skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think bitcoin has much utility as a means to transfer value, over the existing solutions.

It might be a superior means to store value. The theory is that is as the amount of dollars (or any fiat currency) constantly increases, anyone holding large quantities of dollars will want to exchange them for something with a more fixed supply. Usually this is stocks. Oil futures, property, and gold are also used as stores of value. (In countries with weak currencies, people also hoard dollars as a comparatively stronger source of value).

So the purely monetarist argument says if there are only 21m bitcoins, and an ever-growing amount of dollars, one would expect that the dollar price of bitcoin will only be stable at 0 or infinity. E.g., either the network crashes and bitcoin becomes worthless, or the dollar collapses and bitcoin reigns supreme.

http://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/im-hoarding-bitcoins-an... - see here for more on this theory as regards bitcoin.

The counter to this argument is that a. despite seeming logical, money supply inflation doesn't always seem to occur in reality. E.g., quantitive easing hasn't noticeably increased consumer prices.

b. Bitcoin is volatile, which means it isn't actually a safe store of value. One persuasive argument I heard (from goldbugs) is that bitcoin, having a fixed supply, has no mechanism to stabilise the price, and so booms and busts become self-reinforcing. With gold, on the other hand, the amount mined varies depending on the market price, which smoothes out booms and busts.

I'm expecting both gold and bitcoin to increase in value over the next ten years as the EU and US both lurch from crisis to crisis. This will bring a debate over the future of fiat currency into the mainstream, after which things will get very messy and political. (You can't run a welfare state on gold or bitcoin, for one).
You may also enjoy reading about how airline pricing works. It doesn't have an emotional component, but they get away with charging wildly different prices for the same service by having prices fluctuate on a day-to-day basis and some other tricks. It's sort of a "people who can pay, will pay" model, where they can gather from a larger chunk of the demand curve.
Elon Musk is transparent about SpaceX prices because they are much cheaper than the competition. There is no similar clarity of pricing with Tesla Motors or SolarCity. With Tesla Musk has a habit of advertising the price of the base model after tax credits have been subtracted, which is kind of misleading.

The rule is to be clear about pricing when it works in your advantage and to obfuscate otherwise.
Feedbin does this! (Though not with as much cleverness as your suggestion.)

https://feedbin.com/blog/2016/02/03/subscribe-to-email-newsl...

"You can now receive email newsletters in Feedbin."
The CIA is not known for its intelligence.
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http://coindesk.com/price/

It also seems like bitcoin is enjoying a rally, possibly in anticipation of the reward halving in 10 weeks (in theory the reward halving should already be priced in, but the bitcoin market is not the most rational).
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Ads which you'll no doubt block anyway. Not seeing the issue here.
Sure, but people are let go for poor performance all the time, team hires will be no different once they join. So from that standpoint, there is not much more risk than any regular hire ( who could also write an expose about whatever )
>Is spamming that lucrative or what's going on?

Yes, it is. There's not that many programming jobs where you can easily make 500k+ a year.

For example, if you're phishing for credit cards with VBV info you might very well get $20 or more per card when selling in bulk (or twice that if you aren't). 10000 emails takes a couple of minutes to send and if you get a 1% success rate that's $2000
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Since this seems to be the thread for alternatives...

Someone at the time of Reader's demise recommended Selfoss, and I've been running it ever since. It's not quite as good, but it does what I wanted from Reader.
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The website comes up with a pop-up when I try read the article, but when I hit the 'x' to close it I get dumped at the homepage.

Here's the Google cache version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Itp90I0...
BIG-i could be the first great home robot
ETCS is coming - it may take twenty years to be rolled out everywhere but it will happen. In the meantime they're focusing on the strategic routes first. These things take time, but it is happening.
> I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was rich

Then the comment does not apply to you.

I don't think you quite understand how deep the rabbit hole of this form of "whiteness" goes; as a social construct it implies people from Western Europe or North America. Surely you have experienced how there are people from there who treat Eastern Europe people as less "civilized? Similarly for, say, Mediterranean ethnicities.

White male privilege might not (fully) extend to you, but that does not disprove its existence.
Because of a single experiment in highly controlled environment :) Please come back to earth.
I'll echo that gripe. Amazon have hobbled their ecosystem by the bizarre design decision of mandatory configuration by US zip code. This effectively excludes all non-American users, and makes the barriers for overseas developers prohibitively high.

Since I am in Australia, my Echo is good only for parlour tricks and streaming audio: without an accurate time and place, even simple things like checking weather are impossible. Forget about booking a cab, or home automation. So I have not tried to develop for the platform, because I do not develop things I cannot test.

