skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course it is a problem. I pay for 10gb a month but go on holiday for say two weeks and only have 2gb available precisely when I'm likely to need most of my allowance. I get charged a ridiculous rate for each GB after that. This is a big improvement but is not the end of roaming as it is currently advertised.
IIRC 3-4 years after the financial crisis NPR ran a story the premise of which was basically "WTF is up with major white collar crime seemingly never being punished?" and they claimed the FBI's division devoted to financial crimes had been gutted to devote more resources to fighting terrorism after 2001, and that those resources had simply never been restored, leaving them only able to pursue a couple major cases at a time. Since these sorts of investigations/cases are against people and organizations with money and the laws in question are often nuanced and complex, the cases drag on for months to years. IOW as long as a dozen plus major violations are occurring every year they'll only be able to pursue a few percent of them, and only some smaller percentage will end in more than a slap on the wrist (because, again, these people have money).

If that's true then ROI on corporate law-breaking is great right now, as long as you're not one of the one or two most egregious cases any given year.
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The tyranny of percentages. If you lose 50%, to get it back you have to gain 100%.
I've done those sorts of calculations before and that aligns with roughly what I figured out at the time.
But the fewer people "test" it, apart from me, the better.

This is akin to putting your email address all over the internet. If you do that, you're going to get lots of spam. If you are more careful about who you give it to, you'll get less.

It's clearly a win to keep both email addresses and ssh server addresses as private as possible.
It's quite funny to see people promoting such conspiracy theories, considering they've already been proven wrong by reality.

Apart from some banana republics, governments around the world have been incredibly relaxed with regards to Bitcoin. The rules that have been established are as favourable as anyone could imagine (i. e. trading being exempt from VAT etc.).

Yes, they have insisted on existing rules, mostly of the know-your-customer variety. It's funny you're citing "national security concerns, use of the technology by drug dealers and tax evaders", as if those were just talking points to hide the real reasons. Because for the life of me I can't think of any other, legal, activity governments are trying to suppress by regulating bitcoin. What exactly is that killer app of bitcoin that so frightens the establishment?
Or specifically related to this topic, Shure IEMs with Magnetic Planar drivers.

Damn those sound good.
I really enjoyed it. That said, I also really enjoyed this in-depth takedown of the novel and its ideas: http://gmfbrown.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/why-anathem-sucks.htm...
Have you been talking to the same person every time? Or is it possible that different people have different ideas and opinions?
Also, they make me sign in with Facebook to claim Stellar (in their latest PR campaign). No.
Tell me about it. Google has wanted to do things like making road changes to improve traffic from the massive amount of people getting on and exiting 101 and Shoreline, and as I recall, MV basically said no.
> I see this cited every time. Unfortunately, it's bogus in practice. Consider:
>
> print('some long thing',
> further, arguments)
>
> If this is an indented block, you'd have to indent the second line to the correct depth with tabs, then add exactly six spaces for alignment. You have to mix spaces and tabs, which is never good news.

One way to avoid this would be use a hanging indent. For example:

print(
'some long thing', further,
arguments)

That would work well with either tabs or spaces.
True. And it certainly doesn't explain "better" or "worse". But it explains why music recorded on tape sounds different from music recorded digitally. And it puts a torch to the claims that digital is somehow "accurate", and all we like about analog is just evil bad naughty distortion.
You're absolutely correct, iterate until you find the solution that works. My DW made her own tea tree oil concoction from full strength tea tree oil plus coconut oil as a carrier oil. Pure TT oil will burn your skin, so yeah get informed and be careful.
That's really valid only in the case when the frequency response and the impulse response completely characterize a system--that is, only for linear and time-invariant systems. I know you covered this base by mentioning nonlinear distortions, but I think that's the big issue. Otherwise you could just correct the frequency response with equalization (assuming the frequency response isn't literally 0 ever).

For example, consider a system that just squares or cubes its input. The unit impulse response will look the same in both cases. The frequency response isn't even defined, since the steady state response to a sinusoid is not itself a sinusoid.
Perhaps, but you'd be surprised at the number of issues that would be solved by every market being "free enough". Of course, by "every market" I must also include the market on aggression, wherein government is, by definition, a (localized) monopoly.
Is it true that Slack can't scale to companies with thousands of people? I've heard that Uber uses HipChat instead for that reason.
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I agree in theory. Having seen terrible mixes of tabs and spaces, I don't agree in practice.

I've worked with several projects that painfully switched from tabs to spaces because tabs didn't work for them in practice, in a setting where several people work on one thing. I haven't seen projects go the other way. (Yes, automated formatting would solve part of thise.)
The number of Bitcoins that will ever be in existence is fixed, so I guess there can be no inflation in the classical sense.

