skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the fees grow when there's a large backlog of transactions. And if the transactions grow faster than there's new blocks to process them, then the backlog grows infinitely and no amount of fees will ever get them all into the blockchain simultaneously.

We need second layer solutions like Lightning Network, and the Bitcoin Core developers should have listened 5+ years ago when a huge fraction of the community back then warned about exactly these problems, and asked for a plan for larger blocks.
Back then we were told it's not a problem, won't happen, can be solved easily, etc...
Right now some people says it's obviously working well because people are obviously willing to pay the transaction fees. These people are ignoring the long term effects of killing off important usecases and reducing demand, and that some only pay the fees so they can cash out. They don't understand psychology, and barely grasp the numbers.
RIP :( i love every single thing she has written, particularly the earthsea books.
Facebook shakes up its AI research team
On the other hand, you will need that much to live there!

Take this 250k googler, he's more frugal than anyone I know and yet they spend 90k/yr living in Zuerich. http://retireinprogress.com/2017-q4/
The gold has to be minted, which goes through centralization.

Old time gold that was traded without minting or governments had Eureka related issues.
That's nonsense. People's long term interest in electronics is far more unproven and fleeting at this point than their interest in gold.

Seeing as how cultures that considered gold a highly valued item developed independently in Europe and uncontacted pre-Columbian America, and the preference remains global today, there's clearly something durable about this concept.
I am all for parts of satoshis vision. I wish it was somehow universally accepted, so i could give my dollars and get them burned (legally, somehow), and can keep transacting with my digital coin.
There is a medical condition where people can hear their own eye movements.

> The bizarre phenomenon of being able to hear the sound of the eyeballs moving in their sockets (e.g. when reading in a quiet room) "like sandpaper on wood" is one of the more distinctive features of this condition and is almost exclusively associated with SCDS.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_canal_dehiscence_sy...
So sad! I loved all Earthsea book.
Performance Impact of Meltdown on Elasticsearch
Ever notice when you chew the sound gets attenuated when you clamp down?
Wouldn't the "sirikit" availability start to solve the problem of 3rd party integration?
I though most of the developed world is on 1 Gbit / 1 Gbit FTTH at this point.
I've downvoted you because you're using extremely hyperbolic arguments that I don't feel add to the discussion.
[citation needed]
A quick google says Visa peaks at 4k txs/sec
I don't see a lot of love for Office365; any particular reason why?
Hey HN! I'm the CEO and founder of ERC dEX. I'd be happy to answer any questions and I welcome all your feedback!
I've been doing contract work since 2004

* LLC with S-Corp designation. This is very tax-advantaged vs. Sole Proprietor.

* Currently, I'm mostly on-site for one client.

* 1-person shop.

* I have an accountant. You want a good, small business
accountant.

* I buy health insurance for my family through the ACA exchange. It's very expensive so make sure you factor it into your rate.

I've had 2 FT gigs that lasted 6 months each since 2004 and regretted it both times. If you can handle having to network and interview frequently you can make more money with more flexibility as a contract developer.
1. You're young enough where any missteps aren't (yet) in a position to possibly hold you back.
2. You have acquired a useful and employable skill, which is often not the case for those who graduate HS.
3. This skill is primarily self-motivated and results oriented, meaning that you're likely to be able to get into a startup/smaller company demonstrating proficiency.
4. You're in a good spot, if not ahead of the game. If you can write code, you can get paid writing code. Never forget that.

My advice is:

Get your diploma/GED. This prevents further education(college, etc.) from being closed off, as well as allows you to demonstrate that you are disciplined: "Yea, I got really into programming, but I realized this education was important and I completed it"

Start networking via meetups, hackathons, etc. It never hurts to know people in the industry, and in your situation the advice and mentorship will be invaluable.

Never stop learning and growing. This is especially important in your situation because you're unencumbered by technical/business decisions made by others. When employed your growth/learning often takes a backset to the company/team, so take full advantage of your free time now. I used to think time spent just playing around with frameworks/libraries and not even building apps from it was wasted, but it was incredibly valuable for learning as I got to dig in as far as I wanted, not just "add feature X and move on."
Mycroft open personal assistant to switch to DeepSpeech for speech to text
On the pricing page? What exactly happens when you click it?
If ICOs Can't Change, They're Doomed to Fail
Software will never truly eat the world until there is a way to move matter and collect energy and resources through software alone, without having to create new infrastructure. Until that is solved there is plenty of opportunity everywhere.
Apple also has an office in Zurich.
We pay the cost on behalf of the merchant.
The introduction to one of the versions of Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite texts about Science Fiction: http://theliterarylink.com/leguinintro.html
Amazon gives in to Massachusetts and agrees to turn over third-party seller data
On the contrary, it's even more so (with regard to this line of argument). That capital could've become any number of things instead.
poor site is suffering HN! wrath. mirror: http://archive.is/y5BI1
While Uber operated in Germany... shall we recount the reasons why they do not do so any more?

