skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This applies to pretty much any company/individual that took advantage of the market prices. And not just dark fiber, but pretty much all infrastructure.
The bigger factor in increased avocado prices is Phytophthora Root Rot, a fungal infection which has destroyed whole orchards in many places. My father used to have a small orchard that made a little money but sadly all the trees were killed years ago.

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/r8100111.html
Chemistry is tacitly striving to help. I mean, things like Adderal or Ritalin don't need any marketing around people whose jobs need concentrated attention. But those are controlled substances; nicotine, less so, and caffeine is just dispensed for free in most offices.
You say that. I'm not so sure, and I'll make no predictions. But when the Republican Congress decriminalizes marijuana ahead of the mid-terms, I'll be back to check what you have to say then. I think these guys have the power to think outside the box and surprise you.

I agree with grandparent that Sessions' action will tend to increase pressure for federal decrim., and that might even be Sessions' (and/or President Trump's) goal.

What would the effect of Federal decriminalization be on the mid-terms? Don't you think it would help Republicans? Do you think they don't think so? Of course they think so.

I don't know if it will pass, but my guess is that a reasonable bill would decriminalize marijuana possession and trade, but would keep it illegal for interstate commerce (this would be a sop to those States that want to keep it criminalized). Sort of like the 21st Amendment, but as a statute. Such a compromise would help Republicans in States where legalization is popular and... would not hurt them in States where it is not. It would also help with the federalist types.

This should all be blindingly obvious. The only reason I wouldn't make a prediction is that Republicans sure know how to shoot their feet off.
It's non-enforceable, right*.

Sigh, can't spell.
This seems like a way to modernize a curses-based application without the users of the application noticing much of a difference.
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everything embedded - OpenWRT/LEDE uses busybox with ash - Android uses mksh? that only supports a subset of bash features. Every Debian/Ubuntu has ash as /bin/sh that only supports POSIX.
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Any modern tools like this?

sary - a suffix array library and tools
http://sary.sourceforge.net/

It finds words in O(log(n)) time by using an additional index.
I can see a use case for this -> For software users who are so used to the DOS / Terminal interfaces in some old COBOL, Foxpro, dBase, Clipper, Turbo Pascal and other programming languages back then. You can switch between the shiny newer interface to using the old DOS gui-based look.

Nice work!
Why code that never goes wrong can still be wrong
I'm not sure to what extent doge was ever really a parody, even if it was started as a lark then marketed as zany and relatable. And for a number of years it's been shepherded by a small group of devs who seem to be competent and diligent, and exceptionally up-front and down-to-earth by cryptocurrency standards. (Disclaimer: I know one of them personally. Additional disclaimer: this isn't anything resembling financial advice.) I don't know much about cryptocurrencies, but afaik doge's fairly low transaction fees and continued strong commitment to be inflationary may also justify some of the interest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin/comments/7oxi53/developer_...

> I feel some are using our rise to illustrate the absurdity of cryptocurrency pricing (http://uk.businessinsider.com/dogecoin-cryptocurrency-has-ma... for example). To me, in an environment where a cryptoasset with $30 USD equivalent transaction fees has a market cap of over a quarter of trillion dollars, I don't think we're the absurd one. Yes we take ourselves less seriously, but that doesn't mean we're not serious behind the scenes. We're a 4 year old currency with transaction fees barely over a cent and significantly higher throughput than most other cryptocurrencies.

EDIT: Ross has asked me to point out the continuing development at https://github.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/pulls . Version 1.14 is apparently on its way.
How do you respond to Noam Chomsky?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKwJI9axblQ
As a curious exception to the revolution from below example, the Taliban completely eliminated heroin production in Afghanistan when they were in power. Production has skyrocketed since their overthrow. There's a reason why religious fanaticism, for better or worse, is popular among the destitute. It represents an alternative to criminal gangs for dealing with government failures.
> Wired (I think) sometimes pulls out old stories and puts them on their homepage

Ugh CNN does this too (along with changing the "updated time" and healines) to look like they have more content than they actually do. No doubt it's smart but really annoying when you realize you've clicked an article thats really old.
This was the Estonian's words, not mine. He meant it in a "joking, but totally serious" tone.
I think the best defense for Finland would be to have a couple of nukes pointed at Moscow. You know.. just as a stabilizer.
Ding ding ding. That's probably my (recovering academic) number one complaint with modern academia.
Here are another 200 google hits from 2006 to 2016. The tags are often just used for larger features, not every news item.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site:nytimes.com+zapatista&r...
Time spent on HN was very rarely wasted, and more than once led me to things that directly improved what I do for money.

