skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nobody in this world does anything 'by themselves' by any reasonable definition. Satoshi built incredible things on the shoulders of other incredible things, like roads, the internet, computers, etc.
That is not correct. Gold actually has uses in manufacturing all kind of goods. In many manufacturing processes its irreplaceable. It has historical significance that is ingrained in virtually every culture (i.e. everyone grows up thinking gold as valuable thing due to stories you hear as kid). Jewelry made out of gold looks great, doesn't get rusty and you can keep it for centuries without needing any technology. Even if humankind is driven back to stone age, you can probably still count on gold to barter for other valuable goods. Most importantly, despite the humongous efforts over centuries, gold is still as rare as it was thousands of years ago. This inability to produce it out of thin air (unlike dollars or even bitcoins) what makes its usage as currency possible. None of these things you can say for bitcoin or any other currencies. They are just bits floating around in cyberspace.
True but the point isn't to be impressive, but to be scientifically precise.
I'm now seeing cases of non technical people trying this because they heard about it and it's easy. To them, it just unlocks some system preferences thing. Guess what those people are not doing after they try it? 'passwd root' to change the password because in many cases they don't even know what the terminal is.

In this particular case, the ease of validation additionally works against users.
I think the responsible way to handle it is, you inform Apple in a closed way. Once they come up with a fix, if you think they didn’t come up with a fix soon enough, make that information public then on how long it took Apple to turn this around. Disclosing every vulnerability to the internet and setting their ass on fire is not a good way to solve this IMO.
Go to Cap Hill if you want to spend BTC, the east side is pretty well devoid of establishments that take bitcoin.
You mean the USA government? Because they have no legal basis to take action. Rule of law is weird like that.
Heroku or Firebase

Or just spend $5/mo on DigitalOcean.
Heck of way to get free ideas.
One way could be just what the name suggests(not urban dictionary meaning)

Have a random blog post from a list of authors + rev share with the author
I mean really, that's EXACTLY what Satoshi would say.

It's funny though how Satoshi's identity has become sort of a modern day, non-murdering, Jack the Ripper kind of case. Big influential yet anonymous figure, and no one has the slightest clue who it might really be but every few months someone comes up with a new suspect.
I’ve had several FF crashes as well, but to be sure when I opened the same pages in Safari, it crashed as well.
It was easy for early adopters/believers/patient-people comparing with other options. More thinking about people outside US who don't have access to a lot of opportunities at an early stage.
It's good for pseudonymous worldwide transactions. Blockchain analysis software is now a thing, and while costs are high, there are companies that specialize in tracing BTC transactions. [1] It is possible to launder/mix BTC or play a shell game to/from other currencies and wallets and raise analysis costs enough to make it not worthwhile for many adversaries and many targets.

While this may seem pedantic, it is important that people do not rely on BTC transactions for anonymity. Perpetuating this myth may become dangerous for some Bitcoin users.

[1] https://www.chainalysis.com/
That’s absolutely terrible. Does Apple not monitor those forums at all?
I've read this before ... oh wait, you keep posting these examples
You want the bulbs, the tulips are almost worthless.
From net neutrality to digital privacy, Congress does diddly
That is the best comment I’ve seen all year. Bravo.
Yes, and you connected with AOL and used Netscape to search with Yahoo to buy music from CD-Now.
At the present rate that is less than a year. Time to buy some more. /s
Bitcoin might turn out to be one of the markets where free market dynamics work well.

Whose job is it? Anyone who has a stake in trusting and maintaining bitcoin's value. So the rich are incentivized to safeguard the poor in some sense here.
Being against socialism is not violence. The idea that the taxi medallion system was anything but a cartel is very crude. I'm not even sure what kind of person writes these comments that are in stark disagreement to the founding principles of the USA. Authoritarian governments are the exact violence the USA was founded to get away from.
I'm not sure I understand your comment. There seems to be plenty of anti money-laundering laws that would provide a legal basis.
Does this work across regions? Endpoint in a vpc in one region connected to service running in another region...
That was a powerful observation in 1999 when he said it: thousands of times more so now.
Graph.cool has been great for me, and good customer service.

