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Lightning isn’t vaporware. Follow the project on github, they are very active. Better yet, watch the first lightning transaction happen on mainnet which occurred just last week: https://youtu.be/a73Gz3Tvx3k

With regards to blocksize, the only reason it’s not widely embraced is because it’s known to directly impact propagation delay. One side couldn’t care less about centralization, the other side cares dearly. SegWit was activated, which compresses transaction size and doubles transactions per second without impacting propagation delay. Mimble Wimble and Schnorr signatures are coming soon, which are also soft forks and compress transaction size even further. There’s plenty of change happening that are all very intelligent scaling solutions. Big blocks are not intelligent nor difficult to implement.
It depends on the company: not all are picky about your degree as long as you can show your skill. A common recommendation I have seen is to make a "project portfolio" that showcases the skills for the job you are interested in, and make a blog to explain these projects. It's about marketing yourself.
You can legally get Oracle DB completely free, for "development":

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/indexes/downloads/index.ht...

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/licenses/standard-license-...

Of course there's the anti-benchmarking clause, but other than that, they offer the downloads free (as in beer).
>basically that fee, is directly inline with credit card process fees, its even structured the same.

(1) At Patreon's scale you pay <2% per transaction, so there is at least 1% extra overhead.

(2) That fee is present even with debit card transactions.

I agree with you regarding finding another means to support creators.
I think you're right. Bitcoin sucks. It cost around $5 to make a single transaction back in August, and that was when Bitcoin was at 1/3 of its current price in US Dollars. Does anyone know what the cost to make a single transaction is today (in US Dollars)?
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No. You should not ask for immunity, which will be used to show you were concerned about needing immunity. You should ask for a lawyer.
Demanding a lawyer, and refusing to answer questions, explicitly should not make you look like a suspect in the eyes of the law.
(The eyes of the investigating officer may be different, but they must follow the law in the end.)
How can database vendors make benchmarking illegal?

Nothing is stopping you from running your own workload on both Oracle and Postgres within your organisation, then deciding to go with Postgres. What is forbidden by the license is issuing a press release saying "Postgres is better than Oracle and here are the numbers".
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Scrum is just a todo list. The issue is the commercial services teaching and selling that todo list to make money on everyone.

https://thehftguy.com/2017/12/06/scrum-vs-kanban-arent-they-...
It shouldn’t increase because simulations of increasing blocksize have demonstrated centralization. If we didn’t care about decentralization we’d just use a database.
All that happened to me after we called the police when we witnessed somebody breaking an ATM machine and driving off with a car was (apart from ID and telling them what we saw) a call a few weeks later from a police officer.

He complained that the firewall at the office would not let him download the video I had uploaded to some 3rd party service and if I could just burn him a CD and bring it. (Seriously.) I talked him into trying some other things, and did not get contacted since. That was weird.

edit: In Germany.
Everyone points out that the sample may have been biased.
Is there anyone willing to say something about the idea from a neurocognitive perspective, and not about the data or method?
Did you read the article before saying that?
Personally, I have a hard time favouring diversity and safe spaces over good software and solid architecture where the two goals compete. I'm also aware that the competitive streak in me pushes me to excel, and without it - without an element of technological one-upmanship in my personality - I'd be much less ambitious and I'd have achieved far less.

So overall I don't think Bryan is wrong, per se, to take the tack he does within the pool he plays in; it's just a pool for type-A personalities (in the system dev domain), and not the right place to play in if you're starting out, or are otherwise fragile. Build up your skin and chops in smaller ponds first. Stay out of them if you don't feel comfortable swimming there, because the discomfort of competition actually serves a purpose for those swimmers.

(Yes, some people can pursue and sustain excellence without the heat of competition. But not everyone is like that.)
Doge has unlimited inflation it is nothing like Bitcoin Cash.
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For such an extensive academic course it's interesting the economic model of Satoshis mining algorithm isn't explained.

Satoshi used a production model that produced the most amount of coins for the lowest amount of work/capital input, to reward the smallest user group.

Satoshi could just as easily have used a linear growth model knowing more users and more hash power should match the production output. Instead, Satoshis algorithm exploits new users.

Old users than have incentive to manipulate new users and psychologically propagate the myth of rarity when in fact the abundance of the supply was taken early easily and users are attempting to sell for more capital than it takes to acquire or produce, often simply by hording these low effort counts coins.

ecash should not exploit new users.

New cryptocash systems can easily be started.
> I wouldn't hold my breath for that. Bitcoin still is having a holy war about increasing the blocksize.

