skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it much more likely that Tether is keeping some or most of its reserves in bitcoin, rather than USD, as they claim?

Most people get Tethers from trading on bitcoin exchanges, not from buying it with USD. If Tether accepts payment for tethers in bitcoin, they're supposed to immediately cash the bitcoins out to fiat. But my guess is they're not actually doing this, and just keeping a good portion of their reserves in bitcoin. If that's the case, they'll be solvent as long as the price of bitcoin doesn't collapse (big if) - in fact, they would have made a fortune over the last couple of months.
Google invests in Viennese company StreamUnlimited, that works with Amazon Alexa
There are already plenty: https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+telemetry+github

But as someone above already noted, it really is a cat & mouse game with MS. Things that worked yesterday will not work today, after MS silently installs new updates.

It wouldn't surprise me to learn that MS has full-time staff dedicated to fixing any issues the most popular of these tools modify.
Yet he received more money from active duty military than all other candidates combined.

Add this to your list: blowback.
I don't think anyone's saying it's all wasted, and I agree that a university in 2015 is going to offer a lot more to its students in terms of non-academic services than a university of 1985. But it's hard to argue that even half of that 500% is good spending.

- The year I started my undergrad, there a mini-scandal where tuition was raised by over 10% with little warning and it leaked that the school President, having written a heart felt letter about how hard it was cutting costs in these difficult economic times, made over $400k/yr and the college was paying his mortgage. Nearly $600k adjusted for inflation.

- At that same undergrad institution, the career services officer, responsible for finding people jobs (or at least helping), had never held a job outside of that college, and would do little more than putting your resume on Monster for you.

Just two examples from my limited academic experience (undergrad only) at one small liberal arts school nobody's ever heard of. I'm sure the graduate folks here could throw dozens of examples at you of much more egregious things.
Show HN: iZettle/Lift – Swift library for working with JSON-like structures
Whether these places share a culture or not, they are dominated by a particular political culture that has an amplified impact due to a variety of factors.
Ask HN: What tips do you have for weathering a recession?
Joe Kennedy famously survived the Great Depression by selling out of the stock market once the shoe-shines started giving him advice. I'm not sure if it's just I'm in an industry where people are more aware or not, but I'm starting to get worried about an economic downturn in the next couple of years. Either way, I figure what helps in a recession would be good to do anyway.

What advice have you guys heard/followed for protecting against another recession? And I don't mean the generic "cut spending, have an emergency fund" stuff. I mean the stuff that I won't find at the top of a google search or on WikiHow.

Edit: to be clear, I specified against the generic advice because it's already easy to find and simple to follow. I'm looking for advice and tips that can supplement it. Thank you to those who pointed out why the generic advice is still a good idea.
> all software is dangerous to everyone who isn't a software engineer

And even everyone who is, unless that engineer understands every language and hardware component in play, and is able to spot subtle vulnerabilities at a glance.
Appeals to "most people" are ugly. Most people reading books and watching films don't think of them as art, either. What they think their nature is and what their nature is wonderfully different things.

The only reason to sniff at any game, even something like League of Legends, and declare it to Not Be Art is to deny the active artistic intent of the creators involved. It is exclusionary for no good reason.
@danielvf - I have a couple of Russian/Ukrainian friends here which have given me tips and have asked around a bit, but that has not lead to anything yet. Also I know some 'countrymen' working there, but with the same result. Perhaps I need to expand my network further, thank you.

I have spent around 9 months across the whole of Russia and Ukraine of which around 2 months each in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg and Kiev.
Because there is nothing to play with or try out, it may not be obviously consistent with the 'show hn' guidelines. My understanding is that "show hn" is not really for blog post type content...with blog posts announcing a piece of software being a corner case.

None of which is to suggest that the article isn't interesting intellectually interesting. Only that intellectually interesting is the criteria for good 'regular' stories.
Interesting idea, i.e. the text field. In real life, though, people would be too short of time, to click buttons and open menus to find out what other people have written in those text fields (I'm assuming the texts woudln't be shown direcly on the page?). There'd be barely no meta-votes, I'm afraid. And the insightful reasons for why-downvote, would be in effect hidden.

