skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You just proved my point. For this to keep working you need Charlie to show up with $1,000,000 new dollars.

In a panic, you need to flip this scenario on its head. Charlie is not going to show up and Diana, who got into Bitcoin in 2009 and hasn't done anything since, decides to take her profits on 1,000 BTC. So this system has $1,001 to meet $2,000,000 in deposit demand, assuming neither Alice nor Bob has withdrawn their USD and some Bitcoin hodlers pile in.

Particularly popular liquidity pools eg BitPesa or Coinbase may then be put under pressure to either cease operations, draw down liquidity facilities to buy BTC, or start selling their own assets in order meet demand of BTC holders who want to get out. Those are not good choices.
Since a couple years back, we have a 1% tax on wealth in Colombia, which applies to anyone who has above approx. 330,000 USD in assets

I don't think it has disincentivated anybody from becoming less wealthy and/or working less. It just incentivizes tax evasion, but even that is not significant.

On the other hand, a large number of social programs have been built around this new tax. Anybody in the country could get cancer and would get free decent healthcare.
Shutting "Project Veritas" down seems like the next step in all this. What a bunch of clowns.
No argument there about the disenfranchisement that blacks and other groups still face. You're arguing that this is a result of America's "thing for race"? That if America was more laid back about it, this would help to reduce the disenfranchisement?
UK computer science exam in disarray after tasks leaked online
Probably not significantly. A bulk of the transistor count is the caches.

I remember a while back at my previous employer we were building an ASIC which had ARM processors along with lots of custom IP. We could sprinkle low end ARM Cortex M3(?) processors all over and it was mostly rounding error in terms of gate count.
Back in the late 1980's, apple released a version of Unix called A/UX. In order to get excitement going about it, they sold Macintosh computers with A/UX preloaded to developers. The combo was cheaper than the equivalent Mac. So I bought two of them. I also bought the biggest displays for them; they weighted like 50 lbs. Probably 400 x 512; I don't remember. Anyway, I hooked both up to their displays and both booted to this message:

When in Danger

Or in Doubt

Run in Circles

Scream and Shout!

Apple eventually admitted that A/UX didn't support those giant monitors. I installed Mac OS and it ran fine.
$450M, not $100M, right?
It would benefit the hard right small state parties - that's one of the reasons the UK civil service has what's called purdah they are not allowed to issue information "which could be seen to be advantageous to any candidates or parties in the forthcoming election"

But in the UK we do get a yearly break down of where our taxes go - just not directly before an election
It's not acceptable to punish today's men for what men of past got away with. That's vendetta, blood feud, primitive.

What I watch happening is lots of decisions happening based on nothing. That all or most the particular men accused at the moment are actually guilty is of no interest to me. But the way we decide on anecdotes and stories is. When we decide before the courts, we commit irreversible damage. If we say once Joe Person is a molester or a rapist or a paedophile, and then he's proven innocent, it's basically impossible to find every single person who has read the wrong accusations and convince them otherwise.

Also, it's not only the bar that is lowering, the definition of what's normal advances and what's molesting is changing. In not so distant past invasive behaviour of men were even expected in some circumstances. Good that we do away with these problematic behaviours and protect people from unwanted experiences, but that in no way legitimises leaving people defenceless in front of slander.
Yes but in all English hundred means 100, thousand means 1000, million means 1000000. 'MM' means... what exactly? Without prior training, can you tell just by looking at it?
Why? Why should the government have a say in how people promote products? Unless they are being fraudulent, why can’t the consumer simply use their own brains to decide what to buy?
Learning Analytics v1.0
Intel Stacks Up Xeons Against AMD Epyc Systems
Try:

1. Rainbows End, by Vernor Vinge
2. Otherland, by Tad Williams
>A citation would be nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World

>Also, what countries would be second-world with that definition?

In present-day English, the Third World is "the developing countries of Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa".[1] Third world countries in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa include Russia, Albania, Nigeria, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Dominican Republic, Cuba, South Africa, and Armenia. The term usually suggests poverty and low level of industrial development and thus it is the opposite of the term developed nations. This usage is considered by some to be offensive.
Whoa, thanks.

>> Looking for familiar Unix tools? Tired of Powershell’s Verb-Noun verbosity?

Sold.
Sorry, I was trying to emphasize that part in the middle of a quote, and only had italics to work with. I am accustomed to that syntax meaning that there was emphasis in the quoted section.

