skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read about blockstream some time ago:
https://www.coindesk.com/blockstream-using-satellites-beam-b...

Here Adam Back said:
"With a perpetual generator out back with a satellite dish, a Raspberry Pi by the generator, a local wi-fi hot spot, and the necessary software set up, you could be transacting globally with bitcoin."

Anyone can explain me why is the need for a local wifi hot spot here? And how much does it normally cost to setup a satellite dish?

Not to mention countries do have the ability to jam satellite signals. Here's the first article I find on google search:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/silencing-unwanted...
Do you have source on panasonic IFE hacks? Sounds interesting.
Previous rate was 0.75%
If you don't have to, don't re-encode it. All youtube videos nowadays have audio encoded in OPUS format, which compresses way better than MP3
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Keep in mind the energy costs of the supporting hardware for that brain, though.
So I admit that I've only skimmed the PDF on statewatch.org that the site points to, but I didn't see the "massive filtering" bit. This reads like the DMCA seems to be practiced; can someone point out to me the specific page number of the PDF, or better the text within the document, which refers to the content filtering?

I'm not saying the DMCA is a good thing or a bad thing; I'm just trying to get calibrated to what is being proposed in the directive. Thanks for the help!
Not to belittle the effort of the authors of this project, but when it's so easy to spin up a VM and feed the device through to it, it almost feels like we're past the point of needing native drivers for foreign filesystems. btrfs will surely work much better on a virtualized Linux kernel than through a buggy reimplementation of such a complex FS in Windows' driver platform.
>> Why are some people always suspicious of others who work a lot ?

Sometimes it's bragging. Sometimes it's somewhat delusional. A lot of folks who say they work that long don't really.

To be forced to do that much is awful, to do it voluntarily is probably obsessive.

We absolutely do not want that to become 'normal' or accepted. As others have mentioned, our forebears fought very hard to get the right to a family life, the right to time away from the grind. We shouldn't give it up so easily.

It's also likely to be really unhealthy.
The Rock method of waking up 6 days a week, doing 30 mins of heavy cardio and then lifting weights and pull ups is the only way I've found where you can keep an insane schedule without burning out. As soon as I hit a pillow I sleep no matter what I'm thinking/worrying about, and I wake up without any back pain or other problems where before I started this routine I always woke up with little pains and stiffness. I have energy all day, and the cardio seems to help with focus.

Something else I do for sanity is on Saturdays I work in a medical lab at a local university for a few hours designing and testing algorithms. It pays a joke salary, but it's intellectually satisfying work and you get access to PhDs to leech their knowledge. This can get stressful as mistakes can blow the results and ruin their research grant but it's something I look forward to doing every week outside my usual job of just adding features and putting out fires. If you can I highly recommend looking at your local university research position pages and seeing if there are any open on the weekend or in the evenings. For some reason local students here never take these.
>This is a common misconception, the Bitcoin network would not be harmed by governments seizing control of Bitcoin mining operations, there are many options in such of an event

You'll have to give us some sources for that I'm afraid, it's not at all obvious from my point of view.

Should China merely shutdown the miners the disruption shouldn't be too massive and only temporary while the difficulty adjusts to the new hash rate. But if they actually decide to use the miners "offensively" they could make a 51% attack and double spend bitcoins. Such an attack would greatly reduce confidence in bitcoin and would probably tank its value pretty hard. That sounds pretty harmful to me.
Introduction to Concurrency Models with Ruby: Actors, CSP, STM, Guilds
The exchange rate between the USD and CAD jumped by over 1% at the announcement despite it being widely expected:

https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/USDCAD:CUR
No probs. Looking forward to playing with what you build :)
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Not sure if this is what you're trying to say but it sounds like this is just a thing that designers will hop on a new trend every few years or so.

Except that I remember a few changes in design trends and many of them were for the better, others were a matter of taste that didn't really matter.

But "Flat UI" was a step down in almost every aspect (or whatever name Google called pretty much the same thing, and so did Microsoft have a name for their particular flavour of low-poly coloured squares). It doesn't even look good (personal opinion). Indeed it was confusing, after a while we got used to it, so it didn't hurt usability quite as much, but it was never good.

Just an excuse to not learn about actual usability guidelines. And with that, excuses to hide your anti-patterns under, which the tech giants all happily do. Tiny links function sometimes as buttons but all buttons are coloured squares so basically any layout element could do something but usually not, and with a touch-interface this adds even more stress because you can never tell where you can comfortably rest your finger to scroll or zoom, if even possible, which is not indicated because the cute flat scrollbars tend to fade away if they're not in use etc etc. Nonsense!

