skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's nice, I was not aware that UPS would take them. My local grocery store have a program for plastic bags, but reusing them is of course much more efficient.
If there could be a book, then there's enough for a blog post for the four cases you mentioned.

As it is, you are telling me that during the night aliens will attack my business, leave without a trace, but have my business in ruins by 8 AM in the morning. Your claim is the first I ever heard of such a thing.

Having orders of magnitude better price/performance is amazing. An "order of magnitude" is usually a factor of 10; those are not easy to come by. Leading examples include Moore's law, hard disk drive capacities, solid state disk drive capacities, optical fiber data rates, wireless data rates, and floating point operation rates in GPUs. In any market of any major size, typically customers just LOVE some factors of 10 better price/performance, and any company that is the sole source of such an advantage should have nearly a license to print money. What went wrong? Anxious readers are eager to know! You have an attentive audience waiting!
I think understanding this is a big part of it, and is something Megan McArdle mentions sometimes in her columns.

The idea is that we see lots of people around us who we think are very much like us. And we see that lots of them have a house with 3000+ square feet. And lots of them drive an Escalade. And lots of them have their kids on travel sports teams. And lots of them have this and that and the other thing. Every time we see that people around us tend to have such a thing, that suggests to us that we can afford it too.

The thing is, we make each of those observations independently. We don't generally take a complete inventory and see that Family A is paying for those sports activities, but doesn't have the top-of-the-line cable TV package; while Family B has the cable TV but goes without the annual vacation to the Caribbean.

We tend to want all the things that we observe that much of our community has, without thinking too deeply about the fact that none of them actually have all of it.

EDIT - spelling
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One good way to solve the bias-variance problem is to use Gaussian processes (GPs). With GPs you build a probabilistic model of the covariance structure of your data. Locally complex, high variance models produce poor objective scores, so hyperparameter optimization favors "simpler" models.

Even better, you can put priors on the parameters of your model and give it the full Bayesian treatment via MCMC. This avoids overfitting, and gives you information about how strongly your data specifies the model.
Blowing all your cash is trivially obviously better than running up credit card debt
I apologize for asking what is probably a bitcoin-noob question, but can you explain (or elaborate on) why hash power has that effect? What does a "minority chain" mean? If you have two groups using different hashing algorithms, why would that have any effect on either group?
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That last part doesn't follow at all. It's much easier to destroy than to create. The ability to quickly produce something harmful doesn't imply the ability to quickly produce something beneficial. We have the technology to level an entire city in an instant, but building one still takes decades.
Of course that's possible, but I think more people will avoid that if they know they won't be able to afford food the next day. Easy credit is a big factor allowing people to continue making the bad decision to keep living outside their means for quite a long time without directly feeling the negative effects until farther in the future.

By then they end up with a hefty amount of debt and their lifestyle preferences are ratcheted up; they don't want to downgrade from their BMW to a Honda, move to a less fancy neighborhood and start cooking more meals at home. They are more inclined to keep scraping by with their luxuries, overburdened by debt service.
> Core developers never had control in the first place.

True.

> No one has control

Also true. For now.

> it's weird to see so many people applying authoritarian concepts to an anti-authoritarian system.

Not true. First of all, it's a system and you can't get more authoritarian than a system.

Then are externalities called people. And people collude and cooperate and form factions. That's because they're people and that's what people do.

So while they don't have control directly, if they form a majority they will. The minority are free to vacate this virtuality if they don't like the new rules.

You see, BitWorld really isn't so different from the real world.
Yes, that is the one-line throw away dismissal of the whole affair if you innately believe that everything we do will always devolve to the status quo.

I reject this form of behavioral nihilism and prefer to believe that ideas can exact change in this world[1] and move people up and out of the status quo, and lament the failure of even efforts I think were doomed from the beginning.

[1] Which isn't to say I reject the notion that a large portion of people are just out to get theirs and to hell with the rest
He still makes the false excuse that his problem is earning, not spending.
You are correct. AOT compilation for ruby would translate the internal AST into machine code.

While serializing Ruby files in byte code might be a good idea (I don't know enought of the internals of MRI so I can't judge that), it's still not AOT compilation
> One of the more interesting games that, in the UK, had pretty much gone no where, was "Settlers of Catan".

In the Netherlands, Settlers of Catan was one of those boardgames that you pretty much could not avoid in mid to late nineties, and from what I understand it was even bigger in Germany. It really seems to hit a sweet spot in terms of accessibility and depth.

