skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's... not what the consensus seems to be. How is it that those "historically important forums" have been talking about block size increases for so long if they are being "censored" on this topic....? Maybe they aren't being censored at all despite the accusations. This could be trivially verified by searching "site:reddit.com/r/bitcoin block size XT classic". Perhaps if you did as much digging as you claim, you would find that the censorship accusations are mostly false. Also, theymos isn't a Blockstream employee, great job digging though....

(BTW, I am a moderator of the bitcoin-dev mailing list.)
The Bitcoin network remains an extremely valuable innovation sandbox. It is, perhaps, its biggest long term value if you're a Bitcoin fan but pessimist (as I am).
Edward McCluskey has died
This roughly described distributed.net back around 1997.
Brooks at MIT, and Latoumbe at Stanford, headed the two opposed camps during the AI Winter. Brooks wanted purely reactive robots, and did some nice insect robots. Latoumbe was into very rigid planning systems, where you approach manipulation as path planning using maze solving algorithms in a N-dimensional space with obstacles. Both turned out to be dead ends. Purely reactive systems don't get beyond insect level, and high-dimensional planning requires total information about the environment.

Then the statistical machine learning people took over and started to get real results, especially in sensor data reduction.
I generally speaking trust apple hardware. If I have adversaries powerful enough that they can convince tim cook to manufacture crooked device and make sure that I will get it when I buy my phone - you can write me off as dead anyway.

I don't trust apple ios software (unlike their OSX software), because I am not in position to choose if I trust them or not. The device decides.
There is truth here, but remember that the age of the intelligent networked machine is just beginning.

Look at the YC classes. They are very different from 2005. You can't get rich making a site like reddit today. YC is going international, with X for Y country businesses.

I was talking to a friend with a startup in Indonesia. In Asia its like 1998.

I think we are just at the end of the easy social/mobile revolution in the West and on the cusp of the next robotics/AI/IoT revolution.

And the same process that created cheap and easy tools for software, the same process that dropped the cost of starting a SaaS business 10x will happen for robotics/ai/IoT.

Its already relatively cheap and easy to prototype and fabricate things like low power bluetooth wearables.

Computers have just gotten tiny, low power, wireless and cheap enough to be disposable. These devices are about to be everywhere.

This is not the end of the tech startup gold rush. It's time to learn AI and hardware prototyping.
Sounds like you're hung up on a trivially solved problem for some reason.
The first step to winning in Gradius is to get a full complement of options as soon as possible. ("Options" being the phantom ships that automatically follow your ship around and fire when you do.)

A friend of mine had the worst ex-girlfriend in the world, and she would use sockpuppet accounts on social media to humiliate him, as well as make it look like she was surrounded by loving and supportive friends. I nicknamed them "options", after the Gradius phantom ships, and left a link on each of their pages to the Gradius's Option card from Yu-Gi-Oh to show I was wise to her game, after which she dropped the ruse.

It turns out that each of the "options" was based on someone -- a friend or boyfriend -- she had offended to the point of no return, and she was also using them to create a fantasy world in which those people still loved her.

And she only got more messed up from there.

I find it interesting that the strategy outlined here is pretty standard fare for a psycho ex-girlfriend from hell (and a stupid one at that).
The Roomba algorithm is roughly:

- 1. Go in an increasing spiral until you hit something.

- 2. Wall follow for a while.

- 3. Turn away from the wall and go a few meters.

- 4. Go to step 1.
Could you recommend any? At our workshop we use Startech's but I recall them being way costlier than 15 bucks.
It might be interesting to use the word frequency of the target language as some sort of weight for each word, or maybe as a multiplier for the number of times that word will get pushed to the back of the queue, i.e. the words with the most frequency get to be repeated more than 1 time when pushed to the back, or something like that.
I almost choked on my coffee before I understood this was written in jest :) Well done!

