skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>But many students, scholars, and general readers want even more from this literary character: they want her to fit the ideal of an empowered woman. It is comforting to subscribe to the notion—as Daniel Mendelsohn does in his recently published memoir, “An Odyssey,” and as Robert Fagles does, in his translation of the poem—that the marriage between Odysseus and Penelope is a partnership of intellectual equals, based on true love and a shared outlook on life. Odysseus speaks, in Homer’s poem, of the ideal of like-mindedness (homophrosyne) in marriage.

The modern impulse to impose its cultural norms upon the past is deeply upsetting. Its a sign of a frail, unsure, and declining culture.
If you have root access, you can [1]. You can also build your own apps to trust the "user" certificates [2].

[1]: https://blog.jeroenhd.nl/article/android-7-nougat-and-certif...

[2]: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2016/07/changes-to...
Maybe I'm just not that bright but I would expect to see a positive correlation between IQ and exceptional chess ability.
More like the safer : http://www.adaic.org/resources/add_content/standards/05rm/ht... ?

And to display addresses (with GNAT only...) :
https://www2.adacore.com/gap-static/GNAT_Book/html/rts/s-add... . Nothing preventing you to display addresses anyway. Surely something I've reached only once or twice in 10+ years of Ada. I'm left wondering how one could debug low-level stuff without it. Sure you can use gdb, valgrind. But sometimes you can't.

You can probably make this a coding rule and find something to check it in Gnatcheck (http://docs.adacore.com/live/wave/asis/html/gnatcheck_rm/gna...) or AdaControl (http://www.adalog.fr/en/AdaControl.html). Something you can do with ASIS (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Semantic_Interface_Speci...) or libadalang (http://blog.adacore.com/introducing-libadalang) is to build your own linter to check the use of this kind of operations.

For the curious about pointers in Ada (it is sometimes a bit confusing if you're coming from the pointer-is-an-integer-like-an-other-right? crowd, as I once was) : https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Types/access. It barely scrapes the surface but for a nicer introduction I can only recommend the 'Barnes' (http://www.cambridge.org/fr/academic/subjects/computer-scien...) in dead-tree form or a gentle introduction by JP Rosen at FOSDEM 2016 (pdf) : https://people.cs.kuleuven.be/~dirk.craeynest/ada-belgium/ev...
Show HN: Compare the tax plans
Wow, thank you for introducing me to that feature!
I've come across a few "tax plan impact calculators" which are great but tend to focus on how the tax plans affect me personally. Obviously that's important, but I also want to know how the tax plans affect others. With this in mind I started working on http://politisee.com/topics/2018taxbill. It attempts to summarize the plans into interactive charts, which I find are the best way to visualize the bigger picture impact. It's admittedly simplistic still, but I hope to continue refining and adding more factors with your input.

I don't think the site is terribly easy to use yet, but I didn't want to wait to address all of the issues before getting your feedback.

For those who are interested in this topic, here are a few projects that have come up recently that focus on the "me" part:

http://taxulator.com/

http://taxplancalculator.com/
"1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the [bitcoin] Market"

That, right there, is just one problem with Bitcoin, and it's a big one.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitco...
It doesn't sound from the article like they've shown that the fungus is connected, does it? Rather, they just got evidence that infections from genetically identical funguses were ~2 km apart, and that genetically identical funguses generally fuse together if they mechanically grow into each other.
I know they have taken their time with this, but it must be seen as a positive for an international body to be recognising the importance of open source
> it would be unreasonable to expect the government to be everywhere immediately

eh, it really hinges on how much we want to pay. i'm not saying you can just throw money at problems to make them go away, but there are quite a few things we could do.

An obvious government organization that feed and clothe tens of thousands of people half way around the world at a moment's notice is the military. That of course costs ~$600 billion a year.

It's feasible to have caches of food and water and generators and mobile cell stations that can be trucked or airlifted with no notice. Mobile emergency rooms, kitchens and shelters aren't really that hard to put together. It would cost billions, but it's totally doable.

The other half is about people. Partly getting high skill people from around the country to where they're needed, when they're needed. Electricians for example. really important for recovery. Also, volunteer organization. There are effectively a ton of unskilled people that need to be fed and sheltered. And there's a ton of unskilled work that can be done. I'm not saying we should force people to work to get fed after a disaster. I'm saying lots of those people want to fix things, and we're not great at using their labor.

