skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found very interesting the community discourse change from having a currency to use for sending transactions anywhere and with tiny fees to Bitcoin is a value reserve like Gold. The last assertion existed before but companies like BitPay, Coinbase and others were oriented to the former use case.
"As a final note: this is not a Bitcoin obituary; Bitcoin will be fine. However, its price may change a bit. "

So he is saying the same thing. Only he thinks there will be single event, I see this as a series of corrections and bitcoin will become more of an asset then a currency.
Interesting. It seems you should be able to use this to stream user generated content live from Flash at least.

Not sure if it would support WebRTC as well though. I do see RTP support but not sure WebRTC can push to that out of the box.
Do you own your digital content?
why do you guys put a bait title to insult me with your technical junks /:
I think they're talking about the trunk lines, which are mostly dark (unused). The bandwidth technology has outstripped demand by orders of magnitude. There's no traffic-related reason to 'prioritize' any traffic. The real goal is to charge rent on content they don't produce, just because its going over their cable.
If a viable cryptocurrency that doesn’t use massive amounts of energy for its transactions would come along, wouldn’t that pose a huge risk to btc?
At that point, shouldn’t btc just be “outlawed” (to the extent it can be, e.g target exchanges, banning payment in physical stores and similar). It should go the way of incandescent light bulbs.
There are many obvious fundamentals to cryptocurrencies. This is a revolution, this is huge.
> This is really just the same as saying they raised money to pay creators, but that wouldn't sound so innovative.

Well the innovation, likely, is in the fact that they raised the money via an almost certainly illegal pyramid-style "investment" medium.
The tips in SieLJ’s HN Bio might be interesting for you: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=SirLJ
According to this [1], it was never an official CERN project, but rather a side project of his.

“Had the technology been proprietary, and in my total control, it would probably not have taken off. You can’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”

[1]https://webfoundation.org/about/vision/history-of-the-web/
The Oatmeal on Net Neutrality
Lytro Reveals Immerge 2.0 Light-Field Camera to Shoot Volumetric Video for AR/VR
Did you feel the same way about MLMs that methodically put disadvantaged people into financial ruin?
>[AI] completely replacing humans and potentially destroying us all is a joke and only the people who no nothing about AI/brains think this.

This isn't true at all.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/05/22/ai-researchers-on-ai-ri...
Those dollars are going to get spent eventually; you just haven't waited long enough.

But the foreign assets issue is a peculiarly US problem, resulting from the US being almost unique in the world in the extent to which it imposes taxes on income earned in other countries. (The other such country is Eritrea, and the US voted in favour of a UN security council resolution condemning the Eritrean tax regime.)
That's so true...
Apologies, consistent was not the correct word to convey my meaning. The reward schedule is consistent but the reward itself is pre-determined, known by all participants, it was set out from the beginning. There was no attempt to hide the idea until a certain proportion of the BTC was mined by the creator.

Penalising late adopters is just the reverse of rewarding early adopters and bitcoin needed early adopters to keep the network alive so it makes sense to reward them. I dont really buy that late adopters are being penalised though.
I do normally love to hate on the Guardian, but that is from their 'comment is free' opinion section, rather than the main news site. BBC and many others have these, which are basically just magazine format and of little journalistic value (although to be fair they do not claim to be).
Maybe there are cultural differences between Europe and the US. "Right extremists" might be simply different here. In most European countries, right extremists call for a strong (nationalist) state and authoritarian structures, while left extremists are closer to anarchists.

Here, right extremists set fire on refugee accommodations and are rude to, thrash or even murder foreign-looking people as well as homeless people. Their enemies are the strangers and the weak people.

Left extremists set fire on cars and other perceived status symbols of richness, and try to fight with the police. Their enemy is the capitalism in general and the state in particular.

The left extremists also did kill people, but mostly in the 1970s (see RAF [1]), while the right extremists kill lots of people all the time (see NSU [2] for a recent example).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Army_Faction

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Underground
At some point, bitcoin is going to have to be worth more than just n USD... right? Other than buying in and cashing out, what is bitcoin useful for right now? What makes BTC today better than my cash?

I am aware of the potential for cryptocurrency and I am aware of it's increasing value. But if all my money is tomorrow BTC instead of USD, for instance, how will I survive without converting it back into USD every time I needed to use it?

Not trying to be facetious, just curious as to what the bitcoin crowd is using BTC for. If not to pay for goods and services, then isn't it a misnomer at this point to keep calling it a currency?
You need 3GB for the trained model or 3GB to process an incoming request.

A typical way to deploy this kind of service is to have one or more servers waiting on a message queue and process requests off of them.

