skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, that it true.

But this is only a problem if coinbase or whoever is acting as a fractional reserve system.

As far as I know, every single dollar and Bitcoin that coinbase "says" you have is actually in an account somewhere, dollar for dollar and Bitcoin for Bitcoin.

If this is NOT true, and coinbase is a fractional reserve system, that would be a huge scandal.
Salaries can grow faster than inflation at other times, keeping them aligned over the long term.
As a Romanian what seems to happen is that a large group of supporters of the ruling party were coordinated in reporting the protests-related posts. I think facebook could easily implement an algorithm to detect reporting rings and actually suspending their member's accounts. Just like reddit is doing with the upvoting rings.
I would put my content (development tutorials) on YouNow if it paid less than YouTube but didn't engage in the crazy shenanigans YT does. Meaning a real due process for DMCA including punishment for false claims, and truly specific and regularly enforced content restrictions for monetization.
Sure, I am not saying it will be worth zero ever. I am saying it can become worth a lot less than today in a matter of days. Part of the problem that I have is I have no idea how to value bitcoin. I can sort of understand how to roughly value a company. But bitcoin I have no idea.
Right now it's used exclusively for FOMO pushing up the price in a speculative manner.

The handful of actual non-investment transactions are nowhere near enough to support a 100bn valuation.

And that's why I'm not in BTC...looks like a bubble, smells like a bubble and I'm sure it quacks too.
They should have put "you don't have a REAL choice to get another ISP".

10Mbps would not be enough for me nor most of my (even non-technical) family members.

Beyond that, the ones that do offer faster speeds have a cap that I would go past pretty much every month. I even live in a fairly sizeable city. If I had another realistic option than cable, I would've already taken it.

The issue comes from the fact that a lot of ISPs are, for reasons above, basically monopolies. This is, by itself, a really bad thing™. Lack of NN just lets them blackmail everybody from both sides on top of having practically 0 competition.

EDIT: your link actually shows you're wrong. The graph on page 6 (which I assume you're referring to) shows that 100% have multiple choices of 3+ Mbps, not 10+. 10+ only has 97%. Sure, it's only 3%, but that's still not 100% and not "patently false".

In that document, they don't mention prices, anywhere.

Also, on that same page, they mention:

> A provider that reports
offering service in a particular census block may not offer service, or service at that speed, to all locations
in the census block. Accordingly, the number of providers shown in Figure 4 does not necessarily reflect
the number of choices available to a particular household and does not purport to measure competition.
Maximize human population divided by the time integral of all human suffering (taken from now to the heat death of the universe.)
What a horrible article: “Free speech will suffer without net neutrality..I can say confidently that free speech is under attack, and has been, regardless of any net neutrality regulations”

- Ok, never mind then, lets end protecting people against sexual harassment in the workplace, because people have been getting sexually harassed in subways since forever. Lets stop putting protection mechanisms in electrical outlets, there are other ways in which children can electrocute themselves after all.
If you're in the Bay Area, sonic.net was always great for me. Despite being DSL, it was pretty fast, good uptime, good customer service. I wish I could get them here.
The Returns Department: Inside America's Market of Misfit Stuff
fake news robot kicking in?
I'm pretty optimistic on the future of wireless technology. So far it has been pretty terrible, but amazing things are coming.
but that's a different problem. If you want to sell BTC for dollars, you depend on the order book to have enough bids in it to satisfy your request, or you have to make a sell order and hope for someone to take it. Exchanges don't have to show liquidity for that, they have to show liquidity when people want to withdraw their assets (edit: complete truncated sentence).
> Apple fans aren't like Amiga fans, thank goodness. They know when to admit defeat.

NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!
taxing wealth is a strange thing—it makes people feel less interest in becoming wealthy, and thereby causes fewer GDP-building things to happen!

Citation? I know it feels correct, but is it actually correct in practice? Is there any evidence that the rare person who generates enormous wealth was motivated substantially by wealth (and not a drive to build something substantial or change the world)?

At least in the case of Gates, I suspect he would have built Microsoft even with slightly more onerous (to the wealthy) tax policy.
In terms of monetary policy it's pretty clear that you don't just want it to be predictable. One function of money is to be able to reference a stable amount of value in a contact (i.e. how much a person is paid). Just because a monetary policy is predictable doesn't mean it is stable, if the price changes more rapidly than prices are set or contacts are made it can't be used for that. Currently bitcoin is useless for setting prices. The only places where prices are determined in bitcoin are places that are extremely inefficient (i.e. ransomware).

