skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also when we'll have a functional implementation of lightning network this might be a solved problem.

This is unrealistic. With 1MB blocks, around 2 million people can deposit/withdraw into payment channels once per week. Even using the best-performing/most-insecure layer 2 protocol ("deposit your bitcoins with me and I'll send them anywhere"), no more than 2M users would be able to join/leave the payment network per week. The Lightning Network is much more restrictive than this, since they aim for trustlessness, which further decreases performance (particularly for merchants, who want to receive large sums from a lot of people).

Unless LN aims to create a separate cryptocurrency (where you can deposit into the network but not withdraw), there's no way their trustless model can perform better than a trustful one. And if they aim to create an altcurrency, then it's not a Bitcoin payment network, and there's little reason to do it on top of a blockchain in the first place. In that case it will be like a Bitcoin side-chain that you can't withdraw from, so you're basically converting your bitcoins into this other coin, without being able to go back.

Fundamentally, the Lightning Network doesn't scale because it models global payments as anyone-to-anyone (like Bitcoin), when in fact payments flow from billions of consumers to millions of retail merchants to tens of millions of producers who pay out wages to their employees (consumers), after which the cycle repeats. Any payment network on top of Bitcoin needs to take this into account, in order to scale, since Bitcoin's throughput is so limited to begin with.

As an example, imagine you're a merchant with a $100k monthly turnover. Using the Lightning Network you, as the merchant, would need to deposit $100k into a payment channel at the beginning of the month, in order to be able to receive this amount, and this is only if the LN is highly centralized (one hop between you and the payer). For every additional node between you and the payer, an additional $100k would need to be deposited, sitting in a payment channel ready to send. This just doesn't scale.

LN is a decentralized network whose performance decreases for every node that joins it. For every additional hop your payment crosses, someone needs to deposit bitcoins into a payment channel, which both costs capital and increases the risk that this channel is exhausted and you need to touch the blockchain (expensive). A 10M-node LN would be able to send around a total of 2.1 bitcoins (remember, all nodes need to deposit bitcoins into a payment channel, and there will only ever be 21M bitcoins), and crossing 10 hops would require, on average, touching the blockchain every time 0.21 bitcoins are sent.
Are current review style better for the ecosystem? http://blog.mowowstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2048...

The amount of clones, copycats and unreliable apps that works nothing as shown in the screens made app store discovery impossible, to the point many people has to mediate trough review websites
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I wonder if there is some policy group settings that are configured wonky? I have ltsb and I wouldn't trade it for any other version of windows, ever. If I couldn't use LTSB I would use linux. Im usually a few years behind on games so it might not affect me as bad.
Started using this in Cursive. Works pretty great for Clojure and other symbol-heavy languages, presumably.
A lie, maybe... I think it's conditional.

For the most part, one should specialize for performance reasons. If the project requires it, do it all -- put the whole stack together yourself -- it's not so hard to find the nuances to architecture as it once was.

I prefer the pursuit of possibility. I like the adventure, but I'm a dreamer by default. And I really enjoy building something out from the first, smallest grain and seeing it grow and eventually bloom.

To the parent thread: I have no idea. I run into counter opinions and situations regularly. So I just turned on the live stream from the ISS. He's (Fischer I think) outside right now and he takes turns leaving the camera on the horizon and pointing it straight down to the surface. A lot of feature on the Canadarm -- unintentionally probably.
These lists, it should be pointed out, are quickly becoming outdated as more folks sign up for new domain names. For example, there’s this on .xyz https://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/exploring-xyz-another... and then there’s actual usage of it: https://abc.xyz (completely not mentioned...) If you want to know the most popular/relevant sites on a TLD, search google for `site:xyz` to see a small list... E.g. .link often is used by websites with very long domains looki for a shorter one, like http://gcr.link/ Amazon has http://aws.science/ .country is mostly crap, but there is http://cma.country/ .click is indeed only slightly less spammy, but does have http://bbc.click/ And .rocks doesn’t deserve the ban. It’s used by fan sites, people promoting tech or events, and fun stuff like kqed.rocks for kqed.org ... I’ll admit though, it can be hard to tell with all the third party domains which sites are legitimate and which aren’t...
Debugging Python Errors
The problem is the compiler can't necessarily even parse the file with an older version of the language.
This is really obvious. You should lose karma for up voting it.
Regards interprocedural optimization, an alternative is to return to the trampoline less frequently. As with Cheney on the MTA.

