skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> For the German Easterners it must be said, they were the only "revolutionaries", the only Germans who risked anything and showed courage and actually fought for freedom. Yet, there is almost no official commemoration of it. Partly because many Easterners were part of the system. Partly because the West-German left hated to be reminded of their own amorality.

I don't think you can dismiss Ostalgie (nostalgia for East Germany/democratic socialism) either. There are quite a few people who miss those days, as incredible as it might seem to us who come from countries which don't shoot you if you want to leave. I know some folks who grew up in another Communist country, and they mention that everyone seemed bound up together. They'll admit that materially things are much better now, and sometimes they'll admit that everyone was in bondage together — but most of the time they really do miss what we would consider a repressive state (so bad that they weren't even allowed to speak their native language at home, and had to hide religious artefacts from the secret police).
The moon in front of clouds... that is all you need to know right there.

It is an aesthetically beautiful photo, but it seems difficult to appreciate once that feature is noticed.

Early scientists in the pre-telescope era (I forget who), actually used the fact that clouds only appear in front of the moon to determine that it was a distant object.
The author seems to praise the vendor lock-in that Apple imposes upon its customers as being a good business move and a sign that Apple has "matured", without really offering any hard facts to back it up.

I'm going to offer an opinion of my own without any facts to back it up. Vendor lock-in may be successful in the short term, but interoperability is successful in the long-term. The internet would have never took off if it wasn't for the fact that every website author had access to the same APIs as every other one.

It's bullshit that I can't tell Siri to play music with Spotify instead of Apple Music. It's bullshit that I can't change my browser from Safari, and therefore can't use any Progressive Web App features like push notifications because Apple is afraid of web apps cannibalizing App Store sales. It's anti-competitive and a scummy business move. Android is weak in a lot of areas but at least they got this part right.
'"Given the excruciatingly detailed procedures Friedman was undertaking for the relatively simple balance sheet of Tether, it became clear that an audit would be unattainable in a reasonable time frame," a Tether spokesperson told Ars by email.'

In my mind, this paragraph is the article's money shot. If I was a legitimate business person issuing a security meant to fill Tether's place, I would pray that my auditor was excruciatingly detailed.

And frankly, there is no way in hell that a security like Tether could have a 'relatively simple balance sheet' in light of their problems receiving US currency combined with rapidly issuing more tokens.

This is bad...and the fact that a PR person said that means things are bad beyond belief.
I'd suggest something like CSON for display and editing (with Link items for binary data), CBOR for transmission.
Doesn't work when Russians manipulate our elections (as eye-witnessed by the Dutch: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/report-dutch-spie...) and receive zero punishment for doing so (as almost unanimously sanctioned by both houses of Congress which the President has actively refused to enact sanctions on, defeating the rule of law in this country: http://www.newsweek.com/trump-refuses-impose-new-sanctions-r...). Also doesn't work when the ruling party does everything in its power to dismantle fair elections like gerrymandering, disenrolling voters and passing anti-voter laws.

System's broken, agents at the helm don't want it fixed. And people refusing to act on the actual facts in front of them are what continues to break the system down.
Unfortunately I don't think anyone has a good explanation for any of it yet.

It's strange to issue a revocation, but then it's also strange to get subpoena'd by CTFC, and to print 850 million tethers in the same month you fail to get an audit through...

A revocation of about 1.5% is just another confounding factor at this point.
What surprises me most is that despite all these red flags USDT still holds its peg mostly well. Right now it trades less than a cent below the dollar on kraken for instance. It seems like cryptocurrency traders are paradoxically pretty trusting.
We haven't had a say in this one for a very long time. We sound like broken records.
Keeping pace with the market. Tether burning coins is an expected and healthy part of their supply management strategy. Think about how you'd keep a finite-supply coin pegged to a value - you'd print and burn tokens as needed to stabilize the value of the coin.
Hexadecimal integer is not part of JSON. It is a new syntax introduced in JSON5 (not JSON version 5). I don't think this feature is that useful, thus does not incorporate it into Mark.
Skimming the article, it seems to me that what they need most right now is not systems for gathering more data, but systems for analyzing data they already have. Like, the iPhone thing - they didn't notice because they classified each event as one-off, so nobody looked for possible connection. I assume police stations don't exchange data with each other as much as they should either.

