skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an excellent point. I have no problem purchasing a new phone every year, because I'm well-off and consider it a new toy (don't worry, I give to charity too!).

I recently replaced my old $15 thermostat with a $200 smart one. The old one lasted for a decade and a half (for $1/year), and is still completely functional; I really hope the new one lasts as long, but I really don't know that it will.

What I absolutely want to avoid is having to buy another smart thermostat in a year, or five years, or even a decade. Will I be able to avoid that? Probably not, but … we'll see.
>now we only preempt on IO/sleep etc

The IO you are talking about - that is I assume IO methods/libraries that are specifically written/adapted for use in Quasar, yes? If you just use an off-the-shelf JDBC provider, you would block the entire thread when one fiber calls out to the database right?

If so, that is not preemption, that is cooperative multi-tasking.
Maybe you should familiarize yourself with the standard before preaching about how easy it is to comply with it.
Perhaps my upbringing is coming through, but I was surprised to see no mention of the fact that Christian apocalypse predictors have been raving about the implications of a "cashless society" and the control that would give government over our lives for decades. http://endtimestruth.com/mark-of-the-beast/cashless-society/
Take any data from Okcupid with a grain of salt. They make broad generalizations and don't normalize the data when making a conclusion.
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Octave is not a computer algebra system, so it's a bit different than this.
I was kind of surprised that they wouldn't show the actual change over time (say the last 10 years). Those snapshot values don't really tell a story.
Anyone know what ad network failed?
No it doesn't

Comparing a wall and a wire that electrocutes you is ridiculous.
Regarding value assinging I always get reminded of Rai stones from the island of Yap in Micronesia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones).
If the consumers are unemployed, where will they get the cash to buy the products? If they're not buying, from where do the producers find the consumers?

EDIT:

Fiction ahead:

Companies automate to sell to consumers. Consumers are put out of jobs, become unemployed, and no longer purchase as much as they used to. Companies that invested capital to build their automation infrastructure for too little return will go broke. The only automation that is profitable to build is automation the serves other owners of automation. The world's economy will separate into two, one small population, the owners of automation who trade amongst each other, and the automation-less, formerly unemployed labor.

The automation economy will require huge inputs of commodities, metal, wood, silicon, and everything, to fuel their own never-ending desires, for ego-building rocket projects, moon colonies, etc.

The automation-less labor will take up service jobs to serve each other, as people are wont to do. People in this economy will live with similar technology as today. But in the future they will be considered impoverished and backwards. Same kind of society, except having to compete with the automation economy for commodities. In fact, commodities like gold and silver, and perhaps even more common ones like copper and iron, will be so valuable, and with society constantly near unrest due to wealth inequality, they may be nationalised by government. Labor will be hired to strip the earth of commodities, to be shipped off the automation trillionaires. The income will be distributed as welfare payments to automation-less labor, to purchase services and goods from each other as well as a share of the commodities the automation-less economy are selling, and bits and pieces of technology from automation economy. In effect, land with resources become the last piece of real capital these people own.

In the automation economy, people are mostly self-sufficient.

In the automation-less economy, people are more dependent than ever on others.

It will be a continuation of the present human civilisation's trend - Where originally all humans were more or less equal as hunter gatherers, in the twenty first century, humans were separated into developed, developing and undeveloped economies, where there are entire countries full of the one percent richest.

In the end, the automation and automation-less economy becomes the final culmination of this trend. There are several thousand people who control the vast majority of the world's capital, and the rest unwashed masses, backwards and impoverished - the undeveloped, automation-less economy.
Cash is the only payment method available today that is both distributed and truly censorship-resistant. Anyone can pay cash to anyone else in exchange for anything, without having to report to, or obtain permission from, any third party. If nobody knows what you bought in the back alley last night, nobody will ever find out.

You don't need fancy chunks of metal and plastic to use cash. You don't even need electricity, much less an internet connection, to use it. A three-year-old kid can use it just as well as one-hundred-and-three-year-old great-grandma.

A lot of the time, you can't even tell whether the bills are genuine or not. But that doesn't prevent billions of people around the world from exchanging cash every day. And if dollars suddenly became untrustworthy, people will just switch to another currency or fall back to crates of fish and shiny stones.

