skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VP eh. Awesome that I get a chance to write to an executive. Were you in the meeting where they decided they could roll out the Bitcoin Cash updates in 4 months? If so, did you actually think that customers would not sue within a month, or did you realize that and just were too scared to say anything to the boss?

LOL. Soo many lawsuits coming. It will affect Ops. I would have helped my CEO and explained it had to get pushed out faster.
Just curious -- what makes fentanyl better than morphine in a hospital setting?
Fees are always optional. Right now $0.25 will make a tx confirm in under 70 minutes (typical 225-byte tx, 40 sat/B: https://bitcoinfees.21.co). Solutions are being developed left & right to further reduce this: alts, segwit, block size increases (segwit2x, BCH 8MB blocks), payment channels, etc.

(Answer edited. Yes merchants care indirectly about fees.)
As a casual user who has occasionally used
Keybase for sharing work-related sensitive things, it will be interesting to see how KBFS vs. upspin plays out. As far as E2E encrypted file storage goes, the two seem to offer very similar abilities. Obviously, Keybase's other services offer more in the way of messaging and user social proof. I also like the way you can privately share things with individuals using the directory names, vs. the ACL file in upspin, though I guess that allows read-only sharing and a stronger concept of ownership... you can't do that for shared private files in KBFS right?

The other cool thing about upspin is the ability for anyone to spin up their own server infrastructure for storage. I can imagine a service offering an on-premise secure Dropbox to paranoid big companies. I'm not sure if you can deploy a private Keybase, though their client code at least is open source.
You got a lot of replies, but I don't see one critical point addressed. You said you moved from Coinbase (no internal caps) to an exchange. So we can't tell whether you'll get any BCH. If you don't know the private keys for your funds, then you can't spend those funds. You can only ask whoever has your funds to spend them on your behalf. Coinbase hasn't implemented the infrastructure to spend from anything but the main chain. We don't know whether the exchange you're using has, either.

Someone at Coinbase is slapping their forehead right now reading your story because you pretty much jumped out of the frying pan into the fire when you transferred from Coinbase to an exchange (rather than a wallet you control). That's exactly what Coinbase _didn't_ want you to do if you wanted full control over your funds.
Facebook Drowns Out Fake News with More Information
Until I can pay taxes with it, not interested.
Do a search for "Coinbase transaction fees."

You'll see theres no major announcement that in April 2017 Coinbase changed it's policy and stopped paying for up to 25 transaction fees on the blockchain. Now I have no problem with this practice in itself - it was a great feature - but my problem lies in that I didn't find out until my API payments started failing.

Here's where they actually announced it: https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-spring-cleaning-4f27710ff...

In the middle of a blog post that's far out of sight. For a policy change of that effect I cannot believe how they conducted it.

Then there's the multitude of API problems over the years. I would send payments and the response indicated success, but I would login and see the payments were never sent from my account.

The volume of payments I send through Coinbase is far too high for two months to go by and still not know why their API just fails from time to time. They collect enough fees from instant buys and transactions that I would expect reliability and due diligence. Especially when the security of my business depends on it.
Example of corporate espionage in “Silicon Valley”
Every time I see a PM related post I always think back to https://www.khoslaventures.com/wp-content/uploads/Good_Produ...
If a law is on the books but completely unenforced, how is it relevant?

Apple should obey every old illogical law from 200 years ago that's never enforced, and is actually harmful if followed?

Many of the other details are relevant as well. Apple could obey the law and challenge it, like Google is doing with the Canadian law.
Guess I and most of the people in my department are "those people"!

Isn't your comment self-defeating? You have legitimate concerns about corporate abuse of IP law and a specific crop product- not with the scientific field of genetic modification. So why do you insist on villifying the term GMO instead of using accurate language to describe what you're talking about? From the other perspective, I cannot begin to understand how you are the one not acting in bad faith.
Can you make your brain not see this circle illusion?
Environment, environment, environment.

The Boat People had traumatic experiences, so why wouldn't you expect them to have issues when arriving in their new host country? War, rape, murder, starvation, that shit will screw with your head for maybe the rest of your life. There is no point in comparing refugee and non-refugee immigrant experiences.

Ethnic Chinese were successful in Vietnam, just like the rest of southeast asia, many of them were rich, college educated and so on, and still got messed up for a generation upon being kicked out during the Sino Vietnam war. We aren't talking about soso people who weren't successful in their previous countries. Heck, today, many of the refugees that make it to the west were relatively successful, or they simply wouldn't have had the resources to make it to the west.
People are ready to pay extra for self-driving cars
> They know the aim is banning all guns.

