skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's true that bitcoin might be useful in very unstable countries (venezuela comes to mind) when you can't really trust fiat and getting access to dollars or other foreign currencies is trickier.

It's still only really useful for relatively rich people who want to get money out or in, I doubt the average Venezuelian bothers with Bitcoin. And Bitcoin requires a widely available "free" internet connection to work correctly which would be trivial for an authoritarian government to disrupt. Turkey doesn't hesitate to block Wikipedia and Twitter, I doubt they'd have any problem blocking the bitcoin exchanges and the bitcoin peer-to-peer protocol if they felt the need to do it. Sure you can work around this and smuggle the blockchain somehow, but it becomes a lot less practical, especially if want something that you can easily spend for your day-to-day purchases like food and toilet paper.

I know there's a lot of defiance towards our governments all around the world and there are some good reasons for that. However I feel like we're having the bad engineer reflex, trying to find a technical solution to a societal issue and we might end up making things worse. I want to be able to trust the government that I democratically elect and I want this government to be able to gather taxes and even control the currency to some extent.

Instead Bitcoin will make it trivial to evade taxes, smuggle money overseas and makes bribery easier than ever. You can't seize it, you can't freeze it, you can launder it super easily etc...

At least when people open an illegal account in some tax haven it leaves some paper trail, there are intermediaries in the loop, you take some risks, you have to figure out a way to smuggle the money over there while keeping the books clean. With Bitcoin you click on "generate a new receiving address" and you're done. If the point is to make governments less corrupt and more accountable I don't see how that'll work. You can't have the Panama Papers or the Swiss Leaks if there's no paper to begin with.

The fact that it wastes an ungodly amount of energy to secure its ledger is just the icing on the crap cake as far as I'm concerned. And it's not even super successful because as far as I understand the majority of the hash power is currently in mainland China, so if the Chinese government wanted to take over they'd just send a dozen of military types in each datacenter and that'd be the end of it. Then you make a few double-spend attacks to make people lose all trust in the coin, the value collapses, nobody mines it anymore, game over, thanks for playing.
> For long-running tasks, if they are I/O bound you can use non-blocking I/O and event loops. If they are CPU bound, then use threads or separate processes. The two techniques can be combined to scale well across multiple cores.

One might suppose this to be the case, but to my knowledge only network IO is truly non blocking, although there are async io api's in some languages for disk reads/writes, they're still blocking behind the scenes. One of the coolest things about go (imo) is it's scheduling of many go routines onto relatively few machine threads (and processes) for blocking IO. I'm not clear if Perl 6 has such a facility.
When a language is too popular it's being hated by HN / Reddit. If you want to stay cool you have to use a niche language.
No, you can't.
Because girls need a safe space to be girls (without any boys around) a lot more than boys need any more spaces where they can be boys without any girls around (there's enough of those).
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Not sure X years of experience matters all that much. For example, Java dev goes to employer and adds Hadoop to her experience, then applies for other jobs for 10k more ambiently for a few months. Eventually nails one and packs her bags, and so on recursively.

Sometimes dev don't add anything at all and just go for more money because of change in condition. JS or mobile app dev is a great example. Nothing changed; they just became more demanded. Meanwhile, you can't match someones salary to the market every day of the week, so they leave.

From the employer side London is brutal.
Do something like this guy: https://uetoken.com/

Raised something like $50k
Yes. The OP is being sarcastic.
http://greenteapress.com/wp/think-perl-6/
Depending on where you're from, marriage before sex might be the culturally-enforced default. Enabling weed even more so, which is unfortunate in general, but probably a healthy approach when it comes to kids.
Classic filtering: https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
Since when is tunneling a response to running out of IPv4 addresses?

Do you mean v6 tunnel brokers? That's a response to not supporting native v6, not running out of v4 space.
No, anyone can join any of the scouting age groups.
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I've had the same idea for a while, it'd be amazing if someone made this sub-game in minetest!
Off the top of my head:

* If you store IP addresses ensure that you can store IPv6 address if necessary.

* Rent servers only from IPv6 capable providers.

* When configuring DNS don't forget AAAA records.

* If you ban users by IP you might need to ban entire IPv6 subnets.
I imagine it accounts mostly for Africa and South Asia since they didn't get many IPv4 addresses. They got less addresses than Europe and they're at least 4 times more populated.

So I don't think we're gonna see adoption in Western countries that soon.

Here's an IPv4 map for comparison:
https://www.jessevaughn.com/images/ipv4_map_of_the_internet....
This has been a feature of several legal systems, at least since Hammurabi.

