skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The demand for a free replicated database is virtually infinite. Space on blockchain would not be abundant at any blocksize.

but "blockchain" is not (only) bitcoin's blockchain, anyone can make one and can validate and replicate it with any group of collaborators or adversaries.

I can't understand the second point, it would help me if you could explain what you mean for a simple person like me :)
Yes, I've encountered this argument. Are you aware of the legal trouble a school misrepresenting its numbers would be open to?

It's extremely useful to include self-reported salaries and hiring stats. That's actually one of the key pieces of information I myself was looking at. List the stat and link to or summarize or link to their explanation of how it was calculated.

As for your own independent surveys, they are almost certainly far less accurate than that of the schools themselves. Considering the effects of selection bias on top of those of the small sample size you mentioned before I suspect they're essentially useless for someone making a decision.

Similarly, what good are "overall stats" that average the results of random respondents from world class institutions, low-end operations, experiments and all kinds of other projects? It would be kind of like looking at "overall stats" for a bucket of participating businesses who had taken money from YC, Techstars, unknown funds, crowdfunding, banks or their parents. That would yield some data, but the data wouldn't be useful for an entrepreneur actually considering taking on funding.

I don't think bootcamp review sites (except possibly Yelp) "help guide the conversation". I think they tend to mask the huge gulf between the several schools that a fantastic investment and the many more that aren't.
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It's been posted elsewhere in this thread, but: https://medium.com/@octskyward/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10905118
I think Altair and IBM PC both was at least original designs, but neither were they particularly good designs either. Unfortunately I think ANSI/ISO and other standard committees was probably poorly suited to setting standards in this area. The right way back then would probably be to design a reference system and release schematics and other design information.
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Nobody, and I didn't assume it until I'd found counter-examples for four of the choices and couldn't find any for the fifth.

Edit: And yes, I know the inability to find counter-examples to something doesn't necessarily mean it's true.
This sounds similar to kernel debugging- is that what you have in mind? Windows (the OS I'm most familiar with) has a couple different styles of kernel debugging, which allows you to introspect various levels of system state:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/hh...
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The challenge is that the rules are only legitimized by the clients choosing to follow them. You can't launch new rules until at least 50% of clients by weight are following those rules. There is no way for the ruleset to somehow disable or ignore a misbehaving client, you need consensus.
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This story is a beautiful case study of how a pure libertarian democratic community gets what it deserves, no better and no worse.
Core duo netbook with 4GB RAM and 5400 RPM hard disk.

I can assure you it really does take 4 hours.

And to bring the point home, I can link you to the Swift issue where I was discussing this matter.
There's additional friction in the fact that it's virtually impossible to find anything (of value) in the App Store and there is no way to know before paying for an app whether it will work as advertised and/or deliver any value.

'It's only the price of a cup of coffee" does not fly after you've paid for 10 media player apps, none of which fully work or are stable.
BitcoinClassic has to do what LibreOffice has done first. Write more code, have more active developers, fix more bugs - be the better community for new developers etc. So far none of this happened.
Here's an idea: undertake tort reform, don't allow corporate shields to exist that allow for shell companies like this one, and fix the very broken patent system.

I'm certain that all three things can be done in parallel.
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I don't understand how you make the leap from "The Bitcoin Core people convinced them that X is true" to "The Chinese are stupid and got conned".

This is a difference of opinion between the Core and Classic teams, and both sides have money at stake. That doesn't have to mean that one side is lying and cheating.
Honestly, this feels like a bait and switch that is mainly trying to convince people to donate more to charity and be more altruistic rather than "help make career decisions". If you want to convince people to give more, that's great, but be up front about it.
in a system when you generate currency from nothing, this
is true. But if you use currency as an actual IOUs, you
would need to generate value to generate currency, and
thus, if you were to hoard currency, you are providing
value to the economy for nothing in return, which is a
good thing.

If it were possible to credit processing power dedicated to systems like folding@home or BOINC than I imagine that would be an ideal cryptocoin contender.
Sorry, are you implying that Satoshi's intent all along was to set up a ponzi scheme, so the current state of affairs is intended?

If so, okay. I mean, I don't find that especially implausible? But if so, that's also really depressing.
A core duo isn't even in the realm of mid-range. That's very nearly a 10 year old processor!
Probably the naval architects who designed the barge are well-aware of underway replenishment procedures and know perfectly well how to connect two vessels underway. And probably asked the rocket scientists about some of these issues before drawing up the barge. Because, selling an unrep solution is going to cover a really nice year end bonus. The raw steel would cost more than half your lifetime earnings.
Absolutely. James Watt didn't invent steam engine but came up with an innovative design that gave him a big advantage. He based this on other, unpatented, technologies. Then he sued the living day lights out of all his competitors and if argue prevented innovation for years.
I'm fascinated by the use of random word combinations instead of a random alphanumeric sequence for passing a unique URL.

