skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> multiple chains combining into one. Does anyone know if this has happened before?

I don't think it happened on any meaningful chain. It could be donetechnically through a proof-of-burn on the giving chain, and the corresponding minting on the receiving chain.

Something loosely comparable would be conversion from a token to another within the same blockchain, and this must have happened quite a few times on Ethereum; but that's within a single blockchain, so arguably doesn't count.

However when you see how difficult it is, in terms of governance, to address such an obvious issue as Bitcoin's tiny throughput, I can't imagine two distinct chains agree, in a timely fashion, both on the principle of a merge, and on the way to execute it. Maybe on-chain governance, as proposed by Tezos, will fix this problematic indecisiveness on blockchain evolutions, we'll see.
Because I think there will be a lot of people who don't think that Bitcoin Cash has long term value, but will try to make a quick buck off it before it goes to 0.
Tried it some months ago and preferred Notion. Is there a comparison with pros and cons?
> [...] the Oneida Community of New York. Founded by John Humphrey Noyes in 1848, the Protestant commune believed that Jesus Christ’s power was a form of liquid electricity that could be transmitted to believers through touch. As the most intimate form of touch is sex, the group also believed that, if they had enough of it, they’d create a spiritual battery that would make them immortal and create heaven on earth. So the community encouraged polygamy, orgies and generally engaging in as much sexual activity as possible.

Wait a second...wouldn't having sex among themselves only serve to redistribute the power more evenly among the group? To increase their power and gain immortality wouldn't they need to be having sex with Jesus?

BTW, according to Wikipedia: "The Oneida Community dissolved in 1881, and eventually became the giant silverware company Oneida Limited". No mention of liquid Jesus electricity in the Wikipedia article. Googling for it only turns up a few mentions, and they all or almost all seem to stem from one article.
It's not even clear that they're correct for the one example they go by. It's difficult to argue that "teaching" is essential to good design; to me it's just important for on-boarding (that the "tutorial" stages aren't canned info-dumps and dreadfully slow, interruptive, and staged events that treat the player as incomprehensibly incompetent).

I'm more inclined to the idea that good design is found in the ability to explore a ruleset, and the ruleset being interesting enough to justify exploring it. The art, music, themes and such all supplement the exploration of that ruleset (or even help define it). Good "levels" push you to explore the ruleset in ideally unintuitive ways, and lays the foundation for further exploration in future levels.

Ideally, the game shouldn't "teach" you how to play. It should simply exist as a world, and its rules, and you'll figure out the rest. Incentivized to explore particular areas of the world/rules, but thats about it.

Bad design comes from limiting your ability to explore. Rules that appear general (applies to all NPCS), but it turns out you can't punch the kids, because. You can normally jump around as much as you want...but this particular area you have to sit down and walk because its movie-time. You can run around as much as you wish, but here there's an invisible wall because you're not at the designated level for it.

Or the lack of things to explore. Poorly designed procedural generation games like No Man's Sky and Borderlands come to mind. The generation rules constantly produce different/new things... with little difference to your actual ability to interact with the world. It gets boring, fast, because it's not affecting the ruleset to any interesting degree. But a proper roguelike on the other-hand has you forced to explore corner cases of the ruleset every time you find a new enemy with some special combination of [dangerous] skills. The roguelike ruleset is potentially interesting (and expansive), and the procedural generation pushes you to explore all its corners. No Man's Sky has a much more limited ruleset, and the generation leads you to explore all its corners... very, very quickly.

And then ofc you have other aspects like compositional rules and feedback loops that allow the player a much freer exploration, of the world, to the point that you have genres defined around it (eg simulations, grand strategies, etc).
it's bad that a single person has unaccountable command over a billion dollars
I answered this question in as much detail as possible in the blog post I wrote at the time (which was also linked in the above comment) https://dev.ghost.org/dropping-support-for-postgresql/
whats the issue if you're granting permission for them though? just say no if it's from Buzzfeed, yes if it's from my XYZ service - that's all it takes. And - I would expect notification management would need to be similarly accessible.

