skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What happens to stock which isn't part of the IPO? Ie, all the stock owned by employees, investors, etc? Does it become instantly tradeable?

I would imagine that considering the long road, a lot of people are really ready to sell. There are lots of owners that will have achieved 50X or more return, even at a low market cap. Former employees with option strike prices @ £20m, early investors that got in @ £150m....

That means far too much of their net worth is in Uber. They need out regardless of fundamentals. They've probably felt this way for a while. Meanwhile all the shifty news about workplace bullying, an ousted ceo, legal battles.

I guess this applies to all IPOs. Why don't prices plummet as soon as all the people who want out can get out?
Love the idea...;-)
Reliable exchanges mean eventual taxation.

There is nothing eventual about the taxation. You are either already reporting it, or you are already unlawfully evading it.

Whether or not an exchange also reports it is a separate issue.
That's way overstating it -- people may jump to conclusions that don't match objective reality, but the string of suspicious meetings, consistent omissions from security clearance forms and testomonies, peculiar behaviors by advisors and campaign managers, are all things that did happen in reality.

Things like 3 million illegal aliens voted in California, or Barack Obama was born in Kenya, or John Podesta running a sex ring in the basement of a pizza parlor, are better examples of ideas fully divorced from objective reality.
"Who on earth would actually sell any Bitcoins right now" (spend and sell have the same effect)... yet in the market, there's a seller in front of every buyer.

Regarding stuff being priced in BTC, prices are falling when BTC is rising. Who doesn't like lower and lower prices?

That pizza used to cost 50,000 BTC, it's only 0.0003 BTC today!

Bitcoin is a deflationary currency.
when is the Uber exodus going to start?
The problem here is that the games being manually optimized by the graphics card vendors can have pretty horrendous code. To the point that I remember reading a post at some point about a large game not even calling glEnd after a glBegin. So these big companies get the graphics card companies to manually go through and hack together some specialized code (including the shader code that will replace the shader code written by the big game company) to fix up how the game works, and optimize it so it works well.

Part of the reason for this is that it's so incredibly difficult to get to the "happy path" of a GPU when writing graphics code. (at least, with more complicated APIs. I think the newer things like DirectX 12 or Vulkan provide a much lower-level set of primitives to allow the developer to get to that happy path much easier, rather than doing 5 incantations in a magic circle to get there) The underlying state machine and code for a driver is incredibly complicated, and the only people who know how it really works and can view code at all levels of the software are the employees of the graphics card vendor. So they're the only ones who can truly squeeze every ounce out of the hardware/software.
There's selective prosecution, but I take your point.
I don't think anyone disputes that nations are social constructs, it is the "and as such all immigration policies of any sort are illegitimate and harmful." part that is controversial.
I believe Waymo is asking for 1.8 billion in damages. They were asking 1 billion to settle. Ultimately, though, it's up to the jury to award damages if they find for Waymo.
Same here, even when using duckduckgo and !g.
Yeah I am really perplexed with Uber's business model. They can't survive much longer and they can't keep getting injections of cash to stay alive, can they? It's rumored they'll IPO in 2019, if I remember correctly, which means they have to somehow survive until then to at least reach that stage.

Are they planning to raise prices? Cut employees? What are they planning on doing here?
See also:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/austr...
Maybe eventually they will come out with an AVC, like a GVC but more betterer.
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A quick magical search on google found me: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-11-29/how-to-ta...
Huh, that's a cool tip. I'll try it out.
(am Googler, am amused by this idea, so let's run with it)

Would this apply to all of google, or just specific product areas (ie, would you only nationalize Search, or Search & Ads, or something else)?

If yes, do tensorflow development now fall under the purview of the UN? Is Android now a partially closed-source, world-government administered, operating system, used by a significant fraction of every human being?

If not, how does one manage infrastructure for the now government administered search system, and corporate everything-else? Do they share the datacenters (and thus give government employees access to the datacenters full of user data), or do they split the datacenters up somehow, and give some to the government, and keep others?

What happens to my existing Google Account? Does the government get access to any of my user data, and if so, which subset? Do we do away with search personalization, or start it over from scratch?

I'm very honestly curious how you would orchestrate this, or expect it to work.
Soyuz rocket fails due to misprogrammed launch site
Bookkeeping. Probably double-entry bookkeeping. Also a very old invention.
What I don't get: why would you prefer the greasy inside of a snack bag for the PDA over a clean piece of aluminum wrap? Surely, he will have to use the device after he's done golfing.

And why didn't he just leave the device on some bogus location outside the golf court so the tracking wouldn't be interrupted? Surely, when asked where he was all day, he would have to be able to name some location, so it would be better to actually leave the phone there.
I've used c9.io for years. You're trading some nice IDE features you'll get with VSCode or others for convenience, but not as many as you'd think.

