skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks for your thoughts.

Numbers seemed really valuable to us too, so we made shure to bring our metrics up to speed.. but you need technical skills to interpret those as well. Now we have - a lot of - numbers, but reporting those is hard, time intensive work too. We keep trying tho.
No, 'the point' is that these ICO's seem to be funding not much at all, and though the metrics may be 'iffy', that's a function of the total lack of transparency of these ICO companies in the first place.

Every regular company that has taken on funding at least has a 'web site' with 'some information' and definitely communicates with investors etc. on what's up.

That it's not really even possible to know 'whats up' with companies that have raked in millions is in of itself very telling. Telling enough to keep me and most others miles away.
Nothing is every perfect -- neither is dying slowly.
But we have reasonable legal frameworks for refusing treatment already (even in cases of dementia, where a guardian makes the decision). We can build reasonable frameworks for making assisted suicide decisions too.

And should these frameworks have flaws we can improve them.

I won't outline a proposal here, but it's not rocket science to require a paper signed while of sound mind, and then giving a guardian permission to pull the plug later. It's not rocket science to limit it to people with fatal conditions, etc.
Could you elaborate? Are you eluding to software engineering?
What are crypto-collectibles?
Hi LukeB42 :-)

A number of people here are trying to help you.

Many of us have real life experience (me from sw engineering, large distributed systems, parts of security), others from aviation etc.

I agree with the rest here:

I'd say there's no way such an operation could be hidden.

While I could be wrong, - it seems I was wrong about the depths of the capabilities of NSA etc, I'm more often right than wrong it seems.

If there is a conspiracy going on then I'd say it is to keep people busy with this instead of the huge global issues we should see: the west meddling in the middle east, millions of refugees, huge health problems (both because of obesity and because of lack if food).
My comment, the OP, is not saying that the bottom of the tree should have the legal obligation. But I would argue that every branch should consider their own ethical responsibility. Don't confuse those two responsibilities.
No, sorry. I never played Overwatch before.

> I don't merely disagree with Trump. I think he's a xenophobic, homophobic, misogynistic demagogue. He's a terrible human being that isn't worthy of respect.

A wild animal, like a shark, bear, or lion, needs to be treated with respect. They're apex predators who are mostly selfish. They don't give a care about you and are prone to aggression, downright killing people who get in their way.

And yet, if you see a wild bear, you better give it the respect it deserves.

You can completely disagree with a man while being forced to give respect to their position of power.
> That's true, but the degrees of freedom are different. The node processing your transaction cannot steal your money in crypto. It can only choose not to broadcast your transaction, and they are also in perfect competition with all the other nodes. Which means that if one node chooses not to process your tx, another will soon.

Hence we circle back to exactly what I said in the last line of my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17493508
Jeez man. I'd like to remind you that I live on the same planet you do. I'm slave to the same physics and I go through similar struggles.

If I am skeptical of something you believe, that does not mean I am in denial. I hope you can figure out how to navigate this place, because if you want to have a polite discussion about chem trails, lizard people, flat earth theory, who shot JFK, drop bears, the gold standard or whatever else, a polite version of you could really spark great discussion here.

I hope beyond hope to experience THAT reality. I believe in you.
"Oh, and your "multi-billion" budget is real?"

Yup.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-23903310

"Now you're telling me they're willingly lugging around millions of tons of this chemtrail stuff just because?"

No dude, I'm telling you they're doing it for money.

"You've pulled this entire nonsense out of your ass. Chemtrails have zero plausibility due to how massive an undertaking it would be to make that happen."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Stormfury#Project_Cirr...

"Now you want me to believe that this is a worldwide phenomenon and nobody, absolutely nobody, has ever found any hard evidence?"

I'm here talking with you about it. I even have footage of this stuff on video. Sent you some like 20 minutes ago.

Did the chemtrail program start in your lifetime or is it something you've been forced to inherit?
How do you know how long it took? Even with the fancy coding screen sharing software? I could have had an important phone call and walked away from the laptop.
Ask an IBM employee with 20 years experience who's been replaced by someone in a country with cheap labor with 2 years experience.

No, scratch that. Ask an IBM customer if the quality of IBM's workforce is as good today as it was 10 years ago.
Ethereum? It was basically the first ICO.
You've taken this thread into a badly off-topic flamewar. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop now and please don't do it again.

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Getting uncivil and perpetuating a flamewar are bad things to do here even if you didn't start it. Please stop.

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> I think of refactoring as a series of SIMPLE transformations that clearly do not have any effect on the correctness (or incorrectness) of the code. That is, there is no possible change in behavior.

