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Just out of curiosity, which super hero did they pick? I would imagine that Superman wouldn’t have to be too bright but I don’t know much about his character.
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The lighting network completely undermines the entire purpose of bitcoin, and blockstreams seeming desire to sabotage bitcoin for daily use coincides suspiciously with their outside “investment”.

If you read the original bitcoin white paper it is clearly evident that the purpose of bitcoin was as a currency. These insane fees, wait times, and rediculous technical decisions by core have made it such that bitcoin is becoming “bank coin” aka only used for settling between large groups and useless for individuals (unless you’re a speculator).

This has to change
Anything that wants push notifications or work offline. (On other platforms you can do both of those with web apps, but of course not on iOS)
I was curious if you could use them for pest control and it appears the answer is "kinda". The biggest issue appears to be that most spiders are pretty indiscriminate eaters, so while they'll happily eat crop destroying insects, they'll also eat bees, etc.

A shop I found - https://spiderpharm.com/store/#!/Live-Spiders/c/11175143/off...
spiderbros

Also I really hate that pets, particularly cats, kill a big amount of spiders, birds, lizards, bees, and all those very useful creatures, (useful compared to pets). With 1 billion+ pets, it's an issue, and many cats go outside. It's like a 5% larger human footprint, when you consider also all the care/food brought to them, completely unnecessary
You must be confusing with mongodb, the database that doesn't write any data in order to win the benchmark.
Bitcoin’s price spike is driving an extraordinary surge in energy use
you cannot be put to death in the US by the government without a trial and legal representation

You shouldn't, but you can certainly be killed by someone working for the government. You need to check this out, even though the video footage is disturbing to say the very least: http://www.newsweek.com/police-release-graphic-video-officer...
>Lightning Network is just another bank, a third party with fees.

source? afaik it's open source and it charges no fees.
Either pay a ridiculous fee or wait a ridiculous amount of time for confirmation?

Replace by fee is a thing, as long as the tx is unconfirmed it could be replaced. You're effectively saying the wait time is now 3 days unless you want to pay a fee of several dollars. So that rules out most transactions.

How do you pay for anything given those restrictions?
Very cool! How are you doing the typeahead feature? Do you have a big list of topics or something?
> There's nothing in there about consumers having accurate information.

Yes, but practice has taught us that it is an important part of any functioning market.

> the absolute last thing you want is fairness to your competition or fairness to your consumer.

I completely disagree with your assertion here. I want an advantage over my competition, sure.. but I still want it to be fair. An unfair market is a fickle and unreliable one. That's not good for anyone.

Further, if my consumer walks away from the deal feeling that it was unfair then I've really done myself a disservice in the long term. It's a reason why "Goodwill and Brand Awareness" are line items in the world of corporate accounting.

> Free Markets and Capitalism don't stand for anything.

They stand for the implicit agreement that we are all created equal.
Has anyone stolen or out hustled you once you shared it?
> while learning Python doesn't teach you much about programming.

I once tried to teach Python to biologists. It's also enlightening - many people don't "get" programming of any kind (except perhaps spreadsheets ;-).

If you already get it, then of course a different paradigm will shine new light.
The golden gate bridge is the third result here, with the same link. Seems like you can't rely on google search results to be the same from country to country and person to person.
> He pointed, among other examples, to the intelligence of Hassabis and his colleagues in devising, designing, and building the program in the first place. “That’s almost as impressive as a queen in the corner,” he quipped.

That sentiment that pops up whenever machines surpass humans is quite silly to me.

As if they were discussing a crane and say: This crane can lift many tonnes of weight more than any human can but we must remember that it was put together from parts by strong humans, strong humans designed it and operate it, said body building expert.

Who cares? Machines are stronger than you, calculate better than you, play games better than you, often design better than you. And people react as if they just found out that they have bigger d*cks than them and last longer. Sure they do but isn't it juvenile to feel insecure and defensive each damn time?
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It's not.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstruction_of_justice

Obstruction of justice is knowingly lying to the police. By not saying anything, by definition, there's no way you can lie.
Clearly this means the solution to our declining insect population is predator control. A problem we created by spraying insecticides, we will solve by spraying arachnicides! It's perfect.

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Postgre doesn't handle hundreds of TB of data.
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” - Isaac Asimov
This is by design. If you break bitcoin, such that it’s only usable by large financial institutions, you completely remove the decentralized nature that made it attractive in the first place.

