skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Domains cost so little for a reason, so everyone can afford them

This is exactly right. Squatters are taking away from the people what the original designers of the system intended. If they had intended that only those with lots of money had short-length domain names, then they would have made them expensive from the start -- or made the price a function of the character-length.
Oh humbug! I don't see any excuse for lazy users not be using Flash.
Is IQ a resource?
I run a taobao store - the fulfillment companies received lots of funding from Alibaba to startup in the early days, and obviously there is cooperation for example in integration of tracking systems and fraud prevention, but it's wrong to say they are managed by Alibaba. They are independent delivery companies and people use them for any and all kinds of express deliveries.
Probably the ones with the most money.
"and particle physicists will have six times more stuff to study than they had before."

Can anyone out there explain this statement for us non-physicists?
I don't think that bitcoin deanonymization research is a bad thing. Perhaps it should be done in a way that tests the anonymity of transactions and accounts created for the purpose of the research, but to research the topic itself is easily classified as legitimate security research.

The issue starts when you publicly "out" organizations or people in your research findings, or take money from authorities with the understanding that you'll report back data on people and organizations.
That's irrelevant to his point.
Can you un-acronym GEB?
There won't be one left. All of the Twitter, Uber, AirBnB engineers sitting around with no job will take the low hanging fruit working for $50k per year at your local startup. Good luck finding a job when there aren't any.
Ultima 7 (parts 1 and 2) are also my favorite games ever! I almost have "real" memories from the worlds and plotlines in those games, they were so vivid.

Out of curiosity, what was your role on Ultima 7? Do you know of any good articles or resources on the development of that game?
That's an interesting perspective, but that is essentially Apple breaking everything for everybody and forcing obsolescence of their products.

In practice, yes, that is very much the result. Sadly this seems to be SOP for Apple across the board in recent years, but it's particularly bad with the mobile devices. The thing is, people don't notice the cost of their shiny new iPhone so much because it's obscured by ongoing contracts with their network. Tablets and laptops don't enjoy the same luxury, which I suspect is a large part of the reason tablet sales figures have been less impressive since the early new-shiny rush for a few years after the first iPad arrived.

I consider that slightly different from "I can't do task x on my iPad because it isn't powerful enough".

Fair point, but I think it starts to become relevant for much the same reasons if you want the iPad to be taken seriously as a laptop competitor. At that point, it doesn't just have to be powerful enough to run toy apps today, it also has to be powerful enough to run serious productivity applications tomorrow. Earlier generation iPads -- even ones just a few years old and well within the normally expected working lifetime of a professional computer -- demonstrably didn't have enough power to do that with the combination of hardware and software being offered.
Amusingly enough, Wells Fargo has a similar service called SurePay. I have a friend that also banks with Wells Fargo that uses this to transfer funds to be, while it's 'fast' compared to the multi-day delay of ACH transfers it still takes one day before the funds are made available to me - from another customer at the same bank!

It amazes me that we already have four major payment networks in the US that work at the speed of the internet - Visa, MasterCard, Discover and Amex but banks continue to fight to keep ACH slow - probably because they don't make bank on interchange fees.
Apple got big money and only one successful product. They relentlessly want to own another successful product or service but I hope they won't.
I'm surprised we haven't seen this emergent behavior for iOS yet. As more and more people have Xcode and a dev license, we could have a sufficiently large amount of people to skip the app store for apps that will never be allowed. I wonder how Apple will like that.

I can see it now: the "Sideload App Store"
Empathy and remorse cause inefficiencies in the economy. A perfectly rational agent would have neither.
I grew up poor in the south. People don't need to be handed incentives to succeed. Some people don't mind being poor. Some people will be poor before long even if you give them a million dollars. If success is important to you, you work for it. Success is defined differently for all of us. Lifelong welfare is not helping someone, it is not incentivizing them. That has to some from within.
If the DEA has been caught doing parallel reconstruction it's not hard to believe the FBI would/does it too. Troubling.
Who is the transparent group? How are they held accountable? Aren't they a de facto part of the government by virtue of being able to govern the flow of money, whether or not they're a de jure part of the government?

What is the incentive structure and how does it penalize gamesmanship? How is the group ruled and why can't 51% of it say that we want to create all of the money for ourselves?

Aren't people already paid for using their money as loans in the form of interest rates and being able to structure how and when the money can be withdrawn (money market vs. savings, etc.)? What advantages are there to this? How do you get banks to offer that and what does the average guy like me even know about trying to control the money supply?

