skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bitcoin is different, but by no means is it or will it in any way obsolete government issued currency (it's wrong to call it fiat as if bitcoin isn't also fiat, which it is). It is however the only crypto currency that matters and will remain so.
That's like saying "until people start demanding safety on cars and become willing to pay for it there will always be fatalities". Sure part of the blame is on the consumer, but maybe the company shouldn't be selling cameras that are inherently insecure.

These types of things typically play out with lawsuits which increase liability for the producers. The problem is that it's (currently) difficult to prove damages when it's only privacy.
>Bitcoin is doing the same to fiat currency

Oh really? Please do explain why a government would ever allow bitcoin to challenge its currency.
Systems that provide an online account tied to a physical device have to be carefully designed for transfer of ownership scenarios, and it sounds like they didn't do the work here, or else something went wrong and the resulting error state is unfortunate.
> Unfortunately, with Amazon and other tech companies importing thousands and thousands of young men with six-figure salaries, housing prices in general will only continue to increase.

Indeed.

The only problem is that people with six-figure salaries rely on the services of people who don't have six-figure salaries, and those people also require proximity to their own non-six-figure jobs.

Oh, like teachers for their kids, police officers, supermarket cashiers, you name it.
Phantom 3 it has an SDK so that you can send commands from your phone to the drone. There are a bunch of apps that advantage of this: Litchi,vertical.ai, etc.

Ardupilot is open source however you will need to build your drone. Its not too hard.
https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot
I guess the devops team can view all of them
Bitcoin is not going to make fiat currencies obsolete because I pay my taxes in US dollars and will always have to
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meaning is a nice convention to signify that something works well for some use case.

like, you didn't intend to type anything, it was just a series random processes that resulted in some text, but by convention, it's nice to say that you meant to write something.
I could really use a serif monospace font for coding and terminals. Haven't found a good one yet.

EDIT: Bitmap fonts preferred for crystal clear rendering and performance.
> Many of the rich care about power and influence

I'd wager most don't. Sure, some do, but they're a minority.

> If I had $10MM in assets (enough to passively generate a 99th percentile income), I don't think I'd only be worried about protecting income.

But you won't know until you do, anything you say now is merely a guess that's likely wrong. Once you have a work free income, odds are your evaluation of its value will change drastically and you will become very protective of it due to the freedom it provides.
Don't know about Vodafone in that country but over here, I use it (prepaid) and I have the option to check my last 3 transactions that cost me money. I just have to dial a code (*111#) in my case and follow the instructions that show up on the screen.
> In C and C++, there’s no such thing as an array – there’s just pointers, which you can subscript and a shorthand for pointer arithmetic and indirection

This is fallacy #1 about C. C does have arrays which constitute a contiguously allocated piece of memory, it's just that the identifier decays to a pointer in most contexts. When dealing with arrays, there is no indirection involved.
Tokyo also has decent transportation from the suburbs. The area available in the suburbs grows proportionally to the square of the radius. If people can commute to some city from 80 km away as efficiently as people elsewhere travel to another city from 20 km away, that effectively creates sixteen times the available area for the same convenience with regard to work proximity.
The key criticism I can make toward Etherium is that it tries to do too much in one system. If we want smart contracts it would be better to build an orthogonal smart contract system that uses Bitcoin.
These types of exceeding invasive products need to have their damages tested in courts. After a few lawsuits and payouts the liabilty will begin to increase and that will force companies to adapt/improve or go under.

The problem is our entire generation doesn't care about privacy. They willingly hand over everything about them to an app and care not a single drop that their government spies on them without a warrant.
> The dirty rich

You have no idea what you are talking about and your bias is plain
Yes. Osmocom/OpenBSC actually started as an open-source "network in a box" which implements all critical GSM network elements in a single executable. It greatly expanded since then - check out a list of projects there. As I mentioned below, more companies are joining Osmocom and there will be hopefully more work on the core network side. Other open-source projects targeting core network elements are http://www.mobicents.org/ and http://www.projectclearwater.org/ (IMS).
I had a small server written in Haskell but since the other contributor familiar with Java/C/C++ was not able to pick at it effectively, we switched to Rust and we all were happy, and transitioning was fine.

At work I deal with Java code, but we have a framework we wanted to use that's written in Scala, and since Scala can interop with Java, we were all productively able to transition over for the better.

For a hobby project we use Objective-C, but we are starting to write some bits in Swift. Apple is especially effective at trying to convince the developers to change over to this shiny language.

