skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The business model has changed, it's much more like the mobile games market now; a handful of "whales" support the whole thing. You don't pay for the video anymore. Copying content is cheap and easy and there's no burden on delivery. Instead, people who are really into it are getting closer to the models and paying them directly.

There's a whole range of ways you can support your favourite model now, from $5/month snapchat "access" all the way to $4000/hr "meetups" in Nevada. The purpose of the free video is just to draw you in - maybe it will turn you into a subscriber, maybe you'll send them a gift, or maybe you're just window shopping.

The only people hurting are the skeezy producers, middlemen, and digital pimps. The porn industry is dying and is being replaced with this new model of "para-prostitution".
My friend has Comcast and I was absolutely floored when a bandwitch notification popped up on stack overflow.

We need to burn these monsers at the stake.
All the more reason for ISP competition. The government will be slow to (or just won't) police this behavior so the ideal is to enable customers to quickly replace awful service providers with alternatives.
That happens to be the easy answer, but it's not necessarily the only answer.

What happens when China enters pop decline? Pump more people into an already overpopulated country --that does not scale. Or when that hits India?
Or if you want to come at it from the other direction and analyze in terms of the current economy, what fraction of one's budget really needs to go to food? It's actually more like "everyone's gotta work to pay rent to the banks".
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This is super addictive, well done. Runs incredibly fast too.
As a strategy tip, you can fly in reverse, it's great for dodging missles and maneuvering in general.
In 2009 maybe. If anything it's "trendy" now to quit social media.
> I would love to hear other perspectives.

You are hearing other perspectives. You've just chosen to write them off as "the evil media being angry that Facebook is replacing them and lashing out".
It’s not the same, and it’s not there yet, but perhaps eventually something could be built from nimx or similar.

https://github.com/yglukhov/nimx
This does not apply to bitcoin, however many alt coins have hash rates low enough that 51% attack is possible at any time of the day. Nobody cares as long as the price keep going up and the true degree of security is determined by the ~~casinos~~ exchanges they play at.
Can be applied to your posts as well.

I liked the way conversation started, but this is pointless.
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Bitcoin is over.
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Rsync mishandles archaic checksums in v3.1.3-dev (before 24-Oct-2017)
Nike has been doing the "costumers standing in lines to buy their product" thing for longer than Supreme has existed. Their basketball shoe line has been massively cultish since at least Michael Jordan.
Are you proposing a subversion-based monorepo?
I would have quit Facebook years ago, apart from the need for Messenger and the Events system. Sure, people you knew years ago might be on Facebook, but people you currently know are also there, and it's often the easiest way to coordinate an event or get in contact with people, because they actually bother to check it.

I basically haven't used the feed part of Facebook in years, and I am happy to stay away.
With a single commit you can change an API, and all it's users, and run all the tests for all the dependant projects, etc, and you're done. All in a days work, and no emails/communication necessary.

In a multi-repo world, people are probably linking against old revisions of your library, and against certain tags/branches etc. There is probably no overarching code search to find all users of the API. You're gonna have to grep the code and hope to find all uses. You might miss some repos/branches. Everyone has their own continuous integration/testing procedures, so you can't easily migrate their code for them. You're gonna have to support both API's for probably months until you have persuaded every other user to upgrade to the latest 'release' of your code which supports the new API before finally turning off the old API. The work involved in the migration is spread amongst all the project owners, which is probably much less efficient.

As others have said, it's the fully integrated version consistent codesearch with clickable xrefs across gigabytes of source code, cross repo code review, cross-repo testing, etc. which really makes a monorepo work well.
Risc-V, 64 bit w/ compressed instructions (strict subset of 32 bit instrs, freely intermix-able) is beating x86_64 right now in static and dynamic code size without vector extensions or anything fancy. With a few simple macro-op fusion pairs, it also comes right up to x86_64 in dynamic uOp count.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.02318.pdf
Facebook wants to be in the middle of every communication. Giving a single entity such power is simply too much.
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> The 'premium' features will simply be extra things that we will build like the mentioned `Experts` that you can get direct help from.

Sounds like the 'premium' features are completely unrelated to this project. I think it will make life easier for you if you completely removed them and spun them off to a different project. (I anal btw)
the best game i had in a long time
shameless plug: I loved project euler and topcoder when I in high school. In 2011, there weren't really any nice, easy-to-use, interactive websites that allowed me to solve coding/algorithms challenges online easily, so that winter break my first year of college I made coderbyte.com for people to solve challenges online. Been running it ever since, but now there are like 20 similar websites as well.
Stopify is a JS-to-JS compiler. It performs a lot better than a JS-in-JS interpreter could.
In what sense is China "overpopulated"? They have a large population but they also have a tremendous land mass, much of which is only sparsely populated.
> Standard Chartered has over 3 million lines of Haskell code

Not exactly, they have their own closed source fork of GHC, which is strictly evaluated. Given that the codebase is proprietary it's unknown what other differences there are beyond having dumped lazy evaluation. It's a Haskell-like language, but far different than the Haskell that the public has access to.
My grandfather worked for IBM before I was born, and there's still a Selectric III typewriter in his office. It's got the same industrial whir from the flywheel that powers the printing head and a similar thud from each impact on the ribbon.

