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Your argument is so short-sighted. Yes, right now the Lightning Network is not ready for mainstream use. It may turn out that the Lightning Network and Bitcoin itself are obsolete in 5-10 years. But are you seriously betting against crypto-currency long term?

Crypto-currency technology received billions of dollars in funding in 2017. Yes, plenty of that went to bullshit projects which have no chance at success, and probably have no intention to develop anything substantial. However, plenty of it also went towards hiring talented developers and creating projects focused on the next generation of crypto-currency.

Up until 2017, the actual investment into blockchain projects was minimal. And yet, even when the market was chopping around between 2014 and 2016, and barely any money was invested, very important milestones were reached. Most notably, Ethereum was launched, and has set the foundation for putting applications on the blockchain.

I don't think anyone argues that having full scale, working applications on the blockchain is a bad idea. They simply argue that the current applications are limited, and aren't working very well. As if the current state of crypto currency is static and will not improve in the next 10-20 years.

The reality is that crypto-currency and blockchain never got any serious attention until 2013-14. And even then it was short-lived. Today every single person in tech knows about blockchain and crypto-currency. They all have their own opinion on it, but compared to just 5 years ago, it has come an incredibly long way.

The technology will improve. It will improve at a much faster rate now, thanks to the bubble in 2017. These projects don't need to post quarterly earnings improvements. The developers don't need to follow a corporate timeline. You can't kill these projects. They will always improve incrementally, until at some point the technology is truly unrecognizable from what it is today.

Go back and check a computer from 1950. I'm sure plenty of people back then were laughing at how ridiculous the concept was of owning a PC. Technology moves in a straight line, forward. And unless a competitor outpaces the improvement, then every day crypto currency gains on other forms of currency.
Google also ran similar user studies, sometimes between Google and other search engines, and sometimes between production Google and a proposed change.

One tough thing is there isn't one search quality metric. It's important to have the search results page look good with its snippets, and another thing to have people actually look at the linked pages and compare the usefulness of the linked pages.

Common vs. uncommon searches are also important. It's not difficult to write a search engine that badly over-fits on the most common searches. However, for market share, it's important to do well enough on the common searches that users don't leave, and do well enough on tough long-tail searches that you pick up users that leave other search engines on tough queries. The idea is to be pretty good at the common searches, but the best at the kinds of searches that cause people to try other search engines. Naive frequency-weighted metrics will get this totally wrong.

It's also more important to get useful information in the first 2 or 3 links. If Google links to the second-best link at result #1 and puts the best link off the first results page, but Yahoo puts the best link down at #7 and second-best at #8, the user may lose interest before following a really good link.

I don't think Google took the union of front-page search results between two competitors and asked humans to hand-order the (up to 40) pages for how well they fit the query. But, that seems like a good way to test the actual usefulness of search results. You'd probably especially want to keep track of the percentage of the top 3 search results that were filled by top-5 (guessing at 5) useful links.

Anyway, inside Google it was well-known that Yahoo was the competitor to worry about in terms of search quality.
> "If you have one country that can grow wheat and cotton better than their northern neighbor who can just grow wheat with lesser yield per acre..."

You're describing absolute advantage, not comparative advantage. Even if country A is worse at growing wheat than country B, it can still gain by specializing in exporting wheat to country B... so long as it's even worse at making other goods.
> I knew if I spent a year working on this project and then found out that it was going to be kept in-house forever, I would feel that my project and my effort had been stolen from me, no matter how much I got paid in the meantime.

I don’t know how to parse this. Is the author talking about corrode 2.0 being stolen? Or that someone would pay him to write code that can’t be released or discussed in public?
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Please don't vent or gloat like that here. It's nasty, regardless of how much you disliked a product.
NES was mostly an US phenomenon I guess.

In Europe we were focused on ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64, depending on the country, and then moved into a mix of PC, Atari and Amiga.

In Portugal the only games console that some kinds cared about were the Sega one's.
I love that the relooper can be disabled! I think that option will be really useful while the heuristics are being tuned, since many codebases avoid goto as a matter of style and can probably be translated without it, or with minor tweaks.
So now Chinese company cannot approach employees in Taiwanese companies any more. Okay.
Well look at how DST regulation changes (about one worldwide every six months) are handled: tzdata is the most underrated project around. I would not be surprised if islami calendars relied on something similar. In their case it is easier as there are (to my knowledge) not several islamic zones observing different rules.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database
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The biggest problem I have with this style is that it is inconsistent across variable types and provides no insight into the actual operation being performed without further knowledge. My personal experience is that my ability to read and comprehend code quickly is dependent on the context and patterns present within it (among other things). Therefore making the expression explicit as a pattern adds context and therefore increases readability and comprehension.

