skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silk Road did not represent a threat to centralism.
If we had legal, government-regulated or government-operated drug sales then SR might have been more in line with what the author thinks.

In reality the government took down a large criminal enterprise headed by an individual who seems to have been engaged in other criminal activity (hiring contract killers).
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Evolution, no, society, yes. New means of communications change the dynamics of how groups and alliances are formed which shapes dissent.

The internet has radically lowered the cost of friction of communication and coordination in all but the smallest groups - in that it shares a lot with the printing press which did much the same thing for printed material.
Then perhaps I'll "explore the possibility" of buying it. But probably not, they have left a nasty aftertaste with their shenanigans.
Like what Bron mentioned above:

'Which comes back to the point I've been trying to make all along here. In the most serious extreme, nowhere in the world is "safe"'

Do you have any suggestions for countries that have excellent data connectivity, would successfully resist pressure from US/UK/X authorities to hand over our servers, and at the same time would not themselves want access to?
> you pay only for what you use

In assembly and C, but not C++, at least if you use exceptions:

http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/exceptions.html#fqa-17.1

Of course you can pare down C++ further and further, but then you have C with slightly different type-checking semantics and you might as well move to a language where 'new' isn't a reserved word.
A very naive estimate based on one day of logs from one server says over 75% of our incoming port 25 connections are encrypted. Although that says nothing about the quality of the cipher in use and the type of messages that come through, its still significantly higher than I would have expected.

I can see I'll be spending some time on this in the next few days!
Down voting on here is vastly over used. Usually as shorthand for, "I disagree but am incapable of making a coherent argument".
Notwithstanding, the valuation and its assumptions refers to, from what I understand, how a minority stock investor, such as ourselves - individuals, may value the stock for its IPO.

If you or I buy a few shares of stock we'll likely not have any "synergies" to speak of so the actual earnings power of the company is important
No, LuaJIT has an ffi interface with support for any type, and you can just use them as if they are native types.
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People who were born or grew up in the Great Depression were extremely thrifty. As bad as the recession was, a nice silver lining will be more people who aren't borrowed to the hilt.
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The real danger here is that citing webpages creates significant risk that the content will be altered in future.

For example, to re-write a portion of history:

1. Scan wikipedia for any broken links

2. Purchase domains

3. Reinstate links with different content

4. Update wikipedia article to represent changed content

We need a method of publicly verifying the contents of a link at the time it was cited.

Could we do something similar to bitcoin? Where we have a publicly available hash of each site when cited?
Shouldn't that be "RISC"?
Eh, programs compiled to assembly language aren't limited to machine-word-sized integers and whatever the floating-point hardware (if any) natively supports. I'd be interested to know what its performance on integer code is, though.
Seems a bit like cheating if you do it that way, though.
Or - gasp - AirBnB could collect and pay the tax on behalf of the flat owner. That would protect privacy and eliminate offenders.
"Do I like/enjoy/have fun with X product?"

This doesn't directly translate to people opening up their wallets and paying for said product.
Thank you for this link. I wanted to help Mozilla for quite some time but didn't know where to start, this should simplify things a lot.
"A drunk European"? Nice, I do like a bit of casual racism.
Facebook dominance seems to correlate with poverty.
For me Nobel Price in peace is worthless long before Obama won it.

Don't let me get started with the "Nobel memorial price" that banksters created.

But Nobel prices in science had always been and continue being prestigious.
It's not that humans are evolving into something else, it's that the internet dramatically reduces communication costs and allows for levels of cohesion not seen since the village days, except on a global scale. If you try to deeply understand economics (any school), one thing that comes out again and again is that low information is in some sense the root of all evil.

This can even be described formally:

> Theorem: given perfect information and zero communication cost, any reasonable decision-making method must produce a Pareto-optimal outcome (ie. one that cannot strictly be improved upon).

> Proof: suppose otherwise. This means that the decision-making method in question produced outcome X, where outcome Y would have been possible, preferable to at least one person and unpreferable to no one. By the perfect information criterion, everyone should have realized that this would have happened, and by the zero communication cost criterion everyone would have come together and agreed to produce outcome Y instead. Thus, outcome X cannot have happened.

Note that the above applies to markets, democracy, Reddit-style karma systems and any other mechanism where every individual has nonzero power (so, maybe not pure dictatorships). And the further we fall from this perfect information / zero communication cost ideal, the more all of the various social problems we are familiar with today arise.

