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Credit rating agencies provide ratings for securities (e.g. corporate bonds). Their clients choose to pay them to issue ratings, so that the buyers of the securities will be more likely to buy them.

Credit reference agencies (Experian, Equifax, Callcredit) collect information about individuals and provide that information (credit history) to lenders for a fee.

There's no statutory obligation for banks to provide information to CRAs[0]. But agreements between CRAs and their clients (banks and lenders) generally requires that, if bank A uses CRA B to get info on prospective customers, then bank A must also report details of all its customers to CRA B.

There's some truth to what you said, though. It's often a problem for SMEs (small/medium businesses) to get loans. And, since only the bank they use for day-to-day banking has a good idea of their creditworthiness, they can't easily shop around to other banks. So there's legislation which forces the largest banks to make that information available to 3 CRAs, which must provide them to any lender which asks. BUT this only applies to SMEs (not consumers) and any SME can opt not to have their information shared in this way.[1]

[0] https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/credit/
"As there is no DPA requirement for lenders to report such data to the credit reference agencies, it is up to the lender to decide which credit reference agency they wish to use, if any."

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/designation-of-ba...
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That's exactly the point being made in this post. Have you read it to the end?
The only thing missing here is a little anecdote about how Von Neumann, when challenged on this, did it in his head and started rattling off the parameters. For arbitrary animals.
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Yes, but based on an subjective judgment. I am the author of the blog post, and I tried to do my utmost to emphasize that my judgment here is highly subjective, using phrases such as "for my own pedantic notion of correctness", and "I cannot in good faith claim that [problems with block comments] occur all that often in practice". I try to make it clear that I'm not surprised, offended, or annoyed that most languages support block comments.

How do you think I should have put my words, to make it clear that my opinion here is not intended as objective fact, but merely a subjective take on a language design question?
Article completely avoids the headline. Is instead a walk through guide to buying via Coinbase then transferring to GDAX and back.

Would've liked to simply know if Coinbase is adequate wallet for these upcoming forks to receive equivalent.
"They" need only seize you and beat you with a wrench to get your passphrase/convoluted security mechanism(s) protecting your private key(s).

Or just pass a law requiring you comply or else.
escrow.com quotes 26k USD on a $3m transaction, about 1%. I can understand the buyer wants to save 13k cost, but overall it's a small part. Escrow shows the seriousness, you will know $3m has been transferred. If the buyer rejects the product (source code) they don't automatically get their money back. In case of escrow.com they want to see third-party arbitration first (buyer and seller have to come to an agreement). After a month though they'd get their money back.

I'd use escrow. And go further and across the world, sit next to them with a laptop, print out every file or rent an office next to theirs to avoid sending them the full source code. And I'd expect them to pay all the expenses if the deal doesn't happen. If they chicken out of 10k cost (again 1% of the total transaction) I'd say they're not serious.

Third option is to demand due diligence by a third-party.
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Hi which va service do you use/recommend ?
Yeah but the pattern emerged before `async/await` was javascript standard so people kind of sticked to it.

I know some not bad js developers who use RX a lot and have no idea about `async/await` existence, I even had to explain to couple of them how `async/await` works and what is "imperative code". No joke.
The article's title seems click-bait. It makes good points identifying some of the already known weaknesses in bitcoin's design, but he is basically complaining that Satoshi didn't predict how his creation would evolve over time which seems unfair.
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That's Internet 2.0 in it's purest form, no?
> 1. A cap at 21M. It made the currency deflationary by nature. Ask an economist, no one thinks it’s a good idea long term http://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/030915...

Most economists, not all economists. And most of those economists are the ones destroying economies, in my opinion.

If you're interested in reading a counter-viewpoint on why deflation is actually good – it's the policies aimed at countering it that are really what's bad – here you go: https://mises.org/blog/deflation-always-good-economy
Amazon just posted a better introduction. Read that instead:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15457700
There is no grammatical difference. @smnrchrds above is spot on in his explanation of the etymology. "Elah" is "god" with a lowercase g (as in, a god). "Al" means "the" in Arabic. "Allah" = "Al Elah" = "the god" = "God."

