skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think the value of BTC tomorrow will probably be nonzero? If so, you are participating in the faith, right? Monetary value may be an illusion, but if offer you some bitcoin at half the market price, you'd be quite irrational to abstain, no?

I personally like how cryptocurrencies are open protocols, so that I can manage money with open source or self-made tools. It annoys me on a deep level being forced to use banks and their payment systems when I can't even get my account balance from a shell script.
I used Privoxy since the days it was called Internet Junkbuster (90's), but got rid off it half a year ago, or so. It just does not filter enough anymore. Most ads came through. uBlock Origin (Firefox) gives much much better results. Privoxy is anti-innovative, as hell. Where are the regular updates to the filter-lists, like with all the other tools? Or sharing them in a cloud? Still no javascript injection/inline-execution in order to satisfy the complex Javascript ads? Still all being based on regular expressions? Before HTML5 we had ten years of XHTML, that could have been xpath'ed, xslt'ed, used for filtering. Now we have nodeJS. None of these modern technologies get used. It's still C and regex).
I wish they would put numbers in context. They say the losses of 9.1% are "the worst since January 2010" but they don't say what the worst losses were then. If it's 9.1% now and it was 10% then, then yeah we're pretty close to the worst ever. If it was 25% then or something it might be the worst since then but it's still not nearly as bad as the worst.
I have worked in a place where we had to use Intersystems Caché Objectscript, which is a variant of Mumps. It was terrible. For example, it was nearly impossible to use source code control. We also tried introducing a unit test framework to add some stability, but it turned out the .NET gateway we tried to use to this purpose, wasn't thread-safe, had side effects, kept state in mysterious ways. Restarting the cache' (sic) process was often the only solution after the server totally collapsed while the automatic integration tests were running. If course this was all our own fault for not understanding the product properly, as Intersystems would often reply. At the time, it was not funny. I'm glad I left.
Nvidia  Jetson TX2 Delivers Twice the Intelligence to the Edge
"Reasonably well-known university" XD
Are PayPal/other payment services restricted in Canada somehow?
Only Gold and silver are money, because they have intrinsic value.

Everything else its currency (Dollar, Yen, Euro), in the history of mankind there has been hundreds of currencies, and at the end, all of them were worth nothing.That will happen sooner or later to the Dollar, and its going to be a big crisis.

Blockchain solves the currency problem of manipulation of volume (which is what causes at the end that currencies end up worth zero), it will be the currency of the future, but it does not look like Bitcoin will be the blockchain currency that will dominate.
The format is little-endian, so it's necessary to use a little-endian load instruction, which almost all architectures (including most big-endian architectures) have.

(But every widely-used arch these days is LE.)
Feasible but not likely.
From this 25% to 35% Uber will still do this

1. Run their operating business
- Maintain data centers
- Maintain a global web infrastructure
- Maintain the app

2. Run campaigns to compete in markets with strong local competition
- Europe (Hailo, Car2Go, etc)
- Asia (Didi, Ola, Grab, etc)

3. Finance their ongoing operations
- Equity financing expensive
- Debt financing hard to get at this stage and cost money too

4. Hire and retain top talent
5. Legal fees and licensing
6. Rentals for global offices
7. Fund and maintain fleet businesses
8. Invest in R&D (self-driving technology & talent)
9. Entertain M&A

So it looks they have a lot of costs on their plate which their operating business can not cover.
I rooted mine back in 2014 and found it useful and quite stable. I haven't investigated the scene since so it may have progressed significantly.

You can configure it such that the Nook would boot and appear as normal, but holding down a key took you to the android launcher, and you would give up the use of two (redundant) buttons of your choice to control android-specific actions like <back>, etc.

