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>miners control bitcoin

Incorrect, I can sign or construct any type of cryptographic payment I wish. Miners trade their Proof of work to prevent double spends in exchange for coinbase (currency issuance) that the market values. If miners chose to mine on a chain that no one wants, no one will trade for their coinbase.

The game theory nuance is, how do you organize an economy around changes to blockchain consensus? The only guaranteed way to ensure that that happens (from a game theory perspective) is to have miners lead the change. If user wish to lead the change, they still can but they take a risk in that no one will join them on the new consensus chain ("hey you guys said you'd construct payments like this and now no one is!"). There are more improved ways of rolling out these changes.

At worst miners can execute a denial of service for new transactions entering into the UTXO or attempt to double spend funds, or release blocks in a manner that negatively affects the profitability of other miners but they have _no control_ over how users handle their UTXO.

Bitcoin is anti fragile, each time it goes through a market challenger it gets better at handling it, not weaker.
It was on posted as Show HN six days ago but didn't generate any discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14512531
Modern cars don't need it that often, period. Conventional or synthetic.

Parts stores still push the 3k miles/3 months (or did until very recently). Dealers and manufacturers don't, and haven't for at least 10 years.
Link to the underlying report (PDF):
https://documents.trendmicro.com/assets/white_papers/wp-fake...

I'm not clear on how effective such a campaign promises to be. But assuming that folks wouldn't pay if they couldn't get something out of it, what does this tell us about democracy? Do we need to throw out either democracy or freedom of speech?
The engineers (aerospace, etc) also prefer the term "adjoint mode"
While it does cover a lot of interesting points the few things that I think it misses are research/innovation and unions/long term employment contracts of government employees. Not that there are easy answer, but those two things can effect whether a private company could get a job done cheaper.

Also, doesn't talk about software infrastructure. Take Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook. Customer acquisition costs for lots of fledgling businesses are high because of the ad auctions paid for by consumer attention and net neutrality keeping bandwidth costs down for those companies.
> Buying a house is not a life choice. It's a necessity

Buying a house in a place where real estate will be your single biggest cost is indeed a choice. The way inflation is calculated might not be perfect, but let's not try to make it even more imperfect in a different way.

EDIT: also, even with housing factored in, inflation is still low.

http://cepr.net/data-bytes/prices-bytes/prices-2017-06
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I think it is actually a good idea to describe the whole point of using a blockchain as suggested. A lot of organisations I encounter don't really have a clue and do not realize that even a traditional database could fill their need perfectly in many cases.
I was thinking the same but you were able to articulate it much better!

This is interesting enough for me to dig into and read the code, but what am I going to use this for? Now if transactions were blocks in a single database I could see more use for this.

Maybe it's too early and too little coffee for me to have a brilliant thought!
You might confirm that your video driver is up-to-date.
This is absolutely an example of this. Don't take it personally. The guy was probably grumpy to everybody else that day too.

Its the result of a general consensus in Germanic countries that forced happiness is distasteful (as has been mentioned) and a lesser appreciation of politeness between strangers. Its not that they are trying to deliberately be rude to you its just that they don't bother to feign cheeriness. Of course this is a massive generalization but overall its an observation of whats valued in the culture.

This is in complete contrast with Americans who will go out of their way to seem happy and cheery, "Hey, my name's Steve, how are you today? So happy to have you in my shop!" - when all you want to buy is a stick of gum..

The UK is a bit different from both the USA and Germany in that they definitely value politeness and cordiality between strangers (whether in a customer service setting or just in general) but they find any overt displays of emotion distasteful so prefer to keep the politeness low-key. Only mentioning the UK because some people are comparing Germanic values with English speaking countries so just wanted to make the distinction.
You need a more engaged and educated electorate.
Took me a while of reading here to realise, there's no git here. This is a seperate thing that cannot be integrated with your existing stuff, if you're already using Git.

I'd like to have the option of Word documents in Git but I don't want a whole other system just for the special snowflake that is Word as I'm already using Git for managing LaTeX documents and doing that entirely on my own infra.
Can you clarify why this is the case? This seems to just describe inflation as if it is a net gain, meaning you wouldn't actually realize gains because the aggregate of goods you buy would increase proportionally.
Google AI Used to Vet New York Times Comments
FPGAs, OpenHMC Push SKA HPC Processing Capabilities
With modern cars once a year is fine with synthetic oil, if not driven enough to hit the mileage threshold.
Similarly uncommonly known: All Dropbox Paper documents are publicly accessible by anyone with the URL by default. There's no way to change the default either. I get the improbability of someone guessing a URL with a long hash but if they obtain it any other way, such as from the HTTP request or browser history, other people still have full access to your docs.
"the first and second points are at least an order of magnitude more important than the third."

