jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It's even worse than that. Shorting TSLA is dangerous because of the above. But it's mitigated by people purchasing shares with real fiat. They have a natural incentive to not be absurd: whether or not $800/share is absurd is a matter of opinion...but everyone would agree that $1m/share is absurd.

Tether has no such limitation. All the exchanges are complicit in this, wash trading is rampant, and there's an de facto central bank run by actual criminals. There is absolutely zero reason why iFinex can't take bitcoin to $100k or $1m or whatever they like. They only have opportunity costs.

The only thing keeping them in check right now is the appearance of legitimacy. If they were to overdo it, people might actually sell, which is not what they want. So until their legitimacy is tested (Jan 15) they will probably responsibly grind this higher. But on the last day, I expect billions and billions of USDT issuance so that they can run stops on every short in the market, collecting their last few shekels before the music stops and they vanish to an island somewhere.
You want to get the message through to those who are responsible. Whether it's via the Investor contact or the Press contact doesn't really matter, as long as whoever came up with this decision has to justify it in front of the other executives.
I love FOSS and even trying to contribute a bit here and there. I instantly decided to give this keyboard a try and man, I didn't realize how I used to swype! Not having a swype is a show-stopper for me.

Am I understand it right that swyping is a patented tech[0] and we will not see it in FOSS for at least 6 more years?

[0] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...
A better way to phrase it would be "if you have an active GH profile, share it". The benefits seem obvious to me, at a glance, one can:

* See what your interests are.

* See what the general quality of your code is.

* See how you interact with other devs.

* Potentially see how you write issues and/or deal with PRs etc.
He’s still the president of the USA. Not a random person.

I’m not talking specifically about Twitch.

At the moment where they make their platform public, they have no political nor moral authority to say what’s good or bad.

Tomorrow if the leadership changes, they can on the contrary censor everything but not Trump and you’ll have nothing to say then.
How sustainable is that $1/yr tho I wonder
> You need look no further than Coinbase, supposed beacon of our crypto future, IPO'ing and raising money in...that worthless green piece of paper known as the US Dollar.

is it possible to do an ipo in crypto?
Yep, looking over from the Atari ST community, I'm always astounded by the way Amiga projects are run.

On the ST we have a fully GPL'd version of the operating system now (EmuTOS), which matches and exceeds in many cases the original OS. And a Coldfire based system (Firebee) following in Atari lineage, for which the FPGA and supporting software are all open source. Most hardware add-ons have fairly open specifications and drivers etc. are usually open source. Nobody is under the illusion that they're going to be making a living or a profit out of this community, they're doing it for passion.

But looking over at the Amiga, I see new and interesting projects all the time but they seem to be always closed.
But then you’d also be able to afford spending it helping your community and giving some to local or non-local charities

Heck; I’ve always thought that the first thing I’d do after winning the lottery would be paying off my parents’ mortgage ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (disclaimer: haven’t won yet)
The thing I don't understand about the "Illegit" method is that it relies on people accepting USDT for BTC and then not cashing them out to real USD. Because if the company is printing USDT it wouldn't have the cash to pay the people trying to cash out USDT. So to allow this to happen you would need a people to be holding a huge amount of USDT.
Comic sans, spec design, and tables: you just smile and nod when your designer friends start talking. Every tribe has its signaling mechanisms. This is his. Smile and nod.
Oh boy, never heard so many buzz words in one single article. Did anyone make out what it really is?
It seems that Facebook are trying to extend their information base by capturing information on people that are not using Facebook and their relationship with Facebook users.

Some similar conceptual underpinnings to Google Wave but I wonder how practical it will be to have your entire history of communication with a person stored in a single thread.

Underwhelmed and the majority of the questions were related to the privacy concerns (dismissed by Zuckerberg) that this product throws up.
FAQ's: http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=new_messages

Your email address will match your public username, for example:

Profile: facebook.com/username
Email: username@facebook.com
It's funny, even writing an essay about this very topic hasn't made the occasional feeling cease. Though, since then, I feel much better equipped to deal with it and get on with my day.

http://jangosteve.com/post/380926251/no-one-knows-what-theyr...
Apple only controls their own domain. They influence things outside of their own ecosystem, but they don't have any dictatorial power when it comes to the networks they use. They have been good for competition on the Internet in terms of browsers and breaking the dominance of Flash to give HTML5/Canvas a fighting chance.
That's because all those methods achieve different things.

Email is completely different to SMS, which is completely different to blog posts, forums, etc They all have totally different dynamics.

