skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The total electricity used in Bitcoin mining is pegged to the bitcoin supply

No, its not. "Mining" is a misleading term based on the early-phase reward. A better name for the function would be "providing resources for transaction processing". In the early phase, the reward is new bitcoins (hence, "mining" as the common name for the process), in the late phase it becomes transaction fees.

> And transaction fees shouldn't change this too much. Competition amongst miners should eventually drive those towards zero too.

Competition among miners only drives transaction fees to zero if there are a large number of miners compared to the number of transactions -- i.e., if either usage isn't high or lots of people are dedicating resources to mining (and thus, electricity usage isn't going to zero.)

> It's not just bookkeeping that's happening, it's dispute resolution.

No, its just bookkeeping.

> Currently your financial disputes are solved by calling your credit card company and having them deal with it.

True for certain classes of financial disputes when credit cards are used, but not generally the case. But, whatever.

> There's a whole network of dispute resolution services going all the way up to the SCOTUS. All of which uses resources. Bitcoin does all that through mining.

No, it does not do the same function as the entire court system in terms of financial dispute resolution. Disputes involving Bitcoin are still resolved through the legal process. In fact, the absence of chargeback like mechanisms means that any disputes require escalation to more expensive mechanisms of dispute resolution sooner.

(Now, if transactions are done in a manner which is anonymous, dispute resolution may be practically impossible in the same way that that can be become the case if you are doing anonymous drops to exchange cash and goods -- but that doesn't mean that mining is fulfilling the dispute resolution function, just that you've adopted a protocol which excludes dispute resolution.)
What I read last time was that the pesticide makes the bees more susceptible to the parasite. Bayer (and others) are trying to flip that around to their commercial advantage but detriment to nature.
Cameron's porn ban coming into effect?
David Cameron was pushing to block porn by default in the UK. I live in London and my internet has been down for the last 48 hours (I am with Sky Broadband).

This is the first screen that I have been presented with after being reconnected. After all the recent news (NSA saying they will discredit people with their porn habits) is it too far-fetched to think this is part of a government scheme?
I know next to nothing about this field, but I just sort of brute-forced my way through the OP paper with the help of wikipedia. It's a painful process. :-)

But it has piqued my curiosity about the field. Are there any good introductory books/websites for the curious layman to get a grounding?
This is very similar to earlier discoveries that the choice of codon can be intimately tied in with protein domains folding; allowing proteins to partially fold while the remainder is "stalled" on the ribosome waiting for the rare codon. It's interesting, but I would hardly call it a "second code".
Security experts identify MNsure vulnerability
Titan is known to contain oceans, but of nearly cryogenically cold hydrocarbons. It's unlikely to support life merely due to the temperatures there.

Many planetary bodies are thought to have sub-surface water oceans of some variety, though Europa's is the most intriguing for several reasons. Given that Europa's surface is entirely water ice and geologically quite young that is a strong indication that Europa's sub-surface ocean is vast, warm, and consistently liquid over geological time periods. If, for example, Ganymede's ocean were as large and as warm then why has it not risen to the surface and formed an ice layer? This is backed up by the fact that Europa experiences an intense amount of tidal heating from it's galilean moon neighbors.

Because of this high amount of tidal heating, which on the neighboring moon Io is sufficient to cause widespread vulcanism, there is a reasonably good chance of significant hydrothermal vent systems within the Europan ocean. We've found on Earth that such vents can support chemotrophic life (through sulphides and serpentinization) which can support complex ecosystems which include animals such as shrimp and clams.

That isn't to say that other bodies may not harbor substantial sub-surface oceans or support extra-terrestrial life, but the case for Europa is that much stronger and so that much more a compelling target for investigation.
Instead of concentrating in the price of its stock, Yahoo should concentrate on making its products better. Yahoo Mail sucks compared to Gmail or even to Yandex.Mail.
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I like the idea, but I'm not sure this can work. The first thing you should do is try to poke as many holes in this idea as possible, then close them and build the case as to why this would work. One problem I see is that it might hyperfocus demand toward a small number of base consumption items if a larger than anticipated number of recipients do decide to not work. This could inflate the price of these basic items and put the poorest in society back into the same boat of not having quite enough money to sustain themselves (having to pay the higher price for goods that they previously could afford etc). Then, we'd have to revisit raising the basic income level every 3-5 years instead of 8-12 years. Along with ridiculous debt ceiling fights, we'd also have basic income fights.

If it's set up to avoid these fights by being indexed to the rate of inflation, people will lose ground over the long haul, since wages tend to rise faster than inflation (and if we index it to wages, it creates a problem currently being discussed with respect to social security) and those pressures from wages might ultimately drive the price of goods out of reach for those who rely on their basic income.

