skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you see the original iPhone introduction by Steve Jobs, being able to play iTunes songs was a huge deal. No other phone could do it. (Well apple did try with Motorola for some phone to play iTunes, but those were heavily restricted). iTunes was the dominant music store. Did they ever offer a version for either Symbian, Blackberry, android, Windows Phone? No.

Windows phone had no Instagram too, and even that made it painful to use. If the platform doesn't have enough users, developers aren't obliged to develop for it.

You could always use a web browser for all of Google's services. They never blocked HTML5 apps.
A breakup is highly unlikely IMO. Not only has the U.S. govt not been keen to break up monopolies in the last ~30 years, but it actually let AT&T reconstitute itself by re-acquiring most (all?) of the former baby Bells ~20 years after breaking them up.

In addition, the current administration has taken an absolutely anti-regulation approach if you get/stay in their good graces. I suspect that something closer to a toothless consent decree with certain <cough> accommodations to the administration would make this all go away. Not saying it's right, just that it seems the most likely.
According to Chris(1), the rollout "might take a couple days" because of a lazy sending script they're using

1: https://keybase.io/chris
Thanks for posting this.
I don't understand how the US can go in and decide BTC-e was a money laundering op and then confiscate bitcoins and put people in jail. Who decides who gets those bitcoins?
Surely many other countries have money laundering laws. What makes the US so special that they can go flip a business operating in the Ukraine?
Having never used Django Admin, how would you compare to Rails Admin and Active Admin?
LocalBitcoins pinged me and said I need to establish 2FA or move my funds due to an inactive account,

I wonder if they finally swept all those inactive accounts out.

I started using it back in the $50 days, so some thousands of bitcoin may have been a lot less of a deal when they got deposited
A secret Dutch mole aided the CIA and Mossad's 2007 Stuxnet cyber attack on Iran
Microsoft is the new Microsoft lol. It's back on top as the largest market cap just like it was in its heyday
I’m currently comparing Rails with .Net Core.

Does anyone have experience with both?

I’m especially interested in how .Net Core works with Postgres on Linux.

Most of then tutorials focus on using the entire MS stack.
If some behaviour is too common across all companies, Governments need to focus on laws to address the underlying problems across the industry, not to cherry pick a company and make example of.
Whats Apple going to do for the Uighurs it let be affected by the iPhone Exploit
Whats Apple going to do for the Uighurs it let be affected by the iPhone exploit? They have billions of dollars. Can they at least open some refugee camps in countries just outside Chinas borders for these brutally suppressed minorities in China that they let "just" the mass iPhone 0 day hacks affect?
the amount of trivialization and conflation irks me

1. "51% attack" is not a thing as in "one has to have 51% of hashpower to perform it". it's just that with 51% of hashpower it becomes relatively cheap to perform such attack. one can throw enough money at the problem and get lucky to perform large reorg with just 10% of hashpower. the lower the number - the more lucky attacker has to get.

2. "rewriting a block" or "billion dollar bounty" as the GP put it are just conveying wrong ideas. there is zero chance for that $1B to get stolen even if attacker gets 100% of hashrate. all they can do is revert the transaction so that money goes back to original owners by generating a fork in the chain that doesn't include said transaction.

even that is not enough because competing miners (assuming attacker doesn't really have all 100% of hashpower) will still eventually include the transaction because it pays lucrative fees.

the trick here is that in Bitcoin parties agree to finalize the deal only after certain number of confirmations (blocks created after the one that includes the transaction). general rule is to wait for 6 confirmations.

if there indeed was some $1B deal where 94k BTC changed hands i wouldn't be surprised if their agreed upon number of confirmations was ~500 blocks (half the value of transaction in question in miner rewards), which is roughly 3 days wait.

ultimately though i'm pretty sure this was some kind of cold-storage consolidation so no BTC actually changed hands.
In France you officially have recourse, but there are many ways to make it ineffective most of the time... Very few policemen end up in a court, and they (quite) never goes to jail even if they had a protestor eye out. And decision makers are never bothered...
In fairness I haven't used ActiveRecord in a few years, but I really love the Sequel ORM for ruby over my previous experience with ActiveRecord. I feel like ActiveRecord can be a bit too magic for some of the more complicated things I have to do with my models.
One sign of a bubble: traditional valuation principles are abandoned because "this time it's different". See Nifty Fifty, 2000 dotcom, 1920's crash, 2015 Chinese A shares, ... . It usually requires a new generation of people to enter the market because most people learn only on their own mistakes, not on other people mistakes.