Value is another question altogether.
You could consider refinancing with an entity that doesn't sell mortgages.

I've had a mortgage with my credit union for about ten years now, and they still have it. And no, it wasn't just resold out from under me without my noticing it; I actually asked one of their reps once and they outright told me that they don't resell their mortgages.

The downside is that as far as I know, I don't have a promise from them that they won't sell it, just a track record of not selling it. Still, if you're worried enough it may be worth considering. I recognize this is not a free option; you'd have to consider it as a form of insurance and consider whether you're willing to pay for it.
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My university housed chunks of departments it didn't like in one of those buildings. The cyber-security club located its infrastructure (racks of old servers) in the center of the building in a vain attempt to make it settle as fast as the perimeter of the building.
There's a crazy logic to this that I appreciate.
You could write a gripping, detailed blog post, post it to HN, hope it makes the front page. It worked for Susan Fowler (though I don't know if she posted her own writing here -- probably didn't -- and that is no doubt a very flippant, somewhat inaccurate framing of what happened with her blog post, which likely got a lot more traffic than just from HN).

If you do choose to publicize this, be aware that a lot of people will want an extremely good justification for why his family wasn't there for him to begin with before they will care what Uber did or did not do. Wanting publicity can be a case of "be careful what you wish for."
If you make an effort people will welcome you with open arms :) Montreal is lovely.
The most cherished earphones I've ever had - a pair of relatively cheap Audiotechnica - feel better than the triple price model I decided to treat myself with some years later.
It's a spying tool for American corporations which is very convenient for the government
Fundamentally, there is nothing in the sound of a headphone other than specific spectral response (for a given head fit and ear). If you have an "ideal" headphone, you can emulate any headphone which is less than ideal.

If well-recorded music sounds bad on an ideal headphone, the recording is set up for a non-ideal headphone.

You'll notice in those response curves, there are common characteristics in the response of almost all the headphones they tested, within a fairly small margin (considering). Maybe for a mastering technician, the right thing to do is master for the average suboptimal headphone, and not for a linear response listening instrument; but that doesn't mean a headphone closer to the ideal is wrong, it just means that you need to filter audio that wasn't intended for its response profile.
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Are you sure you're talking to the same people over time wrt to these arguments?

Different people are attracted to different aspects of crypto currency.
How does this only benefit Google? Other businesses can surely benefit from this aspect of Go. Heck if your an aspiring startup that has to hire new people, you gain from this.
I have a little BTC and ETH just for fun.

It 'tumbles' and then 'skyrockets' quite frequently. Incredibly volatile.

I bought in at $16 for ETH right after the EEA announcement, pulled out my principle at $54, and now I'm just watching this crazy roller coaster ride. It's fun.

But I sure as hell am keeping my retirement in my 401k. I cannot imagine the stress on people who have a substantial investment in BTC or ETH, but they probably have a totally different mindset than I do when it comes to cryptocurrency.
Nah people that think gays shouldn't marry should have the non-bigoted views forced upon them.
Those who are in first category are happy, others not so much.

The difficulty here is gauging how happy or unhappy people are. People who don't travel so much may feel unhappy at subsidizing those who do, but it's like insurance. If you have to travel unexpectedly, suddenly that inconvenience seems well worth it compared to the unpleasant experience of receiving a large bill for traveling. This is even more true if your travel is involuntary (visiting a sick relative instead of taking a holiday, for example).

There was similar short-term dissatisfaction in the US as landline carriers moved towards offering free long-distance calling within the USA some years ago. Some people objected that they shouldn't have to pay more for phone service since they rarely made calls outside their own town town/county. But the market as a whole preferred the simplicity of a one-size fits all plan, and arguably some of the savings in reduced billing complexity found their way back to consumers, as landline pricing gradually fell to an even lower equilibrium in the following years. This was before mobile telephony really took off. I don't have links offhand, but I do remember being pleased by my low monthly telephony bills.

