skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A16Z investor Benedict Evans's Twitter reply today to a skeptic:

> Frontier hardware tech is expensive. And, the investors have actually seen the tech. As will you, pretty soon ;)

source: https://twitter.com/BenedictEvans/status/971404194300141568
T minus 1 hour until every job posting has 10 years of Mob experience required.
Trying it right now, let's have some fun :-)
Eliminating notification spam sounds great and reading daily newspapers sounds great, but I've tried another variant of this with some success. Reading just the weekly version of the Economist left me vast amounts of free time and I didn't feel any less informed than when I was reading several sources over the course of a day.

Of course, that's my own estimation of how well informed I was, so that might be far from accurate.
As a junior dev only a couple years into programming I love pair programming. I spend way less time stuck. It's been life changing for me.
I've heard something similar, but I think it had to do with the fact that we tend to "fill in the gaps" if we can't remember something about a situation. So we just make up information. I'm not sure if there are ways to combat this by recalling the information before it starts to decay or not, but it has a lot of implications for eyewitness testimonies.
Does this mean that Coinbase isn't registered but should be? Wonder how this will play out.
Enron is also what can you get when you put the smartest guys in a room. People smart enough to exploit any system and rules, for example free food and gaming the ratings system to the company (and team goals) detriment.
> Given that most programmers get in hot sweats just thinking about the idea of working with other people

Nice.
Yeah Ed Abbeys probably a better example.
After reading the Black swan (Taken), I stopped reading every news outlet and did my best to not know up to the minute news. Like the author, I've felt more informed and able to make better decisions and hold better conversations because I'm not bombarded by constantly changing "facts". In fact, I feel liberated and but inundated with microscopic thoughts, but instead more general ideas. YMMV.
How? "Screenshot" is used correctly by the OP.

For reference:

screenshot
(verb) an image of the data displayed on the screen of a computer or mobile device.
Labs Official – Netkit Wiki
I'm no expert but doesn't Ansible Tower do that?
Article:

> Jeff Bezos’ disdain for Wall Street is well known

Is it? Bezos got his business education on Wall Street at D.E. Shaw. What is known about his having "disdain" for that industry? Is this just a botched reference to his strategy of ploughing profits back into company growth?
Sergei Skripal believed to have been poisoned with nerve agent
Is this the beginning of exchanges getting shutdown?

Does anyone have a list of exchanges that are registered?
Ask HN: What Is the Difference Between Senior Software Eng. Vs. Staff Eng
Do any of the naysayers ever actually talk to their uber/lyft drivers? I've never met a single one with bad things to say about the job. Most seem to enjoy the social aspect, and many foreigners take it as an opportunity to practice English while making some spare cash.

Who are you people to presume that these rational agents need to be restricted from earning money in a way that they deem convenient? Especially when their work is at will and unforced? Do you really feel that there is some kind of net good to the loss of work that comes with forcing uber to pay minimum wage, when it means that many content drivers will lose work?
I was just saying that curves of how much is forgotten seem to look similar to a caching mechanism.
We have an all-Scala stack with some nice properties:

* Code sharing between client and server

* Typed AJAX between client and server

* Component based UI on the frontend

Frontend: React4s (shameless plug I suppose)

http://www.react4s.org/examples/todo-list

Backend: Akka HTTP

https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka-http/current/index.html

Typed AJAX: Autowire with uPickle
“Guys I feel like sh!t, maybe next time.”
It doesn't matter if they could exist. The point is that the minimum wage is there so the _employees_ can exist and make a living.

If a company's business model relies on paying people shit wages, the blame lies totally on the company to fix it.
"Move fast and break everything"
I have a BGE as well! I got the steel plate-setter for searing and it's incredible. But TBH, I often just use a skillet and our stovetop for finishing.
Even then, he did twist 'absorbing states' into the basically unused "absorbent barrier."

It's good you brought up Markov chains; I can't believe they haven't been mentioned in the article or the comments
I'm not sure if this is your intention or not, but your comment reads as if to indicate that you believe so strongly that markets are efficient that you are unwilling to consider data that suggests an inefficiency exists.
I am almost 100% sure that this is, in part, caused by the recent crypto mining surge. Or at the very least was a catalyst for something that's been cooking for 20 years now.

I have no evidence to back this claim, only anecdotal info as I know some people in the area:
The Serbian minority in the north does not pay for electricity in Kosovo due to a long standing disagreement with Pristina. The Kosovo government so far managed to find ways to compensate for that, either through loans or by charging more people in other areas.

However, I'm guessing, the bills skyrocketed when the crypto mining craze started so Pristina decided to stop footing the bill.