As for the crimes going unreported, a cost-effective way of solving that would be investing in solving the crimes they know about, or at least making it look like they're good at solving them. Make people believe the police works effectively, and they'll hesitate less before reporting.
Apple’s growth is almost entirely inwardly-focused when it comes to its user-base: higher prices, more services, and more devices

I find myself increasingly stuck in an Apple 2011 - 2013 universe.

For starters Apple has not yet provided a viable upgrade for my primary desktop machine: a 2011 Mac Mini (2.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 with 8 GB ram and SSD). The specs on the current 2018 Mac Mini lineup are considerable lower than yesteryears Mac Mini. No idea why? I'd love to upgrade to a faster Mac Mini, but there's really no options, even 6 years later. So nope.

Then there's my 2013 MacBook Air (1.7GHz dual-core Intel Core i7 with 8 GB ram and SSD). This thing has been a workhorse. That said I'd love to get a similar form factor with Retina, however, the only somewhat viable upgrade option seems to be the 12" MacBook. Too small, so nope.

Finally, there's my iPhone 5S (2013 as well). It's showing it's age (sluggish at times), however, I've replaced the battery and to be honest, it's still got some life left in it. Admittedly, the iPhone is the only Apple product I own that actually does have a viable upgrade path.

Unfortunately, with the lack of upgrade options for my primary Apple devices, and issues I've had with iTunes and Apple TV, I'm hesitant to buy in again ...

Most other Apple devices and products I own simply collect dust:

Various iPods and thousands of purchased iTunes songs collecting dust - as I switched to Spotify. I switched to Spotify when iTunes + iCloud (perhaps user error, not sure) somehow deleted all of my ripped MP3s from along time ago. Generally speaking the iTunes app itself got to the point where it was unusably bloated and convoluted. Not sure why.

Apple TV collecting dust. Replaced by an Android TV due to not making it easy to play all file formats.

AirPort Extreme collecting dust - had multiple issues and it eventually stopped working (bricked).

Finally, MacOS itself has been lacklustre the past couple of releases. I hesitate to upgrade now, due to various bugs and lack of quality control. Apps I previously purchased on the Mac App store have stopped working as well.

So while Apple embarks on a new chapter in it's "middle age", it seems like the previous generation has been left to rot ... with not much in the way of upgrade options. How is this an inwardly-focused strategy?
Perhaps more like EDN since it doesn't have a runtime. But yeah, it's s-exps with curly braces. Which in my opinion, look worse than round parentheses … but that's opinion

https://github.com/edn-format/edn
https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/edn/
How to approach learning a new technology – Medium
It also was not a written language, until more recent times, therefor there was virtually no literary base for a code breaker to draw from.

http://www.lapahie.com/Dine_Bizaad_Right_Btfm.cfm
That's interesting, my Cryptopia DOGE trading pairs (and LTC) beg to differ. Will there be a crisis of confidence if Doge crashes to 0 on Cryptopia? Of course not.

USDT is one of many trading pairs offered by crypto exchanges. It matters no more or less than NZDT, Dogecoin, Litecoin, Bitcoin, Ethereum, or any other common trading pair in the crypto world.
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Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]
That's not actually how things unfold when a company gets into trouble. Your scenario is the perfect, idealized, never-happens outcome. We have dozens of historical examples at this point, from elite, massive corporations unraveling: what they basically never do, is the strictly rational idealized scenario.

What actually happens is closer to chaos loaded with self-interest and stupidity by management and the board.

The board gets attacked aggressively by large investors. Existing management and the board goes into bunker war bribery mode.

The board bribes shareholders, further depleting its cash position. See: IBM's most recent idiocy as their revenue melted for 23 straight quarters, while they continued to buy back stock aggressively.