If HN was a subscription-only service, I'd subscribe in a heartbeat. (It would have a number of downsides, of course.)
Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco
Does anyone know of a recently written book that tries to predict the world fifty years from now?
I rather prefer the Ada, Eiffel, Delphi, C++, Java and C# decisions regarding large scale engineering.
A cryptocurrency created as a parody is now worth more than $1B
Just as you can put your phone in your pocket, you can take off your AR lens. (At least until it's surgically implanted. Even then, it should still have a silent mode, just like your phone.)
Strangely I vividly remember setting (S)VGA text modes to higher counts than 80 per line for such UIs. Maybe my memory fails me and I'm mixing things up with Debian text mode installs?
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Chomsky pretty regularly exaggerates his positions regarding politics. For a long time he was defending the Venezuelan government. He has popular appeal in a lot of communities, but his expertise is linguistics not politics.

No objective historian would say that the US is responsible for all or most of the violence in South America, nor that it has been innocent. The violence is not due to the US but rather is largely a result of the divide between the landholding elites and poor and the economic/social system the Spanish set up.

To add to their examples, political violence was common in Mexico from 1900 onwards, and that was largely self-inflicted.
It might be enforceable, depending.

How broad is it? Sometimes it's like "not competing with any vendors' business" and then if your company uses GMail you can't do anything Google does. Sometimes it's not a big deal.

I have been able to negotiate better non-competes in the past by pushing back, admittedly with smaller companies. Often response will be "but our lawyer says it's fine": good guy/bad guy kinda scenario. In which case I hired my own lawyer.
The iPod is the closest thing to an electronic device I wouldn't change that I've ever owned [1]. It wasn't perfect, but it almost was for me. I bought an extra iPod classic and shuffle when they were discontinued.

[1]: I'll qualify that I mean something with a screen and a user interface, because I once had a toaster oven that was pretty great
I don't think it would take very much to go from rosetta stone to a more comprehensive feature comparison.

For example, the table could show the blank cell in a different color if it is a default feature, or if it an unsupported feature.

Alternatively, the cell could contain a message such as "(default)".
What are the differences between raw CSP primitives and ull-fledged actor model?
The Apple Watch is the new iPod Nano (with additional functionality)
It is very helpful in office too. Just turning the noise cancellation on without any music. It cuts out the ever present noises like the hum from the HVAC, which I didn't even know was there.
The next hoop to jump through would be to specify tape based autograd in a type system. The type system would not only have to specify the dimensions of the matrices, but the sequence of operations as well (in order to reverse them and perform the correct backprop sequence without relying on the runtime).
A little more info about the incident, including who bought the sandwich and from where, whether permission was given, and how NASA and congress felt about the matter:

http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032315a-gemini3-corned...
This is called trade-off.
The reality world is never perfect.
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The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767923057/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_e-6u...
Good to know. I've been considering dropping ACK_OPTIONS, and this just might put me over the edge.
I wonder how many Bitcoin transactions these days are people arbitraging with the futures market. Tail starting to wag the dog?
yes. Needs a (2017) tage
Hey, I really like the concept here. But think you've made a number of missteps, so this is my (hopefully) constructive criticism.

ONE

I think you're making a grave category error with your pricing comparison. Because while it's true that you charge much less than Themeforest etc. you are not doing what they are doing.

They're true marketplaces and the % price you pay to them is for the payment processing, delivery management and _most crucially_ implicit marketing.

If I've made a Wordpress theme I'm much more likely to make more selling it on Themeforest (even with their 50-70% take) than I am with you and your 18% because they have literally millions and millions of people coursing through their ecosystem and searching directly within their site.

I think a more apt comparison is to something like Gumroad (which is more of a digital goods payments+fulfillment system and not a "marketplace"). Lots of people sell things like their eBooks and courses on Gumroad for $10/mo and 3.5%.

TWO

You need some example, case study, _something_ that shows how this actually works. Ideally you'd have this for all of the different ways you see this being used. There are a bunch of questions I had as a potential seller looking at this: do they accept Paypal? What's the checkout process look like? Do buyers end up with a library of stuff they've bought on SquareBit?

THREE

I think you've fallen into the "everything" tool trap where (since you're deep in the weeds with the service) you're finding stuff every day where you think: "SquareBit would be perfect for these people selling this thing" but to an outsider it's really hard to connect the dots.

Is SquareBit a good fit for ebooks? Video Courses? Private package repos? I have my thoughts, but your site and marketing needs to very cleanly say how and what this is for and how people would use it.