But it's not, for all people, and framing the discussion that way is very disingenuous of them. I don't want to ban all guns, I just want to address the problem (because I do think there is a problem), so not everyone wants that.
The Man Who Picked Victorian London's Unpickable Lock
You really think The Sarkeesian Effect is alt-right?

This kind of misuse of labels suggests that either you are ignorant of the subject matter or you wish to smear your ideological opponents by associating them with a group that doesn't hold their values.
There are known techniques for running a large 3-shift operation effectively. One is that all employee-facing services must be available on all shifts. Yes, this means running 3 shifts in human resources, so someone working 12 to 8 can straighten out their insurance problem. Safety and repair staff must operate on 3 shifts. Food services must be as good late at night as they are during the day. Reasonably high level management has to be present on all shifts.

William Bratton, who headed the NYPD (twice) and the LAPD, was big on this. When he first started running the NYC transit police, he'd get on the subway late at night and ride around, talking to the cops on duty. Once the rank and file got used to seeing the commissioner on the subway, things started to improve.

A useful test for your local police department in a city of any size - find out who's the highest ranking cop on duty at 1 AM on a Saturday morning, peak time for most city PDs. If it's a lot lower rank than who's on during the day, the department is not well managed. Such police departments are derisively called "9 to 5 departments" in the business.
China is acting blatantly protectionist in industry that's important to US
I remember when Crockford released the fantastic book, JavaScript The Good Parts. I disagreed with some of his opinions in that book, like avoiding the use of 'new', but that book - more than almost anything else, helped me educate folks on how to use js well. I used to order copies for every member of my team. I wonder if, instead of a fork, we can just make a case for a subset of js. Take the good new things, and ignore the rest, like a modern "Good Parts".
U2F. Just sad support is growing so slowly.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14922563

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921018
3 ICOs Set to Out-Perform Long Term Benchmarks in the Cryptocurrency Markets
I mean that's what happens in reality
I thought the Internet had gone mainstream in 1992 when I was passed by a UPS truck with their URL painted on the side..
In a way, I'm sad that I'm reaching the end of Infinite Jest...it's been such an enriching experience for me. Thanks for letting me know, I'm anxiously awaiting it. :)
The only thing that keeps me from switching to Gemini is instant buy. I only buy the amount of Bitcoin I need to send payments immediately.
> I always wonder why Lisp never ceases to get singled out for parentheses

POSIX shell:

FOO=$(basename $(dirname $(cat file)))

Make:

OBJS=$(foreach x,$(WHATEVER),\
$(addprefix $(call BLAH,arg),....))
Driving between Houston and Dallas is a lot easier than LA to SF. Far, far fewer bottlenecks along the way.
Paper winnings. It's near impossible to trade BCC right now, so any USD value you see is questionable.
I don't see why Alphabay getting taken down would really put him at risk. He wouldn't have put his bank account or credit card on the site. This isn't even like drugs where physical mailing addresses are involved. The worst would be the money in his account getting seized.
I feel like it's already mainstream, in Singapore at least. I was getting a haircut at the neighbourhood barbershop and I overhead the shop owner talking about cryptocurrency with a female customer -- stuff like regulatory issues, Satoshi's identity, altcoins, and so on. They probably had more knowledge of Bitcoin than I did.
This is the article I was thinking of: https://www.wsj.com/articles/p-g-cuts-more-than-100-million-... $100M is a big deal.
..do you not know who Mitnick is or something?
Not to mention that anyone can create a new bitcoin-fork.

Animats-coin could be created and supported by 2 machines. Is Coinbase obligated to support it just because you have a couple graphics cards and forked code?

If so, there are many near-worthless bitcoin variants and forked chains they aren't supporting.

Whenever someone gets rainbows in their eyes about the magic of the blockchain, I can't help but think "you can imagine the perfect, utopian future - the same one we imagined about the internet in 1994 - but none of the unintended side effects."
You're right. I was off by an order of magnitude or two. Not that I planned it, but I just illustrated my point with sizes of seven digits or more with myself as the subject.

Seven digits isn't quite as bad, but without thousands separators it's bad enough.
Cool blog post about how NatGeo's 3D tour of the fossil was created using Three.js in the browser.

https://source.opennews.org/articles/resurrecting-dragon/
[Fentanyl] is on the World Health Organization's List of Essential Medicines, the most effective and safe medicines needed in a health system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fentanyl
Coinbase currently has no plan to support Bitcoin Cash trading. They won't even support withdrawals until 2018.
Octoparse vs. Import.io comparison: which is best for web scraping?
While it hasn't changed their minds, I do see the authors of the proposal actively discussing and engaging with the community. That's better than nothing, I suppose.
Unless the competitors increase the whole market (increasing total value) or—as is plausible with a cryptocurrency with netomwork effects—the lack of a single clear choice reduces the overall value of the market compared to a don't clear choice that everyone uses.
Make Pets with ARKit
Is there a patreon specifically made for open source or coding projects?
Just to test my understanding: Segwit essentially moves the signature in a transaction (and changes what is being signed). This fixes most "transaction malleability" problems. Transaction malleability means that one of the nodes in the bitcoin network can change some of the information in the transaction. It can't change where the money is coming from, where the money is going, or how much the transaction is for, but it can change some of the other information in the transaction.