And even in that case, don't you still run contrary to the goal in that those with larger amounts of money still manipulate the money supply by choosing investments?
current cs student here: my friends are sorta like "lol"
Conversely, just because the law prohibits you from doing something does not mean that you shouldn't, or that doing so is morally wrong...
It's stunning that you may have read this conversation and still think people have an issue with security research on Tor in general.

The testing, and perhaps even the specific methods of the this test, are not the question. The question is the morality of CMU being paid by authorities to uncover PII about hidden services and report back to them.

Test the system (potentially with your own uni's red/blue teams instead of on other 'public' hidden services) and report back anonymized reports of the data. One can say "Doing X, I got result Y" without giving out the personal details of results, much less to the FBI.
Why can't they both be bad?
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Gôdel Escher Bach
Douglas Hofstadter, 1979

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
You have to be kidding me. You don't get to be the biggest company on the planet with one successful product.

They may not be the biggest in everything they're successful at, but they don't need to be #1, as long as they're the #1 premium.
> “It’s pretty controversial. Austrians have for the most part perceived themselves as Hitler’s first victims, and as you can see through a lot of these films it was really not entirely that way. There was a lot of immediate sort of acceptance of the Nazi philosophy,” says Zarwell.

when i learned about WW2 in school in the 90s we weren't really thaught that we were hitlers "first victims". we did learn about the widespread vote manipulation and effective propaganda, but also that there were the pictured parades to welcome the "occupiers" and that big parts of the population openly welcomed him into the country.
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Which gets you what against the NSA, BND, and mass collection? Nothing by itself. Solving these problems is a tad more difficult than merely using Linux. ;)
The application of taxation would vary depending on the type of tax, but if we're talking about sales taxes then these should apply in the country where the sale is made. This also includes business-to-business sales, so using your movie artwork example, if the artwork was "sold" in the UK, sales taxes from the UK would apply. It doesn't matter where the artists that produced the artwork were from.
It does take several generations.

1. My great grandmother was a homeless woman after getting kicked out of the household because she was the second wife of a husband who had passed, leaving my grandmother in orphanage during WWII when the Japanese invaded China.

2. A couple of years later, her family came back for her. My grandmother worked odd jobs here and there, and my great grandmother gambles it away. My grandmother, fed up, left her to go live in Hong Kong with an uncle.

3. My grandmother's uncle was only employed from time to time. They lived on one meal a day, some rice, flavoured with a few drops of pig fat. My grandmother wanted a better life. She signed up as a labourer to carry tens of kilograms of dirt everyday on her shoulders[1], as part of a project to clear a mountain. Her uncle said she wouldn't last 3 days. It was such painful work she almost went home on the first day. But with such a stark challenge from her uncle and she didn't want to lose face, she stayed for 3 months. She was 14. She went on to work as a servant, but more or less treated as a slave, getting yelled at and beaten, and then finally someone taught her the business of picking up factory fabric scraps, weaving them into clothes to sell them. And that's the business she was in, even until the time I was following her around when I was 5 or 6. She bought factory scraps in bulk, using her sewing machine, made shirts and pants, and in 1995 or so, sold them for HK$10 each. It put my mother through school and nursing school. [2]

4. My mother was a nurse, and it was a well paid profession. However, my parents lost almost everything from their real estate investments in the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Debt can ruin you like that. They sold everything, my mother left her position as chief nurse in a hospital, and using a skilled migration visa, we moved to Australia, starting from zero.

5. Today I'm working as a software engineer in Australia. When I was tempted to slacken for my university exams, when I was tempted to lower my ambitions and stay in an unskilled job, when I was tempted to take an employer's low ball salary offer based on my living expenses, I remember what my grandmother had gone through, to put me here. And I will follow her example, and do the same for my family.

"Stay hungry, stay young, stay foolish, stay curious, and above all, stay humble."

[1] A carrying pole. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying_pole
[2] My grandfather had an accident while fixing a lift, and lose control of his legs. Unable to provide for the family, he killed himself. My uncle, my mum's brother, grew up mentally ill. My mother also had a sister. My grandmother brought up three children and supported my great-grandmother, on her own.
You kind of need an AI God to bootstrap that. At least, that's the easiest way to get from here (needing a money concept) to there (not needing a money concept).
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I think Android Pay is like Apple Pay and Google Wallet is still available as a 'virtual' credit card that can be used with Android Pay.
That's a reasonable assumption, but I'd rather have a list of the companies involved.
as i commented above: "when i learned about WW2 in school in the 90s we weren't really thaught that we were hitlers "first victims". we did learn about the widespread vote manipulation and effective propaganda, but also that there were the pictured parades to welcome the "occupiers" and that big parts of the population openly welcomed him into the country."
I haven't used Hugo but my entire site is generated with Hakyll: http://mark.reid.name/ . I've found it works well for a mixture of blogging and more static content.
The very fact that Apple does not allow running OSX in a VM pretty much ends the matter for me.
To my understanding, the purpose of capitalism is to enable those who work the hardest to in turn have the most resources brought their way. In other words, more work equals more pay. If you want to bring true idealism into the picture, then is capitalism not intended so that a person is compensated for the value that they create for society?

