skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's been this pattern within crypto where each new bubble brings in new people, while the people burned in the last bubble leave in disgust and long-time hodlers from 2 bubbles ago cash out their winnings and do other things with their lives. Many of the most active developers and evangelists from 2011-2013 are doing other stuff now, and the ones that haven't are engaging in juvenile pissing matches with their millions (cf. Roger Ver and Craig Wright). Many of the folks burned by Mt. Gox left in disgust in 2014. Many of the current big exchanges (eg. CoinBase) were founded by people who got in after the 2011 bubble. Ethereum was founded by folks who got in after the 2013 bubble, and were initially skeptical of this whole cryptocurrency things. There's probably a wave of new cryptocurrency startups being founded in garages & dorm rooms right now by people who were too young to really participate in the 2013 or 2017 bubbles but don't want to miss out on the next one. The folks who got burned by ICOs are mostly already gone, or they're sitting around being bitter and predicting Bitcoin = $0.

It's not all that different from the dot-com boom; I (mostly) missed out on the bubble from 1995-2000 since I was in high school at the time, but kept studying computers & web technologies in college and caught the mass adoption wave afterwards. I had a number of classmates and coworkers (at internships), slightly older than me, who rode the dot-com bubble right into the ground, losing both their jobs and their life savings. Many of them left tech altogether and became economists or traveled abroad or bounced around between temp work. They basically swore off investing in tech stocks, but one of the folks I'm thinking of thought she'd make a pretty penny by buying 3 houses and investing in hedge funds in 2007.

It's human nature to believe that bad things that happened to other people aren't going to happen to you, and as a species we're remarkably bad at learning from other people's experience. The set of folks actually burned by ICOs is a relatively small subset of "all people" though - IIRC at the peak of the bubble there were only about 10M Bitcoin investors in the U.S. and only a small percentage of them actually invested in ICOs. That's like 3% of the population, still very much in early-adopter territory.
The very large company I work for has:

1. A discount site with discounts on everything from electronics to cars.

2. A gym at the office with instructor-led courses.

3. Payment for classes at an accredited university.

4. A company owned bank that allows you to buy a house with a lower down payment (this is a cool perk for young employees).
The Journey to Serverless: How Did We Get Here?
Nearly any per-frame instancing tends to hit generational boundary cases due to ambiguity over lifetimes that the VM can't account for. They usually don't result in GC pauses that are large enough or frequent enough to make the game unplayable, but they do prevent the desired "solid 60hz". It's actually a huge thorn in the side of fast gameplay code. Recommendations always turn towards engineering a static allocation(value types if you can do them, object pools if not). However it takes enough effort to build the latter that quite a few games running on GCs ship without doing it in all cases, and some runtimes make it borderline impossible(string processing).
If politicians were using their Twitter accounts for push notifications only, they wouldn't be blocking anyone because they wouldn't be reading anyone. A newsfeed, campaign website, or certain kinds of blog might be closer to what you're talking about. Social media is explicitly for two-way communication.
In my experience, software engineering seems more open to nontraditional career paths. I've known plenty of people to get into it later in life and came from a variety of backgrounds without a problem. Most people probably never find out that they had a prior career.

At an internship I lived with a fellow intern that was 12 years older than me (I was also a bit older compared to most of the interns since I was a PhD student). Everyone seemed to treat him the same and he got a full-time offer. I don't think the others ever realized he had 10 years experience and a degree in something completely different!
See, one of the reasons why I'd prefer someone who speaks legalese to do this :)

Thanks, makes sense. I wanted to make it clear I'm not happy with a response "Yeah sir, you live here and here, and your device model is X. That's your personal information.". But I'll keep pressing them, as I seriously do not entertain the idea that someone may store all the data that can be inferred from my activity in a mobile network.
Thanks for your advice. I'm not stranger to that kind of course of action since people are more understanding when you get a chance to speak to them candidly/truthfully. That said, can speaking to the dept. heads help my admission (do depts approve applications themselves?) Either way it'd give me an excuse to go check out the facilities so I may just do that.

I wish I could afford USC but I've used up most of my grants and blown past six figures so I would get no help, but I'm fine with a UC or Cal State :)
Tesla barred from doing business with NJ casinos for next 5 years
What advantage does this provide over hosting your own blog using something like WordPress or Hugo?
Popularity Index: Python Is 2018 'Language of the Year'
What is the consensus on coding schools in 2019? I'm looking at app academy and lambda school.
You have one thing right. It is very Sad. You will either hire dreadful developers or junior developers, Salary is FAR too low BBC!! Dont be Cheap now!

