skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of it is really that they have an unbelievable amount of money and it's hard to spend it. Even really nice cars tend to max out around a million, and if you have billions that's nothing. Hence why you see people spending hundreds of millions on yachts that they rarely use, too. It's a good way to spend (and be seen spending) vast sums of wealth.

So too are really luxurious apartments in the world's elite cities.
I always thought of the apple-tax not as the cost of the product but the additional costs, like fifty dollar dongles because the new version doesn't use the same connectors as the old, or being forced to use iTunes, itself a montrosity of painful design, to put some mp3s on your mp3 player. As far as I can tell, Apple still charges $50 for a $2 wire dongle.
Amazon was able to survive as they still making money (in fact they grew their income) - people never stopped buying books online.
Brilliant solution! Since you thought of it, perhaps you'd like to be 'readjusted' first?
Two 9V batteries and four op-amps for a low-current output buffer seems like overkill. does anyone know about a better way to go about it?
You don't level up but you can enter more easily depending on dual citizenship. You use the one that has less friction.
Michael Lewis would be the best candidate.
I'd say the author of this piece did do his part, by inventing the web.
They were acquired by Stellar's commercial division, Lightyear and merged to form a new entity/brand called Interstellar. It's now an enterprise consulting company with the aim of getting Stellar used in production and deployed more widely.
No, but I do work for the Scala Center (https://scala.epfl.ch/).
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Hi, author here. Feel free to ask any question :-)
I love how clean and white all your hardware is. It all looks brand new.
I'm going to take the time to respond to you because you were the first reply to my comment.

Beanie Babies are collectibles, cryptocurrencies are money. Both have had bubbles but only one of them is tied to a brand name and there have been plenty of great new collectibles that have taken its place since.

Cryptocurrencies on the other hand are a new solution to a new problem (digital native representation of value) and even if the current offer isn't perfect their development hasn't stoped or even slowed down in any considerable way and there's no reason to believe we won't continue to grow and make better products and solutions. Money isn't going away anytime soon.
A method of self-made C compiler which even a beginner can do
It was apparent to me a long time ago that most of the web was just a massive direct marketing platform. At the moment I pay for email and news but I expect the set of information and resources I pay for in the future will expand.

However, paying for news doesn't really solve the "fake news" issue as fake is in the eye of the beholder.
Tech News: Zuck Can Stop Far-Right Fundraising, $20 Tool Hacks Androids and More
TIL about Boggle. Seems like an interesting game, thanks. Must check it out.

For anyone else interested:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boggle
I had suspected this, just from the juvenile tone of the conversation. Those who raised legitimate questions about GMOs were dismissed as "afraid of science" from all sides pretty much immediately.

I find largely unregulated scientific experiments carried out on an entire population with literally zero long-term studies to support their safety a bad idea, but many (most?) on the Web appear easily misled by these trolls.
By hidden, I wasn't referring to guns just left in bags. The TSA calls it "artful concealment" - stuff like guns taped to steel plates (for X-ray shadow) or knives stuck in the bottom of deodorant. Maybe those people just forgot it, but that's a pretty weird thing to do at any time.

I don't see how sane plays into it - either they are sane and accidentally have a gun in their bag, or they are insane. How can you filter by sanity?

Point is, probably most of the people with guns, swords, etc are not malicious, but I haven't seen any statistics on that, only this 95% cited over and over again.
Too much magic. Debugging this would be a real pain with everything happening over websockets
They are not shaving BOM pennies, they are shaving NRE pennies. The components to produce good audio are dirt cheap, even for a consumer product, even in quantity. Keeping digital noise out of analog circuits, however, takes effort. Getting the software to not drop step functions at inopportune moments takes even more effort. They won't do these things unless they feel they have to.
They work. You just need to install additional software. Magisk + safetynet fix.
More speed, lower velocity
Why is letting go of religion so hards. Who knows.
BS. Amazon operated at a loss until very recently and people were NOT buying books online because on-line payments only existed in a hand full of countries and the tech itself was immensely immature.
Yes, it is sad how some glee from failures.

I will keep on working, crash or not, because I like what I do.
Try making a compressed, spherical ball of water using your two hands.
How do you document a tech project with comics?
Awesome site. Do lots of seo, and you'll be good
Given that the biggest threat humanity faces is climate change, support for crypto currencies in their current form is morally corrupt. Also I don’t see a reason why I should buy into some scheme that disproportionately benefits early adopters. I’m already forced to participate in one tilted economic playing field, why expose myself to another one.
In July of 1945, Szilard and a number of other scientists involved with the Manhattan Project, signed a petition asking that Japan be publicly informed of the terms of surrender and refused then before the bomb was dropped. Not only was that simple request ignored, the US Government tried to blacklist the scientists who signed that petition. Arguing that the bombs were necessary to prevent an invasion pretends that any other option was tried.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition
I'm not saying that crypto is a scam, but the most common sales pitch for pump and dump salespeople is to liken their investment to the early dot com era.

