skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Usually when that happens someone makes them whole again. Either the perpetrator of the scam is sued, or the government steps in and reimburses the losses.
The train between Washington DC and New York City is (slightly) faster door-to-door than driving, without going particularly fast. It’s at least two hours faster than taking the bus. In addition, it’s infinitely more comfortable than either driving or the bus. Weekend commuting would be pretty stressful without it.
Ah PoS, the "Rich get richer" algorithm.

Ethereum's PoS implementation requires lock up of balances in stake accounts, so it removes any incentive to do transactions.

I believe that ETH PoS will calcify the economic strata, kill all transaction volume, and have the opposite of network effect.
But...government and banks are evil, cried my inner libertarian self /s
Sustained 3% US GDP growth is overly optimistic. We have 0.7% population growth, and no obvious major investments.

The computer boom is mostly over with the low hanging fruit taken. Prior to that we had IC engines and electricity, but nothing on the horizon seems to have that kind of potential to radically reshape society. And to double the economy every 25 years you need regular dramatic shits.

PS: Look at the past generation (20 years) and 3% are unusually good years.
It is impossible to create a "useful" PoW. The issue comes down to incentives. As bitcoin is a decentralized, trust-less system, there needs to be constant and powerful incentives to prevent miners from cheating (by creating forks, or executing any number of other attacks).

The current main incentive against cheating is that miners will lose their invested PoW (compute time + electricity) if they cheat and get their block thrown out. However, with a useful PoW, this calculus changes. Now, the PoW is no longer "wasted" when the miner cheats and gets caught as the PoW is now useful for something besides mining. This means that attacks are much cheaper and much more likely to happen.

One interesting part about this is that you can consider PoW usefulness on a sliding scale. The more useful the PoW, the more vulnerable your coin is to attack. Thus, you can probably get away with a "useful" PoW if it isn't actually very useful. This is one of the reasons why most "useful" PoW schemes focus on something which is pretty much useless (such as finding weird primes and whatnot).
I’m not sure if price is the only thing here. This is really anecdotal, but most people I know who are always first in line to get the newest iPhone sat this one out, citing sort of a “new device” fatigue as their reasoning. Maybe this is wishful thinking on my part, but it seems people are finally realizing that a new iPhone really doesn’t make peoples’ lives that much better.
If the human race was a bit more functional, we might already be living in a Star Trek-level near-utopia.

A great thing about being alive today is knowing how much less humans will suffer in the future. A tough part of being alive today is knowing that you're likely to miss out on it, and will instead suffer greatly.

Our descendants will pity us for lacking medical technology the same way we pity our ancestors.
I am hoping that partnerships with ridesharing companies help with the data collection aspect. If Lyft/Uber could lease a few cars from all/some of these companies, which would probably pay them to be driven around, it might be a win-win for both the consumers and the companies.

Also, faster data collection at scale might reduce the time taken to "learn a city"
If you want to play with A shares, it is almost day trading on individual stocks and the Chinese stock exchange isn't sophisticated enough yet where people actually go and buy funds. Of course, foreigner individuals are mostly locked out of A shares, so this is mostly moot, maybe try Hong Kong?
That's how people justify investing in Amazon. But I don't know how they think Amazon can just stop reinvesting one day and make money. Every business line Amazon has is hyper competitive. Can Amazon actually raise prices in any of their businesses?
If you think $200k in total compensation is fair, then good news. They get more than that.

As for the second part, I regret not getting a job with the NYPD out of high school. If I had, I’d be just about ready to start collecting a six figure pension (I’m in my late 30s).
Yeah that's true, I wasn't actually advocating for ICOs as an investment, I was just poorly trying to be sarcastic.
I apologize, I didn’t intend to pull the thread off topic. Clearly I was interpreting the article differently than most people were. I had only responded so strongly because it initially struck me as being ideological content.
Nokia removes the cardiac-tracking feature that made its smart scale different
> Just because phones run an old Android version, doesn't mean no patches get backported.

It’s a bit of a separate problem but I’ve seen an awful lot of ignored software update notifications on the phones of relatives over the Christmas break. Is there data on the install rate of security hotfixes?
So there's apparently 1.65 billion US dollars in unnamed bank accounts behind Tether...

Cough - yeah, right...
Conventional reservoir-backed hydroelectric dams can be throttled up and down pretty quickly, and can't run at 100% around the clock without depleting the reservoir. The Hoover Dam has an annual capacity factor of only 23%, for example. As solar gets cheap I think that the most cost-effective way to firm it up is to install it connected to the same transmission capacity as an existing hydroelectric project, and throttle the hydro output down when solar generation is strong. There are limits to how much down you can throttle a dam of course. Still it can serve as a hybrid system that marries solar scalability and hydro reliability without paying for battery storage.
Wall Street is now comfortable with the idea of very long-term tech investing and multiple consecutive years of no profit generation...

