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Bitcoin + Lightning = win?
There are 137 operating Lightning network nodes (stats: https://lnmainnet.gaben.win).
Soon there will be much more active nodes. Bitcoin will become faster and cheaper thus more useful. The scalability of Bitcoin will increase.

Does that mean that Bitcoin + LN will kill many altcoins such as Bcash, Litecoin? What will be the altcoins' next arguments to dominate their main competitor - Bitcoin?
>Right now cash is anonymous.

Maybe this is the reason why most governments would like to ban cash? Or at least restrict the amounts being processed by one entity. It's all about control.
Yeah, it's more like a marketing/sales recommendation, and I guess it works for general people.
The first is the personal attack when he calls Intel engineers morons. That 1 little unnecessary addon is uncalled for because it's quite reasonable that there's a lot of politics going on (...) can't be fixed properly without delaying & impacting revenue in a way that execs won't allow.

If that is really the case, then calling the engineers morons is actually very much called for!
Number of people suffering from diabetes has risen exponentially, demand goes up, so do the prices.

It's going to stabilize as years go on.
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As someone growing up in the east german (I was 15 in 1989), I can tell for sure that we've learnt in school that the GDR is an socialist country on its way to the communism.
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Welcome to corporate America.
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But oil is the infrastructure of all of this. Oil in the US has that structural role plus the good (financial) reputation of its country.
I'm pretty sure public transit is safer when it's not viewed as something that's only for the poor who can't afford to drive.

When everyone uses it, then the share of regular people who just want to go somewhere instead of harassing others gets up. But if only marginal people take public transit, then of course you'll mostly encounter marginal people there. The problem is how to start making everyone take it again.
i was referring just to russian deployments not to the whole mess. i agree about the whole thing being a disaster, a total clusterf.

russia didn't need to do to much due to all the efforts of the 4+ sides fighting each other.
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In some markets, it's considered original content. Just like Designated Survivor, Riverdale it's considered original content too (in some countries, it may not be. Here in Brazil Riverdale it's exclusive to Warner Channel for example, and it will just go to Netflix when it ends on Warner I guess).
Here all (almost all?) BBC series go to Netflix as "original content". When it ends on BBC, then they release as original on Netflix.
Or it just means someone lacks a proper grasp of the English language! I find a thesaurus is handy.
Ask HN: Creators of popular projects how did you go from idea to product?
For all those who have created popular projects, either open source or products internal to a company how did you go from product idea to the final product?

How did you get your idea?

Did you pitch your product to multiple people and get feedback?

What channels did you use to promote your product?
Honestly, if all car today and in the last 70 years had huge lead batteries, I don't think it would be a good thing. Battery recycling is a fair problem for today's electric cars and people at the time used to throw away anywhere what they didn't need any more, including their car batteries.
Because, as the comment says, he is wrong.

He may be technically correct in his assessment of the quality of the patches (I lack the necessary knowledge to even begin to assess it), but he does not go about explaining this in a sensible manner. He has never fostered a collaborative, inclusive atmosphere around the kernel.

If anybody at my workplace talked to a collaborator in that way they'd be in a chat with their manager minutes later, and if they persisted they'd be in a chat with HR.

For all that has been accomplished with the Linux kernel - and these achievements are huge and numerous and extremely impressive - I do wonder how much better things might have been if Linus was capable of criticising something without calling anybody a moron, swearing or throwing things.

What was in that email that needed that kind of language and tone? What could not have been said with a simple "I will not accept these patches" followed by a calm and dispassionate assessment of his issues with them? There's such an assessment in there somewhere, he's clearly thought it through, but one has to wade through the vitriol in order to get there. This is inefficient as well as hostile to contributors.

And these are people the community depends on for support, so we can run Linux on their products.
My understanding from folks who work there is that it's basically impossible to get a job there unless you know someone who already works there and can vouch for you.

As in, they won't even interview you without a recommendation from a current employee.

I guess this helps them maintain quality hires.
Actually ML started some decades earlier with some hype of it's own and there were not many problems it could solve back then.
my apologies, mis-remembered.
It may be a conspiracy theory but we must not be naive usually the marketed reasons have nothing to do with the real geopolitical ones. Remember the Iraq invasion?
I think you went on a little too long there.
16 is a bit old? I was 13. Many other children were 11. This was a city in the Midlands.