This system was limited -- at the time -- to an older version of Android with limited app support, but if your purpose is to create your own apps this shouldn't pose any problem.
> a reasonably well-known university

lol! That's sarcasm, right? :P
Voters kicked radical Republicans out of Sacramento so now they're getting D.C. to their dirty work for them. Luckily many of them will lose in 2018, including Darrel Issa.
JavaScript already has monads, whether or not they are recognized as such. What JavaScript needs is either Haskell's syntactic sugar for monads, or, much much better, lisp-style (as opposed to cpp or m4) macros which can be used to implement that sugar directly. The macros could even be run during a one-time "compile" step on the server before being served; or not, if the cost of expanding them is less than the cost of sending expanded code over the network.
Burn Uber and leave only ashes in KalaDick's hands to teach him humility! Lyft and others will rightfully take its place.

No one more deserves and needs this type of lesson then that sociopath!
We consider it acceptable for a car to be mostly depreciated after five years of ownership. We do not want our houses to have lost value in five years, especially as many of us will still owe 75% of its value.

A house is still a longer term investment than a car, even if you sell it.
I am a self taught programmer with 10 years experience. Would this help me?
The thing with bitcoin is with the exception of a couple of very valid use cases - the big one being international money transfer (super-easy and super-cheap with bitcoin compared to other options) - most of the benefits of bitcoin payment processing are on the merchant side - cheaper processing, no chargebacks, no PCI etc.

Unfortunately, at least for now, bitcoin isn't a popular enough method of payment for the vast majority of merchants to worry about, let alone pass the savings they get from accepting bitcoin on to the consumers.
At least you remember that they exist, and have a rough idea about how they work, which is more than someone who never took the courses. They probably could have condensed the courses and stuck with a few basic proofs instead of the more rigorous proofs I had to do.

The main reason they didn't is because those topics are mostly settled and unchanging, which means they don't have to rewrite a new course every few years. There are easily 5-6 courses I'd rather have taken but some of the most useful topics were too cutting edge to make it down to a Bachelors program in most Universities. The curse of a cutting edge field I guess.
In regards to the trillionaire idea: Does this guy even know who the Rothschild's?

The idea of meta programming has been around longer than I've been in software but perhaps this time it's true. Only time will tell.
About a hundred years ago, some Germans (the `Freiwirtschaftler', a bit similar to the American Georgists) had an interesting alternative interpretation of socialism: socialism is when approximately all GDP goes to labour, and only negligible fractions to capital and land. (And they wanted to get there in a market based economy.)
Why? If A agrees to pay B "absurd" salary, it's mutual interest, isn't it? Otherwise A would find someone for 0.01x for the same job - no?

What is your salary, btw? 60k for sitting in cubicle and browsing reddit is absurd for the rest 6-7e9 people, that live outside of our lucky wealthy western world.
Current financial systems have an enormous amount of reversibility and their security rests on a vast web of relationships (political, institutional, social, economic). Understanding your risks in such systems can be hard and high cost for businesses (ask kickstarter about chargebacks). In Bitcoin the risks are much easier to understand since they are technical rather than social: if someone steals your secret key they steal all the bitcoins under the control of that key.

This is clearly not great for every use case, but it has some real advantages in certain verticals:

1. automated/machine payments and/or smart contracts,
2. non-reversible payments (preventing investors from backing out of a bad trade at a stockexchange),
3. countries in which the gov currency is not dependable (e.g. Venezuela),
4. paying for services across borders (e.g. Greek internet businesses paying for AWS when they can't wire money outside the country),
5. refugees who can't trust the government not to seize their savings after they leave the country.
Franchise stores net 2-5% before taxes on "big" numbers. $20mm yearly rev for a smaller, rural, domestic franchise to multi-billions in yearly rev for a nationwide autogroup.

As mentioned, most profit is generated from service and finance.

Both of these cars you purchased are from high volume mfgs. The dealers made holdback money plus the sales count towards yearly tier incentives.
How should someone go about contributing to your LLVM backend?
Auto-generated?
Eh, to a certain extent that's the Bubble Fallacy: just because an asset price is inflating in a bubble does not make it a bad (short-term) investment. As long as you sell before the bubble pops, you can make a lot of money buying and asset at 10x or 100x its "inherent" value.

