skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For this, the company has to first find the leak version. This means they need people to monitor all kind of sites for this material. With the bitcoin method, the company only needs to monitor a bunch of bitcoin wallets and, as soon as a transfer is made, the are aware of the leak immediately (with much less men power. Furthermore they also don’t need people who have access to those “private” torrent exchanges).

Furthermore, their response times are pretty awesome (if they are in fact true):

> Van Rooyen claims once a leaked copy containing a bounty hits the dark web, it takes just five minutes on average for the bounty to be claimed and Custos and its client to be alerted. On social networks it takes 42 seconds; and offline, like if a movie is copied or shared on a DVD or USB drive, it’s 28 minutes.
This is why customers can never give you specific requirements for a project. Deep down they know you write software, but they can't say, "write this specific software for this much money". They have to use vague, hand-wavy terms so that they can always step back and claim it was just collaboration between consenting adults. They were just paying you for your time.
Coinbase could probably do it. If there was an investigation into the theft, that would probably be a terrible idea.
I think the author misses the point. He references TV, Music, eBooks, and Movies. Those are not the only forms of content. What about user generated content (Facebook posts, etc...)? Any _data_ that can be consumed, and of interest to an individual is content. An individual's desire to consume content is the lever used by technology to generate a profit.
Agree. This is why Typescript/Flow became so popular, because they break the build if the "doc" isn't right.
ECS doesn't stop trying to schedule tasks ever. So you can ddos and crash your entire cluster if one if your containers fails on startup.
Perhaps a stack-based representation of speech would work well? There was an interesting post on the English language StackExchange that talked about Trump's speaking style and how, due to its more off-the-cuff structure, ends up nesting various subjects in layers, pushing and popping from the stack:

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/311381/donald-tr...

Seems like the kind of verbal structure that the puzzle-minded among HN might actually enjoy piecing together actually!
Sure, but it's a good step forward to move to an EV. Agreed that people also need to give up their car where they can, or cut down on use, and wider availability of ride hailing will help.

By the way, I was recently in Manila and ride hailing is readily available unlike where I am in the UK. There was Uber and a few others. Much easier (and safer) to hail and ride there than trying to flag down a taxi.
I like Tiny Epic Gallaxies. Space exploration game. The game has some depth, but not a ton, and stores in a box that is quite small.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/163967/tiny-epic-galaxie...
All numbers I've seen show that people who take counter offers from their current employers generally leave anyway.

There are exceptions: when salary is the ONLY problem, and usually that topic will have come up. So if the employee came to talk salary, was denied, then got some offers, came back with them, and asked again, then sure. But any company worth its salt will have done something before the other offers were ever in play.

If someone gets offers right off the bat and never talk salary first, then they'll be gone in 6 months unless you give them way above market rate.
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> What else would they be motivated by?

The actual work (what is being done), the mission of the company (are you helping kids send pictures that disappear after 10 seconds or are you working on finding a cure to hearing loss?), the team, the location (do I have to spend 2h commuting?), the opportunities to learn, the opportunities to grow, etc.
We each value different things, but if money is your only consideration, you will be treated as a "disposable mercenary" because that's exactly what you are.
You will never be trusted, because your loyalty is directed at whoever shows more $$ to you.

Companies value more than just pure technical skills: loyalty, teamwork, communication skills, attitude, ethics, drive, independence, etc...
If you only play in that one dimension, the game becomes very rough for both sides. I've never seen that work well, except for very short term assignments.
And over €12,000,000 at the price 2 weeks ago.

Who knows what the price will be next week, but it won't be anywhere near €6,000,000 if they try to sell that much at once.
Backing Up [Encrypted] Firmware from Dallas Semiconductor DS5002FP [pdf]
As my sibling post states, you're being silly here.

Corporations are run by people, and they draw on a huge variety of sources to make their decisions. Including, obviously, some that are not rational.
If you were able to make it work in real-time you could do some really cool stuff with characters in multi-user VR spaces. Your avatar could be shown to move its mouth in a realistic way as you spoke to other users, which would go a long way towards building a feeling of "realness".
100+ jobs will break your browser. RabbitMQ has been complaining about it for a while.
Look at the rush hours it'll give you a clear understanding of how wide the range is in the Bay Area. Traffic starts at 5am and ends at 10:30am on the morning, then starts at 2:30pm and ends at 7pm. This is for the big rush. Some people still still start at 11am and end at 8pm.
Unless people decide that bitcoins are not fungible, then fractional reserve banking is absolutely possible with them. You give me Bitcoin, and I will lend them out at interest, keeping some on hand to give back to you as you need them. The process is identical to banking with a fiat currency, and results in the same money multiplier.

