skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am confused too.

You can compare the market caps in a sense. A company with 1000 shares worth $10 each has the same market cap as a cryptocurrency with 1000 tokens worth $10 each. The $10 price is the highest price people are willing to buy the share/token at. In economic terms, they're quite equivalent?

That's where the similarities end. A token does not mean ownership. It doesn't mean a share of profits. Tokens do not necessarily have any rules about how many there will be.

More practically, a single person owning 100% of a cryptocurrency would likely reduce the value to zero. Owning 100% of a company, you can at least sell its assets.
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I'm always wondering how long the machine just sits there waiting for the building blocks to arive, before it detects them, and uses them. Is the soup of building blocks just swirling so fast that the machine can continue working without interruptions? Or is waiting just part of the game?
Guarantee this, prohibit that. Meanwhile, no one gives a crap since the state/EU/CIA, whatever you want to call them; have already proven beyond doubt where they stand on these issues. You either encrypt everything yourself or you're potentially in trouble.

https://github.com/andreas-gone-wild/snackis
Next big thing engineered organs, not AI
these kind of assumptions and having openings to these kind of interpretations is what creates loopholes in the law. if anything this will be crappy worded and probarb ly exploitable by lawyers...
Excellent guide. Lots of things I didn't know about apart from Debug Toolbar!

Previously I've hacked in printing out SQL statements, but the logging configuration is a lot nicer.
It's the European Parliament here, and there are much more protections between politics and businesses/lobbyists.
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Checkout the Googlezon clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT9ho2G0N_Y and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQDBhg60UNI.
The thing is - there is no black box tech. Bitcoin paper is so clear you can explain the tech behind Bitcoin to a person in few minutes/hours depending on their math background.

Same holds for virtually any cryptocurrency although the tech gets a bit more complicated (for example zero-knowledge proofs used by Zcash are not that easy to comprehend and explain).

There are many benefits of cryptocurrencies, one of them is IMHO pretty important - it is much harder to manipulate the prize of currency, or to create new amounts of currency at will - everything is backed by math and computational power.
Take a look at Gorm:

http://jinzhu.me/gorm/
Starting to feel like Go is suffering from a glut of web frameworks.
I think the main issue is there is no "multi-round" crowdsale or investment cycle right now for crypto companies.

So there's no "seed valuation" where a startup may be priced much more accurately based on what it's worth right then. In the ICO/crowdsale pretty much the peak potential valuation is included in the price. Kind of like if Facebook was doing its first round of investment (when it was still a site for colleges-only) and it would raise $100 billion from that first round.

This model seems very flawed, because it's very hard to price a company 10-15 years into the future accurately.
Thanks for posting. That was fascinating.
I don't understand your comment. Given the same rate of return, investors prefer lower risk. So what you seem to be saying is conglomerates produce lower returns.

But I don't think that's what the conglomerate discount is, which I believe says that the components of a conglomerate are worth more than the conglomerate itself. More precisely, "Conglomerate discount is calculated by adding an estimation of the intrinsic value of each of the subsidiary companies in a conglomerate and subtracting the conglomerate's market capitalization from that value." [1]

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conglomeratediscount.asp...
"and everyone knew Intel could continue to play the pricing discount game for as long as they wanted"

let's not forget the "don't build with AMD chips or else" game which they got sued over, though too late to matter
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It's sucks that it's so difficult to have a level headed discussion about the technology behind cryptocurrencies online. There's too much money involved, and money kills rationality it seems.

I've been looking into cryptocurrencies a bit lately and from a technological standpoint it's exhilarating. Witnessing the internet centralize itself more and more around big platforms this past decade, it really is a breath of fresh air to see those highly complex and advanced distributed systems. And technology-wise ethereum is really an amazing concept on its own.

There's also so much left to do! How will those systems scale up if they're supposed to replace "fiat" currency and your Visa card? Currently that's a big debate in the Bitcoin community, with the push for Segregated Witness support while other petition for increased block sizes etc...

But because there's so much money at stake the technical discussions are surprisingly rare. For something that's mostly "just code and maths" it's insane to read all these discussions where so many people throw around unsubstantiated arguments when it's not complete FUD. As far as I can tell Bitcoin forums these days look more like a conspiracy theory subreddit (or alternatively a political subreddit, is there a difference nowadays?) than hacker news.