No offense, but 'performance is not as important as...' is what basically all pro-FP devs say for years, still it seems that the rest of the world thinks exactly the opposite.
erethium yes, but other factors too:

Bitcoin is a form of safety and asset diversification in a world of economic uncertainty. Wealthy foreigners like bitcoin because it is in many instances safer than keeping money in a bank
> My government will enforce a contract even if it is denominated in some foreign currency, will it not?

Usually, the same as it would for a contract for some non-currency commodity: by converting it to what it considers an equivalent value at the time of injury (not time of award or payment) in the legal tender currency.
and a distributed system of trust means a lot of well paid jobs (accountants, lawyers)will... not be necessary
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Sure, but if we're in dreamland, then I think the second biggest factor will be making security upgrades invisible to users. If you could ensure that you can upgrade any part of your OS/application while it's running, without ever requiring a reboot, then the problem disappears as you can simply stop asking people when they want a security patch.

In terms of safety, not much good comes from asking people.

(That, or let's just all agree that CVEs are a threat to Internet security, and have a policy for always displaying a message like "Your device will reboot in 05:00 in order to install a critical security patch. Please save your work." and have the users take comfort that it's not just their computer, but half of the planet is rebooting with them. That solution is game-theoretically unstable, though.)
Thanks!
Re 1. +1
Re 2. Users = people using the Usersnap dashboard / backend
Re 3. Since the integration is project-based, you can connect each Usersnap project with a different JIRA project
That was kind of my understanding of closure in Go:

https://gobyexample.com/closures
I'm a co-founder of Snips, we are building a private-by-design Voice Assistant platform which allows companies and makers to build a smart assistant 100% on-device.

Why do we do this? We want assistants of the future to respect user privacy, and not stream your voice or your most important questions to servers that you do not control.

With Snips, 100% of what we do runs on the device (the platform ships for Raspberry Pi, more platforms are available for entreprise customers, contact@snips.ai)

We are using state-of-the-art deep-learning Automated Speech Recognition and Natural Language Understanding to allow makers to plug a voice assistant in their device in 5 minutes.

We are actually benchmarked our NLP and are outperforming most of the commercially available NLU providers: https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-natural-language-un...
> the miners control bitcoin.

Incorrect. Nodes enforce consensus in bitcoin, not miners. It is thus. It has always been thus.
> Do we really have to use language studded with totems to dead people in place of clear conceptual descriptions of things?

The name "AND" is just as opaque as "Hadamard", if taken by itself. It just doesn't appear as such to you because you already have an intuitive grasp on the concept of conjunction.

The problem is that nearly everything on quantum physics is so profoundly unfamiliar that we cannot map these concepts and operations to familiar words. At that point, it doesn't matter if we call it "the florb operator" or if we name it after some pioneer of the field.

EDIT: Math actually has sort of the opposite problem. They use everyday words for very concrete objects with very concrete definitions. The most notable exception is theorems, but I hope you won't argue that a name like "Zorn's lemma" is more practical than something like "the lemma where you plug that thing into this mapping and then this thing becomes frobnicated".
> synthetic oil often leads to engines lasting longer

This is true in theory, but for most people the rest of the car will fall apart before the engine dies. All the rubber and plastic is degraded by air and sunlight which has little to do with any use patterns. (there are of course uses that put more wear on them as well)

A good portion of the cars are junked with so little use that they would have made it that far without any oil changes at all. Of course the oil would be like syrup, and the engine would show other signs of the abuse, but it would still be running well enough to make that last trip before the car is destroyed for other reasons.
Microsoft Masters Ms. Pac-Man with a Horde of AI Agents
I think engagement is part of the problem - many people are very eager to spot "gotchas!" of their opponents, rather than taking a more broad and measured view.

And educational achievement doesn't seem to be any barrier to the acceptance of bogus news - even being a leader in one field doesn't make you immune to disinformation from an unrelated quarter, and in fact we see this every day.
That's the second time this has come up in the last few days on HN. That must mean something.
Never use predicting stock prices as an example of anything. Pick literally anything other than stock prices to display confidence bounds. This helpful example diagram violates the EMH even worse by showing a large predictable directional change. You might as well illustrate physics with a chart of bowling balls falling upward.
I assume education would encompass critical thinking, allowing for the neutral evaluation of multiple sides of an issue, and a critical eye toward the veracity of facts and news consumed.
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I have had the same thoughts too. What also had me a bit puzzled in the ML community is the lack of discussion on local optimality, and constraint/Lagrangian loss functions. But there is probably a subtlety that I'm missing.
Google Docs is only online, I have to give my documents to Google and is quite thin in product features.
but there are also so, so many concepts about programming that you, when you were a little kid, had no hope of grasping. QC is in such early stages that it is more like talking about a circuit diagram, which is something that would befuddle most smart young people.