A fixed inflation rate of 50% each year is very predictable, but useless for money.
Not sure it would do a low income person much good to own 50 acres in the middle of nowhere.
It's unfortunate to see laptops conflated with "all electronics" here. I benefitted greatly from using SoundNote on an iPad in grad school, which allowed me to make recordings of lectures that I could then annotate in real time. Rather than taking a transcript or feeling I had to record all key concepts, I could stick to noting where in the lecture was an especially important concept, or where I had spaced out and should re-listen. More valuable than any written notes I could have taken.
If this is not the last straw, what will it be?
Just to reply that I only briefly did Scala for less than a year, and my perspective of supply vs. demand was from attending a NYC Scala conference, maybe I was mislead to believe the supply vs. demand was this unbalanced.

As in most conferences, there are a hundred folks who say "We are hiring Scala Engineers" at every table and at the end of every talk. My employer at the time was desperately seeking Scala engineers and finding none, so they spent money to train their existing engineers.

So that's my Anecdotal evidence. I really just wanted to add that when I was young, the programming language was everything to me, it was my number one qualifier for whether I wanted to work somewhere. That is no longer true. The people I work with is now the most important thing to me.
G5, why not, G4 maybe a few, G3, definitely not.

I've a G3 Powerbook Pismo, it's not usable anymore for even basic task like web browsing (yay, 60 second at 100% CPU to load gmail, and with the most minimal setup I could come-up with).

For music, just no, for basic recording, it can do the job, barely, but for music editing (mixing tracks, applying effects, etc), you need a decent computer.
I would be happy to support The Guardian etc. But this persona does not have credit/debit cards. So I have no way to pay them. I do support GnuPG and Riseup, however, because they accept Bitcoin.
I recommend not caring.
Sorry I can't access the article. think-liberty.com is not included in my ISP package. Can you copy paste the article to facebook.com?

Thanks!
It seems the author (am aware that it's most likely OP) became quite active just a couple of weeks/months ago on twitter and medium - this overlaps heavily with the publication of the pandas cookbook.

I wonder if the rather heavily negative review of Wes's book is supposed to bring more attention to the authors own publication? Worked for me in any case - Safaribooksonline seems to have both books. Let's see how much better the newer one will be.
I doubt. I know a few high profile people with their accounts/pages suspended after they called for people to come protesting yesterday.
Thanks for that info. I figured it was heavily weighted for the 10% off but it appears it was the only possibility. I tested 10 for 10 before giving up.
I think it'll be more of an old fashioned speculative bubble burst.

The smart money will start taking profits by selling their coin, as the price goes down those that bought the high will lose their nerve and sell to stem their losses. Then the rest will start selling shortly after. Eventually there'll be nobody willing to buy at any price, it'll be worthless.
And this issue could be easily overcome if more projects implemented the "socks5h://" protocol (note the 'h'), initially introduced by curl[1] to mandate the SOCKS proxy to also tunnel DNS requests. Sadly it seems that very few programs recognize this (non-standard) protocol: git[2] (using curl),
python's request (and urllib) module[3] ... And not much else.

[1]: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html#--proxy
[2]: https://github.com/git/git/blob/20fed7cad40ed0b96232feb82812...
[3]: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/master/user/advanced/#soc...
> Occupy and anti-Trump protestors should study and learn how that works. You see to have effective peaceful protests, there has to be a credible threat of extreme and overwhelming violence that will follow unless the government listens. Government should be afraid of the people.

This is why the Civil Rights movement was successful (To a point). On the one hand, you had MLK preaching peace, and on the other hand, you had folks like Malcolm X, and the Black Panthers, who made it very clear that they will defend their rights.

White America was scared to death of the latter - to the point where they made concessions to the former.

Likewise with Gandhi in India. The British didn't leave because he made them feel bad - they left because if a revolt took place, they knew wouldn't be able to repress it.
The way some arguments are exposed is... weird.

Argument 1 ("Free speech will suffer without net neutrality”) boils down to "People say X will happen without net neutrality, X is happening, so we may as well let NN pass" [where X is "interruption of free speech"], while ignoring that free speech is not a binary and that circumventing net neutrality can be one way to deny free speech. Internet censorship is the most basic example of such a situation.

Argument 2 relies on the concept that not only should users pay for their bandwidth and services for theirs, but large services ought to pay once more for their bandwidth w.r.t. "interconnection fees" - but then again, the sentence being discussed ("These ISPs are monopolies, and they need to be regulated”) isn't relevant to NN.

