skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fight for control of Bitcoin. It is business interests on both sides fighting for a position of authority. SegWit2x is an attempt to remove control from the core dev team, which while technically strong is full of zealots with questionable motives and terrible management skills. Bitcoin ABC and Unlimited have their own parts to play as factions. It's getting tense, but it's been years in the making. Groups unwilling to compromise on the most basic points. I suspect that SegWit2x will end up taking over the network, but I'd rather see a pure large block faction like Bitcoin ABC. Either way the core developers are going to lose control of a 40 billion dollar network, possibly one of the biggest fails in modern technology. They will be left on a minority chain which will have little relevance going forward. I've said it before but anyone who put money into Blockstream has to seriously be wondering what the hell they are doing, there CEO should have been kicked out a long time ago, he has no relevant experience to actually running an organization and has royally messed it up.
So my view is, demonstrated by your examples, is you need to use critical thinking and be skeptical in all aspects of life e.g. relationships, work, education, politics, health and especially ads. I don't think anyone goes through life just believing everything they're told.

All communications have an element of truth, bias and maybe manipulation (intentional or not). I don't see how an ad presenting a product in the best possible light (keeping in mind most countries have regulations about ads being misleading which I strongly agree with) is much worse than information encountered from other places. Obviously I'm against manipulative, inaccurate or deceitful ads though.

I mean are you trying to imply most ads are manipulative? Deceptive? Most ads I can think of recently are along the lines of "check out our new product/features" or "our product will save you time and money". I really just don't see what the big deal is.

Show HN posts will make claims about how they'll benefit you and try to charm you with branding. I specifically see trends of apps telling you that their app is "beautiful" for instance which I don't like... Anyway, I don't see anything wrong with people trying to sell their work to you or what you're suppose to do differently.
I'm having weird issues myself downloading my own tracks that are hosted on soundcloud. When I login as myself even though I have set my songs to be able to be downloaded I can't. For one song I was able to log off and log back in and download that one but I was unable to do it for another.
IP != Internet

Yes, much traffic does traverse on IP now - but its private tightly controlled networks.
That depends on what the point is. The question that's being examined is how content fits into the strategic model of Google/Apple/Facebook etc., which broadly speaking is how do you stop users from switching to competing products.

An individual's desire to consume content is not a differentiator/strategic advantage for any one company. Why is it really hard to build a successful new social network, search engine or smartphone platform? Because Facebook has the network effect, Google search is a superior product as it's improved each day by its 100 of millions of users and Apple has a vertically integrated ecosystem that locks users into using an iPhone.
IIRC USPS has been making deals with the same devil for decades, way before the current generation of budget crises started. While they are not getting all the funding they want IMO they are not using what they get well enough.

Their disdain for technology and ignoring end user desires is phenomenal (send an overnight package via FedEx, see it by the minute as the package travels; send an overnight via USPS, see "no record for package" until 24-36 hrs later by which time the package is usually delivered already). This IMO costs them a lot of potentially highly profitable business. But they do not (seem to) care.
Yes they are against TOS. Usually only mom and pop shops have a policy. No one enforces it, though. The reason is there's usually a base charge..like $.30 + a percentage fee like 3%.

So if you buy a $1 soda, that mom and pop store just lost 30% of their revenue, plus 3%, and maybe sold that soda at a lost to you.

For places like McDonalds, they negotiate much better credit card processing fees and I don't care - plus they make a lot of money anyways.
It's called hedging bets. That's how you become an established player.
Got a source to back up this assertion?

My experience tells me otherwise.
How Microsoft Brought SQL Server to Linux
A group I was in had a bunch of fun with Boss Monster. It worked well with three or four people, and might have with more.
sure, check this out fam http://web-engineering.info/node/57
Plausible deniability? Since there's an other way for somebody in the wild to have had access to the key without IP violation you could claim that you never leaked the file in the first place.

Of course it's one of these smartass "hacker technicalities" that may not hold much water in a court of law.
Based on selectorate theory [1, lending to broken governments promotes cronies over the general population. Unfortunately, the alternative (waiting and watching) involves risking complete state collapse. Weighing the evils of the latter, i.e. the lessons from World War II, against the evils of the former, i.e. our present condition of sclerotic autocrats propped up by outsiders fearing outright anarchy, is tricky.

This analysis does not appear to do that. Instead, it just measures the cost of being conservative with anarchy risk. The counterfactual (letting those governments collapse through hyperinflation, foreign and/or domestic default and/or austerity and the resulting civil strife) could be better or could be worse, and estimating it will involve lots of speculation. But it deserves to be explored.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectorate_theory
+1 for Coup. It's easy to teach and very fast.
You can see the list if you go to the FTC's Do Not Call site here:

https://complaints.donotcall.gov/complaint/complaintcheck.as...

