skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Split your holdings into 20 portions. Invest in a range of high quality currencies and for each holding have several portions each secured with a different method. Eg. have some on a hardware wallet, some with multisig paper wallets, some buried somewhere, some with family. Generally you won't lose any. If you do lose any you are pretty well hedged.
«The Fed creates dollars»

Exactly what the parent said.

The fact it is used to buy TBills is irrelevant: the Fed creates money out of thin air. Period.
If some of the most sophisticated operators were caught (vis-a-vis DPR (Silkroad)), why would "regular" families of wealth take a chance with crypto? I would humbly submit that regular tax evasion via LLC's, trusts and other holdings are much easier.
Perhaps more as cool equipment that appears in the video than for what it can produce. :-)
भूलकर भी पति-पत्‍नी नवरात्रि के दौरान न करें ये काम वरना… भूल से भी न करे
A guy like Alex Jones would still qualify as journalist (assuming he really is independent, I am not sure about that) and yes, crazy conspiracy theorist would get the "information" label too.

This is the double-edged sword of plurality. But consider that: if you were pro-transgender rights in the 60s there were no way to sort you from the crazies: you would have been advocating as a choice what was officially a mental disease. They still existed and in 2017 their voices seem much more acceptable.

Finding the voice of 2040's progressives comes at the cost of letting the conspiracy theorist and the lizxardmen spotters have a say too.
The javascript data structures and algorithms are on my new github page:

- https://github.com/redblobgames/dual-mesh/

- https://github.com/redblobgames/mapgen2/

However the html5 UI isn't (it's a big hack I'm abandoning, and working on a different version). Feel free to View Source if you want to see the ugly UI code :)
Difference between a swamp and a marsh is the type of plants. Swamps are to forests what marshes are to prairie. You might be thinking of the difference between fens and bogs which ph is a distinguishing characteristic.

https://www.epa.gov/wetlands/wetlands-classification-and-typ...
PUBG creators unhappy with Fortnite: Battle Royale, considering ‘further action’
this is antisemetic and untrue
>> Had a chat with a high ranking public tax official last week who said that the age of secret offshore bank accounts is over

....and what prompted the conversation : ) ?

The problem is that crypto can be good for a % of your illegal money, since it's relatively unproven. Any exchange that doesn't share the info will be taken down ala BTC-E (my bet is that IRS /FBI has their client list and transaction history already) so it's very very hard to spend /cash out.

If it gets our hand, of course then govts we'll declare war on cryptocurrencies
> Did you transfer money last week?

No, I can choose when I trade since I don't have any cashflow issue.
Yangqing (creator and main author of Caffe/Caffe2) here. We are moving to Apache 2.0 in a few days.
Ask HN: What are your favorite history books?
Pretty well hedged? Is that supposed to be easy for the average person? This just one of the many reasons Bitcoin isn't taken seriously for widespread adoption.
Just break the rules. I have gone to the movies with food and beer in my back pack over one hundred times and never been searched, or caught in the theatre.
Mobile App Mesh Networking SDK: Bridgefy
Right, but how are they gathering the data? With open APIs from all social networks, especially LinkedIn or just Web crawling.
Yes. If you can trick senior citizens into giving you the information over the phone, you've got a legitimate business in the eyes of the banking industry.

This was a scam that caught my grandmother 10 years ago. The New York Times did a story on the industry:

State regulators have tried to protect victims like Mr. Guthrie. In 2005, attorneys general of 35 states urged the Federal Reserve to end the unsigned check system... But the Federal Reserve disagreed. It changed its rules to place greater responsibility on banks that first accept unsigned checks, but has permitted their continued use.

