skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your numbers are both technically wrong and misleading. The federal government is currently spending 120% of our annual revenue. Even if we somehow cut enough programs that 18% of our revenue became disposable (which is itself completely unrealistic) you'd be making 0 progress. You need to not only start paying off the principle + interest, but also drop our spending to 100%. That's already about 40% of gross federal revenue.

The misleading aspect is because 40%, and even 18%, don't sound as absurd as they really are. Even cutting spending modestly is incredibly difficult. Cutting it by 18% is arguably impossible without completely reshaping government as we know it. Cutting it by the 40% required to actually make progress on the debt is completely unrealistic at any point in the foreseeable future. And these numbers are getting worse each year, with the difficulty of getting out of debt continuing to increase. And of course this repayment pretends we will both maintain or increase income while never increasing spending beyond growth in said income - for 30 years.

No, no private company is getting a loan in these conditions. Drowning in debt with the only means of possible repayment, both short and longterm, being to hope they can find other lenders to pay off you, as a new lender? That's like a mental version of something between a ponzi and pyramid scheme.
bitcoin may find support on bitstamp above 6600 (currently 6900). buy limit 6666.66
Well, I am sure they'd love it, though it's hard to imagine the value proposition that would make me accept AR advertising. Aren't the logical market more likely to be technicians, factory workers, and other people who need to be able to see at a glance information about the thing they are looking at?
I'm in the process of creating a web app for exploring art along historical timelines, and was wanting to pair each work up with critique/theory writings that reference it. This is exactly what I need. Thanks for posting!
What is the scope of the vulnerability?
Telegram iOS app removed from App Store last week due to child pornography
I think the most useful resource you have for understanding the foundation is directly reading and understanding the original Bitcoin whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

For some of the basics, you can take a look at Anders Brownworth's web demonstration: https://anders.com/blockchain/

I'd also recommend looking at the source code of some of the bigger blockchains (Bitcoin Core, Geth, etc..) and look at some smaller demo blockchain implementations:

- https://github.com/Jeiwan/blockchain_go/tree/master

- https://github.com/kendricktan/misocoin

- https://github.com/jeffbarg/Littlecoin (disclaimer: I am the author of this project)
Green card backlog puts lives in, on the line
Why no one should trust the Weiss Cryptocurrency Ratings
A Tiny Coral Paradise in the Great Barrier Reef Reckons with Climate Change
This is what happens when you keep deriving languages/libraries from C, for programmers who don't know C.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXntl3ff5tc
It has it's roots in the USD being the currency required to buy Oil (Petrodollar) and sort of builds from there. Some searches should give the information pretty easily, but it's a rather complex topic to break down into a quick comment. Happy reading!

Edit: Apparently some people are too lazy to educate themselves beyond anything in the comment section. Here, perhaps clicking a link is within your grasp.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/forex/072915/how-petro...
It’s Time to End the Scam of Flying Pets
That's an interesting idea. And much more likely to succeed than to fake ivory.
It is very difficult, especially if you first learn from reading/writing. 25 years later and I still unconsciously pronounce some words like they would be pronounced in my language :(
> “One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.”

This is hilarious. A rehash of Friedmans' if the state had monopoly of the sahara, it would run out of sand in 5 years.

On the case in hand, equifax is a not a poster case for advocating for more regulation.
The intellectual property in this case does not stand in the way of useful creation.
Above the law?

> Cloudflare has received the attached court order, Case 1:17-cv-OO726-LMB-JFA

I must clarify I'm not saying this is fair or unfair, I just doubt CloudFlare has much room for maneuvering.
More than once, cutesy comments of frustration have led me to inspect something for side effects and avoid them.
People have already been hurt - if it's not backed, bitfinex have helped themselves to two billion dollars worth of crytocurrency though fraud.

Other people have paid more for crytocurrency than they might have had to because this fraud would have pushed up prices.

You're begging us to let criminal activity carry on.
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The example still groups by YEAR. So you won't need more than 12 months.

Regardless: SQL is a statically typed language. Also the type of the result—i.e. the names and types of the columns—must be known in advance. Some databases offer extensions for "dynamic pivot".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referendums_related_to_the_Eur...

Note that most referenda, according to the rules, required approval in all member states. Note how there's essentially 3 cases :

* a few member states voted, but much fewer than there actually are

* a few member states vote, and after one defeat, suddenly the votes stop

* a vote fails, and then the vote question is changed, and another vote organised on the same issue (ie. redo elections until desired result is achieved. Note that there is always much lower turnout the second and third time)

In the vast majority of cases the will of voters was overturned and the EU forced on people.

There is one big exception: Switzerland, where generally the results of referenda have been upheld. Needless to say, as a result, Switzerland is not a member state.

If the voters will was respected, France, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Spain would not be member states. Many evolutions in the EU would also not have happened, like the EU constitution.

