skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What would happen if we deposited all our btc into a null address?
Would Bitcoin eventually cease to exist (i.e. when all btc have been deposited into a null address) or would the price per 1 btc slowly increase? Can new coins be created?
I think it is a vague idiom by intent, but here's one definition:
"To behave in a way that is accepted or demanded by those in authority"(http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/play+the+game)

I view this skill as anticipating not just what your boss tells you to do, but also the things they don't make explicit, because you recognize subtle social cues and understand their incentives. It can be nefarious or just empathetic. How it is deployed determines the morality of its use, in my consequentialist opinion.
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Is it built in, or is it a plugin?
It actually is just another Electron app.
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Hypothetical scenario: somebody finds a vulnerability in btc much like the recent one found in eth, and decides to deposit everything into a null address.

What happens?
Why not censor communism too, since it is heavily linked to genocide and the deaths of tens of millions of people?
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/us/child-pornography-write...

There are a few other examples of people getting in varying amounts of trouble, but that one stands out.
The 'they' in the first quote should probably have been 'these', as I was referring specifically to the myths regarding the physical world, not the religion as a whole.

Christian Science's biological beliefs may be an exception, but only an exception, and a small one at that. Roman Catholicism, for example, thrives despite its nominal (and once actual) cosmological beliefs being divorced from reality. Few, if any, lifestyle changes follow from abandoning a literal reading of the cosmological aspects of Genesis.
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Probably just depends on what they decide to include in each category.

I can tell you that when I was studying math (2008-2013), almost all of my professors were male. But maybe "university professor" isn't the only thing they include in their data set for mathematicians, but for physics maybe it is.
It's obviously not his own quote; it's quite famous, and it is not an ironic coinage by the women's liberation movement.
Ok, off mobile, here's a better list:

AutoFileName is surprisingly useful, it autocompletes file names.

Gitignored File Excluder is a bit of a hack but is very nice.

I'd love to get sublime linter up and running, but I haven't yet.
I collected lots of National Park leaflets as issued in visitor centers during the early nineties. These were masterpieces of design and consistency in that design. I wonder if the visitor guides issued back then followed the same ethos as the park plans.
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This article is about Monoids, not Monads. Monoids are simple. Just imagine a bunch of things, and imagine you can "combine" any arbitrary thing to another thing. The combination has the property of being associative (whatever) and you're only allowed to called it a monoid (otherwise convention says you need to call it a semigroup) if there is also an item (the "identity" or "neutral" element) which when you combine it with any arbitrary item, produces that same item as a result.

Common examples are: strings which you're allowed to combine with concatenation (with the empty string being the "neutral" element). Integers with addition as the combiner is also a monoid that also has a few additional named properties (like commutativity and existence of inverses) but they're still monoids.
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> Are those locations occupied exclusively by Al Qaeda?

They aren't; there are even areas controlled by the Syrian government. Here's a map of Idlib that someone tried to make recently[1]; HTS is the group that includes al Qaeda/al Nusra (though it should be noted that al Nusra is officially no longer part of al Qaeda). I don't think any Idlib groups are currently being aided by the U.S. either (unless I missed something); the CIA program was ended, and the DoD program seems to mostly support SDF (and I believe a small amount of support to other groups like the al Tanf rebels).

There are plenty of reasons to criticize the CIA effort to arm various rebel factions, but it's a shame that misinformation stating that the CIA armed al Qaeda is being spread around and accepted uncritically.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/6yovaq/map_...
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His last sentence mostly. "project planning, reporting, managing expectations, coordinating teams and delivering on time. It's not terribly rewarding or creative work, but it's what MBAs can reliably produce."

Aka stakeholder and expectation management. The above sounds easy but requires a large number of "soft skills" to do well in a large organization.
I am the source of one of Akin's Laws.

37. (Henshaw's Law) One key to success in a mission is establishing clear lines of blame.
You do realize that criminal conspiracy is a thing, right?

So, would Antifa making specific plans to get away with breaking the law apply? Would calling for the overthrow of the US government or the nullification of the US constitution apply? I think yes. I'm all for the prosecution of criminal conspiracy. However, we need to keep a clear distinction between politics and criminality.

Flaunting the rule of law is criminality. Making specific plans to break the law is criminality. Operate within the law, and you should be fine.

If the extra-legal persecution of Nazis is a good idea because they were such vile people who committed crimes against humanity, then why not the extra-legal persecution of Marxists and Anarchists? Those ideologies have been responsible for the sparking of world wars and the deaths of about 100 million people in the 20th century. People in the Gulag system weren't gassed in mock showers then burned in ovens. However, they were worked to death while freezing to death then blindfolded and bound and loaded on carts while still alive, to be dumped into pits to be buried alive. Not because the masters of the camps were cruel, but rather because it was found to be more efficient to move people around while they were still alive -- and because in the Dialectic Materialist ideology of Marxism, what did a moment of suffocation and horror matter if all flesh is bound to turn back into soil anyhow?

