skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is wrong with that comment is very simple.

It suggests the unthinkable possibility that a leader, whom the downvoter doesn't care for, may actually be popular with others. And that just can't be right, it has to be all propaganda and fake news causing this mistaken popularity. Similar to "Russians stole the election!" in the US. It's a failure to comprehend or accept people have different backgrounds, beliefs and values and a certainty that preference and political opinion are objective truth.

Because you suggested many people may in fact possibly support Duarte, you threaten the illusion which is tantamount to supporting Duarte yourself in the mind of the downvoter. It really is a shockingly form of mental myopia from otherwise intelligent people and renders them unable to accurately predict and understand large chunks of the world (like last election in US).

Whether it's politics, religion, unrealistic business goals or unrealistic career goals ("I'm going to be a famous rap artist or else play in the NBA!") I think there is simply no way to get hated on faster than attempting to ground an illusion with reality. You become perceived as part of the problem when you do that. (Still needs to be done though IMOP).
I did not know that there is a clause in the license agreement about not being allowed to disclose benchmarks of databases.

Recently I came into discussion regarding why someone chose to use Oracle instead of Postgres; the argument that someone brought up was that they did not know how Postgres scaled. After pointing out that the data that will be stored will be most likely be a few hundred GB (in an exaggerated worst case scenario) and that Postgres is said to handle 100's of TB of data, they capitulated and said that customers trust Oracle (even though they never see or touch the database).

Personally I would be very interested in seeing comparisons between PG, Oracle and MSSQL as well for different data-sets/use-case scenarios. This would really help as a reference in the future when someone else is making critical decisions which might not appear to make sense.

EDIT: This sounds like a very shady clause; anyone with law insights know whether this would be enforceable in the EU?
They sometimes use them as a diagnostic test for various learning disorders, such as dyslexia.
Given his employment history, I'm guessing MS: https://twitter.com/danluu
There’s a reddit thread benchmarking SQL Server vs Postgres where the all named references had to be removed IIRC.

Edit: here https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2mhpwp/postgre...
I don't think this is it. If Patreon is using Stripe, they are likely using "Stripe Connect" (https://stripe.com/connect) - which was built specifically for marketplaces like Patreon to take in funds and pay out. The compliance/legal issues around being a money services business are automatically handled by Stripe in this case.

My hypothesis is that this is really around fraud risk more than anything. Batched payments are notoriously confusing to cc customers. If you made a bunch of small donations and got confused as to why you saw one $18.XX charge on your credit card statement, you might open a dispute with your bank, which would have the action of automatically reversing the entire charge with Patreon's processor (i.e. Stripe). Assuming Patreon is eating this and not reversing every donation that is currently batched, then the average chargeback amount (and therefore loss to Patreon) is much higher in the current scenario than if donations are charged individually.

In fact, they even wrote about chargebacks and "friendly fraud" in a blog post earlier this year -> https://patreonhq.com/chargebacks-tips-to-fight-friendly-fra...
Lanier has the bias that he thinks musicians should be important. For most of history, musicians were nobodies, outranked by bartenders. For part of the 20th century, some musicians were a big deal because of the mass economics of radio and record distribution. Now that everyone can record, mix, and distribute music easily, musicians are mostly nobodies again. At peak, there were several million Myspace bands.

(I met him back when he had the first VR rig on a pair of SGI machines. I've worn his gloves and goggles. Kind of neat, but at the time, lag was about a full second. Turn head, wait for head tracking to catch up. Early magnetic head tracking was awful.)
Simple C# parser
"but if you can’t reasonably quantify it based on anything empirical,"

Simply the writing quality, grammar and sentence structure of the comments on HN would easily be enough to prove that HN readers (well, commenters) are above average.