More seriously one historic contributing factor was probably that Finland had small, local monopolies that provided services locally and each had both local owners and local pride. There wasn't just one large state monopoly as in most other countries. Later competition blossomed quite well once the monopolies were removed.
This seems very hindsight driven to me. I didn't realize how powerful the internet could be for news until Di died and I heard about it online something like a half hour before my parents confirmed it on TV. My mother didn't trust the internet for film information until imdb had existed for many years, still relying on yearly Leonard Maltin books all the time.

Obviousness doesn't tend to come until something compels it. But in the meantime, people who recognize it before others do are working to profit off that difference.
Not really working as expected :(
Exactly, that's the part i don't understand yet...

Why doesn't Apple create a mechanism which "only allows updates to be applied after the correct pin is entered"?
Then, an update created by the FBI, which would disable security mechanisms, could not be installed (without knowing the correct pin).
Unfortunately there isn't room, since titles are limited to 80 chars on HN.
> If you do need to back out a feature, how would you do it on a rebased, fast-forward merge?

I've never been on a team where we fast-forward-merged multiple commits as a feature. (I'm sure it happens, but I can't see it working well.) What I have seen is fast-forward-merging a single commit (which is equivalent to a cherry-pick, at that point), after using git rebase to squash the feature branch into one single atomic commit and rebasing that commit against master in preparation for mainlining.

Then, you'll never have merge conflicts (if you do, you didn't rebase against master properly prior to the merge), and if we need to revert a feature, the feature lives in master as a single commit.
True, and that's a good way of putting it.
All that dust has now covered up the 'a' and 'e' on the lander. One day Phil will come back looking for the creator.
> Why do Western leaders generally lack STEM degrees?

Because STEM degrees don't give one any insight into governing people.

> Why should the US be ruled by lawyers?

Politicians make laws. Lawyers know the law. Seems like a good fit.
Mathematics on a Distant Planet – Richard Hamming (1998) [pdf]
In this new world of sub 3% growth, Austin is lucky to have this problem. The only thing worse than getting pushed out of an area because of it's success, is no success at all--especially for a younger generation who just wants to make a go life. There are boom towns in every generation.
Yeah this frightens me too :) and things like rowhammer [0] are surprising in this regard. Nothing can be trusted, but you can have a little more faith in some things.

[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Row_hammer
I don't think I've failed to understand common core, but you have misread my comment.

How can you claim that I would support requiring a full sentence answer, when I already said "I always asserted that the answer is 6, not 6 miles, since the unit is given in the question."?

I understand the common core requires full sentence answers (among other things) and I think this is wrong. I will repeat my reason. Math is not a different domain to ordinary reasoning, and word problems are not different to ordinary questions. So if "How many miles..." can be answered with "6" as a question in the English language (which it always can) then, "6" is a valid answer in the context of a math question. Requiring more, or accepting less (e.g. by accepting "6" as an answer to "How far..."), is obscuring the nature of math.

Note this isn't an argument against showing work, but it is an argument that, in general, any valid reasoning should be accepted as showing work. The particular method should not be prescribed. But that is a less important point.
I bet you he's wrong and I intend to prove it.
It's not clear. A reddit comment by one of the self proclaimed perpetrators says he was paid in order to DDOS nodes with classic in the user agent string. At the same time employees of Blockstream (aka: members of Bitcoin Core's dev team) deny that there are any DDOS attacks taking place[1]. It wouldn't surprise me if Blockstream was somehow behind this but no one is going to publicly admit to such an obviously illegal act.

[0]http://www.blockcy.com/bitcoin-classic-nodes-under-ddos-atta...
[1]https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4835fp/blockstreamgmax...
That first one is good and we'll use it. Thanks!
Show HN: This is a very pleasant pineapple
TODO Group Abandons Open Code of Conduct
Core: No changes to block size in the short term.

Classic: Implement 2MB blocks ASAP
Usually the people are also free to leave whenever, which is not so much the case for the animals.
Gold is very dense. There are physical constraints making it difficult to transact large amounts of it.