This article talks about what negative cash flow means for the company. But what does it mean for the investor? A company that cannot go cash flow positive is worth zero - the value of the company is max(all future cash flows discounted by the interest rate curve, 0). The max(, 0) comes from the concept of the limited liability company.
Yes, that's exactly what it's for.
The answer I hope for is that they don't care about the case of x==0, so that I can leave out the "x &&" part, leaving the noticeably simpler answer

(x & x-1) == 0
Biggest among what companies. Both market cap and net income of google are less than both MSFT and AAPL.
Sorry, I forgot about that rule. I really wasn't being critical of you not watching it. (There is no tone in writing to convey that extra meaning.)

I was trying to suggest it as a helpful way to understand Rasmus' perspective and a very complex history of development that has real logic to the choices he made that so many people have been critical of over the years. And that I think if someone heard him out would realize they would likely have made the same choices he did if they were in the same situation.

I just felt there wasn't a need for me to quote the video, but I suppose that was a little lazy of me.
It's more like a store putting up a no shoes no shirt no service sign and then trying to sue for trespass when a beachgoer comes in to shop anyway. LinkedIn is a business with publicly accessible assets they want to be frequented, but they want to control how you do that. However they are finding the laws regulating the rights people have in respect to frequenting places open to the public apply.
If there's one thing in life you want to know before anything else, it's how to get better at things! :)

We have a whole field of science that deals with human behavior, wouldn't it be useful if we had that as a basic part of school?
Presumably it means you can write your eBPF source code and have it get compiled through GCC (meaning you get all of its optimizations, architecture targets, etc).
My 2 favorites:

- how many quit in the last 3 years (followed by ”why so many” or ”why so few”)

And

- can I sit with someone that shows me some code I’ll be working on?
There used to be variations on this that tied to your smart phone or watch. I don't recall if this is currently supported by iOS.

But I got a Symbian phone shortly before working at a place where you had to keep your desktop locked at all times. There was an app that would lock your desktop on loss of Bluetooth connection at that time BT range was for all practical purposes less than 30 feet.
No, I am claiming the above examples are not evidence of anti competitive behaviour.
1- Do you believe that Google isn't engaged in anti-competitive behavior?
2- Investigations have to start somewhere. Sure, those would also be some great people to go after, and everyone is going to have all kinds of expectations of "what's important" but that's entirely subjective.

Basically, I don't see progress, even if it's maybe not the most important thing, as ever being a bad thing.
The fact that bitcoin even HAS a "dollar value" attached to it is a testament to the FAILURE of bitcoin's original sole objective.
> That's how wasm is meant to be, but doesn't give any detail as to how that's achieved programatically

True, but a conforming implementation has at least some sandboxing, since it prevents arbitrary memory access. But the degree to which it is sandboxed depends on the functions that are exposed by the runtime.
For me, I prefer Django, but I haven't used Rails in a number of years. In general I prefer Python over Ruby because it's more explicit and less magic, but Ruby definitely has its conveniences.

That being said, I am not a Ruby developer, I am a Python developer, so I'll try to address these points as best I can from the other side of the equation.

* Authentication - this is fairly simple to address. It's a fairly easy-to-use pluggable backend. It's not very hard to write a system to replace the default which would let you log in using other credentials. Also, a few years ago you couldn't replace the default User model - that has since been changed.

* Asset pipeline - fair point, but I prefer to keep my assets separate from the backend if possible - my current work project has a backend API in django with a separate frontend repo with all the JS/CSS

* Configuration - the best solution for this I've found is django-environ[0]. Alternatively, the built-in `DJANGO_SETTINGS_FILE` environment variable lets you specify a different base config file.

* Sidekiq/Celery - The API, I'll give you, however it's fairly easy to configure Celery to use Redis

* Mailer previews - I've used mailhog[1] before. This gives you a local mailbox to test with and will be closer to your final configuration anyway.

* Better security - possibly by default, but I haven't had any issues with django-rest-framework in the past

* Testing - pytest with pytest-django is also great to work with.

* Django ORM vs ActiveRecord - I don't have a ton of experience with ActiveRecord but I like the Django ORM. There's also SQLAlchemy, but it's a bit odd to rip that out of django if you don't need to.

I like Django because it's solid out of the box, but still provides a way to extend the core to be as flexible as you want. I assume it's possible to do this with Rails, but that's not my area of expertise.

I do appreciate you outlining things you like better as opposed to just saying "Django is terrible". I'll definitely have to try Rails again and see what I think of it now.