And regarding the definition of the word "planning", I think there is a useful distinction between intent to do a thing and consideration of the possibility. It is useful to consider what could happen if I (or my successor, or someone with my credentials) went rogue and tried to use my company's data to destroy it or cause harm. I agree that the CIA's morals may not be so altruistic as my own, but this memo is step 2 of a 10-step process to initiating a false flag op, not step 10.
Why I stopped developing Luck and moved my focus to Rust
OpenSCAD is very good, having designed quite a few things using it, and FreeCAD is quite serviceable for working with legacy shapes made in other CAD software. The ecosystem has definitely improved thanks to 3D printing.
I agree with you. I see this being extended to other sorts of diseases/mental illnesses. If facebook thinks you are "harming" yourself with substance abuse, don't they have a moral obligation to report you and stop you? They'll do so with the opening sentence of the article:

> This is software to save lives.

Literally anything is justifiable with that pretense.
Palette – color manager for iPhone. It's like Notes but for colors
> If libertarians were on record and known for objecting to the corporation itself as the infringement on individual liberties that it is

Libertarians are on record for that, including myself (at least) in this thread.

> But applying libertarian principles to something which is an inherently unlibertarian government construct is just nonsense.

Agreed, but you're the only one trying to square that circle here. You're overthinking it.

EDIT: Actually, I don't agree. To go back to my previous comment, ideally - in Libertopia - corporations do not exist as a legal entity, so we don't have to worry about this contradiction. But if we must live in a world where they do exist, it is not a logical fallacy to wish for them to be as free as possible, just as with everyone else.
I was hoping they used data on people who actually committed suicide, but it looks like they're using activity that users reported and "expert opinion" instead.
Hey yeah, I remember my first ARM programming was on the NDS' two 66/33MHz processors. I think it basically dedicated one to each screen, fun stuff.

Are the laptop co-processors you're talking about the 'R' lines? I know 'M' is for low-power mobile stuff and 'A' is for "Real Computer" stuff, but I was never too clear on the 'Realtime' lines.
The test works fine on my iPhone but as soon as I try it on my PC connected through Viscosity it's stuck seemlingly forever. I killed it after a few minutes. Upon disconnecting it's all good and fast. What could I be doing wrong here?
The grapes should ALL be from the same Douro region, I don't think you'll get much more information than that. My criticism towards Portugal's lack of export savviness is more to the fact that all brands I see abroad are typically non-Portuguese (Whereas you have to assume the vineyard belongs to a foreigner/company). Brands like Ferreira, Velhotes, etc are not commonly seen outside Portugal, on the other hand, common international brands are not typically consumed by the average person (lack of knowledge of said brands + higher price probably drives the Portuguese away)
Really what?
More troubling is 'm' being used to refer to thousands, when the rest of the English-speaking financial world uses 'k' (which also makes little sense to me)
He who follows two hares catches neither.
Assume you give $1000/mo to all people below the poverty line as a replacement for all current social safety net programs (including ETC and SNAP and Social Security, but not or Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP). There are currently 43.1 million Americans living in poverty. But, keep in mind many Americans are only above the poverty line because of government assistance. According to the link I gave, without any government assistance it is estimated 79.1 million Americans would be in poverty.

You wind up with ~$949.2B, which is close to what we're paying currently.

It would also involve cuts to various groups. For instance, the average retiree gets ~$1,300/mo from Social Security.

There's actually a larger issue I forgot to mention: what you're talking about isn't actually BI. In your computation you assume we're only paying $1000/mo to those who are not on Social Security and are not employed. But the whole point of Basic Income is that it goes to everyone. What you're talking about is just a different form of welfare, and completely unrelated to what this system is proposing.
So wherein lies the liquidity problem?

I deposit USD to an exchange...then use that USD to place a Bitcoin buy order. Then I sell some Bitcoin another buyer on the exchange, who was only able to make this transaction happen because they too deposited USD or fiat into their account.

I get the money, they get the Bitcoin. Who is getting screwed?
I automatically read that headline as intended, didn't even smirk. I don't want to forget the absurdity of our world and its little dramas, so thanks for the reminder!
I'm beginning to have doubts about Facebook's commitment to Sparkle-Motion.
I like the general idea. However, the problem with giving people a share of the GDP is that GDP is a terrible measure of useful economic production.

As a trivial example: GDP goes up if I sneak into a car lot one night and set fire to all the cars.

We need a better measure of "useful" economic production.
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No, that's not what OP is saying at all. Read his posts. He's under the impression that exchanges take out bank loans to pay dollars to their customers, which is false.

Although that would be incorrect, there still are valid fears for a liquidity crunch, as I stated. This, regardless of why (be it laws or fund availability) does create a concern due to liquidity.

> BTW, Bitfinex recently reopened bank deposits and withdrawals.

Clearly not true. Especially for U.S. customers: https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/227
>edit: the 2016 990 was just released today. O'Keefe's salary is $317K and the org's revenue increased from 3.7M to 4.8M. Not bad at all.

Source of their income here:

https://twitter.com/alexkotch/status/935278757862170624
I was definitely commenting the issue (and likely Telerik's) definition of "not public".