When I moved to London for university, there were 5-6 year olds on buses and trains, accompanied by an older sibling. And they were the rich children attending the private school I lived close to, normal children that age would live close enough to walk to their local school.
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If you don’t want to pay a few dollars to watch a movie and the parent comment finds ridiculous to subscribe to yet another provider, what incentive do they have to make their catalogs available?
Ask HN: What's your email setup?
Do you use Gmail like almost everyone out there?

If not, you must be someone who cares about their privacy. How do you cope with the fact that almost everyone you email to uses Gmail? In other words, if the people you interact with on email don't use secure/encrypted email, how does whatever effort you put into help?
Yes ONNX support is not mature even for PyTorch --> Caffe2. There are problems with basic things like affine BatchNormalization. But still the situation is a lot better now ... before we had to write our own converters from one framework to another.
> For one, they've obtained a position where you are forced to patronize them, even if you would choose to not utilize their services.

If a private service is being chosen, they have that same position. This is not an advantage that government-run pickup has over private pickup.

> For two, they generally get themselves excepted from local regulations (eg noise ordinances) for essentially convenience purposes.

I'd expect similar laws to be in play no matter who is chosen, is that unrealistic?
Surely, online resources for these courses must exist? I guess it's just about finding the will and time to put in double the effort because of a lack of instructor/conducive environment.
Are you talking about how much employees made on GAF (Google, Amazon, Facebook) or how happy are their employees?

I think Amazon is bit special as Jeff Bezos was one-of-a-kind that can continue letting Amazon losing money until recently and public investors were OK to keep putting money on them.

As for Google, Facebook, I don't think they are relevant because they were already dominating the market. Most businesses out there aren't in that position, and certainly not In-N-Out.
We’re not native English speakers, English is our second/third language.

Chinese is also already available in our schools. It’s just not a high priority. It’s on par with Spanish, Greek, Russian, Japanese and some such. This doesn’t correlate to the importance Chinese has on our society these days though.

English used to be the most important language, these days it’s German and Chinese and I see nothing on the horizon to change that outlook, so it’s kind of silly to weigh it’s importance in our school system as low as Korean or Greek.

I realize it’s harder to learn, but that’s what schools are for. I mean, when I was young we didn’t teach English until the 4th grade, these days we start teaching English by age 6 and everyone learns 3-4 languages.
I think we disagree on your assumptions.

Positive team environment and corporate culture are not inextricably linked. They may overlap depending on the corporation in question, but they are not one in the same. This should be obvious since you can have a positive team environment on teams where no corporation is involved (e.g., hobby projects). Clearly the suggestion that FOSS should have a positive team environment cannot be the same as the suggestion that FOSS should have a corporate culture.

Think about how your logic would look flipped around. If leads at Google were encouraged to slap people down when they disagree with their suggestions, then you'd have to suddenly argue that Linus should change his tune because otherwise he'd be fostering a corporate culture, and FOSS must have a different culture than that.

Clearly that, too, would be a non sequitur.

As for the rest of what you said, I think you know no one is suggesting anything of the sort. There's no reason to straw man here.
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Sounds like the approach taken in every other country that has a national health service.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16202205

not news anymore, folks
It won’t. Autopilot doesn’t avoid stuff.

TCAS sometimes will and it doesn’t matter if autopilot is on/off.
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If we'd had the option to remove the gene that causes sickle-cell anaemia from the population, wouldn't we have taken it? Which would have meant we then didn't have the malaria-resistant population that now exists due to that same gene.
noclobber

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Insulin is just like when you have performance problem in a monolithic app and you throw more hardware at it, but at some point you can't upgrade your server anymore.

Not sure if there's much you can do while diabetic, but cut bread-like and sugary foods, these spike your insulin the most and your body becomes insulin resistant and so you need more and more insulin, more that you can make.
Fair, but establishing the truth from a mathematical standpoint and navigating in life, which involves a huge amount of (most often serviceable) rules of thumbs, are two different things. So there seems to be some arbitrary threshold where the rules of thumb is deemed good enough (eg. my toddler has chocolate all over him near the empty cookie jar) and when it's not (eg. put-up job). And from my experience, people will very, very often set that arbitrary threshold according to their own opinions.
The missing word is "each", I believe. 9 packs, 10V per pack, each pack (consisting of 5 batteries) weighing 500lb.
Who would write a law like that? In the uk long term use can establish a public right of way, but it still belongs to the landowner.
> Except that at the time, Iraq was itself a highly unstable conflict zone.

