skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the scheme completely falls down without new investors, and the solution to having fewer investors than expected is to reduce the payout, I don't see how it isn't just a Ponzi scheme with extra steps.

As an anecdote, I've tried to search opinions disagreeing with me, looking for an explanation on how SS isn't a Ponzi scheme; but the all the arguments I've found boil down to "it has worked so far", "it is well-intentioned" and "people investing into it are not being intentionally misled".

Without having most people lose money on their investment (by dying earlier than the projected age when calculating pension), I fail to see how it can work out as anything else than a pyramid scheme.
The future is here: http://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/878821062326198272

> Flying with larger & significantly upgraded hypersonic grid fins. Single piece cast & cut titanium. Can take reentry heat with no shielding.
Better is really the wrong word. It's certainly cheaper to only support IE11 than IE11 and Edge.

IE11 is my employer's officially supported browser. We have some dusty decks ahem legacy websites that require it. The legal industry is generally behind the times - there are still many court and government websites that require Java.

We have two types of end users. People who care use Chrome and people who don't use IE.

Here is some of the additional work that Edge required.

Testing all of the internal web applications with Edge.
Testing hundreds of business critical websites with Edge.
Testing our intranet with Edge.

We use Enterprise Mode to redirect sites that are not compatible with Edge.

The results of all of this work is a browsing experience that is more confusing than IE on our Windows 7 image. It is easy for users to confuse Edge for IE and I expect that to cause support tickets for the foreseeable future.
To address a couple of concerns:

- "running your own blockchain based messaging/mai server would be a nightmare because of spam". I think spam can actually be solved by using blockchains: given the low conversion rates in spamming, putting a small cost for sending a message can discourage spammers. Take this even further: put a variable cost to it - a higher cost for the first messages which would drop exponentially when the recipient engages in the discussion, taking it toward 0. I've never heard of this before, maybe I'll make an ICO to implement this. If you're doing it before me, I'll gladly accept some of your issued coins (my non blockchain email is in my profile)

- "blockchain apps are not scalable". Indeed, given the current algorithms they're not scalable. But it's about web scale scalable. How many apps need to be web scale level scalable and what about the rest 99% of the others? Also when we'll have a functional implementation of lightning network this might be a solved problem.
DUPE & FLAGGED ( 3 days ago ) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14613268

DUPE, NOT FLAGGED ( 3 days ago) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14613658

DUPES, NOT FLAGGED ( 2 days ago)

DUPE 1 => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14616057

DUPE 2 => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14615825
Compressing, then expanding air, so this is the same principle as a fridge uses with freon (ok, not freon any more), on a much gentler scale, with much-lesser-but-still-useful results.
I'm not suggesting a substance will solve all your problems. I'm saying in my case, it gave me contrast.
How is this top of hacker news???
How the creative deceptions of the Ghost Army helped win WWII [video]
I lost ~60 lbs on a keto diet, but every stat was unsafe, and I felt awful in ways I'd never felt before.
Should we be proud of this type of achievement? I wonder.
"It's actually the type of applications Apple has indicated are going to be banned from the store over the coming months"

What do you mean by that? can you elaborate?, I haven't heard of any such thing and am very interested to find out more.
Mihai Eugen Marinescu
Or anywhere you can install the GNUstep toolkit.
I never knew the cofounders of Reddit were first on to building something else. That part just still makes me wonder what would have happened if Paul Graham had not accepted them and they would have kept working on the first idea. Life and luck work in mysterious ways I guess.
Contemporary accounts of the Underground during the coal era vividly describe it as uncomfortably hot (and dark).
The Chinese fleet was a Chinese fleet. Of course, China wasn't under Han leadership, but yes, it was China. You're ruled by those you are ruled by and it's strange to equate Chinese citizenship just with the Han, who didn't magically come to be spread over such a large territory, they conquered it.

Re Tibet - you think Mao was a foreigner, or just someone who was too strange to be counted as Chinese either?
A relevant excerpt from the article. Leaving aside the well-known problems with the material and prohibitions against using it in this type of application -- in the U.S. and elsewhere -- this was the state of regulation, experience, and response in Britain post-2000:

Business-friendly governments in Britain — first under Labor and then under the Conservatives — campaigned to pare back regulations. A 2005 law known as the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order ended a requirement for government inspectors to certify that buildings had met fire codes, and shifted instead to a system of self-policing. Governments adopted slogans calling for the elimination of at least one regulation for each new one that was imposed, and the authorities in charge of fire safety took this to heart.

“If you think more fire protection would be good for U.K. business, then you should be making the case to the business community, not the government,” Brian Martin, the top civil servant in charge of drafting building-safety guidelines, told an industry conference in 2011, quoting the fire minister then, Bob Neill. (“Should we be looking to regulate further? ‘No’ would be my answer,’” Mr. Neill added.)

