skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best thing for Bitcoin as a technology would be to stabilize in price and have lightning networks solve the scalability problem. The moment we can actually use it for it's original intended purpose and not a speculative asset, the sooner we can see innovation take hold.

Of course this ignores how hamstrung the technology is by the IRS treating it as property subject to capital gains tax. If I have to worry about paying tax anytime it is converted to fiat or exchanged for goods and services of real value, the less motivated I am to do so.
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this the reason TPB switched back to thePirateBay.org last year?
I don't think a lot of what I'm hearing was bitterness. Instead, there was a (seemingly correct) assumption that Bitcoin was undergoing a massive bubble at the moment. There was a lot of signs similar to other bubbles, such as the late 1990s dot com bubble and the mid 2000s real estate bubble.

There's no problem with putting a little into Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, but at the moment, it is a very speculative investment. If you diversify, and don't do something silly like massively borrow, then that's fine. In fact, this sort of investor probably doesn't care too much that Bitcoin crashed in value. It may go up by silly amounts, or it may go down by silly amounts. That's life with any speculative investment. I personally can't see Bitcoin justifying its valuation unless it fixes its transaction issues, but there is plenty of room for disagreement there.

Now, the fact that a fair bit of current marketing / promotions of crypto has the whiff of pyramid schemes and other dodgy "make money fast" type things is of concern to me. Mainly because these sorts of things usually never end well. I think it would be very foolish to put a significant percentage of your assets into crypto right now, and it would be extremely dicey to invest in crypto on the margin. In fact, it would probably be better if one was seriously interested in crypto to wait until a major crash clears these sort of "you're gonna get rich instantly with CRYPTO!" players out of the market.
Subways will remain in dense city centers because they offer capacity that cannot be matched with buses. Driver or no driver is irrelevant. Your argument probably will hold true for regional trains and high speed trains, though. The travel time will be quite similar if you factor in the time to and from the railway stations.
Yes exactly. They make money by a) charging enough in fees to cover the risk and b) limiting the amount they have to pay out.

Just look at how health insurance works: without government regulation, most of the day to day healthcare you actually need isn't covered under the terms of the insurance. For example, contraceptives.
There are other things, that's just an example of the startlingly poor decision making skills.
You've left out "use an existing Android botnet to siphon off private keys in a way that's far less likely to attract law enforcement attention".
Why Christmas is really just a Roman holiday: Saturnalia
Yes, it is. It’s how Google managed to get so much marketshare so quickly.

The VLC lead dev (Jean-Baptiste Kaempf) said they offered him over 30 million EUR for secretly shipping Chrome with the VLC installer/updater.

Many other projects, from Piriform’s CCleaner to adware also ship Chrome for the same reasons.
Here, be aware of myself, who used cryptocurrency as a means to pay off student loans.
FYI: There are special rolls for hardwood flooring, that dont scratch the floor.
Fair enough, but Bitcoin certainly can be either of those things, even if it's not right now. History shows us any currency can have those problems. Inflation can become so high that as a medium of exchange it's pointless. It can become so unstable in value that people use something else.

Bitcoin is no panacea, but the "fake money" argument seems misplaced to me. It's current failings are not failings of crypto-currency in general.
I can feel it! It's fascinating.
>"If a US company is paid in euros or gold it still needs to pay taxes in dollars"

And similarly if a European company is paid in dollars they still need to pay taxes in Euros. Why is this relevant?

>"As owning land creates a liability, but land in no way creates money from thin air."
Owning land creates money out of thin air by appreciating in value. People have gotten fantastically wealthy by doing nothing except letting time pass.

>"People do transactions in USD specifically because they need to pay taxes in USD not the other way around."

This is not unique to the US. Where else can you pay local taxes in a foreign currency?
One could argue the exact opposite - that all the infrastructure around Bitcoin makes it an inferior store of value. For example, the fact that Litecoin does not (yet) have ETFs and other financial vehicles that can be used to manipulate its price without actually dealing with "physical" Litecoins, makes it a more stable store of value.
“Can someone help me put some teenagers in jail for pirating movies?”
No, he sounds like Trump, or Ryan. Here are some words. Those of you who are smart enough to understand the logical fallacy are a tiny minority. The rest of you will either parrot them or ridicule them depending on your own existing personal view.
I got out when I saw the first bitcoin ad in a national newspaper 2 weeks ago.

