skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honestly; Evernote. Or any tagged note taking system. Web development has a near infinity of branching Technologies, languages comic conventions, and domain specific languages. A lot of the work of web development is building up your own documentation that's organized the way you think, so it's easy for you to find your way back to good explanations of core patterns and problems, walkthroughs for setting up different kinds of applications and libraries, etcetera
Yeah uh, I don't think they were attacking the Apple App Store specifically, the comment would read exact same if it were Google who removed the app. But sure, go ahead and knee-jerk defend your favorite corporation, that adds to the discussion.
A new one of these services pops up every 6 months or so. From what I’ve seen, they don’t stick around.
It's back on there. https://twitter.com/durov/status/959094104822034434
Is a Java app "native"? Is Python "native"? Perl?
This is a much better argument than the former, however this risk is inconsistent with the much more imminent risks we face every day which have been deemed acceptable to society.

Should people not be able to fly airplanes for pleasure?
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You're right; there is indeed a large risk difference between football and base jumping. Though it has recently come to light (in the public consciousness) that football carries significant risk of concussion and CTE with prolonged exposure. As a parent, and having talked to many parents about this, football is not as widely accepted as being safe as it was ten years ago.

That said, this has no bearing on my point above. It doesn't matter whether society has deemed some activity safe or not. What I'm saying is that skill and preparedness is a secondary factor in how much risk you bear for any sport or activity. The primary risk factor is how much exposure you have to the activity, how long you choose to do it. This is as true of walking on the sidewalk as it is of playing Russian Roulette.
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> Could be the best buying opportunity of the year.

It could be, but it also could not be. Content free comment.

As for cycles: the big mistake people make when they see a cycle is to believe it will repeat forever.
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Bitfinex/Tether follow the classic investment fraud story arc. The big frauds don't start with bad intentions. A self-proclaimed genius seeds an operation, gets traction, attracts money, hits a snag, fudges the numbers and keeps doubling down, intending to pay it back, and then (a) collapses, (b) gets caught or (c) rolls the scheme over until (a) or (b). The terminal phase is inevitable given the non-linear difficulty of scaling a fraud and their need to scale to maintain credibility.

The set-up: Tether was, to a layman, a decent idea. The build-up: As creation and redemption was demonstrated, Tether attracted buyers. The snag: Tether got hacked [1] and released an IOU to affected customers [2]. Wells Fargo got spooked and froze Tether/Bitfinex [3].

The fudge: Tether has a hole to plug. They also have nowhere to put incoming U.S. dollars. Someone suggests they buy Bitcoin with the incoming dollars. The stupid figure it's a temporary measure until they find a new correspondent bank, the evil smell a scam and the lazy don't think about it. Bitcoin ascends. This move becomes very profitable. (It also increases the size of their balance sheet, which makes finding a new correspondent bank more difficult.)

Doubling down: Bitcoin descends. The firm becomes, or comes close to becoming, insolvent. Tethers are issued to bring the balance sheet back into line. The stupid figure they can unwind when Bitcoin recovers; the evil and lazy agree to not think about it. The frequency and magnitude of this "support" keeps growing.

The collapse: At each development, the smart and ethical decamp. That leaves everyone on board too incompetent, distracted or lazy to properly address a journalist's investigation [4]. That, in turn, attracts regulatory attention [5].

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/21/16684296/tether-cryptocu...

[2] https://www.coindesk.com/bitfinex-disperses-unique-token-to-...

[3] https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-exchange-bitfinex-sues-well...

[4] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/mystery-s...

[5] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-01-30/crypto-ex...
New Tesla-based series gets FIA approval
Welp, I guess the rich can never be taxed. Which is why they're always fine with laws that raise their taxes!
It seems like a bit of a stretch to argue that a major scam just starting to unravel represents "the best buying opportunity of the year". Buy when it appears to be just about to crash said no investor, ever.

But I can see how holding large amounts of Bitcoin you want to shift could distort that perspective...
> … once we are out of the transition period, any pair of headphones you want will either be wireless, come with a dongle, or forgo the 3.5mm entirely and just have a USB C cable.

Any pair of headphones I would want will be analogue, because I dislike audio delay & expense and I like audio quality.

Adding DACs & dongles is just adding needless complexity. The analogue headphone is basically perfect: it doesn't need improving, and it can't be improved. Wireless headphones add expense, waste, complexity and quality/delay problems.
A return to the mean. The same will go for alt-coins since because faith in cryptos is founded on BTC and most alt-coins are priced in BTC.
The somewhat ironic part is that one of the core concepts of Bitcoin is that you can't counterfeit it. You can mathematically prove how many coins you own, if somebody sends you 3 BTC then once it's been validated on the blockchain you know that the money is now yours, they can't have lied, it can't bounce like a cheque

Except this Bitfinex thing shows that while an amount of bitcoin can't be manipulated or counterfeited, their actual value is relatively easy to influence because it's mostly unregulated. I mean think about it, if Bitfinex is lying about their dollar reserves this might be one of the simplest and most efficient scams of all time. They're literally making up money as they see fit. Hundreds of millions at a time. Just like that.

