skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can win in a commodity market by changing the commodity, or by cornering the commodity in some manner (whether distribution, demand + supply angles, or supply).

OPEC for example exists to create such an atmosphere for its members.

DeBeers managed to keep the price of not-very-scarce diamond comically inflated for many decades.

Monsanto is going to use CRISPR to create its own unique variations of crops (changing the commodity).
My high expectations make it difficult to find people qualified to hold office.

Much like tech development companies, actually...

And their pay is already pretty decent, considering the required skill set. Perhaps we should consider remote candidates or offshoring? I'm pretty sure that 80% of the Alabama legislature could be safely replaced by temps calling in from India, reading from scripts supplied by the party.~

Our expectations should be high. We really don't want to be ruled by a room filled with Georges Costanza, no matter how awesome that would make C-SPAN.
When Australia implemented its tighter gun control and gun buyback in the late 1990s, suicide dipped briefly, but recovered and surpassed the previous level shortly after. Suicide by shooting was largely replaced by hanging.

The theory sounds right, but it doesn't look like the data supports it.
Excellent write up. I learned about a lot of technologies I had missed! Thanks for this.
Please, Linux is the direct competitor of FreeBSD, not anything Apple-related. This is obvious GPL-vs-BSD trolling attempt and you know that.
Parking on the grass kills the grass, and dead grass eventually turns into mud when it rains, and mud eventually gets your car stuck. People often use gravel to prevent this, which is permeable, but you need to add fresh gravel every year or so.
Look at HAProxy, Patroni and Zookeeper
Perhaps we can build the software-equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider, and finally get to the heart of Google's search algorithm!
I'm afraid I don't get any of this.

"A small wire in the formula label wraps around the container, explains Alexander Busarov, chief executive of blockchain startup WaLiMai. "You cannot open the can of baby food without breaking the label," he says.

"The wire acts as an antenna for a signal from an RFID chip, which a smartphone can read. The chip, like some bank cards, generates a new code each time it is scanned. Authenticating takes about two seconds, says Mr Busarov, then you get the result, the logistics details, a picture of the product and where it was labelled."

They're using magic encryption technology and remote servers to ensure that someone hasn't opened the can and replaced the contents?

I kinda see the diamond example, although I'm not sure what the block chain adds over a simple database. But the problems with the other products invoice a worker dumpling a bag of melamine powder into the mixer with the other ingredients and then lying about it. How does this, or any other, technology stop that?
When something is actually made well, you can tell and it is worth it. But a Coach bag is made in Myanmar just like everything else. If you get a knockoff Coach bag, it’s impossible to tell, probably because it was made in the same damn place by the same damn people.

That’s what I’m talking about. Not old world craftspeople making one-offs.
>Most if not all of those declining cities have been consistently run by democrats

And so have most of the growing, thriving cities. Individual cities have very little say in global economic shifts. We are seeing this same story play out in Republican-controlled rural areas.

First some jobs leave (outsource or automation), then laborforce participation declines, next we see drug use increase, which makes more people unemployable, as a result employers leave the area and more jobs are lost. Then you go back to step 1 and re-run.

Trying to cast everything in a partisan light may be blinding you to the similarities.
Unless that’s a game you can win - see Amazon.
It's not just selling your bitcoins on an exchange, it's actually getting the cash out of the exchange and into your bank account.

A large volume on an exchange means there's plenty of people trading, but it doesn't mean plenty of money going in or out.

I mean there are limits, so it's not like Satoshi could cash out in one go.
The reason for it, as well as the reason for it not being changed, is already explained in Redis' documentation:

https://redis.io/commands/slaveof

> A note about slavery: it's unfortunate that originally the master-slave terminology was picked for databases. When Redis was designed the existing terminology was used without much analysis of alternatives, however a SLAVEOF NO ONE command was added as a freedom message. Instead of changing the terminology, which would require breaking backward compatibility in the API and INFO output, we want to use this page to remind you that slavery is both a crime against humanity today and something that has been perpetuated throughout all human history.
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Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you for adding this important point, this is a high priority on my todo list. We have already a basic database of major performers (conductors, soloists, etc...), we just need more computing resources so users can find recordings based filtered by performer. If you've got extra dollar you don't need, consider donating so you can help us with experimenting with features such as this one. But this is a top priority anyway. Thanks again for your feedback!
Exactly, this also goes for amazon as well. Because GM is their partner in this.
Dumb question, as I am neither a farmer nor a businessperson, but is there a way for a farmer to set up, say, an LLC, which holds money from profitable years for use in unprofitable years, from which the farmer takes a steady salary each year?
Hey all! I'm the founder of Podia. Would be more than happy to answer anyone's questions. :)
It's a funny article highlighting a cute hole in TripAdvisor's ranking system. TripAdvisor isn't being vile our misleading when they say they don't try to catch fictitious restaurants.There were no real, negative reviews of the restaurant, so it remained a perfect five with all very plausibly real reviews.

