skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is not asking for any biometrics. They are asking for your Adhaar number. The government has an authentication API that can confirm your identity for Amazon using the number. They can do this authentication by email, by phone, or by fingerprints.

This whole FUD about Adhaar is really sad to see. It's a useful service and we desperately need a national ID. Until now different things require different IDs. Voting card, ration card, PAN card, Passport, Driving license, and so on. With Adhaar we finally have the chance to move to one unique ID for every citizen. Of course like everything done by government, there are inefficiencies and bureaucracy, but it's markedly less than what we face in other IDs.
When I moved here from Milwaukee that was the first thing I noticed in the winter, it's sunny outside way more often.
Thunderbird mail does that.
Because the truth is boring, and boring doesn't make much money :/
But why arbitrarily limit its potential in this way?

If we could run the economy on blockchain, why not?

Like you say, blockchain as a concept has many desirable traits that make it superior to a fiat currency. But if Bitcoin in particular were designed in a way that allowed it to avoid rapid fluctuation, I could see it slowly rising in use, until after many years it's powering a lot of commerce instead of the US dollar. As it is, it's going to reach a ceiling of usefulness that a differently architected blockchain wouldn't have.
This criticism is not meant to say that each BTC will become practically too expensive to buy; we all understand that there are granular subdivisions. It's meant to say that a fixed money supply means that as usage of a currency expands, demand for the currency will increase, and supply cannot match. If the value of BTC continues to rise, you'll never want to buy anything with it -- why not wait 10 minutes for the price to drop? In the same sense, you'd never want to sell anything for bitcoin. You'd need to update the price several times a day! It's not very useful as a currency. This is a fundamental flaw with BTC, because there's absolutely nothing anyone can do to fix it, it's hardcoded.

If we're all being honest with ourselves, people are buying BTC now because they expect the price to go up -- not because they expect to use it as a currency in the future. I don't think we know it's a bubble. No one can really know that. I think we do know that it's being used only for speculation at the moment, which makes it a commodity, not a currency.
> support tech

Amazon employees with more to lose than a few cents per hour.
Coinbase ordered to hand the IRS info on 14,355 of its highest-rolling customers
An Open Letter from a Dissident to Microsoft and Silicon Valley
> Inflation can be properly managed by responsible central banks. It's not really a problem.

But it isn't, so it is.

> "wage slavery"

Wage slavery is perpetuated by debasing the unit in which you are paid. That's inflation. I don't want to eliminate governments. I want governments to stick to the role of governing, not punishing people because they want to save to better themselves.
Everyone has bills to pay, I understand. You're not doing anything really evil like joining the SS.
People are getting robocalls about their “derogatory” Trump posts
Start doing interships at companies that look good on your cv and pay well enough (Google, Facebook, etc). Get hired at one of these companies after you finished studying (or if you can see it catch one of the up and comming companies at the time). Invest as much as you can into stocks (and if you're adventurous a small fraction into the main crypto currencies). After 10-15 years you will have a pretty high chance of having $2M+ in your accounts (just 401k at e.g. Google will give you 416250 without any returns and after 15 years it's ~800k with 7% returns). Even if you enjoy your live you'll be able to have no problem getting there if you don't spend your money on stupid things like leasing/new cars or overly expensive vacations. Everything you save in the early years compounds so much that you'll likely have no problems spending much more after 5-10 years when really your investments start to bring in the same or more as your salary.

Startups are for lottery. So if you have saved a nice amount you can start playing it and see if you can get to the next level and get to 10M+. But otherwise big (and better companies on the way to get there) will be a much much safer bet.
I don't even hold it against him. He probably just realized that he can have a much more entertaining life (more speeches, more books sold, etc) by being more provocative and telling the New Yorker readers how wholesome their views are. I would myself certainly prefer that over a life spend between teaching Undergrads another decade the same models and fumble with statistics long enough to write another paper that explains the world.
Coinbase Loses Bid to Block U.S. Tax Probe of Bitcoin Gains
Not sure if gopher is the right fit.
I'm also interested in this, looking at Scale and their jobs page I don't see that they're hiring for any of their transcribers or people to turk any of their other services, so the humans are outsourced I assume.
There are more than 1000 cryptocurrencies. One of them must have the properties you're looking for.
Autodesk to layoff 1,150 jobs, or 13% of its workforce
> How exactly does the EU propose to apply its laws to people dealing with Europeans outside the EU?

The EU can seize hard- and software of Facebook on their EU servers, the EU can seize Facebooks cash holdings in Ireland, the EU can seize (and sell off) Facebook’s patents held in the EU.

Stuff like this has happened before, and european governments have previously even seized airplanes from airlines right after landing to pay customers for a refund for a flight that the airline refused to pay.