Notifications are tough to do as is - and a core user need. You and I might turn them off, but many people rely on them heavily. If I have responsive web app with notifications - that's the dream for me. because I don't want to have to build a native app JUST for that. Nor, should many others need to.
It's the culmination of a years-old debate. Looking at both arguments in a positive light, Bitcoin Cash wants to stick to the original idealistic vision of Bitcoin, and is offering a temporary solution for it. Bitcoin wants a better solution, and is ready to make some ideological compromises in exchange for growing the chain faster and making it easily usable.

Idealism vs pragmatism.
How Microsoft's Calibri font could lead to this Prime Minister's downfall
I don't find Rails (the "most productive" comparison point according to the thread) more lightweight than Django...
A website is not an app. Not sure why I need to explain that.
Guys like Buffet, Murdoch, Bloomberg, Carlos Slim, etc don't retire. Some may redirect their efforts, but that's the point. The most ambitious continue building their empires.
They should sell the original iPod Nano with the wheel, it was awesome.
> In particular I can't really imagine how LN could reach a Visa-level number of transactions without having a few mega "nexus nodes"

I think that's a valid point, but we won't know how it will play out until we actually get there. It seems to me that the "large block" crowd is of the "let's not go there" opinion, but I think they're resisting the inevitable.
It won't be a huge financial boost.

Bitcoin isn't worth $2500 per Bitcoin by magic. It's worth that because of supply and demand.

The only change might be that some of the demand shifts to BitcoinCash instead of Bitcoin, meaning the price of both will be lower than the price of Bitcoin now, but they'll likely add up to about the same amount.
I had to do this at DTW, I was carrying 3 laptops and 2 tablets. I also had my carry on searched because I had 12 cans of sardines which look funny in the x-ray.
iPod Shuffle is the best there is for running, buuuut I suppose it endangers Apple's business model and profitability so it needs to be sent to a farm upstate.
Show HN: Warden.NET – An easy to use process management library
I hate to be that guy, but this may not be the best idea thanks to the patent stuff. I didn't hear if anything changed for React after the Apache Foundation pushed to change the license for RocksDB.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14779881
Enhancing SQL Query Performance
The only way you could think that is if you also believe that patents on existing processes, but then add "On a computer" are new and novel things.

Just because something is using a blockchain does not mean it's new, or that what is happening doesn't fall under existing securities law.
Seeking podcasts exploring spiritual and/or religious themes in popular TV shows
Hello. I'm looking for podcasts exploring spiritual, religious and/or meaning-making in popular TV shows. Links, please? I know about the Harry Potter sacred texts podcast, but I need 'em for TV shows. I've looked a lot, but the internet is very big and I'm very small. So I'd be very much obliged for any help. Thank you.
No wonder she does, they're fantastic due to the clip and light weight.
Is there friction or non-zero restitution?
Thanks a lot for this hint, we’ll review it!
There was a Planet Money episode about the Oneida community not long ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2017/06/09/532303452/episo... no mention of any electricity related beliefs but they went into the free love aspect.
I'm curious what Market they set out to serve and what Market they serve now - would you mind elaborating?
For someone so smart, I'm a little surprised it took this CTE study to push him over the edge.

But maybe he wanted more conclusive data before leaving a job which paid him millions. :)
I kinda disagree. The first level of DooM starts you off in an open area that's safe to play around in and you have to "choose" to start the first confrontation. The only thing you need to learn in DooM is to shoot and open doors and you learn how to do both things within the first moments of the first level.
True, perhaps that's the "best" way to do it - but I think I'd leave that up to my children. If they wanted to live the charitable life, work for the people so to say, then by all means.

But by default, I'd not want to put that burden on my children. In a perfect world (for me), I'd give them enough that enable them to do whatever they want, selfishly. I don't mean selfishly in the negative sense.. but from my perspective I'm giving them a gift. I want them to have a life without fear, worry, or struggle. If they wanted to live their entire life relaxed and on the beach, so be it - that's my gift to them.

