skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He has always said he doesnt understand technology and has resisted investing in it. While the value is fluctuating heavily due to speculation, over time it will stabilize.

Bitcoin will resist inflation and is somewhat out of control of governments or any central authority. People in countries where the govt has screwed up the currency can use it to get money out of the country or as a stable store even if dollars or other physical currency is in scarce supply. My family fled china carrying their wealth as gold and bank checks. Today, people can transfer their wealth as bitcoin across international borders.

The fundamental properties of money are:

<<Fungibility: its individual units must be capable of mutual substitution (i.e., interchangeability).
Durability: able to withstand repeated use.
Portability: easily carried and transported.
Cognizability: its value must be easily identified.
Stability of value: its value should not fluctuate.>>

It is not unreasonable to argue that fiat currencies around the world are not stable because of inflationary monetary policies. Buffet always holds billions in cash which is constantly depreciating in value.
Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures presents a counterargument to Buffett: https://avc.com/2018/05/is-buying-crypto-assets-investing/
One of the conversations was about reading. Let the kids read anything: comic books, fun novels, fantasy picture books. He re-assured me that they would eventually expand into other things. Martin was right.
See my other comment where a judge explicitly asked me about jury nullification.

I know of no reason they can't ask, and voir dire allows both prosecution and defense the option to exclude some potential jurors without saying why.
I don't think the OP is blaming any social ills on the single mums, he's instead pointing out that this is a symptom of a much larger problem, like the canary in a coal mine.

Having most of your kids being born to a society's most impoverished and least-educated members is not a recipe for long-term success. Saying this isn't blaming the poor, it's pointing out that there's something seriously wrong with the society, and it's not going to lead to the society improving in the long-term, but probably rather the opposite.
I'm pretty sure it kills all insects, but the bees would have to land on your treated clothing to be affected.
Seeking ways to improve existing systems, financial or not, is a productive activity in my book. How successful the effort is, is another discussion entirely.
We have a global conversation about technology and money backed by large scale experiments. The production value is the basis for the future of trust and money in a digital world.

More productive work has been done by Bitcoin devs and users than much of the normal finace work and money spent when it comes to investment and future value creation though experimentation right now. To dismiss all of that as nonproductive is ridiculous because it is very clearly extremely productive. This is true regardless of how much money an investment in Bitcoin might make.
> I think the way this will play out as there will be another contest of Great Powers is that the United States will in turn decide soon to compete and pour billions more into technology. This will continue to be a great time to work in Silicon Valley.

My guess is that any such money will flow elsewhere. The government likes to spread its money around, and Silicon Valley is an expensive place and too hot on selling ads.
I took the first two doses of LYMErix and started to get knee pain. I wasn't the only one. I'm pretty sure the reason they took it off the market is because is was causing issues.
I think it only kills on contact with clothing, so as long as the bees don't run into you they're good.
Yes. I have nVidia and it's a total pain. Not only with sublime.
That's not fair. Everyone had the option of voting so nothing is forced on anyone. If you don't like what the people who actually voted picked, then try voting next time.
It seems to me that you haven't written an application of similar complexity. Also, Ulysses is not one app, it's a Mac app and two mobile apps, for iPhone and iPad, yes they are quite different. Have you actually used the app? Seen the customizable theming system? The export to PDF/Text/ePub/docx/HTML? The way you can rearrange and group sheets? The smart folder system? And most of that is present in the mobile apps, too.

You are underestimating the complexity of writing, maintaining, documenting, supporting and marketing apps of this size. I think my guess of ~5 people is about right, they might be able to do it with a smaller team, but probably not less than 3. I'd say 2 developers and one person to do marketing/support is a minimum.
> How hard is it to sell a fixed <img /> tag or any block of text within an article?

Ad blockers will block that as well. Ad blockers will even block regular old HTML text on the page if it looks like an ad.
No, they are talking about services such as Instart. Javascript that runs on the page, detects the advertisements are being blocked, does a redirect through Instart's proxy to insert hard coded advertisements, and redirects back. Instart only works on Chrome.
That reference to Kant was...how do I put this charitably...forced.
This only holds true for publications with a very specific audience though and even then, it's not going to be optimal.

Of course if you have a purely tech oriented blog, or even better, one focused on a specific technology, then surely you can get decent results by partnering with one specific advertiser specific to that niche, but as soon as your audience gets more diverse, like the audience of your average run of the mill newspaper would be, you will be loosing out on a ton of ad revenue if you don't try to target your ads.

