skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is needlessly pedantic. OP is advocating for mindfulness, and lists a number of statistics for reasonable context.
Holy smokes - that is an amazing response!
I can't claim that I'm fully grasping the mathematics of entangled vs separable states at this moment, but what you've written seems very clear and I think if I go through it a few more times with the links, I may finally get it after all these years of bewilderment. Thank you!
It is (hopefully) not an everyday occurrence to suddenly face semi-military personnel pointing a gun at you as you round a corner.

That poor guy's stress levels must have gone through the roof. Additionally, he is being yelled at, asked to do this, do that - or he'll get shot.

I'd be confused and frightened like heck, too - and probably get a bullet for my trouble.
That's fair, but if you were to say, American Express and count its entire energy usage across all sections of the company and its entire business, it'd still surely use orders of magnitude less than BTC while processing orders of magnitude more transactions.
Ask HN: How to generate topics from a question(like what Quora doing)?
How do you know it is disabled? Plus far easier to have additional rogue software on a phone versus one of these smart speakers.
By interop I mean how to interact with existing functions (fine, most of the above covers that) and syntax for accessing data structures (arrays, tables, etc.).
I agree that that such descriptions of the death camps in Poland is very misleading. Still, it’s worth bearing in mind that many of the SS guards stationed at the death camps in occupied Poland were not German citizens. Many were ethnic Germans from conquered territories (“Volksdeutsche”) and a number of camps (Bełżec, Treblinka, Sobibór) had a high proportion of guards from Ukraine, many of whom were trained for this role at the Trawniki concentration camp[1]. (Note: I’m not singling out Ukrainians in particular. Many more fought against the Nazis and died as prisoners in concentration camps).

Also, it doesn’t seem to be very well-known that the Nazi party never achieved a majority of the popular vote in the German republic. Hitler only got 30% of votes in the March 1932 presidential election. A few months later, the Nazi party reached their high point in the federal elections of July: they succeeded in getting 230 members elected to parliament, giving them 37% of the vote. No party could form a majority sustainable coalition government so this was followed by another federal election in November 1932. This time, the Nazi party actually lost 34 of their seats, giving them only 33% of the vote.

Unfortunately, the chancellors that had been appointed by von Hindenburg, the victor in the 1932 presidential election proved to be ineffectual and von Hindenburg eventually appointed Hitler as chancellor in early 1933. This was soon followed by the Reichstag fire which provided Hitler and the Nazis the opportunity to consolidate their power. The rest of this history is fairly well known.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trawniki_concentration_camp#Tr...
Saying in 2017 environmental factors play the biggest role in IQ score differences is ridiculous.
Agreed. I think the USD only has value because enough people believe it does, and I think that will continue to be the case for quite some time.

Same for BTC.
Well a lot of major EDM artists use ghost/shadow artists. Because they have to pump out a podcast every week with some of the music original they just have ghost minions do it. It's the brand they establish that sells it.
I don't think a standardized format prevents that. What I'm thinking of is more how you when can apply to jobs with Linkedin, it takes away factors like resume design/layout and can make the lives of hiring staff easier. Not "fill in x years of experience for Visual Studio" but more "list your jobs, what you did there. list your skills. list your education. No PDF/Word/Photoshop etc and all that. You make this resume and you apply with that to all jobs in your industry (of course with the ability to tailor it to an employer as needed).
The instructions were not simple. They were arbitrary, contradictory, contained explicit death threats screamed at a drunk and scared man.

There's a good chance I would have met that same fate in his shoes.

The police officer in charge (not the one that made the shots) either purposefully escalated the situation, which is murder, or was so incompetent he shouldn't be entrusted with handing out parking tickets.
Are you sure about that? I know that it works in Germany. Might it be that you are confusing it with the Google Assistant song search?

Looking at my sound search history[0], I first used it in Germany in August 2014, so I'd be surprised if it wasn't rolled out worldwide by now (unless of course due to legal reasons).

