skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds a lot like what these guys do: http://www.sentiance.com
As mentioned, the git commit log, not the entire repo, which is more organized like a merkel tree, though that is only really the storage.

The commit log is a strict DAG, if you don't have any merges, it is a strict blockchain, otherwise it gets fuzzy but is close enough.

I never said it's equivalent but that is what a blockchain is; "A blockchain [...] is a continuously growing list of records [...] which are linked and secured using cryptography."[0]

This doesn't mention "Can't be a merkle tree" for one, but also doesn't mention "can't consist of branches which merge again" or "requires proof of work" or "must use signatures" (cryptography refers to the hashes normally but can refer to anything else too)

Git also acts like a blockchain, if you change the past (edit a past commit) you need to update all following commits for the new hash and their children hashes and anyone who has the repository must do a force pull, similarly to how Bitcoin rejects fork chains with less proof-of-work.

It might be worth mentioning that Bitcoin also uses MerkleTrees for storage as they are very good for quickly comparing sets.

A blockchain does not necessarily process financial transactions at all and I don't see why it must be a requirement.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
Can you prove that it's intentional? It looks more like a very specific positioning of the character relative to the map and a lot of trial and error that is causing the cpu to kill itself
They should team up with Renault.
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From https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py :

> There are theoretical and practical advantages to the functional style:

> - Formal provability

This is bollocks. To prove things about your programs, you need a formal semantics for the language you're using.
The first paper on blockchains was published in January 1991 (revised/received in 1990) [0]

>The term "blockchain", as used these days, refers to the distributed system underlying cryptocurrencies.

That's how you prefer to use it but it doesn'T change how it's defined [1]

[0]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00196791

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain
> something that's gotten elided in a lot of the outrage is that moving the transaction fees from the creators to the patrons would have given creators 3-5% more money on the same amount of pledges

Patreon really tried to make this "point". It is not actually valid; "amount of pledges" before the change is not comparable to "amount of pledges" after the change. Measured as a percentage of "money paid by patrons", revenues to creators fell -- they rose when measured as a percentage of "pledges" because the new fees weren't part of "pledges" while the old fees were.
UBI would be a monthly (or perhaps weekly) payment, not a one time lump sum.
This is quite cool, though it seems similar to RxPy (https://github.com/ReactiveX/RxPY)
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> I am no marketing expert but it seems the non-awkward one will be only 20% Fat

I agree, but that doesn't really alter the author's point: Saying '80% fat free' is likely to sell better than 'only 20% fat'.

Daniel Kahneman makes a similar point: When a medical operation was described as having a 90% survival rate two thirds of doctors recommended the procedure. When it was described as having a 10% mortality rate only a third of doctors recommended the procedure.
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How many carrier strike groups can china deploy? How much power can they project 3,000 miles from home? Is the answer none? why yes it most likely is...
To your point '4':

"China is great at some areas, and laughably bad at others. They haven't put the WS-15 engine on the J-20 yet because they don't know how to make it right. They are currently spending tons of money on researching metallurgy so they can catch up with the rest of the developed world. It's funny that they can develop their own advanced radar and jammers but they still have to buy all their engines from Russia."

It wasn't all that long ago that Russia had the drop on just about everybody in the world including the USA when it came to Titanium processing. They quite possibly still do. It's not rare at all to see a country be 'great in some areas, laughably bad in others', this is simply a reflection of their investment into that particular tech to date. And if China has so far proven one thing it is that they are pretty good at catching up.
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Couldn't agree more with everything you've said! I wanted to write more last night but partner came off a 12 hour shift and I needed to go!

Things I would do differently now:

1) I would do keyword search. This was back in 2003 and I didn't know what keyword research was back then!

2) I picked a lousy domain name. I thought it was cool, but I soon found out that my domain turned out to be the name of a Gary Numan song - and I thought my domain name was cleverly original!! Most of my organic traffic from Google was people looking for the song lyrics!! Doh!

3) I never did a podcast.

4) I never wrote many guest articles.

5) I should have done more Joint Ventures.

6) I should have had a mailing list and provided a free ebook to encourage sign up.

7) I focused mostly on content but should have been splitting time at least 50:50 with traffic generation - having great content only takes you so far - you have to let people know about it.

8) I did several interviews with retired expats - I should have done more.

