skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My theory is that it was initially not backed fully but after the fact it became backed. A billion or two dollars is not that much money to eventually get, especially if you also hold a lot of valuable BTC as a result of this manipulation.

Basically the unbacked tether allowed them to purchase BTC and with the great price increases that become worth way more than the unbacked tether allowing them to leverage that to actually get backing for the tether, either via selling BTC or merely promising it.

Thus I believe that tether is likely backed now.

I think it was an impressive scam, very ballsy.
I think banks have an equal and opposite position. Our debts are their assets. Inflation reduces the value of their assets.
This is very similar to what BitTorrent does or am I missing something?
So are you always simulating someone who knows nothing about anything but still thinks something should be done about it, or just in this post?
They're very popular in Canada:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/piracy-iptv-services-live-tv...
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No it is not possible. Other users similar to you provide the data to help track you, so you'd have to circumvent this all together.

The industry is moving to cross-device tracking to track you over multiple devices, without using cookies. This is probabilistic, not deterministic: There is 88% chance this is user A. But with huge amounts of data still useful.
Which is an even worse idea. In widespread practice, I regularly work with developers who can't even master JavaScript. To blithely toss another CoffeeScript in the mix is foolish if you ask me.
OpenBSD adds -n option to crontab to suppress mail when the run was successful
AV1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV1
How would a service come into possession of a Macaroon good for another service? I could see getting a macaroon for a username/password/2FA in a frontend context, but how does it solve backend service authentication?
> No. Laying fiber across neighborhoods is extremely expensive.

Which means, yes, it is a perfect opportunity for entrepreneurial activity. Extremely high, prohibitive costs means a new, cheaper, scalable way of doing things would be disruptive and have high reward
Of course they don't, the only reasonable way to prove such a claim would be to make a full audit of Tether. Which as of the moment is out of the cards due to lack of a willing auditor.
IQ isn't the only or best way to judge someone, but what are you even saying? That attempting to measure intelligence is the same as colonialism? Who is being colonized here? Also who are the IQ winners (Asians) accused of colonizing?
There's also Facebook Multi-account Containers (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...), which might do what you're looking for
It’s smartphones and social networks. That Vine was build around six second clips was such a sign of the times. 6 seconds! It wasn’t a huge success but not because of the short clips. Instagram is pretty similar. Ain’t nobody got time for minute long clips!
A very large portion of developers I speak to pronounce it as 'seekwol'. Some of them also prefer tabs.
I don't think they are claiming to have invented math on probability distributions and I didn't mean to suggest that that is what is novel about this paper. They used a different, more powerful technique to look at the math of the Fermi Paradox and came to a conclusion different than that following from the normal treatment of the Drake equation. That's a reasonable contribution, IMO.
This was just now merged in -current and will be part of OpenBSD 6.4 release in fall 2018.
Yeah I remember that. It was also at about that time that I started using and learning linux.

Back then, just managing to setup XFree86 correctly was like a huge personal victory and running quake there was really the cherry on top.

I seem to recall having to actually input a bunch of numbers/frequencies taken from my crappy CRT monitor's specsheet into the X config and basically bruteforcing it until it worked. "Good times"!
It would appear that for Australia you currently require at least AU$1.5 million (US$1.1mm) for an investment visa, and there's no other type of business startup visa you can get.

On the other hand, New Zealand has a entrepreneur visa that only requires NZ$100,000 (US$70k) of capital, as well as the Global Impact Visa through the Edmund Hillary Fellowship [1], which requires no capital at all beyond living costs for 1 year.

[1] https://www.ehf.org/givs
> Done right, they might even make enough money with such fraudulent trading to eventually have the cash reserves they claim to have.

This is the long-term history of sucessful organized crime: Obtain $X illegally, use that as seed investment for a legitimate business that generates $X legally, and then (if necessary) repay the original $X. Casino, Waste hauling business, and governments are often owned by organized crime families.
I've made this observation before. File sharing (with the popular BitTorrent and whatever succeeds it) may diminish in use because of streaming, but will not die in the next decade or two. The streaming space is being fragmented further as time passes, and is killing itself. There are many people who're fed up of having to pay and sign up for yet another streaming service and then breaking their head over what content lives where. Unless the providers get their act together by letting go of the greed to be in control and the greed to make a lot of money — both with fragmentation as the solution — the scene from the last few years and continuing for the next few years only acts as a fuel for file sharing. One doesn't have to think about which provider has what content, with ads or without ads and all that stuff. Just go to your favorite file sharing site and get what you want, when you want and how you want.