What they should worry about is detecting fake positive and negative reviews of real restaurants, which can cause businesses and diners a lot of pain and diminish the value of TripAdvisor.

Kudos to the author for "hacking" the ranking system in an unexpected way!

I wonder if they caught any fake negative reviews of the shed, jealous of its #1 spot...
Yes, right now. It was deemed as not important enough (by me and others on the team) as the user base it affected never used the functionality that was broken for them anyway and the users who did use this functionality were not affected by the issue at all. Now we are doing some changes to our overall environment setup and suddenly this same bug is going to affect all users who currently rely on the functionality.
Once it rains, that grass turns to mud and anyone without a 4x4 is hopelessly stuck.
Craig from Citus here. Since we grew transactional support a couple of years ago and a number of the features we've supported since then much of our traction has come from those outgrowing single node Postgres and needing more performance. So in short we're very much focused on handling and supporting OLTP workloads.

We do also support some analytics workloads, less so data warehousing, when there is a need for end user facing analytics where higher concurrency and real-time responsiveness is key.
By "dealer" I am referring to a purveyor of drugs. Not specifically legal or illegal. Ideally they would operate legally, but that's currently impossible under federal law.
It's not that they don't care, it's that they care more about what they perceive as wholesale baby murder. Abortion is an extremely important issue in Alabama and to much of the state it is state sponsored genocide on a scale that exceeds anything Stalin or anyone else has committed. It can be difficult for people living in areas where abortion is not seen in this way to understand but in a state like Alabama, to them it really is a matter of being in a constant state of being horrified by the daily murder of thousands of babies. Those who don't see a fetus as being a baby have a hard time understanding beyond the most superficial that this is a deeply held belief by those opposed to abortion. Understanding this point of view on abortion is essential to understanding why so many cannot even conceive of voting for Moore's opponent.
This. Product looks awesome but without any examples I couldn't see myself converting.
Pedophilia is an attraction to pre-pubescent girls, under the age of 13. Judge Moore is accused of relations with women ages 16 to 22, with one girl 14 years old. The age of consent to sex in Alabama is 16. Thus, Judge Moore is not a pedophile.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Moore_sexual_abuse_allegat...
That seems straightforward enough, don't know why I assumed SQLite's implementation of it was a feature as opposed to a consequence of its overall simplified model. I think I assumed/hoped that aliasing worked as a kind of function definition which WHERE could magically understand and evaluate.
One common feeling (i am from a farming community in Canada) is that tax revenue tends to get siphoned to urban areas.

Politicians focus on bigger voting blocks, while rural communities (in their mind) pay for those promises.
What's the issue with making them char(5) (or perhaps char(9) depending if you want to do zip+4)?

That's what I've always done..
The days of .dev domains for testing code are over
Farming will do what it has been doing for two centuries in the US: leap forward in automation. The technology is all primed to cause an extraordinary increase in productivity.

Meanwhile the US population growth is trending toward zero.

Odds are, the US can lose half its farmers over the next 30 years and still increase net food production to match very modest population growth.
Ask HN: How do we know Bitcoin is not in a bubble?
Bitcoin's rise has been astronomical in the last year or so. How do we know that this isn't a bubble that will bankrupt 95% of its users?
When most people bring up tax deductions in casual settings it's pretty obvious pretty quickly that they don't really know what a tax deduction is. And the odds quickly approach 1 if they use the phrase "write-off."
Actually this is a good point, how both your revenue is taxable and how buying your product is/isn't tax deductible to your prospective clients can dramatically impact actual value of money.
They might have that incentive, but there is a reputation aspect I think you're ignoring. Most illegal marijuana dealers I've met were just interested in selling weed to anyone who wanted to buy it to pay rent, tuition, or support their own use. They operated under fairly low margins for a small business and essentially didn't price in the legal risk. One guy I know only made about $10-12k/yr in profit.

None sold heroin, as far as I know.
I live a lot more in the moment. I’m a lot less scared to speak my mind, and I’m a lot more engaged in conversations. It also puts my long term goals at the front of my mind.
It'd be awfully difficult to precisely position and aim multiple transmitters discreetly.
It supports software that only runs properly in older versions of Windows so its almost a XP type of OS but can run the latest of browsers at the same time. Its kind of a big deal when you think about it from that point considering modern browsers do not support XP and co anymore
This has been done - there are modules that detect and decode audio (which sounds a bit like R2D2). The manufacturer provides clips of this audio, which you could play from an app, allowing a phone to control something without it having to be on a network.

