skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The acquisition of bitcoin by newcomers in no way enriches earlier adopters, as in a classic pyramid scheme.

Of course it does. Bitcoin used to be at $1, now it's at $1,xxx. What happened in between was a massive influx of newcomers.

The difference to, for example, the stock market is in the "underlying value". If I buy some stock and it's price collapsed the next day, I'm still entitled to my share of future profits etc. If the company is sound, I have lost nothing.

A ponzi scheme's underlying value is only the future growth of the scheme itself.

I'd say the jury is still out for bitcoin et alt: how much of the growth is being fuelled by speculation, and to what extend is that speculation actually speculating on future speculation?
She talked to the press when her allegations were found to be unmerited.

Who's responsible for the problems again?
Funny, a guess could also be that they have an entitlement complex and expect to just be believed.

I'm honestly not sure which I expect to be the case. :(
The view source of this is amazingly clean and refreshing to read. Great learning example, thanks!
Evergreen: an open source feed reader for MacOS
I don't, but a marketing campaign saying "using modern safe techniques" might get a little traction.
Microsoft licensing guides with1 page cheat sheets – Win Server and CALs
lost 1 bitcoin when Cryptsy went under, I thought I was unlucky..
Read a little further down the page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment#Statutory_e...
What made the RISC or ARM processor popular in the past was the ability to do graphic rendering and complex math. GPU's put a dent in that. Making a i386 CISC system with the addition of a GPU have parity with the old SG systems, but substantially cheaper.
You'd have to prove that she was let go in direct relation to reporting the harassment, and given the at-will employment clause most assuredly included in her employment contract, they (Tesla) wouldn't have to give a reason for letting her go.

That's an uphill battle, and one that only the lawyers and court can really decide.
Ask HN: What do you need help with in your business?
"For the past three years, my assignment has been to try to help this newspaper live up to its own high journalistic standards as it covered a historic presidential election, two wars, the Great Recession, violence in the Middle East and more. I have deplored the overuse of anonymous sources, warned against the creep of opinion into news analysis and worried about the preservation of Times quality on the Internet. But, in truth, I have sometimes felt less like a keeper of the flame and more like an internal affairs cop."

- Departing NYT Public Editor Clark Hoyt

SOURCE: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/opinion/13pubed.html?r...
> Companies don't have the emotions people have.

You forget, companies solely consist of people and are solely owned by people. It's a legal vehicle.

People, of which companies consist, have feelings and emotions.
It's not marketed as a messaging platform, but it sounds like Apache NiFi [1] may fulfill some of your needs, with many of the specialized tooling you described, already built in. NiFi is very tunable to support differing needs ("loss tolerance vs. guaranteed deliveries", "low latency vs. high throughput", ...). It is built to scale, it includes enterprise security features, and you can track every piece of data ever sent through it (if you want to.) It includes an outstanding web-based GUI, where you can immediately change the settings on all of your distributed nodes, through a simple and complete interface. It features an extension interface, but it contains many battle-tested commonly-used plugins (Kafka, HTTP(s), SSH, HDFS, ...) so that you can gradually integrate it into your environment.

NiFi has come up a few times on HN, but I really don't think it gets the attention it deserves --- I don't know how it would perform against Kafka, NATS, NSQ, *MQ, or other messaging platforms, and unfortunately, I don't have any metrics to share. But when I see that many users are taking these messaging platforms, and building additional tooling/processes to meet needs that are already built into NiFi, I think it shines as a very competitive open-source option.

@TheHydroImpulse: Thank you for sharing your insights in this post, and explaining why your organization made these selections. Have you considered or evaluated NiFi?

[1] https://nifi.apache.org/

(Disclaimer: All posts are my own, and not sponsored by the Department of Defense.)
Bonuses are pretty common around companies in my area (Metro Detroit). Every company I've worked for had some kind of bonus structure, ranging from "Here's some money and don't tell anyone about it" to "10% every year as long as we're not broke, plus more for performance".
Most music is mixed not to have any useful spectral information below that frequency anyway. And if you want beat then a better thing you can do is look at the half-wave rectified difference between the sums of two FFT frames (with optional lowpass). This results in an onset graph that is the basis for a lot of real-time beat detection algorithms.
What you're feeling is nervousness at learning something new. It's big and scary and overwhelming, yes... but if it's not scary or hard you're probably not learning!

What you need to do is learn how to learn just enough to get things done. Then you can learn new technologies and be OK with hitting the point of "oh shit now what", because you know that you can make it through. I haven't written any Ruby, nor do I know, but I was able to submit patches to a Ruby project (Sinatra) and package up some Ruby software.

So yes, you'll have to hit Java eventually. And when you do it'll be scary. But that's OK, because that means you're learning.

