skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Big point to remember: the current high price is artificial. There are only a few exchanges selling BCH, and they aren't accepting deposits. The only sellers are those who had BTC there prior to August 1. So it's a sellers market. There's a ton of demand to sell. Once those deposits are enabled, you'll see a flood of dumping, and the price will crash.

So let's say Coinbase allows BCH withdrawals. Unless they enabled trading it (which they didn't with ETC when ETH forked), all those Coinbasers wouldn't be able to sell anyways. They'd be waiting like everyone else, so that $700 price wouldn't matter.
Coinbase is in a bad situation here. If they set a precedent that all BTC forks will be available to their users, then they open themselves to some pretty obvious DOS attacks.

10 new "bitcoins" could fork every day. Are we really going to expect coinbase to support them all? That's absurd.

I think it's pretty obvious that they're going to just issue the BCH to people eventually.

Here's another thought experiment: I am a now-extremely-wealthy bitcoin early adopter, and I am so happy at bitcoin's success that I am going to distribute $100 of USD cash per bitcoin to every person who can show me that they own a bitcoin.

To claim your $100, send me a Self-addressed-stamped-envelope proving your bitcoin ownership, and I will mail you back the cash.

Does coinbase have an obligation to send a bunch of SASEs to me? Are the coinbase customer's "owed" that $100?

I personally don't think so. I think that's the tradeoff you're making by having coinbase securely store your coins for you.
The issue is not with the severity of punishment, it is with the continuity of punishment.

This is from G.K.Chesterton, around 1907, "The Perpetuation of Punishment":

https://books.google.it/books?id=QtWvMclbR9YC&pg=PA504H7CQ#v...
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> the overall earning that the set number of jobs would support wouldn't change

Claiming that there is a set number of jobs and the overall earning wouldn't change with more productive labor is suggesting a zero-sum game.
Dear lord, this is exactly why everyone thinks neural networks are AGI about to take over the world. Neural networks are not magic.

> I'm pretty sure that if we threw a lot of genomes, healthy and defective, to a neural network, and then showed it a genome and told "make it healthy", it would.

It's not quite that simple.
Arizona, too, and you’ll find that’s common in tough-on-crime red states. I can petition to have mine “set aside,” but it sticks. I’m fortunate enough to have a great career in the Valley, but it comes up all the time as the upthread comment pointed out.

We are looking into gubernatorial pardon (Arizona has a decent process) but not holding my breath.
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Whats the point of a judge handing out a sentence if society heaps on a constant amount of extra punishment afterwords?
That's a big if. The S3 outage in February this year showed that there are a lot of sites that aren't designed for this.
irrelevant points are "moot", not "mute"
There is nothing confusing, your reasoning is simply unsound: the market price (not the value) of some traded altcoin is completely irrelevant to Bitcoin. Even the price of Bitcoin itself is irrelevant to the Bitcoin protocol. There is no law, anywhere in the world, mandating cryptocurrency exchanges to adopt altcoins after they reach some price point, and exchanges are not obligated to trade new altcoins either (which requires adapting their infrastructure, so it makes sense if they decide to not doing it), so, why exactly should it matter that Bitcoin Cash is being traded somewhere else for X% of the current price of Bitcoin? It simply doesn't.
Best case scenario is they handle it the same way they handled ETH/ETC fork.
I'm pretty sure GP means Is there a client that runs this check in the background, and either tells you or marks it Spam.
> It is easily too soon to say whether it will survive.

I agree. That's why Coinbase should have said that they will wait and see if the fork will survive or not. If Bitcoin Cash continues to have a non trivial value and the fork survives Coinbase will either have to give in and give the customers their Bitcoin Cash or they will get sued and loose.

> Ethereum Classic was the original chain. Ethereum(') is what the developers answered with, after the famed failure of the DAO, before 28 days had passed and the damage would become irreversible.

It doesn't really matter which chain was the original. After the fork Ethereum(') became Ethereum and only after the fact did the Ethereum Classic movement begin (as you say).

> If anything, your comparison is reversed

Majority hash power and the market decides the "real" coin. Ethereum and Bitcoin are the real chains and Ethereum Classic and Bitcoin Cash are the spinoffs/altcoins.

