strategy but are essentially similar (you can read old newspaper articles and while the language is no longer appropriate, you see the same arguments rehashed today with different window dressing). These are forms of economic control by the wealthy and essentially appeal to racism and classism. We had slavery, then redlining, and then a war on drugs. And now we have failed cities. This structure has been maintained throughout society since America was founded and is passed along generation lines. You do see a dampening effect between generations unless some conflict reinforces it (largely economic/resource competition). But a conflict can be unifying as well. For example WWII had a unifying effect since a GI was a GI. But if we had diverse neighborhoods, schools and work opportunities we would rapidly see a more humane world.