If most of the normal interface is already uncertain in functionality, then users (or consumers, eyes, or products) will not complain as much when they make a certain action harder to perform on purpose.

We got suckered into hostile UX. So maybe we can stop doing that now.
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What if I run a service that merely distributes instructions on how to "interact with" the couch DRM?

Will I be tried for criminal charges outside the US, and then extrajudicially extradited from my home in Cambodia?? [1]

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfrid_Svartholm
Why did you switch away from btrfs?
Boffins found multiple flaws in Mobile #Bootloaders using custom tool #BootStomp
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I thought about this, I thought about this a lot and I still do. Thing is, this attitude can quickly get you tumbling down the rabbit hole.

So say I'm a Java developer. But surely in order to be a good Java developer I should know the innards of the JVM, right? To do that I now have to also have to know C++ because that's what JVM is implemented in or whatever. But surely I can't know C++ well if I don't know C, right? But then I can't really grasp C well enough if I don't understand how assembly works, right? What about CPU instructions, different architectures, etc?

My opinion is that nobody should even try to drink what seems to be an ever expanding ocean of knowledge in IT. Let the people (in academia or wherever) who work on algorithms work on algorithms, let the people who write frameworks continue writing frameworks and let the rest of us code monkeys to use all those digested tools and technologies to do what we have to do on daily basis. You don't ask a common plumber to describe Bernoulli's principle during an interview, do you?
I don't have a download EPUB options, so it seems Adobe DRM'ed PDF is the only way, apart from reading it online.
Please don't do GPL – It's a no-go and too restrictive for a lot of organizations.

Apache 2 or MIT would be the most permissive.
>Not only it's slow, but transaction fees are ridiculously high. $4.3 currently.

Why is this meme constantly getting repeated? As I said yesterday (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15176214), paying 10+ satoshis per kB gets your transaction in the next block most of the time. It's still true as of today https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#8h.
So basically, there were toxic relationships in your former job so you started a startup?
The Node.js world is imploding
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Seconded on Apache-2.0 - it's what we use. GPL is not attractive to enterprise and will limit the adoption of the tech.
I don't think that's entirely accurate. It's not like the assets decayed due to lack of maintenance; they're more or less the same as they always were. It's just that they were never built to handle security requirements that are now required.
This is not a 'bugfix', it's a feature removal! I've used it all the time, now there's one extra step to navigate to a URL that I copy
Move Your Bugs to the Left
There's a "thanks" section at the bottom that linked to http://superherojs.com/ which seems to be the same thing for JS : )
More importantly, the "prime rate" at the banks almost always is relative to the overnight rate, and almost all short term or floating interest rates are relative to the prime rate.
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How is this just happening now? Java is super popular in the open source and academic communities, but C# has been ahead of them since its start with an open specification, open implementations, and for the past few years, a full-throttle open source effort.

What's going on?
The DDD/CQRS/ES topic appears on Hacker News every so often, and never fails to stir a strong debate. In fact, I was going to "Show HN" an Event Sourcing library I open sourced yesterday, but I guess I'll wait until everything dies down a bit :-)

I believe that the core principles of DDD/CQRS/ES are flawed and are the cause of a lot of pain. If your team plows forward and ignores the pain, you will have a bad experience working there. If your team decides to fix the problems with the architecture (usually in a way that's rather specific to their situation), and still insists that they're doing DDD/CQRS/ES, then you will have a great experience. The same can be said of many approaches to SQL database design.

When I joined Lokad, most of the code had been written by a strong CQRS advocate, and there were significant pain points caused by this approach that would have been nonexistent with a plain old SQL architecture. The author himself did a retrospective that covers a few issues: https://abdullin.com/lokad-cqrs-retrospective/

Instead of dropping everything and moving back to a more conventional SQL architecture, we dropped everything and moved to a solution which, if I were to describe it as DDD/CQRS/ES, would have me branded as a heretic by the DDD/CQRS/ES community: it does fit the definition, but it does not follow the best practices. There is a single data model shared by both commands and queries. Commands can sometimes return data. Each (micro?)service has access to exactly one aggregate. There is no uncertainty on event ordering, and no eventual consistency at the aggregate level. Materialized views for each aggregate are kept in-memory at all times. All of these intentional weakenings of the CQRS architecture were driven by pragmatic needs, and made with knowledge of the consequences.
Just checked the top 90, there are 2 block chain/cryptocoin posts and 2 JavaScript posts. Did you miss the other 86?
So what exactly does this entail?
290 image-heavy pages. smh
e-Stonia has e-Residency, and various other internet-based shenanigans. You can get an e-passport, set up business, get residency, travel documents, online, I think. Just visit your local embassy with proof of id. They are selling themselves as a digital destination/economy. Russia occasionally does massive DDoS there. so ymmv. Not sure how that relates though just surprised it was them. Maybe they are leaking it because they want it nipped in the bud.
In Brazil, companies of all sizes already use Whatsapp for Customer Support, as it is by far the most effective channel to communicate with current customers.

