skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In an industry-wide crash, as was the case in 2008, it doesn't really matter whether a dozen smaller banks fail or a few bigger ones do. And on the flip-side, big banks are a lot more efficient than small ones, for the same reason Wal-Mart and Amazon are more efficient than mom-and-pop stores. Everyone loves to hate Amazon, but who wants to go back to the days before same-day drone delivery? Similarly, who wants to go back to the mortgage rates that existed before big banks and securitization?
Thats the obvious solution, though how would that affect people using Netlfix while traveling?

For example, if you're locked to the US region and watch something that is only available in the US while visiting, say, the UK — would that break any of Netflix's license agreements?
It will be free. There is just no convenient way for me to donate $0.05 (or $1) to wikipedia right now.
I cannot tell if you are in favour of, or against, the principle that one should pick the right tool for the job.
When you make a decision to include some magic, you have to look at the overall milieu of how it can be used and abused, not just the specific use case that it makes awesome. It may "save a couple of lines" but that's not all it does.

As far as auto-closureifying methods, you might have a lot of people doing things like `let x = vec.len` and getting confusing errors when trying to use `x`, and other errors due to the implicit moving or borrowing of `vec`. Currently when you make such mistakes (which is common) the compiler tells you exactly how to fix it because taking the value of a method is illegal. If this was legal, it may cause errors further down the line which are not clearly tied to this and you can't have reasonable error messages. Additionally there's no way to specify this moving or borrowing, so an arbitrary choice has to be made, which would be implicit and opaque. Explicit closuring is just a few more characters and not a bad price to pay for avoiding this class of errors.

The reason we have explicit `self` (which again, is different from the above and completely orthogonal to the Iron issue) is due to ownership/borrowing again. You want to be able to specify how a method takes its receiver (self/&self/&mut self/Box<Self>). It could be done via extra syntax but that gets uglier, really, and in a language like rust where ownership is important, you don't want ownership implications to be kludgy and confusing. Having a syntax which mirrors argument syntax is really clearer.
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The reality of it is, that they don't want to do this but they are being forced to. I suspect they'll put some measures in place but nothing ironclad.
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> My personal pet peeve is not being able to mark a public repo as 'deprecated'.

What I came up to work around this is:

- Create an org named <YOUR-USERNAME>-deprecated
- Move the projects to the organization
- Set the avatar of the organization to your avatar, with desaturated colors (purely cosmetic, optional)

https://github.com/coreh-deprecated
Darknet Markets dead? Bitcoin dying?

I don't follow the news but the demand for bitcoin is tremendous in relation to darknet markets. I am not involved but I know people getting rich on all sides and from my perspective the whole community is thriving.

I know people who are barely computer literate ordering stuff from the DNMs. A 19 year old model said to me recently, "everyone gets drugs off the darknet."

Of course, the fragmentation is there and if AlphaBay goes down that is rather bad but the reality is the transactions have just went private, one-on-one, etc. And OpenBazaar is coming, the beta looks awesome. There is also a Silk Road 4 and while I wouldn't recommend it, I know people who have used it successfully.

And this whole article seems wrong, it even says:

>All of that online turmoil hasn’t necessarily sent the dark web’s buyers back to street dealers, says Nicolas Christin, a computer science researcher at Carnegie Mellon who’s published some of the most thorough measurements of the dark net markets. He says that the overall revenue of the anonymous online drug trade has hovered around $100 million a year regardless of repeated scams or law enforcement takedowns. But that sales figure has plateaued after years of fast growth, he says, perhaps in part because dark web drug buyers aren’t as happy or confident as they once were.
Hey krasin,

how come people assume there are only Little Endian machines. This mmap-technique wouldn't work on Big Endian like this, this is inaccetable!

However, you can still mmap and properly call ntohs() on each color channel value (if you access it). These functions won't hurt performance too much anyway, if at all. If you show me a measurable difference between using LE and BE, I owe you a beer, okay? :)
Your argument seems to be "it can be done so it must be right" and you view the rights of those who want to view something over those who put their time and work into it. Why do you think people should not get paid for their work?