I remember as a young child pounding on the keys to see how fast I could make it go, and later on, writing short stories just to hear the "thunk thunk thunk" (after all, I could've written them on the PC over on the desk, but the typewriter was a novelty).

This was in the 90s, and I recognize that you're probably talking about a couple of decades earlier. I think that the only cardpunch I've touched is the one next to the articles's 1401, at the Computer History Museum, in fact.
Instead of going to the AG, I would recommend contacting the FCC. This prompts quick action and even just telling a Comcast rep that you're going to contact the FCC can be helpful.

Comcast makes it very difficult to get support if you don't lease one of their modems. Literally every time I call they insist that the problem is my modem, and of course it never is. All of my issues have been either outages or congestion-related, but Comcast reps can't fix the former and will never admit to the latter. So instead they blame your modem and ask for 10 bucks a month to lease a modem from them.
True, I forgot to mention it.

Debian does a particularly good job with security patching (better than Red Hat and Canonical, IMO).
feature request: add discussion page for project discussion, getting help, suggestions, etc.
Yep, 'idiosyncratic' is a good way to summarize it. At the end of the day, it's just another dumb thing to yell at people about - it doesn't improve discourse or 'stimulate intellectual curiosity'. As an inveterate rule-yeller myself, the fewer of these the better.
An Archaeology-Inspired Database by Yoav Rubin
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~jrh13/hol-light/

The author John Harrison who works at Intel has used his theorem proving application hol-light in doing verification on large code bases.
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> This is a new opinion on money that didn't exist 200 years ago.

Economics is a science we discard what doesn't work.
I’m more of a product guy than a dev but if you ever start moving in that direction, let me know. Happy to provide some thoughts.
Things You Should Know about Bitcoin before Investing
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7iuakc/finding...
Why would one need a prescription form of niacin as opposed to the niacin that is avilable in most common over the counter multivitamins? For example, I take two Flintstone Completes each day, which provides 150% of the RDA of niacin.

Is this only meant for people who have some condition that requires a much larger than normal dose?

As far as buying from those online sources that are $5 for 100 tablets but are not FDA certified, niacin is also available from many of the supplement makers that sell in brick and mortar stores, like Rite Aid, CVS, Walmart, etc. Those brands cost more than the cheapest online-only brands, but might be more reliable, and can also be found online fairly cheap. Nature's Bounty brand niacin supplement, for example, is available via Amazon at $24 for 240 500 mg tablets (2000% RDA).

It should be noted that there are at least four different forms of niacin supplements avilable.

• nicotinic acid

• nicotinic acid combined with agents to slow its release

• nicotinamide

• inositol hexanicotinate

I think the Niacor is the first form. The Nature's Bounty supplements are the fourth form.

Here's an article that explains how the forms differ biologically: https://www.crnusa.org/sites/default/files/files/resources/1...
The Internet Archive is undoubtedly claiming fair use, even if you suppose the works they create aren't derivative works they are still creating copies of and distributing copyrighted material, which violates copyright law absent fair use.
So basically dollars.

I'm not sure but I think that already has a wealth inequality problem.
Just their "marketing" website. Trading systems look normal.
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What he is saying is that when he first came to Japan he mistook the outward signs of poverty for charming cultural quirks.
The more / less government is false dichotomy. That's why leftists make jokes about you, even smart-sounding libertarians like you always make these stupid black / white statements.

Universal healthcare being one example (at least our system seems simpler than your deductible / premium / medicare / medicaid / etc. chaos), UBI being another.
> You can't spend at all without the private keys of the whales because the network nodes won't trust the chain.

Here is a simple library to recover the private key of ECDSA and DSA signatures sharing the same nonce k and therefore having identical signature parameter r

[1] https://github.com/tintinweb/ecdsa-private-key-recovery
> Your argument is that latency-based front-running isn't front-running because the front-runners "earned it" via whatever system they built to front-run the trades.

It’s not front-running.

> This is the key part I disagree with.

You’re not just disagreeing, you’re incorrect by definition. I explained why in my last comment. It’s not front-running to gain an advantage through capital expenditure. Capital expenditure (like colocation) is not fundamentally an advantage other market participants don’t have. It doesn’t matter if you think it is, it’s not. Insider trading is an example of an advantage that is fundamentally unavailable to other market participants. If we accept your argument, we might as well say that spending more money than competitors to build a better performing fund is unfair.