It's a good idea to consider the second-order effects as well as the first-order effects.
The most specific allegation is that they extended the maturity of the loan, which as a consequence lowered the minimum payment. Under normal circumstances, and with clear communication to the borrower, this is a change that can only be better for the borrower; they can continue to pay on the old schedule, or pay less on the new schedule over more time without going into default. However, many of the borrowers were in bankruptcy at the time of the change. During this process they were not in control of their own assets; the bankruptcy trustee was paying their bills for them. If the bankruptcy trustee paid the new lower minimum payment, it would result in the borrower paying more in interest than they otherwise might have.
Project Aon has all the Lone Wolf books in a variety of formats, including a machine readable format, which they have used to produce similar diagrams of the books' structures. Joe Dever have them permission to distribute the books for free some years ago (you can also now buy them as ebooks, I think). They're all at https://www.projectaon.org/
What kind of gulp.js jobs do you want to run from the shell?
Indeed, but still at prices which are well above current prices for my domestic rate. By 2022 one would imaging domestic rates will be still lower making that maximum rate much worse than it looks now. A true end to roaming would mean I can use everything I pay for exactly the same over the whole EU. Long way to go yet before we have a true single market.
I'm in this camp, if for no other reason than by the time you take a laptop and add a mechanical keyboard, a nice mouth, and an extra monitor, you would have been better off having just bought a desktop.

Unless you want to buy a dock and everything, use the laptop as a desktop 90% of the time and just have it portable for when you need to go to a client or something.
I mostly agree, but I think history and expectations play into it as well.

I can imagine customers that claim they don't care, then some ISV releases some software or game that only runs on one platform, then all of sudden the customer cares. The ISV might not be malicious or in cahoots with anyone, perhaps they just have 2 decades of experience releasing for wintel and haven't reconsidered their approach.
There was a pretty fixed window in which the hardware was going to be relevant, and an enormous amount of work to be done to get a useful product out in that window.

It's also worth being ... cautious about this account. Many of the competing / complementary perspectives aren't represented, often because they are still working there.
Hypothetically, if miner profits went into freefall, the alternatives would be to raise tx fees even further (making the network less usable), or to change the protocol to mint more coins. You are correct that the latter would massively discredit the project's original goals, and is therefore unlikely (since it would damage the value of the currency).

The network relies on having a large ecosystem of miners to prevent anyone from mounting coordination attacks. Those miners are paid either by new bitcoins (out of the finite supply), or by tx fees.
Use nvi instead of vim for precisely this reason -
Customization is for emacs..
which I also use when I want to customize things.
My open-source project just launched last month, https://servicebot.io, we've been struggling with our branding and gaining traction.

Our code is on github at https://github.com/service-bot/servicebot
Bitcoins goal has always been censorship resistance. The fact that Wikileaks still exists despite powerful interests strong arming banks into dropping them is an example of this.
I actually just sold my stake in Ether and Bitcoin two days ago (happy I did). Still holding onto Litecoin however.

A few friends and I also wrote an application to help us invest. We just launched a beta:

https://projectpiglet.com/

If anyone's interested, feel free to reach out to me directly: contact-at-projectpiglet.com. We just launched it so it's pretty rough, so we're in a beta testing phase. Thus, we are providing the service for free, provided you fill out a feedback form once a month.
Bitcoin is nothing but a vehicle to get money out of China illegally complicated by the fawning of teenagers who see it a way to rebel and also by speculators and a few crazy Ayn Rand believers who doesn't realize what she wanted would be hell on earth (just google the words venezuela ayn rand). Did I leave any of the loonies out? I think not.

There's no legal, useful application of it. Just none. Every time I ask, people come and say but... but... international transfers! and I point it out that for that transfer the sender needs to buy bitcoins, transfer and the receiver needs to sell them because there is no legal, useful application of it :) And this is untenable, you can't have the receiver go through hoops to receive money. And when I compare this to how Transferwise combines a fantastic user experience with favorable rates (which I actually compared to an FX company not to a bank) then I am a Transferwise shill despite it's usually not me who brings up the transfer argument so I now I did just so we don't need to have that conversation again and again.
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That's it! I had so many personal pan pizzas. My mom was a willing accomplice.
ROI for whom?!?
Who is investing money here?
Who is reaping the rewards of investment?
Yeah, no shit getting people to work for free has a high ROI. What the heck?
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Interesting to note on this front is Amazon's move towards enabling voice and chat communication via Alexa between Alexa accounts, and by extension Alexa-enabled devices.

Sounds like they really want in on the communication game.
Your comment also seems like a fallacy. How do you really know it's impossible to list all the relevant facts? I don't think you've addressed anything, just made some imaginary goal line that you can keep pushing back forever.
Kibo of alt.religion.kibology posted a Christmas themed CYOA to the group decades ago, and the only winning ending was deliberately unreachable.
In Bitcoin, it's considered a day that ends in Y.
Police chase. Ridiculous that they would let a fare go unfinished when they fully realized they would be arrested if they pulled over at the first sign of flashing lights.
I sometimes work in curious ways. Recently i have been printing the HN articles and reading them at random intervals like just before going for a jog,Thinking on one's feet is a wonderful experience
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Can someone do an ELI5 of this debate? I'm a bit confused.
The price tripled since March, for no good reason. Up from $1000 to $3000, now back to $2000. That's still quite a gain.

