skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Such price increases may be simply a bubble (possibly a temporary bubble as we've seen in the past), but they may also be a sudden price adjustment. One explanation for such a price adjustment is an increase in the number and wealth of its users. The user base has moved from crypto enthusiasts to wealthy individuals, and now it seems to institutional investors with bitcoin futures going ahead. Such a thing didn't exist before 2009, so we don't have much to go on as far as how valuable it'll be.

Cryptocurrency may not be pinned in value to anything tangible, but is useful and unique as an asset class for its ability to transfer ownership by virtual means. You can't store a bar of gold in your memory, and you can't send it through a computer. I believe its long term value is in how much people want money that has this property.

Long term, a threat to Bitcoin's value is competing altcoins. Bitcoin is arguably a bad cryptocurrency at a technical level (high transaction fees, slow transactions, bad for the environment, etc.), it's difficult to use for commerce, but seems to be winning out against the others for now, maybe just by first mover advantage and established network effect.
It's still "respectable" to run your own n=1 Postgres instance, maybe with WAL-E backup. It's sensible, as well, to create your own read-replicas to scale OLAP; and even to do your own shared-nothing sharding across regions. These are all "set and forget" enough that they can be the responsibility of your regular devops.

But, when you get to the point where you need multi-master replication, you're making a mistake if you aren't dedicating an ops person (i.e. a DBA) to managing your growing cluster. If you can't afford that ops person, much better to just pay a DBaaS provider to handle the ops for you, than to get hosed when your cluster falls apart and your week gets shot putting it back together.
This. Fuzzing and integration tests is what usually is able to signal a regression.
If you find out, let me know! One thing I'll caution you about is there's sometimes a bit of a disconnect between "doing math" as perceived by someone who studied e.g. CS versus someone who studied math. For some people, doing math means maybe doing some trigonometry or some basic stats; whereas others won't be satisfied unless they're working on algebraic k-theory or something similarly next level. For people in the former category, there are certainly jobs available with just a bachelors degree and ideally some programming skills, whereas for the latter, you'll almost certainly want a PhD (and even then you may not get to use that knowledge outside of academia, depending on your area of study.) You'll want to find out where you are on that spectrum, and how you feel about grad school / work life balance / etc.

Personally, I got a bachelors in math and ended up working as a software developer. There's enough overlap in the sort of thinking required that makes it reasonably enjoyable. I do wish I had more opportunities to use math in my job though!
Because that is the only way to be able to interview the subjects about how they experienced it without raising suspicions.
If you mean randomized tests as in adding random choices to your tests, I think that is a very bad idea (that I have been bitten by before).

You NEED tests to behave consistently. If you run the tests twice against the same code, it needs to return the same result. Otherwise, how will you know you have fixed the issue the tests caught?

Speaking from experience, soon after you introduce randomness to tests, you will start to get intermittent test failures. When that happens, people will start to ignore failing tests because, 'hey, this is probably just a random failure'
Why don't you get one? You are still young and your brain is still developing. Get a degree in comp sci and be on your merry way.
A dollar of long-term capital gains is worth about 20% more than a dollar of dividend, and about 40% more than a dollar of wages.
The average fencer will not know how to do this and will most likely toss the laptop or strip it for parts.
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Again, these weren't active diplomats. This was more of an act of racism and terrible ethics by the experimenters.

But the backlash from it caused several changes to the law and the formation of commissions to regulate this kind of behavior.
> If you're objecting to this now, not back when the program was being formed, you clearly handled this poorly by not being involved in something you care about.

> If you don't care and weren't involved, you also don't have the full picture and your outrage very well might be misplaced.

That's an unhelpful and unreasonable response. You shouldn't blame people for not being attuned to the activities an obscure bureaucracy (the gTLD process), just because they might be affected by it. The gTLD process has a problem, not the people negatively affected by it.

There really ought to be a long post-implementation objection period for gTLDs, and the existing process should be changed to allow for that. The top goal of the DNS system right now should be to not break stuff, and that should override any entity's desire to buy a gTLD for $$$.
OT but:

Regarding searching for labels, you can actually do that: https://news.spotify.com/se/2009/05/20/spotify-0315-with-lab...

It’s just a bit cumbersome, and not so easy to find the exact name of the label stored in the database. I think you can use the API to find the (exact) name of the label assigned for a particular song.
This is the labor theory of value and proven wrong. All value is subjective.
so secure, guess nobody heard of $100 label printers
The volatility alone wouldn't be a huge problem if the transactions were quick, apart from having to constantly re-price the goods (not a big deal with an automated system selling digital downloads, even though it is a real PITA for the accounting afterwards!).

