skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say DRM works really well for some definition of "works". It certainly doesn't make it impossible to pirate anything, but the technology and the laws make it difficult enough that I rarely bother anymore and just pay for Hulu, Netflix, etc.

I don't think they're attempting to stifle competition, and if so they sure are not succeeding at that because there are new streaming services all the time. It's so they can prevent a commercially viable piracy business.
Shipping new player variants is a pain. The kind of pain you read about on thedailywtf.

Once you have streaming working with DRM on all devices you need a %@#$$@#$@ good reason to introduce DRM-free streaming. Netflix wouldn't want to discover that its own content plays with very low quality on, say, Panasonic TVs made between April and August 2016.
Instantaneous?
Are you really using bitcoin?In that case, are you spending 100$ per transaction?
for b) centralized stores of value such as PayPal also offer instantaneous global transfer (at least among PayPal accounts). And Bitcoin current is not even instantaneous.

As far as "easily confiscated" this is not true for fiat currencies.

If you hold your cash in fiat currencies and use an account such as PayPal to hold small amounts for actual (even global) transactions, it's practically superior to Bitcoin.
If Amazon started accepting Bitcoin directly (as opposed to accepting gift cards that you can buy for Bitcoin elsewhere), that would be enormous news. One of the reason the "retailer X accepts Bitcoin" stories have died off is that almost all of those retailers were ones nobody cared about.
I agree, voluntary interaction between each other is what creates wealth. Not the shuffling of stuff from one group of people to another.
>you can't create value out of thin air

Wait, we are creating currency, not value. Do you know how the federal reserve works? It puts more money into the system from nowhere.

>Bitcoin is useless, you can't do anything with it

You can buy things with it, that is the point of money. The more it is adopted, the more you will be able to buy.
Exactly my point. These things all still exist and are easier to get started with than ever. Nobody is holding a gun to anyone's had and forcing them to use Facebook, or Twitter and honestly if it wasn't for this article about suppressing information about protests in Romania of Facebook I wouldn't even know there were protests in Romania. So something seems to be working out. If all this stuff had been posted on people's individual personally hosted blogs I would never know.
My Dad was asking me about Bitcoin the other day, he's been receiving spam emails to the point where it's surfacing on his radar as something to be curious about.

Not sure if that means the ship has sailed now, or that BTC is hitting the mainstream.
The number of countries using it does not justify the usage. I'm saying that the symbol "." is a decimal point in English. When writing English why won't you obey the rules of the language?

Consider how Americans write dates MMDDYYYY. It's fucking stupid, no matter if 300 million Americans use it. Same deal with this.
I think you've misunderstood me. Mint is #1 on Distrowatch. That's pretty much it. Everything else suggests that Ubuntu is more popular.

So my parent "no evidence other than DW clicks" is aimed at Mint, not Ubuntu.
Running a business?
I believe they mean that doing so is not a copyright infringement, even if it is a tricky situation for businesses who want to provide streaming services. The DRM is granting powerful stipulations beyond those specified by the law.

I don't actually know the law, but I assume the EFF does.

Also, I wish humans were able to resist the urge to downvote things they don't agree with. This comment contributes to the conversation and was not made in bad faith.
Hardly any. I've been interchangeably using the two OS' for a couple years now, and the only difference in Firefox shortcuts (general, not just dev tools) I've noticed is the one for jumping to the nth tab: It's Ctrl+<number> under Windows and Alt+<number> under Linux (at least Ubuntu with Unity or Gnome).
It's worth $100 million now.
it's worse than useless. It consumes 30.14TWh a year of electricity for what?
Anybody up to date on distance bounding protocols? Is there a well studied implementation that is anywhere near practical?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol
Out of curiosity, how much that would cost and how long it would take for the transaction confirm? I know, you can't know that for sure beforehand (what a wonderful property for a currency), but current best guess?

(The last numbers I heard and may have misunderstood were more than 10 dollars and hours to confirm. That is negative utility to me, as in that case someone would need to literally pay me to use bitcoin for buying my coffee.)
Buying dips and crashes isn't new stuff, you're basically predicting how much people will/are panicking. There's no exact science around that, but many of the lessons there don't apply to Bitcoin because of all of the other factors surrounding its usage and problems which can also drive the price.

And yes, maybe you buy at the top of a crash and your portfolio drops 50%, but then months later it recovers to 100% above the point where it crashed previously.

All of the things that have happened to Bitcoin and bitcoin services (Silk Road) make me think that if cryptocurrency is going to stay around, it will cycle just as the stock market and businesses do, which means there will be plenty of opportunities down the line to make 1000% gains -- in bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies.

