skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One nice thing about Plan9 is there is no concept of "root".

Plan9 "fixes" many of the flaws/deficiencies of the original UNIX, such as that one.

Whats cool about this Plan9 project compared to the original Plan9 is one does not need to use the Plan9 compiler to compile it. One can use gcc, clang or icc.
Yes, my old apartment building had these style lockers too. The downside of those (at least in my building) was that they were for use only by USPS. UPS/FedEx/etc still had to go through the regular package delivery process.

Automation improves it by allowing all carriers access to the box (no carrier key to use, it's all based on codes) and also generating one-time codes that can't be copied or otherwise readily stolen to access the packages.
Maybe an analogy in poor taste, but the premise of BBT is basically “look how many negative stereotypes of scientists and engineers we can get our audience to point and laugh at, if we take our lazy awkward mean-spirited writing and put a laugh track over the top”.

Try searching for versions with laugh track removed to get a better sense of the writing per se without the extra emotional manipulation.

Compare with Silicon Valley, a comedy show which also mercilessly skewers nerds, but more for the sake of social commentary than just piling on insults, and which treats even the most caricatured characters with some dignity and humanity.
If I were king of netflix...

There'd be a "cable-style-menu" option to mimic the way cable / satellite menus have looked since the late 90's. Maybe 50 or so channels of similar programming running on a time schedule, where you have the option of catching the last 30 minutes of "Terminator 2 - Judgement Day" or watching from the beginning.

Its mindless, but I think that style of consumption is what a lot of people want. It to do the hard work for them.
Could and, in other countries, do. Economies of scale are a thing.
This is kind of a ridiculous article. The main point seems to be that some scientists (who have nothing to do with this supposed UFO research) say that all known alloys are known, and that it would be surprising to find one that couldn’t be figured out.

Well, no shit.
Statistically, quite rich.
Nobody is using bitcoin for any daily transactions.... at this point is just bits... so, it fails as a cash.

The the second argument is made, it is a "storage" medium, like gold/silver, etc...

At least you could argue that gold/platinium/silver have some intrinsic industrial value, but bitcoin?
What's "linear" about cable TV? When I did have cable, I never watched live TV. Comcast has on demand on their settop boxes and on the web. I could also use the various channels apps with my cable subscription. After three or four days, the content was mostly commercial free. I believe because Neilsons only treats live +3 days as part of the ratings.

I'm in no way saying cable is better, the only reason I had was because we were forced to pay $99 a month for Comcast cable + tv when I was renting.

I would never do cable now. The 6 TVs I have around the house would cost $50 a month just in box rental fees and that doesn't include the HD technology, cost recovery, network access, and sports access fees.
Anecdotally, 6-yo is only exposed to commercials when we stay in hotels and she finds them insufferable.
Watching TV and play video games have not the same effects on the brain. Watching TV puts your brain in idle mode
if they hurt their customers, they might not sell as much too... so number of transactions by itself might be an interesting metric
ELI5 version: you have a bunch of things and no way to count them all. So you try to measure the ‘space’ between them and guess how many there are by how far apart they are.

In the case of hll it’s the space around the smallest or largest value
Try surfing without your adblocker for a moment (or if you don't use one: try surfing with one for a moment). You'll see a whole different WWW than what you're used to. Including websites like YouTube and news sites being referred to from HN.

With Netflix, you pay for an all you can eat sub without commercials. Newssites and newspapers should do the same. It allows for two viable ways to pay for content: either paying directly, or paying via advertisement/your time.

The old model of e.g. cable TV is akin to having one's cake and eat it too. Its outdated, and superseded. The only reason it still exists is because the legacy is being used due to habit ie. people who don't know yet about on-demand services like Netflix. Probably tons of babyboomers + elder. If we want to put the nails in the coffin, we gotta 1) unsub to cable TV as much as we can 2) not use it as much as we can 3) stimulate and help these lagging groups to get on with the program.
Then that system obviously doesn't solve one of your pains.

