skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a great question, it seems you're not "converting" the coin if you don't have to lose the original BTC.

I think you'd treat it as found money (income, but at what value? it would be really hard to say what the value is on Day 1 of the hard fork, but you could go by what the markets said it was worth... or do you use the value of the BCH from when you first "claimed" it and moved it to a BCH address? or use the value it had when you first sold it? what if you were holding BTC at the time of the fork but never claimed your BCH, do you have any way to prove that? Do you need to?)

Then once you transact it just once, it should be easy, same question as any other crypto currency; you pay capital gains on the appreciated value (the gains) after you sell. But what is your "cost basis" in that calculation?

I don't want to overpay taxes, but I think the safest thing to do would be to treat that first sale as pure income and pay the regular marginal income tax rate on the full value, because truly you'd actually have no cost basis until you had actually bought some BCH.
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Blizzard's 2FA is TOTP 8-digits! Here's a library/cli tool that can create tokens:

https://github.com/jleclanche/python-bna

You can use it to export the seed or a QR of it, if you want to stuff your Blizzard TOTP into andOTP or something.
What did your ecommerce recipe app do in particular?
Spreading awareness would be good. Many people reject the notion that the climate is changing, so there would be value in collating the most persuasive and concrete arguments.

It's important to filter out conjecture and anecdata, though.
Most people don't do this at all. Using them is all they know how to do. If it breaks, they'll have someone fix it.

The fact that you do this has nothing to do with what I'm talking about. You and I are not representative for this.
I'm torn. While I tend to be on the pro-net neutrality/Title II side of things, this document seems to have no supporting data/evidence. I don't think it's going to convince anyone who wasn't already convinced.

Then again I'm not sure you can convince the people who take regulation=dead world as a given.
Along those lines, can you imagine getting a home loan in bitcoin?
I do miss a lot of the parentheses-less-ness of OCaml (and the old Reason syntax), but I'm honestly a lot more comfortable at least broaching the topic of using it on some work projects now that it's more JavaScript-y.
There is such a wide range of apps among visitors to this forum. It's hard to recommend something without more background. For me, PHP is all right.

But I don't follow the elite crowd's advice. I don't write classes. I don't use frameworks or routing functions, like get('/' function () { ... }). In fact I try to write as little PHP as possible. I think of it as a glue language between the browser and the database.

I spent a lot of time learning SQL inside and out, and I use one of the best databases in the world, Postgres. I try to do as much processing in the database as I can. So PHP's job is mainly to select, insert, update, or delete on a view, or to call a database function. The data that PHP gets from the database is often ready for display. So PHP just needs to wrap it in a template.

$data = $db->query('select * from some_view where id = ?', [ $id ])->fetchAll();
render('path/to/template.hbs', $data);

That's a super-simple example that won't even run, some cross between PHP and pseudocode, but it gives you a hint.

I just haven't let go of the newb's approach that URLs map to files.

https://www.example.com/widgets/detail/1234

would map to /path/to/docroot/widgets/detail.php. With Apache, I don't even have to use mod_rewrite to get rid of the .php suffix and to allow /1234 as PATH_INFO. I just turn on MultiViews.

Options +MultiViews
Thanks for the offer, but from what I've read over the last hours I'm not really too eager to try it out anymore.
Sadly it has been challenged several times and found to be lawful. I would love to see Congress specifically outlaw such seizures and/or reverse the burden of proof.
$1k+ laptops coming with windows Home is a slap in the face though.
Actually, bitcoin velocity is comparable to M2 USD:

http://charts.woobull.com/bitcoin-velocity/
Yes, that's exactly what I don't like.

They are little more than repackaged laptops, and not that good in terms of reliability from what I've heard.
I just think back to some of the stuff I listened to about the Bernie Madoff case where they were saying, essentially, that a lot of the bigger institutions bringing him clients had to have known something was up with the numbers, but they chose not to understand because they were making money and didn't want to rock the boat.
and this speaks to the fundamental issue: governments intrude upon new freedoms and pure environments. There is no place free of control. What right does the government have to inject itself, ultimately resorting to violence, into a new economic system.

In this way, it is the government who commits a crime, crusading into new territory and plundering those who object.
Google-scale, the monolithic source control repository and Piper
It bothers me that expensive life saving medical equipment are expensive and closed source.

But otherwise there is no incentive for large organizations to invest in a project.
I've been using beancount for the last 3 years. The fava project provides an awesome web UI for beancount and I'm really happy with that.
y'all are forgetting that juan is a genius and still alive...
Meh, I'd just put Xubuntu on it :-)
I agree - that's too much work. Can this task be performed in a VM?
I learnt Reason syntax first, then OCaml second. I prefer the OCaml syntax, it seems simpler, cleaner, and doesn’t hide the nice things about the language behind JavaScript semantics.

