skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the people who provide the dollars to this market (banks, I'm informed)

You are misinformed. The people who provide the dollars to this market are the customers of the exchanges. It seems like you are not familiar with how a currency exchange works.

A currency exchange does not buy or sell the currencies traded at the exchange. All it does is match buyers with sellers, like an auction house. Buyers must deposit all the dollars that they use to buy before buying, and sellers must deposit all the bitcoins they sell before selling. When someone withdraws dollars after selling, the exchange simply transfers to them the dollars that the buyer deposited earlier. It already has the dollars on hand and does not need to borrow them from a bank, ever.

Now, not all places you can sell Bitcoin for dollars are currency exchanges. There are also brokers that do trade directly with their customers, rather than matching customers together to trade. In fact, Coinbase provides this service. However, they can simply obtain dollars by trading at currency exchanges themselves, and they adjust the price they offer to match the exchange price (plus a fee) so they can't just run out of money. Again, there is no need to borrow dollars from a bank. Furthermore, trading volumes at true currency exchanges absolutely dwarf the volume of any Bitcoin broker.

All that said, nothing prevents a crash in the Bitcoin price. If too many people want to sell and not enough want to buy, the price will go down a lot. But this is true in any market, and it has nothing at all to do with bank lending. Not even a little bit.
That's not a worked example, it's ignoring everything they just explained.
Why would someone be afraid of a Gold ETF that you can buy with a free e-trade account but invest money in online monopoly money?
You mean like AT&T? Wasn't AT&T's monopoly in telecommunication propped up by gov't from 1910's all the way through 1980's?
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I'm not sure why you are being downvoted, that seems accurate to me. In my area when google announced they were going to build out here all the sudden my bandwidth got doubled for no charge and AT&T started pushing their fiber expansion hard. They probably had planned to do these things at some point but I got the distinct feeling they were trying to consolidate their power before google fiber came and ate their lunch. They ended up scaling back their offerings geographically so I was never able to get it but I have no doubt it pushed my bandwidth up faster than it would have been otherwise.
Yes they are. They are shifting trillions into tax free foundations, trillions offshore, and trillions into corporate stock buy backs.

When you have trillions you just need a bigger mattress, like Ireland, for instance.
It doesn't bother you at all that it is controlled by a politically-minded plutocrat who is shameless about cross-promotions between his properties? No, I guess that doesn't bother you since you're advertising it.
> In your 20s, your main competitive advantage is your ability to take risks.

Why is this some "special ability" of 20-somethings? I definitely prefer the approach of becoming financially independent and then having 50+ years to do what I want ... seems like having 50+ years to take risk after saving aggressively for 10-12 allows for even more risk/reward tradeoff by eliminating the worst consequences of failure without a safety net.
They were caught committing breaking and entering and (bungled) amateur wiretapping in the past and it didn't seem to hurt them
> most people who co-invest under the knowledgeable employees exemption are PE associates who have been on the job for less than two years

Source? (Private equity associates are entry-level number crunchers. Their fraction of carry is a rounding error, if positive.)
FYI this protests are not related at all with EU, this is not the first time when large protests happen with laws that favor the corrupts are attempted to be passed, laws like allowing people condemned for corruption to be able to become prime minster, changing the corruption laws so specific people can escape justice.
Again nothing related with EU, migration or whatever you are imagining
Could you post a link to where he said that?
There are very few cities anywhere that offer the incredible range of activities, nature, jobs and educational establishments etc all within driving distance that the Bay Area offers

The primary appeal of California is outdoor activities. If you're not interested in the great outdoors, it's pretty thin gruel, IMO. I far prefer Europe, for the sheer density of diversity in culture, food and way of life.
It does worry me a bit how it seems the group could have gotten through if they had been a bit less sloppy.

On one hand, these groups are clearly out to slander and discredit hard-working, honest people. On the other hand, I don't think the field of journalism should be entirely self-governing. It would give me great peace of mind to see some score that said these news sources were indeed able to turn away fake sources with regularity.

The crazy "all mainstream news is fake" crowd will not be swayed, but if nothing is done to appease moderates, there won't be any left.
Haha a site about accessibility doesn't support mobile. All I see is a nice sorry~not~for~you page.
If you want bitcoin that bad you could just buy it.
> With the current explosion of neoliberal ideologues

Did I fall asleep and wake up back in 1992? Because in 2017, neoliberalism had been in decline for quite some time in the US, losing influence in both the Republican and Democratic parties (not, of course, to the same alternative in each.)
Sure, but again, the example given is ten years old, when there was almost zero legitimate BitTorrent traffic, and it was unreasonably difficult for ISPs to combat illegal traffic in other ways. (Of course, I suspect net neutrality supporters would be far angrier if Comcast were to inspect the contents of the BitTorrent content to determine if it's legal or not.)

