skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody is requiring you to use 12 apps. The point is that there are 12 (and actually many more) apps that people could choice if they were in any way unhappy with their current choice.

I can only make that choice for myself, if my family and peers are on none of these apps, then what gain will I get from switching to them?

> You can not expect your definition of monopoly to be 'any costumer must be able to immediately switch service without any transaction cost on any of the many, many application any company provides'.

I didn't define any monopoly at all, I'm merely pointing out that there's something to be said about keeping it simple and "centralized" with certain things.
This is also the same reason why Facebook is one hand good (one centralized place to handle all your online social interactions) but also bad (with that comes a lot of influence).

Why not look for solutions where we still have the advantage of aggregation, without the disadvantage of being dependent on a single party?
There are two types of people in the world: those that can extrapolate meaning from an incomplete set.
It feels pretty hard to argue that Apple products aren't overpriced when they are the most profitable company in the world by a wide margin.
Sure they excel in supply and pipeline but its not like those cuts are making it to the consumer.
I don't think it is un-classy to downvote a comment that is substantially untrue.
Isn't there only 16m currently in circulation?

Edit: ah did you mean dollars?
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This shouldn't be up to the browser. He even notes edge cases where this performs unexpectedly -- unacceptable.

If this is such an issue and can actually be a performance increase, then someone should release a script with the same functionality. Or optionally make it an opt-in option in settings.
Bitcoin definitely isn't rare in kind as we've already seen how relatively "easy" it is to fork. Could just fork Bitcoin infinitely as one way to deal with its supposed scarcity.

Bitcoin isn't even rare in the abundance sense if you consider that how hard it is to mine new coins is merely a function of a mathematical curve that can be adjusted as a software change. Certainly any change to the mining difficulty and/or coin pool ceiling would be hugely controversial, but it's not like it's mathematically impossible merely politically improbable, for now.
What do you mean gold is rare on its own kind? Aren't there tons of other pretty metals? There doesn't seem to be any unique property of gold (other than sociological) that would help it defend against competitors like bitcoin or any other new asset.
I didn't realize that music was more or less unique in this regard until a few years ago. I assumed that, for example, if I wanted to put on a play I could pay some royalties to someone and that was that.

But then I ran across a story about how some theatre in Boston had to get into a negotiation with a playwright because he didn't want to give them the rights to perform his play. (Don't know the whole story but it was a smallish theatre company that puts on good but not normally outstanding productions.)
I had the impression that the Web got significantly better after it was released from the Flash lock-in.
Ah, right: "My peak concentration is usually right before break and after break it's generally gone."

One thing I do is, before I take a break, I dump my current notes, as well as things I'd like to do, into a Google Doc. When I return from my break, I take the time to read the notes, which loads pertinent facts back into working memory and gets me back into it.

Another practice that helps is that I let a fine-grained todo list guide me during work. I make sure to explicitly mark what I am currently working on. If I get distracted, it is straightforward to remind myself what I was doing, and once I am done with it, I know exactly what I should be doing next.
Columbus native here. It varies wildly; my wife lived in an upper-class suburban area and reports an experience similar to yours, but I grew up in a poorer, slightly more rural-adjacent area. I can’t even begin to count the number of times I was called a “faggot” for things like wanting to recycle or not wanting to get in fistfights. I overheard racial epithets on a near-daily basis; telling racist jokes where the punchline was the death or maiming of a minority were widely socially acceptable.

Culture is the #1 reason that I have no desire to move back to Columbus.
How will quantum computing impact crypto currencies? Isn't the scarcity based on the slow rate of mining, aka crypto hashing? Seems like its going to be due for some serious future disruption.

Until we can find a way to manufacture gold atoms on a mass scale at least gold will continue to be scarce.
Steve Jobs unveils the first Macintosh (1984)
Would participation in company-internal conferences/technical summits also count, other than the usual internationally reputed journals/conferences? Could you please elaborate on "this is more available than many people realize"? Thank you for doing this AMA.
Doesn't sound that mysterious to me. By the sounds of it, Flash is still their main platform (for performance reasons perhaps), and HTML5 is provided for those who don't have Flash installed. Haxe can target both Flash and HTML5, so this doesn't contradict the article.
it's an issue with similar consequences to net neutrality, but it's very much not the same issue. The network is one layer, the client is a different layer. Let's not start forcing clients to conform to network rules, or vice versa.

additionally, the reason net neutrality is so important is because there is no consumer choice in the ISP market for many users. Even when one browser is dominant, there's a lot more choice among browser vendors, so pushing out regulation to them is less important.

But let's not muddy the waters of net neutrality by injecting separate issues into the debate. Yes, browsers should treat all traffic equally, but that isn't net neutrality.
> Oh, please, no, it wasn't by, well, almost anyone.

