jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
>that allow bitcoin to remain secure in the long term when block subsidy becomes insignificant.

this line of reasoning is silly. To match the current block subsidy with the current block size limit when miner subsidy runs out the average transaction fee will need to be >$127.

$45mil daily revenue / 350,000 txs per day

OR, you could increase the block size limit to 10mb, allowing 3.5mil txs per day, or 100mb allowing 35mil txs per day. Then the average fee paid per tx is significant lower.

The reason this was argued against by blockstream was because a bigger blocksize means more storage is needed by the miner and more txs means better hardware and bandwidth to process them, effectively pricing out normal people from running full nodes.

Essentially, the ability for normal people to send a transaction cheaply is being sacrificed so that normal people can setup a full node. Counter intuitive imo.
I have to laugh at the Times of India (rated yellow) comment - "It tends to have a bias in favor of the Indian government".

Times of India, An Phoblacht, CGTN, Global Times, Press TV, Ria Novosti, Russia Today, Sputnik, TASS, Telesur, Venezuelanalysis and Xinhua are all yellow or red.

BBC, Bellingham, Economist, Forbes, Fox News, New Republic, NPR, Reason and Weekly Standard are all rated green.

It is pretty clear - sites generally supportive of the US/UK governments and their businesses are OK. Sites generally supportive of India, Venezuela, Russia, the Irish minority(/majority) in north Ireland, China etc. are not OK. It's just a myopic view of the world from two English-speaking countries, and English Wikipedia.
This letter wasn’t phrased how they usually communicate, and it was word-for-word the same as Azlo’s shutdown notice. Simple usually sends out really good regulatory document explanations with easy examples. I think BBVA forced them to do it this way.
His administration has taken actions that might have provoked sharp political criticism for his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was often in public fights with the press.

Now there's a sentence which could appear in a lot more articles...
So it's like all software, then...
In no way is this an interns fault. If your entire infrastructure relies on the secure password of ...

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... a single intern! then you're doing it wrong.
Like every lion in the savanna, it must relinquish its reign at some point.

Buffet talks pridefully about holding $250+ BILLION in cash, as if it were pegged to a gold standard. Nearly half his life was based on such a system, and so it’d be hard to remove that idea.

Yet he sits on it proudly seemingly unaware that sitting on such an amount has eaten up 3%+ via the printing press of the FED.

That and you know... not buying when everyone was selling back in March. Selling out of the airlines seems like a rookie mistake but to a 90 yo, flying again is actually a “never again” due to his age.
UBI or progressive negative tax should solve this problem, no? (The idea is that a job always gets you more money than the base)
When I have the discussion about safety nets the topic of these types of people come up regularly where conservatives tend to say they're mooches and a drain on society and liberals tend to say they're an uncommon edge case. I think they're both arguing about the wrong thing.

I think this is the perfect outcome for the type of person who wants to live their life that way because the alternative, working somewhere, means they will be the worst coworker or employee you have ever had. They'll do just enough to not be fired and never enough to actually be worth their paycheck, walking the line and wasting resources that could be spent elsewhere. I've worked with this person and they destroy team morale and productivity without even trying, they're not bad people and I harbor no ill-will towards them, they just don't want to be there and have very few other options in our society.

While I think we must take care not to create too much of incentive for this lifestyle, I will happily pay money out of my paycheck to not have to work with those that prefer it.
Let me add to this. The process of legislation has gotten too big and complicated. Congress is passing fewer, larger bills, that include hundreds of small things that get passed without review or agreement, because there is an overriding interest in getting the big things done. Lobbyists don't need to buy a majority of votes, just find a couple people who may already be aligned them, who are willing to continually try to attach changes to bills.
People are talking about the household vacuum type (upright & cordless) not shop-vacs or dust collectors.
These guys are top notch. The engineering cofounder is modest but was a longtime Google SRE.
My comment is totally fine and reasonable because it's based on me sharing my personal experiences with others on HN, who may not have similar experience. The insinuation that this somehow comes from a viewpoint of political bias in uncalled for.
This is a good point; given that it's automatic in Rust, I assumed that they parent was talking about it happening automatically, but you are right that you absolutely can do this manually, and it's good to have that nuance. After all, this PR required manual intervention to get the automatic parts to kick in!
> The variables used in the expressions might not be in scope (in fact they usually aren't).

That's solved easily enough by evaluating the expression in the scope where it was defined (again that's what other languages do).

> Also, I'm rather sure that's how it works in C++

Default arguments in C++ work as I described: If you define `void f(int arg = g(x)) {}`, then calling `f()` n times will call `g` n times as well (using the `x` that was in scope when `f` was defined) - and if you never call `f`, `g` isn't called either.

