skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The voting is built into the bitcoin protocol-- the miners that find the next block are voting for the piece of software they are running. If there is a schism and some miners are running other software then two chains could -- COULD -- emerge-- but one will rapidly become the dominant one. ( for a period the two chains will effectively double everyone's bitcoins, but the losing chains coins will rapidly lose value as hashing power switches to the dominant chain.)

This could be chaotic so the debate is really how to avoid two co-existing chains in hard fork situation.

But bitcoin itself is, every 10 minutes, voting for what the "right" chain is, which is defined as the longest.

Right now today if you're mining on a block and find out that there is a longer chain, the node switches.
Indeed. This has been the wording since at least May of 2013:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130518184355/http://www.sublim...

It's just saying that licenses don't automatically carry over to the next major version. It says nothing about if and when there will actually be a next major version.
I'm surprised Dalhagskolan 1-5 and Husbyskolan 6-9 isn't on that list. I'm no genius, but think even I managed average MVG without ever studying at home.

It was that bad.
Husbyskolan was exceptionally bad when I went there ~2000. My class was the last class with actual Swedes in it.

I agree with everything you brought up. My parents thought Hjällbo was so bad that they left for Husby around 1997.

Too be fair, immigrants didn't cause this. Curled generation and old Swedish communists together managed to cook this up. My parents are immigrants and didn't repeat the school mistakes with my brother. He's doing med school soon.
You asked a question about the array and I answered it.

Yeah I missed the part where you said mmap. There's libraries that make that safer, but clearly there's a preference for working with the raw tools here.

> Otherwise have fun with your own mental image of game programming yourself.

Ignorance is bliss. Have fun ignoring the progress systems programming has made in the last 30 years. Why bother even looking into it right? If what works for you works... that's all that matters.
Google Reader should have been though. If they have used that as the core of Google+ then it could have had a shot at becoming the next Facebook.
I'm curious, did your contractors host regular demos, sprint retrospectives, etc.? If so, was it clear early on that the results were going to be substandard, or was it a surprise fairly late into the process?

I'm not going to debate about whether they were doing "true Agile", but it seems like even without settling upfront costs it would still be possible to control risks by tracking value added vs. cost on a sprint-to-sprint basis. Hopefully it should be evident early on if the project isn't worth it[1].

Of course, this requires that the contractors be able to deliver value incrementally, which might not be possible in all projects. In which case, upfront cost estimates (and more thorough planning) will probably be necessary.

[1]In fact, this is exactly why Zed Shaw says he uses Scrum on risky projects(http://zedshaw.com/archive/the-c2i2-hypothesis/)
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> I thrive on these people.

What do you mean ? You mean you manage them ? I agree that it must be quite delicate. In recent years I've started to understand what politics, public opinion and management really are about. I guess that's something I'd tell a math genius to get interested in, which is the art of compromise, negotiation and game theory, which can apply to take care of twenty five-years-old kids.

> To wrap it all up: some people truly March to the beat of their own drum.

Well people who have higher intelligence feel and know they are smarter, and since they are less people who are as smart as them to contradict them, nobody really can question their thoughts.

> Good luck. I hope you find your groove.

Thank you, that's truly heartwarming to hear it.

> No one else will find it for you, unfortunately.

I guess one day psychology and management will evolve and gain traction to improve society, I'm not so desperate about the future.
Yeah, but maybe Blogger is next in line!
What if made the readme a restructuredtext file instead of Markdown?
Really? You simply cannot make a statement such as "Sublime Text 4 under development" when the only evidence you have is mentions of ST4 in an FAQ about licencing.

The ST licence has always only covered up to the most recent version at the time of purchase. All this FAQ is doing is making it clear that by purchasing a ST3 licence you'll need to upgrade when the next version comes along.
People are not constant in every phase of a relationship. All those 20-something females I mentioned like phone calls later in the relationship.