However, getting the transaction confirmed can take many hours at the times of high demand and then it still fails because thanks to the volatility, the transaction fees have gone up in the meantime. That is creating unsustainable problems for the customer support and makes BTC unusable for actual payments.

I think this is what will ultimately bring Bitcoin down (and with it the entire cryptocurrency goldrush, even though the problems are mostly with BTC). Once the currency is impossible to exchange for actual goods or other currencies due to being more trouble to handle than it is worth, it stops being a currency. What good is that one BTC is $12k+ now if you can't actually buy anything with that? People pouring money into this today and talking about BTC being a "store of value" are being seriously nuts ...
Sounds like it. Shame, because micro-transactions was the only legal use case I could think of for it.
But it's much harder to do any of those things undetected on a scale that would actually affect the results.
There's a project currently that emulates AlphaGo Zero using crowdsourcing: https://github.com/gcp/leela-zero . You can run it on the browser too and it will submit the games after: https://ntt123.github.io/leela-zero/

Hope such a chess project like this will be available in the future.
Yeah in my cases the debt has actually always been legitimate - but I didn't believe it until I got documentation of what the actual charge was and how it differed from what I had already paid FROM THE ORIGINAL CREDITOR (the healthcare provider) as a result of my own proactive investigation. I have always paid the debt directly to the healthcare provider after they re-process it correctly. But that's precisely my point: even when it's a legitimate debt, the proof exists, and I'm willing to pay once I've seen the proof, the debt collectors are still scum about it. I'm glad I've always had the original creditor reprocess it correctly and bill me for the remainder directly: none of my money has ever actually gone to a shady debt collector.
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I've been trying the wim hof meditation to help with chronic pain and inflammation.

It helps but not as much as I would like.
Given the fact that most farmers (or at least the ones we are talking about here) are living off the welfare gravy train known as agricultural subsidies it is hard to have any pity for those who think that their taxes are confiscation. They would have been forced off their inefficient enterprise generations ago if it were not for those "societies to which they have little to no connection" propping them up.
No Azure???
banks, small armies of them...
It's the cost of being an American. And in reality, people in rural communities are the ones that are being propped up by money confiscated from others.

Roads alone are very expensive, over a million bucks per mile in rural areas. Wyoming has 33,000 miles of road serving a population of 550k. That works out to at least $60k per person in just to build the roads, never mind maintaining them. And not having these roads means higher transportation costs, which translate to more money spent on goods and more profit being lost to transporting sales.

There are plenty of countries in the world without individual taxes, they just also happen to be places most people don't want to live.
I don't disagree, but I also don't think that how long something has been done one way is indicative of that way's optimality. By such an argument, microwaves as a form of cooking and airplanes as a form of travel would both be bad ideas.

I think it's more persuasive to focus on the transparency/auditability/fairness argument. Perhaps as an extension, an emphasis on the ability of the average participant/voter to understand the mechanisms behind how the system works?
there was no flag involved
thank you! :')
With ATMs and debit cards, I thinks it's generally not true, they seem to use the online mode and update the balance of a checking account within seconds.

With credit cards, you can indeed start more transactions against the same balance, and you're never sure in which order they will complete.
The "$20 transaction fee" was an absolute top, and when that happened it was the single most congested the bitcoin network has ever been.

It's nowhere near that right now. The total cost for your "median" transaction right now (at 226 bytes) is about $4.30 USD (at 150 sat/byte). Even if you double that to 300 sat/byte you are still at ~$9.

Edit: I'm not saying even $4 fees are okay, just pointing out that it's not $20. I agree with steam's decision here, and it's something that Bitcoin needs to solve before it can really be useful as a payment system.
Yeah, that's a very good point imo!
Coming soon!!!

Its so young and i'm so tired of coding! But expect integrations with the biggest CRM and DB's in the biz.
There are levels of rural, BTW. Of which more of these services aren't provided.
I've experienced the thoughtless awareness state. Just being present without any thoughts crossing my mind.

I do around 25-30 minutes of meditation session usually right after bath & try to do 10 minutes before sleep.

Most of the time, I'm able to be thoughtlessly aware. But trying to be more steady.

After trying various meditation techniques, I found "Sahaja Yoga" & life has been gradually becoming peaceful & enjoyable. Give it a try. It's free of cost & the most beautiful experience you can have on planet earth.

