skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Reporters need to separate Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin (and some of the other older cryptocurrencies) from token sales and other crypto assets.

Not even actual crypto speculators seem to be able to do this. The second anything drastic happens on one of the crypto markets, all prices immediately peg to Bitcoin, and they all rise and fall in unison.
What's funky about .local? It's an officially-registered special-use domain:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6762
I don't have one, but I nearly every day wish I had. I work on database, currently a lot of performance stuff. It's really annoying to do performance work on consumer HW - not enough memory (32GB is the biggest I have seen in portable laptops, and that's what I have) for interesting loads, regular thermal throttling screwing up benchmarks, single socket systems having drastically different performance characteristics than bigger NUMA ones...

Having access to machines remotely can replace some of that, but it definitely costs time.
It's pretty much the same story for anything that depends on cryptography, including virtually all transactions involving normal currencies.
Tell me how is this objectively different than VCs ? Other than it's now available to everyone instead reserved to the elite ?

In both cases, you are well aware most of your investments will fail and you're expecting one 10x or 100x that will make it up for other losses . aka gambling ...
Ditto.

I use .local for, well, my local network and I find that Chrome can't find them half the time (telling me that the server can't be found or that I don't have internet connection). Safari, Firefox and even command line tools find them without skipping a beat while Chrome insists that I'm offline.

I think the culprit is the internal DNS cache. If, for whatever reason it can't find the server once, then it gets stored in the cache as unreachable and needs a cache flush to fix. To add insult to injury, in previous versions of Chrome you could disable the internal DNS system, but apparently not anymore.
Mozilla uses Chrome's HSTS preload list. (Microsoft too.)
I once (as a junior developer) had to write some software to format a massive text file for printing to an IBM line-printer (1403, model N1) .. this (1M) text file had to be checked a few times before it was printed, and that meant opening it up in an editor and verifying the data.

I got pretty sick of opening this file after half a day, because it had tons and tons of CR/LF's and my editor at the time rendered these with strange characters on the screen .. and I didn't like that, as a junior guy, so I just replaced the LF's with 00's. For some reason, this just worked fine in my local environment, and I was able to validate the data in the file before sending it off to the spool for printing, later in the afternoon.

About 3 minutes after I closed the job, the building got a fire alarm, and we all had to exit. Apparently there had been smoke detected in the operations room, where the printer was located, so the Halon systems went off, and we went into full-blown "Ops Reset" mode.

After an hour of hanging around the parking lot, I was called in by the head honcho's in the Ops Room, sat down in front of the printer, and told to explain myself.

Well, turns out, I was responsible. The lack of LF's in the text file meant that the printer was printing - as fast as it could - every single line on the very first character position .. and after a few minutes, the printer simply caught fire.

Oh man, since that day (mid-80's), I've eschewed any job that requires me to deal with printers, and I've been anti-printer ever since. ;)
Sure it does, presumably the original person that ripped their CD paid for it. Libraries don't pay the publisher "per checkout", they merely buy the books.
The gpdpocket is pretty close if you are looking for a trackpad less design (though too small for daily use). If you can afford 100,000k for a mould they could be you best bet for doing something custom.
That is gorgeous, but I don't think I have the dedication to go through all that.
You can disable trackpad in bios.
Can you think of a natural monopoly which isn't circumstantial? Is your model falsifiable?
It's funny because people complain all the time about how strict security policies are....right up until something gets hacked and then they moan about how the organisations should have done more to protect their accounts.
Many devs people get part of their compensation in stock grants. For stocks that pay no dividend.
It's better than just trusting the SSN, but I'd still prefer a system that can't be beat with a stick and some chewing gum.

(Yes, I had an ID theft near-miss that involved a locked mail box in a locked stairwell. To me, the more obvious perpetrator seemed to be someone with access to the mail delivery pipeline, but the investigator I spoke certainly did not think terribly highly of the security of a locked mailbox)
Based on this article, I guess not a lot of developers need to program in Rust nowadays.
> This forcing of opinionated things goes on my nerves. How about develop the browser, and let the mass decide what they use.

It's Google's browser forcing one of Google's own gTLDs to HTTPS. There is no masses involved. Anything else on the HSTS preload list is there at the request of the domain or gTLD owners.

> Amazon was 100% HTTP for 20 years (except the single login page) - it worked very well.

Sure it did! It also allowed any interested party to observe all your interactions with Amazon. What worked 20 years ago doesn't necessarily work today. Standards evolve, new attack vectors emerge, and people's needs for privacy or what they expect to be private changes.
I'm rarely inclined to agree with you, but you're spot on here.
"he would have never approved the camera sticking out in the back" +1
I've heard it mentioned various times that a fiat currency's value in any organized society comes from its ability to pay off the controlling state (i.e. taxes).

