skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Jevons Paradox applies brutally here: more efficient miners just increase the value of bitcoin, potentially drawing in more users and even resulting in a net increase in consumption.
This sounds familiar to my, albeit limited, Microsoft Access experience.
Somehow I forgot the Google Fiber experiment.. time for a sequel
probably not 90% once your actually admitted to hospital especially if the hospital is a centre for the trickier problems.
They did not move to any platform. You ask the question as if being associated with a platform is a basic necessity!
My HOA requires me to use TWC, or get a fine which can lead to a lien. TWC doesn’t even exist in my part of Texas: it’s spectrum or ATT.
That assumes there's some way to grind through lots of computations to manipulate proof of stake, which isn't the case with the newest designs.

Ethereum's proof of stake FAQ has responses to that article: https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
I found https://bookofhook.blogspot.com/2012/09/productivity-vs-unce... useful.
Because people still had a bit of faith in the system. Now they might get a little more wind blowing their way
Software developer, 3.5 years experience, $88K /year, ~10% bonus, TN USA
There is also tiny ebook called The Tiniest Mansion written by guy who used to live in RV for couple of years. It costs few dollars and it is more like introductory type of reading, but it is not that bad (although few years old now).

I read it when I was considering living in RV myself, that was before vanlife boom so there was not much information available back then.
My point was the moment something relatively minor that happens to us all, happens to a van dweller, it becomes a major crisis. The things we take for granted, like being able to go to the bathroom when we want, or live without fear of police knocking on the door and demanding we suddenly up and relocate because we've broken laws, don't exist for this guy. If he gets into an accident on the road, he just imperiled his entire house.

And he's doing it for what? The great experience of having to sleep every night in a wal-mart parking lot or a side street? Not being able to live in one place, invite his friends over to his house, have a long-term girlfriend, and more?

Living in a van is hard. It doesn't become less hard because a yuppie does it as a voyage of self-discovery, or makes a pretty web site about it.

editing my language some. I'm sorry, I get really strident about things like this.
No, I don't. Do you? If so, you might need to read up on the slippery slope fallacy.
Ask HN: How to use my VPS for good?
I rent a low-end VPS.

It is used to host my personal hobby website (very, very low traffic), and for me to generally play around with a Linux server.

I feel like it is a waste that it doesn't really get used that much.

Are there any projects that I could host on my server that would help give back to the open source community at large?

I had thought about maybe hosting a buildbot? I don't want to do Tor or anything that could get my server shut down. I also don't want to commit to anything that would suffer when I eventually lose interest.

Any ideas?
Oh now I understand - those times are actually the widths of the candle markers. I thought it was the timescale of the x-axis, my mistake. Is it possible to put a small text annotation explaining what time you're talking about there?
Windows used to be optimized around user experience.

Are you sure that wasn't MacOS ?

I can't think of a time in recent memory I would describe windows as focused around user experience, it has always had dark corners.
it's consolidated free market. #rimshot
They revealed that the left and the liberals are a socially dominating minority.
The one no one wants to work at because it's all open seating?
I use a very similar system for static sites that I maintain. I edit my site in my favorite text editor and run 'git push'. :)

It was a bit of work to get everything running, but there's very little to actually maintain afterward. I'm definitely going to start replicating the setup elsewhere (including my own homepage, which is currently down due to its VPS having failed hard and me not having enough time to rebuild it).
My take is that Thiel has realized most of the gains he expects to get from Facebook and has much better opportunities for capital gains available to him.

Which says pretty much nothing about Facebook's continuing health.
I’m callin’ it. He will do absolutely nothing with this.
In some ways I think the lack of an energy demand is playing a role in the relatively slow uptake of things like solar. Why swap over when your current plants are meeting demand just fine? It's certainly no coincidence that China, who has some of the most rapidly rising demand of energy in the world, is also installing orders of magnitude greater solar installation than the rest of the world. In particular China is expected to add about 50GW of additional solar capacity in 2017 alone, which is more solar than any other nation in the world has - in total (as of 2016).

