skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Miners could conspire to mostly freeze certain bitcoin.

It wouldn't even have to be done in a way that was visible on the bitcoin network, they would just have to agree to not include transactions from whatever addresses.

A strong majority could probably refuse to acknowledge blocks including the blocked addresses, which would be a real freeze (rather than the hassle freeze obtained by not including the address in blocks produced by the conspiracy).
How many times do I have to say, it's a gradual process? England fought the battles so the rest of the world implementing rule of law later didn't have to.

Cromwell damaged English rule of law, but he didn't destroy it. He was able to dissolve Parliament but ultimately could not rule effectively without it. He had popular support of the army but could not fund it properly. The army would have refused orders to act as tax collectors so ultimately Cromwell was simply one more would-be tyrant in a line of English kings who had to limit his ambitions to foreign policy after being frozen out domestically. Which suits the nation fine because foreign policy is exactly what they want him to be pursuing. So long as the army is busy away from home, they're not free to terrorize the legislature or interfere with the political process.

Funding and taxation was a major reason why the English were able to implement rule of law first. A would-be dictator has to be able to enforce his whims, but cannot if the army won't follow his orders or is left to rot, unsupplied on the battlefield.

Parliament in Cromwell's day refused to simply do his bidding. That is a key necessity for protection against dictatorship. A mad tyrant can run around declaring things, but if nobody is listening to him, all he's doing is barking orders. Eventually, they made peace and Parliament offered Cromwell the crown, but he was a dedicated anti-monarchist and refused it, thinking of himself as a dictator in the Roman mold. Despite this, the tug of war between the legislature and the executive continued, just Cromwell managed to get the upper hand for awhile.

After he died, his son Richard became Lord Protector, and the balance of power swung back towards Parliament. "Richard was never formally deposed or arrested, but allowed to fade away. The Protectorate was treated as having been from the first a mere usurpation." The Council of State took back over and invited Charles I's son to claim the throne.

This is how it happens in rule of law countries. Coups do not have the desired effect, your power is going to be circumscribed anyway by tradition, law, and all the other politicians at play that you don't control.
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…And on ones that do. Looks very useful for weeding out actual quality from the muddle. Would love to see someone doing this kind of work with other types of cables, too.
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Because one is saying "what you are saying is wrong" and the other is saying "you should stop talking".

No, they're saying stop being a jerk.

The only way that translates to "you should stop talking" is if said person is incapable of communicating whilst not being a jerk.
I'd disagree with point 4. Their Instagram feed has all of the stunning beauty that National Geographic originally became famous for: https://instagram.com/natgeo/, and commands a 35.4 million person following. I'm not sure how you parlay this into a "selling relationship", but it is a great way to outreach to a younger generation.
> whereas you need to setup the ledger on a secure host

Hmm, really? Why? The ledger sets up its own private key as well.
He was looking for a "zeroknowledge" solution. You need to know a bit about networking for this solution. Also being interested in this, can you recommend any tutorials?
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Windows 10 uptake is remarkably good on Windows 10, perhaps because enterprises don't fall for click-bait headlines.

Microsoft Says 1.5 Million Enterprise Users Have Deployed Windows 10
https://redmondmag.com/blogs/the-schwartz-report/2015/08/ent...

Bank of America CTO Talks Windows 10 Plans, Security
http://www.informationweek.com/strategic-cio/executive-insig...

"Reilly promised a Windows 10 upgrade is on the horizon for Bank of America. "We're looking to adopt as early as we can," he said. Such a project will be a massive undertaking given the sheer multitude of Windows devices within the organization, but he appears optimistic about the process."

I was a Microsoft sceptic, but Windows 10 has me convinced
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/i-wa...

"Then, last week, at an event hosted by CIO magazine, where I gave a keynote, I spoke to a group of Chief Information Officers of large and midsized companies about technology trends. The vast majority said they were buying Microsoft's Surface Pro tablets for their users and upgrading desktop machines to Windows 10."

See also:
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I'll add my thoughts on the topic of "how do you know when you're out of the danger zone and can start marketing yourself as a machine learning expert?"

