skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$300 MILLION DOLLAR GOLDEN BUDDHA STATUE FOUND
But miners aren't stupid, and they know that if they are perceived as being a huge bottleneck and impediment to the growth and viability of Bitcoin, everyone else will just follow a different chain.

Currencies only have value if people are willing to trade you actual goods/services for it, and if the larger community decides the value lies with another fork, miners will lose all their power.
I speak shit Spanish (very weak third language) and even I can get the gist of what they're talking about. I'll admit all the stuff around the rolling rs is very hard to make out though.
> First of all, our actual deployments showed that Teechan can do more than 30,000 tx/sec across the Atlantic, in fully fault tolerant mode.

I'd appreciate if you linked to those actual deployments, something with a description of how they worked.

As you know, actual remote attestation capable hardware has severe limitations on persistent anti-replay mechanisms due to the fact that they are implemented in hardware. Your Teechan performance figures reported in your paper and initial announcement were recorded with those counters implemented in RAM, in such a way that a power outage would put users in a position where they can lose funds. Meanwhile, the actual SGX anti-replay counters that are currently available limit counter updates to as infrequent as multiple minutes between updates.

> We learned after publication that there are rumors of a "Lightning Network" implementation without Segwit. Unless you can point to a protocol specification, however, these remain unbacked and uncharacterized assertions, of the kind "I believe I can fly."

Payment channels != Lightning network.

Specifically, you presented Spilman payment channels as state of the art, when you are well aware of the fact that they have been made obsolete by CheckLockTimeVerify/CheckSequenceVerify payment channels.

Teechan as presented in your paper that I was criticizing wasn't a Lightning network competitor, it's a payment channel competitor. So obviously an apples-to-apples comparison would be appropriate.

> Second, Teechan does NOT require the users to obtain licenses, it just needs to be signed by an entity.

What do you mean by "signed by an entity" in your statement here? To be clear, by "SGX users" I am referring to developers of SGX-using products, not end-users.

Also to be clear, you claimed - based on the fact that SGX was widely deployed - that "[Teechan] side-steps a controversial proposal to change the underlying Bitcoin protocol, and provides all of the much-touted benefits of Lightning Networks today, without having to modify the base protocol at all." (emphasis mine)

To say that without making it clear that SGX is not in fact something that can be deployed on a whim due to the necessity of getting a license to use a SGX application in production is quite dishonest, especially in the context of the Bitcoin segwit debate that you positioned Teechan within.
I was really taken aback by the first line.

For context, I'm trilingual (used to be bilingual).

I grew up near Boston. A quarter of the kids in my class were bilingual. I don't know how many had native proficiency in their non-English language, but I'm guessing most.

So I thought maybe "true" bilingualism was some hard to attain thing that none of us had. Nope, it just means "native proficiency". AIUI that's a relatively common thing, even in the US, at least in urban areas. And definitely in other countries.

There probably was some local skew in this sample set, but from what I can tell this is definitely not abnormal in cities.

The article seems to be mostly written in the context of unilingual parents who want a bilingual child.
This is pretty off base. Backhaul is the "easy" part here. It's easy to get way more bandwidth available on a microwave link than the bandwidth available to clients.
It could be that new movies are tailored to appeal to the distracted mind, or it could be that you are suffering from cognitive decline and are not able to keep up with the times anymore.

I wonder this often at the movie theater, because I've found that I don't tolerate fast paced movies as well as I did before, but I'm a HN senior citizen (I'm 35).
TSP is actually very amenable to heuristics and state of the art branch-and-bound algorithms can often find optimal solutions even for instances with thousands of points.

With that many points, how do you prove that your solution is optimal?
Shameless plug: have you heard about Terra Mango at all (it's in case beta)? I'm a dev on the game and we're trying to figure out how to connect with more people with exactly your sentiment about PoGO and Niantic.
Enhancing the flaky sensors strikes me as easier than adding new ones, and new ways of processing them. We're not necessarily suited to more input.
Chronas: Interactive Historical World Map
> They should really move to Ethereum.

