skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the opportunity cost and the social cost. And there is no canonical, singular "point" about mining that one could refer to that would obviate those questions. But maybe the social cost is low, e.g., many miners and Bitcoin speculators would otherwise have been unemployed, and would have contributed at least as much carbon to the Earth's carbon budget had they done something else.
I still use my GameCube every week (playing through the Resident Evil series at the moment). I've built homebrew, run on my XenoGC chip I soldered on myself. I'm building up the courage (and time) to buy a new one and attempt the IDE adapter. It's my absolute favourite console ever. :)
There still are a lot of bumps. Their billing systems remain a mess, especially trying to use it on an iPad (if I don't disable wi-fi, it asks me for the iPad's phone number). I really wanted to use T-Mobile to support their free 200mb offer, but it's a mess to sign-up for extra data.

My final reason for leaving -- even though they suffered many high profile password hacks in the past, they still store them as clear-text and email it to you when doing a password reset.
I have been in charge of maintaining binders that work that way. It's a pain, especially if updates to the same section arrive out of chronological order, and you're using a shredder . . .
Besides Polycraft, these are all very standard, flash type games. As WebGL continues to expand, we'll see more and more impressive games in the browser. We've spent almost 2 years building a full MMORPG using nothing but HTML5 canvas and node.js in an isometric world: http://casinorpg.com.
You can download a summary of the book here (in mobi i.e. Kindle format): http://www.amazon.com/Summary-Strategic-Overcoming-Procrasti....
I fell out of following video games several years ago. But I must say I'm quite inspired by the work of Terry Cavanagh (http://terrycavanaghgames.com/) and Stephen Lavelle (http://www.increpare.com/).

Maybe they just fit my more bite-sized appetite these days rather than for a 30-course-meal type of game, but the experimentation really captures something that, I think, drew me to games in the first place.
"How would you block it? "

The same way all Upstream providers blocks a DDOS - by characterizing the DDOS flow, scrubbing, and dropping any packet which matches that pattern.

The idea here, is that during a DDOS, where you might get a bit more NTP drops than normal, none of the local users should be impacted if they had a quality local time source.

"What if a tenant needs multiple sites in sync"

That's why you have a quality time source. By definition, they are "correct" to within any tolerance that all but CERN physics experiments care about, and they don't use NTP anyways.

See: http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.co... for an example of using synchronized time globally, without reliance on running NTP between sites.

In particular, check out section 3, "TrueTime"
>The gun is nothing special. Its controls are unsophisticated; it is not even particularly accurate. But this simplicity is a reason for its success. Compared with other assault rifles, the AK-47 has generous clearance between its moving parts. That is bad for accuracy, but it means that the mechanism is unlikely to jam, no matter how clogged it gets with Sudanese sand or Nicaraguan mud. Designed to be operated by Soviet soldiers wearing thick winter gloves, it is simple enough for untrained recruits (including children) to use.

Worse is better.

>Correctness
The design must be correct in all observable aspects. It is slightly better to be simple than correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
The emperor may have no clothes, but what's so great about clothes? (If God meant people to be naked, they'd be born that way! Same goes for programming languages.)

The naked Emperor JavaScript runs everywhere, and runs fast, and isn't going away. He's streaking at lightning speed all over the kingdom, everybody's seen him, and he doesn't stay still.

The emperor is naked. Long run the emperor.
CUSEC 2013: Benjamin Black
Someone switches to your product, or a new user chooses your product over the open-source alternative. The proportion of people who can modify their software decreases. That is a decrease in software freedom.

Not necessarily a bad thing (your product might be legitimately better), but it is a decrease in software freedom.
Engie - A new Suggestion Engine for your data, seeking beta testers
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Our suggestions work better because we focus on what matters: people. Every piece of data that we track is defined by how people interact with it, not what a computer thinks it is.

We believe that smart algorithms can do much more than tell you what movies to watch, and we're looking for a few companies to do a free beta test with us to help prove it. Please email us at team@engie.org with your idea and the size of your database if you are interested, or if you want more information.
I agree there's a payer/benefit mismatch, since filtering your own egress only protects other people's networks. But I would've thought it would still end up being incentivized somehow through things like peering or transit contracts. I don't have a good insight into how such contracts work, so I could be way off. My assumption was that in at least some such situations the other party would care if you're feeding them bogus stuff through the link, even if you don't care, so they would be motivated to require that you do egress filtering on your end as a condition of getting the link.
The value? No. The more data you have about where money flows the less privacy we have and the more control you give law enforcement.

Think about all the Friend of Friend wire taps. Suddenly the $20 bill you bought starbucks with gets given as change to a drug dealer and you are on a known associate list.

You also have all sorts of issues where if 50% of the world's transactions were done in BTC the blockchain data would be too large for 90+% of nodes to store.
Wouldn't making it by hand and throwing it in an oven be cheaper?