I've heard of thousands of mining rigs being set up in the area, largely due to the free electricity.
So now there's no more free electricity but there is a huge demand and nobody is paying. Hence the deviations.

http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/government-pays-a-mi...

edit: wording
I believe the point he is making about "house money" and the Kelly Criterion is the size of the bet corresponds to how far ahead you are -- as you get farther ahead, your bets will get larger.

The problem with the comparison is that if you have one trader who started with $20, and another with $100, but they both currently have $50, they will both, by the Kelly criterion, be betting the same amount of money, even though once trader is trading with "house money" and the other is not. They're still trading without memory, which is the point that he was trying to refute, as I understand it.
> React's (or other SPA frameworks like Vue's) complexity is much higher than it should have is probably because of the tooling (Babel, Webpack, NPM etc) and additional build process required even for a simple hello world app.

I wouldn't frame it as excess complexity, I would frame it as power. My problem is not writing simple hello world apps, it's writing and maintaining very large production applications with 5 other developers. Two years ago I took a week to really learn the tooling stack and it's paid dividends ever since.
Ask HN: Is applying on a job through Taleo software a waste of time?
I didn't see any cryptocurrency exchanges in their list of approved exchanges. How does one find out whether a cryptocurrency exchange is registered properly with the SEC?
Fishbrain’s fishing and social media app raises $13.5M
makes me think about the circle and poloniex deal that just happened. Polo seems very unlawful to me considering all the shitcoins that are listed.
The magic leap demos that have raised all this cash, it might be the most successful demo in history.
Sure. And randomly generated UUIDs should not conflict... unless they do, and blow up a huge app in production. Yes, I have experienced that once.
The difference is it has a name, so consulting and training can be sold and conference talks can be made.
oh, that's nothing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beenz.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooz.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Crossing

to be fair to global crossing, they did build a really awesome international network, the revenues just didn't support the billions spent on it.
Wow, did you feel weak? Were you able to work? During smaller fasts I've done I just felt super-weak and it affected my work.
How Google Almost Destroyed Zagat
I go open step below that: most of my news comes from The Economist and similar weekly newspapers, but I also keep notification spam for important news from the BBC, which is mostly unbiased.

I'm glad I know about yesterday's resignation of one of Trump's economic aides, but I don't spend valuable minutes trying to find everyone's opinions about its consequences.
Do they obstruct or they refuse to collaborate?
They are not willfully obstructing anything. State/local law enforcement will not be able to solve crimes effectively if a large body of the population will not talk to them under any circumstances. In this case the federal govt is interfering with state and local ability to enforce/police.
Today the physical topology is usually somewhat random mesh, but not all interconnection lines are active at the same time.

In early days of electrification the physical topology usually was spanning tree and in fact this was the motivation for research into minimal spanning tree algorithms at the time.
nice instant BTC drop from $10700 to $9400 following this news...
> It says "This study reveals that U.S. military forces were directly responsible for about 10 to 15 million deaths ", which is not "tens".

The total casualties in the wars between the superpower-led coalitions substantially exceed the casualties caused by the US military in those wars. (And, in any case, yes, in the normal way terms of scale are used, a number ≥ 10^7 and < 10^8 is usually described as “tens of millions”.)
'Thinking Fast and Slow' by Daniel Kahneman has an interesting bit on experience vs memory and how this affects our judgement. The two can differ quite a bit, based on the research presented in this book.
When I used to ride Uber/Lyft more I talked to a ton of drivers who had bad things to say about ridesharing, about how it's a race to the bottom, about how the taxi days paid more, about how the hours are grueling and they weren't fit, etc. I think it just depends on your sample. Luckily, studies explicitly try to find unbiased samples.
> Amazon is rich with the most important resource in asset management: trust.

I'm sorry, but what? I don't even trust Amazon to deliver eclipse glasses that aren't counterfeit, and I know most of my friends/family feel the same way at this point.

The only thing I trust them to deliver is streaming video at this point.
Fixers need good air cover
It's not needless, the reason for all of this is flavor. Meat fats/proteins have a very appealing flavor for most people. So when companies perform taste tests, the richer, meatier flavors have more broad appeal.

I absolutely understand your frustration with this. Especially because it's certainly not obvious that many of these items contain animal products. I hope that one day the US adopts the green/red mark system for distinguishing between vegetarian foods, but for now, it's probably best to assume that all ready-made food in the US contains meat products, unless it's explicitly labeled otherwise.
So if some anonymous person invents cryptocurrencies, at what point are you supposed to be considered securities? If the first exchange had gone to SEC to register as a securities exchange, would the SEC not have laughed in their face? The headline itself really captures the ambiguity and uncertainty of all of this: "potentially unlawful".
My mom made Toll House cookies as her "go to" dessert for pot-lucks &c. Everyone always asked her for the recipe and then didn't believe her when she said it was from Nestle chocolate chips bag.

