skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sounds like a report of a bug, but I believe this is not the actual story. It is more a report of a design tradeoff: the authors of those CP systems completely understand what happens, but were not happy to pay this performance price for reads. One thing is to have a data store that has a very limited performance in write operations but is very fast when you need to read, another thing is a data store where both writes and reads are very slow. However once you read potentially stale data from nodes, many of the advantages of having a CP system are gone. IMHO to revert those systems to a default where reads are applied to the state machine like writes is the sanest thing to do, even if options to potentially read stale reads are also useful in some context.
You can bid on a single block of 3k Bitcoin (~$1.5m @ 500$/Btc)
Give them a chance.. These things happen.
* price goes up
* price goes down
* price stays the same
* anything else happens

"THIS IS GREAT NEWS FOR BITCOIN!!"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886226
Looks pretty cool guys. Congrats!
That would be a big briefcase.
That counts as supply. Silver in the earth also exists prior to sale, but it only counts when you actually sell it.
Maybe some of the people who are looking to bid on these bitcoins are driving the price down, so that they won't have to bid as much to win them. Then when they price recovers they can start selling them off slowly at a profit.
It is presumptuous, but that is how civil forfeiture works. Its atrocious.

Take a look at this well written article by the New Yorker
Taken: The Use and Abuse of Civil Forfeiture
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
It can be hard to untangle what caused what. My feeling after many years is basically that emotions are emotions and drugs are drugs: if you feel anxious, that's an emotion. The drug may have been involved in setting the anxiety off, but anxiety is still an emotion and not a drug effect. Not everyone is going to become anxious from any given drug, because different people have different sensitivities to the sort of stimuli that may trigger anxiety. A true drug effect will not feel like an emotion.

It can be useful to pay attention to when a drug is triggering anxiety; just in case you go on to try other meds in the future.
Plenty of law enforcement organizations seize money to make a profit, with very little regard to whether the owners are criminals or whether the money is the fruit of illicit activities:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_...
I'm not sure what you're asking or saying.

The whole mess here certainly isn't a win for free software, but that's only because there doesn't seem to be enough developers who care about free software, and want DWG support.

I think you're saying that the GPL isn't practical. I just wrote this large reply to a sibling comment on the whole practicality argument: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886353
The increased [bit-]money supply doesn't explain the observed price drop - it would explain a price drop, but much, much smaller than this one; those 30k bitcoins is a rather tiny part of the whole bitcoins in circulation; so obviously some other reasons dominate this particular price change.

If US treasury prints a billion dollars, then that doesn't trigger a 10% drop in value of a US dollar - it's a comparably tiny change with a tiny effect; similarly an extra 30k BTC is not by itself a reason for large fluctuation if the market is functioning properly.
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I was going to say that his VORP [1] was -$1b, but since they won't be replacing him, I think your original assessment is correct.

And extraordinarily depressing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_over_replacement_player
As someone who has personally slaughtered and processed rabbits on a small family farm it's certainly a shock when you first hear that scream. Ideally you never do though since a "clean" butcher has the animal largely unaware due to a sudden violent blow to the skull resulting in immediate death (or as close as possible).
The publicly available portion of something is the supply of a good.

That would be like saying the supply of uranium in the universe hasn't increased, the only thing that increased was the free float of uranium (say due to new mining technologies, or the sale of previously restricted stocks).
Re. "Continuously Deliver them to the Docker Registry". Is this focussed on open projects going to the public registry? Or will you provide a private one / integrate with services like quay.io, etc.?

EDIT: Love CircleCI by the way.
They're not as volatile though. There's a fair amount of risk in taking on that much Bitcoin at once.
Someone should steal these before they can sell them
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If this happens (though it is very unlikely indeed), the bitcoins could be bought back or Ulbricht could receive an indemnity in US dollars.
Actually forfeiture sucks hard, even if you are found not-guilty you don't really have a chance in hell of recovering assets seized during a drug bust—like your car for instance.

You can try to prove your innocence but it doesn't really work in practice.
Nice. Congrats guys.
Actually is does mean that it's worth what it sells for. The nature of seized goods increases the risk premium demanded from a buyer resulting in a lower price. Sources of risk:
1) Goods aren't as they seem. Drug dealers may not have treated the goods as well as average owner.
2) Risk of violence. I wouldn't want to buy some drug dealer's prized yacht... wouldn't sleep well.
3) Illiquid good. If it's hard to resale the good, it's going to introduce risk. For this auction that's the problem... selling tens of millions of dollars of bit coins will have a market impact.

