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Currently reading through a book on bitcoin, so this is extremely timely!

Got me thinking, what are some solid bitcoin/cryptocurrency resources that the HN community would recommend?
83% of Congress voted for the PATRIOT act renewal. Less than half of Congress continually supports the various "IP protection" bills, which is why SOPA/PIPA/Protect IP died. Many members of Congress have criticized FISA. Sure, perhaps half of Congress at any time will reliably vote for stupid things. But at the same time, she's not just showing up and voting and going home. She's cosponsoring these bills, pushing them through, doing whatever she can to make stuff like the PATRIOT act/SOPA/PIPA/Protect IP/etc law. If you were to rank members of the Senate on their IP-friendliness, she'd certainly be the worst in my opinion.

Look, I'm politically active. I go out and have worked for two Presidential campaigns. I'm not going to vote for someone that wants to gut the EPA, stop immigration, or ban Muslims. (I'm also not a CA resident.) But not _all_ Republicans are bad, and one that would win California of all places probably wouldn't be very hard-right.
Well, as someone recently off the scrolls of student loan debt, I can tell you this -

Save. Don't spend it. Save it. Invest it wisely.

Paying my shit off gave me an incredible sense of freedom, even though I still have a wife and kid and household to maintain, the usual job pressure, etc. I thought about it, and the sense of relief was from knowing that I was free of debt service, so the best thing I can tell you is to save your money and not make a single interest payment more than you need to.
Things like that happen in all fields, but some are worse than the other. On average, humanities are worse than scientific disciplines. Biology is worse than computer science. Computer science is worse than physics. In pure mathematics, hardly anybody cares about politics at all — it either checks out, or it doesn't.
I think residences in the US and residences in Europe are quite different, and especially the Netherlands are quite densely populated. I would say that the area that's used in the US to have a driveway would work quite well in the Netherlands to have a big garden (yard).
>There are trees that cannot reproduce unless their seed pods are baked open

Aspen and lodgepole pine
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Take another example then. Like a random chain of people to find the last member. It's just an example to teach the concept.

I agree with your second comment though. Looks like a typo.
The problem with things like this is that they won't resolve without an internet connection.
Actually, NY subway has 3 or even 4 tracks portions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_York_City_Subway_l...
I think that's the reason why the New York's subway can operate during all night, because maintenance operations can happen on the other set of tracks.
It's hard to imagine what alternatives the board has, now that the best candidates have all refused. Curious to see who else is in the running...
What's your source? "Eu" is a very common Greek dipthong typically take as "yu",for the traditional Erasmian pronunciation, or "Ev" for modern reconstructed Greek.
The concept of recursion was easiest to grasp by watching a kid do the maze on a placemat at a restaurant. You go in a line until you find a dead end, then backtrack. Repeat the process until you reach the goal. Each intersection where you make a decision is your function call, and each backtrack is the return result.
Say this smart contract is aware of interest rates, and due dates, and minimum payments, ... and it will prioritize payments according to interest rate?

I wrote a program to help me do this with my student loans, that does sound useful.
The question in my mind is: Does an opinion suddenly become a "thought crime" if expressing it publicly might get you fired from a non-governmental employer?

Coercive behavior of any sort is rarely an appropriate response to a sincere and well-articulated argument. It is incumbent on the coercive actor to justify their actions. Usually, the justifications are not controversial. When they are, often that means there's a problem somewhere and that discussion really is necessary.

In this case, the author clearly explains why he believes this topic is important to discuss.

Couldn't we characterize the manifesto scandal as, in part, an apalling lack of judgement?

No. Not unless you accept that it is justified to punish someone for posting a polite, articulate, well-informed argument made out of a genuine attempt to be both truthful and helpful to the mission of the organization. (note: well-informed does not mean comprehensive or right about everything. It just means good enough to start a dialog.)

Should your response lend me (or anyone) any confidence in your judgement? Yet here you are, charging right in with a judgement call.

Explain to me how the memo is corrosive. What is being corroded?

Explain to me how the memo is counterproductive. What is the desired production? How does the memo run counter to that production?

Explain to me how the memo represents a bad attitude. What is "bad" and "good?"

I say the memo is polite because it shows a substantial degree of sensitivity to the opposing arguments and ideology. The ideas are presented in a detached, academic manner with a clear effort to avoid sensational rhetoric or ranting.

I say the memo is sincere for several reasons. I am unable to detect any attempt to misrepresent or mischaracterize his opposition. He clearly demonstrates acceptance of personal responsibility for the opinions presented. Finally, he appeals to open discussion in a way that welcomes disagreement and sincere disputation of any points he makes. The one presumption of sincerity that I might have questioned-- that Google really is an ideological echo-chamber-- was overwhelmingly confirmed by the hostility of the response.