Although the interface is rather out-dated, it's a solid IDE and I thoroughly enjoy being able to just walk away from my code and pick it up anywhere on anything.

With EC2 integration, it may cut out what I had been doing, which was turn up a digital ocean droplet and use the SSH workspace in c9.io and boom, I had a full VM to dev on that anyone can reach anywhere.
I'm a development program manager, and right now about 20% of my clients request video. None of them are primarily in tech.

The deciding factor is location and not tech savvy: I only make video calls when that client and I are both in professional settings. For example, I won't join a video stream from an airport lounge, or from inside my office where there are multiple client projects on the board behind me.
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Just watched a movie on Netflix yesterday called Bitcoin Heist.

A B-grade fictional movie focused around "Ghost" who has the QR code to his wallet on his ring. Worth a watch if you're sick in bed.

Fun anecdote: the movie is depicted when $BTC is $250 and they're chasing after 30k and 40k bitcoin.
FTA, "It’s called a social wealth fund, a pool of investment assets in some ways like the giant index or mutual funds already popular with retirement savings accounts or pension funds, but one owned collectively by society as a whole. One that paid dividends not to the few, or even just to the shrinking middle class lucky enough to have their savings invested, but to everyone."
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Nope: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfpmn/pmn...

"Type: Traditional" means it's a traditional certified EKG with AI, not an AI certified EKG. I.e. no AI is involved in AFib detection.
Here's some things I do.

1. Make predictions over short (next day, next hour) to long (next month,year) term. When you are right or wrong ask why. Make a hypothesis and test it out in your next prediction. You can and should do this with everything.

2. Understand how measurement correlates to meaning. Study metrology even, Measure things constantly and form your judgements and opinions from measurements.

3. Accept you and all humans are not rational (when was the last time you made an everyday choice after computing the mathematical probabilities) but driven by emotions and gut desires which are rationalized. You can read books about this but most of the time knowing you are biased wont protect you or stop you from being biased. Accept this, learn, strive to be better anyway, dont get frustrated.

4. Surround yourself by people who don't agree with you on everything.

5. Take on and argue for things you don't agree with or like to the point of being able to convince other people of them. It forces you to see another side of an issue and can be a good way to gain additional insight.
Too often I see people argue "X is a social construct" as a way of arguing that X "doesn't exist", or that people who believe in it have a kind of false consciousness.

I'm trying to show why people believe in it. Yes, it's a social construct; but that doesn't mean it's worthless - "money" is also a social construct: it only has value because other people think it has value.

The nation appears to be the largest stable unit of organization humans are capable of, at present at least. The history of the world has shown that Empires don't last too long these days.
My point is that if you believe Google's "monopoly" to be detrimental to the populace, you should address that head-on, instead of dancing around it and applying lots of little regulations which, though they do "address the problem" and help make Google less anti-trust, they could also (are likely to?) hurt other companies that are not monopolistic down the line.

Attack anti-trust at it's source. If you find this story worrying, your worry should not be "Google is removing search results", but rather "Google has so much dominance, them removing results is a serious concern".

This addresses your first point: don't force Google to do certain things and then let them buy any and all competitors, instead don't let them buyout all competitors in the first place. It's a much more elegant solution, in my opinion.
Original source (Anatoly Zak): http://www.russianspaceweb.com/meteor-m2-1.html
So, effectively the same thing as a basic income guarantee?
GM and Cruise on track to field a self-driving ride hailing service by 2019
Honestly, I'm not sure. I thought they had a backup mesh network. I bought them because they speak in English instead of making a series of nonsense beeps; they're easy to silence when you burn something in your kitchen; they send a push alert when they need batteries instead of needing to chase down a random beep in the house; ect, ect.

I really don't care about a backup mesh network as long as they are loud enough when there is no network.
That's the second endorsement of an IOGEAR DisplayPort solution I've seen so far. The full product line is here: https://www.iogear.com/solutions/kvm

$480 to solve the dual head 4K DisplayPort problem, and it works, apparently.

Now, is that a reasonable price? I have to say I think so. This is not a trivial problem and this equipment isn't being manufactured by a dozen companies and flying off Best Buy shelves. Given the low demand and difficult requirements I think the price is reasonable. If your use case involves smoothly switching between 2-4 high resolution dual head systems $480-$680 probably amounts to something in the range of 5-20% of the cost of the entire system.

