skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How big is the village?

Here in the US, this county of ~30,000 has 3 large supermarkets and many smaller grocers. The 10-15 miles distance to the supermarket means that the smaller places can't get away with selling total crap (it's rather rural, so people mostly have cars). The supermarkets all have store brands with decent quality and several national brands for most items.
How are they supposed to know you use one?
> Almost got it right: Drugs elsewhere are cheaper and largely subsidized by USA citizens.

* Correction, by U.S. government (through law).

> Those drugs cost a fortune to make and the companies make their money in USA.

Yes R&D is expensive, but pharma is extremely profitable. Here in the U.S. and abroad.
For that money you might as well get a beefy dedicated server that's multiple times as powerful and not have to worry about all these small servers.
There is a focus on building decentralized exchanges at the moment.

Regulation will become more difficult when these become mainstream.
Seems to me like a relative of a fallacious appeal to emotion. It's got some 'ick factor' (for the many puritans, lowercase 'P,' out there) to it which probably limits its spread. Sex trafficking seems to be an almost universal taboo, so, who can be against that? Good on the EFF for trying.
South Africa has the highest population of AIDS sufferers. That's why they're a good example.
Need to be aware of the buffer size on the pipe. It can be one of those issues that never comes up until you just cross the threshold, then everything fails ungracefully.
You don't own the movies you watch on Netflix, though—that's the critical difference.
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I take this road every day when I go to the University of Amsterdam's REC. It was very odd at first and they worded it as if it was a short-lived experiment, but then the lights never returned. To be fair, it's amazing.

It's important to keep in mind that one of the attached avenues is a "cyclist priority" one, where the cars are essentially "guests" on the road. That avenue doesn't get as much traffic as the other entries, so it was already very suitable for such change.
HTTPS://providebooking.com

More or less a booking service that allows users to pick their bookable hours and set prices for those times. Then they just link others to their calendar, the others can pick the time that works best for them, and pay for that time. Took some advice from HN about renaming it, and should be releasing soon!

Currently talking to a few early testers and doing a bit of extra feature development to better fit into my target niche.
The point has been made before that npm downloads are a poor measure of framework popularity because the architecture of the framework and the typical distribution channels can skew the number of npm pulls in a way unrelated to the number of projects utilizing it.
Sounds like a "correct battery horse staple" would fit the bill
I'm just glad we can put this one to bed, and focus our efforts on finding the next silly reason not to use React.
> People underestimate the amount of resources required to articulate monetary policy by a central bank. Bitcoin can already do that much better than maybe 70% of the worlds central banks. India, China and US can think about banning/regulating bitcoin. But there are countries in Africa who can already do better by simply leapfrogging to bitcoin and ditching their national currencies.

Could you elaborate how you think bitcoin monetary policy is better than 70% of world's central banks? To me, one of the most important tasks of monetary policy is to have a stable value of a currency (not against other currencies but against stuff people actually buy). And with that measure, I have difficulties identifying one single central banks that is worse than bitcoin within the last few years. (Maybe Zimbabwe or Venezuela?) But 70%? No way.

(Note that bitcoin also fundamentally lacks a mechanism for price stability, not that anyone actually owning bitcoin would that want.)

And Africa ditching national currencies for bitcoin? How do you propose that an illiterate farmer in rural nambia is going to use bitcoin? Even if you figure that out, do you think that the african governments - crappy as they may be - are that stupid that they don't figure out that instead of paying the seignorage to bunch of bitcoin nerds who currently own the currency, they can make their own fork and pocket the seignorage themselves?

Bitcoin has no future as an usable, official currency anywhere. That should be obvious.
You say "Ignore socket.io, do pure binary websocket" and that sort of makes sense to me, along with your advice about not using JSON, but what are you using to do "pure binary websocket"?

Do you have any code samples, please? (Don't need to run or compile, just an example would be handy.)

Also, can you post a link to your game, please? I'd like to give it a try.
Bulgaria, Romania or Denmark can't reduce their import tariffs on tomatoes from a specific EU country... because tariffs between EU countries are already 0. Moreover, only Eurozone countries have fixed exchange rates, the other ones - which include almost all former Soviet block members - can still change those rates.
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What do you mean "pharmacies selling burgers"? I'm rarely the [Citation Needed] guy but come on that's an outlandish claim that needs to be backed up somehow
> parallel --will-cite

I love gnu parallel, but that citation thing is a bit of a drag on parallel. You only have to do this once, but I see why you'd write a blog post to include the flag and not have to discuss the issue.