It also appears that there were some proposals related to SegWit that advocated putting the signatures in a separate block, but the actual implemented SegWit does not do this. Instead it simply moves the signature to the end of the transaction (which allows them to fix most of the malleability issues).

There are many proposals for scaling bitcoin. One of the proposals is to increase the size of the blocks. Segwit also does this by changing how much the signature "counts" as part of the block size. This will allow blocks to be roughly 2mb in size.

Most other scaling techniques can't currently be implemented because they rely on the transaction not being malleable. If SegWit is successful, then these other scaling techniques could be used (but they don't have to be).

It appears that one of the things some people don't like about SegWit is that it was introduced as a "soft fork". This means that it won't be activated in the client unless 95% of the clients support it. Some people feel that this will never happen because some miners are against SegWit. There are also other proposals for fixing the malleability issues and so there isn't a complete consensus about how it should be done (some people appear to complain that the implementation of SegWit is too complicated).

So instead on waiting for other scaling techniques, BCH has advocated a hard fork which increases the block size, but that does not address the transaction malleability problem. Some people have suggested that increasing the block size is the only thing necessary for scaling bitcoin and that other scaling techniques are unwanted.

My understanding is that SegWit will not, in itself, solve the scaling issue other than making a small increase in the block size (effectively doubling it), but that it paves the way for other techniques later (none of which have been decided on yet, but there are working implementations of several).

Is that accurate?
That's generally not an allowed behavior by lawyers in the first place. First they must be approached by someone else who has been wronged, or the lawyer themselves must approach another firm. Otherwise, he is still free to represent himself and only himself.
Do you mean coders on patreon itself? Any links to coder patreons I can look at? Or do you mean a new startup that's patreon for open source/coders? It would be really interesting to build a patreon platform tailor made for coders if the market for it is not already taken by patreon.
Just because it's inconvenient for Coinbase doesn't make it legal. That's the kind of argument which goes absolutely nowhere in court. If you want your Bitcoin Cash, sending Coinbase a registered letter demanding delivery might be appropriate. If they don't pay up quickly, you're in a good position to sue.

Coinbase doesn't have to trade Bitcoin Cash, but they do have to deliver it to the customers they owe on demand. In the world of real securities, "failure to deliver" is a big deal. It is not at the broker's option.
I like Monsanto and use roundup to spray weeds behind the house so I don't have to trim them. I would be very disappointed if I could not do this, because those weeds grow on a rather steep grade and trimming there is a nightmare. For the record, based on the science available to me (nut job tree hugger sites are not science), I consider roundup to be safe when used as intended.
This is the most unsettling HN comment ever. Thank you for sharing it.
I think that tannhaeuser was just stating a preference that we use the same syntax for both the content (HTML) and the style markup (FOSI vs. CSS)
That's not really "Linux on the desktop" as its advocates imagine it. For most ChromeOS users, the Linux-y parts like the shell and the GNU toolchain are largely restricted.
I'm sure there's an article out there about "languages that almost became html". Anyone have a link to it?
It doesn't encourage people to try and build commercial jet airliners in their back sheds. You can follow a tutorial and build a KitFox or whatever, which is the equivalent of coding, I dunno, a virtual Enigma machine or something. You can't follow a tutorial to learn how to design an Airbus A380.
Wait. Your son is currently only in front of a screen for 30 minutes a day? Tha is pretty good, IMO. Heck, when I was 5 I was watching more TV than that.
Fish School Search
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narconon#Narconon_and_Scientol...
Ruby on Rails! It's a beautiful framework. It's nice to work with and batteries are included. It is well tested and battle hardened in many production environments. Give it a shot!
German scientists claim climate change may be cyclical
It would be interesting if YouTube implemented a flattr-like model - pay $10 a month and that gets distributed among all your likes for the month.
i'm not going to be rude or hate exa, it looks really cool actually. I, for one, love the color coding. But trying to replace something as old and known as 'ls' probably isn't a realistic goal. I think talents would much better geared towards something missing, instead. Either way, keep up the good work.
A successful YouTube business
WebAssembly Weekly #2: Webpack and WebAssembly and W3C
You can use Patreon for that. Evan You has one to fund development of Vue.js

