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To be fair, Lightning works, and it works now on the Bitcoin mainnet.

The idea is sound, the code is written and somewhat tested, and it has been used in a very controlled fashion on the real bitcoin network already.

At this point it's just a matter of further testing and validation that the logic is sound and there isn't anything everyone is missing, and getting vendors on board and adoption started.

Still no guarantee it will happen, but it's looking more likely that it will at least make a good push, and it's no longer a vaporware promise of "in 18 months".
When I lived in Seattle I was sitting at a cafe one day and a government motorcade came down the street with an 18 wheel truck carrying a dumbell-shaped canister with a giant yellow nuclear symbol on the side. I've never been able to figure out what they were transporting. Does anybody here know what it might have been? It was post 9/11 so I was surprised they were still moving radioactive material on the surface streets of a major city.
it predicts this inevitability, but it should also be noted that it will be inevitable that humans can develop meat substitutes or artificially grown meat that is indiscernible from traditionally produced meats. In this context, yes you should definitely tax the latter, if the former are legit options.
All model building is compression. That's the point of building models!
SETI Tunes In to Interstellar Object
It’s worth noting that Earth will have been roasted to a cinder by the expanding layers of Sol’s atmosphere many billions of years before that, just for a sense of scale.
> And we're expected to believe money isn't driving the entire process for you?

It's right there in the name, even!!! It's not "First Round Hugs" or "First Round Charity", is it?
The best alternative to spotify? Bandcamp. https://bandcamp.com/
Darpa Digging for Ideas to Revolutionize Subterranean Mapping and Navigation
> what would you call Carl Icahn then?

Asshole?
no. I just add it to /ect/hosts file as I go.
I guess I'm one of those "red flag" candidates that this guy says you shouldn't hire. If I wanted to make a difference, I'd join the Red Cross. If I wanted to solve people's problems, I'd go work as a life coach. I want to get paid the maximum amount while working around people and doing a job that doesn't make me want to blow my brains out or work 20 hour days. That is all.
> It really is much more about math than programming

This illustrates one of my favorite things about Project Euler. How you perceive it depends totally on your background: programmers say it's mostly math, math people say it's mostly programming!
I stopped saying “this is stupid” when I realized that was just a shortcut to a brutal donvoting and inane comments full of either mindless greed or equally mindless ideology. This is a group of people who just know they’re too smart to be left holding the bag...
We will see different human actors: movies where you can put your (or, heaven forbid, that of your ex; people won’t even need to have any explicit imagery for revenge porn.) face, birth marks, tattoos, etc. on an actor of your choice.
If the driver is not written by Microsoft, that new Windows installation will downloads it and quite likely it will be same HP driver with keylogger.
My insurance is about € 120 / month.

How much difference would it make do you think?
"What do you mean you can't read my mind? That's what I'm paying you [large sum] for."

That's just a bullying strategy for underpaid people. If you are really highly paid you are in the "in" group and they will make sure that you get what you need. Otherwise they would be wasting your expensive time.
You are correct it trades to Gemini's spot price, but you are wrong in terms of the difference between the two. As I write this there is a 5 cent different between GDAX and Gemini.
Ask HN: How do you brew your coffee?
With so many different methods and tools, what is your method and tool to make a good coffee?
Pour over is my daily method of simple and good coffee.

Different methods and tools are also shown here on PH: https://www.producthunt.com/ask/946-how-do-you-brew-your-coffee
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Spot on! So the only solution is to combine meat tax with basic income.
Please don't.

A tax will lead to democrat losses in 2018.
The sugar tax in philadelphia galvanized republicans across the rest of PA during 2016.

Eating meat is incredibly important to the middle classes.
BBQ's are important social quasi-religious family bonding events in the United States.
Taxing meat will lead to backlash far bigger than a "tea party".
Well, all we need to do is check which cost center paid for the implementation. If it was Sales & Marketing, we have our answer ;)
+1 on ifixit. I've yet to be disappointed with anything I've purchased from them, and I've done probably a dozen battery swaps, screen replacements, etc.

You can find parts for less, but it's really a roll of the dice as to what you're going to get.
You are not really making a coherent argument. Are you suggesting that because Paul condemns men having sex with men, then it follows that the church must have destroyed the writings of Sappho? There is a lot of missing steps in that chain of reasoning.
If you really want to help this cause, you might wanna look at Librem 5 phone (https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/).
They are making an open hardware Phone with a fully open-source OS based on Linux (debian).
> The existence of trust relationships is how users protect themselves from fake accounts by specifying which ones they know for a fact represent an individual human’s primary account, forming a native Sybil resistance in the system.