The two stated reasons (again, likely just citing Telerik's request), are "they own the ip" and "it's not public" are just bogus. Linking to a publicly accessible resource doesn't have anything to do with IP (using someone's trademark to accurately describe the thing or direct people to it is not a crime, at least in the US), and "it's not public" is just false, as shown.

All in all, seems like a cave on Chocolatey's part. Particularly since they have a whole section of their FAQ dedicated to vendor distribution rights[0], which goes through pains to show that most of the time, there is no distribution at all (since it's just automation scripts).

This is about as silly as Telerik saying that I can't write:

"curl https://www.telerik.com/docs/default-source/fiddler/fiddlers...

[0] - https://chocolatey.org/docs/package-triage-process#are-you-a...
This appears to be an amendment adding $100m to a July 2017 filing, which was for ~$350m:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1181412/000118141217...
Agreed. They've already built tools to track people through Bitcoin, why would they try to shut it down? Especially when a lot of people still assume bitcoin's 100% anonymous and use it for criminal activity, making them easy to catch?
choco upgrade all

That's the biggest reason, it's easy to upgrade everything at once, not getting nagged but auto updaters when you want to actually use a program, not hunting around the web to check if there are uninstalled updates, etc. The other big convenience is as you said, having everything in a single catalog.
And they just posted a "rebuttal" video. https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/935283210606477312
> Something that a poor person has access to as well

I doubt this. When the other side has orders of magnitude more money than you, you don't have access to protection by the legal system - this is the very reason why and how, for example, patent trolls stay in business.

> and in fact the utilization of such could allow them to come out of poverty

You're talking about trickle-down effect, I guess? That's been proven false. When all the employers pay only the least they have to, you won't ever get out of poverty. What could help is strikes, but union busting has taken care of that "problem" for the employers.

> it isn't a replacement for a hierarchy built on competence

Competence does not seem to be rewarded as much as it was in ye olde times. Look at who is in government right now: certainly not the experts that the US needs, and in Europe the situation doesn't look much better...

(for the record, given your question above: I have not downvoted you)
As a tax reform idea this is extremely promising.

I hope that one or more silicon valley billionaires run for national office on this kind of platform.

Sam is smart to point out that one of the main friction points is how this kind of thing pertains to immigration.

What's missing is an updated version of the narrative behind give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. Instead we get the vile rhetoric of Donald Trump that blames immigrants and minorities for all sorts of problems.

The American version of this sort of program needs to be fundamentally different from the "stipend" given to Saudi citizens by their elitist monarchs, and it cannot be designed to serve a similar political function (keeping the masses content).

Instead, we must view basic income as a system of positive and negative taxation that preserves the incentives individuals have to work hard to improve their own outcomes.

It must also eliminate the many perverse incentives and psychologically defeating categorizations (welfare, workers comp, etc.) that assault the dignity of those receiving income from the state today.

There are many costs of poverty that are not typically accounted for properly -- the harm done to children whose parents can't manage adequate prenatal or early childhood care, the human capital wasted by those who experience a setback that makes their planned investment in their own skills financially unwise, the time and energy wasted attempting and policing all sorts of major and minor fraud related to state payments, etc.

The biggest enemy to progress in America is the zero-sum mindset that plagues so many people and fuels their resentment toward immigrants. The areas of the nation facing the most decay and the least hope are the ones that seem to have adopted this mindset.
This is like training a neural net to solve algebra problems instead of just solving the algebra problems.
Gaming the System: A Market View of ESports
My own personal theory on this matter is that a lot of emotional state is feedback loops.

Have a positive environment where things tend to go well and everyone else likes you? Then you share in to that same environment (drink the Koolaid).

Have a mostly neutral or slightly negative environment? Then you end up circling the drain hoping to have an energy exchange that allows you escape velocity in to the above rather than...

Having a mostly negative environment; even if it's just a little. The slow crushing weight of reality and those around you chips away at every part of your being and self until there is nothing left but a broken and hateful individual. May become either a neutron star (hermit) or go supernova (usually leading to jail or death).
>> Why dont we regulate everything like that. Why do we allow people to buy unlimited lottery tickets or gamble everything away in the casino?

> They also carry less risk. Few people who "lose their shirt" say "oh well, I didn't do my diligence."

No they don't. Plenty of people lose their entire life savings in casinos, and plenty of poor people spend money on lottery tickets when they should be spending money on food.

You have not sufficiently explained how gambling is less risky than investing.
> You know what can really ruin someone's life? Being harassed/assaulted and not being able to talk about it for fear that you'll be ostracised by your friends and family.

I know that out of experience. Long long experiences. You never know who you're talking to on the interwebs, so be careful (not that I'm trying to intimidate you, but just an advice: a thoughtless remark might be hurting someone receiving your ones and zeros).

> The, "the real victims in all of this are the men!" takes on this are getting pretty old. False accusations are extremely rare. Whereas harassment and sexual assault are actual, real things that women have to deal with on a daily basis.