The biggest example I can think of is that OCaml uses let..in, which reminds you that every function is a statement. By contrast, the `;` in Reason hides that fact.

That said, it was the Reason syntax that first brought me to the ecosystem, and I think it’s going to be the catalyst that makes OCaml a big player in front end.
How is this better than using a typical smartphone?
Both the podcast and pub meetup seems interesting. Do you have some more information?
Is this different from Quora because it relies on twitter so those who answer don't need to be on the site?
Bringing Coding and Makerspaces to Kenya’s Largest Womens’ Prison
That sounds heavily exploitable, in this age of crypto-currency-mining malware
I've Fallen Out of Love with Technology
At CurrySoftware GmbH we use ledger + recutils + aqbanking + custom bash scripts to automate many business processes.

Some of these processes are required by german law and many companys outsource these to accountants or tax advisors or buy shitty software from DATEV.

The great advantage in staying fully plaintext is, that you do not need to automate everything for the whole system to work.
Incoming invoices are frequent -> write a bash script, Outgoing invoices are frequent -> write a bash script. Paying the state back some VAT happens once a month, use emacs to do it manually. I really love it.
BlazingDB Origins, oh and we just raised $2.9M from Nvidia and Samsung
You're Posting Too Fast. Please Slow Down.

It's what HN tells you whenever you try to write more than about five posts every four hours. I don't know the actual parameters, but they are ridiculously conservative, and very obviously waived for certain accounts.

When it happens, the only way to actually provide a meaningful response to someone in a timely fashion is to edit a previous post. Which breaks the expected flow of a conversation, obviously. It's the thing I hate most about HN, without reservation.
Can we source the parts for one of these now? The pre-order page states they will be available on Dec 31st. Is there an equivalent?
I don't understand how bitcoin is different from a fiat currency. Both only has value because we say it has value. Obviously a fiat currency generally has the backing of a central government. However a government is only viable as long as the constituents tolerate it, meaning whatever currency it issues, backed by the credit of such government, again only has value because people say it does.
There was another comment on another threat that said that, although they do buy Clevos, the cheaper ones Clevos sells aren't up to the same specs. They also order really specific hardware for their branded laptops that have known working drivers. Either that or they work on getting the correct binary blobs working and merged into the official linux-firmware package.

Things like getting newer drivers working (and contributing that openly back to the community) plus getting ME disabled are some pretty big value added. If they had a 4k model I might be more interested.
Understanding Bias in Peer Review
Terrorist Group Counterintelligence (2008)
Yes, it's called the Platform Security Processor: https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd-platform-security-process...

The system won't boot without it.
If we don't criticize people for doing bad things they should never have done, how can we expect other people to not do those bad things in the first place?
Zen blockchain hopes to strengthen, broaden Bitcoin
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15815881
Do you know of any ML/Deep learning apps for Android that I can apply as I would with this? I want to run this on my fire engine in traffic.
RocRAND: New PRNG Library for AMD GPUs
Thank you. As for the VPN setup, I was planning to do something like this: https://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2015/how-to-setup-your-own-pr...

Worth a shot? OR should I just shut up and go with Express VPN?

> 4) I would go to Shenzhen
Wow, thank you so much! That's something I definitely don't want to miss!

> I might be in Shenzhen soon for some business in fact.

Sure, I'd love to meet you too! Keep me posted (my email is in my profile) :)
> Integrated right into your calendar, I don't know about that part.

Depends on the calendar -- surely it could be integrated with cal(1).
"Not required but might increase your chances to be accepted. What is your age, gender, and ethnic background?"

Given that a video upload is already required, why the detailed questions on ethnic background? It doesn't matter for job interviews (legal limitation) so why for a bootcamp? Yes, it says "not required" but then immediately it's hinted that it kind of is better if one answers it.
The House bill seems to expand the child tax credit and add a family tax credit, but it also removes the personal exemption, so it's unclear to me how that nets out. But it sure creates uncertainty if nothing else.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/11/15/us/politics/e...
I'm not saying it isn't a hassle. But that is a better solution then rerecording everything. If you come up with a self hosted solution for c9, I would hope that the courses have a single video for setting up cloud9 which would be better then rerecording everything.

I feel for them, but it is the risk associated with using any sort of product you don't directly manage yourself.
It's not that he didn't want to be tracked, it's that he wanted to play golf on company time. With Uber, he gets to play golf whenever he wants. Makes sense
This post is about System76 delivering firmware for System76 machines, which are shipped with either Ubuntu or Pop!_OS. I'm not really disappointed that a hardware manufacturer is releasing their firmware update tools for their supported OSes first. (If you are not running their hardware, this firmware update tool is presumably not for you, anyway.)
If System76 would go with Debian stable, I'd be very strongly tempted to make them my supplier-for-life. As it is, I go with Zareason instead.
Bitcoin address generation code using discoverable private keys
> For beijing, checkout Tsinghua x-lab.
> Try out their dating apps (tantan)

Thanks, those are great suggestions! I'll check them out :)
Think about what you are asking first. A VM is a virtual machine that theoretically is separated from the base hardware. I don't think a VM is the solution for Bios Updates or changing bits on the physical hardware itself.

Of course, you can monkeypatch the VM's bios all you want! But that would be erased the next time you start a new vm.

The only other way is to find a security hole in KVM, qEMU, or XEN, and then exploit it to break out of the VM[1] and get access to base hardware. Hard to do, but it does happen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_machine_escape
Visual Studio Code can do that?
Bitcoin operates in exactly the same legal environment as banks.

I agree that the regulatory environment is different.
At work we write plenty of C++ for kernel modules, but with the caveat that our C++ can rarely include a Linux kernel header directly. We have to write a small shim for every kernel function we consume.

No library runtime features, so no RTTI or exceptions, but we use templates and dynamic dispatch.
> Microsoft Translator works well in China

Thank you, I wasn't aware they had an app. Definitely helpful. Thank you!
Fascinating in-depth answer. thnx!

> clients will pay you only if you have provided a proof of having offered a service.

Sounds like a good approach. You need to make trade-offs in your design for storage providers I believe. You can bias clients to deal with and pay reliable plus fast providers. That means slow peers have less chance to earn coins. Or take a performance hit and use fairness as a guiding principle. Then slow or new users get selected with increased probability. True?

> you could try to store and serve “rare” files

Has your team done work on 'investment functions' to select which "rare" files to store? You want to be paid, so what is incentive compatible? For a few years our phd/master students have been struggling to get a high-performance algorithm:
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/1842#issuecomment-...
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> don't you think it would have come out after an investigation that's been going on for a year

I don't know. I'm not a federal investigator, I don't really know how long these things take or what "should" have leaked by now if there was something serious enough afoot for you to consider it substantive.

It took like 2 years or something for impeachment to begin after the watergate break in was first reported as a spying effort and Nixon was still fully denying it a year later.
> Google Translate WILL work, just download the language for offline

I wasn't aware of that, thank you very much!
The main difference between this and a traditional AMA is that the AMA host agrees to answer questions beforehand.

There is no such guarantee in this product - how do you plan on combating questions that just sit idle? If questions just sit unanswered this is basically a twitter aggregate.
Bitcoins value does have an upper limit, to the extent it is cheaper/advantageous to move to a nearly identical clone, because the mainline is over-valued enough that the idea entices critical mass (of new people) to shift. This normalizes over time/culture, today we fork for technical reasons, but in the future there will be other reasons.
i was working on an embedded device with only RAM and a flash chip for the software blob.

i wrote a kernel module that allowed us to keep logs in RAM even across a soft reboot (i.e., if the device crashes or does a software update). it basically reserved a chunk of 1M at the top of RAM (using the same physical address each time). there was a checksum system that allowed it to tell during boot whether the data is still valid or if the bits had decayed.

i've also done a couple i2c drivers for temperature sensors or LED controllers. kernel work is fun.
> For a single software update?

This isn't a software update, it's a firmware update. I don't expect updating firmware to be painless; and I'd rather it not be painless. Updating a PROM is a messy process fraught with peril, I want as many checks & balances between my clumsy fingers and that flash as possible.

> With whatever else a normal human has going on in life? There's no way.

Many vendors don't ship ELF binaries update their firmware at all, and yet I still manage to flash their devices. I've lost count of how many times I have to throw FreeDOS a USB drive to flash the RAID controllers I use. Putting Ubuntu on a flash drive to install a firmware update is hardly any more complicated than that. (At a minimum: at least you'll have a reasonably competent shell and functional networking w/ an Ubuntu live image.)
Global Mosquito-Sensing Network Being Built Using Smartphones
I hear this argument a lot, but I'm not sure it's as simple as that.

Orthodox macroeconomics holds that your currency needs to be slightly inflationary, but it doesn't consider what happens in the face of credible competition with a deflationary currency.

It might very well be the case that the economy runs better when everyone uses an inflationary currency. But if everyone wants to hold the deflationary currency instead of the inflationary one (which, all else being equal, they do, for obvious reasons) no amount of theorising will save it.

We haven't yet seen a credible competitor to the inflationary currencies of nation states, but bitcoin is rapidly heading in that direction.

And the cat is out of the bag now. If deflationary currencies do outcompete inflationary ones, then it's only a matter of time until it happens, even if it's not bitcoin.

Switching to a deflationary currency might be "bad for the economy", but if it's good for individuals, they'll do it.
They also caused rolling blackouts in Los Angeles by manipulating energy markets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_electricity_crisis
The one new looking item is the VisionBonnet (with a low power Intel Movidius chip [1]). I've been pounding away on a low power / low cost NN vision device and now in the last two days we got Amazon DeepLens and this Google AIY Vision kit. Exciting and frustrating at the same time.

[1] https://www.movidius.com/solutions/vision-processing-unit
You might like to try Fable and F#. I’ve been looking at it since playing with Reason and Bucklescript, and so far I’ve found Fable much easier to use and more featureful. The syntax is essentially the same as OCaml, plus it’s whitespace aware.

F# has implicit `+` for basic types (though it’s not quite modular implicits). It also has a really nice syntax for async computations, similar to `async/await`. JS interop is much easier too. It can also run on the server with .NET core if you don’t want to use node.

The output JS is slighter heavier and less optimised than Reason/Bucklescript, and compile times slighter slower, but at the moment those are trade offs I’m happy to make
In perpetuity? Halfway serious question, fwiw.
The first few are. If you can't pass them, you don't get to waste anybody else's time.
Very advanced and professional community
We help to solve all issues while working with diode (solid-state) powerful lasers.
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I've heard a lot of great things about them and I love their mission statement, but I've also heard a lot of bad things about availability, shipping, and spotty customer service (but again, occasionally great customer service). I'm not sure what to think and whether to get my next laptop from them.

It also makes me nervous that they're putting resources into phones when they obviously haven't solved all the issues with non-free components of laptops. It gives me Firefox OS and mobile Ubuntu vibes.
Please, those who control this site, if you're reading - don't use medium grey text with very light font weight on a a white background.
Why Twitter didn't delete anti-Muslim tweets
Why Bitcoin? It's a single application of the blockchain. It would make more sense that a platform like Ethereum would remain after the dust settles. That's a better analogy to your internet quote.
You probably wouldn't want to train models on it, but there's several examples of using models on phones. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/blob/master/tensorf...
You can't transfer fiat currency to an anonymous person on the other side of the world without asking for permission and without trusting a third party.

That's how bitcoin is different to fiat.
You don't need to buy branded laptops to be able to disable Intel ME. Thanks to me_cleaner, I have been running my Chromebooks with Intel ME disabled for years. You can do it too if you have 30 minutes and a raspberry pi.

Here is what the intelmetool [1] says on my laptop: https://i.imgur.com/yKTt5ga.png

What's even more interesting is that there is a simple, automatic, no-frills method to clamp a SOIC clip connected to a Raspberry Pi zero to any Chromebook and it will clear out the Intel ME automatically with no user interaction. It's not even hard, all you have to do is to configure the Pi to enable SPI, and then make the pi automatically run flashrom to pull out the ROM from the Chromebook's flash chip, run ./me_cleaner on the ROM image, and then flash it back.

It can be done safely and automatically, and you wouldn't have to risk frying your laptop, so everyone could do it provided they can open their laptop. However, I'm too lazy to document it properly: either by providing the image tool to create the said Raspberry Pi Zero image + h/w instruction or by providing a premade hardware to do it.

I have reasons to believe that downloading a random binary image from a random guy nicknamed jimmies and use it to flash the firmware to your laptop because you don't trust Intel is probably not a great idea. The act of creating such a script to customize Raspbian, and testing out to make sure that it works for every Chromebook or laptop, and make a hardware compatibility list is quite a daunting task. I was talking about that briefly to some of the security people, but then as a grad student trying to graduate it got to the pile of TODOs. So if anyone is interested in it, let me know and I can provide some more details.

Currently, I'm running a Dell 13 inches Chromebook that can be had for $300 and does everything I need.

1: https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/tree/master/util/intelm... - disclaimer: I contributed a patch to the intelmetool to make it work on the Chromebook.
Russia and china have a police too.

Monero has zero value. The money is in the hands of the exchange who swap coins for real money. These ones have people running them and can be tracked and shutdown.
I also caught a lot more watching it the second time around!
i was using flex python 3 engine, not custom.
I am not running on GCP anymore, I switched to Linode because it's cheaper ($5 instance) and deployed using nanobox.
I deployed to app engine using app engine deployment, Linode using nanobox
"Anybody have any experiences to share from this?"

http://lua-users.org/wiki/MarcBalmer
Revenues are in the billions, but profits are nil, and if it comes to bankruptcy vs pivot and earn a profit everyone will find it acceptable. Of course they'd want billions, they want an ROI from the unicorn, it might not be there in its current unicorn form.
No one is paying bitcoin to be hustled in the press except
advertisers indirectly, since writint $10,000 barrier broken gains lots and lots of clicks --> more ad money earned.
Bitcoin has a hard cap of 21 million BTC. Fiat can be printed.
It costs $45 (+ Pi Zero W + Camera + SD card = approx. $90 total) and could be left somewhere analyzing video frames and communicating results.