I wonder what it would take to add a wiki to lambda-the-ultimate.
That's incredible, thanks for sharing!
using it and thinking about contributing it for long.
The team did really ambitious work of dumping XUL and rewriting it in Javascript + HTML. I was one of the first user of new version since they hosted in gitlab , i was astonished that they did the conversion from XUL within just around a month and already working since then.
And I even double checked the number, but still missed that one zero. Thanks for pointing this out.
This doesn't describe an air gap jump in the sense I understand the term (compromising or extracting data from a system that isn't connected to anything external, perhaps by ultrasound via the speaker/mic). This is regular movie-style "plug the magic thumb drive in" trick, no?
You made me curious, so I did some quick investigation on the etymology of the word. :) (sorry, insomnia)

Using Google NGram viewer, I looked up "startup" and quickly noticed that the word (in modern usage) seemed to be short for "startup costs". Interestingly, "startup costs" seemed to only come into use after the 60s and 70s and was often connected to financial instruments. So, I also plotted the word "options" and was surprised that the shape of that curve was the same as the curve for "startup". They just had different magnitudes.

I also learned that stock options became tradable instruments in the 70s. And, also, startups began being formed in the 70s. That is, they seemed to go hand in hand. In particular "startup" was used to describe speculative research and development ventures with high capital requirements.

More recently though, the word "startup" became being associated with small teams, minimum viable products, and micro seed funding. So, that could be what you mean.
The Hunting Down of Uber's Travis Kalanick
Curious what JavaScript frameworks they might have.
They are not creating value. They just mislead.
Of course people have control over it. Wading through a little blogspam to get to a page explaining how to configure Windows Update is fairly simple compared to the struggles one used to face to make either a Windows or Mac system function well. (when was the last time you had to use regedit?)

We have a Windows today where blue screens are extremely rare, PCs can be made secure, name brand stuff generally just works when you plug it in, and basic setup doesn't require much thought (Windows update notwithstanding). People are looking at the past with rose colored glasses and would get just as mad today if they had to install a NIC or internal modem or something in Windows 95 as they did back then. That doesn't excuse all the blatant stupidity of Windows 10's design, but still.
That's not news really.
Religion fulfilled two roles in the primitive world: Explaining how the world worked, and how an individual should behave in the world.

It took a long time for society to mature and learn. The accumulation of knowledge enabled rationally explaining the world from scientific first principles, and rational self-governance from philosophical first principles.

Holy books are an artifact from a more primitive time, when experience was spread so thin it had to be accumulated across generations in singular books. If anything, those ideas survived because they lacked flexibility - their persistence reflects built-in error-correction that minimized mutations over time.
So, where on the North American continent are people going for a small (ARM or otherwise), dedicated server that doesn't break the bank?

A few years ago, dedicated Raspberry Pi hosting was a bit of a thing for a bit.

I looked a bit, a few months ago, but I didn't turn up what appeared to be a clear winner of a choice.
Thanks. Sounds more promising than I took from you landing page. I will give it a go on my c/c++ code bases. See if it can help me.

