skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You were closer to being right than joeyspn. Portuguese, Spanish and Italian are more or less mutually intelligible. There's a lot of complex vocabulary and grammar that's different and plenty of simple stuff too but if you speak slowly you can communicate on day 0. French is further from mutual intelligibility but you still have an enormous leg up learning it if you speak any Western Romance language. Catalan is probably more similar to French than Spanish but it's still pretty easy for a Hispanophone to learn.
AAA game studios have 100s of artists toiling away at Maya and ZBrush, so I guess that means there isn't a working generator for computer graphics either ;).

In this case the author is using math to paint shapes and fill in colors, but the wider scene composition is authored. The equivalent of this for music would be hardcoding music composition/sequencing using code and writing procedural synths using math (like http://www.shadertoy.com music shader!), not a server somewhere generating music with no human involved.

Entirely procedural music is a genre though, as far as procedural music being "believable" (I guess aesthetically pleasing?) for you it probably depends on the right artists coming along and developing a sound you like, moreso than it not being possible.
In my experience Brasilian Portuguese is much easier to understand and I've actually been able to have conversations with Brasilian speakers where we knew about 80-90% of what the other person was saying.

But in Europe I've been sitting on trains directly next to Portuguese speakers and had a very difficult time even understanding say 40% of what they were talking about. It was as if in Portugal they just chew up the words and chop them all up, which makes it super difficult to understand. That wasn't the case with the Brasilians I've spoken too. With them I could actually have conversations and know what they were saying.

But thats just my personal experience.
Getting a prosthesis because of a medical condition is one thing, voluntarily amputating a body part to get one is insane.
Forcing exposure onto someone is, physically, the only way one can leverage their own ability to change another's mindset.

Beyond exposure, it's a matter of individual choice.
(i.e. consider when one tries foreign foods for the first time)
It seems like you're nitpicking terminology but in case my original intent wasn't clear I'll try again. I'm saying that bitcoin has fatal flaws to work as a global currency at scale (I've estimated what that means) that aren't fatal flaws to work as a niche currency (it's present scale). So the answer to your original question is that surviving at it's present scale forever would not be surprising. Scaling and then revealing its flaws would indeed be fatal as there's no going back to being a niche once it scales and fails to work properly.
The reason is not because of the vision. Also if anyone thinks about it as a replacement of paypal/visa, they know scaling via increased block size is not going to cut it. 7tx/s doen't do much good if scaled linearly.

It was a flaw in the Bitcoin specification that there was a conflict of interest between miners and users that when more blocks are filled, the more fee the miners get, thus miners have no incentive to make the blocks less congested.

Not sure how doubling the block size suddenly disallows users from validating the blocks, besides, as the entire data is already around 160GB or so, none of the mobile wallets contain the full data and are delegating much of the credibility of the chain to others' full nodes.

Bitcoin Cash is mostly built around the Chinese mining community who have been rejecting to activate segwit for a while since their asicboost that helps their mining speed by 20-30% was about to become unusable, though they claim it's not used.

And with 8MB for Bitcoin Cash it would make the chain data so large after several years, if block spaces get filled you will be able to barely host a node on a desktop with TBs of storage not to mention hosting on clouds would be pretty expensive leading to centralization.
Mark Ripttoe's DVD is very good, he illustrates form with a wide variety of body types, pointing out issues different people have
If the perf of gRPC is not good enough, you should file an issue on Github. I'm kind of surprised that gRPC loist by 2x. That's about how much better netperf is.

When you say you used Cap'n'proto, did you mean the RPC and serializer, or just the serializer? I ask because gRPC's serialization is pluggable, and doesn't have a dependency on Protobuf.
I find it difficult to watch many new movies, particularly of the animated variety, because they jump from one thing to the next within seconds.