Recently French president Macron surprised by stating publicly on UK radio that if a referendum on EU membership would be held in France today, he was fairly certain the answer would be that voters would want to leave:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlHfNiZf-9o

I feel like that message understated things. If you listen, you can clearly hear that Macron matter-of-fact stated that the UK will remain despite the vote.
And fake etymology. "Island" is spelled with an 's' because people in the 1400s thought it was a cognate with 'isle' so changed the spelling from 'iland'.

More at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English-language_spelling_refo... :

> From the 16th century AD onward, English writers who were scholars of Greek and Latin literature tried to link English words to their Graeco-Latin counterparts. They did this by adding silent letters to make the real or imagined links more obvious. Thus det became debt (to link it to Latin debitum), dout became doubt (to link it to Latin dubitare), sissors became scissors and sithe became scythe (as they were wrongly thought to come from Latin scindere), iland became island (as it was wrongly thought to come from Latin insula), ake became ache (as it was wrongly thought to come from Greek akhos), and so forth.[
It is a pain alright.

I still hope one day WebComponents will finally get us the sane native model on the Web.

Until then I try to focus on native projects, when given the option.
Indeed. As an end user who browses behind Tor frequently Just Because, this is actually welcome news. Solving captchas to access sci-hub was a frequent pain point.

As a developer, I'm willing to try and help sci-hub secure their network against DDoS or other malicious traffic, assuming this was their reason for using Cloudflare services, and assuming sci-hub were to open source some of this effort publicly.
Senator warns YouTube algorithm may be open to manipulation by 'bad actors'
Time to set your buy triggers @ 5900.
Above being sued?
Now THAT is what professional PR looks like.
Afvallen+buik+-+Zo+krijg+je+snel+een+slanke+lijn+en+een+platte+buik
I was a barista at Starbucks for a little over a year before I got into IT/Software-development. I found it to be enjoyable work for the most part.

Lots of socializing, plenty of work with your hands, and it smells pretty fantastic. If I had more free-time in the week I'd probably pick it back up.
I'm really shocked this panic hasn't set in yet, I would have bet otherwise. I wonder if it'll be a slow slide all the way down.
Building and Launching a Search Engine for Geek Merchandise
I am thinking the same, there is enough up and down that arbitrage / day trading bitcoins could make you a lot of money.

I find it interesting that always around the full thousands there are sudden immediate pushbacks, for example when it dipped below 8000 several days ago it was pushed back to 9000. same happened at 10000 back to 12000.
mtGOX was insolvent because they lost all their assets, thats not the case for bitfinex as far as we know. That is independent from tether itself, it can happen to all exchanges.
Afaik about $20m in bitcoins are created via mining per day. If that is insignificant or not is an interesting question.
In a society governed by the rule of law, nobody should have to defend their decision to avail themselves of the protections these laws offer.

If large parts of the population disagree with a business model, they have the collective power to change it.

As a former scientist, I can't wait to desecrate Elsevier's grave. But I'm still uneasy about the prospect of people taking matters into their own hands simply because their technical capabilities are more advanced than those of their opponents. There are also journals, such as Science, that finance the valuable non-profit foundations publishing them.

Of course, this is to a large extend the fault of scientists and university administrators themselves, because they have all the power to refuse to publish in for-profit closed-access publications (as they are apparently doing in Germany.) And the political process in the US is basically broken.

But look at other examples of the same principle, and you might find one where you land on the other side: The Federal Reserve seems the safer bet vis-a-vis the libertarians that jumped on Bitcoin to topple it. Uber has a litany of problems from their "rule-breaking DNA". Or, for the political right: should "illegal" immigrants receive citizenship simply for evading border checks?
Obviously, it's a great store of value if you bought bitcoin in 2017 or earlier!

Tbh, the entire "store of value" story never quite felt right, the original whitepaper was advertising it as currency, yet, it seems unusable for any kind of financial transaction at the moment. Even short term is a risk, the fees are just as high as the volatility and a bank transfer has simply become cheaper.
And the inspiration was the grid model of WPF, initially available on IE, a native apps feature.
Thanks for the search keyword. Seems like bearer deposit notes are indeed legal. (Though it seems like they're not insured.) So it seems like this concept could work after all?
There is no reaason to believe that happened afaik.
Behind what? Bitcoin is a store of value. 1 BTC will always be worth 1 BTC.

If you want to store your USD, perhaps you should keep them in the form of USD.
If it rejected 99.9% of patents, the expected value of the typical application drops to 1/1000 its current value. So fewer people would pay the application fee.

