skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds about right, at least for PoW-based blockchains. IMHO this is a good thing. Most of these coins offer marginal advantages over Bitcoin itself. It's in everyone's interest to consolidate on the most valuable, and thus typically most secure blockchain and least volatile cryptocurrency.
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Power brakes will disappear when the built up vacuum runs out, and one could easily exhaust it when panicking. Driving without power steering on my 2000lb Civic is actually quite fun (except in parking spots), and at highway speeds lack of it isn't really even noticeable. On the other hand rolling my car down a driveway, starting to stop, and then having the power brakes suddenly run out always startles me, even at that low speed.

I think a lot of these accidents are indeed caused by drivers panicking from being completely out of touch with what the car is doing, but that does not mean there is a straightforward solution. Knowing what a failure of power steering/brakes feels like, I'd just coast over to the breakdown lane and stop with the hand brake/engine. On the other hand, I once had a passenger (in my old automatic transmission car) accidentally bump it into neutral when I was on the highway and it took me ten seconds to figure out what was going on.
I don't know a lot about car to suggest changes to wheels and engines - that line of thing.

Automating cars... well, that's a relatively hard problem to do wholesale.

I suspect the first thing I'd look into would be simplifying.

Lane changing is stressful, people tailgating is stressful, parking can be difficult.

Lane keeping isn't as hard a problem as automating the entire drive. And it doesn't seem like it should be hard to link that up to something that says move one lane over. And from there to check if a space in the next lane is clear - iterate that until it is and then move over.

Replace the steering wheel with a clicky joystick. Set it up so that when someone's near a parking space and they move the joystick towards it the car parks in that space.

Keeping distance isn't hard, but a lot of people don't do it. It's not hard in a mathematical sense either. Replace the gearstick and so on with a slider with a desired speed setting. Approximate that speed as closely as possible while maintaining a decent distance from the car in front.

And, incase the software went squify, a big red button that would stop the car via some non-software set-up.

You can probably break it down into many more sub-points. This is like a five minute 'if I', after all. But, I suspect that sort of thing would remove a lot of the day to day aggravation of driving. You'd be indicating your intent to the car, doing the planning, but the car would be doing the stressful implementation details.

And as computer vision, general automation, got better you could start to do things like automatically moving out around junctions to maintain a smooth flow of traffic, executing better zipper merges - and so on. So that there wouldn't be that hard line between the driver being in control of the car and the computer being responsible. Each iteration would just require the person to touch the controls less, until they didn't have to touch them at all.
As a long time Linux user, I have loved Nvidia for nearly a decade and continue to do so. They were the pioneers of serious 3D gaming in Linux and still the guys with the best driver.

Thanks guys, you rock! Keep it up!
Facebook does that too - little dropdown arrow by where it says "News Feed" leading to https://www.facebook.com/?sk=h_chr

It's just apparently not something majority of their users need based on their usage patterns. If they switched to this as default, brands would complain as well, as a post appearing at 7 am is very unlikely to be scrolled down to by a user who checks Facebook at 8 pm their local time zone.
This thing is going to be huge. I'll be following too, with lots of interest. Hard to wrap my head around it, though..
Google/MS/ should add Dart/Typescript/asm.js/... native runtime for node.js. Will give a major performance boost to backend and developer will still be working in one language.
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be straight with your customers; never lie to a sales prospect.

sales is not just about getting a deal done: each customer represents potential upsell and references. you lose those possibilities when you lie because the lie will generally be uncovered.

this is why good sales orgs emphasize integrity in the hiring process. unethical salespeople damage customer relationships, the company reputation and the bottom line.
The article stated that you also lose airbags when the ignition is not in the run position. That seems pretty significant!
The central bank can shut its systems off for a day without worrying about all its assets disappearing when they come back online.
How many key elements of a desktop Linux are there three or four of? How many browsers?

On top of which, everyone is ignoring the Android graphics stack architecture, which is by far the most common Linux-based, open source basis for an interactive userland, with the most apps.
Same here. Even scrolling down I don't get what this does/enable very easily. The code examples are also hard to understand (naming is not obvious) for someone who doesn't know what Ethereum is.
There was an accidental fork less than a year ago. A few miners lost money, but obviously Bitcoin recovered.
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Everybody knew that it's going to die, no surprise.

Though I'm not disappointed: I made over 20000% on AUR.
Were you thinking of usabilityhub.com? They have a couple of different products for 'micro-usability' tests ('look at this page for 5 seconds and list things you remember' and similar). And I remember them using that model. You could pay, or be a tester to earn credit for your own tests.
I had this happen to me years ago while driving on an isolated stretch of highway with no streetlights or other ambient light. Suddenly the engine cut off and it was completely dark while rolling down the highway. Needless to say, it scared the hell out of me.