I now notice the free trial cannot be run on your own project. I have to say I won't buy anything that I didn't try on a real sample before. What made you decide to go for this option instead of regular limited functionality or time bound (my preference).
Massive.js – A data mapper for Node.js and PostgreSQL
There's car park on the top of Mt Wellington in Hobart with a similar issue, but it is attributed to the transmission tower nearby.
I feel that the biggest strength of CS50 is its wide scope of technologies used. Provides a real great introduction to the field of computer science
Thanks! If you can point me to a good structure I'd like to try coding it up in this system, category theory has mostly gone over my head so I'm not sure what you're thinking of. If it's large I might finally have to start optimizing :)
Can it run executables compiled for Ubuntu?
Not necessarily saying the electric guitar isn't dying, but the economic argument isn't very convincing. There are a lot of guitars in the world now and we keep making more, consequently people aren't prepared to spend as much money on them. The people who are willing and able to spend $1000 on a new Les Paul or USA Strat are an aging generation for sure, but maybe their grandchildren are just playing guitars that cost $200 instead? You can get a pretty decent guitar for peanuts these days - I bought a perfectly playable strat copy for like $40 (actually 30GBP) off Ebay a while ago, with a (small, tinny) amp thrown in.

I've been expecting the death of the electric guitar since the '80s, but it seems surprisingly resilient.

Edit: In addition, although I'm incredibly old and don't claim to have my finger on the pulse of the zeitgeist, it seems to me that in the post White Stripes era playing shitty second user equipment is widely considered cooler than playing expensive new equipment.
Is good having C into WebAssembly, but is there a compiler to compile WebAssembly into C?
Dayguard – CSS Regression plugin for NightwatchJS
I feel like you're mistaking my dislike of the lack of control in the current system for an "it was better before!".

We had more control before, but I'm not dismissing that the same "before" carried less features, less security etc. I don't disagree with you there. But you're making it sound like disabling problematic behaviour is as easy as "wading through a little blogspam"; it's not. I've waded through a lot of blogspam and still haven't been able to fully disable unattended upgrades on my W10 box. I have a "Compatibility telemetry" program which is supposedly disabled systemwide yet regularly caps out my bandwidth.

This PC is just a gaming PC and it's barely usable as one. I certainly wouldn't be able to make it my workstation. I'm not complaining because, hey, I got a good alternative in Linux but I think you shouldn't be dismissing what is causing people to seek out things like this Kiosk edition.
We are hunting wooly mammoths at an unsustainable rate. It means we are overpopulated for our level of technology. We need to switch to domestication of animals and agriculture.
There is a nice competency matrix for that: http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
This I'll never understand. You're blaming others for being selfish yet ask that they participate furthering causes you believe in. You're asking others to do your work for you!

Nay I say! Free will - or the ability to be as useless as one wants - is one of the very few beautiful things in this world and a basic human right.

I shall not bow to your wicked ways! I shall continue to be completely useless until the last of my breaths! I will self-terminate when and how I please!
California Father Buries Wrong Man After Coroner's Mistake
Ah, had not quite caught your point as you had phrased it (and that by the time I answered your post was difficult to read for me, as for some downvotes it was printed in a very light font). Then we fully agree.
BrownU Study: Wars in Iraq, Afghanistan cost almost $5 trillion so far (2016)
Very easy to follow explanation. Thank you for the responses.
Mods, thanks for changing the title. It was screwing with the layout on mobile.
A more apt description would be "Slash was the last famous guitarist that non guitar players would probably ever remember being mentioned in the popular press".

It's along the same lines of saying "McDonalds is the fast food most people have heard of" or "BASIC is the most common programming language that everyone has heard of, so it must be the best".

Within each sub-culture, there are dedicated fans that go deeper and have a set of idols that they look up to. I can readily identify fellow guitar players (AND the genre of music they prefer) by mentioning names like Joe Bonamassa, Doyle Bramhall II, Brad Paisley etc. Blank stares just mean that the person is not involved in the guitar world at all. Someone who gets excited when I mention Paisley, I know is into the pop/country stuff.

I've heard people write off John Mayer as a 'non guitarist' even on guitar forums, but when I show them this clip [0] and tell them to come back to me when they have mastered playing that particular off beat riff and sing the melody at the same time, like he does, then I will gladly pay them $10. My money has been safe in my wallet for years.