Movies catering to technology-induced attention deficit disorder are junk food for the mind. Maybe it's time for information diet nutrition panels.
Gruber (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/07/13/mac-mini-1000) pointed out Phil Schiller's stunning endorsement, "The Mac Mini remains a product in our lineup."
> nip out for a fag

A once common sentence which, after not hearing it for years, suddenly contains connotations of rasism and heterosexism.
Spanish is very useful in the US if you live in the southwest
There were other options which had much better performance, but that's not really the point: much of what people blamed on the browser was actually a less visible program they'd installed, similar to the way Windows often got blamed for performance or stability problems created by anti-virus software.
Thanks. Great suggestions. Do you have any criteria for defining junior, senior, etc? Any objective/subjective measures?
Yeah that man speaks slowly what appears to be the variant of catalan spoken in France... I'm referring to something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-OXwRP5A9E

Spanish speakers will notice a lot of "familiar words", but most of the time it's difficult for them to extrapolate the meaning of what is being said.
The Vietnam analogy is just in bad taste
and does not add much to the article.
> feel like scam

More like people flock onto immature projects with large sum of money hoping for a quick 5x making the projects look far larger than they should be and when they fail to deliver, depression is as large as their investment leading to feel they got scammed.
excellent point.
There's a slightly different syntax, but there are some hacks around this. See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellAlias for details
Do you have an example of a flaw in all existing cryptocurrencies? I've heard about the current scaling challenges with Bitcoin.
The design principles of modularity and stateful components exist independent of an OOP.
1 - Find a good powerlifting gym. Nothing will beat in person technique feedback from a 800+ lb squatter.

2 - Failing (1), find one on the internet that does online coaching. Film yourself and pay for feedback. I have no experience with him, but George Leeman is strong as hell and knows his technique. You could start here. https://www.muscle-massochist.com/services/

3 - If you're in sf, I have a strong recommendation. (Your username may be old.)
> the miners become transaction validators that can be compelled to censor certain kinds of transactions by their government

That's only true if

1) >50% of the miners are in said county (currently China)

2) >50% of the miners agree to this censorship

3) They actually know the meaning of transactions in order to filter them. Most transactions are anonymous, even the big ones. We know identities of a tiny percentage of the addresses, and most of them are not hiding. For instance, we can't figure out where Mt Gox money went - I've seen some attempts of tracing them, but it went nowhere.
You described yourself in another comment as fluent in three languages – I wonder if you might be much more practised at figuring out things spoken in other languages than others.
Satoshi created Bitcoin. There is no wealth(bitcoin based) to transfer if not for him. It is not upto you or others to decide whether the 5% belongs to him or not.
Meet 'Joon,' Air France's New Airline for Millennials
Find who's behind and you will know it's not a scam. Not that I support such a large block though.
ANTIVIRUS FOR ANDroid HAS a LONG, LONG WAY TO GO
I think the best response to skepticism comes from Wittgenstein's later philosophy. Wittgenstein said that in real use words have different meanings according to the language game and sort of activity people are involved in. So for instance the word "scale" has a different meaning when talking about maps as opposed to music. He goes on say that many senseless philosophical problems arise because the wrong meaning of a word is being used.

In the case of skepticism, the problem is that a meaning of the "know" from logic is being applied inappropriately to the realm of object perception, where a different meaning is the correct one. And let me add that skeptics themselves use the normal meaning all the time, except when they get their minds in a very strange mentality for their particular style of philosophy, and pretend to believe the word has a very different meaning.

Now skeptics might counter that their meaning of the term "know" is better for philosophical purposes than the ordinary one. But in fact their meaning gets you nowhere in terms of dealing with basic philosophical issues in area such as metaphysics and ethics, whereas with the ordinary one you can.
I've never read the book.. the trailer did absolutely nothing to tell you what the movie's about. It just looked like a bunch of pop references strung together with something to do with VR in a dystopian future. I don't think I've ever seen such a bad trailer for a high budget film..
There's a picture of a guy using it (with zero cords) to take a conference call, which goes a bit beyond a flattering studio photo. It allegedly depicts real world use.
arbitration
I'm weak in French, German and Chinese and have even worse Spanish. Pick one language and let the child watch tv in it and only in it. Ditto for video games. If I was in the US I'd probably pick Spanish. It's one of the easiest languages to learn as a speaker of English. Pick one language.
> The law is broken. There is no legal mechanism to lend out a digital file. That's the law's fault, not the lender's fault.

