skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

1) The whitepaper describes the nature of our network and how Alice and Bob use it. It does not describe (and isn't meant to describe) node operation except as Alice and Bob need to understand it. We'll have an additional node operation whitepaper that describes the smart contracts in more detail. We - and I know this may sound strange - decided to build our cryptography and network first and foremost rather than race to build "something, anything, as long as it's blockchain."

2) Do you think that the whitepaper insufficiently describes how Alice and Bob use the blockchain? If so, do you have suggestions for how we can do this better? I think our whitepaper is pretty solid, FWIW. If you are Alice or Bob, I think this gives you exactly the understanding of the blockchain application that you need.
Reminds me that for some time now the SD reader on a certain model of Intel Atom package has a bad driver. A driver supplied by Microsoft via automatic updates, that can't be rolled back.

This seems to affect a number of models from a number of OEMs that use the same "template".
When I was a kid, my dad was the mayor of our town. This story reminded me of his time in office.

For example, they did a venture with a contractor using a new paving technique, in an attempt to lower future costs for street paving. When it didn't work, there was a clause protecting the city and the work was repaired at no / little cost. Of course the local newspaper raked the city over the coals for the burden of long construction times, completely ignoring that local government had attempted to do something innovative and cost-saving for its citizens.

In another case, the downtown area had become destitute, especially as the main shopping area shifted to the outskirts of town. In an effort to revitalize, the city put up new decorative lamp posts, flower baskets, and did an attractive concrete stamping on new sidewalks. Once again, everybody complained about government waste, when really the city was trying to do what it could to make it a more attractive community and encourage more businesses to reopen / stay downtown.

My point is, while perhaps the singing road didn't have its desired outcome, I give them credit for trying to do something novel.
It sounds like they indirectly acquired BTC via mining:

> And to make matters worse, all the BTC returned to shareholders by the mining operation was in danger of being completely clawed back if the company entered a messy bankruptcy.

https://medium.com/@balajis/the-turnaround-2d145589d814
I don't get why people think that this is apple's problem.

Do a better job of parenting. Have some self discipline.

There are so many products in this world that take advantage of our biology. The iPhone is just one. And it's currently being obsessed over by media outlets. What about all the processed foods making people fat and unhealthy? What about Starbucks selling addictive drugs on every corner and getting away with it? Same with Coca-Cola, why is adding addictive chemicals to a soda that is sold to everyone including children okay? What about television? All of these TV shows coming out are designed to hook you in. Walking my dog every night, I can see everyone just sitting in front of their televisions, wasting time.

If you are going to force a company to help people ween themselves from addiction, don't be a hypocrite. You have your own addictions and vices, what makes yours more valid than someone else's. If we are going to make products provide tools to limit their own use, lets do that with all of the addictive products out there, and not single out one company because it's trendy to not be on your phone.
Haha well they certainly don't make the covers of magazines very often, but I don't know that they're as rare as you think. The people behind Basecamp, Balsamiq, and tons of other smaller companies are able to build "old-fashioned" businesses that stick to their principles and only answer to their customers. You need a little fortitude on the founder's part of course, but also the right financial incentives -- a key aspect the GP post missed.

As for Write.as, I spend copious time talking about why I built it [0] and making sure people know me personally, to address your exact point. Personally, I'm a simple dude who relishes putting more value on principles than a number in a bank account. And I'd rather have a tent in the woods than Mai Thais on the beach.

But we do have an open API [1] and one-click export to get your data out, so you can be sure :)

[0] https://write.as/matt/who-is-this

[1] https://developers.write.as/docs/api/
Yeah, my technique is to punch a random number into the machine, if it works then no problem, but if not the cashier will just scan the "store card" after the 2nd failure.
Not sure if joking, as that sounds like a scam call...
I'm very easily distracted, a habitual phone checker and struggle with my ability to focus. As a result my co-founder and I decided to make a Mac app that has a simple plain-text todo list, and which displays your current task and a countdown timer on your Mac’s menu bar. I feel that by seeing the task that I’m working on at all times it’s harder for me to get sidetracked, and the timer creates an artificial constraint that keeps me focused. I hope you find it useful, I really would love to know your opinion.
> It's interesting how you still observe the doppler effect even though the road isn't moving

Relativity. Christian Doppler's equation for the change in frequency of a wave, for subsonic velocities, is approximated by three variables: the velocity of the receiver relative to the source, the velocity of waves in the medium and the emitted frequency [1]. The first term is symmetric between a source approaching the receiver and a receiver approaching a source.

(The actual equation measures the velocity of the source and the receiver relative to the medium. Here, too, the symmetry between a source moving towards a receiver, the latter un-moving relative to the medium, and a receiver moving towards a source, the latter un-moving relative to the medium, is preserved.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler_effect
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Have a look at the rate of growth.

