skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how I feel about any hardware I've purchased. Part of the problem is that the software really isn't ownable. It doesn't feel like I have any control over it.

If a new version of Windows comes along there is no guarantee that my software will still work on it. And there is certainly no guarantee that my current version of Windows will work on a replacement machine.

With Android everything is controlled from the store. If there is a officially supported way to transfer apps without re-downloading from Google Play I don't know of it. Also if I want to share an app how would I even do that without lending my phone?
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I guess you'd want to ask yourself if you can afford lawyers for a legal battle if the company wants to claim partial or total ownership of your project, and you don't want to give it up.

I can't believe someone, in this day and age and where you're located, who wants to start up a software business doesn't own their own computer. That's just weird. You're weird.

Seriously though, it's very foolish to be so cheap.
Congratulations. You just invented fractional reserve banking.
I don't think that whole controversy is about what you think it is. Consider the number of google hits on this search: https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&q=robert+downey+jr+... (about 9130) to this one: https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&btnG=Search&q=zoe+s... (over 2.1 million)

Why is it worse for a light skinned woman to play a darker-skinned woman than for a white man to play a black man?
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> Possibly, but the "cost" would be very high so I would actually be a little wary of an exchange which does this

You lost me there. Why would that cost be high? All you need is a wallet (or two, hot/cold) which holds your customer deposits and which you are not allowed to spend from.
You've confirmed all my suspicions regarding HN and YC's ideological positions.

Thank you, I will not be posting further on this site or directing any business your way.
The problem with recurring billing in India is that it doesn't work at all with the RBI 2 factor guidelines. We do have Standing Instructions, but they are harder to support for SaaS companies.

If you rely on a service like PayPal/2Checkout, you face other issues:

1. Only international credit cards work. Indian market is heavily biased towards Debit Cards as of now
2. your money is processed internationally, which has it's own share of issues.

Disclaimer: I work at Razorpay
Ask HN: What are your favorite newsletter/mailing lists?
There are plenty of websites out there trying to get your email to monetize, but which newsletters or emailing lists are you subscribed to that actually have quality content?
I'd definitely like to know what it adds to PostGIS.
I read the article and I don't think I got anything wrong, also I think you meant to say "Why is it worse for a white man to play a black man for a light skinned woman to play a darker-skinned woman than?"

And it's worse because of the history of black face and why it was used
Since electrical power in Singapore is generated from fossil fuels (90% natural gas, 10% oil[1]), why shouldn't electric vehicles there be subject to their carbon tax? (There's no mention of this guy having solar cells to recharge his car's battery, so I assume he recharges it from the grid.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Singapor...
> But you could have a proof of stake system that requires exchanges to hold X% of their funds available, similar to the requirements for banks

In Bitcoin's case you can even do that provably and without trusted third parties: https://github.com/olalonde/proof-of-liabilities. I haven't worked on this in a while so there might be more recent proposals.
You're arguing semantics. Windows definitely isn't open the way GNU wants things to be open. It may not be open like you define open. However Windows does have some open properties [1] that are at risk of being taken away. When we say open in this context, we mean those properties, not that Windows is licenced under GPL 3.

[1] The primary open property in question is the ability to build, distribute & run apps on Windows without even notifying Microsoft. The opposite of a walled garden.
What did web socket have to do with their rise?

They won't support p2p encryption because server side search wouldn't be possible.
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I'm not surprised at all. In my book, the leftists and the nazis are basically the same considering what they actually stand for, their historical record and differ only by their stance on nationalism. I also have the "privilege" of being born when my country was ruled by a communist dictatorship, growing up experiencing the results of leftist policies, listening to countless accounts from my family members of the days when the left came to power post WWII. For me all this is deja vu: a new form of wooden language [1] rising up (microaggresions, triggers, intersectionality etc), discrimination based on circumstances of birth, policing of the language, behavior and beliefs of people, including trying to police how people behave and speak in private - any former communist secret police would be proud, people's tribunals like witch hunts etc. You hear about history repeating itself, but to actually experience it is kind of sad. But what do I know, I'm a brainless pessimistic libertarian kook...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wooden_language
>I asked a legitimate question. Down votes don't teach people who want to learn, people.

When "have you guys always screwed up this way" is your only non-rhetorical question, I call shenanigans on intent to learn. You solidly earned that downvote by being so patronizing.

