skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the big selling points of Bitcoin is that it's meant to be decentralised but it doesn't look like this plays out. Proof of work seems to inevitably lead to all the power going to parties that can afford specialised hardware who are in countries with low electricity costs.

Running a Bitcoin miner on commodity hardware now is pointless which seems to go against the spirit of Bitcoin when it started. Was this predicted at the inception of Bitcoin? It's interesting how economics impacts the security of the protocol like this.

Proof of stake is meant to consume less resources but then the power is then handed to people with the most money? 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.
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Bitcoin's electricity consumption is unfortunate, it's difficult to assess whether it is a waste or not. The current position blockchain tech can be compared to the state of networked computers in the 70s and early 80s. Not a huge amount of value delivered at the time, yet very few could have foreseen the impact of the internet and personal computing on the world.

If blockchains and distributed computing does present a new leap forward in how we communicate, this electricity will not be wasted.
You can have whatever default value you like by initialising the struct before you pass it to json.Unmarshal. If the key isn't present, it won't be set:

type Test struct {
Foo string
Bar string
}

func NewTest() *Test {
return &Test{Foo: "a"}
}

func main() {
t := NewTest()
if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(`{"Bar": "b"}`), t); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%#v\n", t)
}

Output:

&main.Test{Foo:"a", Bar:"b"}
I think they mean it speaks an object protocol (S3) instead of a block protocol (SCSI).
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There's also the creation of the cash, printing or melting. and the resource extraction for it.

The losses due to counterfeiting.
The international financiers that hold leverage over every nation - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-12/new-world-order-tak...
tl;dr:

Incentives do indeed play a big role in the Bitcoin protocol. They are crucial for its security and effectively drive its daily operation. As argued here, miners go to extreme lengths to maximize their revenue and often find creative ways to do so that are sometimes at odds with the protocol.

Cryptocurrency protocols should be placed on stronger foundations of incentives. There are many areas left to improve, ranging from the very basics of mining rewards and how they interact with the consensus mechanism, through the rewards in mining pools, and all the way to the transaction fee market itself.
There are a number of obvious and simple fixes to that problem, but honestly it would be fine to just ignore it. People who are going to "scam" like that are such a teeny tiny fraction of the user base, they're barely worth considering.

Patreon has been doing great; even the porn stars who charge large fees apparently have overwhelmingly honest patrons. It's much more of a theoretical problem than an actual one.
Common for around 10 years, generalised for around 5 years.
> The go get command now supports Fossil source code repositories.

Neat! I've been waiting for this.
It makes their experts look incompetent. Quite a bit of what this guy found should have been low-hanging fruit for an expert witness.
A lot of the bitcoin wealth is going straight into ICOs, which do free up capital for innovation, in theory
The largest cost will be in sales and marketing. They offer large incentives to get drivers to sign up, such as offering cash for becoming an Uber driver. They also want to provide the best price possible to consumers, so that sometimes that means selling below cost, or at least selling below the cost when all sales and marketing expenses are included.

Growing so quickly in a short period of time there is also typically some level of over staffing as well as generally not being 100% diligent with use of funds.

There was an article before how they were spending over $100MM with an ad agency only to realize the numbers were inflated and eventually dropping them, but that is just one example of ineffective spend.

That's not to imply that they are 50% ineffective, but even being 10% ineffective when budgets are in the billions adds up.

The thought process is that the cost of switching between providers is very low when it comes to Uber/Lyft, when the cost of switching is low to consumers you want to establish your dominance in that market as rapidly as possible otherwise if you move slowly, then a competitor can steal market share away from you.

If there are any network effects to market penetration then that begins to create a bit of a moat. So if you think about the availability of cars/drivers at any time of the day to meet the demand, then having a large marketshare is beneficial to getting a ride for a customer quickly. That couple with marketing and lowering the cost of the ride as much as possible to establish the market is where the majority of that money goes.
Care to guide more?
The notion of 'building up a tan' is dangerously wrong advice. Even for people with darker skin it is unwise to have significant bursts of UV exposure.

I'm curious as to whether your educated guess derives from a clinical background, or reddit?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2671032/

http://www.skincancer.org/prevention/skin-cancer-and-skin-of...

https://theconversation.com/amp/sun-damage-and-cancer-how-uv...

http://enhs.umn.edu/current/5103/uv/molelcularmech.html
Does the cloud ERP product use only the private key for rdp authentication?
What makes you sure they aren't contractors? Ask them the next time you get a delivery.