[0] https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ

[1] https://github.com/mailhog/MailHog
The best kind of "screwing around" is screwing around in plain sight. Once, I had a fresh grad in my team and I had to get him up to speed. I noticed he was taking more than the usual time to do basic tasks, yet whenever I passed by his desk, he had three terminals open and had c++ code here and there and compilation errors on another window. Two months later, he would move to a different company. Turns out that he was just practicing his programming skills, and all of this time I assumed he was working on assigned tasks.

EDIT: spelling
>Basically, these sorts of shenanigans are like Michael Swaine's story from decades back about deleting his own parking tickets in South Carolina

I can't find anything on this. Do you have a reference? Sounds interesting.
I second this (U.S.). I came from a middle class family but college came straight from my pocket. I sunk nearly $75,000 into college and struggled to get a comfortable paycheck for a long time. I'm now 32 and feel that I can make ends meet but it came at the cost of destroyed credit, inability to purchase a home/car, etc. Slowly things have recovered and I now own a home, married, kids.. but I had never felt more depressed than when I realized the true cost of college. Teenage me didn't quite understand what I was signing up for, adult me regrets the decisions I made. (I went to school for Graphic Arts, I shifted to Software Development in my late 20s).
Oh and their past claim to Stanford at least comes from this instructor - Bradley Fukumoto, undergrad at Cal and M.A. at Stanford.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brady-fukumoto-9b800033/

Here's an outdated look at their instructor lineup. Some are still there however. I hope they reinstate this page on their live site again but who knows. https://web.archive.org/web/20190618074103/https://www.lambd...
> How much time and effort did you put into the application?

Spent a whole week on it because the questions were really good and had to do a lot of thinking and research.

> Do you need traction to get into Y Combinator?

At its core, to get in YC you need an insight to build something that has the potential to be a $1B+ company. Having traction is great because it shows that this insight is grounded -- but this isn't required.

If you have no insight and no traction, then you need something else exceptional to convince them to invest in you rather than the idea.

> What are some tips for writing the written application?

Don't bullshit and get a founder from YC to review the application. Unlike most people, you don't need to "bullshit YC" to get in.. they actually want to fund you as long as you can prove that your insight is grounded and made significant progress relative to where you were a few weeks earlier. Also, be concise because they're reading thousands of applications.. if as the CEO you can't be concise, it's kind of a red flag against you that you won't communicate properly to customers, employees and investors.

> Bonus tips on how to get into Y Combinator

Don't read too much into "How to get into YC" things. Be ruthlessly focussed on working on your product and talking to users. Better to fail fast and move on to a different product if users don't love it or you're not solving a major pain point.
> I've used C++ in a pretty tight embedded environment and it was great.

I'd love to hear some details. I'm always looking for C++ stories that didn't end in disaster and what the people did that worked.
I have listened to Planet Money for over a year now, really enjoy the fast podcasts like the Indicator and Marketplace Tech.
Behind the Epic Meltdown That Ended Travis Kalanick
I think people are very different than companies in this respect.

An individual would want to have savings (in the form of pension - e.g. 401k - and invested savings), while a company's mandate is NOT to store significant amounts of money to derive capital interest from it.
Yes, the post included multiple potentially true claims. What is the problem?

Only one claim per comment?
I want nothing more than for Trump to get unseated, but it amazes me how people pin the entirety of the economy's ebbs and flows on whoever was most recently president.

Edit: the sitting president of course has influence on the big picture, but there are many other factors at play, some of which are inevitable
Sorry but Stanley Park is not a forest.
I'm saying it was always messy, and it wasn't better before. It worked great in the US in the 30s and beyond because there was a large consensus around the New Deal, the government created a middle class that favored moderate policies because they had a stake in the system, and the Democratic party largely controlled the legislature for 60 years, which restrained the policies that could be enacted by the executive, and again...consensus around pro-social policies that contributed to widespread economic prosperity.

The shift to populist politics just mirrors pre-WWI politics.
I googled "cult checklist"
it's insufficient to know the questions. to gauge whether a company is the right fit, you must understand what it is that you're looking for. this is a culmination of past experiences and lessons learned. the questions will follow.
Good for them. So much focus on "what we can do" with the climate crisis puts the onus on individuals, instead of industry.

I like that they go further than just "use EVs to deliver packages" – but instead also calling on AWS to not enable or help accelerate Oil and Gas company extraction. Although I'm sure this one will fall flat, because there's too much money involved.
Democracy is hard work. And as society’s “elites”—experts and public figures who help those around them navigate the heavy responsibilities that come with self-rule—have increasingly been sidelined, citizens have proved ill equipped cognitively and emotionally to run a well-functioning democracy. As a consequence, the center has collapsed and millions of frustrated and angst-filled voters have turned in desperation to right-wing populists...He has concluded that the reason for right-wing populists’ recent success is that “elites” are losing control of the institutions that have traditionally saved people from their most undemocratic impulses. When people are left to make political decisions on their own they drift toward the simple solutions right-wing populists worldwide offer: a deadly mix of xenophobia, racism and authoritarianism.