Do competitions on kaggle (or find them on other sites, but kaggle is definitely the best place to start). Once you get past the point where you are finishing in the middle of the pack (multiple top 10% or 25% finishes and maybe a prize win) then you are an expert. That is proof that you are separate from than hackers who just throw scikit-learn algorithms at a matrix. The people in the master tier use clever feature engineering and/or code up custom learning algorithms to get themselves above the masses. Looking at a problem and figuring out the correct modeling approach is what the experts do. They don't just create a data frame and run down the list of classification algorithms that they have access to. Read the "No Free Hunch" reports on how the winners did it and you'll quickly see the difference between yourself and the experts.
An alternative approach, if you don't want to be 100% tied to KMS, is https://github.com/mozilla/sops . It uses KMS, but also PGP, and potentially anything that comes up in the future.
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I can't find any source suggesting the Solar Star is capable of 1 TW output with 4000 acres. SunPower's own fact sheet† gives about 1/1500 that capacity for the 3200-acre installation. Where did you hear this?

† http://us.sunpower.com/sites/sunpower/files/media-library/fa...
> If someone steals my Schwab account contents for Schwab's servers, I can call on the government for help

If someone steals your bitcoin from an exchange, you can call on the government for help, too. If the exchange itself is completely insolvent, that may not be effective recourse, and that risk is certainly greater for the kind of firms people have been dealing with in the bitcoin space, which often aren't held by their customers to the same standards that customers of similar services for commodities other than bitcoin would hold companies to.

That's my point: the lack of recourse isn't essential to bitcoin (yes, holding the keys is like holding cash, and not holding the keys is giving something up just like not holding cash is -- but we deal with other businesses with accounts denominated in national currencies without holding all the cash ourselves all the time, and have recourse available for losses.) The lack of accountability is because the firms people choose to do business with are, compared to the firms that people do other financial business with, shady fly-by-night operators.
>optimal growth

Please define.
wrt stack allocation are you referring to DYNAMIC-EXTENT? It's implementation dependent so you have to know your compiler well. Allocation in C is explicitly a part of the language on the other hand. A conforming compiler has to initialize the memory you ask for in the place you tell it to (at least with optimizations off you can think of it this way):

uint32_t flags[100];

vs

(defun form ()
(let ((xs (make-array 100 :element-type :unsigned-int)))
(declare (dynamic-extent xs)
...)))

The CL example could optimize xs depending on the implementation and its configuration to allocate it on the stack. The C example has to initialize enough memory on the stack for 100 32-bit integers no questions.

I hope I didn't give the impression that lists were the only data-structure in CL; I use structs, arrays, and macros to manage structs-of-arrays, etc. Plenty more of course.

I do prefer to use CL but I end up spending more time in C/Python for reasons.

What I find interesting in lisp land are lisps that don't try to take over the whole system and whose principle design is to be small and fast. C has a large run-time library but you can compile programs without it if you're willing to write your own stuff. You don't have such control in the open source implementations I've used.

The open source CL implementations, afaik, still lack tree shakers to try and remove unused code from the image prologue before running the top-level. SBCL still produces a 25MB binary to print "Hello, world!" to the console... because you still have to compile in a GC, the entire CL library, the implementation's run-time, etc -- even if your code never uses it.
I'm confused as well. This doesn't make any sense
"Constantly railing against X" is not a strange thing to do when X remains a problem for a long time, and people are either having a hard time or are unwilling to face it.

This is not necessarily a bad thing. In this case, I'd say it's a good thing.
No, I have time/money to re-skill if/when I mis-predict the future, I worry more about getting older
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Why does package support make it more productive than c++? For most c++ libraries you download the source, build it (platform dependent) and set includes/libs and youre done. More so, you only tend to mess with dependencies infrequently, so who cares if it takes an extra 5 minutes once every 6 months?
1 - Building a Raspberry Pi powered Smart Table
2 - Too much time on my hands
3 - Just for fun. It will basically be a coffee table that tells me the weather for the day, lets me read the news as I eat breakfast, and integrates with my Android phone so that I can reply to text messages.
I have to agree on this. I was surprised to see that a majority of the Rust community actually comes from some web-development domains. Especially when comparing Ruby, a highly flexible dynamic language, to Rust a language full of constraints (for its own valid reasons).