Too many people having no idea what they are buying.
That is insane. Traders make money during periods of high volatility and volume. Defined circuit breakers can be planned for, but unpredictable "lol unavailable gtfo" is unacceptable for serious usage.
Man, CSS is crazy. I remember how much easier things were with tables and few attributes. We had everything we needed, but as usual with engineering, we thought we had to reinvent the wheel!
What does it mean by:

The author owns a small amount of cryptocurrency. Enough to gain an understanding, not enough to change a life.
This is a good course

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~213/schedule.html

Buy the 3rd version book (used) and then try the labs as you go through the lecture vids/chapters http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/3e/labs.html but avoid the 'global edition' as it's filled with errata, or just know there is mistakes.

You will learn assembly/C and also Return Oriented Programming, stack protections and how they work, buffer overflow attacks, implicit casting grenades, cache optimization, how the linker works, ect. Then you sign up for that old Matasano CTF https://microcorruption.com/login

When you complete it apply to NCC Group who I believe now owns microcorruption. Start at the bottom, work your way into a policy/advisory role somewhere else after gaining experience and applying for certs https://ciso.eccouncil.org/ Having data science experience is likely helpful since you can produce shiny presentations that board rooms like to see when you become their CISO
Unfortunately while there is evidence that sitting all day is bad, we don't know if/what alternatives are good. Is standing better, or do you need to move? Maybe it is staring at something close (monitor, papers...) and sitting is only bad as a proxy (I know of no study that can actually say that hypothesis is wrong even though I just made it up). Modern life currently requires a lot of people to spend a lot of time at computers, so we need to know how to be healthy while at computers.

I like having a motorized desk, but I don't think I could actually stand all day long, (other than the same breaks someone sitting all day would take). I tried a treadmill desk a time or two, but I don't have the option of using it daily.
What are you talking about? This is not about the exchange being compromised at all. In any event, I don't think it's much more difficult to get your phone getting hacked than it is to get your Coinbase account hacked. That's not what this is about.

This is about the cloud wallet service provider having the ability to basically do whatever it wants with your funds (including using them to pad their fractional reserves), charge you whatever fees it wants for whatever dumb reason they can think of, and do all the other things the banking system does today to peoples' wealth.

If this is what you want to do with your Bitcoin, then you're better off putting your money into fiat because that's a system that was actually designed to be used in our current currency/banking scheme.
>People always assume a city full of cars as the "default", that has to be accepted. Yet in large cities, a quarter to half of all people (and far more in Manhattan) live good lives without owning a car. Imagine how quality of life would skyrocket if more people made the responsible choice: you'd win back 1/3 of public space that is currently used for parking. Possibly another 1/6th by converting most streets to one-ways, as would be possible if the remaining traffic is just public transport, deliveries & the elderly. With less traffic, most intersections could function without traffic lights.

I don't understand this attitude.

You can't solve transportation problems by reducing supply of A and increasing supply of B. You need to increase supply over-all. An over crowded subway, bike lane and highway all suck. Which you prefer to endure is only a matter of personal taste.

If you make transportation via one method expensive (time, money or some other metric) people will do less of that and more of something else but the net result is harm because the cost of physical distance increases and that has a negative impact on quality of life because people are forced to use the wrong tool for the job. Examples include commuting via car or carrying groceries on a bike.

The "food desert" issue is a good example of how a high cost of getting from A to B hurts people. People can't buy good food because they can't afford to go where they can afford to buy it. Sure you could ride your bike 10mi to get groceries but that's not a time/money/quality trade-off most people are ok with (they'd rather eat junk food).

Another example, there's a bunch of clothes that I've been meaning to donate to charity but haven't because my schedule, my SO's schedule and the business hours of the thrift store need to sync up so one of us can circle the block or donating said clothes will cost $8 of parking. If so many people biked or public transit was so good that one of us could find free/cheap parking the thrift store would have the clothes by now.
I feel that it's mostly fixed in the US. The rest of the world is another story.
And why would people in their right mind want to pay (for example as it is with many anime) for a stream only option, with no choice of subs or dubs given, no file download, etc. instead of getting it for free, cheaper, easier, faster, better, offline, etc.

Come back to argue your point when the actual offer differs only in cost and not in quality and convenience. When content providers will provide subs in a standard format, allow freely sub translations by third parties into languages they don't translate to, allow file download, DRM free, not region locked (it does fuck all and streaming sites and torrents are full to the brim weeks or months after releases), without tedious processes to confirm you are who you are and live in the right country (the only thing that they should care about is the payment), a.k.a. never.