FOUR

I'd be concerned using your service on the basis of you're doing online payments of a sort and call yourself Square. This isn't great and I hope you don't get into legal trouble, but ouch (IANAL, but any way you cut it, this isn't a positive to you).
A lucky set of circumstances led to the iPod dominating the digital audio player market: bold marketing, a smaller HDD form factor, high-speed FireWire connection, and a great integration story on Macs.

The Windows world at the time was a big mess of nonstandard cabling, messy drivers, sketchy quasi-shareware applications vying for presence on your desktop, while the Apple world was plug-and-play over a high-speed bus that came standard, and the music management experience was top-notch. And while there was some good hardware coming out of Korea to give the iPod a run for its money, the integrated Apple experience was without match.

For Windows, Apple bundled MusicMatch Jukebox at first, but then made iTunes available on Windows, which became their foothold that would later set up the iPhone for success.

By the time Microsoft caught up with WinXP and Windows Media Player, Apple had already stolen the higher end of the market, leaving WMP largely in the domain of cheap flash-based USB sticks that could only fit a subset of your songs. Then everyone pivoted to a DRM-laden storefront, making switching costs high. A later effort to refocus their first-party efforts with Zune resulted in an incompatible DRM ecosystem, and fizzled on the market.

The iPod, in many ways, foreshadowed the Apple tactic that would become famous from the later iPhone: take the state-of-the-art in a particular market, pare it down a bit, endow it with tasteful industrial design, make sure it has a strong, ideally "frustration-free" integrated environment to take part in, give it an upmarket but justifiable price, and market the heck out of it with aspirational brand advertising.
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It's primarily because large corporations within an industry don't trust each other (and IMO, shouldn't.) This is especially so when the corporations cross national boundaries.
Imagine riding your bike home on acid in 1943.
The new BMW M5's Pirelli tires redefine the concept of 'rubber meets the road'
In general I agree, especially with the TSA. I'm not a fan of the amount of foreign intervention we do. Such as in Syria, it is sad to see how terrible things are there, but I have no idea how it is of any strategic importance to our country. I'd much rather we just let Russia do as they see fit considering it is much more in their interest to stabilize the region than it is ours. It is akin to Russia intervening in Venezuela.

That said, borders are what makes a country. If you cannot do something so basic as controlling who comes into your country, it would be pretty difficult to call yourself a sovereign nation. So I think that should be a much higher priority in terms of national defense than interfering in conflicts thousands of miles away.

Since I'm quite libertarian, I'm not a huge fan of government action in general. However, I do see a role for government and defending the borders of the country from foreign invasion (which is essentially what illegal immigration is) should be the government's highest priority as it is the most basic role of government.

While it has become a meme, building a wall, at least along the easiest places to cross, would make the job for our border guards much easier. It would also have maintenance costs, but if we do it right it very well could be worth it in the long run. Especially if you take into consideration how many government resources illegal immigrants take away from the rest of the population.

A little anecdote I saw a while back during the "immigrant day of absence" to show how necessary "immigrants" (that term is very muddied since people insist on lumping legal and illegal immigrants into the same bucket) are a lot of kids didn't show up for school. A teacher tweeted about it saying how much easier class was that day because of how many fewer students there were to teach. So to some people that day had the opposite effect as to what was intended by the organizers.

Anyway, no other country on the face of the planet are as courteous and welcoming as the US is to people who aren't in their borders legally. I do not see us owing them anything, and while they do have certain rights, we shouldn't treat them like cockroaches, they have broken our laws and should be dealt with in the same way we would deal with any of our own citizens who would break the law. In addition to being deported at the end of their confinement.

As for criminal justice reformation, I more or less agree, depending on what you are referring to since that's quite the broad statement. Ending the war on drugs would be a great thing. But I see a lot of our problems to be more societal and stemming from illegitimate children, fatherless homes, than any other single source.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Where did you see that they are building on OmiseGo?
The implied missing steps are a)publish key to keyserver network, and b) get fingerprint from signature and look up key on keyserver network.

Bundling public key with every mail "feels" a bit heavy handed - given the key server infrastructure that already exist. (and special-casing "mail to new receiver" seems cumbersome. At least considering you'd probably want to sign all outgoing mail anyway[1]).

[1] Ok, maybe not your bomb threats if they're designed to be anonymous - but that's getting into one of the other issues with pgp - non-repudiation.
Clean Code I think is the best resource on readability. Your code self-documenting while following simple software principles is difficult but ideal.
if all you care about are relatively simple queries in english, clucene or lucy could probably work for you.

