skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I know.

The point still stands. The point is that by accepting bitcoin, even if through a broker, Steam (an American company) now can reach a good number of people who are have nothing to do with the American Financial system.

The US may be the center of the world, but it is not the whole world. Bitcoin (or any thing that can be fungible and free of control by one central institution) can be used by anyone outside of this.
At least they're not acting like they're making "a more open and connected world."
I don't claim a project has to be an "official" Web standard to be a standard, but I'm seeing a hard time how this one is a standard in any meaningful sense.
Not discriminating against people not like you has absolutely nothing to do with "diversity for its own sake."

Honestly, if when I go in to interview with you, you're already having a mental narrative and discussion with yourself about "diversity candidates", I'd prefer you didn't get to know me. Just ask me technical questions, please; I'm begging for a whiteboard to get out of that. Or a different face to wear when I go to job interviews.
Can you recommend a good introductory book into the blockchain?
The thing that people need to realize about this 4K PS4, is that is just the up-converted output. There is NO WAY this new PS4 is rendering anything at a full 4K resolution. You need an extremely powerful desktop to handle such resolutions, even without post processing.

It's sad because Sony has made all the right moves this generation, completely crushing competitors, and now they attempt this incremental nonsense, which was the whole reason consoles were separate from PC's.
I'm not sure whether, in all the brouhaha over this lawsuit, anyone has paid much attention to the fan film around which it revolves. "Star Trek: Axanar" is currently in production for a mid-2016 release, and the short film/long trailer, "Prelude to Axanar", is a remarkable piece of work in its own right. Don't let the "fan film" label put you off, either; these are professionally produced works, with a compelling storyline and real actors (some of whom will be familiar to fans of the BSG reboot and/or Star Trek: Enterprise), and their take on the Star Trek universe should be a breath of fresh air for anyone frustrated with either Roddenberry's unrealistically optimistic perspective on humanity's future, or JJ Abrams' "lens flare all the things!" brodown.

If you're a Star Trek fan at all, you owe it to yourself to at least give Prelude to Axanar a watch: https://youtu.be/1W1_8IV8uhA

(And as an old Babylon 5 fan, I'm delighted they included a sly reference to that show in Prelude, too. See if you can catch it!)
Of course I did. They lied with "java".
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Use eslint if you are serious.
I mostly side with your thinking, yet the model the author describes does seem a lot more congruous with how we buy cell phones and tablets, and I've been impressed by how game makers have handled that fragmentation. If game makers can target 4-5 year old systems but offer bonuses (faster framerates, 4K compatibility, etc) to new systems, I can see a more phone-like release schedule working for consumers and content creators.
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As far as I know you can't make a purchase without having valid payment data. There might be a work around, but probably not via Bitcoin payments. Bitpay is definitely subject to KYC / AML compliance.
What's wrong with working at McDonald's? I worked there for a few years and I mostly enjoyed it, the only problem was the low pay. The restaurant I worked at was very well managed so we operated like a well oiled machine and our customers were happy.

But I don't believe myself to be above any job.
It may not directly feed your family, but it can certainly improve the world you live in and that includes your own private habitat. Small improvements might not be worth giving away because the effect on your life will be negligible, but bigger ones should be (at least once you've obtained financial independence through them, there's no longer a good excuse not to).
600+ comments already here.... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757
Maybe if I was using Python or Ruby. But JS? REALLY ugly practice. Multiple blank lines not allowed? I usually go with two to segment heavily procedural code. The most appalling thing by far though is spaces instead of tabs... what's wrong with this guy?
I'm pretty sure that a significant portion of programmers are night owls and don't like showing up before 10 AM.
This.

Calling this "JS standard!" bothers me to no end. I suppose I have to create my own style and call it "standard" too.
I think you're really stretching it by saying "many" bought the PS3 because it ran Linux. Many bought the PS3 because it played PS3 games, that's it. Linux on a desktop PC is only a couple percent if they are lucky, no way console people were anywhere near that.
Could you cite some examples? It seems that using the rest of the conventions might eliminate many, if not all, of them.
Thanks for pointing this out. The submitted title was "BA plane not actually hit by drone after all". Submitters: please use the original title except when it is misleading or linkbait. This is in the HN guidelines:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also,see C.D. CA.'s local civil rule 11 et seq for their format requirements. (FWIW, they're rather more detailed than is usual for other courts.)

http://www.cacd.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/documents/L...
Yeah, but I started with PHP I could just choose among many hosting companies for 5-10$/month and you get your shared space with unlimited domains, which was perfectly suited for my needs at that point. Of course as I learned more, Node and the such I needed better technology and that's why I moved to Heroku. So I'd love to see a "shared hosting for heroku" or similar. I think it will happen given some time, when the Node.js environment stabilizes more and more big players come.
You bring up a really interesting point. My partner does both project management and sound tech work. "I love it when the gigs go well, but good or bad, at the end of the night I get paid for the gig, I come home, and I don't ever have to think about it again if I don't want to."
Regarding the "no semicolon" stuff, is there actually any way to write this type of formatting

list.map(func1)
.filter(func2)
.map(func3)
.reduce(func4);

in JavaScript? As far as I know, the semicolon rules would automatically terminate the statement after map(func1).

