skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Increasing block size results in longer validation times as well as slower block propagation

Processing more transactions requires more resources. That's not a bad thing. One might note that currently Bitcoin Cash is usable as a medium of exchange, whereas Bitcoin is not.

They can reduce the bandwidth requirements by implementing e.g. compact blocks.
You underestimate the dreams of BTC Boosters.
I don't disagree, but this takes seconds instead of 2-3 business days in the case of ACH verification. 2-3 business days is an absolute eternity in the world of Bitcoin speculation.
Other stories:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6933360

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5427985

4 years ago they had a problem with customer service and the situation does not appear to have improved:

> When it takes a public outcry on HN for a company to do their job, I no longer deal with such a company. Simple as that. I don't care if you raised $25 million - if you can't treat your users fairly, you deserve neither.
Sounds familiar. Chromium (not Chrome) still asks on first use but IIRC defaults to Google if you ignore it. IE (8, I think, whatever came with Win7) offered an option at first run but I've never had the options page actually load, so it defaults to Bing/MSN.
Whaleclub
Feel free to implement your code changes on the alt of your choice. Bitcoin node users remain unaffected.

It's over right? The whole attempt to sideline the bitcoin development team failed, and now that uncertainty has been removed, the price of bitcoin is skyrocketing. That's because bitcoin is valuable for what it is, not for unproven use-cases that decrease bitcoin security. We will get to those use-cases through layering bitcoin, and will not have to sacrifice security to do it.

Accept it. Move on.
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We're focused on becoming a national insurance carrier and are now live in eight states.

We raised a $7M Series A from Drive Capital in 2015 and we're looking to bring on a couple more talented engineers.

Tech stack involves Ruby / Rails and Javascript / React Native.

Email us at jobs@joinroot.com to apply and we'll respond to you promptly.
OpenFirmware uses architecture independent FORTH byte code, so peripheral cards can include machine independent drivers and diagnostics!

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

Open Firmware Forth Code may be compiled into FCode, a bytecode which is independent of computer architecture details such as the instruction set and memory hierarchy. A PCI card may include a program, compiled to FCode, which runs on any Open Firmware system. In this way, it can provide platform-independent boot-time diagnostics, configuration code, and device drivers. FCode is also very compact, so that a disk driver may require only one or two kilobytes. Therefore, many of the same I/O cards can be used on Sun systems and Macintoshes that used Open Firmware. FCode implements ANS Forth and a subset of the Open Firmware library.
It's Not Just a Bitcoin Bubble – It's Far Worse
(Customer has $50+bn in revenue) tells us nothing. How good is it going to be for YOU? Because that should be the main data point for this decision. You might want to charge them 10X-50X the usual price if their request involves trade secret disclosure.

Insofar as their motives are concerned, you should assume the worst; that that they will steal your IP and force you into endless litigation. From a game theoretic min/max perspective this is a sound way to think about it. It's also reasonably likely. There is a good chance they want you to get them started on a problem they don't know how to solve and then they will iterate off your solution. Happens all the time. Imo, if you are building a business in this space, you shouldn't let them do this to you.

Other options: Offer to add some explainable AI visualization stuff into the app. Hide the best parts behind a web service and only agree to give them the source code for the gui. It sounds crazy but people will agree to compromises like this all the time.
51 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Predictions for 2018
I feel like some of these comments are just reading the title and immediately posting their disagreement. I'm with you, he says he writes integration tests himself. There's nothing controversial about this post, it's actually pretty interesting.
Short answer - I am not a fan of EOS.

Long answer - I had a chance to interact with one of the founders - Daniel Larmier back in 2013/14 during his Bitshares days. My impression is that while he has all these grand ideas, he doesn't know how to follow through. Then there seemed to be a lot of nepotism during the Bitshares build.

And then there is this:

> What features, uses or attributes do EOS Tokens have? Can the EOS Tokens be used on a blockchain adopting the EOS.IO Software?

> block.one is building the EOS.IO Software but it will not configure and/or launch any public blockchain platform adopting the open source EOS.IO Software (the “EOS Platform”). Any launch of an EOS Platform will occur by members of the community unrelated to block.one. Third parties launching the EOS Platform may delete, modify or supplement the EOS.IO Software prior to, during or after launching the EOS Platform.
The EOS Tokens do not have any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features, express or implied, including, without limitation, any uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features on the EOS Platform.
Unless you buy with credit cards, good luck making bank transfers work on Coinbase.

EDIT: Downvoting with no explanation will not change my experience. I believe that cryptocurrencies are the future but having to wait weeks for a simple bank transfer only to find out that your funds will be returned with no explanation why apart from a cryptic message that has something to do with your bank account name not matching your coinbase name is rather annoying. Match how? What do you compare? An extra dot at the end of your middle name will throw off the system without any reasonable explanation.