Being completely honest!
Nobody brings coffee for anyone anymore. Everyone gets up and gets a coffee together or if someone is being nice asks if you want one and brings it to you which usually leads to getting up to get a coffee together.
Warning: The privacy notice template on this site (https://gdpr.eu/privacy-notice/) omits basic mandatory elements (e.g. retention periods, right to lodge a complaint). The template's section on cookies is insufficient and misleading. Cookies are regulated by a different law (the ePrivacy Directive) and their explanation does not go into these rules at all.

As frereubu notes elsewhere in this thread, the UK regulator's GDPR guide is excellent, and is a much better starting point in my opinion: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...
Most of the meat you get from the ‘easy’ places like supermarkets tastes terrible anyway, compared to quality meat from a specialist store. I’ve long ago stopped eating chicken almost completely because of this, in the end you just taste whatever you serve with the chicken, and you get a certain bite from it that is easily imitated using ‘fake meat’.

I’m pretty sure I will never be a strict vegetarian, but I honestly don’t see the point of eating cheap mass-produced meat over some more environmental- and/or animal-friendly produced alternative anymore. Quality over quantity please. I cannot understand how so many people disagree, especially those who claim to love meat.
Over the past two years of my personal and professional life I've materially stressed slowing down to go fast. That means more down time to contemplate, plan, think, etc.

I still get up insanely early (always been one of those people) but I use that time for me between cooking, exercise, reading, thinking, meditating, etc.

Not sprinting to work (whether it be from home or in the office) has led to less hours "working" but more getting done with higher quality.

Now, I can't all pin it on going slower. It is probably cumulative between that time spent on me, focused on my kids (I take them to school almost every day now), and higher energy/focus time on work.

I've always said you can't schedule creativity (and no matter what your role within Product Development direct/indirect) we are all creative folks solving hard problems. I just don't fill that downtime with staring at my PC and instead invest it on me.

When in office I've even started taking a mid-afternoon nap. That also has had a big effect. I'm kinda rambling at this point, but taking material steps back daily have led to significant improvements in my throughput across the board.

$0.02
Matt Levine (of Bloomberg) would tell you to see it more as a golden incentive to stop being the CEO, if that makes you feel better
looks like he's answering questions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18854055
My reply was to a very specific (and obviously troubling to me) statement: "I do not consider animal lives worth valuing".

I totally get that there's a difference between the scenario you're describing and factory farms. In fact, I've posited before that those animals would never have any life if there wasn't a demand to eat them at some point.

But the statement in question reads as "I don't give a fuck what happens to any animal". My question about pets wasn't meant to be tricky, it was trying to ascertain if the statement was an absolute or a general lack of care of where his food comes from.
Gas plants require gas. That means drilling, processing, and transporting. Gas plants require huge amount of backing logistics to be able to operate.

Nuclear plants use readily available resources in very small quantities, no pipelines, no supporting logistics. You can literally build one anywhere where there is an electrical grid, without logistical considerations.
Neither do family/connections. You also have to work hard.
Tomorrow, back at home I get few pics :-)
Thankfully a lot of more modern drones have no-fly maps implemented so you're forced to download it and you can't mess around there. But for years it's been pilot etiquette not to do dumb things to mess it up for everyone else, I guess that's slowly ending, unfortunately.

I hope most countries will still try and be sensible about their drone laws. Mine isn't: you're required to register your drone and tell them a month ahead (!!!) where you're going to fly, even if it's in the dead middle of nowhere, which is why people ignore all of it.

The other thing is that drones are exceedingly hard to regulate because the barrier of entry to just building your own is becoming lower and lower.

Anyhow, enough of my rambling. It's really sad to see things take such a negative turn for everyone involved (both drone pilots and regular people).
I'm unemployable just because of this. I cannot "work" in the morning or when my employer thinks I have to.
Hell sometimes Amazon doesn't even require a return. They will just say keep it and send out the one you actually wanted.
I can't debate any specific point in this article. It seems well written and researched to me.

Here's what doesn't add up to me. If it's actually possible why hasn't it happened? It seems like there is all the monetary incentive in the world to get it done. It feels to me like the fact that it hasn't happened supports the idea that it isn't economically viable under the current conditions
Exactly. You could upload an image for custom printing, with no sanity check as to what the image was, and it would be available for others to access as well, resulting in a semi-permanent link to hentai, porn, and extreme profanity. I imagine the justification behind it was that in order to do the custom print at the lower price, Sears had to buy a larger order, but I have no idea.
It really would not take long for the airport to launch a drone to look for the other one. Maybe a minute? They could have a experienced pilot on staff at the tower. Costs a lot less than shutting down the airport for hours.

I would even say a skilled pilot with a trackable drone in communication with the tower could safely fly to investiage without a shutdown of the airport.
Software Engineering Radio has recently (Nov.2018) released an 1 hour long interview with Stephan Ewen, CTO of data Artisans: http://www.se-radio.net/2018/11/se-radio-episode-346-stephan...
That's also a problem, though, because an attacker just needs a large number of nodes to effectively control the currency, which is not challenging or necessarily costly (see: Mirai). Doesn't stop the hardware race that leads to centralization.

