skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm so tired of seeing this trucked out as a response anytime someone talks about how bitcoin is used.

Cash is used for some pretty shitty stuff too, so are credit cards, and checks, and just about every other form of payment.

And funnily enough, Bitcoin is about the dumbest thing to use for illicit things, as it's so easily trackable and records of the money's movement is forever carved into the blockchain (so even if it takes someone 10 years to track the money, or even realize it needs to be tracked, it's still going to be there).

But what about the valid and legal use cases of:

1. paying for goods and services without having to give the company i'm paying access to my account information in a way that they can charge more whenever they want, or lose my information and put my financials at risk

2. Receiving payment for goods and services in a form of money that you don't need to worry about "chargebacks", "reversals", or any kind of way of taking money back after it's been sent

Combine both of those things, and I could see a very real reduction in costs of doing business in just about every area.
China to speed up IPv6-based Internet development
Recently they have added ARView made with ARKit on iOS. I think moving forward they think the future in AR, VR and provide their vendors and other developer to build on this platform.

This is really forward thinking approach and it is kind of same they had done with AWS in 2000.
What is happy paths testing and why is it bad for you?
To my understanding, the US Military has "plans" for things it never intends to do. The plan is basically an outline for how such a thing might be done; it may be used for training or to recognize when another country is doing that thing.
Absolutely true, but I'm just trying to point out that there are more things that can go wrong than you seem to be covering. You said:

> barrkel: I could flesh it out, but I think there's enough in my comment to get all the way for anyone interested.

I'm letting you know that this turns out not to be the case, for I am interested, and I've read your comment in detail, and for me, there isn't enough there to get all the way.

But you're right that it's not your job to convince me of anything, I'm just trying to let you know that, in my opinion, for what it's worth, you haven't solved the challenge.
I've also edited. It's the third on a list of three hypothetical examples of a situation in which undisclosed MiGs are of more potential use than disclosed MiGs.

This is a "plan" to attack its own citizens in the same sense as a document noting "contractors are better from the point of view of flexibility, workforce mobility and the ability to downsize the work force" is a plan for mass firings.
Not sure if there's something specific about e-paper technology that makes it expensive despite being seemingly primitive compared to a typical tablet. But it's worth pointing out that none of the most expensive e-readers are more expensive than the cheapest iPads ($400 for the iPad Mini with 128-GB and a 7.9 inch screen), which most definitely have sophisticated screens (Retina, multitouch).

I'm a longtime iPad user but I have one of the cheaper Amazon Fire tablets (whatever was the 7-inch model that sold for $30 for last year's Black Friday). I mean, it's a tablet, but it's not very fun to use compared to my iPad/iPhone because of how clunky the multitouch is (among other things). And the screen isn't high res -- under 200 ppi IIRC. Even the new Kindle Fire HD 10-inch model maxes out at just 224 ppi.

The ebook reader I currently own is the Kindle Voyage, which apparently has 300 ppi on a 6 inch screen at a cost of $199. The Kindle that I would recommend is the Paperwhite, which is just $90, while also having the same screen quality as the Voyage.

(I owned the Paperwhite before getting the Voyage. I don't have any complaints about the Voyage but I honestly could not tell you why it's any better than I remember the Paperwhite being).

So if PPI is a large factor in cost of screen, it turns out that the Kindle e-readers aren't that much out of whack compared to the Amazon Fire HD tablets. Yes, it's just black and white, but for most books, that's all you need. And it is very legible black-and-white. I have an iPad Pro but I do almost all of my e-reading on the Kindle.

If you're a student, one thing I might worry about is whether the Kindles and their small screen can handle all of the textbooks that you might use. For books where layout is important, the small Kindle can be kind of a pain. And some books (purchased on Amazon) will refuse to open on the Kindle, so I have to view them on my iPad. I imagine the 10-inch version of the Kindle Fire would handle full=size books, but that is me just guessing.

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You probably have seen these links, but just in case:

https://thewirecutter.com/reviews/amazon-kindle-is-the-best-...

https://goodereader.com/blog/category/reviews
My understanding is that paid subscribers (and newsstand sales) largely went into paying for printing and distribution while ads paid for basically everything else. Therefore, I expect that part of the thinking was that ads by themselves could pay for digital content creation and delivery.

It's also the case that most people assume that an outsized percentage of costs goes into the physical copy of things. At one point, this came up a lot when eBooks were getting big--though, in that case, the publishers ended up being able to hold the line fairly effectively.

Finally, there just aren't that many pubs that can really command a viable subscription price online--or really any at all. That the WSJ, NYT, and apparently the Guardian can isn't necessarily a recipe for a broader subscription model.
Neither of those stereotypes are truly responsible for the atrocities for which they are capable.