I think "advanced" languages can be used in real world applications, and the transition experience from other well known languages can certainly matter.
Operator[0]

[0]: http://www.typography.com/blog/introducing-operator
Has anyone 3D printed one of these models?

http://www.shapeways.com/tutorials/prepping_blender_files_fo...
So are you just a Bitcoin fanboy? Because otherwise most people interested in bitcoin seem more on the "let the market decide" side of the fence, and don't really have an emotional investment in "the others" failing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11922133
It is however the only crypto currency that matters and will remain so.

Or it will just die once users have to pay the real transaction costs and it becomes really obvious how expensive that system is.
From a legal perspective can't they be liable for helping employers and landlords break federal law? Since we have EEOC, Fair Housing Act, etc.?
> Dijkstra writes directly and with and air of authority, but his writing is not great. His style is pretentious and obfuscatory. Even worse, he uses his authoritative style to get away with tons of unsubstantiated assertions.

This bugs me as well. He's obviously made profound and exceptional contributions to the field but I don't like when he writes in the manner you pointed out where he's making bold statements without evidence. Worse is when people quote something Dijkstra wrote that he didn't back up with evidence as if it's true just because Dijkstra wrote it.
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Can someone comment on what it's like building a webapp with Scala/Play?
This article's formatting is awful and very distracting.
"I'm not mistaken, anyone could get the serial number off your cameras and link them to their online account, to watch and record your every move without your permission."

There's a name for a hacking strategy where you mass purchase products, modify it or acquire relevant information, then resell them or return them. "Catch and release" comes to mind, but I can't find any references.
Indeed. But the weather sucks. It is the reason I left my home country Germany. To quote a Californian friend: "The coldest winter I experienced was a summer in Germany!" ;)
Bitcoin is for the underserved. It services the people that can't be served in incumbent institutions, and they use it because it's as close as they can get to the dollar.

The reason that Ethereum is particularly silly, is because there are no underserved code execute'rs. (Go to Alphabay or Bovada if you doubt this)
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I think this company is UK based. Dunno what the law is there regarding this.
> It starts with a capital letter and includes a conjugated verb (running) both of which increase complexity considerably.

They reduce complexity: It reduces the number of possibilities on the first character, and the attacker knows that one word must be a (conjugated? present participle?) verb yet, when otherwise it could be anything.
Just like newspapers "allowed" blogs and news websites to challenge their dominion. History is a long list of things changing and nations falling.
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I had the same problem with a WD home server. I returned it when it wouldn't do what it was supposed to do. Later, I started receiving emails from the server as it kept me up-to-date on its status.
Do you have more details about this?
Hopefully they take it all so we can stop hearing about it.
PL theorists generally talk about whether or not syntactic terms (as opposed to runtime values) have types. Scheme is untyped by that definition.
He's obviously making comparisons to Fortran's arrays, which would be equivalent to using `restrict` for pointers (in addition to passing the size). This enables some compiler optimizations that can't be done if there is aliasing (ie. two pointers pointing to overlapping areas of memory).

In other words, this claim in the original article is incorrect: "But there's no way to write code in C or C++ that guarantees that. "
Some would argue that not knowing Java would be a benefit to learning scala. It depends though, some scala codebases are very java-y and others are very un-java-y
No, because the comparisons are usually "baseline version of algorithm I want to beat" vs "highly optimized and hand-tweaked version of the algorithm I have a vested interest in."
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In some countries it's already made fiat currencies obsolete. Peek outside your bubble every now and then.
Vaguely related: I just read that at this week's Randa sprints, someone fixed a 13-year-old KDE bug...

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/16/06/18/222246/kde-bug-fixe...
This was > ~3 years ago, so maybe things have gotten better lately.
We are watching the killer app for decentralization of governance getting centralized governance because the stakeholders made bad investments.

This is hard-tech sitcom.
Exactly my thoughts
True at NASA and in many other places that spend 100x as much per line of code, albeit it's more like 95% surety.
I've done it naively with a mongo driver. Just wrapping it in a future doesn't cut it, as you said you have to configure a separate execution context and even that context is finite. Or use a blocking future which has other implications.

It's more a point against the "strictly better than Java, use the bits you want as you you go" point in the article. You have to understand Scala's execution model and make sure you are mixing the paradigms properly, because it's fully of leaky abstractions.
In most fonts the italic "a" is as you describe. (Like a truncated "d".)
Homelessness has been increasing nationwide for about 3 decades or so:
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/factsheets/why.html
This is because the supply of affordable housing has been dwindling while demand grows:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1292331....

It's true that homelessness is on the rise. But in New York, half of our rental housing is rent regulated, that's 1M apartments. Even if 100% of them were rent regulated, there likely would be homeless people, since lower rent does not mean cheap rent (an $800 studio will still be out of reach to someone from the street). Then we have projects, but those have severe funding problems and a long line to get in.

