skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not that lowercase is a problem, it's that aztec is more efficient at it.

Note that GP is incorrect that you need lowercase to express URLs and qrcode has an "alphanumeric" mode (based around uppercases which works fine), but even then qrcode's alphanumeric mode is slightly less efficient as it needs 5.5 bits per character versus 5 for Aztec.

Kanji has its own qrcode encoding mode (the qrcode encoding modes are numeric, alphanumeric[0], byte, kanji, structured append[1], ECI[2] and Code128[3]).

[0] digits, uppercase ascii letters and 9 symbols

[1] to split messages across multiple codes

[2] additional "local" encodings: https://strokescribe.com/en/ECI.html

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_128
Are you sure about no JSON? My experience is JSON is fairly small, and faster than anything else because it has browser support.
Mathematics does not predict anything, let alone a mass extinction. Some model, which is mathematically based, might predict a mass extinction.
3rd year law student (among other things!) here. As you've mentioned, the doctrine of promissory estoppel should make this enforceable in law.
Any not so expensive hosting options for sockets-based apps? Heroku? Digital ocean? AWS?

Also, what are the limitations by the hosting provider regarding concurrent connections, data transfer, etc.

I am currently working on a poker app using free Heroku dynos but would like to have a budget in mind for when going live.
Nobody cares about what? Litecoin or the bullshit?
As for udp connections, WebRTC looks like the only mature solution (but it's not designed for games and is way more complicated than game devs want it to be). Alternatively, I know about https://github.com/networkprotocol/netcode.io but it's very much in the early stages - afaik you even need a Chrome extension to use it on the client. It's not easy to do udp on the web.
"The fact it is used to buy TBills is irrelevant:"

Heyzeus its extremely relevant.

HNers are having conspiracy issues with this.

* Obviously if there is going to be more money in circulation, it needs be 'created' somehow *

But that it is traded for a specific asset, which is kept on a balance sheet - and the 'reverse' can be done to pull the currency out of circulation - is * hugely relevant *.
who the fuck cares about this xenophonic country anyway?
Sure, though The UK is another regulatory regime again.
Bitcoin and all of the other alt-coins are numbers on a screen. Few people pay taxes on them, and few places treat them as a real asset or fungible currency.

Why then, do the authorities in the US and China aggressively pursue those people who ("steal", "lose") the coins of their depositors?

Big Vern, Karpeles, Pirate@40, just to name a few.

Sure, these guys lost people's coins. But I was there back then. It was all wild west stuff. Buyer beware.

How can the government arrest someone for stealing an asset that doesn't really exist?

Would they arrest someone who stole water from my pool?

Edit: I don't know why I bother commenting here.

A downvote without counterpoint? What do you gain from that?

Grapple with my assertions with evidence. If you don't, it will just become even more of an echo chamber.
Well, the name at first. And then look at the claims of his lawsuite against the book and subsequent movie, false statements and omissions.
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>it has always been tempting for private finance to create too much money. There is no evidence that money born on a distributed ledger will be clean of this sin.

That's not true for Bitcoin, disregarding the various other coins. The supply is effectively capped and it is economically much more similar to gold where in the long term the price roughly equals the mining cost to fiat money where that doesn't apply.

For use as a normal currency bitcoin is probably creating too little money. For normal currency you want the value to be roughly constant not to double quite often.
"Yes it's still backed but less than before, i.e., devalued."

No.

1 Trillion in Assets = 1 Trillion in Currency.

1 Trillion + 1 dollar in Assets = 1 Trillion + 1 Dollar in currency.

No dilution by the Fed.

(Fractional lending notwithstanding - that's another can of worms)
This is the reason why I'm considering only enabling that feature on Chrome (because of WASM and battery API) and Desktop PC (because of the battery/heat issues).

