skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It provides a ton of value even if you can’t reasonably buy coffee with it. The path to replacing fiat is not adding risk or unpredictability to the figurehead cryptocurrency.
Maybe...

But such a system is open to very easy abuse. Let's say I fancy a nice 4x4 "so that I can tow people stuck in the snow in winter". Do I get to write off the cost of my 4x4 just because I tow people in snow two days a year?
Then they ought try and avoid doing things to discredit themselves I imagine.
The fungi appear to be especially good at exploiting this impulse :)
Depending on who happens to be writing him, Superman ranges from "smart guy but not THAT smart" to super-genius level. He's the last of a race of genetically optimized people and his parents were scientists so, I'd go with "he's much, much smarter than Batman, but Batman's power is to always have planned for everything whether or not the writers thought of it at the time."
>Tax the externalities properly and there is no environmental problem here.

If the people who always say "tax the externalities" were ever actually leading the political charge to do so, I'd be much more sympathetic. Instead it always seems to be a gas lighting move in bad faith, where on one hand it's "easy problem, it's all externalities!" and with the other hand they're the people fighting tooth and nail against the environmental regulations and taxes we so desperately need.
He certainly aspires to be. Here he is, unedited, expressing his desire to slaughter 3 million drug addicts: https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/sep/30/philippi...
A lot of the problem stems from the fact that many software products use the license legal framework instead of the purchase legal framework. Under current laws, companies have much more downstream control over licensed products than over products that are outright sold.
Bitcoin is competing with gold, not visa.
I think kids get such scores when they are ahead of their age in areas of mental development. I think in my case, because of attentive parents who had me reading early, etc.

As I got older I realized I'm not actually smarter than other people, I was just a little ahead, and the false belief that I am somehow exceptionally clever was damaging in a number of ways.
Possible other explanation: People with higher IQ are just more often diagnosed with disorders, e.g. because they are more likely to go to a doctor
I think you and I might agree on "how things should be", but have different definitions for the term Free-Market. I understand that there are many different ways of defining this term, and that there is no right or wrong answer here. When I referred earlier to the ideals of Free-Markets, I was referring to the economic ideal of one with Perfect Competition. This is an ideal that can never be realized of course, but I believe that the closer we come to this ideal, the better off we will be. Banning of price-fixing, false-advertising, and trust-busting, are all examples of public policy that betray Libertarian principles in order to further Perfect Competition, and that's something we need a lot more of today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition#Idealizing...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_information
A more detailed analysis of this was posted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15887543
> some people find his aggressively dismissive style personally abusive and distressing.

Thank you for pointing this out.

There are many cases of what I call the "brilliant jerk" in programming.

Personally, I deal very badly with confrontational behavior. And it makes me rather sad. If I can deal with people by being friendly (or at least polite) and soft-spoken, it can't be that hard, now, can it?

And there are some examples of brilliant programmers that are also nice people and very pleasant to deal with. Richard Hipp of SQLite and Fossil seems to be this kind of person. If I cannot be as brilliant as him, at least I want to be as friendly and respectful as him.

It seems that a lot of software projects have begun adopting codes of conduct. I tend to feel a little ambivalent about this phenomenon, because it attempts to codify things I think should be the natural state of people interacting. But maybe in the long run, it is necessary to be a little more formal about this.

And still, when Bryan Cantrill gets sufficiently worked up about a subject, he is very entertaining to listen to.
Videographer here. Amateur videographer, that is.

I apologize for the sound quality. I'm still learning how to do this stuff, and one thing I forgot to check is whether the final audio sounded good in headphones. On my laptop's speakers, I couldn't hear that there was only one channel. Checking that is now in my post-production checklist.

Unfortunately, while the lapel microphone I use normally produces good sound, I needed to do some level setting first. That's also in my checklist now. And I didn't expect the amplifier's sound to be picked up so strongly by the lapel mic. That may be something I'll have to solve using equipment.

I promise that I'm working on getting better at this.

Many thanks to Philip Greenspun, of Greenspun's Tenth Rule [1], for giving me the video camera that I've been using.

By the way, this talk was co-hosted the Bay Area Lisp & Scheme Users Group, [2], of which I'm co-organizer. You can see videos of prior BALISP talks at [3]. If you're in the area, please join us. We encourage you to give a five-minute lightning talk on anything interesting you've been working on that is related to Lisp.

Thank you so much to Robert Smith and Rigetti for giving and hosting such a terrific talk.

[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

[2] http://balisp.org/

[3] http://balisp.org/videos
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10-20 MB isn't large these days, especially when every iPhone app update is on the order of 60-200 MB.
The argument against Pando is that it's fractured into many smaller parts that are no longer connected.
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How so?

