skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a LOT of money being invested to make BCash appear legit.

One bit I noticed was this address -- https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin%20cash/address/19hZx234vNt... which has been quietly accumulating (yet never spending) a massive amount of BCH. My best guess is this is bitmain accumulating part of their mining proceeds, but isolating it away to create artificial scarcity to inflate the price. (That's just one of a bunch of similar addresses).

They sort of depend on keeping the price inflated; because without that, their difficulty would adjust & drop to the point where a 51% attack was actually feasible. Per https://fork.lol/security/fork it would only take 50 days for 25% of the BTC hashrate to remine the entire BCH fork, undoing any BCH transactions the miner might have made.

It's an incredibly shaky coin in a large number of ways.
Ah rich people who can actual y live that near :-) I was thinking of those that use the train
Eth nodes are a quarter of what they were nine months ago. Most people can't even sync a node anymore. None of this is a surprise. This is exactly the outcome expected with unrestrained blockchain expansion. Bitcoin is about decentralization. Every other altcoin, it would seem, is about trying to invent an inefficient paypal.
Because as an entrepreneur I've spent way too much of my life chasing funding. I just want to build tech and make money from it so I can make more tech ( and so forth), the fastest way to do that is to understand investor incentives.
How is zcash's track record with regard to untraceability?
I wonder if citation research could become self sustaining, if it generates enough cited papers.
38.9°F is 3.8°C to save people a conversion.
The lot (which as you guessed, is on Stevens Canyon). Former gas station was my guess too.

https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/17580-Stev...
it isn't a binding agreement if there is no treaty. I'm sure russia had some treaties saying don't invade georgia, but they did. The old soviet union gave Crimea to Ukraine and Russia took it back by force. That was part of another country.

Russia's violates treaties when it wants. It is not a trustworthy country. I think Russia is afraid of countries that want to be independent of the Russia's greater power.
TD Ameritrade to Offer Bitcoin Futures Trading on Monday
>No it does not, neither in theory nor in practice.

I've yet to come across something that was fewer loc in C++/java than in python.

That said, this is true even if I use pytype.
Windows 10 LTSB (long term servicing branch) should have been the original win10 release, with "add-ons" of the extra junk... instead they give you the most junk filled os and make you pay a premium (and very limited availability) for LTSB to strip it out and slow down the patches so they aren't forced down whenever ms wants.

Good like buying it easily if you not a premier partner or msdn subscriber.

We just qualified for our new client machine builds and will be providing that to customers only going forward for win10 requests.

Have not checked if this password keeper still gets deployed, will have to check monday.
If it's distributed part of Windows store, then it won't be cause that's stripped out itself
The average American only spends $45 per year on movie tickets (5 movies, $9 per ticket). MoviePass costs $120 per year. On the internet, we disproportionately hear from those in big cities, where tickets cost much higher than average, but that is not what most of country experiences. The viability of MoviePass depends on whether they capture enough people outside of major cities, and that they do not increase their movie viewing significantly.
Why do some people call Bitcoin Cash "Bcash?" It seems to accompany critical statements. I'll assume you're not doing it to save 6 letters, because later you refer to Bitcoin as BTC. You could have saved more letters by referring to Bitcion Cash at BCH. Is this a campaign to rebrand Bitcoin Cash as something other than a Bitcoin fork?
right/wrong or good/bad are concept derived from organized religions to control populations' beliefs and they are inappropriate in most cases if not all because they are relative to your own beliefs.

If you are the good guy then your enemy is the bad guy but from the bad guy point of view he is the good guy and you are the bad guy.

No one is ever the bad guy in the movie of her own life.

servo, or whatever else they could come up with will never reach a net good for me as I need ALSA support and the extensions mozilla has dropped to make firefox useful to me.

I would rather have them disappear so there is room for something better to exist in its place. Right now there are occupying space and prevents an alternative to emerge.