I'm definitely happy to talk more.
But YouTube will never be their competition unless the world becomes a very different place.
I'm not saying startups are a panacea. I'm just saying that perhaps there's one more way for others to benefit from the wealth that startups are generating. This is just one among many possible ways and means.
Just Coinbase added 100k accounts last week: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/25/bitcoin-tops-8700-to-record-... I have been talking with a lot of this "ordinary" people who started investing in cryptocurrencies and I am scared.
I have reached the point where I think that if a respectable news organization went subscription-only (i.e. no ads, no clickbait, no free content at all), I'd jump on board. I want to be the customer.
I know you didn’t mean it this way, but that sounds like the economy as a whole

Just replace “investors” with workers, and scammers with “moneyed special interests.” Some go to jail to satisfy the proles, but otherwise nothing really changes to help the workers

And we keep talking about the pattern within itself, at a lower abstraction, ignoring the level where it matters to most
Yup, good summary. The coercion angle is one more reason why maintaining "full employment" is a pro-labor policy. By keeping the number of job openings larger than the number of people looking for work, you create bargaining power for workers to increase wages.

The UBI angle works both for and against worker negotiating leverage. On the one hand, workers know that their entire income isn't on the line if they quit, so they have more leverage. On the other hand, they know that they're getting X from the government, and while they need Y to live, they'll accept work at Y-X.
Congrats. You worked with the person before and that's a lot better than cofounders who just met. Ideally you know how the other person reacts under stress for example.

First of all make sure as much as possible of the arrangement is in writing. Not being willing to write items down is a red flag. Jokingly point to 'The social network' movie (early days of Facebook) where a paper trail was missing.

Will you have equal access to the company bank account (to see expenses and gauge how good the company is doing)? Will you be a director (able to sign or co-sign contracts)? Do you have the same class of shares as the other founders and proportional share of votes? Things like this matter once another shareholder gets added (and angel investors and VC are shareholders usually). Who will own the created intellectual property (ideally the company) and who transfers what to the company now (e.g. existing domain name).

Are you allowed to work on other projects? If not then the tax office might question your sole trader/freelancer status.

There's no perfect answers, just write down those arrangements.

Go through this scenario: At some point in the future one person might be sick, on a long holiday or simply demotivated (not to say depressed) and maybe can't put in the same hours. How would you handle that? What can you do now (write down) to prepare for that scenario?
My question is, will ever be a system that allows you to share or sell the content you buy online i.e, books, music, movis, etc. If you are buying it at the original physical item price, why would I prefer to get it online when I can't even give it to a friend. Would this alleviate people copying and distributing not owned content?
I agree. However, fatal errors within the money system (i.e. climate change, cyclical poverty) must be addressed, which is what this whole thread is about.
> Asians are massively, massively over represented. Why?

Selection bias? Asian immigrants tend to be better educated and wealthier..and their kids have all the advantages in the world.
I don't think the Guardian is all good, but since it is free you can skip the bits you don't like. I read a mix of the Guardian, WSJ, NYT, Economist, generally any quality paper that lets you freeload a bit. I am just a dabbler by nature. I used to get the Economist, but when I found the pile of copies still in their cellophane by my chair had grown to 12 I canceled it. I still buy it now and then. I like the New European too. It's real echo chamber, but the way some people seem to get annoyed just by it existing is worth the cover price. In fact a great sport is to go into WH Smith on a Friday and put it in front of the Daily Hate Mail and stand back watch the grumpy old men grimace as they have to touch it to move it out of the way. Classic.

As an aside another sport which is not nearly popular enough is to pick up the pile of Daily Heil's at the supermarket and to place them in the toilet paper aisle. This actually caught on for a while. some people enjoy pushing pro EU leaflets inside them with the junk mail....
This is going to drift into a problem of definitions, as value conflicts often can. If your deontology considers me "evil," there's nothing I can do about that. I'm not going to complain about your use of the word.

People are going to have conflicts, and some of them are going to become holy wars. Best of luck in the wars to come.
The mainstream audience is trying to get their heads around this new asset class and when reputable and respected members of the financial industry say anything about cryptocurrency, it is likely to get a lot of pageviews.
FWIW, I used to reference rails 3 features all the time when doing rails 4 development.

Also, maybe this was just my learning needs ... I was helped by seeing how an experienced rails dev handled business logic and UX features.
> get placed into a few interviews but not getting offers.

Sounds like converting interviews into offers is the problem. Being socially withdrawn probably makes that harder.

Have you considered meeting with a therapist/clinical social worker? Dealing with depression and mental issues is actually only one aspect of that job. Life coaching and developing social/interview skills is something they can do. It might be hard to take the first step, but find someone [0] and try it out. The first intake meeting might even be free.