The statement '!x' tells me nothing about x, just that I'm expecting a given logical value. The semantic meaning of that value however, I have no idea. Odds are it is probably a NULL or 0, but that doesn't help much because (at least in the linux world) they can have different meanings despite having the same logical value. I cannot differentiate between success (!(x == NULL)) or failure (!(x == 0)) without more context.

The statement 'x == NULL' immediately tells me at a glance that I am dealing with a pointer, and therefore I should pay more attention to how it is used. I know I should now be looking for other patterns of safe/unsafe pointer management that are immediately relevant to the function I am reading right now. There is no need for me to look elsewhere and go on some tangent to find out, then to have to recall what I was doing when I come back later. I can immediately start considering the likelihood of segmentation faults, or other memory management issues. x == NULL also tells me that here I am expecting failure of some kind. The context around that condition should then tell me which kind, eg NULL == alloc_thing() vs NULL == find_thing().

Similarly, the statement 'x == -1' tells me I am working with an integer. This can tell me immediately whether I am expecting success (x == 0), failure (x == -1), or that I should make a mental note of more complex possibilities (THING_WORKED == do_thing()).

Code is a narrative. It is documenting the answers to the questions you are asking while writing it, and it should answer the questions that someone else is asking while reading it. When somebody asks you to explain something, the least helpful thing you can do is answer a plain "yes" or "no". It is better to give context and answer further related questions before they need to be asked. Readability and comprehension of code are no different - any given programmer is asking questions of the code. The more questions they have to ask, the longer it will take them to discover the answers in order to understand the code. Context helps. Shorter is not always better.
> Your argument is so short-sighted. Yes, right now the Lightning Network is not ready for mainstream use.

That was literally my argument, well that and it seems like it never will be because of the fundamental design of the thing.

Not sure why you felt the need to write the rest of that, it's nothing to do with what I posted. It appears to be a lot of wishful thinking and idealism.
Well, ML on 100 billion searches is probably going to more closely approximate user intent than a living brain in a tank, because that brain doesn't know what the hell "lkw attachment" means.

Looks like german-english bilingual logistics professionals are looking for truck parts vendors, while teenage Americans are looking for hidden locations of laser focusing and enhancement devices within the video game Wolfenstein The New Order.

Do you envision a second route to that answer?
Then there is more demand. Keep going. There is nothing that has unlimited demand.

You can't reduce demand by constraining supply, all you are doing is making people unhappy.

If your policies are very free, you'll find people will figure out how make things more efficient. For example inexpensive delivery will become possible if there was enough space for traffic.

I know this because I've lived in dense cities (no delivery service - it's simply too hard to find parking, and thus too expensive) and wide urban areas (every store offers delivery because it's cheap and easy).

And that's exactly the opposite of what everyone thinks will happen - they want cars off the road, and replaced with delivery, without actually making delivery practical (i.e. inexpensive).
To those unfamiliar with Trout Mask Replica, I highly recommend this 30 minute video review[0] by Samuel Andreyev.

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HN is not the place for this. I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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Although observable physical effects on humans have not been proven, behavioral effects on insects have been documented.
These are interesting pilot studies because insect behavior is relatively simple and deviations more easily measured when compared to humans. Any explanations as far as the physical mechanism would involve changes in brain chemistry/activity which can be too subtle to detect.
I would hold out on a final verdict for now as far as humans go and I don't think further studies should be ridiculed as paranoid just yet. Given the global use of cellphones I think it's better to err on the side of caution.

It's an unpopular suggestion, especially at a time when tin foil hat conspiracies abound, but I don't think it's uneasonable. Emf is an observed physical phenomenon so there is nothing supernatural about the possibility of it's effects on human behavior.

I should also add that what we really have is not so much a solid body of evidence but a number of studies which show a lack of evidence. This could just as easily point to the harmlessness of cell phones as our inability to observe their effects.
I see where you are going and you probably have a point but I also will have to think about that for some time. On the other hand my ad hoc reaction is that the problem is much more severe for quantum mechanics than it is for classical mechanics.

In classical mechanics we use a slightly wrong model of the world but then everything is consistent and works as long as you are not stepping into regions where the approximations are no longer good. Quantum mechanics yields correct predictions for a wider range of phenomena because we no longer pretend that Planck's constant is zero, it explains some strange features of classical physics, but it is - at our current level of understanding - also no longer self-consistent.

