skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where are a lot of the ICO token purchases coming from? Are they all on questionable international exchanges that are trying to avoid regional financial regulations? Are the people trading on those platforms because they have no clear way to cash out currencies in their own country?
$50M can't buy you a clear conscience.
I second this. I too noticed a bunch of suspiciously pro-Zukerberg top comments on frontpage articles that are even remotely related to FB.
Is that when you find out that scamming people is a different kind of work, which requires a different skill set?

Only the very best scammers ever get to learn about extradition.
> Webassembly was designed not to do this, and I really hope it stays that way forever. Optimizing JITs are useful for highly dynamic languages like Javascript; Webassembly's fast startup times and predictable performance are a much better solution for languages like Rust.

WebAssembly is a VM bytecode for a stack-based VM. Unless you want things to run very, very slowly you still need a JIT to emit native code, rather than loop dispatching each WebAssembly instruction in a bytecode interpreter.

WebKit, for example, has a two-tier JIT for WebAssembly just like JS, but WebAssembly has already had all the high level language related optimizations performed and looks a bit like an intermediate representation anyway so the first pass is very fast.
Every damn time I ready about those crypto currencies, I only see people reliving the last 100 years of financial history, just at a much faster pace.
https://twitter.com/YassinHankir/status/986551967932735488

That's just hilarious.
ICO buyers are the new anti-vaxxers. Securities laws protected them so well for so long, they forgot about the virulence with which scams ravaged pre-SEC America.
I mean the entire trick to domain fronting is that some large company, whose site no country would dare censor, offers up their infrastructure as a front.

Who else do you think should decide who gets to host content through Google's servers?
5% chance of winning? Where does that number come from, 500/10,000?

That is not a 'chance of winning.'
That is pretty amazingly brazen. If it were me I'd definitely just go silent. Much less risky than "I stole all your money, come at me!"
I thought "private mistake" was an extremely weird argument, too. It can't possibly be right; any of us can think of "private" crimes that would preclude someone's continued involvement with a VC firm. So, really, the implied argument he's making is that sexual assault is some kind of lesser crime.
The hardest thing in business is not getting things done, it's getting the right things done. A team that is a bit slower, but produces a product/service that is a lot closer to what customers want, is probably going to win.

If an open office plan helps a team develop a more on-target product, even if that happens a bit slower, it could still be a win.
The cryptocurrency scene has been people relearning why we have all these evil regulations in the first place.
Businesses set their own model and can change it whenever they want.
It's for COM/Reflection when the type can't be static because the library with the type isn't available to link against.
Haha, that's awesome. This guy is so honest. I wonder if this is just a marketing tactic and the website will start functioning in a few days.
"Hey guys, remember how Facebook had to go in front of congress? Zuck did a crappy job there!" is not exactly a great, confidence instilling PR push.
The answer comes down to one line in your BigQuery Under the Hood article[0]:
"The answer is very simple — BigQuery has this much hardware (and much much more) available to devote to your queries for seconds at a time. BigQuery is powered by multiple data centers, each with hundreds of thousands of cores, dozens of petabytes in storage capacity, and terabytes in networking bandwidth. The numbers above — 300 disks, 3000 cores, and 300 Gigabits of switching capacity — are small. Google can give you that much horsepower for 30 seconds because it has orders of magnitude more."

Most companies are fine letting their warehouse go underutilized, or for queries to not be solved with such enormous resources, if it means capping their monthly data warehouse bill at a fixed number, say $9,000.

BigQuery is an awesome piece of technology, but most publishers, ecommerce, and saas companies have teams of anlayts, engineers, and business folks pounding away at their warehouse all day. And it's fine if those queries aren't as fast BigQuery.

I run an analytics companies and we load billions of events into our customers' warehouses each day. Many have evaluated BigQuery and they all came back with the same answer: too expensive. Most of them are big companies, but spending nowhere near the $40K they'd have to to cap their cost on BigQuery. And with the advent of Spectrum, they're even less likely to jump ship now.

Since you're a PM, I'd be really interested to know if you guys are aware of this issue and if you're doing anything to offer a solution that competes with Redshift (fixed cost/resource). I ask this as someone who runs a ton of stuff on GCP, but we've just never found a way to make BigQuery cost effective for us.

[0]https://cloud.google.com/blog/big-data/2016/01/bigquery-unde...
It may be that the only way to fight “not in my backyard” is to require, by law, “everyone’s backyard”. In other words, make every single neighborhood give something up so that no one can say they’re being singled out.

One method might be to require a tax increase in every neighborhood that is nullified if that neighborhood does certain things (like allowing dense condos). The important thing would be to make it absolutely clear that a whole city/region is in the same boat, that certain actions will be taken on all areas and no one will be allowed to squirm out of them.
So happy to see this.

