skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best explanation of how this will work is on their site:
"By mining with Bitcoin XT you will produce blocks with a new version number. This indicates to the rest of the network that you support larger blocks. When 75% of the blocks are new-version blocks, a decision has been reached to start building larger blocks that will be rejected by Bitcoin Core nodes. At that point a waiting period of two weeks begins to allow news of the new consensus to spread and allow anyone who hasn't upgraded yet to do so. During this time, existing Bitcoin Core nodes will be printing a message notifying the operators about the availability of an upgraded version.

If the hard fork occurs and you are still mining with Bitcoin Core, your node will reject the first new block that is larger than one megabyte in size. At that point there is a risk your newly mined coins will not be accepted at major exchanges or merchants."
https://bitcoinxt.software/

What I find intriguing about this in the bigger picture is it begins to answer one of questions from the beginning - how do political decisions regarding the blockchain get made when consensus has failed? And this shows a plausible mechanism for using a compatible fork to let users "vote with their feet".

I wonder if down the road this sort of thing could evolve/devolve into a sort of real block chain politics, e.g. let users incorporate one or more non-core patches into their nodes, and once a patch reaches some majority percentage it activates and forks the chain, perhaps even with a mechanism to allow other nodes to "accept a fork" (i.e. activate the patch in their node) if it wins but otherwise not proactively "vote" for it.

Interesting times.
Or csvtool (written 2005, available in all good Linux distros):

https://github.com/Chris00/ocaml-csv/blob/master/examples/cs...
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Interesting to see Amazon's lack of damage control on reddit vs the damage control on here.
As a former professor I used to have colleagues like this. My students would come in to my classes totally ignorant of basic material they needed to know. The missing material was in the course, but these colleagues would just not teach it because the students didn’t like it. The students all thought these professors were fantastic because they had such interesting lectures (only teach the fun stuff) and the work was so easy (give every one an A for being able to fog a mirror). That the students didn’t learn anything was just an unfortunate side effect.
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It's so difficult to create a successful software product. Amazon has done it dozens of times. An exceptional record. Many great companies have been driven by intensity and competition. The old days of Microsoft and Intel come to mind. An intense workplace will not appeal to everyone. No surprise.

In the civil war, Grant was the first union general to consistently win battles. Politicians complained that Grant drank too much whiskey. Lincoln replied: “Tell me what brand of whiskey Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.”
> Two developers, nullc and pieter are against increasing the blocksize at a reasonable rate.

Careful, what is "reasonable" is what is at issue here. There are legitimate arguments being made on both sides.
Lmao. That looks as far away from something Satoshi would say, note how all the points of the "block minimalists" are mentioned, as night and day.

And Satoshi being reasonably smart would know that he needs some sort of evidence to not be called fake after years of not participating. I am sure too he knows how to sign one of his bitcoin addresses. Moreover, his e-mail account was hacked once, it was a different email address but it seems clear that he seems to have wanted those e-mail addresses to become breached at some point. And vistomail - the e-mail provider is no longer even operational.
>Taking the easy road will catch up to you eventually.

I know a math professor who reminds me of your physics prof. He gets the best ratings on ratemyprof, his classes always fill up, and he has the highest average grades in his department. He retired at the end of last semester after only 35 years. The college's administrators loved him as much as the students, even though the students were probably worse at any kind of math after taking his course(s).
Would termination of a shopping account also affect AWS as a "related account", even though there are no returns associated with AWS? Public info on the review/appeal process would be helpful.
Everyone is in favor of increasing the block size at some point. One side is simply being more conservative / less reckless and trying to make sure that the right proposal is accepted, rather than the first implemented. They are organizing a series of workshops on this topic:

http://scalingbitcoin.org/
One side - your side specifically maaku and that of your employer blockstream - loses complete legitimacy when they start censoring posts and spoofing Satoshi's email address.
IBLT is basically already implemented and deployed as part of TheBlueMatt's relay network. Improvements to scaling isn't going to come from IBLT.
> And, of course, not a single shred of evidence to support the claim.

What is your evidence for working as an Amazonian?

It is a bit hypocritical to critisize others for lack of "evidence" while posting from a throwaway account, donchathink?
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Sounds like this system is in place to prevent people who abuse Amazon's lenient refund and return policy from costing them thousands of dollars. In this particular case, it seems that several subsequent order problems in a short time period triggered the alert. I'd hope that once someone looked at the account in detail, they'd quickly realize what happened and remove the flag on the account, but OP doesn't actually explain what happened after this.

