skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm "attacking" the vocabulary because, by repeatedly raising fungibility, I felt you were talking about a tangential matter.

> It doesn't matter that the number of bitcoins will slowly decline.

I don't agree. And it needn't be gradual.

> Bitcoin is infinitely divisible, and whoever lost the money is the only it's a problem for. For everyone else that's a benefit.

Hence the "Bitfinger" scenario I alluded to.

> Even if you were correct, such theoretical long-term concerns will not stop the adoption of bitcoin.

No, but I think they would be sufficient to prevent bitcoin ever becoming legal tender.
I experienced plenty of drama when my rear wheel began to tear itself apart riding out of Cambria, CA, or when a rear flat turned out to be the sidewall disintegrating 60 miles out of San Francisco. Bicycle touring will give you all the drama you could desire. Meanwhile, I'd love the predictability of entirely automated transport in my daily life.
I'm still required to unlock my keychain to view the passwords (on OS X).
In addition to the "collective action problem" issue, there's also the fact that amassed wealth can often translate into significant power[1], and if "anyone who isn't a huge jerk gives what's needed to charity" that amounts to a transfer of power toward huge jerks, which is not really an ideal outcome.

[1] There is an argument that unconstrained government is responsible for this. This is not completely without merit: it is certainly true that it can exacerbate the problem, as money corrupts politics and politics wields the force politics wields. However, it can be the case with a minimalist government too; denying that just seems silly. At the extreme, consider paying directly for use of force (open or secret); but subtler things like market power also come into play.
I remember reading a marxist-oriented article about the trend toward apocalyptic movies and books, and the quote that stuck out for me was, "It has become easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism."

I suppose it's possible the things on this list could happen outside the framework of an ultra-capitalist society, but they are so consumer-focused it is hard to imagine them in any other context. In spite of the technical achievements these things would represent, they seem pretty small-bore, really. Is the only better world we can imagine one that resembles the doughy people in Wall-E, floating in their hover chairs with every need attended to?
Like it or not, everyone is a representative for whatever scene they're in. We're all ambassadors, and in this case, we're ambassadors for an industry that is easy to characterize as heartless and imperious.
I don't think Stallman would go anywhere near this, given his aversion to invasion of privacy.
Given the amount of effort and mindshare that libraries like Vector, Bytestring and Repa get in the Haskell community, I really don't see where you got your impression. Not everyone cares about performance, sure, but plenty of people do leading to some heavily optimized libraries.

In this day and age, having everyone worry about performance is patently absurd. Most programs don't need to be heavily optimized, so prioritizing programmer efficiency and correctness just makes sense. And Haskell does have the libraries, language features and people to optimize the parts that need optimization!
I don't understand why you are dismissing it as "pure semantics." Semantics is the fundamental meaning of words. If you advertise "buy", but the license is is more akin to "rent", then that's lying. If you lie to someone, they won't be very amused if you say "well, 'truth' and 'falsehood' is just pure semantics."

You wouldn't say that you are "buying a revokable license to live in an apartment" when you sign a lease. You would say that you are renting. Why does it suddenly become buying if it's a digital good?
> I do not believe that their information-gathering powers should be curtailed. Such restriction would not only hinder the Agency’s ability to gather intelligence, but also impede its ability to wage cyberwarfare.

Yes. That is the point.
Role-based access control. :)

Though Amazon still has services that "don't support IAM" ... I'm looking squarely at Payments. That particular master key always makes me nervous.
HN should have small videos next to every post showing the author during the writing process. That would fit in quite well with its minimalism.
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I've worked in online video. This isn't Amazon's fault, this is standard contractual language all the studios put in.

All content is windowed and when something goes out of window, the video service cannot distribute it, even to customers who previously purchased it. The way around this is to notify the customers when content is going out of window and encourage them to download the content ahead of time. The video service can still serve licenses to unlock the DRM for the content, but cannot distribute the content itself. So if the customer has a digital backup of the file, they can still watch it even if it's DRM'd.

It sucks. It really, really sucks. It's a hold-over of language written when everyone thought digital video meant files not streams and there's not much any online video service can do. Maybe Apple, Amazon or Walmart are big enough to reverse this trend, but any other smaller service will have trouble.
This is why I've bought almost all my music digitally for the past six years, yet have never "bought" a movie that wasn't on a disc or a book that wasn't made of dead trees.