https://www.patreon.com/evanyou
http://www.csszengarden.com
Hi Will, I've been using this today to track my hours and really dig the simplicity in Watson on the CLI and clean UI in Crick. I don't bill hourly but I'm interested to track how I'm spending my time. It'll be interesting to see if anything emerges over time. One thing I haven't been able to figure out is after syncing to Crick, how can I delete a project from there?
the reply was snarky because the definitions are essentially circular
Posts like this one are amazing in their lack of awareness. Let us know when you find the contingency lawyer willing to represent the thin slice of people who (1) desire decentralized currency, but (2) choose a centralized exchange to store their currency, then (3) ignore that exchange's warning to withdraw if they cared about a specific, then-unknown outcome, and finally (4) appeal to the very same centralized authority in #1 to rescue them from the consequences of their own inexplicable laziness.

Especially if BCH goes up in value by the time Coinbase adds support. Will you pay them a management/performance fee for the money they made you by protecting you from yourself?

(Or are you just a rabble-rouser who never had any funds on Coinbase to begin with?)
Why would you need a paper wallet for a small amount?
The firm he works for literally pays him to track size and scale of malware outbreaks. Whats the best way to do that? Look for domains the malware attempts to communicate with and register them, pointing them at the firm's sinkhole server. From there the server can generate reports on how many connections it gets and from where.

He did what he would of done to any malware once he found an unregistered domain, he registered it. He didn't realise the malware was using that domain as a killswitch.
Neat, I'll check it out. Thanks for the link. Guess I need a new analogy. :-)
Quick question: what do people do with them? Invest?
Don't think the visualization is working correctly, I always get the same difference no matter what subject I choose and even though the visualization itself is changing in shape.
To be fair, they could avoid that by checking if stdout is a TTY or not.
Why would you keep it there in the first place? History has shown us how unsafe it is to let someone else control your BTC.
A purpose implies intent or some kind of forethought, which evolution works completely without.

It's not a positive action (there is light so we need to develop eyes), but a passive result (there is light so the ones who happened to have eyes survived more often and reproduced more successfully).
Racket is being rewritten on top of Chez
Here's another story:

Long ago I tried to withdraw my BTC, but after clicking the withdrawal button the browser tab was stuck waiting for the HTTP response. So after a while I opened a second tab and tried to withdraw again. Both withdrawals went through and I ended up with a negative BTC balance on Coinbase. I sent one of the transactions back so that my balance ends up at zero again.
I've been looking a little bit at anaphora resolution in AI and there's the trouble that your phrase could appear in many contexts where Google's translation would be completely correct! If "cousin" is the antecedent of "her" (which is the only possibility if this phrase occurs in isolation), then Google's translation is clearly wrong. But if there is a preceding or following sentence which mentions a third person, Google's translation can be correct because "her" can then refer to that person.

For example "my cousin and her wife think that Sarah has good taste in ice cream": here one likely anaphora resolution is "my cousin and Sarah's wife think that Sarah has good taste in ice cream". Or "when Sarah got married, she invited my cousin to the wedding; my cousin and her wife turned out to have gone to college together" (again "my cousin and Sarah's wife turned out to have gone to college together").

Anaphora resolution in general is one of the hardest problems for machine translation because it appears to require so much knowledge about the world to do it as well as human beings do. But also, different resolutions can be correct (or maximum-probability) in different contexts depending on the additional information! For instance, there's the Winograd Schema structure where a single pronoun would be interpreted as referring to different people depending on the surrounding context (but not grammar). Winograd's classic example was

The city council members refused the demonstrators a permit because they feared violence.

The city council members refused the demonstrators a permit because they advocated violence.

Disturbingly for machine translation, in the former sentence "they" refers to "the city council members", while in the latter sentence "they" refers to "the demonstrators", even though the syntax of the two sentences is identical!

This, in turn, means that if a translation task required knowing the antecedent of "they" in "The city council members refused the demonstrators a permit because they", the translation task would have no unique solution because the antecedent is ambiguous. Formally this is also true of every reference to, for example, family members when one language marks gender and another doesn't, even if there is a likely resolution offered by the local context, as in your sentence. There is no unique translation available. Finding the one intended by the speaker will require more context, while even finding the one that other speakers find most probable with limited contexts is sometimes among the most challenges AI problems today.
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I think that was the joke
How will the average user be able to avoid these fees considering they'll probably be using some 3rd party app?

Appealing to the common person is going to involve larger exchanges how will digital coin grow and still keep digital currencies decentralized?

I apologize for my ignorance in advance. I'm really just trying to learn more about this, and can't find any consensus, even within blogs/articles authored by the same people.