skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally I see the same.

One of the developers at a client uses Ubuntu desktop (I use macOS). The issues at her end with voip calls have been crazy. We've been through Skype, Discord and now Slack. Nothing has been reliable.

Edit, because I'm sick of "i can save the reputation of Linux" responses:

Its never a network issue its never even a protocol issue. Its a "application detects no input from microphone" issue.

So please stop telling me how its everything except a shitty desktop experience.
I guess, but unless you bought in past few weeks, you’re still way up. This is more likely a huge payday for those who held long and liquidated at year end.
I have to agree that it does help a lot with career if your open source project succeeds. That said, it's very hard to start a successful project that people might actually remember you for.

Note that working on open source will cost you money personally (in terms of missed opportunities).

If you spend 20 hours per week on your project for over 4 years, that's over 4000 hours... If you assume that your time is worth just $50 USD per hour, then you're missing out on at least $200k of income over those 4 years. You could have bought a small house/apartment for that money... Most open source developers will feel the pinch after a few years have passed. You will probably be skilled in a specific area but also exhausted and poor (a difficult combination).

So starting an open source project is like making a huge, very risky investment in yourself and in the hypothetical community which might form around your project.

Your future career path will depend mostly on your community's success and how much of an impact your project has on them.
Just sheer speculation. I was kind of assuming that when Bitcoin Cash hit Coinbase, everyone was looking at it as free money and looking to sell. Because everyone wanted to sell, coinbase didn't open it up, people were getting frusterated watching the price come down and unable to sell. So they started selling other stuff. Again total speculation. I've joined the tin hat club.
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Why is blockchain a pipedream?
Crash and burn. Much more to come. When even my friends who haven't touched a computer ask me how to buy it..
When Coinbase became the #1 app in the App Store, you knew the bubble would soon burst.
Even if bitcoin for some reason disappears (and I don't believe the doomsday scenario is anywhere in the near future), the blockchain technology on which it is built is revolutionary, and the financial sector is researching it and developing new applications at a furious pace.

Whatever the future of bitcoin itself and whoever he is, "Satoshi Nakamoto" will go down in history as a great inventor.
There nothing mathematical about guarantees for bitcoins continuing existence — it really boils down to the social contract between miners that agree to use the same set of rules. See for example the result of the Dao hack in Ethereum world — if there really was any mathematical guarantee to Eth smart contracts, you’d imagine you couldn’t simply revert them by updating the software. The parallel to Egan’s dust theory is interesting, but only valid as long as someone is actually mining blocks using old clients nobody cares about in the long forgotten forks of the chain, which doesn’t really happen.
There are psychological barriers on market prices, expected target prices, and some people don't like watching the bitcoin price ticker every second
You're still way up on paper.

The payday comes when you actually liquidate your position, and you get the funds out of the exchange.

Lot's of people were way up on Mt. Gox.
Sorry, I was typing on a mobile device. I thought it was obvious that I was talking in both cases about a system of inequality based on some notion of "race".

Also, saying that there is one system of inequality doesn't mean there aren't others. Class is certainly another, related, system. But one doesn't reduce to another.
The Big Boys (bankers) entered the market now, so expect some Big Manipulations to happen.
Funny thing is not many that bought for 15k will sell below that, so price will drop (as did few times before, when bitcoin experienced rapid appreciation) but it won't drop to the before-bubble price but slightly higher.

It will either very gradually climb from there or stay steady for 3 years or so and then experience next crazy ride up.

Then most of the guys who bought for 15k will sell.

The point is, people buy bitcoin with money they don't need anyways so they can go long and most of them will because bitcoin apparently can't die no matter how many bubble popping it experiences.
The bigger issue raised in the article is the idea that, even when algorithms are an "improvement" on human bias, the public is willing to accept that they express no bias at all. That level of trust in technology is unfair, and it doesn't exist for human judgement - if people are more confident in exercising oversight, that's at least one reason to not switch over to purely algorithmic decision-making.
BCH is the catalyst but not the direct cause. It's commonly agreed that BTC price was a bubble. Bubbles need an event to pop them. Coinbase opening support for BCH was that event.
> You literally picked three free trading economies

Yes! Protective econ policy does not mean to close borders. It means to open/close when it makes domestic sense. And I'm not talking about their policy today, I mean their policy over the years of working their way out of poverty.
Try Telegram, Linphone or a WebRTC service. Skype is truly bad on linux but Discord served me and my friends well so, check your developer's internet connection.
I dont blame Microsoft, but yeah, they are a big reason desktop Linux failed: they just have a user friendlier OS, just like Apple.

I've been using Linux for over 10 years at home, but man, all those issues, it's crazy. And every forum has the same answer to all your problems: just enter sudo... into your console.

