skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to some point. You can't forget the network effect, which in many cases is the most important factor (it's easy to make a clone of twitter, but good luck getting everyone to switch). Because Bitcoin is basically just a way to ensure that a group of people are doing math with a given set of rules, if you get a copy with slightly different rules, you need that group to agree to them to give it value. It doesn't really have many analogies in the physical world that I can think of, the closest is actual physical currencies.

Just because I can make a "Flollar" doesn't mean that it's going to take a bite out of USD. I have nothing to backup my flollar, no users, no army, nothing. It's the same way with cryptocurrencies. Just because you can fork bitcoin doesn't mean you'll take a chunk of it's value. You still need to provide all of the other things that make bitcoin valuable that's not in the codebase (decentralization, userbase, vendors/exchanges, software that works with it, time with real usage to show that it's secure (or at least that your changes are secure), and just trust that it will stand the test of time). And even if you do that, bitcoin can and will evolve over time. If you start to eat bitcoin's lunch, there is no reason why they can't just fold your changes into bitcoin proper. If it's in everyone's best interest to have the feature, then consensus will be easy to achieve and the network can be upgraded. In a way, it's similar to forks of an open source project. In the vast majority of cases, a fork of a codebase doesn't reduce the number of users of a project. In some cases it does, but it normally doesn't happen overnight, and takes years and years to have people transition over (take openoffice vs libreoffice for example).

All that being said, I do think that bitcoin is in a bad place right now, and they are dangerously close to allowing another currency to jump up as the main contender, but I don't believe that any of the top 10 or so have actually solved the scaling problem that bitcoin currently has without getting rid of the biggest benefits of a cryptocurrency.
Are claiming that the Bitcoin solution is the ideal solution to distributed trust? I don't know that that is not the case, but it seems unlikely that the first working solution was the best one doesn't it?
I’m sorry but I can’t discuss politics with people that refuse to answer basic questions about the past and what they believe regarding it without ducking and obfuscation. To me it’s always a sign of concern trolling, especially when the argument then devolves into arguments that really just center around calling others ideologically blinded and calls for perspective and nuance - which you are curiously advocating for by dumping out of context figures and refusing to give context about.

For others that are interested, the liberal and conservative blocs were the predominant factions of both parties that played pivotal roles in civil rights era legislation. Specifically, the ‘64 bill was passed by factions of mainly northern democratic liberals and liberal republicans - many republicans actually played crucial roles in captaining the legislation through congress and surviving quorum calls organized by the opposing conservative southern and midwestern factions. Looking at the civil rights issue through the perspectives of liberal v conservative is also interesting for other reasons as well. LBJ in many ways was a pseudo-conservative, who by dint of his firmly conservative credentials was able to position himself to be mentored by and ultimately betray his mentor, the leader of the conservative faction and the strongest force for segregation in America - the senator Richard Russell. In the larger tapestry of American history, Russell was also a new dealer, which in many ways was a deal in which conservatives accepted the progressive safety net in exchange for entrenching the socioeconomic subjugation of minorities through carve-outs to their eligibility to receive aforementioned benefits. This is the thesis behind Ira Katznelson’s ‘Fear Itself’.

Additionally, America has been undergoing a political realignment in which party and ideology are increasingly correlated - there are fewer liberal Republicans and fewer conservative Democrats, which in turn has led to greater political polarization and the greater political paralysis we see today. Understanding the drivers of the realignment between conservatives and liberals is crucial to understanding American politics today.
NYC signal systems is extremely complex and old. 24/7 nature makes it hard to do proper maintenance. Old signal system requires nonstop maintenance to keep it running, and it needs to keep running while new system is installed which is extremely expensive. Tons of politics involved too.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/why-d...
> I still don't understand why the signal system takes so long to upgrade. Can't they install most of the new system while the old one is still working on the same tracks?

They could, technically, but the TWU won't let them. The TWU has used signal upgrades as a perpetual carrot for decades - anytime people talk about improvements, they say "well, we need to do X first, so we can upgrade to the most modern signal technology in Y years."

If they upgraded the signals, they'd lose this leverage, so instead it remains eternally Y years away.
A Ponzi scheme's definition relies even more on a central actor, meaning Bitcoin by definition, is not one. The author of the article you linked to makes this clear, and goes on to make false claims.

>it promises insane investment returns

Nothing in the Bitcoin spec promises insane investment returns, internet comments saying "buy bitcoin!" are not part of the Bitcoin spec. This is vastly different than a Ponzi and hard to link to Bitcoin itself, even abstractly.