An example demonstrating this: https://ideone.com/vs26Oq
Cloudfare did not kick 8chan off because they were losing customers or because anyone in particular complained. Cloudfare themselves decided to 'terminate their service to 8chan' because they believed '8chan has repeatedly proven itself to be a cesspool of hate.'

Another exerp that I find disturbing

"They [8chan and dailystormer] are lawless platforms. In cases like these, where platforms have been designed to be lawless and unmoderated, and where the platforms have demonstrated their ability to cause real harm, the law may need additional remedies."

Cloudfare absolutely pulled its support because of moral qualms not because they lost money. Look at the loaded text troughout the entire article.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/terminating-service-for-8chan/

It seems that according to some, 8chan doesn't have a right to exist despite having done nothing illegal. I suppose this issue belongs to the same group as people being put on a no-fly list without knowing why.
Another thing I'd like to see is a notification daemon with two features missing from all the existing notification daemons I've played with:

1) Ability to pull up a history of notifications

If I go away from my computer for a bit, I'd like to quickly review what happened while I was gone. Also, sometimes I want to reference something that appeared in a notification.

2) Batching of notifications by priority

When I'm trying to get work done, I don't want to be bugged every time anything happens. I'd like to be able to say, "low priority stuff, don't inform me more often than every two hours; middling, every half hour; high priority stuff send through right away". Ideally, some sort of pattern matching to adjust priorities.

This could take the form of a new notification daemon (would need dbus and some UI library) or a patch to an existing one.
What are the advantages over groupby?
It does everything that core.async does (in fact, it even has a compatible interface) and more.

Most notably, you can block with any arbitrary function, not just the specially-designated parking functions in core.async. Furthermore, they need not be visible to the go macro, unlike core.async (so you can call them in a compiled closure, for example, and it will just work).
didn't see it. Looks like a neat list.
SSH is designed to serve a single service on a single host. It distributes its host key on the first connection and caches it indefinitely, assuming it will never change. SSH is designed with a limited set of protocol features, and everything else is kind of hacked on top of proprietary client/server pairs. SSH is designed as a loose encrypted session (kind of like a pipe) for an application on a host.

TLS is designed to serve multiple services on multiple hosts. It depends on your browser trusting an intermediary host which validates the host key, so (in theory) the initial connection can't be MITM'd, and so the key can change at any time or there can be multiple keys (which is needed for hosting multiple services on multiple hosts). TLS is designed to integrate tightly into an application.

When you compare the two protocols, TLS is clearly superior to SSH. But in terms of the features they support (tunneling, authentication, etc), it's up to the server to add missing features outside of the protocol to provide for what the client wants to do.

For example, the SSH protocol basically provides an encrypted connection through which you can do whatever you want, similar to TLS. To do IP tunneling with SSH the application server activates extra functionality to connect the encrypted session to a driver which opens an IP tunnel. Or to authenticate your ssh session against a kerberos server, the ssh server does the actual kerberos authentication; the protocol just informs the client of what 'basic' methods they can use, and the client tries to use one that works with the server's methods.

Incidentally, TLS the protocol supports client certificate authentication, which provides similar functionality to SSH's public keys. The HTTP protocol also does certificate pinning.
The file that I found via search[0] didn't accept that password. Is there perhaps an alternate link or an alternate password?

0 = http://pan.baidu.com/wap/link?uk=1647171434&shareid=240536&t...
Its md5 is

dd9c04982c692e17e17d11cf389b1da0 MT6589_HSPA+_Smartphone_Application_Processor_Datasheet.pdf
> Additionally, you won't be able to carry your laptop around the city because there is no concept of "hot spots"

I live here. And my brother travel all around the city, so if in USA you can get wifi free everywhere then this is true, otherwise we don't see that get internet acces is difficult at all..
Sad that this didn't make it to the front page! Such a great article.
I'm not sure if you can actually identify a person using that kind of cameras.
Does it get better than this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Airport_Thermographic_Came... ?
For me, the real killer app of that sort of resolution would be resolution independence: current flat screens look crappy when you switch them to a non-native resolution, whereas with that sort of PPI you could get away with it - and you wouldn't even need a powerful graphics card, because the screen could appear as a lower resolution device to the system.
You can't, obviously, any more than you can do much more than monitoring and jumping in with a new server instance if your site suddenly gets 1000 times the traffic it normally does.
> clearance by the liver runs the risk of just having all of the toxin concentrated in the liver

Could you bind the toxins, then do a full body blood transfusion?
Yes, I would be interesting about the technical side, like how the publishing backend works, how do you manage the large number of submissions, etc.
what is really sad is that the whole reputation of a country is being dragged down the crapper just because of these emails. Which leaves me to ask, is the Nigerian government doing anything about this?
That's genuinely very very impressive.