I wish Ole would relax on this. It's not really that appropriate to demand that anyone using parallel for academics cite a magazine article. It's only appropriate for people doing research in parallel algorithms, and in any case it would make citing easier if there was a journal article to reference.

There's nothing wrong with asking nicely, and I try to spread the word about gnu parallel. But the heavy handed demand is annoying, even if I only deal with it like once a year.
Thanks, I did not know that.

This is useful if you are solving embarrassingly parallel problems that generate lots of log data (e.g. timings for benchmark) and write them to stdout/stderr.

AFAIK there is some guaranteed atomicity when writing PIPE_BUF<512 to a pipe, however then your sub programs shouldn't write more than 512 bytes of log-data at any point, I would guess.
Ah yes... the infamous garlic from China in my local supermarket.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=chinese+garlic

Personally, I avoid it.
You can find links to both (and then some) in my comments on this submission.
For what it’s worth, if you don’t intend to publish on the App Store, you no longer need to buy a license. You can develop on your own devices with a (free) Apple ID.
Hmm, I wouldn't call families that do that wealthy by any account. (At times my family did that the average salary in the country was about $8,000 - in 1995).
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I would like to see this normalized for the position on the political spectrum of the government in power at the time of any test.

I felt that people's driving style changed immediatly when there was a change of government in the UK.
I couldn’t actually tell you how many people live in this village or the whole comună of which it is a part. However, even being 10–15 km away from the nearest two larger towns does not help, because those two towns have only supermarket chains that are known for lower-quality products and inferior versions of Western European brands. If you really want a large selection of high-quality food, you would have to travel 60 km to the nearest major city, and that is too far for anyone’s regular shopping.

Having been to the US and spent time in some rural areas (I did work-and-travel in Alabama years ago), I would not be so quick to claim that your supermarkets have "decent quality". Most supermarket food in the US is much closer to the bad stuff I find in my village shop than the higher quality food you would find in Western Europe or the largest Romanian cities. But perhaps that is a topic for another thread.
Bitcoin has a lot of legit use cases: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15228983
I don't know if it's the case elsewhere but starting 2019 all invoice payments in Switzerland will use mandatory QR codes. https://www.paymentstandards.ch/en/home/softwarepartner/qr-b...
That promises to be challenging too in terms of publication of sensitive data.
Furthermore, pretty much by definition, pretty much all airline passengers are travelers. Some car hire users are travelers. Many are just people going out for drinks in their local city.

I assume the mix varies by locale.

I don't use taxis etc. a lot when I travel but if I did a single goto brand would be useful. Locally, if Bob's app was the best local taxi service, I don't really care if someone else operates in 500 cities worldwide. (Just like I don't care that the car service I use to get me to the airport covers only a slice of even my local area.)
Don't not share - which FPS? :)

Yeah, game design and tech to support it are tightly linked, and there's approaches to it from either side.
Probably much much less.

My municipality (in Belgium) is not considered small in any aspect, and yet it actually consists of three historical villages.

My grandparents have a house in the southern of France, and that village/municipality has ~320 residents.
Presumably he's not located in the US.
Isn't the license file part of the distributed .tar.gz, packaging metadata, and other release artifacts? It's bad form to change the contents of a release after it's distributed. So even a small change like that would require a (minor) version bump.
3D printing is pretty much just 3 or 4 vaguely related approaches that happen to aim for the same end goal.
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work in 2027 is more valuable? so instead of just buying a coffe, you should pay it NOW and tell the seller you will back in 2027 to get it. They will love it!
The presentation anxiety phenomenon – is it you or your content?
Unfortunately, Hollywood studios aren't run by entrepreneurs and businessmen but by lawyers.

They care more about upholding copyright laws and byzantine licensing systems than about generating revenue and turning a profit.
But can I get 3 dedis in 3 data centers? I'd like to have that lest user experience suffers. I effectively get that with my setup.

Maybe one day when I need it, and certainly evaluating at any point.
Weird I tried searching the app directly in the store on my iPad and it didn't come up. Had to come here and go through this link to get to it.
This is not Hacker News material.
Just because the user doesn't notice or doesn't understand what happens doesn't make it acceptable.

Chrome is going toward more and more aggressive CPU throttling of tabs in the background. If mining becomes a thing, we're going to a world where background tabs will stop being rendered at all.
Amazing story. It's often (relatively) small, individual acts of heroism that preserve the best things in the world. Sometimes that means not doing what your boss asks when you know it will have unintended consequences.
I know very few women that have done that TBH.
51% hash power lets you doublespend coins. It does not let you steal from wallets or change the block reward rules.
Sarah Shopper, chatbot for Messenger and Google Assistant. You can search her name on Messenger, or say "Talk to Sarah Shopper" on Assistant.

