skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4 cents don't include transaction fee, however payments to the service can be slow and don't require inclusion in the first block so they can very very cheap.

Bitcoin transactions in testing have worked perfectly & the display is zero conf which means you can pay and see that the payment on the hash the minute.

Customer uptake has been lacking for my project, but I believe that's because I've created something that works really well for two very niche markets (which fortunately have a lot of overlap.) depending on what your project is, you can always add a credit system whereby people can dump $5 or something via credit card and you allocate that to them for them to spend as and when they need.
> How do you even measure the latter bit?

Basically they look at people who are going through marital problems and collect self reported happiness levels then follow up a few years later and collect self reported happiness levels again.

Some of those couples will have divorced. Some will still be together.

There are certainly issues with these studies but overall they paint a pretty clear picture.

> It creates shame, and people feel pressured, due to religion or other social reasons, to stay together.

I don't think there is a lot of evidence for this view.

The high rate of divorce indicates to me there isn't much of a stigma at all.

And there are plenty of sources extolling the benefits of divorce.

> And hell, a decent amount of the "poorer" bit could be ascribed to the cost of the divorce itself,

It could be. Why should divorce costs should be excluded?

> As an aside, do you have any references that support your claims?

I haven't looked at these studies in years but I'll see if I can dig them up.
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There are certainly other baskets, but none have been as nice and profitable, with as large a user base, as YouTube. So to say they should be using other platforms is great in theory, in reality they would just lose their followers. There are other platforms just as technically competent as YouTube. But I don't believe there is a replacement for the community and the brand YouTube has just yet.

It also stands to reason that if there were competition, and say half the users used one platform and half the other, that you would get half the viewers on each, the possibility for massive growth on either is smaller as more channels compete over fewer users. Even if you were on both, it would be harder. This is one of those situations where as a creator and a user, it would be nice if one monolithic platform just worked out well for everyone.
We're planning to add file and project tree support. For now it's more geared towards prototyping, intro courses, and experimentation. Stay tuned, we hope to have something for you soon!
You listed a lot of bad experiences, but none of them related to security.
What tools would that be?

I'd like to hear about real world test scenarios where all possible inputs are tested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8fU2QG-lV0
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I'll bite.

Because capitalism is a system in which the rich get richer. This preferential accumulation of wealth where wealth already is is an inherent feature of capitalism.

The same kind of phenomenon can be seen in the population of cities for example: the more people there are in a city, the more other people are likely to move there.

If you want to know more about this, see, e.g. Picketty (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_in_the_Twenty-First_Ce...)

Also, profound inequality is bad for growth (The IMF says so, https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/Staff-Discussion-Notes/I...): "when the rich get richer, benefits do not trickle down.".

So given that there is a runaway feedback loop that make the rich get richer faster than the poor get richer, and given that profound inequality is detrimental to the economy at large, it logically follows that there must exist some scheme to redistribute a part of the wealth of the extra-rich to the rest of society.

Taxation is (or should be) such a shame.

Note that there is no moral argument here. No finger pointing, no entiltement. Just a systemic view of things: it is detrimental to all to let a runaway feedback loop increase inequalities.
Even some adult employees require non-trivial amounts of effort to keep them working, just so anyone in a role with oversight can actually try to get something done.
In the same vein, I'm curious about the workflow and tooling here. Being used to Visual Studio+XAML kind of WYSIWYG editing, is there anything similar in Kivy? Or do you write code, run app, close app, repeat?
This is actually happening right now with me at my college. There are routers, MySQL databases with default username password combinations. The college have installed CCTV cameras a while ago and you guessed right, they are accessible with default username password. I used nmap to find them.

I am going to report what I found to Principal.
The FCC should KEEP net neutrality rules
The FCC should KEEP net neutrality rules. Really. Get real. Be wise. Don't embarrass the citizens of the USA. ENOUGH.
When I was little I booted into a Linux LiveCD and replaced magnify.exe with cmd.exe on a family computer with login time restrictions. Enabling Windows Magnifier from the accessibility menu on the login screen caused magnify.exe--now Command Prompt--to be launched as SYSTEM. From there you could start up explorer.exe to get a SYSTEM user desktop.
I argue against lying and shoving ads into people's faces. Obviously I would prefer if they would get funding without these tricks. Showing you three projects that do should be proof enough that it is possible.
Rape victims arn't punished in Saudi Arabia. Theres no crime of being raped. The woman in your one anecdotal point was charged with a seperate case of adultery during a rape trial that wasn't in conjunction with the rape. Furthermore the rapists were charged and punished for rape, an act that is illegal. If you want to argue about adultery being a crime then go for it but don't conflate to topics to spread something factually incorrect.