There are two sides to a coin: while Uber has world-dominating ambition, that also means they aren't anywhere near as flexible to local market conditions as a local startup is. And I wouldn't consider Uber an unmitigated success yet - they still depend on VC cash to keep going, we'll see what happens when it runs out.
In Germany, there are very well paid mostly manual labor jobs in unionized industries, especially at the big car manufacturers. In non-unionized industries, wages can be much lower, down to about 30% of what workers in the car industry earn. That is before taxes, though. After taxes, the difference is about 2:1.

There is also data showing that unionized workers get about 1% more of a scheduled raise each year.
Ah. You have a point. I guess it would depend on intent, and at what point they saw the writing on the wall.
Love it! One request: the ability to move the house icon. It's not completely correct on google maps, and it would be nice to manually move it to the correct place.
Satoshi expected Bitcoin to scale to Visa-levels of 100 million transactions per day. He expected the cost of a transaction to be less than Visa forever, not just while nobody was using it.
Also an SVG export.
I imagine there is an HMAC or similar that can be verified?
Thanks jv22222! Much appreciated. Transparency, positivity, and truth is our north star.

Will shoot ya a ping.
The conversation is happening in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16212234
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218391

That has more votes at the moment. This looks like a better source, though.
All of FastMail is in Perl5 (minus the Cyrus parts, which are in C).
This is amazing, I hope you make millions!
[0]: VisaNet handles an average of 150 million transactions every day and is capable of handling more than 24,000 transactions per second.

[1]: 65,000 Transaction messages per second

[0] https://usa.visa.com/run-your-business/small-business-tools/...

[1] https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/global/about-visa/documents/vi...

Also, consider there are other networks like MasterCard:

[2]: MasterCard’s 2012 annual report asserts that its network can handle more than 160 million
transactions per hour with an average network response time of 130 milliseconds. Operating 24 hours a
day every day, MasterCard reports that its processing systems have consistently maintained availability
99.9 percent of the time.

[2] https://www.philadelphiafed.org/-/media/consumer-finance-ins...
Towards solving the evolutionary puzzle of suicide
When you say “regulation”, I hear “market protections.”
Tell that to Ada Lovelace
Fedora is a linux distro. FF = Firefox
I am not trying to say that I was happy, during those weeks of hauling a sledge across an ice-sheet in the dead of winter. I was hungry, overstrained, and often anxious, and it all got worse the longer it went on. I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

—The Left Hand Of Darkness
> Better migration/transition from Perl 5

This is what the CPAN Butterfly Plan is all about. And after that the Butterfly Perl 5 Project.
> Their cause is even more sympathetic than DACA.

I wouldn't go that far. DACA recipients were brought to the country as children and literally know nothing else, often including the language of their "home" country. H1Bs might be more beneficial economically, but I'm not convinced they are more sympathetic.
“We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin
That's 25 million per hour, we must have very different definitions of what a small city is.
Truly the passing of a legend. RIP.
3. The customers without whom these sleazy companies could not exist. But Uber is oh-so-convenient, who cares about the societal consequences, right?
In that case, if you lay outdoors with your mouth open, how long does it take until a bird ... in it? Depending on the worldwide bird density and the relative size of the mouth: https://what-if.xkcd.com/11/
https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/suggestCompletion?query...
You can't build a product company like this. Products require lots of development before any revenue arrives. Underdeveloped capital markets (VCs, stock exchanges etc.) is why Europe's software industry is mostly services. The difference between SV and anywhere else is access to risk-tolerant money. SV is not primarily an IT cluster, it's a VC cluster.
R.I.P. :(
It is one of mine as well, but I could not remember the source for it, thank you.
Likely Habitable Planets Around Trappist 1
locusmag is a decades old magazine dedicated to scifi. It is a far better source than the nytimes on this matter.
Interesting, definitely worth knowing beforehand (I was thinking of implementing a small service that could be pretty memory-intensive using Elixir.) I wonder if there's a way to try and manage memory to avoid ENOMEM.
>I certainly don't want you riding a car into a crowded downtown. I personally walked to work in downtown Seattle (to Amazon, ironically). I'd vote for any local candidate who pushed for an aggressive pedestrian-only zone in the city with a strategy for expanding mass transit access and park and rides. The technology for affordable mass transit is almost a century old; I think incremental, sustainable progress on that technology is better than anything the Tesla has to offer. Wide-spread single-user cars are one of the worst things to happen to this country.

You responded to a claim about automation, not cars. Trains are automated. Buses are automated. Please contain your virulent hatred for cars long enough to figure out what you're actually responding to.
SSH attacks from IoT devices?
Edison was notably deficient in math. But he recognized this and hired mathematicians to work for him.

