skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First mover advantage is only relevant when there is substantial switching cost or other barriers. If bitcoin is successful as a payment technology, it will be added parallel to cards, and thus part of a payments "suite." What will the extra cost be of adding dogecoin or litecoin?

In the best case it's going to be like Amex vs Visa vs MasterCard. Except those networks have enormous real world costs creating barriers that crypto currency doesn't have.

Bitcoin first mover advantage is bunk.
Actually, to be pedantic, functions are notations for relations between sets of numbers: sin and cos are relations between the real numbers and the closed interval [-1, +1], and so on.
If you are interested in integration of Quickread with your app, let me know. It is only one line of code.
For automatic weapons, yes, but it was even neater for handguns. Square raised the weapon, releasing quickly fired, easing off slowly eased the hammer back. It was a really neat trick.
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I've noticed a definite upswing in nontechnical (management, strategy, gossip/politics, worldnews) articles during weekdays in the last couple of years. There are also many more 'redditlike' comments in the last 6 months to 1 year- jokers, puns, easily googlable questions etc. HN community is just changing in that direction as the audience grows.
You could try it in Wine
http://scroll.in/ajax/get_article_content.php?article_id=658...

Here you go, I hate those developers with small brains think that these kind of cheap tricks will prevent the content to be copied!
this seems to be a good starting point these days - http://www.adacore.com/adaanswers/resources

I learned with "ADA as a Second Language", but its way out of date and I do believe out of print.
I always stay out of the fast lane.
Crashes on a 4096.
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Paraphrasing: You pay some guys to dig it up, then you move it halfway around the world, then you bury it again and pay some guys to guard it. I'll pass.
The last time he made similar statements in 99-01 about zero intrinsic value in most Internet stocks he was fairly rapidly vindicated.
That's like saying that programmers have no incentive to solve buggy systems, because otherwise their reason to exist would disappear.

Sure, there are probably a nonzero number of folks making their own job-security out there, but in both cases you'll find plenty of people who would be happy to have the system work better and who have some professional pride in it.
People don't just listen to him because he's famous – do you think they'd listen to Kanye about Bitcoin? – they listen to him because he's the greatest investor alive.
Gold looks pretty, has various technological uses, is legitimately rare in the real world, and has thousands of years of human valuation.

The US Dollar has hundreds of years backed by the full faith and credit of the United States (which despite expected snark, is greater than more or less anyone in the world long term).

The inventor of Bitcoin is anonymous, it is rather more vulnerable to software problems than gold or the dollar, it is difficult to exchange for other currency, has questionable legal status around the world, and it's value is disproportionally based on amateur investors (speculators).
The fact that inequal distribution of wealth is still a reality we accept in our time is really mind-boggling. Even more so given the fact that it's 1 of the main reasons for a likely future collapse of our civilization. (We still don't use the full potential of our collective intelligence; we know exactly what's wrong, but behave like hypnotized rabbits, instead of starting to coordinate for a collaborative culture/future.)
Shouldn't the goal be to have a controller that's good for most games, though? Why have several lying around?
This is not unusual in what is essentially 'shared' IP space within cloud providers. It's easy for spammers to fire up a $5 droplet, send out a ton of spam, and disappear. Rackspace similarly recommends against sending from their cloud IP ranges.
I was at one of the Berkshire annual meetings when he commented on that. He said, "why would I keep a bunch of yellow metal? In ten years, I still have the same amount of gold. But if I buy a great business like Coca-Cola, in ten years the employees of Coca-Cola will have been working hard to expand the business and I'll have more than when I started. So buying gold is kind of stupid." (It's been a number of years, so this is a paraphrase)

Gold actually does have intrinsic value, even if it isn't the best investment: it is a metal, it doesn't tarnish or corrode, it looks nice, and it is easily malleable. So gold gets used for electronic contacts (no corrosion, good conductivity) and jewelry (pretty, doesn't corrode, malleable) come to mind. Gold hasn't been used as a coin in years, but is still valuable, thus demonstrating that it has intrinsic value.

