skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The interests of users are no longer front and center. "

Netflix is a 'user' of the internet, as any other.

The web is open - those who want to share their content freely can do that - those who want to DRM, they can do that.

The 'march of economics' is usually just the 'march of reality'. Game of Thrones is expensive to make - ultimately, people have to get paid for it somehow.

Most creative/entertainment projects are a dud. Only a few even make money.
I've seen this used as a pro-bailout talking point: "the government made a large profit off of the institutions it bailed out." I haven't had the time to evaluate it. Is it credible? If so, would it change your view? Or are the valuations non-GAAP or otherwise not transferrable at the same value?
Jesus Christ. The fed aren't offloading anything, they just won't be reinvesting when existing bonds mature (roll off the balance sheet). And inverse correlation between stocks and bonds isn't some law of nature.
So they're using p01's effect and they want to put ADs around it?
Ok, thanks.

I agree about { } being mostly noise but I think they are the lesser evil. I'm making most of my money with Python and I still believe significant whitespace is a very bad idea. The Ruby alternative of using end is better even if not super elegant (and Ruby is my language of choice). It's on par with curly braces. After 30+ years of programming I still have to find a satisfying solution to the problem.
Well, they are and they aren't. I think I may have an example that the poster was thinking about. At the very least, it's how I feel about it.

Senior year of college one of my best friends was killed by another guy (within a few years of our age at the time). That person sucker punched him out behind a bar, had used something hard as a fist pack (it was alleged a roll of coins), and when my friend fell to the ground he hit his head on a curb and never woke up due to the injuries sustained.

Did that person INTEND to kill my friend? I don't think he did. He certainly aimed to harm him, but I don't think he wanted him dead. But yet here we are, my friend has been murdered by someone else who meant to harm him, but probably not to kill him.

An accidental murder.

To add, the person who committed the act had been in and out of lots of trouble and never showed remorse over it either. He didn't seem like he was happy it happened, just didn't seem like he really gave a shit either way.
Interesting to see DEFLATE over GZIP here, as it is something I used to recommend maybe 7 or so years ago. I collected results for several years and began seeing more browsers dropping support for raw deflate (or switching to zlib deflate).

I accidentally let my hosting account expire years ago and lost the server code and db for it, but managed to pull the HTML from the way back machine. I've backed up the results here: https://davidmurdoch.com/compression-tests-results/. It's all pretty outdated now, but rather fun to look at.

Anyone know if this is using raw DEFLATE or ZLIB (HTTP 1.1 DEFLATE)?
Hi, this website is really loud and if you are using Headphones I would mute it or turn them down a bunch. It also will autoplay the sound.
> That's kinda my point. Browser vendors had a no-win which-is-the-lesser evil choice: accept an in-browser binary blob but keep the linkability, etc, of the web, or concede the rest of the already-vastly-shrunken ground of the premium video playback market to off-web blobs.

> Thing is, in ten years, it's not going to matter, because long-form premium video on web will be such a vanishingly small niche.

But that is the point. Why permanently infect the web and destroy trust in our institutions for the sake of something that it would barely hurt anything to just let go?
Okay, that doesn't really change anything.
I paid for spotify. Then they cut 10% of the music I listen to. Then they did that what seemed like every month until I cancelled.

If the social contract for DRM was "subscribe to a growing library of content for an inflation-adjusted rate", that'd be fine. Instead, the contract is "cede all your rights until there are no technological alternatives and a few monopolies own the whole market".

Not cool. I'd love to see the w3c disband over this.
Cheaper perahps, but better long-term? Doubtful.
> That's not the primary motivation right now.

That's a scary thought. Building this type of software takes a lot of money.

> And you've been on HN 3+ years and not seen all the keybase proofs in peoples' profiles? Mine's a good example.

I rarely check profiles.
True, but PHP development has always been split from the rest of the web-dev community.

React has managed to bring together people in C#, Python, Ruby, and Erlang to name a few languages... who all previously used different frameworks, or just jQuery.
Heavily sandboxed, eh? On most devices that implement EME, the DRM implementations run with privileges exceeding that of any user code, e.g. in the TrustZone environment on most Android devices.

The Microsoft DRM implementation is built into Windows (and made available to Websites via EME) and requires cooperating device drivers or no highres video for you.
Given the culture in elite cycling at the time, what he ultimately did wrong was cheat more effectively than everyone else did. Take a look at the results from the TdF and other major races from those years and see how many of the finishers behind Lance ended up also getting busted for doping.

Armstrong's real sin was winning too much while being an outspoken ass about it, which painted a gigantic target on his back.
At least the author has a new argument I haven't seen before.