I get that a lot of people are on the anti-Amazon karma train today, but I'm not seeing anything particularly objectionable here.
Terminating problem customers seems like reasonable and smart company policy. Maybe frustrating for the customer being terminated, but to me it doesn't signal 'implosion is near' for the company.
Not if you don't install Google Apps. You can even use an alternate wifi location service.
Neither Blockstream nor any of the core developers have affiliation with r/bitcoin, bitcointalk, or bitcoin.org. By design, mind you, for the purpose of ensuring decentralization. I may have the book badge on the subreddit, but I'm as helpless about censorship as you are.
This piece is 99% hot air.

A bunch of backhanded attacks on Amazon before we hear the real problem, which is obviously that some automated system mis-classified the customer. Even the author acknowledges this.

I would assume a quick email or phone call with Amazon would have cleared this up.

It was a waste of time to write this and a waste of time to read it.

Non-disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Amazon except as a normal customer.
Well too click-baity a title for what you're describing as the last straw here.

Amazon takes a no-questions-asked approach to most customer service issues, which results in a fair amount of exposure to abuse.

I wrote up a piece about a scammer using social engineering to sniff my order history and request a re-order of a recent product, posing as me and claiming I never received it. They were able to do this without gaining access to my account.

See here: http://www.htmlist.com/rants/two-for-one-amazon-coms-sociall...

(They just needed my email, name, and billing address for the live chat reps to get them other details.)

I fought this so that I wouldn't be wrongfully at risk of an account closure, as I've had to return items or request refunds in the past and recognized this.

But understand that it's a complicated balancing act for them, and that what happened here almost certainly is that you ended up on the wrong end of their fraud analysis algorithm.

There isn't going to be anything but incremental improvements on their side, either: in order to maintain the insanely high level of "we'll take care of it" support they do, they have to defend against those bad actors willing to take advantage of the system as best as they can. Sometimes there are false positives. There should definitely be a process for redress or further discussion, and it should never move to straight banning of the account, except in extremely obvious examples, but there's still going to be an anti-fraud system in place, and it's still going to have false positives.

Much ado about nothing, except to say that they have a whole significantly sized team of people working on fine-tuning this process and trying to not cause these problems for legitimate customers while limiting their downside risk for such a generous CS policy.
The closest approximation is probably gritting your teeth, installing evil-mode, and using Emacs.
Exactly what I would have said. Most of my friends and family are teachers and the stupidity of ideas like "no child left behind"..."teach to the lowest common denominator"...are the kind of complaints I have been hearing about for quite some time.

Stop with the Orwellian political correctness and teach kids the level they are capable of. End of story.
Make coined the name "Bitcoin Core".

Gavin is still a core developer. He stepped down from his Leadership position to become "just" a regular core developer.

(I know that Maaku knows this. Just clarifying for the crowd.)
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Not a tax guy, but I believe there is a procedure with the IRS for reducing the income on a prior tax return in the event of a clawed-back bonus.

I left a company within six months once and they sent me paperwork about that to forward to the IRS. Though I refused to pay back the bonus and left that paperwork in a drawer...

Several years later and I still get an annual nastygram demanding I pay them back.
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Thanks for the reply sir! Yeah it's definitely a Hard Problem. The futurist in me does agree with you that eventually a form of crowd-sourcing will likely come along which helps dramatically reduce bottlenecks and waste in the overall aid pipeline while increasing transparency for individual donors. I think that this is likely to come about due to the onrushing incline in global smartphone penetration rate paired with donation systems may which leverage emerging technology around micro-transactions. The first wave of low-cost android smart-phones will hit the developing markets in the not too distant future, so suddenly everyone will have a camera, and I think once that happens it'll be a whole new ball game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TV3fgqhat60&t=16m <-- Dave McClure does a great job of explaining that phenomena and what it could mean to the IT startup ecosystem in the US and abroad.
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Agreed, unfortunately the two terms you mentioned "psychopath" and "sociopath" are character traits that get rewarded in our current system. Very sad.
So...I now have double the coins, but separated onto two chains?
Agreed on all points. The title has little or nothing to do with the article.
What kind of VW is that? I've got a '71 Super Beetle and a '71 Karmen Ghia. I'd love to find an old camper to go with them (but rust here in central Pennsylvania hasn't left many locally).
Care to point to what Gavin has worked on in that time frame?

There are very few changes that Gavin has contributed back to Bitcoin Core since he handed most of the day-to-day repo management over the Wladimir.