Then click Continue and view the list named: "What was the call about?".
Also wondering if it's time to sell mine. Already sold like 70%...
Yep, I prefer to buy music through Bandcamp as well. DRM-free lossless FLAC is the best.
Experienced programmers produce security vulnerabilities in garbage-collected languages. Experienced programmers produce security vulnerabilities in languages that don't even do parallelism.

When someone goes on about how Rust's weak "guarantees"[0] on memory safety and data races are going to make code "secure," I don't know how to politely respond to that level of delusion.

[0] 'unsafe' blocks and the non-Rust world everything has to tie-into
> You are the product of TV.

Off topic of course, but there is a deeper double meaning there -- that your your personality, preferences, hopes, dreams are shaped by the media you consume. Things like what you think success is, what you think happiness is, heroism, kindness, friendship etc many of those things were shaped by the movies you saw, books your read, games you played.

It's common to hear that "you are what you eat". That's true at the physical level of course. But this is also true that "you are the media you consume".

Now to the topic at hand. I think any totalitarian or brutal government regime would salivate getting access to the data people freely and voluntarily share with Google and Facebook. Imagine a combination of a Stalin's regime and Facebook as a partnership. Or Google working with the Stasi. It's hyperbolic to make that connection today, but with things like watching this happening: http://fortune.com/2017/05/24/mark-zuckerberg-disrupt-for-pr... we are getting just a bit closer to it. People are wondering why a tech guy like me doesn't have a Facebook account and that's one of the reasons.
Deep Learning for Real Time Crime Forecasting
Ask HN: My Startup – OneDollarUber
I am working on a web app that crowdfunds money for Uber and Lyft rides from members. From the money, it provides certain number of rides free every month. HN Community, please I will like to know your thought? Link to site is www.onedollaruber.com
> What else would they be motivated by?

The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc

Based on studies done at MIT and other universities, higher pay and bonuses resulted in better performance ONLY if the task consisted of basic, mechanical skills. It worked for problems with a defined set of steps and a single answer. If the task involved cognitive skills, decision-making, creativity, or higher-order thinking, higher pay resulted in lower performance. As a supervisor, you should pay employees enough that they are not focused on meeting basic needs and feel that they are being paid fairly. If you don’t pay people enough, they won’t be motivated. Pink suggests that you should pay enough “to take the issue of money off the table.”

To motivate employees who work beyond basic tasks, give them these three factors to increase performance and satisfaction:

Autonomy — Our desire to be self directed. It increases engagement over compliance.

Mastery — The urge to get better skills.

Purpose — The desire to do something that has meaning and is important. Businesses that only focus on profits without valuing purpose will end up with poor customer service and unhappy employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive:_The_Surprising_Truth_Ab...
While it may have made sense to exchange the "Slide Rule Reference Scales" images as a ZIP archive of 700-pixel-wide GIF images in 1999, this seems like the type of project that's begging to be encoded as an SVG. Or a PDF as in some of the examples.

I wonder how much error is introduced by storing these as pixel-aligned GIFs?
Learnerbly secures £1.6M led by Frontline Ventures
CSS Architecture with ReactJS
Seems I didn't express myself precisely enough. I am not advocating jumping on every alternative cure. My comment was about people outright dismissing the guy who wrote that he got his hay fever controlled with supplements. Then they added comments that it would have gone anyway. In short, they dismissed someone's experience without listening any further which I think is wrong.

It's also wrong to reflexively dismiss any kind of treatment that's not in medical textbooks. See my comment about meditation. When I started meditating it had the the status of voodoo shit. But now they are coming around.
Jesus H Christ..

People are too f'in litteral, first

Unlimited === Store everything every created

PERSONAL in the context of the discussion would include documents created by a person in general course of business, my point is very clearly and only pedantic trolls do not understand the meaning of point I was attempting to address.

Business use would be for the business that signed up for the service, not for storing an entire copy of SoundCloud
Why not S3 and Cloudfront or equivalent?
You can't invest in a Cryptocurrency. It's called gambling.

edit: autocorrect.
Are you chilling right now? Contextualizing Music Recommendations
interchange can be pretty high, especially for premium reward cards. what changed recently was interchange on debit cards (which used to be much higher in the US). this is why debit issuers no longer offer any real sort of "points" or cashback on debit. and why debit and cash users essentially subsidize credit card users in the US
Trademarks show Amazon has sights on meal-kits and other fast food options
Investment (in blockchain tech) by major players does not (in and of itself) prove that they feel threatened by Bitcoin. Blockchain tech can have utility to those players outside of Bitcoin.
I want an example of a case where a small software company successfully litigated a patent lawsuit against a huge company like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, etc. Preferably one where the instigator of the lawsuit was legitimately defending something novel and innovative. This is subjective, of course, and I tend to come down on the side of software not being something that should be patentable...but, it is patentable, so there are patents, so I'm asking: where are the lawsuits brought by small companies that are actually in the business they've patented and have sued a huge company?