Unfortunately, AFAIK the technology doesn't have a searchable name, so I can't find anything about it now.

Of course, being able to listen for an arbitrary audio signal would be even more useful.
Zip codes aren't numbers, they are numeric strings.
Wouldn't that just make the overall tax burden worse? You'd have to pay corporate taxes on the farm profits, then pay income taxes on the salary.
a blog post about the release: https://mitropia.com/2017/12/01/play-mitropia-live-on-line-a...
It's insane that anybody thought electronic voting machines were a good idea when paper ballots have worked for hundreds of years.

Where paper ballots are transparent and accountable, electronic voting machines have closed source and unaudited software. They go against the core tenets of transparency and fairness that make democracy work.
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Sure, if you wait for a sufficiently large weight on top of your transaction, then you solve the double spend problem. But you need at the bare minimum that every transaction that happened at roughly the same time as yours to be included as an indirect child of your tips. If you do not understand that sentence, please try to, as it is the very reason that IOTA doesn't scale (and isn't fundamentally different from usual blockchains in any sense other than a somewhat contrived construction).
Google's Mobile Applications Distribution Agreement, or MADA, is a license requirement for access to any of Google's Android apps, including the app that actually is required to set up devices like the Chromecast.

The MADA has anticompetitive terms, not just prohibiting signatories from developing Android forks, like Fire OS, but requiring any devices with Google apps include all of Google's mandatory apps, including many apps which compete directly with Amazon's own offerings. In short, it is not reasonably possible for Amazon to sign the MADA.

Amazon is therefore blocked from offering apps like the Chromecast app to set up Chromecasts for use with their hardware. Just as Apple does not sell hardware in it's stores which don't work with their devices, and Google does not sell hardware on their site which doesn't work with their devices, Amazon chose to not sell products which don't work with their devices.
That makes more sense to me, but still, the energy requirements would be huge. Given Cuba's electricity infrastructure (and probably even without that) I think you would be looking at 3 or more big pieces of equipment that require very large, very heavy, batteries. It seems like that would have been very conspicuous.
Ironically the original "data wants to be free" quote was also said in a similar context.

"On the one hand information wants to be expensive, because it's so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because the cost of getting it out is getting lower and lower all the time. So you have these two fighting against each other."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free
I think it's a failure at root to understand how marginal tax rates work. There is an honest-to-god, widespread folk mythology about how you can actually earn less by earning more, because you'll pay a higher tax rate. You can hear this opinion expressed by people of all intelligence levels and in all professions, from fry cooks to engineers.

This, in my experience, drives a lot of insane opinions about taxes.
I read and understood the article fully thank you.
Wifi does not work like that and this cannot possibly work.
The order sounds reasonable - IMHO it correlates with the number of users who need that area of knowledge.
You're downvoted for providing no value in your comment. If you want to comment a tease "I know the answer but can't tell you.", just don't comment at all.
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we don't.
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Precisely. Food for thought: IOTA nowadays is not only fully centralized currency (in any meaningful technical sense), but it also has a much higher market cap than Bitcoin had a few months ago. So, is the market really valuing decentralization as much as we think?
I found this link for installation.
https://openliberty.io/news/2017/11/29/liberty-spring-boot.h...

Have you tried it?
Not to mention $20 billion a year in farm subsidies.
>> It doesn't actually use WiFi communication

> Actually it does. It manipulates the WiFi signal.

Actually, it doesn't. It scatters back some radio frequencies, including 2.4GHz, which happens to be used by Wi-Fi... and Bluetooth, and Zigbee, and other stuff that people might have in their homes. You still need at least a dedicated radio driver, which has absolutely nothing to do with Wi-Fi protocol, to actually read the data those devices send.

Your comment is a good example of exactly why the way this article (and the original paper) uses the word "Wi-Fi" and "connection" is a big problem. See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15861392.
I agree. Sometimes it's interesting to look at the difference between what the media is actually saying vs what people think the media is saying.
I hear it. In my case, I suspect it is a trained response rather than a mysterious neurological phenomenon. [1] Motion picture sound effects synchronize distant events such as explosions with the sound of explosions. When I am looking at a screen simultaneous audible and visual experience is what I have come to expect based on experience. A delay when watching a screen would seem unnatural.

One reason I expect it is a unique response to images on screen is that I don't find anything odd about the thunder coming well after the lightening in the real world, but a six second delay would be odd in a movie.

[1]: other than the mysterious neurological phenomenon of the human brain constructing mental experiences from sensory input.
Since you worded that as a challenge... by maliciously modifying the CAD files that will be fed to the 3D printer.