For an extreme example see here (where my only legal and maybe available option for an anime that's floating around everywhere as 1080p BluRay rip is to get an Amazon Fire TV and hope I can stream it in SD quality to it after paying 20 dollars for the privilege): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15989321
It is not about the number of candidates and freedom of choice. A true democracy needs its own Guantanamo (US) and citizens of 1st and 2nd classes (Estonia, Latvia). And the most important factor is who is your friend because these friends will eventually decide who you are. There were many classical dictatorships which were treated as democracies and vice versa.
What in the world does this have to do with my comment that you replied to?
>Right, as far as I'm aware, no one ever has made any money from Bitcoin

what about people who bought low and sold high? im sure there's at least 1 person who did that. or are you talking about making money from holding bitcoin?
Welcome to Bitcoin advocate logic. Clearly using more energy than a moderate sized european country in order to process 3 or 4 transactions per second isn't wasteful. Right?

I mean in absolute numbers, says the bitcoin advocate, the fiat banking system has to use more, right?....

....nevermind the fact they do something that is not driven by pure speculation and do it at thousands of times larger scales.

Bitcoin -- the perfect intersection of people who don't understand finance, economics, computer science, scaling, politics, socio-economics, or math.

PS: People only quote Bitcoin's energy use and often times they leave out things like air conditioning. Nobody seems to sum up the total energy required to power the entirety of the crypto "space" including Ethereum, Litecoin, etc.
Take a look at https://mincss.com/ if you are looking for a css framework that is really really small!
They're some assumption here that because of Brexit UK will not be able to export to the EU?

They'll sort it out just fine, just like the EU is trading partner with China and all kinds of countries that are not in the EU.

In fact, the UK not being in the EU could give it extra leverage (on labor laws, taxes, etc) to attract businesses in the ways the EU could not. Like Ireland that got in trouble with EU for its tax breaks.
Coinbase suspends trading amid cryptocurrency rout
I’m picking up at least one bike a day. In Wallingford area of Seattle they just get unceremoniously tossed onto the ground or knocked over by other means. I do hope a single app emerges which can manage across the 3 apps (lime, ofo, spin)
> That's one of those things that drive me crazy about Netflix, Amazon Instant Video and such: there's a ton of movies I can't watch with my wife because her English isn't good enough yet.

I will tell you something more crazy about Amazon Prime. You will have an English movie available in the German catalogue but only in German (dubbed). You won't get the English version. I'd like to meet the geniuses who came up with these ideas.
I wanted to make a small Bcoin transaction a couple weeks ago to test a wallet and the fee was over $20. That doesn't seem like a good fee compared to Visa. Is this something that could be fixed now with a block size increase?
Actually with volume its happened both ways. You can easily see from public data that volume doesn't only go mad when price is being hammered.
Likely Mike Monteiro “How Designers Destroyed the World”.

Google gives multiple video’s, for example:

Webstock ‘13: https://vimeo.com/68470326

BlendConf ‘14: http://2014.blendconf.com/schedule/how-designers-destroyed-t...

An Event Apart 2015: https://vimeo.com/122022963

USI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcM21l61TE
subways are useful even with self driving cars just because they are another level. A self driving helicopter could replace a subway, but ground level cars eventually get into congestion. Of course we can build bridges, but a subway is just a train underground so that doesn't apply.
Generally, all 'train control' systems take a long time to roll out. Despite often seeming like one product you 'install' from one vendor, it's really more of a 'solution' that requires a bunch of things you deploy together, and parts of it are delivered by subcontractors.

For the relatively simple system that the NYC began using -- Siemens Trainguard MT, used in some other cities, and also on PATH -- you need trackside beacons, lots of wiring (and a good amount of wireless), in-car computing units in the IT closet, in-cab signalling, on-car sensors, in-car wiring, etc [1], a bunch of IT integration and troubleshooting; not to mention "soft deliverables" like conductor training, maintenance training, dispatcher training, safety and bureaucratic approvals, and lots of testing. Even if you assume that all parties are competent and are acting in good faith, this still takes time.

In a recent thread about the Amtrak Cascades derailment [2], a conversation about (positive) train control ensued, and some people who worked on such implementations also talked about why these projects tend to be complex.

[1] http://www.mobility.siemens.com/mobility/global/SiteCollecti... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15968720
I corrected my mistake of calling the whole thing an "exchange". Corrected it now.

As many have pointed it out on this thread, GDAX - the exchange works just fine. So people who are worried about selling/buying can find a willing participant on the exchange.