That said, it's very easy for a solution to be both painfully obvious and at the same time not worth the effort. The rocket scientist is busy doing rocket science. If they give a flippant answer, it's okay to point out that the answer is flippant. It's not condescending. It doesn't imply they are "not aware" of the solution. They simply lack infinite spare time to implement every solution to everything.
https://www.adafruit.com/about/ "Adafruit is a 100% woman owned company." Wonder what the uproar would be if it said man/male here. Well, anyways.
> For example, my son usually goes right for my office when he gets home in the afternoon, standing with me at my desk rattling on about his day oblivious that he might be interrupting. [H]ow many more of those conversations will there be?

thank you
I was mostly referring to the 4 closing parentheses in a row. I agree it's something difficult for everybody. I have the habit to open&close parentheses immediately, even when I write in word, but it's definitely something that the "normal" person doesn't do, let alone kids.
Reading these things I see two dangers in crypto-currencies. 1) it's difficult to know all of the technical nuance that can have significant impact on value. I bet many merchants and bitcoin holders had no idea of any of this was in the offing. Even with research, non-technical people may not have been able to appreciate the risks from specs and tech discussions. And 2) this really doesn't feel decentralized. Sure there may be no formal organization, but with apparently so few people being able to be closely involved, in almost may as well be.

Of course, I'm a more casual observer on the sidelines, and maybe my take is wrong as others with closer observations may tell me. But I never heard some of these things being issues until just now... bitcoin is clearly not for casual users.
>I ported Ocaml's interpreter to Plan 9.

That sounds pretty cool, care sharing any more information about this project?
My impression is Intuit worked to make sure the online pay system keep changing their protocol just to force you to upgrade to a new Quicken every 2 years. Can anyone confirm?
I wonder if Bill Gates and Satya Nadella actually knows about the problems in Skype.
"they're still making money. If only other startups worked that way." is the part that prompted the reminder.

Imagine someone saying the same thing about a delivery service throwing boxes away. They're not burning money and getting away with mass failure. It's a perfectly ordinary way of handling things.
I find using a photo from a UC Davis Occupy protest to be very misleading
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The taxi company I drove for usually retires its Priuses around 400,000 miles. The Owner-Op whose cab I drove probably had 450,000 miles on it when it got rear-ended - it was still on the fleet because she took good care of it, and had just paid it off.

State law requires taxis to have less than 500,000 miles. 300-400 miles/day (over 2 shifts) was typical... 110,000 miles a year.
No, I really meant what I said. I know why it's worse for a white man to play a black man, but the internet apparently does not. Tropic of Thunder came out in 2008. 9130 hits? That's nothing. Why are there 2+ million pages about the Nina Simone movie? Have I inadvertently stacked the deck with my search terms?
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A single isolated case can do anything.

I think they are proposing a language for a multitude of kids, I assume to be thought in schools. Applied to their case, I don't think what you say here works, i.e. you can't teach that to a class of 10-30 kids.

You need to find something which is "ok" (whatever that means) for the average kid. And that's why I was expressing my concerns about the parentheses.
Not sure I get that statement. I've got comcast and I've had a /68 for quite awhile. Works great. From what I can tell comcast pushing more IPv6 than most.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. GFA-Basic on the Atari ST was such a step up from what preceded it. Hats off to the maintainer for keeping it going all these years later!
What does space smell like?
I think the author does a great disservice lumping together deploy, test, and dev sandbox tools under 'build tools'. They are different scenarios which all happen to require a built copy of the code.

There's no fundamental reason for them to use the same tool, except the inertial tug of whatever build tool your project happens to use.
I've had a few opportunities to see how terrible the finance world's code is. Whether it's banking or trading, as a rule, the code sucks. One place even had a team dedicated to fixing problems by manually editing the database to correct errors that customers call up and report.

And yet, all of that crazy, deranged infrastructure is orders of magnitude safer for consumers. It's unfortunate to watch reality bear this out.
Definitely not Maven. Maven is ubiquitous in Java projects. Gradle has been pushed hard by Android, but I know that a lot of developers aren't convinced that putting code into configuration is a good idea.
Maven even after all the XML crud remains insanely flexible and powerful.
Very good articulation. I thought I was in the know of how bad it was as a techie, but it sounds like a giant prank the way it's unraveling.
If Bitcoin governance is miner voting, doesn't that mean the Chinese now effectively control it? Or at least nearly so?
Thanks for pointing out my typo.

Also, how do you account for the many successful software companies that are started by just programmers, with no product direction?
> It is difficult enough to get two people to agree. Three is harder, and four is even harder. Once a community gets to fifty or hundreds of people, getting everyone to agree is an irrational goal. But this is ok. Mechanisms exist to resolve disagreement amongst large groups of people (like voting). Waiting for everyone to agree is the same as saying that nothing will be done.