I say the memo is clear and thoughtful because the author uses plainly stated premises and syllogisms. He is straightforward with his points and transparent with his logic. While specific citations for supporting evidence could have been more rigorous, it's clear that the author is not just pulling these positions out of nowhere. Any reasonable attempt to continue discussion could challenge him to go into more detail about the supporting evidence.

That some of them are just smarter than you.

It has little to do with intelligence. It has mostly to do with not having the first clue how to tell the difference between a legitimate attempt at dialog and ideologically-motivated rhetoric. Intelligence is only a factor insofar as a baseline of intelligence is needed to comprehend the argument. I'm not an expert but I suspect most of the people hysterical about the manifesto are smart enough to understand it, if they knew how to read it properly.
She should contact Ken White at Popehat for free speech legal advice. He likes to help people with finding a first amendment lawyer who will work pro bono.
Just a little joke. It's nice for trolling your friends though. They go the whole day thinking it's pronounced Oiklidian geometry.
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Stutterer here. Answer to both questions in my case: Yes and yes. I had potential employers just hang up the phone rather than wait for me to complete a sentence. I was completely unable to find a job (any job) when I fished undergrad with a 3.7 GPA in mechanical engineering. It was pretty scary at the time; I was convinced I was going to starve.
Yeah of course, sorry, I misread the document. I took that part as to describe the current state.
Okay, except that in plenty of places being homeless is illegal, mud huts on property you don't own is illegal, you can expect your lifespan to be cut down by more than half, and the level of income inequality in the US is staggering. 95% of households make under $200k, while 3 million people make millions of dollars and do whatever they can to make sure nobody catches up to them. Even if you take poor people out of the mix, it's still a problem.
Does anyone know how much those ridiculous touch screens cost?
NPR so diligently points out white privilege. It couldn't be that he dresses well, has good hygiene, is educated, well off, and speaks politely. It is only because he's white? In San Francisco of all places?

> At first, he was nervous: What if people wouldn't let him in? But, as a kind of unassuming white guy, he actually didn't have this problem. (And Max acknowledges this privilege.)
Looks promising. My only question would be, how do they plan to recover the energy from the devices? Did they cover that in the talk in Cambridge?
Research and experimentation with novel architectures has switched to pytorch everywhere I look. All colleagues and myself outside production pipelines have switched to pytorch. TF is good but too messy and hard for R&D, that's the price to pay for using a production-grade tool in research operations.
It's also not uncommon to see those towed and the language "Parking while charging ONLY" to appear, too. It is a solvable social problem.
I'm also a stutterer. I wish I could share with you the overwhelming shame, humiliation, and ostracism I experienced as a child in my classroom environments. As a result I feel tremendous compassion for others with physical and mental limitations. Speech therapy really helped me help myself, but I still sometimes stutter.
> The answer I got to this problem was "design middleware that handles this for you" which has to be a joke

It's not a joke.

The couch security model doesn't match the requirements of multi-user untrusted clients typical of internet distributed applications. But then most database have a similar limitation, it's only more visible in CouchDB because you can read/write documents directly from a browser without an application server, so the next logical step is to just let clients read/write directly to CouchDB over the internet without an app server.

If your data is in postgres, you will need an application server handing access control, business logic, and serialization.

If your data is in CouchDB, you need a proxy server that handles access control, whitelisting certain URL patterns and body content based on user entitlements.
It's unlikely that the asteroid would have come so close (18,000 km is closer than GPS satellites) without being pulled to Earth because of the planet's gravitational field.
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Yes, I now agree with you and upvotinglurker. That also explains the mystery, and the hidden horror: her advisor plagiarized her.
Not relevant, but model 3 cockpit looks like golf cart
Thank you, we've replaced “RFC” with ”Internet Draft”.
Double that cost on underground parking more like $80K-$90K... my source is personal conversation with apartment developers in MV. You can believe me or not.
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I think that's a great idea to find inspiration.
HOWEVER, there is a huge drawback: you life will be completely random and indirected.

The "Techie" here visited a bunch of random places, random hostels, met random people without any focus, or direction. This will let you be absolutely average, and with poor skills (you are lacking any focus)
Ask HN: Any clear indicator of learning progress in complex fields (CS, Math)
I tend to spin my wheels in lots of my activities. I think it probably hinders my progress in these areas.
I ask this question because I've been trying to gain weight recently, and I had the epiphany that if I weigh myself regularly, I can quickly see what the trend is and correct it by taking proper action. I know it may sound obvious to some of you, but I guess I'm a slow learner :)

The point is, do you know any clear indicators, particularly in computer science and mathematics, that would allow me to apply the same method?

