skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm using the same foggy crystal ball as everybody else, but my sense of it is that holding a reserve of bitcoin is more like holding a reserve of dollar bills. You could have all the dollar bills and not still have all the wealth, because wealth is stored in a lot of kinds of assets.

That'd make BC holders more like banks which convert between BC and other currencies on a per-transaction basis, which is how we use cash now. In that case, the value shifts would not be significant for most users of BC, nor would inequitable balances result in inequitable cultures. Having BC just means you don't have to pay a conversion/transaction fee.

But again, I'm just guessing.

EDIT: elaborating after some thought. I think bitcoin makes no sense if the UX is acquire,hold,spend; but works well if it's withdraw,transact,deposit. The deflation problem only matters if you see the general use-case as wealth storage.
> Basically don't be a dick and be humble? Sounds like universal advice.

Certainly not in the DBA realm.
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> For instance, once I was accused of being emotionally attached to my code (in front of a client, might I add) – an accusation I didn’t believe anyone would levy at a man.

I have used harsher words towards males, the author just can't take a negative criticism and is using her gender as an excuse instead of facing the facts.

> I don’t mind taking on a difficult task, I just minded having to do it alone and unseen.

If she has all the skills and was unfairly criticised then why can't she get stuff alone?

How the heck does she want to educate others in this case?
>> Spending energy on creating and securing a free monetary system is hardly a waste.

Depends on your definition of waste. If you don't value BTC or agree with its crazy libertarian ideals at all then it's a waste by definition. If you can imagine secure crypto-currencies with different characteristics (centralised, controlled supply) then you can make them in a way that doesn't require all this constant make-work, and what's more you can make them support offline transactions and all sorts of other cool stuff.

But that's only if you don't subscribe to libertarian ideals, which I don't.
I think pairing is useful some of the time (esp for debugging, code reviews)

in a world trending more and more to flexible hours and remote work, I don't see any way doing it all the time will work.
If I wanted these kinds of comments I'd go to reddit.. Keep memes off this site please, it's one of the last public forums on the internet without them.
As heuristics go, this one has stood the test of time. Then again, one could certainly argue that it assumes some correlates that are no longer true.

That said, if you're getting life advice from webcomics (or even just being reminded of your own life), perhaps it is time to put serious effort into getting out more.

Especially if you read Something Positive. :)
I'm in the same situation - and for those that I don't immediately recall, scrolling down is a simple matter...
I always saw it as a very long-term solution. Once we have the lunar colonies, orbital space stations, asteroid mining, and the economic infrastructure to make interplanetary travel routine, we could begin building out SSP as a practically unlimited source of power. But, for the foreseeable future I have to agree with Musk. Considering how expensive launching stuff to orbit is right now almost any sort of terrestrial solar power coupled with an energy storage mechanism (e.g. pumped hydro, heat reservoirs for solar thermal) would be more cost-effective.
it's fuelled entirely by reddit as a joke.

Reddit has a way of tipping people with bitcoins for posts

/u/bitcoinbot 0.015BTC verify

people saw these public tips, kind of an alternative to reddit gold, so it entered the consciousness of the community. dogechain was born because, more or less, it was pretty funny to drop this on someone:

/u/dogecoinbot 3000 doge verify

dogecoinbot:
Verified.

Sort of playing on the hopes of redditors to get rewarded for a post (ala reddit silver)

It's a pretty cute joke. Lots of people started following the leader and bang. Demand.
> I'm still shocked how a dumb meme-based altcoin gained so much popularity

Clearly you are unfamiliar with the basic properties of Internet memes. :P
> It was impossible to avoid being dragged up to (at least financial) greatness by that gigantic wave of history - if you happened to hang around in the right neighborhood at the time

Not impossible, as Gary Kildall demonstrated.
My recommendation is to reflect on what you read. Here's why:

I'm actually trying to cycle off reading business books. I've read so many that I need to spend time implementing what I read, rather than taking in more information. I'm like a chain reader, putting down one book and then picking up another without spending time reflecting on what I learnt.

I noticed this pattern so I've started trying to identify 3 things I learned and/or could implement to my own business upon finishing a book. For me, the reflection on what I learned is more important, I'm not much of a note taker but have the ability to retain vast amounts of information. If something really hits me, Ill put it in Evernote. Without the reflection piece this is probably relegated to my subconscious. I'm actually thinking of going back and trying to think of 3 things from each book I've read previously that I can now record.

This morning I finished the book Focus by Al Ries. It's good.

Here are the 3 things I learnt (recorded upon finishing in Evernote):
1. Focused companies are more profitable.
2. Brand extension is bad.
3. Focus may cause shrinkage in the short term but is far better in the long term.

Hope that helps.