> I don't see how you could interpret that as "good" for anyone other than the HFT firms who do it best. It's pretty clearly this:
>bad for overall market efficiency

No, it’s very clearly not, for anyone who has worked in finance or who is familiar with how market making works. High frequency traders improve net liquidity in the market. Would you prefer the pit days of preferential treatment by manual market makers, or much slower (and thus less accurate) price discovery?

I don’t know what else to tell you at this point. You have done exactly the thing I was talking about in my original comment. I’ve explained to you that high frequency trading does not satisfy any legal definition of front-running. You’re free to make up an arbitrary definition of front-running, but it’s not the correct definition. Do you need me to cite research showing why high frequency trading improves liquidity and explaining why it can’t step in front of other retail traders’ orders?
The usual counterargument is that DIY keeps your costs down if your time is free.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we have some overlap with what Heroku does.
Could you share a link to the friend's essay?
"I liked this post about poverty, but I hesitate to upvote it because I fear it will increase public support for alleviating poverty."
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Yes. Personally, I have poor enough eyesight that I have difficulty sharing a monitor with someone. On the other hand, I've been a consultant for ages; I haven't worked a 9-to-5 job in rather a while. Whiteboards don't come up much in that context.
innerHtml wouldn't eliminate xss vectors though, things like load=something could bypass this.
I personally use it quite a bit for keeping these relationships alive. I think Facebook is a great tool for that. I have contentious debates over ideas with people I know, but more importantly, with people a couple links away from me. It's been an extremely helpful bridge out of the filter bubble I'd probably otherwise inhabit.

Of course, I'm not at all sure the benefits I've gotten have any resemblance to most peoples' experience on Facebook, and plenty of reason to believe that this isn't the case. And there's no way in hellllll I'd give my daughter a Messenger for Kids app.
> Tourists does not have to be white. The niceness has nothing to do with race, if anything Japanese see themselves above us.

No, that's not really true. Many Japanese do not treat white Americans and Philippine people the same, for instance.
This post is akin to calling Malboro 'the greatest supplements company ever created' in 1970
What are the practical issues?

Serialization of the UTXO set? Dealing with large rollbacks? Time spent computing the hash?

None of those seem impractical.
while I agree about the prowler, i was holding #1 for a solid hour or two in the mohawk. It takes some strategy (mostly about orienting yourself north frequently), but it still is useful. I agree, if POV could be toggled to follow, it would be really solid.
also, leveling up defense makes it suck less.
He went out of his way to argue for a particular (and I would argue wrong) interpretation of what 'peer' in 'peer-to-peer electronic cash' means, and his interpretation seems intended to support the 1-MB-digital-gold side of the scaling debate.

I had every right to bring up this debate since his argument very clearly was taking a side in it.

>>You said key custody has to do with fees, which it does not. The fee market does not influence, at all, how hard or easy it is to maintain custody of keys on a blockchain.

I just explained how it does. You didn't address my points. You're denying what common sense says is undeniably true, to promote a vision of Bitcoin where the vast majority of the world don't have private keys to their own Bitcoin wealth, because only a tiny portion of the world population can access the blockchain with any frequency.

>>People pay the fees that they are willing to pay. Your position reminds me of the Yogi-ism "Nobody Goes There Anymore, It's Too Crowded".

That's not even a point. "People pay the fees that they are willing to pay" is tautological. As fees increase, the portion of the population that can afford to access the blockchain shrinks. No amount of spin is going to conceal the fact that a 1-MB block size limit ensures mass adoption of Bitcoin, with Bitcoin remaining an affordable and peer-to-peer electronic cash, is impossible, and furthermore, that it betrays the original vision for Bitcoin as described in the white paper and Satoshi's other writings.
Even a high estimate of the total cost of Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq is about $5 trillion over 13 years. Divided by the 45 million people at or below the poverty line, that’s $8,500 per person per year. Not enough that those people wouldn’t have to work.

And that’s just the really poor people. The McDonalds employees and Starbucks baristas we’re talking about here make almost double that. Making it so they didn’t have to work to eat would take much more money than the defense budget.
I believe such policies retard economic development, which is the only way to alleviate poverty.
This is exactly what I use it for.
I'd never hire someone who has a facebook account.
I actually agree with you there. And I think this is the way we will do it.

So our current ways people can support us are through donations and that is it. Is there anything else do you think we can do aside from advertisements which we want to avoid?
How is FreePascal's interop story? It would be super interesting if you could use Lazarus to build the GUI around a library written in a language with a larger ecosystem and/or with more powerful safety features.
Not sure whether it's the same site but the site which hosts current prices is unresponsive: http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures
I hardly think he's hiding it. He's just succeeded in creating a product so addictive that people are willing to sacrifice a lot in order to use it.
It's not a good summary for hackers. It tells you sweet nothing about how Bitcoin actually works in practice. Where's the information on SegWit or the block size or in practice how the protocol works? Nowhere.

