skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Their counter argument to (A) that the trash data will cost more to store than the user gets for retrieving it (though this isn't true if the attack is successful and results in them being the only miner/retrieval server), and (B) they don't seem to consider a problem.

There are other issues— e.g. arbitrary data can be censored and the only harm is lost mining revenue proportional to the censored data. (e.g. you could censor 0.1% of all data, and probably make every file unreadable (just by censoring the first word of it) but only be unable to answer 0.1% of the file queries).

I don't really see the point— having a file storage service that you can pay for with cryptocurrency make sense, but integrating it in this manner seems to serve no technical purpose other than to fuel investment speculation and otherwise just makes the system worse.
I've fixed the stuff on http://hnmob.com/ so now you have more pages which are translated into a more mobile aware format. Also added Atom feeds for every page I could.

Still a little sloppy, I'm only hacking this code when watching TNG re-runs (so every day ;p )
Excellent call.
This looks like another Mafia Wars clone...
'looks random' is a pretty bad idea. It will bogusly fire on random files and won't prevent people from just standardizing on a key of 0.
Rent control is what makes the cost of rent go up fast. You get this right?

If you're a landlord and afraid that rent control will cheat you someday, you front-load the difference by setting rent at an insane rate before anyone moves in. And since all the other landlords are doing the same, you don't have to worry about anyone undercutting you.
seems that how they generate the keys, it's basically the same. The same password would generate the same keys. Anyone who uses the same password would be able to decrypt data sent to anyone else using the same password.

Am I understanding this correctly?
I just tried it. Actually, it goes quite a bit deeper with story and puzzles. Pretty fun game, simple but I like it.
Like I said in reply to another comment[0], asserting your rights doesn't have to be rude. There are polite ways to assert your rights. The critical point in that comment, though, is that the kind of cop that's going to be angered by your assertion of your rights is exactly the kind of cop you shouldn't be talking to anyway.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059772
Not really a detailed explanation but when I was there a few months ago the guy I was with said that a lot of them were sitting around unfinished because they didn't have any buyers. A lot of them are so called luxury buildings where I'm sure the developers don't want people who can't afford that type of life living, they were pointing out buildings where apartments were 1.5M RMB ($250k) which given the wages in China is just a bit ridiculous.

The factory I was visiting was constantly complaining about how nobody wanted to work in the south of China anymore and that all the workers had moved up to Shanghai, yet there was all this construction and plans for huge growth in the area. I just couldn't figure out how they were justifying these plans.
I've been waiting so, so long for this to happen. I got my biotech undergrad degree at a smaller school that didn't have the funding necessary to pay for common lab reagents, so our professors illegally generated their own taq polymerase and stuff (I think PCR was patented at the time). DIY biotech makes me excited about the field again, and this is a critical step in making that dream a tangible reality. Thank you!
>Real estate prices rising means that the people are getting more wealthy. When real estate prices fall, it means that people are most likely getting less wealthy.

That uses real estate prices as an indicator for how the economy is doing. However, it doesn't mean the economy gets better because real estate prices are up. This almost reminds me of the backyard furnaces during the great leap forward. Metal output was seen as a indicator of good industry and so Mao had everyone melt perfectly good pots and pans and other stuff to improve the indicator. However, most of the metal was useless and the pots and pans were gone.

What the article described sounds similar to me. Housing prices are way up, economy indicator looks great, but people are living on the street.

> What you're describing here is called "re-financing", it's a perfectly normal means of borrowing money against your house if you have enough collateral. I've never heard of people doing it so that money goes back into the economy, it's usually to re-invest money into your house like for construction or whatever, and your monthly payment just increases.

So the money does go back into the economy.
Also: Not all re-financing results in a larger mortgage than before. Some people re-finance to get lower interest rates on the same or smaller principal.
Inflation is good for debtors, because as the value of the currency shrinks, so does the value of your debt, that becomes easier to repay in real term - with inflation, salaries grow nominally, tax revenue grow nominally etc. With deflation, the opposite happens.
China can make all the bad investments they want. Unlike any other western country, the government prints their own money debt free and can thus just bail out all the bad loans forever. The boom bust cycle is just an aspect of fractional reserve / debt as money banking. In China the banks operate like partially privatized central planning and are closely directed by the government. There is such extreme cognitive dissonance about this in the western financial press. They just don't get why China doesn't bust. Check out the history of Chinese bail outs and bad loans. It's really quite interesting. Loans and funds and banks and all that fail all the time in China and the government just prints up some money and bails them out if they're politically important. Goof ball investment schemes which are the Chinese equivalent of LTCM fail all the time and everybody loses their money and nobody bats an eye in China, but it doesn't bring the system down.
Absolutely wonderful idea, I hope the author had a lot of fun hacking on this.