Now, whether the Abrahamic religions consider their God to be one and the same is a philosophical question. It depends on what "the same" means. Each of them claims to refer to the same entity, at least from a historical (or archaeological) point of view; but some followers of the different Abrahamic religions might object to each other's representations of God and deem them "not the same." A theological case can be made that they are ultimately distinct (I find it to be weak, but it's been argued). But, nominally, they are the same entity despite differences in characterization (and I believe this is the prevalent view).
If use Reaper, try Ultraschall.fm (https://github.com/Ultraschall/REAPER). It's an open source extension for Reaper for podcasting. It's extrem popular in the German podcasting scence (you know that one obsessed with chapter marks).
These are actually quite good edits. In the original versions of these articles, all the words being removed were not supported by any citation or anything else - so, while it's quite possible these adjectives were true (as I personally believe so), it's better to remove them unless they can be backed up.
That's very inspirational! I've often thought of putting my useless but extensive knowledge about something obscure to good use, but never did.
Sideways is not the only way buildings can grow. Even if horizontal space is at a premium, vertical space is virtually unlimited.
Haha, I would have if I could remember anything about the store. I don't even remember the name of the nearby town that its in.
I visit the thread once in a while when it seems I am facing too much cynicism
First-class functions can perfectly represent data, but that doesn't mean they're a perfectly good way to represent data.

For example, if you use Church encoding for your numbers, how do you do static analysis of bounds checking? If you implement if-statements by passing two functions to a function which calls one or the other for truth and falsity, how do you determine dead code at compile time? You just move a bunch of problems from compile time to run time, where they're harder to reason about, in most Turing-complete languages.
> The BBC has a strong left wing bias.

Only by American standards. Barack Obama (and his policies) would firmly be on the right in the UK. I think it only goes to show that US 'center' is to the right of the European 'center'.
We are actively looking at how we can better handle use cases like Dask handles. A couple folks we are working with use Dask heavily and are looking to switch. They are far more expert in Dask than we are so I don't want to shoot my mouth of. The issues they've general discussed with us are around performance and scaling problems they have had. We are still actively learning from them and hope to have a first version to start addressing those use cases around the end of this year. Ideally middle of Decemeber.

Dask is very "batch" oriented, which as I said above, is something we are in the process of adding to Wallaroo. Wallaroo is very stream processing oriented. Wallaroo's strength are working with stateful, event-by-event applications.

If you were to take word count as an example. Dask would be great if you had a body of text in files or whatnot that you needed to count. There's a beginning and end to that task. Count the words in this text. Wallaroo would shine if you had a stream of never ending text, like twitter's trending topics.

That's a very coarse outline of a couple of differences. While we are working with clients to help them move off of Dask by adding that functionality to Dask, I also think that if you wanted to, you could use Wallaroo along side a more batch oriented system like Dask. Stream processing and batch processing are complementary. A number of technologies (us included) are looking to unify them. Why? Well, there's a lot of operational overhead to running a batch system and a streaming system. A lot of folks would like to run a single system that works well for both.

I hope that answers your question.
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Good for you.

Just because a person can do something fine by themselves doesn't mean that a service can't help other people. Some people can work out fine by themselves. Personal trainers help others. The existence of personal trainers doesn't stop anyone from working out themselves, and they do provide a benefit to some people.

Why does a, say, app have to be telling you're doing it sub-optimally?? Why can't it be something that provides things like convenience or assistance?
Should contact the ad providers, they'd be happy to chargeback with proof of fraud.
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I can't leave without bringing that classic repo (https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts) it's delightful and it's a cool example of work/life automation.
Note that they used a pretty old+forked version of keras for the mxnet backend
We've banned both your accounts in this thread. That kind of sockpuppetry is an obvious abuse.
> UNESCO declared the old city in Hebron, a West Bank town that includes the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a Palestinian World Heritage Site, a move Israel claims negates Judaism’s links to the biblical town.

What a petty reason to leave. Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?
Just got this same thing on some other site.
Not to be overly pedantic, but you're using revisionist history to mean a false rewriting of history, negationism, or denialism. The phrase historical revisionism actually means reinterpreting history based upon new evidence or new methods of analysis.

The incorrect use seems to have entered the popular imagination following the war in Iraq.
Reading these things makes me hungry.

I think it’s because that’s the style of Apple’s own (excellent) Swift Programming Language book.

