skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sent my friends 50 bucks worth of BTC for christmas time. At that point the fees for regular tx were ~5 bucks so I just bundled them and payed less than a dollar per send, making sure to send the change into a segwit address. I missed someone so I went ahead and sent a one off from a segwit address. That was only 1 buck tx fee. Totally doable for a $50 tx.

But if the valuations are anywhere close to proper we need to have significantly higher throughput.

If I can't send someone 10 bucks on bitcoin it loses a lot of value for me. I've previously used it to pay for lunch/poker w/e when I don't have my wallet and someone that I am with is interested in it. Even litecoin is hitting 1 USD avg tx fee.
If we are flipping a fair coin, the "surprise" we have at the result of any individual flip should be the same for all individual flips. Therefore, the entropy of the event, call it "A", of 92 fair coin tosses each resulting in heads is the same as the entropy of any other 92 fair coin tosses, "B". The sum of the individual event entropys must be the same so entropy(A) = entropy(B).

If you are talking about information theory entropy and saying a message of a billion bits composed of all "ones" has lower entropy than a "random" billion bit message, then sure. This is like saying we can compress the billion bits of ones and send less bits but the same amount of information. But I don't think this is synonymous with the above. It would be like saying for event A, each proceeding individual event has less entropy than the previous -- we aren't dealing with a fair coin anymore.
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You could host on 2 servers and combine at the client (one server has even bits, the other odd) - that technically wouldn't be hosted anywhere only existing transiently at the client location?
Typing is 10x faster than handwriting but not drawing / diagramming. Let us use the right tools. I'd be happy to whiteaboard architecture / solution on a high level. Or to live-code with running commentary (we practice that when pair-programming, pair-troubleshooting).

Coding on whitebard is nonsense. Noone "in their right mind" is good at it because noone gets to practice. You won't be able to pick the top performers.

Give the guys a keyboard (w/ their favourite IDE) and a simple coding excercise (codility) and you'll pick the 10x from 0.1x guys easily.
Doesn't make much sense when my eyes were blue as a kid, but now are green except for a quarter of one eye which is brown.
TV didn't cause teenagers to stop going out with friends, having sex, getting their licenses, and skyrocket their depression rates. All in under a decade. The Atlantic did a great article on this a couple months ago.
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Looking forward to seeing all Marvel characters live in the same movie universe.
What is Bayesian thinking? When I took statistics in college, Bayes' theorem, and conditional probability, were presented in fairly straightforward mathematical terms. There was no special form of thinking associated with it, but maybe Bayes had other things up his sleeve.
At least with personal finance, if you're comparing investing with paying off a loan, the potential gain must be risk-free in order to compare apples to apples. Paying off a 4% loan is a risk-free 4% return.
> even as there is an exodus

Citation?
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At the very least they stole IPs for the hell of it. Datawagon, Protraf, ....

The cybercrime hosts stole a ton of space, even impersonating dead people and falsifying documents. Served malware, etc off them

https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL180438

Also stole a ton for abuse/C&C/etc. https://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/query/SBL287709 (check whois names at bottom)

They also hijacked 1.3.3.0/24 to announce 1.3.3.7/32 (you can guess why).
That file includes at least two non-standard syntax extensions[0]. Robots is just a de facto standard and respect of some directives varies[1]. So much for it being 'not difficult' while the task is not even clear because there isn't even a clear standard.

Archive.org also dislikes how robots.txt is being used mainly for search engines and goes against their mission in particular[2]. Are they now hackers for not throwing away information just because someone was overzealous with robots.txt or retired a certain website and uses robots.txt as SEO to let another one take its place in Google search results?

If some big corp wants to cry and bring legal matters into software they should first be accountable themselves for not securing themselves and the data of their clients (see the LinkedIn hack people mentioned elsewhere here and in general the high profile hacks like Equifax, Sony, etc.). Or should software shape up to be like many other areas today are - multi-million corporations are free to play fast and loose and endanger people while small guys get fried over meaningless bullshit and vaguely defined "crimes".

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots_exclusion_standard#Nons...

[1] - https://intoli.com/blog/analyzing-one-million-robots-txt-fil...

[2] - https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...
They're actually doing two services, one for sports based on their ownership of ESPN and another for TV/Movies.

Not sure if their plan is to license other content or just rely on their own. If it's the latter I don't think it will be much of a Netflix competitor, it will be more like HBO Go. Otherwise, if I was Netflix, I'd be very worried. Disney has some deep pockets!

I think they are set to launch in 2019.
If you'd kept walking north from 125th, you could go to Hamilton Heights where I get a haircut for twenty bucks. That's ten bucks left over for a beer or two across the street :)
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Oh it's a beast of a machine that you'll get for that wedge but I feel like they've rounded all the component parts up to the nearest $1,000 just because they can.