Mr. Martin, a former surveyor for large-scale commercial projects like the Canary Wharf, told his audience to expect few new regulations because the prime minister at the time, David Cameron, wanted to greatly reduce the burden on industry, according to a report by the conference organizers.

Two years later, in 2013, a coroner questioned Mr. Martin about the application of building regulations in the case of another London fire, which killed six people and injured 15 others at a public housing complex called Lakanal House. Mr. Martin defended the existing regulations, including the lack of a requirement for meaningful fire resistance in the paneling on the outside of an apartment tower.

A questioner told him that the public might be “horrified” to learn that the rules permitted the use of paneling that could spread flames up the side of a building in as little as four-and-a-half minutes. “I can’t predict what the public would think,” Mr. Martin replied, “but that is the situation.”

Moving to a requirement that the exterior of a building be “noncombustible,” Mr. Martin said, “limits your choice of materials quite significantly.”

After the coroner’s report, a cross-party coalition of members of Parliament petitioned government ministers to reform the regulations, including adding automatic sprinklers and revisiting the standards for cladding. “Today’s buildings have a much higher content of readily available combustible material,” the group wrote in a letter sent in December 2015 that specifically cited the risk of chemicals in “cladding.”

“This fire hazard results in many fires because adequate recommendations to developers simply do not exist. There is little or no requirement to mitigate external fire spread,” added the letter, which was first reported last week by the BBC.
Yes.

Mind that if I want to access a site, I can do so by using one of several proxies. E.g., archive.is or the like.

The blocks are, in that sense, soft, but strongly advisory.

I'm also increasingly blocking just straight-up shit sites, as well as a large number of advertising and monitoring sites, via standard blocklists (mostly based off uBlock / uMatrix's lists).
Impressions after Vue Conf 2017
Testing with more nodes is definitely on the horizon, that's the main reason for the zoom (besides being visually interesting). Can you suggest a good data set?

You may have to tap on the text box to get the edit to work and engage your keyboard, the auto focus seems to work only about half the time on Firefox for Android so I expect it is problematic on various browsers.

Thanks for the feedback!
My poloniex account hacked and the hacked took away my fortune what can be done?
He played game strongly. He didnt withdraw as email for confirmation comes to my gmail.

He bought costly coins which no one buys and then put sell order for pennies and put purchase order from his other accounts :(

What can be done? Poloniex issue id: 269254 they never reply to your query in time.

Lesson learnt do enable 2FA in poloniex. Do not assume if your email has 2FA poloniex doesnt need.
Defining undefined behavior is very different from eliminating it. Every time a compiler compiles code that could potentially invoke UB, it defines what the UB means in that context.

If you make the specific way the compiler handles certain cases of UB part of the spec (e.g. overflow wraps around, who cares about sign-magnitude anyway?), then programmers using that compiler can rely on these specifics to write code that does something sensible even when UB is invoked.
what is there to surveil about wikimedia? aren't all articles public and even IP of non registered users?

this seem like something to justify showing those donation requests in your face, despite Wikipedia drowning in money
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
I'd love to get your insights on marketing, actually. A friend and I have started a YouTube channel which we're getting back to this next few weeks.

Any reading tips and ideas on marketing?
you mean making huge profits from donations?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12...
Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (2009)
This:

secure.verylegit.link/warez737speedupurpc.gif.pdf

(example from site) doesn't look dodgy to me at all.

I'd have no qualms clicking on it, because my browser and I can handle suspicious websites. (Especially ones ending pdf.)

Something that would give pause would be:

https://tinyurl.com/2ea2mu4?command=127.0.0.1/activate

I would think...wait a minute... I probably wouldn't click this example.
Yep, the commit history in the old repo goes back to 2008: https://code.google.com/archive/p/evoluspencil/source/defaul...
Learning an instrument requires commitment and a lot of practice. And more practice. And more practice. And a lifetime of learning.

How many people have the patience for that? Particularly in Generation Internet Points Right Now?
Calories aren't directly related to arousal to my knowledge, aside from needing to feed ones self.

My point being: you're ignoring obvious benefits by hyperbolizing having a piece of toast to put something in your stomach before leaving the house.
That has more to do with the propaganda apparatus of producers and promoters cherry-picking virtuosos and taking them on a fame ride to demonstrate the miracle unicorn lotteries of capitalism's permissive pop culture, when contrasted against the typical realities of the meritocracy-oriented communist worker.
> Every new query is a new connection

> users are a connection level concept

That is not true. There are users in the db that do not have login privileges.

PostgREST connects in with only one user (authenticator), then for each authenticated request it does `set local role alice` within a transaction, where alice is a db user with no login privileges.
Yes you can.

At the point that your in "leadership" it isn't about doing it is about providing the tools for others to DO. Good leaders remove distractions, focus on the heath of the group (and the individuals within) act as a contact point and a buffer from outsiders.