What about a little tweak: To instead let people add ordinary replies = ordinary comments, to describe why they downvoted? Maybe a downvote icon, could be shown, somewhere next to the reply, and the computer would know that "this reply is an explanation about why the author downvoted the parent".

And if someone agreed with that downvote-reason, they could maybe click the Like button, for the reply. And then the system knows that "People like this reasoning about downvoting", and henceforth give slightly more trust to the downvoter's downvotes.
What was your popbitch handle then?
I think he simply forgoes more modern conveniences than most of us, but I think there are still a lot of people, especially older people, that do it without even thinking or talking about it. I think he just seems extreme because he happens to be in the computer industry while rejecting a lot of what it has enabled.
I think it's only a matter of time before EME is extended to protect textual and code content (i.e. JavaScript) as well. Probably in the name of protecting intellectual property like web "apps". That would be the death knell of ad-blocking and other user-friendly web technologies which is probably why it will be widespread in the future.
My point is that wealth stratification under a libertarian system would rapidly approach the 1% owning 90+% instead of the 40% they now hold.

Robber Barons, Gilded Age. <--- Read about this era before advocating for libertarian ideas

It's hard to have discussions about the present if you don't understand the past.
Social network data: Twitter vs. FB vs. Google vs. everyone else
What's the recommendation on a desktop for gaming / browsing / compiling with 32gb of ram ?
I highly recommend ArangoDB as an alternative to Mongo - similar noSQL setup backed by RocksDB (as of 3.2) and includes graph database abilities.
I'm sure if the shoe were on the other foot they'd have no compunction about using the legal system to go after someone who'd profited from the sale of clips of Stranger Things.
So do I, but on Windows.. It seems to be the Lisp version of Qutebrowser (Python).
Advertisers haven’t been ready for reddit for awhile.

Who wants their content associated with hate groups ? Trolls ? Adult content ? Moderators who are mistreated by staff. Staff that modifies other peoples comments ? And once they are ready maybe reddit won’t be what people want anymore .

Also, the fact that social media advertisers can do the ads cheaper . Why pay for something you can do for much less?

I guess reddit has a PR agency trying to push them so that advertisers will take the bait.
Thanks, I would love to have a look at that, I already have a Masters Degree in Electronic Engineering (from a lifetime ago), but was so impressed to learn more about low level game programming with such an accessible guide - this would have been the holy grail of knowledge when I was growing up!
What evidence exactly? This is money laundering:
In 2010 Wachovia Bank – now part of Wells Fargo – settled an action brought against it under US bank secrecy act to have laundered $378 billion of Mexican drug money and made a profit of $12.3 billion from it. It paid $160 million in fines and settlement costs.

In 2012 HSBC was fined and settled for having laundered $7 billion of drug money between 2007 and 2008 and $19.4 billion of Iran related funds.

In 2017 Deutsche Bank paid $630 million in fines and settlement for having laundered $10 billion of Russian assets.
Explain to me how can launder that kind of money using BTC?
> Those concerns range from worries that ads will appear on controversial “subreddits,” or topic-based message forums, to fears of campaigns being flayed alive by Redditors on anti-advertising subreddits like HailCorporate.

Let's be honest, the problem is that the vast majority of marketers are really dumb and terrible at their jobs — they only want to do things that have already been "proven to work", even though by far the highest ROI goes to those who go first.

That's not to say there isn't a lot of fucked up stuff happening on Reddit, but that isn't the real issue here.
How to Build Learning Apps for Kids?
If he held on to the bitcoins he mined in 2012, he should be doing pretty well.
> take the most critical, bullying group of individuals on the internet and throw them into one community; that is Reddit,” said Tuff.

