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> Afaik Ethereum is already processing double the transactions of Bitcoin

I was talking just about Ether, what happens to time/fees if number of transactions goes 1000x?

> The issue of Bitcoin is not the technical part; it's that no consensus can be reached between people on what is the right course of action, leading to multiple forks of the network

I don't think it's a problem of Bitcoin. It has its pros and cons, but it allows bitcoin evolve, assessing different approaches. It's like saying that main problem of open source projects is that they can be forked. Is it a problem or is it a feature?
Slicing the Onion into Domains
How is it childish?
> The sticker price for games has stayed rock steady for decades

Where I am, AAA games used to cost €40 at the top end. Then €50. Then €60 and now I see them for €70 (more if you buy bullshit deluxe editions that give you extra skins or somesuch; more still for collectors editions, but they've always existed).

So, at least where I am, I'm not seeing it staying "rock steady for decades".
I feel Microsoft accelerated the D phase recently. F#, I remember some typed OS after Midori being mentionned.
My Greek colleagues say the same about Greece, and having visited our Athens office a few times, I agree with them! Greek olive oil, cheese, and wine easily rival anything from Italy, but people (in the UK at least) tend to know the big Italian brands. According to my colleague, the finest chocolates are made with Greek almonds too, but they are not known as a product in themselves.
t would be nice if HN users could claim expertise and it's level when people have relevant expertise, their comments would come first.

for example:

field: physics
specialty: quantum optics, spectroscopy
level: researcher, PhD
Salvaging the past in an ancient Maya settlement (2016)
Depends on how you define 'connecting' cities, and we aren't talking about rigid boundaries on the railroad, just "comparable". And LA->SF route has enough people to be profitable, mate.
> If you’re running a statically linked binary produced by go [...]

In a way you are answering your own question. Sure you can give up Docker and use something else, but you are giving up benefits of using the Docker infrastructure and ecosystem.

If you are just using Docker for one app, then yes I agree, but if you have other apps running through Docker then it’s certainly beneficial to do so even for statically linked executables, to keep everything consistent.
I know! I said traditionally.
You are looking for "Bitcoins days destroyed" [1]

[1] https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/q/845/9479
Flipkart Founder Sachin Bansal Booked for Cheating Businessman
> Best choice for you hybrid app? [submitted title]

Funny how you introduced spelling error by pasting text from somewhere else. It's really an accomplishment.
Steinberg SDKs: Review of Music Software Code Defects, Part 5
But look at all of the other additions on top of AWS now - you're not just getting bare metals, you're getting an entire stack from the machine to the speech output. They have the bare metal, they're just ramping up the value adds in verticals they know can be huge (plus, building... and I hate the word... synergies with Twitch).

All of that CryEngine expertise was probably going to go down the toilet - am going to assume it's been comparatively cheap for them to get a AAA game engine into their locker.
> with no possibility to jump directly to it

How about '/examples'? Maybe you should take some time to actually learn how 'man' works before you start bashing it online...
Even with the decrease in the mining reward over time, Bitcoin mining is now consuming enough energy to power a small county. I'm not convinced that having the mining reward increase over time to provide more reward to later miners would be a wise feature in any way.
Implicit in your comment is the belief that the OP's comment was relevant and sincere.

I don't believe it was. For one, it would mean a huge percentage of the population has a schizotypical personality disorder, or avoidant personality.

For another, there is a strong cultural effect on dance popularity. There are areas where dancing is banned due to religious prohibitions. (The movie "Footloose" is based on that premise.)

While it's possible that, say, 0.01% of the people may not dance for reasons the OP gave, it's very unlikely that the OP's argument has any significance.
Side question about the "core" approach. Can your core be *GPL (in case it needs/ships with GPL libraries/tools) while some "plugins/modules" would be closed source?

Let's say you have an IRC client that is GPL (because you want to use grep for example), but it's only a service with an API. You then make closed front-end that utilizes it. Or other way, there would be a closed tool that the client can use (e.g. auto reply module).
Agreed, just for one app no need to create unneeded overhead. But PROD usually looks different. See paragraph "Application Environment" here http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2898444 why you would still want to put static binaries in Docker containers.
> for a commercial license.

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I know this feels like nit-picking, but you likely mean "proprietary license." Just because the GPL encourages a different style of commerce than most are used to for software, doesn't mean it's not commercial.

