skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Best estimates are that there are about one million
holders of Bitcoin; 47 individuals hold about 30 percent,
another 900 hold a further 20 percent, the next 10,000
about 25% and another million about 20%, with 5% being
lost. So 1/10th of one percent represent about half the
holdings of Bitcoin and 1 percent close to 80 percent
(http://www.businessinsider.com/927-people-own-half-
of-the-bitcoins-2013-12). The concentration of Litecoin
ownership is similar
(http://litecoin-rich-list.blogspot.com).
Most of the big wallets have been in place from early on,
so sitting back and watching your capital grow has been a
very successful strategy.

The distribution of Bitcoin holdings looks much like the
distribution of wealth in North Korea and makes the
China’s and even the US’ wealth distribution look like
that of a workers’ paradise [1]

Both Bitcoin and Ethereum mining are very centralized,
with the top four miners in Bitcoin and the top three
miners in Ethereum controlling more than 50% of the hash rate. [2]

Even taking a conservative skewed estimate [3] of wealth distribution in Bitcoin, it's about twice as worse than normal capital oligarchy. This is because PoW* style cryptocoins allow anyone with capital to proportionally extract the limited supply of Bitcoins/Cryptocoins/Altcoins/Tokens/Etc - but often significantly worse due to how Satoshi style PoW algorithms produce the majority of the supply in a short time frame. Worse yet are the premined networks, like Ripple, NEM, ERC20 Tokens, NEO, Ethereum, and so on.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/bitcoin-inequality-2014-1

[2] http://hackingdistributed.com/2018/01/15/decentralization-bi...

[3] https://medium.com/@BambouClub/are-you-in-the-bitcoin-1-a-ne...

* Proof of Stake will exacerbate wealth centralization, due to statistical probability of block rewards going to the wealthiest, perpetually increasing their odds of further newly minted coins.
^ using social media as trustworthy news source is troubling IMHO. That could only work if social media was under the same legal regulation as press is.

But user ranking is basically FB saying "no, no. We don't do news, that's not our business. Sign waiver here"
We have all of that in C# without the rediculously bad syntax.

It's such a shame powershell didn't come 2 years later, I feel like they'd have had no choice but to use C# instead of inventing a new language.
> > Everyone who is talking positively about cryptocurrencies and making hyperbolic claims seems to have invested in them.

> If you see the promise of blockchain, why wouldn't you invest in them?

There’s a delicate difference between investing vs. investing and telling strangers how they could invest into the same thing.

The former indicates you believe something has merit. The latter indicates you want something to appreciate in price.

Perhaps those aren’t mutually exclusive, you might also believe it has merit, but others will take your words with a grain of salt because you maybe, just maybe, are trying to speculate in it short-term. (Otherwise wouldn’t you try to keep it quiet and invest more and more into it while the majority is unaware?)

There’s the third case, though, and it’s the worst: you invest, frequently praise the thing you’ve invested into, and consistently forget to mention the fact that you’ve invested into that thing.

This would read as: you believed into something enough to invest, you’re eager for it to go up, and you also don’t want your audience to discount your acclaim on the basis that you’re an investor. In other words, lack of investment disclosure (where it’s due) advertises a degree of insecurity about true merits of the thing someone’s endorsing, so those two cancel out, which leaves the speculation motive. The whole field seems to send this sort of a mixed signal, and it leaves an unpleasant residue. The hype is, perhaps paradoxically, discrediting the technology.
I'm all for personal accountability, but these banks have also intentionally "mis-ordered" transactions to make it that you hit multiple overdraft fees.

http://www.wisebread.com/banks-manipulate-your-transactions-...
I don't think your punishment for buying an expensive luxury coffee is the main complaint people have with overdraft fees. There are plenty of people who do monitor their balances. Obsessively. Because they have to, because they live just above the poverty line. Overdraft fees punish those people, often for things out of their control (having to take a sick day when you don't get sick pay, for example. Or just not getting enough hours given to you in the first place!), punishing their loss of money by... taking away even more of their money.

