skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not really sure I understand your primary question. The scenario I seem to understand you posit as a backdrop to your question is logically inconsistent: having some deflationary assets is not equivalent to having a deflationary baseline (currency). You must remove the option of escaping inflation by holding riskless cash, otherwise everybody will exert the choice to avoid (risk-adjusted inflation).

Regarding your other questions, I strongly recommend Where Does Money Come From? as providing a solid, albeit somewhat polemic, introduction to how the fiat currency/fractional reserve currency system works in general (and the GBP in particular). Spoiler alert: there is general agreement that topologically it would be more robust if the central bank interacted more directly with non-bank entities, but regulatory capture by incumbents and practical considerations places a damper upon this.

EDIT: ah, noticed you have re-numbered your questions, boarding a plane right now, will get back to you.
"Also, one can argue that Bitcoin actually saves energy. The world’s financial system requires many resources beyond the electricity to run servers."

What a bunch of crap. Bitcoin also needs servers (i.e exchanges, uses computers, routers, switches etc. )
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I don’t know specifics on what these coins are honestly but there are a few clients like Nicehash which basically group a lot of different mining tasks by algorithm for you. It has an idea as to which will be most profitable for your hardware at any given time, and mines that currency for you.
Poorly-defined turtles all the way down.

(This is a more serious answer than it reads.)
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Bitfinex which is cooincidentally owned by the same people as Tether.
You don't need banks to store cash. Bitcoin without electricity is useless, cash on the other hand is not.
That's a very convenient myth.

It misses the fact that China didn't build power plants out where it's too far away from civilisation to be useful.

Transmission losses are also nowhere near the suggested values. 1.5% per 200 miles is today's standard. Meaning you could cross all of China with a loss of:

east-west axis: 2200 miles
0.985^(2200 miles / 200miles) = 0.846 = 15.4% loss

(and that's from the farthest desert to the east coast. Go south instead, or note that there actually are a billion people living in inland China, and actual losses are <5%)
I haven't read the whitepaper. But Ripple and Dash are similarly centralized I believe.
Elon Musk confirms that Tesla is working on its own new AI chip
There are a bunch of consensus protocols out there already. My favourite is the Stellar Consensus Protocol[1]. I think that modelling your consensus around entities you trust, instead of the most power or most most money, is more natural.

[1]: https://www.stellar.org/papers/stellar-consensus-protocol.pd...
Besides the demands of agile and corporate culture, is there other reasons why data science folks are leaving (if true)? For instance lack of cooperation, or not using the insights/recommendations?
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But it has to be recent. If the card you're looking at runs the radeon driver then run for the hills.
Oh, I misunderstood you. I was incredulous because most people would not admit that. I wonder if the poster has considered who would be coming to take away his guns. Most 2A advocates are thin-blue-line apologists.
RHEL 6 was released in 2010. At that time Nvidia was way better than AMD. In the last 7 years AMD has improved dramatically, but nVidia has gotten worse.

Ubuntu and Red Hat will probably have new LTS versions using Wayland coming out in 2018. Which means that 2017 is the time to start testing for them.

And it's not really a glowing endorsement if Nvidia is only the second worst driver on Linux, not the absolute worst.
It’s mostly a shroud around a few heat pipes, a fan, and a lot of heat sinks. It’s a necessary part since it directs airflow across all the heat sinks and pushes hot air out the back of the card and outside the case; how would you color it?
> Can you expand on that second paragraph?

Futures stabilize the price of the underlying commodity.
You raise a good point about how the cost of switching on the consumer side being low implies that establishing a dominant mindshare becomes that much more important. Thanks for the answer.
Indie GameDev is absolutely a hits driven business. Often I tell people you will learn more from studying some thing like the Autobiography of Keith Richards. Than yet another build a game engine in thirty days book ;)

Html5 "io" games follow similar viral trajectories. But also have some staying power. Once they develop mechanics or features that encourage replay-ablity. Particularly at web scale multiplayer with leaderboards ;)

Some examples for Friday Fun

http://splix.io/

https://starblast.io/

http://zombs.io/
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Been coming to singapore for the last 2 years, had one customer, came to Japan in equivalent amount of time and Japan won. I had 3x the customers coming from Japan, it might have been a better network upon landing, but in general the reception I had was better.

I now live in Japan full time.

I'll echo other replies and say more mature market and it's what I like to call a source of money rather than an aggregator.

