skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the whales just swallowed up more?

The whales in the room traded minimal amounts of energy and capital in the acquisition of the early majority stake at significantly lower production/energy/capital cost. This is by design from "Satoshi" who created an economic model which effectively functions like a pump and dump or a ponzi. Hold until when? your investment 2x's or 10x's and who's buying [2]? Why are they buying? (hint: it's certainly not because there's a "limited" supply of blockchain ledger networks granting access to a decentralized database [3])

In economics, the Gini coefficient is the standard measure
of how inequitable a society is. This is tricky to
determine for Bitcoin, as it's not quiet a "society" in
the Gini sense, one person may have multiple addresses and
many addresses have been used only once or a few times.
(The commonly-cited figure of 0.88 is based on one small
exchange in 2011.) However, a Citigroup analysis from
early 2014 notes: "47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 a further 20 percent, the next 10,000 about
25% and another million about 20%"; and distribution
"looks much like the distribution of wealth in North Korea
and makes China's and even the US' wealth distribution
look like that of a workers' paradise

Dorit Ron and Adi Shamir found in a 2012 study that only
22% of then-existing Bitcoins were in circulation at all,
there were a total of 75 active users or businesses with
any kind of volume, one (unidentified) user owned a
quarter of all Bitcoins in existence, and one large owner
was trying to hide their pile by moving it around in
thousands of smaller transactions. (Shamir is one of the
most renowned cryptographers in the world and the "S" in
"RSA encryption")"

[1] "Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain"

via https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=davidgerard

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool

[3] https://coinmarketcap.com/all/views/all/
Smart. Elon should feel very proud.
Mass casualties directly blamed on infosec failures would probably kick the legislature and public into action, but GOK what that action might be.
If expanded over many passages in culture, the cells can degrade, much like they do due to age. For this reason, it is advantageous to start with sufficient numbers (thousands), rather than a few cells. However, as mentioned, we have improved culture conditions greatly in the last decade (ex. growing mesenchymal stem cells in a 3D matrix rather than flat on plates), which has extended our ability to generate more cells.
So were these vulnerabilities present, and missed by Cure53's audit (https://wiki.mozilla.org/images/f/f7/Dnsmasq-report.pdf)?
The people who choose to spend their lives on cctv? Yep...
Macs fail often. It's just annoying to hear this myth perpetuated that they never fail. They might fail less than other vendors' laptops, but 'macs never fail' is clearly not true - one simple example is 'staingate'.
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Seattle has a number of large grocery stores built in, I believe, the mid-90s. Single story, no attached retail storefronts, and a big parking lot. Suburban "strip mall" buildings but in the middle of reasonably dense neighborhoods. (15th/John Safeway, 15th QFC, 15th Walgreens, etc.)

Today they'd be built as 5+ story housing + grocery store + 10 retail spots + underground parking.

I've always wondered about the math of a store like that. Why aren't they being turned, like every other single-story building in Seattle, into modern mixed-use development? I'd like to see it happen to these stores. No problems with historic listings or beloved architecture. Is bringing the store down for a year or two the primary hurdle?
Dude, if you go to a Safeway in a crime-ridden area it’s a completely different experience. A ten minute visit will take half an hour because everything will be locked up and the attendant you ask to unlock it will go back to the counter to call someone to unlock a thing and they will never show up. It’s a disaster.
Are there many real examples of studies where statistical tests are needed to see the effect, but a different experiment could demonstrate the same effect without any statistics? I haven't been able to think of one in the fields I know well.
I cannot reply to cdoconnor (probably some downvotes), so I'll write here:

That's the whole point: as it's often said "type checking keeps you honest"

I stumbled time and time again upon badly designed libraries... With a static type system, the painfulness will be obvious and felt the first time you'll try to build your code

with dynamic types, the pain might not be felt at all, until a crazy bit of code will be invoked, sometimes at the most unfortunate of times
> How much does the existing financial system cost to operate? How much do ATMs, Private financial networks, money security, transportation, staff, legal, etc, etc. Comparing per transaction cost does not even begin to account for the energy costs of the current financial system.

The current financial system does things besides verify transactions.

- Need to get a loan, a line of credit, or just a safe third party to hold your bitcoin so that you're not carrying around your life savings in your pocket? Banks.

- Want to buy cats with your bitcoin but your cat dealer only accepts bitcoin cash? Exchanges.

- Want to do any kind of business in commodities? Now you've got derivatives, and you'll definitely want lawyers.

- Want to make any kind of investment? Now you've got everything.