As for charging fees for additional proprietary licenses, this link explains Richard Stallman's views on it:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions

(It's likely not what you expect him to say)
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Considering it took them so little time to look up this private info, that they in my opinion shouldn't even have access to in the first place, then I think a more interesting question is whether they also have access to your chat history on weixin/qq/momo/etc, and if they can see the names of the girls you checked into a hotel with. They probably also have detailed info about whenever a foreigner visited a red light shop.. how long until that info will be used to deny foreigners entry, or land them in jail.. what a shithole..
Thx! See me comment above on why you would want to put static binaries in "scratch", i.e. use "scratch" to deploy apps and not just for building base layers as you suggest.
So basically the VRML demos are back.
By the time I learned my times tables at primary (elementary) school in the UK in the mid 70s, decimalisation was well under way. The old money system of 20 12 penny shillings to the pounds had been replaced with a 100p pound. The metric system was on the horizon, but everyday measures were still in yards, feet, inches, ounces and pounds. We were taught times tables up to 12, and I still remember my 11 and 12 times tables. Very handy for thinking in dozens or feet and inches. I guess our 12/24 hour clock system is the last hold out of the dozenal approach. I'd prefer whole hearted decimalisation and reform of the clock system. Or base 16. But not base 12!
You keep saying they're arbitrary. Please provide a link to the research used to set the limit. This would show that you've at least read it before dismissing it.

And if he cut down to 17 I wouldn't be mentioning the recommended limits. I keep mentioning them because other people keep saying OP's not drinking that much. OP's drinking more than double the recommended limits but more importantly OP has noticed harm is being caused.
Industrial-grade RPC framework used throughout Baidu
The problem is private companies generally being for-profit enterprises they tend to fund only those research projects that they believe will have a positive return for them. They also have a strong incentive to keep the products of their research secret and only divulge them when they discover a concrete application that is suitable to be patented. This is all very well, but it's not a socially optimal way to conduct research.
One can only imagine the damage that is yet to be done by applying machine learning to junk food design ...
Spanish ham is so so, I prefer Ukrainean
Same thing happens with deep learning and AI threads.
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And to suggest a computer Go player, taught in a few days, is a "marginal improvement" over decades of "AI research": as my kids say, "wut?"

Maybe I'm the one that has it backward, but I'm pretty sure that Harford would not agree with the statement that Alpha Go Zero is only a "marginal improvement".

To the contrary, he says that Alpha Go is an "outlier", and uses it as an example of the sort of "speculative research" we should be doing more of: "Productivity and technological progress are lacklustre because the research behind AlphaGo Zero is not typical of the way we try to produce new ideas."

Apparently he should have been clearer, but I took the article as a call for more real research of the type that produced Alpha Go, and fewer of the "pragmatic shortcuts" and "brute-force approaches that taught us little but played strong chess"
VR online shopping could be a massive thing one day.
Make sure you inline these in your HTML directly so you don't add an additional 1-2KB (or more) in headers for each access.
Yup, in the end it´s an OS process and all rules apply. I did not care too much about Dockerfile best practices in my article. Good point, should at least have used "user <!root>".
Yep, I specifically meant it for programming / office work.
Firefox:

about:config

media.autoplay.enabled

All my devices have this set to false.
Adobe Illustrator is the standard.
Science Fiction is older than the 1900s. Just check on Jules Verne. The name "science fiction" is from the 1850's, arguably before "XIX". First almost SF books appeared in 1810 (Julius von Voß)
When Should You Launch an App for Your Ecommerce Store?
I'm thinking that the deep learning field will become like web development: it's becoming so simple that everybody can do it.

This article gives some evidence: [1], quoting:

> researchers were a bit perplexed when actress and director Kristen Stewart [2] appeared as an author on a machine learning paper.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/19/kristen-stewart-co-authore...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristen_Stewart
How Telehealth Is Bridging the Mental Health Resources Gap
Can see you edited so let me add that i am also living without a religion. I agree that everything is subjective, but that doesent mean we can't build moral or ethical foundations for how we live together. There are plenty of shared foundation even if its an illusion to build upon.
chat would be a problem, streaming is note that important
Cryptography has also been progressing well. Same for various encoding formats; Opus is both better quality per bit & uses less CPU than Vorbis
> We produce huge surplus of milk every year, farmers end up having to throw it away because of EU regulation, so there's no reason why we should have a shortage of butter.

Source?
Custom Overlays with Angular's CDK – Part 2
Is there a guide I can use to set this up?
If you're ok with switching to linux, or are already using it, a tiling wm is easily a better investment (5 mins to learn, orders of magnitude more space and time efficient) than buying a big monitor with low dpi etc.

A bad 720p laptop with a tiling wm has more available screen real estate than a 4k monster regular setup.
The short version is no.

The long version is that it is unclear whether it's possible or not and it will vary depending on what integrates with what and how. GPL is a nightmare.

Note there is a strong and justified barrage against GPL components in the enterprise world. Assuming you are doing a "core" model because you intend to sell it, that might be a problem.
Nice list! Adding https://openbounty.status.im to the #bounties section. Just pledged 1M to OSS development.
I assume you're referring to this (http://www.joutrip.com/easyworks/data/gallery/china-departur...)? I see no mention of having to inform the police (or whoever you're supposed to inform) if you decide to spend a night at AirBNB..
> Fundamental research is not less active, but it's happening in different places (e.g. the Google Brain team). Find the most profitable companies and you'll find the research.

