skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Volunteering is one of those things that is wonderful idealistically speaking but not necessarily in reality.

All too often these organizations are sought by horrible people to socialize with fellow horrible people.

My point is not that volunteering is bad (it isn't!) but that it's pretty much like any other interpersonal activity. Something magical can result from it but all too often (if you're not desperate to meet people) you waste your time with a bunch of ruthlessly selfish people.
The Zubie receives GPS just fine.
And the article doesn't mention it at all. Instead they call for government to regulate crypto space.

They are all a bunch of agenda-pushing hacks.
Which activity: free shipping on a multi-ton lathe, people saying specific phrases on podcasts, or other people buying devices that can order stuff for them based on voice commands? Where is the source of the rot?
> The central question: If the entire resources of all world governments were brought to bear on the task of destroying Bitcoin, what would be the most effective way to do this?

Buy a bunch of hardware to own 51% of the network and make a bunch of illegal transactions which will destroy trust in the system. The US has a federal budget of $3.8 trillion. That's pocket change to them. Or if it's china just force the companies with ASIC's to do it for you: https://medium.com/@homakov/how-to-destroy-bitcoin-with-51-p...
This seems odd:

This database makes finding passwords faster and easier than ever before. As an example searching for “admin,” “administrator” and “root” returned 226,631 passwords of admin users in a few seconds.

Out of 1.4B credentials there are only 226K for admin, administrator and root?
To host a website in China you need to get a permit [1]. You can host the site outside, but I am not sure if it will be always accessible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICP_license
My wife an I rescue dogs (and have cats from past rescues). We tend to specialize in French bulldogs, but may get an English soon. The ones we get are usually puppy mill throwaways, and have a lot of initial health problems. The vet bills definitely eat into our disposable income, but nothing else I have ever spent money on has made me happier.

If anyone gets a chance read up on puppy mills and how horrible they are. Go to a shelter and rescue an animal today.
In the early part of the nineteenth century, there were no signs, signals, or lane markers. It was a true shared space with cars, pedestrians, and even horses, since cars were so new. However, over many generations, safety concerns caused our traffic system to evolve in what we have today.

Rapidly going back to the original anarchy may have an initial success due to the novelty of it, but I think we should not give up on the system that has evolved successfully over time.

Also, we are about to embark on a fundamental redesign of our traffic system with autonomous vehicles, so maybe we should wait and see.
>Science is a process to find objective truths.

There are no "objective truths" (that's metaphysics).

Science is a process to find which models/hypotheses make more accurate predictions and have more explanatory power.

>It relies upon consistency, if a counterexample is found to a theory that theory is considered incorrect. New theories must match all existing data.

That (a popular but naive epistemology) doesn't hold with how scientific process actually works.

New theories can have counterexamples or be unable to match all existing data and still be successful in providing a handier model for more phenomena. Theories might even be inconsistent with other theories (e.g. QM and relativity) and still co-exist and successfully grow while searching for a unification factor (whether that's successful or not).

New theories can succeed (and historically have been known to) even when not accounting for all existing known facts predicted by earlier ones. In other words, more explanatory power doesn't necessarily mean a complete superset. The intersection might not cover 100%.

And that's just for hard sciences. For soft sciences, from economics to social sciences, it's even fuzzier.
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I have not seen him mentioning that the web service is apparently invoked over unsecure http. You can still add authentication, but if the service is running over http yu might as well not have any authentication at all.
Isn't he more complaining about capitalists participating in capitalism until other people make more money than them, and only then becoming anticapitalists? It's not a group that has always been anti-Facebook. It's a group that has been on the inside pushing Facebook for a long time until other groups co-opted Facebook to push an agenda they don't like. Now they want Facebook to silence those people.

They're closer to crony-capitalists who like capitalism as long as it benefits them, and then want to pass regulations keeping everyone else out.
That's right spec is a runtime thing.

This Spectrum thing purports to evaluate your specs at compile time though:

https://github.com/arohner/spectrum
Mensa is not exceptionally smart. It's 2% of all people. [removed a distracting point about social group size.] Most people are likely to know someone who could qualify for Mensa.

Mensa is quite smart, but I wouldn't use the word "exceptional." If you write a method that throws an exception on 2% of all inputs, I think maybe you're doing it wrong. 2% is still too common, in my opinion, to be considered an exception.
I'm having a bit of a parallel discussion elsewhere and I think my response there is completely appropriate here, but I'd rather not just cut and paste the same stuff all over the place: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885977

The downside of threaded discussions!
> and deadline

What do you do if someone says they don’t know how to estimate a particular task?
The article makes no connection between Facebook and Capgras syndrome (which is the feeling that someone you know has been replaced by an impostor). It's just a luddite scientist who doesn't understand the concept of online social relationships.
Off Topic: Is anyone else creeped out by having an open ledger? As soon as I transact with someone or an entity, they now have access to view my wallet's holding/transactions via pub key. I don't know how I feel about Overstock having that information.
To discredit the opposition, really?! You're naive. The opposition needs not to be discredited because of their fuck ups for 6 years!