a Hadamard transform is very "mathy" and harder to understand than the majority of basic programming concepts, but why should QC need to be easy to understand? physics and math are very dense fields where great work is being done right now nevertheless.
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Unless you're saving canned food that doesn't solve anything.
Tim Cook isn't even the highest paid exec at Apple. It's Angela Ahrendts, she formerly lead a successful turnaround at Burberry as CEO.
Have you tried a keyword search on Linkedin? You'll find a number of individuals who specialize in contract staffing for your space.

Adriana Abadi @ Andiamo NYC might a good contact > https://www.linkedin.com/in/adriana-abadi-44b480112/
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It is safe for the individual accounts. Like a zebra in a zeal.
TSA live-testing fingerprint/facial-recognition tech to replace boarding passes
Ideally, styling should have nothing to do with editing or writing. You're talking about print (or PDF/static image) publishing, I guess?
Lifetimes are not the same as linear (or affine) types... they're related to "fractional permissions" in the upcoming formalism (and also related to region types found in many other systems, which can be partially emulated with monads).
I don't think people who already use git and latex are the target audience for this.
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I think the parent comment is about running worker-threads in 'nobody' user account.

a lot of proper-distro-packaged apps (e.g. nginx on centos yum/ubuntu apt) spawn 'nobody' processes
> What makes you think that the cheerfulness is "inauthentic"?

The fact that workers are trained in cheerfulness, and are given a set of phrases they must say, and that they say these phrases all day everyday to every single person they meet makes me think the cheerfulness is inauthentic.
cool stuff, have been looking for some facebook video ads generator.
This just seems like pointless whining to me. Quantum stuff is hard and picking a different name wouldn't really change anything. Perhaps calling it a Hadamard rotation would be slightly easier to understand. But regarding the difficulty of the concept: nobody is forcing you to study quantum computing anyway.

Also, the only reason you find boolean operators and normal arithmetic operators easy to understand intuitively is due to exposure.
I've used git for word docs for years now. Using pandoc to convert them to markdown allows sensible diffs to be displayed as well. Works great for redlining.
Element AI Raises $102M to Take on Amazon, Alphabet
Is that something people care about though?

I'm asking honestly as someone who was in this space several years ago, I'm not convinced that even if it was backed to git that would be a big enough lure to make people want to use it.

Please feel free to convince me I'm wrong :)...
Then they shouldn't market based on it.
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This looks like such a cool idea, but already you see that the problems presented seem to be seriously underestimating how complicated what they're trying to do is. For example, detecting specific text in an image? 10 minutes in OpenCV. Detecting any text at all in any format in an image? I don't even know where to start. Maybe 10 minutes in OpenCV if they constrain the kind of text, otherwise ML? It feels like an unboundedly complicated problem.
By definition, a society based on debt has a negative net worth on the books.

The only people who can logically value the perpetually indebted existence of billions of people and the massive leverage that comes with that as a net gain are the central banks to which the debt and interest is owed.
As someone who has used Macs since the 90s fairly carelessly I was quite impressed when a relative got a virus 3 weeks into his first Mac. All three of the above points were not followed.
If all you need is to diff documents (Word, Excel, PPT, or arbitrary PDFs) then I can't recommend https://draftable.com/compare enough. It's an amazing tool. Granted, you need to do merges manually with just a diff tool, but that's not usually the bottleneck.
I have said for many years now that before anyone can vote they need to take a test. It's a dead simple 5 question T/F test. And you only have to get 3 right to vote.
I tried doing something like this a couple of years ago by embedding an actual git repository inside a docx or ODF file. Unfortunately, most popular word processing suites back then trashed the git directory instead of leaving it alone (as they should, according to the standards)
It's completely insane. There's no reason to be a workaholic at any age, and there's no excuse for exploiting your employees.
Oh, Uber
> What happens if process A reads from a file while process B writes it?

If process B started first, the writer blocks access to the table being written to, so the reader waits for the writer to complete. There are timeout and retry behaviors, but within those configurable limits, that's what happens.

You can make SQLite behave as you worry about if you set the retries to 0 and timeout to 0, but that's not the default.
Or, consider your use case for this at least.

