skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I first saw the movie Wall-E, I assumed the mega-corporation Buy-N-Large was a thinly disguised Amazon. Every year that goes by reinforces that assumption.
I've tend to chat with drivers when I take Lyft, and frequently mention that I'm a programmer. Several of the drivers have then asked me about cryptocurrency, mostly Bitcoin and Ethereum. I try to discuss how technically interesting they are, but how financially shaky; that there is likely a bubble and that they are probably not good long term investment options but could be worth buying a little bit for fun.

We are definitely in a very hype driven cryptocurrency bubble right now, and there are a lot of naive folks who are probably going to lose money to it.

And yet somehow, we haven't really managed to make any cryptocurrencies an actual, widely accepted, payment alternative, for anyone other than a few people with special circumstances (government restrictions on currency exchange, criminals demanding ransoms, funding organizations that governments are trying to shut down) or people who are fairly technically competent.

There's a chance the lightning network could be the last piece of the puzzle to make cryptocurrencies actually usable for payment, though even still, I have a hard time seeing most places wanting to accept payment in an asset as volatile as Bitcoin.

Or maybe we'll see a coin backed by fiat currency and real, regulated banks on Stellar, where you don't have nearly the same scalability issues nor gigawatts of power wasted just to try to solve Sybil attacks. If you have a coin backed by fiat currency, and low transaction costs, businesses are a lot more likely to accept it as payment as most of their expenses, taxes, debts, and so on are in the local fiat currency rather than than in any cryptocurrency.
So you can simultaneously deny it (as you can't politically take responsibility for it), and leave people in little doubt that it was actually you. The only motive I can see to kill an old ex-spy (who by now could have leaked any information) is to send a message to your current spies, that defecting will mean you and your family get killed.
I've been programming for 10+ years, tried many different languages and just don't get the appeal of Lisp. Swift for example is simply more productive and fun to use in most use cases. Same with Haskell.

I don't believe PG's claim that Lisp made a significant difference in productivity for them.
I feel the same way, but the thing is, there are plenty of things I need to buy and will need to buy someday that I know nothing about, and would very much appreciate the expertise of a proper salesman (not a salesman in terms of the coffee-voiced dolts we're so accustomed to, I mean a real salesman) when making my purchase decisions, and you just can't find them anymore, with rare exceptions.

I don't know if that would save many businesses, but it seems insane to me to take that one point where Amazon literally cannot compete on, and obliterate it.
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I would generally agree, but this business of scrolling to the bottom and being navigated away I’m in no way going to get used to. I would modify your principle to cover aesthetics, but not key browser functionality. I’m going to get used to a new UI, new colors and design philosophies, but I never get used to scrolljacking, and some other anti-functional “features” on sites.
> The bindings are an interface to a C library that should be shipped with the device.

There is nothing stopping you from statically linking it with the rest of your code.
Machine-oriented languages generally are machine specific and play to a limited audience of systems programmers. As global optimization has become more standard and more accessible, machine-oriented languages have become less significant.

Machine-oriented languages are "machine-oriented" because they provide the programmer with constructs which allocate resources (memory, registers) and allow programmatic access architectural features that are not comprehended by standard programming languages.

The ultimate machine-oriented language is assembly language where programs are written in native machine code. When combined with a good macro processor, programming in assembler can be effective and satisfying. Writing good assembler code can be an exercise in restraint since it is easy to write incomprehensible programs that are difficult to understand and debug.

Mark Rain (Ivan Godard) organized a conference on machine-oriented languages you might want to read.
W. L. van der Poel (editor) Proceedings of a Conference on Machine-Oriented Language, Trondheim, 1973 North Holland, 1974. The CMU machine-oriented languge BLISS, PL360, and PL/S and others were influential in their day, as were the various Burroughs Algol systems. In fact, some Burroughs machines did not have an assembler and were programmed only in Algol (with extensions). There is a description of how the chicken & egg problem was solve and the Algol bootstrapped in Don Knuth's books.
aphorisms have established common meanings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_it_till_you_make_it
Doesn't Microsoft, Google, etc. support the CLOUD act?
This should be fairly alarming because it makes a whole new attack surface very publicly visible.
Watch the John Oliver segment on cryptocurrencies from this weekend. They have a promo video from a company that is literally advertising pump and dump schemes.
You really don't want to re-implement SQLite for every high-level language!