Postmodernism is just a cut-and-paste homomorphism to "good old" Marxism. And that stuff isn't about benefiting the people. It's about undoing the current social order and systems of value so you can seize power. Both Nazism and Postmodernist Social Construction explicitly say these things! Just read what the thought leaders say! All attempts to push collectivism to the level of sovereign power have historically resulted in mayhem, millions of deaths, and totalitarianism.

(Collectivism on the small scale is fine, when it doesn't try to take over the monopoly on violence, because then it can be held in balance through human relationships. Pure collectivism always fails when there are more than about 350 individuals, though such grouping can be affiliated in a larger bureaucratic framework. But such frameworks can't manage something as large and complex as a national economy. Just look at history. It always fails!)
GitGutter and GitSavvy have been fantastic for my Git mileage -- have you tried them?
The ability to see side by side diffs and which files/lines I've touched is what did it for me. I still use git CLI for squashing, rebasing etc, but basic staging and committing I do entirely in VSCode now.
> In summary, the U. S. began, even if just a little bit, to pull its head out of its ass with respect to equality and rights.

Please watch your tone. Just that your opinion is different from others and happens to currently match the majority view doesn't mean you should be rude to those with different opinions. There are plenty of people with more nuanced opinions on gender roles that aren't bigoted.

edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain why? If there is something wrong with my statement, I would love to learn from your opinion on it.
> 1.What do you think are the chances of Nazi's taking over the United States?

Already happened with Trump.

> 2. What do you think are the chances of the US government using its power and influence to label and suppress opposition?

Already being done with banning people based on religion.
I agree Facebook isn't a great example of a monopoly. But consider Google. As it stands google is very much a monopoly in the sense that Microsoft was. The power google has to do good/bad is tremendous.

Consider your reliance on google:
- search
- email
- maps/navigation
- youtube, news, your browser
- possibly your phone OS, contacts, calendar

Google hasn't really done anything too overtly Orwellian (e.g. only promoting news that shows it in a good light). It even hasn't been too restrictive on interoperability (but neither was Microsoft, it just came pre-installed with IE).

So I suppose the question becomes "Should power be broken up preemptively?"

Or, perhaps politicians are rightly scared as they understand that they are losing political control to a technological system (they don't control) that increasingly has the power to shift public opinion (now that TV is dead).
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upvote isn't enough: I love swinsian! Switched over to using it after iTunes introduced a bug where an annoying popup happens if you turn off wifi and try to play a song.
"US Officials Ask How ISIS Got So Many Toyota Trucks" http://abcnews.go.com/International/us-officials-isis-toyota...
First, we're not talking about any random group of white supremacists. We're talking about literal Nazis.

Second, the slippery slope is a fallacy. Literally. The "slippery slope fallacy" is a textbook fallacy. In this instance, many countries make it illegal to espouse Nazi ideology today, yet Germany and France haven't become dystopian dictatorships.

"If we outlaw gun ownership for the mentally ill, that's a slippery slope to outlawing all firearms."

"If we outlaw same sex marriage, that's a slippery slope to outlawing all marriage."

"If we outlaw cocaine, that's a slippery slope to outlawing beer."

All of those make just as much sense as a slippery slope of outlawing Nazis.
Republicans of course know that George W. Bush was hitler, McCain was Hitler, Romney was Hitler, and Trump- you know the joke by now.

"Call them Nazis" is a pretty standard tactic in the left wing arsenal.

Bush: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/jan/5/20040105-1145...

McCain: http://www.mtv.com/news/1593432/madonna-compares-john-mccain...

Romney: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/247789-romn...

It's kind of a shame that Democrats have trivialized the Holocaust into a political punchline. But you can see the 'concerns' on the left if these 'nazis' get into power. It drives their rationalization for these kind of censorship actions and the tech companies are just taking advantage of an opportunity.
I was just about to make the same compaint; the first diagram is really confusing. They also say that "carpenters" was the "most male" job, but "Pipelayers, etc." is clearly to the left of it in the diagram.
Clickbait refers to vague titles that also overhype the story. Your example, if anything, underhypes it.
Thank you for writing this post. Learned a lot.
I'm very curious the sort of answers you would get to this question to the general population of Germany in 1926. It may give insight into the perceived risk level we face now.
They always have that power tho - technically an implicit grant in a license is very very weak. It's already had case-law that shows that it only applies in very very specific situations.