Aside from that, the imagination is the limit to things we could do if we had orders of magnitude greater energy than we do today. Propelling spacecraft by lasers, charging electric vehicles wirelessly as they drive, conveyor style road systems, and certainly many things we cannot really even imagine today. Massive energy availability would create an entirely new field of industry.
Nice, but not a single CoCo or TRS-80 Model I in the bunch.

Tsk!
A Passion for the Best Is in Mechanical Keyboards
I have a feeling that something scandalous is going to drop about Peter Thiel in the near future. This news comes on the heels of YC cutting ties with him [0].

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2017/11/19/y-combinator-severs-ties...
I don't know that Excel was the wrong tool for this task. I'm not sure why the spreadsheets couldn't have been distributed and consumed automatically by an Excel application, or at least by helper applications that were fed by and/or into Excel sheets. An Excel spreadsheet is a good enough form; and I don't think replacing one with a webform or pdf form would be any better.

edit: my favorite thing about using excel is that instead of spitting out an answer, you can spit out an Excel sheet that shows a lot of the work itself, therefore partially explaining the answer to the people that have to consume it. The product of your program can often be another program, giving the person receiving the report the opportunity to tweak or add new parameters to your output. Basically currying accounting calculations.
Casper does have a fork choice rule. Basically the chosen chain is the one that destroys the least amount of staker ETH.
...seems right, right?

What does Amazon do? Sell stuff and logistics in a handful of countries. Facebook meanwhile has a very sizeable user base giveing them a lot of attention in a lot of countries, so much so they (allegedly) influenced multiple elections.
I've used Splunk for this. It is very easy and powerful.
As someone outside of the US, I expect there would be such an uproar over here if we had to start waiting longer and longer for fb/twitter/youtube/etc pages to load, that people will just switch to a European business instead. Currently no one over here even talks about NN, but as soon as page loads increase dramatically and actually affect people in their day to day lives you can bet they'll switch. I imagine European businesses are scrambling right now in order to be the next big social network.
>For instance, one of mine is "this project is so big, I don't know where to start". Once I find a piece that seems like something I can get done quickly and ease me in, things tend to go a lot easier. Another is "I have so many (different) things to do that I don't want to do any". Presumably this is not so different than the earlier one

And they are already covered in TFA.
I absolutely share your viewpoint.

As a consumer, I try to think about the ingredients of a product: if it is mostly chemicals (in contrast do agricultural products), then the product probably isn't healthy.
> costing taxpayers millions of dollars

How do you mean? My understanding is that it would affect insurance rates for the overweight, unless of course insurers are not allowed to set rates based on bodyfat guidelines? I'd accept that it's costly here in Canada though, definitely an increase in emergency medical service load.
> Just because it's not for you doesn't mean it's not for everyone.

Your argument appeals to the subjective (and I do love the idea), but the parent's points are more about the objective (flu, health implications, hygiene, etc.); also, having to pee into a bottle at night is definitely not for everyone.
> They have to do more than just accept the comments.

Or what?

There's no one enforcing rules in this administration.
> Deliberate design choices are what made fake news effective.

These choices are made by whoever makes the fake news site. They are (ab)users of technology and not its creators. It's like saying encyclopedias are evil because you can take a heavy tome of encyclopedia and hit somebody in the head with it.

I am not saying solving fake news problem (if it exists) would be a bad thing. I am saying just like email is not evil because spammers exist, no technology is evil because fake news exist.
That's absolutely not what rayiner wrote.
We could debate the merits of either's designs, but Korolev was the first to (1) develop an ICBM (2) put a satellite in orbkt, and (3) impact and orbit a payload on the moon
Premature abstraction is the root of all evil.
Deserved? A market cap is based on investor sentiment, not how hard you work or even necessarily how sound your business is.

