skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there any real world implementations of LN?

Can it operate on it's own, or does it need to be a layer on top of a cryptocoin network?

What incentive do LN node operators have to operate?
I think your interpretation of the article is incorrect, but to address your point:

> I have little doubt we can figure out what they are without much trouble.

How can you be so sure of that? Have we learned pretty much all there is to know about material science and physics at this point? Do you think someone from 500 years ago could analyze a microchip or some superconducting ceramic? Do you think we could figure out a material designed by a being a million years in advance of us? The physics as we understand it in 200 years is certainly going to be magic and "impossible" by today's standards, let alone alien tech.

Of course the materials could not actually exist, or not be of alien origin. But given the premise that they are of alien origin, it's not absurd at all to think that we can't figure out the nature of the materials.
Why use the YouTube app? The browser is Good Enough.

If you want a more "native" player there's always SkyTube and other similar apps for longform content.
DND Shades – “Horse Blinkers for Knowledge Workers”
It enhances bad behavior from men because they it helps them "hide" their user name. Also, if you think that men are immune from cyber-stalking and harassment, you haven't been dating on-line very much.

Frankly, it's a bad idea to supply ANY personal information to random strangers (like on a dating website.) If you have an unusual first name, it's almost trivial to search Facebook to find someone.

There are certain communities (such as people who are genderqueer and transsexual) who experience targeted harassment. Asking users to expose additional personally identifying information is a really shitty thing to do.
Nicholas Negroponte joked that there's a “brightness” setting on the television, but it doesn't work.
The conclusion that Facebook has bots other than Facebot is interesting. I wonder if Scott was able to identify how many problematic user agent strings were on Facebook's network.
That makes for a great story until you consider the fact that bigelow is rich and $22 million is small change to the billionaire set that Reid has had on speed dial for years. Enormously elaborate schemes to launder relatively small amounts of money are only plausible to people who think $22 million is a vast fortune.
Would a material composed using highly advanced nanotechnology have strange properties purely due to its structure? Does it have to be an alloy?
SUPERNEMO the Musical
Ha! Top notch work on the photo choice there!
https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/western-elite-chi...
> If you mean the ads are better quality, then that’s even worse. Better ads mean you’re being told what to buy... more effectively.

I suppose it depends what you mean by "better quality".

I have seen ads which were effective in making me think something was a good product only to discover that it's not upon further research.

On the other hand, I have seen ads which were really good in the sense that they showed me something that I would not have otherwise found and that I genuinely like.

If it matters to anyone I work for Google (Cloud) so maybe I'm biased in my stance on ads. That being said, I am guilty of using ublock origin so I like to think I hate annoying ads as much as anyone else.
They didn't explain their reasoning, but on current form, they see a way to turn it into a buck.

They're trying their hardest to turn it into a Tinder clone, presumably there's an internal bonus scheme bending their minds. The fact that being a clone of another service with > 10x as users is radiantly idiotic when your only hope of survival is creating a distinct niche is probably not lost on them. It just doesn't matter. Someone's bonus this year is riding on numbers that kill it next year.
Gridcoin [1] has been a thing for a while and you mine coins by participating in BOINC [2] projects like SETI@home.

[1] http://www.gridcoin.us/

[2] https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
BCash is a scam to convert as much of their scam coin as possible to Bitcoin over time.
Absolutely: I cut the cable a couple of years ago. I refuse to watch commercials. When I do stumble on regular broadcast TV, it feels like the commercials take up 50% of the time.

Note that I don't mind smart or funny commercials. I will actually seek out reruns of the old "Hi I'm a Mac/PC" and watch them with delight. (And I'm a PC user :o).
> But I’ll try to explain everything technically and stay objective

You failed inside of 3 paragraphs.
All the students/young professionals who consume their media on laptops/tablets and don’t feel the need to own a TV. There’s a lot of them.
OK, this is describing a 51% attack.

