skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
tl;dr conclusion from the article: "Filecoin’s economic feasibility is hard to predict and, given
a simple summary of risk related points, the biggest hurdles are
probably going to be acceptance from the users. In addition,
Filecoin shows certain characteristics of a Ponzi scheme but
the trust built by the team members in the past leads us to
believe that it is not one. Filecoin’s Whitepaper introduces
novel concepts and predecessor projects by the team members
which prove their technical capabilities. Hence, it appears that
Filecoin is poised to be an outstanding project although it
remains to be seen if it will be adopted by the average cloud
storage user."
In other mature markets, TA bullshit like this would normally get slammed really hard. The interesting thing is cryptocurrency trading is one of those last places where everyone uses TA to "trade". Hence, it has become a self fulfilling prophecy.
the fixtures are wired in, and thus legally part of then house. You need to add additional language in the paperwork if you want to take them. If you want to take one with you your realtor will probably advise you to replace it before you list the house. Of course as other have pointed out, fixtures are generally either generic, or specific to the room they are in: in either case it doesn't make sense to take them with you even if you can.

Technically you can take the stove, fridge, washer, dryer, window coverings; but almost nobody does. The buyers realtor will automatically put a clause in the contract that they stay. It saves everybody the effort and cost of moving them, and generally the rest of the room matches them and not the new house. Sometimes this isn't done but that is rare.

Light bulbs are not in the contract, but they aren't worth the bother to remove.
No it doesn't. In practice they often are, but it's not necessary to block a signal from outside the cage.
Yes, that is the standard econ. argument. I'm not completely certain that I buy it, though. Yes, people may wait to buy things. But ultimately people still want to consume stuff. If they time shift that consumption, who cares? What good is wealth un-utilized?
No idea, but it’s pretty widely known even in high school physics that radio waves can often be blocked or interfered with conductive metals such as aluminium foil, hence the “tin foil hat” jokes, and the plastic/rubber antenna lines or windows on smartphones with metal enclosures.
Lots of people are running bots which immediately steal payments to weak addresses.
Two years ago I integrated CoderPad into a technical-screening-as-a-service product I was involved with; Vincent's responsiveness and focus were very impressive. I'm thrilled to see him making such progress!

In the event that someone else is looking to integrate CoderPad into their product, here's the Java client library I wrote for CoderPad in 2015: https://github.com/skidder/coderpad-java-api
yes, it might be a better idea to let viewers of videos choose tags/categories and vote on these categories, than to allow the uploader.
Youtube content creators rely on ads to make their living. Monetization (ads on videos) are managed automatically by an algorithm. There are a lot of false positive where people spend weeks working on a video and end up getting no revenue for it.

I watch a lot of videos on world history. It happen very often that those YouTubers have their revenue cut off because the video is automatically flagged as "war", "weapons". It's ridiculous since those wars and weapons are those of the ancient world.

Worst than that, recently one big user had his account outright deleted for talking about ninjas and their weaponry in a video uploaded around 10 years ago. The algorithm went through his previous videos and flagged his entire account as undesirable.

See this petition where it took 35k+ users for his account to be restored. https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-reinstate-the-thegnthran...
There are laws against extortion... the problem is, if you go to law enforcement, the item you are being extorted for might become public, even if it is unlawful for it to become public.
People would game the system. I do music, but everyone knows that other categories pay higher.

It also would depend on the audience you naturally attract. Attracting 19 year old girls will do better than 65 year old men.
> The moment you have a .o file it's not a C++ program anymore, but a platform-specific object file. You aren't learning C++ but windows / mac / linux's native binary production toolchain.

Then that is at least part of the learning curve of seriously using C++ so I think as of today it's (potentially) dangerous to start with only interpreted code and wait to be introduced to compiling, build tools, etc. They should be taught together. I also think it's not the greatest environment - and I hope it changes, perhaps projects like this will help!
Those bots still have to spend time finding addresses. If the transfer happens in seconds or minutes, its more likely the address was already known and expecting a deposit.
It's all very adhoc.

