skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I assume the sensitity to weather etc depends on the type of equipment you have? Couldn't a community use a huge high power and high sensitivity common receiver/transmitter station, that provides fiber to 10-1000 households? The community station could also provide some kind of limited bandwidth fallback such as DSL or LTE that just ensures peoples fiber lines limp along when the satellites can't be reached (so their juice machines don't stop working...).
To be fair, your original comment: "was told he could delay a payment"; namely, "a payment". One. The limit for danger with any credit is 3 monthly payments. Technically a single missed/delayed payment can affect your credit bureau, though many credit providers are nice enough not to report 30 and 60 day faults.

Anyone who thinks they can get away with 3 months of not paying back any kind of credit product, let alone a mortgage, is going to be in trouble. If your friend skipped 3 mortgage payments in a row, I'm surprised they won the case in court. They must have had concrete proof that a bank employee truly misinformed about what it means to miss multiple payments in a single year, let alone 3+ consecutive payments.
Shady stuff happens at a lot of companies, Travis pissed somebody off, probably a VP, and didn't pay them enough to keep quiet.

You know those golden parachutes that piss everyone off? They give you those in return for promising not talk about anything shady going on near the top
> Let's be absolutely clear: your coins are only worth what someone is willing to pay. And when the one and only true "run on the bank" of one of these currencies happens, it will happen within the span of less than an hour. All these people who are buying to eventually cash out are going to blink and wonder what the hell happened.

That's not so different than what can happen in real life with currencies, isn't it? So at least the goal of treating Bitcoin like a currency has been met.

Those that got in early enough or have already cashed out usually keep their mouth shut. For those who regard it as a speculative asset and only want to get rich and now lament that they missed the early adopter phase, yeah, such people exist. I know several of them personally. It's always interesting to argue with them and yes, it would be better if there were regulations to protect them.

Greed is a bad investment strategy and it's only profit if you are willing to take profit. But people that push out the profit taking will always complain about not getting enough and most of them will get burned.

> BTC's Nakamoto "promises" they will never cash out their enormous share. How nice of them. The community can monitor Nakamoto's wallets all they want. I can't wait for him/her to cash out their BTC, and screw over the entire system. I'm just sitting here ready to laugh.

I see, you are not a true Buttcoin believer. Let me paraphrase an old meme: If Bitcoin succeeds, you won't have to cash out.

Jokes aside, Satoshi never made a promise to not cash out. It's likely, he/she/them are dead or lost the keys to their private wallet. Even in the unlikely case of Satoshi still being alive and having access to the coins, the minute this coins move, the price will plummet. And you can be sure that many people are watching these coins, a move will be noticed. Immediately.
Yeah. Even Apple recognized the historic significance of MacPaint and QuickDraw and released those sources.

http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/macpaint-and-quickdraw-...

Carmack released the Quake1 and QuakeWorld sources, and I think also q2 and q3 eventually too.

StarCraft is ancient and the source is of no commercial value to them any longer. They don't benefit from its secrecy, but we do benefit from its release.

Then again, this is the company that sued open source developers who re-implemented a server (bnetd) for one of their proprietary protocols. It was that day I resolved to never give them money again.
Id rather just have the cash in my hand rather than some hypothetical increase in the share price.

Then again all my shares are in an ISA so I don't pay tax on dividends
You can be the best at what you do by improving yourself or you can be the best at what you do by making sure nobody else can even do it in the first place.

The problem with zero rating is that it is unlikely that new players will end up getting zero rated. So we're not talking about established players being really good at using less bandwidth or something, we're talking about established players having entirely different rules than newcomers.
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there is no ethical issue with keeping the secrets of others you have no obligation or commitment to keep.
iconomi already doing this
Intellectual Property isn't property, and publishing things does not deprive anyone of their property rights. It's a kludgy hack set up by Congress to prop
up industry.
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I see good news. "Only one model — “Gone Girl” actress Emily Ratajkowski — labeled her promotion as an ad, as required by the Federal Trade Commission. The other models’ omissions are now the subject of a class-action lawsuit."

If you put your face on things that defraud people, you should pay a social penalty, and in this case it would seem, for some, a financial one.
I think in the context of the article, that hedge funds over ten years would outperform the index, it is more appropriate to say that hedge funds are bicycles that look like aeroplanes
After one's death, it's no longer their business what happens to their secrets. One has no dog in the race any longer.
Squaresoft was the american subsidiary. The name didn't came out of nowhere
Easy solution. Torrent the iso, return the lost property (the disc) to its owner.

