skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Flaws in Bitcoin make a lasting revival unlikely. Layer2 is better deployed on new chains, while discussing poor bitcoin life choices leads us nowhere.
>I sincerely doubt it. For learning the non-practical fundamentals of, say, computer science, there is no known learning environment that beats a university.

This is just nonsense. I would go so far as to say that I never actually learned anything in my undergrad CS classes. A combination of challenging internships and personal curiosity let me to teach myself everything I was taught in school before I was taught it in school. Of course, I only got those internships in the first place because I went to a good school and had connections that I gained by attending that school, but the idea that an otherwise competent developer can't teach themselves CS theory efficiently on their own is totally absurd.

Furthermore, being taught CS fundamentals in a university is far from a good indicator of developer ability. I've interviewed a shocking number of candidates with at least a BS in computer science who were completely unable to complete incredibly simple exercises (think similar in complexity to FizzBuzz). I expect developers to have a strong grasp of the fundamentals, but they also need to be able to actually apply those fundamentals. CS departments are utterly failing in that regard.
> That's way more hoops than even a semi-motivated plagiarizer is willing to jump through
Yes.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/20/social-media-sites-may-only-...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/08/facebook-removed-14-millio...
Door-to-door general self-driving is utterly irrelevant to the financials of any of these companies within a relevant timeframe.
It puts the motion in the basket.
Somewhat agree. I've been getting back into blogs and personal websites - some of this is categorized under 'indieweb'. There is a lot of good work being done out there, great conversations going on, strange and wonderful new hobbyists.

But I don't know if the Web - or the digital rights movement or Occupy or meme culture or whatever your personal fancy is - will ever be retaken. There's space for an underground now - which is good enough for me. Perhaps better than trying to fit all of mainstream society in. And maybe social networks can stay - as a kind of fly paper.
The work they put in still can't solve the constant need for cash to keep the lights on, so?
One thing they have going for them is that they are the ideal partner for Waymo/GM once their self-driving tech is ready for a broad roll-out. They are in all the same US markets as Uber, can provide immediate access to customers, and are more easily acquirable than Uber.
Those examples ignore the other side:

If I'm a merchant and someone uses a stolen or cloned credit card, or simply performs a charge-back, they get my goods for free and I have basically zero recourse.

If I'm a merchant and someone pays me with bitcoin, I'm not out any money regardless, nor do I have to expend time/money/legal resources to ensure I keep that payment.
Lockup periods are generally 180 days, so current shareholders should become liquid in the September timeframe.
I guess the museum is about Sweden itself.
if he saw this as a young man/child, chances are it was cool and interesting, but informing law enforcement/environmental agencies was not top of mind.. its only when you cross paths with some other bit of information, your memory triggers, and now as an adult, you might think to speak up.
This is why you have space filling curves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order_curve

With that you can have a linear ordering of space at each scale. Rounding errors become rounding errors. I remember seeing an implementation of that on npm or some such thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash
If you are an optimistic (or realistic) you could say this will go great because they are the ones wasting less money on self driving fairies which will never go anywhere.
Those are incredibly nit picky to the point of being useless.
Huge win for A16Z. Logan and John ended up owning the same amount of shares each all the way through the rounds, is that typical?
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A wild insane person appears.
Disagree. University education is not just about learning how to do something,but more about developing yourself as a person and those additional courses are necessary. CS graduates with little to no exposure to other areas or fields are useless.This eventually results in people who's first email is 'send me the details to your api' instead of asking what issues I'm having,why i'm having and etc. There are also so many businesses opportunities that only become visible after exploring various fields, including liberal arts.
Moving to Boston and living there is expensive. Some people can’t just leave their family behind for 4 years. There are more costs to College than tuition. There’s also the opportunity cost of going to college instead of working and earning a salary now.
Totally agree. Unfortunately, most Americans are too stupid to see that even the phrase is ironic, referring to something that's literally impossible to do, just like the act it refers to in real life is for most Americans.
> So latlong is your IP, and W3W is your human-readable domain name.

No, it's not. It's actually more like the opposite. The domain name system is hierarchical, and W3W is clearly (and I gather, intentionally) not.

IP addresses are also hierarchical, but the mapping of domain names to them is only somewhat systematic.

Really, though, W3W identifiers are most like Tor onion names. Just hashes. Indeed, some have suggested replacing alphanumeric onion names with something like W3W.
trump is the only president to support gay marriage at the start of his term
In my view there are two things FB achieved; they got people to come, and they got people to stay.

G+ got people to come, had an amazing position to abuse their monopoly just like with Chrome, but failed to hold them there.