Visit Sahaja Yoga center nearby & ask anyone where can I get self-realization.

If you want more information, please comment. I'll be happy to help.
I drove a Leaf for a while, and while I do agree the center console had its share of UX issues, I think you are being a bit too demanding. For the default paired phone, the Leaf will re-connect with zero taps, just do it automatically. So you're probably in a shared car--yay, single electric car households are the future--and since you say you only want music, the solution is to leave a USB cable in the car. I was in exactly the same situation: my wife's phone was the default because she used it to make hands-free calls while driving. When I used the car and listen to music, I just plug in, and get my phone charged as a bonus. Do other cars/manufacturers handle multiple paired phones better?

By the way, beyond all the branding and advertising in the video, the gassing up was another huge "do not want" for me. It's like people are ignoring that cars of the future will be electric.
It doesn't have to be the US. It could easily be Russia or some other country wanting Cuba to take the fall for the attacks
Apart from Kluny's points, focusing on a single niche makes things easier in the beginning. It's better to be THE landing page builder for Real Estate than one among hundreds of general landing page builders.
Those farmers are deluded. Their roads cost far more in upkeep then they return in economic benefit and if the farmers had to pay for their own roads they would be nothing more than dirt paths and remain blanketed by several feet of snow all winter long.
Kind of, if you set it too low it might never get confirmed at all, but for the most part you can set fees pretty damn low if you are willing to wait for confirmation.
These techniques are theoretical from the time HDDs needed a user low level format(think RLL controller in your XT), and even then a myth nobody ever demonstrated in practice.
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Not at scale.
BitPay handles the volatility for them by guaranteeing the conversion to dollars, so it's not an issue for Valve directly.

Volatility wouldn't be a big issue for payments if transactions were instant and free. The addition of slow transactions and high fees on top of volatility is what's causing problems for Valve's customers, which ultimately comes back to Valve as customer service issues. And there's nothing a retailer hates more than customer service issues.
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Thanks, fixed the typo
why are transaction costs so high? I thought one of the selling points was that the transaction cost is negligible because miners main incentive comes from mining new bitcoins?
I'm hoping to expand this to other markets too. Everyone needs fast, beautiful landing pages. Real estate is a market i'm intimate with, so i'd figure its a good start
Try r/classicalmusic and mention the reward. Lots of students and professionals there.
Right, but the Bitcoin evangelists have changed their rhetoric in the last few months, claiming that the current price is justified because Bitcoin is a good store of value, since it's obvious to everyone that the transaction infrastructure is a total dumpster fire at the moment and it's difficult to argue that it's so useful as a currency that $12,000/BTC is reasonable.
(committer here)

It uses Riak Core as the underlying distribution layer, which is the same that Riak itself uses. For storage of the log, the built-in Erlang disk_log is used.
But it is a new signal originating from the 3D object. They even convert Bluetooth to Wifi signals with this technique. Read about comment of mine for source.
Right!

A thing that scares me is anyone saying they're running their own HA cluster (not single instance) for cost reasons. Infra people are not cheaper than the hosted solutions (Amazon RDS, Google Cloud SQL, Heroku Postgres).
I think you misunderstood. Sure, if you are willing to deal with the increased costs and lowered reliability you could write a chess program that required massive server resources.

But, I don't think a lot of people would pay for that vs. having a program that just runs on there phone and still beats them. So, in practice without a significant subscription fee you are going to be limited to cellphone hardware.

PS: In practice most games take about as much computing power from a server as a chat app as companies need to pay for that hardware. Remember 1,000,000+ X get's big unless you keep X very low.
This NY Times article that got a fair bit of attention a couple years ago details just how shady it is:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/08/15/magazine/bad-...

I'd be surprised if this article didn't get discussed here on HN at the time.
> What TLD should I use for internal, production domains?

The currently safe way is to use a public domain that you own (you could use a distinct subdomain for this, which is not publicly exposed but which is in DNS on your internal network; e.g., intranet.example.com if you own example.com); as you note, this gives a long full domain.

> Mostly I tend to see companies either inventing an unregistered TLD, often using their own company name, or they use ".local", which can cause issues - some systems treat this name specially.

“.local” is a reserved domain with special semantics, see RFC 6762.

> Ideally I'd like to see a ".private" or ".internal" TLD recognised as special-use under the same semantics as ".test".