If, instead, they wanted to manage billions of dollars, focusing on making money to give money like a non-profit, then great! But that's not a "gift" I'd give anyone, more of a job, from my perspective.
> In standard screening lanes, TSA agents will be stationed in front of X-ray machines to verbally assist passengers with the new screening procedures.

Is "verbally assist" a new euphemism for "yell at"?
Pretty sure this has been happening for a while. The last few times I've traveled, people were told to put laptops and tablets in separate bins as well.

Makes sense... we shouldn't discriminate laptops at the security lines!

All large electronics in separate bins!
In fact there's a happy middle ground: you can run Electrum or similar. These are "SPV" (simplified payment verification) clients. They sync only a small amount of blockchain data, relying on proof-of-work to confirm the data's validity, instead of validating the entire chain from the genesis block.

That way you still get to keep control of your keys, and you get a little control over the consensus rules you think are valid, but you don't have to sync the entire chain.

This is what most users are likely doing.
From an interview with Geoffrey Miller, an evolutionary psychologist:

"Q: What does that mean in human language?
A: Any given couple could potentially have several eggs fertilized in the lab with the dad’s sperm and the mom’s eggs. Then you can test multiple embryos and analyze which one’s going to be the smartest. That kid would belong to that couple as if they had it naturally, but it would be the smartest a couple would be able to produce if they had 100 kids. It’s not genetic engineering or adding new genes, it’s the genes that couples already have.

Q: And over the course of several generations you’re able to exponentially multiply the population’s intelligence.
A: Right. Even if it only boosts the average kid by five IQ points, that’s a huge difference in terms of economic productivity, the competitiveness of the country, how many patents they get, how their businesses are run, and how innovative their economy is.

Q: How does Western research in genetics compare to China’s?
A: We’re pretty far behind. We have the same technical capabilities, the same statistical capabilities to analyze the data, but they’re collecting the data on a much larger scale and seem to be capable of transforming the scientific findings into government policy and consumer genetic testing much more easily than we are. Technically and scientifically we could be doing this, but we’re not.

Q: Why not?
A: We have ideological biases that say, “Well, this could be troubling, we shouldn’t be meddling with nature, we shouldn’t be meddling with God.” I just attended a debate in New York a few weeks ago about whether or not we should outlaw genetic engineering in babies and the audience was pretty split. In China, 95 percent of an audience would say, “Obviously you should make babies genetically healthier, happier, and brighter!” There’s a big cultural difference.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/5gw8vn/chinas-taking-over...
That's sadly unlikely to happen again for the R3, as it is the same architecture as the R5. It will already profit from the prior optimizations. Maybe some gains where hyperthreading was assumed. I checked some benchmarks more by now and it really seems like your last sentence is right: The i5 is in R5s ballpark, the R3 can't reach it.
Apple Adjusts iPod Touch Prices and Storage: 32GB for $199, 128GB for $299
I really wanted to like Ghost. I self hosted a blog for a couple years (didn't use that much) and really enjoyed tinkering around with the JS and deploying some custom code. But I just really felt like having no metrics was a huge disappointment; not that I would have garnered tons of views but it still rewarding to see them. I once had Blogger account where I posted some random iOS learnings and one of the posts actually got a lot of views, which was really cool to see.

Seeing this 1.0 release and then going to the roadmap board and seeing https://trello.com/c/rQL1Kiyx/61-post-analytics that the analytics is still in the backlog is disheartening. Maybe some users didn't like the editor, but I found it to be sufficient. So here we are two new editors!!! and no post metrics...
D3 and Node. I love how easy it is to create something interactive and beautiful with D3. And I feel like I've barely scratched the surface with all the built-in tools I have left to learn.
BE: Scala/akka http
FE: Scala.js, SASS, no bootstrap
Having a features page to list features with screenshots will be helpful.