Finally, when talking about Portugal he claims that "Portugal does have net neutrality", when the screenshot above is in direct violation of NN as defined in the link ("End-users should have the right to access and distribute information and content, and to use and provide applications and services without discrimination, via their internet access service.", Recital 6 of the "BEREC Guidelines on Net Neutrality"). At best, he is relying on a weird interpretation of this sentence, where "have the right to access" means "there is at least one plan which does that". Besides, the existence of a European regulation doesn't mean NN is enforced: the same regulation applies to Italy, but I can buy a plan boasting "free social&chat" and 10 GB towards select music services, through Telecom Italia no less (https://www.tim.it/ricarica-automatica).
Very unfortunately Facebook is not a camel.
America is not the world but that's not even the point. You're claiming they're politicizing the world. Election numbers don't represent willingness to make something political or whether it is. Not voting is a political decision.
The same reason I buy electronics. If I wait a year I'll certainly get more bang for my buck, but I don't.
I think OP was referencing how US currency is fiat
Do you think that the America for Bulgaria Foundation's promotion of gay rights is somehow harming your economy?

"The privatisation therefore was more of an emergent act of saving the failed state enterprises. They were sold for pennies because they couldn't export their production and the domestic market was dire." I do not know the situation in Bulgaria, but in the Czech Republic, the enterprises which were bought by the elites and foreign interests were not failing, and several ex-communists have become USD billionaires by having "purchased" them.
I can buy that 100 percent. They need to be precise but hopefully thorough so there's no quick work around after, and this is new territory. OTOH it's running rampant, so even a minor slam-dunk charge against one might slow things down a bit.
This is a common tactic of so-called libertarians: claim that competition is good so that the best is able to win against everybody else. Then, claim that monopolies/oligopolies are the sole responsibility of bad government.
That is including satellite. The latency of satellite internet is too high to really be considered as a viable alternative to other high speed ISPs. The bandwidth might be high enough to make Netflix streaming practical, but you are not going to be able to do anything that requires consistent real time communication.
yes, that's the problem. the order book is already quite thin - and in a panic, it can disappear and reappear at a much lower price.
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"Intel does not and will not design backdoors"
so that means that the backdoors were designed by externals, learning and getting used to their doublespeak.
And indeed it arguably was in force in 2007, when the FCC ordered Comcast to stop throttling bittorrent. Though of course Comcast eventually was successful in challenging the basis for that order in court.
The two are not connected other than by the word "regulation".

You can still have local governments not give ISPs local monopoly over laid cables, but you can also have net neutrality, which says that companies shouldn't be messing with the traffic that passes through their pipes. The two aren't mutually exclusive.

Also, some have mentioned in other similar threads that sometimes the monopoly is (sort of) natural because no other ISP even wants to lay the cables in a certain area. I do believe that to be true, but I don't think it's "case closed," either.

Many other countries have solved this issue by either mandating that whoever is laying the cables would then have to license them to competitors (which could also bring them their return on investment faster), or they could have a public-private partnership, where the government invests alongside the initial company that is laying the cables, to reduce its costs, and then similarly they license them to new competitors later on.
As usual, Rails is impresive framework and this update addresses and eases pains (file uploads) and streamlines work (redis and cacheing).

Most people unfortunatelly are stuck with old codebases and will have to wait before they can use something shiny like this in daily work.

Last few years, majority of my work in Rails is upgrading older apps to current, for security mostly.

Really great update, congrats DHH and the team.
>Well, the real question to me is do we think of people who live in Wyoming as "Wyomingers" and those in CA as Californians?

I think we talk about it that way all the time, both where I live (which is a lot closer to Wyoming than California) and in places which are closer to California that Wyoming. The common issues of the day are all ones of class division and I think that geographical division really plays into it. When we really split into Wyomingers and Californians though is when we start talking about any common political issue.

>We just think of everyone in the USA as Americans.

Oh lord, how I wish this were true. Do you think Californians treat me like a Californian? Or do you think that maybe they treat me a little bit different? And do you think when a Californian transplants here they get treated like a Wyoman? Or do you think they get treated a bit different? There's a divide there, the hundreds or thousands of miles between the coasts and the middle is more than a physical divide, it's also a cultural and political one.

>It doesn't seem to be working out very well. We need to make sure that the majority of Americans have veto power over things like electing Donald Trump, the current tax bill, the attempts to end Obamacare.

Let's be real here though, the above is completely partisan thinking. Look I'm basically as far left as they come and I live in deep red country - your impulse is totally wrong. Take a look at this map: http://i0.wp.com/metrocosm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/el...

You want to take that map and give even more power to the blue spots? I don't see the fairness. The senate exists because the coastal elites who founded this country were smart enough to realize that coastal city elites would run the whole thing if it weren't for some mechanism to help rural areas balance the scale.

>So why should it be that some Americans (those who live in Wyoming) having outsized voting power over national laws? A minority of Americans is controlling the country via the methods I mentioned.