"Company X looks exactly like Amazon when they only sold books."

"Company Y is like an early Google, but with a larger addressable market."

If you want us to believe crypto will be like the internet, support that belief with real evidence. But don't uses these cheap FOMO tricks to manipulate people into buying in. Tell us why "many of the blockchain native companies that survive this crash likely have the same growth."
Did you intend "ambitious" to be sarcastic? Given the content, it feels parallel calling Dubois "uppity": https://uppitynegronetwork.com/what-is-an-uppity-negro/

In the Paper Tigers essay, much time is spent condemning the highly regulated degree of ambition deemed appropriate for Asian Americans. Yang consciously rejects this, and wants the freedom to aim higher. From his Paper Tigers essay (and partially requoted in the article) he references James Baldwin:

I wanted what James Baldwin sought as a writer —“a power which outlasts kingdoms.” Anything short of that seemed a humiliating compromise. I would become an aristocrat of the spirit, who prides himself on his incompetence in the middling tasks that are the world’s business. Who does not seek after material gain. Who is his own law.

￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼￼This, of course, was madness. A child of Asian immigrants born into the suburbs of New Jersey and educated at Rutgers cannot be a law unto himself.

I think it's fair to describe those who seek "a power which outlasts kingdoms" as "ambitious". The question is whether current American society treats this degree of ambition by Asian Americans the same as it does those of other races.
From hooks documentation: If you look at a typical React application in React DevTools, you will likely find a “wrapper hell” of components surrounded by layers of providers, consumers, higher-order components, render props, and other abstractions.

React applications using the MVC model don't have this problem. In MVC Components just handle rendering. Stateful logic go into controllers. I think React is getting unnecessarily complicated because of the "everything is a component" model.

I strongly recommend comparing/contrasting this with MVC model. Here's an MVC router that works well with React: https://github.com/edman3d/mvc-router

It is a pity that React was originally designed to be the V in MVC, and then the developer community took it in a different direction.
You can find a copy here. Brings back memories.

http://www.thecomputerarchive.com/thearchive/Manuals/Epson%2...
That's partly because AMD is not able to compete at the high end, allowing Nvidia to set high prices. If you check out the rumors on the AMD Reddit regarding Navi GPU in 2019, there's a chance we'll be able to purchase a mid-high end card for $300 again.
Old. I've thrown monitors across the office, broken phones (landline), been moved across the office. It's part of the process. I've learned to control and use. Flow is a rare - but a beautiful thing you have to earn.
That’s a function of how recently solar and wind became cheap. China has a 31x increase in wind power over the last 10 years. The next 10 will be very interesting assuming prices continue to fall. When having a 30% oversupply of wind / solar still costs less than any alternative and they are only gettting cheaper eventually noting else comes close.
Multiple Processor Systems [video]
>individual change isn't going to impact climate change.

Each individual not changing is not going to help either. Inaction makes it worse.

> Do you mean the source of poverty or how to deal with it?
No, I mean "poverty is a bad thing and we should work to eradicate it". As for 'how to deal with it', it's a polical choice.

>"education is important"
Yes it is. Both for basics (democracy, "being able to make an 'educated' choice when I vote", ) and "AI is coming to get you"

>people have massive student debt
This is mostly a US problem, no ? The world is bigger. (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9656905 )

>education that doesn't offer them any sort value in the employment marketplace.
But at the same time, the "learn to code in 30 days" business is booming, because there are jobs there. And education is used at least as a proxy when hiring.

>is "rules of law" a subjective wrong?
Business can only prosper if rules of law is enforced. So I see "rules of law" as an objective 'right'. "How" is the essence of "rules of law".

>I think you've picked some of the most subjective issues of modern times as your examples of things that are objective in nature.

Actually, I voluntarily selected the ones where it makes people uncomfortable to acknowledge they are on the wrong side of the "right and wrong", to illustrate what I see as the parent point "every citizen of a self respecting nation has a personal responsibility to fight wrongs".
That has more to do with nvidia betting long-term on RTX for ray tracing and neural networks. The cores aren’t particularly useful for traditional graphics work, so the pricing model gets kinda weird.
Hey Tim Cook, there's a simple solution to your iPhone sales problem
> poorly researched clickbait or got take opinion columns

Sounds more like the Guardian than the Times. Why would the Times need to publish clickbait? Its articles are behind a paywall and it doesn't have advertising?
NRE == Non-recurring engineering costs, in other words, stuff like R&D. This was my first encounter with that term.
N6+released+as+open+source+-+CERT+Polska
> It’s amusing to still hear “Apple tax” in 2018, as if there is no additional value in better hardware, software and support for many people’s use cases.

