skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you hold Bitcoin then you need to think about getting hold of your private keys or using a non custodial wallet like https://strongcoin.com

If the network splits there will 1 or 2 new types of Bitcoin.

If the exchanges decide to support the new types of Bitcoin you will be able to sell your holding on the new chains whilst still keeping coins on the main Bitcoin chain.

But to do this you need to manage your own private keys.
Ask HN: What are some good first credit card options for someone new in US?
Can we combine this with https://lyrebird.ai
Currently doing something similar - I'm scanning over 1 million buckets looking for vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. I've already found and responsibly disclosed a number of public buckets containing user data or information that simply shouldn't be public.

I shall put a blog post together once the scan is complete, and post it here for reference.
I think the word is "confusing"
> This means that any bitcoins you receive after that time may later disappear from your wallet or be a type of bitcoin that other people will not accept as payment.

Can you imagine the uproar if Visa said the same thing? It would be totally unthinkable.

Bitcoin can get away with this type of "disruption" because it's not really being used for anything other than a speculative vehicle.
Curiously half of what you're describing has already existed on the web for more than 20 years, in the form of server side push using the obscure `multipart/mixed` HTTP content type [1]. This technology was added to Netscape in 1995 and I believe it's still supported by modern browsers, but it seems to have hardly gotten much traction beyond those early webcam sites that an image every N seconds.

I am not sure if interaction is possible as part of the mix using some tricks, though. It seems like we just have turbolinks for that.

[1]: https://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/web2/xhtml/ch13_03.htm
No, it is not great. It is more like Detroit in the US - bad weather, high unemployment rate and crime rate, dead heavy industry, huge outflow of its local population.

If Shenyang is great, how come its population is dropping so fast?
For those of you who use event sourcing: how do you scale horizontally? Do you have a single process that handles all events sequentially? Maybe I'm overthinking this but I'm worried this might become a bottleneck eventually. Otherwise, how do you deal with concurrency issues (e.g. 2 different visitors who signup with the same username concurrently)?
If you know you have sensitive data in a certain location (e.g. an S3 bucket, RDS database, application in EC2) it would be pretty straightforward to get a VM somewhere outside your "network" that periodically scans these known endpoints and alerts when something is amiss.
How I tricked my boss into hiring me as a developer
As in something you could end up in? "Using long arrow operator in production will get you into strouble".
A neutral response would probably not use the phrasing 'muddle through' with regards to the solution endorsed by most of the technical experts in the Bitcoin space.

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Right now there are 3 implementations of Bitcoin in the wild, and each of the 3 will react differently to different network events. The network is essentially splitting apart, with each fragment driven by a different faction.

If you don't know what the different factions are, you probably don't need to. Its needlessly involved, highly political, and full of echo-chambers and shouting matches.

What happens largely depends on how much support each faction has. Unfortunately, there's no real way to measure how much support each faction has until the fork actually occurs. Each faction thinks that its the largest by a significant margin, and thinks that the other factions have used underhanded techniques to bolster their visible support.

When the rubber meets the pavement, we will know though. If the network splits into three pieces, likely the coin price for each piece will move around violently, and one portion of the network will probably end up with a much higher coin price than the other parts. Or maybe it'll be an even three-way split, which will make things in the Bitcoin world very confusing.

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As a huge Bitcoin fan, I hate to say this, but if you aren't clued into the various events, and you can't name the three factions or explain the beliefs of each, you should just stay away for a while. If you get pulled into the split without knowing what's going on, you are very likely to lose money. There will certainly be opportunists trying to take advantage of the situation, and you, being ignorant of the situation, will be the one who gets taken advantage of.

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If you do know what's going on, you can name the factions, etc, then what you should do is pretty simple. When the split happens, sell all of your coins on the forks that you disagree with, and use the resulting money to buy coins on your preferred fork.

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For anyone who cares, my alignment is with the status quo. I feel great animosity towards the hardfork faction (confusingly called Segwit2x), precisely because they have forced a situation where people who don't know what's going on are able to get hurt. They have also repeatedly, repeatedly, ignored very sound advice from the technical experts of the industry.