For me as a more experienced user this might not be a problem (although I'm getting tired of it) but for normal users this doesn't work at al.

They see a GUI so they want to fix things via the GUI. And ofcourse they don't want to fix things at all.

I have my reasons to stay at Linux but it's no fun that sometimes sleep doesn't work, every update Cuda support is broken and so on.
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I did. It is December and it is up. Granted the month isnt over, but certainly it can't always dip in December. Even if it reliably did 60% of the time, that would quickly turn into a profitable trading strategy and it would stop happening.
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Is there any evidence the price should have went from $1k to almost $20k other than hysteria and fraud? If not, why buy?
This. I dispose of almost all the paper I ever receive. Anything really important can usually be reissued by whoever issued it.
Meh, it’s possible to challenge the status quo without being a dick. I think it’s more sincere to not be a dick.
Not for long. Some of them actually work with AMD now, and with NVIDIA now banning use of GeForce cards for AI research (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15983587), NVIDIA is going to lose that market very quickly.
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> A successor that stuck to the simple low level machine programming concept but introduced new concepts would help.

Byte Arena is structured in such a way that we can plug in entirely new Game Modes with gameplays (and vizualizations) radicaly different of deathmatch.

So I can totally see such a gamemode happen, not based on physical movements but for instance on resource management.
That's the point of the article though - for a large percentage of services, if you know the username/email address you are targeting, you can just try to register them and see if it works. Obfuscating the login process makes little difference.
It's not about being bitter IMO. Sure, some people are mad they missed the boat, but I don't think that is the general consensus (at least here on HN).

There's no valuable discussion to be had anymore regarding BTC because every discussion turns into price point speculation, FUD, or "I told you so" remarks.

Bring some real discussion and critical thought the table, and not just repost the same WSJ articles that sensationalize the tiniest price movements.
Wow, this interface is very cool, very useful to explain how markets/pricing work !

Maybe (probably) it's some pretty standard way of displaying things but I had never seen one like this.
This is why you buy over time, and not in one go (dollar cost averaging). Your gains are lower than if you coincidentally managed to buy at the bottom, but you won't be affected nearly as hard as if you put all your money in at the top.

Does this suggest that people are dumping to fiat, rather than other coins? There was speculation that the reason Ripple shot up recently was because people were buying it with Bitcoin, however virtually everything is down at the moment.
Out of curiosity, why is blockchain a pipe dream? Am I missing something?

My answer to your question is: I'd buy at any of those prices. Just never on an upswing. This is because I believe in the technology, but the very nature of it means it's volatile - so buying on an upswing is just going to hurt you. There's always the risk of not knowing where the upswing is, ie this downswing might not be the real downswing - but nevertheless I believe my point stands.

Note though that I don't view these coins as value holders. I'm not a fan of the idea, so far at least, I vastly prefer transaction coins and coins that are a means to a feature, like storage coins. BTC is not that interesting to me, despite it's popularity, because just being a store of value isn't a big enough selling point to me.

Note that I'm not saying a store of value and/or BTC isn't inherently valuable, I just dislike a store of value because anything can be a store of value. So if the public decided tomorrow to use another store of value, BTC would be worthless. Unlike a coin that actually does something, like Filecoin, where the value in the coin will be derived from the usefulness of the coin. It seems less arbitrary, to me at least.
<<ust FYI, Belarusians often refer to Donald Trump as the american Lukashenka.>>

Not true. I'm Belarusian, and it's the first time I'm seeing this. I cannot say for every compatriot, of course, but "Belarusians often refer" implies something well-known, and it's not the case here. Truth be told, thoughts of majority of Belarusians do not revolve around US policy.
> I've joined the tin hat club.

Indeed... This is like kitchen psychology, but the White Castle kitchen version.
I suspect a lot of the transaction fees and congestion have been from people transferring to exchanges to sell. Though it wouldn't surprise me if someone was doing market manipulation via spam transactions; that certainly seems like something that could potentially be profitable.
macOS and Windows have shared libraries.

Packaging third party libraries with your binary is just going to lead to a race to see which fucks a user first: running out of disk space or that one app with an unpatched TLS library that allows RCE for an attacker.
Just replying to my own post to say thanks everyone who replied (can't edit the original anymore), I learned and got some good food for thought.
why no one talks about veracrypt and TrueCrypt?
> For example, Ubuntu and Mint don't let you configure the mouse wheel scroll speed.

Since both are Debian derivatives, I imagine that both include synclient(1). No, it's not a GUI — but that's better, because you can just put the right command into your login scripts, and you know that it'll execute, and never get deleted because a desktop environment decided to change its config file format.

> Want a really good, free git GUI client? Sorry, not on Linux.