It's almost like we need some sort of mechanism or formal protocol for reaching consensus among a group of geographically distributed people. A kind of.. distributed consensus protocol.
The continued censorship on the main bitcoin subreddit and the main bitcoin forum is ridiculous. It makes the whole bitcoin community and ecosystem look like a joke, which isn't something anyone involved should want. If the currency can't handle an open debate between adults, how do they expect to weather attacks from serious bad actors (criminal, state, or otherwise)?

This article is pretty detailed and does a good job of depicting the events of the roundtable - but as someone who didn't attend, I'd be curious to see how a Bitcoin Core member would choose to describe things. I imagine their perspective would be very different. On the other hand, the history of this whole controversy seems to suggest that the Core crew are as bad at communication as Mr. Armstrong suggests, so I doubt we'll ever see that alternate perspective :(

The risk of miners dropping out en masse once the difficulty goes up isn't something I've seen mentioned before, and it seems pretty scary. I would have assumed that difficulty adjustment would happen more often, so if it continues to have such a long interval, that seems like a threat to the long-term health of the currency. I can imagine some other event knocking miners out of the network, like a sudden spike in the cost of electricity for large mining operations - so even if the immediate risk is addressed it seems like this is still a threat going forward.

Ultimately, it's really sad that what seems to have happened with Bitcoin is that Satoshi put together some really stellar technology and completely overlooked the human component. Handing the project off to a random group of contributors seems reckless under any circumstances, and then it turned out that the random group of maintainers got along poorly. Now the de-facto control of the currency is in the hands of a small group of people with an obvious profit motive, because they have control over the central bitcoin forum and central subreddit. Hindsight is powerful, but it feels like it should have been obvious that the human risks needed to be addressed if Satoshi was serious about constructing a new currency.
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This has been strongly implied (if not explicitly stated) in some of the previous articles on this subject. The Chinese have a huge amount of hash power and once the difficulty goes up, I suspect they will have an even larger percentage of it because they have access to extremely cheap electricity. Miners in other countries will have a hard time competing.

At present, a big part of the resistance to the 2MB blocksize is that the Core people have convinced Chinese miners that they will be unable to cope with the increased bandwidth requirements, IIRC.
American law needs a reboot when it comes to robots
This is great! I believe the next logical thing to implement would be handling of multiple files, but `parinfer` sounds good to.
Only half but I mirrored the whole domain because I want to read it all.
I wonder if there is another aspect in play, the mutability of identities.

In small, local communities, you have one thing you can never get rid off, your face.

But online there is no face, nothing to tie your claimed identity back to your biological self.

While pondering this i reminded myself of a mmorpg that may illustrate this.

It originated in South Korea, and there the player account is tied to the players national identity number. So once banned, one is banned for life.

But when it was exported to the states, anyone could sign up multiple times. End result was that various mechanics that originally was meant for the community to police itself, was used to harass other players.
Could SeedRamp be a support business for Teamed.io?
Fund technical startup founders, 90% startups fail, so invite them to be project managers and team leads on teamed.io projects?

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Can you explain that more? I see plenty of programming books in foreign languages.
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> The thing that people fail to realize is that nobody is forcing said developer to use the GPL code instead of writing it themselves.

When used on an end-user application, GPL does a fantastic job. But in library use, it's a very viral license.

Say you wanted to write a KDE-native application back when Qt was GPL or commercial only. You couldn't do it by using GTK+ ... it wouldn't look quite right. You would have to pay money, or make your application GPL as well. And what if you couldn't pay?

It's not hard to imagine a world where the GPL truly took off, and everything from the top-level GUI toolkit all the way down to libc functions were all GPL'ed. You'd be forced to start from absolutely nothing to make even simple applications. Years and years of work just to get a basic desktop application going. And it would be entirely alien to the rest of the OS. That's not really an "option" anymore. Nobody would implement that much just to port to one OS.

No, we're not there. And no, we're never going to get there. Most library writers wisely choose the LGPL, and many others release everything under the BSD license. But if you take the GPL to its extreme conclusions, you can see why people consider it viral.
Despite the valuation, Coinbase is just a very tiny of the transactions.
Coinbase centralizes bitcoin by removing it's intended purpose, peer-to-peer cash, altogether.

Naive people who do not understand bitcoin, use services that take away ownership of coins, like coinbase, circle, etc. because they achieve a few advantages over traditional bank accounts - its fast, no downtime & without limits. Banks are moving towards digitalization all over the world and these advantages will no longer remain so in future if banks decide on getting their game sorted. Then people who see value in using services like coinbase will go away because banks can provide all advantages of coinbase even today if they decide to, but much better.