Aside from this, there's also a transaction cost component.. it takes time and some money to transact (think opportunity cost of the 200k deposit, lawyer fees, etc.) and this would be reflected. The sale price would reflect both of these.

Now, if the good was completely fungible, risk-free and totally liquid (think cash), there would be no expected discount because of risk.. just transaction cost.
The amount available for sale at a given price probably increased though.

Which I think has a more significant effect on the market price than the total amount that exists.
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I tend to agree with a comment elsewhere: if memristance is a fourth "fundamental" element of any importance, it would have had to be well-understood (and compensated for) as a parasitic property of other components. It's not, unless you count purely thermal effects.
How does merely asking a question allow you to make such determinations about my character? I shouldn't be given the time of day? What did I actually do that was wrong besides question a trend or its validity?

I guess my problem is that I'm less specific in my sorrow. If anything I dwell on the overall strife of the human race, rather than latching onto the death of someone related to someone that I've never met. I suspect many of these individuals in less than a week will have moved past this hip trend of transient grief. Meanwhile, children of lesser known parents will die of cancer, with no one to change their avatars for them.

What's ironic to me is the notion that I'm a robot because my opinion actually differs from that which some might find acceptable. If being human means being a thoughtless conformist, then I am clearly something else. And I don't know that I have a problem with that.
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time to buy.
>Since when did competition stop any of these from being fun ways to learn new things, show off your skills, and make friends?

When they became fun ways to get [prize].

The prize has to be inconsequential to maintain the atmosphere the grandparent refers to. "Hacker bragging rights" is a good prize because it is hard to hack; it incentivizes the right things (pleasing the community).
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I'm not among the downvoters (it's not possible for responses to ones' own posts), but you're continuing to argue for something that's not at all supported under legal doctrine, as well as highly disfunctional in reality, though you're at least doing so under the cloak of personal belief, rather than trying to claim some sort of authority.

Your definitions continue to be fabrications without foundations in broader legal or political theory.
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There is logic. All speculative trading is driven by two motivations, fear and greed. The balance of these two decides the price.

Before this announcement the balance was about $650. It means that greedy people think it will go higher than $650, and fearful people think it would go lower.

Now comes this announcement. About 30.000 bitcoins wil sometime in July come into the hands of someone who will have paid significantly below market rate for them.

Is this good news or bad news for the market? It's bad of course. In the most optimum case, the buyer will keep the bitcoin, and the market won't move at all. In the worst case, the buyer will sell all the bitcoin the second he receives the bitcoin.

Between these two extremes there is a range of possibilities, but you can see that the range is from 0 to negative something, so overall we predict a negative outcome for the market.

So, the fearful people will become a little stronger, and the balance will drop accordingly.
Something something "trickle down".
Does the government sell seized USD?
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Could you wrap the improvements you're trying to make as something other than accessibility? Making every dynamic control keyboard friendly for example could be sold to the business owner as "for power users", then go, refactor the bit with proper aria labels and you're 75% there?
What's your opinion on exposing the option of stale vs. consistent read in the API? I can see cases where I'd be ok with a stale read while for others I'd like the most up-to-date value.
Or, perhaps more plausibly: confirmable voting makes it much more tractable for corrupt candidates to buy votes.
Confirmable votes happily wins you the worst of both worlds, and so can be dismissed easily.
How many people are you following? How long did it take you to build a really high-quality stream?

My stream has around 60 accounts, and I also read my whole timeline. It already feels like this is approaching the maximum that I'll be willing and able to give proper attention to. I'll probably prune some of the lower quality ones out before I add any more.
Note that ocean rise in tropical / subtropical regions is also exacerbated by thermal expansion of water. How much this contributes I'm not entirely sure.

Florida in particular also has a little issue you may have heard of with sinkholes. The geology is generally limestone, and this can be undercut by water and other effects. There's also the matter of saltwater intrusion on freshwater supplies and flora, as well as other secondary effects of seawater rise.

So I wouldn't be too sanguine.
It's Mac, not MAC.

I don't use Windows so I can't comment on that, but OS X has a lot of support for disabled users. First, VoiceOver is a built-in screen reader and there are a variety of other options to adjust the contrast, cursor size, amongst other things. There's support for visual alerts, mono audio, and subtitles. One can also use switches to control the system if you have them connected.

Basically, Apple spends a lot of effort to make their products accessible. I know that iPhones are popular in the blind community as the VoiceOver support makes it easy to use.

