skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> recent $140 million Series F funding round

Series F?! Heh. It's amazing that Disqus is worth anything at all. Standard Wordpress spam filtering takes care of bots on low-traffic sites, and the friction of yet another pile of tracking junk seems high enough to dissuade people from commenting, or "engaging with your brand," or whatever it's called.
They're under no obligation whatsoever.
That's what I said. Trump selected lots of people like that to head up agencies. They either have no experience, wanted to destroy the agency earlier, or will put their ideology before the will of the people every time.
I'm actually not sure. As a matter of fact, I often pay for medicine out of pocket, dentistry especially. It's kind of nice, I can choose the place, be sure that they're interested in me as a client.

I have a coverage from employer, but chose not to use it because I don't trust the institutions enrolled in the program, and they're further from my home. It's all about having more choices. I have also bought coverage for my child, and I'm pretty sure it's much better than anything that comes already paid.

If you have cancer, of course you would want to be taken care of. But if you live a routine life, I don't see how you are benefitting from throwing money at healthcare.

WRT "one of thousands". Water from drink fountains is free. Dumpster diving is free. You won't starve in a week, and by the time next BI payment arrives, they will probably learn something.
How Clojure's documentation can leapfrog other languages
Theravada Buddhism (as it is practiced) very much tells children to honor and care for their parents. And to respond with compassion to beggars and even stray animals. And to attend to the moment.

But suffering tends to be sharper in poorer countries and some people find it stressful to be around so much less hidden suffering than a richer country where the poorer people are invisible.
obligation != trust.

I wouldn't trust private company that claims to back crypto currency 1-to-1 with USD, but doesn't back these claims with numbers in any way. The fact that they are not legally obligated to do so doesn't change that.
This is like something from the movie "Brazil" (1985).
> Cook is "forced" into this monkey dance because he's deeply entrenched into the Chinese market. He only has little leverage : the jobs he creates in China and the money he makes there.

> He has to comply to local laws, even though it interferes with his own point of view because lots of money is at stake. He can't say it in this conference

If this were the case, then he could just not show up. I think the lack of principle here ideally should be reflected in their revenues, but somebody has to convince the public that buying in to Apple, is now the same as buying into in to the CPC.

Does nobody realize that the CPC has found a way to merge the two most sinister impositions, government censorship and social censorship, into one despair/tyranny manufacturing device?
His smug attitude of showing how he doesn't care about the public he is supposed to serve, will be his downfall in court.
open up google maps and search for Philadelphia. Click satellite at the bottom left. pan to the left. you should see ~40% of the area is green. you are still mostly within the city. pan left again. your in the suburbs (only an hour out) and its mostly houses and trees. a few more pans and you have nothing but forest.

if you keep panning, you'll find yourself looking at mostly forest and farmland with the former prevailing. you may find an occasional city, but the vast of what you will find is nature for the next 1700 miles. by then you reached the rocky moutains and things start to get a bit drier.

Nature is ok. nature is not dead. and as per comments bellow, you do not take two data points and extrapolate a linear prediction and expect anything meaningful. let alone from one small area in Germany, using a methodology that has not been widely tested. its certainly cause for additional research.
We have being trying to sign up for the paid version but didn't manage to. The ads did disappear but we're not sure why.
I assume I won't be invited to game nights in the future.

It was fun, Disqus. Best wishes for everyone. I had a pretty good interview once. Too bad our values didn't align.
We're in agreement, but lack evidence is not evidence of wrongdoing.
They're ramping up to announce a Google/Inspector Gadget crossover.
Well, Germany is half the size of Texas with nearly 4x the population, so it could easily be argued that Germany does have centralization of resources...
I recently stumbled over commento

https://github.com/adtac/commento

"A lightweight, privacy-focussed comment engine alternative to Disqus."

You can easily host it yourself.