[0]: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=soundsearch
Not hugely surprised. This is probably why many systems, like Steam, won't let you take money back out of your account.

On the other hand, it makes me curious. If you use Stripe entirely to handle the 'stored value' portion of the system, is it Stripe that assumes the role of being the money transmitter or the service? In Patreon's case, they go between systems, so they manage the balances of stored value - but Stripe is capable of managing per-customer stored value, and it is done for even basic subscription tasks such as prorating.

All in all, I find this subject interesting and will definitely read the Gratipay links when I get a chance.
Introduction to Node.js: A free video course with 23 episodes (in German)
Proven when? He said better tech,not bigger blocks.
Launching a New Business: Why Quality Website Design Matters
Yeah this was my first thought. This video feels a lot like a lesson on how not to build a great tech team.

Apple was a super-hyped company in the 80s with a very successful IPO, so hiring the best wasn't exactly difficult for them. Instead, it feels like they were filtering out people who may have brought diversity of thought and perhaps helped them avoid some of the critical mistakes that led to the failures of V1 of Apple.
Linux #ProxyM #IoT #Botnet now used to launch #hacking attacks against websites
Online communities need active human management and engagement. You can't automate yourself out of this, Facebook. It seems like this pattern is repeated over and over. Slashdot figured out a way to have human cultivation aided by software. And the result was high quality. Digg came along and tried to go all software, and it failed. Ignoring these lessons, many, many newspapers open up their articles to unfettered commenting and are shocked when anonymous users with no sense of accountability produce ugly comments.
Had an Echo since came out in 2014 and now several Google homes and never ordered anything on either. But family uses our Google homes all the time for music, questions, etc.
Have you ever given a public presentation in front of a number of people? Nervous tics can become augmented.

Screaming “CRAWL TOWARDS ME” after you are instructed to put hands in air is absolutely criminal; it is coaxing a cognitive dissonance state.

Think about what the officer screams, with a loaded weapon pointed at the individual, and then consider the duress and stress that individual might be under.
It's just like my RPGs.
Managers manage and Bosses Boss. A good manager is like a lineman guarding a quarterback. Everyone wants access to the engineers for features that customers want, bug fixes, etc. A good manager won't let anyone near their engineers. They will filter everything. A boss will toss every... single... little(and big)... fire... at the engineers. A boss will then wonder why nothing ever gets done. A manager manages; staying on top of everything every day. A boss reacts and knee-jerks to everything that comes up "unexpectedly".
Maybe higher anxiety comes from a better understanding of all the potential negative possibilities.

Something like the old saying about "ignorance being bliss".

<edit>On actually reading the article it suggests something like this.</edit>
You don't have to broadcast all transactions to all parties. Merkle trees can summarize past transactions, so not everyone needs a copy of the entire blockchain.
I don't do much volunteering aside from helping take care of cats at a cat shelter every two weeks, but I do find that it helps relieve stress. I started doing it after my own cat was very sick and almost died. The fact that he's still with us is nothing short of a miracle and it feels satisfying to be able to help care for other cats after getting so lucky (knocking wood) with my own.
Tools for Jimmying Experience: Conceptual Speed Dating on Facebook
What makes this tomato-sorting machine so freakishly fast?
Can only speak for myself but love having our Google homes around our house and they provide much convenience.
US House 2018: Less Than a Year Out, Race for Control Is a Coin Flip
Bitcoin Cash does indeed have very low fees... and about a tenth the transaction volume of Bitcoin proper, with few places using it, mainly just a handful of people involved in creating it.

It's certainly not as ridiculous an option as it was back before the difficulty adjustment fix when its supporters were promoting it as the fast option despite it usually taking days for transactions to confirm (supporters responding that block times were as low as a minute sometimes, and they were right... except it was a entirely bimodal distribution, with most of the time spent in the "hours per block" part).