I think it does look nicer than the traditional characters used in these kinds of things.
Hahaha.... that's so so so similar to something I've developed for my machine vision pipelines...
Why is there no OS X compatible personal computer that is not an Apple brand?
Actually the language comes directly from the source, which was cited when the edits were reverted by another editor. Indicating that a claim is refuted is, imo, an important detail to include.
The US politics, the US justice, the US media... But don't say it too loud!
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Not sure to be honest. I've developed, tested and used this only on linux (various flavors). That said, I can't think of reasons why it shouldn't except for maybe the terminal color sequences. Not sure how compatible those are.

I'd love to hear whether it does. If it doesn't it would be good to get bug reports or pull requests.
I posted it here in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15454901

This is another report: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1112414...

Contains the gem:

> The findings contradict a report from the University of Chicago which suggested that online relationships were stronger. That study was funded by the dating site eHarmony.

Good old industry funded "studies."
We've asked you before not to make things up about HN to score points in an argument. This one was absurd, and a nasty thing to say about a community you belong to.

You've broken the HN guidelines here by resorting to personal attack. You've been breaking them elsewhere too. Someone else being wrong doesn't give you license to break the rules and make this place even worse, so please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and clean up your act.
> subsequently feel let down upon realizing that they’re (currently) common assignations

This is a really foreign concept to me. Why would you be let down because other people listen to the same song?
I'm currently trying out FancyHands https://www.fancyhands.com/

A task is 20 minutes, if it takes longer they ask you to use more than one credit on a single task. And there was one task so far that took so long I ended up doing it myself (they refunded my credit for that one). But overall it has been decent. I haven't tried others yet.

I picked them because their minimum fee is reasonable. As it is I have trouble using all five tasks they give you. (it rolls over to the next month)

For example, the last thing I had them do was to call the landfill and schedule my trash bin to be replaced because the lid broke and put it on my calendar. It is a pain in the neck thing (they don't always pick up the phone... you have to wait on hold... etc) so the assistant probably saved me a lot of aggravation.

They have an affiliate link but it uses my real name and this is an anonymous account so no affiliate referral for me :)
What’s this about an “ice age”?
This doesn't seem as egregious as a typical cult that is about getting you in the door on the cheap so you can spend the real money on staying in "the club." They sell a few books and run a few big shows (whose tickets are very modestly priced --- tickets for their stop in Dallas are $27 bucks), but that's it.

From what I can tell, they are doing the same thing as Mr. Money Mustache but on a much more public stage and without the focus on early retirement/financial independence. Good for them!
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I seriously doubt it has to do with boredom. I'd bet it's part of their job description.
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> Should tech giants create their own free universities?

No. Trade schools, yes, of course -- they (for-profit companies) are the only
ones in a position to teach students how to work in the industry. But
universities are different type of institution, they should be conducting
research, teaching topics more theoretical/abstract/fundamental for the field,
and should not depend on whims of industrial giants.
Frankly, the article compares him to the Wright Brothers, so I think it already agrees with you. But beyond that, I'm not really sure I personally would be even that charitable.
I think the simple answer is that it's clickbait. A while back there was a relatively well-known pop science magazine with a cover story "Darwin Was Wrong". I'm having trouble finding the actual article now since the title is such a common phrase. It turned out to be something like him being wrong about the "tree of life" because genetic studies proved that horizontal gene transfer was extremely common in the earliest generations, hence there's no single common ancestor or "trunk". Not, as any reasonable person might conjecture from that headline, a debunking of the overall theory of evolution by natural selection.
Good advice. Do you have any tip of how to figure out if he's a visual or logical person, etc.?
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It's more a question of why the person wrote out all the steps rather than saying they were going to use a clustering algorithm.
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I don't see how crypto-currency dogma is on the same level with evolution. It seems to me a lot of the criticisms have been borne out. Bitcoins are worth a lot to speculators but they remain infrequently used as an actual currency.
This is still a work in progress but I wanted to gauge opinions before I spend further time on it.
It's an interesting question, too rarely asked.

I think that emptiness is sort of brain hacking, not something we evolved into. but on the other hand, evolution might not optimized us for happiness either.

As for what the experience is , while living in a modern context, this interview with Gary Weber, who once led big r&d organizations, and is now "enlightened", is great:

https://bloggingheads.tv/videos/14840

As for you colleagues' being unsecsseful, sadly, one of the bigest lies told/implied by some parts of buddhism, is that "if you're dedicated, you will become englithened". But if you look at the statistics, this is not the case at all, and rarely few get enlightened.