Again, the author relies on many false truths and abstract concepts:

>turning every victim of the scheme into a new principal as they talk up their books for the purpose of recruiting new investors to subsidize their exits

If 1 person has bought Bitcoin or suggested another buy it for any reason other than driving up the price, this is instantly false.

In pyramid and Ponzi schemes, the scheme is not abstract, it is run by actual people. The endlessly rehashed argument that Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme relies on these actors being represented by abstract notions, like comments on a message board.
Where I work it's lack of process. I get work thrown at me randomly from all directions.

Also with deadlines that I have no say in, usually created by non technical people.
Rules? Isn't one of the founding principles that it's unregulated.
do you also need to go to the gym?

I had commute problem where i was 1 hr commute by bus and didn't have time for the gym, I could have solved it by buying a car.

but instead I got a bicycle and commuted that way instead, at my most unfit I could still cycle faster that the previous commute by public transport would take, an I even enjoyed it.

Some problems are opportunities.
No you don't need push rights to change the content.

This is a demo site and the credentials are available on the github repo.

The ideas is to let people play with it. Only I can reset the db and that is what I do when people do silly things with the content.
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If your analogy is that Bitcoin is a 28.8k modem, then it seems to follow that something analogous to a 56k modem will come along and replace it?
Unnecessary meetings.
I wrote something that goes through the dictionary checking domains a few years ago. https://github.com/foobarbecue/domainance
In the last pages, it seems he wants to upset his Russian and Ukrainian neighbors. Even there are a graph how the US investments fell.
getting management to believe that not being able to run tests locally is a huge problem.
The minimal/empty intersection between coding environments with acceptable performance (Vim, Sublime, etc) and environments with reasonable code intelligence (JetBrains).
It works fine in Copenhagen, but there is plenty of bicycle parking on every street. Most people leave the doodles hire bikes in a proper bicycle rack.
Good for him, your friend has every right to protect his life and property. We could rely on police, but all the police can be guaranteed to protect is his body after they show up 5 minutes too late.
Supreme Court justices may give away their votes with their voices
There are Republicans with shows on MSBBC. Nicolle Wallace has an hour each afternoon – she was Bush's comms director & and worked for McCain's presidential campaign. Joe Scarborough was a Republican member of congress, and he gets 3 hours of MSNBC air per day.
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As a couple other commenters alluded to, when it comes to making money you should consider open source as the "long game". There are thousands of developers who improved their ability to get jobs and higher salaries by demonstrating their ability via open source projects and commitment.

The more prominent names in open source are an obvious example, but there are countless others who are more marketable, perhaps more visible, and likely had more negotiating leverage upon hire due to open source work.

Your work today might pay off in far higher figures down the road.
Good point. When the NSA started going crazy and spied everyone, it was the first time I saw the "It's not OK to spy on USA citizens, but it's OK for foreign citizens" reasoning. I don't know if it was used as openly before.
I very much like the philosophy behind it. I'll definitely check it out.
I feel this every time I'm between jobs. I'm all of gasp 45, and know from experience that the coding job I have right now, I have to ride as long as I can because at my age I'll probably never get another job again.

It doesn't matter how skilled a person is, or how much experience they have, in Silicon Valley you have a better chance of getting hired as a 20-something serial dog molester than a 50-year-old experienced tech.

And filtering out older people, while illegal, is so very easy to do to 99% of applicants by simply by looking at the year they got their undergrad degree.
It's a really hard time for long short hedge funds actually. There was a Bloomberg article a few months ago saying that the number of new l/s funds is the lowest it's been in years
1. Every piece of software and the OS wanting to update/reinstall itself every other morning. So much for app start times!

2. Dependencies that don’t install their dependencies and require hours of configuration.
I'd look at the wording on the opencollective page.

E.g., change the first sentence from

Ruby on Rails website builder for real estate.

To

Real estate website builder based on Ruby on Rails.

Also, put some newlines in, and expand the blerb out a bit.

The example site looks nice, though I notice on clicking the links to different sections in firefox, it draws once and then everything slightly resizes a little bit, so may be worth sorting out.

It might be worth mentioning propertybuilder more in the example, I've been using Wagtail recently, and their bakerydemo does this quite well. It's not over the top, but it is in there.
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I'm not going to pretend I understand the intricacies of managing a modern economy in times of crisis and I can't argue with your historic examples. There are clearly problems that would require different solutions in a decentralised-driven economy.