Aren't you contradicting yourself a bit there? If it's only/mainly the most profitable companies and the topics of interest to them, then that hardly indicates fundamental research is very active. There can't be that many fundamental research positions across those companies.

(caveat: the article is currently unavailable "Error establishing a database connection" so i'm not entirely clear if it's just about fundamental research in AI areas or not).
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No, actually that was not the question. The unsupported grandparent statement was that the US is "crazy about race as always." Well, the US is also a lot more racially diverse than those countries. So it's a bit of an apples-oranges comparison when discussing diversity. And I already know about the homogeneous populations of those countries. A couple of points:

1. It's rather convenient for your argument, isn't it, that some of the aforementioned countries (the Scandinavian ones) don't have any substantial black population. So no need to correct race bias there...there aren't many black workers there! Nice job.

2. The UK actually does have a significant black population, and if you look at UK tech companies I think you'll see that they have close to the same percentage of black programmers as in the US.

Subsidiary point: being smug about supposed Euro superiority re: race bias in tech hiring and engaging in America bashing is a weak reed to lean on.
While I don't disagree, companies are forced to play this game lest their competition under cut them.

However, locations are forced to play the game from network effects which push companies out of small communities. So, banning this behavior is likely to make things even worse for small town America. Still, getting rid of this might be better, but it's not as clear cut as you might think.
I feel the same as Portuguese. Granted we just don't carry the weight of the likes of Spain/France/Italy. But we are just so bad at exporting, it's unreal. I live in the UK and it's common to see all sorts of wines and meats from southern European countries in the supermarkets. Portugal will have 1 or 2 bottles of wine, typically from vineyards owned by UK nationals in Portugal. Even our Port - which is world famous - It's always from UK owned vineyards.
Where's your problem? Spin up a certbot docker container and use this here in haproxy:

frontend http_in
bind *:80
bind *:443 ssl crt /path/to/letsencrypt/data/mydomain.pem
acl path_letsencrypt path_beg /.well-known/acme-challenge
use_backend letsencrypt if path_letsencrypt
backend letsencrypt
mode http
server server-letsencrypt MYLOCALIP:8080

For the letsencrypt docker image, I use mesosphere/letsencrypt-dcos with a patched run.sh that triggers a docker kill -s HUP on the haproxy container.
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> you still enjoyed a level of financial stability in those years [...] these folks don't get that choice.

I keep forgetting how much it pays in the US. But agreed, if I was deprived of a way to make heaps of money directly out of university I'd be mildly annoyed. (Arguably by not being American, I kind of was. And this goes without saying, but since it's the Internet, I'm not trying to argue that this "injustice" is the same as the alleged racism.)

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I'm also involved with hiring people. Am I racist? I don't know, I only get the coding challenges without names. I do know that 95% of the applicants are shit, and most can't even be bothered with the coding "challenge" (on par with fizz buzz, it's mainly a test of do you have basic reading comprehension). Having a CS degree is meaningless as far as quality goes. So what I can relate to is that the university sucks at preparing people for the job. And the article does say that, but that's not the main focus.

So going back to first principles. Why is the title "Why Doesn’t Silicon Valley Hire Black Coders?", and not "Man with industry experience is shocked to find University curriculum 25 years out of date", or "Universities hate us: This one trick to get hired"?
So rather than learning a little bit of nroff and making the manual pages better by adding to the EXAMPLES section (or using SmartOS whose manual pages have high quality EXAMPLES sections), it was decided to just re-invent yet another documentation system. I don’t get it: an investment in learning nroff is incredibly valuable, as very high quality typeset documents can be produced with it, so it’s a triple win: better manual pages, no alternative documentation systems and knowledge how to write high quality output in the future. What strange times we live in...
I made a free tool to email you top posts from subreddits
... how?
I see Tesla as a conduit for the wealthy to keep subsidising the technology for the middle class. In the same way that Uber is a way for the wealthy to pay for the commute of the middle class (cos let’s face it the poor aren’t taking cabs or buying EVs). For the sake of the community we need these vehicles of wealth transfer to keep existing.

The moment companies like Uber and Tesla start making money, we need the visionaries to come in and start producing ever better products and services for ever collapsing prices.
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Yes; I've sent patches to open source projects before.

When I'm in "accomplish a task using a spreadsheet" or "write a document/prepare a presentation" mode, I'm probably not going to be inclined (nor have time) to go rathole on changing the source to the office application, recompiling, testing, doing my original task, and submitting a patch.
What do the different signon groups mean?

