skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the issue is about transparency. Most of the economic models us laymen think about and use to rationalize our political beliefs rely on perfect information. There are valid libertarian arguments against regulations which restrict what actions a company can take but I don't think there are very good arguments against regulations which only require companies to publicize their internal workings.

>If they turn, someone will step in to take their place.

There's a lot of stuff going on in that 'someone will step in' though. How many people lose their money when CoinBase turns? Do quick movers get out with all their BTC intact and slow movers go bitcoin-bankrupt? 'Someone will step in' may be an assurance to the long-term future of crypto but it says nothing to the fates of many of the individual investors who currently hold that crypto.
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I want to add that I subscribe to Netflix, prime and some HBO content via a local partnership in my country but still regularly watch pirated copies of content available via my subscriptions for the following two reasons.

1. Netflix/prime/hotstar(HBO) content is often not in HD while the pirated content I stream is always HD.
2. Pirated sites give me a kind of federated search/browsing for all the content in one place.

The second point I fell is key and will remain even after the subscription services have improved their CDNs near where I live.
At my end, I wonder where the author ever saw deterministic computer systems. In my experience, you have to work really, really hard to get even a system computing outputs from inputs without processing any external events in-between to produce deterministic results, with things like floating point hardware and software and parallelism APIs, not to mention your own bugs, working overtime against you - to say nothing of faulty DRAMs and other such delightful phenomena.
Time. I really wish I had enough money to pay the bills while working on personal projects instead of my clients'.
Can you imagine your toddler crawling on the carpet the next day because a birthday party was hosted in the same ball room?
If you visit Singapore telcos (SingTel, StarHub, M1) physical store, you will see a signboard listing availability of iPhone models. For the past many years, the stocks for new models are generally "Not Available" during Christmas shopping season. So to buy iPhone at telco store during this period, you have to queue up before the store open in order to get the daily limited units released for sale. I just visited telco stores in a busy shopping mall this evening, and all of them listed iPhone X as "Available" for all color and memory size. This is clear sign that its not selling as well as expected here.
This boot ordering I could not get working, but perhaps it was a symptom of the missing grub.cfg, but I'm just guessing. I have no desire to temp disaster by playing around with anything now that it's working. Thanks again!
If you tell someone you will invest their money, but your investments lose money for them, that's not a crime.

If you tell someone you will invest their money, but you spend it on yourself, that's a crime.

Can you see the difference?
I think you and the person you're replying to are using vastly different definitions of luxury real estate. Add a few zeros. :)
Some will even give you 0% for a year and free debt transfers. But yeah seems like a bad idea.
This is literally one of the coolest systems I've seen on hackernews over the last decade. This is going to change how people learn to code, and definitely going to change how it is taught! Great work, scrimba team!
Minority Report style interfaces that require big limb+head movements?
Did you restore from a backup or "setup as new"? the latter is the only real way to get rid of issues like this
I mean, I feel like tech people have this sense of moral exceptionalism and don't understand the value of moral consensus in a democracy, as opposed to moral obligation by noblesse oblige.

Something isn't only right or wrong in a democracy. You have to also build consensus through boots on the ground, not by expecting everyone to have moral revelations by magic. So, is there consensus in America that inequity and poverty are issues that rise to the level of national discussion?

I would say no.

So how do you go about having an interesting and durable agenda of attacking American inequity and poverty in an extra-legal way when you don't have consensus in a democracy? By flexing tech money muscle? Do tech people, excluding elites, have that much money, that they can buy their way to morality without first doing consensus work?
> Large block supporters tend to think you only need a few full nodes to get immunity from these types of attacks

How exactly do you see an attack on full nodes going down? I imagine the attack would occur on the mining side..

Also, if the mempool becomes more expensive to host than blocks on disk - would you still think small blocks are safer?
Your CPM estimations are in line with my experience, and I also think the profit calculations are off.

That said, thinking about it raised an interesting question: are fake download button ads presented to a risk-taking demographic a special case?

Even spending up to five to ten dollars per compromised machine, I could easily turn a hefty profit.
I had this issue, restore it and set it up "as a new phone" then manually reinstall your apps. the backup-restore process introduces all kinds of crappy issues
If I'm understanding it correctly, they're not actually using the 512 bit (ZMM) registers, because using them can cause overall system slowdown. It seems to me they're only really useful if you're doing an AVX-512 intensive workload. And do those really exist? For something like bulk matrix multiplications, GPGPU is going to be much better, both in throughput and in operations per joule. I'm remaining to be convinced that the ecological niche occupied by SIMD is significant, let alone expanding.
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> What are you talking about? This is not about the exchange being compromised at all.