It's a hash together of what the author has seen on Bitcoin and thinks is cool.

It's an attempt to convince an idiot that's it's really complicated and they should BUY BUY BUY HODL HODL.

It's a terrible article and Bitcoin is a terrible mix of core developers who are innovating crazy solutions on top of crypto with spurious documentation, server farms run on cheap electricity in various places of a disreputable nature and college kids investing their student loans on internet money. Plus, now, a small amount of the general public who read an article or two and are playing the high stakes casino tables with their savings/rainy day money.
Most of the west of the country is not arable at all. Like Japan, they are relatively poor in terms of arable land.

As people become wealthier, they consume more resources and want bigger houses --taking up more resources, including land (suburbanization). So even while suburbanization of China will be much more muted than in western countries, there is still a demand and expansion into previously arable lands.
Slightly misleading headline.

The November 2017 temperature readings from Utqiaġvik (Barrow), Alaska were 2.5 degrees higher than November 1998. The NCEI's ingest code for their monthly report flagged this station as a probable sensor setup change and ignored the data.

Crucially the code for choosing which data to ignore looks for "agreement" with nearby sensors. Utqiaġvik (Barrow) is one of the most remote sites, with the nearest other site being many smaller European countries away. The other "nearest" sites did not show similar warming, therefore the NCEI's code discarded Barrow. If there had been other, closer stations, showing similar data, their code would not have discarded it.

A classic case of a programmer making an assumption that is almost, but not quite, universaly true. "There will always be many nearby stations who's average temperature will behave roughly similarly," works for most of the US, but not here.

They are now updating their data ingest code to relax the agreement requirements for isolated, far north stations.

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[Update: ye gads, how is this downvote fodder? My points are going up and down like a yo-yo! If I'm wrong about anything, here, let me know!]
Current traffic engineering is almost a complete human problem. Swap it out to driverless cars and it becomes more like routing IP packets.
Worth reading this one again about Sappho.

http://clivethompson.net/2016/05/16/astronomers-crack-the-se...
All the more reason for ISP competition

Agreed, and decreasing competition is one negative impact if pure net neutrality is enforced. Nobody is going to build out (or improve) an ISP infrastructure only to have Netflix/Hulu/Youtube suck up most of your bandwidth from 5PM to midnight local time, forcing you to continually expand your infrastructure on your own dime.

Google foresaw this, hence Google Fiber / Alphabet build-outs being stopped 14 months ago.
Apologies if I misunderstood the example. I will be reading some of his work. It sounds like I may be in agreement with his premise. Thanks for pointing him out to me.
I mean there's only so much of the islands they can pave over before a new strategy is needed.
If only this were reflected in the US Climate Reference Data, with the gold standard stations, carefully sited, equipped with the most accurate sensors, properly calibrated. There are 29 of these stations in Alaska, one at Barrow, in fact. Somehow I missed seeing the comparison of the older site's data with the nearby modern site.

You can see the data for the USCRN station at Barrow here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/crn/station.htm?stationId=1007
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While I don't agree with the parent comment, this seems a bit extreme.
I love how mining is essentially transaction clearing but nobody calls it that because it might sound like there was actually just a proxy for financial system at the bottom.

Miners are just another form of payment system like Visa. You have to pay them transaction fees to process your payment. Sometimes it's reasonable, sometimes it's insane.

Bitcoin has solved exactly zero problems.
Commercial tools run on Linux but they are not open source.
Know how I know you don't hire people?
damn you too for making me waste more than half an hour! ;)
I actually don't play video games.
Thank you for your correction. I appreciate your commitment to the truth: it raises not lowers my opinion of you!
All advertising is (intended to be) mind control. It wants to get you to take an action you weren't previously inclined to take.

It follows that any product that's successful at controlling people can sell that control.

If you consider the implications of Facebook-as-mass-mind-control, then Russian election-meddling, viral suicides, and all of Facebook's other facets make a lot of sense.

It also makes sense that Facebook wants to get better at controlling you by learning more about what motivates you, leveraging social pressure, and taking over more of your attention.

(That said, I still enjoy and use Facebook. I'm just worried about how powerful it is.)
There is no particular reason to think American post-war suburbanization is the natural way things would roll out, given that it is a result of specific policies and cultural tastes. And what's more, it's hard to see why people have to live in arable land in a world where no country produces all of the food it consumes.
it's as easy as walking into a Comcast store and swapping it

If you have an Xfinity store nearby, and if they don't have lines over an hour long much of the day, and if you get a rep who knows what s/he is doing.

I live about 6 minutes from one, and it can still be a multi-hour adventure.