Honestly, if Coinbase improves their messages in this situation, it may actually reduce the overhead on their customer support but I gather that this might be intentional.
> "The real reason there's sticker shock is that the real cost of road transportation is hidden from most voters. Gas tax money goes to states and the US Department of Transportation which flows back as what seems like free federal money to build a lot of roads. Meanwhile, every transit project has to scrimp for funds..." "...estimated that tolls would have to be at least $41 to pay off the costs of construction."

A lot of people take for granted the Eisenhower interstate infrastructure.
From my experience that seems to be the case with pretty much all the exchanges and resellers lately.
No, all one needs to do is have access to the routing / account number and one can start withdrawing funds, paying bills, etc. There is nothing in place to prevent that and nothing else is needed.
Agreed, mature markets have usually been carved up, and competitors have to fight to gain even an inch of market share. In such a scenario, a dollar saved is a full dollar in the pocket.

A dollar gained would have many costs to gain that dollar.
Does anyone else see some eerie parallels between the rise of bitcoin and the rise of real estate in CA? Both have a finite maximum, and both have surpassed all expectations in appreciation. followed by an intense FOMO.

Personally, I can't wait to find out what happens next. This is better than watching football!
There's nothing wrong with "floating" IP's as long as it's done properly.
A theoretical system is always going to seem better than an active implementation.
Intro to RxSwift
Ignoring the morals for a second, with tolls that high and difficulty identifying which vehicles qualify for a HOV exemption, I wonder how many days of tolls a single ticket is and likelihood of being caught?

Let's say a ticket is $150. If the toll is $6 then you're likely better off paying the toll as you're likely to be caught at least once every 25 days. At $40 they'd need to catch you at least once a week for you to lose money. The $150 amount is fictional, I don't know what the ticket would cost, more just a thought experiment.

In any regard, when tolls are this high, you have to consider issues like this. What works for a $4-6 toll doesn't scale to $40 unless the tickets also scale.
The story of LifeDiary app
A Peek at David Rockefeller’s Rolodex
Based on what hasn't happened in recent decades, I'd say that climate-change deniers have won. So it goes.
I don't think people are being unreasonable by being unhappy with a $40 toll. The way the article words it, solo drivers all of a sudden saw a $40 toll where they previously had no permission to drive at all.

What actually happened was that people were expecting to see a $6 toll be put in place and instead saw a $40. Imagine going to McDonald's where your friend told you that you could get a Filet o' Fish for $1 but when you get there you find out that McDonald's was charging $5. You'd be mad. You still have the option to not buy the sandwich, but it went contrary to your expectations.

So the article is correct, but I don't think they fully accounted for the fact that people had already been told to expect something else. The article mentioned it, but then goes and talks like people are being unreasonably frustrated for tolls that were completely unexpected.
Why would anyone ever use rsk? They created a centralized clone of Ethereum and charge 20% fees, or something like that.

Here's a truly revolutionary scaling solution by the inventor of Bitcoin's Lightning network and Vitalik Buterin: https://plasma.io/

Also here is an Ethereum's equivalent of the Lightning network, which was deployed on main net recently: https://raiden.network/
>...favoring individuals with desirable naturally occurring variations in characteristics...
>...cobbling together genes of totally unrelated species...

Both of these statements describe genetic engineering. But you're right, there is a big difference between them: one is basically just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks and the other is a scientific process backed by hundreds of years of research.

The reason why people assign a lower risk to selective breeding is that the amount of physiological change present in one or a few generations is small. You don't worry that the rice you eat had a trascription error and may be genetically altered because it is invisible to you. But when you look at genetic engineering you see the big changes in a short amount of time and you feel it is more unsafe even though those alterations are being performed by some of the most intelligent minds of our generation.

You talk of scientists "cobbling together genes of totally unrelated species" as if they were nice modular pieces that you can rearrange in any order. Just the mechanism by which genes are edited is a choreographed sequence of tools that make the steady hands of the worlds best surgeon look bad.

I am not nessesarily 100% pro-GMO though, I just dislike the FUD that people use to demonize it as something radically different that what humans have been doing for millenia. The only thing different is that now we have a clue what we are doing. Will some people abuse it to benefit themselves? Yes, of course, but that is independent of the methods by which they screw people over.
I don't get it. "6k-7k monthly active users" is a failure of an app, just because it's outside the U.S.? That's way more than I ever got, I'd say that's a success.
How much effort is required to reconfigure pgbouncer across hundreds of app containers vs moving a single IP? (not using pacemaker/corosync)
It seems likely that coinbase has many cold and hot wallets which are geographically and technically distributed across many vaults and key generators.
Could you explain why "this" needs to "stop"? Why would the success of Bitcoin be apocalyptic?
That's not how the law works; intent matters. It's not enough for the tests to pass or for some proof to hold. These things are artifacts of some underlying human objectives.
I guess I'm at a loss here because I've lived in DC almost 6 years now and it never occurred to me that I-66 was HOV only during certain portions of the day. I know I am not alone in this because I see similar conversations happening elsewhere.

