skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Stability of value: its value should not fluctuate.

Big problem for crypto. It's a spec market currently and shows no signs of settling down. Add that to the fact that transactions are a nightmare and... I just don't see this happening any time remotely soon. Also, if you think the powers that be are going to allow their currencies to be supplanted... well, they won't.
Elixir has pretty solid marketing indeed but IMO the tooling is what really makes it shine. Hex and Mix are the simplest, cleanest and most straightforward tools I ever used for 16 years of career. Add OTP, friendly syntax and mature runtime to the mix and IMO Elixir is right now unbeatable in the realm of dynamic compiled languages.
I wouldn't attribute a rise in the use of ad blockers to Google or Facebook. It's more of a reaction to intrusive ads, the sort where a video expands to cover the content you're trying to view. Most people (that is, average users, rather than technologically-inclined ones) don't care that much about tracking.

As far as Google and Facebook pushing other advertising networks out of business, it's not that they're so effective that no other strategy is possible. It's more that they're effective enough, and so cheap that other networks can't compete.
The author discredits himself by referring to Daniel Hannan as an "ignorant gobshite" on Marx or anything else; Hannan speaks French and Spanish fluently as well as English, which, I suspect, is two languages more than the author does. Hannan studied History at...wait for it...Oxford University. So that 'ignorant' line alone made it difficult for me to take this blogger quite seriously (though I upvoted this story as I have no doubt the overall trajectory of Britain's intellectual decline is accurate as otherwise described, all things considered).
I really hope you beat it. I know a couple different people that got it and it can be miserable. If you get it under control it's expensive, and if you cant afford it it's pretty much torture. Good luck!
I made this quickly ( GitHub pages, see source at: https://github.com/textonly/txtmode ), because I needed to email myself backups of code, but GMail did not allow the zips to be sent.
motivation to work is non linear. With low UBI amounts people dont starve, but still have incentive to work. One of the biggest problems with welfare in the US is that you lose benefits that are equal or greater to the amount you make from work, when you start to work, so there is a huge disincentive to work.

If UBI was implemented in the US, 100K would make most people lazy and have them drop out from the workforce, but would 5K?

A more likely outcome is inflation which results in whatever dollar amount the UBI starts as, effectively moving close to $0 as prices rise.
I don't know where you're getting that — and I couldn't find any mention of Instart with a Ctrl-F on that page — but my source is this comment by the OP: https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/8hha0r/is_it_worth_...

Besides, wouldn't something like that itself get blocked?
Also, this is just opinion I'm pulling out of my experience(my ass, if you prefer the colloquial expression)
I'd argue, cryptocurrencies are the worst thing to happen to such a great concept, decentralized agreements.

Consensus algorithms have shifted focus away from decentralization and towards pushing cryptocurrency agendas. Shame!
Freakonomics mentioned this. It took place in Israel. It took a social faux pax and converted it to an economic transaction, thereby reducing/removing the stigma of being late.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what...
Two British politicians, [0], [1], Conservative and Labour respectively, both educated at well known institutions, and both of whom have been academically active. They are being compared against other front benchers, but not the wider British intellectual community.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Norman
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Gardiner
Probably to some extent, but even assuming it's true, I think you'll agree that some means of doing so are more just and more effective than others.
Kind of started me thinking it was going to be a "Variety" headline... Something like "Berkshire's Buffett Blasts Bitcoin Buffoonery"
Ah, right you are. That's what I get for skimming. I suppose this is the same strategy as using all caps in 419 emails. Savvy users are a waste of effort, better to chase them off early.
On the topic deforestation/ecosystems: this reminded me of a company I discovered the other day called BioCarbon Engineering which uses drones to plant trees.

> https://www.biocarbonengineering.com/

The idea is intriguing.
> and now cash is dead

Maybe it is in your little corner of the first world, but this certainly isn't true for most of the world. Plenty of people are still using cash and it isn't going away anytime soon.
Oh jeez, don't tell podcast advertisers, but I read your list, recognized that I've heard ads for every one of those products repeatedly across multiple podcasts, but I couldn't remember any of the brand names except for shaving—and I think that's only because I recently got annoyed when a YouTuber I subscribe to started to advertise for Dollar Shave Club (I assume that's who you refer to) at the beginning and end of his videos.

