skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have programmable international wire transfers in the works?

Unless things have changed recently, please watch out for the money laundering laws if you are in the USA. It is easier than you might think for absolutely innocent people to fall foul of them, making life miserable (speaking from experience).

https://edfine.io/blog/2015/12/20/how-bofa-froze-my-account-...
As Maggie Thatcher said: eventually you run out of other people's money.
Yes. By allowing investors to realize an actual loss we train future investors to not be so careless with thier money.

These are two-sided contracts negotiated between adults. It is not the role of government to always side with one type of party over all others. The risk of loss is a cornerstone of investment. So too is the concept that one may borrow without risking a lifetime of punishment should the venture fail.
My parents live right downtown Burlington and little bungalows are selling for 1.4 now right beside them. It's absolutely insane
I'm not sure that's right, the German max rate is lower, though it might kick in at a lower level.

Regardless of the rate, there are big exemptions for the transfer of businesses in Germany that definitely give the the advantage in that specific case.
> defied the odds and rewarded investors with a historically normal 7.1 percent nine-year annualized return

I know, past performance is not an indicator of future outcomes, but when talking odds, surely decades worth of data showing historical returns in a similar range, the odds in this case would be skewed towards preferring a continuation of that trend.
Thanks. React Native looks like a great platform. I haven't really done much with that yet, but it looks really interesting. Unfortunately, android and IOS both have pretty big learning curves, but I think knowing both is pretty helpful. I think you can make better apps when you write it natively.
You can default on student loans.
It's jewelry. What jewelry isn't overpriced?

A Rolex at least holds it's value well compared to other jewelry. If you buy a vintage Rolex and take care of it, you can pretty much sell it at any time and get your money back or maybe even make a small profit.
What I would love to get from this, is an open government.

I can't trust the government on the island. We got in the mess because of them. They've been slowly getting us more in debt. They've lied. It wasn't until the island was $70 billion dollars in debt that they came out talking. And now we have the son of the most governor that had the most people investigated by the FBI.

I can't blame him for the actions of his dad. But I can't trust the government.

I can't trust that they will bring in a firm to analyze the debt and be fully transparent. The government is the client of the firm. There will be NDA's in there. They will have a statement somewhere with something like, "with the data/access we've been provided, this is what we understand..."

I can't trust it.

If we can get our hands on the data. If we can analyze it. If we can get experts on it. Publish everything and be transparent about it. We can make a non profit. Ask for contributions (so people are able to claim that) and analyze everything.

- How much do we actually owe?
- What should we pay first?
- Based on the terms, what has the highest positive/negative impact on the island?
- From what we owe, what is actually legally binding? (apparently there are some terms that may not be 100% legal)

This is what I want. For us as citizens to come together and do this. For us to be able to answer our own questions.

But people just keep saying things along the lines of,

> We aren't happy with what you are doing, fix it.
> We need this fixed.
> We don't want the university or anything to get funding cut off, but fix this.
> O'neill bellaco (something else going on on the island in regards to the mayor of a town regarding sexual harassment complains)

The people living in Puerto Rico, the people of Puerto Rico living outside the island, we all need to come together and at least analyze the fucking mess we are in.

Tenemos que resolver nuestros problemas. Pero para poder resolverlos, debemos analizarlos, entenderlos y tener un plan de acción.
(We need to fix the issues. In order to do so, we need to analyze it, understand it, and have a plan to execute).

We need the data. Even if they make some law where they pardon everyone involved/implicated in issues because of it, we need the data to understand the mess we are in.
Considering that Orange County default was caused by local government's mismanagement of the public funds (via highly risky strategies and derivatives that had been banned since then), you can kinda-sorta-maybe see why the citizens didn't exactly line up to give even more of their money to the local government.
Sometimes I wonder if things like fashions, art, music, etc., could get us out of an economy that depends so much on carbon emission. I was once at a Mary Kay convention (as a hired musician), and a few of the people were trying to sell the band members on joining the business.

I asked them if you can get a pink Prius for selling enough stuff. The answer is yes.

I suggested that cosmetics were the ultimate "green" product, because you could sell something with virtually no material content for an arbitrary price, and that Mary Kay should position itself that way. Could we support an entire economy, selling luxury goods to one another, with minimal ecological cost?
Maybe the globalized world at any one time can only sustain one Germany with it's hidden champions. But ofcourse it's easier and well paying to travel around the world and tell everyone they can be like Germany too.
This is a model I desperately hope returns in a big way around the world. The modern education-factory model is a post WW2 invention and the quicker we can EOL it the better.