If you're going to throttle a protocol to keep your network optimized for legitimate users, crippling a piracy protocol seems pretty practical, wouldn't you say?
What are you talking about? I suppose there's technically wiggle room because you said "raise" taxes on the rich (implying that regardless of whatever rich people pay now it should be more). But it's an absolute fiction that rich people don't pay taxes. The top income tax rate is about 43%, and the new GOP tax bill doesn't change that.

Did you know the richest 2.7% of all earners pay > 50% of all receipts collected by the government(1)?

Or that -- when asked explicitly whether the rich should pay more -- most (3/4) people, like you, say "yes", but when asked what the tax rate should be for top earners, precisely 3/4 of respondents said it should be 30% or below(2). Again, the top rate is 43% right now.

(1) http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/04/13/high-income-...

(2) http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=15005
I was talking about corporations and if you're talking about net neutrality then you have to be talking about corporations. And corporations are a government construct.

When you created your corporation, you got an entity, and a collection of rights and also a collection of rules. You freely entered into that agreement with the government to get this. Now you're trying to libertarian your way out of that agreement.
Hey, thanks for the input.

I need 3gs in ram at all times to have the models pre-loaded, otherwise the request time goes exponential. Then, ideally, memory could scale up/down with each request. Probably more like +2gs per request, e.g. RAM_GB=2r+3.

Its working fine right now with an 8GB box on DO for 1 user, but each user will add ~50% more compute power to the overhead. The cost isn't really an issue, $40/m is a microscopic fraction of the user's monthly fee, it's just that I'd prefer an auto-scaling system because I'm not a devops specialist and downtime for these users isn't really an option.

I don't think a message queue is needed right now with request pooling and socket limits,though I will need it later on.

I can shoot you an email if you'd like to chat about it. I'm no CoreNLP pro but I might be able to provide a few tips in return.
Ehh, you win some you lose some. If you look throughout history, our rights and needs are constantly defended. You could look at that as progress, or you could look at it as a constant rebuffing of powerful forces trying to change the direction of the country. It’s a matter of perspective. Personally i’ve found judging social progress to be a rather fruitless task in a general sense; only when we try to solve specific problems are there clear cut victories and losses.
science ≠ creativity
> You're saving more than 50% of your pre-tax money? That is impressive and unusual.

Many in the Financial Independence community are upwards of 70%. Having a partner with the same goal can keep that savings rate as high even with kids. Otherwise it's not very likely.
Right. The bank owns 100% of the property. The "owner" is underwater. And the owner pays property tax. So "wealth" taxation is perfectly fine for that situation.
> the things investment bankers occupy themselves with every day, do not go away because of cryptocurrencies and ICOs

Pardon me, I was being facetious. We agree. I was responding to a comment claiming investment banks "are clearly threatened by the ICO boom" [1]. Wall Street is more likely to coöpt, as opposed to be replaced by, blockchains.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15790978
Instead of going deeper on the philosophy of /libertarians/i in general, why not answer his question about removing net neutrality from a perspective of whatever form of libertarianism justifies it?
> Lectures as part of course are designed to be attended after reviewing the material at least once on your own.

It's easy to realize this in retrospect, but I think it should be pounded into students' heads starting at least in high school. You can use the sink or swim metaphor if you like, but human beings aren't robots that can just flip a switch to change behavior.
> What was the problem that we where trying to fix anyway?

Risk of financial collapse. Banks are risky because they have a lot of leverage, people more directly loaning money may take a 20% hit after a housing collapse, but that's not such a big deal.
I find this especially weird given Facebook's incredibly lax approach to extreme right virulently racist posters in Eastern Europe. Like if Facebook, was censoring things that they found controversial, I'd get it, but it seems that they just censor randomly.
I don't have a source, but most capital deployed by private investment firms (ie, the firms where the exemption is relevant) is deployed by traditional PE shops. And in my direct experience, the employees at traditional PE shops who invest via the exemption are almost always associates. And also in my direct experience, the vast majority of PE associates are on the job for two years, three max.

Private equity associates very rarely receive carry, which is why they co-invest instead.

*edited for clarity
In this case, Veritas has egg on its face

Maybe they can escape this by rebranding themselves Project Mendacium.
My thoughts exactly. The author is concluding that since we've never seen supersonic wing-flapping in nature, we'll never see supersonic flight. Not only is that an unwarranted implication, in a mathematical sense, but it also doesn't cover the possibility of inventing something fundamentally different to what we've observed in the universe thus far.

