skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The governor of Colorado and Denver businessmen, including David Moffat, were worried that their city would be eclipsed by Cheyenne, and their own neighbor, the City of Golden, so they raised money to build the 'Denver Pacific' railroad between Cheyenne and Denver. Around the same time, 'Kansas Pacific' built a railroad from Kansas City to Denver, and Denver became a railroad junction in August 1870. Union Pacific's bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha wasn't completed until March 1872, requiring a ferry trip across the Missouri that was a widely-recognized annoyance [1].

This railroading victory revitalized Denver at a very opportune time.

Moffat continued to dedicate his fortunes on continuing a railway directly west across the Rockies from Denver. He died in 1911 with his railroad companies largely bankrupt and incomplete, but in 1928 one of the successor companies opened the Moffat Tunnel, named in his memory, along the right-of-way he laid out. Now, the route from Denver west to Nevada is owned by Union Pacific, despite having been built by competitors to UP's (and CP's) route through Nevada-Ogden-Wyoming.

[1] http://www.cprr.org/Museum/Reports/pictures/capture_00309.ht...
Ah, I hadn't considered that, thank you.
I like this idea! I mean, buildings can catch fire as well, but you can fireproof them. http://m.firefree.com/

Also if your goal is just to reduce carbon in the atmosphere you literally DO chop down trees and make sure they don't rot (timber into lumber and plywood) and the you can bury them under a sarcophagus or something.

In short, if your utility is building vs removing carbon from the atmosphere, you choose what to do.

Why don't people do this on a planet wide scale?????? What is the downside? Seems it would be an amazing natural carbon sink. What are the downsides and obstacles?

If private companies planted trees they could monetize all that timber also!!
Its not centrist position, unless "centrist" is so broad as to include every position not at the farthest extreme of either the left or right, as anyone not at a far polar extreme could agree with it.
Training and Giveaway
So, you want the twitch.tv model then?
And this is why maybe Trump can have one good effect: By causing other countries to distance itself from the US.
jmreid is right, it's not hard at all to get music on Spotify (I've used CDBaby for 3 albums so far). But yes, you're absolutely right about focusing on a 'sound-oriented social networking tool'. If that was the direction, then I'd see no real monetization opportunities outside of advertising (and premium to remove ads).
Can someone explain how he ever hoped to win this?

One could say it's because the guy's basically a nutjob of sorts. But that's be oversimplifying (if ever so slightly).

The more nuanced explanation is that -- like a lot of rich techies -- he apparently subscribes to an intellectual culture that believes that now matter what written laws say -- states and other governmental entities actually have limited legitimacy, and in effect are fundamentally subordinate to "common" or "natural" law. Specifically when it comes to the "rights" of owners of real property.

So just because the law says something -- something silly about a requirement to grant the unwashed public "access" to a plot of land that, after all, you bought and paid for -- as the land owner, you really don't need to pay any attention to it. Or if you want to be a big craftier, you can just say "I don't like this current jurisdiction's laws, and I'd prefer to respect the laws of its (for some 150+ years) vanquished predecessor instead."

So if people come after you in the courts -- hey, if you can afford lawyers sufficiently skilled so as to bamboozle either the justices in the jury with lofty-sounding talk about how, actually, the chain-of-title goes all the way back the land grants made by the Mexican Empire (and hence, you only have to worry about what its laws say about any requirements for public beach access) -- then more power to you.

Which is actually the route Khosla took in this case.
>1. Can IP be encoded as a way of dodging the DMCA? a: no.

This is false if the IP being enforced is trademark (which I'm not even sure is covered by the DMCA).
Does it make sense to pour money to keep a sinking ship afloat?

Just like Twitter, if the service changes too much it might lose its only asset (the community) but if it doesn't change it will sink.
> Then you're making a sexist argument that ability is correlated with gender among the candidates.

I don't know what you mean by "sexist argument," but yes, I am making an argument that because of pervasive industry-wide sexism, ability is not independent of gender in applicants to tech jobs.

