skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try asking what came first, law or private property (the answer is private property): the implications of that realization are far more important compared to asking whether or not barter existed before money (it did). Also, you can frame it so that debt is conceived of as a type of barter; ie - i barter a debt of equivalent value I herewith owe you in exchange for this item you're offering to give to me as a consequence of that promise.
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> It means that the problem has not reached a level of urgency that the scales will tip to the pro-block-size-increase camp.

Hmm. That's one way to interpret it.

Is it true that that -without a max block size increase-, Bitcoin can't process a higher volume of transactions than it processes now? [0] That -in fact- the unpredictable -and generally increasing- transaction fees are a feature of the network designed to shed load -by discouraging "less important" transactions- when the network is at or near capacity?

[0] Which is -apparently- somewhat less than three transactions per second. [1]

[1] Seriously, think about that for a second. :)
At Sourcegraph, we're trying to help solve these problems for developers everywhere (https://sourcegraph.com), both in open source and inside companies. GitHub’s commercial success and contributions to the world of development are impressive (and I'm speaking as a GitHub user for 8 years), but they can’t build everything developers need on their own.

We’re really pumped about improving dev team collaboration in the GitHub ecosystem by (soon) letting anyone use Sourcegraph.com’s code intelligence (semantic search/browsing), improved pull requests, flexible issue tracking with Emoji reactions instead of +1s (example: https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph/.tracker/151), etc.—all on their existing GitHub.com repositories.

All of Sourcegraph’s source code is public and hackable at https://src.sourcegraph.com/sourcegraph, so it can grow over time to solve the changing needs of these projects. (It’s licensed as Fair Source (https://fair.io), not closed source like GitHub or open source.)

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Because most chips and peripherals that work at a decently high speed on any computer use DMA. A parallel port on a computer, a thunderbolt connector, Ethernet cards, etc all use DMA for similar desires to speed up communication, and all can have the potential to be attacked. In order for a phone to give decent performance, DMA becomes more and more of a necessity.
Fascinating. I don't even like Bitcoin, and this managed to make me feel kind of sad.
I think the author is radically oversimplifying the access the baseband has, based on the erroneous notion that the baseband in a phone design is connected in the same fashion as a peripheral is in a PC design --- hence the "IOMMU" bit.
> We need to think about the environment as a whole.

Actually, I'm not so sure about this. It's easy to see the case for "a little more pollution, but far away" over "a little less pollution, constantly hanging over your head".
I believe that if someone is willing to murder you in front of what they thought was a real camera, you might as well have had a real camera.
Why did you decide to leave github (if you don't mind sharing)?
I agree -- numerous people working on .NET at Microsoft have mentioned that they wish issues could support more things.
How did they manage to do that? With the app and their big data and all the things, it should be literally as simple as performing two SQL queries and piping them to the compliance department...
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1. Move code and related (issues etc.) to GitLab/Bitbucket

2. Mark GitHub repo as "Mirror Only"

3. Unsubscribe from all GitHub Issues and notifications (see 2.)

4. No more low-effort spam, only the occassional medium-high effort questions and issue reports. Sweet relief!

If the choice was between piece of mind and stars on GitHub, I think I'd take the first.
> Allowed buyers to take back payments they’d made after walking out of shops, by simply pressing a button (if you aren’t aware of this “feature” that’s because Bitcoin was only just changed to allow it

What "feature" was recently added? This has always been a problem with BTC.
Ocean is an amazing battery-powered wireless server that fits in your pocket
Another nice opinion article which cites the tendencies of "flat" organizations to create opaque hidden hierarchical political structures, with some references to Github, Valve, and 60's commune and feminist groups.

http://www.wired.com/2014/03/tyranny-flatness/

Critics say flat organizations can conceal power
structures and shield individuals from accountability.
This idea dates to the 1972 essay The Tyranny of
Structurelessness by Jo Freeman, who describes her
experiences in “leaderless” feminist organizations in the
1960s. “There is no such thing as a structureless group,”
Freeman wrote. “Any group of people of whatever nature
that comes together for any length of time for any purpose
will inevitably structure itself in some fashion.”

The problem with supposedly non-hierarchical groups, she
wrote, is that power structures are invisible–and
therefore unaccountable. That inevitably leads to
disfunction and abuse. Charismatic leaders could use their
position to advance their own agenda, award desirable
tasks and projects to an “in group,” and shift blame for
mistakes.

and more on Valve's flatness in practice, http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-07/09/valve-managem...
I don't think you should trust the baseband.

My objection is with the idea that you can look at a design, not see an IOMMU, and extrapolate from that the notion that the baseband has full access to the memory of the other chips in the design.