The fork issue makes it clear that the future of Bitcoin is controlled by about five mining companies in China. Could be worse; at one point two companies had more than half the hash rate.
I'd rather a democratically elected state than a cabal of wealthy warlords.
Race and wealth are typically intertwined in the form of varying levels of opportunity.
On the short scale, Bitcon is extremely volatile. Long-term, it's been trending up heavily, but it's not even a decade old yet, so making long term predictions isn't a good idea. The main benefits to bitcoin as I see it are

It's decentralized nature

That it can be anonymous, and by default is more "anonymous" than other online payments. For example, you would only know my wallet address, while something like Paypal/Venmo would give you my full name and email and maybe even physical address. You could probably do some digging with that wallet address and find my real info, but it's certainly tougher than having it emailed to you.

That payments work like a "push" rather than "pull". A store/vendor gives you an address and you send them BTC, they then wait for the funds to land in their wallet. But with a credit card, I give the store my credentials and trust them to only take as much as promised and not charge me multiple times.

Also, it's definitely used more for investing/hoarding at the moment than it is as an actual currency, though more and more companies and payment processors are beginning to accept bitcoin as payment.
Right. That's why I said needlessly complicated :) Takes so much effort to work everything out. They rely on this to make profits from mistakes.
"Subjective experience is not science, but neither is it irrelevant."
Ah, anecdata.

Look, if you want to point to well controlled studies, etc, that say "these factors do not correlate well with subjective experience", that's awesome.
I'd then agree 100% "whatever we are measuring doesn't matter, we should measure something else".

But in your rage, you are conflating two issues here, and they shouldn't be conflated at all:

1. Was this study science, and properly performed science?

All available info seems to point to "yes, it was"

There is no reason for you to put air quotes around science, etc.

They set out what they are trying to measure and why: "This study quantifies variability of measured headphone response patterns and aims to uncover any correlations between headphone type, retail price, and frequency response."

They did not set out to say whether that has any bearing on subject experience.

In fact, they point out "The preferred response however seems to be listener, content, and headphone dependent <cite omitted>"

2. Does the thing they measured matter in any way to the subjective experience in the world?

You vehemently suggest "no".

I'm going to suggest if you want to convince people the answer is no, you should point them to data that says "the thing they measured, properly, doesn't matter", and not appeal to anecdote and authority.

They cite at least three studies thinking it matters:
"In particular, research suggests that the frequency (magnitude) response is a major factor in listener preference scores (Olive and Welti, 2012; Fleischmann et al., 2012; Olive et al., 2013)"

(and they are super careful not to suggest that listener preference scores completely correlate with subject experience)

but at the same time, admit
"Research suggests that factors influencing consumers' choice as to which model to purchase are mostly based on wireless functionality (Iyer and Jelisejeva, 2016) and attributes such as shape, design, and comfort (Jensen et al., 2016)."

They also admit the studies usually are small and that the body of work is not huge.

So, from my perspective, i feel like they are doing a fairly reasonable job of trying to present a relatively objective perspective on whether this matters or not.

You may want to try to do the same :)
Well, Jeff, you could start by paying off my mortgage, my daughters' education, my wife's car loan, and buying me a 20' conex and 14 acres in Fiji.
"A lot of the super automatic machines that are out, the primary aim of them is to make the machine as cheap as possible"

Yeah, with a lot of multi-function technology, compromises are made on the individual components to meet some price target. Because if you don't make those compromises, then it becomes cheaper for the user to just buy the components separately, and end up with a system that's just as good.

In a commercial setting though, a machine like this could easily be worthwhile for a restaurant that doesn't have a dedicated barista.
The right solution here would be to treat a tab as exactly pi spaces. This, while not forbidding the use of tabs, would guarantee that any inconsistent mixture of tabs and spaces would be considered misaligned.
That's a nice motivational formula for weight loss
Amazon has a messaging "platform" now. Alexa. [1]

[1]https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16713667011
Correct. Their UX is a barrier to entry to older folks to keep the user base young (<25).

Anecdotal evidence: I know numerous people over 25 who have installed snapchat once and even twice (at an attempt to use it again) only to uninstall it after being unable to figure out how to use it. But the recent college grads and younger all get it.
> and specifically that more than 21M bitcoins can be created at the whim of developers

It really can't be, though.
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