This kind of transformation is precisely what the person who coined the term meant: Taking code which works and turning it into easier-to-read code which works precisely as well, because refactoring never introduces a change in behavior.

To quote Martin Fowler and Kent Beck:

> A change made to the internal structure of software to make it easier to understand and cheaper to modify without changing its observable behavior… It is a disciplined way to clean up code that minimizes the chances of introducing bugs.

[snip]

Not a direct quote this time:

> Fixing any bugs that you find along the way is not refactoring. Optimization is not refactoring. Tightening up error handling and adding defensive code is not refactoring. Making the code more testable is not refactoring – although this may happen as the result of refactoring. All of these are good things to do. But they aren’t refactoring.

https://dzone.com/articles/what-refactoring-and-what-it-0
Microsoft already wrote most of one (project Astoria) and shipped it in some early W10M builds but scrapped it seemingly shortly before it was done.
House Republicans demand answers from Alphabet following Gmail privacy scandal
Yes, but eventually Uber Walk would be rebranded Uber Walk Premium and a new service under the old Uber Walk name would be started where you get a 50% discount for walking yourself.
How is this possible? Most of these ICOs are raising way more money than a tradition VC backed seed/series A round. Shouldn’t they have enough funding to limp along for few years? I wonder if it takes 4 months to give up on the idea or steal the funds?
Chrome releases about every 6 weeks, so the difference is about 1 years worth of updates.
Sounds like you've got some work to do, then.
Personal attacks will get you banned here. Please don't post like this regardless of how much help you think someone needs.

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If you go from A to B before the photons can, from B's reference frame you are arriving from the future with perfect knowledge of events that have not yet "happened".
There was a long twitter thread that was very anti F-35 going around.
Coffee Soda looks to build a national buzz
Where do you live now? Why?
Costs are exactly the same for EMV or non-EMV (swiped) processing. If your acquirer is doing something different, you need to dump them, because it's so far out of industry standard I'd literally be speechless.

The only speedup from Quick Chip is not running issuer scripts. The actual auth process doesn't take much (if any) amount longer than with a swiped transaction. Quick Chip feels significantly faster because you can insert and remove at any time during the transaction, but it doesn't actually do much to speed up the transaction processing. It just makes you feel like the transaction is faster because you aren't sitting there at the end waiting for the terminal.
> It will specifically state that in the event I can no longer manage my affairs I wish to be transported to the nearest locale in which I can have my life ended.

Ha ha, "manage my affairs"... maybe give yourself a slightly longer rope :)

My grandmother sure can't do her own taxes, but she has no illness - she's just old, and world has changed around her.

Assuming you have well behaved kids, you'll likely stop managing your affairs long before you loose your health.
(Because the sleep-o-matic is better. Those resources are used, not wasted.)
Guinness is usually 25/75 (CO2/N2).
And they really catched up on Intel performance-wise.
My wife and I totally have this sense of humor... On any other day than the one day where we get a babysitter and dress up and really try. :)
Another interesting documentary about this topic is "Born Rich" by Jamie Johnson, one of the heirs to the Johnson & Johnson fortune. He interviews several of his peers. The film was nominated for two Emmys. It's available on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=km_JmxnzTvc.
>Emotions are part of the biological machinery that keeps meat-machines alive and active in the world.

Not all emotions are valuable, some are indeed quite harmful and anti social.

Which brings us back full circle to the original point of this comment chain: that western society is extremely emotional about the subject of death relative to other societies. This tendendency leads to unecessary suffering and the prolonging of life at all costs.

The US has come very far from its founding mantra; "Give me liberty, or give me death!" has seemingly been reversed to "anything but death"
A well-built software system doesn't have to grow in complexity over time. More features does not equal more complex in the true sense of Simple.

Faulty data models and system designs -- that aren't fixed -- lead to ever-increasing complexity. But that is the fault of the data model/designer.

I.e., there is a way to build (and grow) systems w/o linear increase in complexity -- but it takes a particular rare skill set.
Isn't this how all indexing works?

Heavy fixed processing costs up front with the benefit of light variable processing moving forward.
After further review I believe they found that for the EmDrive, the thrust was being generated by interaction of the electricity through the cables with Earth's magnetic field. Someone tested it by dampening the actual microwaves and still getting the same thrust result, which eliminates the microwave cavity as a source for the thrust. However the follow up test was with very low power, so they wanted to run it with magnetic shielding and higher power to fully rule it out.
HBO is incredible. Sharp objects with Amy Adams just premiered last night. AT&T is going to ruin it.
blueprint health, dreamit
Please don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. It's not what this site is for.