We got so much from the older model and I dare say people lived better lives while studying.
I'd have my money on Waldo 2020, much more loveable
To me the frustrating part is that condos aren't cheap. The housing crisis wouldn't look so awful if you could get a 3-bedroom in a decently located mid rise for a half-million dollars... But instead they're all tiny one bedrooms. Which is just insane.
What's stunning to me is seeing Ajit Pai and conservative interest groups citing the FCC's investigation into ISPs subsidizing certain types of data (a.k.a. zero-rating) as an innovation that burdensome regulation was inhibiting.

There's plenty of room for debate on what constitutes predatory pricing. But I think it's clear that when you drop the price for a product to zero, there's no longer an argument that you are attempting to fairly compete in that market. The only rational reason is to drive your competitors out of business.

Pai isn't interested in a competitive market; he's told us that much explicitly. He's interested in a market where the powerful have a free hand to consolidate that power into full-on monopoly. And he's right, consumers will see certain benefits -- like zero-rating -- while that consolidation is occurring. But then, afterwards, we'll be stuck relearning the lessons of Standard Oil and Pacific Bell all over again.
I've updated the page to remove the references except for in the bio. I got tripped up with the open letter format as a blog post when I had written most of it previously for private email use. I do appreciate the feedback and hopefully this revision will make it stronger when members of Congress do read it. As for the significance, it's the relevant degree that I have to the content of the letter.
I can buy that. I totally know people for whom the taste totally sticks. I've found some success in cadging together something that (without being a sugar bomb) often can appeal, but it's a tough thing.
I dated a Korean who grew up in one of those Seoul suburbs (newer and nicer than the drab ones in the photos, but similarly composed of skyscrapers), which I also visited myself. She loves it and prefers it there. It's extremely convenient. Everything is walkable - restaurants, parks, stores, etc. You don't need a car, and mass transit is fantastic. 20-30 minutes by subway to Gangnam (14 miles away) for 3000 won ($2.65).

I grew up in the American suburbs and now live in Manhattan. I hate American suburbs with a passion. Inconvenient, car-dependent, and isolating. NYC is great, but the apartments here are old and terrible by modern standards (not to mention the decrepit subway).

The problem is that America seems to care more about aesthetic appearance than actual living conditions. I don't think anyone will disagree with you that those Soviet-style blocks of identical apartments are ugly from the outside, but I'd rather live in a modern high-rise than some shitty 100 year old 5 story tenement walkup, or some giant house in the suburbs where I can't get anywhere without a car.
maybe it was lost on you that the linked article, and this entire discussion, is about the people living in Chinatown?
I am particularly confused by Blz's rationale.

Valve basically own a significant fraction of its success to community: CS (based on modder produce) Dota2 (bought from a modder); these 2 are their big revenue sources.

While Blz seems always intended to disallow any modder involvement at all. Most Tower Defense games own their popularity to the early days of SC and warcrfatIII. And Dota is basically just a warcraft III mod.

If Blz can learn anything from Valve, it's that they can capitalize on the fan/moder based community, really easy. They just never did anything like that.

On the contrary, they always want to redo what community did to drive off their creations...

This does not sound rational to me...
Florida Judge rules No 5th Amendment Ban on forcing phone lock codes to COPS
"There's a fundamental problem that nobody in this generation of VR has been able to really solve yet, which is making a headset that is comfortable to wear for long periods."

If anyone does this, Steve Mann will: http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/profiles/steve-mann-my-au... This is my favourite image showing the trend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/inju/3171307367
I wonder if these speculators are paying cap gains or have found some way to stretch the principal residence exemption to cover their rental property.
The economic models of risk that most hedge funds use are...odd.
Why would you try socialism in those countries?
Horseshoe theory
> if the underlying process that generates those numbers are widely different.

So stop the underlying process? Terrorist organizations aren't quiet about their problems, that tragic day in September was in opposition to US interference in their lives. If our goal was combatting terrorism, we picked a terrible way of addressing the problem.
Which makes sense. Was the 2012 the one with a question in the form of,

"Are you okay with the current status or do you want a change?"

Because we ALL want a change. First, we want to know what the actual current status is. Then we want to know our options.
this is so cool! congrats
My mind immediately went to that too. Smh.
Split the cost of concert tickets in half with a fan.
Let us know if you find it.
I have a similar anecdote except the German in my story fixed the tap himself! I was squarely impressed with the skills an average German has.
Can't be bigger than the internet if it is one of the things that runs on top of the internet.

It's like stating that computers are bigger than electricity.
While I agree we should do our best to pay our debts, morality shifts with circumstances. If I have an enough debt where it is affecting the lives and future of my children and I have an option to declare bankruptcy to give them a better life, am I not morally obligated to do so as a parent? I would argue that I am.

Morality is a human defined concept. We also only seem to apply it to individuals, a company declares bankruptcy, fires a large number of employees and then rights itself society shrugs but if a person does it we cast shame on them.

