skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points.
Regarding (1), I think Bitcoin is heading very quickly towards that reality. Satoshi made a comment that most of Bitcoins rules will never change after he released the first version of the software. There are only a few decisions left, such as block size and side chains.

Side chains will be interesting, as the specification of Bitcoin becomes fixed and never changing, new additions could be added onto Bitcoin outside of the core specification via these side chains.

Will this work? Who knows.

Point (2), Bitcoin hasn't really had to rely on the foundation except for the salaries of two core developers. As I understand it most of the Bitcoin core development team are not supported by the foundation.

(3) Instead of no blockchain, I wonder if there is a way to make a more distributed blockchain? Imagine that a single copy of the blockchain could exist on perhaps 1000 nodes instead of just 1?

Just a thought? I think the essence of the blockchain, this immortal database that proves the integrity of each Bitcoin, I really think we need to keep this in some way.
http://leftinthedark.org.uk/book [0] is a take on Jayne's ideas, going much farther in one particular direction. Supposed to be well backed by references - I didn't try to follow them (the reference style leaves much to be desired, and is on its own a signal of low scientific quality). But it is extremely interesting and thought provoking.

[0] I read the first edition. I don't know how the recent one differs, if at all.
should have mentioned in the parent.. looks really interesting and feature rich, great job
I use the same strategy when I get an "authoritative" phone call:

1) what is your official website?
2) where is your phone number listed on that website?
3) what is your name?

then i go to the official website (irs.gov or whatever in this case) get the official number, and ask for the person by name.

If it's the same person, then congrats it's all legit.
Yes, which I believe has been demonstrated on one of my comments by stating a position that I did not take. I can think of no worse source of the two things you mention than forcing a position on someone who didn't take it.
An IRS agent would never say "Pay us now by wire transfer or we're going to arrest you."
Why do you think lactose intolerance came about, if not as evolution's way to ensure that the available milk went to those who needed it because they were not yet old enough to eat normal food?
I don't like the term "lactose intolerant". It implies that having difficulty digesting lactose is differentiating you from some loosely defined norm.

In fact, the opposite is true[1]. As the article states, being able to digest lactose is a recent genetic adaption. What it doesn't state is that still, even in the West, a lot of people experience lower tolerance to lactose as a natural process of aging.

I would therefore say that the correct way of labeling it is that adults in general have different levels of _lactose tolerance_.

Anecdotally, I can add that my level of lactose tolerance was very low for two years after drinking half a liter of milk that was two weeks old (don't ask). I assume that it severely messed up my small intestine. After I cut carbs and gluten from my diet for a month and a half, I could suddenly digest lactose again. As with lactose intolerance, I believe gluten intolerance is a misnomer, as all people are sensitive to excessive amounts of gluten, though here the case is not nearly as clear cut. My intestine finally being able to repair itself might instead be due to the fact that I didn't eat many carbs at all during this period, and so avoided the gastro-intestinal allergens known as FODMAPs[2]. Wheat contains the FODMAP fructan, which might be the reason many people say they feel better on a gluten free diet[3].

[1]: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/04/03/over-75-of-ea...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FODMAP

[3]: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/05/22/314287321/sensit...
Assuming it's anything like Bitcoin, it's a network ID prefix separate from the hash.
There's a reason why alarms do not use your main phone / DSL / data line. False positives could destroy the purpose of your system.
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Investors evaluate the company's products for themselves, and buy-and-hold to route society's resources appropriately. Traders prey on investors, forcing them to waste effort on behaving less predictably so their transactions aren't front-run.
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The same theory was responsible for the French département system, set up by the revolutionary government in 1791 and still a fundamental organizing structure today. I presume the Iowans were following the French example.
Cycle accurate emulation of modern x86 would be impossible. Intel simply won't release the secret sauce on branch prediction, cache prediction, out of order execution, internal instruction engine, etc.
Basic human rights?
Nothing inherently wrong with charging money to supply you with open source products.

The problem however is sustainability: once a customer gets the source they can give it away/sell it etc.
A popular one is Anki see http://ankisrs.net/
Producing lactase is costly, those proteins could be doing other things. What's the evolutionary selection pressure to continue digesting a food source that's only present in the infant diet? None.
Maybe I don't understand cows. If you had milk to drink, then why couldn't you just drink the water that the cows and other animals drank?
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Congratulations on a nice talk! And thanks for all this information.
I like that there are 11 distinct Bayesian solutions to the problem, at least one of them claims it is "more Bayesian" than the other Bayesian solutions.

I'd like to know more about that particular solution. Unfortunately the volume containing the essay retails for around $250. I'm not sure I want to know that badly...

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/essays-in-honor-of-carl-g-he...
I guess I wasn't very clear, good point!