Because it makes sure they're heard, it's protecting a weak minority from a powerful majority. I can agree with you on all the other things like gerrymandering but the senate exists for a good reason - it forces you to care about all the people who exist in rural areas or "flyover country" instead of writing them off like you'd really like to.
you lost me at not opening our platform to hate speech. Even for an open minded person there must be limits. I keep remembering that quote: "If you open your mind too much, your brain will fall out". They can build their hate internet if they want. With blackjack, and hookers!
I'm doing pretty well actually today, thanks for asking - it really means a lot.

I made a few different calls this morning and setup an appointment with a lawyer later this week to sit down and get everything better sorted.

I started talking to a couple of my friends more about it and they have been surprisingly supportive of me, calling me, etc. Not feeling as alone as when I wake up at 3am and realize I'm all alone, which I'm not used to, but at least I know I'm sadly not alone in that boat and can relate to others.

Thanks again for reaching out. I'll shoot you an email.
> "inherently deflationary"

I keep hearing this, and it doesn't get any more intelligible. Saying that bitcoin is inherently deflationary is as absurd as saying that the price of bitcoin can only go up, because those two statements are exactly the same.

Bitcoin, in the steady state, will go up or down as demand requires and as credit markets adjust to account for the future value of money.
I am hopeful that we will soon see AI-based psychotherapy available at scale at a price such that anyone who wants it will be able to get it. I can imagine that it would be more or less like having a telephone conversation with a real therapist, except in this case the therapist is an AI application running in a datacenter.

I think we will see something like this in the next five to ten years.

Thoughts?
You mean us. Our elected officials made those decisions. Congress funded both. OIF/OEF did not go forward without the blessing of Congress. Sure, the Executive Branch lied about the key detail, but part of decisionmaking is deciding the risk of deception.
That's pretty weak one, which basically boils down to "no blocking, no arbitrary discrimination", and explicitly allowed "reasonable network management". Also, was shut down by courts, so not sure if one can say it was actually in place since 2010, as I imagine having it under threat of being overturned (which eventually happened) prevented effective enforcement of it.
Posit bitcoin paper was a genius move by Satoshi Nakamoto to get so many of us focused on rethinking computer security fundamentals.
Might be good to have another section on 'Inflation.'

That $1M nest egg will need to be ~$3M in 38 years (when a 22yr old might be looking to retire at 60) in order to have the same purchasing power as $1M today (which isn't much in many markets).

Certainly not enough to provide a decent inheritance for the next generation.
How does Elemental compare to the existing options on the market? (e.g. something like this https://mux.com/video)
As the Red Hat FAQ (https://www.redhat.com/en/about/gplv3-enforcement-statement) says:

Q: Why didn’t you simply relicense your GPLv2 projects under GPLv3 and let the community benefit from the cure approach that way?

A: In many cases, this would not be possible or practical. For example, we couldn’t relicense our Linux kernel contributions under GPLv3, because the overall license of the Linux kernel is “GPLv2 only”.
FWIW I downvoted you because I don't think that your comment is productive. I agree with your sentiment though, I have no idea what local regulations supposedly have caused there to be little or not competition in internet providers. My understanding is that it is incredibly expensive to build and maintain an internet infrastructure. Coupling that with the recent rules that do not require ISPs to sell bandwidth and basically it becomes economically infeasible to build a new ISP from the ground up (if google can't afford to do it, who can?)
Bitcoin won't always appreciate. Best case scenario is that it is currently in price discovery and after price discovery ends (no more insane run ups or crashes) that it should vary in a similar way to gold. Be careful to not over expose yourself to that variation.
That doesn't come in a curve does it? Since I want to layout the desktop similar to a multi-monitor setup I figure the curve will help to angle the sides in. Do you find it awkward to look at windows far off to the side with a flat monitor that size?
>in a world that prints wealth

Where else, besides the crypto-currency market itself, is "wealth" being "printed"?

Fiat currencies may be inflationary but they're only used to price wealth not actually hold it. Actual wealth, unlike crypto-curency "wealth", is held in stocks/bonds/land/etc which are actual assets backed by some kind of economic activity or physical scarcity. Comparing "Bitcoin as a store of value" with fiat currencies is a strawman, you need to compare it with gold if that's what you want it for. If you want to compare Bitcoin to fiat currencies you need "Bitcoin as a means of transactions" and at that it's become terribly inefficient and underused compared to expectations.
This is why rubber duck debugging works. You start explaining to a rubber duckie what problem you have, how you're trying to solve it and what happens. Posting a question on a hostile forum or snarky IRC channel also works. When I think how to formulate my question best, to cause no misunderstanding, I often stumble upon the solution.

It is also why teaching people programming makes you a better programmer. Even if you're answering newbie questions, it often makes you re-evaluate your knowledge or realize you don't understand something as clearly as you thought. Even newbies have different needs and interests, so they ask different questions than you would.