I don't buy the argument that this cost makes such a KVM pointless because one can simply buy more display(s) and input devices instead: that takes a lot of space and results in a lot of underutilized hardware.
Very good points, thank you for taking the time to respond so clearly and in detail!
I'm more inclined to think that the algorithms are just a bit naive at this point. Surely some advertisers out there do want to target that market.

The notice on my videos is: Limited or no ads due to content identified as not suitable for most advertisers[1].
Your video remains fully playable and is eligible to earn subscription revenue from YouTube Red.

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en
Between this and using Parsec for a remote gaming machine, I wonder if I'm wasting my money by buying a local gaming machine like it's 2006.
>Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Pay your taxes.

http://i.imgur.com/4CofAk7.jpg

You aren't even willing to discuss the subject in a pro-"abide by the law" way without a CYA.

Chiling effects indeed...
been there, seen it, done it all haven't you. A CS degree working in San Francisco a high probability you are amongst the smartest people in the world.
So with most companies employing an open floor plan isn't there a tremendous amount of audio overlap. Are all the devices linked and Alexa now smart enough to differentiate between multiple users?

What kind of work is really practical when done via voice vs secure authenticated terminal access? I talk to my co-workers to exchange ideas and come up with new ones. Talking to my computer or my office space seems awkward and aurally intrusive since people are trying to work and not hear you asking Alexa to, I don't know, make you a coffee?
> The bulk of IRS enforcement is against low income people who cheat on child tax credits and earned income credit.

Maybe by number, just because low income people are the majority of Americans. But in terms of actual dollar quantities? Probably not.

According to this (conservative) source, the bottom 50th percentile of Americans by income (under $38,173 in 2014) owed on average ~3.45% of their income in tax[0]. There's simple less room for evasion (when the maximum benefit is 3.45%) and the reclaimed dollars per enforcement is low compared to higher income Americans.

[0]: https://taxfoundation.org/summary-latest-federal-income-tax-...
What's an "intellectual-theft trial"?
Isn't Siri and Google's 'Ok google' thing basically the same? Everyone in the room has that running all day everywhere they go.
It's not very useful to stress that they're "artificial" unless you're trying to introduce the term for rhetorical effect, say, edging it into the discussion on narrow or technical but not especially useful or broad applicability, relying on implications of the word or other, far less relevant meanings or shades of meaning to have an effect on listeners/readers. This happens a lot, especially in political discussion. It's sloppy as hell and should put you on high alert if you catch someone doing it, especially if they should know better.
General Theory of Reactivity (2016)
> it's much easier to find a way to shoot down your suggestion than it is to think of it.

words of wisdom, I would do well to remember them.
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I wonder if one of those international cities is Perth, Australia? We had a news report today that Perth is launching trials of a self-driving on-demand taxi service in April 2018:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/navya-bringing-driverless-vehic...

(I realize the trials aren't Uber, but if our government is getting ready to allow self-driving taxis, I imagine Uber would want to be prepared & ready to launch ASAP.)
You're making me want to actually try Sia for real stuff.
There's also a good argument that Silk Road provided social utility in the US because anonymous transactions over the internet are less prone to shootouts than the physical black-market.

If you're looking at it from a harm-reduction perspective, people are obviously getting drugs despite prohibition, so you might as well have a less violent drug trade.
Whataboutism as a term has been in near constant use on here since Russia was first identified as the the source of meddling in the election last year.
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That's why I haven't bought smart switches. I bought one "smart" lamp timer, and my experience is so bad that I'll never buy another one.
Ask HN: Wordpress or alternatives?  Security?
Hi HN long time lurker 1st time poster.

Over and over the question of "should we use Wordpress" comes up in my life working with startups. It's easy for everyone to work with, lots of themes, SEO works well.
But security is a constant headache.

What do people use? I've used Jekyll and Laravel in the past, but I need marketing people to be able to write and publish posts and edit pages.

Is there a good alternative?
If the answer is "just use wordpress", any novel approaches for keeping it secure? I'm checking out ManageWP for auto updates, and the possibility of doing private WP and publishing to static as well.

Thanks!
filecoin is not BTC. BTC does have an inherent value, but only within the system. You're analogies to diamonds make no sense because diamonds are easy to produce and their cost does not reflect either the demand or the production of them. BTC, however, is required to actually run the system, are hard to produce and their value is set on their limited production plus demand. It is true that BTC currently has little value outside of the system, but that is not the same as saying it has no inherent value.
It is not so much interesting in what nations actually 'are'.

What would the alternative be?
> we'll likely see numerous other competitors emerge to compete on price

I've been beating this drum for years. One interesting point is that competitors aren't only competing on price, and there are a lot of ways to cut into Uber's market. Juno [1] offers an example that focused on a tight geography (Manhattan), and became popular by paying drivers more, scooping the highest rated drivers from Uber, and offering consumers a perceived better experience. Expect this to increase as people become more used to hailing cars from inside of their maps applications which act as aggregators.

