skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm thinking that the modern whale is not a big fan of Ahab...
> Good, but we expect much more from a major java release (i know that there are also some other improvements, but not too much).

If the introduction of lambdas and streams is not enough for you, nothing will be.
Someone steals your physical money, good luck finding them. ATM steals your money, you know where he lives. Complain to the bank, get your money back.
Perhaps if there were legitimate complaints.

For example, the article claims that Cash is loved by Libertarians. As far as I'm aware, Libertarians would prefer privatized currencies, akin to the mid-1850s banking system. A centralized institution creating a centralized currency is much different from what the libertarians would like.

They miss the basics of the politics involved here. BTC (apparently) represents decentralization, freedom, etc. etc. At least according to libertarians.

The complaint about the lack of tracking and anonymity is also ironic, because BTC "marketing" has been filled with misinformation and lies. Fortunately, the article seems to take the correct stance. (BTCs are tracked, the ledger is public, it is far easier to be anonymous with Cash than it is with BTC).

Finally, there are systems in place because Cash has a 200+ year long history. It is impossible to ignore the "momentum" of cash. FBI has ways of tracking and marking bills. Secret Service actually keeps track of those Serial Numbers.

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Besides, BTC is but the first popular poof-of-work cryptocoin. I don't think BTC is perfect for many reasons... I think DOGE is going in a better direction.

The article fails to mention any of _my_ complaints. The extremely long transaction time (10 minutes minimum, if you are willing to trust a 1-block confirmation), the deflationary nature (block chain rewards halving every couple of years). The hard cap at 21 million (DOGE has no cap on coins fyi).

You know, the legitimate complaints about BTC, the ones that people are trying to solve with alt-coins.
>> "I would actually say its getting the general public informed. 75% of the US population are aging baby boomers. They can barely work an iphone, how the heck do you think they're ever going to accept cryptocurrency? Even with a ton of marketing, this is something that is completely foreign to 85% of the general population."

You're saying 75% of the US population cannot work an iPhone? Or 75% are baby boomers?? Just so you're more informed next time you make up stats, less than 15% of the US population would be considered baby boomers.

Source: http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby-Boom_Generation
Tylenol should probably not be available over the counter. It has a narrow therapeutic index and safer, equally effective alternatives.
Of course. I should have thought of that. Thank you.
As computers/robots get better and more versatile, they inevitably "compete" for jobs and provide downward wage pressure the same as if the skilled human labor pool (but not the human consumer pool) had drastically increased. Fundamentally it's all about who can do the job better and/or cheaper. If you aren't the one at the top of the "better" or "cheaper" list in some category, you don't have a job. Period.

As a simple thought experiment, imagine a world in which a computer or robot could do literally any job a human could do better and cheaper than a human could do it. In such a world, the only reason a human would draw a salary would be due to charity, not good business sense. Of course, in such a world you don't have an economy as we know it either, which is kind of the point. Our current social contract won't survive in that kind of a world. We'll need a new one.

You might argue that such a day will never come; that there will always be a large class of jobs that humans can do better or cheaper than machines. Perhaps that's true. But that's what this conversation is really about: do machines have fundamental limitations due to physics that will keep them below the level of a large majority of humans forever? I think that's a strange position for most of us at HN to be arguing. Even software development will someday be automated to a large extent, I expect (yes, not anytime soon), and then where will we be?
The Graun's address will forever be www.grauniad.co.uk to me.

(note to confused and/or non-UK people: look up the magazine Private Eye)
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C64 Scenedemo: We Are All Connected (Datastrom 2014)
Would love an invite as well if it's not too late.
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I think the most important detail is that he slammed on the brakes and the car continued to accelerate. Cars with a computer controlled accelerator should be able to stop accelerating if the brake pedal is pushed.

I would also expect that he would recognize it if the accelerator pedal had been stuck on a floor mat.

I think it's interesting that even in a small forum such as HN, we still have an anecdote. It's also interesting that car owners still claim to experience the acceleration problem after the two (mechanical) recalls.

It reminds me of the Therac 25 incident, where there were only "anecdotes" to be found for _years_, and the company concluded that a mechanical switch had to be the fault. It's very interesting that we now have evidence that the software _can_ be at fault.
Kind of the same as with two english words (nouns or verbs, not counting stop words)

So, depending on your writing skills, it can be a lot. You could use the begining of a poem or a sentence, which would be understood by the readers. For instance if you say “温古" it refers to a Confucius quote meaning "warming the past to learn the new".

But more interestingly, I think the restrictive and top-bottom rules edicted in Discourse and Stack Overflow may be some kind of mistake, or ultimately lead to dead ends. It goes against the natural grain of all things internet. It is AOLish, if you allow the neologism.