However I think there are still a lot of things that a government could do too help its people in extreme situations, even if they were normally using a currency out of its control. Things that don't involve limiting the flow of currency or reducing its value.

The ideal of people being able to transact in a frictionless way, beyond borders and without having to deal with massive opaque entities (banks) just makes so much sense from my perspective that it's worth trying to find new solutions to any problems starting from that point.

I simply struggle to accept that an individual should suffer the consequences of an incompetent or malicious government in what should be a fundamental right (trading and securing your wealth). As a Greek I have experienced some of these consequences first-hand, in the form of capital controls and cross-border trading restrictions. People in other countries are experiencing them in a much more extreme scale.

But a citizen of a highly prosperous developed nation can still experience too much friction in day-to-day transactions that should be simple, a lot of which happens under the disguise of "your own security". Well, if someone wants to assume the responsibility of his own security, I don't see why he shouldn't be able to.
Wasn't there some story about the city prohibiting them from raising fares? I don't have a source though.
I doubt it's the "ideal" solution, but I do feel it's the "best" we currently have.

You also need to remember that bitcoin is upgradable. If in the future we find better ways of doing distributed trust, and we can prove it, that doesn't mean that bitcoin is done and gone. If the vast majority of the users of bitcoin believe a change to whatever other "distributed trust" system that is better, the network can be upgraded to take advantage of it.
Agreed, there are a lot of more robust products already in this space.

My biggest concern is its reliance on mysql. There is no way this could be a valid option for high volume messaging when it is essentially database as a queue.
Getting distracted and messing up my flow.
> The question I have is, why were things like the Hudson Yards station, work on the perpetually delayed 2nd Avenue subway, Fulton St. station renovation prioritized over the core signal and preexisting aging track infrastructure?

Politicians love being able to do a big ribbon-cutting ceremony for adding something new. At the very least, it's easier to point to a new subway line and say "I helped make that possible" than it is to do that for improved maintenance of infrastructure.
I don't see what the issue is as long as proper medical procedures are followed. This article seems like it's hunting for outrage.
> Also until you have users you aren't going to and shouldn't make money.

How then do you explain crowdfunding, which is effectively what this is?
What's interesting about Hussman these days is that he always claims that he started using a revised method for market timing since 2014. (Yes it somehow took him ~5 or 6 years to "revise his method", all the while his customers were paying. Must have been some spectacular calculations...)

Now we're 3 years into the new period, and he's still loosing money hand over fist. Not even breakeven due to being early and putting on costly hedges. But really loosing money.

I know how hard timing is. And I agree that we're in uncharted waters wrt to central banks buying bonds and the ridiculous complexity of modern finance.

But it's hard to imagine exactly who his customers are. Just staying in cash would have performed much better than going with Hussman.

http://stockcharts.com/h-sc/ui?s=hsgfx
Wouldn't software help enable accomplishing all of the work you're comparing yourself against? I have the same feeling sometimes but software absolutely has the power to positively impact people's lives, the environment, basically anything. If you really feel strongly about this - I'd suggest looking for a job that enables you to work on something along these lines. Doesn't even have to be a non-profit but there are for-profit companies with great missions
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Yes, if you are hellbent on destroying the credibility of the language.
They have been in Changsha as well. I have only heard good things about it. The city is much smaller than Shanghai and people rely on it for the last km when they get off the few subway lines that exist there.
Developer: "This is a difficult problem that requires careful planning and cooperation between people in different companies."

Product manager: "Yeah whatever it will be fine"

(no planning nor help in cooperation between companies)

six months later

Product manager: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that there was a difficult problem?"
Made $0.49 with a close to 1,000 stars repository :)
Borderline surprised this is on the frontpage. :)

Here are two comments from yours truly on what "ideals" are and why they make sense to think about for number theory:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14016396

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14017178
Visual Studio Code seems like a good balance. You can push Vim and the others pretty far as well, eith a lot of fiddling with plugins.
Limit orders in smaller lots, preferably into buying strength. (Don't take trading advice from me, though!)
Yes. Anything that comes out of Mozilla is rubbish.
Suffering through technical interviews where the potential employers are inexperienced at delivering said interviews.

Simultaneously nitpicking & grandstanding without once discussing the realities of software lifecycle, managing complexity, change of business focus, development pragmatism etc is a red flag.

In a recent interview - with the entire development team for a 10 customer product with great potential - spending a couple of hours picking over a mutli-tier caching architecture to serve a million views of a million variants of a million products, when your login form is broken, doesn't impress me much as a candidate.
Probably not what OP meant, but mining pools are a way to address that. You team up with N other miners, and if one of them finds a solution then the reward is divided among the pool based on the work that was contributed
> Static typing is liberating for humans because it tames complexity.

