skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right. CPUs are already useless for mining. Currently, GPUs can still mine their share (but running a GPU miner on a botnet is a risk; computers become very noisy, hot and slow, which increases the detection rate). But as the first ASICs have started shipping (or have they?) this is expected to change very soon, and the only way to make a profit with mining will be with custom hardware. This rules out botnets pretty effectively.
and we've never ate so many chemical food preservatives, taste modifiers, colourants like we're eating now. we've never been exposed to so much radiations like we are now. mobile phones being the first source. yes we might be killing ourselves

This doesn't change the fact we're living longer, healthier lives than ever before.

I'm sure there's a lot more that we could be doing, I'm sure that there are things we do that we should stop doing for our own health BUT none of this supports the notion that cancer is a disease of western privilege and we're doing everything wrong. We're doing more right than we've ever done.
What is the probability of dying and a super-natural being transferring you to heaven? It's non-zero. I've heard the same exact argument from ultra religious people.

I am all for keeping a bit of hope alive, but a non-zero chance argument on its own is not enough. What is the probability exactly, can it be proven.
Could the secret to Infinite Renewable Energy lie in a simple equation?
Not that I would necessarily agree to it, but I imagine the argument would be that the legislation and regulation is our expectations in writing. We trust the banks to up hold those expectations. When that trust is broken, they are punished.

Or another way to put it might be trust versus faith.
Major web sites should sue for theft of service. They are modifying someone else's copyrighted content to steal their advertising revenue.

Also: https everywhere, now.
alphaoverlord understands the point I was making.

Both of these things are impossible, at the current level of tech.

One or both of them might become possible through the use of sufficiently advanced technology.

> On the other hand, it's pretty reasonable to assume that a cryopreserved brain preserves a lot of the information in the brain.

See, I don't think it's reasonable to assume this.

I believe that both of these things are equally possible - that is, not very possible at all.
> How much and to whom?

I'd say as much of it as we can, equally per-capita.

> Some poor people drive a lot.

And either they will change their behavior, or be hurt less than if we didn't give the money back. As people generally change their behavior they will likely have more options, as demand rises for alternative modes of transportation (and for goods and services that involve burning less gas) leading to greater economies of scale.

> Some poor people don't drive at all.

But they still buy goods that were shipped by burning gas. Even so, they'll benefit more than others, but I don't think that's a problem.

> Also, you can't just give it all back. As long as emissions continue at something near current levels, you have to spend it on amelioration. It doesn't just become a slush fund.

We can certainly talk about taking a piece for amelioration, but I don't think paying that out of the general fund is unrealistic; it's what we'd be doing otherwise, and it'll be way cheaper if people have adjusted their behavior to reflect the true costs of their actions.
Bitcoin's rise is a consequence of raising mistrust of people in monetary policies of their banks and their governments.

Watching your money frozen or being used to pay off for government's failures is no fun.

Hence - the result.
If we draw something like an air-field on sand, it is reasonable to believe that the planes will start to land again...

Sounds like that "cargo cult" variety of science.
I think the only novel of his I read was Finity, and that kind of turned me off.
I'm joining this - especially interested to understand how to integrate Distil Networks into infrastructure.
For a business, it probably isn't worth the trouble of working with someone who will design their website for free - and as an aside, pro bono requires that the work be done as a public service and is not applicable for services provided to most local businesses.

Building your portfolio requires that you build websites, it's better if they are for real customers, but a diversity of pure design exercises is better than nothing.
Great Job! Have you ever thought to have a similar filter for Facebook? Keep going and good luck!
> The author contends that banks are built on trust and Bitcoins are built on mistrust.

Sounds very much like the author is attempting to engage in doublespeak...
Evaluating assets based on "Market Cap" is a standard financial analysis technique. This is nothing more than the marginal value of a security (i.e. what it's trading for this very moment) times the number of shares.

You are right, the article uses sloppy terminology. You are also right that you couldn't actually sell all those bitcoins for $1bm. Nonetheless, this is standard financial language you have to take at face value.
We built something like this a little while ago that does the same thing for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram: http://followbot.me/
That's true, yes. Which is why the HPC community is moving towards having / leaving everything on GPU memory (except for the odd monitoring peaks, initializations and gathering of output of course). The GPU's architecture nowadays is general purpose enough that you can make this work - the tooling is still a work in progress though[1]. There's even some work going on for using GPUs for database purposes.

When it comes to bandwidth, the newest generation Teslas / Geforces tend to have a factor of 5 more than the latest Xeon running on all cores - I've talked to people at IBM who were able to get this speedup for random access as well - so it usually scales at 5x, no matter whether you look at peak, sustained or random access bandwidth.