Where there is confusion is because economists accept that money is an abstract thing, backed by people's willingness to accept it, whereas Bitcoin enthusiasts see money as a tangible thing that must be backed by a concrete thing. Thus, when economists say that the supply of money changes with fractional reserve banking, they are referring to dollars in the abstract, not physical dollar bills. When Bitcoin enthusiasts say that the supply is limited, they are referring to the bitcoins themselves, not the abstract availability of bitcoins.
I remember doing a long research paper on the World Bank and IMF around 2000. They're the equivalent of "pay day loans" for 3rd world countries. It's predatory lending at its finest. For those unfamiliar, they generally only give money if countries cut spending on the people (education, health, etc) and open up natural resources for exploitation by foreign corporations.
Proof of provenance.

We're going to need signed videos...
You essentially live in Daly City.
So the price will rise and rise because people think it will rise and rise, and thus not sell? Sounds great.
UBI will only just help big businesses stay big
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Brilliant post; Thank you;
> #3 is exactly what the above remark addresses. If I can show my boss I'd be treated properly elsewhere, the boss sure better get on board and start doing those things.

If you feel you are treated better elsewhere, as a manager I'd help you transition to that elsewhere. If that is what you really want and think is best for you, I would make it as easy for you as possible. If you think money is most important to your current situation (house, wife, kids, debt, ...) and you're skill set is beyond my budget, than this is fine with me.

I'm more interested in people-relationships than job-relationships as I have met many of my employees in other companies and we're still friends - and most of them left for a different job with probably more money. Some of them told me years later they should not have left because I usually invest a lot into people development and money is only one parameter to job satisfaction.
Oh good, so they should be able to do that now and give everyone there money back again. Thank goodness for decentralization! /s
I agree (that it's more funny than perfectly descriptively fair). The point is that a lot of people with 10 years' experience aren't necessarily more valuable than those with 3 years' experience.

There's a steep initial ramp of learning that can readily plateau out if someone is complacent or actively disinterested in learning new things.
Use it like ssh -R 80:localhost:8080 serveo.net. This is an attempt to marry the convenience of ssh -R with the features of ngrok.
John Cabot, an ambassador in the 1950s, had a good quote:

"The UN is meant to prevent you from going to hell, not take you to heaven."

The IMF and the World Bank were part of the world superstructure set up alongside the UN, so this quote applies to them.

Can't speak about the World Bank, it might indeed really suck. The IMF is a good organization that tries. They've made some bad mistakes, but have learned from them. A good example of this was during the Southeast Financial Crisis that in 97-98 that toppled the Indonesian government and still to this day has left abandoned skyscrapers in Bangkok. At the beginning of the crisis the IMF had a policy against restricting investor access to banks, believing it was better to "let the market work". By the end of the crisis, after South Korea had fallen (fallen meaning they were out of foreign currency reserves), and Japan / Russia looked like it might be next, the IMF had changed positions and was fully committed to using international law to stop irrational investor panic.

People forget HOW HUGE THIS WAS. There was a Time magazine cover at the time that literally read "The Committee to Save The World" with Greenspan, Summers, and Rubin on it.

Interestingly, though this problem would later help usher in the Dot Com bubble. The regulatory agencies had to lower investor rates to calm investor nerves, even though other people were asking them to not too because of the increasingly worrying NASDAQ IPOs.

https://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1999/11...
Awesome, thanks for filing!
It probably is and archive team just don't care...
Being reassigned is not a problem, as long as it's logged to which account it was assigned to at the moment of the call.
I'm not so sure. I think when people figure out how much money they are going to save by switching to an EV you could see a rapid uptake.
And here's the write-up from a MAME developer about the chips, including the situation with dying Gaelco arcade games using them:
https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2017/07/17/ds5002fp-dumping/
Your argument hinges on the assumption that (a) employers can easily determine the relative "value" of an employee and (b) that employers then make rational decisions based on that data.

I don't think either is likely.
Completely agree. There is no reason (outside of some kind of coding challenge) for code bases in the web domain to contain logic that is so obtuse due to hacks or unavoidable complexity that spending more time to document functions than it took to write them is the correct use of business resource.
Inflation affects all kinds of money - including that sitting in a bank account. All forms of electronic payment include rent paid to some company and that's above and beyond currency devaluation.
Well, considering that this amount of ETH was worth double that 2 weeks ago, I don't put much faith in it being worth anywhere near that much if they tried to liquidate it immediately.
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OP: There's rumors of Amazon creating a new chat app. Not long ago they created Chime. They also have remote desktop products and similar products through AWS. It all sounds cool, but I was curious if anyone has actually used it for real work/play, or knows someone that does?
Fair warning: I am going to ramble a bit.