1) Gresham's law: bad money drives out good

2) Bitcoin is good money (deflationary, holds its value)

3) National currencies are bad money (inflationary)

4) People prefer to "hoard" good bitcoin and spend bad national currencies

(So far, so good)

5) Therefore, since people prefer to own bitcoin, it has zero value

(Not every new argument has to make sense, I guess.)
Motor vehicle deaths per year: 30,000

Train deaths per year: 300
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Indeed. People who want nothing to do with DRM will want alternatives. Once DRM-integrated browsers are compromised at scale, more people will want alternatives.
It is well documented. It is also ridiculously aggressive.

If it wasn't in the Java ecosystem, it might not feel weird. But the Java community had maintained backwards compatibility for a long long time. Guava promises, what, a year?

And for internal use, that is fine. I have seen some poor sods introduce it as a dependency of theirs, which can lead to frustrating upgrade cycles.

Edit to add: the Jakarta libraries are also fairly well designed. To the point that most things in guava were already there.
Fortunately, I think it's rare.
What was your growth path to excel and mature as a trader?
thanks, I'll check out that library. I'm using blazy (https://github.com/dinbror/blazy) right now.
Not only the lives directly saved as in the ambulance example, but indirectly saved by making better, fresher food available, by removing tons of horse feces from the streets, and generally improving quality of life by fueling a huge amount of economic activity that wouldn't be possible otherwise.
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I don't want to live in a concrete jungle. Have you seen what two level roads are like? It's MISERABLE at street level, all shadow and columns.
More closed doors meetings or offsite meetings
Abusive is not a fair word. The system allows for something that was never before possible. Waste is how it works. Everything takes energy to accomplish, every input to a process is waste in the end. The total cost vs. benefit is what matters. We could each name many things in society that produce much more carbon, that are much less useful than a decentralized ledger - and no-one would call them abusive.
would you combine, then split it in the browser? is there an example?

interesting, I've never heard of this approach.
A slight price increase can be more than worth getting an item immediately instead of waiting for it to ship, while 1 to same day delivery would be generally much more expensive.
Almost certainly. Floyd Landis has said as much.

I will say, The Forward is remarkably entertaining. For all the dick moves Armstrong has made, he's a likable interviewer that is kind of relatable. He still an endurance sport alpha male but he has a natural chemistry when he interviews.
He could have avoided it by being a nice person.
>To a first approximation, no ordinary consumer uses TPB.

I'm not sure how true that is. Currently getting content is easy enough that the average consumer doesn't use it, but at least back in the mid 00's the technical people in my social circle got introduced to torrents by people who didn't know how turn off a computer except by unplugging it. They we're willing to take all sorts of risks with their computer on sketchy sites the second it became the easiest way to get their content.

If torrents and piracy become the easiest way again, I could easily see regular people going right back to it.
token of authenticity they can rely on

Rely on for what? In cryptography, authenticity refers to the source or origin of some data; in other words, the identity of the creator.[1] Likewise for official seals--the seal attests to the identity of one of the parties (either one of the principles, or an attester).

Your usage regarding seals seems correct. It's the analogy with the blockchain that is confusing. It's difficult to tell without more detail. If you broke things down you'd probably end up also using terms like integrity and non-repudiation, which are quite distinct.

[1] For example, an excerpt from the Handbook of Applied Cryptography (http://cacr.uwaterloo.ca/hac/about/chap1.pdf):

Once the TTP creates a certificate for a party, the
trust that all other entities have in the authenticity of
the TTP’s public key can be used transitively
to gain trust in the authenticity of that party’s public
key, through acquisition and verification of the
certificate.

-- Chapter 1, Section 1.11.3.
Who needs to "survive as a legitimate corporate entity"? All you need is to publish a browser. And basic browsers aren't that hard. Just be anonymous.

Edit: If oligarchs create unworkable rules, why not create a new game?
Sure he is sorry--that all his lies and manipulations didn't work. He also tried to ruin the lives of those that told the truth, so screw him.
That all depends on what you're good at. What kind of skills do you have, can you use those skills to help others or destroy them. Ideas need to be original, thats what makes them so great and makes them thrive.
We're doing the same thing! I rebalance every year or when I put more money into my investments. I love the approach because it automates "sell high, buy low". When stocks go up, you sell some and buy bonds, and vice versa.

It's worked well for me for the past ~15 years.
Oh, they definitely nailed the drama and suspense. I wasn't panning it for its originality or anything. I just feel like that the script built up, built up, built up and then just.. fizzled into nothing.
How about we deploy a few restricted lanes on some roads and only allow cars on those roads, and only in those lanes.