There's a live demo at https://commento.adtac.pw/
Note: This story was co-published with ZDNet. I know "MacKeeper" is not a brand loved by all, but I chose to link the version from the MacKeeper Security blog rather than ZDNet, because of how the latter blasts users with an autoplay video: http://www.zdnet.com/article/popular-virtual-keyboard-leaks-...
Everyone I knew was texting by 2004. Most plans came with a few hundred free messages every month. If anything iPhone has been the demise of texting, since it made it easier to use apps that sidestep texting. Do you not remember all the people who could type faster in t9 than they could on a keyboard?
Your comment is much better than what I wanted to say: What a douche canoe.
I think our search results look very different from theirs.
That was the most awesome part when I was a kid, I remember the first time I played with the electronic components of an old toy, I remember being amazed about how a small switch worked the same way with a small led and with an electric motor, I was amazed about how every part could work independent from the whole toy, it was a really big discovery for me.
His token is not pegged to USD dollars since he doesn't have the reserves to convert back and forth between his token and USDs. Full stop.

He should clearly explain upfront what he is doing for the massive public and the risks involved following his approach, which is perfectly understandable as it happens with every other investment.
They do have an official save converter[1]. Not sure if it works with the latest versions of CKII and EU4 but it's definitely worked in the past.

Hell, you used to be able to do the "Grand Campaign" where you play CKII->EU4->Vicky->HOI to cover about a millennium of history. Once again though, not sure if the save file converters have been updated enough to do that now.

[1]:https://ck2.paradoxwikis.com/Europa_Universalis_4_Save_Conve...
Well, he's not wrong. We are desperate - desperate to keep our internet free from corporate greed.
You can find young talent that is okay with "working for less" (in absolute terms). I see this opportunity as being great for a startup, at least in the initial stages of growth. But are these young talents getting the same amount of value back that you are getting from them? If they are then that sounds great! I'd love to hear more about companies that don't just treat an area with lower median salary as a cost-saving area. :)
Yet Another Mail Merge attracts over 100,000 monthly users and generates $70K/mo
There are nine innings, during half of each of which one team plays offense and the other plays defense. They switch for the remaining half of each inning.

The offense is permitted three "outs" in their half of each inning (after which the teams switch roles, or the next inning commences).

There are four bases, the first three of which may be occupied by a member of the offense. Bases are ordered. Players may advance directly from one base to the next by "stealing". This comes at the risk of an out, which results in losing occupation of a base entirely.

A player which reaches the fourth base scores a "run" for the offense and no longer occupies a base. Runs (and only runs) count toward the final score.

One player from offense is always "at bat". That player has a chance to occupy a base (not necessarily the first); failure to do so results in an out. During this process, the other base occupants may (be forced to) advance bases, possibly scoring runs or losing bases and gaining outs in the process. (The particulars of this are not relevant to the article, but there is a fun story about the process here [1].)

Rather than permit the player at bat the chance to advance potentially several bases, the defense can "walk" the batter by granting them uncontested occupation of first base.

Similarly, rather than permit the defense to prevent any base advancement, the player at bat can choose a "sacrificial bunt" ("sac" bunt) which, properly executed, nearly guarantees that players currently occupying bases advance one base (or even score), while the player at bat (and only that player) is called out (and thus does not advance). SPOILER ALERT. This action is key to the plot in a particular episode of Deep Space 9 [2].

[1] http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/20294816/skunk-outfield-h...

[2] http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Take_Me_Out_to_the_Holosu...
20 Signs the Scrum Master Needs the Engineers’ Help
Even with the GPL, the source doesn't need to be publicly available for everyone to read. Only paying customers are guaranteed the right to the code. (Some car makers have GPL software and only give out the source code to verified car owners.)
Who knows, maybe Fuchsia will go in that direction. It might help native Android apps get to the performance of native iOS apps, if developers are willing to invest in a new toolchain. They'd probably have to redo the whole API though.
Hi, I'm the original author of this article. I just want to say thank you for all the positive and constructive comments. I'm happy to answer questions that anyone has.
Really? Sure smells like it despite all the claims its not.
For a marketing and ads company, any script that's embedded on multiple websites is an attractive target for acquisition.