So while this is a cute idea, I doubt it is practical for any publication of noteworthy size.
>cash is dead

lol
As an American that moved to Europe, I was already aware of the Lyme disease risks of ticks here. What I didn't realize - and am in the 1 year process of getting vaccinated against - is that ticks here carry a virus that induces encephalitis. Tick borne encephalitis is not in the Western Hemisphere as far as I am aware, so it wasn't until this spring that I found out about it. The vaccine is not available in the USA and requires a year to complete, which makes me wonder how hikers or visitors spending only a few months in Europe fare.
I think very carefully about adding subscriptions because, honestly, I feel like the burden of a subscription it pretty high. Having to set it up, remember what card it is on, update it when the card expires, remember to cancel it before it auto-renews if I'm not using it...

I wish there was some way I could pay in a central place to support good journalism, across multiple sites, but there just isn't one.

For entertainment I use Patreon, which seems to be doing a good job with the Youtube channels I like, particularly the ones that seem to get demonitized. One place and I can choose where my money goes. Though they did freak everyone out a few months ago with a change to their policies, they rolled that back after the outrage.

I wonder if Steem will help with this. I haven't tried that Steem-powered decentralized Youtube competitor yet, but it sounds fascinating.
He's the third-largest shareholder of Apple behind Vanguard and Blackrock.
> Let's just hope China will not take back Taiwan to get the state-of-the-art fabs there.

I wonder if the Taiwanese or the US has a plan for destroying those and similar advanced facilities to keep the technology out of the hands of the Chinese after an invasion? It might disincentivize the Chinese a bit, though I'm sure the nationalistic motivations would override any practical concerns.
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It depends on your definition of productive but in my opinion it's creating wealth, companies, & jobs.

People are going into work every day to work on crypto-related products. Bitcoin & other cryptocurrencies are putting food on the table for those people.
Pothole crashes happen; it's easy to get mental hypnosis out there on the long rides. Route selection and choosing a low traffic time of day is your best defense against cars, but some drivers are just bad drivers. There's no dodging that risk, but it helps if you're willing to drive out of your way to find empty, nice routes.
In my experience: I worked for a business unit where the "CEO" became distracted with pursuing other opportunities unrelated to our core business. It didn't pan out very well for him. He got canned, all of the people he brought in to chase these ideas lost their jobs, ect.

One thing you didn't really describe is how long you've been in your company, and what you accomplished. Are you a founder? Were you hired as a CEO? How long were you in your position, ect?

If you're a founder, at some point it's expected that you'll leave to start another company. If you replaced the founder, it's expected that you'll drive growth in a defined marketplace.

I think you need to find out what the board expects you to do with the current company, and see if it's a good time to transition your interests.
Surely a larger group of people (even if still a minority) is still better than a smaller group of people?

(The above assumes that there are only those two options, of course. Are there any other options?)
I got lyme disease after my first and only (as far as I know) tick bite. A round of antibiotics seems to have killed it, though I am still noticeably more tired than before the infection (anacdata, could just be because I'm getting older and under a lot of stress).

I reported where and when the infection took place on a local website which tracks these things. I informed the city council (considering this happened in a very busy public park) and I was pretty much told that nothing would be done. More green spaces would help. Keeping certain animals (like chickens) might also help. Killing the fuckers outright is another possibility, but I have to admit to being relucant about spraying toxic crap in public parks.
The problem is that there are only so many concepts one can cover. The course structure, as @justinpombrio notes in another comment above, is that after an assignment comes due, the next class discusses the solutions. Essentially, once I publish all this, I effectively can't use these materials again in a course.

Yes, I know about the problems w/ security through obscurity, etc.

So for now, it's only an in-person course at Brown (and a few other universities that have been picking up this approach).

Sorry, I know, it sucks. But I don't know of a better solution that satisfies all constraints.
Quantity can be excessive, but a TV commercial break still guarantees N minutes of harmless unimportant content you can ignore. It only wastes time, and not always.

Instead, a computer ad costs you money for bandwidth, can be intrinsically annoying (e.g. playing sounds or manipulating the browser), and poses a direct risk of serious harm (malware, subscriptions, snooping/tracking, etc.).
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Companies shave costs and they're seen as shrewd, individuals do the same and they're seen as "cheap".
> He holds like $80b cash
> ...
> now cash is dead
As we've seen many times now immutability is not a strong property (indeed, none of the properties provided by blockchains are) of them, so not all that useful. E.g. Ethereum's various hard forks to un-do things.

In a manner of speaking, "history is written by the victors" applies to blockchains in more way than one (miners, orgs, hardforks, ...)
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> Cities are cramped, noisy, dirty, and crime-riddled.

okay, the disconnect here may be that i live in europe, and you live in ...i'd guess north america?

> It doesn't help that I have no interest in getting married or having children. In fact, the idea of either sickens me. So as everybody else is pairing off to get married or spending 99% of their free time taking care of kids, I'm stuck by myself. I just wish I had more single (and preferably asexual) friends to hang with.

suburbs are indeed optimised for numerous things you're not up for; this is a difficult problem to solve.