This is more of a debate about society than the specific products a bank offers, but you being daft enough to pay $35 for a Starbucks coffee isn't really comparable to the lives these people live, and the vicious cycle things like overdraft fees can land them in.
This isn't some lone beginner trying to help improve Linux, this is a billion dollar company with decades of experience trying to cover their own ass. Judging by Linus' thousands of emails on the mailing lists, any reply you got would be polite and helpful.
Sounds plausible, given that it's speeding that's one of the biggest cause of traffic deaths.
One thing I've noticed is that if there is a word I only encounter in its written form, I only sight read it and don't pronounce it internally (I remember doing it with "Hermione" the first I read the Harry Potter series). It's almost like there's just a brief silence in my inner monologue. I can see how that might lead to odd pronunciations the first time I actually think about it.
Jewelry and industrial uses do define the value of gold. Gold is not valuable from just being scarce. It is valuable because it is scarce and people want to use it. The price goes down when demand for jewelry goes down and goes up when demand for jewelry goes up.

There’s been a myth created by crypto currency activists that gold is just like crypto currency in that it’s valued simply as a value store, which is incorrect. Its use as a value store increases the value, but at its core the price is still dependent on the uses of gold. Over half of gold mined is used for jewelry or industry[1]. Yes, some is kept as investment, but that investment is based on the idea that people will continue to want gold jewelry.

[1] http://www.numbersleuth.org/worlds-gold/
No priming in video games
The story of CNN misreporting the fish story is true.

I won’t bother linking to CNN directly because they’ve probably edited their original article by now, but here’s a link from WAPO:

https://washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/11/06/c...
I would agree, but I carve a giant exception for chronic, relentless pain. After developing a condition with chronic pain, it's a constant struggle deciding whether to continue to exist or not. Any benefit of meaning is lost, and there is only misery and darkness from which you cannot escape. Modern medication can provide relief, but these days it's a battle to even get that because we have decided that the risk that somebody might "get high" is worth allowing people to suffer.

In related comment, the trend of medical professionals (let's be honest, it's politicians and lawmakers primarily driving it) to ignore and turn their backs on chronic pain patients is comparable in my opinion to allowing torture to continue. Internal wounds are just as real as external wounds, but humans typically only acknowledge in others what is visible. We pity the man with no legs, but we disregard the man with paralyzing and crippling pain.
That's just equivocating on the definition of the term "human language"; that's not what a linguist means by human language.

I.e. your argument isn't really that Javascript or C are human languages as defined by the linguistics professor but that he or she ought to augment or alter his or her definition of "human language" to include them.
What is your company's name?
I would very much say: any form of social media and news should not be mixed. Social media is basically attention whoring for everyone these days, truth or value does not matter much in that regard.
"Navy is not exited to be hard on it's $440m taxpayer funded new toy by using it as an icebreaker. Millions of taxpayers are outraged."

(sarcasm should be obvious)
I got my OnePlus stuck in a boot loop after installing Oxygen OS. OnePlus support scheduled a remote session and managed to flash it back to stock. I was very impressed, I had assumed they would refuse the help because I had flashed it with an unofficial OS.
QUIZ: Does She Want to Fuck You or Does She Like Everything on Facebook?
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As a programmer who knows powershell to an extent, I still make cruddy little console apps rather than piss around with powershell.

That's where powershell failed abysmally.
Just own it, dude - I knew someone who'd pronounce "Puerto Rico" the "authentic" way and make you feel like the philistine if you dared correct her
Whose bright idea was it to sail it down the St. Lawrence Seaway in December?
Please do not make arguments about how proof of work != global warming until you've spent at least a month studying global warming.
> Cryptocurrencies aren’t considered securities

This has not yet been decided [1][2].