(Of course, you can also lose a helluva lot of money, but then, to the person making millions off of bubbles, both the people who sell too late and the people who never buy are idiots.)
Related story: I own stdlib.net, and have been using it for some e-mail and stuff for more than ten years. The original reason for getting it was that we were playing around with using the net.stdlib Java namespace for Apache commons. But too many people had the same reaction as you. So everything is org.apache...
Haha. The moocher states can keep mooching and whining. Noblesse oblige. We will clothe you, keep you fed, and give you jobs. And you will complain and try to bite the hand that feeds.

But our kindness is indiscriminatory. Our hearts are big. And we're ever so strong. California will take care of even the lamest of the lambs.
As far as I understand, for every sale dealers will get a "rebate" from the car company. This obscures even more the relationship between the MSRP and the dealer's cost. I think it also works as something of a tax dodge for the dealer by shifting profits late into the fiscal year.
There's still quite a bit of effort to be done, help would be useful. Particularly with semi-manual downloading of material on iTunes (not all of it is on YT). See http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=UC_Berkeley_Course_Ca... and https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/5z2499/many_of...
Wow. I'm curious if any of these Australian researchers have done a study correlating the number of birthday's someone has with their health. I can see the abstract now - "Study shows that birthday's are good for your health. The more birthdays you have the longer you live"
It's statistically factual, at least in the USA, that illegal immigrants are more prone to crime, and that immigrant households are more likely to use welfare/EBT/etc. than native households.

That is, illegals commit more crimes and are less economically productive vs. the existing population.
Btw, I checked how you arrived at the conclusion that 'economic majority' have agreed not to follow BU. And I must say that I'm skeptical of your claim. Do you have any links?

With the addition of AntPool, the total hash rate for BU is up to 38% now. So this seems to suggest otherwise. Unless your definition of economic majority is some entirely different.
This is called a "holdback".
Model 3 Reservations Counter (YMMV)
Real education? Like English literature, or Art History, or Communications, or Dance, or Latin?

By real education do you mean STEM, medical or Law? Or something else?
> privacy concerns

As you are using this phrase in a context where I feel like you are bringing up reasons for Bitcoin, I feel the need to clarify: cash is private (only two people can see any transaction: the two people transacting), classic banks and credit cards are less private (three people can see your transaction: the two people transacting, and the bank), while Bitcoin is the opposite of private (literally everyone is required to see your transaction, whether or not they particularly care ;P).

You can try to hide your transaction by handing it to a mixer, but then the mixer is serving the purpose of a bank and is "fighting the current" by trying to pretend to offer a private service when their actions are also recorded in a public ledger, which means both that mathematicians might later find mistakes in timing that allow them to deanonymize your mixed transaction but also that small mixers are worse at this while larger more centralized mixers are more useful... the exact opposite property for what you want if you really didn't like the concept of a bank managing transactions.

And no matter what solution you come up with, fundamentally the transaction requires at least one other person to know that you are sending money as you need to use a public network to try to communicate with someone to tell them to tell others to eventually move the money by adding it to a mined block. The only way Bitcoin can even try to simulate the real and true privacy of cash is if you meet someone in person and hand them directly a slip of paper with the private key of some money on it... but then they have no way to know you don't have a copy, at which point they have to announce to the world they received the money in order to re-secure it with their own key.
So he doesn't deserve this or You don't like the nickname he inspires?
i reckon fractional reserve cannot be done with bitcoins (unless you, as you precluded in your conditions, trust a third party).

Just like fractional reserves cannot be done with gold, unless you trust a third party (and thus, receive "bank notes" for your gold deposit!).
> I think the most part of the talent is that your brain likes doing given thing. You enjoy it. That is, unless somebody is forced to, she's unlikely to spend 10K hours on something she doesn't like.