EDIT: Ah, thanks – the things I read never mentioned JS doing lookahead during ASI. This makes it a lot nicer, tbh.
Dunno - you could get a used G Wiz. http://www.goingreen.co.uk/product/g-wiz-dc-midnight/

Costs almost nothing

Bit rubbish though
TIL I make less than a steelwork in 1975.
Actually I'm a Tunisian, so the TND will be useful in the long run as an investment. But that still prevents me from reinvesting it into the business i.e. buying more BTC.

One way is to simply buy BTC from local sellers who perhaps bring BTC from outside the country. They take a cut and I add a markup before selling it back.

But there's another advantage I have. I'm currently residing outside the country, and if I do setup the business it will be funded using outside money. Because the company is funded externally, I can actually transfer any revenue it generates outside of the country.

As for your last point, that is in fact my biggest concern. The government could easily close down the company and its bank accounts at its pleasure. To avoid this, I think the safest option is to go with a purely decentralized market that simply connects buyers with sellers, but that will make it much harder to take a cut.

Anyways, I'm still thinking about the whole thing, and as you noted, it's not that straightforward.
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Maybe this isn't a bad analogy. I'm sure you are aware that Linux is the most used consumer facing OS today (android). So sometimes these prophecies do come true, just almost never in the way you think in advance.
one semicolon to rule them all?
You forgot to link to it: https://youtu.be/1W1_8IV8uhA
I mean, eventually you've got to make decisions; you can't all just be writing with your own style (I've experienced that scenario and it really obscured meaningful changes to have tons of style changes in each commit)
Steam isn't holding coins in any case, it's Bitpay. They have probably figured this out.
> If I leave cash on the street should I expect it to be safe? Is that a deep security issue?

Exactly. This is why, where there are trusted and easy to access alternatives, people generally don't possess and carry around large amounts of cash.
This is HN, a community consisting mostly of middle-upper-class white males orbiting around SV.
This like the last couple of applications I have inherited. Layers and layers of complexity built into the application, which could be done in a couple of database calls. It means understanding the code takes way longer than it should, and difficult to redactor, as all the extra layers add complexity and little more.
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I get 1500 pounds net per month in Warsaw with 2 years of experience. For London (according to numbeo.com) I would have to make at least 4500 pounds net to have comparable lifestyle. That's 80k pounds per year before taxes - AFAIK not feasible for someone with my experience.
Ok, we added "proposed". If someone suggests a better title we can change it again. If more prefixes are required I suggest "one" and "possible".
this is really great.
600+ comments already here... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579757
As I said, "more car use" - I.e. More passenger miles - but you can still paradoxically have less traffic volume, as journies become more efficient but more importantly as freight becomes more efficient.

Re: the personal space bit... Not so sure. Many of the "younger" generation spurn car ownership so have no sunk costs, no personal space to lose. For the rest, it's going to be a question of marginal utility - and the fact that many car owners will get a train preferably where possible suggests that there is a case for non-ownership.

I mean, ten years ago your man on the street would have found it inconceivable that they would own no movies, no albums, that they'd just rent them - yet here we are.

Behaviour changes quickly when it starts, but slowly enough that you don't notice the change until after the event.
That's a nice idea, but would never work in reality. People want to know things. When an explosion happens people are going to watch the TV network with sources that can confirm off the record what happened, even though they don't "know it is true".

Unless you're going to pass a law requiring all news organizations to behave this way (and when did government control of news ever go bad?) it's never going to happen.
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They address this directly - the only edge case with omiting semicolons is starting lines with ( or [ and they check this for you. See: https://github.com/feross/standard/blob/master/RULES.md#semi...
I am well aware that we are in the minority when it comes to preferring tabs over spaces in JS, but, as useless as this decision is, I will fight over it the street.

