skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His "doesn't work" is equivalent to saying "not profitable." But what if that energy is spent within a country whose economy can produce profitable services and products for export, making up for the cost to acquire that energy? Having a non-nuclear source of energy not dependent on other countries might be worth it.
Point #1 is the most important one and the answer given is bogus. "Bitcoin is still used as a medium of exchange". So were Confederate dollars, so were Weimar Reichmarks, or Iraqi Dinars. Currencies stop being currencies when people perceive there is a fair chance they might lose a lot of value within a year's time. Bitcoin is worth half what it was five month's ago.

Then he quotes from Marc Andreessen: "It's not as much that the Bitcoin currency has some arbitrary value and then people are trading with it; it’s more that people can trade with Bitcoin (anywhere, everywhere, with no fraud and no or very low fees) and as a result it has value." This shows that Andreessen has no concept of what value is (I'll give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he's not being disingenuous).

It's also not a falsifiable argument. People trade with Bitcoin (most importantly trade significant paper currency for Bitcoins) so he says it has value. If people stop doing that, then by his definition it has no value. "It's valuable because it's valuable". I know precious metals will retain their value over the long term. Bitcoin certainly will not.

Only commodities have value, from a widget in a factory, to a bucket of water pulled up from a backyard well. It is why a precious metal such as gold has been a currency for thousands of years. Gold had value 3000 years ago, gold has value today, gold will have value a century from now. It is why the US keeps hundreds of billions of dollars worth of gold in Fort Knox.

This is a giant Ponzi scheme. If anything is a sign of a bubble, all the VC's talking up this bogus Bitcoin Ponzi scheme is. Notice nothing they say is falsifiable either - a solid statement is me saying plain as day that Bitcoin will be worthless. They are just making vague assertions about how something is valuable if it's perceived as valuable, which at the end of the day means absolutely nothing.

That posts like this skeptical of the Bitcoin Ponzi bubble are downvoted into oblivion on HN are yet another sign of the irrationality of this bubble. If I said I thought Google stock will stagnate and go down, my post would not be downvoted (actually this is just a theoretical example, I have no crystal ball on it, but I believe Google stock will continue to rise and do well). That this post surely will be downvoted to oblivion is just another sign of how the whole thing is a scam. The damned things have no value, and all that it will mean in the end is a hard lesson for all the suckers who shell out real money for worthless backordered ASIC miners and fat Bitcoin wallets.
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No.

Diagnosing mental illness is a very inexact science since multiple etiologies can create very similar symptoms. And a single etiology or difference can create many divergent ones [edit for clarity: symptoms].

It wasn't cast out because everyone was suffering from it. It was simply put into the lump categorization of Autism Spectrum Disorder: http://www.dsm5.org/Documents/Autism%20Spectrum%20Disorder%2...

From the document:

"Researchers found that these separate diagnoses were not consistently applied across different clinics and treatment centers. Anyone diagnosed with one of the four pervasive
developmental disorders (PDD) from DSM-IV should still meet the criteria for ASD in DSM-5 or another, more accurate DSM-5 diagnosis."
Approximating the Internet to a complete graph with edges of equal cost is absurd, that's not how it operates at all.
I read the Kindle version (not sure what's cut in this one) and quite liked it.

This is the crux of the piece

> All the while, Martino’s ultimate warning—that they might someday regret actually getting the money they wanted—would still hang over these two young men, inherent to a system designed to turn strivers into subcontractors. Instead of what you want to build—the consumer-facing, world-remaking thing—almost invariably you are pushed to build a small piece of technology that somebody with a lot of money wants built cheaply. As the engineer and writer Alex Payne put it, these startups represent “the field offices of a large distributed workforce assembled by venture capitalists and their associate institutions,” doing low-overhead, low-risk R&D for five corporate giants. In such a system, the real disillusionment isn’t the discovery that you’re unlikely to become a billionaire; it’s the realization that your feeling of autonomy is a fantasy, and that the vast majority of you have been set up to fail by design.

The rest is the story of Nick and Chris intertwined with the writers impressions of the people he met at a $1250/mo for a mattress Hacker Pad he moved into.

The author is only slightly contemptuous of the young tech guys who made his beloved San Francisco shitty

> “When you have an early-stage company,” he said, “there’s no time to hang out at a cool, trendy bar.” He was 23. The bar might have been cool and trendy in Miami in 2004.
What I can't do is create a topic or keyword, and subscribe to that, with a preference for posts from specific individuals.

Nor can I subscribe to a Community, but only highly ranked posts (useless without downvotes), and/or of people I find compelling.

The Pages route is too many levels of indirection to be successful. Google and Silicon Valley understand that one click can be too much friction, let alone multiple, among several individuals.