No moral or ethical issue whatsoever. Nobody's rights violated. Everybody wins.
> This is a little like asking if there's enough space left in earths oceans to float a few thousand pingpong balls.

I'd be pretty nervous about throing 10k pingpong balls into the atlantic IF the collision of two pingpong balls was disastrous :)

Obviously these satellites will be carefully placed NOT to collied - but the effect of a collision is pretty bad. The problem is that any one of them might collide with some tiny piece of junk, turning it 1000 pieces of junk (which is now 1000x more likely to collide with something, and impossible to control). These satellites won't tip the scales, but it's a nightmare scenario that comes ever closer with every satellite launched.
The impact of 9/11 was not just some airplanes and buildings - the impact was the whole of the Middle East in turmoil and a refugee wave not seen since WW2.
You can't rank altcoins by market cap, it's a very flawed indicator. Unlike Bitcoin, none of the Altcoins currently have any use outside speculation, including Ethereum. There is significant skepticism that Ethereum could deliver on it's promises if it was widely used.

Litecoin is an almost identical clone of Bitcoin. The network recently decided to implement a change (called SegWit) that will help with scalability (enabling https://lightning.network/). Segwit was originally planned for Bitcoin, but it turned out to be highly controversial and was therefore hasn't been activated for Bitcoin yet.

In my opinion, Litecoin will be the best scaling crypto-currency in a few weeks.
Hoooomans are cheap and trainable - they will get directed by the AI to serve the robots' needs. See "MANNA" http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
Wow why the aggression man? You have a point and it will benefit the community if you spent just two more minutes to educate people on your viewpoint, rather than attack the intelligence or knowledge of others. Links to articles to back up your point will help and advice on how you store yours will be of even more help. Contribute positively. Thanks
There is a lot of pharmaceutical manufacturing in PR. Also, textiles and electronics. Tourism and financial services are also significant. Rum is a tiny sector.
Say hello to ultra-fine real-time triangulation of your position. Of course privacy protected with the same care and zeal that protects your Tesla.
I'm gonna guess nothing. Static inline isn't going to help a language that needs to get compiled again in browsers. In all likelihood an engine like chrome will do all the optimizations they're doing and more.

It's like optimizing handwriting for readability than typing it out. You're running a transform on the code that changes the format completely, how optimized the original form is doesn't matter.
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I often wonder the same. With current advances in technology both in mass-media and automation, many elements of consumerism beyond basic needs could be made virtual.

With near-full automation, human repetitive labor tends to be value-less; however, human attention becomes a scarce resource, given all the cultural offers competing for them.

The most valuable resources would be scarce raw materials and machinery (concentrated in the hands of wealthy owners), top notch creativity (a natural talent, unevenly distributed), and attention from the public (everyone gets the same amount of it; finding ways to attract and concentrate it has proven to be extremely valuable, as Google taught us). I envision that you could create an attention economy from those elements.
They are social-democrat, not socialists.
Well yes, but all of them are among the most highly regarded Universities in the country, while there are others without the label that are equally good. I just wanted to emphasise that the quality you can get for "free" is really good.
Theft is wrong. Full stop.

What an age to live in when people are considering theft a good thing.
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So this is basically the emacs startup hack? Ugh.
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> I commend him for being able to reinvent himself by learning how to create an effective brand and sell his name.

Which is quite an achievement on a personal level, but is a completely useless thing in every other aspect of society.
Hey - I think that is a problem on my side. I have taken the site down for now after someone gave me some feedback on a security issue. To be honest I am not too sure what is going on here but I shall have a look - while changing the code execution engine to be a bit more secure/robust.

As far as canned responses it is a good idea - and would definitely add some value, for now, I wanted to get a rough copy out to see what the feedback looks like and I shall have a look to see how I might be able to do this.
I am pretty sure that wiring your house is (rightly) illegal in many countries unless you are a licensed electrician, because of the fire Hazard and all.
It is on my TODO list, probably will release tomorrow.
> We're YC and our previous idea didn't work out...

