skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "What do you think about the concentration of Bitcoins in the hands of a small number of people?"

It should be emphasized that bitcoins don't have a fixed value (bitcoin can't force an exchange rate), and that anyone can created a competing currency (bitcoin can't force people to accept bitcoin). So although bitcoins may be concentrated, that doesn't necessarily mean that wealth is being concentrated. A lot of (non-libertarians particularly) mistakenly conflate currency with wealth.
If you can't choose to get your referrals and imaging done at a different hospital, then it's a bundle deal, not a loss leader. If you can transfer to a different hospital/clinic for referrals and imaging, it's a loss leader.
So. You didn't read it. Proudly.

And it IS factually correct in that there was state-maintained fiat currency at the genesis of nearly every story, we just both agree it doesn't matter that much.

Consider how uninteresting this exchange is, and how much of our collective time you've wasted by not reading the entire post. You've spent MUCH more time talking with me (and I with you) than if you had JUST READ THE POST.
It had better. Realtors are just middlemen anyway.
so does cmd + r which is easier to hit I suppose
> And the agile methodologies! The holy Scrum/Kanban! How much time we dedicated to People Management, Release Management, Sprint Planning and the like.

The problem is, you need to do some planning. The question is, what's the way of doing planning that takes the least amount of time and effort, and still gets done what needs done?
You're right. I guess it makes sense to let Request's exceptions propagate in case there are network issues. I'll work on ensuring pep-8 adherence and adding custom exceptions for the error codes in https://ipdata.co/docs.html#status-codes
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the original paper is quite readable: https://www.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/papers/Wang03-shazam.pdf

shazam's value is obviously in how it scaled this method to millions of users and songs but implementing it for yourself on a limited catalog of songs is a couple days of work once you have the theory. in fact this was a lab project for the intro signal processing class at berkeley that i ta'd.
Check out this article that was on HN before:

http://royvanrijn.com/blog/2010/06/creating-shazam-in-java/
Not the original poster, but I also own a first-gen Leaf.

> What was the range when new

When I bought my Leaf (used, 1.5 years old, half of MSRP) it showed 89mi with 12/12 of total potential capacity (compared to a new battery).

After 5 years of ownership, it's down to about 60mi and the dash shows the battery is about 7/12 (meaning 5/12 of total potential capacity has been lost over time).

> And charge times?

All I know is it takes less than 8 hours. The local utility has a pricing plan for EV owners which encourages charging from 11p to 7am (cheaper during off-peak hours). I set the car to have full charge by 7a and it takes less than 8 hours for a full charge, even with the 120V plug. I have to remember to plug it in every night or I'm screwed in the morning (I don't use the phone app, but it has features that can mitigate your forgetfulness).

I only drive it in-county and generally only one trip per day. I don't charge it during the day. I've also learned to drive like a very conservative retired person (to optimize range).

The newer Leafs have a different battery (not interchangeable with 1st gen bodies) and the next gen Leaf will have even better range at a similar price).
The mobile space is built around whales.

A recent mobile linage game came out, and it is the ultimate gacha (spend to gamble for random chance of results) game.

Those that spent at least $5000 were at the top in no time. To be in the top 500 you had to spend over $200.

It is sad to see the industry this way, but there are people willing to pay so the market exists.
Thanks.

My journey started with "When Anger Hurts" http://a.co/6rE8whC TL;DR: Anger starts with expectations. To stop being angry, change your expectations. Worked great. Then I got stuck on changing my habits. I'd say (at best) I was "unangry". Which I decided wasn't good enough.

Knowing that we can't unlearn habit, only replace them, I decided to pretend to be happy. A really big step for me, because I was of the belief that happy people were simple. But I was out of ideas. So I just started saying every thing was great, saying positive things about everything, etc. Initially, it was mostly sarcastic. Imagine my surprised when 3 years later I woke up feeling happy and ready to conquer the world. When did that happen!? The change was so gradual, I didn't even notice.

Years later, I picked up "How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work" http://a.co/gbBOkW1 which confirmed my personal experience with data, research. Much more has been written since, natch.

I learned the bit about people not remembering changing their minds from Swarm Intelligence http://a.co/egfqiON [2001] Of course, a lot more has been written since, like Democracy for Realists http://a.co/99XlVaB and everyone now noticing that Trump supporters have completely (and unknowingly) reversed their positions to conform.
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If you want actual adoption, you need to conform to PSR and should probably use libsodium which is part of the core in 7.2
You might also think of CLPython [0], a (somewhat bare-bones, C-incompatible) Python implementation in Common Lisp.