Singapore's main benefit is being a "hub". If you have access to the direct sources of money though, it's a hard justification (By that I mean more mature markets in east asia that might not speak english)

I just came back from Singapore a few days ago and my assessment of the market is still the same. I talked to enough companies there to see it still doesn't make sense for us to be there yet. In general, I also feel like I can make more of a difference in Japan than SG (everyone speaks english but there aren't as many resources and companies are really conservative when it comes to buying software)
Ask HN: CS and programming books of 2017
Which CS/Programming related book(s) that were released in 2017 would you suggest?

My suggestion: Clean Architecture by Robert Martin
> Anyway, what exactly new did Snowden bring to the table in this particular context?

A "heroic" character that people could identify with to frame the rest of the story.
I had the same problem (mildly hungry all the time) which is what caused me to stop the low-carb-ish restrictions. Thankfully I've kept most of the weight off (but still have a ton I need to lose).

I've been debating how else to tackle this problem. So far calorie restriction seems to be a way I can decrease my intake across the board (including the four horsemen, which unfortunately are all foods I love) and start losing weight again.

It's just become incredibly difficult to stick to any plan. My longest run was four months low carb.
> Proof of stake is meant to consume less resources but then the power is then handed to people with the most money?

I'm surprised nobody has caught on to the fact that the present fiat system is in essence a Proof-of-Stake one.

> Coming up with a way to have a decentralised currency where everyone involved gets a fair say without consuming too many resources is a super interesting problem.

Indeed. I almost wonder if it can be proven that thermodynamics is in fact the only possible way to verifiably make something take considerable time and energy, i.e. actually cost in resources that we have no way of faking, especially time.
> If you own 0,5M but you don't have income that's something different than owning 0,5k but having 2k to spend every month.

I think this is the key. Having a big fancy house usually comes with a big fancy mortgage, and who knows what his cashflow looks like. Did he invest his windfall and lose it? Did the tax man take it? Did his wife leave him soon after along with "half"? Any massive medical situations he's dealt with in his family? Is he heavily invested in a new project?

The claim is not that $6,000 is a hardship to him, just that it is not "a drop in the bucket". Ie, $6K is not an amount he would spend unthinkingly because of having so much money. Depending on where you live it's not odd to know people in houses worth over a million but who couldn't pick up a another car because the monthly payments would be too much. Technically they can afford it, but practically it's not "a drop in the bucket", so they have other priorities.
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> But flappy flappy birds is not at all an example that satisfies the hypothesis. Flappy bird, as he mentions, was deliberately pulled from the store by its creator.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of clones out there, and people who wanted to play it were and are free to play any of them. So, we can safely gauge if the fad is really gone by popularity of the whole genre it created, not necessarily by the original itself.
Japan seems like a bad place to try and start a business, given what I've heard about its bureaucracy and hostility towards immigrants.

Is my information correct, or do I need to explore this further?
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You are misrepresenting the studies findings. It did not show that sunscreen itself is ineffectual, but that as a population measure for children that it's effectiveness was variable. Anyone who has children will attest to the difficulty of applying and maintaining the required level of sunscreen, especially as it is invisible.

If you have concerns about the chemical sunscreens, please use zinc oxide. It is totally non reactive.

Sun damage is cumulative, a tan is a reaction to damage. People with a tan have sun damaged skin.

Naturally very dark skinned people are different, and also have enhanced mechanisms to allow damaged cells to self-euthanize.
There is an old and very well established name for that: propaganda. It is just that most people assume that Propaganda(TM) is something authoritarian governments do, not something they are likely to run into in their day to day lives.
Doesn't "talk s3" just mean the REST convention applied to HTTP? S3 API/Http/tcp/ip/Ethernet would be pretty inefficient if you were on the same Ethernet network, that's why things like fibre channel we're invented.
They're wrong I bought 1 litecoin and 1 ethereum. I have the ability to crash any market by investing in it.
I bought a 1992 Subaru Legacy for $700 cash. I put some parts in it and drove it for 4 years. Survived a couple fender benders during that time too. I gave it to a friend who was hard-up who drove it for 2 more years, and hit a deer with it. It wasn't really phased, but I had to rig the mirror back on. I took it back when he was done and finally scrapped it for $200. It was still a fully working car when they took it away. 10/10, would buy again.
I wouldn’t recommend that against external APIs in general, though there are use cases. Adding keys is usually the best way to make backwards compatible changes in an API, but you’d make those changes backwards incompatible in your own infra.
I see, I agree that is still pretty bad. Wonder how many other RDP+IIS products use wildcard certs and share this same vulnerability to leak keys?
Afaik they moved to Monero, because having the ability to see all transactions publicly from an address isn't very anonymous at all.
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and funnily enough this range is one of the less ridiculous looking ones. The non-Founders Edition cards all look even more like glowing kids toys.