Magit is awesome.

> Sad to say but Windows, for all its faults, does work.

I have a couple of Windows machines, and I don't feel that they work. Swallowed keystrokes & clicks, ads — no thank you!
Wow did not know about this one. I'm continually amazed by how fruitful comments on HN can be. Thanks!!
> Buying it now is fairly reasonable.

I'd wait few months. If it is actually crashing not just backing up before next silly raise then you'd be better off waiting till it settles after the crash. It usually takes few months or a year.

If you don't want to gamble, bitcoin is rather long term investment.
Unfortunately, document.getElementsByClassName isn't universally supported[0], so even if you wanted to do it that way, it still wouldn't be that easy. Never is.

[0]https://caniuse.com/#feat=getelementsbyclassname
A question for a recurrent neural network, maybe.
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This. Who cares if it's $100, $10000 or $0.10? What matters is the price it will have, and yes, that is all just speculation, unless you have a crystal ball that actually works.

What is great/weird/... (select according to your opinion) is that the gains were huge in the last year.
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I do mobile software consulting. To give you an idea of the level of crypto currency mania: Every single one of my clients in San Francisco have some kind of slack or group chat devoted to crypto trading.

I was waiting at the front desk of a client who has a floor in a fancy building downtown. Whilst waiting I overheard the end of a conversation between the door guy talking to the maintanence man: “I put in a bunch of money like you said and it went up!”. The door guy was gesturing at his phone and I vaguely saw a blue and white interface that looked like coinbase. I’m 95% sure this conversation was about bitcoin or etherium. This occurred about two weeks ago.

It really made me think of that old story about the shoe shine boy talking stocks promoting a guy to exit the stock market prior to the 1929 crash:

http://archive.fortune.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive...
Apparently nothing. So can we say Excel is also unethical?
Buying on the way down, see you all on the upswing in about a year. I bought after the MtGox crash in 2013 and can't wait to buy this bear market!
The majority of that article seems to report on the same stories as the Nautilus article. The meat of the disagreement is in the conclusion section.

> However, there is a significant cost to forcing algorithm outputs to reflect wishful thinking. If we are issuing loans, we will issue more loans to people who do not pay them back. If we are making parole/sentencing decisions for convicted criminals, we will release more dangerous criminals who go on to commit new crimes.

> This may not be a concern for the journalist, but it should be a concern for the rest of us.

I agree that this is the heart of the issue but by leaving this to the conclusion, I think the author didn't end up arguing for why we should optimize for objective cost instead of for our ideal reality. It might be financially profitable for a bank to use a racist lending policy but as a society we think that it is wrong so we passed regulations forbidding the banks to do so. Similarly, the criminal justice system is supposed to serve society and follow our ideal sense of justice and shouldnt be blindly optimizing recidivism rate. As the Nautilus article said, "What gets chosen is usually whatever is easiest to quantify, rather than the fairest".
Funny how any pro-bitcoin comment immediately attracts downvotes. I'm considering posting opposite of what I think about bitcoin to get those sweet, sweet upvotes. :-)
Only if the fees are low.
I think you may be talking past each other.

It's true that investment creates jobs, but it's also true that there's no investment without consumption.

The current prevailing economic policy consensus is very much misguided in that it only focuses on increasing investment. But investments just won't happen when there's nobody (or rather: not enough demand) to buy the resulting products.

This is why we need more policies that aim at consumption.

As a final thought: the reason why our prevailing economic policy consensus is misguided in the way it is is probably mostly down to motivated reasoning. If your goal is aiming at consumption, you have to look at the lower end of the income and wealth scale (because that's where the marginal propensity to consume is high). If your real goal is to make life even easier for the wealthy, it's comparatively easier to hide corresponding policies under the mantle of helping investment. Hence the focus on investment.
> There's no valuable discussion to be had anymore regarding BTC because every discussion turns into price point speculation

There are tangential discussions around market structure, regulations (their existence, interpretation and necessity) and other matters I've found genuinely interesting.

Bitcoin appears to have attempted a clean reboot of modern finance. It's interesting seeing where common solutions are found. It's fascinating considering where divergent conclusions could be reached, and whether that could help us in the mainline economy.

Price discussions are inane for this asset, but it doesn't mean that's the only thing we can talk about.
The construction spot complies with all MAGATE standards:

http://www.belta.by/economics/view/ostrovetskaja-ploschadka-...

MAGATE SEED mission external risks report is overall positive:

https://news.tut.by/economics/546471.html
http://minenergo.gov.by/wp-content/uploads/Report-SEED-missi...