Theres plenty of things to criticise Saudi for. Just like theres plenty of things to criticise America for (institutional racism, foreign policy, drug laws etc) and every other country.

"I will fight unjustified islamophobic caricature anytime".

Evidently you won't because here you are spreading caricatures of islam targeting rape victims.

"We overthrew the Talebans (partly) for moral reasons. If we had been serious and honest about these reasons, Saudi Arabia should have been on the "axis of evil" too."
If you were serious about "these reasons" then America would probably be higher on the list than 3rd world Afghanistan.

Come on now.
The bottom line is that the platform is often stronger than the personality[1]. There are TV personalities/pundits etc who are fired from whatever network they were on for some misconduct, and even though they were a very popular draw on that network (i.e. platform), they often can't recreate that success elsewhere because they were dependent on ingrained user habits. Yes users care about differentiated content sometimes, but oftentimes the lowest friction thing wins out if it's "good enough".

If my user behavior habit is "go to youtube and check out what new videos are available from my subs", I'd only visit a non-youtube site if I'm really into that non-youtube content. Otherwise whatever comes up in the queue in a low friction manner is "good enough".

Some exceptions exist of course. Conan O'Brien would be a good example.
I did some work using Census 2011 data and created league tables for modes of transport across England and Wales. 56% of London residents commute to work by public transport. Next highest is Manchester at 31%. Unsure where that stands within an international league. I'd assume Tokyo would be higher.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U9f-g8ETvljw-YAZbFpW...
> I think those are actually promotional programs run by the banks (but I agree they're a good thing)

Commonwealth bank was government owned at the time.
I agree as regards four year-olds. That said, the usefulness of older children, even ~8-10, is frequently underestimated. There was a time when they made useful apprentices and assistants, though admittedly at crafts that were probably less abstract and specialised.

Still, I started programming and using UNIX when I was 9. I imagine I was probably capable of some amount of useful output by 11-12, though it would have to be carefully directed by a pragmatic mentor with a view to bottom-line impact.
I use the following list to decide on creating a unit test or not. More yeses means a unit test is a good idea.

1. Is it hard to instantly test the code when implementing it? (Might be the case for library code)

2. Is there a chance the underlying implementation might change (and so might break in the future)?

3. Will the interface of the class remain stable? (If not unit test needs to be rewritten too)

4. Will functional tests pass when something breaks in this class?
> Moving Asp.Core 2.0 target to Netstandard 2.0 is a sensible step to me.

Read the issue carefully, they've done the exact opposite and have started changing ASP.NET Core 2.0 packages from targeting .NET Standard to now only target .NET Core netcoreapp2.0 so they will no longer be able to be referenced from the full .NET Framework.

They've also just announced that ASP.NET Core 1.x will be the last version that will be able to run on the Desktop CLR:

[1]: https://github.com/aspnet/Home/issues/2022#issuecomment-3000...
> E.g. someone loses their job: "see, I told you it would have been better to work 2-3 jobs. You relied too much on your only job."

It is a bad idea to rely too much on your job. You should have investments and multiple streams of income as soon as possible if you want anything resembling security.
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> It is $5/mo for accounts with less than $1000, but you're not going to get better than that at a bank.

A simple google search for free checking account gave me 20+ such banks in the first result.
Very nice, thanks for posting
When an upgrade breaks the ecosystem without that breakage being discussed and announced along with future plans, then .Net is not very good, is it?
All depends on how you raised the children before 7-10. They don't magically become a certain way at 7-10. ;-)

I mean, to some extent they do. Kids are born with an amazing amount of cognitive bootstrapping and initrd. But by elementary school years, the difference between children who were reared in intellectually stimulating ways and ones who weren't become patently obvious and to a larger extent entrenched.
Hear this: The FCC should KEEP net neutrality rules. Really. Get real. Be wise. Don't embarrass the citizens of the USA. ENOUGH.
> Is there such a thing? I mean, you're awfully quiet and compared to the java community, which I know exists, you seldom help out in open-source projects.

Of course there is such a thing, although Microsoft did it's best to kill it about a decade ago, it's never recovered from that. As for this project, I suspect the contributors to be small, it's simply the sort of thing that's outside the skill set of most .net developers.
I sure did.

Burroughs B5500 was created in 1961 and executed far slower and had less memory than a PDP-11, yet it was able to have a full OS written in ESPOL, an ALGOL dialect with intrisics for CPU instructions and explicit UNSAFE statements.

So if a 10 year old machine by the time C was created for computers with " extra overhead was unbearable." and " what you do when you have a 1Mhz computer" was already able to execute an Algol dialect with enough performance, what does that say of C in regards to language design?
> but their styles and attention to detail are vastly different.