[1] My current project is actually mainly done for this reason: https://github.com/muellermichel/Hybrid-Fortran
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No, more money is needed. 41% of deaths are due to cancer. It really is one of the biggest problems we have as a species and we should spend more effort on it rather than the things we do spend effort on.

But I wholeheartedly agree that rather than trying to be a billg and earn money to fund philanthropy, the world needs more researchers.
Why hasn't anyone made a currency that is similar to Bitcoin with the only difference that it can grow infinitely, with an inflation of roughly 2% per year?

It would also need to have the same difficulty increases of Bitcoin, to account for future mining technology, other if the difficulty stays too low, someone with some breakthrough hardware could generate and "print" a lot of new units.
The number doesn't matter, the experiment was a success.
The ratio of trade volume to transaction volume has been trending downwards since the start of the year. In other words, the growth in goods/services exchange has outpaced the growth in speculation (in terms of BTC, not USD). [1]

Further, it's inaccurate to generalize performance problems to all exchanges. MtGox is the only exchange that has these kinds of issues. I've never seen any lag on any other exchange. I'm still baffled as to why they've remained so popular for so long, but I do know it's not for lack of other well-performing exchanges.

[1]: https://blockchain.info/charts/tx-trade-ratio?timespan=180da...
would love to make it happen
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It's called mark to maket accounting, for example suppose I have 2 Bitcoin and will like to know what is their value, I see the market price and multiply by what I have, like you said.

This is why people say that the current amount of bitcoin multiplied by their value makes more than $1 billion dollars.

EDIT: Of course, you can't sell it all by the current market price since supply will be then much higher than demand and price will go down
>Oh i have 1BTC now and it is worth $10000. It used to be worth $.001 when i bought a pizza

Most likely the guy who got the pizza now thinks "gee, that other guy is now sitting on a BTC treasure that could buy him a house, a car and a lot of nice holidays. I got a pizza".

BTC and $ (or €) are competing for value - and as long as the BTC story is intact, it makes more sense to hoard BTC and spend $$. When there is inflation, it makes sense to invest or consume your money, with BTC this does not make sense if you can hold off your purchase for a while.

I therefore would not be surprised to see a tremendous spike in the BTC valuation but I have no idea what the distant future would be - it can only be a hard crash or the stifling of the BTC economy.

Edit: see also:
https://medium.com/money-banking/2b5ef79482cb
This is actually a serious problem, if you’re trying to put together a currency, rather than a vehicle for financial speculation. If the currency of a country ever fluctuated as much as bitcoins did, it would never be taken seriously as a medium of exchange: how are you meant to do business in a place where an item costing one unit of currency is worth $10 one day and $20 the next?
[...]
If millions of people started using bitcoins on a regular basis, the soaring value of bitcoins would actually be disastrous. You’ve heard of hyperinflation: this would be hyperdeflation
Linode Launches Longview Monitoring Beta
I think the discussion here is missing the fact that "long boot time" is on the order of milliseconds. From the article: the average time for a ucode update on the test machine was 489k cycles, which at 2.53GHz is 193 microseconds. I hardly count that as a large part of the boot time...
Also worth noting that his explanation of Collection.get: "Collection.get() which accept single index of model as parameter like follows..." is incorrect and should be Collection.at.
Pretty cool project, but I feel kind of dirty having js and html being so tightly bound to each other. Do you have a specific use case where pithy would perform faster or be more cleanly implemented than standard templates?
I've thought a similar thing about Bitcoin before - it seems like this is the 'goldrush' era - people are grabbing as many Bitcoins as they can before they become too scarce. Assuming there is no sudden drop-off in interest, will we not eventually see a new digital currency, acting as a representation / guarantee of future value? The currency itself has no worth, merely the idea that it can be traded at some point for something WITH worth (i.e an individual Bitcoin).

It's like trading in gold rather than money, and all this current rush is going to do is force an eventual emulation of real-world banking systems.
The blockchain is simply a tool. A bank ledger is not actively trying to scam you out of your money either. It is the people involved that do so. There has been plenty of shady dealings around Bitcoin already.
I'm not the grandparent poster, but one classic problem with STL iterators is that they always have to come in pairs. If you think about it, most STL algorithms don't really work on iterators, they work on ranges that happen to be defined by pairs of iterators. That makes it hard to compose operations, makes it hard to work with infinite streams, and makes it possible to screw up and write something like std::transform(v1.begin(), v2.end()).

Have a look at Alexandrescu's work on ranges in D for a more modern exploration of the same concept.
I'm very sorry to hear this.