For some reason, content providers became amenable last decade to letting people buy digital music without a leash attached to it, but still have yet to come to the same enlightenment on other media. I don't understand it.
It might be a better idea to just change the password.
I don't want to die of natural causes. I would love to live for 1000 years, and spend my days programming, inventing, writing music, and learning everything.
Nah, just wait 15 years and sell the Aqua iMacs for thousands of dollars. Better than those mainstream macbook pros...
More to the point, who wants to explain to their kids that they aren't allowed to watch Disney movies because of their dad's "public politics" (as right as those politics may be)
So are you liable?
Reddit didn't invent the word "shill."

I understood the article just fine! Did you? I don't care what his job is - he still lied! The internal logic of that piece is, "if he didn't deny it, people would think it was true!" The NSA was doing it anyway, so that makes fuck-all difference, now doesn't it?
From 2011's "People Staring at Computers"
http://web.archive.org/web/20110708060121/http://peoplestari...

Might be a whole lot of this. Vacant staring/etc. Doubtful that when I write (or most) have any sort of engaging expressions, except for... sprinting, like NanoWrimo [2] or some such (so its more of a "game" on writing).

Note the actual Tumblr is down/he may face charges for his shenanigans. [1]

Sounds interesting as a thought experiment for new content consumption, but the wrong target (writers/bloggers).

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/people-staring-at-c...

[2] http://nanowrimo.org/
I think that this is more of a philosophical question. What is wealth if it is not these things?
> I would got to a protest to DC, but hmm, facial recognition

The GPS radio/cellular radio are used to find and pinpoint protester identities, at least momentarily. It is an eventuality that local police departments get such devices for $30K, but right now they cost an order of magnitude higher and it's not quite plug-and-play.
Ask NN: Moving abroad for a year, keeping my US job, what's required?
Please pardon the throwaway account; I'm a long time lurker, very infrequent poster, and I don't comment. For that matter, I don't comment anywhere else either.

Some background: I work remotely doing devops and application engineering for a company in the US on EST and have done for over a decade. In addition to the job, I have several side projects on servers in the US, whether through shared hosting or VPS, some of which earn money.

My wife has been offered a job in Casablanca, Morocco on a year contract. We can't do the move unless I can maintain my existing employment at its current level. We'll be in housing outside of Casablanca proper, so the suburbs, I suppose.

My family will maintain a US address through one of our relatives. Likewise, we want to keep our US financial accounts and insurance coverage.

My questions are thus:

1. I fully intend to pay income tax at both state and federal levels for the money I earn while working for my US employers during my time abroad. Is a simple address at a relative's house sufficient? Do I have to return to the US at some point?

2. What are internet connections like in Casablanca, for those who can give an idea? Are they throttled?

3. Will a US billing address be sufficient to maintain my existing shared hosting and VPS services? Are there any gotchas I should be worried about?

4. Are there any coworking spaces in Casablanca?

5. Finally, again if anyone can speak to it, what's the quality of life in Casablanca like?

Thanks so much in advance. I really appreciate it. I had more detailed questions, but HN's character limit killed me.

Here's looking at you,

MoroccoBound
The book in discussion:

"On Anarchism provides the reasoning behind Noam Chomsky's fearless lifelong questioning of the legitimacy of entrenched power. In these essays, Chomsky redeems one of the most maligned ideologies, anarchism, and places it at the foundation of his political thinking. Chomsky's anarchism is distinctly optimistic and egalitarian. Moreover, it is a living, evolving tradition that is situated in a historical lineage; Chomsky's anarchism emphasizes the power of collective, rather than individualist, action.

The collection includes a revealing new introduction by journalist Nathan Schneider, who documented the Occupy movement for Harper's and The Nation, and who places Chomsky's ideas in the contemporary political moment. On Anarchism will be essential reading for a new generation of activists who are at the forefront of a resurgence of interest in anarchism—and for anyone who struggles with what can be done to create a more just world."

http://www.amazon.com/Anarchism-Noam-Chomsky-ebook/dp/B00E25...
It's not an unreasonable adjective to use; the makers/takers dichotomy is a mainstay of popular libertarianism in America.
It may not be simple but it helps when you have the questions in advance.

"So that he would be prepared to answer, I sent the question to Director Clapper’s office a day in advance. After the hearing was over, my staff and I gave his office a chance to amend his answer," Wyden said.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/06...
But the focus on actively listening to phone calls is a red herring; the NSA has not been accused of doing that.

It certainly has:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-fla...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nsa-spying-...

More to the point, the 60 minutes piece goes on in the same segment to address the issue of metadata; going so far as to demonstrate how it is used with an analyst behind the wheel of a metadata analysis tool.

