skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The longer BTC persists, the worse the eventual blowout—and the more angry people there are going to be. Angry people who are currently being recruited and radicalized by neo-Nazis.

How does anyone reach adulthood and clutch this kind of fear of Internet assholes? Embarrassing.
But isn't this just a fractional reserves in this case?

How will you have the reserves to pay out everyone who wishes to cash out all of their Unum 1 month later if the price of ETH as dropped by 50%? Where will you have the funds to do so?

Edit: I see from your website you have a penalty in place for when your reserves drop below Unums in circulation - clever play! (https://unum.one/#!/learn#reserve-deficit-sell-penalty)
The fact that you can no longer publicly access the information is not proof that Google lost the data.

In other contexts "Google does not forget" means what can be found through web search, but here the grandparent was using a broader meaning, closer to "once shared, data is no longer yours".
> Yep, and significantly increasing the chances of things like getting shot by the homeowner.

This is very much not an issue anywhere outside the US.
Or you can make the transmitter piece an Internet-of-Thing, so it connects to the cellular network -- and leave the transmitter piece somewhere near the victim's house.
It's hard, much harder than creating a native client game.
Many more access restrictions, javascript and flash were only two options in the past, and each had it problems.

I have been working on a browser based game for TOO long now, and garbage collection is a constant problem. Plus things just run a LOT slower than a native c++ client.
I'll put on my djb hat here, I'd avoid combining authoritative and recursive resolving servers in the same process. That is, unless you want to end up like bind.
Today's elite schools offer myriad resources to students that they didn't before. And today's elite schools are therefore able to serve a much more diverse group of students.

I think administrative costs have gone up too much and have space to cut back. But when articles come out saying administrative costs have ballooned 500%, I don't want people to imagine that it's all wasted - most of the new positions represent new services provided to students.

And in anticipation of the argument that "I don't need those services so they shouldn't exist": see arguments for universal healthcare even if it means raising taxes on healthy people. The whole university functions better and achieves its mission better if there is more diversity and if students have more access to services they need. Lowering tuition would be a trade-off, not just trimming fat.
Did Netflix respond yet?
Can't risk holding unencrypted frames in memory for a whole ten seconds mate, the paying customer might want to look at them!
To be more precise, you want to transfer $100,000 worth (subject to value changes during the transaction) of BTC. If you want to transfer $100,000 using BTC, my current understanding is that you end up paying more (note also bid-ask spread in the market) and transacting more slowly than wire transfer all while taking exchange risk against BTC for a non-trivial amount of time.
Seriously. Given the amount of modifications you can make to such a common object, they changed a fair bit. Altered the lighting all over the place, faded some of the indentations, copied over the pattern to make the tape wider than it normally would be to better fit a DVD case, etc. Yeah, it looks like it started from this guy's image, but they made a lot of modifications to it. The object isn't original, the angle isn't original, yes, it started with their image, but they modified it heavily (including in ways he doesn't call out)...without explicitly looking for similarities, I wouldn't have thought it the same image at all.
Expansive monetary policy has happened in many places around the world, Europe, UK, Japan - not just the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing

It's curious that something that was done as a measure to alleviate the effects of a previous crash is creating another bubble and (probably) another eventual crash.

My guess is the explosion in money going into cryptocurrencies is partly because of that - more loose capital chasing gains - but there are other reasons behind it too. It's a combination of things. Genuine excitement of something new and potentially transformational, desire to move assets away from places they are at risk of being seized (China), FOMO, promise of Lambos, disappointment in the traditional financial system by young people, many reasons.

