skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't see how I have more control if coinbase hold my crypto and sell it for me when I buy something compared to just having money at a bank.

Can you transfer it using the Bitcoin network? That's when you get your control back. Personally I consider that you should also always try to keep the least amount of Bitcoin possible, and to always keep it to yourself, not on an exchange.

To me also cryptocurrencies aren't a way to keep something either, it's a way to transfer value.

Why not just having money at the bank? Funnily enough I would say that you should actually keep it there and if you actually need to make a payment using Bitcoin, simply find a quick way to transfer that money to Bitcoin.

Cryptocurrencies are amazing to transfer value virtually. They aren't there to replace cash, they are there to allow you to transfer value outside of real life. It's there to allow you to do what you do in real life with cash, but on the internet. Sure Venmo allow you to do it, but I can't have a Venmo account, but everyone can have a Bitcoin wallet and exchange from it.
Or the trains can move much faster and much closer because of improved control.

You should recognise this argument: it's the same logic given for why self-driving will solve everything.
> unique deviceID

> 100% anonymous

Choose one. This is pseudonymous, which is just a fancy word for "likely deanonymizable".
Italy and Greece have always had corruption. But they didn't always have recession.
I'm right there with you
I got painful wrists and hands when using Emacs intensively for coding. Viper mode helped but then I transitioned from development to sysadmin and did far less coding. So switched to vi because it was everywhere when Emacs wasn't.[0]

Now that Emacs is everywhere, I'm looking to going back and using evil-mode. We'll see how it goes. I find the customisation on Emacs far less hacky than vim.

[0] I used to grab tapes(!) from Uni to work and compile from source, on a fairly new / obscure architecture at the time.
This is exactly why I used "cryptocurrencies" instead of Bitcoin. Cryptocurrencies has the potential to solve it, it doesn't means that they all do.
Hell, in Japan at least they even do that adopting adults.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_adult_adoption
Google’s AI is growing up
> I get the "hello" message quite a bit on Slack, and I find it pretty reasonable, since the person hello-ing me is really asking "are you there?

I haven't used Slack for some time now, but I presume it's like every other I'm service in that it displays your current status, such as" Available", "Away" etc?
Do you want an honest answer? Does anyone?
> Not rereading the article again, but I am pretty sure posting pictures of genitalia on user pages was not the only thing going on.

On the other hand I'm pretty sure that "having arguments over topic x" wasn not the only thing going on either.

> As a rule, just because an asshole or idiot disagrees with you, it doesn't make you right. Stop trying to use that as an argument.

Where is that used as an argument?
It should be noted that this community here was among the worst in this regard.

This isn’t about measuring the exact contribution she may or may not have made to the project. It’s that there are limitless stories of „meet the man behind <x>“ where that question just never crosses anyone’s mind. See "The Man Behind Windows PowerShell" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15250349

Yet for her, the discussion was easily dominated by attempts to tear her down, a few defenders, and entirely transparent attempts to differentiate her case from all the others that avoid the obvious reason.
Reformulation of quantum mechanics from Bayesian inference requirements
Remacs is supposed to be an in-place re-write, so it should be just as usable as upstream.
First off, this is a fairly confrontational and antisocial way to make a point about social graces. Also I’m puzzled that someone made an entire website based on one assumption.

If someone says hello to me and doesn’t continue immediately, or even if they do… I’ve already switched to another window. The initial “hello” is perfectly fine for getting attention and informing someone that you wish to speak with them in the near future. There’s no reason to assume they are staring at the chat window, immobilized, twiddling their thumbs and waiting for you to continue.
> The problem is I was already doing some other activity, and was interrupted.

About a year or so ago I came up with a solution to this problem: turn off all notifications. I don't revive notifications for emails, chats, texts – anything except phone calls. That's the only thing. I also have a notice in my chat status at work, and wherever else it makes sense: "For urgent matters, please call me at <phone number>."

It's worked wonders. I can choose to respond whenever I choose to check my messages, and for anything truly important people do call. It's happened maybe a half a dozen times over the past year that anyone's actually called, and typically whenever I'm non responsive in chat (because I didn't see it) I'll get an email instead, which generally has more detail in it anyway.

This, along with using mornings to square away most correspondence, has worked wonders for my concentration. My afternoons are now mostly focus time, despite people texting and emailing. I just get back to them later. Maybe tomorrow morning.
The problem is the lack of free float. Nobody in Europe is as productive as the Germans, therefore they become uncompetitive while being tied to the same currency.