I have to dig out older documents almost daily.
There is at least one celebrity whose name I don't have to mention, whose response to numerous well substantiated accusations of moral failings should definitely not be emulated.
If I'm thinking of the same ones the parent comment was thinking of, then the key is only removable by the carrier. Of course, if you get a package, you can always copy the key while it's in your possession.

That said, no solution will ever be foolproof. If the attacker wants it bad enough and has physical access to the locker, they'll be able to get to your package. Whether it's copying the key, cracking the code, picking the lock, or just tearing it open. With enough determination, your stuff can get stolen. It just becomes a legal matter at that point.
“I don’t go home pissed off every night” might be viewed as making things better. Hey, the American public put these yahoos in charge, why does that become my problem?
Ding, ding ding. We have a winner!

I think people in the West who do not have to experience having one guy as "president" for 20+ years are either naive or ignorant of how these autocrats or kleptocrats operate.

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Fun fact: Belarus still has the KGB and a lot of Soviet era imagery on emblems and such.
PBS Kids has done the same in our home... and it's free (just need an antenna)...
I haven't carried paper currency as a matter of course for something like 12 years. Most transaction since the Summer in our small UK business have been "contactless" (debit/credit card), though we still took 2 cheques IIRC.

Bitcoin isn't the only alternative to cash.
> They are not building tools for the government to round up "undesirables"

The tools they're building and the data they're collecting could certainly be used for that purpose.
Doesn’t matter. I have an unusual name. If you google my first name and my city, you will find my full name (and my workplace, etc). If you google my full name, you will find my entire family’s names and addresses. Someone who views my profile on okcupid would literally be able to show up at my work or home and I would be none the wiser. This is a terrible move, and I’m going to be forced to delete my account.
Finally getting some time to dedicate to my 5 minute word game:

https://www.pcmaffey.com/01100111011000010110110101100101
My main problem with Bitcoin is that it’s a deflationary currency, that’s really why I hope it doesn’t have a future.

I have paid this months bills and rent, I have budgeted some money for groceries and fun, I have put 10% of my pay check in my pension fund.

Something is very wrong if you feel conflicted when you’ve invested money or spent money to get by because you missed out on your money being worth more.
If Amazon made a browser engine, it'd be a cloud service.

…wait, they already did! The Fire has that.
Depends on your role. I’m not saying a junior engineer gets that. I would have thought that was obvious.
The problem is there is zero evidence of their credibility. Essentially it's an appeal to authority argument.

And the video itself doesn't show anything of the claimed behavior. No hovering over the ocean, no super fast motion, just a blob or smudge superimposed over a cloudy background as video pans around.
I would take a more nuanced approach: I agree that Kindergardeners are probably better off without news. But maybe 2nd graders and up should be exposed to the news . Most of the images on evening newscasts are normally sanitized ; they are definitely not at par with horror films. Filtering out images of hunger, poverty and suffering will lead to a ignorance and denial about these issues when they grow up.
I think Satoshi marketed bitcoin as a currency, but the intention was something that more resembles gold than currency.

Bitcoin as a currency does not make sense from a macroeconomic point of view. Whats the incentive of spending something of a fixed resource?

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I prefer monetary policy to be decided by a small cabal of professionals.
> No offense but you went ... to producing video games that make people stupid ...

Where did the GP say they make video games? Maybe they do, but I don't think you know, and you shouldn't assume.
A very effective trading strategy is to predict how others will react when fooled by randomness. Difficult in the stock market, easier in smaller markets like sports betting and crypto currency.
Right. So, we may be able to infer that a drag-along doesn't exist or that the majority doesn't want to activate it, given that they are trying to offer zero to common, whereas a drag-along would typically require that all holders are treated evenly.

Also, the claim that the amount paid would go towards company wind-down makes you think that plan would be negated through a drag-along, as some of the cash would "leak" to common holders.