Even though humans can constrain the transaction throughput of bitcoin, bitcoins or other crypto currency, will probably, eventually, converge on a solution where the possible tx rate is far larger than we can use. Tx rate limiting won't be a feature of any crypto coin that survives. You're just observing the effects of imperfect initial engineering. I wouldn't draw broad conclusions about the impossibility of successful cryptocurrencies based on this current limitation.
Can't help but think of https://xkcd.com/927/ ;)

Not sure if standards like this can prevent bikeshedding. You can always bikeshed about the need to stick to any particular standard. One counterexample to what I'm saying may be one standard Go language formatting with gofmt but that was introduced very early on and became a part of the culture. Too late for that with JSON APIs.
> Only miners get a vote, because they validate all blocks.

No, everyone validates all blocks. (Or at least they theoretically should.) Otherwise you could get miners lying about whether they've validated a block. Changing the Bitcoin protocol is essentially creating an altcoin - the only difference is that the money distribution is "pre-seeded" with everything that's happened on the Bitcoin network so far. If all users move along, the altcoin succeeds and the "original" Bitcoin fails.

If everyone except the current miners decided to follow new rules, the miners would be forced to follow - there's not much point mining a currency which nobody will accept in exchange for goods, services or other currency.
I'm talking about Chinese people in China during my parents' generation.

Are you thinking of Asian stereotypes in America?
Also prior art: the Nemesis operating system. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/projects/archive/...

Nemesis has a single address space and memory protection: you can twiddle the permission bits in MMUs without necessarily incurring the cost of a TLB flush.

A unikernel system is usually a single-application system with no local multiuser capability; security is applied at the virtualisation layer and within the application. This is quite different from the traditional timesharing model.
That's only if that distribution channel is your only access to the customer. If you have other alternatives, you can (and often will) still win.

Google Videos vs YouTube. Orkut vs Facebook vs Google+. Facebook status messages vs Twitter. Google Offers vs Groupon. Google Flights vs Kayak or Hipmunk. iMessage vs Whatsapp. Google Local vs Yelp.

There're plenty of examples where the big company came out with a competitor (often getting to market first, eg Google Video or Orkut), stuffed it through the distribution channel, but lost to a startup that nailed the user experience. Having a big channel doesn't matter if your conversion rate sucks.
This sounds a little like someone I used to know. Can you say more about how her personality came to light? Any little red flags your friend initially tried to ignore?
i should think you could grok from my comment that i'm on board for your two points

why explain away the comic as just being an example but then confront the comment as being unaware?

why did i use 4 word 'slots' instead of diceware's suggested 6 minimum? because the comic did and that was referenced in the gp

why did i use 1000 words instead of diceware's 7776? because the number of words is arbitrary for an explanation, and, as i stated, i was playfully referencing, and intentionally promoting, more of randall's work

your comment fails to negate anything in my explanation, which was meant as a means of explaining how to think about these things

what the effectiveness of the ga cracking repo shows is that people are using even less possible words than dice's 7776 or randall's 1000

and the concluding statements that more variety with less patterns equates to better security stands

> The complete list contains 7776 short words, abbreviations and easy-to-remember character strings. The average length of each word is about 4.2 characters(o)

i'll be kind and round that 4.2 up to 5

> Diceware suggests using 6 words for minimum

so we are looking at 6 words of 5 characters.. 30 total characters

let's compare diceware to individual characters:

~220000000000000000000000+ = 7776**6 : diceware with 6 word minimum
~800000000000000000000000000000000000000000+ = 7776**10 : diceware with 10 words
~2800000000000000000000000000000000000000000000+ = 26**30 : english alphabet, 30 characters

>what this is showing you, is that anything that makes things easier for you also will make things easier for a cracker