[0] https://common-lisp.net/project/clpython/
Ask HN: How is your JavaScript based backend organized?
I come from a Ruby on Rails background. It is great - working with Rails has had two huge upsides for me. First, the framework means there is a good way to do almost everything. Two, it makes me think about problems and the solutions generally fit elegantly into the framework.

Now, I'm sure there are Rails like frameworks for full-stack Javascript development.

I'd love to hear about how you organize things like:
- Data migrations.
- Deployments.
- ORM
- Background tasks.
- APIs
- Multiple language support in front-end templates.

etc..etc..

Do most people roll their own back-kend framework?

As an aside, whats the state of server-side template rendering? Is that industry practice?
The fact that the majority of people only trade/hold bitcoin to exchange for centralized currency i.e. USD tells you something, no?
Agree with all you've said, and your point about more screening in the US is another reason costs are higher. Both because more screenings cost more money, and the more stuff you find, the more costly interventions it leads to.
There are also many changes in the language itself (see https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md), none of which are alpha.

The things that are really the new big drivers are pieces that are not inside the language (other than a few spec integration points). Those things are significant pieces of work that are imminently usable now, but not quite final yet. In the interest of getting this work into more hands, we made a new release of the language with those parts marked as alpha.

The modularized spec allows us to continue releasing new versions (and for you to use them) with Clojure 1.9.0. Eventually spec will leave alpha and we will consider that a finalized part of the language. Similarly, tools.deps is still evolving as we work on it but the tools should remain fairly stable.
I agree the unnecessary change is tiresome. Unfortunately some influential folks prefer to treat UI like fashion.

That said, there are times when UIs must change to accommodate new interface devices like touch screens. And maintaining both old and new forever is impractical.
I think the OP is taking the phrase too literally. "Faking it" is a tongue-in-cheek expression to describe putting in tangible effort towards becoming the person you want to be.
Fixed https://github.com/ipdata/python/blob/master/ipdata/ipdata.p... will add enhancements when I can.
The good news is the batteries can be recycled and there is a lot of new research on developing new types of batteries that don't use lithium
> I never found out if the new leafs actually use proper thermal management with a coolant loop on the pack.

It does not. It's just a 25% larger version of last year's battery.

A 60 kWh battery pack manufactured by LG Chem is slated for later in 2018. LG Chem's battery packs for other EVs are liquid cooled.

My uninformed theory is that Nissan contracted to buy far more batteries from AESC than they ended up needing for the Leaf's sales volume, and is still getting rid of them.
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Ok thank you for explaining! Curious about the $0 bit though
Sorry for picking out such aminor point but I think you are overestimating capital gains. Or at least I would be very interested on how to achieve capital gains of 10%.
Ask HN: Ever have Facebook travel company refuse to pay expenses?
That company probably makes a killing just denying expense reports 5 times and having a website that is the minimum requirement of "functional"
Yes it is possible for anyone* to be a JK Rowling. It's not possible for everyone to be a JK Rowling. That is my point.

In order to create a system where it's possible to become a billionaire by writing a book we also create a system where a lot of people can't become millionaires by doing essentially the same thing.

I'm speaking philosophically here, you're describing our current civilization.

* a specific subset of all people who posses the correct personal traits and opportunities.
It comes from the casino industry where the big gamblers are "whales". They get all the perks so they can keep on losing money to the house.
Lithium can be recycled though.
In addition to the sibling comments: worth noting that spec offers you a-la-carte typing - typing when/where/how you please. This is very different from the experience of having to constantly satisfy a compiler.

Generally I decide to 'spec' a tiny percent of my code - just the most critical one, or APIs with complex method signatures, etc.

When doing so, if the spec'd function used N other functions, one could argue that those N functions are also being implicitly checked.
Fair enough, we can agree to disagree about first principles. It just leaves me a bit nonplussed, as if I came to you and started to preach to you about how a computer processor contains sentient elves. I could probably make some workable predictions from that statement, but by overestimating the inherent autonomy of a deterministic processor I'd also make some statements you would hold to be ludicrous. To each his own domain, I cannot really attack your assumptions, just what you derive from them; of your principles and beliefs I can only provide commentary, and on the topic I shall be as succinct as I can.

To wit, the “phantom money” you mention seems to allude to allude to a contrast to non-phantom money, supposedly some kind of “real stuff” that meets your intuition of being a unilateral asset.

National debt for a country that can issue bonds denominated in currency it itself controls is not at all comparable to the debt accrued by the private household or firm. Through varying levels of inflation, that debt-load becomes more manageable over time, a process I am sure you are aware of and conversant with. Insofar as it is a debt repayable mostly to the citizens and institutions of the nation itself, denominated in a currency that the sovereign government controls, it is hardly ever going to be unplayable. Nor will there be wholesale plunder of savings through hyper-inflation or other means... it's usually a measured process.