Out of interest, when did you start? I'm confused about "Join
over 2000 teams".
there is a lot of self-confidence in your reply, but it doesn't address his/her point: that there is essentially a "loophole" that Oracle could exploit if they wanted to by writing a new version of the CDDL.

his/her contention is that most of the code has been released without the explicit opt-out for a more recent version of CDDL.

there's no need to get nasty; just bring the facts.
Okay, I'll bite - why did you have 12 cans of sardines in carry on?
>It's not clear to me why an increase to 2 or 4MB wasn't done though. Perhaps to force the issue?

Segwit, which activates on Bitcoin soon, already increases the the block size to ~2MB. Because Bitcoin Cash doesn't implement Segwit, increasing to merely the same size as Bitcoin wouldn't have been compelling.
Maybe it's the Indian in me but I thought it was great. Yes quality is not going to be as great as a shot that takes hours to set up, but at the same time, do we really need top quality for every single photo? Do we need to spend hours for catalogues that are going to be thrown out the next day. No, you just need to quickly display the clothing. I think there's something to be said for getting the job done effectively.
I keep an unofficial[0] representative "Death By Amazon" google portfolio. current companies tracked, against AMZN:

KSS M DDS ZUMZ SSI JCP JWN ASNA BKS TUES BGFV FRAN BKE KIRK SMRT GCO FIVE SHLD BURL BBBY SPLS APRN

1yr (excluding dividends):
amzn + 42.90% (even excluding today still +39%)
deathByAmzn - 25% (today also up... hmmm).

For what its worth, AMZN isn't the whole story of retail. There's a PE story there too [1].

[0]: There's an official one out there if you google, but I disagree with some of it. I exclude Walmart because its a big enough competitor to survive, as an example. Also i don't have a desire to track 54 stocks for this purpose.

[1]: http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/its-more-than-amazon-why-reta...
Have you read that piece? Because I have read it before, and Domhoff writes with regards to Marxists rather than Marx. If you're going to slag Marx for what Leninists and their derivatives have decided to read into it--well, that's a pretty curious thing to do. Not uncommon, because frankly most people haven't actually read Marx and are unqualified to opine, but I know for a fact that Domhoff has, which makes this...well, like I said--curious.

The one criticism of that article I do have as far as what people he perceives as "Marxists" think (and I'm not one, though I do think that the general shape of what Marx describes, as opposed to either Marx's end-state conclusions or Marxists-the-fear-object group might believe) is that social democracy, which I will helpfully point out is not "Marxism", has also fairly obviously demonstrated its bones over the last decade-plus, after the article's writing, as that late-capitalistic model has created additional, shitty stresses on populations. Free market uber alles has catastrophically failed in every nontrivial employment, and while heavily-planned or fully-planned economies have obvious problems, social democracies the world over have this tendency to mostly work. I won't call them a global maximum, because that's impossible, but they have a decent claim to a local one.

Anyway, let's be real: this isn't a "basic primer" and it doesn't contain the argument you thought it did after you googled "Marxism critique". You don't have to like the way things are going, but if you're gonna pretend to an opinion, maybe give it an honest go before you offer it?
It is. If you're looking for a web framework with statically typed language and don't want to deal with this monstrosity they call spring then Play has little competition. While basic stuff is easy, you can do more than just basic stuff since it's a full featured web framework. Some benchmarks: https://gist.github.com/schmitch/2ca3359bc34560c6063d0b00eb0...
Those are just languages though. They don't really compare to RoR. For the record, I think Ruby is a wonderful language. Python is still my go-to scripting language, but I do admire the expressiveness of Ruby when written by people that know what they are doing.

I have a fair bit of Java experience but it isn't current (I did Tomcat-based stuff).
He was profiled in the most recent issue of Tech Review. He said his mother has been asking him to retire for a few years, but he still loved the athletic challenge of playing against top players.
Materialized Views is coming to Scylla 2.0
> We should be able to arrive at some kind of consensus on what our moral rights our, through rational discourse.