But maybe advertisers are happy enough if I remember their name when I eventually go looking for, say, eyeglasses and recognize their name in the search results.
CloudKarafka Releases Kafka REST Proxy Integration
Buffet's investing strategy is, and has always been, look for the intrinsic value in a company, buy them, and then hold on forever. As part of that intrinsic value is the management teams that are running the companies. A strong team is as valuable as any other asset. When Buffet does buy a company, he'll generally leave management in place and not interfere in the day to day running of the company.
Bitcoin has no management and it has no intrinsic value. It's worth is whatever somebody is willing to pay for it. That is 180 degrees out of phase with the Buffet strategy.
In my neck of the woods you're more likely to be bitten by the lone star tick, which seems not to be able to communicate Lyme disease, but sometimes its bite can leave you with an allergy to red meat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha-gal_allergy

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

Parasites suck.
React wrapp. components for connecting inputs to HTML5 Constraint Validation API
But the value of bitcoin could very easily stabilize at 0 if it falls out of vogue...
Well, I am in my second year, i have experience in flask, express, and MySQL. I am currently learning vue for a personal project of mine but yeah, i do have experience in those frameworks
Having being a CEO for around 10 years singly mindedly focussed on a single company, I am coming around to the view that maybe running multiple companies is better.

Though most people here would disgaree with me, and even me myself 5 years ago would have vehemently disagree with my current self, I am of the view that you should consider running both businesses.

The critical insight that fosters this view is that after a certain amount of time being a CEO you realize that the growth of the company is not entirely in your hands. Market forces play an indeterminate but critical role in the growth of a company. Consequently, it maybe the case that your current business might actually benefit from you stepping away and letting it mature by itself.

After having run a particular genre of company for a bit, you start getting a feel of what will move the needle and what will not. If there is incremental growth to be had and little scope of exponential rampup, you might be better off baking something else. There is a chance that this business will turn around by itself over time or maybe by focussing on something else, you get a better perspective on your existing business to take it to the next level.

I am currently ramping up on a business that I started on the side 5 years ago. It wasnt really a business, it was an experiment. But it took a life of its own. A couple of months back, I realized it had the potential to be a big business and I was well placed to capitalize on it. Now I am ramping up that 'experiment' so that it employs a handful of people. The 'experiment' will pay for these people and I will again let this idea bake for another year and focus on something else.

I am coming around to the view that this is best way to work for 'serial' entrepreneurs. Most people who arent serial entrepreneurs, that includes almost everyone who have been a founder for less than 10 years wont see the wisdom in this. Unfortunately, this will include your investors and other employees. The only way to get them to fall in line is if you can get them to fall in line without requiring them to see the wisdom of your action. It might be impossible in your current setup, in which case you need to restructure so that you can operate optimally.
Once a tick has been removed, be sure to place it in a ziplock baggie and store it in the freezer. This way if anything crops up you'd be able to bring the tick in with ya to the doc
Ransomware Found Using ‘Process Doppelgänging’ Attack to Evade Detection
That's the very base definition. The next step is knowing your limits, where you are competent, where you could be competent, are expected to be and what those things are worth.

No amount of drive alone (which is what you're talking about) will fix it.
Podcast interview with Paul Vixie discussing DNS as security solution
Three Ages of FPGAs: A Retrospective on the First 30 Years of FPGA Technology
Wonder if that means it should be easily repairable? :)
Google didn’t invent it, as “had the idea” implies. they did invent the auction format. please tell google’s investors how it didn’t work out ...
> ...but I find it kid of sad that she didn't enjoy that money more.

I think she enjoyed that money tremendously. It's such a great feeling to give and to have the heart to give so generously, wow, what an amazing woman.
Study: Environmentalists think they have a 'moral license' to pollute
Agreed, Erlang is surprisingly simple and concise. It's pretty straightforward how you'd design any particular piece of code.

The only complexity is figuring out OTP, which in itself is very easy to use, but you must understand all the underlying abstraction it's masking before really being good at it.

Once you get familiar with the boilerplate of distributed systems and see how OTP helps eliminate much of it, with a best-practice design figured out for you, that's when you really start to respect Erlang.

Of all the languages I've learned on the side I think Erlang/OTP has the most amount of features I feel are missing from other languages (proper pattern matching being the biggest).
Some context: apparently there have been many stabbings in London recently:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-murde...
This is some real news. I use 7-Zip quite often. Being relatively new to the infosec community, I find it to be fun, and a learning challenge to keep up with any new exploits!
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I think that most armchair-businesspeople underestimate the costs of running a business and overestimate the number of paying customers. It is particularly ironic, because they both do not want to pay for software themselves, and also think that masses of other people do want to pay for software.