And who would engage in this 51% attack? The miners?

The miners are one of the biggest groups that SUPPORT Bitcoin Cash, so I find it unlikely that they would spend millions attacking it.

Anyway. It matters not. The people that want Bitcoin to be a settlement layer are free to spend 50$ per transaction to use Bitcoin, and those of us who want to use it as an actual peer to peer electronic currency will use Bitcoin Cash.

Everyone wins. It doesn't really matter what is the "real" Bitcoin.
This is such an absurd stretch, I think the author should use their creativity on fiction writing instead.
> "Is Apple about to dump apps built wit frameworks like Ionic, React Native or Cordova?"

> For now they are not impacted. But as you will see there is a good sign they soon will be. Per the language Apple uses in their guidelines, the future of hybrid apps rather fragile.

That's like arguing that apps built with Apple's own UIKit are soon to be subject to removal, because UIKit is a "framework."
Interesting, thanks for the info I’ll check it out.
Pro tip: they accept "First" as a first name.
Is it possible it's already happened? I have no idea what the mining breakdown looks like - but I'd imagine it's only a couple players mining BCH. I'd think you could rewrite the chain at will pretty much.
Yes, there are three interoperable implementations

https://cdecker.github.io/lightning-integration/

It runs on top of Bitcoin-like Blockchains that have segwit or something comparable.

If you run a LN node you can charge fees for routing payments.
Anyone who's mining Bitcoin could switch to Bitcoin Cash and work to perform a 51% attack.

> BCash shares hashing algorithm with Bitcoin. That means any hashing power on the Bitcoin network can work on BCash network. And there is typically 10 times more miners mining on BTC, than on BCH because of the difference in the price and minning fees.
Very powerful - i read this on mobile and the impact of the pictures and videos portraying
The human suffering is immense.
It seems that either the whole copy has been written with Google Translate or the whole page has been generated to target specific SEO keywords.
> People who are interested in kink, for example, are highly represented on OkCupid because they can advertise it without worrying about being identified by co-workers, family members, fellow church-goers and whatnot; similarly they typically don't want to be stalked by strangers either.

If you upload pictures, you can be easily identified. If someone wants to stalk you, a reverse-image search is trivial to do. But even if we disagree on that point, you don't have to use your real name. So, again, what is the argument?
Pay someone for the critical services you rely on. I'd never trust Google with my main email service; Fastmail.fm has been great to me.

For calendaring, I rely on Apple; even if they were to somehow vanish, I'd still have 3 copies of my calendar lying around.
My sister-in-law has a blog that sends out email notifications to subscribers (who requested them) when she posts a new article. After a few hundred subscribers had marked these notices as spam rather than unsubscribing, her blog, email account and entire site got blacklisted. She only managed to get this cleared up via a tech support friend who has contacts at Google.
Technically you don't even "possess" Bitcoin. The network possesses them for you. You just have a private key that authorizes you to send the Bitcoins that are held on the network for you.
17 Foot Great White Latches on to Cage
Not happening. ANT Pool has a huge investment in Bitcoin Cash and would swoop in with mining power to protect their investment.
One of the benefits of the AMD-ATI acquisition is that they can weather GPU shortage/oversupply more easily. I assume that NVIDIA is worried about an oversupply of GeForce GPUs when the mining boom ends, right?
It always seemed very silly that you had to come up with a globally-unique username. They started appending “taco” or “cat” to the name you attempted to choose, because they were running out. Just seems unnecessary.
A 51% attack only allows you to (1) censor transactions for a short time, and (2) double-spend. The first part is a mild nuisance. The second one can be retaliated against off-chain, which puts the attacker (who must be a large entity) at great risk in the real world.
And which miner SPECIFICALLY would do that? There are only like 7 major mining pools. Which of those 7 do you think would do an attack?

The miners were the ones who helped create Bitcoin Cash. Why would they attack it?