The cost of their staggering $100+ billion in debt climbs over time as their financial and earnings situation erodes. By the time a serious problem erupts, they'll probably have $200+ billion in debt (they'll have that in just four or five years now), continuing their existing mistake.

They intentionally avoid paying off all of their debt while they can, to hold onto the cash (because hey, debt is cheap today, forget about tomorrow, tomorrow is valhalla and rainbows), which they then make the mistake of expending to bribe shareholders as the stock plunges. Because, you know, things are going to turn around any day now.

Then they end up with less cash than they have debt, and down it all goes from there, in a spiral they can't pull out of.

If we're talking about what happens in a bad scenario, that's more like what commonly happens in reality. That net cash position will not be preciously saved to protect employees, the employees are the first ones to go. That net cash will be used as a bribery slush fund.

Their earnings haven't increased in years. They're facing a zero growth future, if only because of their immense size. The smartphone market contracted by ~9% in 2017 (-16% in China). They're facing a PC market scenario, where consumers start replacing devices a lot less often (while simultaneously smartphones face increased competition from all sorts of cheaper AI-focused devices). Their cash accumulation is far slower now than it was in the past, because it's all going to shareholder bribery. Meanwhile, they've added $50 billion in debt in about two years, with that pace continuing in the latest quarter. Their income to debt ratio has been eroding for five straight years.

Consider: right now Apple is making the incredibly foolish mistake of aggressively buying back stock with their capital, while its AI efforts are an embarrasment and they get their ass kicked by Amazon. Spend $50 billion catching up in AI etc? Or buy back stock? Apple has made its choice, and it shows.
Agreed charts are supposed to make understanding the data easier. This may do the opposite.
JFYI, there was also a (IMHO quite nice) TV mini-serie in Italy long before the 2000's, in 1974:

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accadde_a_Lisbona

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGYt5_UJWF0

etc.
My bad, I meant not really case-insensitive but flipped case, to account for possible Caps Lock state. I.e. for "Hunter2" you also accept "hUNTER2" (but "HuNTeR2" is still not valid).

Facebook does this. This is only a single bit compromise, and if there are a lot of users affected, benefits may overweigh the slight security downgrade.
I generally agree with you but there is the case for negative revenue that could deplete those reserves at a rate faster than you have calculated.
You aren't being fair to the Senators of large states that represent tens of millions of people.

I think your thesis is not correct though, the senate is less dysfunctional than the house, at least partly because they each answer to a broad constituency.
It's hard to understand because:

1.) People are often horrible communicators.

2.) Marketing copy very rarely (if ever) discloses there will be a fee for updates.

3.) Updates are confusing and nothing is standardized. Some companies offer free updates forever. Others charge for updates. Still others disguise updates as new versions.
Another transparent appointee of Trump's designed to destroy the department to which he/she was appointed. See: Ajit Pai, Rick Perry, Scott Pruitt, Betsy DeVos, and more.

Is there any precedent for committing "mutiny" in a governmental organization?
> “You can ignore people more efficiently that way.”

They should really have a chat with my SO. She can always tell if someone is paying attention.

I think squinting is a pretty natural gesture that could be used for controlling this device. That is - if it's feasible to make it so.
Python as a DSL (2017)
Grammar details in section 4 of https://mark.js.org/mark-syntax.html
I see no reason why a 16 year old shouldn't be able to do that, and it's not that uncommon, especially these days with all the great resources available online.
Yes he did.

I would say that the grand project he undertook (the critiques of pure reason, practical reason and judgement), although great works in their own right, and a clear articulation of what philosophy is, ultimately failed in their project. (To provide us with guides for what is good, true and beautiful).
I doubt it's ever coming but to really separate layout from content requires the layout tree and the content to be separate trees. Right now there's effectively only 1 tree, the DOM and CSS for the most part is just meta data on that tree.