The only thing she did that was at all unusual was to use an oven thermometer; she found that ovens would be up to 20 degrees off from their set-point.
But but but they're our allies! There's definitely some selective enforcement of our ideals. As long as it doesn't get in the way of military or business it's fine. This is the country that financed 9/11. It's not "racist" to be skeptical of Saudi Arabia.
Would you hire geek squad if you knew they were paid to look through your photos for the FBI?
OpenID Connect is still not in any way comparable with traditional OpenID.
Upvoted the comment that says "I think this goes against YC philosophy". The YC guide explicitly calls out team experience and likelihood to succeed as a criterion.

I think there's a fetishization of complete blind objectivity in so many fields right now, which has at the root of it trying to iron out inequality. A laudable goal, but you shouldn't let that ideal completely upend the practical question to yourself of, where am I going to place my bets?

An unavoidable fact is that ideas alone are not enough to make some technology or venture successful. Sure, some one-off inventor may have a brilliant idea, but the idea is just like 1% of the problem.

If your model is to fund a team to develop an idea, the track record / personalities of the team are quite important.

Most people in this world are barely able to get their own lives under control. What's the likelihood that a random person with a great idea can take that to something commercially viable? There's a reason that who it is matters, and unfortunately, that still leads to people being selected who reflect the starting set of less-than-diverse people.
This is a press release - nothing more. A CYA from the SEC in case something blows up tomorrow. It's not a cease and desist letter to the exchange operators - so on balance, this is good news for them. I think the SEC is not confident that the courts will support their position, and so the next best option is.... a press release.
And Gdax is totally required to charge their index fund customers that 0.25%?

I figured that the comment I was originally responding to made it sound like transaction costs are a technical reason for the management fees being high.
I used to get by on The Economist and a smattering of online news. It works pretty well, but not so much for a world that feels like it's moving really quickly.

For instance:

https://twitter.com/ananavarro/status/971209163115253760

This week:
Nunberg subpoenaed, couldn’t stop blabbing;
Kellyanne said to have violated ethics law;
Carson realized HUD’s complicated;
Cohn quit, over tariffs not anti-Semitism;
Guy from UAE who knows stuff, cooperating w/Mueller;
Trump tweeted there’s no chaos;
It’s only Tuesday.

... and she wrote that before the news broke about the porn star suing Trump about their hush agreement/money inked in the weeks before the election.

I subscribed to the Washington Post via Amazon for national coverage, and I also get my local paper for their coverage of things like city council meetings, which actually make a lot more differences in our day to day lives than a lot of national issues.
How would you, or anyone, know with a high level of certainty that it is unlikely that he has anything but a faint model? You can point to studies I imagine, but how do we know those are correct? The topic isn't as deterministic as math or physics.
What kind of math is that? In your contrived example it should be 1 - .99^70. It's hard not to question your background in probability when you're involving 1.01 and 2..
I have a question on this topic which is - is it possible or practical to only learn "modern" C++?

Isn't it necessary to be able to understand pre-modern C++ in legacy code bases or to work alongside a co-worker who might code using an older style? Or even to be able to understand documentation and texts about C++ from an earlier era?
Slack will shut down all IRC gateways
I'm a bit of an edge case, I'd presume, because I'm very very social when I want to be. Maybe that's not weird, after all. But at the end of the day, I either a) don't go because I don't want to (adult choices!!!) or b) just try to reframe my mental state. Check out a podcast called Good Fortune, episode 1, A Festival. It very briefly addresses this challenge from a stoic's point of view. Worth a listen.
I shared my experience and you believe I'm wrong or lying. It's OK, but you stated your disbelief without providing any actual reason, just throwing one arcane word, the media and your opinion of what's unlikely in the pot.

Fortunately I have the writings. Otherwise I might be tempted to believe you ;)
An Interview with Tom Dale of Ember.js
>> No one sane plays a game like that with all their money on the line.

Already mentioned in another comment, see LTCM as a prime example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management
That is an awesome story. Although I am a bit leery of the 'Nutrition value' argument. It sounds like the manufacturer wanted to do what everyone else seems to do which is reduce the quantity of product in the same size box rather than raise the price, and when they did that the 'old' recipe would not work correctly. Which they "fixed".
There is no doubt the technology is incredible and awe inspiring. However, zero shipped products, taking in tons of outside money, leaks galore and internal turmoil including one employee stealing 1M from the company through recruitment fees, this place has all the right tech but is making all the wrong moves, its valuation is pure speculation at this point. There will come a point where their investors demand a product shipped, that point will come soon and I hope they have this battery issue fixed by then.
Story of a 17 years old Web Developer
Have you considered the incentives that they have when talking to a paying customer? Particularly one that is going to rate them based on the interaction?

Of course they "love their job"; they want to create a positive experience in the mind of someone who has a lot of power over them.

