skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Countries like the UK are dominated by the business of deciding "who owns what". Of course the people running the system are "earning" a whole lot of money for themselves.

But money is a strange thing. Almost everyone you speak to doesn't understand it. People think the money itself---the bank notes and numbers in an app---are "worth" something. The system itself does have value because it enables asynchronous trade, which seems to be a good thing. But when you tell people that the numbers in their bank account were just created from thin air by some bank who lent someone money at one time, their eyes glaze over.

When you look around it is obvious that there really are people who are "good with money", and people who are not. Who knows if the poor understanding is intrinsic or has been nurtured by the finance sector. But if we accept that money is a good thing and that some people are bad with it, then that does mean the finance sector has some value.

Bitcoin has long been about greed, unfortunately. In the beginning it seemed like a majority were in it because they saw the value of trustless electronic cash. A system much like gold but completely electronic and completely accurate. But it hasn't been about that for a while. Today you can't even move BTC around due to high transaction fees. I can't believe that the current market cap reprents the value in the current system.
Except that the slow blocktime will eliminate any real use of Bitcoin by itself. When the time for confirmation is longer than it takes to ship a few cigs or caps over, why bother? There is no real advantage in bitcoin if you can just hand over real, physical coins which cannot be double spent once they have arrived.
> Tether certainly has a connection to Finex but they are not its biggest client.

This is false. In fact, every "USD" market on Bitfinex is actually a Tether market. It doesn't matter what the label on the ticker is, because USD cannot be deposited or withdrawn from Bitfinex, only Tether. Given that, Bitfinex is by far the biggest Tether market.
Related talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/anupam_mishra_the_ancient_ingenuit....
Regarding AD/LDAP/Kerberos, I gather it's possible to run an AD DC as part of Samba now. I haven't tried it out yet, but it looks promising.
Thank you for the numbers!

Assuming those estimates are correct (I haven't verified it), I think it's hard for me to believe that there are fewer than 191K people working to manage an equivalent number of financial transactions in USD.

I tried this wolfram query: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=number+of+people+workin...

Yes, we are increasing entropy outside of ourselves but not within, if the population of humans is increasing, humans have acquired more negentropy from the environment and are "winning" against entropy as they get better at extracting energy from the environment, we'll run out of energy in the form of fossil fuels soon, so we'll have to find another source of energy, because we need more energy to decrease entropy.

Let me be clear(er) in saying that I don't support burning fossil fuels, I think OP linked mining bitcoins directly to burning coal -- we're mixing two very separate arguments here. Burning fossil fuels for generation of electricity is a topic on its own.
Pink is considered to be a color not in the rainbow.

http://aschoonerofscience.com/science-communication/the-phys...
And of course fully fueled and maintained cars that look like straight from an ad (maybe it is one?) to drive across the country with.
Adaptive artificial evolution of protocells in a 3D-printed environment
The modus operandi to ruin a country full of natural resources and make them dependent on aid is:

1. Get a corrupt guy in power

2. Allow that guy to take unpayable loans

3. Allow that guy to stash all the money in secret bank account somewhere so that money is never touched by anyone

4. Once the country defaults on its debt, restructure the debt. Privatize everything. Make the all the natural resources available for nothing.

In this way:

1. The country loses all sovereignty of its resources.

2. The country spends all its income paying interest.

3. All the income made in the country goes to foreign corporations that get to pay almost no tax.

Also, the enslaved countries may even allow the construction of overseas bases, for "research".

The important takeway from this is that people that realize this just give up and move abroad. You can work your entire life to make your country prosper, but it will never happen because as soon as the country is above water then some ape will go and take a massive loan again and stash it somewhere.

The real problems are: 1) predatory loans, 2) bank secrecy, 3) foreign interference.

This is neocolonialism. Let countries think they're sovereign on a map, let them think they're independent, but keep all their money, their resources and put them all to work on unlivable wages.
Which raises the question "Who is Trevor?":
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=who%20is%20trevor&type=story

Which takes us to the very old discussion page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=82048

Which resolves to a 404 at this point without providing any useful information. Hmm.

Still, it leaves the question of how many people are actively editing typos in titles, and whether we should actually be blaming Trevor any time a typo remains for more than a few minutes.

(No answer actually required.)
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> I'm finding this a little confusing as it looks like BTC blockchain addresses can also be Tether addresses. Is this correct?