This can, and absolutely will happen.
Really nice move, hopefully FreeRTOS becomes _the_ OS for those IoT MCUs similar what Linux does to higher end CPUs. It's always amazing to see many great OSS projects are primarily done by an individual while becoming extremely useful for so many.
Practically, what's stopping someone from making a privacy-oriented ARM implementation (meaning, while I can't "make my own" ARM board due to patents, why can't I make a board which is "source-available" and doesn't contain a ME or PSP-like engine)?

Is there something in the ARM license?
> If I move a rock from my left to my right does the rock weight more?

It does to your left and your right. If I have a piece of paper with a one on it, and another one with a zero on it, and I exchange them. Do they weigh differently?

Its a bit surprising that I'm being downvoted on a tech forum for asserting that information doesn't have weight.
That's an even weirder position! I would think a robot is less likely to be a master over you. But you're saying that getting out of the way of a person is fine and doesn't make them a master, while getting out of the way of a robot does make them a master?
> you must have a human expert able to intervene if something goes wrong

Similar things were said about cars. Humans make mistakes at certain rates, in predictable as well as novel situations. When the autopilot performs, on average, better, humans will become a safety liability.
On your homepage:
"Scale is the easiest way to build human-powered features. It's 100x better than Mechanical Turk."

What do you mean exactly by "100x better than Mechanical Turk"?
Have you considered getting volunteers to transcribe permissively licensed video or podcasts?
prompt_toolkit is, IMO, the standard by which all of these types of libraries should be measured.

It's incredibly easy to get started with, and lets you build crazy wonderful things like pt_python and pgcli/mycli.
Considering that Fargate, also announced today, is essentially managed ECS, I don't think it's likely that ECS is going away any time soon. Fargate seems like a pretty substantial investment.
The thing is, for someone who bought a year or more ago, anything less than a 50% correction is small. Also, prudent folk take some of their winnings out of play.
> people don't want them

The one thing American travellers are consistent on is choosing the cheapest flight. Autopiloted flights, at a discount, would sell tickets. That said, I don’t think we there yet technologically.
You are joking, but some people are seriously proposing that.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/children-carbon-foo...
The tech industry is notorious in using contractors as well.
The universities aren't being taxed on their Federal grants, are they? I thought this whole thing was about how Graduate students were reimbursed - if that's the case, there are solutions that don't involve a 40% tax rate, which nobody would pay anyway.

Plus, if they simply paid the graduate students more, then sure - the students would pay income tax, but again, not 40%, and the student would have more choice about how to use their income. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for a system that is built off of bleeding funding from grants to support other university programs. Sure, more might go back to the government in the form of a tax, but that's more reasonable to me than the university taxing the government for the privilege of paying them to do research.
It’s never going to be useful if it doesn’t get adopted/get traction. The raise has attracted a LOT of people. We’re at a point where even my grand mother is starting to hear/read about it in the news. We’re at a point where my parents are thinking of investing in bitcoin.

At some point. When this hype and unstability will have allowed for tools and bridges to be built, it will be not be welcome anymore.
Unions don’t fight overtime rates. That’s almost certainly a concession management demanded to avoid stacked overtime.

Case in point: several years ago when I was an SA we were having some sort of big piece of Verizon equipment in our office due to our bandwidth and phone demands. The guy was coming from Philly (to upstate ny) and was on his 10th consecutive day, on a Sunday, on a holiday weekend at like 3 AM and a forced double shift. I think he said he was on something like 10x overtime.

Even paying that kind of ridiculous OT was preferred by them vs hiring more CWA guys. CWA is/was a stronger union that would strike over that kind of cap.
> 4% of global revenue could be more than the total of all profit and salaries.

That’s the point. Google recently came of comparatively well with a 4 billion EUR fine, but 2 more fines of the same height for Google are expected.

The only way to force a company to follow a law is to make infringing the law more expensive than any profit you could ever dream of making from it.
No need to get all conspiratorial. Picasa did it before Google, AWS does it now. It’s what people (writ large) want.
Can I spend it in more places? For more things?
Why do we share (so) much on social media?
I used to work there. You'd be surprised how many grow to hate it.
Have you tried https://www.airhelp.com/ ?
Using a common adjective for your project name already makes it difficult to search for. Misspelling it works in your favor.

Except for autocomplete...
They are at least a year late with this though. People were expecting this last year as well. And it's still a preview.
> I count six times you used the word "currency". Yes, some people thought it would be that, but it isn't. It's Bitcoin.

Presumably "some people" includes its creators, given that "coin" is in the name. If that isn't meant to evoke currency, that's quite an oversight.