Recommended books:
- How to win friends and influence people (timeless classic)
- How to get Rich by Felix Dennis (spammy title, good read)
- Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrari (networking tips)
- Delivering Happiness by Tony Hsieh (any business that focuses on customer service is going to do better)
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin (classic)
- The E-Myth Revisited by Michael E Gerber (a great mindset to have for your business)
- The Ultimate Sales Machine by Chet Holmes (slow start but simply awesome)
- All the 37signals books
- Lean Startup (obviously)

These are just of the top of my head.

I don't keep books. I figure I can always buy them again if I need.

I gave up tracking what I read, but Goodreads.com was good of that.
Nice! I'm hoping to get one for Christmas, and it would be really fun to start working on some apps.
Exactly - but look at how long basically everyone has been at 28nm ... it's getting REALLY hard to shrink farther.
This is Pearl's d-separation, right?

EDIT: Great write-up btw. Thanks for putting it together!
Yes it does.

Controlling a variable means setting up the experiments such that the variable doesn't influence the results. This is typically done by making sure it is the same in both the experimental and control group. Experiments typically control a large number variables, and only vary a small number (ideally, one).
I thought Linus had mostly worked on the inner workings of Git (the "plumbing"). These are awesome. But the CLI part is not straightforward at all. I keep seeing people new to Git having great pain to use it.

So, if some new folks come up and expose clearer CLI concepts than Git does, then I completely agree with their initiative. On top of that, if it remains compatible with existing Git repositories, then I will surely give it a try and maybe use it regularly.
It's not new. It's how evolution is supposed to work: a simple organism gets some random changes and becomes more complex.

What is the journey from an unicellular ancestor to modern humans if not a decrease in entropy?
> Do you even read your own writing from one paragraph to the next?

Do you even use any semblance of common sense? Even if his daughter was one of the 5% of pregnancies that resulted from failure of contraception, the mother should have gotten an abortion. Not all pregnancies have to result in a birth.

Regardless, my argument isn't specific to this individual. On the whole, 95% of unwanted pregnancies are the result of irresponsibility. And over and over, we see articles like this one about people who have children when they're too young to financially support them and then complain about how they're not getting paid more. That is entitlement.

> How in the fuck do you have any clue whatsoever about what happened to "this guy" before and at the time he had his child?

Regardless of what "happened to" him, he shouldn't have impregnated a woman at the age of 20, and stopped the birth if it happened on accident. That much is clear.
And again, if you your only doing one thing at a time that might work. But if you are doing multiple things you aren't going to extract that.

If you had an old 286 you might be able to hear peizo's but your laptop doesn't have many of the old style caps that hum with any appreciable noise. Your power isn't clean enough that you can separated the other noises, and with Wifi enabled you have all sort of other noises.

What is described here isn't possible with acoustics. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of Audio can see that.

Brandon Wirtz
SMPTE Committee Member for the H.264 and VC1 audio and video standards (someone with rudimentary understanding of audio)
The it can't be made to work, as per the post you're replying to.
Money isn't serious?!

I knew crypto-currencies were popular in the higher social strata but COME ON.. how is money not serious?
Bitcoin is a much different investment than stock in established companies or national currencies. It is much similar to high risk / high reward investments in uncertain technology ventures, like angel and VC investing. What it also has in common with those types of investments is the potential for very high returns that make taking on a high level of risk completely justified.

This type of risk profile lends itself to volatility. We don't get to see this with startup investments because their stock is rarely traded, and when it is it is done privately. The public doesn't get to see stock fluctuations in high tech companies until after the IPO, at which point the companies are clearly established and much of the volatility has been eliminated.
By most measures the man in question does earn a rate higher than the "federal poverty level". It seems like the issue is that he doesn't work enough hours.
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Can we (society) come up with some way other than violence to shift the bottom 5% into the acceptable range?
Can I buy Snapchat shares using Dogecoin? Then I could hedge on which one will collapse first.
A growing economy increases standards of living. The fact that a t-shirt costs $10 now that used to cost $20 10 years ago means that people now have more options.

Some people will choose to buy 2x as many t-shirts, making them (roughly) 2x happier. Or some people will buy the same number of t-shirts and have extra money to do other things they want. And most importantly, some people who couldn't afford t-shirts now can. But nobody is forced to chase material goods, they buy what they choose to.

The fact that this process is replicated across virtually all products in the economy is what lifts people out of poverty. We still have plenty of people struggling to make ends meet in the USA, something like half of all people live paycheck-to-paycheck.

The only people who benefit from deflation are those with large amounts of capital and no debt, which is an incredibly small portion of the population that isn't struggling under the current system of low inflation.
In the following paragraph she dissects her reaction and tries to reason about it--seems to come to the conclusion that she was being emotional, which isn't an unreasonable response in that situation.