GRID requires things to actually fit a grid. If your grid isn't easily divided you add nested grids. But once you nest grids you can no longer seperate layout from content since the nested grid tree (layout) and the DOM tree (content) are tied together.
> I have a lower bar: don't composite an impossible image. And if you composite, don't claim the opposite like Lik is quoted as claiming in the article.

I have an even lower bar: compositing impossible images is perfectly fine[0], just don't lie about it.

[0] There are plenty of interesting and thought-provoking visuals to be had there. A few years back there were compositions of gas giants instead of the moon which were interesting and beautiful, also the discussions of taking the picture quick before the entire scenery is torn apart by tides were funny
Those were stolen tokens https://www.coindesk.com/tether-claims-30-million-stable-tok...
The senate has an excellent track record for protecting the corporate elite, not the broad constituency.
To be fair, isn't FED a private, non-federal company? :)
Banks are private companies and they create money all the time when they make loans.
You could try visiting, but it would have a proprietary docking port. :>
>> Outside of Tether - I'm not seeing the ramifications

Total liquidity in the market is probably a very small fraction of the market cap. If Tether has been pumping in fake liquidity, in effect creating fake demand, there could be a relative demand crash as that leaves the market, and there would be a relative fall in the (apparent) availability of USD.

That would add to the effect of people desperately trying to flee tether to the comparative safety of real US dollars, which is likely to mean the tether/BTC, tether/ETH tether/whatever rates rocket as people try to get out of positions on tether exchanges. Then a fall in the coin prices as said folks transfer to other exchanges and try to cash out to dollars. And given there are now fewer dollars in circulation than was thought, it could be a bloodbath.

If other exchanges are above board in their dealings, and the coins and cash are where they should be, and withdrawals don't grind to a halt, then that could be as far as it goes. If they aren't, and if they have trouble paying out, it could take exchanges down.
I think bitfinex is holding the peg on where you can see it (kraken). Nobody else can buy /sell tether. Even a guy saying tether probably has the money on twitter was only willing to buy at 45% premium.

Now, bitfinex looks super solvent though, so its not like the exchange can dissolve like mtgox.
Did the Lehman Brothers collapse affect anyone who wasn't their customer or employee?

Tether is big enough that it could send similar shockwaves.
all this promoting of AI and ML is BS when you need a PhD to get a job doing it.
Maybe we could let people decide for themselves who represents them, that way they can choose someone they trust to do the job correctly.
Lost so much $ on cryptocurenecy . what to do
I invested a w 6-figure number on bitcoin and etherum 2 months ago. Watched a profit turn into a large loss. Pretty uh I am paralyzed. Work going downhill. My life feels ruined Any advice
Five tips on making every day count, by Richard Branson
Not that I know of sadly. There's an open issue, but no progress as far as I could see. I haven't tried, but technically Firefox should support the WebExtensions APIs that Chrome uses, so it might be worth trying to manually load in the Chrome extension into Firefox.
I think it's important to note that the clouds are behind and in front of the moon. I suppose some clouds could look like they were behind the moon if they are thin enough and the moon bright enough to punch through them.
SpaceX set to fire Tesla Roadster into orbit
>Yet there are still people who do not need this guidance and who are still making equally moving contributions but are not recognized or rewarded for their work.

And there’s substantially more people spinning their wheels and wasting their time, and they don’t even know enough to understand what they’re doing uninteresting.

>Also by receiving grant money in your name you are paying to go to university.

What does that even mean. You realize that working for free on an open source project is closer to “paying to work on a project”, right?
The future is heterogeneous computing. Intel's chips already include a GPU, the next step will be FPGAs.
Pweave – Scientific Reports Using Python
Looks like feckin' road engineers had their way with all the land freed up by the removal of the wall. Great!
Thanks for the XKCD reference. May be I can use it for my next Mark blog head graphics. :-)
Atari's Former Female Employees Reproach Ms. Wu, GDC for Denigrating N. Bushnell
Exactly my reason. Spotify has such a limited collection of Indian music and within that regional music that there is no way I will ever pay for it. In contrast Apple Music has a wide selection.
I worked on this thing for about a month around Christmas time and apparently was sort of on the right track -- missed the width bit it seems.

