skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cross post from the NYT article comment:

In open source communities, impactful contributions yield influence. Here are the top 100 bitcoin contributors:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/graphs/contributors

Guys like Wladimir, Pieter, Gavin, Cory Fields, Gregory Maxwell and Luke Jr have a voice because they’ve contributed many thousands of lines of code. (Lines of code are only a proxy for impact).

You may have noticed Mike Hearn isn’t in the top 100 contributors list. He is the primary author of the Java implementation of a bitcoin library:
https://github.com/bitcoinj/bitcoinj

He started it in 2011, definitely early. But a substantial amount of bitcoin core work had already set the path. There are also similar implementations in many different languages but they are not the primary reference implementation for full nodes.

According to Hearn’s blog post:
“I’ve talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV and BBC News. I have been repeatedly cited by the Economist as a Bitcoin expert and prominent developer. I have explained Bitcoin to the SEC, to bankers and to ordinary people I met at cafes.”

Being cited by journalists is not the same as being a primary contributor.

The disagreement between Hearn and the other developers isn’t about whether to increase capacity, it’s about how. Many of the primary full-node contributors believe a hard-blockchain-fork is a risky approach. Lots of work is being done to explore better options, like segregated witness (http://gavinandresen.ninja/segregated-witness-is-cool).

Mike Hearn tried to (very aggressively) push the idea of increasing the block size with a hard fork. In fact the patch allows node operators to vote and 75% adoption is needed. When it looked like that wasn’t going to pan out, he created Bitcoin XT where “Decisions are made through agreement between Mike and Gavin, with Mike making the final call if a serious dispute were to arise.”

So the claim that Hearn not being able to take over decision making power for the bitcoin community is evidence that bitcoin has failed seems to show something slightly different. It shows that open source software methodology of forking and adoption lets the best implementation win and prevents hostile takeovers.

Mike Hearn is not as impactful to bitcoin development as he or recent news would indicate. Mike leaving the bitcoin community has little impact on the future success or failure of bitcoin.
This a pretty rude comment. My comment didn't make an argument either way; it just added some context to the thread. You're arguing so aggressively that you've hijacked it in order to slam him.

Could you maybe delete that comment and make it a top-level comment instead? Then I'll delete this one, and the thread will be cleaner.
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Somewhat relatable article: http://hardforkit.com/2016/01/12/Thoughts-On-How-Bitcoin-Dev...
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... or you explicitly type the leading dot in the filename or wildcard criteria.
I just realized that Persona is going to be discontinued. Unfortunate, but alternatives can be whipped up I guess.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Persona

> On November 30th, 2016, Mozilla will shut down the persona.org services. Persona.org and related domains will be taken offline.
I've only been working with open source licenses since 1992, and it's not obvious to me how required attribution is bad. Can you explain, please?
I'm concerned Hsieh decisions show a blatant lack of concern for maintaining a meritocracy. Also it doesn't really seem like Zappos cares about attracting talent. I might even venture to say the decision is driven by the chance to maximize profits. Imagine how much money you save by firing all your manager.
I've worked at companies that stress how important their bullshit "culture" is. It's usually to distract from shitty compensation and rare promotions.
Exactly 40110 (in 2014, only those legally registered)

Source: http://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/health/health/health-and-health..., though you have to dig through a bit to find the figure.
I actually hesitate to really "watch" repos because the sheer volume of email generated is staggering. I take my hat off to those who run successful OSS projects. Thank you!
I interpreted that as "please change the project title", but I am perhaps wrong.
This looks great. Any plans to support (or at least provide an option for) using Safari view controller? Maybe even with reader mode as a default option (Tweetbot does this) which would probably eliminate the need for Readability.
Aristotle introduced akrasia to explain why we make bad decisions in a moment of weakness even though we know better. The point though is not to just stick to commitments (and thereby have enkrateia, self-control), but to be virtuous (arete) and not worry about out-of-control desires in the first place.
You don't want a price based tax as that amplifies the fluctuation in the oil price. A volume based tax will help to stabilise the pump price.
No, 'Security Theater' is for when you perform a bunch of actions to make people 'feel' safer without actually making them safer. We accuse airport security screening of being security theater because it is unlikely to be effective against a targeted attack, the very failure mode that the policies were instituted to prevent.

In this case, however, the intended targets are presumably crimes of opportunity, not exhaustively preplanned crimes. For these, the threat of "you're being watched, and if you do something, we'll see it" is probably sufficient. Also they provide low grade confrontation situations to be defused by someone pointing to the camera and saying "There's a camera monitoring this".
I don't mind it in the sense that I know it will happen anyway. I object to my code being used in proprietary projects, though with small snippets it's not such a big problem for me.

