skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This means that miners in these areas operate with a 1500% profit after buying hardware equipment (1500% is computed with current price of 1btc=$16000 and the break-even point at 1btc=$1k). So are they scaling up and buying more hardware as fast as they can?
I responded to the question what was asked.

>Just a hunch: No-one in the industry with the means to do anything about it thinks the trend is sustainable enough to invest in a 6mo-1yr setup followed by another year before profit?
Does the supply of miners not affect the reward? What is the average ROI for these miners? Do you know?
That's temporary.
No, it isn't open source. It's similar to GitHub Enterprise.
Decentralized _operation_ might be ok but decentralized management and oversight seems to have not worked out. "Market Forces" don't seem to produce good architecture.
That's not true. Network hash rate has increased dramatically too.
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We have spent a lot of money, energy, and lives in order to give glory to and protect the importance of an imaginary being in the sky....
Well, the command line/voice interface is really useful once you know what you want, it is less useful or even a deterrent if you are in an exploratory mode. I've had several occasions where I just want my regular pizza ordered without having to click a thousand buttons and sit through an IVR. 10 kids are coming home for a party - they'll all eat cheese pizzas with no toppings.

"Ok Google, get me 10 Margherita pizzas by this evening" is super convenient.
From the bug it looks like a smattering of Xeons, Celerons, i5s, not sure what's "specific" about it from first glance.
Oh my god why didn't anyone tell me about this? This looks freakin amazing!
My general dislike for Atom wasn't anything to do with the editor itself, I've just always been sore they used CoffeeScript which is a language I personally _loathe_. I was excited to have a sublime replacement I could hack on, but that killed it for me. It was that it was so inaccessible and for such a asinine reason (a language purely for syntactical sugar). JavaScript is the lingua franca of the internet for fucks sake... I'll stop ranting about that.

BUT NOW.. for anyone else like me-- it looks like, from my quick glance, there's not much CoffeeScript left in the repo. So maybe it's time to give it a chance again.
I got the audio book... "Stock"?
> I am surprised Germany doesn't have more dominance in the field

Germany's power grid is well-connected to its neighbours. During peak production of renewable energy, it is "exported" to France, Poland, Austria etc. These neighbours have a different mix of production and can easily scale down power production from fossil fuels.

[0]:in quotes, because trade within the EU isn't technically export/import
Which was forseen. It was the big “that will never happen.” The fork was never supposed to happen.

If things continue to progress as they already have it will become untransactable. It already pretty much is as far as business is concerned.
Not a fan of MS but VSCode and TypeScript are good products
How you say things also matter. If you are an asshole about shit people will be less likely to share their work with you.
Napster and Limewire were peer to peer but not decentralised. There is no one bittorrent network.

My guess is that bitcoin as we know it now will not exist in the future, but there will be a fork which wins and that fork will take on the name bitcoin. When Napster died it's network was lost, not so with bitcoin, the blockchain will fork and a fork will win.
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Not really exporting energy, the energy isn't being exported to another country. From an energy perspective, they are converting heterogeneous energy sources into homogeneous waste-heat.
That’s what they said. Then it wasn’t. Then it forked. I wouldn’t be surprised if it forks again.
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I don’t think there’s any debate that the information WL releases is factual. The only complaint I hear is that they are not shining their flashlight where some particular entity wants it shined. The obvious answer is more flashlights, not to smash the bulb of the single light we have.

There were very few complaints about WL until they exposed Clinton.
Hey @charbz great project! How can I get in touch to provide some feedback?
+1. I used to upgrade to each new release of Mac OS X in the first few days. That policy worked for many years, but my experience with High Sierra was so bad that I downgraded and never looked back.
The best analogy seems to be trespass. A store generally allows anyone to come in. Absent any kind of notice you can go into a store and take pictures. But if there is a big prominent sign on the door that says "no photos allowed" and you go in and take a picture, you aren't just subject to being thrown out. You are (depending on some nuances of state law) committing criminal trespass. Likewise, if for whatever reason, you've already been thrown out and told you are never welcome back then the minute you step in the door you are trespassing.

I don't see any reason why e.g. a website that prominently displays a notice saying that scrapping tools aren't welcome and that puts in place reasonable measures to prevent scrapping tools from being used, shouldn't be protected by the law of trespass from people that deliberately evade these preferences. Likewise, I don't see a banned HN poster that creates a new account shouldn't be considered a trespasser. Of course there are issues of prosecutorial discretion and limited law enforcement resources, but that's a separate question than what should or shouldn't be criminal.
Thanks. I thought I was going nuts, too.
You are legitimately the most retarded person I’ve ever encountered on the internet. Thanks for wasting my time.
This is a genuine question. What value does bitcoin have if not as a currency? What use case is there?
I just want to point out that WhatsApp controls the WhatsApp's client, so who the fuck cares about the server?
I think it was supposed to be a joke.
I don't know how you can make that claim with a straight face. Wikileaks has played a ridiculous coy Was-he-or-wasn't-he game with regard to Seth Rich to the detriment of his family and national discourse.