I agree that I need to provide evidence for this (and I'm sort of intending to write up something arguing this, but I'm at a conference this week). But I Googled for 'average gpa men women computer science', and the first paper I found shows that retention rates in college are worse for women than men year-over-year, but GPAs are worse for men than women year-over-year, which matches the hypothesis I came up with earlier.

https://engineering.purdue.edu/MIDFIELD/Papers/2005-graduati...
This might create a new front in the war against ads. You'll have ad blockers, then they'll build in a component to block anti-adblock mechanisms, which will force the ad makers to employ more countermeasures... I don't see how the content providers will ever win this war. They have more to lose here.
Enter Elephone’s ELE OS 1.0 Testing Group and Win Free Gifts
perhaps not as necessary now that SoundCloud managed to close a round, but wrote this little tool last night to backup my SoundCloud data.
No one is trying to diminish them. The thing is, brilliant marketeers already know how to be celebrated. But finding the scientists and engineers take extra effort to notice, because they aren't naturally "loud" about it.
Solar power, wireless service, remote working and transportation advances might change where we live. You can have a house powered by the sun without an electric grid, connect to LTE+++ with 100gbps, work remotely, and have food automatically delivered with self-driving trucks or drones. You could live anywhere you'd want.
There are a number of statements like "QUIC is functionally equivalent to TCP+TLS+HTTP/2" in the "QUIC wire specification" and other documents, and this agrees with what I remember seeing in the source in the Chromium repo when I last looked.

I've not read about the IETF version; I'll look into it.
It's like the article says: either Sundar didn't take the time to read the memo himself (which would be stupid and dangerous), or he didn't understand it (which is another way of calling him stupid), or - as seems most likely -
he knowingly misrepresented it.
> But they would not make any money via ads from me anyways.

Then perhaps you are not their target audience, and they won't miss you.
At the same time, Google should also pull in and disciple their employees that were rabble-rousing about the memo on social media.

They aren't doing that and it's creating a perception of unfairness.
Lawsplainer: Why John Oliver Is Anti-Diversity Now
A True Random-Number Generator Built from Carbon Nanotubes
I hinted it earlier, but if you insist:

The books except the one about presidents (which seems to be just history) and the Iraq war piece (which was in the tail end of being career-ending if you criticized), the organization he co-founded, and the speeches he's done that aren't about Israel.
There is very definitely a difference between programming in the 70's, 80's, 90's, and now .. in the 'new millennium'.

Except, there really isn't. You still need to pay attention to the state of the stack, whether its the memory kind, or HipNewTechDeJeur™ kind.

I don't think a lot of new developers learn these things, though. Or else there really wouldn't be a need to describe "full stack developers". In the good ol' days, it was pretty important to know the context of your heap/stack usage - it still is.

(That's the point.)
It reminds me of a number station because the article had a long section talking about numbers stations, and speculating on where "the Buzzer" fits in, given the assumed typical uses for those stations.
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I suppose they should be talking about budget velcoties.
I wake up late, too, yes, but once in a while I'll be so engrossed in something that I'll get four hours of sleep. I'll generally have to make up for that sleep later that week, though.
Something being offensive doesn't mean it's wrong or that it shouldn't be debated.
"This financing means SoundCloud remains strong, independent and here to stay.

Independent? I beg to differ...
Same here. I pay for Spotify and I'd never start paying for an additional one. SC has to refocus on what people originally went there for: in-progress works, experiments, remixes, one-offs, etc etc.
Investing billions of dollars in companies and paying employees crazy salaries simply because their title contains the word "data", how is there no way to collapse that? One day the time comes to reap the reward and when the rewards are a lot smaller than expected funding will be withdrawn or at the very least scaled back.
Mike Pence website hacked for hours?
It’s worth noting that, if you enter this space, you’ll be competing with existing miners, some of which are quite large. Some have over 10% network hashrate, which means they’re earning 12.5BTC×$3500/BTC=$43,750 every two hours. That’s half a million dollars per day, or $15m per month, and I assume most of it is being channeled back into optimizing their already fairly optimized ASIC chips. And you’ll be starting from scratch.
Didn't realize that too-high engagement counted against rank. Interesting approach.
They used to provide standard MP3 streams. Not sure if they still do.
UPDATE:

Just to clarify, I do not have access to anything that you might call substantial money, nor do i plan to spend even 1/30 of my monthly income.