I've found that OS X is far more usable now than the 10.1-10.4 years. So, while the form has improved, so has the function.
It's plausible that folks who are interested and able to buy these coins have a position in BTC. They may be selling BTC in order to have the cash to purchase the Silk Road blocks. This has the duel effect of driving the price down, which makes the "list" price (i.e. the exchange rate) of the SR blocks lower which, in turn, may make the competing bids lower.
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So slowly liquid.
That is indeed blood boiling. I am now upset after reading this...
I know that truth can be stranger than fiction, but am I the only one a little hesitant to believe that underneath the U.S. alone is a reservoir that is three times the volume of all the oceans combined?

EDIT: I didn't mean to imply that this exists only under the U.S. and nowhere else. I meant to imply "so far, the existence of this reservoir has only only been confirmed under the U.S.; the rest of the world is unknown at this point".
By this logic, withdrawing money from the ATM increases money supply... Also, the expected amount of silver in the ground is factored into the current price of silver. It's really only when new deposits are discovered that there is an impact to the price. Actually pulling known silver deposits out of the ground has a negligible effect on the price.
His expression is _fantastic_, though. "I _am_ drinking beer!"
Yes, but market fluctuations always shoot above and below 'rationalizable valuations'.

A few reasons why your analogy is flawed. First, M0 (which is one of the more conservative definition of money, is about 4 trillion, so the value loss from a billion dollars is not going to be anywhere near 10% to start off with). Secondly, by printing money you're again only affecting M0, but there are a lot of debt-based instruments that are probably better characterizations of "total money", but since they are debt-based it creates some level of 'springiness' to the total money supply.

Finally, it's not clear to me what you mean by 'functioning properly'. Even if a small change triggers a bigger effect (it will, these things are categorized by cascading effects) - Is the market coordinating individual values with prices? Probably, it is: it's just that the individuals' value systems have gone a bit out of whack in a spate of mania. But who are we to judge if people get a little silly from time to time?
I thought the same thing.

However, if he is found not guilty, then the presumption is that he was not involved and therefore would not be the "rightful owner" of the seized property anyway.
I found quite amusing how the american journalist urges into explaining what a penalty area, a corner kick, the stoppage time, and other soccer-related things are.

Journalists in Italy don't explain baseball-related things when writing about baseball.

Just saying.
Well... Congress has passed laws impacting venue decisions, and Congress can change the composition of the courts, for instance by adding new judgeships. Congress also creates special administrative courts like FISA.
This is neat, but I think it just nuked my browser history. That's bad.
How is that context relevant? There are rocks and sticks on the savanna. Humans are tool-users, so their most natural fighting techniques use tools.
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Supply is not a number, it's a function relating the price someone bids, to the quantity the bidder could buy at that price.

For example, if 100 bitcoins that were previously unavailable at any price, become available for $600, then supply at $600 (and above) increases by 100. The supply curve shifts to the right.

http://www.investopedia.com/university/economics/economics3....
I can't imagine a large amount of people would be interested in this addon. People who use addons are usually power users, who I don't imagine would have the need for something like this. Plus a lot of people would be sceptical of an addon which visually saves their browsing history. What about private records (ie viewing a PDF, bank balance, e-mail)?
True.

But most of the time the fundamental will be once per revolution.
I agree. These coins were the property of the Silk Road website/enterprise.
Can anyone provide some background on the name? I'm not seeing the relation to Eric Meyers.

UPDATE: Ok I see why now... so sad. :(

https://twitter.com/meyerweb/status/476089708674428929

http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/09/in-memoriam-2/
Places where this bites you is using numerical optimization algorithms in Python/Numpy, particularly when using gradient based methods. They make a HUGE boat load of calls to evaluate the objective function value and objective function gradient. Typically both are callback functions. Worse they do it in a very tight and CPU bound loop.

This is one place where the much repeated "write your most expensive part in C or Fortran" does not give enough benefit unless you encapsulate the entire thing in C. Here I have assumed that the objective function and the gradient function has been exposed to Python's runtime through a C module.

Although the time spent evaluating the function and evaluating the gradient can be reduced hugely by switching to C explicitly, or implicitly by using Numpy vectorized expressions, there is still this large overhead of making that many calls to a Python function. Same issue with JNI.

Cython helps some here by encapsulating the entire thing in C, however if you have to call out to Python's or Numpy's C-API you are back to square one. This is important because if you want to write readable Cython (meaning something that looks like Numpy) that is free of low low level loops, it is very hard to avoid those API calls.

I would assume that a JIT with a good inliner would help a lot here.