Oh yes, there are laws covering lending out digital files. They might not have been written specifically for the purpose but they're used anyway. Lending out digital files is, as anyone who has an insight in the industry, fraught with all sorts of silly artificial restrictions. In Sweden it is actually much more expensive for a library to lend out a digital publication that a physical one, especially when the publication is recent and popular. Depending on the contract the library has with the publisher they'll have to buy a one-time license any time a publication is lent out, other contracts stipulate a fee per loan plus an artificial 'wear' limit on digital publications. In contrast a physical publication is bought once - at a higher price than that charged in a book shop - after which it can be lent out until it falls apart.

I do not borrow digital publications from the library for this reason. Where digital technology could be used to further the mission of libraries it is now used to counter them. How... very much expected. Fortunately there are alternatives, as mentioned in the article.
I must not want my wm to give me a geometric series of ever shrinking squares.
A company I used to work for specialized in exactly this case - high density WiFi. They have an 8 radio / 24 antenna AP: https://www.xirrus.com/product/xr-4000-series/

You can use 6 20 MHz channels in the 5GHz band and 1 or 2 channels in the 2.4 GHz band, on each of these multi-APs, and you can get much smaller "cell sizes" (low power signal, smaller signal area) than cellular providers. You can bump clients from busier channels on to less busy ones to force better balance.

WiFi drivers for clients and APs are a big pile of bugs - the resilience (retries at lower rates, chip-timeout-resets, etc) covers a lot of them up. You can get more consistent throughput and latency by digging in and fixing these bugs (and working around bugs in most clients). Most good WiFi APs are debugged until they work pretty well for the "typical" home or office use-cases. But the Xirrus APs (and some competitors to some degree) are debugged for the "high density" use-case - multiple hundreds of users per multi-AP, and maybe 8 to 30 of these multi-APs in a large conference hall or stadium.

You have to know what you're doing. It is expensive. Niantic has a hugely popular service. They're making money. But they never seem to know how to handle the massive scale that was predictable after the first month or so. They sold tickets, they knew how many were coming. There are people who know how to handle that. Niantic just didn't feel like doing the research to find out how or who to handle it. Their systems fall over again and again and again.
Most people will not have the flexibility to go atg without serious butt wink. Look at all the stretching the oly people do.
Installed. Run. First screen: Select your language. English already selected. Hit "Next". Nothing happens. No apparent way of actually selecting a language or proceeding. Uninstalled.
The same happened to me. It really spoiled the experience and I felt compelled to submit a poor rating. But then I rather just closed the tab.
Thank you. I'm working on launching early sept. You'll get an email as soon as I do.
Cores and the rest have already discussed about scaling to death. Such a radical change cannot be simply applied to Bitcoin. You just explained what IOTA is. If you must get their attention, go to slack/IRC or start a reddit thread and if it collects much attention, cores will likely to read.
> "Powerful PC" - probably uses Core M, a giveaway being that they don't mention exactly what processor they're using.

They make you go through many clicks to get there, but the "Tech Specs" on the HP site say that it's an i3-6100T (for the Core i3, anyway).
I agree with the first sentence. For the second part, what are you thinking of? For reads, there's very low overhead for using an implementation like Java's ConcurrentHashMap. The overhead for insertions is more significant, but not enormous.
The group associated with Bitcoin Cash is well known to participate in the manipulation of social media and news aggregates, including vote manipulation and sockpuppet comments.
> USD/BTC market seems to agree

They rallied back because of BIP 91 being locked in leading for SegWit activation later. Nothing to do with 2x increase at the moment.