The corruption narrative is just a diversion from the fact that the whole Euro concept was a bad idea to begin with.
Read a history of about any band and you'll see the same effect. For example, see "The Dirt" which is the history of Motley Crue. The lead singer was recruited from another band, explaining that the only reason he had joined the other band was to get laid.
I've done some somewhat similar efforts in the past. One thing to point out is that on the something.original.css and something.refreshed.css to avoid code duplication: since y'all were already using LESS as a build process, code duplication shouldn't be a huge problem with LESS importing the original from the refreshed. I found the LESS compiler to be quite good at coalescing complicated overrides of imported base styles to a final, simpler final build output.

Though the last time I did this sort of thing I definitely couldn't have used CSS Variables. That seems like a good solution for modern browsers with or without a compiler like LESS.
Protection of Logical Qubits via Optimal State Transfers
Your thoughts are on point imo. One must never forget the context of how the EU and it’s main political objective came to be: the culmination of centuries of small scale wars and two world wars within 30 years of each other.

Juncker - who is the only European politician who signed the Maastricht treaty in ‘92 still active today - reiterated at a 20 year commemoration mid January this year that for him, the European Fiscal Union remains an unconventional measure of politics for common peace.
Isn’t tax vs investment a qualitative issue? We’re talking about direction, not number of dollars.
Austerity didn't help. The R&R paper that they based the austerity on turned out to not be properly peer reviewed, and surprise, had a some arthmetic errors that when fixed contradict the original result.
Anyone who is making $135K+ in any city that is not on the west coast or NYC, is probably 10 years into their career and may already have a family. In that case, they probably don’t want to make the sacrifices needed to go from making enough to live an upper middle class lifestyle - ie the nice house in the burbs to downgrading to a small apartment.

In my case, I’m 45, why would I move to the west coast for $300K when I can just stay in $major_city and work for a consulting when my younger son graduates and can make $180K-200K+ and still have the same lifestyle?

And then go back to being just a developer anytime I wanted to and still live comfortably?
Online certifications and degrees are of exceedingly low value, and are often outright scams, unless the online degree is from an accredited university and is indistinguishable from any other degree offered.

Immersive coding boot camps, as much as I dislike the idea, do have value. If someone attends an in-person, full-time (40 hours a week for 12 weeks) bootcamp, from a reputable provider, that can actually lead to a job.

For young people, and those of limited means, I'd stop worrying about certifications and simply help them learn. Plenty of online resources are cheap and valuable, like udemy.com (to name one; there are many good ones). It's a good way to get started part-time. They can learn the basics at their own pace. They'll learn skills that employers will value, although it's unlikely to lead directly to a job.

No one should invest any serious money in education until they know if they like it and have the aptitude.
Debating crazies is tiring and pointless. Goodbye.
Show HN: LibLET a (preliminary) lib to play with formal languages algos
"Screw ad supported services, if only they provided a way to pay for their content, then I would totally just do that"

-- HN
When a job completes, it should end with a newline (if it printed anything). That's good UX. But you cannot mandate this for two big reasons:

* You can't enforce this at the process level, because you may want to use multiple process invocations to build up a single line of text, or want to accept input after printing a prompt. So this logic has to live at the job level.

* Programs that print data that exist somewhere else should not be adding unexpected newlines. `cat foo > bar` should produce an identical copy of foo, not a copy with a newline added.

Since this has to happen at the job level, the only place this can be done is in the shell. Ideally there'd be some way to coordinate with the terminal emulator to say "if I'm not at the beginning of the line already, please add some indication of this and move the cursor to a new line", which not only means the terminal is responsible for the indicator instead of the shell, but it also enables smart behavior like being able to copy the output without including the line terminator indicator

Unfortunately, terminal emulators don't have a way to do this, so the shell has to hack it together.
It's more of a rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic target. That is far too late to accomplish anything useful.
The problem with this is that in anything other than a small organisation, you probably don't know the individual you are starting an interaction with.
"broken toys" is referenced in the article.
Sure but they are close to a balanced budget. And have the best employment rates in a long time. Unlike France, a closer example.
The EU already has a version of this. Some countries in the Eurozone are net recipients of EU money. Just like California is a net contributor and Mississippi a net recipient.

It can be argued that the Euro has certain structural issues, or that the wealth transfer is too big/small, but the EU demonstrates that you don't need to become one nation just to have wealth transfers.
Dynamic content is not the problem. I don't want dynamic content. I think HTTP and servers are the way to go on dynamic content. I just tried, for years, to use IPFS as a way to distribute static content (you know, stuff that will never ever change, even if that stuff is referenced from a dynamic location), and the problems I encountered were so many I finally gave up.

I would love to see all these problems solved and IPFS working very well in the next few years, but I'm afraid the IPFS people are very good in making press releases and presentations, but not in delivering really good software as they say they do.