Now of course maybe they're not actually crooks and they do have the money, it's kind of a schrodinger's cat scenario at the moment. Still, the fact that nobody manages to know for sure the truth of the matter shows that they could be doing it and we'd be none the wiser. People are buying and selling for million of dollars of these things, not knowing if they're trading digital dollar bills or monopoly money.
So, this article is about the UK, but there's one really interesting thing I've noticed about street markings in the US from looking at a lot of cities in Google Street View.

California has wildly different street markings from every other state in the country. The "STOP" and "SIGNAL AHEAD" markings in particular jump out of me. I've attempted to Google the origins of this, but I've yet to turn up any reason why California is so different from the rest of the union on this.

Also, it might just be my imagination, but broken lane stripes look like they're longer and/or thinner in California than in other states.
Crypto may win but what makes you think it will be Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is useless as a currency right now because of fees and transaction times. If that doesn't get fixed than what purpose does it serve?
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> "An interesting question is: What determines the mutation rate in a living organism," Al-Hashimi said. "From there, we can begin to understand the specific conditions or environmental stressors that can elevate errors."

Which leads to an interesting point: higher mutation ratios lead to more diversity and faster evolution/adaptation, but also lead to a higher % of cells/embryos failing due to destructive mutations (such as cancer).

Similarly, lower mutation rates increase stability and decrease cell/embryo mortality rates, but at the cost of adaptability and evolution.

With that in mind, you'd expect that fast-changing environments would select for genes that increase mutation rates, leading to faster evolution but with higher mortality rates, and stable environments would select genes that decrease mutation rates, resulting in larger populations and lower mortality rates.

It is amazing to think that even the rate of mutations is probably an evolutionary response to the environment.
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The story of Bitcoin in a fun video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTf5j9LDObk
That's mostly because the Go folk stopped calling Go a systems language. And they did that pretty quickly after public launch precisely because of all the people pointing out it had a non-optional GC.
yeah, cousin comments are treating it as if it's serious, but the capital letters make it sound sarcastic
I respect what they are doing but I disagree with the methods. Intelligence could be one of those kind of things that is very hard to engineer directly. And we'd have more success if we inspected the underlying processes and then simulated those.

I've posted this before but here is my proposal: https://scrollto.com/life-a-universe-simulation/

What I propose is a minimum viable digital environment that can support the creation of self-organized turing machines that feed off their environment. What this really means is, coming up with a digital environment that can support the evolutionary process. Evolution requires vast space, vast time (in this case -- clock cycles), and principles that allow for both storage and movement of information. The storage and movement of information is accomplished most simply by roughly emulating mass/energy conservation/conversion laws that we have in our universe. With just collisions that form stationary quasiparticles, and can also annihilate to reform the moving fundamental particles, universal computation is enabled.

Toffoli and Fredkin discovered the power of collision-based computing decades ago. There is a lot of literature and good results they derived on the power of these types of systems.

Let's create life the only way we know it formed -- evolution. It's far more elegant and less engineered than trying to unravel how chaos formed competitive results on a million-deep evolutionary ancestor tree.
I prefer to deal with the world as it is, rather than as I wish it to be. The US government has never worked the way you describe.

Unfortunately, when it comes to legislation and budget considerations (including education), lobbying works.
The only way people would pay for web sites in the extent they pay for apps is if it’s as convenient. I don’t want to log in to get the paid benefits for example. I don’t want to enter my cc details to pay the subscription if it could be avoided by “the store” already knowing it, and so on.

In the end reality is that I just pass on buying subscriptions and would probably prefer buying subscriber access to a website if they made an app facade for the site that handled payment and login. The UX of web sites and subscriptions is that bad.
We actually just launched the latest version of something similar. However Gurn doesn't require you to setup integrations with all your cloud services, we're based around the URL - https://www.gurn.io/
>> Digital "currency" is unregulated so the question is which law is violated.

I think the SEC and various other bodies are disputing that at the moment. They may not be specifically regulated, but they may come under a variety of existing laws, if a convincing argument can be made about them being a good match for the financial product/asset class/security/whatever that those laws apply to already.
"Senkung der Arbeitsmoral" does not translate into "lower productivity".

Arbeitsmoral means working morale.
Senkung means reduction.
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iPhone users (like myself) need to look no further than the Mac to see what a better alternative might be. The Mac only allows App Store or signed apps to be installed by default. However this setting can be toggled to allow any apps for those who need that. You can also toggle it to allow only vetted App Store apps if that’s what you prefer.

Apple could keep the default to what it is on the iPhone right now, but should at least allow signed apps from other stores as a non-default option, even if they don’t allow unsigned apps at all.
An external DAC can be of the same quality as the internal one, worse, or better.

According to this site, http://www.kenrockwell.com/apple/lightning-adapter-audio-qua..., Apple's dongle is roughly the same as the internal DACs on iPads and iPhones.

