skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Compared to what the average college student was doing? No. It was a great use of time. We had a team, a goal, and a purpose. No stupider than being on mock trial or chess team.

It's all pointless if you think about it too much, but that competition drove a ton of benefits to the school. IFC (Interfraternity counsil) ran most of the school events. Our attendance at official school functions like football games or president speeches was about 30% of attendees, even though 'greek life' was only 4% of the student population.

Over 50% of alumni endowment/donation money was from sorority/fraternity members even though they made up a single digits percentage of graduates since the 60s.

I don't understand why Greek life is attacked so judiciously on HN when it's clearly a net positive to schools and the students that join. Of course it's not for everyone but that's not a reason to vilify it.
That makes sense to me. Our digital music distribution system is stupid to begin with. We shouldn't be paying for digital goods per item. We should be using alternate payment methods. Unfortunately, this is bad news for the RIAA, as they lose out on a large pool of profits because we've automated the distribution problem away.
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Almost as good, use these things to route cables along the baseboards:
https://www.amazon.com/Monoprice-Circle-cable-clips-100pcs/d...

There's nothing like hardwired when you can get it.
And part of the reason EEGs have poor sensor density is that attaching and removing them is a pain in the ass, especially if you have long hair.

I participated in a study where my EEG was taken while I watched some random videos, and half the time was spent on putting enough conductive gel in my hair below the sensors to get a stable signal, and afterwards I had to shower to get rid of the stuff.

There was a bald guy in the study who amazed everyone when he could just put on the cap to get a signal, so EEG might work as brain-computer interface for some people. But for the general population, it's just too much of a hassle.
Pump and dump. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Someone should start a hedge fund finding ICOs with really well-connected teams, such as Tron (Alibaba connections) to predict the next wave of stories => rise => stories => rise. I for one would put $$ into that hedge fund.
Their reply still looks correct, there is no way you could find a key of some kind that allows you to escape from a xen VM, or as they say "do something the system might not have done".
At least in my understanding.
I have basically had zero downtime on my home network since switching to UniFi kit (USG + APs) in 2016, apart from firmware upgrades.

Best money I ever spent on networking gear.

Before, I’d usually have to power cycle once or twice per month due to random WiFi dropouts on standard consumer gear (ASUS, D-Link, NetGear, etc).
Which one of these properties of cryptocurrency is imaginary?

Coins cant be faked or duplicated
No one can create them at will
They can be transmitted quickly/globally with low fees (excluding bitcoin of course)
You can store them yourself, no bank needed
Sending huge sums of money is no problem
Relatively simple design, 8 page white paper
Has worked as designed for almost a decade

Seems like crypto has a lot unique intrinsic value that surpasses traditional currencies to date.

The only thing imaginary is your imagination. Crypto is very real. Even people on an island would eventually find a common denominator in which to store value which has many of the same properties above.
Thanks for clarification, it was precisely my point: layman won't understand true detail but they won't care, because the sense of interest in those articles comes from other 'rewards' (more emotional).
That says nothing about the need to fully replace defective hardware to avoid the hardware problem.
I would check out p5.play: http://p5play.molleindustria.org/

It is a simplified API for p5.js, and very quick to get up and running with.

You might also find code.org's Game Lab a useful environment, which is p5.play based, has a sprite editor built in, and has both block based & text based editing support: https://code.org/educate/gamelab
Yet for the first time in history, the island is the entire world.

There was no gradual cross-border liberalization of markets

There was no mega-exchange merger that got approval from multiple continental government regulators

All there was being a new kind of asset that trades freely across the internet and is able to capture the pent up capital of the world, and the market decided.
GoPro cuts 200-300 jobs, largely impacting its drone division
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16075911
IIRC Intel employs people to work on the linux kernel on behalf oh Intel. Either Intel fumbled or it isn't that easy to circumvent the problem plaging Intel's processors with a software hack.
To say nothing of the gigs of research paper PDFs; hey, we're all going to need _something_ to do during retirement, right?
Isn't alphago a dqn? If so, how would you generate any eeg or ecg heat maps? Or rather, how would you generate a state action space given that data?
It should also be noted that Whorf did not speak Hopi fluently so any of his claims regarding this language should be taken with a grain of salt.
Depends how you define "adopted." In this case I personally was defining it as how many people are touching the code. You seemed to define it as how many systems rely on the code.