Wish they'd ship the a version of the GTX line with the design language of the more boxy looking Quadro cards (M4000 etc).
Not quite right? A tan is a reaction to sunlight, independent of damage.

Ah! Research, gotta love it. UVA darkens directly as a result of action on the melanin. UVB damages DNA resulting in long-lasting production of more melanin.
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Any chance they were saving that for the trial?

Strategically, isn't it better for Uber to let Waymo yap on and on about it and then crush them during the trial than to ask the patent office for a review and let Waymo drop the issue before the trial even starts?

I mean... if I knew something embarrassing that opposing council didn't know, and I had no obligation to inform them, I would definitely see that knowledge as a weapon and a strategic tool. Letting Waymo drop it without embarrassment is a bit of a win for Waymo, IMO.
I didn't understand that without a bit of context [0]:

> The science section suggests that, rather than Homo sapiens (Wise Man), we might be better described as Pan narrans (Storytelling Chimpanzee).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Discworld_II:_T...
But not you, I'm guessing?
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He's got quite a following here. :)

As for dystopic, I'd describe his works as... ananthropic. There are no people in his books, just collections of matter ambulating around according to their phenotype and the laws of physics. It's stark realism taken to its depressing conclusion. Fascinating stuff, though.

Edit: Fixed some broken causality.
Paying taxes does not equal not exist. Yes, private organizations can provide positive outcomes, but so do taxes so the option to just keep going and pay remains.
This is very true. Though I am no longer on keto, I've gotten to the point where I must know the ingredients and nutritional content of every single thing I eat.

Part of overeating/mindless eating is ignoring any data about what is being eaten. I am far more mindful now.
Yikes.. So compromise a public wifi and MITM + store any traffic pointed at the affected domain(s), then simply sign up for their own ERP account, download the key and decrypt.
This is quite a helpful tldr! Thanks!!
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In C11 they are even uglier with the _Generic selector, which understandably was made to work together with how generics were done via pre-processor macros.
Apple HomeKit flaw left smart gadgets vulnerable
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Education inflation is difficult to solve when assessing the value of “education/experience currency” means having to consider “exchange rates” between different fields (see CS vs ‘Computer Engineering’) and institutions (potential degree mill, boot camp, well known university?). The opportunity for arbitrage and dumping “education currency” into the market is really huge so long as we see “education” as a single currency rather than a collection of different ones. It would be insanity to treat all fiat currency as one unit of value, one country deciding to print more money directly causing inflation for the whole world. Why should education be treated any differently as a market?
Dong Nguyen kept making games, though. His company is called .GEARS, and the successor is Swing Copters:

http://www.dotgears.com/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=DOTGEARS

He also made Ninja Spinki Challenges, which I really enjoyed for a while and has some really cute graphics:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dotgears.n...
I remember reading that a key weakness to bitcoin was its susceptibility to fraud if a group of nefarious miners control a significant portion of compute power on chain, because verification is based on consensus. As such, a properly motivated bad actor can produce fraudulent results that can only be disproven by exorbitant compute resources. Obviously this would destroy the value of btc but they only need to keep it going long enough to cash out. If mining is heavily focused in certain areas of extensively overbuilt power generation centers (rural China) using mass custom ASICs, then it sounds to me like Bitcoin has a fundamental flaw in its market realities.

GRANTED: more severe opportunities for fraud, unfairness and bad acting are available to Wall Street

NOTE: I find bitcoin fascinating and I really want it to work, but it has seriously flaws that aren’t being seriously acknowledged by the people willing to buy in at $15,000+ per BTC. Not trying to be a naysayer to crypto currency
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ML frameworks are written by Unixy types. Torch doesn't even run on Windows, and it's clearly a second-tier platform for Tensorflow.
OK, so while everyone else is arguing about whether Newman's Own should be allowed to operate as it has or not, I'm curious about a different issue.

What's a parliamentarian, and why can they unilaterally change bills? Or am I misunderstanding their role?
Universities in the US do this with real estate, without the need for a seperate legal entity AND pay no property taxes.
I do deep learning for a day job, this card is for me. Going on the specs it'll be worth it upgrading my 1080 TIs but I'll wait for a proper review before committing $12K.
> That highly depends on the hashing algorithm used. For Bitcoin this is SHA256, which is very well-suited for ASIC implementation. The algorithm of Ethereum was deliberately designed to be ASIC-resistant, but GPU-friendly, therefore GPUs (which are kind of a commodity) are the hardware of choice for Ethereum mining.

Is it possible to create ASIC resistant algorithms? Litecoin was meant to be resistant by using scrypt but there's ASICs out for that now I believe.

Could you not create a protocol that constantly changes its hashing algorithm to combat ASICs?