> It is not limited to 21M "units", and it never was. It's arbitrarily divisible into whatever units you like.

This response doesn't seem to address the parent's related point: that bitcoin as implemented seems to have inflation and deflation built in.

> Again, since it is not a national currency, it doesn't matter. It isn't "deflation" when the price of gold goes up.

It's certainly the giant problem it would be if it were a national currency, but that doesn't mean it doesn't matter. Speculation in anything can have consequences that are undesirable, and for that reason, it's often regulated.
> Any GC uses much less memory than a refcount or malloc application.

That's plain wrong.

> because it's much too hard to do that by yourself.

Too hard to do yourself? There are some of us who have been doing it for decades. In places where performance, predictable runtime and memory usage is of paramount importance (like the linux kernel) it is still done manually. I'll grant you Moore's law has made those places increasing rare nowadays.

Yes it harder to do it manually, but only in the sense that it's harder to do anything manually than have it automated. But being hard and error prone doesn't mean the result is slower, or uses more memory. A moments thought should have told you that. GC delays freeing memory until there is sufficient memory pressure. The mental load imposed by tracking malloc's means a programmer does it immediately so he can forget about it. Thus the memory is available for re-use immediately.

In my experience a long running program manually managing it's heap has a heap about twice the size of actual space in use. In theory some degenerate cases caused by fragmentation can make it far worse - but I've never been bitten by it. Long running GC languages (they tend to be written in Java) it's around 5 times. Again, if you done any sort of server administration, you would know this. All of us who do have watched Java VM's grow over with amazement and dismay. Ironically, the cure is a form of manual memory management - kill them and restart.
New study uncovers the 'keystone domino' strategy of climate denial
Bitcoins won't run out until 2140, that is far enough into the future that most people won't ever think about it.

What seems to be the case though is that the decimal is placed at the wrong part of the number. Perhaps what we know of as a micro bitcoin should actually be what is called a bitcoin. The problem is that people see whole things which makes bitcoins seem unaffordable.
By working with others, you've obviously benefited from learning from others. And even if you have spent your career alone in a dark office, the company has spent time paying you to learn from your mistakes. Why it is strange for the company to expect you to pass along anything and everything you've learned to other developers, junior or otherwise?

The stranger part is that you can't recognize that teaching other people makes the whole team better. Time spent fixing a mistake that someone on the team knew how to prevent, but was too selfish to share, is time wasted. When it comes to education, the rising tide really does raise all ships.
Oh I know. But what these things all share is that the government shouldn't be in the business of regulating freedom. Governments shouldn't be in the business of telling you what you can do, they should be in the business of asking you what's important to you.

Freedom is hard. Actually requiring probable cause before being subjected to the justice system used to be a thing. Then the US government started stealing peoples money without ever even charging them with a crime. So now we have crypto. So the government can't do it anymore. "But but but what if they are committing a crime!" they say. Prove it i say. You know. Rule of law. That's what democracies are supposed to be about aren't they?

And that attack on freedom now has crypto as a response. The thing that it is counter-intuitive about crypto, is that the solution to electronic anonymous and censorship resistant money, turned out being record everything forever. When someone can flick a switch and take everything from you, you don't have freedom. When you can access the ledger from anyone, prove that it it is valid, and be able to send your money to anyone, for whatever purpose, you do.

This technology has been developed as a direct response to the insidious and anti-democratic implementation of AML/KYC laws on a global scale over the past 30 years. The extrapolation of these laws, given a long enough timeline, is slavery. Not figurative slavery, actual slavery.

Bitcoin is the technical response to that problem.
And don't forget, battery tech keeps improving. I wonder how many years until it hits 400 miles.
Something I can answer! Finally. Yay.

You are off to a great start. 5X5 is a great beginner program and imo the best way to get your beginner gains. There is also another closely related routine called Ice cream fitness which some people prefer. Eventually, you will want to taper off this once you get the beginner gains. I'd recommend getting a trainer for a 1-3 months to get your forms down, if you can afford it.

If you are just starting to get healthy, counting calories can be a bit much. You don't want to overload yourself when building a new habit like working out consistently. I'd just follow some simple principles.

Avoid sugars such as Soda, Coffee with syrups, candy and the like.

Avoid alcohol completely if possible. I still enjoy beers socially, humans are weirded out if you don't drink with them. However, I never drink alone.

Always eat before going shopping, this will prevent you from buying extra goodies you might not necessarily need. The easiest way to not eat bad food is to never buy it at the store. If you know it's in your house, you will eat it.

Try to eat outside of your house less. You don't know how the food is being prepared, how much oil, salt, sugar, etc. is in the food. You can't always avoid this but having a high ratio of eating out vs. at home helps.