What are they missing ? my guess is that:

(a) our training technology isn't good enough, yet, but there's a lot of hope in that front in recent science/tech

(b) Enlightenment may require certain level of psychological development. so maybe certain types of psychological work might be better at the early stages.

(c) Genetics play a role too. For example, if you're someone with bipolar disorder, meditation may trigger mania(and than comes depression). maybe.

Personally, i wonder if another type of brain hacking, instead of enlightenment, is better for happiness, for the masses: teaching people how to achieve a flow state at will, combined with helping them with standard tool of ego based psychology.
No support for Python 3
Widespread deflation would drive the economy to a halt because it would be crazy to take out large loans (imagine paying down your mortgage without ever getting any equity) and it would discourage business investment in favor of the safer option of just sitting on huge piles of cash. Even your Mises institute guy seems to want zero inflation more than rapid deflation.
It only mattered the most because it was thought of last. If it was UX that increased impact by improving access, then it indeed mattered a great deal.
It would be more efficient and simple to just run a miner in Java.
Yeah, I guess it is a bit long. I'll redo the demo soon. Thanks for the feedback.
So which IT employee is going to be thrown under the bus this time?
"Intern! Get on wikipedia and edit the article for Boba Fett. The world needs to know that he's not as cool as they think he is."
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Hard Forks are the new ICOs. Well, after reading a bit better, this is different, it's unlike BCC and BCG but a change in protocol of the main branch.
sounds like those would be the "degenerate modern, civilized men" or do you think the GP means the doric invaders?
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Couldn't they have chosen a better name?

http://gluonhq.com/
Couldn't disagree more.
Python 3 support is on the roadmap for later this year.

In general, our roadmap is determined by what we think is important but also is heavily influenced by the needs of folks we are working closely with.

There's an almost infinite number of things we could work on so we live to drive our direction based on the needs of folks we are working with. In the case of Python, the early users were all Python 2.7 and thus we focused there. We've recently started working with folks who are looking for Python 3 support (in particular, 3.6) so we are going to be adding it.

If anyone is interested in adding features, language support etc to Wallaroo, we'd love to help. You can find us on freenode in the #wallaroo channel or stop by our user mailing list (https://groups.io/g/wallaroo) and we can help you out.
This seems to me that Twitter is been biased. I mean is there now a policy against freedom of speech and expression. SMH
No I felt the conclusion was obvious but what's obvious to some might not be for others. So my comment was pretty unnecessary.
We love TensorFlow (and have a ton of developers using it on AWS).

Just like databases we’ll support a wide range of engines on AWS; some of our own like Gluon, along side others from the community like PyTorch and TensorFlow. They’re all first class citizens.

We even fund separable (competing!) teams internally to focus on making sure AWS is the best place to run each of these popular engines.
That article is pretty bad. Even at this point in the article it is clear he does not understand why a small amount of inflation is good. For example he says:

"According to popular thinking, in response to a high rate of inflation, consumers will speed up their expenditure on goods at present, which should boost economic growth.

So why then is a rate of inflation of 10% or higher regarded by experts as a bad thing?"

According to this line of thinking if a little bit of something is good, then more of it should be good, right? I think we can all see the faultiness in this logic. What he doesn't get is after inflation reaches a certain point, people start expecting their money to be not worth as much in the very short term, leading to increase in buying, leading to higher inflation, and so on. This spiral is how economies like Zimbabwe end up with crazy inflation. However at a low rate, around 2% and a little higher, people do not immediately expect their money to be worth less in the short term, and therefore the economy does not enter this spiral.

The rest of the article goes into some decently complex economics. Suffice to say his core argument - that inflation hurts wealth creators because it decreases the value of said wealth- does not hold water unless said wealth creators are putting all their money in places with interest rates less than inflation. This means no investment in their or a business, but just parking the money in a bank. Anybody with that kind of money will know to put large amounts of money in inflation-protecting assets. Because risk of an investment is generally the amount of interest you get above and beyond inflation, parking money in assets growing at the rate of inflation is generally very safe.
Thanks, will go through it on the weekend and make additions!