skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly don't know what use-case remains for Bitcoin. If you have large value transactions you'd probably choose something with privacy like Monero, and if you want something cheap and fast, maybe Bitcoin Cash. In both use-cases, you have a few competing alternatives.

In no circumstance is Bitcoin preferable to one of the mature alternatives.

...and if no one is using it as a transaction medium, then acting as a store of value is better placed in an actively used coin network.
Currently Bitcoin transactions are very expensive (~$10-$20) and painfully slow taking hours to propagate. There are many more cryptocurrencies that are faster/cheaper such as Litecoin and even ETH (even though it's no _really_ supposed to act like a currency). Also there are some really cool platforms coming out such as REQ and Stellar which will arguably serve as better mediums of payment. The hype in crypto has cooled off a bit from last month's mania, however there is still a lot of innovation going on. This is why you see Bitcoin "regressing" into a store of value.
Gold is rare, lead isn't
You seem very confused about what money is.
If I had a need to do such things I'd probably hire a yacht or a light aircraft. Borders are very porous when you're not travelling in a "mainstream" mode of transport.
The tracking protection is even better with the newly released Duck Duck Go addon
AI breaks into the enterprise
> What future does an asset have if people don't actually buy stuff with it?

Not sure what you're getting at here? There are loads of assets that people don't buy stuff with e.g. gold, stocks, bonds, property, etc. Aside from cash I'd guess that the norm is for assets to be converted to cash before anything.
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SafeYAML: everything you need for human-readable and writable configuration files
What other assets can you use for purchases?
"In testing phase" is probably not good enough for Stripe to roll out to their customers.

I think what they meant was "we're just not seeing enough usage of Bitcoin payments to justify the costs of supporting it." Which is perfectly fair.
BCH fees are in the $0.25 range right now. I wonder if they considered BCH. They could probably pretty easily implement it with their existing BTC infrastructure.
Bitcoin is functioning exactly as designed. Satoshi planned for this; it's in the whitepaper.

Most people just don't like the idea of Satoshi's endgame vision. But it's working as intended.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16210108
I have had the opposite experience. While individual page loads were a bit quicker in Chrome after a number of tabs were open it bogged down so badly (coupled with the lack of customization) I ran back to Firefox every time. A few months later I would try again with similar results.

I agree that when a tab would crash FF would die in spectacular ways but this was perhaps a once a month experience? Tab restore brought everything back each time. As a result I usually only opened Chrome for site testing.
How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Save Troubled Lives
How to slow down rate Mac OS screen saver changes
"I had a folder of fifty images. I selected all the files in the folder and then duplicated them. Then I selected "Classic" for the display option. That doubled the time each image was displayed (though in reality it was showing the file twice). That will only work if a transition is chosen without any special effects. Classic is ideal. If you want a photo displayed three times as long, batch duplicate the files again. In order of appearance, you will have file#1, file#1 copy, file#1 copy copy, etc. NOTE: Do not select the "shuffle slide order" option, for you need the files to appear one after another. The transition from one slide to its duplicate is not visually detectable. It looks like simply a longer display of the one photo.

The whole process can be done in half a minute if you batch duplicate files."

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6634769?start=0&tstart=0
Your examples aren't terribly good at proving your point. How is McGill reputation related to ranking systems? In fact even if Babson is a small school, the number of startups to student ratio isn't devoid of value as a ranking system. These types of ranking show country or organizations that punch above their weight.
"I think these are mostly tiny UI things to change, and only with some typeography improvements, some borders and better contrasts, things will be a lot more clear." YES! Couldn't agree more. We (the UX Team) are pushing hard to get changes like this in. I opened up a new issue to capture the comments here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/42331. I will add your insights to the issue, much appreciated! And...LOVE that you used that example in your 5min tweak <3
Any sort of collusion agreement can have a penalty clause, so presumably punitive damages.

And damages to reputation are also possible.
US fell from 9th to 11th and Israel was 10th and remained 10th.
The README says "The application is under active development and currently only operates on the Bitcoin testnet chain." - is that inaccurate?

If that is still accurate, it continues to seem to me that Stripe is interested in actually using Lightning on the production Bitcoin blockchain, they just can't do that today.
What is the problem with NYMBYism? Why is that a bad word?

Because a bunch of jerks in SV won't let more housing go in?
It's a long-standing joke about how Bitcoin proponents tend to show up in comments about bad-news-for-Bitcoin threads to explain how this latest development is actually good for it.
I am a contract employee who gets work via an agency. I have full health benefits (health, vision, dental which costs me about $200/mo), paid holiday, vacation, and even paid overtime (1.5x my hourly rate). All of this was negotiated ahead of time, along with the salary range I was looking for.