What do you mean with "We're YC" ?
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Upvoted, but it's actually a webpack loader not a babel transform.
To be honest I just used the Aurelia Skeleton app -
https://github.com/aurelia/skeleton-navigation which had font awesome already part of the project so I just used it cause it was readily available and did the job. Frontend work is certainly not my strong suit!
I wanted to make a hyperbolic next step to show the
stupidity of those articles. There are service workers
living with $10k or less. Working in tech, you should be
fine with your salary. Stop complaining.

To be fair to the author or the original article that started all of this, the author complained that he was barely scraping by in San Francisco with a family. (Note: San Francisco, family.)

Yes, there are service workers in San Francisco making a fraction of $150,000, but they're either living with friends, family, or have lived in San Francisco for several years and are benefitting from rent control. Rents were still manageable, at least for single individuals, until about 2011. I helped a family member find a small studio in the Marina in 2011; identical apartments in the same building in 2016 leased for 3x the 2011 rent.

That the author of the original article should consider East Bay or another area would be a valid criticism, except he was making a point about the affordability of San Francisco in particular. For all we know he's already moved. Additionally, when you have kids mobility can be more difficult; if you're getting by (even if just barely), you may tough it out for 6 or 9 months.
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There's a world of difference, in context.

One is in kind of an equilibrium, where the costs of a product or service are included as part of the good. Consumers can choose the product that makes legible the costs and labor that went into it. Some suppliers will win, others will lose, but it's based on transparent pricing, which markets function best with.

The other only sustains low prices through some exogenous means. It could be a VC dumping money to subsidize a product until all other competitors are gone and network effects take over. It could be a company taking revenues from one profitable product line and investing them to subsidize other product spaces where competitors have to rely on making money from the explicit pricing.

On the surface they're similar, in that one company has consumers choosing their product over another's.

The difference is what will happen down the line to consumers. In one situation any bad behavior can be quickly corrected by the market.

The other is the image of Comcast charging you for a boot stamping on your face forever, even though you never asked for the boot and have requested half a dozen times that they stop the boot stamping on your face service.
Judging by the country's past practices and the prevalent culture of "I value my privacy, yet want to know everything about you" I'd rather have the Americans or the Russians reading my mail.
Yeah, it definitely needs some user progress tracking. I like how CodingBat does this - it tells you how many times you attempted and even has graphs. It is something I am looking to add once I get some of the more fundamental things (security) right.
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The title implies this is happening but the article body is about the hypothetical possibility??

Sure, there is a beacon app that does something like this. But that's what it was created to do.
> Learning from somebody good doesn't automatically guarantee you'll end up being as good as them afterwards, for a variety of factors.

Exactly the point. How many students did Graham have over the years who flunked out, or went on to underperform the market?

How many articles got written about those guys?
You could aggressively curtail civil liberties in order to crack down on drunken driving, which kills more people than 9/11 each year, and can happen to pretty much anybody.
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>. In both those cases you are getting a worse deal than just using normal cash for the services desired.

That is complete codswallop. My VPN is cheaper when paid with btc than with PayPal or credit/debit card or Stripe.

Why would you meet up with someone to sell cash for cash?
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Really, nicely done and a long read. Here the conclusion, that hopefully will make you want to read it too:

"In conclusion, I’ve been trying for years to imagine an alternative SimCity.

And I realized that the biggest fallacy of a City simulator is to try to present itself as an all-encompassing system, supposedly capable of describing many possible cities.

I believe that in order to move away from the SimCity paradigm we need many different city simulations, each one limiting its scope to certain dynamics, certain contexts.

Each one declaring its intent, its embedded values.

Each one incorporating localized knowledge, wisdom coming from the street level.

What we should make are not games that explain how cities work. But rather games we can use to think about our cities, past, present and future."
Isn't this a terrible idea in the large scale? By allowing animals to eat plastic, won't their metabolism release CO2 to the atmosphere through respiration? Plastic has lots of carbon.

Isn't this the same as burning some plastic and saying 'plants can eat it now', just without the direct emissions?

In the small scale, it can solve some local problems. But in the larger scale, shouldn't we just bury plastic deep underground? Of convert it to fuel in substitution of further fossil fuel extraction?
I run Postfix & Dovecot (with SPF, DKIM, DMARC, DNSSEC, TLS) from my home network with a remote backup just in case it goes down, as well as my own DNS servers.