More about scariness in learning here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2017/04/17/learning-without-a-m...
If it's making that much of a difference in heat, it's probably using a software renderer instead of passing the decoding to the GPU. Check (Menu)->Help->Troubleshooting Information and see if it says "Supports Hardware H264 Decoding: No;". If you can't fix it, I recommend using an extension that adds video URLs to your VLC playlist. VLC supports playing YouTube URLs natively.
You can't operate on the JVM without being able to understand what's happening on the JVM. Being "afraid" of it is pointless. It's like any other technology built on top of another, e.g., you still have to know ES5 to work with ES6, because things go wrong.

"Powerless"? Java, because (for the most part) is fairly static and banal, is relatively straight-forward to understand compared to Scala.
>The acquisition of bitcoin by newcomers in no way enriches earlier adopters

Doesn't it though? The reason we're talking about ethereum here is because it's got the best adoption of any of the newer altcoins. And the more people talk about these altcoins the better they seem to do. Hence things like "this is good for bitcoin", they're trying to get buy in.
You don't know JS is a good book to start with and explains ES6 too.

It is available for free on github so you can evaluate before buying.

https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS
If 1% of guys are scumbags, and 5 days a year they really act like it, and you play that out for 10 years.. most women could be harrassed at some point or other even though 99% of guys are innocent.
Crytocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum are legitimate stores of value and have been compared to the use of other finite stores of value such as precious metals.

The market capitalization of gold currently stands at 7.5 trillion USD. All cryptocurrencies combined currently stand at a market capitalization of 87.6 billion USD (1.14% of the market capitalization of gold).

Cryptocurrencies with a finite supply can supplant other finite stores of value and actually provide a number of benefits over existing finite stores of value (instant exchange to sterling currencies, improved transactional ability, traceability and general liquidity). It is likely we are just getting started.

Calling any legitimate store of value a Ponzi scheme is missing the point.
Any threats to Intel's (almost?) monopoly on laptops/desktops is a good thing.
There's a second video on that page as well that explains the technique used.
What is reasonable is not what happens the majority of the time.

The economics tell us that we need to continue to burn things. At the same time collection will get better. Hopefully the one will go down and the other up. I for one am hopeful about this.
How else are you going to find time to stuff Orlando Bloom and Evangeline Lilly and their romantic subplots into the story?
I've been using Brave[1] on my Android phone for the past two months. It's been brilliant. A much better experience than Firefox, which was a bit slow and some pages loaded as a white screen.

I'd love to use Brave on my desktop too, but their lack of plugin/extension/add on support cripples it a little. There's a couple I just can't live without. Using Iridium[2] on the desktop instead.

[1] https://www.brave.com/

[2] https://iridiumbrowser.de/
Yeah, #define.
Which means that Tesla would have to indicated that the termination was in retaliation to the reporting of the harassment. It doesn't sound (to my non-lawyer ears) like it did.

But that's now between the lawyers and the courts.
In the event of sexual harassment, you may be right. Certainly, female sexual rights have been a moral point of interest for a century or so, and it's not one that shared by all cultures today. And it was shared by almost none in pre-industrial societies. So, I'm not sure there's the level of proof that it's a "fundamental human right" in the way that liberty has been proven in political philosophy.

But praveenbeatle is referring to the idealistic drive to be a part of a societal change by making up events to exploit for political gain.
We used RabbitMQ extensively for almost two years but the problems we were encountering along the way weren't worth it. We ended up talking to the dev team too often to solve catastrophic issues that took down our whole production for hours.

We reconsidered using it again for a synchronous RPC communication as we were replacing gRPC, but ended up going with nats.io instead. It does have less fearures but we are able to squeze much more juice on a smaller stack.
Chanting, self-reflection and developing my inner purpose.

With chanting comes the wisdom to exercise, have enough sleep and live a healthy, lifestyle while also being able to declutter my mind and build my inner core energy.

That for me has been the single most defining activity that has transformed my life. I work full-time, I do household chores and I continue to work on my startup and when many asked how I've been able to do it, it all starts with chanting.
You're 100% right. What I'd say is that we as a society have to make a choice between preserving the full range of protected speech we all enjoy and curtailing the degree to which the democratic process has been corrupted by the unlimited need for private money to run a campaign.

I'm not personally convinced I know which of those two options is preferable, but those are the options. I am fairly well convinced that you can't do the latter without the former.
Exosuit to further reduce metabolic cost of running
If you want to read a directory, you use the functions opendir, readdir, and closedir. You can get a decent idea of what they do by looking at POSIX documentation. They have been modified to fit Perl better, so you still have to look at the Perl documentation as well.

If you want to fork a process, you use the function "fork". If you want to call exec, Perl has it. You can even have the parent process wait on the child's pid.