The problem with squatting is that it doesn't create value. It may create scarcity, but that's not inherent value. For example, diamonds are scarce in the market, but they don't have an inherent value anywhere near their price. When you work producing software, you are bringing something of value into existence that didn't exist before. When you work long day on the railroad, you are organising matter in a way that helps society to function. When you squat on real estate, you are sitting on something waiting for society to create value in the surrounding areas. Society is creating the value that the land eventually sells for -- not the person squatting. When the squatter sells that property, they are deriving the ends from other people's work. This is akin to counterfeiting money: Sure it has value in the market, but the person counterfeiting didn't create that value.
It's mainly an issue with corporate taxation. The scheme in the example wouldn't shift the sales tax (or VAT), but the UK firm could show zero profit while the low-taxed Luxembourg one would show huge profits, and it would be really hard to notice the sham when you're an expert on accountancy rather than IP or art.

(Also just rewrote the example btw.)
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Something like 10-11x bigger installer lol. It's really tiny. Don't have a Windows box so I can't say how similar .EXE's, RAM, and CPU usage are.
This is not a case of there being no applicable law, and some parties doing something obviously sociopathic.

I do agree that you can have situations where there's no law covering something (because of its novelty etc.) and someone exploits that to their own gain in a way that's malicious to society.

The tax law is not such a law. There's few things that governments put as much effort into as their tax laws. Have you seen the sheer volume of it for most developed states? You could print it out, drop it on someone's head from a modest distance and stand a good chance of killing them.

What is absurd, and what I'm objecting to, is that the government clearly knows what it's doing with tax law, and what it's getting itself into. Yes there will be unintended loopholes, but if they keep getting exploited noticeably year after year without getting closed they're not really loopholes are they? They're there by design.

What various countries in the EU are doing when it comes to their tax rhetoric is absurd and disgusting. Their politicians are badmouthing individuals and specific corporations who are in full compliance with the tax code for not doing their part, while not exercising their power as legislators to actually fix the situation that they're complaining about.

They're doing this because it gains them cheap political points from a certain part of the electorate, while taking money from those same individuals and corporations that are exploiting these "loopholes".

So yes, it is absurd and not morally right. But the politicians are being immoral in singling out individuals in the court of public opinion while making no effort to actually fix the issue, and it's absurd that some members of the public are eating up this obvious publicity stunt of theirs.

What are you supposed to do as a business owner in this climate of political sniping? Cave in to public opinion and pay higher taxes, and subsequently get replaced by a more tax optimized competitor that doesn't pay the same attention to bad press?
Cannataci read Cerf's full quote:

> Privacy may actually be an anomaly. Privacy is a construct of the modern industrial age. In the past, everyone lived in small, self-contained communities where everyone knew who was dating the baker's daughter and what the sheriff had for lunch. It is only when populations started migrating en mass to cities that anonymity emerged as a by-product of urbanization.

>This, Cannataci said, was "pure, undiluted rubbish," adding: "I cannot understand how a person of the intelligence of Vint Cerf could say anything so dumb. It's just dumb."

I just finished rereading What You Can't Say. Maybe "privacy is dead" is the modern taboo?
posted earlier today here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10544841
As a front end dev, I've noticed the steady increase in job offers. Most of us had the benefit of growing with the technology. Its why when you see a group of Front End Devs, you'll see a group of mostly early 30 somethings to 40 somethings, and not the usual crowd of young faces in other practices.

The biggest problem I see with Front End Development is the massive trove of tacit knowledge it takes. If you have a portfolio that goes more than a decade deep, a junior front end dev might run across a table based layout, or baffled by transparent gifs used to position. Or perhaps its a site made 7 years ago, and its locked on a 960 grid and the jr dev is throw by the "Clearfixes", used to modern frame works that magically clear floats by psuedo elements, and doesn't understand why her/his grid isn't working when she/he forgets to manually clear the floats. It could be even a site that is 5 years old, and relies on wurfl to do user agent detects the baffling usage of user agents at all to detect mobile.