Then the rest of the road can be used by people, with and without cycles.
If HHVM(Hack) will drop all the inconsistencies and weirdness of PHP in their implementation the better since it's no longer be compatible with PHP anyway.
Your sentiment about fiat is appreciated and understood, but it's inaccurate to claim that USD's total value is equivalent to the current national deficit.
It was much worse. What he did to people who told the truth was outrageous. He destroyed people who were in his way. He is a very vicious and dangerous man.
Long gold and silver!
Why should someone else make money off my hardware? install noscript if you dont want to see ads or install a browser like brave to get rid of them.
:party_parrrot:
It's akin to what Steve Jobs once said:

“When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That’s a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards! We can have a revolution! But the networks are really in business to give people what they want. It’s the truth.”
What possible explanation is there for this post if he had an "exceptional track record"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280485
Ask HN: Who would you trust?
Given that you had to absolutely trust either an American based company or competing Russian based company. For ex- WhatsApp Vs Telegram. Who would you trust more with your data/profile and what parameters do you consider before choosing one?
If you're on mobile, requesting the desktop site causes it to show up, or if not, here's a direct link: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/raw/master/papers/pldi20....
Time to buy MORE BTC and LTC and other cryptocurrencies.

Remember, when WSJ and analyst says to do something, do the opposite.
Is the Treasury Department selling the bonds or is the Federal Reserve?

Wasn't the action being taken in the article simply a cap on the amount of reinvested bonds? Doesn't that lead to a gradual decrease in purchases of mature bonds rather than a "fire sale"?

I'm not challenging your position, I am just seeing a terminology mismatch between your comment and the content of the article. I, a financial layperson, am likely not the intended audience of the article, which appears to be targeted toward economists or otherwise well-informed readers.
Same article without the paywall: http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-fed-a-decade-afte...
Nice work. I guess it'd just as quick if it sent up to ~4kB - that's the normal TCP initial window? https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3390
> 1)

Ok fine, you want to pretend HAProxy isn't a thing that exists, we can do that.

> 2)

That isn't necessarily a good thing. Have you ever heard of separation of concerns?

You specifically mentioned how Caddy can manage 2-3 week outages, as if it's something unique to your software.

Every LE client that can be run from cron/a systemd timer renews certificates autagically.

So where's the manual part that you keep claiming is not "robust"?
That logic doesn't hold. Look at the relationship between bonds and equities. You're saying that in "1) futures on bonds will fall.." which will cause "2) equities to rise" - well, historically yields have moved inversely to stocks but that hasnt always been the case - see http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-disconnect-between-stoc...

All else being equal, rates going up will increase the value of the US dollar. If most US companies derive a majority of their revenue overseas, will that be good for US equities? And that's just one consideration. Point is,from a trading perspective, it's generally not helpful to make blanket assumptions as the market can stay irrational far longer than most think.
I had working internet in IE5. You have to walk through the internet connection setup for LAN, but it works.
I’m fairly certain that among all the factors that Amazon is considering, “legal status of marijuana” ranks somewhere around “visual appeal of the state flag.”

Amazon deals in government contracts, and weed is still federally prohibited. They’re looking for tax and new hire benefits.
Is it possible that bonds and equities both lose value?
How do you get somewhere if you live 80 miles from the nearest railhead then?
Any experiments that explore ways to achieve vehicle and cyclist/pedestrian separation would be welcome for me.

I'm both a cyclist [1] and driver, live in a very popular recreational cycling area, and fear for the very real possibility of vehicle to cyclist accidents on at least a weekly basis.

[1] mostly former cyclist, as I probably have some PTSD from my near fatal vehicle to cyclist accident.
The word is "metacircular". It's easy in some languages, difficult in others.

I never learned Tcl properly but found the rules for quoting and evaluation of program strings to be a confusing aspect. That was 20 years ago, and I thought the language was effectively dead ten years ago.
"Those borrowers had made payments after being sued over loans that were legally uncollectable, either because the statute of limitations had passed or because National Collegiate lacked the documentation needed to collect the debts in court."

This sounds a lot like what was happening during the financial crisis a decade ago. Lenders were selling mortgage loans to Wall Street to be bundled into collateralized debt obligations. After those CDOs got sold a few times, people lost track of who actually owned a particular loan. When borrowers defaulted, it was in many cases impossible to prove who was legally entitled to collect on the debt.

(A line in a spreadsheet that says John Doe owes you $500K is not very convincing evidence to a judge - you need to be able to provide a document with John Doe's signature on it.)
I look for:

1. Solving an actual problem for actual users that users have shown they are willing to pay for. This One Neat Trick will leave you significantly better off than average: everything else is secondary.

2. No long hours, burned out founders, fancy soda machines or other signs of prioritising appearances over competence.

3. Multiple cofounders, but one that is in charge. That person should have at least have managed a team before, and the people they had managed should respect them.

4. The team should look like the audience they intend to serve. Unless the product is specifically for men, no way I'd join a team that's all dudes.

No startup track record might be okay, depending on what background they did have, but I'm also always concerned about founders who are willing to give away the farm for funding. I need to trust the CEO with my stock options, not just the company's success.
Forgive the million questions - is this not what you are doing on facebook? Or is it only working on facebook chat? Is that not react?

