skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but because they look at the entire network as a whole and conclude that it was this network that caused the rise in pirating, which is technically true.

But at the same time, ISPs were also profiting from the pirating (in fact, but this is beside the point, they were financially profiting, while the users were just getting movies).

In the case of IPFS, the ones running the infrastructure are not actually profiting directly from the distribution of content in their caches. I.e., the IPFS users are more "innocent" than ISPs in the BitTorrent case.

So if BigMedia wants to sue anybody, they should sue the ISPs, OR the people who placed data in the cache in the first place.

Finally, if this is all insurmountable, then there is still a solution. All users of IPFS transfer ownership of their harddrives (or parts thereof) to the IPFS foundation. That way, the users are not liable.

PS: With IPFS, users are at the same level as ISPs. So if users are getting sued, they can say "I'm an ISP, and I got my data from that ISP, sue them!"
Nerves can definitely regrow. Slowly (1mm/year afaik), but it's definitely possible. I took off the top 1cm of my thumb with a table saw a few years back, had it stitched back on, and I'm just regaining feeling in parts of it now.
> Maybe the solution is as easy as giving workers a voice.

Maybe you should give the guy you paid to paint your garage a voice in your management of your home.
Rap is urban, and so is WeWork

What do you call it when real life looks like satire? Maybe Silicon Valley will pick up on this.
I didn't downvote, but maybe because it was a gender-based classification of behavior backed up by two opinion pieces?
Since when? You by default use the main servers when you install Noise or signal-cli, despite how Moxie may dislike this fracturing of the Signal client ecosystem.
I'm particularly interested in #23 since it is clear that Wikipedia is even more dominant now than it was in 2008: More open alternatives to Wikipedia. Deletionists rule Wikipedia. Ironically, they're constrained by print-era thinking. What harm does it do if an online reference has a long tail of articles that are only interesting to a few people, so long as everyone can still find whatever they're looking for? There is room to do to Wikipedia what Wikipedia did to Britannica.
I bookmarked this. There are a lot of nice tips for someone like me who builds lots of prototypes but isn't a designer at all.
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This is an excellent post, with many well-reasoned points. Thank you for writing it.
When you sum it up like that it sounds like a blatant op run by a clandestine agency...

Sigh, trust is hard after the crypto wars.
That car is likely 8-10 years old, and one of the $1000 calamities that would push them into insolvency.
I just tried a 11 character password without special chars, that I’ve used on over 50 sites, over the last decade. It’s my password for throaway websites. Some pretty dodgy.

Not in the database.

Makes me feel pretty good about password security overall!
If you're suggesting that Signal will eventually federate, there's nothing in those two links to support that interpretation. In fact, to the contrary:

> Early on, I thought we’d federate Signal once its velocity had subsided. Now I realize that things will probably never slow down, and if anything the velocity of the entire landscape seems to be steadily increasing.

> You're free to use our source code for whatever you would like under the terms of the license, but you're not entitled to use our name or the service that we run. If you think running servers is difficult and expensive (you're right), ask yourself why you feel entitled for us to run them for your product.
I wouldn't say "many" single family neighborhoods, it's really only San Francisco, a city. Even where there are pockets of single family houses, it's not what people usually think of as "single family home neighborhoods." Dual-unit buildings are extremely common, especially in the avenues. And in the Avenues there are plenty of tall apartment buildings sprinkled throughout the neighborhoods, they just had to be built long ago because they are illegal to build today.
I'm curious about your comments on CDNs. Have you had a CDN boot you first-hand (or seen it happen second-hand)? If so, what were the circumstances? Video delivery is a huge part of every CDN's business, and almost everyone doing video streaming relies on third-party CDNs. (Except for the biggest operations like Twitch and Google that have their own peering relationships and caching infrastructure.)
And yet, they are.

From the methods section,

"The purpose of this study was to investigate whether natural dentine repair could be enhanced by stimulating the formation of reparative dentine. Adult CD1 wild-type mouse first molars were used and damage stimulated by controlling drilling (see below). The drugs of choice and vehicle were based on previous reports in the literature and also translational potential into a simple, cost effective dental therapy."
Heck yeah, even the most trivial chatter "by the water cooler" can result in surprising door-opening, whether intended or not. :)
Or they secretly allow it because they know something we don't.
How do you feel about identity theft? Is it ethical to take measures to reduce identity theft? Note that ICE is very strongly involved in reducing identity theft.

How do you feel about a living wage? Is it ethical to take action against people who cause wages to fall below a living wage? Note that wages go up when ICE removes people who are pushing wages down.

How do you feel about unemployment for black Americans? Is it ethical to help them by making more jobs available? ICE does that.
Another win with accessibility can be more common interfaces with web pages. This can make things like web scraping and alternative rendering (firefox's reader view, cli) much easier to do.

