skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can't believe how many people I came across that still thought money was backed by gold (including myself I must admit). This topic is under the discussion thanks to Bitcoin.

Crediting Bitcoin for an even remotely significant number of people learning that money isn't backed by gold is a bit silly. There are other, more effective ways of learning about that. If you're right in that a lot of Bitcoin fans previously didn't know money wasn't backed by gold, that just tells me that a lot of Bitcoin fans in particular are very ignorant of basic finance, and their developing Bitcoin fandom is likely in part driven by that ignorance.
sites like reddit are plagued of users inserting brands into the comment, seems like a place full of marketers...
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> Not really, it is clearly demonstrated by the popularity of bitcoin in a world with capital controls, WikiLeaks payment sanctions etc.

Everyone I know that is remotely interested in Bitcoin is interested because it may increase in value, it's not popular at all as a payment mechanism outside of illegal circles.

> Most SV technologists would be really excited by the idea of a decentralized, censorship proof forum

Is this really exciting? It sounds like a formula for a cesspool. It seems to me that the challenge in getting anything interesting to happen there is not in the technology, but in the design of the service. There are already tons of places where you can discuss anything that's not actually illegal, including being alt-right. It's just that they're seedy, so nobody normal goes there.
In Copenhagen, there's a similar style restaurant that only uses old world ingredients for similar reasons.

Two Michelin starred, too!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noma_(restaurant)
Oooh, I like that a lot. Many people whose political views I find offensive are people who would identify themselves as intelligent, while generally their views on things seem pretty facile.
In my experience liberals want a Muslim ban too, they just aren't capable of stating it as such. For example, 86% of Egyptian Muslims support the death penalty for homosexuality. It's a simple question, how many of those people do you want voting in your district? How many of them do you want on your school board? Now, I'm fairly liberal leaning as far as immigration is concerned, and I don't support a Muslim ban either. But if you're checking the box that says you think gay people deserve to die, you can kindly turn your ass around and go back to wherever you came from, regardless of your religion. But this "policy" of mine disproportionately impacts Muslims. And by our modern standards of bigotry, that would mean that I support a "Muslim ban."
> The explanation of why gravity is only positive is a complex one, but physicists believe it's almost axiomatic

Isn't that a consequence of relativity, the speed of light being constant by definition? I'm not sure that makes any sense, though, what is the physical unit of gravity N? Jf you mean classical mechanics, than there has to be a negative counterforce by the three axioms of newtonian mechanics and it's just a question of frame of reference.

BTW: Stress on ax-iomatic, as in axis?!
The world wide change in 1914 was going from the gold standard to a fiat money system.

> exchange rates of currency

That was not the topic, the topic was instability in the money supply.

> Nixon

The US official exchange rate was a fiction from 1930-Nixon, because it was illegal to hold gold as a monetary instrument. Nixon simply did away with the fiction.
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The difference with China is as a Communist state, they can make the debt disappear into some bad bank in an instant. One year debt becomes thirty year debt to be worked out long after the officials are gone. There is no downside to them and who in the global investment community will hold them accountable? No one.
Sure. I'm talking about an unimaginably far away future when we've colonized all planets in the universe that we care to, and have unlocked every imaginable and unimaginable secret before us.

Obviously this is a future that's wildly fantastic, and one we're unlikely to ever attain, but... that's part of the thought experiment.
Lol.

The Feminine Imperative is not seeking truth my friend.

We get this and others will lead their beta lives and continue handing their labor and resources over due to the myth of male guilt and shaming.
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tor isn't a VPN service, it's an anonymizer. The end node could still sniff your traffic presumably.
So what? Then we have to deal with the newer h.265 patents, and the even newer patents associated with whatever comes next.

Pushing open formats now means we develop a habit of only allowing open formats into industrial standards, which means in the medium and long term we all win with lower costs.
How to Convert Music Blu-Ray to Hi-Fi Audio
All those things are laughably far away from being actually useful business ideas.
DNS AXFR query would be suitable, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_zone_transfer
> for purely economic reasons, got into Stanford or Harvard.

Can you elaborate on this? I assume Stanford and Harvard had higher admissions requirements (grades, test scores) than my state university? Or is the comparison relative to other elite educational institutions?
I agree with you that more competition is a good thing, but I don't think you can say that hospitals have a different moral vector than drug companies. Hospitals are as much huge corporations trying to please stockholders as big pharma is, they just happen to have people working for them who have a different moral vector. But I wouldn't put much hope in hospitals making a huge investment like this for the good of their patients
Well, I do remember being 25 years old, and now I am going to be 52 next month. At 25 my opinions were quite definitely quite shallow, with hindsight.