People tend to think that the costs of a software business are just the time of the single developer that writes the software. And they also calculate the cost of that time as what developers actually get as their salary. But this is not how you run a business, not by a long shot.

This gap in understanding has been widening recently, because of the completely unsustainable app store pricing.
Ad blockers will block images that are standard banner ad size. Maybe a text ad has "ad" somewhere in it's in CSS. We do only internally hosted ads and non-JS text sidebar ads and they're happily blocked by all major ad blockers. Doing everything "right" is no defense.

I'm not saying you can't make ads completely indistinguishable from content but I also don't think that's the solution that we want either.
He's the third-largest shareholder of Apple behind Vanguard and Blackrock.

He waited until 2016 before investing, not exactly an early adopter.
I don't think I ever claimed collective benefits were necessarily exclusive of individuals. But sometimes they clearly are.
Concorde was a fantastic technological achievement; It's beautiful and revolutionary. My heart really wants it to be successful.

However, my head tells me that no amount of tweaking or tuning will change the fundamental problem with Concorde.
The root problem with this aircraft is that people prefer cheaper flights over faster flights.

The real success that we can take from the Concorde program was that some of the technology found its way into the A300 program and its derivative, the A320.

Cheap, reliable aircraft are what people want. Fast, expensive ones are cool, but not really economic.
Buffet may not be deeply knowledgeable of tech, but I think his assessment of a currency is trustworthy.

Just because BTC is electronically transacted doesn't exempt it from rules of supply and demand, speculation, value stabilization, &c.
I'm not sure if this played into the researchers decisions, but giving a small but meaningful amount of money to very low income people allows you to increase the size and duration of a study for a given level of research funding. many low wage workers live on a dollar a day or less, I think wages for textile workers in Vietnam for ex are $2 a day, and poverty levels in Africa are even lower

If instead they gave $40k / year to people in the US, they could only fund 625 person-years. So this design would limit the ability to predict how UBI would work in the US, but 1) provides help to those who need it most and 2) maximizes your sample size
>rat poison squared

Very poor choice of words, heh.
Because to do something consistently over a long period of time requires letting go of opportunities that most ambitious people cannot resist.

This fellow is running a successful business with investors backing it, and yet rather than stay to make it bigger and better he’s ready to throw it all away based off a couple passing conversations he had with some customers. There may have been a time where he felt just as strongly about this business as he does for his new idea.

If his new venture doesn’t take off he’ll be another one of the ambitious failures that litter Silicon Valley looking for the “next opportunity”.

If it does take off, there is still no guarantee he won’t jump ship to some new idea later, especially now that he has done it successfully at least once.

If he stays at his company, he can consistently work to improve it everyday, until it becomes something that can’t be built overnight by some entrepreneur flying by the seat of his pants.

The choice is his.
I wish HN handled long horizontal scrolling lines on mobile better. It’s aggravating that we are a site full of programmers and we can’t get the basics of usability in 2018.
The vast majority of the people I see riding on Saturdays and Sundays on their $4K bikes dressed out like they're leading the charge for the Tour de France tend to do distances where there really is no difference in what you wear. My own trips max out at about 100k / day and I'm far more worried about sunburn, flats, insect swarms or getting caught in bad weather than I am about skin abrasion, absorption or cooling.

If you do go for competition cycling then maybe it is worth it to you to spend the extra $ but for the most part it seems to me that people just love to have an excuse to spend their $ to look like they are professional athletes.

Their bellies usually tell a different story, but fortunately for them lycra seems to stretch really well ;)
> While the value is fluctuating heavily due to speculation, over time it will stabilize.

Can you describe any mechanism that actually causes the price to stabilize and speculation to disappear? (Please, if possible, also define at least somewhat quantitatively what you mean by stable, and then discuss how successful this mechanism you first described has been stabilizing gold price during the last couple of thousand years when gold has been used as moneylike instrument and store of value.)
A Thermodynamic Answer to Why Birds Migrate
>So the site's owners and employees should work for you for free because you're giving them exposure.

