skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Then, one day, ten or twenty years from now, we'll realise that "fiat" currencies have been blockchain based since some un-trumpeted central bank upgrade eighteen-months prior.

Tom, Dick, and Jane may not notice, but I would hope that those investing in that space, and those building out the technology, would :) The general public may not have an appreciation for the complexity behind it, but I assume many of Hacker News's readers, now and in the future, will be working on the forefront of developing this new technology.
And great battery life, for such a light machine.

I liked it much more than my current 2016 MacBook "Pro".
Well, they don't use the word jazz. It's Manfred Eicher's German label. Keith Jarrett, for example, has released dozens (100+, I imagine) of recordings on ECM.
yeah but if the clients will in reality turn out to only be people who want to avoid legal issues then they might be more trouble than you imagine, therefore need to charge more and then based on what you need to charge you might not be able to keep enough clients to make creating/maintaining service especially worthwhile.
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It absolutely boggles my mind that so many people in this thread cannot conceive of a run on crypto. I assume they probably don't even know what a "run" is.

And it boggles my mind that their only conception of failure is some kind of catastrophe or monumental event, like nuclear war, or quantum computing breaking cryptography. LITERALLY ALL THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN IS THAT PEOPLE SUDDENLY WANT IT LESS. Excuse my caps.

If people doubt the future of crypto, then the price goes down. If the price goes down, crypto looks less attractive, so the price goes down more. This can spiral arbitrarily close to zero. No nuclear war or quantum computers needed.

What is being traded is like MMORPG game money or game items. They're only valuable as long as people want them. Crypto makes them unfakeable, but that doesn't mean people will want them.

My jaw is on the floor that this is beyond so many peoples' imagination.
If they actually start issuing tens of thousands of speeding tickets as a result, someone is going to successfully use Oregon's initiative system to ban those cameras altogether.
>But you can host your own emails.

Sure, as long as you don't actually want to email someone else. AWS, DigitalOcean, Linode, anywhere you might want to host your email server, they're likely already blocked by all the spam filters so you're never going to get through.

>You can't host your own Facebook page.

You can't host your own Gmail either, but you can host something awfully similar to Facebook while not being exactly Facebook.
Honestly, I think it's because there's this feminist idea that a woman should bear no responsibility for anything labeled bad that happens to her, especially if it involves anything sexual.

Like most things, that idea began as one legitimately applied to certain, limited circumstances; but that complexity was forgotten in its popularization. Now we're left with an over-simplified (and wrong) remnant that's still treated as gospel.
jerf correctly points out that the mathematicians are investigating the behavior of the mathematical model, not the physical phenomenon which inspired it. I want to add a second point, which is that while it wouldn't be that shocking if Navier-Stokes had blow-up or other non-physical solutions, it's not at all obvious that it has such solutions. People have tried and failed for more than a century to construct them. We know, in fact, that Navier-Stokes is very close, in a technical sense, to not admitting such solutions, as there are very mild deformations of the Navier-Stokes model which do not admit such blowups. Likewise, there are mild deformations which do. The beauty of Navier-Stokes is that it's so perfectly balanced between the two cases.
> Is it ever possible that (a ==1 && a== 2 && a==3) could evaluate to true, in JavaScript?

| Ummm...hmm... no...?

> Wrong. Nothing is impossible. Next question. You are unable to use JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(x)), how do you clone x?

| Hmm, I'm actually not sure... its certainly possible...

> Appreciate your honesty, the correct answer is: you don't. Thank you for your time, we'll be in touch.
> Now absent speculation, the price of BitCoin would be reasonable, and determined by the effort of the miners, since they are exchanging their fiat currency for computers and energy, and that creates a stable layer for the price.

You've got it backwards. The effort by the miners is determined by the price of Bitcoin, not viceversa.