The UASF faction (confusingly, a 'pro Segwit' and 'anti Segwit2x' faction) has my spiritual support, but I don't think they have the numbers behind them to make a difference. I don't think running the UASF software is the right move.

I personally believe that overwhelmingly, the vast majority of people who use Bitcoin are probably largely unaware of what is happening, and are running the status-quo software (confusingly, the 'Segwit' software, or the 'Bitcoin-core' software). I'm guessing when the forks all happen, it'll be pretty dominantly vanilla Bitcoin with the highest price, and then a few weeks later it'll all be a bad memory, and nothing will have happened at all.

I guess we'll find out.
Obligatory "x slides to zero":

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Honestly the answer to the appliance problem is to just buy Miele. I'm not really a huge fan, because you do pay a lot for the brand and they're not always as technologically advanced as, for example, Siemens, but you do get a long warranty and high quality.
There is a panel discussion around “From Past Learning to Predictive Future” at 13:45 CET on Friday 14th July at Deutsche Telekom Hauptstadtrepräsentanz Französische Straße 33a-c, 10117 Berlin.
The other participants on the panel are Prof. Christoph von der Malsburg, Barbara Pogorzelska, Josh Chen.

The discussion is on how machine intelligence is used to accomplish the tasks on reducing efforts and complexity in understanding the data sets to recognise the patterns and to predict future behaviours. The panel of cross industry experts shall discuss use cases where machine intelligence predictions have real impact.
It will surely affect on ransomware collectors.
They do exist. http://daxfohl.blogspot.com/2008/05/week-4-great-ride-giving...

But I agree Zhengzhou is not one of them.
United's problems aren't technological, they are cultural. It is their culture that created the terrible episodes that we're so used to seeing.
Wimbledon 2017: The tech behind the world’s top tennis tournament
Oh I meant to say Ctrl. Doh
Well, the Backblaze blog post only talks about the raw spindle costs, and strongly implies that 4TB drives were the lowest cost option and ignores the existence of any disks larger than 8TB. Which is true only if you are talking about consumer drives and only concerned about raw spindle costs. Otherwise, it's a highly misleading post.

The electricity cost and the fractional share of the disk tray and server to attach the HDD are mostly constant no matter whether you use a 4TB, 8TB, 10TB, or 14TB disk. So if you are only worried about renting fewer cabinets and paying less for electricity, then if 8TB drives make sense, 14TB drives would make even more sense, no?

Of course, you have to worry about more than just bytes; you also have to worry about IOPS. So it starts being about whether you can use nearly all of the IOPS in every drive. (This is why having a "hot pool" and a "cold pool" of disks really don't make that much sense. You'll leaving money on the table by wasting the potential usable IOPS in your cold pool. Instead you can get a much more TCO positive solution by mixing your hot and cold data so you case use most of the IOPS and most of the bytes for all of your drives.)

But if you think SSD's are so "cheap", why not use 14TB drives plus SSD's? Perhaps because using SSD's for storage (as opposed to cache) really isn't that cheap as people think. Sure, lots of IOPS, but unless the bytes you need to read are the right ones to be stored in the SSD, the cost per byte for SSD's is quite astronomical, even taking electricity, server attachment costs, etc., into account.

As a result, I believe using large numbers of spinning drives will make sense for a lot longer than you think.
AI Creates Fake Obama
Zhengzhou was a ghost city and hasn't been a capital for more than 2000 years. Its developing to major city in China in the modern sense only begins in 20th century, after the railway traffic prosperous here.
"Science isn't about why - it's about why not. Why is so much of our science dangerous? Why not marry safe science if you love it so much?"
Though it has industry support, it does not have user support, because it does not have a working, tested implementation released. With less than 3 weeks until the fork triggers, I highly doubt they are going to get substantial user adoption by the time the fork triggers.