Sorry to be such a pest but I've spent probably too much time banging my head against this problem. Thanks!
I did - hence the 116,000 per injury prevented figure. I don't count auto collision damage, as thats operator carelessness, and is non-injurious to an innocent third party, and therefore shouldn't be part of the whims of the state.
yes, i contribute to FOSS projects.
> Toys r us or best buy carry bad products and are staffed by the lowest bidder. They offer no value over Amazon, so Amazon makes them worthless.

I would think that instant gratification is of high value when shopping for toys with a child.
I don't trust companies, I trust people.

I use Signal 'cause I trust Moxie not because I trust Open Whisper Systems.

And I acknowledge the risk that Moxie, being in the US, is subject to US laws and government's monopoly on violence against their own citizens, and don't expect for a moment he'd put up a fight against a _serious_ federal agency demand to sell me out. Same as everything.
I'm not saying you're wrong, but if this is all that predictable... wouldn't the market already expect and reacted to this to some extent?

Also wouldn't it be pretty easy to make some money off of these oh so sure events?

In fairness I'm always wondering this when folks predict such things.
Does it make sense to include the lives saved annually for the life of the vehicle? or at least the mean time between failures of the cameras?

Say the average reverse camera dies around 10 years after the vehicle is built. So maybe $14.30 per vehicle per year / $175 million per year to save 2100 lives over ten years. Or 150,000 accidental backing incidents over ten years (assuming ever one of those incidents can be prevent by a reversing camera, which is probably optimistic).

What about when the original owner sells the car secondhand and recuperates some of the original expense. What if we imagine new-car-buyers, when they sell their car secondhand, apply the value of the sale only to the safety features. Which isn't entirely unreasonable because when you sell a car the only thing you have left is the injuries and death it didn't cause.

Where am I going with this: the parent wrote about "amount of death we accept as a society just for the convenience of automobile", which is a popular trope but is false. We don't just accept it, we've done a lot to reduce road related death and injury, and we are, evidently, prepared to spend even more money and resources trying to reducing it.
So your argument is basically "before they updated the macs we wanted new macs".

Apple have released or announced updates to every product line bar the Mac mini.
The number of people making fantastical claims about toilet paper is a lot smaller than the number of people making fantastical claims about the important of specific diet components or habits.

Like take your comment that I replied to. It is incredibly specific advice. As if there is 1 brand of toilet paper that is absolutely the right one.
No way. The high-quality wooden hand-crafted toys at good mom & pop toy stores are not available on Amazon. Discoverability of good intellectually stimulating toys is similarly poor on Amazon.

You also overestimate the delta between the Amazon price (if the product is carried by Amazon) and that of the brick & mortar price. Often the brick & mortar price is identical after shipping costs.

The competitive advantage of a good mom & pop toy store is a specialized, curated selection of unique merchandise.

Perhaps Etsy can compete in this category, but I am in doubt that Amazon is there yet.
It's a suckers game because at any given point of time, you are making a bet with the "hope" that the market will move one direction or the other.
Interesting - it seems like a really high number to me - but I'm just an engineer and environmental science isn't really a specialty of mine.
for what it's worth, OSH seems to be the happy medium for me.
>Local will re-emerge with tighter communities. Suburbs are unsustainable wastes and we'll have to adapt by reforming walkable cities. Kids will have tons to explore at that point, like they used to.

The suburb hate bandwagon on here has gotten way out of hand. They are not inherently unsustainable and it is not a "waste" to spend a bit more resources to make a space that's nicer to live in. Not everybody wants to have to walk everywhere/take public transit and live like a sardine in a can getting accosted for spare change all day. And are you saying you'd really let a kid "explore" in a city? You're not even particularly safe in a "walkable city" as a lone adult if you go down the wrong street or you're not paying attention.
I completely agree! Doumont often gives talks at universities that are open to the public.

http://www.principiae.be/X0200.php
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Absolutely. For any parent with no time and a bit of money, the toy store is far faster for a just-in-time present purchase. I have yet to find a worthwhile price difference for merchandise on Amazon.
You know you can use HAProxy with apache too right?

I never understand these arguments that basically pit Apache2 on its own/with modules against a completely modular arrangement of tls/cache/web/app as different layers.

If you use apache as the "web" in that setup, it needs relatively few modules loaded and when configured correctly can be blazing fast.
> No one can maintain the levels of concentration we required for long periods of time, and in difficult conditions.

And yet a significant majority of automotive journeys end safely.
I think as far as SpaceX is concerned you'd merely by the the life guard and maybe tour guide, not the pilot; their vessels' pilots are automatic to save on cost.
I am using vertical tabs in nightly (which uses the new plugin architecture). I don't use tree style tabs but I would be surprised if they are not supported.