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Ask HN: How do you survive a leap in your career?
If you skip 2 or 3 levels and end up in a position in which you have to lead and manage people more experienced or smarter than yourself while also managing a ton of projects and priorities. How should one prepare?
I believe a lot of founders of somewhat successful companies had to do it. I am curious on how people successfully do this.
Why should it be? You present an image and state that this is type A. Then another, with your B, etc.

The images are independent, each holds a classification and how many you have from each type does not need to reflect their actual distribution.
Seems a bit like the "worse is better" philosophy :

It is slightly better to be simple than correct.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
What is this slide-down action? It doesn't seem supported for me.

Firefox's thumbnails overview works reasonably well for me.
It's common for gig companies to limit payouts, because it lowers the cost of fraud, which is common. A smart charger charges for multiple companies, and could easily hit higher payouts that way.
Reverse that. The US has always had online terminals because we didn't get EMV initially. Taking impressions and filling out charge slips was 'online' (call the auth center,) swipe transactions were online, and then we just do EMV online too since every credit card terminal in the country was already online.

In Europe where EMV was first introduced, offline transaction processing was extremely common because there had been no reason to put terminals online prior to the EMV rollout and merchants did what merchants do and whined about the cost of acquiring telecom, so offline mode was required in Europe.

I have literally never seen a fully offline transaction in the US (in fact, very few US cards even ship the certs necessary to conduct offline transactions), but several of them in Europe and the UK as recently as last year.
Because it's significantly easier to engineer a system using carbon dioxide than one using nitrogen. This is because carbon dioxide is heavier than air such that the system doesn't need to be enclosed. With nitrogen you need sealed chambers which are more expensive and the process will take longer.
Yes, that's almost certainly wrong (or, at least, should no longer be called a nanowire). A length of 0.25 nm is of the order of the interatomic distance between a single pair of Si atoms.
This comment badly broke the HN guideline against introducing generic flamebait into threads. The last thing we need is flamewars about abortion. Please don't do this again.

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From my personal experience, the #1 factor for better learning is to learn with an objective.

Learning is hard and can be demotivating by itself but when I have an objective that requires learning it becomes the driving force/motivation behind it and improves my focus and concentration by a large margins. It also allows me to connect the dots and provides me context.
Sorry, can't edit anymore. That said, I believe the title itself is flamebait - you don't need to be an expert in WWII to see that. It is not a question of who suffers most, just historical facts about where the war took place and who fought in it.

Just look at the summary and maps here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II) and tell me again that I am the one nationalism baiting by pushing back against the term "Russo-German war".

But you are correct that I cant assume bad faith by the original authors. There might be other reasons.
You cannot have correctness without simplicity.

"A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system." - John Gail
cc is a measurement of displacement, only useful for combustion engines.

Equivalent for electric motors would be Wattage.
Not sure if it's just me but the page is down currently.
You have a point, but the art of commenting well here involves resisting the effects of provocation. If you react to provocation with more provocation, others do the same and we get flamewars. I know it's not easy to avoid (for me either) but we all need to work on this in order to have a shared space that's a bit better than internet default.
Because it's cheaper. The slaughter industry really doesn't prioritize animal comfort.
Intuition behind the Hungarian Algorithm
Segway has been around for years and still isn't viable for more than tour rentals.

Just because it's a technology doesn't guarantee it will be as successful as other technologies.
For an enterprise client, I'll echo others and encourage you to lump the software charge in as "maintenance", and charge whatever the market will bear. If the standard pricing is 10-20%, then quote 20%, discount to 15%, and give 10% to your best strategic / volume customers.

From your description, it sounds like you are primarily in the hardware business. From this perspective, you just want to keep selling more devices to current and future customers. The added software charges are:
A) Protection against long-term cost liability if nobody buys new devices.
B) Because you can.

This means that you don't really expect anyone to replace your software, and you don't expect competitors to arise with similar software. In fact, I'd even recommend including a clause in the contract that any use of 3rd-party software voids the hardware warranty. When the software is required, it's not really a separate line item... just part of the "total cost of ownership", and your clients will evaluate it as such.

Your competitive position will significantly impact your ability to charge. Be wary of upstarts attacking you with similar hardware and free software. Have a plan to guard against this.

Another idea:
Allow clients to move the dial back and forth between up-front and recurring costs, to meed the needs of your respective businesses. 10-yr up-front pricing would be better than 10 yrs of maintenance. All month-to-month (including hardware) is equivalent to "leased equipment".

* Assuming 200k up-front and 15% maintenance fee, you're looking at a cost of ownership of $350k for 5 years, or $500k for 10 years.

