skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the problem, all things may not be equal. Bitcoin may not end up being worth what people thought it was going to be. It may continue to drop (or stagnate) over time with zero miners active. It's not an exaggeration to say that nobody knows whether that will be the outcome.
> The problem with MailChimp is that it's very simple and easy to use, and once your list actually gets popular the pricing falls off a cliff. At 2,000 subscribers MailChimp is free; at 3,000 it's $50 a month, and it keeps going up.

I really like the MailChimp functionality and interface but I could never understand this pricing model and how they can justify charging that much for a few thousand users. Compared to e.g. the monthly infrastructure cost an app or SAAS project your newsletter is about, $50 for 3K users seems really disproportional to how important a newsletter is. Am I missing something here?
Kenya warns banks against dealing in cryptocurrencies
I can see what you mean, going to stop arguing on the internet anymore, realize its both addicting and embarrassing, any way to delete comments?
He stated phantomjs, basically GUI Automation.
What a colossally stupid waste of resources. Right now its costing somewhere between ~3500 and ~9000 USD to mine a single bitcoin (on average). To me, we've essentially engineered a mechanism to capture and trade something that represents the value of squandered electricity.

1) we're generating a ton of co2, further destabilizing the planet ecosystem
2) if we ever _do_ sort out cold fusion energy, crytoholes are going to abuse the shit out of it.

I feel like cryptocurrency and perhaps nuclear weapons are a built in 'kill switch' by nature to make sure only useful species ever get off the planet.
I’ve been a govie and contractor both and have done private sector work in companies of varying sizes, I get you. I was mostly speaking not necessarily to you but for others that may have certain perceptions of government work that are inaccurate or unfair comparisons. There’s plenty of inane rules in any large enterprise. The difference is that a truly inefficient large enterprise has a non-zero chance of winding down while government agencies themselves rarely start greenfield nor wind down (projects, of course, are stopped all the time).
That someone in the case of the stub could be your local machine or a trusted router though. If your operating system environment knows ODNS, it doesn't even have to be an extra piece of software.
uMatrix should fix that.

https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
Which won't stop someone from trying to ride that line if that promise carries any connection with reality. Or the promise is just naive and once people are invested in using it they'll refuse to give up the value and will tolerate single entity control.
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What happened to radio was due to limited spectrum availability and laws prohibiting its use. This can't really be compared to the others.

Bedroom servers still exist, and are probably more popular than before. It just appears there's not so many because they've been largely eclipsed by big players and the ability to just spin up new instances on demand.
I hear you on the transition lenses comparison and I agree.

IMHO, people go through a lot of tunnels all the time. As far as I can tell, they are pretty spread out geographically. I mean, tunnels are pretty common.[0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tunnels_in_the_United_...
How frequent and painful are Zulip upgrades? This is one of the reasons folks like SaaS for communications tools which always seem to be changing.
I know the purpose of containers. But it's still not as easy to use as I would like it to be (I understand that doing usability design for this is complex), and I haven't created a specific workflow for it yet.

When I'm on some site and want to quickly search the web using Google (when DDG isn't enough) on the same tab and then return back to the site, or if I use a container temporarily to check a Gmail account, I don't want to mix those up by mistake later (I never search on Google while logged in). This problem may not exist if I spent time to pre-decide the use/assignment of websites/accounts for each container.

Since I also use sites like HN to jump to other sites (several of which may be trying to track), auto-deleting cookies gives me peace of mind once I close a tab (I set the timeout value in the extension configuration quite low). I was using Self-destruct Cookies [1] before (when legacy addons were still supported on Firefox).

For additional protection, I do some more extensions.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
Squandered electricity has no value, bitcoin are not imbued with any value from the mining process, their value is strictly a function of what someone is willing to pay for them.

(I imagine you agree, but clarity is useful)
Genetics give you a greater chance of being smart ( if both parents are smart). Your statement seems to reasonate with me: 2nd generation : wealthy.

Eg. You need the stablility from the 2nd generation to get to the 3rd ( getting investment loans, contacts, ...) and the opportunity to "hit for the stars" multiple times.

Introduction to IBM is summarized under: contacts.
> buys a chinesium tablet with a rootkit
> assumes all chinese devices are compromised
China's a big country with a lot of companies, I wouldn't lump them all together.
Let's be honest, the patent will be granted. Patents are easy to get. Then everyone else ignores the vast majority of them in the real world.
Cryptocurrency is driving both improvements in computational efficiency and in cheaper clean energies. Most of the big mining operations are run on 100% renewable energy sources.
The existence of eyes for thousands of years in conjunction with the sun does not imply they have impenetrable defenses from the sun. It just means that they're good enough to allow the animal to survive long enough to procreate.
I mean Bill went to an exclusive private school (last year ranked 6th in the US) where he met Paul Allen and Ric Weiland. And all three had the opportunity to play around with a computer long before someone not of their means would be able to. I think we can pretty confidently say that Bill Gates would not have been 'Bill Gates' had he not been able to afford Lakeside.
Have been using Ghostery on Safari for quite some time, and I dont see how this Facebook Container can be anywhere close to what Ghostery provides. The number of trackers on any website, is just mind blowing.