I used gdb to dump the bitcoind memory, I'm using https://github.com/matja/bitcoin-tool to output human-readable addresses, I'm using (a modified version of) https://github.com/tenthirtyone/blocktools to parse the blockchain files, and some custom scripts to extract addresses from the scriptpubkeys and compare them against my list of addresses taken from the bitcoind memory.
The elastic stretches beyond repair in a year or so.
through grapevine I heards that some medium sized chinese exporters already accept coin as a payment. Process already has started, this is a minor inconvenience. Afaik speculating in the first place does not contribute to adoption, not in a direct sense. Music industry did shut down napster digital distribution has grown anyway.
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The difficult bit is transferring to Real Money, which can't be the subject of smart contracts.
> all it takes to know your user count is to create an account

Also, this is only the case if your raw user IDs are visible. You only need a very basic encryption scheme to hide them. It can be as simple as taking two large prime numbers and sending (uid + x) % y to the user.
I am sorry but do you mean companies should pay off a whistle-blower rather than say -

a. litigate, if the claims are baseless

b. In case the claim has substance to try and rectify the issue along with responsible disclosure?
It seems like the first author is still a student. So this could be a BSc./MSc. project, for example.
Just to be clear, buying put options, in contrast to shorting, doesn't expose you to the possibility of a loss with no bound. The worst that can happen is in fact that you pay for the put options and lose nothing more.
I didn’t dismiss it at all. There is a big risk of it being misused by any number of parties, and I agree that we should have additional protections (in our Constitution, perhaps) for personal information that is shared, yet subject to be withheld at our request.

But the movement to identify and share information is not being successfully pushed by governments, but by private industry, largely for personal use. That is where my comment came from.
Not isolationism, simply democratic approval for the scope, budget, and success criteria of military action, and an honest discussion of national interest that doesn't involve fear mongering or appeals to xenophobia or racism.

And while I personally view the doctrine of American Exceptionalism as a sort of evil religion that causes much worldwide suffering, I could tolerate it if there was a corresponding definition of national interest that could be used to assess the claims of our political leaders.

Its not a choice between the modern massive federal\military bureaucracy and serfdom.
If that were true, then it would definitely also be true for Facebook as well.
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no? any charge structure completely surrounded by a conductor is indistinguishable from the outside. ground is an arbitrary reference.
Someone will read these comments and it will be posted on 4chan within a few minutes, if it hasn't been already.
[Author here] short answer taken from our .PDF file:

"Considering that Dropbox [53] currently holds around 500 petabytes of user data [54], one could argue that Filecoin is overvalued."

Study we conducted with a master student at Delft University of Technology. Open lab notes when writing this paper: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3097 Note TUDelft has currently 8 professors in their http://blockchain-lab.org Various scientists and 38 master students working on improving our own Filecoin-like system, based on our Trustchain fabric: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A... It's home to one of the largest blockchain labs of Europe.
Sure, you can make tax evasion mainstream. That worked out brilliantly for Greece.
Lets Encrypt is adding wildcard support in 2018

https://letsencrypt.org/2017/07/06/wildcard-certificates-com...
It's interesting to see many of Filecoins promises realized already in alternatives like Sia or Storj, but Filecoin still takes the hype, despite not having anything released, let alone anything superior... I guess because it's by the IPFS developers and had a big flashy ICO?
Ugh. God. The jargon. It burns!

IOCs (IPs, hashes, domains/URLs, etc.)

I still don't know what IOC is supposed to be an acronym for. Why do people insist on relying on initialisms, three letter acronyms, and pronounceable syllable salad to evoke an air of super-duper smartness?

Especially security professionals. Especially complaining security professionals. It reeks of bougie, evasive posturing.
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I've been using Typora to make my todo lists recently. It's a markdown editor too. Super simple to type, and you can really got some professional looking layout, with headings and titles quickly too. Recently they built in a file browser. Open one file in a directory, and it will show you all the files in side panel. Which in my case are just todo lists for day of the week. But it could be any type of notes. Highly recommend it. For Example typing ###Title would give a large title typing - [ ] will give you a checkbox, and so on
For some people, building electronics is a hobby they enjoy. For others, it's a job they do all day long. Same with sewing and gardening.
grounding may be a safety issue.
Are they not all (bitcoin, eth etc.) ponzi schemes?
The addresses are generated ahead of time and placed into a huge database. Every new transaction that is broadcast is checked against the database, and if any vulnerable outputs are created they are swept immediately.

For example, watch either of these talks by Ryan Castellucci: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2s3_UG9IPU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foil0hzl4Pg
There's a lot of careful phrasing in this post so I don't think Coinbase is being transparent.

1) "14,000 customers" - the just a one-time demand customers records from a year ago? Coinbase had 13.1 million customers a few weeks ago, and are adding hundreds of thousands more a week. If there's a "97% reduction in the number of customers impacted" does that mean there are 13.1 million * 0.03 = 393,000 are affected? Are they doing ongoing disclosures?

