skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If government and taxation and retirement systems require more and more population in order to operate successfully it's all coming down at some point.

Yup. And the longer you wait to fix it, the more painful it's going to be.

It also seems like most people are driven purely by instinct, the moment you even suggest they shouldn't breed like rabbits it's regarded as the most offensive thing you could possibly say. It's weird, I don't see how they suggest we keep going. When should we stop ? 10 billion, 15 billion ? Or just wait until society collapses and we go extinct ?
Off topic, but the way the mobile version of this site steals left- and right swipes makes a terrible UX.
While it is a subjective matter when looking from the outside, the OSI consortium did a pretty good job of bringing in all of the various groups conventionally referred to as 'open source' and getting the various definitions pinned down in a way that seems to accurately reflect the broad spectrum of possibilities, even to the point that non-open-source companies use their definitions.

While I agree one can still certainly debate the legitimacy of this situation if one so desires, it's pretty much consensus 'within the literature' that the OSI definitions 'are correct' at this pont..
Both WoW64 and Wine provide an environment that pretends to be 32-bit Windows and presents the Win32 API, but neither one is actually Windows XP. I've had pretty similar experiences trying to run old win32 games on both systems (i.e. it's hit or miss) but Wine has the significant advantage that it will allow a program to think it has admin privileges when it doesn't. Also under Wine, I've had better luck running games from ISOs I've ripped, where I have to insert an actual CD in a physical drive for the program to run under Windows.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15139790 and marked it off-topic.
So is your Android, iOS, macOS and every linux flavour out there. What's so special about Windows being insecure?
Zcash has opt-in private transactions which are computationally very expensive. So, they do work, but being opt-in they might as well not exist. In my opinion full privacy must be mandatory for all participants for it to be truly effective. Monero is currently the only project that fits this criteria.
For a business, the first community that matters is customers. Probably the best way for a business to find communities containing people with similar needs to their customers is to ask their customers.

Among the categories listed, the only one that has an above average income from activity in the category is developers. Most writers and musicians don't make any money.

Good luck.
This largely depends on which government. For the US or EU the choke point is dollars or euros. They just make it illegal for any bank to do business with any organization that accepts said cryptocurrency. It won't "destroy" the cryptocurrency, just make it unviable as a currency. If you want to see something similar in action really dig into the nitty gritty details of how sanctions are used via the international banking system.
Yeah, but these dollars don't have to pass through your bank account anymore, so you're pretty safe with not paying taxes on them.
You must see it in a broader context. I'll paraphrase you:

"jesus christ. the damage our own government has done to [Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, Vietnam, Serbia, Afghanistan...] is just insane. if i was a [citizen of these countries] I would be so pissed."

At least, the shareholder has his life and his property (sans the missed opportunity due to "the damage our own government has done to microsoft").
Idea is interesting. But it goes off the rails on the Apple logo which is shown as one of the exemplar logos that pops up. Not critical, hopefully some feedback to improve the tool

1) It gives a low uniqueness score because there are fonts include an apple that imitates the apple logo not the other way around. score 30!?!?!

2) black apple on white fields gives a contrast score of 50?? uhmm...
For many people it's a way to stop being couch political activists and start actually implementing what they believe in. That's why so many people are angry about Bitcoin - they truly dislike what it represents and allows.

Oh please. This is just like someone's mom telling their kid "they're bullying you because they're jealous".

The arguments against cryptocurrencies are legion. Some of those are arguments are very good. Some not so much.

But this argument of yours is nothing more than a baseless ad hominem attack leveled at people you disagree with.
> Apple has to pay the property tax equal to the farmland for the next 20 years instead of the much higher tax on the datacenter property. Who cares?

Let's say I have a house or small business. Do I get a property tax abatement? If I don't, Apple shouldn't either. Big corporations should pay their fair share of taxes.
Barcelona. We have a very supportive medical system but there is a trend towards cesareans and formula feeding (according to our paediatrician).
And how many layers of red tape do you think the dev would have to go through to get a new domain?
It has nothing to do with nerves being struck and everything to do with your 150 year out of date social analysis being so absurd that it's not even wrong.

By the way, the lower class is striking back, but it looks more like a fake tan and a combover than the image of St. Petersburg in 1917 you seem to lust for.
Its about feeling smarter than the guy next to you.
Anyone else notice how circular that mass was? Nature loves economy.
Great work.

I don't feel comfortable commenting on the accuracy since art is somewhat subjective and I am not an artist. Though I realize that many things in art can be measured.