A single unified system would be horrible.
You beat me to it but yes, I believe so. I think the important part really is just that we are able to see it at such a young stage though.
What I find most interesting in all of this is how they're positioning the product. From what I understand they're not targeting die hard email users, they are targeting a much younger demographic, probably ideally around age 17 and heading off to University.

A system that will keep someone who has never been away from home in touch with their family, their old friends and their new friends - something to make them feel more in touch and connected. Basically target the demographic that Facebook was originally built for.

Google tried a similar messaging system, as many suggest (Wave), but they positioned it for the enterprise/business customer. Perhaps the wrong demographic, maybe Facebook gets it right?
The 2021 signal is all the high school students telling you what altcoins to buy.

And just wait till you see what is going on with Decentralised Finance.

https://coinmarketcap.com/yield-farming/

Sort that by Highest APYs. It fluctuates all the time but the numbers are getting as high as 1,000,000% APY. There is no world in which that can be anything but a Ponzi scheme.

People are actually buying into these things.
I wasn't trying to move goal posts. Admittedly I might be sensitive to all the question of anything affiliated with Russia is now a conspiracy style thinking that has come from certain crowds. If I unfairly lumped you in with these folks, then I apologize.

> Russian intelligence

Someone will need to prove that there is a link between JetBrains as a company and Russian intel (aka the FSB) just as what happened with Kaspersky. I doubt that this is the case. It could certainly be a rogue employee, but that's a good amount of speculation. We've seen that the FSB has no issue hacking into companies and organizations without a mole.

> and a lack of due diligence.

I described the attack. What due diligence protects against something that injects itself during compile time and only triggers on specific events?
https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToS... (Baltics and UK added for perspective).

The fact is Sweden lies in middle of the Eurozone pack. It had low excess mortality in recent years, which left many very old people likely to die of/with Covid if they were not protected. I'm not switching topics to defend Sweden's policy. My note was about pop. density.

If you want to go at it about Sweden vs. other countries in Scandinavia, we can take it to Twitter:

https://twitter.com/geenlid/status/1360771792105730049 (thread)

https://twitter.com/jhnhellstrom/status/1354051901751484419 (radial excess mortality plot)
This line of reasoning assumes the future looks like the past. Which is generally a solid mode of thinking.

But, if the future looks like the past, shouldn't it give you pause that on many metrics markets are substantially more richly valued than at any peak in the last 100 years?

You can't have it both ways. Either the past is useful or it's not. If it's useful, then you have two conflicting data points -- market timing doesn't work, and we're at the top of a big bubble. If the past isn't useful, then neither data point is valid.

Now, you'll probably argue that even if it is a big bubble, the past suggests it always comes back. Setting aside the obvious fact that it's mathematically better to buy after the bubble bursts than before, you're in the same conundrum. Does the past matter or not? If it does, then yes you should expect to recoup the money eventually from buying at the top (though, if you bought at the top in 1929, you had to wait until the 1950s to get back to even). If the past doesn't matter and this time is different, then you can't say anything productive about the future.
As the Plex docs notice, this is still broken: if your DNS server filters local network IP addresses as a form of some voodoo DNS rebinding "protection", this doesn't work.
> In that conversation, nobody flat out says "the science is settled" because it is easy to explain the science behind the earth being round.

Not to a flat earther. There is a mountain of garbage you need to wade through. You can sit there and talk about observing the curvature across bodies of water or with satellites or whatever and they will just sit and say "nuh uh". At that point "the science is settled" is way easier than wasting your time with them.
Right, I was just suggesting a severe coordinated action for the sake of making the comment. I don't care about convincing you.
COVID is not just about deaths, it also has a risk of lung/heart damage.
Also, even if people don’t die or gain lung/heart damage they can still take up hospital capacity until there’s not enough capacity for the people who can survive with hospital care but won’t without.

Anyway, my point is that the UK choose their current situation by being afraid to act back when small steps could have made a huge difference.
IMO all enforcement cameras violate the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment and are therefore unconstitutional.
>Robert Shiller – who correctly and bravely called the 2000 and 2007 bubbles and who is one of the very few economists I respect – is hedging his bets this time, recently making the point that his legendary CAPE asset-pricing indicator (which suggests stocks are nearly as overpriced as at the 2000 bubble peak) shows less impressive overvaluation when compared to bonds. Bonds, however, are even more spectacularly expensive by historical comparison than stocks. Oh my!

