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Artists like Banksy are well into their time, that’s why they are so successful once they achieve global exposure. Shredding your own work remotely at Sotheby’s just after their auction is as artistic as political you can get in the UK these days, that is just a stunt like the Brexit, the fake multiculturalism, the fake social elevator, the fake establishment and so on.
Now that is an impressive turnaround time. I noted two days ago that I could edit my comment after it was vouched: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18158475

Now I can't: https://imgur.com/4nSRJux

Amusing that of all the features and fixes to implement, this even registered on an arc hacker's radar. Also happy to see that HN can still ship to production within 48 hours.
What's your point? That China's current behaviour is somehow 'worse' than US Realpolitik? Obviously I'm happy the cold war went the way it did, but let's not pretend the US didn't have to break eggs to make its omelette.
Who knows, maybe the sand shortage will get severe, driving concrete prices up to the point where people start looking for alternatives.
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“Also shares keep on producing income after you have left a company.”

If I was making $120k per year working at MailChimp the last thing I would want is 30% or more of my net worth tied up in private shares. What employee wants that much exposure? It’s a private tech company with no plans for liquidity potentially ever.
Oh man I haven't seen geekcode in years
Watched it for third time recently. I agree.
The increase in Banksy's cultural cachet means that his next pieces sold at auction will likely be valued much higher than they would have been if this had not been in all the papers.

I can't say it's not a brilliant piece of art. It's quite similar to Duchamp's ready-mades[1] in that it's a critique of art itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fountain_(Duchamp)[1]
you could've just quoted gran torino 'get off my lawn' instead of typing all that
What the linked article is trying to explain is that the opposite is true. It isn't that everyone wants to live in the trendiest areas, it's that they _have_ to in order to find a job that has any hope of paying off their debts fast enough for them to save up enough so that when the next huge expense comes through they can afford it... likely taking on more debt even so.

It isn't that everyone wants a degree - certainly not, given the price - but if you don't have one then you don't even have a chance of making enough savings to afford housing, healthcare, education for your children, et cetera.

People _can't_ "set their expectations a bit lower". Your options are to have no expectations, and accept that you're not going to be able to provide for your children, or to join the same rat race as everybody else and get locked into this cycle of wildly increasing prices. There isn't a middle ground for people to aim at any more.
If Sotheby's was in on it, then the buyer must have been as well. Otherwise, they would open doors to a lawsuit.
The very first point in the article is about the capability of a wireless device to last ten years on battery charge, and the argument in favor is based on current technology ("I'm amazed at how little power is used by the wireless processors I'm working on now.")

The real question is about the wireless processors designed 13+ years ago (longer than the painting to allow time for it to hit production).

This thing was supposedly designed and enabled before the iPhone was released. The author does not present a credible argument.
I once met people doing titan fpga, but since around half a year ago, the company went dark on the internets, so far, they were the one and only modern indigenous fpga co in China.
Most people who have the opportunity to build their own homes build them out of wood. It's not like I as a "warming enthusiast" can start rebuilding parts of Manhattan. Even if you are a property owner in New York City, it's unlikely that you will actually rebuild the buildings on your property.
You have to cultivate a ten year reputation in the art gossip community before you can make money at that. An artist's trendiness is a similar bubble.
Hey that's great, whatever works for y'all! :)

Thanks for taking a look, I appreciate it.
Really HN, Posting an informative video gets downvoted without a single comment. The internet points are irrelevant but it is a sad sign on commentary here.
It's much easier to have an intelligent and reasonable conversation about something if you avoid the editorializing and hyperbole by calling everything you may disagree with "unfathomable" and "insane."
See also discussion from 15 hours ago about the USENIX paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18171447 (86 comments)
Hia other stuff will sell for more because his name is better known? There is almost always profit to be made from being in the news.
Well Daft Punk are different. They are very well known, and they don't hide their identities any more than a voice actor for a cartoon is hiding their identity.

Satoshi as far as I know is still unknown, and while there are some pretty good guesses, they will most likely never be more than that.
> the opposite assumed effect

What effect did whom assume this would have? This seems like a cynical yet transparent attempt by Banksy to trade off his counterculture image to boost his artworks' value.
Right, but the fact that this actually corresponds to memory layout and the consequences of that aren't something that are obvious just from a stack trace.
I’m not a lawyer, I’ve merely read news stories about how NSLs and associated court cases are overly-secret (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit).