(o) http://world.std.com/~reinhold/diceware.html
The whole series of article from Junio C. Hamano, and in particular "Fun with merges and purposes of branches" (http://gitster.livejournal.com/42247.html) are full of good advices regarding how to use branches, merging and rebasing.
Spell Correction in Search Engines – Algorithms and Strategiess
In this blog post main focus is to talk about a specific type of error that is more common in apps called fat-finger error and how we could use it strategically to improve speller accuracy.

https://prdeepakbabu.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/spelling-correction-in-search-engines-algorithms-strategies/
Right. It's a lot like deciding to set out on a risky mountaineering expedition where success is determined only by reaching the summit. Along the way, there are numerous pitfalls that can be your undoing regardless of your level of preparation. However, adversarial, abusive, non-cooperative overlords can make it arbitrarily hard, and even impossible, for you to succeed. They get to define what "summit" means and they can move the goalposts at a moment's notice. There is no recourse for you, and there is no oversight.

Playing the game without having benevolent overlords is a fool's errand, but many people do not learn this until it is too late.

One of the most important lessons that can be taken away from grad school [1]: "If you compete, never leave your fate in the hands of the judges. In regular life, never leave your fate in the hands of other people."

[1] https://www.t-nation.com/powerful-words/4-things-you-can-lea...
> Not used in bigger projects or companies

I don't agree with this statement. I can name a lot of companies that use PHP. Yelp, Facebook (HHVM now), Wikipedia, WordPress. Those are huge projects and companies.
https://prdeepakbabu.wordpress.com/2016/02/29/spelling-corre...
Well, just 400 days ago it was down and didn't get back up for at least 200 days. I thought it was gone and am glad it was reposted.
Are you really claiming that there hasn't been any censorship in the Bitcoin subreddit? If I remember correctly, even gmaxwell has himself said in Reddit that he has found Theymos' censorship excessive.
One thing I personally found useful was f.lux - an OS X app that changes the temperature of your screen when it gets dark outside. Sounds trivial but makes a huge difference.
ECMAScript 2016 Language
> Not used in bigger projects or companies

Uhhh Facebook, Wikipedia, Baidu, Flickr, iStockPhoto, Tumblr, and Mailchimp?
You sure love to bash on China. It seems like are your submissions/comments are anti-China.
> "NO, you will still do basic things in PHP, fill form, submit, store, display or do a boring API"

The "basics things" power a lot of projects in today's tech world.
E.g. Twitter is about filling a tweet form, submit, store the tweet and display tweets. It also provides a boring API.

Not every company sends humans into space.
My Tracks no longer available after April 30, 2016
C++17 content (a prediction)
> In Asia its like 1998

I can't speak such a broad generalization, but I noticed a learning curve/ trajectory of how people perceive opportunity online and the ideas they get excited about. It seems to depend when someone truly dove into internet and used it for everyday needs.

I only have anecdotal evidence to this, but I really think that most follow are following the same trajectory/learning curve about opportunity online and people are currently in place across that curve. We still have fewer than half the world online, and billions who are using the internet today the way we used it in 1994.

This is my theory for why old school domainers stopped buying domain names for a premium in 2007, and yet there are still people today paying a ridiculous amount of money for domain names, and thousands more investing in them like it's still a gold rush. That gravy train seemed to dry up in the last decade, yet somehow new people enter the market and fall in love. I bet there are still penny auctions making money and daily deal sites emerging, despite those trends passing years and years ago.

Those on the cutting edge need to remember that they don't reflect the bulk of the world, there is lagging opportunity for at least a decade in every space that seems to be owned.
Automatic, imgur, Yahoo (owns flickr) also come to mind
New Cycles [Rendering] Benchmark
It depends what you mean by hard to use. If it's an obsure architecture for which assembler, compiler, linker, the whole toolchain is not easily available, then the difficulty has nothing to do with the high core count.

Also I'm not sure why a simpler core (note: simple architecture not slower core) would be so slow that it would be unusable. I mean such cores are called "speed demon" for a reason I assume.