As awesome as kubernetes is and is becoming, I've always been a fan of the Mesos architecture. For managing large, complex, diverse workloads, it's perfect.
Maybe even banks...
PM on Radar here. There are a couple of ways to handle this. You could, as you said, add a customer to your allow list as soon as they pass the initial charge (and AVS) check. You can also use the new `is_recurring` rule attribute [0] which identifies whether the payment is a subscription charge or not (though there’s some additional work to distinguish the first charge, and how you use it depends on the nuances of your integration). I’d be happy to discuss your specific use case in more detail. Feel free to email me directly (eeke@stripe.com).

[0] https://stripe.com/docs/radar/rules/reference
Ableton Live 10 Suite Crack and License Key [Mac and Win] Full Download
Irrespective of prison, there’s also a pretty good chance that what you do for a living doesn’t raise your chances of someone showing up and wanting to “discuss things” with you.

Ripping people off for €40 million may end well for this fellow or it might result in a few irritated “investors” (donors?) coming round with knives, or even just fists, for a quick chat about what happened to their money.

It might not be likely but that’s a risk and a much greater one than I would want to take. Besides, someone can only use the defense of polite society if he or she hasn’t already ripped the cover away.
Thats precisely his point. Contagion causes the break. Analogous to a bank run or the ruinous fall of the Thai baht in 97/98. Nobody has any real info on whether the bank has enough reserves, nor do they care. They just dont want to hold the asset.
This is the kind of article that makes me want to go into the mountains for a week.
Hmm, so what is the status of this W3C draft[1] (which they say specifically does not imply endorsement), if the W3C is putting a test for it in one of their test suites? Or do Chrome/Chrome devs get commit bits? Or maybe one of the purposes of this is to serve as a way for browsers to coordinate on implementations even before it's become a standard? (It's obviously a way to coordinate on things that are a standard).

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-typed-om-1/
The Chinese Communist Party Is Setting Up Cells at Universities Across America
> IF this red shift is interpreted as something else (e.g. loses due to friction), then visible Universe is still.

This is a pretty interesting idea, I wonder if a consistent model of EM frequency damping with distance traveled could be built.
Lots of speculation on Twitter that this is a misguided PR stunt.

After getting lost in replies found this article of a guy visiting their office today and finding it devoid of any CPUs and founder missed an event yesterday:

https://hallofrankfurt.de/savedroid-rekt-or-pr-stunt-a60d19e...

Seems so blatant as to be unbelievable!
"If the chain of command is inefficient, then change it, don't go around it."

I work in a "flat" company now and couldn't be happier. Also, I haven't seen such productivity in any siloed company around. Managers should help with communication and cooperation when needed, not act as a gateway when I need to have a quick chat with another technical people in different department.
That and this page [1] mentioned by zerkten, are what I wanted. Too bad I didn't find them in the first place. Maybe they should be mentioned in the page I've complained about.

I'm familiar with RPM packaging, so I feel you pain.

I understand that you don't have native support for every platform, after all you probably don't support Windows :-) What puzzled me was the lack of instructions, so that others could at least try making Zulip work on their system.

[1]: https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/development/setup-adv...
This is one of my favorite explorations of the crazy things that are possible in Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2yfXnUb1S4
I'm torn about all of these types of apps. On one hand, I think it's great to invite people into the world of coding and doing so in a user friendly matter. No doubt Grasshopper and a handful of similar apps are well designed, but is it really the right way to go about things?

I remember vividly learning to code at age 11. I had an old computer, windows would constantly crash and the only thing I could access really was QBASIC.

Alongside a book with code snippets, I would simply write a line of code, hit run and see what happens. Then, go back to the code and 'go rogue' (meaning: change the numbers a bit and make the line 5pixels instead of 2 for example). This is where the magic happened, because I actually coded something. It wasn't part of an educational application, it was the real deal inside the real editor with a real output.

The learning always came from trial and error and in a way is very similar to how I still code things (when I'm not designing SaaS products for awesome B2B companies)

The book might be replaced with Google & Stackoverflow, but the principles are the same.

The magic of coding, I believe is in writing something that is real.
Are there any downsides to RN? The old criticisms used to be: license type, difficulty in publishing to App Store, not full featured.

Any of those still fair or have things evolved to where the author claims it saved 40% on time and budget vs native coding?
Ask HN: What is working as a VC like?
I work at a not-really-startup anymore Data Science software and consulting company in the midwest. I work as a data scientist and director within the company, though most of my time is, lamentably, making datasets. I don't see a way out of this particular predicament for a few years.

The Managing Principal from our primary investor asked me what I thought about becoming a "deal guy" or working as a VC analyst type person. He says he thinks it could be a great use of my talents and interests.