By applying your selection criteria during the initial phase you're not really applying it to them at all. You're just limiting your chances of success, very severely.
> The few tech companies in vancouver don't pay.

The tech companies in Vancouver haven't increased pay in step with skyrocketing housing. If you can find data on employee pay in the tech industry (good luck) you'd find it'd be fairly consistent. Compared to housing prices in Vancouver, you'd likely be looking at hockey stick growth. That's the disconnect.

If Hootsuite paid minimum wage, but cost-to-live was free, then it's a really good deal for developers.

Besides, you're ignoring the rest of the local economy. Tech is only a small part, and fixing it for one small sector isn't going to do much on a macro scale.
As I understand it gaming enthusiasts regard games as being intrinsically art, with no need to "prove" that they can be. Every game from Pong to Call of Duty is a work of art. This whole discussion around whether games are art or not seems to be coming from outside the gaming community, and should not really be attributed much importance.
And what's their core part? Self-driving cars?
The white paper goes into the issue to some extent with the "longest chain wins" method, which is effectively, hash power based voting for bitcoin software. (the software with the most hash power wins.)
When the Hospital Fires the Bullet
We have, and both public and private repositories are free without a collaborator limit. For more information see https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-com/
I've been matched by this service as well. For me, it also took a while to get matched but I knew going into it that there would be a waiting period. (We're not all easy to match, ya know?)

After 9 weeks, half my group quit but customer support was very responsive and my group is now 100% full again.

If you don't have the right people in your network or you don't have time to be "interviewing" a bunch of people to make up your own mastermind group, then a service like this is a no-brainer.
This story is, essentially, reporting on someone accusing you (and everyone else who owns a vanguard fund. Which includes me btw.) of a tax dodge.

It's not surprising that it irritates you.
I also take issue with random startup management drama being on here like the "Twitter, to Save Itself, Must Scale Back World-Swallowing Ambitions" story.

I find "anything that good hackers would find interesting" kind of problematic. Good hackers according to who? Paul Graham? Silicon Valley capitalist culture? Please be more specific.

Also from HN's guidelines: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

So these are open for interpretation.
Academia or Industry? The “Dichotomy”
Actually, nope that doesn't work apparently. I did find two solutions:

* http://www.r-bloggers.com/rendering-latex-math-equations-in-...

* http://www.sciweavers.org/free-online-latex-equation-editor (as per: https://github.com/github/markup/issues/274)
matplotlib is a bit off-topic for comparing R packages.

No one is saying that either base or ggplot2 is insufficient for academic analysis, but one may be more practical than the other.
Alternatives for desktop picasa?

Desktop Picasa is also going away and it is what I use for organizing my photos. I understand the backend of Picasa Web is replaced by Google Photos, no problem.

My problem is with the desktop organization. Desktop Picasa allows for one feature no other alternative I have seen allows ... tagging of multiple photos.

Does anyone have a web or desktop alternative that supports tagging on individual and multiple photos? Google seems to have forgotten about this feature in Google Photos.

Thanks!
The US, even Seattle, can be a culture shock for many Canadians. It is a very different country. I know of several people who have fled the US after only a couple years. It generally boils down to race, religion and guns, all of which are radically different on either side of the boarder. It's not that one is better than the other, but that a person raised in one environment can be taken aback by the immediacy of the change.
They won't be forced to switch but they will be highly incentivized to do so, as people in the minority coin sell them out to buy the majority coin.

Will be really interesting if any exchanges support this concept of two bitcoin chains coexisting. I bet they don't.
Also, you may want to check out https://github.com/cben/mathdown/wiki/math-in-markdown
> Do you have any other recommendations?

You might take a look at www.amazon.com/Rapid-Development-Taming-Software-Schedules/dp/1556159005/. Although it's 20 years old, it has some good ideas in it. It's also more about 6-month estimations than 90-minute estimations, though.
The thing is they aren't just "fixing the report." They realized they had to change their business model, and apparently purge a significant number of customers (who they must have known to have been in violation of NYC legal code up to that point).