However, the increased transaction capacity people are promoting is still about 100x its current transaction rate, and it's entirely unclear how well it'd handle scaling up by that much in practice. Especially since I'm pretty sure it lacks some of the scaling work that the original Bitcoin has. Also, the rampant dishonesty and all the attempts by sites and services owned by a guy with a major investment in it to trick people into thinking it is Bitcoin don't inspire confidence.
That wouldn't work because mining blocks also validates transactions.
There is a reason why Cocacola spends an obscene amount of money marketing sugared water. Almost every country I have been, I have seen coca cola bill board ads. They paint your storefront free if it's coca cola branded. Give you a free coca cola branded fridge if you only sell their drinks. They really do go out of their way to make a brand impression.
I heard a series of "on the street" interviews with Filipinos recently and one was with a couple, one of whom approved of Duterte and one who did not. When the guy, who approved of Duterte, was asked about extrajudicial killings he said something along the lines of "yes, that goes overboard sometimes. Aside from that he's good."

That attitude is even more unsettling to me, somehow. "Aside from all the murders he's committing, things are going well."
Dunbar's Number is about our cognitive ability to keep social relationships, not about how many social relationships people actually have. The later should be expected to vary widely by society, age, where you live etc. I don't understand what military unit sizes tell you about number of friends and acquaintances someone has.
You're assuming that IQs are randomly distributed across relationships. They're not. People are assortative in their associations.
We're on track for that concentration right now.

> I don't mind money being more concentrated among tech people, they are generally more rational and tend to spend on important things.

Yeah, I don't but that at all either. Even so, you are basically advocating for an oligarchy led by tech and removing autonomy from everyone else in the world. That's a terrible dystopia.
> "the business model itself is flawed, and competitors (drip, gratispay, liberapay) will face the same issue"

It's only an issue if the goal is to make the platform itself highly profitable. Some of its competitors are driven by a desire to support creators. Patreon used to be, as it was started to support YouTube creators, but clearly they've lost focus and forgotten the platform itself was only meant to be a means to an end.
Could be equally as helpful to move away from a nonideal diet as it is to move toward an ideal one.
The history of policing is worth historicizing; policing was a result of protection of capital.
Reminded me of CBC’s piece on Duterte from earlier this year (many of the people in the Bloomberg article are represented here). Most of the comments on the video are critical of Leila de Lima, the CBC and the reporter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVckX_-MYng
x +- y = (x + x) - (y + y)

That's crazy.

I should learn Haskell (again).
You must not have any experience with international transfers or currencies other than euro and USD.
My current understanding of the idea of white privilege is that white men have structural advantages so that it is easy for them to succeed. Part of this is being unaware of the privilege and having the luxury of not having to notice things.

I like you cake example. I agree with your implied point that not everyone has cake. I think there is a spectrum of solutions to some people having cake and others not. On one side it is to make sure no one has cake (pull down), on the other, it is to make sure everyone has cake (elevate).

A lot of cis white men feel that various equality movements are okay if cis white men end up with no cake. Some even feel like movements are actively trying to take their cake while telling them it is a good thing.

While you might dispute if cake is being taken, that is how some men feel. With my previous comment, I was trying to highlight that the above statement reenforces that worldview.

Cake is a gross oversimplification of a complicated problem but I think it works to get the point across.
It certainly matters if you've still got a lot of people running around telling anyone that will listen that the drug is a sure-fire cure for hypertension.
The post to which you replied refers to self defense rather than a threat of violent revolution.
You can disagree if you want. I just don't want other readers to be misled into thinking that "purely functional data structure" isn't a term of art. Given the number of references to Okasaki's book in this thread, I feel like the interested reader is sufficiently armed to learn more that I don't feel the need to continue this discussion.

You may not find the definition useful, and that's alright. I won't try to convince you.
>omit braces

so you're saying braceless ifs and fors are bad? yes I agree.