Congratulations guys, you made the banks SWIFT 2.0. I’m sure they appreciate it very much.
In our society, hurting people is usually expensive, so it goes against the first goal unless it is done in a way which isn't expensive.
Sure, but the name is half the fun. (-:
Cops 'believe' everything is a weapon.
Except that there is no emergent property of code. It is the sum of its logical parts, no more, no less. Any emergent value requires our conscious design.
>>> if one part is found to be invalid or unenforceable all the other parts are still valid

Also an invalid clause. They don't get to decide what is valid or not, that's up to the judge.
Change "disneyland" to "empire state building" and it works decently. Change it to "wall street" and it fails. Still, not bad at all.
Yeah, that's definitely true
Hello dlet, I really feel like joining you. I have been interested in this for a long time and have completed some related courses but this seems like a well structured approach. Lets do this!
A good rule of thumb (I teach all of my children relatives this) is that if you approach somebody they're probably ok. If they approach you, watch out.

In your example, you reached out to the police. If I called the police, I'd talk to them, as they'd be predisposed to like me. Otherwise, if they just come up to me and start asking random questions, I'll tell them to go away politely unless they had a warrant.

The police can't arrest you without probable cause. And just saying nothing is not probable cause.
The entire purpose is to replace fiat. It’s objectively a failure if you can’t buy coffee with it.
Y'all, the primary goal is meant to be a compiler infrastructure, not a user-facing product. The reason we have the demo site set up is to show people that the infrastructure composes with a bunch of existing compilers pretty seamlessly. In a perfect world, Stopification is integrated into the existing compiler back-ends and this site essentially disappears. So stop worrying about the name.
> 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.

But that just switches the limit to the limit of our computing power. Which is a pretty strict limit. For example, we can't construct computer models to predict the properties of all the elements in the periodic table just from knowledge of the underlying laws of electrons, protons, and neutrons.
You can (and should) help out, but with a lawyer present.
It's not time-travel debugging.
Right, telling someone to "say the bare minimum" doesn't mean saying nothing at all and treating the officer poorly. Don't act superior because you happen to know your rights, that's basically as bad as being a two-bit criminal in their eyes. Police don't recruit people based on their sensitivity and grasp of common sense, they are people who enjoy the power dynamic the job gives them and for the most part 99% of the time people go out of their way to respect them (for better or worse) and whenever someone doesn't they over react, like a slighted bully in elementary school.

Police culture and training promotes this toxic type of no-common sense approach to handling situations, it trains them to be assertive and the 'alpha-male' in all situations, so any type of rebellion against this idea to them is treated as sacrosanct, at least by the average (aka dumb) officer.

And yes, for the most part if you are respectful and non-confrontational you won't have any problems.

Some people reject this entirely and think they have rights so they should assert them always. But ultimately these are social situations in which one party is given a significant imbalance of power, that goes well beyond the rational/common-sense "I didnt do anything wrong" context, and which goes well beyond the rights you do actually have - in a courtroom in front a judge.

The simple fact is police can make your life miserable without crossing any legal/employer boundaries. The bureaucracy, political culture, and power structures allow this to happen.

So if you care about this try to focus your energy on changing politics, police training, and the accepted police culture at the society/community level. In individual moments it's probably not worth the energy.

But that said, never ever say anything you don't want to reveal to a police officer, even (or especially) if you broke a law, and never trust a single thing they say about it being "the best thing for you to do at this moment". Be polite and listen to what they say in terms of behaviours, but if you are pressed repeatedly after not wanting to say something, then say you want a lawyer present because you don't feel comfortable in this situation. And yes sometimes that requires you being a "dick" to be assertive, but that's because the police have an incentive to make you feel that way. As long as you are a good citizen otherwise they have nothing on you and the truth will come out in court, if they can prove you did anything to get to that point.
I created an email.
Please send your 4 pieces of daily data t2diabetes.world.study@gmail.com

Your height, Your weight, Your daily calories, Diabetes status ie Blood glucose level with units.

I will create a webpage with anonymous data. That is no email addresses. Each participant will have an anonymous Participant #

I plan to post a table
Participant # - Date - Height, Weight, Calories Eaten Today, BG level
We are narrative creatures, and have no problem constructing approximate mental models. The problem is building useful and correct models which can be used for prediction.

The great thing about gravity is you can plug on a couple masses to an equation and know exactly what will happen. On the other hand, we have lots of short hand for what the brain is doing (eg, "memory") and lots of just so stories about how those things might work (eg, "like a stick of RAM"), but those stories rarely give a full picture of what's going on it help predict how to improve things - like remember, or cure Alzheimer's.

For many complex systems, simple observation is a problem. With a brain, you can't observe things in fine detail without killing the host. So we can't see how local phenomena interact to create complex emergent behavior - observing the local means suppressing the global. And while we have big global observations from MRIs, and tiny local observations from cutting out individual neurons and applying electricity, there's a huge middle ground in between.