That display panel, that motherboard, that case, that PSU, that graphics card, that memory, the CPU – would you expect to pay the bones of $14K?

From Amazon:

- 18-core Xeon $2,826.20
- 128GB of ECC memory from Kingston in 32 GB chunks $1,569.63
- can't find the GPU but the Vega Frontier Edition with 16GB is $999
- Samsung 850 EVO 4TB 2.5-Inch SATA III Internal SSD $1,469
- Apple's own 5K monitor is $1,350

That's $8K – which means that the motherboard (which Apple make design and source themselves), the case, the peripherals and cables, the assembly and testing, and software make up the other $6K …

$6K ???

[0] https://smile.amazon.com/INTEL-PROCESSOR-E5-2697V4-2-3GHZ-SM...
[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Kingston-ValueRAM-2133MHz-KVR21R15D...
[2] https://smile.amazon.com/Radeon-Vega-Frontier-Air-Retail/dp/...
[3] https://smile.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E4T0...
[4] https://smile.amazon.com/Apple-MK462LL-27-Inch-Discontinued-...
They used Stan! http://mc-stan.org/

Gelman and the rest of the crew at Columbia are doing great work. Check out https://www.generable.com/ too.
Okay I'll add my anecdotal evidence, I work around the TV industry in the UK and nobody I've talked to uses final cut anymore. It's all either Avid or Premiere, with Resolve to do colour work on.

Sure they've sold more copies with FCP X but it's not to professionals as far as I can tell, it's hitting the niche that Final Cut Express was at in the past.
Generally if they keep a feature it means that the majority of people were more engaged by it, so the algo feed is probably increasing engagement across the board but alienating a few users.
>> 2. The very first reviews. These are almost always fake and unverified. No one ever looks for this but it is the most common indicator in my experience of faked reviews given how low the bar is.

The unverified part is no longer true. A lot of companies now get reviewers to buy the product from Amazon and reimburse them for their costs via PayPal. So in general, when it comes to obscure Chinese brands, you can't trust the Verified Purchase label any more. I stopped doing incentivized reviews with the rule changes, but I know that's how they operate, as I've had many offers to go the PayPal route.

I rely too much on Amazon for my own purchases, and it wasn't worth getting banned from reviewing for that.
This guy is memeing.
It's impossible to build a house that can't be burglarized. Does that mean you shouldn't lock your door when you leave in the morning?
Although it appears the court found for HiQ (against LinkedIn): https://regmedia.co.uk/2017/08/14/hiqlinkedintro.pdf
It doesn't look downvoted to me. And I don't feel like it's an entitlement issue - eight million people live in NYC. That's more than the whole state of Arizona.

It's not unreasonable to expect a map to behave differently in the middle of a major city than a more rural area.
I like the ability to drill down into the details of why a change was made, the narrative of a PR and the back and forth flow can be hugely useful. The git DAG can be a very powerful way to encode both the high level narrative and the low level details.

The `--first-parent` option to git log and git annotate lets you stick to that high level narrative of just PRs/features that changed. (More tools should offer that as an option, it's probably my biggest request for GitHub's commit view, personally.)

It's a DAG for a reason, and it's powerful to take advantage of that, spending a lot of work (and potentially building a lot of footguns) forcing it to be a straight line seems counter-productive to me.
To be fair, there was a lot of tension there over how brutal exactly he was going to be in putting that rebellion down.

But yes, this is a huge problem. Once we convince someone to disarm, refusing to take force off the table completely undermines future efforts to disarm.

I often said throughout the 2000s that if with as much shit talk as the U.S. throws Hugo Chavez's way, if he's not either building nukes or hiring jihadis to teach his people guerilla warfare, he's stupid.

I harbored no love of Chavez but when your on the S list of a maurading superpower, you probably should have a plan B.
Washington state leaders announce plan to defend net neutrality
Facebook are clearly a very smart and capable team that is very interested in this exact area. So yes, they are competition.

But it is a classic case of that for a large company it is hard to execute on many priorities at once and dedicate a lot of organizational resources and attention. Plus they seem to have bet on going directly to VR.

We are laser-focused on doing this particular usecase extremely well, have a large/growing/strong engineering team, and have business leaders that don't have any other priorities beyond making this product excellent.
I was just pulling up avg tx fees. I realize that tx cost on ETH varies highly, do you have a preferred site to tell what contracts are economically viable for what amounts?