And obviously it doesn't matter if the law is wrong, it's still the law. But in this instance, why do you believe it to be wrong?
After serving in Vidor, TX this year...I would love to see this made possible.

Further, FEMA has failed Louisiana too many times, and we're fed up with it. That name has become a "swear" in this part of the country.
Our open-source project for Autism got funded by UNICEF Innovation Fund
Loper-Os is a really interesting project and Stanislav is an endearingly stubborn idealist. Though that way of writing can be off-putting to some, I find that voices from the extreme ends of the spectrum can be informative of where we might be going wrong / right (Stallman, Terry A. Davis)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271662

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3293657
Using pkg to update both base and ports with a single tool will be nice. As will updating jails robustly; freebsd-update is not so great in jails in my experience.
The Intercept is doing great work. The media needs to be shamed for their blatant lack of integrity.
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I wonder what precisely happened to Glenn Greenwald. He used to be a valuable left-wing journalist, back when he was at Salon. Now he's a complete shill for Trump and Wikileaks. I suppose my leading theory is, Russia bought him.

Greenwald is right, of course, that CNN screwed up on this story, but to call it the "most humiliating debacle in ages"? That's just goofy. What's humiliating is that we have a budding Hitler in our midst and we are apparently powerless to stop it.
When I find a spider in my apartment, I usually leave it alone so it can kill off other pests.

As long as it's not bothering me, I usually don't bother it.
I published one, not on oracle but on other expensive entreprise databases.

Never got a complaint. However I received a nice email from one of their sales guy to thank me and say it was great to show to their clients.
I'd argue some of the cryptocash ideas thrown around in the 90s were vastly superior on the technical front. We've had the schematics for instantanous, high transaction volume, offline, double-spend resistant, completely untraceable and anonymous, digital cash for 25 years... with no blockchain or energy crazy energy consumption requirements.

Why didn't these technologies succeed? Because none of those properties have any business advantage over boring, simple, centralized credit-card processing and back then everything was sealed up in patents until it missed the boat.
This is certifiable.
> we'll reach the limits of what our brains can grasp.

But different brains are good at different things. There will never be a line where everyone can grasp everything on one side, and no one can grasp anything on the other.

If one in ten brains can grasp something, there might still be academic departments that study it. But if only one in a thousand brains can grasp something, what do these people look like to the rest of us?
Yeah, I think we agree on how things should be. But Perfect Competition and Free Market are two very different things. I think a lot of free market nutjobs would think of perfect competition as socialist interference in free markets.
There is no evidence at all of any lack of "integrity", here. This was simply a stupid mistake. That's it.
They're called severability clauses. Courts frequently uphold them independently of finding other unenforceable or invalid clauses. Any contract written by a lawyer worth their salt has one and it's usually based on wording that has been tested in a court.

I am not a lawyer, this isn't legal advice.
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Great point. Not only that, but the level of disorganization during these operations is probably enough to dissuade this type of tax program.
> managers aren't able to keep up and so might find themselves in a position where when they first started managing they were an expert....

Reminds me of this. The value is in the audio but the animation is entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmdLcyES_Q
> He used to be a valuable left-wing journalist

That's the thing, he just reports the facts. Facts are not left or right-wing, they just are.
That may be a bit of a stretch, but a per diem covering at least your running expenses would be reasonable.

While it appears there's room for improvement in US disaster response services, we should keep in mind that any major emergency is basically Nature pulling a DoS attack on us; it would be unreasonable to expect the government to be everywhere immediately. (Which, basically,is why they should reimburse private citizens coming in to help.)
Your words: "hate", "resent", "stressing", "hard time", etc...
Change you thinking pattern, start thinking about what you love.
What do you love to do?
Then start doing it.

"Love" is a key.

You can start right now.
You’d write off two days of the year, give or take depending on their calculation for depreciation and such. Now if you bought t only for that purpose and didn’t use it any other time...
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Could you point me to some sources that discuss simulation of the blockchain network? I would be interested to learn more.
Funny thing is that men in mostly males companies who don't interact with women unless it is weekend seem most afraid to loose ability to flirt at work.
Incorrect. The fact is the network lacked the capacity to handle the requested number of transactions, and in turn auctioned off the tickets to the lifeboat to whoever paid the most.

You’re arguing “nobody died in the titanic that didn’t pay enough”, when the problem is clearly there aren’t enough lifeboats.
> Git is only immutable on that meta level where we talk about the object key-value store. The implementation uses mutable files though, and even steps away from that immutable key-value store when the size gets too big and needs to store more efficiently.

