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Do you mean that if the value of bitcoin goes too low, nobody is going to mine because it won't be worth it vis a vis of the difficulty? If fees are too high nobody will use the system as well.

But then the value would go low enough that the fees wouldn't be that bad and miners would probably still get their worth from it. It would be a strange blockchain though :/
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Previously you could only specify class names and interfaces, now you can specify object (any object of any class, including StdClass). Mostly only a way to type hint "not array or any scalars". The class names has been around a while and is usually way more useful.
to varying degree, syntax matters. (for better or worse.) the nice thing is that the semantics of ocaml haven't been changed by reasonml.
That might very well be true - as blockchain these days can mean just about anything related to cryptography.
You can print out private keys (and passwords, etc) and put them in Trust. If you are feeling paranoid that you can't trust your Trustees, you can use something like Shamir's Secret Sharing algorithm [1] to give individual Trustees only a portion of the private keys (or passwords, etc).

I explored at one point if there was a market for an app to automate that last part, but so far such noodling keeps winding up at a less generally useful Keybase.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamir%27s_Secret_Sharing
The title of the post should be modified to say "KVM switch".
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Not quite what you asked: https://github.com/minimaxir/get-all-hacker-news-submissions... source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14337275

search related: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=bigquery-public-data:hacker_ne...

found:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14580698 (New HN data dump available with over 14.5m entries) 7.3GB through 2017Jun)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10440502 (Tell HN: Full Hacker News dataset now available on BigQuery)
The key is information. One glance at it, by the wrong person, and it becomes worthless.
I just. don't. get. it.

All of this home automation and internet of things hype is going to end in tears. Computers are just. not. secure. They're not even necessary in these applications. I don't want tech that includes massive amounts of software doing the job of simple things. It just is not necessary. I'll walk over to the lightswitch and turn the lights on. I'll set the thermostat and use its old-school timers to save energy. I don't need it internet-enabled (and hackable). I don't need WiFi-enabled smoke alarms--especially if they have a damn microphone inside! (and yes, Nest smoke alarms have a microphone built-in for self-testing!?) I don't want to talk to Google or Amazon and ask them questions. I just don't need their services, and I sure as hell don't want them listening all the time. We seem to be in some kind of insane tech bubble where we need to put gluttonous software literally everywhere, often for nebulous gains. And if you aren't scared by pervasive surveillance, fine. Just imagine Russian script kiddies chuckling over your miserable sex lives. Or imagine how well your stupid internet-enabled doors and teddy bears will work in a cyberwar with Russia.

I leave my smartphone at home these days. Partly because I know what it is doing, and partly because I don't know what it is doing. Partly because I just want my old life back. I take walks and see cool things without needing to tweet about it or even take pictures. I am trying to get away from this madness.

(But here I am on hackernews, being a Luddite, oi.)

[edit: maybe my fears of downvoting were overblown.]
I'm not entirely sure. Yes, you need a mountain of data to train a system very well to be flexible. However, once that training is done, you absolutely do not need 'cloud' resources whatsoever. You could run an already-trained NN of any sort on an embedded processor running on tiny batteries. They require extremely little processing to actually push some input through the network and get the output. The only reason we continue to send all of our data to cloud companies to have the speech recognition performed there is because those companies have perverse incentives to snoop and spy and profile and target aggressively.

Technically speaking, all of these 'voice assistants' and the like would be far better products if they hosted a local pre-trained network that did all of the recognition. Latency is the biggest challenge to these systems, and that simply will never be solved so long as the recognition happens on a server miles away from where the user is speaking. The speed of light, at a minimum, comes into play.

What would be very interesting would be if there was a development of a continuously learning system which actually performs better training itself to recognize one or a few users voices without the burden of carrying the weights necessary to also recognize the voices of people with accents on the other side of the planet from anyone who will ever be within earshot of it. That would be an even more overt and active disincentive to sending all your data away "for speech recognition" (the spying is a fringe benefit!) and sitting around waiting for the cloud to get back to you.... and I imagine we'd see it ignored.

The limitations today aren't technical, they're organizational and business oriented. And those things don't generally change in concert with technical changes.
How do you "just remote in" with no (working) OS?
Pocket oscilloscope/multimeter
I see your point but my approach in general is to enable all these things by default, because otherwise many users will not know it's even there, same for example for auto-updates (which privacy conscious users often don't want).