Game of Thrones is not "information". It is not a basic human right. "Humanity" is no better off if you can watch it now or in a weeks time.
And at places like Google, this is how it does work (on paper. In practice there are always exceptions, either due to actual hierarchy or individual charisma). If you look at Google's org, you essentially have 4 ladders: 1) Engineering, 2) product management, 3) business, 4) G&A superstructure. You can bet that if you're a PM trying to decide roadmap priorities, you're going to be driven by input from engineers primarily, not customers, sales reps or professional managers.
This nationalization of the internet is ridiculous. Especially in the media business where you don't even have to torrent anymore. One-Click-Hosters or streams are all over the place. Popular shows can be found by googling.

I just can't understand how we can still move backwards facing all this. I have the feeling that the content providers just hope for the inability of their customers to google.

But hey, I taught a guy who last year didn't even use YouTube to find his favorite US shows from Germany and how to download them in 1080p without any risk. So please...wake up.
It is specified (BE = Big Endian)
For people concerned, I asked the Smartflix team if it will impact their service. Here is their answer:

"Hello! Yes, we are aware about the recent statement that Netflix has published, and needless to say we are upset about it!

However this does not mean the end of Smartflix. We are constantly able to outsmart these systems, and we will continue to do so for as long as humanly possible - so fear not!"
This is simply not true. The barrier to a NEW person starting to write C code in 2016 - imagine some 20 year old college student - is "Am I ready to pick a denomination and religion and read hundreds to thousands of pages of gospel?" There is no such barrier with any other language.

You literally cannot give any examples of correct C code as a solution to a problem: literally, experts will disagree with you.

I've had experts tell me that cplusplus.com/reference gives horrific examples you should never follow. The newest addition of The C++ Programming Language says that the examples are not meant to be production code you can actually use as-is. (I can dig this up later if you want.)

C and C++ are more debates in the form of a language than languages per se.
While the job security was nice, I considered it a personal failure as I had made a choice that resulted in less flexibility for personnel allocation for my organization.

The site in question was isolated from the Internet for security reasons. This was ~1994 and I would have had to submit significant paperwork to get permission to use one of the phone lines for a modem.

As I remember it, the site had a hodgepodge of SCO Unix, SunOS, IRIX, and Linux systems. SCO Unix was the least equipped of them. Configuration management had them all stuck at an old version. Perl wasn't even installed on all of the systems. I remember feeling that AWK was a good choice because, being interpreted, it allowed for fast development. Another obvious option would have been C with X for the GUI, but that would have taken much longer to implement.
How reasonable is it to make issue tracking and social interaction part of the SCM itself [with optional web interface] ?

git issues "This needs attention"

>> Issue #1 created

git issues

>> List of issues

git issues -u #11

>> Issue #11 up voted

>> #11 Important stuff, needs attention

git issues -d #6

>> Issue #6 down voted

git issues -f #4

>> Issue #4 flagged
There is nothing to patch on the server side. You need to ensure the ssh client is updated on the machines you are sshing from.
Given the author talks about "workplace", I would more expect something like storing his own videos and photos (4k and RAW are huge), instead of digital hoarding of pirated media.
I guess they never bothered to read Valve's employee handbook.[0]

While Valve isn't perfect either, their system appears positively utopian when contrast with Holacracy.

[0] http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
I pay monthly to wikipedia, I use it tens of times a day, it is a fantastic unparalleled resource - a real public good.

Wikipedia is a proof of a utopian vision that infused the early web - ensuring public rights wins public contribution.

Humanities collective knowledge is better distributed because of Wikipedia, a true wonder of the modern world.

IMHO, we must treasure wikipedia as it is not clear it could happen again and it embiggens us all.
Every TI DSP I've worked with uses 16-bit bytes
So if the highest quality was a paid for service, would you pay for it - I suspect not.
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Definitely used as a human transport!
I used to think it was the best thing humanity created.

Lately, I see individuals, and companies carefully crafting pages to further their agenda. It could be PR, name recognition, or inaccurate information reguarding their cause.

It could be as subtle as changing the definition of a neologism to singular, rather than plural. I ran across this recently. Someone wanted to promote their technospeck.whatever domain, but the plural was taken, so they deleted all the wiki information on the original neologism, and in turn just put, "for plural see the singular page.". Bringing in overnight credibility to their domain name.

What bothers me is the changes, or complete rewrite of certain pages are obviously done for monetary reasons, and the Editors don't seem to notice the motives behind the
obvious manipulation.

I don't want to be one of those people who claims a service was better in the past, but once people realized they could use Wikipedia to as indirect/free advertising; that's when I lost interest.

