skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"they understood that they had to compete with pirate offerings and offer a better, higher-quality product."

They (music industry) 'understood' once Jobs had used all of his negotiating skills to convince labels to join iTunes and they saw the money the service raked in. There was zero innovation coming from the publishers. The first response to napster was not to develop a better distribution method but to go to courts and add DRM to their music CD:s by injecting a rootkit to the users computer! Oh the shitstorm the Sony's audio CD DRM raised...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_roo...
If you have significant sums of cash, you can pay someone to sit on LocalBitcoins cashing out all day.
Yet FAMG are always hiring.

This suggests an interesting asymmetry that could make a lot of people very wealthy. Either they don't want it, they aren't skilled enough for it, they've found another way to achieve it, they don't believe it, or our recruiting sucks.
I'm glad you have outed this rather complex multi billion dollar industry with thousands of extremely competent programmers.

> 'Mining' is an arbitrary answer to handing out block-chains.

No it's not there are many ways to mine a coin and reach consensus, Proof of Work has been the most sensible one - as staking electricity is fundamental and universal.

> They could give out Bitcoins to whoever solved specific math problems for which 'computing power' doesn't matter.

They?

> The 'mining' paradigm is utterly wasteful because it wastes resources for no reason.

Ethereum uses a mining algo to process Smart Contracts. Other currencies like sia, use mining to process decentralised storage. Utterly wasteful is an overstatement. There are plans to move Ethereum to Proof of Stake where mining coins will become incredibly difficult and uneconomic and will reduce the power consumption problem.

> The level of religious support for this stuff is hilarious.

Your poor understanding of the topic made me chuckle
Isn't SNAP is already restricted from tons of other things?
Possibly, but you'll also have to break the monopoly the Mathworks have on Universities.
Yes but cryptocurrency thieves (i.e. exchange hackers, etc) are currently batting around 100% uncaught, afaik.
I always look at Estonia when such questions arise. They are consistently on the frontend of public service innovation.
The dream of getting rich quick is what is driving most of ICOs, if not all. There's no rhyme or reason to it. People just want to 100x their money quickly as possible and see ICOs as their chance. It's basically gambling, but lately much better returns than the casinos.
Most ICOs are financing developer salaries. You can quibble about whether the ICOs are funding useful work - but they're definitely paying developers.
Worth noting there have now been more releases of iPhone (whether you count yearly announcements or iPhone versions) after Steve Jobs passed away than before.
tldr; You have money? Won't be burden on the welfare system? Will pay more in taxes than you receive? Your not welcome -- this article.
The OpenJ9 infrastructure is somewhat different [for the better] than what I'm used to using internally, but I have only ever seen the shared class cache enabled when the -Xshareclasses [1] option is passed to the JVM. Do these numbers change significantly (especially after a warm-up run) if you add that option to J9's option set?

[1] https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYKE2_8.0.0/...
Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
I think Moments are sort of supposed to solve that?
Desperately need a mentor.
> Whenever we spend our own money to fix problems that affect us, we consider the opportunity costs carefully. But when the collection plate is passed to us and we want to demonstrate virtue, our money is given into the hands of people who have a reward system that is not ideally suited to using it altruistically.

Yeap. As usual, Yes Minister explains the political process to a T:

- This money is voted solely to make sick people better.

- No, no, no, Minister. It is to make everybody better. Better for having shown the extent of their care and compassion. You see, when money is allocated to the Health or Social Services, Parliament and the country feel... cleansed. Purified. Absolved. It is a sacrifice. After the sacrifice, nobody asks the priest what happened to the ritual offering after the ceremony.

https://youtu.be/U01oual9ysQ?t=13m23s
As you would imagine with most nations and cultural extremes that benefit entertainment or celebrity, it's an exception. Being obese for the purpose of Sumo, is regarded as entirely different versus being obese because of poor discipline / lifestyle reasons.
Rumours say he took part in some of the future generations' designs while he was alive.
Because they've outlawed competing UIs?
I thought beans is good nutrition wise?
> T-Mobile's new network, won't be fully available to the entire country until 2020.

> No phones technically support the 600MHz spectrum yet, although T-Mobile has said that phones from Samsung and LG will be supported by the fourth quarter of 2017.

No news here. Just riding the iPhone publicity train.
SERPWatcher: Track keyword positions and avoid conventional rank trackers
The War of Art != The Art of War

https://www.amazon.com/War-Art-Winning-Creative-Battle/dp/15...
Did anyone actually read to the end before unloading the acerbic comments?

This article is obviously targeted to the people involved in publishing who care only about the profit model part and not of the science part. I presume that's why it reads like a first year essay in some economic degree.