Although it depends on your oven if gas or electric, your time and effort, how much power a bread machine uses. The oven makes bread far better than a bread machine but a bread machine is better than mass produced, sliced, preservative laden white bread.

But you could time it so the bread is baked when the oven is used for cooking supper.

FYI /r/breadit
Yuck. That negates the excitement I felt about this monitor this morning.

We already have a 30 Hz option (the Seiki). Let's see some forward momentum please, Dell.
So that's why we learn algebra.
A sincere question, is the collation of this material and its publication, /actually/ dedicated to Aaron Swartz (as I see https://www.google.com/#q=aaron+swartz+site:webpolicy.org&sa... shows zero results) or rather, editorializing / opining by the submitter?
Peer to Peer Lending Ready to Grow in US
How well does Flipboard monetize?
Immersion: Visualized email data
> The game is desktop-only, and it probably could have been done with Flash, but the web was the main reason this game had success. It feels very much like a website, because it is… it’s able to have solid integration of various user interface elements in a website format rather than a typical game menu. More importantly, because of the nature of the web and links, this game spread like hot cakes through social media and news outlets.

What does that even mean? Is this non-nonsensical to others, or am I missing something? And it is a bomberman clone?
So was the Wii really just a re-do of the GameCube and a chance to correct all the problems, especially the perceptions of being a toy?
Pretty simple. Buy an index fund. Average return of 10%.
Its worth nothing that as this arms race proceeds, the historical record of Bitcoin transactions becomes harder to undo, and 51% attacks become too costly for even some nation-states.
Ice trade
And what's wrong with reinventing basic programming-language design a million different ways? Are you complaining that it's too much like Lisp?
What is with all the use of line graphs for showing categorical vs continuous data? Did the authors not know about bar graphs? It looks absurd and ridiculous.
anyways, heres a link to the reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/1ukwu1/optimising_h...

its a very thoughtful, informative, thread. enjoy!
Here's what I think: "I'll shut the fuck up because he's Ben Fucken Horowitz". Oh yeah, and rap genius; that's how to bring diversity to the valley - never mind the misogynist b.s. they bring to the table. I'm sure he'll be all up in that too? In startup school wearing what exactly?
EuroNCAP[1] requires increasing levels of automated pedestrian protection -- i.e. autonomous braking or avoidance -- to get a 5-star safety rating starting in about 2015. Because World Health Organization predicts 3% of fatalities in 2030 will be automotive collisions, and over half of those 3% will be pedestrian deaths[2].

[1] EuroNCAP.com

[2] Could't quickly find the 2030 stat, but pedestrian fraction: http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2009/road_safet...
I'm only 23, but I honestly can't remember one thing from that time. Like I said before I remember the pictures that I've seen.
I think you missed the joke. Here in Seattle, it is trendy to look down on Starbucks, that is all.

Totally agree about the McDonald's effect. When traveling I am often happy to enter the Mermaid's consistent embrace.
Microsoft succession speculation focuses on internal candidates
Sedsed: debug, indent, tokenize and HTMLize your sed scripts.
After how many years of pocketing the extra money? I feel like T-Mobile is truly disrupting the industry, and I'm voting with my wallet to support them. I can't wait until the other carriers actually start competing with T-Mobile, instead of just playing catch up. I hope that's when the industry actually becomes consumer-friendly, instead of hostile.
Faraday’s Stylish New Bicycle Will Change How You Think About E-Bikes
The total cost of mining a block will approximate the block reward plus transaction fees. To see how much of that cost is electricity, compare the cost of the hardware to the electricity it uses.

For example, on Amazon right now I see a Bitmain AntMiner U1 USB miner. It costs $70 and they claim it uses 2 watts and is a recent chip.

Let's say it has a lifetime of three years. Three years of two watts is 26 kWh, which will cost about $2.60, which means that for this chip, the electricity is only 4% of the total mining cost.

Of course the rest of the computer uses power, I'm assuming that either the computer is being used for something else as well, or a large operation has a special chassis holding lots of these chips and not wasting power on much else. Anyone who's not so efficient won't be able to compete.

The fact that bitcoin's mining cost is becoming dominated by hardware rather than energy is a very positive development, in my opinion.
It was a posted by a brand new account, and this is the only activity on the account. Probably doesn't know the rule about changing titles, and stuck in the Swartz reference to get more people to click.