Yes. Tether is so-called Smart Property (with Property ID 31) stored using Omni Layer. Omni Layer stores transactions on Bitcoin Blockchain. Transaction data is encoded as output script, which uses OP_RETURN opcode and zero value. OP_RETURN opcode allows 80 bytes of data. Omni Layer uses 4 bytes ("omni") of 80 as a prefix to coexist with other systems using OP_RETURN.
Vice news on HBO is actually pretty close to what you describe.
Cloud Security Alliance Releases New Cloud Security for Startups Report
Us and them.
“Headless Body in Topless Bar” quality
FCC Is Said to Plan Repeal of Net Neutrality
Though the stack being FOSS means it's easy to move to a new org when this happens.
> Meditation is more than just relaxation. It's about a state of mind. About being in the present moment, letting go, looking inward and reflecting about oneself. I don't think you do any of those things when just relaxing while listening to music.

Well, it's obviously that you don't know me. I am in fact in the moment and I do in fact let go and reflect when I listen to music. Or when I go for a walk or any of a multitude of other non-stressful activities that let me ignore the annoyances of daily life and other people, for a little while.

> That means you are not perfectly capable of relaxing your mind.

Like I said, it's obvious that you don't know me at all.
I'm traveling to India in a few weeks and The Fall is basically my itinerary. After seeing the movie, this was one of the first place I googled because I didn't immediately get what this was for. It should have been obvious, but my preconceptions of deserts/arid places is based on the middle east, where (AFAIK) there are no step wells.
I challenge you to cross London without seeing or sensing an advert or artificial call to buy something. Mind the gap and the buses with your blind fold on. Don't forget your nose plugs.

It's true, you could do it but would it be a life?
iFinex acquired an ICO called "Tether" that no one cared about. I can help you buy 1 year old ICO for peanuts.

There is a letter signed by iFinex CEO that he owns both Bitfinex and Tether: http://article78againstnydfs.com/docs/317-cv-01882-BitfinexC...
Currently people love the Node ecosystem not the Node itself. So I don't know why this article till here.
See it not only as encryption, but a sealed envelope that verifies the integrity of the website which could otherwise be compromised by a man in the middle, unfortunately often an ISP to insert billing reminders, ads and promotions. Perhaps more nefariously by a hacker to replace your bitcoin wallets and Paypal links with his own...
More likely because Microsoft knows that a lot of computers don't have that much free space, so only sending you what you need means using less of your disk space. Also, users often have data caps, so keeping the amount of downloaded small helps them there as well.
The ancient ingenuity of water harvesting
I'm 46 now, and I remember charity appeals for the Iron Lung Association when I was a kid. These were fronted by Patrick Moore, who people will most probably remember from The Sky at Night astronomy program.
This is simply not true. It was an economic argument[1]. Newer & smaller radio stations could not compete. And if anyone should be broken up for monopolizing online ad revenue, it should probably be Google (Alphabet).

[1] http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...
As as been pointed out above they can't unilaterally blacklist tethers, the other parties have to accept the modified client.
That is AMT, which is just one application on the ME. More in general it aims to handle things the system should do independently of the OS, even when powered down.

That _can_ include advanced power management, secure computing stuff, watchdog functions and stuff like that.
I used it, and I used a combination of manual and automated steps.

It wasn't worth it in the end, perhaps you could look into traefik or caddy. Both can automatically request and refresh certificates for you, caddy is good for hobby projects and is very easy to configure, traefik offers a lot of features and can be a bit harder to setup, but is truly awesome if you connect it to an orchestrator for automatic request routing.
> If you haven't been following along, here's why this matters:

This is the only thing that matters: no matter how many faults, and bugs, and breaches, and unauthorised transactions there are, people still flock to these poorly specified, even more poorly executed soap bubbles with no real-life uses.

This like the tenth time something like this happened this year (or just last month, I lost track). And still, somehow, there are (perceived) millions upon millions of dollars in these systems.
>Huh? why is this an issue at all.

I think you missed my point. I was talking specifically about providing SGX to VM guests on multi-tenant machines. The difficulty is not insurmountable, but other than some experimental Intel patches, KVM doesn’t support it yet.
Hashgraph seems a promising alternative:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/what-is-hashgraph

http://www.swirlds.com/whitepapers/

https://hashgraph.com/
Cr.h: A Simple C Hot Reload Header-Only Library
I am a bridge player, so I memorise 24 boards easily.
switched to Firefox because Mozilla was the only company that was against inclusion of DRM into w3c standard.
It seems that if something stops working for a "legitimate" technical reason (like, your camera stops working because of no server access, even though you only ever used the camera on you lan anyway) the customer can't win the lawsuit.
Silent Sub: Time Is the Enemy as Argentina Hunts a Lost Vessel
Note that the ME still runs on their platforms. They are not being honest about that fact.
all of those companies could also be said to have killed themselves either by making crappy products or not reading the direction of the industry.

