skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or it was neither a brilliant nor a hair-brained move and was a reasonably calculated risk which paid off likely due to a mix of luck and prescience? There were many reasonable, intelligent people out there who weren't blinded by the anarchy/libertarian hype and yet still speculated Bitcoin's price would skyrocket based on rational predictions and bets.

The fact that these guys were partly on the ground floor for the rise of one of the most influential tech companies in the world and very much on the ground floor for one of the (so far) highest ROI assets and biggest technological advances (practical blockchain, consensus, and cryptocurrency tech; not Bitcoin in particular) of the past 50 years shows that at the very least they're probably not bozo meatheads in the way Sorkin and Fincher portrayed them (as entertaining as the movie was).
From what I understand, the attacks miners can perform can be easily detected by the actually decentralised full nodes. Once detected, these miners can be removed. So yeah, this part of bitcoin still requires some human politics, but it is fairly minimal.

People are trying to figure out how to make mining less centralised. None of these growing pains are some kind of fundamental flaw that cannot be overcome.
About three years ago, I decided that I was going to build my own browser from scratch, and I thought it would be really easy to implement as long as I strictly followed the web standards.

Within a few minutes, I got stuck with the fact that I could not get any performance out of even a simple attempt at a CSS engine.

After about three days of mucking with that, I gave up on the project, and gained a lot more respect for Mozilla.
It's not that simple. Bankruptcy or foreclosure ruins your credit and you have still to live somewhere.
The policy of only supporting two releases + LTS predates having a paid person handling releases.

Source: before we hired Tim, I was doing most of the releases.
even if you could draw the line and somehow say Apple was doing something "more evil" than normal tax avoidance, what's the point in petitioning the corporation to stop doing that? A corporation is sort of a money-hungry optimization machine without a soul and the outcome you get with it depends on the environment it exists in, as a matter of mechanical logic.

Simple: brand value. Apple likes to be associated with: privacy, green, etc. If their brand gets associated with greed and tax evasion, their brand devalues (at least in Europe), possibly leading to fewer sales.

For a company that that sells with high margins, like Apple, reputation is extremely important.
There size of the government won't change. So this argument must be shorthand for something else? What is that something else?
I agree, and this is not to mention that a lot of the companies funding Mozilla that may love not to pay them, but they have to because there is a viable independent company that provides a browser.

I am glad that Mozilla exists, and I was glad that they existed even when I used Chrome (pre Firefox Quantum).
It's more complex than that. There needs also to be a consensus to remove a block of the chain.

Without consensus, the best-case scenario would be that it results in a fork.
By comparison, the UK has over 11 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity...
What do you mean by that statement? Are you suggesting voter fraud doesn't exist?
It does happen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemolytic_disease_of_the_newbo...
Yeah that's right, you're correct.
Take a look at machines like the HyperCube which are attempts at a generic CNC machine with swappable tools/print heads.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1752766
If only ms would just make their software available cross platform.
Disposable income is disposable income regardless of whether it comes from wages or income redistribution. If minimum wages are artificially fixed higher than the value of labor then those workers won't get any wages at all.
I can see the flip side on this too though - the user action is pretty universal in apps, and it's disruptive when 9 out of 10 apps use this and you're trying to get fresh data out of app #10. There should be some consistency in user expectations across apps, or a clear way of performing the same action.

That being said, I agree with you and really like that FF doesn't have a motion for refresh. It's mildly annoying sometimes, but usually it's only on sites very clearly constructed around the mechanism which have no other way of refreshing the page without going somewhere else first. HN is convenient enough on mobile with FF because you can just tap on the HN Title to refresh the page. Other pages are not as kind.
that was my first thought too, satoshi is if memory serves worth around 11 billion now so even if the reality is that he is a few people theyre all probably billionaires
It exists but is (currently) so rare that most of the solutions create far more problems than the actual problem itself.
Maybe pay each person the same rate they earn in their day job.
If you do need supervisord, a (from my experience) suitable alternative is circusd. Though I’ve since moved to having either the operating system’s process manager (usually systemd anymore) or docker become my process manager.
Well you could also fork Chromium I guess.
Yeah, I'm a heavy Firefox for Android user and I _really_ want to use it but the performance is really rough. I wish I had the sort of skills to help contribute to performance, but the whole thing is so huge I wouldn't even know where to begin.

At this point if Chrome implemented the "open tab in background" feature (when I click on a link in an e-mail I don't want to switch directly to the browser) I would probably switch back.
This isn't a new idea at all. It's just getting a lot of publicity.
Free, universal, automatic ID would totally be the technically-correct-is-the-best-kind-of-correct answer. Which is to say, it's wrong, because the issue is not "voter fraud", the issue is "voters who aren't conservative," because when one erects barriers to voting, conservatives (who tend to be white and more affluent, as a rule, in the areas where these shenanigans are going on) will turn out and everybody else won't.