[1] https://www.bu.edu/jostl/files/2016/01/21.1_Alberts_Final_we...

[2] http://apps.americanbar.org/buslaw/newsletter/0014/materials...
The British anti-war classic 'Threads' is coming to Blu-ray
A lot of this is absolutely great advice. I struggled a lot in my first couple years of university having to get adjusted to a much more difficult learning environment that expects much more of you than what HS required.

The biggest change for me was when I started to take notes by hand, and re-take them, as a form of studying. Also focusing on understanding the fundamentals of a class vs trying to ace practice material. I went from a mid 70s GPA to 90s.

But I think a lot of where students struggle is just the acquired discipline necessary to succeed. Studying isn't very fun or enjoyable - at most it can be nice to focus and have goals, but most people have tons of anxiety leading into it and procrastinate a bunch. At the end of the day, there aren't any study hacks or anything, it's just that you have to put the time into it, and you have to essentially "learn how to learn".

This was very apparent in my upper year CS classes where I saw a lot of students struggle to do well in exams for what wasn't terribly difficult material. I realized a lot of students just weren't willing to sit down and study the necessary amount of time. I thank my time in microbiology courses where I had to learn to study every night to memorize tons of different concepts and be able to apply them all to each other. I think students in life sciences tend to know how to study more simply because their courses have a lot more concepts and fundamentals than most CS courses.

If you are in college/university and reading this you have to realize you just have to put the time in. That amount of time differs from person to person. I did really well in my CS program, but I put tons of time into it.
AFAIK it has not been formally proven yet, but the general consensus I see among crypto fans is that you can't achieve the goals of decentralized, trustless currency without involving some kind of huge energy waste somewhere.

(It's saddening me that people think this is a feature.)
Using Machine Learning to Process Video from Unmanned Aircraft Systems
That's an edge case. Much as you wouldn't buy a moving van if you need it only once every N years, wouldn't this sort of examples be solved by Uber or similar?

I know it sucks when you have a perfectly serviceable car :) but I wouldn't dismiss an electric car just because of this edge case when a solution is very simple.
I had a friend in high school that liked using it 15 years ago, and I've basically never heard anyone else using it regularly.
> Why do we need any of this? Physics takes care of it if we just hook everyone up to a grid.

That's exactly what is the bottleneck: the grid. Operating a grid, eating transmission losses etc. cost a lot of capital and labor. Not to mention: its also a single point of failure. Whereas communication (through cellphone towers) is cheap(er).

> It’s kind of like saying why don’t we pump and sell well water to one another instead of using a common water supply where the runoff from all our land goes to the same pipes.

Its not the same, and I don't think its a good comparison. Solar energy is much more plentiful than groundwater, and does not require any "processing".
>Shoot, I work at a firm that offers something like 2 months off when bundling paid time off together with corporate holidays, and that's not including all the other tiny time-off incentives that are included that don't necessarily get advertised to new hires. We're headed in that direction as it is.

Same here. I can't remember the last time I worked a 40 hour week. And the amount of actual work getting done on any given Friday is essentially zero. I have no doubt the company would do better by just closing the office 3 days a week.
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lol another job posting. I like these posts. HN is now LinkedIn.
I don't really think that people should need encouragement to do things they want to do. Some might, but if someone discouraging you slightly by saying "you wouldn't be interested in that" succeeds in discouraging you, I'd argue you didn't really want to do it.

