skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=984720
Do we know for sure Bitcoin's blockchain has never been hacked? How do we know that some mysterious organization doesn't own a majority of nodes? (honest question)
Yeah, it basically is.

I played with D3 every now and then for maybe the past 6 years to scratch some data visualization itch, but I never really understood it. I always wound up trying a code snippet from a random blog and got frustrated when I couldn't get it to bend to my needs.

It finally clicked for me a after I read the first few introductory tutorials on the D3 Github wiki. It made me realize that, while it was probably built for data visualizations, D3 at its core is a browser DOM manipulation library with a (data-driven) declarative API. It's a slightly higher level of abstraction compared to the DOM manipulation part of jQuery (though, many frontend developers these days consider jQuery to be a low-level library).

Of course, it also helped that I learned a lot over 6 years. I was a university student back then, and now I'm a professional software engineer who has spent the last year or so doing frontend development. D3 makes a lot of sense within the context of my current understanding of how browser DOM APIs work.
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It is one thing for Apple/Cook to decline to make even more money by exploiting personal information. It is quite an other thing to risk losing massive income by provoking the Chinese government.
There is one reason that it might behoove you to keep everything invested in the company you work for.

It may be that you have insider information that no one else knows.
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There is tracking on most p2p networks, and there aren’t really any p2p networks where the service is free, as in free beer.

I mean, the whole concept of the most widespread p2p networks is piracy, or the act of paying for bandwidth and electricity to save money on the movies that you steal.
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People like to bring that up, but Linux also succeeded because of an open development model that BSD lacked. Linus Tolvards is basically the poster boy of Open Source.
I love HN because I can find tons of high quality opinions/information about many different subjects I am interested in.

Therefore, my favorite HN post changes for what I am interested in which is highly time sensitive based on what I am currently doing. I highly recommend everyone to search for "hacker news <some_new_thing_(generally_technology)_you_are_looking_into>" when researching new things.

Example: I was building a django app in my spare time and I wanted to know more about django channels which allows one to create web sockets. I Google searched "hacker news django channels" and found 116 comments talking about it from other professionals when it was first released: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11305869
a) of course. I’m questioning your assumption that people don’t have choice. If people have a choice to choose between coke and Pepsi or water they should be able to choose between data and money

b) There is no way to tell. Maybe 80% would pay 50c a month. I’d say there is some middle ground between 100%/0$ and your assumption of 10%/5$.
That sounds interesting. Could you provide a couple of links to those books?
“Generally been great” / “20-30% have issuesL. Yea something doesn’t add up or people are ridiculously forgiving just because it’s a hip SV startup that’s providing the (non-)service
I imagine the market sector that cares and actually understands the issues is not too small in itself but in the scope of potential users of smartphones quite tiny.
I bought my first very similar house in 2005 and experienced this exact thing. Fresh out of college, moved to South for a promising job, and bought something small I could easily afford. I even wrote about the potential of a housing crash in Oct 2005 ( http://chir.ag/200510301225 ). I lived there through the housing bubble, saw my 145k house go up to 200k and then down to 75k, rented it out after I got married and moved away, and kept losing thousands each year for 5-6 years.

Last week someone offered to buy it for just a bit over my mortgage pay off balance. I will lose a few thousand but at least I will be out of the landlording business. I have my fingers crossed that the inspection goes well but I'm not holding my breath.

> From the original purchase in 2005 to last year’s sale, I lost $25,500. My losses as a landlord? At least $35,000. Whatever the sum, it no longer mattered. I was free.

It's scary how similar even his figures are to mine. I bought a much more modest house than I could have bought in a prime location, I fought hard to get a great deal on my mortgage, I paid bills on time and kept up with maintenance, and I've kept up with the market trends so as not to miss my chance to refinance/sell.

Time and again I asked myself what I did wrong to lose 60k+ of my hard earned money over a decade. But after an investor friend of mine discussed his plans to buy numerous distressed properties to fix and rent them, I realized what had happened. The Great Recession had turned affordable residential real-estate into a zero sum game. I, along with millions of others had to lose 10k each per year to make it worth it for him to be a residential real-estate investor. My piggy bank investment was competing in the same arena has his tooth-and-nails livelihood.

The big lesson is that market manipulation can convert a non-zero sum activity into a zero-sum activity. It used to be that your small family home was a safe, gradually appreciating asset. Most everyone won, few lost.