Any new opportunities that are available, my agency contacts me and asks if I am interested in doing work there, or if I want to stay at my current place. I have been working at my current place in govt defense embedded work for the past 2+ years getting paid more than most direct hires with the only real downsides being no 401k matching and no personal/sick time when looking at total comp. I am also able to work from home and make my own hours, so I am more flexible than direct hires who have to remain in the office during "core hours".

Some people here have been contract workers for well over a decade, so as long as the company has a need for you, you can remain on contract. If you want to go direct with the company you are contracted at, you can also negotiate that during their periods when they open up direct hiring.

This is my situation here in the Midwest as a defense contractor, so it may differ elsewhere and in different fields of work. Needless to say, it's not a bad gig, especially if you can get into an area where the company can't afford to lose you. For example, I am one of two people in the entire company who knows the OS architecture for every vehicle we make, and I got paid extra money to grind out a few hours a week to learn that architecture.
Better yet, can we make a platform that will levitate and hold whatever size/shape object it wants. The platform would then reflect all the waves back in a direction, away from the source, in a safe manner. I wonder how much force RF waves can really give? How high above 40Khz can we go?
Here's why we exist: https://bolt.com/case-studies
I wasn't referencing the article. There are a lot of people in the cryptocurrency community (spend some time in telegram rooms, reading blog posts, etc) that push a very libertarian/anarcho-capitalist agenda.

I obviously don't think anything is wrong with using alternative currencies, but I'm not sure that separation of currency and state can happen the same way separation of church and state has. Even if the government doesn't control the issuance of currency they will undoubtedly have an outsized influence on whatever currency they choose to support.
Gold as a metal has an inherent value though. If not only for jewelry, it also has important uses in electronics. The value associated with bitcoin seems purely sentimental.
Japan has bigger population and economy than even Germany.
May be referencing https://xkcd.com/1576/
Anything is "accepted" (by someone, somewhere). That gives us no Information. FWIW, what is rejected is what is rejected, and I reject this abuse of language.
As the husband of a type-1 wife, I just wanted to add that there is a difference in insulin that isn't just long-acting or short-acting. Different people can react differently to different insulins. My wife used the ReliOn brand for both for a while, and even though the short-acting was fine, the long-acting was way too inconsistent (some very non-deterministic lows and highs). Switching to Levemir long-acting smoothed those out.

That said, nothing inherently wrong with the ReliOn brand if that's all one can afford. My wife forgot her short-acting insulin for a long weekend trip one time and it was nice to know what we could simply buy some insulin out of pocket and not get gouged to death.

> am amazed by how many diabetics and GPs don't know this exists.

I've noticed that GPs don't know enough about diabetes, one needs a specialist to really get control of it.
I've been happily using Firefox since 57 shipped. Loving the overall experience.

I feel a bit petty for bringing this up, but what is up with Firefox's spellchecker? I came from Chrome so the spellcheck had a web-service which kept the word list current (slang and technical terms), but even ignoring that the Firefox spellcheck doesn't do a good job with the "basics."

For example "That" misspelt as "Taht" (a & h transposed) and the solutions Firefox suggests are Tait, Baht, Taft, Ta ht, Ta-ht.
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Isn't it's main value prop fast transactions? It isn't really meant for storing value is it?
This worked for me. Such a crazy way to fix the issue. If anyone knows a better solution, please share.
HN's own idlewords, also known as Pinboard, has started an organization named Tech Solidarity, which is definitely not a union but but labor organization is one of it's goals.

https://techsolidarity.org
Yeah but most other nations receive hundreds of millions of dollars and it's mostly africa and middle eastern countries. US is planning to spend 1.3 trillion in Israel in FY18, although I imagine most of that is military.

No denying Israel is a leader in innovation because they absolutely are, but the headline seems to imply that they unseated the US, which is kind of misleading.

https://www.foreignassistance.gov/explore
That speed comes at the cost of delaying or breaking existing sites, fwiw
Any answer to AWS's spot instances feature?
Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? (2017)
Yes, you are in the minority. The huge rise in contract work is not in boutique consulting firms or well compensated tech consultants.

It's low skill work, groundskeepers, janitors, housekeepers, drivers. Businesses have moved to contracting to effectively lower total compensation.
> Around 50% or so of Russian PhD Dissertations are plagiarized.

Your "source" looks like a troll to me
Love the idea of Stellar.
Looks like a smart move from Stripe but will be nice to see ethereum (when and if POS).
Your conclusion very much depends on the prevailing rate of inflation for national currencies. The higher the rate, the greater the incentive to move your savings to somewhere safe.