Whether it is dollars to the IRS, colored beads to the local chieftains, or copper coins to the Lord of the manor, it doesn't make a difference. The ability to 'pay off' the state in power, with legal permission and ability to use violence, gives that currency value.
As far as I can tell, you're saying that it's not true that men have historically oppressed women because it's not true that the bourgeoisie (note spelling) oppress the proletariat. That's clearly a non sequitur.
Unrelated but genuine question: what's the appeal of Tcl nowadays? are there applications where it'd make sense to use Tcl?
Companies run their own CA. They can generate as many certificates for internal domains as they want.
If someone also has some serious advice for shoulder pain related to sitting/working a lot in front of a computer, I would much appreciate this. I constantly have pain in my left shoulder for years now and cant find a way how to ease the pain. I have this pain the whole day, but sitting in front of a computer increases it. Already tested a lot of therapist and tried different sitting positions. Standing does not make it better.
Keeping things to the elite is unfair to common people, but it is also a pragrammatic way of protecting stupid people from themselves.
> So why aren’t there millions of publishers springing up

Not millions, but there are a lot of tools [1]. Among them, quite some publishers that are relatively cheap, e.g. [2] [3] [4] to name a few.

So yes, publishing costs money and that's often overlooked, but the current rates by many of the big publishers _are_ excessively high. And yes, the reason they manage to keep them that way is due to the Impact Factor [5], or in other words: not quality. (IF is considered a proxy of quality, but it's not quality itself.)

Yes, gold OA has been making a lot of progress, but at what cost? It has resulted in the transfer of the extortionate practices that allows subscription costs to balloon, to publication costs. So rather than researchers at less-wealthy institutes (or not at institutes at all) being unable to access research, they're unable to publish their own. Is that better? Maybe, but in any case, not by a lot.

That said, thank you for your perspective - it's great to be able to get out of the echo chamber sometimes.

[1] https://101innovations.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/timeline-of-...
[2] https://www.ubiquitypress.com/
[3] https://www.veruscript.com/
[4] https://www.openlibhums.org/
[5] https://medium.com/flockademic/the-ridiculous-number-that-ca...
so we're trafficking in warez now?
Iirc the term is "rifle drilling". :)
> prestigious publishers have an incentive to ensure that their studies are replicable

If only. Prestige (or at least, a high Impact Factor) correlates somewhat with more retractions. Which is relatively straightforward to explain: "prestigious" is where people go with novel, exciting results that have a higher chance to be cited more often, but those are exactly the type of results that have more chance of being inaccurate, exaggerated, and just prone to regression to the mean.
Freezing credit is not a write lock. It is a read pseudolock. Writes against the CRA succeed as normal.
ebay has bazillions of them.
People thought they could because, well, they can.
>> "One of the fundamentals of markets is that value needs to go to work."

> Indeed.

Art?

Modern art is rather like bitcoin - mostly pointless work of no value with pseudo-randomly attributed value, used for portable hoards of those capable of dealing in it.
Thanks for giving that hint!
In the days before hard drives were common in home computers (between the early 80s and early 90s), the OS/application division still existed. The OS was built into computers of this era (stored in ROM chips). You wouldn't necessarily interact with this OS directly when using an application, but the OS was still there.

To give an example, the Amiga operating system was split into two parts, the Kickstart ROMs and the Workbench GUI. Not all apps would use Workbench, but it's harder to find apps that would work without Kickstart. You'd see evidence of this when running games when the infamous Guru Meditation error came up.
I suppose if their job description has changed since their application process make sure they know what their new role is by writing, instead of hoping he'll pick it up from social cues.
I'm actually quite happy with the name. For me - cockroaches are bugs that are distributed and survive in harsh conditions - something you want out of a database.
Sure, nothing wrong with trying to make things more discoverable. I think the first step towards this goal could be making an app which implements what AK is talking about. I'm not sure what this app would be like, or for, but if someone makes it, then we can test how effective are his ideas. You don't have to redesign an iPad to do this.

On the other hand, things can (and probably will) get better organically. The iPad/iPhone is only 10 years old. In that time it has improved both in terms of hardware (e.g. stylus for iPad, 3d touch, extra sensors, slo-mo video recording), and software (voice recognition, Siri, AppStore, multi-tasking, StreetView, even something as simple as cut and paste - none of that was available in iOS 1!). In a few years we will move to smart glasses and virtual/augmented reality. My guess is it will make learning experience better for everyone.
Coincidentally, the libc malloc/free implementation in 7th Edition Unix is also about 200 lines of C: http://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/libc/ge...
Being an Electron app doesn't preclude an app from working offline. You can ship all the code with the app bundle.

Still need to design your application to sync data - that's the hard part.
Did it resolve your Alopecia?
Just make it impossible to get credit without any purpose.

