skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really?

If that was the case the bust of DPR and the downfall of SR should drive the price of BTC down, to it's knees - since it was the only market where BTC was treated like a curency. This fact shows that either BTC is not as rational as one might think or that big players (or a small team of players) are trying to keep the price as high as possible (by not selling in bulk).

Note that if A. Shamir's paper is correct, and we don't have proof of the opposite, than 98% of BTC is owned by 2% of portfolios. IF that's the case, then it's no wonder it's over-inflated.

The sad thing is some people believe, that somehow this is more liberal while might complete driven, by a small team of unknown/anonymous players.

NOTE: I'm not stating that this scenario is real, but to me seems not far fetched at all.
How do these businesses cheaply, regularly, and reliably turn large amounts of cash into bitcoins, without going through somebody that is spooked by the Federal Government?

Asking their customers to do it for them is unrealistic. Their target audience is not "HN techies", but rather "general population". Maybe in the future having the customers do it will be a realistic solution, but maybe in the future it will be fully legalized anyway...
Safety Deposit boxes and banks are not necessarily the same entity.
>We are simulated.

Actually there is a way to tell if the world you're living in is not a simulation. Our world fails this test.
To me, simulations always seemed to fall into a nice place for concurrent programming with messaging. In that case, the abstractions are not as numerous as when forcing things into a single threaded world.
I'm with you here. Golang has a lot going for it, and it isn't shy about its shortcomings, but the story is "Try it, you'll like it." After a year, I still find myself bogging down coding things which should be easy and expanding my SLOC because of warts in the language.

As someone who learned C in the pre-ANSI language days, in the pre-POSIX library days… I have high hopes for Go 2.0, whatever that ends up being.
If these civilisations find some way to communicate or interact at all you can't treat them like independent variables.
I believe that $1.1 billion revenue figure includes international orders whereas the 130 BTC figure was for US orders only (they haven't enabled Bitcoin payments for international orders yet). In other words, that proportion should be a bit higher.
I like both Dota 2 and HoN, but HoN definitely has the upper hand with regards to fast-pace twitch-based gameplay. The first thing a HoN player notices when trying out Dota 2 for the first time is that input delay.

Supposedly part of the problem is that Dota 2 uses the Source engine with netcode designed for FPS games; hence it does prediction and interpolation which works well for those games but not as well for RTS games. For more info: http://pastebin.com/ekk07PKn
My interest really has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, but I've been reading about dynamic method migration[0] and modular reconfigurability[1] for a long time. I can see how some of my professional work could benefit from 'adaptive computing'[2] trends as well. The algorithm I have in mind would simply be geared towards hardware that I want to own already.

[0] http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IPDPS.2004.1303105

[1] http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~tbecker/papers/iee06.pdf

[2] http://www.cray.com/Assets/PDF/about/IDC-AdaptiveSC.pdf
I legitimately think we are living in some sort of holographic simulation created by consciousness. I think Thomas Campbell's work is most accurate model of reality I have seen. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT8LaMrn_MM
What is the probability of such a utopian society going its entire existence without at least one group of individuals with the resources to go out into the universe pulling the trigger on the decision to risk their lives?

This ofcourse requires some projection of our ideas of happiness onto unknown alien beings, but then why not also project boredom? If anything, we have seen that nothing in nature really stays the same. It is ever changing and evolving.
So that brings up the question, if life happens so readily given the right conditions, how come it only happened once on earth? And I don't buy the explanation that one form out-competed all other forms -- given the diversity that we have now, there can be millions of forms of life all existing at the same place/time. But all instances we have now originated from one single biogenesis event.