Until you have regulators on your side (which means a government isn't going to raid an exchange), and much of the hacking and drama goes away, it's never going to be more than technically complex gambling.
Has no one else noticed that horrendously choppy gif? How is that supposed to persuade me to use the new Google Finance?
Taking the block out of blockchain
I know that they will probably kill it like they do all of their useful products, but it seems like this could turn a profit for Google. A moderately trained monkey should be able to turn a profit either by selling people's financial search information or by investing based on their searches (although I'm not entirely sure that would be legal).

What investor wouldn't pay for a real time stream of search volume for each ticker?
It's weird that after so many years Linux DEs are still in this immature state. And we again find ourselves looking for something more permanent that "just works". I was hoping for unity to be it, but apparently the bar was too high for canonical, so now I'm looking at either lxde or xfce too.
Why is there a transaction fee on Bitcoins? Who get the money? One of the argument for Bitcoin originally was no transaction fee, because there's no middleman.
READ CLOSELY:

I don't think it's possible to travel to the past, but I've figured out how to travel 1 hour into the future. It works 100% of the time.

Here are the instructions:

1. Visit https://news.ycombinator.com/news
I suggest the next time traveller to prove being from the future by showing us the next 1000+ block hashes for the Bitcoin blockchain then...
Non-paywall link: https://archive.fo/7EVkE
Networking with other students, your professors, professionals in industry. Being a student provides a great excuse to meet professionals and make career helpful contacts.
OK, but developers should still disclose their affiliation.
The definition of a Ponzi scheme is paying off existing investors with money contributed by new investors. If it's a successful Ponzi scheme due to people dying, then that's a different argument. A Ponzi scheme is a ponzi scheme whether it's a success or failure.
There never was a real tulip fever.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
There is speculation about artificially inflated prices. The world's largest bitcoin exchange in terms of volume (Bitfinex) is assumed having pushed the price of bitcoin by creating Tether tokens out of thin air. Additionally the price by was supposedly increased using wash trading practices.
In the absolute best case every other bitcoin but yours will be lost and your bitcoin will grant you ownership of all the current of future wealth of humanity. Or something.
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I've been complaining about Finance for years but they never listen. At one point the charts work OK then they replaced them with flash which I refused to allow on my Mac. The stock screener was always a broken waste of time. Often their data was months behind when it came to updating or retiring symbols. At one point it showed a retired symbol for month. The categories seemed almost hopeless to get any real info out of. They should either make it google class or eliminate it entirely.
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So there is Devine scripture defining "blue collar"? Or what?

You'll have to be more specific. Your current comment is equivalent to "you're an idiot"
It is not, but I'd like to note one thing: while here Netflix is the 'bad guy', in the Net Neutrality issue they are positing themselves as the 'good guy'.
Modern allocators use mmap(2).
A huge amount of people out there try to avoid JS like the plague, hence the popularity of TypeScript, so yep, if I can learn Dart in an afternoon and have the ability to write hybrid mobile apps then it's plenty worth it.

Re "Angular, one of Google most successful projects, uses TypeScript and not Dart, let that sink in.": Google is also promoting AngularDart as well, "Hundreds of Google engineers use AngularDart to build the sophisticated, mission-critical apps that bring in much of Google’s revenue." https://webdev.dartlang.org/angular/

"Demise of so many projects from Google" I agree with (sans the popularity of Go).

Flutter is in alpha so time will tell if Google will put enough funding/focus into it.
I know. When I started looking for a side project, all I see is high priced API's from no-name companies. Not sure if I want to base my prediction on these data sets.
but frankly even trying to time a bottom as a buying opportunity can be dangerous, because it can prevent you from making common sense investments at decent prices.
Ah, I thought this was a side project of some Mozilla employees.
Use IKEv2 instead -- it's natively supported in iOS/macOS.
I'm using [this](https://github.com/gaomd/docker-ikev2-vpn-server) Docker recipe on the $5 Digital Ocean instance and it works great. Also setup was much easier than OpenVPN.
Reminds me of digging diamonds out of the ground...
It's fine as long as it's clear that the author is talking about his/her own creation.
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If they weren't they wouldn't let them do it. Maybe amateur investors will get upset, but as I said in another comment the pros know that this tactic will not only scare off competition, this will scare off potential competition.