Using human and octopus examples as proof of anything is ignoring that general AI will be fundamentally different to anything that we've observed on earth, and therefore invalidates any attempt to extrapolate from history. There has never been an intelligence that could copy/paste itself intact with its existing memories. There has never been an intelligence that could literally span the whole world with a single consciousness. And so on.

> There is no such thing as “general” intelligence. The intelligence of a human is specialized in the problem of being human.

That's exactly what people are worried about. When the AI specializes itself to be better at being a human than actual humans. It doesn't matter if it's totally general and can be applied to any problem whatsoever; human intelligence is also just "general enough".

> Will the superhuman AIs of the future, developed collectively over centuries, have the capability to develop AI greater than themselves? No, no more than any of us can.

Okay, so instead of single AI's developing next-gen AI's, it'll be "AI civilization" developing next-gen AI's. This still poses exactly the same existential risk to humanity.

> We didn’t make greater progress in physics over the 1950–2000 period than we did over 1900–1950 — we did, arguably, about as well.

Well I certainly know we made exponentially more progress in those years than from the years 900-950? Nevermind say 100,000-5,000 BCE.
You're still missing the point. If the exchange is providing a fiat on/offramp, then it will have to manage the possibility that the amount of USD deposits is massively exceeded by the amount of Bitcoin deposits which may one day call on the USD deposits to be redeemed.

For example. If I bought $1000 for 1 BTC from Coinbase on January 1st 2017 and try to exit that position on Jan 1 2018, once I sell that $10,000 bitcoin to Coinbase I'll be withdrawing $9000 more than I put in. Coinbase has to get the $9000 from somewhere, whether that be from other deposits which are more recent than mine, or from its own trading operations.

If you have a large number of people trying to withdraw a large number of dollars at the same time, your offramp could run out of dollars or, in the alternative, be required to (a) draw down a facility with a bank or (b) sell assets. In an environment where the asset price is falling rapidly it may not be able to avail itself of either option.

As occurred in 2008, with dire consequences.
I’ve had the money for a new maxed out 15”MacBookPro sitting unspent since 2016 TouchBar reveal, waiting for a 32GB revision.

Maybe 2018’s the year!
Some new updates on YCSB and p99 latencies. https://forum.yugabyte.com/t/ycsb-benchmark-results-for-yuga....

In our new benchmark run, we set up Apache Cassandra using G1 GC and a smaller heap size as suggested. Still, we observed a multitude of differences in throughput and p99 latencies in YugaByte over Apache Cassandra.
Your parody is very good!
The US has no problem doing that as a service for other countries...
Happy user of Envkey here. I was trying to get my head around AWS's secrets management, and even with useful blog posts from the likes of Segment.io etc., it was giving me a headache.

Envkey let me set up and deploy secrets management across 3 server groups (development/staging/production) for our web app in under 15 minutes. And I can add new developers and devops people to our app in seconds.

I normally don't like hijacking other people threads about their hard work like this, but I just thought this product should be mentioned as it was a real time saver and headache reducer for us. Very happy to see people like the developers of StrongBox trying to solve this issue and make secrets management easier. The more players in this space, the better, IMO.
I'm a Romanian and I can confirm that posts and accounts have been blocked, probably because of being reported by the other side.

On the other hand, folks, this is a little reminder that censorship is a doubly edged knife ;-) So next time you call for censoring "fake news", think again, because it's not you who will benefit from it.

A couple of years back I was enthusiastic about the rise of social media for informing and coordinating citizens to fight injustice. Now that I'm older and wiser, I can tell you that no evolution or revolution can happen because of Facebook, only regression. Facebook is poison.
I'm not interested in participating in this debate in this place. I'm clarifying what I perceive is a communication problem.
> Or that -- when asked explicitly whether the rich should pay more -- most (3/4) people, like you, say "yes", but when asked what the tax rate should be for top earners, precisely 3/4 of respondents said it should be 30% or below(2). Again, it's 43% right now.

That's comparing a question people likely answered with a total effective income tax rate with the current nominal marginal income tax rate.
I think Blockstack.org may help with this problem.
Why would you ever sell real-estate?
I think that's mostly independent. A swimmer bulking up for a channel swim is probably putting on a mix of water, fat, and muscle in the slow lead up to the swim (and maybe extra water in the days before) and then losing water during the swim. Here's [0] a discussion of swimmers strategizing about weight gain, and you can see that it's largely about issues like insulation from cold, buoyancy, and strength, and not because they're worried about losing the weight during the swim itself.