I'm kind of surprised that we haven't seen an RFC gain acceptance for this already, but I expect something like this will happen and be registered with the IANA special use domains registry.
for arbitrage you want to move all currencies, not just one.

https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin/#markets

for example, bitcoin is now huge on bithumb, I'd buy it at bitstamp and sell it for 10% more, and repeat. given the slow transaction times, huge fees, large mempool, this is impossible to do.

exchanges also ban you for trying to do arbitrage too, so there's a risk of losing all the funds.
Shouldn't "favourite" -> "maths"?
These don't strike me as comparable scenarios.

In the case of .dev, it didn't even appear in the weeds of usage when the DNS root servers were measured for traffic to identify potential new TLDs usage conflicts in the real world (e.g. https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/name-collision-0... p22). Even if .dev were in significant usage, that traffic was not reaching the domain name system. The complaint seems to be fundamentally to be about the pre-loaded configuration of Chrome, not the DNS.

In the case of your regex, it would breaks millions of production domains in used today and fail in a wide variety of scenarios. It is only understandable in the context of someone who hasn't done any cursory research into the topic.
The existence of a reliable objective audit trail is a "problem" that is solved by electronic voting machines. Well, a problem for people who wish to rig elections. Perhaps the ability to untraceably modify millions of votes with the push of a button at an unaccountable private company's headquarters is a feature, not a bug?

Given how obvious and easy to execute this is, it seems impossible to imagine any justification for the change that does not at least consider this an acceptable plausible consequence of the choice.
While I don't particularly agree with OP's premise that only education can solve this problem, it can also be argued that the situation you describe is a result of a set of choices made that directly correlate to bad personal and financial desicions.

Barring physicial or mental health reasons, being a victim of criminal activity (rape, theft, et. al.), or "acts of god" (natural disasters), a person ending up in this situation most certainly screwed up somewhere along the line.

This is in my opinion the first place where taxes should go. To help out people that have been screwed by chance and bad luck so they don't have to rely on predatory lending.
There's a longer version of this AP report that includes the below quotes. The fact that there were cases of two people in a room where one heard the sound and the other did not was something I had not seen mentioned before. It was a question I had been curious about and would seem to indicate something different going on - rather than an acoustic weapon unexplained by current science that affects some people but not others.

> U.S. officials told the AP that investigators have now determined:

> — The most frequently reported sound patients heard was a high-pitched chirp or grating metal. Fewer recalled a low-pitched noise, like a hum.

> — Some were asleep and awakened by the sound, even as others sleeping in the same bed or room heard nothing.

> — Vibrations sometimes accompanied the sound. Victims told investigators these felt similar to the rapid flutter of air when windows of a car are partially rolled down.

> — Those worst off knew right away something was affecting their bodies. Some developed visual symptoms within 24 hours, including trouble focusing on a computer screen.
How would you think it’d be good to test the idea before launch it? More information on the landing page? Some kind of prototype? I’m just learning to launch and would love to hear feedback.
Until segwit, lightning network etc. shape up and the wild bull/bear runs smooth out, BTC (and most other cryptos: see ETH and crypto kitties; or IOATA and their overrun nodes) don't really make sense for small transactions. I know LTC says they are the small transaction coin but I guess they'd hit scaling issues too if volume went up (and even if they didn't, speculators and crazy price swings would still make things tricky).

XRP seems less prone to wild speculation (much to the chagrin of some holders) but, afaik, Ripple are more focused on positioning XRP as a settlement layer for banks and big FX houses rather than as a day to day currency.

Personally, I think all of the above will eventually sort itself out. All the crypto currencies are still very young and the entire space is experiencing hyper growth. Teething issues, design flaws and bumps along the way are to be expected. One thing's for sure though, there's too much promise, money and interest in this space for everyone to give up and decide blockchain/tangle tech can't safely scale. It's just a matter of time before a winner emerges with the right formula.
I agree with you, but I wouldn't call it schizophrenia or say any values were lost, they were just reprioritized. Describing it as schizophrenia implies a disconnection with reality, but the feelings and sensations we have are true, just not easily quantified or explained. Since we have a greater recognition of the sensations going through our body, we place a higher importance on those instead of the social values everyone else is working towards in the hopes that it will make them happy.

One example is working at a bad job. The average person will sacrifice their happiness to work at this bad job, because it pays the bills, because it would look bad on you to quit, etc. They live their life in fear and misery, but will suppress it until it becomes too much and they explode. When a person has the experience of observing the sensations in their body, they will be able to recognize unhappiness early on and are more likely to move on before they explode.

It does make it a little tougher to fit in with "normal" people because we have completely different priorities, but I would say we have a greater grasp on our own happiness, which is way more important in the grand scheme of things.