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I think the low price can be justified because flying has been going to automation.
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Ask HN: What's Bitcoin's use case for average users if KYC is mandatory?
If Bitcoin were to become mainstream so that average users can start using it, what's the value proposition of BTC over USD?

* You own the BTC since you hold the private keys. Since most users will use a hosted wallet, it's not true for the majority of users.

* With KYC norms, it becomes risky to use it on dark net markets for whatever purposes. The only use case will be legal use cases which any credit card does a decent job of with lower transaction fees.

To me it seems like BTC's primary use cases are :

* Use it on dark net markets anonymously

* As a way to store value without dealing with tax aka money laundering

What people really seem to want is an anonymous, unregulated currency without being taxed.

I fail to see the value of Bitcoin.
While a really cool approach I would highly discourage a beginner to get started with this. Bayesian methods are not what most people use and the book does not teach any of the necessary basics in terms of analysis of real world data
That looks incredibly unstable and it feels like the gravity between the rings would easily counter their opposite rotations considering the amount of planets involved. Would not want to live there, but am interested within how many days this all crashes into the sun (and what happens to the sun with that amount of planets smashing into it)
No, it's current at many places.
So what? Doesn't mean we aren't allowed to criticize them representing their "own interest"/rent seeking.
I think I read recently that Chrome / Chromium is now able to run without having to use xvfb, so now truly headless.
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Give bitcoin another 5 - 10 years, and it will be centralize into the hands of a very very few powerful players (crypto equivalence of Facebook, Google, Amazon etc) making it easier for government to track/monitor/censor etc.
On escaping hyperinflation, while this is possible and also a good thing, you can still loose a huge part of your savings by running to a currently speculative currency/commodity. In Nigeria, a lot of people did that and Bitcoin crashed in value and the local currency appreciated about 30% in the black market where a lot of common folks source their foreign currencies.
It is still interesting to see where all these developments lead.
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Open sourcing is not a zero sum affair for the creator, I expect licensing agreements would need to be legally cleared and signed off, there would be an expectation of documentation to accompany the release and some kind of communications after release which would call on resources.
Frankfurt makes sense for European companies. Having it anywhere but Germany would also make it basically worthless for German companies because the cloud provider can't be expected to follow the laws German companies building their stacks on top of it would have to comply with.

Most of the regulatory requirements only come into play if you are not only hosted in Germany but also target German customers (e.g. offer your services in German language to residents of Germany) at which point where you are hosted only affects how easy it is to make you comply with those regulations.

Sure, this is a bad choice if you're Facebook and don't want to have to deal with those pesky customer rights and be able to abuse all your users' data without their consent, but I'd rather have a cloud provider with a DC I can hold accountable and plenty of German companies are willing to pay a premium for that vs the typically much cheaper US DCs.
This. If they come from a distant star/galaxy to a place where we let a rotten economic system be the hardest obstacle preventing us to go to a nearby planet, a contact with them would become a damn opportunity to learn something good.
Not really, you still need extensive training. Requirements have rather increased over the past years.

The reason why pilot salaries are low nowadays is because the job is so popular. It's a dream job of many so that airlines could access a pool of self-trained pilots (i.e. paid for aviation school with loans) for low salaries. This pool now seems to slowly exhaust so that airlines will have to start training their own pilots again at some point.
Self-test to check whether one tries to counter-proof his own hypothesis
I remember a link on HN to a self-test. At first, that page seemed to present a quiz or a puzzle and the visitor had to find a rule for some number game.

At the end of the page, the visitor was asked if he is sure that he found the rule and that he tried to counter-proof it.

An then, the page said that the most obvious rule was used and that it was easy to counter-proof but most users don't want to do that.

I try to find the address to that page, but I can't. Does anyone here know the page I'm talking about?
Getting a raise and bargaining for a starting pay, and offering a default pay for a job, these are three different things, I think.

Most people don't ask for raises, or draw no consequences from being mad about not getting a raise. So after a few generations companies adapted and simply don't offer raises anymore as default.

People who really want to make more money, still get more money. Just not in the same job. While working less in their current job they start to look for other jobs with better pay, and since they have a current job they can proactively bargain for the pay they want. If they don't get it they just don't switch.

And last but not least, but I hope at least here people have noticed that now we have a method called Start-up. That is a way to get a lot of raises in a very short time frame as well. The only requirement is the cruel real life fairness of having a growing marketshare.

So we have everything, non-increasing incomes for lazy people, regular raises by job switching from dedicated people, and fast-lane high-risers for people who can really take a risk.

