skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Ninite is great for a small selection of apps, but it is not a package manager by any means.

I guess this is the root of my question, how does Chocolatey "manage packages" above and beyond what Windows already does with Add/Remove Programs?
Kind of incentivizes users to keep their FB presence "happy regardless"
What does Pakistan have to do with the person’s comment?

>...The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence and military are widely alleged by the international community to have provided support to the Taliban during their founding and time in power, and of continuing to support the Taliban during the insurgency.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban
Do you feel the same way about Linux distros? For example, should Debian be asking permission from each package before they create a package for it?
What I learned from Jeff Bezos after reading every Amazon shareholder letter
I didn't downvote you.

People are welcome to fund what they like. Everyone has an agenda.

However, this guy's stunts seem to have the expressly destructive purposes. He's a troll.
> Everything should be shielded from government interference. That's the point.

Except, implicitly, government itself. A "libertarian IRS" does not mean an IRS that is unfettered by Congress.

> Agreed. Governments (if they must exist) should not grant funds, tax breaks, monopoly privileges to ISPs.

The problem is that these things have already been granted, and these government-founded corporations are basically wriggling out of their charters (/contractual obligations) more and more.
I recognize that this will not be a popular thing to ask, especially to people who have been affected personally by the suicide of a loved one (I have and it hurts, RIP Braden), but do people not have a right to their own life? Do they not own their bodies, which as much as it sucks, includes the right to destroy it? If somebody really wants out, is it ethical for us to trap them inside?
> buying and building are two different things

Consider the way Kickstarter projects describe their "backers". On the "Why Kickstarter?" page they say backers are "helping to create something new". Yet, one could easily consider Kickstarter simply a website for pre-orders, no different from buying in any other method.

The line between a buyer and a backer/builder isn't so clear.
If software vendors are making publically available a url from which to download packages, then as far as I'm concerned they can pound sand. What does it matter if I fetch its contents via a shell script or a browser?

Providing a script to download binaries from the site is a completely different thing from re-hosting and redistributing binaries without permission. I don't use chocolatey and have no idea what the background is to this story, so don't take this as a defense of their actions.
FB's openness has begat an unmanageable monster that is going to require a lot of imagination and brainpower to dial down. This is part of what killed MySpace.
Amazing work. Thanks haproxy team!
Why does this need to have anything to do with blockchain technology? What do you gain over a central intermediary?
In today's media and society, it's never guilt or innocence, it's the seriousness of the charge, and the target. Eventually shady organizations will form to target people with false narratives and accusations because, as we've seen in the #metoo campaign, just the accusation alone can torpedo a career.
Uses Rule 506(b):
"If the issuer will not use general solicitation or advertising to market the securities then the sale of securities can be issued under Rule 506(b) to an unlimited number of accredited investors[4] and up to 35 other purchasers."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_D_(SEC)#Rule_506
Overall, the researchers claim, eliminating depression and anxiety would reduce misery by 20%, whereas eliminating poverty would reduce it by just 5%. If we want to reduce misery in the developed world, then mental health is the biggest challenge we need to overcome.

Everything I have ever seen suggests that the chronically poor have intractable personal issues, such as medical problems, mental health problems, learning disabilities or other personal issues. So this seems like a false dichotomy to me.
Fiddler can install Root CA certificate and use it to sign fake certificates for websites to MitM on HTTPS. If someone knows how to do that in Wireshark, please, tell me.
The economy does not care whether you put your money in a bank or under your mattress. The central bank will influence interest rates in response to your actions. What matters is the amount of money that's actually chasing goods and services.

If the central bank wants banks to have more reserves for loans, it buys assets from banks in exchange for newly created reserves. Money markets are a command economy.
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I am only talking about the US situation here and treating the situation as if the Guardian were a US publication. That whole 'foreign media trying to meddle with US politics' narrative has reached an ironical meme status that is not worth arguing over any more.
This article assumes that depositor money is used for purposes other than backing the amounts of USD a depositor has in their account. I believe he also thinks that it's possible the money is being used in a fractional-reserve fashion and backed by some bank to ensure liquidity if there is a momentary issue, but there is a real panic the bank will stop lending the money to cover for the moment and cause a real problem.

e.g. it's possible, as it has happened before, that a trusted financial institution is playing a dangerous game to make money off sitting cash and uses someone else as a backup.

The real question is: Does Coinbase (or any other exchange) do anything with the money (fiat) and how much is actually reserved? Same with Bitcoin.

We can assume 100% on each side because they make money on fees of the exchange, but that's the real question here.
> If you buy a lottery ticket, you are getting exactly the odds that were promised to you.

