skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually like the way this author deconstructs what a blockchain technically is and how it’s sold. And I agree on many points.

However, this is where they go awry:

Instead of relying on trust or regulation, in the blockchain world, individuals are on-purpose responsible for their own security precautions.

THIS is the revolution. And the revolution will not be centralized :)

Blockchains are just one example of it. Kademlia trees and close consensus is another, used by SAFE network. Go look it up.

The whole POINT is, it is very hard not just for someone to tamper with a file, but to cut off access to it. Crypto-currencies also have the added requirement of preventing “double-spending”, which is very hard to do.

EXAMPLE: Why trust the landlord to have keys to open your apartment instead of an electronic lock that lets you set permissions YOURSELF? Use your phone to authenticate yourself instead of facebook controlling it. “Oh what if I lose the phone?” “Then have a backup.” “What if I lose everything?” “Then have M of N friends plus a key derived from a passphrase you know to restore it.” “Ok what about if I get amnesia and lose my phone?” “This is 0.00001% of the population and even Jason Bourne implanted a chip in his own ass.”

This guy doesn’t live in a country where the institutions people rely on have routinely screwed people. The solution is usually “throw more Democracy at it”, which is what can lead to totalitarianism.

Ever read “fuck the cloud”? It’s a good read. Why SHOULD I pay someone I don’t know to store all my files, and delete my local copies?

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1717

Have you all seen just recently what Facebook does? Why would I entrust my data, identity and brand to them?

Have we seen websites censored or DDOSed? Or just broken links to useful stuff?

SAFE network and Freenet etc. are the decentralized future. I agree that Blockchain is only a small part of the future.

Blockchains with one writer are, for example Scuttlebutt. Super resilient.

I also agree that there is no viable medium of exchange that’s fast and cheap for everyday transactions because the way blockchains currently work, they need a global consensus about every friggin transaction. That doesn’t scale. That’s why we launched intercoin.org

If you want to see more about this topic, I just wrote about it: https://qbix.com/blog
I see this story as a kind of thought experiment about the way in which societies treat minority groups. There have been many societies that felt the oppression of a minority was justified, or even necessary, in exchange for the greater good of the society. This story takes that idea to its logical extreme: a perfect society, with unlimited health and happiness for all, in exchange for the complete and utter oppression and degradation of the smallest possible minority -- a minority of one. Is it still justified? The people who feel it is not are "the ones who walk away from Omelas."
It may be oversimplifying to say that they're concerned with a power block arising from Christian churches.

They could be concerned with the cultural and viral ideas of the texts themselves. Religious texts beget mindsets, attitudes, ways of life. That could be the disruption to status-quo social order that they're worried about. It may be secondary for power-blocks to arise from people organizing around those uprising belief systems.

Anyway this might be just an administrative stepping stone; maybe just being more consistent in their long-existing sorta-soft-ban on religions, rather than deliberately taking a new step towards banning them even harder. Can anyone here advise how significant this is relative to the status quo?
People want to live near downtown Austin because it is cool.

It is cool because of all the cultural stuff that happens there (music, comedy, parties, education, etc).

Price pressure increases on the dive bars and quirky places and they close up as condos replace them. The dive bars are not replaced (who wants to live above a bar??)

Downtown becomes less cool.
Yes, the long-lived Okinawans eat a pretty large quantity of carbs too. It comes largely from sweet potatoes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okinawa_diet
Some local knowledge: they blocked off lane to the left side is the same lane used when the express lanes are in their opposite configuration, in the morning. In the morning with the express inbound towards the city, that lane is a left-hand exit from the main flow of Interstate 5, onto the dedicated express lanes. There should be a sufficient amount of GPS data gathered from hundreds of other teslas, and camera data, that shows the same lane from an opposite perspective.
That's more about the monarchy; the monarch is not the spiritual head of the church, and the fact that they are considered the lead if anything shows how the state triumphed over religion.
Original replyer was correct, I should have read the full article. Edited the comment long before the downvotes. I don't stand by my words, move on.
From what I'm reading Lisk only supports 25 transactions per second.
Ask HN: Do you subscribe to any financial newsletters, especially paid ones?
I paid for one (not much, less than $100) just out of curiosity. I get at least 2 emails a day from them. All emails shill for other newsletters (aka "premium products"). Sometimes a single email has three (!!) ads. Each one of these products say the same thing - they have found a "secret formula" (stock market, crypto, gold etc) that apparently no one knows about and for a low, low payment of $2500 (or more) per year, they'd be generous enough to share it with you.

