skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is disappointing, as most of Twitter’s value is not tied up in following celebrities. I suspect that many users sign up for the first time, follow mostly celebrities and then give up, since they never get much interaction.

Agreed.
What I'd like to see is for Twitter to do much more curation: select top users in very focused categories (for instance, "Technology Journalists", "Linux Experts", "Java Experts" and let users drill down through multiple categories to select the people they want to follow.
Twitter already has something similar (it's step 2 in the sign up process) but the current categories are too overbroad and unfocused.
For any remotely plausible definition of "worthless," bitcoins are just as worthless as any representative money, which inclues fiat money (like a USD) and commodity-backed money (like a gold certificate).

The US government is a powerful entity that levies taxes and accepts tax payments only in dollars. Gold has various uses in industry and fashion and therefore a certificate entitling one to ownership of gold would have some value independent of gold's use as a currency. None of these are true for bitcoin.
People downvote you because if this post is similar to previous ones you wrote (I did not read your history), then it contains no argument whatsoever, no line of thoughts, nothing. You say "it is a scam, it is going to crash" without explaining why. For example you seem unaware that Bitcoin is decentralized and what fundamental advantages this gives it over any other currency. So, of course, if you seem uneducated about Bitcoin, people will see no value in your posts and downvote you. I suggest you read the original white paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf as a starting point. (No, this is not sarcasm, I am serious.)
the scammer just needed the name, email and billing address
associated with their accounts

Guess what, eBay just leaked 150 million names, emails and addresses. This will be a goldmine for scammers.

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-replacement-fraud-2014...
I doubt these are going to be liquidated once purchased. Someone is going to buy them cheaper than market rate and probably go long with them.
Looks like a good deal for the Winkleviis?
This is the precise thing that patents are designed to prevent: to keep the market from turning into a race to see who can outsource most efficiently to China and inundate the public most completely with advertising.

Patents were largely designed to enable the state to have a selectively published library of what was being invented in the country and to reduce the power of trade guilds, who had huge power at the time. Offering a limited monopoly backed by force of law was one of the few incentives that worked for acquiring access to the kind of trade secrets you needed to keep your edge on the battlefield.
It looks even worse than three years ago when I wrote a similar post:

http://diegobasch.com/why-twitters-growth-has-slowed-down-an...
It shouldn't.
The install script copies files that you need super user privs to get at (specifically, /usr/lib), but after it's installed, you should be able to run the aIRChat server (node Content/app.js) without sudo.
I understand. Most other auto manufacturers will start acting pretty oddly as their businesses collapse. I would almost expect them to form a patent pool to keep another electric car company, think Saturn, sprouting up and furthering their demise.

Does the US Govt still hold car company debt? Things could get really weird...
Just finishing my first app using Ember and don't think that i'll go that route again. Speaking of which - this controller-route separation feels a bit unnatural. At least the way it's implemented.

There are lots of good parts to it - that same convention of configuration saves lots of boilerplate, data binding is usually really nice, overal separation of concerns when doing it ember-way is rather good (far from great though), but lots of small nuisances here and there make up for a dubious overall experience.
znc?
>.com is a US tld //

.us is the ccTLD for USA. .com is the defacto default for all types of entities from across the world. Verisign call .com "The Global Online Standard". Yes, USA broke the convention and structure to preference themselves - that seems to be a favorite passtime.
Yes, but American protestant fundamentalists looking for something that superficially looks like it might theoretically maybe back up their literal interpretations of the Bible will care about this announcement in a way that most of the Babylonians won't. :P
Haha. It's static. I've never actually written anything that anybody's read before, so I have no idea what point I need to start looking into a cache.
Or put it in a blockchain that everyone has access to, forever. :)
It is fairly common to use the phrase "the supply increased" to mean "the supply curve shifted to the right." It's an abuse of terminology in my opinion, but it's already extremely widespread.
I've been thinking of patents as nukes during the Cold War lately.

Superpowers (US/USSR, Apple/Google) acquire very large nuclear/patent arsenals under the guise of protection/defense. These arsenals are relatively cheap for superpowers to build, but they are expensive for small states (small countries/small businesses) to acquire.

The US and USSR were roughly equivalent in their arsenals so it made little sense for either party to act offensively. However, the implied power behind the arsenals gave them a lot of power when dealing with smaller actors. The superpowers benefit greatly from acquiring these arsenals. Even without using them publicly, the threat can always be used behind closed doors (as Jobs has been shown to do).

But there's a third actor; the most universally feared actor: terrorists/patent trolls. These actors behave only offensively because they have nothing to defend. These actors are best poised to benefit from nukes and patents and can send an otherwise orderly system into chaos.