Fortunately the road was straight and after about 3 second it came back on as I was trying to see where the edge of the road was, and no other cars were around (although that would probably have helped me see or regain perspective).

It's easy to imagine how I could have rolled off into a ravine regardless if I could forcibly steer the car.
I particularly like the "exposure" slider on the righthand side. That's a neat UI element I intend to borrow.
Absolutely. I wouldn't even look back. I have plenty of other things to occupy my time that isn't work. Painting, writing, photography, music, and the list goes on forever. Freed of the daily grind I would nothing but things I expect no return on simply for the pleasure of it. I'd probably even give away the output of those activities for nothing.
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I've been using ansible for complex build environment setup. Inline documentation. Can Factor in software dependencies or environmental setup as required.

It's working pretty well so far. It wasn't an intensional thing. I had a fairly complex stack for a particular project that I needed to share.
Unlike central banks, a miner with >50% hash-rate can't "print money" as it wishes, that's still regulated by the algorithm.

http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/658/what-can-an-a...
Nevertheless, there will be competition.

Let's say your worst fears realize, and the Rift is a locked down Virtual Facebook Experience. Well, they still need to solve presence, and that means:

- Higher resolutions panels.

- Higher frequency panels.

- Low persistence panels.

- Ultra-high bandwidth, ultra-low latency video feeds (a better HDMI or something)

- Graphics processing from Moore's Rabbit Hole

- And lots of other thing that like the above, they won't develop in-house.

Once they have that, somebody will swoop in and create a "Trif" using the better, cheaper material than what the demand driven by the Evil Rift made possible. Remember, the Rift itself is possible because of Retina phone displays.

Or someone will jailbreak their Rift.
Scrolled down. Read everything. Still don't see the purpose.
They are actually having growth problems, particularly with the younger demographic.
I'm not even angry.

I'm just not going to buy a VR device with a Facebook connection, Facebook being involved in platform management, etc. I might consider it if it were an unlocked piece of hardware, but I suspect that's so unlikely, I don't actually need to make up my mind about that possibility.

I've also had a couple friends cancel projects they were planning for the Oculus platform, because they're no longer sure that the hardware will remain free, and are looking to avoid Facebook lock-in. So there goes the reason I was going to buy one in the first place.

Oh well.
You couldn't take a minute to actually read it over?

It's not hard to understand. If you don't want to give new ideas the time of day, don't click on it; and especially don't waste your precious time on commenting about it.
FYI, this is at least the second time Ethereum has been posted to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7041628).

Also, I thought the same thing about Bitcoin the first few times I saw headlines posted on HN in 2009 and 2010. Kind of wish I payed attention sooner...
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Because if they can't develop a simple web site properly how can I trust them to host my application?
Ah, so you would do something. Okay.
When I see messages like this, I start to think... who is this person. What are their agenda? What's the chance they are turkish?

After all, if you cannot see the difference between the alleged single person targeting and the blanket targeting of an entire population, I'm not really sure you deserve to be here.

I guess I'll leave you with that Stalin quote "Death of one man is a tragedy. Death of a million is a statistic".
One of my favorite CS professors back in the 80s used to joke that we had gone from cave paintings to written language, and now we wanted to back with our computers. (my paraphrase of whatever he actually said back then)

Pictographs work for the illiterate, but that doesn't make them the most efficient interchange mechanism.
It's such a common paradox with technically gifted people: They spend so much time and energy on a product, but almost none thinking about how to present it clearly and succinctly to a complete outsider.
"You should travel a little, even if virtually ;) $100/yr is a lot of money for <strike>millions</strike> billions of people."

Sorry for the FTFY, validity of your comment understated by a large magnitude.
The oddest thing about this article is that the author seems to think that the JOBS act is to blame for Kickstarter backers being fleeced, which is just weird.

Unless I'm missing something, JOBS doesn't have anything to say about non-equity crowdfunding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Business_Startups...
I really like this explanation; thank you.
The airbag sensors require power, and would, perhaps only eventually, drain the battery. I use a bluetooth adapter on my OBDII port and I suspect this very small device drained my battery after a couple weeks of not using the car. It would be unacceptable for cars to come off the production line that way.
wayland is less negative about network transparency than mir. I am ALWAYS using network transparency (none of my X clients are running localy). When I am over "slow" network (for example to provide support to Portugal from France), I use vncviewer, but I do not even bother to run the x11vnc command on the same host than the display.
What lost me were the code examples for things like "name registration." Take this line for example:

contract.storage[tx.data[0]] = tx.data[1]

They could have at least used a named local variable for "tx.data[0]" to give some context. What the hell is this doing?
> The ugly side of Make is its syntax and complexity; the full manual is a whopping 183 pages. Fortunately, you can ignore most of this

I cannot take this seriously.