You might also see irrational behavior on the part of some recipients, where they buy nonessential items (iphones, hdtvs, etc) and choose to go hungry or even homeless. Econ likes to assume rational behavior, but that's only so it can fit into a nice model. Fact is, plenty of people act irrationally, and while it's easy to ignore them in a model, it's hard to when they're sleeping along the street or in your stairwell.

And what would we do with them? Put them in jail? Force them to spend only on essential goods? If we force them to spend on essentials, aren't we just calling it welfare by a different name? The state can't let them just linger, because their loitering has costs of it's own, not limited to growing social unrest (this is partly why privatizing social security is such a horrible idea -- the market might fail and the state will still have to bail out people's private pensions or risk unrest, probably gaining nothing but added uncertainty in the long term).

Our system just might function optimally when its set up to let people choose to fail, as some surely will, and to make it just painful enough to encourage moving one's self out of poverty.

Playing devil's advocate here. A shift like this would seem to have very little margin for error.
Sometimes it's both. So the statement doesn't always apply although I do push for it.
I have to agree with esw. What you are offering could potentially be worth millions to larger corporations. If you can actually produce valuable reports, I don't think $40 is anywhere near enough.
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I think you're missing the point, which is that not allowing watermarks _is_ the problem (and what the OP was trying to say through his frustration). There should be no need to do any sort of cost benefit analysis nor to police the internet.

In other words, a cry for Google to change the policy to minimize the problem rather than just abandoning Google Shopping.
Why SaaS side income projects are all the rage with good reason
"Google will now be digging deeper than ever into your e-mails and literally modifying the contents."

This is a silly fear, all email clients already do this, as you don't display raw unmodified HTML from emails, you have to scrub it. They are just adding one new kind of scrubbing to the list of things they already must do.
I'm not sure how much this applies to open source. Closed source, quite possibly, since it probably won't survive long enough / need to change enough / need enough people to understand it.

Open source, meanwhile, requires being understandable to new people. It needs to explain itself, or it needs to be idiomatic (within its specialty). If neither, you're condemning people to rewrite it or waste time trying to figure out the original intent.
Why belief is a powerful biological weapon of disruption.
It's not about bad or less bad, it's about risk to people.

A violent criminal poses greater risk of harm, and thus is locked up. A non violent criminal can commit very many offences, and sometimes those offences cause great distress (fraud which removes a person's life savings, for example), and their access to the tools of their criminal trade should be restricted, but that doesn't usually require solitary confinement.
lol. when i read "microhydro," I thought like 500 uWatts from a kitchen faucet or whatever. "Man, that panel is waaay overkill," I thought.

Then, he started digging ditches and welding. Then, he started winding transformers.

That man is no joke.
7 of the 42 were acquisitions.
'Tis the Season For Christmas Jumpers
Wait, ANOTHER wedding? Didn't we do this a year or two ago also?

We just wiped out 15 completely innocent people? Destroying their lives and their families forever?

Can you imagine the holy hell if a foreign government did that in a US city?

Shut down all armed drones. Review the entire use of them from top to bottom. This isn't a video game, there is no do-over.
Giant racks of RAM could be useful. Once someone's rig is no longer profitable for mining, they could turn around and open a MongoDB hosting service.
Major US carriers announce principles for unlocking devices
US carriers agree to unlock customers’ phones after pressure from FCC
I've been using go for some time but I've never seen this:

Get("/hello", (*Context).SayHello)

What is going on here? How is (*Context).SayHello being called?
Sorry I don't agree with paying for someone else to be lazy..
Also, there is little correlation between how far along a company is when we fund them and how well they end up doing.
The same reason Hacker News is better than /r/programming: lack of Redditors. Reddit has a hivemind, which transcends subreddits. You'll get the same bullshit circlejerks, pun threads, and cat gifs in almost every subreddit.
oops, too late to edit, but I realized you'd want to sell puts. Accidentally reversed too many parameters.
You obviously didn't read anything about the research. The analysis was focused on the likelihood of large chunks of rock being ejected during an impact, large enough to provide sufficient protection from the interplanetary radiation environment for geologically significant periods of time.
A History of the Amiga, part 2
where did I stereotype? Did I make a blanket statement about any race? I'm not sure I did.. Seems you don't even know the definition.
How do you exchange BTC for LTC without using an AML-compliant organization?
I agree in some sense, but the honesty of a statement depends partly on how the audience can reasonably be expected to interpret it. And you can reasonably expect an audience to interpret "modern web browser" to include any major browser released within the last year.
Facebook isn't one decade old yet.
I live 40 miles North of Yellowstone. I'd definitely be happy dying here in a fiery cataclysm. Bring it on!
It's not about patents, angles, lighting, or whatever. Anyone is free to take as close as they can to the exact same shot. It's just that that person also has to pay the costs for that image too and not just take them from the OP.
Nope; still the same filtering; they are not going to cache things detected as SPAM; so an attacker would have to fool the anti-spam algorithm first... good luck with that!
Depends on what level. Wikipedia is actually quite good for this sort of thing. The classic book as a basic overview of molecular biology in general is the Molecular Biology of the Cell [1]. A really cool website to look at on cutting edge studies such as these is the ENCODE consortium's publications in Nature [2]. They simultaneously published 30 papers last year, and this is a really cool meta page that explains the ENCODE project and what they found.