I don't think so. What if my friend and I both create 2 accounts and both trust both of each other's accounts? We get twice as much money as everyone else who plays by the rules?
I've strongly considered taking a 65% compensation cut to work at a startup because it would be so much cooler to talk about, i'd learn a whole new stack, worked alongside super stars, and walk to work. The only reason i didn't take it was because said startup didn't follow up initial negotiation (mainly because even if i took such a big cut, i'd still be expensive for them). But i am certain i would have taken it and been much more happy. I know others who took such cuts to leave cushy "VP" positions and are very happy for doing so.

*that said, there are very few companies that offer such conditions. 90% of places i ever interviewed at feel more like "work" and i'd want to maximize income for being there
Claiming that an attacker would use this is nonsensical.

You need write access HKLM in order to change the registry key, if you have write access to HKLM you can inject your own driver (inc. keylogger) into the OS.

Plus the keypresses are context-less (i.e. you don't know what application, or window the keypress was sent to). A continuous stream of keypresses with no context is darn near useless, it doesn't even contain timestamps!

Any number of off-the-shelf keyloggers would do a far better job, all of which can be auto-loaded if you have HKLM write access. They'll even tell you the exact web page a keypress was sent to and manage the job of sending that information to you...
I'm not sure I'll ever be convinced that normal people should be operating with cryptocurrencies at the protocol level. This whitepaper goes into a lot of technical detail that users should never be expected to touch.
I'd also think that working backwards from all possible winning states would offer some insight and potential for speed. At the expense of being somewhat more difficult (at first glance anyway) to ascertain validity of the predecessor state.
Then the route is legislation. You're not allowed to eat more than X grams a day. Our technology is not advanced enough to enforce this in a customer friendly way.

The other route is education. That will take a long time. The poorest are often also the ones that are difficult to reach using this route.
Imagine that you get a letter from a friend. In the middle of the letter is a strange paragraph praising the postal service's new product. You later learn that this was inserted by the postal service.

I'd argue that both you and your friend have been harmed by this and that the postal service should be punished. Their job is to deliver messages unmodified and uninspected.

Here, the friend is a web page and the postal service is the ISP. Same deal. Injecting content into a page defames (and possibly breaks) the site and deceives the requester.

(Yes, the site should use HTTPS to prevent this. And you should lock your house's door. But that doesn't excuse dishonest ISPs or burglars who take advantage when you don't.)
Ranking search results is not the same as clicking ads - it's about organizing information.
Speed is tricky for the next phase, which is to see if it (1) actually affects progress of the disease and (2) is well tolerated long-term. But may it all go smoothly!

ISTR there are statistical techniques which can help, but even so, we're on for a 2-year trial in all likelihood. My neurologist was literally dancing in his chair. :)

It'll be interesting to see if the technique extends to other single-cause conditions.
I checked out Pulsar and got completely lost in the multiple hierarchical Zookeeper clusters.
Current social media has those exact same problems. Corporations violate our privacy daily and successfully work to manipulate the population. We already crossed that bridge unfortunately.
That doesn't make it a bad idea. Over time interfaces would develop so that ordinary users can use it without having to worry about the protocol.

It probably is a bad idea, but this isn't why.
Would that be because maybe sexual attraction to a person is based on the personality we project onto the looks and energy? And maybe within an industry you simply don't have every type of personality and that is actually really hard to fake?

Which is why some people like the amateur stuff much more.

Of course this suggests there are deep layers of emotional needs behind our sexual preferences. Which is obviously not true. It is all about the flesh. That is why porn sites only need three videos ;)
Glad I found the person who is able to speak for everyone who is buying.
> purchasing power falls all across the world.

Is this true? I am unable to find right google keywords to verify this.
Why not just buy Bitcoin and hand it out to people? What actual value does this add?
Coinbase froze deposits/withdrawals, trading on the exchange often continues normally.
What's wrong with being identified with your beliefs?

Using aliases is rarely really anonymous, you can probably infer my identity pretty easily.

One can be above if one chooses, it's seems ultra-paranoid to want to discuss nothing unless you're anonymous - what do you talk about then in social situations IRL, do you wear a mask when you go out?
I don’t know, $750k per year would put all of those concerns to rest for me.

I don’t care about respect when I’m sitting on a boat off the coast of Nice. “Comfortable” for me means having the option to not work.
Meta: it's curious that this green account created two hours ago only has two submissions, both of which reached the top 10 on the front page.
Saudi Arabia to reopen movie theaters after 35-year ban
Money is important, but

I'm going to stop you right there.

#1 is solved by more money. Want me to work in a team that mocks my work? $100k extra will do it

#2 is solved by more money. Want me to work with dirtbags? $100k

#3 is solved by more money. Want me to wear a "super junior nobody" title? As long as you're up front about it, $100k.

#4 is solved by money. My overtime rate is 2x normal rate

You know why? Money buys more than just "roof" and "comfort". It buys everything. Planes. Parachutes. Yachts. Horses. Jet skis. Vacation homes. College and private school for kids.