Also, isn't SQLite just supported out-of-the-box by new .Net versions? E.g. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/ef/core/get-started/netcore....
Huh? The judicial branch is just judges, not prosecutors.
NASA has had several concepts for having a rocket return, and DCX is an example of a test vehicle that actually flew.
It's cute but at even at 30 seconds per character, a 160 character SMS takes over one hour to decode.
The lesson was learned the first time we did `cd;ls ..`. The rest is just one big marketing bubble.
Only person to play themself on Star Trek.
From Overwhelmed to Energized: The Power of Utilizing Employee Roadmaps
The science that made Stephen Hawking famous (2014)
Ask HN: Is there any website with installtion guide for every tool/software?
I'm looking for a website or portal with installtion guide to every technology/tool/software out there.
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It's called being colloquial, jeez
Three key differences:

* Our books are stored in QuickBooks Online, and you have access, so you're never locked in. If you need to work with another provider or just don't like us anymore, you can hand your data to any bookkeeper in the world, because it's just QuickBooks (vs. being handed an Excel export from a custom accounting system)

* All we do is startup company bookkeeping, so we've developed super-deep expertise in it (vs. aiming to solve it for, e.g. the bakery or yoga studio)

* We do accrual-basis bookkeeping (vs. only supporting cash-based bookkeeping)—this is a pretty inside-baseball thing, but it matters as the startup gets larger

I don't know how much automation Bench has already built, or if it's all just humans under the hood, but one structural advantage of #1 for us is that it means our engineers can spend all their time focusing on automating error-prone work (rather than needing to build out a QuickBooks clone).
Such a horrible and sad disease. I was introduced to it through (surprisingly) a Jeep club affiliated charity in the United States called Crawling for Reid. A few thousand off-road enthusiasts get together in South Pittsburg, TN to have a good time and raise funds for a small child with this unfortunate affliction. $120,000 USD was raised last year with record attendance and this year is set to raise even more. In particular, as I understand it, this charity benefits the little boy (Reid), primarily, as well as ongoing research. If you feel so inclined to donate, you may do so here http://crawlingforreid.com/donate/.
Thanks for posting - I'm more or less with you.

As evidenced by this thread - he was inspirational, and I appreciate that so many people here got that from him. And, yeah, I've heard a number of stories about how he treated women and his first wife that are just disturbing and sadly completely unsurprising, given the norms of our society (that are thankfully being shaken and revisited at this stage of human development, it would seem). This made me lose a lot of respect for him.

It started when I was a grad student in physics at U.C. Berkeley, he came and gave a lecture. He ended it with a tasteless sexual joke / pun, the kind that you would hear from a clueless teenage boy. I was really thrown off by that.
As a founder in the UK I was using Xero and a London based virtual-CFO about 8 years ago, and it was an absolute life saver not having to deal with the cruft.
The accountants did the books for most of the good startups in London at the time, so had a good range of experiences from funding to tax credits. Of course, they did this without raising $15M :)

Interesting to see how this seems to be a "new" thing even now in the US market.

[Disclosure: I am an ex-Xero employee]
Many coins are iterating on the technology introduced by Bitcoin.

Some of the coins are tokens that can be used in exchange for something (e.g. siacoin in exchange for decentralized storage).
Ask HN: Recycling center – 3rd world country
Hi,

I'm a young software engineering, living in a third world country. I love my country, but it worries me that we have no recycling practices whatsoever - and I want to try to change that (as much as I can), but I don't know where to start ... I have zero knowledge about recycling and operating any kind of business.

- Should I pursue something like an MBA? Or maybe an specialized Engineering degree?
- Are there any global institutions I can reach out for help/guidance?
- Are there any stories of people that have done the same and succeed?

Thanks, and happy rest of the day
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The “Basecamp MBA” Reading List
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meanings are not immutable
Massive correction like we see now https://www.coingecko.com/en is a good way for the market to readjust itself and wake up to all the ico greed is good
Yep - all of that is automated. Importantly, all the the classification of the transactions is automated as well, so I no longer have to look at a charge like "GUS99PWR-T BILL.COM" on my credit card statement and figure out a) where it is from and b) that it should be categorized as a marketing/promotional expense.
One thing I want to ask google is, why can't I browse through my previously-taken motion photos when I'm in a dead cell zone?

I went to the aquarium this weekend, took a lot of motion photos- but when scrolling through them in the gift shop, the "motion on" button just turned into an eternal loading icon. Even on photos I had taken the previous week.
Any relation to pilot.co , Pilot Corporation (https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.a...), Pilot (https://www.pilotfiber.com/) or Pilot (https://pilotpen.us/) ?
>That is, if you believe that you can't learn kernel hacking, that's (potentially) impostor syndrome. Lots of people have in fact learned kernel hacking, you can learn it too.

No, the fact that others have learned it is not (strong) evidence that you can learn it too; you would need to know how similar you are to those people, and whether those dimensions are relevant.

IOW, exactly the diagnostic criteria I suggest we search for rather than immediately skip to "so what, other people thought that too".

>Your self-doubt about it is based on (falsely) thinking that you are individually incapable of doing a thing plenty of others have done.