Meanwhile, whistle blowers have gone to major media organizations again and again without being hung out to dry. The Washington Post didn't hang out Deep Throat to die - his identity got revealed by a family lawyer 3 decades later. Süddeutsche Zeitung didn't out the Panama Papers leaker. Most of 2017 has been spent with major stories covering the airwaves based on whistle blowers from within the White House. Edward Snowden's name got revealed at his own request.

Let's not be disingenuous and act like there aren't responsible organizations and journalists dedicating their lives to aiding whistleblowers and publishing the news in a responsible manner.
I did think the same thing, but you can't blame that on him. Blame IBM/Akamai.
It happens with streetlights in Belgium: https://nytimes.com/2017/12/12/world/europe/belgium-electric...

“Streetlight consumption translates into profits for electricity producers, distributors and the state, he said. The profits of electricity distribution companies are paid out ‘in dividends to the local municipalities that own shares in them, and in salaries and stipends to the local politicians who sit on their oversight boards,’ he explained.“
I imagine balance will be tricky. Too few flights and customers get frustrated because they can't get seats or decent times. Too many flights and you lose money. This is probably why other airlines have peak/offpeak pricing in the first place to solve the load problem.

Whats the minimum number of months to subscribe for?
That's exactly what I thought this item would be about before I clicked it.
Sounds like one way to stop the bug. :P
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Web assembly.

Llvm won't use it for anything. (I think it starts putting things at 8). Trying to access it explicitly in C will generate `unreachable` instructions.
Yep, the best ASIC Bitcoin mining hardware is almost always sold out... at least until a new better ASIC comes out.
Agreed. FCPA is ruthlessly enforced. And for good reason.
I posted another comment above but it reflects on this one as well.

The difference is that napster was centralised even if it was peer to peer. Bitcoin cannot simply disappear in the same way that Bittorent hasn't disappeared, the paradigm is different as there is no central server which tracks the nodes.
These days. 20 years ago people hated on Emacs for the same reasons they hate on Atom now.
We just removed that clause (also replied to your other comment about it). Didn’t intend for it to be in there; I agree it’s silly. Thanks for pointing it out.
I know hardware is a sunk cost, but you should probably put some amortization in there.
Google uses this 'shocking' strategy to hire the best employees
I really don't understand this statement, the energy isn't being transferred between power grids or otherwise exchanged as energy. The energy consumed during mining no longer exists as grid-based energy, it is waste heat. You don't get it back at the other end of another transaction. From the point of view of energy transfer for use in a power grid, mining has a 100% loss rate.
Way to early to know that for sure. Lightning is not too far away.
It appears to be known to the exploit. I feel that this is being so overblown and that the exploits we are seeing require more info that something in the wild would have.
Seriously, HN? One comment mentioning that flying might not be the form of transport we'd want to encourage in 2018, and it's downvoted to oblivion. I'm disappointed.
Why would you need a proof of purchase? Intel can verify that it's its own unpatched chip out in the wild being returned for a recall. It doesn't matter if it's the original owner or a woman 15 owners down the line, it's still a loose security flaw out in the wild; who knows where or who whose network it will wind up. I don't need a proof of purchase when I bring my Ford in for its 10 recalls a year. I don't even need to care about which dealer I bring it into. It has to be fixed. They look at the VIN and if it's not marked as fixed they fix it.

Is there a market of 99%+ seemingly authentic fake Intel chips out there?
Pretty much all the early adopters who sought to use bitcoin as a currency have backed out because transactions aren’t confirmed for days, in which the price swings wildly, or transaction costs are insane, or some combination of both.

And what about privacy? At least with banks you have some. Or with cash you have the ultimate privacy. With Bitcoin every transaction is public and permanent. You’ve got to convert to dollars at some point, because bitcoin is no longer really transactable itself, and once you do your entire spending history is now available to the big bad government.
GitHub search is pretty useless if you want to rely on it to find all uses of a given word, say during a refactorization

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43891605/search-partial-...

So, you end up having to clone all repos locally and grep for the word.

Just pointing out that limitation of search in GitHub, not saying that this other tool is actually reliable to do this kind of things (I haven't used it before)
CBS All Access is a terrible streaming service, and I wish it ill
> They use Tumblr as their blog platform

Wow! professionalism++
Dismissing political affiliations I think people can agree this would be good public policy in the sense that it increases human welfare (for example, Mankiw influenced my economics education positively, even if I do dislike some of his politics. Another: Musk also supports a carbon tax, but is not politically affiliated with the GOP).
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This spec may only be usable by provider issuing certificates they manage on behalf of their customers. It's possible the protocol is unusable on a shared IP address for customer-managed certificates.

