skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because it would theoretically take an insane amount of time? It's cryptographically secure, so unless you have a quantum computer laying around for the factorization.... Might have to wait a little bit for the brute force to complete
It's not the privacy info that's the problem, it's that credit card are "pull" by nature. You give your information to a merchant, and they decide how much and when to charge you.

Vs with bitcoin it's push. You decide how much you are sending to the merchant, and if it's not enough, they don't deliver the goods/services.

But this has completely gotten away from the issue I was talking about (i'm in a shitty mood today and let myself get sucked into internet arguments).

Bitcoin has problems, and those problems aren't going to be easy to solve, but it's ability to change over time means they can be solved, and I really believe that it's a better way of sending money online.

The "pull" method that banks have used for years is a mess, and I truly believe that the core of bitcoin is valuable and useful over the traditional system.
Exactly. So many people buying alt coins because they get 'bored' of watching their holdings. (Source: Survey)
> This is why you should be extremely wary of anything that is only run once in a a blue moon.

I find this similar to when you launch a project that hasn't been used in production yet. Bugs should be expected because it hasn't been battle tested.
"It's locking literally every individual and business out of a "development" domain, solely for one corporation's for-profit use. Solely to associate Google with development, over any other corporation in the world."

You have answered the question "Was this selfish behavior?" or "Was this an asshole move?", with an answer I agree with. But that was not the question. The question was whether this was monopolistic behavior. The answer is no. As far as I know, several other TLDs have been similarly locked down by companies with no claim to monopoly power in any industry, which pretty much proves it's not related to monopoly power.
Yes. This is absolutely a big problem. The incentives are all wrong here. But that's not really what we're talking about. We're talking about working people who aren't receiving any additional government assistance not understanding marginal tax rates.
PgBouncer makes it easy to do a controlled failover without having to deal with floating IP's on your postgresql cluster.
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I don’t understand why miners wouldn’t include all pending transactions in their block. Seeing as how pow is a guessing game, there are plenty of permutations of the Merkle tree to generate plenty of roots. I guess to dissencentivize free loaders so miners can continue to make money once Coinbase txns are no longer a thing? It’s certainly not free to mine!
Whatever Zuckerberg's mantra back in the day -- when he didn't have limitless capital or a monopoly on social media -- it doesn't seem that it applies to their software or engineering quality today. Any breakage that seems to happen seem to come from dealing with the user side. Whether these fuckups come from careless expansion without proper consideration, or just the difficulty inherent in making a platform meant to be universal for the world's social communication -- they don't seem to be in the same class of fuckups as poor software design and devops.

What other software is there that has to deal with such diverse user input and diverse expectations of output? Even Apple had problems with just autocorrect for the typing of messages.
May be, it's not just a matter of waiting long enough which seemed to be the question.
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Oh good to know! Looks like a similar model to GCE.
By asking my customers for money.
The people leaving tech for farming are not mucking barns, they’re managing farms and hiring people to do the hard work. Think of more as a new-plantation, rather than a farm. I worked on a horse farm as a kid, and like you it was backbreaking, shit-shoveling, hay-slinging work. Now I have a good friend who owns horses, but she “has people” who do the hard work. She rides, and grooms a bit... money you know?
Funny how Word2Vec on Tensorflow performs much slower than most implementations

I am skeptical about using it, I've had better performance with Keras/Theano on CPU only loads
There is only one way for a human to win at chess against these computers; and it involves violence against the chess board.
Every demographic has ideological blind spots. For example, Republicans are generally for reduced government spending...except that when it comes to cars, they favor extremely expensive infrastructure.
Lightning network (a 2nd layer on top of bitcoin) aims to solve this.
I have a debt from a hospital right now which two separate insurance companies told me they would pay.

Last time I talked to the hospital, I told them to please bill the insurance I had supplied them, and not continue sending me letters demanding I pay them $1250 for a procedure that the cash clinic across the street said they would do for 380 (that's including the 'uninsured discount').

The guy on the phone said it was too late because it had been nearly 90 days and 'the computer is sending it to collections in a couple days'. According to him, he couldn't do anything about that.
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>With paper, that's a laborious process, requiring physically adding up millions of pieces of information

That is a feature of paper ballots, not a bug. We have plenty of volunteers to count ballots and there's no necessary equipment or domain knowledge to do so. The attack surface is thin and well-known with paper.
... so bitcoin is doomed as a real currency as the prices are only going to get higher and people are not going to pay a $5 transaction fee for a $10 product.

