skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similarly, I was living in dorms (free electricity) at the time bitcoin made its debut (well not really, but it was still very early). I started mining using my fairly beefy desktop. After months I decided it wasn't worth the small amount of 'money' I had made and just deleted everything. That PC is long gone, wonder how much money I would have now if I still had that wallet. Damn.
0 is a fraction of total human wealth.
Tech like Permaculture & Regenerative Agriculture utilize ecosystems & food webs to manage pests. Better to design natural processes to create more food than to manage natural processes by destroying them.

There's a saying, "You don't have a bug problem, you have a lack of (insert appropriate bug predator here) problem."
Its gesture-interpretation algorithm has gotten absolutely terrible for me recently, to the point that I frequently have to type out whole messages letter by letter because it will keep spitting out really strange guesses when I gesture. (It used to work a lot better, and when I revert to old versions they work great.)
Isn't the whole point of decentralization to prevent censorship? Forced decentralization as a tool of suppressing speech doesn't seem like much of an improvement over Twitter. Is there some counterbalance to this?
I saw your site.
navigated it a little and eventually ended up in amazon getting a book on elon musk
Probably related to http://btcgpu.org/ (another fork of the chain coming in 4 days)

It's interesting that despite bitcoin being deflationary by design, you can just fork the chain and do quantitative easing that way.

Pretty much all the cited benefits of cryptocurrencies are disappearing in implementation, unfortunately.
We already have taxi services. They changed pretty sharply in recent years due to the advent of smartphone ride hailing. That was a somewhat big deal and led to some consolidation. But it still hasn't created monopolies and doesn't look likely to.

I don't have to prove anything, we already have a taxi sector and it has attributes. Burden of proof is on the people claiming that self-driving will create a winner take all market when there's neither any evidence nor a plausible mechanism by which such a thing would happen.

If we replaced airline pilots with robots would that change the basic premise of the airline business? What about bus drivers? Why? OK now why taxis?

All the things you're talking about like economies of scale and similar are applicable to taxis with people driving them. What about replacing drivers with a machine will change the network effects of the taxi business?

Answer: nothing. The two concepts are orthogonal.

The premise that self-driving inevitably leads to an all powerful global taxi monopoly is magical thinking, and I really am mystified that it has such traction here.
Remember when websites started to make advertisements that look like articles? How long did it take you to learn what was an ad and what is a legitimate article?
You should at least use a makefile. It's pretty simple, and mostly the same as shell, but it will automatically detect changes, and only recompile the files that need to be recompiled.
It only works if people use the forks, which ... doesn't seem to be happening yet.
Hi there, James. I'm a software engineer at Google. I've worked with many former government and defense contractors here whom I would consider some of the best engineers. Please send me your resume (or anyone else with a similar situation!); my email is in my profile. We have offices all over the US (but not Florida) so the bay area wouldn't be a requirement.
So long as you're making a loss, there's a lot of ways to "creatively" grow revenue. In the limit case (which would be fraud), you and I can just trade out expensive invoices, declaring each as a loss. This puts a lot of revenue on our books, with no value exchanged.

Mongo don't have to be committing fraud, of course. They could be doing any number of actual business activities that make legitimate trades --- but trades optimised at revenue growth, not profitability.

The major metric for companies used to be profit growth. When companies were optimising for that, it was smart to look at revenue growth as a leading indicator. But Goodhart's law ruins everything: now companies know to optimise for revenue growth, and so its value as a metric is much diminished.
In the US, in most states, it is illegal to " knowingly utter or convey a threat to cause death or bodily harm to any person."[1] California Penal Code 422 PC California criminal threats. ("Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat..." [2]

California law even goes on to say that even absent intent, it is a crime. Which makes sense, because otherwise anyone making such a threat could argue that they were "joking", which happens to be a favorite defense of internet troll.s

[1]https://definitions.uslegal.com/d/death-threat/
[2]https://www.shouselaw.com/criminal_threats.html
Generating mazes with inductive graphs
Maybe. But in many cases it's not a deliberate choice about motivating user behavior, it's about satisfying some highly-paid person's idea of how their business is special so the design must also be special.

OR they really have it together, and the design works great for their specific target buyer while turning off irrelevant folks like you.
http://cryptonector.com/2007/04/c-shell-pushdpopd-on-steroid...

I have been doing something similar for many years. Someone ported this to Bash... I'll try to get that port up on github.