If the incentives promoted by cryptocurrencies inevitably lead to centralization, what's their benefit over the existing financial system?
Wait but what about WeChat?
I recall that the Saudis didn't want to put all their Vision Fund eggs into the WeWork basket, and Son revised the deal based on the pressure.
This is outrageous. In the last congress Republicans voted to strip what little privacy protections we had from network providers.
Practical use I've found for some of these tools: Shell script that detects when any app is full screen (ex: Kodi, or Steam in Big Picture mode) and prevents Xscreensaver from activating.
I believe it's the equivalent of being shot in the head. If it's quick and clean, it's probably about as humane as can be, save for sedating first.
I really hope that sql.query does proper escaping, because otherwise, you're going to have a jolly time, when Bobby Drop Tables signs up for your service.
Both parties, then, are elected (generally. Republicans tend to depend on the electoral college to win).

Both parties eat food.

Both parties drink water.

What's the point of this equivalency? I identify a moved goalpost. Your initial post was "both parties are equal." We are far from there, down here.
That’s still far more uses than if people think a particular coin has lost its value. When thinking about a store of value for loss-averse people, the intrinsically useful, always-been-valuable mineral I can hold in my hand seems like a psychological winner over numbers in a blockchain that require an industrial society with the blockchain to keep churning. My take was that people were speculating in bitcoin to get rich, not to weather government collapse.
Will you have classes in EU timezones as well? I have friends who would be interested in that.

Also, I noticed on the website that when I check a course it says that ISA option is available for EU citizens as well, but your FAQ says that it is for US only.
> I need more veggies in my diet but it's hard to get enough without cooking

How so? On face value this feels like an excuse for simply making poor diet choices. If I'm mistaken, then... cook?
There are lots of opportunities for career second chances in the US – probably more so than most other regions, according to the preponderance of reports I've seen from people with experiences in multiple cultures/countries.

If you perceive otherwise, then it is very possible that you are encountering one or both of the following:

1. A highly-local expectation, in your particular community/family/friend-groups. You may need to move.

2. A hyper-local expectation, in your own mind. It might be justified by the particular path through experiences you've had, but now become self-reinforcing & self-defeating. To see counterexamples, against human tendencies for confirmation-bias and negativity, you may have to deeply consider that you might be wrong, and that your sampling of the possibility space has been unrepresentative.
Thanks! I hope so. I think I have a really interesting story to tell and very solid work credentials so maybe that can win some minds.
I agree. I'd heard the hype about Impossible so I was excited to try it when I finally saw it available at a restaurant near me, but found that it tasted pretty similar to a Morningstar Farms Griller's Prime patty. Since it cost me as much to sub an Impossible patty as to buy a whole bag of Griller's Prime, I wasn't impressed.

The Beyond Burger though, man that's good. I haven't had real beef in years, but people tell me it looks and smells pretty similar when cooking and I think the taste and texture are really close too. I love 'em.

I really wish the Beyond Sausage shortage would end.
I'm not sure "self-styled" is quite right here, he is a card mechanic, that's the term for someone who cheats at card games by manipulating cards, and he demonstrates exactly those techniques.
Even with all that being said, it would still make sense to make sure a burger is a source of complete protein - you know, just like the original article. Closer to optimal food, fewer worries, greater value, etc. etc.

So, is the IB 2.0 a source of complete protein or not? I'm asking this from a pure "what's the spec sheet here" point of view.
I just opened up a project on there to see what you meant. I immediately got hit with 7 different ads on different parts of the page. It still feels pretty scummy to me. I understand the need for ads but 7? It seems excessive.
Well, you might want to fly more than 100 miles...
> in principle coding should be the most automatable of anything

All coding is itself the act of automating something. I don't think there is a risk to developers as there is always more to automate. We use products that automate our own programming tasks to create more code to automate yet more things.
IMO the odds of this being a mass hysteria event are at least 3:1 versus an actual drone being intentionally flown to disrupt air traffic.

I would say it’s less likely an intentional misinformation campaign to get new police powers, but even that is more likely than an intentional drone attack, again just my opinion.

It’s absolutely incumbent on the authorities to provide incontrovertible evidence of an illegal drone. The fact that they launched a bunch of their own drones in response is sheer lunacy.
Internal recommendations can help a lot. In some schools/departments, there is a departmental committee that has a say in the admissions process.

The UC schools and Cal State are all very fine universities. Good luck!
Britain is covered in CCTV. Surely if there's a drone it will be visible in camera footage?
That's a good idea, pre-heating it under the broiler. I do finish the pizzas (last ~2 mins) under the broiler as well.