To avoid, you know, getting caught with their pants down.
I would put it this way. Google Photos blows away Picasa Web Albums and Imgur is a better host. It was dead as Flickr will be in the next year or so sadly.
Unlike Google Reader, this product was replaced with a newer (and, IMO, better) alternative, Google Photos. Albums you had in Picasa aren't gone, they're just accessible through the new UI. Why should Google maintain two competing UIs for the same product?

[these opinions are my own, not necessarily those of my employer, Google]
For every "literally" there's a "really."

http://www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2005/11/the...
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/002611.h...
Huge pet peeve of Google... Develop a great little application/product that pulls you in and develops a decent user base only to have it disappear. I get that in a normal company, the finances might in fact dictate that the company can no longer support the user base with the revenue collected. With Google.. these free services seem to disappear with little warning. (to be fair: 4 years of not updating the official Blog was a big clue...)

All that said... just as I was getting used to Wave... poof

Just as I was getting used to GOOG-411... poof

Google Talk...

Don't mind the innovation, but it seems that rather than releasing new versions of existing products to introduce new features and help folks migrate, you get an entire new product to learn/adopt. I can't believe I'm saying this but... I prefer Microsoft's approach to improving their product lines. (sigh)
Which of Twitter's unacceptable content policies do you find objectionable? I agree with all of them, and I think the vast majority of Twitter users do as well.

https://twitter.com/rules
ST3 is free for those with a ST2 licence while it's in beta. It's perfectly stable at the moment, and I suspect the only reason it's still in beta is so that those with a ST2 licence can use it without paying to upgrade.
The Importance of Doing Things That Don’t Scale (and Our First Pivot)
Why would they lie?
An analog computer game on a modular synthesizer
Blog direct link: http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-pica...
Also note that provincial/federal governments are willfully ignorant about these issues.
> I have met very few good leaders in my day.

This is true of anyone at any position. Most people are not good at what they do. In fact I'd say in any position in any company 70% are bad/less-than-good, 20-25% are just OK and 5-10% are actually great. It's just a fact of life, and almost unfair to pigeon hold 'leadership' in these types of articles when it really applies to everyone.
I was getting a more cyberpunk vibe, but I like where you are going regardless.
Bitshares is trying to do something like that. Because we can not yet make practical passports, they copy the model of a company. The biggest holders of currency have the most voting power.

Votes can change a lot of the parameters in the system, and you can vote on where the "profit" goes. So you can vote on how many positions get a share in that profit and who should hold these positions.
Then what is at stake here?

We have essentially a decade of evidence to show having access to electronic communications (both encrypted and not) has little to zero effect on law enforcement's ability to do their job.

Just recently, the Paris attackers use unencrypted cell phone text messages to coordinate and plan their attack. Nobody detected it...

Before that, the FBI successfully caught Ross Ulbricht, through good 'ol police work (because they couldn't beat his encryption and proxy usage).

We don't need access to private communications (both encrypted and not) in order to conduct lawful law enforcement -- we just need better law enforcement practices.

All this anti-encryption rederick put forth by the government is really just smoke and mirrors, covering up systematic failures of law enforcement.
Tell me about it. Our team has 3 frontend developers and 5 backend developers. We also have 3 product owners, a scrum master, a heavily involved scrum master's manager, team manager, team manager's manager, team manager's manager's manager, then the CTO and higher.

Ignoring CTO and higher who aren't directly involved in day-to-day operations, we have 8 management level positions managing 8 developers. Every sprint is a clusterfuck of confusion wherein those 8 managers can't agree on what should be worked on. It's absolutely stunning that 8 people cannot organize work for another 8 people.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11085550.
Almost all software comes with an installer. Might as well just not download software over the internet, which makes it impossible to do anything.
Different link and page, but pretty much a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11086471

> Vagga is a containerization tool without daemons (github.com)

https://github.com/tailhook/vagga
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The Picasa desktop app for Windows had one of the nicest image viewers -- it was my default until I wiped my Windows 7 box. Thanks to the Picasa team for a great service over so many these years!
Oh, there's a second page! Thanks for that.
Also, the real problem is foreign ownership.