False. Mark Leno said so. http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Gay-marriage-up-to-govern...

You may not be familiar, but in previous decades, Mark Simpson, Michel Foucault, and many other gay writers were against "gay marriage", often expliciltly arguing it was an embourgeoisement to be rejected.

Andrew Sullivan and others (with lots of documentary and eyewitness evidence) have written about how they had to move the consensus even among gay people toward marriage equality when it was far away. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/201...
This seems like a good indicator of a bubble. Everyone and their uncle knows a crash is coming, and these guys are shooting nonsense about regret and disappointment.

1b is a lot of money. Even for these guys.
Has it stalled, though? Perhaps they don't see it as a worthwhile feature to focus on. I'm OK with that, even though I'd love to see it implemented. Firefox, OTOH, finally resolved a much more trivial issue 17 years after it was first reported (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92737) and I'd hardly call that project stalled.
> If you edit a paper program, then won't the source on the paper be obsolete? Will that be indicated somehow?

When a program is changed, Realtalk will print a red line over the lines that have been modified or removed. It looks a lot like the output that you'll see from a "git diff" on a file.
We've done a lot of work with Australian companies and Australian citizens and the E-3 is generally a very smooth process, whether the sponsoring company is a startup or a large company.
Money isn't "put into" Bitcoin. Every USD "put into" an exchange in exchange for Bitcoin was simultaneously taken out by the person on the other side of the trade.

The future value of Bitcoin in USD is entirely dependent on people in the future wanting to buy Bitcoin for USD; if no one wants to, it is not worth any USD.
The printed code is sort of just a documentation -- the system isn't, for example, scanning it visually to decide what to execute. Rather, each card encodes a unique ID, and the running code lives on the network at that ID, so you can point your editor at the card, read the ID, and see and edit the code at that ID. The printout is just the code that was at the ID at the time of printing.
Yes, but then you need to ask yourself where do we begin, and where do we stop?

Does this pertain only to browsers, or is it to all applications/clients that have a connection to the internet? What about my XMPP clients, or my IRC clients? Do they have to follow net neutrality as well? On top of that, does a FOSS project like Firefox where the user defines what is in the packaged binary have to follow it?

Net neutrality or the law in general overreaching like that could jeopardize support, especially when it is not easy to find an answer to any of the questions I listed above.

Software freedom is important.

My opinion.
Good luck trying to make a fountain pen nib with a cryptocoin :)
Hi Peter, thanks for doing this.

We're a small consulting company based in Germany and we have a couple of customers in the US. We'd love to work on-site but so far haven't done so because we couldn't sort out the visa issues.

Customers in the US would pay our German company which would then pay us (the founders/employees). Our contracts are usually short (1-2 weeks max).

We've actually talked to two different lawyers (US & German based) and have received two different answers.

- One told us L1 would be the best option but that'd mean investing in the US which we can't meaningful do (for our consulting we really only need a laptop and no office)
- Another one told us a normal ESTA/B1 visa would work as well.

We always worked under the assumption that a B1 visa is not for paid work. So we're confused. Customers also don't want to go through the hassle of sponsoring a H1 visa for a two week contract.

Can you give us any hint which visa category would be most appropriate for this kind of work and whether the B1 statement is correct or not. Thank you!

We'd also be more than happy to pay for someone to help us with this but our trust has eroded a bit because of the different answers we've received in the past.
> You can change anything and see what happens. No black boxes.

From the reverse: if something happens, how can I tell which piece of paper somewhere in the room made that happen?
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The people in CA-8 (Mojave Desert) have very different needs and concerns from the people in CA-12 (San Francisco) even though they represent the same number of people.
Lol he doesn't get it I think those types live in this world where everyone is savvy enough to do these things
That's impressive! How do you manage to read so much?
You can do this while on OPT but again the primary focus of your time should be on employment, not education.
Turn on virtually any television station, cable channel, read a newspaper, search for political topics on Google and you're going to be absolutely flooded with left-wing messaging to the tune of 10 to 1 vs right-wing.
What if it's some sort of psychological phenomenon, but one which has a physical manifestation?

Yes, I know that that idea is pretty out there, but we're already talking about ideas that bend or break the known physical laws, so why not consider it? I honestly don't see it as being any less absurd than the idea that the speed of light is not a universal constant, an that is required for almost all hypotheticals involved extra-solar intelligence.
> Are all of these people "bad"?

In that one respect, yes.

> There is simply a cultural disconnect

Yes, much like there was once a “cultural disconnect” over whether human beings could legitimately be treated as property rather than persons.
They do not violate the relevant specification. They just implement it in a way that has not been done before with the user's convenience in mind.

