skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if part of the decline of small online communities is the sheer numbers of people using the Internet today (versus the 90's). I'll sometimes connect to an IRC channel about a niche programming topic, and see 1000 users. Likewise, I think it would be hard to make a personal connection to others in a large community like Hacker News where, outside of a handful of prolific posters, each discussion may be filled with different usernames than the last.

I guess this is sort of a "small town" vs. "big city" effect. I suppose the "small towns" of the Internet may still be out there somewhere, but under some conditions that keep them from growing into "big cities".
"need" or "want"? I'm sure they don't "need" them any more than anyone else, but I'm also sure they "want" them for the same reason as everyone else that wants them -- for fitness tracking.
This article helped me understand the junk/spoofing emails I get. Emails that say things like "You have 2 messages from Fedex" etc. When I looked into them a while ago, the simple javascript redirect was easy to figure out (they all concatenate numbers from an array onto a string and redirect to a string). The redirect is always to a php file, often embedded using bad wordpress installs. The php then does more redirects. At first, I was able to get to the redirect, but lately my crude manual attempt fails as explained by the article: the redirect code goes to pains to filter out "researchers" from genuine spam targets.
I think there are two classes of victims, though. Ordinary users like me are the obvious ones, but I think that the many shady business that are presumably paying these malvertising agencies are unlikely to be getting much value for their bucks. Too bad the article doesn't have any information on the revenue return of a malvertising campaign.
It is up to him, but most people/companies immediately convert to USD, because they just want money for their service not to gamble.

Yes, you could have made a lot of money with bitcoin, same of you would put all your money on 7 black in roulette. Hindsight is always 20/20.
Crypto seems to be a perfect example what I think big banks are doing in a "regulated space", eg. Downgrading all currencies except dollar, earning money on top of big clients ( pump scheme,... ) And etc..

It's just less obvious
It's very hard to get regulatory approval for a banking charter right now. The FDIC has been approving less than 1 new bank a year since 2009, as compared to an average of 154 a year in the eight years prior to 2009[1]. And that's just one of several regulatory bodies that would need to approve a crypto bank.

[1] https://www.bankdirector.com/index.php/magazine/archives/2nd...
>They don't, but I'm confused how that matters.

>I can easily unplug them and insert my own [keyboard/mouse]

Can you see where the problem lies? For you to be able to insert your own kb/mouse, you'd need to bring it from home in the first place. And while it might work if you're at an Internet cafe which isn't super strictly controlled, in an office with more stringent security requirements and checks you'd at least raise some eyebrows.
It's interesting to observe that, just like in the real world, the benefit of security is something that doesn't distribute well and ends up being provided by centralized sources.
Hey there, fellow neighbor!
I much prefer the local priority and will always reorder paths that way on a new machine.
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I don't believe it is the only reason, but it certainly significantly hurt them. They're also less attractive/bulkier, have less room for battery, are more expensive to design/manufacture, have higher failure rates, etc. I would still pay ridiculous amounts for a phone with flagship specs and flagship build quality, with a physical keyboard.
>Often, a program's layout reflected the programmer's inner thoughts

And often it reflects the programmer's inner carelessness and disrespect for other programmers who have to deal with their code.
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> I do think this is even more concise than they would have written in maintained code. In particular, I believe the missing {}'s for the 'while' and 'for' loops wouldn't have been left away, but I might be mistaken.

Well it depends a bit. Plan 9 is written very much in this style, but its easy to maintain because it has rules on when to omit things like braces or parens. You learn the rules pretty quickly (or read rob pike's paper) and after reading and using it a bit will make sense and you won't think about it. I would imagine if you just had someone in the group that wrote like this and the rest of you weren't used to it or the rules were applied inconsistently it would be a huge pain to actually deal with. What matters for all styles is that everyone has rules they agree with and actually follow them.
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> Overprotecting children or investors is not in their long-term interest, or society's.

There's a reason why the term "accredited investor" exists: it designates people with high enough net worth that even in the event of total collapse of their speculation they will not be a burden to society. That society does overprotect institutional investors like banks is a different thing.

> Our cognitive biases will prefer the top-down solution, because it's easier to reason about, but I would argue that reason and evidence tells us that bottom-up works better in the long run.

Not in cases where basic human greed is involved. People involved in MLM schemes, for example, are known to even f..k up their family for personal gain. Greed is powerful and highly corrosive.
To expand on this, it takes three points to identify a circle, so you'd need to leave home and return from three different roads (at least at the intersection with the circle).
I wonder what this will do to negotiated rates, will the Spotify's of the world succeed in arguing that they're paying ~20% more for the music, so the base negotiated rate should go down to compensate for this, or will labels manage to hold the current prices?