...In all, Wachovia accepted $142 million of unsigned checks from companies that made unauthorized withdrawals from thousands of accounts, federal prosecutors say. Wachovia collected millions of dollars in fees from those companies, even as it failed to act on warnings, according to records.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/business/20tele.html

I documented my failed effort to get Washington Mutual to reverse the checks written against my grandmother's account:

http://wamublamesgrandma.blogspot.com/
What does syntax sugar have to do with binary portability? Generics information is available in the bytecode, and you can access it through reflection (it's available on methods and fields).
Right, if they were equal grants, I would too. But they aren't, that's the point.
What functional technical innovation is there in ETH that is currently available for use? Some real, usable product that people actively utilize today that's unique and has tangible value?
For about 10 years. Less so for another 5. Then not at all.
Best to be the one responsible for cleanliness in share house. Price the rent accordingly.
How are patents at all aligned with "truly open sourcing"? The GPLv3 is openly hostile to patent litigation:

"and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it"

The whole fight here is about patents, not about open source. Perhaps Facebook's solution to nuking patents was too crude, but it had nothing to do with "open source" vs "closed source". The whole issue here is whether you could still use your patents against Facebook, something orthogonal, if not outright hostile to open source.
My favourite writer in the english language, grossly underrated. Great to see his cristaline clarity being praised, reading Waugh has made me intolerant of authors that lack this quality. If I could choose to write like anyone I wanted, I would choose to write like him. From a Spaniard.
No it's not. I can't believe the comments coming out the woodwork every time a thread reaches the front page trying to hype and build a case for bitcoin. It's unbelievable. The government and IRS have no problem going after people trying to hide large sums of money and there are far better ways than putting your money in something that's a wildly fluctuating gamble at this point.
Good efforts
Buffett, yes. But I remember talking to a group secretary who'd been an executive secretary in the Dot Com heyday. She flew to Paris on the Concorde for bi-weekly meetings.

Cuz it was important.
Why Elon Musk Is Like Alfred Escher
I agree that it is a legitimate concern if you believe that only software patents are a problem but want to keep your other patents available.

They probably left it this way because there is no legal definition of a "software patent" - they cannot differentiate between those and "other patents". It's not like "other patents" are all sunshine and rainbows either - the patent system is fundamentally broken.
rsync has a ton of HFS+ specific code. Making a faithful duplicate of a file (specifically its metadata) is a feat on its own: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/03/05/the-state-of-backu...
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. With a few million you can never work again.
Buyers do want significantly better quality, but phones are delivering only marginally better quality and marketing the hell out of it.

I say this as someone who used and tested the 5s, 6, 6s Plus, 7 Plus, Nexus 5x and Google Pixel. Every year brings a marginal improvement. Unless you have a many year old phone, upgrading won’t produce noticeably better photos.
Looks like it has privacy
I still think anti-biotics should be heavily taxed, with exceptions if you have been diagnosed with a bacterial infection
Well, "whoever is in power makes the rules" applies to everyone and all organizational entities, too. In this case, we're talking hash power, but same thing, isn't it?
I work around 50hours a week on salary, and always productively. I do it because I enjoy programming, I like making our products better, and want to be recognized for being a key employee. I also work out 5 Times a week, and spend every evening and weekend with my family.
But it's not a simple, linear battle.

That most virulent 1% then multiplies and infects systemwide... and adds new mutations all the time.
Sure no problem, here's the larger one https://imgur.com/gallery/Nc2MP
Software Industry Jobs in Oakland, California
I just use Groove on both android and windows. All my music is synced to both places and I can get music I acquired elsewhere onto everything by just sticking it in OneDrive
They wouldn’t reject messages from you so long as they are valid on their nodes.
Unless you have data backing up your assertions, you're comments are from the armchair too.
I think in the future instead of having a accountant/lawyer assisting with private/offshore banking, you will have a crypto security consultant showing you the best way to secure your own funds.
I wonder what this means for their other projects under the same patents license? I've been really excited about pre-pack (https://github.com/facebook/prepack) but I'm afraid of being bound to their license agreement.
Worked at HP 2000-2005, and we received detailed branding explanations. It was quite eye-opening, to me. Global markets, cultural meanings, etc. A lot of thought and legal review goes into it.
I've tried iTunes only once on Windows many years back and at that time it used to for download a small OS alongside it consuming huge amounts of memory even when it was not running. That is just wrong.
Replace TBills with gold - is it still being created out of thin air?