I've never subscribed to a page. Hell, what a "page" is is utterly opaque to me (with 25+ years of tech experience).

G+ had a number of useful tools, probably Hangouts at the top of the list, but "Hangouts" UTTERLY FAILS TO COMMUNICATE TO ME what this is. "Group Video Chat" does. And that's what it is.

I've said before and I'll say it again: that should be spun out as its own product, and ultimately be geared to take on WebMeeting and related products.

Edit: Additionally: reddit has ubiquitous RSS. You can tag '.rss' to virtually any URL that's a valid Reddit page (front, subreddit, user, search, URL search etc.) and get a feed based on that. You can also subscribe to specific posts, which is pretty awesome -- through reddit's own notifications system (which blows Google's out of the water).
That would probably just lead to "Nos" instead of "contingent Yeses" (which really are pretty good if you think about it). It's not like these investors are backing out.
My point isn't that he wasn't criticising, but that he was explicitly endorsing the "identity service" angle.
Thank you for making my point for me. BTW the bonus checks I was referring to were the settlement payouts, not normal annual bonuses.
The rug store that rented space to Google and Paypal early on took equity. They later spun up a venture arm.
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This is a straw man: Netflix doesn't want to peer with Comcast at all. Netflix would like Comcast to provide their (Comcast's) customers with the bandwidth those customers are already paying (Comcast) for.
This is gold. I remember a quote from a prominent game programmer, I think it's John Carmack but I'm not sure, that when thinking of an approach to a new game engine he would start on the basis of an imaginary computer with instant CPU calculation and infinite memory. I can see the parallels here.
I completely agree with everything you said. I got the impression from the blog post they are looking for people to solve real world problems, and people who are good at that are generally employed (comfortably). I hope the program is successful and they expand it at some point to allow for different types of arrangements.
Well if Comcast refused to do business with Netflix it would be a pretty good reason to take them to court over anti-trust.
But that's not an acceptable assessment of leadership for a vital crypto WG, much less the leading implementation. So far, OpenSSL has added one dev and it seems like business as usual. Does anyone know if anything's changed at TLS WG (I'm not on the mailing lists)?

In other news, I ported LibreSSL to OSX today[0].

[0] https://github.com/steakknife/libressl
I stand corrected, you're right about Ponzi/pyramid. The key dynamic is that you need more buyers today than you had yesterday. Once you run out of new buyers, the whole thing goes belly up.
>In the rare cases where the description is vital, like perhaps crypto or coding patents,

This is a bit of a nitpicky thing, but patenting crypto isn't really a great way of protecting your secrets - hiding away the algorithm is basically security by obscurity. Crypto has historically been one of those things that's made stronger by more scrutiny.
An interesting hypothesis. Thank you. Near the end they discuss how "its easy to get enough money to get in over your head, but its hard to get enough money to keep afloat". That would seem in-line with the broader reading of some kind of existential limbo-land as being (at least one of) the themes. The narrative seems oddly intractable, otherwise. Perhaps 'no exit: the new normal' is more the spirit of the piece.
Or more directly add a Comcast fee to subscribers on comcast.
"we might be in. who else is in?" is not committment, it's lemmings.
> How overly simplistic and descriptive that is. Going academic, would, in it's most 2014'ish, pop-cultaral-way, mean that you probably wouldn't go on to make any cool apps.

I read that as the dilemma that Page was facing, not an absolute truism. This is an article about Larry Page at Google. It seems silly to be annoyed at the author for simplifying the dichotomy between academia and industry to move us through his life.

> If you manage to get through the introductory number slalom, it reads like the script for a trailer to a new action flick!

Oh shut up, that was a nice piece of writing. It was an interesting hook, a nice way to introduce a main theme of the article; Larry Page's admiration of Nikola Tesla. It may have been flashy but considering how well it fits into the rest of the article (and indeed, the quality of the writing) I'd hardly call it sloppy. Although maybe we just have different standards.
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I would change that to:

Well credentialed and talented technical teams.

That degree from Stanford or M.I.T. just opens an incredible number of doors when it comes to fundraising.
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Looks great! The biggest drops sort of spoil the illusion at times because they pass in front of or behind other drops without absorbing them. Maybe a cool tweak for v2 would be to add some simple collision resolution?

It would probably look great if you did a front to back sort based on droplet size, and resolved collisions (which you'd have to detect) by deleting the smaller droplet.
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So to get this straight, the Linux Foundation has responded to OpenSSL problems by creating a web page, a committee and are soliciting dollars from sponsors and grass roots?

OpenBSD responds by rolling up sleeves and fixing the problem.
That's fantastic! I'm sure you're already connected to Skysong. The ASU W.P. Carey school of business has a new head of the entrepreneur program (I think it used to be called Spark). Sidnee Peck took over the program. She'd probably be a great person to meet to get ASU students and alums to check out the space. Let me know if you want an intro.
You're right, but Bitcoin does little to prevent fraud as well. The only kind of fraud Bitcoin prevents is "check's in the mail" type schemes, or fraud involving a customer trying to scam a vendor (by performing a chargeback after receiving a product, for example).