People get excited when something goes up quickly, and it's been very easy to jump on that speculative train in the case of cryptocurrencies.
But we know why - because since spring of 2017 Bitfinex is pumping Bitcoins indirectly with fantasy Tethers. The only remaining question is not if they will stop this but when.
Would you send your kids to school on a self driving schoolbus?
That’s the major difference, you can uninstall a package and it’s fixed. Big whoop compared to Microsoft.
Also, creating simplicity is usually much harder than creating complexity.
I'm a bit disappointed by this. I knew that Charles Stross is fiercely against Bitcoin, but I thought he understood the technology better. I'm surprised he writes this:

> we're going to run out of new BTC to mine sooner or later

as it's not a question of "sooner or later", the supply schedule is fixed and well-known. But even more:

> At that point, the incentive for mining (a process essential for reconciling the public ledgers) will disappear and the currency will ... will what?

... will be driven by mining fees. Or maybe it won't, which is also a reasonable guess. But suggesting that we have no idea and no plan is disingenious.

Also:

> if, as I think, BTC doesn't deliver, then the bubble will eventually burst.

It's not necessarily an all-or-nothing thing. Is 10'000 USD overvalued? Maybe, but that wouldn't mean that the actual value is 0 USD, only that it's somewhere between 0 and 10'000.

And:

> A working distributed cryptocurrency model is inimical to the interests of billionaire monopolists who want to get rich by imposing rent-seeking practices [...followed by regulatory phantasies]

I also think this argument is mistaken. The easiest way of rent-seeking for billionaire monopolists would be to buy Bitcoin and just wait and reap the rents.
Wow. I wonder if it's a part of common lore which I was somehow oblivious of.
It's not really germane.

Statistically, your divorce probability drops dramatically when you get married at 25, and doesn't change much afterward.

Once you're married at 25, the primary risk factors are: substance abuse (obvious), prior cohabitation (many people feel they "slide" into marriage when they do this), and unemployment.
Once you have the car, a tame mechanic can get copies of the original keys and program them for the car no problem. Obtaining the car and securing it somewhere you're in control of it is the biggest part of the problem. Ordering keys and trying to get the car programmed while the car is in the wild is far more problematic.
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, a Documentary Film about Mr. Rogers
Google Now had a separate list of stocks it would show you alerts for that differed from Google Finance. There was a way to manage that stock list from with Now. Maybe the new Finance UI pulled stocks from that?

This is old, but shows the Now setting for stocks[0].

[0] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/41357/how-do-i-r...
Could you explain why? In 08/09 everything became cheaper -> cash became more expensive. Isn't it?
Not having the possibility to control things and not having to control things are two very different things.
I disagree. There's NO situation where this kind of update is good for users. Being unable to accidentally brick your machine is good, but no user benefits from having adware and spyware installed.
The one in Baltimore is routinely 30 people.
How can an ideology based around property rights be greedy? Is it greedy to keep what is yours?
True - but I'd argue that the dangers aren't equal, and they are also not constant. Windows 7 wasn't nearly as invasive as Windows 10, for example.

While the argument often seen from the FSF - that all non-free software is dangerous - is technically true, it's about the same level of true as "all software is dangerous if you can't read the source code," in which case, all software is dangerous to everyone who isn't a software engineer.

Even though all non-free software has this issue, we should still be vigilant about fighting and curtailing it where we can. Proprietary software isn't going away, and the harm is real, so we need to encourage its lessening.
> Ubuntu has a bunch of telemetry stuff. And non-removable Amazon ad/apps that you've got to copy and paste commands into the system prompt to fix.

This is blatantly false. All Amazon stuff in Ubuntu is now opt-in only.
The evidence for BTC being primarily driven money laundering is pretty overwhelming. Look into the correlation between BTC price and tethers if you don't believe me; and just go look at what a tether does and tell me that's not just a chaotic-good version of money laundering.

Also makes sense it would draw interest from anti-government types. I do happen to agree with the two points the author makes at the end of the article: either Bitcoin succeeds and gets invaded by corporate money / power or it fails and something takes its place, but there are going to be a lot of tears either way and people are going to blame the politicians because that's what they do.
They all pose the same danger the same way any car on the road can veer into your lane and kill you. It doesn't mean that's likely or even probable. Yes, by definition closed source software can be changed to do something you don't like without telling you.

