skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The third part, "our competitors will fork and steal our business!", is possible, but extremely unlikely, unless you suck at your product.

I don't think you appreciate the danger here. Someone can sink a few tens of thousands of dollars into cloning a codebase, then make it to market in a bare fraction of the time it took you to get there.

When you say "incumbents don't get unseated without tremendous effort," you're referring to big incumbents like Amazon or Google, or CVS or Home Depot. Sure, at that scale it's impossible to ramp up that quickly.

But for small outfits struggling to survive, handing the jackals everything they need to compete with you is flat-out stupid. The barest vestige of a moat, something as small as locking your doors, can be enough to get the jackals to pick easier targets.

Having to manage the creation of a software product is an order of magnitude harder than just cloning it and differentiating it from there.
But they did support both languages, and support them to this day.

It's the sites that didn't adopt XHTML. Everybody on the infrastructure side loved it.
You forgot support as main driver
Sorry, I know that sarcasm can be difficult to detect in writing.
Give your students edit access to their course syllabus
>I am dismissing those that reject proprietary software on principle.

That dismissal presumably includes both Stallman and the Debian project. I would not dismiss them all that lightly.

>I also made it clear that we would open source our software if we could find a business model that would work for us.

You are making a nice email client. The service of rock solid business email management would presumably be the obvious model to start with. There are more people willing to spend money on that than there are people willing to buy a better email client.
A) Large criminal organizations bypass KYC/AML/ABC just fine.

B) Low-level crooks and privacy minded folks are the ones that get caught.

C) Cost of compliance with KYC/AML/ABC is greater than the money recovered.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2018/09/30/the-b...

> In that connection, a senior employee from the correspondent bank in question assessed that out of ten non-resident customers from the Estonian branch, the correspondent bank would be comfortable only with servicing one given the customers’ characteristics. The employee also warned Danske Bank against Moldovan customers and customers transferring money to Moldova.

Criminal organizations just mule the cash to a friendly bank. Then things proceed accordingly and the correspondent banks will blindly play along for years.

The end goal of these things are not what is sold in PR-speak. It is about expanding the surveillance state for TIA purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness#/m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

There is a reason they renamed this the "Terrorism Information Awareness" center and then "shut it down". But, of course, other agencies just quietly use the software instead with some superficial changes.

If you think any of these ever really get "shut down" because overreach or the like...yeah. They don't. They just re-named, classified, and better hidden in some intelligence agency's toolbox.

You shouldn't trust the labels on laws.
I discussed the things that happened specifically on November 14th in my Quora answer:
https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-price-of-Bitcoin-plummet-d...

It's very very likely because of the Bitcoin Cash fork. It has become a pissing contest between Roger Ver (Bitcoin ABC) and Craig Wright (Bitcoin SV). While Craig trolls and threatens the Bitcoin ABC side by "bleeding them dry" in a hash war.

Jihan Wu, founder of Bitmain quoted:
“I have no intention to start a hash war with Craig, because if I do, by relocating hash power from BTC mining to BCH mining - BTC price will dump below yearly support; it may even breach $5,000. But since Craig is relentless, I am all in to fight till death!

The war is related to Bitcoin as the price of Bitcoin tanks because in a hashing war, both sides are likely to rent hash from the Bitcoin mining pool. This is being settled in Bitcoin, sold on the market to cover electricity, and thus suppressing the price of Bitcoin.

Since Craig is trolling around, threatening a price of $1,000 per Bitcoin in a full out hash war, people are selling before it gets even more ugly.

Another downside which reinforces the price suppression is for Proof-of-Work systems (where miners are rewarded based on their computing power), there's an unfortunate feedback loop in price drops. As said by Colin, founder of Nano currency, Low price -> low mining rewards -> turn off some miners to lower cost -> lower hash rate -> longer transaction confirmation -> lower price.

More details can be found in my Quora answer about this.
Grafana templating with Prometheus labels
Learning the Language of Transit (2015)
Isn't this just a fancy name for "reverse" surveillance?
Ignoring the debate about whether these regulations are a good or a bad thing, don't you think that the fact that "the federal governments of the world" (not sure what you meant exactly by that) are capable of chocking exchanges and harming cryptocurrencies in the process prove that the dream of a decentralized, unregulated currency is out of reach?

Even though the bitcoin network itself is censorship-resistant clearly you're having issues at the interface with the real world. Doesn't that negate a lot of what made CC attractive in the first place?
TA works well in traditional markets too. Good crypto traders who have never owned a stock in their entire life have no issues transitioning.

https://twitter.com/CryptoDonAlt/status/1064585203237167106
Yeah, I'd be very interested to learn about anything about the sensitivities of ridership to other external variables in general.