I genuinely wanted to learn about finance a bit, but these emails really turned me off from these newsletters. It was less than $100, so it doesn't bother me from a money perspective, but I am annoyed that I paid to be treated like garbage.

It is just one newsletter and it is just my experience, so I am not making any assumptions about the industry.

Do you subscribe to any? What is your experience?
IIRC it's named after similar levels of language fluency. So the idea is that you start by:

- being able to ask for things you want (ordering in restaurants or getting a team to deliver something),

- then offering things to other people (waiter in a restaurant, or saying, hey, would this feature be useful to you in the state it's in right now?)

- then being able to negotiate and talk about advanced themes (running a business, or saying, so, we couldn't do quite what you designed, but here's something that meets your intent; how's that?)

- then by being totally fluent and disruptive (writing poetry and literature, or moving into a new market).

The idea is that there's value at each stage, and some people won't actually need to move to subsequent stages if they're getting what they want in earlier ones.

(I am not an expert in the AFM and stand ready to be corrected.)
You really really don't. If it's done over email should we ban emails?
I agree that we shouldn't ban something just because we dislike/disrespect it; instead I meant that, unfortunately, many people (on both sides) don't see things that way. Sorry if that's not what it sounded like I was saying in my original post.
So what real-world problem does it solve? For example, can you address point 8 of this stream? https://twitter.com/timbray/status/963115533825527808
It's odd to see you speaking of the power of religious entities in Europe and staying silent on the Middle East, where they truly are a force that can topple kings.
Kremlin was first built in 1485, most churches were built well before the soviet era.

As for persecution of clergy is true, I suppose it depends if you count mass murder, torture, and shutting down churches as persecution

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-religious_campaign_during...
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Ah, but that is only temporary. The ultimate technical fix to people problems will eventually prevail, making you all obsolete. Erm, I mean us all, us humans, all of us human people of which I totally am one.
Certain cardinals in the Vatican supported the Nazis. I don't see how the Kirchenkampf, Mit brennender sorge and the actions of Catholics in the camps were outweighed by those cardinals' actions, any more than the Belgians were Nazis because of Leon Degrelle.
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Yes. We saw the same thing with 3D tv's. People tried to cling to their old 2D sets and clearly the new technology won out. /sarcasm
If LeGuin disappoints but you enjoy a sociological take then may I suggest Samuel R. Delaney's "Triton" and Mary Doria Russell's "The Sparrow?"
> First he didn't sterilize that stupid thing

Huh? Isn't it better that way, we might spread [simple] life to other planets. I'm completely serious, I don't understand what the concern is?
Ask HN: Why are hackers called different 'hats'?
I'm aware of the black/white/grey hats, but why is it hats?

I apologize for this rather low level question void of any real material, and I'm aware it's not really a question up for discussion, but I'm not really able to google out an answer and I don't know if Stackoverflow is the right forum to ask.

Thanks in advance!
> I would assert that there is no single person in existence who had a problem they wanted to solve, discovered that an available blockchain solution was the best way to solve it

What about Wikileaks? They had all their payments shutdown and then they were able to start accepting payments.

The "use case" for Bitcoin was stated up front. It is to allow censorship resistant transactions. And for Wikileaks in 2010, when their financial transactions were being censored, it worked!
There's a walking/hiking trail behind my house. One of my neighbors hates the fact that the trail has been 'improved' and now other people use it. He was used to it being 'his' trail.
Ireland is one of the few countries that has seen up close how even splinter groups of what is essentially the same religion can go to war with each other.

Between Ian Paisley and the IRA Ireland has learned a large number of super expensive lessons many of which have their roots in the protestant and catholic movements, handily used by the English to keep everybody divided. That's a very black chapter in European history.
Chrome does support other payment apps, not sure if Apple Pay blocks Chrome.

Also, Chrome on iOS has to use the Safari rendering engine, since Apple blocks third party rendering engines, so not sure if that would actually work.

Essentially, that's Apple making sure that if you have an iPhone, you can use any payment method, as long as it is Apple Pay.
Christianity has become a political tool now. It's a bit similar to how America feared and still does not allow members of communist party to become US citizens [1].

On the power of evangelical christianity, just look at some parts of central America, where there has been a strong conversion to evangelical Christianity. So strong that, is considered one of the reasons Hounders and Guatemala voted along with Trump administration on UN Jerusalem resolution. [2], [3]

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/16/communist-pa...
[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/un-jerusal...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/guatemala-...
....which is dictated my the supply of employers

thanks for the tldr.
There must have been lots of cultural clashes during the dawn of civilization between farmers and herders, because the Cain vs. Abel story seems to pop up in different forms fairly often.
First two sentences of that section:

> Fluent Delivering teams not only focus on business value, they realize that value by shipping as often as their market will accept it. This is called “shipping on the market’s cadence.”
That's a good question, and I too would like to know why people consider Cryptocurrencies to be "not fiat" ?