The point is it’s backed by an asset
With all the bravado of P.T. Barnum, I am building The Global Computer Employer Index.

It's organized geographically, with direct links to each company's own careers or jobs portal.

It's not just for engineers but for project, product and personnel managers, tech support, quality assurance and technical sales and marketing.
I wish they'd take Craigslist's path - simple, small, and providing amazing value.
The top four pools have ~55% of the total hashing power. They could orchestrate a 51% attack with a conference call. As we've seen with the BTH/SegWit2X fiasco, Bitcoin is anything but democratic or decentralised. A cartel is every bit as dangerous as a monopoly.
The Closing of a Great American Dialect Project
It's fast but sometimes not up to the mark
College fraternities will make you dumber – and richer
Bitcoin is fiat money too, but it doesn't make other fiat currencies look better.
Yes, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily successful at it
Shameless plug incoming:

I helped produce a short film called Confidential Informant. We poured our hearts and wallets into the film. I am very proud of the result. We (sort of, I'm currently in college so I have been reduced to editing scripts, crafting one pagers, and sitting on conference calls) are about to set out on a few more endeavors and quality, originality, and financial success for our investors and contractors is paramount. We hire quality over quantity. We want to make good movies that make enough money to make more.

I write all this to highlight two points: it is not just mindless recreations and rebrands out there (I have to believe that we are not the only indy guys who want to make good pictures) and there is good content out there, but like all good things you must work to find it.

When I get tipsy and hopeful, I dream of seeking funding from the likes of HN folks (y'all definitely talk like you could afford to invest in low budget pictures) instead of the withered, myopic folks who do the bulk of investing now. Film is risky, and people want guaranteed ROI. The climate is such that people want guaranteed winners and few will take risks on unknown quantities, directors, scripts and production companies alike.

Sorry for the ramble, but every time I hear someone complain about the state of film these days, my first response is, "what are you willing to do to change that?"

If anyone is interested in getting involved with a small and hungry production company hit me up. We don't need you to win but we'd love to have you.
Thanks. This is an alpha version, we are improving it every day.
People in my field use Google Scholar and NIH for search, but researchgate as a kind of cv.
>tfw you realize Bitcoin and Monero are more secure than your US banking account.

When are we going to stop the stupid practice of using serial numbers and strings for identity and start using strong cryptography to establish identity, authorized signatures, etc?
I wonder if someone has done (could do) an analysis of how much dip, the BSD+Patents License caused, in the adoption of React?
Ask HN: Why many publishers don't sell e-book editions?
I wanted to read Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman but I found out that it doesn't have any Kindle edition. I am not going to inconvenience myself by buying a paperback, I would just use torrents instead.

Why is there reluctance to publish e-book editions? There are many people like me who have grown used to Kindle and rarely buy paperbacks.
Antibiotics kill bacteria, not viruses. And that includes desired strains.
Nationalistic comments, which this and your previous comment smack of, are not welcome on HN. Please don't post like this here.
The device you're using to read this comment couldn't function without gold. It's an incredibly useful element. Investment and speculation might have inflated the value of gold, but industrial demand sets a price floor.
> That's not really accurate. HAART works because the 3 drugs are taken simultaneously, and it's extremely unlikely for a virus to get random mutations that confer resistance to all three in one generation.

That is literally exactly what I said. The drugs are taken simultaneously, and it is very difficult to develop resistance to all three simultaneously, because becoming more resistant to one means becoming more susceptible to another.
When I had roommates I always just did the extra cleaning. The way I look at it is, the level of cleanliness you expect may not be the level they expect. People are raised differently / have different expectations, so what's acceptable varies. I've seen plenty of families that go beyond "not picking up" after themselves. They basically have a floor made of garbage with walkways they've created through it. Unless you set ground rules before they moved in, asking them to clean more than they want to is just imposing on their way of life.