But specifically Windows has the track record that it will do this, and when you attempt to stop it, it will attempt to go around you and keep doing it. Random drivers and Raspberry Pi firmware do not have this track record, and so saying they "all pose the same danger" is technically accurate, it's disingenuous to the point of being borderline untrue.
Visualizing Voting Similarities in the Senate
Brown is private, so there is no distinction for out of state students.
How programmers get disqualified from doing everything else
Practical Redux blog series now an interactive course on Educative.io
Sure, bitcoin is going to become more or less worthless in the not too distant future. But this article is just bad on so many levels.
Users are extraordinarily stupid. Not having the possibility to control things is a Good Thing.
There are fewer naive people trumpeting the "accomplishment" of raising money. There are more people advising young devs not to work for equity.

Yes, but it feels like we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Less promoting raising money as an accomplishment in and of itself is a Good Thing in my book (I've actually written on this very topic). But it feels like we've gone beyond that to a place where innovation, solving hard problems, creating new things, building new businesses, etc., are denigrated.

People ask whether we actually need another to-do app to raise $10M. To me, that's a very welcome change.

That's a fair point, but I feel like the change is much broader than that. It's not just "why do we need this new to-do app" but closer to "startups are evil in general" here lately. You see a lot of anti-capitalist bullshit and generally anti-business sentiment on here over the past couple of years. And given the historical background of this site, that's a pretty major change.
VMware expands AWS partnership with new migration and disaster recovery tools
Ben Eater has a great series of videos on building an 8-bit computer from scratch on a breadboard. It's a wonderful bit of explanation.

https://eater.net/8bit/
There are lots of reasons to be concerned about Tethers, formost of which is that they are centralized.

But with the massive on boarding of new customers (coinbase releases customer stats regularly and are having record new accounts created) ... you would expect that the number of tethers in circulation would go up as some people decide to adopt the tether for whatever purpose and more need to be created.

Not quite sure whether they are all backed or not. (and I don't know how to tell at this point.)
Without currency, we could not have an economy, ergo, currency creates value.

In my view, this is a huge point. I hope this doesn't sound like quibbling, but I would expand the point by speculating that the functioning of a money system influences the overall prosperity of an economy. In other words, one economy could be more prosperous than another, simply based on which one has a "better" money system. In addition, like any other technology, people will use whatever money system is available to them, that works best for what they want to do.

In countries with dysfunctional money systems, people try to move their wealth into assets that are denominated in dollars, euro's, or something like that. If someone doesn't believe that their local money, or dollars, will function for them under some scenario, they might move to bitcoins or gold. I suspect that bitcoins could fill in that void for some people.

We don't know what our economy would look like without the major government money systems as they currently function.
Most countries on earth tolerate the US dollar as an alternative currency within their borders. It's not so unusual...
I'm not sure it's so easy to differentiate, since terminal values are feelings, wishy washy and prone to contradicting each other. I would say that any terminal value can become an intermediate value when you find a contradiction between it and other terminal values. Then, you either find a way to rationalize, ignore the problem, or discover a new terminal value to make the choice and downgrade one of your terminal values to an intermediate, conditional one.

Nonetheless, it's a very useful lens. Take property: many people consider it to be terminal, but I have always seen it as intermediate, a useful tool for accomplishing good things as a society, but not some sacred absolute.
They are technically being used rather than using the system.
Interesting, thanks. I honestly didn't know companies still used IE9. My employers stopped supporting it on EOL.
Not just web developers... lots of developers of all kinds. I’ve seen enough cases in desktop and mobile where a nice simple 30 line function was “refactored” into a 2000 line, 6 class, monster object hierarchy Because Design Patterns and because Reusability.
Absolutely not, however it is greedy to take what isn't. (ie Irak, Syria et al ...)
I think this does not answer the question. I don't think "Merry Christmas" or "Holidays" is the type of example @iovrthoughtthis is looking for.
It's quite fascinating to observe disruption and fear in society at the age of the internet. It most have felt the same for all the technologies the bitcoin haters use everyday ( phones, cars, electricity, internet ... )
> By the way, if you just grind tomatoes and garlic, add some olive oil and oregano and boil for 15 min you have a very nice pizza sauce imho... no sugar added or needed.