It doesn't matter - it can fork. And if the fork offers something compelling, it will get used. Even Bitcoin Cash, which is not (very) compelling, is now tradable more than most altcoins.
What metrics do you use for software?

Most of the struggle with methodology research is due to the difficulty of objectively measuring code productivity or quality.
Many say that Bitcoin's primary use is a store of value and a horrible medium of exchange. In that light, being unable to make small transactions makes sense, you store your wealth in Bitcoin and leave it there, kind of like a savings account, the high fees and slow transactions don't matter because you are not moving funds. High fees also reduce the amount of transactions in kind of an equilibrium,the higher fees go, the less people are willing to transact, thus lowering fees to the point of usability.

The other camp that wants to use Bitcoin for small transactions is either in the illusory lightning network camp, or more realisticly investing in bitcoin cash. In my opinion, bitcoin has proven itself to be a great store of value but a poor medium of exchange, so just treat it as such.
Of course there are technical reasons for that limit. But whatever the correct size of the limit is - the current limit is almost certainly too low. The Ethereum blockchain is able to handle a significantly higher amount of transactions without implementing all of the performance optimizations that Bitcoin has (such as compact blocks).
Interesting discussion going on here. One thing I want to add that might serve as a confounding variable of intelligence and genetic disorders is parental age at birth. It has extensively been shown that especially the fathers age is linked to the chance of denovo genetic diseases in his children, due to mutations occuring in the ongoing cell replications. One the other hand older parents tend to have children that are better at school (on average), are more successful in their career etc. and therefore might be more likely to take an IQ test and join Mensa.
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Math is a language for describing anthropic systems and perceptions. The brain is neither an anthropic system nor a perception, per se. So naturally, attempting to quantify it would select for eccentricities at either pole.

Researchers say that "superior IQ" also correlates with lower-income and higher achievement, but greater happiness. The question of what IQ actually signifies is a good one.

Maybe we should create some more competing metrics to study...Who knows what the data will find?
I would spin up more CPUs. Because changing code in the near term is expensive and hard. Spinning up more CPUs is cheap and easy and ensures my company remains successful while I optimize the algorithm.

Using your analogy Bitcoin Core is saying they are going to shut down Bitcoin service to all new users until they implement a new algorithm that hasn't been proven yet and is still years away from being ready.
Good news is that the scenario you described is incredibly rare. You are much more likely to witness mass shooting.
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I was given one at around age 12 in school to see if I qualified for an accelerated program, and then another one around age 28 as part of a university research study (on user interface related topics) I volunteered for.

I'm not surprised if people are tested in grade school, but I suspect running into them outside of research after your school years is rare.
much of the reason they do this is it is trivially easy to use very authentic looking benchmarks to effectively lie.

...and that is what the companies themselves do for their own products when they show benchmarks, to make them look better than they really are.
Richard Feynman, one of the most respected geniuses of our era, tested as only having an IQ of 125. IQ tests are far from perfect, to say the least. This means our concept of IQ is likely inherently flawed.

Feynman seemed to take glee in sharing his "low" IQ of only a 125. He was one of the smartest men on the planet in the last 100 years. Surely, we should defer to his opinion that the concept IQ is sort of a joke. ;)
Maybe it’s also the culture around here. I’ve seen a few casual lololol comments that get downvoted a lot, so it creates an impression that if you’re going to say something, at least do it stylishly. (Of course value is important too..)

I like HN, but can’t see it as a social space like most forums are. (And yes I like HN for that reason too!)
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Anything that fluctuates in value by 20% of more in a day can't be called a store of value.
That is really interesting, thanks. If you have any further info about that effect, I'd be interested in reading more.
> Why not let the user rating/review system work?

Because bad actors will game that system to eliminate their competition.
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Not necessarily.
Bags of grain or N cows did not do transactions well. Yet they were successful as currencies for millennia.
Curious - what part of what Steve Jobs says in the interview doesn't make sense to you?
Even if it is a good indicator of intelligence, it's also a good indicator of dedication.
Getting consensus involved in the philosophy of science is usually done as a direct assault on the idealst's question of, "what if this is all just your elaborate hallucination?"

When I'm asked that I just say, "begone, dream-foulers." Then all of the idealists in the universe disppear.
I think we are in agreement. Patreons want the micropayments-aggregation. They are profoundly uninterested in whatever legal quagmire that puts Patreon in, and it is my opinion that this is presumably something a $1B company should work at solving.
It should be. Society is better off when the trained, paid officers, bear the risk, rather than unarmed civilians.

As it is, any police officer can claim "I felt threatened" and do whatever they want. That is 100% a recipe for thuggery and oppression that does not belong in a civilized democracy.