That said, and I'll just say it... GraphQL as a standard is total garbage. What was wrong with existing transport formats (JSON)? Why must I now learn YET ANOTHER query language and schema definition format, much less one with the frailty of a toothpick house with no glue?
> No living person could resist the temptation to talk about their creation of a 100 billion dollar phenomenon.

This is a very strong claim, with precious little evidence. If you think this is impossible, you haven't met enough different kinds of people.
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Not done with it yet but listening to a great audiobook from Audible called Shoe Dog about the founding of Nike. Great story of the tough grind of starting a business. Recommended on the Acquired podcast.
Not that I am aware huge fan of banks. Or crypto currency..a bank absolutely would if it made them money by using that volatility
Blockchain tech will be to the next three decades what the internet was to the last. Crypto is one facet of a very interesting geometry.
yeah, this is correct. iirc it was some sort of "autocomplete open a file" library that was running slowly, mostly because of gc -- disabling gc made that snappy, and i have enough memory that it doesn't really matter if emacs never reclaims it.

i also really don't like having my editor pause to do gc.

(i'm addicted to emacs flexibility, but i would love a better-engineered replacement. maybe xi editor, someday. (though their multiprocess approach seems _insane_ to me, _especially_ in a language that gives you safe shared-memory concurrency!))

here's the necessary incantations, in any case anyone wants to try this at home:

;; never collect.
(setq gc-cons-threshold 10000000000)
(defun garbage-collect (&rest args)
(message "trying to garbage collect. probably you want to quit emacs."))
(setq garbage-collection-messages t)

the message kicks in at 10GB.
This is actually how the public workstations in MIT computer clusters have always worked. The root password is public to anyone with a legit account, but access to it gets you almost nothing because all services including the network filesystem are kerberized, and machines are really good at wiping all local changes upon logout. Some more details here: https://www.quora.com/Are-computer-networks-in-MIT-harder-to...
They could probably make a case against the largest mining pools if they suspect any hint of money laundering. If you control even just two of these pools you effectively control the entire network.
I'm so happy because this means we're one step closer for an Alexa for Pakistan.
Great. I'm none of those things so I'll keep my money out of it.
Why do you have more faith in companies than a government

It seems like companies have been much more on the side of the angels than the government this past year.

They have been a much louder voice for equality and civil liberties.
The ICO Market Is Cooling Down, but Crypto and Blockchain Are Here to Stay
I'm not convinced this is true anymore. My only information source is anecdotal, but I've been amazed at how many non technical people I've talked to lately that know about Bitcoin. Many are even buying little bits on coinbase. Their knowledge doesn't run deep, but it certainly exceeds levels of "never heard of it."
But how much of the code that used to support your 14.4k modem is still used to support your fiber connection today?

It seems likely that the dominant currency of the future will be heavily inspired by Bitcoin--but will it be the same blockchain Bitcoin uses today?

Seems unlikely to me.
> I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

Until recently that was one of the main utilities of Bitcoin and the mainstream community changed the discourse to "reserve of value". BitPay, Coinbase, Xapo et al were created with the idea of transactions.

This is just one of many observations about how people arguments are not consistent.

I think many organizations behind Bitcoin are responsible for delaying relatively simple innovations to make Bitcoin useful for transactions.
Not if you use an economic fee and an accelerator.
The first dot-com boom was so much better than this one. But the upcoming dot-com bust will be much more satisfying than the first one.
I was referring to the time it takes to complete a bitcoin transaction in which confirmation lags significantly behind that of transactions in currencies around the world.

https://blockchain.info/charts/avg-confirmation-time

https://blockchain.info/charts/median-confirmation-time
Not giving Apple credit for LLVM or Webkit is akin to not giving Google credit for Android or Chrome.
Honestly, it's just a mash-up of a few Buddhist ideas and a few math ideas:

You can model what you're doing as a phase space, which is the product space of the state of each thing you control. This generally has a lot more dimensions than three. (You see this in robotics; a 5-axis CNC has a 5 dimensional phase space for position (5 axes of motion), plus a few more dimensions for things like speed and coolant flow.)