For the downvotes - are you implying that stock price is directly correlated with business performance and that the market is completely rational?
I am going to be making updates to this all day. Any suggestions are appreciated.
So a central bank approved proof-of-stake chain could displace a major part of the banking sector.
Well, unless they are purely communicating in person or by phone, SMS, or email (or snail mail) they ARE on some platform.
Type M or F (XT) for the win
Interesting, but why would that prompt him to dump his FB ownership?
Sure bitcoin mining consumes a lot, but let's compare apples to apples.

I'd be willing to spend 200 to 300 terawatt hours a year to really make crypto work.

Great civilizations are built off:

1/ Rule of Law

2/ Enough electricity to produce nitrogen, steel, and operate telecom.

#1 is worth a lot. Look at India's demonetization and the crisis it caused. [link: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/india-demonetiz...]

https://medium.com/@datarade/sure-bitcoin-assumes-a-lot-of-e... - The banking industry fretting over electricity consumption of bitcoin is out of whack in comparison to the sheer size and volume of bank electricity consumption at a federal and local level.

I'm very okay with a future in which ethereum smart contracts and bitcoin mining consume a 10% of global energy production given the alternatives.
The point about regulatory capture is secondary to the increase in cost. But there are patients going from high cost to low cost countries (linked below). There's also "big pharma" that is using IP regulations to limit what choices consumers have. I realize IP is another can of worms but it's still an example of regulation that is having the exact opposite of the desired outcome.

I would totally be for "sane" regulation, where autonomous driving components can be inexpensively tested and certified. I fear the more likely outcome will involve keeping costs prohibitively high. Considering how many people die on the road each year it would make sense for the state to sponsor a non-proprietary solution. Off the top of your head, in terms of the number of lives that can be saved per dollar - can you think of a better investment?

My feelings about autonomous cars is largely influenced by how terrible humans are at driving. At this point I'd rather trust a decent self-driving car than the average human.

*https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=162941...
This administration was voluntarily voted in.
HA! that is...oh wait you are SERIOUS!)*&^%$# it is cat pictures. That cap is way too high, they only reason it is successful is that people are sheep. Once they figure out how soylent green is made and the FCC chair ignites the internet apocalypse and people will suddenly have to PAY for that "service" Zuck will turn into Bill Gates. And I think we will all be better off.
The idea is to vote not by bringing nodes online, but with a stake. Meaning you sign with a private key which is linked to a certain amount of cryptocurrency.

To make sure that something is actually at stake and you don't just vote 50 times on 50 different valid forks, anyone can submit proof to the chain (or rather, any fork of the chain) which shows that a certain stake voted for multiple conflicting forks. In that case the stake is destroyed in all of those forks. Part of the stake may be given to the reporter as incentive for such reporting.

The result is that stakers need to pick one fork, and the one with the most votes (weighted by the amount of currency behind them) wins.
The FA said it was a scheduled sale of his stock--not one driven by recent events.
"For older women, breathing air that is heavily polluted by vehicle exhaust and other sources of fine particulates nearly doubles the likelihood of developing dementia, finds a study published Tuesday."

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-air-poll...
I have zero confidence in tech companies deploying broadband or last mile internet infrastructure, but I do have faith in municipal broadband taking off in communities with activists supporting it. You don't need FANG deep pockets when you can issue your own muni bonds to fund the network deployment.

https://muninetworks.org/communitymap
?? Reg capture may sap an economy but I don't see them as an existential threat. A single "industry" consuming most energy could be a potential existential threat, on the other hand, if it diverts economies from being productive assets to doing something for its own sake.
Nightlink: Node.js Tor Controller
Most of my friends moved to more one-on-one private forms of communication, such as skype, kik, regular text message (iphone imessage lets you create groups).

I also noticed majority of my friends (even some PhD etc) are pretty embarrassed about their postings from few years ago how they pretty much throw up on their facebook wall daily about even silliest stuff. They cyber-grew-up and now would not do that kind of stuff again.

