skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that how it works? Then I'll just ask to be paid in pounds rather than dollars and therefore avoid all U.S. taxes. Brilliant!

That's not how it works, with Bitcoin or any other asset.
You could make it able to sign transactions from the account with something like a Java ring: https://www.javaworld.com/article/2076641/learn-java/an-intr...

Though for a wedding ring you'd clearly need a different look.
It comes down to what do you (or what should Google) value more:

Varied content covering a broad range of topics, pulling in broad and varied audiences

or

Google's short-term bottom line.

Personally, I value the former, which is why I think that Google is doing it wrong. Focusing exclusively on the bottom line doesn't help society, doesn't even really help companies in the long run. If you fire your entire R&D team, you'll goose the bottom line, at the cost of your company's future. If you (effectively) fire your content creators, you endanger the future of your video platform.

Everyone yells "Patreon" as the solution for content creators, but this is a bad thing for Google. It removes their control over the content creators by removing the biggest form of "stickiness" to the platform.

Twitch started out as a platform for gaming live streams. Youtube is demonetizing gaming videos. It's creating conditions ripe for an exodus of gamers (creators and viewers) from YouTube.
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I found Validation a pain to use in Laravel as well which is why I don't use that feature.

Everything else: MVC, Migrations, Blade, Auth, Email Handling, Artisan commands are why I keep using Laravel.
I believe this is also the case. The only organizations that can get exemptions from the HDCP Alliance (DRM Cabal) for devices that effectively circumvent encryption are for high end broadcast gear. Nothing precludes making a 4k KVM. Infact, a mid range AV main unit could probably route 4k KVM.

https://usa.yamaha.com/products/audio_visual/av_receivers_am...
Re R.S.:

I feel like every time you say his name, he is getting more powerful.

Good piece on the Richard Spencers/Milos/white nationalists/white supremacists that came out of the woodwork recently:

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/11/lets-just-stop-writin...
Dropbox feels like the wrong thing to compare it to. IPFS isn't really for storing files privately. Public S3 buckets would be closer. I don't have any numbers to say if it's overvalued based on how much public cloud storage there is (I wouldn't be surprised if it were though).
> Then search result #12 or so is your website.

Oh, that's new. Previously it didn't appear at all in the results, even for specific, targeted queries matching the site content. And I see it's now showing a title and cache link (but no blurb), whereas before it appeared as:

spinda.net
https://spinda.net

and only for the query "spinda.net", in a special position up at the top.
Wrote this as a hobby over the course of a few months. The original version took a weekend. Figure now is as good of a time as any to post it. It's written in clojure and clojurescript(react based) not that it's a big deal.
This is a cool idea. Are you using Airtable as a CMS or just using it to collect form data and manually updating the Carrd site?

If you are using Airtable are you using Zapier or some other tool to connect it to Carrd?
Well, you can make two mistakes if you want to. Probably even three if you're determined.
Apparently they are at about $5.1B cash-on-hand, not including the potential $1B SoftBank investment. So they have about a year of runway right now.
I'm not sure how you can get growth out of subscriptions if their market is effectively saturated. It will prevent complete collapse, but growth?
Yes, early computer pioneers also engaged in groundbreaking work.

A huge mainframe filled with vacuum tubes seems to fit here. That’s bitcoin, currently, but for “magic internet money”. The bandwidth, throughout, and power utilization are what you might expect from such a first generation technology experiment.

The benefits of bitcoin are eclipsed by the meteoric rise, and this price increase is the basis for most new folks getting on board, not so they can use it now as a currency.
So, let's do the math: on link #2 "Civil Penalties Assessed" for 2015 for Individuals there were 31,808,876.

Since there are only 3.7 million households making over 250,000 per year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United...) even if 100% of wealthy individuals had enforcement actions, they would only account for ~10% of enforcement actions. So that is one data point.