I.e. whose pocket will this actually come out of in the long run.
Ah, but it their customers watched other movies, they would have lost $1M, so it's better. If the intent is to get movie attendance data at any cost (as it seems), getting it at less cost is better.
Eternal September?
> I am just challenging that enough people consider fiat currency such a pain in the ass that they will leave Airbnb and flock to Cryptocribs

And I'm contending that this doesn't have to happen.

Cryptocribs doesn't need to take over the entire market for it to be a worthwhile endeavour for its creator or users.

> Or why don't you convert your crypto to fiat and do Airbnb?

When you pay using a debit card in person, why don't you withdraw cash from an ATM and then pay with cash?
its funny to think that if in the future once everything have been decentralized where all your data, your purchase history, medical records are spread out over the internet, it is inevitable that centralization and privacy will all be the rage and people would pay premium for it.
Can you try to phrase that more precisely/constructively by including a reason why it is "awful" or give an example of "good tooling"?

As far as editing goes, latexmk, syntax highlighting and good shortcuts are all I ever use and am perfectly happy with (emacs+auctex). It is a different paradigm than WYSIWYG, but different does not say anything about good or bad.

Now writing new latex classes, I agree. That is very unintuitive and would greatly benefit from simplification, templates and tools.
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1st of April is a strange date to stop or announce anything. April Fools, really?
You're not saying very much here, but...

If you're someone looking to get rich investing in cryptocurrency, it's worth considering where the money (not the 'value') actually comes from. People have to spend it, and you have to take it. If you don't care where it comes from, you may as well be stealing it.
Ask HN: What is the best non-Mac laptop for development today?
I'm thinking about jumping ship and using Ubuntu. Anyone have something they're in love with?
Oh I see, thanks. For what it's worth, I would definitely include this example in the demo; it's basically the first thing I wanted to use. Given your pipeline, it makes sense that the \newcommand definitions themselves has to appear inside dollar signs (not just when they are used), but for people with a TeX background it's pretty unintuitive.

Also, you should definitely use \lange and \rangle in place of < and > for bra-ket notation :)
How do so many other companies like this make money? For example, HQ: the live trivia game show app that gives away a few thousand dollars multiple times per day. There's no ads, and no in app purchases. Besides burning through VC money like it's 1998, what's the business model?
My wife couldn't have more different academic and work interests than me, and I think that's great. It provides trivial conversation starters for both of us and makes us both more well rounded. I specifically sought dates with women who had interests distinct from my own for this reason.

Having someone around with a disinterest in it helps me view my own relationship with the community in a less biased way.

Consequently over the last year or two I've come to associate "the tech mindset" with increasingly negative terms. I have come to think our community is often not a high quality one. It's often judgemental, insular, and unjustifiably arrogant beyond even the worst I saw in academia. I wouldn't have recognized some of these things if I were in an echo chamber that was simply reinforced by my SO.
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FACT: China, Russia is supporting North Korea despite sanctions

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/24/news/economy/treasury-north-...

ANALYSIS: North Korea would fall without oil support

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-13/sanctions...

But what do you expect from dicatorships in China and Russia. It's a good thing we already are sanctioning Russia, and we're starting to impose tariffs on China (solar panels, washing machines, soon steel and aluminum) and fines on China (forced tech transfers from US companies to Chinese government). China is starting to falter economically, with labor cost rising, middle income trap, massive debt, capital outflow, factories moving out of China to SEA or back to the states. We need to put more pressure on China, or else North Korea will be the puppet that sends a nuclear missile straight into Silicon Valley
While not quite a gear structure in the strictest sense, don't forget about the amazing flagellar motor[1] in bacteria!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagellum#Motor
Limiting direct investment to the very rich (accredited investors) is going to do massive damage to the investing public in the long run. You're denying the bulk of society the trials and tribulations it needs to evolve.

It's obvious to me that the negative unintended consequences of preemptively banning an entire class of economic exchange to the majority of people (unaccredited investors), and creating a centralized gatekeeper that gives exemptions on a case by case basis for projects that it approves, is going to be massive. That we see this so differently suggest we come from a very different set of personal experiences and perspectives on the world.

>>Not in cases where basic human greed is involved. People involved in MLM schemes, for example, are known to even f..k up their family for personal gain. Greed is powerful and highly corrosive.