Anyway, they have no obligation to deliver anything to anyone -- except maybe the people who entered the Filecoin ICO.
Note that using an Apple laptop charger with its included three-prong charger cord will provide a grounded charge (no buzz), as opposed to Apple’s or any two-prong connector (or a third-party three-prong that’s missing the female grounding connector inside the charger-side plug).
Countries get recessions when they pile double-digit deficits and triple-digit sovereign debts hidden from the world with years of accounting fraud, and suddenly banks cease lending them the money they need to keep burning through the cash they don't have.
I'm so thankful that I stumbled upon emacs in my first year of undergrad. That discovery led me to the wonderful world of Lisp, and really impacted how I view software design and the development process. As a C/C++, Clojure, Verilog/VHDL, and org-mode tool, I can't imagine using anything else. Python is the only use case that I haven't been 100% satisfied with, although I don't think Pycharm or VS code offer anything more compelling to me (could be wrong).
It's O(n). Python's set has O(1) insertion and lookup.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/TimeComplexity#set
Hack Back a DIY Guide
I'm game location-wise from about Hollywood to DTLA, however not in a hiring position right now. Will be looking for a gig of my own shortly as my current contract finishes.

Let me think about it a bit.
Floating currency is just a way to automatically renegotiate all of a country's contracts. It will not magically create more wealth or lower the costs of materials. In the end, if you're importing something for $1 and you earn $100/yr or it costs $3 because of your devalued currency but you earn $300/yr, nothing has changed.

What sucks is the most productive people left and the already massive state obligations fell on those left. It wasn't the currency that did that.
Boost Histogram: Fast multidimensional histogram, convenient interface for C++14
This is exciting. I would love to make it to the 1st IPFS Camp in June.
As a counterpoint: the best time to raise money might be when you don’t need to, or want to. It can give you significant leverage in negotiations.
Every time I see a new database announced I expect to see the database of my dreams: a simple JSON store that runs arbitrary computations and store these so they can be queried fast (and reruns just what's needed when some piece of data is updated).

Still nothing so far.
Network effects create counterintuitive situations. If you pick a random one of your friends, that person probably has more friends than you do (this is true! for most values of "you" at least).

I bet that it's likewise true that when you ask someone a question, it will usually be the case that that person answers more questions than you do (again, for most values of "you").

I think the distribution of how many questions a person is asked is very nonlinear. Someone who answers five questions a week is going to have a very different experience, and want very different social norms, than someone who answers fifty, or a hundred and fifty.
> turn off all notifications

For people whose job it is to be notified of things, likely the author the website included, how is this relevant?

Not everybody has the liberty to choose when to check messages or respond to them, especially those who are using a chat system which usually demands an instantaneous response. People collaborating on projects, people working to a deadline, companies which favour Slack or similar systems over email, and in my own example, people on IT helpdesks.

While I'm glad that you've managed to regain control of your routine, I'm not sure I see how it's relevant to the scenarios applicable to those hinted at through the context of the website.
The ad hominem attack is not really necessary.
I'd need a citation for a grid storage solution at scale? Else its just more wind.
The history of business communications since 1800 (and before) has been toward both increasingly abbreviated and structured communications, largely doing away with the prolux formalities of earlier ages.

JoAnne Yates and James Beniger have both explored this in what I've found to be a surprisingly fascinating literature.

For the brief intro:

JoAnne Yates, "The Emergence of the Memo as a Managerial Genre", May 1, 1989.

http://www.ismlab.usf.edu/dcom/Ch6_YatesMemoMgtCommQtly1989....

https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318989002004003

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0893318989002004003

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1177/0893318989002004003

James R Beniger, The control revolution : technological and economic origins of the information society

https://www.worldcat.org/title/control-revolution-technologi...

JoAnne Yates, Control through communication : the rise of system in American management

https://www.worldcat.org/title/control-through-communication...

JoAnne Yates, Information technology and organizational transformation : history, rhetoric, and preface

https://www.worldcat.org/title/information-technology-and-or...
What if you reverse this - loyalty goes very far, it's just that companies don't offer it. If you are fulfilled in your job, why would you want to leave for a grind?
There's hardly any public seating in New York City other in major parks.
As a founder that has built a VC backed business to $XXXM in revenue and now as a founder that has built a bootstrapped business to $XM in revenue I guess I'm in a unique position to answer this.

They both have their pros and cons as many people here have said. VCs allow for faster growth, greater risk taking, focus on other things such as culture and team, and sometimes you get tangential benefits such as PR and exposure. However, the downside is dilution, complicated cap table, growth at all costs (including profitability), infighting, differences in opinions and direction, and if you keep going down the VC path, ultimately you might realize you've built a company that doesn't feel like yours anymore. But hey, if you IPO one day at $XB dollars, everyone wins right?

