skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, you as an artist using bots would be shooting yourself in the foot. If others do it for you (competition?), they're wasting money and also making you look better in comparison...

I've been closely following both Mycelia and UJO. Also helped out bootstrapping Resonate[0] a bit. I think most of these initiatives have the same problem; they are putting a horse in front of a car - using new technology to address yesterday's model.

The reality of today's content consumption is that there are other useful, unaccounted tokens of exchange alongside money. Going forward most people will simply not pay for recordings[1], and especially not in meaningful amounts for niche content (the driver of human culture). But they can contribute a lot by spreading the word or otherwise caring. Building audience size and "metric capital" is more important than the small number of direct sales we can generate otherwise.

I think free content and patronage with money or word-of-mouth is a better model. It is working really well for podcasts, blogs and similar. It is not typical for music as we are still stuck in the cultural anomaly of the 20th century.

My idea was to try and reintroduce a gentle value connection between the maker and the audience. Something resembling a gift economy[3], not an exact accounting of debt. There are lots of good ideas to be found via anthropology.

[0] https://resonate.is

[1] Licensing is a separate issue, a much better use case for blockchains.

[2] http://thayernick.tumblr.com/post/80563891112/do-you-wanna-k... (note this is 2014, before streaming)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debt:_The_First_5000_Years
You can only pay your taxes with the currency the taxing authority takes the tax in. But this does not prevent me from paying for my taxes with my labor; I just have to convert my labor into that currency first. The fact that you can't pay taxes in bitcoin or ethereum is not particularly distinguished from the fact that you can't pay for your taxes in goats, paintings, or the cleaning of clothes, nor is it particularly distinguished from the fact you can't pay United States taxes in Euros.
> I hope this goes well. I would love to see a remake that retains the exact same gameplay with more modern graphics.

I second this. I've used many graphics improvement mods in the past. The good thing is, graphics quality is almost an orthogonal performance factor for the game - it's mostly CPU bound due to physics computation anyway.

What I'd love to see is more realistic FX (flames, particle systems, explosions) and better lightning and shadows. Especially the latter would make other worlds more beautiful.

> I think it may have been a side project of one of the developers on a totally unrelated product (ie. not even a game).

The story goes more-less like this: Squad is a marketing company. One of their employees was burning out and wanted to leave, and they offered him to let him develop his side project if he stays. This side project grew into Kerbal Space Program, and now is the most recognizable product of the company.

As for the more recent news about mistreatment of KSP team, this is a completely separate story (and to this day I'm not really sure how much truth there is to it; back when I hung out on /r/KSP the issue was quite muddy).
Most legal systems have procedures in place for when debt cannot be repaid. That is why I take issue with the statement that it 'must' be repaid.

"Which of these parties don't you consider being a part of society?" - This is a strawman. Both are part of society, but the contract between them may do more harm than good in total. And blindly holding contracts sacred quickly leads to bad outcomes (non-competes, EULAs, some NDAs, etc.)
If two parties negotiate a deal, and one of both parties gets to write the contract, then, the other party will pretty much be screwed. That is why the contract must be written by a third party, such as a marketplace.
Are Bitcoin and Ethereum?
Nitpick: www.githubstatus.com is more flexible, potentially more resilient.
Performance matters for any task that has a deadline, not just crypto and real-time stuff. That's why we make performance improvements, after all.

I think it might be better to think of purity as a way of ensuring that performance and logical correctness are independent effects. Purity allows us to safely improve performance by making local substitutions of faster but logically equivalent code, without having to reason globally about correctness. It's also what allows us to tolerate variation in performance (within reason) without threatening correctness.

For crypto we can reason separately about logical effects (does the crypto work) versus information leakage. For a user interface, we can treat dropped frames as a performance problem rather than a correctness problem.