* I'll assume that the equipment is worth 20% of its sale value (loses 80%) at the end of 10 years. You can offer a buyback at 10%, and finance the remaining 90% @ 5% interest for ~$23k / yr. Add in the maintenance of $30-40k, and you have a nice easy pricepoint of $55k-$65k / yr, or $4500-$5500 / mo.

* If you retain ownership of the equipment you're in a higher-risk position, but may be able to further capture some of the depreciation against your taxes. I'm not an expert here: check with your favorite tax attorney.

* Full up-front pricing should include the time value of money. Again assuming a reasonable 5% return, 10-yr up front should run $200k + NPV($300k) = $430k. Include a 10% discount for offloading your risk and now you're selling for $390k with 10yrs support (unofficially, infinite support).
This was discussed by my friends and myself earlier today. The general sentiment is it's going to be interesting watching how AT&T burns HBO to the ground and ruins it. The attitude and what came out of that meeting made none of us feel good about the acquisition, and pretty much hands down people are ready to just unsubscribe once it seems like quality drops.
The Aramco ipo is less urgent after MBS extracted well over 100 billion from his tribal cohort https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/saudi-arabia-says-...
They are going to self-drive everywhere, I suspect. It's much easier to make a scooter or a bicycle autonomous than a car.

There's at least one company around here working on self-delivering bicycles. The idea is that you call one up on your phone and wait by the curb, and the bike will come cruising up to you. When you're done, you just hop off, and the bike cruises to its next renter (or charger) rather than lying around littering the place up.
It works worldwide as long as the ID entered is an OSM boundary relation. Do you have an example you tried that failed?
My complaint makes sense because I might have 100B records per day to process, and the delay to load them up is significant
The fairer comparison might be between services intended and hyped for mass public use. In that respect the nine year old Bitcoin protocol and its much hyped offspring and first nine years of the "information superhighway" world wide web are, to put it mildly, not comparable in a manner remotely flattering to crypto. And crypto had the web as a vector to push adoption and didn't require a high proportion of users to buy their first personal computer.

Sure, Ethereum will definitely have more things built on it, and attract new users and in all likelihood become more user friendly. But if you can write or evaluate bulletproof code, resolve oracle problems and trust the token's value to remain stable you can automate some transactions without third parties isn't a proposition as obviously universally appealing once bandwidth and adoption is there as anyone can be given access to anything that can be shared on a computer anywhere, any time.
I believe you're conflating simplicity/complexity with flexibility.

_One_ hallmark of developer ability is the discretion/wisdom/experience to know how flexible to make the thing. (How to prioritize and limit feature-creep, etc.)

But this is different than Simplicity. A general purpose programming language or database -- highly flexible/generic systems -- for example, can be built well/simple. But so can highly _specific_ systems.

In both cases though, one can build something that is decoupled and manipulable or one can build something that is coupled and rigid -- and the ability to do so is a function of skill set _not intrinsically_ a function of time. In other words, a skilled developer doesn't have to "take time" to deliver a Simple capability.
None of the what the crypto-currencies promise is impossible to do with a few independent central vendors implementing that same standards for payments and contracts.

And centralized solutions will always be faster.
Yes, that's the crucial distinction -- whether the TZ, with its coarse encoding of the geography of origin, carries significance to the consumer of the data.
Without knowing much about the details: it seems misguided to put the entire economy of a nation on the stock market.
Is the company required to buy back the coins?

I’m not sure I get the point of an ICO. It seems like a company issuing monopoly money. It even seems like this would have been possible before crypto—literally just Monopoly money to people and let them trade amongst themselves.

I guess Monopoly money is easy to duplicate… but so is crypto in a way because you can just start your own currency that uses the same block chain to create more tokens.
Sc2 is deterministic. A replay file is simply a record of all actions performed. There is no randomness in the action resolutions, which allows actions to be the only thing needed to be streamed over to dync game states.
No, the slaughter industry does in fact use CO2 to asphyxiate animals. It even has a fun euphemism, "Controlled Atmosphere Stunning".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation#Animal_...
Quiet immigration policy change threatens non-citizens with deportation
Isn't it mostly the valuations that are high?
I have exactly this with coffee.

I would even say that it makes me sleepy sometimes, and certainly never interfere with sleep or sleep patterns.

The kind or volume of coffee did not matter (some coffees I like, style other not but the lack of impact is the same).

Interestingly my brother is the same with coffee
Please don't slam other people's web browsing preferences. You have no idea what forces you're messing with there.
I like using containers as a reliable build context. I think it makes tons of sense.

Once the container's done building, throw it out, take what it built, and serve it.

I'd personally do this separately from the rest of the web app if possible, though. I keep frontends in their own repository.
This is correct. More info here: https://www.chromium.org/developers/calendar