Hah! This guy must not use the web often. Also, for a guy who eventually hopes to sell ads on the Reddit platform, he's not doing a great job of putting lipstick on the pig.
add to it Astroturfing and other forms of opinion manipulation
Kotlin 1.2 Released: Sharing Code Between Platforms
If you think that scarcity is sufficient to prove that something is a good store of wealth, I have some paintings, that my children did, that I'm happy to sell you. Hint, you probably don't want them.

> Yes literally this is what the BTCUSD price plot is showing you. the ZWDUSD looks the same.

So you're equating the current performance of USD with ZWD? Wow, ok. I've changed my mind. I'm more than happy to sell you those pictures in exchange for just a few thousand of those worthless US dollars.

I find this an incredible shame. Bitcoin is a very interesting experiment and we have learnt a lot. It's by no means perfect but the major limitations are fairly easy to see and, I think, could have been rectified. I have a horrible feeling that the ignorance that seems to have surrounded it will not only kill it but make the whole idea toxic.
So many obstacles to this working! Vandalism, no adult supervision, even the extremely goofy design point that it can go forward or backward - both ends can be the front end - so others in traffic can be completely fooled about where its going next. Let's put our kids in a problematic tin can and make it move erratically! Not a genius idea.
Pro tip:

Don't mess with my mouse scrolling on your website, it's EXTREMELY ANNOYING!
I also thougth about this problem. Current playlist implementations are seriously lacking when you move your library. I have some shell scripts here that just replace parts of the path in the playlists.

I looked at your playlist format specs, why do you use floats? I'm currently coding on a GO audioserver and save time intervals as Nanoseconds (time.Duration). This makes more sense to me, as floats may behave badly in some contexts.
Fully agree with you. The old dark theme feels more comfortable (less contrast between colors). Each and every time I open the devtools now this thought crosses my mind.
There are plenty of people who can't be trusted not to make poor decisions about technology they don't understand. Safety locks aren't enough.
The deep biosphere could contain up to one third of Earth’s entire biomass
Hahaha that argument hinges on not harming others. Rent seeking and hoarding demonstrably harm others. Are we pretending those aren't pillars of capitalism?
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Living in the SF Bay Area is like the anti-pattern for gathering wealth. You make lots of money, but it's a bad cash flow story.
I have complained to large companies a couple of times: I have only had actual success twice. In both cases, I knew (or found) the email of the CEO of the company and I emailed that address. I doubt that the CEO actually read the messages, but in both cases the complaint was legit and followed attempts by me to use the "normal" customer channels. In the first case I received a phone call from someone high up in the company, and in the second case an email from a VP who actually addressed my concern and told me how they were planning to fix it.

And, BTW, when I worked for Apple, radars originated by Steve Jobs or Tim Cook obviously received very special attention.
I don't think mainstream advertising that appeals to the general public will ever be successful on Reddit. Niche advertising, such as recruiting and product placement in subs like /r/sysadmin, or fanduel in /r/nfl, will have mild success - but not enough to make Reddit profitable. Ironically I think imgur will have more success then Reddit in the long run.
The blind hero worship surrounding Musk is extreme, and Gupta's post is a prime example of that.

Nobody would have suggested Steve Jobs or Paul Graham were Nakamoto, and they're the people I can think of worshipped just a bit less than Musk.
The tone of the original Medium post shows that this was meant as a joke with very outlandish claims. For bloomberg to cover it as a news items is hilarious. But to get this voted up on HN is even more surprising.
reddit has some good local pages - like cities and lots of the games /.s are ok
The problem is nearly all actions we take affect other people. Placing profit and property rights above human considerations is morally and ethically bankrupt.

Also, what actions are you prohibited from taking now that you could do under a libertarian system?
Similar relay attacks have been made to work over longer distances and through various obstacles, like exterior walls and locked doors. From 2015:

“Mr. Danev said that when the teenage girl turned on her device, it amplified the distance that the car can search, which then allowed my car to talk to my key, which happened to be sitting about 50 feet away, on the kitchen counter. And just like that, open sesame.“

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/style/keeping-your-car-sa...
Thanks alot for the pointer; you are right, some very interesting ideas in that.