A politician who campaigns for that will be beset upon by the right wing as it heaves into a fit over they're spying on us, they're trying to track us. Because in actually solving the nonexistent problem, they threaten the true reason for the problem being posed.
Community might have, but industry hasn't. You're right, the dust has settled. If you haven't migrated to Python 3 yet, you likely never will. All the reasons to use 2 or 3 have already been established. I doubt there will be any more new information that will sway people from the stance they've already taken.
You do know you're quoting an American left-wing comedy show host, right? It's a great quote, but it's not exactly a good argument.

I think you can definitely get correct and incorrect facts, but doesn't it break down when insults at one group are allowed, but insults at the other group aren't? That seems like just being an asshole.

And from what I can tell, both of your political parties are in full science denial. Republicans deny climate change, and Democrats deny XY chromosomes determining sex. Well, "not all Democrats" and "not all Republicans", obviously.
https://library.seg.org/doi/abs/10.1190/segam2016-13947186.1
> Once a judge catches a lawyer in a lie the judge will question everything the lawyer says.

Not a lawyer, but isn't is taken for granted that lawyers (along with everybody else) are lying in courts and that it's the jurors and judge's job to find out who is lying?
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Roger Ver is also a Bitcoin multi Billionaire.
Western Europe consists of modern welfare states. This is the model that we, Europeans, chose democratically over the span of decades or even centuries. In a welfare state, people and companies that are better off pay (more) taxes to support welfare, education, infrastructure, etc.

Apple doesn't get to decide for us what our collective moral values are. If they don't like them, they should stop doing business in Europe. Otherwise, they should just pay their dues like nearly every person and small/midsize company in Europe does. Since Europe is a hugely profitable market, this is the better option for them.
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I feel like there's a golden opportunity here to have things like Firefox be broken up into more independent parts.

We've already seen this in the JS engine space, though it's still pretty hard to integrate alternate JS engines into browsers. Having more and more of the app broken up makes it _much_ easier for contributors to come in and for work to be shared.

We don't all need to write our own implementations of CSS style sharing, even if higher level strategies are different.
This is just getting more bonkers. I just reported on data.. inference is mostly on your end, and as I showed, incorrect.

1. Value: Your census data shows PhDs have a high $ value. Data shows your supposition is wrong: the gov already underpays for PhD-candidate-caliber labor relative to market by 2-3X.

2+3. What if + data: Dropouts have resume stigma, so I'm not sure why that measures what you want. For the "phd or industry?" decision facing BS grads, you can do a back-of-envelope in < 3 minutes. Arbitrarily, I picked Cornell 2010 BS grads, where students chose between a ~$75K salary vs going to a top 10 MS/PhD: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/undergrad/cscareers/placementrepo... . Berkeley falls in that bucket, with stipends being around $30K and MS/PhDs earning ~$105K. Assuming a ~5% annual bonus, 2yr MS and 5yr PhD... MS students out-earn everyone within 7 years, and it takes 20 years for a PhD to start to catch up to a BS, and with a low salary for some of their best years. For fun, also read up on impacts for things like having children. Professors explicitly tell students not to do a PhD for money because of the opportunity cost. HN friendly is ex-Harvard Matt Walsh.

The rest of your comment continues to be bogus:

-- There's underpaid, and there's systemically eating the seed corn.

-- If you're against using the tax code to incentivize behavior... this change without a compensating increase in R&D funding means Republicans are using the tax code to disincentivize American R&D

-- Previous generations, according to _data_, paid way less for their opportunities: https://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21567373-americ... . The trend has been getting even worse since the 90s, as is worsening R&D funding, which is curiously correlated with anti-intellectualism in the Republican party.

-- Students are doing it for charity and thus can take more cuts? As a fun example, UCSF, a top medical program (as in, actively solving cancer), can no longer provide subsidized housing for its PhDs, and has been losing its ability to enroll top students. Squeezing them further will have predictable results.

The one argument I'd agree to, and you aren't using, is that administration costs are increasing. However, cutting grad student wages is evil. It sets fire to seed corn instead of the administrators, so we know who'll burn first.
awesome. hopefully your creditcard isn't on file for the renewals :-) . we'd love to hear about any bugs- chris at securitytrails.com
Without seeing how many failed investments they’ve made that’s not really a fair assumption.
I was thinking an AR display with everyone’s LinkedIn profile details super imposed on top of them
5. Has other equally or more cable alternatives in python3. Eg there's no reason to use python-ldap when you have ldap3.
It's not weird that an elected official wants to advance their agenda. What's weird is that precinct judge is an elected position in Philadelphia.
Correct. You'd need the private keys to take someone's coins. You could still double spend though.
mozillia research is sort of doing it with gecko.