This is really total nonsense. That doesn't sound the end of democracy to me, that sounds like democracy in action. He just don't want the rule by elites in the guise of democracy to end. There's nothing anti-democratic about these policies he's tarring as "racist" and "authoritarian", which I assume would be things like stopping illegal immigration or securing one's country's territorial integrity (which, by the way, don't even ever happen due to the intervention of elites). But I guess he finds these things self-evident. That isn't good enough for me.
I used to hold this opinion until I started using elixir's ecto library. However, I still do hold ActiveRecord in high regard.
Bitcoin Deposited in Bakkt Warehouse Protected by $125M Insurance
Is it just me, or is the fact that Bitcoin uses almost half a percent of the world's electricity completely insane!? It's unfathomable! Half a percent of the sum total of human energy expenditure! Just for some pointless hashing!
It's like Pied Piper, but with cryptography instead of compression!
Any chance you have an example of this pattern you can point to? Also, would the use of Span<T> make it possible to do this without unsafe code?
For the authorities it's not just a meaningful distinction, it's the basis of their antitrust investigations, namely that Apple is engaging in anticompetitive practices in the iOS app market.
I believe reading that Ross Ulbrict's computer was completely encrypted and only accessible with a passphrase. The minute he logged out or closed his laptop's lide, the information was completely locked down.

IIRC, they were able to get his information by an elaborate scheme acted out by plainclothes police where they grabbed his PC while his computer was unlocked. Without looking it up, I think someone bumped into him and one officer took his laptop while another one on the other side grabbed his phone.
The problem with that sort of artisan is that you never know if it is really artisan stuff, or factory prepared mixtures.
Many shops look like artisan shos, but are just selling overpriced factory food. I really became wary of them.

In France where I live, it is really becoming hard to know if they really prepare the baguettes completely by themselves (flour + yeast + cooking) or if they buy ready made mixtures, and only cook them.
BTC-e undoubtedly had a ton of legitimate users, like yourself, but also a lot of fraudulent users. And most importantly, it was established and operated by its founder as a money laundering scheme. He used it used to launder all of the stolen funds from the Mt. Gox hack (worth several billions, depending on when you measure the value), among other things.

BTC-e was a cover to help criminals steal from Bitcoin exchanges and safely dilute the funds.

It sucks that you lost your money, but it was wrapped up with billions of dollars of dirty money, and it's probably tough for investigators to distinguish the two.
They've been giving the coin away for at least the last 2 years, but they are still resorting to giving it away means there are issues with it.
You Need a Budget

https://www.youneedabudget.com/
I am not a proponent of crypto currency by any stretch, but I disagree with this. The fact that BTC has dollar value simply indicates that BTC can't be spent everywhere the dollar can. IMO the real failure of BTC is runaway deflation, which leads to it being an "investment" relative to fiat currencies.
In other words, a lack of Vitamin D reduces bone strength but getting more than necessary doesn't increase bone strength any further.

Makes sense. This is often how the body works. You should get enough of <nutrient> but having more than needed doesn't turn you into a superhero (but it can be poisonous).
I did some quick math a while ago on the cost to buy 51% [0].

When I did it the network hashrate was 44,000,000 TH/s and if you could buy enough S9i's to the same low price, it would cost you around $650 million. This is excluding any other infrastructure you'd need and of course the power you'd use to perform the attack. And since I did the calculations the hashrate has -doubled-, making it cost quite a bit more than a billion.

Now maybe you can get off cheaper if you try to rent the hashrate. Around $18 million of BTC is mined per day, say you can get 50% for $10 million per day. So yes maybe you can do it for 40 days, if you want to risk a large part of that billion. And face the quite massive risk of tanking Bitcoin's value or facing devs who might launch a "protective hard fork".

(This is assuming you -can- buy or rent enough hashrate, which is very uncertain).

There are checkpoints in BTC, although they haven't been added since 2014.

[0]: https://whycryptocurrencies.com/how_do_cryptocurrencies_work...
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Sometimes I wonder if low-dose stimulants should be available without a diagnosis.

Most people don't know this, in the US, a doctor can only prescribe medication for therapeutic use. A doctor can't prescribe someone a low dose of stimulants because that person genuinely enjoys using them, but has no medical need.

Thus, I suspect that some doctors will just write down ADD as a diagnosis because someone wants legal access to amphetamines.