Granted, I think things like html5 was intended to accomplish this with tags like <article>, but usage is really inconsistent as far as I can tell.
You can send an astronomer's telegram: http://www.astronomerstelegram.org/

There's a pretty active community of amateur astronomers who search for new supernovae. Until recently amateurs actually discovered most new supernovae. Japanese amateurs especially found a lot because there's nothing over the Pacific, so they could discover all the supernova that went off when it was night over the Pacific.
I ate one meal a day last July, for the entire month. (drank distilled water during the non-eating time) I documented my progress in a spreadsheet and I lost .5 pounds a day on average. I increased (easily, fasting makes you stronger) my run from 1 miles to 2 miles, got up to 3 at one point. I started running 6 days (about) a week during this time. I went from 202lbs (average weight) to 186lbs in a month.

I gained some back quickly to even out at 190lbs, and now I maintain 192-194 easily, but have replaced fat with muscle. Also, I stopped running in the winter (started doing strength work), I suspect I will get below 190 in the spring. But also I don't do the timed structure for eating, it'd likely help with the small amount of extra weight I keep. :P

I know many people that have made incredible changes doing this, I hope it catches on more.
You mean, Matrix does not pose arbitrary limitations to clients that want to use end-to-end encryption. Clients that do not yet feature it by default, and that give huge warnings when you try to enable it. Clients that have problems with complex navigation when trying to verify fingerprints. Matrix is not the future, because at some point you're going to need to defeat metadata, and decentralized platforms can't do that. The future is in apps like Ricochet and Briar.
JavaScript Packaging Dystopia (2015)
I'm pretty well stuck on my current phone without a working backup for texts and media, unless I'm okay with losing my memories. Essentially, there is no way for you to take any media with you in a reasonable fashion when changing phones with Signal.
All worker benefits and protections, legally mandated or not, come out of the worker's takehome pay, one way or another.
Yes, I don't think we're disagreeing. I was just saying that what is considered a reasonable expectation for a middle class life is much more than it used to be. On an absolute scale I think the average American is better off now than they were 50 years ago.

I'm aware that there is small, but substantial part of the population that lives on a few dollars a day in the US, but I don't think that invalidates my main point.
I'm hoping they can use some of this cash to make a better desktop client:

1. That can be minimized to the system tray.

2. That can be used when behind an http proxy server.

3. Doesn't require a phone to use.

4. Doesn't take 200MB ram to run.
Friday beers is something that can exclude people, though, even if they're not being pressured to drink. Alcohol is a sort of culturally fraught thing that's important to some people, but for others - members of some religious groups, recovering alcoholics, and victims of drinking-related abuse come to mind - simply being in the presence of someone who's consuming alcohol can be an uncomfortable experience.

I don't think that companies are under any obligation to avoid having traditions like Friday beers altogether, but, if you're looking to be inclusive, you should probably strive to ensure that there are also plenty of social activities where there is no alcohol present.
Xmpp was pretty popular. Fb messenger and Google talk never allowed federation, but they did for a while allow access by xmpp clients.

Apparently WhatsApp still use xmpp, but afaik also never supported federation.

Aim didn't allow federation.

So I'm not sure what you're trying to say?

You could claim the rotting corpse of duckduckgo's xmpp service is evidence that users don't want federation - but I thinks more just an example of a mis-managed service.

[ed: the other two obvious examples of users do seem to want federation is the rise of irc despite many architectural flaws, and the continued popularity of email.]
I lived in Saipan for 3 years (2006-2009). Literally nothing goes on there - an extremely boring, run down place. No way this casino is generating any kind of real earnings. Locals don't have enough money to gamble, and total visitors to all of NMI(which also includes other islands like Tinian and Rota) per year is 500k - twice that many people visit Las Vegas every week.
Galaxies can undergo bursts of star formation which are accompanied by lots of supernovae, because supernovae come from massive stars which don't live for very long. The universe was most active in star formation and supernovae about 10 billion years ago.
You're contradicting yourself several times here. People want to live in SV despite all the downsides you've mentioned, which drives housing prices to such an insane level that local workers can't afford to live there, so the cities plan for more growth by building more density and more mixed-use neighborhoods to increase housing density.

All of the above is true, which you've mentioned. You then say that citizens don't want higher density living, but if citizens want more affordable housing in a housing crunch, the way to do that is to increase density. And if you want shorter commute times, the way to do that is to increase density. And if you want workers to be able to afford housing, the way to do that is to push higher income citizens into more expensive housing, freeing up the more affordable housing for those who actually need it.