Another problem is that global emergent phenomena can change the way the local systems behave... We tend to imagine knowledge progressing from the tiny systems or to the big systems, but we see feedback in the other direction too, for example through hormone release. Which, again, is difficult to observe when isolating tiny parts of a system.
It's gonna take me bit to parse this...
> The government has no power to prop up the value of the USD if the world decides it's worthless.

The US government has plenty of military power that it can and does use for this exact reason.
Just? What do you think the callbacks are that you supply to those calls?
He was fired because he gave up control of his company and for no other reason. Founders don't get fired because employees find them unbearable or sabotaging. Those employees get fired or quit...unless the founder gives up control and then loses an internal political fight.

The sentiment among most early employees was that Steve Jobs was like a good coach: you hated him at the time but look back proudly at what he pushed you to accomplish.

There was no Apple Computers at all without Steve Jobs, and definitely no commercial product like the Apple II. Wozniak had no independent ambition to create a company whatsoever. Wozniak played a vital role but primarily as a perfect catalyst for Jobs.

The Macintosh saved Apple and the foolish "young Steve Jobs" is the only reason it was a great enough product to do that. Jobs did not even have control over pricing or sales of the Macintosh, and so blaming his flawed "business strategy" makes no sense. The people that fired him lived off his work for a decade, and did none of their own work at all.

Yes, Jobs had some growing up to do, and firing him probably did help him do that, but the idea that he was a fool that became great is a total myth. He was always great, as can be seen from the work he did.
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This defeats the entire purpose of bitcoin. The goal is a decentralized currency that isn’t controlled by shady political interests, and can reasonably replace normal currency.

Why would you want Bank 2.0?
For someone who likes to make such broad assertions you don't make any effort to substantiate them. And you're implicitly condoning murder as a response to journalistic corruption. How do I know you're not being paid?
For what it's worth, I agree with you. It feels like we're entering into a new age of McCarthyism[1], where anyone perceived to have the wrong politics are considered guilty until proven innocent. Nonliberal politics are completely disallowed from corporate environments, while liberal politics are accepted in earnest. It's just going to make extremism worse IMO.

People should be able to have and express their own opinions on multiculturalism, affirmative action, gender norms, family structures, and immigration in their private lives(Facebook, Instagram, etc) without risking their careers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
There will undoubtedly be more opportunities.
I wish birds would eat astronomical numbers of spiders, or at least black widows. For whatever reason, black widows are a plague in my micro-area. I could walk around the outside of my house tonight and find 8 or 10 easy. Big ones too. Always have to take extra care around this place.

Anyway, people tell me chickens eat them, but I don't really want to keep chickens.
These types of correlations are interesting on the global statistical scale. However, using them to derive conclusions about yourself is pretty meaningless. Assume you scored low on the IQ test (or even high), and the correlation between success and IQ is ~0.65 (not entirely sure what that means, and how is success defined here, but I've read something along those lines). Thats doesn't really yield any strong predictive power, so one should not take it seriously on the individual level.
If you publish a benchmark, you risk a lawsuit. That will be time consuming and expensive. It may result in fines and having to take off the benchmark from the internet.
They don't work because it seems most places treat software development as a function separate from whatever the company does (with the exception of software companies which rarely follow one "methodology" but just do what works for them). Software is a way to tell a computer how to produce an outcome. The more important thing is how that outcome fits into the business, not the method of reaching it.
> If Bitcoin ends up only being a settlement layer, it'll still be a colossal success just being a decentralized, supply-limited, uncensorable, world-accessible payment system and store of value.

So, what happens when all the bitcoin are generated and mining is complete?
>> Free Markets and Capitalism don't stand for anything.

> They stand for the implicit agreement that we are all created equal.

All men are created equal is a quotation from a government document, Jefferson's phrase from the Declaration of Independence. It has nothing to do with free markets or capitalism. The colonies were royally chartered corporations and these men revolted from their owner. They kept slavery but that's another matter.
Here is a brief overview of what you need to do:

1. Use nltk to get all the nouns etc. from the topic.

2. You can use LDA/TF-IDF (gensim) for your questions to extract the most common topic.

3. Use cosine similarity once you have the corpus built to tag a question to the right category.

Look into gensim for more details for the topic modeling.
A member of the Cajun navy would be quite justified in taking the cost of boat, gas, safety equipment, etc out of any taxes owed to the government. Seeing as how he is doing their job and all.
This seems not to be due to curvature but due to color distribution of lines. I wonder if effect would still be visible if all lines had same color distribution.
Some employers provide this for about $5-15/month. It usually doesn’t cover everything, but it will cover routine stuff like wills, powers of attorney, real estate transactions, etc.
Thanks for posting that. We should never forget that we attempted genocide against the native americans. We aren't that different today in our attitudes towards muslims, allowing the creation of secret prisons where we tortured people.
> This means our concept of IQ
> is likely inherently flawed.

