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> Having children has made me happier and more fulfilled in ways that I could never have imagined.

That's my main problem with it, it's super selfish to procreate. I don't feel I have the right to force new life (with all the pain and suffering that entails) onto this world for the sake of making me happy. I love my potential children too much to do that to them.
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Um, you all do realize that the guy who writes this blog is known within the English Japan crowd as a fabulist (a storyteller), right?

The characters in this story are all figments of the blog author's imagination.

You all have fallen for yet another Japan hoax. Like the bagel heads or LED braces.
Yep - not very useful without the video.
It is not your inner-millenial, there are many people that feel this way. Christmas parties in general give me the creeps. I would also prefer a Christmas bonus instead of needing to talk to colleagues that slowly (sometimes not so slowly) get inebriated and make some form of fools of themselves.

Christmas parties feel forced to me. A legacy of time gone by that people cling to for some reason.
What else should it be doing?

It's an accelerator to run Tensorflow graphs, and TF graphs essentially are converted to matrix operations and convolutions.
from my own experience : you don't make friends by using their code in a way that was specifically prohibited.
You don't have to replace them, you just assure a minimum standard of living available to all individuals. That should be enough for basic necessities but who wants to work will still work.
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Meh. That's only because of the association between AI and disaster movies. If you just think about it as math, it's no more (or less) scary than what came before it.
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wow that is one poor looking website, look like one big banner page with a little table in the middle.
something like https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/bitcoin-confirmationtim... ?
I am going to hold my $3 of bitcoin forever. To the moon!
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> That makes horse manure a heavily manipulated underlying financial product?

Yes. You will find people who use their fields of cows to pass off excrement as horse manure, injecting various gasses into the manure to pass excrement-inspections. You will also find actual owners of horses who discard half their horse manure.
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The purpose of this restriction is to protect the decentralization of bitcoin nodes. It is this decentralization of nodes that separates bitcoin from every other crypto competitor, and by some margin.
Man, I like the idea, but these typos are seriously bugging me. On the main page it says "Who use them?". In Tim Berners Lee's page, it says "They look simple, [...], but the complicate what was a very clean design of elements and attributes". It's "but they complicate", right?
I guess that would/could be correct. Though you have to account for the amount of 'propaganda' people post on their social media. It's not always sunshine as people portray on social media.
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They don't verify transactions actually. That is what nodes do. They retrieve valid transactions from nodes, order them, and then hash them according to the consensus proof-of-work algorithm, which in this case, is SHA-256, until it produces a block that will satisfy the node consensus requirements.
This is the kind of design that works in print (and, I accidentally discovered, on my AMOLED display) but which a regular computer monitor turns into a weapon of eye destruction.

Another important part of design is that you have to consider the medium. At all times. (I'll have to stop here before I go on a rant about mobile apps with "color samples" people use when picking wall paint colours...
I read years ago that such plants lose their effectiveness over time because they extract heat from the ground faster than it replenishes (i.e. it creates a local "cool spot" in the ground).
I bet that for folks who are designers and get the reference his choice makes perfect sense and it might even be nice. But for me, most importantly, after loading the page it was unclear what to do. Use the menu? Scroll? I don't think it's good design for users to have to guess where the content is or what they are expected to do.
That's arguable. Digital platforms are both facilitating and changing human interaction - for both better and worse.
But then make the user scroll through it?
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The concept of layering futures on top of BTC is equal parts crazy and promising on the entertainment front.

All we need now is someone adding leverage and hilarity shall most certainly ensue
On the other hand, my 6, same purchase day, can barely survive a full day of light use, and requires additional charging throughout the day if I'm calling or texting much
'There was a time when you could give a christmas bonus to the mail man.'

In the UK this was the case until around 10 years ago. The local postman was part of the community.

Now we get random people with no local knowledge or connections. Hence letters and parcels end up at the wrong address or don't get delivered at all.
My first thought was "deep space mission". But because of moving parts involved, this is probably not the use-case.

So a bit OT, I was wondering if anyone has yet thought about the solution of still using solar panels for them, but to also use a mirror to focus more light in the direction of the probe or a laserbeam?

I mean, theoretical I don't see why not, appart from being more expensive? Andd you could also offset the laser/mirror cost, because you only need them later on ....

(but to be on the safer side, I still would add a RTG)
You might want to check out EffectiveDiscussions too: https://www.effectivediscussions.org. It's like Discourse + StackOverflow (Q&A) + Slack (chat) + HackerNews. (I'm developing it.)