I just wonder what could I do if I spend my monthly budget that I dedicated to buying fun steam games and silly hardware (e.g. buying camera lenses even tho I shoot as total amateur 5 times per year)

I was just wandering what can i do if I redirect that small amount of money + utilizing some of my spare time and computers/programming knowledge.

But, as I was saying, I totally missed on the whole field, so I don't even know where to start.

I want to approac this as a developer, maybe write some software, maybe host some trading bots (is that even viable strategy?)

I will NOT spent any money or savings, rest assured, and I really do appreciate your concern! I can tell it was honest!
> The fourth actor is the media. The coverage of the memo has been atrocious.

The irony.
I agree with you, I don't think Braintree offers reps to any small 1 person company, but we are mid sized and clear a fair amount of payments each month which is why I think we have a rep
"if you are invested in an issue, find a way to get involved (reach out to you representative etc.) and have a voice in the discussions, rather than waiting idly by and demonstrating against the result."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tu32CCA_Ig

The data seems to show that simply isn't true. It isn't malice, but only representing the interests of those who finance your campaign and ensure you have a job for the next election, which is entirely not the point of our federal government.
Blocking a domain does not circumvent any copyrighted content distribution

It's like saying that turning off TV block the distribution of GOT hence is a tool to circumvent HBO copyright
Unfortunately, Youtube is the youtube for music. :(
This argument really gets old. Morally you know what you're doing. Most people would be fine blocking the big dozen or so of the most offensive ad networks but this extreme approach (especially when the publisher is trying to offer you choices) just comes off as ridiculous.
Given the scale of the problems they are tackling, I'm quite surprised how little they are saving. $5m over $120m is only 4%. I would imagine municipalities' manual route planners wouldn't be that great.

We have found with many real-world scenarios, that at a much smaller scale we could save easily up to 40% in driving time and fuel costs. When we studied cases of 20+ vehicles and ~1000 stops, sometimes the savings were up to 60%.

In one scenario we took 8 cars off the road form a fleet of 30. [1] That's 26% compared to the article's 11.5%. Not to discount its results, dropping 75 bus routes is incredible! Imagine dropping another 75 :)

Note that since this is an NP-complete problem, the larger the size of the problem, the more constraints you add, the harder it is for any human route planner to plan routes efficiently -- so the larger the potential efficiency gains for an algorithm.

Disclaimer/plug: founder of Routific here.

[1] https://routific.com/stories/spring-hope-food-drive/
What the Republican party says and what it does are very different.

I don't know how intentional this is, but I suspect they want to be able to drum up support next election far more than they want change.
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YES! This is the model we should move to in music, media, and arts in general.

I think the subscription model is the most valid, but what happens e.g. with Spotify is that most of my subscription goes to a small artists I don't care about.

The right way to do it is: take my subscription, take a cut, split the rest to the artists that I listened to based on the amount of playing time I put on each of them.
I tried Vim bindings in Atom for about five minutes before the inconsistencies pushed me back to regular Vim (this was back when I started learning).

I switched to emacs/evil-mode a while ago (maybe 7-8 months into using Vim) and I've really enjoyed it. Evil does everything I want (at least that I know I want). There are unsupported features, but not ones I'm familiar with.

Text objects are supported and the ports of commentary and surround have worked great as well. Marks and macros are fully supported.

I much prefer emacs-style remapping, and there is a package, vim-leader, that gives you a nice way to define leader mappings.

I can't speak for :g// (don't really use it and on a phone at the moment so I can't check) but :s// works well.

