skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just hard drive space. A CPU is needed to verify the contents of the block (and, in ethereum's case, validate the results of any smart contracts). Increasing blocksize also increases validation time. In some cases, the validation times don't scale linearly with size.
THE fuck
You can disable your account and still use Messenger, you know.

That's what I'm doing. Hopefully someday I can kill Messenger too.
That's plausible given that Fibertel is the #1 provider of free wifi in Argentina. It could well be that some IT guy had the idea, figured it was possible to make a few hundred bucks a month this way, under the radar. Completely not worth it for the company.
This is where tin foil is a great tool. Comcast sees the wifi activated but no one can connect though the layers of metal.
But there's utility in a wide-field of acquaintances. It's not needed, you can live on an island by yourself after all, some will find the utility is not worth the cost.
Chamath Palihapitiya: Former Facebook Exec, Comments on FB Human Programming
Which magnifies their wealth. You don't invest in companies to distribute your wealth to the people. You invest in order to make more money.

Capital tends towards centralization, not equitable distribution.
On Writing CSS
Wow truly impressive! If you aren't trading with your friends, Validators are essentially free of any fraud. I am looking forward to seeing how this can be implemented because you have convinced me UBI is a technological issue and not a cultural one. It is clear fiat, and the markets created around fiat were never built with UBI in mind.
I guess technically I'm one of those people whose been involved in bitcoin over the past 8 years, so the general take is that people who've been interested in bitcoin for a long time generally care about the idea of decentralizing power and allowing truly free exchange more than any particular currency, should recognize that wild speculating on bitcoin can only hurt its effectiveness in achieving these goals (and probably indicates that bitcoin itself isn't the right tool for this in the long run), and should be keeping their head down until the overvaluation passes and we can go back to valuing bitcoin/other cryptocurrencies on their actual merits, rather than because we think we can trick someone in the future into caring about them even more than we do. Thanks for the question!
Don't trust electronic locks.

Years ago I got a safe that wasn't one of the top-end models of its line. In particular, the manual said that it only had one combination slot.

But other models had more premium features, such as multiple combinations, "master" and "slave" combos, etc. -- I acquired the manual for them, and sure enough, these features were present on my cheaper model, with default combinations. My guess is that anyone could walk up to one of these safes in someone's home and open it within seconds.

I assume this is well known in the industry. I also have to assume that there are additional hidden combinations, meant for manufacturer convenience, or put there with a wink and a nod to the police, or installed by unscrupulous firmware engineers.
> that energy ought to be used for more practical pursuits.

I don't think you or anyone else should get to decide what amounts to practicality of energy consumption. Lots of people burn hydrocarbons all day long so they can live in the burbs and have their own driveway and nice big walk-in closets and not have to take an elevator or stairs up to their apartment.

> Anyone know of cryptocurrencies which will not blow up our planet's carbon or energy budgets? I've heard of proof-of-stake algorithms, but don't understand that approach very well.

They're not trustless, but they are a very interesting approach to the problem. If they indeed are superior, they might supersede bitcoin and other PoW friends at some point. But it's really hard to move past the fact that bitcoin is already "this hard" for folks to understand. Moving beyond it to new coin designs will be an interesting challenge.

Proof-of-stake is discussed in the peercoin whitepaper [1] in plain, understandable language. Best to start there IMO.

[1] https://peercoin.net/assets/paper/peercoin-paper.pdf
This is pretty much it, mocking is quite simple and straightforward. It's tedious but wrapping access to external resources (eg: cache, HTTP, database) is necessary for a sane Go-based application.
A computer science study plan
Same. I had quit some years ago but that lasted only six months and I went back. Think it'll stick this time.

I use/abuse Twitter and Instagram though. I'm not nearly as glued to them as a Facebook feed though and they've actually provided real value/connections to me.
It works as a rate-limiter in a way. If you're interested look into HashCash as proposed to combat email spam: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash
'Safer avocado' invented to keep people from stabbing selves
> isn't subject to inflation

lol
http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures

> XBT futures are cash-settled contracts based on the Gemini's auction price for bitcoin, denominated in U.S. dollars.
Nice to know tactic
I just signed up and while it looks like a great resource I really wish they would grade your submissions on pass/fail based on the test cases that are included with each module. I thought it was weird that I submitted something that was not passing but it didn't complain... because if that's the case, why even submit? As a commentator I would like to know if I'm commenting on solutions that are passing or failing first, before writing any comments. Just my thoughts.
Atomic Design with React
Imagine having huntingtons, a death sentence hanging over your life, over your family and then suddenly- its cured, the door swings open, and a life you never expected to have lies ahead.
Go team humanity!
Thanks :) Glad to help
> Land has a perfectly inelastic supply, and thus expectations of more income will lead to increases in rent.

