skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm always baffled by one thing in these sorts of articles - the belief that paying the minimum due on your credit cards is the right thing to do.

I'm not going to pontificate about living within your means or whatever, obviously people have reasons for doing what they do. But I don't understand how so many people are cheerfully paying the minimums and treating credit as basically an extension on their salary.

I have seen this at work as well, people making low six- figure incomes paying minimums. I've even had someone tell me that paying in full is bad for your credit score.

Is this a generally held belief? Do most people pay the minimum?
Working for the right people has benefits beyond monetary ones. Knowing the right person can be helpful to getting your kid in the right school, or in to see the right doctor. Being vocally appreciated in a field where that is not particularly common helps you sleep better at night. Being given a certain level of autonomy can be more rewarding for some people, being given a constant stream of tasks can be more rewarding for others.

Money is a big factor with employment. It's not the only one.
It's not semantics when you're talking about different activation mechanisms... that you think it is proves to me you don't really understand what's going on.

I point out a contradiction in Bitmains position and you say that means I'm not making sense? Once again, you are arguing that your ignorance somehow trumps the facts.

And of course, you resorting to insults is all the proof I could have needed.

Go educate yourself. Start at bitcoin.org
> Without commenting on the merits of the different approaches, the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator. To call it a "Civil War" is not an exaggeration.

I totally disagree. The whole discussion is totally overblown when you consider what is actually happening. I would bet 99% of services accepting bitcoin are running core, and the rest 1% maybe with minor patches which doesn't affect consensus code. That is very unlikely to change.

Miners can run whatever they want and probably already are running custom code. However for the rest of the network matters if they mine core compatible blocks or not. Some miners can choose to mine 2MB blocks or whatever, but the rest of the network will ignore those, since they are not compatible with core.
Repo: https://github.com/TheDen/TheDen.sh (PRs are welcome)

All clientside—mostly js hacks. There are a lot of fun easter eggs—some easy to find, others not so much. I can't really claim it's mobile friendly, though I've tried to not make it too bad of an experience.

edit: the cards are draggable btw, I've added a "move" cursor when the mouse hovers but I don't know if that's enough to make it obvious (but not too "in-your-face" obvious).
Interesting point but do you not find most kinds of ads to be fairly harmless though? Ads for food delivery services, mattresses, shaving, website hosts, soft drinks etc. I do find the example of ads turning body odour into a profitable problem compelling but this seems like a very exceptional example that doesn't happen often.

I think focusing on the worst most deceitful and manipulative examples in history isn't a good way to evaluate the overall merits of something.
One of Jason's best posts! This really resonates with me.

So often, I seek advice without taking time to consider context. The context of why I asked _this_ person, _this_ question. The context of what experiences are shaping their answer. And the context of why I am hesitant to simply go with what my gut is telling me.
Yes. In progress and the first on-prem installs are up and running. Happy to chat further: aneesh at quilt data dot io.
A community for service providers helping each other for free
There are many reasons, but one is that few people in the technical community support a somewhat rushed hard fork that does nothing but increase the block size a bit. There are plenty of other things that would be great to clean up if a hard fork is to be deployed. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Hardfork_Wishlist
I didn't avoid dealing with your lie, I stuck to the truth.
It's either part of the entire round, or it's gonna go to a founder, one of whom is an engineer if it's a tech biz, and it'll feed them for 2-3 months while they get the prototype together.
I called mine Sparky!
1	796 18.3664% ls
2	718 16.5667% cd
3	373 8.60637% gradle
4	342 7.89109% git
5	231 5.32995% vim
6	182 4.19935% cat
7	130 2.99954% gulp
8	124 2.8611% .
9	99 2.28426% psql
10	94 2.1689% curl

"." == alias to "cd .."
All investments are speculative in nature. Some are just riskier than others.
I find it sad (but not at all surprising) that this is the state of the Bitcoin community. The level of discourse for what is supposed to be a technology that is billed as "liberating money from the whims of governments" has neatly conformed to exactly that of the current state of political discourse. Everyone who disagrees with you is a shill/troll or an idiot. Adding math and "decentralization" doesn't magically prevent humans from being humans.

I'm sure given just enough time the "community" will structure itself into a perfect replica of a modern bureaucracy.

edit: I'm not just extrapolating from this one post a gander over at /r/btc or /r/bitcoin shows the same lovely trend
Sorry, you want StackOverflow for this.
@roasbeef posted about ltcd running on Litecoin with SegWit in May [0].

[0] -
http://lightning.community/release/software/lnd/lightning/20...
Wait a minute. If the people you see seek yoga as a last resort for their dismissed symptoms, then there is a bias/filter in the data you see.

