skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you show me any success stories of absolute communist states with no private sector? Just one, maybe? Who's lying?

The spectrum comment referred to the socialism/communism terminology, with socialism generally seen as involving a heavily-regulated free market and large public sector, as opposed to communism where the private sector is outlawed. A spectrum.
Same here. One time a Simple rep made a comment about how they liked my employer. While the comment itself was innocuous, I expected them to have a bit more discretion when going through my transaction history.
Fair enough.

They claim to be thinking about open sourcing it, so there may be hope yet.
This is one reason why I tell people to have both offsite backups (in case of fire, theft, etc.) and offline backups. There are a lot of us that are just one SSH worm away from having all of our files destroyed.

I've been thinking about ways to create an offline-equivalent backup, so that it can be automated. One way would be to have a computer that is only connected via serial cable, which only accepts new files to be backed up. (No ability to delete via the serial cable.)
>The last bubble was lots of IPOs

Agree. I still remember what happened during dotcom 1.0. So many IPOs that sizzled out.
>"The market is only smart when you're selling goods that have well-defined characteristics and retain value irregardless of time and place. Cold water is worth about $0.003 a cup from my tap, but $5 in a bottle at a major league baseball game."

The water vendors at baseball games are actually a counter-example to what you are trying to show. Though the water bottles are expensive, no one in the supply chain is able to make very much money (at most stadiums) without government intervention.

The water vendors are forced to either work for the stadium at a low wage, buy the water at a high price from the stadium, or pay a hefty rent to the venue. The stadium is in turn not making much (if any) money at all without government intervention; this is why they are always lobbying for special tax breaks, zoning laws, and government-subsidized loans. The water bottle suppliers and producers are in turn competing against each other in a cut-throat business, with razor thin margins.
"Things that are 'best' for society also tend to make the most money."

You can make an awful lot of money in the short term doing things that are horrible for society. Look at natural gas extraction by fracking - are we saying that polluting the water table, the air and ground in an is best?

Or look at the defense industry. The make a lot of money too. Is taking our great intelligence and devoting it to weapons and destruction best for society?

Best might be best for a small group, but is rarely best for society.
> And how would you have innovation without VC?

Well, for an example you could look at: pretty much all innovation. VC-backed startups that are innovating are pretty rare, unless you mean business-model innovation. A typical startup is monetizing innovation that's already been done, at big companies or in academia or at bootstrapped startups, but that hasn't been effectively monetized yet. VCs don't want to sink money into R&D.
He likely wasn't healthy; you just have to look at a picture of him to see that he was at least 50 lbs overweight (if not more). That much extra weight will increase your risk of heart attack significantly.
If those are just the ads, what are the movies? Holodecks?
From what they describe on their FAQ page they just use crafty ordering techniques and deals to save you money. They aren't necessarily parasitizing sales from Amazon and sending them elsewhere, they are just taking advantage of savings techniques and coupons that already exist.

It's like meeting up with your friend outside the store to go shopping, and he has a big binder full of coupons that he's cut out of newspapers and circulars, and he has a credit card that he uses when checking out that has a nice rewards bonus. He uses his coupons and reward bonus to save you money and pass the savings back to you. In return he keeps a portion of the savings. So Amazon might not have that big of an axe to grind with them because its not really hurting them that much.

But I totally agree about the cat and mouse issue. I don't think this company has a very solid business model, because if history shows anything its that these kind of browser extensions require constant updating to keep them operational, especially if the website is actively trying to block them by changing the DOM, JS, etc. The ongoing development and maintenance costs of keeping this extension operational are going to severely eat into any minor profits that they make, especially if Amazon closes or limits some of the savings exploits / coupons that they are using currently.

Still I wish them the best of luck in their venture. I'm sure it will be a fun and interesting project for their devs, and if they succeed at becoming profitable all the better.
Financial sector is our new aristocratic system. Those will be and are now our rulers with the blue blood of money and we others have to sweat to pay for their living.

They tell us, that they are needed (as the aristocrats did in the middle ages to the farmers), since we can not go without (system relevant). But the thing is, that by manipulating our democratic systems, they made them self system relevant and they hinder that things can change. What they do is, they take the wealth of the earth away from the 99% and give it to themselves and the other riches. This system will one day kill of any creativity and any living resources of the earth.

