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> Lawyers run the country, Congress is all lawyers and no engineers.

“In my years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.”

— John Adams

It's simply a matter of scale. Because the government has accrued so many powers beyond the founding intent, it has become attractive to buy it. As people buy it, the government invests in more powers to keep the gravy going. As long as they do it gradually enough, and make it seem like they have a moral imperative to spend your money because they know better, the state will continue to grow. More power, more corruption; more corruption, more power — until it all becomes too much. If Edward Snowden could offer the government more power to attract more relationship investment from business, then he would have been pardoned in Barack Obama's tenure.
Yep. 1.5x isn't that big of boost, especially since some of the readers of books seem to be really fond of their own voices.
My mouth actually hurts when I speak French. Such unusual shapes for a native English speaker :\
Hah, yes, what a great discussion.
The chat system had been around for a long time. It was introduced by Jeff with the blog post https://stackoverflow.blog/2010/04/29/do-trilogy-sites-need-...

Question tangent comments get sent there to try to keep the focus on Q&A rather than side back and forth. It's not gone permanently.

There are also persistent chat rooms for various topics. Their archives are easily searchable.
1) Keep a book open on your work machine (pdf, epub, .txt in a terminal with "less", whatever) and every time you would read HN or FB or Twitter any other time wasting Internet BS, read some of the book instead. DO NOT let yourself do anything else when you want/need a distraction. It has to be the book, or else you keep working. Physical book might work too though it might be a little weird, depending on your work environment—maybe put paper over the cover if it's especially not-related-to-work looking. I don't know, I haven't tried this.

2) There is no step two.
I would like to know what is their average lifetime. AlphaBay was not exactly the same, but it was longest running market - meaning a bit above 3 years. It does not give much confidence.
You're mixing up could and would here.

This was inevitable because of how WannaCry was designed.
This guy has been hugely discourteous to me, why not ban him? Things like this are partly the reason I just want to delete my HN history and leave.
FFS. We know. And then the ballots are missing. Which is more preferrable than silent or undetectable failure modes.

Isn't there a logical fallacy named for nitpicking (concern trolling) while ignoring the whole picture?
I mean. He he wrote a book about it. About how he used the identities of children who died while living across state lines because no record of death goes back to the originating state.

And how he used those identities and stole credit cards to survive being chased by the FBI.
Sapiens is a very preachy, low-on-citations work... the Goodreads reviews are interestingly divided ("Dude it changed my whole world!" to "This is not a serious work."), but the early sections on pre historical humans are still interesting to read, and seemed mostly correct from what I remember from
my college anthropology class.
2 hours per day? Who is that? That is a tremendous amount of video!
for those of us too lazy to read about the difference between power and energy, there is EEVBLOGs recent video explaining it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdbhnmA4M9g
Sure but the world doesn't get better because everyone know a bit of history. Not until it's internalized does it truly add value (and even there it's a slippery slope)
The TV plot sounds like an updated version of Operation Yashima.
Native Turkish speaker here. Very impressive, especially since the sentence they display in the post is actually quite colloquial in its use of the language.
I passed up a job there when they were opening up for the first time. That's life.
I think you're articulating what I more or less intended to say far better than I actually did, thanks. :)
> It always surprises me that people find the concept of the brain being connected to the body to be "woo-woo"

I don't think it's an objection to psychosomatic phenomena as much as just skepticism towards Sarno's work specifically, lack of support from other MDs, lack of strong peer reviewed evidence, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome#Cont...

IMHO we're fairly likely to eventually find that what he calls TMS is an early precursor / catch-all to a larger class of health issues (like "cancer"), and as we find better ways to classify, distinguish and diagnose these, we're also going to be able to run better studies and come up with more specific treatments that satisfy the medical community's standards of proof.
Yes, I think subconsciously I was also. I remember being amazed by that back in the day also!
Because Tesla is good at design, and Chevrolet is not.
Classical inheritance is useful in JS sometimes, but I agree with the sentiment of "don't use it unless you have a reason to".
I could just pass an option to make pwgen generate longer passwords, really, but I find amusing the idea of generating the hash of 160 urandom level generated passwords :) Now that's random! Oh, and also, it looks like a hashed password, so special troll points if a cracker find the password and think it's its hash.

(note for people who may not know pwgen : it outputs 20 lines of 8 random passwords)
this reminds me of what seems like a neverending debate about the actual pronounciation of paczki. Is it 'pawnch-kee' or 'poonch-kee'. haha.

Which lead me to this interpretation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdNsFOPYMzE
I am totally convinced Patreon (or the patreon model) is the future of content creation. Ethical, decentralized, economically viable flourishing of the arts.