The leading successes of internet, i.e. Wikipedia, Google search, have had their massive growth and exitement when they were in extensively all-accepting mode. Reddit and 4chan are also in this kind of mode.

It seems probable to me that the next break-through will be again lifting artificial limitations there is on e.g. Stack Overflow.
Betteridges Law [1] applies here. This article is speculation on a private meeting that happened spring of 2013. There doesn't appear to be any new information in the article, just speculation.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
This is cool. There is already a command called rename[1] that can do some of this but this is much more interactive (and probably more intuitive for vi users). Is this scriptable?

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/rename
I literally couldn't care less about the design of a MS employee badge.
These 'bills' do have a nice physical feel to them, though. Like bars of gold. It's not as fleeting as digital money. I can see it being used as a means of restricting your budget; after all, most digital money can be spent until it's gone. Adding a boundary like having to go to a conversion point (digital to cash) to get your daily or weekly budget may lead to less spending.
Don't make up statistics to bolster your point, it detracts from it. Every number you mentioned is wrong.
Once we solve this whole scarcity problem, sure.
Patrick McKenzie (patio11) wrote about this topic in one of his newsletters. It is a must read.

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin... (You can jump to the section "Scaling A Consulting Business")

He also did a podcast with Brennan Dunn on the same topic:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/10/10/kalzumeus-podcast-3-grow...

Would the subcontractor want to know how much he's getting paid vs the contract,
would this affect his incentive?

Finding good & reliable subcontractors is hard. When you do find such a person, my suggestion is to be as transparent as possible with them. The most probable reason why this person (who we think is good) is subcontracting is either they can't get high value engagements on their own, or don't like the rigmarole of finding good clients. If that is the case, they should understand the markup being charged by you.

In the end, if it is a win-win situation for both, they would understand and be happy with it. Of course, the assumption here is that they are reasonable but that you'll have to judge after working with them for a while. I write this as a person who'd prefer working as subcontractor at this point of time.
Sending uncontrollable accelerations for hundreds or thousands of feet is safer than a maximum of 11 ft of coasting?

Yes, there are always trade offs to be made. But a corrupted system is utterly unpredictable - if a control port can do something, it eventually will, at the speed of electronics. On the other hand, a shutdown is entirely predictable. We design for it, because every system does eventually fail and shut down. It's a 'normal' mode of operation in this sort of system design. That tends to weight the design heavily towards very fast resets and redundancy in mission critical (people die if you mess up) systems. I can design a system to handle a shut down control board (limit the robots arm's travel, etc). I often can't do anything if the arms are waving about randomly, under power.

I'm not opining randomly; I've worked in flight control, robotics, UAVs, and factory machinery. Until my current job, I've always had to worry about killing somebody. You really can't let software that controls dangerous equipment continue to run in a damaged state unless the rest of the system has a supervisor mode that can override and limit the system's behavior. Even then, I'm having trouble thinking of a scenario where I would prefer to leave that process running vs shutting it down.
OK, so we've gone from

> Luck is invented to be an excuse for the feeble minded.

> There is no luck involved in getting rich. If you want to get rich you have to 1) work hard 2) be smart 3) be unscrupulous.

...to drawing a fatuous semantic distinction between luck and good fortune, on the basis that luck is pseudo-random, and good fortune is not ... when the whole point that you're ducking is precisely that the advantages of the economic elite are not random at all, but pretty easy to define and empirically measure.

Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to defend a position that is nutso bonkers.

EDIT: fixed the paraphrase
Satire works when you hold folly up to ridicule. Central banking is possibly the greatest human invention since sanitation. The U.S. central banking system ranks among the finest of its kind.

Bitcoin handles 7 transactions a second on a good day, has no reliable institutional actors, and I can neither pay taxes nor satisfy court judgments with it. It is an impressive proof-of-concept for decentralized trust in cryptosystems, but it is hardly a currency.
Basic income and increased progressive taxes are a good idea to solve mass unemployment. However, as proofed by recent London riots, they increase crime rates. People just have too much spare time they cannot fulfill with meaningful activities. We always want more money than we have today. The only way to increase income when there are no jobs is to take them from somebody around. Forcefully or silently.
Indeed, and this is my favorite random fact about whales in Moby Dick: "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that the whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me."
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There was a couple at our church who asked when we were going to start a family - the Sunday after we returned from our honeymoon. I think perhaps there can be a localized societal pressure, but I don't think you can look at the US and say there's an overall pressure.
At a certain point, your fame/wealth/power grants you some responsibilities if you care to honor them. One of them is to be constantly mindful of what you say or do because it has leveraged, far-reaching implications on your community and for a select few, globally.