Here's interview with vice-minister of energetic where he answers a lot of questions and concerns of Lithuania:
There's 7 more MAGATE SEED missions planned to visit the station and security tests are going according to the plan.

https://news.tut.by/politics/486906.html

Here's info that crush-tests were made and results provided to EU commission and everyone who wants to know.

https://news.tut.by/society/567848.html

What I see is that Lithuania takes totally nonconstructive position. They concerned about security of the station, but at the same time want to pull off the scientists from EU commission that will be working on implementing EU security standards on station.

https://news.tut.by/economics/562015.html

Reality is this station will be build, because Belarus needs it for energetic security to diversify it's energy consumption from dependency russian gas. Belarusians are the first who interested in high security standards. But Lithuania wants Belarus to stop building it, it's ultimatum and it's not going to work. It's not to late to find compromise decision and Belarus is open for dialog and Lithuania tries to take unfriendly steps like twist the facts and mix up the question about station with the other things. Even swedish deputy said you guys shouldn't bring Europe to two-sided conflict:

https://news.tut.by/economics/550112.html
The message is still not wrong if you think of "or" as the boolean or, not as the boolean xor. The system knows the username is wrong but it doesn't know anything about the password.
Ha! I needed a good laugh this morning. Thanks internet.

What I don't get, is how do these prices actually change? For btc or a stock. The mechanism seems very voodoo.
SABLE is pretty advanced. It is a "XML-based [language that] allows users to add addition controlling commands in text to affect the output."

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/festival_demos/sable.html

It's part of the Festival TTS system.
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It's a fairly standard order book view, with a nice log of trades on the right hand side. For most real exchanges (eg ones trading shares or commodities), this view would be impossible without some kind of downsampling as there would be too many trades/sec to display in real time. Your monitor probably isn't fast enough, let alone your browser rendering stack.
I never invested in Bitcoins. I've been asked by many people the past few weeks whether or not they should invest - truthfully, I told people not to and wait to the current "wave" of popularity was over.

I genuinely don't know that much about speculation in currency, but is this "burst bubble" really it this time? Is this supposed to be the actual end of actual value for Bitcoins now?
Is the OSCP certification worth it?
Hindsight will tell how much cynicism was warranted, but given the historic exponential volatility anybody who invested and liquidated at opportune moments were probably just lucky.

Nothing wrong with taking risk, but dont pretend you're not gambling.
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Or these are all people who need christmas cash, ie people playing with money they probably shouldnt.

11500 and not stopping. I wonder what fees are needed to execute a trade in the next hour. Probably countless people lined up.
I went to a mid level business school in the Midwest. Their IT program had a few segments. One was security. The difference was basically just one course on pen testing. I learned more about security in the CS courses they didnt recommend I take.

You don't need college, what you need is a desire to learn everyday.
> Canonical business model not working out

Well, failing to deliver a good product didn't really help neither their business model, nor the Year of the Linux Desktop.

Polishing and repackaging existing software seems like a successful strategy, but it can never make the Linux Desktop happen. On the other hand throwing it all away and starting from scratch can, but needs exceptionally right people to achieve. As far as I know no company like this exists today.
Internet connection doesnt affect her microphone.
And how much would that 100mbit cost on average in America? Paying about $35 for 100mbit fiber right now, with actual unlimited usage.
Can you use and provision text me private via an API like Twilio? I'm building a service where fairly sensitive messages will be exchanged.
I think you are misinterpreting my statement. I never said blame algorithm. I just said, what happens if algorithm (for eliminating some thought patterns using language inference) is used by the other side?
FAAAAAAHHHKKKK.... I WAS a millionaire and just maxed out my cards, rented a jet and now I am in the shitter... what do i do?
Well they're extremes so there are bound to be people who fall in between. But I think that most engineers would be closer to one side or another.
Christian in the OP post actually tries to blame MS for aggressively discounting Windows which denied market to completely free Linux desktop. "Microsoft came running in offering next to free Windows licensing to get people to stay put." so people choose "next to free" instead of "completely free" exactly why?

Also he doesn't mention any MS progress in software and moving from dark side to the good in the last decade.
People keep thinking it’s going to revolutionize entire industries when really it’s a highly limited and inefficient database technology that no one who isn’t trying to make a buck would suggest using for data storage unless you have the very particular constraints of something like bitcoin.

There’s lots of mature, versatile database options out there: Postgres, SQLite, BerkeleyDB, and countless other NoSQL and CQRS solutions. Blockchain does one thing well, its immutability and intractability are not well suited to many applications.
> This is where having proper engineering/mathematical training pays off.

Rather, this is where personal research skills are needed.

I cannot imagine a programmer "hacking around" without researching existing solutions for obviously difficult problem.

To put it differently, none of the colledge Comp Sci "training" has yet been of any use in my 20 years of programming work.
Do your roads and teachers catch fire regularly as well?
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