The miners are the largest supporters of big blocks, so it make no sense that they would attack the thing that they helped launch.

Also, people don't seem to realize that it is already possible to do a ~20 percent selfish mining attack. And yet we don't see THAT happening...

These attacks aren't realistic in practice because it would be immediately obvious that something is happening, and the miners would lose all their money as Bitcoin crashes.
In case of a massive and rapid reduction in the number of miners and therefore the network hashrate, it would take Bitcoin network difficulty too long to adjust to be useful in short term.
Not knowing the details, I would say that if both parties agree that behavior was abusive, it was abusive. There's no reason for anyone else to second guess at that point.
hey bro, peon is what?
Probably not true for MOBAs, at any rate.
In that dark future, the underground economy returns to barter to avoid Amazon fees.

I trade a pack of Jaffa Cakes for that 2L bottle of Coke.
They're getting mad because the change is mandatory (you can't not fill in a name) and their policy isn't clear (it doesn't say you don't have to put in your legal name.)

Also "first names" aren't unique, but usernames are. People have been using usernames on the site for years.

Why the change?
Looking Back on Tech Startups and VC in 2017
> Real life has product placement every time you go outside in civilization. I'm getting upset about you guys getting upset over something so trivial.

That's a false equivalence and a poor way to think about things.

People making those real-life product placements are not deliberately placing those products in view of others in exchange for money for the sole purpose of manipulating viewers to buy said product. I agree with the GP. At least with ads you know that you're being manipulated.
You're assuming "unit cell" is a meaningful concept for these materials. Can x-ray diffraction completely characterize, say, a quasicrystalline structure? Moreover, even if you can tell what it's made of, that doesn't necessarily tell you how it was made or how it works.
And indeed one of them may be local to the computer serving local drives, and another could be the network resources. Heck it could even allow file servers with different security settings (e.g. the USB drives might be mounted in a hostile file server space).
> Any interest in bitcoin cash changing it's algorithm?

I doubt it. One of the reasons BCH hardforked was so large mining pools could continue to take advantage of Asicboost, a patented approach to Bitcoin hashing that provides a 20-30% speedup.

Asicboost is essentially taking advantage of a flaw in the original Bitcoin algorithm which leads to slightly predictable hashes. Segwit fixed this problem, nullifying their patented advantage.

All of the vocal BCH supporters are involved with large sha256 mining pools. I think it's very unlikely that they'll elect to change algorthms.
That's the difference between billionaires and you and me: the billionaire thinks $22m is a lot of money.
If I pay for something using LN am I going to find it a superior experience to paying with cash or card, or am I going to find it a cumbersome experience for which I am charged an exorbitant fee?
> If you upload pictures, you can be easily identified.

If it has your face, yes. Kink profiles don't, as a rule.

> If someone wants to stalk you, a reverse-image search is trivial to do.

Most folk use a photo specific to OkCupid for this reason.

> you don't have to use your real name

You have to use the one you'd prefer to be called by. I don't know about you, but that's the name my mother gave me. On top of which, it is already being "enforced" in a way that will pretty much guarantee that my actual name will be seen as an evasion of the policy.

If folk want to go by their name, the original policy allowed that. Or they could go to Bumble or Tinder or a billion other wannabe apps. What OkCupid allowed was choice to choose any name, even a dumb one, for any reason.

That they sneered and smarmed their way through the announcement just makes me angrier and less willing to take them seriously.

Edit: there are also people saying that they edited the blogpost and their FAQ after a backlash against a strict real-name policy: https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/comments/7ljp4u/realname_ch...

Edit 2: There are multiple screenshots of "first name" and "real name" text from the app and website which predate the alleged change to the text of the blogpost and FAQ: https://imgur.com/LaYdmba, https://imgur.com/aOIKjKR
Sci fi is not fiction, it is theory.
We would see two chains forking of a shared block with a significant length (~10). Unless you count Bitcoin Clashic[1], there's no proof of that

http://bitcoinclashic.org/
Digikey sent me a similar ruler for free without me even asking. Everyone and their mother has or makes one of these.