In the commonly used sense of the term, the scope of morals by far exceeds what you'll get even reasonable people to agree upon. "Rational discourse" means that you need enough of an uncontroversial set of base facts that either party is willing to work with. I don't think we have enough of those to derive a single valid system of morals without injecting other, subjective, more controversial opinions in the process.

Say, you have a basic statement such as "All people should be equal", something that most can agree with. By itself, this isn't actionable, and won't determine how to handle a situation unambiguously. You could come up with a libertarian doctrine that all people should be given the same treatment regardless of their background or current situation, or you could come up with a socialist doctrine that disadvantaged people should get extra support to balance out unequal origins and misfortune. Or anything in between. None of these can be rationally discarded, because there's not enough source data to come to any conclusion to begin with. If you attempt to expand the set of source data, you will find many who disagree with you. That's why it's subjective.

That said, trying to distill what basic facts we do have, so that they can be worked with in a constructive fashion, is a commendable goal. Good luck!
Sure it is, of course depending on your domain-dependent definition of "large, obvious". You can have different effect sizes at any given p-value.
How so? We gave our daughter ours, but the dependence on iTunes sucks.
Feedback is welcomed =)
Fun fact: "Reznor graduated in 1983 and enrolled at Allegheny College, where he studied computer engineering."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trent_Reznor
React, GraphQL, Serverless / Node.js on AWS

Love the combination of Serverless and AWS, setup and deploy a full environment with Lambda, API gateway, Dynamo, Elasticsearch, SES with one command. All of it already on a CDN and fully scalable.
"Many ICOs will simply state they are out of limits for US investors and again we see that regulators like democracy and capitalism but don't really want it to be accessible to _everyone_."

No. They just said that adding the phrase "on a blockchain" is not enough to make what you're doing suddenly different.
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turning the amazon rain forest into paper
This reminded me of a chunk from an [interview with Linus Torvalds](http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/linux-at-25-qa-w...)

Stephen Cass: You’re a much more experienced programmer now versus 25 years ago. What’s one thing you know now that you wish your younger self knew?

Linus Torvalds: Actually, I credit the fact that I didn’t know what the hell I was setting myself up for for a lot of the success of Linux. If I had known what I know today when I started, I would never have had the chutzpah to start writing my own operating system: You need a certain amount of naïveté to think that you can do it. I really think that was needed for the project to get started and to succeed. The lack of understanding about the eventual scope of the project helped, but so did getting into it without a lot of preconceived notions of where it should go.
I rather hack my own blog engine in PHP https://github.com/lucianmarin/instanote rather than using Ghost.
Ask HN: How to invest €10k in Europe today?
Hi there, I am looking for ideas on how to invest €10k in Europe, it would be great if the answers were tailored for Germany, but ideas recommending options in all other European countries are welcome.
8000 is a misleading number. I do all of my transactions through a full node but my ports are not forwarded and also I only have uptime for about 1/3 of the year (most months it is offline because I'm not using it. I only run it to refill my mobile wallet or make big transactions).

When the lightning network is up and running you can bet that I'll be using my full node for that too.

120GB of disk space is a big hit. My drive is a 500GB SSD. Bitcoin runs a lot slower on an HDD. But mostly people saying "oh it's only $5 a month" I feel aren't actually running nodes. It's inconvenient already, the sizes are already hurting adoption, and making the chain bigger is definitely going to make that situation worse.
IIRC the shuffle can only handle a single playlist too -- how would you switch playlists?

BTw in practice I haven't found charging an issue on my 0th gen apple watch and I use it to track both exercise and sleep. It's not "fire and forget" but neither was the iphone for a long time either.
Just to mess with the agents.

I'm surprised that he didn't get required to throw them out. (They contain liquid)
He's talked before about how addictive the feeling of playing is. It probably takes a lot to give up something you love.
I'm still waiting for this nasty hardware bug to be addressed: https://community.amd.com/message/2796982

Or actually, there are 2 bugs. Some random freezes, and heavy multithreading segfaults.