Kind of figured the key was a literal key and could throw enough python at it to get somewhere but unfortunately not the right somewhere.
And donate to candidates/campaigns that support your values.
Why the need for machine learning for the second part? It seems like a complicated way to do what you could do with some simple database queries.
Is that really worse than the "hell" of angle-brackets in XML/HTML? Because those are pretty widely adopted.
Can't believe this wasn't supposed to go out April 1.
I didn't until I bought an Apple Watch and now I wear it every day and find it a very useful accessory.
The bigger conspiracy is that Tether might have been used to pump the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. The theory goes something like this:

- Bitcoin starts dipping.

- Bitfinex/Tether generates millions of USDT out of thin air.

- They use them to buy Bitcoins, sending the price back up.

- Once the price is high enough they can sell a few of these Bitcoins they effectively got "for free" and make a ton of money.

A big proponent of this theory is "Bitfinex'ed": https://medium.com/@bitfinexed
I don't really remember where have I heard about this. It definitely wasn't an article online. It might have been the museum at Bernauer Str.
I've done that - I suppose it's marginally better than doing nothing.

But I still feel helpless, voting for incompetent elitist cronies on both sides who are relentlessly abusing the system for their own benefit, or voting for the rare ethical person who is hamstrung by their honest desire to do the right thing and therefore simply can't possibly win this rigged game.
I generally agree that they didn't "bet big" on iPhone X, but I really hate equating it with the S8 because that was a terrible device in my opinion.

First off, just from being in my empty pocket for 2-3 days, the screen was covered in scratches that made it difficult to see a portion of the screen in direct sunlight. I've never had this experience with any other phone.

Then I dropped my S8 from less than a foot and it cracked the glass on both the front and back of the screen. I haven't dropped my iPhone X yet, but based on my experience with recent iPhones it can probably take a lot more abuse.

The S8 also had some pretty annoying design/UX flaws. The fingerprint reader placement next the camera was amazingly stupid, and everything related to Bixby has been somewhat of a disaster. I had tried to reprogram the Bixby button to do something useful, but then it was still slow and Samsung insisted on breaking that functionality repeatedly in updates. They ought to know well enough that nobody wants to use their stupid assistant. Or cover their camera with fingerprints.
There's nothing wrong with few lines of code :) and I think it's nice that no data is stored since you can just go through your chat history.
I agree it is indeed normal if Tether is backed.
We're willing to spend money to imprison and deport people, but not to save people. sick.
This is not what Tether is intended to be. Tether is not pegged to the value of 1 USD. The value of Tether does not need to be stabilized. Tether is a 1 for 1 USD backed coin, meaning it's entirely within the scope of Tether for the value of 1USDT to reach $1.10, $1.20 or even $1.50 -- if the market decides that is the value of it.

The point of Tether is that for each USDT there is a corresponding USD in an account belonging to Tether. If Tether were printing USDT to keep 1 USDT valued at 1 USD then they would be violating what Tether is publicly stated to be.

The whitepaper can be found here: https://tether.to/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/TetherWhitePape...
My dad was in the United States Marine Corps, and he used to joke that the Marines were so poor equipment-acquisition-wise they got the hand-me-downs from the Army.

It has been my personal experiences that the Coast Guard is even worse off as far as the funding they get versus the vitally important life saving (and you know, coast guarding) missions they are supposed to accomplish. There have been a blizzard of radar technology, drone and UAV technology and boat building technology advancements that would dramatically increase their success rate, but they can't because of antiquated funding and a creaky old-fashioned leadership.

IMO we spend way too much on power project capability with the Navy versus what we could do for the Coast Guard.
Not if you want to keep your pension.
What this guy said.

Also, consider your talents, pick a problem, and try to solve it.

For instance, is there anything that the credit bureaus provide that we can't beat with a little game theory and some cryptography? Let's build an open source decentralized alternative and use it to replace the whole cancerous sector.