Is there a cryptocurrency out there that's more about experimenting with the technology rather than a Get Rich Quick scheme? If I had more time I think I'd just start writing my own coin miner from scratch just to see how it works in details.
I love Sisyphos so that's good news! I take it they don't have chickens running around at De School though?
I'd like to see an updated version of that second part including the new findings from the parent.
I'm still waiting on Visual Voicemail to come to my Carrier; i had it on a previous carrier and it was superbly useful.
> Is there any way we could have encryption / security with a state actor still being able to decrypt the data if needed?

There are, and there have been, they're called back doors and they are a bad idea, because you cannot guarantee a state actor having sole access - if there is any way to get to data besides the main gateway (e.g. having a private key), it's insecure and potentially hackable by people that are not said state actor. Even if it's fully secure, there's still the risk of human failure - leaks, espionage, accidents. Then all your data would be up for grabs.
The recent elections (last year or so) in Europe showed a great deal of anti-EU feelings from some parts of the population.
They have fined microsoft billions over the years. Once 2-3 million dollars per day for failing to comply.

1.44 billion was the largest fine they got so far. Failing to comply with sometthing like this (through secrecy) would definitely be way north of that. It just wouldn't be worth it. I mean microsoft doesn't have anything to gain from having backdoored security, unlike the situation with media player and internet explorer, where there was a monopoly situation.
Sure, it is actually quite easy to design systems that allow only the state or the government (or any given trusted organizayion for that matter) to decrypt secure communications. However, the problem is, can we trust the governments to not use this for malicious purposes, or to not somehow leak their credentials to others? What if some bad actor infiltrates the government and gets all access, or some rogue terrorist organization invades a country? As the Latin poet Juvenal said, "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" (Who will guard the guards?)
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> have a receptor/channel/process/thing that only one precise 3d molecule can fit into

But what if the molecule has an unexpected "tail" attached to it? How to prevent the process from getting stuck?
its not about size, its about predictable response time.

Embedded systems range from the tiniest microcontroller up to multi-core xeons, DSPs and FPGAs.

Embedded != small.

The typical issues associated with embedded development are 1) cost and 2) response time (for real-time embedded systems).

The big one here is cost. If you're wasting a single byte in your code, you have to pay that cost in every single unit you make (e.g. millions).
Couldn't the retained state of friendly conversations just be based upon the fact that you have interacted socially with the people there, possibly induced by your broken laptop bag and thus there is a more open process of communication and friendliness vs. some kind of nefarious surveillance policy.

Also there are all kinds of unconscious social biases that can induce people to talk to us. Perhaps you know expect to be interacted with and thus this orientates you towards social interactions.
I am happy with the cheapest ssd vps option from OVH - I run debian with few low traffic websites and so far it works great.

I have also recently switched from Adobe Creative Photography plan to Zoner Photo Studio - for about 1/4 of the price
(it has the same functionality as Lightroom and I wasn't using Photoshop anyway)
Another big recent achievement of the European Parliament is the "General Data Protection Regulation" (GDPR) [1], which comes into effect in May 2018 and stipulates that companies can be fined up to 4% of their worldwide turnover when they fail to protect/process the data of EU-based customers in a proper manner.

For example: say that LinkedIn was to experience a new data breach, and they fail to inform the authorities or their customers in time, then they can be fined for up to 120 million USD (based on a revenue of 5 billion USD)!

I'm surprised that it's so little known here, as the impact will be massive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regula...
There's also a question of how much you trust the government, and trust all future possible governments.
Check this out. With this tool, the type switch gets you exhaustiveness checks for hokey package-private sum-types in Go :)

https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype
Do you feel more unsafe in a world where secure encryption is widely and easily used, or do you feel safer in a world where that would become contraband, and fake security in encryption would expose you to state and criminal exploitation. This isn't some kind of techno-libertarian hard-line position. Many governments are incapable of administering back-doored encryption without corrupt influences exploiting the back door, even if you trust first-world governments to keep things relatively clean.
Releasing it under MIT too would allow it to be used in closed source software projects. GPL does not allow that use case.
> what if we just eliminated wage regulation, and the marginal costs of workers to our business entirely, by making them slaves!

Your premise is incorrect and historically ignorant. Slaves are net more costly and drastically less efficient than free employees. George Washington, among numerous other slave owners of the time, for example wrote about that fact indepth. The net cost of workers skyrockets and their productivity implodes, in the case of slavery. Washington made the economic point that with slaves, he became entirely responsible for the cost of their existence, in all regards (shelter, food, health, etc), and their work output was at best on par with or below that of free labor (which is exactly what one would expect). As a system, slavery was a failure morally and economically.
Only over bytes objects, not over unicode objects.
The UK has an entirely different governmental structure than the EU, so comparing why someone votes for an MEP v.s. UK MP makes no sense.

