skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God.

"The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing.' 'But, says Man, this is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not be chance. It proves you exist, and, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' 'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and vanishes in a puff of logic. 'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing
Nobody is claiming any amazing connection, it's just a fun little detail.
You are right this is a bit of whimsy. However it is not too obvious and I don't think it is fair to compare it with some of the dafter ideas that numerology has spat out in the past.

Obviously our concept of time is based on 60 and 24 because there are loads of factors in those numbers which enables lots of convenient clock based shenanigans.

However, is it obvious that the set of numbers {5,4,3,2,1} when raised to their own power and multiplied together is equal to the number of milli-seconds in one day? It is when it is pointed out.

I doubt that there is any deeper meaning but it is simply a bit of fun. I recall that an Indian bloke who was close to death noted that the number of a taxi that some British mathematician took to get to the hospital was fleetingly interesting. If Ramanujan and Hardy can play silly games with numbers then why the hell can't us mere mortals.
I am medically handicapped and was also suicidal throughout high school. I had better test scores in high school than grades. I missed a lot of school and often failed to do homework.

In most cases, past grades are a better predictor of future grades than test scores. But college was physically easier for me because I had more control over my schedule and was thus better able to accommodate my handicap. So my grades went up substantially, more in line with my high test scores.

My health issues have long been a barrier to achievement. So this always gives me pause when trying to judge ability of other people. Maybe their poor performance says more about racism, sexism, an abusive childhood etc etc than it does about supposed innate ability. Maybe their good performance says more about getting social support, being born into the right family, etc than it says about innate ability.

But I will note that the comment you replied to said nothing about IQ. I only spoke of a need for validation and that's it. I was quite careful to not suggest it had anything to do with intelligence or competence.

I have spent quite a lot of my life failing to have a real career, failing to get taken seriously and failing to make much in the way of money. So there are ways in which I hunger for validation, yet Mensa does not appeal to me. I see it as mostly massaging one's ego and I would rather find actual solutions to my problems instead. Getting a serious career and adequate income etc will take my pain away. Validation from Mensa would be sort of like a painkiller, not a means to heal what ails my psyche.

I am not interested in remaining a loser but getting adorned with some sort of phony crown implying that I am totes not a loser, really. Instead, I want to stop losing at life, even if no one else notices.
You cannot install this thing locally?
(5 * 5 * 5 * 5 * 5) * (4 * 4 * 4 * 4) * (3 * 3 * 3) * (2 * 2) = (4 * 3 * 2) * (5 * 4 * 3) * (5 * 4 * 3) * ((5 * 5 * 4) * (5 * 2)) = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000
Recycling Chaos in U.S. As China Bans 'Foreign Waste'
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/12/08/roy-moore-accuser...

Source: http://thehill.com/homenews/media/363990-fox-news-issues-cor...
What if the data store is built on IPFS as well? For instance, https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db
Unless your project needs censorship resistance, you can probably ignore this.
Everything has a half-life. Even plain old protons have a theoretical half-life of of 10^31 to 10^36 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_decay
"As you can tell it is not so simple to point out why I can’t tell the difference between a Civic and a Volkswagen in the streets of Ramat Hasharon in Israel."

I beg to differ.

The reason Civics and Volkswagens look the same is that most vehicles are designed under the same constraints, particularly maximizing interior space while reducing drag. And most makers are using the same techniques to solve those constraints.

Ferrari tosses out the interior space constraint and adds others.

Fieros and Solstices and such were actually pretty crappy. (The MR2 just doesn't do anything for me.) S2000s are still reasonably popular, and the MX-5 is a periennial best seller.
“Bitcoin cash” is a name chosen to confuse newcomers and attempt to steal the bitcoin brand. The CEO of bcash refers to Bitcoin as “SegwitCoin” and their official /r/btc subreddit regularly claims to be the real bitcoin.
Bcash is an appropriate name for the altcoin to eliminate confusion.
Two Factors Driving Electric Aircraft
If you don’t eat, you’ll die. I’d say you’re being sensible...
Very much agree. We may not agree with the past culture, but we should never forget the past or the progress we made.

History is cyclic. Humans flip between freedom to oppression, and I think so much of those steps back come from the fact that we are encouraged to forget the mistakes and lifestyles of the past. You see this in communism, various cultural revolutions, and other horrible things, yet certain revisionists wish to look back at those horrifying events with rose-tinted glasses. No, we should be willing to accept and see the truth, for all it's glory and brutality.