The content was pretty good. I ran the site for I think eight years - it was more a labour of love than a business. I had people write me and say they moved to Thailand because of my site, or it helped them make the move. However, I regret I did not take it more seriously as a business - the market is now enormous, but hard to break into these days.

By the way I love your site!
Obviously you have to test the combination but the merging allows an easier rollback.
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And just because something can be privatized doesn't mean it should..
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"There is no golden road to geometry"

If you really want to understand you would be much better off starting here:

https://work.caltech.edu/telecourse.html
I'm a high school math teacher. As part of their high school math education, I encourage all of my students to do one of their projects on analyzing loans.

I ask them to pick an item they might take a loan out for, such as a car, a boat (we live in a small fishing town in Alaska), a house, or a student loan. They pick a realistic loan amount, APR, and term length. Then they run the numbers on the loan.

I demonstrate making a loan analysis spreadsheet, starting with an empty spreadsheet. Students then get the choice of making their own spreadsheet, modifying one that I've made with them, or using a loan calculator. By the end of a session, most of my students have become comfortable using a spreadsheet to analyze a loan. This lets them understand how all the various factors interact, and they can play with any loan they become interested in.

Students start out with no idea how banks and lending institutions determine monthly payments. They end up understanding loans better than many adults. They move away from "all loans are bad and predatory" and "loans are free money" to "some loans are fair, some are predatory, and I need to ask myself if a specific loan sets me up for a better life.

I wish someone had done this for me. When I took out student loans many years ago, I had no idea what my monthly payments would end up being. I was just told it would be worth while, and I trusted the people advising me. Students these days can't afford to blindly trust that student loans are going to make their lives better.
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35¢ plus 2.9% is for average e-commerce and small business clients. A company like Patreon that does large volume of transactions will almost always be able to negotiate a much lower transaction fees with payment processors.
It's almost as if the soul-crushing predatory bureaucracy and the ego crippling process of begging for forgiveness on something that should be a right has created cognitive dissonance in large numbers of people, and hence "irrational" behavior.
A lot of other stands don't have the laptop sitting so high above the desk, making them much closer to the table or even flush but angled upwards from the back.

As it sits now, it is high enough so that it matches the exact same level of eyesight as my external monitor. This makes the external monitor compliment it rather than replace it.

The shape also allows you to move your hands around under it, whereas if it was lower or if the design was different it would interrupt movement and usage of an external keyboard.

Other things I like about it is that it's super solid, it's all just a single piece, made of aluminium (for heat purposes) and the rubber things on it keep the laptop held securely in place.
Apple and Microsoft products are full prize products, so I fully trusted they don't come with crap. Unfortunately Microsoft alinated their end consumers starting in 2012 with Win8, and Windows 10 and Office365/2016 are well known spying adware ladden. It's telling that Google products, given they are ad-supported, are well behaving and good citizens (e.g. adhere the users privacy settings) while MSFT products released in 2012 (or later) are not. Do like most users stay with Win7 (supported til 2020) and Office 2010, or move away if you can. They won't change except you show them with your money.
> If you save your client 1000 hrs of reporting work a year by developing them a custom solution, that is easily worth well over 100,000k for that client...

How do you get this information? Do you ask them how much time is spent on this task per person and their average hourly rate? Or do you go about finding this info out another way? Do you usually prepare a confidentiality agreement to discuss this? How do you bring it up without coming off so blunt?(as in not making it seem like you're using these numbers to figure out how much you can charge them)
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None of those support payments from customers outside India, a requirement most online businesses have.
Why not just put it on netplay? Faster Melee makes strides towards latency improvements but I think a little latency and instability would actually be better to teach the AI fundamentals like spacing and zoning, rather than just beating opponents in terms of timing.
In some areas it's definitely a lot of money. Not in the Bay Area / NYC / socal though. Especially if you have kids.

Not trying to knock anyone or be condescending. The point is that like 90%+ of biology or chem phds make less than $60k. That is not true of engineers, not by a long shot. There was a recent nytimes article comparing grad student degreees awarded in various fields to jobs in that field. There were more jobs than degrees in comp sci. For life sciences, there were like 115,000 advanced degrees and like 10k jobs
And all the armored trucks, the parking meters, the security staff and equipment, the phone calls, the faxes, the mailed documents...
This did not happen by chance. The answer isn't hard to arrive at--simply ask why college is so expensive compared to the 1990s, and why states cannot afford to offset these costs anymore. America is selling out its future by convincing young people that they should go into debt to pay for "the college experience".