This is useful even though we still care about performance. Substituting a much slower function for a faster one probably isn't okay, but purity lets us understand the effect.
Any word from AMD on support for Thunderbolt 3, now Intel are making it available royalty-free?

https://newsroom.intel.com/editorials/envision-world-thunder...
You can avoid paying taxes in any currency, including USD; it's still illegal regardless.
A radical new way to create web apps (Demo)
This sounds very interesting. where can I view your offering?
On the contrary, I think that this would be incredibly valuable even if the only thing it did was teach that numbers could be encoded using a series of left or right flips on bits of plastic. I've done little "computers 101" tutorials for a few of my friends and coworkers that have "never been good at math", and every single time the star of the show was that epiphany about binary and what it meant about the nature of numbers and how we represent them. It may not be spectacular to us, but to someone that's never been able to handle math before, it's a whole new way of looking at the universe. Giving people that little tiny rock to stand on before throwing them into school would be a huge deal.
I created 10 distorted versions. But I'm also working on another follow-up track which will have over 200 auto-generated versions :D
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TeX used to have numerous unique features: fairly good fonts; automatic hyphenation, which makes it feasible to lay out text with full justification; support for non-English Latin characters, etc. The rest of the world has caught up with these.

IMO the ways in which it is still special are: (1) good math typography; (2) integration with automated bibliography systems; (3) easily generatable by other tools. (Lots of things that eventually turn into HTML hit #3, but not lots of things that eventually turn into really good-looking PDFs do.)

These points certainly aren't important in all cases ... but for what it's worth, arxiv.org hosts more than a million scientific papers, the vast majority of which are written in TeX.
One thing unfortunately (still) missing is validation of server side HTTPS/TLS/SSL certificates on OSX.

eg if you've built a client application which runs on OSX, calling the verify() function on the cert returned by a server just prints "Unimplemented code." on stdout/stderr.

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-56973

Not totally sure how to work around that before its fixed, but kind of thinking maybe running some openssl (etc) commands on the client might do the trick. Focused on other stuff atm anyway, so haven't really thought about it in depth. ;>
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=epson+ecotank perhaps?
The author's assertion that "nobody uses Bitcoin Script" is a bit silly - EVERY transaction uses Bitcoin Script, just a very simple one, for addresses [1]. The next most popular scripts implement multisig. OpenTimestamps also uses a simple script to commit a hash in a transaction. Currently uncommon uses are HTLC's which allow you to spend based on a zk-SNARK [2], and the Lightning network.

I would actually say a bigger difference is that Bitcoin state is limited to a set of unspent transaction outputs with value (UTXO set), whereas Ethereum allows the script to store arbitrary state in its output.

On a side note, Proof of Stake is a really cool feature if it works, but Ethereum doesn't have it, only the promise that it would hardfork to it if a viable solution is found.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

[2] https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/26/zero-knowledge-conting...

(and yeah, I had to use Fx reader mode to parse the jumble of text at all)
Yeah, the Xeon-E3 lines lack of PCI-e lanes is really underwhelming. I've got a LSI 9200-8e and Mellanox Connect-X 2 in my ProLiant ML10 used as my FreeNAS box, leaving a total of 4 PCIe lanes available - thankfully I don't see any need for more AIB's in this machine, but if I used it as a workstation that needed a GPU + another board or two it'd be a really awful situation to be in.

Considering how hard Intel is pushing Thunderbolt it makes little sense how hard they're gimping their consumer and workstation CPU's when it comes to PCIe support.
Same. Opera.
I was looking through the comments hoping to find a tool like this. You did not let me down, fellow HNer! I try to use the command line whenever I can. Somehow there is a command line tool for just about everything, except for the obvious cases where it not useful like visual media and graphs.
Even more than affecting my ability to achieve other goals, I think it might actually affect my health. After my last talk I tweeted[1]:

"In the days before my recent talk, my resting heart rate was ~50bpm. The morning after, it's ~45bpm. Be kind to your speakers, folks."

Long term low-level stress is pretty bad for you.