Given what was reported in the Lavabit case, how sure are you that there is no secret caselaw which does, in fact, require companies to lie?
They are? https://betanews.com/2018/10/01/google-chrome-web-store-exte...
It's called PR
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> 2. This is the only one, the first one, even the first (prominent?) artwork that "destroyed itself"

I don't know if you mean specifically Banksy work, but there's a whole discipline of auto-destructive art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-destructive_art

A well known example is the poem Agrippa by William Gibson (yes, that one) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrippa_(A_Book_of_the_Dead)
>Right now, industries in Eastern Europe are "not allowed" to trade directly with China, India or Russia

source?
> In some areas of the world there's a lot of cheap excess timber after some kind of pest (I'm thinking a beetle?) killed entire forests.

Dead wood isn't even useful as firewood. You can't just pick dead trees up off the forest floor and saw them up into lumber. Even if you could, no government would let you transport that timber out of the immediate vicinity in which it was found, due to the aforementioned pest.

Perhaps there is a surplus of cheap excess timber in some areas of the world, but there isn't much chance of that having anything to do with any kind of pest.
That's not true either.

https://www.worldhunger.org/world-child-hunger-facts/
> My own pet peeve is un-disablable stdout logging.

I really think that we need a stdmeta file descriptor. See my comments at the link below, I would appreciate your feedback:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197809/propose-addi...
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That was my point, I think police in general is focused on de-escalation and helping people who are in a dangerous situation. The whole point is to keep things calm and orderly through perceived safety. In the US the order through fear aspect seems a lot stronger.
Even when it was popular, there certainly weren't many people who couldnt legitimately claim P+++++
Disconnect your cable from your TV, and connect your laptop. I don't have a cable box anymore. My desktop is perm attached to the TV. This probably brings other issues. But I do spend lots of time on my computer and not watching TV. For me it was the Ads that were a waste of time. TV shows are created for Ads, That's all! Once you realize it, it's all less entertaining.
> When was the last time you saw a systems language that scaled comfortably and gracefully from embedded systems to web services?

Have a look at ATS[1], it supports many features that are available in Rust, and let you build proofs about your code behaviour. It's quite type annotation heavy though iirc, but it's very efficient.

[1] : http://www.ats-lang.org
"But what really struck me is that like all the details that were even remotely technical, seemed like they had been lifted from from the conversations I had about theoretically how hardware implants work"

Yeah that doesn't sound promising for Bloomberg.
That’s funny, I sent it to a colleague saying how nice it was to see something so simple yet distinctive.
"How a computer works" is both a moving target, and largely irrelevant, as shown by the number of ignorant (not stupid) replies in this very topic. RISC and ARM changed the game in the 90s, just as GP-GPUs did in the 00s and neural and quantum hardware will do in the future.

What's really needed are languages that make it easier to express what you want to accomplish - this is still a huge problem, as evidenced by the fact that even a simple data munging task can be easily explained to people in a few dozen words, but may require hundreds of LOC to convey to the machine...

(BTW, it's time for us to be able to assume that the computer and/or language can do base-10 arithmetic either directly or via emulation. The reasons for exposing binary in our programming languages became irrelevant decades ago - ordinary programmers should never have to care about how FP operations screw up their math, it should just work.)
This genius can make you buy a computer just by listening to its music.
I bought an Atari ST after listening to the game Lotus Esprit at a friend's home.
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> I hate my telephone. Please don't ask for my phone number.

Yup, who doesn't :)
>> Social media has created a world in which everyone seems ecstatic – apart from us. Is there any way for people to curb their resentment?

Don't use social media?
I doubt we'll see that. Python just isn't that different to JS (so what's the point), and is in any case much slower than JS in all current implementations (so performance parity is unlikely).
It is not a design error. You are making the mistake of equating reachability of a reference with making it legal to access it. And the problem is that the two often aren't one and the same.

As a simple example, you may still want to access a resource after it has been released. Closing a network connection, for example, does not mean that accessing it is invalid. The connection may still have state (such as statistics collected or whether a non-blocking close was clean) that is perfectly legal to access after release (and in fact may only be consistent/observable afterwards).

The Eiffel FILE class [1], for example, allows you to call `is_closed` at any time (as well as the various `is_open` functions). This is necessary because `not is_closed` is evaluated as a precondition for many other operations.

A more complex example is a resource that is shared by many threads. Whether that resource is valid is often not a question of whether a reference is reachable, but a function of complex distributed state. Sometimes this can be solved by atomic reference counting, but even then atomic reference counting is expensive.

[1] https://archive.eiffel.com/products/base/classes/kernel/file...
Show HN: DataDrivenJS, track and read analytics data with JS
Hello!

I've been running an analytics company for a couple of years now, and I realised that the data, generated by websites users, is locked in GA or Adobe and there's no easy way for web developers to access it.