This is what Amazon has been doing for 20 years.
People don't buy Netflix stock because they think it's gonna be profitable tomorrow, but rather because they expect it to be so dominant that when they start generating profits, they would be massive.
Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know that you could fight a war without weaponry, food, logistics, manpower, or any of the resources needed to support those aforementioned things - like, you know, electricity or electrical generation equipment. I also didn't know that you could move all your manufacturing from a foreign country to your own shores at the blink of an eye when a war breaks out, nor that violent conflict stopped being a thing within human civilization.

It's not an appeal to tradition to tell someone to predict the motion of a slow moving football with Newtonian mechanics.
Worth noting that this depends a lot on the type of service. The DC area MARC commuter train is definitely faster than driving to DC from where my parents live. The train schedule says 96 minutes, compared against 90 to 150 minutes driving according to Google Maps if one leaves at the same time as the typical train I'd take from there. This neglects other factors of course like the comfort of sitting on a train vs. driving in heavy traffic.
Pingdom major outage
I don't disagree that a train is better in many situations. I'm more curious about situations where a city is prepared to make a 1B+ capital expenditure. For example boring a tunnel for a train vs. a dedicated bus lane on the highway + exit.
It's not artificial, it's based on natural laws of computation.

Choosing a particular starting block or blockchain algorithm is arbitrary. Just as choosing a particular metal is arbitrary.

Its scarcity is 100% natural.
I couldn't find any documentation on the fees, and when I logged into GDAX and opened up a market order I saw no fees attached. Is that true? Is there a link? Can't seem to find anything on market order fees.
>Because European know-how and industry, and thus competitive advantage, gets lost.

Is your assumption here that no non-europeans (including the Chinese) have contributed to solar research?

>by a combination of slavery-backed price dumping, industrial espionage, knowledge-transfer extortions (aka "to do business in China you have to find a local partner and work with them") and outright buying of the shells of doomed European companies.

You will need to provide massive objective evidence (i.e. not 2-3 links from googling "china solar" ) before anyone believes that giant assertion. Personally, I neither want a $5000 made in USA iPhone or a $99 bottom of the barrel chiPhone, but YMMV.
Perhaps like gyms there are a good bunch of people who don't use it nearly as much.
Watch the commercial and look at how he uses the mouse. He holds it from the side, with his thumb and middle finger on the near and far sides, instead of on the left and right sides. Did people commonly use it like that?
That is orthogonal to the network effect you see at play here, not contradictory
But would it have gone up that high without the help of Coinbase? Or did Coinbase help spike the popularity of bitcoin so that there investment in Bitcoin would only be up 500x?
Ok, so if we ignore one of the major advantages of trains, trains aren't competitive?
I think Starship Troopers is outright the best of all of Robocop's sequels.

Yes, it is fascinating how divorced the book and movie are in what they think they have to say. I've always felt that Robert Heinlein was more of a provocateur than often given credit for, and while a strange adaptation, I think the movie still has an interesting conversation with the book. I'd like to imagine Mr. Heinlein would also have found it an interesting conversation.

In a way, that's very strongly one of "old guard" Sci-Fi's best qualities where (mostly short) stories flew back and forth on similar topics in conversation with one another. The movie manages to touch on many of the same topics and poke and prod at them and say "I think it would turn out this other way", and that's very much an interesting Sci-Fi conversation, whether you more appreciate the book or the movie they are still saying interesting things to one another (and both strongly in ways specific to their medium, which is also fascinating).
20k wafers / month = 240k wafers / year. So, 2.4%.
Dumb article. He talks about inflated expectations vs. real productivity, but does not give any evidence.

I was expecting some evidence and then I hit "I hope you liked this article."
The iPhone is dead
Sure, it's outlawed - in your suburb. It's not a nationwide ban, though. It's not even (I presume) statewide, or even city-wide.

(It may be true that there literally are no municipalities in the US with zoning codes that allow dense neighborhoods, but I would be highly surprised.)
Seeking alpha is nearly impossible today, as you noted. Yield curves are flat. I'm not sure what that says exactly - obviously it's multivariate - but combined with the rise of cryptocurrency and the current government, we definitely have a unique situation on our hands.

Honestly, though, it's a great time to be young and taking chances. Resources to become an entrepreneur have never been more plentiful/cheap, and the current business environment is incredibly favorable. For now, anyway.
The stance of the US government on this issue is completely hypocritical considering that there's drugs advertised on TV just about every weekend which can cause the ultimate side effect: death. Or is it that the pharmaceutical companies have more competent lawyers than the universities which are capable of dealing with avoiding liability with a clearly experimental treatment?
I agree with your line of thinking, but since they give 1/30 fps frame as 23520000 flicks, I get 1 NTSC frame = 23520000 * (1001 / 1000) flicks = 23543520 flicks.