And I believe the interface might have scared some away but I also believe there was nothing fun to occupy your time with while you're waiting for the next notification high.
The U.S. Census Bureau is buying up URLs to combat disinformation
I'm confident these guys already cashed out a large fraction of their holdings in prior rounds.
> But it only works online. That's a bad technical idea.

That's an opinion. Starcraft 2 is online only. That's not a technical idea that a player can rationalize, it's a business oriented technical solution.

> And "open washing" is ethically terrible.
> So is patenting an idea that takes a weekend to code

These are based on what rationale, other than your personal preference?

SMH
This is a real problem, and it does undermine the comp sci degree. Some people are completely intimidated by programming and immediately give up, they get enough credits through the modules that don’t require any actual coding and then do their dissertation on something totally abstract.

I think these students are failed by the system as programming’s core concepts are quite basic, it seems to be the tooling around it that students struggle with.
Most of those are indirect or simply senseless.
Sure... I would love to play Stardew Valley in "real life" too but it's hard work and economically it's not that lucrative... Most of them got their land for free because it was in the family and when you look at their individual stories:

"Her biggest challenge is staying in the black; she makes just enough to live"

"The house that Gherpelli and Piana live in, and the land on which their greenhouse sits, have been leveraged as collateral for their bank loan, along with the homes of a few family members."

"He has taken up bee-keeping, with 200 hives distributed in ten apiaries around a neighbouring valley, selling his honey under the label Dietro al Monte. He needs twice as many hives to make a living."

"So far they have been able to support themselves and run their enterprise by pooling their own savings, selling their honey and drastically reducing living costs, but it is hard graft. Other than occasional forays to Turin to see friends, they spend their time working their farm."
He held up a gay pride flag upside-down with "LGBTs for Trump" scrawled on it. Every single action he's taken on relevant issues contradicts that awkward, insincere show of support.
I'll have to give that a try again. Last time I ran into some problem. Might be due to limitations on which module system you can use.
I continue to find great value in the Liberal Arts courses that I took when I went to University. Philosophy, in particular, serves me a great deal: it has helped me to understand the world and personal narratives that I live under, and aided me in finding an ethical framework that I might not have developed otherwise.

Regardless, courses in English, Literature, and other courses I had to take outside of my main coursework for Computer Science has made my personal experience better, I believe, or at least more fulfilling.

I believe that it is also the job of a good education to prepare someone to be a good member of a Democracy, and as part of that one must be able to accept other tolerant points of view, and be able to reach compromise. Courses all throughout our education should aid us in developing the empathy necessary for the process to work. It appears that we have failed, in the US, in this regard. Quite horribly.
Security researcher pleads guilty to hacking into Microsoft and Nintendo
I think I'd make it very clear that these are real sites re-implemented to show that it can be done in the framework. Not just list them without an explanation to imply that they are using the framework.

You are using their brands to boost yours even though they are unrelated.

So I'd either build sites that look similar but don't have real logos / names which should be enough to show what kind of things are possible with the framework or if you want to stick to the re-implementations of real sites add something like:

"Reimplemented real world examples"
"I could have learned what I did in a much shorter time."

If you were just looking for a specific skill or job training then Uni may have not been the place for you.

"I've never been impressed with Ivy league or other "rarified air" educational establishments."

I did undergrad at a great but niche school and Grad school at a fairly exceptional school and there is a difference. The top schools generally have the best profs, students, facilities. It was inspiring and motivating, and the relationships and networks do matter as well.

As far as 'looking down their noses' ... this comes in two parts 1) they are doing it, sometimes without knowing it but 2) often we perceive 'snobbery' when really it's just our own insecurity. When we perceive someone to be of higher social status (ie our perception), or, when we think that they may perceive us as having lower social status, then I think we have a tendency to interpret every little thing as snobbery, when really it might be nothing at all.
I suggest everyone read Hubert Horan series on NakedCpitalism. Here's the latest article: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/03/hubert-horan-can-ube...
It is possible to corrupt data on the stack due to out of bounds.
Sip looks very useful! I'm going to try that one out.
The problem is, it isn't at all unlikely that a quicksort implementation created entirely independently w/o plagiarizing will match an implementation somewhere online. When I took algorithms, I would normally do the assignment and compare my implementation with online sources, mostly to compare against. Aside from variable names, ~80% of those assignments matched one of the first few SO answers. I think the real fail here is a company assigning something like quicksort and expecting to get original answers.
Idk if I'd agree that it's "unfair" because that implies there's some natural balance we've disrupted, when in reality wealth is largely the result of labor and ingenuity. If a group of people gets together and creates wealth for themselves and their offspring, is it unfair that they are wealthier than the rest of the population? That kind of thinking at some level is fundamentally unfair itself - if you go collect and store nuts for winter you're less likely to starve. If we say that it's unfair now that you have all these nuts and winter is coming, then how does one provide for one's self fairly?