+ Getting a mortgage as an identity thief? Fine. Easy to pay him a visit.

+ Getting a car? No. That's dumb. You can buy a car if you have the money.

+ Getting a bank account? Fine. Just force banks to disallow people to go below zero for several years (or forever). Replace all credit cards by debit cards.

That's basically the situation in the Netherlands for most part. Identity still gets stolen, but the impact is minimal.
...yes?

The friction of government control is partly what allows things like Netflix, Hulu, et al to survive. If there were no copyright, then you'd seen tools that were just as good thrive on various p2p backbones.

Instead, the pressure from law enforcement on developers, big libraries of content, indexers, etc keeps the experience of for pay sites better for most people, and so most people just pay whatever streaming website.

Sometimes law enforcement isn't about winning ever battle so much as tilting economic scales.
I don't think the author was "blaming". It's more like explanation the situation: in the end, it's authors who get to decide where to publish their work, even though they're influenced by external factors. I think it's unfair to assume ill intent on the part of the author of this article here.

It's also rather easy, although outside of the scope of TFA, to consider why _reliance on_ Sci-Hub is a bad thing. First of all, it's illegal, and thus unstable. Who knows when it might disappear, but we better have a plan before then. Second of all, it's an unreliable service by itself, ran pretty much by a single person. How devastating that can be could recently be observed when she blocked access to everybody in Russia because she felt insulted by a few Russian researchers.

Yes, it's great that some people have access now that otherwise wouldn't have, and who can use that access to do great things. But I think it's relatively straightforward that it would have been preferable if that access was provided directly by the publisher.

(And the quote to which you replied "Why are they set against this" said that not enough articles have been made open - I think you'd like to see more open as well?)
Both museums are really very good - for children and adults alike. Plus they're free to visit too.
I think the eagerness of US banks to offer credit is a big part of the problem. Having people endebted is an essential part of the system of wealth transfer and class control, and the system is set up to make this really easy. In the Netherlands, where I live, it might also be possible to obtain a fake id if someone would go through the length this impersonator went through, but I think it would be much harder to open bank accounts and get meaningful credit without questions being asked.

What I do not understand is why victims of this have not sued their banks over this yet. Suing should be the US couterbalance to this. People are innocent victims of fraudulent behaviour of their banks, and those banks are being robbed by thieves. Banks are supposed to guard their customers' money, which in this case they are clearly not doing. Maybe they do it unknowingly, or they are incompetent, but in the end those banks are behaving fraudulently too.
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Some companies do, many don't. I don't recommend running your own CA unless you have a very good reason to do so. It's complicated and it introduces additional security risks.
> Who knows how much bigger the drug trade would be without anti-drug laws.

In a few years we'll have a good idea based on marijuana in several US states. We will have to sift out the tourists though, because there do seem to be a lot of those. At least, here.

We could also look at alcohol prohibition for a historic example.
The fact that I have to rely upon a news site with some of the worst IN YOUR FACE ad UI to embed each tweet in this conversation thread individually is pretty damning for Twitter. Why can't I organically discover / follow this on Twitter itself? It really had so much potential for being the heartbeat of the Internet, and maybe for an age it was. However, they never innovated or evolved leaving their biggest innovation to be "140 characters".
>And when did men earn the right to vote?

That's a bit of a complicated question in the case of the USA, but the passing of the fifteenth amendment in 1870 guaranteed the right to vote for a large segment of the male population at a time when no women whatsoever had the right to vote. And of course, at least some men had the right to vote right from the foundation of the US.
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You can disable the trackpad entirely, either via your OS or better yet in the BIOS.
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Further reading: https://www.51nb.com/benzhanshiye/2017-06-08/83668.html
Why should it take decades? I think you're conflating the UI issues with pedagogy and teaching-oriented publishing. GPs point seems to be that we already have the tools we need to start webifying the academic literature. There's no technical reason that we're stuck reading two-column PDF documents with no internal or external links.

Your other points I think are important, but really more related to teaching materials and textbooks than journal articles. Projects like nanohub are doing interesting work in this area imo.
> Python in the large is not very maintainable.

Yes, very much it is. It just need good developers, not only juniors...
If that's the real deal, I hope the Ctrl and Fn keys can be swapped in bios.

My muscle-memory just can't cope with control not being lower left.
Have you talked to others on your team about this? Perhaps they find him useful in ways that are not directly apparent to you (also if he is helping others it could be slowing progress on his own tasks).

If your team feels similarly though, I think the next move would be to inform this person that you are considering downsizing the team and there may not be room to keep him around. If he was just being lax from a false sense of security due to his tenure maybe this will inspire him to be more productive. At the least it will give him time to prepare for a possible firing.