Without knowing how many people see a doctor with these symptoms, you can't make a generalisation like "most people [who see a doctor] are dismissed".
But no actual impact to Blue Apron, other then a 500lb gorilla wanting your lunch?
Hey thanks for showing interest! Padding right now is difficult to settle on, but I'm still experimenting.

Here's some js code for the jitter effect http://theden.sh/scripts/jitter.js

It's pretty much a randomised flicker with some creative use of mix-blend-modes http://cssreference.io/property/mix-blend-mode/

Also yep, using monospace (whichever the user's browser defaults to), and https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata
my expirience is in line with his expirience and i have been on both sides.
Right, because the argument is fallacious, which was the point of the example. We don't argue medicine from first principles in this century, by the way. Absent hard empirical evidence, you can speculate what you like, but Occam's Razor suggests natural healing or the placebo effect as being the most likely explanations. If you're just a fan of wild invention, you might find other reasons, but you're probably not going to convince many that wild invention must be taken seriously.
Difference here obviously, is that when you stop paying, you no longer can listen to music.
Not specific to this site, but the cavalier use of this type of statement bothers me because I highly value honesty, integrity, ethics, etc. even on the internet where accountability is limited.

If that line is truly their goal then why not just say that,

"Building the best place to find remote jobs"

That small change honestly communicates why the site exists, why I should be interested in it and why there are limited legitimate job postings at the moment. It also tells me that this site is still evolving and I should check back.
Yep. "Set top box" was the buzz word at the time and an Amiga chipset based one as the "next big thing" was an entirely plausible thing to consider.
There is an efficient way to maximize life expectancy, it does not involve taking risks with proposals bordering snake oil and it minimizes the medical knowledge you must acquire:

Employ at every time three personal high profile doctors at a salary far above what they could expect, and fire one of them each year. The choice of who is fired is based on written proposals by each of them. Having three doctors makes it possible to use majority logic.
Make sure that two of them do not collude.
Since their site was full of knock-offs and half of it ships from China? Every time I shop on Amazon, I have to cross-reference with like 8 different sites to make sure I'm ordering the right thing and that the price is fair.
Yeah I don't think the core developers have ever claimed to have control. Isn't this one of the main reasons why they have refused to implement auto-upgrade in Bitcoin Core?
Funny, that is exactly what makes the game delightful for me: the dual-use of evaluating whether I want to use a card for its bid or try to hang onto it (or both). But yes, Kingdomino admittedly has a much simpler flow to it there, and hence is better for a broader audience that the committee is targetting. Also strictly speaking I don't know if Honshu had a German release this year anyway?

I totally agree that non-communication is a disappointing game mechanic; it almost always ends up being quite... impure design-wise? It still ended up feeling like the most dynamic of the 3 games for me, though admittedly my opinion of El Dorado is only from one play and word of mouth.
Not necessarily: it proves that its architecture is very scalable, and whoever built it knew what the hell they were doing. Even then, the US Constitution has a mechanism to change itself. It's been used 27 times.
There are plenty of user-generated videos on YouTube that rack up 100K+ to 1M+ views though. Commercially produced TV shows compete for eyeballs (whether they realize it or not) with these YouTubers.
> Something similar applies to ebooks. Like Spotify, the Kindle app is on any platform, so it doesn’t stop you switching devices. Unlike music, your books are still bought (mostly: there are some subscription services but they don’t cover mainstream titles), and locked with DRM, so it’s harder to switch away from Kindle than from Spotify, but that only locks you into Kindle, not any other part of Amazon’s platform: using a Kindle app or physical Kindle e-ink device doesn’t compel you to use any other Amazon products.

This seems confused. Ultimately Amazon's primary purpose is probably not to sell the devices and the lock-in works in the sense that you have your Kindle library (even if you strip the DRM you can't keep all your notes and highlights), your recommendations, and your more or less automatic impulse to go to the Kindle store for books.
Credit cards have ridiculous interest rates (like 20%+ min.). It's far better to take out a loan and pay your credit dues since the loan will be at a far better rate (at least half).

Why would any sane person do this (pay min. balance)?
The packaging waste with some meal kits is a negative but they also eliminate a lot of food waste which is a positive.

The traditional food distribution system is massively wasteful but all of that waste is hidden so it is easier to ignore.
Crutchfield. A company that has been around a bit longer than some of the other ones on this list, but one that has stayed relevant in electronics since the 1970s despite its lack of initial capital investments. Grew by leveraging direct sales to customers through mailed catalogs, even claims to be the first company to sell consumer electronics online circa 1995. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crutchfield_Corporation
This is correct.

1. Customer scans QR

2. POS operator hits given this is a realtime hit and noone else is hitting this QR at this time.

3. Customer received bill, hits OK. Confirmation sent to both reatailer and customer at the same time. Customer often shows retailer this has been successful. Receipt printed and handed to customer.

4. Customer walks away happy.

The transaction from 1-4 takes less than 2 seconds. Very efficient.

