skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's only one of many aspects of the whole block size debate.

And I'm not sure there's a lot of merit to this specific aspect. From what I can tell[0], the "computational limit" is primarily in increased bandwidth and storage requirements in running a full node (2.8 GB per day for a block size of 20 MB).

While that's not trivial, it hardly limits adoption to institutions like banks. 2.8 GB is about 45 minutes of 1080p video, which people seem to manage even on domestic connections. At the same time, even with the current block size, very few people (less than 1%?) currently run a full node; so maybe it's not the "computational limits" stopping people?

[0] A better, if outdated, list of pros and cons: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/36085/what-are-th...
Well there's another wrinkle to this, which is that having a small block size and lower throughput may drive transaction costs up. What I've read suggests that the current 1MB block size works out to about 7 transactions per second, which is not great. Also, it's possibly fair to say that we're already past the point of a "free for all" Bitcoin; from what I've read mining is controlled by a small number of entities. So, that is one way to characterize the debate, but I am not entirely sure if it is completely fair.
Glad you liked that, thanks for commenting here. One of the pieces I've drafted but not yet posted is on the subject of "ordinary rendition", and is thematically related to the Lifelines piece.

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The fact a simple messaging service outperforms giant, monopolistic telecoms should speak volumes to the level of kleptocracy present in Brazil.

This judicial ruling is a political power grab. Ask yourself this, who does banning WhatsApp actually punish more? Facebook or the people of Brazil? It's the latter by a mile. Standing behind the "law is the law" is a cop out when the law was clearly written by and for the domestic telecom industry. WhatsApp will set a dangerous precedent if they change their internal operations at the demand of any regulation.
That's quite an overstatement. People know how to adapt. On the first court order, people were posting on Facebook about how to connect using VPN providers. Millions others downloaded Telegram.

I, for one, think that this kind of thing is a very good example on why we should NEVER rely on closed services. Whatsapp may be doing all of the right things (creating new features, improving privacy, keeping the product free and separate from FB), but it is still closed.
I've been travelling all around Spain for the last month and I wouldn't characterize the Renfe/AVE security as anywhere near the TSAs. You basically just put your bags through a machine and get waved through, and I've yet to wait in much of a line.
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Perf is much more than a sampling profiler: https://perf.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page. It can use uprobes and kprobes.

There are many ways to do dynamic tracing in Linux, apart from perf. Ftrace, raw kprobes/uprobes, eBPF, bcc compiler for eBPF, etc.
I'm writing what could potentially be a competitor to appear.in and I also recommend them :P .

They're definitely the cream of the WebRTC crop right now.
Which would you recommend for someone who prefers a C-like syntax, a good concurrency story, a comprehensive standard library, Java-esque speed, and dead-simple tooling (e.g., Go's tooling), and compilation to a static binary?
Cities are greener than suburbs by and large, so actually putting more people in cities that otherwise would have lived in a burb is a win for the environment.
> They had done the chemical reaction that blew up the lab 175 times before without incident; then, suddenly, something went wrong and the lab went boom and real, actual people died.

I really wish the author would expand more on this. Maybe due to my shallow knowledge of statistics, I've recently become baffled by the fact that an arbitrary number is used as a confidence interval, to state that something is true or false. And I'd guess most of today's world depends on these confidence intervals. Why is it that we're OK with stating that something is true, if it's true 95% of the time? Or is it the case of good enough, it it ain't broke, don't fix it (until it isn't)?
Hey soneca, could you give me a transcript of the conversation between Dilma Rousseff and Lula da Silva on January 31st, 2011? If you can't, then you'll have to go to prison.

It's an irrational, unreasonable request, which makes it highly questionable as a legal ruling.
Both sides think their solution is decentralized and the other is centralized.

Big blocks wanted limited growth that still works on domestic machines. Big blockers believe in using Bitcoin as-is; small blockers want to "spam filter" (i.e. control) some transactions or use some third-party thing like Lightning.
I highly doubt that expanding the block size by a factor of 2 or 4 or even 8 will change it into something normal computers cannot handle.

The only reason things don't change is that miners don't change. The control lays with miners, full stop. IIRC, they agreed to some change by signalling a flag in mined blocks. The idea was that at a certain amount of consensus, the new behaviour would activate. Instead, the miners set the flag, then ignored it when the consensus threshold was passed.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was just an issue of some miners having some minor difficulty in increasing the blocksize, and deciding its not worth the hassle/lost profits.
Do we perhaps have different definitions of "most if not all"?
You're clearly a waste of time. They were already doing that.
Why? Because the ICE's weren't up to snuff.
His name was Satoshi Natamoto.
Same with me, 10 days ago in Dubai. Unfortunately, there were TWO levels of officers who didn't have decision making authority, they had to reach out to a 3rd level who decided it was something in the bag's fabric (vs me carrying something). Unfortunately, where you are traveling to has some impact in DXB. SFO looks much better(for someone like me) than Abu Dhabi/Sharjah
I think only citizens of third-world countries are offended by the third-world monicker.