Softforks cannot add more coins into the network, they can, at most, restrict earlier valid transactions.

It's always been known that someone with over 51% of the power can rewrite the blockchain, but only within the rules of the Bitcoin nodes.

For example, a softfork could never spend coins from your wallet without your key, it could never make more coins or delete a users balance.

This is a good post on the difference: http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/30817/what-is-a-s...

51% certainly gives someone a lot of power, but it's power with limits, and the limits are the rules coded into every Bitcoin node.
I use ThoughtSaver (www.thoughtsaver.com, currently in very early beta), but most other people I know who use Spaced Repetition prefer Anki (http://ankisrs.net/). Gwern has a good introduction to the general concept of Spaced Reptition: http://www.gwern.net/Spaced%20repetition
If a company announces a stupid product in all earnestness, it's part of an investor's job to predict its failure in the market and decline to route more of society's resources to the company.
A better way to approach the Paleo hypothesis is as just that -- a hypothesis. I think all reasonable people agree that humans have changed somewhat since paleolithic times (and grains were possibly part of our early diet) but it still seems quite reasonable to posit that 1) our diet has changed greatly since the longest period of human evolution and 2) it may well be more healthful to return to a diet closer to the paleolithic diet. That's a reasonable hypothesis that can be tested.

Of course that's not the way the popular press and fitness industry approach the Paleo diet, but one shouldn't throw out the baby with the bathwater.
I affirm that UDT has replaced TDT. Updateless Decision Theory is by Wei Dai and Vladimir Nesov with major contributions from several others.
In the "Parfit's Hitchhiker" problem, wouldn't it improve the agent's outcome to believe it will give Paul the gas money but, when actually faced with the decision, to run off with it? In other words, why restrict ourselves to self-aware agents?
I agree with you about the QR codes. We currently support printing on the back, but not on both sides.
The US Navy deactivated the south atlantic fleet decades ago, and then it announced its reactivation shortly after our official announcement of finding lots of oil... Why should we not be suspicious?

And Russia is here because our government invited them, after US announcement, officially it is for "training", but Russian ships can keep US ships away from the oil rigs (ie: when a US ship is in a place the government here disapproves, the government invites Russian ships to do a "training drill" nearby, and push away the US ship, that will retreat to avoid conflict, a sort of psychological dance).

Mind you, US already used its navy to topple our government before (in 1964 it sent a carrier group to support CIA during our military coup), and US was suspected here of having too much interest in our oil company, this later was proved by Snowden (NSA did lots of spying on Petrobras, including of stuff that is more commercial than strategic), so excuse me if we don't trust US, the past behaviour of US toward us here has not been good (while we have nothing but praise for Russia... yes, I know all Russian issues worldwide, but locally to US Russia always had been a great true ally).
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A lot of these items seem to go against current standards for no particular reason (or with no clear explanation). I've mentioned two here [1], but there's several others.

[1]: https://github.com/agis-/git-style-guide/issues/4
Maybe they changed their minds about this in the five years since then, after seeing the potential for abuse. No idea if it's true, just speculation.
These ideas, and how they combine, is natural and elegant, even inevitable.

For example, the prototypical idea of swapping out Git's disk-trie content-addressed object store for an actual DHT to get immutable distributed file system must have occurred to a lot of people when they first learned about Git's internals.

I don't know about @jbenet's particular journey to these ideas, but I suspect Rich Hickey deserves a lot of credit for using Clojure (and his fun, smart talks) to popularize immutability and name/value separation for a new generation of programmers. Even just ambiently.

That's certainly how I started realizing the power of that paradigm, even though I was already using it for my day job! Especially when I then saw it used building Datomic, which of course leverages immutability to totally refactor the traditional database architecture from client/server into self-serve-client/server/transactor in a really interesting way.

Also, with Clojure's HAMTs, you've got hash trees and cheap immutable update, and that again primes you to read about (or reinvent) Merkle trees. So I doubt nearly as many people would know about such neat CS things without Clojure.

Actually, Bitcoin is also a really obvious way these ideas would become more widespread, though I don't know how many people really go through the trouble of understanding the blockchain mechanism.

And Linus, of course, for Git. Git internal design is really nice and everyone should dip in at some point in their career!

We should give Ralph Merkle a Turing award -- that single idea unlocks so much. Except we shouldn't because he patented Merkle Trees, apparently.
I have used Cocos2d for clients and Monogame and Unity as well and the combination as well. I was talking about Xamarin here as app building tool, not for games. I do like Cocos2d.

Cocos2d is nice to work with as well as with Unity; we had most issues with Monogame (and that uses Xamarin) but once we got over those issues I believe we would be effective equally with Cocos2d & Monogame and slightly more so with Unity (because of the community mostly).
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This book is missing very actively developed reverse engineering framework radare2 [1], which is supporting not only x86/x86_64 but also arm, mips, ppc, avr, arc, 8051, TI tms320c55x family and even more!