Some user-level backups for example, will make the atime useless.
ElementAI raises historic $137.5M Series A round
>prototype chicken nugget

for some reason, this phrase resonates deeply with me.
I'd say that depends entirely on context. It also has diminishing value each "level" one goes. I mean, understanding quantum degeneracy pressure doesn't make physicists more effective at being solid.
> We shouldn't e.g. use Firefox because it's largely funded by Google's search money?

You are right but you are being pedantic here. This is all about political agendas and supporting the good ones versus not supporting the bad ones. Please stick to the essence of the discussion.

> Facebook could close down its React involvement right now, and it would hardly affect its market cap or its ability to find developers to work there.

Please list me the reasons why you think Facebook is using open source then? And don't be selective.

> There are 100s of alternatives, including good old email, (...)

Yes, there are alternatives but they are not accessible because users have been locked into the network of Facebook. That was the point.
OneNote. I used to use Evernote, but one too many glitches pushed me over the edge one day. OneNote has been wonderful.
Mostly countries with a positive balance of trade, minimal or no public debt and minimal regulatory capture, none of which is true in the US.

And if you actually wanted to do that, it would require deep cuts to other government programs, because the social security administration wouldn't be there to soak up government debt anymore, which would raise interest rates. The same tax dollar can't both be invested in stocks and "borrowed" by the general fund to pay for education or the military.
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If you search for "black bar"[0] then you will see why it appears every now and again. Here's a link for this occasion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14548030

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=black%20bar&sort=byDate&prefix...
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Don't know the specifics of the Audi Q7 of the OP, but my Mercedes A 180 CDI 2012 model (Diesel engine) averages 53 mpg (4.4 l/100Km) for my conmute trip (35 KM total, including ~8 KM of mountain road, with a 300m elevation change). Given that my A180 has a 50 liter (13.21 US gallons) fuel tank according to the manufacturer, that means I could make up to ~1,100 Km with a single tank. In practice I refuel before that, but routinely make ~900 Km between refuels.
Btw, AsciiDoc could be used with gitbook-cli. It's not Sphinx but still powerful enough for all kinds of documentation.
What's the deal with the sunglasses guy on the homepage. I was going to just glance and leave but that's really caught my attention. Going by a reverse image search it looks like a semi-stock photo so it's probably not anyone involved but also the positioning is just so.. odd
The "Look at the popularity of Bitcoin in [country]" argument always turns out to be made-up rubbish.

I did actually try tracking the Venezuela hype to its source. You have linked the Reason article as a reference, but if you actually read the thing, its title is "The Secret, Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining: How cryptocurrency is turning socialism against itself" and the article itself is an unhinged libertarian polemic fiercely advocating Bitcoin as a way to avert the SPECTRE of SOCIALISM and REGULATION. One of their interviewees had been arrested for stealing electricity to mine bitcoins, which the author describes as a "government crackdown" on "freedom" because "bitcoin mining is arguably the best possible use of electricity in Venezuela".

A story in The Guardian in the wake of the Reason story appears to be where the rest of the press picked it up. It spoke of some Venezuelans relying on Bitcoin for "basic necessities" - and was based on interviews with a Bitcoin exchange owner, one of his employees and two of his customers. The author had previously written similar stories of Argentina and bitcoin. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/16/venezuela...

These two questionably-founded stories were echoed and elaborated upon by the rest of the press, including - amongst many others - the Washington Post claiming that Bitcoin mining is "big business" in Venezuela (which it in no way is), the New York Times claiming that Bitcoin has "gained prominence" because of Venezuela, and BBC News repeating claims from a Bitcoin boosterism blog - all of this being factoids repeated in a media game of telephone.

The Venezuelan volume on LocalBitcoins at the time was on the order of 300-400 BTC/week, which isn't nothing, but is negligible in the context of a whole country, and tracked fairly closely with LocalBitcoins usage in other countries.

tl;dr no, Venezuela isn't a thing either.
I have a tractor from 1939. The owners manual states that modern oils are much better than old oils and as a result practices of years past do not apply. (I don't recall the exact wording) If you ask collectors today there is a big debate on if it is safe to use modern detergent oils in those old tractors.
The assumption that anyone seeking a refund is trying to screw the company is how criminal policies at companies like Steam and GOG evolve. It's actually easy to identify the bad people while maintaining a legal and ethical policy for customers - two distinct groups.
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> Moore's Law isn't technically about ...

Moore's law is fuzzy and has been for a while. I doubt if even Moore has the authority to say what it is about anymore.

When one person hears "Moore's law" or any other words what are the chances the person hearing those words is thinking the same thing as the speaker? For some words the listener hears the same thing the speaker intended, but I don't think it is for these words anymore.

Performance is still exponential the practical of Moore's law is still real.