On a slightly related note, if you have not been exposed to the BB demo using aalib, do not miss out on this gem from the late 90s (if you are on a Linux distribution you can most likely install it using your package manager, e.g. `apt-get install bb`).

http://aa-project.sourceforge.net/bb/
Yeah, but you always have the possibility to flee your country (legally or illegally) and go in a "better place" (how much better that is depends on where you come from) - but once you have a single government controlling every place on Earth, that possibility is removed.
"Real estate prices rising means that the people are getting more wealthy. When real estate prices fall, it means that people are most likely getting less wealthy."

Can you elaborate? For most necessities, we're happy when the price goes down. But for housing, we're happy when it goes up. Why? What's so special?
I don't know anything about Yemen, but my impression is that the country has a bad rap even in the middle east, and it has for a while. My father, of Lebanese descent, moved from Lebanon in the 50s. He had stories about Yemen from way back when. One example was that an eye for an eye was still the norm there - a boy smashed out the eye of a cow with a rock in a morbid attempt at fun, and the owner of the cow did the same to the boy. This punishment was accepted in the village where this occurred.
VICE did it. Better. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPjGWcM3Awc
Anywhere you could afford that's close to the Bart line :) I've got a few friends who live almost an hour East, almost at the end of the Bart. Can't remember the name of the area.
Previous submission: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/15/5898187/prostitution-rhode-isla...

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8055058
So, is that system a time bomb for China (and the rest of the world), when one day a financially critical entity doesn't have the right political influence and goes belly up, bringing the house of cards down? Or, is there some reason to think this can go on forever and the political system will keep bailing everyone out?
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Local purchasing power is quite different from local inequality
I'm not doing github pulls (2011)
Excellent explanation. Thanks.
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"China can make all the bad investments they want. Unlike any other western country, the government prints their own money debt free and can thus just bail out all the bad loans forever."

wow, it has been a very long time since I read anything remotely as economically ignorant and facile as this statement.

for one, the implication that the Chinese hold US debt and that they in turn are not borrowers is categorically false.

second, the Chinese hold less than 7% of the US debt but if you listen to the general media and commentators it sounds like it is more like 70%. The fact is that the vast majority of the US debt is held by the Federal Reserve.

Credit bubbles, like every other economic bubble is disastrous because it is a gross mis-allocation of resources. The piper shall not be denied. He is a hellish collector that will break every bone in your body if you don't pay. But the thing is, he's a bit unpredictable because you never know exactly when he'll knock on your door to collect. But knock he will.

May I respectfully suggest that before you attempt to comment on something as complex as macroeconomics you take at least a single course in the discipline?
> looks like fun, kudos! i like how it's free.

Sure you do. It's your own game after all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949536
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Yet their life expectancy is still rising because they are so much better off than they were before. Chinese median earnings are still laughable compared to western standards but rising from unimaginable poverty to still quite bad poverty is a big improvement.
That's lucky that you tried it, did you try it when creating it?
The construct "military resupply targeted" still doesn't add up, the plane was flying on 33000 ft(1) (which is the cruising altitude, obviously not even intending to land) and no plane cruising at the high altitude is delivering anything to the region the rebels would be interested to protect. And it's one of the many civilian planes also cruising at that time and using that common route (2).

Compare that with the Afghanistan war where the Russian delivery planes were shot while taking off or landing, which is many orders of magnitude simpler to do and only cheap and simple hand-held rockets are enough. (3)

And another construct "rebels intentionally shooting the cruising civilian plane" is also unreasonable as it can clearly only harm the rebels.

The only ones having a clear motive to shoot that plane that way are actually Ukrainians.

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1) http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/19/mh17-changing-c...

"MH17 had initially filed a flight plan requesting to fly at 35,000ft above Ukrainian territory. On entering Ukrainian airspace, however, the plane's pilots were instructed to fly at 33,000ft by the local air traffic control"

2) same link

"MH17's flight path was a busy major airway, like a highway in the sky."

3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIM-92_Stinger#Soviet_War_in_Af... (There are pictures too)
Ask HN: Where do I host a controversial website?
(Throwaway for obvious reasons.)

I am interested in projecting a controversial concept online.

I've looked into PRQ, etc.

Does anybody have any thoughts?

Thank you very much.
> Unlike any other western country, the government prints their own money debt free ...