Later this week I'll release a slightly new version that'll make it the probably fastest forum software out there :- ) But Discourse is more stable & well tested.

Here're some features you might like, if you like HackerNews: https://www.effectivediscussions.org/-32/how-hacker-news-can...

Discord (chat) is fairly popular too. But maybe not so great for Q&A because everything scrolls up-and-away in a pure chat.
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According to a NASA pdf the thing weighs 1150 Kg or thereabouts.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201700...
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The miners are incentivized not to undertake the attack you envisage because the outcome of such an attack is a fairly routine modification of the consensus protocol to an alternate Proof-of-work algorithm, which instantly renders all of the attacking miners hardware obsolete. They quite rightly want to avoid any strategy that might lead to that outcome.
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I agree with the last 9, but I have my quarrels with the first one. It just begs for people to make innovative designs even though the original one worked perfectly. Like a microwave oven with dozens of buttons even though the one with two dials (power, time) and the door-opener button works 99% of the time.
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Uhhhh, not to rain on your parade but the device I've been using for the last 6½ years - a Motorola Defy - is waterproof (IP67) yet still has one of those 'crappy "back cover[s]" which "pops" open' (with a latch to prevent it from popping when popping is unwarranted). It is also supposed to be rugged and I guess this is confirmed by the fact that it still lives after those 6½ years in my care. Need I say I have a farm with quite a bit of forest, the which I regularly maintain using tractor, saw and axe? That phone has survived nevertheless. When it gets too disgusting to hold I clean it under running water. Just a week ago I happened to use the thing to provide some light when changing light bulbs in my wife's car. What do you know, it slipped down and landed on the plastic cover underneath the engine, there was no way to reach it without disassembling part of that cover. Since we were on our way home I just left it there, drove home (about 11 kilometres) and got out the tools required to rescue the phone. I found it wedged between the oil pan and the plastic cover. It was no worse for the wear other than possibly some extra scratches on that 'crappy "back cover"', I wouldn't know since the thing is scratched beyond recognition anyway. Yet... it still works.

I guess I don't need to elaborate on the survival chances of an iPhone - any iPhone - in these circumstances.
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A somewhat related question: If I buy Bitcoin for e.g. $1.000. If the price doubles, how much can I expect to actually get out? I reckon there will be some cost-overhead for the exchange service etc. Am wondering if we're talking about 1%-5% or more like 20%?
Who do you think you're kidding? It works exceptionally well as a store of value, regardless of volatility. It is approaching an increase of value of 100x in three years.
That is why taxi drivers are such bad drivers. They are incentivised to drive fast and run red lights.
Boom! My December sales just doubled.
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Good design does not hurt your eyes ;)
So much going on here.

> What if a bulk of Bitcoin owners all try to cashout today?

What happens during a bank run?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/bankrun.asp

The chance of bank default rises. Something similar will happen.

> Where's all this invisible money gonna come from?

Bitcoin addresses are public. Recently there was a panic when a supposed whale moved 10k, I remember correctly to an exchange.

> Hacks

Well, this adds an interesting angle to the whole topic. Most of the hacks don't mention suspected bitcoin addresses. So, a hacker can run the coins through a tumbler to get "clean" bitcoins.

For the nicehash hack, this is the suspected account:

https://blockchain.info/address/1EnJHhq8Jq8vDuZA5ahVh6H4t6jh...

The coins are still in the account, unmoved. So, whether these guys can get the "hidden" bitcoins and cause a crash is an interesting topic to think about.
How does this compare with NATS?
Fastly is one of the top 10 fastest growing B2B tech companies
And Uber is dumping taxi services by selling them below cost (subsidized by VC) to undermine the competition. Nobody's even tried going after them from that angle.

The US government, at least, basically doesn't enforce anti-trust regulations any more. And even if it did, the current administration's philosophy essentially doesn't include the enforcement of ANY regulations against businesses for the public good.
I would think the imminent Redis streams data type would provide this better. It is battle-tested and allows great customisation to a range of use cases.
> Ethereum is already better-equipped to scale and the protocol is actively evolving

That is laughably false. Ethereum node decentralization is cratering, because it is becoming impossible to even synchronize a node anymore. I'd suggest you're not as technically inclined as you assert if you don't recognize this.