Many homeless people you see have mental health and addiction issues. The bigger issue is funding clinics and mental facilities so their only occasional beds aren't public hospitals and jails.

This is not specific to New York per se. I guess you have every right to argue that this is just a New York issue because this this a New York law under discussion, but lack of affordable housing is hardly specific to New York and AirBnB is also hardly specific to New York.

I have every right to be New York specific? That's an interesting way to put it, to say the least. Listen, and I'm assuming you're in the U.S.: we live in a big country, one that's run as a Federation. State laws and city laws differ enormously. It's hard to talk about housing policy in the abstract without reference to specific cities and states. Where we can talk more generally are trends, like the growth of cities.

So, do you have any pointers as to how and when it would be okay to make any points about it without them being dismissed out of hand as irrelevant, not on topic and so on?
Thanks

My sarcasm detection seems unable to parse this sentence, but I'll be naive and assume you're asking a serious question. How do we avoid making points dismissed out of hand as irrelevant? Well, when we have political entities make doublespeak or insincere commentary to bolster something different entirely in their own interest, I say it's fair to dismiss as insincere. In this case the hotel lobby of NYC came out making commentary about communities and affordable housing, when in fact the law was for the most part protecting the hotel lobby. That's insincere. I feel that as a nation we're so accustomed to our political figures and advertising entities make insincere comments that it barely registers morally.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11925670
You can't pass an array to a procedure without it becoming a pointer. But that is not even the issue ... the issue is that even if you know something is an array, any pointer of any type could be pointing anywhere into the interior of that array.
In addition to the services mentioned in sibling comments, it's not difficult to outfit a VPS for this purpose. This is a pretty helpful starting point: https://gist.github.com/gdamjan/4586758
This "a" is the main reason I use "Clean" here (distributed in clR6x12-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz by xorg)

Unfortunately, that's a bitmap font, so not always appropriate depending on your monitor.
>incredibly satisfying

What an incredibly rude thing to even say. While it is 100% the fault of the people who "invested"(if you can call it that) in this. At the end of the day its someone else's hard earned money, perhaps stupid at spending, but hard earned money.

I honestly feel really bad for the people who are loosing so much of their money, it should not happen to anyone. Its a horrible horrible situation for the people involved.
How can you write a complex program with so many semicolons?
How can you write a complex program with so many braces?

Your statement sounds more like unfamiliarity of other major PL styles than anything else.
I agree with strong bitcoin position. I can tell you one thing, I've read paper about bitcoin and know it's architecture (I've written software communicating with bitcoin network) and person that wrote it is genius. I encourage you to read about bitcoin architecture (if you did not already), it's beautiful. Every detail was thought about including 51% of hashing power attack, blockchains with different length, inflation, double spending etc. It's battle tested solution and i don't see any other crypto currency to challenge bitcoin anytime soon.
>> ... there is no point in writing a contract for a $200 dollar job.

You don't need to "write" a contract for a contract to be in place. Contracts can exist between people who are illiterate, even those who cannot express themselves. A contract is a state-sanctioned and enforced relationship. The document is just one form of evidence useful in defining that relationship.
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Your first two points are also met by optionally typed languages.
> That's like saying "until people start demanding safety on cars and become willing to pay for it there will always be fatalities"

Uh, that's how it sorta works -- for better and for worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsafe_at_Any_Speed

"On March 22, 1966, GM President James Roche was forced to appear before a United States Senate subcommittee, and to apologize to Nader for the company's campaign of harassment and intimidation. Nader later successfully sued GM for excessive invasion of privacy. It was the money from this case that allowed him to lobby for consumer rights, leading to the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Clean Air Act, among other things."
It seems to me that all these things do is accelerate time to market and make it easier for you to scale if you're successful.

The corollary to this could be that if you're not repeatedly pushing out MVPs, this newfangled stuff may not be that useful to you. This is my view of the full stack JavaScript world as well. Things are generally transient and experimental so the wild west stuff works fine there.

I'd love to be convinced that I'm wrong. I have yet to write a piece of software that has been decommissioned in less than a decade after going live and I do get a little envious of the fast moving stuff.
Functionally, sounds a lot like http basic authentication, only more complicated.
Which costs $199.
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That's generally and edge case and totally supported under the proposal by being explicit about with respect to `export`.

I think being explicit about the intent of your code is a good thing after all.
I should have specified the fonts I was referring to were monospace fonts, specifically, which out of the 12 I've got installed on my machine I've got only one is the "truncated 'd'" style, unfortunately.