It doesn't, though. Not with the currently existing type systems and implementations.

- Without type inference you end up righting multi-tier type declarations everywhere.

- With overly powerful type systems you need something close to a PhD in math to create proper types and then figure them out half a year later when you've already forgotten most of what you did

- Union and intersection types which are extremely valuable are missing from a lot of statically typed languages

And because I'm not a machine I often cannot figure out what a yet another two-hundred multiline error message wants of me. Often I'm happy to just throw an `if (x && x.field){}` and be done with it.
I take issue with your cookie site example, because the user of the cookie site is probably using the same credentials on an important, sensitive site.
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Everyone is. No-one wants to pay for what it takes to get a decent estimate, which incidentally also requires a near-perfect idea of what you're gonna do ahead of time which is also usually lacking and which no-one's interested in figuring out and committing to. Look at the space shuttle software development process and how much time they spent nailing down requirements and such so the rest of the process would be highly predictable—IIRC it was like 1/3 of the duration of a project. Ain't no-one in business gonna commit to that.

Most software projects are half-cocked and operating on a shoestring. Anything other than "start on this, we'll tell you to stop if we don't like your progress, use something like story points so if we're still doing this in 6 months we'll have an OK-ish way to predict the way the project will go for the next month or two" is delusional. Can it be done? Yes. Here's what it costs. Actual development can start in 3-6 months. You gonna pay for it? Didn't think so. Want us to just start now and see how far we can get in a month or two? Cool.
Troff: not even once.
I am the sole technical person where I work, responsible for basically anything that involves electricity. Nobody knows or cares what I do as long as nothing appears broken.
There seems to be no timeline for LN’s release, and no sense of urgency from the devs. It feels very amateurish. There’s a good chance that by the time it comes out Bitcoin could be left in the dust by a different crypto currency.
Once you’re accustomed to it, bicycling to work is not much exercise. It’s certainly better than nothing, but I would not see some mild cardio as a replacement for running and/or strength training.
That's because you love the taste of gopnik balls, you twat.
Every election in Belarus in the last couple of decades is a circus.
Lukashenko rules for 23 years now having complete control over elections.
An over the counter(OTC) trade with a firm that specialises in high worth trades. They quote you a mid market price and they fill your whole amount at the same price.
No his critique is that it's laughable to call LBJ anything other than a blatent racist, despite the fact that he facilitated the civil rights act.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lyndon-johnson-civil-rights-racis...
I've had some relief from straightening my hips in addition to stretching.

I use this band https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072DYNTYB/
between work breaks. Helps to work from home :D
Bug reports in Slack can die in a fire. Make me a ticket, I won't remember that there was a bug reported at 2:32 on Thursday if I'm not taking care of it right then, and there will be reams of text to scroll back through to find it.
Too many inaccuracies in this article to be believable.

Yes, POW is a problem but reading this article I doubt the author ever designed mining hardware, description of sha256 is wrong for one, whole thing smells.
React!
"Renewing existing infrastructure" as in "not canceling L train", or "R trains running without problems", etc? That could get some votes.

BTW 2nd avenue subway should be seen as "less crowded green line trains", which matched popular demand rather well, and it did work, to my mind.
Imagine a world ruled by blue people, who control all the roads. Every time a green person tries to drive a blue person will throw rocks at their car, pour oil in front of the wheels, etc.

Also for historical reasons all the green people live in certain neighborhoods.

Now imagine creating bureau that would review driving and accident data and attempt to answer the question "How good at driving is this person?" The idea being that we are going to try to keep the worst drivers off the road.

People scream hey wait a second that's not fair at all. So you take steps to address this whole system instead and solve the real problem. You try to crack down on all the rock throwing, and not prejudge someone without knowing the circumstances.

Until one day an algorithm comes along to answer the question. But wait, we thought of that, we make it so the algorithm can't take into account what color the driver is. It can only rely on other things.

See the problem yet?
You clearly are ignorant of LBJ’s life. I suggest that you read his biography and expand your mind.
Fluid dynamics and gravitation are not about the things that are interacting (of which there can be many in both cases) but in the forces that arise between these things, and the forces are profoundly different in both cases.
He didn't ask for independent sources, he asked for any source. Also if you've studied them carefully, not just trolled, you could see the document in English created by EU commission that is part of info he's looking for.

I'm actually open to see any documents saying that station violates EU standards from the other side if they exist.