Yes, it is. The question is "which place to store your coins is riskier?" I'm of the opinion that a decently run exchange with a full security team in place is going to be better at managing security than virtually any individual attempting to do it at home.

You, for example, suggested an Android app as a wallet, which seems to conflict with the best practice of storing wallets on an air-gapped offline system or on a dedicated hardware device.
No true Scotsmen.
Mmm, there was definitely enough reports in US media that reported on the criticism if you listened hard enough. Linkregister's account was what I remembered. The polling history shows a distinctive minority that opposed the war (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popular_opinion_in_the_United_...).

I will buy the criticism that some media definitely did stick too obediently to the administration line, the question is how much did media influence opinion? Post-9/11 "feelings" were involved after all. From my viewpoint, Abu Ghraib and the "Mission Accomplished" statement that wasn't, among other things, were needed to change many people's minds.
Price is good. Thanks for sharing, I just ordered one.
Awesome. We're always available to help with anything you need. We have a chat box on every page and engineers ready to help. :)
Not all chips are born equal and that's why faulty/poor performance cores and components are deactivated and chips sold in tiers. Look into it, same silicon on paper, but not on silicon. The problem comes from those specs and the warranties, guarantees, consumer protection, etc.

So decide, overbuilt GPUs (more expensive), firmware gimped GPUs (less performant), or non warrantied( risky ).
Beanstalkd is always the queue engine I reach for. Sometimes I'll build something over SQL if it's low-volume, but I always design my queue APIs to match beanstalkd's so it can be swapped in.

Beyond being a great piece of software, I find the protocol to be really well-designed for a work queue.
Presumably they'd pull up the plastic sheets covering the carpet prior to the next party.
Be careful about how you merge the username and the random salt.
I've been using spectre just out of happenstance, if anyone knows anything comparable I'd like to look around a bit.

https://picturepan2.github.io/spectre/
Securities held at a broker are usually backed by SPIC protection.
"some Belarusian opposition members" you mean the ones who Lukashenko jailed and then released on a condition they work for him?

I have been reading this guy for many years and tend to believe him more than the "Belarusian opposition journalists" (Belarusian opposition can exist only outside of Belarus or inside mother earth).
Excellent screencast! Good pace, good explanations. Goodbye Bootstrap at last!
Bitcoin actually dropped at one point from $14000 to about $10500. It has since rebounded.
We have the source code for that algo: https://algorithmia.com/algorithms/character_recognition/tes...
Can't you just create an anonymous GitHub account or a throwaway email address?
Shorting never damages anything, it's just a market adjustment mechanism.
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Only if you're writing general purpose software. We're taking advantage of AVX-512 in HPC since the cost of re-writing the software to take advantage of the hardware is a smart investment due to the large capital costs involved.
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Cheap PCB rulers can be found on ebay. I had one bought for my professor as a bribery/flattery present when I was at the university.
What are the latest dark net markets these days anyway and have they gone Monero native yet?

2-of-3 multisig will at least provide software level trust of the escrow process. The reviews on quality of goods would still be important though, but from an enforcement side it will be exponentially more expensive to take down one of these sites.

Prior DNM busts typically also got the warchest of everything held in escrow, making it more worthwhile to try and nab cryptocurrency. They were also aided by transparency blockchains to determine social graphs, which Monero makes almost impossible.
Bitcoin similarly is up 12000+%.
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According to its documentation, this does deliver messages to consumers.

I'm just struggling to imagine a use case where a push queue would be preferable over a pull queue. I'm sure they exist, I've just never encountered one before. Seems like the major difference is centralized throughput control, which would allow you to minimize variance in message processing latency. There are similar use cases in e.g. operating systems for minimizing latency variance for better UI responsiveness, but I can't think of any concrete use cases for using this in high scale backend queues.
>The term "hacker" depends on your viewpoint. Put another way, a user executed a function on a decentralized smart contract platform that transferred $150 million to the possession of the function's caller.

I think if you view the action as criminal or if you view it as just a clever use of the smart contract, the person who did this is a hacker. They understood and controlled the software in a way the designers did not intend.
I'm not sure 2008 was a problem of information transparency. There were people who accurately read the signs and viewed the documentation.

The crash was the result of speculation and improper risk assessment, followed by the inevitable correction.

to say that 2008 happened as proof that these regulations don't work is kind of erroneous, as many of the regulations were revised or implemented as a result of that crash, to avoid it happening again.
I bought an Aeron chair a few years ago and although it's fantastically comfortable I feel a downside is sometimes I don't move for several hours if I get engrossed in work. Once they are set up right I've not sat in any work chair which comes close.