The sad part of this is that by accumulating blunders, near sighted and far reaching decisions, with their attitude of not caring about user feedback or user freedom of choice they managed to turned me, a long time supporter (since netscape times) that has based part of my business on their browser, against them and wishing they would go away. This is quite a feat in itself.
I'm not sure there is another entity that managed to alienate me that much, not even canonical or gnome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Roger_Ver#Explosives_vs_f...

'As for fireworks vs explosives, the current limit on firecracker size in the US is 50mg of flash powder. The "Pest Control Report 2000" was 1000mg'
You want to point us towards where ... on Bugzilla and the Mozilla project wiki pages and the source code and all the other things you mentioned ... this addon was discussed?
The call shifts the loop from being limited at the backend level (mostly uops not being retired by having to wait for memory) to being limited at the frontend level. The core event to look for here is `IDQ_UOPS_NOT_DELIVERED.CORE`, which tells us whether the frontend is delivering the full 4 uops per cycle it is able to. In the tight loop this is almost always the case, whereas in the call loop this is rarely the case.

CALL, RET, and JNE all share the same execution port (6 in Skylake), so it seems plausible that the added pressure in this port prevents speculative execution from continuing with the loop at the same rate as the tight loop. If you look at the execution port breakdowns of each loop, port 6 dominates in the call loop, whereas the tight loop is bottlenecked at port 4 (the port where stores go).

By delivering fewer uops per cycle, the pressure on the backend is eased. But this is a delicate balance. If you add another call, the loop becomes much slower than the tight loop.

You can get a similar effect by replacing `__asm__("call foo")` with

__asm__("jmp 1f\n1:\n");
__asm__("jmp 1f\n1:\n");

which consumes the same amount of port 6.
I don't understand why theaters would have a problem with this... I was under the impression that theaters made most of their money from concessions since they get almost no margin on the box office.

So a service that gave people a reason to go the theater more often while encouraging them to spend more on on high-margin concessions (which the author admits is what he does) seems like a win for theaters.

Perhaps I'm missing something, one thing that drives me crazy nowadays is the sentence that hints at something buried in some link:

> And theater chains, particularly AMC, are [absolutely not on board](link to different article on same site that supports this claim, I assume).

Definitely couldn't have simply mentioned an AMC lawsuit against MoviePass, but why add more supporting facts when that might mean cutting anecdotes about what movies the author is now willing to sit through?

I agree with another commenter, this reads more like an ad, sounds more like MoviePass trying to get people to relate to this guy and become "terrifying" subscribers, just like him!
What's the benefit of using email over equivalent closed systems?
No, and he's not accusing his boss of anything.

He's just scared.

Keep in mind that he spent the first decade of his career working in places where he could be legally fired for being gay.

And there are lots of parts of the US where he could still be legally fired for being gay.
With bonds at historic lows (negative interest rates have never seen since the beginning of money in ~600BC), I would not be so sure about that. What bonds would you invest in?
DAB doesn't cost me per minute listened. I'm on a very good mobile plan here in Australia (10GB for $40/month) that would finally mean I could stream (128kbit, blech) music all day and not immediately hit the data cap. Many people aren't on that kind of data cap though. Not to worry - there wasn't ever any mobile data net neutrality so Spotify, Apple Music and Netflix aren't included in the cap (with a quality limit, of course)
That would be amazing!!!

Can you imagine going back to journalism 20-30 years ago, where they just tried to give you the facts?

Sometimes I try to ignore the media and just read books for exactly this reason.
I'm glad you mentioned theater revenue. When I worked in a theater, my manager would tell me they saw less than 5 cents per ticket on most movies, maybe a little more for independent films.

The $2.85 small bag of popcorn cost less than a penny in raw material to make. We made minimum wage with no overtime (theaters got a tax loophole back then; not sure if they still do) so even factoring in labor and electricity, it's still a huge profit margin.