At the end of the day, we are all people using computers. We interact with code at all levels of the stack. In any given request cycle, a person is interacting with the hardware layer, application layer, operating system layer... and those of dozens of other external systems connected to the internet. Each layer, each system, is just as important as the others. Together they form the experience that is delivered to the user by the computer.

So I don't think you can place a value on the "importance" of a piece of software; all software should be created equal, so to speak. Therefore you cannot evaluate the "adoption" of a piece of software based on some multiple of its importance. You can only rely on the number of people that touch that software as an indicator of how many other people, or systems, might rely on it. If many people, and therefore systems, rely on a piece of software, then I would consider it "widely adopted."

Software has developers and consumers. Both are important.

React, Linux, BSD, Apache... they are all software projects. You cannot compare them based solely on what type of software they are. You need to look at the codependencies they create and the value they provide. Their value comes from the product that developers create, and consumers use. Their codependencies arrive when the consumers are also developers, who incorporate the code into their own project with its own consumer users.

Software with developer consumers is not necessarily more important than software with end user consumers. Neither can exist without the other.

So I guess I'm saying it was presumptuous of me to describe react with the superlative of "most widely adopted" software project (of all time), but I would put it in a class parallel to that of those projects you mentioned. Really, in one class -- software.
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but they can't sell any of it without annihilating the market. It's like I sell a diamond to my friend for 1 billion dollars, but she pays me 1$ every year for a billion years. So formally I am a billionaire, but actually I am one diamond short.
How do you like the Cube Thinker i35? I've been interested in those for a while, it's the only new laptop that's even remotely tempted me from my Lenovo X230T (which I love and highly recommend, particularly as a developer laptop.)
FMRIs or much more accurate EEG's

Or neural recordings with electrodes. Better spatial resolution than EEG and fMRI and way better time resolution than fMRI.
Yes, me too. This was more of a pain than NoScript, but after trying a few I switched to "Foxy Gestures" and I'm mostly happy with it. It has right-button+move-in-a-pattern gestures, as well as "chorded" right/left clicks and wheel gestures.

It does have 2 issues - 1st it does not work on special pages due to security restrictions. This means stuff like about:blank, when a page fails to load, preferences pages, and Mozilla's add-on site. There's nothing you can do about this regardless of the gestures add-on you use - life is worse due to security concerns, this is why we can't have nice things, etc.

And 2nd on Linux (maybe Mac too) Foxy Gestures did not work at all by default since the right-click menu triggers on mouse down, not mouse up. That stopped the gesture in their tracks. The FoxyGestures developer mitigated this problem by making right-menu take 2 clicks to trigger as an option enabled by default on Linux, but that can be annoying as now the regular right-click menu doesn't appear when you expect. Fortunately a patch is in Firefox for a future version that adds the option "ui.context_menus.after_mouseup", which makes the right-click menu work like on Windows. Also, a bonus, on Arch Linux the packager backported that preference to Firefox 57, so nice of them, which made everything work almost as well as in the pre-57 days.
Awesome! Any timeline for the XPS15 (or precision)?
> Does anyone have experience developing packages for OpenWRT/LEDE... && is willing to offer some time (maybe an hour or two, whenever it's convenient) to a fellow HNer who's getting ready to attempt developing my first OpenWRT package?

Is your wish to have help in the specifics of packing existing software for OpenWrt/LEDE, or in developing your specific utility?