So I came up with an idea of DataDrivenJS - a serverless data service that works like web analytics, but its users are developers, not analysts, and the end-users are the very same people who populate the service with data - the website visitors.

You could use DataDrivenJS to quickly add product recommendations, personalize UI, or simply add social proofs. All that without adding any stress to your core stack.

The list of features is quite short. With a light-weight JS library you can:
- track visit data
- read some of the tracked data

The requests to read data require no authorisation or secret keys, but the very first request must be authorised using a web console in order to create a publicly available data feed. The data feeds contain cached, aggregated results so the read requests are very fast. Obviously, the use of a caching layer, necessary to handle read requests at scale, excludes some of the use cases.

I'd love to find out if the service - or my description of it - makes any sense to you. You can see some working examples on the website:

https://datadrivenjs.com

The service needs a couple more weeks before it can be safely used on production, but if anyone would like to play with it, I'll be happy to provide access right away.

many thanks!
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Too bad the domain is gone. But we still have the archived version: https://archive.fo/zbxk
Built-in shims and css handeling for old/weird/mobile browsers. This would be great!
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Plenty of sand in the Sahara, last I checked.
Declarations of "whataboutism" incoming, I'm sure. "You can't use my investment decisions to impeach my religious beliefs!"
What's the outcome here if the expose turns out to be a farce?

Written apology from Bloomberg? Fire the reporters? SEC charges of security fraud related to stock manipulation?
In the UK quite a lot of Universities offer MSc "conversion courses" which are basically 1 year training as a programmer. Cost is usually reasonable. I know people who've done this and gone on to successful careers, including research. Here's an example: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/postgraduate/courses/taught/com...

Not that I think conversion courses are without issues, but the selling point of Lambda School seems fairly weak to me in the light of these.
"spray paint and acrylic on canvas" [1]

[1]http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2018/contempo...
There is an unfortunately large disconnect between the general public's understanding of robotics, and the reality of robotics. I don't know how to reduce it, and feel it's important to.

The hypothetical "how should a robot car decided which bystander to hit when it looses control" or similar trolley problems are so so so far off in the future. Right now autonomous cars can't even operate in inclement weather.

I do find the concept of "moral reasoning" in robots an interesting one, but again feel the author has skipped into the far further and missed more tractable questions. If moral reasoning were in place today, I think the likely decision of all autonomous cars would be to drive slower. Is saving a few minutes of a trip worth dramatically greater probability of fatality? US DOT found that speed limit increases from 55 to 65 MPH increase the likelihood of fatality by 24% once an accident occurred.

https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/speedmgt/ref_mats/fhwasa09028/re...
What libraries/techniques/tools are you using for this traditional style web development?
Why is that a mistake to rely on SendGrid?
I think the main counter argument to it being worth more now is that it was apparently already Banky's most expensive piece to have sold. A less valuable piece might expect and increase, but it's not clear that that would happen with his most expensive piece. Also worth noting that it went for multiple times the expected price at this auction, which is somewhat suspicious.
> But people always forget that the way to build a platform is to start by nailing a niche use case and then expanding.

The median Googler works there for something like 1.1 years, and gets recruited straight out of college. Combine this with the fact that Larry Page almost immediately abdicated after being handed back the reins from Eric Schmidt around this time, and a lot of other influential old timers like Marissa Mayer are long gone, it's no small wonder, I guess, that the sensibilities and follow-through of early Google are dead.
I'll take that bet with conditions:

- grad must have a rejection from an onsite interview at Google before lambda school

- position must be for a T3 swe II
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We are thought that education will make our life easier. It will give you edge to other people in terms of employment, social status and even about getting relevant to most of the society. Which is true. But the mind set it implies to us is we get education to survive making us to forget how to life should be lived. People with degrees often get lost it is because people have mind set that you need that to be competent on the world with "set standards" rather than taking education to pursue your dream or what someone really like.
Aside: the US also had to be dragged into WW I, see e.g. [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_War_...
I think we all know this, but this article was less-than-convincing and nothing has been deployed at scale yet.
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My mother has expressed to me several times her disappointment at not having any printed pictures since she got her iPhone. I usually remind her that she can get her pictures printed if she really wanted to -- but after several years of this, I realized that the hassle of getting them printed is enough of a barrier that it's never going to happen.

So I'm working on an app that will allow for automatic printing and delivery of pictures from mobile devices:

http://www.printstream.net/

You can add pictures to your PrintStream account and it will choose a certain number each month to print and deliver to you. We also are thinking about an even more automatic method, where the app will algorithmically choose from all of your photos each month without having to explicitly add them to your PrintStream account. This is definitely a feature my mother would want, but we want this to be opt-in to protect the privacy of the users.