Companies buy cellphones that stay in the office with sole purpose of using Whatsapp with customers.
> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

> We ban accounts that use Hacker News primarily for political or ideological battle, regardless of which politics they favor.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Based on your post and your messages, it looks like you're saying that robots and automation could help small farms most by reducing labor costs.

So it sounds to me like the kind of automation that's needed will be very task specific. You might find it easier to connect with the the folk by describing some of the specific laborious tasks you'd like to automate. That will get their tech brains thinking about specific solutions to your specific problems.

Perhaps start by picking 2-5 tasks that are repetitive and take up a lot of your time or require you to hire lots of people. Some of them might end up being quick wins that wouldn't be too hard/expensive to automate. Providing the tech folks with a list to choose from will help them focus on the items that they know they can solve in a reasonable amount of time.
"What's the fundamental value of $1?"

I can wipe my butt with a dollar bill. I can use that dollar bill to snort a line of cocaine. I can make a paper football out of it. I can use it to help roll a joint. I can fold it into a small coin purse to hold change and keep it from rattling in my pocket.

The dollar bill, being a physical object, has some utility, and thus some value.

Can you do any of those things mentioned above with a Bitcoin?
Agreed. It's a pretty silly oversight by the author. And a meaningless measure.

What if the segment of Stanford students whose area of study is comparable to that of Olin? What would the ratio be then?
Actuall Headline: Whats App announces big Business detection in formerly free communication app.
I love my work, and doing something 80-90 hours a week that I love hardly seems like a problem. :-) I work 7 days a week, so it works out to around 12 hours a day. That gives me 4 hours of 'other' time if I sleep 8 hours a night.
http://www.ctvnews.ca/bank-of-canada-raises-overnight-rate-t...

> The move, which will likely be a surprise for some, came less than a week after the latest Statistics Canada numbers showed the economy expanded by an impressive 4.5 per cent in the second quarter.

> "Recent economic data have been stronger than expected, supporting the bank's view that growth in Canada is becoming more broadly-based and self-sustaining," the bank said.

> The rate increase means governor Stephen Poloz has now reversed the two cuts he introduced in 2015 to help the economy deal with the plunge in oil prices. The bank said Wednesday the increasingly robust economy shows it no longer needs as much stimulus.

> Others predicted the bank would refrain from moving the rate out of concern such a move would drive up an already strengthening Canadian dollar and pose a risk to exporters.

> In its statement, the bank also said headline and core inflation have seen slight increases since July, largely as expected. It noted, however, that upward pressure on wages and prices remain more subdued than historical trends would suggest, which has also been seen in other advanced economies.
I would love to sit for a PE exam, except my state requires you to apply for permission, and one of the requirements is 4 years of professional experience working under another PE, after you're already approved as an Engineer-in-Training, which itself required 8 years of experience if you don't have an engineering degree. 15 people sat for the software PE exam last year nationwide compared to nearly 1,000 for some other disciplines.

With those kind of numbers how is anyone with the 12+ years of experience required who doesn't personally know a software PE (of which it seems there are maybe 100 in the United States based on the age of the test and pass rates) supposed to get the certification? I totally accept that my Poli Sci degree means I'll need more professional experience that a Comp Sci or Comp Eng graduate, however the requirement to work under another PE eliminates the vast majority of potential applicants.
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> Or perhaps children are simply less inhibited and aren’t so scared about making mistakes.

Struck a chord there - because I had come to the same conclusion of sorts, about my ability to practice activities in public.

Riding a bicycle is a fairly hard thing to learn and very easy to practice (from my experience), but learning to do that when everyone around is falling off them was much less of a struggle than trying to learn ice skating in my mid thirties, when everyone at the "cheap skate night" is just gliding by with no effort.

There's a certain embarrassment which distracts from the task at hand. And being good at several other things, which are more immediately satisfying to do also factors into the decision to spend time learning something new which you'll never be as good as the ones who started when they were 5.