Take a silly example: If Justin Bieber decides it's okay to drink sizzurp and drag race, millions of impressionable pre-teens may see this as acceptable behavior. Take a relevant example: If John Doerr says that the best startup talent tends to be white, male, nerds who've dropped out of Harvard or Stanford, this can have a negative influence on men and women of color who have startup aspirations (or dropped out of MIT).

Now consider who we're talking about here in this context. Every person here benefited from the lead-up to the financial crash and then benefited from tax-paying dollars in the financial bailout. While it's debatable whether or not Wall Street was let down easy (for some, they will point to no criminal charges, watered-down finance reform, etc.), I think both sides can agree that there exists a loud, populist movement that believes Wall Street is irresponsibly reckless, benefiting from moral hazard. Knowing this, wouldn't you take some precaution to not be shown to be callous and indifferent to today's economic state?

To those who say this was an entirely private affair, I'd argue the opposite. This was a dinner with place-cards and catering at the St. Regis. If they were to have this conversation truly in private (and as a former investment banker, I've participated in these private discussions), then we wouldn't be discussing this on HN.

I believe an organization like this has outsized responsibilities because of the influence they wield. Do you know how hard it is to get men and women of this caliber in a single room? Imagine if they harnessed their passion towards something their community would deem constructive?

I believe in individual rights so certainly, everyone is entitled to their free speech. But no one should be surprised when a backlash occurs.

Edit: To the person who asked how the Justin Bieber example is relevant, I say it has to do with the fame/wealth/power and influence argument. It is not a perfect analogy and I did not intend it to be. I used a silly example to initially diffuse what I think was going to be a serious indictment of bad behavior.
I agree, but I think in practice it will be quite simple. Most people have phones which can be used as wallets. I already pay for my coffee at Peet's with my Nexus 5 using NFC. Assuming most drip into a spending wallet, and are OK with that spending wallet's security model, this leaves the challenge of implementing savings wallet security.

Banks are already set up to provide these services and when they decide to jump in, adoption will take off pretty quickly. Those services could come in the form of cash exchange at ATMs, wallet hosting, compromised savings wallet insurance (if they host your wallet), best practices around passwords/etc., loans, and cold storage security via fireproof lockboxes.

This will (obviously) require the banking industry to wrap their heads around these new models. How long that takes is anyone's guess.
No, there was one other interesting point.

Management wanted a "big splash" public rollout. Development teams wanted to avoid a "big bang" development effort. They solved this by going live many months ahead of time but ONLY for clients using special headers. This allowed anyone to test the system while still not making it "public" until the day of the big reveal.

I had not previously heard of that particular technique (using special HTTP headers) and it's a useful one.
Even Startups Need Time to Recharge
I like that "moving north" idea, but why not Portland or Seattle?

The West Coast itself still has a great appeal to many, and Portland is still affordable, quirky, and frenetic.
I think it is not related to Docker itself, but to the fact the it is using all purpose Linux distributions.
I'm pretty sure that very soon we will see explosion on new distros addressing exactly these problem and built explicitly for running inside containers.
Insurance against theft, fraud, any transaction based deception you are now unprotected against. Once you have handed over cash, it'll take a herculean effort to get that back.

On the other hand, when someone mugged me for my card, I cancelled it a few minutes later and had a replacement within 2 days. I lost nothing but my pride and my wallet.
The U.S. will be implementing chip-and-pin in 2015.
Actually I have read the suggested readings. I still think the world view that you have on this is a poor match for reality.

Just because someone writes something flowery and nice doesn't mean that they are right, or that their distinctions are a useful way to understand the world.
The article isn't ridiculing the central/fractional banking system. It's ridiculing the response to bitcoin.
Why The Internet of Things Scares Me
Everytime I've had a problem with my cable I just say cancellation and it takes me directly to a human. NLP isn't bad but most of my problems are with billing, something that should have been easily solvable by an early 80s mainframe. Yet every few months the cable company managed to screw it up and I'm fairly sure they were doing it on purpose.
Staying Hands On
Until Web Developers stop treating the end-user as a consumer of unlimited computational and bandwidth resources, issues like this will continue to crop up.

I love AngularJS for internal desktop tools I write, but I would never use it or any other client rendering script in the wild where my applications could be consumed by unknown form factors. Specifically, you have absolutely no idea how much memory allocation you are getting when you are dealing with mobile devices, and any assumption on the developer's part is asinine.

AngularJS was not the problem in this case; and I'd wager we are going to continue to see articles like this as developers go through growing pains of learning that you should optimize for the end user first, not yourself.
Thats assuming they don't rot in the process! Now Gold people can trust because that doesn't rot and can last 100 years in a damp jar. You'll never get the public away from the gold standard.
> Files.readAllLines

Geez, I think I've already reimplemented that half a dozen times. Of course it would be buried in the Files class and not one of the 30 dozen buffer reader whatever classes I have to piece together.