I'm still prototyping the app using React Native but I'm excited to get it up and running.
If they (Sotheby's/security) let a device with metal, batteries and remote trigger in, how could one assume they won't let a bomb in there?

If they did it while knowing what is inside, it's fun and stuff. If they let this kind of stuff in without checking, this would be very bad... they should be sued over lack of inspection (they are experts!) and lack of security by the buyers and persons who were in the room.
The kind of wood used here does not burn like normal timber. Its treatment gives it strength and fire resistance. There are some large scale tests that need to be done yet, in order to better understand how a fire would behave in a midsized wood building. It's all in the article.

Keep in mind, this is way more testing than usual, lots of other materials have been used in large buildings, sometimes with disastrous consequences (see: Grenfell Tower fire).
The US broke a lot of eggs post 1950, that's pretty well been written about ad nauseam as well - it's universally understood.

The point is, acquiring the power that China wants, at a time of peace, while other great powers exist, requires an entirely different effort than having superpower status dropped into your lap by the default of everyone else having been blown up. China has to take that power away from other existing powerful nations, with economies that are essentially all at or near all-time highs in terms of output. If China is serious about becoming the global power, they have to go through the US and EU to do it in one manner or another. That sets up a very large global clash of cultures, clashes regarding beliefs in governance, notions about individual liberty, democracy, etc. etc. The US and Western Europe were far more aligned in ideology in the post WW2 era than what China & the EU are today. China and the EU are near polar opposites, with the EU being liberal and China being hyper regressive and authoritarian. The point is, that clash isn't going to go well, the US was welcomed into Europe due to its protector status in and after WW2 and because of its ideological and historical kinship with Europe. America in 1945 was a cousin to Europe, consisting of large parts of Europeans and European culture; China is an entirely foreign element, with very little shared in any regard.
Loeb's theorem says that you can prove a statement S if you can prove that S is implied by its own provability. It's actually a generalization of Goedel's second incompleteness theorem (let S be a false statement like 0 = 1). I can see something in the article that looks like Loeb's theorem (f (f a -> a) -> f a, reading f as it can be proved that), but I don't know Haskell, so I'm completely lost after that. Can someone explain in non-Haskell terms what's going on?
It still happened in the USA and I don't think the above comment was defending either side. The USA is just as evil and always has been.
Concrete doesn't need "sand", it needs "sharp sand". You get sharp sand from river beds. You don't get it from deserts. The wind erosion causes round grains, and those are not useful for concrete.
At least in java the recommended way is to only use GC as safety net for resource management. Print a warning when it's cleaned up due to finalizers (or cleaner-refs since v9) and use scope-based cleaning instead where possible.
Did not know this, thanks. Maybe we can agree that Bansky's auto-destructive artwork is the one with the best publicity.
I never read man pages. If I need to check man, the tool failed in being user friendly. I'll then rather search online for what I need and blindly copy the first result on some stack exchange page..
Agreed 100%. I'm just stating my case, not denying others'.
EU citizens are able to move to another EU country are eligible for the same benefits as locals as long as they are working and paying taxes there and for X time after that (I can't remember the exact number).

In the Nordic countries that's extended quite a bit for citizens of other Nordic countries (even if the other country isn't in the EU), and I wouldn't be surprised if there are other groups of countries in the EU with their own similar agreements.

None of the above says anything about the level of welfare the individual EU countries have, however. If an EU member has a below-average welfare system then you might end up with nothing simply because you don't meet the requirements for receiving benefits.
That is very specific. They have to have made it to an on-site and been rejected before Lambda? Well that eliminates 99% of our student body from contention.
Type inference is just one part of it. That's taking a term and asking "what type could this have?" Another thing you can do is turn it around and ask "what terms have this type?". That question also gets complicated easily.

And that's principled type systems. If you put ad hoc garbage into the types it might be inferrable and whatnot but still be ridiculous to reason about.
Am I missing something or are parts of this article really distorted?

For example, this seems to set up most of the article:

"Economics involves a lot of math and statistics. The most commonly used tools to crunch numbers are the spreadsheet software Microsoft Excel and programming languages Stata and Mathematica."

Is this really true? Mathematica and Stata seem like established but niche products to me at this point. I wouldn't say either of them are "the most commonly used tools to crunch numbers."

If you asked me to predict what a quantitative economist would be using, it would be Python, followed by R, and maybe followed by Java or C, or something like that.

This was an interesting article in the sense I like learning these sorts of things about people, but the premise seemed off to me.

But I'm not an economist so maybe this is something about economics per se.