skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 20 years, Bitcoin will either be worth $0 or $350k. (Stability and history to become a safe-haven asset something like gold.)

People don't think that the network today is +17% more valuable, but rather that the chance of Bitcoin going to zero in the next 20 years is 17% less.

Institutional investors building positions in Bitcoin makes a strong case for long-term viability, because if the govt tries to mess with something in everyone's mutual fund, the financial lobbyists will push back strongly.
Please don't do this. Thanks!
If the last market price is $48B then the market says Uber lost 30% of its value.

Hope no one is using their Uber stock as collateral for loans.
Where are you finding meetings so regularly effective that they don't need management/facilitation? I'd love to work there.

My setting is sales/consulting with customers including multiple parties.
This sort of logic is also why it's hard to get this sort of legislation passed nowadays.

Media has done a good job of raising awareness of the problems of wealth disparity, and a lot of people nod along.

But no matter how wealthy someone is, they can always point to the more-rich and say those people are the problem and should be taxed, not themselves.
This isn't just one of many possible modes, it is automatically enabled on pretty much every new Windows laptop.

I used to work on BitLocker so I'm biased, but it's not pointless at all. If the hardware configuration, firmware, bootloader, boot settings, etc. are unchanged, as measured by Secure Boot and then each subsequent boot component, the TPM releases the key and automatically unlocks the drive. From that point forward, security depends on OS-level authentication and authorization. Even assuming poor hardware-level security, this will still protect against the only reasonable threat faced by most people: access to private data by device thieves or physical intruders.

If you are in the tiny minority that actually wants to protect yourself against sophisticated actors who have exploits for the OS-level security, or the ability to extract keys from a running system or with a cold boot attack, you will want to be selective about your hardware and you might want to additionally rely on a PIN, password, or dongle in conjunction with the TPM/SecureBoot protection.
So for me, the most realistic price drop scenario is something that creates a big increase in supply and decrease in demand at the same time. For MtGox you have a crisis that lowers trust in brokers, decreasing demand, and huge hoard of stolen coins going to a criminal that wants to profit, increasing supply. Holders who bought bitcoin for a reason will sell for a reason, and they're heavily incentivized not to do a panic selloff, unless they think bitcoin is dying.

I agree bitcoin is inadequate as a currency. (I think ETH is better as a currency, since it sort of has the "tax base" of executing contracts and enshrining the results on the blockchain.) I view it as a store of value. If your wealth is mostly represented as various numbers in various databases (mine is,) then bitcoin is a robust form of integer storage, or at least vulnerable in ways that are uncorrelated with my other wealth storage providers.
> a way to cheat and steal from your users

So using a distributed blockchain database makes it easier for you to steal from your users than if you had a centrally controlled database. Really?
ELI5 the followin when talking about a company such as Uber:

So 'UBER' i valued at 48B

Why? Whats the breakdown?

How many drivers d they have - and how valuable is the tech which enables said drivers to work, pay the drivers, track their trips, etc...

What % of value is from the extracted data/ vs / the inputs?

Whats the avg ride fare/per region/city/etc

How can anyone invest in a company where the above and thousand of other, inputs are opaque to the investor?

Given that, with the wildly public controversies happening around the company, how could this be considered a safe bet?

They have tech and legal and other issues etc...

so who is really looking at them as solid and why? And if you tell me who, then I shall auto-assume that those looking at them as solid are shady.