What can you make out of bitcoin? Nothing. If everyone lost their bitcoin keys (and therefore could not use them as a medium of exchange,) you could do nothing with them. Hence, no intrinsic value. He is pointing out that bitcoin is medium of exchange, not something with intrinsic value. A check has no intrinsic value, either (e.g. an expired paycheck), it's entire value lies in being a medium of exchange, not within itself.
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http://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/ is also pretty simple.
You've linked to that before, but there's nothing there that refutes the blog (not my argument). If there's a flaw it should be a sentence or two of logic, not multiple paragraphs that summarize as "it's not that simple". The blog shows that inertial frames falling through a horizon are that simple (after all, the equivalence principle demands that), and Taylor and Wheeler agree there. Extraordinary evidence is not a requirement per the scientific method. "Extraordinary" is not a scientific concept.
He's right. It has no intrinsic value, is controlled by too few people, and has no guarantors to assure its value.

Not to mention hacking, the Mt Gox debacle, etc...

Real currency is more convenient, and real commodities have intrinsic value.
The huge majority of any fungi tends to be in the ground or within it's host.

Plus the entire problem is quite likely that the wood/leaf eating fungi are radiation sensitive, so...
it's funny you mention because I believe I have cracked the problem of pinning an altcoin to the usd but I fail to see how it would get adoption in the first place. There is no deflationary or early-adopter reward in it, the only value would be that the coins in the system would be transferrable with no transaction fee and that they won't lose value relative to the USD so it is safe to keep them in their digital form.
Buffet's status and fame come more or less entirely from his nearly unequaled life-long skill at picking long-term quality investments. He has more than earned the respect to be able to say something like this and be believed.
> easy to google

Not so easy for the primary source anyway (seeking alpha has a lot of link rot). Best I can find is his letter to the 2011 annual letter, quoted here
http://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/streetauthority/0...

It seems that "intrinsic value" is a measure of the ability to produce future wealth. With that definition, I put the edit above to include dollars, euro and yen.
The destructive potential of a car exceeds that of a lot of handguns one can buy.

There have long been techniques for writing software as formal proofs of correctness. As far as I can tell, they haven't been popular with mainstream programmers because they are simply too different.
I guess it is subjective but for me, being a cross-shaped cutout is precisely what makes the Nintendo D-pads superior. It means that you have obvious tactile feedback to tell "diagonal" from "non-diagonal" directions. In Sega-like D-pads, I often find myself pressing a diagonal when I wish to press a non-diagonal, and vice versa; that's practically impossible in Nintendo controllers.
My advice would be to come to England and eat a hamburger here before committing to a thousand of them, regardless of how good they look in the picture.

I sometimes daydream about importing the cheapest, far-end-of-the-freezer-aisle, just-barely-not-animal-feed grade hamburger patties from the US so that I could sell them here as gourmet burgers for premium prices.

The quality of the beef really is that bad here, as is the process that somehow turns it into the rubbery, filler-laden non-edible Superball of Sadness that gets passed off for burgers here.

That, along with Mexican food, is one of the main reasons I travel back to the states so frequently.

Now, if we could only get English bacon shipped over to America, that might be reason enough to move back.
Cue dueling banjos?
With BitCoin first mover advantage is expressed in how many vendors accept it over other currencies, and how much infrastructure there is in terms of exchanges, payment processors, and financial proudcts. Yes it is true that it would be trivial to exchange all my BTC for another cryptocurrency, but the reason I don't is because there is already so much infrastructure in the mainstream for BitCoin, and more every day. The cost of switching to another currency would be losing access to all this available, mainstream infrastructure and seriously limit my buying power.

For another currency to supplant BitCoin it would have to fundamentally offer something that BitCoin does not, in a way that convinces mainstream operators like BitPay and CoinBase to start offering solutions for those currencies. So far 99% of the cryptocurrencies are just slight adjustments of the parameters of BTC. The only two technologies so far that may offer something that BitCoin does not are Ripple and Ethereum. It will probably take a few years, if not more, for those technologies to gain widespread adoption because people are just barely wrapping their heads around BitCoin - let alone smart contracts and autonomous corporations.

A lot of is also brand strength. You see the exchanges and other mainstream enterprises latching onto the BitCoin brand because they do not want to dilute the brand and confuse their potential customers.
They seem to do well on HN too...
Caching has the reverse problem - needing to figure out when to invalidated the cached data. If only there was a way to ahem observe when the values of the keys the cache depends on change...
I don't really disagree with any of your prescriptions, but from a purely theoretical standpoint the most critical resource for life is energy.

The ultimate source of (almost) all energy on Earth is nuclear fusion in the Sun. From the perspective of humanity, solar resources might as well be infinite.

At least in principle, if we could learn to recycle critical rare-earth elements, and to derive our energy more directly from the Sun (rather from through fossil intermediaries), there's no reason that our economic system would be unsustainable.
I was specifically referring to the definition of civil disobedience.