That is my source.
Most exchanges that trade Tether display it in a way that makes users think its actual fiat USD.
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>includes a large number of designers and marketing specialists

Oh man!! OMG, you just reminded me of something. During the last dot com bubble I was entering college. I was planning on going into the field so I job shadowed a woman at one of the biggest companies in the world at the time. Her title was "e-business" or something like that. It was "e-[something]" like that and the prefix "e" was super popular at the time. Yeah, it was cool at the time...

Anyway,

The entire time I was job shadowing her (which I admit, was only about 4 hours, they gave us presentations and stuff too) she couldn't answer me the question of what she actually does. What her job was. She was kinda like "oh yeah, I work on this program" and showed it to me. I ask "so you built this? Neat!" and she'd answer "oh no, that's not me, that's the guys upstairs did." The entire time she danced around the question of what her job actually is other than "using a computer."

Looking back, holy shit, that was a big sign we we're in a bubble and that bubble was so close to bursting!! I mean, wow, it was like "we are branching into e-business, look at us [smoke and mirrors]"

It was just a really, really bizarre experience at the time - "Job shadow someone who can't tell you what their job is." I'm sure she got laid off 6-12 months later.

She eventually took me to meet the guys upstairs who build the stuff, I wish I got to job shadow them instead. They were polite, humble, friendly, and down to earth. Oh yeah, and they knew what their job was!

Anyway, I feel we're getting the same way here again - a ton of "staff" in the "tech/web business" who are totally superfluous. That's what it seems like to me anyways.

To be clear, I'm not trying to dis women in tech, after all, I am one myself. I'm not saying all women in tech so no work - I'm saying bubbles bring in a lot of smoke and mirrors.
"Despite his easy laugh and genial manner, he has the air of a man who fears the world is populated by blockheads and scoundrels."

A valid fear.
> Do you think you could become president of the US if you just wanted to? Probably not.

It is more a question of whether the right people want you to.
huh?

you're missing the point here dude; me and the other guy are just saying that it's a similar situation:

> X brought Y together into a nice package that people could get behind and use even though there wasn't obvious inherent value to those who were using the Z beforehand

that applies to AOL and blockchain.
The apartheid government no longer exists because (1) open racism was no longer tenable in the face of an evolving society, and (2) the worldwide sanctions placed on it became too great.

That's fine, but that's also completely orthogonal to the point, which is that:

1/ By most standards, the effectiveness of government has plummetted since the end of apartheid. Crime is up; corruption has increased; resources are running out (nation-wide electricity blackouts last decade, now water); etc.

2/ Open government-sponsored racism still exists today, but most of it is considered to be commendable under the banner of affirmative action.

If we were to take race entirely out of the picture, the apartheid regime would be considered far more effective than the ANC regime. That, of course, is neither realistic nor fair… But we should aspire to a post-racial world where we race is no longer relevant, where both apartheid and affirmative action are considered revolting abominations, but also where we judge governments based on their net effectiveness.
Maybe I'm just dumb. But I read tfa twice now, and I can't find a hint of an explanation. If I read an article is titled "Why People Dislike Really Smart Leaders" I expect to read about why people dislike really smart leaders. I feel that perhaps this article is just clickbait.
> Its going to be used to build things like a decentralized, public web of trust that can be used for open, public uber & airbnb clones.

It's already trivial to build those clones without blockchain if users give up a small amount of trust, and that amount of trust is basically irrelevant to the overhelming majority of users. And the advantages of non-blockchain development, in return, are huge.
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There are numerous federal regulations concerning the manufacturing of cars.
Instead of making demands the 99% would do better to start their own companies, prove why the above even matters, then start their own incubators to compete with Stanford or Sand Hill Road or whatever. Whining how other people aren't doing what you want, is stale. Demanding that other people do things for you, signals weakness. Take what's yours and be successful on your own ingenuity.
Discrimination... men should be creeped as much too.

The injustice
We need to be savvy enough or real world wise enough to understand that our technical knowledge loss to these nations could and should have been kept from happening made very difficult to transfer such knowledge to these nations. We financed our own demise. More recently, Companies such as Global Crossing enabled the deployment of otherwise unaffordable means of connecting these nations to fast networks that allowed them to accelerate their taking away our jobs and technical know how. Suffice it to say that our retirement funds invested by wall street firms financed companies like "Global Crossing". By the way, for all those people whose retirement funds were invested in Global Crossing, they lost it. The Chinese army known as the PLA has a unit devoted purely for hacking into American and European defense contractors in order to steal and suck away every last bit of engineering data. Any way I will stop. I should not have opened my mouth. sometimes its better to shut up.
Yes, you don't agree with what I said so you attack the author and not the content.