EDIT: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jakobi/script-archive/mast...
Did you try using Imgix for images? We did that this week and so far we like it a lot
Something I noticed, but didn't see in the article (unless I just missed it). In reference to the security part at the end, if the hash only included the previous block's data, and not its previous hash. If you could edit two consecutive blocks you could change, say, block 2's data and block 3's previous hash. Now everything looks fine because this doesn't change block 3's data so block 4's previous hash looks fine and everything looks legit. Seems like a greater concern than breaking the chain because it wouldn't be detected unless you compared two versions of the chain.
Also interesting is fzf-marks:

https://github.com/urbainvaes/fzf-marks.git
Deep green resistance advocate for blowing up power plants and other kinds of monkey wrenching. I don't think they're just trying to "cut down the per head footprint"...

> individualistic basic human rights will have to occasionally take a second place?

One could argue that this is the case right now. That the lack of protection of individual human rights is what got us into this mess. It wasn't individuals in communities that asked for their lands to be taken by a wealthy few or by corporations, to be used for generating profit through environmental destruction. Many people actively struggled against the acquisition and destruction of local ecological habitats. They were a majority opposing a small few powerful people or businesses. But the "individual rights" of those few were valued more and now the many must suffer the consequences...
Lol, well I did the exact same thing, mined 100 BTC on my CPU, turned it off, and forgot about it. That computer had been formatted at least twice before 1 BTC even hit $1. I comfort myself with the fact that I would have sold when it hovered around $8.
I'm still not quite convinced about this. Sure, you might lose all inhibition and just do whatever you want. But that would mean that a drunken rapist wants to rape, even while sober, but usually has the power to control himself. A good person, in my book, has no urge to rape at all, no matter the level of self-control he can muster up at any given moment.
Does alcohol really change someone's personality on such a level as to make someone suddenly want to rape?
The value of bitcoin, as with other currencies, is the value people believe it holds. More concretely, this would be the value of goods or services you can exchange it for today, and/or the future value you believe the currency will hold.

Your argument reminds me of a classic eBay seller problem: you can price your rare collectables however you want, but if no one is buying, they are worthless
Use decentraleyes!
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Oh, I totally agree. It is not too late at all to buy now. However mining, can't do it as an individual.
In verb and adjective form anything can be deserted, a husband deserting his wife, a deserted village.

In noun form I've heard of things like food deserts to describe urban area without grocery or restaurants. Also places like Antartica are sometimes described as deserts. Also ocean deserts to describe areas without fish.
Unsure why you being downvoted; its actually quite good advise. If you disagree then let's get into time machine and I tell you 10 years ago that one bitcoin will be $6,000. As laughable back then as it is to think one bitcoin will be $25,000, which I believe will become once all coins are mined and there is limited quantity available in circulation.
There's IKVM, which is a managed JVM written in C# and is also capable of converting Java bytecode to CLR bytecode.

http://www.ikvm.net/
1) I've witnessed ageism.

2) I've worked with old timers who do nothing and get paid a ton. I still can't figure out what they do all all day. I think they go on 10 coffee breaks and browse the web.

I suspect the latter is a stereotype that motivates the former.
This is way too simplistic.

Most organisations promoting atheism tends to explicitly associate with ideologies that sometimes pre-suppose atheism, but are not just atheism, such as humanism. E.g. the biggest "atheist" organizations in most countries tends to be the Humanist Associations.

To the extent that there are organizations etc. "just for atheism" rather than humanism, this tends to either be tied to ideologies that either encompass just small parts of atheists, e.g. "hard" atheists who express absolute certainty in the non-belief of God, or "radical" atheists who see theism as actively damaging and something to be fought. Those you could very well consider ideologies.

Another category are groups that band together not over atheism per se, but against religiously motivated discrimination, but most of these tends to focus on secularism, not atheism per se.

Calling atheism itself an ideology because of any of the above is ascribing far more to atheism than is actually there.

Saying that there are atheist ideologies where the absence of belief in a God is an important principle is true. But atheism on it's own is the simple absence of belief.
The hunting restrictions are basically why the deer population recovered to the absurd levels they have. They need some tuning the other way, maybe extend the season (eg, shorten the exclusive bow-hunting season and lengthen the regular hunting season).

If you're not allowing hunting on your property, it would also be good (albeit expensive) to fence it, so deer cannot easily move through, to reduce their available forage.
Arguably it has actually become less useful in the last few years, in that the transaction fees that you actually need to get a transaction through in realistic time have skyrocketed. And I gather it's beginning to be displaced on the tor drug markets.
I think the thing is, if the admin of your instance de-federates with another instance, you don't have much in the way of options if you want to follow someone on that instance. Or, if, due to bad luck, you originally sign up with an instance that becomes the 8chan of instances, you don't really have much in the way of options if you don't want to be there. You can't take your account elsewhere. You're pretty much limited to creating a new account on a new instance, and then you have to communicate to all your followers that you've moved.
Um, the article mentions lights several times, and includes a link to these:

https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/550821#overview

They are lights that automatically turn on when needed. Thus, people don't need to bring a lights for the bike they rent, in case it gets dark, etc. Right now, the Biketown bikes don't include any lights on them, so you basically either bring your own or just don't ride them in the evening.