Anyway, just a fun but flawed analogy to play with in your noodle. :)
Why the dichotomy? Why can't we have both?

Throughout this whole ordeal Eric has maintained that it is with the support of various communities that he has been able to deal with this tragedy. Eric has done a lot for CSS and the web as a whole, and this request would add zero additional complexity to the specification and only one or two lines of code to the implementation.

It really isn't that big a deal, but there's a lot of us that respect him enough that we'd like to do anything in our power to show our support for him and his family right now, even if it's just to memorialize his daughter's favorite color.
I haven't played with this much but I saw something similar being presented at dockercon this week for Jenkins.

https://github.com/groupon/DotCi

https://github.com/groupon/DotCi/wiki/Setup-Cloud-CI-in-15-m...

Another option for self hosted ci that I would like to try at some point is drone which also supports docker images
https://github.com/drone/drone

I personally prefer not handing my code out a third party app unless I absolutely have to.
Twitter actually makes it difficult to find value from it. You have to actually work at it. What Silicon Valley startup doesn't pull in a list of your friends that are already on its service?

Once you've followed your friends then how about your interests? If I'm interested in Formula 1 its possible I might want to follow a driver or team owner. Only if I'm interested in Hollywood or pop music would I be interested in Kate Winslet or Lady Gaga.

Twitter assumes just the opposite, we all care about celebrity to the exclusion of our friends and hobbies.
AFAIK the Epic of Gilgamesh does not include the "fountains of the deep" aspect of the Noah story that's relevant here, and also there aren't a lot of Sumerian creationists around.
Calling mathematics a language confuses form with substance or declares that it's all form and no substance.

Fauconnier & Turner (2002)?
Did you not see the link at the end of the article to Balaji's talk on exit?

(Genuine question. If you haven't checked out that talk, its about opting out as an option for pursuing change and it sounds like what you're alluding to!)
If a bunch of people in a city decided to withdraw cash from all the ATMs one day, so that the amount of cash in ATMs got very low, don't you think the banks could increase the ATM fee and discover that people would be willing to pay the higher price? That example fits the logic perfectly.
> OP here. I'm working with a 1GB DigitalOcean box. Didn't expect hacker news haha.

Umm, you posted this article yourself to hn. You also plastered links to hn on the article.

It's very hard to believe you in this instance:)

Having said that, great article, keep them coming!
We access Amazon Prime Video through the Roku, and I can't believe it's any better than on the PC because it's awful.

While I like their site for shopping, etc., their content delivery UIs leave much to be desired.
If it's already static (ie. served from a generated static file), cache won't help you much (if at all). All reads will already come from the memory. Unless you have some crazy routing rules in the webserver, varnish is unlikely to be faster than direct serving.

some old comparison for static files: http://nbonvin.wordpress.com/2011/03/14/apache-vs-nginx-vs-v...
It's because they didn't want to alert you of the charge. Coming from a previous blackhat, the last thing a blackhat would want to do is alert you that something is happening. How often do you check your bank account? Probably once a day, maybe more. How often do you check your Amazon? Maybe only when you're going to buy things. I have my accounts set to text/notify me with every transaction detail.

Another reason why it'd be a replacement is because you don't get charged anything directly. They're betting you see the $0.00 charge, no bank activity, and you'll just brush it off like it was just a glitch. Not only this, but half the people who do this aren't even 18 and they're just reading tutorials on forums for how to get free stuff by social engineering or "hacking."
of course. there's no path for real advancement and no chance of an exit
1. The rulings of the case don't change, the explanatory comments and reasoning gets further edited after the ruling - any changes there would affect decisions in future cases, but not for this one.

2. After they're finally published in U.S. Reports, any changes are published as proper errata. However, the 'post on the website' is of a draft that's after the ruling but much, much before publication.

All this article is about tracking the changes that get made before the U.S. reports version is published, and the 'slip' version is essentially described as "this is a pre-release draft, read if you want but the following publications may be different and that will be binding, not this one". If you read a draft of a novel, do you expect the released version to include an errata of things that were changed from that draft?
That freedom also means I have the freedom to modify my device after exploiting it in order to remove those exploits. On the other hand, a device that is completely unexploitable due to being written in a strongly safe language, would mean I no longer have that freedom - and while it may be unexploitable to everyone else, I'm pretty sure the NSA has its ways to get in anyway; if it does, then there's no escape.
> The US government is a powerful entity that levies taxes and accepts tax payments only in dollars.