(To any administrator reading this: The contact form doesn't work.)
> Why would anyone subsidize a company just to produce a product that others can easily replicate

Because you, and I think a lot of people, think Tesla is a car company. It's not; Tesla is becoming a battery company and a charging station company. That will make them as big as gas companies, because everyone will be needing both batteries and electricity, even if they need to offload their car business. Tesla will be far bigger than just cars for decades to come, and I think that's where a large part of shareholder trust is coming from.

I mean how many other EV charging networks are active?
You're right and looking at the example again I was completely wrong (shouldn't post without coffee). You can implement merging by writing append (+) in the correct way. As written, the code will always insert a new element every time there is a cons (:).

One way of getting better performance "by default" is to construct lists with constructors for empty list, singletons and append and then adding equations to ensure that the resulting binary tree is balanced.
Laptops Are Great, But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting
It makes no sense. Reservations have to be paid by cards, the money is already laundered if it's sitting behind a card in a bank account.
First line in README is a bit misleading IMO - it implies that this tool has been built as an alternative to Wappalyzer, but it's actually using the Wappalyzer Node module (https://www.npmjs.com/package/wappalyzer). Maybe naming it `wappalyzer-cli` would make more sense.
and maybe Examples at the end)

On a real UNIX like illumos and SmartOS, EXAMPLES are mandatory; I’ve no idea why people believe they may be optional, as they are one of the biggest reasons why someone would call up a manual page. It’s a manual.
This doesn't work on most sites for me :( Nothing seems to be a silver bullet.
Going back to the beginning isn't necessarily a frustrating experience though. It depends on other factors such as how far back you go and how frequently it happens. I personally don't find Crash frustrating or particularly hard.

If you don't play platformers (I do), then perhaps it would be frustrating for you. But.. yes, games have become more accessible than they were in the 90's when Crash was created.
TL;DR higher risk for a chance at higher return or a 100% loss. Fair enough I guess.

There's even more passion / panic investing and selling in cryptocurrencies at the moment. I think both Tesla and crypto are areas where a lot of people think they know a lot about, or are passionate about, and they go for that.
Again - these are not answers. Consider the drives to save the environment by "Not showering! save water" and so on.

Its a non starter.
> there are other opportunities some of them with more definite benefits

I dispute the implication of this -- that there is less certain benefit from fundamental research. There's clear historical evidence that fundamental research has massive societal benefits. We wouldn't have our modern society without it.

It's just that it can only be understood in "statistical terms". If you place bets on fundamental research then in the long term you get big payoffs. It's a bit like investing in the stock market. You can't predict the pay-off for any one particular bit of fundamental research, and its actual pay-off usually isn't obvious in the short-medium term.

From the other direction, there's a lot of claimed definite benefits to more applied work that doesn't actually pan out. Just because it's easier to claim that there's some particular benefit to doing something doesn't mean that benefit actually exists.
It's about ads, not users. Video impressions are way better sources of revenue, and autoplay beefs up the view count artificially.
Some quick comments on this book review from the author of the book:

1. The vision didn't ultimately fail. It lives on in all sorts of ways today -- we just don't recognize it as having come from PLATO.

2. The review seems almost eager to celebrate the demise of PLATO before we get a chance to know what PLATO was.

3. I don't bemoan the failure of teaching machines: if by that the reviewer means Skinner devices.

4. The reviewer calls the book "a worthy addition to the history of computer science" which is misleading -- the book has little to say about computer science, and computer science and computer scientists had very little (nice) to say about PLATO. This is not as book by, for, and about computer science. It's a book about a big slice of American history, a biography of a technology vision as lived through the cast of characters who lived and breathed that vision.

5. The reviewer seemed to miss the whole point of Part II of the book, which is the most interesting and fun third of the book -- how the hacker kids took over PLATO in the 70s and brought forth what I call the "interpersonal computer revolution" before the personal computer revolution even got started. PLATO was the best early example of social computing but you'd never know it reading this NATURE review, which is a shame. I urge folks to check out the book themselves.
Sounds like an attempt at making GM and the other car manufacturers that were bailed out during the crisis not look as bad.
This is a problem in most areas of scientific research. There is no incentive to publish negative results, so no one does.
Summary: It's about cue, routine, reward. You can't change the cue and reward, but you can modify the routine.

Also the reward is often not what you think. Like some people may be alcoholics, the cue might be loneliness and the reward might be sex. It could be a habit started from bars. But later on trigger when someone has had a busy week and not enough company. Or it could continue until someone is deeply inebriated, as long as they don't meet someone. The fix would be changing the routine, like replacing alcohol with Coke, or replacing sex with pornography. Some solutions are not perfect, but behavior change boils down to this.

You can also set up good habits with cue habit reward. Just keep it consistent.
You get the transaction fees. when I said block reward, I was referring to the minted coins.