I believe Ghostery works with all browsers and I strongly suggest everyone use it, in addition to what ever ad blocker, container, VPN service you intend to use, even if you are using Facebook Container for Firefox.
I ride bike trials and have gotten good at keeping a straight line.

On a good day I can ride along the top of a handrail.

To keep a bike going straight at low speeds, you shift your weight, and by that I mean you swing your elbows or you knees, not your whole body.

You also can vary the sensitivity of the steering input by controlling how much of your weight is over the front wheel.

You can also use the front brake if you are deviating from your line. It allows you to push against the resistance generated to realign your center of mass.
Fewer organizations mining doesn't necessarily mean lower hashrate.

As new hardware comes online for the big miners the hashrate could still increase whilst the number of organizations mining decreases.
BigCos routinely use patents against small players. It isn't a huge war only because the small player can't fight back in kind.
While the Ottomans were far from perfect (and I learned a lot about the bad things they did back in school in Romania), you might want to crack open a history book.

Here, let me get you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmed_the_Conqueror#Administr...
> I'm as pro-US as they come,

Being pro-US has nothing to do with it; as you might note in my other comments, I've made a similar argument against the US revolution being an example of an insurgent group being independently successful against a well-equipped national force.

> but The Tet Offensive, of which the Viet Cong played a crucial role, was crucial in breaking the will of the American populace to support the war leading to its end. I'd call that a pretty successful insurgent group.

They had massive outside support the whole time, even before Tet, and the VC was essentially gone after the Tet Offensive. Sure, it was important in breaking US will to continue the war, but without the NVA taking up the main battle after Tet, there would have been no war to continue.

Yes, for an insurgent group, the VC was relatively successful; that underscores that insurgent groups almost invariably succeed, if at all, with either massive defection from the military of the regime they are fighting or massive outside support, or both.
Could be argued, if his family weren't rich, he probably wouldn't live close to a private university to begin with.

Also, he went to a private school that had a computer for him to use.

I watched an interview of his where he admitted that if he hadn't gone to private school, it is unlikely he would have ended up founding Microsoft.
A few things....

Pinebook uses a Mali GPU, which if I understand correctly relies on closed binaries to run though it looks like that is changing: https://www.cnx-software.com/2017/09/26/allwinner-socs-with-...

Also my personal experience with this laptop was less than stellar. This was last May (before Firefox Quantum), but I opened it, tried to do some things, and immediately closed it because it's absolutely too slow to use as a laptop. Definitely cool as a terminal. I ended up putting it back in the box and donating it as a prize for an event
I wish people wouldn’t post direct links to patents.

The advice from the IP lawyers at every company I’ve worked for (Microsoft, Dropbox, Amazon, Google) has been to never read patents or patent applications.
my favorite is the thinkpad t4xx series, the keyboard is just marvelous and it runs great, if you don't necessarily need a gpu
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I wouldn't mind building a small box with a used up GPU for $50 (original $400) for FortNite.

And anyway, I believe that the way forward is cloud-mining. I prefer logging into a website and check how much I made last week, than going through the pain of owning, maintaining and having an asset depreciating.

Plus with cloud mining one can switch (as one already commented about switching to ETH).

ps: Yes I know, they take a good part of the profit, but hey, they are working for it!
>Being rich had nothing to do with him selling an OS to IBM.

Yes, a stolen OS he had no part in developing.

I don't doubt that he's a competent programmer (or was at one point). I see no evidence that he's a great one. There are programmers with ten times his ability who will never see 0.01% of his money.
Mining at current prices is a $5 billion a year industry, mostly run on specialised chips at scale. Dorm room miners aren't a significant factor.

Regardless, there's also capital expenditures on the equipment.

The problem is that the price is so volatile. As with any industry, new entrants will keep joining in until total cost will approach total revenue. But if total revenue can just drop by 50% in the span of a few months, that can put a large portion of participants out of business, even if hypothetically one of their cost factors (electricity) is free, some participants will have to go.
Did they explain why?
The Badlands of C++: Professional Game Development – Valentin Galea [ACCU 2018]
What is amazing is these companies fighting the government while we have Apple hand all their customers data over to the China government.

"Campaign targets Apple over privacy betrayal for Chinese iCloud users"

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/03/apple-privacy...

Incredible contrast.

Then the cherry on top was Apple removing the VPN apps from their store in China and cutting their users off at the knees in being able to protect themselves.