In fact, it's actually curious that they are the acquiring the company in earnest vs. just acquiring its assets. Not sure why they would acquire the liabilities to the tune of $500K just to shut-down. Just pay for the assets and let the company use the funds to shut itself down. But, who knows? Maybe there's something (like paying customers) that they are finding difficult to transfer as an asset for some reason.
It actually doesn't use another database. Just uses plain old files for storage.

It takes after Git where it stores each piece of data in a file with the name of the file as the hash of the data.
> Ublock doesn't cover mobile devices though

It does on FF for Android!
I totally buy it that there is no such thing as an "unidentifiable alloy." I also buy it that journalists, not being materials scientists or indeed scientists of any sort, do not know the difference between an "alloy" and "a hunk of some hard material," so at some point they wrote down "alloy" because the word sounds exotic, like something you'd find at Area 51.

This happens in the press /all the time/. Journos get specific terms of art wrong, and nitpickers nitpick and clarify. I know this because I made a career of such nitpicking and clarifying once.

My point here is that nothing put forward in this article means that there's not a building in Vegas with some kinds of materials that have strange properties and we don't know where they're from or who made them or how. It just means that said materials are not properly "alloys" and the journos got that word wrong, as journos often do when they're way outside their area of expertise.
Bought at $230, sold at $19450.

That's enough roller coaster for me. I'm out for good.

Here are my issues with Bitcoin:

1. Transaction times are insane, 30-45 minutes at peak hours. Bitcoin blockchain can only handle ~10TPS.
2. Fees, upwards of $30 / transaction a few weeks ago. This makes it not practical for any real purchasing or as a currency.

Both of those issues are solved by IOTA and the tangle, so that's where my money is going. I want to invest in a currency that has real world usability. Bitcoin doesn't have that at current scale.
For those with a level of cultural awareness like mine, French Laundry seems to be a flash restaurant in Napa valley, California.
I stole this from someone else, but I can’t remember who. BBT is what stupid people think smart people are like.
While he may have been exaggerating, I doubt it. These numbers are crazy for stocks but entirely reasonable in the crypto game.

His math can be explained but a common misconception when buying coins: Whales move the market. It's impossible to place a six-figure order and get them all for the same price. Simply placing an order that larger disrupts supply and demand enough that multiple sellers are required to cover, sometimes hundreds if your order is filled my small fish.

What's most likely is he placed numerous 'smaller' orders over a period of a few days and only gave the price of $67 as the highest he/she paid. Probably loads of coins at much smaller levels and averaged out the returns to 570%.
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I've always heard that analog is harder because you need to characterize the full behavior of the transistor as opposed to just setup and hold times for digital.

Then again I only tinker with discrete components so it's an area that's somewhat foreign to me.
There are two basic issues with the NYC subway:

1. Due to lack of good management and a number of structural issues, building in NYC costs about 5 to 10x more per km than other built-up cities. (E.g., $2.2 B per km in NYC vs. $230 M in Paris.) Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/1/14112776/ne...

2. There is insufficient funding available, due largely to the fact that the subway is controlled by the state (not the city), which has prevented congestion pricing to be implemented. It finally seems like the crisis may cause congestion pricing to pass, which will provide a major new dedicated funding source. The plan <http://iheartmoveny.org/> is quite good and will also dramatically reduce traffic congestion.

However, until costs are controlled, we will only be able to improve our current service, not do the major expansion that large transit deserts in and around the city need.

Now compare to Beijing, which is simultaneously building "20 different subway lines, measuring a total distance of 354.8 kilometers." That will probably cost $35 B but would cost $781 B in NYC. https://www.thebeijinger.com/blog/2017/07/29/beijing-metro-u...
I wonder if equalizing rates would harm the software industry though - maybe the entire information economy as we know it is largely a product of the discrimination against labor leading to overinvestment in the industry with the highest returns per person. I can also see equalizing rates crashing the prices of investment assets. If it's worth doing in the first place (because the distortion is large) then it is necessarily going to be disruptive.