Right. That's just a more detailed explanation for why most people are willing to accept USD in exchange for their goods. There are similarly detailed explanations for why people are willing to accept bitcoins. The reasons are different, but they still (obviously) exist. If no reasons existed, then people would not be willing to accept bitcoins in trade.
As a consequence, nuclear scientists/physicists of the Cold War era are analogous to patent lawyers today. Kind of sad don't you think ? :)
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The title says fresh water
Why the hate? The OP had an interesting comment about working on a project 30 years ago that is still a problem being worked on today. BTC would have been a pretty spectacular fail in the 1980s, different times call for different solutions.
> Enough of you care about this to vote it to the front page?

Possibly only because of the author.
> Experts in the country question whether these requests have any legal authority

As much as it sucks that Twitter is forced to do this, the government of neither Russia or Pakistan has a legal system which I would trust to fully respect the rule of law in this matter--either is likely to simply block the service if the requests are not acknowledged.

As principled as Google's stand was in refusing to pull an offensive video, it probably did more to stifle the free flow of information than had they pulled the "offensive" video on request. At least that way people would have an idea of which specific videos the government didn't want them to see, rather than the entire site being blocked out.
Quote from the wiki:
A history is linearizable if:

its invocations and responses can be reordered to yield a sequential history
that sequential history is correct according to the sequential definition of the object
if a response preceded an invocation in the original history, it must still precede it in the sequential reordering.

Please forgive my stupidness. But could you tell me which one it violates?
People's need for a decentralized, pseudononymous currency gives Bitcoin value.
This explains, at the very least, why rampant partisanship is an inevitability in a large Democracy, despite it being worse off for everybody (including politicians themselves).

Instead of saying "in a large Democracy" it should say "in a large Democracy which uses plurality voting." Some voting systems (for instance Condorcet compatible ones) do not encourage partisanship in the same way as plurality does. In fact other systems actually encourage cooperation and favor candidates that are more in the center.

And I think that points to a flaw in the conclusion of the article: attempting to directly change human nature (or culture, as the OP suggests) is a fool's errand.

Instead, changing the rules of a system, such that the Pareto optimal result and the Nash Equilibrium align more closely, is a much more realistic approach. And I believe that when you do set up good systems where people are rewarded for cooperating, the culture changes with it.

(Regardless I think it is an excellent article and the more people who understand the Game Theory stuff he explains, the better. And I absolutely agree with his sentiment than Musk should be lauded for what he is doing rather than being met with cynicism.)
So each time he will read/use "CSS" he will remember his daughter. It's torture. There is time for everything, so time of tears should not be endless.
You don't even know what is he talking about.
Some good questions.

>>Isn't this the equivalent of giving somebody private URL, like in the article? It's essentially the same, functionally, as a password you remember. Except passwords are less secure, as people use the same ones repeatedly, or generate them from a simple system repeatedly (less vulnerable to automated password guessing attempts, but as vulnerable to a dedicated human attacker).

Sort of, but not exactly. Login forms, when correctly submitted, usually set a session cookie in the browser. Cookies are sent back to the server with later requests, so you could think of the cookie as if it was part of the URL. Every time you log in, though, you get a cookie with different data inside. That's different from a private URL, because the private URL would always remain the same once it has been assigned.

If the private URLs are generated by a secure random number generator, then they could potentially be more secure than passwords are. Being secure and hard to guess also makes them long and difficult to remember; and that's why passwords are used far more often than random private links. Passwords are meant to be possible for a person to remember and type. Also, passwords are possible to change, so if your password is compromised, you can keep your account and just change the password.

>>Are their web frameworks that let you determine if a user is genuine by their behaviour as much as their passwords? E.g. if I usually log in from the US, why am I suddenly logging in from Russia, less than a half-hour since I logged in via the US?

I'm not sure if there are frameworks for that, but I know that some companies have implemented similar kinds of things. Bank of America's website that allows you to access your account data adds a few extra features that add security to the standard username/password combo.
Why is he a member of this union if he finds their policies and their management so unsatisfactory? I feel like I'm missing something.
There are three spheres.

1. All water (largest sphere)

2. All of Fresh water.

3. Fresh water in lakes and rivers.

Reference: http://water.usgs.gov/edu/gallery/global-water-volume.html
Yes, you're right about that.
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I think this all much better than Bitcoin. Also MORE decentralized, because it is not controlled by a clan of money issuers called "miners", instead it is a real competitive market.
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By the way, for a few months now, Docker offers paid plans for private repositories as well.
A century ago to the year, the second biggest economy in the world, Germany, had people saying the exact same thing about the Papiermark as you're saying. Anyone curious can go to the Wikipedia entry on Papiermark to see how that all eventually ended.
Jello Biafra sang about this as far back as the late 1980s - "property seized and sold before trial", where he had assets siezed in a raid, and the sheriff was legally able to sell his gear before Biafra had seen the inside of a courtroom.
Thanks Chris - a superb article, deeply meaningful.
This is one of the most clear & succinct - and more importantly high exposure - statements on the value of open source that I've seen to date. The same message from other sectors like 3D printing has been thoroughly muddied by the proprietary side of the market - who have benefited from the expiration of key patents & widespread open source designs.
Should this be done for other CSS contributors who have or will have lost loved ones?
people offered to sell bitcoins at a certain price, and other people decided to accept that offer. One side decided that they prefer x USD to y bitcoins, and the other side decided that they prefer y bitcoins to x USD. So they agreed to swap.