Centralized systems tend to historically emerge in low-information environments, as otherwise it's too easy for people to come together and realize that it would be more efficient for them to cut out the middleman. The internet is inherently much more decentralized than the communication media of the 20th century, under which only a few select parties could be broadcasters and everyone else is a passive consumer. Thus, it massively broadens the solution space for methods of decision-making, allowing for the growth of mechanisms that do not rely on central authorities. This is the fundamental insight of so-called "cyber-libertarianism", and applies to governments, large corporations, schools and even families.
Living in Japan, it's not that surprising. Until a few years ago Yahoo had far superior services in Japan for things such as transit directions. I remember 5 years ago trying to get around Tokyo using Google Maps with no success, but the Yahoo counterpart worked perfectly despite being harder for me to use since the UI was in Japanese only. These days, Google has equal or better services (although Yahoo still has some services Google does not provide such as an auction house). But inertia keeps people on Yahoo and Yahoo Japan is still very good, also they have close deals with Softbank (mobile phone carrier) which helps them keeping people on their sites.
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"You can fix things. You can make new and amazing things."
- yeah, but as a front-end developer, I still have to program using messy Javascript. I want packages, classes, public, private and protected, abstract, getters, setters all running natively - without the hacks or superset/compiled languages (ie. Typescript, Coffeescript, etc).

I miss Actionscript (not that it was perfect), but to remain commercially viable (and for other understandable reasons in the Flash vs HTML debate that I wont go into), I now write Javascript in a way not too dissimilar to how I used to write Actionscript nearly a decade ago! Things could be better.

Ultimately, what I'm saying is that being a web developer is not all about freedom, many concessions need to be made. I'd love the freedom to say f* IE. Forever.

We know there are better ways of doing things. But when it comes to the web, we have no choice to wait until it as a unified whole catches up.

Errr... to quote: "So it's not likely I could just step-in and make sweeping reforms".
Is it normal for nydailynews to have editorializing right in the subheadline?

"State is concerned about hotel occupancy taxes and possible evictions by greedy building owners."

Greedy is a value judgment with big negative connotations.
Edit: that's what I get for not reading - consumer spending only gets a mention at the end. Still an important point to make wrt consumer spending, so I'll leave it here.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/do-people...

"[...I]t is just wrong to imply that consumption is currently depressed. It isn't. The saving rate in the first half of 2013 was less than 4.3 percent. This is less than half of the average saving rate in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. It is lower than the saving rate at any points in the post-war era except the peaks of the stock and housing bubbles. Unless we see a return of a bubble, there is no reason to expect consumption to increase further relative to income."

Just noticed that in 2010, he writes the same thing responding to an article complaining about a 5.8% savings rate. Three years later, with the savings rate decreasing by 1.5% and a complete lack of retirement savings amongst baby-boomers, it's still not enough spending for financial pundits.

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/washingto...
I'm trying to work out the difference between a herd and a shoal. Fish form hierarchies too.
Nobody in Italy pays tax, which is why their finances are almost as bad as Greece's. And then there's ologarchs like Berlusconi, and the MAfia. Makes law requirements different
Explore away, EA. Right while I explore the possibility of buying something other than your game.
There is a brief explanation of the reasons behind that (with links to further information) in the article:

> Yahoo! succeeds in Japan and Taiwan through its nearly two-decade-old partnership with Japanese SoftBank and its 2007 purchase of Wretch, a Taiwanese social networking site.
From what I understand, the primary benefit of Tinder is the double-positive response matching that offers the possibility of success without the hurt of rejection. It solves the one of the biggest problems in dating.

Since one of the parties involved in "Tinder for Clothing" is inanimate, where's the value-add? In essence this is just a product catalogue, no?
And how do we feel about sites like yelp?
1.58%? That's it? How does it compare to Spitzer raising a bunch of money from Wall Street firms while chasing a bunch of other Wall Street firms?
This is Tea-party-level argumentation, by recasting the argument in strawman terms. It is not the case that "I own therefore I am god". With power comes responsibility, and here there are people looking for gain without the commensurate social responsibility.
Right. EA has determined

1. No way to milk this year-by-year (John Madden's SimCity 2014...)

2. So, might as well see if there's a long tail.

My wife bought this game, and was really mad at how EA bungled it. It's probably the last SimCity game she'll buy. So from this single data point, yeah, EA might as well give up :-/
All three of us know it - i guess it depends on levels of trust.
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You say without the "expense". How many resistors could you buy for the price of a decent MacBook Pro?
The key thing I always try to aim for is "Spend less on things I don't care about". A good motivator is to use some of the money you save from unimportant (to you) things on stuff you really care about.

The money I save on not having Sky TV (or similar) gives me some cash in the bank and fresh roasted coffee delivered to my door each week. I save money and get coffee! I find my life slowly filling with things that make it better and memories of fantastic experiences, without spending anything extra.

We didn't get seat covers at our wedding, because I wouldn't remember anything about them now. We used some of that money to get some really nice flowers, which became nice gifts and is something everyone liked.

