skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://medium.com/@shiyan/ethereum-summary-a53c4a8e66d

"I found blockchain resembles Git, the source code management system a lot. Git is decentralized, each programer has a local duplication. What’s saved by Git is a journal of updates to source files (commits). To get the latest file, you apply a series of patches onto the initial commit. You can generate local git commits. These commits will not be written to other people’s Git repository yet, until you perform a “git push”. This is like having a local Bitcoin block, but only when you have won a lottery (mined a lucky number), you have the opportunity to write your local block to the blockchain. You also cannot write random data to the blockchain. Your change has to be verified by others, just like doing code reviews before a “git push”. Or in Bitcoin, a commit (a data write to the blockchain) has several recent transactions. Each of them needs to be cross verified by others."
Because "higher level people" are the ones who make the decisions to do things like this, and they nearly always get away with it. The engineers who added the system are responsible, too, but at the end of the day, if they had said no VW would have found someone else to do it.

When companies act against the interest of the societies in which they exist, it's at the direction of executives, managers, or other "higher level people." If they're caught, their punishments sometimes don't even negate their wrongdoing, let alone match up to crimes which are generally less harmful to the rest of the world. They get away with it, and when they don't, it's not that bad for them. The lack of justice is infuriating.
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Alternate take:

The CBO estimated the $1.5 trillion with all those loopholes and boost forecasts. All that is factored in.

Bush ballooned the debt not only with his wars but also with a massive tax cut. That tax cut led to a period of weak growth and culminated in the biggest recession of our generation. Obama inherited that collapsed economy. His deficits were caused by the recession's drooping tax revenues, extensions of Bush's tax cuts, the stimulus (which also cut taxes), and continuing Bush's increased military budgets. This produced another period of weak growth but left the economy in relatively decent shape which Trump is now taking credit for without having passed his first budget or major law yet.

All we've had over the past generation is tax cuts. And. They. Don't. Work.

They increase the deficit, don't boost the economy, increase inequality, and make our institutions weaker. But here we are going for another round of the same medicine: tax cuts and increased military spending.
It's supposed to expire at the end of 2018: https://arb.ca.gov/msprog/carpool/carpool.htm

Whether or not it will be extended again is an open question.
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Not sure of other countries or brokers but I cannot trade stock futures out of trading hours either on Nasdaq or NYSE
Despite the down votes. Top executives at VW really make salaries in the million dollar range. The VW CEO was for a while the highest paid manager in Germany. A guy making 130k is just a middle manager.
Was about to say this. Pretty much most of services that tie in with a bank account that I've ever used provide this option as an alternative to waiting 3 days for bank account verification. It is truly bizarre how this has become the standard.
Hmm, that’s true I guess. I’m not sure how you would verify truth, but at least knowing it hasn’t been altered is halfway toward solving the problem.
> All of which is speculative

Just like Gold, coloured beads, or stocks

> can't be used for transactions.

Gold is a pain to use for transactions, and so are shares, but they still store value and people continue to speculate on their future worth?
what is this saying in plain english? That we all need to take vitamin D supplements?
He’s not making a neutral value judgment, he’s commenting on a particular case where it’s clear that top management was on board for almost a decade.
An acquaintance I know has been going to work via a slug line for more than 10 years. It's impressive that it is reliable enough for getting to a day job. There are even unwritten rules you're supposed to follow and so on when in someone else's car.

Now I guess with Lyft and Uber it might seem less strange being in someone else's car these days. But before I can see how it would look totally weird for someone from out of town.
30 Year sends sixteen year old cease and desist
https://medium.com/@MishaLarionov/i-got-a-cease-and-desist-from-dhack-heres-why-i-m-not-complying-eb9de210f48d

This man claims to run Hackathons and help other ones. Hack the North outed them when he lied about working with them. The Toronto Hacker Club, a team of teenagers is missing thousands. A student wrote two Medium articles, and now he's received a cease and desist.
UK has Faster Payments; which runs 24/7 and has times measured in seconds, unlike ACH (doesn't run on weekends, takes days), and charges no costs to end-users. This is a well-solved problem, the issue is that USian banks make far too much off overdraft fees to want to upgrade their infrastructure at the cost of making less money from parasitic fees.
I love zsh, but abandoned ship of fish long ago.
It is a content farm. Definitely not HN worthy.
Why? Its a new technology, people (who are unable to understand or grasp technology are curious) want to get involved with it. Mobile phones, computers, lots of things fell into this category at some point. You should pardon their ignorance.
It’s not just doing transactions. It’s maintaining $300billion in global wealth and rising every day, without any institutions or government. I’m sure the traditional financial system uses a lot of power as well...
Sounds like a justification for seizing it. For safety and security. But the government wouldn't do that, would they?
I dislike it when people like you try to paint segwit2x as a "hostile" attempt to take over Bitcoin. It was not. A few confrontational segwit2x supporters made it look this way, but in reality the people at the center of the movement genuinely cared about simply making Bitcoin scale.