CMV.
If they are buying a combination of preferred at a $69B valuation and common at a 30% lower valuation, it is certainly possible that the overall valuation is a discount to the $69B. Hard to know without seeing detailed terms

I'm sure the liquidation preference (presumably 1x?) is worth something, but is it worth a 5-10-20-30% discount? At Uber's current valuation, the preferred would convert anyway so the liquidation preference would not be relevant

Edit: saw that the total investment is slated to be $10B, with $1B invested at the $69B valuation and the rest presumably in common shares at a 30% discount. It could be true that this does not represent a decrease in valuation, but there is reason to believe that the overall valuation is a step down. Devil in the details
I don't know if it's only that. I stopped using Tumblr when Yahoo bought it, and actively deleted or abandoned my Tumblr sites when Verizon bought it.
"The savage beasts," said he, "in Italy, have their particular dens, they have their places of repose and refuge; but the men who bear arms, and expose their lives for the safety of their country, enjoy in the meantime nothing more in it but the air and light and, having no houses or settlements of their own, are constrained to wander from place to place with their wives and children." He told them that the commanders were guilty of a ridiculous error, when, at the head of their armies, they exhorted the common soldiers to fight for their sepulchres and altars; when not any amongst so many Romans is possessed of either altar or monument, neither have they any houses of their own, or hearths of their ancestors to defend. They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men. They were styled the masters of the world, but in the meantime had not one foot of ground which they could call their own.

Tiberius Gracchus tried to stop the ancient Roman 1% from stealing the wealth of the 99%. They personally clubbed him and 300 supporters to death, beginning the chain of violence that ended the Roman Republic.
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That’s not true at all.

That has been true only for the embedded and mobile space.

The server space is exactly being made open and compatible between SoCs (in the same way AMD and Intel machines are). Platform crud (i2c, gpio, i2c, clock trees and pinnmuxes) is hidden in firmware behind ACPI, PSCI and UEFI just like on x86. SBSA and SBBR specs mandate stringent compatibility requirements. Machine error handling is firmware-first. IO is basically PCIe now.

For an OS vendor or an IT guy these machines look almost exactly like an x86 box. And then they look the same between the Arm vendors too.
Another Facebook bug and it's effect
I live not far from the Nordschleife and I own a car built for the track. Nothing insane but fun enough to drive. The e-sports is appealing to me in some ways, I am considering getting a proper setup. But there is simply no comparison going into Schwedenkreuz at 200kph+ in a real car vs a video game (call it a simulator, if you wish). When things go wrong, they go wrong very fast and it could hurt. This is what keeps you focused. A lot of the people who play those video games, they come to drive the real thing. It ends in tears quite often.

The vdeo game simply does not reflect things like: track surface bumpiness, knocks in the car, feeling of the steering rack, driving over curbs, the forces on ones wrists and what happens to them after 20 laps, having to actually move your head to check the mirrors, tires going off, brakes fading, changing weather conditions and having to choose a different line in the wet and dry, dirt on the surface, brake discs going out of shape from overheating, etc. The video game experience does not relate to the real driving. All the forces under braking, acceleration, going over the crest, compression when going into the dips, gear not going in because the forces between the engine and the gesrbox do not allow for it to go in - it's all missing. It's a washed down experience. It's good maybe for concentration training and learning general track layout.

What's really annoying in virtually every video game is that, somehow, none of them even manages to really reflect the track width. All other things like changing weather is just algorithm, once you learn the algorithm, there's no surprise anymore.

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> "Assuming there are no bugs in the login screen, [assuming] no way to physically read the contents of RAM (where the encryption keys are), and [assuming] no way to access the contents of the TPM, this approach is just as secure.

That's a lot of assumptions. Or, as Jayne Cobb might say, "I'm smelling a lot of 'if' coming off this plan."
Out of curiosity, where did you have in mind for the $5 luxury hotel, room, board, and high-speed internet? That sounds like a place many of us might like to put on the docket for later.
And on the flip side it's Donate or get deported. Scare tactics work, both sides use it.
AFAICT this model never took off because the total cost came out really high. People have been clamoring for external GPUs for at least a decade, but even nowadays that it's technically feasible by the time you drop the cash for it you're a good chunk of the way to a new gaming rig.
I bought my G5 tower at the end of the PPC generation, and loved the thing. I think it was 2005 or 2006, and I ran the machine until only a couple of years ago. During it's working life, it never skipped a beat, and for a long time was still just as performant as anything being released new.