One of my personal favourites is Citadels[0] (called Machiavelli in the Netherlands), because when your group gets really good at it, the character-draft mechanic turns into in making strategic choices where everyone is basically trying to trick the other players into thinking they've chosen a different character than they have, either by bluffing or making them think they're bluffing. So it actually feels like everyone is trying to pull off Machiavellian schemes.

For a more lighthearted party game version of that, Mascarade[1] (both of these games are by Bruno Faidutti, which explains why their mechanics are somewhat similar). I've played this with ten people and it turns into a wonderfully chaotic game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citadels_(card_game)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mascarade
>produce a tool to set arbitrary watermarks on arbitrary video files

To what end?

IANAL, so I can't comment on the legality of what you are suggesting.
> Because Google.

No, it was adopted quickly because it's a simple, script-like language producing static binaries that didn't require any runtime, highly portable with built-in cross-compilation, requires very little resources, is able to perform pretty damn good and has an extensive standard library (although not perfect) supporting many modern technologies.

That are a lot of boxes it ticks off. I remember wanting to start hobby projects with friends where the end-result would preferably be a native binary, and the limit was that I was the only-one with a C/C++ background. Now anyone with some scripting background can pick up Go in a few days, without having to worry too much about a build system, portability, cpu architectures, performance, memory leaks, ...

Sure, Google was the initial push, but it only really took off once projects like Docker showed it's potential.
This was Goldman, particularly Marty Chavez who is otherwise a very smart character originating from from outside banking (Stanford Phd).
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What a load of horseshit.

Here's what you need to do before publishing an article on AI:

1. Hire an expert that actually knows this stuff
2. Have him read the article
3. Throw the article out when he tells you to throw it out
4. Feel shame

Stop writing these imbecilic, clickbaity shit articles about AI. This leaves people that don't know anything about AI or neural networks thinking that we're somehow developing skynet, instead of just writing a computer program which essentially implements a mathematical model that continually adjusts itself based on some metric.
I other words, banks know that people can't pay back credit card debt.
> You can see business support here: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Segwit_support#Businesses
> I'm not sure if you consider Coinbase a major bitcoin company yourself, but I think they qualify.

That doesn't look like a very good proof. If coinbase plans to adopt segwit2x, why haven't they released an announcement? I wouldn't trust that wiki list very much.
The theory I came up with: at middle class income level, spending money gives hope of increasing happiness, or reducing stress. So if you have an unreliable car, it may be cheaper to keep spending money on car repairs -- but it can leave you stranded when you really need to get to work. So buying a newer more reliable car reduces that stress. But it increases financial stress.

I wonder if people are wired to prefer a single stress source (financial), instead of a bunch of smaller stresses.
I really find the "make the world a better place" rhetoric funny. Because, at the end of the day, you're right.

Companies exist to make money.
Some people are allergic to it, as for myself i cannot find a better substitute.
Amazon is in a much better position to win the market, and investors recognize that.

Amazon has a logistics network capable of doing same-day delivery at lower-than-Blue-Apron's costs. Amazon will ship locally rather than cross-country using dry ice. Purchasing ingredients in Whole Foods' massive quantities will lower costs further. Coupling that with their huge warchest, Amazon can crush Blue Apron by offering a competing service at far below cost for years.

If Amazon plays this as aggressively as they did eCommerce, I don't see any way for Blue Apron to win on their own.
Custos could encode the key in any number of ways, while keeping them secret. They could later (maybe some time into the future) announce the method, and catch the source of the leak.

As with any watermarking, the intention is not to make it physically impossible to make an unauthorised copy, but make it accountable. If the leaker can't be sure that they're aware of all the methods that could be used to catch them, they may decide against leaking their copy.

One method may be to encode it cryptographically, in a way where it looks like noise until you have the key, similar to Code Division Multiple Access communication schemes.
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They are using the same hashing algorithm with different consensus rules. That's exactly the issue. They are fighting over the same pie because proof-of-work is what defines Bitcoin.
Yup. I essentially learnt how to manage my finances by watching my parents fuck it up over and over. Burning so much money on a wedding that they had to file for bankruptcy. Carrying balances on their credit cards for years (even when they could easily pay it off). Finally getting a chunk of money as a lawsuit settlement and buying a $18,000 TV (yeah, a $18,000 TV. What the ever living <beep>. They had their share of bad luck, but nothing that couldn't have been worked around by making even marginally better decisions ($18,000 bucks used the right way can go a loooong way...)
Name one that has forked and survived. Ethereum Classic is not "surviving".
Australia is now King Idiot of the internet
Is linguistics a science?
I don't really have any bank accounts right now and pay my credit card bills with bitcoin. I guess I might be that person then?