Having already tried a few products in the whole logging and monitoring space, I do find it is pretty challenging to operate here. I realise having paid solution can be a barrier ... unless there are compelling benefits, which is what I'm trying to define.
Privatization of the social safety net? You over there pretending market forces exist that reward resolving starvation, poverty, homelessness, or any of the other myriad social problems caused by class warfare?
I've tried using the DNS listed in the page and they were very slow resolving new names (I'm in Spain).

DNS Benchmark (https://www.grc.com/dns/benchmark.htm) shows this results: https://ghostbin.com/paste/rr65w

Are they normal? Or are they slow because the servers are located in the US?
YouTube pulled 150,000 videos of children over predatory comments
I'm with you.

I've been using Linux and Windows for years. When Windows 7 came out, I moved any Linux installs to VMs simply because it still cannot get the things you mentioned working, even on Thinkpads and Dell Precisions, which are far better than most laptops. It was good enough for most development.

Work provided me a MBP about 2 years ago, and while it's not perfect, it's good enough. I will not be buying another Windows computer anytime in the future.
This is completely wrong. Telemetry on macOS and iOS is opt-in.
OK maybe some of the snark was still there, but at least I got rid of the hyperbole :)
Weird. I'm having the exact opposite experience. There's literally one quote a care about because it's the only stock I currently own. And it's nowhere to be seen on that page.

Either way, anecdotal cases like this don't really support or refute your claim.
Going on a Date with Java – A commentary on Java's date/time libraries
finance.google.com has had a big yellow notice on top for at least 3 months, if not longer. If you haven't noticed before, you weren't a user.
Supreme court cellphone case puts free speech – not just privacy – at risk
Is it? I've got High Sierra available for my machine and i've been ignoring it because Iv'e got stuff to finish. I'll upgrade when I'm ready in a few days or so.
How does this stack up against Unbound?
This is the end of Reddit. They can’t monetize the web version of their site because their users are sophisticated enough to use ad blockers. If they load up their mobile app with ads, people will just use a 3rd party Reddit app. So they’ll have to ban 3rd party apps which will betray all the users who got into Reddit because it was an open platform.
That's a lot of work to make software you paid for not spy on you...
> We share custody over the bratty toddler — custom elements.

Now that Apple has declared veto against the `is` attribute, I think the author should be prepared to give up on that claim.

<input is="my-fancy-input" type="text"/>

This will not work. To assign behavior to the input via Custom Elements, your only remaining option is to create a whole new element.

<my-fancy-input/>

This might append a normal `input` element to the Shadow DOM, but still won't make the form accessible or even just behave naturally without substantal over-engineering. Custom Elements have become a cause the major concern identified by the article.

> Recreating browser features will almost always be both under- and over-engineered.

This problem is identified in the Custom Elements specification already [1] so the browser vendors are simply not with us here.

[1] http://w3c.github.io/webcomponents/spec/custom/#custom-eleme...
> Robber Barons, Gilded Age. <--- Read about this era before advocating for libertarian ideas

The most rapid increase in prosperity in the history of mankind, where millions of people were lifted out of abject poverty. Currently repeating in other countries that embrace free-market capitalism. What's your point?
Sounds oddly similar to Tulip Mania!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
At this point, process size is just a marketing gimmick since they rarely even refer to the same thing.
The second launch from Russia’s new spaceport has failed
You're being overly harsh there. I've found not having to reach for my keys to be rather convenient when shopping with both of my kids (eg opening the boot by touching it when my hands are full carrying shopping + kids under my arms).

Sure, I would still cope with conventional keys; I wont deny that. Just as my mum coped raising me when she didn't even have a car. But I'm just making the point that this feature isn't just some "juvenile power fantasy" and actually does help make like a little bit easier.

Though frankly, even if it was just a vanity feature then I still wouldn't begrudge anyone wanting it. Isn't that the half the reason people buy nice cars in the first place?