They may drive trucks with the Amazon logo; they may tell you they are delivering for Amazon; they may be driving around with an app made by Amazon that gives them step by step instructions of what to do. But they are not legally employed by Amazon. Not in the US or UK. I spent some time as a part of their software organization, and have been inside the delivery stations. As far as I know, there are no employees delivering packages.

You can speculate as to why Amazon would want things setup this way. I don't speak on the company's behalf.
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No kidding, if I had made Flappy Bird I’d be writing an article about how my days of working were just a fad.
The futures are cash settled, none of the futures exchanges need to own any bitcoin at all.
Regular office paper is 80gsm. Many books are printed with 80gsm paper. Books with lots of pages often use lower paper weight (so they are not so thick) but opposite is also true. You don't want too thin book. Books with like 150 pages usually use papers with 120+gsm and books with lot of pictures or photos even more (childrens books, photography/art books etc.).

What i am trying to say - paper weight does not matter. 80gsm is used because it is the thinnest paper that will reliably not get stuck in the laser printer.

Try more creamy less bleached (ultrawhite) paper. Since they are not used too much in offices they look immediately less cheap. It can be challenge to find some adjusted to laser printer formats because professional always need big sheets not small ones.

Laser printer will often look not so professional because the color is baked layer on top of the paper and it does not bleed into the paper at all. Offset printing bleeds into the paper tiny bit and it becomes part of the paper. It also has much higher resolution so it is more detailed. The difference is even bigger when you print pictures/photos. You will not get good looking pictures out of laser printer.
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Matrix (the protocol riot uses) includes voice and video, and riot.im supports both. I run a matrix server for some friends and we like it a lot, though some of us still prefer IRC.
No, the RDP authentication works using a Username/Password-pair displayed in the Life Cycle Services control panel.

The shared private key was used to encrypt and authenticate the web traffic for all customers.
I have personal experience with "The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp" and have nothing but positive things to say about it. I don't and can't know how efficiently they use their money (I didn't notice any extravagance), but it is an extraordinary experience for the children attending and they (as far as I could see) uniformly love it.

https://www.holeinthewallgang.org/

The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp is dedicated to providing “a different kind of healing” to seriously ill children and their families, free of charge.
i don't know if this person lives in NYC or commutes by train somewhere else but on a morning train you can't pull your laptop out even if you do have a seat.
This has a significant advantage over Postman (to me) because it is open source.
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You touched on the 2nd part of this, exercise. Walking for transportation may seem "radical" today, particularly in the U.S. But this is only radical in a modern context. Walking is our "natural" mode of transportation.
Forget about load time
Flies on an iPhone 6S!
We're starting to stop using cash anyway though right? Regardless of blockchain.
Every transaction consumes an average household's WEEKLY engird usages.

How's that not a simple concept?

> Buy, sit on it, cash out back to federal reserve notes. Profit.

If someone wins, someone else has to lose. And no, it's not the credit card companies. It's the last one holding the potato.
AMD had released the most documentation and yet the community loves to pile on AMD. I think there is no company that could have done better than what they did in 2014 Linux Driver announcement https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_cata...
It better get sorted out before the oceans turn to acid and everything south of Greenland becomes uninhabitable.
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What's blatantly obvious? Many expect Bitcoin to reach gold level and $50k a bitcoin or $500k. I would love to know where you get your obviousness from. I guess you should short it if it's so obvious.
This is just the plight of an early adopter. Eventually, the idea will develop into something generic without vendor-lock-in, and something reliable.
I'd doubt this, I've heard that Japanese police will classify clear murders as suicides if they can't solve the murder quickly.
“Built by Researchers” is about as reassuring and genuine sounding as “natural and wholesome” on the side of every box of sugary cereal.

JTFC!
Stop buying Bitcoin. Seriously
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Ask HN: Any Alt coins worth buying?
Most coins seem to not be keeping up with bitcoin. Any that might break out soon?
We would be better off, since there now exists a protocol and extensive tooling for automatic certificate management.

This allows a competitor (even a commercial) one to fill in the gap left by letsencrypt if they stop issuing certs.
Show HN: AWS management tool made on Unity 3D
The author decided he preferred peace and quiet over leaving flappy bird in the app store.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/why-flappy-birds-shut-down-201...
Not being able tell the synthesized input isn't real, I think.

Which is not a good target.

It's what everyone will want though. Because a) find me a more generally scoped killer app in any class (translation: literally infinite VC money), and b) it'll be what the media focuses on because of the obvious controversy.