This isn't a big deal to everyone, but I like POSIX, and I like knowing that if I want to do something new, there's a good chance I can start with "how would I do it in C on a POSIX system?" I have many complaints about Java, and one is that their original standard library appears to have been modeled on early versions of MFC, even though Sun had access to a superior API, since they had plenty of experience with shipping a POSIX operating system.
The readme say: It’s also not actually usable at this point.

So why are you sharing this? I don't see any features that set it apart from the alternatives.
Bitcoin is a finite supply store of value like gold.

To argue that's a Ponzi scheme reduces down to arguing that the entire economy is a Ponzi scheme. There are some Marxists who argue that. If that's true we have bigger problems.
Government is a set of laws federal, state and local, nothing is the same. Also a policy is local to the area.

When you get into information that also varies, for one reason or another governments use different systems computer and otherwise. A lot of government collaboration is working out how these similar but dissimilar systems will operate. What works for say Los Angeles certainly doesn't work for San Andreas and visa versa, and it gets even weirder if you cross state lines.

A respectable goal is to work up universal data interchange standards, not set systems, but say a "record" of a law should contain minimally certain information in certain text standards, etc. This leaves the municipalities to still work with their preferred systems but when doing cross-government business everyone know what data to expect minimally.

The downside of this is sometimes some entities are bad players and vote for bad data rules (i.e. the ever dwindling census detail) which benefit them in one way or another.
> the people who start mining early win out, and the people who join later to speculate on the currency have less and less chances of striking it rich.

Replace "mining" with investing and currency with stock and tada.

That's not a pyramid scheme, that's risk/reward investing 101.
I always find it interesting to read quotes like that. The point is to read everything. But, why a famous author for the quote?

This one, in particular, would be a lot more powerful from a librarian.
Nvidia makes an architecture (Denver [1]) that is made by former Transmeta people and is in many ways a direct successor to this chip. In its current forms, Denver is implemented to execute ARMv8 instructions, but it could in theory execute x86 just the same. Now it's performing its internal exotic VLIW instructions by performing ARM "hardware emulation", but it could do x86 "hardware emulation" just the same.

Qualcomm uses a less exotic architecture in their chips so that's not an option for them.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
Two ways.

The first is that this approach made for an antibiotic that can take out bacteria that are resistant to all currently known antibiotics.

The second is that people are inconsistent about mixing antibiotics, so bacteria do encounter opportunities to evolve tolerance one at a time. While this mix of approaches will always be consistently combined.
OP isn't calling cryptocurrencies a Ponzi scheme, but specific contracts (e.g. in Ethereum you could make a "smart contract" that acts as a Ponzi scheme).
"Same thing applies to NaCl verifier. Bugs in verifier can cause problems. "

Not like with the other, though. You can statically verify NaCl stuff because it was designed for that to be easy. If WebAssembly doesn't do that, then it's a step down from NaCl at least on this risk. That it matters should be obvious given all the research by the kind of CompSci people that invented NaCl on eliminating that risk from the TCB. It's part of a larger concept where you make the things generating the risky code untrusted with the trusted checkers so simple they can be mathematically verified. Here's an example from a top group on NaCl:

http://www.cse.psu.edu/~gxt29/paper/rocksalt.pdf

I'm not worried about this too much as it will probably be some brilliant student's personal project in near future if it's not being researched already. A quick Google shows the Github has the full, C semantics with compiler (KCC) and a Javascript semantics at least has a prototype from 2015 of WebAssembly.

https://github.com/kframework/wasm-semantics
https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=37172...
ARM64 emulation in Qemu is very slow anyway...
> Cost, of course, is key because only a select group of foundry customers with deep pockets can afford 10nm and 7nm

Really? I wouldn't have known that only people with more money can spend more money
>“There is nothing more important to our mission, or our business, than strengthening our connection with our readers,” Sulzberger added. “A relationship that fundamental cannot be outsourced to a single intermediary.”

This is a disturbing statement. Shouldn't a serious newspaper's mission be to investigate and report facts without regard to the "connection" it creates or dissolves with the reader? I'm sure Infowars has a deep connection with its readers.

This is a profoundly ridiculous statement but I think it represents what the NYT has always been quite accurately.
> MS was a much bigger impenetrable monopoly and the Web was won back. It can be done again.

The Web won because a) its introduction was a one-time technological change whose social impact was on the order of the printing press, and b) Microsoft had gotten fat and lazy on their monopoly revenues from Windows and Office.

We can't get cocky here. It is perfectly plausible that HTML will still render 500 years from now. And I'm dead certain that it will still dominate 20 years from now.

Growing up in a major technical revolution, it's easy for us to assume that the future will have a lot of technical revolutions that will keep knocking monopolists, rentiers, and authoritarians off their perches. And if that happens, great. But we should really be planning for the opposite case.
It's sad you're being downvoted. I've found similar sentiment elsewhere, and I'm interested to learn more.

stableperl (http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html) is a fork of perl 5.22 with a couple of tiny reversions that re-enable access to some internal state required by certain CPAN modules.