What I'm saying is that your anecdata has an observer effect that you are strongly discounting.
Why do you desire to be connected to that world?
I am not introvert but I feel very uncomfortable doing pair programming (specially with one keyboard).

When I am driving some times I get questions about things that I don't care at the moment, why I am using vim/sublime this way, why I named the variable like that. This causes me to lose concentration. If I am "navigating" (as the article mentions) I try to not make many comments but I feel very stressed about the other person not solving the problems the way I would.

I am very open to brainstorming meetings etc, but then just let me go back to my computer in my space to write code. Then I send a PR to someone in the team for review and we can discuss about it.

However there are scenario where I think pairing is very useful, for instance when doing risky changes to infrastructure. The driver share her screen and then it tells the other people watching every action before executing, like "I am going to switch the DNS record now to X.." and the copilot answer "go ahead", "I will wait 2 minutes"..."I am taking down this load balancer.. "
And they compensated by finally allowing users to add new email/password authentications to their account. Woo-hoo! I'd originally signed in with Google but I'd much rather have personal per-system logins, and now this is possible.
I always do and I've heard enough complaints about Uber from them that I've switched entirely to Lyft or Juno (local to NYC) which they much prefer and make more money from. They also frequently complain that they used to be able to live well off the driving but it keeps getting harder to stay afloat and they're not sure what they're going to do.

One guy that particularly stuck out had been an engineer at GE working on modifying helicopter engines for desert conditions for the US military (they ultimately made tolerances bigger and it fixed the sand problems counter intuitively). He then had a failed start-up and was driving because he couldn't find any work because of the gap in his CV (as he told it). Said he hated driving and it didn't pay the bills but he didn't know what else to do.

We all have plenty of anecdotal evidence. But maybe things are different in NYC than out west.
Polo / Circle discussed with the SEC before the purchase. SEC provided an exemption from prosecution provided Polo registered as a fully licensed exchange.

https://twitter.com/nathanielpopper/status/96820257071911731...
but if they did just make the assumption that any odometer reading that was off by 0.62 must have been a km->mi error, couldn't someone attempting to rollback an odometer just always make sure it was rolled back to 0.62 x the number of units driven?
I thought that the frequencies were originally decided by whatever machine the generator was driving. Want your big saw to split logs at 100RPM? Make your water wheel drive a generator at 100Hz. IIRC every big motor was different and ran at its own frequency.

Only when people started interconnecting these generators in a grid did the need to settle on a single frequency arrise.
This is more like a plumber being hired to fix the kitchen sink having a moral obligation to search the septic tank.
... if you aren’t too worried about the source
Could you do a weekly in this format? Reads very entertaining!
1) SEC will not be able to enforce regulation on distributed exchanges that are coming.
2) If you stake your coins on Lightning it may come under the purview of some regulation, but difficult to enforce.
3) If you trade on international exchanges, SEC cannot do much.

Crypto is censorship resistant after you onboard (convert fiat to crypto) through a regulated exchange.
I do not generally read or comment on HN because it is too leftist biased both in articles they post and in the comment section (for my personal taste). I urge anyone to educate themselves further about DEX (distribute exchanges), and how it plays out with KYC/AML (know your customer/anti money laundering) laws.
A scam? Do explain!
Book recommendation, if you're into this stuff... The Cooking Gene - A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, by Michael W Twitty. I'm currently halfway through, and it's fascinating. It delves deep into the roots of pre-20th century recipes and food traditions, and how African, European, and Native American cooking techniques and ingredients (along with the social structures of slavery) joined to create what became Southern cooking.

Take that Thanksgiving standby, sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. That dish can be traced directly to slavery in the Caribbean! Yams were a big part of the diet (a food from Africa), and on sugar plantations, they would take cooked yams to the boiling vats and ladle boiling sugar juice directly onto the yams. This came to America via the slave trade (many American slaves came from the Caribbean rather than directly from Africa), and evolved into new dishes that preserved the flavor without easy access to giant vats of boiling sugar.

The tracing of family recipes back to their origins is amazing.
How is your app different than the huge number of SRS-based flashcard apps that are already out there? Particularly the grand-daddy of many of them, SuperMemo which based its SRS scheduled system off of Ebbinghaus.
I think at least the zone part depends on personality. I have a much easier time getting in the zone when pairing and riding off each other's ideas.
I wouldn't hire Geek Squad even if I didn't know that. (And even if I didn't know about the stories of their staff trolling through private data long before the FBI started paying them to.)
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Detail here: https://ensureweightloss.blogspot.com/2018/02/painless-weight-loss-if-youre.html
> Only systems programming languages that are bundled with OS SDKs survive on the market...

Hmm. To Rust, this would seem to say "get bundled or die".

In your view, is it enough to be a free download?