Wars only happen because peaceful citizens do not take responsibility for the war-mongers in their societies. We wouldn't have the wars we have, if we didn't elevate the war-making classes above the folds. We need to always be diligent and vigilant about keeping the war-machine in check - alas, none of us in the West really has a clean slate on this issue. Citizens are responsible for the actions of their governments; this means our militaries, too. The fact that we fail to take that responsibility, means atrocities continue to happen.
You're making an unsupported assertion that people pay for leftist writing rather than for quality writing.

Please supply arguments to support that.
It is equally irrational to believe that all conspiracy theories are true as it is to believe that all conspiracy theories are false.

False flag operations certainly happen[1]. It just takes a long amount of time for whistleblowers to leak information providing information to confirm such a fact.

[1]https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-ever-growing-list-of-admit...
Ubuntu 17.10: Return of the Gnome
Some anecdotal outcomes [0], [1], [2] of the system below. In general, people were outraged for a few months and local news seemed to mention it in most drug-bust stories, but that seems to have died off. My law enforcement friends were beside themselves at first, but I think both sides are adjusting to the system.

I think in general I agree with it. Without context of witnessing the [alleged] crime and without the algorithm in front of me, sometimes I wonder if certain situations have exposed some holes in the algorithm. In addition to the three cited below, I remember reading about a guy in Ocean County being released after they found him with $1M of drugs... maybe his supplier took care of that problem for the community...

[0] - Burglary: http://pix11.com/2017/02/16/accused-serial-burglar-arrested-...

[1] - 1st deg murder: http://www.gloucestercitynews.net/clearysnotebook/2017/07/li...

[2] - possession and resisting arrest, but look at the 2016/2017 rap sheet: http://www.usbailreform.com/camden-nj-ex-con-shoots-cop-poin...
It's funny, since I turned to farming, I find myself referring to the meat I eat as the name of the animal rather than those you see on the packaging in the grocery store. It started off as humour and kind of stuck. Cowburger, pig chops... oddly I still call chicken and turkey the same thing :P
Bitcoin is just pure speculation at this point. Like gold, Bitcoin's value comes from the fact that more and more people are interested in buying it. Unlike stocks, it does not generate real money through dividends. For every person that got rich with Bitcoin, some other unlucky guy will lose the very same amount of money. When the bubble will burst, it will be zero sum game.

Index-based ETFs should be the way to go for casual investors. Put some money in half-a-dozen index funds from the US, EU and Asia, and you'll get a low-fee, relatively stable and 7% average yearly ROI.
It could start a war with anyone without repercussion from the one true power that can stop all war-making: its people.

It seems to have refined its ability to convince us of the need for war since then, however.
All of your proposed use cases depend on the authorities approving your actions. Governments can and will at some point request standard AML procedures when you are depositing large sums of crypto currency into an exchange. If a state decides to introduce capital controls it would also be pretty easy to shutdown access to such an exchange. You can be forced to hand over your private keys or your public addresses could be simply black listed, making them unusable. I would think of bitcoin more like an insurance (like gold) which you need to buy in calm times. Once shit hits the fan it's most likely too late to buy or send bitcoin.
The remarkable tablet would be amazing if there was a print driver to send the document directly to your device.
> This might be a kneejerk reaction, but why does he feel the world is entitled to the labor of a programmer for "free"? What's his alternative business/labor model? Is it compatible with capitalism? What am I missing here?

He doesn't refer to "free" as of cost, but "free" as in "freedom". The Free Software model fully permits that software is only available to people who pay for it, they would just get source+binaries and would have the rights to redistribute as they please.

Most companies who use this model tend to dual-license, though. That is, a copyleft license for most people, and for those who fear it, they can purchase an exception to use it as proprietary software. In years gone by, this was GPL/proprietary, but in this world of SaaS/SaaSS, AGPL has supplanted the GPL as the "toxic" license of choice to encourage companies to buy licenses.
Prosecco is a good example of that. At least in the UK, anyway. Many British people are absolutely obsessed with the stuff, to the point where it forms part of their identity (See [0]). The Prosecco industry have done an astonishingly good job of marketing it over the last 10 years or so.

I'm not a wine connoisseur, but when it comes to "cheap Champagne substitutes" I've always thought that Cava is basically just as good. And I'm aware that phrase will probably offend lovers of all three drinks!

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=prosecco+wall+sign&iar=images&iax=...
Most developers aren't even using a Linux desktop OS though. Linux desktop distros are so bad that Apple was able to come along and eat up whatever market share it has among developers just by being stable.

> Never found the masses argument that supportive...