Note that the a hype train is a two-edged sword, it will both bring a strong community and might also induce a cliff with the other communities (praising a single god is never a good thing).
The exact mechanism is not important, but in general your parent is afraid that an overburned underfunded social welfare system will set its eyes on private retirement savings accounts, and begin taxing them heavily.
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It's more along the lines of using that metadata to know what time you visited a website so they can match activity on the website to your timestamp. This is also how they have in the past found you're responsible for something without having to get logs from your VPN. Another usage where this will be useful will be for peer to peer networks, now police can easily find out exactly what you have downloaded via bittorrent. And if tox.im type of 'p2p chat networks' become used, that would help them more than it would if you used a centralized chat service as it's previously been stated that the metadata (who communicates with who) is more useful than the contents.

On another note, do we know yet whether the police could bulk ask for everyone's connection history or do they need 'reasonable suspicion of a crime'?
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also: https://basecamp.com/3/new
You'd need >50% of the miners to do that. It is precisely what I mean by building a protocol.

Of course, without strong consensus (and a real algorithm/protocol) such attempts will likely just result in fractured blockchains (basically the state at the moment, with many competing implementations of the same basic idea).
I went from agency/dotcom work to independent contractor. I worked mostly on-site contracts anywhere from 3 to 18 months. Some jobs were through recruiters, some friends/network. All gigs paid significantly better than full time positions. I did this with an outdated stack, ColdFusion, from ~2005-2010.
First of all, I never said you should take away people's requirement. I think the total amount of money dedicated to retirement should be the same or more.

Rather, it should be in the form of either individual accounts or nationalized.
Bitcoin structurally can't have any sustainable growth. There's too little of them for a global, potentially huge market. At intervals, it can either languish or explode - that makes it unsuitable either as a reserve of value or as a mean of exchange.
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Sounds a lot like what VICE did. Now they're killing it.
> England fought the battles so the rest of the world implementing rule of law later didn't have to.

Have you yet provide a concrete explanation of how, exactly, the claim that England had rule of law before other nations (either in a binary sense, or in a continuous sense where England consistently over some significant period of time had a greater degree of "rule of law" than anyone else) is justified?

Because it doesn't seem like there is anything really concrete here.
Clearly shows the need for a reputation system, not locked into 1 company. Reviews need sharing.
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> Where is the school program that let's the bullshit pseudo concept of "smarts" fall by the wayside and instead replaces it with an atmosphere where failure IS acceptable, and that you just have to work through the hard parts?

This isn't as much better as you might think. For a lot of people, this just leaves them with "It's OK to fail". Full stop.
apt-get/dpkg do have the ability to specify package versions, including specifying versions equal to, greater than, or less than. It also has the ability to specify build time and run time dependencies separately.
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"[T]hings to learn about experimentation" probably sounded more fundamental than I'd meant it. Improvement of precision of instruments should probably fall in the category, as far as my reasoning above goes. It could certainly still be useful.
null deference in D doesn't throw exceptions by default on Unix so you won't see the backtrace there.

If you are working in a big codebase and have this come up, you can enable core dumps and run it in a debugger to get far more information than just a line number (and line numbers are there too at least if compiled in debug mode).
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I agree. I may be wrong, but I don't think there's anything intrinsically better about Go vs Java from a GC perspective. Go has a developer-accessible stack, so there may be more opportunity for tuning there, but they both do escape analysis and Java will put things on the stack for you if it determines that it can. They both have loads of really smart people working on GC, so I'd be really surprised if one was far better in that regard than the other.
What do you expect? In the days of Henry the 8th, they beat people up when they refused to pay tax. We still have our monarchy, it's British nature to just let our rulers do whatever they want to us, we wont fight back.
If you've only raised enough money to get to $1M, then you probably haven't given up majority control and can choose to keep the business at a small size if you want.
you know what the last bastion against this autocratic movement is? Yup, the European Court of Justice, backed by all those highly-worded treaties. Lose that, and you'll get back being hostage of your national elites.

Yet here we are, anyway.

Remind me which government gave us the Data Retention Directive?
Self-driving cars, anyone? Trucks are coming first, I'd think
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Are you using the new version and compiling with -g there? Those addresses should be translateable into line numbers.

You can also do it manually btw with `addr2line -e your_executable 0x435c17` and the sort.
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Reviews also need massive amounts of human and computer moderation, and that's not cheap.
> Republican Rome lacked c and therefore d.

Republican Rome definitely had c and d for most of its time; they broke down in the Late Republic, but that just says that progress in the rule of law isn't a one-way ratchet. As, even you have explicitly acknowledged, it wasn't for England, either.
Your model is more complicated than you think.