This is a common misconception. In fact real estate is just as supply-elastic as everything else. New developments open up all the time. Development makes land more attractive for more people. And areas become blighted and therefore less attractive, lowering prices.

Some places have sharply-constrained supply, such as San Francisco, but this isn't the norm. The norm is cities slowly expanding outwards, as new investments in the center require more time and effort to bear fruit. Politics often throws a monkey wrench into market functionality, but the vast majority of real estate markets function and clear just fine.
Not OP here. Think of all the time people spend in face to face meetings every day when working from the same office. And now think about the time you spend on conferences in front of your monitor.
You might as well use Patreon or something if you’re just giving them a donation for something you could already stream, then they’ll get both revenues.
I am quite introverted. Chatty Uber drivers just exhaust me. On public transit or non-chatty Ubers, I get that "me" time.
An Addendum to Alchemy
This exists: https://github.com/pixelspark/webpow
Android does this with a tool named repo. It tires into gerrit and you can treat the whole Android project as one repo.
Queen, Princesses, and Workers
yeah, I got bummed when ... um .. there was a nice epub app for devices that went under a few years back? whatever that was, went under. I moved my epub library to google books, and it's relatively convenient. I like reading technical books on tablets or computers, as color screens seem to fit with that genre better. google books seems to do a good job of importing stuff I buy from places like pragprog, and then be accessible from whatever devices I have.
People do stuff like offer lowball offers that aren't livable.

Back in 2000, I got exposed to this out of school-- VP of whatever offers me $27k (with a salary review in 6 months) to be a DBA. "I got up and said 'thanks'". He followed me out to the parking lot and doubled the offer.

At the end of the day, money matters, and all of the bullshit about "other factors" are just brought into the mix because fringe benefits are cheaper than cash. For me, a good working environment is the ante. If you're an asshole, you don't make the cut. The rest is all about compensation.

If you commit to giving me premium health insurance, I'll accept a discount in pay. If you commit to giving me more vacation time, I'll accept a discount in pay. I can play ping pong at the gym for free and my Dr. Pepper habit costs me about $10/week. If you're not an asshole, expect me to take <=10 days of PTO, have a $10k healthcare deductible, you'd best be paying a 50-70% premium to what I'm making today, as I'm going to have to hire minions to do shit for me.
It doesn't hurt #2 because, at least in the past, Netflix was actually cheaper than prime. It's still cheaper month-to-month.

Moreover, due to copyright and the existing streaming deals, any new companies trying to enter the online market will be selling a different product package. They'll have different shows, essentially selling a different service. It's not as if PBS or FoodNetwork have been "dumping" their video streaming services as a detriment to Netflix.
Puh-lease. Everyone knows what will happen.
"It's that simple" is why we keep getting into this mess. People are not simple. They're vindictive and petty, and unfortunately some are out to turn your platform into their toy with which they will do nothing but harass and abuse your user base.
I'm sorry but I found the constant comma splices genuinely distracting.
Yeah, that would really be great.

Just yesterday I wanted to order the new Kindle Oasis because I think the hardware is perfect (good to hold, physical buttons, …) but was told by a coworker just before ordering it can‘t open .epub files.

Edit: Thanks for all the tips about .epub + Kindle. I just found out that there also is an option to install Software like KOReader[1] if one wants to go the Jailbreak route.

[1] https://github.com/koreader/koreader
They also can say that the estimate is unreasonable and demand to cut the hours because they're the ones who get a final say.
When I'm on the streets, I always have espressos. Here in the UK, they have very good ones. When I was in Brazil I always had espressos and pour over. French press and Aeropress are not popular down there.
The people who went long get liquidated into USD by the exchange, and you ACH that USD into whatever account you want to.
> When you buy base and simultaneously sell future contract, you effectively lend your money to other counterparty. In ideal market this should be equal to interest on loan (as you mentioned).

Good point. But the interest on what amount, exactly? You need both 1) capital to buy bitcoins and 2) capital used for margin on the futures exchange. The latter amount is unpredictable, and if the bitcoin price shoots to 10x the spot purchase price you will need to borrow ~35% of this amount for margin, thus making the effective interest around 4x the market rate.

So, in short, the amount that the futures contract price will deviate from spot should be proportional to the volatility of the bitcoin price (because you need to borrow an amount proportional to this for use as margin).