If you go back to link 1 "Examination Coverage" you will see that the highest percentage of examinations amongst low/middle income people is for people with 0-25K income, which would coincide with precisely with the Earned Income Credit.

These examination percentages are also highly misleading because for simple low income tax fraud, like I am talking about, it is mostly detected by computers and they only "examine" it after they already know there is an irregularity.
That image next to "Alexa helps you at your desk" is 17.5 MB as of now at at a resolution of 5720 x 3240. Pretty impressive to see an image loading line by line like back in the days.

It will be interesting to see what WeWork ends up using this for.
> further way from participating in consensus reality

> increasingly less welcome in spaces dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

Consensus reality is the opposite of the pursuit of knowledge. This is readily demonstrated by the decaying social trust in higher education.
Don't confuse years and quarters. Their quarterly loss is $1.5B. If we accept a $3B yearly salary cost (I expect it's actually a lot lower, because their 12,000 worldwide employees, I think, include lots of local employees at far-flung cities who probably have very low salaries by silicon-valley-programmer standards), and extrapolate their quarterly loss to a year, then they could cut all of their salaries to 0 and still only reduce their loss from $6B/year to $3B/year.
ok im no accountant so maybe i just don't understand it the way i thought i did, but in this case FX traders are using a currency like an asset you buy and sell.

but what if you earn money in that currency and never exchange it for any other currency just use it for life. the government would literately have to audit your savings account and proclaim that you owe X because your savings went up in value (and im not talking about interest paid by bank, i'm talking about just buying power of underlying currency).

that is no different than owning a gold necklace and government taxing you on it because gold went up in price. I don't think this is happening right now
That's a general social trend, not unique to the left. Steadily increasing numbers of Republicans also support gay marriage, currently around 40%. (http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/changing-attitudes-on-gay...)
Yes, Evernote is pretty clunky but I’ve got a good 8 years of junk in in and that web clipper is a beast.
The actual enforcement action notice is at the link below. The FCC does not mess around. They started at $42k, but were 'nice' and offered him a 25% discount because he voluntarily relinquished the jammer.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-13-106A1.p...
Hi, from the CLI app, you would need to set the sync target to the file system with:

:config sync.target 2

Then you can specify the directory where the files should go with:

:config sync.2.path /path/to/synced/dir/

Currently there's no config screen to do this in the desktop app, but it's possible to enable by changing the settings directly in the SQLite database (in the "settings" table).
I think you have to continue to the second part of that sentence.
That is the worst that can come out of this case - and it would be a critical hit for Uber. Self-driving will be a big aspect of the future (how long that future's away is a different discussion), but once self-driving cars are here, what would Uber's business be? Kalanick himself said this:

"If we are not tied for first, then the person who is in first, or the entity that's in first, then rolls out a ride-sharing network that is far cheaper or far higher-quality than Uber's, then Uber is no longer a thing"

OTOH, Alsup (the judge in this case) recommended to look into a criminal investigation against Uber, which seems to be in progress considering that is what lead to the Jacob's letter in Alsup's hands. That potential investigation could have worse impact than just "don't do self-driving cars". Depending on the verdict, it could lead to anything between nothing to prison time for numerous executives to the point that the company itself would struggle to survive.
Testing in Data Science with Katharine Jarmul (podcast)
Have we discovered parallel alternate realities while I was asleep?

The ones were Trump quickly condemned people shouting Nazi slogans without qualifications? Not to mention the vehicular murder.
History tell us that the powerful always abuse their power, but it also tell us that, government or not government, the powerful always exist.

So, you can see modern governments as a power to defeat or as a way of trying to control power.
Im guessing that you think that all wages come directly from capital, so there is a limited pie of wages that can be given out. So when a CEO makes a lot of money, he has to be taking more from that limited fund and not allowing others to get it.

But its not really true: wages are paid by the production of the worker himself. In a farm with a landowner, an apple picker picks 10 apples and pays 20% on the landowner. That is, his wage is 8 apples.