One of the most amazing properties of Bitcoin is that it's completely user driven. When it comes to the fundamental consensus rules, no amount of hashrate or corporate agreements can force a change onto the userbase. It's a system that intentionally resists central control. Any changes need to start with userbase support, and I'm just not seeing that with Segwit2x.

If I am wrong, I will find out soon enough.
A little remark - those central authorities have men with guns to enforce their authority (given that governments are backing centralized system as for now)
Tesla was not the first one and is not the only electric car manufacturer. Nobody needs Tesla.
I meant great as a tourist. It probably isn't that great to live.
The difference between doing that and talking to 3rd party integrators is the ability to compare across vendors.
Ask HN: Did net neutrality win or lose?
Can't see any news regarding it. Is the vote not done yet?
Assuming:
1. Everything user sees is from server
2. Templates/Views is function of state

Server can generate UI with baked changes to state. URL parameters. Generate html from received state by calling render function of clicked component and send just that components html.

If we had http header for that we can leverage http2 push and replace even components which state were changed as side effect.

React-Redux, Elm, Vuex doing this already. Just bake actions to urls and keep store on server.
A friend asked me the same, so here's my info. It is dated, and you're best calling a repair shop before buying, but likely still some nuggets of truth here.

Big trend is consolidation in the industry. Whirlpool, Maytag, and Kitchenaid are all the same company now. For dishwashers (and I got this info recently), repairman said they all have the same motor and core components, which is the most important. They differ on the control panel, aesthetics, and price. He also said that LG dishwashers have a problem with hard water, which is problematic in SoCal.

BTW, this was a call for a dishwasher problem on a Kitchenaid my brother bought used. The door kept popping open during washing (just enough to stop the cycle), and he said the problem was that the frame was slightly bent, probably during transport. My brother got a great deal buying a matched set of appliances used (you nearly always do), but sadly there was nothing he could do for a bent frame and it had to be ditched.

For washing machines, the guy said "Buttons and knobs, the simpler the better. No electronics. When these things have problems, it's always the electronic control panel, which is expensive to replace." He also suggested Whirlpool and Maytag, so I went with Whirlpool since again, same company, cheaper price.

Some years ago, a vacuum cleaner shop explained that everyone is racing to put out a lighter vacuum, and hence they switched from metal gearing and components to plastic. This greatly diminishes their lifespan. He had a number of used models he personally serviced and felt good about selling used. Afraid I forget the model he was really excited about, but again, your local vacuum shop will likely have something.

And thanks to all the nice comments, this really made my day!
I thought Autopilot 2 was still not on feature parity with Autopilot 1, after Tesla switched off from MobilEye?
Why is Photos still not a public API?

I'm happy to pay for the storage but I need a Linux client. I'd write one myself with a song in my heart, but Google keeps obfuscating this stuff for no good reason.
SQL in Google Spreadsheets
In Sweden, at some point they removed the "blinking" phase near the end of the crosswalk green light without making the green phase any longer. This is to avoid people see it go blinking and then running across the crosswalk. This means it feels like you don't have enough time to walk across before it goes red (even though the cars still have to wait)
That's incorrect, Bitcoin is used in many places for critical applications, and I'm sure that those people are very frustrated by the situation. I know that I am.

We are doing a hardware presale using Bitcoin, and we're going to have to stop accepting Bitcoin at that time (it's a cryptocurrency miner, 90% of our sales are in Bitcoin), and that's going to hurt us.

This whole situation is frustrating.
Stroustrupian
Safari on a new 13" MBP gets ~50 fps here on the Sponza demo and maxes out at 60 fps on the PBR demo, without any trouble, and with plenty of other stuff running on my laptop simultaneously.

Both seem to hang at load if I turn on Safari’s experimental support for WebGL 2.0 though, so that might be what was happening to kevinb7.
W3C Encrypted Media Extensions

Editors: David Dorwin, Google Inc.Jerry Smith, Microsoft CorporationMark Watson, Netflix Inc.Adrian Bateman, Microsoft Corporation (Until May 2014)

https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/

So in this way we can save the net neutrality?
I need a blood boy.
Every time a company raises a round of investment they're begging for money.
Those who do not fear Poe's Law are doomed to repeat it.
Show HN: Tkpf – a GUI library for Python/Tkinter with databinding and components
Dump facebook, it's sucks for basically everything. Ring your mom, tell her she's awesome and you love her. Wish I could ring mine...