But why does "the college experience" need to include superfluous staff and wasteful resources? Follow the money.
how do we find an expert who balances both perspectives?
The humanities are inherently political. This isn't an argument for their annihilation, it's an argument for their diversification.
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If you start out at a lower rate to build a good rep, how do you transition to a higher rate? If someone is referred to you from a previous client, I would think that a rate is shared and so they already have a number in mind for what you charge. Also, what about for recurring clients. If you gave them a better rate in the past and you have now bumped up your rate, do you honor your past rate or do you give them your new rate. For argument sake, let's assume this is not super frequent client that gives you stability, but maybe 15hrs of work every 3 months.
"if you don't have any merges" -> so, not a blockchain.

What you are saying is that you can use git in such a way that you get something resembling a blockchain but - again, and it is getting tiresome - that does no imply equivalence between git and the blockchain.

I really don't understand why you keep arguing.
> According to many sources, China stolen the F117 debris, and apparently that's why US bombed Chinese embassy because of a "outdated map".

Would you mind linking to a few of the many sources?
It's strange how an old-timey concept like a "money back guarantee" gets looked at as though it were full-blown communism these days...
Amazon also made enhancements to Lumberyard since though. Not sure why you'd call one more mature then the other. Do you have experience with both and can attest that Lumberyard now lacks behind the latest CryEngine?
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There is plenty of money in the drug trade and human trafficking as well as wholesale theft.
and the constant drumbeat that you must attend a $60k/year private school or your life is ruined. instead of a state college or better yet a 2 year community college + 2 year state. very cheap
This wasn't a simple "we used this engine" type of deal- Crytek invested a lot in the kickstarter by supplying expertise and helping to build demos, and in return for that they promised to use the engine. This was meant to help promote Crytek as well, and that is why they invested in it.

Specifically-

> In that Agreement, Defendants promised, among other things, (i) to use the CryEngine game development platform exclusively and to promote that platform within the video game, (ii) to collaborate with Crytek on CryEngine development, and (iii) to take a number of steps to ensure that Crytek's intellectual property was protected.
Microsoft login is still the very old Hotmail login dating back to 1996 or so. The Hotmail mail and account system got rebranded several times like MSN, Live, Outlook, Microsoft ID, etc.

Well, a login system is a very central part, and other websites suck too, like Amazon still uses the old account login page since 1996 too. But Microsoft redirects way too often, it is worse.
I don't get this. Eventually, it is just taking a cut from a transaction. What does even mean the seller is paying for it or the buyer?

Let's say the final price is 100$ and cut is 10%, so seller gets 90$ and buyer pays 100$. You could say the buyer is paying for it since the seller was willing to sell for 90$ and the buyer had to add 10$ to get the item. Or you could say the seller pays for it, since the buyer was willing to buy for 100$ and the seller has to give up on 10$ out of those 100$.

I really don't see the difference. It seems just marketing in terms of how you phrase it. I even saw companies saying things like: seller is paying 5% and buyer 5%, which seems just a way to make it look lower for both sides.
...or replace #6 with #1-5? :)
> You take a mammogram and it comes out as positive. What is the probability that you have cancer?

Lower than 1%. I'm a guy.

Though this would have a similar issue for anyone who isn't a 40-50 year old woman.

On a more serious note, I feel that trap should set off alarm bells for anyone who has taken a statistics course.

The more dangerous fallacy along the same lines is that probabilities often brings up intransitive. There can be three medicines: A,B, and C that in a sense A > B and B > C, but C > A. This type of issue can really sneak up on you.
If they're desperate and need the money, they have a strong motive to settle instead of fighting a long lawsuit they might lose or wait through years of appeals and stalling tactics.
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but it's so easy to not opt in for a student loan you can't pay off.
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Checking his website, it reeks of narcissism. There are better ways to assert yourself than to do all the corny things he has done on his self promotion website.
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You can't steal gold because someone forgot to update their machine and left it connected to Internet. For bitcoin, yes you can.
Your original contention was that only racists/sexists/whatever-ists hide behind "not a culture fit". That wasn't true. Now you seem to want to talk about some legal point. As I said, I don't want to discuss legality, that's some other topic.
> It's funny that they can develop their own advanced radar and jammers but they still have to buy all their engines from Russia.