An explicit grant gives you much more power generally. Their ability to revoke is limited to specific situations and that's a reasonable tradeoff. It's still more rights than you have without the patent grant.
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> Care to clarify who gets to decide who is and isn't a Nazi?

Given the strict definition of "waving swastikas and advocating for violence against Jews" works in the scenario at hand, I'm not yet terrifically concerned about over-reach.
> Can you name an open source project that does not offer extended features for commercial versions and that sells?

pfSense, Ceph (prior to RH purchase) and OpenNebula off the top of my head.
> If "Facebook" was a federated system where anyone can set up their own social networking server and still communicate with anyone else on any provider ...

wait. wouldn't that be a workable approach to breaking Facebook up?
This is amazingly helpful. Thank you for posting!
Luther, whose quote on the matter is the subject of this thread, seems to differ. I imagine he could find a counter-quote somewhere in the scripture.
I clicked on pricing and it asks me to create an account - I think that it would be fair to show the pricing without needing an account.

Ideally I'd like to try out the product without needing to make an account or enter any payment information.
You're not seeing it. It is, to some or other partial-but-very-noticeable extent, a Skype killer, an SMS killer, a GSM/CDMA voice call killer, an email killer, a Hangouts killer, a Facebook killer (yes i know they bought it), [insert many others here]. Communications are very important, this app is a beast. The voice calls work perfectly for me.
The act of spamming people is, in fact, illegal. Having an opinion isn't.
> One way is to say no religion is any more or less convincing than any other

Of course some religions are more convincing than others. The Graeco-Roman pantheon for instance, is trivially disprovable. The Abrahamic religions as a whole are more credible than the others.

> Alternatively we could demand a higher standard and require proof. None of the religions is able to prove any of their theological beliefs or tenets. Therefore we reject every single one of them. That leaves you with Atheism

You're still stuck at agnosticism, I'm afraid. Atheism is the positive belief that no god exists. If you require proof (or strong evidence, I suppose, since things can only be proven in mathematics) of your religious beliefs then this belief too needs proof.
Manzotti makes good points about how Chalmers' dualist / panpsychist view has colored the debate and possibly hindered progress, but I was hoping for more discussion of alternatives. Instead there's only a brief footnote claiming that physicalism is obviously best.

I myself am fond of Bernardo Kastrup's work on Idealism: https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/41gb0j/bernardo...
In that case, surely the professor should be commenting on the original assessment, not any paper that accepts the published literature? I still reckon it's a misunderstanding.

I don't know what the "political implications" means. I think I've missed something. Did Trump tweet about it or something? I don't know why this would have any political implications at all.
Useless. I'd pay for many web apps to bring a snappy native experience, but if an app is slacklike I won't use it even if free.

Maybe I'm missing the key point of a desktop Trello - what does it do that can't be done on a webpage?
I really admire Blender's release notes. They're detailed and informative yet also fun and easy to read (thanks to pretty pictures!), and full of real working examples if you want them. It's nice to see more projects doing them these days (GNOME's have been great as well), but Blender's are definitely the coolest. They always make me excited about the project itself :)
> What remains to be seen is how this plays out on Windows.

Given that a computer isn't really necessary to operate an iOS device these days, could Apple just cancel the Windows version of iTunes without a replacement?
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At least in C++, knowing your type forms a monoid with your operation informs you when you are safe to use various parallel algorithms. e.g. `std::accumulate` with an associative operator is safe to run in parallel.
It's a valuable story to tell, but I wouldn't leap to any conclusions:

Why shouldn't the Pentagon be arming allies in the Syrian civil war? Speaking very generally, I hope they do support those resisting Assad, Iran, and Russia. There is nothing necessarily nefarious in arming allies, and it's better than sending your own people to fight and die.

However, I'm surprised it's going on:

First, the Obama administration was accused of being too cautious in arming anyone, not only in Syria but in Ukraine. (I read that they studied the issue, and concluded that the tactic of arming insurgents rarely worked out well, and often resulted in the arms falling into the wrong hands. I don't know how much that study influenced their decisions, however.) Obama was in office until January, so Trump would only have had a few months to setup and execute this multi-billion dollar program, including procurement, international logistics, and more.

Second, the Trump administration has announced they are abandoning the rebels, except when they are fighting ISIL, and accommodating Assad and the Russians (and as a result, their ally the Iranians).