I have used harsher words towards males

Wow, you must be a riot to work with.
Buy btc when it's low, buy things with btc when it's high :) If you're trying to invest in it like a forex trader without adding liquidity to the market (e.g., buy-n-hold), you're part of what drives these bubbles in the first place..

I treat these bubbles as periodic shopping sprees. I bought a bunch of e-cigarette stuff and a few christmas presents during this bubble. (and I still have more $us worth of btc than what I spent on the original btc).
I don't care if we're coding in procedures in the future, so long as the results are no longer stored in plain text files. The transparency is fine, but tools have to re-parse every time, and an AST allows tools to reason about the structure of the code.
Luckily Windows 8.1 is just barely capable enough for me to run virtualbox with an ubuntu image.

How people can get by using Windows 8.1 as their main OS (beyond using it merely as a shell to launch virtual machines) is beyond me. Microsoft deserves to lose big time in the marketplace for their half-assed attempt to glue a phone interface onto desktop PCs.
The problem is programmers goof off about 4-5 hours a day but when they assign to pair program the whole day they can't do that. There is no pair goof-offing.

That's why most programmers don't like long period of pair programming. Because you can't program all day. That's all
"A half-blind monkey in the same place at the same time would have made a truckload of money too."

I guess that makes Gary Kildall a completely-blind monkey.

Edit: HA! tzs, I guess great minds think alike! :)
http://pythontutor.com/ visualizes variables and arrays for python code.
There is a one-off line from Linus in the early days, and some interpretable evidence in its design, that suggests this is true.

It's not what I would call strong evidence, but then again: if you're building an API without a clear consumer, it'd be worthwhile to build your own consumer too. Especially if you're your own market.
I've come to the opposite conclusion. Adopted systems in continual use are what is important. I could setup any number of service 'anonymizers' within a day, but if an individual operator can even be short-term trusted, they certainly can't be relied on. Only by getting an overwhelming number of not-heavily-invested node operators can one bootstrap reliable trust.

I want to live in a world where the routine use is anonymous, with nyms only connected voluntarily. Of course people have to be smart enough to not post 'my name is XXX' in-band, but they shouldn't have to go to a distant coffee shop. If privacy takes work, that means it's only accessible to the few willing to put in that work, and will be viewed as an aberration by everyone else. It's only by making it easily accessible to everyone that it can become societally accepted.
What the OP failed to do with his practice, which is a cornerstone of classic buddhist, yoga, and hindu practices, is that once one gains enough skill at the sitting or asana practice one is supposed to start progressively expanding the practice to daily life. You do the 30 minute meditation thing everyday until you start to get the hang of it, then you expand that to walking or asana meditation, then start doing breath check ins throughout the day and gradually expand mindfullness to as many activities as you can. I do it washing dishes, sitting in traffic, listening to people, etc. There are little tricks to help, I make up games for myself that essentially bring me to some kind of awareness about the present moment without getting lost in the normal thought garbage. Games like, count how many times I say "I" in this conversation, can I do the dishes while counting 5 counts on each inhale/exhale, where is the balance on my feet at when I am walking/standing in line, etc. These are tricks that train the mind to start to gain ever more mindful awareness of the present moment, which is training the mind to essentially do the meditation thing during daily life. It the most beneficial practice I've ever found, because it makes you better at literally EVERYTHING. Its giving you the ability to be more conscious of everything you do, without reacting mindlessly to everything, and an ever more subtle experience of life. Trading up to manual transmission driving and higher resolution vision
Using multiple cores turns out to help the attack (by shifting down the signal frequencies).

I don't understand how this would be, maybe because I don't understand what they mean by "using multiple cores."

You'd think that running a decoy thread on another core would mask things pretty effectively.
Unless you're from a very weird part of the deep South, I don't believe the male organ is ever pronounced /pi:næs/. It's pronounced /pi:nəs/.
Not to mention that "market" share will be much lower on those low-end phones, as surely the kind of people buying them are not splashing out tons of cash on the appstore. That's what Apple has always gotten right - looked at things in terms of margin and value of the customer, rather than just shipping the most widgets.
I wouldn't go that far. So how would one approach doing scientific work on additional sense in addition to the known 5?

Or what about the idea of constants not being so exactly concrete? Just do yourself a favour and watch the video.

And besides, his theory on morphological evolution isn't based on anything but experimentation and theory. If you dismiss it simply because it seems "too crazy"... then I could argue it could be comparable to the scientists of Galileo, dismissing such ridiculous ideas. Not even worth entertaining...
>What does wire gauge have to do with anything?

If you have to ask any of the rest of your arguments are invalidated.
I used to agree with you until I talked to people who own a Surface. IMHO Surface Pro's point in the design space is, in order, (1) a powerful Win8 tablet for most corporate work, (2) a good computer when docked to a big screen and keyboard, and (3) a small laptop when you need it (11" Air). That's actually a pretty good idea. I won't buy a Surface because (3) is the most important thing for me, so I require a 13"-14" laptop. Most HNers don't need (1) because they aren't in a MS IT environment. But for the bulk of non-tech Fortune 500 employees a Surface is pretty good, though expensive.