What evidence is there that foreign ownership is a major problem? I've heard plenty of anecdotes, but no actual data. I do know that Vancouver real estate agents are milking the "yellow peril" for all it's worth. "Buy now before China owns all of Vancouver!".

Suffice to say, Canadians are doing what American's did in the early 2000's. They are going into a crazy amount of debt to buy housing, which is only pushing prices up even higher. Some of the stats make Canada look even worse than the US did at it's peak[1].

[1]http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
If you know a manager who can increase two programmer's productivity by 50%, I'd like to hear how he does it.

It seems unlikely (assuming the programmers aren't doing something stupid, like spending all their time on Facebook).
Ok, we merged the threads. Thanks!

The current article seems to be the original source, so we'll keep it.
Because judges have an abundance of faith in their judgment being balanced, and so presume themselves autocratic?

Historic violations don't really counter my point - even in the past the map was not the territory. Finding one non-erosion (by virtue of it never have been applied) doesn't change the rights that have eroded.
I mean it's going away insofar as they are no longer supporting it. However they haven't put out features in years. If it works for you, keep using it. It's what I do.

Unless it's sync functionality stops working with Google Photos, I guess, which would be undesireable...
Does this mean Apple is not shutting down iAd fully, but its shutting down iAd app network which allows developers to advertise their own apps through iAds?

Does it mean you can ship your apps with iAds, but you cannot advertise your app as a developer with iAds now onwards?
People 'standardize' macros all the time.

1) Invent a new useful macro.

2) Package it as a library

3) Document it.

4) advertize it

Since macros are written in a standard language and many cab be written in a portable way, it just another way of meta programming.

Stuff like DEFCLASS, DEFMETHOD, ITERATE, WITH-GENSYMS, etc. started as portable libraries.

What one has to learn: the language does not have a fixed amount of syntax. That's the price to pay: learning a new level of programming: linguistic meta programming.
I think the problem is that it divides your focus, which is bad for success. If an entire group can focus on one goal, they will be much more successful.
I used lxc containers with ubuntu 12.04 on a Debian host ;-)
I think the key is seasonality, though I'm sure that regulations and customer willingness to pay for quality do play a role. For instance, I find that fruits and vegetables taste better in India too and the typical Indian customer is very price sensitive and generally unwilling to pay a premium for quality. But availability is usually seasonal.
Why did the half-plane half-helicopter not take off
Anecdotally I see a lot of empty apartments here in SF. Not as bad as London though. I basicslly had an entire massive luxury apartment complex to myself. I would walk around the halls drinking with friends carrying a prop ax pretending we were in the shining. Good times.
Consider that much of the opposition to Core comes from the perception that Blockstream, which employs many of the core developers, is usurping it to be a high-fee, low-transaction network so that they can incentivize (and profit from) the use of their lighting network.

That's why the opposition is called "classic" not "bitcoin democracy". Their position is they are getting back to what bitcoin should have been.

And bitcoin originally had larger than 2mb blocks. The 1mb block limit was a short term solution to a problem that existed back then... that was never lifted.
Because they're ripe.

I worked at an outdoor produce stand when I was younger. I've been to a number of distribution facilities where fruits/vegetables are bought in bulk.

For the more expensive produce that goes to grocery stores, they use artificial ripening chamber to make the fruit look ripe on the outside while they're nowhere near ripe on the inside. It guarantees a good looking product that has maximum shelf life.

For other fruits, like strawberries. They're massive size is what contributes to the poor quality taste. Selectively breeding to produce maximum output has a bad effect on quality.

