skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need an on chain transaction to create a LN payment channel. And if you only create one payment channel, you are highly dependent on the one peer you connect to, and reveal your entire transaction graph to that peer and the nodes the peer is connected to.

To get decentralized permissionless-ness and privacy, you need many channels. And you need a lot BTC to put in all of these channels, as the LN depends on BTC (or ETH or whatever cryptocurrency you're transferring) equaling the maximum amount you may want to send in any one transaction being locked up in the channel.

With transaction fees exceeding $15, Bitcoin is already unusable for the majority of the world's population, even with the Lightning Network, and even if each user only creates one payment channel.
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Disney will be forced to produce new content to retain the trademark on old-style Mickey. Steamboat Willie looks nothing like Mickey Mouse.
Don’t you need to audit the extension source, and verify it matches the build (or build it yourself), to make sure it’s not exfiltrating data from visited web sites?

I’ve been reluctant to install extensions, because I’d have to extend my trust set from the OS and Browser makers, to the extension author and the integrity of whatever system they use for their build.
See Netflix, spotify. Those or others will come for content when ads are gone.
The survey asked for numbers of older brothers, younger brothers, older sisters, and younger sisters. The main analysis on the post is for people with one sibling, and there are exactly as many people with one sibling whose sibling is older as there are whose is younger.
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Its worth noting that the story seems to have been written by an estate agency, and there would therefore be an interest in encouraging property transactions.
In contrast, I have Virgin in London and it's pretty astonishingly good. Solid 200Mbps+ down even at peak times, uplink is limited but that's not much of a concern for a residential plan, and it costs £40 a month.
I enjoyed this but its ending really let it down.
Then he shouldn't have told them they could Tweet to get service and then said "hahaaaaa, suckers, there's no service for you anyway!".
Anecdote time/thought experiment: and forgive me, I'm deliberately vague here.

Pretend there's a business somewhere.

Pretend they implemented a rule that said people had to enter a number/estimate into a box for a certain peice of information before they could proceed to the next box.

Pretend as an analyst you're looking at the values resulting some way down the pipe from that data entry point.

Do you think it reasonable to assume the distribution of numbers entered into that box that were invalid would be uniformally random?

If the answer is no, what numbers do you think people would enter disproportionately?
They can't recall a bunch of extant books and DVDs.
100% agree with this, imagine the carbon foot print of all current financial institutions combined.
>The people were hobbyists and the businesses had other projects.

Yes, but my point is that publishing to the web doesn't require advertising on the web. Nor does advertising on the web require javascript.

>Relying on "interested members of the public" for news is how people like Alex Jones get started.

It's how a lot of people got started. You seem to be implying some relationship between the presence of political extremism and the absence of advertising, but I don't see any evidence the two are correlated.
I don't think a trademark can prevent redistributing Steamboat Willie. It can prevent you from making a logo with Steamboat Willie on it, though. Or using it as the unlicensed mascot on your breakfast cereal.
My recollection was Creative Nomad played .wma, which at the time blew away .mp3 quality.

And the Creative Nomad ZEN Xtra with 60GB was phenomenal for a reasonably sized library.

For software, I recall two options:

MediaMonkey Gold, a media player that synced with ZEN players and could automatically convert media formats.

Notmad Explorer, a software suite from Red Chair Software that allowed for file and playlist management for the ZEN players.
There surely seems to be a correlation between great art and mental illness. Van Gogh, Rothko, Frida Kahlo... I guess it depends on your taste in art, though. I'd put Terry in this camp for sure.
Theres a spelling error on "counterpary"
well that is because Virgin's plant is mostly based around buying up cable tv companies on the cheap. so their infrastructure is really a cable tv companies and no an isp/telco
Uber working with Toyota to create a vehicle and system built for ride-sharing
This is not consistent with what I'm seeing. Monday before 2 pm nothing happens. Between Monday 2 pm and 5 pm suddenly everybody wants to get 2 days of work done and fails. And tuesday normal, regular, productive work starts, and continues until Friday. Usually the tough thing is on oneself to really stop between 5 pm and 6 pm because then the productivity drops severly.

My guess would be from these observations, that the most success happen Thursday around 3 pm. But maybe software development is special since there are few tasks that could be done in 1.5 hours anyways.
Blockchain: a “solution for everything”?
Hm, no we are not an estate agency :) Not yet. I was just curious about whether the widely held belief that short term sales are disadvantageous to home owners is true or not, thats what motivated the post.
Don't give any bright government worker wanting a promotion any ideas! I would hope the ACLU or some group would fight against internal checkpoints using the fourth amendment. Seems like ideas like this would be a good way to tear apart the US instead of uniting us... I think it's odd we live in a "United States" yet nothing is united when it comes to governing. Even states can't agree on tint laws.

