skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What it does is not just arbitration things, but establish global consensus and an unalterable log of that consensus.

If you've tried linking distributed Oracle databases between just a few different sites, you'd understand this has tons of failure cases and is, in fact, not a solved problem, even in the centralized world.

(Bigtable probably gets the closest these days, if you want proprietary and not globally auditable.)
"Use a different cryptocurrency."

I started using Bitcoin Cash instead and I'm loving it. All the good parts about Bitcoin Core w/o the brain dead approach to scaling.
We've banned this account for continuing to break the guidelines after we've asked you to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm also quite combative in discussions. And then someone told me: be careful not to win the battle (current conversation) and lose the war (attention and possibly the respect or friendship of the person you're talking to).
about IRS at 7:30 what does it mean "won't talk to them without immunity"? Should I state this when they ask me some questions?
There was an instance of SatoshiDice taking up half of a Bcash block consolidating UTXOs the other day. Congestion will happen on Bcash, as will a hard fork to infinite inflation due to lack of transaction fees to supplant block rewards.
I also can’t find any complete thought about social media in the article, so I’ll submit my own instead. I can’t recognize the Facebook versions of people I know very well in real life, and I have no desire to interact with these imposters. My closest friends IRL are interesting, sensitive, insightful, and driven. The Facebook versions of these same people are bland, banal, safe, and parrot standard middle-of-the road opinions and sentiments. I don’t know who those people are, but I wouldn’t be friends with them if they were like that IRL.
Larry Ellison is Jewish; I don't doubt the bit about retaliating by not hiring grads, and I suspect he would retaliate against benchmarks using other modes and channels as well, even today.

Nevertheless, this is chilling speech, and Ellison should probably be told by a judge that when he issues legal threats against benchmark publishers, he is a gangster who is committing the crime of racketeering.

On Ellison's grave it will be written:

HERE LIES A DIRTY JEWISH GANGSTER
It might be different if Middle East decides it prefers to be paid in yuans not usd. Of course you can then rain a bit more democracy on them but then again China might take offence.
Lazarus Release 1.8 (with FPC 3.0.4)
Very short span of time? He had minutes of saying things like "you disobey me again and there is a strong possibility you end up dead" "shut up" and "you do that again we're shooting you". And your excuse is that they're too dumb to not shoot?
Bitcoin Cash has been around for 3 months. 1 tenth the volume in that time is extremely impressive given than popular services like Coinbase and Bitpay don't even support it yet.
So if we say it “won’t” scale - would that be more accurate? It can, but chooses not to? Seems like a distinction without a difference.
Should I Rust, or Should I Go
Is it possible that the average person has as much exposure to these disorders, however: They are not aware of it. And maybe they weren't as lucky to have it diagnosed.

If smartness is genetical and I'm born with it, then the disorder should have been present from the get go. But for me, these diagnosis only appeared when I got richer: First, I had fewer issues to worry about (like bills or rent to pay). Second, I'm more self-aware.

Imagine you are standing. You have a serious injury bleeding on your left hand. I put a hot metal to your right one. Do you feel the hot metal burn? Nah, you are too distracted by the serious injury.

Now if you have no injury, then you feel the burn. Smart people are usually successful financially. It means they don't worry about what other people worry about (rent, bills, food, etc...). So instead they focus on other stuff like does life really make any sense.

That, and this is the first time I hear about Mensa. Maybe I'm not that smart.
Child pays for parent. Use it.

https://themerkle.com/what-is-child-pay-for-parent/
Ah, you said blame them. I'd assumerd that meant you felt they were the cause of both. I was pretty confused. Thanks for clearing that up.

I am a fan of responsible firearm ownership, but not the NRA - by the way. I don't know if I'd blame them, but I'd agree that they contribute to the 'gun culture' that ends up with irresponsible people wanting to own firearms.
threw the remote at a wall, smashing it.