Otherwise, try to get them to chip in for a cleaning service or something. Maybe they are just lazy.
As if the issue was black and white rather than various shades of grey. China definitely is of a shade much darker than the USA.
I think 'ynniv made it pretty clear that they're aware that their input is cheap (or at least that's my 2¢).
They are notoriously hostile to first time contributors, don't hold your breath.
Just be glad that retail pricing to American consumers subsidizes pruce-controlled health systems in the rest of the world.
So is this means I can patent React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js? Or they are still patented and only license changed?
This is how Trump got everything he wanted and a judge never said no? Wait, no, that's not right. Who is this singular US power-unchecked person you are referring to?
RG is also used to ask question and get some really useful answers. At least in my field (biomedicine) the community is very helpful.
I suppose it depends on what feels rich. The kinds of places you go when you are actually rich cost thousands or tens of thousands of dollars a day, and they have shops where most of the stuff costs tens or hundreds of thousands, and everyone around you is carrying, flying, driving, or sailing things that cost hundreds of thousands or millions.No one I know who makes 300K (after tax) - unless they have a net worth that is in the 10s of millions - feels rich.
Stop victim shaming. When you're trying to make payroll for people you care about you'll put up with a lot.

It's not so easy to make principled stands when people are depending on you.
Ya, one major part of Chinese internet culture is making up new words to describe things whose normal words are harmonized (censored).
KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!
Visas are usually easy to get and there are counties other than the US and aren't Lebanon. Also, Lebanon isn't really all that terrible and you don't need to live there. You can be a citizen of Zimbabwe, if you want. The point is to not have the US government forcing disclosure, per the OP's question.
The apple exercise in question: https://medium.com/@Catylator/one-thing-you-can-do-to-feel-m...
"Distilled to its roots, the Fed has been manufacturing “savings” from thin air for the better part of a decade. When the financial crisis hit in 2008, American savings were depleted, so the Fed had to step in to produce savings (to finance huge government deficits). Now the Fed is attempting to remove that “savings” at a time when:

1) The private sector is experiencing falling savings.
2) The government is likely on the precipice of expanding its dis-saving in the form of greater deficits.

...

Not to state the obvious, but all else equal, if the Fed started shedding assets at $30 billion a month (or $360 billion a year), it would exhaust the entire stock of private savings. This doesn’t allow for larger government deficits. Given the current savings level, it is mathematically impossible for the Fed to shed assets at $50 billion/month. By 2019, as we are farther out from peak net savings rates set in 2015, it is likely the stock of private savings is smaller still, and hence the ability for the Fed to shed assets at a rate of $50 billion/month is utterly impossible. Net savings have fallen in the last 2 years from a peak of just over $700 billion to the current $355 billion. Will savings halve again in the next two years? If so, there is no mathematical way in the world the Fed can shed assets at the rate it outlined yesterday."

Source: http://blog.knowledgeleaderscapital.com/?p=13520

I tend to side with the uneducated who think the FED prints money out of thin air because it is closer to the truth of the matter of where real economic value exists moreso than the anachronistic mechanics of FED policy three card monte. When all is said and done, the FED took on toxic assets it will not be able to unload into a weak economy. The only hope it has is to sell the assets at face value in exchange for inflated dollars or hope the economy booms beyond everyone's expectations in the next two years. Sure hope the latter happens because otherwise the FED has done nothing but defer the pain of 2007 into the catastrophe of 2020.
Ask HN: Can I openly publish a project given to me at a job interview?
I had a job interview in which the interviewer assigned me a small project (provided test data, project objective, and performance measure) as part of the interview process to evaluate my capability. I ended up not working for that company, but I would like to publish the code I wrote for that small project. I did not get paid or sign anything with that company.

