skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The chances of a specific geek squad 'operative' chancing upon a 'target' the FBI is interested in is so low and minuscule one has to wonder how its worth it unless they are operating a dragnet or the FBI has too many people on staff.

If the bar is so low one has to wonder how many high value companies are not infiltrated by FBI, NSA and other 3 letter agencies.

When commentators here suggest the answer to privacy or surveillance is 'technical' it comes across as false empowerment. How can individuals or groups win against nation state actors with near endless resources, time, influence, power and armies of bureaucrats and engineers working 24/7 to achieve objectives? It's a nonstarter and the solution has to be socio-political.

The law doesn't stop them, if anything they are adept at skirting around laws, misleading judges, working the system and banding together to protect themselves. Even worse there is zero consequence when things blow up, and its those leaking information who are hounded.
Just Like Clockwork: How Technology Makes Daylight Saving Time Better
Sure, played it through a second time and got to the end. :) Great game! You should add more and harder levels.
Is Price Intelligently an automated service, or do you provide consultants/analysts to do the analysis?
Currently researching China's Quantum Key Distribution network and feasible attacks and solutions. Currently checking out the possibility of using a quantum simulator programming language to demonstrate a man-in-middle-attack that utilizes quantum non-demolition observations.
> deflation is a bad thing as it creates an incentive to not spend

Positive interest rates would be bad by the same logic
My favorite chilli variety is "Fatalii". It's similar to Habanero, but with IMO a superior flavor, and higher yield whenever I've grown them. It's both hot and strongly flavored.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalii
Too bad the resolution outside the US is quite low and the data is closed. If anyone is interested in a similar web app but without country-based limitations, you can take a look at Sentinel Playground at: http://apps.sentinel-hub.com/sentinel-playground/ The best part? All Sentinel data is open to anyone, courtesy of the European Comission. Available at https://scihub.esa.int/ or, for those invested in AWS, directly here at Amazon S3: http://sentinel-pds.s3-website.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/
Market opportunity: private-label cloud document sharing with attorneys to get the presumption of privilege.
Coin Center executive director Jerry Brito:

> The Winklevoss ETF proposal was rejected because the SEC found that the significant markets for Bitcoin tend to be unregulated overseas markets that are potentially subject to price manipulation. But this creates a chicken and egg problem. How do we develop well-capitalized and regulated markets in the U.S. and Europe if financial innovators aren’t allowed to bring products to market that grow domestic demand for digital currencies like Bitcoin?

Source: https://coincenter.org/link/coin-etf-statement
Nice joke, but short term volatility aside, bitcoin has been fairly stable for the last year or two, compared to the early days.
What It’s Like to Be Chemically Castrated
"bitcoin" itself is unregulated in the same way gold itself is unregulated.
What is the best real-time source for Bitcoin's value?
I've been focusing on pricing for years and just delivered a presentation on "bad pricing pages" this afternoon. [0]

Pricing can be very complex, but here are three points that many folks don't know:

* The best price for you will often depend upon your goal (maximize profits, break into a new field, prevent competition, etc)

* Economics textbooks lie! Lower prices don't always correlate to more sales. Sometimes buyers will see a low price and assume the buyer is junk.

* The way you present your prices is often at least as important as the actual prices themselves.

[0] https://taprun.com/talks/
In my limited understand of philosophy, it seems this entire lecture can be boiled down to one question (which I didn't think was answered). Does knowledge of a decision preclude free will?
Nobody is pushing for vending machines or retailers to take gold...
"We're as bad as Greece during a financial crisis" isn't really reinforcing the "safe haven" argument.
Well i base my claims on the observation that recent years have seen more and more administrative processes that have been introduced in an effort to emulate free market pressures on public health services.

This based on the idea that free markets are better at operating efficiently.

Thing is that the ultimate goal of any enterprise is wealth extraction.

The most direct such extraction is via racketeering.

But baring that the next best option is to offer a tangible product or service others are willing to pay for.

But note that the goal is not to offer good product or service, it is wealth extraction. Thus one will aim to offer the most minimal product or service one can get away with at the highest price.

So no, i don't think there is any reason why they should fear that the US system is being gamed to introduce public health services. It is being gamed to maximize wealth extraction by everyone involved.

On the other hand, ruining existing public health services to make private equivalent look good would directly lead to increased wealth extraction by those involved with the private health services.
Its more than guidelines. Frankly the guidelines are arbitrary, and people's ability to find flaws and apply them just as arbitrary. What seems to happen quite frequently is that the guidelines just end up being used as expedient ways to say "I'm busy, go away" or "I don't like your patch, but can't find anything wrong with it" or any number of other non productive things. Reformatting code by hand is tedious, and every second typing "add a space here" in the code review subtracts from a second of understanding and analyzing the functionality of the code.