Don't you mean " Like Europe and the US, the government prints their own money debt free ..."

I mean, some players fell in 2008 but most of the debt in the US from the housing crisis was covered by Federal loans to banks that were judged "too big to fail".

And the government is now considerably more insulated from popular pressure than in 2008 so the printing can be done with fuller impunity.

The (apparently) infinitely expanding economy keep catastrophic crisis at bay but distorts the economy and constantly increases the concentration of wealth.

Capitalism's periodic financial crises have been a way to solve perhaps fundamental imbalances. The end of these crises may result, longer term, in more problematic results than otherwise.
>As anyone with a lick of understanding in technology has to ask, why the hell do they need big spools of fiber to negate HFT systems? Can't they implement low latency time stamping much cheaper?

It's actually a quite elegant solution, and most likely cheapest: it gives you very precise, reliable, repeatable, order-preserving delay for one-time installation cost and you don't have to pay to developers, wait for software to be written and debugged and don't have to buy additional hardware!
This is one side if it, 4chan's webm is another, various 3rd party hosts, shims and polyfills are in between.

I'd like to see Mozilla and Google capitalize on this to help spread royalty free codecs

How does webm decoded in JavaScript compare with a gif for video? Is there a subset (beyond removing all audio) that could speed thinks up?
Please stop sockpuppeting.
If there were a band of legitimately useful long range spectrum that was a free for all, wouldn't there be a strong economic incentive for people to invent modulation techniques capable of functioning effectively in such a noisy environment?

Alternatively, wouldn't it be conceivable for transmitting nodes to cooperate with one another to send transmissions. For example, if N nodes all transmit encrypted content on the same band to M receivers, then the signals of all but one of those N transmitters look like noise to each of the M receivers, thus limiting the transmission rate achievable over any given channel. If instead of that approach, what if a transmitter instead used a second frequency solely for the purpose of coordinating transmissions with the other nodes so as to minimize interference which each other. In addition to coordinating when they are or are not transmitting, couldn't they selective choose different modulation techniques that are easily distinguishable from one another, and thus transmittable simultaneously.

Feel free to educate or correct me here. I know very little about this domain.
I think the hesitations about passphrase being subject to brute force, rainbow table, etc. are warranted, but I have another concern:

If my passphrase gets compromised, I have to retire the keypair.

That's true of a key file with current asymmetric systems; but, presently if the passphrase of my GPG private key is compromised (e.g. by a hardware key logger), I only have to change the passphrase and ensure the old keyfiles are destroyed.

With MiniLock, if my passphrase is compromised the entire key material is compromised and I need to revoke the public key. But how do I revoke it? Do I tweet a message with the private key saying the public key is revoked? Will there be a centralized place to publish revocation messages? Efficient key revocation will be absolutely critical to this system and that's hard if the key distribution mechanism is tweets or some other ad hoc mechanism. This is one thing that PGP key servers really help with.
It's not ok to game HN like this.

We ban sockpuppets, and voting rings lose voting privileges.
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Interesting. I've been hearing more and more evidence piling up towards the possibility of life on Mars. It makes you wonder if there isn't some sort of PR play at work here. Could it be possible that life has already been discovered on Mars, but they don't want to "shock" the public with a sudden announcement. They're slowly building up to it. A very conspiratorial theory, but possible, no?
Hmm,

I reread the parent and I still couldn't find a single reference to US debt, which is all you discuss in your post.

I have a degree in economics, the parent's argument seems fine - it might contradict your dogma but it's a fine rendition of current reality.

Also, I'm sure no influential economist would say "In the long run, we're all dead," right?
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The English system seems to work.

Landlords can charge what they like. But there are Local Housing Allowance rates. These are used by local councils - the organisations who pay Housing Benefits - to set maximums for different styles of properties. (HB is, like the rest of the benefit system weirdly complex but at least LHAs mean someone can understand the maximum possible rent they might be entitled to.)

So a person wanting to claim housing benefits has to seek a property priced according to the LHA rates. Since this is a reasonable portion of the rental market people not claiming that benefit also have those cheaper properties available; or they can pay whatever they like for more expensive properties.

(People claiming HB used to be able to claim the actual LHA rate, and keep the difference between the LHA and the rent. Government thought this would encourage rent negotiation, by giving people claiming benefit a strong incentive to get cheaper rents. Sadly, HB is subject to massive amounts of fraud and so that system was subverted quickly by fraudsters.)