That aside, your position is unrealistic: browsers regularly break non-spec conforming websites. They actually monitor such cases (telemetry) and try to work with popular websites to fix the issue before they ship the breaking update, but it's a tradeoff that is regularly made nonetheless.
Yes, you should be able to.
You heard it here folks, Autism makes you chew aluminum foil.
Without context what you are saying is meaningless. Sure, "liberals" seem closed minded in not accepting racism, bigotry or hate speech but in accepting people for who they are, it's hard to say their opinions are stereotypical at all... I mean the democrats/liberals/progressives agree to disagree more often than not.
Not OP, but we are using Tyk (tyk.io) at my workplace. It's definitely more user friendly than Kong, but we've had other issues with it. Having not used Kong extensively but knowing what it is, I'll go out on a limb and say Kong is likely more performant.
I always found AS3 to be a hell of a lot more verbose than AS2.
Lol this is so true. Everyone I knew had relatives or a small place somewhere warmer
Binding arbitration and confidentiality agreements are two totally different things, that seem to be getting conflated here. There is a defensible argument for not allowing mandatory binding arbitration for certain things.

But eliminating the ability of parties to agree to a confidential settlement is a huge mistake.

It will result in victims getting less money. An allegation of harassment, without further evidence, is not going to fare well in court. Yet the accused might be willing to pay a settlement to put the matter to rest and avoid negative publicity. By prohibiting them from getting confidentiality in exchange for payment, you have removed their largest incentive to pay the accuser. Further, a publicized settlement will be taken as an admission of guilt, which is a further incentive to go to court.

And those accused, who may be innocent, are protected as well. They can avoid having their name smeared in the media, where they stand no chance of getting a fair hearing in the current climate.
Something that was interesting and buried down in the comments is that they're supposedly contracted for 35MW of fast-response power to maintain grid stability based on engineering of current generators/etc.

If that's true then Tesla is already providing 1/5th of that capacity today.
Gold is just non-scalable and is bound to die eventually. If you think about it, if you're going to start a new country and a new federal reserve, how much sense does it make to ship tons of gold to Mars for example?

Any store of value that makes sense for humanity in the long term has to be both digital and reflect the work/real value creation process that matters in the future. I'm not sure it's going to be bitcoin but it's definitely not gold.
>This is strange because France is, philosophically, a "communist" country and sharing economy innovation is usually welcome and happily embraced; //

When I (UK) think of France in this context I think they're strongly in to workers rights and that probably Uber aren't (based on the kerfuffle in London)? That makes it completely unsurprising to me that Uber wouldn't be doing well in France??

Uber is super-capitalism, it's not communistic, it's lowering workers (proles) wages; and using capitalist investment in order to bottom out the market and bankrupt the other players so that the market can be captured by a single player. Could you perhaps describe why you think this sort of market manipulation, particularly the reduction in wages and reduction in worker rights (through machinations of "they're not employees") makes this communist in any way shape or form??
Awesome, thanks for letting me know.
bit errors in 3d rendering usually are not that much of a problem. If anything it just effects that one sample out of 100/1000's and gets averaged out.

If it does in the effect the final image, that image just gets a rerender... but its rare that it actually is noticeable.
They had Flex, which looked really good.

But somehow it didn't catch on.
The point is that wasm doesn't change this; wasm won't make it 'worse'.
> Realtalk will print a red line

You mean like, from the projector?
What do you mean? You've always had a choice whether or not to buy an iMac Pro, so if you did need the features of an iMac Pro (incl.. 5K screen, motherboard, ecc memory, 10gbit ethernet, more cores) you could just get it. It's not like Apple is preventing you from building a PC just because they released the iMac.
That is a super dangerous road to go down. Good people can hold horrible ideas and horrible people can be right about some things (Hitler and the nazis were absolutely right that smoking was dangerous).

As a 99.9% libertarian the idea of messing with other peoples sex lives is completely alien to me, but just because others are wrong doesn't make them bad people; I believe it is important to separate the people from their ideas.
Modern waveform monitors usually have a feature that does exactly this. They replaced the older analog waveform monitors, which achieved a visually similar result but through rather different means. Very useful for video QC and calibration (I worked a few years as tech at a company that did exactly this and also had some analog ones to play with).

Some digital cameras have this as an overlay on the LCD. If you have a Canon EOS you can always get this feature via the really cool Magic Lantern open-source firmware.

Also, re: some comments calling it a histogram here: maybe colloquially (though I've never heard it), but generally it's called a waveform monitor.
Once saw a humorous tweet asking, "Are you compatible with our ongoing bad decision making, and can you save us?" but can't find it right now.
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That the API support is awkward is not so important as that the functionality is at least accessible. Someone can always soup up a lackluster API (or, more likely, find a third-party library that has already done so for them), but elements of the core language implementation like the GIL are not so easily hand-waved away, as anyone who has followed Python's GIL saga knows.