This must be one of the worst parts of being the boss - having to fire a nice guy.
Was that a locust eating a mouse?
If one absolutely must regardless please use name/IP constraints!

Client support isn't super awesome from what I understand but it's much better than having an unconstrained root ('keys to the internet') on >1 client - especially if you can't go the nines to protect said key.
I'm interested to see if you've seen the concepts of atemporality[1] and network culture[2] floating around. Basically, the core thesis associated with these is that we have adopted the internet as our primary mode of processing information, and have as such lost the sense of a cohesive narrative that is inherent in reading a book/essay, or listening to a whole talk, in the process.

You become fully immersed in Plato's worldview when reading The Republic, but if you were see someone explaining the allegory of the cave in the absence of a wider context you will only take the elements which fit your worldview and not his wider conception of knowledge.

I think this ties into what happened to the concept of a centralised computer network, working for the good of humanity, turning into todays fractured silos, working to mine individuals for profit.

[1]http://index.varnelis.net/network_culture/1_time_history_und...
[2]http://index.varnelis.net/network_culture
This is exactly what Twitter's "moments" feature is for, I'd be surprised if it wasn't featured there at one point.
that, because it is such a travesty considering the previous designs. the technology wasn't ready but I think Apple was desperate to make the claim because it sounded good and went for it anyway.

I really do believe that if Steve Jobs was around this would never have happened. It is so anti-Apple it is astounding
Are you very very profitable? Does everyone really like him?

This situation is compounded by the fact that you are a small group and there's nothing gravely wrong with him.

I know most people feel differently but the only way I'm keeping such an employee is if the money is dripping from the ceiling and everyone loves having him around.

Otherwise I'm sorry msn, it's nothing personal, but times are tough and we have to downsize now.
Atom/Electron devs: Challenge Accepted.
Here in Eindhoven (Netherlands) most hardware startups look like that.
Use .localhost pointing at 127.0.0.1 for local development. It is reserved for this purpose and obvious to everyone unlike .test.

For reference your options are:

.test
.example
.invalid
.localhost

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

With only .localhost fitting the purpose of most people's usage of .dev.
In 1982? Yes.
Of course blockchain technology is here to stay, regardless of what happens, the same way tulips stayed with us after the mania had ended.
Could you use this as a malloc/free replacement or is it missing something?
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The .local TLD is reserved for mDNS requests, as the RFC states?
Why are most browsers written in C++?
It's not a "simple" allocator. It's an overly simplistic and largely unoptimized one.

E.g. try and make it work well with 2 threads. Now try and make it work well with 2 threads, one - allocating, another - freeing, etc.

Writing a memory allocator is a _fantastic_ exercise in data structures and optimization. It's also an easy one, so making a reasonably fast allocator from scratch is not that hard, but in the end it's much more fun to write one than to look at someone else's results. This is also what makes these toy allocators to be a dime a dozen.
One thing that may be non-obvious to people unfamiliar with Tcl is that it's syntactically a shell-like language, i.e. functions are invoked with a space-separated list of arguments and no parens. So `schro` on a line by itself executes the function and `[schro]` is equivalent to `$(schro)` in shell.
OLPC and Firefox OS are not examples of projects that pushed the idea of an OS and application stack that could be understood by a single person. To get a better idea of what Alan Kay has been working towards I'd recommend checking out the STEPS project.
Not really, but it may make them hypocrites, as they act as enablers for something they see as fraud.
It's true that libertarians are really fans of crypto-currencies.

To be honest, as long as you trust a government, banks can be trusted with your money, especially since the government regulate banks since the government doesn't regulate crypto-currencies (yet).

Libertarian when you profit from crypto-currencies, until somebody steal you bitcoin wallet or until bitcoin crashes again. Then you're pretty happy to still use an insured bank account.

I would not be surprised to see bitcoin being used to launder money. All you would have to do is to sell a pile of dirty cash online against bitcoins, and send those dollar bill by the mail. I'm sure somebody already thought about that and is doing it already.

To be honest I would not understand why bitcoin is so high right now, a logical explanation would be drug money.
Wow, this is excellent.

I have a thing for the x201 and there is apparently a mobo upgrade on the bench for that thing too.
looks like alan kay's dynabook
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I read bpizzi's post as saying that, for non-native English speakers, the name doesn't trigger the same aversion because the mental connection between the English name and memories of the bugs is weaker, since we grew up calling them something else. At least that's the case for me, as a non-native English speaker myself.
Moral/ethical issues of piracy aside, your final point of musicians earning a living just isn't a good analogy for academic publishing. None of the traditional or open access fees goes to the authors, so sci-hub or not, it makes no financial difference to the author. Mostly salaries come from the university and research grants, which in fact include money to pay for open access fees that the publishers are charging.
> We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach

"What do you mean, "we", white man?"