Looking at the article's linked presentation [1] and the MTA's most recent financial plan [2] it seems like all the hurt is coming from really huge declines in projected revenues - labor costs seem to be growing pretty reasonably but there's basically zero projected growth in fares. If someone can give me a layman's explanation of what "Capital and Other Reimbursements" is, which accounts for about a $500mm decline between 2019 and 20222, I'd be much obliged.

So I am curious how sensitive riders are to the increased service problems, how much that makes them switch out, to get some sense as to how much the signal improvements will help solve this problem. Also how much to a fare hike, which seems like the more straightforward answer in a vacuum (i.e. other than taxes or other government infusions). The MTA says in [1] that even "draconian service reductions would have a relatively small impact on the deficit."

[1] - http://web.mta.info/news/pdf/MTA-2019-Final-Proposed-Budget-...
[2] - http://web.mta.info/news/pdf/MTA-2019-Final-Proposed-Budget-...
You escalated your example a bit fast (putting it squarely in the territory of a maybe overly emotional argument), but you touch on a not unreasonable question. Does the horse's right to decide who it has sex with not factor into this decision at all?
For my use cases (websites, # of tabs, add-ons) Chrome is faster than Firefox without a doubt. I still use Firefox for most things because it is usually good enough.
They are already doing this for several lines. The L wasn't running on weekends at all in November for them to do repairs.

NYC is unique in that there are LOTS of people whose working hours fall into that range and they rely on the subway. Just shutting down the whole system is unfeasible.
If you are going to run some sort of autoconfiguration tool, then having it generate the build directory (by copying or symlinking the .do files over) is a trivial extra step.
Based on my personal experience: The reason why is probably because of the poorly documented, unstable spaghetti code their public libraries consist of.
At something less than 1¢ I was just playing with a thing I came across on some forum, or Usenet, or something.

I found the hard drive from that computer a while ago, but there was no trace of the coins. There was no reason for me to keep them, after I'd finished playing with the software.
Because of the conflict between the public interest in allowing copying facts and the misappropriation doctrine, that doctrine is generally limited to "hot news", and citing the source is generally sufficient even there.

The article you linked includes various restrictions on the doctrine:

"highly time-sensitive", "in direct competition", "rend[ering] [the] publication profitless"

The wikipedia page on the misappropriation doctrine has a various links and commentary about the narrowing of its application: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misappropriation_doctrine

Particularly, from the Second Circuit NBA vs Motorola (1997) "Such concepts are virtually synonymous for wrongful copying and are in no meaningful fashion distinguishable from infringement of a copyright." https://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/105_F3d_841.htm Other circuits have followed similar principles.
We don't yet have any AGI that takes decisions to kill people.

So let's be frank, Real Humans are here making decisions to kill people. Only that delegation of non-critical decisions is transitioned to programs.
Wonder how this will affect coinbase. Didn't they just raise a ton of money?
That’s ridiculous. Identity proofing is required for securities trading, banking, airline travel, car rental, etc etc. Those industries seem to be doing just fine. To say that KYC/AML is the main force behind the bitcoin sell-off is an outlandish leap that ignores literally every other flaw of bitcoin as an “investment” - and there are many.
This is nicely put together - thank you.

My entire business is actually in helping people get customers and at least half of our clients are those seeking P/M fit who partner with us to get early demos of their product (or even pre-demo conversations) scheduled. I have a sketchbook full of cool SAAS ideas that I'm not savvy enough to build. But I'm good at getting customers so viola that's my business.

I would offer these tips if you are trying to start a business - any business - and need a nudge to get your first few customers.

1. You don't need to be different. The world is HUGE. Most of your potential customers have never heard of your competitors. In fact, they may well be saying "I wish this-thing-that-solves-a-need existed" without knowing that 20 versions of that thing exist. We tech folks drastically overestimate the amount of time and energy people put into finding ways to solve problems they have. Most folks just live with the misery.

2. Your competition sucks. If you pick up the phone and start the process of selling than you already way ahead of most of your competitors. Why? Because most of them act like they sell but they really just sit and agonize over one more line of code or one more feature instead of getting out there in front of customers. Use this to your advantage! Your product is already good enough, so stop developing it and go find users.