I was all set to file a doc PR but noticed you have to file a CLA. newp.
Thank you for your work! Is this an indicator that Google is interested in or using Elixir internally or is it just a response to growing requests from the community?
Hong Kong has minibus as public transit, which allows for about 16 passengers per ride. Maybe it is a economical way for seniors' transportation? As it's up keep cost should be lower than a normal bus.
I recently found one of these in a car's glove box and couldn't believe it implied it was a "Get out of jail free" card. Even seems to imply it has an expiration date given the years written on it.

Here's a picture of it:
https://imgur.com/a/0TpcY
You can without a guarantee it will come
> Why do people push for rail?

Because well-done High Speed Rail (HSR) is a blast over long distances. Certainly for city/metro areas a combination of light rail + buses as a web is the best option (light rail having the advantage of running emissions free), but the longer the distances are the better HSR is. The new ICE line Munich-Berlin with 4h one-way is so fast that it's actually threatening flight.

Also, traveling long distances by bus is really bad. Cramped seats, cramped everything.
I think the biggest thing that needs to happen is Lightning Network. If it works like it should it'll be the end of slow transactions / high fees.
This looks very interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.
Netflix has a lot of assets as well, though they are not physical like Amazon's. Original content can be sold again and again for decades.
>> Every business line Amazon has is hyper competitive. Can Amazon actually raise prices in any of their businesses?

They have been for some time. Prime memberships, AWS pricing, etc. The lines are "competitive" but Amazon is so far ahead in most that it doesn't matter.
CLA?
For those that don't know, BitMain's miners are compact servers with an ARM processor and almost 190 SHA256-specialized ASIC chips:

> the S9, which had 189 of the company’s BM1387 chips [1]

[1] https://news.bitcoin.com/chinese-bitcoin-miner-might-be-tryi...
China has to clean up their coal power plants though, they have a lot of them and need the power they produce. They consume ~5x the coal that the US consumes:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=16271

Cleaner coal plants in China are still dirtier than natural gas plants in the US.
I thought that at first blush, but they haven't figured out how to incentivize nodes or prevent spam. Pretty big issues IMO
FileCoin and Upfiring both claim to have this PoW, but their Github repos are empty and their Reddit channels are drowning in shilling.
Taipei does as well, and it's used a lot by seniors as they get to ride free.
Amara's law: "We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run."

Amara's law seems like a common human fallacy but it's also true that it's very hard to estimate correctly a growing trend. We have something that is obviously important and will have profound effect, but even small error in the estimates of technological proliferation can lead to 5-25 year time differences.

Another thing is the hype from outside the field. There are more people outside the field hyping it up than there are people inside hyping it. Investors, media and marketing are are powerful force when they jump in and they don't cool down easily.
The best part about the restroom on Greyhound is when it fills up and then every time the bus goes around a corner it sloshes over. Pretty soon there is raw sewage streaming down the aisle.

Good times!
Real estate is doing well. It's still coming on strong after the '08 ditch. Interest rates are low and demand is still strong. When the stock market tops out, people will take their money out and buy real estate causing another rise. Eventually it will fall again. It seems that there is an 8-10 year market cycle, so it should be topping out soon. A rise in interest rates will be the leading indicator.
* Increased pricing is bad for local installation workers and creates additional displaced workers. Installer jobs greatly exceed manufacturing jobs.

* Innovate on automation.

* Then subsidize our industry, rather than tax imports. Taxing imports simply hurts the industry as a whole. Minnesota solar is a good case study [1]

1 http://midwestenergynews.com/2016/02/15/solar-job-growth-exp...
It's not Kubernetes specific and that is actually addressed in the article!

It's not postgres specific either. It will happen whenever you have a cluster or HA solution which is not intimately cognizant of the app it is supporting.

Shit, it is hard enough to get any database extremely reliable even with their own solutions (Oracle RAC, Postgres SLONY, mysql replication).

Adding Kubernetes / Docker to that mix makes for an interesting life. Caution is advised.
Netflix is the single largest bandwidth user in the world, they don't pay list prices.
You might find this inderesting, Cultures of Corruption: Evidence From Diplomatic Parking Tickets[1]. Apparently, there's a fairly good correlation (if I remember correctly, but the article, or at least a summary, is there to check) between cultures with a lot of corruption and unpaid parking tickets from their diplomats in NY.

1: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12312
Based on your username, I’m imagining Billy Quizboy reading out your post.
Polymer 3.0: New year, new preview
Network effects occur when usage increases the value of the product, as with Google or Facebook. With Netflix, usage does not increase value. It instead creates more revenue, enabling Netflix to invest in fixed costs, creating scale economies.