Being a golden cage, I would not argue that it is better software.
This quoted section evoked in me, “that’s right; I don’t have to know how my iPhone works just to listen to some music...”
Inversion of US treasury yield curve, 52 week lows in the tech sector, dissolve of NAFTA, trade wars with Asia. Excess money poured into failed tech. Oil+Gas at years low with excess supply. The death of Coal. Big banks in decline.
Is this a historical piece or is there enough detail on how you would recreate your own version of Doom? If not, is there anything like the latter?
Picasa was definitely a state of the art app. Image controls, overall speed and smoothness of the user interface! I still cannot find anything close to it. I ended up using ImageRanger for browsing my pictures and it seems to be quite fast and non intrusive. It looks like these days almost every device and app is trying to force you to use their subscription based cloud storage or service.
Hacker news banned all the pro crypto hackers.

It's really sad to see people dismiss a potentially world-changing technology so that they can jump on the backs of engineers and entrepeneurs that are already hurting.

Some of us have held btc and alts for over 5 years, but apparently we're all get-rich-quick moonboys.
Sure, legalize suicide and make it possible to receive in a humane medical setting.
"Beanie Babies are collectibles, cryptocurrencies are money."

It's been established over and over again that cryptocurrencies are not money. They are a collectible like Beanie Babies. Cryptocurrencies vary too much in value to be used as money. Would you go into a Starbucks and spend $4 USD dollars to buy a coffee, if there was a chance that the $4 might gain 10,000% in value over the next year? Of course not.

There have been dozens of good articles over the last two years comparing money to cryptocurrencies and detailing all of the differences. If you still don't understand the differences, at the end of 2018, then you are keeping yourself willfully misinformed, and I suspect no comment on Hacker News will be able to change your mind.
I'm under the impression that the wording of the blog post is really the "offending" part here. I understand why danShumway would read it as some part of a style guide (since it's worded in a very absolute way); and there, I'd also perceive it as a waste of effort and paper.

And yes, adding something to a style guide should include you consulting your teammates, which also ideally shouldn't be on a one-on-one basis. If you do that, you instantly create one of those "I thought we all agreed that..." situations because of unclear communication.

> Though in reality it will probably only come up 1-2 times per year

That would be my guess from personal experience, too. In addition to that, those range checks would usually be error checks, in which case two other cases can crop up:

a) It's better to check them separately anyway (as part of the much more important "fail fast" rule). This way, you can produce two different error messages which is way more useful if you really have to deal with the case:

if (x < 0) throw ArgumentOutOfRangeException("x cannot be negative","x");
if (x > y) throw ArgumentOutOfRangeException("x cannot be greater than y","x");

...or some functional `Either`-equivalent. And even if you just return a special value (0, maybe?) this style wouldn't be too bad.

b) You're checking within a unit test, where using some assert-function basically makes the decision for you. Asserts usually log an error message on failure, which is important to be readable and depends on the order of the arguments.

Thus, this won't be a real issue as much as you even encounter a range check. And that frequency just doesn't warrant the time effort to set in stone some arcane rule that half your team wouldn't remember anyway, since it only applies once a year at maximum.

On a personal note: My team recently went over our original style guide, which sadly was neglected for quite a while before I even joined it. I can tell you from personal experience that people are willing to define the most arcane rules you can imagine. We've hat people arguing for things they (as a single person) seem to have adopted two decades ago, are purely subjective (no objective upside whatsoever, as opposed to this one) and go against any established style guide in the programming language we use, which means that our style would always clash with third-party code in some really obscure way.
True. But I eliminate foods out of necessity. Recently I stopped eating legumes as part of FODMAP diet and I see it makes a difference. I also suspect that we may be eating too much variety. I like for instance Fukuoka's approach to diet http://criticality.org/four-types-diet-masanobu-fukuoka/
Create React App does pretty much with all the complexity hidden behind ’react-scripts’ you can optionally eject out of if needed sometime in the future.

The steps are pretty much

npx create-react-app && yarn start and finally yarn build for a production ready build.
32 Hours in Chandler, Arizona, the Self-Driving Capital of the World
Why don't add a second column under the map to use the extra white space ?
A big thumbs up. Very useful. As an Indian citizen, I have traveled close to 50 countries (not including business trips) and Indian citizens, apart from a handful of countries, need visa for most of the world. This site comes in handy.

