skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same reason gold is worth something, it's a limited resource that's fungible and a large enough people are willing to trade in to make it useful for acquiring goods.
It was irony: "new paradigm" is a well known euphemism for "bubble".
And I would posit that the odlyzko article is much more well backed up with facts...
I've had 2 really great jobs and both were acquired by bad companies.
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Some divers carry a few odds and ends in their buttpacks for longer duration dives, but you never factor this sort of stay into a plan, and don't want to take unnecessary equipment or kit in with you. Where there's been a lot of sump diving (submerged passages between larger air-filled chambers), there are a number of kits like these in some areas, but they're usually left by the expedition and taken back out with them.
Ever since experiencing the 5 to 6 weeks of vacation that is standard the day you start a job in Europe, I take a minimum of 4 weeks a year. I started my own company quite a few years ago, so it's usually me paying for it now, but it wasn't always that way. Even with me paying for it, 4 weeks feels like the minimum required for me for a good work / life balance and mental health.
"Absolutely not" invest in Bitcoin? Do you have data to back up this absolute claim?
Because of this, i am finally understanding how markets work.

hype, hyyyype, HYYYpe, HYPE, HYYYYYYYYYYYPE, short sell, PANIC
Partly, yes - especially with ego depletion on the ropes. I'm not sure that dual process theory needs to be thrown out along with ego depletion, though.
Why does it make you mad? If you're decent, you can definitely charge more.

Feel free to email me if you want tips on upping your rates: me@morgante.net
I couldn't make it very far into the article. I enjoy open-water diving but cave diving induces way too much claustrophobia.
Nicholas Wilson has done an awesome job with DCompute - especially ability to use D's lambda's and templates when writing compute kernels. Its going to be fun seeing this evolve.
D has array expressions, which look like:

a[] = c * b[];

The idea of them is they are parallelizable, and do not require an auto-vectoring loop optimizer. Auto-vectorizing is fraught with problems, like the user not being aware if the auto-vectorizing succeeded or not.

Another aspect of D that enables parallization is the use of ranges + algorithms. Although currently unexploited, it has the potential to be able to express parallel algorithms, and then take advantage of that.
I'm not sure why a Podcast app really needs an independent service, wouldn't it be easy enough to sync against a configuration stored on dropbox/drive, etc? Unless you are following a LOT of podcasts, or on a LOT of devices, it should be easy enough. (Or "self-host" to Azure/AWS/GCP tables/dynamo)

For that matter, electron and/or react-native could make it easy enough to create such an application.
You're complaining about the headline, not the article.

A commodity that is trading 30% below a peak it set just one month ago is absolutely newsworthy, are you serious? If the SP500 did this we'd be posting in a 5000-comment thread and asking how long the recession would last.
So what's the moral of the story, practically speaking?

If you drill a hole in the bottom of your boat;
Be selective about whom you let save you?
For the branch of trading technical analysis which assumes that all information is factored into price and price action, the variables will drastically be reduced probably to something like volume, low, high, open, close etc. That makes it ideal to develop algos. But as the fundamentalists would say, assuming that everything (demand from insider news etc) has been factored into price is an overly simplistic way of looking at markets.

I see.. Thanks for sharing. I assume you mean evaluating game board states, finding valuations objectively and figuring out the pattern of where to move that can lead to higher probability of winning? 20 years ago I made an Othello game that use a search tree (I think configurable from 3 to 9 levels deep), assign valuations to different board positions and let the computer assume that the player would make the best move to his advantage. It turns out can beat human players easily, but that is such a small search space and valuation weights are very clear. Thus I was amazed at the computer winning with such a large game board where even for professional players, it is arguable which state is a better state. EDIT - ok I just googled monte carlo tree search, I must have accidentally implemented that search at that time, base on common sense and what I can do with the programming langauge I had at that time (Visual Basic).
No, I'm not agreeing. The distinction between cronyism and free-market capitalism is important. You're claiming it isn't - I'm claiming it is. Simply:

Property rights = Free-market =/= Cronyism

It's like if I commented on an article about sodium and water exploding saying "water is generally pretty great, don't mix it with sodium though" then you respond with "don't be pedantic, water explodes."

Semantics are extremely important, especially in this arena. Never would have thought I'd get into an argument today with someone arguing against distinguishing between free-markets and cronyism... wow.

Acknowledging the presence of a force is not "playing with definitions"... unbelievable...
wat it just started to run.

I thought it was supposed to be piped for bash to be executed.

Are all `curl` just exposed to bash injections?
Ethereum fell too. It's on it's way back up though, slowly. Hope it continues... definitely bought it at the wrong time.
1. I see the the current batch of crypto-currencies as an experiment and their valuation more like a bet on which currency will manage to adapt to the future.