See also a longer explanation I wrote at: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/7508mh/comment/do7umhy
or better, just spend more time outside.
Something like 10x the RDA
I hate these comparisons. You can't just sum up all the lost seconds and equate it to murdering 60 people. It may be the same amount of time, but that's not how humans think. Dying early is ~exponentially worse the younger you are.
Yes, this is exactly what the article says. In many countries, children under the age of 1 get supplements, but not after
The current RDA (recommended daily allowance) for Vitamin D is 600 IU. This paper is basically saying that number should be 6000 IU.
You can do what Gemini does -- credit the account with fake money once the user requests ACH transfer, let them make trades with it, and only let them withdraw any proceeds of it (whether bitcoin or fiat) once the ACH transaction fully settles.
It's a global store of data that synchronizes using a global random number generator.

Compare this:

"Let's all meet on avenue A at noon to protest the panopticon."

to this:

"If some function applied to block 1234 reduces to zero, let's meet at avenue A at noon, or else let's meet at avenue B at noon."

By using a blockchain you just increased the number of barricades that must be constructed from 1 to 2.
If you wear clothes and/or aren't near the equator it's not gonna make a big enough of a difference. Also you're gonna have to balance that with negative sun exposure. Salmon is probably a top vitamin d source, but supplements are probably the cheapest way to pack it in.
Basically yes. I didn't read the paper, but the abstract says that our current recommendations were designed to get us past a threshold of 50 (nmol/L, but the units aren't that important).

But they claim that we should be aiming to get above 75, and it would be best if we could get above 100. So drink more fortified milk.

Edit: oops, looks like I read it wrong. 50 nmol/L isn't the threshold the current RDA gets us to, it's way lower than that.
Summary is adults need at least 8000 IU of Vitamin D per day.

This confirm what I have suspected since almost a decade. I have been taking 5k Vitamin D per day since one of my cousin had serious health issues because of low vitamin D for 3 years and as soon as she started having 5k IU per day, they disappeared within a month.
I'm curious how they use the money from the $40 toll. If, for example, they used the money to improve roads and other public transportation options so that everyone on average gets where they need to go faster, then that ought to make everyone happy.

Or else just divide up the revenue and mail everyone in the state a check at the end of the year. That would make me less angry about the fact that other people are able to afford the $40 toll.
The recommended daily intake of Vitamin D currently seems to be ~600 IU for adults. This article is arguing that this recommended dosage should be increased thirteen-fold to 8,000 IU for adults.
FYI today the first Lightning transaction was completed on the main net.

It's really not that complicated, especially from the average end users perspective.
3.10 I think.
No.

There are definitely brands that I __will not ever__ buy.

//Most// American Cars: Won't buy because I really distrust the quality of the engineering and the reliability of the end product.

Volvo: My parent's car /always/ had seriously expensive maintenance issues; I don't recall them even doing things half as bad to their car as what I do to mine. (OMG the bumps in the place I'm living right now x.x;)

British Cars: Not even Top Gear UK liked the non-sports car versions.

Mainland Asian cars: Something about the cabin and control configuration just feels /wrong/ to me; I might consider them again if I see one that feels right. This is just based on a very small sample size of rental cars I've driven over the years.

Cars that I'd comparison shop and have on the short list?

Pretty much any Japanese car. There have been some annoying recalls on things like airbags, but I've never been burned and the control configuration just feels right.

EDIT: >> I forgot about Subaru. No data, would consider.

Tesla; They're expensive... but by the time I buy another car (will we still be buying cars?) maybe they'll have caught up. Their engineering I actually respect.

I honestly don't know why the other American car companies can't match that standard... maybe they're too busy being chasing profits instead of building a quality brand the right way.
I struggle with the need to “be authentic” with the need to “build a personal brand”. What if you’re authentic self isn’t exactly an optimal candidate for a personal brand?
Bitcoin is no less safe than any other asset re: civil forfeiture. One might even make the argument that it is moreso because there aren't the established communication mechanisms that exist between law enforcement agencies and banks that allow them to hold funds as quickly as they do.

Per your other argument: a whole host of executive orders spanning 2 years, nearly 100 years ago, designed to work around the federal reserve ratio, doesn't hold much water.
Here come the naysayers.

>What is a fake coin in your electronic wallet truly worth?

How much is the piece of paper in your wallet worth?

Maybe bitcoin will burn and crash or maybe it will be a million dollars a piece. We don't know. People are buying bitcoin and that is driving the prices up. South Korea has been the biggest buyer of BTC (perhaps fear of NK?)