So two logos I paid about $75 each for on Fiverr got 85/100 and 95/100 overall ranking respectfully. Which makes me feel good about the money spent on my logos :)

A logo we spent quite a bit more on from an agency got a 96/100 which is ironic to me because I like the other ones better.
Implementing sendmsg and recvmsg for PyPy
Even the most basic life seems super complicated to me, I am not sure the first spark of life has that high probability of happening even under right conditions. But maybe I am over estimating its complexity.
> Microsoft has publicly stated that Windows 10 will be the last product in the Windows line.

This may be because:

1. Cloud is where the money is.
2. Maintaining an OS is a lot of burden (Hardware drivers,
patents, tie ups with several hardware/software vendors,
developer cost, and so on)

So the simple thing they can consider is to ditch the OS, and develop platform independent solutions. Gradually this will (hopefully) happen.

Releasing the OS source will be too much costly (cleaning back doors, lots of code smell, and so on). This will cause too many people vulnerable to attacks. And that can't happen.

So no, Windows won't go open source.
Equally unfounded, absolutist opinion: if government gets involved, it will be the legitimizing endorsement that takes crypto mainstream.
The flaw with that line of criticism is that it makes assumptions about the meaning of the ratings. Note, too, that Arrow's impossibility theorem applies to ranking but not ratings. That also applies to a very simplified, idealized case which can be superceded by more sophisticated voting/rating systems.
I worry about this too. Who cares if you have more money if it has less buying power per dollar? This is also why I worry about drastically higher minimum wage. Poor people have more money but all the places they spend it have higher costs that lead to higher prices. Rich people don't spend the majority of their money at Wal-Mart so it affects them less. EITC and other tax reductions on the poor seems more effective and doesn't reduce buying power.
I wish. I actually faced many of those people in real life. People are really angry about Bitcoin.
These design|use patterns depend entirely on a level of abstraction facilitated by code you don't understand
and I have seen this bite people badly.

Using redis or memcache or whatever semi-persistent , network available data store for key value pairs only has middling value (to me) and relies on adopting a data model that is severely limited in scope. If you can't understand the structure of a 'packet' on the network then you can't really troubleshoot network dependent services that provide your L7 function.
It gave the black apple logo on white field a score of 50
There is a term here that is misused. The world «currency» has nothing to do with this, otherwise very nice and genuine technical artifact. The people who coined the term definitely have no clue about economy and how currencies work.

If those were called «crypto-highly-speculative-assets», that would have been a totally different story. But "Currency"?! That is way to off.
I tried our company's logo (https://bench.co/press-kit/#brand), which I think is pretty strong, and it gave it high marks.

But then I tried a very bad logo ("Kate's Florist" from http://www.paulmurraydesign.com/graphic-design/how-to-spot-a...) and it was ranked almost as good.
> They don't ignore cryptocurrencies, they just don't recognize them as 'currencies'[1][2], since they're not backed by a central authority (government or bank).

Australia seems to recognise Bitcoin as currency [1], as does Japan[2].

1. http://www.businessreviewaustralia.com/finance/2403/Australi...
2. https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/12/bitcoin-price-rises-japan-ru...
As an English speaker I have never heard of this, best practice in formally written documents is to expand acronyms when first used eg LAN (local Area Network)
> It always disguises as "C:\Windows\system32\svchost.exe"

If I ever meet the manager who decided bundling half the services in the OS into svchost was a good idea, I'll give him a piece of my mind. I've lost more hours to that (both cleaning malware and troubleshooting performance or crashes) than anything else on Windows since the 9x days.
I think a lot of the technologies and ideas are going to be important, but I don't think any of the current cryptocurrencies have long-term potential.

You can't pivot a currency the way you can a corporation, and I think that will make a difference in how long cryptocurrencies last.

If you really wanted to make a ton of money on cryptocurrencies, you'd develop the Google to ETH's Ask Jeeves.

I don't have the time to actually make a client -- but there's definitely some low-hanging fruit in terms of improving the marketplace. Satoshi proposed a brilliant solution to a distributed trust problem -- and we'll likely use the kernel of that idea for a long while to come -- but that doesn't mean the first generation or two of implementations are going to be long-term survivors.
Houston famously has almost no zoning laws and is extremely developer friendly and car-oriented. To the point where a developer friendly mayor managed to knock us back thirty years in terms of mass transit, completely blocking a rail plan because the critics envisioned it sending people past their malls and new housing developments.

It's also a very large metropolitan area thanks to a city charter that originally granted it broad annexation powers. The city proper is ~600 sq/mi or 1560 km^2. So there's not one single solution to our paving over arable land or water management. Realistically we should probably buy out people living behind / upstream Addicks Reservoir and rebuild the dam from just rammed earth with concrete caps to something larger and stronger. The dam was overtopped by this storm and Army Corps of Engineers had to release water from the reservoir due to concerns about that and preventing it overtopping in the "wrong" spot.
See http://i.imgur.com/usZAici.jpg

Since this storm is potentially the new norm expanding the area to catch and hold water is most likely the right path, but there's almost zero chance it'll actually happen.
The further into the future we are, the more I start to believe inverse to be true in general, not only in security world. For some reason in security world a neat extra breaking security is treated as possible intentional backdoor.