The data the company provided can be downloaded online. So I can use any other data for testing my code.

Would there be any trouble if I publish the small project (as a scientific paper, or an open source code)?
HP Alumni resources:
http://www.hpalumni.org/index

Excellent resource for HP/HPE staff leaving the company.
"The [Portuguese] Health Ministry spends less than $10 per citizen per year on its successful drug policy. Meanwhile, the U.S. has spent some $10,000 per household (more than $1 trillion) over the decades on a failed drug policy that results in more than 1,000 deaths each week."

That's a intellectually dishonest and misleading statement: it's comparing Portuguese annual cost per citizen to US cumulative multi-decade cost per household.
I agree with your points, but I don't think you are replying to the points that I made directly. I was specifically referring to the TSA rule on verifying identity without ID and its intention, not on car, trains, or how prevalent the requirement of ID is in China. My point is, in terms of ID requirements for air travel, there is not much difference between the two country.

Then again, I am totally used to people getting angry when I say China is not necessarily worse than US in some aspect regardless of right or wrong.

If you really want to be genuine, try to read my comments with a fresh state of mind and see what I am trying to convey.

Edit: maybe you also interpreted my comment wrongly? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15318245
It is worse in that any random local official has full access. There was a huge scandal a while back where a Hainan local official was paid off to make negative comments go away for a bunch of private businesses.
> Or at least that sane people will realize that it's maybe fun for a parlor trick (do people say that anymore?), but not serious science.

Indeed, I put this squarely in the same category as chess playing computers, and the idea the "machines that think" will ever be anything more than a niche curiosity. /s
So, Facebook knuckled under to increasingly intense public and commercial pressure.

In this instance.

I don't think they should be particularly rewarded for this. I think we should keep in mind what it took to get to this point.

And that, absent such pressure, individual organizations and people, and perhaps our collective society, remain at their... "mercy?"

Remain under their thumb. Whether that thumb presses down this year. Or next. Or... we just don't know.

In other words, I'd remain cautious about whether and how far I move under their umbrella -- tech-wise, or other.
It cares about those metadata a lot. Backups wont be bootable without it. And there is also disastrous data loss without it, a lot of files have their actual file data embedded in the metadata (resource forks et al). It's nuts because it's based on a 30 year old filesystem. That's one of the reasons why the smooth transition is impressive.
Imagination Technologies to Be Acquired by Canyon Bridge for £550M
They currently come with the added price of needing a prescription. Doctors usually charge for this service. I'm not sure that a tax is going to do much to dissuade people.
Yes. The way I read it, Facebook essentially shirked the issue, regardless whether it's only a perception problem, onto companies like Wordpress. WP has their own users, it's not WP's job to do FB's work for them, and FB has to have known the patents clause was going to be problematic, or at least controversial.
Tim Berners-Lee on openness
There's no comparison to Juicero. It's not beautifully-designed-but-has-no-value-prop brick. It's extremely useful, albeit for a pretty small market given its price point.
The first one is existing product(s) --- Google "magnetic USB cable" for plenty of examples --- probably all made by the same small set of factories in China.

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/product/1-Piece-Moizen-Micro...
You should read more chinese media. There are articles talking about how India and African countries would benefit from Chinese-style government and economic system. This is totally just finger wagging, however.
Sure, but I see plenty of it on HN, especially far-right trolling. Is that so common that it's just normalized and overlooked? For example:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15297953

EDIT: Or maybe mods just can't realistically every comment.
They might get mad, but that's their fault for not making you sign an NDA. As long as none of it is their IP I would not hesitate to use.
Caffe2 machine learning https://github.com/caffe2/caffe2/blob/master/PATENTS
Lawyers do what they do at the behest of their clients.

If you want to blame someone for the litigious culture in the US, blame John Q Public and the corporations he works for.