Yes, they probably should. It works in the retail world. Shop owners are usually happy to have non-paying customers in their store, and restaurant owners usually happy to have low-paying customers (i.e. they don't buy very much), to make sure their establishment "looks busy". Having a store or eatery with few or no customers is bad: it "looks dead" and can either scare away customers, or just not bring as many in. People are social creatures; when they see a lot of people in a place, they think that it must be popular for a reason, so having some customers brings in more customers, and some fraction of those customers will pay (or pay a lot more than the average), making the establishment profitable overall.

Internet publishers need to figure out a better business model if they one they have isn't profitable enough for them. Other businesses have long recognized that not all customers are equally profitable, and some aren't profitable at all, but they figured out how to make things work.
There's a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour.

I haven't waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the security theater and start letting people through very quickly. I imagine people who are willing to pay for SST would also pay the troll toll and spend comparatively very little time in security lines.

For context, I fly (usually coast to coast) about a dozen or more times a year.
Career Forward – The Hottest Jobs in Boston Tech (May 2018 Edition)
As a self contained, foundational course, Georgia Tech's OMSCS offering [1] is solid. Charles Isbell and Michael Littman are great at building intuition into equations.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/reinforcement-learning--ud600
Are the goalposts really moving? Or are you talking to different people?

There are quite a lot of different people on the Earth with access to the internet and different perceptions of what ads are acceptable.
Process and Leverage in Fundraising
I don't think that prevents a random distribution, only some kinds of them. But I'm not expert in statistics, let alone the EMH.
Just FYI - when I lived in Northern Virginia I discovered that in my area the main transmission method of Lyme disease was actually mice. So make sure if you find them in your house that you do something about it.

Also be careful when you remove via tweezers. If you squeeze their body you're likely to cause them to regurgitate into you which almost guarantees an infection.

I use a tick removal tool (actually used it yesterday while building a fence on the wooded side of my yard) that uses a tear drop shape to try and pinch the tick at the neck minimize regurgitation.
blinking gifs and misleading links were par for the course 15 years ago.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16985460
Christopher Mill's "Best of Show" pdp-7 emulator is seriously impressive. How is this even possible in such a small program?
Permethrin is definitely the best option. But if you're running out at the last minute and don't have time to pretreat your clothing, Consumer Reports has a good guide to the best bug sprays on the market:

https://www.consumerreports.org/products/insect-repellent/ra...

E.g. both of these get high marks:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00F8AMY92

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015KG5NK

DEET seems to be more effective than the Picaridin for ticks, but if you have a sensitivity to DEET then Picaridin may be the next best option and supposedly doesn't smell as bad.
The whole reason his name is mentioned here is because is somewhat exceptional.
Real-Time AI: Microsoft Announces Preview of Project Brainwave
Nice!

The use of S3 ListObjects is an immediate deal breaker though, its eventual consistency can cause silent data corruption. To avoid the List, you'd need to write a file manifest somewhere that contains a list of all S3 objects. If it were me, I'd use DynamoDB and append keys to a StringSet on a single item (if you use S3 for the manifest, it needs to be a single object, which means you need to aggregate the keys first, which sounds tricky with Lambda). You'll hit a scaling limit with DDB's item size limit, if you want to avoid that, perhaps writing an item per mapper with the same hash key and a different range key might be better, then you'd do a strongly consistent query to reconstruct the manifest.
Ads are not free. They cost users in bandwidth, device battery, and website usability.
Clear? I always press ctrl-l
I believe that in this particular case a contractor could be a company of couple hundred (or 1000s) people or so, producing a sub-part of a car. Car makers mostly just put the car together - they do not manufacture parts.

Which begs the question: can Tesla afford to fire contractors? R&D on complex parts takes years, even at Tesla ...
Ask HN: Do you know of bounty based developer programs for Crypto?
Do you know of any developer programs that reward developers for development on their platform in the crypto space, things like OST KIT (Developer Alpha) for example?
> Is it any different conceptually than extending the handshake from analog modems to include the data?

By "include the data" do you refer to the transmitted file itself being included in the sound? If yes - you can include the file in the sound, but the transmission will be too long, because transfer rate is very slow.

About what is heard as sound: <marker>{SDP data}. All peers initially listen for the <marker> because it is computationally cheaper. When the <marker> is received, then they start listening to the SDP data, which consumes more resources.
He bought IBM in 2011. That was his first venture in tech companies. Apple came along in 2016.
A unified API for all Microsoft AI speech services