[0] https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/life-coaching
Teaching. All education politics aside, in my experience teaching is hard because you have to juggle and be responsive to so many people at the same time. Teaching is hard to scale. Everyone complains that schools are so regimented and conformist, but when YOU are the one in front of a group of two dozen (or three dozen!) kids who don't want to be there and are distracted by everything and you only have 90 minutes to get them through a lesson, you realize how hard it is to convey information.

Especially since in every class there will be one or two kids who take up like 40% of your energy, and you end up completely ignoring self-disciplined kids.

If there was a way we could provide automated teaching, that would be huge. And I mean teaching, not just making resources available. Stack Overflow and Wikipedia and Khan Academy are great, but they won't replace schools and teachers. An AI system that could motivate, answer questions, pose questions, encourage learning without judging failure, etc. would be wonderful.
You can lose a lot of money being right at the wrong time.
I'd agree with this sentiment.

Stocks have tangible assets that generate earnings to justify their investment. Bitcoin, however, generates no real returns beyond its exploding popularity resulting in a higher price. While that doesn't automatically doom its fate (see: traditional currency pairs), Bitcoin is different in that its only real use so far is as an alternative bank account. It will likely remain this way until people can live their lives on Bitcoin in the way people live their lives on a traditional, centralized currency. Many people who simply use it as a bank account may deposit their money for a long period of time, resulting in a sustainable price; for simplicity's sake, we can give the benefit of the doubt and assume that 100% of those looking for an alternative bank rather than an investment will hold it indefinitely.

The question is: Of those pushing the price from ~$750 to ~$10,000 in one year, after several years of stability in the ~$500 area, how many are looking to hold it as a bank account alternative, and how many are looking at it as an investment to eventually sell for a profit? Given the trajectory, it's hard to believe individuals are adopting it this rapidly for purposes other than investment; it seems like this 'mainstream adoption' is really just primarily mainstream investment. Is it sustainable when the majority of people are just buying in expectation of others buying? With companies like TSLA it can be sustainable, as investors believe that future earnings will justify the valuation. Here, there's nothing but a hope that others will buy because the price keeps going up.

The only way this bubble doesn't pop is if the money being pumped into Bitcoin results in commercial adoption as a viable currency, however that seems unlikely in the meantime.
Same thing that's wrong with owning "only" one knife.
My point is really that rust allows you to build those abstractions, regardless of that specific one.

Sure, the kernel has reusable things like its embedded linked list etc, but they're not type-safe, and they can't represent ownership.

With rust's type-system, a generic rc-like thing could be created which is suitable for the world of the kernel, even if it's not the stdlib Rc.
Doea medical data not talked about in a medical setting trigger HIPAA?

(Like me talking that I'm type 2 diabetic?)
What's wrong with VA panels? Beats a TN panel any day.
> Those dollars are going to get spent eventually; you just haven't waited long enough.

I'm unwilling to wait until the end of civilization while citizens of the richest country in the world go hungry [1], go without shelter [2], and die due to not being able to put $50 together for their insulin [3].

[1] https://www.worldhunger.org/hunger-in-america-2016-united-st...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

[3] https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/ezwwze/the-high-price-o...
Applying to jobs. So many jobs corporate jobs require re-entering information ad infinitum already on a CV. My ideal world would be uploading a resume to one service and then having one-click applications that would give you a text field to write a cover letter or whatever non-CV info you want to give the hiring managers.
The Moral Urgency of Mental Health
Everything to do with rubbish: putting it out, collecting it, processing/separating it, dumping it.
Berkeley is profoundly out of the norm for American communities. Berkeley has money. Other places don't. This problem is not solved by the way things work where the money flows freely.

Berkeley has 350,000 people in it. It's also eighteen square miles in size. The entire Portland-South Portland-Biddeford MSA in Maine is about half a million people and it's two thousand square miles in size. And it certainly wouldn't in my hometown in the Lakes Region of Maine, with a population across four towns in the school district of about 15,000 people across a little under two hundred square miles.

The problem devolves to income inequality and the unsustainable nature of community-driven efforts because of it--nobody can afford it!
> From the perspective of the tax code as an incentive system, taxing wealth is a strange thing—it makes people feel less interest in becoming wealthy, and thereby causes fewer GDP-building things to happen!

I think this is false in practice, especially with a progressive wealth tax.