You've made it sound like it happens all the time. I've been in the tech industry for two decades, and I can't think of any (though I'm sure they must exist). I assumed you had some cases in mind when you made the comment earlier, and I wondered what it was. I'm not demanding you go search for such a case. But, absent some sort of example, I'm gonna continue to assume it (almost) never happens.
just divide it into subprojects and tackle them individually :P it sounds like a dashboard tool with gadgets that you can build with time
I've never understood Apple's lack of prioritization for the gaming market. Weren't games critical (albeit not as much as VisiCalc perhaps) to the Apple ]['s success? Looking at the iOS App Store, games seem to be far and away the most active and best-selling category with almost more subcategories than all the other non-game categories combined.

That said, it's nice that we're experiencing a renaissance in indie game development, which seems to rely more on cross-platform frameworks like Unity. It's possible to have a full life of gaming if you're into puzzlers/strategy games like Factorio, Rimworld, and the Fireaxis library (Civ, XCOM).
I don't mean mobile browser support but support for WebRTC within native apps.
I have seen it in North Carolina and Florida. Usually with mom & pop shops.
If they're going out and getting outside offers, that means they don't believe they can come to you and ask for a salary adjustment.
The countries the World Bank lends to are typically spending at unsustainable levels. It's not a choice between IFC loans and high social spending. It's defaulting on lenders, who may be allies or the domestic population, cutting social spending due to not having money and/or running the presses to hyperinflation.
And possibly the ace in the hole, the Whole Foods aquisition. Local distribution centers via the whole foods stores, with fresh foods, even with premade foods if you wish. Could ultimately be a blue apron/munchery hybrid.

Their advantage would of course be their world class distribution/fulfillment tech, but also the fact that the costs of the food parts are mostly sunk already into the Whole Foods biz.
We've Seen Atari's New 'Ataribox' Console, and It's More Confusing Than Ever
It's hard for an individual employee to know what they're really worth. The best way to find out is go out and ask companies what they'll pay.

By saying that you'd rather they talk to you about salary directly instead of getting competing offers, you're essentially saying that you'd prefer them to be uninformed about their true market worth when having the discussion. You probably don't mean that, but that's the result.
The USC med school dean is a drug addict
Only at companies that plan to take advantage of you. Companies with healthy cultures will be honest with you and will be glad you asked so expectations are aligned.
With a credit card, you're spending money that you don't have, but with a debit card, you need money in the account it's connected to.
Rails “Web Scale” Is Expensive
I have to agree with the poster. Piplines are very definitely not first-class objects:
- There is no way (in the default installation) of re-running a stage without running the whole job again.
- I can't see the history of a stage.
- Pipelines are a plugin, that only relatively recently became a default one
- They seems be the anointed new path, but live side-by-side with other branching methods like the Matrix plugin at this point.

This is all in-line with the "everything is a plugin" methodology, but in my mind that way of thinking is one of the biggest hindrances to Jenkins, second only to the lack of a real database powering it.
Princess Heart Dagger: This emoji quiz is excellent
Haha, I saw that on Mashable. I want one.
Death of a Pig (1948)
This is a bit uncanny since I've been thinking quite a lot about these distortion effects and how to implement them with HTML5, js and css. Would you please enlighten us by giving us some hints on how to achieve the distortions?

Also I am not 100% sure if I think this is completely UNIX like as I expected something more text / terminal based. Are you using monospaced fonts. Not to try to put you down but rather to say you are in the right way but that there might be minute changes in padding and so forth that might land you at perfection!

good job!
If you like Splendor, I can't help but recommend Finca. It has a similar method of acquiring victory points, but the wheel mechanism for gaining $CURRENCY adds just a little more depth.

Side note: I'm processing BoardGameGeek.com data, and one of the goals I've set is around finding a game similar to these two. My best candidate at the moment is "Potion Explosion".
Sorry if this is a stupid question, but why not both? It doesn't appear that the two strategies are mutually exclusive. Is it just that SegWitX2 is considered too rushed? Is it just that miners have a vested interest in maintaining influence?

Personally it seems like smart contracts and other similar services beget an ecosystem that could swell the market cap by a significant amount, I assume miners would have a long term goal of doing just that.

As a disclaimer, I own Bitcoin, but I'm definitely a layman and I don't really have a horse in the race. What I'm most concerned is what these changes are going to accomplish when looking back 10 years from now. I'm in BTC for the long-term, and this whole thing stinks of petty bias and tribal power plays.
An app that tells me when my favourite burrito van is near the office.