This feeds into the myth of passion equating talent/skill, which has been incorrect in my (admittedly short) experience. I can think of more than a few athletes who had no passion for the game but were phenomenal players.
You can do the same with longjmp in C. You jump onto an empty stack, so you only have global variables to work with. It's fascinating, but not recommended :)
So, then a primary argument for the current/recent instability (is presumably?) is its relative widespread lack of adoption? Does economic theory tell us n = number of people using currency such that we can begin to expect more stability? (Presumably, as some function of average transaction size?)

Forgive the assumptions and less-relevant questions, but I appreciated your points and you seem to have a good knowledge of the topic. Edited quickly for clarity.
There's really zero incentive for line-level engineers & security folks at Google to engage in conspiracy to defraud the court. The penalties that the involved individuals could potentially suffer would be far worse than whatever distant benefit they get from Google winning the case (and it only takes one defector to ruin your plan). It's not logically impossible for such a thing to happen, but I would consider sworn testimony from multiple Google employees "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that the purported access did happen.
All pretension aside, you cannot presume to publicly forment xenophobic sentiments against brown people, implying that they are all kinds of evil, while at the same time presuming to make yourself attractive to highly-skilled tech workers from all around the world.

If you embolden racists, they will start harassing and attacking all kinds of non-white people and that includes, legal recidents from all around the world because frankly racists don't care.
> I'm not really sure how to respond to your characterization of the Snowden revelations as a unrelated political scandal.

Which should have been your clue that you whiffed on the point.

"Obummer tapped my phones!" is the unrelated political scandal. If you don't want to be dinged for derailing the discussion, you could have jumped into a discussion about FISA/DoJ vs. NSA surveillance via any other technique. Instead you chose to go down this ridiculous "See? Trump was right!" rathole. And here we are.
You can relate almost any topic to any topic with the insight 'money is fungible'. Using this to switch subjects to your favourite flamerant is bad, your comment was bad and you should feel bad.
Its interesting to note that GM Financial is a rather new addition to GM. They sold their original vehicle financing arm (GMAC) during their bankruptcy as did Fiat Chrysler.
I like this idea, and I'd like to take the question one step further: are there any affordable development platforms which can work with eink screens? I've read that the screens themselves are pricey due to EInk's de-facto monopoly on supply, and difficult to work with due to the need for things like manual temperature compensation just to drive the display.

But surely there must be breakout boards by now, right? Or a raspberry module that's larger than 3"? Can you effectively source raw screens through the usual hobby suppliers like digikey, mouser, jameco?
As an Indian guy, I've met my fair share of the type of developers you described. They don't take work home, don't have any particular passion for the job, and are biding time before they can go do an MBA and move on to investment banking or consulting with the Big 4.

Just as an aside, your comment was among the most complete I've ever seen. It addressed almost every caveat that I could have though up!
Every state gets two senators and the one that's served the longest is called the "senior" senator and the other the "junior". By definition a state can't have two senior senators.
With no disrespect intended, I'd like to point you to absolutely any thread on here that has the word Bitcoin in the title for a thorough discussion of the various use cases.

A wise woman once said "If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry."
Yes, people have been doing fractional reserve with gold and reputation for a long, long time.

I wonder whether bitcoin fractional reserve can live off reputation alone, or whether smart-contracts can / have to help?
Well, that doesn't make the problem that's been snowballing since the last year go away. It is really hurting the adoption of Bitcoin. I usually use it for small transactions <$10 for situations where I don't want to give out my personal billing details.

If this continues for another year, I'll have to say bitcoin has severely failed to follow up on the promises it made, one of which is low transaction fees. Not >5%
The irony here is that "decentralized p2p-based currency" is very much centralized with 60-70% of the mining power concentrated in 2-3 mining pools who get to impose their will on the system.
Are you talking about this article? https://thehftguy.com/2016/11/18/google-cloud-is-50-cheaper-...