Perhaps Amazon were afraid of diluting their product focus. But failure to think globally means your product cannot be a world leader.
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> I think it's groupthink, extremely low quality/uninformed discourse, and brigading. I wish that there was a site with an hn-level of moderation that covered issues like bikes, local news, etc. Maybe that's just not possible?

It's possible on reddit. reddit.com/r/AskHistorians is a Q&A subreddit for asking historical questions. They have a very high standard for answers, comments, and even the questions you can ask. and they actively enforce it. As a result it's a very high quality resource.

It can be done, if there's the will for strict moderation, from the mods and the users.
Terminals are 80 chars, lines wrap at 72.
If you can pilot flying killing machines half the world away, you can definitely control a slow moving truck remotely.
Sounds nice.

There are probably many people who want to work with their friends, especially when they did OSS stuff together.

On the other hand, I have different opinions than other people about when to leave a company, so I'm mostly on my own, even if I have worked with many good people who I'd love to take with me, haha.
Yeah, and in addition, "We're going to need time and persuasion to convince you to pay that much."

I really don't have time for that crap. And salesmen generally give me the creeps. I think it's because so many of them are just there for the paycheck, but need to pretend to be interested in what they're selling. Ugh.
I'm not particularly worried about it being doctored, just cherry-picked and misrepresented.

Most people would agree that in common language "intoxicated" is a stronger term than "drunk", yet the best evidence people can find when challenged on repeating the "drunk sex = rape" meme (some going so far as to claim that many institutions have official policies that explicitly say that even 1 drink = drunk = rape) doesn't support what they initially said. Even when it's a cherry picked 8 year old document hosted externally by a third party as evidence for poltical purposes.

This suggests to me, that it's basically BS, as I said earlier. Clearly, from your latest comment, you understand that it's a complex area, with lots of gray. So why charge in and repeat BS you heard on the internet?
>> I'm from an Eastern Europe and my family never was rich

>Then the comment does not apply to you.

It does, I'm white. The author specifically mentions "white male".
Talking about RSS reader, I was becoming (almost!) fan of digg reader until they updated their iPad app and then links to sites won't open! How crazy is that!
Uninstalled immediately, deleted digg account and I am a happy feedly user since then. No regrets so far.
I do not think it's using LibreOffice Online. You can see kontact running there too. http://i.imgur.com/WOuJyyA.png
Both Chart.js and Highcharts are great, I like Chart.js, Nevertheless, Highcharts has more features and you can rely on a huge community
> The quality of the subreddit is directly proportional to the moderation. The Ask subreddits (/r/AskHistory, /r/AskScience) are consistently cited for having high quality due to actual, transparent enforcement of the rules.

/r/AskHistorians is an Ask subreddit with strong and active moderation and has high quality.
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the accused rapist

Agreed with most of what you wrote, but there's no such thing as an accused rapist (unless you're including previous convictions).
Once you get away from highly populated and developed areas, there're lots of single-lane roads. Let alone that single-lane roads are used as backups when inevitable accident happens on multilane. Of course, there's not as much traffic in such areas as in those with multi-lane highways.
If what you were saying was true, you'd be getting better quality developers if you only hired guys that were born in your high-wage country. Thats not how it works.

I've met a lot of very bad german developers that command a decent wage, simply because there is a scarcity of talent, and I've seen lots of eastern european guys do a fantastic job earning much less, because thats how their local market is like.

I agree that it is never a good idea to pay less than the local average, though.
They are not the same. With Google Reader you had a virtually infinity history of the feed while with feed clients you only receive articles from the current and past feed files seen. An article about this topic: http://blog.databigbang.com/tag/google-reader/
Under English law rape requires a penis.

A person could be found guilty of sexual assualt by penetration, which is equally severe. It's just not called rape.

This is in the Sexual Offences Act.
> a duel personality

One of these insightful typos :)
>It generally feels like they'd rather use Facebook or WhatsApp

My family and friends are 100% SMS, which sucks if you like me have a distaste for phones (not just smartphones, just phones in general). Emails is much more in line with my way of communicating.

Of cause at work it's often illustrated that other people aren't to skilled in writing emails. More often than not I resort to guessing the message hidden within the broken sentences, poor spelling and screenshots of things I know nothing about.
Many are likely to hail this as some sort of ushering in of a new age while simultaneously preach about the FBI cracking an iPhone - interesting to see where this ends up.
Some operations is Light room scale rather well with the number of cores, and some do beyond 8 cores.
Additionally we are talking situations where a computer can't have any reaction interruptions for hours and hours. No reboots. No garbage collection pauses. No panics.

You mean, just like existing ones? It's not like we're still driving purely mechanical cars. Current production vehicles already have plenty of software managing stuff.
Terminals are buggy whips
+1 for the old reader - works well for me too.
Email wasn't designed to be used the way we use it now.