Also, I think requiring what you suggest is a fallacy, since I, as a user of some tech, don't care about how hard it is to maintain that tech, I only care for its utility to me. If that utility is lower than the cost, I won't pay for it, even though the creator might have poured more effort.
Yes, I've been to Copenhagen and they still have traffic lights and pedestrian lights

The fact that you're not prioritizing the car doesn't mean you can leave pedestrians and cars to self-organize
> So the article doesn’t seem in conflict with my HN reading, 80s/90s surviving self any more than me thinking AOL and Broadcast.com sucked back then even though I bet my whole career on the Internet.

I think we agree and I haven't made my point clear. To use your analogy, my criticism was more directed toward those who think AOL = the Internet. I'm not cheering for Bitcoin per se, but I'm cheering for the development of the technology underlying it, and disagree with those here in the comments who are saying we don't need blockchains because we already have relational databases.
The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25761655-the-secret-of-o...
Yes, you're right. Thanks for correction.
Sure, and if I shared your hobbies, I'd probably have trouble wrapping my head around how people could live without a license too.
Heh, my knee-jerk reaction was to complain that that's undefined behavior but for once it's not! The logical operators && and || are defined to establish sequence points due to their short-circuiting evaluation.
Working with a real software project.

A real job is usually: "here's a pile of code someone else wrote! Have fun!". School homework almost never matches that experience.
yes, at very high speeds
Revbird was right. Leap isn't about men trying to claw their way out of the stigma of their industry. It's about women having a place to share their experiences - because right now, it's really common for them not to feel welcome in male-dominated tech water coolers like HN or software subreddits.

Nobody is trying to exclude you from these larger spaces. Though if we want to get rid of the stigma of tech, we can start by making them more welcoming and inclusive.

In other words: if seeing something like Leap makes you viscerally mad, focus on fixing the reason it needs to exist in the first place.
>ASCII_A could be set incorrectly, or have a dumb type, and is more verbose anyway. By using the character directly, the code speaks its purpose.

I disagree. ASCII_A speaks it's purpose (we purposefully want an ASCII A stored here). And one can check the constant's definition, and immediately tell if it's correct. E.g.

const ASCII_A = 'A' // correct

const ASCII_A = 'E' // wrong

So:

return x >= ASCII_A

tell us the intention of the code's author.

Whereas:

return x >= ‘A’;

only tells us what the code does, which might nor might not be correct (and we have no way of knowing, without some other documentation).

So, by those two lines:

const ASCII_A = 'E';
(...)
return x >= ASCII_A;

We know what the code is meant to do, AND that it does it wrongly (and thus, we know what to fix).

These line, on the other hand:

return x >= ‘A’;

tells us nothing. Should it be 'A'? Should it be something else? We don't know.
I would be stunned to see this happen in the US. Culturally we are a long way from accepting such draconian ideas and I don't see that we're getting closer. And even as liberal as I am, I'm glad.
You could have not come off so rude had you changed "dumb" to "not ideal". Are you saying it's dumb that as a country we require vehicle ownership in so many places? Or that people who own vehicles are dumb because they should all take almost non-existent public transit, or because they should lease?

It's lazy to exclaim something so obviously incendiary without following it up with an explanation or a reasonable proposal - "everyone in the country move to a city" not being one.

And for the record, I am from the South, I love vehicles and driving, and I also wish like Hell that we could have trains between the Texas metro areas, and public transit on the freeway corridors to the main business and residential districts. I also know it's a multi-generational effort, if it will ever happen.
This is a good answer to the terrible question. Nice.
>I just don't understand this whole 'lock-in' mindset, it's just absurd now.

If you don't understand it, then it's probably not absurd.

Look into the whole free software movement and the history behind it (e.g. the evils of Microsoft in the 90s).

If a vendor can change a price on something that forces you to pay up or lose your system, you are locked in.

This isn't just some open source ideology without impacts either. It should be immediately obvious to anyone with any business acumen why making yourself beholden to the decisions of a single vendor is a bad position to be in.
Gender is a protected class, so "it's (not) illegal" in either direction is a bit of a blanket statement. So let me try and be more precise.