Currencies either have value from

1) Being made of a commodity (e.g. gold coin) or exchangeable for the commodity.

2) Because someone says so. This is "Fiat". Usually this is a government, not not necessarily so. See "company scrip" for another example.

Lack of an issuing government does not magically create a backing commodity.
I read the bitcoin whitepaper about 7 years ago. I find it funny when people talk about blockchain like it's new technology, or like it's a vision for future. It's old tech that has been generally increasing in market value.
Those are modifications of existing vowels, or diphthongs.

E.g. し(shi) + や(ya) = しゃ (sha), still the same 'a' sound.

English has only 5 vowel characters but more than 5 vowel sounds.
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I know this is anecdotal evidence, but my granddad took multivitamins faithfully for years. After my grandma passed from cancer, and due to not eating as much food with those vitamins, his body had a calcium build up to a state of calcium poisoning. This did a number on his kidneys. His kidneys did not recover. Instead of dialysis , he chose hospice. Multivitamins have the potential to give too much for the body to handle.
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Yeah, but it's coming back to Earth, where it came from. This is an object that could land on Mars or another planet.

Great measures have been taken in the past to ensure that other planets aren't contaminated before we've had a chance to understand their existing biology. Elon Musk is the kid who comes and knocks over some other kids' block tower for his own amusement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection
Wouldn't this scheme still be semantically secure, while defending against the steganography in the paper?

1. encrypt plaintext | 128-bit random value
2. if last cyphertext was greater than its predecessor but less than this cyphertext, go to step 1
3. if last cyphertext was less than its predecessor but greater than this cyphertext, go to step 1
Bill Maher is a TV personality. I’d not consider a representative of atheism. Richard Dawkins or Christoper Hitchens would be better candidates. Bill Maher is mostly a comedian.

Thanks for the downvotes btw, as a Christian critical of evangelists and similar conmen I don’t really care.

You should read some writings of Einstein and other great scientists btw, hardcore atheism is very radical niche and even most evolutionary biologists and theoretical physicists don’t believe it.
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This is free AI. If you paid for it, it would serve you. This way, it serves whoever pays for it. Email from top fintech asking me to work on their "personalized recommendation system that balances engagement, revenue, and our partner constraints". Do you see the welfare of their users in there? It's financial clickbait for naive people. Stop saying it's a tech problem, it's the uncanny valley and what not. This problem is created by billions of naive cheapskates and a system that rewards moral flexibility.
Separation of Church and state is a thing in many places. Usurping of the power of the Church by the state is just as bad as the reverse.
Hey! Absolutely you can! You can embed code into the workbook and automate stuff. If you're up for it, I'd love to discuss over Skype. It's the perfect use case! Send me an email, it's antonio at querystorm dot com.
To be clearer I was contrasting regulations on just Facebook or just social media companies and an informed consent opt-in privacy law covering all personal information. Sector specific privacy laws already prohibit your phone company and bank from using your logs for targeted advertising or directly selling it to the highest bidder. When there is a criminal or civil liability to hoarding personal information that can be abused internally or leaked, companies will think twice before setting up such databases. Of course there will still be the Ubers and Equifaxes of the world but it will shift the burden to the data brokers who will no longer be able to fall back to noting that compiling scarily detailed dossiers is legal.
the general rule "If you can afford an accountant, you should probably hire one" applies generally, and keeps you out of a lot of trouble.
you left out one little detail...

> When we arrived in Austin [in 1980]
If you disagree with the justification, it would be better to explain that position. Otherwise it appears that you are starting from the premise that this is bad so any justification presented must necessarily be dismissed regardless of validity.
VR social experiences are by far the best ones.

Once eye tracking is implemented, social experiences will take on a new level.
What cities will see the kind of growth Austin has experienced in the next twenty years? Perhaps Raleigh, Denver?
No experience. Now that I found one that works, I'm not hunting around.

It probably isn't that hard to find a form of magnesium that is more bioavailable than slapping an oxygen on it and hoping the body can pull it apart.
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Late Christopher Hitchens had a brilliant answer to the atheistic USSR persecuting Christians: Stalin was building his own cult. As an ignostic or anti-theist (depending on when you ask me) I do not want to have anything in common with the cult-building monsters of past, present or future.
You're severely underestimating danger of engineering mistakes in hardware.