If you think that more money doesn't motivate you, either you've never been paid enough, or you need to go find some interesting hobbies. You'll quickly find they cost money (and do not accept "but I'm happy at work" statements as payment)
The truth is nobody knows what will happen. Meanwhile people who have a risk tolerance and budget keep making money.

The 'sane' people have missed out on some of the best returns in history. There is more there than you think, and everyone should investigate for themselves rather than having a knee-jerk reaction.
Suddenly one day how did this "ISIS" spring up so well organized with great "PR" work. While they were plying their trade in Syria, they didn't seem to know that their sworn enemies lived just across the border. Wonder why they never really attacked that country.
thanks but I am looking for the opposite not the fastest but the slowest.
I'm not sure UBI's issues are technical, and that you can just solve it with the blockchain.

But it still looks rather exciting!
I hope we'll get the code running soon, the white paper lacks some details to understand in depth the protocols. (Is there PoW ?)

Btw, I don't get what is "minting". This is not really explained. Is it like mining?
Are people expected to run a miner on their personal computers? Or do the coins appear automatically, based on the age of the account ?
Same, it's important to have safe contentious discussions and for people to be challenged in their social-media bubble.
My theory: corporate tyranny is commonplace and accepted, and a democratic (or more likely, a republican) workplace is new and different, and a lot of people are rightly suspicious of building their lives on a new and possibly unstable foundation.

Also the law is set up assuming the firm will ultimately be run through a single point of authority, and if you want to run the place as a coop you'll face investor uncertainty and legal difficulties.

Most of all, the US culture doesn't have much in the way of cultural norms for a firm like this. We have centuries of experience working in a hierarchical style workplace, but people don't really have manners for working in an democratic firm, and there would have to be a lot of time and energy spent on cultural factors that a conventional workplace doesn't have to.

Does this make any sense at all?
Looks like TD Ameritrade also has them - I'm getting price data from my app for it at the minimum.
It's not just our political system. Italy had a crippling drought not seen since 1800 in 2017. Rome shut off public fountains, drinking stations, and finally addressed the 40%-45% water loss due to leaks in the pipes.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/drought-and-leaks-mean-no...

https://ggwash.org/view/35397/watch-metro-grow-from-one-shor...
I think there are plenty of flaws here, but I upvoted it because I think there's something novel and creative here that can be leveraged. To those posting criticism and nothing else, let's see if we can try to be constructive with it, or at least helpful in identification of central flaws that will be roadblocks. I'm sure there is a lot to be sorted out.
Pulsar supports multiple regions natively which requires separate Zookeeper clusters for each region to manage the global and local cluster state (ie: replicating messages from DC1 => DC2 but not DC3).

If you dont need/want that, then its just a single ZK cluster as with Kafka or anything else. ZK + Brokers + Bookies = Pulsar.
To test hotkeys during development.
You know, I really had stuff I needed to do today...Thanks a lot... /s :) Awesome game, can't seem to stop playing
Sure, and using https is a good thing, but that doesn't stop google etc from logging my request/ip requesting those font at that time etc for whatever purposes. I don't really want those parties to be aware of me using a particular service, or being online at a specific time etc. Certainly not just for a font.
Danah boyd on our complicity in fake news
And where is the money from a "meat tax" supposed to go? And will money actually do anything useful?
Volumetric 3D printing builds on need for speed
Perfect Hashing was crica 1984.
Then don't tax it. Rather than that, stop subsidizing it. Also pass legislation for propely labelling meat from livestock treated with antibiotics, listing the types of antibiotics used and the trace amounts present in the meat.
Yeah, it's really good design when I cannot use my 200$ headphones with my new phone. /s
Dreams Do Not Work Unless You Do
Could be related to all the Navy nuclear stuff around town like the shipyard at Bremerton or the Bangor sub base
For some people you are correct. They will not turn down more money. After a certain point in your career you realize that money does not buy happiness, and it certainly does not buy you more time. As people get older and have families etc., people begin to realize that going home at a reasonable hour is much more important than extra money.
Oh yes, this will certainly solve a problem.

Anybody know what that problem is? Because the author(s) of the paper haven't mentioned it.
Have you never been in a situation where a women, at a bar or other social event, being corned by a man, looks over at a nearby friend with the expression “help me?” If you’ve seen it, it’s not subtle.

I have often seen this scene unfold. So why don’t women in such situations simply tell the man to fuck off?

Well, even an average sized man is still many kilograms larger than the average woman. So rather than risk getting knocked out, the average women’s instincts probably tell them to de-escalate the situation and get away.

To expect all women in such situations to directly confront their agressors, I think is to expect people to directly reject their basic survival instincts.

If someone is clearly being harassed (like I said, look at the face, the expression is not subtle), it only makes sense to offer the victim an easy exit.
Thanks a lot for the link! I ended up downloading the database, and going through all of my email contacts to see who was affected to write to them individually.