I kind of wonder. From what I know (which is fairly little, I guess, but bear with me), IBM's mainframe business has profit margins that would even make drug dealers drool. The corollary is, of course, that these machines are very, very expensive.

I wonder what the fincancial pro's and con's would be if IBM tried to loosen up a little on the margin and increase their potential market in return, in other words, sell cheaper mainframes.

I vaguely remember they tried something along those lines during the S/390 era, which culminated in a 4U rack-mountable machine. (I assume, naively, that the smaller physical size and capacity corresponded to a smaller price).

From what I've heard and read over the years, IBM invests a lot of money in its mainframe line, and at least on the hardware side, a lot of really cool technology and research goes into these machines. It's kind of a shame that all this cool technology gets cooped up in relatively small market niche.
I'm fairly close to 9 to 5 or 6. 3-4 days a week I get up at the crack of dawn to get 2-3 hours in before anyone is up. (It's my best time for uninterupted thinking)

At a prior job it was flipped - most nights a few hours an evening to talk to India.

I haven't had a silicon valley job that encroached on dinner on a regular basis, but part of that is how I selected the firms.
And if you think about it, moving every 2 years is 15 different companies. If you stay a bit longer at the ones you like, say 5 years, then that's 6 companies in your employable lifetime. To put it another way you have 5-10 big projects that you can do in your (employable) life. (I think Jeff Atwood said something like that before).

This is of course for people that value what they do at work and want to make meaningful impact professionally in their lives. For other people family is much more important so it doesn't matter if they don't min/max the projects they work on.
In the big tech hubs, 2 years is pretty much the norm, for a variety of reasons (what's talked about in this article, but also just the sheer amount of opportunities).

It's not a great thing, but thats simply the reality. It's not too uncommon to see a company open an office outside of SF/SV/NYC/Boston/Whatever with the primary goal being to attract employees that will stay longer.
Why I bought your software
I respectfully disagree that you can tell whether or not a person is "capable of stretching himself" or not based on length of stay at a job.

There is an overwhelming amount of outside factors that can dominate those decisions much more than your own personal ambitions. The most important of those would be the needs of your family.
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I should launch an ICO.
> a (lighly) used 1060, 1070 or 580 might be just the thing

I'm not really sure I'd call a card that's been used for cryptocurrency mining "lightly used".
A lot of employees would gladly choose to stay at their current company if the pay raise was fair. It's not easy for people to uproot their lives every 2 years. But there has to be an actual incentive (financial) to staying at a company long term.
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1) Watch out for the website. And here's another tip from Vitalik,

'Reminder: if someone makes a token sale that gives discounts to large buyers, this can be circumvented via collective-buying smart contract.'[0]

I think people are going to start understanding how to navigate the new investment waters. It's going to take time. I still don't have as many sources of info in the area as I'd like. That too -- if the market continues to develop -- will change in time.

[0]: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/886191450727297024
There's no charge for ingress traffic. They spin up an instance in GCE and use youtube-dl or something else to scrape the site directly into an "unlimited" drive account (which is also free to transfer into).
I know this because I have taught yoga classes for years. There you tend to meet a lot of people who have tried to find help for their health issues and try yoga as a last resort. Unfortunately yoga isn't a cure for lots of people either.

But just listen to their stories. If you have something like autoimmune disease, chronic fatigue, undiagnosed Lyme's disease or other stuff a lot of people including medical professionals will accuse you of lying and pretending. This goes on while it's very clear that people are suffering. Some people are lucky that eventually they get diagnosed with something that's in the textbooks like Lyme's but a lot of them don't and their life is miserable. It's miserable because of suffering but also because they get treated like pretenders.
"The tech industry has been trying to get onto the TV and into the living room since before the consumer internet - the ‘information superhighway’ of the early 1990s was really about interactive TV, not the web."

How was the early 90s about Interactive TV and not the web?
Every single word in this article burns clear and bright and true. Every word. Every paragraph. Every penny paid for every hard lesson learned.

If you want to get into the angel game in 2017, and you want to do it to make money, then I'd sincerely advise you to go take out $5-10k for a weekend in Vegas, and try to get really good at a game of complete chance, like roulette.

"Good" at roulette, you're thinking? What can that possibly mean?

It means having a large bankroll and knowing your tolerance for burning through it. It means understanding how to pace yourself, so that you're not blowing through your bankroll in the span of a few minutes. It means getting the itch out of your system, if, indeed, this is merely an itch.

Can't afford to fly to Vegas and blow 10 grand in a weekend? Don't get into angel investing. You can't afford it. I say this not as a snobby rich asshole, but rather, as the sort of nouveau-riche asshole who lost quite a bit of money many years back, doing exactly what the author did, and losing money I learned in retrospect I didn't really want to lose.