It is englightening to note that a false insult is usually shrugged off, and a true insult usually taken to heart.

The trick is to notice when the insult is true and modify your behaviour so that the insult is no longer applicable.
Freeloaders are driving up costs, due to the oversupply of people and unmet demand for housing and finite goods and services. The pretentiousness it simply a cultural function of the types of people that are being attracted to Austin; a mixture of internet douchbags that have ever increasingly proliferated adn infested SXSW, which are largely made up of the west coast and big city self-righteously self-absorbed.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, one of two things is true, either you're naive about this matter, or you are precisely the type I just referred to and, as expected, fully lack self-awareness. I realize that hearing something like that will not necessarily be well received here, but it's really a pestilent type of cultural phenomenon which is a pernicious type of cancer that is constantly eating away at any progress that can be made.
WhatsApp is the most popular end-to-end encrypted chat app in the world. Shutting it down for 100 million people not suspected or charged with any crime is an incredibly disproportionate, privacy-thwarting response to not being able to access user data in one criminal investigation.
The borrow checker already outputs these arrows.

This output is improving, too https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32756 -- feedback appreciated!
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The ruling punishes Brazilians on order(s) of magnitude more than it'll Facebook(WhatsApp). This heavy-handed approach is a power grab.
Yes, I understand that. I just had the hope, that the low level stuff is done with 1.0
Absolutely. The same thing is happening here in Vancouver and it is eventually going to suck the life out of the city. Beautiful homes in formerly vibrant neighbourhoods are left empty...indefinitely...held as an investment by offshore owners. The governments (provincial, civil, and federal) have no intention of limiting foreign ownership so it will continue apace until nobody wants (or can afford) to live here. I rent a house that was bought in 2014 (when I moved in) for $800k and it's now worth $1.5M. Foreign investment is driving this.
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Can I ask, do you really need Hadoop and "big data" for this? There have gotta be substantially fewer than 10k courts in the United States. What needs processed that SQL can't accommodate?

Meta-note: It may be wise to make a rule on what's appropriate to leave as a comment on these hiring posts. I can see some companies shying away if they feel like it's going to turn into a "critique my stack and/or hiring process" thing.
how does this compare to an overlooked success of Soviet Tech ie CDMA..which was their invention..
The moment you believe the phone is going to be seized by law enforcement and you act accordingly to make it more difficult or impossible to retrieve data from it, you are guilty of spoliation / tampering of evidence. This is the same set of laws that makes it illegal to shred papers before law enforcement can get to them. Locking or erasing your phone is simply the digital equivalent.
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Ah. That seems most likely to me. If true, It is interesting to see this scale of disinformation campaign by a non-government actor. It seems like it would unravel quickly without having any meaningful control over media.
“If you look at most tech publications, they have major conferences as their revenue,” Jason Calacanis, the blogger and founder of Weblogs, told me. “If you hit too hard, you lose keynotes, ticket buyers, and support in the tech space.”

I find it bizarre to bio Calacanis as a "blogger and founder of Weblogs" in the context of this quote.

It makes him sound like an informed third party offering his two cents.

When in fact Calacanis is less a "blogger" than a major force / champion of startup news via his "this week in startups" podcast, founder of inside.com which reports on startups, and runs Launch Festival which is exactly the kind of major conference he is pointing the finger at.

And the author of the piece Nick Bilton has even appeared on Jason's start-up show http://muckrack.com/link/5Gn7/this-week-in-startups so can't be that he's unaware that the outdated biline doesn't' make sense.
Hard to say. Gavin Andresen says he is, but Wright didn't publish an unquestionable proof. Why would Gavin risk his reputation on that without the confidence that he really is Satoshi ?
To be fair, even accepting the ideological world view of the FSF, copyleft licenses also don't create perpetual freedom in the absence of perpetual copyright and unlimited copyright. As long as there are temporal and other limits on copyright, copyleft licenses do not provide "perpetual user freedom" under the standard you are applying, because it is legally possible for people to later create derivatives of the code that do not respect user freedoms, or, to use your inflammatory language, "nothing stops someone from enslaving users with your software".
At this very moment there is a PR from Niko that is about to land that will overhaul borrow checker error message reporting (and error formatting in general): https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/32756 .
I wrote about UBeam here.[1] It's come up several times on YC, and most readers are skeptical. The megahertz ultrasound part can't work in air; attenuation goes up rapidly with frequency, which is why megahertz ultrasound isn't used much. Their patents talk about 75 KHz, which propagates OK in air.