But yeah, from scratch is hard... Google didn't even do that, they started from webkit.
I have a place not too far from Cle Elum, and while I don’t recall the city that well, the windmills are built on fairly bland farm land are they not? i.e. it’s not like they built on the mountain range itself.

I visited the Wild Horse wind farm, and the turbines were on fairly nondescript terrain, if anything enhancing it. I think this is unlike, say, the Palouse area (a few hours east) or the Lake District in the UK, where farms are being erected on particularly beautiful countryside.

Of course it quickly becomes very subjective.

You wouldn't happen to be involved in the MSFT data center business?
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I loved philosophy when I was in high school (Italy, 20+ years ago). I'd love to rediscover it, but in a hopefully exciting way. In other words, I am not looking for a long, boring, heavy book on philosopher X, but rather something fresh and interesting... Ideally, a SINGLE book that covers philosophy in its entirety. Any good suggestions or ideas?
Could you please not use all caps for emphasis? It's basically yelling, and the site guidelines specifically ask you not to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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>"If paypal wanted to ban my account they would do it already. Must be secure to store all my money there then".

Why wait for a longer chain? What do they stand to gain? Act now and secure control. If the network is a vulnerable as you say, why has China not made their move? They control a majority of miners, they control their country completely and even manipulate their traditional currency to stay competitive economically, why would they not seize control over the network before it the US govt. becomes interested in protecting it?

>"The 4th chart is actually the official hashrate distribution from https://blockchain.info/pools"

Right, but pool membership is voluntary. If a pool doesn't act in support of its miners then the miners will go elsewhere. Pools are like political parties, centralized in appearance, but if you ask the members of a party what they think you quickly see that they never agree on everything.

>I never said they are operated by the gov, __they are under its authority__. Because that's how govs worked for ages.

Which is the crux of the issue. As long as the Chinese person running the miner can point their miner at a different pool or switch software then the government does not control the miners. I'm not current on the state of Chinese political affairs, but I was under the impression that they are not that authoritarian. Knowing that, you cannot count all those pools as agents of the Chinese govt. and can't make an argument that they are centralized. Just because their best financial interests align currently does not mean they will be aligned in the future. In my estimation, the Chinese govt. is losing its grip on the Chinese economy, which leads me to believe that in the future the contral govt. will have even less ability to manipulate like they do now.

>"We would just change PoW". "We would just cut off China from Internet". Just do a thought experiment - those are not solutions

Except the "cut China off from the internet" is feasible, see this paper on the impact BGP hijacking could have on the network: https://btc-hijack.ethz.ch/. By your definition, nothing is a solution until implemented, which I think is a bit silly.

Of course we couldn't completely separate the Chinese miners from the wider Internet, but we could make any attacks on the wider network so hard to achive that the electricity they would waste trying to attack us would cost them more than being a good cryptocitizen would make them.

But then again, this is just an artifact of democracy when you replace citizens with CPUs. If more miners support one chain, that is the legitimate chain. That's what's outlined in the Bitcoin paper. This seems more like a political issue than a technological one.
Wasn't it just released for Android and iOS? (I get that that might not be what you meant...)
I think the reasonable middleground for most Python devs right now: if a medium or large project already written in Python 2 is working well, you can keep it as is, but new projects should be written in Python 3. That unfortunately isn't an option for many people in corporate and other bureaucratic environments, but when it is an option there's no reason not to do so.
Stop. Equating. Hashrate. With. Network. Control. Hashrate barely matters. The influence these Chinese miners have is next to nil. Them having hashrate doens't mean they get to decide on anything meaningful, it just means they get to reap the economics benefits of transaction minting.

If they tried to exploit their 'power' in any way, people would just fork the chain and move on. They have no ability to actually take advantage of their position in any meaningful way.
Folks, the word is spelled harebrained.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15835430 and marked it off-topic.
I don't get all this anger towards "Apple". Ultimately, this and other recent bugs are human errors and we all make mistakes in our work - most likely due to a lack of time to do their job properly. I think that is the real issue.
Commodore Amiga computers were a type of computer that was around from the mid 80s to the mid 90s. They had their own custom hardware and operating system. After Commodore went bust, some of the fans of the Amiga platform didn't want to see it die, so they started various hardware and software projects. AROS is one of the projects started around that time (started in 1995 if I recall correctly). AROS is an open-source operating system that closely follows the design of the operating system of the Amiga. Icaros is the flagship distro for AROS.
End the blockchain patriarchy! We need more pink hashes.