Another interesting concept during the inquisition was that the accused, before he knew who accused him, had the opportunity to list all his mortal enemies, and if the accuser was among them he was set free.
https://webkit.org/blog/7726/announcing-webrtc-and-media-cap... only talks about WebRTC, but according to https://hetzel.net/2017-06-12/ios-11-opus-support-in-podcast...

> iOS 11 comes with native playback support for the Opus audio codec inside the CAF container.

> In Beta 1, there is no support for playing Opus in CAF files in Safari, but…

> Podcasts.app supports Opus playback, if you claim the file is AAC, although it’s CAF containing Opus.
While we're being pedantic, they do run concurrently (for example, dispatching a dozen concurrent HTTP requests), they just the GIL prevents most CPU work from executing in parallel.
I think he meant things that are only bad in excess.
OP here, happy to answer any questions.

The project lives here: https://github.com/nkantar/Starminder
> I assume the Mac would know to begin the DHCP discovery phase, instead of sending blind requests for a former IP address...

I wonder if that is my problem. Often, my Mac won't connect to my mobile hotspot. I open the lid, it starts attempting to connect to the hotspot and just sits. Connecting. Forever. I can turn off WiFi, turn off the hotspot, and sometimes even reboot both my phone and my laptop and still be unable to connect.

I recently figured out that if this not-connecting happens, I can disable wifi, disable hotspot, turn on WiFi and select my not-on hotspot to connect to. A couple of seconds later, it fails and asks to run network diagnostics. I cancel, disable wifi, turn back on the hotspot, turn back on wifi and, presto, it connects.

I figured there was some caching going on and that I am effectively invalidating the cache. Maybe this is what the op is talking about here.
I invested when BTC was around 1100-1200, don't remember exactly. It then fell bellow 1000 to low 900s (quite quickly) and I panic sold. It was sometimes last year before it went to rise to almost 3000.

I guess I am not a type of person who can take the stress of investing in something so volatile. I am trying to live a fiscally responsible and frugal life and this was probably the riskiest investment I have ever made.

I only invested a small amount. I could have easily lost all of it and it would make almost no difference to me. But I'm trying to save money to buy a property now so I will stay away from any kind of investments until I buy a house/apartment.
It is. You can build recursive descending parsers with a declarative syntax, and all the benefits from having it in OO (role composition, inheritance).

Here is a working grammar for INI config files: https://github.com/tadzik/perl6-Config-INI/blob/master/lib/C...
I still don't understand why some people have so
much trouble with this concept

Having sex with independent third-party witnesses or video recording remains a minority activity. So any attacker with half a brain can ensure it's the victim's word against theirs.

From there it's a simple question of our willingness to let the guilty go free vs. our willingness to see the innocent wrongly punished. This is known as Blackstone's Ratio [1] and it dates to the 1760s.

Needless to say, there's a certain political equilibrium here; if you'll let off 1000 guilty people to avoid 1 wrongful conviction, you'll have a thousand victims and their families campaigning for tougher punishments for every 1 wrongfully convicted person campaigning in the opposite direction.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackstone%27s_formulation
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Don't take investment advice from my Internet comments.

> isn't it also illegal to buy unlicensed securities

There are "safe harbors" like Regulation D [1]. This is how private companies issue securities. There are still rules about to whom you can sell your securities and the minimum information you have to make available to them. Needless to say, I have not seen an ICO promoter make use of these safe harbours.

[1] https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answers-regdhtm.html
The drone startup that fell to earth
For startups, VC funding is always in season
I tried one for a couple days but couldn't do it.

My honest suggestion for back pain is a better chair with stronger lumbar support. Also check your posture. The combination honestly changed my life. You would be shocked how much of a difference it can make.
quantra.io server code is open
It's interesting to me that, before I learned about databases (circa 2004), I built 3 distinct software products based on flat files (no database). They were all written in PHP (the only backend language I knew at the time). This was before the days of GitHub, so I don't have links to the software anymore, but I may still have the (horrendous) source code. The products were: a forum (!) system called "DatForum"; a chat app called "Chategory"[1] (this one still apparently exists on SourceForge); and a flat-file backed bookmark manager that synchronized with del.icio.us called "LinkDex." I did also build a blog/CMS based on flat files, which I used personally, but it was hardly productized (practically server-side includes). Obviously, using flat file databases is very different from static site generation, but since all of these were written using flat file databases, it would have been easy to optimize their (often poor) performance by statically regenerating the site periodically, instead of reading the flat file database at render time.