Banks are OK, household debt levels are OK. Corporate bonds are the issue in the current economy. Nonfinancial corporate debt to GDP ratio: hhttps://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=B5NG

* There are too many zombie companies walking around (indebted company that is able to repay the interest on its debts but not repay the principal)

* Institutional bond investors have chased profits to the lowest possible bond rating they are allowed to invest.

When something changes and ratings are downgraded, institutional investors are forced to sell these companies at the same time. Corporate bond market liquidity freezes overnight. Berkshire Hathaway will by bonds for cents per dollar...
I see you think public transit is lacking what do you think about the new rail system?
I'm impressed. The only good router I have left from that era has several Ethernet ports burned out, and the rest have too little storage and RAM to accommodate a recent OS with features like IPv6 support. And those are purchases from an era where 802.11n support was a given but dual-band 802.11n support was still reserved for more high-end products.
I was very disappointed in the article. No video of this discovery.
This is my hometown and I've been inside this system as early as 1999 and as late as 2008. Not much to look at inside there wet damp small tunnels every exit except the two or three concrete over. Huge water main down the center and huge fiber optic cables.
> I'd never heard that usury rules applied to financial contracts before.

Islam prohibits something called Riba. Interest and usury fall under it, but Riba encompasses more than just loans. The example about purchasing gold on credit falls under riba for instance.
This isn't much of a secret. As it says in the article Google are lobbying to change the initial window size in the RFC. A lot of people here at Yahoo! want to see that too, and personally I think we should be more aggressive with our initial window, RFC be damned.

This topic was covered really well by Amazon's John Rauser at Velocity Conf: http://velocityconf.com/velocity2010/public/schedule/detail/...

To address the points in the conclusion:

1. Fast is good. Fast is also profit.

2. The net-neutrality argument here is totally bogus, anyone that knows how can up their slow-start window today if they choose to. There doesn't really have anything to do with traffic shaping.

3. Google have been using their usual data driven approach to support their proposal for IETF. We need a lot more of that. It's great. The only way we can really find out how the Internet in general will react to changes like this is to test them in some real world environment.

4. I agree, slow-start is a good algorithm with a very valid purpose. The real problem here is that the magic numbers powering it aren't being kept inline with changes to connectivity technology and increases in consumer/commercial bandwidth.
It is possible to move a satellite in geosynchronous orbit, and done in practice.

They will move the satellite by firing the East/West stationkeeping thrusters. Geosynchronous satellites, like the terrestar 1, need to periodically adjust their orbit to stay in their assigned slot. Aside from electronics failures, the operational life of a satellite is determined by how much fuel they carry, and how often stationkeeping is needed.

These kinds of moves are done currently. For example, the GOES constellation operated by NOAA has a backup satellite on-orbit ready to be moved to replace a failed satellite. It costs extra fuel from the limited onboard tank. In the case of GOES they plan for this fuel use. For Terrestar, it would shorten the 15 year lifespan some.
"Unix-the-code is owned by SCO"

Not according to a judge, A jury, and at least one judicial review. Unix, the code, is owned by Novell.

http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/Novell-271.pdf

http://groklaw.net/pdf2/Novell-846.pdf
What a horribly unscientific infographic! UVA "ages" the skin and UVB burns your skin but also creates vitamin D? The truth is that UVA is a longer wavelength radiation that for the most part lacks the power to penetrate the skin, while UVB does do damage to the DNA. It's exactly that sort of genetic damage that "ages" the skin, in the terminology of the author. It can also lead to cancer.

Eat pretty much any fatty fish as is common in arctic cultures anyway, and you'll be fine. Ethical vegans can eat lots of mushrooms.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_d#Natural_sources
"Now why stop there? You could try and remove more parentheses by using a tab syntax, or introduce a few other irregularities, or both. There's a good chance that we could come up with something better than the currently widely accepted surface syntax."

The constraint is that the grammar of the resulting syntax has to be capable of expressing everything expressable by S-expressions, has to be unambiguous, and it has to be pretty-printable back into a canonical form. The last point itself is pretty hard to do, but if you actually look at the grammars of a lot of programming languages, very few of them aren't ambiguous!
I think this is the first PyPy release that's actually viable to use for me (because of x86-64). Very exciting!