I think all the web commentary about whether the pixels are visible or not are missing the point. The point is that thinks that were not readable (or resolvable) now are. For instance on the NYT page, on the 3gs screenshot only the main headlines are readable. On the 4 phone, everything is. That's a huge usability improvement.
Additionally a number of the stylist elements on the iphone don't look that great at lower resolution but amazing at the higher one. The obvious one is the inset text effect used for the browser header (i.e. the white inset on text),it almost looks like ghosting on the 3gs whilst on the 4 it looks like a crisp inset. The same goes for the inset icons at the bottom.
I have to look hard to see pixels on my 3gs; things looking less pixely isn't the news, things being more resolvable is.
"Web 2.0" doesn't have a crisp definition. It encompasses a huge variety of things ranging from google maps to flickr. Overall it represents anything that feels like a step up from the web 1.0ish static html, grey background world.

A few defining characteristics of many "web 2.0" sites:

- Application vs. static content, nearly all content is dynamically generated, per user

- Use of AJAX to provide responsive interactivity instead of whole-page-refresh per-click

- Social media aspects, leverage of user generated content in the form of comments, media, etc.

- Use of web-centric graphic and usability design. No more default gray backgrounds, no more horrid framed interfaces, no more geocities syndrome. Tight, coherent layout trending toward minimalism. Use of proven usability enhancement accepted standards such as breadcrumbs, search, standard header or footer navigation menu, "click logo to go to home page", etc.

All of these trends led to a flowering of 2nd generation uses of the web which generally became lumped into the "web 2.0" category.

A web-store with an animated "under construction" banner that uses mostly default fonts and colors, contains a simple home page of static content which links to a few pages filled with tables of inventory listings and instructions on how to send in orders via email, phone, and by printing out/filling in/mailing an order form is web 1.0. A web-store that is sleekly designed with full searchability as well as browsing by category/manufacturer/what-have-you, a proper shopping cart system, a full detail page for each item with an image, detailed description including formatted details and maybe customer reviews, per-item inventory tracking, etc. is web 2.0.
Yup, this is basically what showoff is doing. Showoff is nice because it gives you:

* HTTPS
* Works without access to public-facing server.
* Pretty URL
* Eventually will support more stuff besides just port-forwarding :)
My dad worked at one company for 28 years. He was fired. He had a year of emergency money in cash in the bank. Not rent, 12 months of money to cover every last little expense they had. They should have been set for any emergency, afterall, who has that much cash in the bank? And no outstanding car, credit card, or mortgage debt (lived in the same house for over 30 years)

It took him over 18 months to find a job.

Sure, there was a 42" HDTV in their house too. They still weren't spending money on ANYTHING. And he was working 50+ hours a week trying to find a job. Their expenses went up a little because he was traveling for interviews and networking at executive events. (Oh sorry, forgot to mention he was CEO of a 500 person company that was beating its targets even during 2008 when the stock market dropped like a stone).

So yea, if it can happen to him, it can happen to you. Tell your inner libertarian 6 months is nothing, and maybe he should find out what this current economy is really like.
Still no. If I've got the sort of idea which can be proved with a cheap and quick MVP, then pursuing that is obviously better than paying a one-time "idea validation" fee, and it won't take months.

If I can't figure out how to put together an MVP, then I'm looking at a different style of business where I want people with the sort of knowledge you're talking about either in the company or in my social circle, and a one-time consultation wouldn't be nearly enough.

Something to bear in mind is that an idea on its own is fundamentally worthless. A report of the type you're talking about would not add value in the way an MVP would.
I was wondering if I someone has latest link to similar resources.
A good stone age hunter may have been able to survive in situations that a bad stone age hunter couldn't have.

Frankly that's worth a whole lot more than being able to program better and I hope he got paid accordingly.
I was born in 1985, so I don't really know how things were back then. I'm guessing more people actually used butchers and deli counters rather than picking up pre-packaged meat. I'm also guessing that it was harder to actually slice the meat since that's basically automated today.

Regardless, the original comment was fairly reasonable and didn't deserve the response it got.
Interesting read and sounds like a noble effort. It's a bit of a pivot, but I would think there's a market for better tools for campaigns to target would-be donors. There's clearly demand for anything that is revenue-generating for a campaign, and while I'm not fully versed in your product, I think that smarter access to the data you were tracking could be useful there.

Most serious campaigns, even state level ones, have invested heavily in donor and supporter retention software. But fundraising outside of the painfully repetitive emails, still seems to follow what I found to be rather dated practices. I hosted a campaign event for a Congressional candidate (who ended up winning) and I was shocked at how manual the process was.

Heading into 2016, there sure will be no shortage of campaign dollars (and contracts) up for grabs.
Sure, this is quite obvious though I did not understand how they could balance out the increase, so I did not even mention this option.