2. Not all properties are relevant or even desirable: For example, I could live without POW or a fixed cap.

3. That being said, let me give you an example of a currency that could realistically be adopted by a government: a centrally controlled currency (the central bank is the only miner) but the blocks are validated by the citizens.

Here you could have the inflation rate specified through a smart contract (e.g. 3%). The only way to print more money would be to to ask the nodes to vote on an amount that will be included in the next block.
As someone learning crypto (and slowly joining the Cult of Schneier), this is a valuable caution. Thank you!
Clickbait? Someone wanted to speculate more and the market was starting to settle down a bit so they decided to stir the pot a bit? Every time you see a "major" news outlet put one of these pieces out, either talking about how ridiculously overvalued bitcoin is, or else how the bottom is dropping out of the bitcoin market and it's a blood bath, it always results in the price swinging wildly up and down for a little while.
> Maybe I'm misinformed, but aren't SegWit (without 2x) blocks backwards compatible?

You're correct. However, I'm fairly sure OP was talking about Segwit (with 2x).

If most users/exchanges/services don't get on board by the time the scheduled segwit2x hardfork happens, then those blocks would be considered invalid.
When Python is being used for these data analytical tasks, random attribute access is not the common case. Instead, SIMD and vectorized mathematical transformations is the order of the day, and those can be specified very concisely and powerfully within the syntax of a "scripting" language.

More importantly, that conciseness means that that language is accessible to people who understand the right maths to use. This is frequently not your CS-trained C++/Java software engineer.

It's the age-old philosophical quandary: is it more useful to have the fastest bomber that can only be piloted by specialized pilots who must receive targeting instructions via long-distance radio, or is it better to have a moderately fast bomber than can be piloted by people who can actually see the targets?

Python is succeeding and taking over the world because businesses are overwhelmingly seeing the value of the latter approach.
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Applied Cryptography is outdated and made obsolete by Schneier's more recent, Cryptography Engineering. You should just read that instead.

For more information, 'tptacek explains this more succinctly that I could: https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2013/07/22/applied-practical-cry...
Satoshi invented Bitcoin in 2008 because the banks thought it would be a good idea to deliberately crash the world's financial system and bet on it crashing.
So, the banks did crash it, and millions of people ended up getting hurt. That's why you see all those hungry and confused people living on the streets with eyes like broken Christmas lights.

Have respect for the beautiful gift Nakamoto gave us.
Satoshi Nakamoto didn't invent Bitcoin so people could "cash out" at a higher dollar value.

Bitcoin gives us an honest money system that we own, free from the tyrannical rule of the banks, there is no dollar value for that.
Or you can watch Youtube vids like this :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtlwoX1YEmg

This has got to be the scariest video on Youtube in which no harm comes to anyone.
The scare quotes around "invest" in the parent imply (correctly, in my view) that buying anything with this kind of volatility / lack of intrinsic value is not an investment, rather a speculative bet.
Experienced solo devs can get into the $200/hr range.
About number (1). TransferWise is affordable and it doesn't have the currency exchange scam.
Yep, I didn't think you were racist. Just pointing out that there is the opposite complaint too.
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I think the CARD Act of 2009 required them to put "At rate X the balance would be paid in Y months" on CC bills.
Yes and yes - I am working at my clients office mostly - around 1.5 days/week is homeoffice via remote desktop.
In the case of the World Bank this is not a compelling argument.

Both critics and advocates claim that WB does not exist in a vacuum -- it is part of the larger post-WW2 western world order. Critics claim the coercion happens decades before WB offers the loan.
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You said:

"but monopolies are also created through natural means and that still doesn't change my general premise"

I'm just looking for an example of a single monopoly that fits your statement.
I've never understood the irrational desire to quit your job.

Jobs are wonderful, magical things and I've been thankful to have every single one of them, even the ones that sucked, like that time I worked 12 hour shifts in a warehouse doing product assembly. Or when I had to deal with father as an electrical apprentice. Or when I was on the shit list in the military.

I guess it's because every job I've had, I've subjected to an intense inquiry on exactly what I'm getting out of the job. I'm very intentional about my work. For the warehouse job, I was saving up for a move. I knew exactly what I was doing and why.

When I see people with these crazy flights of fancy throwing away perfectly good opportunities to work and build incrementally to their dream lives, it makes me a little sad.

The very irrationality of his thought processes caused him to utterly fail to learn how to market his services, making him piss away a decade of what could have been fortunate prosperity.

Sure, he never starved. There was always some money coming in the pike. But he purposefully did not shoot for any more.

It's almost like these people hate money for some reason. He finally comes to his big life realization and then sees his path.

And when I read his big life realization, I was immensely struck by the fact that I want exactly what he wants. A nice, comfy lifestyle where I can have conversations, share what I know, and learn.