A smaller government, consistent government and personal freedoms is what I support.

@olympus good point on the gun laws. New York is known for jailing and charging people with felonies. Even when they store the gun and ammo the way the TSA instructional video says to and checks it. https://youtu.be/3Xs_jrnmwoU - I wish the second amendment and full faith and credit clause was more respected. What part about "shall not be infringed" do they not understand?
Plenty of people began freaking out earlier this year after a breach at big-three credit bureau Equifax jeopardized the Social Security Numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive date on more than 145 million Americans. But as I have been trying to tell readers for many years, this data is broadly available for sale in the cybercrime underground on a significant portion of the American populace.

So I can rest easy now, knowing I've been fucked since forever.
That depends a lot on your current level and field. I myself am a junior frontend developer. I started from scratch through freeCodeCamp.org and I passionately recommend it to anyone to starting to learn to code.

If you passed that stage, I recommend the book The Pragmatic Programmer as a very good book on how to become a good software developer. The book Clean Code is a good starting point too.

Other than it depends on your circumstances. A good heuristic (particularly in frontend world) is to study the language, not frameworks.
I know this is on purpose and I use it myself to great extent, but provisioning each legit AP with an asymmetric key pair to be checked by the client proves this is one of the APs you intend to connect to, while still allowing for the roaming functionality.

Public areas could even physically display the AP's key fingerprint alongside the SSID (+ WPA key when not open).
A possible statistical contribution I can think of is the skewness of the age distribution within the population of readers. Here is the distribution charted:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vRrops3J...

Consider just the bins 20 (ages 10-20), 30 (ages 20-30) and 40 (ages 30-40). We can see that, of the three groups, teens are by far the least likely of these groups to read the blog, and people in their 20s are the most likely.

Now consider two groups of two-sibling families that lie within this range, where one sibling is in one bin, and the other the next. E.g. the first group where one is a teenager, the first-born is in their twenties, and the second where one is in their 20s, and the first-born is their 30s.

Case 1: If you take a random family from the [teen, 20s] group, how likely is it that the reader from this family is younger or first-born sibling? Since those in their 20s are much more likely to read the blog, it is much more likely that the reader is in their 20s, and is the first-born.

Case 2: Now take a random family from the [20s, 30s] group. How likely is it that the reader is the younger sibling or the first-born? In this case, because readers in their 20s are more common than readers in their 30s, it is more likely that the reader is the younger sibling.

However, the ratio of readers in their 30s to readers in their 20s is much closer than that between the 20s and teens. This makes it more likely in that in case 2 that the reader is still the first-born. Therefore, if the number of families in each group is equal, we would expect to see, in aggregate, more first-born readers than younger siblings.

I'm not saying that this is happening in the actual data, you'd need to do more analysis, and probably need more data about the ages of siblings, or that it is a significant enough effect to cause the result found. But it demonstrates that statistical analysis can involve subtle effects that are not obvious without careful consideration. As such, we should be very wary of making any conclusions about causes, either birth order or anything else.
Yeah, the world is incredibly unequal. I do think it's generally not explained well (or even understood well), and for most, they either ignore it, or acknowledge it and consciously set it to one side until it clicks.

I'll bite though on the religious bit (I'm a practicing Christian). I think people give unsatisfying answers because a base assumption is that God can do anything. But really, there are things God cannot do, or he would cease to be God...

Add in Christ's atonement making up for all injustices and pains, the ability to choose as paramount our being, and our existence extending beyond both ends of this mortal existence. And then I think we have most of the pieces necessary to construct an answer that's not entirely dissatisfying.

I'm not here to discuss it per-say, just wanted to say that I think most (religious) people build their arguments from some unchecked assumptions that lead to unsatisfactory results.

(As a mostly irrelevant aside - if you've ever read the second MistBorn series, I think the God-like figure in that series touches well on interventions of God)
Negative data would be very helpful, unfortunately its harder to get. The data I used was from Land Registry UK which only captures successful transactions.
Yes. The distance between 1$ and 0$ is waaay bigger than 1$.
Unfortunately, he was born into a society that would prefer the mentally ill take care of themselves.
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Aston Martin reportedly lining up £5B IPO
Geez, please.. do your audience a favor and talk to the audience to have them listen ... and here.. umm.. mumble mumble.. I make.. mumble.. yay.. mumble.. do.. umm.. mumble.. kills the attention span after 55 seconds.

The topic may be interesting, but I quit after not even 2 minutes because of the way it was presented.
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I've got sympathy – there's nothing worse than this sort of terrible customer service and lack of communication. It's a shame, because the network itself is pretty good.