It is supportive when discussing things such as necessities. So, for instance, we can all agree that everybody needs to breathe air, right? Likewise, the masses (developers or otherwise) need stability in their OS (among many other things).
No laptops in the lecture hall
7 Rules for Innovations That Produce Dominant Players
Well, neo-nazis are humans, and we should never forget that fact. They're not mindless monsters, they're actual living breathing people, and only by understanding that fact can we surmise their motivations and act against them.
Dropping a nuclear bomb on a civilian population is an act of barbarism. Dropping 2 is an act of insanity and is going down in history as one of the most reckless odious crimes against humanity.
TVs sometimes have horrible input latency, which when combined with modern IDEs written in electron may add up to bad feel when typing.
i don't think your analogy is strong. but instead of continuing to mince words... s/*/plan/ for literally whatever word you choose. and my point stands. discussed? evaluated? none of it makes me feel better.
That's actually a very interesting idea for a technique. But not one I've ever heard of actually being used.
The YouTube comments for this video mention the existence of something called ARPLE. I think I probably want a copy of this. Where can I learn more about it?
For the sake of context, this is the highly offensive file in question:

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Ah, it seems the copy on https://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/UM.TX2AA.001 is incorrect - the specs below do say 37.5", I didn't notice the discrepancy before.
I rarely took notes for similar reasons (never looked at them again). But I still found note taking useful for memory recall. Having a slight photographic memory, by writing information/notes down on paper I could more easily visualize where and what I wrote and therefore more easily recall the information.
Any links/examples to the 13-inch models, please?
> The Scott Trust has failed to preserve a newspaper that is fiercely independent.

What makes you say that?
I used to be crap at dancing when I was a kid. At school dances, you mostly had The Uncomfortable Disco Shuffle. And later slow dancing, which mostly involved standing around uncomfortably holding a girl and not knowing what to do.

Later I discovered punk, where dancing mostly involved jumping around a lot, which I could do. Then came Smells Like Teen Spirit, which alternated jumping around with catching your breath (really the perfect dance song at the time). At peak fitness, the Dropkick Murphy's Pipebomb on Landsdowne was the absolutely perfect dance song for me, but I can't dance to that anymore. Iggo Pop's Lust For Life taught me a more rock&roll-like swingy dance, and after that, I could really dance to almost anything (except a house beat).

I don't know any formal swing or rock & roll dance, but I do enjoy dancing to that music. My knowledge of formal dance steps is mostly from balfolk, but that's a very different kind of experience.
Every now and then I like to look at the chart at [0] to show just how important this is.

The most prominent "fork" of bitcoin (bitcoin cash) is still only about 45 days away from having their entire history since the fork rewritten using just 25% of the available hashpower.

In a little over a month, they could re-mine every single block since the fork changing which transactions are included. And that's the most popular fork, rewriting the entire chain since the fork. If you want to rewrite just the last 50 or so blocks? You'd need something like a few days and a few percent of the overall hash power to do it.

Are you in possession of like 1% of hashpower? Then it's more than possible for you to send something like 100 BCH to an exchange, wait for the 10 confirmations, then go to work rewriting the chain from that point to "current" without your transaction.

[0] https://fork.lol/security/fork
Just as an alternative - I have one of these[0] iiyama panels after hearing bad things about the Phillips.

Have to say I'm very happy with it.

No ghosting, really excellent colour (once calibrated), minimal backlight bleed (it's not an IPS panel so has less bleed anyway) and 4k at 60hz.

Been using it for just over a year now. Only thing it does is pure blacks on pure whites can streak a little when scrolling. So very large and thick pure black text on pure white background will leave a very short trail. Normal text doesn't do this, it has to be large areas of black on white. It's actually not annoyed me much as it use this happened only very very rarely on some websites but it's a limitation.

Not sure it's best for gaming (though I've played Mass Effect and Rocket League with no issues) but for productivity work it's been great.

Pretty cheap too!

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/iiyama-X4071UHSU-B1-ProLite-MVA-Mon...
EOS ICO about to hit 800M USD in ETH
The way I see it this model can only work for mediums with international readership. Say for example you have a newspaper in a small country with 10M people. Let's assume 5% of general population reads a newspaper and you have 5 major ones. That's roughly 100k readers per newspaper. Now how many of those could you convince to subscribe? Even if we assume an optimistic 10% that could hardly keep a newspaper afloat. You need readership in the millions to make this model viable, or a more loyal audience like the one Germans or Japanese have.
The best advice I can give is to stop attaching yourself to a specific language. Having expertise in a language can be great, but you are going to be better served by demonstrating the ability to ramp up on any language that is needed. Scala is a solid language, but is plagued with functional purists and a love of domain specific languages. Take the skills and patterns you've learned from Scala and apply them to other jobs.
Every time war heroes get applauded, I think we should really applaud those who refused to fight (and maybe died for it).
DFS+Fanduel+NBA+Picks+11/27/17:+DraftKings+NBA+Lineup+Picks
> The Scott Trust has failed to preserve a newspaper that is fiercely independent.

> nepotist trap it has fallen into.