> pretty sure China needs the developed world's customers more than they need China.

For now, yes.

> China can be replaced by automation and other developing countries for labor

We'll see. For now they seem to be doing pretty good, and in fact even if they replace their workers with automation they will do even better than they do today. Or do you believe that automation will magically bring back the production facilities?
Large pages cannot be paged to disk (lol: amount of time to write 2MB to disk while the scheduler is locked), and are prone to fragmentation.

When you use Large Pages and you run out of contiguous 2MB chunks, what do you do then?

Unlike Linux, Windows actually guarantees its memory to anything that requested it. Windows does NOT ever "take back" memory and crash processes randomly (see Linux's OOM killer). But this guarantee has its own issue on Windows: important services who make requests for new bits of code will crash instead.

So Large Pages naturally will run out the longer a system runs. They are a limited resource: how often do you find a contiguous 2MB block when most programs request memory in 4kB blocks?? And the longer a system runs, the fewer 2MB blocks will exist.

I guess Linux handles the issue by making normal pool, large pool, and "huge" pool all separate. So you can run out of normal-pool but have lots of large-pool space remaining. But this has the disadvantage of being wasteful (Ex: 1GB Huge Pool permanently eats up 1GB that the smaller pools can't ever use).

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Ultimately, applications aren't supposed to use the OS-level memory allocator as if it were malloc / free. Because when fragmentation hits you in malloc/free, you mess up your own memory.

But if fragmentation hits you at the OS-level, you're basically screwing the entire system.
1. Open source StackExchange :- ) There's Talkyard, which looks a bit like StackExchange. ... Minus the single-sign-on part though. I'm developing it. Here's an example StackExchange discussion, copied to Talkyard: (CC-By-SA license)

https://insightful.demo.talkyard.io/-7/how-do-i-get-myself-o...

2. Single sign-on, and (as you wrote), "using the credentials of the original forum":

What about using Scuttlebut's identities? Everyone has his/her own ed25519 key pair. "The public key is used as the identifier", see: http://scuttlebot.io/more/protocols/secure-scuttlebutt.html. These can be created in a decentralized manner. The keys are really long, but maybe, in a specific forum, one wouldn't need to show the whole key. One could instead show a forum-local-@username + the shortest unique key prefix (unique in that forum).
> do you need a laptop for that or an eReader?

An ereader already contains all of the hardware to be an interactive computer (especially if it has a keyboard, like the kindle 1, 2 and 3). It really shouldn't cost any more to deploy an Alan Kay-style dynabook than to deploy ereader appliances.

> the idea of a general purpose computer you could also teach kids to code on seemed really really cool

The idea wasn't that you could teach programming with the aid of the computers. The idea was that you could teach everything with the aid of computers.
Yes. I went back to Visual Studio. If I were using a Mac, I would buy Rider in a heartbeat.
A large segment of gamers hate cheaters with such a passion that nearly any measure is justified in fighting them. It's quite possibly even the majority of gamers. The reality is that Arenanet is not going to see a large backlash from this. A minor course-correction is all that the gaming community is going to demand from them.
Ok so you're assuming 40 years instead of 30. That's where the discrepancy is. Thank you for clarifying.
Don't forget sysinternals, and the like for other platforms. Also debugging, profiling and monitoring tools. Granted this is a very developer/admin focussed perspective, but they're still valid use cases.
This kind of behaviour is very standard in the anti cheating world. Some go much further like inspecting the Windows DNS cache for evidence of cheat servers. Calling this spyware is rather misleading.

Cloud based antivirus services are even worse in this regard.
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If you work at Google and you are paid in cash you can buy as much or as little of Google stock as you want. There is no rational reason (other than to fool ignorant shareholders) to pay part of your total compensation in company stock.
Energy wasn't sufficient, but it likely was necessary. That said, the energy was lying around all through history, so something exogenous got people to use it. And to develop the technology to do so.
I don't think the pills matter. I think someone was caught with drugs, said "Here's the whatsapp conversation I had with the person that sent them to me" and received the fingerprint. I think they already had the drugs.
How is your comment not a mid-brow dismissal?

There are so many projects that promised the world and did not deliver, as well as so many projects that ended up being outright scams, that it's not surprising that when someone says "but what about Blockchain X, Blockchain Y and Blockchain Z projects?", we all roll our eyes and think "I'll believe it when I see it."

It's not as if any blockchain project has provided a long lasting use case beyond speculation, in which case you calling us all idiots would be warranted. After 10 years of flops, the burden to show how interesting these technologies are is on you now.
I am just sharing what I experienced when I was part of a program providing health care services to under served areas of Africa (specifically one part of Ghana). It was markedly different than when I was part of a program to provide health care services to Canadian indigenous communities (which are also under served in very similar ways to African communities).