Which is why if you have coding guidelines they should be enforced by automated tools. Either the code passes the tool or it doesn't, no on is allowed to nitpick brace placement, spacing, or whatever. Use something like clang-format or whatnot and stick to it.
I’ve also seen cliff divers saying to clench your buttocks as tightly as you can; apparently it helps keep your legs rigid so you don’t knee yourself in the face, and may reduce the likelihood of internal injury from impact to the perineal area.
How long before some disgruntled geek squadette plants illegal content on an innocent person's hard drive? From time to time analogous incidents occur in food preparation (contaminating food), medicine (injuring patients), and even law enforcement. The problem with digital crime is the difficulty in determining who did what, when, with certainty.
A Brief History of Random Numbers
I am not sure if it is the law. But there is a moral and ethical reason to report a crime if observed, depending on the severity and impact to the victims.
The criteria of surveillance agreements with regulated markets for the underlying asset appears to be (based on the discussion in the paper) well established, clear in its application to the facts, and dispositive in this case.

That doesn't mean it's their biggest concern; regulatory entities (and courts) tend to focus on criteria that meet those qualifications over other because they produce decisions which don't require creation of substantial new rules/precedent, and are more difficult to challenge.
Agreed, I left after 5 seconds of nothing happening.
Having sold all of my bitcoin at ~800 at a small loss (a significant portion coming from commission fee( ~$150+ to convert low four digit USD amount of bitcoins to fiat.) I am paying attention to the bitcoin prices closely. As USD gains more interest it's going to put downward pressure on gold and bitcoin.

There's no way this is going to gain mass adoption by being this expensive.

More importantly, this signals strong government regulation in the bitcoin and cryptocoin industry in general. I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing security laws being applied retroactively to all the scams like initial coin offering (like IPO but unregulated and heavily manipulated) on Bitcoin and Ethereum.

To the wary trend watcher, this is exactly what VC's feared and noted by the significant decline in VC investment in blockchain and cryptocurrency startups.
That's not really what's happening in this case.
It's not the SEC's job to judge the value of the funds traded, but their compliance with SEC regulations. Your argument is like blaming the NYSE for the failure of a public company.
Followup question: Are there good applied books that cover examples in broader fields than just crypto and coding theory?
Delta Dental of CA has over $600,000,000 invested in tradable securities - all from your premiums paid to them with a piddly $1000 annual maximum with absurd limitations. I agree. It is a scam.
Exactly. The bitcoin market is small compared to other financial markets, 15 billion or so, but has potential to get much larger. In a world of negative interest rates, capital controls, and cashless societies, it looks pretty attractive. It's wealth that you control and own. When the next financial crisis comes (and in the face of low yields and record PEs), the asymmetries of money flowing out of these markets into Bitcoin will be a sight to behold. I hold some BTC. It's been a wild ride from the 200s. -10, -20% is just another day in Bitcoin world. yawn
Small world. I have one of your dad's scopes right here, and I always wondered how they made the optical components.

I will think of him the next time I use it.
I put a 50x leveraged short contract trade 10 mins before that at BitMex, and just before it plummeted, it quickly went up to 1327 and I got wiped out. So I didn't get to make a huge return!
One of my favorite tools is https://bitcoinwisdom.com. They have real-time interactive charts of price for all of the large exchanges.
https://tradeblock.com/markets/
The thing that kills most people who are "simply" buried in an avalanche (and not pulped as they're carried through the tries or into a rock) is actually the CO₂ concentration in the snow around their nose and mouth building up over time.

I have a piece of avalanche survival kit made for skiers/snowboarders called the "AvaLung" in my off-piste bag. It draws air in from around the face, and vents your exhalations out behind you. People have survived being buried an hour or more wearing one of those.
https://cryptowat.ch/ is great. The front page gives a good overview of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Click on one to see charts.
Significant markets for gold are very much regulated, and exchanges listing gold ETFs have surveillance agreements with them.
My reading of the article about windows 10 ads in File Explorer was abruptly stopped by an intrusive, full-screen ad video.
I was talking about the specifics of a single study on comparing the tech industry with other industries on the wage gap (and I guess more broadly at the fact that people misuse these studies).

You are broadening the conversation to look at sexism in broader society.

Let's stick to the specifics here.

> making it all about you and your (higher than any other sociological or scientific field) standards for allowing discussion.

Nonsense. Most rigorous wage gap studies control for a lot more than the GlassDoor study.

The particular data (working hours) that I'm saying should have been included is straightforward to measure and collect.

> You're so angry you're willing to argue that maybe pay shouldn't be equal after all.