I like the concept of make but it doesn't make up for its own warts. Unfortunately, there is no single build tool I can blindly recommend to people without being extremely familiar with their project and how it builds. No solid and lightweight build tool that pleases more or less everyone without having 183 pages worth of manual and a repugnant syntax.

CMake/Lua gives me hope but we're not quite there yet. Make it pretty decent for small projects though... I see it as the HTTP of build tools, though. It has serious issues but when tools come up they are built on top of make because it's ubiquitous.
I read what, why, and how and still have no idea what it is and no concrete example of an application. Everything is explained with jargon and abstractions.

Btw, I actually have a vague sense this could be something cool and interesting and would like to understand....
Fantastic! I particularly like encoding the state in the URL - makes it very easy to share good designs you've built.
Meta are the company to watch in the AR space.
"I can't think of a reason they would need HBO or FOX to make things happen."

I can think of three: cost, distribution and risk.

The cost to produce the show likely isn't cheap - could be as high as $1m an episode, and the risk is you have a bomb after you've invested in, say 5-8 episodes. You could get investors to put in money - but who knows if Mike Judge is interested in that - he might just want to make a great show.

Or you just partner with HBO and get to make the show on a large budget with high end production values, along with HBO's very strong promotional arm to push it - and you still get a boatload of money plus residuals.

Louis CK can do what he does because he's selling a live show - the costs are predicable and one-time (or maybe a few times if he records multiple shows). Not that there isn't some risk - but Louis CK can also offset the cost side by what he gets on ticket sales - so he's probably even on the cost side before he even tries to sell it on the internet.

TL;DR: You can't compare filming a show with filming a series.
Based on the commercials, I'm afraid this is going to be any broad comedy with cheap laughs...like The Big Bang Theory. Big I did like Office Space, Idiocracy, and bits of Extract so I'll give it a chance.
My bullshit meter reads over 9000.
Agree with you that it's not clear for newcomers.

I'm not affiliated, but basically Ethereum is an alternative cryptocurrency (or alt-coin) to Bitcoin with it's own separate mining algorithm and blockchain. The really interesting part is that it comes with a Python-like Turing-complete language, such that you can embed small scripts into transactions to define smart contracts.

This theoretically allows you to implement all kinds of applications in a distributed way with no central trusted authority. For example: DNS resolution, options, betting, distributed exchanges.
The parent comment is helpful. If it was my product, I would wAnt to know if I was losing people over messaging.
> Now, the abortion that happened after PARC was the misunderstanding of the user interface that we did for children, which was the overlapping window interface which we made as naive as absolutely we possibly could to the point of not having any workflow ideas in it, and that was taken over uncritically out into the outside world.

He also goes on to praise NLS, which failed precisely because of its steep learning curve and unsuitability for large swaths of the personal computing market.

Incidentally, that's why a GUI with overlapping windows succeeded : because it was familiar, intuitive and simple.

IMO, it's rather telling that none of the major DE's or WM's involve automatic tiling. This, despite the fact that there are a myriad of solutions available [1]. It's not about "better" or "worse", but suitability for a given market.

[1] If anyone's interested, I highly recommend i3. As powerful as xmonad with a fraction of the configuration hassle.
Yes, that's what gives it a chance of being funny. You sound like you'd like to show people how great it is here, but that wouldn't be funny.
Wired has a great article about it here:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2014/01/ethereum/
Because we need to scrutinize Google just as much as Facebook.
> "the Facebook news feed has never been a reliable delivery mechanism for updates you actually want to receive"

Yes it was. It was great for me for several years. I blocked games and kept my friends list to actual friends, and I was easily able to keep up with peoples' lives AND with products/companies I followed.

Eventually they changed the algorithm enough times, and hid/removed enough options, that I couldn't keep up. I posted a mini-rant in the comments here about it -- how FB's algorithm decided it was more important that I see a random not-very-close high school friend post an offensive political meme than that I see my brother's wedding pictures.
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I'm with you, I read everything and still have no idea what it is.
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I use a ton of inline shell in make for data munging. I often put

SHELL=/bin/bash

at the top of the Makefile when I use bashisms to construct complex pipelines.

And once, in a fit of mad genius, I made a particularly complex and useful Makefile executable by putting #!/usr/bin/make -f at the top. (It was a bad idea, obviously, and I won't be doing that again.)

For large file based datasets, the shell is just a REPL.
Sierpinksi Triangle: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgXgB8AaYA2wJdANlWUlUCXgDZAg...