And there will be tons of controversy. I picked up these tidbits years ago and have no sources, but I'm confident I'm quoting these correctly at least:

- Experimental direct electrical stimulation to the pleasure center of the brain produced a response where the subject didn't want the stimulation to stop, and classed it as surpassing all other experiences

- When monkeys were provided with a button that stimulated the sexually-related centers of the brain, all they did all day was push the button; the button had to be removed so they would eat and function normally

So, unfortunately, the target the world will want to hit is several leagues beyond safe.

The future will be fun...
https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter
It's a plausible inference given the timing and Newman's politics while alive [1], and maybe it does apply to the other charities (I don't know one way or the other), but at least with respect to The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp (for seriously ill children), in my personal experience, it is conspicuously apolitical. So much so that I suspect that the staff is trained to that effect.

[1] https://www.alternet.org/story/100666/paul_newman%27s_politi...

"Unrepentant liberal, Newman was dedicated to civil rights, women's rights, gay rights, and was determined to elect opponents of war and militarism."
I would suggest Ripple after watching all the market share and availability.
The site seems to default to not-English when you first open it. Had to refresh to get English. Try opening from incognito to reproduce.

update: using the demo basically locks me into the dashboard. Can't visit the landing page anymore. The logout button doesn't help.
I have no interest in taking risky situations regarding this statement. A few weeks will tell who’s right and who’s wrong. Meanwhile, I shall preserve my objectivity by not entering a market and holding a position either way (I have the advantage that I run the family firm, so I don’t really need to put my money where my mouth is).
And of course, somebody has already ordered one for cryptocurrency mining:

https://twitter.com/BitsBeTrippin/status/939031211233525760
How about not bitcoin, where a transaction doesn't consume 9 day's worth of an average family's energy budget?

Utility: a transaction costs $10, right? It's useless.

Security: Have you followed this? The actual recommendation is to print your private keys and stick them in a vault.

Trust: It's funny that, fundamentally, people started doubting the Federal Reserve when the gold standard was abolished, because suddenly "value of money is just fiction". Yet here they are, imbuing some far more ephemeral nothingness with the same sort of faith-based value.
Is anyone knowledgeable that can tell me the difference between

IPFS, GNUnet, Zeronet, freenet or even something like i2p, tor and urbit .. as well as probably others.

Actually I know this question is asked all the time and I do know how these differ, to some extent at least, but I just don't understand why there are all these competing standards since it's all driven by the same-ish vision.

Whenever someone accomplishes this vision though it'll be a huge game changer. IPFS feels closest to it as of now .
Ripple. If you're going to invest in Ripple, don't bother if you're looking for a short-term gain. It's a long-term project.
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Matrix allows for all of these, by the way.
https://medium.com/@joey.clover/stop-buying-bitcoin-seriousl... - I advise Ripple in here.
When asks what I wanted my kids to be when they grew up I've always said "happy" too ... Life's too short to aim anywhere else!
Yes. The dude got harassed more then he cared for. Which is quite sad if you think about it.
What is a chief analytics officer? The exec who turns data into decisions
My biggest fear being that go-2 may be a major break, like symfony-2 and angular-2 were (as examples).

Running old code and having it "just work" is something I really love with go. I hope go-2 new features won't come at the cost of breaking old code.
In my experience, patent lawyers just keep writing claims until they feel they cover enough to be likely something novel in there. Not a lot of expertise on anybody's part. Lots of software patents in particular wander around making tiny claims for bits and pieces of the system, probably in the hope that something will stick. Not a fan of the process.
I'm sorry to hear you dad died of melanoma. But I can guarantee that reducing his UV exposure did not increase his risk. It's possible that intense and closely repeated sun exposure as a child had already caused DNA damage.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3409870/

Anyway, please wear shades and a hat.
I love bookbinding. It's not too hard, you can be creative and still get a solid book if you have the basics right, and it's not an expensive hobby. I found W.J. Eden Crane's Bookbinding for Amateurs, free from Google Books, a good resource, as well as a number of modern books: https://books.google.com/books?id=oxhRZ_l3kGcC&printsec=fron...
The thing is, it is not my website (I just write articles for these guys) so I'm not able to track visitors in real time. Gotta wait for the Google Analytics report.

Will let you know as soon as I get it.

From past experience: it's really difficult to tell. Sometimes a post gets 2k upvotes in a 500k subscriber sub and a few thousand people actually click through and read the article. Sometimes you get a lot less upvotes, but more visitors.