I honestly don't know what you are referring to, unless it is the small patches here and there of similar size and importance to things we receive on a daily basis from dozens of people. Gavin pretty much disappeared from core development when he stepped down 2 years ago.
Exactly. But it was only when I entered the workforce full-time that I truly appreciated Shabbat. Especially in a world when I am expected to be on-call 24 hours a day, I honestly cannot understand how people do without a real break once a week. On a personal level, it can't be healthy to constantly be on, 24/7, practically 365 days/year - and translated to a musing of more general applicability, that might lead to better / more productive business. Perhaps a worthy subject for experimentation by businesses (more than what some banks have done recently for summer interns and junior analysts).
I want to share an experience that I had a few months ago, to see if anyone had something similar.

I have an AWS account that I use to upload stuff to Glacier and leave it there. My monthly fee comes to about $0.20/mo and that's been going since around 5 years (previously it was just on S3). The data I store there is not encrypted (not that they would be looking at it, right?), nor is anything sensitive/illegal at all. Aside from that, I ocasionally spin a cheap EC2 instance to test some new binary before installing it or things like that.

Anyway, around March I received three emails (they were spaced like 6 hours or so apart so I've read them all at once) and the subject was something like "Important Notice regarding your AWS Account, Urgent! Open Now!". The first thing I thought was sh*t, my account was hacked and now I owe a million dollars to AWS.

To my relief that wasn't the case, but they wanted me to send them many documents that I consider personal and for no reason at all. I replied something like "Is something wrong?" and they said it was standard procedure, which is weird because I've never knew of anything like that. Things eventually went to "send us a scan of your passport or we will terminate your account", passport because that's the only ID I told them I had. I eventually told them to piss off, I figured that $0.20/mo and the things I had there are not worth the worry of sending that data to someone hiding behind an email. They didn't reply anything and then... nothing happened. It's been half a year since and everything is business as usual.

It was weird, and I never could make sense of what they really wanted, but anyway, just thought of sharing that when I read this guy's experience.
I addressed that elsewhere in the thread. The laws aren't secret, it's the court rulings that are secret. The fact that there's a secret court is known, though. So you could campaign against that court without leaking classified information.

Imagine a world in which Snowden resigned, then publically pushed for unclassifying all FISA court rulings, with the obvious implication (or he could even say explicitly) that he saw things there that shouldn't be secret.

He could even tell members of Congress with clearances and get them to announce it publicly in Congress, which effectively legally brings it into the public record (something like that happened with the Pentagon papers).
What device are you viewing on? I'd say "impossible to read" is a pretty wild exaggeration. Looks fine to me.
It depends on how you define an "established" dev.

The majority of developers of wallets, for instance, are for the blocksize increase.

But the majority of bitcoin-core developers are against it. Gavin and Jeff are the only bitcoin-core committers in favor.

This is explained in Mike Hearn's blog post, as linked in his email on this post: https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d64731...
Can I watch videos of the talks online?
"Smart TV" that actually films its users and live streams their living room to a website.

That's been done, 2 years ago:

http://money.cnn.com/2013/08/01/technology/security/tv-hack/
I agree with you but there's no "quick email or phone call" with Amazon, and that's an issue for many people.
Food in SF is cheap. So are car costs. Actually everything except rent was considerably cheaper when I lived in SF vs Toronto.
And you're certain those emails were legitimate because...?
That sounds great, but most of the time I haven't seen it that way. I work for a large, mutual insurance company. We just fired a "manager" without doing a PIP etc. Just told him his job was gone in 30 days, do your best to transition responsibilities and you'll get a decent severance (9 months IIRC).

This was someone who IMHO should have been canned 5 years ago, but until 6 months ago had a powerful ally shielding him. Now that the ally has moved on to greener pastures, the ax has fallen.

Two years ago, we fired a VP in IT basically for not filling out his TPS reports. Someone who had worked for the company for over 30 years. Fired him for "cause," meaning he'd lose out on his pension. That lasted for about 45 minutes until his lawyer made it clear that he wasn't going to go quietly into the night without a pension valued at over $5M.

So sometimes the niceties of HR policies are enforced, but if they want to fire you, you're gone.

Prior to this I worked at a small startup that had been around for 2 years. Got cancer, was told that I'd be employed til my treatment was completed. I worked every day, made a point of not being a burden to my team members, and was fired the week of Christmas (with 4 months of chemo to go). The company was being acquired, and didn't want any dead weight on the payroll. (Get it?)

Didn't get severance, but luckily I didn't need COBRA due to my wife's coverage. Screw them. Look out for yourself or you'll find out how loyal they really are to employees.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't locality unidirectional? Two close points in the plane might by chance be encoded far away on the line if they're unluckily next to a seam.
do you still have the emails? might be worth examining the headers to see if it was some kind of phishing attempt.
Awww, come on...