Anyhow, that's just scraping the surface. My standing theory is Front End Development is only a few years away from being divided into more roles as the current bar for knowledge entry is getting to be almost unattainable.
Why do you not think quality startups will be effected by this? Here's a scenario for you.

A company is looking to raise a Series B. They make a lot of money. Close to $650k per month. However, they want to grow to 100 employees to tackle a new market with a new product. Without an influx of funding they just can't get there. So they try to raise a series B round. Because investors are super cold they simply aren't funding any companies (this is exactly what happened in 01). That company can't grow, they lose out, and eventually either fold or downsize.
You've done great work. But speaking as an old lisp programmer it doesn't seem useful.

Code, for me, is a means of communication with both the machine and the human reader. The machine doesn't care about lisp indentation but code format matters when trying to communicate with human readers. Communication with future readers, including yourself, is what makes programs maintainable.

Pretty-printing is fine since the code format follows a standard, which makes it easy to ignore and easy to read, generally a "good thing". On the other hand, there is information in the choice of code format, similar to the information found in a poetry format.

Properly indented code is "good code" and, over time, is likely to be what flows from your fingers regardless of the editor. But excellent code is an art form that requires thought. Lisp is a language where indentation is meaningless but shape communicates. It is not something to delegate to an editor.
I'd certainly expect a 15 yo to be able to fly by themselves without any special procedures. I was flying at that age by myself and don't remember it as being any particular deal.
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I guess you can subscribe to YouTube RED.
Author of f.lux here --

This build of f.lux prefers to use notifications (you can turn off the Notification Center ones).

The screen settings we're changing only work when the screen is on but we have to be "ready" when you unlock your phone. We're working on a version that does quite a lot fewer wakeups.

In our jailbreak version, we just hook the screen unlock and do work then, but we can't do this in the jail because we never wake up.

In this version the notifications serve as a "wakeup". If we fail to show a notification, we hit the unlock instead.

The battery impact overall is extremely low.
Oh ok. In that case ya we got all this figured out. I mean there is D*. Thanks for clearing up all the confusion. /sarcasm
Did that a number of times. Was easier when it wasn't required after I was 12 or 14 or whatever the requirement was on Northwest at the time.

One time they asked me to walk down the aisle and hand out peanuts. A lot of people seemed to think that was totally cute. Seemed a little strange to me, but was more fun than sitting down and being bored. Was nice to be shown into the lounge area between connecting flights.

Unaccompanied flying is totally reasonable thing for children especially with the procedures airlines have in place for younger ones. Though it seems like airlines are making some of those procedures apply to older children now too, which is totally weird.
There's roughly five or six times as much dark matter in the universe as there is conventional matter.
>All problems come from central planning.

I agree whole-heartedly that the free market is an awesome, powerful, often-counterintuitively-effective thing.

But isn't there something to be said for some forms of central planning? Theory of the firm, multicellular organisms sending themselves to the moon, the empirical adaptive fitness of lumbering nation-states over freemen upon the land, etc.

I'm pretty far right, but I see a lot of problems with the free market.

None of this is to imply that capitalism has not been hacked. It is to imply that it is sometimes hard to distinguish the hacking from guardrails.
There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept.

And all the housing on firesale... will snap that right up.
any suggestions on good intro ML books?
Why is there a new article about the management style of Linus Torvalds daily? Let's stop with this hero worship crap. The guy is mean in emails - we get it. Move on.
I heard about this a few days ago and went for it, but my payment couldn't be processed. Got an e-mail this morning telling me that because of the high volume of sales, they had some payments failing and that I should try again... didn't exactly inspire a ton of confidence in me as a first-time buyer.
> model building from sensory input

This is one of the basic activities AI researchers have been solving for years.

In many cases, this is not even a hard problem.
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Show me 100 year old (or 200 year old!) reclaimed plywood and you'll have made me a convert.

I'm not so worried about earthquake performance because as long as you way, way over engineer you should be fine. The 3" teak isn't for strength (that's what steel is for) it's just so that it looks very solid.

For $500mm I would expect a safety factor in the high single digits. I know that's not what this house is about so I know it's not there, but I can't help but be an engineer.
Okay, so exploring this example further, do the UK company and the Luxembourg company need to have the same owners (or linked owners, e.g. family members) for this to work?
I was talking about the general articles/reviews from daringfireball. Not this one is particular. I don't understand the need to give a build up that starts from the dawn of civilization to talk about a tablet or a laptop.
on the internet nobody can tell if you're joking or not. as you're obviously a jew yourself you'd better make it a bit more obvious, otherwise people may believe you're just a run-of-the-mill troll.
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