The actual transferring of money only makes up a tiny fraction of the services in our financial system, and none of the rest of the stuff goes away just because you changed the type of money.
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They are about 10x the next best (Techstars) based on valuation of the companies they've funded (~$80B vs ~$8B). Valuation isn't a perfect metric, but it's a reasonable proxy for performance.
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My existing test cases, robust and thorough though they are, only test what happens when I feed in a correctly typed object. Because I can't write a test that exercises my code on an incorrectly typed input: the type system prevents that.
The term Dead with Microsoft and Apple was probably to strong. If you are sitting on that much money/talent, there is always a chance to turn around under the right management.
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I think the biggest cost to sustaining fiat is the power of the sovereign that backs it up. To a good extend, you have to also account for the military that secures the borders as that which also supports the currency.
Maybe you could do a full restore of iOS to get around the issue? If you could jailbreak, there might be a workaround as well, but as far as I know, there isn't a jailbreak available for iOS 11.
They also support a c reference implementation (which is how they get others).
I just finally got an AirPort Extreme like a year ago, it's a fantastic router. What new features am I missing out on?
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The algorithm is innocent
My biggest problem with Emacs is that most modes map keys to be compatible with its default layout, so you really can't get away from the default Keybindings.

Evil-mode is nice in this regard, but I don't want Vim's defaults either, not to mention Emacs' bindings are still there, just hiding in insert mode.

The feature I want the most (that isn't readily available in an editor) is to define keybindings from scratch. I don't want to deal with undoing everyone else's work just to get started on my own.
Ouch. I always upgrade within a couple of months though so I guess I've never noticed this. Certainly APFS has made my 5 year old Retina MacBook Pro feel faster when compiling so I'm not complaining too much.
The Groove app is still useful for its OneDrive integration and local file support. It is a successor to Windows Media Player, so it would be strange for the app to disappear entirely. As someone that relies heavily on OneDrive streaming, I'm still likely to use the Groove app as much as I did before this change.
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For Fusion and Bootcamp, especially if you converted to APFS, you'll need VMware Fusion 10.
Then on top of that you'll have to remove the VM that points to the bootcamp partition and recreate that bootcamp VM.

Some have reported success when using that scenario. Unfortunately not everybody has been that lucky, so far it is unclear why.
I grew up in a place like you. The difference is that you have a car.

I live in a small city now. I’m a quick drive or walk (10 blocks) to a small grocery store with limited selection and higher prices that mostly caters to students. Most shopping gets done in supermarkets outside the city... 10m car ride or 30 minute bus ride.

From the inner city area, that’s usually a 90 minute bus ride that runs every 45 minutes. Poor people don’t work 9-5, so they buy most food at bodegas at inflated prices. Stuff like produce is rarely available, unless Kure lucky to be near a Chinese market.
Note HFS+ is in a kernel module and not in the main tree (though is also open source), it therefore seems unlikely the APFS will ever be released in the same tree.
About Time.

Just like Leica dropped the ball on moving on to Digital Cameras, General Motors was slow to get on the Electric Vehicles bandwagon.

> "General Motors believes the future is all-electric," says Mark Reuss, the company’s head of product. "We are far along in our plan to lead the way to that future world."

Glad to see that they are going all-in.
What was wrong with the original title? It was "What's been wrought using the Piece Table?"
It does (though admittedly not very explicitly), it just rolls it into the "benefit" (i.e. not shipping broken code is a benefit) and the "weight given to stability". If a bug discovered in prod (or even qa/canary) has a significantly higher cost than a bug discovered early, that will influence the weight you are putting on stability. In that way, this factor is subsumed in one of the other graphs.

As you might've noticed, I have been intentionally light on the details and only talked pretty abstractly about the specific scales and factors involved.
If you're still running 802.11g, please make damn sure you've turned down the transmit power as much as possible. It's a big waste of airtime compared to 802.11n, so please do everything you can to make sure your low-speed broadcasts aren't getting in the way of other wireless networks that have to share the 2.4GHz band with you.
> Never made sense to me to have them so close together.

If there's multiple entrances/exits to the station, you want a Starbucks to be every direction a person might choose to go, so they don't have to go out of their way to go to a Starbucks - the whole point of Starbucks is that it's more convenient to hop into one than to find a better coffee place.
Similarly, there's a disturbing trend in recent years where people figured out you can just drive a truck/van through a crowd.

One option could be to ban/heavily regulate use of trucks/vans. Another option could be defensive architecture (build bollards everywhere). Another option could be to fund extensive surveillance efforts. Yet another option could be to treat it as a mental health issue (it often isn't "terrorism"). Another option could be to decide that the cost of any of these options exceeds the benefits, and it is best to leave cities vulnerable to this kind of thing.
I don't particularly see the need to extend this approach to every single variable in my code base. I usually just stick it on boundary code.
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Starbucks found that throughput is sublinear with respect to store size. If you get bigger than a couple cash registers and an espresso machine, the physical workflow, customer queueing, etc eat up the gains from making the space bigger.

So, if there's a location that can sell enough coffee to justify opening two small cafes, they open up two small cafes. They never open larger cafes that can serve twice as many people, because that costs more than twice as much for the same throughput.
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Hashrate is also limited by design:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty#What_network_hash_rate...
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These were the principles YC was founded with. That is, in 2005.
This interpretation is linear going back decades, but looking at Apple OS history all up, you see them same hard fork/rewrite between Classic Mac OS and OS X.
That download process is outside of Spotify, right?

