skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That source (Free Press) is an advocacy organization, so it by definition presents one side of a story. The pros without the cons, or something.

I'm in the boat where I trust companies more than I trust the government, and believe that the original NN regulation was a path for the government to start actively censoring the internet, China-style.

Want to see more debate (even if devil's advocate) along these lines instead of "they are killing startups" and "they are taking away our free YouTube."
'People have been arrested for flying a rainbow flag'
- Israel killed a wheelchair bound man for waving the Palestinian flag: https://www.rt.com/news/413393-palestinian-wheelchair-killed...
Your argument is that one of the most successful investors in the history of mankind is physically incapable of understanding Bitcoin investment (or anything, for that matter) just because he's old?
The reason for the tinting is really simple - weight. You have to be able to shade the windows and doing this way is less weight then have pull down screens. Everything in aircraft design here comes down to weight reduction.
> WHATWG’s officially recommended[1] ways of keeping up are commit history (quite messy), Twitter feed (primarily channeling commit history as it seems), and—I kid you not—manual diffing of Git revisions.

That is mostly meaningful for browser makers and Web authors that want to interact with the development of the HTML specification.

Web developers that simply want to make things are rather encouraged to search MDN and caniuse.com[0], which provide information about the availability and potential quirks of HTML features across browsers, and link to sections of the appropriate specifications.

[0]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/blob/f8f9c6c222ce79c2f8df1855...
they can see encrypted traffic and that it is being sent to an IP associated with VPN services without too much difficulty, but they won't have granular control/access over your data/bandwidth. Meaning they won't be able to prioritize some of the sites/services you access over others because of the encryption. they need to throttle everything or nothing. And they won't be able to see any of your traffic or the sites you visit whatsoever.
You can fool a human with makeup and prosthetics coupled with other fake ids.

This exploit isn’t practical as it requires 3D scanning the victim’s face. Similarly the touchID exploit isn’t practical so no one cares.

This method is much more secure than passwords that also get exploited by cameras or just brute forcing the 20% of pass codes that are “00000.”
It could go a long way towards getting people involved in FOSS systems development.

I think you could avoid a lot of those bricking issues using btrfs snapshots.
The author sort of covers that in this line:

>I counter that just about nobody thinks of American cash as an investment, except for perhaps currency speculators.

Of course that sort of ignores the fact that bitcoin investors are currency speculators...
It's not "fake news", it's just a garbage article where the author didn't do any research (or they did, and the author knows exactly what they are doing).

Not necessarily your fault, and I'm personally glad you did submit it as whatever the creators of the new "S2X" are doing to get it in the media, it's working, and the more we can point out how terrible it looks, hopefully we can limit the damage.
I highly doubt Bitcoin is much used for laundering money, transactions are all happening in clear and if you try to hide traces by creating multiple addresses you are going destroy your capital in transfer fees (which are very high right now). It's clearly not the best currency to hide untraceable money.
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As someone completerly uninvested in this whole mania, I still see Bitcoin as something with an inherent value. The real problem right now is that nobody knows what that inherent value really is. Even if the price were to crash 100x tomorrow, Bitcoin would still have some value because of the energy expenditure involved with Proof of Work. Of course people that are "investing" in it now are simply gambling. But Bitcoin itself will pretty much always have some worth because it will be impossible to recreate the amount of effort that went into mining it.
The talk was kind of disappointing honestly

SORRY
Couldn't it also be that he does "get it" and all the young and inexperienced investors/speculators don't?
> It's interesting to note that most of the people who are pro-Bitcoin were born after 1980 or so.

Citation?
Have you tried FreeBSD before? It ships with an awesome binary package manager and a virtual tree of sources for all the packages in the package manager at the same time. You can install the binary (sudo pkg install foo) or cd into the source dir, fetch the sources, patch on a whim, then “make” (even if the project upstream does not use make) and install.
Didn't I just explain it?

Being born in a country and playing chess is not "disagreeing with your state's politics".

And even that description is purposely flippant, and doesn't capture the real main reason why eg Mozilla fired its CEO or Germany bans the Nazi party. Or why many countries ban seditious speech (China, Jordan, and so on).

The reason is that they consider such speech to be dangerous to the security of the state itself. In that, if it spreads, it will undermine the current stability of the state. Also there are considerations from human rights point of view - that people could be threatened and suffer. For example gay partnes might have their equal right to visit each other in the hospital infringed. Israelis would be attacked as they were in Hebron in 1929. Nazis could wreak havoc and go on murderous rampages again. And so on.

What happened to freedom of speech? Well, it's not absolute in many places.

And anyway, equating Saudi Arabia to Israel on freedom of speech is rather silly. Israel allows all religions to come and worship openly. Saudis suppress all non-Muslim religions, and outlaw many types of observance. Israel allows gays to openly hold parades, and much more. Saudi Arabia executes gays and atheists for exactly that. A bit beyond "banning" for "disagreeing with politics". So keep a sense of proportion when you equate things.