I had to ask my ISP to disable some rules on their end and pay a fee to have a static IP address, but overall it was pretty painless. Though I can imagine some providers being much worse.

After the initial hurdle of setting everything up in my experience everything went mostly fine. I had to whitelist my domain on Microsoft's site, but Gmail and Yahoo worked fine from the start. I haven't had a problem since. My university teachers receive my email just fine, so did my co-workers before I was given a corporate email address.

Is it worth it? Maybe not. It was more of a learning experience for me, but I find it works just as well as any other provider I've used. At least for now.

As others have said there are lots of outdated guides. I found the Archlinux Wiki and the manpages to be the most useful resources. Also please stay up to date on the software.
i would expect people not to use this as their main account for a long time.

people will just transfer in a small portion of their money to this automatable account and not risk 100%

so while this roboaccount can go mad and empty everything , you are only out say $3K when your traditional main account still has $9999997K

Treasury functions within large corporations do the same thing. They dole out only a portion of the companies wealth to departments so they cannot go mad ( amongst other reasons )
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They're also influenced by education. There's nothing to suggest that education is less subversive to your individual thoughts and preferences than "media", except the media you consume is largely voluntary, while education is forced upon you while you are a minor.
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The source code will be Blizzard IP for a long time after the coders are dead.
If you look at the other posts I made, it should be more clear.

There are different kinds of property rights.

The property rights for the money you have in your bank account are important. (But if we wanted to add a rule-based tax across everyone that would be okay.)

The intellectual property rights for recently-made things are important.

The intellectual property rights for 20 year old code are not at all important. It's okay if we file off that specific corner of the law.
The ryzen may have no apu(igpu) no, but if the mobo has graphics (as many ryzen mobos do) there is no need for a pci-e gpu unless a heavy one is needed. Indeed not for editors and compiling.
In this particular and narrow instance, it does seem like Blizzard is making good on going back and updating and maintaining the old code. You can argue the reasons, I suppose, but this seems in line with exactly what copyright is supposed to be protecting here. They're reviving support for the game, updating it for modern machines to receive, and making the previous iteration accessible.

I would love to have it to, but it's hard to fault Blizzard here for anything but "hey it would be really nice if you..."

There is still a vested interest in protecting this game from Blizzard's point of view, and it sucks, but in this case they have a fairly good justification and have been holding up their end of the bargain (re-releasing)

They've been real champs about these older games, like Diablo II getting updates. My heart skipped a beat when we finally got a native OS X client update that wasn't a Carbon app - that was really going above and beyond in my opinion, and their support was great for it despite the hiccups on release.
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You're right. The fact that litecoins have monetary value means that real merchants and consumers have an interest in participating (beta testers), as opposed to testnet3 where no actual value can be transferred.
That's a bad comparison. A stolen phone is 1) Likely reported stolen. 2) A finite resource. This is a printed CD-R that Blizzard likely didn't know existed.
"Fixed" in the sense that this app is now blocked. Is there anything to stop an other worm like this, with a different name?
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Looking at a file from one of my repos, the syntax highlighting looks wonky.

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/eriknstr/VoxelMode-2.5D/-...

Everything on every line after '#' on line 21 is the same save for backslashes and ":3" which are blue.
This bet remains the worst possible framing of a question "can hedge funds provide value?".

Some do, more don't. Active investing is negative sum so unless you've got some pretty good reasons to believe that the specific active manager [fund] has a market beating methodology then you should not be touching them.

Investing in a basically un-curated basket of hedge funds is a bad idea full stop and it was crazy to take the other side.
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Guys, the x-ryzens are not overclocking stuff, sure good for it, but what they do is increase the speed as much as possible on the fly meaning if you cool them, they run faster (read liquid cooling). This is true also at stock clocking/speed. So yes ryzen 1700 is great with it's 65 tdp, but 1700x is even greater also WITHOUT overclocking, but well cooled. No picking, just wanted to make this obvious.
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Am I being stupid here? There's no information on this website about what it is. I take it from sqs's that it's some kind of code viewer for Github projects, but I shouldn't need to come to HN to find that information out.

Edit: I was being stupid, the home page just didn't load the first couple of times I tried.
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Thanks for clarifying.

Sorry, didn't mean to bring out the ASIC debate so strongly - my point was mainly that the research is not exclusive, and can be shared between projects, as in the litecoin using Segwit example.
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