For all we know, not favoring capital only delays the singularity...
I never really watched much of it, but this PA comic[1] from a few years back clued me into this. I can't say I disagree (even if I've known plenty of nerds that like Big Bang Theory). Sterotypes often have some truth to them, to lesser and greater degrees, but that doesn't mean playing them up to an extreme degree for laughs is something we should necessarily encourage.

1: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2013/01/21/royalty
>Who needs to be reminded that an asset isn’t worth its price until it’s liquidated?

Mom & pop class investors who characteristically are the ones left holding the bag when a bubble pops.
Yes, people sometimes need to be reminded that illiquid assets are difficult to evaluate.
I don't mind product placement if it's on topic. For example, using Google or Facebook when relevant or showing the brand logos of the PCs in an office.

It's when they take the time to show off their completely irrelevant windows tablet or car navigation system or worse. When it's blatant.
I've had Google Play Music for a lot longer than YT Red was bundled with it. When they introduced it, I mostly shrugged: pre-roll ads don't really bother me, especially skippable ones.

But it turns out YouTube was the last source of dynamic (i.e., not image/text) ads in my life, and now when on the rare occasion that I accidentally open YouTube in my work Chrome profile, I'm surprised at how averse I've become to dealing with even the tiny load lag + few-second wait for a pre-roll. I've considered switching to Spotify, since Google Play Music seems to be one of those life-support products that PMs within Google make their promotions off of through useless UI churn instead of fixing longstanding issues, but at this point, YT Red is what stops me from doing so.
HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15940674
The “conservatives” are the main ones eroding that liberty.

Trumps Administration right now, obviously, but the PATRIOT Act, the NSA wiretap program, the entire Regan administration... etc.

So yet, it IS the right way to think about conservatives in the US because that is what they do.

I submit that what you are talking about has zero to do with conservative vs progressive and a lot to do with authoritarianism. Unfortunately the worst offenders for that are US “conservatives” (but not the only offenders).
I disagree. The 1% is "quite rich." The 200k-400k income band is not the 1%. Like I said, the things wealthy people can afford are still out of reach.

There is a group of people who are not living paycheck to paycheck but who still need to work full time. That group is called the middle class.
Russians are always caught in the middle. Not quiete European, and they don't want to be, but not quite Asian.

Always a clash of values there.
The vision of the BTC community is that on-chain scalability for payment has no chance anyway (1MByte is capable of 5 orders of magniutde less tx/sec than VISA), so using second layer methods (like lighting network) to do payment is absolutely inevitable anyway. So they keep blocksize small enough that a regular guy with a regular PC can realistically sync-up the network and become a full node, because they think this is needed to be truly decentralized and secure.
This possible lighting network future, and also that BTC is the most battle tested, and most forked coin, and has by far the biggest network effect are all included in its price.

My portfolio contains other coins from the top ten so I hedge it with other solutions for scaling, but BTC's share in my portfolio is close to its share in the crypto market cap (a bit less, admittedly).
We dont have Netflix, but we have HBO. So my kids watch Sesame Street, Pinky Dinky Doo, etc. They won't watch anything on Cartoon Network because of the commercials. In face, my kids have zero tolerance for commercials now.

We got YouTube Red because of the ads on iPad were out of control. It's insane the amount of commercials YouTube puts in a 10 minute clip of Busy Beavers, etc.
The entertainment density is often very low.

It doesn't work this way for content that tries to communicate a specific mood, but for slapstick humor chains like BBT, more jokes is just funnier than less jokes per minute.
Worse - he works at Netflix :)
yea a safe alone is not a secure method of store. It's just matter of time and safer methods only delay opening more. It's still a good tradeoff in my opinion between privacy and secure storage.
Someone made a series out of Revenge of the Nerds?
I already covered that case.
I will say, as a Bitcoin "hater", Bitcoin is far more resilient than many things it might be compared to.