Earlier this year for instance: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-ar...
I hear this argument a lot, and don't understand it. It's entirely possible Warren doesn't understand the technical details about how Bitcoin functions. But I don't understand how that's relevant to how it functions as an investment. Mind elaborating about why the technical details are relevant to how it performs as an investment?
Using a blockchain as a ledger device is far, far different from investing in a cryptocurrency.
Netflix does this already, both via direct dedicated lines from their CDN to ISPs and content boxes in ISPs' own data centers. I don't think it can be considered a net neutrality violation since the concept of "neutrality" is still a consumer facing one and doesn't really apply for the massive internet infrastructure between ISPs and large company data centers, CDNs etc.
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Sending small to large quantities of wealth worldwide quasi instantly and with small fees does have a tremendous value. Ask families of immigrants.

Buffet hasn’t even invested in digital tech stocks. IMO, even after all the huge respect he deserves, he doesn’t get this technology. Other than that, I don’t doubt that many current “investors” are only FOMO movers
i don't believe that's true. they won't be able to see what you are accessing other than the VPN as long as you are routing all traffic through it (which you should be). so it's all or nothing for them. They can't really pick and choose what to prioritize because they can't see what it is due to the encryption.
> A lot of other countries dont have that luxury

The intersection of (a) countries with reliable Internet access and broadly-available Internet-connected devices, (b) a useless national currency and (c) effective controls on the use of cash hard currency is small. The GDP of that intersection certainly doesn't support anything close to Bitcoin's price.
How is this being calculated? In didn't see anything.

- You want to look at the order book, not just the last trade to compare the bid on one against the offer on another venue. The bid-offer spread can be very wide on some of these.

- Fees should be included.

- You still aren't pricing in counterparty risk, the biggest risk in crypto trading.

- I don't see CME and CBOT. The most reliably venues (you can replicate the spot with a multileg trade).
Size-wise the A350 is more like a 777; the 787 is more directly competitive with A330neo.

Are they scrambling? Not really. Boeing is making a fair amount more money than Airbus but they’re producing about the same number of planes (Airbus probably has a slight edge in order count). Airbus was formed as a program to address Europe’s concern about relying on North America for airliners. It’s not clear even today that they really care about actually making money from selling airplanes.
There is no such thing as a "Muslim Ban" in America.
No. But there are multiple competing, contradictory and vague interpretations of multiple translations and iterations of a "manpage", with centuries of cruft attached.

The Trinity as a concept is basically just annotated with "you are not expected to understand this," possibly because it attempts to describe a state of divine being which is beyond human comprehension, but more likely because it's actually nonsense.
Spot on. Objects were meant to be close to microservices, although with the limitation of being implemented in the same language.
RPC was meant to allow objects running on different hosts send messages to each other.

That, before OOP turned into the ConfigurationParserSecureProviderCollectorGeneratorFactoryFactoryFactory disaster.
Thank you, I assumed as much.
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Neuro, cyber, slaughter:
Personally I resent the fact that [Google] has done everything in their power as a company to make it so I cannot stream [YouTube] to my [Fire Stick].

That alone has tarnished my opinion of the company.

They had a nice YouTube app, too. Then, just took it away. Even has casting from the YouTube iOS app.

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It's like deciding who gets to sit at the Cool Kids table at lunch.
I think the problem is that you only know if you care about the output after the fact. For example, if "make" runs through, I usually don't care about the output. But if "make" fails, then I want to read the error messages.

As I said somewhere else, we have a concrete solution in mind for implementing folding as GP describes.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/
and
http://www.newadvent.org/summa/index.html

but the former is more like INFO while the latter is more like `man builtins` (that is, it assumes you already know a lot about the system)
Commerce tends to foster conflicts of interest and other ethical problems
How on Earth do modern feminists justify gender-segregation in something as physically neutral as chess?
I'm a bit shocked your first hand explanation was down-voted. Facts should be appreciated even if they do not fit what one would prefer to be the case.

Another fact bit: Germany electricity retail prices were forecasted to go up next year. There is a fair amount of subsidizing of the build-out of renewable energy still going on. Also the network is not geared towards the new energy source distribution and requires investments for which consumers are billed in part up-front before seeing the benefits.