Lotus notes: some good ideas but horrible outdated app

wordperfect/wordstar: not even close to matching MS Word's feature or ease of use

Novell: what did they make other than networking that ended up being a standard part of all machines and all OSes, not just windows

Lotus 123/Visicalc: did Visicalc ever make it out of text mode? Excel beat those be being a better product.

Borland: also got out competed. Their only product that didn't suck was they're dev products but they couldn't keep up with Visual Studio. They had one database product that took them year to try to update to be competitive and lost their market by taking too long.

None of that has anything to do with "wrath" of MS.
Code: It's Trivial (2009)
So how do you know when it's ignored?
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it's a shame that this story hasn't gotten more attention.

I am the average person when it comes to this subject. It is just that we (the avg people) do not understand what this means.
Async / Await in JavaScript – What, Why and How
A crazy programmer's video series. That's so funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=568g8hxJJp4
I'm a big Nintendo fan. Other than that, I came to say almost exactly what you did. Including the recommendation!

Localization in entertainment is often more about preserving the conveyed feelings than translating the words themselves. During the recent development of Need for Speed: Payback, I happened to sit next to two people working on dialogue and localisation. I'm a software engineer working on the UI team, but for a few months, these wonderful guys were seated in the UI room.

I learned a bunch from them, especially when they discussed how to translate things like common sayings and cultural references.
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and those tokens were traded at how many pennies to the dollar ?
I’ve seen this before and am still bothered by the color name chosen. Is calling magenta “pink” a British (or Australian) thing maybe? Pink is a pale red. [1] Magenta isn’t pale red. Even the color wheel used here doesn’t label it pink. Where does this come from?

But yes, it’s interesting to learn that there is no wavelength for magenta.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink
They said "They paid me back in full" so I assume he did not lose the 30% in the end? Admittedly I'm not sure I understand what they mean.

I also wish that "everybody I disagree with is a shill" meme stayed in 4chan and reddit, it's incompatible with reasonable discussion.
It’s just not the Gurudwara. Many temples in India and around the world provide free food. It’s called “sadavrat”. Providing food to the needy is the best form of service to god.
Which means it is in fact slowing down as it climbs out of the Sun's gravity well. It's just not the kind of slowing down that parent was hoping for.
I understood it to mean that FTP has mostly been replaced by HTTP, through no fault of FTP itself, but rather because that's what serves the interests of the people who implement things. That is, FTP still works, and works as well as ever, but its usage is dropping.
The closest I’ve found is Democracy Now (which is domestic). They make a one hour show Monday to Friday. It’s a little boring, but rather endearing. Admittedly I don’t watch it much.
Data to back it up please, since you are pretty sure?

"Around 70% of customers in Western Europe and China use prepaid phones with the figure rising to over 90% for customers in India and Africa"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prepay_mobile_phone

I only know people with contracts regarding iPhone, which is the only affordable way to get them new in many of the European countries.
If I'm not mistaken, PSP is not at all like ME, it runs code if you supply it with such but on it's own it doesn't listen to network traffic or run it's own OS, atleast, last I checked.

I'd still consider AMD the better player in the game.
"A company like Microsoft [...] would never deem manually binary editing as acceptable." is complete bullshit speculation. The guy who has analysed the bug report must be good at assembly language. Maybe he has developed the binary patch very quickly as a proof of his analyse. When this analyse was hand over to development team, they had two options: spending time to setup the development environment with the correct version of sources and tools (error prone), performs again the development using c++, launching all the non regression tests. The other option is to do nothing and bet this binary will never need again to evolve. This is cheaper and the risks seem smaller. IMHO, this beautiful patch shows that Microsoft is open minded and choose smart options instead of bureaucratic ones. I applaud.
You would have to pay me lawyer's fee to give you the code along with an explanation.

In the meantime take my word for it.
This is a general comment, not particularly aimed at the russian stuff as I see similar comments about other stuff too, but the American election result was super close.

There's probably a thousand different factors that could have swung it either way. There doesn't seem to be any logical reason to exclude Russian support from that list.

That doesn't mean the opposite is true, and that only Russian support for one candidate matters, but I think your statement is far overestimating the size of the final result in comparison with the impact of Russian support.