Would you care to elaborate on these a little bit? I'm a long time supporter of Guardian and this is the first time I've seen a nepotism complaint.
I am sceptical that Bitcoin would be able to hold its value in the absence of state support. If major world governments decided to ban Bitcoin exchanges, then how useful is your "censorship resistant wealth"? People accept its value at the moment because they know they can turn it back into more widely accepted currency if and when they need to. But if that becomes substantially more difficult, I think a lot of people would prefer something more liquid.
Usually a computer monitor is higher DPI, and more adjustable for use on a desk.
I didn't get much value from notes until I started using fountain pens and focusing on my penmanship. Once I did, I had to slow down and take more concise notes to avoid falling behind, which in turn lead to my needing to actually understand what was being presented so I could write it in fewer words instead of just writing down key points verbatim.
Easy, if there is incentive for companies to cover it up then hackers can blackmail them for a decent amount of money in form of Bitcoin.

I personally would not shy away from doing that if I had some unresolved grudge against the company in question.
Totally agree. Even my favorite subscription (The Economist) had a time where I as a subscriber felt too much content was given away for free online. They luckily turned that back and kept the ecosphere going.
AWS Lambda would be good for this.

Example: https://realpython.github.io/aws-lambda-code-execute/
Blog Post: https://realpython.com/blog/python/code-evaluation-with-aws-...

Larger tutorial: https://testdriven.io/
For people on a temporary visa, I guess exit passport control can make sense. For people holding the country's passport, it just doesn't.

As far as that goes, I've had my passport not be stamped plenty of times on leaving countries that _do_ have exit passport control (e.g. France), so the problem you describe is present even there.
Ask HN: Will standup meetings be dead soon?
I see a major shift in the way we will work in the future. So I believe standup meetings will be dead soon. At least in the way we know it.
I would agree with the concept of only supporting the writers that you like. I used to like the Guardian because they had good journalism. However, the opinion pieces are absolutely atrocious and detract the quality of the paper.

For example, there was an article in my google now articles recommended from the guardian that was "Milo Yiannopolous has huge support in Australia, men must call him out."
But it can also be:

1.) get "illegal" money from somewhere/anywhere. Create bank accounts under fake names with the "illegal" cash.

2.) host receives payment minus AirBnB fees 2 days later

3.) host transfers amount minus his own cut to criminals

4.) AirBnB never gets notified of anything - it's just another happy customer.

So the problem with this scenario is AirBnB never knows about the problem - so all the "bad" hosts can go on for long times, and you dont need as many accounts; thats where the "scalability" comes in.
Here are some of my thoughts about that - https://blog.standuply.com/stand-up-meetings-are-soon-dead-e...
How Conversational Commerce Will Shape the Future of Retail
Hurrah! Of all the comments I've had on Hacker News. This is my favourite! Doesn't it make all the difference? :)
Have to wait up to 7 months to be able to get your money back out of USI Tech (they sell contracts that pay 1% per day for 140 business days) but the pyramid scheme will probably crash before then.
Limited market. Can't sell them to folks who want to read novels. Can't sell them to folks who want the full features of a tablet. Can't sell them to folks who want colour, such as comic readers.

They are really only useful for reference books, and mostly of interest in academia.
I wasn't saying they are not important issues. I was just questioning GP's assertion that they have entirely different content.
I have the 55" TCL and it's great! Reminds me of the early Vizio days where they had to be priced closer to production cost in order to compete with bigger players. My one con is that the HDR doesn't seem perfect. The blacks don't seem "true black" and based on the comparison lower on the page I wonder if this is because it's not "Dolby Vision HDR"
Have you tried https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Ruby-Russ-Olsen/dp/03...?
I would love to read more about Shadowsocks security, if you have a link.
I've found (full-sized) tablets to work out better in these environments than laptops. Both in terms of focused-usage as a information recording or reference/retrieval tool, and the favorable reception it gets from other participants when used for such purposes.
Exchange syncing crypto portfolio half year in the making
This is so crazy. They are moving fast towards 1 billion USD. I can't see how a pre-product company can spend that amount of money in a reasonable way.
After spending a lot of time working off my saving on the crypto portfolio app I needed I'm happy to announce Cosmo is live! Multiple portfolios, CSV importing and Exchange syncing (just Bittrex at the moment) makes it pretty complete. Check it out and let me know what you think
It is unreasonable to make up fake models and rhetoric, and then push it in the media under the auspices of science. How can you be trusted in the future?
Imagine if browser vendors added some form of online payment directly into the browser (like , i don't know , bitcoin).
I really don't think a passing reference to a hypothetical use of MiGs the US never actually manufactured is of any evidential value whatsoever in concluding that US interventions were motivated primarily by perceived self interest (which is already well-established fact)

The title is lurid clickbait.