For instance I would be happy to buy a cryptokitty or two at the ~1 USD price range, but if the tx fees are ~1 USD then it's obviously a no go.
In the Sierra range the government is now funding a very expensive clear-cutting campaign to try to rid the forest of the 60 million estimated dead trees that have created a perpetual autumn-like landscape of golden trees. If the forests been subjected to well-regulated and sustainable harvesting, not only would the trees have been cut down as needed, but the state of California would have collected tax receipts. Instead, clear cutting is now a cost to government.
Don't be so dramatic. Baylife has always been terrible, but it was affordable in the past, so people put up with it.

If you care too much about what other people think of you, then you possibly aren't spending enough time thinking about things that aren't people.
In other words: Spam ruins everything.

Perhaps more generally: money ruins everything.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/transaction
Even if all those things could be retrofitted - and they probably can't be for less time or money than just restarting the CR2 production line - you still need to recruit and train the crews. It takes years to produce a good tanker, and more years to make a good tank commander. And you also need to recruit and train and equip all the supporting arms too - tanks need a lot of logistics, engineers, mechanics, and all the rest. And even then, pure tank units aren't very effective, you need to also build up infantry, artillery to build combined formations... that is why I say even with vast budgets, it will take a long time.
yep, doing this.
Oh thanks. I guess you're referring to GDPR. I'll take note to research this in the future and have found some resources after seing your comment, but I'd fancy some links if anybody has them that elaborate this topic.
The same that it's been since they bought it in 2012: will be subject to decades of safe, mediocre, corporate focus group-mediated content
Yes I am a long term believer in the technology, my gut just says the next correction that comes will be a bloodbath. Accordingly, I'd prefer to wait until that occurs before getting more involved.

If I'm wrong and "lose money" (ie don't get the gains) I'm okay with that too, since I've thought about this a fair amount and I'm confident my position is the most reasonable at this time.
I too was dissapointed at the 1GB of hash given to Stockfish.

Turns out that there is a good reason for 1GB of hash : it is an easy way to get a high number nodes searches per second (ie high kn/sec) on many threads.

http://support.stockfishchess.org/discussions/questions/655-...

Stockfish is a major PIA to configure to use correctly and I do not blame AlphaZero for taking the easy way out..

I turned on 30 threads for Stockfish 8 on my 2x Xeon 2670 with 64GBs of RAM and tried to adjust hash memory.

When going past 1GB hash my kn/sec dropped from 25kn/sec to less than 10kn/sec

It might have to do with how 2x CPU configurations work, locality, who knows.

A0 should have let Stockfish use its opening book though.
I just feel like supporting the company that gave us an alternative to media riddled with commercial breaks and having to deal with TV providers.
- Tulip mania was concentrated to specific parts of Europe vs. a global market.

- Tulip bulbs are perishable items that you have to repurchase when they go bad so they cannot store value.

- Tulip bulbs have an infinite supply since you can always grow more, Bitcoin has a maximum supply of 21 million and there will never be another.

- Anyone can plant seeds to grow a tulip bulb whereas mining a bitcoin has real costs associated with it ($800 to $2,000).

- Tulip bulbs cannot cure poverty and starvation in the world. Bitcoin has already been very useful in countries like Venezuela where inflation of their own currency is causing poverty. See https://mobile.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/12/13/world/america...

Also tulip mania itself is a poor comparison since it has spread like a game of telephone over the years. None of us were alive in the 1600s, and the actual events that unfolded were probably much less grand than the media plays it out to be:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/there-never-was-real-...
What numbers are you looking at? I don't see how you follow this:

> 1TB NVMe SSDs retail for $600+ and 2TB NVMe SSDs retail for $1700+.

with this:

> It's not cheaper. $2000 is the price difference to go from the 2TB upgrade to the 4TB from Apple. $1100 is the price difference to go from 2TB to 4TB if you paid retail.
That's why I never liked having Netflix be the poster child for "Net Neutrality".

Like with Pro Life vs Pro Choice we have two campaign slogans "Net Neutrality" and "Internet Freedom" coined by entrenched interests.
Yeah I apologize, I should've linked to a more informative article.

From another news release:

Investigational SPK-8011, a novel bio-engineered adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector utilizing the AAV-LK03 capsid, also referred to as Spark200, containing a codon-optimized human factor VIII gene under the control of a liver-specific promoter, is being studied as a potential one-time gene therapy for hemophilia A. It is the second investigational hemophilia gene therapy to emerge from Spark Therapeutics’ leading gene therapy platform. Spark Therapeutics retains global commercialization rights to SPK-8011.

We infused a single-stranded adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector consisting of a bioengineered capsid, liver-specific promoter and factor IX Padua (factor IX–R338L) transgene at a dose of 5×1011 vector genomes per kilogram of body weight in 10 men with hemophilia B who had factor IX coagulant activity of 2% or less of the normal value. Laboratory values, bleeding frequency, and consumption of factor IX concentrate were prospectively evaluated after vector infusion and were compared with baseline values.