As I said, I'm not sure that's a good thing because of the length of time I can sit. I do wiggle a bit but often don't even stand up. I was toying with getting a sand timer or something similar to enforce getting up but not sure how those interruptions would affect my workflow.
Looks like they had to delete support for Smarthings integration as a condition for the deal going through: https://community.smartthings.com/t/blink-support-discontinu...
Here's a nice overview (no login required) of CSS Grid. Never heard of it today, but I will try it out.

https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/complete-guide-grid/
By 1950s standards, most Americans are "techies". We learn what we have to in order to survive in a given environment.
His chart "Nonfarm business sector: Real output per person" shows a notable _slowing_ of the growth rate of per-capita productivity, consistently, over the last 70 years.

I was under the impression that the opposite has occurred - we've achieved mind-boggling amounts of per-person productivity, and rapid rates of growth in productivity, fueled by advances in automation and communication technologies.

Is this chart wrong? Is my impression opposite to reality?
We've spent over a year building this product and about a month creating the content. Now we're giving it all away for free. I think it's fair that we ask people to authenticate.

But of course, feel free to disagree.
Commuting from Plymouth Township, Michigan is indeed quite hard.
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The little guys can do it where the big companies can't because the little guys can break the law and not get caught or sued into oblivion (for the most part).

It's a theme that appears a lot in these pages: you can do all sorts of neat things when you ignore the rules.
If someone is worried so much about their privacy, why would they be sending any data such as a video of themselves over their phone's service?
There is a social network using facebook. If that network moved, it wouldn't matter how respected the facebook brand was. The brand primarily has value only in the effect it has on growing the network. The same is true for Bitcoin.

Since people want bitcoin primarily because they believe other people want bitcoin, if 90% of the userbase shift to monero or ether or some other coin, there's really no reason for the 10% to hang around. Zero is a very plausible price for bitcoin.
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It is not all that expensive to operate the old system while the new system is installed. They throw a burlap sack over the new signals until they are ready to activate them, and otherwise the old system just remains in use and costs exactly what it would cost without the new system being installed.

The old system has become somewhat more expensive because replacement parts are not needed anywhere else. Originally it was all standard railroad equipment and the same interlocking machines were used on other regional railroads (including freight lines). Since the MTA is among the last users of those machines, they have to fabricate some of the parts or special order others.

That said, the old system is pretty reliable and does not require "constant maintenance" beyond what a railroad generally requires. Its shortcomings are mostly in its inability to run trains more closely together, its inability to identify which train is in which block, and its inflexibility with regard to track directions. Otherwise the maintenance is mostly replacing light bulbs and vacuum tubes, and rarely having to replace mechanical parts. In theory the lightbulbs and vacuum tubes could be replaced with solid state components, but in practice there would be no point -- you might as well just replace all of it with solid state equipment, which the MTA is (slowly) accomplishing.
The fact that path works tells me this is a CSM-BIOS installation of Fedora. That is, there is an EFI compatibility support module that presents a faux BIOS firmware to the operating system to make it think it's a computer with BIOS rather than UEFI. On Fedora, the BIOS variant of GRUB puts its files in /boot/grub2; where the UEFI variant of GRUB puts its files in /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/.

Did you burn the Fedora installer to optical media? I'm not aware of a way to trigger CSM-BIOS booting with flash media.
That is the beauty of JIT compilers, some JVMs like Azul's already support it.
Higher up the chain reputation is still everything, they don't deal with anybody who has 'paper' floating around showing they colluded with the authorities at some point. It's common for gangs to distribute paperwork on each other that gets leaked from investigations/court proceedings/prisons. There is no escrow in real life either, so reputation is the sole currency to set up exchanges with any criminal above selling baggies at a nightclub.
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The spoofing site wouldn't/shouldn't be able to pass the browser validation of the TLS server side certificate.
So, is anyone else wondering what will happen when the current crop of young people grow older? When everyone who's young enough to be employable now gets into their 40s and 50s, what's going to happen then?
> This is not unique to the US

Sure, and Euros are also backed by the EU economy. The point is 'national' currency's are actually backed up by enforced demand unlike say Ethereum.

People talk about hyper inflation as if it can actually happen without the backing government printing money. The reality is taxes limit inflation as long as the currency is not printed endlessly and the government does not over spend you can't sustain hyperinflation.
It's sometimes called "level 2", stock markets do charge fees for access to the feeds - at least the LSE did when I worked on a site that showed the information :)
The difference is exactly as OP says: better legal structure, lawyers and accountants. Achieving the same effect by more convoluted (safer) means.