Casinos and the state lotteries do everything they can to convince people they will make profit. Do you think a regular Joe can calculate the expected value of a scratch card? Sure, he knows he has a 1/1,000,000 chance of winning the jackpot and a 1/25 chance of winning $20. He is being misled.

Therefore, since gambling companies are legally allowed to mislead regular people, then there is no reason to protect them from investing and maybe actually making a profit.
What happens when cities start banning “offensive” content based on the political flavors of the day. Imagine how much filtering happens at public libraries — when governments control the pipes, individuals have no alternatives.

Government should provide incentives for competition, not socialist collectivization. People here seem to have an unhealthy obsession with government. Have we learned nothing from the soviet era? We should be demanding smaller government. Government is what created the ISP near-monopolies.

What we need is competition. Government should be facilitating that. Would we want internet to be run like the NYC MTA? A profit motive is a powerful thing.
History also shows that nobody ever believes that will happen, right up until it does.
If the banks cut off access to the funds (e.g.: GDAX can no longer accept USD deposits/withdraws, or possibly even the funds in their own accounts) they basically can't be considered an "off ramp" anymore. If all exchanges were barred from doing business from U.S. banks, than there is no way to get money from 1 BTC (or any other denomination/currency). Herein lies the screw.

LocalBitcoins would become a seller or buyers only recourse, for U.S. customers anyway, which takes a lot of coordination/time, and essentially becomes an obvious form of money laundering.
Free marketing , ability to sound hip, and also a way to cheat and steal from your users . Also an completely automated bug bounty system
But the purchase provided capital, which enabled further production. Banks don't lend money out of the goodness of their hearts, either.

And, really, have you never bought something in small part because you liked the seller? That's the sentiment behind the exhortation to "buy local" or to buy Girl Scout cookies or from a local school's fundraiser. I suppose you could say a purchase is a contribution to the extent that the price exceeds the cost of production.
Yes I've noticed this too. After a few Scala contract gigs (3 years) I haven't done any Scala in the past year and a half, Java and Python seem to be gaining more ground for new projects, specially in the enterprise or government.
I think what many people don't know or understand, is that facebook is not the internet.

So when you write something at facebook you ask a company to host your story under their domain. And as the company is held responsible for what they host, they have to review everything before publishing it.

When we wrote forum posts back in the day, it was no different. If the forum operator didn't like what you wrote, he just deleted your post. So if you wanted to post something nobody wanted on his website you just made your own website.

And so it is today. Unless you want to periodically write hate posts you should be able to find a web hoster or ISP to share your opinion with the world. The only misconception is that because facebook is such a large 'forum', everybody thinks it cuts his right of free speech when facebook does not want to host his opinion.

Yes, I know that many people use facebook as their primary means of communication and that therefore their channel to the world is 'censored'. And Actually I have no simple solution to this problem, as my solution would involve to not use facebook in the first place.

So I think there is a difference between a moderated facebook 'forum' and a censored internet, which some countries have and which is a real danger to the freedom of speech.
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Maybe it was over-subscribed and they decide to go for the interest
I think the cost borne by propagandists from censorship is higher than those organizing protests like those Romania appears to be facing.

Censoring modern propaganda greatly limits the damage it can cause, while protestors have more traditional ways of organizing their protests.

I am not a fan of censorship but it appears some fraction of credulous humanity requires it to maintain at least a tenuous grasp of reality.
1) start an ad based website;

2) pay content creators with a new cryptocurrency;

3) require advertisers to use the cryptocurrency in order to buy ads.

If YouNow implements step 3, then they might have something.
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That's not honest.

- Ninite is not unattended, you have to use a gui.

- Ninite doesn't have a lot of choice and not open to more.

- All package managers only fetch a package, check some hash and run a simple installation process (it's 90% file copy)

- It's enjoyable to most coders to be able to search for and install a package without browsing a website.

- You can use chocolatey locally too, to automate provisioning in a way
How do you predict when the player will be in one second? I feel like this will make for jerky camera movements when the player makes sudden moves. In the end you will have to do some smooth movements like mentioned in this article.
But they do... all the time. Look at the Rolling Stone UVA debacle.
> I don't even know all of the players, and don't claim to know their motivations.

I'm asking for a response from someone who knows the players and can give convincing evidence for their motivations.

I mention Wolfowitz because as I remember it he was one of the chief writers of the PNAC policy pieces[1] that were urging for a ground war in Iraq during Clinton's second term.

