skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of pretty much clickbait, since no real money was expended across bank accounts between two or more separate parties.

The author expounds on an appraisal of hypothetical money, if one imagine's that he paid himself all labor costs to perform the work.

He spent several months working on a video game that didn't do well, and made zero dollars.

Did I lose $6,000 dollars on a hypothetical bitcoin I never paid for in August, when the value dropped last week?

No, I left the $10,000 dollars in my bank account, and I still have $10,000, and/or whatever real goods or services I purchased with said money.
Most of T-Series' subscribers come from people creating accounts in India and getting automatically subscribed to T-Series by YouTube's algorithms.

YouTube did this a while back with other demographics. For instance, CaptainSparklez often mentions this as one of the reasons why he became big; i.e. YouTube was autosubscribing folks to certain creators.

EDIT: If I recall correctly, when you create a new YouTube account, they give you a list of channel suggestions that you can check off to bootstrap you into suggestions based on your preferences, so this could be that, meaning people just "select all".
My son couldn’t even get Uber to work on his cheap Android Phone and the battery life was horrible.

On the other hand my “luxurious” iPhone 6s I bought in 2015, is still going strong, getting updates, and speed wise, is still faster than most modern Android phones.
That doesn't do a lot when people are passing you and cutting into your lane immediately after doing so. Now you have to slow and and everyone behind you starts doing the same thing. It's irritating and unsafe.
That's not been my experience with group sms. It's worked perfectly, and all names show properly
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That seems to be it. The HTML for the first image is

<div class="article-photo-placeholder"><img data-progressive-url="https://prod-lensculture-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/original/ce95b807-b76a-4557-a8ac-bb53cabff94a.jpg" src="https://prod-lensculture-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/small/ce95b807-b76a-4557-a8ac-bb53cabff94a.jpg" class="photo progressive-image-loading"></div>

But what gets displayed is https://prod-lensculture-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/small/ce95b... ["200px × 150px (scaled to 964px × 723px)"]. However, https://prod-lensculture-photos.s3.amazonaws.com/original/ce... loads just fine, and quickly.

So their code is just deranged.
Weird factoid about Ketamine: it seems to require being paired with the smell of a male to work: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-matters-in-ex...
Yes, the Tweet storm I linked to said as much. The point is when tested by a court, one of the SEC's arguments was rejected. Yes the argument wasn't about the traditional token sale - it was the SEC trying to classify airdrops as a securities issuance - but it does show that the SEC's arguments are not law. Only courts decide what is law.

The big ICO case [2] involved blatant fraud, and looked nothing like the tokens being issued in most token sales, so doesn't set a precedent that affects most of the token sales.

Everything else has been settled out of court, with none of the SEC's claims accepted by a court. So your claim that "That settled the issue of whether an ICO is a security" is wrong. An out of court settlement does not settle the law.
It makes me really angry to hear about people who are addicted to outrage.
Unless you're viewing it from a purely financial lens (e.g. you're closely following the MSFT stock), it seems like "joining GitHub" is probably closer to reality than "joining Microsoft" for most purposes. I don't have any more information than the post has, but it sounds like:

* The Spectrum product will be merging with the GitHub product in some sense, maybe integrating completely, maybe re-branded with GitHub branding, maybe separate branding but tighter integrations. It certainly doesn't seem like it'll be a separate Microsoft-branded product.

* The Spectrum team (three people) will join the GitHub team, which of course has its own office, culture, vision, etc. Maybe they'll keep working on Spectrum, maybe they'll work on other parts of GitHub, maybe current GitHub folks will join them, but point is, the people they'll work with are the people who work on GitHub, not Microsoft as a whole. It certainly seems unlikely that they're moving to Redmond to work at Microsoft HQ.
> It's very interesting that the most impactful and potentially revolutionary psychiatric drugs currently in trials are both illegal recreational drugs

History will not be kind to the War on Drugs. Aside from the millions of lives it directly destroyed, it also set back several fields of science 50 years.
Chat can support Hangouts features but not vice versa.
ah distinct IP's that can not be distinguished as proxies. suppose this goes to the iot as apposed to zombie computers.
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...bad at saving edits?

I'm fully aware the actions require a response
What are the legal consequences if the records have been destroyed? And the reporter will answer any questions, but there are no notes, files, recordings, etc? Surely "contempt of court" isn't a life sentence?
Currently on front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18573730
Matrices are mathematical batch processing.

The expressiveness and power you get from being able to cast and solve problems in matrix form is similar to the lightbulb that pops up when one “gets” the relational algebraic power underpinning SQL.
I was agreeing with your point. It seems pretty obvious that the end goal is something simpler for both the engineer and the end user. The defensiveness of some engineers to protect their particular contributions is a net negative.
And how much does that cost compared to less expensive options? At $1k for an iPhone, you're paying $200/year if it lasts you 5 years, more if you stay on the upgrade wagon.