> In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern proved that any non-zero-sum game for n players is equivalent to a zero-sum game with n + 1 players; the (n + 1)th player representing the global profit or loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game#Extensions

Just need one new player to turn the game around. Enter my friend and a few thousand others like him with resources to buy out every third upside-down house in the neighborhood with cash, upgrade bath and kitchen, and then rent them out long-term with a team of property managers. It's a sellers market but very few homeowners are bidding up sub-200k houses. Instead it's the cash investors low-balling the price until owners such as myself and the author just break down and say 'Screw it! At least the 60k loss will save me some taxes next year.'
The build was done at Defenders Northwest [1] in Gig Harbor, WA. I was fortunate to live in Tacoma at the time, just across the bridge, which made the process easier. It took eight full weekends to get the truck on the road and back to my house. That's an 8 or 9AM start on Saturday and Sunday, working until 5 or 6PM. It was done over a PNW winter and there were lots of days spent out in the rain, as you can see in some of my pics on the previous post. Tough work but so worth it.

Once the truck was rolling, I took it back to my house to finish up the non-essential things, like wiring up the speedometer and aftermarket things like my winch and bumper. There were a bunch of little things that needed to be solved and the last 5% of the build took at least 50% of the time, mostly due to having to air-freight less common parts from the U.K.

Defenders Northwest is owned by Brian Hall and he's a great guy to work with. However, if you're seriously interested in Defenders, take some time to do the basic research on your own before calling a builder. I run one of the big Defender forums, NAS-ROW (NAS being "North American Spec" and ROW, "Rest-of-World" spec). https://nas-row.com - lots of info there.

[1] https://www.defendersnorthwest.com/
I think it's very poor idea to own stock in your employer. This famously is highlighted by Enron encouraging it's employers to invest their retirement account disproportionately in enron stock. The employees that did lost their job and their retirement account at the same time. [0]

It's probably a less bad idea to own stock in a company you control on a managerial level (C level or on the board).

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/22/business/employees-retire...
I think if you divide the money brought in via web advertising across all users of the web it comes out to like $150/month/user.

Would you pay $150/month to not have ads ever again? I definitely would but considering how much people complain about $3/month for no-ad hulu...
"For Scientists and Engineers" sounds to me like it's targeting people who already have a strong background in more advanced mathematics, but not necessarily probability and measure theory. If so I think this is a decent way to go about it.

I'm an engineer and sometimes mathematician that works with fairly in-depth probability theory related things and this looks to be a condensed version of a lot of the basic stuff I had to self learn when I was getting into what I work on now. I'm in a niche area though, and I do wonder if this really is that useful to most scientists and engineers.
Yes, Linux did succeed by being better than other Unixes in ways that count on the server side.

And on the desktop it took a backseat to MacOS for similar reasons.
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I suppose we don't. But if word ever got out that it could be under attack, the value of BTC would crash, and an emergency hard fork would occur. It would take a large investment to try and control/manipulate the hash power to do that, and so to throw away all that money to kill a blockchain that can be simply forked with a new hashing algorithm seems low probability?
Incidental vs. essential complexity.
Can we reduce the clickbait by replacing "This philosopher" with "Henri Bergson"?
Just to add to this, DoreenMichele herself was on the leaderboard with her previous handle and would certainly still be there if she hadn't moved to her current one, so clearly folks here appreciate the perspective she brings to conversations!
How would elimination of advertising fix online communication platforms. It isn't the ads that is causing the groupthink and polarization, but the abundance of choice in things to follow and voices to listen to. Do you suggest restricting the speech of people online?

The polarization and groupthink is even present on online platforms that have no ads whatsoever, like Wikipedia and, to an extent, Hacker News.
That sounds unacceptable, why haven't you changed banks?!
In my case, the shop was still very new and the owner wanted to get into restorations (he was in the parts biz). After my project, he took on a few more owner-builds but now primarily focuses on doing resto jobs himself for his customers.
I live in a country where $300 is the average monthly wage.

Is paying 1/12th of your total annual income just to get 4 services worth it?

That would be, what?, like you paying $10,000 a year for those services?
Isn't that the exciting thing about Bitcoin/blockchain? In the future, it is theoretically possible to live life and to conduct all commerce through cryptocurrencies.

The thing about security is that you just need to exploit one weak link in the chain.

Again, we're talking about decentralized systems as a whole. Individuals can be targetted/phished/scammed in any system. What is the weak systematic link in Bitcoin that can be exploited?
No, but a pair of scissors will...
As an entrepreneur, should you set firm hours for yourself? Do weekends exist?
The speed is not what makes Ethereum unique and useful. The global consensus of what happened on that computer is what is useful.
Again the lack of a built in array type with both data+length shows. Leaving this out of C must be the most expensive mistake in progranning history, after null. Imagine all the security holes stemming from that and now also it shows that it is preventing optimizers. At least now it's finally available with cppcoreguidelines.
Even better buy a $10 key on ebay.
> Apps like Netflix and snapchat and many payments/banking apps will refuse to work. I cannot find a way to explain this except dev incompetency and/or hostility towards users.