The author talks in other blog posts (http://blog.schmorp.de/2016-12-29-griefing-the-perl-api.html, http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-11-12-tidbits-why-coro-crashes-o..., http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-12-15-tidbits-cgipm-a-data-point...) about the decline of Perl's cohesion.

It's sad to see.

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EDIT: And now I'm being downvoted.

I have no problem with Perl, I watched the Perl 6 presentation when it was released with great interest.

Perl remains on my list of languages to learn (I know, I know...). It's up there. And that's why I said I was sad to see datapoints like the one I linked. I want Perl to keep going strong, and I hope it lasts another 20 years. I guess I added this comment because I wanted to find out if there was anything I could do.
Your views sound outdated.
There is a "you" separate from "your chemicals". In the same way a character in a video game is in fact very separate from the transistors that power the computer that the game runs on. They live in different worlds, by different rules and both have very different implications for life.

There is a perfectly valid and functional world model that incorporates both the science and it's atoms and spirituality. Functional in a sense that people having this view can both apply their knowledge to the scientific domain (building new mechanical machines) and also to the spiritual domain, that is be truly happy and enlightened in the way the experience their own life. (Seeing yourself (factually incorrectly) as ONLY a chemical machine does not produce happiness, mission, love, etc. (nor good health for that matter, because health is affected by psychological wellbeing a lot) without a solid spiritual foundation.) Jordan Peterson has a very good video about this, something about reconciling science and religion.

The point is, "Free Will" is not a scientific concept, it's a concept from spirituality. And can very well fit with all of the science that is known to humanity today. Free will comes not from the randomness of quantum mechanics, but from implications of the chaos theory (which has basically killed determinism as a means of understanding the human life experience).
A year before that was Snow Crash, which described the dominance of corporate enclaves in a compelling fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

Of course, the earlier Neuromancer had many of the same themes. Both are seminal works in the cyberpunk genre.
Introduction to the Theory of Lattices and Applications to Cryptography (2006) [pdf]
I've been doing the same thing for the past couple weeks. http://blog.cogwheel.info/2017/05/ttl-brainfuck-computer-par...
Cauldron: Data analysis notebooks that are testable and Git friendly (Interview)
I suppose. But there is no guarantee of return, or even the promise of return, which is something a Ponzi scheme almost always offers.

As OP pointed out, everyone who is investing in mining / purchasing these coins is hoping they will be a store of value that will appreciate. At some level, it's no different from betting on specific commodities​. No one is promising anything. I think that's an important distinction.
I used to sometimes see random volumes from the middle of The History of Middle-earth series sitting in airport bookstores. I'd look at that and just feel sorry for anyone who thought "Oh, I loved The Hobbit! I'm looking for something to read on the plane: maybe this book The Shaping of Middle-earth will be fun." Even Unfinished Tales or The Silmarillion could be more or less reasonable there, but this felt like tricking people into buying a specialized third-year college textbook.
Well, the fact that they're running it in PyPy makes all of this that much more challenging to debug - you'd have to look at the runtime-generated bytecode to identify the actual causes.
Rust's fearless concurrency[0] allows devs to write and refactor performant parallel code without the risk of introducing bugs, enabling them to ship upgrades faster.

It's the same benefit you get from strong, static types in a large project vs one with dynamic/weak types, but for another category of bugs. In large projects, it makes a difference.

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0. Hopefully you'll forget the meme ;-)
There was an article posted here a few months back lamenting how SF is gradually losing stoops and gaining garages, with driveways that cross the sidewalk.

People enter and exit their cars in the closed garage, never having the chance to greet their neighbors on the way, and also make what was traditionally a pedestrian-only zone more hazardous since now they drive across it (often with poor visibility).

As someone who has always lived in the Midwest or suburbs, when we bought our first house a couple years ago I was happy to have it be a rowhome in a small downtown, with an actual porch out front sticking into the sidewalk. I can sit out there on my bench swing thing and interact with my neighbors in a natural, informal way.
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It's a good point about the ticketing. However, trains don't get stuck in traffic (generally).

The two airports I fly into quite regularly are London Heathrow and Vienna. At both locations I'd prefer to catch the Airport Express train than mess about with taxis in traffic.

I was in Hong Kong a few months ago and it was extremely straight forward to catch the airport train. Very, very obvious where to go, how to buy tickets etc.

Try catching a cab from Sydney Kingsford Smith airport into the city during peak hour. You will sit on the Eastern Distributor for a long time.
It is my understanding of history that most newspapers used to have open political biases; they were even on the take from the party bosses, and it was written into their mission statements. You knew through what lens to filter the content, and they were happy with smaller, more limited readerships. This aim for objectivity in printed reporting was a recent 20th century development.