If this is the most coveted item in their employee store, they must not have anything good in their store.
> The second one can be retaliated against off-chain.

What do you mean?
> What about storing each stream as a separate logical file in the tar file?

I think that’ll work. Just be sure to name these separate streams in a way so they never conflict with other files that might be in the same directory or with other streams that may be in the same file. E.g. in Windows, there’re characters forbidden in file names which may work fine in Linux: https://stackoverflow.com/a/31976060/126995

> with a property of "nt_stream_count=2"

Read this: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

I don’t think just count is enough. Alternate data streams have names. Other data streams, extended attribute, security descriptor, etc., are essentially unnamed.

You can implement some naming schemes for them, e.g. “file” for the main data, “file:xxx” for “xxx” alternative stream of the file, “file?sd” for security descriptor of the file, “file?sparse” for sparse file data. This can result in TAR backups that are more or less readable by the standard tools, but still allow your own tool to restore the complete thing.

You have two problems to solve.

1. Directories. Quite often, they contain at least security descriptors. But AFAIK directories just aren’t stored in these TARs.

2. File names and their encoding. AFAIK modern Linux is UTF8 all the way down. Probably TAR is OK with that. But if UTF8 representation of the UCS2 name (WinNT isn’t quite UTF16, UCS2 is a subset of that) is longer than 100 bytes, you’ll have multiple files in your TAR with the same name, they’ll only differ by your extended PAX attributes that contain the complete name. If you combine that with the above fake names with security info & alternate streams, it becomes even more complex.

P.S. I’ve been programming for windows for decades, only occasionally for linux or other platforms.
Using your idle Deep Learning hardware for mining
That’s the issue, which really comes down to the word “Alloy” in this case. If you believe there’s a chance that the word alloy was used instead of a more accurate and technical term, then your points definitely stand. If they really meant alloy though? I’d tend to side it’s the article. I mean you can imagine some strange and exotic materials maintained by some kind of alien power source, but lose the power and the material should decay in some fashion. For a purely fictional example see things like degenerate matter held in some kind of sci-fi stasis.
Did you finish reading the article? It gets far worse than numbers of hours worked (and the !Kung score quite well on many metrics compared to other hunter-gatherers).

Humans stopped being hunter-gatherers for a reason.
Is this about religion again? Or what exactly are they hated for?
Yes. A 51% attack is a popular whipping boy. It's not as dangerous as it seems.

The price would tank, for sure. But your money won't be gone. And eventually when the attack dies down you'll get your wealth back.

However, it remains a very interesting way for governments to completely destroy Bitcoin. It's the only way, and they have to do it now before centralized, dedicated mining facilities come online. It would disrupt the price enough and scare away enough people that the threat BTC poses will vanish, at least for awhile. And that will discourage miners from setting up facilities, such that the governments can just beat them again if they have to.

But it's already almost impossible.

The difference is intent. It's not really much of a problem for a miner to have >51% share. They're there to make money. And Satoshi pointed out they'll probably just keep mining rather than devaluing their own wealth.

But an organized, worldwide governmental campaign against cryptos would be another matter.
Worth risking prison over? That sounds like a gambler who loses, not someone who managed to amass and retain wealth.
Please re-read the post, because you don't understand.

The 51% attack is carried in secret. Noone has any way to know if it is happening until the longer chain is published. And after that, it's too late already. Someone could try to catch up with (not anymore secret) longest chain, but the damage has been done - the state of the network has already changed. Actually switching it back is only adding salt to the wound. Noone would trust that coin again anyway, and it is worthless to try to rescue it.

AntPool is busy mining Bitcoin, because it pays better:

https://blockchain.info/pools

so it can't constantly police BCash chain by over-provisioning it.
State cannot access years of government emails due to 2015 system change
How would they protect it after a double spend occurred?
> Frankly, I felt that was a crying shame.