There's nothing terribly special about Disqus in this regard: they just have a decent install base. Some lip service fluff about AI/ML mining the comments for sentiment, likely to give the impression for ad sellers that they can target specific demographics, but this is something they can fake -- grouping user cohorts solely by the overlap of sites they visit is an adequate proxy.

It does, however, show that Disqus' business model was the usual fantasy: burn cash to acquire users, coast by waiting for an acqui-hire until you're desperate, then introduce ads, hemorrhage users, then firesale cash out. This is a tried-and-true strategy for many web properties, from image hosts to chat services, but it truly doesn't make sense here, because you'd figure that their subscription plans should've been priced high enough to pay the bills. They badly misjudged their market.
Not everyone is a manager, and that’s ok
Where's the clickjacking? Both links lead to the urls shown
Then you should talk to Bitfinex/Tether about it, because it's on their website.

They must be spreading FUD about themselves, right?
They do claim they are audited regularly right on their transparency page [1]. Audits are meaningless for consumer confidence if they don't take place, or the results are not shared.

[1] https://wallet.tether.to/transparency
I have used Rust occasionally on weekend projects.

Rust toolchain still fails support on mixed mode debugging.

With C++, I can have a mixed .NET, JS and C++ solution and without problems debug and single step across all languages, regardless of targeting desktop, server or UWP.

Similar applies to Java or Android tooling.

Additionally if one is into native desktop coding, bindings to Gtk and Qt are still work in progress, and there isn't nothing that would match something like Blend.

Finally, the borrow checker still hinders some programming patterns that are quite common on GUI code, a few of them will be tackled with NLL.

Ah, and cargo does not support binary libraries although rustc can handle them, which is an issue for companies selling libraries.

I am aware all these issues will be eventually fixed, it is just as I see the situation currently.
I feel more helpless now than I did on November 9th, 2016.
I'd like to see them try really. I am pretty sure that people would just not play these kind of games as it would be super annoying.
Two things:

1. I think you may have meant to post that as a top-level comment, not as a reply to me.

2. The Series F was for Zeta Global, not Disqus.
Well there's two fallacies there: one, natural things are supposed to be easy, and two, non-monogamy is supposed to be easy. Neither are true.
The repo has Python 3 listed in setup.py. Are you saying it isn't?

(It's not getting picked up by pypi because they haven't made a release with the trove classifier yet.)
> What's with Google appending and prepending product names with 'go' willy-nilly!?

_go_ogle?
> f you can not test and gather data to support your hypotheses then your hypotheses has no merit and should be dismissed completely by any rational thinker.

No, this is neither scientific nor rational.

If you cannot gather data to prove your hypothesis, nor can you gather data to disprove your hypothesis, concluding that the hypothesis is false is exactly as unjustified as concluding that the hypothesis is true. "I have no informed opinion in on this" is a position you can take.

> Simply because it can not be disproven does not mean it is proven

I agree with this. But you keep conflating "not proven" and "should be assumed to be false."
They are related; there's a false equivalency in these arguments between the right to be a racist and the right to be free from racism. On that spectrum, our society is far better at ensuring the former at the expense of the latter, and we need to recalibrate.

Lest you think this is futile, our system of laws and the social contract itself is based on balancing rights. For example, we have the right to free expression, but perjury and fraud are crimes.

In other words, we work too hard to protect bigoted speech, and we don't work hard enough to protect Americans from bigotry and discrimination, and this is at least in part due to the false equivalency we maintain between them. I'm not saying I have a great policy answer -- although allowing civil suits for bigoted speech might work -- but we should at least be talking about it.
"They're under no obligation whatsoever."