Edit: To be clear, I'm not arguing that the active discouragement is a good thing. I think parents especially, should enable their children's constructive interests. If I had a son who liked baseball (a sport I hate) more than basketball (a sport I love), I might try to get him to do both, but ultimately would defer to him.
Hi, I'm Max. I gave the talk that this article mentions, and have helped publish papers about BeyondCorp over the last few years. At Google I work in the Cloud CTO Office. I'm eager to get your feedback on what we can explain better, and answer your questions.
This would be news if the headline read "Icebreaker stuck in Ice since Christmas Eve"
Probably an encoding error. An m-dash is E2 80 94 in UTF-8. (An n-dash is E2 80 93.) I suspect that the original UTF-8 is misinterpreted as ISO 8859-1 or a similar encoding, where 0xE2 is “â”, and the other two are unassigned or control characters.
You have touched on one of the main reasons we decided to launch www.bad-about.com. In a world full of positive hype from reviewers and sales spin from the companies themselves, we thought it would be helpful to collect and display JUST the criticisms to help balance it all out.
> Intel & friends have absolutely disgusted me lately [...] - they can’t be trusted to be transparent or even take ownership of the problems they create.

Well, it's the natural outcome of a system based entirely on competition. When the only incentive is "beat everyone else, nothing else matters" then this eventually happens.
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If I can use music as a metaphor for a second - most of the music I love deeply is probably regarded as ugly by a lot of people.

And I'm not talking about extreme serialism, avant-garde noise sculptures or anything too tricky. I'm talking about stuff I'd be happy to defend on it's intrinsic merits and stuff that genuinely gives me the same emotional response as a lot of the more mainstream music I like.

So - moving back to art - I don't know what your tastes are. Maybe you only like pretty paintings of flowers. But assuming you are moderately eclectic in your tastes I would almost guarantee that a lot of the art you regard as non-ugly was regarded as heretical when it was first produced.

Don't forget that romanticism in music and the visual arts was once regarded as a provocative and dangerously subversive trend.

(Back to music because I know more about it than painting) Handel would have Beethoven incomprehensible. In fact the Große Fuge was regarded as incomprehensible for quite some time after Beethoven's death.

There truly is no such thing as "ugliness" in any reasonably objective sense. Context, culture and time change everything.

EDIT - I've got no particular love of modern high-end art but that's largely because it seems like an elitist, vacuous, cultural backwater than because of anything to do with the supposed "ugliness" of modern art.
Why do all of these OSes have to be so ugly?

It's a major turn off.
Not everyone who buys drugs or launders money are libertarians.
> but I would be amazed if mechanically transporting batteries down a road were more efficient than a wire.

It is, because it doesn't require building a fucking electric pole (or run it underground: more expensive) and making sure its not cut by external factors.
A safe bet is to buy whatever device google sells from the google store. All the nexus and pixel devices sold directly by google have unlockable bootloaders. Recently, google has made things worse by selling ones that can't be unlocked through carriers. From a security standpoint, google's devices are also the only ones that let you verify a third party firmware with your own keys etc. At least that's one of the reasons cited by copperheadOS. I don't think other manufacturers have that feature, even if they allow unlocking the bootloader.
The same thing can be said about war in general, not just nuclear war.
Also this is a cryogenic rocket which has to be kept cold and launched soon after fueling. Not terribly good for nuclear launches.
Wow, I was going by who currently works for Blockstream, and who contributes to Core. Your list is not that. Luke was never an employee at Blockstream, Poelstra doesn't contribute to Core, Maxwell has left, BtcDrak only "supports" Blockstream, in your opinion etc. Perhaps Timón is still there, and I'm very sorry if I forgot him. I assure you it was not on purpose, and I'm sorry to see that you assume bad faith. I didn't mean to be "disgusting".
The title is a little unclear. They are asking for the right for union members to switch from their current 35hr week to a 28hr week for a two year period then switch back. Sounds good for young family or other family situations.
Fundamentally this is the difference between 'organizations' and 'institutions'. In the former, the culture and operation are contained in the people who are part of the organization, in the latter the culture and operation are contained in the rules.

Institutions are much harder to set up, they require that you consider that evil people do evil things, so you have to set up rules and processes. The execution of those rules and processes have to span enough people that a conspiracy would be unlikely. It doesn't always work of course, people find ways to subvert institutions (the zero day exploits of their time).
Buying out competitors is anti-competetive
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> If a mall shuts down, the stores don’t get to stay open.