I would miss Wikipedia if it collapsed. Do I have a feeling someone else might be able to do a better job? Yes! In this case, I feel the federal government could do a better job with Wikipedia? I would rather see four billion going to unemployed paid/trained Editors--instead of self-driving technology. Editors trained mainly in sniffing out manipulation of history/facts for personal/corporate gain.
I'm almost positive you meant 2016 :-)
Isn't another problem of "ptrdiff_t diff = (uintptr_t)ptrOld - (uintptr_t)ptrNew;" that you're assigning an unsigned value to a signed variable?

If ptrNew is larger than ptrOld this can give a very large value via wrapping around, so large that it will probably be bigger than the max value of ptrdiff_t, making the assignment a form of signed overflow.
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As my girlfriend watches it as well, I can tell you that at least Reign is now available on Netflix Germany.
With respect to the other shows: interesting - let's me question my non-use of a VPN as well.
I get legalizing drugs that don't have addiction potential, but drugs like meth and heroin have the effect of placing a large portion of the population under the control of their suppliers.

We found this problem very quickly with legal opioid manufacturers - in the 90s, we had very lax rules on prescription painkillers, and the results were predictable. These companies bribed doctors into prescribing them to as many people as possible, lobbying resulted in a refusal to look at the problem, and now we face the fact that these pharmaceutical companies are effectively legal drug dealers to a large portion of the population. Same thing with overprescribing amphetamines to kids for ADHD.

Predictably, we've clamped down harshly on these drugs, and now addicts are turning to heroin because it's cheaper and easier to get. It's just a massive clusterfuck, and it's all due to the fact that slick-talking marketers basically said, "No, don't worry - it's just medicine. No one's going to get addicted from this. Here's a fantastic vacation package while you think it over!"

Addicts make good customers. They'll pay whatever you want, and they'll be with you for life as long as you make the product easily available to them. There's just way too much money at stake to keep companies from acting in a predatory manner, which is why we ended up with Joe Camel and other ads aimed at kids.

I don't like bringing up the "Won't someone please think of the children" argument because it's usually fallacious, but the fact is that tobacco companies have known for a long time that children are very susceptible to advertising and very likely to sustain long-term addiction if they're hooked early. I'm sure that the same is true for harder drugs than nicotine.

The only real question is "Is that state of affairs preferable to the current serious problems of the War On Drugs?" I think that there should be a middle ground. Decriminalize possession totally, go after dealers. This avoids the typical junkies getting busted and sent to long prison terms for having a dime bag, but it prevents regular business from hooking people by the millions.

All I can say is that if we totally legalize drugs, I'm investing heavily in whoever's marketing heroin. One cubic centimeter cures ten gloomy sentiments and all that.
What? This comment is directly related to whether advice "don't use C if you can avoid it" is good or not.
If you just want to read in the header data, it should be sufficient if you just piped the decompressed data to your "header-checker" like this

bzip2 < giantimage.ff.bz2 | header-checker

Inside the header checker, you just read in the first 16 Bytes ("farbfeld" + width + height), do whatever you like with the data and exit.
bzip2 would then receive an SIGPIPE. Up until this point, it would have probably filled the pipe buffer (~16K) with data and then blocked.

Receiving SIGPIPE, I'm certain bzip2(1) will cancel any further decompression attempts.

You see, you could even carry on with your image-processing in case you like the header data and want to proceed. The nice pipe-system already handles that for you. :)
Yep, it's useless. Even original Netflix content is region restricted. For the full price too.
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If you're using Farbfeld as an internal format for your custom image processing pipeline, which is the use case I was describing, then constant explanation isn't a problem.

Not every image format needs to be suitable for use as general-purpose distribution format.
I've been platinum on Delta for a few years running and it's absolutely beneficial. 3 free checked bags, priority boarding, free economy+ (which includes free food & drinks on longer domestic flights), and automatic upgrades where available. I get upgraded about 75% of the time.

If you have status you get used to it and don't really realize how nice some of the perks are until you fly on an airline where you don't and end up feeling nickel & dimed to death, herded everywhere like cattle.