I spend enough time glazing over headlines, stories and comments from other sites out of casual interest and I'll bet any amount of money this is true.
tbqh i'm more worried about being gunned down by the police than being arrested or being searched at this point.

exhibit A: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530

(warning to system-believers: the link contains video of police executing a prone, face down, unarmed, nonviolent, nonresisting, white male; the officer was acquitted)
I’d fail all of these interviews.

I have never worked like an “engineer”. My brain takes information from many channels, I let it congeal, then I create solutions.

This means that I’m terrible at algorithms and patterns, but highly creative with real-world solutions.

I believe companies need both kinds of technical people (drone and creative), but I’ve only been in a few places that actually understand that.
No, you are ... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnuuuuuuuuuuuuutttttttttttzzzzzzzz.
Govt Documents Show FBI Cleared Laura Poitras After Six-Year Fishing Expedition
Some businesses are based primarily on credentials, others on performance.

With a broad spectrum in between, this can make it difficult for an outsider to know where they would stand or even if they could be allowed into the organization.

The bigger the business, the more it can get by on credentials alone, or sometimes on the parasitic action of the credentialed on the true domain performers.

Especially "institutions" which became "too big to fail" before anybody living was even born.
Email is in the profile if you ever want to chat
May I ask why is your respect for Apple tanking?

I'm far from a "fanboy" on Apple; I am curious.
the wikipedia page has some information ‘mysteriously’ left out of the Atlantic story:

“He invited two acquaintances to his room for drinks. There he showed them a scoped air rifle he was using to exterminate birds inside grocery stores. At one point the gun was pointed outside his hotel window, prompting a witness to notify the front desk;”

Isn’t that slightly important context? How would the police know if this was going to be an event like the Las Vegas shootings of a year later, or not? The most benign possibility is that he was a drunk guy with a firearm, and many of those situations end up with the death of the individual or others around them including police.

Were the instructions contradictory at the end? yes - I imagine even police officers who train for this regularly find it stressful. What everyone seems to assume is that there was no risk to the officer because he later was found to have left his firearms in the room - if you make that assumption as a cop during this kind of event, you or other members of the public will get shot by a gunman at some point. The guy who has disordered thinking because he is “scared” and drunk while in possession of a firearm might do more than ‘just’ move his hands when told not to - he might easily pull a gun and shoot someone too, and you have no way of knowing that beforehand in the split second when he starts to move his hands towards his pocket or waistband.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Daniel_Shaver
I'm surprised these clauses manage to prevent benchmarks. Surely someone with no Oracle contract can still publish them? Leak a benchmark, benchmark on someone else's system, whatever. It shouldn't be too hard to publish a benchmark for which this clause can't be enforced.
haha love all the salt in these bitcoin threads. Looks like a lot of the HN boys missed the boat.

See you guys at 20k!
Remote logon with passwords allowed and sshd exposed to the whole internet (not behind ISP's NAT, not behind home NAT, port allowed on home firewall, port allowed on laptop firewall).
> That wouldn't work because mining blocks also validates transactions.

It's possible to validate transactions with proof of work and compensate the work with transaction fees rather than the creation of new coins.
I love hearing about macroscopic quantum phenomena. That’s the path to warp drives.
Interactive Research: a place to formally publish dataviz and Jupyter Notebooks
I am working on something like that for C++, a library + debugger called Lager. Quite experimental yet, but been using it to write apps with SDL and Ncurses and I am happy with how it is going... In the end it is a very simple architecture, implementable in any language. Good immutable data-structures are important for big programs though.

Library: https://github.com/arximboldi/lager

Ncurses example (full text-editor): https://github.com/arximboldi/ewig

SDL example: https://twitter.com/sinusoidalen/status/939539173584916480

Immutable data: https://github.com/arximboldi/immer

(There was a talk about Lager at MeetingCpp this year, still waiting for it to be published online...)
This SO had helped me solve a similar problem in the past.

https://datascience.stackexchange.com/a/7000

https://www.kaggle.com/c/facebook-recruiting-iii-keyword-ext...
The first amendment doesn't apply to contracts between private entities. The government cannot forbid you to publish benchmarks. However, it can also not prevent you from signing away your first amendment rights in most circumstances.
It's the first time I read this blog post (thanks for sharing) but it's not surprising to me.