[1] https://twitter.com/jrauser/status/867055469700849664
For those having trouble with the site: https://gist.github.com/jdpedrie/9b841e73c8a674be2e9d69072bd...
What? If anything, proof of stake will increase investor interest, because any holder of Ethereum can potentially win the lottery, where the probability of winning is determined by how much Ethereum one holds.
I cannot pay my taxes with dollars or yen either. I have to use Euros.
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I think this is a great idea. However, I share kkotak's concern
It works with 'Reader view'
Gardening leave is the fair way to do this - say 12 months.
Skills as Compounds – and what we can learn from it
The p in pNaCL stands for "portable".

The basic tech behind it is LLVM IR, which is the same tech Apple Store now uses to target the Watch and future devices.
They've only announced it would be royalty-free circa 2018:

> next year Intel plans to make the Thunderbolt protocol specification available to the industry under a nonexclusive, royalty-free license.

no point in AMD saying anything at this point.
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Frequent speaker here.

It depends on the conference and depends on the speaker, but generally 90% of speakers at technical or trade conferences are not paid or compensated in any way. At software conferences it's typically that the speaker will be going to the conference anyway paid for by their employer.

For in-demand speakers travel and lodging, and generally catered food at event dinners/lunches etc..., will be paid for at a minimum.

Highly recognized professional full time speakers will charge a speaking fee between 5-10k, with the top celebrity names commanding significant sums.

It's an entire industry, but as with everything most of the real money goes to the top 5%.
It would not save the US a lot of money at all.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/03/20/news/nato-funding-explained/

>The North Atlantic alliance has its own military budget worth €1.29 billion ($1.4 billion), which is used to fund some operations and the NATO strategic command center, as well as training and research. But it is miniscule compared to overall spending on defense by NATO countries, which NATO estimates will total more than $921 billion in 2017.

To be clear the vast amount of money spent by the US on defence (or offence) is not directly spent on NATO. There is a NATO operating budget that is approx 0.33% of the US annual spending on military. So if the US withdrew from NATO they would not stop spending all that money on defence, sure they may close some bases in Europe and around the world but all that will do is further weaken their sphere of influence. And if there was a Russian or Chinese invasion of Europe then it would be in the US's interests to assist in any fight because if Russia or China managed to takeover mainland Europe that would be it for the USA in terms of any sort of world leader status/influence which is pretty much accepted because of the support of its NATO allies as it currently stands.
> you compare err != null?? besides not using strict mode, what should err be? a String? So, what will happen if err is undefined or an empty String?

YOU are the one who made that comparison, not me. You originally wrote the following line:

( err ) ? console.err( msg ) : console.log( msg );

What do you think the "?" operator does with "err"?

> Then you call logFsResult with err while it is not used..

It seems you don't understand the code. I'm not calling "logFsResult", i am defining a function called logFsResult. You also did the same, you defined logFsResult to receive the "err" parameter.

function logFsResult( type, err ){
var msg= '';
switch ( type ) {

> That's a trap, I should rather make my code as readable, scalable and bug free as possible regardless of ESxxx.

ES6 allows you to write more readable code than ES5. Take a look at the features.
I sometimes get a feeling that some speakers due to their history get invited to give talks over and over.

There are only a few respected conferences where you get to see new faces. The rest usually cycle through their top speakers.

The worst is when you have the same white 5 males talking about diversity.
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Well, you asked:

> I wonder if Take-Two Interactive considered the morality of acquiring a company that paid slave wages.

But they didn't acquire the company.
Profit and loss should be calculated from the actual investment not what you should get on paper.
YouTube delivers:

https://youtu.be/zszJRsGzo9A?t=124

(also good from the very beginning, though content warning: dank themes)
Somewhat readeable version (with hyperlinks): http://docdro.id/uW83epK
The same thing I plan on doing with my ThinkServer TD340 I bought last year, sell it on eBay.
Hey, I resemble that remark :-(
Just a bit off topic, but are there many people still using Qt to write desktop software ? I mean, Qt's not React or Angular, but I find it very easy to work with as long as there is not much asynchronicity required...
It depends! If you want to see unusual examples of applied maths or a bit of thinking out of the box, focusing on techniques and not theory, start with Howison's. Logan builds theory alongside applications and is, therefore, heavier on maths. If you're confident with graduate level physics though you should be fine with both.
Maybe 5 months ago I would have said "good news everyone, handheld consoles are dying rapidly!"