Then we can assume the money does not exist, and that it's an $800M fraud.
I have hacked the MCU and accelerorometer. Haven't gotten around to the GPS yet, lots of projects and this isn't at the top of the list. Its just hardware, all the components are well known, you can just lookup datasheets and go from there. I can post microscope pics of the PCB if you like. What is the best way to post/link pics on HN?
How can it be worth the same amount of dollars? I don't understand? How is it even possible to have a stable price of something when it's all relative? Or am I confused... Do you just mean more stable?
Dai seems like a clever idea, but I'm not convinced it will ultimately be necessary.

For one thing, the idea that dollars are stable is illusory. And the volatility we see in BTC these days is largely due to the ratio of speculation to storing value in its usage pattern.

So if you buy 500 Dai with Bitcoin today, and the price of Bitcoin goes up, you simply have more Dai to spend, and if the price goes down, you have less to spend, but all the while Dai was pegged to USD and the exchange was going on behind the scenes.

Two factual quibbles with the article, in case you can offer insight:

The example about doing a bet using Ether does not make sense, because chances are the smart contract would collect collateral for the bet at the time it was made, with the idea that upon resolution of the outcome the collateral would be used to pay off the bet. So if I bet 1 ETH on the superbowl outcome, 1 ETH is collected from me and from my counter-party, and then after the game finishes the smart contract awards 2 ETH to the winner.

The other issue has to do with commerce. What's the difference between a store marking prices in USD and also accepting payment in BTC vs marking prices in Dai?

During checkout, if I'm paying with BTC I'll see how much BTC my purchase will cost. If the price in dollars is more useful to shoppers than the price in BTC, then merchants will denominate in dollars. Dai would seemingly just involve a predefined method of doing the exchange rate math (and fees), but I'm not clear on why this is really a significant advantage.
There's a big difference between a currency being "pegged" to another currency and being "backed" by another currency.

I do agree that it would behoove his project to clearly enumerate that it's experimental and the risks involved. But that's a good comment for him, not a flag.

Edit: The article you linked to is incorrect, unless the word "pegged" is different in cryptocurrencies than elsewhere in the world of finance. Please see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_exchange-rate_system
> "not ignoring it" .. "actively worked on" .. "for over 3 years" ..

Not to diminish the very real challenges in getting IPv6 implemented, but this is an interesting turn of phrase.. especially because rolling out IPv6 would actually solve a whole class of problems (and I'm not even a particularly big advocate of the need for IPv6, since most things should still be NATed anyway.)

(And especially considering parent's phrase "baked into the DNA" at Azure.)
No, it won't be.

Anything involving this will be handled by gov't lawyers, not by him, and you can bet if he does end up in front of the court, his responses will be 100% coached by those lawyers.
This is excellent. I plan on adapting the approach of the fundamentals course for middle school students (you go a little fast in the videos with a lot of assumptions about what your students already know, which is fine). Starting with just a <script> tag is excellent - well done!
Scott Galloway on why Apple, Google, Facebook, and Amazon should be broken up
No.
"We asked several questions about the deployment, such as the Azure locations that will be EPYC enabled as well as which EPYC-specific security features are in use on the Azure platforms. Deployments in specific datacenters are not being discussed at this time, and the SME features of EPYC are not being used in Lv2."
https://www.anandtech.com/show/12116/amd-and-microsoft-annou...
> This is always a repeated cycle in operating systems, they bloat up, then eventually have a cycle of removing the fat. Windows been thru this cycle many times.

I worked at Microsoft during Windows 7 & 8. There was a strict edict that minimum hardware requirements would not be increased and we were expected to improve performance on the same hardware.

Have you actually seen windows get worse over the last ~9 years since vista or is this an impression that's just too hard to shake?
THE GAME 2048
does anyone know about maths in the game 2048? and can help me? if it is there is my email... taniaab2000@gmail.com
$15,000 per child per year * 2 classrooms * 2 children per class room = $600,000 per year, not $300k.

Knocking off 100k for <foo> leaves 500k between the 5 staff, which is 100k each.
No, it isn't.. and I sincerely hope you're joking.