I think Bitcoin has a ton of great uses, but fraud protection is not one of them for consumers at least.
That someone was mistaken. How exactly do you think they "struggled to maintain" a fork of software that was barely active in the first place? How does "apache but chrooted by default" constitute "frankenapache" exactly? Given that their struggling was so clear to you, could you point me to something that would make it clear to the rest of us?
I don't know enough about the differences in the charging standards. Does Tesla just use a proprietary plug? Maybe we'll just see an adapter, much like international travel adapters, which will allow other EVs to plug into Tesla charging stations, and vice-versa. We likely have the room in an electric vehicle to carry around the adapter and any sort of device for regulating the power ratings of different systems.

Is that correct?
In "Silicon Valley," at least (have not yet seen "Betas"), the people who toss around Aspergers jokes tend to be unsympathetic rubes or dolts, like the farmer in the third episode.

To an extent, yes, the audience is meant to laugh at the protagonist's expense when these jokes pop up. But he's getting the last laugh in the end, and the show makes that pretty clear.

For whatever it's worth, the show's leads really don't come across as having Aspergers. They come across as being socially awkward, perhaps even to a painful degree. But Mike Judge & co seem pretty sensitive in drawing that line. They might go for a cheap laugh every now and then, but we're not meant to take those "diagnoses" literally.
It makes safari cry on an iPhone.
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Hahaha, didn't see that.

The thing was the surprise to see my browser did render it and nostalgia of course.
They must have been using PowerDNS.
Is it ok to witch-hunt a perfectly adequate CEO because you disagree with his personal life? Oh wait...
> Bitcoin is easy to understand - it's like gold, which derives its function as money from its scarcity, transferability, fungability, and verifiability. Most of the same holds true for bitcoin.

Not exactly. Gold is a commodity that has a useful value. It can be used by my dentist to fill my teeth, it can be used to conduct electricity, as well as do other things. Then - it is also scarce, easily transferable, fungible, verifiable. Thus it makes a good currency. But underneath all of that there is value. Bitcoin has no value. It's why the price can halve in five months. If gold's price halved in five months (of course that would not happen) electronic manufacturers would buy gold like crazy and the price would go up. Bitcoin is dependent upon the last sucker that will be holding the bag.
Sounds like a scene from "The Social Network". Your move!
I think pseudonym policy depend heavily on what we set as 'average'. My parents and their work relations use their real name everytime, for everything, I never saw them use a pseudonym and they scorn me for using silly or unscrutable names.

On the other end my siblings, cousins, school friends and some more all kept their AOL/hotmail/yahoo mail or other chat service nickname, which for a reason or another was a nickname.

I think it really depends on how, when and for what someone first came to the internet. If it was for fart jokes, or activism, real name policy is a bummer.
+1 for being the first person on this thread to refer to this as rent-seeking.
How about smart caching? Why can't netflix automatically preload 3 episodes ahead in a show that you're watching?

Consumers might not want to have to deal with HDD storage, but I would bet you dollars to donuts that they want 4K without buffering issues.

EDIT: Also, I just wanted to mention that maybe our companies should be inventing new ways of storing things (like TiVo did with remarkable success), instead of spending all of their resources aquiring the rights to hit movies and extorting each other.
You seem to think investors are some sort of ATM waiting for the right pin rather than humans with their own set of decisions, problems and multiple priorities.

Think of it like dating. You'll get a lot fewer dates if you ask someone to commit to a series of four dates as a condition of accepting the first.

It's how it is done. That's it.
Oh, it's all good. I upvoted yours, as well. :) I have a tendency to respond with supplemental information to a lot of my replies, and from time to time, it can come across as defensive. It's not meant to be.
Where are you getting this info that Netflix didn't want to pay Cogent and Level3?

It seems like Comcast entered a shitty peering arrangement with Cogent and decided not to upgrade the interconnect links in retaliation. Netflix gets caught in the crossfire and ends up having to pay Comcast directly to avoid a few million angry customers. Is there any transit provider that Netflix could have gone with that has enough interconnects with the Comcast network? If not, Netflix is forced to pay whatever price Comcast names for their customers to receive adequate video streams.
People espouse the benefits of FLOSS all the time, but I don't understand why no one cares about libre content. I want to watch videos that I can do whatever I want with.