I was clued in at some point that cooking pizza sauce is neither necessary nor desirable, and sure enough, IMO it is better if you skip the boil. Just mix it up and slap it on the pie. Saves a pan, too—you can just use a mixing bowl.

Not sure you need the olive oil, either, but if it's working for you keep it up. Sugar 100% not needed, you're right. I add a fair amount of salt (you can go hard on the salt in most homemade recipes and still have way less than commercial/fast-food options) and way more black pepper than you'd think would be a good idea, but which is actually great, turns out. I'd sooner skip the garlic than the pepper, actually.
All professors take many more than 1 class?!

In the UK a professor might take 3-6 lectures and 1-3 classes a week, and they're often staffed by masters students.
DASH playback of AV1 video in Firefox
Relying on timings for this type of thing is impractical because you'd have to sync the time to the nanoseconds and wireless is notorious for being noisy. It'd make it more expensive too.

The most practical one, I think, is to make it NFC-near instead of BLE-near. Or, you know, just use a non-contactless one. Or add a button.
Take Fukuyama several grains of salt: he also gave us the thesis that liberal democracy constituted a final resolution of the problem of government, and that history as we understand it has ended.
Drawing from noise, and then making animated loopy GIFs from there
>but no user benefits from having adware and spyware installed.

Sure, but my point is mostly that generally restricting user freedom results in much less of such getting installed.
Reddit is ready for advertisers, but are advertisers ready for Reddit?
Two comments on two follow-on questions about BTC.

1. 'bitcoin delivering' and bitcoin value crashing are orthogonal concepts. Store of value and hoard-speculative aspects of bitcoin are probably the worst parts of bitcoin.

2. Non regulated cryptocurrencies are not exactly anti-oligarchs. Absence of regulation would set them free to prey the weak. Goldman Sachs and all of the finance innovators who participate in
disaster capitalism would love cryptocurrensies if they take off.
Rise of Electric Cars Quickens Pace, to Tesla's Benefit
That's running exactly contrary to the feature that's implemented and abused: The car should unlock when the owner comes within radio distance. So the key must be on and transmitting - and it's that signal that gets relayed. It's not a replay attack, basically the signal just gets amplified to trick the car into believing that the key is close.
The Bad Faith of Project Veritas and James O'Keefe
How does DMCA 1201 undermine the formation of a market for video transmission and the Internet of Things based around open and auditable standards?
> There's a fixed supply of willing drivers

i.e. there's a fixed supply of willingness?
I'm loosely conflating YC and HN, which may be a mistake.

How do you decide which stories are re-upped and which are not?
Fear of military invasion is a massive motivator in some cases.
There’s not a currency out there that costs .12% of co2 to print. Pretty sure the former currency backers (gold, silver) don’t either. That factor alone is reason enough to not use it.
Haha exactly.
Ask HN: Is there something like a round trip “ping” for telephone?
Problem: The majority of the robo/spam calls I receive have a fake caller ID [1] so I can't block them based on originating location.

Question: Is there something analogous to internet network "ping" (but the the phone network) that could be used to determine approximately how far away the caller truly is? The idea would be to flag calls [2] that can't possibly be local yet have a "local" caller ID. Obviously, calls from cell phones can come from anywhere.

[1] Usually with the same 3 digits as mine i.e. (AAA) BBB-CCCC where AAA is area code, BBB is first 3 digits so they appear to be originating locally.