That's generally not what is happening in practice. People don't de novo say "I can't ever do this". Rather, they attempt (or otherwise survey) it, find difficulties ("I can't consistently understand how the stack is doing that"), see others that have no similar difficulties ("what? It would have taken me a day to work through that and it comes naturally to you"), and on that basis conclude that they're unlikely to succeed as well.

"You have Impostor Syndrome" doesn't make any headway on the core problem.
Many languages have string interpolation. It's a nice feature, but absence of it doesn't make your life hell.
We've created a generation of people who will do anything they are told to do. Now these big corps and governments feel like they have to baby-proof the world because we've created a bunch of lemmings who will give all their money to an ICO because a banner told them to.
No it wasn't. I was paying for a large VM $200 / month. Also I'm paying for their managed Postgres.
Like many others, my first reaction to this news was "Whaaat? WTF?"

He was a great man, and a true inspiration to all of us. May he rest in peace. It's weird now, because I feel like the generation of physicists who were able to get close to people and think about the really important problems, is simply gone.

His death reminded me how much enthusiastic I was about the origin(s) of the universe and such fundamental questions. But like many others, I couldn't find my way in science and am now millions of miles away from that. Maybe everyone has a path (destiny) and mine wasn't in science.
Oh, and I get a report every month with all my reports (balance sheet, P&L, etc) and summary data, and they do amazing customer support.
As with anything there is the way in which something is offered and the way in which it is consumed. I have encountered many people who have internalized "fake it" to mean "pretend that you are hitting all your milestones and you executing against your plan". These folks see this as a way to keep the questions of why they aren't actually doing all of that at bay because later when they are "making it" those questions will be irrelevant.

For example you lie about how your marketing efforts are reaching customers who are signing up in droves while you use mechanical turk and other techniques to make the observable metrics go up. At some point your visibility reaches the point where you actually are reaching your customers and so you can stop doing the shady stuff. By doing this you avoid the inefficiency of the whole "we aren't sure you can do this" discussion which helps no one.

On the outside, one clean narrative, traction and growth from day 1, now a multi-million (or billion) dollar business. Or as my Grandfather would say, all yummy sausage and no discussion at all about what not-yummy things are in there too.

Everyone should believe in themselves. That is just a given, if you don't (or can't) then you won't reach your expectation. There isn't any "faking" there as far as I can see (unless it is suppressing your own doubts about the effort).
The new Cosmos had way too much animation. Hopefully season 2 is without Seth McFarlane so we can get some inspiring science without cartoons (which detracts from the inspiring quality, imo).
> But it really depends what you're learning. If you took a bunch of mechanical engineering self-taught courses, it is unlikely anyone is going to let you design a bridge.

And yet Elon Musk, who studied aerospace on his own, is building rockets. John Carmack, who holds no degree at all, has done the same on a smaller scale.

Who let them?
Very cool!

Some questions:

1. How do you know the student's income?

2. How do you know if they're hired or not?

3. What if a student is hired and then is laid off?

4. What if a student is hired and promoted within the first year? Do they give you 7% of the income per their original job or 7% of total income received?
> nothing stops you from using a subset of [the standard libraries].

This only applies if you're writing 100% of the code. Not having coworkers to mess around with every corner-case of the langage is a rare privilege.
The new extension model makes better extensions possible, but it isn't going to make good extensions appear out of thin air. It's not going to stop a buggy extension from causing FOUCs or slowing down the rendering of a page.

OK, but surely it should at least isolate buggy extensions so they can't compromise the browser itself? Wasn't better security and stability in the presence of bad extensions a key selling point of the new extension model? In practice, Firefox was failing to shut down and restart cleanly for me perhaps one time in three since Quantum, having been solid as a rock until that point. (I say "was" because I haven't yet seen this problem since updating to 59 the other day, so it's possible that that particular bug has now been fixed.)

Likewise, if it makes better extensions possible, how come the only observable difference so far seems to be that various things that extensions used to be able to do are no longer possible? It's looking like a classic case of going all-in on a big software rewrite, but finding that a lot of little details have been overlooked and useful functionality has been lost as a result.
This also explains why so many great companies are built by people solving one of their own problems: imagine how high your demand is for a particular solution, if you are willing to spend 100 hours coding it! That means it is worth at least $1000 for you, for many programmers closer to $10,000.

That is for founders who can personally code their solution. Imagine the situation for founders who can only make a proof of concept prototype and need to raise money for them to see a commercial version.

In this case the desire to see their idea in physical form is so great, they would work unpaid for 1 to 2 years for a 20% chance at seeing it. That means their personal demand is $100,000 for a 20% chance to have 1. (And this is why many engineers work for equity / often called a lottery ticket.)

That is another way to see that the world is drowning in demand for your product/vision :) People will donate hours or market salary to having one.