But the problem is big enough for me to want to make sure the code is covered by a license I like. This is just how my priorities are to me.
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Are you thinking of affordable charging, or the commercial chargers that are springing up in parking lots all over the place that cost like $4 an hour? Because I don't see how the latter solves the problem for people who are not rich, but it seems to be the only solution anyone has to offer right now.

I'm not saying I think the problem is intractable, just that I think fueling is still a big problem with EVs for most people.
I think those searches show up links that show the lottery makes the news in those countries.

Also, I do not read "is there hype" in your original phrase "have people heard of".

I think it is unlikely there is much hype because it is hard, if not impossible, to legally buy tickets outside the USA. Beciase of that, few people would have a stake in this, or know people who do.

My personal interest is only in guesstimating whether it would make sense to take part (my guess is that expected payout has gone down due to the huge influx of would-be milliairdairs)
Did you try diffbot? It's the same service Pocket uses for parsing.
> and trac

Because, honestly, trac just sucks. It ain't as bad as the stuff Atlassian sells but still... it tries to be a fusion of MediaWiki and Bugzilla, and eh nope.
You think it will be cheaper to pay for more taxis than it will be to have cars drive themselves? Let alone many drunk drivers would still drive themselves even if a free taxi were available.

> Are you really arguing that driving deaths are a major problem that requires intensive effort to solve?

It's obvious to any observer that driving deaths are a major problem, and that an intensive effort to solve this problem is appropriate. We've made tremendous progress over that last 50 years. Let's continue that path.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10894426
Until f.lux becomes a platform just like browsers, applications (see Photoshop) and operating systems, yeah... it's just a feature.

No one is writing stuff for f.lux.
>Now you're going on about chargebacks.

What is with the attitude you have? I wasn't going on about anything, really. You brought up transaction times which are related to confirmation times. Anything other than bitcoin is molasses-like.
Competition in the cloud space is a beautiful thing. I really hope we don't end up with Amazon being a monopoly provider.

Now if they could all lower network egress pricing I'd be really happy.
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I think this is where a lot of people will disagree with you. Personally, I don't believe a person who created something should get that level of control. It's fine to control your possessions, i.e. things that can belong to only one person at the same time, and that happen to belong to you now. But I see absolutely no reason for which you should be able to control information. Not just music or games, and not just digital. Information - as abstract as it gets.

That is, if you and only yourself have it, it's of course immoral for me to coerce you to give it to me, or to take it from you against your will. But if you give (a copy of) that information to a third party, the third party now owns a copy, and should have the same rights about it as you have. Which includes giving that information to me, for free.

There's no other way for it to work that makes sense. Just like you don't have a right to tell something to someone and then issue a gag order, you shouldn't have such right to any other form of information.

Of course, exceptions are being made because of the economy, but then let's be clear - piracy is bad because of economic reasons, not moral ones. Morally you're privileged by being able to limit distribution of information in the first place.
I wish Github would add a "Discussions" tab for repos, so projects don't need to create a separate Google Group (which require a Google account!) for questions-that-are-not-quite-issues.
I don't have a use-case for Azure, but very happy MS are in the space.
There is room for third party alternatives to system features.

e.g. spotlight search / watson, iCloud Drive / Dropbox, 1password / iCloud keychain, Instapaper / Pocket / Reading List

Apple's going to go for lowest common denominator, while third parties can go for a smaller slice of that market.

I would love to see both a system feature and enabling 3rd parties to offer this functionality. Don't expect to see it on iOS... it's too small an app class to expect a custom extension point for it.
Look at the people who derive their influence from the Bitcoin ecosystem. Do you agree with their views? Do you find them generally friendly? Are you happy giving them more power by buying Bitcoin? This was what made me stay out of Bitcoin.
I hope they do succeed. I find their recommendations more useful than Yelp.
Looks like a genuine mistake. He apologised. You've never done something dumb and didn't realise it?
As I understand the author, the implication is that the baseband firmware is closed source. So, it's possible that Google/Apple have done an audit. But, in my experience, and the author's suggestion that's unlikely to have happened.
Uhhh what about gold, which had been the world's currency for thousands of years up until Nixon was forced off the gold standard in the 70s.
good luck with that...
The possibility of selling something at a later date is not something a market can, or should, guarantee you. If you're selling bread, and I open up next door and sell cheaper bread, your possibility for sale just went down significantly.
So I just read the pages you cited, and everything there is talking about recorded history. Barter has been in use since at least 12000BC, according to archaeological records. Your citation doesn't really refute my statement.