FEMA is what it is. it could be very good. but that ain't cheap.
I sent $30k for less than $5 and the transaction was confirmed within 15 minutes (second block), the network is fine. Yes it isn't free transfers but they are still possible if you don't mind waiting and your transaction is reasonably sized you are fine.
I'm answering in generalities for legal reasons. It's not a matter of "[hitting] a nerve" so much as negotiated contracts. You should not assume in general (again, not specifying facts about my case) that "wrongful" cannot be negotiated to a settlement, including with terms governing statements parties can make. Labor law != criminal law: https://www.diffen.com/difference/Private_Law_vs_Public_Law

Therefore (again generalizing) if (likely net benefit of winning, adjusted for risk of losing) - (cost of suit) <= (benefit of settlement - lower cost of counsel to get to a settlement), and a similar relation for employer that takes into account PR risk-adusted costs as well, rational-actor parties tend to settle, with money flowing to the exiting employee and conditions binding the parties. This happens often, and is cloaked by non-disclosure terms almost always.
N+1 Queries No More
Lower transaction fees leads to more volume of transactions. They’re going for the amazon approach of razor thin margins which should lead to more transactions overall. They plan to keep transaction fees around 1 penny by increasing the block size as it fills up. Next fork for Bitcoin Cash will give it 32mb blocks.
And a sympathetic wealthy father in your twenties. (Sorry guys--just see it too much.)
I liked it too, myself. Personally I didn't find it over the top, but the title could've been more descriptive. It is technically a keylogger but keeping it vague just makes people assume it's malicious, when the code in question is obviously not, on its own.
POS is neither secure nor an obvious solution.
My ignorant speculation is that the VCs are pushing for them to become a money services business, where Stripe and PayPal are currently external dependencies of theirs.
not sure about any particulars in any one place but I am almost certain that this will vary by state, county and city.
I’m not convinced that firing a weapon is that useful of a statistic.
My point wasn't really about comparing Visa/Mastercard connected accounts with cryptoaccounts.

I just wanted to highlight that for a traditional transaction to be completed between to accounts requires a lot more energy and infrastructure than just the energy consumed directly by those services.

Nevertheless I still think its outrageous that so much energy is wasted mining BTC.
> After that age, we just cannot reliably assert that someone's IQ is, say, above 200.

To add to all the other criticisms of IQ score, it’s defined to be mean-100-σ-15* — so nobody has an IQ of over 197, and only newborn anenephalactics ever score as low az IQ 3… and perhaps not even then if they score the same as the comatose.

* or σ-16, which changes the subsequent statements a little.
And if its transaction volume were equal to bitcoin what would happen?
This. Incredible elegant. I always enjoy these types of things when programming Lisp.
I agree that modulation and divisions of labour reduce the limits otherwise imposed by human working memory. I'm not sure that the same is not true of lifespans, namely, what kind of thinking cannot be sufficiently comprehended as to be tackled within one lifetime? I know of nothing, and this may be ignorance, that takes more than a PhD to comprehend (of course, one wants more than to comprehend, but one can begin to contribute once one comprehends).

I was more thinking of the limits of humans ability to internally represent processes that we do not observe within quotidian life, and problems which requires such leaps of creative genius - like Einstein but 100x - that we cannot hope to traverse the chasm of our own stupidity in that singular moment of discovery.
Predicting is hard, especially about the future. Countries have gotten much, much worse before collapsing, and there are too many connections with international finance for the world to just let it happen to the US. See also: moral hazard.
Bitcoin is like gold, has always been. It's pretty bad for routine payments.
Right. Good thing they do that. Every time. Yup.
The power consumption is what I was alluding to. I guess I was too vague.
Thanks a lot for this. Any other recommendations for videos for other concepts or protocols?
Always good to hear from Mr. Lanier.

It was also vindicating to know that I'm not the only one who believes the gamergate => alt-right connection:

"When women got together to try and improve their lot in the gaming world, it turned into Gamergate, which turned into the alt-right."
America has a tradition of volunteers helping out in a disaster. I really disliked them being referred to as vigilantes in the headline. To me that implies that they're taking the law into their hands to get revenge. They see overwhelming need and are volunteering to assist local authorities, not to supersede or oppose them.
Is it any different from any other time?

Things that are constant at any generation throughout history: the young always appear selfish and without morals; the past is not treated with enough respect; the overall culture is surely in decline. Athenians under Pericles were convinced of these, as were Romans under Augustus.
According to actual research here: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/49318d3f56c1d525aabf7fda78b23...

Each additional kb results in an additional 80ms of delay until the majority learns about a block. Increasing to 8mb means you’re adding a 9min delay in propagation. That is pretty much guaranteed centralization.

Perhaps you have some research you can point me to that demonstrates otherwise?
> "The phrase "wise guy" is even an insult."

When wise guy is used as an insult, its meaning is close to that of smart arse, in that it implies someone is acting smart to belittle others. Whether that's the intention or not, that's what's being implied. If you take the ego boosting aspects out of it, then the term 'wise guy' is not derogatory.