I fail to see how turning Syria into an unstable conflict zone would help.
If you redirect output, how can the command know the name of the destination?
The existence of one that avoids some aircraft in some situations does not negate the fact that there are aircraft autopilot systems which do not.

Also TCAS enabled autopilots will still smash into other planes. TCAS isn’t magic plane detection AI it’s a radio signal, you can turn it off and not all aircraft have it.

Just Incase you were going to use the same logical fallacy just because an A380 has TCAS doesn’t mean all planes do.

Also airbus planes have some automatic flight control systems that override pilot input, those systems have CAUSED planes to smash into stuff. So even on an aircraft autopilot / automatic controls still cause preventable accidents.
People didn't understand my comment. Parent had written "Stocks trade based on discounted cash flow(DCF): while giving ample evidence to the contrary. So they should have bolstered their absurd claim with reference to another magical fact, the efficient market. Which ensures stocks trade at DCF.
Demand has gone up it hasn't risen exponentially. The manufacturers have colluded to raise the price. There is no reason for it to ever come down.
Oddly enough in society the relevance of a resource and its cost are often quite detached. Imagine Facebook/Google/Apple/Coke/etc all shut their doors, never to open again, tomorrow. There'd be no particularly dramatic change in society.

By contrast, imagine all oil producing nations suddenly stopped exporting any oil tomorrow.
Once domestic reserves of countries ran out the entire world would grind to an incredibly rapid halt. Electricity, transportation, shipping, and everything would stutter and then come to a near complete stop. And society itself would likely break down in very short order. It's not about the dollar value of oil, but about its relevance to society. You'd think those two would be strongly correlated, but they're not.

This is why oil and the petro-dollar have so much inherent value. Without oil society collapses, and USD is the gateway to oil. That 'is' may be changing to 'was.'
You don't need human level to make CAPTCHAs useless. If you can break the CAPTCHA 10% of the time that's already enough.
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You can absolutely learn enough Mandarin to be useful in 2 years of weekly classes.

Source: That was my level when I went to China. I felt not at all ready, but then I discovered that my limited knowledge could get me quite far with a little effort.
In the old days if you managed to create a website it was great. Now people compare everything with Google and Facebook. If you just put something together fast people would just laugh at you. So everything takes a lot longer. The effect is that you get to solve less problems.
As a type-1 diabetic of 17 years now, I can confirm that the price of Insulin has been steadily rising over the years.

I can also state that the majority of my medical expenses go to insulin pump supplies, not insulin itself. On average, I'm paying roughly $250/mo out of pocket, after 90% insurance coverage for the whole diabetic kit-and-kaboodle. I would be quite troubled if I were to lose my job and/or medical insurance. Thinking about the future, it's definitely a fear of being in a circumstance where I will be without supplies for any amount of time.

As another commenter noted, and got down-voted instantly, a large cause of the insulin usage increase (and therefore pump increases) is due to a dramatic increase in the diagnosis of type 2 diabetics.

Depending on where you're treated, many type-1 diabetics are given a rather thorough crash course on the disease (and it's symptom-based-cousin, type-2, for comparison). In my opinion at least, I don't feel like many type-2 diabetics are given as much information, or are potentially more reluctant to absorb it.

It's a broad generalization, but not necessarily inaccurate, to state that most type-2 patients rely on medicines to treat their symptoms and will not adjust their diets even under the worst case scenario. Type-2 in many ways can have it's symptoms reduced/resolved by something akin to a keto diet. That said, sugar is ridiculously hard to quit.
I had a car accident a few month ago. I was the victim as the other driver did not give priority to the right. After the police arrived, they came to this conclusion, too. Turned out, that the other driver was a diplomat, who drove a brand new rented BMW, and did not understand why I was the victim. The driver was also an unwanted person in the country due to corruption scandals, and he was heading to the airport to leave the country for good. The police did not charge him due to the diplomatic immunity and patiently endured his crazy ideas that I was causing the accident on purpose, I was diving too fast, I am too young to know how to drive, and I was on my phone while driving etc. Of course, none of these was real, and ironically I could prove it thanks to the cameras there. I think this behaviour is not supposed to belong to a diplomat who represents his country on foreign soil.
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Here's the thing though. People always make mistakes. It's an unavoidable fact of life. The more power you have the bigger the scale of your fuckup. The problem is the denial of a problem (which Intel did in some ways & didn't in other) & making misleading statements. Those were all decisions not made at an engineering level BTW so berating an engineer won't help.