You read the paper from the New England Journal of Medicine here: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1708538
"yes, bitcoin is overvalued, so if you want to invest in Blockchain Technology (TM), you should work with us instead"
It'd be awesome if you did this: expected net result, he gets more sales and at the low cost of 10% of revenue, much less than other distribution channels!
Exactly. The only experts that know what the next year will bring for bitcoin valuation are the liars and the fools.
>Most of these families are in some crappy circumstances where they're at but moving would only make those circumstances worse - so let's not pretend there's options here that there aren't.

Can I borrow that crystal ball of yours?

You're acting as if you/they have complete information about what life in Lincoln/elsewhere will entail.

A lot of your comments are simply loss aversion. Focusing on what you may lose, not on what you may gain.
That's the real disaster. It's a completely irrelevant industry, small by any measure and with a completely dispensable value lobbying against essential things like the freedom of press and affordable education material. And winning.
If you can demonstrate that Microsoft is aware of their ban from your property, then you absolutely would have a case.
I've calibrated it with a Spyder 3 Pro and not had issues.

It hasn't been hooked up to my gaming computer for a while, so the tearing problems I can't vouch for.

Some discussion of Linux drivers here https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/topic/982568/-feature-req...

It discusses the TILE property communicated over EDID informing the drivers that the two signals should be merged into one panel, which is apparently being done automatically for 4K displays in Linux but not for 5K.

Since I can't find any similar complaints on the Windows side, I would assume that these are correctly tiling automatically at the GPU level, not using the multi-monitor taskbar.

Again not the same monitor (and 4K instead of 5K), but I can confirm that I had a single taskbar across the bottom of my UP2414Q under Windows 7 before the multi-monitor taskbar support was added in Windows 8. No user configuration was required. Similarly, hitting Maximize will make a window cover the entire screen, not just half of it as if they were separate displays.
Don't let "Fear of missing out" drive you to speculate (not invest) in what every sane person knows to be a bubble.
I think we agree here, except on definitions. To me, potential "methods" are the list of things you describe: taxes, classrooms, teachers, home life, baseball bats. And also the ones I described: teach to the test, fraudulent scoring.

A manager that just says "teachers will be evaluated based on their students' standardized test scores" will get nothing useful, because they did not provide a method, and the teachers aren't empowered to solve their problems in a productive way.
Bitshares, STEEM, and the new project EOS all support them (EOS will have free transactions, and STEEM already does). Definitely check them out if you're interested in the space. Alot of people dismiss them because DPoS isn't proof of work, but if you dig into the philosophy behind it I feel like it makes alot of sense.

They've been lagging behind / undervalued for the last couple years IMO but the big money behind EOS is giving STEEM/BTS the attention they deserve.

https://steemit.com/dpos/@dantheman/dpos-consensus-algorithm...
I think he meant breaking up Google and Facebook respectively rather than halting a merger.
TV also rots kids minds, making them complacent, in case you missed the memo circa 1960. And now look at all these old zombies running around.
New Open Source Tools Test for VPN Leaks
Words are defined by consensus and use. To a lot of people "functional" means having first-class functions (in particular: functions can be defined anywhere (i.e. the language has closures) and functions are first-class values (i.e. functions can be passed as function parameters and returned from functions; function values can be expressed separately from assignment (i.e. the language has lambdas))) and programming in a style that makes use of map, reduce, and filter; more generally programming with immutable values and functions that return transformations of those values (as distinct from programming with pervasive state that is mutated). This is by no means the only way to write Python, but it's practical in Python to a much greater extent than it is in, say, Java.
Barely have toilets and telephones, yet unfettered access to the internet and Bitcoin exchanges?
Unique way to interview developers(and get them interested)
> Many in this thread are talking about "options" and "choices" but really what we're talking about is an option that's better for these families than the status quo.

OK, this is interesting. One source of fundamental disagreement between people in this thread seems to be that some people are looking at options that are currently available, and some people want better options. I'm more in the first group because life is short and I don't want to wait in a bad situation for years in the hopes that someone somewhere will provide some totally new option that I'm really pleased with. Of course it goes without saying I want better options to be available for everyone. But that takes time.

> You don't understand why someone trapped in the cycle of poverty would be upset?

Yes, of course I do. I'm sorry if I made my point badly. It's just that you say moving anywhere else would make their situation worse. I don't accept that at all, but if it's true, then they're already in the best place for them to be. What do you want? Instant worldwide elimination of poverty no matter what choices people make?