That's a reasonable assumption in a PC design. There may have been a point, for some phones, where it was a valid assumption for phones. It's not with a modern phone design.
MAC addresses your later concerns. The fact Arch does not support MAC at all then becomes somewhat of a problem, but it is already a huge problem to begin with.

You can simply make SELinux / Apparmor profiles that default-restrict applications to ~/.config/<appname> and ~/.local/share/<appname> with quotas. Applications that need exceptions would be shipped with apparmor or selinux profile files to amend that.

Its also how you can make desktop Linux a lot more sophisticated in permissions management for applications. I know Apparmor at least supports the idea of network, peripheral, and display access in the same way it controls directory access. It would be a huge usability and security boon to the Linux desktop to have notifications of requests to access resources when an application does so - I think Android 6 is absolutely going in the right direction on application control, and adopting those ideas would be valuable.
Probably not 100% accurate, but the APC UPS on my nas build of similar design (xeon e3, 8x3tb red main array + 3tb scratch/hot spare + 2tb scratch + 500gb ssd for jails)

reports 30w when idle, 42w when reading from the array, 75w when transcoding in plex

My energy bills aren't crazy, and I leave it on 24/7
Read graeber. He this fallacious just so story quite thoroughly. in the old times happens pretty much only between tribes, in tense circumstances, not within them. Within a tribe, purposely ambiguous debt systems tend to be used. Also, there's a strong argument that money derives from ceremonial goods used to track the exchange of human lives, in marriage, murder, our slavery.
Which is the point - you are now starting to try to make kids understand what symbolic links are or even how to input those in Windows Explorer. Just saying "open file manager, hit f8, go to .minecraft" is actually a usability improvement for kids.
Given that XT was met with outright censorship, DDoS attacks, and other unethical and criminal behavior, I don't see what else you'd expect him to do.
Or somewhere with great solar power potential. For example Kihei on Maui - you can power a whole house with central air and still have enough energy to charge up an EV just with rooftop photovoltaics.
Awesome! Going to have to do this myself.
I have several friends now who don't have a laptop or don't use it - they exclusively use a tablet/phone outside of work. They'd definitely be impacted by malware with access to all their data and communications, not to mention the ability to rack up massive monthly bills.

I know the grugq says not to root Android for maximum security, but I prefer to have the toggle. I don't like this continual removal of features from phones and I strive to have the same level of access that I had on my Nokia N900 - but it has to be an informed choice.

There has to be a middle ground somewhere between Android's "Cryptolocker.apk was successfully installed!" and Apple's "thou shalt not covet thine neighbour's underground app store on penalty of death".
Why can't SO just say, "If you post code here it's public domain" (or some other license that says no action required, no attribution required, copy at will)

I've posted quite a bit of code on SO. I don't want attribution. That is not my goal. That's is an anti-goal for me. I don't want to make it harder to use code in my code. I want to make it easier. I don't even want a link back to SO.

Sure if I write some 1000+ line library on github I might want attribution but I have no such desire on SO.

Am I a rare case? Do most SO contributors want attribution?
Techcrunch article:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902452
Why do you assume electric cars and batteries have no hidden costs? You don't see these costs when you see electric cars, but the cost are real: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-...
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> I'm still not convinced about the product life. We have 20 year old ICE vehicles running absolutely perfect (well-maintained and designed ones), is the same possible with an electric car?

An electric car has no more than 50 moving parts. For the powertrain, you'd only ever need to swap the battery pack or the electric motor (weighs about 70lbs). Electric vehicles by their nature embody longevity.

> Also are the byproducts of manufacturing an electric worse than an ICE vehicle.

No.

> We need to think about the environment as a whole.

Yes. Electric vehicles are only one part of the mobility equation.

> I'm still convinced electric mass transportation would be better than investing in individual carmakers.

You're going to cover every American suburb with electric mass transit? If so, the cheapest way to do so is with electrified self-driving vehicles.
> Insolvency. If a person over the age of 40 tells you that they have never lost a job, they are pretty lucky (or lying).

I know a lot of lucky people then. It's absolutely smart to be prepared in the case you lose your job, but is it really that rare to make it 40+ without getting fired or laid off?
IDA has been mainstream among reverse engineers for at least 15 years, and equivalents such as win32dasm existed before that, so there is not really a notion of a post-IDA world.

Closed source is very much a huge barrier in verifying what software is doing, just as much as it always has been. I say that as someone who has been reversing engineering professionally for much of that time.

The number of people with the expertise and access to IDA is a tiny subset of those who can just skim source code. And those who are competent reverse engineers take 10x-100x longer going that route. An even smaller subset of those have the inclination to even bother doing this for free in their spare time.
Basically, the Chinese miners don't want to increase the blocksize because they are very bandwidth-limited.