Yes. Basically, FDR was competent. Trump isn't. I'm still not sure which is worse, given it's competence at achieving goals with which I disagree.

> This is the representative democracy system, which I think has major flaws.

Also agreed. What do you think of sortition as a replacement?
Most of what was left of factories in the Soviet occupation zone (the later GDR) was dismantled and moved to the Soviet Union as reparation in the years after WW2. Here's some info in English about this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_German_Democrat...

When I was young I heard a lot of crazy stories about the Russians in Germans (I grew up in the Erzgebirge mountains where the Russians mined the Uranium for their atomic bombs, think of an Eastern 20th century gold rush), some of those stories are how entire production lines were moved onto trains and to the Soviet Union nearly over night (they had a lot of experience with this since a few years earlier the Soviet Union basically moved their entire military production a few thousand kilometers eastward, out of the war zone).
It says that "Kivy runs on Linux, Windows, OS X, Android and iOS." on the website (first paragraph under "Cross platform").
I may be misunderstanding, but I would expect the "market for lemon" to be only valid for a physical market, no ?
The principle being that high quality cars are sold faster and get out of the market, so the average quality decrease. But for antivirus, selling the antivirus does not get it out of the market (the inverse is pretty much true since it makes it more famous), hence the average quality does not decrease.
Good question. For a CLI mail client, I prefer mutt or pine. But elm isn't too bad as an alternative, if those aren't available.
I'm guessing about 300 dpi.
I was looking everywhere for info on pricing, I suggest you mention this somewhere.
With the "create a free account" I thought I'd have to go through all the trouble of signing up before being faced with what I'd have to pay (looking at this as a teacher).
... and the few e-mails I manage to send sound pretty ludicrous and ill-considered.
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I'm not quite sure how to respond to this, so I apologies in advance if it comes off wrong.

I would say it's not about trying to "feel better", you can't just force yourself to not feel depressed, the brain is too complex for that. There are, however, many rigorously proven methods for tackling depression that can work in replacement of or in addition to medications. The one I think has the most merit is mindfulness based cognitive behavioral therapy. The idea is to build up a new set of habits, coping skills, and behavior patterns that let you life your life without getting sucked into depression. Depression is vastly more complex than simply "a flaw in brain chemistry", that's very reductive reasoning but it's been a relatively successful one for the psychiatrist business and pharmaceutical industry. That brain chemistry is as much a symptom as it is a cause though. And with enough work it's possible to make yourself more resilient to potentially depressing circumstances and thoughts. It's possible to train yourself to recognize and change the constantly running background narrative of negative self-talk that gets you down, the rumination, the trains of thought that seem so unavoidable, and so on. And then on top of that to build better habits, to tackle your problems, that you're in control of, and prevent them from growing out of control, to regularly exercise, etc.

Of course, it can be difficult if not near impossible to do all that, or, really, anything whatsoever, if you're deeply depressed. Which is why for many people it's necessary to begin anti-depressants before starting therapy, making behavioral/cognitive changes, etc. The problem the parent poster is talking about is the tendency today to just shove people into the top of the process and call that done. It's now expected that most people who have experienced major depression should just take anti-depressants for their entire life and that's the "cure" for their problems. With only a token concern for building up the skills, habits, and coping mechanisms that people actually need. You see the same thing with a lot of other things like ADHD or anxiety, with a tendency to look for the chemical answer first and foremost and call that good enough.
This reminds me of Rich Hickey's keynote called "Spec-ulation": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk&t=0s

He's classifying changes in library as either:

- (backwards compatible) growth
- breakage

He's also saying that "semantic versioning" is a recipe for breaking people's software and that if you're going to break things, then you should change the name / namespace. I agree with him.
Doesn't that make sense? Why would you want to run a core 2 app on the desktop CLR instead of distributing a binary? Not having suitable replacements for a lot of existing libraries is the bad part.
It's doable, your move to launch might be slow, but as long as you put in some time when your kids have been put to bed and they are asleep, you are moving forward with whatever project your working on, just make sure the little time you have besides netflix and chill with the wife is put to good use.

No interference from the social media or news site, use the time you have only working on the project with a iron focus, make a working plan etc and you will notice you'll get shit done pretty fast even though you have a limited time each day.

You're main goal should be to add something each day to the project, and try avoiding not adding anything at all, it could me something small on the days your stuck, but as long as you keep moving forward it is possible.