Even Einstein got help with the math on general relativity.
This is awesome. My first thought was I wish I could make this map for all the key places for my wedding, although forcing the "House Rules" and "Contact" section make that awkward. Also wish I could adjust where the zoom bubble is located.
Thanks for the feedback. Added to the list.
Security, software and network engineering. (Previous study was software and security, this one is security and network; and I've always liked to play with tech in those three subfields.)
Sorry I wasn't clear. Yes, I know they aren't considering the burbs. But if they were (Toronto burbs, at least Mississauga, are something like the 30th largest cities in NA)it would be better than jamming Amazon and 50k employees in to Toronto.
> You cannot launder money or evade tax using gold.

What makes you think that?

Trade dirty money for bullion, then trade bullion for cash at a pawn shop - money laundered.

Buy gold, after it appreciates trade it for a good without reporting the capital gain - evaded taxes. Or simply accept physical gold in return for labor without reporting or paying taxes.
Quite a few of these were produced out of Google and FB, so it makes sense they would be based out of MV/Meno Park.

However most of the unicorns or near unicorns since 2010 have been based in SF. Dropbox, AirBnb, Uber, Lyft, Stripe, Zenefits, SoFi, Credit Karma, CloudFlare, DocuSign, Wish, Slack, Github, Instacart, Prosper, Automattic, Eventbrite, Okta, Docker, Gusto, Nextdoor.

Let list could go on and on. I stand by my statement that more talent in concentrated in a smaller area vs South Bay and they are trying out a lot more things and also faster. Dynamics of an urban area also play some role where, where you can quickly walk to, use public transport or get an Uber, vs driving to another place in South Bay. All this leads to SF being ahead of South Bay in terms of learnings and trying out things.

And name calling doesn't get us anywhere!
> HMR works well

Have you run into problems with hot reloading of stylesheets? Seems like the kind of problem that should be solved by now (for reference, LiveReload was doing CSS injection back in 2011, and maybe some other tool even earlier: https://web.archive.org/web/20110428025941/https://github.co...)
<snark>Bitcoin was pretty fast when practically nobody was using it too...
Why do you think this? The U.S. is among the worst in the "developed" world. More specifically it's highly fragmented.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/616210/average-internet-...
https://www.recode.net/2017/9/7/16264430/fastest-broadband-s...
How they'd reap the benefits if big corps and rich individuals do not pay their share of taxes?

SF locals that are priced out of their city would have likely different opinion.
We're are making the "House rules"/"Contact" titles editable. Coming soon... Moving the bubble will be a bit trickier, you can pan the map though.
The problem with America is not Donald Trump
The talk - https://vimeo.com/23509552
Only accredited investors in the USA. They don't care as much if I was a regular investor from somewhere like Switzerland.
In reading these comments, I'm surprised about the naivety of typical HN reader with their relationship with the price of art.

I mean, a photo only costs like $10 to print an 8x10, why would the artist dare charge $200 or more?
"once you go to sleep and catch up on those missed hours of sleep, you’ll have a 95% chance of relapse."

Unless you plan on spending the rest of your life severely sleep deprived, this doesn't seem like a great solution.
> Are all VCs part of the fraternity?

Unlikely. The aprons would get in the way at the orgies!
Possible solution:

Maybe proxy your Foursquare API requests via https://www.eliotand.me/airbnb-poster/search or a similar API endpoint you'd create. Disallow CORS on that new API endpoint. You can keep the API call signature but remove the client ID and secret.

On your backend you can then make those Foursquare API requests and add the client ID and secret to the request.
I was happy to find it, only to notice the top tab bar would always still be there. And I've seen with classmates (who saw my tab list and wanted to try it) that it sometimes bugs as well. No such issues with the good ol' Tab Center. (Good ol', yeah, the thing is what, less than two years old now?)
Nice. Working in Europe is definitely on my list for the next handful of years.. just need to figure out how to make the move (have EU citizenship, just a matter of making the jump)
And if the lb goes down?
I have always felt it, but presumed it was "cross talk" in the optical nerves being interpreted as "movement" in the outer ear.

You might be able to experience it yourself. Just move your eyes all the way (ALL the way) to the right or left and hold them there for a second, you might hear/feel a high-pitched sensation almost like a slight tickle right where your eardrum is.
Is this why people turn the radio down when trying to look for an address, parking space, etc?
If you're talking about morality, when a VC is funding a company they don't know if it's going to act like Uber or like Lyft.

The post you're responding to is about economics, though, and VC math doesn't work for funding modest successes.

A VC can fund 10 businesses and have 9 of them fail (high risk) as long as the remaining one provides 100x+ return (high reward).

If you don't fund that one blockbuster then you can't fund the failures.