How is the bitcoin community rationalizing this seemingly inescapable mathematical failure?
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Yes, fun story.

In the early 2000's, I was working at a company that implemented the ecommerce website of a large electronics company. This company decided to start up a new add-on business targeting users of one of there existing product lines. I was tasked with doing the cart checkout process on the new site. One of my tasks was to handle the scenarios where a customer was checking out as a guest, an existing user logging in during the checkout process, and creating a new user account during the checkout process. I was told to implement the flow on the new site exactly the same as the existing site.

In the process of doing so, I discovered a MAJOR security hole in the existing site. Specifically, if you were going through new account creation, and you entered in the email address of an existing user, the system would automatically log you in as that user. This was even semi-documented in the comments as "we assume the user forgot they have an existing account". I raised this up to my superiors who didn't grasp the severity of the problem and instead ordered me to reproduce the behavior EXACTLY. So we implemented it and pushed it out like that. I was straight out of college and wasn't comfortable at the time of going over my bosses heads and talking directly to the client.

Three months down the road and everything is implemented and the client is happy. They were onsite with us for a visit and I was walking somebody through testing some new enhancement. We needed to switch to a different test user account and they were looking through their notes for the password and I was like "No need, we can just use the forgotten account login." They thought I was talking about resetting the password through email, so I showed them how the system worked and their jaws just dropped. Well let's just say at that point the issue got escalated super rapidly. I got majorly crapped on by both the client and our management (since I hadn't had the forethought to document my boss's rejection of the bug).

I've run into the same situation since then, where management refuses some bug they don't deem significant. But now I'm a lot more diligent of documenting those decisions in email and other means. :)
Totally agree. Still pretty sad.
Formal specifications and verification, proof assistants; program analysis and synthesis; cryptography from protocols to at-rest; compilers and performance analysis, etc.

I view maths as a power-augmenting skill set, like programming (which is a kind of applied maths). It lets you think big thoughts.
Some might be interested in Nick Pelling's thoughts:

http://ciphermysteries.com/?s=elgar
The point of a store of value is to have a stable, well, value. Either because the value is entirely intrinsic or because the demand is very stable.

Bitcoin is no more a store of value than tulips were. Bitcoin is a speculative product, not a store of value.
I'd assume it's because you can just reconfigure to point pgbouncer to redirect everything to the secondary, rather then having to update all the applications using pgbouncer. It centralizes the configuration of which database is active.
That's not really the answer. The answer is that there are more transactions being broadcast than there is space in the blocks to accommodate them. Thus creating fee pressure.
Technically they can be 'returned' by using a higher fee to move the coins to a different address making the original transaction un-confirmable.
How'd you turn this on? It doesn't happen on my mother's phone and she fiddles with it when driving.
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The original pitch for Diablo was to build the game with booster packs sellable in stores that added items and skills to characters. They eventually built it with the entire game being self contained, rather than the booster model. But the pitch notes were on HN a year or so back and it was basically attempting to copy the M:TG business model.
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Spend a couple of months studying deep learning and python and you will get a very well paid job.
The new cryptocurrencies to me seem like the new HYIP schemes.
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Definitely the best mirror.
I mean, if we can't extract money from people who are richer than God via taxation, I guess I support extracting it via their idiotic investments.
But from experience in the UK where there are some points in the tax scale that have odd high marginal rates (about £110k I think) but if you in that rage your employer normally pays you enough to jump over that band and you can do salary sacrifice or extra payments into a pension for some juicy tax benefits also EIS's and VCT's come into play at that level.
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I'm confused how you can say paper ballots have any of those properties.

Once you've handed off your paper ballot, it's no longer "transparent". You have no signature (physical or digital) that verifies that your vote was counted in the final tally. You also have no proof that all other votes submitted in that election were legitimate votes from real, identified eligible voters. Ballot stuffing and mis-recording of votes are both forms of fraud that have been performed under the so-called "transparent" paper voting systems...