Webpack is used for a lot of things -- that it should not be used for. As I posted above many of the things it is used for should out of band of your blunder.

HTTP2 removes the need for bundling by allowing a smart web server either learn, or be told what files will be required for rendering to be pushed on the first request from the client. This eliminates the multiple request / and connections required in HTTP1 -- even with 4 pipelines that can be a lot of round trip request. If your application was not smart enough to know what to push to the client HTTP2 can allow multiple request over the same connection again negating the need for bundling.
Launch a coin, sell some Bitcoin mining gear, etc.
I'm trying to document the internals:

https://chrissherlock1.gitbooks.io/inside-libreoffice/conten...

I've also been, on the quiet, go through the commits and summarise it better. Before 2009, there was this insane way of grouping commits and it makes it hard to know who did what to the code!
Fairweather Studios Released a Time-Management Zombie Demo; 'Mall Security'
I was responding more to the comments in this thread.
Scientists are making carbon fiber from plants instead of petroleum
A loop calling nanosleep() to wait for the next interval, with the process using a real-time scheduler policy (SCHED_FIFO or SCHED_RR) should be stable enough.
Twitter Suspends House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Account
I think both of your statements can apply to any President. For instance, Trump has called for "fire and fury" against NK and "bombing the hell" out of our enemies. He's embraced torture as a mechanism for obtaining information and a cursory Google search shows that Gitmo conditions have gotten significantly worse over the past year. Frankly, this seems like a misdirected personal crusade of yours against Obama when virtually every administration has blood on its hands.
Innateness, AlphaZero, and Artificial Intelligence
Suspended account: https://twitter.com/HPSCI
the memo will not be tweeted
Congress Approves Six-Year Extension of Surveillance Law
You're right. There isn't a hardware store in that picture. You have to go an entire 0.8 miles away[1] to get to one of those or 1.1 miles to get to a different one[2].

There also isn't a grocery store in the picture. You might have to go an entire block to get to one of those[3] or 0.5 miles if you want a different one[4].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lindy's+Bon+Apetit,+2040+I+S...

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lindy's+Bon+Apetit,+2040+I+S...

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lindy's+Bon+Apetit,+I+Street...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Lindy's+Bon+Apetit,+2040+I+S...
You actually do need approval for selling cars -- EPA and CARB. Similar organizations worldwide.
Part of good communication is knowing your audience.
The Kolakoski stream
> Just in 2016 he dropped more then 20k bombs, in countries which we were not even at war with. Many in Africa. It was surprising how little flak he got for it

Do you know who he dropped bombs on and why? You make it sound like he dropped bombs for the fun of it.
Keep in mind your browser isn't the only app you're running that makes network connections, and it's not even the only app that makes network connections that runs network-supplied javascript. I wonder how much research has been done into Electron apps like Slack and Whatsapp from a javascript exploit point of view?
Don't worry. You'll see it show up here about a zillion times more.
Shared space
That's interesting - even if they can prove chemically they're producing something that's already been approved?
Shrinking the kernel with link-time garbage collection
It should be on the IRS website. They determine the "useful life" of various capital goods and the set the depreciation schedule. Another example I believe is that cars have a 7 year life for tax purposes.
i was once a fan of arch linux, loved having the control of compiling everything. how well is this supported for raspberry pi? it's always nice to know that vendors have tested the exact hardware that i'm using extensively, even if it's just another arm device that looks and smells like the others. also, what package manager is used by arch? it's been like 10 years since i last used it.
That's where it's important to consider the often sprawling nature of suburbs and how they're inherently unwalkable. While that is definitely a problem, it seems to be a sprawling problem.
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When I see hand gestures controls, my first thought is: it will be very painful very fast! It does look great in Sci-fi movies, but IMO it is not very practical.
Wait... you're worried your OS will be so overkill you would create your own, but you're perfectly fine using Electron?
That is part of the approval process.

https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/BuyingUs...
I don't see this as evidence that economists => inequality. Even if we accept the notion that economists are directly responsible for growing inequality, it's worth remembering that there are disagreements within their ranks.

I would argue this is when most economists lost influence in Washington, while a few like Art Laffer gained massive influence. The New Deal era prior to this was largely motivated by the work of noted economist John Maynard Keynes. Although the causality is debated, the New Deal was followed by recovery and economic growth. Economists gained influence in the public sphere because of the effectiveness, real or imagined, or "Keynesian" economic policy. These folks had lost sway in Washington by the early 70s due to the stagflation crisis[1] and the collapse of the "New Deal coalition" after the tumultuous 1968 presidential election.