But this only applies to cash-settled bitcoin futures contracts. If settled in bitcoins, it should be sufficient to deposit bitcoins at the futures exchange as margin — thus making the price of these, physically settled, futures contracts only depend on the prevailing short-term rate of interest, as far as I can see.
I consider it modern, especially the great changes brought forth in 9.x and 10.x. Multi-node databases, big data partitioning, replication are all areas which are still evolving for all sorts of data stores. Postgres certainly has been around for awhile, but to say the code is old is inaccurate. Evolved might be a better way to state it.
IIRC at the time of the first video they had already worked on it for around a decade. Personally I'm hoping that just means they have enough stamina to see it through and not that they'll never finish.
> (when you are able to live comfortably and are no longer feeling stressed about your personal/family finances)

This is too vague to be quantifiable in the way you intend.

Money is important because it's by far the most common medium by which we acquire things that are necessary for life (e.g. food, shelter). It's important to have sufficient income to have these things in the present and to be able to stash enough reserves of money to have them in the future. Money is important (full stop).

Here's my entirely subjective, anecdotal view: I've never met a person who says "money isn't the most important thing (about a job)" who also was not either: a) well off enough their entire lives that they never really had to worry about not having money or b) engaging in some serious sweet lemons rationalization so as to avoid facing their reality.
At least? 9.x removed some of the last barriers to adoption, like having a simple replication strategy, and now we're already on to 10.1.

The release notes for each version on Postgres highlight dozens of important new features: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/New_in_postgres_10 That team is crushing it.

Meanwhile MySQL has gone from 5.5 to 5.7 and added JSON columns and a bit of InnoDB tuning.
It's been posted by somebody else on the thread already, but do you know http://mapnificient.net?
For the end user? No. For the self-hoster making the decision on whether or not to pick this solution? Yes.

The same goes with "Easy Installation". The end user doesn't care if the install or easy or hard.

You have to consider the dependencies, resource requirements, and manageability of anything you host.
This doesn't really justify routinely giving antibiotics to all food animals, regardless of their health, though.
VC-backed companies do exist in socialist countries (i’m from Denmark). maybe it’s all time Hacker News readers did start arguing for socialism: self-obsession exists now in more abundance than ever and capitalism is doing everything it can to broaden the cloak of its dreadful shadow
Monero uses ring signatures to mix your transaction outputs with others', providing "plausible deniability" of the subsequent inputs. It furthermore uses stealth addresses to hide the transaction history to an individual address. This is not foolproof and has been shown to be traceable in a number of cases, but it's a heck of a lot better for anonymity than bitcoin.
"The thing I see is that the coins the rich community got for the food still have value."

I think in your replies you are begging the question, though. The question at hand is precisely where the value comes from.

"Why it works is because of confidence and agreed upon value of the currency, which is required here in the same way."

The fundamental base of the United States Dollar is that you can use a dollar to buy one dollar's worth of protection from the United States-affiliated men-with-guns from coming and taking you to prison for not paying the United States Government what it has determined to be its fair share. The US Dollar is built upon the confidence that the United States can and will do this to you, not a vague confidence in the currency for currency's sake. (This is why when governments collapse, their currencies collapse; any alternate theories of value are obligated to explain that connection as part of their theory of how currencies obtain value.)

Currency is a unit of exchange, not really intrinsically valuable in itself except inasmuch as it exists in a market for which it can be exchanged. As a UBI proposal, this system very clearly has a mechanism for people to consume resources; the question is, who is going to put them in, and for what purpose?

Even waving at BitCoin isn't enough to answer this question. BitCoin has always been about exchanges, not unilateral consumption.

I think it may help you to ponder this question: Nothing stops you from creating adjkantCoin today. You can simply declare yourself to have a thousand of them. There is a deep and profound way in which that's exactly what this system does. How do you walk down the street and convince your grocer to take any of them in return for his apples? And don't consider it from your point of view... consider it from the grocer's. I am not asking this because it's impossible per se; BitCoin did indeed pull it off to some extent. But it's non-trivial, if you do successfully put yourself into the grocer's shoes, and something that this system will need to be able to answer many times over in order to work. And I don't see that answer right now. I'm not even sure it has a stable answer if you magicked it into existence, I'm deeply unconvinced it has an answer to get from here to there in the real world.
Tech luminaries call net neutrality vote an 'imminent threat'
Nope.

You can't claim your lives back. You haven't become addicted to social media at all. You've become addicted to always being right and social media is the path of least resistance to achieve that feeling.

Have you ever accused someone of being a troll? A racist? A sexist? Have you ever stretched the definition of actual abuse to cover abstract abuse? You would be doing this even if you didn't have social media. Social media just gamified the accusations and rewarded samethink by punishing otherthink.