I've been successfuly learning german with duolingo recently, and I noticed it's packed full of indicators that allow you to apply this `take action -> get feedback -> apply correction` cycle.

(Maybe the domains i gave you are too broad and I should restrict it to specific sub-skill?)

Thank you!
The biggest challenge to branded corporate 'masthead credibility' information sources/'news' aggregators is their reliance on firms like Outbrain for advertising revenue. Outbrain packages up salacious and questionable material as click bait and runs it on sites like SFGate, supposedly as additional 'news' from a partner of SFGate. The result is deterioration of trust and respect for SFGate.

The fuzzy term 'fake news' is fraught with problems. We've been lied to so many times in the western world via 'official' sources many people simply don't trust the mainstream media any more. Apparently more people were watching Yogi Bear reruns than CNN in the US a few weeks ago during prime time.

The joy of the internet is our ability to consume information from a wide variety of sources, triangulate across many ideas, reporting and opinions to make up our own minds. The old model of having a small number of 'news outlets', such as the four commercial TV channels and one main 'news' broadcast a night that worked so well during the Vietnam war era is long gone.

There seems to be a hankering for regulated, rubber stamped 'news' and credibility checks, which I think is profoundly undemocratic and against the principles of free speech.
Right, one person's slow turnover (quick buy convenience stores) may be another's high turnover (malls).
> The system is too essential for a stop-the-world overhaul, but so far gone, that only a stop-the-world overhaul can part the clouds.

Hogwash.

The "problem" is that you may have to invest for a long time , continuously before you see the result. This is politically untenable, not engineering untenable.
Stacking is vertical knolling.
well I do not think recursion is difficult. but I think doing it in a tail-called optimised way, can sometimes be tricky (especially in compilers or node traversals).
that's why more and more cps style recursion comes into place more than often. heck even scala has a way to do cps style tail calls: https://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/util/control/Ta...
Can you link what you're looking at? It sounds like you're conflating yields with returns.
I'm also a stutterer and the last sentence rings true.

I am a lot better now than I was as a child, but I used to be a master at the art of avoidance and replacement. If I felt I was going to stutter on a given word, I'd replace it with something I felt more confident with. I was constantly evading a ruthless, arbitrary censor, and I'm certain it gave me a greater facility with synonyms, rephrasing, and general linguistic flexibility. I have a natural talent there, but the stutter and my work-arounds made me hone it to a level most people never have to.
Two-track subways are the norm generally, at least in the US. In fact, New York's is unusual in that many trunk lines have more than two tracks, mostly separate express tracks so that express trains can pass locals stopped at a station.

(And it is possible to shut down one track of a two-track line for at least part of the way, if you're willing to run only one train through the affected stretch of track at a time. It may condemn you to fifteen or twenty minute waits between trains, but you can do it. The Washington, DC metro has been doing this a lot lately on weekends.)
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It's well known that because of fire fighting, there are build ups of flammable material causing subsequent fires to be bigger and hotter. I wonder if theres a point where if we just let the fires burn, they'll be so hot that the natural benefits will be lost and the forest damaged for much longer than usual. Maybe we need to ease into it by not putting out the fires, but still keeping them from getting really intense.
To make the current situation with chronically late trains worse there is no way to know when the next train is coming until you have paid for a fare and are standing down on the platform. Little good it does you then to find out that next train is not for 12 or 15 minutes.

SO MUCH THIS.

Fortunately, because the MTA has exposed the live schedule data, Google Maps lets you check this (sadly, it isn't 100% reliable: oftentimes a train will claim to have arrived somewhere, or even be departing from a station, while it's still getting there).
> Our offer will take into consideration your salary history

> Integrity: honest, trustworthy, reliable, ethical

How is basing salary on the candidate's history rather than market rate ethical?
I wish Brooklyn would have more bike lanes.
From the actual draft:

> First, the lack of confidence that "localhost" actually resolves to the loopback interface encourages application developers to hard-code IP addresses like "127.0.0.1" in order to obtain certainty regarding routing. This causes problems in the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 (see problem 8 in [draft-ietf-sunset4-gapanalysis]).