Post a blog post to a real blog under your control. If you want a colleague to see it, email the link and ask for feedback.

There solved. It's a good algo too.
>to everyone in tech

Great, I'll try this.

>Where is your office located?
>United States
>South Korea

Umm, pretty sure there are more than two countries where tech exists...
This isn't a new issue, ethically speaking.

http://reason.com/archives/2001/04/18/the-case-for-selling-h...
By the time it became completely unambiguous, it would be too late.
You can hide them in the sense that it's very difficult to find the 100 instructions and correct state machine out of the millions of instructions and possible states.
Tesla fanboy here. It's a little silly to say "Our car is level 3 autonomy, but only when it comes to market sometimes next year." By then Tesla could be level 3 autonomy, as all that's required to achieve that is for Elon to push some software updates and voila, the car is now smarter than ever. Being capable of something in theory doesn't make it a practical statement, imo.
This is mostly the result of our checkbox-grid comparison shopping culture. "Features" like extra coats of paint and thicker metal cost the manufacturer more than they increase the market value. On the other hand, throwing in a dozen cheap bits of plastic with every vacuum cleaner pays for itself because it can now ostensibly do a dozen more things.
It is very alarming indeed. First they fuck up their citizens net. Then it will be foreign acess to US servers.

You might argue that net neutrality is not such a threat... But this is first step. This is how it all starts.

All the comments about being this americans decision - like its their internet - are not helpful.

Government of my country is stupid and they might get idea to follow us. God i hope they follow Germany or some openminded country.
An uncapped fundraiser for yet another cryptocurrency? This reminds me a lot of pump and dump penny stocks.
I'm guessing the downvotes were a response to the tone of the post, not the actual content.

Though, the content itself is incorrect as well. Consensus has been achieved by the miners and by a few major payment processors, but not by the userbase. Blockchains though are very resistant to moves by major players, and even the miners being at 85% are not enough to force fundamental changes like this into the network if the users do not actively want to participate in the changes.

Note the wording there. The users have to opt-in to a change like this. It's opt-in, not opt-out. I'm very doubtful that software which is not even out in the wild yet is going to be able to get a majority of users to opt-in within a 3 week timeline.

We will know soon enough for sure.
The title gives me quite the Orphan Black feeling here. Very interesting.
For what it's worth, my experience is that almost all ketamine use I know of personally erased that person's depression for a week or so. I think it's less uncommon more and more.
News and Roadmap for BDR (Multi-Master PostgreSQL)
Google's DeepMind AI just taught itself to walk
Article claims 10, but I counted 12. My CN geography is good enough to know that Yunnan and Sichuan are provinces, but maybe some of the proper nouns were too. Anyway here are the ones I counted. Any errors?

1. Kunming (Yunnan)

2. Chongqing

3. Qingdao

4. Zhengzhou

5. Xian

6. Nanjing

7. Dalian

8. Shenyang

9. Chengdu (Sichuan)

10. Qufu

11. Beijing

12. Shanghai

London, New York and Paris (not China IIRC)

Does anyone know google maps (or whatever) well enough to make a URL with markers for all these?
There are ketamine clinics opening up across the whole USA nowadays

http://www.ketamineadvocacynetwork.org/
I love all the Quellcrist Falconer quotes from that book. IIRC, it was a Quellcrist Falconer line in someone's sig that got me to pick it up.

"When they ask how I died, tell them: still angry."
Not really when doing code on UNIX or aiming for portability.

There are still systems that lack full C++98 compliant compilers, for example (mostly embedded stuff).
Post-war Europe and Japan. One could argue that post-war china is basically on the same trajectory, just that it got started much later and so shot up much quicker once it did get started.
Papa bless.
The OrCam MyEye helps visually impaired people read and identify things
Apple to become world's first trillion dollar company post iphone 8 launch
It's a bad idea to downvote one of the only correct posts in the entire thread (at that time) because of its tone.