For experiment, I've turned on a miner in one tab of my brother's 7-year old modest PC setup. He went for several hours without noticing it, while doing blender rendering as well as somewhat intensive photoshoping.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15278883
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I like it using newLISP :)

;calculate primes in a range
(define (primes from to)
(local (plist)
(for (i from to)
(if (= 1 (length (factor i)))
(push i plist -1)))
plist))

(set 'start (time-of-day))

; start child processes
(spawn 'p1 (primes 1 1000000))
(spawn 'p2 (primes 1000001 2000000))
(spawn 'p3 (primes 2000001 3000000))
(spawn 'p4 (primes 3000001 4000000))

; wait for a maximum of 60 seconds for all tasks to finish
; returns true if all finished in time
(sync 60000)

; p1, p2, p3 and p4 now each contain a lists of primes
(println "time spawn: " (- (time-of-day) start))
(println "time simple: " (time (primes 1 4000000)))

(exit)
Or if you want more manual control, Play Music can also be set to download the contents of a playlist (or artist or etc.) Add your new album to that playlist and it'll be downloaded.
The ratio is probably identical from the time we've spent with startups. Comes down to your measure of success.
You don't have to say "oh I just mash the keyboard for those", you can say "it's weird, bear with me" and read it out from your password manager.
> e coli can reproduce in optimal conditions

Then avoid dipping your hand into beef stew for too long. Most of time, germs grow like sigmoid function.
I will definitely be implementing this.
No but your mum might pick your phone off your pocket to remind you to be careful when it's hanging out while you two are travelling in a country overseas in a danger area.
Many things going forward will happen in reacts petri dish. Lots of ideas seeking to get consensus like the evolution of styles, animations, native performance, async scheduler, easy-to-create native renderers. Vue is nice and all, but it's rather complacent, catering to old Angular-like roots and web artefacts. If you believed the hype then Vue was supposed to be the be-all-end-all of frameworks, the reality of course is quite sober: http://www.npmtrends.com/angular-vs-react-vs-vue-vs-@angular...
You are romanticizing Winamp 2. It did many things, and not all well. It played a lot of audio formats besides MP3 as well as video formats. It was a damn SHOUTcast server. It had a frustrating playlist manager. It was skinnable. It had a hardware-accelerated, extensible visualizer. It had a damn RSS aggregator and website scraper for automatically downloading songs. And let’s not forget that it had support for syncing to many portable audio players, including the iPod. It was every bit as full-featured (or bloated) as iTunes.
The odd this is, most people have physical access to a local branch of their bank. I know those are closing as people do more stuff online, but that's my point. We're trading convenience for security. Apparently the banking system isn't all that secure to begin with, so moving it online may really be the wrong thing to do.
For my use case, replacing JSON with custom binary protocol, some old version being here [1], had savings of about 2 orders of magnitude in bandwidth and at least 1 order of magnitude improvements in server CPU usage. Some significant memory savings too. There's also space for more optimizations to be done, but I consider it viable enough for now.

ArrayBuffer and DataView are fairly fast for my standards.

[1] https://gist.github.com/synthmeat/d23595db732d366f658a1981e9...
Let's suppose you had a fancy GUI wrapper around rsync which covered all the command line options, and a tiny output parser to display progress information. What more effort is needed to get a commercial, market-ready piece of software?
It might be you remind her of her failure to listen to your advice - it's about her and not you.
> Few people pay taxes on [their Bitcoin holdings]

This is tax fraud.

> How can the government arrest someone for stealing an asset that doesn't really exist?

“Buyer beware” doesn’t exempt someone from fraud statutes. Honest services fraud is broadly defined in most jurisdictions to include any economic activity.

> Would they arrest someone who stole water from my pool?

Yes. At the very least, the perpetrator would have trespassed.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor tax advice. Don’t commit fraud.
there was no exodus, React is the number one javascript framework in the job market in Boston and probably other tech hubs too
I strongly disagree. Yes, most substances should be decriminalized. But they should not be completely deregulated. Not even alcohol or tobacco are deregulated. And for a good reason, we don't want to give 10year olds free access to alcohol for example.