I'd be interested in reading more from an expert on the chief movers and shakers in buildup to the Iraq War, especially since almost all of those neo-cons involved have done a lot to distance themselves from it over the last decade.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_C...
I loved Tumblr. I was a casual user but not only was it fun for a time, it opened my eyes to how important details are in implementation. I mean in the sense that I thought Tumblr wouldn't be useful to me because I already had my own WordPress blog (and various Jekyll blogs), but Tumblr's opinionated refinements and limitations made for a substantially new content-creating experience. And it was something I could only grok by trying out Tumblr.

Didn't use it much after the Yahoo acquisition. Nothing relating to Yahoo, had just moved onto other things. But I don't know what blame to assign to Yahoo, other than the sin of not being more aggressive in trying to "do" something. But it's not clear that trying to aggressively iterate Tumblr would be better than being hands-off about it.

What would Tumblr be like if Yahoo hadn't acquired it? It was a great platform but I never got the sense -- in the way that I have with Instagram and Snapchat -- that Tumblr was capable of rapidly innovating while preserving the core experience.
That's news to me, but would you please follow the guidelines and comment civilly and substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
In general I agree with you. However I do worry about unintended consequences.

For example, if someone knows that Facebook AI is looking for this, and they don't want their attempt thwarted, they may actually hide signs that might otherwise have been present and been opportunities.

I have had friends commit suicide and it is absolutely devastating. I completely understand the desire to "do something." But one of my friends actually Googled, "signs of suicide" and then made sure not to give any of those signs, because he did not want to be stopped.

Everybody is so different, so it's difficult to analyze the trade offs. But it is something I think about.
Reminds me of this well written blog post also on gamasutra which was pretty exhaustive regarding camera systems.

https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/ItayKeren/20150511/243083/Sc...
Well at least the training data won't be hard to generate?
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True that US customers are banned from Bitfinex, however they did recently announce that bank deposits and withdrawals are reopened for other countries. If you don't believe them that's fine, I don't trust them either, but they did announce it. https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7enpoo/bitf...
Whenever I set up my todo list, I always end up thinking about the items at the top of the list.

The thinking about them makes it harder to start them. To get around this - I try to optimise for presence and use this to choose one randomly.
This is yet another block chain tipping product that is needlessly complex . Why not just give a set conversion table (one bit equals one dollar) like twitch? Also figure out your cut and fees and put that in the table.
I'm proposing that the concept of states is obsolete now and we need to move to what I'd call a "unified America" policy, where we get as close as possible to a majority rule system of democracy. The best way I can think of to achieve that is to abolish the Senate and the electoral college.

If you think our current system of governance is working well, then please say so. If you think our system isn't working well, then please let me know how you propose to fix it.
Wireshark and Fiddler are both exceptional tools that serve vastly different purposes focusing on different OSI layers. Fiddler is an HTTP(S) proxy and Wireshark is a packet sniffer. While you can probably achieve in Wireshark what Fiddler offers, it's going to be an utter pain in the ass.

If you want an open-source alternative to Fiddler, consider mitmproxy [1].

[1] https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy
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Well he has a functional e-commerce website. Quite a few of these ICOs don't even have a working anything.

But still, yikes. This is why you have to be careful around ICOs.
Not as far as I know. You can use tcpreplay for this, but it's not equivalent to Fiddler:

http://tcpreplay.appneta.com/wiki/overview.html

Whilst it doesn't do everything that Fiddler does, and isn't open-source, I'd say Postman is worth a look for playing around with HTTP requests. The user interface is a lot more user friendly (in my opinion):

https://www.getpostman.com/
> They are using AI for natural language processing though

I am not sure how that, by itself, qualifies as AI. It is a dedicated NLP application doing the one job it was designed to do. In my idea of AI, the machine would have to learn from prior mistakes without the developers doing that learning for it.

Also, for what its worth, in the real world to qualify suicidal thoughts you have to ask a person directly if they have any thoughts of harming themselves or others while aggressively watching their body language to force a more honest response during emotional pressure. Scanning user submitted text would not qualify as suicidal behavior until the user mentions self-harm.
To a degree, the same happens with a design doc - you may start it with a peer, or have manager oversee it, or pull someone from a team, from which you rely on specific technology to gain more confidence for you, and whoever later reads the design doc that all important bits are covered... For example decision to use system A (from your point of view) may be good idea, but owners of system A may no longer support it, or may have in plans to deprecate it soon, but haven't announced it yet, so adding key personnel there would help for sure.

I'm trying this new model at my new workplace, but I'm already seeing pain doing this with Outlook (the desktop version), the Mobile version is much better in this respect, though the comment system need some features, that I got used to (assigning action-items). The other approach would be google for business, but I'm not a decision maker here.

(Or some other cool product - EtherPad?)
> Please don't encourage violence.

The 2017 protests were peaceful.

