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> partly because these off-chain networks would quickly form large central "hubs" which would obviate many of the benefits of Bitcoin

The Lightning Network is open-source and decentralized. It has no "hubs", but rather just peers that route payments to each-other using a payment routing algorithm. Lightning has no counterparty risk, as no one can ever steal your bitcoins and you're always in full control.

The best way to describe Lightning is as an write-cache layer. It improves the scalability properties of Bitcoin by many factors, makes micro- and nano- payments a reality, reduces fees to fractions of a cent, and even improves privacy (using a Tor-like onion routing for anonymized payments).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpfvhiqFw7A

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/understanding-the-light...
Oh my, thats some mighty detail! Guess communism wins, in this case :)
I like it, it's very simple for me, especially since I don't know one thing about what is a good weather for surfing. :) Too bad I'm in Chiang Mai and there won't be good time. :/
a) Users in developing countries want, even need, messaging apps without the bandwidth costs of a full social networking app. This isn't a Facebook "stunt", but rather the reality of trying to acquire users in countries without 3g/4g/wifi bandwidth at affordable costs for consumers. "Facebook Social Network" cannot compete with "WhatsApp" or similar in poor countries, but "Facebook Messenger" can. It's really not a hard concept to understand, unless one is so unaware of how lucky one is to live in a first world country with a steady income.

b) It's funny how the HN crowd spins the separation of the messaging component from the rest of the product as a bad thing. When it comes to Unix, we repeatedly hear about how having separate smaller utilities to accomplish different tasks is the only right way to do things. But a company who splits their essential messaging component from the extremely heavy, unnecessary, optional, nice-to-have addons like a "wall" is somehow evil.

A "messaging app" is a very tiny fraction of the functionality found in a "social networking app". It's extremely sensible to separate them. How anyone can even pretend to attribute this to some nefarious motive is beyond me. And hell, I'm an anti-Facebook nut.
I thought my reply relevant to the discussion at hand. It literally addresses the cause behind the name change.
That's, of course, by design. If you are an animal then repetition is the only way to learn and make sense of the environment. One could learn what usually happened and what to do, but not, obviously, how it works.

Humans are the only beings who has language and hence reason to understand how everything works, unless they engage in producing dogmas and chimeras out of words and abstract concepts, which is what they usually do.
Not "blockers" - the one app you installed and where you enabled web fonts blocking...
What I meant to say was that in the hands of the right person, it would be effective and productive, but since you're not particularly convinced by anything on that page, I think I'll have to concede this point. You win :)
+1. They're totally different.
The debate is largely about the risks of doing an hardfork (what Bitcoin Unlimited is doing) versus softforks (what Segregated Witness is doing).

I recently presented these slides on this topic, but they assume a fair amount of background:

https://www.docdroid.net/TouvFPl/embassy-future-politics-feb...
They are not considered people. They are considered persons. In a legal context, a person is not a human being, but any entity to which rights or responsibilities (also read: liabilities) can be attached.

No court has said they are human beings. And they do not have all human rights. They have only those rights which law and case law have put upon them.
That's the same thing. It's not up to you to define "waste of resources" based on what someone chose to learn.
morocco is actually a member of the AU again, since a couple weeks

http://www.worldbulletin.net/todays-news/183967/morocco-rejo...
Why would they not ask for higher requirements as long as the jobs continue to be filled? You seem to have a problem with the wrong thing.
Entirely reasonable question for the internet. Apparently, they are bad:

http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/entertainment/a39387/bananas-a...
I would bring in efficient declarative programming. One could then tell the computer "I want the number which squared equals 2". The computer asks "To how many decimal places?". You specify any number you like. It would be truly amazing to be able to say to the computer what you want calculated without having to say how you want it calculated!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13624225
What can Oracle do that Postgres can't, then? Can Oracle function with less RAM than Postgres?
> With a bigger block size what hardware constraints begin to appear?

Mostly it is an issue of disk space and network bandwidth. right now a 1 MB block is produced every 10 minutes. That has to be transferred over the network to every node and each so called "full node" has to store that block. The total size of the Bitcoin block chain for all time is currently ~100GB and grows 1 MB every 10 minutes under current conditions. If the block size grew too big that you couldn't transfer a block within the 10 minute space between blocks then your connection is too slow to run a node. On the disk space front you can run what is called a "prunning" node which discards older parts of the block chain that are no longer relevant which reduces disk space requirements greatly.