The first Banks book I read was in a palliative care room while my mom was dying of cancer.
Certainly macros can be hard to decipher, however they don't set up this spooky action at a distance, for example a annotation signaling bytecode injection. There's no way to hand-trace through that; the only solution is to learn the library / framework in-depth.
BillPin buys BillMonk, plans to shut it down and migrate user data over
The LZW patent. It caused us a lot of grief with .gif, but that was primarily because the code was published in various places without it being made clear that it was patented. The method was genuinely innovative (it's the sort of thing that might not have been thought of at all without those people's work - or might have been kept as a trade secret and then lost to society if their business failed - in other words, exactly what patents are meant to cover), and really advanced the state of the art. The RSA patent is similar, and even more dramatic in terms of its effect on what was possible.

(Also note that there are alternative methods for both compression and public-key encryption that do not infringe on the patents)
s/bitcoin/real estate/

Now consider how much more liquid BTC is.

The problem is that there is no supported mechanism for shorting.

If you have a lot faith in bitcoin, will you lend me some at 0% (or negative, if you believe in growth!) annual interest for a 10 year term? If so, I will take that loan.
As market share statistics, he's right they are now bunk. But they are on developer.android.com, not in a press release or a company performance report.

As a developer these statistics are a lot more valuable, since they reflect the actual market for Android users shopping for my apps.

I don't think Google is really all that worried about what people think.
Nice I didn't know about it, please connect with me over on twitter @gdonelli, would love to talk
https://www.rackspacecloud.com/
...has a SSL error (for me right now - their certificate expired 2 days ago).
Whenever the crash happens, we'll have so many threads generated telling us to "get in now!" and the speculation will begin anew.
Come on everyone, we cannot possibly work together in any meaningful societal capacity without having upmost trust and faith in banks and our respective governments.

/sarc
I really dislike combining the notions of project and product management as if they are synonymous. It's like saying a developer and a designer are the same thing. That's wrong.

The skills sets, discipline, and day in and day out activities are outrageously different. I get combining the 2 roles into one category for organization purposes, but the description/answer to the inquiring page title doesn't even use the word "project" in it.

Could some project managers do product management and vice versa? Sure. I've even done some of both at the same time, despite it being somewhat of a split-brained job. Do some companies just muddy/confuse the terminology? Sure, but that doesn't mean it should be allowed to perpetuate further and confuse others even more.
If Gossip Girls had an app, this would be the one
I suppose it's probably just a matter of trying to keep things as simple as possible. You're already specifying all the attributes of the nodes you're creating, so you can just as easily then bind them yourself. UNIX philosophy and all that.
An analysis of VC & seed funding numbers, scraped from Crunchbase
Actually, don't start with the books.

Read this webpage to get an introduction to the Culture. It's great, and it helps you get through some of the "rougher" edges in the earlier books.

http://nuwen.net/culture.html
I expected this to automatically determine my VIPs from my favorite, retweets and interactions. Making me select the people I want to add as VIPs isn't that much more beneficial than just having a Twitter list.
Mt Gox and others can hold your coins for you.
Oh, please. I called your comment an embarrassment. You personally attacked me with insults.

Burden of proof is on you to prove your pet theory. Definitively show blatant corruption. Go for it.
Why you hate the sound of your own voice
tpope!
So eventually Ron Paul will be trying to push us back to the Bitcoin standard?
Read this: http://nuwen.net/culture.html

then:
The Player of Games
Consider Phlebas
Use of Weapons

Use of Weapons is great, but the writing is poorer than the other two.
Many currencies in existence are now riskier and less stable than Bitcoin.

Yes, it's true. As of right now, there are 182 official currencies worldwide[1], most of which you've never heard of in your life, and many of which have total market capitalization lower than Bitcoin.[2] Others are subject to extreme sociopolitical, economic, or military-conflict risks. Would you rather own bitcoins, which are traded globally, or, say, Libyan dinars, North Korean wons, Syrian pounds, etc.?

Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.45 in 2011 (20% jump), only to drop back down to around US$1.29 today.[3]

If Bitcoin survives the horrific economic crises in countries like Spain, Greece, and Cyprus, and the even more horrific military conflicts in countries like Syria and Sudan, it will continue gaining credibility as the currency of last resort -- the global digital commodity that will survive even if your country or economy goes to hell.

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Edit: changed "most currencies in existence" to "many currencies in existence," which is what I actually intended to write.

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies_...

[2] http://reason.com/24-7/2013/04/01/at-1b-bitcoin-holds-more-v...

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
In the spec they talk about 8-links each is 16 bit(or lanes in their jargon) , which comes out to 128 bit (or 256 bit - there are some configurations where input and output bits are on different pins).
Mozilla and Samsung Collaborate on Next Generation Web Browser Engine
If Gossip Girls had an app
No, this is totally wrong. Doctors create wealth too, contributing more healthcare to society is in no way zero sum. There are already plenty of sick patients left over, not everybody gets world class healthcare at affordable costs. If you had more of them healthcare costs would go down and so the capital saved could go to other endeavours. Secondly, you heal people who contribute more to the pie. Finally, healthiness IS the pie, it is itself a type of wealth, arguably one of the most important.