[1] http://rada.re/
18 years for running such a disgusting website and then blackmailing victims for cash to have the images removed is insane? Do you stop and think about the victims of this asshole? People that have their lives irreversibly ruined because of his profiteering? I think this is a perfectly reasonable punishment for such a coward.
Better be safe than sorry... Specially after what US did in 1964 (US sent a carrier group here to support CIA to support a military coup... all that stuff is in declassified files)

In 1964 US forces don't fired a single shot, but they didn't need to, US is so absurdly stronger that they being in our territory is enough to strong-arm us to do anything they want, US and Brazil government know that Brazil government will always yield to US if US is in firing range, precisely for that reason that Brazil government don't like US in firing range, Brazil knows US won't attack out of the blue, and thus this can be used to keep US away (for example keeping Russian ships in firing range instead... US won't suddenly fire on Russian ships, this fact is ALSO known to both governments).
I find using a computer while reading a book to be very distracting. Or a phone. I don't like scribbling on a book. I'm hopeless. :)
it looks like it is open source and all of the data is available for free on their website. You can get a printed copy by donating $15.
Seconding this. I've implemented a part of x86 instruction encoding and you either find resources:

* comprehensible, but far from complete (some blogs)

* complete, but hard to understand and requiring some implicit knowledge (Intel manual or [1])

Rather than disassembler I recommend writing some simple JIT compiler, with [2] as a starting point. You skip some problems this way.

[1] http://ref.x86asm.net/ this seems pretty cool as a reference, but I can't wrap my head around it

[2] http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2013/11/05/how-to-jit-an-introd...
What you are describing is called a law firm.
But to be worse than a fixed monetary policy, they essentially have to be choosing worse than random, which I doubt they'll do over the long run.

I would argue that we're all collectively part of this experiment right now. We can't tell which is worse because afaik there hasn't been a competing system with a more rigid policy to compare to yet.

The Fed can't really lie about the interest rate.

Well, policy is not so much about what someone has done but more about what they will do.
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Quite a contrast with someplace like this, in Oregon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harney_County,_Oregon

Which would still qualify for the old census bureau definition of frontier, having fewer than 2 people per square mile.
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Who is saying they would?
To respond with precision, “tarted up” doesn’t literally mean to be a tart, but to dress up like a tart. Thus it is that you can “tart up” even inanimate objects, e.g. “they’re really tarted this restaurant up."
Stephen Hawking, Brian Greene, Alan Guth, Sean Carroll all talk about what seem to be phenomena related to "time" but all seem baffled by what time is at the most fundamental level.

Einstein said "God is subtle but He is not malicious." Time falls into the subtle category, but when you "see it" its as obvious as the wheel.
Most people have no idea what the Fed does (let alone that it even exists) nor do they have any framework with which to evaluate its work.
He said it unreliable for financial transactions as demo'd by the fork. I said I agree but it is worth something even today as evident by the money people store in bitcoin already.
React and Meteor are not really comparable.
That is a very interesting question. The most obvious answer is that most of south-central China is just more suited to rice production than cattle/sheep/goats.

I still find it interesting, since many of the more successful Chinese ruling dynasties have central/north asian roots (Tang, Yuan, Qing). Considering that Genghis Khan is probably an ancestor to most of the eastern half of eurasia, once might expect those lactose-tolerant genes to be more prevalent.
If you're around a Rothko, walk up to it until it fills your field of vision and stare at it without blinking. Within several seconds you'll notice it start to move as though it's alive.

I think that you can gain more out of art and, perhaps, a particular artist if you understand their work in context. In this case, understanding what led to Abstract Expressionism and how it influenced artistic development.
but mentioning the drawbacks of that kind of approach
to language design suddenly requires "scientific
studies demonstrating your points"?

Are you kidding me? That's exactly what I meant with
"Rust people are actively hostile toward input".

For what is worth, I only meant it in case of underscore, since underscore syntax has scientific proof it's more readable, if you are aware of a better or another study, please list them. Also I asked for examples.

But here let me look at your complaints:

1) Not sure what you mean in this case, could you elaborate

2) Type casing is inconsitent. All types are CapitalCamelCase. Only special built-in literals are lower case.

3) Fair point, a bit subjective, but fair. I like the terse syntax tbh.

4) Well, String represents mutable and str represents immutable strings, which also double as string views.

5) Fair point, I prefer [] for generics, but again it still falls under subjective.

6/7) I'm unsure what you mean. [] is used for indexing arrays or slicing a piece of it. I think Python had something similar.

If you have foo(x) that's always AFAIK calling function. foo[x] means it's calling index or slice operator on a foo. In either case it's taking a portion of foo.