AFAIK, there is no native C/C++ library that comes anywhere near modern lucene. for me the killer feature is that you get analyzers for many different languages out of the box with current lucene/elasticsearch.
I love my Apple Watch but I don't get the same sense of wonder and amazement that I did from my 3rd generation iPod (wedding present). And neither does anyone that I show it to (people were blown away when I scrolled through the songs I had on that iPod).
The Internet is about 5 decades old. I shot the shit almost exactly like this on Usenet decades ago. Cell phones? They’re smaller, great.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2010/09/23/gordon_gekko_...

Everyone expects the world to change, and advance. It’s not fucking incredible. Even John Sculley saw it coming.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/120716/apple-...
I fail to see how the technical minutia that differentiate desktop PCs, laptops, tablets and phones affects their ability to create dopamine-producing feedback loops on demand. Everything past that is just semantics between platforms and interaction styles.
I have been informed by Lann - a member of HN that md5 has security issues. You can find more information here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MD5#Security

I just updated EtherDelta Guard to version 1.1.149 that switches from md5 to sha256 which is secure.

This is why I love HN, people are really helpful and get straight to the point without any fuss.
The 3 main drivers that strengthen the startup studio trend in 2018
Amazing how the startup studio trend is spreading. Entrepreneurs & corporations need this new paradigm more than ever to create new startups with top speed and success.

Main drivers are:

1. Successful entrepreneurs who already made their fortune but don’t just want to sit back need a platform that
a) enables them to stay involved and hands-on in early-stage building, but not just as weightless mentors or standard angel investors, but active in building;
b) gives them an opportunity to experience building an entire portfolio of startups not just single ideas.

2. A lot of organizations have their own startup accelerator program. But most of them are only marketing stunts. Corporations that want to measurably expand with startups need a better approach — that gives them more control and better ROI.

3. As a later-stage investor, you must compete for the really good deals. I expect more VC-s to realize that there is another alternative: Build your own future deal-flow — preferably with an approach that gives you better results than the old and rusty “9 out of 10 startups fail”.

Amazing and game-changing years ahead, we have!

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Done is dead – welcome to outcome-driven development
HN is probably in my top two time-wasters. And yet, it also gives me genuinely useful information.

It even sometimes prevents wasted time. I'll look at the comments first, and quickly figure out that the article is a waste of time. I find that out faster from the comments than I would from the article. Net result - time saved (or at least time more efficiently wasted...)
I can not fathom how they could experience riding/driving a modern electric car and not instantly understand that this is the future of the automobile (regardless of who owns them or what is driving them).
I bought my first (of many) iPods immediately after it was announced. Watched the keynote and got it. I can't remember any other device getting more use in my life for several years. I still have the original 5GB iPod.
Which is that we should expect a sharp transition between life and not-life because there are sharp transitions between some phases?

I don't see how that fits. Even if you think of "life" as a phase transition, why does it have to be a sharp transition?
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As an outsider who lived in Finland, I agree the paranoia about Russia is real and I disagree that it's justified. Unlike the Baltics, there is no sizeable Russian minority that "needs protection" nor is Finland in the way between a Russian exclave such as Kaliningrad.

There is no geopolitical reason to invade Finland and there is also no economical reason to do so. Most companies are foreign owned and would be pulled out of Finland the moment an invasion would start. The main natural resource of Finland is trees, which Russia has more than plenty of. Adding Finland to Russia simply solves no problem whatsoever, perceived or real.

Finns ignore this. They're paranoid because their parents taught them to, whose parents taught them to until you reach turtles.
And it is a good point. Perhaps what they meant by that "difference in kind vs degree" was just such a (hypothesized) phase transition.

The frantic scramblings that happen around phase transitions are often fascinating [0] and worth awarding an explicit name on either side, however fuzzy the inflection point. Fair enough.

[0] https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-u...
Open orders are actually transactions that have been made to the smart contract. It is possible to monitor the smart contract and get informed on all the open orders.

You may want to have a look on Etherdelta API if you don't want to use directly the smart contract.
https://github.com/etherdelta/etherdelta.github.io/blob/mast...
IMO that's part of why readable code is so important. If I can look at a piece of code and understand its behavior then I can know something. I might not know what stated requirement it was trying to solve, but I can know for sure what requirements it implements.

Compare that to sloppy code bases with side effects everywhere where you don't know what it's supposed to do or what it does.
This does sound like a really good idea. Have you made an RFC or proposal to the team to see if it is possible?