So, how do we know that there was only one biogenesis, and not multiple ones that happen to resemble each other (i.e., that DNA-based life is the only thing that ends up working, and it occurred multiple times)? From what I gather, there are many markers in biological molecules, such as the direction certain molecules form (left vs. right, etc), and that multiple biogenesis events would have gotten these in random positions (i.e., your heart on the right side instead of the left side of the body).
Slightly OT question: what is meant by a chipset supporting Thunderbolt, as the one in this demo is rumored to? Does it mean that there are pins on the chipset that can be connected directly to a Thunderbolt connector, or is it just a meaningless statement that the chipset provides PCIe lanes that could be routed to a Thunderbolt bridge chip, or something else?
> Selection bias.

Elaborate. If you're referring to the anthropic principle, I don't see how it's relevant to my argument.
Yeah. I especially like the ones which insist the work has to be done immediately, or within a couple of hours, or that DESCRIBE EVERYTHING THEY HATED ABOUT THE LAST DEVELOPER IN CAPITAL LETTERS, or clearly just pasted in the default job description without even bothering to describe the job.
First you have to install the plugin. In the menu at the top, go to View then click on Commands. The commands will appear on the right side (and note that you can just start typing the name of a command to filter it out). Click on this one "Plugins: Show plugin manager". Then on the Plugins, make sure you go to the Available section. Scroll down and find Vim and click on it.

Now you have to enable it. Go back to Commands and find "Settings: User behaviors" . Then go to the :editor section between the square brackets. Type "vim" and it will show a popup with several items it can complete. Pick this one: "Vim: Activate Vim mode".
It should then insert this: :lt.plugins.vim/activate-vim
Save the file and it should now work!
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For those interested, here's the rough curriculum that I've outlined so far. Feedback welcome!

https://gist.github.com/cmeiklejohn/8346377
Why would I ever save dollars when they're always decreasing in value?
Good? It's an ugly hack with limited functionality (due to Go's design, not the developers' skill and good will). A good solution would be forking the reference compiler and doing a proper implementation.
This comment upsets me.

How pretentious to define what people should do with their lives and how long they should live based on some loosely defined "progress". Society doesn't have a moral obligation of pumping out geniuses. People live because that's a natural right.

Besides, not many things in life are more valuable than sitting down and having a chat with someone 70, 80, 90 years old. It's wisdom you won't find on Google.
I made my own CMS just for this, to collect stuff in one place and then maybe use that elsewhere. At first I did RSS -> third party sites -> Twitter and Facebook, but I got tired of that after a while (I'm not really using either, so why spam stuff there), but just knowing that I could do that is kinda comforting. For now the only "syndication" I do is to output nodes text/images in JSON to make mashups that automatically grow as I add and tag content in the "repository", or to output links to mp3 files as playlist for a flash audioplayer, etc.

I initially planned to open source it, but then I decided I'd rather just do my own thing without having to worry how it works for others, and especially how they would upgrade it when a new version comes out. But I recommend it wholeheartedly. Make your own CMS and have it do exactly what you need it to do, with all the metadata you could possibly want!

For example, recently I added the ability to add a date to nodes, as exact or rough as I want (millenium, century, decade etc up to specific days... I don't even have a use for that currently haha, I just wanted to have it). I don't just have tags, I have several taxonomies, some just visible to myself, nodes are nested in two ways (imagine every comment here could also have a "subtree" of comments, ad infinitum), and I could even use it to make something forum-like if I wanted to, since each node has settings for who may attach what to them, and who may attach what to those nodes in turn, several levels deep. It was a lot of work, and the code sure is ugly, but so far I have seen nothing out there that even tempts me to switch. Nothing fits me as well as the glove I made for myself :)
I would argue this is a new language which just happens to compile to go.
According to MSDN, Visual C++ has supported the equivalent __restrict keyword since at least 2005 [1], and according to the ffmpeg documentation [2], "FFmpeg can be built with MSVC 2012 or earlier using a C99-to-C89 conversion utility and wrapper, or with MSVC 2013 and ICL natively."

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/5ft82fed(v=vs.80).as...