Fewer patent clerks would be needed, so their operating costs would also decrease. But presumably not below 1/1000.
I was thinking of taking a Amazon IoT button (or particle photon since I found it again) and make it call a tech support line / inform IT if something is broken. Would other people be interested in a tutorial to how to do this?
I suspect that the exchanges are doing their best to keep the prices artificially high by limiting sales and withdrawals under the guise of technical issues and support load.
Konga acquisition:It appears Kinnevik and Naspers lost a combined 184% ROI
Eh, copyright law in most countries is the way it is because of pressure from the richest countries (like the US) to conform or lose all trade (or even get a visit from a Marine expeditionary force).
I suspect it might have seen another panic sale, had it not so quickly moved from ~$4k to $20k (two months). Once the mania took hold, and millions of lay person investors piled on (Coinbase now has more accounts than Charles Schwab), there was probably no alternative scenario possible other than to go from extreme bubble straight to implosion.
The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II
I cashed out 2 months ago. Currently on an island in Brazil.
Embrace Extend Enjoy!
So does this mean Bearer Deposit Notes[1] are illegal?

[1]: https://www.tdsecurities.com/tds/pdfs/Manulife_Bank.pdf
There has been some significant dumping, Poloniex had a 233k Volume for about the 5 minutes that they price fell below 7k there (it's trending below again).

It's probably someone trying to push the price up no matter what (or a shitload of orders with magic price points that people setup)
Has anyone even done the math on how fast 100% turnover of BTC would take in terms of the current transaction processing volumes and delays?
Vendor lock-in is real.
Say what you like about HTML tables being The Wrong Way To Do Layout Because That Is What CSS Is For, you didn't need to use polyfills or star selector hacks with them...
They were served a court order to stop serving Sci-Hub. They had attempted to argue common carrier in a previous case and were told by the court that argument didn't hold water.
Bad can be just as well defined as a lack of good, much like depression itself. Consider that it may be an exercise in futility to try to discern the "true cause" of your emotional state, and that it may be more worthwhile to begin implementing solutions than to attempt to further deconstruct your problem. Human psychology is much like software save for one very important distinction: you cannot read the code. As such, trial and error remains the best strategy.
Disclaimer: I work at Backblaze.

> I suddenly got a big fat warning about something,
> yada yada long story short
> ... I can’t give you access to the diffs because
> that’s how our system works

I would love to understand what the specifics were. Backblaze's whole design is based on a "log format" where you really SHOULD be able to understand the diffs and exactly what occurred at what days and times. In other words, a complete, total, absolute history of everything that occurred is found both on your local system, and then (encrypted) on our servers.

What I mean by "log format" is that when a file is backed up, a line is added to what we call the "bz_done" files that says something like this:

+ /pictures/puppy.jpg

The "+" means it was added to your backup. Then if you delete that file later we don't REMOVE that line, we add an additional line to the very end of the log like this:

- /pictures/puppy.jpg

The "-" signs means it was removed FROM YOUR LOCAL DISK (but not yet from the backup). Then 30 days later, the final line might appear like this:

x /pictures/puppy.jpg

That means the "30 day roll back history" period has expired and the file has been cleaned up from the Backblaze datacenter.

The whole point is we can determine exactly what occurred at what times, and you can understand the diffs yourself.
I found this page informative and interesting

https://operational-transformation.github.io/visualization.h...

it has a live visualization of the OT algorithm
I don't see how the facts of this article agree with the headline. Most potential sources for information were cited as having "no comment". There's been no official indication that the investigations have been abandoned.

> Three sources say, though, Mulvaney, the new CFPB chief, has not ordered subpoenas against Equifax or sought sworn testimony from executives, routine steps when launching a full-scale probe. Meanwhile the CFPB has shelved plans for on-the-ground tests of how Equifax protects data, an idea backed by Cordray.

So, beyond not issuing subpoenas (yet), and shelving plans for a security test, that's hardly putting the probe "on ice". It's possible the the statement from TransUnion was correct:

> We believe that it is clear that the CFPB was not given legal authority to supervise any financial institutions with respect to cybersecurity

In which case it's no surprise that the inspections were deferred or cancelled.
Hey, sometimes gold loses half its value too.
It is environment + chemistry.

"Underdog" animals develop a low serotonin state.

http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/TheBiochemistryofStatusandtheFunc...

Many of the behaviors and attributes associated with "poor" people are similar to the low-serotonin state described above.

If you are "ground down like a minion", SSRIs attenuate the negative impacts of that.
> Realistically there is no money in recorded music anymore except for the John Mayers and Taylor Swifts, so nothing has been solved in that industry and there is no 'clue' to get.

Have you seen Patreon?
I can compare US medicare, which is socialized health, with other gdp/per capita countries and say the same. Its still very expensive.
No, it has a lot of original code too.
Podcast: Why We're Terrible at Taking Care of Our Mental Health
That is pretty misleading to reference 'minimum wage' in regards to how much money a band makes from streaming. A wage is determined by hours worked / revenue. Once the music is recorded, they aren't 'working' anymore hours, so how would you figure they need $1160 a month to make minimum wage? They aren't working any hours while that music is being streamed.