> The advantage of low electricity cost is of course something that cannot be eliminated without eliminating Proof of Work entirely.

Any views on what the ideal system would be? I've heard of using a combination of proof of stake and proof of work. Proof of stake will mean people with more money get more power and proof of work means people with lower electricity costs get more power so neither seems ideal. I think ideally each person in the world would get an equal vote in how the protocol progresses but it's not obvious how you could enforce that.
As someone who had one of the earliest cochlear implants done back in the '90's, I would say it'd be a non-invasive surgery (with minimal recovery/rehab time, say, a week), with near infinite options of modding the software without touching the hardware again. It'd be easier to implant toddlers (and younger) given brain plasticity, but that's a whole 'nother ethical argument that medicine has been dealing with since back then.

We certainly do live in interesting times.
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Our mobile apps use the same endpoints/hostnames as our public API, so fairly important for it to be publicly trusted.

I do still think the barrier to entry aspect of EVs will always be very helpful. In a world where you can get a DV cert in under a second (from LetsEncrypt), if your DNS or domain registration was to be compromised, you’d have no MITM protection at all until you managed to get it revoked - which is likely to take days.

It’d almost be helpful to have a system where certs have to be requested (publicly on CT records) a week in advance or something, so issuance can be protested if something like the above did happen.
Are we too early for "Go-2 considered harmful" jokes?
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But you do need banks to store cash. And the bank better have a secure vault and security guards and cameras and all that.

An elliptic curve key, which is what possession of bitcoin is, is just a large number. To send a bitcoin you need to create a "transaction", and in fact the only aspect of generating a bitcoin transaction that requires energy is the SHA calculation, not something you can do in pencil, the EC math is actually simple enough that a computer is not required.

Also your argument that cash does not require energy does not apply to the cashless society we have become today, when was the last time you actually used cash? Credit cards are useless without electricity.
Author is blissfully unaware that Flappy Bird is alive and well in arcades:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIZvK5yORrw

(video from 2015 but I played one last week)
> My understanding is that it's not trivial to get a visa in the EU as well, due to it being Shengen Zone stuff.

Work permits for non-EU immigrants are issued at the national level and have very little to do with Schengen. Requirements vary quite a bit across Europe.
Isn't the whole point of a bubble is that you don't know you're in one until it bursts ?

> Because it is often difficult to observe intrinsic values in real-life markets, bubbles are often conclusively identified only in retrospect.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble
> First, except when describing an ideology, you are not to use a word that ends in “ism.” Communism, socialism, Nazism, and capitalism are established concepts in history and the social sciences...

I agree with the impulse here, but I wouldn't give those words a pass so quickly. Some (all?) of them are poorly understood.

Even here on HN, a potential bastion of reason, and presumably populated mostly by products of education in capitalist countries, I routinely come across anti-"capitalist" sentiment that is really complaining about something else: cronyism, regulatory capture, non-violent extortion, etc.

From wikipedia:

"Capitalism is an economic system and an ideology based on private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Characteristics central to capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, voluntary exchange, a price system and competitive markets."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

Go google "site:ycombinator.com capitalist". All sorts of nonsense HN comments show up in which people object to capitalism but aren't clearly criticizing wages, prices, private contracts, private property, etc.
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>newbostonpost

Someone on r/boston constantly posts links to this garbage "news" source, everyone flags it as spam there, I'm going to flag it as spam here as well.
Just one more bit of evidence that China's current government is anathema to a peaceful, progressive world.
Sure it is, ANSI C11 (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) chapter 6.1 and section 6.5.1.1.
People have been giving this same speech for centuries for different labels of generations.
Meaningless. Taxes are a complex system with no foundation other than "collect the most feathers with the least squawking". There's no moral basis to who pays how much.
Little Snitch was actually the inspiration to build Radio Silence, but in a what-not-to-do kind of way.

I had just bought my first Mac, and was really impressed with how easy everything was. It really was a joy to use. Little Snitch instantly turned it into an obnoxious, interrupting mess where almost every app was broken by default.

I'm sure Little Snitch is the right app for many people, but not for me. I basically learned Objective-C just to build an alternative for myself. That turned into Radio Silence.
Sellers trying to cash in is the worst thing about software/data preservation.
> they have had little success in understanding how we implemented the projects we were involved in

I don't think I've ever had trouble helping people to grok the implementation/architecture/whatever of any system I've been involved in.
Paywall bypass:

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No, but many millennials don't even know about Algol linage of programming languages, think C was the very first systems programming language and so Rust is more appealing to them.
How likely it is that you will get quality food in a democratic prison like Guantanamo?