[1]. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK21054/

[2]. http://www.nature.com/encode/
I also found the equivalency funny.
Regardless of any caching or deduplication, the fact that Google is acting as a proxy means an end to e-mail remarketing. E-mail remarketing requires the request come from the visitor's own browser so that the reply can set a cookie to identify that browser for later advertising. I wouldn't be surprised to see this show up alongside Google AdWords'/DoubleClick's web remarketing product now that Google's shut out the rest of the industry.
FWIW, from other info on his website, it sounds like he is in rural Chile.
I literally laughed out loud reading this line. Bravo dogecoin, bravo.
Care to explain why this is not a startup?
I beg to differ, Bricklayer B would reject the job on account of being too busy doing work that paid a sum reflecting the value provided rather than reflecting the sociopathy of the employer.
The second half of what I said explained how the code becomes less readable. If someone wants to hack on that code, they better understand the algorithm it implements, which means at a minimum they've probably absorbed the same 2000 page spec the original developers absorbed (and know exactly what 15 means). No amount of #define can fix that, although in the right circumstance some comments might help.
Iteration is the child of patience. Patience is the child of passion.
Excellent, I've always wanted e-mail clients to do it this way.

You send me a mail - you've no business being able to track if/when/how I open the envelope, unless I explicitly wish to inform you.
>> I think it's ironic that those who are in favour of personal liberties are often on the left of the political spectrum whereas, in this instance, it was the Tories who rolled back aspects of surveillance legislation that was introduced by Labour.

Those on what passes for the 'left' of UK politics spent over a decade stripping rights and liberties away just as far as they can in the name of protecting people.

I don't personally think it's much of a left-right issue. It's another axis.
This is the speed of ACH bank transfers. There is nothing we can do it about it. It's part of the reason bitcoin is important.
AdSense. This is all about pushing dollars to AdSense.

First they started filtering marketing messages into separate tabs, which I'm assuming dramatically cut readership. Now they're going to make it impossible to "bug" emails for read receipts. The only metric left is the "click".

Email marketing just became a whole lot less valuable.
Must be nice. ;)

But on a serious note, I wonder how much that 2009-2012 bump has to do with inflation or a lack of other opportunities in the market. Maybe I am out of touch, but it seems like there are less and less places to put your money. Not to suggest that startups are a bubble. The rise is probably due to YC becoming a better filter, picking better horses in the race.
> That's to say if you do it personally for the purpose of self-improvement, it's fine,

Exactly. If hundreds of thousands of salary and tens of thousands of bonus dollars are tied to it, there is no doubt judging, gaming and justifying will be going on.
robots.txt is for crawlers, it would not stop an email client from rendering the email on behalf of its user upon receipt.
> Though I completely get that people need "down" time in this business

I can think of few businesses where workers don't need downtime.
Anyone who criticizes Marx without having first studied Marx should not be thought highly of. The degree to which you have studied something is roughly proportional to how much criticism you can reasonably heap on it.

I cannot launch an in-depth criticism of, say, Finnish politics because I have not studied Finnish politics in any detail.

I can give a limited criticism of Robert Greene, because I have studied a selection of his writings.
Among doesn't mean along.
Would it be possible to have two images, a thumbnail submitted to Google and a full-size one with watermark to display on your web site?
So what's the difference between the PG - suitable for everyone, mode, and "I don't want any online protection"?

You'd think they are one and the same thing, but it doesn't sound like it. The PG stuff is still filtered? Because if that's the case, I fear most people will only choose one of the 3 main modes, but will still get their Internet filtered (say for stuff like TPB, or Snowden leaks, or whatever).
I suppose they already have the userbase. And it's not like there's much effort in copying a simple flow like Snapchat has. I'm pretty sure they (SC) have a patent on an app that goes straight to camera, amongst others though. Crazy.
Indelicately put and pandering to the simple-minded.

However... I would turn this in a better direction and say that having a place for the homeless/mentally ill to go for rehab would be better than pretending they don't exist. I don't see how having them "shit in the street" helps anyone. And yes, I've seen this myself in Los Angeles.
Spirit of the season, I guess. "Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?"

Then again, the last time the country had a really serious problem with the long-term unemployed, (a lot more severe than what we have now) the government did put a lot of them to work --- not as a punitive measure, but by giving them jobs in FDR's Works Progress Administration. Which is exactly the sort of "bleeding heart liberal" government assistance that can't possibly get through Congress right now.