Theaters chain execs love it I'm sure. Still even if/when MoviePass goes under, the studios will probably take a small hit for a while, but I'm sure they'll recover.
Why isn't there AI/ML yet that can determine what kind of posts make me sad? I would have expected a "dislike" button by now that doesn't necessarily publish one's dislike, but instead trains the social media software what (not) to show.
The translation aspect is an important point. But also all the personal perspectives, anecdotes, ramblings are highly interesting to those who look for the outliers. The perspectives that don't fit into the current frame of explanation are so essential for any new hypothesis to arise.
My girlfriend and I both have MoviePass, I don’t have my phone on me but we’ve seen 8-10 movies already. It’s fun, we just run to the movies now. No more buying tickets a day in advance and then making sure we get there early enough.

We used to see movies exclusively on Saturdays or Wednesdays, when it’s cheaper, and only went to certain theaters. Now when we decide to see a movie we go whenever we feel like it, wherever we feel like it. We usually bring our own snacks/water too..

We decided to see The Last Jedi at 1:05 AM without any forethought and saw it on a massive screen with Dolby sound.

I can’t get a VC to return my cold calls/emails, but hey, at least a VC is paying for our movies.
Give the money to you favorite charity at the least.
I still don't see the detailed answers I'm looking for here.

On a paper wallet? How do I generate that? How do I print it? Where should I store it?

A bootable Linux distro on an air gapped machine could solve the first one. An air gapped printer the second maybe. A cryptosteel the third.

I THINK that will make a safe place to store multiple millions (or billions, or trillions) of $ worth of crytocurrency.

I, unlike many others, don't want to make a $fortune dollar bet that I'm not going to make any sort of mistake (one I could have none about or not) when doing all of this stuff.

I trust coinbase not to run off with my money just like I trust vanguard not to run off with my money.

The AMAZING WORLDCHANGING but much less dramatic, incremental improvement that bitcoin offers me is that now I don't have to. That's a BIG deal.

If my mom doesn't want to figure out what the hell an air gapped bootable Linux distro is, then coinbase is a fantastic solution for her.
If this does not happen at your workplace, it will certainly happen at some other workplace around the world.
While you take on a huge amount of risk. Congratulations on "saving" that $28.

Not to mention since you can't really spend bitcoins you'll have to pay more for conversions to national currencies on both ends.
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That was my first impression as well. That being said, I have a lot of respect for Moxie and his work, so i'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and am curious to see his response to this point.
Not only has the Lightning Network been implemented across three codebases, version 1 release candidate was released a week and a half ago:

https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0...
Also. Maybe meditate on the irony of citing wikipedia articles without reading them and then criticizing polemics.
In what way? I mean this (Mobile Coin) is almost the very definition of vapourware. A 4 page whitepaper, come on.
1,2 are very solid advice.

It would be good to know more about in what capacity your friend is going to be work as. Interaction designer? What kind of product will he be designing? Will there be other coworkers to fill digital knowledge gap?
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin scalable like Visa?
I've read that Visa processes a few thousand transactions per second, but bitcoin is significantly less than that (tens of transactions). If bitcoin was to go mainstream, wouldn't this on its own be a serious limitation? Is there a way round this?
Everyday we are seeing human greed defy basic common sense of how work and rewards should work.

I am deeply questioning Human's future on this planet. Hopefully Musk can get to Mars sooner. I think my children might need that to survive.
This is too complicated. I would gladly pay small txn fees to avoid having to manage payment channels.
I thought moviepass was just a free ticket. You make it sound as though they guarantee seating or something, too?
KeePass + VeraCrypt container, never failed me. Before that I used TrueCrypt but it is no longer trustable.
Nope. You only have to report capital gains in excess of your annual allowance, which is £11,300 at the moment.
I have a few questions: (1) When can we start using this? (2) How will you acquire the currency?

