skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it when you buy a boat with bitcoin?

That would be taxed as a barter exchange. It's basically the same as selling the crypto and then paying with USD. You are taxed on the fair market value of the boat that exceeds the amount that you paid for the crypto or it's fair market value when you received it for your services if it was income (that's your basis in the asset). In addition, depending on the state, there may be sales tax implications for one or both parties.

This is why people don't pay their rent with stock. It would be an absurd loophole if you could avoid paying income tax simply because you never touched cash.

But to answer your question more generally, income is taxed when a taxable event occurs, as I stated in my previous post. It varies depending on whether the taxpayer is an accrual method or cash method taxpayer, but as an individual you are on the cash method, which means income is taxable when received.

The tricky part is defining income. In Commissioner v. Glenshaw Glass Co., the Supreme Court held that income means, "[1] undeniable accessions to wealth, [2] clearly realized, and [3] over which the taxpayers have complete dominion." It later held in Helvering v. Bruun that "the realization of gain need not be in cash derived from the sale of an asset."

So anything that meets those three tests qualifies as income, regardless of whether it was converted to cash at any point in the transaction. If someone gives you a bunch of bitcoin in exchange for your services, you have clearly gained something of value, which you have received into your possession, and over which you have complete and undisputed control. Thus, it is immediately taxable at its fair market value when received, and likely as ordinary income and not as capital gains (otherwise everyone would pay all of their employees in some liquid asset so that they don't have to pay payroll taxes and can pay the lower capital gains rate). Bad luck for you if the value immediately crashes to zero and never recovers because you still owe tax on the full amount at the time it was received.

If you purchase bitcoin, that is not an accession to wealth which has been realized, because the value can just as easily decline and it is only worth whatever you paid for it at that time. This is also true for subsequent increases in the value of bitcoin you receive in exchange for services. So you are not taxed on BTC price fluctuations, even when the bitcoin increases in value. When you exchange appreciated bitcoin to someone else for something of value, whether USD or GPB or barter, you have realized the increase in value of the bitcoin and then will owe taxes on that increase. In that case, the excess of the FMV of the sale over the basis will be taxed at capital gains, regardless of whether you initially received the BTC as payment for services or purchased it.
This is something I've been looking into working on.

My focus is on capturing the health of plants and extracting meaning using a Deep Learning Video Camera.

Anyone know have any information on where to start? Such as if there's a database that I can feed into the ML engine on different diseases in a plant?
I come from a data analysis background, and I'm thinking about R / Python as the alternative to Excel, not Google Sheets.

People used to use Excel to run regression, visualize data, etc. which I consider inferior to R / Python.

I can't speak about other uses of Excel, e.g. financial modeling, insurance.
May I ask what could possibly take 12 weeks worth of work before having anything useful?

The idea behind any agile method is exactly to fight that kind of mentality that says you can only have software done in a Big Bang approach where everything gets released all at once.

If a piece of software needs 12 weeks to be done then there is something wrong with your software environment.

There’s always a way to release something useful in 2 weeks or even less. Some people do daily releases.

The catch here that might not be obvious unless you look for it is that what you release in 2 weeks doesn’t have to be complete. Just ready. If you are making a search engine of course you need more than 12 weeks, but in the first sprint you can release the component to tokenize strings, for example.
Any worker can unionize, but not all workers can. Akin to saying everyone can be rich and have a servant.

The prohibition of unions was a terrible thing indeed, and unions themselves have also been producers of tremendous violence, murder and oppression. There are no short examples of abuse.

Nevertheless, any union that has significant effects has them by providing new limitations on labor. You don't need to ban unions to make them dissapear, you just have to let labor roam free and then they dissipate instantly.
Everyone talks about trying to create a new type of programming environment, something intuitive and visual and that lets you think in new and creative ways. Excel is exactly that. It's easy and nonintimidating to nonprogrammers. It's visual, intuitive, and with a basic understanding of math and an idea of cells you can do a large number of tasks that would otherwise require a program.

Yes, it's a problem when it gets expanded into massive, ridiculous spreadsheets-from-Hell, but most spreadsheets are a tool that let everyone program. People keep talking about some magic new visual programming REPL-like tool that will revolutionize programming, but I think we already have it: it's Excel.
I like to teach Splendor to new people. Most people seem to understand game flow by the end of the first game they play (figuring out strategy comes later).

The most promising sign is that most people want to play it again.
Yup! You get 2 CPU cores instead of just one! (disclaimer, AWS Serverless Developer Advocate)
I didn't mention bitcoin. I was arguing the abstract merits of inflationary vs deflationary currencies, from a vaguely-game-theory perspective.
> ... and teddy bears will work in a cyberwar with Russia

Why the future tense? Hasn't that been going on since 2015?
Reverse engineering YouTube’s demonetization algorithm
I only worked in finance for a brief time, but the operating procedure at my job was to formulate models in Excel, then validate them in a formal QA environment before using them in production.