As an occasional consumer of research papers I see nothing wrong of the conclusion in the end:

"I suggest that we might be encouraged by the airline industry and unbundle the product. This would make all content free to read, answering the plea that the results of publicly funded research be available to the public,"
It's more than that; it's to provide additional capacity to the cryptocurrency 'inter-net'.

A single blockchain cannot physically scale beyond a certain number of transactions (based on Amdahl's law), but the amount of value that passes through a single network can in fact keep going up indefinitely (e.g. when the price of the coin goes up, the value of transactions go up, even though the actual number of transactions stay the same) - But the flat transaction fees become prohibitively high and only suitable for large transactions; that's why you need new networks with lower-priced coins and fees to handle the load of smaller transactions.
If that is the problem, why are browsers on the Play store?

Wouldn't a gab client behave the same way, fetching and sending content from the internet?
The article says it's a Seagate/Samsung Momentus ST4000LM016 drive. That would be single 15mm drive like this one:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/191749967307

Seagate also used to offer a "Backup Plus Fast 4TB" external drive that had a pair of 9.5mm 2TB drives in it:

http://www.storagereview.com/seagate_backup_plus_fast_portab...
How's the buying experience for computer hardware on taobao?

I bought everything for a dual Xeon 2670v1 system (starting with Dell T5600 as base) from ebay and it came out to $1000 last year including $150 for 64GB of ECC RAM.

Very happy with it but could definitely use an upgrade now.

Dual E5-2696v4 seems like the current sweet spot for DIY.
Does it come with newer spyware?
React native targeting QT or a similar desktop widget toolkit ... is that a thing? It seems like it should be a thing at least at the highly starred but otherwise vaporware github repo level?
> Who knows how much bigger the drug trade would be without anti-drug laws.

Look at the legitimate drug companies for comparison.
The Joy of Sexagesimal Floating-Point Arithmetic
When Tim Cook was under heavy criticism for Apple’s product line, Apple let it known that the lineup had been planned four years in advance under Steve Jobs. Maybe not in all its detail but nevertheless.
You can look at this picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Tom_Bell... to see what's going on with copyright. To me, this looks like clear abuse of the law - it can't be that you needed 25 years to promote progress of science in 19th century but you need 100 years now. It's clear rent-seeking, no wonder people fail to believe the moralistic preaching of the same people who buy the laws that are convenient to them.
DON'T CLICK THIS|Starwars
Heh, was expecting a video of a corpse rolling in its grave.
It's worth noting that Latin America has plenty of nations that have struggled with obesity due to poor local diets even longer than the US has, including Mexico, Chile, Belize, Brazil and El Salvador. The US obesity problem began in the late 1980s.
Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds
> it's relying on "people thinking X has value"

Where do dollars or euro's get their value from? Let me give you the wikipedia definition:

"Fiat money is a currency without intrinsic value established as money by government regulation or law."

What do you think happens to fiat money when people stop believing it has value? Look back to 19th century France, were fiat money collapsed.

Bitcoins have no intrinsic value, which is bad. But the good part is that it only has to compete with fiat money, which also doesn't have intrinsic value. And if you ask me, I put more trust and faith into an algorithm distributed over lots of people, versus trust in banks and governments.
Real beauty. I rarely use laptops but I will get this one as soon as it is available.
The US has among the lowest food costs of any developed nation. Compared to our disposable income (which is far higher than most other developed nations), it's even more so.

For the majority of Americans, the last thing they have to worry about is the cost of vegetables.
Does anyone have experience with the Alexander technique? I've recently got interested in it, not because of back pain, but they say it helps with back pain as well. Basically it's a way to change your movement habits and get a better posture as a result. It probably not a cure for every case, but what I've heard so far was very interesting.
Cyber Security’s Business Case
Beyond the Little Blue Box: John Draper (Captain Crunch) Bio Book Kickstarter
> UIKit is an example of a high-level dynamically linked library. Rust isn't ready for that category of use case - but to be fair neither is C++ :)

That's fair.

> My point regarding shared data is not about Rust's verbose syntax, but about its unwanted runtime checks which no other languages perform.

FWIW, I think Swift is the only language with implicit checks of this form (for global variables and class properties). Rust only performs such checks if the programmer opts into it by using types like RefCell or Mutex.

> It also has a landmine: if the click callback attempts to call setLimit on the same Counter, it will crash at runtime.

Specifically, the callback will be statically unable to call setLimit unless the programmer decides to use one of those tools, in which case the location of the crash is clear.

> This crash is hard to test for and doesn't add any value: why shouldn't the callback be able to adjust its limit?

That specific case seems like it's okay, but there's a pile of problems in code that is only slightly different. For instance,

- if `clicked` held a reference to an element of a vector stored inside CounterWidget across the callback call, allowing mutation would allow that reference to be invalidated (this is less contrived than it sounds: e.g. iterating through a vector calling the callback for each element has this problem). This is undefined behaviour.