Why do large companies have such trouble scaling customer support? It's exactly the same whenever I have to interact with any organisation like this – no callbacks that they promised, missed appointments, work not done on schedule, that kind of thing. It's got to the point where I will actively avoid interacting with any service provider unless it's totally unavoidable.

(There are some exceptions – like my energy company Ecotricity have a phone line with a person on it when you call. It's pretty boss.)
But FTTH as opposed to FTTC (Fibre to the cab) a lot more expensive and the "subs" are not keen on paying for FTTH.

Whos going to pay for this extra infrastructure.
If you disable automatic loading of files, the main device wont use the expensive data plan while the web watsapp on the cheaper plan, the user can download it manually.
It seems tough to me to suggest that people are putting a default 0 in for older siblings but a default non-zero in for younger siblings. Why wouldn't they be consistent?

That said, I still don't believe these data. I don't know where the flaw is, but I none the less think there's a flaw. If it were a much smaller effect, it would be much more believable.
Ethereum: Price jumps as it approaches new all-time high
> ...and be the only entity that can produce new original Mickey Mouse content?

This is confusing to me. If copyright is up on Steamboat Willie, producing derivative works based on Steamboat Willie has to be allowed, so original content that remixes and adds to Steamboat Willie to make a new cartoon must be OK.
CES 2018: LG robot Cloi repeatedly fails on stage at unveil
In common scenarios this can be a 134-236% tax. Cigarette tax is roughly 50%, Marijuana is roughly 50%, Liquor is roughly 30%.

Common scenarios:

Store brand 2-liter: $0.88, 67 ounces, $0.0175 per ounce, $1.17 in tax, 134% tax.

During all of December, 2-liter Cokes at Walmart in my town in Washington (not sure about Seattle) were $0.95 with $1 off coupon when buying two, this yields the 236% tax rate.

If milk is listed as the first ingredient, it's not taxed. So 1200 calorie milkshakes are a substitute.
After reading this I was surprised to see that @browserling only has about 7,500 followers on Twitter. Why aren't there hundreds of thousands?
To be fair, the life expectancy of people keeps increasing.
If you want to draw attention to a schizophrenic person who needs help, maybe linking /r/Drama is the wrong way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
Another ML competition discriminates against Russians and others nationalities
MathJax though.
Bitcoin for those who can't read more than 2 minutes straight
Is Bitbucket down?
We've been experiencing timeouts for a while now but their status page says all is good.
Are you surprised? Would God really instruct his prophet Terry to write something less than perfect?
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I really love articles like "are people who <do something totally ridiculous> screwd?" This gives the impression for these people that they are doing something totally normal, and that it is the world screwing them.

You never ever want to sell a home you live in short-term. You only do that if you really don't have another choice. It's probably your biggest investment. You probably bought a bigger home than you can afford. Sell it for what it's worth and invest the time. The costs of selling too quickly might be retiring at 55 years of age or at 65 years of age.

And if you decide to go the easy route anyway then it was you who screwed you. As said before being in a f*d up situation otherwise might be an exception. But it might also be a sign that you do in general not the sensible thing.
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But then why haven't "Spotify for Journalism" projects ever worked? How does a business go from $2 per paper to 0.2c per article? Why are so many artists so unhappy with their meagre Spotify royalties? I think this falls under my "proven to scale" condition.

[In reply to the below - as we have reached the thread limit: there will _always_ be free competition. The problem is: without advertising, the only players left will be those with deep pockets, and deep interests to protect - the state, churches, oligarchs and political groups]
I don't think anyone will ever live for another 70 years after their death.
in Danish Kunstig main meaning is artificial or synthetic, secondary meaning - does not seem real, natural, or authentic (of upright standing)
http://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog?query=kunstig

so I don't know that I would say there is a reason for the etymology that relates in any direct way with artists are weird.
And the death expectancy keeps dropping. How can you make a fortune if you have less and less time to be dead until the ein of the universe?
I wouldn’t put too much stock in those figures, especially Nielsen. I was in the streaming industry at the time, built the world’s largest Windows Media streaming network. I agree with other comments here, people largely didn’t manage media libraries using WMP.
In the Wake of Net Neutrality Repeal, California Eyes Its Own Net Neutrality Law
And he also posts on HN, but last time I checked his account is shadow-banned.
Did you combine data from the 3 UK registries (England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland)?
It is not about making everybody stop doing user-hostile activites. That is my main point here, it is not about that.

There are people who have a website and don't want to monetize the visitors. I want a standardized web for them. Not everbody has to belong to that group for it to have merit.

I don't expect Microsoft or Google to stop making their online office stuff. Honestly, I couldn't care less what they are doing. I want solutions for those that serve the users, and nobody else.
Great, these who want to build these things will simply hire people who don't subscribe to this oath ... And now the organization will be populated by a whole tribe of people who have no qualms about doing this -- does that sound like something that will make things better?