Another fun fact: The subsidies have angered the liberal party (which has become the bearer holder of liberal markets ideology and is anything but left). To stop the build-out they have started putting up significant building permit regulations in NRW, a state where they have recently risen to power. Explaining how the restrictions on land owners fit with their platform requires a few mental twists.
That is a whole lot of opinion, but not much substance. What makes LastPass inferior to these other options?
This reddit-style, highly emotional commenting is not terribly welcome on HN.
As someone who hasn't actively used nixos (yet), only nix (the package manager) for a while:

I have always been curious and dumbfounded why he (Eelco) abandoned Maak (his build system, that I thought, would go together with nix). I think a proper, integrated build system (integrated with nix, the package manager) is a (or the?) missing piece to improve software development.
This is great. I can't wait to use Venmo and PayPal for everything.
The very large spreads you see here are (usually) caused by some unexpected interruption to the usual stream of arbitrage trades. These unexpected interruptions could be anything from a temporary wallet maintenance to an overloaded exchange not accepting trades for a few minutes to people fleeing an exchange due to insolvency (mt gox). If everything is working correctly, then we might get a wonderful situation where users on one exchange are just going nuts for buying a specific crypto, and then it can be very profitable but also usually short lasting. One example of this was the recent run-up of LTC's price.

When things are running "normally" the arb space is pretty crowded especially amongst crypto-crypto pairs. Things like BTC-USD arbitrage between a USA exchange like GDAX and a Korean exchange are more of a regulatory arbitrage than a trading arbitrage (it takes a lot of work to get set up to trade and withdraw money from Korea to the USA to balance the sell-leg of the arb), so I would ignore those as they are really out of the scope of a HN tech discussion.

I think this site has come up before and I might have commented on it. If you are seeing these spreads and thinking about quitting your day job, don't.

Source: I did quit my day job and paired arbs like this account for about 0% of trading volume we do.

Shameless plug: if you are interested in this stuff feel free to contact me, info should be in my profile.
Not exactly. I am not too familiar with christianity, perhaps they also have "schools of jurisprudences"? In Sunni Islam, there are 4 major ones (Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi and Hanbali). There are a few important ones in Shia too (I am not too familiar with them). Here is a map showing the dominance of the schools:

http://lostislamichistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fea...

Saudi is also influenced by the Salafi movement, but it is nestled in the Hanbali framework, which tends to put importance on imams (but not like Shias). The ulema (made up of "important" dudes dressed in robes) in Saudi Arabia has enjoyed a lot of importance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Senior_Scholars_(Sa...

I am a /little/ surprised that Saudi would go so openly against the ulema. Things might be changing there, with MbS at the helm.
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And destroys lives by contributing heavily to CO2 emissions which, funny enough, have an outsized impact on the citizens of third world countries.
This is exactly what I was addressing in your initial comment! This system provides a global total ordering of operations. It's the whole point of a replicated state machine.

The ensuing conversation explored how/why the system provides a global total ordering.
I like to ask dumb questions... So here is one: Are forward secrecy guarantees made by TLS valid in a post-quantum world?

Specifically, say I connect via TLS to a server that uses FS and exchange some information that will be valuable in 150 years. If the entire conversation is recorded at the wire, does quantum computing break this promise? (or have I misunderstood FS completely?)
> he doesn’t get this technology

I'm sure he'd agree with you, but even people who 'get it', might think the tech may find a home someday, while steering well clear of Bitcoin itself.
How rich and/or successful do you have to be to not be imprisoned for being gay in KSA? Is there a specific level of achievement or do you fill out a waiver application?
The technology is not important to the value.
Because people who budget responsibly live within the constraints of that budget.
If you check the micropython forum, you might get help developing a driver. That said, there's this:

https://github.com/peterhinch/micropython-epaper

Which supports this 2.7" display:
http://www.embeddedartists.com/products/displays/lcd_27_epap...

Which is a bit cheaper than the OP.
It's possibly good marketing.
So there is inherent value in burning piles of cash, because 'cash went into creating it'? I don't get the logic.
> “The idea that it has some huge intrinsic value is just a joke, in my view."

It doesn't have intrinsic value. I'm not sure anyone can seriously make that claim. But neither has the dollar or any fiat currency. Money does not need intrinsic value to function as money. People seem to have agreed on that ever since the gold standard was given up.

> "You can't value bitcoin, because it's not a value-producing asset,"

Again, neither is any currency. I'm a big fan of Warren Buffet but I disagree with him on this. IMHO cryptocurrencies are, at least technically, better currencies because they offer better accountability. Now, being technically superior is not enough : people have to use it. Money is a social tool : if nobody uses your currency, then your currency is worthless. In case of national currencies, this issue is solved with the recourse of the authority of the State, who decides that a currency is the currency. For cryptocurrencies, it is solved by social agreement, that is allomimetism.
For me ease-of-use is a killer feature. Do any of the alternatives you suggested sync automatically between devices? Do they auto-fill?
This seems really dumb to me. There are still plenty of people who use cash (old and young) and ATMs installed by super markets and banks cost almost nothing to run and only generate value for the installer by increasing the chance people will spend money in their store. If they had said '50-100 years' I would say it's sensible, 'a decade' is click-bait. Also why are we linking Daily Mail articles on hacker news?
Sure. But it seems faaar more likely that Buffet has seen this before and those who are pro-Bitcoin and haven't watched similar commodity/equity rushes are not getting it.
1Password does. It's great.
> 1984 is based on WW2 and immediate post-war Britain

and Stalin's USSR.
I don't see the point to buying Bitcoin.