My job is the perfect tool to allow me to do that. I get all my money from one place. And I can have conversations, share what I know, and learn at work.
Probably not, but that's pretty common. But the point OP is making is that bringing up salary discussions with bosses can be a big risk. Employees only have one employer but employers have multiple employees. If you don't another job lined up and your boss decides to take punitive action against you for daring to try and get a better deal from them, then you are kinda fucked. It'd be nice if you could start the discussion with employers without having to worry about problems but our current economic/social system doesn't allow for that
I think the biggest uncertainty is what happens to exchanges on and after august 1st. So the recommendation at this point is to take your coins and move them to a secure personal wallet. I think if you can make a purchase and have the transaction clear prior to the fork date with some time to spare to move your funds than perhaps you should be okay.
Because the information it provides is very precise, relative to gold it's quickly (therefore cheaply) transmitted (and stored), and relative to fiat currencies it's very hard ("virtually impossible?") to forge or devalue.
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My cellphone's microphone has broken, which I hope is actually a boon when it comes to these - whenever I pick up, the caller hears literally nothing; hopefully, this marks my phone number as invalid in some database.
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
I've noticed that it seems to fall on weekends and then go up on Monday or Tuesday. Wondering if I should put in some cash on an exchange to see if I can make money from this observation ...
I'm sure people were panicking when it fell from $2,500 to $2,000.
"""I recommend taking a look at linguist Arika Okrent's book "Into the Land of Invented Languages"""

I used to have that book... I didn't think it was very good. I wanted to learn more about the various conlangs, but instead the author mostly focused on their creators, and then especially their idiosyncrasies and quirks.

For those who want to know more about conlangs, I would recommend "The Language Construction Kit" by Mark Rosenfelder.
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I don't have an unlimited policy, and honestly it's for the best as I would likely abuse it.

I'm in North America. I get 3 weeks. I take 3 weeks.

Edit for clarification: 3 weeks of paid. Unlimited if conditions require it (mental leave, sick leave, etc). I generally use 10 of my 15 days to extend 3-day weekends (if we get the Friday off for a bank holiday, I take the Monday as well). I save the other 5 for half days to do whatever.
I made a user tagger for HN. Makes it much more fun to navigate the threads as I see familiar users with their interests showing through.

Interesting timing for this question, as I just released it _today_[1].

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/momento-for-hacker...
Would you take 1:1,000 odds that it did something? If not saying it did nothing is perfectly reasonable. I mean sure the sun might go out tomorrow, but reasonable assumptions are reasonable. Further logically he said it may have been this, but clearly the magic beans where worthless. Which is different than saying it defiantly was this and therefore the magic beans are worthless.

PS: And no I would not take those odds even though it may have helped, there are odds vastly below 1%.
> Generally, people who really need to get a hold of you will find a way.

Having tried to reach someone from jail, this is surprisingly hard when you don't have your cellphone with you, and one of the few numbers you've memorized doesn't accept collect calls.
That's because the SP500 doesn't regularly swing violently like the crypto market
Gold has use cases. What are the use cases for Bitcoin? Are any of them compelling? So compelling that a Trump or a Buffet would ever tangle with them? (I chose those two names as two extremes - not related but a spectrum.)
LOL -- sorry! I'm not sure I've seen it with a good sound system since back when it was in the theater during the original launch. Lots of times, on tinny TV speakers.

"Excuse me, while I..." Sort of along those lines.

Thanks!
Not just for neural nets - balancing experimentation against building reusable tools is probably the biggest logistical challenge in scientific programming in general.

I've converged to a workflow where I maintain a library with a main project pipeline and reusable tools for the project, and do all scripting with jupyter (all notebooks version controlled).

I've found that machine learning projects can be pretty effectively parametrized with config dicts for data, training and the model. Each type of config gets it's own pipelined method that does all of the library calls - pipeline_batch_gen, pipeline_train, pipeline_build_model.

Example of a poorly organized config from a project:

model_config = {
'optimizer': optimizer,
'clip_grad': clip_grads,
'name': model_name,
'residual': residual,
'n_conv_filters': n_conv_filters,
'n_output_hus': n_output_hus,
'activation': activation,
'batch_norm': batch_norm,
'output_bn': output_bn,
'generation': generation,
'data_spec': {
'uniform_frac': uniform_frac,
'include_augment': True,
'batch_size': batch_size,
'bulk_chunk_size' : bulk_chunk_size,
'max_bulk_chunk_size': max_bulk_chunk_size,
'loss_weighter': loss_weight
},
'train_spec': {
'early_stopping_patience': early_stopping_patience,
'lr_plateau_patience': lr_plateau_patience,
'learning_rate': init_lr,
'clip_grads': clip_grads,
'partial_weight': partial_weight
}
}

I've wanted to give Sacred a try https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred - looks promising but haven't tried yet so can't comment.

I still tend to keep track of model performance by hand though. But I have always have the notebooks I can go back to for reference. This is something sacred could help a lot with.