If someone says "take vitamin C", you don't point blindly at a log chart and thus consume a kilogram of it (which, based on a rat model, probably would kill you).

This is because the practical algorithm for "take Vitamin C" has the grocer, the government, and a team of scientists sign off on the size of a dosage and how many pills are even in a bottle. So while that may not be part of your model, it is most definitely part of the model. The model tells you how much Vitamin C not to take, and so it passes the heuristic.

And without that cap, Vitamin C is unsafe, etc., so the heuristic holds.
IMO there is a limited market for mature ideas that is often much smaller than the previous prediction. When startups start meeting this boundary, instead of reigning in expectations and become an efficient tool serving a small market, it's "go big or go bust" with desperate attempts to validate the previous market size predictions.

Sooner or later, you're bumping into the markets of other companies and it's impossible to compete against them b/c you're using your weaknesses against their strengths.

There is only so much money and attention (time) in the world for people to spend on things. The low hanging fruit in developed countries has already been plucked clean so it's quite hard to 'grow' new markets. Your new tv series better be REALLY good if you're competing with game-of-thrones and breaking-bad.

Interestingly enough, the Chinese companies actually have many more features and are often better (for their users) than the american counterparts. The population is more homogenous and has more of a crowd mentality. Network effects are huge. Monopoly-like companies also prevent too much fragmentation meaning technology as a tool becomes standardized. Rather than 20 different things competing for the attention of everyone, there is one big company with apps that do everything that is trusted and reliable and thus the 'best'.

While american companies compete for slices of a certain size of pie, one chinese company owns the entire huge pie. As long as the users have pie, they are happy.

In allocation of limited resources, this usually fails as equal distribution of resources leaves everyone poor which creates huge incentive for corruption and hoarding. For abundant resources that can be duplicated infinitely and have network effects to boot this is perhaps a better strategy.

After all, it's all about everyone having an abundance of pie, not who has more or less pie.
Yes, besides any sufficiently lucrative enterprise customer is bound to have a few Lunix boxes for $ENTERPRISE_APP they can't live without.

I say this as someone who works for an ISV that is single-handedly responsible for the only Linux servers most of our customers have.
Good to see that Benson is a Half-Life man.
use-package is wonderful, as is bind-key (also by John, and a dependency of use-package).

Together they reduce the "psychic weight" of trying, using, and configuring packages.

They make your init.el a portable artifact of reproducible research. :)
That's such a self-fulfilling prophecy and dangerously close to circular logic and victim blaming. The people want this crap, that's why we give them more crap! The people are getting stupider because of this crap, so that's why they want more, so lets give it to them! Before you know it if nothing stops the spiral it's going to be fucking idiocracy controlled by the oligarchy!

Is it just me or does this mentality totally forget that the airwaves were public and we gave the companies access to them in exchange for a public service (which started out as nightly prime-time news.)

The airwaves belong to us, and if the corporations are so enamoured by pure monetary/viewership gains, and have forgotten the original edict and goals, not to mention potential uses for good of such widespread communications, we need to remove their right to the airwaves and bring them back under the public sphere.

Our population is being dumbed down by the media, while it could be doing the opposite.

I'll say it again, the airwaves should belong to the public.
People who have and need sufficient Infrastructure. The unglamorous servers that you expect to just chug along doing their jobs -- internal file servers, database servers, etc. Because RHEL has a support cycle that's a decade long, you can ensure that those servers don't need to go through the expensive and time consuming process of testing a stack with a new platform nearly as often.
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maybe, maybe not. What that tells me though, is that they didn't sit down and say: "Here's how we optimize this to work for the cloud". I can't say other distro's do either, but it seems like something they should do
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It will be interesting to see if the controversial clang completion etc stuff will get now merged in. I think johnw previously was supportive towards that while RMS was strongly opposed.
They also have banned some forms of pornography

Which ones? The only one I'm aware of is revenge porn (with intent to cause distress).
Reading the headline, it sounded like astroturfing. Instead, he's being helpful and providing some very useful information from his experience as an engineer from google itself. What a thoughful fellow!
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Are NFL officials biased with their ball placement?
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It would physically pain me to work at a company that sells defective equipment.

I'd like to see amazon just develop in-house testing for certain types of stock. Cables, power supplies...
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All areas of internet business (ecommerce, publishing, etc) need to be held more accountable. Kudos to this guy for doing his part
We'd be in breach of our EU membership, regardless, so far as I know.