It's misplaced passion and I don't care.
Go sell the shit out of your service to other companies until their partnership isn't your primary source of income.
People are already complaining that the code isn't Rube Goldberg enough as it is, and you want to simplify it even further?! :)
You're right but I am just that lazy sometimes.
There's ESLint config available too: https://github.com/feross/eslint-config-standard (and a React flavor for it too under eslint-config-standard-react)
The Internet scaled by adding users and nodes. Bitcoin's transaction limit is coded into the protocol.
A prog by any other name
Wow.. I feel super provoked by the question "What's cool about you?". I wonder why..
http://xkcd.com/927/
It kills me how time and again Wolfram writes self-aggrandizing, egotistical articles filled with glib little self-promotional asides, yet so many people seem to jump in to defend him.

The Ada Lovelace article he wrote a while back was really egregious, littering it with comparisons to his Wolfram products, talking about how he had seen further than Babbage because of his cellular automata work. Ugh. So detestable.

Every time there is a Wolfram post, people rightfully point out his pedantic and self-selling attitude, then other people either argue they didn't perceive it that way, or that they are tired of hearing about it and prefer to bash the people doing the important work of calling Wolfram on it instead of bashing Wolfram himself for it.

I'd go further and argue that "What if Ramanujan had had Mathematica?" is ludicrous to appear in an essay like this. It's obviously meant to privilege Wolfram's own products and position them as if they could empower productive and once-in-a-lifetime talented mathematicians, when really few such people would get value from a tool like Mathematica, and who is to say that Ramanujan wouldn't be a supporter of FOSS and boisterously argue that no one should use Mathematica and instead use FOSS tools that approximate it?

It's not reasonable to defend Wolfram on this account by saying of course he will promote his own products, or that he could have promoted them even more but chose not to. That's not reasonable because he is setting out to write a historical essay, not a puff piece, it's not about him or his products. Shoehorning them in has no place and it's not forgivable just because "people plug their own products" or something. If you want to plug your products, write a puff piece about your products, not a historical essay.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11579334
Weak Key Derivation in OpenSSL
The use of setTimeout makes this an animation, not a chain of events.
put it in a stack then take it back out, first in last out.
A polyglot's guide to multiple dispatch – part 4
Correct, and it's time for HN to let go of it. Think of it as a test for this community: can we focus on what's interesting in what the man says and resist being trolled by the rest.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=wolfram%20derangement%20syndro...
I used to like tabs. Then you have a person or two with different tab widths, and some spaces get mixed in, and the beauty of the idea flies out of the window. I've been all spaces for a long time now.
>>The only measure of success here is how much people do or do not use it.

No, that's your only measure of success. In order for Bitcoin to succeed as a viable payment platform, businesses also need to adopt it wholly, which means actually conducting business in Bitcoin rather than converting it to a "real" currency as soon as possible.

Basically, if they are treating it as hot potato, that means they see it as too unstable and risky.
The more customers we have, more trees we plant
Such an interesting premise, such a flawed assumption...

An electric car shares most of its parts with a gas one, so you can't expect any savings from economies of scale there. Going back to the Model T for the cost curve is just laughable.
One (more) standard to rule them all.
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Reposts are fine if a story hasn't had attention yet, and it's stories like this that that rule exists for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Seems like the necessity is simply that the average CO2/joule needs to be lower than a car's ICEs.

It's certainly not zero right now, but we're up to 11% hydro/solar/wind[0], so it seems like it likely is cleaner, and it's getting better at a faster rate than ICEs are.

0[] https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.cfm?id=427&t=3
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transliteration: “not Qam ghu'vam, loD!” See also Lebowski,
Jeffrey., THE BIG LEBOWSKI, 1998.
I worked a manual labor job (installing industrial epoxy flooring). I distinctly remember being too tired to go to a friend's barbecue on a Friday after working a job 9 days straight, and dust boogers can surely not be a healthy indicator. I'm not sure it's something I'd want to do for years on end (I worked it as a summer job during college), but there's something to be said about the satisfaction. There's less stress involved on a day to day basis. Nearly every day you go home tired, but satisfied you did something tangible. Only very rarely did things go wrong to the point where little or negative progress was made on a project- which I don't find to be the case in software. Seeing a 60,000sqft floor I'd help complete turn out perfect after sweating for a week is comparable to solving a particularly vexing bug, only more tangible. And I made about the same amount as a union laborer as I did in my first developer job.
This is great, but I don't like the space between function names and arguments.