> immediate scaling problem.

This was spam tx likely from miners who insist on bigger blocks. The backlogs have been reduced now.

https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count?timespan=1year

> half the size

It's not compressable. Why would they not compress if it was possible already?
Block size increase is not engineering, it's giving up on thinking as it drags disk space and bandwidth with the increase and not solving a thing for the future.
What will distinguish Go then? From say Nim, D, Rust, OCaml, Haskell, etc?
Chris

If I understood the docs correctly, openbazaar 1.0 server is written in Python but since it's release the team has worked on V2 in Go.

I'd really appreciate learning the motivation for the migration to Go and think others may as well. Go programs are faster than Python programs but lo and behold is a viable v1 - a server whose performance may have been good enough?

Please, enlighten!
>> Three times a week, for five sets of five reps

I would recommend doing 8 sets or 6 or 8, increasing the weight each set. 5 sets of 5 isn't enough to do more than get warmed up.
Non-blocky progressive JPEG loading demo
Cheers.
Yeah for sure, I was too lazy to make a PR on nixpkgs, but this[0] is what I wrote if anyone stumbles on this using NixOS. The nix package manager can be installed on top of most OS's too.

[0]: https://pastebin.com/raw/FYMean1q
Yeah. A single beer tent can pack well over 10k people - the optimal solution would be a set of antennas per tent but people don't like seeing antennas, so the operators put their COWs in the "backstage" areas, thus limiting range.
That is pretty much exactly what my gotemplate package does, except using go generate...

https://github.com/ncw/gotemplate
That's not really quite accurate on modern networks. Most of them use CDMA which allows many devices to transmit/receive at the same time, assuming that they can modulate their power with respect to distance from the tower/etc(which is a requirement for the "xor" to cancel out).

That said there's still a bunch of other stuff you have to sort out if you want to support that many devices in a small space.
Uhh, protecting your transactions against replay attacks in Hard Fork scenarios like this is a solved problem.

There are a multitude of ways to split your coins, so that they are separate, and you don't risk selling the other chain when you don't mean to.
iCloud security flaw put iPhone, Mac passwords at risk
You can always drill holes to your desk and use tight L-shaped connectors ;-)
> It's natural to break large systems into component parts recursively, and to let components have their own state

The biggest lie OOP ever told was that breaking things into smaller components is specific to OOP
Based on experience? Or is a general tip?
See: global warming. Things are about to go very wrong with fossil fuels / you might say they already have.
Nothing boosted the fuck out of my brain like intense bilingualism did
It is socialism to the extent that the means of production is in fact largely publicly owned- or rather than owned, the fruits thereof is publicly redistributed via taxation.

This definition would fit nearly all so call capitalist economies too, which shows wr have VERY FEW purely capitalistic as well as purely socialist economies, although thr latter do exist more frequently in history and a few crazy places.
"You imply that only one camp wants to scale."

No. Go read what official Core developers like Luke-jr and Blue Hair Matt are saying.

They think that the blocksize might ALREADY be too large, and actually want to DECREASE the blocksize.

They also explicitly do not want to scale, because that would mean that transaction prices go down. They literally want block fees to be high so as to create a "fee market".
Mac mini is quite maxi these days, comparing to NUCs and its derivations.
Even better example, if you do say:

$ *npm install whatever

in a remote directory, it will actually execute the real thing on the server. So as long as you don't need to use ncurses based program etc. it's a good-enough ssh too.

Though quite honestly I much prefer to just start emacs on the server, make 4 eshell windows and have it be my fancy tmux/screen. It feels inelegant when you first do it, but it's very liberating actually.
Marry them
FUSE doesn't compose well, though.

On the Hurd you can, for example, transparently access a node of an XML file inside a gzipped tarball on an FTP server; with FUSE you'd have to design the userspace file system adapter to support these extensions, whereas with the Hurd it's a consequence of using nodes of the virtual file system as flexible rendezvous points for stacked translators.