This is tautology, though. It's just the definition of a market.

The couple hundred I refer to are those who (a) have thousands of bitcoins, and (b) enter and exit the market with some frequency. Those are the people who determine the current price of bitcoin. I say there are only a few hundred of them because bitcoins have been distributed according to a power curve (as is all wealth), and those few hundred are the ones who have the temperament to wager large sums of money on a monthly, weekly, or daily basis.

When one of them decides to exit the market, the price drops noticeably. When one of them decides to jump back in, the price jumps noticeably, causing others to follow their lead and buy in, which drives up the price even more.

If you have currency equivalent to thousands of bitcoins, you can place a large buy order, which triggers a price spike, which causes some upwards "momentum" because a bunch of other people will feel pressured to enter the market due to your large buy order, which of course makes the price rise even more; hence, momentum. Gamblers with thousands of bitcoins can take advantage of this phenomenon to grow their holdings: place a large buy order, wait for others to follow your lead, then sell. It's obviously not guaranteed to work, but nonetheless that seems to be what these gamblers are doing.

Announcements serve to trigger a bunch of these "gambler whales" into action all at once, so you get large fluctuations in price. But there isn't a fundamental reason for this price drop beyond the game theory presented above. The claim that the price movement is based on underlying fundamentals or logic simply doesn't match the available evidence. Evidence thus far indicates that the price fluctuation is due to a combination of market manipulation and gamblers with thousands of bitcoins actively trying to hoodwink their fellow gamblers.
That's the point where the analogy breaks down though, because the actors in the patent case are private actors rather than sovereigns. So if you e.g. abolish software patents the whole problem disappears, but nobody can "abolish" nuclear weapons because they're a consequence of the laws of physics rather than the laws of the United States.

If humans had the power to amend the laws of physics to make nuclear weapons impossible and yet nuclear physicists lobbied against it, then they would be in the same position as patent lawyers.
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The earth is covered by 71% water.

http://www.universetoday.com/65588/what-percent-of-earth-is-...
Bullies aren't that bright.
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I would call both of these "X for computer scientists".
I would go further and say that none of these reasons is particularly compelling, especially without further qualification.
It really isn't that big a deal, but there's a lot of us that respect him enough

It is a really big deal, adding enormous politics and payload to every change going forward: Once you start memorializing people through standards, you are implicitly choosing not to memorialize everyone who doesn't get codified in such a way.

Every city and region has a long backlog of honorarium names for upcoming streets and parks, inevitable discussions and debates, etc. Don't turn standards into that.

This is one of those internet things where everyone looks for some cheap feels by saying "Sure, do it!", maybe sending out a couple of easy tweets. That sort of herd behavior should never influence standards, and it is somewhat ridiculous that this discussion is taking place.
Don't underestimate kickbacks and bribes.
Oh wow, that's great to hear. Any idea when/if basic, safe network/file IO will be possible without the runtime? Or is it already?
It's always interesting to observe my bad developer practices (such as stuffing JSON in SQL table columns) become flexible "architectural patterns" for building "schema-free, scalable data storage".
a basket of currencies (real-world ones backed by governments, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_basket , where the US dollar, pound sterling, etc, etc, all have a weighted percentage.)

but what on earth did you have in mind for a mechanism to do a peg without centralization?
I've got a brilliant business idea.... Devise a highly deadly, highly contagious virus in a lab and the antivirus, unleash said virus... Let it run a month or so, then oh we just found the cure but it's gonna be expensive....
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I was simply pointing out that there are many flood stories in many cultures. I added another link for more references. I just know that Gilgamesh is one of the oldest. Many cultures, including the some Indians in North America, have incorporated it into their mythology.
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My three cents: Lee, Spivak v1, Stillwell.
If you know how to write math, then do so. In particular, define your symbols. Nearly none of your symbols are defined.
Pretty sure that's what I said. Is that supposed to absolve them?
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The official stance of the US Government, at least the IRS, is that Bitcoin is property, not currency. Therefore what they seized was not currency, but property, and the correct procedure for property is to sell it by auction.