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/smart-arse

I'm aware of the irony of explaining this term in this way, but I can't think of another way to effectively do it.
In Germany, after §163 StPO and related the police may interview you as part of an investigation but if you are a suspect you must be told so prior to any interview. You are allowed not to make any statements, which is not considered any crime. Additionally, any statements you make may only be used for discovery of the truth but are not in of themselves considered actual proof or evidence in absence of anything else, word of mouth is not fully sufficient with a few minor exceptions outside the scope of the StPO.

The sentiment re. the police in germany is much different than in america, so my initial assertion does not at all equate to "what you say can't be used against you", rather "the police is in general trustworthy and non-malicious", which does not seem to hold true for america.

You should consider that not all countries think like americans and do not hold the same sentiment as americans. People in other countries think different, not the same.
Because there is no room to scale an adventure travel business. The market is niche.
Well right now Bitcoin Cash has 8x the capacity for on chain scaling 1mb blocks on BTC vs 8mb on BCH. Next Bitcoin Cash fork gives us 32mb blocks or 32x transaction capacity.

Simplified a little bit I know you can pack segwit transactions into 1.7mb blocks on BTC.
Who's the enemy ? Why now ? If you are going to give a long presentation you better start with those questions!
They can't arrest you without probable cause. Especially if you are inside your house.
This may be straining the metaphor a bit, but I think you underestimate how much individuals want a magic sex pill.
No, the dosage is the hash rate (if more hash rate joins, the difficulty is automatically adjusted to keep it at 1 blocks / 10 min). The transaction output is constant, and market cap is irrelevant to the energy inefficiency discussion.
Everyone knows that Oracle products are poor quality. They were never about the product... Always about sales and litigation.

Oracle has firmly established its reputation and I'm confident that someday they'll pay for it.
Sure, here you go: http://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/49318d3f56c1d525aabf7fda78b23...

Tl,dr: each additional kB in blocksize adds approximately 80ms of delay until the majority learns about a block.
> The modern impulse to impose its cultural norms upon the past is deeply upsetting.

It's not a modern impulse, it's pretty much an invariant aspect of culture.

Of course, so is the tendency to perceive invariant aspects of culture as both unique to the present culture and signs of decline.
The headline is an authoritarian dogwhistle - any action to help one's fellow man not sanctioned by your "betters" is frowned upon at best.
Maybe he just changed his opinion? This Russia hysteria is not helping anyone. Whether or not Russia hacked the election I don't know. But blaming everything on the Russians doesn't help anyone and will only make you look silly.
Show him atomic force microscope images, or a single atom glowing in an atom trap.

Show him how hypotheses about the shapes and sizes of nuclei are tested via atomic spectroscopy and scattering experiments.
Just to add, by definition 6σ is one in a billion. It isn’t just “profoundly gifted”, but rather “there are seven of you”.
I'm going to need you to provide some sources, because that smells an awful lot like complete horse shit.
A 6 year old boy is making $11M a year on YouTube
I'll agree that the manifesto is vague enough that you could reinterpret it your way. However, its inimical vagueness is hardly a point in its favor, since all that means is that people project whatever meaning that they really want on to it. Meaning that it has very little meaning.

But it still strongly implies that tools basically don't matter, and I've worked on teams where people did choose to interpret it that way, which ironically led to waterfalling...
We can eat the fruiting bodies, the "mushrooms" which the fungus sends up above the surface of the soil for reproductive purposes. Evidently they smell bad raw, but when you cook them they're delicious.
To be fair, these points apply equally to taxis. I'm not the only person who got into a taxi in Manhattan on a Friday evening and promptly told to get out when I said take me to Brooklyn?
OK, thanks for this explanation! None of this appeared in the Lightning explainers I have seen so far.
Agreed. As long as you weed out the copyright infringement, this would work really well, considering that many artists that are popular today (chance the rapper comes to mind) started on Soundcloud.
"The Decentralized Web" is the WWW system Tim Berners-Lee invented and that we're all using right now. It relies on the DNS and HTTP protocols. This new IPFS-based decentralized web is interesting but it's not even a measurable percentage of web traffic today. Far from being "The".

What we need more than anything is to actually realize the beautiful dream TBL had for the WWW. HN is one great example but there should be a million more.
Obviously no, the current version of Bitcoin does not scale.

I don't see why you think that means Bitcoin _can't_ scale though. In order to convincingly make that claim, you'd need to be able to prove that all existing proposed solutions for scaling the network (lightning, block size increases, etc) cannot possibly work.
Smile molds are now considered Protozoa, partially due to behavioral differences in how they eat, but mostly due to genetic testing.
Oh sure, just back your argument with reference to a page that runs the Core Propaganda. Please evaluate the whitepaper, section 5 and really understand how bitcoin functions.
The institutions through which we perpetrated those atrocities are still intact, and we continue to comprise them.
Or more generally, this is just a description of Technology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology

There may be "limits" in terms of scope and trade offs to society, but there are no practical "physical limitations" with respect to available atoms.
Its one of the worst things I have seen in my life.
My knowledge of quantum general relativity isn’t good enough to even know for sure that the search for answer to that question is exactly why Hawking et al have been concerned with the black hole information paradox.
I grew up in a very privileged white world, with an attitude that I could always talk to the police because they were never interested in me. I felt that there would be unlikely to be an outcome where I got in any real trouble even if I had been breaking the law in some childish but “not actually bad” kind of way. Doing some dumb stunt or smoking a little weed - “nothing serious”.