Red hashes no! Pink hashes yes!
Look no further! I would bet a year’s worth of pay this is the book you’re looking for:

The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0671739166/

It’s by Will Durant, who wrote some of the most exceptional works of the 20th century regarding history, philosophy, and the meaning of human civilization.
How long I wonder before we reach the top of this particular bubble.

If anything, this story is likely to perpetuate the bull market in Crypto for a while longer. We'll probably get more stories of the most unlikely bitcoin billionaires over the next few months which will just add more fuel to the fire.

My guess is that some sort of action by financial regulators will cause the bubble to burst, but quite when that happens who knows. In the meantime, its going to be fascinating to see how it develops. Its history in the making, a case study for the future.
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It doesn’t make sense to use the current price for something that happened several years ago when the price was much lower.
I expect swiping down to take me to the top of the page. It's frustrating when it does more (like reloading the page). I guess I'm the wrong person to ask whether 9/10 apps do it; I usually find a replacement when they do.

Firefox, Pale Moon, and Chrome all have a refresh command in the "3 dots" menu. I usually use that.
I'm surprised this hasn't spread more in the traditional news. It's affecting almost everybody that has an iphone which is half the population. I had to tell many of my friends that were cursing over crashing phones. Is it that they don't want to be seen as fist line support for apple?
The joke is tired, but there may be a germ of an idea there. Maybe various SLA metrics could be added in a standardized way.
And this is not much different from pretty much all other business schools with any much big name.
I'm Russian, from a top 1% family in Russia. I studied in an average college in Canada on my own volition, against wishes of my clueless parents who wanted to bang big money away on a business school. It took a lot of efforts for me to convince them that "big name business school" is a waste of money if you go there for actual skills and knowledge in the best case, and a disaster when you simply gave money away to small time fraudsters in the worst.

I personally know two other Russians few years older than me who went for Harvard MBA, and now spill bitter tears for spending a big portion of their family fortune for, at best, laughably mediocre education for such price.

And even in the mid-tier college I was going to, I saw that very few people who were getting not even a scholarship, but a "income supplement stipend," usually given to low income students, being given to another Russian guy who was always dressed expensively and casually wore $2000 watch and few other surprisingly well off people.

I instantly understood that they do it in anticipation that if this guy will work in his father's company and earn big buck, they can proudly put his testament and his salary on their graduate outcomes statistics.
I know first hand that Mozilla is a highly competent organization, but it not an organization capable of keeping a nefarious secret :)

Leadership at Mozilla have already shown themselves willing to break with Google. And I doubt it's any secret that they've been looking for alternative revenue sources.

If you want to question Mozillas independence please bring something more substantive than baseless speculation.
Working for an arms contractor is something I would never do because I don't want to make things that kill people, however if someone else thinks that the military is a necessary institution for public safety those engineers can also proudly tell their grandchildren 30 years from now what they did and why it was ethically justified to do so without resorting to "I had a mortgage".

When you just shrug and say "tragedy of the commons, I suppose" knowingly screwing people over in ways you wouldn't want to be treated yourself, then laugh all the way to the bank you're a part of the problem and the reason why some people feel the need of a defense force in the first place.
I didn't get this at first reading, but it's a pretty subtle and important point.

Powerful families are chummy with other powerful people because power ends up being the most important status symbol, and ideology can hide behind it.

It's basically the reason that orthodox Republican economic policy can even exist. It's terribly debunked theory, but because the messengers are WSJ op-ed writers that went to fancy schools and wear bow ties to work, their view "couldn't possibly be just wrong".

There was some polls recently that showed that when asked about GOP tax plans, people refused to believe that the pollsters were even telling the truth on the facts, because it was so absurd. Of course there wouldn't be a tax break for private jet maintenance!

But politicians believe their friends, just like we all do. It's the base of "keep politics out of X".
Definitely not the same service. I have worked with MACIE during their beta and the focus is different.
I’m glad you’re having some fun. I still code in Perl 5 regularly and reading your code is causing my brain to invert. I’m not sure if you’re a Contrary Warrior or an Assassin whose primary weapon is Brainstem Autodissection. It’s like learning Perl all over again.
It's funny... I've only ever seen processes get detached from their parents, not threads.
Personally I want to disable "swipe down to refresh" system wide and instead have a button at the top of those apps.

"on sites very clearly constructed around the mechanism"

Browsers have refresh buttons for that.
His dad apparently made a few powerful enemies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-EBGYF8XLQ
You had a running css engine in a few minutes?
The GP was not a charitable comment, but outright personal attacks are still not allowed. We ban accounts that post this way, and I don't want to ban you, so would you please not post like this?

You've been here a long time, so I'm sure you know that civil, substantive comments are what we're looking for.