The point about prostitutes was just a thought experiment, and it looks rather far from reality. The second thought experiment about Joan hooking up with Maxwell seems much more realistic, but I don't see why Maxwell wouldn't hook up with someone else the same day. Actually, the more promiscuous side usually takes the initiative, so I'd say it is quite likely that if not for Joan, some other poor girl would get AIDS anyway.
That site is crazy. Every time I open it I feel like a complete idiot. I took a decent amount of math in college but I don't know most of the words they use.
the end does not justify the means
As an American, who's tried for years to do business in Canada. The appetite to purchase stuff is strangely not there. I found similar stories amongst colleagues in other companies as well. Endless demos, pitches and such, just like you might do anywhere else -- but almost never a P.O. at the end of the process.

I've had far more success in Australia, and I've heard similar as well. I only bring the Aussies in because of the similar population dynamics, small population, large land area, a few major metro areas.

I can only imagine that it's similar north of the border, trying to do business internally, as well.
The concept of the 'uncanny valley' may be relevant here.
(For those unfamiliar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley)

Here's my unexamined hypothesis: Objects in programming are unintuitive because they aspire to resemble real-world objects, but inevitably fall short. When you're thinking about some abstract programming feature, your brain knows it's meant to be thinking abstractly. But when you think about an object, your brain can slip into an uneasy DMZ between thinking about abstractions and thinking about real-world objects.

In other words, the problem isn't that objects aren't similar enough to real-world objects—it's that they're too similar without being identical.
oh, yeah. Well I live currently in Mountain View, and I find one of the most boring places in earth (SunnyVale and Cupertino are worse), if you are a single guy.

Just saying. The 20s are ment to have fun, get laid, drink booze, write some code, then go out again. You wont be 20some again, it is a once in a lifetime opportunity to enjoy life (and start something at the same time).

In here you are forced to live a suburbian boring life, even though you don't have kids.

If you are married and have kids, you probably don't have any time anyway, so boring is ok.

Everytime I go to work, I always think: Sigh, this place has such a great weather, but unfortunately it is wasted with this boring sprawling burbs.
I wonder if this is how non-programmers feel reading Stack Overflow.
This is just a horrible article where the author has no first hand clue of what he's talking about.

other startup communities can still thrive without the valley dying. If anything that means the valley has succeeded. I want to see the essence of the valley spread elsewhere.

So is there any way to prove that the valley is INDEPENDENTLY dying? Nope, because it's not.
I am interested to hear your reasoning on this. To me, thinking through it, I see some potential commonalities but the sine qua non of being owned as property fails. Is the argument that people have to work in general to survive, and it is the fact that they have to work what renders them as a “modern slave?” I hope not because that seems facile.
It's not FOSS, but the new WebGL-based Onshape[1] from the original Solidworks team looks like it is going to be making waves. It's free for small public projects (Github-style). They are licensing the existing Parasolid and D-Cubed libraries to do constraint-solving[2], which hints at the a) separation of concerns from the CAD UI and back-end layers, and b) complexity of the CAD kernel problem.

[1]: https://www.onshape.com
[2]: http://plmsource.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com/plm...
Umm. How exactly? The original comparison n was Rabbits vs Taskrabbit.
Possibly a bit too much. Forgetting there is even a link aspect to this site means I'm missing out on a great deal. I should probably read more articles, but gosh darn it, you all are so interesting.

Between HN, reddit and YouTube, I'm pretty spoiled. I cannot watch a video or read an article without looking for the closest discussion on what I just aborbed.
Suggest you remove "CEO" from your title.

Having that word in your title has one, and only one, positive effect – your co founders are agreeing that you are the leader - and that increases your team’s efficiency in the race to develop your prototype.

But the negatives are far too many.

When investors think of the word “CEO”, what typically comes to their mind is a person experienced in taking companies from the startup stage to the exit stage. Furthermore, a having a CEO position filled indicates to them that a significant funding round is in place.

If you are thinking that by giving yourself that title today you are positioning yourself for being the CEO post-funding, that is a false assumption. What is more likely is that at some stage in the company’s evolution, an outsider will be better suited to take the company to the next level.

Of course, there are many, many exceptions such as Dell, Bezos, etc. But rather than claim the CEO title at the onset, and subject yourself and future CEO candidates to unnecessary discomfort (“we are seeking a CEO” versus “we are seeking to replace our CEO”), let your funding stockholders make that decision.

What’s most important is that your baby gets funded…avoid all barriers to that critical event.
Hm. Is political ideology a good predictor of performance? (Are there studies measuring this?)
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I think he's asking about have two accounts on the same website.

I'm not so sure they cannot associate.
The GP was just poking fun. Getting defensive and suddenly asserting a bold, moral stance without evidence, seems a bit thin-skinned to me.

FWIW, I read this paper which says that whale-watching is not unethical provided certain protocols are observed.

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/jmb/2012/807294/