A friend from a different place helped me see that in so many ways that attitude was only one I could hold from my position of extreme privilege. The world was in a sense made for me, or rather people like me. As a “normal” white male the system had built-in leniency. White judges would “understand I was a good kid” who “meant no harm”. The law had a built in amount of forgiveness for me. I could risk doing dumb things and still talk to police.

For everyone who isn’t amongst the class this world was build for, the reality is very different. Even my outlook was a fantasy that may not always hold true, but for others there is not even the comfort of that belief. People like me who are comfortable will perpetuate the system because it “works” for us, but everyone else is terrorized by it.

I have a different outlook now, and I can begin to understand why talking to the police is so risky for most people. I understand too that it is risky for me. The system does not in fact care for me. I am more cautious now. And I desire a system that is more fair - though I have so much more I need to learn, and I need to get more out of my comfort zone to better serve the others most affected by the injustice of our system.
> There's a drive towards smallness...

Which dynamically competes with a drive towards largeness (eating bigger prey/resisting bigger predators).
Well that’s embarrassing. I always thought what you’ve described as the collapse feature to be the downvote. Many thanks
I remember having found an optimization in the disassembler 30 years ago, and I was so proud of me.

It's on page 51, we can replace:

LSR
BCC EVEN
LSR
BCS ERR
CMP #$22
BEQ ERR
AND #$7
ORA #$80

with:

LSR
BCC EVEN
ROR
BCS ERR
CMP #$A2
BEQ ERR
AND #$87

saving 2 bytes !
That's quite some stuff I'm not aware of. I know that we know the shape of the atom by interacting with but I didn't know that we have that much precision at predicting a something more complex.
It is very shady, but also very prevalent. I think that even FreeRTOS - an open-source embedded RealTime Operating System library - had it until Amazon recently MIT'd it.

"If our code is not the best, you MUST NOT TELL ANYONE." Yeah, that's healthy...
I haven't looked into the enforceability of this kind of contract in particular. That being said, there are arguments in the abstract that I'd apply---essentially, the argument that this kind of contract is against public policy because of those kinds of anti-competitive effects.

Without doing the research, it wouldn't surprise me if the extent to which these clauses were enforceable varied state-by-state. States tend to diverge a lot on these kinds of "unenforceable because against public policy" arguments.
BitShares, apparently. Press release June 10, 2015, claimed 100,000 t/s.
To me, the difference between the lightning scenario and a digital assistant, is that in the former scenario, I'm protecting the device (and my home) by disconnecting it, but in the latter scenario, I'm protecting myself from the device. It's something inherent to the nature of the device that I'm trying to avoid. I don't feel like those are comparable situations.
I just call a taxi firm. I always know the local firms number, because it is a transposition of my desk phone number at work! I take a lot of calls wanting a taxi, and god are people rude to people they think they can get away with. I have half a mind some days to say 'yes, be with you in 10 minutes'.
AKA pivoting.
Because of the cost involved in setting up a channel. It's still not suitable for paying for a coffee or restaurant for example... Unless the cafe/restaurant happens to have an existing channel with an exchange that you yourself happen to also have a channel with; then you pay through that exchange... You can see how in this hypothetical word, it would be better to have fewer exchanges... More centralization.
Yes. The universe has a "Johari" window, that is an implication of Godel's incompleteness theorem.
That’s not an illusion. You’d be seeing it accurately.
How is that any different from US dollars?

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/jan/16/w...
You should realize block propagation is largely a solved problem using xthin, compact block and graphene. We could scale to 1GB and propagation would not be an issue.

> Core devs are pursuing many alternative and intelligent scaling avenues.

Their strategy of stalling for the last couple of years is the least intelligent approach they could have taken.

> Core devs are pursuing many alternative and intelligent scaling avenues.

Yes they do, that's the point of Bitcoin.

> If PoS works, another UASF initiative will arise and everyone running a node can decide the new PoW scheme

You mean if PoS works they can fork and use their altcoin.

> The fact that you don’t understand this leads me to believe you don’t have a good understanding of the technology yet.

The fact that you don't understand this leads me to believe you're either a Core shill or you have been seduced by their pretty words. The whitepaper makes all this clear.