- Netflix: "we see you have root, we can no longer trust our DRM on your phone".

- Snapchat: a service whose core principle was always, "you can send your nude photos to each other, the photos are ephemeral, and they won't be able to save them without you knowing". Rooting your phone breaks that last guarantee.

- Payment/banking: CYA. You have root, some evil "hacker" might "hack" your phone and steal your money, and we don't want to get sued for that.

It's very much user hostility, created by a conflict of interest between the company making the product, and the users of that product.
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I agree with you. My intuition says the culture war is a proxy for a class war, somehow, although I readily admit I can't yet formulate this rationally in much detail. I'm in my forties, and from my point of view, gender and race relations had been on a clear uptrend up until about 5 years ago. The continuous gender and race baiting on social media appears to be almost entirely driven by a certain stripe of feminist, who are able to project all their struggling in life onto white men, who are approximately as economically disadvantaged as they are in the big picture. Young people are hallucinating 'nazis' and 'fascists' everywhere, meanwhile real neo-nazis and fascists almost never make any appearance in these mudslinging debacles. It all seems tragic to me. People opting for small tribal solidarity over broad class solidarity.
A great point. When I worked in the industry, the trading (of exotic products) was actually done over the phone and via e-mail. Very much quant-driven, but about as low-frequency as it gets!
The project might be configured to build with Visual Studio but there are other C# compilers available. And Visual Studio is available for macOS in addition to Windows. https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/mac/
In US you can legally “donate” to politicians and have meetings with them without much tracebility.

Then you also have the dumb idea of super delegates, to which millions are donated by corporations since they have a much larger influence than individual voters.

The reality is that US is no longer a democracy, it’s a plutocracy where the wealthy have a far larger influence.

And since elections are getting more expensive every term, I predict almost every candidate to be a billionaire backed candidate. Bernie was an exception but couldn’t do much against billionaire backed Hillary.
But Facebook does seem to have undermined the status quo in the US and Britain, if we attribute anything to fb. Actually, what they have to do is almost undermine the status quo but not quite, and still look threatening. If the status quo is undermined, the new people have no motivation to change it.
Also has very good support on Lenovo (in my experience), which would make 3 of the largest PC/Laptop manufacturers in the world that has good linux support.

Here is a list of certified vendors for Ubuntu:
https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/
It describes the Robosnail, which inches along a viscous layer of wet clay. In related work, the finned Three-Link Swimmer and Robojelly jellyfish swim through viscous fluids.
RPi is way slower than Eee 901... You'd get many more demanding games working smoothly on Eee than on any RPi. I have RPi as well and was considering making a RetroPie console, but performance was not there. You can even buy faster handheld consoles from China for $25 these days...
> My losses as a landlord? At least $35,000

My dad remarried after my mom died and moved into his wife's house. He rented it to me for a few years at below market rates. A felt a little guilty about that, all and all it was a cut of $25k in four years. Next guy he rented it to stopped paying rent after a year and took another six months to evict. Guy trashed the house. Cost my dad $60k.
Not OP, but for me the only hurdle left is gaming compatibility.
I find the parallels to artificial intelligence really interesting. Bergson attributes some kind of magic to time that can't be fully explained by clocks in the same way that consciousness is evoked to argue that brains aren't normal physical systems.
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Watch cheesy movies, hoping the people next to me won't judge. Followed by a couple hours trying to code while the kid behind me kicks my chair. :)
Agreed, there you are right.
God damn you. I’ve been winning for years and now not even HN is safe.
it's sad, how much the author suffered for bad behavior on behalf of the banks.

They got bailed out, the author didn't. He should have foreclosed.

The banks lent money they didn't have. I don't see why the author paid it off. I respect his integrity, but he should have declared bankruptcy.
Have you tried installing MacOS on non-apple hardware?
Not sure I understand the comparison.

MacOS shines as long as you are within Apple walled garden, while I personally like MacOS, I know plenty of users who like Apple hardware but not the OS.

Windows or Most Linux distro doesn't have any such limitation and will work out of the box 90%+ of the time.
Not to invalidate all of your arguments, but it does “just install” in a VM without needing technical experience.