The project is opensource. If you feel there are features that you would like to have in it, I'm sure they will appreciate your input to the project.
I guess it really depends on your workflow. My own preference is to use my left monitor for source code and shell windows and my right monitor for browser testing. That does mean I tend to spend a significant amount of time looking to my left.
That's interesting. There are many toy unboxing videos in Japanese, so although my kids were as addicted as many 2-4 years olds are, it didn't bias them toward English.

That is a fascinating genre of product, BTW; at first it freaked me out how many grown men were making toy unboxing videos obviously aimed at preliterate 2-year-olds. Then I saw the view counts, which are upwards of 100 million in some cases...
Depends how you read it. If you take the numbers to be each moth will end in the stomache of a single bear, it still works. Yes, that is a silly way to see it, since bears probably don't share meals. But it does work with the numbers.
What proportional font do you use? I'd like to give coding in a proportional font a try but would like something designed for programming instead of just experimenting with Verdana.
Computational Linear Algebra
You know what else also carries that? A backpack. All those things are bulky and you usually need a lot available.

Also, no one picks locks unless they don't want it known they were there or don't want to pay for another lock. So ... just use your weapon.
Also BBC had a similar episode on moth-eating grizzlies:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00377yp
In 1986 I did that in Turbo Pascal 3.0 for DOS. Had a bug with the round function so I made my own nround that converted the floating point to a string then parsed the string to find the right rounding and converted it back to a float. I was the only person in class to get the correct answer and graded down by my professor and accused of hacking.
A bit OT but the idea of no accent is kind of funny. My kid goes to an international school in Thailand. I hear my kid's classmates speak English with Australian, British, Canadian and northeastern American accents plus an accent we call "international school accent". I'm from California and of course I think I don't have an accent. Same as those kids and their parents. Yet I have a hard time understanding some of them.
Malay has the advantages of being phonetic, using the Roman alphabet, and (I think) having a simple grammar, but is category 3. A phonetic alphabetic script is indeed helpful, but grammar isn't much of an issue. Chinese has a very simple grammar but is notoriously difficult to learn (category 5).

In my experience, the main problem in learning any second language is vocabulary acquisition, and for that you have to take into account the first language, which I'm going to assume is English.

Word frequencies follow Zipf's Law, so for any language, you can very quickly read about half the words on any given page. After twice the effort, you might be able to read another quarter, and with three times the effort another eighth, and so on. Most of the vocabulary of any language consists of non-basic vocabulary with high information content.

So which language should you learn? Obviously if you're going to live in Japan or Hungary, you have no option but to learn Japanese or Hungarian. But if your only goal is to learn a second language and you're not too particular about which one, I'd choose one which shares a lot of non-basic vocabulary with English. In practice, that means an Italic language: French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, or Romanian (all category 1). If you want to optimize on number of speakers, your best choices are Spanish, followed by Portuguese. Alternatives to Italic languages are close relatives of English with simple grammars: e.g. Afrikaans, Dutch, or Norwegian (also category 1). But speaker of those languages generally speak excellent English.

For more information on language difficulty, see http://www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/lang...
From the abstract,

> This decision is made based on whether the user is on Wi-Fi or cellular, how many bytes are remaining on the user’s data plan, ...

so it sounds like your scenario is already accounted for and you'd be flagged as a "data-heavy" user, for which prefetching would be enabled.
Radio 4 is so bad now. On hearing the Canadian equivalent having moved over here it reminds me of Radio 4 about 15 years ago. BBC1 should not be publicly funded at all, it's wall-to-wall garbage.

On the BBC the only content produced that could not be satisfied by commercial ventures is BBC4 and Radio3/6.
This is a great question, but I kind of agree (though my thoughts need much more refinement yet) with the original comment poster here.