2) Does the $20,000 threshold mean total value when acquired? Or current market value? Total withdrawn to a cryptocurrency address? Total withdrawn to a bank account? If I do 10 buys and 10 sells worth $1,000 each does that qualify?
I for one agree with you, but the main issue with SmartOS, Opensolaris, Solaris etc. is not the operating system. It's that some things are half baked and enterprisy.

What do I mean by that? Brendan Gregg did mention in his article about Solaris migration certain things like amount of developers out of box performance etc.

Here are a few issues that the Solaris crowd failed to address and if they don't address it soon imho they will fortify their own demise:

Hardware availability, if you have a blade center with 10G intel hardware everything will work fine, but want to run it on a ryzen? tough luck. This already disqualifies a bunch of curious developers.

KVM support? Sure, but it's not well documented the tooling if you don't use the enterprise management tools by Joyent is horrible. The standard tooling `vmadm` in SmartOS will leave logadm residues that will spam your notifications it's been an unfixed bug for multiple years.

UEFI? Nope. The tooling and documentation is the worst. Want to migrate from libvirt? You have to shut it down, dd the image to the zfs zone and hope that it works. If it didn't well you can't access vnc before the host is already booted into a failed state.

The actual killer:

Documentation. The SmartOS confluence wiki starts off by giving you a taste and the typical enterprise way they offer you training.

That works just fine so long as you're one of select few choices to pick from(Jira loves that model).

But when you fail to attract the crowd of developers, you're bound to fall behind. There's exactly 3 books on OpenSolaris, 0 on SmartOS and a bunch of technical old documents on Solaris from Oracle.

There's probably been at least 15 Docker books this year alone. Whole bunch to manage kubernetes. For creating network topologies in linux you pick up a bunch of books that aren't outdated.

I love the idea of SmartOS and I'll run my machines as long as I feel it makes sense and you might argue that the complexity is a lot lower than what linux provides, but that's besides the point.

What the point in crossbow, HVM, etc. when the only place of information is:

a) an old oracle tech paper

b) an old oracle/sun/joyent consultant

c) one of 5 blog posts that explain how to run it in your home NAS

d) a wiki with so basic information that it's guaranteed not to work on your system

At least the complexity of Linux is visible, and you can find a solution somewhere. Rather than having to find a consultant that guards that solution with his life.
That only indicates demand for botcoin, not the reason for demand. Though emerging markets adopting it might explain the growth. It doesn't help assess bitcoin's value except to indicate it might have additional stability as a currency in some small nations.
I remember reading an article (which unfortunately I can't find now) criticizing that article—that the watermelon that they show was a different cultivar, or had some other condition, which can still be found in watermelons today.

So... yeah, I guess this isn't a super useful response since I can't find it again, but just, it's not as simple as all that :-)
The naivitee, ignorance, and arrogance of this thread astounds me.

The HN population (I include myself in this) seems to think everything is new, there are no precedents for any of this, and that we're building some kind of new society here. We aren't. Times like this make me wish people like us were less dismissive of history, liberal arts, and people-not-in-tech generally.

Case 1: a commenter below said something about "a guy moved his assets into BTC to hide from bankruptcy". Bankruptcy courts deal with this stuff ALL DAY. It's their job. You can't just make huge transfers/sales when in bankruptcy and expect people to think that's normal behavior. This has gone on long before bitcoin, and will continue long after it's gone.

Case 2: taxes. BTC is an asset. If you buy at price X and sell at price Y, guess what, you owe taxes on Y-X. I don't understand how this is news to anyone.

Case 3: money laundering and other types of financial crimes. There are entire companies who build software to detect money laundering. It's a well-understood problem.

All I'm trying to say is, just because you have a CS degree and work in San Francisco, don't think you're the smartest person in the world. Moving money is one of the oldest human endeavors and unlike a lot of topics in software development, it's an old profession with a huge body of accumulated domain knowledge. We shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
I see, thanks. Wouldn't it be easier to communicate with bitcoind via the RPC interface?
Which projections? I don't see many serious analysis for Bitcoin climbing further up, what I see is the opposite. Do you mind sharing ?
The story I linked had a lot of information about automation. I've taken the information from that story and combined it with my interactions with computer programmers, business executives, and pilots to synthesize the opinion that fully automated commercial airplanes aren't viable.

"Air trains" and some subway lines/systems are automated. Interesting that the only systems that have successfully been automated are literally on rails, and are generally enclosed.

It's a fair assumption that the automation won't make the same mistakes as a human, but it's quite a stretch to assume it won't make it's own special flavor of mistake.