I have a new oven, so my time estimates are still fairly approximate.
Even while our dads were swearing by Craftsman, better tools existed. You're right that Craftsman was good enough for most people's needs. Craftsman is still an OK brand for hand tools (not power tools). It was just easier to get Craftsman, because they sold it at a store that wasn't too far away. Back in the day you could only get Snap-On etc. if you were affiliated with e.g. a mechanic's shop that was on a Snap-On truck route. Now thanks to Amazon, Home Depot, etc. there are more ways to get quality tools.
There's been kind of a boom in vegetarian ready-made foods in Finland. I think it started with Pulled Oats (https://goldandgreenfoods.com ), but soon after that appeared in stores, several of the major food producers came out with their own vegetarian meat-substitutes, with varying degrees of emphasis on replacing meat and veganness etc. There's even a "healthier" ground pork that has carrots mixed in.

I'm not a huge fan of the new batch of products personally, although I see people buy them quite a lot. The products are usually roughly comparable to organic ground beef in price. Personally, I find cooking vegan from scratch is cheaper and tastier, but I guess it's not really a fair comparison - I also think homecooked meat is better than storebought patties.
Ways of protecting your private data – a short intro to cryptography
Ask HN: What system services should be included in starter apps?
Hey! I am creating a few starter applications and wanted to ask the option of the HN community on what to include.

There are very obvious things like authentication and sending email.

What other services do you expect to be automatic if you are building an application and don't want to waste time on non application features?

Also... what starter projects for various frameworks do you find most useful?

Thanks for any input!
Good idea, that’s possible. The challenge has been finding that job opening, and then getting it.

Maybe I should go to the companies where I know that position exists and proactively bid on a position, rather than waiting for one to open up.

Thanks for the idea!
Ditto. But the restaurant wasn't exactly 5-star either. It seems they're not completely fool-proof for inexperienced cooks.
Tracking/jamming equipment is available [1] (and pretty cool).

[1] https://www.aaronia.com/products/solutions/Aaronia-Drone-Det...
Consider that Google offers the operating system for free, the software for free, and only charges OEM for optionally including Google's software on their phones, and only recently began selling its own phones...$21 billion of profit is pretty damn big.
We used to have better name for this sightings, "UFO", now it's "drone" ;) I'm curious of near ground UFO signting numbers, they must have dropped down to zero, even if they're controlled by little green/gray things from other planets.
So instead of investing in actually making Sears better (like Target and Walmart did), he thought it was a good idea to spent nearly all of Sears' cash reserves buying back its shares (at prices as high as $170)? Now shares are $0.33. Is he just an incompetent buffoon, or did this strategy line his pockets? For example, was he buying shares owned by ESL with Sears' money? If so, that's highly unethical. Seems par for the course with Wall Street.
I've had this happen on a Wal-Mart order as well.
> understand-don't-memorize approach

I hear you. This is actually an oversimplification that is received wisdom among American students and educators (often used as an argument against the rote-learning tendencies of non-Western education systems, which are the other extreme), but in practice it is wrong in its basic articulation.

This was an article on HN awhile ago about using Anki to read the literature of an entire field or subfield [1], but it also touches on the role of memory in learning. Without memory, it's hard to see deep connections across vast areas of knowledge. You can't always "look things up" if you don't know if those things exist.

[1] http://augmentingcognition.com/ltm.html
I'm more excited about where they go after they get passed the "uncanny valley of meat". If they can nail it, they'll get bored and move on to new and weirder flavors and textures.

Hook it up to Watson and you don't just get new recipes, but they're combined with new meat! (https://www.bonappetit.com/entertaining-style/trends-news/ar...)
The article asserts that the authors have verified that this practice currently exists when tested in the U.S. They do not make claims whether or not the companies may be lying about whether this framework may exist in other countries. It's interesting enough that this framework exists at all in the U.S., and it's relevant worldwide because these mobile companies and their customers exist worldwide.

And not just the mobile companies, but the middlemen who provide this location data. Zumigo [0], one of the companies mentioned, has an office based in India and counts Indian banks among its clients for its "first-of-its-kind global location and identity platform".

[0] https://zumigo.com/zumigo-introduces-breakthrough-mobile-loc...
Yes, git, however host a repo for anyone it's another story. In the past most FOSS projects was mirrored by tons of different participants, mostly universities, ISPs, companies with reasonable resource and being part of the project itself they can be considered friendly.

now with GitHub&c excluding Savannah the sole friendly option is buy a domain, a VPS and host there the project...

That's the problem, not technical but "political" to a certain extent.

In the past someone try GitTorrent to solve this problem a bit (opening the door for "personal hosting at home" but it's a dead project now ad it was never completed. Mostly because newcomers think GitHub&c as a free space by nature, something guarantee to work always and been always free without any other "occult" cost.