I really doubt any major finance player allows someone to whip up a spreadsheet, plug some numbers in and start trading off that information. Excel is valuable in the early stages because it's fast, powerful and easy to collaborate in. Trying to eliminate it just because it's Excel is dogma.
Who Leaked NSA Exploits to Shadow Brokers? Ah, It's Russians Again
You missed a couple steps

- hire a PR firm to flood new cities with stories of how g great uber is

- build up a huge rider and driver base by offering riders deep discounts and drivers big bonuses

- when threaten with regulations email the user base asking them to contact city officials because regulators are stifling innovation and limiting consumer choice... asnd throw in a line about taxis being old and crappy. They did this exactly when it wad announced London banned them.
I really like everything eesmith wrote. I'm all about understanding on a deeper level how things work and how pieces of the world fit together. I also think re-proving fundamental knowledge with simple experiments is awesome.

For the general question of knowing how we can trust modern knowledge, there is another useful angle. We can look at the technological devices and items in the world, and try to imagine how they work so reliably and precisely.

For example, things like digital cameras, microwaves, mcat machines, gps devices, weather predictions, infrared goggles, sunblock, pneumatic machinery, one-way mirrors, miniature electronics, etc... the list goes on

Why are these things so reliable? How do they work? It's very hard to imagine a world in which these countless devices exist, and yet the corresponding science is not very well-understood or robust, at least without jumping too far off the deep end.

Of course, it's a fantastic exercise to try to research and understand which individual bits of scientific knowledge are required for the various modern technological devices that we encounter.

I know you don't think that the foundations of modern knowledge are shaky. I just thought that your questions were considerate and genuine, and that you might appreciate this additional way of analyzing things.

Edit: Watching the Ring of Truth right now... very cool program. Makes me want to do some observations myself.
I agree printing money != printing wealth, in fact it has the exact opposite effect, it debases wealth. My argument is against the fallacy that since bitcoin's price is set by unregulated supply and demand, it has no value or is somehow less valuable than land or stocks, or is somehow intrinsically value-less. Bitcoin can be seen as the most credible implementation of pure Austrian price theory (notwithstanding some likely pumps at different exchanges etc).

Stock buybacks actually demonstrate my point. You only benefit from a buyback if they pay you more than what you paid for the share. Dividends are a separate issue as they apply to business being undertaken, and few people invest money based solely on dividend rate. IMO land as a speculative asset actually might the most appropriate comparison to Bitcoin.

At any rate, Bitcoin/Ethereum and others are fundamentally new asset classes, they are technologized money. They allow you to do things with value that were never possible before.
Deflation means the value of the currency is increasing. It does not mean the amount of units of that currency is increasing.
> Fixed assets, goods and services, etc., are stable relative to fiat, at least USD.

Of course it can. Its price. Bitcoin is money. Its price is the only measure of value.

What I'm saying is that it doesn't matter what people want it for. It's money. It enables things. It is just better money, because it can't be seized, payments can be made to anyone, it can be transported anywhere easily and redeemed anywhere easily, and most of all, it can't be debased. Any of these reasons is enough to want to use it, and people might not know all of the details, but they certainly understand the effects on their wealth.
Even Bluetooth is a no-go. What happens if the control is app no longer available or drops support for your model? Something like a sous vide stick should have control buttons.

Ditto for stuff like Roombas. I've noticed all the new ones have their schedules set via an app. WTF? My current one has buttons and that works just fine. I'm seriously thinking of getting a spare now.

Smartphones are great solution for controlling a lot of things, but it seems like we're in a place where people stupidly think it's the solution to control all things.
Felons have trouble getting jobs. Demonetization may have been the intended word.
The Surgeon Who Wants to Connect You to the Internet with a Brain Implant
Yep! Jeremy (jackpot51) is the lead developer. https://github.com/jackpot51
Will you be ok with Puerto Rico deporting all of its criminals to your city ?
> The author is the very definition of someone pushing an agenda.

I understand people have reasons for writing appealing lies. I understand part of the job of a think tank is to write and publish their ideas.

I do not understand why The New York Times would publish a policy idea that is impossible. A critical thinking person can conclude that the investment fund model cannot be applied to The United States in a meaningful way. The New York Times is one of the most respected news papers in the world. In my mind, publishing this article has the effect of decreasing the paper's reputation among people that critical analyzed this policy proposal. This is damaging the The New York Times' greatest asset, the reputation of their brand.