Many drugs should be taken only under supervision of a medical professional. So the current system of doctors and pharmacies overall is a good system. We might give pharmacists more powers - they tend to be more knowledgeable about pharmaceuticals anyway, but drugs don't belong on supermarket shelves.
It's not about what you say, it's about what an attacker can get away with saying. And they can almost certainly get away with "I just mash the keyboard."
I've never seen a check either, but signatures are still a thing in Germany (but not very often).
Shoot me an email (see profile). I'll introduce you to an NYC based VC who likes businesses like these and has a fantastic network. I promise he will look at it if asked. Include small blurb so I can include some substance in email intro.
You can drive it into a lake, but that counts as theft, the same as if you stole someone else's car.

When it comes to things like houses, a court certainly can declare ownership is changed, there is no option for you to refuse, or have to do anything.
The quote is an attacker attempting to bypass the check.
In my country DRM is a way for the copyright holder to communicate to the user that private copying is prohibited. All DRM systems can be trivially broken but it is illegal. If the content is not DRM protected you can legally make private copies.

Thus the major differences between DRM and DRM-free products are:

1) The DRM-free product you own for the rest of your life. You can legally do format conversions for future proofing your ownership.

2) The DRM product you can use for a time which is usually less than your lifetime. Sometimes the physical product format deteoriates (e.g. DVD) or the file cannot be used anymore (e.g. if Audible shuts down its login servers).

In the case of a streaming provider I do not understand why to go through so much hassle to prohibit private copying. You could just include a text that says "private copying prohibited". This would be an easier way to achieve the same thing.

I have a feeling that there are some people actively misleading copyright owners to use these DRM solutions and pay for their use. After all they only pay for delivering this message to the end user in an overly complicated manner.
Shouldn't be too difficult. One of the web app wrapper frameworks.

https://i.imgur.com/nD6eVS2.png
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It's also not just a GUI. There is loads of code in there that does stuff. For example:

• Scheduling for scheduled backups

• A background daemon that looks for events to launch the UI for scheduled backups

• Manipulation of disks ownership stuff in order to allow backups with permissions to happen correctly

• Volume blessing, etc, in order to make bootable volumes

• Trash handling & maintenance for deleted files

• Deleting files (for removing old backups)

And that was just off the top of my head. The app is many thousands of lines of code and it performs literally hundreds of functions. They're nearly all transparent to the user, and that is the idea.
EU suppressed results of a study that found piracy doesn’t harm sales
Not everyone is a native English speaker. Perhaps you could be tolerant of that?
If I remember correctly, this started because the opposition party at the moment (PP) appeal at the constitutional court the "estatut".

If you ask me, I think that was a political (dirty) movement to gain some votes. But the point here is that since some Catalans didn't like the court resolution, they started this "blackmail": "either you accept the estatut or we will secede". We are now at the threat of secession.

Note that the quoted texts are not literal phrases said by anyone, it is just to clarify my point.

You asked one example, here is one. There are many other examples of laws passed in the Spanish congress with the support of Catalan parties in exchange of political favors.
Yeah, actually I think that'd be great place for full disclosure and help user get opportunity to make as informed decision as possible.
I just answered this in another response (and in addition the answer, you could answer a lot of the questions yourself by actually trying the app. It has animations built into it for example, it's clear at a glance that it's far beyond what you described):

It's also not just a GUI. There is loads of code in there that does stuff. For example:

• Scheduling for scheduled backups

• A background daemon that looks for events to launch the UI for scheduled backups

• Manipulation of disks ownership stuff in order to allow backups with permissions to happen correctly

• Volume blessing, etc, in order to make bootable volumes

• Trash handling & maintenance for deleted files

• Deleting files (for removing old backups)
And that was just off the top of my head. The app is many thousands of lines of code and it performs literally hundreds of functions. They're nearly all transparent to the user, and that is the idea.
Spanish govt slammed over bizarre Catalan .cat internet registry cop raid
There's a train out of London Euston that will get you there in ~ 30 minutes.
https://www.w3.org/TR/css-2017/#future-proofing is the current WG policy.