However, what they can't provide is decentralization & privacy. But people who use coinbase, by virtue of them using it, do not desire decentralization & privacy. Thus, the bitcoin community should not pay attention to these companies or their users (though they might be large in numbers & even be current majority of users) unless decentralization & privacy is no longer desirable in bitcoin.
Apple "could" allow webapps on the App store (like the Chrome app store did/does?) Whether that's good or bad for users or Apple I don't know. People would start submitting lots of websites to the app store and Apple would have to start reviewing them, no pr0n, no politics for example, so it's probably not good for Apple.

Then there's the initiative for letting web pages request to be added to the desktop. They tried to make it non-invasive

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/increasing...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest
What gets me is when I see software designed this way and then start imagining how much money was spent developing it, and fellow software architects sitting back with their arms folded staring at the screen thinking what a good job they did.
Without passing judgment on whether both are right or wrong, how is this any different from a "Chinese people"-themed party featuring slanty eye costumes? I have a feeling HN commenters (and most Americans) would view that much less charitably. I'm genuinely curious: why?
Well, it's really conflating reality with the a hypothetical situation. The hypothetical is, money pools around sociopathic jerks who know how to flatter, cajole, or terrorize their way to the top, and if that hypothesis turns out to be true, then I don't feel sorry for those people who caused their own problems by supporting jerks.
That doesn't sound right to me. Scammy exchanges run away with the balances people carry at them, right? That seems very different (and much more lucrative and viable) than a retail storefront changing overnight from reputable practices to theft. Obviously the former is a real problem and a big threat, although it has little to do with reputation systems. The latter doesn't sound like that big of a threat. It seems like the cost to establishing a retail storefront with a solid reputation is not worth the quick payout from theft. In fact, if you have the initial capital and business acumen to run a stable retail storefront, it's probably more profitable and less risky to just keep doing that.
RDJ wasn't playing a black man. He was playing a white character who was wearing blackface, and Tropic Thunder was actually agreeing that that's wrong.

Tropic Thunder got away with blackface for the same reason Saturday Night Live gets away with offensive jokes. It's satire, and they're mocking the offensive acts.
Yeah, just a few: http://www.amazon.co.jp/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?__mk_ja_JP=%E3%82...
Sorry for the confusion, but Roritharr explained spot on! Thanks Roritharr
Public-key cryptography. Problem solved.
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I suspect if you can learn to play Mancala in elementary school you can learn to manage counting up to at least 4 braces.
I've seen that before, but the thing that really amuses me about it is that Dark Dungeons is the name of a rather fine RPG: http://www.gratisgames.webspace.virginmedia.com/darkdungeons... I'm about 95% sure the game is named after the comic, but I don't know for sure. Maybe I should ask the creator some day. :)
Before Coinbase I remember spending days navigating dodgy sites trying to exchange dollars for bitcoin and failing.
Yeah i can't help wonder if dbus is one contribution element to making bluetooth painful on Linux.

This because the tray side client talks to the daemons over dbus to get anything done. And i have seen file transfer after file transfer get lost in dbus limbo.

By this i mean that i initiate a transfer from pc to phone via the gui. Everything checks out on both ends, but no data gets transferred.

So i hit abort, and try over, but now nothing happens at all.

And no restarting of the relevant daemons or clients change a thing.

Only by restarting dbus, and thus restarting my desktop along with it, will i be able to initiate a new file transfer (that may again get stuck in limbo).
Intuit holds an annual internal developer conference (CTOF) and it appeared that the contingent from Quicken all sat at one lunch table. Probably between 10-20 devs, though I guess it's possible some didn't attend.
Wow, so Coinbase wants to throw out the Bitcoin core team. Mutiny!
It doesn't work like Quicken. It's too limited. Won't prevent you from bouncing a check, for one.

I keep my Quicken files on Dropbox so they sync just fine. I am also protected from data loss due to versioning. I also like the idea that the company storing the data is separate from the company that makes the software, so I can be assured that my accounts cannot be data-mined and everything works exactly the way I want it to.
I think it's pretty important for money to be fungible. Your idea is intended to solve a very real problem, but I think your proposed solution is worse than the problem.
Not sure I follow? This is standard in the banking world, yes, so why wouldn't it be standard in the much less regulated bitcoin world?
It depends on whose copyright you infringed upon. If it's a company, you can bet your ass they'll sue you if they find out. If it was an individual, then probably nothing will happen. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't use a free software license for your software. Many people will refuse to use it, because they cannot be sure they are legally allowed to do so.
That's… unique - and wrong - spelling of the name. (Pet peeve of mine, people spell my app's name in all sorts of bizarre ways too.)
Also, see this:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin...