skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's got a full digitiser integrated into the display. The pen can detect 4096 or some such levels of pressure. It can detect hover. The pen and screen work flawlessly underwater. There is literally no other phone with these capability.
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I (fortunately) haven't had to interact with an online chatbot, but in the case of voice ones, shouting a few expletives usually gets me a real human. I wonder if the same thing works here.
Thanks, appreciate your reply.

Maybe Apple should spin up a group of 7 - 14 year-olds to add to their test suite input. They might be better at coming up with crazy shit X that might break things.
Exactly. Who is going to bail out the first big BTC crisis? No one.
Why not hunt down Jeff Bezos then? And coerece his relatives to buy bitcoin and give it to them?
In the US, this would be non-standard in the sense that the specific practice is not common. On the other hand, recruiters positioning themselves between a candidate and a job are rather common.

To make a hand waving generalization there are three types of recruiter. A retained recruiter gets paid to search and gets paid whether or not anyone gets hired (in-house recruiters more or less are equivalent). Retained recruiters are great to work with because they have no incentive to waste your time. Next down the pecking order are recruiters who have a contract in place that pays when a candidate they bring is hired. This means they have an established working relationship with the employer backed up by a contract. They have some incentive to throw candidates "at the wall and see what sticks" but it is balanced by the need not to waste too much of the employer's time.

The last category of recruiters have no established relationship with the employer. They typically find jobs by searching the internet/job sites/etc. They find candidates the same way. Their entire model is based on throwing candidates at jobs and hoping that the company likes the candidate so much that the company will pay them a recruitment fee. If the company won't pay, the candidate won't get the job no matter how well suited. All it takes is an internet connection and a phone. Volume matters, quality doesn't. There is zero incentive to avoid wasting a candidate's time. There is a high incentive toward putting as little effort behind each candidate as possible.

That seems like the category of recruiter here. The only reason that a recruiter would want an exclusive agreement with the candidate is because the candidate has a non-trivial chance of finding, applying, and getting the job without the recruiter.

Personally, I would never sign such an agreement. It simply is not in your interests and it smells like a scam. [1] Once signed the recruiter can sue you and irrespective of merit, your best option will probably be paying to make it go away. But if you have any inclination to sign it, pay an attorney to look it over.

Good luck.

[1] Particularly since it appears to be culturally targeted.
Not to many people seem to be picking up what to me seems to be the bigger story, your garbage is now being tracked.

Many places are now photographing your garbage as it's loaded onto trucks.

ie.
https://www.news-mail.com.au/news/waste-truck-watching-you-g...
I wondered if some of it was Thanksgiving discussion of Bitcoin leading to a huge upswing in small-time investors. As well, any "Bitcoin reaches $x" milestone articles pique the interest of more regular readers.

I've had more and more non-tech people asking me how they can buy some.
You're still not getting it my friend.
I am currently making a personal tshirt based on the this thread.
First step when you buy an HP laptop: format and install an official copy of windows from Microsoft. The hardware is usually good. The software is usually crap.
So it seems that this cannot be immediately scaled. I wonder if Samsung/Apple will incorporate this in a super-luxe phone, which could perhaps bring it to scale.
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The key quality of a fiat currency is that it is spun out of air without intrinsic value.
I think more and more people will start to realize this is the 'local' currency of the web. I plan on trying to exit fiat (USD) completely in the next decade. Exciting times!!
Plenty of artists have tried to stay anonymous.

Happy to stay anonymous and leave a huge amount of money alone is an unusual mix, but the diversity of how people think should surprise no one.
Yes that's totally fair. I'm not in a major city but I do think my sample has poor representation.

And I totally agree that they'll ban it once they understand it :-)
To add a little socialist critique, governments have been hands-off crypto-currencies because major financial institutions haven't started ramping up the pressure, yet.
None of this amounts to evidence... At best you got correlations but attributing the rise to tether issuance really isn't proven by any of this.
Why would the value crash? Typically, artificially restricting supply raises prices, like with drugs and other contraband.
Wait - is that user in any relation to this Luka Magnotta? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luka_Magnotta)
You probably just covered > 50% of the population of the earth there. If that isn’t “ordinary people” than what is? People aren’t all rural farmers anymore.
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Japan has already embraced cryptos as a legal currency. They won't be the last. As this happens, there will be geopolitical factors at play and it won't be that easy to simply "outlaw cryptocurrencies".
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This happens quite often. Report a bug to Apple through CERT as an example and they run with a well known 45 day disclosure timeline. For researchers who don't want to get into vendor conflicts this is a good path because CERT ultimately holds the decision.
>Around 2012, we and a whole cohort of other startups — Simple, Plastc, Swyp, Coin, Final, Stratos, Clinkle, and others — were getting card-issuing companies off the ground.

Let's play a game I like to call "Supporting Character in Thor: Ragnarok, or FinTech Startup?"
Meetup has done a fine job. It has done a lot for the NYC metro area. It's created a way to connect like-minded people. No one needs to "bowl alone" any more.

I hope this acquisition respects the company's mission and helps to amplify it. That would be nice.
Anyone know what book this is from? Looks like it is Chapter 19?
Kind of redundant since win 10 has proper virtual desktops now.
I wonder when/what Apple's response will be
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High Sierra has been one of the worst OSX upgrade.
Do you mean on my medium post? Where exactly?
This is not accurate. The once useful properties of gold have now been replicated using other (cheaper, alternative, and even synthetic) materials that perform better.
Allow me to don my tinfoil hat... Could be that Bitcoin is a technology developed and promoted by international central banks, cloaked with a cyberpunk aura via Satoshi. Bitcoin could be an ideal global currency, so long as the central banks could control enough computing power and coin holdings.
Honest question: Is Bitcoin used in significant quantities for "legitimate"/legal transactions? I don't know a single person who has bought anything with a Bitcoin, or received payment. From my non-economic POV, it sure seems like /pure speculation/.
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> You are from Venezuela or Zimbabwe – The government has issued capital controls and is devaluing currency by the day. You transfer your wealth into Bitcoin in order to offset capital erosion due to hyper-inflation. When the situation stabilises, you transfer your Bitcoin back into fiat.

How exactly do you transfer your wealth to BTC in this scenario? There aren't many people willing to sell BTC in exchange for a rapidly devaluing third world currency. Realistically, to use any of the large online exchanges, you'll need to convert it to some common currency (like USD or Euro) anyway. But if you can do that, why would you buy BTC, instead of just storing your money in that common currency? It's going to be a lot more stable.
Yes. Ideally you would also ping me in your public release, so I know whom to pay. Because that would also for be the users benefit to know to either fix, firewall, or not use until software is deployed.

I've seen the dark side where this leads. It leads to BTC transactions and 0days bought and sold. That's the worst, further past scrappy company sitting on exploits.

I strongly believe in transparency. It empowers users and admins more than any other option out there.
No I'm not. Major cities are Toronto, NYC, Chicago, Tokyo, etc. Not Vilnius, Ottawa, or Brussels.
Yes, but scarcity of bitcoin is not time tested. Most people seem to downplay this requirement for being "time tested" along with "scarce". However this is the requirement that drives your decision about how much % of your assets would be in certain form over long run. Would bitcoin still be scarce 20 years down the line? Not sure. Gold? Almost certainly. Also bitcoin is at mercy of technology. Few people knows how system works and where are the security gaps. One doesn't have to be even literate, let alone own a computer, to store and transact in gold.
Yes, though that was prior to his clarification. They haven't removed any of the many claims on the website assuring a 1-1 backing, they did an audit, and the issuance makes sense given the situation. Doesn't seem all that likely to be a scam to me. Of course, I could be wrong.
Why not both?

If you can see value in decentralized cryptocurrencies, I think you can make the mental leap for the case of bitcoin.
Any police organization that investigates ordinary theft would absolutely investigate a theft of Bitcoin.
I think the director of Blade Runner 2049 is working on a Dune movie
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Ordinary people (48.3% of them) aren't on the internet, either.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
You're describing money laundering and selectively choosing to represent the positive examples of it.
From the outside, as nonuser, I cannot understand how this currency price surge helps the currency as a medium of exchange. Wouldn't this signal everyone to hold on their bitcoins? Doesn't this hurt the adoption in the long run?
Thanks to all for the informative TODO list options. Getting back to the intent of the question...

Over the course of my career in financial software development I've participated in several large production events where an upgraded or new application would be deployed overnight to servers that require substantial uptime while serving millions of users.
We minimize human error by developing the Go-Live checklist several weeks in advance from tasks discovered during "dry-runs" where we practice the deploy process on similar hardware with similar data. Task durations are recorded during the last dry-run to store in the checklist.

The checklist itself is pretty simple and is stored in a spreadsheet with these columns:

StartTime Duration CompletedTime ResponsibleParty TaskDescription

Before starting all the columns are filled out except CompletedTime, which we fill out when each task completes. Each task can have a breakdown in a separate document, but this spreadsheet is primarily used to communicate status. The responsible party reports completion to the Project Manager, who keeps it updated on a Webex in real time for executives to know whether we're behind or ahead of schedule. When all the deployment tasks are done we test the site and have a Go/NoGo meeting to determine whether the update is good or should be rolled back to the previous state.
Founder of ethereum will soon be a billionaire as well.
Firefighting, search and rescue, power line maintenance, home inspection and of course, military/law enforcement night operations.
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The college system as a whole does best when it functions as a matching problem for curricular difficulty. Past academic performance is a noisy predictor of future academic performance. Students admitted in the sciences at schools too hard for them transfer into humanities and social sciences at disproportionately high rates. Breaking the system inhibits the ability to provide the most learning overall by ensuring everyone can be challenged appropriately.
Where's the "alternative to diamonds" guy?

Here:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moissanite
`100k puts the market at cap at a trillion, it’s not that crazy if you remember that Gold is several times that`. Similar things heard during every irrational bubble.

I believe people often trot out the 'actual worthlessness' of fiat currency, to support a misguided idea that btc must be the democratic antidote which will free countless millions from the financial enslavement of the global financial machine.

Currency is currency BECAUSE its sponsored by government. And the payments system only works because you are indemnified. By the FDIC. By Chase Credit Cards. That is, the evil banks. How so for btc?

BTC hits 10k while US readies to pass tax overhauls to increase an already alarming wealth inequality. Freedom fighters should pick the right battles.
I was able to successfully fix this by using the

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option. It's heavily recommended to not leave the root user enabled.
Meaning that he hasn't employed anybody.
This painting sold for millions: https://nypost.com/2013/05/15/43-8-million-for-this/

Reason: it's complicated. But something that's DEFINITELY required for this to be possible is scarcity. The artist is not alive any more. It would never sell for that much if he were still alive.

True digital scarcity is a hard problem to solve (because computers are good at copying things). Bitcoin was the first system that was able to solve this problem.
Solutions-based consulting, ie from a problem, to a solution. I take care of everything. This way, IP rights matter far less.
> If Starbucks accepted Euro in US for its coffee it would be a crime

I don't believe that's true. The US dollar is only mandatory for two things: for settling debts (the lender must accept USD to extinguish debt) and for paying taxes. Otherwise people are free to trade as they please - euros, chickens, whatever.
Think about what bailing out means. It was a transfer of wealth from taxpayers and money-balance holders to Wall St banks, the US gov't and a few select private corporations.

Now I don't mean to be patronizing, but it is useful for us to ask ourselves, "how were we convinced that this was desirable?"
Indeed. When that happens the people that did not exchange their USDT for BTC on time, while BTC and other cryptocoins are crashing as well, will be the ones holding a worthless USDT not backed by actual dollars.
Maybe the price jumping high because organization like Amazon will announce that they will start accepting BTC soon
The government is Satoshi Nakamoto.
I will have to give this a look. We manage our own MQ currently but autoscaled managed MQ would be the dream. SQS simply did not meet our needs.
Everything you say can be true but if this is not just the new tulip mania there must be some number at which it stops. You predict 100k but why not a million? why not a billion?
In the early days of the Internet revolution, many people raised concerns about illicit use of Internet. I guess it's the same thing with Bitcoin...

Why would the US government want to ban Bitcoin anyway?

Bitcoin isn't particularly useful for laundering money because converting to/from fiat in any significant quantity usually requires a Bitcoin exchange and they follow proper AML/KYC procedures (those who don't get shut down.)

Bitcoin is not particularly associated to illicit activities any more so than cash: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-economy-black-market-sin-rep...

Bitcoin helps the economy: $1+ billion has been invested in Bitcoin/cryptocurrency companies, creating thousands of jobs.

I would say many officials in the government understand Bitcoin is a technology with a lot of potential, and it would be stupid to outlaw it from the start. Watch the November 2013 US Senate hearing on Bitcoin if you want to get a sense of how some officials perceive it: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/11/18...
I got one of these for the first time about ~1yr ago.
Would you like to review the pharmaceutical industry or any of the several instances Microsoft has been hit with anti-trust lawsuits? Or review what's happened to the retail sector in the wake of Walmart and Amazon rising to primacy? Two of those cases involve no special regulation guarding the parent companies. The other is an entire industry only barely held in check by what regulation already exists. Oh yeah, I almost forgot about Food Lion. They have a multi-decade track record of opening new stores in areas served by smaller chains, operating at a loss until the competition is driven out of business, then dialing their prices up.
"If you're able to log in (hurray, you're the admin now)"
Personally not very hurray
>So many entrepreneurs are really building products, not businesses.

This!
> almost every country requires that transactions must occur in its national currency.

I've never heard of such laws. You have a source on this?
You run into all kinds of hard and soft limits when you have thousands of instances.

The other thing to think about is scaling for people. Do you really want 100+ teams in one account?

What about cost tracking ? Etc etc.

Lots of reasons to have an account per team, or ideally, an account per service.
One really neat thing is that the clients are based on the MIT-licensed Apollo Client. So we hope that everyone using GraphQL can easily get these benefits! Check out the code on GitHub: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-mobile-appsync-sdk-js/blob/25...

(Disclaimer: I work on the Apollo team)
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> I want to know so I can get in a fix or shut down that particular feature until its fixed by a vendor.

That assumes you can shut down that particular feature without crippling your business operations. If my system had a hole, I'd prefer that it were disclosed to the vendor before it's disclosed to hackers, adversaries and foreign governments.
I guess I think about it differently. Fiat means "by decree", or by force. Fiat currencies have historically been associated with a military. Bitcoin doesn't share that property.
In determining whether keys-in-locks or keys-under-doormats is the closer analogy, I have to go with the doormats. Various people go door-to-door... delivery people, campaign volunteers, Jehovah's Witnesses, etc. and a key in the lock would be hard to miss. A key under a doormat is easy to miss, being obscure. Sure -- the doormat is one of the first places you look if you're actually trying to break in, but people whose nefarious side doesn't manifest until the opportunity is obvious are indeed thwarted by that obscurity.
Apparently, the Tab control is is lifted directly from Edge. https://twitter.com/h0x0d/status/931595009177960449)
If you make the wrong decision, you're looking at potentially losing half of your assets in a divorce. Plus, if you're unlucky enough to have a kid, there's another 18 years of child support. If you survive that without going broke, you'll also probably feel compelled to pay for college. There goes another half million.

Of course, maybe it's not quite that bad. Maybe you're just really miserable all the time. Things aren't quite terrible enough to leave your marriage, especially considering the consequences, so you suffer for a couple of decades. Instead of giving up half your money, you give up half your life and most of your freedom.

I have friends in this very situation. They tell me they wished they stayed single.

Yeah, I'd say finding the right partner is pretty germane.
> The key quality of a fiat currency is that it is spun out of air without intrinsic value.

... as imposed (that is, "by fiat") by some governmental organization.

Bitcoin's "true" value may be dubious, but it's most definitely not a fiat currency.
Unlike gold a BTC has absolutely no use beyond whatever its current use is. The only way for a BTC to be ever in demand is if enough people trust each other that nobody will start selling it in large mass and therefore entirely flooring the value of it. However trust is not exactly a great foundation for a currency's value. Gold has at least has some useful applications outside of banking. For a start it looks beautiful, it is highly in demand in fashion and jewellery an it has also great application in electronics. This is a much better foundation for being resilient against a complete loss of value and promising longevity.

Besides BTC has serious flaws in order to attract a critical mass. It is extremely unsustainable - for example buying a sandwich with BTC requires more energy than a house for an entire week. This is alone is just horrible, especially in times when we should be trying to save our planet and not waste energy for shits like this. Secondly with it's current volatility the people who own BTC are much much less likely to spend it somewhere, because of the hope of gaining more value. However if nobody is willing to spend their BTC then adoption will lack and eventually counter act on it's value.

Thirdly you can't really convert the value of BTC into hard cash and even if you could, before you'd finish converting a large amount of BTC into cash you'd have halved the price of the BTC as part of the exercise.

Overall the technology behind it is interesting, but BTC I honestly think will massively flop and the current hype comes from pure greed. Investors trying to convince the populus to buy into BTC so they can finally cash out, but the reality is that for the normal person BTC is literally too cryptic to jump on the train and tech savvy people know better that it's too late now. It's too volatile and anything can happen. You don't buy expensive assets which are so widely known that they are in the news every day. This is too late.. we just watch and wait for the burst.
Even then, there are plenty who are on the internet without really understanding what it is they're using. They just know how to pattern match (netflix.com will take me to movies + tv but no idea how or where it comes from)

I think on a surface level, they'd say sure, digital money, why wouldn't that be the future but they assume it comes from an "authoritative" source such as the UN or a government.
That's not true at all. If someone gives you a gold bar right now, would you be able to tell if it's real or not? What if, for example, it's steel on the inside coated with a thin layer of gold. Or the gold has a low purity, etc. This is why there are specialists (who are very expensive) who can use special tests to check if it's real (and even then it's not 100%).

It's easy to tell if the Bitcoin that you just received is real or not. (Definitely much easier and cheaper than with gold).
My company, in this field, has many customers which pay in cryptocurrencies.
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I think it's more likely that the Gov is doing what they normally do and fully assessing a situation first- especially in this situation because how can you meaningfully hurt a decentralized network of this size when it may be easier to just tax it like a resource.
Please point one out to me.
Guess that depends on exactly how you understand the log-scale graph.
Alibaba was a huge "research chemical" market at one point. I'm sure there's still a ton on there.