Generic dongles purchased from Amazon can be expected to have lower quality DAC's, but most people that want to cheap out on something that only costs 9 dollars probably aren't using good enough headphones or speakers to care.

People that really care about audio quality can purchase something like this, https://www.amazon.com/AudioQuest-DragonFly-Red-Headphone-Am..., which is higher quality than what you will find in any smartphone.
Your comment seems a bit neurotic. Nobody was even talking about Apple vs Android.

It's always been Apple vs The Rest Of The World.
You just have to look at what happened after the MtGox collapse in 2014: Bitcoin goes back to sleep for 2 or 3 years, afterwards everyone forgets it ever happened and another rally takes place where cryptocurrencies "go mainstream". Lather, rinse and repeat until the amount of people willing to speculate on it is completely exhausted.
Yes, X11 is very quick when you don't have compositing and special-effects layers between the client window and the display. :) For best results use an old-school, 90s style WM.

Enjoy it while it lasts; The Powers That Be (mainly Red Hat) have decided that Wayland and compositing are the future.
- Bafflingly, they split horizontally. I have a 4x4 pane setup, but my default is 2x1.

- Cmd-W closes the window, not the pane. (I get why they do this. I feel that it is wrong.)

- I can't send input to all panes, which is a pretty useful feature I probably use once a week.

- iTerm2 happily maps my panes to tmux. This is by itself perhaps a killer feature.
By the numbers Finland looks like one of the not-so-broke governments in EU: https://www.statista.com/statistics/269684/national-debt-in-...

A common neoliberal political strategy is to kick up drama about state finances to justify tax cuts and reductions in public services in spite of popular support for welfare, maybe the same here?
Because one is human and one mistypes...

I'm normally on the Signal side of this argument, Telegram is trash and should not be used, but basic features like message editing are legitimate requests. I use Signal heavily and a number of times a day at least I or someone I'm chatting with corrects a previous poorly phrased or incorrectly typed messages. Because Signal has no mechanism for that, it usually involves retyping most of the message or the relevant word and adding an asterisk. I believe if Signal had built-in message editing support it would be used far more than I currently see corrections.

To be clear, I would expect Signal to allow me to see previous versions of a message and clearly indicate that it's been changed, but message editing is a valid feature that Signal should absolutely implement.
In what sense is the app store a part of "the communication channels for the internet"?
That logo. Oooooh my gosh. Soooo nice.
Very much this. Bitcoin is going to have problems scaling both on and off chain. Newer technology can re-examining of proven methodologies will probably yield a better way forward.
Nah; their biggest security blunder is:
a) The secure chats are opt-in
b) Their (own) protocol hasn't been audited yet.

But it's a still valuable privacy-oriented app.
I have sympathy for this point of view, but unfortunately the most recent exposure I have to it is a local government deciding not to require Mennonite contractors to carry insurance, even though their competitors must. Apparently it's against their religion to imagine that the Lord would hurt a Mennonite on a jobsite badly enough that the community "support network" couldn't heal him themselves. I feel sorry for the poor bastard who won't get physical therapy and will be stuck in bed for the rest of his life. Maybe the support network could afford the therapy, but he won't get it anyway, because Mennonite elders DGAF. I hope he'll be able to sue the cheap-ass property owner who bribed the city council to pass this stupid exception in the first place.
why is slack lauded so much? its just MSN/yahoo Messenger with a 2017 feel.
The speaker configuration on the front page is not correct. Those are M-Audio AV-40's and only one of them should have the volume knob, aux input, and headphone output.
Interestingly, that doesn't actually say it's backed by USD reserves, any "traditional currency" in sufficient amounts would satisfy their claims.
Some of the most intelligent people in the world will gather together, and learn that they still don't even know what "intelligent" means, much less how to actually build it.

Then they will discover that this has happened before--several times--and the reasons they had to think that it was all different this time were all based on exaggeration and wishful thinking, promoted by people trying to make a buck.

We can throw more hardware at the problem now, but even so, every advance seems to be accompanied by a reassessment and lengthening of the distance to the finish line.
But every language has that problem, and most mainstream languages overcome it. Why not Haskell? From an interested outsider's perspective, it seems like the community is focused more on ideas than on solutions. For me, this makes it endlessly intriguing (the ideas are interesting and often mind-bending) but not very useful (the solutions for the things I want to do appear under-developed).
Although, both of those are possible with the little-known (and little-implemented) XML Linking Language (XLink), a W3C standard. XLink allows one to define links on arbitrary tags, many-to-many links, links between external resources, and links to specific positions and ranges using XPath.

https://www.w3.org/TR/xlink11/
And all those magazines and newspapers also have apps, yet that hasn’t somehow led to floods of money pouring into their coffers.
Ctrl+Space is a really unfortunate keyboard shortcut, it's an extremely common shortcut to trigger auto-complete in IDEs and some editors. I downloaded the app to try it out and can't find any way to rebind it, and I don't intend on undoing years of muscle memory in my IDEs…

So, feature request I guess?