[0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DfQC5qHhbo
The Unicode CLDR has a whole database of formatted strings for each locale, for more or less the reason you describe. Formatting dates or big numbers (12345 -> 12.3k) is impossible to achieve without a generic formatting language.

Pluralization is another nightmare of its own. Look into how Russian and similar languages pluralize. It has to do with the value of the number modulo 10, similar to English ordinals.

CLDR: http://cldr.unicode.org/
Not only that. Many diets are not sustainable - you can't keep them long term and perform well enough on work. They work by keeping you with low energy which affects your performance. Plus you are miserable practicaly constantly while keeping them.

The other reason is that they alter how your body works - meaning it is much easier to gain weight after dieting then before. You body adjusts to hunger by making fat reserves asap.
When translating a fixed set of messages, you translate the entire phrase, not individual words. So the keys would be "high difficulty" and "high resolution".
Seems like it's trendy to hate the NSA. It gets conflated with an anti-authoritarian mindset. I wish smart people would gain some perspective - I got some by reading Bamford's books and a new one by Fred Kaplan - Dark Territories, about NSAs painful move to cyber. Some key points:

* All the great powers have NSA equivalents. Meaning they play offence and defense in crypto, RF, and cyber. We (USA) can impose restrictions on our NSA but not on anyone else's. Our exploit-riddled networks are a playground for American, Russian and Chinese cyber warriors - and probably many others.

* In cyber, offense and defense become the same. Kaplan's book covers this. So a smart country seeks cyber-superiority. The more we hamper NSA, the more we empower foreign cyber-warriors.

* The focus has moved from RF to cyber. Giant antennas are far less important and giant datacenters are the new stars. Vacuuming up packets is less alarming when you understand we've been vacuuming up radio and telephone signals for decades. When comsats were important, NSA was vacuuming up their downlinks. When international telegrams were punched on paper tape, NSA's predecessors picked up the tape each day.

* The US has tried going "NSA-less". It happened in 1929 under the slogan "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail". That noble slogan led to the US operating at a disadvantage in the lead up to WWII. It doesn't pay to fly blind.

* Fear of an overreaching state is always justified; however we should focus that fear more on how NSA shares data than how it acquires it. For instance fusion centers: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/04/why-fusion-centers-mat...
I've always assigned it pretty low probability on the basis that we have no examples of infinite objects existing.
Taken into consideration. Though this doesn't speak to the specific analysis of TLDs referenced here.
I am a native English speaker. What you say would benefit me. Having everyone else do everything in English would be great, for me. So I neither downvoted you nor contested what you were saying because I "didn't want to hear it"; I did because your post was exclusionary and wrong.
Photos made with a Pixel may be part of the Chromecast wallpapers
Slightly off-topic: The Mindmap looks pretty cool. Does somebody know which technology he used for that?
> The way GHC currently compiles is to first reduce Haskell to a Core language, which is a minimal subset of Haskell, in some sense.

GHC Core is not a subset of Haskell, it's just a simplification of it. The same thing but explained with fewer words (constructors).

That being said, we completely agree that Spineless Tagless G-Machine is full of badassery. Just imagine being able to reduce any Haskell app to, like, 8 different instructions. Something about that fascinates me, even though I'm not quite sure what it is.
Given the risk/reward of, oh, say, finding my systems hosed or users scammed and/or bank accounts drained, vs. missing out on someone's link shortener, I think I'll err on the side of caution.

This being an assessment based on local awareness of circumstances.
And yet ironically suicide is also illegal, and many states don't even have half-way decent right-to-die laws for those with terminal illness.

http://www.everything-game.com personally helped me see more value in life. It actually got me thinking that maybe having children wasn't the worst idea in the world.