In some states, AFAIK the "women-only gym" is allowed, but in others it isn't. The point, if I remember correctly, is "exercise requires such compromising clothes and positions, that the right to personal privacy trumps the right to not be discriminated based on gender". And even then, this is not a 100% clear case. Toilets and physical activity follow a similar (although less polemic) pattern.

Having said that, and as far as I understand, you need to show that discriminating based on gender is so important for your activity that it can't be done in any other way. My gut feeling is that, should anyone sue Leap, clearing that barrier would not be trivial.

I would appreciate a lawyer's point of view, and was hoping that Leap had already talked to one that could give a properly researched answer.

Edit: I found a very interesting article[1] about the law when it comes to all-female health clubs. As expected, the conclusion seems to be "it's complicated".

[1] http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
> That when you disobey an explicit traffic signal, you’re responsible for your own fate?

No. That is unreasonable for children, the blind, the intoxicated, the mentally ill, the distracted and the reckless.

It's fine for the driver to be annoyed by having to slow or stop, but they absolutely must do that whenever it's necessary.

> "GREEN means you may go on if the way is clear." [1]

The second part very important. You must always be able to stop the car within a visible distance, and green traffic lights don't change that.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/light-signals-c...
Absolutely true. The 2016 MBP sure has a nice screen and all, but basically half the battery life for twice the price.
Your lease includes fuel?

edit: Nevermind, the "e" in Fiat 500e stands for electric.
Yes, while it may be fun to change values in a careful way, this is by far the more interesting one.

The equivalent of "return true" is so powerful (or, alternatively, is so parsimonious in its use of power, depending on your perspective), you can even make it work in Haskell, where these mutation tricks don't work, because you can declare a newtype with a custom declaration of == that is just "true".
This is the exact reason I stopped using Thunderbird.
I'm a network engineer myself, and I can tell you your evaluation of the industry is pretty spot on. I believe a big part of the solution will be so-called white-box hardware. This will break the Cisco strangle-hold and force network operators to have deeper technical knowledge.
You could get a passport card too, it's only $55.
I'm not very fond of questions in the form "What's the (trickiest|best|worst) (bug|problem|code|thing) you've ever (fixed|written|seen)?"

Other examples are the classic "What's your greatest strength?" and "What's your greatest weakness?"

These are all recipes for brain freeze. If you ask me a question like that I'll probably think of something, but then I'll ask myself, "But was that really the best/worst/trickiest? Maybe there was another bug that was even trickier, or another strength/weakness of mine that's greater/worse than the one that just came to mind."

You can avoid that somewhat by leaving out the request to name the most extreme case: "Can you tell me about an interesting bug you fixed?" Then I could just pick one and start talking about it. Perhaps even better, ask about an embarrassing bug. Those may be the easiest to remember.

Maybe it would be that election results map that started turning states red when CNN was turning them blue? And how the bug snuck in even with three people reviewing the code change? And we could talk about what went wrong and how code reviews don't guarantee correct code. All kinds of possibilities for interesting discussion there.
Any tl;dr's or good insights for a lazy non-video watcher?
> It's Manfred Eicher's German label.

...which since the 1970s has had a huge amount of Norwegian and Swedish (and more) musicians recording for the label, and recording sessions are often held in Oslo or Lugano. German headquarters, but more than just a German label.
>But you’re channeling some crazy madness suggesting that someone would use ‘A’ to mean 65.

Or just an encoding scheme.
I see maybe, I misunderstood. So do you mean whitelisting messages (tweets, posts, any other atomic units) based on content? I think white listing based on content may be hard, especially say images or videos, in a decentralized network. So I thought you mean whitelisting based on identity/id which is useless in mostly-anonymous permissionless network.