Running on Google App Engine, written in Scala.

I posted my experience here in HN, but didn't get upvotes:
https://medium.com/@wiradikusuma/12-lessons-learned-from-12-...
"Crushed" is maybe a little strong. Won by a tenth, but at lower speed, runner ups were gaining and would have overtaken had it been a bit longer.
EU had to suppress the report. Because from their absolute point of view piracy harms sales. While the report argues that in fact it is now incorporated with a vanilla sales funnel - people who 'don't pirate' talk to people who 'pirate', and this 'boosts sales' ...

Ultimately, it seems pirated materials are 'free as in beer' ... and as the report concludes - in many cases, pirated films boost sales. To say nothing of the various personalities and corporate interests behind films for example that prosper from bare exposure, product placement, propaganda etc...

Incidentally, the same applies to software. I imagine by this time Adobe has a shadowy but no-less locked down funnel that teens enter when they first torrent and crack Photoshop...

Furthermore, it seems that the concept of piracy is fraught with mixed metaphors and improper comparisons, epitomized by the 'You wouldn't download a bear.' meme. These seem to be spawned by authority trying to leverage some moral sentiment without understanding the inter-relatedness of the cultural scene and the internet generally. Nevertheless this has created a general class of 'law-abiders' or 'normies' who might account for the people who ultimately purchase a product after being referred to it by a pirate.
Some smaller record labels I follow sell their artists albums for around €10 to €15 with immediate download of high quality, DRM free mp3's, then a physical CD with stickers, etc, follow in the post.
I like that model.
I don't know about Zanders (never heard of them) but LifeLock is nothing but a scam, nobody should every purchase LifeLock for anything ever.

To protect against this scam, just don't keep your money in your checking account, simple! My checking account has a balance of zero 99% of the time. If I do a billpayment for $325.45 then I transfer $325.45 to the checking account a minute before I issue the billpay. If I write out a check for my taxes (the only checks I every write) then I transfer the money into the account while I am writing out the check. The only money goes in is when it's already planned to go out.

I keep $150 in a separate checking account that I access with ATMs if I need cash on the go.
Perhaps, although in my particular case, I joined because I applied for a scholarship the house sponsored - and it was the only house I rushed. I spent most of my time holed up in my room the first quarter except for rush events I was explicitly invited to. And that chosen preference for isolation continued in the house as well. But simply being there forced me / gave me the opportunity to walk downstairs and be immersed in a sea of fascinating people. It really was the thing that taught me how to build relationships across differences.
It's correct it's just numbers in the screen. But this is not to say we can't abstract anything form it, or it's worthless. After all, the internet and yourself are "just stuff flying around".
Just wondering, why are people still using socket.io and not standard websockets, as available in every browser since several years now?
nice .... http://affiliateclues.com/
A bit more involved than a weekend project, but http://cinetrii.com
Also, how to download all the 78 rips at the archive.org:
https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2017/08/14/downloading-all-the-78...

(Don't actually do this, or if you do download some, give them a donation)
Can you be nuked (bw DotNet Core 2.0 and vanilla Js)
>I think no-one disputes that the food is lower quality

Most local raw produce is better. The packaged stuff is worse.
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Does anyone know if these pariah groups could make elliptic curve cryptography easier to crack?
As noted in another comment, the attack on this of "oh I forgot, it's random characters" requires the attacker to know you do this. So if you do this, don't go disclosing it on public websites.
The discovery in this article will seem quaint if you've ever crossed the street in Southeast Asia (there's never a break in traffic, so you cross anyway and the scooters flow around you, https://youtu.be/LlyOom0bwwY)

> Behaviour was noticeably different. Most cyclists slowed down as they approached the intersection, and communicated to other cyclists and motorists using eyes, gestures, expressions, and voices. A lot more negotiation was taking place – but not without friction.
I'd suggest finding out, in the real world, if it is ads or mining that gets you the greater income. Then, you optimize for that.

In either case, when you're having them doing the mining, I'd recommend full disclosure AND I'd recommend some explanatory text that goes into the details of what you're doing and why.

Something like, "Click here to learn more about mining." That should do the trick. I'd just put said link below the quick blurb/switch/invite to use mining.

If mining generates more income, then you may wish to offer some sort of in-game bonus for those who enable it. You'll have to figure out some way to ensure they really have it enabled, of course. Giving them a reward may entice more users to choose to do mining.

