skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, salary is paid for with labor, but a reduced rate that is offset with compensation in the form of stock options. You're correct that it is taxed, and the capital gains rate is lower than the salary tax rate. My comment was more an observation, but the thought hadn't been fully fleshed out.
> Anyone who opposes this change, or doesn’t know about it,
> or simply forgets to update their client software, can
> excise themselves from the network.
>
>Thus, hard forks are the most democratic means of consensus on earth today.

I really don't agree. If you can't maintain yout non-forked version yourself,
you are basically forced to agree. Otherwise, you'll be soon left out.

As soon as you are forced to upgrade, your client will be accepting such
transfers.

So here it goes: by pushing hard-forks of the software, the strength of
Bitcoin is basically being circumvented.

If this goes, Bitcoin is definitely dead.

I'm sorry for Ross Ulbricht for his loss, but we really should not be doing this.
Not to take anything from Martin Fowler, but the "do not distribute (unless you absolutely have to)" rule originated at Sun much, much earlier. I have a hardcopy of the paper somewhere, it was a conclusion drawn from acknowledging the fallacies of distributed computing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
Have you read any of the XCVB papers? They dig deeper into the issues with generating reproducible images, in particular with parallel builds.
How can you innovate if you don't know how stuff are made? Copying is a way of gaining expertise.

You can't build a factory to make computer chips without actually knowing how they are made.
I never said anything about superstars. That's precisely one of the articles that most informs my understanding of NASA software practices.
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Really curious to see if this succeeds, fails like discourse or gets overrun by what I consider to be a major destructive faction of nitpicks and deletionists on SO.
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I've been happy with Windows 10 on all my devices. I didn't have any issues with GWX, because I switched over early on, at my convenience. What I hear about it since doesn't sound all that different from what I remember of iOS upgrade nags.
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Some numbers: Uber charges riders $0.18 per minute and $1 per mile. They take a 20% cut (plus the whole of the $1 base-fare). Drivers estimate that they spend 20% of what remains on tax and vehicle costs.

That's not an enormous margin, but it's large. Uber is still expanding rapidly in driver count, in geographic range, and in product range. That takes quite a bit of money, especially the geographic range - Uber runs pretty vigorous ad and lobbying campaigns to influence regulators and oppose taxi agencies.

Fasten is a startup whose entire business model is "Uber but better for drivers". They advertise to consumers that they take a smaller cut, and hope to attract more drivers with their better rates. My guess is that Uber will crush or acquire them after dropping prices (or raising driver share) in the relevant markets.

So I think the answer is: Uber could do this, but it would slow their growth. Once they're an entrenched player in most markets, I would expect to see driver share (and possibly rates) rise a bit to maintain supply, but right now they're funneling everything they can into expansion.

(And, I'm sure, panting at the thought of using self-driving cars to turn that 80% into profit.)
Disclaimer: I don't really know what I'm talking about, this is just what I think:

Since we know that things usually don't change instantly (for example, a cat won't suddenly change into a dog), if we assume 10fps vision, 1500 pictures of cats would mean looking at a cat for 2 and a half minutes total in 5 years. And since we know cats won't change into something else, if we see a cat walking somewhere, we'll still know it's a cat, giving us the labels we need for the training.

I think that if we assume 30fps (which still seems kind of low), and we assume that the human looks at a cat for 15 minutes (which still isn't much) that's already 27000 pictures.
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True say. This is going to be the first programming language that I will be learning. I will stick to R for now and slowly evolve from there. I really appreciate you sharing your thoughts.
Let's continue to make that even more analogous to climate science: "You've found a bomb in school disguised as a soda vending machine. You alert the school administrators of your finding and find yourself under attack from school administrators and soda vendors. You then use unproven computer models to demonstrate almost precisely where and when the bomb will detonate and what the impact will be. Your first ten predictions turn out to be completely wrong and you play down any bad predictions and shun other bomb experts who disagree with you. You also completely ignore that in the last 100 years there have been 10 completely natural and non-human caused explosions in the school and a lot of other bomb scientists think that the bomb you have found is as best as they can tell, one of these natural bombs and has nothing to do with anyone putting the bomb there on purpose or by accident. You want to keep your day job and money rolling in so you hype up your human planted bomb theory to the nth degree, build political alliances and ignore all scientific critics and work to actively keep them from making a living."
> we're not all xenophobic Trump supporters, not even most of us

If one wishes not to be generalized, that person should abstain from doing it to others.
> I am picturing in my mind's eye someone beating you on the dome of your skull with an oversized elementary science textbook.