Additionally, many comments say that single traveler HOV use is forbidden however I frequently see single drivers in the HOV lanes on 66 and elsewhere un-restricted. As a computer vision engineer, I know that DC doesn't have the capability to build camera systems that can infer a single/multi passenger drivers and the number of police that are 1. available and 2. can discern as much are simply not there. Are they now mailing toll charges to everyone who does not have the EZPass system?

What they effectively did was permit free use of I-66 virtually unimpeded, through lack of enforcement of the intended laws, for years and then rapidly and expensively enforce the system.

So the question I have is, how is it that they can go from a minimally (at best) enforced HOV policy to a high toll rate system effectively overnight, and expect that driver behavior will change without outrage?

It seems like it will certainly decrease the road users, IF one of two things happen: they can identify and charge (or overcharge) drivers based on occupancy (I argue they technologically can't) OR rely on self-policing of behavior from drivers.
And if that's not enough slots for you, get a Mountain Computer Expansion Box!

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The VB6 IDE is distressingly easy to get running on modern versions of Windows - this is fortunate, since we still need to support it, but upsetting, since it diminishes the incentive for killing it off.
Or lose a lot of it?
>Nobody wants to pay more in taxes

Bullshit. I'm happy to pay more in taxes if it means that the society I'm a part of improves as a consequence.

Whether money from a tax increase is well spent is another question, however.
"C: all the power of assembly language with all the ease-of-use of assembly language"
No, it's not the degree, it's the place, and the easily-negative influence that can be found at many institutes of higher learning. Also forbidden isn't the right word. "Recommended against" would be a better way of putting it.
Study the job listing. Even if it is written badly, there are usually a lot of clues about what technologies are important. Spend some time getting your hands on those technologies if possible. If it is a database, get an aws account, install it on ec2, set up a schema, and ingest some data. If there is a scripting requirement, what libraries might they be using? Roughly mimic what they have and write against it.

Then, on your resume, list that you have experience with those technologies. You don’t have to lie, but if you used a specific library and know it, then you know it.
If the road was already pretty full during rush hour when no solo driver was allowed, how is this new rule going to help by adding even more drivers? Sounds like a major fail to even have that kind of rule in first place.
I think that caveat that you cite is operative. Although I take it in a slightly different direction than the author.

The point at which integration tests become important is not really a question of bullet-proof-ness. It's a question of complexity. When the underlying system has sufficiently many moving parts/degrees of freedom, at some point, you need to see what it does when your system interacts with it in a certain way.

Generally this is not necessary for integers. In most domains, you're not going to come upon any boundary conditions in the way they are transformed or compared. Transactions are also a pretty simple concept with little in the way of moving parts. If your system doesn't rely on their behavior near boundary conditions, maybe they are transparent enough that you don't have to test your system's interaction with the transaction concept. But there are a lot of underlying systems that are not like that.
Recent new bridge in BC, Port mann bridge, was tolled.

But due to lack of ridership, and overhead tolling, they were never going to pay off the bridge.

It's now taken from taxes, everyone in the province pays.
It's not so much that they don't understand, but rather that they don't care. People can buy Bitcoin for fun or to try to make money without believing in the ideology that was originally used to justify it.
#deleteUber
Yann LeCun Reacts to Ali Rahimi's NIPS Talk
Large public construction projects are vastly more expensive (in real dollars) today than in Eisenhower's.
All the points on the job listing that were recommended or even suggested I do have experience with, except I don't have experience using the company's own products (not a requirement anyways).
As long as Block.one markets it well, makes it easy for developers to develop on, as well as normal people to use its dapps, it should come out on top. That's my opinion on it. The head engineer seems to be one of the few geniuses in the industry, as he's already built 2 very successful blockchains, and he's building EOS for him to develop on. I also think he wants to prove Vitalik(Ethereum founder) wrong on his direction for Ethereum, which might help EOS's marketing. Time will tell. I plan on soon developing/testing on EOS during its ICO to have a head start for when all the bugs are worked out and they improve the blockchains performance for the real scalability it's promising.
Along these lines, I prefer black and white matte rather than glossy color.
Not quite, unfortunately. In assembly language, you don't have to fear that your compiler optimizes out clearing cryptographic keys out of memory at the end of a function.
Actually, I'd say this is better. Moviepass doesn't even give you the option to pay (the difference, presumably) more and see the "better" (chortle) version.
Mouseover text of https://xkcd.com/1357/ :