With Pets.com or Leheman Brothers, there was a corporate structure that could stop existing. It could go bankrupt, the C-executives could be arrested, something could happen beyond which it'd be fair to say it was over.

With Bitcoin, you could have all of the exchanges go defunct, you could have 99% of the miners close up shop, and as long as a few people kept the blockchain going, a few years later it could be back, the same as before.
Sure, but CPU makers don't tell you what software you can run or in what context.
Well that and they refused to update it for 5 years AND refused to EoL it for 7.

It was entirely due to MS’s negligence, not just XP.
Could you please give me your reason for believing that there is no inherent value in Bitcoin?
It was never difficult to hail a black cab, its just the costs were high.
(1999) How We Learned to Cheat at Online Poker: A Study in Software Security
Glad it came out that he's a scumbag and not the golden child of node.js
I'll try that out. Thanks.
I have a colleague who is very concerned about self-plagarism. Seriously.

An excellent example of forgetting what we are about.
Thank you for your good explanation!
I've been almost entirely commercial/advertising free for years now.

Not gonna lie, it isolates you from mainstream society a bit. Whether that is good or bad is debatable.
Its gonna differ per country. I remember in the 90s 3 commercial breaks in a movie here in NL was default. I was shocked and annoyed when I learned in early 00s it was every 20 min. I don't know what it is now, I avoid commercial TV like the plague. Though public broadcasting also still has them. As a kid and young adult I used to be able to sometimes laugh at commercials. Nowadays, some commercials appeal more to me due to age diff, but many don't because they use youth language. On top of that I find practically all commercials are condescending, stupid, and annoying. Their attempts to deceive and manipulate are laughable, ineffective, a waste of my time, and a waste of my mood. Nothing good comes out of me watching commercials. Not for the advertiser, nor for me. I cannot remember the last time it stimulated me to buy something I otherwise wouldn't. That is, from TV commercials and ads on the Internet. Product placement, embedded marketing, marketing buzz works fine. I suspect there's so many TV commercials because it is ineffective. If less people watch than before, its more expensive to buy the rights, so they gotta advertise more. Or perhaps its corporate greed.
Way to pimp your altcoin at the end there. IOTA isn’t even in the same league as bitcoin. It’s not decentralized and it’s not trustless. Just use SQL at that point...
> On December 5th, I sent a note to a PR contact who I work with on Google-related news and I told him about my problem. He said he had gotten my case escalated and I should hear within 24 hours.

Sadly in all these stories that end successfully there is an inside help from someone that has contacts in Google. I don't even want to think about what would happen to people that don't know anyone inside Google.
Hope. Hope is a two sided coin.

Yes gamblers or speculators or whatever they may be called could go to casinos in person. Or gamble via online poker. Or go bet on a horse race. Or on sports via a bookie. Or trade bitcoins from their phone. Just different games for different tastes and currently legal.
So does it export the database in file and then version controls that file?
People are designing circuits in Minecraft, and have been for years. That's an extreme example, but even my 8 year old son plays with redstone circuits and watches youtube howtos on how to do interesting setups in Minecraft on the Wii U.

In February of this year Minecraft apparently had 55 million players (with 122 million copies sold).[1]

1: http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/02/27/minecraft-has-55-mill...
Judging by various crypto forums, the method is typically to build an echo chamber and keep telling each other they're all going to be billionaires, while burying the opinions of anyone who dares to disagree.

Another method is to get lucky in a bull market and pat themselves on the back for being so talented.
> nerd minstrel show

Do we have to go through this every time BBT is mentioned on the internet. We all know the show sucks and why, and adding this descriptor only starts the same stupid fight that appears on every BBT thread and is never resolved and just makes everyone angry.
But not really. Using pipe means it dumps the entire output to a temporary file then feeds that temp file to the next program.

I'm not sure if Windows still does this. Probably does.