[2] http://www.ffmpeg.org/platform.html
Because, for some reason, people (myself included) see some value in the idea of legitimate experiences over fabricated ones, although I'm not sure why. If you could be placed in a virtual reality, and not be aware you were in one, would you do it? As much as I would like to live in a perfect world, it's hard to say that I would. It just feels wrong. There's no unknowns. It's not an adventure.

Furthermore, perhaps there's value in things going wrong, and taking risks? I mean, sadness is necessary to happiness. In Brave New World, to create a Utopia free of negative emotions, it is necessary to remove sources of misery- relationships, family, and so on, because when you lose a lover or family, you are miserable. How could you have a perfect reality without these things? No family and no relationships in the first place? Immortality?

But then, perhaps happiness is only relative as well? If nothing ever went "wrong" in your virtual reality, would you really ever feel happy?

Interesting psychological and philosophical questions.
There's some undue harshness in this thread. Twitter have been _huge_ open source contributors to the Scala and big data communities with original works like Scalding, Summingbird, Scala School, twitter/util and tons of other code. The work they have shared has been a big part of us at Snowplow being able to build a scalable open source analytics platform.

Keep up the great work guys.
"Now, everything we know about terrestrial life tells us that life has a natural tendency to expand into all available space."

At the same time, it makes sense that more advanced life will try to be more efficient with its use of resources. This is a lot easier to do when you're smaller. Perhaps, they would try to minimize their size, allowing them _expand_ into _smaller_ space.

I'm sure this thought has been considered (e.g., see Men in Black 1), but I felt like sharing it anyway.
C# can do this: http://dotnetfiddle.net/dCm475

(Sorry, it's just a not-so-well-known but awesome feature)
This is the initial setup, but as there is some cost involved when converting bitcoins to USD and back that is degressive with volume, if many people are buying through bitcoins, it would start making sense for Overstock to hold the bitcoins for a while and convert them in bulk, so this could eventually increase the demand for bitcoin after all, no?

(Of course, given the current volatility and volumes, it would make no sense for Overstock to do this yet.)
I absolutely do discount victim testimonials. Especially when there's money at stake. I mean, after the holocaust, and to this very day, some jews claimed people were processed into soap and leather products. This and many other claims by victims throughout history have been nonsense.
The reports I've seen say 40m sets of card details for the full duration of the hack, which was about two and half weeks, not a single day.

And I doubt Target was storing the data, as they don't have a legitimate business need. Businesses that do have such a need, such as hotels and car rental companies, are allowed to keep the data, but only subject to stringent security.

It seems likely that the hackers broke into Target's network and found a way to install malware on the POS terminals, designed to tee the credit card info off to the hackers in real time (or perhaps log it to disk, where the hackers would come by and fetch it).
Why isn't chip and pin mandatory in America?
This is correct. Browsers will not send the referrer header when moving from HTTPS to HTTP URIs. This can easily be solved by just converting your website to HTTPS only at which point search engines will index your HTTPS URLs and you will begin to receive referrer headers once again.
Try to implement infinite levels of undo in an imperative solution. The functional approach makes it trivial, since everything in the simulation is just a big reduce function applying a sequence of changes to a state object. Mutable state on the other hand, makes it very hard to write.
Not really. I sold my Mac to use the Ubuntu box so I'm kind of familiar with the OS. The problem for me is the display. I'm weirdly obsessed with "beautiful" code. By beautiful I mean code that looks elegant in the text editor. If I'm fiddling with my text editor I'm either changing fonts or color schemes to get the best view for the code.
Pretty much any organism that manages to develop the intelligence to build a starship will have a long history of evolution. Their mindset will presumably be guided by ancient evolutionary pressures. For us humans, we're partially motivated by a desire to explore and understand our surroundings. I think it's realistic to assume that at least some subset of aliens should be motivated by the same exploration drive.
This is 384GB, and it's DDR4.
I was surprised by the long motivation aswell. OTOH, spending 12% of a paper with the motivation does not sound excessive. That said, I don't understand much, due to not knowing Russian and not in depth knowledge about the topic.
with DDR4?
This looks similar to an older generics system for Go, `got` (GO Templates). Got was pretty cool, but Go 1.0 broke it due to the parser getting stricter.