I'm a little surprised the moderators haven't fixed it yet.
Thanks, and I think that's a good idea about dev events, I'm in New York and just started realizing how many things are going on for game dev and creative coding around me.
Last I heard (6 months ago), AT&T makes you wait till your contract is up before unlocking, and on the other side Verizon won't let you bring your unlocked phone to their service - forcing you to buy one from them.
That's really cool! I used the web audio stuff to get real time audio data for interactive visualizations when I did a 5 minute demo of quietnet, the code is available (but might be a pain to get running): https://github.com/katee/quietnet-presentation

Running fully in the browser with visualizations might make a good teaching tool for digital signal processing (although you'd need better DSP code to demo, mine is not a shining example.)
Android’s Rise To Platform Dominance In One Graph
Since when are countries teams? There's as much conflict in a country, as between them.
I was mystified about how infinite divisibility addresses the deflation argument. Then I found the author make this priceless statement in the comments:

"I agree with folks that I basically dodged the argument about deflation. I did it deliberately. Talking about deflation is like talking about God. Basically as soon as you mention the word all dialogue stops. People already have an idea in their head about whether it is good or bad and nobody listens any more. I admit I am no economic expert." http://bitcoinmagazine.com/9359/charles-stross-doesnt-know-t...

That pretty much answers the question of whether he's a libertarian. At this point does anybody besides hard libertarians like the mises institute think deflation can be a good thing?
Thanks for the links. Tried a few out and they were quite interesting.

IMO, the two most exciting things that is happening right now is the Occulus Rift and independent developers.

I've had a bunch of games in my head that I'd love to build and it turns out there are plenty of indie developers who have had the same idea but are actually building them.

My current sci-fi list:

- RimWorld

- The Mandate

- Satelite Reign
We (automotive active safety engineers) don't look at it as a percentage-of-inept-drivers, but more like the Trolley Problem[1], that is, overall harm vs benefit. To put it another way: seatbelts, airbags, and heart surgery hurt/kill some people, but the benefit outweights that harm.

[1] www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolley_problem
Have you read up on the real inquisition?
>A permissive license, by definition, cannot prevent an entity from contributing to it.

Nor can a copyleft licence 'prevent' an entity from contributing it. It is a choice, just as someone could choose to only contribute to permissive projects they could also choose to only contribute to copyleft licenced projects, so I fail to see what point you are trying to make here.

>I've never heard anyone tell me they won't use a permissively licensed project for any reason related to its licensing.

Now you bring up 'use' which is different from 'contributing'. And given that copyleft requires the source code to be open, it can't be used with proprietary projects (which of course permissively licenced code can), but that is by design as copyleft exist to give end users the rights which proprietary software typically removes.

>and makes an assumption about removing road blocks from using open source projects.

And I pointed out the assumption is flawed since he (dragonwriter) talked about 'contribution'.

Saying that a lot of 'entities' are happy to _use_ permissively licenced code is not the same as them _contributing_ code under permissive licences.

> I merely stated that the claim made by dragonwriter actually factors into my decision to use permissive licenses.

And I merely pointed out that there are other factors than 'maximising code use' which developers may consider when licencing their code.

Oh, and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank you for Wingo, really like it!
I like the WiiU concept:

- Off TV play

- DS on steriods kind of works

- In a family house hold, having the game on both screens completely gets rid of "You're in the way" frustrations.

- Wireless display streaming!? (When this gets better, it will be amazing).
I do that with the Day Old bread store.
This fails on a Mac (10.9) and on CENTOS5 (2.6.18):

#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
int fd = creat("foo/bar", 1);
if (fd == -1) {
printf("error\n");
} else {
close(fd);
}
return 0;
}
Why not move to popular vote for laws? Some people think it can be hacked/gamed, but --if that's the case so can any normal election - and a lot of times republicans will do anything they can to get people not to vote because the more voters that show up, the more likely they are to fail.

I really like the idea of Liquid democracy -- what if a new political party popped up, and the runners agreed to take a public poll before every vote and the party can choose to keep or throwout the candidate at the next election based on how often they side w/ the people.

Throw in location/regionalized grouping, and you can easily have all sw ohio voters contribute to reps vote tally from that area...etc..

Also what if we raised the bar on representation - We currently have 1 congressmen per million... that's highly not representative.. -- true representation needs to also find a way to not only represent locations...but also demographics better..

What if we just tripled the reps, but required 1/3rd come from middle class, 1/3rd from lower-class, 1/3rd from upper class.

It would provide a better idea of what the people really want from all levels.
Right now the ASIC vendors seem to be capital-constrained and are not producing enough ASICs to meet demand. At equilibrium we should expect that the cost of mining will equal the rate of BTC generation and a significant fraction of the cost of mining will be power.
"I really love Nintendo. I hope they can turn themselves around before it's too late."

Totally agree. Nintendo in the N64 era made games so good that became part of popular culture.
The Wii was their 'blue ocean' strategy. Let MS and Sony squabble over the hardcore gamers, Nintendo would go after the other 80% of the population. The strategy worked amazingly well.

The problem is, they didn't capitalize on it. A lot of people with a Wii didn't buy much software. The Wii had no real online component, despite being released a few years after the introduction of Xbox Live. Over the lifetime of the Wii, Nintendo appears to have learned basically nothing about online services. Sony & MS kept improving their online experience.