(I realize that the last three paragraphs are mixed with potential financial reward - however for people coding the solution for themselves, this definitely shows that they themselves are drowning in demand for it.)
Fast or slow compared to what? If you think of it as 18 times in a third of the age of the whole universe it doesn't seem particularly peppy.
I am not saying you are wrong, only that you're making a political statement. Determining when to bet on a court case and when not to is a political decision -- do you draw the line at 85% chance of conviction? 60? 30? It can certainly be pragmatic with respect to certain metrics, but choosing those metrics, e.g. deciding that the aim should be the minimization of public expense and risk of failure is very much political. The metrics we need to optimize aren't chosen for us by the laws of nature, but by our political values.
A better question: Which would you rather have doing the inspections an your aircraft?
Three Points John Oliver Should Make in His Next Cryptocurrency Segment
They did it "more right" overall than others. That's all that's needed. I don't think MS was ever first at anything either. But somehow they often managed to do things better than everybody else.
Working on very similar things.

What information would you like to capture per user/ project

What happens when people want to do airdrops/ private placements

Look at what harbor is doing,
Would love to chat in detail.
Naveen@standardmeta.com
Not Equifax but here's a story about how another David once met his Goliath in Small Claims Court. I wish I could find an online citation to confirm the details :-(

In the 1970's, financial conglomerate Transamerica owned a credit card brand, Diners Club I think. An ordinary citizen had a dispute with Diners Club and was getting nowhere. He convinced a small-claims judge to place a lien on the Transamerica building in S.F. That got their attention real quick because they needed clear title to the real estate for some finance shuffling.
No, the measurements are of the redshift of hydrogen in the galaxy so it's talking about the orbital speeds. Also this quote from the press release: "if you could sit on the extreme edge of its disk as it spins, it would take you about a billion years to go all the way round.”[1]

[1]: https://www.icrar.org/cosmic-clocks/
Nye acted for years on Almost Live, a comedy show. He's also got an ME degree, not an advanced science degree.

It's just hard to take him seriously as a science spokesman.
> Once you become familiar with the language there is not much to lookup in the docs because it's such a small language.

The same could be said about Lisp. Would you trade your C compiler for Lisp one?
Whaaat! I never heard about the galaxy arm transit coinciding with mass extinction events. I'm about to google, but do you have a favored source?
Those people couldn't pay $500,000 and the shares worth in fines.
This seems like a Hot Take from 2003[1], when the media first caught on that reputation matters on the internet just as it does in most contexts.

It was important way before then, too. Google was arguably successful because they figured out a way to base SERPs in part on reputation. And I know that reputation certainly mattered on the BBSs I used to frequent.

Ironically I have no idea whether Gloria Origgi has a good reputation as an authority on the topic, but this excerpt/ad makes the book seem like a lightweight, new-to-the-internet-thinking-party treatment.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whuffie
I've noticed this problem, but I wouldn't call it a reputation age as much as I would call it an opinion age. People form strong opinions about which they've done no personal study based on the Appeal to Authority logical fallacy.

Take author's moon landing example. If you really care, there are mirrors on the moon. If you want to know we've been there or not, you can devise an experiment, fire a laser at those mirrors, and get a reflected beam back.

People now call things like "climate change" a science (and it's settled!), without doing the fundamental thing science requires: An experiment with a control group. Climate models are statistical correlation, not an experiment with a control group. It is not proof of causality.
In the most common setups, the reverse proxy usually terminates the TLS session and uses a different connection to make requests to the backend servers (e.g. nginx proxy_pass directive).

This means the backend server certificates are only ever exposed to your reverse proxy. There's no need to use publicly-trusted certificates for that. Just generate your own ones and make them known to the proxy (either by private CA cert or by explicitly trusting the public keys).
A closer parallel might be the London Underground, that manages 55-60mph.

The new Elizabeth line is apparently going to go up to 90 miles per hour, but that is probably only for when the train leaves London and heads out to neighbouring towns (it's essentially a subway line that also connects commuter towns to London).
A racist, agitating against foreigners, travels in another country and gets deported.
Well, in your face nazi scum :D
How to Create Engaging and Viral Infographics
I think your analysis is a bit heavy-handed. Most people have a common understanding of this word. Referring to a woman as "this chick" is obviously a tone that lacks respect and most American males understand the subtle differences in connotation between "chick" and "dude". Yes, they are mostly interchangeable but in certain contexts the word "chick" can carry a somewhat dismissive tone with a little more intensity than the word "dude" and this is just a subtlety of the language that is not easy to articulate.

Women in positions of authority or power are generally not referred to as chicks, it's hard to come up with a universal rule, but if one considers female authority figures throughout one's life it becomes easier to see where "chick" is usually not acceptable term for a woman you respect whereas "dude" has a more neutral connotation for male authority figures,
e.g. in reference to a strict male authority figure "that dude is a hardass" or "that dude will knock you out".