Don't confuse the value of a cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) with companies that are riding it's wave
There is a ton of really detailed technical books about Apollo and the Space Shuttle. Have people stopped writing this kind of book or are there any on the market that look at more modern technology not just from the people's angle but go into the tech? I was deeply disappointed by the Steve Jobs book because it didn't really give any insight how Jobs influenced product development. I would love to read about how the iphone was started and how it was developed and what technical decisions they made. I don't'really care about the people that much.
Or you can go into the business of running exploits as a service ala Cellbrite.
The IBM mainframes that run most of the global financial system and maintain a few orders of magnitude more of global wealth are reasonably power hungry, yes, but I don't think the system averages consumption of kilowatt hours of energy every single time I swipe my credit card.
You're supposed to have it now to get on this highway. Before there was no toll on it but it was all HOV-only during certain times of day. Now it is HOV or single drivers can pay apparently up to $40 use it too. Other roads in the area have manned toll plazas which accept cash.
Apparently the reasoning is that this would cut fees on transferring money. Instead of transferring it from wallet to wallet, which would incur fees, they keep it all in one wallet, and change internal numbers.
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Pike is totally wrong here, and trying to explain his way out of a poorly thought out error type.

> In contrast, a stack trace-like error is worse in both respects. The user does not have the context to understand the stack trace, and an implementer shown a stack trace is denied the information that could be presented if the server-side error was passed to the client.

Absolutely not. The stack is useful to the implementer, the error message is useful to the user. You include both. Want it on both sides? Send it to both sides. Turning a stack trace into a string and propagating it around is not so expensive, and incredibly useful.

Here's a common error I see in Go: "os: file does not exist". What file doesn't exist? Upspin fixes that oversight, but the very next thing to ask is who wants that file? Without the stack trace you'll never know why /tmp/dfgsdfg was needed and who couldn't find it.

> For those cases where stack traces would be helpful, we allow the errors package to be built with the "debug" tag

Ever have those times where a binary is acting wonky, and once in a blue moon raises an unusual error? You can't just rebuild the binary and deploy it to 10,000 machines to debug it. It needs to be on all the time.

It is unbelievable the mental hoops the Go implementers jump through to explain how their anemic error type is actually better.
> What is the value proposition that is actually in play here,

Debt-fueled inflation resistant money. It is right in the statement in the genesis block detailing a bank bailout.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Genesis_block
In assembly, you don't have to worry about pesky optimizations speeding up your code at all. A similar effect can be achieved in C by not manually enabling optimizations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophe_theory
I believe in the context of these road discussions its important to understand the math behind the usage of roads. Roads become less efficient, in terms of people per hour, the more people use them. While restricting access may be unfair it also creates value by getting cars off the road faster than what would have happened otherwise.
Banks are basically just retail fronts for the Federal Reserve anyway. And IRS has such tight hooks into the banking system...all they have to do is snap their fingers to freeze your account.
Andreas Antonopoulous has a great talk on this: https://youtu.be/SMEOKDVXlUo

Spoiler: nothing, “blockchain” is one piece of what makes Bitcoin interesting.
I think the issue here is that you are allowed to enter free when carpooling.
Why can't we have both (which seems to be happening in this case)? It seems like it's appropriate and efficient, and will actively discourage people from similar activities, at the individual level.
I still love going to the movies and go now as much as ever, and will probably go much more now that I have MoviePass. I like being able to watch movies on the huge screen without all the distractions (roommates trying to talk to me, phone checking habits, etc.).
I think it's subjective. I personally don't have much invested in Bitcoin and if I did I'd probably keep at least half of it in a personal wallet and half in Coinbase in case I wanted to cash out at any given moment and not lose everything. At least in my experience, transferring coins from personal wallet to Coinbase can take days. Just enough to lose everything when it hits the fan. Or maybe i'm just a catastrophist. :)
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That drastically increases your odds of skin cancer. If you want to reduce your risk of dying overall, stay covered up and take supplements.
Money is fungible. Even if the toll goes to transportation they will just cut that amount from the regular budget. Sending out a check to everybody would be fine but that ain't gonna happen...
> Of course, I don't have the safety net things that lower-income Europeans do, but I almost certainly don't need them.

You say that now while everything is up. Imagine getting run over by a car and not being able to work anymore, i bet you would be better off in a european country in that case, but of course it makes no sense to consider a worst case scenario like that.

However, many things are not great for high income people. Let's say you earn 6k EUR/month in Germany, that leaves you with 3.4k net (if you quit Church tax). A considerable amount (500 EUR) goes to state pension which everyone expects will be almost nothing when our generation reaches that age and the healthcare is pretty basic, but you could change to private insurance and save some money as long as you are young.