Can being technical help. It depends. Stable products, well established domains (with experienced people) don't need deep technical knowledge to deal with the day to day. However, if you systems can be described as a disaster, if you having major issues all the time, a leader with technical chops is going to be of benefit. You want an empathetic manager when the shit hits the fan not a sympathetic one.
Seems to be (sooty) ice or condensation, always happens around that time in the landing videos we've seen.
What about a Sierpinski triangle?
Wow, that seems really promising. Thanks!
judging from the link you provided is more like 5000000TH/s so you lost one zero
Just an anecdote, but I think it was a good thing in some cases to "shove the update down people's throats". I help my in-laws with their PC, and they were struggling with windows 8. I told them to update (before the free offer expired), but wasn't there in person to do it, and they didn't manage. A few weeks later, they asked why the PC now looks different... They accidentally did update :-) and they liked it now better, the only complaint was that you have to click once before logging in. So I guess different people, different needs.

Myself, I just clicked "don't remind me again" on the windows 10 reminder screen, and was not bothered anymore, until I decided to upgrade manually. But maybe the program was differently aggressive in different countries (I live in Germany)?
His advice is to work on things you enjoy. The more you enjoy it, the more you learn. Cliche as it may be, it's still very sound advice.
In previous versions (XP-8.1?) there was Windows Embedded which is designed to be used in kiosks, POS systems, ATMs, etc. However that has now been renamed Windows IoT Enterprise which is apparently based on LTSB.
Is it just me, or does it seem kind of weird that there is a link to another article about how the blasts of compressed air used to make these maps kills a great many creatures.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/seismic-survey-ai...
Being sad and feeling such things isn't a bad thing. There's got to be a balance to everything.
Lots of them. There are tons and tons of pretty incredible guitarists, young and old, male and female, all over youtube. None of them are blowing up huge with original work, but they can cover well-known tunes impecably.

Search for guitar licks and chord sweeps, and follow a few different branches of linked playlists offered up in the sidebar.
This seems to install a pretty 'good' win10 version:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10s...

I had a Lenovo S500 dektop that I just reinstalled. Non-SSd. I was getting a '100% disk usage' issue right of the bat. I installed 'windows10startfresh' and now it's pretty sweet - pc is not slow, and such. The 'windows10startfresh' installs windows without all the lenovo crud apparently.
> During interviews if an interviewer asked me technical questions and s/he was going to be my reporting manager

When I first read this, I thought it was a fairly odd stance to take. However, I realized that I ask non technical questions that should lead to somewhat technical answers.
Why would chasing love affairs provide good returns on investment?
I did this course a while back just when I was getting started on my self-taught journey. I'd highly recommend this over Harvard's CS50 or MIT's intro course. This has great coverage of how a computer program works, without being too pedantic.
As someone who wrote a reasonable amount of assembler, my first exposure to RISC (SPARC) nearly blew my mind; so easy to learn and much less struggle to write well. I never understood the attachment to arcane ISAs.
Interesting.

I have no definitive source, my understanding came from a conversation with a typographer 10+ years ago.

A little digging around suggests that receipt was in use in English (meaning list of ingredients) both in the culinary and pharmaceutical sense from the 14th century, and recipe was introduced a couple of hundred years later. Both, of course, from the same Latin root.
One other interesting problem with localization involves the use of printf. Even if you're looking up strings based on IDs in another file (which is a good pattern), sometimes you'll need to move things around based on language. For example, if you're doing right to left languages, you might put the number before, or after the string, and the other way for left to right languages. So like ("%d %s" vs "%s %d").

The way that we got around this was adding another level of indirection, and putting printf format strings also as localized data.
I think the purpose is just some good old harmless fun.
When you peak as the most popular instrument in the world and get tons of obsessive people to collect/hoard instruments, there's only one way to go from that peak. Thinking the downturn is death is worthless hype.
pdf and dmg are already pretty scary.
How can robocaller keep the call running if party on another end ended the call?
App Store Link: MiniHack => https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/minihack-hacker-news-client/...
That's 200x performance in relation to what?
As long as we're talking slow death and electric guitars, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EL3pP29N-Wc.
???

Jack White

John Mayer

Are they on the list?
A lot of the praises of Flutter in the article can be said about Tk. I guess I ought to have a look.
They provide a valuable service, it's better to see them thrive than be close to failure.
> I'd say that is "somewhat clear"; it's still relying on implicit communication. Far better IMO would be "I'm not interested in a romantic/intimate/sexual relationship with you.". Just saying you have a partner is not as clear; maybe your'e the sort that hops around, or has an open relationship or is turned on by infidelity; if a person thinks you're flirting with them but they mention a current sexual partner you might imagine that you're just being warned to keep things clandestine or being told to compete.