I'm not saying that at all, this is a strawman argument.
This is unfortunate but I support Veritas. I think, in general, they do good work in exposing corruption, and bias. Just because WaPo caught them this time doesn't mean they're wrong, or WaPo is wrong. The past few years have given me a deep distrust of all media.
I assumed that but really didn't care. Language is cool like that — when you know how rules apply and are interpreted, you can break them at will.
It's a self-own because this doesn't cast shade on real allegations, it does the opposite by showing that the WaPo is doing diligence on the allegations. It probably doesn't matter though: folks who trust the WaPo already know they do diligence, and folks who don't trust them won't care.
The content of "places" feature looks like it's managed by a machine learning algorithm, and it appears to be a disaster (from a user perspective). It incorrectly merges and proposes bizarre categories all the time.

There was an bad issue with a place I cared enough about to try to correct, so I ventured into the "community" they setup to build their training set to try to get it fixed. It was such a depressing place. Hundreds of people tricked by gamification into working for free for a for-profit company, only to be frustrated and have their efforts shit upon by its half-ass algorithm.
Also says "common stock issuable upon conversion of preferred stock"

So maybe this is about shares conversion?
> The Pentium M didn't just outperform the Pentium 4M mobile chip, it also benchmarked within a few percent of the desktop Pentium 4, while consuming less power and generating less heat. After a brief diversion with the Pentium D Intel essentially gave up on the Pentium 4 in favour of a multi-core development of the Pentium M, which was sold as the Core architecture.

I have a personal story: the application I worked on at that time needed some complicated calculations and decisions during them -- and to complete every run took a significant time, measured in minutes, or even hours, and there was a lot to calculate. But once somebody ran the application on a Pentium M notebook, nobody could believe at first: on the notebook it run faster than on the Pentiums 4 desktops in the office, even if the notebook had lower clock than the Pentiums 4 desktops!

The reasons are many, if I remember what I've understood then correctly, the Pentium 4 design was never meant to target (at least not much) the clock speeds at which it was eventually sold. Apparently there were marketing people in Intel who influenced the development of the new processors, who managed to press the engineers to target always "more GHz" -- that was simple and easiest to sell, having more GHz than competition. So apparently the Pentium 4 design was made to conceptually enable up to 10 GHz clock speeds! Today it sounds science fiction, but before that time the clock speed did rise a lot for quite a years nicely. Also apparently, some engineers warned the marketing that maybe it's not going to be easy to reach 10 GHz. "You just design the CPU, let others design the thermal and other solutions." Of course, everything but the CPU conceptual design wasn't successful: it's not just cooling the CPU off that's the problem, although that is a problem enough. There are some specific dependencies that simply don't go linearly. So in practice Pentiums 4 have been sold with the lower clock that they were designed for, most of the customers didn't notice much.

So what were the Pentium M advantages? That was a processor developed by another team (not even in the USA but in Israel), and with the specific goal of doing more in less clock counts. It worked marvelously for the real life demands, like the calculations present in our application. Compared to the Pentium 4, the M also had more CPU cache, obviously enough for our application to shine.

For our application Pentium M was not "within a few percent" it was really much better than Pentium 4.
Of course you can tax GDP, every country in the world already does it. Surprisingly few people seem to be aware that GDP is the same thing as GDI, the sum of all income earned in a country in a year, the vast majority of which is already taxed.

About 60% of all US income (GDI) is compensation for labor (salaries, wages, benefits), 40% compensation for capital (dividends, interest, rents). Both parts are already taxed, at varying rates. The total amount of taxation is about 33% of GDI, while total spending is about 36% (the deficits is filled by borrowing).

Since the entire article looks like a big tax and transfer proposal, it's pretty bizarre to omit almost all basic government accounting, except for a throwaway footnote. The analogy with joint-stock companies or Homestead acts are neither here nor there. The government owned a lot of American land back then. It doesn't not own a large share of of current American corporations, nor many laborers. So the way to pay any significant "citizen's dividend" is boring old taxes.

A much better discussion with concrete numbers and speculation on incentive effects can be found here: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=1286141&s...
$450MM total, this is an amendment to increase last month's raise of $350MM by an additional $100MM.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-27/elon-musk...

>Space Exploration Technologies Corp. added another $100 million to its latest fundraising round, bringing the total to nearly $450 million, according to an amended regulatory filing.

>The closely held company founded by Elon Musk had disclosed in August raising about $350 million the previous month. The round values the company at more than $21 billion, according to Equidate.
What is your take on me posting the following on my blog:

"wget https://www.telerik.com/docs/default-source/fiddler/fiddlers... && fiddlersetup.exe"

redistribute their packages

Chocolately wasn't redistributing the Fiddler packages[0].

[0] - https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolatey-coreteampackages/bl...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=accEKtBebaU