(For anyone who wants to follow along, the PDF can be found at https://libcom.org/files/__Debt__The_First_5_000_Years.pdf)
>it's insulting to suggest that we get those who are "unbanked" as a result of living at no-fixed-address (ie: "homeless") should eventually move on to Bitcoin as an alternative to mainstream financial institutions.

What about Africans who have no access to a bank but have access to a cellular device?
It will have to happen from time to time.
There is a freedom of speech argument to be made as well. Rights holders are one aspect but the other major cause of region locks is censorship. Many young people resent their governments telling them what they can or cannot watch. Some local content is not available because government censors have stepped in.

Do you think your government should determine what you, as an adult, should be allowed to watch? Do you think a government should be able to block certain works for religious reasons?
The problem is incentivizing people to "mine". This effectively created a pyramid scheme where the "first in" benefit from the "later in" spending money.

Bitcoin will be more interesting to me once the mining pool is exhausted. At that point, we'll see how much of Bitcoin's value is in use instead of speculation.
What's your take on the NYC market? I work in tech and am moving there soon and was thinking about buying property.

SF/Oakland prices seemed way too correlated with tech salaries for me to feel comfortable buying anything there, but NYC feels better in that sense...
Ask HN: Would you quit your +200K/y job to try the entrepreneurial route?
I've been thinking about quitting my job for about 6 months now... Being an employee is not for me. I can't function properly under someone else's rules and I hate micro-management in general. I haven't pulled the trigger yet so I keep delaying my decision. I'm working for a big & successful company, blabla blabla and blablabla. Not trying to show off. My job takes up most of my free time so I can't focus on building things on the side. As mentioned in the title, the package is very good.

I don't have a team nor a potential co-founder. On top of that, I don't have a prototype. So basically, I'd have to quit, take some time to build a prototype, then motivate people to quit their jobs and to jump in. Sounds a little crazy. So I'd be curious to hear about people who didn't drop out of college to start their company. I'm talking about people who have bills, mortgages, a great employee-Resume and a fairly descent package.

Would you guys do it? Curious to hear different opinions even though I'm already programmed to quit. I just need the balls to do it!
How is adding context and information rude?
Apple doesn't become involved just because they're interested. It's a straightforward interaction between two parties, until Apple butts in.

Private APIs are a security vulnerability? Come on, you know
better than that. It's not like a malware author can't take five minutes to come up with a way to bypass the private API checker they run on App Store submissions. The prohibition on private API is purely about not breaking apps when Apple releases OS updates, or forcing Apple to maintain a private API they want to change or delete but can't because too many popular apps use it.
Why did you double post this? It's borderline FUD.
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GPL incompatibility.
https://lobste.rs/s/82pz7r/curated_links_to_understand_dange...
> Money is an artifact of the state; always has been, always will.

Abraham listened to Ephron, and Abraham weighed out for Ephron
the silver that he had named in the hearing of the Hittites,
four hundred shekels of silver, according to the weights current
among the merchants.

Gen 23:16[1]

This silver transaction that occurred thousands of years ago was weight out based on merchant standards. Abraham was a nomad at the time, not belonging to any state. The merchants seem to be the ones who set the weight of the silver currency.

[1] https://www.blueletterbible.org/esv/gen/23/16/s_23016
Interest free forever, except if you leave the country.

There are minimum repayments, which are skimmed from your paycheck.

About $7000 a year goes to tuition, and about the same on living costs. The government also has a means-tested student allowance, which is based on your parents income, which I'm not eligible for, but replaces the living costs loan (which is a bit bullshit).
In my opinion, the gamification was getting kind of old, especially as a lot of people had third-party apps that would check them into any location they even passed by. This probably made it very difficult to monetize location data, but it also made Foursquare less reliable for me when I want to know if my friends have actually been to a place.

I quite like the new Foursquare app, and never use other services like Yelp or Urban Spoon anymore. I see new places pop up on Foursquare before they're on Google Maps all of the time.

On the other hand, Swarm is a dull replacement of the gaming side of things. I find the design too "bubbly" almost childish. I do like that it is very easy for me to rate a place I've been, but I'm not very clear on how those ratings work with the ratings in the Foursquare app (which are much more in-depth).
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> Cigarettes in prisons are used as money.

No. That's barter. Money has very specific characteristics. Cigarettes in prison fail these three: divisibility, durability and uniformity.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/economic-lowdown-podcas...
>on Windows you needing to figure out where your AppData folder even is (it varies on release)

I believe "%appdata%" is symlinked to the AppData folder on every version of Windows Minecraft runs on.
Yes good point. Thanks for the clarification.
Before credit was gold, which throws a wrench in your beliefs.

I don't know if livestock domestication would be said to be a precursor to gold in some places.
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But by going against the rules they have forced apple's hand, and we are better off for it... if their medical claims are correct, they've actually prevented some number of DEATHS by breaking an app developer license agreement.