I've managed to build a small business im running on the side next to having a full time job, i managed by adding bricks to it everyday till it was ready, then i initiated the project and its so well planned it only puts me to work one or two days a week and i can include my wife, there are eventually tasks she can handle and help out with.
I think that depends on the code base, I agree with your points for more procedural code bases, but for functional or OO code you should be able to test most of your logic without mocks or wiring too much up.
It's a form of signaling[0]. In this case, it means: "Like you what you see here? Well unfortunately we can't sell it to you since we don't have the manufacturing capacity. So you'll have to license our IP so you can build it yourself."

Case in point, Xerox licensed their IP and is already putting units in the field[1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics)

[1] http://www.packagingdigest.com/brand-protection/smart-label-...
(Spoilers)

But yes, watch The Prestige.
As an American Who is proud of all of the achievements given to the world by American independence and ingenuity, I strongly support the current system keeping the Internet's free, American values i.e. - robust net neutrality rules under title II control of ISPs.
Good suggestion. We have a lot of cleaning up to do on the sign up flow/landing pages.
Even with 100% coverage, there might be the following code (just a one of numerous examples):

char buffer[15];

.....

memcpy(buffer, source, strlen(source));

Depending on the `source`, the bug can be triggered or not, but the coverage is the same for different `source` values.
ARM demoed some printed SoCs (based on Cortex M0) a while back: https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-... The process is described here: http://www.molecularimprints.com/technology-overview/j-fil-o...
A few more:

>Now to build these smaller modules, your first goal must simply to make it work.

Try 'is simply' or 'must be simply'.

>half baked

I believe, but may be wrong, that this should be hyphenated.

>Now compare your code with their’s.

Him, His. Her, hers. Their, theirs. No possessive apostrophe needed.

>It would be some errors or things just don’t work. In those case google the error or the solution you are trying to achieve.

Try 'might be' or 'could be', instead. Also 'case' needs to be pluralized, because you're referencing multiple 'errors'. Even better is probably to just use 'In this case...'

I hope you take this as constructive feedback, and not any sort of criticism. Iteration, right?

I enjoyed the article, thanks for sharing it. Lots of points in there that resonated with me, and a couple of good reminders on how not to get discouraged or bogged-down.
Read the issue thread, it lists several use-cases that require usage of the full .NET framework.
I already pay a large amount for my DirecTV and my Spectrum Internet connection. Letting the big cable companies have their way and be allowed to over charge customers for slower internet speeds is not only unfair, it falls into the category of Citizens United in gross inequality.

DO NOT LET NET-NUTRALITY GO TO THE WAY-SIDE. YOU MUST NOT, YOU SHOULD NOT, YOU CAN NOT LET BIG COMPANIES CONTROL EVERY ASPECT OF LIFE IN THIS COUNTRY. REJECT AJIT PAI!
I don't see how that's a "tragedy", as in "an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe".

You're also making it sound like somebody promised you that tests can prove the absence of bugs, when that was never the bargain and smart people have already told you so, probably before you were born even.

> Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs

Dijkstra (1969)
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In 2008, Kevin Kelly theorised that a successful creative person only needs a few thousand true fans to have a successful career. If that small group of fans are willing to throw you $20 for a book or a t-shirt or a CD every year, you can make a middle-class income. You don't need to be a star, you don't need the backing of a record label or a publisher or a movie studio.

While initially promising, this theory didn't seem to bear out in practice. Many creative people replied that the numbers just didn't add up. Margins are too thin, expenses are too high, promotion is too difficult. Unless you're absurdly lucky, you can't make a decent living without access to a mass audience via the traditional media.

Patreon seems to be the technology that brings this theory to life. A huge variety of creative people now have a regular, sustainable income thanks to their Patreon subscribers. If you can find 1000 people willing to throw you an average of $5 a month, you're earning more than the median US household. With those subscribers paying your bills, your merch sales and ad revenue and whatever else are just gravy. It's SaaS for creatives - recurring revenue always trumps one-off sales.

http://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
I think interpersonal relationships are a lot more complicated today. We're supposed to be oh so civilized and well adapted, while lugging around a legacy as apex predators. Basically gorillas in suits that have to sit in an office chair all day, and make polite conversation at the coffee machine. Consider that most so-called anxiety can be traced back to the fight-or-flight response, where we are conflicted because we want to either go nuclear or get the fuck out of there, but can do neither because of social pressure and inhibitions. No wonder some people flip.
ive worked for banks and pension companies and they pretty much run COBOL mainframes for the core business. Lifetimes easily 40 years or more, and I cant see the systems being replaced any time soon.

im quite envious of them at times when Im plugging away doing Java development as they have a legacy that most developers wont have
Cool, good luck taking this project further :)
> $5 a month fee on low balances

The fee is not on low balances. It's on low loading volume.