A swing and a miss. It's like you aren't even trying to read what I'm writing.
The other question is whether they kind of treatment we're using is effective. There isn't much evidence that 12-step programs really make any difference whatsoever.
Does a Pregnant Giraffe Deserve Privacy?
Do animals deserve privacy? Barbara J. King, an anthropology professor emerita at the College of William and Mary, explores the issue in this NPR article: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/03/08/519052288/does-a-pregnant-giraffe-deserve-privacy

What do you think?
Transparent by Default
Yes, that was one of his more notable characters.
Trump poised to nominate Scott Gottlieb to head FDA
No. Jack Handey is the name of a real comedian and he read his own stuff on SNL.
abstract algebra is foundation for

a) arithmetic as applied to 'Classes'. Eg overloading arithmetic operators that work on custom classes -- is, in a way, what abstract algebra does .

b) Interval arithmetic. For example alen algebra applied to arithmetic of time intervals

c) relational database theory as relates to various ways to construct functions on relations.

d) type theory (see https://homotopytypetheory.org/book/ )

e) combinatorics and linear programming
(basically being able to express recursive and generative constructs, and reason about them).
You should probably use a "defense as default" mindset. Why, by default, do you assume sites you go to will be safe or sane? I don't
Those web page printouts at the bottom of the PDF are incredible! Most of the time the Internet Archive's snapshots are missing images or other assets but these are complete and excellent examples of the web design of the era.
Or rushing to buy.
This is a good thing for Bitcoin. The ETF rules in my opinion gave too much power to miners. The rules stated that the ETF would follow the chain with the most work after just 48 hours.

Miners need income, because mining is actively expensive. In the long term, this means they have to mine on the chain with the most valuable block reward. This means the economy really gets to decide the longest chain, not the miners.

But the ETF likely would have been large enough to tip the scales. Miners can stomach 48 hours of loss to push an agenda.

And it's probably not good to have such a huge portion of the economy in one place anyway. An ETF will make more sense when bitcoin has more maturity.
Main discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13842130
It sucks doesn't it. I feel silly for having so much of my mood determined by the presence of clouds, but not much I can do about it
You really need to explain how it helps track your habits and the value it presents. Maybe a case study or your own experiences. Also, it's still not displaying correctly on an mobile device. That's always a deal breaker for me because if one cannot get the styling correct, there are probably other broken parts too.
Occupy the Cloud: Distributed Computing for the 99%
So what are the expected benefits of a bitcoin ETF? Many of the traditional benefits of ETFs are obsolete when you can just buy and hold an equivalent amount of bitcoin

The biggest benefit I can think of is that some institutional investors have restrictions on the types of securities that they can buy.

Someone could solve this by creating a company to buy lots of bitcoin, and then having an IPO to list that company on a public market. Then pension funds would be allowed to buy it, Jane Doe could buy some in her IRA, etc.

Any reason this wouldn't be just as good as an ETF?
Dentist here, too.
I think that Abstract Algebra has the same relationship with CS as Linear Algebra has with the theory of most engineering disciplines. That is to say that in computer science, Abstract Algebra is the natural setting to define and decompose problems and design their solutions. For a specific example, CRDTs are a fundamentally algebraic approach to problem solving in computer science. They were discussed recently on HN here. [0] If you want to go further down that rabbit hole, Joseph Goguen spent a large portion of his career working on applications of Abstract Algebra to computer science. He produced a category-theory-focused introduction here. [1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13803843
[1] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/3395/PRG72.pdf
If you read about the NHS it's honestly hard to think otherwise. But also forcing cuts by underfunding programs is something conservatives talk openly about wanting to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
A Man and a Woman Switched Names at Work, and Predictable Awfulness Ensued
Right, and the point is that this gift will not achieve mass adoption unless there is better support.

Edit: I checked your profile - I will likely be getting a bunch of your recommended reading material, and we clearly have a -lot- of interests in common. This is my way of saying that I have a lot of respect for your opinion and also trying to also express that while I am sure my tone is coming off as someone wry or sarcastic, I do not mean to be bluntly disrespectful.

What I can tell you is that, on this count, you are very unlikely to persuade me. I spend a substantial amount of time helping people attach business models to software, and 'free' is one of those models - it can absolutely be rigorous, and you can absolutely build big, successful businesses off of software that is offered without any user cost.

No business will ever be successful - ever - if the core offering is poorly supported.

At this point, you may counter that GnuPG is not a business - fair point! In that case, it is a charity - but this does not change the fact that the software it is releasing is not a commercially viable product and it will not become one with this level of support. Other foundations, however, do release commercially viable software. Including, notably, the elephant in the room: Mozilla.

In fact, there are donation pages right on the linked site. So, rather than take the attitude that we should be grateful for any free software, why don't we take the attitude that it is extremely bloody important at this point in history that a whole lot of people release commercial-grade encrypted communications software and try to discuss what is going wrong here with GnuPG and how it can be fixed? To put it another way: this is addressing a clear need, which is that of an independent publisher, not beholden to any particular set of third parties, publishing secure communications software. Rather than accept that it is going to be virtually impossible to get the software it releases adopted at, for instance, the law firm in which I work - why can't we accept something here is going wrong, and that other people, like Mozilla, seem to have it figured out?