If you're interested in a guide to building/packaging software for OpenWrt/LEDE, there are already detailed guides describing how to create packages for the OpenWrt/LEDE build system. [1] [2]

> and always wanted to schedule the public WiFi SSID to change daily and broadcast marketing info. (Think restaurant daily specials, retail store popup/promo coupon codes, estimated wait times, deal of the day, etc.)

As a user/customer, that sounds very annoying. Why not have a captive portal on the network instead of abusing the SSID for advertising?

Something like pfSense can easily be configured with a captive portal where you could do this advertising while having a button for users to gain access to the internet. [3]

[1] https://watchmysys.com/blog/2015/10/build-package-your-softw...

[2] https://www.gargoyle-router.com/old-openwrt-coding.html

[3] https://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Captive_Portal
My point is, you would have to write a nontrivial amount of code to get this working. It would not work out of the box with Keras right now, for example.
I would not expect that use case to be affected much. Network latency is too large, relatively speaking, and I don’t think that is “syscall heavy”, even if it does a thousand stat calls.
Try wayback machine instead of google webcache as latter isn't showing the original.

Here's the vulnerability note stating to replace hardware on 01/04/2018 at about 1800 GMT:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180104032628/https://www.kb.ce...

Then here is the same page with the replace verbiage removed on 01/04/2018 at about 1900 GMT:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180104180023/https://www.kb.ce...
Bizarre ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
reducing "empty calorie" links

Heh, I actually meant things like "LA to Vegas", "Family Guy", and the like, but yes, I can believe there are empty calorie HN links, too

I presume you're aware of the "noprocrast" and "minaway" settings on your HN profile? Using `/etc/hosts` is some hard-core HN Addicts Anonymous level stuff :-)
It's the signal the mania stage is nearing an end.

See: Yasumitsu Shigeta

They're playing musical chairs right before the implosion. Ripple might be worth a couple billion dollars as a dangerous speculation. PayPal, an actual, real, live, huge, global, payment & money transfer system, is worth $92 billion.

Some people say you can't place a value on something like Ripple. Sure you can, treat it as an actual business, measure its prospects over the next 3, 5, 10 years. What are those business prospects for the next few years? Not much, less than that of Square and Stripe.

Ripple is just this bubble's CMGI or Internet Capital Group. Bitcoin is this bubble's Cisco or AOL (if it's lucky). The junk ICOs are DrKoop.com or TheGlobe. There's nothing unique about what's going on, history is rhyming as it so often does. It's a likely indication the global liquidity asset bubble party - spurred on by so many central banks pumping crazy levels of liquidity into the global economy for a decade - is reaching toward a climax, again.
People are obsessed with cheap shit, because they took one logical step and said "if this goes up $1, I make more than if Bitcoin goes up $1", but then they leaped over the next step ignoring it completely, which says that there are 100billion XRP, so the likelihood it will go up in price by $1 is rather low.

Granted, enough people bought into the flawed logical to see it happen a couple times over, not realizing that there's no reason for XRP's existence.
While the geekery is really really cool I also wonder if this method can be beaten with the best in video comepression. Extremely low bandwidth encoding perhaps provides better results (if you put cpu/gpu load aside), for example see this x265 example over 50 Kbit/s. http://wp.xin.at/archives/4020/comment-page-1
People are watching Netflix in low quality in 100-200 Kbit/s. With the upcoming AV! (AOmedia Video 1) it gets even beter.
Another avenue is Citrix/RDP connection work ok over 30-50 Kbit/s. Then there is the counterpart FreeRDP. Wouldn't FreeRDP be the preferred solution here, except then that Mosh solves the potential latency issue? With linux desktops running on low power clients already, why bother? Does it use less battery life so you can get 48 hours surfing the internet in the mountains or forest while the solar powered server runs at home?
I actually think having the state involved with banking is a good thing, overall.
I think it represents that the economic part of that country is backed by the force of that country (meaning it's people are willing to fight to back up the value, if need be as well as their economic force).
I think that aspect alone helps stabilize out the current economy where it could be so much more volatile.