Few will fund a company to compete against an incumbent who is large and powerful enough to do this to you. There are other battles to be fought, so why risk it?
Seems like Bitcoin's main use cases are for 1) accepting payments online for businesses that might not otherwise be authorized to do so (illegal stuff), and 2) avoiding currency controls for moving money across borders.
Past performance projects future gains, right? ;)
I can suggest Francis Fukuyama's "Origins of Political Order" for a decent survey of that. Couple it with Steven Pinker's "Better Angels of Our Nature" for a holistic look at violence in human societies in general
I'm curious; where you using this feature? Why was Google Finance better than the alternatives? I've kept an eye on Google Finance for a while and it doesn't appear to have received any updates for a long time. The stock chart still requires Flash, for example.
Situation is obviously completely different. Google was not reprinting, packaging and selling the books like Netflix was in the OP.
Sure, but to the extent that those economies are capitalist, they are also more free because freedom of ownership and freedom to benefit from the fruits of one's labour are real freedoms.
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I like your octocat-gopher logo, very cool. Looks like an interesting project also. How does it compare to the Cloudflare dns server in Go? (I guess being open source is the most important). They did some interesting optimizations of TLS with assembly
Nice US imperialism you got going there
Ah those famous “individual choices” which are perfectly spherical, and in a vacuum. /s
Most electricity consuming gambling game out there. Join now or you miss all the fun of burning the world!
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I can't even remember when I last encountered DRM. Are you at all affected if you just stay out of the game?
Debit cards costs less money to shops and so on (transaction cost). Maestro system is way cheaper than anything else.

Credit cards are annoying that your balance isn't updated immediately, they're much more costly to operate, more fraud tolerant (just need to copy the numbers) while the benefit only applies to US and maybe a few others. Meaning, any bank here will pay you back regarding debit card fraud similar to the other response.

Credit/debit cards; it's weird that having such a card results in so many differences other than paying on credit/debit.
Posted for inspiration, I find it too expensive. Alternatives?
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I could probably pay for it in backrubs too, but that doesn't make backrubs a useful currency.
The parent said "droplet" so I assume Digital Ocean. Unless you've installed the host yourself, from scratch, you can't be sure the option hasn't been changed.

Makes me think that your setting is a default and his was set by Digital Ocean.
That involves quite a lot more work than buying bitcoin, though.
Our community began being filled with relatively inexperienced types who treated engineering problems and solutions like a popularity contest. It was suddenly 'smart' to mock it, so they did, barely understanding the basics. In essence a desperate attempt to fill the gaps in their CV.
Meh. If you find yourself mocking, you're probably doing something wrong somewhere
you should only be trying to reduce the harm of a recession if you plan on liquidating assets in the near term. if you are under forty and saving for retirement, do nothing...the recession will be far in the rear view mirror by time you want to sell
Privacy: a huge proportion of Android apps are secretly tracking you
Socialism - “a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole“
Have you been tested for allergies?
Wait... all vulnerabilities are bugs and many bugs make software vulnerable in some way (even if not obvious at first). So where do you propose to draw the line between normal software QA (testing and bugfixing) and a hunt for vulnerabilities? My reading is that this would blatantly outlaw all forms of software testing.
> the expression 2 ∗ 3 has the sequence
{6, 6, 6, 6, 6, ...}

cited from the book linked by yvdriess

Where did I see that before, octave (ie matlab perhaps), erlang/elixir? I think I remember trying to limit an implicit loop by giving a scalar or an array of one element and not getting anything back because the loop was infinite.
This guy claims to be from our culture ~20 years in the future. Your question seems to be something like "Yeah, but what if everything was completely different?"

Not terribly relevant in this case since I doubt anybody is even remotely fooled, but more interesting in the Jon Titor case, where I think many people were (albeit with a certain amount of willingness). He kept his predictions close to his chest and tried to play off any inaccuracies as issues with "alternate realities", but if that is true and you're not even in your own past anyhow there really wasn't very much reason not to be far more free with the details of the timeline that we may not even be in.
Maybe its different in your location then, in Munich its the other way around. Where are you located?
So this time John Titor predicted the value of bitcoin. Perhaps we ought to listen to him?
Adding a column is easy!

What about removing a column? What about if you've decided that you both current and next version of the code to work (then removing a column is a 3 step process, copy to new and use new, skip a version, remove old).

Migration can and is often hard.
It's been a while since I last used it in a physical place, but basically the store's or restaurant's payment system accepted the payment as soon as the transaction was broadcast over the network. In other words, payment was instantaneous. The system did not wait for a confirmation block. That's not unreasonable, since every transaction with nonzero fees was eventually confirmed, in those early days before the network got clogged up.