And the debt provides a place for savers to safely park their excess liquidity. If they did not have the national debt to fund, they would go on the hunt for other, riskier assets to use as interest-bearing vehicles, and they'd bid down the price of risky financial assets and achieve lower expected returns as a result.

Macroeconomics is surprisingly adept at unravelling how capital flows flux through a body politic. We tend to explain retroactively. Now people are putting themselves out there making fairly crisp, and as-yet un-falsified predictions of a crash on the way... we'll see if I was right or wrong to be convinced by their argument.
That's just assuming ordinary mass production economies, not improved battery technology. This is just a 50% price decrease on increased manufacturing volume, which is not unusual.

Battery cells are a good item for automated manufacturing. They're all the same, and they're made by the millions. (For some reason, Panasonic is having troubles at their battery cell plant in Nevada, but they should get past that. Panasonic makes the cells, Tesla assembles them into packs.)

That also holds for recycling. Taking apart packs and recycling them should be an efficient process. It already is for lead-acid batteries.
Yes: that it's not universally accepted (yet?) and highly volatile.
Private property has nothing to do with toys in your hand; so it's not related to this debate. Do children think owning a factory and making money off of workers working there is a natural right?
I wonder if Apple would write a new OS from scratch just to throw these hackers off the sent for a bit. And it would make for a huge shift in some new iOS that could drive sales or it could flop entirely.
I have to agree with the post. By faking it I'm limiting myself to learn from the first-hand experience only, you have no difference from the first person ever tried what you're trying to do. By asking/searching something you don't know, you are benefiting from a collected experience. Sapiens had the cognitive revolution, found out how to write and pass the information to other generations. Not using any of these tools available to me seems a bit going back in evolution, especially in an age where information is shared freely. Sure it would provide short-term gains and you may not take as long as the first person ever did but can I gain all the experience of lots of professionals working in CS gained in decades? How long will it take for me to reach a level of engineering by today's standards?
> how do you prove his credentials?

You don't.

"Engineer" is not broadly considered a claim of authority. It is a claim of knowledge.

If I am required to provide credentials whenever I say "engineer", then how, as someone without credentials, am I supposed to express my background?

I'll simply choose another word, which will have the exact meaning that "engineer" currently does. Why? Because you redefined the word.

The word "engineer" is perfectly adequate in its current state.

If you really want to know whether you can trust an engineer in his or her capacity, you will then ask for some credentials, like a degree or state-sponsored license. The fact that anyone can use the word "engineer" to describe him or herself does not in any way detract from that.

The reason that MD, EMT, or police officer are different is that every individual who claims that title is treated with authority.
> a laptop is capable of doing useful work and the barrier to entry is low.

No, the "low barrier to entry" because of laptop use instead of ASIC is orthogonal to volume of computation/diskspace/specialization. That does not solve the "spend more money on computing resources" that inevitably leads to centralization. Making useful computations that's resistant to ASICs is an improvement but does not prevent economic centralization. Therefore, Monero doesn't solve it either.

You can see real-world evidence of this where SMTP email protocol and Git protocol do not run on specialized ASICs and yet, they still got economic consolidation.
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AI is getting abstracted more and more, is like how languages are today
It's really nice to see Apple releasing this, and it looks like it is still actively being developed, too.

I used it while taking the University of Washington ML courses on Coursera and really liked how easy it was to use, so I was bummed when Apple bought them and it looked like it was just going to disappear.
I would split in two even if I'm working on it alone.
You are deeply mistaken if you really think those are enemies.

First apple is a hardware vendor of overpriced gadgets, totally unrelated to google market which is an advertising network.

Second the ship has long sailed on the feud between Google and Facebook, they now have ceased fighting and are each back on focusing on their own thing.

Do you have a recent example of google fighting microsoft ? heck even apple was friend with microsoft behind the scene, the fight was just for show. Remember how bill gates gave money to help apple stay afloat ?
It was an article about a UK playlist selection company which had 6 millions yearly revenue doing this. Unfortunately I can't hit the right keywords now to find it again.
>Bitcoin was designed so that users had to take care of their private cryptographic keys for every address they used, and Nakamoto advised making a new address for every transaction. This proved too confusing and burdensome, so along came wallet services, which stored users’ Bitcoins like a bank account and substituted a password for the private key

wut? if you used a online wallet, you still had to manage addresses. the only advantage comes in the form of not having to wait hours/days for the client to sync up (back then there weren't any thin clients), and not having to back up a wallet file.

