skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even if you managed to convert all your crypto assets to cash completely off the grid, and not only your bed but also your closet is full of the stuff, what good does that do? You've just moved the "problem" from one asset to another.

As soon as you buy a sports car, or a yacht and pay in cash (which is probably at least as difficult as doing it in Bitcoin) the IRS will take notice. You're going to have to explain why you suddenly drive an expensive car without any trace of payments for it, or you're going to lose it.

Unless your money really come from illicit sources, in which case you have no choice, I doubt it is worth it.
As someone who works with these guys daily, you're 100% correct! The only thing that makes them change is new regulations telling them they have to.
With Excel any reasonably capable business analyst can do sophisticated calculations quickly without needing anything else. With a web app, SQL database and whatever the ramp up cost is huge in comparison.
I'm constantly disappointed by lack of support for U2F keys, especially by domain name registrars (ghandi is there only one but unfortunately they come with their own questionable t ToS). No matter how well protected your accounts are, if you lose your domain, they're all toast.
In a forward-secure manner?
I disagree with the article's suggestion for Settlers for boardgame newcomers, since the serial turn ordering causes long wait times, and lack of a comeback mechanic causes 1 or more players to be "out of the running" all too often for 30+ minutes of the game.

A small gamespace setup with Dominion, or 7 wonders (parallel turns, multiple paths to victory) are better intros imo.
>As a young teenager, Carrillo automatically became a U.S. citizen when his mother went through the naturalization process. As an adult, he had two serious run-ins with law enforcement: a 2007 conviction for carrying a concealed weapon and another in 2011 for sending sexually explicit material to a minor, according to law enforcement records reviewed by The Times.

>In the second case, Carrillo was sentenced to 240 days in jail and three years’ probation, the records show.

In theory ICE could check this out, but sanctuary city policy is to not cooperate with ICE, so my guess is they did not have immediate access to this information.

Given that this was an outlier case, I'm guessing the city would withhold the verification because most times it would show illegal status. Of course, it would make sense if all the enforcement agencies had synchronized data, but that seems like a pipe dream for an organization like the US gov.
It's not, it's just called differently.
Not really. In the long term, reg fines and dev costs balance out.
> Why would you want to hold something that is constantly losing value when you can use something is gaining in value?

You would do neither. You would spend what is losing value, and hold onto what is gaining value.
The main reason is that Excel has features for professionals, but another reason is that some companies don't want Google to have access to their data.
The IRS puts "variable costs" at about 14 cents per mile. So, yes they may do better, but not significantly better. Also, electric means either battery swaps or significantly longer refueling time. Not a problem for commuter cars with downtime anyway. But for a 24/7 business, that becomes more impactful.

https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/2017-standard-mileage-rates-for...

"The standard mileage rate for business is based on an annual study of the fixed and variable costs of operating an automobile. The rate for medical and moving purposes is based on the variable costs."
Squeezing light into a tiny channel brings optical computing a step closer
Trust is only part of the problem. It's also competence on the part of the recipients to combine the Shamir parts, correctly pick Segwit vs Legacy chains, not send BCH to a BTC address, not email their private keys to the Geek Squad, and then not get it all swiped on their malware-infested PC.
You might also find org-journal [fn:1] interesting, if you commonly take date-stamped notes.

[fn:1] https://github.com/bastibe/org-journal
Yep. this is going on everywhere. How many solid but boring Java applications have been replaced by a microservice, cloud, NoSQL, NoieJS monster?
I agree. Most of the issues you describe are related to the terrible experience of what to do with your currencies after you've bought them. None of them are very useful at the moment, so there needs to be a safe way to store them, and the easiest thing to do is just leave them sitting in your exchange accounts. There are ways store them properly (hardware wallets, which aren't perfect either), but there's no way any non-tech/non-determined folks will consider a free solution like a paper wallet. I'm looking forward to seeing what Omise comes up with on their multi-currency wallet and supposedly instant conversion via a decentralized exchange.

However, I think the real hope for this (and yes, a community-driven approach rather than government-controlled) is what's already changed the world in my lifetime through open source communities.

The most successful distributed ledgers have so far been open source. This is another sentiment, but I started using Linux in 1996 because I hit too many brick walls in Windows as a kid. Just simply learning how it works always resulted in at least one headache (I recall trying to learn C++ in windows at that time, and then seeing a friend's Debian environment, and that was that)

Since then I've seen those philosophies (more social than technical I think) creep into so many previously off-limits proprietary areas. It blows my mind what we've achieved, not just creating a system where we have more control but forcing the "evil" companies many of us hated at the time, like Apple and Microsoft, to adapt. I never thought Microsoft would open source anything, yet here we are with dotnet core and more. I don't see any reason why we can't carry that over into banking and fintech, and this does feel a lot like the clunky early days of Linux. But a well-organized decentralized movement can topple major centralized institutions, and while a complete takeover by the people probably won't happen, already every major bank is adapting to this new world. And they have much less control in this one, too.
Maybe I'm missing a joke here but he or she is right. "we have no reason to believe any of this is true but we will investigate it to be sure" is more than we expect most companies to do.