That mashed up with the meditation idea of starting with your focus on something really small -- the soles of your feet, for instance -- and drawing it up your body until you can feel all of it.

If you do the two, you can slowly draw yourself into awareness of higher and higher dimensional phase spaces, which shows you a curve of exponential growth.

Well, okay -- I also followed Terry Tao's excellent advice on dealing with higher dimensions, to stop trying to picture math and start trying to find systems that expressed it in what they did. You can often get a feel for a system doing something more complex than what you can directly picture.
Can someone explain to me why bitcoin should be priced so high relative to other cryptocurrencies?

The conspiracy theorist in me wants to say that the best way to undermine trust in cryptocurrencies is to create market turmoil. This would not just undermine trust in cryptocurrency, but serve to embolden the Fed's 'Price Stability' justification.
Works well for aging parents!
The Friedman memo showed they were 1-1 cash/usdt back in September, and they've stated clearly it's institutional money coming in. In fact, that's exactly what I would expect for large buyers trying to spread their purchases across exchanges who don't use USD directly.

"I agree that if no one was able to get fiat in or out of Tether and USDT were still being issued that would be a huge problem. As it stands, however, institutional customers are able to deposit USD to Tether, and this is how USDT is being issued."

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7fsfwl/dail...
I think you're dead on right in what is driving it, but I get the feeling you are suggesting those are poor reasons for the drive. I tend to think they are good reasons. I also don't think greed is always negative, though it certainly can be. However much of the activity in the free market that benefits everyone is, at some level, based on greed.
Can it tell me what caste I'm a part of?
Never heard of Coinbase.com a S12 YCombinator start-up?
> Bitcoin is a fiat currency

Please expand. Which state is forcing people to pay their taxes in Bitcoin, and/or authorizing it as legal tender?
Or emacs. :-)
The true believers really imagine it will replace paper currency.

So there is no need to sell.
Personally, my sell threshold is when my BTC is worth enough (after CG taxes) to pay off my student loans. Given the latest price increases, it's getting very close :)
Comparing tulip bulbs to bitcoin is madness.
A long time ago, when Aluminium was more precious than gold, people made what was considered good looking jewelry out of it: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/05/aluminium-co...
"Its shininess combined with its almost ghostly lightness compared to other metals made it an ideal metal for jewellery and it wasn’t long until the French elite were wearing broaches and buttons made of the aluminium." Aluminium also doesn't get rusty and can be kept for centuries, but nobody makes jewelry out of it any more. Reason: It's not scarce (any more).

The only real thing that makes gold valuable is it's scarcity. If it stopped being scarce because an asteroid containing a lot of gold was brought back to Earth, people would stop valuing gold and stop making jewelry out of it.

Bitcoin has the same important property of scarcity as gold.
Well so far it has none of the taxpayer-subsidized funding as the US currency and banks have--which are very expensive to fund. The 2008 crisis was estimated to cost around $9,000-35,000 per US citizen, even by the Fed itself! For just that one incident...
> “Every 100 km there is language change and in every 30 km the dialect changes,”

This is so true. The term number of languages is a bit inadequate when you talk about India.
Another issue is the high amount of migration between states. People who moved a generation ago from Gujarat to Tamil Nadu speak Tamil with a few Gujarati mannerisms thrown in. I have seen examples of this in my friends and I have seen the vice versa too. A Tamil family living in Gujarat for a couple of decades.
I think Alexa needs to learn the dialect and mannerisms per user. That will be revolutionary.
Yes, this exactly. I've been trying to point this out as much as possible. The key to future success is adoption, and the precursor to adoption is awareness and interest.
x86s were about the most riscy of the cisc processors - 99.9% of instructions that access memory perform an access to a single address, no double indirect accesses no move memory to memory accesses, not 21 TLB misses on a single instruction (meaning a program might have to have enough memory to get all 21 page table pages and the underlying data pages (42 pages) to make progress) - that sort of thing.