Then came the stage where I could no longer update OSX, couldn't really run the internet as no new browser versions were released... The machine was pretty much a brick.

But it was a goddamn pretty brick.
It's very simple: students who get the notes up front are less likely to come to class.

Before you tell me this is silly, it's a fact that some students need help to decide to come to class. Should we reduce the absolute goodness of the class to assist less-than-perfect students? We already do in so many ways. Sigh.
There were a number of language extensions that were cool: there were a bunch of improvements to the module system, lot's of new data types, actually useful pointer/address/bit types & operators, etc. However, the big difference was that the underlying OS and HW were vastly more capable than TP, so you got a very powerful set of libraries, 3d graphics, networking with the DOMAIN OS network file system and other toys. You also got access to the Apollo C & Fortran compilers/libs. It was just a more powerful system because it ran on a more powerful platform.
If the professor is really interesting, why would someone look into a laptop?
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The Raptor engine(under development) is comparable to the BE-4.
That’s exactly why the Arm servers adopt the same specs or functional equivs to x86. A single binary distribution of an OS will boot on any SBSA compatible machine - because all the weird bits are hidden through ACPI, UEFI and PSCI. No BSPs.

I’d go as far as saying Arm servers are compatible to x86 designs at a platform level (eg. how PCIe and config space are wired up, how caches and DMA work, NUMA, SMP, MSI(X), and so on....
It's great to see that organizations can receive major funding if they can provide strong evidence of efficacy! Kind of changes the landscape for people thinking of starting projects. I doubt this'll be the last nonprofit to go through YC and then receive top charity status from GiveWell.
As did I! I ran a lot of gravitational dynamics experiments on OSC in my graduate student days.
In the United States, to be considered an accredited investor, one must have a net worth of at least $1,000,000, excluding the value of one's primary residence, or have income at least $200,000 each year for the last two years (or $300,000 combined income if married
I think there's a bigger danger to becoming a profit-centered publicly traded company than just them not innovating.

The character of future society on Mars will in large part depend on the policies of the large corporations that provide the technology and infrastructure to make it possible, and I would rather that Mars society looks like a diverse, free, liberal democracy with reasonable opportunities for homesteading and an efficient economy with multiple competing vendors for various resources and not like a forced labor camp where you work your 80 hours a week in exchange for the CO2 filters you need to survive, or like a tourist destination where one company owns the whole Mars Experience.

In the short term it's probably inevitable that one company will have a transportation-to-Mars monopoly, but if that company has some good founding principles and a vision that doesn't involve milking every last dime out of their monopoly status, then I can at least feel a little better that Mars has a chance of not becoming a dystopia.
If you think there is a chance that Bitcoin will continue gaining value long term:

- Decide what you think a bitcoin could be worth in X years

- Multiply that by the probability that outcome occurs

- That's your 'fundamental' price

Ex. if you think bitcoin has a 10% chance of being worth $100k in the future, it is rational to buy at prices up to $10K.

(some time-value of money handwaviness, but can be a useful way to look at things. ideally should be compared against other investments)
I suspect that the Chinese govt's censorship desires will drag it down in terms of being a tax on productivity. To expand more, Chinese companies will have to interact more with the rest of the world, and this will create further censorship and monitoring pressure on the govt.
The way you write it, it almost reads as if it comes as a revelation that smaller, turbocharged engines can compete with larger, naturally aspirated ones in terms of power output. How can that be: F1 cars already boasted much more powerful small turbo engines 30 years ago than what has since been fitted into them.