Example rates for Cheltenham, UK: http://www.cheltenham.gov.uk/downloads/file/3659/local_housi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_Housing_Allowance#Bedroo...
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wispor

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=precipices

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=graviboots

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=prec1pice

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=wistarius

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=rezard

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=nickhammonds

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jeremyselons

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=silveredge
Incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing.
All banned, along with the sockpuppets who voted for this one and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8059692.
That's kind of the idea behind the Mophie - it's ironic that Apple goes to all the trouble to shave off some thickness, and as a result, everyone has to connect huge honking plastic shells with spare batteries to them..
I think the parent would argue that if the state chose not to support a given entity, it would simply support all the others and so financial collapse could still be averted. Edit: and the state can do that because it's a dictatorship quite willing to print its own money (though the US sadly little different today).

The point here isn't that collapse is inevitable but that if you postpone collapse forever, you'll pay a worse price in price distortion than you'd pay if you let the system collapse.

Perhaps the people in the slums will riot because they're tired of watching the empty ghost cities rot. But given the imbalance here, that possibility might be present universally.
Here in India, I started out with programming at an age of 12, today 2 years after graduation, I am 11 times higher than the national median income.
> May I respectfully suggest that before you attempt to comment on something as complex as macroeconomics you take at least a single course in the discipline?

That's not being respectful. Please stick to the substance.
It's not immediately obvious, but all the diagrams on that page are actually live and interactive demonstrations. You can move the entities, and you can reshape the walls as much as you like.
"May I respectfully suggest that before you attempt to comment on something as complex as macroeconomics you take at least a single course in the discipline?"

Did you?

"Central banks can issue currency, a noninterest-bearing claim on the government, effectively without limit. They can discount loans and other assets of banks or other private depository institutions, thereby converting potentially illiquid private assets into riskless claims on the government in the form of deposits at the central bank.

That all of these claims on government are readily accepted reflects the fact that a government cannot become insolvent with respect to obligations in its own currency. A fiat money system, like the ones we have today, can produce such claims without limit. To be sure, if a central bank produces too many, inflation will inexorably rise as will interest rates, and economic activity will inevitably be constrained by the misallocation of resources induced by inflation. If it produces too few, the economy’s expansion also will presumably be constrained by a shortage of the necessary lubricant for transactions. Authorities must struggle continuously to find the proper balance."

Alan Greenspan
My guess would be that nothing serious would happen, because China has a government that can effectively implement whatever policy they want without caring too much about public opinion and they still have all the production facilities and cheap workforce, which wont suddenly go away because of a housing bubble.

What destroyed the US industries (apart from high tech) wasn't the housing bubble or the oil prices. It was the high price for labor.

Also, the reason why the housing bubble in the US caused so much trouble is that the US imports more than it exports.

We have the exact opposite situation in China, where far more products are exported than imported, so destruction of wealth in China isn't going to hit their economy nearly as much as it did hurt the US/EU.

Labor prices might even go down as a result, which will make them even more competitive.
Quite nice.. :)
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Because people invest absurd sums of borrowed money into houses? If people borrowed hundreds of thousands to invest in for instance the corn industry, they'd be cheering for the price of corn to go up.

When house prices go down, many people really do become less wealthy, because they have lots of money invested in houses. Similar to how Google's shareholders would become less wealthy if the value of Google stock fell by 90%.
While mostly true, I'd add some qualifiers:

* A disturbing amount of that debt is unofficial (as well as uncounted), so won't be getting bailed out.

* This does mean that they've overstated their GDP, possibly by quite a wide margin (by however much unrecognized losses there are on that debt).

Yes, the Chinese government can (maybe) stabilize in the after effects of any property bubble not built on foreign debt, but it's still wasted investment.
>What destroyed the US industries (apart from high tech) wasn't the housing bubble or the oil prices. It was the high price for labor.

No, it was the high price of the dollar.
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>I have a degree in economics, the parent's argument seems fine - it might contradict your dogma but it's a fine rendition of current reality.

Except it ignores the fact that if the Chinese government has to print too much money in the face of a major issue, they will cause inflation or hyperinflation which will kill their economy anyway.
>Why does the Chinese government not allow these people to move into these empty buildings?

For the same reason why the American government doesn't let people move into the large number of empty high end luxury apartments in downtown Manhattan.

They all belong to somebody.
For most things, we don't go to a bank and borrow 80-90% of the principal and pay it off over 30 years, effectively paying 2.5 times what we borrowed. If the house is worth less than what we paid for it, we made a really bad investment. In fact, if the value hasn't more than doubled, ... You get the idea?
what does that prove? beyond buttressing my points and I suppose showing that you are capable of ctrl+c/v?