[2] Flagging might result in sending the call to voice mail or asking a question to test for human caller.
You can always uninstall Windows and install a decent OS in its place.
Keep in mind that these are Ivy League universities hoping to attract the best students they can in order to boost their prestige.

If Princeton for instance decided to lower tuition fees by cutting down on 'luxuries' like smaller class sizes/ unrestricted enrollments in classes, then they'd lose out on the best students to Harvard or Yale.

So the only way to reduce tuition fees would be to do it across the board at once, but the richer universities have no incentive to do so because they can attract enough full-paying students and have a large enough endowment to pay for everyone else.
People want and use photos for free. In the early days of the internet I put up some black and white photos of a blues artist. The photos migrated to that artist's myspace page and from there were used by newspapers occasionally to promote a tour. The photo went uncredited, and by the time I found out I was working professionally the tour was over and it didn't matter.

Oddly HBO contacted me about clearing a photo for use (a Queens NY photo) in one of there shows about 10 years ago. I asked for $250 for "lifetime rights" they wanted. I never heard back again.

I wish Dr. Lui luck in getting some credit/ money.
The world is a club run for the benefit of its members, not a contract enslaving all future generations. Therefore property rights must be balanced against other considerations. The definition of greed is to want to keep what is yours in the face of its inutility to yourself and its absolute necessity to someone else.
That completely depends on the market you're in. Many governments are still on old versions of browsers and such, and they're also the only type of customer for our products.
No, they are uneducated about the complexity of what they are dealing with, big difference. Not stupid and unable to learn.
You're right, I hate laws that try to fix problems like that. And I hate that "it should be illegal..." phrase. It should be illegal to use that phrase. I used it lazily to convey how exploiting emotions to sell products and views makes me angry.

> why can’t the consumer simply use their own brains to decide what to buy?

I wish I knew.
Juvenile power fantasies are going to kill us all. People want to be magical, wave their arms and move their hands mysteriously, and affect the world.

Things like this save an infinitesimal amount of time (or sometimes even make actual usage more difficult), and introduce orders of magnitude more complexity ripe for exploitation. All so people can feel like they're magical.
Hamiltonian Dynamics in Haskell
It is far easier to access pirated media today and with far higher quality than 10 years ago.

The kids are using unlicensed streaming sites and get anything they want in the browser at the click of a button.
We're getting off-topic, but can you name a libertarian that is pro-war? Most are vocally anti-war.
Libertarianism advocates for the privatization of EVERYTHING and the destruction of the social safety net. Have fun enforcing your property rights when the guy with more capital can drain you dry in the private court system. Most people who advocate libertarian ideas would be a serf/slave in a real libertarian paradise. I would also be a serf/slave, I have no illusions about that.
Working Markets. In which you are free to enter, free to sell your products and services, free to set your prices, free to purchase or to refuse to.

The more regulated and less free a market, the less capitalist and more socialist it is.
I don't remember when Apple (or Google) installed something on my machine without my permission.
Correct. My (mostly rhetorical) question is why is Facebook installed in this way? It certainly doesn't need to be. It runs just fine on phone/roms that don't preload it, installed as a user app.

My phone is rooted, and I've uninstalled it properly using Titanium Backup. There were also hidden Facebook "app installer" and "app manager" apps, which I removed.
Tencent’s Just Getting Started on Online Advertising
Yes! Whenever my wife and I have spent large amount of time at her mother's (where there's effectively no internet due to being so far out in the boonies), I'd drive the 10 minutes to a nearby library in town that actually had a decent connection, and would work from there.

Only issue was the dearth of areas to take calls, but even that was only mildly inconvenient, since I'm usually on mute, and could duck outside for those.
UBI is usually proposed as a replacement for welfare, so you’d have one or the other. The potential for running out of money one day did not prevent us from having welfare so it shouldn’t exclude the possibility of UBI.

The ad hominem shot is surprising, given the straightforwardness of my position. I don’t understand why you are cross. Ah well.