Yeah well that's not going to work, obviously. You can't have both elementary science textbooks and mind-projecting them through a non-physical mystical plane of existence.

And even if it could be done, it'd be highly unethical. Imagine a non-corporeal entity finding out they've been violating physical conservation laws during their whole existence.
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Ok now we are going a bit far ;) i use tiled wm-plugins/terminals/editors to have more in my view, what workspaces certainly do not provide. I used my Compiz cube for over a year (I dont know if you know compiz, but back in the glorious days of linux there was a 3d cube where each side was a workspace/virtual desktop). And i remember making fun of my windows friends for not having workspaces.

Maybe its really just Gnome 3 that made it somehow redundant for me so i don't use it anymore. The way it groups windows passively and the different ways to access those is just (IMO) much more comfortable, and you never happen to create situations where you want to use both workspaces at once, because you only have one.
"curl 7.50.0 adds support for IPv6 DNS64/NAT64 Networks on iOS == apps using libcurl can now get into app store fine again"

https://twitter.com/bagder/status/756056910848221184
The tiered share classes is the key here. A cooperative is great and all, but who puts up the money to start it and market it at first? Those people will get paid first
> "remaining friendly to end-user freedoms"

.. which isn't quite the same thing as itself being Free software. Not that I want to start the license war here.
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Many banks will give you a generic error when you make a transaction using an account number that is associated with a business models around bitcoin (e.g. companies that exchange bitcoins for cash after you make a wire-transfer to them are all tracked by the banks and the transaction fails with an unknown error. This is a fact in Unicredit, HVB, (possibly others?) The issue is usually "logged" ;-)).

I'd be interested to find out more about how banks implement possible black/white lists on their users. How far does it affect risk mgmt? Will users get negative points when applying for a loan? And how are customers punished who dare to bet on alternative banking like BTC or god forbid send cash to a bitcoin wallet.

Who knows more? (asking for a friend :))
For this use case it really is. The number of DNS providers that have support for SSL at the domain apex using ALIAS or ANAME records could be counted on one hand.
You don't have to use any of the CloudFlare specific features, but their DNS management is really good.
iOS nags. GWX oversteps the line and installs regardless of consent. That was the breaking point for me. (Win10 clean install is reasonably usable, although the mix of not-Metro-nooo and old Windows GUI style is weird)
Copying is usually the best strategy to start from behind.

Japanese started the same way. In the 60s and 70s "Made in Japan" meant cheap, low-quality knockoffs. Japanese cars were called rice cups in the 80's. Then they caught up and it took Detroit by surprise.
Well... that's one way of doing it. Person is dead, so, do I care about privacy? I'm not sure, to be honest. Should privacy survive death?
:D if I could upvote twice I would
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Ask HN: What percentage of your website visitors block Google Analytics?
I just did a quick analysis of my web server access logs and got a big surprise. I expected that 5-10% of visitors would be blocking Google Analytics, but the log analysis made me think it's more like 50%.

Have you done a similar analysis? If so, I'd love to know:

1. What percentage of your website visitors were blocking Google Analytics?

2. What method did you use to get that figure?

3. What is your website's target audience?

My own answers to these questions are below.

---

1. 50 - 55%

2. I took the "Users" figure from Google Analytics for a particular day, to get "today's unique visitors according to Google Analytics".

I loaded my nginx access logs for the same day into GoAccess. I took the "Unique visitors per day - including spiders" figure and subtracted the 5% or so of unique visitors whose browser type GoAccess listed as "Crawlers" [i]. That gave me a figure I'll call "today's unique visitors according to GoAccess".

3. University students, graduates and young professionals.

[i] Presumably this doesn't capture all non-human visitors. I'm not sure what further adjustment, if any, should be made here.
Utah was a literal hell on earth: desert, rocks, salt lakes, extremely remote. Think Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. Few Americans wanted it, so when the Mormons pushed their wheelbarrows (no shit!) there, they found no one disgusted enough with nontraditional Mormon family structures to run them off as previous communities had. The Mormons weren't super thrilled with Utah either, but through years of hard work they made it somewhat livable.
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I work for remotely for a company in NYC and live in BFSC (Gaffney). I'm also liking it so far. And, as a bonus, my coworkers were excited to find that I live a short drive from REST Fest US, so there's that. :)
The article made me curious about lumenhancement. Seems to be about this 3D datasets of caves: http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/NIAC_Caves/
I use WeChat along with WhatApp. Mainly I use it to communicate with some foreign friends. I like seeing the different features it has, it gives me ideas of what is popular in other regions.