[0] http://marathonswimmers.org/forum/discussion/90/when-to-gain...
MM is commonly used in banking/finance for Million, and M is sometimes used for thousands (but sometimes millions, depending on the person). It's a mess in other words.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/182072
Bad news.

We still are and we're getting worse these days.
To be fair, WaPo has run a few anti-Amazon and anti-Bezos op-eds. It feels like moreso than before.

I can't help but feel like Bezos loves them. I can see him open up the paper he owns, see an attack piece on him, and feel absolutely giddy that he's not going to do anything about it. Because he so desperately wants to be the most self-actualized entrepreneur that ever lived.
Maybe it will be in the realm of VR like First Life
It's probably just Facebook's AI thinking that protesting against the government is dangerously close to suicide, and so protecting its users accordingly.
follow up:
I have not been contacted by any more friendly 'women' since this happened
This is from FDR's 1937 inaugaration:

But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation I see tens of millions of its citizens — a substantial part of its whole population — who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life.

I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day.

I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by a so-called polite society half a century ago.

I see millions denied education, recreation, and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children.

I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions.

I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.

It is not in despair that I paint you that picture. I paint it for you in hope—because the Nation, seeing and understanding the injustice in it, proposes to paint it out. We are determined to make every American citizen the subject of his country's interest and concern; and we will never regard any faithful law-abiding group within our borders as superfluous. The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

--

In 2017, around 80 years later, we can perhaps strike ill-clad, and adjust that third a bit, but the rest is still all too true. And some will complain that what we once considered the "lowest standard" has shifted - but a part of decency is accommodation of the worst off within the best of our capability, and our capabilities today have vastly grown compared to our systematic outreach of decency.
To some extent we already have an equity share of GDP: we get to vote on our directors and some subsidiaries let us vote on specific initiatives. Furthermore, GDP is frequently taxed to spread dividends to everyone in the form of social insurance payments. This seems more like a framing device or motivation for UBI than a unique idea.
You have no idea what you are talking about. I think you are talking about the "zombie riot" civic emergency drills conducted in recent years, but I'm talking about specifically something my army unit did (develop SOPs for a zombie apocalypse) as coordination training. Additionally, you should know that you are a conspiracy theorist and completely out of touch with reality if you think that regular US army units will fire on American citizens in some kind of "widespread domestic counterinsurgency". You truly have no idea what you're talking about.
The only problem is that immediate and imminate repercussion has more immediate effects. Governments should be held accoubtable just as people are. If you knew I could steal 1 billion dollars and that somewhere along the line a kid is gonna grow up, go to high school, go to college, become a judge eventually and then try me for my crime after any number of years then I cant help but wonder how many would not go ahead and do it. Just based on the fact that they could be dead before they are even held accountable. However, if you knew you would be caught and challenged in less than a week I think that number would drop significantly.
I am not sure about the exact structure but REI is set up as a coop.
It's ridiculous how all this is not based on the motivation of allowing us as a species to progress, but on that of ensuring the leading (?) place of the US in international politics and economics. I wonder, will I live long enough to see nationalisms and nations leave their places to more reasonable groupings, more granular, less impeding, less based on made up shit (race, nation, whatnot...). We don't need to live to become the best predators, if we are the social animals we beleive to be.
I get the impression that you and ska are very, very good teachers. Not to disrespect any of my professors, but a lot of times I ended up skipping lectures because I just wasn't getting anything out of them. Was I a model student who always reviewed material before lectures? No. But I definitely felt I got a lot more out of going directly to the source materials and working problems than I did watching a professor walk other students through problems.
I don't understand what the author is saying at all. Sometimes songs play that you don't recognize, yes. If you're curious there is Shazam, it's even built into your iPhone now.

For music from different countries and times, I recommend this website/app: http://radiooooo.com/
The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House.
> I agree it's not a perfect system

I think it's a great system. But I also hate poor people and don't want them to have the same opportunities I have. Let them play the lottery instead right?
If you are an investor, accreditation rules eliminate 95+% of the population as competition for your investment. That means you will get higher returns and better negotiation terms. Even founders cant invest in their own bethren! Think about that. YC startup founders could get together, talk to each other, and NOT be able to invest in each other.

Neither could employees that have access to internal financials. You could believe your company is doing great, but you cannot invest. You dont have the chance to compete for the resource with the investors that can.

This also means less money goes into investment.

Result:

- Qualified investors get higher returns
- Employees get lower wages because there is less capital invested
- Founders get less money
- Fewer startups are created

In the name of protecting compulsive gamblers?
Just to be clear, the other guy has no idea what he's talking about and is some kind of wacko conspiracy theorist.