It's not a to-do list protocol. In fact, as Paul Graham has put it, it's a disastrously bad todo list (Source: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html)

It's not a messaging protocol - email was never built for conversations, which is why conversations over email often get clunky, confusing and finding some piece of information later is near-impossible.

No wonder people just plain don't like email as a communication method. It was invented in the 70s and it was intended for much lower volumes (Source: http://www.techworld.com/startups/skype-cofounder-jaan-talli...)

The thing is, most 'email killers' like Slack are closed systems and thus have no shot at replacing email - the reason why email has persevered is its openness, how it is the lowest common denominator in online communications (ahem, 2,5bn users worldwide).

Instead of a new open protocol, Fleep (https://fleep.io) has built a messenger that relies on the email protocol by integrating with email seamlessly. With Fleep, you can send messages to anyone who has an email address - if they're not a Fleep user yet, they will receive the messages as normal emails. As a Fleep user, however, you already get the improved conversational experience of emails.

(Full disclosure: I do work at Fleep and I absolutely love the product, the ambition and the ingenious approach our founding team has taken to merging IM & email.)
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On my phone it is a scrolling advertisement. To get past it don't click on it just scroll using the page around the ad and once you get past it you can scroll again! Desktop I'm not sure about however
> Then I discovered that if you put performance-critical code into lower-memory addresses it runs much faster.

Do you mean higher memory addresses?

Code in the lower 16KB of RAM (addresses 16-32KB) has contended memory access with the ULA, which causes the CPU to pause while the TV raster line is drawn.

Code in the upper 32K does not have this issue.
RSS was and still is great for following a few blogs that were relatively infrequently updated. If I follow Rands, DF or Marco, it works quite well. I receive timely, relevant content at a pace I can cope with and digest.

The problem with RSS is that it scales incredibly badly for large, content heavy sites. I don't really want to see everything that Gizmodo publishes. I certainly don't want to see everything that HuffPo, Buzzfeed or any of the other content mills publish. Sure, you can choose granularity - a 'US Politics' RSS feed for example, but that puts too much of the onus on me and I'll end up missing some stuff I'd like to see.

For those large content mills, Facebook actually does a quite good job of bubbling stuff up through my network that I care about. Twitter served that function for a while before it became more about noise and snark.

The death of Google Reader probably had a role in the decline of the small independent publisher (how many new sites have appeared on that scene recently?), but it's probably not to blame for the rise of BuzzFeed et al, which RSS was never really suited to handle anyway.
Interesting post - I love this idea that everything is a table and with INSERT, "you’re not really inserting individual rows. You’re really inserting entire tables".
You have a good point @hakanito, I still think Highcharts is a powerful charting tool, and it is relatively cheap to set up a nice chart. BTW many companies are looking for developers with Highcharts skills
> And then when you get to your destination, manoeuvring a 50' trailer is no easy task, even for a trained driver like my dad.

I wonder if there will be a more specialised role for human drivers here akin to pilots in ports. Companies at the scale able to invest in the tech might have the trucks arrive at a queue near regional hubs and have wet-ware do the 10 minutes of fiddly driving after clearing off the Smart car debris.
A "discerning, technologically literate audience" is exactly who you don't want at your site -- for most non-technical sites. The person you want is some who really believes bud light tastes different than coors light. You want the person who will believe that a particular body spray is the only thing preventing them from meeting more men/women. These are the folks who pay the bills on the non-technical sites.
Pretty lazy article, too. I guess that should have been expected.
Gmail for Android Gets Microsoft Exchange Support
I tried running OpenVPN on DigitalOcean and AWS and had no luck with Netflix on either host.
> There's no real reason to have regional restrictions online...

While I broadly agree with you I don't buy this one point.

By restricting availability by region, publishers can (a) spread out their promotion costs & reduce risk exposure, and (b) charge more.

Wearing my techno-utopian hat, the first reason is bullshit that nees solving and the second reason is greed. Wearing my realist hat, both reasons are the way the world works and neither seems like it's going to change in short order as publishers hold a monopoly over content.

Does anyone know if Netflix delay release of their own content by region?
> Things involving humans (vehicles cutting you off, pedestrians, etc.) are part of the general class of problems that I'm assuming all automated vehicles are working on and are much harder.

The more mass you have, the longer your braking distance and the more sluggish the reactions. While the problem is the same, and the mechanical differences easily modelled, light vehicles get away with lower accuracy and higher latencies, because they don't need to plan ahead so far.
> Hey, don't let negative comments get to you. Always happens on HN. Best example being DropBox launch, top comments said something along the lines of "this will never work".