There is also the issue of the initial blockchain download where when you are setting up a new node you have to download 100GB of historical block chain data to catch up to the current state of the network. These are all solvable problems though and Bitcoin's inventor envisioned that some day full nodes would be run out of data centers on heavy duty hardware. Small block supporters have argued that that hurts decentralization because some poor guy in Africa can't run a node on his Raspberry Pi and 3g internet if the block size gets much bigger. On the other hand if you are too poor to run a full node with a larger block size then you can hardly afford to pay huge transaction fees to transact on a network with a constricted block size so the whole argument that limiting the block size decreases centralization doesn't really hold water because in the end it limits user growth which is the ultimate decentralization mechanism.

> So the motivation is strictly monetary?

I think so. This whole stink started because some guy who happened to have a ton of BTC was upset that people running full nodes didn't get a cut of any of the transaction fees. Today, the main company that is pushing the Segwit / small block agenda hopes to push everyone to their off chain lightening network where they can collect the fees instead of the miners. Miners don't want to do anything that will jeopardize their profitability long term and keeping the block size too small limits their ability to control the supply of their product (block space).
> Pretty much every developer in the bitcoin community supports SegWit.

Only in the censored outskirts. I recommend everyone to read John Blocke's articles:
https://medium.com/@johnblocke/the-importance-of-clear-defin...
https://medium.com/@johnblocke/its-not-the-censorship-resist...
If you laugh 3 or more than 3 times while watching this you lose, understood?
Somehow it seems strange that Japan, the motherland of robots, fails to build a robot.

Money can't be the reason. There has been an investment surge into radioactive cleanup technology starting with the damaged reactors six years ago.

Six years and billions of dollars later we get a robot that gets stuck and fails after just two hours. From what I've gathered they didn't even include a proper radiation sensor but used the camera noise in order to "guesstimate" the dosage after the fact. Did they not expect high radiation in that location?
I'm hoping that we could see photonic computers.
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

"If a person lives in a forest and no one is around to label them as a 'schizophrenic', can that person be claimed to have a disorder?"

When you're alone, you can't be compared against society's bullshit definition of "normal". You are just you. Imagine how freeing that is, to extract oneself from the judging glare and arbitrary definitions of your peers who think themselves better than you.
Not impressive for someone without technical knowledge.

If the technical people have a specific university background they might be familiar with it, and then either hate it or love it.

It's a good tool for writing large documents but does not signal anything except personal tastes.
In the US, homes are the best way for the middle class to create wealth because the government essentially subsidizes this transfer. The entire financial system and tax code are designed to support this. There is no other country in the world where you can just get a loan that leverages you up 10:1 . This is where the cycle begins. Home prices have to go up now, otherwise these loans go underwater and we get another financial crises like the one we saw in 2008. Then, the tax code effectively gives you free money to do this trade. If you don't take advantage of it, you're probably missing out. Finally, this is why we always like a bit of inflation. Inflation devalues that loan and pushes the price of your house up. Falling home prices would be a disaster for America ... we've already seen this scenario less than 10 years ago...
Redhat has a vast array of remote management tools: Asible, puppet, cobbler, ssh etc. Most all of them are superior to Microsoft's offerings. It would make perfect sense to have a Linux host on machines if most applications are web based.
Most people who do it call after they're already using the card. The waivers are generally one-off but some people get a one-off waiver like clockwork every year they ask for it.

I am unaware of any CC issuer in the US of any size or segment which, as a matter of policy, refuses all requests of this matter. It comes down to policies and often a judgment call by a line cSR.
I also receive scam files from legit contacts' Skype accounts from time to time - maybe after they've suffered a similar attack.
Never opening the desktop Skype seems to be a safe-and-easy counteract for now - you can still open all legit files on iPhone, and apps like Google Drive have built-in virus scanners.
You're painting a very unbalanced picture.

> There is a small faction of the Bitcoin community working exceptionally hard to prevent any block size increase.

This small faction is composed of nearly ~all the technical experts we have in the Bitcoin space, over 100 businesses and projects that support SegWit, the majority of bitcoin users that I'm personally familiar with, the majority of full-nodes on the network (~85%), and the vast majority by pretty much every metric you choose.

https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/

https://bitcoincore.org/en/supporters/

https://coin.dance/nodes/share

https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases

> /r/bitcoin is now just an echo chamber where yes men regurgitate the agenda of a select few.

r/bitcoin is the largest and most active bitcoin community by far. It had to start engaging in more heavy-handed moderation when the voting bots, sockpuppet accounts and other manipulation made it impossible to conduct productive discussions. Its sad, but I don't really see an alternative.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4biob5/research_in...

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/a-closer-look-at-reddit...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3hf5z7/determining...

https://news.bitcoin.com/the-block-size-debate-and-sock-pupp...