For what it's worth, if this is a feature you have but don't like, then some cars (mine included) do allow you to disable that feature. So it might be worth consoling your manual / checking the in car settings menu.
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As a moderator for a large branded subreddit, get ready for user revolt.
Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15418719 (Oct2017)
"viral" advertising, astroturfing, and automated propaganda is hard to do correctly, but it's immune to adblockers.
You don't even need a smart contract, the CME will be starting to sell cash settled BTC futures in two weeks:

http://www.cmegroup.com/media-room/press-releases/2017/10/31...
> errm.

Please elaborate your objection? I'm happy to reiterate that it's clear that we can't predict the future, but that it's intellectually dishonest to suggest that we don't have plans when in fact we do. (It's fine to criticize the plans, but that's not what Charlie did.)

> Pretty much all of them realize that the speculative bubble is built on nothing.

That's no reason not to profit from it while it lasts, if you're a rent-seeking billionaire who can afford to lose their investment. It's strange to suggest that greedy rent-seekers would not be greedy in this one specific instance.
Not really, see e.g. the 2012-2013 financial crisis in Cyprus, there was no "army" to enforce that people got all their money back... [1] The only thing that keeps the system working is trust (see other reply to my initial comment that explained it more thoroughly).

Though I agree that there is a lot less "backing" of Bitcoin in that sense, nothing protects you from losing everything if something goes wrong.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/30/bank-of-cyprus...
I would say HN is far more critical and bullying than reddit, but then again we aren’t trying to lure advertisers
700->1400->2100->etc. 16 years in, which is how far Princeton is in, it's $11,200
If you read the history of Columbus meeting the Arawaks on Hispaniola in his own words and the subsequent annihilation via genocide of the natives, it's hard to accept that the culture of Columbus is better.
We natively work a BGP, making it easy and practical to do things like "anycast" (announcing the same IP address from multiple datacenters), or using BGP for load balancing or failover. Looking at large and successful DNS providers (Google, Amazon, Dyn, Neustar, etc), all are running BGP as part of their DNS offering. We've combined it into one piece of software.
Because, at best, that's vendor lock-in and alternatives are always appreciated (especially if free).
Haven't heard about Mastodon yet, thanks!
His argument boils down to "someone on the internet asked me if I'm a Jew, therefore... I'm right!"

But we don't even have to follow him on his "BTC-->another Holocaust!!1!" route to see he's nuts.

That's because "don't use BTC because it's less efficient than VISA" is already nuts. BTC and VISA aren't performing equivalent functions, so he's comparing apples to oranges. For those who prefer decentralization, the only relevant comparison is between systems that deliver decentralization.
What Tech World Did You Go Up In
Parallax mapping shaders do this kind of computation in actual games. In the case where the entire scene is rendered this way, you might see it referred to as a "two-triangle" shader like at [1] (since there's only two 'triangles' in the usual sense to draw the scene), but I doubt that this is at all common.

[1] http://www.iquilezles.org/www/material/nvscene2008/rwwtt.pdf
While the process sounds good in theory there is an ever increasing gap that people fall into between parents making too much money and parents not making enough. I'm bias because I fell right into the middle of the gap - my parents inherited an illiquid share of real estate that on paper is worth about a million dollars, in reality after taxes it yields maybe 40k/yr that my parents live off of (60+, no college). Because of this I was denied any form of financial aid and had to fend for myself.
Capturing the callstack with `Error().stack` is expensive and it's done for every DOM manipulation.

The idea is that you'll only enable the extension when you're mystified by a DOM change, so if the page loads half as fast it's not a big deal.
The pickle is a regional thing. In Rotterdam we eat them just with onion. I was surprised to discover about the pickles when I got one in Amsterdam.
WeWork keeps up buying spree with Meetup
> Effective "viral" advertising and automated propaganda isn't cheap

It might have a better return on investment than ads.
Have multiple streams of income.
Know a "trade" you can do with your hands - string rackets if you have to. Sadly I've neglected this part for a while.