The ones in 1989 were violent all over Eastern Europe with the exception of Czech Republic. The killing of Romania's late dictator and the mock trial was the doing of former secret police, who's corrupt offspring and relatives are the politicians in power today. They only took advantage of the protests to picture themselves as heroes and sieze power for themselves.

Anti Trump protesters that destroyed private property are just vandals who can't accept the outcome of a democratic election.
Makes us wonder how many of his previous 'achievements' were similarly exaggerated.
There's pretty much nothing that fits this bill. Can you give an example of such a good? "any" is a pretty strong qualifier. Cryptocurrencies are certainly useful to some people - whether or not it justifies current valuation is subject to debate of course, but you have defined yourself out of a category.
Initially that was my experience too but over the past 2 years I've found that more and more places are switching to Java or Python for Spark Data Engineering actually, it might only be in my local market though.
Chocolatey allows you to chain together as many installs as you like, so you can essentially set up whatever apps you want on a system unattended. You could argue it's just a wrapper around the windows installer system but you could equally argue that npm is just a wrapper around javascript files.
The modern web is an especially poor comparison. A big part of the reason why web works at all on modern computers is due to the intensive optimization efforts put into browsers, efforts that aren't backported to older operating systems or architectures. Chrome V8 will run on OS X 10.5 but not on PowerPC. So on a modern Macbook you'll get highly-optimized code from the JIT, and on an older G3 you'll get a much slower interpreter.

Native optimized apps that were made contemporaneously, like music studio software, are a different story. If it worked well on a G3 in 2000 it would still work well today. So maybe you have a bunch of plugins that you love using that you can't track down new copies of, or you don't want to pay for newer versions, or there's a computer in the corner with Gigasampler.

Music editing doesn't actually require that much processing power or I/O bandwidth, at least by modern standards. Quick back of the envelope math--your Pismo, if it runs at 400MHz, has a budget of ~200 cycles per byte to keep up with 16 tracks at 44.1kHz. That's easily doable, even if GMail is a mess.

Anecdotally, I remember looking at CPU utilization when I was working with DAWs back in 2000 or so, and it was never very high. You certainly can fill it with expensive plugins or huge stacks of oscillators, but even on a G3 there's a lot you can do.
Exploring tumblr today is like exploring myspace pages in 2006. No matter how powerful your PC, it's a miserably slow site to browse and, in my opinion, difficult to mentally ingest content from.
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I imagine the "frantically trying to transcribe everything" comes somewhat from how we've been trained by grading-on-attendance and grading-on-note-taking classes. We're used to going to classes that are far less useful than the book, and getting nothing from it except a waste of everyone's time. Some schools are of course different, but IME the most-useless lecturers were also the ones who graded on attendance and/or dropped "secret test hints" to people who were there.

But I'll say a big THANK YOU for providing notes - it has always seemed stupid to me to have N people duplicating notes (often poorly), especially when they're expected to be learning things for the first time. It can be exceedingly hard to know what's useful and what isn't ahead of time, and you can't stop to write it down when you realize because the lecture goes on without you. Provided-notes (or a recording) are huge helps to people who actually need notes or don't absorb it the first time.
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I think ankhkare is referring to the other discussion thread about this situation. can be seen here [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790687
Fair enough. I couldn't stop myself from putting it out there, but I also believe that as long as it's intelligible that it really doesn't matter how you put it.
Because you can easily automate the process and perform actions with the cli
I'd be happy to discuss in an email (too lazy to list them out here right now).

Regarding open source, I agree that's tricky. But its been proven it can be done one way or another. I think ansible and docker have shown that in the ops space.

Regarding one-off/niche tools, that's where glue tools like zapier become commercially viable.
South America, unlike England, did not have captive colonial markets, that it could sell its mass-manufactured goods to. South America was the captive colonial market.
Indeed, it's a tricky area.

With Panama / Paradise papers as well, most players are acting just within the letter of the law, though arguably not the intent, or at least the spirit, and outside observers (typically those without access to the expertise necessary to construct their financial affairs with such tax-minimising efficiency) are going to be frustrated by the brazen appearance of unfairness.

As I noted, Spectator and other publications are going to be strongly partisan around any review of the Guardian's affairs.

OTOH, articles published by the Guardian, about the Guardian, asserting the Guardian has done nothing wrong, are going to struggle to appear impartial.
So by creating a corporation (royal charter), you've robbed Joe of the ability to sue the owners of BigCo for his losses for BigCo's failure to pay and that should be shielded from government interference. That's your libertarianism? Really?
Kudos guys!
I have a feeling jobs on craigslist will say "paid in props" now rather than "paid in exposure".