I personally would love to see 256-core 64-bit ARM-compatible becoming mainstream (by compatible I mean take the ARM instruction set and reduce it in half or a quarter).
Videodigest – Generate summarized versions of videos
It's relative to the value of the land though. The value of the small area your skyscraper occupies in downtown Manhattan or wherever is probably extremely valuable. Thus, high land taxes to be split among the occupants. It's hard to say whether your tax burden would go up or down without hard numbers, though.
If you follow any of the posts in /r/btc you will find people frequently posting before and after screen shots of their censored posts advocating for a block size increase or an alternative node implementation such as classic.

There was also a post talking about how Theymos went to great lengths to modify the CSS for the /r/bitcoin sub in order to reorder the comment threads and make it appear as if posts from certain users are highly up voted when they are in fact heavily down voted.

I'm aware that Theymos isn't a direct employee for Blockstream. That doesn't mean he isn't receiving financial compensation or some sort of other quid pro quo for supporting the Blockstream agenda.

"This could be trivially verified by searching "site:reddit.com/r/bitcoin block size XT classic"

I'm sure that will return a lot of results of people trashing any increase in blocksize and saying negative things about alternative node implementations those kinds of comments are encouraged and promoted.

Edit: since you are a moderator of the bitcoin-dev mailing list you are probably also aware that there is censorship going on in that forum as well...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/44nzxt/continued_censo...
Your viewpoint was not uncommon in older SF, like the Eternals in Zardoz, the Spacers of Asimov, or under the Instrumentality of Mankind of Cordwainer Smith.

You might start by considering how Banks, Niven, Stross, and others have managed to write novels about a post-scarcity future.

I have two observations. First, few novels are written about "typically Joe"s doing typical things in typical situations. The Culture novels have minor characters whose lives concern social standing, who is sleeping with whom, and parties. The main characters are usually special, sometime literally as members of 'Special Circumstances'.

Second, post-scarcity doesn't mean everything will be plentiful. Each human will not be able to be Dictator of the Universe, for example. Plenty of things will be rare for the foreseeable future, like travel to Mars. Plus, humans have a way of valuing "realness". Some people are willing to pay much more for a piece of clothing that famous person X owned than an otherwise identical piece of clothing.

As I mentioned with Banks, social standing is not easily purchased - post-scarcity doesn't mean you have 10,000 admirers, or get invited to all the good parties, or even that people recognize you and wave hello when you walk down the street. Emotional conflicts are still conflicts.

There will still be strong conflicts about aesthetics, law, religion, art, sports, and science, and more. In a post-scarcity world, is abortion legal or illegal? What about suicide, murder, or rape? Taking a crap on the street corners? SWAT-ting?

There will still be religious schisms. There will be fierce rap battles and poetry slams. There will be travel and extreme adventures. Or will no one care about Manchester United's game against Real Madrid, and no one will play the sports? If so, will everyone watch re-runs or will all new content be synthetically generated?

Science is driven in part by prestige. You need only look at the recent CRISPR stories to learn that. Being the first to do X, or think of Y, will always be scarce.

You need only to look at rich people to see that plenty of people who have the money and don't need to work, still work. This includes the children of the rich, derisively termed "trust fund babies", who have no need to work but still do so.

If people are happy and the economics are self-sustaining, then I see no problem with 20% of the population spending their lives on social welfare. Nor does being on social welfare mean everyone is in bed watching TV, or gossiping on the internet. There may also be a flowering of artistic expression, or a boom in amateur athletics, or a repopulation of the rural areas, or any number of other enjoyable, socially acceptable, but non-remunerative and non-GDP-influencing practices.

If you had a guaranteed yearly income of 100000 EUR, would you veg in front of the TV all day? I wouldn't.
Religious argument. Anyone who says something like this doesn't have very deep dev experience under their belt.

No matter what language you use core concepts are incredibly similar.

Many huge projects use php.

Laravel is a framework just as beautiful as ruby.