My overall opinion is that vim-style editing is second to only rolling your own modal editing style (there is an emacs package that lets you do that, I believe) and that emacs as a host editor for that editing is hard to best as well. To be fair, I'm a really big fan of Lisp, so that's also part of the draw for me. Magit is something else to try out as well. In my opinion, it's much better than fugitive.
If he has the opinion that his coworkers are biologically inferior, I didn't see that in the memo.

Can you explain how you came to that conclusion?
Seems to be same group of mainstream writers who also dished out Trump as a joke candidate and hailed Clinton as winner.

Very few had the courage to talk against that trend, one of them was Michael Moore and check how accurate he was when compared to "mainstream": https://michaelmoore.com/trumpwillwin/
I think that education can only result from prior experiences, rather than projections.

If the experience influencing education has come from those who have been 'through the ringer' at the companies pushing the technology forward, education will always be one step behind corporate influence. Catch-22 unfortunately.

The paradigm I think has shifted (for better or worse) from taking the letter from academia to taking it from those who have advanced these technologies within public perception (with or without fuelling from media influence)
I don't understand how your comment is a response to mine. Could you please clarify?

The DMCA is a set of laws. The DMCA takedown procedure is a part of those laws, defined in a fairly rigid way: it has specific notification requirements, timeframes, and is clearly defined to only apply to copyright infringement. Just because the DMCA also prohibits circumvention, it doesn't automatically follow that circumvention is the same as copyright infringement. And the Wikipedia section that you linked to doesn't mention the takedown process at all.
I actually don't see that as a bad concept. It might make Amazon/Twitch curious about how they might do the same, but competition is good.
I'd rather just go a level up... You don't want users to tamper with your ads? Ok, we'll block your entire site. No tampering.
One of my teachers said that meditation should make you less resilient to stress and make you realize that need to change your life. So if someone credits their material success to meditation it's best to view this as an abuse or misunderstanding of the practice.

That doesn't sound accurate. Are you suggesting that one would be less resilient to stresses linked to livelihood or stress in general?

Over time meditation and yoga practices should help develop equanimity extensively, a factor that helps deal with stressful situations with more grace and emotional balance.
Depends on the field though. Although a good school they will pay for your Phd tuition and give you a small stipend(~1500K), which is not great. But there are ways for making up for the lost pay; I do know of a few Data Science Managers who earlier dropped out of their Phd and earned good sums. Some began consulting. Also the big tech firms are recruiting studying Phds to do research for them.
This is indeed a good strategy as seen for twitch, but for artists there are many other competing channels to give money:

I personally use SoundCloud to find music and buy them on iTunes (links are usually included in the description and artists would definitely get a cut from Apple). I believe buying merchandise and attending concerts would be popular as well.
4) accessing the site via archive.is or similar service.
again, what does a text file do to violate the dmca? what's next, a 128-bit number?

IANAL, so i guess until it goes to the court and is decided, we won't know.
Just move the list on a server in Iceland

Game-set-match
I take issue with your first point but not your second.

I don't believe that the fact that a commentator is conservative means they are spewing propaganda as Fox News is. Fox News is conservative, and Fox News is unfair and unbalanced. The conservative nature of Fox News is not why it is unfair and unbalanced.

Totally agree on the second part, though. Huge pool of candidates, honestly ridiculous to think that this would explain the imbalance at Google.
To the author's credit, I did omit a footnote that called out deltas as exceptions. But yes, such clear-cut exceptions to the rule are both quite rare and make for fascinating geography--which incidentally make them perfect for fantasy maps! :) What is Middle-Earth without the Lonely Mountain, after all?
I'm curious—is the music you were listening to on SC not available on Spotify, or not in the same amounts? Obviously there is a lot of new, original stuff on SC that's often not 'officially' released or distributed. But it would seem that, nonetheless, that's still not enough of a draw to build (enough of) a subscription service around it?
Kind of like if we extrapolate the 10% of the population who are vocally upset at google because of the dismissal we only have 30+ million upset with google the co.
Meh... and this army of developers still hasn't figured out how to ship a distro with a proper font rendering. Having to do [1] is insane. And every time you bring this up, there's always "looks fine to me" or "a matter of taste" argument. Nope it's not.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Fedora/comments/5ea3bx/font_renderi...
I'd vote for by CRISPR and the rest of bio-technology, e.g., as in Eric Lander and his MIT lectures at YouTube, for, my guesses, better crops, healthier farm animals, attacking insects, e.g., mosquitoes, attacking causes of infections, for curing some of the remaining difficult diseases, especially cancer.