If you are arguing that civil disobedience may no longer be an effective tool of resistance, then you're preaching to the choir. Similar to the Borg of Star Trek, it's clear to me that at some point the establishment is going to develop effective adaptations against that particular tactic; it's been disturbed too many times by it. I don’t think that we’re there quite yet, but we’re close enough that I stay up worrying about it.
You should read about his involvement with Blue Chips. Here is a Wikipedia link[0] that sheds some light into the subject. Buffett is not against different currencies. Its mostly the fact that bitcoin is not supported by anything. It is merely a bubble.

[0]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Chip_Stamps
It really isn't a state secret you know. Also, I'd put potential hijackers in the 0.1 or lower percentile of HN readership population. ;-)
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There are a couple of petrol stations near me that have recently started offering optional attendant service at peak periods, for no extra charge. This has been some time coming, I must say; last time I saw attendant service, it was probably the mid 1980s, and that petrol station was famous for being the only place in town that offered it. But anyway - even if it's got rid of, it may yet come back.

(I have no idea what's caused this. My personal theory is that it improves throughput at busy periods; many UK petrol stations have closed over the past 10-15 years due to the wafer-thin profit margins so those that are left can often get quite busy. But that's just a guess.)
Couldn't find anything on the study's author, Safa Motesharri, other than a bunch of reposts of this Guardian article.

Edit: Study author's name was misspelled in the Guardian: Safa Motesharrei not Safa Motesharri. He's a math grad student at Univ. Of Maryland. Found a paper too...

http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ekalnay/pubs/handy-paper-for-submi...

http://www.sesync.org/users/smotesharrei
Because taking control of a 60 meter long hunk of aluminum hurtling through the air at 400 mph wasn't already good news? From what I can see it means absolutely nothing to would-be hijackers.
The problem with any implants ... how to upgrade? I don't believe much in implantables. We can augment us with wearable tech just fine. The disadvantages of implants are way higher than the advantages (in foreseeable future): potential infections, how to upgrade etc.
That's what makes it an acronym. Technically, an "acronym" is an abbreviation that can be pronounced as a word (e.g. Radar, Nasa).

In contrast, things like BBC or FBI are "initialisms" but not acronyms.
Or, he could be right.
Seems really cool and easy to use. I love how it's as simple as an on/off switch.

Still though I would like to know more about what is actually going on. As others have said, being open source would be neat.
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I checked them out. The reports API doesn't cover my needs - I need to have statistics on a file by file basis. Thanks for the feedback tough!
I disagree.

Here's a comparison of the interest of the public in Bitcoin and Myspace. Now consider the value of Myspace in the present and the value of Bitcoin in the future: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=bitcoin%2C%20myspace&...

There's no telling what will happen to bitcoins, but my point is, interest is no sign of value. Now if I could invest in cats, that would be a different story.
The claim on their wiki page was a light bulb at 90% efficiency at 3 feet. If it's more efficient when closer, you could put one in the bottom of your car and one just below the surface of your garage, and you'd probably only have a separation of about 1 foot.

> But the article also talks about lighting and televisions, and cars. WiTricity has investors to fluff, clearly, but is this not absolute crazy talk?

They've apparently already powered lighting, and the TED talk supposedly had them powering a TV [0]

[0] http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_giler_demos_wireless_electrici...
The year 2000 predicted in 1910:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RuSSRaUYz8I/AAAAAAAABC...

(from www.paleofuture.com)
The Roman's did exhaust their environment though. Soil depleted, habours silted up, and forests disappeared. In North Africa this led to desertification that persists today.

Tainter specifically mentions Roman soil depletion in his book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_during_the_Roman_...
I agree that inequality is a growing problem for our economic and democratic models, but I think we need to keep two things seperate: Inequality of resource usage and inequality of resource ownership.

The super rich may be thousands or hundereds of thousands of times as wealthy as the average person, but they do not eat thousands of times as much and they do not personally use thousands of times as much energy as the rest of us.

The 0.1% and not even the 1% can ever eat enough for the rest of us to go hungry. There isn't going to be famine due to resource scarcity in developed countries. At least not because the rich have used all the resources.

This hasn't always been the case. I believe (correct me if I'm wrong as I'm not a historian) that hundereds or thousands of years ago the elites could actually use not just own so much of the available resources that there wasn't enough left for the masses.