[1] http://chategory.sourceforge.net/
Makes my lower back pain worse. I also can't get in the 'zone' as easily. I have a powered standing desk and sit at it 90-95% of the time.
There is also the option of downloading with http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ and queuing up the local files in your preferred local media player's playlist support. Particularly useful if you might want to watch the content while travelling as you don't need a reliable connection as you would for streaming.

yt-dl directly supports a fair few other video sites (http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/supportedsites.html) too, and indirectly a large number of others as its generic resource locator does a fairly good job of finding the object you want unless the site actively tries to obfuscate the video's location.
“Net Neutrality” vs. Internet Freedom
Sometimes Not Working Is Work, Too
So far as I know, Girl Scouts is a separate, and secular, organization. And, there are unofficially "tolerant" boy scout troops.
How can we make more people watch conference videos?
Open-office workspaces at Apple Park
I keep mine in the sitting position 80% of the time, but as I've been getting more into fitness and trying to work on my posture I've been using it more.

I tend not to really get into a flow state while standing, but it's good for briefly knocking out tasks like email or minor changes.
Do you have a history of knee issues? If not, you may want to check out some mobility stuff (mobilitywod.com). For me, tight hip flexors + IT band + achilles meant the whole system was tight and hurt after a bit of use. Check it out.
https://perl6book.com/ gives an overview of Perl 6 books, and how they differ. Enjoy!
"It's not about the money, it's about the game." -- Gordon Gekko
Eventually. Got a lot on my plate at the moment.
I remember hearing about some attempts to do this, I thought they had got fairly advanced. A quick search brings up a project called Smokescreen, which could play some flash. However, the project's website no longer exists. There's a github project - https://github.com/cesmoak/smokescreen but the last commit was in 2011.
Have Jython and IronPython reached compatibility with Python 3 yet? Last I checked they hadn't, or it was still in alpha.
If I move out of shell for scripting, I go to Tcl. I also write little utilities with Tcl/Tk to do repetitive tasks that I do often.
When joining my place of employment I had to fill out my I9 electronically. The website had me set up an account to store my information, and gave me the following dropdown for my secret question: https://i.imgur.com/iOsNmIk.png . For those unwilling to click, they are:

- What is your mother's maiden name?

- What was the last school you attended?

- What color eyes did you have when you were born?

- What was the last year you attended school?

So obviously you just fill in some random string as the answer, but immediately after it you had to check a box that said that you swear under penalty of perjury that all information you put into this form is accurate... I'm sure that was intended to apply to the I9 stuff but technically it includes the secret question :[

This "protects" an account that has my social security number in it, among other things.
Great, as long as I'm wearing a comfortable pair of tennis shoes. Otherwise, if I'm wearing a pair of dressy leather shoes, my feet quickly begin to ache.
No, they aren't. Sexual harassment includes unwanted advances, and attractiveness to the specific target has some role in whether an advances is unwanted or not, but sexual harassment includes lots of behaviors that are not unwanted (by the person to whom they are directed) sexual advances (an advance desired by the person to whom it is directed may easily be, or be part of, sexual harassment of third parties when conducted within a workplace context) or even sexual advances at all, and merely being attractive itself doesn't make all sexual advances wanted, in any case.
A lot of young boys wouldn't care at all and would probably enjoy sewing, baking and other traditional 'girly' activities.

Its the dad's with fragile masculinity and out-dated opinions that would stop them going or teach them that those activities are 'girly'.
quantra.io server code is in github now, you can open an issue and start contributing for new features.

https://github.com/quantraio/server
> It's a usability nightmare

yeah, and here's the problem. Security is at complete odd with user friendliness. Two-factor auth is amazingly secure, until you've lost your second factor.
If you know good ops people, you have additional options. Hiring ops people and hoping they can out-value a cloud provider is a risk. Good ops people can cost as much as good developers.

If you're a larger business, you can probably absorb that risk if it goes wrong. If you're a startup, it could be catastrophic.

However, I also know larger businesses that just simply do not have good ops teams and a cloud provider would outperform all of them.
I got one about four months ago. It is an electric lift desk, takes about 20 seconds to switch. Most days I leave it standing. I'm definitely getting better at standing. At first it hard to focus while standing, but now it is easy. When I switch to sitting it takes a while to get focused, since it feels strange.
I'm not very knowledgeable in IPv6 adoption. Why do you think that?
My daughter quickly lost interest in girl scouts because of this.
Well worth the read. Check it out at http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/
When I enter a stadium or theater, there's a lot of fine print there on the ticket, but generally, it doesn't contain any blatant WTFs and I know that I can't be kicked out arbitrarily without a refund of my entry fee. I don't specifically obey rules I don't know about. If there are any rules I do know about, and don't want to obey, I can easily avoid entering the private property. Going to a football game or rock concert is not an essential part of public life.