I still make the occasional investment, but as part of a group. By and large, those investments go to founders we've worked with before, or who come highly regarded. We invest super early, we eat a fuckton of risk, and we expect to lose 99.999% of the time. We're too small-time to play the game any other way at the moment.

Angel investing is about bankroll and access, and if you're wondering whether you've got the right access, you don't. So you're left with bankroll. Have fun, and try to get lucky if you can help it. :)
Thanks.

Have you experimented by taking various subsets of these supplements, to determine which are the effective constituents for you btw?
I'd see that as a negative, rather than a positive. Being resistant to censorship means that it is also resistant to correction. With Bitcoin, there is no way to reverse a fraudulent transaction. If a debt is owed, one could not put a lien on bitcoins to prevent them from being spent, as one could with regular currency.
I don't want to be confrontational, but I really don't understand the point you're trying to make. Why a neural network, why VLC? I understand that you are suggesting it would be possible to strip the watermark, but the way you've said it sounds a lot like "create a GUI interface using visual basic, see if I can track an IP address"[0]. Which is to say, you've not said what you would do to defeat it, but how you think it would be implemented... which doesn't really tell us anything about HOW you think it could be defeated.

>You just can't effectively watermark data intended for human consumption, our tolerance for intentionally induced noise is too high.

If this were true, steganography[1] would be useless in practice (it isn't).

I would suggest reading up on digital watermarking[2].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_watermarking
The majority of purchases inside the store were cash because we required a $5 dollar minimum purchase for accepting cards. Most card purchases were used for gas which was already a loss leader most months out of the year, so it made more sense to keep posted prices competitive with stations in the area in order to bring people into the store rather than charge a few more cents in order to offset the cost of cards.
Sorry, didn't see this earlier. Yes, still need one. Thanks!

Edit: Oops, turns out I did receive an invite. Thanks, elorm!
TL;DR: Bitcoin is popping, and Ethereum is going to be the new bubble.
Time to learn how digital signatures work.
Look at what kind of liquor and at what prices is sold in poor neighborhoods vs. rich ones.
I've got another method that's working. I'll answer the call and immediately mute the line. Then wait. If it's a real person they'll talk first. Robocallers will hang up. And they seem to call less after.
I found this picture of the team. Not sure how old the picture is. https://yellow.place/file/image/cover/0/0/204/ulriejwjzgbqti...
Your question is too broad. You're going to get a very big set of answers because you've asked over so much time and space. Please allow me to answer a series of more specific questions that may help you understand more than the "average."

What are the typical work hours in a large tech company in California?

Very few require more than 50 hours a week. Typically people are in office 7-8 hours a day, and often put in some time handling communications or catching up on small sums of work in the evenings.

Folks in higher management positions (directors and above) typically work more in a company like this. The demands on directors and above in tech companies are uncharacteristically high.

What about medium sized companies with less than 300 people?

This starts to get into the "it depends territory." Companies this size are small enough to still become reliant on extraordinary effort from individuals. Being a manager is often very stressful in smaller-but-not-small companies like this because you're always juggling resource scarcity.

Engineers should expect 8 hours a day, but occasionally much longer. This kind of company is often not-quite-there-yet on having well-managed infrastructure that doesn't page you at 3am.

What's it like working at a very small startup when I'm not in the first 3 employees?

You can tell if it's going to be more-but-okay (50-60 hours a week) or unsustainable (70+) by talking to the founders. Most small venture-funded companies will optimize their hiring around single people willing to take long hours for less pay and the hope of a payout.

What's it like founding a company?

It is what you make of it. You absolutely should expect some absolutely booked weeks. It'll be awful. It may or may not be worth it.

In summary: the larger the company the more time upper management will put in and the more normal hours everyone else gets to work.
Not even close to SV, but that's my schedule as well, though I'm at the computer half an hour earlier.

I'm in Argentina btw.
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The version of Garden it uses basically just shells out to Docker. Run 'top' on a busy Concourse worker, it's fun.
The OP I'm responding to said, specifically "The snake-oil has done nothing," which they cannot know for certain, especially given that the dietary supplements were not even listed.
40-60 hours depending on employer.
Yep, it is. And even when I do that people on the internet will call me stupid for believing in non-evidence-based medicine.
> fee is based on the byte size of the transaction

Aren'y all bitcoin transaction really close to the same size? The amount being transferred doesn't change the size an integer contain 1 and another container 1,000,000,000 take the same amount of space (32 or 64 bits) because the spec says so.

I thought transaction fees encouraged miners to include your block in a transaction.