I agree. It's interesting to contrast this approach with other attempts, such as App.net for social media and Vessel for video.

On those platforms, it always felt like the paywall was first, and the content was second. When you signed up, you would feel fleeced -- as if you were paying the platform creators first and the content creators second. There was no mechanism for content discovery until after you paid to be part of the network. That isn't going to motivate people to join the network.

On Patreon it's the polar opposite. I find interesting content on Youtube, pick a handful that I like enough to keep watching, and eventually decide that I like some of then enough to pay the creators for their work. I'm still paying the platform creators, but I'm motivated by the content. And content discovery is exactly as accessible as the get-all-your-content-for-free approach.
I wonder if her posts got flagged by her own friends. Is that how it would work? Even if that is the case, this is a pretty ugly outcome that Facebook should try and avoid. Another case of unexpected negative consequences of algorithmic decision making...
Sorry, I don't get what you mean? Do you mean the criminals could simply move the coins to a new wallet before moving them to an exchange?

Transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain are public, so it's relatively easy to keep tabs on movements of known criminal proceeds (as the article demonstrates :)
Not sure that's true anymore with TypeScript.

They made a real focus on tooling and it's been widely adopted.

In intellij it's as simple as turning on the option and creating a .ts file, the identically named js file is then dropped in the same directory (by default) and you just include that.

It's about 2 minutes from start to finish to setup.

Then it's a natural progression to using https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/tsconfig-json.h...

I mean sure if you are going with a split bundle, hot code reloading and tree shaking via webpack then there is a high start cost but ts on it's own is rather fantastic.

vscode does the same thing as intellij if you want to try it without downloading intellij.
Haha yes... although I would be slightly nervous to expose my janky C code to the internet. Where I'm confident it would crash and burn in a very short amount of time :)
Tabulating ballots as they are received (at central count) is a terrible idea.

The gold standard is precinct-based tabulation of paper ballots, counted the moment the polls close.
A minority hashrate attack on Bitcoin cash
it is probably also cheaper to extract lithium from sea water than to extract it from old batteries
I would add "The Three Body Problem" and following two books in its trilogy to the list. Sci-fi series by Liu Cixin. Won the Hugo award and is recommended by Obama and Zuck. I felt so small after reading that one :)
Maybe you should learn how threads work. Read the original parent thread.
This will also be solved by IPFS, [1].

[1] https://ipfs.io/
People seem to be really passionate about this topic, but they might as well try to convince me to hate the color orange. The arguments make zero sense to me. Affiliate links don't affect me one way or the other.
The problem is that "people who occasionally need to be assholes" overlaps significantly until it is a constant stream of people in asshole mode (who are just having their asshole moment of the day). So it's disingenuous to say that people are "only occasionally" being assholes. There is definitely a unified asshole front, even if it's only being manned by part-timers.
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How is search different than other machine learning problems?
This question applies to every organization in the history of the world. It's logically impossible to design any kind of social system that can't be ruined by people.
1) I try to donate roughly $1 per hour of content I consume. For example, a podcaster I support creates several different podcast series on different topics; I am interested in two of the series each of which has about four 1-hour episodes per month; so I contribute $8 per month. The $1 figure is pretty arbitrary. A major-cable-network television episode purchased from iTunes/Amazon/Google costs $2-$3, so $1 seems fair for an amateur podcast?

2) The total amount so far has stayed small enough that I haven't needed to set a budget. If I needed to, I might ask myself questions like: whose content would I miss the most if they stopped making it? Which creators do I know to be trying (reasonably plausibly) to make a living from their creations, vs. those doing it as a hobby who would probably continue without Patreon contributions?

3) I have reduced or stopped contributions when I stop enjoying (and therefore stop consuming) a creator's content, or when the amount of enjoyable content they produce goes down. (I know the latter reason for reducing contributions can create a vicious circle, I don't have a good answer for it.) If the person is trying to make a living off their art, and they aren't a megastar, they will never really stop "needing" contributions from some minimal number of fans.

Some creators I support don't easily fit into the above framework. For instance, for Every Frame a Painting I contribute $1 per video. His videos are rare (one every few months), far less than an hour long, make over $7000/video (so I don't feel like my personal contribution is particularly "needed"), and (so far as I can tell) are not a source of income he depends on. But I enjoy them so much that I often find myself watching them repeatedly and find I want to contribute.
TypeScript does to me (and technically I suppose it is a different language), where it gets interesting is that TS made me a better JS programmer since I could express stuff the way I wanted to and then look at the output.

The only transpiler I've seen that gets close in terms of quality of output is BuckleScript, that thing is damn near magic but TS has the momentum and adoption.