Even today, there are many hosting companies where you can go ahead and setup an account for "gmail.com" - and they will happily direct messages from their customers intended for "gmail.com". And there are hosting control panels where their "solution" to this problem is to have a hardcoded list of high value targets for which end customers cannot create accounts.

But the general issue is that providers need to be mindful of what changes they make to their routing tables. Not all inputs to the system are trustworthy.
Licensing doesn't stop people driving cars from charging into others, killing them. It's not going to stop bike riders who are inclined to drive with such recklessness that they endanger their own life from driving with that recklessness
Yeah, it does look bad if the price is so high that it's literally impossible for miners to profit.
I always hear people saying that on MacBooks it is.

I wish someone could verify.
Just hire a woman who is in her 3rd trimester and you can cut that baby down to 3 months.
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"Haha, look at those petty fights, we are so much better" (without details) under a clickbaity headline makes you look quite petty yourself and is unworthy for HN. If you have something interesting technically, write/submit details about that, posts like this certainly do not inspire me to investigate it on my own.
Did you read this point of the comment?

"I don't want to put my life in the hands of someone who is worried about where their kids' next meal will come from."
LE "created" this issue in the sense that they were the first to formalize an implementable specification for automated verification of authorized domain name use.

In comparison to the prior relatively unspecified approach to verification, it's still an improvement.

"The last person who touched needs to take ownership over anything anyone can blame on the change" is the management style which leads to enterprise IT being unable to get anything done. Because at that point, the safest thing is to never change anything - regardless of how bad things currently are.

Sometimes the world changes, and other parts of the technology ecosystem need to adapt.

[Editing to add since I can't reply to you]:
The fundamental "flaw" here is that it's possible for people to get self-signed certificates served for domains where they haven't validated ownership of the domain.

Hosting companies can't be simply adjusting their routing tables for anyone who asks. If you are pointing a domain name at an IP address which will accept routes from any untrusted party, that's simply not a secure situation.

A signed certificate might be good evidence of some authority for a domain, but a self-signed certificate used in a challenge process most assuredly is not.
> Personally, I find it to be absolutely horrendous.

Why is that so?
I will not be updating. I have yet to see this mythic JavaScript exploit, and I see too many other ways I, as an end user, can be affected.

I haven't even seen a proof of concept exploit that has the same conditions as in the wild. All the POC exploits seems to have been given some assistance in various ways (such as being given root perms or a preknown memory address).

Does anybody have an example of this JavaScript exploit or any exploit that would work in the wild?
Forking is positive and healthy. It's how they innovate.
Potential solution: all participants will only start sending new messages to new participant/key if his "joined" message was signed by chat administrator (which they can verify). Server cannot fake this sig as it does not have administrator's key.
"All else being equal".

Besides, it increases equally for all miners, so a rig that existed on Nov 1st and was profitable would still be profitable now at Nov 1st exchange rate and today's difficulty. Only the rate of profit/day would change.
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Its the first way to have a trustless, digital cash system as opposed to a digital payment system. In a payment system, people essentially exchange IOU's. Like writing a "good for $x note" or cheque. Payments always incur counter party risk, and thus can only happen among users who trust each other - or they must rely on a trusted third party (bank, paypal, credit card company etc).

Bitcoin allows peer 2 peer cash settlements, where users do not need to trust each other, because there is no counter party risk since they exchange something of value. Think gold, or although that is somewhat confusing, paying with bank notes (bank notes really are IOUs, but issued by a bank or central bank, so when we use them, we consider them valuable because we trust the bank, not the person paying with them). With cash payments, you dont rely on a third party, you dont take on counter party risk, you exchange things that actually have value, that you have to be sure can not be forged. Sounds trivial, but its a really difficult thing to pull off. Even in the real world, its not easy, bank notes can be counterfeit, gold may be fake, etc. In the digital world, its even harder because you also have to make sure each coin can only be spent once (its trivial to copy data). Bitcoin was the first solution to this problem.
source: https://np.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/6ufksx/am_i_...
Just FYI this reads to me as “we are also paying them peanuts.”
Intel needs to come clean about Meltdown and Spectre
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WaterDeeply is just one 'single-topic platform' that NewsDeeply[0] creates. I follow their Syria deeply platform and find that incredibly helpful when I see a bit of mainstream news coverage, but it doesn't provide enough context or detail for me.