I do not know a lot about newspapers generally, or The New York Times specifically. What I do know is this discourages me from investing more of my attention into The New York Times.
Perfect, lets bring back public executions too? I think your opinions regarding those dirty criminals would change pretty quickly if you had been born less privileged or maybe had a friend/family member who got thrown in jail for dealing weed or lying on their taxes. Or if you lived in Puerto Rico.. but hey who cares what happens to everyone else right?
He's not a lawyer. The question is a question to debate legally. When something is questionably ethical, whether or not it's legal is dependent on the outcome of a trial.

An employee was accusing them of doing something highly unethical and potentially illegal regarding information about competitors. Again, that's incredibly relevant.
the person paying off the whistleblower
China’s Nightmarish Citizen Scores Are a Warning for Americans (2015)
They did capture the market.

Commodore 64 was a profitable bestseller.

Tramiel left Commodore while it was still very successful, founded new company, bought Atari and tried to replicate Commodore 64 success with Atari ST.

Commodore failed because they failed to transition from Commodore 64 to a better specced machines, despite having a technological marvel at their hands (Commodore Amiga).
What will be the fate of search "verticals" (Map Search, Product Search, Video Search, ...)?

Will UNGoogle have the "one box" answers (eg, music lyrics, weather) which give real information from the search results, or just ten blue links?

Will the employment contracts of existing staff (SWEs, SREs, PMs, lawyercats) be transferred to the UN as well? Will employment be maintained on the current terms?

Will the UN employ more "customer service representatives"? What would staffing levels look like, across the UNGoogle?

Will UNGoogle maintain the existing data relationships as Google? Will UNGoogle purchase eg, Geo data from third-parties, or will it just be their privilege to submit their data to UNGoogle?

What will the process look like at UNGoogle for making changes to the ranking algorithms? Will there be an appeals process if a ranking change is detrimental to your business or national interests?
>ICE officers refused to review the documents.

Curious why did they refused to review the documents. Just malice, racism ect?
Americans Taxed $400B for Fiber Optic Internet That Doesn’t Exist
You forgot Uranium One, that one is clearly the most important at all.
"Like I said, you can't eat bits of currency. I would spend the deflationary currency but I would be more hesitant to spend it. I would buy stuff that I really want or need. People aren't going to starve to death or go homeless because they want to hold on to their deflationary currency. That's not reality."

Yes but if you had the choice between spending a deflationary currency or inflationary, which would you spend? Unless you want to outlaw USD in general, because USD is decreasing in value you have an incentive to spend it.

"You are seeing the situation for what it is now, not for what it will be in the future. Crypto is gaining more acceptance world wide. Yes, currently people prefer to be paid with USD or similar but in the future it could be possible that people prefer crypto. Also there are lots of businesses and services that directly or indirectly accept crypto.
I disagree with your last sentence. Like all things, bitcoin started as an experiment but it will go on to change the world similar to how the internet changed the world. Entire industries will be disrupted as a result. I have been in crypto since 2011 and to even be having this discussion today already shows me that the experiment has been a monumental success. In 2011, I would have never even imagined that bitcoin would reach 10k per coin."

I want to engage with you but I don't see an argument here. You are only asserting that "this is the way things are, but they will change!" without saying why.
> In theory ICE could check this out, but sanctuary city policy is to not cooperate with ICE, so my guess is they did not have immediate access to this information.

Cities aren't the source of authority for naturalization information, USCIS is. Sanctuary cities have no effect on ICEs ability to verify information whose authoritative source is another office that, like ICE, is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
So if there are already gpu nodes being used for a machine learning workload then having blazing running on the same cluster woud allow you to share those resources. So you could run blazingdb on the same cluster as a machine learning workload and have it either feed that machine learning workload or accelerate some other sql analytics workload. This would allow you to keep your hardware in a state of greater utilization.
Wow, you are so cool cause you run Linux!
Indian Telecom Regulator Reaffirms Support for Principles of Non-Discrimination
> deleting stuff that could be used against you in a lawsuit.

> Doesn't need to be something you did that was wrong

Deleting something that can be produced of evidence of wrong-doing is illegal all by itself.
I'm a naturalised citizen.

I like to joke that I have more documenting showing my legal right to be in the US than my wife's grandmother. My wife's grandmother has a birth certificate but it is water damaged, illegible, and falling apart. Besides that she has no state ID (driver's license expired twenty years ago), and few other forms of identity.

Americans seem quite dead set against a national ID scheme (and associated database). The problem with that is that we wind up with a de-facto one, SSNs and social security cards being your main proof of who you are and your legal status. Birth certificates are problematic because they've never been standardised, and have no real fraud mitigation mechanisms (e.g. watermarks). Certainly my daughter's US birth certificate would be trivial to duplicate.