Aside: the book looked interesting. Skimmed it, beautiful typesetting, not gratuitously mathematical, looked readable -- I may be wrong, but it's just a exercise of adding awareness of it's existence to me.
Yeah, but post-mortem activity hasn't seen a lot of progress lately. If anything, the dead do less useful stuff beyond their life now than ever what with all these pesky laws against violating corpses.

Yes, it's sarcasm
> To be fair, the life expectancy of people keeps increasing.

Oh, that's why it's "life plus" so many years...
The point is: large businesses have reputations. They are knowable and generally accountable. They can also protect themselves legally.

Semi-anonymous writers posting blogs are none of those.
unable to commit or use their web interface. status page shows spikes across the board.
The analysis is just for London
> The only "online crap" explanation I can think of is if the "first born" box was pre-filled and people changed the response for their number of siblings but didn't change the pre-filled response for birth order.

In the survey, birth order is inferred from the field that records the number of elder siblings. If the form design nudged respondants to not completing that field more than other fields (via unclear or biasing wording, ordering effects, etc) that could produce a similar outcome.

I haven't looked at the survey so no idea, but there are more potential causes than defaults.
You could easily use such information to find out where someone lives, what their daily schedule is, who they associate with or what products they buy. Photographs could easily contain immediately sensitive information like SSN when it's kids snapping the pictures rather than privacy conscious adults – it's a load of problems.

Then again, I think it should be considered a problem in itself, and not just because of COPPA. Their security policy makes claims that the product does not live up to, leading end users to assume a level of privacy that does not exist. If there is anything you do in private that you wouldn't do in public, I'm sure that you'll understand.
That was in my first post: The govt. should pay, or at least subsidise, as it's a national infrastructure investment. The UK is one of the world's leading tech nations, mostly due to London and the research universities, but the broadband is rubbish. If the govt. is prepared to write what looks like a blank cheque for HS2, why not throw a few billion pounds at FTTH?
Wires cost $25 for me for any amount, and clear within 4 hours.

The crazy thing is that at this point in time, Banks are actually faster and cheaper than Bitcoin.

And I'm risk adverse, I'll trade "decentralization" for "your money is literally guaranteed by the government" any day.
The whole paternalistic government thing is a bit creepy, but if you are going to do it (which we obviously are) then good to apply it somewhat equally.

Soda is basically poison. The producers would be driven out of business in any rational economy where they were not shielded from product liability law suits.

A free market requires a free and just legal system. In the US every single producer of toxic and deadly products has their own specially granted immunity from product liability, either by judicial custom or legislation.
I'm surprised that people cares about this. A cartoon not becoming public property.
I've used Virgin broadband for 15+ years and (minus a couple of very short outages) it has been rock solid. Contrast this with BT, who apparently can't offer anything better than basic adsl in my street, despite my living about 100m from a large BT exchange.
Yes, it is everyone paying for the "sin" of working who picks up the health care tab so I am fine with shifting some of the burden.
Because there is infinite free / ad-based competition crowding out paid services.
The reason why it was "life plus X years" was to provide a means for the family if the creator had an untimely death. After all the logic is that the world has their creation, and compensation shouldn't be snuffed out simply cause (s)he died early.
James Damore sues Google, alleging intolerance of white male conservatives
It's computationally expensive to trick the network by rehashing all blocks in the chain, which is essentially needing to re-do all the proof of work operations since the begging of the BTC ledger. This is how POW adds integrity, for bitcoin and how you can trust your not dealing with a tampered system.

I'm not saying it's efficient, but it's worked well so far.

Good explanation here: https://decentralize.today/how-does-proof-of-work-um-work-f4...
Even with these changes the top bar does serve one purpose, it tells the user that "something is different about this page". One thing I fear is visiting a web page, and having no hints that the content wasn't loaded directly from the target website.
Their status page is updated to Partially Degraded Service now
I went through similar turmoil pricing out dodgy eGPU builds to do CUDA on my Mac. Eventually I realised it wasn't worth it and I may as well just build a PC with the ability to add more GPUs down the line.

It was definitely the right decision, sucks they I had to move that part of my work away from MacOS but if Apple isn't interested in seriously supporting this work then why bother (This was long before the iMac pro was even announced and my current build outperforms it for less than half the price).

The message from Apple is clear, this is not the platform if you are interested in working on the cutting edge.

> I was checking out the Vive because everyone seems to be using it for development

Not everyone, and the Rift is at a bargain price now. I was blown away with the Rift experience and quality of the product, definitely worth the asking price.
I'm dimly aware of the stereotypes, but I'm extremely surprised at how much of a political, hot-button issue it seems to be here.