[0]: https://www.newsdeeply.com/
Rumelhart is a consistently good writer. In general though I think you're right and it's just a survival process that makes old articles seem high quality.
By then it won't matter. The patents on h.264 will have expired.
"Which means that the difference between the third-best-selling book of the year and the No. 1 best-selling book of the year can be more than 500,000 books, an increase of 100 percent."

This feels quaint in the startup world, where your #1 winner can easily return 10x your #2 winner, and everything else returns zero.
The complaints might have started then, but Assange was all that was left of Wikileaks at that point simply a joke attempting to regain some form of legitimacy.

In my opinion, the man never had any values and just lucked out exposing some legitimate info, in an irresponsible manner. Finally he just went off the rails believing his own press.
as of today , we only implemented the cloud version running with firebase on the backend , but a localhost solution is definetly in the works. I can send you an email once a localhost version is ready -- stay in touch code.owl.app@gmail.com
You can get a transaction confirmed within 10 minutes if you’re willing to pay $30 in fees. This could change in the future, even if it doesn’t, it’s still remarkable that it’s a possibility. You can also wait 2 days and then pay a $5 fee.

Okay Bitcoin fails. Monero succeeds. Now what dude? Also, I don’t have to convert to cash. Paying a $30 fee for a 10 minute confirmation for a car or house transaction would be perfectly acceptable even in its present form. Still, don’t know why I’m wasting my time trying to communicate with you as you are very obviously some delusional liberal cuck low sentience bubbled nerd like 80% of this site.

Just lol at you claiming banks offer privacy. My personal banker asks me to type my password in on his computer. That’s standard practice at nearly ever american bank. Nothing to stop them from keylogging. And they can freely scroll through all your transactions as you sit there with them.

I can’t believe it’s possible to be this delusional and this afraid or resilient to change. I truly wish I never have to hire or do business with anyone like you.
Butterfly Labs, HashFast, and CoinTerra were all US-based. Then you had KnCMiner in Sweden, Spondoolies in Israel, etc.

I would say that Bitmain was a huge gamble in the early days since the ASICs depreciate very fast and thus any delay in developing them can be fatal. But after selling eight generations of hardware at very high margins they can probably coast now.
Sourcegraph CEO here.

To compare GitHub to Sourcegraph search, here is that same query on Sourcegraph.com (which is Sourcegraph Server running for all open-source code on GitHub):

https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=repo:Kurento/+DISABLE_LIBRA...

It works as expected (and as the SO poster wanted)! It shows desired results that GitHub search does not.

Regexps are also supported...give it a try!
Or, maybe, this young generation grew up with the internet being a tool with actual power. Where before, it was pure novelty, with no real-world consequences of destructive behaviour.

This young generation, based on a study of history, prefers to be governed by agreed-upon rules, rather than "might is right".

Note that I, and probably the vast majority of every generation, agree with this court's decision that ToS are not enforceable.

But the reason is not the challenge to enforce such ToS through technical means. It is the fundamental unfairness of a process that would allow such one-sided contracts to be drawn.

As a counter-example: your philosophy of "I can do whatever I can do" would allow limitless collection, use, and sale of personal information. But I would hope that most people actually do see value in Facebook not being allowed to sell your private images and messages to the highest bidder if they ever choose to.
We can't all be Spectre-tators. :P
Bug report: When I add an invalid link (Like "123") to the Links widget it sends a request to "publicApi/links" which hangs for a few minutes before failing.

It looks like you're requesting the URL server-side to provide a preview, you may want to validate the URL before making the request, or catch invalid requests.
The chatbot/AI race reminds me of AOL, CompuServe and France's Minitel back in the days. They wanted to be THE network, but we all know what happened.

So Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, etc, are all trying to win the AI game, but in the end, to truly have an AI that is flexible and can learn on its own, we would need to go beyond APIs and create a way for machine to understand things, concepts and ideas. This is a massive task that cannot be done by one company alone. It is a new way of writing apps and services.
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It optimizes out the part where you try to do anything.
I really like this and can imagine using it regularly. Do you have any plans to support more color options in the future?
What people confuse often that the Blockchain != Bitcoin. The concepts behind the Blockchain are certainly valuable, but to equate all that value to the value of Bitcoin itself is a logical fallacy.

Folks should learn to appreciate the Blockchain separately from any cryptocurrency. We can have a world where Blockchain is widely used, but we don't use any of 1500+ coins and tokens out on coinmarketcap.com.
It's frustrating, and a bit strange, that there's no (easy to find) video of it in flight.
As far as I know, they're a combination of it being hard work and there just not being enough of a qualified developer community around Pidgin etc. to put in the effort required. I think people generally underestimate the sheer amount of work involved in reverse engineering an IM protocol, even one that's not particularly well obfuscated.
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