Proposal: always verify the gun. If you shoot someone that actually didn't have a weapon, it's manslaughter. If you plant a gun, it's murder.
> Segwit was a 4x block size increase.

I am starting to feel like you guys all live in a different earth than me. On the earth I live, SegWit did not increase 4x block size.

> Lightning works. You can go download the repo and make apps with it today.

Everyone I know who has ACTUALLY downloaded and run the node thinks is extremely underwhelmed. I suggest you follow your own advice and go download lightning network client and run it yourself and try to use it and see what happens. Then we can talk.
It's free and it Just Works.

It's painfully clunky for those of us who remember something far slicker 20+ years ago!
Either way neither of those "bcash"'s are What I'm talking about Bitcoin Cash. I think you are confused.
The situation was not ONLY about those two data points. I think you're conveniently ignoring other facts like: he complied with police orders from the beginning, they had ample time to handcuff him, the police officer was imprecise in giving instructions and constantly threatened to kill him, etc, etc, etc.

Police officers carrying Semi-Automatic weapons should not get a free pass to act as robots without situational awareness.
If you are turning 18, why not try to get paid for your open-source work: https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/

Most small companies have enough to worry about paying full-timers, let alone take on interns. If you are very ambitious, you can try becoming a contract developer (other people here are better-equipped to talk about that in detail).
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Why should there be a limit? Excluding cases when information is lost (or is somehow inaccessible in principle), everything can be investigated, learned and understood - given enough time and effort.
I envision a worm that disables the ME completely once it's found and "infected" another few. Perhaps show a message that says "Your computer is now owned... by you." That would certainly raise some interesting discussion about ethics...
I always wonder this when people bring this up. Am I a weirdo for not having a lawyer on retainer at all times? That doesn’t sound like something that would be affordable for most people. And quite frankly, I don’t even know how I’d go about looking for or evaluating a lawyer.
So is it an insulator, a perfect conductor or a superfluid?...
Yes: lies, damn lies and statistics - but I feel like there should be some sort of truth that comes out of the aggregate of these things.
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It cannot fetch jars from maven though, you still need lein for that.
Are you saying everything that exists outside of deeply researched technical arguments is propaganda? I'm not talking about misleading people, I'm talking about finding ways to reach people who will never be interested in digesting the type of science it takes to deeply engage with the scientific arguments. Those people exist and they vote.
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While I cannot be certain that a randomly selected HN participant is above average intelligence, the average and is clearly is at least 1 SD above average, and the median is not 100. The quality of posts, in-depth knowledge expressed, nuanced, fluid, and flexible thinking, makes this a community in which I wish to participate, and this is coming from someone who frequently communicates with academic researchers and intellectuals in his daily life.
Interestingly in analysis of both children and grandmasters, IQ was negatively correlated with chess skills amongst elite players in the group.
So it's only ok for Oracle to lie in their own benchmarks?
Bcash is already over-inflated relative to Bitcoin due to its mining algorithm. When the block reward diminishes enough, and fees don't supplant it, Bcash will hard fork to infinite inflation.
Steve probably had a strong inclination towards narcisism. There's not much you can do there. If you read about his behaviour at this time and at later times from the Isaacson biography, he was clearly not a great person to be around a lot of the time.

He was lucky enough to rope in a genius - Woz - to make a computer he could sell brilliant - thanks to his narcisism, maybe - and make 100 million out of it. From then on he almost destroyed two companies - Pixar and Next - until he learnt how to run one properly at Apple 2.0
Society is better off if everyone can speak openly to police.
Meanwhile, the risk to any one person that might accidentally mis-speak is wholly unacceptable to the individual. So we end up with tragedy of the commons.

How did we fuck this up so badly as a society?
I mean, consciousness is obviously real. As conscious beings it is fundamentally the only thing we actually know is real. The confusion there comes from the fact that we can't prove our own consciousness to each other and we poorly understand what actually constitutes it.
We built a similar proxy at https://wrapapi.com/proxy to allow users to record and replay network requests when turning webpages into an API. I think it's possible to have an end-to-end secure and never-written-to-disk pipeline, provided you trust the provider is doing what they're saying.

The secure pipeline we ended up using involves:

1. Having a HTTPS endpoint for the proxy

2. Forwarding the captures to you immediately via listening WebSocket instances

Note that because the server upon receiving a request can immediately push it to WebSockets instead of relying on polling, no storage is needed
As someone who has been through the criminal justice system a handful of times, here's what I always tell people:

If you are approached by a policeman/woman, you don't need to say anything other than, "I'm going to ask you to refer all questions to my counsel as I'm not prepared to handle or able to answer any questions you may have."