The fact is Coinbase weren't going to credit the customers their Ethereum Classic, but had to give in. I see history repeating itself.
for branding, i would consider not using a fixed # in the name - as that will fluctuate. instead consider the spirit of the idea : perhaps "SecondChances.io" or better.. keep up the good work!
Down's syndrome usually isn't a trait, it usually is a result of a second copy of a chromosome being included in a sperm or egg cell.
>> when you're applying for remote jobs, you're competing against a worldwide talent pool

when a US employer lists "anywhere" under location, this pretty much implies "anywhere in the US".

it's a pretty major ordeal for a US company to directly hire a foreign individual especially remotely, which is why if you look on job boards and see an advertised salary way lower than what a US-based candidate would be asking for - it's almost always advertised by a proxy company who deals with paperwork etc. from what I've seen on major job boards these account for ~20% of remote job ads.

that said - I agree that competition for remote jobs is more intense because there's less of these out there and plenty of ppl interested in getting one even if they have a job but it forces them to go to the office.
People should read the old, original Brothers Grim stories. Plenty of that was pretty, ahem, grim.

Over the centuries it's been sanitized and Disneyfied, but the primal drives that fascinated by that sort of thing have not gone away.
You know you're in the minority; most of the demand are those who didn't have BTC on Kraken. Good for you for cashing out before the flood :-)
Coinbase put limits on how much BTC could be transferred out each day, and didn't respond to support requests to increase the limits.
I once knew a 2nd grade kid who was learning calculus and competing in AIME. An incredible outlier? Or is it possible for children to develop these skills through practice and early training? I wonder how many of our attitudes and beliefs towards early education are dictated by tradition (what we went through in our childhoods), vs. what is actually possible.

Think of the potential when someone learns to program at 6 years old, and keeps at it! I hate to use the word "disruption" but I really wonder if education could potentially be "disrupted."
>But it's not,

Reprocessing is done in various countries around the world though right now it is cheaper to refine new ore.

>...Also it would make the whole nuclear energy economically unfeasible.

The fuel cost is a small part of the cost so I am not sure why you think it would be "economically unfeasible". Over time it will likely become cheaper and as we continue to use uranium, that price will likely rise so the economics will likely shift.

>...From your linked article: "At present there are no Integral Fast Reactors in commercial operation".

Sigh. I was hoping that you were actually interested in having a dialogue and understanding the current state of things and where they will be in a few decades. When you ignore what I write and cherry pick responses, it looks more like you have a deeply held belief and it really doesn't matter what anyone says to you. What I wrote was "Soon it will be possible to use most of the waste as fuel:" - I did not say a 4th gen reactor that could burn waste was running right now. Most of the designs being worked on are generally not expected to be available for construction until the 2020s. Do you have any evidence that we can't store nuclear waste on site until a 4th gen reactor would be available?

>...Nuclear power currently is not safe, waste storage is a problem, and it's not by any means economical.

NOTHING is "safe" the way you define it. Walking across carries some risk, flying in a plane carries risk. The only thing you can do is to compare something it against its alternatives - flying a plane to go across the country is definitely safer than driving. When making a choice you need to worry about relative risk - rather than stay away from airplanes because they aren't "safe". Waste storage from any industrial process is a "problem" - the difference between nuclear and coal is that the industry and its regulators take the waste issue seriously and make sure no one is hurt by it. "and it's not by any means economical." - citation needed. France gets a majority of their power through nuclear power and has lower rates for electricity than its neighbors:

>...France enjoys one of the lowest electricity prices in Europe; at 14.72 euro cents per kWh, the average cost of electricity in France is 26.5% cheaper than the EU average (20.02 euro cents per kWh).

https://en.selectra.info/energy-france/guides/electricity-co...

(France also reprocesses nuclear waste.)

Your original comment was "When you show me how to safely store radioactive waste for the thousands of years that are required to make it safe, I consider nuclear power as a safe effective and economically viable option."

I have given you evidence that your original premise is false - we won't need to store high level wastes for "thousands of years". As I said, while there are issues with nuclear power, the worry people have about nuclear waste is greatly overblown to say the least. Hundreds of thousands of people have died from hydroelectric accidents, literally millions have died from burning fossil fuels, etc - in comparison I've never read of anyone who died from nuclear waste.
Why pay taxes in Estonia rather than the UK?
'Real people' don't care about encryption, says UK home secretary
> will the person continue to do so?

That is the fundamental question of the sentencing phase of a trial (which is why if you’re unfamiliar with criminal trials, that they’re basically “retrying” a defendant they’ve already found guilty might seem weird), and I agree with the other commenters that it should stop there. Holding people back from regular employment directly causes recidivism. Unemployment and crime are correlated. You can’t just pull people out of society because they erred once, and this is why convictions with priors are worse than without; that question is being answered for you.

You want fewer people in prison and safer communities? Let felons work, fire them when they don’t, or they’ll get the money in other ways. It’s genuinely as simple as that. Beside the DUI crowd, half the minimum security inmates I spent time with were there for check fraud, petty theft, and other crimes to feed themselves or their kids. Many had priors, sometimes several, making one guy I met who had passed a $750 bad check stare down the barrel of a ten stretch.