Faulty Takata airbags have killed at least 20 in the US and injured over 100 since 2013. Then there was the Ford-Firestone fiasco that killed hundreds and injured thousands. The Ford Pinto ended up being a death trap. I also recall there several lawsuits around faulty guardrails that have killed. That's just off the top of my head.

The idea "software bugs kill, hardware bugs don't" is just plain wrong. I also can't even fathom an understanding of why it's "better" to be killed by someone whose overdosing on heroin behind the wheel than being killed by an engineering error. Especially given the hypothetical case that was proposed when engineering errors are less common.
I think it's really weird that right now both Joel Spolsky and Steve Yegge started blogging again. Maybe we're about to hit the apocalypse
The scarce resource is the CEO's time
There is going to be repercussion. The Chinese government starts to treat Christianity as a cult like Falun Gong, to which it used the same tactic. But unlike Falun Gong, which is more of a home-brew quasi religion from the 90s, Christianity and missionary activities have been intrinsically rooted in major cities like Nanjing and Shanghai, especially during the wartime.

This also sends a danger sign to the Uyghur area, which is Muslim dominated, making Uyghurs worry that Muslim might be the next religion to crack down. If the Chinese government wants stability and total control of its people, this is not the way to do it. And unlike two decades ago, there are now hundreds of ways to uprise and much harder to crack down.
Anecdotally, it's my understanding that rolling all gains forward isn't an uncommon practice for non-professional traders -- especially during bull markets.
You're probably right, at least for the near future. There's another A-Frame article about how to make an immersive game with low-poly models. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/03/immersive-aframe-low-poly/ If you're really pressed for size though, you can combine binary coding on disk with A-Frame, as Platane did in Vernissage. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/lessons-learned-from-the-a...
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This exists, it’s very common to have a human readable format for development and storage in version control that gets converted to a binary format for release. What doesn’t really exist is a common inter-engine format.
Because I can't actually buy anything with them, outside of a few niche markets.
It doesn't necessarily have BS written all over it - in fact, I think there are MANY people who got left holding the bag with alts.
It's not an important detail, particularly. The narrative is always "when we arrived, things were good, but these newcomers..."
> "The very places that made Austin so hip are being demolished to make room for the hotels and office spaces needed to accommodate the flood of tourists and newcomers who have come to enjoy what no longer exists"

Anyone know what places he is specifically referring to with that statement? I didn't see any specific examples mentioned in the article.
Depends. If he's in a high tax state and it was all short term capital gains, then those gains are taxable as income. If he didn't keep the tax money separate and the market tanks 80% (which it did) he'd end up with losses that can't be offset because you can't carry losses backwards, only forward.
It should be pointed out that studies of small increases of minimum wage that show modest harm do not immediately tell us that huge increases of minimum wage will not cause greater harm. Remember that $15/hour is more than the median wage in much of the country.
Scientists Discover Coconut Oil Exterminates 93% of Colon Cancer Cells in 2 Days
In your link, they're comparing to EC2 VMs not Amazon's Container hosting.

Their whole premise is that their containers are equivalent to/better than VMs[0].

0: https://www.joyent.com/blog/understanding-triton-containers
You can end up in this situation if you traded profitably in 2017 (which is totally reasonable to expect due all the price hikes) and then lost a lot in trades in 2018.

As far as how he got $330k - each time you convert one crypto to another you realize gain/loss. And it is quite possible to expect him to do just that.
Everything old is new again...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VRML
In some cowboy movies, the bad guy wore a black hat and the good guy wore a white hat.
Nerd you should look into what computers were like in the nineteen-fifties. But nerd you will be pleased to know that people started doing both of these things as soon as possible; modern 2D animation tools let you have as many planes as you want, and work with both assets drawn in the physical world and ones drawn directly into the computer.
Ask HN: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 doesn't honor DNS ttl?
I have tried 1.1.1.1 recently since it shows up pretty good in benchmark.

I have a domain with DNS in namecheap and 5 mins TTl. I change the DNS and it isn't propagating. I thouhg namecheap DNS is bad but out of curisitory I do

dig @8.8.8.8 my-domain

and it resolves to right ip!!!

Does anyone experience that? Or is it just me?
20% of the time, it works every time.
A good/recent example is the Graffiti Park.
https://www.mystatesman.com/news/local/austin-graffiti-park-...

Another is Uncommon Objects, an antique store originally on South Congress
https://www.statesman.com/business/uncommon-objects-moving-f...
Researchers develop device that can 'hear' your internal voice
Researchers develop device that can 'hear' your internal voice

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/06/researchers-develop-device-that-can-hear-your-internal-voice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Submit_to_HN