> I know that virtually no matter what goes on with my employer I have plenty of time to find a new job.

It also means the answer to the question "What's the worst that can happen?" starts to become "Things will be generally fine". That's a phenomenal weight to be lifted.
Just last night I was reading "The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World" by David Anthony and I was around the part of the book describing the lactose mutation and its spread across the world etc. Pre-historic time is pretty complicated, and interesting.

Its a fairly academic book oriented more toward the spread of proto-indo-european language and related topics. And I got the pointer to that book from a podcast delivered lecture series "WS3710 History of Iran to the Safavid Period" a tolerable recording (tolerable from a technical standpoint; OK to listen to, but not going to win any awards for audio engineering). Its a recording of a class at Columbia from 2008.

My interpretation of the book and lecture series is people kept livestock for quite a long time before some mutant gained the ability to drink milk, which given the herd of meat animals meant they gained a lot of nutrition compared to the non-mutants, which is a huge survival gain.

I've found I enjoy university lectures much more now that I don't need to take midterms and write papers, so thats pretty much all I listen to.
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People should stop doing that. I agree it happens.

But then there are obvious trolls making trolling posts that don't get down votes, and even get replies.
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here: couldn't you argue that whatever you did to win a Nobel prize is already (supposedly) a significant contribution to society, making additional contribution via taxes unnecessary (or, in fact, discouraging); as opposed to, say, winning the lottery.
The pirates beat them to it.
Yes, sorry, got the courses mixed up.
Pulling out of the market is troubling though. There's some evidence that younger generations are currently saving enough, but are doing so in low yield instruments. With interest rates like they are, it's impossible to just save enough for retirement. You need that saving to be growing at a reasonably steady clip.
First, nobody's telling you you're wasting time writing a kernel (or the JVM for that matter) in C++. Obviously, C/C++ has its place (kernel, drivers, VM, resource-constrained embedded systems). But a large Java application is usually more performant than the equivalent C++ code, especially if a lot of concurrency is involved.

Second, where it matters most, Java offers a similar level of access to the hardware (memory fences, CASs, etc.). There are areas where the JVM still needs improvement, though (mostly arrays of structs), but the cases where C++ is preferable to Java in large server-side application software are getting fewer by the day.

Third, there are performance benefits to working at a low level, but reaping them comes at a very high cost. Often you'll find that when working with a large team you need to make concessions on performance for the sake of maintainability. One example is virtual methods. They're good for maintainability and project structure, but bad for performance. Java solves this problem with its JIT. Another problem is memory allocation. Allocation schemes can get very complex in the face of concurrency (and damn hard if using lock-free DS). A C++ developer will usually prefer to tackle this with well defined allocation/deallocation policy and the possible use of mutexes; this harms performance. Java solves this problem with a good GC.

> while giving us stuff like Eclipse

Java on the client is far from optimal (although NetBeans beats most native IDEs I've seen, in terms of looks and performance). But you are completely unfamiliar with the entire Java landscape. Most Western defense systems (including weapon systems; including software that controls an aircraft carriers) are written in Java nowadays. Most banking systems and many high-frequency trading platforms, too.

* Unless one is working for a long time with a small team of experts on optimizing said C++ code.
Do you live in New York City? I don't think it's bullshit.

This is about landlords who don't want individuals to make money subletting their apartments. The old rich guys in Westchester who own all the housing in the Bronx.

There are a lot of people who are stuck living next to illegal,
untaxed hotels because one of their neighbors AirBNBs their place full time.

I don't see what's wrong with this. Landlords routinely take advantage of ill-informed tentants charging very high rates for roach-infested apartments without running hot water. These should not be on AirBNB -- the housing was illegal to begin with.

AirBNB is a crapshoot - I did it one time it was amazing... since all parties involved were responsible.

NYC may need to be subject to special consumer protection rules, pay taxes etc. in order to make this work.

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky cautions that the government
is over-reaching in its demand for data.

Chesky is wrong. NYC can and should subpoena for his data - Schneiderman has the public interest in mind. New Yorkers are that shady, but someone has to read this data...
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Someone with a very bond-heavy portfolio is extremely susceptible to interest rate risks, which aren't really going to go down much.

Bonds are, generally, less risky than stocks, but piling too much into bonds is not the safest way to go. Stocks can offset bonds risks.

Diversity, diversity, diversity.
All of that is true, but it isn't as bad as it once was. You can buy a 100 MHz oscilloscope for ~300 USD now; cheaper than an old used Tek, and better. Resistors are so cheap, buy a kit of them. Since the internet, not only can you get parts cheap, you can get them pretty quickly too; though, I have to admit though, my progress on a weekend project was halted Saturday because I had procrastinated ordering a few parts.