There are of course other features, like automatic brightness adjustment etc. They can be like daytime running lights for your car.
Ha. Daniel was the first engineer hired on the Heroku Postgres team. He authored wal-e (https://github.com/wal-e/wal-e) which is the foundation for much of the fork/follower functionality and thus the follower-hole itself. He's now running databases with me at Citus.
The best ones ignore the "scratch your own itch" advice and look for a problem that is outside their comfort area that has not yet been attacked.
Dogs really can smell your fear, and then they get scared too
Coywolf start to be a thing in those environments, a rare case of species created by human sprawl.
There are 2 others: https://gohugo.io/templates/alternatives/ but I don't like them either x)
The NE also went from 30% forest to 70% open/farming land to 70% forest 30% open in about 100 years as agriculturalism gave way to industrialization. So that could also contribute to giving deer more cover/habitat. Also we killed all the wolves east of the Mississippi 50 years, and coyotes have yet to fill their niche.
Great tits show natural selection at work
until the change that occured this year I loved google news, since the new change I feel like it is just a headline generator with more space and less information.

lately I have received two summaries a week from Signal [0] which keeps me generally aware of what is going on but I know I am becoming less and less informed as a result of google news becoming a source of disinformation (my opinion). I think the focus on headlines and decrease in information density makes people focus on headlines more and choose not to read articles...

[0] https://www.eurasiagroup.net/
The entire crypto market is worth $160bn at the moment (Bitcoin: $100bn). That is less than the market cap of Visa, or equals about the market cap of Mastercard. Global gold is valued at around $8.2tn (or $8,200bn).

This is not investment advice, but _IF_ (and that's a big if) some of these coins (mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum) successfully achieve some of their goals, today's price will be extremely cheap. If not, it will probably be expensive. Do your own research and then decide whether you think they can.
Newegg's Bitcoin Sell Advice 3 Years Ago Cost Investors 2500% in Profits
What surprised me the most was that they did it on purpose!
I don't know about working as well as it does in VirtualBox, but with the QXL guest driver to do screen resizing and clipboard sharing, it's not too bad.
> If this keeps happening won't this actually crowd out the currency application and lead to Bitcoin becoming nothing more than a speculative bubble?

I think it'd be reasonable to say that this has largely already happened. Beyond the volatility, it's terribly impractical to use as an actual currency due to the transaction fees these days.
Not at all. In Pennsylvania, hunters harvest over 300,000 deer per year. That's still not enough to control the population:

http://www.pgc.pa.gov/hunttrap/hunting/harvestdataandmaps/pa...
Historical quotes devoid of modern context can be found to support whatever position you want. This one specifically, while cute, lacks any argument or logic supporting its claim. And it is rather offensive to the existing large community of humanists.
You don't have to force them if the teaching is competent. It doesn't have to be a painful experience.
I don't disagree with you, but it should be made clear that the article is talking about people with no affiliation to a religion, and not (explicitly) atheism.
> "Basically I don't see any target value for bitcoins except that there's no bubble since this is a once upon a life time opportunity"

Why? I can start my own blockchain tomorrow, and so can anyone else. If people perceive bitcoin distribution as being fundamentally unfair, they can just stop using it and switch to the some other crypto currency.
I've seen zero discussion of that fork, and I'm pretty active on /r/bitcoin (and other places in the community)

I did find a few references to it, only on searching, and most seem to think it's a scam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/734i6s/as_it_turns_out...
I don't understand what you mean by forced decentralization, or how it relates to censorship.
Sorry, that's not correct.

http://spacemacs.org/doc/FAQ

"Space Macs"
So I suppose almost every planet in the galaxy is a desert planet.
I had a coworker who used to be a C64 enthusiast. One day, a very long time ago, he discovered a C64 program on Usenet called "drive music".

He downloaded it and ran it... and his floppy drive started playing music. After playing with it for a while, he heard that using it too much could throw your drive heads out of alignment, so he got rid of it.
Show HN: A Unified Messaging API for Chatbots
Autojump is the answer here. Totally a gamechanger. If you like its semantics enough, check out fasd [1] , which is a superset of autojump that applies its cache in many other places. Absolutely awesome.

[1] https://github.com/clvv/fasd
The Era of Candidate Databases Is Over
> One way it works better is that there are people, like me, who have noticed that humans who want to talk to me (as opposed to wanting to sell me something) don't send HTML email.