Edit: Just checked them, I have them right here, most of them are from payments-verification@amazon.com, they wanted ID to verify the card details or something like that. Which I found it really weird because the account has been running for years and card's haven't expired or been changed.
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Ok, to clarify, yes they were authentic amazon emails.

Not only that, they had a ticket open, this was somehow a 'case' and I had a support ID and everything.
People without at least a masters in math are in no place to make commentary on math. 98% of the time it makes me cringe.

That being said, pure math is when you invest in the tool, applied math is when you invest in the problem. There is a very similar relationship in programming.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/contact-us/188-57379...

You can sign in or click the skip sign in button. From there, you can live chat, email, or have them call you.

I found that within about 10 seconds of clicking around on their site. Admittedly, it required multiple clicks, because it's a bit buried, but it -is- there.
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So ZDNET thinks Linux is a good idea, these days?

A far cry from its derisive description back in 2001 - "SuSE Linux, Europe's leading distributor of the upstart Linux operating system....."

Then again, ZDNET seems to be a ghost of itself these days, in line with its favorite company, Microsoft. When you align yourself with the 'only game in town' you get left out in the cold when the game changes.
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>let users "vote with their feet"

Let's be precise: it's the miners who are being asked to vote with their feet.
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It might be a while, I got even more busy with life than when I initially commented to you. Do you have an account at a place with direct messaging? I can send you my thoughts there.

The truth is, it's very easy to talk the way I did, and very hard to talk in a constructive way.
Okay then. It just is exactly what I would expect from someone phishing, too, so figured it'd be worth checking.
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Agreed. Given the events the author described, the claim that Amazon sees its customers as 'disposable' is completely unfounded. If I were running a shipping business and a customer had three refunds issued in a brief period of time under unusual conditions, I would want to check in and see what was going on as well.
> I've worked many jobs since and by a wide margin Amazon still has the highest engineering churn rate I've ever seen.

This is probably because it's much easier to find a well paid engineering job elsewhere than for a non-tech role.
Bitcoin, like all monies, is a social protocol. We agree that a coin has value if it follows certain rules.

Some people want to change the rules. But some other people don't want them changed. So now we have two sets of people, the Changers (XT) and the Don't-Changers (Core) who will be following different sets of rules.

So their softwares won't play together in places their rules disagree. This will create a "fork" in the ledger histories. If your coins existed before the fork, everyone will see them. But if you transact them in a way that's incompatible with one set of rules, the transaction will only exist on one side of the fork.

So the public will then have to choose which side of the fork to live on. They will probably want to live on the dominant side. Then the losing side will give up and switch!

Bitcoin-XT actually has a few built-in mechanisms to make this transition graceful. It will only deploy the incompatible rules once it has a 75% majority vote, and is thus confident of success.
Why can Amazon not build a comprehensive import restrictions database and use Mechanical Turk (or something) to cross-reference all products?

Or just all products with ingredient labels (with OCR)?
Hey! This is interesting (&awesome), the other day I was looking at Riak and some Redis alternative written in Go, both had some different approach which wouldn't make the best use of persistencey and distrusted approach at the same time.

The performance table looks great, though what would be a recommended minimum underlying hardware requirement for production? (since the test is on a Mac-Air)
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For longtime MySQL users (like myself, ahem), I've found the biggest initial hurdle to be the different syntax the stock MySQL and Postgres clients use. When dropping into a Postgres environment I have to constantly look up what the Postgres commands are to do simple stuff like list all tables or describe a table's structure. It's not that the Postgres commands are particularly abstruse or anything, just that they're non-obvious if you're unfortunate enough to have spent 99% of your life marinating in MySQL.
Mostly lack of time at the moment to do it given full-time job and family.
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Thank you for your feedback. Yes there will be more articles coming on the subject. This was just an intro to gauge interest before diving deeper.
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I remember this being posted a few months ago, and thought it was pretty objective.

http://davidsterry.com/blog/2015/06/arguments-in-the-bitcoin...
Has anyone used fortune? I saw this a long time ago when i dug through the Ember.js docs it mentioned this, but I never dug too deep into it.
So for anyone who hasn't tried it but is wondering about it - it works on 10.10.4 and 10.10.5, running the tpwn binary does drop you to a root shell. Looks like a weakness in the address randomization in OS X
Thanks. If I may ask, what additional information would you be interested in?
I love csvkit[0] for this purpose

[0] https://github.com/onyxfish/csvkit
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At least 10.11 isn't vulnerable
How many hours per week did the engineers work in AWS when you were at Amazon?
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Interesting thoughts. What are your "go-to" WP plugins?
And here I was pressing "update later tonight." Thanks for the heads up!