Edit: found it: https://github.com/droundy/gotgo
Looks like 24 RAM daughter boards, for 16 GB per board.
Freeman Dyson did the math, and I am not a physicist. I am assuming some sort of mass/energy trade-off.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsi...

He figured 133 years to Alpha Centauri but without carrying extra mass to slow down. I assume you'd have to double that at least if you carried bombs to decelerate.
Actually it's a code generator with a library of functions it can generate. This is how the "generics" are implemented: https://github.com/clipperhouse/gen/blob/master/templates.go
Wow, really enjoyed reading the great thoughts on this thread.

Similar to what others have said, I think the spectrum of 'intelligence' might be exponentially larger than anything the human mind can comprehend at this point in our development.

Since we're at the top of our planet's bio-hierarchy I think we tend to marvel at our own cleverness, yet wonder 'Where are the others like us?"

If other lifeforms are around us, they don't necessarily have to attempt to contact us or make themselves known to us in a way we could understand. There are millions of microorganisms around you right now, but they could never 'contact' you or even observe you in any meaningful way.
Second this recommendation. fasd works extremely well, and better than z and autojump for my usage. I use it all the time.
I'll happily argue that, regardless of the path by which a given meme's promulgators happened to stumble upon an actual English word of whose existence they were (and perhaps still are) entirely ignorant, the established pronunciation is correct nonetheless.

Besides, if you start from /dɔːg/, you more or less invariably end up at /dɔːgə/ or /doʊgə/, both of which are so ugly to speak and to hear that arguing against them seems worthwhile.
FYI, with libstdc++ (GCC) you can define _GLIBCXX_DEBUG and get a lot of runtime checks too, including bounds checking on vectors.

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/manual/bk01pt12ch30s...
> Historically this has been true, but nowadays it's not (at least in the US).

Not true in 1990. Very true today. The Bush tax cuts inaugurated the current era of class warfare. I'd say 2010 is when it really got going.
Planet bust should be visible to our technology. We'll spot one soner or later if colder war is still waged. Plus, it's much harder to cook the entire solar system and planet death isn't the end of the game.
It could be very interesting for VMs with transient storage that need fast IO, but don't need to persist it on the machine itself. Thinking stream consolidation or analysis.
I keep wondering if they captured unencrypted backup tapes.
Doctorow Ruminates On How A 'Brain' Becomes A Mind
No mention of cost?
Reading their equivalent to HN.
It takes a long time to design and build modern aircraft carriers, then you've got to develop the doctrine and good habits to put all of it to use.

The modern world isn't WWII, when you could just throw some aircraft up there and let them shoot it out. Modern aircraft combat amplifies even small differences in ability; a squadron of F-22's might shoot down a squadron of F-15's before the F-15's diagnostics and support could even spot them. I've read anonymous anecdotes of US vs UK wargames in which the last gen US fighters (pre-F22) would wipe out all of the UK aircraft before being detected. Anonymous anecdote, but still.

The US also has decades of anti-guided and anti-ballistic missile research and experience. Sure the pure technology can be copied quick, but deploying it to your sea fleet and again developing the proper doctrine and support systems for actually using the stuff takes time.

I'm not familiar with the Chinese submarine situation, but the US takes that area very seriously as well.

And the problem is that you've got to be strong on all three fronts. Losing largely on any one - surface ship, air combat, submarine - means that your entire fleet may be sent to the bottom of the sea in mere hours... or minutes.

Note that the Chinese military leaders understand this, and are focusing their efforts on asymmetric defensive warfare - at least as pertains the US. 'Carrier killer' missiles, sufficient numbers of cruise missiles to overwhelm US naval defenses, submarines. These are relatively cheap and enough to keep the US off China's back (indeed the US is rumored to be keeping all carriers far far away from Chinese coastlines due to the carrier killer) - but it's not enough to achieve anything like parity.