I think #2 is the pain point, and I didn't see this addressed in the whitepaper. Most people talk about Bitcoin's transaction speeds, but Litecoin works incredibly well for doing transactions. The difficulty for a normal person is acquiring it. You need something like GDAX.
Thoughts on Net Neutrality
One thing I like about this wave is that there are other people to talk about these returns with

In prior years I would usually downplay my trading acumen and past performance, like "yeah you can 300% (3x) returns in a nice swing trade", talking with people that MAYBE have touched a penny stock the wrong way, yet realizing that extrapolating even that to an annual return would have them posting a scarlet letter on me as a liar and scammer

the reality is that I was making 40x returns, back in 2013. A couple here, a couple there, a diversified portfolio. should have kept with some names, should have not trading some others.

Now everyone knows: it is not hard to generate a 10x return. A 10x return is underperforming the benchmark of bitcoin which made 20x this year.

And that is great.

As someone that knows how to trade bullish markets, bearish markets, and sideways markets, I can't wait for this to shake newbies out.
They aren't in the target audience. Squirrels can't read, plus even if they did the squirrel university library didn't pay $10k for the subscription to access to the journal the paper is published in.

Even if the squirrel was able to access the article, the follow up research the squirrel does won't be indexed by Google so I can't add to my H-index (my H-index is a whopping 1 btw), so none of it really matters.
Web design doesn't have much in common with print, it's more about user experience, usability, psychology, etc. For those things Steve Krug's book is nice, I would also suggest Jakob Nielsen, you may know his quote that users spend most of their time on other web sites. Tools are different too, like Balsamiq. Approaches are different. The only thing in common is graphic design part of the web design, but with different constraints of course, not much new to learn here after print.
The limit is $10k of cost basis in australia. No CGT for anything less.
Interesting stuff and I see that Nathan commented there as well [1] where he observed "what matters is that the store-to-load forwarding does not try to execute in the same cycle.". The Agner Fog paper on Intel Micro-architecture [2] is probably the most relevant in terms of puzzling it out.

Again the reason I suspect the branch predictor in this sort of case is that when the loops are essentially 100% inside the cache, practically the only thing that varies the actual execution rate is whether or not a branch is not predicted. That said, the flow through these sorts of pipelined execution units is anything but clear.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6846257

[2] http://www.agner.org/optimize/microarchitecture.pdf
To those downvoting this comment, please think hard about whether you're just downvoting because you disagree with them. The comment wasn't inflammatory, and does counter the comment that it's replying to in a logical manner.

We need to allow for civil discourse between people we disagree with, or else we'll form an echo chamber.
It actually claims to be an "Alternate Reality Game (ARG)", not a "small AR game" as in "Augmented Reality" or "Mixed Reality". That's something else:

https://research.mozilla.org/mixed-reality/

I'd charitably call it "Augmented Memory", but it's definitely not "Augmented Reality".

And I'd hardly call it a game, just a parasitic advertising gimmick that slows and bloats the browser. It just injects a bunch of JavaScript code, DOM elements and CSS effects into every tab.

There's really no game there, and it's pretentious to call it an "Alternate Reality Game", which is defined as "intense player involvement with a story that takes place in real time and evolves according to players' responses":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game

This extension just wraps all occurrences of a set of keywords (now including "fuck") in a span with some css animations and a tooltip that links to their web page.

https://github.com/gregglind/addon-wr/commit/da464ac8f1c3b08...

But in terms of memory usage, CPU and battery consumption, it's not that small, either.

It injects a blob of CSS and some JavaScript into every tab, then it does a regular expression search of every text node on each page, filtering out everything but paragraphs, then for each occurrence of a keyword in the text, it creates a new text node to split the current text node, then inserts a new span element between them, containing its own text node, then it creates an additional tooltip element containing six text nodes, five br elements, and one anchor element linking to https://support.mozilla.org/kb/lookingglass , and it also configures css class names to associate all those new nodes it created with the blob of css styling and animations that it injected.