In any case, that lap records were beaten this year tells an altogether different story: the engines used don't matter that much for the lap times after a point. After all, they were running almost the same engines last year, a little development notwithstanding, and were much slower: what has changed, and what dominates the gains in lap times, is aerodynamics – which are severely restricted by the rules. That was also the case a dozen years ago when we had the similarly powerful, larger but lighter N/A V10 engines (no hybrid part to lug around back then), accompanied with a narrower track and grooved tyres to reduce the cornering speeds. Thus the comparison is moot: everything around the engine dominates the equation anyway, but that is hardly news.
As a college freshmen in 2003, I used my once in a lifetime Apple Student Developer 20% discount on a stacked PowerMac G5 dual 2.0GHz. I loved that machine and couldn't believe how snappy OS X was on it. The way I tested UI speed then was clicking on a menu item (say the File menu), and moving my mouse back and forth on the other menu items as fast as I could — the G5 was the first computer I had that could keep up and show all of the sub menus in a flash without stuttering.
Really. So if you made a public vote about removing the accredited investment requirements and 51% of the people voted against it, it would blow your mind entirely?
Yes, but that's included in that $900M/yr of revenue. It isn't an extra revenue line.
I'd be curious if they were entertaining adverse hypotheses on mental health!
Source seems to be a tweet with a #geekhumor hashtag https://twitter.com/eashman/status/934938770213761025
This is a really amazing insight and something that gets glossed over a lot in the "we need an open competitor to YouTube" comments. $85 for 60,000 minutes watched, thats about thats a cost of $0.001 per minute (or 8.5 cents per hour watched).

For comparison a fairly large YouTube channel makes $0.0005 per minute (or 3 cents per hour watched) just on YouTube generated revenue. Granted YouTube is taking a 50% cut (so they are really generating 6 cents per hour), but in your naive example, even if you had a completely mature programmatic ad platform, you would still be losing 2.5cents per hour streamed.

Video distribution is costly and is likely what is preventing other players from entering into the space.
Make sure there is already a written marketing plan in place.
Volume in tethers or dollars?
Word of advice: Make sure your “business guy” already has a written marketing plan in place showing how money is to be made, and an exit strategy. Then make sure you actually really agree that it is accomplishable, and that you are willing to go for it.
Research profs travel a lot, and thus enjoy battery life and light weight. Many CS and math profs live in LaTeX and shell and not Office. Mac is handy.
Except the stated policy of this executive is to deport large numbers of people, whereas there is no danger of Christmas being outlawed, or of Sharia becoming the law of the land.
I'm personally very glad more people aren't that bold. Not at all interested in seeing people I interact with professionally naked or engaged in sex games. Just not the place for it from my perspective.
Yes they do. Main mission: to make Facebook as sticky as possible.
Lian-Li made aluminium PC cases with similar designs:

http://www.dansdata.com/pcv1000.htm

https://www.overclockzone.com/newhardware/case/lianli/pc-v20...
You're hitting a pet peeve of mine, which is the "all or nothing" misunderstanding of security. You should evaluate security against a threat model.

Those assumptions that you criticize hold true for the realistic threat faced by the vast vast majority of people: opportunistic taking of personal data by device thieves, intruders, and others with physical access to the machine. If you are worried about more sophisticated attacks, then you can easily ratchet up BitLocker's security by requiring a boot-time PIN, dongle, or password in addition to the TPM/SecureBoot measurements. You will also want to be more selective about the hardware that you use.
`set` is a built-in. He probably didn't want to smash it.

Defining a function and immediately calling it prevents pollution of module scope. Without it, `photo` would be exported.

The tests are in the same file because it makes the example self-contained, I assume.

The experiments are run 100,000 times because they have a random component and this exercises the system.
Then they would start jumbling the images out of order.
I think you'll find varied opinions in an organization as sprawling as Bloomberg. My favorite writer Matt Levine had a short blurb about this, he's consistently pretty sharp with a dash of humor.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-11-16/softbank-...
>>> Other investors see X going up, and put money in X because it's going up. That's the start of a bubble - when people buy, not because they think the fundamentals are good, but because it's going up and they don't want to miss out. So of course X goes up more because of all the new money coming in.