I was born before 1980 (< 1 year before, but still true statement) so maybe I really don't get it, but a "currency" that doesn't have transaction speed or throughput needed for widespread use doesn't seem appealing to me.

I like to read about the protocol and rummage through the code. Reading about hacks/scams and other interesting stories is fun. But my interest has not so far induced me to invest money or computing time into any cryptocurrency.
On the other hand there is X files.

There really needs to be an "engineer plot" genre where plot stays consistent to a small set of made up axioms. "The Strain" made an attempt. It boggles the mind why not in a single one of the zombie stories out there nobody bothered to wonder where the zombies get the energy? The way most of them work it's like cold fusion landing in one's lap.
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Not sure why everyone's go-to after someone talks negatively about Bitcoin is "he/she doesn't get it." Exactly what is there to get?
Well, since you asked.

The documentation is a long way from being good enough. There's a couple of lines about what the expected parameters are and what's returned and nothing else. That's not good enough for me to bother giving the library a try. Furthermore there's no way to link to a page, so it'd be harder to discuss it with the rest of my team.

Secondly, the ajax function expects a callback instead of returning a promise. Unless you're rigorous about structuring your code that's going to end up a bit of a mess as soon as you have more than a very basic app, especially if you're chaining calls. What's slightly odd is that you'd get promises for free if you were using the fetch API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API) instead of XMLHttpRequest.

Lastly there's things in there that look like they'd be quite hard to use. For example, every time you call your addStyle method it creates a new style tag in the page header rather than creating one and reusing it. Your each function uses querySelectorAll to find things on a page and passes them to a callback, but querySelectorAll returns a static node list (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NodeList) rather than an array of elements so anyone trying to modify things on a page with that is going to have problems. That's fine if that's what you want to do, but the documentation should tell the user that's what's happening.

It's not a bad start but it's not going to replace jQuery just yet.
I would wager that it's not actually the ships that are selling the oil.

And I wouldn't normally wager if it's a gamble.
You may be interested in the podcast audio drama "The White Vault".

It's very well produced.
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The fact that energy was expended doing all the hashing does not mean that the "coins" have value. It is entirely possible to expend energy on useless activity, thereby converting valuable electricity into useless waste.
Proper design has little to do with drawing hundreds of little boxes and arrows.

I've seen a lot of horrible designs bundled with visio diagrams made by "architects" and good designs described in a txt file made by system engineers.
I think it is mostly inertia and cross-platform support. Before they were acquired, they seemed to care a lot more about security, instead of just security theater.

They also have some nice crypto features: For instance, I forgot my master password, and they have a one time password reset protocol that lets them send you an unlock code that only works on previously logged in devices.

Also, it has rock-solid offsite backup built in.

Moving away has been on my TODO list for a long time.
What? Bitcoin has never existed before it was created, and it wasn't possible before the Internet, so I don't think Warren Buffett has seen it before unless he's a time traveler.
"Nobody thinks of American cash as an investment, except for perhaps those who invest in it."
btrfs snapshots are the source of all of my OpenSUSE crashes. I'm not sure what the issue is, but eventually it fills up my disk silently with snapshots until the system grinds to a halt.
I agree and it makes me wonder how much the current price is drive by these FOMO investors versus actual believers. If we removed the first group does the price settle somewhere lower like $10k? I don’t really know but the surge is interesting.
> Isn't that what Trump's "Muslim ban" is?

Actually you are correct, Trump promised this in his campaign and has tried to enact it in a few different ways. I am unsure why you are being voted down.
You don't need A. Re B, which countries have a useful currency really? Say Hungarian Forint. Do you consider that a useful currency?

Ok what do you think would be a justified price and why?
Is that a subtle version of ageism ?

Bitcoin is a financial instrument with currency aspiration. Mr Buffet is very much an expert talking about stuff he knows.

On the other side of the coin, recent history of bitcoin exchanges woes showed that "pro-bitcoin" people were not specifically enlightened, they were just inexperienced.

That does not make Mr Buffet right and pro-bitcoin wrong, but you should at least give him the benefit of the doubt and not simply dismiss his points as old people ramblings.
It's one thing to force players to adopt certain behaviors which are the norm in the place hosting it, but an entirely different thing to ban certain players because of the country they happen to come from.
To be fair, all arbitrage is? You are picking up a nickel against a price move with no real guarantee you can execute the other leg successfully.