I've been following the subject for a while, and many people in those communities tend to expect new tech to supplant the existing ones in time. Maybe not now, but in a decade or few. Besides, even the holders are a little more nimble that it appears. Some are keen, some just pump because they envision it a quick buck.

Adding to that, it's quite possible for these named techs to evolve through community suggestions, code, and consensus (even if it does get messy surrounding each fork).
>Any kind of immigration restriction is an act of oppression.

That seems quite naive, to the point of outright stupidity.

If I was a large nation state with a very large population, it would be very easy to take over another smaller nation by just migrating a huge population to that country. This was used by the USSR post-takeover in many of their satellite states.

Looking at state-to-state movement restrictions is silly because all of the said population is under the same federal jurisdiction, same constitution, and same supreme court system.

I can promise you that the Netherlands doesn't want 20 million far right fundamentalist christians moving there and influencing policy. San Francisco doesn't want a few million Wahhabi Saudi's saying that gays should be beheaded. Small Pacific islands don't want a few million Chinese showing up and claiming their area as new territory.

Free movement will have dramatic effects. Some may be positive, but you seem to steadfastly think it will not be manipulated in horrible, horrible ways by the nation states that already exist.
Please contact to validate all the good things Hitler did.
SMS Merge (like mail merge) from Google sheets
Maybe you could have gained the knowledge in other ways? It's hard to tell. It's possible this was absolutely necessary. It's possible a chat with another engineer would have allowed you to get on the right path right away. Who knows.
> Adult bilinguals mix their languages all the time; it’s a sign of language ability

I think I'll caveat that with "in the presence of other bilinguals". I am trilingual (formerly bilingual) and I, as well as people I share >1 languages with, freely switch when talking. It's quite liberating since you get access to idioms from multiple languages, and certain phrasings work out better. (There's also a lot more potential for great humor)

None of the adult bilinguals I know accidentally switch in the presence of non-bilinguals, however I have seen bilingual kids a few years younger than me do this (and I suspect I did it too).

In the context of kid mistakes, that quote was rather jarring to me; adult bilinguals do not switch languages the same way kids do; it's a completely different thing.
Maybe the first step is to stop referring to things that are absolutely bad for humans as "food".
I think that bio hacking has lost it’s initial hype but it does have a chance to jump the chasm if it got a killer app. Or even creating non invasive ways to perform the current set of tasks.
Do you guys have top tier enterprise sales guys? Maybe people in their 50's and 60's, who have a lot of contacts, and relate to C level people better than millenials? Is commission capped or uncapped? By uncapping commission sales is driven to maximize deal size and be hardcore about closing, even if that means one guy gets a $700k bonus. He still brought in way more!

Really solid enterprise sales guys see the corporate morass as a challenge and have developed and learned tricks to overcome it. It's a very psychological game. You need to create urgency, you need to think up reasons to call, reasons you need meetings. For a huge, fortune 100 client, you should treat the sale as an orchestrated project, not something you casually shoot an email off to and forget about for 2 weeks
I think the problem with ORM these days is leaky abstraction.

Sometimes we have RDBMS but more the times we have Redis and shit. You can't organize all sources of data under the same umbrella and it's painful.
Yeah, I write a lot that way too, probably influenced by my programming habits.

I read somewhere that Neil Gaiman considers himself only a decent writer who is an extremely good editor. Which is to say, he starts writing a simple draft, and then changes what's wrong with it, over and over.
Why is the Hilbert Curve any better in this situation than say lexicographical order on (x,y)?
Anyone who's played Pokemon Go or Ingress can refute this; their UI design is abysmal at the very best, the game suffers a million bugs and patches introduce at least as many as they fix, etc. A company ran by Software Engineers would have hired competent UI developers and QE engineers and would have demoed the hell out of the event before putting it into production...