Vegetables become bitter when they get old. Supermarkets have gotten better at keeping vegetables looking fresh for longer but old tastes old, period. Anybody who has never had veggies fresh from the garden has no idea how good they can taste.

Everything about the modern supermarket focuses on presentation over quality. Even the produce section is strategically placed next to the entrance to give shoppers an impression of freshness and vibrance.

It's all for show, keeping consistently full bins of fruits/veggies means a lot of product will go to waste and the supermarket needs to use every means possible to extend the shelf life as long as possible.

A much more realistic, albeit messy setup will look more like Walmart. There will be bins that are nearly empty, variations of quality, size, condition, etc. Real produce (ie not the plastic sold in supermarkets) is sometimes messy, dirty, ugly. You don't buy it for how it looks, you buy it for how it tastes.

If you want really good tasting produce, buy from a produce stand. They can't afford refrigeration and long-term storage so they buy the cheaper and better tasting produce.
"Direct spending on Film & TV production in British Columbia (BC) totalled more than $2 billion in 2014 making Vancouver the 3rd largest production centre in North America"

http://www.vancouvereconomic.com/film-television/
I use Picasa on the desktop to organize my photos as well. While they are not going to develop it any more, it should still work if you have it installed right?
A significant portion of the housing is being bought by foreign investors who don't even live here

What evidence is there that foreign ownership is a major problem? I've heard plenty of anecdotes, but no actual data. I do know that Vancouver real estate agents are milking the "yellow peril" for all it's worth. "Buy now before China owns all of Vancouver!". Don't forget there is a ton of speculation going on by Canadian citizens as well.

Suffice to say, Canadians are doing what American's did in the early 2000's. They are going into a crazy amount of debt to buy housing, which is only pushing prices up even higher. Some of the stats make Canada look even worse than the US did at it's peak[1].

[1]http://2oqz471sa19h3vbwa53m33yj.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-c...
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> Core/blockstream's position is not consistent and logical.

Please don't conflate Bitcoin Core and Blockstream.

> Should users be able to make decisions? Should core developers be able to over-ride those decisions? Bitcoin is a system with majority decision making.

Bitcoin is not a majority-rule system. The only point in which a majority rule applies is a tie-breaking strategy for resolving valid ledger branching. And that vote doesn't enfranchise users!

Bitcoin is a system that explicitly rejects majority rule. It replaces user determination with fixed, inflexible machine arbitration. It is from this fact that Bitcoin is not a democracy that it derives all of its user-protecting properties like irrevocable payments and inflationary protections.

> Making Side-chains the major cornerstone of the Bitcoin ecosystem will turn out to be a mistake. Side-chains don't make much sense if you understand incentives and risk. The same applies to Lightning which will equally be a failure.

You are welcome to your own opinions. Thankfully your permission is not required to new, innovative use of scripting features that were built into bitcoin from day 1.
"Home" here means "place to live" not "house".
> Why are there so many dialects?

That's a really funny question in a thread about another new programming language.
Source Code: https://github.com/pinterest/teletraan

Overview: https://engineering.pinterest.com/blog/under-hood-teletraan-...
Qualcomm Maps Out ARM Datacenter Battle Plan
In some states that may be true. If anything labor law has been becoming more employee friendly in California.

I must really be an outlier then. I was with the same company for 25+ years before being laid off. Because the job market for electronics engineers is so bad where I live,
I've chosen to semi-retire and look around to see what I might do bring in income which doesn't involve a W2 job.
The author mistakes Europe with Italy. North of the 45th parallel the tomatoe experience is very similar to that of the US. And even in the south - the area of Almeria in Spain is the home of the most mass produced, tasteless vegetables possible. Sadly, Northern Europeans also focus on price and color, not on smell and taste. EU regulations for fruit and vegetable trading classes only consider form, size, color. Nothing about taste. The closest to getting good produce (except for buying at the producer) is to look for organic produce.