And of course we also have a problem. But that problem has nothing to do with any of the three things (raises, job offer bargaining, default pay): We have more and more jobs that are automated and replaced by machines. If you have autopilots in airplanes that do a well enough job, you simply don't really need the pilots any more, for instance. I honestly don't know if we can find a solution for that, or if we are heading for another period like feudalism where only a small percentage of people actually have a good life.

But, well, as long as we don't talk about that problem we certainly won't resolve it.
My ex-wife is a professional photographer. She does weddings, boudoir, and portraits mostly.

Here's the thing. If she had say, 2 shoots in a week, maybe a total of say 8 hours of shooting time, the selection, editing, and styling of those photos could take 3x or 4x as long as the time spent shooting. She would have to be editing constantly.

I've always thought a perfect application for this sort of technology would be a model trained on that particular photographer's style, which goes through a batch of photos and selects the best candidates and then presents the user with a few choices for each photo it selected and styled.

I think the ultimate would be a NAS with this capability embedded. The photographers I have met through her over the years seem savvy about photo tech, but don't generally use online storage solutions or know much more than how to admin a WP site at best. SOHO solution would be ideal imo.

Great work! I'm excited to see where this goes.
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Constitution of China also gives citizens freedom of speech, freedom of press etc. It's not criminalized. It's just that if you say something damaging, they will find something else that you violated for which you have to go to jail.

To outside observers, specially, to those who pay you to say those things, it is obvious that you have been framed because of what they said and they tell their media to report accordingly.
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nano century = 100 * 365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1e-9 = 3.15576

(nano century - π)/π = 0.45%

So a nano century is equal to π seconds within half a percent which is more than good enough for casual uses as an approximation.
I signed up a couple of weeks ago to Mobike, and so far it's worked well. I've given them my credit card details, which should provide me with some protection. If I was really paranoid I'd use a prepaid card like my Monzo card.

At some point I'll look at what data it is sending out, and how often. Many people have Chinese apps on their phones as many utilities in the Play store originate there. If you watch where they're communicating to you can see that it is Beijing. Just as most apps talk to various servers in the US.
This seems like a no-op to me. My stack of code tools always warns me of unhandled errors (insert argument about maybe the compiler should be doing it I guess?) but I've never understood how a Result type provides any real benefit over the usual error-tuple Go uses.

In both cases I have to either write a handler immediately after the call, or I'm going to fail and toss it back up to whoever called me.

Errors-should-be-values has always seemed like a bizarre statement to me. Like, fine, but they're still errors - their core feature will be that I stop what I want to do and handle them. And in that regard I much prefer exceptions (at least Python style exceptions) because most of the time I just want to throw the relevant context information up to some level of code which knows enough to make a decision on handling them. The thing I really want is an easy way to know all the ways something can fail, and what information I'm likely to get from that, so I can figure out how I want to handle them.
I suspect it's because he posts reddit-style free writing stories. Maybe a year or two that was unacceptable on HN, but given that at this point, HN and reddit are indistinguishable from each other, I agree that there's no point in keeping him shadowbanned.
You might be able to estimate those frequencies without actually counting them on other planets. For instance, by measuring the time between when Earth became habitable and when life started. Or by comparing the number of Earth's species that never became intelligent to those that did.

It could also tell us what the consequences will be of actually making big discoveries like managing to recreate life from scratch in the lab, find it on Mars, or find life on earth opposite chirality indicating independent orign. If we do (or can't!) find those things, how much will that help us predict that we find other civilizations in the galaxy?

I don't think the infinite value argument really works. Finding aliens isn't worth sacrificing everything else for if it's extremely unlikely to succeed. We could just carry on without knowing.
Wasn't saying that the US doesn't suppress dissent in it's own ways, just that it doesn't use it's domestic surveillance capabilities to do it by, say, assigning each citizen a "patriotism score" based on their aggregate social media activity.

And I agree with jMyles that the chilling effect of it all is bad as is. Still, it could be worse.
Around 230 Billion for the entire ocean.
For free: https://archive.org/details/SenecaOnTheShortnessOfLife
> I think that was their point; with healthcare tied to the employer, going to a pop-up employer is way riskier since it means you'll not only be gambling on your economic stability once the project is done, but the ability for you to get healthcare.

Which is exactly, as a pointed out, an argument against the fact that health care is tied to the employer, but not against the pop-up employer per se.
I get the concurrent limit. My biggest frustration has always been the turnaround time to delete a project and free up a slot.
Interesting, thanks :)
How exactly is moving the mining operation thousands of kilometres out to sea and thousands of metres below the surface going to increase transparency? I don't follow.
Indeed, that would have been a killer feature for my employer a year ago.