For video content as well as content that's not massively popular in the population, as it was before, file sharing still provides the best experience and the best choices (content, bandwidth requirement, file sizes, file formats, etc.) for those who know how to use it.
It’s more like poker in the casino. There are at least three sides: player A (you), player B (your counterparty), and the casino (Wall St.). It’s zero sum between A and B, but the casino always takes their cut. +EV for the casino means -EV for the players on average
Absolutely not. Frequently I try searching for things from years ago by describing them into a search engine, and SEO spam floods my results. I usually end up asking a human.
My anecdotal experience is people using an Android device like an Amazon Fire TV Stick that has these sorts of apps sideloaded to watch movies and TV shows. They are sold around $100 with all the necessary setup already completed, allowing people without the ability to connect to an Android device via adb to stream whatever they want.
A few issues I have with UMF.

It's missing a mission statement, or use case.

The intro says it's used to avoid inconsistent formatting, but there exists other message formats.

The body field is application specific, which introduces an area for inconsistent formatting and reduces the interoperability, or universalness, of the message format.

The destination doesn't need to be in the message, most of the time the destination is implicit in where the message is sent. (If I send a UMF over email the destination would be in the email metadata and the UMF metadata)

The total amount of metadata that would be included in a UMF message sent over TCP/IP would be silly.

There are arbitrary and undefended specification decisions. The transport protocol is left ambiguous, but both the schema and the format are specified. The metadata around body is very standardized, but anything goes inside body, which is the primary payload.
I agree with the gist of things here, but surprised this doesn't include

* {box-sizing: border-box;}
Has been said many many many times , it's not electron for Windows 10 , it's React Native .NET which bridges the built in Javascript VM with WPF. So it's not a web view for UWP, it's 100% native code.
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Quiet Supersonic Flights to Validate Community Response Technique – NASA
Q&A: Sentient Technologies on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI
IMHO we really ought to repeal the 17th Amendment and return to state appointment of senators. The states need a voice in the federal government, and that voice is supposed to be the Senate.

But then, I'd also like to see legislatures appointing electors to the Electoral College …
2007 because of docx support.
Millions of dollars worth? Or is it some penny-ante exchange like most Bitcoin-to-fiat services? Or will it have a strong know-your-customer rules that make it problematic for these actual criminals?
Zug Tests Blockchain to Decide on Fireworks and Digital IDs
Sure, and there is nothing wrong with either one in most cases. Salesmen, bloggers, security people, and others like to disagree, but they do it out of bias, and not because they want you to get things done.

Edit: I'd like to be wrong about this. Maybe some brave downvoter could help out here?
> I can't guarantee this is novel paper in general, but it's not something I've seen treated this formally before

Yea, I'd be very happy if they just said "here we make formal the possibility, considered since the paradox was first proposed, that there is enough uncertainty in each parameter that seeing zero ETI is perfectly compatible with expectations". That would have been a modest but useful contribution to the lit that would have informed further research. The issue I have is with claims that they are "dissolving" anything.
Have you looked into Go?
I'm not sure we agree on much, because plain text, by itself, is just an encoding. A message format also needs a syntax and a parser both of which you get with JSON, if you can live with its gaps. (You also need a schema and typically end up needing things like query APIs, storage, queues, etc., which JSON doesn't get you but which is often supported by a wide range of solutions that do.)
Absolutely. I agree.
Now they are moving to the biblical end of computing era by making every Javascript.
Does that means the apocalypse is upon us?
Why is this good?
Idk Google All Music Access has a lot of music I otherwise had to torrent for years. Plus what it does not have I can get through YouTube Music. All while being grandfathered into YouTube Red to boot.
If I may be so bold as to comment on form rather than function, I wanted to say I am not particularly fond of the typography / design choices for the tutorial.

I know this is dangerously close to bikeshedding territory, but if I may, I wanted to point you to a similar resource that I recall being particularly pleasing to read way back when I was getting started in Python / Django:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080730140551/http://www.django...

That content has been retired from djangobook.com, and the website's design has followed suit, hence the archive.org link. I suggest also perusing the table of contents and making note of small design hints such as the use of color, whitespace, "Note" callouts, etc.

At the very least, I hope you'll find this inspirational if you decide to take a moment to rethink typography, typesetting and the overall design of the website and PDF.
That's bullshit. Standardization can be done very effectively. If the tests are different enough year by year.

That said College Board is a very big risk factor, because its process and scoring is opaque.

US education is problematic because (inner city) children are not thaught the value of education. When parents are crazy, it's hard to teach the kids.
Firefox has firstparty isolation, can anyone comment on how much protection this offers against being tracked liked this?
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Is Now GA
This may be good advice for this particular situation, but it's kind of grim if we generalize. Should only those with corporate-approved existences procreate? Maybe we should ask the corporations...