Edit: for me personally, I get a lot out of helping people. I try to help people get better jobs and move out to Silicon Valley. I've done this for about half a dozen friends now, and all of them have had a great experience with it. I don't get any financial benefit from it; it's just great to see my friends doing "better" in life and to see them happier / more fulfilled. Same with my exes; I never truly understood why people can be so cruel to people they once loved. I'm happy for any way I've helped people I have loved and I have no desire to try to take anything away from them, even if some of them did shitty things to me. I can only hope that they got something out of it / learned from the bad parts.

So yeah, there's a suggestion for anyone reading this: if you want to try to feel better about being alive, help one of your friends get a better job. Teach them what you know or just help them get their foot in the door if you're in a position to do so.
Blah, how did I forget XLIFF? Unlike a lot of OASIS specs I think it seems pretty reasonable and alright, but I've never actually seen it implemented anywhere (games or general startup-y web stuff). I'm glad you brought it up, though, because it did slip my mind. =)
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This site doesn't like jokey comments, so how are pointless jokey links tolerated? It's not like the linked to site is making a serious point in a light hearted way.
Where do you see high-rise, dense urban industrial development in Mountain View?
These are all lame attempts to 'hack' nation development. If the country is so broken that flush toilets are 'not an option' there, go and fix the government (that might require a few JDAMs), civil society, and only then, infrastructure will follow. Don't try to fix consequence not touching the cause.
Very little? More like none.
And even the same phrase may get a different translation at a different place, depending on context.
I went to a presentation by a company that dealt with translation, he mentioned this issue and his recommendation was to simply not try to be smart with it and have separate strings where pluralisation is done properly in each one.
Good point. My only experience with translation is with logging messages in systems where everything is contained within a single statement.
What Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Really Means
That's a fairly standard tactic.

[T]he universities were given the task of providing an unceasing supply of ideologically correct candidates for vital positions in government, church and business. The state was able to make the faculties of the "'venerable institutions'" of higher education, or rather indoctrination, assume this duty because it controlled appointments and held the purse from which "emoluments" flowed into the coffers of academics. Hence the members of the university "hierarchy" made it their "business, the business for which they . .. [were] paid," to "uphold certain political as well as religious opinions," namely those of the "ruling powers of the state" (Mill 1981: 429: and 1988b: 350). Thus the universities pursued with vigor their assignment to inculcate in their students those political and ideological views that were cherished by the power elite. The graduates of the ancient universities were, therefore, well prepared for employment in, and by, those institutions that were instrumental in perpetuating the existing maldistribution of income. All of this might come to naught, however, if the masses of the underclass should achieve anything approaching success in potential attempts at throwing off their fetters.

Hans E. Jensen, "John Stuart Mill's Theories of Wealth and Income Distribution". Review of Social Economy, Pages 491-507 | Published online: 05 Nov 2010

DOI: 10.1080/00346760110081599

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00346760110081599

Refs:

Mill, J. S. (1981) Autobiography and Literary Essays.

Mill, J. S. (1988b) Journals and Debating Speeches.
Is it just me, or are HN links increasingly often to material behind paywalls?
People can start producing more wealth per worker. Despite shrinking workforce, Japan's GDP per capita keeps growing since 2009 (the world crisis made a large dent in the chart in 2008-09).
Who Americans spend their time with
Is this a personal theory or do you have referernces or citations on this?

Asking as I'm curious. And have arrived at somewhat similar conclusions.

I'd also note that science suffered under the handicap that it was difficult to conduct with tools available at the time. And that the matter of questioning dogma itself was considered heretical -- see the case of Giordano Bruno, for example, if you want to get all fired up.
Edge Cases for Self Driving Cars
x86 offerings are so cheap now, is there still a market for this kind of ARM hosting? I would argue that you will achieve at least equivalent performance from an entry level KVM or Xen VM.

Perhaps there is still a market for the security concious or workloads sensitive to noisy neighbours.

Somewhat of a tangent - although not small scale, I have found the packet.net 96 core ARM offering to be good value.