skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We had similar concerns in Whistler regarding the Women's Downhill Ski Coarse in particular. That isn't what I meant when about being concerned about safety. This sounds to me like a very challenging course, that doesn't mean it is unsafe.
Women on the downhill in Whistler were complaining that the course was too difficult. Olympic organizes also voiced concerns, but realistically, that's just how we do it in Whistler, maybe Sochi is a bit of the same.

When I am concerned about safety, I do mean safety of the athletes, but I don't mean jumps being too big. I'm more concerned about poor fencing, inconsistent terrain, etc. A pedestrian pathway fell down just before the Commonwealth Games in India a few years ago. Those are the types of safety concerns I was worried about.

As far as 'big jumps' go, I figure, if you're a professional athlete and your sport involves jumps, you need to know what speed you can safely take those jumps at.

Contrast that to the tragic Skeleton accident on the first day of the Whistler Olympics. Everybody had said how challenging the track was, but nobody imagined anybody would fly off the track and hit a pole. The challenging track is acceptable, the pole is absolutely not. There was nothing the athlete could have done to protect himself once he came off the course.

I don't know that the snowboard cross comparisons is that kind of dangerous.
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Interesting point. I quite enjoyed it, but didn't take it as seriously as everyone else in this thread. I mean, it's relating life to an 16-bit computer game, what would one expect?

I expect perhaps there may be a few more like me, upvoting the article because they enjoyed it, but then leaving it at that. There's not much to discuss when you realise the true purpose of the article.

Negative comments seem to come from people who took it a bit too seriously, in which case it becomes easier to generate discussion points.
I assume that as a student, you get fed enough theory. If you want the close to real-life crypto experience, I urge you to take on the Matasano crypto challenges [1]. I was not bored by a single step of it, applying the (murky at the time) theory in practice.

[1] http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/
Thats kindda cool :D
It is a waste of electrical power.
And Google Maps with GPS was available even on dumbphones...
And there's a major logical error in it:

> At the start of the game, you had no control over who you were or your environment. By the end of the game that becomes true again.

This implies that you have some sort of control between the start and the end - which is completely untrue, because:

What genes you get from your parents and in what environment you are put will determine everything that will happen in your head. And everything that happens in your life, has its inception in your head (over which you could never have the slightest control).

This is also the reason why whe should all have the same rights (and wealth), independently of the fact of how well we were (and therefor now are) "equipped": There is no such thing as a "free will".

Everything in your life is nothing but a function of 2 variables:

1) Your inherited genes

2) Your inherited initial location

It means we can never be judged by anyone.

EDIT: The above is not based on any beliefs (as in "religious" beliefs), it's pure logic. (So, when I wrote "is completely untrue", I meant "is completely illogic".)

EDIT II:
Sorry, I can't recommend any literature for this. It's all based on my own thinking.

But actually, you don't need any book, because I can't call this a "worldview", I can only call it: "100% pure logic". (Meaning: no cultural/religious/otherwise arbitrary beliefs allowed.)

So, if you can think logically and are willing to do some mental work, you - and everybody else who does it - will automatically get there. That's kind of the beauty of logic - it's the only thing/law in the universe that seems to be an absolute/unquestionable truth, everything else being invented by somebody.
“We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.”

This is my position on the Olympics and basically all national pride. It has nothing to do with anything, there is nothing to be proud of.

No one cares when I think it, it's nice to see others say it.
There is a philosophical take on tabloid articles (based on The Daily Mail, a UK tabloid): http://www.philosophersmail.com/
Agreed. Maybe I'm not part of that culture or fully understand it, but as I get older into my late-20s, this type of stuff puts me off more and more.
I really don't know how to say this without sounding like a complete bozo, but I really think that this is a very, very sad perspective on life.

It tries to quantify every aspect of life (or rather: disregards any aspect that can't be quantified) and therefore leads to a view of the world that is completely mechanic.

What's worse are it's dogmatic undertones. It kind of suggests that these are general rules that apply to everyone. And if you don't want to be a loser you have to play by those rules.

Games have winners and losers. Who is to become a winner or a loser is decided by some arbitrary rules that are predefined and can't be changed. Is that the kind of mental mindset that you want to equip yourself with? That you will be either a winner or a loser, by the standards of other people? Please, we already have a high chance of getting burnout in our profession. You don't have to forcefully increase it.

So as a little comic relief, here is a quote form the article:

> When your willpower is low, you are only able to do things you really want to.

By contrast, here is a quote from Bob Dylan that I happen like:

> A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

So if you want to be a success by the standards of Dylan, you know what to do ;)
Completely agree that any involvement in BTC at the moment would be "early adopter marketing" & on some of the other concerns established businesses could have with fundamental shifts in their industry.