> close the wrong brace

-/+ 1 flipping the right number of braces to get that kind of bug is much much harder than indenting a block incorrectly
I suppose you could use a dedicated 4G modem and connect a WiFi-only tablet to that.
No, plenty of us have been saying this for a long time. Here is a HN post from 5 years ago where I say:

“even if it's only ever used for politically sensitive transactions, and it never takes off as a consumer payment service, it will be a very big economy” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5526684#5526972

The goalposts for Bitcoin have always just been “can it sustain its market cap?”
Yeah, but you don't get to pick just AE if you're doing a fair comparison, as Bitcoin serves pretty close to every cryptocurrency user on the planet. It's reasonable to compare it to the sum power usage of every financial institution willing to handle US dollars somewhere in their infrastructure.
Men fight because since time immemorial violence was (and, to an extent, remains) extremely effective for securing mates.

Although male aggression is not tied solely to it, testosterone injections should help a sufficiently reflective transsexual understand this over time.
Pretty certain I read this last year.
Actually it was the Inquirier that published that story, not Maria Ressa: http://www.inquirer.net/?page-one=july-24-2016

Your link is actually the government's rebuttal that it was a drug syndicate killing, which Rappler has dutifully published.

But then again, never let facts get in the way of your hate for Rappler right?
Fair on the first point (thank you, good to learn). Still doesn't make me feel better if I send something to the wrong (yet) valid address that I have no recourse to fix that. Or if I lose my key there is no institution who would be there to help me.

Hydro may be cheap for now, but does that make it okay? If Bitcoin keeps going up, at some point we'll exhaust those more convenient resources. The comparison to holiday lights is misleading because I never said that wasn't bad for the environment either. I'm not sure I can trust a site like icenter.co given it appears pro-bitcoin, but many people are analyzing the environmental impact of bitcoin and it's not negligible and only growing. You're right, it's nascent, and that's the scary part given how inefficient it is.

I stand by too confusing, especially when it comes to financial products. Try to explain proof-of-work to a non-technical person in less than 30 minutes. Explain hard-forks, segwit2, lightning network, double-spend, network attacks, and why the recommendation is to never leave your bitcoin on an exchange.

Our current system of money and banking isn't great, but this is not an improvement.

Edit: Now you've sent me down this other rabbit whole of educating myself on China's Hydro power. China's overbuilding of Dams may be in itself be a big problem (methane release, destruction of biodiversity, 300k deaths). I'd hate for Bitcoins popularity to contribute to the demand side of this equation.
I am not an engineer, but from my non-technical POV, this seems ridiculous. Is the cult of building new software really so much more attractive than making the software actually work? I mean, I think this attitude perfectly encapsulates why Apple has problems. Is bug fixing much harder than building the systems from the beginning? Is the difficulty in reading and checking code for errors really hiding the fact that this "unsexy" work of bug fixing involves the actual difficulty?

If, in any other field you found people that only wanted to make first drafts, you'd call them copywriters and designers, not engineers. And even if it is totally normal to eschew bug fixing in favor of drafting, isn't there a salary that would cause people to do it? If so, Apple should just pay that and hire those people - it'll still pay off in the long run.
ProbTorch
Meh, most of everything is pedestrian.
clojure.core.server/start-server

Will start a socket REPL at any point in your Clojure program.

Unravel is a terminal-based REPL client you can use to connect to that REPL:

https://github.com/Unrepl/unravel

Alternately, for a smooth interactive development experience, including the ability to set breakpoints on lines, there is Cursive:

https://github.com/cursive-ide/cursive

Cursive is a plugin for IntelliJ. There's a free community edition of IntelliJ that works great.
Several times the article discusses using computers to further our understanding.
It’s fascinating how simple / elegant this design is. Although you probably could use machine learning, etc for this a basic optical sensor is ‘good enough’. With all the exciting new tech out there it’s easy to forget that many things can be done much simpler.
Nobody is forcing anyone to build mining rigs and pay to power them. To the extent that there are environmental externalities to Bitcoin mining, they are the result of improper pricing on these externalities - such as a lack of a carbon tax in many places.