...or by building an otherwise identical object that manipulates flaws in how the Wi-fi reads the signals and then replacing the original object with the malicious one.
Another scenario where gaining an incremental dollar of revenue may be more valuable than saving an incremental dollar of cost: optics for fundraising. A startup with $500k revenue and $600k cost would probably find it easier to raise funds than a startup with $100k revenue and $200k cost.
If a single paid employee at the FTC was this vigilant, there might be no scamming in the US. Time to replace the agency.
Chrome Apps are dead, as Google shuts down the Chrome Web Store section
Federal law does not require a waiting period, only a background check. Last time I bought a firearm from a dealer, the background check took about 5 minutes. By law, up to 3 days are allowed for the background check, but it usually takes only minutes.

There had been a Federal waiting period, but it was ruled unconstitutional in 1997. Some states have waiting periods. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Instant_Criminal_Back...
After you sign up you're forced to pick favorites... I don't have any because I don't any.
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This is why you should be extremely wary of anything that is only run once in a a blue moon. And very wary of such things that when run, are being run to save your bacon.
Indeed the text in the screenshot implies that it can run all browsers, not four.
Thought I'd try the new release, and while there's plenty of glitches (eg it blue-screened after install), there's some useful things that are working. Sublime Text installed and seems to work, though the antialiasing is not very good & makes the text difficult to read.

I keep testing my own Win32 Photoshop plug-ins on ReactOS, and they seem to work fine in my makeshift graphics editor. I'm having a hard time finding any glitches at all with those plug-ins now.

As I mentioned elsewhere, Opera 12.18 works okay, and I'm posting this comment from ReactOS & Opera (installed via Parallels Desktop).
I am reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

This development will probably lead to a new combination of something like RFID, WiFi and electromagnetic power delivery (AM radio).
Ditto. Show me the goods before you start making me do work (filling forms).

However it may be an MVP. Has anybody bothered going through the process to the end?
Yes, maybe, kind of?

With quantum computing it's expected that the ECDSA public-key cryptography used in bitcoin addresses will be broken. However, the ECDSA public key is only exposed when your first transaction out of the address is signed. If you only use addresses once (recommended practice), an attacker would have to break your private key faster than it takes for your transaction to propagate to the entire network in order to steal your coins. It would take a long time between the first cracking of ECDSA to nearly instantly being able to crack it. For example, the first publicly-disclosed attack on SHA1 took 110 GPU-years.

If the accounts listed by the OP have sent transactions in the past and reused addresses (which was common back in 2010/11), it's possible the private keys can be bruteforced in the future.

If not, we don't know the ECDSA public key for the address. Bruteforcing it gets a LOT harder--but never say never.
This article is quite presumptuous - there are a lot of people who never had the luxury of being able to do any of that in their 20s. I was fortunate just to nab my first full time job at 28, and if there is anything people criticize me for today in my 30s, it’s that I work too much.

Some people have never been the victim of circumstance in their life it seems.
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I don't think so. I think LLC's allow one to pass through profits without double taxation. C corps, I believe, are the type that suffer from double taxation. Correct me if I am wrong though.
We even know it is a bubble.
Yes, this is the old way if you want to: (username + password + email), do you have a problem registering with this method also?
All we need is a mass spectrometer in every cell phone.
There is an awesome podcast episode of Planet Money on how vicious these debt collectors can be and why they are “allowed” to be that way. Listen to it here: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/08/354591198/epis...
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It's frustrating that a private citizen had to do this all himself.

It reminds me of the problem of robocall scammers. If the government really cared, the problem would be fixed.
Salaries are taxed, hardware is deducted and amortized.
No, we don't know where the wallets are located physically. I'm not sure it is possible to brute force a wallet even if we did know where it was.

A lot of people track and watch these wallets to see if anything moves, it would cause a lot of panic if these lost coins started moving.
> when we start making simple foodstuffs electrically (starch, sugar, protein).

Interesting. Do you happen to know what's the state of research on this?
That was the strong subtext of the Reply All episode: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/86-man-of-the-people/ They talked about how this was a story from the early 1900s that felt like it was happened last week.
Why should donations that pay for churches to operate homeless shelters be tax deductible, while taxes that pay for state/city governments to operate homeless shelters aren't tax deductible?

This bill is just a GOP assault on states' rights.
To be fair, the stock market in general is near all-time highs. I agree that SimCity didn't have much impact on its own though.
If anyone was wondering, the farmer death per day is 33.6 per day in India (it was mentioned as a single number since 1995).
Thomas Jefferson had more direct opinions on corporations, having tried (and failed) to add an 11th amendment limiting their power. For example:

"I hope we shall take warning from the example [of England] and crush in it’s birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."

https://books.google.com/books?id=KCFfDQAAQBAJ&lpg=PT110&ots...