Compare that to cryptocurrencies that are being touted as the future of distributed, "censorship-resistant" cash. Sure, they're distributed, but censorship is as easy as cutting off the target's internet connection (or even blocking some ports). If you're a dictator in North Africa, just flip the switch and all the rebels are suddenly broke! Cryptocurrencies also require everyone to broadcast every transaction to the whole world, and all it takes is one mistake to connect a set of addresses to a real identity. Geeks can mix their coins and hope there's no trail left, but good luck getting grandma to use it correctly.

Programmers love to talk about elaborate ways to prevent double-spending and whatnot. But in order to be a plausible replacement for cash, I think virtual currencies need to solve some of these usability problems first. Spending a few satoshis needs to become just as easy as pulling some quarters out of your pocket.
The up to 25 readership is probably because they still live with their parents to some degree, so they would tick a 'have access to paper news' box in a survey.

Also, tabloids might be pretty prevalent in the less educated group, which is pretty big.
The benefit is that, by recognising a common pattern of composition among many different types, you can develop a whole suite of functions that work with anything that follows that composition pattern.

This means you can encounter an unfamiliar monadic type, and form a decent intuition for what it does based on its purpose (although obviously you should probably check). Then you can encounter a weird new data structure, and immediately start mapping monadic functions over it without learning anything about its internals.

Also, a lot of monads make it more convenient to deal with certain things more strictly (IO, checking Maybes, avoiding mutable state etc.) such that you actually do them, instead of thinking they're too much faff.
A big part of the author's logic is based on the assumption that this was a technically complex, state sponsored hack.

This was script-kiddie stuff - it could've been anyone from a teenager in Wisconsin to a couple of channers in Bangkok and Banjul in it for the lulz.

Anyway, any speculation on the source is just a distraction from the content.
That only matters if ($months_subscribed * $monthly_fee) < $one_time_fee or if the tool isn't the dominant one for whatever you do (or one of the dominant ones).

For example I pay for the intellij monthly subscription, if I changed job it would be to a similar role and I'd keep paying for intellij (or my employer would).

Since JetBrains switched there hasn't been any stagnation that I've seen in their development speed or addition of new features.

JetBrains is competing against free in many areas of it's product range so they have an incentive to ensure that users are happier paying than not paying.
The self-driven super safe truck exists, it's called a train. What makes you so confident in the market forces?

They're clearly failing.
Pundits, Moguls, Sachems, and Czars
Or to use the same logic, maybe the lack of Americans implicated in the Panama papers indicates the the US is behind them?
Not worth reading. Full of prejudices, logically inconsistent, a bit like a conspiracy theory.
> But for other things, such as a smoke alarm...if a company designed it in such a way that connectedness is essential to its functionality

This is the irresponsible part.
Hmm, I knew this a lot better a couple of years ago so what I'm about to say may not be entirely accurate but it is a line of thought that is out there and I guess you'll get the idea.

What I have noticed is that when you take notes you're slower with writing something down compared to when you type it up. This basically means that there's a bigger chance that whatever you write down gets remembered since you're repeating it to yourself more often.

I don't think it explains the whole story though. I'd be interested to see if fairly slow typers (as in: typing as fast as writers do with their pens) are better notetakers as well compared to fast typers.
Government electronic surveillance was once a "conspiracy theory". I'm not comfortable with it being posed as a dirty word.
When you say this is for "Elite" business students, what do you mean?
I think it's just an honest misunderstanding of what the term "high availability" means, in general tech usage.
Bloomberg gave me an exploding offer once. The HR drone told me over the phone that they like to close candidates quickly to make sure that they don't pursue other opportunities.

I took the job despite blaring klaxons in my head because I was desperate for income. Didn't stay long though.
An interesting point: our whole economy is based around the idea that each person specializes in one thing. Eg, making torches. Then he sells his torches to a farmer in exchange for some food so that the farmer can work after dark to make more food. And he sells his torch to a miner so that the miner can go in deeper tunnels. And so on. Simplified extensively, but at the heart of it, this is what we do.

So our whole economy is built around this concept of making one thing others want, and then getting them to give you things you need in exchange. What happens with automation where a single person can use automation to make everything he needs without having to barter his work for the work of others? The entire system - the entire economy - becomes unnecessary.

Is it possible that's where we're rapidly heading and maybe there isn't even a problem - just a movement to end 'economy' that we've relied on for a few thousand years?
The whole article reads like a remake of the earliest history of racing, just slightly modernised with GPS, transponders and Instagram. Road cycling history is full of stories of who took a train where in what race and how did he get caught. Entertaining stuff.