> I can't remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express.
<Then a wage of $4 would attract people from countries in the world, including large countries like Mexico, China, Brazil, India, Indonesia, the Philippines.>

What nonsense.. how can anyone expect a truck driver to survive on a wage of $4 an hour in the US.
It would be a lot easier to evaluate his criticism, sorry, challenge, if he had actually provided an example of a design abstraction that did what he claimed, i.e. turned an integration test into a unit test.
After I read Nathan Barry's Authority:

http://nathanbarry.com/authority/

I started writing a blog to build my personal brand. The problem I am having is driving traffic to my blog. I get like 5 views in a day.

So, any ideas on marketing the blog will be helpful.
I think that's right, that other than bullet-proof-ness, the boundary conditions and interfaces between nontrivial subsystems matter a lot and need to be integration-tested. Glad you pointed that out.
This has been said over and over again among enthusiasts — I don't really know what value this article adds, in all honesty.
I've explored about 0.1% of the universe with 30 sexdecillion paperclips.
A closer look at the Howey Test, and what it might mean for your ICO ambitions
Fast Company 2018 Awards
https://fastcompany.swoogo.com/wci/

This got recommended to me by a friend. You fill out their form and then at the very end end you have to pay $150 per category to enter their competition. Why would anyone agree to do this? I've never heard of Fast Company before but it just seems stupid to me
Is advanced layers still DirectX only?
AutoScaling Applications and Crons in AWS
A well known heavily trafficked site was put under onerous FTC sanction and had to agree to prepare monthly reports about how they were keeping user's data safe for the next ten years.

Perhaps Uber will face the same penalty.
The other day I was driving along 50 to Annapolis, where the left lane is always HOV for 8 miles after 495, and was passed by a dozen cars in the HOV lane, all single riders. This sort of behavior is a cancer that will destroy America, mark my words.

As to enforcement, in my experience the I-66 HOV is pretty aggressively enforced. They’ll park cop cars in major exits during the toll period pulling people over. I’ve gotten tagged that way when I’ve accidentally taken the road during toll hours when I left work earlier than usual.
where they previously had no permission to drive at all.

I think this is where it's getting hung up. The signage and all other road markings on I-66 did not give a solo driver the overwhelming impression that they did not have "permission" to drive on those roads. Compounding this is that it was/is only during certain portions of the day.

As an example, if I go onto the Dulles or Loudoun county toll roads, it's explicitly clear with toll booths etc... that YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON THIS ROAD WITHOUT PAYING. Similar around the country on other toll roads.

If all access is just as easy as any other road and there is no enforcement mechanism (save the odd example of someone you know getting a ticket) or overbearing signage (like on the 495 EZPass lanes) then naturally people would assume it's just like any other "free" highway.

I think DC has a unique driving culture around this and slugging that unless you are just a total stickler for the rules is largely a grab bag game.
I thought it was interesting that it seems to like the English Opening. It's not popular, but Bobby Fischer played it in the world championship against Spassky.
China province near North Korea warns about the dangers of nuclear war
according to STREAM benchmarks, the GPU's random access memory bandwidth scales similarly to the CPU's as the sequential access one. Is the difference in the CPU's more sophisticated caching behaviour? Did you actually do any tests with random access on GPU?
And that’s why you shouldn’t check in passwords or tokens with Git, kids.
Yes, including accounts > $1M.
Depends. On a major tent pole release the theater will only be getting ~20% of revenue for the first couple of weeks. Later in the release cycle the split gets much more even
If they have won, they have only won because the game has been given to them. It's clear to see that a lot of their arguments are just reactionary, as Florin_Andrei pointed out.
Far too simplistic view IMHO.
> To many drivers' surprise, though, the tolls during rush hour were high, hitting $34.50 Monday morning and reaching $40 Tuesday.

Is this like "surge pricing" on tolls?

I thought most of the tolls are fixed to allow people know in advance what they must pay. If it increases based on demand, I think people will get mad.

I think the psychology, if any, need not go towards the two choices. But rather what people thought the "dynamic pricing" will be and that was $5-$6 on average.

People get mad at ride sharing companies for their "surge pricing" so this seems in the same mold.
This is a weird rule of thumb but I don’t trust anyone or any team in the cryptocurrency space who doesn’t have a technical background from a top university. When the noise is high, I need a better signal.
When I google myself, it all looks good except a video that is posted on a past employer’s Youtube account, of me doing karaoke. This is the company’s Youtube account. Does this look bad? I honestly don’t know. Of course, the karaoke is terrible.