I don't think PayPal would go out of their way to push BTC. They're almost certainly taking a "wait and see" approach. The primary thing I unsuccessfully was trying to get across was that PayPal probably does not particularly fear or seek to undermine Bitcoin. It's likely to be upside for them.
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I like how it simplifies everything to something we can all understand. And in the end, yes you should get more sleep.
The article mentioned "w3m", never come across it before, although I do have "lynx" and "elinks". Really impressive.
Did you read the post? They specifically said they don't want to grow, and want a company where everyone knows everyone else. Simple "hiring more devs" flies in the face of this desire.

Honestly it can be liberating to strip out less than ideal elements from your business to focus on what you love and what is working the best.
I meant startup as a culture not in the terms of funding.
The fact that Google starts and closes down products very frequently is evidence of this.
What about Google X? Isn't that a bit like a startup?

Maybe I meant to say that departments WITHIN Google are run like startups not Google itself.
This is totally awesome; way beyond my iOS knowledge. Any pointers or tips you learnt about audio processing along the way?
Is this still a news for anyone?)
Actually, you can throw exceptions from within .then just fine and they will be always bubbled. You just cant go

function g() {
return somePromise.then(function() {
setTimeout(function() {
throw new Error();
}, 500);
});
}
g(); // crash

But at that point, you're not using promises anymore so all bets are off.

However if you use a promise-based timeout too:

function f() {
return somePromise.then(function() {
return Q.delay(1000).then(function() {
throw new Error("Oops");
});
});
}
f().catch(function(e) {
console.log(e.message); // logs Ooops.
});

No problem bubbling that.
> The higher the hashrate, the more secure the bitcoin network.

wat

edit: clarification, the total hash rate has zero bearing on the overall security. The question is about how hard it is to gain majority, in other words, how that hashing power is distributed.

At the time of writing, the two largest pools have 50% of the hashing power: https://blockchain.info/pools. If they decide to work together and perhaps DDOS a smaller third pool, they can have 51% pretty easily.

Inb4 'they wouldn't do that', the largest pool (ghash.io) is known to have attempted double spends before. Besides, surely one wouldn't argue that Bitcoin's security is a matter of confidence in a few pool operators being friendly?
It would have to be a very small sun tough in order to fit trough the hole and not burn the planet to a crisp. So we arrived at the Discworld, where the elephants carrying the world sometimes have to lift their legs to let the sun pass.

Such a small star would probably have to be kept burning artificially, as the smallest mass still allowing nuclear fusion is around 80 times the mass of Jupiter.
Also...

* We all have to play in hardcore mode - death is permanent, no saves or restarts.

* Difficulty level is chosen for you at birth, and you can't change it during the game.
Yeah, best we all go back to caves and lie down and die.
Indeed, Google is a corporate company. I probably meant to say that certain departments have the culture of a startup.

My main point (and question) of my comment was in the first sentence.
"do you think that the electricity use of the bitcoin network exceeds the electricity use of VISA all over the world?"

That is the wrong comparison. The right comparison is this: does Bitcoin require more electrical energy per transaction than VISA?

If the answer is not "yes" today, it will eventually be "yes." Here is a thought experiment:

Suppose that a new technology is developed that halves the energy required to process a VISA transaction and check for fraud. VISA has every incentive to adopt that technology, and thus reduce its power consumption.

Now suppose that a new technology halves the energy required to process Bitcoin transactions i.e. to compute hashes. Since miners profit by computing more blocks, their incentive is to adopt the new technology, compute hashes at twice the rate, and their net power consumption remains constant.
For a dead company people sure do like talking about it...
Correction: Tivo was User centric, but is now just sitting back and enjoying the patent royalties.
There is the Philosophy in the Mathematics. It is a real branch like geometry or anything else. Socrate and others are simple to read.
The linked page pegs one of my CPU cores to 100%. Anyone else get the same thing?
Wrong. You can have a central authority that issues money and still have a censorship resistant system -- this is what paper cash is, and this is what is possible with the digital cash systems academic cryptographers have been studying since the 1980s.
I couldn't possibly give you more upvotes for this snarky comment. While 37 Signals/Basecamp (whatever) has made some great products over the years, their self-righteous (IMHO) blog posts always turned me off to them and left me with the impression that they believed in their own bullshit.

Just because you've had success doesn't mean you know everything about even your success or why you achieved it. Be humble, even while educating and talking about your achievements.
> This implies that you have some sort of control between the start and the end - which is completely untrue.

You're just saying you believing in destiny.