A fluff piece for sure, but the article here is doing it's own misrepresentation of what was shown.
Yup - algorithms not used by Bitcoin. :)
Because this will be the century when AI and robotics(automation) can be more cost-effective than a "big enough" proportition of human labour. What this means, is that at some point it is simply better to invest in machinery(automation) than employment.

Eventually AI will surpass human capabilities in every domain where any sort of intelligence matters. It's inevitable, given exponential progress. Whether that "eventually" is next decade or next century is irrelevant(or whether it's a tailored weak AI or an universal true strong AI) -- what is relevant is that aforementioned "big enough" proportition of people, and AI(and automation) will surpass them well enough to be competitive against humans far sooner.

Somebody has to deal with this, somehow. Basic income guarante could be a solution -- automation can produce enough for people to live off well enough.
This minning pool has 2408 MH/s.
http://doge.netcodepool.org/

The current network hash rate is 6100 MH/s. It's impressive for a 1 week old altcoin.
Also related to the hilarity of "going Galt". Nice post.
Right, in the hole initially. If you don't crawl out of the hole, you're long-term investment failed either way -- and 1% isn't gonna make or break you, unless you are extremely diversified. If you are extremely diversified, you probably won't be using one of these services anyhow -- you'll be putting in lots of funds to a real platform that gives you rates for large sums of cash.
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i don't think there's much depth of thought at all. He doesn't understand that future reviews will have better algorithms filtering them. He doesn't mention that quality during the print era was terrible also. That since the beginning of printing, trash was being written, and things were being written purely for profit. And that in the internet age, an awesome writer can find an audience of 50. The main thing is that he doesn't really understand technology, probably because he doesn't use it.

It is, however, more poetic and more emotionally resonant than the response.
Isn't it contradictory to argue that everyone should go short on Bitcoin because it's deflationary?

It's either deflationary, so everyone should go long on it / use it as a store for all excess value, or it's not, so it doesn't actually have this problem.
I choose to give or not give $X.

$X makes a difference of F_me(X) in solving whatever problem it is we're caring about.

F_me(X) is valued by me at something less than $X, so I would prefer to unilaterally withhold my contribution.

However, SUM(F_k($X_k)) over everyone may still be valued by me more than $X, so I would prefer to give if everyone else giving is contingent upon it.

If we agree voluntarily to force ourselves to play by the rules, we can all benefit.
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Most scrypt mining software uses the CPU by default. It might have been too difficult for the thief to figure out how to get GPU mining setup.
On a related note, I met a Twilio developer evangelist named Rob Spectre at a PennApps hackathon and he was a very helpful / encouraging person.
Nice list of shiny things, some that are entirely attainable and may very well come true soon. One nitpick, though:

"I want my watch, glasses, toaster, light switches, thermostat, and door locks to use connectedness to make the world a better place–by reducing energy usage, decreasing waste, and improving my happiness and convenience."

If you think that your toaster is going to improve your happiness, well, I'd have to say, be prepared to be unhappy with the results. Buying more junk, however technologically advanced, may certainly bring convenience and reduce energy use and waste, but it is not going to make you happy.
Your response is largely a red herring. The primary point of my post was to say that Basic Income has nothing to do with Socialism.

I was not asserting that the way that mixed economies work today is ideal or even desirable. However, I was asserting that these economies have been largely successful, which it seems you disagree with. However, that's really beside the point.

I used the term "laissez-faire Capitalism" to describe Capitalism in its pure form, not to say that it is found in mixed economies per se. Maybe I should have just said "Capitalism." Again, I don't think it makes a difference.
Yes, yes, no because clothing is affordable and not gone after a single use, yes, no but internet should be a utility and libraries should have computers available. Am I too socialist?
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the noise to signal ratio is high in contemporary fiction even.
You'd think somebody smart enough to glean a key from github and setup instances on aws would have thought this out more
What would you much rather them say? Click here to pay for something that could vanish in unknown amount of time and isn't yours?
He actually understands all of those things. He mentions in particular that "since the beginning of printing, trash was being written, and things were being written purely for profit".
Unrewarding jobs would pay more, in some combination of money, perks, social status... To the degree the last held true, they'd become more rewarding. To the degree the first held true, there would be increased pressure to automate.
>>$SOFTWARE_NAME saving passwords in plain text is the correct decision.