Don't forget, however, that the ICP license might just be the START of the Chinese business license gauntlet! If you do business other than basically just serving content, assume there's other licenses that need acquiring. Always get local help with this.
I am trying that next time!
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Absolutely, but my point was that people don't even have important "data" a lot of the time on home build PCs so the question is how much added cost is actually acceptable for ECC? For me on a gaming machine the acceptable added cost would be in the very low single digits, so while I welcome if AMD goes "ECC for all" I was just trying to rationalize not recommending it to home pc builders with current pricing.
Most working developers don't have a choice at all for most of the coding they do because the company or team that they join has already chosen a language. Ditto for frameworks.
I think the opposite. It's unfair for medics without a PhD to be called doctor. If you have a PhD you've earned all the rights to be called doctor and to use the preffix whenever you feel like. I would if I had a PhD.
So you can see why the average college graduate in Finland isn't going to land a $200k/year remote job any time soon -- how would they have those networks?

There are of course outliers: people who have active open source careers, etc. But for the vast majority of engineers, the prospect of a $200k remote job while staying in Finland is about as likely as becoming a professional Starcraft player.
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This is by far the most reasonable and calm discussion I read in a long time on HN, and it's being had - of all people - by two self-declared alcoholics about alcoholism.

I wish you the best, you seem to be really cool people and I hope your life will be as good as you want it to be.
Back in about 1999, I was working for a big corporate and one of our Oracle admins lost her shit and had a meltdown, think it was around 8i era. She just got up and walked out shouting "fuck this fucking shit, I quit". This was on a freshly delivered HP N-Class HPUX box and they just couldn't get it to run after a month of going back and forth between HP and Oracle.

I bumped into her last year at Ansible Fest London and she was still angry about it 17 years later!

And that's what Oracle does to your soul :)

Edit: that N class and Oracle NEVER got deployed in the end. It just sat there unused, licenses weren't renewed, it got sheepishly powered down after a few months to save electricity and it got chucked in a skip after 5 years. About £200k of expenditure down the pan.
Do you guys take on remote workers ?
That's definitely a huge disadvantage!

But only supporting one compiler has the advantage that you're aren't limited to the lowest common denominator of compiler features.

You'll notice this especially with C++ codebases which try to support GCC, Clang, Intel and Visual C++. You'll need a lot of macros and workarounds for each compiler's quirks.
200ms is OK. How is the throughput? And which domestic ISP do you use?

HK wasn't in the list (I pasted the list directly). For some reason hosting in HK is generally more expensive than nearby places like Taipei or Tokyo. Not sure why.
A lot of that is consulting on and reselling of SAP products. There are many companies in the world that want to move to SAP and haven't been burned by IBM yet.
Something like 11.2km I think. For some reason I often hear altitudes given in feet even alongside other values using metric units. Might be an international standard in aeronautics?
Seeing few comments about how Alibaba Cloud is doing. It's ranked at the 4th position on Gatner's latest magic quadrant.

http://www.zdnet.com/article/gartner-puts-aws-microsoft-azur...

Disclosure: I work for Alibaba Cloud. Drop me an email (in my profile) if you're interested in the opportunities. Yes, we have office in Seattle (Bellevue).
> these are difficult concepts to explain to non-technical people

But that's not the problem, is it? It's not that IBM is trying to explain something difficult. Rather, if IBM was trying to be honest, the box that won Jeopardy would be called Watson, and the box they're now trying to sell everyone and their dog would be called "Whitney, Watson's big sister" or whatever. At the very least, "Watson the third".

By calling it the exact same name, you are trying to convince us it's the exact same thing just with more training. Which it's not.

Others mentioned poisoning the well; round here the expression is "pissing in the well", which I think fits much better.
I recommend you read Dilbert more often.
Gif resizing is pretty hard. We've spent some pretty substantial effort in doing gif resizes for our infra.

Out of curiosity, what library is your saas backed by?
sounds like it made you "more productive", ha.
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You're most welcome. We love Go and use it extensively.
I agree. I found this, for example (http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...):

> Among 57 361 male smokers with no previous disease, the estimated 20-year risks of death at ages 35–54 years were 16% (95% CI 15–17) for those who reported consuming less than a bottle of vodka per week at baseline, 20% (18–22) for those consuming 1–2·9 bottles per week, and 35% (31–39) for those consuming three or more bottles per week

Maybe there are some confounders not controlled for, but the association seems to go in the expected direction.
Thanks - just read it. I get it now.
The chipset supports it and linux turns it on.
Looks like the halt functionality is not there.
I stand corrected.
"Unlike some other countries under the Commonwealth such as Great Britain itself, Australian state and federal police routinely carry firearms. While on duty, most officers' duty belts consist of: a handgun, a Taser, an expandable baton, pepper spray, a set of handcuffs, ammunition magazines, gloves, torch and a two-way radio."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Australia
Well, I was apparently practicing Stoicism for quite some time and then just found out there was a name for the way I try to live my life. And that people for millenia have put a lot of thought into perfecting this way of life and maybe there's something I could learn from them.
So does Microsoft, but the QoS there is lower.