With Apple Music, I believe, it's available across all your Apple music supported devices.
or evidence showing what their impact is, apparently. let’s just intuit it!
Well, they pretty much have to- Spotify will run in the background of games on an Xbox. Groove is completely unnecessary- smart to partner with the leader to stay relevant.
That's not a useful notion of type. If I cannot tell statically by inspecting a register name nor dynamically by inspecting a bit pattern whether a given register holds a pointer or an integer or a floating-point value, that's pretty much the definition of "untyped".
First concert I ever saw was Tom Petty on his "Hard Promises" tour. In the middle of the set, Stevie Nicks pulled up in a limo and a did her duets with Tom Petty. When you have never been to a rock concert, probably anything would be amazing. But I think back now about how lucky I was to see that.
Did Vista's kernel break from XP's in some significant way? I've never heard anything indicating that Vista/7/8/10 were a new kernel, and not a continuation of the NT line.
Oh, I'm not really a drinker, so I miss these things. Do you mean for getting girls drunk with plausible deniability?
... and when you get bored of Option-clicking, give Shift-Option clicking a try. Pulls up even more debug choices in Wifi/Bluetooth among others.
How much of Windows has _honestly_ been re-written? There's so much baggage in Windows it seams it's just not possible it has been re-written that many times.
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Apple clearly think that the segment of the 'pro' market that desires upgradability is smaller than the reach they get from having 'all-in-one'.
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The future of accessibility for custom elements
True, once my libraries get bigger than five or six assembly instructions, I tend to break them down to a more manageable size.
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I had no idea what a Piece Table was and how important it is, so I wanted it also to be reflected in the title.
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I would hazard a guess that others, like myself, would have simply passed this article by, not knowing what a piece table was.

I know now, which I hope is the important part.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_table
UK Home Secretary accuses tech giants of 'sneering' at politicians
Or coerced by blackmailing their family. Many prisoners belong to gangs which have members and influence outside the prison walls.
Not sure why you’re being downvoted. The ability to upload your own songs to the cloud is something I so wish Spotify had, it really is great.
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many people are blaming many silly things for Trump’s win, especially as a distraction from their own glaring flaws
So when you call a function which takes a String as argument, do you need to cast the value manually?

If no, then what is the use of the typesystem?

If yes, isn't that cumbersome, since I suppose most library functions have typed arguments?
The life on board in wartime navy shouldn't be that different. In peacetime maneuvers you need 24/7 staffing of all key positions; in wartime maneuvers you need the same.

Driving the ship around is the exact same activity that takes the same amount of work. Keeping all the gear running takes the same effort. If you've not been hit, you have the same people doing the same things; and if you've been hit, you're either dead or swimming towards the shore in a much smaller boat.
MacOS from versions 1 to 9 were very different to Mac OSX.

If you want to stretch the truth and say OSX has a lineage going back to the 70s, Windows 10 also has a lineage going back to the 70s:

http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client/windows-nt-and-vms-re...
Contrasting the subtle incompatibilities and custom APIs in Mac with the unparalleled legacy support in Windows.. I'm not sure the lesson is what you are suggesting.
My pleasure!

But please see xenadu02's comment[0], which explains that one needs to quit and relaunch Disk Utility after selecting View > Show All Devices for it to take effect.

Sorry to have missed that; I ran into the problem on three different Macs while installing High Sierra and unfortunately went straight to the command line rather than testing more extensively. My apologies.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15386547
*as the network stops processing transactions
I watched it over the weekend too, three hours long but a great documentary. In the documentary there was a scene about Roy Orbison's death. Tom's wife told him about it and mere minutes later there was a phone call from George Harrison. George said "Aren't you glad it wasn't you?" and Tom replied "Yep.".
You can even do this with Javascript, too. And without doc types. At least in vscode, anyways.

Well, usually. It gets a little confused when you start using dependency injection containers, or dynamic requires, or anything like that.
It's pretty easy to trade your BTC for any altcoin on an exchange, and then trade it back. I bet there will be automated, decentralized exchanges to do it, too.
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Instead of micropayments, why not have a Netflix-like aggregator experience with an overall subscription?

Also, has anyone considered that collaboration may be better than competition when it comes to news, and many other things? Look at open source and wikipedia beating the pants off closed source and britannica, encarta etc over the years.

Why not fund wikinews and such sites instead? Much less clickbait and spam and fake news. Different incentives.
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The law, that Trump and every other president is sworn to uphold, says the administrative regulations are supposed to be created only following the legislatively mandated rule making process. While Trump's appointees are free to initiate a new rule making process--as for example his FCC commissioner is doing to the chagrin of most HN commenters on net neutrality--he's not free to just decide to change administrative regulations absent the appropriate procedures and evidence even if he campaigned on that rule change. If the case is as the NVCA claims--where the administrative procedures act wasn't followed, I hope they win.