About 7/10 frequently contacted people were in the database (...!). About half of those let me know that the passwords were not in use anymore. The other half was very, very grateful...!

It was a great time to remind them about password managers, 2fa, etc.
I think it's still worth the try, even if it fails. We'll then know better the pitfalls and can avoid them in the future.
Artificial neural networks are considerably less complex than the real thing we carry around in our heads. We have very little clue why we make decisions either, and various bits of psychological research show that it's much less rational that we'd like to believe.

So how to make progress?

I think often we make decisions intuitively, then seek rationalisations. Sometimes we're self-deluded about how good those rationalisations are, because it is difficult to change a decision we have committed to. But if we avoid that, it strikes me as a good enough model: we can concentrate on at how rigorous the justification is, and worry less about the question of genesis.

And so I think the same thing should go for AI. We've lost the battle on AI that we can understand. We should focus more on a science of justification, or decision testing.

And if we can develop and be publicly committed to that kind of science, we can apply it to human decision-making too.
This is peak Hacker News
That requires initial capital. If people were to use this globally, it would theoretically be an opt-in system that would put everyone on a level playing field (pending start time).
Such a long, meandering article, but the meat of it seems to be here:

“The more vanilla the release, the better it works for Spotify. If it’s challenging music? Nah,” he says, telling me about all of the experimental, noise, and comparatively aggressive music on his label that goes unheard on the platform. “It leaves artists behind. If Spotify is just feeding easy music to everybody, where does the art form go? Is anybody going to be able to push boundaries and break through to a wide audience anymore?”

I get that the author wants to listen to "challenging" music that "pushes boundaries" and laments that Spotify's algorithms are surfacing up Muzak instead. But there are other places to go to find your challenging music. For lots of other people, however, music is not some intimate connection with an artist's soul, it's simply something that goes on in the background while you're trying to get something else done or just relax. People seem to want Muzak--who are you to argue with the market when it has spoken?
1 in 10 handsets isn't a market you want?
And radiative heat transfer scaled with temperature to the fourth power so it would be easy to do if you had materials that could handle really high temperatures for long times.
The commies used to do that in Eastern Europe and Soviet Union with meat being rationalized. They were exporting it to Western countries at dumping prices to obtain hard currency. It was quite unpopular. If you want a swift regime change, then go ahead and tax food or rationalize it.
I think there's an art to it. First off, if you work in that type of environment, yea you're gonna get shit from your colleagues. If that bothers you, you might need to be working somewhere else to pull it off. I would probably try to convince them to change to your philosophy.

To be honest, the real secret is to be everybody's friend. Focus on knowing them personally and spend lots of time bullshitting with them. You also can't flaunt what you're doing. Just make your estimates really long up front, clearly state all of the potential blockers and how they will affect your deadlines. Ask lots of questions in meetings. When confronted, product people, leaders, whoever is in charge usually do not know what they want. Put it on them to actually articulate their needs. You'll have them going back to the drawing board over and over.
UBI is a pipe dream and will never happen. If people would quit spending all of their time dreaming/wishing/hoping UBI becomes a thing, and instead used half that time on building/delivering value to people in the marketplace, they'd never need UBI in the first place.

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
My best guess is that Universal Basic Income will be similar to the SNAP Program in which funds are loaded onto cards and can be used at certain stores. This most likely will occur in the mid to late 2020s with automation continuing to grow. However, I am not sure UBI would work. Capitalism's laws of supply and demand would essentially make UBI ineffective as suppliers would raise prices to offset a larger money supply.
Perhaps. But I would never activate such a thing. I'd expect to run into weirdos that are impossible to get rid of.

It's a cliché to say that we as engineers look to solve all problems with more tech, even the problem of too much tech. But in this case I think it's really warranted.

I've had two experiences here in Copenhagen that were interesting to me. Once, I was on a bus that got stuck in a pile of snow. Everybody got out and helped push it. Another time, the ATM's collectively stopped working for a half hour or so. In both instances, people were almost delighted to have a reason to speak to strangers around them. The bus ride turned into a small party, and with the ATM situation I saw a person giving a stranger cash (not a lot, but completely out of the blue). Both times I had the feeling that it was like people were waking up from a zombie-sleep and I wonder if things were more like this in villages in the old days.
> At least traditional modern financial instruments still have some connection to an underlying real-world market

In 2012, 50% of of US trading was considered "automated high-frequency trading".
> Furthermore, many people already eat far too much meat, seriously damaging their health and incurring huge costs.

What? I'm getting fat on pasta and breads. I need to actively eat more meat. And given the cost of meat compared to carbs, I'd bet dollars to donuts that the vast majority of people in the middle and lower class face the same problem. Meat is not the health problem here.