Of course I'm just an armchair guy on the internet. I don't have any inside knowledge, just what I've gathered in my reading.
A fair point, I should probably have mentioned that. Thanks for pointing that out.
"Wolves" is a new term to me and I'm having a hard time googling for more reading. Can someone give me a link?
When I worked in Medical Records in a capital city in the UK, your date of birth was the primary key of filing: not querying for the year is then a basic procedural error, but then again doctors surgeries have far lower standards than outpatient departments. Incidentally, I have found my experience as a filing clerk to be far more useful to my coding life than any of the other crap jobs I did..
>> Spending bitcoin helps the ecosystem, thereby increasing the value of your other coins in the long run.

One person spending Bitcoin has a negligible impact on helping the ecosystem, so the incentive for doing this is pretty small. You would likely gain a bigger benefit holding on to your BTC and letting other people help the ecosystem.
15-819 Homotopy Type Theory
It's optimized (simply) for mobile now!
Historical observations of sample size 1?
Xenia - An Xbox 360 emulator
Agreed, Draft is super slick.

(And shameless plug: Draft integrates with Beeminder! http://beeminder.com/draft )
It's true that the Overstock transaction itself doesn't create new demand.

But it may bring new users who buy/hold BTC, if they see it as a useful store of value or just for convenience sake to make future purchases. Overstock's CEO said they may start holding it for longer if they can pay their vendors in BTC or have derivatives that allow them to hedge against decline in value.

Also, because the exchanges charge a fee to convert to/from fiat (e.g. 1% in coinbase's case), that creates some incentive to stay as BTC.
> The intentional breaking of form takes more mental effort than just writing normally.

Perhaps you confuse intentional subversion of form with arrant ignorance of same. Judging from my occasional trawls through the reeking open sewer that is 4chan, I'd call the latter plausible, at the very least.
I really liked his definition of consciousness:

"Consciousness is the only thing that is fundamental. Everything else is derived from consciousness, including this physical reality."
I think it's said that you should document the "why" (as opposed to "what"), which is relevant when you're using an unconventional approach or for some other reason your code may not be understood immediately, or when business logic is involved.
The capacity isn't exciting, the fact that it's DDR4 is.
So if accounts could be disabled and took comments and submissions along with them, that could make a mess of a lot of really great discussions.

My approach to HN (and also by using my real name) is that I don't really need the bulk of my participation removed at any point. If I decide to leave the community, I'm fine with the information in my profile.

This view would be far different if pg were making money off of the content and participation though. Until he is, I don't see the issue with the way things are.
For a guy who is trying to celebrate and identify with (possibly attach himself to) "the masses" for their nonstandard grammar, this guy sure comes off as pretentious. I don't think this is really about those topics. The author would just like everyone to know how smart he is for considering it.
The problem is that armored car companies currently have no have no ability offer that service. All pickups are settled through settlement accounts at banks. You cannot take deposits without falling under federal regulatory compliance.

The state needs to pass laws creating or making possible the creation of a state approved depository. This could begin to undermine the power of the fed and start a. It states rights battle
Granting arguendo that the phrase "self-expression" is useful, you seem to assume such activity is impaired both by the imposition (even the self-imposition) of standards, and by the quest for precision in one's use of language.

This assumption strikes me as highly questionable; if anything, lack of standards and disregard for precision in one's effort seems likely to make accurately saying what one means more difficult, rather than less so.
> the price of coins is outrageously inflated at the moment.

I would love to listen to you justify this statement, or rather, explain how any store of value without intrinsic value can be over/undervalued.

In attempting to do this, you will find that there are gaps in your understanding of how currencies work.
Didn't a rather large asteroid pass between the Earth and the moon recently, and no one even noticed it until it was on the way out?

Just because something should be visible doesn't necessarily mean we'll happen to be looking at the right place at the right time within the right spectrum. There could be a lot we simply don't see.
Because social justice