Except for legitimate automated emails. You know, like email confirmations when creating or updating an account, order confirmations, delivery notices, new login security notices, billing notifications, etc. are often sent in HTML email. If you literally pipe any HTML email to /dev/null, you will not be able to successfully register for any site that requires an email address, which is just about everything in today's world.
Why is sending true plain text email worse for deliverability?
It seems to be not very useful as a currency (transaction costs are surging, it's slow, can't scale, etc etc) and instead has proven much more useful as a vehicle for every sketchy investment scheme you can imagine.

I think blockchain as an idea is more valuable than Bitcoin as an idea. But that's me.
and my job here at Heroku Postgres is to delete Daniel’s code
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You're assuming it's priced fairly and there's no cheating or other manipulation in the price.
I suppose this all boils down to what the definition of a "good person" is, which varies from person to person.

I am of the personal belief that a person's actions determine who is good more than their desires. If a person walking through a gas station has a fleeting urge to steal a candy bar, that wouldn't make them bad in my eyes unless they actually steal it. If a person in the middle of an argument gets an urge to shove the other person but they suppress it, that shows discipline and maturity.

I agree that it would be ideal if nobody had bad urges, but I think it's definitely good that many with those urges are able to control them.
George is banned from exploiting Sony products
This is a pretty funny headline
Has any other generally purchasable asset in the history in the history of mankind ever appreciated faster than bitcoin?
This is often repeated but without any data to back it up its a bit of a myth.

My tests show local resources consistently loading faster than making a link to Google. These are supposed to be cached but thing like fonts are always loaded again. Anyone can repeat this for themselves.
I was in Iceland a few weeks ago and the people, museums, info plaques, etc. talked about deforestation and how the early settlers chopped down all the forests. Also mentioned was forestation and how they were slowly replanting. The grazing by horses and sheep were never mentioned as a problem. I did hear about how flocks of sheep are just let loose in the highlands in the summer to graze and the sheep herders separate out the flocks in big festivals in the fall. Similar to the old time Spanish rodeos in California.

This article obliquely mentions the sheep problem but only by saying:

Mr. Jonsson and his volunteers then plant the appropriate species for the plot — birch, Sitka spruce, lodgepole pine, Russian larch or other species. “We’d love to plant aspen,” he said. “But sheep really love aspen.”

Sheep may love aspen but they will eat all the other trees also. I did not realize this was the main reason there was only grass everywhere until, when up on top of the Skógafoss waterfall, there was this[1] little island in the river covered in a little mini-forest. This rocky island would not be a very good place for trees to grow compared to the nice soil under the grassy fields around it, but since nothing could graze on the island, the trees could grow up.

[1] https://njarboe.com/iceland/IcelandTreeIslandSkogafoss.jpg (The trees on this island are only about 4 feet tall)
OTOH, it's really hard to hide from them in iceland, what with the total lack of trees. Just a different kind of challenge...
Not a real tl;dr.
> Think of it as a high-risk hedge against future hyperinflation - the Fed can expand the monetary supply arbitrarily to infinity; but Bitcoin's expansion is limited by design.

That's true of bitcoin, but not bitcoin forks. You can just fork the chain and there's your dilution / inflation e.g. Ethereum classic, Bitcoin Cash, both of those are taking value away from the Bitcoin and deflating the currency futher.
It kind of sounds like you need to normalize the data? What I would do is

1) Create a new schema reflecting the data normalization you want. Meaning creating all the tables foreign key relationships, etc.

2) Use programming language of your choice (my quiver would be rails), just for the ORM to read in the csvs then write the data out to the tables.
Interesting, thanks. But it is still complex: it surely also depends on what you sell and the average customer you have, and also if the users expect to have some advantages by registering.

For example, I personally like to be able to follow the order etc. but often online stores insist that I have to register for anything like this. If the order number and my name were enough, which technically should be, I wouldn't. But having no alternative, I do. So I count myself in "I would prefer not" but you see me registered and count "one of 3 who like registering."
It's funny because as silly as your suggestion seems, this is how real language aquisition. I'm super interested in any more info you have about your success doing this! (I.e. Language learned or how long before things started clicking etc)
I'm confused.. why is this cute?

Of course "$" is used as the symbol for several currencies, but its not clear if you have a better symbol in mind for the generic concept of money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/$_(disambiguation)
Well... Maybe. You have to keep in mind, at least in my experience, people who answer "none" still often have strong religious beliefs. They don't go to church/temple or identity as religious or know the rules or ceremonies but hold beliefs of whatever aspects of religion that personally appeal to them. My dad is one of them. When asked his religion he'll say "none" but he believes in God, spirits, and prays.

So this may be just a gradual move from organized religion to unorganized religion rather than a move from religion to non-religion.

(Hell, even the people who are part of an organized religion do that sometimes. I have a Catholic friend who believes in reincarnation. I guess that's how you get new religions.)
I bet there are a lot of us that want cheap European cheese. It's basically the only thing I check in the news about trade deals these days! :)