In other words, the incentive may not be that great right now (since the inflation rate is relatively low), but this is something that can change.
I've gotten into a habit of checking into all the performance boosts on Firefox release, but I almost missed the best feature of the release: Tracking Protection!

It's buried under Preferences -> Privacy & Security -> Tracking Protection

I've been using Privacy Badger for a while and today installed DDG's new Privacy Essentials. Does anyone know how the new Firefox feature compares to these other 2 options regarding 3rd party tracking across sites?
That is certainly one way of rephrasing, but the fact remains that of those things you list, many are the result of the ideological focus on spreading communism. So, in a way, the parent post is right that they failed to get past the downsides of communism.
Botnet Fingerprinting: Improving the detection of unsolicited email sources
Columbus has zero rail lines and busing is anemic.

It is a rust-belt metropolis with some world-class research facilities, (OSU, Ohio Supercomputing Center, Battelle, Chemical Abstracts), a lot of banking (Bank One had its headquarters there before Chicago First bought them out, and there is still a huge IT presence). Columbus is often a test market to try new product lines -- it is large enough and _boring_ enough.

Amazon coming in with an HQ would inflect the whole metropolitan area. Everything in Columbus right now pivots around the Ohio State University and the network of research centers, but that center of gravity will probably shift to Amazon if they come in. That is, Amazon would have a huge say in how they want the city to be developed.

As for rail: One thing from Atlanta's playbook: create greenspaces out of old rail right-of-way. Some of those may be converted into light rail. Columbus's High St. (the central corridor running down the spine of the city) used to host a trolley line. It's been the target of gentrification, from the Downtown core, through the Short North, and into the OSU campus area. Restoring a light rail line there is not out of the picture, particularly if it is extended to the airport.

I only know all of this because I grew up there, and my 6th grade social studies course was on Ohio history. That is local knowledge.

I don't know whether Austin can do anything, but I'm pretty sure there are some unique local features that can be just as much of an advantage, things that the locals know but is not so apparent for anyone else.

I still think it has a lot more to do with how willing the city is to have their development plan influenced by Amazon more than anything.
I'm actually curious. Do you have some first-hand experience with that kind of issue? I've only played around with Elixir and my only experience deploying BEAM-based applications on production has been RabbitMQ and CouchDB and both of those were very solid.

Also, isn't ENOMEM a standard error that you can handle using the standard error handling techniques?
So much depends on a tree guard
The answer is yes, since Satoshi's paper back in 2008 a whole subset of CS research has propped up just on consensus algorithms. Other alternatives are simply to switch to a PoS style of consensus, which without a doubt has it's own set of tradeoffs. Currently Ethereum is planning to switch to PoW/PoS system where the amount of computation on the PoW is drastically reduced from the current level of difficulty i.e. There essentially having a PoW/PoS model where the PoW is just like HashCash it's purpose isn't to do consensus but stop "spam".
> Gold, houses, stocks, etc.

With a caveat that houses and stocks can provide cashflow in terms of rent payments and dividends / option income.
Gold, unilike Bitcoin, cannot be forked overnight with minimal effort, which makes gold much better store of value.
Isn't that what the comments section of an article is ? Crowd sourced feedback ? The problem with crowd sourced feedback is that most of it is low effort/low quality trolling.
Senescent cells generate inflammation. So every age-related condition with an inflammatory component - which is most of them - should be improved to some degree by that factor alone when senescent cells are removed, even putting aside other effects of senescent cell accumulation.

Senescent cells are not the only source of inflammation - the immune system has other sources of dysregulation. The degree to which their contribution is important will vary tissue by tissue and condition by condition.

Some studies show that a large fraction of astrocytes are senescent in the old human brain. Much larger than is the case for senescent cell fractions by number in other tissues. Too large to just go in and clear them all out in short order - tumor lysis and outright failure of the brain would be on the menu. You'd have to clear them out slowly over a period of time, allowing for their replacement. It is probably good that first generation senolytics won't get past the blood-brain barrier, as they would be pretty hard to use safely otherwise.
Only Zuck knows the real answer. But my guess is he's buying into his own hype. Look at the way he travels the world and poses with the needy for photos. I suspect he thinks of himself as a visionary, with visionary ideas to match. His stance on authenticity is a perfect way to spin his platform's antisocial design into something noble.
How a Circuit Breaker Works in Slow Motion
Is # of patent applications really a criteria in innovation? Seems to value quantity over quality.
Nope. We set a price in USD and get paid in USD, minus their usual fees. The price in BTC was determined by the current exchange rate, hence why they were only willing to honor the price for a short time.
> I give him the private key

Why would you do this? Why would anybody ever accept a private key in a transaction. Now the key is no longer private!
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If they "cancel" the transaction but it later ends up getting mined, who pays the fee for the return transaction?