Without treating mistakes, incompetencies, outright stupidities as malicious, we grow a new generation of technologists (including me, sadly), who do not bother to become adept in problem domain, consult with experts, perform strict analysis, cause tons of technical debt for the sake of moving fast. Good enough is the norm. We still see plain text, hashed without salt, hashed with the same salt password databases leaked. Maybe it was incompetence. Maybe it was stupidity. Maybe it was FIXME. Maybe the loaded gun was left on dinner table near a toddler because "I'm only going to bathroom". This is rhetoric question: can this stupidity be seen as malicious?
I agree, Monty is a good presenter and a good speaker. You can tell he loves his subject matter, and he's eloquent and understandable in sharing it.
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DNS was hijacked, that's it.
... per megabyte.
I think it's much less likely to have collisions because the input space is so restricted (just valid phone numbers).
Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.12.4.min.js. (Reason: CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' missing).

rookie mistake
I agree pragmatism is the best way forward. As long as production is up though and the baby is putting weight on well I personally wouldn't push for formula nor would my partner.

I think the problem we found with our personal situation was from day one anything that occurred such as baby crying,fussing, not sleeping was attributed directly to poor breast milk by both people we knew and strangers. My partner felt forced to move to formula but luckily with support from our midwife her supply came in well and both baby and mother are happy.

Choices and support are the most important things but if supply,will,health and the option allow a mother to breastfeed I think the benefits do outweigh formula.

Happy to hear you had a supportive paediatrician!
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The other side of this debate is that as a small business, if you find a municipality willing to deal with you in terms favourable to your business, you'd be a fool not to work with them.
Gwern actually replied elsewhere in this thread mentioning that paper. It's a great read.
I can't imagine that commercial rates would stay the same if residential ones are rising.
Interesting...anyone have a good technical understanding of this? It sounds like theyre separating off the carbon dioxide and selling it. Plus using the carbon dioxide to improve combustion efficiencies.
I wonder how the logos made by http://www.horriblelogos.com would rank
While true, if you need OS X for your work, you're stuck.

I don't need OS X, but I prefer it for work for two reasons:

1) Developing on *nix like OSes is far more ergonomic to me than on Windows

2) OS X, in my opinion, hits a sweet spot of polish / "just works" and letting me do my power user things. It's not flawless by any metric, but it mostly stays out of my way.

I run Fedora on another laptop and Ubuntu on my older MBP, so technically the majority of my OSes are NOT OS X, while the majority of my hardware is.

I'll take the trackpad on my 2009 MBP over the trackpads I've felt on brand new Lenovos and Dells, and I can't recall a laptop keyboard as useful as the pre2016 MBP.

That being said, if my option is to be limited to half the memory of competitors and to change my entire world to USB-C, having to replace my Cinema Display, etc. when I upgrade my laptop in a year or two, it might be the excuse to go find a different manufacturer.

My biggest hesitation is finding very new models that work very well with my preferred distros.
>By the way, the lower class is striking back, but it looks more like a fake tan and a combover than the image of St. Petersburg in 1917 you seem to lust for.

Are you implying the lower class is "striking back" by electing a NYC real estate billionaire as president? Who are you thinking they are striking against, themselves?
When I was a teenager, I loved the Infocom games. I actually called a tip line once or twice to get unstuck. I would spend hours playing through, taking notes, and mapping my progress. I also loved stuff that came in the boxes. It has a similar nostalgia pull that I think some people get from vinyl records.

When the BBC put the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online [1], I loaded it up and went to work. Then I quit after about 15 minutes. I'd love to watch my 14 year old self working his way through that game. Did I have better focus? Did I have fewer things to spend my time on? Why was it so captivating then? It seems almost arduous today.

Have you played an Infocom game after a 30 year break? How did it go for you?

[1]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2...
Melted Icebergs of water.
My speculation is that most network activity is artificial. The primary source is likely speculation, purchase a cryptocoin and hold it, sell it eventually. I bet another large source is mining pools. Miners place transactions in a block, solve the hash, get a reward, then distribute the proceeds to members of the mining pool creating more transactions to mine. There are also darkmarket purchases and pass-through transactions (Bitcoin debit card). I do not see Bitcoin being used as a base currency any time soon (i.e. having your salary listed in BTC).
> In the UK, many welfare payments go directly to the person, so this wouldn't be a new issue.