Malls have no entry fee, but they often post their rules on their websites. I don't feel very oppressed by them, because I don't frequent malls much. I didn't even visit often back when they were popular. Places like Universal City Walk or Disney Springs in Orlando are actually like Hell for me, crowded, noisy, and commercial, and I am pretty uncomfortable with how the Reedy Creek Improvement District is like an independent fiefdom, and the acme of all tourist traps. It sometimes feels like you could be black-bagged and whisked away just for showing too much stress on your face and not having enough money in your pockets.

Yes, that's oppressive. And creepy. I don't like it when people look at me like I'm either an overflowing bag of cash to be drained or an unpleasant insect to be shooed away.

Rules for public land use are frequently organized by intent, and one does not need to read every last rule on every last page to enjoy any particular use. If you are just day-hiking, you don't need to read the parts about hunting or overnight camping. If you also want to camp or hunt, you can read those sections and not also the parts about cell tower sites or water rights. You also have the knowledge that if any rule for use of public land conflicts with your rights, it is void from the start, and if someone attempts to enforce it against you, you will likely eventually get some compensation.

But I have also read some of those thousands of pages of rules, and in some municipalities, yes, they are oppressive. In others, they are mostly reasonable. That also depends in part on the strictness and uniformity of enforcement. Policing for profit can make reasonable rules oppressive, and oppressive rules, laxly enforced, don't seem quite so bad when there is no real penalty for breaking them. In either case, the locals usually have some means by which to change the rules that they may disagree with, including loud and well-attended protest demonstrations.

The danger of POPS is that they replace some of the functions of truly public spaces, while leaving out one or more vital functions (like protest and free expression), then those public spaces wither and die, leaving people effectively unable to exercise the vital functions.
Similar to you - I alternate between standing and sitting (not every hour though)

I also find it hard to write code when standing so I use standing position mostly for reading, calls, standups etc. when I want to get in the "zone" - only sitting + headphones works for me.
I can't tell if this comment is meant as an insult. Anyway I think too many potential teachers have passed the buck on teaching financial literacy to young people, and I'm glad to see someone make an effort.
I can warmly recommend this book for treating back pain and posture problems: [1].

[1] Robin A. McKenzie, "Treat Your Own Back".
What do devs get paid in London on average? I always had the impression, perhaps wrong, that software engineers seem underpaid in England relative to the US, even accounting for currency and cost of living and such (which, probably London is as bad as SF on that front).

(i've also gotten the impression that there's not the same level of cultural esteem for engineers and scientists and such in England, and that this might have something to do with it. also could be wrong or outdated.)
I wonder whether youtube-dl (which is what mpv uses to get audio/video over the web, I think) is going to get completely neutered by EME. Your setup is similar to how I use Youtube lately, and the recent progression of EME has got me worried that the setup won't be working for too much longer.
Webpack plugin renders bundles as 3D WebGL graphs
> However I feel like we're having the bad engineer reflex, trying to find a technical solution to a societal issue and we might end up making things worse.

Same is said for encryption.

My perspective is that tools empowering individuals is the solution to societal problems. Cryptography does that, whether applied to communication or applied to value transfer.
I don't understand how some other language would not need to handle all the errors ?

I have written code in go/java/php/python/js and error handling has been a majority chunk of lines in most if not all cases(in other cases the errors are just not handled). The best ideal case flow is always easiest to build.
The added value of having access to these things online seems obvious though. It just took a while until the infrastructure was here to allow it (good luck streaming 4k video in 1995). Bitcoin is mostly here already, it sorta works. And then what? Besides speculation, illegal activities or simple curiosity, why would I bother? What's the blockchain's Youtube, what's the killer app? What will it let me do that I can't do today with my Visa card, except lose all of my money if I mess up?
Privacy dust-up as Roomba maker mulls selling maps of users’ homes
I generate answers to secret questions, and store them in my password manager. They're specific to the account – “mother's maiden name” at Site A is not the same as “mother's maiden name” at Site B.

If you do this, use a password recipe that generates a small number of words instead of a large number of characters. If you ever need to use the recovery questions, it will likely be by reading them over the phone.
indeed a car costs money so you can be sure that when most people have one it means they really need it and that its not for show.
Ethical hacker License
Why is it advantageous to a warehouse to have the trucker sit idly by for long periods of time?
nnn v1.3 – The missing terminal file browser for X
Wow, I've been having some knee pains (runners knee?) lately, but haven't had time to really investigate. This looks like a great tool to at least get started.

Not really related to standing desks, more my workout (though I've found sitting for long periods of time with runner's knee no more comfortable than standing. Sometimes it was worse). Anyway thanks!
I can not. Graphics aren't my thing. All I can say was that there was quantifiable improvement.

But that's the beauty of open source. If you'd like to investigate it yourself it's the first issue. Getting someone competent involved in the graphics subsystem is another priority ;p