In short. If your infrastructure is so small that it's about reserving 3 instances for a year. You should be running on Digital Ocean. It's much more simple and cheaper. You likely don't need the more advanced features from Google/Amazon.

If your infrastructure is in the hundred of VMs. Reserved instances are basically unusable, it's a NP complete problem to optimize capacity for a moving target. You're as likely to save 10% as to lose 20% on your reservations.

Last but not least. Reserved instances have many tricks and constraints that you'll only find out after you spend 10k on them, and can't go back.
But gold and silver only have "intrinsic" value because we have faith that they do. Even the gold standard is based on faith.
Nor are they admissions of innocence. However, if they were to lean one way, I'd say guilt is the direction they lean.
As a friend related the other day, "wow, all these coders, they want to be woodworkers now. What's up with that?"

Working in a fine woodworking, cabinet makers setup, vs hacking C#? Your call.

PS, you can make 3X in a week learning how to use a router, but keep it under your hat. And the girls LOVE carpenters for some wild and crazy reason.
Bitcoin is fundamentally worse for international money transfers - you can't do much with the currency itself, so you end up having to make two currency exchanges instead of one. That's not a way to make FX cheaper.
There's also LEDE, a fork of OpenWRT.
I use a tool that I wrote, evolved from a Trello board: https://github.com/ioddly/meditations

Specifically, there's a daily, monthly, and yearly list, all on the same screen. So if your goal for example is to exercise, you'd be tracking things day by day, but get a monthly summary (e.g. I exercised 75% of the days I was supposed to this month).

I do have some goals in mind, but I find that tying them to time is the wrong way to go. i.e. I'd like to get back to a 2x bodyweight deadlift, but it's better to try and make 100% of my lifting sessions and complete the programs I am on than it is to worry about when exactly I will hit that goal.

So the actual todos are derived from a system that should eventually lead to that goal, rather than achieving the goals. I then evaluate my progress monthly and yearly. (did I do everything I was supposed to? Am I closer to the goal? If not, how should I change the approach?).
I'd suggest: the government should make sure the zoning allows for airport _or_ housing, and then just sell to the highest bidder.
This may no longer be the case, but doesn't Lyft have a stricter vetting process than Uber? It could be that some (most, none, all?) of Uber drivers may not be that happy with Lyft.
None of the founders (should read co-founders) of billion-dollar companies in the study came from Iran. There's a table in the report.
...And probably because they don't realize that there are sites of just live video feeds from various "Home security" systems.
I don't think you're quite in the spirit of the article there. How about:

1. Author has a nephew who was forced into a degree program he didn't want because he mostly hates school, but blue collar jobs don't pay enough anymore. Neither do white collar jobs for people who don't enjoy classroom learning.

2. Author has another nephew who also didn't like classroom learning, got a degree in chef's school and made alot of progress in the field. However, chef's don't get paid well either.

3. Author thinks maybe the problem is there isn't a path for people who don't like classroom learning and maybe Germany is better at this IDK?

Not to sound like some kind of socialist, but maybe the problem is many jobs don't pay very well anymore?
I like bugs (I also hate bugs)
Hard to say. If I were Uber, and we seemed likely to lose, I would try to convey the following...

The only thing truly gained by stealing Waymos's LiDAR designs was a temporary period of lower cost , but high quality, LiDAR unit. Effectively, a short term discount. You can buy high quality today...It's just expensive. More affordable LiDAR is coming, for everyone, regardless of what Waymo does. They are not the only entity using innovation to drive the cost down.

I would try to have the punishment match that gain, versus something more catastrophic.

Of course, IANAL, and have been mystified by judgements in the past. Some were immensely lower, some higher than what seemed to make sense.

Also, who knows what else was stolen? The LiDAR stuff might just be the one Waymo could most easily demonstrate before filing suit...perhaps there's more.