Long-term unemployed doesn't necessarily mean homeless, but it does include most of them --- including many people with serviceable skills and habits, who used to hold down good jobs, but just got a bad break.
I found the snippets helpful personally, in that I had a log of what I'd been working on at any given week (when I was there, they were weekly not daily). I don't think I was ever judged, at least not to my knowledge, about what I put in the snippets - they were informational, not evaluative. Pretty pleasant overall.
The article doesn't mention it, but the proxy IS transcoding the cached images. However, there are many instances where the resulting images are larger and/or look worse than the originals.
You couldn't possibly answer that.
Such functionality should be broken - my email archive should be a permanent record of what you sent, not something the sender is able to tweak afterwards.
>We're very sorry, but gifting free games has been disabled, temporarily. If you want your friends to get some free goodies from us right now, feel free to share a link to our site with them.
I sometimes think that the people in the patent office decided to just pass the stupidest shit as deliberate sabotage in a noble attempt to destroy the system from the inside by making it all seem utterly ridiculous. And they decided that 30 years ago but unfortunately nobody was paying attention and now it just seems normal.
I'm all for abuse while overseas. I've never been felt up anywhere but Frankfurt. They were quite polite about it, but it was obviously payback. Guy and woman. I asked if the woman could do the TSA-feeler search and they laughed.

It was puzzling that they were completely gobsmacked and lost searching my backpack. It's a Deuter. Made in Germany. It was like I was doing a late-night infomercial for them.
Oh and for Codon usage in general, a really good review can be found here [1].

[1]. http://people.cs.vt.edu/~heath/VTMENA/CodonBias/PlotkinKudla...
Reads like an ad
I'm new to this syntax too, but I believe it's just a reference to the function `SayHello` as defined on the `Context*` type. That is, if you have:

func FuncA() { } // normal function
func (int) FuncB() { } // function on an int object

You could later reference those functions via:

var func1 := FuncA // assign FuncA into func1 var
var func2 := (int).FuncB // assign FuncB into func2 var

But again, I'm just piecing that together from context and haven't looked at the spec.
Reddit AMA on security for human rights defenders
So Gocraft/web stays around ~4ms no matter how many routes you throw at it essentially but Martini and others are ~20ms and sometimes much more? That can really add up.

Most web apps don't have quite so many routes typically but its not unreasonable and I'm surprised routing is allowed to get so expensive in the other frameworks. Kudos to you, I was psyched about Martini so I'm going to see about fixing that for it at least.

Edit: D'oh. Need coffee. No wonder it looked really bad to me, up to 70ms to do routing is abhorrent. Carry on. :)
4 days is very reasonable. My broker settles most trades in 3 days. And, that's for public stocks which have been around for a couple hundred years and are well understood. 4 days is also in line with what credit card gateways will settle in for higher risk accounts. And, yes, bitcoin is high risk. Oldschool guys who still don't like email get to decide what's high risk so bitcoin will set off red flags for a while.

That being said, I personally think coinbase should burn some of that VC fuel to bring that 4 days down. They will lose money to do it but they'll gain customers like you who aren't used to a 4 day settlement period.
> For me, this "feature" leaks data about what I view to 3rd parties where today I block all images and do not leak that info.

But that option to not see images is still there, and if you've defaulted it to off you still wont see images. Unless I misread the blog post.
I'm surprised no one has made a "Hacker News for Hacker News for X" site yet...
Admit it. You hit the upvote button before reading the article because of the headline. I know I did, and now I want my upvote back.

I had completely forgotten about the hacking charges and his extradition from Malaysia. After watching the pirate bay documentary, I am fairly certain that somebody with his level of "enthusiasm" for his cause could have easily perpetrated the crimes he is accused of.
Google isn't new to this whole "caching" thing. I would expect them to respect whatever cache expiration directives the web server provides.
Scary enough to the average user it'd probably kill the the technique very quickly.

I'm not sure about that. It's nothing that desktop clients such as Thunderbird haven't been doing for years. I don't see any remote images in any e-mail until I click to say load them, and this works in much the same way that plug-in elements like Flash and Java are now click-to-show in various browsers. Numerous marketers and mailing list services still use the technique to track an approximation of reader numbers, though.
Right, no scripts running means virtually no attack vectors. Perhaps overloading the buffer by downloading a large webpage? But that's about all I can muster.
This is the first batch where I knew people in YC. They started their company (with an entirely different idea) on Feb. 1. The founders were all between 24 and 26 at founding, all 4, 2010 or 2011 graduates. Reddit was started after Alex and Steve graduated from UVA. DropBox (S07) was Drew's 4th startup.
We're talking microseconds here, not milliseconds
Runnable code in documentation, talk slides, blog posts and as a pastebin/playground is extremely convenient and user friendly.
god damn marketing geniuses.