That is not true. Human greed makes humans motivated to avoid bad investments as well. That's why the market adapts over time to be less gullible.

==I'm rate limited, so I'll respond to your comment below after this point==

>>There's a difference between investment (everyone can go via an online broker and trade with stocks) and dangerous speculations like IPOs or ICOs.

There's value in learning to spot promising new tokens, or in the case of IPOs, securities, as doing so is very lucrative. It's also beneficial for society for more people to become skilled in this activity, as it means faster technological evolution. Creating a class of investment lawyers and VCs who monopolize these sectors is not in society's interest.

>>and look where society is today, where people devise more and more elaborate fraud schemes and people are still believing it and sometimes invest their entire life savings into fraud, despite everyone and their dog blaring that they are investing in a fraud.

That doesn't show that the market doesn't learn. You're not demonstrating that the same proportion of people are falling for manias today as in 1636. You're only pointing out the obvious: that scams and irrationality still exist, and claiming this proves that no learning/adaptation happens.

To Sangermaine:

>>Nope. For the same reason that people still commit crimes despite knowing the consequences, greed for possible profit will always be the more powerful motivator.

If it were "always the more powerful motivator", then everyone would commit crime. You're falling for the pessimistic bias which inevitably leads to repressive societies. Over-reaction to crime is more dangerous than under-reaction.
A countervailing assessment.
http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/08/its-time-to-bomb-north-k...
The high-volume users are probably the biggest proponents of the service, so putting prices up for them might have negative effects.
Gotcha, no hard feelings.
Or: after centuries of iteration our current regulatory environment manages to prevent all but the largest, smartest, and toughest fraudsters from doing what they do, and we should focus on improving those regulations (e.g. by working to separate money and politics) rather than ripping them down on the off chance that for some poorly explained reason the market will behave better this time.
Say hypothetically you lived in a place like Cuba where the government had banned things like renting out a room to foreigners or selling them a coffee as was the situation when I was there. Taking payment in the local currency would be kind of useless as you couldn't buy much with it and taking dollars, euros or whatever was illegal and could get you in prison if they caught you. However if your customer transferred some ether to a wallet you controlled with a private key but without your name on it it would be quite hard to catch or prove.
Look at an area where you haven't been before and activities pop right out.

Sometimes locals keep trails secret because having a ton of people on them would destroy them. I've been on both sides of that dilemma, but I don't think looking for trails on a heatmap is a good answer.
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They do have the counter pressure of not losing users or inspiring government action. I’m not sure how this plays, for example, with the EU data protection laws but I’d bet there are some smart lawyers looking at this.
Are you actually suggesting that government ought to let fraudsters / unregulated securities run amok? No legal framework for punishment or restitution?
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16246604
Why do you think this is one of the "more sophisticated" testing practices?
I’m afraid that reality has been around for a lot longer than cryptocurrency and it was quite obvious to a great many people that an unregulated global financial market was going to result in massive fraud. After all it’s a big enough problem in regulated markets!

“Ripped out of the hands of government” means “ripped out of the hands of regulators” and history has taught us exactly what happens again and again in such situations.
I'd say people with a GPS fitness tracker are much more likely to have small fenceable items that drug users (who burgle to feed their habit) are usually looking for. If you're after a good car, then they're probably good marks too - crossmatch with low populationin density FTW.
I think a big part of Eternal September was a culture mismatch where newcomers didn't understand the norms and expectations of Internet culture, more than just the sheer numbers of new users. Now that Internet culture and mainstream culture have converged, this aspect probably isn't that big of a deal.
Yes it’s like the 1999 dotcom bubble but worse.

Don’t worry though, soon it will be 2001. All the tourists will go home and the real work will continue.

Bram Cohen:
https://gist.github.com/FredericJacobs/1614f8eb741532c3f2cb
In fMRI data, we refer to frequency space of volumetric image data as K-Space.

I would like a general term for frequency space of a signal, without the use of the word `frequency` . This is because `frequency` is also used when describing histograms in general image processing, and is in general an overloaded term.