If possible, consider adding which countries have exemptions for holders of Permanent Residency (Greencard), or an Australian PR and such.
I wasn't, but you should. Calling me a middlebrow goes to show you don't know what you don't know.
I bet you feel the same way about minerals whose extraction process is vastly more damaging to the environment.

Early adopters benefit because they incur more risk than later adopters.
I don't know where he is getting his pricing. I can do an 8.5x11 400 page color perfect bound for a print cost of $16.31. Using a list of $30 and Amazon/B&N (ie, online retailer) distribution wholesale discount of 30% gives author $4.69 per copy.

(I have no idea what size author intends, if he has it in 6x9 trade size cost is even lower)
Pardon for asking, but if you’re doing TKD sparring, my hunch is that you’re otherwise pretty fit? I do a lot of aikido as my primary source of cardio exercise, and my resting heart (Apple Watch 3, now thinking about the 4) is quite low (low/mid 50s). I have no idea what my heartrate is when I’m at peak exertion, because I can’t practically wear the watch on the mat, but I suspect it’s probably up pretty high.

So, if I understand things correctly, your doctor would otherwise probably look at you and be like, “nah, don’t need to worry about this guy’s heart.” Is that fair to say?
We don't know, because we've never built grid-scale energy storage.
Where else would they buy? Agglomeration economics are real. No one is going to make Merthyr Tydfil great again.
You're forgetting one major use: actual crime.

Black-market drug sales probably won't be too affected by the crash, they already had a network before Bitcoin.

But ransomware! Oh man, that's nowhere near as easy nor as profitable without a high-value cruptocurrency. If the crypto crash ALSO took out ransomware developers, that's two birds with one stone, as far as I'm concerned.
Is there a way for US/Canadian long term visa holders to check their visa requirements?
E.g. Indian citizens are normally required to get visa for Mexico/Philippines. But with a H1B visa from USA they can travel visa free / visa on arrival.
Is there precedent in the last crash? I wasn’t receiving recruiter emails from crypto companies before the 20k crash. I think the blast radius here is much bigger.
What can I say other than: Why does this even exist? It boggles my mind that the person accepts pull requests. Surely there are other more worthwhile projects to be investing one's time in?
want to see some in action? check out the mods of r/farming.
Amazon MADE A CHOICE to operate at a loss. They did so because they invested everything back into the business to grow. Their loss was not because they didn't have sales or because they were giving their products away for free at a discount, but because of investment towards future growth. As can be seen, they went from a bookstore, to an ecommerce platform, to having shipping logistics, streaming service, cloud provider, etc.
>t's been established over and over again that cryptocurrencies are not money.

Sorry but that's not true. You may be confusing "money" with "currency" though.

There's at least one US state that allows paying taxes in cryptocurrencies and there are a few countries here in Europe where cryptos are legal tender.
You are playing games with words. Amazon was making money in the sense that everything they sold had healthy margins. They lost money only because Jeff Bezos believed in the future and continued to invest heavily in the future. He could have stopped investing and taken profits at any moment that he wanted to. But he wanted to keep going and build something bigger than what he had.

Cryptocurrencies don't compare.
With regards to socioeconomic status, the China–Cornell–Oxford Project, a 20-year study—described by The New York Times as "the Grand Prix of epidemiology"—conducted by the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, Cornell University, and the University of Oxford where T. Colin Campbell was one of the study's directors.[8] It looked at mortality rates from cancer and other chronic diseases from 1973–75 in 65 counties in China; the data was correlated with 1983–84 dietary surveys and blood work from 100 people in each county. The research was conducted in those countries because they had genetically similar populations that tended, over generations, to live and eat in the same way in the same place. The study concluded that counties with a high consumption of animal-based foods in 1983–84 were more likely to have had higher death rates from "Western" diseases as of 1973–75, while the opposite was true for counties that ate more plant-based foods.[9]

Urban areas tended towards more meat consumption where meat was considered a luxury, and rural diets were more plant based, a high % of rural participants could not afford meat.
That's confusing profit and revenue. Operating at a loss while your market share and total income is growing and you are building out infrastructure and investing in new technologies is not remotely the same thing as insolvency. No, Amazon wasn't putting money in the bank in 1999-01. Any dummy could look at their business model and say "Yup, there's a big market for selling junk on the internet".

With this blockchain startups, where's the equivalent? They never made any revenue. They never had a real market. What money they did make was predicated entirely on the continued solvency of the existing coin markets.