Is there any situation where this sentence would be true?
Decline of ‘60 Minutes’ Continues With This Week’s NSA Whitewash
I'm always surprised about how posts like this bring out the real nutjob part of HN that sort of sits there and lurks dormant waiting to pull out unprovable conspiracies any time something like this gets posted. I'm not talking about the folks who disagree with the OP, or what the NSA does... I'm specifically talking about the rather uncomfortable level of crazy that squirrels out in these "discussions".

There are some posts here so outright loony that I actually feel a bit uncomfortable having an account here.
The Zune video service has be retired, Xbox video has replaced it.
It's hard to know how elegant and simple something can be made. git is a nice tool, but we shouldn't assume that it's the last word and can't be improved upon.
I find it perfectly acceptable to lie during an open session hearing about top secret programs if those doing the questioning are doing it to be politically motivated, ie to embarrass the President.

If your hearing is actually looking for the truth and not looking to out top secret programs because you have an ideological reason against that, then fine do it in a closed door hearing, where I would think something like this should be done in the first place as to not harm national intelligence.
Discipline and pressure are not the only ways to prevent laziness (there are also passion, curiosity, and imagination), and the threat of deprivation is not the only way (and is probably not the best way) to teach discipline.
Incredible post.
>I want to take a pill every morning that restricts my body’s ability to process more calories than it needs during the day. I want this pill to enable my body to dispose of any junk chemicals or excess calories that exceed the ideal, healthy amount.

Does anyone else remember Olestra? Woo boy.
Well that already is that the case, but that would only prevent the government from searching the cell phone or computer itself (which is why you don't hear of NSA hacking into Americans' computers), not from intercepting communications made by the cell phone or computer once it leaves the home.
Luke, drop me a note at werner [at] amazon with a link to the support ticket you created, and we'll see what we can do.
Thanks for spotting this and pointing it out.

I'll take your word for it about Kurzweil. The wiki also says "a director" - good catch.

Here's what google says about Norvig though: http://research.google.com/pubs/author205.html

FWIW, I don't think reporting to higher ups (e.g. VP, SVP) precludes someone from being "the director" if there are no other people in the department with this title / position.
It should be deleted because some people consider it not notable?

Personally I consider it notable because they did in a week more than most altcoin did in their existence. Yeah the modification are nothing more than a CTRL+F with some joke added but what it caused is way more important than that.

Should we delete history for that? As small that history could be for you... I don't believe that. Some people suggested to merge it with Doge (meme) and it's not a bad idea, however I believe an altcoin that's currently worth nearly 3 millions deserve its own page.
Well said! I used to think that he could really manage to pull off great products. He just stayed long enough to be a HIPSTER.
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since that is the truth: yes
It isn't that simple. For a software developer to be exempt their salary must be above 83K a year[1]. That is why EA ran a foul of it even though their devs were salaried.

[1]http://www.gotovertime.com/computer_pro.html
> Immutable arrays, where the entire array must be copied with the change of one element, are an example of that.

Only in a naive implementation. Clojure, for example, has a persistent vector that only requires O(log32 n) copying, which grows so slowly as to be effectively O(1).

See: http://hypirion.com/musings/understanding-persistent-vector-...
I assume you're talking about lists with mutable pointers. I don't think that's what they're talking about here. Functional (persistent) lists are immutable. You can add elements only by creating a new data structure, similar to a linked list node, that will hold immutable references to the existing list and the new element. By convention the element is considered to be in front of the list. Hence prepending is rather easy (constant time) while appending requires rebuilding the whole list (linear time).
It is completely unsurprising to me that this could be true. If you look at efficiency gains over the years relative to wages, people are working more and earning less. I think the statistic is something like we should be working like 15 hours a week to get the same productivity as was the norm in either 1950 or 1970.

I think a lot of people would love to work half the time to make something like 2/3 or 3/4 of what they are making now, especially considering what wages should be given productivity increases.

Let's face it, the reason the 40 hour workweek exists anymore is a habit, not because it's the correct amount of hours to work. Everyone expects a 40 hour work week because that's just what full time employment is supposed to be right?
As long as Amazon willingly allows the "buyer" to believe a falsehood, then yes, they share in the blame.
In other news, the majority shareholder in <insert company here> says their share price will sky rocket by 300% in the next six months... you should buy shares immediately.

Since the twins are so heavily invested, there is no way they would ever support any evidence contrary to the title of this post...
That's a brave stand for a throwaway account!
Thank you for posting a well thought out response. Even if I may not agree with everything you said, it was a fantastic read that got me thinking about a lot of different issues.