What was the reasoning behind this decision?
On one hand, it sort of acts like a phonetic alphabet if you want to read out the URL over skype.
But on the other hand - is OberonNostalgicCeciliaVoltage really that easy to spell if you aren't a native English speaker?
These are 1000 Wh/kg while lithium batteries are 100–265 Wh/kg.
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So... Twitter?
Right, this would just make the difference explicit: given a good spec for defining the rulesets, a client would be able to just give a drop-down for which ruleset to follow (or allow you to point the client at your own by URL, etc.)
If it does not heat when short-circuited (as stated), where does the energy go? Does it only change the chemical structure of the battery, or what?
The problem Bitcoin is facing is not so much the technical question of what blocksize would be best. It's a war about who is in the drivers seat. The current developers of Core want to turn Bitcoin into what they call a "settlement layer" and end its original function as a payment system. Then they want to build new services on top of this "settlement layer". Most (all?) of them are organized in a company called "Blockstream" that received $73 millions in funding to build these new layers. This turns away the original crowd of hackers who liked Bitcoin in the early days. The hackers and users want to keep the original vision of a "Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" as outlined in the original Bitcoin Paper:

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Also check the discussion about this on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/48zggz/a_behind...
Yeah the OP specifically called out open-ness as being a dealbreaker for the Javelin Stamp. I never used Basic Stamp, but from what I can figure, it didn't have ADCs by default, which is a huge deal. Even now people who are slapping an Arduino on top of Raspberry Pi because its the simplest way to get a few ADCs for sensor input. Cost also seems to have been an issue, and a big RS-232 port probably gave the impression of obsolescence.

Being readily available for Mac doesn't hurt for the design/art crowd either- Wikipedia suggests that Basic Stamp didnt have first-party Mac support? Also looking visually similar to Processing (both the IDE and the code style) eases the switchover for people who are new to coding. Ive heard Arduino described as "Processing for Hardware" which is a bit of a stretch in a technical sense, but perhaps exactly correct in a spiritual sense.
That's neither obvious from your post, nor is it even valid in this context.
Inflation is good because it incentivizes people to spend money on things of real value (creating valuable goods and services, possibly durable goods for storage) instead of everyone sitting on cash for decades, being non-productive, and then trying to pay each other for---nothing, because there is nothing to buy.

Over time, there is always going to be some level of inflation, if there is more money than value. A stable annual rate (US Fed targets 2%/yr) is better than 0,0,0,0,100%,1000%.
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I don't know if you're being facetious, but I meant my comment relative to anti-government ideologies.
Yeah, this particular mess has been exacerbated by Reddit being a terrible technical discussion forum, and it's tendacy to "hivemind".

Also your history forgot "Bitcoin Unlimited", a fork which had a brief stint of popularity between Bitcoin XT and Bitcoin Classic. IMO it's the worst technical design of the three - it simply fails to enforce the block size limit, which would lead to very high orphan rates if miners started to adopt it. The other two had miner voting systems to avoid this problem.

The best technical discussion tends to happen on IRC, for those who want to ask questions and not deal with Reddit.
Authority in Bitcoin comes from hashing power not by credentials or anything else. Go and convince the Chinese mining pools to adopt someone's fork. These are the guys spending >$50k a month on electricity and millions of dollars in mining gear. You can also go start collecting Dogecoin or Ethereum or start your own crypto currency. Nobel Prize winner F.A Hayek in his book "The Denationalization of Money" suggested that in the future there should be multiple competing currencies anyway, not one uber currency to rule them all.
Great input, thank you so much for the links. I will try to get them to work and publish the results. Same with Keras and LSTMs, very curious to see those.
In addition to the easy to install, easy to use IDE, I'd say the real innovation was a standard, idiot-proof way of programming the AVR with a well known bootloader.

From back when I was working on AVRs at university (2003-2004), I remember there were a ton of programming settings to choose from, different ways to program it (SPI, parallel), and you could easily screw up something if you set the wrong fuses, used the wrong oscillator frequency etc. All of this complexity was taken away by Wiring / Arduino, so you could focus on your project without digging through datasheets.