Wealth isn't distributed, it's created. I mean you can distribute after that but it would be theft.

Nonetheless I hate that some people are just born into economic situations where they are severely less able to actuakize their potential, so I share your sentiment. I just don't like the word unfair as it seems to disregard accomplishment and to me it demonizes people who have succeeded.
Exactly so, both men's suits and tuxedos originated as leisure wear.
Sure but let's assume they already cashed out even $85M. They still made way less than the investors. So we still value the investors money a lot more than the founder's time.
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I recently saw it suggested that college admissions should operate on a lottery basis (beyond baseline academic requirements). That would surely help with socioeconomic diversity.
I'm worried about the impact of collapsing valuations of Lyft and Uber. Out of curiosity, does anyone know what big successful companies have gone public when they were losing large amounts of money? What happened to the stock price?
I just realized something from this comment. Asteroid is aster + oid... i.e. like a star (aster), but isn't. Hadn't realized it before!
Good: Circles as a way to separate social groups

Bad: Forced to share a single "publicly linked identity" across all those groups. John Doe Public Accountant might not want people to know they also exist as John Doe Death Rocker, and vice-versa.
Alaska is baking in an exceptionally toasty March
I wouldn't count an honorary degree.
banning transgender people from the military doesn't seem like a nitpick
> Smart money gets out at the top.

People were saying we were at the top 5 years ago, but housing prices are way up since then.
True, however many people are likely expecting this to happen and there are now many more methods to perform arbitrage on Bitcoin

That could soften this, it is more likely to be priced-in well before the actual event.
Why make concessions for bad decisions on the Android and Windows side?
Batteries which are soldered to the board instead of using a connector, motherboard is all one assembly including the keyboard, fewer ports, nothing user serviceable. That all seems like measures to make manufacturing easier from my perspective.
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They put that work in to create a company that loses nearly a billion dollars a year, so it kind of make sense to me that the people throwing money on this bonfire should be valued higher than the ones who lit the match.
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This article in NYT puts Green and Zimmer's value much higher, at $603 and $416 million, respectively: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/business/dealbook/i... .

And considering Lyft was/is a hugely capital intensive business that is still losing billions, I'm not surprised the capital investors came out with more equity in this one.
There’s a lot of numbers between 0 and 100...
Quite a lot has been written on the subject of morality and ethics since Aristotle's time. Orders of magnitude more than had ever been produced at the time he was alive, in fact. I'm not convinced his Nicomachean Ethics are as definitive as your comment seems to imply.

If what you're trying to say is that anyone can learn to become ethical, then that's a reasonable opinion. But I don't think citing Aristotle usefully refutes the parent commenter's point about people either having morality or not having it, because Aristotle hardly settled the matter on any major dilemma in philosophy. Furthermore, Aristotle's Ethics go on about "right" education quite a bit - to the point that you can reasonably conclude people can't become ethical if it's not instilled in them early enough on in their life.
'we still want to buy a boat this quarter and need pretext to fire a bunch of people'
Every biotech ever?
Other way around, this preceded the SR-71.
Computer Science is not there to prepare you to be a good software developer.

Comp Sci is 'Sci' :)

It just so happens that being a good programmer is mostly an applied skill, and that you don't have to have rocket science Comp Sci chops to be a decent developer.

In fact, in 2019, a lot of development just isn't really Comp Sci.

That said, I wonder if programs should adapt and be more applied to have more of a professional kind of designation.
Oh, interesting. I was unfamiliar with this, and thinking in terms of cryptographic hashes needing to be identical.
This is incorrect. Green and Zimmer have moved material amounts of shares to trusts, other vehicles, etc. If you accumulate their owned or controlled shares, Green is around 500MM and Zimmer around 350MM

https://www.businessinsider.com/lyft-ipo-paying-off-big-time...
> If I was Google I would be providing ... a loose social network that encouraged links to other sites (perhaps similar to HN on a larger scale) that would be easy for third-parties to integrate.

They did. It was called OpenSocial, which originally released in late 2007, and was implemented by MySpace and others to compete against the Facebook platform (also released in 2007). I remember when I first looked at its complex XML documentation, that it was much easier just to use the Facebook API.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSocial
Define "better"? I'd argue that the general lack of critical thought, ethics, and compassion for humanity in general - including those with rarefied STEM degrees - is a direct result of not enough liberal arts classes during college.