The iPhone 7 is $449 and seeing that the 5s from 2013 which is three years older is still supported, worse case you would probably still get three years worth of updates for the 7.
The April Fool's joke that nearly got me fired was a combination of easily accessible JetAdmin ports, an HP control sequence, a script to find every JetAdmin on the internal network and a distinct lack of common sense. But it was so worth it. So worth it.
I was with you until you got to the "capitalist" bit. If you don't want your data to be sold, don't give it to anyone you can't trust.

I trust plenty of capitalists with my data, and Facebook isn't one of them. Basically if I'm not paying for their service, I'm cannot trust them.

I feel quite comfortable with ProtonMail controlling my email, BitWarden controlling my passwords, and Tarsnap controlling my backups because they all have a monetary interest in not selling my data because they're competing with "free" products.

And communism is way worse in this regard. Just look at China if you want to see how that plays out (and yes, I know they're not really communist anymore, but my point stands).
Wow, you weren't exaggerating. I can't imagine a worse possible voice-over for the trailer.
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I dunno, South korea's M2 would need 17 or 18 digits to represent I think.

Edit: Japan too.

Say south korea has a few years of hyperinflation, not even anywhere close to zimbabwe bad, and you'd have money disappearing right & left.
If your screen has even a single crack - Apple will insist that you need to replace the screen in addition to changing the battery. The screen costs >$150 from what I recall.
That was astounding already 20 years ago. Fax spam was out of control then to such a degree that Congress roused itself to pass legislation with teeth, yet it occurred to no one to send printer spam. The only thing that would connect to our printers was viruses, the probable target was port 631 with buggy CUPS or other LPD daemon behind, because every few hours the printer would run off a page with just a few gibberish letters.
In this case, worst case, it's multiple groups of engineers all advocating for their pet projects. They can all be wrong and concerned about personal sunk costs instead of having some perspective and humility and working together to the extent it makes sense.

I gather maybe the Google advancement structure discourages doing nothing and generally being stable when it makes sense, in which case there could be plenty of improvement to be had all around.
Is it "don't read too closely into analogies"?
I think you're misunderstanding the pre-industrial-revolution world's attitude to trade secrets. "Learning a process inside and out, and reproducing it elsewhere" was not allowed, at least for high-value processes.

An example from within Europe: http://www.muranoglass.com/en/news-en/ten-facts-you-did-not-...

And I also suspect you're not understanding the relative value of those processes (glass, tea, porcelain, etc) to the economy of those areas vs the current relative value of the "product of thousands of engineers".
Little off topic: Seems like Lucene.NET is being discontinued. They're discussing putting it into Apache's attic in the mailing list. It hasn't been updated for at least two years so this isn't super surprising, and they'd need to update it to .Net Core which nobody wants to do.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18564572
You have to chose to trust something. If you keep falling in this rabbit hole of not wanting to trust anything, your only option will be to stay on an airgapped computer, or even ditching that for a paper notebook in case the hardware manufacturers did something. That's unless, of course, you have the time and resources to manufacture your own computer down to implementing every piece of circuitry in each microprocessor.

I think chances are pretty slim that a VPS company's vps isolation is so crappy that you have the chances of getting your vps hardware shared with someone that knows of such a gapping security hole that could be such a huge liability to the VPS company.

EDIT: Also, why would someone go out of their way to compromise a neighboring VPS, check if they, by chance, have a package repository, and insert malware in that? Who are you, that someone would think that's a good use of their time?

You know, society can't function without trust. Every person that's close to you could suddenly turn around and try to kill you, but you have to trust that they function by reason, and know that they have no reason for doing so. Locks around the world are pretty useless to keep strangers from lock-picking them and very many of them are keyed-alike. Their real reason is to simply make it a greater hassle to get to whatever they're protecting and therefore make it a less appealing target. Like so and with other methods, people implement their security by making themselves a less appealing target. Some people setup the outside of their home as a dump while building a mansion inside. These people trust robbers to act on reason.

No one has perfect security. Security is a matter of choosing what to defend against (your threat model), choosing what you can trust, and anchoring your defenses on the things you trust.

EDIT 2: I removed the paragraph on VPSes being virtual in name only. Linode apparently uses KVM.
>>> grandfathered in to the Gsuite service [...]

Ah, yes, ye olde "Google Apps for Domains" (boy, there's a catchy product name ...).

I've got three of them still running: two I rarely use, but the other is the family account and it's got a lot of history in the mailbox.

I'm gonna be effed if/when they pull the plug on us greybeards still rolling on that old free tier.