Larger blocks mean longer propagation time, during which time another pool with more bandwidth could hash and propagate their own block, causing the Chinese block to be orphaned.
That's BitcoinXT's protocol, sure, but that isn't Bitcoin Core's "protocol", so the powers that be can simply say "We do not accept your attempt to reject our reality and substitute your own."
>they killed the diary, the mayorships, the accomplishments.

It is there again, Swarm mayorships, coins, and accomplishements are fun. and I love when I check in to a new place and it shows a pop-up if one of my friends left a comment, since I know my friend tastes, I get more from it than a random Yelp review.
Do you really want people to be afraid to report an issue in case it's something silly/not an actual problem? Would that be better?

I guess it depends on the project and its contribution guidelines.
It's expensive if you need decent performance - Isolated Dynos (i.e. running in their own EC2 instance) start at $250/month. We found that the shared Dyno options had significant noisy-neighbour problems.
A few issues here. Filtering feature requests to "whatever makes money" seems to be overly reductionist and a bit cynical, especially given a company like GitHub which is relatively open and has a flexible policy as to what is being worked on. Sibling commenters bring up examples like Atom and Electron that GitHub pours salary money into but don't make money off of.

Also, it assumes that the requests don't matter for paying users – on the contrary, the features listed in the original article could be useful features that could make more projects, including paid projects, use GitHub Issues, which could in turn make more people pay for GitHub. I know that the first request, metadata for issues, would have been incredibly useful for when my team was using GitHub Issues.

Finally, the lack of features that open-source authors consider important is a pretty big deal. This article asks, where are the projects going to go if GitHub doesn't implement these features? Well, it's far from inconceivable that they'd switch to another place that had better features and supported open-source projects more fully, taking away steam from what originally pushed GitHub to be so popular and become the juggernaut in public and private source code hosting – open-source projects.

Remember Google Code and SourceForge?
Adding `echo echo >> ~/.bashrc` to somebody's bashrc.

This will make the terminal scroll more and more as bash sessions are started.

However, people get used to this since it happens gradually, and eventually will go nuts trying to figure out why there terminal takes forever to start (it's scrolling pages upon pages).
Pop Quiz:

Did sales of electric cars grow or decrease in 2015 compared to 2014. Answer: http://insideevs.com/monthly-plug-in-sales-scorecard/

What about sales of ICEs? http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/202980/us-auto-sales-hit-all...

So if overall car sales are up by EV sales are down, tell me why we are so bullish on EVs?
Yes, but I attribute this to my unconscious mind simply using the projects to learn things. Once I get 80-90% done, over the big hurdles, my unconscious is satisfied and no longer has a desire to complete the project.
I don't remember any "people before the internet" ever saying anything of the sort.

I am aware of plenty of people saying it about the internet now - both that information has become an artifact of the internet and that the internet has become an artifact of the state (specifically, of American cultural and political hegemony.)
For this audience? Yes. Startups have finite lifespans, and even when they succeed they are likely to go through a period of upheaval which could involve job instability.
I've been laid off several times in the last 20 years, always due to either the company running out of runway, or being pivoted out of a job.
I think it's a reference to "Replace By Fee." I don't follow bitcoin closely enough to know exactly what this is, but here's an argument against: https://medium.com/@octskyward/replace-by-fee-43edd9a1dd6d#....
ZFS is a filesystem which does waaaay more than LVM does as a container. It's not just that it's "cool". Rapid filesystem snapshots, checksums, dedupe, do some research and you'll see why it's recommended.
Yeah, I'm in that boat for sure. I tend to have dozens of partially completed projects around at any given time. The best thing I've done so far to make some headway on this problem is to stop thinking of things in terms of being "done" but rather think in terms of "I'm going to spend X hours on this today, regardless of how much I get done." At least for me, deciding to just make steady progress instead of trying to finish seems to mostly eliminate the hang-up. If I focus on the process, things get done. If I focus on the goal, things fall apart.
Replace by fee. Zero-confirmation transactions have always been insecure; replace-by-fee is essentially Firesheep for this vulnerability -- it puts a friendly UI on it and drops the technical acumen required from "substantial -- you probably have to write your own complicated C++ code" to "you have to be willing to lie; that's it."

(Replace by fee in a nutshell: All Bitcoin transactions are unstable for a period of time, generally believed to be "approximately 60 minutes." Exploiting this instability to retroactively invalidate a transaction was possible but beyond the ken of casual attackers. Replace by fee lets you reverse any transaction you made younger than N minutes by simply saying "I'm willing to outbid the fee I offered on that transaction. The new transaction does this new thing, for example replacing the $100 transaction 'pay from my left pocket to restaurant for dinner' into 'pay from my left pocket to my right pocket.'")
And power consumption!
It's about expected levels of risk and the level of risk you're willing to accept.

e.g. Risk of Apple deploying a malicious binary: low [0]

Risk of J Random Dev deploying a malicious binary: higher, after they plug in a Thunderbolt adapter they found laying around at 32C3 [1].