Not sure how it would work now, but I think even now chances are that the transaction would eventually be confirmed, so the POS system could gamble on that and "accept" it if it includes some minimal fee.
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Networking (people!) and personal impact.
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dremel = bigquery, borg = GKE.
It doesn't happen often, but occasionally, I'm going down and the elevator doors wait a minute or so before they close. I assume I'm in the top elevator and the bottom elevator is taking longer than the system originally calculated.
It's nearly impossible for Russians and Ukrainians to find a decent job there too, you'll need to work remotely unless you plan on making $3/hr like @Homakov made as a Rails dev in Russia. Get a remote position with your EU citizenship look at boards like jobspresso.co even for just answering support emails.
"as somebody else who wants a trustless electronic currency for the future."

+ Uhm, why? Our current currencies are very useful as currencies. Nobody wants VISA charges, but that's a secondary issue, nothing to do with decentralization.

"But what you describe is no different from any other investment."

+ No - not at all. Putting money in BTC is just speculation, it's not investing. It's not the same as buying stocks, bonds or real estate.

When we invest, we make assertions about the future value of the stock. Also - can possibly take control over the company and direct it to create greater value.
My point was that gender equality is far from a solved problem in Europe (unlike the previous post claimed in "just like nearly every country in Europe 100 years ago."). To me, what actually sounds ridiculous is to dismiss the problem by saying it "results from choices" when you have evidence (data on the website I linked) that demonstrates that - all things equal (experience, geography, etc) - women globally make less money, namely in STEM jobs, than their male counterparts.

"Men and women are equal under the law" in Europe, but the reality is far from text in law, unlike what was previously said.
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If discovering EME exploits is outlawed, only outlaws will discover EME exploits.
I respectfully disagree with the idea that Bitcoin's killer-app is to be used as a currency for transactional purposes.

I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

On the other hand, I can definitely see the utility in a censorship-resistant digital medium to store wealth. To me, this latter use case has much, much more potential to serve the unbanked (as well as the banked).

Some use cases I can think off the top of my head:

(1) You are from Syria and need to flee war and escape into Europe – however bank transfers into Europe are almost impossible if you are a common Syrian. Bitcoin allows you to take your wealth with you, in your brain, as you escape across the border, by just memorising your twelve word private key.

(2) You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

(3) You are Saudi billionaire Al-Waleed bin Talal. The government freezes all your assets in a political coup. If you have a portion of your wealth in Bitcoin, you could protect them from government expropriation and anonymously transfer them to associates or family members abroad.

(4) You are whistleblower Julian Assance and have been cut off from the financial system as a way to censor your speech. Bitcoin allows you to have an unbreakable digital "Swiss bank account" that the authorities are not able to reach.

This reminds me of Peter Thiel's recent words about Bitcoin [1]: "it's like a reserve form of money, it's like gold, and it's just a store of value. You don't need to use it to make payments."

Reference:

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/26/bitcoin-underestimated-peter...
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You mean like “National Socialist German Workers' Party”?!

I always found it funny they call it far right.
Because it's the truth?
Agreed, passing on the opportunity to buy a lottery ticket does not make you an idiot, regardless of whether it turns out to be the winning number. It was a missed opportunity, but that doesn't make it a bad decision per se.
Please be aware that the article describes a problem with a specific implementation of THP. Other operating systems implement it differently and don't suffer from the same caveats (though any implementation will of course have its own disadvantages, since THP support requires making various tradeoffs and policy decisions). FreeBSD's implementation (based on [1]) is more conservative and works by opportunistically reserving physically contiguous ranges of memory in a way that allows THP promotion if the application (or kernel) actually makes use of all the pages backed by the large mapping. It's tied in to the page allocator in a way that avoids the "leaks" described in the article, and doesn't make use of expensive scans. Moreover, the reservation system enables other optimizations in the memory management subsystem.

[1] https://www.cs.rice.edu/~druschel/publications/superpages.pd...
I agree so much with this comment.

Personally I think Bitcoin and/or blockchain could be the future, but the current value is 90-95% based on dumb speculation. It’s use as a practical currency are years away, and it’s still super risky (ie. it could easily lose most of its value overnight for one reason or another). I don’t begrudge people making money from it, but I’m fed up of people telling me how awesome and groundbreaking it is, when at the moment, in practical terms, it’s just a giant pyramid scheme.
I'm not even American! This is akin to Americans putting the month before the date in MMDDYYYY.
They do? Quite interesting. Tho it shouldn't really change the underlying mechanism; map only pages the process has touched.
I don't have any BTC on hand, so I genuinely don't know. The barista I spoke with mentioned that they get four or five transactions per week, and they had a physical POS terminal for Bitcoin transactions, similar to the one CoinKite was producing a few years ago: http://blog.coinkite.com/post/76526284739/did-you-know-that-...