You can't complain about the cost of living and then refuse to increase density. Keeping density and new construction low during a housing crunch is how you get insane housing prices.
It seems like everyone has replaced it for the most part with gboard, but I've heard precious few people talking about wordflow. MS released it briefly on ios (and possibly android) and it had way better success rates than any other keyboards I tried. Wordflow, which is also from MS, was way worse. I still have it downloaded and in my purchased even after they removed it, still wonder why they did.
< Alarming because Amazon have yet to produce anything truely great.

Apply the correct latin phrase, but I've found The Man in the High Castle to be one of the best shows on TV right now.
I've reviewed some of the code from your port, and it seems like you've forgotten to carry the one in a few places.
I have one of those, it's called a study, far more productive than in the company office (when I go in on occasion). Because I live 50 miles from a large city, the 4 bed house is about the same price as a 1 bed apartment in London or 2 bed house in Manchester, so we actually have two studies at the moment (kids prefer to share a bedroom), one for my wife, one for me.

Last week I was in Kenya for business purposes setting up a new office, again far more productive sat on my own in the apps room plugging various things in, than sat with the PM and some other engineers in another part of the office.
> This doesn't define for whom it must be backwards compatible. Breaking changes are not all created equal. Semver is a pessimistic measure. You bump the major version if a change could break at least one user, in theory. In practice, most "breaking" changes do not break most users.

I think this mean API breaking usually resulting in packages that won't even compile.
Because automation means that there is less need for other people in a business venture. We need more entrepreneurs automating niches and reeping all the rewards.
Perhaps nodes could seek only parts of files, a sub-set of the pieces that make up the full file, for the purpose of building reputation? It could offer some differentiation between users who are seeking the full file vs those that are just acting as a pipe.
You could check for your email on https://haveibeenpwned.com/
I'm not confusing them. I'm pointing out that the first implementation didn't even use the word blockchain, but was focused entirely on bitcoin as a currency.

That someone can come along later and imagine (though not really demonstrate) other uses of an underlying technology is fine and dandy, but it's definitely not myopic to think that the person who initially created and linked the two concepts wasn't stupid.
"Primary actions should be obvious. Solid, high contrast background colors work great here."

If you made the primary action a button without a background than you did not do what was suggested in this article.
Hey, this is pretty cool, I like how the questions are free, that's a good idea. I'm going to sign up!
> (TV & film are undergoing a similar transition to subscription models, more slowly

Lately seems to be going into an opposite direction. I.e. I have TV subscription, Netflix subscription, Amazon Prime subscription... but what I have to do to see Start Trek Discovery? Get yet another monthly subscription. Not exactly "one umbrella $10 subscription covers all" but rather "everybody has its own $10 subscription in which you probably are only interested in one thing ever, but you have to get the whole thing anyway". That, or just download it from torrents...

> to expect free, ad-supported news

Same problem here, btw. I wouldn't mind another $10 subscription, but I am surely not going to subscribe to 50 different news sources of which I read 2 articles a month from each, and I am surely not going to buy subscription to only one and trust it to actually give me full, deep, unbiased and untainted picture of the world, not sure if such unicorns ever existed but for sure they are extinct now. So again, 50 subscriptions or... other ways.
Thanks! - btw if you have any ideas for other examples please do let me know, I'm very eager to add more interesting yet also accessible examples.
This Isn’t About Social Media. This Is About Control
Gaming metrics is the very soul of corporate life
I did read it. For me, it doesn't matter for two reasons. Professionally, I have a policy to comply with. And personally, I don't use other peoples' machines for personal storage, period. So why would I want my (even well protected, assuming 1PW didn't make a mistake) passwords to be an exception?
> I'd start worrying about the effect of automation on jobs when somebody builds a robot can clean my toilet.

Well the spinxclean toilet cleaning robot will be out soon, should we start worrying?
yes, he's working on Mobilecoin since the beginning. I'm wondering when it will ship and if it will be the first project of the Signal foundation.
IMO, saying PGP has failed is like saying cryptocurrencies have failed.
Yeah, I suspect I was only disappointed because of the books, and even then not by that much - above all I was happy to see the universe on screen.

With that being said, and especially if you liked the show, I heartily recommend the books.
The ”fux dat”, or stoic approach.
@signa11 thanks for the note.

btw I've added a whole lot more examples since the last time, and I've also updated the library itself.
How much exercise is enough exercise?
Not an actual prince but merely from a rich (birth) family.
When WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook for $19B they only had a little over 50 people.
Families are never torn apart by American immigration law. There is nothing in the law that prevents an American citizen from leaving the USA. If they won't leave, then that says something about how much they value the family.