Perhaps I was wrong to target superstition, but there is something there that made it much more difficult to operate than the program for Canadian indigenous people. I really hoped that OLPC would bring some truth to these communities, I personally felt that's what we fought against the most - the lack of truth.

Call it uninformed, but you look at your situation differently than an outsider does. Just because you were able to get through the bullshit doesn't mean that millions of your neighbors will as well.
It's transmitting a trivially-decoded schedule of what processes you have running when, without your consent - in what universe is this not spyware?
Pretty sure he means to wipe out your career within the company.
One of the things the NYC region could do is unify operations and planning of NJ transit, LIRR, and Metro North into one through running network with a tunnel from GCT south with two more Manhattan stops then across the Hudson to another main station where the Hoboken terminal is (a bit more inland likely). Overtime the systems and fleets can merge.

Instead you get this absurd patchwork of expensive stand alone projects, ARC, the huge building over of of a cap on the LIRR Hudson railyards which required maybe a billion in spending. Talks about a new Penn Station. Etc.

As a plus you reduce the demand on the existing Penn tunnels used by Amtrak.

If this had all be planned as one system the money already spent or being proposed to be spent on these disparate/disconnected things could provide do wonders.
> Seems like you'd need to prove the pills in question were the alleged substance?

That may be true in order to convict him of dealing the ecstacy, but he wasn't. From the BBC article:

> It [the dealer's house] was raided and large quantities of 'gorilla glue' - a type of cannabis - was recovered.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-43711477

His sentence in the end was for conspiracy to supply cannabis. The suspicion to search was contextual, given that the image was obtained from another arrested person (presumably for a drug offence) along with other messages implying he was dealing to them, such as "what do you want to buy?".

Although I'm not sure how the fingerprint comes into this, given that they didn't find him by it, but rather "officers had an idea who they believed was behind the drugs operation", and he was convicted of a different crime, with evidence from his home search.
> I see no reason that humanity is worth saving over some other, better form of life.

Knowledgeable nihilists are dangerous. You seem to be one.

After reading Nick Bostrom I'm worried Larry Page is similar.

This kind of thinking creeps me the fuck out.
This strikes me as needlessly mean.

Our website is not designed to appeal to VCs per se; we are not raising money right now and, frankly, if we were, we don't need a website to do it. Our team and our repos speak for themselves, IMO.

As I explained in our other comment, our whitepaper mentions the blockchain integration in all the places that matter. I'm surprised to hear that 5 is not enough.
I don't think that OLPC failed, it was just superseded by the smartphone and the tablet.

I can buy an 8" tablet from Aliexpress and get it shipped to me for $70, it even has a SIM slot.

In my travels through Asia, I've discovered that practically everyone has a smartphone. Most of these people have never owned a PC and never will, but they all have computers now.
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My argument is not that. My argument is that you feed bread, rice and meat to a starving person. Not cake and pizza. The first requirement to improve students' life is to ensure they have adequate books, stationery, good teachers and food. Laptops come a bit later.
I am surprised to see "tolerate ambiguity" on the list because I've found that many arguments stem from one party interpreting a statement the other party made in an unintended manner because the way it was said allowed interpretation instead of being explicit.

Is there something to "tolerate ambiguity" that I am missing? Does it not apply to the case I describe?
You are right! I meant positive feedback driving a negative phenomenon.
This game and arenanet have always been pretty shady either way. I noticed that when a couple of years ago I bought power leveling and got a maxed level character in less than 6 hours. I wouldn’t be surprised that this is done by people from arenanet. So, the news about them using spyware to ban bots is kind of expected I guess? So people keep buying powerleveling.
E-readers would be good if they were robust enough. All the trials using ereaders so far have shown that current devices aren't nearly robust enough, nor repairable enough, to be useful.
>Almost every website is unprofitable in itself, and only exist to serve as a person's or company's marketing interface. Websites ARE the ads, because that's their point. The web is a giant marketing device to sell stuff, like your resume or your local plumber or your open-source software project.

This works fine for a business that sells direct on the internet, or a company that advertises themselves there (like my BigCo that has a website so people can learn about it, find people to contact, etc.), etc. It doesn't work so well for a company whose product is intangible, most notably news companies. How is NY Times going to stay in business if they don't make a profit on their website? In this age, people don't really want dead-tree newspapers any more. Also, sites that don't really have a product can't survive by selling stuff. Reddit, HN, etc. are good examples here; how is HN making enough money to operate itself? Basically, it isn't, it's run through goodwill by a VC company (though it might also be a form of advertising in and of itself). Smaller, more specialized discussion forum sites are also like this, probably to a greater extent: unless they're being financed by some sponsor (which is then likely going to advertise on it directly), they need a way to pay for themselves, and that usually means ads.
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It sort of depends on what you define as success. The goal was never to "cure" the cancer, rather, to shrink the tumor.