Don't have counsel? Get some. Can't afford any? Tell the policeman/woman that you'll "confer with your legal team" and if your "legal team" believes it's appropriate to answer questions, you'll let them know. Oh, and call your local public defender's office.

A policeman/woman may, "just want to talk" or, "ask you a few questions"; that's okay, just repeat what you said. They may say "you're not in trouble" and that's great, so repeat what you said.

A policeman/woman can only get you in trouble, they cannot get you out of trouble.

When it comes to court, our public defenders system, while it means well, is horribly broken. PDs are often assigned far too many cases they can reasonably handle. PDs don't go to trial often enough, because they can't handle the additional workload.
The officer said he was afraid for his life and "terrified".

You know who would be terrified in a situation like that? Me. I have never even held a gun and I have no training whatsoever.

A police officer shouldn't be terrified in a situation like that. He had a suspect with hands in the air clearly willing to comply. This is such bullshit.
How would an underage contract developer get contracts in the first place? Most SV companies are very exclusive about who they hire.
I’m not sold on Bitcoin but I don’t agree with your definition of what it needs to be successful. There is no reason that actual bitcoin end-users need to deal directly in bitcoin. If Bitcoin were to ever become a major currency, a big if, there would be financial institutions (banks) issuing instruments (physical or digital notes) backed by real bitcoins held by those institutions. Real bitcoin transactions would be mostly performed between such institutions, or anyone else willing to pay the higher transaction fees. Most people would have their needs perfectly served by relying on bitcoin banks, at least for performing frequent transactions. Though they might very well seek to hold large sums directly in BTC.
Let's be careful about what scenario we're talking about.

> You can't make 1000$ appear on my bank account and say " you now have a debt of 1000$ to me". You need to give me physical money. But bank can create this money they don't have.

This scenario doesn't involve real money at all. It's just two IOUs in opposite directions. You and I could make such an agreement trivially.

> I think it can lend it up to 10 times the money it has in its vault (not sure about the exact amount)

So this involves real money. But it's not a special bank power. You can loan a friend some cash, which they give to you for safekeeping. Then you can loan another friend the same physical dollars, which they also give to you for safekeeping. Then another, and another...

Now you have $10k in cash deposits even though there's only $1k in physical cash.

The only reason you can't do it in practice is that nobody wants to give you their money for safekeeping. You don't lack the ability to multiply money. You lack anyone handing over money to do it on.
Yep, exactly. Virality as we think of it on the Internet is just a specific form of information cascade, along with word of mouth advertising, financial bubbles, fashion, social proof, populist movements, etc.
I really wish had the time to do that. So please, take the time to appreciate the opportunity that you have right now, and commit yourself to finish it. Sooner or later something is going to come up and try to make you postpone your plans... be prepared.
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Thanks to Linus Torvalds I think.
You don't need a lawyer on retainer, but it's probably good to know the phone number of one. If they can't take your case they will let you know and likely refer you to a colleague.
Don't feign ignorance. You know exactly what I'm talking about. :)
Buried quite a ways down in the article is an interesting concept of using semi anonymous markets to distribute and pay for benchmarking.
Cops refer to videos like this as the YouTube School of Law. Be ready to possibly aggravate the situation if you go this route. Angry cops are not generally the safest cops.
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The end, and we learn nothing about how this fixed the situation.
I don't think that clause is generally enforceable.
We can fix the problem of a possibly unfair benchmark with open source. Anyone can inspect the code of the benchmark used, build and run it themselves, criticize it or build an alternative.
If we look back on the development of relativity and quantum mechanics with the benefit of hindsight we see that there were already many clues in classical physics. Perhaps our current experimental evidence and current theories have enough clues to make progress, but nobody has had the right idea yet.
Looks nice, what are people using gopher for these days? I've read about the protocol and I like it conceptually, but didn't know if it was being used very often.
There’s likely some cultural difference, but can’t read too much into these videos. There’s always going to be a feeling of “imposter syndrome” when comparing yourself to folks in videos or ted talks. And then when you meet them in person you realize they have fears, days where they have no confidence.

Steve’s confidence can come at a cost too though. Steve was part of imposing work anti-poaching agreements so employees couldn’t easily switch jobs to certain tech companies. There’s also plenty of untold stories of Steve yelling at employees and making them cry. While I overall like Apple and would love to work there, it’s worth asking...

What else is behind the video? Are there people who’ve been hurt by Steve? Do you want to be that personality?

As far as handling your own confidence, it comes with time. I’d recommend learning to take some impromptu debate, a dance class, etc. to be around people more. Particularly outside circles of friends that belittle you.
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Nice, really excited about RISC-V!