The stumbling of a new customer to get their phone out, activate pay, question if any special offers are in offer however drags this out to a vastly greater amount of time than using cash.

However, the tech UX is sound.

Edit: Live in China. Wish people could use cash as queues are much longer when the 'human factor' is added in/ Perhaps this will fade, but it has already been a few years and sees no fading as retailers add discounts, coupons, to the payment, which leads customers to click around their phone rather than being prepared in advance with discount coupons and cash.
Flaw will be realized when you arrive for first day in prison.
Try ctrl + l, should do the clear.
There may also be a big project that takes years of development, with each completed part serving as a prerequisite for a new one. It's hard to judge one's career from a face value unless the CV explicitly states details like "X years sunk in product maintenance".
They have a huge amount of committed hashpower and the support of most major Bitcoin companies.
Unfortunately, the hard part of every subsequent interview with other employers is "So what happened at company X? You were fired, right?"

I've been through what the author is describing, but in an on-site office position. It's horrid. They're exactly right on how these processes poison all other interactions. My boss would call me in to ask if I was going to the company picnic, but the history meant that every "Hey, can you see me in my office real quick?" was a gut-wrenching terror moment, certain that I was getting fired or told off again, or something.
I highly recommend a quick read of Marshall McLuhan's "The medium is the message":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

Netflix, Amazon, et all - are not redefining content. They're redefining the medium.
At least three (I didn't test more) of the bitmap images under each of the "scales to make..." are links to PDF versions of the same scale.

Also, the error for a pure monochrome version (that doesn't do subpixel resolution) would be at most 1/1400 pixel. Assuming a 1:10 scale for that, the error would be at most 10^(1/1400), or a factor of about 1.001646.

(Of course, that would increase once you start using the slide rule)
That's a fairly old one, IIRC it dates from the 8.4-1H1 release, or May 2015. The team is considerably larger today.
So your defense would be that you didn't leak the file but you did leak the key?
> the current situation is thrilling to watch as a spectator

Is there a good "live-thread" where I can follow the events?
Amazon needs to do this with their regular shipments as well. They contain a lot of plastic insulation (air bags). Instead of throwing mine away, I've been saving it until it fills up a closet then I give it to a local UPS store to reuse. My closet fills up in about a month. It would be nice if Amazon had a formal program for this since you can't recycle them with your garbage company.
I've tried a few meal kit companies (blue apron and hello fresh) and I was underwhelmed by the product and the service.

Whole Foods ingredients + Amazon delivery = game over for most of these meal kit companies.

They would be able to provide users added levels of customization and probably same day or next day delivery whereas with most meal kit companies, you have to lock in your menu for the week the prior week, which is inconvenient if plans change.

Ultimately, I'm excited about this move as I shop at whole foods regularly and look forward to the ease of delivery that Amazon provides.

I wonder where Amazon will target next; they've already targeted grocery and meal kit delivery and revealed plans to compete with Zillow and Redfin this week in real estate. Which industry is next?
You're absolutely right. Apple is trying to make it work on Macs, which is the real issue.
This data isn't in context, it's not fair to take data like the negative impact of resettlement on its own without also looking at the benefit provided by the projects to the poor.
Yes, exactly. That's why I don't get it. I can understand going through a rough patch where you pay the minimum cause you can't afford it, but I cannot understand constantly paying the minimum when you can afford to pay much more
This is a trend that I've maintained for 15+ years. I don't expect it to change anytime soon. I am subject to them dropping content that I care about, but anecdotally, I don't recall that happening with anything I listen to in the few years I've subscribed.
I am not sure, they both operate with a chip and pin code. I think it really is just a difference on how the banks settle the transactions between themselves.
How does meal-kit distribution eliminate a lot of food waste?
No major bitcoin company has stated that they will run segwit2x client. If you have conflicting information, please link announcement/blog post about that.

As for the hashpower, it doesn't matter what clients miners run. You can't force the nodes to run specific client with hashpower.
To be fair to the author, he does say this

"I don’t ask for or expect any sympathy. I am responsible for my quagmire—no one else. I didn’t get gulled into overextending myself by unscrupulous credit merchants. Basically, I screwed up, royally. I lived beyond my means, primarily because my means kept dwindling."
I made an app that notifies family when a QR code is scanned. It also provides information for ems providers and allows for several levels of interaction between the two. It works well for the few people that use it. https://emsinfo.me.
The difference is that when I buy a stock, they have a balance sheet, usually physical and/or digital assets like buildings, datacenters, warehouses, trucks, intellectual property, software programs, patents. They usually also have people, and some type of plan to leverage everything so that the sum is greater then the parts. That's an investment, when you pay them to leverage their assets and people.