We can "save" the women of literature, yet ignore the oppression in the modern day woman, ie. the gender-driven infanticide that still exists today. If written words from 3000 years ago offends our sensibilities, what hope to do we, as a culture, have to hold up a guiding light to the rest of the world?
On the assumption that IQ and "chess skills" both contribute to "chess performance", then everyone achieving a threshold of "chess performance", such as being an "elite player", has been selected to have at least a certain sum of "IQ + chess skills".

This means that, given high IQ, it's not necessary to have good chess skills to be in the elite group, whereas given low IQ, it is necessary to have good chess skills to be in the elite group. This will establish a negative correlation between "chess skills" and IQ within the elite group even though they are positively correlated overall.

Similarly, SAT math and verbal scores tend to be negatively correlated within the student population of any particular university, because universities will reject applicants whose total scores are low, despite the fact that the math and verbal scores are very strongly positively correlated in the larger population.
So you would ship $10 million gold with such a scheme?
Great insight. I don’t believe I have quite made it to this realization before. Thanks for sharing.

I do appreciate Lanier’s insignts on the value of musical instrument design.
300km is the wrong number. Metres are defined based on the speed of light, and it's 299,792,458 m/s (not pretty!). This is for historical compatibility reasons, and without any goal of nice factors. It takes exactly 1 ms for light to travel 299.792458 km. Physicists often use "natural" units [1] where the speed of light is 1.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units
In most of the world, DSL is more successful than cable.

Title II also prevented telecoms from replacing DSL with fiber lines that could do all of that. After Title II ended, AT&T and Verizon suddenly poured money into Fiber.

It's important to note that even the Obama era FCC didn't want Title II actually applied. They just used it to get net neutrality. They suspended almost all other Title II rules.
No it isn't but a quarter of a half hour is still understandable and is seven and one half minutes which is 7' 30". The ancient Babylonian idea of using 60 (and 360 for angles) is absolute genius.

If you think about it, it is a bit weird but makes so much sense working in base 60. We all do it all of the time.
"They stand for the implicit agreement that we are all created equal."

Uh, no. We are not. Both nature and nurture deal unfair cards. And markets and capitism most certainly alone do not promote solidarity. That is, in any real world scenario plaid out so far.

On the contrary, completely free markets often lead to oligopolies, monopolies and cartells.

Or is it supposed to be a bad joke in empirical economics, to start with a population with equal chances and see it tumbling into a winner takes all pyramid of distributions of wealth?
It’s a bit like asking if the Church-Turing thesis is true or not, and if we’re really using a scientific approach to answering that question. On the one hand.. I’m writing this on a computer, dude! There is a pragmatic sense in which the Church-Turing thesis is “scientifically true” in the amount of progress that has been made in the domain of computer science which it invented, which does follow a scientific process. It allows us to make accurate predictions and test them. But it is embarrassing to say the thesis itself is just that, an axiomatic assumption. (There are some pretender proofs out there, but not consensus that they are correct.)

The relationship between productivity plus inflation (both measurable) and economic growth is similar. It’s the bedrock of modern macroeconomic theory, which has largely been successful in both explaining and predicting the effect macro policy has on economic growth. The history of North American and Western European economies after going off the gold standard, and asian and Eastern Europe economies more recently all show these same correlations. Outside of external influence, economies which stray outside of the ideal parameters end up either stagnating (lack of investment) or experience dramatic boom-bust cycles (excessive poor investments). I’m on mobile but there’s a fair number of reports by Fed and other central banks justifying their choice of interest rate based on historical examples, and with the purpose of achieving certain productivity (capital investment) and price inflation (money supply). You could also pick up just about any macroeconomics textbook and chase the footnotes and references or spend some time on Google scholar.
There is a positive correlation between IQ and chess ability. That does not imply that there should be a positive correlation between IQ and chess ability in a group that has been selected for strong performance in chess.
This skips the power calculation, which is the entire point!
Would you say that, so far, his predictions have been less than accurate?

EDIT: Why is this inquiry getting downvoted? Does anybody have an idea?
Point still stands. When you have x million users on some platform and these users are a normal representation of the populace, an equal proportion of bad actors (with no prior records of such) will end up on that platform.
As a dyslexic I have taken a couple all totally cold
They are an investment success in terms of their share price.
42 = 10! In one of the tweet there is another surprise.
Only in the sense that anything at all is just a form of brute force.
As soon as I read your first sentence I immediately thought "I wonder if they live in Germany".

Having lived there a few years I was astounded at the lack of fly screens, given that there are just as many mozzies and other bugs flying around there in summer as there are back home in Australia. But in Oz, pretty much every window on every house has a fly screen.