Also, you've pointed out the crashes that humans caused, but not the crashes that were avoided by humans. This is getting far from my field of expertise, but you've got to be careful to avoid selection bias.
This sounds like the opening sequence for COPS. "Crime doesn't pay". I suppose if they hire the NSA they can get you on anything.
> Apple has my data, and I need to trust them.

You don't need to let Apple have your data to use Notes. Notes syncs through a standard IMAP account.

If you have your own domain, you can just create a notes@example.com e-mail account and Apple Notes will happily sync all of its data through that. That's what I do.
The bad news is that Diamond was able to correlate to status, a strong (if subjective) value that is part of humanity since always. BTC only appeal is its value as money ...

Startup idea: Bitcoin wedding rings.

A beautiful gold ring with a private key engraved on the inside. Give your loved one the gift of BTC! Your commitment to each other, eternalized on the global blockchain.

Gentlemen may prefer blondes, but the modern woman prefers Bitcoin to carats of squeezed carbon. Status, store of value, it's all there.

(This is satire, but now I'm worried it will actually happen if the coinmania doesn't subside soon.)
No, it's a buy the dip scheme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0akBdQa55b4
I, too, tried in vain to buy a decent quality 4k KVM. Oddly the video worked better than the USB mouse/keyboard. (?)

Having failed the KVM route, I, too became a Synergy fan. I don't think Synergy caused the decline of KVM, but it synergy's success is certainly correlated. :)
The US does have anti-trust legislation on the books.
That is the really worrying trend in personal computing as of late. Treat consumers like dumb sheep, and "professionals" are barely competent children (only devs are "responsible adults", according to themselves)...
Brave browser is a potential way to fight YouTube's censorship.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/11/17/brave-browser-lets-...
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Yes but that is orders of magnitude too slow. It would be fine if bitcoind had an address index, but it does not.

I need to setup a bitcore node one of these days...
Better source, and one that the article references:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-11-29/uber-s-th...

At this point, two things are clear to me:

1) Uber will IPO, there's just oo much money and influence behind it to stop that.

2) I'd be really worried if I was an employee about my options and also about my job.

Employee's now ahve two large worries hanging over their heads.....

What about my job and what about my options...

With Uber preparing for an IPO, they'll od what most companies do, clean up their balance sheet. And with the losses piling up they'll start cutting costs, which as for most tech companies starts with employee's.

And now I don't htink anyone believes that they'll IPO at anywhere close to the 60+ Billion valuation they had a year ago.

Infact SNAP looks like a great model to study for what an Uber IPO might look like, lots of good first day to week action with price rises but then a steady stream of down days leading up to their first quarter report which will almost certainly show them loosing money and then much larger short interest leading up to a huge lock up expiry of their employee's options.

Given how much money institutional investors put into the company, and the late stage at when they did and given how much they valued the company at, I'd be very afraid if I was an option holding employee at just how many shares are going to flood the market before I get to try and redeem my own options.

And to top it all off, the biggest thing driving their valuation recently, self driving cars, appears to be in serious jeopardy, can anyone make a credible case of Uber having self driving fleet in the next 5 years?

EDIT to those of you who i confused with layoffs. No one is saying that Uber needs to be profitable when they go public, but their burn rate had better be decreasing. T

hey don't need to fire 3 billion dollars worth of salary, no one would think that's a wise move, but they had better show they are moving towards profitability, and the easiest way to show this is a string of quarter where their quarterly loss is decreasing and the easiest way to do that is to cut costs and the largest cost is people.
The difference is that someone is not legally forced to accept the inferior currency. All your attempts to horde the better currency can fail when the person you want to buy from either refuses the inferior currency, or accepts it, but at a price that accounts for the difference in relative value so there is no difference.

Edit, this used to say, but that is wrong: The difference is that the which is best changes over time, so you change which one you are hording based on conditions.
I think the mix of static typehinting and dynamic language is actually kind of well balanced now in version 7, but maybe that's just me leaving ruby's magic behind after many years and happy about IDE support and static checks ;)
> I misread the title and commented here, but now I can't find the correct thread

Is it this one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15816294
Efficient markets was just a simplifying assumption to make my point brief, but the second sentence of my explanation does not rely on any more assumptions than Gresham's law does.

In any case, I recommend that chapter of Hayek, it's a quick read and you might find it clarifying.
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> It would be very expensive

Even for early miners?

Edit: I should have written early buyers, since those wouldn't mind paying extra after their asset appreciating 10000x
It was the first one. I may still have that book somewhere amongst my "stuff".
What is your recommended alternative? Is there any unusual involvement beyond participation as a user that you should probably disclose?