"Apple removes VPN apps from the App Store in China"

https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/29/apple-removes-vpn-apps-fro...
Here is an example article[0] and a research study from Oxford[1] which reinforce the claim.

[0] https://www.fastcodesign.com/3043041/why-our-brains-love-hig...

[1] http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/519146
You lost me at the linker part. Even now the GNU ld(1)/gold(1)/ld.so story is terrible. Limited or no support for filters and auxiliary filters, interposition control, etc? Screw that.

EDIT: Also, I rather like IPS packaging. Please explain how it sucks.
This sounds wrong as hell, for anyone reading.
Separate from your argument, I find your lead-in of "life pro-tip" here to be offensive and condescending. It implies that you are an accomplished professional at living, while 'natalyarostova' is but an unthinking amateur. Did you intend it this way? Or was it meant to be humorous? Or does it serve another purpose that I'm missing?
Forget A/B testing: Order elements using machine learning recommendations
Hmmm. Yes to your P1 and maybe to your P2.
The gene family that cheats Mendel (2017)
Hackers can take full control of online compilers through a common exploit
I came here to check if there was a Napalm Death joke, and I am serious disappoint.

https://youtu.be/ybGOT4d2Hs8
>Cryptocurrency is driving both improvements in computational efficiency and in cheaper clean energies.

This is also true of war and those who buy computers to make models of why the Earth is flat.

>Most of the big mining operations are run on 100% renewable energy sources.

Admit it, you just made this up.
Wow — I'd like your work environment. Mine is approximately 6m² and it's shared by 8 people!
Full support of CLI 6 in Angular-universal-pwa schematics
Bitcoin is getting harder and harder to mine. Small players (e.g. students/hobbyists) cannot afford to invest 70% of whatever revenue they generated, and will sensibly be forced out of the game. It's easy when you play against Villabajo, and it gets more expensive when facing Barcelona :)

I would assume that with the current technologies, the game will end being played only by the big players, when the currencies will be reaching their top tier (getting more and more difficult to generate).
>China's a big country with a lot of companies

owned and controlled directly or indirectly by their government, an authoritarian dictatorship. It’s disingenuous to pretend Chiba is just another market of competing private companies.
If you're anything like me this may have been inspired by some plugins you absolutely hate. My advice would be to get a couple of 1 star reviews up, knowing which to avoid is maybe more powerful than the plugins to install! Keep up the good work :)
This is standard legal advice. It reduces the chance that an infringer will be found guilty of a willful violation, that results in treble damages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treble_damages
New is the Symantec PKI blocking. There are still plenty websites which did not renewed their outdated Symantec certificates.
In 1968, the mothers of students in the school held a fundraiser so that they could purchase computer time on a mainframe DEC PDP-10, owned by General Electric. Both of the boys were very good with computers and programming. Gates and Allen contributed to the majority of use of all of the allowed computer time because they both enjoyed it so much. Because of how much time they had been using up on the computer, Lakeside made an agreement with Computer Center Corporation (CCC) so they could continue to provide computer time to their students.

...

However by 1970, CCC had gone bankrupt, which meant that the boys had to find another place to continue to work with computers. Luckily, Allen’s father worked at the University of Washington, so they gained access to computers there.
The plane's engine didn't lose power, it exploded and breached the hull.

The journalist didn't say the plane was going down, the person on the plane said it and the journalist quoted them, accurately.

Since this article yesterday there have been many more quotes by passengers on that plane who thought they were going to die.

There's zero reason here to claim shoddy journalism, not for this article specifically, nor any reason to bring up journalism in general. Yes journalists are not engineers. The flip side is also true -- engineers are bad at relaying the big picture story because they nitpick details that are misleading or unimportant, and completely miss the primary points as they relate to other people. I'm guessing you are not a journalist? This wasn't a modest event, and this wasn't a non-event, so as far as I'm concerned the only grain of salt here is being reserved for you.
No need to reinvent the wheel: take a look to the Apache Mahout collaborative filtering engine - it can be used for both 'small' and 'big' data. If you have one-machine dataset (millions of items) I may recommend to use non-Hadoop algorithms implementation that can be used as usual java lib (in case of .NET C# port is available: https://github.com/nreco/recommender ).

Also you can check 'Mahout in Action' book - part 1 is about recommendations and it explains everything that you need to know for building your own recommendation engine.
As opposed to slamming into a barrier?
It’s just practice. I went to a good school, but I’ve spent 100s of hours doing programming contest questions. The secret is, there aren’t that many unique interview questions, and so once you get the pattern recognition down (binary search problems, hash table problems, dynamic programming problems, etc.) and practice your speed, interviews become easy.
It seems the new Clipboard API requires explicit permission (video on [0]), that's not going to increase adoption I suppose.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2018/03/clipboarda...
I've tried rebuilding the battery for an x220 twice and both times the battery case ended up too damaged to be used. I'm about to fork over $100+ for my forth battery for this machine.
That's really just an example of a particularly unsafe way of slowing to a stop.
I think he/she misspoke about what they meant by "squandered electricity."