Functional languages are only immutable on that meta level where we talk about objects in memory. The implementation uses mutable RAM though, and even garbage collects when the size gets too big and needs to store more efficiently.

Unless you want to narrow the term 'functional' so much it describes nothing at all, Git is a functional data structure.
I am not sure why it matters what the original purpose was. It seems that current consensus of bitcoin is to be a competitor to gold for store of value. there may be other cryptocurrencies that act more like currencies
Gyrosco.pe i think they are only a couple of guys.

https://gyrosco.pe/app/
Part of the problem begins with jury selection. Prosecutors tend to select jurors who are
deferential to authority, since they almost always side with the prosecutor. This plan doesn't work very well when the defendant is the image of authority.
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Yeah, I think the real problem I have is the impossibility of opting out of the indentation style. Not using any indentation or newlines seems pretty extreme. All I want to do is write it like it was C, and that’s not possible (maybe we need yet another extension)
Who is going to pay you for your Dogecoin if no one wants to hold them?
I feel lucky I live in the USA such that I am permitted to follow this advice.
You are correct. One interesting point to note is the high disparity between prices on different exchanges.

COinbase shot through the roof, but other notable exchanges were sometimes $5k out for a number of hours. This proves that either people couldn't cross trade (i.e. buy cheap on one market and sell high on the other) or didn't know how to (which is suspect)

this could be because the transaction speed stalled trades, meaning that effectively each exchange became its own global market, either way, having large disparities between exchanges is problematic.
Inequality is driven in good part by stolen intellectual property and laws that make that increasingly legal or at least unregulated. Fraud in this case might be reversed, but I'll bet it's not prosecuted as such.
They aren't saying your wrong about IQ tests. Pointing out one outlier isn't proof that it is flawed.

Plus, this study doesn't care if IQ tests are a good way to rate intelligence, people who score well on them also are more likely to suffer disorders.
Most of the benchmarks are done by competing companies with competing products, not by a random engineer. They make sure the benchmark put their own products in a good light.

It's also true that the testers usually don't configure all the products equivalently. It's usually not (only) incompetence, they are pushing an agenda for their product or consulting services.
To the all people who are dismissing the important of the issues being presented in this article, I'd like to invite you to reconsider. I'm reading two main critiques here:

First, that breeding is more important than CO2. That's easy to address as it was discussed in the article. Researchers compared a weed that has had no human cultivation and also compared the genetics of samples from the 1850s, only to find that their protein concentration has declined by 33% since the industrial revolution. Additionally, the main scientist in the article published a meta study that had enough data to account for noise and it isolated CO2 as having an impact on our nutritional density.

Second, another prominent critique I'm reading here is that the conclusions are not important because other factors have so much more importance. I think this criticism is misguided and it's treating the problem as if this were big O or something. Like, "sure, this may be happening but then people could just eat spinach instead of broccoli, problem solved." There's so much that's wrong with this I don't even know where to start, actually.
That makes sense I suppose.
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The subtlety here is that Apple doesn't make their newest OS with all of its software-only features available to all the phones they still support. I am considering changing to an iPhone SE because the iPhone 5 will never run iOS 11. My old iPad is running iOS 9. These are still getting updates to the OSs that do run on them, but the feature set is more or less frozen on these now.
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I believe ripple has solved the problem with scaling. It can handle more than 1500 tps and the throughput can be increased upto 50k tps
Because the quality of their every new product is shit.
Could be that I'm just really out of touch, but I need at least one paragraph saying "What is this?" (and ideally also, "Who is the target audience?" - or "Why would I be interested in reading this?")
This is indeed the folly of only valuating a coin for its transactional properties.
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> What are other use cases of first-class identifiers, other than making some function arguments or macros look prettier?

You are completely missing the point. Not having identifiers be first-class objects with unique identity is how Python ended up being unable to reload code properly.
Care to elaborate? I'd say functions in Haskell are many things "by default":

- Curried

- Partial

- Lazy

- Values

- Recursive

- etc.
Man.. Nobody has ever said Duerte isn't supported by the population. All dictators have some kind of support, otherwise they could never govern.

People is saying two things. First we (as western world) know dictatorship is bad, because exactly how you said, we've been there. Expecially Europe. US has actually never tried it. But we actually know what happens.

Second, we also know that to get to power dictators always have to use extremely violent or aggressive techniques. Maybe by condemning these we could prevent dictatorships and all the crap that follows altogheter.

Besides, it's instead entirely possible to me that this is an unskippable step in a country's history, and people have to go through that phase and try it on their skin, so whatever.