Some additional random things

It's a process and you shouldn't don't compare yourself to anyone other than who you used to be.

No one at the gym is looking at you. They are so busy in their own routine.

You should find a playlist that amps you up on your way to the gym. You want to train your brain and body to be ready to fk things up when you step through those doors.

If you are severely overweight, everyone that is really fit in the gym is rooting for you. We know the struggle, and we know how hard it is to make a change for your health. If you think people are laughing at you, it's in your head. Again, people are into their own routines.

If you see a big guy at the gym, don't be afraid to ask him for some advice. They may look scary, but I promise they are just regular people and are usually weirdly friendly.

Muscles don't grow unless you overload them. If muscle is the goal, your going to need to push yourself.
“Identity thieves drain our accounts”

Isn’t that a US-centric issue? Was it shown that satoshi is from the US?
> Nobel Prize Winner

Why is it necessary to appeal to authority when making such claims? Because he has nothing else to back up what he is talking about?
"Unions dont get wage increases by reducing the profits of capital in the long term."

Why not? Google could make half the profit, pay it workers more and still make a boatload of money.
Cloudformation is not without its problems, even still. I feel you overstate Terraform's issues, though there is tons of valid criticism to go around. I would say Terraform really shines in areas CF still does not.

We use Terraform for our foundation and a clever Cloudformation custom resource hack to export values out to use in Cloudformation stacks where appropriate(use with Serverless services, etc). Works great for us; Terraform has seen significant(surprising even if you haven't looked at it in 6+ months) development over the past year.
Do you have evidence of this? This web page suggests that the extra costs in the UK are not that high: https://www.crunch.co.uk/knowledge/employment/how-much-does-... In some European countries it is hard to fire workers, which could be a serious issue, but in general it is hard to believe that hiring in Western Europe is not cheaper than in the US, usually.
Wait, how does the article support your statement? The article concludes with this bit from it’s quoted “expert”:

“Langewiesche thinks that we are ultimately heading toward pilotless planes. And by the time that happens, the automation will be so good and so reliable that humans, with all of their fallibility, will really just be in the way.”

Also, I don’t have a hard number for this, but most commercial aviation crashes (like the Air France one, Colgan Air in 2009, AirAsia a few years ago) are due to pilot error or factors that don’t have to do with automation vs pilots (Malaysian Air that was shot down over Ukraine, TWA 800, and others)
I hope so too. At least FreeRTOS has tons of track time on it (I've been using it for years). Whence Google Brillo (or whatever it's called this year?)
But where does the union come from?
I'm critical of BTC but I think this is true. It is a technological breakthrough in this regard. I'm not entirely sure that the transaction costs are so low that most people would prefer to do it via BTC and not through a third party, however, especially if remittance services start competing by using similar technology in their backends.

There are specific instances where people do not have remittance services available to them -- getting money across some borders, completing illegal transactions, etc. For BTC to be a mainstream money transfer method, however, it will need to be obviously better than just doing it the old way -- paying a 3rd party to clear the transaction.

It's an elegant technological breakthrough in search of a killer app, I think, and that killer app can't just be illegal or extralegal transactions. If that's all it ends up being, governments are going to crack down even more than they already have.
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Plus pension probably which is a lot of money.
So to state your hypothesis as a testable bet, your claim is that a government could not outlaw the possession, sale or purchase of Bitcoin. His claim is they could. If any government does this you’re the ignorant one? And if they try and fail he is?
what does it mean to be "the ann coulter of economics"? do you mean having a propensity to make inflammatory comments?

(wikipedia claims he supports the british Labour Party, so i'd wager their politics are quite different.)
Or the attacker could just post the image elsewhere.
> who is lauded as one of the greatest minds of our time.

Says who, really? A lot of Economics Nobel Prize Winners have been chosen because of their "compatibility" with modern politics, not for the merit of their work.
In Germany I had a salary too but overtime was paid by the hour. The math is pretty simple.
I have a bitcoin debit card. I can spend it anywhere I can spend $. The only difference is, the money in my wallet increases in value while it waits there for me to spend it, instead of decreasing in value like $.
BuzzFeed is laying off 100 employees after missing its revenue goals
An obvious form of ignorance is saying "bitcoin has no value", (maybe with the "intrinsic" word thrown in there), despite the manifest fact of a market price, and of a huge run up. Value is like beauty, in the eye of the beholder, and dismissing bitcoin, or CounterStrike skins, or World of Warcraft assets as valueless is ignorant.

They can't see the simple "repetition becomes truth" driver of bitcoin price, as in the longer the price is not zero, and the longer people talk between themselfs about the bitcoin price, the more real the idea that bitcoin has value becomes. This is how money is born, by a shared belief.