Good luck blocking access while they're still renting. I can't even plausibly imagine that happening in a strip mall, where the entrance to the store is outside. Which is the best analogy to a park.

Everything else you mentioned was about employees, which is very different from renters.
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I've also created a bunch of work-flows using git repositories, and hooks - for example updating DNS via git repository pushes. So this looks like a nice project, but I see some open merge-requests and issues, and I wonder how active your project is?
It's hard to fake and easy to store. It is also a hard resource to extract, so it serves as its own "proof of work" in cryptocurrency terms.
IOT is definitely one cryptocurrency to watch this year, together with XRB...
Incredible to realize that this was almost 60 years go
I have a couple unused phones lying around doing nothing. One is cheap "GoClever" phone i bought a few years ago and had it die or something some years ago (it is most likely fixable, but my mother had a phone she didn't want anymore due to upgrading and i got hers instead) and another is the ill-fated ZTE Open with Firefox OS which i bought the instant it was available (through ebay because nobody local would have it available).

What i'd really love to do is to replace the entire OS from the ZTE Open one with a barebones Linux, and X server (no Wayland) and a few custom apps to use for music playback, note taking, etc. It was on my mind since i actually got my hands on it and saw how an awful idea was to have an OS that is built around "web applications" (i already knew it, i just hoped it wouldn't be too bad and wanted it for the novelty of having a phone with the Firefox logo :-P). The hardware is theoretically more powerful than the PC i had back when i played Quake 2 in full software rendering mode, yet it was barely usable due to everything being slow (i've actually lost calls because the UI was frozen).

I see from the hardware list that some related devices seem to be supported so at some point i'd like to try doing that. It is more for a "here is how to actually make use of hardware resources without sucking" personal statement than something i really need (my 1st gen iPod Touch still works fine after all), so it might take a while for me to bother trying :-P.
Sure, but then the burden is on you to build the Lua-specific tooling and framework around that. Pretty quickly it becomes a bespoke platform which, although fun to build, is rarely an economically sound investment.
On Windows I use `;` to chain commands.
They don't need a govt funded/owned/run launch space to launch, they built their own
Semicolon works, though doesn't have the quit/shortcutting on exit code semantics.

There are some community tools to fake it a little better (Get-ExitBoolean).

Also, a big GitHub issue tracking it: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/issues/3241
Oddly enough it's those small differences that really stand out to me, even where they might not between British dialects/accents. "Aluminium"/"Aluminum" or "route" as "root"/"rowt" barely even registers, yet the "a" in something like "pasta" going from being a short sound to more like "parhhsta" (more like "par", the golfing term) sticks out like a sore thumb.
Part of it is there is a large body of officers below flag rank, and a few notable ones at flag rank(maybe the current CNO) who think the LCS is a waste of procurement resources, especially at half the cost of a major combatant. That and the Australians are getting a lot more bang for less buck.
World's richest 1% get 82% of the wealth
Unfortunately unless worldwide culture changes such that demand for produced goods drops dramatically in favor for intangibles (humanities, happiness, etc.) any small union that does this will basically become irrelevant in no short time. It's important to note that the union in the OP has huge leverage.

It seems this kind of action is only possible for certain organizations in certain circumstances. In '95 this same organization was able to get down to a 35hr work week, but it's worth noting that metal is relatively expensive to ship and they're the largest union so there are some unique circumstances here.

EDIT: Seems my point is misunderstood. It's not that people shouldn't strive for less hours, it is that a sufficiently large amount of leverage is really the only way these things happen. Given that there's plenty of retaliation against those who try to unionize, it's pretty critical that they have plenty of leverage, first.
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I think Facebook's main benefit from this is that they will now have users clicking a button essentially to say, "yes, I believe this." Now they have a direct metric for what type of manipulation works for that user. Because really, no user can actually verify the truth of a media outlet's claims without heroic efforts.