No, I'd argue Niantic may originally have been engineering driven, but once Ruthless cut them from Alphabet, they went straight for the greed play, developed with an IP that would sell billions with next to no effort, and are now tightening the screws on the player-base with Pay-to-Win gym tickets and events requiring as many Lures and Incenses as you can buy to continue extracting income.
I feel like the difficulty of obtaining rocket fuel on a given rocky planet is equivalent to within the limits of napkin math. I've never heard a particularly convincing argument for using the Moon as a springboard to the wider universe as opposed to Mars or Venus. Perhaps someone could offer some correction.
The author is a woman.
and the most memorable image of the war, that of streams
of fleeing people seeking space on the Huey helicopter
perched on the roof of the embassy.

Common misconception. The roof in question was that of an apartment building a kilometre away from the embassy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/22_Gia_Long_Street
Twilio is great and we used it on my last team, which is a fortune 50. However, I saw the issues with having a subpar sales team. As I was leaving the communications team, "management" decided they wanted to replace Twilio with a Salesforce product. That Salesforce product uses Twilio for sending e-voice calls and text messages. Unfortunately my arguments against the switch fell on deaf ears
Yeah. In fact, the CCP has been pro-Hui Muslim to an extent that the Han majority fear the country will be Islamicized some day.

The ordinary people's resentment towards Muslim stems from the Hui's abuse of political privileges to expand their religious strengths, such as Saria Law, to intervene Han people's daily life everywhere, from Ningxia, Gansu to Henan and Shandong, from Canteens, Schools to Police, Courts.

In the meanwhile, the majority has little to zero knowledge about the Uyghurs because only a few Uyghur people live outside Xinjiang.

The situation is really weird and there is a conspiracy theory saying that the CCP leadership has been controlled by the Hui Muslim.

BTW, the Hui Muslim and the Uyghur Muslim have been enemies since the Qing Dynasty.
Often in approximations you can prove an upper bound on the optimal solution, even if you don't know the optimal solution itself.

An easy example is by using duality when solving linear programs.

And sometimes your upper bound is close enough to what you already have so you can just say something like "well my solution gets 190 points, I have an upper bound of 190.5 points, and all point rewards are integral so I must have the optimal solution."
I agree that this is often the case. But it is also true that when you know more than one language well you often find that words in one language are more expressive than in the other. So it becomes convenient to mix the languages in conversation by chosing a single word in one language that would be an entire phrase in the other.
Could protect the moth population with a more liberal policy to provide bears access to picnic baskets...
I'd read it as implying the opposite: that there are 40,000 moths out there who will wind up in a bear's stomach tonight. Like "some 40,000 people per day are hit by a car"; you wouldn't take that as meaning one car hit 40,000 people.
You're wrong that they are supporting illegal dark type uses. The team has background in the American intelligence community. Some people are saying their aim is to push toward a backdoored or monitorable supposed darknet.
Without picking a side here, I'd like to point out that piercings (and tattoos?) can certainly cause complications if an infection ensues from the initial modification.

Of course if that does happen and you successfully treat it, I imagine you aren't impaired in any way going forward, but that is entirely thanks to antibiotics.
I think a good mix is when your family speaks one language, you speak another in your school with friends and you still have to learn English because one must learn English. That was the setting I grew up in and it allowed enough exposure/practice for me to become very fluent in all three.
Why does everything have to be subject to govt control?
As I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14830685, there is a major difference between deliberately mixing languages when talking to a fellow bilingual as an adult, and the accidental mixing of languages when talking to anyone that kids do because they aren't fluent enough.
We support digital goods and services as well, physical goods have just been the most popular so far.

We don't have the automation nailed down quite yet so for now you still need to manually process orders.
As an Ingresser myself, I'd say there were two big sources of issues vs. your typical Ingress anomaly, and one that would happen in Ingress if it was a bit closer in popularity.