This is in no small part why I ordered my daughter a US passport even before it was needed. It is one of the best forms of ID and citizenship proof you can have, even if it expires you remain in the database indefinitely. It is also why I ordered myself a US passport-card, so I have proof of citizenship in my wallet at all times.

ICE, interior immigration checkpoints, and other initiatives seem to be on the rise. Even legal immigrants and US citizens need to protect yourselves, particularly if you're more likely to be profiled due to race.
No it doesn't! That's crazy logic. "They're dumb, so it's reasonable to attribute every possible dumb decision to them." Dumbness doesn't work that way.
Weird to see Tor as a connectivity solution. I guess if you really don't care about performance.
I would dualboot with Windows to use the pen if I want to draw something, and to detach the tablet (which I would imaging I'd never do).

According to what I've read on https://www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/, installing a few packages is enough to get most things working.
Not just to Americans. I'm an expat in the Netherlands and interact with lots of people who came here from various different countries. It's bizarre to everyone.

Seems like there are two options. (1) You can do it the Dutch way, i.e. every time someone moves they'll have to take their floors out. Those floors often won't fit into your new apartment, so you're just creating lots of waste. Not to mention all the effort associated with it. You will have to remove the floors, but also the person moving into your place will have had to remove the floors from their old place. (2) You leave the floors in when you move out. Then the new tenant/owner can decide whether to keep them or not. In the worst case, both new and old inhabitant will still decide to remove the floors. In the best case, no one will have to do anything and no waste is created.

So what could possibly be gained from the first way of doing things? Genuinely curious if someone knows the reasoning behind this.
Yep that is exactly my point. Hence USD would stay in circulation and bitcoin would not.
House Internet Censorship Bill Is Just Like the Senate Bill, Except Worse
> Someone should write a book

Nah, this is not gonna work... The only way out is to make something that's somewhat like a spreadsheet but with source control, a nicer language etc.

I was writing it and then the firm I was working out threatened to sue me for bullshit IP infringement...
Kubernetes and containers in 2018: Buckle your seatbelts
Excel is functional, free form and fast. It ain't going anywhere. MS need to fix multi user workflow and add versioning.
I was told to invest in Ethereum during its early days and I dis-regarded it.
I'm not saying there are cheaper options, I'm saying that for the same amount of money you get much, better hardware and design.
If you look closely at the screenshots, it comes with a Movidius Chip on the VisionBonnet board.

I'm guessing this VisionBonnet accessory is simply another spin on the Intel "Movidius Neural Compute Stick" with the Movidius Chip wired directly to the CSI Camera port and the GPIOs on the Zero used to talk with it. So you probably develop on it using the same Movidius Toolchain you use for the Neural Stick: http://developer.movidius.com

Their SDK recently had a major release with TensorFlow support included, which I bet drives this. (Even with Tensorflow Lite optimizations, the RPi zero is probably just too weak to drive inferences for any non-toy model.)
Personally, I'm amazed someone can be so joyless.
Deep image prior 'learns' on just one image
>everyone has a good chance at winning - so long as the newbies are given fair introduction into the different strategies to winning

Telling someone how to play a game and then going through the motions of playing isn't really fun. Most of the fun is trying things for yourself and figuring stuff out. If a game (like Catan) doesn't allow players to do this, then where is the fun?
I use it more like Bullet journal with todos like this:
* TODO (SCHEDULED: <date>) etc etc.
Car theft without breaking-in
"Nope! Starting from a position of only having BTC (because you've already got rid of the USD you had, and you immediately convert any USD you receive into BTC), what is the advantage of buying USD to spend instead of spending your BTC directly?"

Based on a false premise. Under no scenario will people only have BTC. With regards to what people will be paid in, insofar as people are planning to spend money, they'll want it paid in USD.
If by "consortium of people" you mean "overwhelming consensus among bitcoin users", then sure.
>The (buzzword warning) hyper-growth startup model is in essence 2X revenue, 1.5X costs. Repeat until inevitably profitable - and I say inevitably because with enough time, 2X revenue, 1.5X costs gets to profitable. The only variable there is having a long enough runway.

it is like gambling with doubling (or even tripling) down each time - with enough time you will inevitably win and as result will reap a huge profit in total. Now if just somebody write me a blank check backed by an unlimited bank account... On practice though, even if got that check - what if the casino can't match my next 3x bet?

The same thing with Uber - the important thing isn't just the Uber's money runway. The other side's "runway" (i.e. total size of the market) is also extremely important - are there enough people on Earth needing enough rides so that that amount of rides would allow for that "2x revenue 1.5x costs" model to reach profitability?