3. Your network is a goldmine. We had a potential customer approach us to help set 20 demos a month for their SAAS product. So far they had scheduled zero demos even though all 3 founders had over 1000 LinkedIn connections. Instead of taking them on as a client I consulted with them for a couple of hours on how to reach out to people they already knew. (Side note: If you won't put your product/service in front of EVERYONE you know who is a potential customer than you are lacking confidence. This can be solved, but selling to people you know is MUCH easier than selling to strangers. Offer something you believe in and the conversations come easy).

4. People hate cold callers, spammers, and unsolicited messages. So make warm calls (after an introduction) and send relevant emails (how it is you know they have this problem and how you can help). Do not be fearful of reaching out! People ARE interested in real things that solve real problems and they will pay real money for that.

5. Charge more. Charging a low price doesn't motivate buying any more than a high price discourages it. Don't price your SAAS at $2 a month because you are afraid no one will pay $5. Don't price it at $10 because you are afraid no one will pay $50. Especially in B2B when purchasers aren't often spending their own money. Problems in the business world are worth more than $5, $10 or even hundreds of dollars to solve.

Good luck to all of you. Finding new customers can and should be fun, not a source of stress. And seeing the first official sale or first dollar in the bank is a high that never gets old.

C
Since it seems you must work closely with this colleague, perhaps you could look for opportunities to improve together? Maybe taking a training course or attending a talk together or as a team? Maybe you could even give an internal talk on an area you feel is important that they could benefit from?

I would also be careful to assume that your colleague is incompetent. Perhaps the two of you have just very different styles. I once worked with a "solution architect" who would over-engineer every project. Even the smallest utilities would become a "system" with lots of moving parts. Management lauded his technical abilities, but those who later had to maintain these "systems" he created were not as impressed. I could see how he might consider some of the other members of the team "incompetent" because they did not work in the same way.
I never heard anything about incompetence in your description.

Technical debt can build up for myriad reasons not related much to competence.

What I would suggest is not to approach this situation as how you can wall off or otherwise attack this person but, instead as a life lesson on the importance of interpersonal relationships and politics.

Politics are a fact of life. Humans are social creatures. All things being equal, and some ways even when not equal, those that are proficient in interpersonal relations will come out ahead. Grok that fact. There is no escape from it.

Good. Now that unpleasantness is out of the way. On to how to cope. Scratch that, /thrive/, in an environment of people doing people things when you are a technical person.

First, information. That is the lifeblood of many systems and politics is no different. Simply make sure important information is conveyed to the right people at the right time.

You use the example that this fellow was able to take credit for your work. Had you passed the information of what you were doing and why it was important to the right people, he would have simply looked foolish to try to take credit.

It can be uncomfortable, to toot your own horn, but it is necessary. Additionally, it can be important to the organization. Assuming you are creating value, it is important that decision-makers know that so they can make the correct decisions. Don't feel bad. Toot away.

Building relationships is critically important in almost every human endeavor. Get good at it. It is a skill like any other.

The target of your annoyance became a manager because he built up those skills and made it known.

Build your skills and make it known. It is just that simple.
Yeah, just like Sharepoint developers
From the Wikipedia article

> Inverse surveillance is a subset of sousveillance with a particular emphasis on the "watchful vigilance from underneath...
A closer analogy for a remedy to an illness would be: Whenever your yard gets overrun with bears, putting a rock on the porch makes them go away for an unknown reason. Don’t let yourself be limited by science, which is bounded by human intelligence.
Shortcuts can send messages without any user interaction. However I think there is an exception if you are attaching an image; for privacy reasons.
Fine. He should get a sleep study done, so a specialist doctor can describe the damage he is doing to himself, scare him a little, and come up with a treatment plan from there. If you only sleep for 4 or 5 hours a night, you are killing yourself.

Everybody who does odd-hours work should have a sleep specialist doctor, and this guy is one of the few who need one, that can actually afford one. Sleep is important. It is not wasted time; it is biologically necessary.
Agreed, this site is wonderful. Definitely something I need to come back to after work and dedicate some serious reading time towards.
Don't let the order book fool you. Big players spoof the market all the time with these massive orders.
Instagram, Netflix and Yahoo are world brands. Reddit is mostly anglophone.
Note that rg and ag don't have the same feature sets. Here's a handy chart that shows the differences.

https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/
Considering that your web activity generates enough money to keep large amounts of people employed, your driving activity would to. I can see Free car journeys in exchange for your attention so that it can be sold to advertisers along with your current location.
Some examples are, you are approaching Mac Donald’s, or a competing petrol station, a competing supermarket, or hardware store.
Well they are relatively good space heaters at least...
Just curious, do you guys throw a bit of your retirement portfolio into BTC just to diversify? I do, I keep maybe 3% of mine in BTC just in case.
KYC compliance: A form and proof of identity.
Financial markets retract. Doesn't mean its a pump-and-dump.
I don't think "sur-" necessarily means "more power". Here's a bunch of sur-prefixed words in French: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:French_words_prefixe...