I think I saw two or three in my entire time in Deutschland. So I know they're available, but I don't get why they're so unpopular.
I thought it was ruby at first.

(1..5).map{|n| n n}.reduce(:) == 24 60 * 60 * 1000
Not to get all wikifidller on you but cite
Also, safety systems and laws dictate some of the shape similarities. Its an expensive game to come up with a new shape.

Plus, some of us find Ferrari to not look as good as a Jaguar E-Type or a Porsche 356 speedster. I'm pretty sure there are people whose heart sings when they see certain Chevy, Fords, Hondas, etc.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

It's the first fucking sentence in the document that started teh United States, natural rights don't come from the government, they are inherent to being human.

Also, everything is just an opinion, including your much vaunted 'statues'

edit: Downvote away, I've got 13,000 karma to burn, I wish karma was like money so I could use 100 to light a smoke.
I didn't do it, but I'm going to guess that it was because your comment gave absolutely no context or meaningful input, and it therefore seems reasonable that someone has decided that it adds no value to discussion of the article.

I did downvote this one though, because of the antepenultimate entry in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There isn't anyway to know for sure but its extremely suspicious that they will not release the off switch despite already having developed it for the US government.
Southeast Asia’s Ride-Hailing War Is Being Waged on Motorbikes
It's always hilarious when the grammar nazi has a spelling mistake in his grammar nazi post.
I had figured I might have been misled by euphemisms in translations of Odyssey, it did seem uncharacteristic of the period in time (even coming from possibly the most progressive society of the time).

It's important to seek the truth before attempting to change it, and I'm glad Emily can separate her clear desire to inhabit a different world from (what I see as) the duty to accurately present the work. If I need a translation of the Odyssey for myself or someone else, I guess I'll be getting a copy of this one.
According to the NRA, the reason poor people kill each other so much is they don't have enough guns.
Macros are checked at compile time. So it is a static check to some extent.
Finally less hate if barbarian. Sorry Babylonian.

10 hour 10 second easier.

A quarter pass 7.

(Actual 12 is a human number of look from earth. Both chi-na and ... is it a copy.)
OP was discussing the engineering trade offs associated with engineering a blockchain. Every group engineering a blockchain makes the types of choices he was referring to. To assume he's talking about Bitcoin Core makes you seem like Don Quixote.

>They have everything to do with each other.

You said key custody has to do with fees, which it does not. The fee market does not influence, at all, how hard or easy it is to maintain custody of keys on a blockchain. Again fees do influence the cost of updating the UXTO set. You're confusing the two terms.

>$100 transaction fees means the vast majority of the world population will have to rely on trusted third parties to control the private keys to their wealth

People pay the fees that they are willing to pay. Your position reminds me of the Yogi-ism "Nobody Goes There Anymore, It's Too Crowded". Are you arguing that people are too stupid to know how much fees they're willing to pay? Again, miners will not hash for free. If users want low fees and low security, they got what they wanted by forking off to bcash. People who wanted high security and high fees, they got what they wanted by sticking the legacy consensus rules. What is exactly the problem with this paradigm?
Funny that you'd mention the BSD license: an overwhelming amount of early code released under the BSD license was paid for by government grants.
Bitcoin Cash can easily scale.

There never was a "scaling problem." The only problem is "people that don't want Bitcoin to scale."

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoincash/comments/7gmn8t/there_n...
Or... start a business, and throw some ads on the side of it...
Maloney Introduces Legislation to Block FCC Rollback of Net Neutrality
P2P is not like the cloud. It's someone else's computer, but you don't know nor care what the exact machine you are connecting to because they are mostly untrusted.
> and without faith, I am nothing.

Care to elaborate? I think virtually all religions believe that God existed before humans and therefore existed when no one had faith in God.
There's a lot of people in the world running around telling people all kinds of things.
http://coinmarketcap.com

30-40% BTC

10-20% 3-5 other alts

:)
Bitcoin – Millennials Fake Gold
If we remove some of the cruft on the righthand side, we can save a few bytes:

864e5;
Can one person make a difference? What the evidence says
Thanks. Google ECMAScript to me is the odd thing I had to learn (I have a really odd accent when speaking it) to get Novell's DirXML working.
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The speed of light in natural units is 1c.

Usually people omit c because it's power can be inferred.

And then they fail to mention to students that they're just omitting the c, causing a hilarious amount of confusion, half-truths and cargo-culting on the topic of natural units...

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Saying that the speed of light in natural units is 1 is like saying that one meter in SI units is 1.