You deserve this lazy mirror. The real complexity of human nature to too much for your brittle ego. All I do is shitpost on social media all day long while armies of "being right" addicts filter and categorize every single pixel they interact with. You're just a Bayesian trainer and you're doing it for free.
I'm so glad I started reading Michael Stonebreakers opinions on nosql before I dove into it. This is why scidb and voltdb are very intriguing to me.
I'm starting to think that the hyper-engagement of fighting over every $CANDIDATE, $CAUSE, and $OUTRAGE is going to drive people away from Social Media.

I started doing blackouts on Twitter and Facebook every time some major news event occurs because I just don't want to hear about it. And the one thing that I have noticed is a slow consolidation of my Facebook feed to just a narrow slice of hyper-engaged people who post multiple times a day about whatever the latest outrage is -- the broader spectrum of users haven't deleted their accounts, but most on my "Friends" list haven't posted in years. I suspect a lot of my friends are disengaged from the platform precisely because they have zero interest in fighting their loud, opinionated relatives of opposing political sides.

I miss the days where everyone was just avatars, nick-names, personalities. It still seems odd to me to be expected to mix my virtual and real identities, since the "internet culture" when I got online insisted that you do not share your real-life identity* and Facebook came along and turned that entirely upside down.

*It was common practice on some of the bulletin boards that I frequented in the late nineties for users to maintain multiple accounts under different nicknames and personas, and even have conversations with themselves.
Postgres fills a niche that has a lot going for it. It’s standard SQL with transactions so it’s easy to code against compared to Nosql like Cassandra. There are lots of powerful extensions like JSON and full text search. And you can scale it pretty far.
In Effort to Court Drivers, Lyft Offering Education Discounts
New Podcast: Venture Stories by Village Global
Innovate UK Award to Confirm Case for Quantum-Enhanced Optimization Algorithms
Elliott Throws a Wrench into Qualcomm’s Plans
Be Intelligent for Your Users
It means money is not everything. Yet for some reason people seem to think the most expensive stuff is the safest, nicest and the best one. Like they are buying trust or what..
Same -- I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2012 and I have only two playlists. Both are for niche genres where most bands have only one or two songs I like. Spotify hasn't changed my listening habits, just the technology I use to listen.
Female Computer Science Students Given Boost by Leading Games Company
No Kindles can, they're based around Mobi, which is a quick file conversion away from an epub.
I have a little project going for the last couple of weeks. Things I got to replace the screens with: an old typewriter, a world radio and an electronics kit with which you can make a large number of different devices.

Still in the works: an old fashioned wind-up alarm clock, a cassette or tape reel to reel recorder and a polaroid camera.

You can get all of those for pennies or even for free on Ebay or the local equivalent. The kids are absolutely fascinated with all this real world stuff that does only one thing.

And there is no 'app' for the kind of satisfaction you get from receiving a painstakingly type-written letter with a bunch of stuff crossed out or a morse code message just for you. Grandparents will likely much more appreciate one of those too far over and beyond a Facebook message. And what's more magical than to pull some Latin American station out of thin air?

Besides learning a lot about what makes stuff tick they also learn about the evolution of technology and the old stuff is so much more real and easier to relate to that they freely start to figure out how they can do other things in a simpler and low tech way as well.

After that: tools to take things apart and to do some basic repairs on broken stuff that we find.
The Net Neutrality Debate Hinges on Defining the Internet
The White Paper solves the identity issue under the Validator section. Equifax, the US Govt, or a State Govt could start a validator and Companies that trust the Validator will accept any coins that are validated by the Validator.
I also use that same pattern. I'm very tempted to write a tool to be called by `go generate` to automatically create that kind of mock.
This is one of the things that makes me skeptical about trusting smart people. The administration at the time was composed mostly of very intelligent people, and yet they managed to make some of the dumbest decisions in modern history. Being a little too smart often leads to hubris and an unwillingness to consider the possibility that you might be wrong.
>The people who are making claims that money is not the only mandatory thing and everything else is optional nice to have thing(s) tend to weasel out of the lets solve for money being zero ( or minimum wage ).

Except it wasn't his claim.

The claim is pretty well known: Below a certain threshold, money is the most important thing. Above it, it is not. This is very different from the extreme pacifist mindset. The equivalent would be: "There are certain circumstances where it is important to kill another. Outside of those circumstances, it should not be the primary means."

As an aside: Telling people what is important to them and ignoring their own claims on what is important to them will not make you many friends.
Does this remind us of some glorified Ponzi scheme?
How does Bitcoin get hacked? It certainly isn't easy unless you are an insider. And perhaps NSA, since they created SHA-256.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=291217.0

The bubble will burst - some people will make money out of this and a whole lot of others will lose.
You are right, not a dichotomy. But main point stands - it is useless metric.