If you hit on someone, and they respond "I have a boyfriend" full stop, then unless they're taking their clothes off as they say it, there is zero chance that they mean anything but "I am not interested in your advances."

And, frankly, there's no reason to tell yourself otherwise unless you're planning on sexually harassing that person.
But the fact that we can conceive of it, and that God can create it, does not mean that he did, does it?

I could conceive of another God that is able to destroy God. And since I can conceive of this, then God can create it - but it does not mean that he did.

I could conceive of God just doing nothing, and never creating anything in history eternal. But surely he has created something.

I guess I wonder about can vs did
What do people have to hide with any 'public' metadata?

This argument you're using with Wikipedia is basically the same one US government is making that this metadata information is public so they should be free to vacuum all of it up, including Americans. Even though we would never allow the police, or basically anyone else, to tap this at will and this information only exists in private pipes that must be tapped.

The leaked documents have shown a lot of this metadata included data that was included in unsecured HTTP POST headers, such as the multitude of mobile apps that broadcast user information over clear text, such as the various examples in PowerPoint screens shots of real 'metadata' that showed GPS coordinates being pinged back to servers via HTTP along with email addresses.

We can pretend all we want that this is public data because these sites are access publicly but any basic level of analysis into what 'metadata' contains it's quite obvious this doesn't hold up. Especially considering it includes individual interactions with web servers with private data.

You may not care about your private interactions with Wikipedia being scanned and stored in databases forever, but it's hardly just Wikipedia and I'm happy that Wikimedia is standing up against this stuff for all people.

It's not too much to ask to hold security services to the same privacy standards we've held all government agencies for two centuries.
Just wanted to pipe in and agree that Linux desktop (e.g. Mate) is very nice.
Cloudtrail and config buckets should be in a separate account with no access at all (besides root) otherwise an attacker can delete the cloudtrail logs and you have no idea what he did
They're famous, and they play guitar, but they aren't famous for their guitar playing

"fell in love with a girl" is an awesome song but not so challenging to play:

https://youtu.be/95HRZ2SLMJk
How about who reads which articles, like who checks out which books from a library?
It's quite interesting to me that you can find homeostasis in physiological systems, but not in social systems, where runaway effects prevail. And seemingly a more robust social system would create a tendency for people to reach a more stable social state rather then continue to descend in a downward spiral.

(BTW the "negative feedback" loop mentioned in this topic is technically still a positive feedback, because the effects of the cause produces more of the cause. True negative feedback creates a counteractive force that promotes equilibrium- it has nothing to do with emotional negativity)
I think it's a bit naive to believe that guitar heroes can bring the interest for the guitar back. People look back at the guitar heroes time with a nostalgic fondness for a time that doesn't exist anymore. This was already visible in Wayne's world and became more than obvious in school of rock. Guitar-heavy rock has become a geek genre. Pop has moved on.

There are obviously various reasons for this:
1. Technologically the instrument ran its course. While the tech was still innovative in the 90s with the new digital effects, it hasn't changed much in 20 years.
2. Electronic music however has brought in a lot of new sounds that gave pop music a fresh start in the 2000s
3. People seem to be more interested in 2 things: dancing and lyrics. You could write songs with totally inintelligible lyrics and a good solo, and you'd have a hit. I don't think that's true anymore. Similarly a solo kind of ruins the dancing.

I think die hard rock fans need to get over it, guitar heroes are not coming back any time soon. I don't think it means the electric guitar is going to die. It still is an amazingly cool instrument. But, it means that your average kid may not want to try to play that "ten years after" intro anymore.
Sure. But we have to accord it a pretty high probability, at least 50%. So this uncertainty doesn't really effect much.
DUPE's DUPE ( 1 day ago) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14621515

DUPE ( 2 days ago) => https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14617079
This has been around a lot longer than Apple's products.
So a connection that doesn't exist cam hardly be encrypted now can it? Scnr

But yeah I noticed this trend too in browsers, it's getting harder to get to the technical bits every time they try to make these warnings more user friendly. I usually switch to openssl s_client in a terminal at this point.
I'm not sure I agree - at least they didn't fight each other for a few years and eventually both get passed up, like the 56k modem chip fiasco. Apple moved forward and still did OK. They might have "lost", but they also avoided a protracted and potentially self-defeating fight.
It's a good idea, but too limited in scope. Everyone should have the ability to inspect the source code of the software they use. At the very least, government-used software should be accompanied with source code for potential independent audit.

Transparency is a dependency of trust.
The difference between your approach and mine is that you propose to solve it by making rules (regulations), as opposed to adding a separate party that can absorb risk (insurance), thus shielding a creative industry -- software development -- from adhering to a list of rules, which surely will only grow in size.
That rings true. Queen bees
People have a sense of humor, and this is a fantastic meta joke. Why so serious?
Hyperproductive development