I don't give a damn about NBC shows.
Honest question: Who gets the settlement ? Anyone who worked for defendants between certain years ? How do they determine 60K employees ? What if someone has left the industry altogether or in an unfortunate case, is no more ?
Can someone shed light on this area ?
Nope, just a mere 83 thousand shares of stock per year. It's quite modest. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/it?s=GOOG+Insider+Transactions
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That's fine. Make a tiny download link at the bottom of the page. It would require little to no infrastructure changes. Let the 99% stream.
With Bing and Windows lagging behind Google in voice recognition adoption (in Android), I'd have liked to see Microsoft release a web-api. Require a 'powered by bing', or 'powered by cortana' something like that to bring their brand to the forefront with this technology. It appears to me that everything here is native to Windows or WP.
That's a great idea. We should screen developers for Asperger's too, and make sure we don't hire any of those folks. Oh, and ADHD too. And you know what, people with bipolar disorder are a right pain in the ass to deal with, so we'll pass on them. Depressed people sometimes kill themselves, so hey, no hire, sorry.
Oh, man. Thank you so much.
Why would it be settlement free? Its just like any other peering agreement, If the data was symmetrical it would be free, but its not. Netflix is sending way more than its receiving.

If you were an ISP would you provide free transit to everyone? If you did, you would be out of business.
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From what I've read, all the other kinds of asbestos are definitely, obviously terrifying. The debate is whether chrysotile, or some variants of it, are dangerous and to what degree.
Yes, Tata Group from India owns an Internet backbone (formerly VSNL & Teleglobe). Netflix traffic used to go through Tata to get to Comcast until Comcast deliberately congested it.
I have a pretty flexible work schedule, and offers like this would actually encourage me to push to open up some of my day-to-day work. I'll probably try to drum up some support around doing something similar in Boulder too.
I don't care about the article, I'm here to make a design complaint.

The page is a giant TC logo with an ad next to it, oversized menu navigation, a headline, and then A GIANT PICTURE that literally takes up my entire 13" laptop screen.

All of this before I get to the actual article with actual content.

Word of caution - not everyone browses the internet on dual 27" cinema displays or Retina MacBook Pros. Even still, oversized images do more to stroke the designer's ego than to truly enhance the communication of the content.

For ad much as designers hate "Make the logo bigger", they have totally got onboard with oversized photos on blog post headers/featured images.
How about a sequential TV show? It would be a non-issue for netflix to figure out when you were binge watching and preload 4k video.
> Even though this new arrangement reduces their costs vs. using Cogent.

This new arrangement improves performance vs. using Cogent. And not because Cogent has a slow network.
I recently installed and investigated PC-BSD for this very reason; a friend who's a BSD user commented that systemd has been driving BSD adoption very hard recently. I intend switching to PC-BSD for personal and work use within the year.
Possibly population and buyers.

The norther route puts you close to Minneapolis and Madison / Milwaukee. Larger populations, also more liberal, generally, than a slightly more southern route.

The I-80 corridor fills in if you go to the end of 2015.

Prioritization.
I know. I'm just frustrated by that. We're imposing random and artificial limits on technology because of an outdated business model.

Imagine if the RIAA made a law that CDs could only be played sequentially, and you had to turn the disc over to get to the second half.
I see all these people saying Comcast was feuding with cogent... that is just not the case. For anyone in the hosting business we all know cogent is the cheapest option, and a pretty spotty service as a whole. What do we do when our customers complain and complain? Well, we seek out more reliable options and spend the money needed better serve our customers.

So why does Netflix get to complain? They have already spent the money for the ridiculously one sided peering(Netflix sending tons of traffic and Comcast sending close to none). You would think Netflix would be happy to spend this money to better their service! Right? Or is it so detrimental to their cash flow that they would rather complain? They should have just told their customers "hey, we heard you were having some problems with our service, look what we did for you!"

In the end this is just a smear campaign to distract Netflix customers from the price hike that is coming. It is obvious Netflix was going to raise its subscription prices eventually. So why not point the blame to a company who is already disliked. The majority of HN seems to be pretty smart people, it would be a shame if you fell for this rather underhanded ploy.
These weird political fights are in the wrong arena. I'm not going to try to argue with you about what it means to fight a new technology and whether a decades old business model is valid or not, because it's just silly. Regardless of how you and I feel whether a company is doing the right thing, it's there and it's surviving, and in this case, thriving, in its niche.

It might feel good to bad mouth giant corporations and swear that you'll never invite them to the next family BBQ because of some negotiation spat they have with each other, but, in reality, all successful big corporations get down in the mud like everyone else. If you don't like what they do, try and get the law changed.

But please stop with this whiny horseshit... it's like crying to your mom over Billy eating your desert from your packed lunch. It's sad and pathetic and no matter how many of you all bleigh the same memes and buzzwords over and over again, it won't have any lasting effect.
Press F11 then refresh.
Reminds of screensavers I wrote in the 90s/early 2000s.
Very nice.