Even in a situation like yahoo, because there are real assets, even though they didn't leverage on the dream, the were still parted and sold for scrap because there was real value behind the stock. That won't happen with BTC.
Interesting. I'm probably confusing some things. I was under the impression that the term "open source" was older than both the free software movement and "open source" as defined by Eric Raymond et al. Not sure where I remember that from. Thanks for correcting me.
Stuff like this is why I base my docker images off Ubuntu or Debian and regularly rebuild them. This way I always get the security updates from Debian/Ubuntu.

The problem with all images which base on something that is not an official distro image is that these packages always have to depend on the base image author to regularly update the images. There is no such thing as apt-get upgrade in a docker only environment, and I'm not really looking forward to the next Apache RCE vuln or the next Openssl desaster. People with long-running containers will be hit hard.
Are there good examples of non-crony capitalism, when we're discussing markets and populations at this scale? This sounds an awful lot like "authoritarian communism =/= communism".
> Then they added comments that it would have gone anyway.

Can you quote/link that post?

> It's also wrong to reflexively dismiss any kind of treatment that's not in medical textbooks

Dismiss as definitely incorrect? Maybe. Defends on what it is.

Dismiss as unproven? Perfectly OK.
I've made Friendtainer - an app which reminds me to meet with friends often: http://friendtainer.com
Yes. There is no Bitcoin to control. Bitcoin is an idea, and there can be as many variations as people have ideas. There will be a main trunk, centered around the middle of the market, but the whole point of cryptocurrencies is they can be forked and survive.

In the new world, everyone has their own universe. The sooner one believes, the stronger their position in the 2030 economy.
I can see that working for a functional language. But how do you specify the side effects?
Ah that's a shame, I still suspect it would _probably_ work with the right tweaking but I appreciate there's a hurdle there that might be frustrating to overcome and that's no good.

We also test a PaaS and require VM spin up but we call out to GCP/AWS as necessary.
How to Reap the Benefits of Impostor's Syndrome
You're right, I'll try and setup a js.org subdomain, or start looking for some nice domain names.
They don't control, but they have lots of power in the sense that 99% of people will just run the bitcoin core client without researching too much, what is in the code.
It's because of CORS. But anyway, ask this on Stack Overflow
While not perfect, Sun Basket does much better than most - a large portion is recyclable/compostable.
> The packaging waste with some meal kits is a negative but they also eliminate a lot of food waste which is a positive.

That's really hard to estimate; did Blue Apron (etc) users previously buy a lot of groceries, cook some of them, then throw the rest of the food away as it rotted? Or did they simply cook less, and rely more on delivery, restaurants, or putting more work into planning their meals?
Because the ingredients provided are the exact amounts needed for a meal. If I was making the same meal doing my own shopping I will probably purchase slightly more than I need of some perishable ingredients. These will in a lot of kitchens end up as waste and not used in other meals.
Presumably because of better portioning. For a lot of meals, you only need a very small amount of one ingredient which you cannot buy in that quantity. Meal kits come with the right proportions for every ingredient.
Some of these companies do. Terra's Kitchen for example. That said, I'm skeptical that shipping a reusable container back to the company which then has to clean it before it's reused genuinely reduces environmental impact versus some plastic bags (much of which I reused the one time I got Blue Apron).
You do realize that everyone knows UET is a joke right?
both sides are in many ways right in their criticisms about the other side, they are just fundamentally conflicting visions of the long term nature of the network.

In my opinion the problem here is the network was built so that it operated only by people acting on incentives and those incentives being aligned with the good of the network, and it turned out that miners acting in their own interest wasn't actually good for scaling past a certain size and operating on certain types of transactions.
Thank you, Sir.
I'd expect their S3 data transfer pricing to be closer to the assumed $0.02 CDN price. The price available to the public goes down to $0.05 once you hit 200 TB, and AWS is known to give significant discounts to large clients.

The storage cost is a good point, and I don't know which CDN they use, but I expect the songs that weren't "hot" would be evicted from edge caches pretty fast, so that should be no significant increase.

To put things into perspective, an article from 2009 estimates that Spotify used 84TB of traffic per day[1], back when they had 5 million users. Soundcloud claims to have had 40 million registered users in 2013 and 175 million unique monthly listeners in 2014. These numbers aren't easy to compare, but either way I think it's safe to say that 900TB should be a small fraction of their monthly traffic, and shouldn't make a huge dent in their financials.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/oct/08/spot...
The distinction between income and consumption taxes is largely political. The buyer's consumption is the seller's income.

For example, VAT as applied to securities transactions is basically just another name for capital gains tax.

VAT isn't traditionally applied to the purchase of labor, but that doesn't make much difference because only expenses where VAT was collected on purchase should be deductible when it's collected on sale, so it just means the same tax is paid on the other side when the products of the labor are sold.
> I rather like feeling connected to the brands I enjoy.

How does that enrich your life?