I find it hard to fault them when I look at it like that.
Also the much beloved and hated Canadian Tire 'money':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Tire_money
Is a team player essentially a person who schmoozes well?
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I guess for maintainers of popular projects, everybody's "casual chat" (by people who did not read CONTRIBUTING.txt, do not supply the version of relevant software they are using etc.) is not as fun as it is for you.
> Barter has been in use since at least 12000BC

The concept of debt predates the concept of barter a long time. Barter requires judging things of equal value. Debt however is easy to understand for humans regardless of ability to have the concept of possession (help me today and i help you tomorrow). I see no reason to believe that money or barter would become before debt in human development.
Maybe it was a good thing to prove the viability of electric cars, but I find it hard to believe 5-7k a car is best use of green energy spending. And that's a car that still is mostly just running on coal or natural gas because that is what are grid is made out of.
Okay, so we need to trust three people, or whoever has the biggest datacenters.

The US Financial System relies on more than just Bank of America, Chase, and JP Morgan btw. There's more decentralization in the status-quo than the three or four big-name BTC Miners.
> Focused. Can they possibly eschew Facebook, Twitter, IM, Hacker News, et al. for eight hours?

What does it have to with being focused? I take some short breaks and visit HN and reddit to "empty" my mind and to have some fresh air not because I'm lazy or unfocused.
Is this comment intended to imply that Mike is being opaque with his intentions? The quote seems pretty much in line with the OP.
Does your internet suck? Because that isn't how it is at all.

I'm uploading 2 torrents right now at almost a megabit and my internet is just fine.

When there are good seeders I can pull 8 down. Most movies and shows are done in minutes.

No noticeable degradation to browsing speed, when a large file finishes there can be a little slowdown, but that's a different thing.
Why federal government needs to invest in this? I mean, when people say "government support is necessary for fundamental research which can not be financed by private means", ok, there's an argument there. But companies like Google - not exactly short of money - already investing into this. Why feds need to intervene? Of course, every company would gladly take gifts from feds to advance their private research - but why do it? There are a lot of fields that could use $4B and are not a focus of attention of a half-trillion-dollar corporations.

Also, they claim simultaneously that self-riving cars are safer and that they would be exempt from safety rules. How that works? If they are already safer, they should be able to satisfy more safety rules, not less?
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I think this gets to the root of the GH problem

To the person raising the issue it's a simple mistake, sorry.

To the person that has to deal with it, it's yet another issue being raised where the reporter didn't follow the necessary steps to diagnose the problem themselves and (implicitly) expected a bunch of other people to apply their own time to solving it.

If the "New Issue" form had a place where the reporter was asked to paste the output from ag --version then it might have caught the accident before it wasted the developers' time.

I think it's an over reaction to describe the issue as a complaint, but it is an example of how the GitHub UI forces project admins to deal with incomplete and poorly investigated issues from users.
The midpoint fallacy is that the truth lies directly in the midpoint.

Typically it lies SOMEWHERE in the middle, but the fallacy is meant to point out that it's just as likely to lie very close to one end or the other, as directly in the middle.

Of course, if you construct a total straw man argument where we already know the god-given truth, you can show that a second argument will take you further from the truth.
No, it's an application. Applications aren't necessarily platforms. By your logic, Super Meat Boy is a feature.
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You get a poorly written book which no one buys because they can get the content for free online.
It does refute it. What looked like barter on closer inspection was really credit. As in "I'll give you three chickens for that cow. I know this isn't a fair exchange but we'll mark the exchanges on this stick and later when I have something you want we'll sort it out." The stick was a record of the transaction. Sometimes the record itself was exchanged. This last step is how money emerged from credit.
Personally, I use Redshift which is an open-source f.lux clone.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to watch TV/use a computer in a dark room and not have to worry about it being so bright it gives me a headache, but also have good color quality. Software color temperature apps handle the headaches pretty well, but they don't save power and they don't let me see true colors.

It would be really nice to see some more hardware effort put into low-intensity backlights, especially color reproduction at lower brightness settings.
When the context and information you posted is so obviously a one-sided ad-hominem list of information (that includes the argument of "OMFG, he might have connections to some state intelligence agency"), its quite rude IMO.
You are not transferring copyright (so you can still additionally distribute it under a different license), but you are licensing it to them under their terms (currently CC, potentially MIT).

A major premise of Stack Overflow was that it must be possible for the content to be migrated somewhere else if the company becomes malicious (to avoid being seen as another Experts Exchange). This requires consistent licensing which is compatible with this premise. Allowing users to enforce arbitrary licensing restrictions on their posts would undermine this.