I always cringe when I see people quoting Bryan because that's exactly my experience interacting with him on mailing lists or watching him give talks.

At this point I don't have the energy to deal with people like him. I just accept him as a natural occurrence in our field. I certainly praise does who do have the energy for fighting that.
Hey, if you're anywhere near Melbourne, check out Swarmify! We use Clojure(Script).
Some "gifted" school programs require an IQ test for admission, and I believe that there have been studies that show that the students who were part of these programs do better than average in life. I haven't looked into it though, so I may be wrong.
I would say his earlier ones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaron_Lanier#You_Are_Not_a_Gad...
IMO 'you are not a gadget' was good at predicting how web 2.0 would become distopean.

https://www.evgenymorozov.com is good on 'the facade of techno-utopianism' crumbling, especially 'to save everything, click here'
Why would you have that clause? If you believe in your product you want me to benchmark it, and if you don't believe in your own product, why should I?
That's a Merkle Tree. A blockchain is an application of a Merkle tree in which each node contains transaction data, and a majority of clients agree that the longest chain of blocks is the correct one.

Git also uses a Merkle-DAG, but it is not a blockchain.
I don't think I can watch this video, but I would like to know what happened. Can someone perhaps provide a "transcript"?
Mostly the reverse, if you need to relate them a blockchain is a degenerate Git (history, which is a subset of Git itself):

A Git history is a DAG[0] (each commit can have multiple parents) and beyond that a polytree (it can have multiple roots); while a blockchain is an arborescence[2] (there's a single root — the "genesis block"; and each block can only have a single parent).

Further, beyond the technicalities blockchains are generally very linear (the side-chains tend to be pretty short, forks aside) while Git repositories can be extremely broad (have lots of concurrent branches).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Directed_acyclic_graph

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytree

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborescence_(graph_theory)
What values are shared by all mammals?
The first amendment only protects you against the government. NDA clauses in contracts hold up in court all the time.
nice guide
Is a hot dog a sandwich?

The answer depends entirely on definition. What properties of bitcoin are essential to a blockchan vs which properties are simply how bitcoin happens to use a blockchain?

If blockchain just means the Merkle tree, then yes.

If it means Merkle tree + a computational consensus system for adding nodes, then no.
Very important citizen smarts here. Never. Period. It isn't unpatriotic, or anti-blue. It is really in your best interest to do so.
How far do you take this?

For example, suppose you hear someone down the street yell, "My baby!", look up, and see a man shove a woman to the ground, take a baby from a stroller, get into a car with the baby, and drive quickly up the street, leaving behind the woman screaming "He took my baby! Help!". They pass you, and a block farther up turn left onto a freeway on ramp.

30 seconds later a police officer drives by, stops, and asks if you saw the baby snatcher suspect, and if so which way they went.

Do you say "it looked like he turned left a block up"? Or do you say "I will not answer without a lawyer"? I've run into a lot of people who go with the latter, citing that video.
(where false negatives mean they die)

This study finds a substantial difference in high crime areas, but still most officers never discharge their weapon in the line of duty:

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/02/08/a-closer-loo...

About one-in-five officers (22%) in areas with at least six and but fewer than 10 violent crimes per 1,000 residents in 2015 have ever fired their service weapon. By contrast, about a third (32%) of officers who work in areas with a lower violent crime rate have discharged their gun. In areas where the violent crime rate is 10 or more, 28% of officers have fired their weapon. However, that proportion is not significantly different from the share that works in communities with fewer than six or six to fewer than 10 violent crimes per 1,000 residents.