You should do the math on that and figure out what the value of a single bitcoin would have to be to make it come true. If that doesn't wake you up to how ridiculous that claim is, I don't know what to tell you.

I'll even go incredibly easy on you and let you assume the average mortgage payment is only $100.

Hint: it's a number larger than the US GDP

It's somewhat terrifying to me that I even have to argue this with someone.
This guy claims he coined it on a BBS: http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~crwth/LOL.html
I don't think that the specifics of his currency add or remove anything from the nature of the comment having merit or not.

The comment is a little bit off topic, but I for one don't mind though I'm not sure about whether or not it's within the rules.
Probably what you mean is that it's not "GNU Emacs"
Meh, yours is on point too.
See the second paragraph of section 3 here [1].

[1] https://tether.to/legal/
'One of the first questions people consider with this kind of thing is performance. Personally I don't think performance should be the first question. My philosophy is that most of the time you should focus on writing maintainable code. Then use a profiler to identify hot spots and then replace only those hot spots with faster but less clear code'
Google basically needs to name their apps starting with G or they will be hard to find in a sorted list; is it titled Google Xylophone or just Xylophone? Maybe I'll just use Marimba, I can always remember how to find that. When everything starts with G, it's easy to find.
Ask HN: Ever been to shmoocon? Whats it like?
"FUD" = Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. That does not imply that spawning FUD means it is some sort of unfounded gossip. Customers should be fearful, uncertain, and doubtful of a completely unregulated company that acts as a bank of sorts with no proof that it has any of the reserves it claims.

So yes it is FUD. In this case it is good FUD. And in this case Bitfinex can easily quell it, but chooses not to which doesn't bode well for them. Could tether be perfectly legit backed by solid reserves? Yes. But this must be verified.
Make sure you are registered to vote if you are in the United States. And vote in every election. Even something that seems small like school board has more implications then we know.
I didn't mean to imply it was unique to C, though in hindsight I did. This can be done in many languages.

I believe that Niklaus Wirth created his first self hosting implementation in a small subset of the language and expanded from there. Anyone thinking about doing this for a non-trivial language should consider following that example.
In "Atlas Shrugged"?
You can straight away drop any repetition of a zero-width assertion, no?
For a decentralized solution to the problem of a price stable cryptocurrency check out BitShares and bitUSD

https://bitshares.org/technology/price-stable-cryptocurrenci...

You can see it has not been as stable as USDT but it has certainly been hovering around $1 USD:

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitusd/
What is a Pegged Cryptocurrency? https://themerkle.com/what-is-a-pegged-cryptocurrency/

You can decide to talk about stable coin approaches which is a more precise term.
His attitude outside of court is admissible to court. It likely would be brought up to show that the agency did not represent the consumer in good faith.
Aside from the discussion on Tethers I am sure this is not going to stop cryptocurrency buffs from talking/selling another round of "stable" coins.

The unfortunate thing is time and again same old story is presented about either:

how the company releasing the coins will act as lender/buyer of last resort or

how "markets" will prevent the peg from going out of whack.

The former logic forgets about how it puts a lot of power in hands of one company and leads to questions, like Tether.

While latter logic forgets markets are not efficient. And sometimes it can remain irrational longer than someone can remain solvent.

This whole thing is not a maths problem but an economics and market microstructure problem, two apparently least understood topics in cryptocurrency circles.
This plainly doesn't follow. Again, just using the ordinary definitions of ordinary words, not liking Americans because your country once fought a horrific war with them does not imply that you think you're a superior race of people.

On the one hand, this is a very silly debate and I don't know why I'm having it. But on the other, I don't really understand this new impulse to widen the tent doors of racism so that we can definitionally have more of it and maybe if I did understand that I'd have less to disagree about with people on the Left with whom I'm otherwise politically sympatico.
Every publicly traded bank discloses all of their assets each quarter. To claim holdings are the crown jewels is a bit much.