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5n3wsw/birds_by_bitcoi...
Bookmark this instead to avoid being booted out of it:

https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr
How do you counter the description of the network in this article? It seems like de-facto hubs will form out of necessity to avoid creating a channel on the fly, which requires getting a transaction committed to the blockchain.

https://chrispacia.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/lightning-networ...
Okay, so you're not saying it's always hideous; you're saying it's hideous on screen. I think you're wrong even there: some of the screens that have come out in the last few years have resolutions near that of cheap inkjet printers, and on those screens Computer Modern looks okay. If you don't have access to such screens, there is a simple trick you can use instead: just set your zoom to something like 10x. The font looks glorious then, in my opinion. The one tiny problem is that nothing fits on the screen :)
how was he able to cross so many borders without any ID?
> What happens when a competitor creates a substitute artwork (i.e. one that competes for market share with the original artwork) and sells it at 24¢?

Price and value aren't the same thing, that's part of the problem.

Suppose in response to competition the original artist would lower the price to 24c. The customer still gets the same value as before but is paying less. The customer gets 1c more of the surplus and the artist gets 1c less.

But the total surplus is still the same. The benefit the customer gets from having the art hasn't gone down, only the price.

Where this gets weird is displacement. Suppose competing art appears and now half the customers will choose the other art instead, and the customers only have time for one piece of art. Now the original art has lost half its total value because there are half as many people with it, regardless of what price was paid.

Which means it is possible to have "enough" art and more would be too much -- when you have so much that people are too busy with existing art for enough of them to choose the new art to justify its creation. But that point is well past what transaction costs will allow if payment has to be made per-customer via an ugly hack like copyright.

It may even be past the point where there is "too much" art/science/software, because you can justify over-producing a lot of junk if the result is even one more Andy Warhol or Albert Einstein or Alan Turing.
Some years back, I worked in a library. Having loved one of Smullyan's books, I searched for more. One book that came up didn't have a title in the system. Puzzled, I wrote down the call number, went to the shelf, and grabbed the book. It was "This Book Needs No Title". Clearly whoever added it to the catalog was inspired by Smullyan's prankster ways.
What do you mean that Lightening has no counter party risk? It's my understanding that you have to constantly monitor the Bitcoin network as long as a payment channel is open to make sure your counter party doesn't try to cheat you.

I also don't buy that hubs won't tend to centralize since hubs with channels open with a lot of other peers will naturally be central points.
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- 105 businesses and projects from the Bitcoin space support SegWit and are working on implementing it in their products: https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/

- 54 bitcoin developers signed the "capacity increase roadmap" published by Bitcoin Core: https://bitcoin.org/en/bitcoin-core/capacity-increases

- 45 companies and individuals signed in support of Bitcoin Core: https://bitcoincore.org/en/supporters/

- 85% of the nodes on the network are running Bitcoin Core: https://coin.dance/nodes/share

All of that due to censorship in one subreddit, while there are multiple other forums that people talk in? I have to say, that's quite impressive.
It doesn't come with support for the Windows workstations you need for running it though.
The majority of the 10k miles would have been on roads though, and although he may have spent the majority of the time on foot, a significant chunk of the distance may have been in/on vehicles.
You should start with D. The one true C++.
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Yes some devs believe there is centralization pressure of mining blocks caused by the propogation delay of 1MB blocks. Further increasing the size of blocks would thus increase centralization pressure. Changing any number of variables leads to emergent properties which change mining behaviors. Game theory needs to be considered before tweaking the consensus protocols of Bitcoin.
The open source nature of Bitcoin allows for many opinions and critisms and hopefully many more proposals for change in the future.
Random behavior when using the dock is pretty standard on my Lenovo running windows as well, though. Pretty much exactly those problems you are describing.
Wow, humans...
I certainly don't know, but the implication seems to be that due to his schizophrenia, he became fixated on that destination, likely ascribing some importance to it that would not have otherwise been rational.
App stores for mobile phones were very convenient at start because they provided a safe gateway to curated content, and globally enhanced the quality of what independant developpers released. But now it's clearly a hindrance. I wish the european union would force Apple to enable the installation of other app store (distributing legal software of course) on their device.

Actually, a good start would be to have the "don't distribute an app that has the same feature as a preinstalled one" clause declared illegal.
Nuclear fusion reactor small enough to fit in your phone, but would power it forever by taking hydrogen from the air.
Blowing an attic with insulation is cheap (and good value), but throw in double pane windows, insulated hot water pipes, roofs equipped for solar panels, energy star appliances, automatic lighting controls and it adds up.