Of course MEPs are going to need to consider the EU as a whole, because in order to advance the goals of their constituencies they need to cooperate with the MEPs representing everyone else (and other EU institutions).

But expecting that you can ban MEPs from being a product of national politics or national political branding would be folly and undemocratic. That's what the EP is for, it's there to represent voting blocks within the nation-states that make up the EU, MEPs are explicitly not voted for across national boundaries.

Targeting MEPs to solve a perceived "democratic deficit" in the EU seems bizarre. They're the only directly elected institution, and they're the most locally accountable EU representatives or institution.

It seems to me what you'd like to accomplish here would be better solved by making the 28 members of the Commission directly elected across national boundaries by the entirety of EU citizens.
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Of all the names they could have used...
Because it's fun! :)
Which was what I said, two lines down from the quoted line. And I also tried to explain how that would probably not be a worthwile thing to do for microsoft (Naively speaking: If you have e.g. 1% risk of discovery and the fine is estimated to say $10B, then the gain from keeping the backdoor would better be $100M etc.). I can't see how they could make any kind of big money out of insecure encryption, other than the savings of not fixing it.
And that seems to require quite a bit of faith.
>Can you do this without centralization?

No, this is a service of centralized parties, which are free to use the blockchain. My point is that an immutable blockchain can have both mutable and immutable services, while a mutable blockchain can only have mutable services. The immutable blockchain therefore has a major competitive advantage over the mutable one.

With respect to immutability, it is important for some critical applications, like money in countries that restrict economic rights. If you live in Venezuela for example, you will not want your wealth in the form of a digital currency that's stored on the servers of a company in another country, because that server could eventually be shutdown, or have its ledger altered by the trusted third party running it. Your government is a powerful organization after all, and could lobby the government of the country where the server is held to force the company to restrict people from your country from using its banking services. Or that country may try to punish your country's government, by sanctioning all Venezuelan nationals, which again would lead to you losing access to the ledger.

You want you wealth in the form of a digital currency sitting in a decentralized network that maintains an immutable ledger.
Thanks indeed. It clarifies a lot. We are lucky to live in a period when sufficient knowledge on the subject has accumulated and has been put together for us to have some understanding of how it works. Going from here to finding fixes is a long way since there are a lot of variables, but at least we have an idea of how the leverage points in the system interact.
1. I'm not so sure. Due to the threat of terrorism and tax fraud Governments would most probably not want, National Parliaments — if not controlled by a governmental majority — however most probably would, as this would help paint the acting government in a negative '1984' like light.

2. Massive fines would hopefully act as a deterrent.
Wait does this mean I was committing a crime when fixing game consoles and laptops? No way...
>simply having a potentially temporary demand does not mean it has an _inherent_ worth.

Just to serve as devil's advocate here:

Nothing has an inherent worth, unless you postulate the existence of "worth" as an immaterial label, like "soul".

BitCoin clearly has worth to some people right now. They keep buying it.
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I can follow #hashtags on tumblr.
Yup, by default when you share a link using the official buttons it'll add tracking codes and referer query parameters to the request, easy to just slap on ads and crap if the link contains that.
> At the risk of invoking Cunningham's Law, nobody uses passphrases anywhere near 64 bytes that he / she has to memorize.

http://52.24.230.241/bc/password_generation.php

This produces memorable passphrases pretty close to that limit, as described in http://www-scf.usc.edu/~mghazvin/papers/marjan15.pdf
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I find it a bit mind-boggling that this is quicker than just going to the supermarket to get the same thing. I'm in the UK, and if you live in a city where pre-made meal startups can deliver within 20 minutes, you can probably walk to a small supermarket within 5-10 to buy essentially the same sort of thing for less money.
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What are these "ads" things you speak of? I seem to remember the term from back before I installed uBlock Origin but it's been so long...
I'm having a battle with HSBC in the UK at the moment and can't get past canned customer support responses either.

If there is a security issue with your card, HSBC Fraud department will send you a text, telling you to call them.

The text comes from an unknown number. The number you are told to call is not listed on their website anywhere.

At the same time they are sending letters to customers warning about how to protect from phishing attacks.

I've been trying to explain to them, that they are training their customers to accept phishing attacks, but they are having none of it.

Yes, I understand that they don't want to publicise their special number on the website - but at least put it on an unlinked page, so that if a customer visits hsbc.com and searches for the number it comes up in the results.