They are the real anti-socials of the world.
You won't be there to enjoy your legacy. Prioritizing things you can and will enjoy is not a bad thing.
I'd like Coinbase even more if they implemented Dogecoin support. There's a huge community of new crypto users that would love to start using their Dogecoins on markets.
Sorry, there has been a misunderstanding. My first comment to which you replied could be rephrased as "There is a big arb opportunity which they are not exploiting, and it is interesting that they are not doing it." The continued existence of the arb opportunity is a public fact, which is why I was a bit baffled that it would be questioned. It was not clear to me at first that you believed I had claimed that Mt. Gox was not participating in the market at all.
Bitcoin Short-Term Price Tied To One Lackluster Company
Wait a second, name one bank that does it better in the US. The problem is the US banking system is in the dark ages. The bullshit that we put up with in the US is unfathomable in Europe. If you hand someone a check (cheque?) in the UK they look at you like you're from 1957. Why? Because banks provide a modicum of modern service. Bank transfers are fast, cash machines are free, debit cards are secure, etc etc. Of course people complain about banks equally as they do in the States, but that's only because they don't realize how truly asinine banking can get.

Now even though I've live in the UK since 2011, I opened a Simple account and it's been a breath of fresh air. The transfer to and from my other accounts is far simpler than any of my other US accounts. Also, I can receive wire transfers for free (imagine that, receive money for free!? The Wells Fargo founder must be spinning in his grave at the sound of that). Contrast this with the old experience of calling up a bank and saying I want to transfer money to another account and they tell me I have to call the other bank, because ACH is a "pull" system.

Sorry to get off on a rant, but Simple is the best of the best in my opinion as a customer having dealt with at least 10 different banks over the last 20 years in both the US and UK.
I don't think that has been decided yet. It was the main issue during the Oracle v. Google trial, but if I remember correctly, the judge declined to rule on whether APIs could be copyrighted or not.
Is Facebook defrauding their advertising customers?
This is why we stopped all our advertising on the Facebook network.
Facebook knowingly defrauds their advertising customers and seem to not be doing anything about it.

We have used quite a bit of money on Facebook ads & promotions, we have always had a sneaky feeling that we were getting cheated, and then we stumbled on to this video, which seem to confirm all our worries..

If you are an advertiser, this is a must watch!
I suspect it is strongly correlated to how much you spend on cars (particularly, how old your cars are). I've had a car that liked to overheat, which took a couple of trips to the mechanic before they sorted it out. I also had a truck that had some sort of electrical problem (I don't remember what exactly, and I know nothing about automobiles).
Correlation is evidence of causation
What other experiences does people have?
Many of these types of issues should be addressed through design rule checkers in your software, though these need to be matched to the capabilities of the PCB manufacturing house...
I'm not at all clear on what you're looking for. You want examples of people who are successful by "working smart and not hard" (what does that mean?) and then as an example, you suggest a statistician but qualify that by saying "This is a bad example because it requires being really smart".

Aren't the people who work smart going to be smart, almost by definition? If you rule out smart people, then it seems like you've eliminated your possible pool of subjects.
The main difference is that, in this case, the investor is playing to screw the founder, not other investors.

If you want to argue that it's only unethical but not strictly illegal, then fine. I still think we should aim to do better, and it's sad that Silicon Valley doesn't care about better than "not clearly illegal" when it comes to ethics.
Or it won't do it at all?

The closest analog would be the Android camera, and it asks if you want to turn on autoupload or whatever. And it doesn't upload at all if the camera is being used by an app, even if you have that turned on, which would be the same case if people build apps to use this device.
Do the orders show up in your amazon history? If not, is there some way to access them? Their website is a bit sparse on details.

I'm guessing they have some way to provide discounts on all orders (credit card savings or something), and are able to sometimes get an additional discount using coupons.
An Open Letter on Climate Change from CA Climate Scientists and Economists [pdf]
The Game Changed in Venezuela Last Night and the Media Is Asleep At the Switch
Hum, maybe they meant some testing devices, I guess that would be "small amount". Cannot imagine you'd build a whole plant without some miniature tests.
"Aretaeus On Bipolar Disorder" (ancient-Greek/psychiatry comparison)
Please read the Citizens United majority opinion, and listen to both oral arguments; I think you will find that CU had a much better argument than you might think. Although you may dislike the consequences of the case, the government's argument was horrifically bad. In short, the government argued that the FEC could ban books and magazines, if they felt the publisher should not be granted a "media exemption", and that this ban would comply with the first amendment ("Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech").
You could use rsync.net. If you get rooted, and your files get deleted, you can ask for them to revert to a snapshot.
Ahh I see. So your definition of the famine-inducing kind of state capital allocation is so narrow as to only include those instances where famine actually occurred. State allocated capital is totally fine then, so long as some of (undetermined amount?) a country's economic allocation of capital is governed by market forces?
In my experience - visible refund policies,SSL badges and a phone number are the best things that help concerned customers. I'd suggest something very simple and to the point. e.g 'Concerned about purchasing online? Call us at xxx-xxxx during business hours'
It's a pretty big leap from a vague and threatening letter to a life-ruining lawsuit... but IANAL and that's certainly possible.
There was outright fraud in some cases but, for the most part, the credit crisis was a systemic failure. It would be impossible to pin it on a few individuals.
Yeah I figure, but notice how Apple keep their documentation outside of their interface file. Try that. It makes it easier to learn.
PCell technology demonstration at Columbia by Steve Perlman
In the UK accountancy courses are subsidised, it might also be the case in the US. This could be an option regarding a long term strategy.