Maybe the best way to stop them firing first is to not let them carry a firearm.
I thought Apple moved to MP3 downloads long ago and you can keep you music collection downloaded in iTunes and import and export easily.
IQ is like an atom number. The higher ones are more often unstable.
Agreed. Git seems like a good internal design with a terrible interface.
Seems like toll roads are always simply rent-seeking or exclusivity-seeking behavior by entities having greater-than-average resources compared to ordinary individuals.

On private property, toll regulation according to a market seems fair enough under a free-enterprise system.

On public property, toll roads are always unfair unless the toll rate is virtually insignificant to all potential users. Any other explanation does appear deceptive, whether intentional or not.

Therefore it is usually just destructively extractive for the average users to fund roads on public property exclusively by tolls alone.

When the public tolling entity is under the jurisdiction of electable officials in a working democracy, the proper response is for a disruptive candidate to campaign on a platform of eliminating toll roads altogether. With public support this could include public purchase of private toll roads according to eminent domain if a price affordable to the citizens can not be negotiated.

Other things being equal, this type candidate should be able to prevail in cases where toll rates are particularly significant to the citizens in general.

Assuming of course free enough enterprise and democracy working well enough . . .
> Segwit isn't a a block size increase. It allows for a tiny amount more transactions but it's very clear it's not enough. An actual block size increase (say to 8MB) would solve the current problems.

But what about the new problems it would introduce? I run a full node and even now it eats a significant portion of my bandwidth. With even larger blocks I would probably drop off the network altogether. And I'm sure I'm not the only one out there in this situation. Therefore, I don't think Core developers are exaggerating in their concerns about the centralization pressure caused by overly large blocks.

Moreover, wouldn't increasing the block size simply kick the can down the road? One advantage of the current fee pressure is that it strongly encourages the development of 2nd layer solutions. There are right now at least three independent teams working on Lightning Network implementations and they seem to be making quick progress...
Some of this reminds me of The Ph.D. Grind by Philip Guo [0] and my own experience when I was getting my PhD:

"For those few months, I morphed into an antisocial grump who shunned all distraction and became deeply immersed in my craft. All I thought about was computer code; I could barely speak in coherent English sentences except during my weekly progress meetings with Margo. Even though I appeared and acted subhuman (i.e., an unshaven disheveled mess), my emotional state was blissful. I was programming and debugging for over ten hours per day, but my mind was quite relaxed since my technical skills were well-calibrated for the challenges I faced."

> my emotional state was blissful

There was a huge disconnect between how happy I was and how I behaved and appeared. I gained 50+ pounds, lost normal hygiene, essentially only ate peanut butter, became nocturnal, and more or less didn't leave my apartment. My advisor was pretty explicit in their concern about my mental health, but, looking back, I was really happy.

I wonder how much of this mental illness : high IQ association is simply being obsessed with what you're working on?

[0] http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir/pguo-PhD-grind_2012-07-16.pdf
If proof of stake proves itself to actually work, Bitcoin will adopt it. Migrating a 200 billion dollar network to an untested PoW proposal would be irresponsible.

Arbitrarily increasing blocksize without addressing propagation delay and centralization impacts is also irresponsible.

Bitcoin has been tirelessly working on the scaling problem in a responsible way. SegWit will allow up to 12t/s. Mimble Wimble and Schnorr Signatures will further compress transaction size and increase t/s to roughly 20t/s. All this without increasing propagation delay (increasing blocksize).

Lightning network further reduces the number of onchain transactions necessary.

Rootstock adds ethereum compatible smart contracts to bitcoin as a side chain.

All these technologies responsibly scale Bitcoin. Your comment implies Bitcoin is stagnant which to me implies you don't know what you're talking about.
Yes, indeed there is a limit. However, this line of limit is the optimal line we (currently) have between "understanding everything" and "accepting every claim made".
Key principles for designing AI user interfaces
Probably, but non-trivial comparative benchmarks of many types of commercial software, performed using well thought out methodologies, are neither easy nor cheap to run.