Inequality of asset ownership is to a large degree inequality of power. Mr. Brin can wake up tomorrow and say ha!, today I'm going to set up a lab staffed with top scientists that are going to figure out how to build a space elevator. Or he can buy himself a senator or two. I can't do that. He can. But we can both eat and the food won't be that different (I believe).
I understand that wealthy people may be conspicuously buying Mercedes and Lamborghinis : But that doesn't change the facts about the MRT, busses and Taxis...

Agreed, it doesn't boost the morale of the general population to see, but it also really doesn't make living in Singapore significantly worse (particularly since the absolute numbers are pretty small, even if it's a popular/populist talking point).
Believe it or not, sorting is one of the most common operations software performs. As a simple example think of how many times somebody queries something like `SELECT (...) FROM huge_table WHERE (...) ORDER BY (...)` Obviously the order by means the data needs to be (at least partially) sorted before it can be returned. To be fair that is a different case algorithmically since DB's are almost never able sort entirely in memory. But there are plenty of other examples where in memory sorting is necessary or provides advantages for later computation steps (eg. ability to cut of elements larger than a certain threshold).
i posted where scientists created "artificial hell" and not a single vote either... not tech, but still cmon
There's a lot of randomness. Don't take it personally.
What are the ideological beliefs of Nasa's Goddard Space Flight Center?
I invested a lot of money into bitcoin. Then I lost it.

Just one datapoint. But there's no question that bitcoin is extremely dangerous to anyone who buys it. You can lose your private keys. You can have your coins stolen. You can put your trust into the wrong web service.

One thing I've realized is that bitcoin is mostly about greed right now. There's no reason to buy it unless you want something that can only be procured via bitcoin, or unless you want to make a lot of money. But unless you're very lucky, you won't make a lot of money. You'll probably lose money.

I would agree with Buffet. Unless someone comes up with a compelling reason to buy bitcoin, then don't.
dog whistle terms

That's a great phrase. I look on in trepidation at the almost mechanical way folks in their teens and 20's react to memes. I find parallels in the way programmers parrot half-truths and untruths. And of course, there's the joke that passes for political discourse on TV.

Really, we 1st world people aren't that much more sophisticated than 19th century Russian peasants chanting "Constantine and constitution" thinking "constitution" was Constantine's wife.
Early Christians said, "If God is not in something, it will not succeed. If it is of God, cannot be stopped."

God says...
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I don't understand your choice descriptions. What are you getting at?

"Exploration" is the tying concept but other than that it's apples and oranges. Colonizing / terraforming another planet may be theoretically possible but also possibly require more expendable resources than our planet has to offer to the cause. Unlike Earth exploration.
> neurons grow into them and trying to pull them out will take a chunk of tissue with them.

Do you have a cite for this?
Assuming the water is clean of radioactive particles( like dust or metal fragments ).
I hope you understand that converting CO2 to anything else requires energy. CO2 is the "lower energy" state. Either you win the energy by burning something or you have to spend the energy to produce organic matter out of the CO2. The nature did the later during the last hundreds of millions of years. The humanity burned half of the oil so produced in a mere 100 years -- an order of million times faster, and growing.
I've heard that before, but Sega D-pads have a raised cross with rockers in the corners. I grew up with both, which might be part of it, but I'm not sure how you'd press a diagonal accidentally.
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I have been using https://mullvad.net/en/ for some time. It can also be paid with bitcoin.

I don't see what's so special about tunnelbear, except better branding. VPN provider market has been quite flooded for some time.
There are realtime kernels that can update the apps, the OS, and install a new kernel without dropping a beat. VisualWorks Smalltalk had a system for loading code into a shadow of the running class hierarchy, then atomically committing the code changes. If you defined some functions for the transformation of existing objects, you could start a transaction in one version, then finish it in another.

We keep forgetting that lots of "advanced" features were actually invented decades ago.
The website is already half dead, the pictures won't load here. Unfortunately without the pictures it's a bit harder to follow...
Most likely not; it's just another minor process variation, like the thousands of such patents that exist. Is there evidence that this patent is a particularly novel or important one?

And furthermore, what motive would someone have to knock off the inventors when they no longer even own the patent? If you look in the document, you can see that it has an single Assignee, Freescale Semiconductor. When a patent has been "assigned", the original inventors give up any proprietary rights in the invention to the Assignee, which is the normal process with corporate patents.
The promise of simplicity does not match the reality. It's explained well here, this was linked in the article too: http://khanlou.com/2013/12/kvo-considered-harmful/
> The controversy calls to mind that of Adria Richards last year

False.
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