Nothing beats the Slashdot review of when the iPod was first released: "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...
And I open individual twitter accounts [1] from time to time and find all kind of interesting content - and a more pleasurable way to consume it.

[1] That I also follow but will miss from the timeline, of course.
sounds RAD!
> according to Lionsgate’s President of Worldwide Television & Digital Distribution, Jim Packer, it’s just part of the company’s “commitment to remain at the cutting edge of innovation in delivering content to online audiences around the world.”

He says that, but renting a Lionsgate movie through Steam for 48 hours costs about half as much as a 1-month Netflix membership? I kind of don't think this was a particularly game-changing move on Steam's or Lionsgate's behalf.
Unless you are running on NUMA box does not look like this will affect you much.
I tried voice control the last time around. I got Dragon Dictate well trained and the error rate was very low.

But talking to the computer is tiring, far more so than typing.

I wonder if it is a division in people - I'm a text thinker, a CLI user & a quiet person.

I like google voice search, that is sometimes handier than typing on the Android. I'm not being "ew, new" but I just can't imagine a fully voice controlled computer for all day work being better for producing text.
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The one where the organ was freely and explicitly offered, not harvested from a person who might have mistakenly believed their body would still be theirs in death.
A hash is often use for an online algorithm. If you know the hash you know there is a potential for dedupe, and you can do a byte for byte comparison. I suppose you could use size as a prefilter for dedupe. This is if you do dedupe on a file level. Dedupe on block level doesn't care about the content, only the blocks, and it's not unusual to see for instance mp3 files with the same mp3 stream but different metadata. You cannot do the latter without hashing.
I don't know how you could improve the UX, considering most sites had an icon that directly linked to google reader. For a while, feed readers where also the app store category where all the innovation happened.

I don't want to live in the same internet as people who can't copy & paste an URL.
This is my thought also but the question is how big is the ratio between total number of cars and the cars in use during very limited time frame (mornings, evenings).

My observation is in the place where I live that around first morning hour the people who drive are the people who would use the car whole day. So we can ignore them in the estimation.

Then comes the bulk of the people who use the car to just get to work. I would estimate that around 1/2 to 2/3 of the cars are in the move during one hour.

I would assume that sizeable proportion of the current public transport users would also consider to use cars when they are readily available.

So I would assume that the number of cars needed to provide reliable automated cars service instead of private cars would be close to the number of current cars.
I updated Homebrew almost daily and my .homebrew_analytics_user_uuid shown that it was created on Apr 24[1], which means I have been sending the analytics data without knowing for two days already (UTC+7) :-\

[1]: https://files.grid.in.th/plBnTi.png
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You've built the answer to your question into its premise: "a woman changes his mind", you said. So sure: she changed his mind, and thus the sex was consensual. No rape involved, and I don't think I've ever met anyone who would say otherwise.

But some people seeing what you wrote might be imagining a more general situation. Rather than "a woman changes his mind and they have sex", they're instead picturing "a woman gets him to have sex anyway". And that has a lot more room for ambiguity. Maybe she did something to really turn him on and they wound up eagerly jumping each other (not rape). Maybe they had a heart to heart talk and he decided that even though he wasn't eager, this would be really special to her and he went with it (not rape). Maybe he kept trying to leave but she blocked the door and was physically threatening and he concluded the only way he could get away without injury was to let her take what she wanted (that's rape). Maybe she kept giving him alcohol until he wasn't able to process what was going on and got sexual once he was to that point (that's rape; given his initial refusal I'm definitely inclined to call it deliberate even if she was drinking too: this is a well-established serial rapist technique). Maybe she kept gradually pushing his boundaries and wearing him down, ignoring his clear lack of any positive reaction to what she was doing, and eventually escalated things to sex (borderline: I'd need more info to judge if it's rape, but she's definitely an asshole).
Except that my opinion is formed based on logic and my expertise and your opinion is based on... what exactly?

>That means GA has a client IP for the user-agent

When IP masking is enabled, Analytics removes the last octet of the user's IP address prior to its use and storage.

SO... yeah.

And I just LOVE how you selectively quote, so I'm gonna finish the quote for you:

"It should be noted this does not directly contradict what GP claims."

It is not shameful to be wrong. It is shameful when you can't admit that you are wrong. And especially when you can't admit it even to yourself.
That was always my policy: reader for those feeds I want to read every post of, visiting the websites for anything like the NYTimes.
Google Reader had social too, and served your purpose very well. Plus you didn't have to filter out your uncle's political rants or your cousin posting her new baby's every action.
you, my friend, are a crazy person.

privelage is more a factor of socio economics than race when did we start this ridiculous fight against merit and this arbitrary oppression quota system.
But it doesn't. He may not have specified "from North America", but that's what he meant.