Most people don't want money, they want the things money can buy... long, healthy, and generally happier lives. People that keep striving past that point are people that seek to change the world, folks like Gates or Musk. A progressive wealth tax starting at $10M wouldn't really change the incentives at play.
How would you differentiate fraud from a legit ICO? What makes a ICO not fraudulent? It's hard to determine
> Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell it to the highest bidder.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/faceb...
They will never admit they backdoored their processors. Their official stance is:

Intel does not and will not design backdoors for access into its products. Recent reports claiming otherwise are misinformed and blatantly false. Intel does not participate in any efforts to decrease security of its technology.

That means they don't consider it dangerous and will continue shipping their processors with ME.
> Religion, which is the application of Spirituality (however crude) was essential to the development of morality in humanity, and hence civilization.

As posited by religious people and writers of religious texts.

As a counterpoint, keep in mind that modern religions are massively syncretic and many of the moral issues were probably absorbed the same way some ancient cells absorbed mitochondria to create modern cells.

Also, that comment about nihilism is just misguided.

I feel as much spirituality in Carl Sagan vision of the stars being part of us and making us part of the universe, making us the universe observing itself, as you can feel with your books and promises of an afterlife.

I am going to die as well, and that fact makes my own life, and the lives of other people, the most sacred thing ever. No gods are needed to determine this fact.
Time tracking. No matter how many fancy time tracking apps you use, it's still painfully manual. I want a robot that watches me and quietly makes intelligent decisions about what I'm really doing, and tracks that.
And what might the obvious ones be?
Firebase Database is down
From the Twitter steam it doesn't seem like it is just for me: https://twitter.com/search?q=%40firebase&src=typd
Why does basically every economist disagree that "capitalism is fundamentally broken"?

Is that because they don't "understand the dynamics of how economies work"?
I would really like to know which school produced the idea that maximizing shareholder returns IS NOT the primary imperative of any commercial enterprise.

Note the vast majority of corporations are not public and their only shareholders are the individual owners. So, maximizing return on their capital and labor is not based on some "mistaken belief", it is a basic existential requirement. Show me someone that doesn't understand that and I'll show you someone that has never run a business.
I am sorry, but I cannot share anything, event the systems that are not working... Let's face it: we are competing in the stock market every day, so why I should help you to get edge over me?... Frankly this is the best side business in the world and I have to preserve it and hopefully one day leave it to my kids to continue...
I am horrified by what was/is allowed legally at wall street. Not that ICO's are any better.
What's old is new again - this is why the SEC was created if I'm not mistaken.

People were losing their shirts investing in shady companies so the government stepped in to protect people from themselves.

For this reason it won't be surprising at all when we start seeing some attempts to enact regulation.
Reminds me of medical heroin ads on GTA V radio.
> Yahoo has written down $712 million of the original $990 million that it paid for Tumblr

Brutal
>what's the problem with the state owning all the equity in that tracker, and redistributing the proceeds to the population?

Hierarchical, centralized corruption of the state is the problem, as evidenced by failed communist implementations. If a more distributed model could be devized, perhaps it could avoid such problems.
It is how to "cook the books" on the cost in blood of "social network". Teenage girls with gross depression are committing suicide at like 60% higher rate when they are active on social media. Facebook is absolutely a contributor there, and in order to disguise its actual complicity, its being a root-cause, it is now searching for clear signal of likelihood of suicide, with an attempt to ... what. What is their follow-up action? Inform a parent or legal authority? No way. That makes them culpable. They aren't going to "help". They are going to hide. They are going to destroy chains of evidence in on the "wall" or "messages" that point a clear finger at the paradigm as the problem.
Thanks, I think the thing I like about the projector is for me I notice much less eye strain
Most ICOs look like fairly blatant fraud. We have laws to protect people from even subtler forms of fraud. The fact that they allow this stuff to continue is as amazing to me as some of the scams going on.
You are ignoring the fact that Wyoming only has 1 representative in the house, which is where the balancing piece comes in.
For every case where you used the word "investment", I think it would be more correct to use the term "speculation".
Colin Raffel – Doing Strange Things with Attention [video]
Human Gestation.
The same can be said for a lot of investments, there's nothing about ICOs that makes this unique aside from the fact that most people don't understand computers.
Counterpoint: it is difficult and expensive to buy or sell gold, and it can't easily be used as a currency (at least not in the modern world). However, it has held its value remarkably well.
This is a good question. What value does BTC have? The value to make purchases.

If the transaction cost keeps going up, well, that value diminishes, doesn't it?
Why is pure democracy a good thing in and of itself?
If it’s to survive long term yes. It does have to be valued as for than an investment vehicle.

But it isn’t, and while it does get used to buy things it’s hardly the most common use.

Which is why most critics liken it to investments, and why it’s a problem.
"Intel maintains the pure-performance lead everywhere else"

The point of the article is that ThunderX is claimed to be faster than Xeon Gold for HPC applications.