I believe competition between the Tech giants is just so much bigger in the US, that everyone in their vicinity has to match those crazy salaries to even have a chance. That is not really the case in Europe. Spotify, Soundcloud, Zalando etc. all lie in the 50-90k EUR range i would assume. I don't really know what can be earned at Facebook/Google/MSFT in Europe though.
He's not wrong. Why the down votes?
Coinbase is simply suffering from insane growth pains. I mean, come on, they are adding half a million new users per week! Of course support isn't going to be very responsive.
There are coins that can't be mined on ASICs and they're only profitable to be mined on GPUs - Ethereum and zCash are 2 examples, but there are many more.
This article recommends around 100 nmol/L. Most people are between 20-30, because they don't get enough Sun and do not take supplements. It gets really really bad when the number gets below 10 and it takes months to recover.

Another Vitamin whose deficiency cause irreversible damage is B12. Folks, get both of these checked.
I hear this argument from my colleague who runs his mining rigs on a solar PV setup.

Given how quickly we as a civilisation need to be moving away from fossil fuels, I don't buy that this is a better use than using your solar PV panels to feed back into the grid and thus reduce demand on non-renewable generators.
Sure: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867841
Not sure. In UK often local, European and e.g. police commissioner elections will be held on the same day. But these are handled using multiple ballot papers. So the counting process scales purely horizontally.
Throwing in my two cents. I used to suffer from seasonal mood swings, since taking a daily multivitamin this has been the best winter of my life.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867841
How many lives and future lives are you killing by driving a gasoline vehicle? Probably quite a few when you consider your actions will have an impact for thousands of years.

Perhaps this is a silly way to look at things.
The act of transferring BTC doesn’t magically cause hundreds of megawatts of power to be wasted. Your transaction happening or not happening doesn’t alter the electrical useage of the system. The system uses electricity to protect itself from being taken over by a malicious actor.
Maybe you're just framing it wrong. I'm sure you have a variety of positive attributes about yourself. Being authentic doesn't necessarily mean being the optimal candidate. Everyone has their idiosyncrasies.
Don't take the "cloud" memes as prescriptive, your and collaborators' computers can still talk to each other over IP (unless you block it), just like before, without paying Amazon or Google.
When I joined Yahoo in 2013, there was a store on campus that sold AMC tickets for 8.50. I got 300 of those mid-2014, and am a handful of tickets away from running out now. I may go back and visit a friend if they are still selling those.

I think tickets are around 12 or so in AMC, and sometimes higher for 3D movies (I don't think there have been more than a handful in the recent past) or certain releases (Star Wars pre-order on Fandango is 19$ now). Those stubs are always 1:1 though.
I think you may have mistaken the justice system as fair or rational.

The justice system punishes people. There are around 2.2M people in US prisons.

Schmidt was involved in corruption --- for profit --- which duped ordinary people into releasing around 1MM tons of pollution in to the atmosphere in a single year; about the same as all the power generation for the 66 million people in the UK.

What's the scale of the damage that most of the other 2.2M people in prison did? Sold some drugs? Stole a crappy old car?
Sufficient vitamin D is gained primarily from Sun exposure..

typically between 10am and 2pm, I have read that at certain latitudes and times of year the required window is considerably less but cannot find a reference.

http://www.return2health.net/articles/does-vitamin-d-really-...
What if i don't wear clothes and is at the equator
But nobody has an incentive to mine the chain unless there is a reward. Hence, the value proposition of Bitcoin. The genius of the design lies in the incentive structure, not just the blockchain.
Outline link for those who run into the signup wall:

https://outline.com/U9qckd
Wow, thanks for mentioning this. My Mac has been freezing when opening tons of apps lately, making it basically useless, and I couldn’t figure out what was wrong until I checked this. I never would have guessed it was a core OS issue. What a ridiculous bug to not patch immediately.

Apparently you can at least mitigate it partly by disabling ReportCrash.
Yup.

Came here to say this.

Amex has a more compelling offering (and a better website), Discover offers better rewards, same with pretty much every card I have.
> hire someone to wait around for 8 hours on minimum wage and still get off cheaper. $7.50 x 8 = $60.

Hah. If slug lines wren't a thing, it would be a startup idea -
"hire a perma-slug". They go to work with you, file papers and bring you coffee or maybe they get to hang out in museums during the day. Then you go home in the evening with them.
Hmm. "Actions are urgently needed to protect the global population from vitamin D deficiency." I wish this sentence wasn't in the abstract, because it's the first thing the "science journalists" are going to latch on to. It's not like people's bones are snapping because everyone has rickets. Maybe not an urgent need, just something we should publish a revised RDA and diet guideline. We had a very different looking food pyramid when I was growing up, but changing it didn't drastically increase life expectancy. Everyone choking down extra vitamins isn't going to fix a non-existent problem.
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