To reach any mass of users (outside of turnkey solutions where the end users may not know or care), you need commercial support and the later needs concrete identified market segments. To parallel Wine - ROS needs its own CrossOver (but not Cedega).
Good point. I try to get up and stretch pretty aggressively every 3 or so hours.
And how will you verify that they are not taking commissions on the side in addition to your fees?
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Did not understand the shame part? A lot of Libraries come with exclusive support for Linux only. Are those shameful too?
there’s a trade off between certain conveniences and security/privacy

The trade isn't between convenience and security. It's between convenience and the result of a security breach. "more security" is abstract and hard to understand; "lowering the probability of this bad thing happening" is much, much easier.

In this case the casino owners had to choose between "remote monitoring of the fishtank" and "a way for hackers to access the internal network and all the bad things that could result from that", and they chose the fishtank.
That time a Marine general led a fictional Iran against the US military and won
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I don't remember if it works/worked with XP, but OEM Win 7 can usually be activated via phone, even if the key was refused during installation.
Autonomous braking is a huge step, and, imho, more exciting at the moment than full autonomous driving because it can save lives right now, and is unlikely to take them (shots fired at Uber).

But buyer beware. Even within the IIHS safety standards, there is considerable variability. I love my Toyota Corolla (2017), but it's braking will only take a few mph off after warning you. I can't wait until my lease expires and I can upgrade to the Subaru (edit: or maybe the Volvo from TFA). Look up the videos, they are fully capable of stopping without any collision up to ~40 mph (disclaimer: never rely on these safety features, it's still your responsibility to be safe).

Do your research, happy and safe driving!
Anti-lock brakes never yielded the accident reduction expected, primarily because drivers used the improved braking performance to drive faster in poorer conditions.

I guess the AEB works at reducing accidents because it IS autonomous and does not "improve performance".

BTW the KPI is reduction in insurance cost.
So what you will about the accuracy of the claims of the prophets and other scriptural authors, but it's hard to call them news today. They will very clearly not be locked up just for that alone. (As for atheists, don't assume they'll get off any easier than believers when all the facts are known.)
Except, it is nothing like win32 VS. This version is based on Xamarin (Microsoft follows horrible naming conventions)
XMPP is more than promising, its proven.

The major messaging (and notification, if you believe the rumours) networks are all based on xmpp.

The issues are basically: big vendors want lock-in so they disable federation and spam. I remember seeing an XEP that aimed to solve the spam issue for federated xmpp.
This was very entertaining. I had to stop after a while but had to bookmark it to check out in the future
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If what you want is a tool that basically does Excel-style static charts for data, then d3 is absolutely the wrong tool. Where d3 shines is when you need to handle smooth, dynamic updates.

In practice, handling dynamic updates requires so many hooks into the data that you can't really define a sensible abstraction layer and have it work well for both simple cases and complex cases. D3 is the successor to Protovis, itself the successor to Flare, itself the successor to Prefuse. And having used all of them save Flare (since I've never had the ability to write Flash code nor the desire to do so), d3 is the only one that I've actually enjoyed using.
Great job! One observation though: I would have liked the last graph to have three parts: under-reported causes on the left, "pretty ok" in the middle, and over-reported on the right. They are mixed up right now, which makes them harder to differentiate.
That is the legit number. And actually, the scammers built their profiles by leading a lot of winning ICO investing campaigns before that. People just had to follow their investing scheme, put money in their so-called portfolio, and made tons of money from it, so they trust these "experts". Then they claimed iFan and Pincoin were the biggest opportunity. People were so greedy to realise the truth tho.
Mozilla is like a modern American university. There is a parasitic growth attached that is only concerned with funneling more resources to itself in the form of bureaucrats and intersectional evangelists.
Depending on the tools it also gives you composability that you don't get from GUI programs. GUI's don't have their pipe equivalent so the aim to let the user do as much as possible within a single tool.
> drivers used the improved braking performance to drive faster in poorer conditions

That's not the ideal outcome but it's still a net win, no?
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yep, got a VW Alltrack last year. the adaptive cruise is really neat.
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In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern proved that any non-zero-sum game for n players is equivalent to a zero-sum game with n + 1 players; the (n + 1)th player representing the global profit or loss. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_game#Extensions

I think you're slightly misinterpreting this although I could certainly be wrong. The idea here is that you can add a n+1th player to a game who captures the excess profit or loss, but that player isn't allowed to influence the game. In this case, the n+1th player would be the net change in the economy.

It's an interesting idea though. The only real source I found discussing this was the original book: http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/neumann44a.pdf page 528.