At my accountancy course I learned that when Sage goes belly up, you resort to double entry.
[Ask HN] Is Threema Secure?
I stumbled upon this question [0], which is currently unanswered. Since WhatsApp is bought by Facebook many people look for an alternative (although I don't know why now; their data hasn't been secure before that deal either). There have been great, insightful comments about Telegram's security[1] and I hope some of the experts here can formulate some sentences to enlighten the common internet user.
(Peoply tend to trust apps based on too many subjective factors.)

[0] http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/51953/is-threema-secure
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6916860
The point is that many people are wasting money on gasoline because they're forced to by the way infrastructure currently works, since you need a car to drive to work and you need to drive to work if you want to eat. Not because they actually prefer spending money on gasoline and hate public transit, say, and this is their vote for "I love cars and buying gasoline". Most individuals have very constrained choices, and the emergent effects of those choices are not in any necessary sense optimal for society. Jumping out of their short-term local optimum ("driving to work is better than losing my job, so I gotta drive") to other preferences ("it'd be nice if I could get to work without owning a car") is often non-trivial and requires large-scale coordination (such as through political or cultural change). On the other hand, they might love driving! But the mere fact that they spend money to drive to work doesn't prove it.

If you're interested in complex-systems theory, you can try out implementing various simple simulations yourself. It's actually pretty hard to come up with one, even with hilariously optimistic assumptions, where each agent individually optimizing actually leads to a globally optimal outcome! It's even pretty hard to come up with one that works in any reasonable sense at all: you quickly get swamped by system-endogenous effects and all sorts of weird oscillations and attractors that have nothing to do with the utility function. Fun times living in emergent-effects-land!
Starting with the 8086, it has 14 registers. Four of which are actually eight more registers (AX is AH and AL; BX is BH and BL; CX is CH and CL; DX is DH and DL). Each of these registers has a special purpose (BX can be used to index memory, the rest can't; CX is used in some instructions as a count; AX is your accumulator, and DX is ... just there). There are four more special purpose index registers, SI, DI, BP and SP. SI and DI support post-index and post-decrement indexing mode, but you need to set a flag in another register (CF register) to indicate you want the post-increment mode OR the post-decrement mode. SP is the stack register, but you can't use it as an index register (you can starting with the 80386). You can use the BP register as an index register, but it always takes an offset (there is no special mode for a 0 index).

Then you get to the segment registers. As if things weren't bad enough. There are four, CS to point to code, DS and ES for data, and SS for the stack. You see, the 8086 can address 1MB of memory (20 bits), but it's a 16bit instruction set. So the segment registers contain not the upper 4-bits of the address, but the physical address divided by 16 (or, shifted right four bits). A physical address is formed by SEGMENTx16+OFFSET, giving you 20 bits of address. Most instructions and addressing modes use DS, except if you use BP, which defaults to SS, and the store-post-increment/decrement instructions, which must use ES:DI (DI is incremented---ES doesn't). You can override the segment register for most instructions, but not all (the string instructions, which give you the post-increment/decrement addressing modes are the exception).

And because of these segment registers, you can have 16 or 32 bit function pointers, 16 or 32 bit data pointers, and 16 or 32 bit stack pointers.

So what you have is an instruction set that is almost, but not entirely consistently inconsistent. The 80186 gives you a few more instructions. The 80286 adds protected mode (with four levels of protection) with a change of how the segment registers work (in protected mode---they're now indexes into a table of physical addresses for each segment, each of which can only be 64K in size), and the 80386, which extends all the registers to 32 bits in size (except for the segment registers---they're still only 16 bits long), adds new registers only available in the highest protection ring, and paged memory, in addition to keeping the segmented memory, plus allowing all the registers to more general purpose, in addition to keeping the old instruction set.

I'm really hard pressed to come up with a more convoluted architecture than the x86.
Flagged for no content.
Another reason why you shouldn't do your own crypto, leave it to the experts. :-)
The DMCA is also about "anti-circumvention". It makes it illegal to remove DRM that protects copyrighted content, or to create tools that do so.

That said, this takedown looks pretty bogus to my (untrained) eye.
I think a game that maps your home or yard or street or whatever, recognizes common objects like trees, benches, cars, houses, people, etc, skins them with some sort of other-worldly skin, and allows you to walk around in the world finding virtual treasures and going on dynamic, virtual quests and fighting monsters by actually walking around would be the first literally fully-immersive game. incorporate events queued by actual sound coming in through the mic and you have the coolest game ever made, to date.

think ingress, but overlaid in real time on what your camera sees and phone hears, instead of just on google maps.
I find the part where they fork their own project darkly amusing.