"Accountable" implies that you have adequate identification. Last time I checked (last presidential election), I only needed to provide a name and a birthday in order to vote, which are both things that are publicly available information. Without adequate identification of people (see: biometrics + smart cards, ideally), you don't have accountability or even the ability to reliably detect voter fraud. Why would you want to favor a paper system which relies on people (who can be paid off, blackmailed) when better solutions exist that get rid of some of the possibility of human error?

Personally, I'd rather have a public electronic voting system where all voting transactions are stored on a public blockchain. That way I can verify the vote tallies for myself and I can also verify that the vote that I submitted was actually recorded and included on the public blockchain. You add in the assumption that all voting machines must be closed source and un-audited - but that's not an inherent property of voting machines. Governments could just as easily use open source and publicly-audited voting machines.
I'm tired of website builders who, themselves, have terrible plumbing. https://goo.gl/2VRrg8

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I have a Bs in applied mathematics and I'm a software engineer. I think that mathematicians make incredible software engineers (not me necessarily ) if they do two things, take some basic cs classes, get co-ops/internships programming.

I faced a _lot_ of bias when getting into the industry because people didn't want to train me to program or thought I'd be too weak of a software engineer, etc... and I believe having internships/co-ops would have massively helped rectify that and also have given me a network of jobs to work at.
Not all classical composers are dead you know.
If this is indeed true, doesn't this negate the purpose of pacemaker to begin with? It's like anti-software. When you run with it in your environment, to recover from a failure (which seems to me what HA software should be about) you have to turn it off first or else it will destroy your recovery attempts.

It's like a perverse version of chaos-monkey, except you want it to destroy you when you are most vulnerable.
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Answering the comments here:

GPUs: makes no sense for word2vec (and many other ML algos).

Azure: no support from Microsoft for our program. The Docker image and all code is 100% public though, so please run yourself & report the results. We'll be happy to update.

AWS spot: might still try that.

Thanks for the feedback!
My ideal version of this kind of monitoring is an interface that lets me teach an app what doing things in the house sounds like - new activity name: shut door and lock > record a few runthroughs; then log when it happens, offer push notifications, etc. I have an induction range that helpfully makes lots of beeping noises while many gas ones do not (but also turns itself off), so that would also be possible.
While the article is strongly sympathetic to Padgett's answer, various hints seep through that Padgett is actually a bit of a crackpot, and his solution is a bit of a Bible Code. Nothing too obvious, but the sort of thing one recognizes from reading about other crankery. And then, two-thirds of way into the article:

> Most Elgar scholars I contacted said they have stopped responding to Padgett’s persistent inquiries.

Sigh. This sentence should have been in the lede.
I think there may be a couple other actions that can reopen the statute of limitations, might be worth double checking. I know for libel, having a public timestamp get updated on a news story can reset the clock for that story.
Unless "replace by fee" is opted into, most nodes won't allow a second transaction to replace a previous one.

Which means it's a gamble if that will ever work.
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D is, in a lot of ways, C++ without the syntactical compatibility with C.
I've read a couple answers on here regarding the situation, but they were all from ~3-5 years ago. The landscape has probably changed quite a bit since then. I feel the market is over-saturated and clients outsourcing to ultra-low bids is a real hurdle. Every freelance site has thousands of these bids. Can be discouraging at the least. Fingers crossed!
> The volatility wouldn't be a huge problem

I am having trouble fathoming why you think that.
Depends do farmers avoid tax on fuel like they do in the UK
In my job we use our hostname.ourdomainname.com for internal things, so I don't see this problem as much. And it wont be accessible externally anyway.
"They copied it from Japanese games!" is kind of a cop-out. It implies that the loot box concept would not have developed in Western games in isolation, which I don't believe at all, and this article, which highlights how EA was developing the concept well before smartphones went supernova, lends more weight to that non-belief.
Details from the paper itself [1]:

- uses MAX2829 802.11a/b/g transceiver
- if WiFi preamble is detected, pass it further up the stack
- otherwise normalise the signal and apply apply a 10th order 100 Hz low pass filter.
- bitrate is 45bps :)

[1]: http://printedwifi.cs.washington.edu/printedwifi.pdf
If you don’t want nightmare operations scenarios, you have to document things. This doesn’t reconcile well with Agile/DevOps/Scrum mentality.
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You used the wrong URL.
Like clockwork.
The number of transactions that can be included in a block is limited. A block is generated on average 10 minutes (a bit quicker due to increasing hash rate) so the number of transactions in an hour is also limited. Naturally the transactions that pay most to the miners are getting selected by them and included in these blocks.
Stocks are an order of magnitude more liquid than Bitcoin, though
The real risk is full digitization, which these voting machines provide. Our elections cannot be a black box.