> If not having a vibrant social life is the price I pay for living in a place that doesn't make me want to kill myself, then I'll go ahead and pay that price.

things can eat away at you quietly. not having a vibrant social life may not confrontationally make you want to kill yourself, the way the other serious issues you've mentioned do, but it can erode moral and have cascading negative effects on your mental health.

we aren't all built the same though, so ymmv.
Actually point B only is relevant for people who confess their sins in church...
(A self selecting group. It takes a small degree of masochism to practice religion strictly; or some really sin where they want to confess.)

I bet you'd get a similar answer from psychologists mostly because well adjusted people tend to not visit them.

Add a smidgen of bias in remembering and setting affecting the confessions, here's your full picture.
Reasons people aren't rich:

1. children

2. hasn't developed an enriching skill

3. network isn't rich and/or reinforcing

4. bad financial planning

5. addiction

6. work ethic

I think each of these is more relevant than others to different individuals and at different times in peoples lives. but the stronger you score at all of these the better your chances. not in any order.
We've been debugging some crazy bugs recently and had to dive deeper than I have before into debugging UIKit. I wanted to share some of the techniques we've learned. Let me know what you think or if you have other tips to share.
It's actually very similar to the stock market, it's just that there's no company backing it and there's no rules. It's why people were warned against investing so much not that long ago.

In Europe meanwhile, investing in the stock market is getting harder and harder, as new european rules (e.g. MIFID II) make any stock broker require to fill in a test and whatnot to prove basic stock market knowledge and competency, plus accept the risk to lose money explicitly.

There's a lot of people that invested money in the stock market they couldn't lose, due to promises of huge returns. Sounds familiar, doesn't it?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_State

>Plato's Socrates compares the population at large to a strong but nearsighted shipowner whose knowledge of seafaring is lacking. The quarreling sailors are demagogues and politicians, and the ship's navigator, a stargazer, is the philosopher. The sailors flatter themselves with claims to knowledge of sailing, though they know nothing of navigation, and are constantly vying with one another for the approval of the shipowner so to captain the ship, going so far as to stupefy the shipowner with drugs and wine. Meanwhile, they dismiss the navigator as a useless stargazer, though he is the only one with adequate knowledge to direct the ship's course.
Do you really think he's going to come out as friendly to bitcoin on any of these?

> I'd be more interested to hear what he thinks makes for a good currency, inflation vs. deflation, freedom of transfer, protection against forfeiture, etc.
Population growth is mostly prevented by war, famine, disease and education.

Since Britain is mostly without war, famine or disease, we need education to do the heavy lifting to control the population. In areas, social and economic circles where education is low, the population tends to go up.

A big part of why couples stay together are the pressures that keep them together - economic, social, societal, legal. Right now is just a really shitty time for married couples in Western countries - it is increasingly anti-social, anti-religious, much more individualistic, ultra mobile, but high on public services. Parental laws heavily favor mothers over fathers.
So, combine situations where populations tend to go up with a legal / social environment where staying together is completely unnecessary for leading a meaningful life and we have a large amount of single mothers.

We can blame the single mothers, or we can assume that, given a set of opportunities and constraints, people generally behave in a predictable fashion. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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The problem is the all prevalent Western Media Mindset - as the Russian media describe it.

Since Kosovo and onward many lies have been told. Dare to say so and you are deemed Communist. The Overton window is set by the BBC in the UK, this being the acceptable spectrum of thought, from left to right.

Because of the deep lies about how these wars start there is belief instead of knowledge. So it is a church with some different doctrines but no questioning of the creation myths.

Lies have to be disseminated, truths can be arrived at by studying facts. We normally have gatekeeper radicals to keep the pretence up, for decades it was Tony Benn. Only Tony Benn dared to question Trident, today we have the likes of whatshisname Brand gatekeeping the acceptable radical thinking.

If you were someone others respected and you told them you were ditching the job because you wanted to go into politics then people would think you had gone mad.

The odd thing is that there is no escaping it. People are deeply conditioned in the UK. Luckily there is Brexit to shake things up a bit.

Maybe we can escape our shackles of history then and engage with the world as grown ups to be treated as we wish to be treated.
I had a similar class that used Gigs instead and never had any performance issues. It didn't feel as polished as GitLab though.
It's not like all channels are obligated to perform as dictated.

So, for a free, subsidized public channel, it makes a lot of sense to offer something different from the commercial crap.

I learned a lot watching public funded science divulgation material.
Somewhat of a class-based statement, definitely not dead among the working/lower class.