7) see 6

8) That's actually a fairly good point. I think some kind of optional parameters or varargs were planned, but unsure of current situation

9) Not getting what you mean here? Whenever you add extensibility to language via macros or custom operators, you get weird language DSLs that are incomprehensible. At least putting macro_name! tells you next part is DSL and what's its name is, so you can look it up.

10) Fucking up generics? What?

11) Not sure what your point is? Rust doesn't have objects. It has structs and it has traits. Modules are merely way to organize code. I think you are probably referring to OCaml like modules/objects, but unsure what.

12) Fair point. I'm unsure what alternatives you have in mind? Using URLs?
I never claimed those abilities just that a small group of people had feature control over the currency.
The points you raise here are where I think this topic gets potentially very interesting.

The idealism of common currencies emerged largely as the result of rapid globalization among hard currency regimes (case study: the eurozone). The obstacle of exchanging currencies in that context makes sense. I think this obstacle is / can be largely removed however in the context of digital currencies. I don't see the competing market of digital currencies as a king of the hill scenario seeking currency monopoly (as centralized national currencies current do), but rather as a continuous plurality more akin to one's stock portfolio. The key here is substitution of software processes for physical processes in transactions, and the inherit flexibility that such a transition results in. Now if you're thinking that trying to figure out how to manage a complex portfolio of competing currencies for every day financial transactions seems incredibly confusing, I'd agree with you! But simplifying that process is precisely the role that software enabled currencies can address.

In this respect, electing new currencies is analogous to electing new governments, consistent with a well-defined accessible process. The difference is that the election of (multiple) currency regimes is now decoupled from the election of representative intermediates. It's nice to think that our political institutions provide us democratic control over central banking, but who actually takes the nomination of the next Fed chairman into account when that consideration must share the collective attention span with so many other issues de jour?
Depends on your goal.

1. If you want to remember a book, so that you can write about it later in life -> start writing summaries after every chapter you read and a final one at the end of the book.

2. If you want to remember details in the book, so that you can talk clearly about it to someone -> get in the habit of speaking to someone about what you learned from the book, while you am reading the book. It is best if this is your significant other or someone who also has interest in the subject.
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He motivated people to cause harm to other, so he could make a profit of their suffering. There's few things as immoral as that.
PSA. This article is about Jay Edelson.

You may also be interested to learn about Ben Edelman, who famously does similar sort of work.
That would be one of the downsides of outsourcing law enforcement to private, for profit, concerns. I'd support far more funding and enforcement actions for the ftc who can, should, and mostly do act in the public interest. But again, we decided to outsource law enforcement, so it's hardly fair to bitch that the private enforcers act in their own interests, to the extent that their and our interests differ.
I'm stumped by the example questions at the bottom. Anyone care to provide insight?

My best guesses would be

1: Not always in a routine where user input can be obtained

2: Not sure, probably not architecture differences as that seems implied by the question

3: debug.log won't always be in the current directory
I find myself doing this too. When I usually read stuff, I understand it on the first read almost every time but when I'm reading something that I need to grasp completely like a book or article, I reread the same lines, even in easily comprehensible novels.
Spent many hours in the laundry mat across the street in the 90s and had no idea.

Are they sure it wasn't the laundry mat that was supposed to have been torn down? :-) :-(
Ok. I guess I'd have to make a more nuanced argument that the same amount of money would have gone further in terms of advances somewhere else.
Some dandelion varieties are less bitter than others. Those with larger, wider leaves become bitter when the leaves grow, but some species narrow leaves (I think, Taraxacum eriophorum) never get bitter, they just taste like salad.

You can also make jam from dandelion flowers, though I don't find the taste really worth it.

By the way, the modern French name for dandelion is pissenlit. Meaning, "piss in bed".
Isn't it a solution for a non-problem?. I wish people would let alone unix shell and clear text.

edit: new "Avoid Gratuitous Negativity" complience.
But you want your country doing it for your countrymen? If yes, why do you care about helping some people who were born inside some invisible line more than others? (If not, that's at least not nationalistic..)
Consider how you haven't adjusted how you read probably since you were in grade school. http://www.farnamstreetblog.com/how-to-read-a-book/
Insinuating, not implying. Which is poir journalism.
I'm not really considering having a single clause thrown out. The entire concept of someone providing assent through a checkbox is highly suspect.

A company will be able to provide no evidence, which will stand up to even mild scrutiny, that I understood and assented to any language that they claim I did.

For instance, Facebook is going to bring a database row where they have set `agreed_to_terms_xyz` to 1 into evidence? Maybe, but I will either destroy that argument real quick or I will have Facebook's entire codebase brought into evidence and then tear it apart line-by-line.