But, Coinbase's main site is just another willing participant just like you and me in a given trade. It can refuse to take the other side of the trade if it affects their profits.

If you still insist it is "manipulation" then I digress.
So a 2x volume justifies 10x outages?
Pretty much read anything Knuth if you want to practice math and CS skills. Concrete Mathematics (started as an extended version of the math in Chapter 1 of The Art of Computer Programming) is a fantastic introduction to the more interesting elements of discrete mathematics, and (for me) helped to solidify calculus concepts by seeing the same things applied to discrete functions/sequences.

And, while challenging, it can be a pleasure to work through The Art of Computer Programming slowly over a period of time. I did this for both volumes 1 and 2 back in college and just after.

For pleasure reading on math, Martin Gardner is a great source of material. Particularly the collections of his Scientific American articles (there was work to reprint some of these book collections with Knuth and others editing, but I think it stalled out after 4 or 5 of them). Spend time on the articles to really understand the proofs involved and it can, IMHO, improve your ability to think mathematically.

Otherwise, perhaps as itamarst suggests, find some problem domain which exercises both CS and math and interests you. Write code to implement the mathematical algorithms (which will aid your understanding of them), and then spend time improving the code (practicing your CS skills).

I also doodle math and CS theory problems when I'm bored. Make a state machine that recognizes, in base 2, all multiples of 3, 4, 5, etc. What pattern exists in their structure? Why does the symmetry exist in some of them? What happens when you change the base to 3, 4, ...? Try to apply the concept of generating functions to get to the closed form solution of the Fibonacci sequence. Practicing like this, even if it's problems I know by heart at this point, helps keep the fundamentals that let me solve them the first time fresher in my mind.

I also recommend reviewing the writings of E. W. Dijkstra. A lot of math, CS, and software engineering is covered in there. It's also interesting to read as you'll see a slice of history as the collected papers span about 40 years.
Of course. But I think we're talking about two different things.
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I wasn't aware of this, so I looked around a bit and found this [1] from a book about the history of the subway system. Apparently they kept trying to raise it, but were blocked by the mayor, Walker. Of course, the first order of business after it was taken over by the state was to raise the fare.

Edit: found the underlying case, [2], but it looks less than straightforward -- the fixed fair was a condition of the leases on the right-of-way of the train system, and the attempt was made to charge a second fare when a certain boundary was crossed.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=LYSVd43vZwQC&lpg=PR13&ots=...

[2] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/279/159/case.htm...
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You need either established credibility or facts, yes.

If you present neither, your opinion doesn't amount to much.
Yup. There are a lot of pirates who simply feel entitled to everything, and won't pay for anything. And yet, they would be the first to complain when they don't get paid for their own work.

Hell, on the @forexposure_txt twitter, there's a pirate Patreon site (taking the content that usually requires a donation, and offering it for piracy), and they're still asking for donations. And they honestly don't see the issue with it.
Is there any online course I can take that would teach me Navier-Stokes?
Adding regulation would just increase the complexity. Instead of one curtain, you now have two. For as much as people complain about the US government, they certainly aren't backing down when it comes to having them meddle in private affairs.

Let the market work this out. Coinbase exists to legitimize the industry. If they turn, someone will step in to take their place. Blockchain and crypto aren't going anywhere.
Whois says it has no name server (what a weird format that of .se), but digg finds an A record with 92.242.140.20 (what seems to be a register IP).
won't be so fast if every change has to be painstakingly reviewed and tested due to the complexity of interactions in the code base

You can write spaghetti code in any language, it turns out. Blaming the language for that is not really an indicator of understanding the problem.
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What's bad about the trend - don't offices typically give you a choice of which you'd prefer?

Previous workplaces I've been at had the option of an Ikea adjustable height desk for people who would occasionally switch between the two.
Now to wait for the entry on https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com
It's so mind-bogglingly fucked... they're freezing the market exactly when the clever investor would like to be buying.
Still learning about crypto currencies, but does this imply that Coinbase doesn’t have sufficient reserves to clear all the activity or are they trying to behave like a regulator or something else?
I'm not sure about this argument. You can also make a perfect copy of Facebook and you wont have a facebook. The brand is what makes Bitcoin, just like most of the companies that have perfectly good competitors with the same or better product utility but nowhere the market or profits.

For Bitcoin to die out, every single person needs to decide that doesn't want it.
Andy Byford just left as CEO of the TTC to take this challenge on. He’s a more ambitious man than I, to actively seek to try to fix the NYC MTA. I wish him luck and wish we did more to support him while he was here.