Or what’s your point?
Haskell is specifically designed to make easier to write pure functional code. But "cleaniness" is too subjective and I'm not sure how to measure it even very roughly.
I thought that "objective" statements on résumés are considered rather gauche.
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The entire Bitcoin saga has been the most shining example of this classic narrative:

1. Technology people are presented with a social/cultural/government situation that seems inelegant, irrational and overly complex.

2. They decide to "solve" that problem using technology.

3. Even with the new technology, it somehow appears everything is not miraculously better.

4. Technology people propose layering a few small social fixes on top of their technology to address the "minor issues" left by their brilliant technology.

5. They fail to realize all of their kludgy human-level patches on top of the technology are merely less-mature forms of the social structure they claimed to have replaced in step 2. Now we have an even less elegant, more irrational, more complex social institution, mixed with non-helpful technology.

6. Now the problem is not fun to work on any more (too much squishy inelegant human stuff), so they wander off to "solve" some other cultural malady.
There's nothing stopping a company from distributing non-DRM files with an easy to use interface and fast download speeds...
For those unfamiliar, log in hyperloglog is not related to logging, but rather refers to logarithm.
Except that the MTA is doing it on sections of lines at a time. It is actually not hard, because the equipment does not have to be aware of things beyond whatever sections of track it controls (otherwise, any upgrade would require national coordination, since most rail systems, including the NYC subway, are connected to the national rail network).
Totally agree! He was able to accomplish a lot at the TTC with pretty tight resources.
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With the big guys you get a very productized API service. With the AI Marketplace we have thousands of algorithms that are constantly being improved and can easily be pipelined together. As more models are added from our data science / ML community you can easily upgrade your application by swapping out the APIs for the models.
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A lot of the reason I remain living in New York is because of fusion voting. It makes me feel as though it would be much easier to switch to a third party without totally breaking with the established parties. Unfortunately, third parties in NYS have yet to grow a spine and endorse their own candidates, primarily because if they don't get enough votes in the elections they cease to exist (i.e., why Working Families endorsed Cuomo instead of Teachout last gubernatorial election).
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> For something like bulk matrix multiplications, GPGPU is going to be much better, both in throughput and in operations per joule.

But you have to get all of your matrix out onto the system bus, and over to the GPU, then start the kernel, and then copy it all the way back again, to use that. ZMM is just a register. You can operate on it immediately and stream data from memory while you do the multiply.
Personally I love standing desks. I find myself naturally walk around more often, especially when I'm in deep thought. This rarely happens when I'm sitting, as it feels much harder to get up. But it's good to have a sitting option too so you don't have to stand all day.
I am still trying to find fundamental cryptocurrency developments in 2017.

2011 were the first steps in BTC usability.
2013 was the rise of alt-coins and also BTC became actually usable(mostly due to Bitpay and Gyft)
2017 it seems all speculation.

So let's take top (by market value on 12/22/2017) crypto-currencies:

1. Bitcoin - first mover, slow, expensive to use pivoted to store of value
2. Ethereum - smart contracts enabling ICO craze despite horrible contract programming language
3. Bitcoin Cash - moving to replace BTC in usability(Bitpay), but large single entity(Bitmain) influence
4. Ripple - building backbone for financial institutions, but otherwise just speculation
5. Litecoin - my 2nd love after BTC has not really advanced since 2013 and lead dev just sold all -> just speculation still
6. Cardano - smart, open, unusable -> just speculation
7. IOTA - IoT currency, premined, again why does this need high value?
8. Dash - at least has some merchant acceptance, but still pitiful
9. NEM - buzzwords but again unusable -> just speculation
10. Bitcoin Gold - BTC fork with ASIC resistance -> just speculation
11. Monero - black market usability rising
12. EOS - impressive buzzwords, unclear on why tokens should have high value
13. Stellar - a few name drops but unclear on usability
14. NEO - what a name pivot, otherwise just a vision and speculation
15. QTUM - smart apps, plus a few DAPPS, any good?
16. Ethereum Classic - the one that honors badly written smart contracts

Out of these, BTC and Ethereum seem likely to stay at some value despite their flaws just because of their originality.

Out of rest, Dash, Monero and Bitcoin Cash seem like potentially useful for the general public.

The rest, what use are they for the general public?

Even if we assume all are honest and produce something useful for many of these tokens it is unclear why should general public care about buying tokens.

For example why should Ripple be valued by public and speculated upon when it is only its backbone that is to be used by bigbanks?

Disclaimer: despite mining some since 2011 I am really sceptical about most crypto currencies.

TLDR; besides white papers what actually became usable in 2017?
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