I think redditors sometimes just read the title, upvote/downvote, write comments, without even reading an article. It's strange.
This one kind of lost me on it's comparison to Breaking Bad. I could be an outlier here, but I've rewatched Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and The Walking Dead at least 4 times, probably more.

The reason I don't think I'm too much of an outlier, in that AMC always runs a marathon to both attract new viewers and reconnect existing viewers, and if it weren't successful, I doubt they'd keep doing it.

The article makes some good points about variability and using the story line format to get people hooked, but it's examples and connections seem really tenuous to the overall point.
> Choosing file transfer as the first goal seems like a great decesion to me.

True. We still don't have a good way of doing this[0].

[0] https://xkcd.com/949/
Not 100+ tabs, but I experience no performance issues at all at ~60 tabs, which is kind of too much already.
Honestly Bitcoin is probably an improvement for law enforcement. Cash is more anonymous. Bitcoin is completely public and traceable while in the network. And the moment you pull it out of the network you are connected to a real world entity.
What a weird article. It feels like the author wanted to convey his insight that the reason fads fade is due to the gameplay having a constrained information density. And then he felt the urge to follow the tradition of anchoring the thesis in a concrete current example, and he chose flappy birds. But 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. Why didn't he choose pokemon go instead? Because that hasn't fully faded yet? I'm not trying to personally attack the author, I'm just making a comment that the style in this article probably isn't what we want to emulate in our own stuff.
I don't belive in Santa. Why should I participate?

mis-spelled blelive.
> After the Snowden leaks we all know that this is possible.

This bothers me. A lot of people might remember Narus and Narusinsight[1]

> Narus is noted for having created NarusInsight, a supercomputer system, whose installation in AT&T's San Francisco Internet backbone gave rise to a 2006 class action lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation against AT&T, Hepting v. AT&T.

But sure, I'm certain there are people that actually worked for these companies and can tell you how their stuff doesn't really work as advertised. Anyway, what exactly new did Snowden bring to the table in this particular context?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus_(company)#NarusInsight
I didn't bring the term up, but I personally understand it to mean complex domain-specific code. Some examples from my own workplace: pricing/risk of derivatives transactions, financial contract definition, portfolio optimisation, interpreters/compilers for various complex data transformations.
Also something I've been annoyed with in high end consumer routers for the last 10 years. Most of them have looked like either a cyberpunk spider or a batmobile.

Only recently can you avoid it with various manufacturers mesh routers or Ubiquiti units, albeit at low-end business prices.
> We note that outside of TCP, the client-server relationship is often described using the terms “master” and “slave”. These terms more aptly describe the social roles the client-server paradigm produces.

Best quote I've seen in a while...
Unused or lost power is instead never produced in the first place. Unless it’s hydro or wind (and even these are not producing at full power all the time). This argument is effectively bogus, unfortunately.
Larry Niven wrote about 'wire-heads' in the Ringworld trilogy decades ago. Push a button for pleasure. Instantly completely addictive. So now we have confirmation he was right!
What _are_ the benefits, other than you get to say you're a GNU project and surrounded by Saint IGNUcius's halo?
Also, if such an actor was storing encrypted traffic as well, they could now easily decrypt this traffic en mass.
super tldr...

ipfs and zeronet (and dat project) are distributed file stores (think bittorrent), some have some special browsers n top that let you build applications

freenet is a distributed, secure content network.

i2p and tor are secure overlay neworks - run on top of the existing internet to provide secure connectivity - designed to obscure where traffic is going to and from.

gnunet and cjdns are also secure overlay networks but more like point to point vpns.
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. Monero takes this one step further by having an algorithm that is ASIC-resistant and that can be mined just as well on GPUs as on CPUs, which is probably the best you can get with regard of mining decentralization. The result is that Monero mining is much more spread-out and distributed over the world than Bitcoin mining.

The advantage of low electricity cost is of course something that cannot be eliminated without eliminating Proof of Work entirely.
Another aspect that is frequently overlooked is that keeping bitcoin requires no energy at all (literally you can write the key on a piece of paper), and a transfer (not considering the mining aspect) requires very little as well (it can be an SMS message).

Contrast that with the all the office buildings (e.g. Manhattan) and computer systems required by banks, ongoing. The banking industry has google-size datacenters as well, they just don't like to talk about it. As well as the energy to print the paper/plastic cash and all the statements, etc. It is very difficult to estimate the true energy consumed by fiat, while bitcoin energy is in the hashrate, and that's pretty much it.
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