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by rspeer 9y ago
It blows my mind that the first site to openly make their users participate in this disaster is the supposedly "progressive" Salon. Is it clear what they're trying to mine? They have these silly feel-good examples like foldin
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by rspeer 9y ago
Everybody in this thread knows that it's called proof of work. What you call it is not the point.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Your feel-good story about Venezuela is unrelated to what I said.
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by rspeer 9y ago
It doesn't make sense because it's a negative-sum game. The only thing people are actually using Bitcoin for right now is to sell to other people for more than they bought it (or maybe to sell for less than they bought it to laund
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by rspeer 9y ago
I am using the COPY command; it's faster than pg_restore, as far as I can tell. The COPY plus building the index is the part that takes a few hours and doesn't fit well into Docker.
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by rspeer 9y ago
What do you mean by "shouldn't this live somewhere remote"? The input data is on S3 and/or Zenodo, but you need to download it and put it in PostgreSQL. You can't just give arbitrary people remote access to a Postgr
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by rspeer 9y ago
Sure; what tools should I assume are on the target computer to script it, and how do I safely use these tools to modify system configuration like /etc/postgresql/10/main/pg_hba.conf? Docker almost answers these qu
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by rspeer 9y ago
Getting the data into PostgreSQL is a problem in nearly any setup. You can't really copy PostgreSQL's actual data directory around. Subtle differences in configuration (I don't know what they are) will probably cause PostgreS
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by rspeer 9y ago
This article doesn't tell me anything about using Docker for data science, just about using Docker in general. I have tried to use Docker for reproducible research, as a way of distributing ConceptNet with all its dependencies [1]. I
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by rspeer 9y ago
When I first read this discussion, I just assumed that BrowseAloud was some sort of ad-tech or analytics code. But it's assistive technology for screen readers. The list of web sites that were compromised were web sites that were tryi
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by rspeer 9y ago
Startups are bought because the buying company plans to use them in a profitable enterprise. What would you do with post-crash Bitcoins that you paid a dollar for?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I've had a similar experience, where I'm not even a fan of the Haskell ecosystem overall, but Attoparsec is such an astoundingly good library that it makes everything worth it. It's not just a convenience like other libraries
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by rspeer 9y ago
Why so high?
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by rspeer 9y ago
"Lazy"? It seems to me that the ad ecosystem is incredibly complicated (for example, not even Google understands how malvertising gets on Google's ad network). Any person who knows how to effectively place Internet ads has su
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by rspeer 9y ago
Nobody has ever redeemed a Tether [1], and there are a lot of people pointing that out. [1] If you're a green-name who's skimmed up to here and you're about to say "but Kraken", I am not talking about selling Tet
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by rspeer 9y ago
Do you want Tether to be audited and regulated like the fractional reserves of a bank? I'd sure find it entertaining while it lasts. This is also moving the goalposts, because they claim that Tether is fully backed, not fractionally.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Which is about the farthest thing possible from an expert in cryptography.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Even the rebuttal is immature and badly thought out, much like their cryptography. They start by implying that the MIT Media Lab isn't really MIT (what the fuck) as an ad-hominem way to dodge their criticism. Later they whine "But
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by rspeer 9y ago
There is a large contingent of radical empiricists in machine learning who assume "big data + automation = truth", especially on HN, and this is a message they need to hear more of. People have been advocating radical empiricism i
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by rspeer 9y ago
"Some kind folks have translated the article into..." They are not doing it out of kindness, they are probably going to add ads and PageRank-siphoning links to the translation when you're not looking. "WebDesignGeeks&quo
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by rspeer 9y ago
You say "presumably you can", but according to David Gerard, there is no evidence that anyone has redeemed Tether. Only people presuming that they could if they wanted to, or people who heard of someone who heard of someone who di
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by rspeer 9y ago
Can you actually "withdraw" Tether as dollars at these exchanges? Or can you just pass the buck by trading Tether for other cryptocurrencies?
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by rspeer 9y ago
I attended the ACL talk where he presented this. While the method was reasonably well-justified, it seems clear that the data was flawed, leading to a flawed model, leading to a false result. The author failed to ask himself the question &q
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by rspeer 9y ago
You could try reading this paper or any other paper on the topic.
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's kind of confusing that you consider switching bills around to be a normal part of transacting anonymously with cash. I mean, make change if you need to, but this is usually not motivated by anonymity. It's sufficiently anonym
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by rspeer 9y ago
Global warming is a bit more serious than killing spiders.
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by rspeer 9y ago
Let me give you some more parsimonious paranoia: the tumbler operator is likely already working for the government, or accepting money from governments to forward them DumbSeller's transaction history. Why would they not? Running a tum
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by rspeer 9y ago
It's not that tumblers are just "used for" money laundering, it's that they are money laundering, definitionally. All the terrible privacy implications of using Bitcoin that you've described are true. The conclusi
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by rspeer 9y ago
If the price of housing always increases, how is anyone who's younger than you (and not richer than you) supposed to be able to afford a house?
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by rspeer 9y ago
Stop pumping on HN.

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