Kinda underwhelming, but I have simple tastes :D
One Night Ultimate Werewolf gives the app away for free, and you can play with just a deck of cards.
I wouldn't call a technical decision that threatens the monetary value of bitcoin a mere "internal struggle". If this can happen once, what's to prevent it from happening again over some other issue? How can anybody have confidence they'll be able to spend Bitcoins in the same way they do now?
There's a reason The C Programming Language is one of the most influential books in the history of computer programming...and probably still worth reading today even if a person is not likely to become a C programmer. Its prose describes and explains the code and helps a person understand it. On the other hand, the prose is not comments. The prose is literature.

Or to put it another way, the way to learn how to use Clojure's Spec is not from the names of functions in the Clojure Spec source code. It's from reading blogs and watching videos and listening to podcasts and reading the documentation. And the bar for Clojure Spec is pretty low. It just has to be better than JavaDoc.
Data Scientist:

SQL Developer, SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Enterprise Miner, Excel, Jira

We are a "SAS shop", therefore SAS is a must. Knowing other SAS products helps to recognize when a statement like "it is not possible" in reality means "I am not in the mood for working".
I wanted to be able to quickly & easily resize images to particular sizes, so I made Bulk Resize Photos (https://bulkresizephotos.com); image resizing in your web browser without uploading the images, and without downloading/installing anything. Works best in Chrome.
Haha, I guess my isthereapadreshomegametoday.com wasn't as uniquely clever as I thought.
Emacs is relatively pervasive. It runs everywhere, including plenty of platforms that Rust does not support. Either due to current support priorities or lack of LLVM support.

That makes it something less than a drop-in replacement from the overall CEmacs project perspective. I'm sure Rust devs are working on more platform support, and it's possible Emacs devs are open to simply dropping some of the more obscure targets, but it might be a long time before alignment happens on that requirement alone.
Same as the stock market - by investing a lot of money right before a huge downswing.
Thank you. The OpenGL calls you refer to .. is there a C# binding that is easy to setup with Unity? I tried OpenGL in a computer graphics undergrad course (sadly, one I dropped) and it was a crazy amount of C/C++ libraries and header files (along with esoteric things like GLUT, etc.). I didn't realize I could do OpenGL within a Unity/C# context.
Maybe so, but a Whole Foods branded meal kit, with logistics from Amazon Prime probably doesn't sound gross to many people. That's where I assume they're going with this.
Merchants pay up to 1.75% (Square) to process in-person payments. Whether this cost is embedded into the prices of what you buy or whether it's made clear to you is irrelevant to that point - that you're paying this. And even when credit cards are more expensive to process - do you ever get a discount for using a debit card at the supermarket? Cash?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14739638
Do you know how much it costs to get your water and electricity turned back on? Not to mention that you have to toss any food you have saved and you have to find some way to live without access to toilets, etc for the duration.

Compared to that, a payday loan is cheap. Yeah being in that situation is shitty in the extreme, and no none of your options are good, so you are trading very bad for worse.
The problem is they dont downsize to a "reasonable" 10TB, they over correct in the opposite directly like Amazon did, and people that used the service as intended get fucked.
That's the lamest thing I've ever heard in my life.
> No one is going to sign their crimes into a blockchain.

Just like (to pick a hopefully safely historical example) no president would record himself conspiring to perform illegal activities?
Wow, one result you don't like leads you to throw the whole thing out?

If you cook a meal you don't like, do you burn down your kitchen?
If companies don't want to be presented with "I got a better offer, can you match it?" every 6-12 months, maybe they should pay their people enough that it stops happening.

Once or twice I can understand. Pay isn't always calibrated correctly, weird stuff happens due to company/employee history, whatever. But if your employee is consistently able to get higher offers once or twice a year then something must be screwed up.
Cloud configuration error exposes Dow Jones Subscriber information
It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.:
http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica...

And the merchant doesn't know this. Their setup process is typically: Open up WeChat, login, click the plus in the top right corner, pick Money, click receive money...

And of course paying and receiving is much easier once everything is setup.
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Because what I see from my point of view is a dozen of Blockstream employees pushing for segwit, with barely no support from the community nor the miners. And on the other side I see a growing majority of miners, a growing majority of the community asking for a simple block size increase, wich is a matter of 10 lines modified, compared to 5 000 lines and a great bunch of complexity that segwit bring.

But I'm probably wasting my time with you, looking at your comment history you seems to be a typical pro-Blockstream troll.
You hire 50k people and throw 5/10 at block chain just to make sure you don't get caught with your pants down. That's barely an investment.
People refer to "holy wars" for such silly things as tabs vs spaces. In that light, "civil war" seems like pretty much what this is.
That example shows using node.js as a WebRTC signaling server, NOT as a WebRTC peer client.
A behavior will not typically be modified until the alternative is more appealing. It is not as simple to connect behavior to cause as this study implies without limiting outside factors.