- if the callback enables results in the data being manipulated on multiple threads, you get a data race. (Also undefined behaviour.)

- stepping away from undefined behaviour, there may be things inside the `if` statement after the callback that are relying on the invariant the condition established (e.g. `let remaining = self.limit - self.count` and assuming it will be > 0), the callback can invalidate this in surprising ways, both for the programmer, who didn't expect the circular chain, and for the compiler's, which is thus forced to be defensive/pessimistic, meaning slower code (this is one major reason why Swift adopted exclusivity).
ThinkPad P50 right now and it is pretty much the ultimate laptop

Impressive specs but not terribly mobile. It's 377.4 x 252.3 mm (14.86" x 9.93") and the weight starts at 2.5 kg (5.6 lbs).
Trackpad isn't useless, but it not having physical left and right buttons sure is. The worst design decision of laptops is having it one 'pad' that you have to guess where the left and right is.
I disagree that it's not an indictment of his integrity, while agreeing with the remainder of your points.

If this was an example of empathy as a bias, it led to abusing someone quite publicly and inappropriately. Failure to recognize and correct this is demonstrative of a lack of integrity.
At the end, 100% of the wind energy is heating the air.
Just think about it.
As in Brave, the company whose business model is siphoning ad revenue from publishers.
> Deconstruction changed the way we think about what we read, see, and hear, and taught us to question the assumptions inherent in the same. It gave us the spaghetti western, cyberpunk, and arguably punk rock itself (and it definitely influenced hip hop and dub).

I've seen related claims before, and, having attempted to dig into them, my impression as a lay person is that what is called "postmodern literature" is actually not obviously connected to postmodern thought and deconstruction.

I personally find, for example, the idea of an unreliable narrator or non-linear storytelling not to be obviously derived from the idea of the subjectivity of anchors of truth. There are of course superficial similarities, but I see no evidence that the academic and philosophical ideas were in any way necessary for the literary, musical, and cinematic ideas. My feeling about the alleged similarities is about the same as the claims that Cubism was deeply connected to allegedly parallel ideas in the physics of relativity -- ideas that would pass in an art house, given enough narcotics, but that do not withstand serious scrutiny if one actually knows anything about the origins of ideas in physics.

So I wonder if you would be able to draw me a straight line from, say, Derrida to The Sex Pistols? Or to explain to me how Gibson's Neuromancer would not exist but for Foucault? These are not rhetorical questions -- I would be truly grateful to receive a good answer, and it might just turn around my generally low opinion of the post-60s contributions of postmodernism and deconstruction.
> You don't need to be able to write down in a blank sheet what you actually want to do if you don't need someone else to do what you want to do.

This.

Why is it so hard for developers to understand this simple idea?

Life in computing would be so much easier if the people building the system understood what part of their job is essential (finding out the best way to arrange hardware and software to satisfy a requirement) and which part is circumstancial, gathering a set of precise requirements to begin with.

The last part wouldn't be needed if end users were able to build their own working prototypes to solve their needs, and engineers were simply called to rebuild the prototype with best engineering practices.
>It's interesting how the journals managed to get a monopoly on this over 50 years. There seems to little reason for a private entity to be able to inject themselves here and take control of public output.

I think it's symbiotic relationship between universities. Universities get together and decide who to pay to distribute their "best" research, in effect creating a prestige/walled garden affect surrounding academic publishing, raising the barrier for non well monied researchers having access to the audience.

If universities decided that they would no longer publish in nature et al., and just put publications on arvix or something, then the monopoly would effectively die, but It's not in their interest to do so since universities will have to compete on mind-share on what papers attract the most interest in a field and chip away at the advantages they have today.

Long term though, universities will loose their advantage as it becomes easier to engage and propagate knowledge outside of such.
Sure, whatever it takes. I've just written the same thing at another recent thread, so we agree on that.
At least Websphere 6 was using IBM JVM. Not sure if they still do this.

We had to use the IBM JVM for running tests and precomputing stuff, otherwise stuff wasn't working.
You make/invest heavily into an ICO, send your CP/ordered hit/fentanyl proceeds into it, and then sell your ICO tokens for ETH.

Most ICOs don't do KYC; if they're asking for crypto-based investments they likely aren't asking for conventional investors and aren't vetting the speculators who only want to know how long they have to hold the token before dumping on the market
2.5 is still large.

Some ideas:

* split your application into several smaller ones, one for each "domain", with one bundle for your library code and one bundle for each "domain"

* use CDNs instead of bundling third party libraries

* make sure you import only what you use
But they're also heavy as all hell. A lighter but sporty petrol car will still be more fun to drice
400,000 UK consumers at risk after the #Equifax #databreach
Nice to see Visedo getting recognition.

They are essentially an offshoot from the decision made nearly 20 years ago: Lappeenranta University of Technology decided to focus on energy tech, and added environmental tech as a second leg a few years later. Visedo is one of the results.