<edit> I misread "global" as "good" and answered the wrong question. They're global. This is why the alliances have their separate award levels. Here's an example: https://www.oneworld.com/ffp/my-oneworld-tier-status
Yes. Probing at 14nm is immensely challenge but seemingly possible (see, eg, http://dcgsystems.com/products/nanoprobing/nprober-ii/ which looks terribly expensive!)
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Keep in mind not all machines are Little Endian. This assumption is wrong.
This bug isn't heartbleed. Also Heartbleed was SSL, not SSH.
Slightly off-topic, I'd say that the majority of programmers, C devs included, are barely competent. They know enough to bash through to something clunky and dangerous that kind of does what's needed at a demo. Whilst it's true that taking away all the dangerous tools would make it harder for this great sea of perpetual amateurs to do so much damage, I think it's not right to blame the tools.

By simply being here and reading this, you're almost by definition in the top 20% of programmers. Hyperbole, yes, and counter-examples exist, but anyone who routinely comes here will improve; the majority of programmers never do.
> Maybe you should have gotten a better machine then. If by a few years ago you mean 2010, then sure. We're 1/2 a decade past that now.

I disagree as a developer who does (personal) development on a 2010 laptop (1st gen Westmere, upgraded to SSD). My laptop is perfectly adequate for my development work (Android, Python). Besides, no ones should have to run Windows via hypervisor in a multi-platform world such as the one Microsoft is promising for C#, this is what makes beefy machines 'necessary'.
I guarantee everyone maintaining a large public project on github has private repos and is paying for the service.

Open source ties in with my work. Every one of my private repos has open source dependencies hosted on github.

Privileging the priorities of my private repos over their public dependencies would be shortsighted.
> The baseband still has access to your battery when your phone is off.

Citation needed?

Because the definition of off, for most phones, is exactly that.
If only this were a forum where the right people could read about it. ;)
> you could very likely legally watch everything

this might be true if you live in the US, but in some other countries it is still hard to actually buy movies or tv shows.

as for the legality itself: in some countries downloading media itself for personal use is not illegal.

for example in switzerland, there is a media tax/fee included in the price of every device that potentially could store pirated materials. the income from this tax is then distributed to media producers and artists. in return, copying copyrighted material is tolerated for private use and consumption... this excludes redistribution and uploading.
The assignment is a conversion from unsigned to signed, if the value cannot be represented by the signed type, the result is implementation defined or an implementation defined signal is triggered.
I also noticed that in my tests, thus I stressed this point in the FAQ.
If you try LZMA, you'll see that it sometimes is actually worse than bzip2, even though the latter is regarded to be quite aged compared to the former.
Honest question: how does one buy currency with gold even under current circumstances? Let’s even forget the doomsday for a moment.

OP mentions gold as safe non-crazy way to protect savings against long-term inflation and depressions. However, from what I understand, any outsider would be extremely lucky to sell it at a rate anything close to the market, and common sense suggests that if dollar plunges it’d become proportionately trickier.

If selling it isn’t as tricky as it seems, then the reverse question comes up: how to buy it now without being ripped off?
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> If you've ever thought "I'm going to buy the brand-name [pasta|batteries|phone|insurance]"

I think that's the key. You stop needing to think about lots of things. There's a real cognitive cost of being poor.
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I think comparing (using <) pointers to unrelated objects is undefined behavior. So you do not get a consistent ordering.
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A better example would be maybe House of Cards. In many countries new episodes are only available with a delay. For example, in Germany they are put online six months after the US start, because they sold the rights to Sky.
I'm not getting these warning on my Nexus 4 running the default Android build. The only time I see them is when I use my own VPN connection.

Do you think it might get triggered on your phone by the presence of the anti-porn filter that UK mobile provider have?
For instance, when trying to access "adult" website (I use quotes as sometimes, even non porno website gets filtered out) you end up on your mobile provider page blocking you from the actual website your looking for.
because it's the privileges of management without the formal responsibilities.
The design evolves, just very carefully. There were typography tweaks in 2014: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Typography_refresh (mostly increasing the font size of the main page text and changing headings to use a serif font).
I was not aware of CC0, but that's definitely what I'd want my code on stack overflow to be.
Out of curiosity, why "infos"? It's a bit jarring to read every time I encounter it. The way that your page is written makes it seem like you're a native French speaker (spaces on both sides of punctuation, pluralisation of infos and softwares)?

I think it'd be nice to put in FAQ where the data may go through, because many areas may have things like wanting end-user PII to remain within their jurisdiction or other import/export problems.
I support Wikipedia's efforts and would gladly donate once they sort out the NPOV issues on the site. A lot of power users think NPOV is their POV and revert anything they don't agree with.