A tangent of the article also mentions the use of an invented marathon to fill a gap in the achievement list of an ambitious runner. In the early boom years of road cycling, claiming wins in bogus races was so commonplace that avoiding that kind of CV hacking was the main driver in the formation of official regulations and organizations like UCI, afaik.
The very first thing I do when starting a new project is putting the logging infrastructure in place. In production you don't want to spam stderr with each and every event. But if some operation fails the best way to understand why, is having a precise log of what chain of operations lead to this error.
Note that I was explicitely talking about casual users, not power users.

I think that subscription pricing is a perfectly fair deal for software you use everyday. But lots of software has a long tail of casual users. I really want to make my apps affordable for those less invested users as well.
The problem is the brand specification. Nobody wants unbranded laptops.
I don’t, but I am using my real name voluntarily. People are generally more civil when using their own name.

You won’t sell a account based on your real name unless you are crazy.
A history of English in five words
In short, I don't know. An article like this is (almost) pure speculation and that's all it can be. However, it is one of the more interesting things I've read about the "Panama papers." Nothing in them is much of a surprise. Don't get me wrong; I'm generally happy about the release, and I hope any blatant criminals are caught and prosecuted. That said, we all knew it was happening.
I like the analogy from Argentina. Bank runs equivalent is the major weakness - or people who profit from runs will attack it to make it happen. See Soros.

GD, if it's meant to create distrust and runs, almost by definition must over time lose its value compared to USD.

It might start off 1:1 with us US dollar, but it must drop for the simple fact because it's supply will exceed USD. There are more complex issues I'm skipping, like the mass psychology of perception of value could actually create a panic where none might be warranted.

If it keeps dropping, the what it can buy with it will also drop.

What's the point of basic income then if eventually tens of thousands of GD is required to buy bread and basic income is only several thousand (point is, not enough to make a difference)?

This happens in a sort of way in real life already... Because govt meddle in education loans and subsidies for college, the result isn't that there are more availability of education only, there's also an ever increasing climb , almost unhooked from reality, if tuition costs. And some people simply stop paying back, which in a way results in a kind of wealth transfer effect like your GD.

But the lethal point that is becoming ridiculous, is that colleges no longer have incentive to adhere to reality and prices go to the moon.

Applied to entire economy, you get hyper inflation. Your GD can't distribute fast enough when mass psychology sets in.

That's another fundamental problem with currency or its like -- the entire human race is really not just cooperating with it, every one will also try to game it. It's like a horde of intelligent learning agents trying to bring it down for his own benefit.
I went to google and searched for "US income percentiles". Various sources yield between 96% and 99% percent when I punch in my total compensation.
You're adding details. I don't think that anyone is advocating tricking companies who don't care either way into making exploding offers through your own feigned indifference to whether the offer expires or not, then quitting on the first day.
Odly enough I have the same problem with feed readers I've tried. Even with sites I really like such as Reddit and Hacker News, that's why when you subscribe to a site if it puts out frequent updates (or you choose too) it's posts will show up in a scroll bar in your feed and so won't fill it up.

Here's a pic of it:

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipM4soLMzPTwgDHqbUWD-7in...
Bigger worry: What if a foreign agency can shutdown the American monetary system because everything is digital?
What's the business model? How will you prevent the business model from destroying the integrity of the site? How will you detect cheating, vote brigades, and other problematic users?

What is your competitive advantage over Reddit?
I think the fundamental problem is that they are not really selling you a traditional product. They are actually selling you a service disguised as hardware with a one time fee.

You probably would think it'd be absurd if you had to pay your ISP $600 upfront for the 16MBit/s router model and then the ISP stopps the service after two years.
Very strange. Perhaps it's some setup- or platform-dependent thing; I will file an issue. Thanks for checking!

EDIT: Very strange; I thought I'd give a try to what seemed a throwaway comment in your post, about quoting the string, and that fixed it. Thanks!

Without the double quotes (which seemed to be unnecessary for you), I still get:

$ youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbKJt1NQtZE
Usage: youtube-dl [OPTIONS] URL [URL...]

youtube-dl: error: You must provide at least one URL.
Type youtube-dl --help to see a list of all options.

I guess that some alias is grabbing some part of the URL string.
"We study how the fence weaves into and out of the trees. And one day, when the sun has gone down and the guards are asleep, we catapult over to the other side, and see all the things we couldn’t see before."

Yep, and some of us even see the fence being built and make sure we stay on the outside. It's easy to fence-in dopey ruminants, but wily canids prefer to keep their options a little more flexible.