/Acey

p.s. The new Gmail theme sucks rocks. Anyone have a 411 how to make it look as near to the old style as possible. (tbh, I haven't hunted for an answer, but tacked this on in case anyone reading knows a good blog for that.)
I think blockchains can help minimize trust even if it's dealing with assets outside the blockchain.

Let's use your beef example. The beef might come from a farm. It's certified organic. It gets shipped off to a distributor. The distributor sells it to a store. You go to a store and buy it.

In the current system, if the store is a bad actor (e.g. selling beef it claims is organic, when it's actually not) then you don't really have a way of knowing.

However, if the beef was tracked on the blockchain and transferred to you on the blockchain at the point of purchase, then you are no longer relying on just the store telling you it's organic. The claim is verified by chain of custody on the blockchain. So now multiple parties (the farm, distributor, and store) would have to cooperate to dupe you. You can still get defrauded by the store if they completely swap the beef. But, they would STILL have to purchase legitimate beef and transfer it on the blockchain to you. It would be harder to get away with it vs. just changing the label.

That's just one example of where it can minimize trust. But once more assets are tracked on the blockchain, you can start to do REALLY COOL things with them.

For example, imagine using real estate to get decentralized collateral backed loans on MakerDAO.

I can go on and on about this stuff...but it's really cool and we're just getting our feet wet with the technology.
I don't know, I heard this interpretation before but honestly the phrase makes sense when interpreted the other way around too, so way not just take the first meaning.

The dig at Hook is a fun knowledge nugget anyway, that silly Isaac. :-p
Xenophobia is a powerful drug.

Good luck working in one of those many tech companies who wouldn't exist if it weren't for immigrants who started them.
Categories for the Working Hacker [video]
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If possible I suggest trying a few test runs before the real session.
We obviously had to let these people go. A director was also later let go because it turned out he was getting freebies under the table by the contracting company.

We hire an external company to send us people because they have supposed to have vetted them. We pay for that service.

This isn't just a company problem. Feel free to call the company lazy all you want, but why is someone who has no expertise in an area and cannot speak English allowed to enter the country under a program that lets exceptiobap people in because apparently we don't have talented people here?

So if I understand you correctly, we should let people enter the country without vetting them because its a waste of taxpayer money? Let's say my employer perfectly filtered out this person as soon as they came in the door. Let's say the contracting company employing him lets him go too. So what if he now falls on the social system? It's cool? You're okay to pay for that?

With respect, your logic makes no sense to me. We shouldn't allow unqualified people to goldmine through these programs. There needs to be a much higher bar. Right now there isn't one at all.
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I disagree - the rampant complexity of systems you can build using all these extra services is the bigger problem, and at scale, all these extra services on AWS cost more than their OSS equivalent running on VMs. Take a look at ELB for example, there's a per-request charge that yes is very small, but at 10k req/s it's significant - not to mention the extra bytes processed charges. Nginx/haproxy with DNS load balancing can do pretty much what ELB is offering. In the very small none of this matters, but you can just run smaller/bigger VMs as needed; prices starting at the cost of a hamburger per month.

Re reliablity, I have VMs on AWS with multiple years of uptime - it's the base building block of the entire system, so it's expected to work all the time. You monitor those systems with any sort of nagios-type tool and alert into something like pager duty for when things do go wrong, but they mostly don't. Redundancy I build in at the VM layer.

Additional services on AWS however have their own guarantees and SLAs and they're more often down than the low-level virtual machines are - so it's an inherently less reliable way to build systems imo, but to each their own.

Also, this notion that you can conveniently split your processing up into 15m chunks is just crazy -- you may never know how long some batch job is going to take any given day if it's long running. They're typically leaning on some other systems outside your control that may have differing availability over time. I met a guy who built some scraper on lambda that did something convoluted and he was happy to make like 100k updates in the db overnight -- I built a similar thing using a single core python job running on a VM that did 40MM updates in the same amount of time. It's just silly what people think simple systems are not capable of.
Vampires of corporate law will never miss this chance. Of course they will sue him to bankruptcy.
> I do still hold out some hope that the tech will evolve and eventually catch on

I'd posit it's not possible for DLT to fail any more than it was possible for email to fail. Yeah adoption could have been slower if the first email clients were shittier or whatever, but at the end of the day one-to-one or one-to-many instant written communication solves a real problem and I just don't see any possible universe where the idea wouldn't have eventually worked.

The conceptual breakthrough of DLT is basically using an algorithm to mathematically guarantee that two numbers sum to zero rather than taking the word of a supposedly neutral (and very expensive) third-party. Once you make that discovery there just isn't any universe where that doesn't outcompete the status quo, any more than we have globally competitive societies who haven't adopted things like fire or the wheel.