But the fact that they've open sourced that fork, and are working to get changes merged upstream is great news. It's far better behavior than many other companies: Oracle, IBM and Sun all come to mind.
> So, things were clear: the cybercriminal wants 0.4 Bitcoin, which made about 260 Euros at the time of infection, but only 89 Euros at the time of writing (Once again this shows how unreliable the Bitcoin money is, but that is something else).

Fail.
> The closest analog would be the Android camera

I disagree. The closest analog is the Google location services, which continuously uploads data about your position and local wifi networks to Google, and is not very transparent about what it's doing: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2384751,00.asp
I think it's interesting that some of the premium/upscale brands appear more "premium" with the minimalism, but the commodity brands appear cheaper with the same minimalism. Sometimes the last images take it too far though and leave a lifeless product.

For example (just my opinions)

Premium:

* Guinness #2, #3

* Evian #3, #4

* Redbull

* Schweppes (the glass bottle makes it look more premium I think)

Commodity:

* M&M #3 (It looks OEM or bulk quantity)

* Jelly Belly #3, #4 (Same bulk feel as M&Ms)

* Nesquik

* Pringles
Supersonic jet to have windowless cabin
I understand the idea that you can get the exact positions of the surrounding, if you have an accurate position of the device. But how are they achieving that? I don't know of any such small tech capable of being accurate to 1cm, without external help.

I don't see how can they do this without an accurate position of the device.

An example when it breaks down without the position information:

Pointing the device perpendicular at an uniformly colored wall and moving parallel to the wall. Then the visual information is undefined and you have to rely on very accurate position sensors( which don't exist ) to correctly scan the environment.
It's probably because sending to a company can fit under testing purposes but going to a person needs to be more rigorously controlled for interference and the like. Still, an unfortunate and old fashioned restriction in today's culture.
ah makes sense...so that mean you are projecting danilo to get 27 tonight?
I think he was tech lead for Kinect at Microsoft for a while, before Google snatched him.
You probably want to do three things

1) Extract all network layer into its own stuff. We built an SDK recently, and I decided to make three layers out of it. SDK -> OAuth2 -> Networking

2) Separate that 1000 lines of code into several classes (check #1)

3) Update your device naming https://github.com/seivan/mixpanel-iphone/blob/feature/prope...

You guys will run into a case where your users will pollute their tracking with unknown model names because your SDK was outdated on the naming.

Even if they do update the SDK, the users will have ton of data with the old naming.

I'd probably store the device naming map on the server side in case of new devices without having to update the SDK.

Also, write tests, add a sample app, add your cocoapod spec file to your repo as well - etc.
Acquisition offers are a great external validation of both your product and the market you're in. So my take is that it's a very positive thing to talk about any potential acquisition offers, as long as you stress that that's not your end game.

Take for example Drew Houston turning down the acquisition offer from Jobs/Apple back in the day; probably did wonders for Dropbox's valuation in the following round (and very rightly, if so).
Starting a tech startup from Thailand?
Anyone have experience starting a tech startup in Thailand (or any similar country)? How did it go? Did you had trouble finding Wi-Fi/location to work from? Is it safe to bring your laptop? Is Internet fast enough for normal Internet tasks? Any other information will be really appreciated!
Meanwhile... https://github.com/calmh/syncthing
No idea why I'm feeding you. Here's my quote, from above, which you could easily read yourself: 'State-allocated capital without a private finance sector has failed miserably'.

I didn't claim that the existence of any state spending at all causes famine. That would be ridiculous to claim. Does US highway spending mean that we're undergoing a famine RIGHT NOW? I mean, the human race would be extinct if that claim held true, given that governments have generally existed most places.

What's your angle, here? What on earth are you trying to prove? To who?
Since they want to "map the physical world", Google should buy the Euclideon guys already (Unlimited Detail Engine, Geoverse, etc):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Irf-HJ4fBls

And then release it for VR applications/games (one can hope).
This is the key point. The wealthiest people on Wall Street are glorified middlemen gambling with somebody else's money and skimming cream off the top.
Linden Lab stops development and support for Versu, dio, and CreatorVerse
If the GP had made a more nuanced argument that sort parts of the financial sector are not really providing a valuable service, likely nobody would've disagreed. But what he actually said was:

> If you are making money, but not a product then you are stealing from someone.

Which is just plain wrong for at least two reasons already mentioned. Since then you've just been nitpicking at people pointing out the wrongness.
You create a backup system that has credentials into your target system, but the target has no credentials for the backup. The backup system can maintain the point-in-time history.

Of course if you backup system gets hit then the whole thing falls apart, but you can isolate this one system and it doesn't need to accept any incoming connections.