How is that 'funny'? There are five nations on Earth that can design modern aircraft high-powered jet engines from scratch:

USA, UK, France, China, Russia.

Six if we include India which does so with French and US assistance. The fact that China is able to play in that league is impressive in itself, even if they are the weakest player.

Everyone else is nowadays confined to licensed production or a lower tier of performance.
You don't need trackers if you just want to replicate the mechanism of the fuel tax for cars that don't use fuel. For that you only need a tamper-protected mileage counter.
As I mentioned, even with merges it still has the properties of a blockchain, just not the ones traditionally used by cryptocurrencies.

You still have blocks (commits) pointing to other blocks (commits). Some blocks just points to multiple other blocks (think the uncle system in ethereum, which is just exactly that; temporary forks that are still included into the chain)
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>On a more serious note, I feel that trap should set off alarm bells for anyone who has taken a statistics course.

Yes, but the problem is that most physicians get it wrong. That's what worries me.

I agree that the mammogram problem is a bit artificial, but like you say similar problems come up in different forms. It's often not that people have less cognitive abilities (doctors _are_ intelligent), it's just that their intuition convinces them the answer they have in mind is the right one.

There's a related research that showed that a similar problem given in _less_ legible font has less cognitive errors: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/02/the-v...
> With proportional fonts the spacing is already clear enough with 1 space.

That's your opinion, and a bizarre one at that, since one-space isn't any more clear in a proportional font than a non-proportional font. Proportional fonts help pack letters within a word, not pack words within/between sentences.

> It certainly sends a signal to me that the person has absorbed a “rule”, but not its purpose,

It sends a signal to me that a person looks for bizarre ways to feel superior to others, instead of trying to understand why someone behaves differently.
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How does welfare possibly hold people back when they're required to look for a job on it?

Someone who risks homelessness may have more incentive to find a job, but they're also going to have more difficulties. It's easier to look for a job on a full stomach; it's easier to look for a job with a roof over your head; it's easier to look for a job with internet access; it's easier to look for a job when you're not constantly worried about losing it all. Welfare gives you a stable place from which to find employment.

If your argument is that people abuse the position of welfare, and don't look for a job, then that's a criticism of its enforcement, not welfare itself.
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Americans colleges expect you to fully insert yourself into college life, and for you to fully insert them into your life.

It's like having a parent, except you have to pay them.

They expect everyone to live on campus - so they have to play landlord, mayor, community organizer and mediator, mom and dad, chef and waiter, stadium and opera house, convenience store and urgent care clinic...

Now, which of these do you think are among a college's core competencies? Which of these services are provided in a cost-efficient manner?
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Isn’t blockchain just a type of data structure?
Ask HN: A JavaScript alternative similar with RoR ready for production?
I am looking to see if there is any framework similar with Ruby on Rails or Django and that is ready to be used in a production environment?

I know Ruby on Rails and I try to learn JavaScript as a backend programming language.
And my plan is to develop a side project with it and launch it so that I learn in a real environment.

For me RoR it is working great because I can create a side project pretty quick without the need to go much outside the framework.
No, more likely it's a newer IBM mainframe, as those are built to be backwards-compatible with software written back in the 60s.
1 - money printing is not crony capitalism like what bitcoin creators tout them to be. it is a method of stabilizing value. when used wrong it can destroy economy (venezuela, zimbabwe), but that is a question of politics (voting wrong people). bitcoin or crypto's decentralization is NOT a solution to this problem. also bitcoin is particularly problematic because it gained traction. value is simply sum of people's belief. when other coins gather enough followers then it will similarly be a problem, but not at the moment.

2 - this is false. if you know how currencies work you will know that this whole "decentralization" makes no sense. central authority is required for a currency because price needs to be stabilized. unlike what some people believe, bitcoin will not "self-stabilize" because currency stabilization has nothing to do with how many people use it. currency stabilization works by an authority dictating how much it should worth and manipulating market towards it. this is not some conspiracy, it is a protection provided for all currency users. not only bitcoin offer zero protection (completely exposed to vol risk), but also it is not really decentralized as 40% of entire bitcoin owned is owned by 1000 people only.

3 - yes, this is a good property. so there should be a state sponsored coin.