I have no idea whether or not there's a WG resolution because the WG is terrible at tracking resolutions.
The coolest augmented reality setup is UCDavis Augmented Reality Sandbox, which uses a projector, an Xbox kinect, and sandbox that lets you wiggle your fingers to create rain, dig rivers and lakes, and see how water flows through an environment. My kids and I were blown away by it at a science festival last year. It's all open source and you could build your own for less than $500 I think:

https://arsandbox.ucdavis.edu/
Adobe security team posts private PGP key on blog
Are you suggesting we should tell the people who are attacking online freedoms to make an amendment to protect them? Who do you think would get to be in charge of writing and passing such an amendment?
Ask HN: What is the best way to backup an external HDD to the cloud?
I have a couple of external HDDs with a ton of raw audio data on them (I used to produce music full time). It occurred to me the other day that if these drives die I have no backups. I would like to archive these into a cloud storage service so I can rest easy. What's the best way?
Just absolutely terrible. Mind numbingly retarded.
Automattic, the PHP shop? I don't think they have a great influence on what javascript framework is the most popular. The job market is trending towards React and now it will be even more so, the people who thought the patents was no big deal are now rewarded
the one in Go basically says if you sue google for any Go related patents then they revoke the license. that patent retaliation clause is nothing different from the one used in Apache Licence Version 2. the one in react says they revoke your license when you sue facebook for any patent related matter.
Ah, I see what you mean. Perhaps instead of grabbing a handful of characters from /dev/urandom, you generate a passphrase (a few random dictionary words)?
Don't Use Terminal Emacs
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Good luck making it illegal to remember a 20-word string.
99.99% of people don't pay SF/NYC/LON/HK rent.
Synergy

[1] https://symless.com/synergy

[2] https://github.com/symless/synergy-core
This article should be the README before getting into Crypto world.

First article to point out 21.co. What is their product ???
Read on twitter - A guy asked MA a question for 100$ on 21.co platform, got "NO" as answer.
100$ for a NO...So a guy spent his hard earned 100$ on a question to a VC.
VC made money, Donated that to charity to show off and gather "philanthropy" point in his smug circle, got tax savings maybe, his invested firm 21.co made money, 21.co vanity metric of donating to charity increased further.

Poor soul who asked question, got scammed.
dammit...I NEED THIS FOR MY HALLOWEEN PARTY

But I've been a manager for 15 years and my real geek skills suck

Help me!
What is? The article? Cryptocurrency? Care to elaborate a little bit?
Well there is at least one game ported to ps4 - so they seem to have it but I don't know how that works on licensing side.
There are opinions that it did its main purpose of decoding mp3 not very well:

- http://mp3decoders.mp3-tech.org/decoders_winamp2_62.html

- https://www.mars.org/home/rob/proj/mpeg/mad-plugin/

Most versions of Winamp 2.x had their own Nitrane decoder which is "inaccurate", some versions had Fraunhoffer decoder which is ok. However, I'm not sure if differences in sound are noticeable on non-high-end hardware, some people say that very noticeable.

Also, UI was super-cool and iconic but usability was not the first concern (back then, software had to be cool and spectacular, everyone used screensavers and players had to include visualizations). It was very small (I used 800x600 resolution but it looked too small), it relied on Windows file select dialog to add tracks and file select dialog is one of the slowest and most frustrating UIs in most OSes.
That sounds exactly like Facebook.
Very interesting but they didnt actually say how they made the non-weldable metal, weldable. Would be interested to know what it is they actually did.
On DigitalOcean, I'm planning a following setup to launch:

1. $20 staging at all times, already live [1]

2. $20 static nginx

3. 3x$5 for socket servers on North America / Europe / Asia

4. $5 master server with WS connections to full mesh of socket servers / orchestration / future.

All Debian.

Have no clue what's Heroku like for that, but last time I've checked, it wasn't as good choice as DO was and is for me.

[1] WARNING: might break at any time, by choice or not
http://staging.munchies.io
It's much more enjoyable to use, though. Perhaps it's the dark theme, or the analog-looking EQ but when I listen to music from iTunes, it just feels like I'm launching songs from an MS Office application or something.