So the simplified IDE and social aspect was only part of the story.
If you hoard currency that is managed by a central authority, then other people can't obtain currency for their productivity, and thus can't consume market goods. (This is essentially what caused the Great Depression: wealthy people hoovering and hoarding currency, poor people getting no income and spending)

If you allow anyone to create currency by creating IOUs to buy stuff (which sellers can choose to accept), and you mean that the sellers create and accept that currency, then yes, hoarding is not much problem for overall society, until and unless the day when past hoarders rush to market at the same time (when they run out of durable goods or other income) causing sudden inflation.
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Is this article another "polarization tactic" because it definitely isn't a sock-puppet account
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There is a proposal to make it slightly harder to troll called the "Innovation Act." You can look it up on http://thomas.loc.gov

IT has not passed.
Bitcoin has mining centralization problem due to following phenomena, bigger blocks increase it further & will kill bitcoin in long-term:

1. The median propagation time is comparable for various locations[0] & mostly a factor of blocksize. Article[1]. Or you could watch the scaling bitcoin conference videos on youtube.

2. Mining variance[3]

[0]https://research.tradeblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/P...
[1]https://tradeblock.com/blog/bitcoin-network-capacity-analysi...
[3]https://medium.com/@lmgoodman/why-mining-variance-matters-80...
Yes, that's how most people use PayPal I'd imagine, certainly I never keep any money there.

The point being made is that your CC transaction is still with PayPal, so if you chargeback they might ban you from the service.
Well, Bitcoin is even less democratic than that - all of the rules were set by only one person, Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin Core has since added additional constraints (which get voted on by miners), but has only in one case ever relaxed any constraints (a fix to a database bug, which was universally uncontroversial).
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I think that might just be selection bias. For example, you rarely hear anything positive about the middle east. This is not because nothing positive happens there, but because news space/time is limited and conflicts are intrinsically more interresting.

Similarly, if you follow HN, Twitter and Reddit, you can only see a subset of the news and events happening. Because conflicts are more interresting, they are the only BTC news that gets pushed into your visibility.
Someone actually created something like that using proof-of-stake (proof of controlling Bitcoins): http://bitcoinocracy.com/
> i have no trouble running X on a "weak" computer.

Well, obviously, your "weak" computer is powerful enough to handle X. Remember that not all computers are desktops, laptops, or phones. We have Linux running on industrial PLC's, CNC machines, and so many other things that are not thought of as "computers". There are buyers of these at even extremely low price-points, so it's not uncommon to host everything on one processor.

> Frankly, the very thought that X is bloated seem insane

Quit the empty snark. Have you actually compared X and VNC for remote access? Try running Firefox from a remote desktop. To understand what's going on, watch the talk I linked to in my previous comment.
Nicely done. I'm myself toying with webrtc and remote pair programming, so I think this is really cool.

One question: before beginning the session I got a "popup" claiming that the session is encrypted, does it just mean it's https or are you doing any other encryption?
What the heck are you talking about? The bitcoin core repo accepts contributions from any and all. There are new developers showing up all the time.
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This is an article by a polarized person who was easy to polarize because https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11228638
They have been split up. Bitcoin Core now builds a separate library, libbitcoinconsensus.
First, private investors often have what would amounts to insider information if the company was public. Investors who are close to the company can take advantage of information asymmetries. Second, if you're a private fund then you have more freedom to value your own investments annually. Compare that to public markets where investors may start asking for redemptions after a bad week and a 10% decline. Private capital is more patient. Third, private markets are the new public markets. No one wants to go public and deal with the regulations and short term market jitters. If you can access capital in the private markets you'll do it as long as you can. I expect liquidity in private markets will greatly improve, if so we could see significantly more capital enter the space.
The goal is not mass adoption. The goal is nonpolitical money.
One big source of "economist technology" that doesn't get talked about a lot is the dramatically improved quality of automobiles compared to 30 years ago. When I was a kid, the family Toyota was always needing an oil change, or breaking down, needing to go in for a muffler job, etc., requiring my parents to take time out of their lives to sit in a Jiffy Lube while they replaced the muffler. Now you can basically drive the things for 150,000 miles doing a few scheduled maintenance jobs.
There is too much obstructionism to develop new housing. The pace of development is actually quite slow.
How to know when to believe this?
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The /r/bitcoin subreddit is not bitcoin.
There are much more than five Bitcoin Core developers.
> attempt to establish a basis for strangers to trust one another

That's a perfect problem description for a new business. Existing reputation systems don't do it well, but then again, search engines before Google didn't do search well.
You wouldn't necessarily need only 1/4 the drivers. The reduction in prices would increase demand for transportation by some amount. If that amount is less than 4x, you would see an industry employment decrease, but if it was more than 4x, you would see it increase, just like how auto industry employment increased as cars were able to be made for cheaper and cheaper prices.
Google already does something a little like this with Google plus pages. Let's say someone google's for my website name, and I have a Google plus page associated with it. If I have recently posted new content on my Google plus page, this post is displayed in the top right hand side of the Google search results.