So you might be willing to accept the risk of using a closed source OS, but an app doing interesting low level (?) things to the OS? Maybe not.

[0]: Yeah yeah, the NSA is going to force them to deploy a bad copy of XCode, I know.

[1]: https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike_2
awkward

http://zachholman.com/posts/fired/
Yeah, the questions in regard to post-hardfork haven't been definitively answered yet because Bitcoin has never intentionally hardforked before. It has done once in the past due to a software error [1], and it was nearly a disaster but luckily all the right people were online and quickly decided which fork to keep.

[1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawi...
It's completely legal to operate on iOS, it's just against the App Store rules. They made it available to jailbroken users starting with the 3G iPhone and have a pretty strong following.
On the flipside, I watch Netflix literally every night (American Dad, Family Guy, Always Sunny) as I go to sleep. We don't have cable at my house and Netflix fills that hole extremely well. Maybe I'm Netflix's dream customer, I don't know.
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Try tranquility, it's even more aggressive than f.lux, and FOSS.

https://github.com/lswank/Tranquility
> One concern would be around tools that fetch from github automatically.

Sure. But... like... git doesn't know anything about deprecated repos. AFAIK, that's not a feature of git's repo fetch machinery. Anything Github would do to address this would have to modify the contents of the repo, right?

> ...go get for example would need some sort of structured metadata [to do reasonable repo deprecation warnings]

I mean, the JavaScript development community has -collectively- decided on a huge bundle of ad-hoc standards. I bet that it would be trivial for the signatories of the open letter to decide on a tagging mechanism to use in their README files to indicate repo deprecation. Do you disagree?
You've got it all wrong!

The executive reads the book and then hires the overpriced consultant(s).
How does Medal cope with HIPAA requirements and limitations?

Where is Medal based? (I assume Boston, but the web page has no location info.)
> They are only breaking laws protecting unethical business practices of the taxi cab companies.

That, and also laws protecting ethical business practices of the taxi cab companies, which are often unprofitable but desirable for the city population. And also laws protecting employees. And tax codes.

It's true that Uber managed to stir the pot, and definitely helped in fixing the stagnation of taxi services sooner. But that doesn't excuse their flippant attitude towards law and society, or corrupt example they give to the future startup founders.
There's a construction site on my commute that has two white Crown Vics parked visibly, with spotlights on the driver side turned out so they show. They're civilian, and I assume they're there to get people to slow down.
I imagine you'll be able to torrent it fairly soon.
And if the next big thing in technology never occurs like countless other next-big-things before it? This is part of why command economies fail so miserably.
Unblocking Netflix may soon become impossible
I personally think SilverStone's DS380 would make for a better case for something like this. 8x hot-swap 3.5in bays + 4x 2.5in bays in M-ITX form factor.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/product.php?pid=452

It's what I'm using right now for my server and I love it. I have it filled up with 6 drives and haven't had any issues with heat so far. Can't say the same about the ASUS P9A-I motherboard I'm using it with though...
I didn't make it very clear in the parent comment but I don't consider murder to be an inalienable right either. My point was that it could be considered an 'alienable' right, if that makes any sense. I.e., because we ourselves don't want to be murdered and because we want to participate in civilization, we assent to limits on individual liberties--namely those in which individuals would infringe upon the rights of others.

As I think about it now, I would say that our inalienable human rights are derived from the fact that we exist self-aware with the desire and general capacity to assert our rights. I.e., to whatever end or purpose, we wouldn't have those abilities absent some reason. If you're alive, you want to live and you're not hurting anybody else; who's to say that you should be denied that life? If anyone, it's just some other guy who's opinion isn't actually any more important than your own. One might say it should all be self-evident :) .

At any rate, I think we're largely saying the same things.
You're right. I momentarily confused the two terms. I could see how a couple exchanges, as opposed to pools, would have more unilateral (or bilateral rather) power for manipulating market statistics.

Either way, the main question still remains, and it doesn't look like a citation is forthcoming. Going to file this under unfounded speculation for now.
And yet I can still go to Bitcoin XT repository, download it and run it if I wish: https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt

That's the genius of it all. Even the governing body doesn't prevent people from running the existing patches. As soon as the impasse becomes an existential threat, we already have a solution, and anyone who wants to run it can run it. Downloading and running the new Bitcoin is kind of like voting.
The documentation reminds me of one of my favorite quotes:

"Consultants invent these kinds of phrases to label things we’ve all known all along—it’s a perversion of business life that fancy words always cost more than plain ones, even though the plain ones are more valuable."

From Agile Development with Rails, 4th edition.