The late 1970s was dominated by the ideas of economists like Art Laffer, who took an uncontroversial economic idea "tax revenue is maximized at some point between 0% and 100%" and turned it into "the tax revenue maximizing rate must be lower than our current rate" without presenting sufficient evidence for his claim. This was a convenient for some in Washington who already believed this to be true, and thus the "Laffer curve" was born. The following era of deregulation and lower taxes on the wealthy likely played a large role in increasing income inequality.

[1] The causes of stagflation are still debated, but I am convinced this was directly caused by the OPEC oil cartel using it's market power to quickly inflate the price of oil by 400%, creating a massive supply shock that started the stagflation spiral.
wow, cool stuff, will check it out!
Particularly as the pronunciation is strange. Strange place to break syllables, and I'm not sure the second vowel is a 'e' in most pronunciations.

/a-sim-TOT-i-klee/
The size of your employer has nothing to do with your contribution to housing demand. A million employees of two-person startups have the same effect as a million Googlers, assuming similar budgets.
I don't understand how you would have self-executing loan contracts and a permissionless platform for trading of debt instruments without blockchains. I see this as an ideal use of the blockchain.
Kaiser getting into the drug business would be awesome. Insurance, Hospitals and Drugs all under one roof.
OpenAI is hiring infrastructure engineers
good support for raspberry pi or general arm support?
You need to study the VCL (Visual Component Library). This is actually divided into a sal (system abstraction layer) which is the bit we can port so we can use it on different platforms (Windows, GTK+, KDE, OS X). Then there is the "stable" (I say that advisedly) bit, which is based on the OutputDevice class, which spawns the Printer, Windows and VirtualDevice classes.

The best thing that could happen at the moment is for OutputDevice to be gotten rid entirely - it's a leaky abstraction.
I'm not sure how to begin answering the moral question of what bad thing is worse. I do know that the answer is uninteresting to me. We just shouldn't be doing either of those things.

I do not believe the Obama administration used more drones because of public backlash against torture. Correlation does not imply causation and all that.

It could easily be explained that because torture doesn't work there's no reason to risk more lives to capture someone alive. It may be that drone technology just advanced and became an option or an easier option. I can think of a lot of possibilities but I have no reason to believe any of them.

Is there a name for this kind of fallacy?
Man. I really like that idea, but is giving a random "success" to a supposed credit card charge PCI compliant?
Even in the US, I can't pay a $5000 invoice on a credit card. That's over the threshold where either they accept a purchase order, or we can't use them at all.
* Myrddin

* Terra
(In case they are watching me right now)

Good job!

This is great!

I fully support!
There is a simpler explanation. It is the Peter principle.

A person is promoted until failure. All else being equal, if two people are leaders, leader A will be on average as good as leader B. If one were significantly better, they would be promoted to the next level - eg a retired philanthropist billionaire or enlightened monk or what have you.

If P and Q are qualities correlated with leadership, if P and Q are independently randomly distributed, then a leader with higher P is expected to have a lower Q.

An analogy: farmers who grew 2 truck loads of bananas meet up to compare farms. On average the farms are 4 square miles. If farmer Joe tells you his farm is half a mile wide, you might guess it is 8 miles high, because the area is expected to be average. There was no causation at work — having a half mile wide plot did not cause the plot to be 8 miles tall.

Why should we assume that there is a causal link between high iq and being disliked, when it could be chalked up to correlation between factors of an equivalence relation? High iq allows non-charasmatics to function higher than they normally would, just as charisma may make up for a lack of brains.
While some important records are public, many are not. It isn't obvious that all debtors want the details of their debt made world-readable, for instance.
Apollo astronauts often fell behind schedule on the Moon
Are you proposing that investors give money to founders without meeting them first?
>In fact, it very probably is a tech-specific problem. Among the STEM fields, CS is almost uniquely imbalanced.

sounds like you equate the toxic environment definition as given by the article with the issue of low representation of women. Well, do you really think that the environment isnt' toxic (as defined by the article) in the industries where women are over-represented? I mean do you really think that the employees aren't treated like replaceable cogs or companies don't pursue profit and growth as the first and foremost priority in hospitality or in the clothing sewing industry ?
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The whole cat and mouse game thing... for some strange reason that sounds fun to me. Probably because I don't know the details and the workload involved in actually doing it (and it's not my money or inventory at stake). It seems like it would be exciting, in that somewhat naive juvenile-ish fantasy sort of way, to try and figure out how to mitigate the threat, implement it quickly, and deploy it to watch it play out in real time on live production servers. I don't know, maybe I have the wrong idea about the whole thing?
Is it time for open processors?
There are Chrome extensions that automatically pause the video.
Are they though? Sure we say we don't torture people but given a realistic choice between taking someone alive and killing them don't we generally favor capture?