Any established words or phrases in the corpus? any tips?
This is akin to bitfinex/tether actually redeeming USDT for USD, which is precisely what they don't do.
Another field where security is taken very seriously is cable TV boxes. You'd be surprised how much work goes into securing them.
Dutch hacked Russians hacking DNC, including security cameras
Announce? Yes. Stop? Not really.
If they're including old data, up to two years ago there were quite a few South Korean managers and engineers working at the Kaesong Industrial Zone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaesong_Industrial_Region)
or you could just dump information from LLVM opt's inliner pass.
i like binance personally. it’s the most popular. but maybe i’m naive
Society has learned through long and bitter experience that ignoring this particular problem doesn't make it go away. It's exceedingly generous to call the supposition that ignoring it a bit longer will cause it to go away a "solution." I'd call it a pipe dream.
There's a reason why the term "accredited investor" exists: it designates people with high enough net worth that even in the event of total collapse of their speculation they will not be a burden to society.

That’s a much better and more succinct response to the all-to-common complaint about “accredited investors” than I have come up with. One would think it obvious given the long, successful history of MLM, Ponzi schemes, and the like. But one of the things that make MLM/Ponzi work is Fear of Missing Out, and I hear a lot of FOMO when I hear a complaint about accredited investors.
>Yeah the US are huge and sparsely populated.

Mostly you just answered the question. The primary factor is that the US just simply doesn't have the same public transportation infrastructure the EU has, not even close. I could travel just about anywhere in the EU without ever getting in a car... that's impossible in the US.
Are they stuffing that money into a mattress? Buying stuff with it? Or do they deposit it somewhere?
Implementing scarcity seems like a totally undesirable thing to do, unless your only motive is money
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This reminds me of the selfie soldier story from a few years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zssIFN2mso

Just how much useful military information can soldiers haemorrhage from their cellphones? Imagine somebody being convicted of war crimes in an international tribunal because some recruit forgot to turn off their automatic geo-locating Candy Crush notifications. This is quite the brave new world we are entering.
It's like a kind of game?
The analogy to Electron makes me wonder if a possible mass migration to PWAs will make the experience on already-slow low-end phones even more atrocious.
That's not how I think about it. The fundamental tools required to do your job aren't a perk, they are a necessity. If an employer skimps on the tools in a way that makes their employees less productive, then that is simply penny-wise/pound-foolish thinking from them. I'll use what I'm given at work; I'm certainly not going to spend my own money to buy a better work computer.

It's also true that I'm likely to leave a job that is so cheap they can't provide good computers to their employees, as if they're so short-sighted in that area they're likely bad in other areas as well.
They also tend to exist in the context of massive surveillance and security efforts by casinos.
Hi,
I read your article and many of your experiences are - sadly - the normal behaviour with pain and pain killers in Germany. In the south of Germany even more than up in the north (from my experiences). But there is hope... I would recommand that you search for a new doctor - in the best case a young doctor fresh out of the university. The reason is simple. Pain management have only recently become a major topic in the professional training and myths and wrong behaviour are strong. younger doctors understand more and more that pain means stress and stress make sick and is a negative influence to the healing process. I hope that more and more doctors in Germany understand, that feeling pain is not a guide - it's a burden that nobody should carry. Wish you the best. Quazni (I hope my english is not as bad as I think it is.)
That still doesn’t require a full blockchain: 90s PGP with multiple signatures is all you need, or going really old school, mailing a copy to yourself using registered mail.

Imagine if a notary, post office, etc. set up a signing service: relational database, basic signatures for user-submitted hashes, etc. Not quite as good but much cheaper to run and much easier to have trusted by a court — I suspect most users would see no additional advantage by adding a blockchain.
Well, I guess you could have tested whether or not the inline hint is used without looking at any source code at all: just find a suitable example program and see whether the executable changes after you compiled the program with or without any inline hints.

However, this bears the risk of being non the wiser in case your chosen program doesn't produce any differences in the compiled output: you wouldn't know whether it's because the compiler doesn't respect inline or whether the particular program you tried was for some reason not a good choice.
You're right of course. I myself get very uncomfortable when discussion becomes personal and now I did it myself.

I'm really sorry, ikeboy.
Why would it be quite hard to catch or prove? How many fiber optic lines do you think go to Cuba? They could lock down the internet the same way China does. Maybe they haven't gotten around to it yet, but that's not a long term structural argument for the utility of cryptocoins its a temporary moment-in-time argument. Kind of like how at one point a big advantage of buying things on the web was that you didn't have to pay sales tax -- that's not anything inherent in the web, it was just an artifact of governments' lag.
DC has no involvement in this bill at all. This is a bill in Washington state, roughly 2500 miles away on the opposite side of the continent.
You also didn't explain why it was on-topic. If you respond to a science article with a reference to a music artist which as far as I can see is entirely unrelated, without explaining what's going on, you shouldn't be surprised about downvotes.