If the energy required to mine BTC costs more than the value generated, miners stop mining. Tax the externalities properly and there is no environmental problem here.
the velocity of money increases price, look at how the price of litecoin is rising when bitcoin mempool is congested, if Coinbase didnt play politics, Bitcoin Cash will be pumping right now too, decentralized exchanges are coming though in the coming years it will change the whole market dynamic
False equivalence. There's a legitimate argument that allowing one media group to stealthily control local media markets creates potential for mass misinformation. Or that allowing tobacco companies to litigate against entire nations health initiatives is a bad idea. Both are large entities wanting to steer society into alignment with their profit motive.

It's not nearly similar in lack of to calling women prostitutes and sluts for advocating that health insurance should cover female contraception. Or calling 13 years old girls, "dogs".

It's not to do with left and right. It's to do with a basic sense of civility.
This argument is interesting, but I don’t think it’s true. The App Store batches payments to bill the card once every few days (making $0.99 songs and apps cost effective), and Apple didn’t register as a money transmitter.
Early Bitcoin Code (2008)
Introducing search-string: an advanced search string parser
You never use the same address twice. scatter received coins over other addresses.
Some argue that a platoon or troop is a natural number of men you can get to know well, and a company or squadron the number you can be well acquainted with.

Not saying that’s true, just explaining.
that's an upper limit but not a lower
The assumption that people reading HN are above average intelligence is probably accurate.
There might be, but our experiences running our original product[0] are contrary to that. Happy to chat about it if you’d like.

[0]: https://www.runscope.com/docs/debugging
>I have not seen him mentioning that the web service is apparently invoked over unsecure http.

It's mentioned. From the blog post: "besides the ugliest formatting ever and the fact the request uses plain HTTP"
um.. uh.. so yeah, can we get an um.. uh... transcription? ummmm so yeah uhhh ummmmm please?
To me it sounds like an admission that Bitcoin doesn't work too well as a currency.
The most obvious limits are observational limits and comprehension/interpretation limits. This first is determined by the tools available, and thus technological and engineering advancements extend this limit. Of course, there are inherent difficulties that accumulate as we try to peer further and deeper, and I think it is likely we hit some practical barrier that is virtually impossible to get past. If for example, a thousand years from now, we need the energy from a million suns to fully verify that we have reached the bottom layer of physics, we may never be able to pull that off.

Comprehension and interpretation limits seem fuzzier and trickier to speculate on -- but they definitely exist. We are running up against many of them right now with the complex systems we attempt to model. It seems that software tools and AI developments are the most obvious ways to continually push this forward, but there may be some deep difficulties and pragmatic barriers lurking here as well.

There is a lot of room before we start hitting serious limits and overwhelming pragmatic difficulties. Once we have a highly utilized Dyson swarm, then we can reevaluate.
You can easily shadow a name in a let binding in Haskell

For example,

let x = 5 in let x = 6 in putStrLn (show x)

would print 6. Unless you turn on compiler warnings, there is never a need to choose new names for variables if the old version is no longer needed.
Harvard student scorns casual communism of classmates
Oh it absolutely is. I'll acknowledge that. If Bitcoin is amazing at 7/12 of the things it set out to do, and sticking to those seven will pave the way for the other five to be done by other cryptocurrencies, that's fair to me.
This example is very contrived, but challenge accepted..

main = do
let print = putStr . (++ " ") in do
print "happy"
print "holidays" -- indentation sensitive
putStrLn "!"

De-indenting the marked line by 2 spaces exposes some scroogey irony.

(Note that compiler warnings give a hint about the bad idea in this code, but nested do's can have this problem without warnings also.)
We've seen a lot of footage from your media that were edited. How do you explain that?