(Hope they catch up with 2.6 - or 2.7 - soon, though.)
If he can persuade Google that they should part with $3 billion because Google's local search assets will add value to Groupon then Andrew Mason really is a genius. It's not exactly as if Google lack the ad sales team or consumer reach to launch their own voucher program, should they feel inclined to do so.
If you don't validate JSON, you need yet another massive unit test suite that covers what your app does when it receives various forms of nonsense from someone else. And you aren't going to enforce exactly the same rules as anyone else, so the answer to the question "will this message work?" will inevitably be "it depends, who are you sending it to?" Every protocol change will bring unpredictable interoperability problems.
Not sure why I was downvoted, but maybe I was unclear. My point is that they're just providing access to cheap nutritious food, which

1) is not something that has "never been done before"

2) punts on all the hard social problems that make hunger a difficult problem to solve: neglect, ignorance, mental illness, drug addiction, stigma attached to social services, and a kind of general incompetence (not meant to be insulting; nobody is born knowing anything) that prevents people from taking advantage of existing resources.
Interesting. An idea must still have some sort of execution, no? In mathematics, I would have thought that proof is the execution of a purely mathematical idea. Obviously, I do agree with you that some ideas are precious (to take a non-mathematical example, the idea of Freedom).

Adams seems to have only had utilitarian ideas in mind. His post didn't strike me as curious, however. I did not expect him to discuss pure mathematics.
It seems to me that these are really WebKit demos, which is the defacto standard for mobile browsing. Historically, I think that standards have caught up with practice on the Web, rather than the other way around.
In the Article they were a company of only four people.
I understand that Posterous's "Pages" is a feature, not a product. However, it unpleasantly reminds me of two products named Pages, Facebook Pages and Apple Pages.

There have been several times this year where I was searching for answers to questions about Pages, and it was a miserable experience. In part, it was due to the confusion between Facebook Profiles and Facebook Pages, but it was still miserable.

Now I am inherently biased against naming a feature or product Pages. It's tricky w/ features, because you want it simple yet distinct,. Unfortunately, the trend is heading towards the "The" and "A".
ZFS is redistributable and Linux is redistributable; you just can't redistribute the combination. So you'll have to download and install ZFS separately.
I asked a question recently in relation to an industry I know well:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396541

I'm specifically looking at providing a video-based training service for a very-well-known vendor's product that many companies in this sector use. Not really a technical challenge, more a knowledge transfer challenge.
I think the Posterous/Tumblr dichotomy is a false one. Where they're both ultra-simple microblogging platforms, tumblr is easily more community centric, insular in focus than Posterous, and in my opinion that's where it's strength is.

Nearly every avenue of a default feature now found in tumblr has come from innovation that users have made use of when the site was still young and lacked considerable features.
Some very negative comments here, which surprises and dissapoints me. I would have thought the HN crowd would be a little sympathetic to troubles a startup faces early on. And remember these guys aren't throwing together a rails app, they are working with hardware, which involves more factors out of their control. It's not like they can just drink more coffee and code longer to get this thing shipped.

They have an exciting, innovative product, which is something recent articles on the front page have asked for.

They perhaps shouldn't have taken cash so early, but lets cut them some slack.
That's pretty unusual in contracted work. The customer would (not without reason) fear that you'd get them to pay for development and then just go ahead and rebrand it as a competing service. I generally try to retain rights on anything but "business logic" and UI but won't push very hard for it unless I'm going to be re-using my own code in the project.
And that is what you call a killer app.
I think it's more the speed, and the fact that it's not just doing the word-by-word translation, but it's doing OCR first, and, as a nice touch, it at least makes a vague effort to visually look similar to the original text (well, color at least)... and it does all this without using a network connection at all.

The 'traditional' method of firing up something like the Google Translate app, manually (and potentially painfully, if it's a language that uses symbols you aren't used to typing in on a regular basis) typing in the text, and maybe waiting for a server in the cloud to spit back response... is just crap compared to something like this. Even if Word Lens doesn't do proper grammatical and idiomatic translation (yet?), it still seems like it'd be super useful.
Skim the article and jump to comments to find that everyone else has done the same. How delightful. Shame the article didn't match the title. Doesn't appear that there is any reason to suggest sci-fi is dying.
Is there anything particularly special about the code which would make it interesting? The value seems to be in the concept, and then the content produced by the large user base.
I guess that would scare some and annoy some more.
Science fiction is fine it's just going through a bit of a lull at the moment. The current big market is contemporary fantasy aimed at a female readership, and that's where publishers are putting their money, which means there is less to spend on other similar (and I use the word loosely) genres. They are simply going after what sells to the widest audience.

I think sci-fi is also suffering from the decline in interest of the sciences in general. It's a shame but that's the way it is.

Quality rises to the top eventually, it will return.