A second guess, or a guess for second place, would be artificial general intelligence (AGI) if and only if someone or some team or project gets going on that problem and has some good, basic, enabling ideas.

I have some ideas, but since they really are just architectural or heuristic and not mathematical and not in code I can make only wild guesses for how good the ideas are.

A third guess, or a guess for third place, is my startup and its crucial core enabling technology, i.e., some original applied math I derived based on some advanced pure/applied math prerequisites. Why? In broad terms the core technology of the startup makes some powerful progress on meaning. Is this progress full AGI? Nope. Does the progress fully solve the problem of meaning? Nope. To repeat, IMHO the progress is "powerful".

Is the technology widely applicable? The range of applications should be somewhat wider than the application of my startup, e.g., as some core technology in some infrastructure for some more applications, but for now my original applied math is proprietary and in my startup is locked up and invisible in my server farm.

Why third in this list? Because it doesn't deserve first or second, but, if people like the results of my applied math and what I've programmed, then my startup can well become a big thing, big enough to be third on this list in a few years.

Gee, today I'm wrestling with Microsoft's NTBACKUP. So, today it's grunt work!
Mike Pence website was hacked for hours?
The main benefit would be the ability to offer public Internet-facing services through a NAT, even a carrier-grade NAT that lumps multiple ISP customers behind a single IP address. (You would need some kind of cooperation from the NAT to be able to allow incoming connections on a port range.)

JdeBP's post provides a good answer about the SRV records. The short version is a single DNS packet can contain both A/AAAA and SRV responses.
Btw, the university pages you mention are still extremely common, at least in mathematics-related fields
Why is it that the tech set always forgets that CS pedantry != legal pedantry? Have we forgotten about intent? You can't just change the line to a regex that /just happens/ to match that URL and go "neener neener neener it's not the same!" Are you willing to argue in court that that line was changed and it /just so happened/ to match the domain from before? Do you have a plausible explanation for why that change would've been made that doesn't involve "well, we were trying to creatively skirt a DMCA takedown request"?
If this is the case, then no one should lend any more credence to the term "full stack developer" than to the phrase "I like to work on all sorts of software" - because it's meaningless.

What I do know is that there are many dishonest types that will say they are "full stack" when they really aren't. Then there are others that will not lie on a resume and say they are, when they in fact aren't.

The reality is that any dev can learn to do both - but hiring managers want it all, now, for free, and with a smile.

All that said - the more disciplines and domains you use day to day, the worse off you are going to be IMO. Sure it's good be a polyglot, but specializing helps to hone and sharpen skills.
I've read it will be able to support up to 64GB when 32GB sticks become available.
Braintree has built in PayPal support which is a big advantage compared to Stripe. This can be very strong argument if your employer already has a business relationship with PayPal as then legal work can be worked out faster as Braintree is a PayPal company.

But as a developer I also prefer Stripe because they have better API and SDK libraries.

Also subscription model is better in Stripe. You can create plans dynamically. With Braintree the API doesn't allow you to create new plans on the fly. Existing subscriptions cannot be upgraded/downgraded between different plans.

Also Braintree sandbox has been very flaky from my experience. In 3 months they have had several downtimes which slowed down development a bit.
Another vote for Stripe supporting Estonia. As for e-residency, I believe you can also pick up the card at your local embassy.