TypeScript has been so good and caused me so few problems that I actually look at ways of moving more bits to the frontend, it makes it pleasant to work and I think (personally) the highest praise you can give a language is that it's pleasant.
Ads are a good business model but a bad cultural model. If your users are paying the bills, only your users can penalize you if you do something an advertiser wouldn't like. If you make a hard hitting documentary that says mean things about powerful people, advertisers pull their funding but your audience might have wanted to see it.
Texas is HOT, and humid in parts, with barely a breeze. California in the Northern parts is not that hot, and all of coastal California has a nice ocean breeze keeping things cool.
I think WHO is buying is just as important as WHAT is being bought.

Who knows what would happen to WhatsApp if Google bought it? Could it become one of Google's current chat apps that no one uses?
Well, the first several tweets in their stream right now are: Project Dumbo (this story, a leak against the CIA), a leaked series of documents on Swedish arms sales to India, a link to leaked transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexican and Australian leaders, a criticism of the Washington Post's decision to leave "minor spelling and grammatical errors" in the leaked documents intact (as these could be useful in identifying the leaker), a criticism that U.S. interference in Venezuela has worsened their governance crisis, and finally, two tweets that link to leaked phone calls which strongly imply Seth Rich was Wikileaks's source for the Podesta mail dumps.

That seems to be pretty much what you'd expect from Wikileaks, no? A bunch of links to raw documents and cited critiques on international meddling and journalistic practice? That stream includes a criticism of U.S. meddling in international affairs, two leaks against the Trump admin, and a criticism of the WaPo's incompetence in sanitizing their leak, thus risking their inside man.

How does it reveal "the side" that Wikileaks is on? If it's simply a matter of willful blindness, please enlighten me; I've got my eyes open here.
I guess I'm not so worried about the "I'll pay you X" stuff vs. outright fraud. (And it already happens, anyway -- I had a friend who volunteered at a voting site here in SF for the last prez election, and he was quite surprised by how many elderly people came in, confused, just asking how they could vote "how they were supposed too".)
I think you're right. Average annual high temp in Dallas is 77 degrees F. It's 64 for San Francisco. Obviously would need more analysis, but there's certainly much difference between the two northernmost significant cities. Though the article cites mostly industrial use as the difference.
I stand corrected. It is three years for many federal crimes, but since the CFAA has no specific statute of limitations, you are correct that crimes prosecuted under it use the default number, which is 5 years. On a side note, if you are an international person visiting the US, you do not want to be arrested for a federal crime in Las Vegas...if you think you may be arrested, visit somewhere else. There is no automatic right to bail in the federal system, and the District Court in Las Vegas is notorious for ruling that most non-US defendants are flight risks. That means, at a minimum, you will go through a month-long transfer process (that goes through Oklahoma, regardless of your destination) to get to wherever your federal warrant was actually issued before you are likely to be granted bail.
I am the only one thinking of http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html?

Why place an over one year old alleged offer in the media today?

Because the shares are free-falling, user growth quarter-over-quarter will likely be abysmal and float will drastically increase in 2 weeks.

The only possible sliver of hope for shareholders right now is a potential buyout. Remember how many times Twitter rallied on 'chatter' of a Google bid?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/08/twitter-s...

https://www.cnet.com/uk/news/twitter-buyout-rumors-google-sa...

Edit: interesting number of down votes, is this such a far fetched conspiracy theory? If it was such an open secret at Snap, why has this not come out yet?
Facebook.com today loads functionality dynamically. Open the Network panel, interact with a secondary feature, and you will see it load code on-demand.

With respect to your example of unnecessary modules, sometimes the dependency trees between modules are non-obvious. But more to the point, the code served to a user is NOT personalized for each individual user and to their specific newsfeed and UI contents. This is actually a performance optimization. Facebook looks at which modules are most commonly required across most users based on their recent activity, and then bundles those common modules into large packages and pushes them aggressively to the browser. This actually results in a very large loading-time win, but ends up overserving some % of extra modules that are not needed by a specific user.
There should be no middle men. Only a direct P2P model will truly benefit everyone.
This has gotta be the funniest blogpost in years, yet so legit that it makes one sad how easy it is to pull this off.
Don't let this scare you.

When I first started learning this stuff, I started a blog. I made maybe 3 posts before giving up on it, thinking about how much I didn't know, how that everything I could write about at the time was probably covered elsewhere and better, etc.

Several years later I regret giving up.

A lot of writing is writing for yourself. Obvious benefits to that, one of which is hopefully you get better at communication, which is huge in life in general, not just a career as a dev on a team.