And I assume that users who care about this will find out how to disable it. I realise it's not ideal - perhaps a better way is to ask the first time the app starts, like what VLC is doing (however this has the drawback of an extra popup on startup).
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The C++ runtime is too big for the kernel. It is also largely unnecessary. You can easily compile C++ code without STL or larger library support.

This still leaves some holes that the runtime provides, but all of which are easy to provide -- namely things like 'new' and 'delete'.
Well, in this case "Amazon" is actually a team of people.
It would be impossible for me to re-record every single video using AWS as the dev environment...I have thousands.
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I'd wager that it worked very well in many circumstances.

A submarine attack run is extraordinarily mentally demanding for the captain. Every second the periscope is raised increases your chance of being detected, because the wake from the periscope reveals your position and heading. WWI and WWII submarine captains would have been performing complex mental arithmetic to plot the range and heading of surface ships, based on the briefest possible glimpses through the periscope. Sonar was used in both conflicts, but it gave only vague information that needed to be confirmed visually.

Dazzle camouflage would have been worth using if it caused only a hint of confusion. The image through a periscope is already difficult to interpret due to the movement of both vessels and the effects of waves and sea spray; dazzle camouflage added another layer of visual confusion. Forcing a submarine captain to raise the periscope again to double-check a heading or creating a small error in his estimations could have been the difference between life and death.

If you're interested, I can highly recommend this documentary by the BBC on the Royal Navy's Submarine Command Course. It gives a vivid impression of the immense stress experienced by the captain, even during a benign training mission.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1wr8J-edbo
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So what, solve it by creating a sales tax on the blockchain? I can't imagine that would be adopted - how would you prove that any taxes on any one transaction is due to a specific authority?
I’m convinced people are searching for it. I’m convinced there’s a huge nouveau academic interest in this area. This just helps to estimate likelihood of bitcoin’s longevity.

Yes, precisely, you always need buyers to push price further. Market decides up or down, miners play along as it makes sense to them. Kind of like the swap over to bcash about a month ago, because it made sense financially.
Leave it to HN to poop on even the coolest of projects.

"What? This tiny DIY rocket that can go all the way to Mars on a liter of hydrogen didn't use a space elevator? Disappointing."
It's all really cool that you design and build your own NICs. They are probably awesome tech designed by really smart people.

But how many hundreds of millions of lines of code are on these systems, roughly? Ballpark estimate.
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Of course it's important to always keep the "Iron Law" in mind, but it's far easier to compare ideas and talk about things in terms of IPC. For example, if a switch out one branch predictor for another, we're talking about an algorithmic change (implemented in hw) that will have an effect on IPC, and no effect on clock period (assuming we didn't screw something up).

This is particularly useful when talking about a processor design, and not a specific processor in particular. As you said, there's a lot of good about slower clock frequencies, so you'll see the same ARM design being deployed at a variety of frequencies. Far easier to talk separately about a design's IPC from its achievable clock frequency (although both are important!).
With "flask", "python", and "feed" the NLP is assuming you are some kind of alcoholic snake wrangler?
I think they believe in total automation within a few years, rather than the realistic decades.
Apparently Code Envy is about to be snatched up by RedHat! All these companies are being bought up!
Since linux also fundamentally has non-deterministic timing, which makes it incapable of doing what people want microcontrollers to do, you can replace C5 galaxy transport aircraft with a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. It can't even get to your corner store without converting the street into a canal.
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I believe Uber was hacked years ago and knew about it yet did nothing but blame it's users for using a bad password.

Case in point in 2014 1K was stolen from my bank account via my Uber account for a ride in London(im in DC). I searched Twitter and saw 10 to 20 ppl a day complaining about the same thing.
The standard tooling `vmadm` in SmartOS will leave logadm residues that will spam your notifications it's been an unfixed bug for multiple years.

So let's get this straight: when Linux zealots 15-20 years ago answered "you have the source! Fix it yourself!" that was okay, but when it comes to SmartOS, it's out of the question?

Sure, but it's not well documented the tooling

Read. The. Manual. Pages. It's a real UNIX and that means high quality documentation! No "Stack Overflow" vomit!

The actual killer:
Documentation.

Repeat after me: I will read the manual pages. There was just a discussion on this subject recently here.

b) an old oracle/sun/joyent consultant

so old Solaris guys are no good?

At least the complexity of Linux is visible, and you can find a solution somewhere.

Linux has incredible kludges and brokenness under the hood, it's just that one needs to be an old UNIX guy to understand just how much of garbage "solutions" places like "Stack Overflow" offer.

Rather than having to find a consultant that guards that solution with his life.