The point of the artcle was more about the role of Facebook into this anyway.
Not just BTC. iota, which is supposedly scalable, has come to a screeching halt over the last few days as well
Gold isn't even in the same realm of volatility as BC, though. You put money in Gold and you're pretty sure if the world burns it's still worth something. You put money in BC at breakfast and you may be a pauper by lunch.
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and handwaved away as if it's nothing
Steve Jobs spent his entire life working on, and talking about, personal computing technology. How many world class experts lack confidence in their area of expertise? It almost doesn't make sense to ask.

Very few people will ever put in the kind of effort and time that Steve Jobs put into his work, and so they shouldn't ever expect anything like his level of expertise or confidence.
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Why is this obvious clickbait and shilling allowed on hacker news?
That only seems to be a minor issue. The author specifically mentions "simple currying" and "overloaded currying". Extra parentheses are only an annoyance with the former.
Word of warning: one of the sites linked by the article has a very NSFW header image.
>The rally is partly because it can’t scale and people are unable to get their bitcoin to an exchange to sell it.

that's demonstrably false. there's plenty room of you're willing to pay enough in transaction fees. if you don't want to pay $5 in transaction fees to cash out $5000, that's your problem. either that or you don't want to pay $5 to cash out $10, but in that case that has no appreciable impact on trading volume.

>For a bitcoin that has scaled see Bitcoin Cash.

if you mean bitcoin with block size limit lifted, then yes. but right now it's handling less transactions than bitcoin so it's not fair to say it has scaled.
Isn't the theory "he changed his opinion" a simpler one?
I guess he doesn't count Fox or Brietbart as part of the US Media? Since they intentionally do worse every single day.
Is the argument that you think Reddit users are representative of Bitcoin investors?

Most of the time it feels like these discussions are stuck rehashing old arguments in circles, but this was truly innovative. Thank you for not being predictable.

As for the argument itself, I think you are correct not to make any investment decisions based on what you described.
Ask HN: What's the next big thing?
Today's (yesterdays?) "hot" things: bitcoin/blockchain/decentralized, AI/DeepNets, VR/AR, genomics/liquid-biopsy, wearables, human-machine neural lace, cloud/GPU/TPU, 3D/additive manufacturing

What's the next big thing that no one or very few people are thinking about? What feels like a toy today, people get a chuckle out of? What's a contrarian play today that looks like genius tomorrow?

It can also be a "comeback" with a twist. Very few people thought yet another messaging tool would prosper (Slack), etc. It could also be obvious.
How are clauses like this even legal? One could argue they limit people's personal freedom and is essentially an anti-competition clause without an upside. Legitimate question, as I am finding it hard that a court would allow this.
The post I was responding to was the exact hypothetical “if SHA-2 were broken...”

All arguments about collision and preimage resistance are based on the assumption of SHA-2 doing what we think it does. A catastrophic break of SHA-2 would destroy the bitcoin ledger.
It's always troubling when authority figures need people to explain what they meant instead of being able to state it clearly themselves, but since you say Duterte was making a comment on the past, perhaps you'd care to explain why he's doing so using the present and future tense.

This is the second post in the thread where you've basically said that murder is an acceptable response to journalistic corruption. As you're so in love with your 'FACT' perhaps you can give us a factual definition of what makes someone a 'son of a bitch.'
How hard to censor is IPFS? It would be quite disappointing if we managed to switch everyone over to IPFS, and in the end, after all that effort (and the compromises we'd have to make compared to simply using centralized content), governments would remain quite effective at censoring IPFS content.

Could ISPs throttle or block IPFS content, for instance? The developers should start assuming some extremely aggressive environments, like China, and then go from there, because honestly, we don't know if 20 years from now a lot more governments would see China's censorship as a role model to follow. We're already seeing multiple countries in Europe considering it to stop "extremist content", the IPSs in Canada are now banding together to block pirated content, and the US is probably not going to be too far behind after the repeal of the net neutrality rules. And those are just the "democratic" countries. It's obviously much worse for Middle Eastern or African countries already.

So I just hope the IPFS developers will always try to develop the platform from an extreme resilience point of view.
I don't find this at all "remarkable" because I don't think this has anything to do with the curvature itself, but the relative contrast of the lines against different backgrounds, and the, for lack of a better term, dithering that occurs in the brain as it is interpreting the borders of contrast

If the lines were a solid color, instead of alternating bands, or if the crossover happened somewhere other than a crest of a trough, this effect would disappear.
Some conference/workshop notes
http://www.lowrisc.org/blog/2017/11/seventh-risc-v-workshop-...
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