> String.split()

Yeah yeah, that's what all the Java books say ;)
Yes, they should push the platform not the language. There is still a very big potential in java. I am thinking about something like java se on ios. Or a new mobile platform based on java se. Or even better: a platform with html user interface and everything other java se. Firefox made it on javascript.
I'm not sure why you are being so defensive. I never condemned (the word you're looking for, rather than "condoned") hackers. People who like to learn on-the-fly, tinker, make things, have an important place in this world, including software. I would never deny that.

Also note that the roles of "hacker" and "software developer/engineer" need not be mutually exclusive.

I was pointing out to the parent comment that someone who is not reasonably versed in proper software design, process, and documentation cannot just hack away at products such as Therac-25 anymore. At least, it would be much more difficult for them to do so and bring it to market successfully, due to all the regulatory red-tape.
My eyes hurt from reading so much PRese. Look, every organization from from Solution A to Solution B in due course-- and that is a PR Story. But for it to be useful programmers, there has to be some amount of quantitative data to support the decision ;a video embed doesn't count. Surely Couchbase folks can do better than this to catch our attention.
Can Reactive Programming Handle Complexity?
> Bitcoins (and others) aren't backed by a government.

No, they're backed by confidence in math, something much more reliable than confidence in government.
An important distinction that this sort of "there will be jobs forever" rhetoric never seems to address is that of basic necessities vs. other stuff.

Through automation, the basic necessities of all of Humanity can be produced/met by an increasingly smaller proportion of the human population. The new jobs are moving to the "other stuff" category. At some point, someone is bound to notice that "basic necessities" are now potentially dirt cheap, and that we can all be free from work we do not desire.

We are now living through a weird transition phase were most jobs are bullshit, but they are necessary purely to distribute wealth. This is a horrible and absurd system which forces people to be prisoners for a good chunk of their lives for no good reason whatsoever.

Also: I really can't stand "Here's why..." titles. They come across as arrogant and cliché at the same time. If you're going to be arrogant, make sure you're also brilliant.
I have been mugged. I lost all the cash that was in the wallet. I phoned up my card company and they immediately cancelled the cards and replaced them within a couple days.

Cash cost me money, cards cost me nothing.
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What about credible results- should things require less evidence if they support the status quo?
This is a bit of a stretch, but perhaps if whales are as smart as we think they are, elders are advantageous because they can pass down wisdom to younger whales.
What's already happening now is the wealthy are consuming more and the middle class is shrinking. The top 20% does 60% of personal spending.

http://www.parapundit.com/archives/009383.html

I see no reason for the trend of the disappearing middle class to stop. The future is Brazil: A wealthy elite alongside impoverished masses. There's less and less business need for a large middle class.

http://www.thecollectiveint.com/2013/03/favelas-of-brazil-bo...
You're relatively new, so you may not know yet that HN generally doesn't like comments that are just jokes. The moderation system exists to promote the signal over the noise, and one-liners are mostly noise.
Gold has been around for over a thousand years. Bank notes that cannot be exchanged for gold at fixed rate are recent invention (1971).
If anything it's cash that's drunk. It has multiple personalities and there's a huge problem with cloning.

Cryptocurrency is a reasonably-likely future of money, provided that cryptography itself doesn't somehow become irrelevant. From a counterfeiting perspective it's more secure than bank notes and adding a reliable physical component would make it functionally-indistinguishable from bank notes.

I'm just eagerly awaiting the day I can get paid for my work in Nuyen, chummer. I've got a hot new cyberdeck and some implants to pay for. Just remember the Golden Rule: Never make a deal with a dragon.
I know. It's about damned time.
Simple != good.
For the satire to work, the parodied criticisms have to make sense when applied to central banking systems. But they don't.

When satire doesn't work, the author looks sillier than your target. I don't think this was a goal.
I don't agree fully with this since a lot of research is already going into this.
As justingregoryuk mentioned, i am thinking more on java as the platform. Why they (Oracle) don't come out with some innovation in this field? There are endless possibilities and they are sleeping.
>Cheating in MMO games is always a battle

Cheating in MMOGs isn't much of a battle. Do everything on the server: problem solved. Consider UO did this correctly in 1997 and yet games like WoW came out much later and still did it wrong (let the client choose its x,y,z position and tell the server, rather than asking the server "is it legal for me to move to x,y,z?").

It is faster paced games where you can't do everything server side that are the problem, first person shooters being the prime example.
Italian and French jets escorted hijacked plane because Swiss AF was off work