That being said I doubt any of us honestly believe those words from Uber.
This - exactly
As long as line length is pep8 compliment, there can be as many exclamation points as you want.
Probably because the geeks can consider the virtues of making a spreadsheet vs an application while the office workers are incapable of understanding more than half the equation.

Also office workers can't always be trusted to even plug things in let alone properly assess what an optimal solution looks like.
The IRS Has Come Knocking at Bitcoin's Door
Yes he missed something: the context of bitcoin invention during the 2008 crisis. One of the big incentive to own something like bitcoin (or any decentralized and distributed cryptocurrency) is that it allows to emancipate yourself completely from financial institution either public (the central banks) or private (retail banks) when it comes to managing your capital, hell the "be your own bank".

This is something especially important considering we live in a world where nation-states are increasingly weak, politicians are either seen as incompetent at dealing with economic issue or just straight up overpowered by transnational entities while people are more and more nomad (not hesitating to just abandon their countries for another one when they are not satisfied instead of trying to enhance it). The problem with this trend is that currently moving your capital with you is hard (e-banking is a progress but it's still not enough for most people, especially the poorest).

Finally there is this economic warfare aspect, not all countries are like the USA where the currency is a tool for global hegemony and a fundamental pillar of the state, in fact with the EU we have strong countries which for the first time in history have willfully abandoned their monetary sovereignty (they still keep control but it's not one-sided). Best examples of this dynamic is Japan which has seen the yen bleed badly during the last decades and is the first big country to have a pro-cryptocurrency attitude.
And that would justify a 50 billion dollar valuation? They would need to create multi-billion dollar market to make it worthwhile. And also learn selling to businesses.
It keeps telling me 'Passphrase Required' for my key.

I am entering the correct passphrase..
Errm, I've seen spreadsheets that take an hour to open and "overnight" to update.
No need to install Ubuntu. Just load from a Ubuntu live DVD, install the driver, and so on...
I observed the same thing, but concluded that textiles were considered raw material by this list.
Adding a new screen to capture information? With a nice graph to display for output? Does it conform to your UI style guide? Does it have passing unit tests? Is it integration tested? Is it code reviewed? Any migrations necessary? Any business continuity ramifications? Etc.

Engineering has overhead otherwise it's just a bunch of cowboys that are no better than Excel hackers - and probably worse, because they have a lot more rope to hang themselves.
Well, Excel is interpreted, so a better comparison would be made against interpreted languages…
Great to see more competition in GPU+DW space! Some questions:

1. How does BlazingDB compare to MapD ?

2. How do you skip ingest - are you using Apache Arrow like Dremio as an efficient data representation format?

3. Do you have any benchmarks, or maybe where would you see BlazingDB on this list? http://tech.marksblogg.com/benchmarks.html
using same hardware as MapD ?

4. Can you run your solution in a cluster? :)
I love other spreadsheets. I use a few of them. My first was Lotus 123.

But Excel is used because it's very very good. Many of the people use it need this one small weird thing, and Excel has it and none of the others do yet. And that one small weird thing is different for everyone.

It's a bit scary to see how much stuff is kept going with scary hairballs of VBA and macros and god-knows-what.

The EUSPRIG has more information. For example, this about spreadsheets in clinical medicine: http://www.eusprig.org/2006/spreadsheets-in-clinical-medicin...
Erm, they would also need a programmer at that point. More to the point, excel is more of a thinking tool that allows for lots of tinkering with real time feedback. Programming languages require lots of thinking up front and are not meant for thinking without significant augmentation (REPL, Jypiter notebooks).
> The ideals you are talking about though are socialist in nature.

So?

> Based on behavioral economics, people are mostly self-interested and will do actions that maximize their benefit.

I'm sure you know this, but this is exactly the opposite of what behavioral economics has shown.

> You can't eat currency or digital bits.

True, but if your currency is gaining value, you will be less inclined to spend that currency to start or invest in businesses, e.g.
It isn't mutually exclusive. The crypto that will collapse are all the little alts that don't have any significant market caps. There are a few scam coins that will collapse as well like bitconnect.
Dazzle paint is still used today by car companies testing new models. The paint schemes arguably hide the curves of the car with dazzle paint. ruining the perception of depth to hide the curves
The ramp up cost isn't months vs minutes. That is just pure nonsense.
On linux boxes, for small snippets I use 'qrencode -t ansi "message"' and use a QR scanner app to read the text to my phone...
Just a few days ago the thought came to me that a government mandated crypto-currency in Canada might be well-named as the Loonie.