A guy comes in picks 100 apples. By the same rate, he would earn 80 apples, or the wage of 10 common apple producers. By the same nominal rate, he would earn 98 apples.
The common producer has a lot to envy on that person, and might make a case for him getting 8 apples, 80 apples or less than 98 apples. But in any case whatever he lobbies for will go to the landowner, because the landowner already has lots of people that pick 10 apples and pay 2.

CEO pay is agreed in a market, and albeit there are interesting governance issues, it is truly drawn from investors. Personally I do believe investors are getting stiffed. ITs just not the solution to increase wages.
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This would be so incredibly to sting if the authorities got interested at all.

Sure, you can tax evade all you want at a small scale, but once you hit remotely interesting figures they are going to wreck you.
There are two aspects to this. Aadhaar is a photo ID and hence can be used as photo ID by anyone wanting (or mandated) to do so. That includes companies like Amazon.

So 'Amazon asked my biometric data' is just complete bullshit. It didn't.

On the other hand, it's the government that has normalized the association of Aadhaar to every aspect of your life. The fact that it's been contested in the SC does not change that. It's in that sense that I am giving them blame.
not sure I understand the analogy.

i am not saying you don't get taxed with bitcoin. you still pay income tax, sales tax when you use them etc. but when your dollars gain in value due to deflation, do you pay tax on that ? seems that is what we're talking about here. btc gaining value.
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A discussion with Katharine Jarmul, kjam, about some of the challenges of data science with respect to testing.

Some of the topics we discuss:

* experimentation vs testing
* testing pipelines and pipeline changes
* automating data validation
* property based testing
* schema validation and detecting schema changes
* using unit test techniques to test data pipeline stages
* testing nodes and transitions in DAGs
* testing expected and unexpected data
* missing data and non-signals
* corrupting a dataset with noise
* fuzz testing for both data pipelines and web APIs
* datafuzz
* hypothesis
* testing internal interfaces
* documenting and sharing domain expertise to build good reasonableness
* intermediary data and stages
* neural networks
* speaking at conferences
> He didn't want to be a clockwork orange.

It had never occurred to me before that, in this phrase, 'clockwork' is the adjective and 'orange' is the noun. I'd always assumed it was the other way around (and wondered idly what it meant!).
> if nations aren't simply social constructs, what are they?

A Schelling point for coordinated actions by large groups of people, organized around ethnic, cultural, and/or linguistic grounds?
First attempt at doing it in Racket this year. I actually got through a bunch just using R last year.
Curious which views of Shapiro's do you believe are extreme? Are you a person who believes gender is merely a social construct whereby the genetics of a person hold no bearing on their attributes?
From observing the hostility towards advertising on the web grow and become mainstream through the adoption of ad blockers, and ad-driven sites (like Youtube) seeming more and more desperate to actually find profitability through advertising. It seems to me that we're approaching a watershed where advertising on the web just stops being effective.

And at least, on the web, sites can enforce some degree of control over content and have a monetization strategy in place. With a decentralized platform, it's more difficult to integrate and guarantee the efficacy of advertising because it's more difficult to control the platform and user experience.
Not as big as standard architecture but landscape architecture still seems to be stuck in CAD world and relying on plugins to do its dirty work. It doesn't work out so well with Revit. So there's a market that could use a good product.

The issue our office had was getting people to put in the time to go from CAD to Revit. We went big and got a BIM manager too to help with that but even he will confess he thinks the company doesn't really know how to utilize him.

BIM also seems to come with a certain mindset and philosophy vs CAD where you would just design, which might throw people off.