That’s a tantrum. Is there any empathetic version of this story where someone over 45 looks like a grownup doing it?
Many languages have the ability to interface with C via FFI, but based on my experience, D's interop is really seamless. In addition, DStep converts .c/.h to .d/.di so there's very less manual work involved.

May be reserved for future article, but C++ interop is where D just excels. No other language can match that!
Thanks! I figured (most) people were pretty fast and loose with their security these days, so that wasn't my concern. I've found the problem is that it still isn't easy to use, you still need to configure a proxy with credentials and install a root certificate to proxy HTTPS traffic. Lots of vistors to debugproxy today, not that many requests through proxy.
Ask HN: How do you know if you're employable?
What techniques do you use to determine whether or not you are currently employable?

A bit of background:

I am currently a PhD student in ECE (electrical and computer engineering), but I am thinking of getting an MS and transitioning to a full-time software position, for a variety of reasons. I am also looking at ECE positions, but I have realized over time that I am actually more interested in software development.

My primary concern is that I simply won't be able to compete with other applicants who: (a) have a CS/SE degree, or (b) have work experience (e.g., internships), or both. Obviously, I don't want to leave the PhD program (even temporarily!) only to find out that I'm just not good enough for the software industry.

In a nutshell, I would like to be as sure as possible that I can "make it" before shifting into a job hunting mindset.
How do you modify the traffic that goes through an SSH tunnel? You can't unless you have the private keys.
I'm talking about Bitcoin Cash. You must be confused "Bcash" is a fork of zcash that hasn't launched yet.
Sorry—-I meant low relative to the other pending transactions. They’re not low at all relative to other payment methods.
Time [pdf]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15885206
Smartphones are just not designed for phoning people anymore. they are designed to make you better consumers. Web browsers, Apple Store, I-Tunes etc. I have a Samsung and it has serious lag around opening up a keypad to dial a number. Seriously? It's like they didn't test 'just making a call'

It was much easier to just make calls on a 3310, in fact Siri is not a patch on the 1930's concept of asking a lady at the exchange to patch you through.
Can someone explain how this agreement can be binding? For instance, if I buy their DB, then publish benchmarks, at best they can deactivate my license or something right? So if I am willing to forego the cost of the license, I can do whatever benchmarking I want, publish it, and say goodbye to the DB?
Wouldn't a major usage restriction that make it incompatable with other GPL software (and possibly make it tagged as non-free by FSF and OSI)?
It's not "better". It's a hosted alternative.
7.- sogen, I am one of the founders of visualping and super-proud of the mention :)
Or you are ascribing characteristics to your friends based on your own biases. Maybe you are banal safe and middle of the road to them.
I have no objection to your overall sentiment, but, TBH, much of the reason they do this is it is trivially easy to use very authentic looking benchmarks to effectively lie. The net is that the academic ideal of a free market is effectively unachievable in real life - perfect information does not exist.

I don't know how to get around this problem of course.
>"It's what the Rush Limbaugh and Jon Oliver types do day in day out (and if you are observant with zero long term impact)."

Political satire is very different from actual news journalism. I'm not sure why you are conflating the two.

>"Today's journalism is about making people feel helpless for profit."

The news media selling anxiety and fear is not a recent development. There's even a very old newsrooms adage that states "If it bleeds it leads."
This article seems like much Ado about nothing. My guess is that human selective breeding of plants has far more impact than the effect the article discusses.
Nintendo has had some recent success releasing new versions of old hardware. It would be pretty interesting to see what they could do with a a re-release of the GameBoy.
Google’s origin partly lies in CIA, NSA research grants for mass surveillance
If I get arrested and say "I want a lawyer". What lawyer do I get? A random public defender? A private defender? If it's private defender, am I able to ask for another lawyer if the fees are too high? Will that lawyer refer me to another more specialized lawyer later on?
libsecp256k1, which was developed for Bitcoin, uncovered bugs in OpenSSL. It also increased signature validation speed by 5x.