Life is short, if I dig myself into a whole with the best of intentions, I am not going to spend years living a lesser life and condemning my kids to that same lesser life if there is a reset button.
I am really happy you liked using the app.

Exporting multiple colors at once is a great idea! I've added it to my roadmap and will be implementing it very soon. Thank you!
One who shoots video and records audio segments as well??

That's why he mentions shooting 4K video and plugging in a Rode microphone later in the piece.
Ah makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the link!
Their api doesn't support querying for more than 3 reviews, have ids on reviews, or for any business to authorize your app to enable inline replies. All of which can be done is Google My Business and Facebook apis so I don't think this is anything more than catchup.
What’s Next in Neural Networking?
Ooop, yeah, you are right. Was thinking bankruptcy.
If you're a mutual fund or an ETF with exposure to PR municipal bonds, you're looking at somewhat of a loss come tomorrow morning.

If you have any spare cash on hand (investor inflows, interest payments and bonds redemptions on other bonds) your choices are:

1) Hold cash, the more the better, in order to prop up the value of the fund.

2) Lend it to another borrower.

I'd say that if you expect a smooth sailing or are in a situation where investors cannot liquidate, strategy (2) is reasonable. But even then you might want to extract some better terms from the borrower by quoting PR as a scare factor.

Most funds, however, will expect either investor outflows or markdowns in other municipal bonds with similar characteristics. For better or for worse, the municipal market is frozen for a new borrower, at least for the next few days.
With simple I get push notifications :-)
Some*

First, not all states pay income tax.

On the other side, you have people with federal jobs that are taxed federally.

Then you have other people with registered companies in the US which pay federal taxes in the US, the state it's registered in, then also pay taxes locally.

--
It's complicated.
From an engineering perspective only (removing social/psychological attitudes from your mind) this is an interesting comment. Honda Company for years has output some of the best engineering in the automotive world, while Rolex produces nothing compelling from an engineering perspective.

The Honda S2000 had the most impressive 4cyl engine ever produced (and easily one of the best--impressive, reliable, fun--consumer engines ever produced) ... available in a reasonably priced roadster. There is a popular engineer/gear head Youtuber, Engineering Explained, that gawks over his.

But Honda and Rolex are different animals.

Personally I would rather not network with someone who values my character on the basis of wearing a Rolex, especially not in software dev. We're supposed to be savvy intellects, not ostentatious egos.
Right, you can't actually "rules lawyer" in real law; there is a spirit of the law that informs connotation of the text where edge-cases are concerned.

A good lawyer tries to phrase their contracts et al to expose the connotation of the relevant laws in the text, so that you don't need to read the laws, only the text. Sort of like explicitly including default parameter assignments to a function.
There was a lot of hype, but from what I understood watching the experience videos, the first experience is amazing, then boring because there isn't anything else to it. Like a boring game with great graphics.

I suspect once better games or software are written for it, it may improve. Perhaps training and whatnot, but I don't see what it offers over headphones and a big monitor setup, other than nausea, hot eye sockets and possibly a headache. Like I said, I haven't experienced it yet though. Maybe I'm just getting old and crotchety.

AR is also interesting. I'm not quite sure how much more helpful it would be over your regular ole' eyeballs. Maybe identifying wildlife or something. Currently a HUD for cars is the most useful thing out there and it's been around for years. It's not groundbreaking though, I can just look down a few more inches. Also, you can't do much more with a HUD as far as information goes without distracting the driver. I would definitely like to identify speed traps before I get there. The police have been trying to collect revenue around my neighborhood (for my safety of course) and I almost became a donor.

AR reminds me of the segment where Colbert made fun of the "tech" cup that was able to identify and confirm what you just poured into it.

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9nzwjt/the-colbert-report-vess...

IMO, for something to really matter, it must be related to: communication, automation or transportation. (CAT) I just made that up, so if someone wants to put that in a textbook or something, I want credit. You can just use "Clubber."

Also, their cellular network idea was pretty good, but it would make much more sense to do something like that out of WIFI because there isn't a centralized provider to snoop and restrict bandwidth.

I don't want to spoil it, this season is pretty good.
Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/692cr4/new_google_d...
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Lastpass.
Yes, I think you're right. The Vert.x model is "weird" to put it politely. Too many callbacks, but also I felt like much of my domain and business code was being "infected" by Vert.x machinery as I tried to make my code async friendly.

It makes a lot of big promises, delivers on many of them early on but as your services grow things... get messier.

Happy enough with Sparkjava right now. I think ultimately though I'm on a slow journey back to just using Dropwizard which still hits the sweet spot for me.
I see the problem being that if net neutrality disappears it gives the internet companies good reason to slow down the internet generally so that the content providers need to purchase the speed ups. Investment in general network throughput will reduce profit from fast lane sales and so big companies will reduce investment in their networks outside of fast lanes. Cost flows down the tree. We are already paying for the internet... does it make sense to pay twice? This is why I think no consumer should be for the axing of the net neutrality rules. In general this is bad for everyone. Its like creating an energy market... It leads to people reducing generation capacity and prices sky rocketing while service/quality reduces. Good for the ownership class bad for humanity.
> Plenty of countries have defaulted, and they can still borrow money.