But the Switch was a smash hit and Nintendo gets to keep their Pokemon IP platform exclusive for another decade or so at least :(
> this seems like SO MUCH MORE WORK than just running them traditionally

Here's an analogy: let's say you've written a command line tool and you want to install it. The simple answer is to just copy the binary to /usr/bin. Does it need config files? Library dependencies? That's fine, copy them to the appropriate directories. But then you, as the sysadmin, have the responsibility of remembering exactly what the state of the system is. If you need to make changes later on, you need to spend time figuring out exactly what needs to be updated, and then manually apply those changes without making mistakes.

The cleaner solution is to use a package manager like rpm or apt-get. You have to spend some time up front to package your code, including explicitly defining things like package dependencies and clean-up scripts. But once that's done, you can let the package manager do the work of figuring out how to get the system into the desired overall state. You're doing more work in the short term, but it pays dividends in terms of maintainability.
Writing async Qt is pretty easy, take a look at QFuture
Can you pay your taxes with Euros in the United States?

Can you pay your taxes in USD in EU?
Definitely not bad advice. Especially if it's your first time trying to dose correctly. It could be easy to get it wrong and it would always be better to have a buddy; like these folks from Netherlands: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz9yC6WkWA0
Maya Angelou, Poet, Activist and Singular Storyteller, Dies at 86
Today's Topics: Database, Hierarchical State Machines, and Bitcoin
The problem is not graphics, but rather, the limitations of Unity that make it unsuitable for anything else but lowest common denominator multi-platform games with clearly defined limits. Space Engineers is another game hampered by Unity.
> I sometimes get a feeling that some speakers due to their history get invited to give talks over and over.

Running a conference is a financial risk. You have to bring in enough attendees to ensure that you'll break even on costs. Because of that, organizers often bring in presenters with a known reputation for putting butts in seats.

To break into the circuit, find a conference with lower financial risks. For example, in the Microsoft database space, that's SQLSaturday, a free regional conference typically held at colleges. Those organizers don't have a lot of money on the line, so they can work on promoting their local speakers.

Even better, speak at local user groups and build up a reputation.
People miss sites that don't carry 50mb of JS, ads, tracking, and sites that all look the same.
Absolutely! I can definitely see the payoff there. It just seems that everyone is packaging projects as Docker now and its a bit confusing that orchestration seems to be a bit of an afterthought in the docker world, when I'm sure most applications will require a database.

Still, I'll keep on plugging away at kubernetes; I actually quite like the design of the system, very tidy!
Does it only work on gram positive? I thought most bad bacteria were gram negative?
In 2017 the queue to the relics of Saint Nikolas in Moscow reached 5.2 km
My first guess would be that being poor relative to peers is more stressful and depressing and relates to more substance abuse problems. When hardships are shared among whole generation it could affect them differently.
I don't think mistermann was after a serious discussion, he seems to have very little idea about NATO and just parrots Trumps (inaccurate talking points). I may be wrong and perhaps he is off reading all the linked articles but I don't hold out much hope of that.
Same here on Chrome. I tweeted @JamesMeirowsky who is their Director of Engineering. Hopefully they'll fix it.
I've been avoiding the altcoin zoo as much as possible, but Ethereum is worth looking at. It fixes key features of bitcoin (12 second vs 10 minute transactions) though smart handling of stale blocks, actual memory hard mining algorithm (unlike Litecoin that didn't turn to be) and adds a whole new dimension to the blockchain with the built-in VM and computer. Just Google the DAO incident for some amusing and interesting reading.