Read about how the former President Aquino and his Liberal Party cohorts who approved the UNTESTED dengue vaccine, DengVaxia!!! It was discovered recently when Sanofi Pasteur declared it as unsafe. Now because of the stupidity of those people 700K+ kids will pay the price because of their greed?! How many already died up-to-date?!
1: Ripple
2: Stellar
3: NEM
4: IOTA
It looks like 427 million of these entries came from a myspace breach.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11788694
Same question back in 1994 about the internet. "build things that don't scale. PG".
If anything that sounds high to me.
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Why did he reach behind his back? Why can't people follow simple instructions? This video is grim, but there are so many other videos on YouTube that show how people consistently just do not listen to what is being said to them. If a person is pointing a machine gun at you, it is probably in your best interest to do exactly as they say and to do it slowly.

what a waste.
You are making quite the assumption there about the number of one's friends and acquaintances.
Particularly since a git repo, as a whole, isn't a functional data structure. The commits (and the graph in which they're embedded) are immutable, but the mapping between branch names and commits gets mutated all the time. (To say nothing of slightly deeper esoterica like the index and stashes.)
"Balances" are stored on every block. If you threw away the beginning of the chain, you could keep generating blocks, but you couldn't spend any transaction outputs that are stored in the thrown away parts of the chain.

Unless I'm missing something something pretty big about how Bitcoin's blockchain works.
Something like that already happened with Justine Bone and Medsec.
Something being infinite doesn't mean it has no limit (I guess "boundary" would be a better term). If, for instance, it were impossible to answer any question about the strong interaction, I'd clearly call that a limit to our understanding, regardless of the infinity of things we can say about black holes.
I agree the title is click bait. Here’s a quote from the creator (taken from the reddit link):

> I have compiled it, I just want to show how big is password reuse problem for security community, and how easy was to crack those hashes using open source software.
This article is such garbage... it was tore apart in a /r/netsec discussion just last night.

https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/7ikbzo/14_billion_c...
Thank you, that post brought more insights in how they want to change it in a way that I hadn't thought about much. My view was more black and white, some basic internet or all internet.

I need some time to think about this, but I will probably be back later or tomorrow.

Thank you again.
"emergent phenomena" isn't quite the term for this.
An emergent phenomenon is simply a phenomenon that arises form the interaction of components, and so can't be explained purely by reduction to components.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence
This couple is asking for only one gift at their wedding: Bitcoin
As engineers and technologists we must always be mindful of our impact on the planet. Bitcoin has been a disaster when it comes to environmental concerns. It is a shadow on techs efforts to lead the way toward a sustainable future.

We need to figure out a way to solve this issue, especially if cryptocurrency utilization is to increase, in particular through Bitcoin:

Bitcoin uses about 32 terawatts of energy every year, enough to power about three million U.S. households, according to the Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index published by Digiconomist, a website focused on digital currencies.

By comparison, processing the billions of Visa (V) transactions that take place each year consumes the same amount of power as just 50,000 American homes, according to Digiconomist.
In theory you could encrypt the payloads via some other means and use something like HTTP digest authentication, but I'm sure that's not what happens here.
Its not really, but previously you had to build from sources to apply security/reliability fixes between releases.
Are you sure about that? I thought one of the reasons a lot of this happens in China is because they can locate in areas with very cheap surplus hydropower.

Also the idea that the US just automatically can be assumed to have cleaner energy policy than China is archaic at this point. The world changes fast.
Just glancing at the man page, atomic rollback kinda jumps out...
Please don't post unsubstantive dismissals here. Even if you're right, you're only saying it, not showing it. This combined with the snark lowers the quality of the discussion below not posting anything at all.

A substantive version of this comment might point out some specific aspect of "online social relationships" that doesn't fit the model of the article.
> Bitcoin boom may be a disaster for the environment

Probably the most important implication of this undeniable truth is that it's a ready-made justification for liberal governments to ban Bitcoin if it becomes sufficiently disagreeable to them. (It's a great justification for despotic governments as well, but they don't really need one -- one of the perks of being despotic!)

EDIT: I meant "liberal" in the classical, pro-freedom sense (as opposed to despotic), not trying to place governments on the liberal/conservative spectrum of contemporary American politics. I thought that was clear from the context.
I don't understand the screenshot
Does that matter? If you're looking to develop a drug to treat hypertension but end up with Viagra by accident instead, do you throw it away because that wasn't the original goal?
Apple ‘On Schedule’ to Terminate Music Downloads by 2019
I checked, most are outdated passwords.