In fact C itself does not fair well for this use case. This is one place where, ... wait for it.... a smart enough compiler for a high level language like Lisp can give a lot of speedup, example Stalin, and Stalingrad. You can do a lot with C++ and D's compile time metaprogramming machinery. C++ metaprogramming is quite painful if you are rolling your own. It was never designed for this use case. D is great but code-generation part of their toolchain arent that mature yet. Although it can be as fast as C++, one often has to desugar manually. Hopefully it will get better at it soon.

Fortran is also supposed to beat C routinely here, but I am not quite sure why/how it does it. If you know why it turns out to be faster I would be eager to know. I think Fortran semantics restricts possible data dependency paths enough that the compiler can (a) do a lot of SIMD vectorization and (b) avoid reloading data from memory and work with cached values. I dont know whether Fortran semantics helps in inlining away function calls.
List of useful function helper methods without extension or monkey patching existing classes in Swift. If you have any feedback it is welcome.
A small (1/2") round mirror under the blade tip, a pen laser and photo detector would work quite well.
They should try http://coinbase.com ($591.11 right now)
"So far, Jacobsen only has evidence that the watery rock sits beneath the US. He now wants to find out if it wraps around the entire planet."
To me the part that makes it truly insidious is the coordination between banks, the FBI, local police departments, and universities, in order to stifle a political movement. This coordination occurred before the start of the Occupy movement, and so before any laws had been broken and needed to be enforced. As such, your use of the word "response" is inappropriate. A "response" implies a previous action to be responded to. This coordination between banks and the FBI happened prior to any protest.

I would expect the law enforcement response to, say, an actual terrorist group to be nationally coordinated.

I would not expect the law enforcement response to semi-legal public camping to be nationally coordinated.

The fact that it was implies that there was a political motivation to the specific law enforcement actions that took place, which is something typically considered inappropriate for the American government. We like to think that in America, we have the freedom to assemble and organize with fellow citizens to coordinate social change.

These documents tell us that we do not. Should we attempt to do so, should we go outside the gameboard for any action, we will be ruthlessly, violently swatted down. The tanks[0] will roll in, the LRADs[1] will blare, and armored stormtroopers will march alongside firing tear gas and pepper spray[2].

And not only will that dismantle that movement, but it will make every subsequent movement have to overcome not just a typical barrier to adoption, but also the fear of being there when the gloves come off and the gas canisters fire. It's what's called a chilling effect[3].

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/09/us/war-gear-flows-to-polic... (among many articles documenting this trend; if you want to see it in person go to any large protest in a major city, I have seen them in DC, New York, Pittsburgh, and Oakland among other places)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRAD

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AdDLhPwpp4

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilling_effect
FTP is every bit better than BitTorrent, except for that whole centralization thing.
... or, you could use a language that doesn't impose an extremely high, constant runtime cost overhead, and not have to write C at all.
The Earth is huge and the oceans cover only a tiny sliver of the surface. Doesn't really surprise me.

They said they only have evidence underneath Earth. Whether it's under other countries is still under investigation. To emphasize my point, note how he states that if this water were all to rise to the surface, then only the mountain tops would be visible.
I wrote this large reply to a sibling comment on the whole practicality argument against copyleft licenses: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7886353

The popularity of a project, derived or not, is not relevant. By that measure, FreeBSD is running on 10% of desktop computers, and it's better off because of that? I don't think so. FreeBSD has its merits, and I think it's a cool project, but the popularity of its derivations has nothing to do with its quality.

I can understand the legal-freedom angle of non-copyleft. I really can. I released Macrofun [0] under the MIT license, because it's not actually useful, and so I didn't care what people did with it. I later released a similar, useful project, Libpp [1], under the AGPL.

I think we just differ on ideology. Like I said, I believe that nonfree software is harmful [2], so I don't want to contribute to it at all. When I want to release a body of code as free software, but not have that code be used to develop nonfree software (nor DRM, nor patent abuse, ...), legal complexity has to come into the picture.

The MIT and BSD licenses are really simple, and I get that appeal. I long for an AGPL-like license that doesn't run over 600 lines. Thankfully, the GNU project has a lot of documentation of its licenses, so the most common questions are already answered.

I think the GPL licenses are only problems for people (or employees) who - implicitly or explicitly - are trying to avoid contributing to free software. I care little for their convenience.

[0]: https://github.com/mcinglis/macrofun

[1]: https://github.com/mcinglis/libpp

[2]: http://minglis.id.au/blog/2014/04/09/free-software-free-soci...
To be fair, the US government doesn't consider it to be currency. They naturally wouldn't treat it like one when selling.