I wonder if these new posts will appear in the same place or actually embedded in the main results.
That's exactly what I do, and that's what I'm suggesting. Developers should read the docs, spin up a chain on their laptops, and build cool stuff.
I think the story here is that it is much better to do business in the web space where the user pays monthly, her data is stored (locked?) in the cloud and she can be costantly upsold features. Compared to the desktop space, where the user pays a one-off price, stores her data locally and in general does not update her software.
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Am i the only one thinking that doing a simple compile is something that should be handled fully by the compiler and not the build tool. The compiler should automatically detect which files are being #included and allow for incremental compile based on this. The Typescript and SASS compilers are good examples of this, you just invoke it like 'tsc main.ts --watch' and it will automatically know that main.ts included other files and these will also be watched.

If your compiler does not support this, the only way to build a proper dependency tree is 1. if the compiler can generate one in a standard format (gcc -MMd), 2. your buildtool knows as much about the language as the compiler does, 3. you write the dependency tree manually.

1. Is bad because it requires the compiler to support generating a wide range of dependency-graph formats, or every build tool must support the make syntax.

2. Is bad because the build-tool becomes one massive monolith and there is no way they can reliably support every language in the world.

3. Is bad because humans are lazy and make mistakes.

For the build tool, this leaves it's responsibility to doing things before and after compilation (generating/preprocessing code, copy assests, run tests, deploy to staging), which usually means invoking arbiatry and custom shell-commands, the order of this is always so application-specific that #3 is inevitable. If doing these things are complicated, your build tool sucks, and sadly i found most build tools to fall into this category because they try #2 and want to be the center of the universe. Even doing a simple thing such as copying a file requires you to learn a new awkard xml-syntax, install the "copy-file-plugin" or write your own copy-file-plugin in the awkward syntax. What i would want is somthing with the simplicity of Gulp or Make, but with a bit more widespread syntax and more batteries included for file-manipulation, like Python would be perfect. Rake looks promising, maybe it makes it worth learning Ruby?
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> It's far from obvious that CO2 emissions from excavating millions of tons of sand and earth would be dwarfed by the savings in the transit emissions of high-tonnage freight ships...

According to numbers I found, an "average" bulldozer burns 4 gallons of diesel an hour, yielding an annual emission rate of around 66 tons. Let's assume for sake of easy math that other earthmoving equipment has a comparable enough emission rate that we can just call it the same. If it takes 10000 pieces of earthmoving equipment 10 years to dig a canal (a complete wild-assed guess, admittedly), that works out to 6.6 million tons of CO₂.

Per my previous comment, we'd established a long-way extra emissions rate of ~20000 tons (19.6k metric tons is 19.9 and small change thousand long tons; call it 20k for easy math) per ship, per trip.

Remember that, to calculate whether the canal is a "clear winner" in terms of emissions, we have to compare the emissions saved by ships using the canal, not the extra burned by ships that don't. At 17 and a half thousand ships in 2015, saving 20000 tons of emissions each, that's 350 million tons in 2015 alone — over fifty times our estimate of the emissions from constructing the canal.

Yes, it's WAG envelope math, but even if we up the estimate by an order of magnitude — 100000 pieces of equipment over 10 years, or 10000 pieces over 100 years, or however you want to factor it out — that's still a five-fold win, in just one year. On a canal that's been in operation for some 150 years.

So, yeah. Unless someone can offer better numbers than I have, I'm going to run with "clear winner", thanks.

All that aside, I'm not even going to attempt to rebut to your naïve optimism over technology and good ol' Team Humanity's problem-solving spirit coming along to save the day, or your blasé "Extinctions, shmextinctions" tone. They're, IMO, premised on beliefs so divergent from reality, they don't even warrant the effort.
Yeah i have seen it, and it was a whole lot of preaching to the choir and snark.

As for running a GUI on a PLC, wtf?

Then again, i should not be surprised. Wayland and the rest seems to have come out of the nuttier side of Nokia's Maemo project.