Then again, twenty-five years ago I wouldn't have even entertained the idea that more liberal education classes for me would serve me and the world around me better. It wasn't until I started reading those books out of curiosity later in life that I really appreciated their value.
I've thought about switching to wordpress but I mostly publish on other sites these days and blogger still basically works for me and it's free.
>[...] but it's interesting how we value the capital that those companies put in far more than we value the years of work those two put in.

"We" value taking risks more than working. An investor in Lyft carries much more risk than the founders - who would quickly find new jobs. But if the company goes bust the investor's money is gone.
It rid us of that awful Google Reader!
As far as I know, farmers aren't under some duty to report concerning phone mysteries or whatever. Also, a lot of "commoners" aren't exactly deemed credible and may also not know who on earth they should report anything to.

Until this became a big campaign with a point of contact and so forth, he probably had no hope of getting any real action, even if he had put it all together mentally and tried to harangue authorities into checking out his theory.
I'm not denying that the capital has a ton of value for the company. Without it the company would have failed long ago.

But I'm just making a commentary on the relative value of the capital vs. the work.
I listen to a lot of BBC content, from their website, and it's not great to say the least. Some require to listen in their sound app (player on the web), some permit to download the audio file, none display a RSS link, and finally they usually do not grant access to their archives.
He issued an EO to kick all openly trans people out of the military. This admin hasn't been remotely LGBT friendly.
We have those in Belgium and they work great. It's three years and you'll go out with a "professional" bachelor's degree in applied IT, with one of the specialisations being software development. I did this and am now an engineer at Facebook five years later, so they work at least to some extent, and in Belgium attract about the same numbers computer science BSc's do.

You start off right away with object oriented programming basics and simple algorithms, with most of your first year dedicated to those, design patterns, basic maths, basic communication (English and French in our case).

Second year moves into specialisations (networking, business systems design, or software development). I did software development and that's where the Java enterprise projects come in (applying design patterns), some Android programming, some more advanced algorithm stuff (still easy on the whole, similar level to the leetcode questions at FB interviews), ...

The final year will have some side courses on introduction to law (focus on copyright), some stuff about extreme programming, some communication, a bigger project and then the second half will be an internship.

And that's it. No crazy math, no super theoretical stuff, only basic non-engineering skills with a focus on the things that are practical skills as a software engineer.

I felt prepared for the professional world after that. Maybe not the things where you micro-optimise algorithms, build low-level tools and languages. But it definitely gave me a fantastic basis to join a web development company. Enough knowledge about programming and patterns to be able to pick up new languages and be productive in them fast.

You'll see few people with this degree in the hard computer science jobs, but I do think (having seen both) that people straight from school with my degree are better at just building applications on top of existing frameworks. We had practical experience with a lot of popular tools at school, and maybe less hang-ups about not always sticking with the theoretical most efficient way if it'd take longer to implement.

This type of education exists, works and has it's place.

(Note: I actually dropped out after three years without finishing the internship and without passing some of the non-coding courses because I had a nice job offer. I did do every subject so basically have the education, just not the proof.)
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That's why I added the indirect taxes thing, which generally it's a regressive and largely unescapable tax on the poor no matter what the Government decides to do with the money.

Also, if I were to be a marxist (which I'm not, quite the contrary, even though I do have a genuine admiration for Marx's thought) one could say that the well-off have myriad other ways of "taxing" the poor which don't necessarily involve direct monetary transactions, like asking those members of the poor class (not sure what today's equivalent term would be) to work on top of their agreed-upon working hours with no monetary compensation (I have a feeling that the poor are a lot more likely to do over-time without compensation compared to Silicon Valley people or to big-firm lawyers).
Truer words have never been spoken: "Forget Bribery. The Real Scam Is Pretending That Degrees Have Value".

I particularly like their solution: Increase enrollment to point of where it inflates away their value. The intrinsic value would still remain, but the bragging rights will fall away.
> far more than we value the years of work those two put in.

They did all the work, or they hired employees to do lots of it with the capital?
I got the numbers from the S1, which is supposed to include all beneficial trusts. I may have read it wrong though.
The Chinese government sure cares, since same-sex marriage is not legal.
I dont think I would participate in a slack IPO. More competitors pop up each day and I dont see anything particularly unique about their approach that would keep companies interested in keeping their services. Full disclosure though, I have not used their product in years. Maybe its not as slow and bloated anymore, but I dont see whats stopping another trendy team chat app from coming along and posing a threat by the time they go public.