Although, I've pretty much always been paid in cryptocurrencies so my situation is rather unique.
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I think what we see there is that humans learn a lot from social cues from their parents, relatives, and peers. For many cases this is an advantage because you don't have to explicitly break down a topic for teaching and learning - there's probably a 1000x times when this implicit learning ends up better for the group than not. But when the middle class is shrinking, then there are a lot of built up tribal approaches for handling finances which are diverging from stable choices in reality then that copying breaks down - especially if you're in a cultural group where it's taboo to some degree or other to discuss finances.

e.g.
You have to go to college - modern explicit caveat: studying a major that has a chance of paying back the college debt.

It's a good to buy a single family house - modern explicit caveat: only if you have sufficient income stability and down payment saved - before a house was a small enough portion of middle class income that it could generally work out well in a wider range of cases.

Keep up with your peers spending on social cues: vacations, new cars, etc - keeps you networked into a social group for work/business opportunities (but if the group as a whole can't sustain some lifestyle... then this becomes a negative...)

etc...

I don't think this is the sole problem, but I think it's a big social driver of it.
> One side of the fight (Core / blockstream) wants to scale off-chain, pushing transactions to side-chains and/or lighting networks, and want to profit from off-chain solutions.

I think that gives the wrong impression. First off, Core != Blockstream.

Secondly, the consensus amongst Core developers, as I read it, is they want as much on-chain as possible. Their definition of possible is what can a Bitcoin client handle on the average user's PC. The problem is that, today, the answer is not much. Increasing the blocksize to allow more transactions requires an exponential increase in the computational requirements of the Bitcoin client. So it's not really feasible to just "scale on-chain", as of today.

SegWit accomplishes two things. 1) It's a stopgap. It's an effective blocksize increase to 2MB, and it enables lightning network which should hopefully reduce congestion on the Bitcoin network. 2) It's an optimization; SegWit transactions are cheaper than traditional transactions.

SegWit is just a stopgap while developers implement a series of optimizations to the Bitcoin network that allow it to handle more capacity, without increasing the computational resources to the point where average users can't run the software.

But those optimizations are going to take a long time.
Amazon filed for a trademark, not a patent.
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So if a huge number of nodes are Segwit2x capable, and the miners are mining Segwit2x blocks with the majority of the hash power, companies are going to stay on a less secure chain that can be attacked by the majority so that they can have a smaller block size and keep the core dev team because they love them? This isn't how that works. Proof-of-work will force those companies onto the dominant chain. Exchanges will probably keep trading the smaller coins also.
"It's a URL, but just one used to open an app with some data. E.g.: http://iosdevelopertips.com/cocoa/launching-your-own-applica...

OK, but presumably a very long URL with a lot of hasing/coding in the URL that not only describes the transaction but secures it, correct ?

QR Codes are an open-standard - they are not something that wechat made up - so could you use some other mechanism to transmit that URL ? Could I email the very same URL and expect it to work ?
Only if you are a Trader or an Investment Banker (note not the other 98% of people working at the firm i.e. Tech, Quant, Operations, Finance, HR) in which case you are already the handful of people such as the ultra high paid at Google as either your career is going to be very short once they find out you can't make money or you are very good (very few people) and you will make a fortune.
90% of the hashing power has signaled their intention to adopt segwit2x as of late June. I assume it will become the dominant chain once it locks in right before August 1st.
I think that's a fair statement, in that as an example here is literally a meal kit from Amazon: http://a.co/1oWOQcG

But branding goes a long way, and they'll undoubtedly position this differently than the above.
The leaves still grow with the square root of the tree size, which is certainly better than linear, but doesn't really solve the problem. It buys you one less order of magnitude you have to scale to, but only one.

If you're growing by an order of magnitude every few years, it's just buying you an extra few years lead time.
Or just have a collection compactor at WF. Easy peasy, and all squashed for easy transport.

Plus now recycling minded folks are likely to go by WF more frequently.
How does one determine such a thing?
Im making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do, ====http://bit.ly/2coUNgf
I played V, since it looked ugly, I went to Windows machine, huge difference in performance and everything, and it is same game. :(
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No the factions in the world of BTC have been very contentious for a long time now. It may be hyperbole but not by much.
I don't think it's surprising that as individuals we've allowed the depth of our safety nets to shrink. After all, we've been telling ourselves for some time how important it is to strengthen the safety nets provided by the government (and generally, have actually done so).