(But actually content-based filtering may not be too impossible now that I think..)
Want some help? Why not query some of it?
https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/edit/7837...
For Windows, there is the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator[1], which would allow you to create such a mapping. I used it to map AltGr+s to ß on a Finnish/Swedish keyboard since I found myself writing a decent amount of German.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=223...
Here is a billion particle model (e9) which is a long way from atomic scale simulation (e14+), but not outside the realm of the possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8mP9E75D08
>Providing work to the government without the government paying for it is illegal.

The Anti-Deficiency Act only prohibits "voluntary" services, not "gratuitous" services. Prior to the passage of the law, it was not unusual for cash-strapped gov't agencies to accept "voluntary" services (i.e., no formal obligation to pay for them) but then pay for them later after being allocated more funds. Congress didn't like this so it outlawed the practice. However, if someone wants to donate services to the gov't and executes a written agreement to not accept payment, then it is legal for the government to accept the free services. See, e.g., https://www.gao.gov/assets/450/441639.pdf
A 'bullet' can't be a blank, as a bullet is a (normally) inert projectile.
Sure, but they have different microbiomes.
I don't think that comparison holds so tightly, but if it did it seems to make it worse: ARPANET had significant dependency delays in availability since computers cost a fortune, modems were slow, and you had to pay by the minute for phone calls. In contrast, despite Bitcoin being available to everyone on the first day most people have never had a reason to use it other than speculation.

That said, there were still plenty of ARPANET users in the early days if you look at the subset of people for whom network access was an option. The benefits of email were obvious and group forums like Usenet (1980[1]) had similar quick adoption, at least in technical or academic fields where communicating with people outside of your location was important. Similarly, FTP (1980[2]) had clear value and the pricing made sense more often than it might have seemed since all of the other alternatives cost money, too.

The other thing to remember is that this wasn't happening in a vacuum — while the internet was emerging, there was popular mainstream usage for companies like The Source, CompuServ, etc. starting in the late 1970s[3] and so again there was clearly a business opportunity if you could bring the access costs down. The number of people willing to pay by the minute to chat, shop, etc. suggested that an even large number of people would be interested as that per-minute rate dropped.

It's that last part which makes me question the current valuations: even if you assume that all of the operational problems were solved with Bitcoin, it's hard to see what value it has to the ordinary person beyond possibly reclaiming the ~3% overhead of a credit card transaction — and that's assuming that VISA, et al. wouldn't just lower their rates to beat whatever the operational cost + fraud insurance costs ended up being for Bitcoin.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet#History

2. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc765

3. There's a great series starting with https://www.filfre.net/2017/10/a-net-before-the-web-part-1-t...
It seems likely (to me, as a neuroscientist who studies learning and brain plasticity) that the ability to play classical or jazz or xyz (at very high levels) is dependent on the physical nature of the brain. But you get the brain you build through practice (nurture), not the brain you were born with (nature). The consistent work in a style to understand that style better is what wires a person's brain to play xyz.

But I agree that the article could be written to point out that nurture, not nature, is the cause of these neurobiological observations.
We didn't grant any special entitlements. Cars can't drive on the sidewalk, and pedestrians can't walk in the street. Hopefully, it should be obvious why we have this separation.
it's essentially an explicitly clocked data race. evil.
Not to zero. I'd personally pay $1, probably more, for even 10% of all Bitcoins, just for the novelty. If there were no miners, maybe not much more than that, and I'd want the current private keys.

I'm guessing there's at least someone that'd pay a few million for all of Bitcoin, so maybe a $0.10-1.0 floor, easily? Would be illiquid and hard for small holders to sell though.

Also, quantum computers do not break Bitcoin entirely as in previously unused addresses are safe. You'd need a way to quickly generate keys matching a certain hash. Otherwise you need a ton of hashing power, too, to rewrite the part of the chain created in the time a spend-of-interest was created and you generated matching keys with your attacking machine. Seems like something that can be upgraded assuming a QC-resistant crypto scheme exists.
Oh yeah, Im not saying it's easy, just that it leads to better workflows and efficiencies for end-users.
I'm in a similar situation, but from what I gather lifestyle factors heavily into the "do I need/want a car" equation. Kids, for example, usually mandate a car.