(s, m, kg, 10) can be seen as basis vectors of a vector space. (Multiplication is "addition", power is "multiplication".) Another base of this vector space is (h, c, GeV, 10).
They can keep track of the transactions until the hacker converts the Bitcoins to a more anonymous cc like Monero then it's pretty much over.
Why would anyone be afraid of poisonous spiders? Do they crawl into your mouth while you are sleeping?

Ah, you probably mean venomous?
There are far too many cryptocurrencies to keep track of, bit even if the claim is false, Bitcoin is still absurdly slow compared to existing normal systems.
Thank you for the analysis. I suppose I need to read some Foucalt to form an opinion. My only exposure to him is his tangential relationship to Foucalt's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, which I read years ago.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matric...

Wikipedia says that people with autism and asperger's outperform other people on Raven's tests. Most people view ASD individuals as seriously cognitively impaired and they are often seen as low IQ, so I have trouble with your assertion. It suggests that people the world sees as highly impaired whose lives typically are harder than average are smarter than the rest of us. This completely flies in the face of every definition I have ever seen for IQ as a general predictor of competence.

Wikipedia also says the answers for Raven's matrices have been leaked, making them useless as an assessment tool.
and then my wallet bans your peer and moves on. Not an issue
I always wondered what if comprehensibility of physics is like a game of minesweeper - you solve a problem and you get clues that help you solve the next problem that gives you more clues. Sometimes you get stack and you have to continue on some other side of the maze that ultimately brings you back and helps you solve the stacked position.

But sometimes the game of minesweeper is unsolvable, you are stack and the clues you got so fat are not enough and you will never get new clues. Can this happen in reality? I don't know. To make things worse, we will never be 100% sure that we didn't miss something, if we get stuck we will never be sure.
You are preaching to the choir brother.

I am feeling the exact same sentiment more strongly every day.

In the past, working for a corporation meant some kind of loyalty in return, resulting in pension or still keeping you on payroll even if company was doing not so well.

Now, at the first sign of decrease in revenue, employees are cut. And I'm not even talking about company in danger of going under or having a negative revenue year. Employees are cut because revenue growth goes from say 5% to 2% and the execs have to do something to look like they are trying.

You can be the only one that knows how to do a certain thing in a company to ship that product or come up with a solution that saves the company millions, but all you get in return is 'good job' (and the implicit understanding that you should be thankful you have a job). And the owners/ceos walk away with millions.

So what is the action plan?
1. Do not wallow in bitterness. Do something productive/positive about it instead.

2. Do not think that you aren't an entrepreneur material. No such thing exists.

3. You don't have to run a tech company. Someone posted on HN that an ex-coworker was making far more money with far more freedom running coin laundries.

4. Look into real estate?

5. There are ways to start a company so you can be your own boss.

6. If you are in tech, brush up some new techs and look for cofounder.

7. How do you get the motivation to do all above? Channel your anger/hatred/resentment for having to work for someone else (enriching that person) into doing something for yourself.

8. You may not be successful, but at least you can enjoy working for yourself.

I'm only realizing this a little late in life, but better late than never.
The one who comments below does not live in China.
Yes. LIME works really well for this type of problem.
A framework to aggregate and normalize crypto data from across public sources
Nice, every byte counted back then. Did you burn new EProms with your version? I remember doing that once just to see it work for some minor modification.
I spend most of my time indoors and recently started forcing myself to go out during the day and staying directly under the sun while drinking coffee. It's amazing how much better I've been feeling. Just remember to wear sunscreen!
I think this is a downside. It just makes reading new code that uses esoteric symbols defined elsewhere.
Every time I read something like this I am reminded of the X-Files episode featuring such an organism and I'm not sure what is imitating what.
I read the paper, but wasn’t immediately convinced it wasn’t related to depth. Once I looked at the illustration for the 3rd experiment [0] it was obviously unrelated to depth.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/core/lw/2.0/html/tileshop_pmc/t...
I Am Not Any Kind Of Physicist, but the way I've always considered it, is that if you can travel from point A to point B in less time than the speed of light permits, then that is essentially the same as traveling back in time.
Good question. I’m frustrated by the unwillingness of bitcoin (specifically bitcoin, not blickchain or cryptocurrencies in general) fans to recognise the flaws. It’s like… huh, like politics. Or religion, which is kinda also politics.
Well, my personal project as a voracious reader and critical thinker does needs censorship resistance on behalf of a diversity of authors who wish to publish their thinking.
I might get smacked down by the mods for this, but I don't really care in this particular case, because someone needs to say it. It takes a seriously repulsive human being to justify/defend what Duterte is doing. You should really re-evaluate your belief system, because it's severely defective.