Another is learning through teaching or keeping a record. I've probably forgotten a bunch of things over the years that, had I written them in my blog I may remember, or at least know where to find the post instead of scouring the internet looking for another post by someone else that I used to helped me solve a problem.

Potential employers may like seeing a blog as well. You can tell someone you're passionate about x, but where's the proof of that passion? It may not be the most in depth blog like Dr. Axel Rauschmeyer's, but it'll still show what you know. And you never know who's reading, so you may help someone in the process.

The internet is already filled with "litter" or useless things. But if you're getting use out of it then that's the main point to focus on.
Nice! Finding a good clean way to explain this will be a challenge though.
> you're welcome to prove me wrong

Ahahah what?

You are the one claiming this. The burden of proof is on you
Thank you very much for the comment, especially the freecodecamp link. I've completed some Code School and Codecademy courses, but neither of the "schools" offers a community I could join and work with. I'll also have a look at what Sarah Drasner said on the subject - and hopefully find there something helpful and inspirational.
The answer to #2 is that you can just put a private / protected keyword in front of the `#prop` declaration. The difference between public and protected, etc is larger than the difference between private and protected, etc.
It gets really tricky when you have any kind of polymorphism, intended or not.

If you accept instances of your own class as arguments to a method, you may be templated to think you can access the private fields of those arguments, even if instanceof checks pass, but they may not be there.
If you the type of person to read the article, you aren't likely to submit a basic dictionary password. Either your passwords have more entropy or you know better than to submit them.
I guess they really don't need to cover all of them though as most of the people speaking a language with low number of speakers would be able to converse in other mainstream languages as well. I can speak four languages but I rarely converse in two of them as speakers of the two languages are usually comfortable with a mainstream language as well.
In what way is a gym membership a scam?
Yup, replied above. Thanks for digging into this more :)
Yes, it would be fun. The problem being that there is no scale to measure humour and taste, and that moon joke doesn't seem good. But I regret that, in the absence of a scale, our culture decides there shouldn't be humour. I'm curious whether it's a USA thing or whether an Asia-originated or Africa-originated Wikipedia and StackOverflow would have resulted in different rules.
I'm just pointing out that both effects are, at this point in time, just rounding errors
Mind if I turn the question upside-down? What would be features of a site that you would like for news?

In browsing the comments:

Personalization is super important. How would that be defined? How personal? How impersonal?

'Signal-to-noise' is important. What does that mean for you? What is signal? Do you know before hand? Can you rank a few items that are more 'signal' than 'noise'? What is noise? Does that vary from day to day for you?

Addiction is important. What is 'addictive' to you? Is that a good thing during some parts of the day and not others? Do you want your nephews to have access to that addictive news service? Do you want ot have a 'stop it' button to stop yourself?

New content is important. How new? What is content to you? What type of medium, like videos or text? A mix of many media? What languages and from what countries?

Any other ideas/important things to grep from this comments section?
Isn't considering yourself lucky for being white a somewhat racist viewpoint? Perhaps you have more in common than you thought.
I wrote a keystroke logger for Windows, but I've never used it outside of demonstrations. Doing so may be illegal, so talk to a lawyer in your state to get the facts. Here's the source code:

https://github.com/w8rbt/keycap
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What's Louisana and Wyoming's problem?
Tesla has made fewer than 190000 cars total, to date. Over 77 million cars were sold worldwide last year. And that's just cars.
Absolutely this. And also whenever I see a mod axe a whole conversation and replace it with the form response of "this conversation has been moved to chat", I know that is Stack Exchange's way of tossing conversation into /dev/null (and oftentimes when I'm involved in one of those conversations, it gets the axe because the mod doesn't want opposition to their opinion). It's deleting content without actually deleting content. I've seen way too many useful, on-topic, mind-expanding conversations tossed out using this mechanism, never to be seen again.
They are on the side of transparency and seek to correct propaganda spread about them. They did not choose to be the left's whipping boy, but are in a position of defense.
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In principle redox flow batteries should offer better scaling properties for stationary storage, but Li batteries have a process advantage of several years. So the picture might change down the road as long as there is still enough money flowing into alternative research.
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Benevolent AI maybe?

More Iain Banks "Culture", that's the universe I'd choose out of all sci-fi to live in I think.
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Sure, if you can maintain comprehension. It's a combination of 1) most audiobooks are narrated very slowly so that people have no trouble comprehending them, and 2) audio speedup algorithms have gotten really good.
Then why didn't he write it as 14/3?

Anyhow, I thought he was more narrowly saying that 22/7 is closer to the true value of pi than 3.14 is.