Its nice to have that insight as to what works outside of the US market, I hope my side project could work in China.
As others have pointed out, spending more time on quality content would probably serve you better. Unless you're a gifted, uncanny writer, you're going to inevitably write thin content if you produce the amount that you're talking about writing in the next year.

And thin content = very, very high bounce rates. You'll probably struggle to hit your conversion topics.

In the vast tsunami of content, your potential users are looking for detailed, relevant and actionable content - not a short, dashed off article.

That's my gut feeling anyway. Regardless, good luck with your efforts. Keep us updated.
I think its because the only really viable scaling option for Postgres is vertical scaling. Even just setting up any sort of replication with automatic failover is still a pain (multimaster is not yet built in, master-slave also needs 3rd party failover program...)
The more interesting question is how did these apps get their users in the first place?
> "...each plat should house 15,000 to 20,000 people within one square mile..."

15,000 to 20,000 people per square mile means 43.11 to 37.34 sq-feet/person. That is below the dimensions of most tiny houses.

EDIT: please correct me in a comment if I am mistaken.

5280'/mile
square mile is 5280' x 5280' = 27,878,400 sq'
27,878,400 sq' / 20,000 persons = 1,393.92 sq'/person

Yup - you are right. I was off by ~2 orders of magnitude. I took the square root one more time for no reason. I ended up calculating the length of the walls of the (multistory?) box you get to live in - 37.34' to 43.11'.

Thanks.
also not without its problems. but yes. something like:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-gold

outside of the US. seems plausible.
Spotted the heretic who didn't read hackers and painters.

I very much prefer h4x0r though.
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but whats your point??

he did make those roads... he paid taxes in gas, insurance, purchase of a car tax, license plate tax... all that do indeed sponsor roads he drives on!

as of military defending his patch of land, hard to argue. Africa is much bigger than USA -- how much they spent as a continent on defense? Bet 1000th of what US does. Other than that, he might choose to protect his own land with the second Amendment and keep military out of it, no?
To me, the content is a lot more important than the design.
There's definitely a sense of humor to efforts like this - a realization that the whole thing is so absurd that it's worth going all the way to impossibility.

When you're setting out to oppose bureaucracy and militarism, poetry and magical techniques make a satisfying thematic counter; you can adopt them for that purpose without any real belief that they work.
About this:

"I don't get why people chase popularity in programming languages"

I am forced to do this simply because I consult at companies where the managers do exactly this. They will not let me use a language unless it is a top language. If I say "Clojure would be excellent for the project that you have in mind" they will reply "We can not use Clojure because it is not popular enough. We have to use a language where there is a large pool of developers that I can hire, and there is no risk that the language will disappear in 5 years."
learn python, more general purpose and easier to learn.
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"But everyone and their dog is doing the same" is just a sophisticated synonym for "meh." If everyone jumped off a bridge, would that make it okay for each of the participants?

Plus, the "privacy and anonymity" angle is just one of the facets; "unconsented install of whatever" goes beyond privacy (availability, anyone?).
If I have to guess, I think the author (although loving it) is not familiar enough to produce a working product fast.
I have done it several times and can confidently state that Erlang (and especially Elixir) is very viable for that.
If you want to work on a yacht, you have to move to Fort Lauderdale until you are established. There is no way around it. You can be a doctor anywhere, but if you are going to do medical research you have to be in New Orleans, New York Boston, DC / Maryland, or Chicago, maybe the Cleveland Clinic. If you are Marine Biologist you are living in Woods Hole, Monterey, or La Jolla. If you are doing aerospace engineering you are going to be living in Virginia, Southern California, or Washington.

It is stupid to think that someone who wants to do 'web/social/mobile' can get a decent start outside of a place without lots of other people doing it. I don't think that there is anyone on Hacker News who can say they succeeded getting their start in the industry outside of a 'software' tech hub.

If someone wants to be a serious software engineer they are going to have to commit to living in SF, DC, Boston, Austin, or Portland at some point in the beginning. It is disingenuous to tell people who are starting it is otherwise. Part of the commitment of being a software engineer is living in a place with lots of other software engineers for a little while.

It is not fair to anyone starting out to say they don't have to move to where there is a lot of activity. It is so unfair.
As far as I understand it, there is no way to know what Microsoft sends, unless you work at Microsoft.