The same goes for Win Phone. They could be the new Blackberry if they stop chasing consumers. They will always be behind on apps, but they can succeed by having corporate apps deeply integrated with MS IT infrastructure. Neither iOS nor Android can do that.

Finally, MS is not known for getting things right in the first few releases. They ship crap and iterate towards adequate.
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I am one of those people who can hear a CRT television from a room or two over. Comes across as a very distinctive high pitched squeal. I always assumed that other people couldn't hear it simply because it was too high.

It actually seemed worse when my LCD TV broke last year and I pulled out my old CRT to watch a movie in the meantime. I don't know if I had just grown unaccustomed to hearing it or what, but it was annoying me even through the sounds of the movie.
3. Be wary of people trying to sell you ideas based on fear. It's usually snake oil, concealing some other agenda - such as trying to obtain or maintain grant money for projects.

That's very true, but I don't think it completely obliterates the relevance of the point being made in TFA. The truth is, we don't know exactly what a trans-human AI will be capable of, and whether or not it would do (or attempt to do) things that would be harmful to humanity. Now I'm certainly not arguing for stopping AI research! But maintaining awareness of this issue and reminding people to keep the unintended consequences in mind, is probably a valuable thing.

Don't get me wrong... I don't put a lot of stock in "fear of AI" (Matrix and Terminator jokes aside), so long as the AIs are locked in "the box" (to use Yudkowsky's term) and one can simply power the machine off and end the AI. Despite the (seeming) fact that Yudkowsky has talked his way out of "the box" a few times, playing the role of the AI, I think that we're a LONG way from an AI that can "go autonomous", talk it's way out of "the box" and become destructive. The scenario strikes me as highly unlikely, but just on the borderline of plausible enough to keep an eye on.
>>>> What WM devices lack is a killer feature. They are just another fine smartphone line.

This is pretty much the case for any smartphone. A "killer feature" for me is something other than taking pictures and video, running apps, making calls and texting. I have yet to find a phone that has something besides these 5 basic features.

Microsoft has always been dominant in the enterprise market so the retail game is not where they're going to win and they know it. It looks like they're going to go after the more lucrative enterprise market:

"The new feature pack includes VPN functionality that will automatically trigger when protected resources are accessed, Microsoft said, plus S/MIME to sign and encrypt email and EAP-TLS enterprise Wi-Fi support. The pack will be released in the first half of 2014, Microsoft said in a blog post on Wednesday."

source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044035/microsofts-enterprise...
> The Bay Area has chosen to be unlivable and unpleasant by its choice of public officials.

You seem to confuse "high density" with "livable" or "pleasant". I don't think that makes a lot of sense.

> Those city officials have prohibited the practices that make city living affordable.

San Francisco -- whose development policies you suggest would make San Jose more affordable -- is more expensive to live in than San Jose. Tokyo and New York City -- your other comparators for the Bay Area -- aren't exactly bastions of affordability.

The profits for developers if your proposals were adopted are, of course, clear. The mechanism by which "affordable", "livable", or "pleasant" come out of them is far less clear.
Since the attacker has control over when the weighted die is added in this case (an on/off switch that includes it once in every 6 rolls, but we don't know how many rolls it takes to "use" it), yes, you can.

Roll the die with it "off" a few billion times. You now have a very-consistent prediction about the range and probability of each value. Throw the switch to "on", roll a few times until you're sure it has been used up, then turn it off. Repeat a few billion times. Since the computation finishes at some point, the weighted die's influence will exist most-strongly at the beginning.

You're left with a crap-ton of random-ish fluctuations that over time shows a slight bias to being larger at the start (compared to "off"), after you turned it on. Since you know it's included once every 6 times (I'm assuming random here, to make it harder), it will be the distribution for 1/6th the size of the weighted value (or something similar, I forget exactly). If it wasn't randomly included, then you should see spikes every 6th round.

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Note that this does not require knowing that you had dice at all, nor knowing how many, nor knowing that there is always a 6, 12, and 24 sided die in the mix and 2 dozen others. If you knew that, you could be more confident about what a normal distribution looked like, so you could finish earlier.
Notice how no one is using the built in Java Logger.

(Separate: No one is using the javax JSON either).
> but 95% of unwanted pregnancies are due to failure to use contraception or use it properly [0], which is nothing more or less than sheer irresponsibility on the part of the future parents.

He made have made sure that she was using contraception, and not known that she was doing so incorrectly. Or maybe she had some medication interaction that no one warned her about. Or maybe they were one of the 5%.
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