I believe the inverse. And we will never know the truth so please don't start with a "which is completely untrue" when it's just an opinion.
"Tips and leads" fits the document very well. It's also used in context in e.g. http://thecenter.uab.edu/media/2013/01/Intelligence_and_evid...
I wouldn't say a "mistake" he explores that inestability in "Return to Ringworld"...
I get the feeling if a majority of people had switched to the new Basecamp, they would have killed off the old one, but it's such a breadwinner, they are not going to take it away, although I suspect if it ever gets to the point that a tiny portion is on Classic, they will change their mind, which is unsurprising as that's more or less been the concept of their company (to make bold statements and change them when circumstances change).
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NIST continues using SHA-1 algorithm after banning it
because the most vocal people are always a minority.

I'm not saying the article is good, but it's enjoyable and the comparison to life with a video game is fun to read. What most of the comments here fail to see.
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Yes, but the contents of the article can be discussed here today. Because it's short.
3. The blockchain is going to be mind-boggling huge in just a few years, maybe terabytes by the end of the decade.
Ah but that's the unfortunate twist. If you can get a gigahash for 30000W with PCs, you would have no incentive to go down to consuming only 1W with an ASIC. You would consume 30000W with ASICs and get 30000 gigahashes.

[EDIT: Corrected the numbers to match what you wrote. It is irrelevant, though -- if you get a gigahash for X watts with PCs, you'll use X watts to get X gigahashes with a 1W/gigahash ASIC.]
It's a doddle. You just have to install Cygwin and do it in bash.

http://cygwin.com/
Would that really make him a genius. Mozart was a genius, not a guy who noticed a loophole in a booking system.
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Profitable companies take VC money all the time. In fact, I would guess that's where most VC money goes to (despite all the high profile SV startups that get press). Companies do so to grow at a faster rate.
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Right, so because there are emergent power structures of some sort, it's all equivalent and there's nothing actually decentralized about it. I mean, Linux might be "open source", but really Linus is calling the shots, so it's really no different than Windows at the end of the day.
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I actually am in the SoC market too, and would love a contact in sales/pre-sales. SFBA.
I got a bit confused think of the set of all the world's computers that didn't include the computers doing bitcoin stuff.
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Off topic, but do TNW know that that page is impossible to scroll? (Safari, brand-new MBP)
I thought reading books was a cheat code?

A lot of people try to figure out things by themselves, and some things have to be understood by oneself. But a lot of things can also be understood in books, or by listenning to the experiences of others that have failed where you are trying to suceed hundred of years before you.
Without being graphic, I'm not entirely convinced much research went into how these, erm, parts tend to operate in real life. (See what oozes first.)
> I don't see any reason why some of 37's other products can't get rolled up into Basecamp as features/modules though.

Mm - that's what I assumed they would do. Slightly surprised that their plan is to spin them off to third parties.
Fine for me - here's an App Store link if you can't click through from the article :D https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/tinie-tempah-rap-demonstrati...
Basecamp may not have all the power features that some HN readers (and myself) would want, but in retrospect that's exactly the point - it makes their software simple and accessible.

I love these guys. 37signals are an inspiration, and I've been using and loving Basecamp since I was 17 and running a company with my friends in school.

To the next ten years.
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> I believe competition has no place, or should have no place, between EU countries.

Wow.

How would you harmonize the weather between, say, Ireland and Sicily so that people wouldn't be attracted to the better weather down south?

No competition is unrealistic and unhealthy. Competition, within limits, makes people/countries/businesses/whatever improve.

It doesn't necessarily lead to a "race to the bottom". Look at California in the US, which is not the best state to do business in, with the lowest taxes. It still does pretty well, though.

> France still has some kind of industry, while Ireland didn't then

That doesn't sound fair. Did France offer to send its industries to Ireland to help out, and avoid competing?
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This is clever. I can see so many different apps using a similar technology.
A huge proportion of the current hashing power is asic miners that are only suitable for coin mining for sha256 type coins.
I think you're not seeing a swing because the devices are too expensive. However, as more of my friends buy new machines, I'm seeing more and more of them buy computers that have a "tablet mode" and digitizer.
I saw a couple of people saying things like this, it always seemed to me they are different customers, Trello is for internal project management, where Basecamp is better for external client facing management (which is what 37s made it for to begin with).
> It's called "Vernichtungslager" / "Concentration Camps", their whole purpose is the legal killing of undesirables, you're really venting your anger at the wrong agency here. They're just doing the job they were hired for.
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Well that's one way to spin a monopolist giving away a bundled product for free and reducing the incentive for others to enter that market.
Automated license scanners make the story more plausible; the officer could have received an automated alert on his in-car laptop.
In the end most of those books have a huge build-up, but if you truly understand them, you can sum them up in one sentence. "If you got hurt you will hurt others". "Everything you do is egoistical". "Everything is choice". "There is no choice".