They're shut off from [cheap] public markets though. So while your statement is technically correct, they are usually stuck with lenders of last resort, such as IMF or direct country-to-country loans, which generally come with pretty harsh terms.
So you're proposing that we move to a totally shallow economy which provides little in the way of useful service, other than what is essentially wealth signaling. Meanwhile our consumption remains the same and our carbon emissions are simply offloaded onto other nations.

What problem does this solve?

Additionally, how would you structure an entire economy around solely exchanging goods with no material value?
In touristy areas you'll be fine.

Most people will be able to understand you. If not, you'll figure it out quick by their expression and you can adjust your words/speed.

While we have local music/tv, most of the media is from the US. We are taught both languages from kindergarten, but like everywhere, some schools are better than others.
I have a similar setup to grandparent (Z10PE-D16 WS), running four last-gen TitanX GPUs with an EVGA SuperNOVA P2 1600W PSU.

I was a little worried because this is the most power-hungry machine I've ever built, but so far I haven't had any issues.
But I'm not going out of my way to start an electrical fire, either.

The motherboard in question is pretty deluxe, the only thing I'd complain about is the boot time.
Personally, I really hope so.
I can't imagine the jackass that runs Uber ever admitting to being either of those things.
This is an excellent comment when it comes to building up a hw/sw company. I went through the same steps with my startup. Knowing most of the details from tooling/cost/inventory/CM I still keep coming back and thinking what other ways are there to build a hw/sw product company without these major investments upfront. The idea is to verify the a product-market fit for a solution before you sink in all the expenses, basically on a smaller scale. So far I have not found a fundamentally different approach other than small cost reductions like not using a polished steel tool etc.
I actually started with React Native but soon realized the limitations and switched to Swift. Learning Swift and shipping the app was definitely faster than trying to figure out how to do X in react native and make it work properly.

I think React Native is good if you're building database apps but when you want to leverage the device capabilities like camera, Bluetooth etc, going native is the best option.
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org

I'll just leave this here.
I'm not trying to cast doubt on your credibility. The content speaks for itself. It was just funny to me to see it listed so many times and have it open that way.
Thank you for the purchase, I hope you have fun with it! I made it in Swift 3.
Sounds super similar to some of the research out of (The University of Washington UbiComp Lab)[http://ubicomplab.cs.washington.edu/publications/] back in 2010. There was a project led by Shwetak Patel, that ultimately turned into (Zensi)[https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/zensi].

Basic premise was to use some DSP to detect electrical noise emitted via various appliances and extract usage patterns from this. The same approach could then be used for water and gas systems by detecting pressure, rather than voltage fluctuations.

From what I can tell this seems to have now just been consumed into the depths of Belkin.
I figured the joke would be obvious to anyone read the article.... wasn't meant to be negative or mean.
What delegitimizes him is that he is a notorious lier.
The thing is, Greece, IMO, doesn't even need to leave the EU, they just need leverage (in the same way Turkey's leverage is in flooding the EU with more refugees), and they can get leverage in trade by ignoring EU diktats that stipulate what goods they can import in practice (while officially denying everything). International traders would pay a slight premium to be able to have land access to the EU from shipping. Hell, I personally know a couple of traders in SE asia who would pay tens of thousands of dollars to do so.

But I guess the consensus will be in favor of trying continue to squeeze blood from stone until there is none left. And when it gets that far, compared to the threat of cheaper citric acid, steal, etc imports hurting "blessed" EU suppliers, you'll have surplus kalashnikov's coming in from the ME, which I guess is even more profitable for traders ;)
I think its not a correct comparison.

The reason government doesn't have or need keys to every house, because no matter how many lock you put on your door, government (SWAT team, for example) can break in anyways, if deem necessary.

So for this reason alone if they truly want to... every house can be and will be open to them, no matter what.

Meanwhile here the locks are based on sophisticated math.. and that math is smarter or more complicated than the largest compute power they can get hold of.. hence make your virtual locks unbreakable. I think that's the whole issue they have here.
It was a year ago and we've hardly missed them.
The idea reminds me of Dori-Mic and the Universal Machine: http://www.dori-mic.org/
This.

'Cashless' as in 'cash is illegal' terrifies me. It's nothing more than a force multiplier for the power brokers (banks, govs, etc.).

There will always be corruption, theft, etc. But in one scenario, anyone can do it. In another, only the third (one) party can do it. Tell me which is better, oh starry-eyed Valley dreamer?