>Second, HTTP user agents sometimes distinguish certain contexts as "secure"-enough to make certain features available. Given the certainty that "127.0.0.1" cannot be maliciously manipulated or monitored, [SECURE-CONTEXTS] treats it as such a context. Since "localhost" might not actually map to the loopback address, that document declines to give it the same treatment. This exclusion has (rightly) surprised some developers, and exacerbates the risks of hard-coded IP addresses by giving developers positive encouragement to use an explicit loopback address rather than a localhost name.

>This document hardens [RFC6761]'s recommendations regarding "localhost" by requiring that DNS resolution work the way that users assume: "localhost" is the loopback interface on the local host. Resolver APIs will resolve "localhost." and any names falling within ".localhost." to loopback addresses, and traffic to those hosts will never traverse a remote network.
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Trust me, daycares unfortunately already have to deal with unwanted people, often non-custodial parents who may or may not have restraining orders against them, showing up.
I am providing an alternative: pay for what you use. That's how most things work. Why should cars get special treatment?

Gas taxes don't cover all road expenses. I looked at Virginia's data (since that's where I live) and nearly as much road construction/maintenance money comes from normal sales taxes as comes from gas taxes. Another substantial chunk comes from the Federal government, and the Feds pay out substantially more than they receive from the Federal gas tax.
The original bitcoin paper is fantastic, as well as the wiki.
IMO this kind of investment seems like the thing that someone with more than $190k would not be messing around with. But maybe they do, but would you spend $100k defending a $90k investment? Or to put it another way, if the HOA rallies up all 40 property owners to spend $20,000 each fighting this, is it worth it to outspend a $800,000 legal war chest to protect a $90,000 investment?
I despise Breitbart but I agree that there's a really sad irony when readers of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Economist point at others and never look at themselves.

The PropOrNot scandal was a disaster, but its victims remain blissfully unaware.
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Sometimes small and constant fires clean up the area, cleaning up dead leafs and so on. Constantly stopping those fires can lead to accumulation, until a great and wild fire comes and destroys more than the "nature following the natural fate" would have.
in the humanities, it is often the case that your "advisor" is someone with whom you meet a few times a semester. this is quite unlike STEM fields, where your advisor is often also your employer (usually you're in their research group as a researcher).
Yes, thanks for clarifying what I said into what I meant. If this essay was really such a problem, it is rather suspicious that it suddenly appeared as the basis for both of their respective works. "I'd never heard of it" could indirectly mean "and I doubt Dr. Mao had, either." I'm curious whether this essay was cited in Dr. Mao's work...
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Seems like you would have known, or at least heard rumors. Word gets around when people do that kind of stuff.
What interest does a government or large corporation have in cryptocurrency?

This is why cryptos as currently implemented will always be fringe and used for the most part illicitly, because as soon they gain a wide enough currency the participants in the system will switch to a more efficient, i.e. centralized system.

If enough people use them that a government or large corp would care, those "enough people"
would form a new government or become the customers a new corp, that facilitates their transactions in a more efficient way.

...and a touch ironic that you seem to be pining for TBTF cryptos when Satoshi himself railed against the TBTF system.
Spot on, apps have optimized our lives... to local maxima. Apps can't guide us to peak happiness because the best is disconnected from the rest.

Even when it comes to something as "simple" as music, I've never found a "favorite" band through something like Spotify. Good music, sure, but the "bar raisers" alway comes from randomness - radio, odd bar show, personal recommendation, cabbie's CD player, etc.
"I think I'm missing something. Recursion, by definition, is iterative--at least in terms of it involving the repetitive application of some operation(s)."

In this context, "recursive" means "decomposing the problem with function calls", as the post is discussing, and "iterative" is a sloppy-catch all term for "doing things with for loops and such". It's sloppy because you can't just say "doing things without calling functions" because there are of course non-"recursive" ways of calling functions in an "iterative" routine (for a simple example, calling a logging function).

Please pardon the sloppy terminology here; since we're discussing beginner concepts here it's hard to avoid. (For instance, most beginning recursion discussions focus on a function that calls itself, but you can have recursion where A calls B which calls A etc., or more complicated routines for things like traversing a parse tree, where the function called depends on node type; I've witnessed a student claim that those can't be recursive because recursive functions are only recursive when they call themselves.)
> The worst thing from a hardware perspective on the switch is their proprietary dock.

Unsure if this is a hardware or software problem, but I would say the lack of bluetooth audio support is way worse than the dock problem.

Also upthere-that you can't use the kick-stand AND plug in the USB-C charging cable.
So, on one hand, the "pick an OS/Python version/package manager" selector for getting install instructions is cool and useful.

On the other hand, well, having installers for OS X and Linux leaves a big Windows-sized gap, so I won't be playing with this anytime soon.
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