If you want to be in low-risk and low-reward business, then you're a bank and you're providing loans, not giving out no-strings-attached cash.
That one has a pop-up in it, unfortunately, and it looks likes the article isn't as substantive as the NYT obituary. Normally we'd prefer the niche source but in this case it's probably best to merge the thread into https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218439.
I'm sure that plays a part. However, there are small cities around Seattle, with similar climates, that have very few homeless. My interpretation is that these places have less services and the police are more likely to move the homeless. Plus, while living outside in LA doesn't sound so bad, Seattle can't be too high on the list of nice places to live outside.
That is utterly incorrect. I get 15% of that under ideal circumstances.
Housing prices are rising in Seattle because it's growing. And while Amazon might be the proximal cause of Seattle's growth, the fact remains that some cities in the United States must grow in order for the economy to, you know, fulfill it's debt obligations. Seattle does not have worse homelessness than other cities which are growing at the same rate, although cities with a population decline tend to have a surplus of housing which therefore becomes cheap. So unless Amazon is to be blamed for America's systemic inability to handle homelessness in growing cities, it's a little unfair to point the finger.
It's all about circadian rhythm disruption, a key feature of many types of depression. This can result in both hypersomnia and hyposomnia.
The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

I'm not usually affected by authors passing away but damn this stings a little. One of my favourite authors.
No, this isn't satire. Please check my other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16218591

There are always exceptions (like your containerization example), which can be attributed to serious tech players like Yahoo, Google and FB in South Bay. However holistically, SF has had much more unicorns and near unicorns. The contrast between SF and rest of the world has been more pronounced in recent year vs pre-2010 (except China of course - due to the growing economy and closed nature making it difficult for outside companies to operate).
> And many women have the procedure because they themselves are obese, which also influences their baby’s health.

So... we both know that obesity causes c-sections (per this very article) and that, whether due to nurture or nature, obesity runs in families (see the numerous sources for this you will find if you spend three seconds searching). It would thereby be shocking if children born by c-section somehow weren't more likely to be obese... like, that scenario wouldn't even make sense given what we already know. To do this and have it mean something requires you to randomly assign people to have a c-section.
> I'll play another round of Donkey Kong.

Can we get platinum editions with famous computer scientists (besides yourself, of course) playing Donkey Kong? I want the Don Knuth edition!
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If you're already landless, Amazon coming in isn't going to help you become landed, outside of a handful of the earliest people to get in before the speculators hit. They'll create high paying jobs, but they'll create equally (or likely more) expensive houses.

Anyone wanting to live in Nashville (just to pick one city from the list) who's capable of working for Amazon is also capable of working for someone in Nashville today. And generally, the economics of being tech talent outside these hotbed markets like SV and Seattle are vastly favorable.

That is to say, you're probably better off buying the cheap house in a smaller market on the salary you can command in that market than you are buying a very expensive house on the salary that the very expensive market offers you. Google would pay me more than my current job, but my cost of living would go up by more than my salary -- massively so.
Yeah but if the world economy collapses so completely that the main value of gold is as a weapon to hit people with, your shares of Amazon will probably be about as useful as your Bitcoin wallet.
Yes, on all common metrics, in great detail: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
Is it possible to show causation?
Slow internet and/or multiple macOS devices... (3 Apple laptops, 2 mac minis, and an iMac hanging off my ADSL...)
If you aren't getting paid to be in grad school, then that was a hint that they didn't really want to take you. Any reputable grad school place will be paying you.
This was the Eureka! moment of the article for me:

What’s more, once the researchers took the effect of physical strength out of the equation, men and women were equally likely to be depressed.

Humans, and men especially, are pre-disposed to solve social problems with violence. In cultures where violence is restrained or completely removed as a solution, it's not surprising that more men are depressed.
Probably api quota limits?
I don't think it's as clean a division as you suggest.

Imagine somebody takes a drone platform with decent processing power, mounts a gun like that, and builds in basic target-seeking. Then they make 100 of those and turn them loose in a major metropolitan area. They'd fit neatly into a box truck and cost under $100k in parts.

It might not be as deadly as 100 people with guns, but logistically it's a hell of a lot easier and cheaper, and I'd expect it to have a higher terror value. Especially if you have them mostly land on rooftops and wait for a random period.

That's reasonably doable given current tech. And we expect a lot of progress in ML and robotics over the next decade. Imagine ones that listen for police radio frequency use and then very accurately target people in uniform, for example. Ones that can wait days or weeks outside charging. Ones that collaborate to map, track, and overcome threats.

Personally I'm not particularly worried about it. America already has a lot of weapons and explosives sloshing around; I expect we'll figure out how to deal with this too. But I do expect we'll have to deal with it. Too much of our existing defense is tuned for humans. E.g., fences and walls have been an important part of defense technology for at least 10,000 years.