Outdoor activities or any hobby that requires you haul around a lot of gear can also make having your own transportation a lot more appealing.
Yes, this is a stylistic choice some bloggers are using these days and it's pretty annoying. I'm all in favor of learning how to break the rules but in this case it just makes it harder to read without adding any benefit.
Mix it with a pseudo-random number-generator for extra fun.

var i = 0;
window.__defineSetter__("x", function(value) { i = value; });

window.__defineGetter__("x", function() {
// LCG, a = 4, c = 1, m = 9;
i = (4 * i + 1) % 9;
return i;
});

x = 3;
if(x === 4 && x === 8 && x === 6) {
"wtf!";
}
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I never have enough dirty dishes to do a full dishwasher run, and I find I need new dishes before I've run a load, so now I just handwash and use the dishwasher as a drying rack.
I'm wondering whether we will see the same evolution with the current thin MacBook line - from underpowered "concept" to main working machine.
Can parents track the movements of their child through Lyft and Uber billing? If I were a caricature of Uber, I might be tempted to create an add-on subscription product that would let parents of minors track the movements of their children.

The societal effect of something like this? Possibly awful. Many of today's social problems might stem from children being deprived of time being independent/autonomous. Society doesn't need free range chickens nearly as badly as it needs free range children.
This is not possible because public keys you want to crack are in hashed form RIPE-160(SHA256(public_key)). Grover's search algorithm can help with it, but speedup is much less, than with Shor's algorithm and won't be of much help with sha256.
oops i missed that bit
> Sounds like you have a community that you want to exist, and that you have a vision for

I do, that's why I asked the question.
No it's not nonsense at all. A country can default no matter the intentions and attempts of it's government.

There is always a reality. That same reality plays out differently with bitcoin compared to the USD but fundamentally there is no absolute base for either currency nor bitcoin. And history is littered with examples of this.
Maybe a good medium article :) This video here helped start coining the term: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hYOLLO2gc4

[edit]
Invision beat me to it: https://www.invisionapp.com/blog/design-systems/ and also this site [probably the most comprehensive IMHO] lists lots of resources: http://styleguides.io/examples.html
Someone in the FEA/CFD/Simulation industry upon seeing the SpaceX video on their capability indicated that no commercial product he was aware of could match what they were doing. Firewall won't let me confirm this link is correct:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txk-VO1hzBY

SpaceX has best in class hypersonic combustion CFD capability that runs on a GPU. Written in-house.
Oh I totally would argue that position. (I am much more familar with jazz than classical). My main argument would come from how the two camps tend to practice. Generally jazz musicians will learn the 'changes' (key changes, common chord progression shapes) to a song, and the melody if it has one. At that point they start improvising. If they are really good their improvisation will include dynamic shifts and they will have good tone, but that tone may clash with other instruments. A jazz player will often learn a song before knowing in what arrangement they will be playing, and will play the same song in many different arrangements.

On the other hand, classical music has tone and dynamics written into the score itself. The entire point of the conductor is to anthropomorphize these features of the music, so you know when she is flailing violently you should play differently than when she is shushing you. Additionally, the tone/timbre of the whole piece is set in stone by the composer; A classical orchestra would never think it was ok to let the flutes take a melody written for the trumpets, etc.
If a lot of places required snail mail, you could charge to send that. Offer to do digital opt out free as a sort of trial. If there aren't many snail mail opt outs, then I don't see a way to make money from it unless you have it as a loss leader for a legal services automation company.
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Fantastic to see open source alternatives. At a previous job, I was repeatedly frustrated using AWS lambda's extremely closed-source environment.
The api-key does not need to be part of the URL, you can also put it in the Authorization header.

edit: typo