You could make a similar argument for any crime that results in prison time. Locking up murderers results directly in human misery and torn apart families. This case is far more severe: we don't allow the family to move into the prison to live with the criminal. We even separate nursing babies from their mothers.
Let's hope they don't backdoor it like they did with WA. Probably already has one. Long time signal and WA user here
This is something we're working on. If you look at our API, we have a concept called "playback_policies" that will encompass this. https://docs.mux.com/v1/reference#create-an-asset
At first, it's just "public" and "private", but we'll soon have "signed" (e.g. short-term expiring URLs), and will then build in other security options, like georestriction and possibly domain-based restriction. We'll probably have to add full-on DRM support as well at some point.

Would signed URLs work for your use-case?
You need to step away and collect yourself.
This can explained by the fact that US companies are doing an increasing share of their business in non-US countries.
He's saying echo without an argument emits a newline, so use -n to suppress it.
Get that taken care of bruh.
It's indeed weird that "00000" would be the hash prefix with the highest number of entries. I think it must be a hidden variable. Like some sources put an all-zeroed-out hash in the database for testing or in case of a registration error or for deleted users, and these show up here.
wikia.com sites? There are non-wikipedia wikis for tons of stuff there, mostly entertainment-related, but nobody would also prevent one from making something like that for everything else. Also, Wikidata is much more permissive than Wikipedia I think, but this one is mostly for data, not narrative descriptions.
SpaceX is about to quietly launch the first 2 of nearly 12,000 satellites to
Which were the three you read? It was the second I read after Player of Games and it has always been my favourite Banks scifi book.
Labor costs are typically consume 30% of a restaurant's revenue. Increasing those costs by 50% and not expecting major consequences is a unrealistic.
I also like the keybase product. But when I see an ambitious, well-funded startup without a paid product or clear business model... that tells me I cannot yet trust their product, strategy or management team to endure. Next year they might be a completely different company, or might not exist at all. Since they haven't open-sourced their server, that makes it risky to rely on their products, because I don't really know what it is I'm relying on.

Signal in comparison is very clear about their goals, management and business model, and I believe are 100% open-source. That gives me confidence to adopt it now, even though it's a less feature-rich product.

I would love to see Signal adopt the Keybase identity-by-proof model, I think it's very clever and pragmatic.
Could this also be because the judge in that district court is about to retire and most of the patent lawsuits were filed by his sons who are attorneys in the same district court holding several shell companies?

Update: my source is this mind blowing documentary called Patent Scam (on amazon prime) which mentioned this conflict of interest. It’s way too unbelievable, but I believe it is true because otherwise the movie maker would be sued like crazy if it was a lie.
At least the url is self descriptive.

Is the government allowed to make money (more than its value) by selling money?
This is actually pretty awesome if you ask me. There has been an exploding of "expert curated lists" on GitHub and it's been quite dizzying for me. And now we have a curated list of curated lists.

What is genius about this is if someone says "I want to be a front-end developer", then this is actually a pretty good reference point of "hey, here's a bunch of concepts you may need to learn someday".
It can generate the instance for you for particular typeclasses with an extension. See DeriveGeneric and DeriveAnyClass. The penalty applies when you're unwilling to use these extensions or when you create a type with the `data` keyword.
There was no compatibility when I switched, and I waited for some time (I use Nightly). Maybe "recent" is misleading.
You're absolutely right, formal computational geometry is more biased towards exact algorithms and their associated complexities - specifically solving problems that more often than not have a geometric structure associated with them.

It is however fun from time to time to have some visual tangible results too otherwise things do get a bit dry.
Which parts of the studies above did you disagree with? What major consequences did you think Seattle suffered from?
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Similar is the time that universities tried to put educational videos online for free and got sued because they didn't provide subtitles. Now no one can watch them.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/12/advocates-for-d...
I think this is meaningless pedantry. It's like saying if I hold a gun to your head and tell you to dance, you always have a choice. Technically true but diluting the term choice past the point of usefulness.

More subtly, it's assuming that costs and benefits are somehow quantifiable in a single "benefit function". This is a modelling assumption that is often not true. There can be a benefit ("at least we can get some money to some people") that you can't turn down ("ethically can we turn down some money for some people like this?") while also being deeply damaging ("we are 'selling our soul' by acting as a PR arm for companies that want to improve their reputation rather than lives. This is damaging the ethical undeprinning and structural integrity of our organisation").

Summarizing this complex situation as a net benefit is naive and a bad model that will lead you to incorrect conclusions (like: "well they must get a net benefit, so it can't be that bad" rather than "we need to eliminate the structural factors that lead to such situations.")
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Hey, any recommendations for a conversation starter in a coworking kitchen?
Thank you for the straightforward explanation.
Are you certain Chromebooks have a read-only BIOS? They recently shipped firmware updates to fix a widespread TPM vulnerability.[1]

[1] https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/tpm_firmware_update#TOC...
Maybe they can use their $50,000,000 to make it possible to sign up for their service without a phone number.

The hype around Signal is insane to me considering this lack of basic functionality.
​What's really the fastest Windows 10 web browser today?