Given that we're telling everybody that there's a fallback available for many kind of problems, we should expect that people will de-emphasize the amount they sacrifice for their own such purpose.

So the stats quoted in the article, about how much margin people have for rainy days should be supplemented by information about the net value of the benefits they will, or could, derive from the government. What's the NPV of their expected Social Security and Medicare benefits? What can they expect to get in aid from Medicare or CHIP-type programs? What would their unemployment benefits be, should it come to that, or food stamp and related programs?
Ask HN: How do you set lifetime pricing for your products?
We have a product that is charged via annual subscription. Some customers have asked for lifetime pricing, so we're considering adding this option.

But we're not sure what the right multiple should be. It has to be low enough that the customer thinks they'll save money in the long term, but high enough that the benefit of revenue acceleration outweighs the potential lost revenue.
> plastic bags inside aluminum+plastic bags inside cardboard boxes with more plastic.

All recyclable, what's the problem here?

> Please, invent some form of reusable container that can be easily stored and delivered back so we can stop trashing the Earth.

So is the real issue that you're concerned with reducing waste (recyclable at that!) that's visible to you, consequences be damned? Because I'm not so sure shipping back an empty food container is better for the earth than recycling it.
Yes, it would be nice to have something like this working out of the box; it has made an enormously positive contribution to our workflow.
They could try to do both things (delivering new packages and taking back containers) at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milkman

http://pocketcultures.com/2012/01/25/argentinean-customs-hav...
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You can reuse the boxes, thermal bags, and ice packs just fine. My folks stitched together a bunch of the thermal bags to cover their tomato plants during the winter / early spring.

The smaller bags are problematic, though some of them are also reusable (if they have a zipper or equivalent mechanism for resealing). The little bottles/jars are also reusable, though I've yet to actually find a use for them.
What about a cell phone with a $100 monthly bill? How about $250 cable tv package? Neither are loans. Both are as bad if not worse than credit card debt.
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I've used https://www.letsgaze.com/#/ a few times which worked pretty well. Only works with files you have access to, or freely available youtube content though.

I agree that it's a neat idea. I'm sure the content problem is why there aren't more attempts at the moment.
Are you talking currently or historically? Historically, TONS. America was for quite a while (still is in some cases, others not at all).

Currently, Hong Kong is a great example of a largely free economy.

https://www.fraserinstitute.org/economic-freedom/dataset?yea...
It doesn't mention XML, is it no longer a thing? :)
Yahoo was sold. We need a new dead horse.
I've used this, it's an awesome project, but it's basically just pipes all the way down. I'm thinking of something closer to a NIF. I think Saleyn's c++ node code might be the closest thing for a lower level language.
Love this, and agree. Though I would love to see a computer system which can resolve ambiguity in natural languages and formalize it for us. It would get it wrong often, but if it is good at it, no more so then a programmer gets the requirements wrong.
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, in that order is what you should aim for. It still takes a lot of energy to recycle something and much less to reuse it as is or not use it in the first place
Which OP said that? Can you link/quote them?
If Bitcoin splits, what do you predict would be the effect on holders of bitcoins?

- They have twice as much money (yay!)

- They have twice as much money but the value is split, so it's worth approximately the same.

- One of the branches wins or mostly wins.

- The split does so much damage that some (all?) value of coins is lost.
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If your thesis holds, it invalidates the central tenet of a decentralised network. If a central party can set the rules, why not use the much better centralised transaction systems and forgo things like POW?
1	1668 26.8426% git
2	723 11.635% gst
3	361 5.80946% vim
4	355 5.71291% gd
5	311 5.00483% clear
6	280 4.50595% ls
7	276 4.44158% gco
8	222 3.57258% cd
9	152 2.44609% ga
10	147 2.36563% pip

gst, gd, gco and ga are aliases for git status, diff, checkout and add respectively.
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Due to Facebook's network effect, it's hard to gather as much user-generated content elsewhere.

Google's search is barely rivaled by anyone because it returns the best results, which are content.

The network effect is important. One of the major reasons it's important is because it can deliver more and better content.
Amazon might launch its own WhatsApp competitor to order food and split bills
You are comparing a bank to a startup which is an absurd comparison. Compare Goldman to Google and guess what Google wins (even in London).

Banking salaries have been static for 10+ years. Bank internship salaries are designed to allure and impress but 5+ years in and the salary does not change.

On another note there are some startups who can pay very very well in London but they do not advertise these salaries.