https://bitcoin.org/en/release/v0.12.0#signature-validation-...
"It is regrettable that a dispute about one airplane has consumed so large a quantity of human and economic resources and that the parties have found compromise so difficult"

So much hate. Just because someone has enough money to file a lawsuit and keep it alive for years doesn't mean the other side should somehow be penalized for not compromising with the fool.
I'm not criticizing lisp at all here. And Java had lists but no functional API on top of it. Processing ArrayLists is extremely different from (mapcar #'f '(....)), in idiom, paradigm. You can, but you'll have to do anonymous inner classes gymnastics and you'll end up writing loops before you know it. And my point is: it sucks.
Racket isn't near as fast as SBCL though. However, now that Chez Scheme is open source, Racket is in the process of leveraging that run time. Also I don't know, but would guess deployment is easier with SBCL as it can build a standalone executable (albeit it is very large due to saving the running image).
I never applied to Mensa. A cousin of mine (that I barely knew) was in it. He encouraged me to apply on the theory that they had a small scholarship that would help me return to college. He felt my SAT scores would qualify me.

I have seen some discussions on the internet that fit with your hypothesis that many people join Mensa to have their smarts validated. There are other ways to validate that, like getting additional college degrees. These other ways tend to result in real world achievement, like better jobs. CEOs and the like don't seem to spend a lot of time trying to get their smarts validated. They are too busy getting their business model validated.

So, I tend to see Mensa the same way you do: It primarily appeals to people who need validation they are incapable of getting via other avenues, such as pursuing their Master's or PhD.
The point is that after you have requested a lawyer they are obliged to refrain from questioning you.
And yet there are a ton of folks who have watched many of his videos and have played tons of games and not made it to 1d. Including me, I'm just a lowly 4k.

Maybe you're right, but my experience playing both in small local tournaments and a lot online has been that the folks 1d and above are pretty sharp generally.
A Bit of History about Bits
Likely the False Narrative myth at work in a similar fashion to attributing a narrative structure to the universe for example.

As a counterpoint, Foucault's Order of Things offers up a historical “archaeology” of the sciences congruent with power structures.
https://i.redd.it/ygovceracw201.png
Difficulty is adjusted approximately every two weeks, so the network would self adjust to a reduced mining rate.

Mining isn’t used to validate transactions. You can validate transactions without mining. It’s purpose is to secure the network. The network validates transactions using asynchronous cryptography and nodes only transmit valid transactions. Mining secures those transactions from being overwritten.
The New Standard Model
Having recently watched the Steve Jobs film, I am inclined to ignore his advice on this, like I will skip his advice on parenting.

The only piece of good advice for someone in the position of a young Steve Jobs is to find a friend like Woz who actually knows how to do something.
Wow, seriously? That’s unfortunate. I have a significant amount of bare metal storage space and computation resources and would be happy to host benchmarks like these.
yeah, it was not the best way to put forward my thoughts. Thanks for the reminder!
Didn't you hear there's an existing fork of Bitcoin called Bcash too? This new altcoin you're talking about will have to change their name, because we all know starting an altcoin with the same name as an existing one doesn't go so well.
What is it with bitcoins that attracts Reddit-dwelling idiots?
This is probably too extreme. Andrew Branca recommends [1] to "say little" rather than to "say nothing".

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/CCW/comments/5sicm5/the_law_of_self...
Most useful link, thanks.

So, the idea seems to be that an electron that has crossed ("excited") into the conduction band may, instead of recombining with a hole it (or some other electron) left behind, it may, as the article puts it, "pair up" with the hole and thus form a bosonic quasi-particle.

One of the interesting aspects of this is that unlike Cooper pairing (of two electrons), the pairing of an electron with a hole is a collective effect, i.e. one that requires the participation of many electrons (as well as the atom's nucleus that accounts for the hole's positive charge).