Equally flawed, taking one outlier as evidence of something inherent.
Thank you, seltzered!
I tried Mensa a few years ago when I was at a crossroads in my life and looking for something new. It was a profoundly disappointing experience. My involvement was limited to the official Mensa Facebook group, which was deeply toxic and rude. I couldn’t believe how childish and confrontational the discussions were, and I quickly lost interest in getting worked up every time I poked my head in.

My take on it was that people who were active members had a chip on their shoulder about their intelligence, and believed themselves to be titans who were not obligated to suffer fools. There are many intelligent people in this world, the vast majority of whom are not in Mensa - and the better for it.
The article mentions goldenrod, a wildflower that humans don't cultivate. The effects are also apparent in them.
The answer is that it is impossible to know. I don't recall any case ever being taken to court up to the end. We can't know the result if there is no precedent.
Mining is still very profitable due to transaction fees.
It's the same thing that happens to actors when people are fans of the characters they play. They forget that the actor in real life isn't the person they know everything about from watching them on TV or whatever.
> it's something usually attempted by nations.

California has a larger economy than all but five nations in the world, so that doesn't seem like a major problem.
Go the Chris Rock route and charge an obscene tax on bullets for handguns. Also, make it illegal to own handguns.

Beyond some of the more obvious ones like our lawmakers know about (gun show loopholes, etc.), maybe something like requiring insurance, just like you have for your car.

There's a lot more regulation that can't be done but no willpower or even political power, seeing as that new terrible bill about concealed carry just got passed by the House.

No resolution in sight, at least for 2-4 years.
As usual with Bob Martin, this is a personal history, and not some broader detailed history. It does not, for example, contain much in the way of specific dates, people, or hardware models.

The general spirit is correct. Two small incorrect details stick out:

"Cards were linear arrays of 80 byte records, period." - While IBM's 80 column punched card was by far the most common, there were other formats, including from IBM.

"Relational databases (which often ride on top of file systems nowadays) provided random access to fixed sized records." - SQLite is a relational database. It does not use fixed sized records.
I don’t like the power consumption but it seems interesting what we value. A distributed currency is bad. But Google consuming something like 26 TWh per year (by my back of napkin math) to serve Youtube videos of cats is fine? How much do Facebook and all the other social networks consume?

The reality is we produce power and price it for a reason. Because the modern world runs on it for all kinds of things. What we really have a problem with, that all these articles are upset about, is that we DO NOT price power correctly and allow it to externalize all environmental cost. Let’s be intellectually honest and rather than attacking Google, or Facebook, or Bitcoin for existing, let’s make sure we price in the environmental cost correctly through carbon taxes.
That costs money and and also distribution methods have to move with the times. People don't newspapers or newspaper advertising the way they used to and are much ore likely to turn to their devices for news updates. What are journalists supposed to do? Sure, they can plod away and write serious long-form journalism in the same old publications in hopes of creating the best historical record possible, but if nobody is buying how are they supposed to keep the lights on? Not only do journalists need to get paid, investigations cost money to conduct, and money doesn't just fall out of the air.
Did you try to make a BTC transaction lately?
> we can't construct computer models to predict the properties [...] from knowledge of the underlying laws

Hmm, or can we? This gave me the idea of trying to extract "emergent laws" using machine learning.

There should be a way to build an AI that tries to find rules that approximate behaviour of complex systems. I'm sure there's lots of work on this already.
Fake news. Too bad that the news keep proving Trump's points, thus giving him even more power.
I think it's a sad statement for the american justice system that this is advice people want to follow.

I feel lucky I don't have to live in the USA.
FWIW, I have studied the space some. I was Director of Community Life for The TAG Project for a bit.

http://tagfam.org/

The last time I had this argument in a big way with people telling me I had no clue what I was talking about, some forum I belonged to was having a heated argument because they had the habit of posting ridiculous tests, like "What kind of dog are you?", and someone had posted an online IQ test and things were getting pretty ugly (in part because a lot of people felt it was scoring them too low).

I stated up front that it likely only went up to 140, then took the test to shut people up and scored a 140. I had training in test taking in my high school gifted classes, so I tend to do well on such tests.

But, whatever.
Ask HN: Apple's stance on react-native
What does Apple think about react-native? Is it possible that Apple will prevent developers from using it in the future?