As of Thiel's sell, even FB on their recent call warned stockholders that recent successes will be hard to duplicate. As more move into mobile use and there is less space for ads than on your desktop, the only option FB has is to stuck more ads between your feed, lowering the quality of experience altogether.
When your user base is 1/5th of the total world population your potential to 100x your growth is probably fairly limited... at least in terms of number of users.
I don't know what the OP meant by responsive but it is definitely more responsive as far as frequency of updates.
> don't think there's any doubt that Russia interfered with the US election

I see nothing wrong with this. We have +180 confirmed elections interfered by US agencies. None of them was reported in mainstream media. What's wrong with it being the other way around?
Facebook has been slow to realize that ads that they show are effectively messages from Facebook. Which is why they are culpable in so much gunk, they don't screen ads well enough and they let absolute nonsense rule the feeds. It's really a poor case of selling out to attractive bids. Now that they started camouflaging ads as regular posts from your friends, it's even worse. Now they exert influence and pretend they don't.
In such cases, you get a ubound that contains the exact value. When the inputs are exact, the result is exact too.

Here is a sample implementation in Julia:

https://github.com/JuliaComputing/Unums.jl
To my utterly unscientic perception, these exponentials scream "Crash Imminent". Is it possible to acquire reasonably reliable short options on bitcoin 2 years out?
ProtonMail Launches an Encrypted Contacts Manager
Dang. I've got a choice of Cox, mobile, or satellite; no other wired providers in my area. And Cox costs around 1.5x what it did 7 years ago when I moved in. They claim that they're also providing double the speed, but my tests don't bear that out.
It will be interesting remember that BGP "error" that Google caused Japan to drop off the internet things will really get fun!!! I can't wait for the offensive corporate tactics that will come into play to counter those deals.

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/27/google_routing_blun...
Introducing ProtonMail Contacts
Related work:

PPDP '17 paper on scaling:
http://christophermeiklejohn.com/publications/ppdp-2017-prep...

Ensuring monotonicity via types:
http://prl.ccs.neu.edu/blog/2017/10/22/monotonicity-types-to...
If I wrote regulations that benefitted Google, I would hope I’d go work at Qualcomm or somewhere unrelated. It gives the appearance of quid pro quo.
Show HN: Upstart.me – Promote your startup in other people's newsletters
Some years ago (and I mean decades) my teenage self read somewhere or heard someone talking of the unknown dangers of some gas being released by motherboards (think: silent killers).
bandsintown & songkick, but they're a bit of an echo chamber because mostly other musicians use them

edit: forgot reverbnation
I don't think the guy who posted this works for Canonical at the moment. If he does, his launchpad page is very sparse compared to other employees. I'm not saying that to disparage him in any way, but because it would make it incompatible with a not-invented-here syndrome.

I think Mir should be looked at as an independent project now. I might be wrong, of course, but that's the impression I have.

https://github.com/MirServer/mir/commits?author=gerboland
https://launchpad.net/~gerboland
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mir-Now-...
Those Americans aren't projected to consume the majority of the produced electricity by 20xx. So, not really.
I think it’s unlikely that Future Zuckerberg is going to behave with anywhere near the benevolence of post-Microsoft Bill Gates. How he tried to pull one over on the public with his “foundation” already demonstrated that quite clearly.
> not worth holding long term

for him.