I've always been happy to teach all that I know about UNIX and never had a complaint or heard an unkind word about my teaching efforts, on the contrary. Find yourself a mentor. "Stack Overflow" isn't one and could never substitute one.
What is your learning level and dominant modality? What is your background?
That is true for one meaning of blockchain - what I observe is that blockchain became a great case of a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_signifier In particular most of the 'serious' business people don't really mean a distributed system that anyone can join at any time - but rather a closed system, a permissioned blockchain, basically a database with authoritative local copies.
Jesus that author has a real attitude problem.
And rightly so, since the rest of it was a bizarre analogy comparing envelopes to cryptographic hashes that ultimately served no discernible purpose
It would never be that straightforward.
>Their revenue is growing which is still wild despite bad press.

Not really. The revenue for a company selling dollar bills for 80c each will keep increasing until all the cash is gone as well.
That's a good point. I've seen my captioning be WAY off from what I actually said.

But when I request a manual review the videos do seem to get monetized again within a few days... Even with less than 1000 views.
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It's free. You only pay for the computing of the EC2 instance.
Udemy does a lot of advertising.
But is "mini-tablet with a usable keyboard" really that odd of a device format these days? On Black Friday, I could have picked up something matching that description at a superstore for less than a C-note. It wouldn't have had the Psion lineage or perhaps not the build quality, but at the price point this device is going for, I don't really see the appeal unless that lineage really means that much to you.
I've dabbled with c9 before Amazon ingested them. It's part of my experiment to see if I can use ChromeOS for my home machine, and so far it's going great. At work I have a 64GB machine with 3 monitors and Ergodox, but for home I don't need a lot.

I've been able to get ChromeOS to do OpenVPN and SSH, which cover 90% of work responsibilities from home. Otherwise, I'm mostly in a browser, or SSHing to my personal EC2 box. I don't get much programming time lately, but that is the remainder of it, largely on github. So c9 is something I need to investigate more.

So far ChromeOS is working great, and is far easier to maintain than Linux or Windows. It is less capable in some ways, but I don't really need those ways at home.
> vs a legitimate cryptocurrency

Is there such a thing?
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Ecash has privacy.
Yes - Excel is deeply embedded in actuarial modelling.
> He is a great friend, and I wish we didn't live on opposite sides of the world

Dude are you like 5 or something? you can’t be friends with someone on the other side of the world.

Sometimes you can’t even be friends with somebody living in the same room.
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>Increased competition.

Maybe I'm weird, but:

1) I don't even look at what the price of lyft is. So they could up the price by a significant percentage I wouldn't even notice.

2) Even if Uber was more expensive than lyft, I would almost definitely still take uber.
I think a more apt analogy would be all the nonsense web 1.0 companies that got tons of investment from people not savvy enough to understand what they were doing. Much like all the tech nerds who think they are great currency traders because they are riding a lucky streak.
Imagine your employer becoming bankrupt well before today, due to that contract...
There's a difference between using such messaging apps in a private vs a business context. Plus, this is civil litigation, where the standard of proof is much weaker, and the absence of exculpatory evidence can and will be used against a party.
What is a dominant modality?
Right now, the stock market is hitting all time high's just on the idea of a tax cut. Is it possible that it's investor's faults? They propel the market too high on tax cuts, and then it corrects in a crash?
Also Dazzle Ships by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark is an excellent record.
Joe Taylor played a tape just like this one at the dinner I attended.
Your getting downvoted, but you are kind-of correct. Even if it isn't actually written in C++, there is a lot of "OO-style" code in the kernel that does things like dynamic disoatch using VTables...basically making explicit what C++ is going to do behind the scenes for you anyways.

I can see the argument from Linus' POV about avoiding over abstraction, and knowing exactly what your code is doing on a low-level, but at the same time it leads to a lot of reinventing the wheel and makes me think there is a better balance to be found.

https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/

https://lwn.net/Articles/446317/
Aside from macros, keyboard shortcuts, and .xlsx files, why else would someone be compelled to stick with Excel?