And while quantum mechanics is certainly less intuitive I think that is not really the issue. Once you leave Newtonian mechanics behind and step into the Lagrangian or Hamiltonian formulation, even classical mechanics becomes a quite abstract theory. I am certainly still better at picturing phase space flows than superpositions in momentum space but I have no fundamental problem with abstract representations.

But that time evolution is supposed to be unitary while I am not looking and then suddenly goes out of the window, that is something you can not simply ignore. It's not not intuitive, it's not consistent. And it's not limited to a region of the theory where we might expect the theory to break down, it's right in the center of it.
I think China has proven that for developing world to really develop, they should employ the same tactic. The real monopoly of developed world is in technology, and there is no way any poor country can catch up. Poor countries will always just be some 'market' unless they do something to save themselves. And when robot technology really takes off, poor country will have 'zero' chance of getting out of their situation again, they are going to be in deep trouble.
Ok thanks I was mistaken. There was also a Procomm suit.
No, just for us and guests. It's pretty easy though, faster than using an electric oven and tastes 100x better. Also cooks an amazing steak in a sizzler pan!
The economic collapse has been delayed but it is still coming. The time will come where simply issuing more and more unbacked currency will stop working.
That doesn't get you out of having to face the problem. This is not a challenge unique to MongoDB or other NoSQL databases. Oracle or Postgres might be ideal for your transactional data store, and a columnar database might be ideal for your analytics.

I suppose you could choose one of those options and sacrifice either your customer experience or your analytics, but it's probably better to use the best database for each use case.
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, even after massaging the numbers by suggesting measurement issues may account for differences, shows a 30% difference between poor and rich in terms of average propensity to consume.

https://www.frbsf.org/economic-research/publications/economi...
BTCis centralised in various ways. It's likely that one actor (Bitmain) could muster 51% hash power relatively easily. There are relatively few on-off ramps for the ecosystem.

These two facts alone point to possibilities for interference at a large scale.
This comment breaks the HN guidelines, which ask you not to insinuate astroturfing without evidence.

When we find actual astroturfing we crack down on it, but it's not ok to poison the threads by putting that label on views you happen to disagree with.

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my first [uninformed] thought is that there is no external reason why they would want to

for me its typically to build a tool, or get paid + subsidize my own ventures from getting paid. my own ventures are run much cheaper because I don't need to pay a developer.

after hitting the glass ceiling doing dev work for other people, one of those coding reasons became obsolete, simultaneously this means the cost of having other devs run my software ventures is also much more practical. having devs onboarded means I can also throw random unrelated tasks at them to build the tool I imagined. I may not have any reason to want to code anymore

A kid raised at this socioeconomic level may not see a reason why they need to.

I also was never interested in coding before real world problems arose. Academic stuff, and book lessons never stuck for me.

also, yes they could simply be not interested.
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> It's perfectly legal to offer training to someone with a claw back on training costs if they leave before x years. The issue is that this creates a contract and every employer in the US currently wants to have at will employment at all costs.

There is an obvious failure mode here (well, a related pair of them) -- I don't want to sign a clawback contract, get fired just before x years, and have to disgorge the training costs. This is a live issue with option vesting and it's only not a live issue with training costs because that sort of employment contract is rare.

On the other hand, once we've signed a multi-year contract making it difficult for you to fire me, I may not be inclined to work all that hard.
If people believed in statistics they would let their kids roam free like their parents and grandparents did. It's much safer than it used to be. Alas, US parents are overly protective.
Economy of scale, my dude.

An organization seeking to market a product based on any spare slack or wastage of their bare metal could stitch together a niche product like this from enough resources, and price it in the space where it nets them money, and is cheaper than something an individual or small business might be capable of building on their own, with the cheapest possible parts.

That's basically the the core principle of every cloud product being sold.
I honestly don't know, I remember there was some clause where one promises not to sue then there's a payout for accrued PTO and severance which could be all standard boilerplate but not an expert on any of that. IIRC the founders of the studio got fired the day their employment contract expired and then Blizzard North got taken over by the guys from Blizzard HQ, then everyone at Blizzard North all had to re-interview for our jobs, first the IT guys so they could lock out everyone they were firing/laying off and what not.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments here, regardless of how you feel about RMS.
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Same deal in the UK. Some people turn their nose up at it, along with their fellow German brethren Lidl. I don't see why. Some of the food outright beats the food from Tesco, where it can sometimes be twice as expensive.
I think it starts with ensuring that you have staff that actually review an action before it takes place. Relying on automation can be catastrophic for someone like OP.
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> However, I don't know if it's healthy to consume them too often.