Odd thing, I checked with other people, and they don't remember those as old passwords.

I even found passwords I don't remember...
Comparing the energy used for Visa transactions to Bitcoin is a false comparison. Bitcoin not only handles transactions, but more importantly, it maintains current wealth and the entire history of every transaction that took place, including the rules that manage it.

You should compare the energy bitcoin uses to all energy used by traditional banks, their corporate headquarters, the government regulators responsible for managing the system, lawyers / judges / institutions managing conflicts, mobile apps and servers powering it, etc.

Bitcoin is doing all of these things without formal institutions, employees, governance, and official regulation.
serpentza has a video on driving in China:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUfsB2siCOI

Skip to about 9:00
The demand for USD comes from the legal structures that exist in the United States for things like debts, torts, taxes, etc. Basically, if you take out a loan to buy a house, you have a legal obligation to repay it regardless of how it is denominated by your bank; but if you fail to meet that obligation, you will need to deal with a bankruptcy court, which will only deal in USD. So if you take out a 40BTC mortgage and fail to pay, the judge will first convert the value of the house into USD and work out a way to repay (all or part) of the debt in USD. By forcing you to convert what assets you have to USD, the court is creating demand for USD.

Of course, banks know this (it is the core of their business) and will therefore denominate loans in USD to avoid the risk of an unfavorable conversion during such a proceeding. Such an unfavorable conversion is exactly what the creditors in the MtGox bankruptcy are facing, because the proceeding involved converting their BTC accounts into JPY according to the exchange rate in 2014. Due to the change in BTC prices recently, that means that under the law the creditors will be fully repaid using what BTC assets MtGox still has, despite the fact that the creditors would receive a far greater payout if they received the amount of BTC that had been in their accounts at the time of the hack.

Beyond debts, there are also torts. Suppose I crash my car into your house and you sue me for the damage I caused. The courts will order me to pay in USD; so again, the courts are creating USD demand by creating an obligation to pay with USD.

So the demand for USD is only indirectly due to demand for goods and services; after all, there must be some reason why merchants are pricing their wares in USD. The direct driver of demand is the law itself, hence "fiat" currency.
I think an additional limit is data. Particularly for sciences with strong path dependence, such as ecology, cosmology, evolutionary biology and (my field) geosciences, time has simply erased nearly all of the record of previous events. This is both a big problem (it is quite frustrating) and an opportunity, as we progress through both discovering new records of the past, and developing new techniques for analyzing existing records through new or improved proxies, instrumentation, or theory. I think it’s obvious to the practitioners that we will never know the vast majority of what we want to know, but we can learn enough of what we need to know to keep moving foreword.
This is an old project I made 2 years ago. Naturally, it never took-off on it's own. I repost it here because It was quite handy, and that surprisingly, it still works.

This was designed to read the article first instead of reading the comments first. However, with time, the real value was reading a random article on the internet, and see that there is/was a discussion about it on HN. It always bring some insight.
Facebook co-founder on net neutrality
They both use Merkle/Hash trees:

Hash trees are used in the IPFS, Btrfs and ZFS file systems, BitTorrent protocol, Dat protocol, Apache Wave protocol, Git and Mercurial distributed revision control systems, the Tahoe-LAFS backup system, the Bitcoin and Ethereum peer-to-peer networks, the Certificate Transparency framework, and a number of NoSQL systems like Apache Cassandra, Riak and Dynamo.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree
I assume those policemen would be replaced by other cops that HAVEN'T been found guilty of crimes yet, which isn't going to happen if Duterte keeps protecting dirty cops right?

No I don't want the military to be upholding the law, and I hope you do not too. Which is funny because Duterte has enforced martial law in the whole of Mindanao to quell a conflict in a single city which he himself has declared as already liberated back in October, and now there are rumblings of extending martial law to 2018. Doesn't that alarm you?
The point is that exceptions should be used for exceptional cases only.

Most situations (e.g., early returns) for which resource management would be handled by a goto are already addressed by RAII.
You're wasting energy for posting comments too. If we think a way like this, we can't no anything.
Apple's Ive returns to helm of design teams
Not only is BTC epicly badly designed (energy consumption=Denmark) but it doesn't solve a problem that anyone actually has (and neither do any of the other cryptos). Nobody uses them to pay for things, and nobody has any incentive to start doing so, because paying for things is not currently a problem. Compare with the Internet boom: along with the stock bubble, millions of people began using this new tool which changed their lives forever. Compare with the housing boom: tons of people got something, at least temporarily, that changed their lives, namely a house. Now look at cryptocurrencies. They having zero effect on ordinary life because they don't solve a problem that anyone has.
There is a little pop-up on the bottom right. You are right that it's really not clear. I will change that.
You walk out of your hotel room after doing a couple of shots. You are surprised by 6 cops pointing guns at you. One cop is aiming a rifle at your face yelling contradictory instructions and saying he will shoot you if you don't comply. You try to ask a question, and he says shut up or he will shoot you. He says to get on your knees, put your hands up, cross your legs behind your back, and crawl forward. Go.
Emergent phenomena are not inherently unexplainable or beyond science - evolution is an example.
- very uniform instruction format