Proof of stake should IMHO NOT be mentioned, doing so is very misleading. Ethereum doesn't use it, and if a suitable algorithm was ever developed, any coin could switch to it in the same way as Ethereum will.
It was ~10km in a straight line uphill. Our roads aren't really built for bikes and I don't want to become a smudge on the road, so my route was more meandering to avoid every large straight road possible. My absolute fastest was 32 minutes going work->home downhill, taking the usually unsafe roads, because traffic was unusually low for that day. After I bought a velocimeter and used it for a while, my average speed was about 14km/h.
Serverless Domain Forwarding with AWS
Tax fraud can be done in dollars and euros too, it's maybe just a bit harder. Still fraud.
They actually had "self driving cars" in the 60s, and earlier - for given values of "self driving":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autonomous_cars
A small update on my current situation:
I've successfully(?) installed arch, but I'm still setting everything up, but the internet is accessible without problems.
I'm struggling with the video drivers, but that's mostly since I never had to install any on linux.
I'm also learning a LOT.

At the same time I'm tempted to try out almost all distros mentioned here (even gentoo, to really get the hang of compiling and makefiles), but I'll probably try and set up Arch first, until I'm happy with it and then maybe mess around with other distros on another partition, or in a VM (but probably on another PC).
Obviously armed with all the knowledge gained in the process.

Thank you all so much for your suggestions, and I hope I'll get around to trying them all one day :)

Until then, I'll continue configuring (and maybe borking) my Arch install and enjoy the discussion taking place here.

PS: The arch documentation is AMAZING.
The 2.8 billion are PDVSA-issued bonds not USD, they only exist on paper and aren't worth a cent unless Venezuela can pay. Afaik Venezuela can print as many of those as it wants.

> So, net the country owes 2.8 billion USD + interest either way.

Venezuelas right hand owes money to Venezuelas left hand, both are Venezuela so Venezuela owes nobody. Now we have Goldman buying that dept from Venezuelas left hand and some more ( it can print as much as it wants of that ) for $5, Venezuela now owes 2.8 billion to someone else it has to pay back in the future in exchange for having $5 now. Those $5 benefit the current government and will affect any future government negatively.
Its up to you how you design your websites. Don't use an ad business model, don't use flashy effects. Write HTML. You don't have to use the latest React + nosql for a business info page.
I agree, that was poor wording on my end... Thank you for the clarification.

I should have said that it's very limited and much more difficult to use than Ethereum's smart contracts.

I also wanted to avoid going into a deeper discussion that would involved the potential adoption of segwit, which would enable lightning networks and a bunch of other sidechains.
4 Ways Machine Learning Protects the Environment
I'm using PyQt to develop a file manager [1]. Pretty happy with it so far. I chose it over Electron because of performance [2].

[1]: https://fman.io

[2]: https://fman.io/blog/picking-technologies-for-a-desktop-app-...
> I think it is ok to express displeasure at the state of something without just silently doing something else and hoping that the entire ecosystem catches up to you.

It is, but it's not okay to bring up a common flame war topic and then say "but I don't want to start a flame war". If you don't want to start one, just don't start one. Starting it, and then saying you didn't want to, is disingenuous at best.
I think gaming and ARM cannot be used in the same context. The extra IO is useless to the gamer unless there is an Nvidia GPU on the other end.
No kidding.

This entire article could have been summarized by - "Don't steal stuff from work."
Peercoin was proof of stake five years ago.
It's a pity they didn't go with "TeXtonic"... The canonical way to pronounce "TeX" is roughly "tech", since the "X" is supposed to be a Greek chi.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeX#Pronunciation_and_spelling

(Of course, "textonic" is also the name of another open source project...)
Yes, send these files to me via email and I'll send you a personalized value report, free of charge. (just kidding of course)

Probably it'd be best to install old versions of armory etc and export raw keys, then import it to new wallet. Or if you just want to check then export only public keys (addresses). You can check the amount on blockexplorer.
You said acquiring the company, which they didn't.