And yes, skilled immigrants create wealth. But the same reasonable arguments that can be made for bringing in skilled tech immigigrants (NOT on indebtured servant visas) could be made for bringing in skilled healthcare immigrants. The reason the former happens a lot more than the latter is because of political representation. Doctors have the AMA carefully controlling the supply of doctors, tech workers have Google and Microsoft doing the opposite.
Read this page first as an amazing introduction to the Culture:

http://nuwen.net/culture.html
It's a good job this article isn't solely about the price then, and the headline is revealed as a lie just a couple of paragraphs in
Also, video version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOCurBYI_gY
Google offers Python and Java libraries that bring SMS, voice to apps
I am looking forward to reading the next few articles in the series. Mapping applications are awfully hard to get right [1]. There is just so much to do and do correctly that it is quite the technical achievement to create a functional mapping application. Doing it in 3d seems more difficult.

But, I have a huge philosophical disagreement with the (education) product that beestar offer. I am a university student, and the freedom and independence that comes with being a student is invaluable. I transitioned from the narrowly rule-bound high school to the liberated, independent university life. I feel it is my responsibility and mine alone for my attendance. I would feel like I was back at school if my attendance was monitored. So many universities are places that engender freedom of thought, movement and expression. It seems as if this "were you there?" Big Brother system stands in opposition to the liberty offered by universities. The system that can offer you freedom unlike in any other institution instead clamps down on you, Theory X style [2]. If I were to attend a university using this system, I would feel less free than I do now. I don't think that removing someone's freedom to guarantee attendance is a worthwhile payoff for the education they'd be receiving

[1] www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
Why? Because the burden of proof has somehow shifted. You're now guilty until proven innocent. Are you serious?
If they really wanted to scam people, there are far better ways than suckering a couple thousand people out of membership dues, and a couple hundred people out of leaving their $30k - $200k (hardly unlimited, especially for software developers!) life insurance payout to a family member.
Many currencies in existence are now riskier and less stable than Bitcoin.

Yes, it's true. As of right now, there are 182 official currencies worldwide[1], most of which you've never heard of in your life, and many of which have total market capitalization lower than Bitcoin.[2] Others are subject to extreme sociopolitical, economic, or military-conflict risks. Would you rather own bitcoins, which are traded globally, or, say, Libyan dinars, North Korean wons, Syrian pounds, etc.?

Even the US dollar and euro, supposedly bastions of stability, have seen their exchange rate jump from US$0.80 per euro in 2002 to US$1.60 in 2008 (100% jump), only to drop back down to US$1.20 in 2010 (25% drop), then jump to US$1.45 in 2011 (20% jump), only to drop back down to around US$1.29 today.[3]

If Bitcoin survives the horrific economic crises in countries like Spain, Greece, and Cyprus, and the even more horrific military conflicts in countries like Syria and Sudan, it will continue gaining credibility as the currency of last resort -- the global digital commodity that will survive even if your country or economy goes to hell.

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Edit: changed "most currencies in existence" to "many currencies in existence," which is what I actually intended to write.

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PS. I posted this on the other thread linking to the same article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5486100

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_currencies_...

[2] http://reason.com/24-7/2013/04/01/at-1b-bitcoin-holds-more-v...

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1...
Good idea.

The followers are currently sorted according to who you interact the most. But it is not obvious.
A picture speaks a thousand words here; the author did a great job supplying plentiful screenshots to emphasize how wrong this practice is. I read about this in the past but wasn't too moved until I scrolled through all those screenshots and thought, wow, this is not good for ad publishers OR brands OR anybody. This is only good for the greedy ISP.
Why? Because history does not repeat itself, esp. not when it comes to speculation.

Haha, that's funny. See tulips, housing, Iraqi Dinar, CO Silver industry crash, gold in the 80s, the list goes on.
I think that Bitcoins are a sign of mistrust that people have in corrupt banks and governments.
I agree. I go to the dentist twice a year to check for cavities.

I can only guess the costs for the tests are too expensive. Still couldn't insurance cover the tests?
Slightly away from the crux of the article, I've seen a few people mention hacking as a reason why BitCoin is still risky. Are they talking about hacking of BitCoin at the low level, or hacks on BitCoin repositories?
Anyone else here is wishing you had time to pack up some breathing gear and cross the gate to see what is inside?
Here's Banks explaining the Culture, which is a great background that isn't even in the books.

http://nuwen.net/culture.html
The server is starting to be sluggish to get the gist of the product you may want to take a look at the video I put together:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGEloIzNE7w
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