If you are aware of others, please post links, I'd love to have a few more.
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Why is this insulting?
It's not a binary win/loose situation. Cryptocurrencies are like neighboring countries who's economies are intertwined. For proof see the 10% fall in BTC when the DAO was hacked. This 'hack' could bring a lot of innovation in creating proper smart contracts so there is a small upside to this.
I agree with your general point, but I have just a couple of mathematical points:

> For a normal 5 letter (alpha-numeric only) password:
> 36

With the "normal" recommendation of numbers, uppercase and lowercase letters, and punctuation, it's up around 100.

> factorial

The calculation is X^Y, where X is the number of possibilities per element, and Y is the number of elements (letters or words in these examples). So using only only lowercase letters (26) in an 8 character password would be 26^8. It's not factorial because you can reuse characters (e.g., your password could be X92m-sXp/)

> the amount of possible words is much smaller than that. But the attacker can't know that for sure

They will search the more likely words first. I read someplace that 10,000 words covers most people's vocabulary. That's still 100 times better than numbers + uppercase + lowercase + punctuation.
I'm not sure about the general case, but here in Argentina one of our biggest steel factories had a very big eucalyptus forest just to make coal. From https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aceros_Zapla_S.A

Autotranslation: https://translate.google.com/?tab=TT#es/en/Aceros%20Zapla%20....

> "Aceros Zapla" (ex- "Altos Hornos Zapla") was a steel forest mining complex located in the department Palpalá province of Jujuy, Argentina. It was the first steel center of Argentina [...]

> It had 15,000 ha of a forest of 30 million eucalyptus trees to extract the necessary coal in the process, which was the village Forestry Center. [...]

> Today's steelmaking from scrap exclusively.
There's no central control of the Ethereum blockchain. Various parties are making various recommendations and arguing forcefully because there is no way for a central authority to simply change the blockchain logic. Whether any proposed fork will survive is unclear because it's a decentralized decision.
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OT but how useful would the boston haskell meetups be as an extreme noob? Will the talks be so far over my head that I should learn me a haskell a bit prior to attending or would it make for a good way to start absorbing some knowledge?
PL theorists - from what I saw, not being one - prefer the term "unityped". It's not true that there are no (static!) types - there is a single, unnamed type which contains all possible values.
There are some Caribbean countries considering moving to bitcoin. Barbados is one.
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Any land lord asking me to let them do this would be blacklisted as far as I'm concerned. Using a service like this raises huge red flags as to what type of person they are and what it would be like to live with them as my landlord.
For some reason this contains fi and fl ligatures, which look pretty odd on a monospaced font:

http://imgur.com/4tJkbaK
What's up with functional languages nowadays? The exists since the dawn of humanity, but they are getting very trendy lately. Is it just my perception? Is it a HN thing? (I've been a reader for just some months)
Did you just compare consumer preference in media consumption with a government failing as if the connection is self evident? You're fucking with me right?
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This was a bug in the DAO, not Ethereum. From what I read, this was the bug:
https://github.com/slockit/DAO/commit/f01f3bd8df5e1e222dde62...

I'm not sure why you'd find this satisfying, unless you hate innovation.

Also, I agree that the same Dapps can be run with Bitcoin, so it's not like everyone needs to switch to Ethereum. It does have some advantages over Bitcoin, though that might not be enough given the huge adoption Bitcoin has already.
Using a good editor helps a lot. Actually I usually do not understand how can people write Java. People are different and different things seem logical or useful for different people. If you are hung up on syntax problems you probably haven't used different languages yet. After a while it gets less and less relevant.
People thought the Shadowrun authors where off their meds when they made gear lose stat points from being offline, and now here we are...

Buzzwords combined with profit motive produce some worrying outcomes.
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I think it's because the parent would expect a job offer instead of an internship.
This is a pretty solid article. I think the JIT learning idea is a strong one; his anecdote about the public speaking advice he received immediately after a speech that stuck to this day resonates. Sometimes the smallest bits of thoughts and advice like that make a huge difference simply because they arrived at the time when you were most receptive and "vulnerable" to hearing it. Though I think learning can be fun, I see the point the author is making. I wonder however, what's to be done when there is no one there for JIT help? That's when we push the frontier of human knowledge, and cultivating that is important as well. I couldn't help while reading this to find it analogous to compiled and interpreted languages, in more ways than one.
Steve - how do you feel about people taking photos or video of you?
Yes. Genes and DNA are not the same thing. DNA is a means of recording and passing along genes. And alien organism that doesn't use our system of DNA/RNA could still possess genes. So it is theoretically possible to remove all manifestations of genes and have the organism continue to function.

This is not very far fetched. Much of our DNA is used for a short time during development and then effectively turns off for the rest of our life. Taking that DNA away might go unnoticed.
With the advent of streaming TV and movies, for many of us now the reverse is true.