They also announced they are looking for a director of business development now. It sounds like an intriguiging opportunity and one where I can get exposure to more things, rather than being pigeonholed into "well, you're better at ETL than these people and can manage yourself so here's this project with a poorly written scope, client we can't say no to, and no real condition for success".

Thoughts?
It's absolutely a possibility but the problem is one of speed. DOM interop is one of the things that slows down JS so much and requires a lot of flexibility.

Adding it to WASM will not be the amazing experience many think it will be.
With all the respect I have for Elon, I don't think he realizes he's not the CEO of a startup company anymore.

Getting rid of acronyms will have an inverse effect on productivity. Are you supposed to explain each time you refer to it?

I agree if someone is new to the team then you should probably explain a few times before using acronyms. But for established teams, this just slows everyone down.

Chain of command is there so that no one goes over the other person's head. If two developers disagree on an approach and one just straight up goes to the manager instead of the project manager it causes issues for the whole team. I'm a fan of "hey you should be able to talk to whomever you want", but not as the default.

Company rule is there to protect the worker in case they made a bad decision. As long as it was within the company rule, they can't be blamed as much as "hey I used common sense".

For massive companies you need these systems in place.
Inline:

- Does that work even if the types had fields?
Yup!

- What about it the fields had a different total size?
Totally fine!

- What if Baz had no parameterless constructor (I.e only had a contractor that guaranteed arg > 0 for example)?
Then you throw an exception when you call the constructor.

- Is this like an unsafe pointer cast where “you are responsible, and it will likely blow up spectacularly if you don’t know what you are doing” or is it something safer that will magically work e.g with types of different size?

Mostly the former, but if you're coming from a strongly typed compiled language, it may feel like a bit of the latter too, since if you don't run into any obvious runtime incompatibilities, it'll all "just seem to work" even if the underlying classes are 200% different.

(Disclaimer, I've been using python for ~decade now but am still always nervous to speak authoritatively about it, since I work with peers who are FAR deeper in the actual implementation than I am, and I run the risk of being subtlety incorrect.)
Perhaps the other items are sold as a kind of cover-up, somehow?
I think there needs to be a place for extra-legal speech, free association, and economic activity. I think crypto is a useful tech to that end. I don’t think it being big and mainstream is sustainable at all, and it’s going to be snuffed out soon enough.
I argue that blockchain technology enables the development of such a distributed network to succeed with much better odds, as monetary value and network effects are intertwined.

Traditional software products whose success relies on network effects often require enormous sums of money to get up and running, with the promise to somehow extract profit from the users at some point in the future.

Blockchain tech allows those kinds of products to succeed without the implicit agreement that your (as a user) data will be siphoned and monetized however the company sees fit. In fact, the owners of valuable content/contributions can be rewarded fairly.
It looks like apple just has a slower animation to show the read receipt.
Indeed illicit money usually begets bad consequences!
We're super excited to be announcing Grasshopper today! We're hoping that it'll make learning to code accessible to more adults that are interested in applying coding skills to their careers, hobbies, or just for fun.

Please let us know what you think, ask questions, all that jazz. We're still in the process of learning and making changes, so all feedback is super helpful.

- Laura (Grasshopper Founder)
Politico? Oh come on, that is a garbage partisan left site for garbage people.
This is hacker news, and one would hope still propaganda free.....
Just as we shouldnt currently be allowing cars onto the road that operate without a users hands on the controls and their full attention on the road ahead. I see your point but if Tesla has fine print that says you must keep your hands on the controls, and knows when you are not they have the ability to do things to prevent that from happening. Not just leaning on the goodwill and promise of the driver.
Escrowcoin
This is a classic example of a publicity stunt based on the awful premise that people should be happy that Stack Overflow isn't more toxic. After all, on some places on the internet people openly talk about raping or killing people, so what's a little mean spirit and oppression on a tech help site?

What's more, the author has defined "toxic" in a way that guarantees a negotiation process after results are offered. They can simply sink the discussion by demanding that, "diversity of thought means I need a new Nazi and a hyper conservative anti-lgbt religious person on my panel. Surprise surprise, no one can agree on anything."

I seldom reach for this categorization off the bat, but given that this is a classic anti-debate tactic that I see all the time, I'm going to call it. This entire effort is disingenuous bullshit, and I flagged it hoping to avoid having to see more of this kind of bad logic and bad posting on the Hacker News main page.
Sorry, chance of winning assuming if winning was a independently random event, which in this case may not be accurate (although you could make an argument if the odds of winning are better or worse than 5%)
Does any of this tooling (I.e. wasm-pack, wasm-bindgen) work with the wasm32-unknown-emscripten target? All of the examples I see use wasm32-unknown-unknown, which is (I think) of limited use to me since I'm linking a fairly complex chain of native libraries against my current wasm target.