Not sure what you mean by this. The issue is that currently welfare payments are earmarked: this money can only be used for rent, this money can only be used for food, etc. By eliminating our existing welfare programs, as is the case with every UBI proposal, we would instead be giving a single check and saying "manage this money wisely and pay your expenses." The problem is that when the money isn't earmarked for a specific purpose you can't be sure that the basic necessities are actually paid for before the money runs out. Just ignoring the fraud angle (spend all the money and claim an emergency makes you unable to pay for rent), how do you deal with someone having a _real_ emergency, having to spend all their UBI, and then being unable to pay for rent? Tell them tough shit? That's not what's going to happen.
Another missing element in the model: People who need it most are renting. You hand everyone $1000 per month and I guarantee there will be a large uptick in rents. This will short circuit economic activity and just push the money straight to those who own rental property, thereby increasing the wealth gap while raising the cost of living. I won't all go into this effect, but certainly a lot of it will.
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One thing banks have clearly demonstrated is they can be late to the party on just about every innovation and it isn't going to hurt them much. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader as to why.
On my team as a private company it looks like:

Dev: "Can I have a domain?"
Me: "Sure"
10 minutes later done

In government I imagine you need a procurement order which needs to be approved. And my anecdotal experience has been that the dev teams don't always take high priority in those queues.

I'm sure it's not as hard as I made it out to be but it is certainly not as straight forward as many of us are used to.
This is where some knowledge as a syseng or SA comes in very handy. Programmers tend to come up with cool solutions to a problem in their wheelhouse but it may not be the most cost effective or efficient solution. Having domain knowledge is very important.
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What do you mean by "self correcting"? What do you speculate the solution might be?
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It seems strange to blame the government -- couldn't you see this as self-inflicted damage from creating an insecure OS that runs a vast number of important computers?

I actually blame both, but it's not like MS is an innocent victim here -- there's a lot more they could have done on security, and didn't because it was expensive. If that choice being exploited costs them money, how is that anything but an effect of their own choices?
Considering that much of the democratic presidential platform this previous election cycle, I would have to disagree with the assertion that this view is a "fringe one."
Increased demand for some goods will create competition and prices will stay the same or fall. Commodity goods providers don't have pricing power so they can't raise prices without losing sales to competitors. There is also the "menu cost" which is the resistance of businesses to react in real time to economic events. A restaurant won't reprint menus everyday and the $1.99 cleaner won't change prices very often.

In addition. The total money supply isn't growing, it is being redistributed to people more likely to consume. The velocity of money will increase but the total amount won't. This will keep prices relatively stable.
The point of mathematical models is to be predictive. But I wouldn't call prediction "the whole point of science". That's reducing science to a means-to-an-end.

I think science is more commonly understood to be about discovery and exploration? Although it is commonly applied and turned into engineering, expansion of knowledge is still an end in itself.
> since they're not backed by a central authority (government or bank)

Neither are shares, yet banks are trading them on regular basis. Thinking of bitcoin as a currency makes as much sense as using shares/stock exchange to pay for groceries.
What else are they going to do with the money but invest it? Even if they let it sit in a relatively conservative investment, a bank is still probably going to be investing their money. In my opinion, the more important impact of higher taxes on investors is what that does to the total pool of investment money over time, since they are likely to reinvest a lot of their earnings. But that is also the exact thing a progressive tax system is meant to do -- shrink their wealth and redistribute it to others.
You cannot say, we haven't warned you Android users
How on earth would Bitcoin allow me to self-finance a project?
It says here you uploaded something nasty called a "Mega Bite"? Please explain that.
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This is a sad but easily fixed vulnerability on the part of the FCC. The bigger issue, in my mind, is the fact that the student (presumably an American citizen) who just uploaded a file via a public API is legitimately scared of aggressive retribution from his government. That should speak volumes of where we've fallen as a country.
Do You Make These Excuses as a Project Manager?
This is true but a study is useless if it can't measure the thing you want. Things in programming are notoriously difficult to quantify, compared to say, stuff in physics. Perhaps it's why there are so many holy wars.
And how far removed is the sub-team that manages this specific content posting part of the web content from the DNS team/process/red-tape to even make the inquiry about how to?
one or two exact-matches doesn't affect the score much. It considers the aggregate similarity of the 150 most similar icons, out of 1M icons. In Apple's case it's mostly because there are a lot of apple icons that look very similar. Apple's logo is iconic because they've built a brand for decades and with billions of dollars. Without that, maybe the shape itself isn't so unique?

the color/contrast score is 50% color and 50% contrast. So a b/w logo will get exactly 50%
> all mining is concentrated in the hands of botnet operators

Do you have a source for this? I'm not even sure what CPU based currencies you are talking about. GPU based proof of work seems like even more of a stretch seeing as particular high end cards that are better with integers and bit shifting are usually used.