Mature humans can relate to and support each other in a marriage in both easy and difficult situations. There are limits, of course, because humans, but if everyone waited until everything was sorted out to get married there would be like ten marriages a year.
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That's a stupid comment, even if you do agree with brexit. None of that has any bearing on what ultimately lead to the result. Further, I suggest you read into the history of the eu. It's present shape only came into being and into name wirh the Maastricht treaty of 1992.
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Sounds like healthy competition?
Gleam: Distributed Map Reduce for Golang  (2016)
Most subscription apps or products are way too expensive for casual users (those who don't make money from using the apps or products). It just starts piling up and could become enormous - one subscription for this, one for that, one for another and so on.
Only two variables of the Drake equation can be meaningfully estimated: rate of star formation and fraction of stars with planets. The number of life-supporting planets per star is surprisingly ill-defined (what number is that for Sol?). All of the other variables are basically knobs that let you control what you want the answer to be.

> There was recent news from NASA about the discovery of organic molecules on Mars and the possibility of life there at some point in the past.

It should be pointed out that the organic molecules in question are known to be created by abiotic processes.

> As for the Fermi paradox I'm still of the opinion that its solution is simple but depressing: Interstellar travel is so difficult that by the time you're capable of it you don't need it anymore, and even when you're capable of it you still don't get very far outside of your stellar neighborhood.

Well, there's an even more depressing possibility: interstellar communication itself is effectively impossible, let alone travel. Any beam will spread out over a larger and larger radius, so even the most focused laser beams will become too weak to detect within I think a few hundred light years, so we're not even talking about trying to find aliens in the galaxy, we're talking about trying to find aliens in the nearest stars.
And, London = pollution. Things like weather and even an insular society can be circumvented or avoided. Nobody can escape unhealthy air. London isn't unique in this regard, but pollution is a factor when picking any of the larger European cities.
I agree... but as they say the gap between theory and practice is less in theory than it is in practice.
It is also useful to see how many point releases they do or if their idea of maintenance is rewriting the whole thing every time somethings comes up.
> By default, docker containers run as root which causes a breakout risk. If your container becomes compromised as root it has root access to the host.

Is this really true, unless you start container with `--privileged`? Incidentally, I just read plan for better security defaults to avoid `--privileged` (which is not default, AFAIK) on lwn: https://lwn.net/Articles/755238/
It's still block based. I was talking about new approaches which the blog post is referencing.
You may want to actually learn what Typescript is before blithely making such comments.
What if most BitCoin owners know that buying Tether this way is a way to bump up Bitcoin. Therefore they decide to do their part. They don't need to agree on anything with anybody they just understand this is THE way to bump up the price of BitCoin. Is it still a conspiracy?
There was also this fantastic series of articles by Matt Pharr (of Physically Based Rendering fame) - http://pharr.org/matt/blog/2018/04/30/ispc-all.html

While it's focused on ISPC (https://ispc.github.io) it does go into a lot of detail about what happened at Intel during the Larrabee & post Larrabee days.
The blame with npm, DockerHub, etc. basically boils down to "it makes it too easy to share and run software".
A render list would be more efficient than a tree, simply because you're not jumping left and right in RAM with cache misses on every jump.

A hashmap of nodes on screen is still very high level; you're basically replacing the DOM with data, yet keeping the exact same structure. But now you lose static types and everything is slower.

Redrawing doesn't happen at the node level either; that would be terribly inefficient. Things are instead batched together.

You don't have to compile your styles to CSS currently; just write them as JS objects and call the CSS constructors yourself from code. You'll quickly find its not productive for most styling.

I simply don't believe the vast majority of developers to be able to properly handle rendering at that level. No offence but all your points about low-level rendering is not how it actually works. Its incredibly easy to fool yourself into thinking you wrote a well-designed, efficient piece of code and learn years later every single piece of it was far from optimal.

Thats why we have layers of abstractions.
> "a patent held by the company states that the Facebook app uses voice recognition algorithm, which uses audio recorded by the microphones, to modify the ranking scores of stories in users News Feed.

Does the patent really state that Facebook does that, or Facebook spammed the patent office with obvious ideas about how they could do that. Big tech companies have loads of trivial patents on stuff they have no firm plans to build, just to stake out IP territory.

> I believe they claimed it it was so they could recognize the music you were listening to, and know something about your mood.

When did this happen, and why wasn't it frontpage on HN and all the news sites?
>It's understood that in personal correspondence everything stated is the opinion of the author. Both my fictional examples were written from a personal point of view.

Having established that...