This was created by someone the last time this was on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5983421
Oh man, this is the one that cheeses me off so much. These web sites where you have to give them your email to get info about a product, or whatever. Forget it. Not going to touch it with a 10-foot pole. If you can't be honest and open up-front, I'm sure as heck not doing business with you.
I agree that we've so far had no negative reports. But a) there's a strong disincentive to report, b) subtle discrimination is hard to pin down, and c) that he has helped to strip gay people of their civil rights is enough to cause fear, and fear is all it takes to create problematic working conditions.
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Hmm I thought it was a programming language for a distributed system.

Yeah I guess they need to do a better job on the presenting who/what/how
What if you wanted to do something bigger? Like, say, design a next-generation VR platform?
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These patents look silly. I have done work in the AR/VR space and these patents are chaff. Much of the stuff coming to market right now is not patentable because this research goes back so far. Which is a GREAT thing.
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I'm kind of appalled by all the comments complaining that people don't understand Ethereum after spending a very short amount of time on the site. If you think it looks interesting, investigate further. If not, move on. Not being able to understand something after 30s doesn't mean that thing has no value.
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His actual fear is it that he won't be able to suspend the necessary disbelief to enjoy it. You see the same thing from anybody who has specialty knowledge and sees it misrepresented on TV. They know what they're seeing is wrong, so it breaks the illusion. A great example is my buddy's wife. She's an MD and he loved to watch House. She could never get into it because every time they skewed medical facts to fit the story, she knew.
I just found out one of the developers doesnt like meth.. hmmmphhh ... Im soooooo offended!!111!!

Im boycotting too!
Nope, not I. :)
Actually there's a small handful of things that are the drivers of the debt: stupid tax cuts, stupid wars, issues with Medicare and a few other things; the drops don't add up, they just distract
This is literally just storing a key/value pair in a map. i.e. Registering a name. It's not complicated, and that's the point (it takes a few lines of code to recreate "Namecoin" on Ethereum)
I said "reasonably feel threatened". You don't have to have someone directly threaten you to reasonably feel threatened.
Not to detract from the overall point but a small nitpick. Lines of assembler don't always translate directly to CPU instructions. Some assemblers provide high level assembler instructions for commonly used series of instructions. It will be one assembler instruction that would translate to a couple CPU instructions.
I like how having a lot of random stuff ends up making some natural-looking textures: http://zenphoton.com/#AAQAAkACAAEgdwAeAAsAKgArABMA/wAASgH9AF...
Let me take your imagination to a (short) trip: You can build a pretty decent psychological profile from a 30-50h game-play(even less if you design your game with this type of user-data in mind); this alone has HUGE implications(and possible use-cases) I won't go into.. If you combine the data from ALL VR EXPERIENCES through facebooks rift(and let me stress this again - we're talking about most of today's entertainment industry(+education), data the media has been dreaming of for years).. Even if eye-tracking won't be implemented, your VR interactions become a very neat addition to all the data - facebook alone - is gathering already - marketable like nothing before. As someone already mentioned here, being the first on the market means(among other things) that I as a potential VR customer won't really have options to choose from - my options are FB's rift, Sony's PS4+VR combo or just to wait for another ~5 years till enough VR parts are lying around so the smaller companies can have a go(although one may still not be able to watch the 360 F1 driver camera "facebook experience" feed from a "asus vr" kit). I'm fully aware that if most of my family/friends/colleagues/whatnot are on fb, it doesn't really matter if I'm using fb or not - data-wise(don't worry - till you are demonstrating in front of the "right" embassy, all is OK .. for now) - but this is a whole new attack vector for privacy.. and propaganda. If media are the only unregulated weapon of mass destruction on the planet, what is VR in hands of facebook then?
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they might as well changed their opinion and are now too embarrassed to speak about it.

Do people do this? It seems like people who change their opinion are also vocal about it.
It is in the interest of the early adopters. For those not involved yet that have never mined before it might be more fun / interesting to adopt a new coin, for which there are no ASIC implementations.
Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, ...

So, just the other day, I was lamenting with my friend and we had a thought experiment on whether it would be possible to use a bitcoin-like network/blockchain to solve the identity problem for voting on the internet.

We had some rock solid ideas for lots of details, but got stuck on the anonymous vote part. For example, everyone should be able to tell that I actually voted, but not who I voted for.

Does anyone know how this could be accomplished?

This looks like a great project. Would be interested to see what they meant when they listed voting as their first example.
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That was pretty much the response to Bitcoin five years ago, when it first appeared on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=463793

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
> If they were building something for web or everyday consumers...

Exactly, first impressions matter. If it were a consumer product, than the flashy decoration would have a purpose in marketing terms.