There are middle grounds. Paper doesn't have to be manually tabulated.

Punch-hole ballots can be mechanically tabulated, fill-in-the-bubble ballots can be read with minimal software. Results can be aggregated by software and communicated over networks because the results can be audited with the paper trail (both cheap sampling/statistical auditing and an expensive total manual tabulation).

If chads and improperly filled ballots cause problems, create a machine to fill in the paper ballot for people - but give the voter the ballot, let them verify, then walk over and drop it in a ballot box.

If the NSA can't lock down their espionage weapons, we can't trust some second-rate politically-connected software vendors to run our elections. We need auditing, we need paper.
amusingly functional analysis is really important to convex analysis and optimization so yes if you have a phd/masters (maybe) you can definitely get - probably a giant company - to pay you to do functional analysis.
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I'm not sure if this is due to the dummy data but the listing shows 17 bedrooms and 17 bedrooms. Should one of these be bathrooms?
Ask HN: What do you think of this sales email? and the ending call to action?
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We are a local company, we have built a (one liner intro).

You can use our service <user story>

We are already deploying in <another industry but same function>

I can give you a 15 minute demo at your convenience. Please let me know if there is a suitable time for us to connect.

Thank you for your time. Your input will be immensely helpful to a young company.

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The current situation is quite terrible, and the hype that lead to the current price is not doing Bitcoin any favors. I would have hoped that it wouldn’t get so much attention before it gets a chance to improve the underlying tech more. That being said, the lightning network will be ready soon and perhaps that will improve the situation. The following is a demo doing a lightning payment: https://youtu.be/a73Gz3Tvx3k , and it is super fast.
So not really random, then? What is the point of adding an RNG if it is going to output the same values every time?
Buying drugs and ransomware.
Online wallets and exchanges are similar points of failure. Many users have uploaded their picture IDs, banking and tax information to sites like LocalBitcoins.
I think it's easiest to think of Bitcoin TX fees as a bribe to the miners to include your transaction in a block sooner then other transactions that have a lower fee attached. You get to choose the fee that you provide to the miner.

The problem is that there are now so many transactions that are attempting to get through (And there is a maximum number of transactions that can be placed in a single block) that miners can be more selective. At this point your transaction is unlikely to get through without a minimum fee/bribe being provided because there are enough transactions with fees already at or above that level.
The right URL is even worse https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
I'm astonished a new entrant was able to make any dent at all. Mostly it's impossible for newer or smaller entries to break into the top. They must have some velocity weight that The Shed exploited.

All the social review sites have become review-farming contests, which makes them unreliable on the consumer side and frustrating on the producer side, and I don't know if that can be fixed. Yelp seems to do the best (at the cost of discouraging a lot of legitimate users by making their reviews disappear), but even so is not particularly good.

I think a curated review program, perhaps with a taste-matching algorithm like Netflix, could work much better... if the economics can be worked out.
Can you elaborate? As stated, I disagree with this statement, as documentation and clear communication are core to these paradigms.
Hillary Clinton presented, by not a small margin, the most left-leaning platform any major-party Presidential candidate has ever put forth. Modulo foreign policy, the daylight between her campaign and the Sanders campaign was pretty narrow.

I don't know where this "Hillary Clinton isn't liberal" thing comes from, but it is demonstrably untrue.
Is this sufficient to satisfy the GDPR?
Which only works until someone like Amazon comes around. Market inefficiencies which only persist by mutual agreement are doomed in the long run.
Not being used is the logical end of it when we know there's a fixed available amount[0]. That means bitcoin is intrinsically deflationary, and at there's absolutely no reason to use them: they'll be worth more tomorrow than today, and next week than tomorrow. Until everything grinds to a halt and crashes down.

[0] in which sense it is very different from gold, which kept increasing in amount, just (mostly) slowly
Well, the one explanation is that they wanted to win "convincingly", thus 1m per move and so low memory amount for hash.