I really don't understand these people.
Consider using AGPL for anything that might be run on a server somewhere.
> Except it doesn't provide Promises, Map, Sets (and I can't remember if they added Object.Assign support, but it also was not supported when I was using it). When you provide your own polyfills, TSC complains unless you provide typings and add specific config values informing it what you polyfilled.

I think you may have misunderstood what Typescript is and isn't.

It isn't meant to provide polyfills, it is only supposed to handle the grammar of the language that needs to be transpiled.

That's why you have the two following settings:
- target : Which version of the grammar will be available at runtime (eg. classes, async, ...), that's the part used by the transpiler
- lib : Which libraries (eg. promises, maps, sets, ...) you know will be available at runtime (only used for type-checking)

Using a polyfill is really easy if you are using the right value for "lib" since the it will have the same signature as the real method: simply import it once in your project.
This is an honest fear to have, but it hides the real causes many of the recent "bad actors" did what they did.

Most of the recent terrorist acts can be traced to different organizations that only exist because of military/economical interventions that happened a few years, or even decades ago. In a broader sense, many can even be traced to the aftermath of the first world war and how the Ottoman empire was split, and the interventions that followed.

What I'm trying to say is that this is not a "inherent" problem in western society. They were created by misguided actions of the past (and current) generations. The techniques and methods used by these actors are just details. You could theoretically spy in everyone like the US or UK governments want, but ultimately the criminals can easily be one step ahead of them if they want and try just hard enough. They can switch to other method or just pay some hacker group to create software for them if they were really organized.

Think of the prohibition in the US. Did it really stop alcohol consumption? Not at all. And a few years later everyone realized how stupid that idea was and the whole prohibition was scraped.
Fair enough. I guess it would've been more clear to say that I would prefer to spend my time with a non-malicious absent minded person to that of the OP who became so angry at what amounts to an accident.
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Yep, and it does much more than that: it forces companies to actually wipeout your data when you ask them to (not just flip some bit and still keep that data, like facebook infamously does), and also set strict TTLs (Time To Live) for any derivative data that the user cannot explicitly delete.
> What is it _for_?

It's a global immutable ledger that allows for the irreversible transfer of funds without needing to trust a 3rd party with the control of those funds.

Additionally, there's a cap on the total units of account that can exist.

Many people find a lot of value in all that, especially when compared to the slowness, surveillance, and inflation of traditional electronic monetary systems.
You dont understand ethereum. Ether is a programming platform for smart contracts on the blockchain. Is a revolution.
> I believe France is at its fourth constitution :)

Oh, more than that. It's on its fifth Republic, but there were also a few constitutional monarchies in between.
I think you are right. Cryptos are extremely overvalued. But who cares?

I'm a Software Engineer, but I decided to play with cryptos. I invested $4,000. So far, I've made $108,000. Yes, I'm speculating. But everybody does. Speculation is how all the businesses work. You buy low, sell high.

What's more interesting is that I have $100k to invest into my pet project. At that point, overvaluations create other businesses, which is generally a good thing.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip and it's failures
All communications of bad actors will be encrypted via safe channels regardless of the regulations. Regulations only limit citizens who obey the law.

And if you are hoping that it would be easier to spot these truly encrypted communication channels then, not really a chance, there are already too many options how you can hide the data in the skype stream images, websockets and so on.

Apart of course from the fact how bad idea it is to let state actors access all this information. Sooner or later they will be breached too, by other state actors or Mallories, regardless of their intentions.
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This says more about the talent of the designers of the CSS spec.
> Because otherwise, I don't understand why the market can't provide good health insurance in the US? Isn't that a classic insurance problem, take a group of people and spread out the risk?

No, your mistake is in assuming that insurance companies exist to spread risk and reduce costs. Insurance companies like most publicly traded companies exist to transfer wealth from customers to executives and shareholders. As a result, they will do whatever they legally can to raise revenue (increasing premiums) and reduce costs (deny coverage, push the burden to the consumer).

The other aspect is that healthcare in the United States does not lend itself to a free market solution. There's no transparency in prices, so you can't exactly shop around when you need a procedure done. In addition, you also have times when a person needs treatment due to a life-threatening condition. He is not interested in looking at alternatives, he's interested in staying alive, so he's going to take whatever provider is around. Well, if that provider is not "in-network", he's going to get hit with a massive bill. The United States is literally the only developed* nation that has the concept of medical bankruptcy.

* The United States is not truly developed. From an economic standpoint, we are, from a social standpoint, we're not.
Make did always have books, like

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp
I have to get a job in a big company then... I'm not saving enough now and fear for my future children.
But isn't Rollup.js directed at libraries whereas Webpack aims for JS apps?