In places like Germany where the laws make it hard for Uber to operate, smaller companies like MyTaxi offer ride-hailing services to the traditional taxi network. Their valuation likely offers a very different idea of how much of the surplus offered by ride-hailing apps can ultimately be captured by apps.

[1] Acquired earlier this year by the VW-funded Gett - https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/26/on-demand-ride-service-get...

[2] https://de.mytaxi.com/index.html
It would be amazing if this integrated with EKS to easily create remote k8s clusters for development. I couldn't tell from this press release if that's a possibility though.
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>Do you get taxed when dollars deflate ? do you claim a loss when dollars inflate?

No, because there was no taxable event. For income to be taxed, it has to be realized. Realization can be a tricky concept, but it basically means when the income is earned or when a non-cash asset is exchanged for cash. By law and under IRS regulations, the US dollar is the functional currency for US taxpayers, which means it is the final currency by which all taxable income must be measured. You don't recognize any gains or losses on its fluctuations because it is itself the measuring stick for gains and losses.

Another way to look at it is this: as soon as you receive a dollar, you have realized income and you cannot be forced to realize income on the same asset again if there has been no change in ownership and there has been no change in its dollar value (which there can never be for a dollar unless the Fed or Congress do something really whacky). And this makes sense. Your tax burden is measured in dollars, so it scales and declines in tandem with the value of the dollar. If the dollar deflates, your tax burden increases relatively, but your income in dollars was worth more anyway. And, in the regular course of events, there shouldn't be that much currency fluctuation in the single year over which you incur and pay taxes anyway.

>and what if you elect to get your salary in crypto currency? if that currency inflates what taxes are you paying?

This is actually extremely common with stock options. People accept equity in lieu of cash payment. The tax code taxes "income from whatever source derived," which is basically a roundabout way of saying literally anything can be income if it has value, including stock options or crypto currency. Unlike stock options though, the income on crypto would need to be recognized immediately because the value is realized immediately (you get taxed on stock options when you exercise them).

Similarly though, if you were paid in crypto and then the crypto declined in value, you could recognize a loss on that once you sold the crypto. And just to clarify since you don't seem very familiar with tax law, losses are good for tax purposes because you can net them against gains to offset taxable income. So it's not all bad.
> Perhaps it is the American right-wing moving further right, but I am more inclined to believe the American left is moving farther left.

The Republican Party is clearly moving further right over a long time scale; the Democratic Party is also moving further left. Whether those things are true of the “American right” and “American left” is a little more complex question (from where I sit, it seems that the American Right is moving to the right more clearly and across the board, while the American left is moving left on social issues but not so much on economic issues, but that the economic left is starting to regain power in the Democratic Party, which if you mistake the Democratic Party for the American left looks like the left moving farther left on economic issues.)

> Take for example this speech by Bill Clinton in 1995

Bill Clinton is not, and never was, part of the American left. He is a moderate economic and social conservative—all the prominent liberal figures in the Democratic Party took a pass on the 1992 primary expecting Bush to be unbeatable. Paul Tsongas was probably the closest thing to a left candidate in a major party primary in 1992 (he was at least a solid social liberal), but his campaign was hampered by health concerns regarding his cancer (which turned out to be not entirely misplaced.)

> To think that this was a speech by a Democrat president about 20 years ago is unfathomable to the left today.

Not any more than it was at the time; the left disliked Clinton during the primary in 1992, mostly saw him as the lesser of three evils in the general (though Perot’s anti-NAFTA stand got him some support from the left even though he was not in any way a left candidate), and attacked him mercilessly from 1993 on when it came to policy as most of his gestures toward the left in the campaign turned out to be hollow, and his health care reform foundered on exactly the grounds the left challenged it earlier: it was overly complex in pursuit of buy-in that wouldn't come anyway from corporate interests, when there was a strong public majority support for simple single-payer.
Sometimes you can. If the government knows banks are being robbed, has the opportunity to catch thousands of robbers, but only catches, say, female bank robbers, those robbers have a valid point in court, and may get free. Justice must be impartial.

For a variation on this involving the selling of drugs, see https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/29/netherlands-co....
Speak to an accountant. It's not like any of this stuff is new, people have been trading many different things for many years.
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But that's a very mainstream position in economics, with much stronger arguments behind it than ideological purity.

What mainstream economists believe all immigration policies are illegitimate and harmful? Not being snarky.

That would be considered a fairly ideological stance in most other fields. I've never heard that expressed in political science (some overlap with economics) from anyone but people on HN and Reddit.