But then again, you don't need books for that. If you have the luxury (or curse) of being rational, you're 10 (5 maybe) and you're already having fatalist/whateverist thoughts. Then the next day you think about it, and realize it doesn't change anything in your life, and you move on. Then 10 years later you finally get to study the concept (or read it on a blog) and, well, it still doesn't solve or introduce any problem in your reality.

People who think/act irrationally aren't sensitive and don't find revelation when they read or hear about those principles, only confirmation where they can. There are things that happen in life that can shake you up and change you, but from a piece of text you'll only assimilate what's aligned with your views, IMHO.
"Did you seriously expect to learn a meaning of life from a blog post? Or you were expecting an advice how to live better, faster, happier life?"

Sure. There's plenty of blogs like that, aside from fluffblogs. Almost no one will agree with any given collection but here's one anyway. Mrmoneymustache for personal finance and any generic paleo blog for food, health, and fitness (robb wolf used to be the center of that world, seems he's being out-SEO-ed by competitors now). How much money will improve your life is debatable nonetheless you've got the zerohedge and thehousingbubbleblog. I tend not to agree with them, but thousands (millions?) of religious bloggers at least think they're improving lives, even if I think they're generally doing the opposite. If you allow podcasts (close enough to blogs, read a blog post out loud) there are uncountable educational lecture podcasts (I have listened to about a dozen history related ones, why are history podcasts so popular?) and the survival podcast (which is almost surely not what you think it is, its sort of a how to prosper being a very small scale homesteader, basically this is how to be a non startup non tech non govt handout entrepreneur)

There's probably a difficult and complicated challenge for a startup to categorize blogs as either deep or fluff. In the spirit of PG, everyone thinking its too hard means its a great startup idea.
...assuming that you have the resources to purchase 30KW worth of ASICs. A 1W ASIC does not cost 1/300th of a 300W PC.
The budget for research was cut down. You know, the whole economic climate is not helping development of educational tools.
I don't think it'll get devoured. iPad in general has had enough of a headstart to have an ecosystem grow around it. Whether individual consumers will leave iPad mini for one larger combined mobile devices, perhaps. But I think we'll see a trend of iPad minis get used in businesses and dedicated single-use devices (we're seeing it with POS some already - that will likely grow). Now, it may be that android 7" tablets take some of that market too, but... I'm not sure it will. cheap android tables (sub $100) aren't all that usable for day to day business stuff (I've tried a few - mighty slow, for starters), compared to the punchiness of an iPad mini.

The entire market for tablets may shrink if consumers opt for just one larger device, but iPad mini will likely still be a steady device for a long time to come. Now that I've said it, apple will drop them next quarter! ;)
RTFA before making snarky comments. Nowhere does it suggest he was assasinated.
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Thanks! I'll correct mistake with "less points".

But I disagree with whole country download. From one side it's good to have map of all country, but you'll have to download 2Gb, it will take 4Gb on your device, we'll pay much more for traffic, and finally you'll never visit all states in USA. :)

Waiting for more feedback.
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On this topic I guess. I recently used shazamm (or the other one) and it - in addition to finding the song - showed me the lyrics in real time, highlighting the current line in the song. Really impressive.
I had two Vaio laptops. The first one was my first laptop, it was really cheap, around 400 EUR, and worked wonders. When it was time to upgrade I needed a Mac so I bought a MacBook Air. I gave the Vaio to my father and he's been using it everyday since. It's been six years and it still works perfectly, not a single issue. Sometimes I still play with it, it's fast enough for me, almost too fast for my father.

The second Vaio I had was bought my by line manager at the time so I could work with C# for a new project. It was a high end one, probably more than 1000 EUR. It was an amazing machine. At the time, I have never seen a screen like that and I was surrounded by Macbooks, really great quality. Maybe it was because of its pixel density, can't quite figure out why it felt so good on the eyes. Also, the keyboard and the sound, things I usually nitpick about, were very good. I quit that company some years ago but I know that one is still being used when needed. I would say that machine was very on par with the Macbooks even after a couple of years. And then came the SSD (and also my Macbook Air).

It's sad if the Vaio label goes away.
A personal robot in every home running Microsoft OS?
This doesn't even include all the other pieces that go obsolete 2 months after you start production and then turn into unobtanium with no replacement. Oh and the manufacturers and your sources told you for months that there are no plans to stop production. The logistics of building hardware is fucking brutal.
I don't know anything about this story but the above two posts, but I'm guessing the bad guy in this story is Mike Lynch.
I understand your point, but for the olympics in particular you are saying something different: that someone's training and environment and opportunities in a particular country are meaningless.