It probably doesn't help that the President continually refers to it is a historic landslide, which will probably confuse people who aren't paying attention. But it wasn't, it was very close.
One of the most useful group-related tricks (introduced in BSD Unix, I believe) is the setgid bit on a directory. If this is set, new files and subdirectories created within the directory will have the same group as the directory, rather than the group of the process that created them.
But since Tether Limited are the ones who back the tokens with real dollars, they can effectively unilaterally pressure anyone to upgrade the client. Those who don't upgrade and accept stolen tethers will be left with worthless unredeemable tokens.
There is a special dance the OS has to perform in order to do it. In short, the OS calls EWB instruction, which makes CPU read the page from EPC, encrypt it, and write it to normal memory. To load it back, OS executes the ELDB instruction, which decrypts it and writes to EPC. There is slightly more to it due to version array, which is used to prevent replay attacks, but in general, paging in and out is completely fine in SGX.
> Monads – or rather, what Haskell and Scala use monads for, to distinguish that from the category theory concept – are primarily about "enriched" function composition (yes, I know that I'm simplifying here). That is useful, but also very limiting when the logic with which you want to glue pieces of code together does not fit that schema

What kind of logic might that be? You keep saying there's a generalisation but you keep not showing what it actually is.

> A lot of the usefulness of monads also depends on the language supporting the syntactic sugar ("do" in Haskell or "for" in Scala) to make the resulting code readable.

Up to a point. I've done some work with (free) applicatives lately, which have no direct language support, but it turns out you can get a lot of the value anyway.

> I'd argue that monads are an artifact of pure functional programming (or attempts to approximate pure functional programming in impure languages). As soon as you have mutable local state and closures, virtually all use cases of monads for programming (not counting actual category theory applications) disappear.

I find them useful for any kind of cross-cutting concern - all the AOP examples. Audit logs, database transactions, validation, authorization, that kind of thing. To solve these things with something state-like that state has to be pseudo-global and has most of the problems of global state; to solve them with closures you need a way to compose closures at which point you're most of the way to monads.
> What prevents you from already selling an appliance that stops working, certificate or not, after the warranty expires?

That sounds malicious -- whereas having it no longer work after the certificate expires sounds like security, and everyone likes security. With enough PR, you can string together something that sounds like a legitimate concern, like "with privacy being a major concern, encryption has progressed leaps and bounds past what we had two years ago -- so even if we were to renew the certificates, we simply do not think our customers' data would be safe when handled by these old devices."
Still, your post doesn't do justice to the true scale and productivity of Microsoft. Here's all the product Microsoft has ever released: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_software

Just scroll through that list and it's going to get you amazed and marveled.

To be fair, Google has released number of products in many of the same areas as Microsoft but usually with different spin including Office, Sharepoint, SQL Server, Outlook and so on. With about 1/3rd of the size and 1/4th of the age, they have been immensely productive as well.
You sound like you are living in the US, and everything is simple there and works as described. Which is probably true for you, as I understand those are exchanges catered towards US customers. However the mistake is that you assume that the rest of the world (majority) works the same way.
> 1. ...but why give them ability to charge based on what you're doing with access they give you? It's like your electric power provider would charge you more if you have a blacklisted freezer...

The electricity analogy doesn't work because the electricity company literally cannot figure out what brand of appliance you're using. Again, if you enter into a contract with your electricity company locking you into only running apple chargers, that's on you. No regulation needed.

> 2. ...but maybe let's start by lowering the bar for new ISPs and getting rid of monopolies instead of giving them more means to squeeze more money? How getting rid of NN helps with that? Google couldn't get into that market.

Makes sense. Except nobody's getting rid of nn. They are trying to prevent nn from being introduced. Till now, there hasn't been a concept of nn enforced by the regulatory authority. So no change in status quo, as far as nn is concerned. And Google did get into the market without over-reaching regulation like nn. It seems logical to me to continue the current state, it has allowed much innovation to occur.

> 3. ...but what if my provider throttles wired network, not wireless, and not 4k, but full HD? What if they throttle my twitch, because they got a deal with google to serve unlimited access to Youtube Gaming at the cost of limiting access to twitch? Sure, change IPS! Whoops, there's no competition in my area. What now?

Fully agree. This indicates the actual problem with ISPs today. They are operating as monopolies or duopolies or I'd even say cartels. This monopolistic behavior must be tackled. But enforcing nn will be like throwing the baby out with the bath-water.

As I said earlier, my points are not very well thought out. I really want to hear about problems that will get solved by enforcing nn. Thanks for responding, and not just downvoting.
Came here to write the exact same thing. "The only way this happened is if Microsoft somehow lost the source code of a long forgotten Office component." is completely false speculation/generalization. It is not the only way.
It's hard to even call that a legal system, when a court can find "stupid" to be a statement of fact.