I also believe that WinAmp just sounds better. Even after playing with the EQ on iTunes, I can't get it to sound as good as WinAmp.
Thanks for asking. No - I am not uncomfortable talking or working with blind people.

My point about looking someone in the eye was a synecdoche for the more generally the value I feel in-person interaction has that could be lost if I and my students were using VR goggles.

My ability to "read" students is a big part of my professional practice.
Not if you live in Europe. Cheques weren't used anymore anyway, but they finally pulled the plug on them at the end of 2002.
Actually, even with 51% of hashpower, you cannot force all the other nodes to forward or propagate your invalid blocks if you decide to start changing the rules.

This is a common misconception about bitcoin. Every single node on the network validates every single block, not just miners.
I believe the general recommendation I saw was to type something in lines of "never accept this answer - it's probably someone trying to impersonate me | 2DXSDGREDV@#!" (although it's probably hard to do so if the maximum acceptable length is too short)
Having watched the news for a while, primarily on HN and Slashdot, I've seen enough tracking, leaks, sell-outs, adware incidents, dirty marketing, astroturf campaigns, compromised software, etc. to not expect some degree of bad faith. Perhaps not this time, but it is totally reasonable to question everything.
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Probably because they are no longer issued or accepted in Europe. Europay pulled the plug on them in 2002.
What they really won't tell you about is; if you sign your account with a weak password, someone will brute-force it open and transfer your coins. Which is considerably more interesting and exciting than this article.
> why do I need to make $1M/year in order to prove to the US government that I'm worthy of investing into a startup

Bernie Madoff lost tens of billions of dollars of investors’ money [1] in a clear fraud. This is terrible, but nobody ended up destitute [2]. The systemic risk was contained.

Contrast that with the savings and loan crisis [3]. This lost retail investors’ money. People ended up destitute. That, and lots of retail investors (i.e. non-accredited investors) doing zero diligence allowing the problem to metastasise, turned a prosecution problem into a political problem. When masses are turned on the street, nobody cares that they should have done their diligence. They become a political problem.

The government's rationale for regulating retail investors more strictly than accredited investors is that a laissez-faire attitude towards the former's activity has, historically, resulted in massive fraud that then creates political problems. I believe there is a middle ground between our total-ban regulations and Bitcoin's laissez faire. Finding that, however, will require both sides understand why we have the regulations we do.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madoff_investment_scandal

[2] https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2013/12/11/five-years-a...

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal nor securities advice. Follow securities laws.
I think he's saying the maiden name is easily found. At least in Brazil, the husband's surname is _appended_ at the end, doesn't replace the maiden one: Jane Doe Smith.
https://breachinsider.com - Will have a full MVP out very soon
Nestmetric a retention platform
Nestmetric’s monitors the behavior of your customers and sends you real-time alerts when they are likely to buy or stop using your product.
The argument is that they are turning a profit on the average ride in mature markets, and losing money on the average ride in emerging ones. Right now, because they are trying to grow quickly, they have a lot more emerging market rides than mature market rides, and so the average across all rides looks pretty bad.

This is perfectly common for companies starting up business in new markets. The trick is to turn emerging markets into mature ones.

If indeed Uber is losing money on their local operations plus non-growth overhead, then it's bad. But we don't have those numbers.
I could very easily be wrong, but I thought that only counted if you were a monopoly or coordinating with other companies? I mean, it's the "Antitrust" act. Would love it if anybody could clarify this.
It would also help if tickets had a "No photography" icon on them and a note about them having private information.
> My own company's lawyers consider the GPLv3 toxic and not allowed at all for company use in any software we create - that's enough for me.

Isn't that often because the GPL would require you to release your source code? Which is different from possible patent problems? I can understand why companies don't want to release their source code, but at least it's clear ("release your code and you can't be sued"), right?
You're discounting the technology sector and nearly the entire 19th century.
Why "the next few months"? Is the tech all there - just waiting for the killer application?