However, when I think of the weed industry and banking, that's where I think a cryptocurrency has its best value, and will either find a foothold to dominate the financial industry, or at the very least provide the path of dynamic changes/experiments for those areas like this one where we don't want to risk the stability of all markets by "testing things out", but need to discover a path of progress to match the speed of innovation and technology.

I tend to think the latter (the former doesn't seem plausible as the inconveniences outweigh the benefits currently), but I would hope that the government realizes, all else being equal, their views on cannabis as a schedule 1 drug is costing them a ton of money they could be reliably tracking and that business would be happy to pay in taxes to avoid the current nightmare.
These are just the defaults.

As someone who briefly used RescueTime, you can flag every website (and app) on a scale from "highly unproductive" to "highly productive." They can also be neutral or "in between" (as in, (un)productive, but not highly (un)productive). So in this situation, you would tag social media as being productive and move on with your work.
Same with BTC
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Also worth mentioning is OTTO [1], an open source effort to recreate OP-1 on Linux / RaspberryPi.

[1] https://github.com/topisani/OTTO
3 kbps is not enough for smooth TTY text-only ssh either...
I think a real human should have to spend all day finding content and manually doing the work.

Writing as someone who has been that human, in a startup creating original content that someone was repeatedly ripping and uploading to YouTube after signing up with different credentials to bypass the paywall, unfortunately your approach doesn't work very well either.

It's true that excessively aggressive takedowns result in YouTube not hosting some legitimate content. But it's also true that sites like YouTube allow an infringement to reach thousands or millions of people in a very short space of time, potentially completely undermining the value of the original work.

If you're a Hollywood studio or big record label, you can factor piracy into the cost of doing business, and you can take steps to make it less attractive or more trouble than it's worth. If you're a small independent content creator, the economics and practicalities are entirely different.

Ultimately, once content is shared the genie is out of the bottle, while relatively little content is so time-sensitive that you can't allow for challenging it and keeping it offline while the dispute is resolved, so requiring major hosts to take down by default or lose their safe harbour protections isn't unreasonable. If someone doesn't like that, they're free to host the content on their own systems instead, but such a site is unlikely to have the resources to cause the same scale of damage as a major video hosting service like YouTube or Vimeo, and if it does then it's going to be worthwhile to bring a real copyright infringement action against the site owner, who in turn is likely to be identifiable.
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My renter's agreement does not allow me to make holes in the wall, and that still doesn't help me route cables through doors. Unfortunately I'm probably stuck with wireless :( Luckily 802.11ac is surprisingly effective, and I don't have much if any interference from neighbors where I live.
This is no different from billionaires that hold massive equity stakes in their own companies, including Zuckerberg.

> Yet the fortunes of Mr. McCaleb and Mr. Larsen are not nearly as durable as those of other people on the Forbes list given that the value of virtual currencies fluctuates wildly. If Mr. Larsen wanted to access his wealth by selling Ripple tokens for dollars, it would likely drive down the value of Ripple tokens — and his riches.

People keep trying to apply a different higher standard to cryptocurrency in order to prove why it cant function as legacy asset classes.

Honestly, I think its because people dont know how the equity/currency/commodity markets work and are synthesizing standards while watching crypto billionaires get minted on the fly to justify their missed opportunities.

In Ripple’s case, the founders are probably more liquid than other equity billionaires. Ripple traded 7 billion usd today, Facebook only 2 billion.

And I dont even like Ripple, but right now I have to fight ignorance outside of the crypto arena.
Right now high fees are halting usability. But LN should ease that and encourage wallet owner to transact more.
Tell HN: Ethereum topped $1000
http://coinbase.com/charts
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Seems many EU and FVEY countries went with the key disclosure laws [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law
Tech, meet Econ 101
Does SELinux mitigate Meltdown and/or Spectre?
> No one can create them at will

Didn't Ripple Labs create 100 bilion ripple at will?
I don't see anything wrong with it. What don't you like?