It seems like cargo-web has lots of this ground covered already. I'm wondering why build these other tools in that case? I don't have a dog in this fight, I'm just working on a wasm-based app that I'm hoping will serve me for quite some time, and seeing what appears to be duplicated effort at such an early stage worries me a bit.

Either way, thanks for building this!
> Again, that's irrelevant to my point.

I disagree that it's irrelevant.

> They just see Bitcoin as worthless, and therefore consider Bitcoin mining to be expending energy for nothing.

No, to reiterate, they see bitcoin mining as inherently wasteful because energy is burned without regard for useful work done. A centralized system can process multiple orders of magnitude more transactions than a PoW based one where more energy is only needed when more useful work (transactions) needs to be performed.

> less efficient compared to what?

To every other system for processing transactions that is not based on PoW, for example, the centralized banking system. Yes, I understand that those systems don't have all the same capabilities that a PoW system does, but the incumbent systems already work well without whatever added capabilities a PoW system provides and is also incidentally much more secure in practice compared to PoW based systems.
One of those things involves a crime and the other involves people exercising their free right of association to not associate with that dude (and, transitively, to not associate with people who think it's a good idea to continue associating with that dude).

The comparison you're making isn't apples and oranges, it's apples and lawnmowers. And it is why I left an out for malice: because that disingenuous comparison is used by real bad folks for real bad things.
I personally love the work that you've done in this area recently. I do have the feeling that users are still exposed to quite a bit of plumbing, as they might be used to <command> <declared intention> style commands from elsewhere ("npm install nodemon" or what-have-you).
> Meme culture, "doggos", baby talk in tweets and texts, "adulting"

As a younger person ('92 - I guess I qualify for millenial depending on who you ask?) who was on the internet and a part of nonsensical and whimsical communities like YTMND during my formative years and beyond, the items you listed are lost on me to some extent; I know what they are/what they mean, but all of it is brand new to my eyes. All I can tell you is that in my age group, way before any of this stuff started leaking from the internet, a meme was just an image macro based upon a repeating/old joke. Anything new and trending was appropriately called a "fad" on YTMND; if it stuck, it became a "classic" or was worthy of the title "meme" because of its permanence through the community. There are lots of little things that I wish I could explain that have been altered by outside groups that they no longer resemble what they were to my cohort, or at the very best are caricatures of what they used to be, but that would be a fruitless endeavor.

I used to think that all of what you listed was something targeted at people half my current age. However, my coworker at my last job managed to prove me wrong by being a solid 4 years older than I was and using the above cultural dialects you've referenced above. I think it's a bit of a problem, though not necessarily an emergency in the making.

Side note: It's kind of ridiculous; aforementioned subscribers think they can relate to me, "outsiders" (adults over 30) think I would relate to the subscribers (was an annoyance at college), but I can't relate to them at all. I definitely consider them the outgroup who came in, brought their friends, trashed the place, and went to find the next new thing.
I'm seeing residential POTS equipment now listing up to 1,000 number blocklists.

None I've yet found clearly advertise a whitelisting feature, though that's obviously the direction to roll.

I'm also trying to see if Asterisk might be applicable here.
My guess, some people buy a mattress and end up unhappy with it, return it, and buy something else. This is enough people that it's worth showing mattress ads to all recent mattress buyers.
I get that people in some other languages want to call a whole computer a CPU, but it's not. A CPU is something you can hold in the palm of your hand.
Most of our ML stack has been developed internally given the unique constraints we have for Radar. Among other things, we need to be able to

- compute a huge number of features, many of which are quite complex (involving data collected from throughout the payment process), in real-time: e.g. how many distinct IP addresses have we seen this card from over its entire history on Stripe, how many distinct cards have we seen from the IP address over its history, and do payments from this card usually come from this IP address?

- train custom models for all Stripe users who have enough data to make this feasible, necessitating the ability to train large numbers of models in parallel,

- provide human-readable explanations as to why we think a payment has the score that it does (which involves building simpler “explanation models”—which are themselves machine learning models—on top of the core fraud models),

- surface model performance and history in the Radar dashboard,

- allow users to customize the risk score thresholds at which we action payments in Radar for Fraud teams,

- and so forth.

We found that getting everything exactly right on the data-ML-product interactions necessitated our building most of the stack ourselves.

That said, we do use a number of open source tools—we use TensorFlow and pytorch for our deep learning work, xgboost for training boosted trees, and Scalding and Hadoop for our core data processing, among others.
Actually, gender is and was always a theory. Before it was applied to humans in the current sense, it was a grammatic theory. This idea of gender as another name for sex is simply ahistorical - seriously, just go to Google Books and search for "gender" before 1955. It's only about grammar. Then John Money came around and use the word exactly to draw a distinction between biological sex and the cultural/sociological construct.
Personably, software that helps on-board new hires at fast-growing companies