Those who want to learn more about "collective electrodynamics" may consult a book by Carver Mead.
There's a website article called "Clojure Sucks" that is written by a Common Lisp user who uses a symbolics lisp machine and has some interesting insight although it is very aggressive.
I think saying that science doesn't arrive at objective truths means defining "objective" to be a word that nobody would ever use.

Give me a number, and I can put that many nines after the decimal place of percent-certianty in my result. For each nine, I have to run my experiment longer. Infinity nines -> complete certainty.

So, in practice, when we're choosing between fact and fiction, what we're really doing is putting our theories into a bucket and letting them duke it out until there's only one voice left telling us how many struts our bridge needs to be built with. The beauty of science is that whatever poetry, rousing manifesto, or brilliant connections you want to pit it against, you can always look at them and order up exactly as many nines as it takes to beat them. The certainty of science is finite, but unbounded: so it's the best we've got.

>Theories might even be inconsistent with other theories [...]

There's a nice philosophy-of-science trick you can do if you want QM and GR at the same time. Just look at the error bars on the experiments that support the two theories, and propagate them down into error bars on the theories themselves. That leads to theories being statements of knowledge over appropriate ranges (and to appropriate precisions), making them "true" in an absolute sense. (If you do this with Newton's classical mechanics, you will realize that QM was not an overturning but an allowed-for refinement.)
You are right although I don't fully understand your analogy but bitcoin never guaranteed all transactions will go through because it couldn't because noone could make a system with infinite capacity.

20$ transaction fee is an incentive for the users to restrain themselves to smaller number of larger transfers.

Is the limit too strict? Probably. Miners still get a lot from mining rewards and don't need to be incentivised with fees yet, but there must be some limit that will force people pay for transactions because when mining rewards end there will be nothing to keep miners mining.
The myth that software was excellent under Jobs is just hat - a myth. I mean, iTunes was commissioned by Jobs, as well as many of early, clunkier iOS versions(no notification centre until much later, no copy/paste in the original iPhone, etc.
Database Development in Micronesia: Bureaucracy at Its Worst? [pdf]
> Solve the problem of black people being abused by police and you’ve solved the problem in general.

This is why BLM should _not_ handle this situation. They think they're the only ones that cops are jerks to. The issue isn't racism, it's the inability of our police force to self-police and remove the bad apples.

> many people have a distorted view of the movement

It literally says that it has "campaigns against violence and systemic racism towards black people." Its focus is not police reform for everyone.
Yep. I expect the fee market alone will drive normal people toward Bitcoin Cash.
>This is an aspirational wish but not reality at the moment.

No shit. If it existed, it would be pointless to work on it.
Its ironic that I've chosen not to buy his new book on VR yet, because its only available in hard and softcover, not audible.

That being said Leron's work is phenomenal and I'd recommend "who owns the future" to everyone.
It's well known that Oracle and other proprietary databases have special configurations for cheating benchmarks similar to VW emission cheating tricks.

Since databases aren't regulated and don't cause health hazards those fake benchmarking configurations don't matter much to people.
Machine Learning for Systems and Systems for Machine Learning [pdf]
What do you conclude from that, and what do you conclude from studying, say, 1950, when the top federal income tax rate was over 90%?

My point in asking is this: quoting statistics such as the above is often a 'push poll' type situation, trying to suggest a particular conclusion, often by idealogues.

Interpreting that information requires a whole lot of other information and the conclusions to be drawn are not what one might initially assume.
Also, let's compare it to cash. Bitcoin is currently worth more than $15000. How much energy is spent to create this in bank notes ?

Or compare to banks. How many people do you need to provide an office for with all the associated cost so that the structure can create $15000 ?
I find that with contracts in general, lawyers will throw in all sorts of clauses that may or may not be enforceable and hope they stick. That's why they add something to get you to agree "if one part is found to be invalid or unenforceable all the other parts are still valid".
See “On Exactitude in Science” by Jorge Luis Borges.
Ask HN: Any Bay Area companies looking for HS interns in Summer 2018?
Hi. I'm a high school student that's looking for a summer internship to hone my CS skills. I am a quick learner and have been developing software on my own for about 4 years now.