It is. Given the right environment (which might include coaches or teachers) it should be possible to pick up knowledge about stress analysis, kinematics, heat transfer, dynamic analysis on your own.

Calculus is a slightly different matter because it's indeed more foundational than the other areas you mentioned. Still, I think calculus can be learned without a formal education programme, too. After all, most of it has pretty obvious areas of application.
Scissors Congruence – Interactive demo of Wallace–Bolyai–Gerwien theorem (2016)
The spectrum is really marvelous. It's amazing to see how many different kinds of people, with many different motivations, will waste their time on speculative crypto-coins.
I like the math and theory on this. But really why would someone who's making millions on the status quo risk tanking the market for a one time gain? Seems unlikely.
If this was real it would be classified TS and the leakers are subject to imprisonment. The US already has a ban on disclosing ordinary flight camera recordings without approval and getting the black bar treatment so how did this get out?
Reading articles like that make me very happy I'm in the self-hosted Home Assistant ecosystem. I couldn't imagine _someone else_ deciding two things that used to work together no longer do for me.
The Price of Freedom for Saudi Arabia’s Richest Man: $6B
The headline used the term "BCash." It'd be tough to have an objective post by someone about "BCore," too.
Even by Medium/ProductHunt standards, this is clickbait BS to the max.

It conflates the credit card with unrelated Uber expansionism and blames the former for all adverse effects, real and imagined... and then has the gall to recommend it anyway:

What happens now? Should I use the card? In short, yes.
Charging excessive fees and poorly serving client needs isn't theft.

Saying the Ponzi scheme guy is no different than a sleazy stock broker is massively trivializing his crimes. Sure, what happened to your parents is wrong, but it's far from what he did to his victims.
It's a potentially reasonable quid pro quo, but it would obviously be reckless to sign in to scrimba without any information on what they plan to do with the collected information. I'm looking forward to seeing what the platform can do once they have published relevant disclosures.
What an absurd argument that a guy worth $200MM would not spend his time and money on a $22MM deal. Besides, why everyone assumes this is ALL they did? A "businessmen" like those two spent probably 30 minutes on the phone once, and delegate bunch of people to do the work for them. Yes, Reid would not spent his last 5 years on $22MM deal, but he would spent few hours on the phone here and there on 100 deals each worth $22MM. Fact.
The ability to cause a social media storm alone could be a motivation for having some social media presence. It seems otherwise you are screwed if something goes wrong.
It’s one of the more purely religious conflicts out there, for most of its history.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/0928/Is-Rohingya...
The book "What I Learned Losing A Million Dollars" tells the opposite of that story - what happens when you misinterpret luck as talent.
I believe it means that the recipient of the double-spent transaction can sue you or send goons after you just like they would someone who defrauded them without using cryptocurrency.
I've worked as a freelancer for extended periods of time.
Always get fed up with:

1. Networking and selling myself as a freelancer.
2. Getting paid in a timely manner.

Any marketplace I've found is a race to the bottom in terms of quality and price.
And he has more articles on Gaglio's victims, e.g. http://swiss-east-affairs.ch/blog/a-strange-bank-robbery
>So your definition of "solidly upper class" is the top 10% of earners? That's a pretty loose definition IMO.

You stated that above. I'd say your definition here is quite a bit more "loose."
When is the last time you heard the same kind of story about Apple or MS?
> Is this about religion again?

Yes. Islam vs Buddhism or Buddhism vs Islam, whichever way you wanna look at it.
Harry Greed is best at his game and has many years to prove it. Little people get away with little crimes here and there, a big fish like Reed knows what he's doing. Same goes for even bigger fish like Clinton. $300 millions thru foundation happen to be founded by pure luck exactly in the time she was helping them score business deals. Its a very careful game but they know what they doing!