As such, the "bullshit anti-Microsoft fairy tale stuff" is just as valid as whatever you believe that they send. Especially also under the connotation, that Microsoft does actually reserve the right to send anything they want in their Privacy Statement.

And we shouldn't treat privacy as "innocent until proven guilty". If they cannot provide a lower boundary where you have a guarantee that they respect it, then we should assume the worst.
I'm on vacation and only have access to tethered data. Can I just upgrade firefox, or do I need to upgrade OSX?
I suspect people like LordCarbonFiber (and myself) mean SF. Which technically isn't "SV", per se, but since the discussion is about cost of living, the same argument applies.

I, at least, agree with you when it comes to SV proper. At this point in my life, I wouldn't take any amount of money to live in rural South Carolina OR San Jose.
And THAT's what's changing on the ground in the tech world - especially in China. I work for a multi-national that as a matter of course offers globally mobile careers and we've struggled to attract high quality talent vs. the BATs of the market.
Yes, from the beginning, and there exists celluloid which try to implement actor model.
The fact that concurrent-ruby cannot be truly parallelized just disappoints me. The same idea of Future,Promise applied to Ruby doesn't gain the benefit. At last, it's just a method of writing 'better' code, not getting better solution.
re. re. Brexit: Really? Even after the whole circus that's unfolding during the past few weeks?
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Probably has something to do with the fact that not everyone agrees on what utopia looks like.
The issue for me isn't him being Mormon or if he wanted to build a little community at a religious site. For me, the issue is that he bought up a community to impose his vision and his will on everyone there. No one there asked for this. It'd be upsetting if anyone of any background tried this same thing. He's not working with the community. He's trying to demolish it to build his own. That's incredibly selfish and arrogant. He tries to justify it saying it will be sustainable and a model for the future. But he is in no way working with the community. I think his ideas are admirable but he's going about it all the wrong way. He should have looked for a community wanting change and worked with them to make it better. It should be a collaborative process with compromise, not imperialistic.
So don’t buy them?

I don’t intend to throw the first rock here – I’m battling with this issue myself. I have a low wage, can afford some things but not others, and, of course, I pirate more than I acquire legally.

But why do I? Do I really lack an alternative? There are libraries hosting cultural items of immense worth, certainly more worth than some of the contemporary items I consume, either legally or not. I could spend my whole days if I could reading, watching movies, even playing (somewhat outdated) games, all of great value, and all of this without ever spending a cent, except for maybe taking the subway to the nearest library.

Yet, I don’t do this. I crave for contemporary productions, even if they are mere distractions, not culturally enriching in any way. What’s the reason behind this? Is it societal pressure, that I want to stay in the loop? Do contemporary productions really hold this much power over me, over some of us?

There’s a way to answer to these attacks on piracy. Stop pirating. Stop trying to get what you cannot afford. Go to the library, or the museum, or the theater. Or the beach, for that matter. Just don’t consume their productions. Listen to Wagner, read some Plato, go to the park and just lie watching the clouds pass by. There’s plenty to do regardless of how much Hollywood and co. want us to pay for their productions. Plenty that, maybe, has more worth than the too-expensive-for-us modern alternatives.

But why don’t we? What’s the appeal in all modern things that leads us to such great efforts on their illicit acquisition? Are they really that valuable? And if they are, shouldn’t we pressure cultural institutions to grant everyone ways of accessing them?
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I am curious why, if they actually believe they have a good chance of success, this is only being filed now rather than in prior years? Has something changed?
In other words, if your job can be done from home or from Arkansas, it can be done from India.
The CIA is nominally restricted to foreign intelligence, but edge cases reliably go in the broad-purview direction. US citizens abroad and foreign citizens at home are both fair game, as are US citizens at home who deal with suspicious foreigners, and US citizens at home who are caught up inadvertently in foreign-targeting efforts.

There really is a division of agencies; when it was time to catch the Unabomber, the FBI did all the work on that. But if it deals with anti-government activities or any international connection, foreign surveillance can usually find a legal justification to get involved.
If it was asking and respecting the response, my response would be "ok, whatever." If it asks "do you want the X?" and then says "nevermind, you WANT THE X, and I'll give it to you NOW!!!", there's a tiny little problem with consent; spotting it is left as an exercise for the reader.

I don't feel like repeating why this became an actual, real-world problem, so here's a link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12115470
Why do large, government-sponsored projects rarely go according to plan?
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