Also, I am wondering how hard it would be to create a model - interactive online - that has different models of comparing a Ponzi scheme scale operation vs. a Bitcoin-like operation.. Is there software or online platforms for economists to run these kinds of analysis?
Not really. They could be trying to build a company-wide data lake. Some files in the lake will be very small, others will be very large. Because it's in HDFS it won't matter if the very small ones suddenly become very large.

End users groan because people groan every time anything changes and they have to learn something new.
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Watch some youtube vids of Excel pros moving around the UI quickly. There's no other UI I can think of where so much is being done so quickly except maybe a bash pro.

America's favorite villain Martin Shkreli was pretty amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFSf5YhYQbw&feature=youtu.be...
database on the amount of benzodiazepam medications prescribed with add medicines?
The current peak in bitcoin also looks exactly like an exponential blow off peak as people invest entirely on the expectation of future price rises. The way people are talking about it and the behavior of the price on the chart looks exactly like NASDAQ pre-2000. I'd almost suggest shorting it, but "markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent". Since there's nothing tangable at all about BTC (it's not like its a corporate stock with an actual cashflow and capital behind it) I don't see where the floor is. And since BTC mining is starting to use s noticeable fraction of the world's power consumption at some point the music is going to stop and all the miners will head for the exits because the marginal profit isn't there.

I'm not sure I agree with Stiglitz that it should be outlawed since I'm uncomfortable with protecting people from their own stupidity, but I understand the analysis he's doing to conclude that.
No, we do not. We do expect to pressure them to do the right thing, which is one of the following:

- Release ME source code

- Remove ME from consumer products

- Have a provable method of disabling the ME entirely
It might take a time till coder has time for it. And coder may misunderstand requirements and needs time to get them.
You work in Redox almost everyday and at System76, that's pretty impressive, IMO. Kudos to your work.
I think they block svg but not other images because svgs can contain javascript and could be used in a phishing attack.

i.e.

data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'><script>alert('hi')</script></svg>
> My wife just wanted me to listen while she told me about her day...

Yes. Totally this...just listen to her...turn off all that problem solving stuff and just look her in the eyes and keep your mouth shut, no matter what she is saying.

She is strong...she can solve her problems, but she needs you to hear her vent and offer emotional support.
7 Wonders probably wins for best average popularity among our mixed-interest gaming group, when there are over four people who want to play. It has an intimidating rules explanation compared to some, but plays way easier than it sounds. Would second the recommendation.

Sushi Go! is another good "getting people into not-awful board games" game.
> we could replace it for less than $500

27 Terabytes of spinning rust with NAS hardware for $500? Not yet.
I read somewhere that disk drives are so cheap now, that it costs less money to buy more disk drives, than to pay somebody by the hour to delete files. ;)

But I guess in this case, Uber did the ethical and financial calculus, and decided they could totally trust somebody who'd broken into their computers, stolen sensitive customer information, and tried to extort them, so they paid him a spectacular hourly wage for few hour project of deleting files that he proposed in a cold-call, without even checking his references, and they even let him work from home!

I sure hope the hacker gives Uber a great review on GlassDoor!

It makes me think the hacker found vastly more incriminating dirt on them that merely customer data, like Travis Kalanick's email, with a smoking gun proving they're withholding even more incriminating evidence from Wamo than they're already in trouble for.
Excel is sort of like PHP. The people who want it dead are very vocal. But those who use it, use it to get the job done.
Can you shed some light on this? How are you involved with fundraising via ICO? And how is it so much worse? If anything, I would guess it would be loads easier than traditional fundraising, because so many people seem willing to park their cryptocurrency in various ICOs with pretty much zero due diligence or justification other than it exists.
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Excel is a garbage environment and its pretty trivial to find environments that provide both a capable environment AND immediate feedback.
Cool book for sure, but I was thinking of something which would mention stuff like Rovelli's forays into Information theories of QM, or that crazy paper I found in the library once and lost completely which posited quantum entanglement worked like public key crypto. The weird ideas that didn't quite pan out. I'm a fan of weird ideas that don't quite work; reading Whittaker's history of E&M or stuff like the reletivistic aether theory in Sommerfeld's book.

Mostly interested as I had my own weird idea that (mostly) didn't pan out based on the Gutzwiller trace formula and symbolic dynamics of phase space.
I work with engineers (mostly mechanical) who are in the same boat. We built a quick python app to do in ~30 seconds what their excel/VBA shit fest did in 45 minutes.

Excel and the like are better than nothing and for most non programmer numbers people probably fine - but if you need some real heavy lifting I would bring in the bug guns.
What I don't understand is when shops start stressing the scalability of Excel, such as accountancy shops that share their spreadsheets around through primitive systems of locking (even some of the big 10 accountancies do this), why they never considered anything like Access.