Furthermore, an anonymous benchmark (like many other anonymous product comparisons) is going to make many people suspect that it's a fraudulent result. Imagine there's an anonymous benchmark that isn't simple to replicate because of software and/or hardware costs that shows some proprietary software whipping an open source project on some dimensions or other. How many people here are going to immediately jump to the conclusion that it's the proprietary vendor planting false information?
It probably worked better when Oracle was the race winner.
> Really, without the metaphor, what's going on is that Larry Ellison has modified himself to hold the values that a corporation holds, in order to more efficiently drive said corporation toward optimizing on its corporate goals (i.e. increase share value, etc.)

Hmm. I wonder why this augmentation is newsworthy/nontrivial/frightening. Perhaps our human frailty makes this feat truly difficult even for an average CEO?
Conventions set collaboratively by the team as a whole gain better traction than those dictated by a leader.

Common ownership does not end up with a random patchwork of technologies. Teams make collective decisions on them.

I might like to write CGI programs in Prolog with a MarkLogic db, I'm not going to unilaterally decide to write my bit of a team application like that when everyone else writes WSGI Python applications with Postgres.
I dunno, my dad took us to get tested at one point when we were in school, iirc I was ~130. Low enough to still be pretty common, high enough to feel the pressure to do something with it.

Then again, when I got to uni I was classed with people who scored way higher than I did and they were... I dunno, "intelligent" but not "smart". I didn't see any correlation between entry exam scores and subsequent performance.
Arguably, the idea of avocados producing benzene and toluene has a bit of timeless topicality because upon hearing it many people will think, "I never really thought of that."

The article itself seems like the sort of thing that HN'ers might stumble upon when surfing the internet and not thinking about Hacker News. I imagine that stumbling upon the article reminded the person of Hacker News. Perhaps because it is the sort of thing that makes Hacker News Hacker News.
This was a sadistic game of simon says that was always going to end in an execution. The jigsaw killer from the Saw movies would be impressed.
Wired did an article about high tech connected homes. The section on Larry Ellison had an anecdote about how Larry got frustrated with his system and threw the remote at a wall, smashing it.

He made one of the engineers drive out to his house with a new one on a Saturday night.

Now, the fact that this story is true is telling enough, but what sort of experience did the writers have with Larry that inspired them to put in that story that paints him as a petty, tyrannical manchild?
Trouble is it's still not mainstream enough for everyone to start accepting it as a form of payment but that will change with time. For instance visit amazonbitcoin.com and see what happens!
> Bitcoin is doing all of these things without formal institutions, employees, governance, and official regulation.

All at a whopping pace of 4 transactions per second... Which means that if the entire population of Denver used Bitcoin, they'd only get to make a single transaction once every 2 days.

I don't care what you say or what you compare it to, Bitcoin is very inefficient at what it does. And worse, its energy consumption is not a function of its transaction volume, but of its price in fiat. The higher the price, the more energy miners will throw at it as they attempt to win the next block reward.

And it is this way by design. Take all that inefficiency away and you give up all that makes Bitcoin what it is....

source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(population+of+denver)...
If it looks like you're the suspect, then don't talk and get a lawyer.

Otherwise, you should probably avoid doing anything that makes you a suspect, including demanding a lawyer prematurely.
The number I've seen is about 1 gigawatt, +- 50%. That's about one big power plant.

It could be worse. Bitcoin mining is centralized in mining centers running custom ASICs, mostly located in cold areas with cheap hydroelectric power. That wasn't the original plan. If Bitcoin mining was widely distributed, we could have a billion laptops mining in the background. Laptops running 24/7, wearing out their ICs through electromigration, and consuming power from all sources at retail rates.
Clojure's just a bunch of specific pragmatic decisions bunged into a Lisp. If you've never had a problem selling, deploying and integrating Common Lisp apps for clients then it sounds like it would be of dubious utility to you. People will argue all your individual points because that's what people do, but honestly, you're fine, Clojure's fine, everyone's fine.