If you wanted to figure out the wage, you would have to take the number of hours spend creating the music (writing, practicing, recording), then divide by (revenue from streaming - costs to record). Since that streaming revenue can keep going long after they are done recording, you are going to hit minimum wage if you wait long enough and people keep streaming your music.

Artists deserve to be compensated for their work, but we should be thinking about it in terms of income per hour worked. No other job expects to be paid forever for work done years ago; if someone hires me to build a fence, I don't expect to keep being paid for every year that fence is up.
I figured it was either that or people who are expecting this to be their chance to get in at a "good" price.
EDN FTW.
Except Google Clip is like the camera in the movie "The Circle" and is a rabbid privacy violation.
The discontent with Google Glasses was likely because it was ahead of its time.
Yeah, but wildcard replacements via regex? Come on.

There's so much bike shedding that regex tolerates that we make games out of it.

https://xkcd.com/1313/
> 4 million Spotify plays per month to make minimum wage ($1160)

I would (and do) advise an artist (and a friend, or a random person off the street) to have income from more than one revenue stream.

> It would do us good to empathise with the people in these industries

there's no reason to be empathetic towards the industry, even if we are entirely and wholly in support of artists, their work, and expression.

to put a finer point on it: the fact that there is an "entertainment industry" frightens me. this is not to say we shouldn't find entertainment, and share artworks/creativity/etc... but that our need (or training) to be distracted from the horrors of modernity presents sufficient demand for An Industry of this scale is troubling. The existence of this Industry may be seen as an indicator that our civilizations are performing acts of violence upon ourselves and our homes that we would be better served by ending.
> Android is weak in a lot of areas but at least they got this part right.

Try using an AOSP ROM without Google Play Services.
Data and markup/document separation might not always be that clear cut.

The latest trend in CMS systems, piloted by the latest content editors, like Quill, Draft.js, ProseMirror, Slate.js is to use JSON to present the content, instead of using HTML or Markdown. Using object notation, gives rise to cleaner API and data model.

So the wall between data and markup, JSON | XML may collapse one day.
I didn't know the Charles Schwab statistic, would you happen to have a link for that one? I'd love to be able to share it. Thats nuts.
They seem to me to be an efficient disease spreader, especially in flu season, I always press with the back of my knuckle for that reason.
What measure of proof do require?
It still surprises me that the US' FSI rates Korean as one of the hardest languages to learn.
At least in the case of the music industry, the current state seems great in many respects:

1. Everyone could afford access to all the music in the world.

2. Tons of new music is being created. Creativity seems fine. Creators are still highly motivated to release their music and even without making a living through music there are still many benefits to being a musician.

And yes, it's hard to make a living through music. So what ? Why is this a necessity ?
> your planning horizon is quarterly

I think their planning horizon is Retirement
Possibly the 'hodl' meme doing its thing?
Fees have actually come back to earth over the last month (although if there is a panic and people start competing for block space, you can expect them to quickly jump back up). Volatility is one thing, at this point you almost expect a daily 10-20% swing in either direction. The bigger problem has been a relentless downward trend over the past month.
It's funny how I and other people see hp and immediately think of bad business practices that lead to a bad experience with the brand.

Relates to the concept that you optimize for what you measure. Not factoring in that screwing over customers will have some impact down the line is also like some sort of debt (as in tech debt). It's like long term brand debt.
This is cool! I've been thinking about this a lot in a similar domain (JSON / YAML for configuration), and I've come to the conclusion that anything approaching manual merge is pretty much the worst thing ever.

The domain I'm specifically thinking of is managing routing rules, like nginx configs or control-plane configs for Envoy. It's really tempting to simplify it down to a config file, then you version-control it, then you get merge conflicts, and all of a sudden a bad merge makes 10% of your services unroutable. Which is hilariously bad.

Having an auto-merge for those sort of configs seems like the only reasonable way to do it. Escalating conflicts up, from easy merge, to trying an automatic strategy, to surfacing conflicts to the user in a domain-specific way, seems like the only way to do it!
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Since those ignore court orders? Which in turn means they would ignore court orders if you sue them. Cloudflare didn't act on their own ("Cloudflare has received the attached court order, Case 1:17-cv-OO726-LMB-JFA")
Low volume with this much price movement has to mean lots of uncertainty (or perhaps plenty of certainty in a bimodal distribution of price estimates, with the high peak holding and the low peak already sold out, and most of the trading going on in the fringes); there's obviously trading going on at ever-lower prices, but there's obviously lots of Bitcoin being held by people who see recovery as likely enough that its worth holding and not selling—and yet not enough market confidence of that to lead to buying that would stop the price drop.