The jump is straight from Excel to full-on DB backend, with no transition in the middle.
I can see some use of things like Nest which keeps your electric usage efficient and low. Agree that other things are way over-hyped though.

Look at how hard Amazon has been pushing Alexa for years now, and the shopping experience on it is still terrible. For very specific use cases, it works kinda well (i.e. order more household supplies that I've ordered 100x before). For anything else, it's much easier and faster to use a phone or computer. Amazon is devoting hundreds of millions to solve a problem that literally doesn't exist.
Cities are not responsible for naturalization.
Ha ha "scull" ringed a bell and after taking a look at the cover of the book you mention (it's not in the pdf you provide but can be found if you search for images for Linux Device Drivers oreilly) and see the horse ... I totally remembered the book!

It was one of the refereces I used while implementing the module and it was a really good and comprehensive book - totally agree with the recommendation :)
They're practicing RDD -> "Résumé Driven Development"
Argentina has the highest salaries in many other jobs too.

Correlation is not causation and all that fuzz.

Also, that piece of propaganda conveniently forgets that Avianca just suffered the longest ever strike in Colombia, not really the most worker or union friendly place.
Modern voice activated neural nets don't either. I don't buy voice activated appliances specifically because they are online, but with a new generation of offline neural nets, I just may revisit that choice.
Hopefully data:image/ still works for favicons. Embedding a highly compressible ~450 byte string in HTML is faster than issuing a new request, under most instances.
I had a Psion 3a, followed by a Revo and then a 5MX.

What was great about them was the ability to quickly flip them open and take notes, or run a command-line program in it's OPL language, pretty much instantaneously.

In the 90s this thing was in some ways more powerful than your regular desktop computer - it had pre-emptive multitasking, SSD storage, ability to use email and connect to the web via IrDA modem phones, as well as a built-in microphone and digital audio. It's Agenda program has still not been bettered in my opinion - giving you the confidence that your appointment is in the right place in the calendar (having just had a reminder come up on my pixel for an appointment meant for this time last year).

I tried to keep the dream alive with the Nokia E90 (which was too app focused and slow, sadly), the N900 (a fantastic machine, hampered by a very limited, tiny keyboard, and again, quite an app-focused desktop/phonetop). After reading online people repeatedly saying that I should just give in and use any modern phone with a bluetooth keyboard, I can now say conclusively that these people had no idea what the Psion was all about.

My hope is that they can make Android or Linux work well with this form factor. The hardware looks perfect (ok I'll admit I would have traded the colour screen for a kindle-like screen for the discretion and battery life), but the thing about the Psion was the speed and ease of operation. I really hope they pull this off!
These are valid objections, but premature optimization is the root of all evil.

If these restrictions are extended, I do expect a GPD Pocket2 designed with these restrictions in mind, to fly just under the radar.

At the moment, the GPD Win2 is being designed, with a M2 SSD slot as many people complained about storage.

It is reasonable to expect a GPD Pocket2 after that. As many users are complaining about the lack of WWAN, I do expect it will come with LTE (and an outside screen to display the calling number) or at least a slot to add it in the M2 slot.
5) Carry toilet paper. Be prepared to squat.
Just enabled it for our account (incredibly easy, single-button activation), and by morning we had results showing some minor vulnerabilities in our public subnets that we were able to patch immediately. Highly recommend.
Yes. I use Excel every day and while there are some serious cons (like a large data sets eating up tons of memory, crashing as a result, etc.) it is still an extraordinarily powerful tool. It is also extremely intuitive for the basic user and insanely powerful for the super user who really knows how to take advantage of the more advanced features. And with VBA integrated, it gets even more powerful.

I've seen some pretty amazing sheets/templates put together in a few days that would take programmers weeks or months to put together. And since you don't have to know how to program at all to use it, it's easy to see why it remains around.
I literally just got my system dropped by UPS yesterday. What do you suggest I do? Wait a bit or try bricking my system now?

Side note: PopOS wasn't ready for release. I had lots of problems getting the initial account created and on corporate wifi (PEAP).
If users were previously empowered to do a task themselves, and now need to request another team do that task on their behalf, that's a very valid reason to be groaning IMO.
The Billion-Dollar Company Helping Governments Hack Our Phones
I'll try adding it tomorrow to github (it's a little late here right now). In the meantime, I'd like to also recommend the book "Linux Device Drivers" that fellow commenter magpi3 mentioned.
That's not how criminal records or sanctuary cities work.
Is the user intervention required to install the firmware or do you still have the capability to install it without asking? Just because you ask for permission now does not mean that you have to.

Why push the firmware before asking?
How do finance folks deal with decimals? Doesn't Excel use binary floats? Do they switch to integers?
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