Look at the instruction encoding

The instruction encoding is quite regular -- it follows the 2-3-3 pattern that came from the 8008 (if not earlier), and thus looks much better in octal than hex:

http://www.pastraiser.com/cpu/gameboy/gameboy_opcodes.html

http://www.z80.info/decoding.htm

As for everything else, I would agree with you --- it's not RISC.
True, it's an assumption, but my assumption is rooted in Dunbar's numbers.
> The government has no power to prop up the value of the USD if the world decides it's worthless.

I don't see "the world" deciding USD is worthless anytime soon: people in third world nations keep pristine US cash in their closets as a store of value; a lot of international trade uses dollars as a common currency; etc. If "the world" decides that dollars are worthless, that will be the least of my problems while I'm cowering in the bomb shelter I don't have.
i would lump most questions about biological systems into this category, yes. (this is my research area) Biological systems become intractable really fast, and deterministic chaos rears it’s ugly head more than you might expect.

The game isn’t “can we understand this fully”, normally. It’s more like “can we understand enough to usually be able to fix things when systems are egregiously out of whack”, and that we have a shot at.
I was disappointed that the article doesn't mention machine learning. To me it's the perfect example of both the limits of our understanding, and how we can overcome them: Even though we don't understand how AlphaZero learns to master the game, we can use it to do so.
I assume you are getting down voted because you aren't contributing to the topic at hand and instead are turning it into a FOSS politics thing.
>He even has some control in twitter, having been discovered by a social media analytics firm that 20% of those who mention Duterte are actually bots [4].

How is that credible evidence of “having some control in twitter”? Because 20% of his mentions are bots? any major politician going to attract the attention of automated press wire bots and aggregators, the idea of using that as evidence is a conspiracy theory.
Morale in Facebook
Git is a purely functional data structure, except for the mutating head pointers, rewriting of tags, various state in the repo related to things like on-going rebases, cherry picks, bisects, ... oh and the index which is one object changing in-place (not to mention working tree, of course).
Why can’t people not shoot people who aren’t a threat?
The primary paper by McColloch and Pitts is "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943) it doesn't use exactly the term "neural net" but it mentions nets, networks, and "nervous nets". But it seems like the term "nervous net" goes back to the 19th century as a description of primitive neural arrangements in biology.
Sadly i only got the bad part of having adhd.
I think we could understand why it is impossible answer this question, and this would be knowledge, and maybe tell us where to look next.
Don't Talk to the Police (2012)
> Git lets you do version control via full snapshots as opposed to just tracking diffs.

That's completely orthogonal to whether the version history is immutable with each branch being like singly linked list where we "cons" new things onto the front.
A more nutshell version: Would HN be taking this paper seriously if it came from the opposite direction of bias and were written by a White Supremacist? No? Then why does anyone have a problem with me pointing out the obvious bias and agenda in the piece that is broadcast from the start?
Or through neglect after arrest
For those who don't know, Bitcoin forked into 1 "new" Bitcoin (kept the name, changed the model from currency to speculative asset), and 2 Bitcoin Cash, that continued development along the original crypto-currency design.

https://www.investopedia.com/tech/bitcoin-vs-bitcoin-cash-wh...
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The solution to this specific problem is library standardization, not hardcoding more data structures into the core language.
This seems to be a problem of constructing approximate mental models to explain "emergent" properties of complex systems composed of interacting simple elements (such as atoms). I would like to think that such explanations aren't always necessary, so long as a computer simulation of the simpler (and well understood) elements can reproduce the emergent behavior. It seems to be a limitation of human working memory rather than some theoretical limit to comprehension.
Source to support?
So the UK's The Guardian is now a "(Philippine)Liberal Party leaning media outfit". That's an amazing troll.

I'll bite. What is your source of "fair" news these days?
Some say NEM
https://steemit.com/altcoins/@vincent4384/is-nem-really-the-...
He's incredible. All of their athletes are. I don't know if mere mortals understand just how good the best in the world are at their sport. It's always inspiring to see creativity in unexpected places.
Its just that these incidents happen in the same places that banned capital punishment

But surprise, not being charged with any crime can get you executed by the state anyway
I was at that meeting. The mood in the room toward Norvig was "Who are you and what have you done with Peter Norvig?"
The older it gets, the more inclination (i.e. novelty factor I guess) there would be to develop on it.