The Wii had the ability for downloaded games, but it didn't work that great. They were oddly tied to the console, and that was never fixed. Meanwhile it worked great for Sony and MS.

But years later, when the WiiU and 3DS came out... they had the same problems. Games tied to hardware (not accounts), terrible online components. They don't have the success to draw in third parties (on the WiiU), so they're having serious problems. That's four generations running of poor 3rd party support.

And they seemed to learn the wrong lesson from the 3DS. They tried something interesting with the Wii, and it worked pretty well. They tried it again with the 3DS, and it's basically failed. Even Nintendo is making games that don't use 3D. So when the WiiU came... it was full of new (and expensive) gimmicks. So the 'just games' console cost most of $400.

Sony, on the other hand, actually learned from the PS2 and PS3 and simplified. They didn't try to cram new exotic hardware in the console, and that made it easy for 3rd parties and cheaper to produce.

I don't think Nintendo will ever recover on the WiiU. I hope they can last long enough to fix things for the next generation.
I recommend disabling all the RC4 suites as well.
I love Ting's 'pay for what you use' model, but their pricing wasn't competitive enough for someone who primarily uses data.
It's unpleasant to try to read the front page without zooming in, and last I checked, I have 20/20 vision. 10px Georgia is an abominable choice.
Latest Firefox on Windows 7. Happens on the launch satellites into space slide.

http://www.kickstarter.com/year/2013#26-ardusat
But technically, the Wii was just a faster GameCube under the hood. That's what I was really getting at, I guess.
Does not sound unfair to me, by not reporting it you have taken part in the conspiracy in my mind, that is if you actually believe it is a real conspiracy and not a bunch of talk.
> We do?

Yes, we do. We, as in many of us here on HN, do want Firefox OS to win. And by win, we don't mean that other platforms have to lose.

Spare us the lectures about "normal consumers" not caring. We know all that. But we, the technologists, the ones who write apps and web sites, do often care about platforms, and some of us think that mobile platforms arena would be more interesting with a web-based platform in the game. The world is diverse. There is room for a variety of mobile platforms to fill in a variety of spaces.
I also have been selling my scripts on codecanyon. But waiting for the right time to move away from it.
> The flag to enable the built in mobile hotspot feature of your phone's os is enabled by default when you choose [..] the mobile share plan on AT&T.

Not if that device is a Nexus 7 tablet.

ATT specifically made Google turn off hotspot access from the tablet, while it works with the same SIM in a phone. Or with a TMO SIM in the same device.

See:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2450239
http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/LwcDQENW...
I would agree that the media do jump on anything that sounds like it is the fountain of youth and hype it up. Obviously everyone over 40, like me, would love to think some pill is going to give them youthful characteristics such as improved learning ability.

But...I also blame the academic journals. Why is it published in the current form when the study was only completed by 18 people. How come the peer reviewers did not insist on toning down the over hyped conclusions. Maybe they should have gone further and refused to publish until a more extensive and reliable follow up study was performed.

In short, the academic world has to stop publishing such marginal results before we blame the media for picking them up and adding another layer or hyperbole.
But alas, the browser wars are upon us once again. FF vs Chrome is approaching the silly.

On the other hand, there are merits in their differences. Chrome, although it would prefer Dart, looks upon JS as legacy that they can approach via a good VM/JIT, and a brilliant Developer Tools suite.

FF on the other hand is leading into the JS futures on two fronts: asm.js for both performance and C/C++/.. integration into the browser, and ESnext. Google is very reluctant to invest in ESnext now, just look at the compatibility charts.

This makes sweet.js strategic, it lets us at least experiment with ESnext features as far as macros can take us. I'm hoping sweet.js can also help us make use of asm.js from within the browser buy building macros for things like structs, which halve or more memory footprint of object arrays.

Lets be aware of the war, and do what we can do to resolve it.
I'm jealous about you living in NY.

I had a holiday there for a fortnight recently and for the first time in my life, I felt truly inspired.

One of my highlights was going through the MET. Specifically, seeing the flintlock based firearms. I was simply blown away by the intricacies.
Freedom hasn't decreased at all. Those people have exactly the same choices as before. They can use the open-source alternative if they want to change the code. Merely 'using' a closed source product doesn't prohibit them from doing that.
I really love this article. The author puts so many solid points forward.

I would like to offer a possibility about Stross. Hasn't anyone considered that he's simply trolling? I've read all of his books and even met him once in SF. It seems much more likely to me that he is playing a game here and his recent comments do not reflect his actual thoughts.
>... Ziebell approached 29 strangers on the University of Michigan's campus, handed them a pen and half a sheet of paper, and asked them, on the spot, to draw a map of the world.

Meh. College students. For most people that age this kind of stuff just isn't that important.