At least for basic electronic circuits, or even simple software projects, the difficulty becomes apparent when you move outside your normal comfort zone. Debugging even simple software is quite vexing to newcomers; I heard someone say it's like a blind person learning to paint portraits (though the one who said it wasn't blind).

>The power available in free debugging tools is equivalent to a 6 figure rack of electronics equipment.

They always charged too much for that crap. Thank goodness for open standards and cheap digital stuff.
Norway, Iceland and Switzerland come to mind.

As for whether or not they want access to data: There's nothing wrong with governments accessing data if there's a court order in place and their request is part of an investigation. It's the automatic surveillance of everyone that NSA does that's a problem, and it's certainly not all countries that do that.

In the most serious extreme, nowhere in the world is "safe"

Sure, but there are levels of safety, and the US has turned out to have a low degree of safety for a Western country. The fact that you probably can't find a perfect country shouldn't be an excuse to pick a notoriously unsafe one.
There already is a half working offline mode server emulator (made by one person). And EA has a "Team" working on exploring the idea of possibility of having an offline mode.
Isn't Micawber's philosophy that something good will hopefully turn up? Cautious optimism. Not exactly the perspective you have.
But that doesn't explain anything.

Are those states inevitable so we shouldn't try to anticipate or prevent them from happening or do we make them happen on purposes (read: does a minority manipulate the cycles to its benefits) ?
Based on the rules there, it looks like it shouldn't be taxed. The Nobel prize definitely meets criteria one and two, and three seems easy to meet.
Very cool. Always thought Id make something very much like this in node as a native app (like with the node-webkit), but the idea of cross platform in the browser sounds like its a nice secondary option.

Main features would be to track how long a file has been open and playing ( thus tracking the point at which the video is to be resumed at if you close it ). Then you could easily browse through your tv shows and movies, at a glance knowing what you've actually watched. Then ratings, prioritization, sorting. Additionally the ability to group any set of files an arbitrary number of times in any way, an example may be that one user of the service has a watch list ( like on a shared network ) and they generate groups for that, then they divide said groups up; eg. separating videos up for each day, or a group for when you want to take a set of videos on a device for a trip away.

A nice intuitive drag and drop interface and useful features like fuzzy match searching when you start typing, in every view. Filesystem manipulation. Drag/drop ordering within groups.

That and all the other easy fluff, like IMDB/TVRage scraping, custom skinning ( obviously an easy one considering html + css ) and integration with some RSS feeds I guess to generate a "This just aired/was released" with some user defined regex or something of that nature.

Though I've never really used a mediacenter before, shit would be cash. I hope this mediacenterjs is as cool as it sounds like it could be. Its too bad that those bugs are so critical and that crossplatform is so tricky.
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Please don't put into a presentation what can be put into a single HTML page.
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Mirrors my experience to a T. There are so many issues with AirBNB (bidding process, calendar, cost model, trust model) that it strikes me as being created by some naive suburban kids. The amount of work that they do to prevent out of band messaging makes any sort of meaningful discourse or authentication impossible.
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This is absolutely not true. People pay taxes in Italy, actually, they have one of the highest tax burden in the world.

Do inform yourself a bit on the topic. It's way more complex than you think.
I'v used a shared dropbox folder with a KeePassX instance in it with a shared password for that container. If needed we could just change the password on the KeePassX container and/or remove the access to dropbox.
I'm not an individualist and I'm a strong supporter of the Silk Road. Drug prohibition is just dumb policy; it doesn't work, it's expensive, it makes drugs more desirable for teenagers and it ends up causing more suffering than if they were completely legal. I'm hoping these anonymous marketplaces go mainstream to force politicians to start thinking about better ways to reduce drug use, such as education and rehab.
Interesting that the most popular site in Kazakhstan is a russian site. (Mail.ru)

Another interesting thing to measure would be the most popular national website, ie. for denmark, the most popular .dk domain, and then represented in size per population.

EDIT: I'd hypothesize that the top website would be whatever bank has the most customers, or websites for government functions.
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European isn't a race. I think you mean xenophobia.
I plan to buy Twitter stock as a hedge against actual intelligence in the investing community. Seriously, the true valuation on a non-profitable company with no reasonable way to make a profit is $0b.
you don't - you use an directory (LDAP, Active Directory) or AAA service (RADIUS,TACACS+) to manage that. There should never be a shared password. If it is a cloud shared service, same rules apply. You have to know who did what when, and with a shared PW you cannot. Even if all people have the same privileges, you gotta know who did what.
Good encryption is still uncrackable, unless you induce the owner to give up his passphrase.