I refuse, as much as possible, to be herded around, sheep-like, and am repulsed at the thought of being used, as do these "social" sites seeking to "monetize" me, as grist for their psychological-manipulation-for-profit mills. No product, I!
That seems a little silly to me. A laptop camera is normally facing into the room, but the camera on your phone will normally be facing upwards, so surely you have nothing to worry about unless you are standing naked over your phone.

Actually, that's given me a great idea to secure my phone from hackers. Stand over it naked and waggle my sack about - that's one camera they'll never ever hack again lol
The first video explains that - yes it reduces drag.
Old-school Christian conservatism has a lot in common with modern libertarianism, such as its emphasis on self-sufficiency and distrust of big government.

Unfortunately, they got co-opted by savvy politicians who promised to catch sinners and wage war on other religions in exchange for a little more power.
Also when writing with pen/pencil you are essentially always drawing. I think this allows the writer to capture a lot nuances on the page which might not be ideal for review but at the time of capture they help reinforce ideas as the brain is processing them.
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Pretty entertaining conspiracy theories in there. No single shred of evidence is provided beyond "I think it would make sense for the Russians to do this". This guy seems to be much preoccupied with Russia. Oh wait he's written books about the country.

Even if he had proof he wouldn't have a point. There seems to be no end to the parade of people saying how "our" interests are harmed by these publications. If your org is corrupt, I want it to be destabilized. I want you to fear personal exposure.
That's interesting, what kind of 'local' is that? Living in a big city and reading city-related news, or more suburban or rural context? (because I live in Berlin and local/Berlin news would be just as messy garbagy as global news)
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Thanks for the trick. (Writing about the issue)
Sage / Sagecloud is quite popular in academics in the Czech Republic.
Yes, trains exist.

What the mentioned platooning achieves though, is rapid re-grouping once a truck joins or leaves the platoon. Imagine that you save 10-20% of fuel within a platoon (as pointed out in the article), then precise scheduling entering the highway at the right time makes suddenly sense.

Trains can't do that with the same flexibility.
Maybe the actual extend and details, but US surveillance in Europe was already something the European Parliament investigated in the late 90s. And even then it was no surprise to the people in that area. Snowden added a lot of detail and made the topic a mainstream topic but hardly did he show that a conspiracy theory - which it never was - is in fact true.

Within Europe, all email, telephone and fax communications are routinely intercepted by the United States National Security Agency, transferring all target information from the European mainland via the strategic hub of London then by Satellite to Fort Meade in Maryland via the crucial hub at Menwith Hill in the North York Moors of the UK. The system was first uncovered in the 1970's by a group of researchers in the UK (Campbell, 1981).

Other work on what is now known as Signals intelligence was undertaken by researchers such as James Bamford, which uncovered a billion dollar world wide interceptions network, which he nicknamed 'Puzzle Palace'. A recent work by Nicky Hager, Secret Power, (Hager,1996) provides the most comprehensive details to date of a project known as ECHELON. Hager interviewed more than 50 people concerned with intelligence to document a global surveillance system that stretches around the world to form a targeting system on all of the key Intelsat satellites used to convey most of the world's satellite phone calls, internet, email, faxes and telexes. These sites are based at Sugar Grove and Yakima, in the USA, at Waihopai in New Zealand, at Geraldton in Australia, Hong Kong, and Morwenstow in the UK.

The ECHELON system forms part of the UKUSA system but unlike many of the electronic spy systems developed during the cold war, ECHELON is designed for primarily non-military targets: governments, organisations and businesses in virtually every country. The ECHELON system works by indiscriminately intercepting very large quantities of communications and then siphoning out what is valuable using artificial intelligence aids like Memex. to find key words. Five nations share the results with the US as the senior partner under the UKUSA agreement of 1948, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia are very much acting as subordinate information servicers.

European Parliament, 1998, An appraisal of technologies for political control, https://cryptome.org/stoa-atpc.htm
This pure, raw speculation.
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Stash your cash! Use some of it to buy tangible gold and other things of value like ammunition.
It's not really HR's fault, though. They don't share the viewpoint that most technical people do, that finding good technical people is sufficiently hard to warrant hiring extra if you find yourself so lucky as to find more than you need, rather than risking missing out on filling the positions you need.
What about barter? It's way less convenient than cash, but it is a distributed payment method that can at least be used in a way that is censorship resistant (many times the thing up for barter might make the transaction hard to hide, other times not).
Why gray text should never exceed 46% brightness? Interesting read
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