>The actual difference was that one expressed a personal preference without being offensive; the other called a vast group of people "ugly", which is offensive

My point is that racism is not about being offensive (or not) in one's subjective opinions. Being rude is not the same as being a racist -- even if the characteristics you're rude about belong to a race of people.

>Rational justifications for racism are more often than not a posteriori justifications.

They might be, but without them there's no racism. Just personal preference or dislike, which people are entitled to.

"Freedonians look ugly" is not racist. "Freedonians are genetically inferior" is.

Even saying "freedonians are stupid" is borderline, because they might indeed be by the criteria of the one making that statement (e.g. they might value leisure, where the one making the statement might think that it's smarter to be productive).
Clearly we do not agree so it is not worth continuing to argue. Honestly, I just want this whole thing resolved one way or the other. I have no personal ties to Tether, and do not care if they are backed 1:1 with USD.

I agree with you they should have an audit done to prove definitively one way or the other that they are backed by USD to put this entire thing to rest.

As it is now, it keeps coming back up every few months in the media, and the narrative is getting old.
It is referring to https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.02943

What you are referring to is possible, but is not "copying" per se, just trying to infer what the system is doing (inverse RL), and then exploit that/make it do mistakes. If you are not HFT it is very difficult to distinguish bots from humans, so you'd have a hard time even finding a target.
“Our flagship software is the most lucrative asset in the world”
Yes, it is circular by nature.
Ah, I thought you were talking about Blender itself, not the UI system.
As far as I know the Stripe API lets you submit transactions without a CVV (if you accept the risks), so the card terminal requirement isn’t even a valid excuse.
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> So a cookie only knows the website that referred me?

Not really. Instead, each time you return to a site that has set a cookie on your computer, that cookie is included in the request header.

That same site will also know about your last visited page, even if it's outside of their domain, because of the "referer" frpm the request header.

> So if I copy paste the website in the address bar, they dont learn anything about my last browsing habit?

If you do that, then the referer will be empty and whatever site you visit will not know what you did last.

Cookies are just one thing. Web beacons i.e. tracking pixels, and the fact that companies utilizing those to suck up data about web users sell it feely to others for the sake of targeted marketing, is the reason you see peronalized ads all over the internet whenever you've finalized an online purchase.
I've had Spotify show me an indie label artist with <1000 listens on Spotify, and <1000 views on Youtube. It was the absolute best thing I've ever seen.

And yes, if content isn't on Spotify for me, it basically doesn't exist. If it's on Bandcamp maybe I will download it.

Spotify allows you to see songs that you have added that have been removed from availability as greyed-out names.
Chrome and Firefox use the same DRM (Google Widevine), so they receive the same 720p video from Netflix. Edge and Safari get 1080p because the use hardware-based DRM (Microsoft PlayReady and Apple FairPlay, respectively).
I would'n agree that these attempts were completely failed. Like the whole free software world works, they created better and better tools that at some point could have become good enough to actually protect one's privacy and at a later point could have become usable by non-hackers as well.

Now at the time when it's easy as never before for every (well, not every every but you get my point) schoolboy/girl to create their own standalone page with comments, own e-mail server and whatever they want, they will probably not be able to do so, without risking being drowned by an Abmahnungswelle. Not to say that all decentralized social networks projects are at risk for approximately the same reason.

One might hope that in the future we'll have a reproducible technology for creating GDPR-proof websites and the world will be a happy place again, but solving legal issues with code is a notoriously difficult problem. Legislative acts are not code, and something as vague as GDPR is not even a spec.
> Clearly anything with only 10% overhead over vanilla JS is definitely fast enough

And now is the main question :) If virtual dom is competitive in benchmark that is super biased towards direct data bindings libraries, what is the point of using direct data binding solutions when they won't be able to handle even basic use cases that involve client-server communications when server sends data snapshot. There won't be any information about data changes, and you'll end up with reimplementing tree diffing algo, so that you can apply it to the data.
Cheap Android boxes running Kodi with a plugin that automatically fetches pirate video streams. Kodi itself is an awesome open source media center that isn't intended to enable piracy, but it supports addons and third parties build plugins that curate pirate streaming sources.
People have made endless points about how ISPs and last-mile providers will hurt the consumer and the small video startup. I don't dispute those.

But, IMHO, independent of that, the behavior of Alphabet has been less and less charitable to the little guy over the last few years too, especially in the area of android app development. (e.g. they recently eliminated their "free-forever" policy on the use of android map/location/place APIs in apps).

To me it seems that now, in one more way, the internet landscape is more fully dominated by giant corporations. Even more of the little players will be permanently confined to nickel-and-dime sidelines.