Like I said, your argument is totally valid, and I don't contest it. It's not that most applications really need native threads, or that people are choosing the best alternatives for threaded applications. It's just that people don't want to use a language that will obstruct access to OS-native threading should they decide they need it, partially because it's hard to accurately anticipate all of an application's needs ahead of time.
I wasn't intending to be that cliche "Apple is overpriced" guy. I think they make great products, of which I own many. It was more the latter, to encourage people to build custom to their needs and awareness that there is another option out there. I made 3 Hackintosh computers over the years and really enjoyed the experience and the system. Re:ECC - I'm going to definitely revise that part, since a lot of people are bringing that up.
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I'm pretty thrilled as well. I upgraded Thunderbird to 58beta and it is pretty nice. The visual refresh is welcome and it feels like TB maybe has benefited from some of Firefox's under-the-hood improvements since 52.
All things being equal, H-1B RFEs are triggered more by the offered wage now (Level 1 or not) than by the size or prestige of the company. The key requirement for an H-1B through a company you found is that there be an employer/employee relationship between the company and you, meaning that there's a board of directors that can fire you.
I imagine they'd handle it by designating off-peak hours, like many utility companies already do, so people will charge their cars then.
"I did not want to live in a state where the legislature had nothing better to do than fight the culture war to win votes for the next election"

Funny, I know plenty of people who want to leave east coast cities for the exact same reason with the political poles switched.
Starbucks had a prickly pear Frappuccino this past summer:

https://www.starbucks.com/menu/drinks/frappuccino-blended-be...

Confession: I actually tried it out of curiosity, and it was pretty decent.
Would be cool if they projected the code onto the card rather than printing it—that way it doesn't get stale, and more re-use.
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Let's call it "differently liquid". Your question implies that gold is itself liquid, but it can't be spent in the way of cash, and in its physical form it cannot be as quickly traded for another asset the way a paper asset could be traded.

In this sense, bitcoin and gold are similar, though it is probably easier to trade gold as a paper asset, and easier to spend bitcoin as a currency.

But I don't think any of the above are a fair characterization of bitcoin beyond the current moment. It is changing too quickly. Over the next 6 months I can easily imagine bitcoin having further liquidity issues as popularity gains, block size limits # of transactions, etc. I can equally imagine the next 6 months easing these issues as the inflection point of these issues force change that has been unpalatable until no alternative was possible.

All speculation though, and probably not very insightful for anyone familiar with the topics. My point is simply that gold and its market dynamics will not change in that time frame, while bitcoin's must change, so comparisons to gold are stretching an analogy at this point.
I appreciate your thoughtful, reasonable and balanced response. It also treats the opposing viewpoint, the WSJ's opinion, with a degree of intellectual integrity.

Your point about 'blind spots' though is a very gentle jab to my larger point. I don't believe this is a 'blind spot'. My point is more basic - I don't think the WSJ has any real intellectual integrity.

In all honesty I think its bad from a viewpoint diversity to have such a small number of outlets control this much of the flow of information. And so if this was a real concern of the WSJ then maybe they would take that approach to very similar and present concern - the purchase of Tribune Media by Sinclar. Tribune Media owns 40+ TV stations. Sinclair owns at least 100 stations. In some cities Sinclair owns 3 stations. Certainly if the WSJ cares about 'viewpoint diversity' they would be concerned about a single company owning that much of the media landscape.

Except they don't take issue with Sinclair the same way they have concerns of Google/Facebook. As a matter of fact the WSJ probably loves the Sinclair merger. I disagree with your point, I do not believe this is a blind spot. I think its much simpler.

WSJ doesn't like the Facebook/Google duopoly because they represent a viewpoint they don't like, a more left or liberal viewpoint. And they do at least tacitly approve of the Sinclair merger because Sinclair does have a viewpoint they agree with, a more conservative one.

There is no intellectual heft to "we don't like it when they do to us what we do to them". So the WSJ has to manufacture some phony principled argument that under normal circumstances would contradict their typical position.

I'm not here to argue the for or against the government intervention trying to prevent a narrowing of the diversity of opinion. I'm saying the WSJ does not give a crap about diversity. They have no real ideals. They only care when their side has a disadvantage.

I can't read more than the first paragraph due to the paywall. But I do think that the WSJ is being intellectually dishonest when they try to advocate against Google/Facebook narrowing the diversity of opinions when its more like "we don't like it when the other side can crowd us out'. The WSJ hates opinion diversity, unless it is their own.
I think the reason that the battery put out the amount it did was that that was size of the local shortfall, 1,000 miles away from the problem. You can see that at other times, the battery has put out its full 100MW rating.