For bootstrapping, the pros are you control your own destiny, work life balance can be great, you get to make all the decisions, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. The cons are you live and die by your customers, growth can be sloooow, you have to watch every expense, money is always an issue, it's hard to pay employees top dollar.

There are ways to get money without VC, there are many small business loans out there, there's also friends and family which you can also get loans from, it also feels more real to live off of profit - which I think many companies in SV don't know how to do. You can also raise from Angels with non-traditional VC terms such as profit sharing.

As to which I personally prefer, I think there's something great about bootstrapping and living off profits. It's liberating and freeing... but I'd also be lying if I said that VC money doesn't tempt me every now and then. Ultimately I'm lucky in that we're profitable enough to grow at a decent clip without VC dollars so that's the best thing I can ask for... so for me, bootstrapping so far has been pretty great.
Just disgusting
If you want IPFS to be a replacement technology for the web, you need dynamic content. Else, it's a useful static content distribution network, but it's not "the web", not even in the sense of what the web was in the 90s, or the "web" any more than Bittorrent is.

Now, obviously, they're under no obligation to deliver anything. But I'm trying to understand what you mean when you say:

The vision of a IPFS-powered web working is beautiful

Only handling the static part of webhosting is something, but it's not everything.
Firstly, the first "Hi" is a distraction, and pressure to respond without know the urgency, or anything else about what the issue is.

Secondly, and assuming this is a random co-worker rather than a friend, why is "how are you?" in the response when you don't actually care, and possibly don't even know the person?
Sport for a Longer Life? Try Tennis (2018)
If you're already familiar with vim, I've heard good things about Spacemacs: http://spacemacs.org/
Why do you think he shouldn't even stand trial or be charged?
Isn't there a Bitcoin fee to open/close a channel and then the fees involved sending via lightning nodes?

Also the routing problem is starting to become an issue with the network at just ~5000 nodes - How will it scale to millions?

Of course these are just the technical issues, there are others concerning centralization which always seems to end up in a monopolistic end game that end up with consumers having no choice but to pay.
The government sponsored professional hacking team that was mentioned in the article was the focus of the infamous APT1 report by Mandiant (now FireEye), with investigations from 2006 and later: https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdf...

There have been many APT groups named and tracked since then, not just in China.
"destroy" might be an overstatement, but reproduction is _very_ important to people and changes in its dynamics have large ripple effects

look at birth control for an example
"When I pressed them on why they were not taking stronger action against China, their response was, 'We have a multifaceted relationship with China.' "

And this is it: don't want to upset the promise future sales. And this is how 'dividing and conquering' works. One side speaks with 'one voice', the other with 'thousands of little voices' - and it's game.
You've never used Emacs with Cocoa or looked at any source code integrating Emacs with Cocoa; have you?
Assuming you're coming from North America, I found across Europe when my laptop was plugged into 240V I would get this, while 120V in North America was fine. It would also vary depending on the power draw - when the battery was recharging it would be worse (I think).

I ended up unplugging and running off battery as much as possible, and eventually buying a smallish bluetooth keyboard and mouse to take on trips.
Metals v0.5.0 (Scala language server)
> (or Chelsea Manning) as a blameless hero like Edward Snowden.

Well, let's see, one of them went to Russia, the other didn't. Who is closer to being "blameless"? And I thought that collusion with Russia is something that people are somewhat concerned about, lately.

Also, why are you saying that Assange never made any attempt to crack that password? Why then would he ever want to actively mislead Manning by suggesting otherwise? That's a really fanciful scenario.
"To undermine Katherine Bouman's role in the black hole photo, trolls held up a white man as the real hero -- until he fought back"

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/12/us/andrew-chael-katie-bou...
Uber (Finally) Admits It's Directly Competing with Public Transportation
When people change their last name, newly-created references to them do in fact use their new name, even if talking about old events. That said, it's not really an analogous situation, because when people change their last name it's generally in response to a life event, and so references to them that predate that life event weren't inaccurate, they're just old. Transgender people who change their name aren't doing so in response to a life event, they're doing so because their old name was never who they were. It was a name forced upon them by their parents and society. Chelsea was always a woman, it's just the world didn't know until she came out. The name she used to go by was never really her, and continuing to use it is supremely disrespectful to her.

Or to put it another way, if you have a friend that comes out of the closet and announces they're gay, do you ever talk about "when they used to be straight", or do you recognize that they were always gay and you simply didn't know?
Yes, but at what cost? The food bank use rate is at an all time high.

A lot of people are skeptical of the raw employment rate - an uber driver who does 1 hour a week counts as "employed".