The basic concept is to throw 40 twenty year old college guys (hopefully well chosen) into a 10000 sq ft house worth a mil, and they sink or swim.

You learn a ton. Keeping it afloat is a huge challenge, and the competition with other houses demands constant attention and good decision making.

I was president about two years after joining as a random guy in undergrad, and suddenly in charge of 300,000 a year budget. Our alumni pledges plus assets were almost a million and that's normal. Keep in mind I was just a guy elected by 23 of my 40 peers voting for me.

It was one of the best learning experiences in my life. If you know of something equivalent that's accessible for a random guy in college and not in the Greek system it would surprise me.
As far as I can tell, Liam is just an R&D project - it's not something they've put into actual production.

E.g. from the 2017 environmental report

> For example, we’ve melted down iPhone 6 aluminum enclosures recovered from Liam to make Mac mini computers for use in our factories

It's only recovered enough aluminum to build a couple of Mac minis for their own internal use
The Meltdown paper cites 500 KB/s average throughput when transactional memory extensions are available on the Intel CPU. It's not MB/s, but it's still pretty fast.
IANAL but seems like you cannot just sue people/companies in any country. I think you need to be at least resident of such country.
this is typical of Bitcoin advocacy - arguments are abbreviated to dropping a few words that allude to the concept of an actual argument - a refutation by vague reference. Answering these is annoying, because it pretty much requires you to make their argument for them.

In this case I think the thing he's alluding to is when bitcoins were "$13,000" in Zimbabwe but $9,000 elsewhere.

What was happening was that this was the price in the local USD-substitute currency, which traded at a 40% discount to actual dollars:

“This new currency was supposed to be fully convertible into U.S. dollars, a promise that has proven to be illusory. It has since slipped to a large discount to the dollar. So when Zimbabweans buy bitcoin for $13800 — they aren’t paying with U.S. dollars, they are paying with this new unit … In Zimbabwe, the market exchange rate is set unofficially, on street corners and such. Without an on-the-ground data gathering network to canvas street corners, an outside observer can get a decent proxy for the exchange rate by gathering bitcoin prices on the internet.”

https://jpkoning.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/zimbabwe-and-hyperbi...
Anyone who thinks napster was the dawn of online piracy either wasn't alive or didn't own a computer in the 90s.
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No. This wasn't an article about one person making piracy possible. It told a story of few individuals who, on their behalf, brought the music available to the scene. And how the music got from scene's inner circles to the public.

Considering the number of releases the group released and the much of the blockbuster albums were supplied by the main protagonist, it is hard to argue that his and their actions weren't significant.

Napster is mentioned only as a first easy to use tool for giving the mainstream an access to the goods pirates were releasing.
Have you seen my video?
You agree that people are trying to kill him, yet by not attending (and not getting killed) he's a "martyr?"

Your argument doesn't make sense.
> If you're so against collective terms, I hereby insist that you no longer refer to the "United States", or "European" culture.

that is being reductive. sufficiently so that you're basically straw-manning their point.

i would wager that, for example, extremely few people who view patents as negative (at least in this era), also view trademarks as negative.
Since everybody and their grandmother is telling these days it's a bubble, I've somehow come to the believe that this time it's not a bubble. Why?

Well, during the mortgage crisis, very few economists would actually claim it was a bubble. Perhaps it was 5% - 10%. At least this was what appeared in the news. The big shots at the central banks didn't see this bubble either, for the most part. But now every big banker is saying Bitcoin is a bubble.

For the dot-com bubble it was much the same. The majority of people (economists, bankers and the like) that should recognise a bubble were only able to call it a bubble in hindsight.

The more I hear this is a bubble, the more of my spare money I will invest into cryptos.