With FUSE users are still second to admins when it comes to file systems. On the Hurd all file operations can be interposed -- it enables fine-grained virtualisation by design.

(On Linux, on the other hand, user namespaces are a post-hoc hack.)
Why are some converters more complicated than this? Because you can make them a little faster. On my laptop, glibc's sprintf(buf, "%.50e", M_PI) is about 15 times faster than an equivalent print using the code above, because the implementation of sprintf uses much more sophisticated mathematics to speed the conversion.

He missed an opportunity to name the article "Floating Point to Decimal Conversion is Easy and Not Fast" (in reference to https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html)

(When did he start writing articles in Go? IMHO the syntax is close enough to C to make skimming through easy enough, but confusing to look at in detail for the majority who will have likely far more experience with C than Go.)
These stairs were poorly executed and will need to be removed for safety reasons. However when done to the correct standards this sort of guerrilla infrastructure can last and make a difference.

https://www.good.is/articles/the-fake-freeway-sign-that-beca...
> requires you to do things you probably are not used to doing, and mobility you probably do not have

Learned this the hard way. I'd encourage anyone tempted to try out his program to take a week or two and work on your mobility first. You won't really notice your imperfect movements until the weight is sufficiently heavy enough to start hurting you.
The OP's author actually uses Emacs as a windows manager: http://www.howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/new-window-manager....
Serverless computing at Twilio
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14829920

FUSE may be sufficient for simple cases, but it is much less flexible than the Hurd or even the approximation that Emacs provides (e.g. directly browsing the contents of a remote tarball).
You don't see it in iMac marketing photos, either, where the screen is illuminated.
Satellites Taking Pictures of Rockets Carrying More Satellites
While true, seeing as everyone else also seems to do it (Dell, Apple, Lenovo have very similar photos although admittedly not always with a human user in the photos) it seems slightly odd to complain about what are fairly obviously promotional images?
FWIW at this point, this kind of demonstrates my point: I think I kind of want a library to build a CI system. Not some piece of software I have to run somewhere (as root, probably), which may enable me do to what I want.

Why hasn't anyone developed a CI-orcherstration library yet? Is it actually a difficult problem?
It depends on what one means by truly bilingual. In the context of this article, I took it to mean "no accent" and able to speak in one language as comfortably as the other.

Bilingual people are a dime a dozen, but it's fair to say truly bilingual people are pretty rare, and almost invariably learned both languages at a young age.
Only in the US unfortunately.
"People with vaginas squat for sex or when peeing outdoors."

You mean, "women"?
If borders were open
Procrastination Study
Airmageddon, made by the same person as Robot Wars. I was on there. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja_epw7qnkc
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/...
I will try to rewrite the copy and make it clearer.
"7tx/s doen't do much good if scaled linearly"

Why not? Bitcoin Cash may be more vocal in the Chinese miner community but there are plenty of Americans who believe in it too. The storage issue both chains will have to deal with if they are used in any big capacity
> I'd like to know what we're getting out of all this blind pro-israelism.

The support of one quarter of the electorate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism#United_State...
GoblinCore-64: Scalable, open architecture for data intensive HPC
> - Remember Personal Radios needed a License.

CB's do not anymore... these were deregulated just a few years ago.

To Add to the list:

- Fishing License
- Dog License (re-introduce!)
I work on OpenBazaar and I'm happy to answer questions.

This website links to the current version of OpenBazaar, but we're just about to launch a completely new version, which you can read about here:

https://medium.com/openbazaarproject/openbazaar-2-0-p2p-trad...

The 2.0 is built with Go and uses IPFS. It's open source and we welcome any developers into the project:

https://github.com/OpenBazaar/openbazaar-go
The manager in question, were he a good one, should also be able to clearly and timely communicate if any or all of these things apply.