Bitcoin consensus is definitionally achieved by miner PoW. Yes, they are beholden to market pressure from users, but saying that concensus is "by the user base" is misleading. I'm using the terminology from the bitcoin white paper
Funny thing is, I can't even visit blog.google from China
hn is one of the very few places where we can find stuff outside the "bubble". Putting it in FB feed will "create" another bubble.

Dont u think so ?
No, that's not correct. In the case of the UASF, something very frightening is possible.

If the UASF has majority economic support (unlikely) and also the miners do not support it, initially the UASF side will be behind, and there will be multiple chains. There will be the UASF chain and the normal chain.

But since the UASF has more support, it'll have more block reward, and eventually it'll have more hashrate behind it. It'll eventually catch up to the other chain, pass the other chain, and then...

The other chain completely implodes, and stops existing. Yes, that's actually what happens, and why if you are a miner, you should be afraid of the UASF. You lose basically everything if the UASF ends up with more hashrate, and the UASF is eventually guaranteed to have more hashrate if it has a higher coin price.

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Basically, your doomsday scenario dramatically understates the worst-case scenario.
Not really, kernels were being written in HLL 10 years before C existed, and at strange places like IBM research.

The only good thing about it is that the language is easier to write a compiler for, as it is basically a portable macro assembler, specially the K&R C variant.
This is definitely the case. I got accepted to both HR and Dev Bootcamp. I chose HR because it had the better reputation and had released outcomes statistics. HR had tougher requirements to get in, you had to understand more programming than a freshman or sophomore college student. Dev Bootcamp accepted me with a logic puzzle and basic if statements and for loops. There was no competition.

HR's recent purchase of Makersquare has me a bit worried that they are outstripping the supply of smarter incoming students but I can't say for sure yet without interviewing a larger sample.
Its looking more and more like I'm going to get what i want. I'm almost 50 so i could get a fully autonomous car before i can't drive. Won't that be awesome though?
I think the intent is not to include Chengdu and Qufu. Chengdu is not described as a destination (just for cuisine), and Qufu is not a megacity.
Interesting to see the parallel drawn with the mattress industry and its practice of confusing models and brands. Over the last few years there have been a few companies (Luxi, Tuft & Needle, Casper, etc.) that have been somewhat disruptive by offering very straightforward options.
Sometimes people miss flights, or last minute cancel, for various reasons. If past statistics show the every 200 seats plane has 10 no-show passengers at departure on average, you can sell 210 tickets in average and depart with every seat occupied. Hotels do it too, and many more industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overselling
Those issues have been known for a while so it's no surprise they haven't affected the price in the last 24 hours. Explaining Bitcoin's price movements is a bit like astrology but this guy probably lifted some spirits today: https://media.giphy.com/media/8cTtn78RkOAk8/giphy.gif
>Further, socially-speaking, being with your actual peers is extremely valuable, obviously.

I would disagree... I think that there is huge value to being around a variety of people, and a strong negative value to only being around people in the same phase of life as yourself, especially when you are in the nasty phase. I think I made it through that part of my life because I had an after-school job where I fixed computers for a local office. I even enrolled in the vocational program at my highschool that let me out of school early to go to work (except every second Monday, when we learned how to spot shoplifters, short-change scams, and other hazards of the retail life.)

I think the number of people who felt good about their social lives, the things they did socially and the things, socially that were done to them in high school is... small. As far as I can tell, for most people, college is important because it is a kind of recovery from this, and prepares you for a workplace where conflict is muted, where yes, if you are good enough, you can still be an asshole, but where being an asshole has a pretty heavy cost that must be made up in other ways.

For me? Being expected to behave like an adult while being treated like an adult around a bunch of adults was amazing. It gave me a reason to keep going in high school, and when I came of age, I was all set to get a really nice job.