Even if he were confident that Facebook has a good chance of growing, say, 10% YoY for the next 20 years, with those smarts and his access he can put the money to work on the next facebook, or even less successful companies that will likely beat that 10% in aggregate.
No do not think a bubble. Those are also not forward P/Es. Google and Facebook all have incredible growth and justify the prices. Amazon a bit expensive but incredible opportunity and growth.
30–40 years later we might be saying the same thing about social media.
Newer versions of Python have an in-band way of detecting if an object has been overridden. Foreseeably this could have been done completely internal to the VM. Defaulting to closed and requiring an explicit step to override behavior would have made optimizing Python far easier.
> It seems this problem should be addressed by more energy-efficient Bitcoin mining rigs

That doesn't work. Suppose, as a thought experiment, that every miner is instantly replaced by one twice as efficient. That means only that their owners can now run twice as many miners before the cost of energy makes it unprofitable. The Bitcoin protocol adjusts the difficulty so that, no matter how many miners or how efficient they are, on average a block is found every 10 minutes; it's the reward for these blocks that pays for the electricity, so the total amount of energy used by the Bitcoin network will tend to converge towards the block rewards divided by the electricity costs.
In the mean time, and in related news (media all quiet) - the "USA Liberty Act of 2017" has passed meaning government is allowed to search our private data without a warrant:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/3989...

Some more details here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/usa-liberty-act-wont-f...
Aspartame has been extensively studied and no adverse effect has been found. Why do you think that? Is it because "scary chemical"? And is it worse than sugar?
My friends aren't creating event invites on facebook, they're sharing events created by the hosts. I think what you're saying is, "When the bands and bars holding beer events follow my friends off facebook..."
I am not a facebook user, how do they camouflage ads as posts from friends?
Yeah. And to be honest, og looks really good and I like the usability.
A-M is the recommended way to hold a package, previously you would use `dpkg --get-selections`. All apt/dpkg commands will abide by what you set with A-M.
USA Liberty Act of 2017 has passed
Actually Facebook is not "cat pictures." It's a very efficient advertising engine the same way Google is. Similarly to Google (whose revenue is dominated by search ads), Facebook has feeds straight to consumers as well as valuable information about what the consumers are interested in. That's what makes money. Instagram, News Feed, Facebook News --> these are Facebook's Google Search & YouTube.

When you look at the numbers you'll see that they're actually similar companies who've monopolized segments of the digital advertising space. If you're going to complain about Facebook's market cap then you should also complain about Google.

Facebook's even got "other bets" -- Oculus, Workplace, WhatsApp, etc.
So, there must be a better source of local events in your life. Care to share?
This is non-news. The sale was "part of a previously established trading plan" -- VCs set these up all the time to slowly sell off shares in a way that's not disruptive to companies. If you owned 10% of a company and sold all that stock in one swoop, you would crater the stock price and piss off employees. Thiel had already sold over a $1B worth of shares by 2016 and FB stock is up 60%+ this year.
It happened on their property.
I guess an important point to make is how easy it is to consume a sugary drink. I can very easily sit down and drink a tall glass of orange juice but not so easily could I sit down and eat the six oranges that would be used to make that oj.
You're probably joking, but to explain why that doesn't follow:

PoW/Bitcoin has the same dynamics as gold mining under a gold standard. There is a return to spending a marginal resource in bitcoin mining, vs something else. As you add more resources to bitcoin mining, the return becomes low compared to the "something else" options, and no more is invested. You reach some equilibrium.

There's no reason that equilibrium would be the entire economy; most likely, some small fraction of it. But note, network costs scaling with the size of the global economy is not a point in Bitcoin's favor!

Proof of work does, in a way, rely on the entire world spending enough computational work on the blockchain that it becomes infeasible for any one person to spend more. So it does have much of the dynamics of an arms race.

Edit: The same logic explains why the problem will affect most attempts to have an "eco-friendly" PoW Blockchain, like Bram Cohen's proposal:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/08/chia-network-cryptocurrenc...

That just shifts the arms race to something else: in that case, on spending economic resources on faster ways of doing a lookup. Still should reach equilibrium at a stable fraction of the economy and produce the same waste, although perhaps in the form of hyper-optimized DB lookups and the related hardware and labor for it, not energy.
About one third of Americans receive government-funded health care, mostly through Medicare and Medicaid.

Additionally, when uninsured people visit the emergency room and can't pay for the service, the ER is not allowed to turn them away, and the rest of us end up paying for it.