Regardless of the answer, variable and large fees really do make this sort of transaction a minefield.
There are more successful startups in Sweden per capita than in the US. Just get over yourself.
Not to counter your point, but I was referring to gene editing before implantation and inserting/replacing various traits that maximize the health of the offspring - that is still experimental. Genetic testing and selective abortion has similar end goals but is not a direct application of the ideea.
If the city wins, this could be the death knell for legal marijuana companies. They could now be responsible for the negative effects of MJ on a person's life.
I'm looking for comments and discussion with quality on par with HN. Reddit, generally, does not provide that.
Currently stuck in this hell with a client, who needs a particular integration, but the company who wrote the program they need integration with refuses to give up any documentation.

Soooo we're just winging it at the moment, because it's their job to provide it to us (as agreed upon). I'm pretty sure they aren't going to get that integration.
I'm not sure the data centers have an effect there. They don't have need for their non-datacenter employees traveling to visit the DCs (those are hyper locked down)
I don't have an opinion on Lumens but the fact that the supply is uncapped would make it much more suitable as a currency.
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Yes, I simply couldn't use it because it drained my macbook battery too quickly.
I just updated to 58, but it seems to still be a problem.
Stripe cofounder here. I think you're reading too much into it. We do think Bitcoin is cool. We're just trying to be as plainspoken and clear as possible about why we're doing what we're doing.
I don't see the confusion. Care to explain?
There are a number of different efforts in the CA legislature on this issue; SB 822, linked above, amounts to a statement of intent to adopt legislation with certain features, but doesn't actually do anything (it could be intended as an outline which will be amended to do what it suggests legislation should do, though.)

A more concrete
net neutrality bill is SB 460, which both defines and requires neutrality and separately requires state agencies to only contract for internet services from providers who commit, under penalty of perjury, to not violate neutrality.

http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml...
Right now, we don't cover friendly fraud. The reason is that it's largely out of our control. We can't control how well merchants communicate with clients, how fast/reliably they ship, etc. So if we covered it, it lowers the cost of treating customers poorly. There will always be a bad actor here or there, but that's typically less than 1% of chargebacks (at least from our data).
Sounds like a great startup opportunity to capitalize on a market underserved by Stripe.
I am curious why you wanted Bitcoin on your site. It has been dead as a payment mechanism for a long time. BitPay is a dead man walking, save for all the mining hardware purchases denominated in Bitcoins.
I hope they address the issue with battery drainage on macOS.
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That being the case, then the present value of Bitcoin is much higher than it would be with no expectation of future forks. It is like holding shares in a company which spins-off a division to increase shareholder value.
Stripe’s entire business is built on credit card transactions. They added half assed bitcoin support and then killed it.

This makes sense for a company that has every incentive to prolong a move away from credit cards.

As soon as we switch to a decentralized “currency” stripes business will begin its decline.
So you're saying despite having better fraud detection, your false positive rates (orders that would have been non-fraudulent but rejected anyway) are _also_ lower than the competition?

This is definitely something you might want to put in your marketting, but also back up in some way.

As a general rule, I'm going to assume any reduction in false negatives has some increase in false positives. If the general rule is not true in your case, I'm going to need to be convinced. :)
Hey @godelski, I had that issue in Firefox 57, but it seemed to have gone away with 58. Just FYI - I tried altering a bunch of `about:config` non-default settings, but none of them helped. Thanks.
Well, it's a pretty basic question.

In both cases the vast majority of their 200 variables will look the same. The only differences will be in the IP and latency data and, possibly, the time zone/locale information if a fraudster is not being careful.

Point being is that differentiating these two cases comes down to analyzing just few bits of data, so I'm not sure why they are using "200 points" as a selling point.
It's also worth keeping in mind who this data/report for. Bloomberg has a specific audience, who love distilled information - that is doesn't capture the whole picture is a given, but who really has the time to do research themselves? That's why you pay Bloomberg.

But now with the internet, any rando can read this stuff and obsess over it.
I'm a member of Freelancer's Union. I don't interact with the union much, but I do buy life and term disability insurance from them. By the time I joined their health insurance offering changed from custom plans to just listing on and off exchange individual plans. Not that there's anything wrong with that, it's just nothing more than you can get on healthcare.gov or your state's exchange, or shopping the off exchange market yourself.
This is why I hate the comparison of crypto to gold or any other "value asset'.

Houses are lived in. Stocks act as a cashflow for companies. Even if the world economy collapses you can still use a solid gold bar as a blunt instrument to kill an animal and eat it.

Cryptocurrencies have exactly 0 secondary uses.
He says in the article they are considering Bitcoin Cash as well as Litecoin