Right now, I'm struggling to learn enough spanish to converse with my kid & observing language learning first-hand, in third person. The words just come out without any particular boundaries in production - grammar, conjugations, gender, whether it is the right word.

Everything is optional and the only discouraging response is skipping the conversation and trying to ignore it.
What really frustrates me about how (I assume Oracle) handled this transition away from java.net is that all the issue links just lead to the same "java.net is closed" page, they didn't bother to redirect them to the github issues pages (the issue IDs are the same from what I've seen).

I run into this issue often enough that I've been tempted to write a userscript to translate the java.net links automatically... doesn't do anything about all the broken documentation links though :(
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We use a huge amount of RIAK at bet365, and prior to the IP acquisition had secured the rights to the enterprise code. We have a large development team and are already working on enhancements. Securing the IP, and the subsequent opening of the code allows us, and any other enterprise users in a similar position, to release code for the good of the wider community.
Again, the burden of proof is (or should be) on the state here. And there are no stats showing that this is dangerous, because it isn't.
When you have children your career isn't your number one priority. Time becomes much more of a precious thing,
because you have multiple demands on it. Some employers feel you can get the job done while respecting your time some don't.
From 2014
Not part or ever will be it seems. Their application officially just recently being moved to the out tray.
Microsoft should charge Lenovo $100 extra for installing windows. After all Lenovo's shenanigans are ruining Microsoft's market.
This is something I've been wondering about. Maybe someone with more bitcoin expertise could answer.

Is there more mining capacity inside China than outside China?

If so, and the Chinese government used their well-known firewall against Bitcoin for a matter of days to weeks, would Chinese miners have the longer chain? And thus the chain?

I guess what I'm wondering is if the government of China has the ability to DOS Bitcoin as a payment system outside China at will.
Olin is just educating people.

You seem to be projecting quite a bit.
The 'internet of things' is sending us back to the Middle Ages
Yes, I absolutely agree.

My comments from the perspective of a landlord weren't intended to generalise pet owners.

I own two cats (although I suspect they actually own me) and have previously rented houses and have offered a per-cat additional deposit in cases where landlords were adamant.

One of my cats is easily stressed out which can lead to uninary tract infections and which may have contributed to her chronic irritable bowel syndrome.

Both conditions (the former intermittent, the latter constant) can result in unexpected indoor urination and surprise vomiting.

Cleaning up either is perfectly achievable given the correct care and attention.

Despite being exposed over many years to a variety of cat by-products, I still haven't grown accustomed to the smell of cat urine such that I could ignore it. Sometimes I wish I could!
Well, something did change, otherwise it would not have gotten as big as it did. What changed was the role of the user in the eyes of whatever entity controlled the computer/cloud.

If the uncertainty was actually a bad thing in the eyes of the big cloud companies that pushed these designs, it would not have nearly gotten as far as it did. It's a way to control how the tool is used, given that it's powerful, making it too usable is not profitable.
The systemd people themselves state them to be "obsolete".

* https://freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/runlevel.html

* https://freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/telinit.html

These things do not actually exist in systemd at all, outwith a few compatibility shims. And the same can be said of FreeBSD, too. They don't actually exist in FreeBSD, or indeed any BSD, at all, outwith compatibility shims such as FreeBSD's init command. (The FreeBSD init compatibility shim really is not recognizing the command-line arguments as runlevels in any real sense, especially since it does not recognize the numbers 2, 3, 4, and 5; the very numbers for which the run part of runlevel is appropriate.)

Note that the systemd compatibility shim completely ignores the actual "runlevel0.target" targets; that there is no "init table" of runlevel stuff; and that the separate run levels in /etc/rc[234].d are all combined into one by systemd's backwards compatibility service unit generator. This stuff genuinely does not exist in systemd.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/196014/5132

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/233581/5132

* http://jdebp.eu./FGA/inittab-is-history.html

Arch Linux users don't even get the compatibility shims.

* https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/389289/
It looks like we have a misconception of the verb "to learn". Conveying some very general intuition of the subject from adult to a kid is not learning, actually. Learning assumes conscious effort to comprehend relatively complex things, constantly overcoming pain of uncertainty, most mathematicians will agree with me here. This is not what is usually expected from a kid. Don't do that.
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I was born in ex-soviet Republic of Moldova and I lived in US for last 20 years.
Watching in dismay, how world is just quietly watching Russia sabotage world peace in every possible way.
Could you please not be so gratuitously disrespectful? It's not civil and it doesn't belong here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html