Finally, reading that thread further, it does seem like Linus's rant was a little premature & mistaken.
David really handles it well & explains in detail in what way Linus may be misunderstanding what's going on. It's hard to know if that response mollified Linus or if he still thinks it's bunk & that thread was just taken offline so that it wouldn't have the noise of useless spectators chiming in, but it seemed like Ingo was perhaps satisfied & moved the conversation back to a way to solve the Skylake problem in a maintainable & clean way without the undesirable implementation that was originally proposed (you know, the whole point of an RFC). An RFC typically means they were looking for feedback & discussion not getting yelled at, especially for things outside their control. That being said, I certainly understand how frustrated everyone is with this given the amount of work that's been put into this by everyone.

Engineering culture is fundamentally about learning from mistakes (either as a community or individually). We can't fear them & there are limits to how much you can go to prevent making them before you just get decision paralysis. For that reason mea culpas are also unproductive. You should acknowledge your actions & your role in it - if you think you behaved incorrectly then of course apologize if you want to - but the person would made mistakes is just as much a victim of their environment as others (i.e. if I threw you into their position without the benefit of hindsight, would you do necessarily do a better job?) Yes corporate America has issues (as does every human endeavour btw) but I'm not convinced that in any way has to do anything with this discussion.
This has nothing to do with FOSS, it's more akin to what Levandowski did when he left Google and ultimately went to Uber.

It's just a rumor though (and a largely forgotten one at that). I just found it interesting that this person may have nonchalantly unearthed it.
What country _is_ it worthy of? Think carefully about the implications of your answer.
Please use your thesaurus and enlighten me to how then I say “this code is garbage” in a nice way, while clearly communicating the full meaning of:

- this code is bad
- you should reassess your skills and values
that lead you to believe this was good
- your worldview may be flawed, look into that
- don’t do this again
- you should probably feel bad too, to attach
emotion to strengthen your memories of this
to make this a learning experience
The "Naomi" in her name seems like a janpanses name.
WA uses slave labor in its prisons to make those license plates, so a little $28 bribe on top is nothing.
The wikipedia article is quite good as a general introduction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_of_the_Long_Now

The official website is badly designed. It is difficult to learn about the general design of the clock. I couldn't find it!
This doesn't actually happen in Germany at any time you'd otherwise take the train to our from work. The road is too busy.

Additionally, driving that fast is stressful and dangerous.
You've not mentioned where you're from.

You're on an American site, and you talked about Brexit, so I assumed British or American.

>English used to be the most important language, these days it’s German and Chinese

I'm having a very hard time thinking of a country where both German and Chinese are more important than English. Where is this?
That first comment on Reddit kinda sums it up... Huge hype and letdown at the same time. But a great write-up non the less! Looking forward to hear more about this.
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I've been seeing folks get excited about this, and haven't yet been able to see why it is so interesting. However, the people behind it (Bret Victor et al) and who I've seen playing with it are too interesting for me to ignore this...
Yes, finally the engineering community is being divided into two large groups - one that actually focuses one the technical issue at hand and one that focuses on personal insults. Everybody is winning, I suspect?
Agreed, this analysis helps nobody.
I don't see anything passive aggressive in this. America's foreign policy is being criticized openly and showing that other countries don't necessarily only need the US-Dollar is an extension of that.
Have you turned on Dialyzer?
124 is not a "low" IQ.
You could reroot the pipeline through israel? or egypt?

The syrian crisis was a sunni -shia powerblock escalation.
The problem i have is that we - the west side with the wrong faction here.
Assad had many minorities somehow getting along, no sunni country has that.
Iran is quite inventive - even if the relgious fanatics try to come down on that.
Western money flows through saudi arabia an finances wahabit missionarys everywhere.

Are we really assisting the good guys here?
Someone brings shit to you front door in means that they'd like you to bring it in your house. What are you going to do? Most of us will react on such similarly to Linus.
Unfortunately the windows build of gopherjs stopped working since the developers only work with Mac/Lin machines, and the main developer moved on to create a Webassembly Backend for the Go compiler.
Nature is not a fucking intelligent being.

Just tell it like you mean it and replace Nature with God in your message.

Even if it is intelligent with a purpose, it would have made us with all our capacities. An important one being able to make tools and soon alter voluntarily our genes. Humans are not some superior or inferior beings outside of Nature. They're part of it as are all they produce.
That's a very helpful post series, but your links to the follow on articles are broken, and there is a 'TODO' in the middle of part 1.
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