If anything it was the 'tap-to-pay' feature of debit/credit cards that is finally putting some death-knell pressure on cash. It's so much faster than paying with a pin card or cash...
I started longboarding to work in my late 20s. My coworkers laughed at me and called me a hippy. I guess it was because I broke the status quo in their minds. Their expectation was that I should start maturing and settle into the same 9-5 box they were in. The older I get, the more I run into people thinking I'm a wacky hippy for the lifestyle choices I make. There's so much social pressure to conform but, ironically, conformity is a much lonelier option in my experience than being willing to stand out as weird. The phrase "your vibes attract your tribe" is really true, but it sometimes takes time. Over time I've found people my age (and of all ages) that accept my weirdness. I think the main reason people have trouble finding friends over 30 is because they spend more effort trying to fit into the boxes society wants to put them in than they do looking for the society that accepts them as they are.
This guy must be living in a bubble to think that cash is dead...
It is no longer updated, but I recommend https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ as a very good read. From the about page:

>This blog is intended as a quick look at terminal-based applications available in Linux, and in some similar operating systems. Not only are these ideal for modern, low-power and space-saving computers, but they go a long way toward invigorating out-of-date hardware.
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That experiment could be fixed by penalizing every m minutes you're late with m*(1 + r) minutes of charity work, with r as the interest, at some point where the penalty has accumulated to some practical amount.

The economic premise of the kindergarten is already that parents would rather pay money than spend time with their kids.
None of this to address the major problem that plagued and ultimately ended its run though, the exploding tires and subsequent damage.
Also from Houston. Giving distances is almost meaningless in this city 2.8 miles away could be 20 minutes or it could be 3 minutes, so time is really the only accurate measure.
I have a hard time imagining SST making any sense given that we spend hours stuck in traffic, then stuck in the TSA line, customs, stuck in traffic again. The gain of a few hours from NY to London or Paris doesn't seem enough. If you could extend the range to where you can do really long-haul flights maybe it would be interesting to a tiny elite.
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People around here (Niagara Falls area, NY) get it all the time too. Last year was horrible for ticks. I have 3 German Shepherds and some days i was pulling 10 or more ticks off them of multiple species. Reading this post makes me feel more confident for this year because i just got myself more than 30 chickens, but already this year my oldest brought home a tick. Hopefully they aren't as bad this summer.
Regarding b....:

One of the founders of Saxo Bank motivated himself in a weight loss challenge, by pledging to donate ~30.000EUR to the danish communist party, if he did not make his goal.

(It worked, he made it).
> Also, for saving (and then viewing) man pages (about commands or other topics), without the formatting characters (such as ^H), on some Linux distros, I find this useful:

^H is one of the two backspace characters (the other being ^?) depending on which VT standard you're configured to use. So you shouldn't really need a dedicate script to do that as it's just a problem between your pseudo-TTY (Linux console) and your terminal emulator (PuTTY / iTerm / xterm / etc).

Thankfully both are easily configurable. However without knowing which terminal emulator you're using I couldn't walk you throw configuring that. In terms of the TTY; you can change the backspace character via the `stty` command:

stty erase [hit backspace on your keyboard]

Another thought is it might be a case that the TTY is largely configured correctly already but you're overwriting your environmental variables with non-standard values (eg the $TERM var with a value that differs from the actual terminal you're using) which is causing the pager (`less` / `more` etc. `man` will use this for the paging) to break the standard your terminal is expecting. But either way, this is definitely a configuration problem rather than something that should be fixed with additional parsing scripts.
- Midnight commander - Best file manager ever

- htop - a graphical top

- xonsh: A shell written in Python. You can now write your shell scripts in Python (with access to any Python library)

- mplayer: Video player
> One major theme running through this article is the idea that smart people should know what's good for us, and organize society so that we get it. I've never understood how they are expected to actually do this: wouldn't they always prefer to figure out what's good for themselves and then organize society so that they get that?

Being smart is necessary, but not sufficient. A sense of duty is also needed.
it’s not just about as cheap as possible. ads are free.
Avengers Infinity War has earned millions in two weeks
- ncdu for disk usage and deleting extra stuff
And he regrets not investing in Amazon back in the 90s. I believe that he only recently started to invest in tech.
> Buffett said investors would instead be much better off investing in U.S. stocks, which in turn are also a far better investment than 10- or 30-year U.S. government bonds... He said he would much rather have Berkshire’s pile of cash and equivalents be $30 billion, rather than the $108.6 billion it was at the end of March, but good deals have not emerged.

$100B is a colossal amount of money to have sitting around in the form of cash equivalents. I wonder why he hasn't just put it into the S&P 500, given that he belives the stock market is currently a good investment. Given the index's liquidity, I would think he'll still be able to sell it off quickly, if he needs the cash for an acquisition.