The CISC->RISC thing largely happened because the ratio of cpu speeds and memory speeds changed, low end CPUs got caches, they moved on chip, instruction decoding started to be an issue, the x86s were riscy enough that they survived that change
I think that my distribution (Fedora) doesn't do that with the Broadcom drivers, at least in the official distribution. I don't really think that is a great practice for an official distribution.
Development in a vacuum, everyone wants to cash in, disagreements on protocols or languages or politics or people.

I’m a big ham radio nut, and although the premise of the hobby is the advancement of radio technology, everyone’s old, has their own way of doing things, and has reinvented the wheel many times over. Logging programs, DX clusters, remote radio interfaces, APRS programs and apps, satellite trackers, you name it, there’s a dozen versions of everything.

I imagine this is common in technical hobbies.
not really. transparent blockchain
> it's weird to describe [LLVM] as "Apple's"

It's equally weird to describe Android as "Google's".
The only current solution is to leave root enabled and change the password to something strong until this is patched by Apple.

Disabling root re-enables the blank password to root.
That's not an investment. There is no value being generated and nothing is growing. It's speculation.
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There are plenty of billionaires in the world. Are they kidnapped with great frequency?
I'd love to force disclaimers on bitcoin ownership prior to commenters trying to convince us how decentralized currency will change the world and hit $1M eventually.

It's called talking your book, which isn't illegal, but wildly disingenuous. FOMO is why the number keeps going up, these other reasons are window dressing for utter nonsense.
I'd figure at least from the perspective of the JVM and the CLR, you'd have less of an impedance mismatch on a stack machine. And with most compiled languages being conceptually very stack-y, I doubt it would hurt there either.

That, and you could save on instruction bandwidth since the operands could be implicit stack offsets instead of having to be specified in the instruction. (I believe Moore's GreenArray chips packed four instructions to the word.)

It might be a dead-end, or there could be some serious potential that is just being overlooked. Everyone is so accustomed to register machines (CISC or RISC) these days that it may be a while before the idea is reevaluated.

edit: Sorry! Just read this back, and realized I just repeated what you wrote in different words.
The new ticketing technology that may make scalping a thing of the past
You can turn it off IIRC.
Tether is being issued because institutional money is coming in through USDT.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/7fsfwl/dail...
Actually most real RISC CPUs have no microcode, and if they do it's really just the same instruction set running out of an exception handler, not hardwired stuff on some other lower level private ISA
Are you in a major city in North America, Japan, South Korea, China, or Europe?

If so, I don't think you have a truly representative sample.

On the other hand, I still think governments are going to ban it once they understand it. But for now: :D
There is absolutely nothing that would prevent a government outlawing and criminalizing bitcoin at any point in time. With one stroke of a pen government can outlaw owning bitcoins or performing any transactions in bitcoins. I'd say this is bound to happen eventually with certainty because no government would be willing to lose control on currency (especially ability to pull it out of thin air) and thereby the power they exert on economy as well as other nations. You can count on this. So all those scenarios you mentioned are meaningless because any capital you have in bitcoins is bound to evaporate overnight and reduced to zero at the whim of the government.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_currency_law_in_the_Un...