Another post mentioned that this would be a battery killer. You responded that you'd only enable it for certain devices/browsers. If you want, you could probably enable it (as a choice) for all devices and browsers BUT I'd absolutely ensure that you made it very clear that doing so would mean a rapid depletion of stored energy on battery powered devices.

The reason I'd suggest you do allow it is because many people only use mobile devices and, in some cases, will operate them while they are plugged in. For example, I'm typing this on a tablet that is plugged into an outlet. If mining makes you income, I'd be inclined to want to do mining for you - even while on a mobile device. It'd be even more tempting if there were an in-game reward for it.

Sort of related: That might make an interesting funding option. Free games but mandatory mining on behalf of the creator. Obviously, full disclosure is required if one is concerned with ethics. Inside this idea, they might be able to get rewards directly related to how much they mine on the creator's behalf.
> Just because the user doesn't notice or doesn't understand what happens doesn't make it acceptable.

I did this on my brother, for data gathering. It'd most certainly not be implemented non-transparently in the end-product.

> Chrome is going toward more and more aggressive CPU throttling of tabs in the background.

That's why you mine during active game. The more people love it, the more they mine it. It can certainly be made mostly win-win scenario, which is why I aim on, again, transparently experimenting with it.
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In the US there's really only two payees the average person writes a check out to, the government (to pay taxes), and your landlord (to pay rent).

10 years ago if you hired someone to do a job around the house you might have to pay with check. In the last 2-3 years I've had a couple contractors work on my house and they've all taken credit cards (as well as the others I got quotes from but didn't hire). So now I won't even consider a contractor who doesn't take credit cards.
This is how you get engraved plaques, or birthday cakes, with the message NO MESSAGE JUST LEAVE IT BLANK on them.
My understanding was we're still in the "is there any evidence phase?" and that this is much a thing as Korean Fan Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

Any evidence?
This is so absurd - a company that loses $1.27 billion is seen as a market leader. Only in tech is this a possibility. A manufacturing company would be closed for years before they can even achieve such losses.
I've got a few that have taken me about a weekend listed here: https://www.teachersdontpayjeff.com/

For example, one recent project was this: https://www.teachersdontpayjeff.com/suggestion ... it only really works on desktop currently. But the basic idea is to find words which may be "difficult" for younger elementary school students to read and offer some synonyms/definitions to help them out.
Funny you should mention Krebs - he was partially the inspiration for the idea.

Currently I actively scan 30+ pastebin style websites, including those on the dark web, but I feel the insiders themselves will be the key. Each has a unique email address assigned to them, which can be added to your userbase. That way, as soon as it receives anything abnormal, you are alerted that there’s been a potential breach somewhere.

The insiders also come with real local mobile numbers, to catch targeted phishing attacks after a breach has taken place. Not unheard of.

Eventually I was scale up to purchasing datasets, dark market dumps etc., however this will take time. Definitely on my radar though.
Devs need some time to create the stuff. Might take a month or so to really start getting the feeling that AR has finally arrived.
Wow, that's off the chain. Super cool.
There's no fake chocolate being sold as chocolate or tomato sauce with food coloring in it. Perhaps I read too far into hyperbole?
If you're zipping multiple files, is it better to pbzip2 each file, or to parallel bzip2 them? You wouldn't want to parallel pbzip2, would you?
Matt from Techmoan did a couple of videos about how to make cassette tape sound very good:

http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2017/1/24/pre-recorded-cassette...
http://www.techmoan.com/blog/2017/5/8/a-true-tech-classic-th...

They're worth watching but to be honest it hasn't made me want to convert all my music to tapes.

Edit: The link I was actually looking for is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA
The only legitimate criticism I've heard of the FB patent grant is that FB could intentionally infringe your patents and the you couldn't sue them for infringement without losing your React patent grant. It's such a narrow case though that I seriously doubt it's a legitimate concern for most of the people complaining about it.
Even then, it's not over completely if part of the cash is attached to milestones or subject to a new vesting schedule.

I've seen friends' companies acquired without them ever seeing the full "acquisition price".
Why can't we just host our sites in Somalia or something?

May seem facetious but in all seriousness I was watching vice a few weeks ago and the Somali disapora is returning and building infrastructure and high quality housing with absolutely no government regulations or taxes.
phkmalloc is a real (but single-threaded) allocator and less than 1200 lines: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/4/lib/libc/stdlib/mal...
They would love it. Anyone would love it.

Especially if doing the work includes using technology.
Buying your computer, phone or car now and getting it 10 years from now would be ideal for the seller.
Not necessarily although a federal standard would help. A single big state like California could implement it and the standard would propagate itself from there.