I still find it surprising, like others, that Autodesk would lose money give their market dominance and I assume that's why they're switching to subscription.
This is interesting, it's like First Round trying to create a curated social-news site to draw people in like YC's Hacker News.
> They're basically an R&D operation funded by investors

No, they're basically a taxi service funded by investors. They served almost $10 billion in rides, and lost $1.5 billion in this single quarter. Other projects, like UberEats and self-driving car R&D are, in comparison, little more than distractions at present. You can buy self-driving companies or restaurants and employ an army of self-driving engineers for a billion dollars a year, and have that be a tiny fraction of those financials.
Anecdotally, Uber seems to have a large foot print. If it were to fail I wonder how much the economy would be affected? Ie would it start an end of much of the sharing economy - and thus trigger some market corrections?
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What products will this effect? Maya is essentially in maintenance mode, so I don't think that will get any worse...

Hopefully these employees land on their feet!
To be fair, 18 / 2000 is very small and hardly a dent - the layoffs came because they are decreasing the rate of recruiting, which is still notable but is not laying off engineers (yet anyways). If Uber wanted to make IPO and were pressed for money, a slowing of hiring would not be enough.
A bit off topic, I do not understand why it is acceptable to have game optimization put inside the driver and not optimize the game, it seems like all the time there is a driver update and the nvidia auto-updater thing failed for me when I tried it.
It for sure looks unreal.
More: Thinking you're right about everything and your opponents are wrong about everything, and therefore not bothering to listen to your opponents, is a great way to become more and more wrong over time.
Because it’s not a primarily solution to transferring money, it’s primarily decentralized, trustless and censorship-resistant solution to that. Of course centralized solutions are cheaper and more efficient.
“I knew it. I’m surrounded by Assholes.”
> Convenience vs security/anonimity

While true for some, let's be real, the real decision will be between convenience vs. tax evasion.
> Even for early miners?

What does "early miners" mean? Nobody has any inherent advantage in mining bitcoins. The costs are the same for everyone

Some people may have an advantage by having cheaper electricity costs or better mining hardware, but they would still be missing out on significant amounts of fees by not mining legit transactions
Because I intend to stay employable.
> I'm not entirely convinced that "people like this" are the sole reason employers want, like, and do track every breath of employees.

I would go further and assert that, in most cases, "people like this" probably aren't any, or are only a negligible part of the reason, only the excuse to allow them such tracking.
It's not against the law for non-lawyers to give advice about legal matters, unless they're doing so in a specific legal context (i.e., a courtroom) and they're either claiming to be, or holding themselves out to be, a competent advisor on legal matters. For example: John Smith can tell his friends whatever he wants about the law, including specific legal matters like DUIs, as long as John Smith doesn't claim to be a lawyer.

So please stop including that disclaimer in your comments.
Edit: Since the HN armchair lawyer brigade is apparently misinterpreting my comments: continue to say that you are not a lawyer, but stop saying that you are not providing legal advice because you are, so claiming that you are not offering legal advice has no legal effect.

I am a lawyer. I am not your lawyer.
Yes, the problem is with the "artificial" part. Lots of things are social constructs but that does not that mean that you can dismiss them as automatically illegitimate.
Ponzi (scam)
if you have reason to think that praying off the guy will work during a huge public image crisis, it would be a very attractive option I'm sure.

they should act morally, etc., that's not what I'm saying. I'm trying to extract the raw incentives of the situation
It's being downvoted because a sentence like this: "Most of these elite universities literally pocket billions of dollars at the end of the fiscal year" is so vague that it's hard to tell what exactly he meas.
What? Yes, but there is no reason you can't present the percentage after the transaction is complete.

Also you don't usually buy beer for 20 million, hence the rates will be in the mentioned ballpark.
This is actually quite brilliant. Something that started off as a pure consumer in-home device makes total sense for conference rooms and hotels (as long as they know what they can ask it to do). Much better than trying to find remotes or switches.

Not sure about Alexa at our desk — it’ll have to do speaker separation and still it sounds quite annoying to everyone around.
You missed the most likely business case.

The hardware across a family with different prices and features is identical. Features are then enabled/disabled by firmware alone.