I also remember, while their offices were still in the tech incubator warehouse, trying out their prototype electric "car". Lightweight, all sheet metal, uncomfortable to sit in and steer - but went from stand-still to ~50km/h in no time at all. Looks like they've managed to scale up and refine their technology quite a bit since then.
But what I want to see is proponents of cryptocurrencies acknowledge that the value requires a specific outcome to a yet unproven problem in mathematics(o)

How many people bullish for andor excited by cryptocurrencies know that?

any answer to that would leave you wondering: what are the implications?

If the majority answer: of course I know it could all be found to be worthless tomorrow

Or even if the majority answers: wait, it could potentially be mathematically proven to be useless?

Both leave me wondering what the motivations are for those who are promoting it

(o) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collision_resistance
> So many new books on Amazon are bad quality reprints.

Is it possible that what you'd bought was a counterfeit? Amazon apparently has a problem with knock-offs being commingled with their publisher-supplied stock. Here's the founder of No Starch Press tweeting about Amazon selling counterfeit copies of Python For Kids. The diagrams were fuzzy & pixelated (and black and white), and the paper quality was significantly inferior:

https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/844030960333152256

There was an HN discussion about it 6 months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13924546
> or use post-ident

Or use the eID functionality, which is growing now that the old IDs are starting to expire.
Why is Physics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?
IIRC, Steve himself said 3-4 generations, and that was pre-iPhone 5. So the steaming notch of shit is all Jony.

And no, blacking it into a dark status bar isn’t a lie. What’s a lie is having designated areas of the screen you’re not allowed to “draw attention to” per the new HIG. https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/o...

(Look at all the wasted space in Landscape orientation, just to not draw attention to the disfigured screen. And yes, I’m a little grumbly from having to rework some of my stunt designing in the app I’m working on to work on the X)
Bitcoin has brand positioning. It might not be technically the best, but brand positioning is really important if you are in a market. It occupies a clear position in people's mind.

Does the common man think of "cryptocurrency", or does he think of "bitcoin"? If in that persons head, "bitcoin" is the same as "cryptocurrency", then it will be really hard for a competitor.

Google is a nice example. "I will google it for you". Nobody says "I will bing that", or, sadly for other search engines, "I will search the web". We say "I will google it". In our head, google is the search engine, and the search engine is google. So if bitcoin is in that same ballpark, good luck to the competitors.

But I'm not saying other cryptocurrencies can't bring anything new to the table, such as Ethereum or Monero. But bitcoin definitely has the brand positioning advantage.
So you want qualified expert content producers working on producing top quality learning and educational material? Well our great market tells us this is only possible at Pixar or HBO or Weta in the service of fantasy and nothing else. Khan Academy and Wikipedia type models are what is left to serve everything else.
Philosophers do, obviously.
I think this one beats that:
http://www.newsweek.pl/g/crop/0/-1050/newsweek/6360443584828...

It's a photo of four young (in the 90-ties) Polish algorithmic contests competitors, chilling out.
thats no longer true. Now-a-days, ICOs ask for all kind of KYC documents - passports, utility bills, etc.
Offline web apllications – lessons learned
Like downloading movies and mp3's?
TBH, I haven't seen many websites that offer eID functionality, so I haven't bothered setting it up.
Lets hope they did not just put retro keys on a chiclet keyboard. And if this thing is on par with a T470p, they can shut up and take my money!
SaaS pretty much addresses every downside of selling Desktop software. To the point where everybody who sells Desktop software these days is trying to convert to a subscription model for it.

Desktop software sees its entire Customer Lifetime Value handed over on day one, and is constantly competing against a free, pirated version of itself that anybody can download if you dare set that CLV value above $50 or so.

Software as a Service keeps paying you money every month regardless of what happens, and generally pays you more each month as new customers sign up. And it is by definition un-pirateable.

The only downside you mention is that you have to run a webserver. But you have to run a server anyway. And if you pick the right tech stack, those things don't tend to go down all that often. You don't need "Five Nines" of availability for most types of business software, anyway. Three Nines is fine. Even Two won't generally lose you any customers.

And, of course, Scaling Problems are a Good Thing in the SaaS world. That means that so many people are giving you money each month to use your thing that they're overloading an entire server. That takes a lot of people, so you can use a tiny fraction of the piles of cash they're throwing you to add another machine to your cage. Let's hope that happens a lot.

So yeah, this is not a question that needs asking anymore. Build your thing on the web.

Good luck!
I found my 240 the other week when unpacking some boxes I'd not looked in for years after moving house. Genuinely great little machine.

A decent retro Thinkpad as a Hackintosh would probably make me a very happy camper...
WiFi4EU: New EU scheme for free internet access
It's the most _2017_ article I've ever read.