That isn't just the start of the bubble, that's pretty much the definition - asset trading at the price that exceeds the asset's intrinsic value. If people are buying on speculation and not for it's utility, it's a bubble.

>>> So, if my understanding of bubbles is correct, and if Bitcoin is going to be a typical bubble, the relevant question is, how much of the money invested in Bitcoin is borrowed?

The amount of borrowed money used to purchase Bitcoin is certainly a lot greater than zero, which while not strictly a characteristic of a bubble, probably is a sign of nearing critical levels.
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Please don't do this.
I've seen all three in that use case (and ARM11 cores and earlier where they didn't really make the distinction as overtly). Mainly R and M though.

But the distinction is something like:

M - Thumb2 only, simple two or three stage pipelines typically. Optional everything like selectable (at chip design time) multiply unit that's either 1 or 32 cycles of latency. MPU (if present) only adds protection information, but doesn't remap memory like a full MMU. An ascetic M has something like 12k gates which is insanely low for a 32 bit processor. It mainly competes with AVRs, 8051s, and maybe really low end MIPS if anyone is still using R3000s. In a laptop, I've seen them in power management controllers, bluetooth, and sometimes in WiFi.

R - More powerful than M. Runs Thumb and A32. Clear, deterministic. In order pipeline, tightly coupled memory, and an MPU so that you can still run hard real time cycle counting kind of code twiddling GPIOs carefully, but then also running DSP on the results afterward. I've seen a lot of these in hard disk controllers. They're sort of spiritual successors to the ARM9/7 you know from the DS. Competes with most MIPS.

A - Sort of all over the place. Some are 32bit, some are both 32 and 64. Has a real, page table MMU. Typically run real, big boy kernels like Linux. Competes with Atoms, higher end MIPS (see a trend?) and POWER at the very high end if you squint enough. Typically they're complex enough that you can't cycle count and get deterministic results (longer pipelines, TLB that'll refill 'randomly', cache refills, more complex branch predictor), but give higher overall performance. I think I've seen an A8 as a sound processor? Typically though they're not really a coprocessor, the gate count is too high to make sense.
I'd guess that various clicks in a small time frame can be trivially detected and discarded as noise. The vast majority of the users do not use that pattern.

I don't think it causes a reload, but it can also be trivially detected using JavaScript.
> And, of course, the modules would all connect to a shared backplane... which would just be PCIe.

There's an existing industrial standard, MicroTCA, that Apple could probably adapt for this.
You are pretty much showing your ignorance of F1 racing. Every year, the electric component of their engines makes up a greater proportion of the power train than the combustion engine. Kinetic energy recovery systems have improved in leaps and bounds due in a large part to the R&D done on the F1 racetrack.

To put it in perspective - Even in the heady days of F1 racing in the 80's. All the fuel used by every car in every team on every racetrack each year (including all practices, qualifying and races) still used less fuel than a single 747 on a transatlantic flight.
By the way they elevate moderation priority for posts and FB Live, I pessimisticly assume their primary concern is to prevent people from committing suicide ON Facebook Live, which is much worse for Facebook than simply loosing users
You can get indirect exposure to SpaceX through some Fidelity mutual funds.

http://blog.sfgate.com/pender/2015/03/25/see-which-fidelity-...
I had checked that page when I posted my comment. Somehow the issue got fixed before that note got posted. Thanks!
My broader point was that much of the benefits of psychotherapy can be attributed to social or emotional factors, not intellectual factors. While there is considerable debate about this, a lot of people are of the mind that therapy is not about precisely diagnosing some issue and then saying something to a patient to optimally fix things. If AI becomes emotionally and socially intelligent, maybe they can do good therapy. But if you think that mental illness can be solved through deterministic problem solving, logic and recommending the optimal thing to do to fix things, i would view that perspective as not consistent with our current understanding of neuroscience and mental illness

I'd question whether you are trying to reduce the problem of mental illness to fit the capabilities of the tool you are working with, rather than trying to earnestly understand the problem