Another very non-trivial aspect of this kind of work is the compute/storage infrastructure you need to scale beyond a single workstation.

We have a nice system here where $HOME lives on NFS and gets mounted when you log into any machine on the network - I can hardcode paths in my code and count on every worker having the same filesystem. I can't imagine how we would do distributed jobs without NFS. That's not a very realistic solution for homegamers though - you need a very fast network and expensive commodity hardware. And sys admins.

Does anyone have a solution for that half of the problem? I've seen a number of merkle-tree based data version control solutions recently...
Or in many cases, they leave out details that would show their proposed attack is completely impractical.
How can Microsoft add a non existing language to Skype?
I was shocked to find out that in one of the latest Skype updates a new "language" appeared in the list, Moldavian language, I'm trying to figure out how such a big company doesn't have a system in place of verifying such gross mistakes? Someone from Moldova actually created a discussion but it does not seem to triggered any urge to actually correct this.

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/Mh2zF3H.png

Link: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/skype/forum/skype_windesk-skype_startms/use-of-illegal-moldavian-language-in-skype/15f8d095-4912-4839-9788-97f456b077af?tm=1499868733662

To put everything in the right context as shortly as possible: this moldavian was an ex USSR invention trying to force the people of moldova to actually think they speak a different language (other than Romanian) when in fact, moldovans actually have just a different dialect and thats about it. There was a funny (I would say) time in Moldova's history when people wrote romanian with cyrillic alphabet.

First there was Google that thought there was a moldavian language, now there is Microsoft, its really not a huge deal but for some people that have been oppressed by the communism regime in the past, this is a blatant insult.

Thank you guys for reading my rant!

p.s my english might not be perfect because its my second language.
Just to add to this, these clients are risk averse and not cost conscious. They don't feel comfortable dealing with a sole developer who could disappear, even if the sole developer is twice as good at half the price. They do feel more comfortable dealing with XYZ firm with a professional looking PM who has a "bench" of developers. If a dev leaves, XYZ firm has the responsibility to fill in the replacement, not the client.
The real reason of declining of cryptocurrency is due to the shut down of AlphaBay. Alpha Bay was basically the replacement for Silk Road after that site was also shut down.
Perhaps due to the title (which is evocative in Seattle) I often think of "Starbucks Does Not Use Two-Phase Commit" [0]

[0] http://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/ramblings/18_st...

P.S.: I feel like I may have thrown this one out without enough context, so I'm just gonna bloviate a bit in this edit.

The "object" referred to in the OP link -- or what I like to vaguely call the "unit of consistency" -- is a single Starbucks employee. They hopefully have an internally-consistent history of what they believe to be true about the universe. (And stay sane during coffee-rush times.)

The phrase "eventual consistency" describes the relationship between multiple employees. Individuals can drastically disagree with one-another, but there's a framework for detecting disagreements and resolving the discrepancy in some way, even if that just means agreeing to ignore it and logging it for management to fix.

A lot of eventually-consistent systems involve allowing certain kinds of discrepancies to occur, while simultaneously promoting those errors into real business concepts in the domain. Banking and accounting systems are particularly great demonstrations of this, because they started doing it centuries ago when nodes were in cities connected by ink-and-parchments packets on horse-ridden routes.
No. In fact most make much less, on the order of $140k all-inclusive.
Reason for USD in North Korea is... because it gets printed there as well, quite a bit :) (google it)

Other commenter explained benefits of bitcoin, so ...
I'd be excited for D to find its niche there. Good heterogeneous compute support with D's introspective design features has the potential to be a very powerful way to create number crunching applications
Except you can't short it
I tried googling for this and didn't find anything - do you have a link?
netflix last year was reported at 37% in NA, so I suspect it will continue to be a contender as it gets more traction globally.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/16/01/20/netflix-boasts-37-...

'peak download internet traffic' whatever that means.
You're talking about the complexity of the model. If you take a purely input-output view of the world (which by the way, even classical Physics does), every problem _is_ curve fitting in a sufficiently high dimensional space. There is no _conceptual_ problem here. There is perhaps a complexity problem, but that's why I wrote that "I think it's more hierarchical than that."
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I tried to calculate when the big buyer/seller "whales" go to sleep to figure out what their time zone was. It pointed to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean :/
You seem to have replied on a tangent: how is what you describe not just "curve fitting"?

Humans didn't magic that model up: you're ignoring the huge amount of human effort over thousands of years that it took to arrive at that model. If we gave a ML algorithm a similar amount of time and asked it to construct a simple model of the situation, it might very well hand back the formula you presented.

Your entire post basically begs the question: it supposes that humans are doing something that isn't "curve fitting", and then uses that to argue that they do more.

What, specifically, are you supposing can't be done by "curve fitting"?