Seems like the rest of the tabular data stuff could be done in Google Sheets or some other product and yield the same results.
I was under the impression that underconsumption was basically a discredited theory of what caused The Great Depression.
In the long run, I think driving Ferraris would get old much quicker than writing file systems, so yes, I tend to agreee, but in the short run, I doubt it.. Hell, park a Ferrari in my drive way and I would abandon my customers here for at least 3 days.. :D ... But thats just me..
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It doesn't matter as much what he got for his money, as where it goes from there. The question is whether the money has a faster path to productivity via the sex worker or drug dealer than it would via a hedge fund manager. And that is not an easy economic question to answer, all moralizing aside.
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correct, as seen by the successful anti competitive lawsuits against Google in the European Union.
Terrible idea. When a unique identifier is necessary, it should be minted for that purpose and only for that purpose. There is absolutely no reason, and substantial disincentive, to create any singular identifier that could ever be cross-referenced across disparate organizations/systems/etc. No, you really don't need to be able to find out exactly who voted for your party in the last election and has an income over 6 figures, nor do you need to know how many cancer survivors choose Budweiser. If what you actually need to make sure the person closing an account is the same as the one who opened it, then that is absolutely the only fact which that identifier should be capable of ever being used for.
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They were complying with strict AML/KYC laws that essentially require them to ask for this information.
Both components of your claim are dubious.

> things that enable those currently in power to remain in power they do well

1. It's unclear to me how most of our military hardware is in any way even closely related to "enabling those currently in power to remain in power", perhaps aside from functioning as PC jobs programs. Super impressive engineering, but it's not really clear to me why most of it is particularly necessary.

2. Then I guess maybe we should vote for people who run effective services.

> Things that help the average citizen, most definitely not.

My local government has a system that allows you to reserve park space. I can also look up hours for rec centers on the city website. Those things are helpful to me, the average citizen, and definitely work well.
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Enabling archiving will also enable full-text search for your bookmarks.
How does it work?

Each time you save a bookmark, or put something on your toread list, Pinboard will crawl the URL and store a permanent copy of the page to your account.

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Not that I'm an economist, but there's more of an intuitive link between tax cuts -> profits -> stock market gains than there is between tax cuts -> ... -> underconsumption -> Great Depression.

Edit: Although after reading a bit more about this, it seems like you're on to part of the Keynesian explanation in which tax cuts are only partially responsible but goes something like tax cuts -> profits -> stock market gains -> overinvestment -> overproduction & underconsumption -> Great Depression. Although there are definitely some factors I left out there that have to do with their explanation for why it was the Great Depression that time around and not just a more typical recession, which they attribute to the same cycle which is supposedly inherent in capitalism without government intervention.
Google Sheets kinda sucks performance-wise though
A local speed-dating event. 15 years together this upcoming February, and we have a middle-school age daughter who is a joy (I thought they were supposed to be challenging at this age?).
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This was hearsay from a secondhand source so I can't opine as to whether the interpretation was accurate.

However there are obviously large cultural, economic, security and other logistical issues that would be caused by completely opening up national borders -- we're certainly no longer in the era before WWI when nobody needed a passport. The classroom certainly sounds like a legitimate place to bring up these rather mainstream viewpoints.

Did some research and it does seem like there are both student- and teacher-led protests that are crossing the line into unreasonableness (from my perspective), e.g. protests against a humanities class for being too Eurocentric [1], or student demands for a Jewish professor to be fired because he publicly disagrees with a 'Day of Absence' event that asks for white students and faculty to stay off campus [2].

Then there's the promulgation of microaggression theory on campuses, which seems perfectly tailored to encourage all students to view every statement in the least charitable light[3] and to search for possible racism, sexism, or other possible -isms.

The fact that some people on the left are acting in a way where any disagreement with some interpretation of 'progressive' ideals automatically leads to accusations of racism is alarming, and is exactly the sort of prejudice (in the literal definition of the word) that I think fellow liberals should rally against.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/09/11/reed-college-...

[2] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/30/escalating-de...
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[3] https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/09/the-ris...
Welcome to technology? If you decide to dabble in this industry then you MUST assume what you do will be outdated in a week - Bitcoin is changing on an HOURLY basis.

It moves fast, very fast, faster than any other industry on the planet, technology is extremely new, and as such, will change frequently.
I agree, but those cars and the attention is just so tempting. And then in Thailand. Imagine kite surfing, drinks, anything you want for small cash. Hell, you could even contract someone to write that damn file system people are whining about.
It doesn't seem quite that similar. They're not as on board with some of the same culture war absurdities as HuffPo.
People have been saying this ever since Bitcoin was invented.

But has it been proven true?

It seems like for all this big talk about how the government is all powerful, a whole lot of people have been able to get away with a lot of stuff.

This also isn't just about the US. This is about other countries as well. Venezuelans have been using Bitcoin very effectively to get around government oppression and capital controls, for example.