Congress may have the power to prohibit virtual currencies (VCs) under its power “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States”[64] and under its exclusive constitutional power “to coin Money” and “regulate the Value thereof.”[64] In a November 2014 decision, the Court upheld the power of regulators to prosecute a defendant who “designed, created and minted coins called ‘Liberty Dollars,’ coins ‘in resemblance or in similitude’ [or made to look like] of U.S. coins."[65] Although the defendant did not pass the Liberty Dollars currency as a counterfeit, the currency were in close enough “resemblance of coins of the United States or of foreign countries” and consequentially fell under the authority of 18 U.S.C.A. § 486.123 The Court has not decided if § 486 includes the power to prohibit VCs, but if a Court decides that the purpose and intent of VC resembles United States or foreign currency it may fall under § 486. The Stamp Payment Act of 1862 prohibits anyone from “mak[ing], issu[ing], circulat[ing], or pay[ing] out any note, check, memorandum, token, or other obligation for a less sum than $1, intended to circulate as money or to be received or used in lieu of lawful money of the United States.”[66] The Court has not decided if Congress has the power to prohibit VCs under this Act or any other existing regulation or statute.
And he also said the following:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPr4aSpX4AEut2d?format=jpg
Does Graphcool have mobile sync clients? That seems like a big differentiator, and puts AWS AppSync up against other cloud-backed storage vendors like Realm and Couchbase. A sync client backed by GraphQL is just icing on the cake, offering much more flexibility on the backend.
You mean if journalist’s versions of research come to fuition?

Those breakthroughs, when applied to scaled up battery manufacturing give us the 5%-10% compounding annual improvement we see. A doubling at least every 15 years is pretty good!
I'm not so sure. If Apple came out tomorrow and said "no more battery swaps, ever," they'd have a consumer advantage over Samsung and Google phones.
Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for the clarification.

Yes, it did look like a bug to me because I didn't expect clouds to act like that in what I took to be a simulation of the real world.
Had to write my first and last name, date, and class on the top right corner of every assignment since first grade. This made learning my last name (way too long!) a routine thing. Was a boon as an ESL student.

Then again, private school so YMMV.
I read a few good books this year, all of them non-fiction. Some that come to mind are:

"Worldviews - An Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science" by Richard DeWitt. Instead of doing a history-only or philosophy-only take on the topic, I really enjoyed how DeWitt meshed these two viewpoints and examined how they inter-played with each other. It overthrew forever my image of the ancients as a group of irrational, superstitious people who believed in such funny notions as the Sun and the planets orbiting the Earth. DeWitt nicely explains how given the data that they had, their conclusions were very much rational. For example, it's very difficult to imagine from our everyday experience that earth could be orbiting the Sun at a speed of some 30 km/sec.

"A History of the World" by Andrew Marr. I find history a simultaneously fascinating and frustrating subject. Fascinating, because a good knowledge of history makes the present day world seem a lot more meaningful and un-arbitrary. Frustrating, because it's difficult to find a history book that's not just a list of facts and dates. Marr's work walks us through history via vivid portrayals of interesting personalities and events. I found the accompanying documentary series equally interesting as well.

"The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Stoic Philosophy as Rational and Cognitive Psychotherapy" by Donald Robertson. This book examines the common grounds between stoic (and to far lesser extent, Buddhist) philosophies and modern cognitive behavioral therapy. It also lists some of the tools in the stoic's tool-chest to tackle common anxieties and worries about life. The nice thing about this book is that it teaches you to treat philosophy as a method of self-therapy, which immediately opens up an ancient fund of literature to tackle day to day problems.
This is an interesting topic.

I too thought most of this "throw paint onto a canvas and charge rich suckers thousands of dollars" is bullshit. But after seeing some Picassos IIRC, I realized, yes there is a method to the madness.

Even if the painting wasn't displayed in a fancy museum, I think I would still have thought it was "special".

But those "artists" that pour paint onto the canvas - complete bullshit.

If a five year old can do it - it's not art except to the parents of those "artists"
It is here in NZ. If I got to the doctor they'll tell me my options. Price is often something to consider. We have a "Free" health system for many things. But if I want anything done without waiting for years I'll probably have to go private if I do I'll find out the price before getting the service. They also often push you to the lowest level of treatment possible.
Is IAM not sufficient for separating things within an organization?