Regarding perverse incentives - the home mortgage deduction is one of the worst. Take money from renters to subsidize homeowners, and drive up housing prices in the process.
Nope. "Naive hashing" versus "actual crypto" is indeed technical, not political. There are at least three different ways in which your "secure" password field is actually insecure (and thus deserves the label "not secure").
Yes, you have to watch for cheating attempts, but you get all your money back plus a bonus if you catch someone doing that. If you're doing that properly (and there's no reason you won't), then there's no counterparty risk.

Edit: also, you can outsource this task to someone else, who'll take a small fee out of your bonus if he catches the cheating for you (and only if he does).
Documentation doesn't mention it, but this appears to not work on Windows - at least not out of the box. Annoying to go to the trouble of downloading it to try, to discover it was never going to work.
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Right you are! I've put a footnote in the article to reflect the change in status. After all those years outside, the AU probably strategically wanted a sizeable regional power like Morocco back in. Unfortunately for the Sahrawis, apart from an EU ruling every now and then, their cause is all but forgotten.

In the larger context of the article though, it probably doesn't change much of the political reality.
I don't know but if I had to speculate, I'd say the US has less efficient government, because of factors like greater wealth (more complacency toward waste and corruption) and a larger and less homogenous population (a less coherent public debate).

With respect to the second point, I hypothesize that generally central economic planning becomes less efficient as the economy it plans grows larger. I suspect this is related to Dunbar's number.
Who is "they" and what did they do to Mike Hearn? (I know Hearn left the Bitcoin community and pronounced it a failed experiment, and I know there was some harsh criticism for that assertion...but, did it go beyond that?)
His philosophy of teaching was a little puzzling. “My policy is to teach the student as much as possible and to require from him or her as little as possible,” he told Donald Albers and Gerald Alexanderson, the authors of “Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews” in 2008.

But, he added, the impact of his apparent lenience was that many of his students worked harder in his course than in any other.

Would love to see more studies around this methodology and its impact on students. Not only an incredible professor, but an innovative teacher. Rest in peace!
Every day they let it cool the job gets a little easier, so they're in no particular hurry.
I remember running across that site a few months ago when it was posted on HN. I really like his basic description of meaning as a nebulous, contextual, and participatory dynamic. I also remember some good points about how the universe is one cohesive thing, but the stuff inside varies immensely in the degree of connectedness, and that these connections are often quite nebulous.

Btw, here is the fixed link: https://meaningness.com/

And HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136458
According to discussion posted by Scoble, Magic Leap says this is just an "R&D test" and not the real thing.
https://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154991564634655&id=5...
This post is about the Mac App Store, not the iOS App Store.
Working link: https://meaningness.com/

HN discussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136458
How about a towed sonar array?
Messenger Pigeon, 1000BC!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon
can someone repost it with paragraphs? it hurts my eyes, impossible to read
But Queen refused to be shorten Bohemian Rhapsody to pander to radio limits
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It's complicated.

Posix "rename()" is now supposed to be atomic, but it isn't on NFS.[1] Windows has version problems. XP couldn't do an atomic rename. Vista could for NTFS file systems, using the NTFS transactional rename function. That's now deprecated in favor of ReplaceFile, which came in with Windows 7.[2] That's supposed to be atomic even if a copy across file systems is required. Not sure about Windows file shares.

In MacOS X, "rename" was not atomic before 2011. It's now believed to be.[3]

Even with "rename", you have to find the directory in which the old file lives, and create the new file there (as something like a ".part" file) before renaming. This requires resolving symbolic links and such. So it's non-trivial to get this right. My point is that this should Just Work as the default.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41362016/rename-atomicity...
[2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...
[3] http://www.weirdnet.nl/apple/rename.html
Mental illnesses are as real as physical illnesses. While we have a long way to go in understanding and treating them (as we do with understanding of the brain and the body in general), most people suffering from mental illness can still benefit significantly from proper diagnosis and treatment. Writing off mental illness (or at least schizophrenia) as bullshit, as you appear to be doing, doesn't help anyone.
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I still search for apps with Google instead of in the App Store, even for iOS apps, since the App Store is such a terrible user experience (poor search, slow loading, glitchy, limited information compared to websites)
You should look harder. If you have Oracle experience then brush up on Postgres and cash in because specialization in just that specific migration can probably carry you into retirement.
In high school I enjoyed reading "What Is the Name of This Book?" Lots of fun.

https://archive.org/details/WhatIsTheNameOfThisBook
In Europe among politicians , as i guess everywhere, there's also that thing that i will undo everything you have done only because you have done it and i'm against it even if i don't understand it. And BTW probably get something in return from Microsoft.
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