But the sound levels they talk about are insane. Their numbers imply a few kilowatts of power going in. You do not want to be in a kilowatt sonar beam. Maybe you can't hear it, but that energy has to come out as heat,

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I am not saying they were full proof, I am saying that systems programming languages from 60's and 70's were much safer than C.

Many of memory corruption issues with C aren't a problem with the stronger type system of Algol and PL/* family of languages.

However OSes written in those languages were commercial, whereas C was bundled with UNIX, distributed for free, because AT&T was forbidden to charge for it.

If it wasn't for that, most likely Rust wouldn't be needed, at least not in the way it looks like.
Google the prairie dogs language observations.
> "better than a yellow cab"

Better than a yellow cab (UberX) isn't the interesting part of Uber's business, Pool (and a swarm of dynamically routed cars buzzing around a city, picking up and dropping off people and cargo) is. Further, that swarm becomes more cost-effective the larger it is.
It's great to hear that. I have no qualms whatsoever with Percolate and those who I know work there highly recommended it so I was a bit surprised at how the interview went. But thanks for taking the time to respond to me, it's really nice to know that the process is being improved upon!
List of confidence tricks
Until I ran out of time, I used to run a blog which tracked TSA Agent arrests. On average, a TSA agent is arrested _every day_ for stealing from passengers (400/year)

Here's one "rogues gallery": http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/photos/photos-rogues-gallery-t...

The TSA does not make us safer.
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Thanks for bringing that to our attention. Please see our most recent post with edits.
Not just that he hasn't published good proof. It's that he published fake proof. I don't see any reason satoshi would publish fake proof besides trying to troll people or something like that.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-16021240

> "All necessary safeguards would be in place to ensure protection of patients' details - the data will be anonymised and the process will be carefully and robustly regulated.

> "Proper regulation and essential safeguards need to be in place when it comes to patients data," he said. "It cannot be done in a way where essential rules are threatened."

The legality of these data sharing laws start off with public promises of anonymization, robust regulation, safeguards, and privacy.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/2014/01/geraint-lewis/

> Amber data are where we remove each patient’s identifiers (their date of birth, postcode, and so on) and replace them with a meaningless pseudonym that bears no relationship to their “real world” identity. Amber data are essential for tracking how individuals interact with the different parts of the NHS and social care over time. For example, using amber data we can see how the NHS cares for cohorts of patients who are admitted repeatedly to hospital but who seldom visit their GP. In theory, a determined analyst could attempt to re-identify individuals within amber data by linking them to other data sets. For this reason, we never publish amber data. Instead, amber data are only made available under a legal contract to approved analysts for approved purposes. The contract stipulates how the data must be stored and protected, and how the data must be destroyed afterwards. Any attempt to re-identify an individual is strictly prohibited and there is a range of criminal and civil penalties for any infringements.

The problem with psuedonymous data is the NHS basically admits it can be used to identify people given sufficient effort.

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That is why people are "astonished" by these decisions. The politician provides the initial promises that imply anonymity, the implementation doesn't provide true anonymity but provides criminal penalties for pulling off the mask, and then the data is handed to enough 3rd parties if such data is leaked its likely impossible to know by whom unless the data was tampered with to provide a per-contract identifier.

I understand this specific decision did not involve a politician but the conversation was why people are surprised. How many people do you think really know the anonymity originally promised became a permeable pseudonym?
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I did not submit this article.

This article got submitted i believe because this morning i tweeted my new keyboard blog on twitter, and my keyboard blog mentioned this 6 years old rant. And somebody submitted that here.

For over a decade 1997 to 2007, when my website is most popular, linked all over from universities and schools at, I did not have any ads nor ask any donation.

I despise those so-called "hackers", because people like you. I don't know who you are, but there are handful who will badmouth me whever my name appears. In the past I have simply ignored them. But, i'm getting old, and feel like responding, for what's worth.
he could have been paid an enormous sum of money
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This is exactly why operating many small Murmur and/or XMPP servers is a better approach than relying on a single big-co's proprietary service with which you no signed SLA. Just like game servers, it's easy to operate a community Murmur server and it's also possible to set up one on your home router given the low bandwidth and hardwre requirements.

Yet, if I suggest that I prefer Mumble over closed source voice chat or centrally provided WebRTC service like appear.in, people downvote me or treat me a like a luddite.

But I do understand that given the comfort of a centrally managed WhatsApp, it's hard to resist.

The only reason there are no fancy mobile clients is that those who would build them are doing it for the silo'd Vibers, Skypes, and WhatsApps.

Comfort seems to trump reliability.
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