This is frequently done to save on silicon manufacturing costs, but still allows marketing/sales to negotiate on features.
Cool, what does this have to do with Filecoin, their ICO, and Ponzi schemes?

A MLM scheme is that: a scheme requiring a central actor to pay commissions. This is why Bitcoin and decentralized currency has never fit this definition.

You could say there are some abstract resemblances (BTC bagholders encourage others to buy) but this is just abstract and not specific enough to fit the definition.

We've seen people run Ponzis using BTC, we've seen ICOs structured as Ponzis. However "Bitcoin is a Ponzi/pyramid/MLM" will never be true; not literally at least.
What a mundane post and simplistic topics. Yet it was outstanding. How come I loved reading it? Nice work Non.

One thing that wasn’t a big point, but I hope most people appreciate: Founders/developers/key employees doing some phone support is not tactical grunt work, it can be a strategic, powerful weapon.

In essence, it’s white glove, world class customer service. That alone is good, but what makes it so powerful is it’s on a very small list of things that AmaFaceGoogSoft and other large companies can almost never match you at. In fact forget beating you, they often do poorly at it. Every know anyone who left angry after dealing with F500 support?

In a past life I’ve used high six figure “enterprise” support agreements, w/VIP status. Yes, way better than the Windows consumer help line, but hard even then to match your service. 1MM/yr enterprise support doesn’t buy a product dev or exec. Ironically, it’s easy to lunch with them, but they’re not handling your daily tickets.

Your sales person (you I guess :-) should use it as a club against big companies and do your best to beat them to death with it.

Other things you touched on can also be strategic. Gaining valuable insights (admittedly not the only channels for this) that optimizes your roadmap, occasionally is the difference between staying afloat and sinking.

Of course the reality check is, how much time can you allocate when not only is development a life blood role, you probably wear other hats as well? I don’t think there’s a stock answer, depends on team/company/stage/everything else in the balance.

Anecdotally, I can say one customer relationship built this way turned out to be the connection that led to the acquisition of my company. However as usual, it was impossible to foresee when the contact request email came in.

I mean it as a compliment that you’re post seems deceptively ordinary (speaking plainly is good), I hope people will mine the true value of it. Thanks for writing it, best of luck to you going forward.
> still I understand why the guy in the article was fired and honestly if he was skipping out then so be it

Yeah, it's a shame that the framing of the article makes it sound like it's the blocking that was shady, rather than the fraud.
Must've been after it's feature on last night's episode of Mr. Robot....
Jesus, it's the same size when I view the page on my smartphone. It doesn't even look as good as you'd think for 17.5 MB.
Alexa, deploy project aardvark.

OK, deploying project aardvark, now on version 5

Alexa, roll back project aardvark.

OK, rolling back project arc, now on version 21.

Alexa, I said roll back aardvark!

OK. Rolling back project arc, now on version 20.

Alexa, stop everything!

I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that.
You don't claim a loss when dollars inflate because dollars are the official currency of the US. Any other asset (BTC, fiat, etc) is assessed on it's value relative to USD. If you sell back to USD you owe on the difference -- whether you do it all at once or one purchase at a time.

If you get paid in crypto then you owe income tax for its value at the time of salary payment.

If your salary is specified in BTC you should be prepared to pay lots of tax when you are paid. If it is specified in USD but paid in BTC then accounting will be easier.

I hope you have a good accountant and a good lawyer, especially if you are one of those the IRS is investigating.
That is a very small soldier.
>As the American right-wing moves further right and further way from participating in consensus reality, it should be no surprise they are increasingly less welcome in spaces dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge.

The problem is the gap between consensus reality and objective reality.

A lot of what the American left has been preaching recently (the Russia-Trump story, for instance) has no basis in objective reality, but people believe it because everyone else believes it. When a small number of large companies control almost the entirety of the media, it's not difficult to change consensus reality.
Most companies already use Skype for business/Slack/Hipchat for private conversations.
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