I'm much more interested in that discussion than basically being told I should be thankful for this gift of software that still doesn't work 42 days after the last Sierra upgrade.
that would speak to the debris you possibly grabbed on the way down. Use that piece of fusilage, seat or luggage as a sled and work those bank turns
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Coinbase/GDAX is incredibly unreliable during "big news" moments like this. Time and time again this happens, and they haven't quite figured out their scaling issue yet.
Yep, our docs are definitely behind the product here, we'll be working to improve. FWIW it would be the closest to the Heroku Postgres HA as it's the same person that wrote both systems.
> Is it meant to be a payment method or is it an investment

Ideally it should be both.

> This means that the only real reason to spend Bitcoin or otherwise use it as a payment is for situations where that's the only option and right now, and for the foreseeable future, that means assorted illegal or at best borderline illegal products

There are plenty of legal products you can buy.

> Perhaps a blockchain-based cryptocurrency might in the future resolve these issues, but otherwise it's a doomed product that I wouldn't put a single penny (or watt of household electricity) into.

The only real issue you're pointing out is the finite supply (volatility will sort itself out in time) which for example Monero answers with a "tail emission" meaning there is an ever increasing amount of coins.
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I remember reading about some experiments done on this where the result was that the subjects just remembered the experience in more detail, and didn't actually experience time slower. Something about looking at something that changed just slightly faster than the maximum speed someone can normally see changes in something, while freefalling.
Is that unusual? I just did that with my VMs in the datacenter this morning to add more storage...
Why would the exchanges be in the areas where the metal is mined? The London Metal Exchange seems to do pretty well despite the scandalous lack of zinc mines or steel mills inside the M25.
double win: it could put to "work" the hoards of unemployed, recent JD grads. Nice try border-guard, but I can't unlock this smartphone because my attorney is "reviewing" my European vacation photos.
Why is the third point a reservation? Is the SEC afraid that somebody could manipulate the share price due to the lack of liquidity?
Al Franken - Real person, writer and cast member on SNL, Senator.

Stuart Smalley - Character played by Al Franken.

Jack Handey - Real person, writer on SNL, did Deep Thoughts voiceovers.
What does E5/4 mean?
California proposes regulations allowing AVs to carry passengers without driver
I once did that for a site which I didn't want anyone to recover my password to and thus break the security. I -DID- write down the actual password.

Today, years later, I still can't login to the damn payroll site because there isn't a procedure for just completely resetting the password state of the account and it wouldn't let you log in without those extra things.

Since that point I have recorded every annoying split-password (that's what the 'security questions' actually are, a forced split in the single real password)...
I'm not sure there is any good resources for CT applied to CS.

But anyway, check this out: http://chris-taylor.github.io/blog/2013/02/13/the-algebra-of...

There's alot of category theory implicit in these ideas. You can learn the abstract approach later on, after you have seen a bunch of examples.
Agreed. Furthermore, Atlassian is a 5 billion dollar business that Trello is now helping to build.
Are you seriously comparing the type of fund that VXX and UVXX are to a hypothetical Bitcoin ETF?
What is the point of higher education? Americans don’t know
Yes, chrisseaton answered me about it the other day.

I was telling him that from my point of view, given the work done in languages as dynamic, meaning Lisp, Dylan, Smalltalk, that from my naive of view (I know Ruby only superficially) that could be applied to Ruby as well.

He also answered me along those lines, that idiomatic Ruby abuses more the dynamism than those languages.
I edited that bit out of my post above. I guess it's about prioritization.

I had to make tradeoffs to maintain the schedule and not be worn out at work. I decided to start going to bed a bit earlier so I could get up earlier. To facilitate this, I changed my workout schedule (I'm doing HIIT for cardio rather than time-based workouts) and cut some other activities that didn't seem as important as my other goals. Worth it.
> There's no way this is going to gain mass adoption by being this expensive.

I struggle to understand what you mean. What sort of anchor are you using for how much the exchange rate should be for adoption? Cost of electricity, cost of mining equipment, cost of running a node? Satoshis are so abstract that "this expensive" seems irrelevant to everything except for historical rates.

Conventional wisdom on BTC is that one element that would improve adoption would be lower volatility and that in order to get that, the market cap would need to be much, much higher. Given the fixed inflation rate this usually suggests that the exchange rate has to be correspondingly higher.
Completely agree. At the same time though even if it's a 5% rate of feedback, that's still valuable, I just wish it was higher.

(Hence my defense of Planet having TOS requiring feedback for their beta).