I'm going to fork this and create my own standard...
That's fine in JavaScript and will work as expected.
It depends on the engine, but most, when parsing, will look-ahead and see that `.` in `.filter(func2)` is an invalid start to an expression and assume it is part of the previous line.
lol. Did you even read it?
I agree. The number of spaces for indentation is completely irrelevant in a style guide as it can be configured in the editor on a personal basis.
I guess the problem is you need it infrequently but when you do need it it is really helpful to know.
I've also bought some TF2 hats with bitcoin. Now we just need some things that are less addictive :/
Your use "never not" is confusing; meaning to me, "I'm always going to use Bitcoin in the future, and never going to use anything else to buy on Steam." - would be more clear.
Yes, but it seems that they didn't extend the same trust to the rest of the team. There surely would have been other people on the team who could have told them that the product was not headed in a good direction if they had just been asked how they felt it was going.
Why sadly? It's good that people vigorously and relentlessly call out Wolfram on the same self-aggrandizing, self-promotional shit that he spews into every article. Even better that it helps highlight the ways he degrades the quality of his own (otherwise good and useful) writing by pumping it in, just as in the Ada Lovelace article too.

Personally, as long as Wolfram keeps doing this, I always hope to see a giant wall of comments deriding him for it every single time it gets shared here or anywhere. It's uplifting to see such a large number of community members recognize his bullshit and call it out. That's a good thing!
Stream from where? I use the Steam Streaming with hardware encoding and decoding, literally from one room to another, over gigabit ethernet, and yes, I do get 1080p@60fps. The experience is still not good enough to play fps games or racing games. While I can recommend it to play Dark Souls or something like Dragon Age, you can really see artifacts creeping in from time to time,and I'm also sure the colours lose vibrancy in the encoding process, the overall image looks duller.
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Maybe we can also standardize this exact post since there have already been like five of them.
It's also worth noting that he has essentially no aesthetic sensibility--the genuinely hideous logo at the top of each page being only the most obvious example of that. Time after time he praises ugly, inelegant logos over designs that are striking and memorable.
I'd prefer that they would have been not hit at all, which a more maneuverable vehicle with a shorter stopping distance might help with.

Also, the probability I'm interested in is not the survivability in an accident, it is the total survivability over my lifetime, discounted by some percentage for cost etcetera. In your argumentation, everybody should drive around in tanks on the off chance that somebody else might get drunk. In reality, nobody does that and tradeoffs are made. Have you ever tried driving in an old European city in an average (American) SUV? You literally would not fit in most parking spaces, let alone fit in some of the smaller streets.
The Former Tor developer is the author of Torsploit used by the Feds
I was a bit of a Windows 7 stalwart until recently. I upgraded my parents' Vista machine to Windows 7 ... very sluggish. Thought I really needed to get them an SSD at some point. Then I upgraded it to Windows 10 on a whim - incredibly snappy. No need for SSD yet.
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I agree, it's quite risky and can easily be shut down by the authorities if they catch wind of it. I think the simplest way to avoid the risk is to setup a decentralized exchange that connects buyers to sellers. But that means it becomes much more difficult to take a cut, as people will just meet face-to-face.
Or you'll be wishing that the drunk driver was in a smaller vehicle.

Or you'll be the one running over a child (possibly your own) and you'll be wishing that your car was smaller or had better visibility as you reversed.

Making up unpleasant stories is fine, but at some point actual numbers and statistics are required, and everyone getting larger and larger cars in some kind of arms race seems to have obvious downsides.
Yeah, that's the whole point of this "standard" project. So instead of adopting for example eslint and then sit in a meeting and decide which rules to follow or not, you adopt standard and say, we are using this now, deal with it.
Is the private key uploaded into the service at all? For a moment I thought it was, until I realized the URL was resource:// :)

Along with that, I would be interested in seeing the trust network being uploaded to an external backing service (Maybe in the same SQL database?) That way it can be hosted on Heroku!

Fantastic product. I'm going to take a real good look at it and host it myself I think. Just Heroku would have been 'easy.'
I call it a DOS attack because blocks aren't regularly full anymore and the transaction data showed that the flood of transactions were "peeling chains", meaning they mostly had the same source. There is blockchain data to back this up.

The blocksize hasn't been increased yet. It blew over due to wallets improving their fee support. If you are in a hurry and need quick confirmations you increase your fee by 10 cents, but if the transaction doesn't need priority you may wait for quite a while.
Follow up is usually: now do that with O(1) memory.
Hi, could you give me you email or some way to contact you? I am doing the same procedure and I would like to ask you a couple of things. I am deciding between Australia and Canada.

Thank you!
No, ASI (automatic semicolon insertion) does not insert a semicolon on the first line (or the 2nd or 3rd) in this case.

The code works as expected.
The thing you need to realize is that you haven't had a chance to play with the new PS4 or seen its documentation, so you don't know. Rendering at 4K is not difficult at all, the question of course, is how much fidelity you need to sacrifice to enable smooth gameplay in that resolution.
>However, as cool as this is, it's just another way to "scrape"

Isn't that the point? The demo seems like it'd be a lot easier, less verbose, and probably less brittle, than using cUrl/xpaths or otherwise parsing that HTML yourself.