>Whether it was out of incompetence or an attempt to save itself from selling at an inflated price (at one point, the price of Bitcoin was $3,000 higher on Coinbase than on other exchanges),

that's not how exchanges work. the counterparty is another buyer, not the exchange. coinbase is getting x% fee regardless if the price was $1000 or $10000.

>this was exactly the kind of thing Bitcoin was supposed to prevent.

sounds like a strawman. i don't think anyone realistically thought if bitcoin came along, all the AML/KYC laws around handling fiat will magically evaporate
It's only 25-40% more range than last year's model, not double. The battery went from 30 kWh to 40 kWh.
Haha at thisbpooibt ahí the help cares. Besotes blockchains innobations this feels like yesterdats innobations.
Highly correlated. I mean you can add option surfaces, but to count each option as separate is a stretch.
Remember how Coinbase, the San Francisco-based startup which raised more than $200 million in venture capital, put a freeze on my money? Whether it was out of incompetence or an attempt to save itself from selling at an inflated price (at one point, the price of Bitcoin was $3,000 higher on Coinbase than on other exchanges), this was exactly the kind of thing Bitcoin was supposed to prevent.

Um no, I don't think so.

Coinbase.com is not the Bitcoin experience, just like Facebook is not the internet experience. Nothing in the Bitcoin whitepaper mentions Bitcoin solving problems inherent with a central currency Exchange or hosted, custodial wallets.

Use localbitcoins.com and a non-custodial wallet if you want to experience Bitcoin per it's original specification.

Exchanges != Bitcoin.
Why give children a book about programming when you can let them write programs instead? Every kindergartner can program a storyline in ScratchJr before they can learn how to read.

I am speaking as a dad who went through this. Books are much better for learning to read and learning to like reading, because good books for kids are just fun.
>To blindly assume patterns such as "80/20" hold everywhere would be foolish

I see 80/20 EVERYWHERE now. It's hard for me to think of things where it isn't applicable. Maybe I'm just going crazy.
Look, we're all so uniquely garish in the exact same way!
I understand the metaphor in the article. I just don't understand why my comment that actually has nothing at all to do with the article just keeps on getting upvotes. The article makes sense, my comment after reading it makes none. I thought maybe I'd lucked out and came up with something that somehow was actually related in someway but no it's really not applicable. It really confused me at first when I read down and people were talking about the economy and 99%vs1% below in an article I thought was about literal whales.
This is not surprising. Methods of learning that require more effort improve memory. These include:

- Reading text that has the font a little fuzzy so it's harder to read.

- Reading text with underscores substituted for obvious letters.

- Asking yourself questions about what you've just read.

- Asking yourself questions about what you're about to read based on headings.

- Finding ways to relate the content to other things you have in your head.

If you're interested in making things stick, I'd suggest the book "Make it Stick" - it's a great read about what things actually help one retain knowledge. It's because I read that book that I'm not surprised by this result.
This is a very well-deserved recognition for someone who has poured countless hours of his life to educate the world about Bitcoin and the ongoing crypto-currency revolution. I bought his Mastering Bitcoin book when it was still in Beta, and it surely changed my life for good. Thanks Andreas!
This is a misunderstanding. The point of the quote is to get over imposter syndrome basically. It's about the fact that people actually perform better when they have some confidence. It's not actually used to suggest things like a quack acting as a doctor or anything truly dishonest.

To be clear, the point in the article is still right: we actually will be less confident and have all sorts of problems when there's false pretenses. It is good to be honest and say things like "This is my first time doing this". We come across better and can actually be more confident without the pretense.

"Fake it til you make it" in the end is as useful as "better to ask forgiveness than permission". Anyone just accepting this as good advice for whatever situation without other good judgment is a careless imbecile.
seeing as Apple has gathered basically zero goodwill in the ML community, I expect their staff will be the only people to use most of it
Exactly the same here, I wouldn't have clicked if I knew there were no actual whales involved.
This does seem unfortunate especially considering the enforcement doesn’t target Apple’s parter IBM which the article says develops similar apps. I guess the answer is that for many of these apps they need to make their own without a template or just encourage use of a mobile website.
Do they really need to rely in manual reporting? I'm pretty sure Shazam has no trouble at all collecting these statistics, and I'd be really surprised if they didn't monetize them.
I mean if it works and it isn’t really hurting anyone, say act confident till you can get there, why not?
And are. Honda and Toyota have battery recycling programs for their hybrids.
Then don't buy any.
Sure, I don't mean it as radically avoid carbs, but by following this rule I'm much more conscious about the carbs I eat. Including mcdonalds fries.
Because the vast majority of users never change the default. Among the rest a significant part has an habit and it is harder to unlearn something than learn something new.
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