The reason it's taking so long to get real products (let alone adoption) is that it requires basically reorganizing our entire society, which doesn't exactly move on a dime.
I’ve seen the difference in pay, and it’s very large. They aren’t proxying offshore either. Not at the big tech companies who use them for staff augmentation anyway.
In essence that's what I do, except with a Keepass file in OneDrive. It's been working pretty well for me the last few years. Not sure how insecure it is, though. I imagine it'd take someone cracking my OneDrive password to gain access to the Keepass file which they'd subsequently have to crack. Assuming the passwords are of high enough entropy (mine are(I hope)), you'd probably be pretty safe.
OpenWebRX – Open Source SDR Web App for Everyone
> Like you, I think rent controls and low income rent support are supporting better lives for working poor, and do far more than paint over cracks, but the poverty trap is real: people who can't afford a small payrise because it triggers loss of rental support or food stamps.

This is actually the one issue I've seen that consistently wins over the "Well, why don't they just get a (better) job?" crowd to supporting a higher limit, or a more varied limit, to benefits. Why would someone get a full-time job if doing so would leave them homeless and starving because they're now above getting any help whatsoever.

We usually disagree on the solutions, but at least they come to see it's a lot more nuanced than just down to the people on welfare being lazy, which is a start.
Could you share what kinds of banks will do manual underwriting? I am another person that refuses to get credit cards, but I did run into issues getting a mortgage.

All the banks that I spoke with would concede in person that I am an extremely low risk, but they all intended to sell my mortgage on the secondary market (but still do the servicing themselves). So, they wouldn't / couldn't give a mortgage to someone who doesn't fit the "normal" boxes.

Finding a bank that was willing to not sell the mortgage took a bit.
I was hoping someone would reference that. One of my favorite Stross books, and a decade since reading it I frequently think back to it and worry about this mass of data we’re creating and obsoleting each year.
I've just posted the same and then saw your post. There are so many benefits of this approach:

* Good companies that actually pay a lot will automatically push out outsourcers that sneak cheap labor under pretense of finding rate talent.

* It automatically solves the problem of lowering salary standards.

* If good companies happen to exhaust the quota this will make them compete for seniors which will automatically start favoring U.S. local fresh grads for junior positions, which is also good. It's always sad to see 10+ years experience people in junior positions because they are willing to lower standards to the ground for a chance to immigrate.

Of course there are a lot of caveats with cost of living and titles and levels and benefit packages, but I'm sure they can be worked out?

* There may be separate auctions for every occupation while occupations themselves rationed proportionally per #of applications (or even micromanaged if the country needs more of a certain skill)

* It can be made illegal to offer less stocks/benefits than to a local, so companies won't cheat there

* It of course should be adjusted for CoL

* Startups can have their offers upscaled if necessary, though I'm not entirely sure it's the right thing to do (what prevents those outsourcers from founding 10000 startups and so abuse the boost?)

Running lotteries as well as trying to indirectly rig them looks so dumb to me. If you have already identified the source of the problem why not target it directly?
> Paraphrasing Machiavelli, people would forgive just about anything else, even the death of family members, more easily. Even a democracy couldn't do this, they'd never get re-elected.

Germany did it
Yup. I have a horrible GPA due to a bunch of personal and disability stuff but they never look at it due to experience. If they did, I wouldn't want to work somewhere that favors GPA and/or nonsense certifications. In fact when I hire, I measure candidates inversely proportionate to their list of certs.
Please stop posting uncivil and/or flamewar comments to HN.
Oh, it's a thing. Random article about it: https://gizmodo.com/im-buying-an-iphone-because-im-ashamed-o...
Php7 is pretty damn fast with apc cache and some tuning. Not to mention it doesn't have any of the silly restrictions that hhvm had.
Some ADHDers will do worse in Montessori because it requires more executive function that regular school. Look up "hyperfocusing". The student might do one thing that interests them and nothing else. That will be a huge problem in Montessori, which expects the child to by themselves go from activity to activity. Some ADHDers will do better in more structured environments.
This same thing happened to me from a large financial company on the east coast, except I had received a written offer via email.
The best tool for writing documentation is the one that you enjoy using. Most documentation is crap, and it's really not that hard to port one markup to another (it's an hour or two of pain, but that's it).

I've tried restructured text, and it's just slightly painful enough that I drag my feet writing docs in it. I haven't tried the other suggestions, so I can't comment on them.

The nice thing about markdown is that it's "good enough" and ubiquitous. My READMEs and static websites are in markdown, and many tools have markdown-style options. Even Reddit uses markdown, which is pretty neat. Yes, the "flavors" are mildly annoying, but they're close enough that it doesn't matter too much.

I don't love markdown or anything, by it is "good enough", so I haven't bothered trying to replace it.
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