I hesitate to assign an exact percentage to the effectiveness since there are so many factors to consider, but I remember Keytruda being reported to shrink tumors in less than a third of patients who took it.
If you ignore the question of whether an eReader is something with an eInk display, an eReader is just a general-purpose computing device that has for some reason been limited to reading books, so "do you need a laptop or an eReader" doesn't seem to me to be a terribly meaningful question.
> I'm all for leveling the playing field

No you're not, or you'd realize you're advocating a zero sum game

It's the same as advocating for more women and minorities in industry; white men lose. Some other side will lose, because our economy doesn't operate on "even playing fields."

It operates on "I have advantage and must protect it." The rich have an advantage of being rich and can sell some argument about knowing how to use their leverage to build companies to put people to work.

USA had "The rest of the world is a smoking crater." after WW2

China has "No one else has a manufacturing base for electronics like we do."

Advocating for a level playing field would be like universal healthcare, and not being forced trade away to the rich elite our creative endeavors for basic survival.

You're peddling disingenuous political correctness that ignores physical reality.
Western textbooks, especially those which are mandatory to get for certain college classes are expensive, but that’s because of the IP and the small market. Best selling paperback books are already much cheaper per page. If you don’t take copy right into account, which you didn‘t do for the laptop either and also skim on paper and print quality, which is fair enough when comparing to the OLPC, then books are dirt cheap.
How cheap you can go in third world countries, I don’t know, but even our student union in Germany was selling self printed lecture scripts with good quality and a hundred pages and more for about 50 cents.
They still operate their subscription service, Safari Books Online. Other digital sellers, like Amazon Kindle, can and do sell books without DRM, if the publisher wishes it. The only thing lost seems to be per-book purchases in PDF, instead of EPUB or Kindle's format. Doesn't seem like much of a loss, an EPUB can be converted to PDF anyway.
I personally know a number of Amazon warehouse workers and none of them consider the workplace to be harsh. This article smacks of a smear campaign. Note the timing with this piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-13/oracle-is...
If you want a native app, use native tools for each platform to create the best user experience.
> It's not as if any blockchain project has provided a long lasting use case beyond speculation

I don't understand this assessment either. How do you square this with, for example, people who have been able to obtain psychoactive compounds and other medicines that were previously unavailable to them?
Sure, using only jQuery requires lots of thinking about your code structure and it will undoubtedly be more complex. But also: orders of magnitude faster.

It’s really, really not. You might be able to pull together some specific targeted DOM manipulation that is faster in jQuery than in React, for example, but the difference is going to be minimal and the development impact substantial.
The NirSoft tools for windows are great! I have used various ones for years -- the SysExporter tool has saved many many hours of time. This lets you export Windows widget labels, so if a dialog has no export, it lets you generate a CSV of the string values.

Nir Sofer -- publish a Bitcoin address and ill send you something as a thank you!
What's mysterious for me is just how much less Costco charges for staples than Amazon does. For example, for Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, Costco charges $0.15 per ounce (if you buy it locally), while Amazon charges $0.52 per ounce. Sometimes Costco even cuts 25% off that price. Bezos has a very long way to go if he wants to conquer that market!

https://www.costco.com/Post-Honey-Bunches-of-Oats-with-Almon...

https://smile.amazon.com/Honey-Bunches-Oats-Almonds-14-5-Oun...
Short Beaker browser review:

Interesting idea and project. The browser's UI is very different... and lacks some (most) customization options... I spent a long time looking for a way to increase the font-size, for example. (Not all of us are accustomed to squinting at phones.) Preferences to set: I thought that was hiding, but it seems to be missing. Say what?

After an hour toying with the interface: technically it looks to have a lot of possibilities. I have serious concerns about the lack of transparency ... unlike most browsers today ... what's going on in security, ad-blocking, tracking? I found no way to tell.

In sum, cool project. The potential is clear. I can't imagine anyone non-technical not running away on first sight. It's more opaque than Ello, even. More like an oscilloscope than a mobile!
You dont need include aggregate functions in your select clause to use them in having and order by.

I suppose I may be glossing over another point, but for the subquery example I would've just done:

SELECT first_name, last_name, email
FROM customer
WHERE customer_id IN
(SELECT DISTINCT customer_id
FROM payment
WHERE extract(month from payment_date) = 4
AND extract(day from payment_date) BETWEEN 10 AND 13
GROUP BY customer_id
HAVING SUM(amount) > 30
ORDER BY SUM(amount) DESC
LIMIT 5);