This extension isn't the best example of their technology for Mozilla to be promoting and distributing, if they're really serious about delivering a fast memory efficient browser.
It's no more complex than running any other bitcoin wallet. It is, after all, bitcoin. The only difference really is that lightning is instantaneous and immutable, where blockchain transactions require you to wait until a transaction has been confirmed in the relevant blockchain in order to be secure.

And no-one will force you to use it. If you choose to continue using bitcoin transactions natively, no-one is going to stop you.
Vitess has applied to join the CNCF. I recently made a presentation to the Storage Working Group: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1xgDO8zr3Tmic4NV9DOp_...
What is the value of maintaining continuity of the UTXO set?

Pretty much any BTC spinoff can and has forked the chain, auto-airdropping their coin to all BTC holders. You don't even have to go that far though, a coin could easily have a smart-contract style method of signing a message with your BTC private key, and get granted an equivalent in free starter coins.

Coins are also becoming increasingly fungible ... there's more exchanges every day, shapeshift/changelly style portals, and lightning adding atomic swaps across chains.

More importantly though, whether this is the end of the early adopter phase, or just a "late end of early adoption" phase... most people coming in won't want a coin with a lot of baggage and most of the value hoarded into a few accounts (inheriting BTC's chain could be seen as a negative there; and BCH's speedmining run didn't help it out).
Ask HN: Is ICQ down?
I am no longer able to connect to ICQ.

While I understand that AIM and ICQ were both part of aol several years ago, I thought ICQ was sold off. the AIM shutdown shouldn't affect ICQ right?
@bhc3 hey Hutch - you and I have run together in the past!

Surprised this thread has the legs it has - I was merely pointing out the sterile (and arguably Nike marketing oriented) attempt at a sub 2 hour 26.2 mile effort was, despite being a super human effort, not a 'marathon' per se. This has been beaten to death elsewhere online in running forums. Yes it is a little 'snobby' to say that, but formally a 'marathon' is a race and not a time trial...and more importantly a mass participation activity where finishing is considered a triumph for the average Joe or Jane.

I happen to think the Nike record attempt hijacks the everyday heroism of all those folks grinding out winter training after or before work right now, but I do agree the superhuman element of the athletes involved in the Nike event was incredible...
Ages ago I saw someone propose Netherlandic. Similar to Icelandic.
Notes on RAML
Yes, the features of the SGX means that we can no longer even see what are computer is doing.

> This means that the ledger is "public" and distributed to all MobileCoin nodes, but will also simultaneously never be accessible or viewable by humans (even the operators of the MobileCoin nodes) so long as SGX and the MobileCoin software
remains secure.

It seems unlikely to me that these two things things will remain the case.

> A client can perform remote attestation to its MobileCoin node before transmitting its keys into the remote enclave along with a short recovery PIN.

And it seems if SGX gets popped the whole thing comes crumbling down.

Quotes from https://www.mobilecoin.com/whitepaper-en.pdf
Not sure what you are talking about. MGS V has 31 main (51 total) mission across 2 worlds (afghanistan and africa), complete with interesting story and beautiful cutscenes.

Hospital mission is not even longest one, nor most detailed.
This is a great example of where crypto would be useful. But it's not the same as paying for pizza.
I've couple catch all cover letter variations, built with interchangeable paragraphs unless I really, really like the posting.

Never ever worked however. Found all my job trough networking except one employee that found me randomly trough a social network and just decided to send me a contract.
> But "Netherland" is not an English word, and is likely to lead to a double-take in conversation, if not outright confusion.

It's not a word, it's the name of a country. Peking got changed to Beijing because it as more accurate, right? This is the same thing.
Have you got any reference links for this? I can't find anything matching this cryptographic uncertainty
It is a free ticket, but it’s a free ticket without any kind of commitment. The showing you want to see is full? You’re really late? Skip it, go to the next one. Even if it’s not at the same theater.

The movie you want to see is $19 at the theater down the street vs $9 on the other side of town. Go to the theater down the street with the reclining seats.

We see 3-4 movies a month, MoviePass completely changed the way we think about and scheduled going to the movies. No stress.