Think about this: upon my conviction I lost the ability to both vote and leave the country. I have both back now (with effort), but even looking at this situation macroeconomically, what is that saying about even first time offenders?
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Why is that? There is less money in circulation, so less chance you'll get any. Are they making wiser choices? So if you're company is a wise choice you'll get funding?
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=hel...

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But if that's your methodology, you'd need to cut several cables in different locations simultaneously. A single cable doesn't take too long to fix (a couple hours, tops) and there are probably several redundant backups to handle bandwidth in the interim.
Main difference being uber is literally the same experience compared to a regular cab (most of the time), whereas a low cost airline is horribly uncomfortable (read: spirit) and charges for everything.
Do you have a hot take on Harrison Bergeron?
An architecture like WaveNet could also be interesting here: https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-generative-model-raw-audio... (HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12455510)
Yup. I was in that position 18 months ago, and I would likely fight the law.

But today, we have a rambunctious 17 month old, and while my wife could raise her single-handedly for an indefinite amount of time - single parents do, after all - it would be incredibly difficult and unfair to both her and my kid, and all the family members who would have to increasingly begin to pitch in.

For starters, if I were facing a jail term of longer than about a month, she would likely have to move to a much cheaper, further apartment. A move isn't free, and a move isn't easy - neither is finding a new daycare, nor losing the hours in the day that get eaten up by the worse commute and having to drop off and pick up the child.

Sorry if some of what I said above is obvious, but a lot of people on HN are single and unattached, and these ramifications may not come as easily to them.
It would require enough mining power to keep the chains alive, this is probably the only chance of keeping a fork of bitcoin alive, and even this is tenuous. Bitcoin Cash has a large support base however very little of that seems to be in the form of miners and you can have all the supporters and users in the world, but if you have no miners then you have no network. Given that they will use the same technology and have the same size block reward it doesn't seem to make sense to mine the currency that is worth less. When difficulty adjusts downwards you may get more block rewards initially but unless the coins hit parity there will always be a benefit in mining the more valuable coin.
I don't agree with what Coinbase did, but that's because not all forks are equivalent. Hashing power (necessary for transactions to clear) and trading price are not fuzzy and make a fork legitimate. It's only because BCC has both (at least so far) that I'd argue Coinbase has an obligation to disburse BCC to holders of BTC at the time of the fork.
I'm sure that machine learning will come into play at some point, but we aren't able to model complex organic molecules in order to understand or evaluate "healthy" on silicon.

In order to use ML on actual organisms, you'd need a way to try a lot of different modifications and then evaluate them after actual growth.

Doing that kind of experimentation with human embryos, fetuses, and beyond has huge ethical minefields as well as many biological engineering challenges.
You realize that enhanced alleles are going to spread into the gene pool the old-fashioned way, right? No society has ever managed to prevent the upper classes from fucking the lower classes.
There is a description of the problem here: https://github.com/hylang/hy/issues/1056

I think it really comes down to python having limited scoping capabilities (I think you can only really make new scopes with function declarations), this can maybe be hacked around, but at too high a performance cost to be usable.
Hy actually used to have a let (but a broken one) and it was removed in a recent version. For context on this see https://github.com/hylang/hy/issues/1056
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/03/identity-the...

The tickets had something else in common. Brownsville, the South Bronx, East Harlem, Bed-Stuy (at least eight years ago, when the ticket was issued), all of them are neighborhoods with large black or Hispanic, and very small white, populations. It was then that it became clear to me: the reason for the tickets wasn’t that these Lisa Davises were petty criminals.

If you are the wrong color and live in the wrong part of town, you get criminalized for existing. Then when something does go really wrong, you can be railroaded.

Derreck Hamilton* was a black kid guilty of minor bullshit who spent years and years in prison for a murder he did not commit (because some asshole cop was out to get him and he got railroaded). So, acting like not sending poor, non-whites to prison for basically existing somehow will make life scarier is basically racist bullshit. Or perhaps simply clueless about how things work in this country.

* http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/20/derrick-hamilto...
Do you really think preventing people from getting jobs makes them less likely to commit crimes in the future? To me it seems the opposite is much more likely. If people are unable to make an honest living they will be forced to commit crimes to make ends meet.

The prison sentence is the punishment for the crime. After people are let out of prison they should be reintegrated into society.
Well, if you want to extend the analogy...

Let's say that JimBob came along offering a lollipop to everyone for every $1000 they could prove they held in a US bank on a particular day. (The BCH network is offering credits to everyone on the BTC network in proportion to how much BTC they can prove they had on a particular day.)