Aliyun - send paper A, B, C to us and a payment, the license comes to office in 2 weeks

Chinese Azure - send money to us

A day after, send paper A there, paper B there, C there

A week after - ChiComs come to the office questioning you why you omitted that thing in this paper, and give you nice time

A few weeks later you get your papers. I do not see what they call a service there.
I might defend the wrong side here, but industrial espionage was a significant part of the NSA scandal. Of course the US agencies are going to give the data they get by siphoning the global internet traffic and by hacking foreign industries to their own domestic industries. And we know that Asia was highly targeted, especially Japan, but also China.

Sure, China might be more blatant about that and do it on a higher level, but the US lost all rights to be on the moral high ground with things like that. The US got zero protection for user data. They do read your personal mail and they listen and watch via your webcam silently into your home. Does not get much worse than that.
I suggested it and the issue was closed as "won't fix".
I'm not. All of the things I said are qualified speculations. But I think they're pretty reasonable.
How's that different for any other country?
Thanks, so it's Vagrant with docker. It's probably more efficient RAM wise and it can make a better use of multiple CPU cores than VirtualBox based Vagrant.

I'll check the options for sharing the container file system with the host (editing source, db persistency, files persistency, etc.)
I've been on both China Telecom and Unicom, in Shanghai though so YMMV in other places. I've heard Beijing is much worse for connecting through Telecom.

My throughput isn't bad, I can very occasionally get up to 2mb/s download speed but it's usually around 500-600.
Is it totally irrealistic to expect better relations between India and Pakistan in the future?
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As a German citizen, that's a feature, not a bug.
Exactly my point. (And it's overwhelmingly drugs, not bookies.)

It's a bad trade off as a society for us to make police work more dangerous for the public and the officers in order to criminalize possession of certain plants.
The tooltips that appear when hovering over toolbar items. The ones that are dropdowns, 'Insert' and 'Type' show up as undefined.
Imagemagick can resize gifs.
How does this compare to gore?
Another VIM ? How to exit that damn thing ? :)
What exactly does it offer agains for e.g. free solution? There is several solutions, one of them by me -
https://devist.io. I can't figure why would one pay to have a changelog.
bitcoin is data, and in bitcoins case, it mostly consists of just a decimal value.
that decimal value can be portioned from one private key to another,
and transferring that data to another private key requires knowledge of the current holders private key.
bitcoin is not money, it is data.
Until data is classed as money, it is not money laundering,
it is data laundering.
Does anyone know what the difference between G and P is supposed to be, conceptually?
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It will boggle your mind then to know that most games still have their sounds in .wav files, even the music sometimes.

It's very rare for a game to have its music compressed, unless the hardware can decode it on the fly (think wma on the xbox, or adpcm on the ps)
Thanks for that, it's an interesting approach, never heard of it before. I will have a closer look at the precision.
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Only for the business of private individuals or illicit organizations trying to do shady stuff. The advantage disappears in a b2b context.
Second Measure is hiring engineers and scientists to analyze billions of purchases
ICOs getting more and more ridiculous. What the f*ck is this aquarium ICO?
R

http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/

This book provides an introduction to statistical learning methods. It is aimed for upper level undergraduate students, masters students and Ph.D. students in the non-mathematical sciences. The book also contains a number of R labs with detailed explanations on how to implement the various methods in real life settings, and should be a valuable resource for a practicing data scientist.

Python

https://www.edx.org/micromasters/data-science
sigh Sorry, hard to tell sometimes here :/
No need for any ability to avoid it. You could replace nearly all federal taxation with a 50 basis point net asset value annual tax.

I for one would rather pay 0.5% of my book value than the vastly larger amount in income taxes I pay. And it's a small enough value I think even extremely thin margin businesses could probably afford it.

Everyone on HN says "People would just flee" but in the end almost all the value in the US is real assets i.e. you can't move a physical building overseas.
Ah been there with the imagemagick in several companies, would never go that way again.
Yep, the crazy thing is that being a copilot in a regional airline isn't even an entry level job. In the US, you have to somehow manage to finance your pilot licenses AND 1500 hours of flying, before you can even apply to airlines.

And even if you make it that far into this career, being a copilot in a regional airlines sucks. It's not just bad pay, but also really bad schedules. Long days with short turnarounds in-between flights. Many young copilots even have an obscenely long commute to their first flight and back home after their last one. All for the hope of being picked up by one of the major airlines.