So under what and whose policy are the Syrian rebels being armed?
It's always amusing to watch programmers learn a tiny piece of mathematics and turn into a totem. All those data structures would work just as fine without a monoid formalization, and one can use all their power with no attention given to algebraic axioms that define a monoid.
IMHO one of the best machines to run linux is macbook pros. The hardware just works.
So we have an individual, showing no biological evidence of strenuous physical exertion, buried with a set of Viking arms and a set of game pieces.

Occam's razor would suggest that we're looking at the grave of a high status Dungeon Master.
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I still use iTunes 10.6.3 because it's the last version with Miller Columns on the top, playlist folders (with a Library view), a miniplayer that I can use to fast-forward, and sync.

Syncing music. Contacts. Calendars. Safari Bookmarks. Notes. Apps. Ringtones. Videos. Photos.

The killer feature of the Apple ecosystem was the way the Digital Hub worked together. It's all gone by now. They demand always-on Internet to connect to the cloud.

I'm trying to rewrite my own ecosystem one app at a time (I've done Notes and Maps, halfway through contacts & calendars, and still need to start music & photos). It's going to take years of on-and-off work, but I don't trust Apple to keep providing that, so I must make my own. Some shell scripts linking other apps just won't cut it for me - I want a scriptable, syncing ecosystem that Just Works.
> I'd love to see someone shake up the space with a "modern" take on emacs and vim: native, fast, powerful, very configurable, terminal based, but also with a conscious view on the initial learning curve and out of the box usefulness.

This sounds like the micro text editor. I've committed a few features to it and use it daily:

https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

You might be interested in checking it out.
Like I said - it's mostly arbitrary. ;)

That said I think the issues with assembly you mention aren't magic as such, they're just consequences of the commands. They don't really hide much (if anything) behind the scenes that you'd have access to anyhow.

It's just that CPUs do so much more than they used to.
One of my favorite Seattle intersections joins Bellevue Place East, Bellevue Avenue East, and Bellevue Court East:

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In my view, yes. If there's an all powerful force with a mind then everything is a theological question, though. "Does God choose to present my senses with evidence that leads me to believe gravity works the same way as I remember it working yesterday?"

EDIT: most Christians I've heard talk about this say that God put natural laws into place but of course that is itself a theological point.
I agree with paragraph three. A hint is a directive. Now we are stuck with it. Bad stuff can ensue...maybe. But, maybe my customer is pissed now. Total cost to fix: a couple hours.

If I had the budget and developers to make PostgreSQL as performant as Oracle, I would be living on an island next to Larry.
Is it? e-mail spam yes, I don't think posting advertising on websites or social media is per se - still companies act against it if it doesn't meet their own thresholds.
ingress+overlay network confusion was the reason why we moved from k8s to Docker Swarmkit.

I still keep hoping for kubernetes kompose (https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose) to bring the simplicity of Docker Swarmkit to k8s.

Or will Docker Infrakit bring creeping sophistication first and eat kuberentes lunch ? (https://github.com/docker/infrakit/pull/601)
> LetsEncrypt works automagically out of the box

Provided you let Caddy manage all the certs and/or permit dynamic dns updates on that host. Went through this last night and it's underdocumented when you want to handle it yourself with TXT records and explicit cert/key.
more that there are no open source Android phones. Just "partially open source" Android phones.
You have a value of a certain type.

You have another value of the same type.

If there exist a function (let's call it "combine") that combines those two values and emits a third value of the same type.

AND

There exists a value of this type that does nothing when used as argument to this "combine" function.

then your type is a monoid. (basically)
Blenders such a great tool! Just donated and created a quick-start video for anyone interested: https://youtu.be/q0PMNISK0KY

[Edit, somehow dropped h from [h]ttps in link)
Most likely while spin stabilizing, many instrument packages that require some kind of orientation are useless, so it's better to turn them off - and also, to save their operational lifetimes (if something has a certain # hours of operating life it makes sense to turn them off to save life)
Agree, yet even SlickEdit - which costs several times more, is still running strong. I wonder what kind of audience pays for it.
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If you think of internet communication as a utility, then perhaps we should? Would you think it's OK for an electricity or a water company to decide who it wants to serve based off that company's fallible determination of an individual or group's beliefs?

I think if only because communication is such a basic human right, then we shouldn't risk the 'false guilty verdicts'.

If you think about it - giving a business the right to cut off customers decreases the chance of guilty people being empowered and skating by without punishment (which is awesome!), but increases the chance of innocent people being victimized through a 'false conviction'.

I'd argue that for very fundamental services, it's not the job of the business to try to play judge and jury and determine who is right and who is wrong, if only because the risk of an innocent party (like a false conviction putting an innocent person behind bars in the legal system) is so high stakes.
This is super annoying. Having to use the tiny phone screen to scroll through apps and read reviews is a terrible user experience.