My favorite so far on that list "surbooker"--"to overbook"
We need to get our heads out of our asses. I don't want to be that guy but... we either need to radically change the way we live or 90% of us just need to immediately cease to exist although I'm sure the remaining 750 million people would still find ways to sabotage our planet. 'SHTF' fiction and science fiction often turns to a pandemic wiping out large chunks of the population... that would be bad for you, for me, for most people but we aren't the only life on earth. We need to realize this, NOW. We need to grow up and start being responsible for ourselves as individuals and as a species. As far as we know we have exactly one habitable world in all of the universe and certainly only one habitable world within our current technological means. Come on people!

We're ruining this planet multiple ways for not only ourselves but nearly all other species. Nearly 40 gigatonsof carbon this year, microplastics are now in the water and air the world around and has even been found in human feces on multiple continents, at least one factory in China is using CFCs again, we're doing all sorts of environmental damage strip mining resources for our throw-away phones and MacBooks, we are depleting groundwater the world around at alarming rates, we're losing our social abilities by staring at screens, we are using an alarming amount of electricity just to speculate on cryptocurrency, we drive 100-200 species extinct on average DAILY, we wage wars over religion and oil and where an imaginary line should divide a group of people, we murder each other for sneakers and pocket change or because someone beat us in a video game, we die in internet cafes throwing our lives away on virtual characters trying to get the latest super epic bind on pickup gear while people starve to death, suicide rates rise as people feel overwhelmed and trapped and that there is no hope and that they'll have to work until they die, we chase billion dollar exits on our iPad fruit of the month SAAS app as we walk by homeless people outside of our offices, we ship produce halfway around the world to eat out of season and throw away enough spoiled food to feed every hungry mouth on the planet... we are a scourge on the earth, but we needn't be. We can sacrifice, we can make immediate changes to the way we go about things to slow the damage we are doing, to buy ourselves some time to not only stop but reverse it.

Sad thing is, the vast majority of people are oblivious or flat out don't care.

Maybe we will get lucky and some advanced species will fill our skies with their ships and temporarily take control of the situation. More likely, we'll destroy ourselves like probably countless other intelligent species that the universe has seen come and go.

It's depressing.
Make is an amazing tool! It gives you a lot of power with just a few new concepts to learn.

However, I don’t see much value in using make as intended in the article. The author uses it as some sort of “shared bash history” for developers, where it is used to store the most relevant commands for a project.

Make is good for keeping track of what changed in your environment and, when it does change, to do the least amount of work necessary to build your asset. For the problem that the author is trying to solve, I would recommend something like Ansible, which feels simple and its playbooks often serve as documentation.
Anti-vaccination stronghold hit with worst chickenpox outbreak in decades
I'm generally with you— but the value in a public chain is probably just not having to set up the larger infrastructure yourself, and rather just tie into the existing network.

Couldn't you say, why invest in companies that support the internet backbone rather than Cisco?

Definitely couldn't answer why one is more valuable in dollars over another. There does seem to be more practical use and development of Ethereum out there than the others (at least from where I've stood).

But that more or less would support your point—I've definitely seen more groups just creating their own private fork or networks rather than directly tying into the public chain— JP Morgan, Microsoft, etc...

Disclaimer: I do own a few Eth, I bought some time ago and have just been sitting on. It was never to be a serious investment, just wanted to play along. Never bought into the ICO madness.

All that said, I always thought this was interesting as a use case (also further supporting your point):

https://qz.com/1118743/world-food-programmes-ethereum-based-...

> Building Blocks replaced the payment part with a ledger that records the transactions on a private version of ethereum that it developed.
>We have email, which is basically instant, free and worldwide. Why can't we have the same for payments? Only time will tell if such a major shift can happen.

Ever had a free email account compromised? Good luck. Not to mention email isn't free. Someone is paying for it and making money from it. Even if that is concealed behind several layers that aren't obvious to most users.
I have been looking for a lifeloging camera for a while.
But i can't find anything that is discrete enogh. The n"arative clip" looked discrete. But it is of the market.

Just want something that takes picture every 20 min's or so. So that i can review/analyze some of my daily behaviors in hindsight.
Hope for the Best, Prepare for the Worst
I have yet to see a single blockchain project that's actually interesting and worthy of anyone's attention.
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