First off, they had everything in one place. For those who haven't played Ingress to that point, anomalies in Ingress usually take place with a primary and two secondary locations in, roughly, Asia, the Western Hemisphere, and Europe. This means that people aren't usually traveling from far away (which probably would increase overall participation) but also that each site's numbers are lower. I figure overall anomaly attendance on a given anomaly weekend might well rival that of this event -- but they're spread out in geography and time.

The second aspect is that Ingress has much more encouragement in-game of local organization. I understand quite well why Pokemon Go lacks in-game chat, but it saps local organization. Locals play an important, perhaps critical, role in Ingress event organization, and provide Niantic with free boots on the ground to figure things out. I know there is some local organization going on in Pokemon Go, but it's forced to be based on random encounters, and folks are still unsure whether to organize on team lines or just geographically. (With the current setup, I'd say geographically -- if there's anything to be learned from Ingress, it's to tamp down factionalism.)

The last thing, the one that I think would hurt Ingress equally? It seems there wasn't a limit on ticket sales. In Ingress some special extra-value packs that get you extra tchotchkes both virtual and physical exist, but the base 'free' ticket is unlimited. Similarly, here. They probably wanted to avoid any chance of scalping or the like, but imagine if they limited it to, say, a quarter the attendance?
Another american who has this baffling belief that things that aren't given permission by the government are illegal. Which, in a country full of guns, is kind of interesting. By the rationale you just espoused, the gun manufacturers should be held accountable for the actions of their users.

How about you start focusing on what THEY are doing that is supposedly 'illegal', instead of relying upon insinuation and surveillance.
I see, thank you! Pretty confusing goings-on, but your explanation makes them clear, thanks!
>And we turned out OK, didn't we?

I'm going to have to ask if this was a monumental failure of thinking on your part?

First there are some theories that huge numbers of native Americans died from disease leaving the US a very large empty land mass.

Second, the native Americans that were left got a real bad deal from European immigration.

Third, the US depended heavily on slave labor in the south, something that has left a terrible 170 legacy of racism on our country (so much so our crime demographics look nothing like western Europe's.

Lastly, because the US was a large and empty land mass for one reason or another, it look a long time to 'fill it up'.

Attempting to make any future assumptions based on past assumptions that are very different from now is not going to work out well at all.
Nope.

It's free. As in beer.

You can buy support. But it's 100% optional.
This is what Dr Sanchez on our team calls the "box of rocks" problem. You _could_ potentially use a lack of delivery to automatically refund the buyer or something but automatic payout to the vendor is harder.
Very much agreeing with you in principle that punishing savers is a terrible idea.

That being said, if bitcoin:

* Isn't backed by government (participation is voluntary)

* Is inherently delationary & encourages hoarding

* Loses coins from the system due to accident (eg, people losing passwords)

Then it follows that at some point we expect, say, plumbers to do actual work for someone who's contribution was that they were there buying bitcoin in 2015. It might be troublesome to get the plumbers buy-in to bitcoin specifically vs a new competitor where all participants are pulling their weight in the real world.

Basically, deflation + a long memory makes a monetary system unattractive for people to buy into.

EDIT: I'll point out that _so far_ bitcoin has been an inflationary currency from the point of view of number-of-coins created. That will change.
Simply: Stretch every day, morning and evening or even more often. Start with physical therapy type exercises and then gradually add stretches from ballet, gymnastics, wrestling, etc. It'll put a literal "spring" in your stride, improve posture and range of motion, and lower perceived pain both during exercise and at rest.

The weights also improve flexibility but not in as balanced a fashion. Stories abound of lifters with the posture of a gorilla.
Did you intend to post a different link here? This is the same pdf as the one you submitted.
The parent doesn't mention anything about the devs doing anything "illegal" or that they should be "held accountable" for it by the state, so I'm not sure why you argue as if they do.
Raw drive space would only be about $4500 (for 900 1tb drives)

That's not completely unbelievable
Network and server issues plague first Pokémon GO Fest