You, as a customer, tell your bank, "yes, confirm to JimBob that I had $30,000 in my account on that day!" (You provide notarized authorization, etc.) The bank says no. Would that fly? Maybe.

Instead, they call up JimBob and say, "Look, we have $3 million in our bank vault. Give us our 3,000 lollipops."

Would that fly? I don't think so. (Though Coinbase hasn't done that last part ... yet.)
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>Why use SNS/SQS when there are free pubsub/message buses out there?

Free is never really free. There's always a tradeoff in engineering time and money when you choose to run your own stack instead of paying to use a stable, well-established service. Oftentimes running your own will be cheaper overall, but you have to do that cost-benefit comparison for yourself.
Wholeheartedly agree that btrfs isn't ready for a real customer base. I wish SuSE would have learned that lesson
before they pushed it as default.
> initially Kubernetes was supposed to be just a Mesos framework...

This is not correct. There is a community-owned project that allows Kubernetes to run on Mesos, but it came after standalone Kubernetes.

Disclosure: I work on Kubernetes at Google.
Not really if a manager is going to list demands they expect from their subordinates the least they can do is ensure they understand the difference between similar sounding words.
A good tactic can be to start at a remote friendly but not remote first company. To gauge this, look for employers where many employees are on site, many are remote. Work on site and do great work. After a year or so, ask for full remote.

Not an instant solution, but over time can lead to the experience you need.
dont know if this is kosher... but doing something similar and posted on hn previously... https://songeater.github.io/SONGSHTR/
I was pretty befuddled when my company IT switched from self hosted storage to commercial cloud accounts for incredibly sensitive info.

I think the reasoning was cloud accounts are easier for the masses than mapping a drive and accessing over VPN
What's the gene for racism you plan on editing?

The human body isn't a config file
Yes we expect Coinbase to support them all.

Public companies have complicated stock actions like spinoffs (i.e. "Forking" the company), rights offerings, scrip offerings, stock dividends, etc. Do you think ETrade gets to not give their users the results of such actions because it would be complex to implement?
Mystro is an app aiming to bring in more bacon for Uber and Lyft drivers
exactly, i noticed that companies manipulate the salaries on Glassdoor. Also there is a HUGE difference between what's on the internet and reality when it comes to salaries. If you read the internet about the topic, the majority would tell you that 50k would be high-end for Berlin!
Yup Office Space, office equipment will be cheaper. Vendors with less sales will fight to be competitive. VC's won't tolerate superfluous startups and it would be a great time to bootstrap your own.
I've heard pretty much all the other good recommendations that others have added, but this one - "Sell to businesses outside your time zone before and after work" - is novel! This is a great idea, though I can imagine there might be some challenges, such as if support issues peak/surge, there will be a few sleepless nights...but that might happen even if dealing with clients in same time zone. Regardless, this is quite a novel idea; and i think a good one! Kudos!
Coinbase put withdrawal limits on how much BTC could be transferred in a day. I emailed support so many times but no response, and in the end, I couldn't get it all out.
Richard,

Thanks for your effort in the reentry space! The struggle for returning citizens is real and constant and I love seeing things like this on HN. At one point I worked for a company apploi.com that had a similar business model but targeting a different demographic. I would love to share some things I learned from that experience. I also started a similar venture corestaffing.us that is hyper-focused on the Baltimore/Washington area. Let me know if you are interested in chatting!
GRRM framed Qyburn negatively. You could view him from a positive angle instead: he's a brilliant scientist who left the scientific community so he could pursue groundbreaking research without being slowed by obsolete and conventional ideas. That's a heroic narrative, not a sinister one.

ASOIF is fiction. We live in reality. The problem is far more often that we're held by obsolete and suffocating rules than that we're moving too fast. I'd rather try new things than hunker down in fear of the unknown.
Yes it is. We're not born blank slates! What we call human nature is largely determined by the physical architecture of our minds. Guess where that comes from.
Isn't what you actually want from that something like one of the following?

HashMap<User, (Vec<Post>, Vec<Comment>)>
HashMap<i32, (User, Vec<Post>, Vec<Comment>)>
Vec<(User, Vec<Post>, Vec<Comment>)>
Dan Gillmor did a lot of very astute writing (not necessarily just reporting, but also commentary) about many aspects of the scene in SV when he wrote for the San Jose Mercury-News. He didn't seem to care much for gossip or writing purely about personalities, and was more interested in cultural and legal effects of new technologies. I believe he's now occasionally writing for the Guardian, as well as teaching journalism at the university level.