> In terms of transaction throughput, Bitcoin has a stupid hard limit of 1mb per 10mins of data

Bitcoin has a hard-limit in order to protect the decentralization of its nodes, and the consensus rules of the protocol. It's OK, I suppose, if you don't mind forking a supposedly immutable blockchain every time a few big investors lose money, but bitcoin is a slightly better value proposition than that.
I know that it's quite common to have your own geothermal heat exchanger on the country side in Denmark. You don't have to do it at a large scale. However I imagine it's better to do large installation if cost is an issue.
If you're in AWS land, try a step function triggered from SNS. Executions can last up to a year.
To shell out to processes that actually perform the work either invoke a lambda or start an ECS task.
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Yes, -11% carry in a month is absolutely bonkers.
al-Qaida is also present in Syria in the form of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, previously Nusra Front. They have Afghan veterans in their ranks, but do not have the same level of sofistication and standardization as the Islamic State.

It's not obvious exactly why the IS is different, but I doubt it has anything to do with American influence. Other rebel groups in the Syrian civil war has had direct American training but they were highly undisciplined and ineffective.
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Ask HN: What gpu standalone box do you recommend for deep learning?
I'm currently looking to buy something to train deep learning models, as my laptop doesn't have a GPU.
I'm looking for something that's not too expensive (max 400$)

The two main things I found were :

* The intel movidius stick : developer.movidius.com.
Seems practical, as I can use it anywhere

* The Nvidia jetson : a bit like a raspberry pi but with a real gpu. It costs about 300$

What do you think of those two products? Would you recommend something else ? My use case is mainly to test new architectures and things that interest me, but not to train production models.
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> There have been times where I've tried to sit down and work on something but it's no fun when there's a strong feeling of "I should be spending this time with my family".

That doesn't sound like a recommendation for becoming a parent. In fact it sounds the opposite - "don't have children, or you'll guilt yourself out of every other thing you could be doing".
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This looks interesting. Do you want some feedback about the homepage?

This: "Subscribe to email list: Join 1,000+ developers and get notified of new projects" makes me wonder: what kind of projects will I get notified about? Can I get notified only about certain types of projects that I'm interested in?

And how often will I get notified, is that configurable? Once a week, or every 2nd week, is probably enough for me. My inbox gets too many notification emails already.

I'd definitely sign up for notifications, if I could choose to receive only notifications about stuff similar to Discourse, Slack, StackOverflow, Disqus, wiki software, Diaspora, Facebook, Scuttlebutt, which I'm particularly interested in.

Nice initiative :- )
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They're very low power, make a lot of waste low-grade heat, and use an inefficient electricity generation approach.
I mean I get what you're saying but sex addiction is also a thing with real people on the other side. It's not as straightforward as the article implies, you're right, but that doesn't mean there isn't a middle ground
you called out a fallacy and then fell straight into it yourself. All we know from your two comments is that one of you likes the design and one of you doesn't.
What is the advantage of this over, say, http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_65_1/doc/html/boost_asio.htm... ?

Networking is a main sell of boost::asio but it does general async event loops, not only for networking. And boost::asio was upgraded for C++11 years ago.
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It depends. I viewed this on a regular computer monitor and didn't find it unpleasant. I acknowledge that black-on-bright-yellow is a matter of taste, but it was nowhere near eye-hurting.
Yes. It was also a bad idea because it would be expensive to verify the proof. A good proof-of-work algorithm is very difficult to create, and very fast to verify.

After posting that comment, I discovered a far better proof-of-work called the Cuckoo Cycle:

* Blog post: http://cryptorials.io/beyond-hashcash-proof-work-theres-mini...
* Whitepaper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/059.pdf

It's really a genius solution. You have to fill up 2GB of RAM with random bits in order to find a specific cycle in an enormous graph. This means that even even a very slow CPU would quickly saturate the DRAM memory bandwidth, and it doesn't matter if you use a CPU, GPU, FPGA, or even an ASIC.

This means that a mobile phone with 2GB of RAM can mine just as fast as any server with 2GB of RAM. If you want to increase your mining capacity, you'll have to buy a lot of RAM (or a lot of cheap mobile phones.)

Since it is constrained by memory bandwidth, you spend most of the time just waiting for bits to arrive. This means that it uses much less electricity than other PoWs. The proof is also instantly verifiable.

There are a few cryptocurrencies that are using the Cuckoo Cycle proof-of-work such as aeternity [1], and Mimblewimble / grin [2].

[1] https://aeternity.com/

[2] https://github.com/mimblewimble/grin
I think that what OP means is, where is all the real currency people have paid for BitCoin, how are those assets guarded and how fast of a conversion from all BitCoins to currency would take.