I think what they were referring to is how electricity is allocated or stored. Currently, we cannot do so effectively. It is ironic that Bitcoin is being referred to as a store of value.

I would hesitate to say that squandered electricity has very little value but it is all dependent on what your definition of value is, potential or realized.
You don't-think correct!
Bitcoins are sooooo 2017. I'm thinking about liquidating my hodlings and moving into tulips.
How do you define waste?

Is bitcoin mining more wasteful than gold mining?
I'm honestly curious what the aversion is to reading patents and patent applications. Is it to avoid suspect patent infringement by being able to claim ignorance? i.e. "I have not read any patent that relates to some work that I've created wholly on my own that out of coincidence achieves the same as a patented work." Does that actually hold up if defending IP?
Wow! Decades ago when I was a theatre sound designer I had those on vinyl and used them all the time. This brings back memories.
Well, ML doesn't explicitly use it for immutable data. It's just how you declare variables. It does happen that most variables are immutable though.
High end mechanical watches?

Satellites?
Cubicles are far worse than open plan IMHO
Redux Saga 101
Basically by reading comments here, every single person has it's own view. Maybe there are too many variables in the equation to have bigger consensus.

Clearly it's a trade-off situation;
I am on my early beginnings of journey to mastery, but what I decided and how I tackled the road was going for T shape! I am sure many know of this, where you cover all areas broadly, knowing what they are about and you've done some work with them at some point and time, but you didn't dig deep. Except one specific thing, that is your jam, where you chose to specialize and dedicate to go deeper. So in the end you are forming T shaped profile. I am near the end of studies and near the end of phase of trying everything. I know what kind of language/technology/tools, kinds of programming etc etc I like or dislike, so I think soon enough I'll be ready to chose that one thing. Of course it doesn't mean you are done for life with other things, you have to catch the loop and ever changing nature of our industry.

In the end, why advices and stories on this topic vary so much is because we as humans are very different between each other. We react with different sensibility on different things in different times & places. So by the nature of things everyone has it's own journey to tell. But the problem occurs when people take it to personal and start pushing it over other people's attitudes and thoughts.
There is a relation though, although admittedly it's the other way around: the more expensive bitcoins are the most money can be invested into the mining process which correlates strongly with the total amount of energy "wasted" mining it. If BTC was worth $4 the hash rate would probably be a tiny fraction of what it is today.
It's looking like Mailtrain FTW :)
If everybody stops using fiat money and switch to bitcoin, the consumption of energy will be the same by miners, but the consumption per transaction will be much lower.
"Less fortunate" has always read as a straight euphemism to me for "poor" - you've elicited its true, literal meaning for me for the first time.

It shows how grossly unfair the "fortune" of the wealth of parents' is... and it's becoming less and less fair over time.

More than ever, I think it's essential, that as much as possible we move towards ensuring everyone starts with the basics. Health, education... We can't control parenting, but we can create conditions for it.

It's not just fair for the individual, but fulfilling the potential of all makes for a better nation. This would not affect the people already at the top within a nation... except through the contest between nations. Those that do not nuture their human resources will be replaced by those that do.

This is how the USA rose to dominance... and this is how it falls.
One of the mech engrs in a cube has a mirror on his wall that puzzled me until I spent a day in the cube farm. I will steal that idea when they relocate me from a private office to cube hell.
The better 'earmuffs' out there should be enough w/o plugs. The passive model that I have (3M Peltor Optime 105, $21) cut sound by 30 dB. Nearly dead silence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghostery#Criticism
I would recommend being highly critical with regards to what ad blocking add-ons to install.
I do personally recommend uBlock origin as something non disrupting for your average user.
Neat URL and Skip Redirect are also nice for skipping tracking redirect urls like out.reddit.com.
Decentraleyes is also an interesting project that caches commonly used CDN resources locally.
Finally, umatrix and no-script with scripts enabled is in my opinion a good compromise between little breakage while still leaving power users with a lot of control.
> The optimist in me thinks that if browsers started to disallow third party cookies, ReCaptcha might have to adapt to the change and make it easier to solve if third party cookies are blocked.

That needs to bring everybody to the same table, Firefox will not do that alone and Google Chrome is not there for nothing.

Basically, Google must accept the proposal of disabling third-party cookies by default which will effect their income negatively, so they may just refuse to implement that feature for Chrome and even may prevent that feature from become a standard.

Sad.
No: https://theblog.okcupid.com/race-and-attraction-2009-2014-10...