Frozen meals tend to have very high levels of salt in them. They also have poor quality ingredients, so are not as nutritional as you think.

If you must live on frozen meals, try making them in large quantities yourself over a weekend, and freeze them. Most basic 'meat & vegetables' meals can be frozen and re-heated.
No that's Bayes' theorem, not Bayesian inference. You haven't made any Bayesian assumptions.
I don't like the words "laws of nature". It is another example of anthropomorphism. Law is something that only make sense in the human social context. All those so call laws are just some generalisations that are extracted from the observations that we have observed in nature and most importantly those observations are a very tiny tiny portion of the all possible observations space of all of universe.
Because the op makes stuff out of their ass
Instagram is like a performance show; every shot a photographer posts there is expected to have a wow-factor and generate Likes.

Flickr is much more relaxed; it's not perfect ( you can't exclude photos fron the Photostream for example ) but there's less of an expectation of consistent performance. I'm happy to upload 'warranty shots' to Flickr, unexciting but interesting documentary photos.
An order of magnitude. Jeepers, that sounds really bad.
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https://searchengineland.com/yahoo-google-search-deal-233963

Unless something has changed it seems bing still gets at least 51% of traffic.
Gas is a fluid, so it doesn't matter. Even if it costed $99.999, rounding is made after multiplying by the volume purchased, compounding that insignificant value into a real change.
You started a nasty flamewar with this and got more uncivil downthread. We ban accounts that behave like that, so please don't. Instead, please present your arguments civilly, regardless of how right you are.

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Trying out today at work :)
He was filing fake tax returns. That probably exposed his IP in logs on government servers.
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Even if travel time were the same with three lanes instead of two, that's 50% more people moving down that road. That's a quantifiable social benefit.

Well, maybe those 50% achieve some benefit to themselves and society once they arrive at their destination. Keep in mind, if those people happen to be arriving at jobs they had previously, that's not a greater benefit than before.

However, the movement of people down the road itself is a social detriment. Most people don't to spend time in traffic for kicks and the cost of fuel consumption, pollution, wear on highways and wear on cars is significant. I mean, if somehow I could spend only five minutes in my car per day and still get to my destinations, the benefit would clearly be far greater.
You should at the very least be doing analytics queries on a replica, or you could be affecting the database performance (and the customer experience) in production.

But even if you did that, you'll find that you'll need joins and aggregations that are painful to do in Mongo yet trivial to do in a system that is designed for them.
If you’re also interested in the history and evolution of lisp please see _The Evolution of Lisp_:
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Please don't react to flamebait by joining a flamewar. We're trying to avoid that here.

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Type Beefheart into youtube and you'll typically get TMR and Safe as Milk at the top (depending on your location and profile). There's 0.75 of one good track on Safe as Milk and TMR is merely a sketchbook compared to the masterpieces to come.

Let's go:

* Shiny Beast

* Lick My Decals Off, Baby

* Doc at the Radar Station

* Ice Cream For Crow

These are, unconditionally, guaranteed, the best Beefheart albums
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Look at this map that shows what a household needs
to earn to buy an average (not low-cost) home by state. Most places do not have California’s problem. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.fatherly.com/news/map-avera...
Please don't post flamebait to Hacker News. The last thing we need is an argument about "equating chicken lives and human lives". Not to mention cannibalism.
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Sounds like a conference run by incompetent people, which is usually the vibe I get from glorified "javascript users".

Definitely not a conference I'd ever attend.

A conference for technology is usually supposed to be a social gathering for people with a shared interest, not a formal conference like a business gathering.

The only thing I can't think of is that you submitted a lot of proposals and they perhaps thought it was spam, but the response they gave you they clearly knew it wasn't spam.

Perhaps they have small children's mentality and didn't like the challenge of someone with a different point of view and perhaps better knowledge; although that alone would be kind of ironic since most people go to such conferences to hear the minds of bright people.

From the information you've given, I'm unable to find a logical reason for your ban.
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You can't know that a priori, though. The cops should not get to say "I want to track this cell phone, it's being used for a crime" without filing a warrant. That is pretty much exactly what warrants are for in other contexts, cell phones should not be treated differently.