As I understand, you would need an exchange house, who receives real currency, and puts it somewhere (bank accounts, investment funds or other financial structures) from which the exchange (BTW, who controls the security of these exchanges, how much of cash [like banks] they should have?) cannot cash out immediately.

So, if 10 guys with 100BTC go to an exchange, and trade their BTC for Euros and the exchange doesn't have the amount of Euro to exchange, what would happen?
> Not really a point here, other than that nostalgia and craftsmanship can be far more powerful than the latest hardware or software

A friend just bought me an xbox controller (to use with my PC) as an early christmas present. I've been replaying Final Fantasy 7 which I briefly tried with mouse/kb but was miserable.

I'm literally blown away by how much there is in this game. I've been playing for 30 hours, am nominally on disc 2. The storyline is cool, the characters are a bit one dimensional in places but I still care about them. The cleverness in what they achieved with what they had (interspersed FMV and game, clever environments, all backed by pretty drawings and really good music) is just kinda magical.

I'm loving it as much this time as I vaguely remember loving it the first time - UI warts and all.
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You underestimate the world of music that isn't available via iTunes, Apple Music or Spotify. It's huge.
While Shazam is far from perfect for obscure music, it surprised me at times and iTunes or streaming services aren't even close.
> we haven't yet come across an elegant (and not too over-engineered) way to replace this.

It's built into some RDBMS. SQL Server has READPAST [1, 2], so you can do:

BEGIN TRANSACTION;
DELETE TOP (1) QueueTable WITH (READPAST) OUTPUT deleted.* ORDER BY QueueId;
-- Do your work
COMMIT TRANSACTION;

And if your process dies midway through, the transaction is rolled back and the row is immediately visible to another worker.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/hints-tra... READPAST is primarily used to reduce locking contention when implementing a work queue that uses a SQL Server table. A queue reader that uses READPAST skips past queue entries locked by other transactions to the next available queue entry, without having to wait until the other transactions release their locks.

[2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/queries/output-cl...
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There is no such thing as "most interesting", it depends on what you look for (technical quality, investment, compatibility, etc), what you need (bleeding edge, stability, doc, popularity...). Plus it's hard to assess innovation, some coins may very well be genius and we are not visionary enough to know.

Some characteristics to look for:

- ASIC resistance. Some currencies make sure you can't just throw money at GPU and become the king of the hill like with Bitcoin. E.G: Vivo, VTC, XMR.

- CPU friendly. Some currencies can be mined on CPU, not just GPU. It makes it interesting for embedding in web pages or viruses. E.G: Monero, Aeon, etc.

- Privacy focused. Some currencies make it hard to know where does the money comes from and goes to. E.G: Monero, Zcash and co.

- Smart contracts. Some currencies are not just money, but gigantic programmable public databases. Ethereum being to smart contracts what bitcoin is to cryptocurrengies in general.

- Master nodes. Some currencies provide very fast transactions by featuring nodes responsible to pre-validate them. E.G: Vivo, Dash.

- Community. You may want big name supports (Bitcoin, Ripple), great tooling (Ethereum, Monero). You should check if your exchange deal with the currency your target.

Personally I like:

- Vivo. The team is close to home. The master nodes give me great rewards and I help friends and family to setup theirs, for a fee. Best investment to date, appart from BTC. But only cryptopia deals with them which make it hard to trade.

- Monero. Simple to mine, and nobody knows what I do. But a bad rep because of the viruses.

- Ethereum: it's the most stable currency IMO, because of all the ecosystem, it's not gonna die. Also awesome team. Very little downside to this one.

- Ripple: big names trying to do official things. I'm curious of the result. But it's premined.

Sometime I feel like I should stop writing blogs post about Python and be paid as a full time crypto explainer, cause it's like I answer the same questions every day.

Anyway, good luck. And don't believe any people telling you they perfectly understand this market, because it's the most irrational one I ever seen. It's unstable. It's exploding. It's crazy. And so fun. Until you loose everything :)
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Maybe it grows your sense of anything, but for that child, life will never be quite right. Children who are adopted have a higher chance of developing mental disorders, alcoholism, major depression and so forth. [1] A portion of them go through a bumpy road before being adopted by the "right" parents, most are never adopted. About 140m children worldwide are orphans. [2] The event of being abandoned is already a very painful one with long-term consequences. If anything, this goes to prove my point.

[1] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-paradox-of-adoption/

[2] https://www.sos-usa.org/our-impact/childrens-statistics