To illustrate, if Netflix were boundlessly funded in their early days, they could create a product that's just as valuable as it is today, even though they had no customers, and therefore no network effects.

The one caveat is that friends talking about shows with each other does create real network effects, but not what you're describing here.

Cheers
In that case, you'd want everybody running profitless basic research scientific computations for other people's research teams.

Eventually we may be able to buy cloud compute by inventing a new coin with a proof of work useful only to us, buying some Etherium to back it with (so that there's some initial value to mining it), and then letting speculators put it in there currency baskets to give it long-term value.
Are you saying it's better to keep underdeveloped countries technologically disadvantaged in case your own country worries they're becoming too powerful and so starts a war with them to keep them underdeveloped?

Another way to stop wars is to accept that somebody else is more economically productive and let the whole world benefit from that instead of trying to destroy it.
Just curious is it a very large $TECH_CORP?
Sorry, missed a "by police" there - the number seems to be 987. (May their souls rest in peace.)
Is your argument that governments should do more to stop illegal price-setting cartels? If so, I agree with you.
Is Regulation Needed for Institutional Investors in ICO Pre-Sales?
Ok, but it won't bring back manufacturing jobs. American factories, if they exist at all, are robotic. No more thousands of toiling assembly-line workers. Just a few engineers and attendants.
If your escrow is not subject to some basic laws or threat of violence which prevents them from running off with money, then you're no better off than if you just gave the money to the devs running the ICO directly. The entire point is to build in external protections for the investor.

The idea that you can have large investments and crypto backed companies without someone in the financial chain being subject to external governance is completely unrealistic. No rational investor would participate in that. Large numbers of people will inevitably commit fraud, and they have, as noted by the article.
This seems to be using App Engine's "flexible" environment. It's less appealing to me than "real" App Engine since as far as I know there's no free tier.
Netflix has assets too. They own a whole bunch of original shows and movies. For comparison, The Big Bang Theory has been worth a couple billion to CBS just in syndication.

They also have a worldwide CDN capable of delivering high definition video around the world.

And lastly, they have 20 years of movie viewing history. Their prediction models alone are probably worth many billions to the movie studios.
Even if there was heavy bombardment, it wouldn't be everywhere at once, and deep sea vents would be somewhat protected by kilometers of water. (assuming the bombardment wasn't so severe as to vapourise the ocean).

That life was present as soon as earth was hospitable fits with the intriguing theory that extrapolates the origin of life to predate earth, based on the rate of increase in complexity: http://www.davidyerle.com/where-are-the-aliens/ (actual article pdf 287kb: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1304.3381)
Dense suburbs are only "outlawed" because certain places, usually at the municipality level, zone the buildings that way. You know it is also "outlawed" for most European cities to build too high vertically too right?

Also, it varies from city to city (and within cities). Although most of the 20-35 crowd probably would prefer a denser city, old people prefer owning homes with lawns, so they wouldn't even want to live in that kind of place to begin with.
that is exactly what the vaccine is. exposure to a inactivated flu virus.

then, lots of research and crossed fingers that hope any flu's you are exposed to are the ones that you vaccinated against.
This PDF introduces Ada for C++ and Java developers. After a quick perusal, it appears that it would be valuable. http://www.adacore.com/uploads_gems/Ada_for_the_C++_or_Java_...
Here's where the much-admired free market would kick in and stop you from hiking them up too much.
It's outlawed in so many places because of the incentives at work. At the edges of a city, greenfield exclusive neighborhoods have a better chance of holding their value than neighborhoods that let people with less money buy homes on less land. Once an economically stratified city is in place, no one can opt out without losing money. Everyone has to opt out together, and the politics of that are the worst.
Please name the restaurant. I have some connections with Oakland City Council and they can take a look into this.
Tariffs = bad, see https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoot–Hawley_Tariff_Act

1 Business lobbies to get oppressive tariffs promising it will spur innovation

2 Tariff passes, business market value rises because of reduced competition

3 Business stops innovating because there is no foreign competition

4 Business shares stagnate without innovative product line because there is little need to innovate

5 Business lobbies for higher tariffs, repeat from step 2

It can be argued that tariffs are little more than Pyrrhic victories for the industries involved that hold back the nation as a whole and create a downward spiral
Sounds like someone could make a pretty penny selling duplicates, and possibly also eventually flood the market enough as to make the identifier useless. Make money while helping fight corruption. ;)
Why do people push for rail

Visit Japan (or these days China) and you will understand.

This reminds me of people who say, "What's the big deal about electric bikes?" Ride one and you'll know.

See what Japan and China are doing WRT rail and you'll know.
Video cards haven't been able to mine Bitcoin for several years.
Yup, looks like it's time for me to pull out the good ole Amiga 500 from the closet, and use it as my main PC again. Guru meditation errors anyone?