While looking online, I could only find large companies looking for graduate-level interns. However, since this is Silicon Valley, I feel that there are a significant number of smaller companies that would be willing to mentor a high school student.

If you're interested, leave your email and the kind of person you're looking for down below or send me an email (it's in my profile).

Resume, detailed description of abilities, or recommendations available upon request.
If i gave you a search algorithm with a big db then asked if it could done quicker would you prefer to spin up more cpu's or try to improve the algorithm?
The point is it is a team issue not a tech issue. The team behind Bitcoin Cash which is rooted in the original Bitcoin block chain is scaling Bitcoin w/o issues. The Bitcoin Core team who has control over development of the legacy chain is the problem not the technology itself.

It would be like if there were two auto makers one claimed that you can't make a car that holds more than two people and refused to do so. Along comes another auto maker and builds a bus off the same concept. Doesn't mean that automobile tech is bad it means the team insisting it can't / won't scale is incompetent.
I agree that we can never get to the ideal of a free market, but at the very least, we can ban business practices that are expressly designed to undermine the free market. We already have anti-trust laws that prohibit companies from some practices, such as price-fixing or false-advertising. We really need to strengthen such laws to ban modern practices such as benchmark-bans.
Looking through the Pinebook website and forum a few days ago, there are many reports of hardware problems due to what seem like poor manufacturing and QA. :(

eg keyboards with keys that don't work, the GbE network pork actually only running at 100Mb/s, battery's that don't charge, screens with dead pixels

* https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5046

* https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=5025

* https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=4997

Not sure it's really worth the potential hassles at this stage. :(

That being said, if you can put up with the potential issues then it probably wouldn't hurt to try it out. :)
The United States has areas of significantly bad crime. 4 of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world (measured by murders per capita) are in the U.S. These cities have murder rates from 44 to 60 per 100,000 people.[0] For reference the United States as a whole has a murder rate of 4.88, and United Kingdom has a rate of 0.92.[1] Making matters worse the violence isn't distributed evenly in those cities, it's often concentrated in a few "bad parts."

There are neighborhoods in the U.S. where your chance of being the victim of a violent crime in given year is 1 in 7.[2] That's for civilians. When we send police in to try and protect those victims it's hard to send them unarmed.

[0] - http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/most-dangerous-cities-in-...
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
[2] - http://abcnews.go.com/Business/worst-neighborhoods-violent-c...
I don't like this word "Superior". Just say higher.
This is a neat little application! Would not use it for passwords, but like the idea of temporary snippets of text
waterfall is not specific to and was not invented for software development.
>Title is incorrect, the $0.35 is for every pledge, not for every (monthly) transaction.

They are switching away from the monthly batch billing to a transaction-per-pledge model, so I'm not sure why you don't like the title.
Dogecoin has much cheaper fees than Bcash and its block confirmation target is around 1 minute -- roughly an order of magnitude cheaper and faster than Bcash.
Consensus has nothing to do with science, which can be done by a sole individual completely separate from society. You can follow the scientific method just fine and discover new phenomena and nobody might believe you, but you still did science.
In every video of Steve Jobs he comes across as one with incredible confidence. I learnt that he dropped out of college and it amazes me to see him exude such confidence. I grew up in India and was constantly told to "shut up and sit down" because I am not qualified yet. I got my bachelor's degree and still feel like I am nothing. Did Steve Jobs get his amazing confidence because of the cultural difference in USA where people are careful not to insult someone. Due to the number of times I have been told to shut up and sit down, I have not gained confidence to speak against power and to lead. I always look at confident people like Steve Jobs with jealousy. May be some of the members of HN can help me here.
"Jurors in the Daniel Shaver case were not allowed to know that the police officer who shot him had scratched “you’re fucked” into his service weapon."

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/footage...