skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> from a third party.
A simple and composable way to validate data in JavaScript
You nailed it! I wish others can understand this. Most importantly, media needs to understand this concept as they seem to be spreading a lot of fear as well as fomo around Bitcoin.
Lulz, kys cuckboy.
Grow Your Online Followers with Treck
Not to mention Stiglitz stands to lose quite a bit of status if Bitcoin supersedes the US dollar as a world reserve currency.
Not too far off it myself, but I save 75%+ of my post-tax income. Note that I do not deprive myself of luxuries, I am merely skilled at delayed gratification and grew up very financially unstable. I have a lovely 2017 car with < 1600 miles on it (purchased brand new), but I take the bus to work, for example. I do keep my finances very close to my chest for fear of judgement from others - I did not reveal the $ amount to my fiance-to-be until we had been dating for 4 years.

My timeline is 5-10 years to be safe (age ~40). However, I get satisfaction out of creating and delivering software, beyond collecting a paycheck and don't have any intention to stop working - just not as a wage slave once I've reached my number.

I am hard-pressed to think of mistakes that software engineers would make that people in other professions don't make - there are the usual things like buying too much house, too much car or letting someone else spend your money. Perhaps the only unique-ish mistake would be to assume the large salaries will last forever and not save for contingencies. My impression of people in finance is that they know they're worked like dogs, so they are trying to get out as soon as possible. Tech is so cushy that people can get lulled into forgetting that there's more to life than foosball and free lunch.
> First, people shouldn't love you for who you are. That assumption is in popular culture but it's really pernicious if you examine it.

You're making a mostly semantical argument. When you say that "you don't love your mother because she's your mother", you're saying that you don't love your mother strictly based on the fact that she was the woman who bore you (`with respect to her identity`). You then say that you love your mother because she acts `how she acts`.

In my experience, when people say they want to be loved for who they are, they mean that they don't want to have to act differently than how they would naturally act in order to be liked or popular. In essence, `who someone is` is commonly interpreted to be a superset of `how someone acts` in union with other sets (like `who someone is with respect to their identity`). Thus most people would understand "be who you are" not only to mean "be who you are strictly `with respect to your identity`" but also "be who you are with respect to `how you act`". You're missing the latter in the definition in of who your mother is.

Your second point is valid. In my experience it is
difficult to maintain physically a peak level of excitement for a whole event.
Could you be more specific please?
> solve merchant fraud with irreversible payments

Irreversible payments will help merchants, not solve merchant fraud. If anything they will cut down on consumer fraud but they actually enable merchant fraud.
I see no reason that it would ever go backward, so yes. Especially with leap second smearing, meaning it's not only monotonically increasing, but also never stops (never a slope of zero).
I don't think I disagree with you; my point was twofold:

1. The pros of BTC and BT aren't that impressive. BTC is more of a currency side-grade, not an iteration.

2. Both BTC and BT are primarily used for illegal stuff. This doesn't help their cause.
I tried on our Mac mini servers but High Sierra won’t upgrade on a system running RAID 1. Saved some trouble today but it will be a pain if they don’t fix that bug too.
Interested to see what emerges from this experiment. Will the wisdom of the crowds prevail or will it be the interests of a select few? It would be great to have a 'believability' weighting whereby the votes of more credible people count for more. Not a democratic solution but in fields where one has more knowledge it makes sense to defer to them - much like you would weight the opinion of a doctor more heavily than your barber for a health related issue. Now we only need to figure out who the credible people are...
As someone who isn't afraid of flying (except in the case where the pilot has to suddenly drop the airplane due to turbulence) I still wouldn't trust a pilotless airplane until it's safer then with a pilot, which will be very difficult to prove. I feel also that I'm not alone and many people who fly would be extremely wary of a pilotless system. On the other hand, I would be much more likely to trust a self driving car. The main reason is that, if a self driving car malfunctions, the risk of my death is present but not absolutely guaranteed and with all of the safety features in a car it's likely I would still be alive after a crash, even at high speeds. A plane that has an autopilot malfunction, with no human present, without changes to the safety during a crash, would be essentially guaranteed to kill everyone on board. Until a plane can crash from the sky without killing all passengers in most scenarios, I wouldn't fly in a pilotless airplane.
Please explain to me how the 2017 Nobel Prize for "developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution" is meant to "justify Western political ideology." Or maybe the one for "decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves is easier." Or maybe "their discoveries of molecular mechanisms controlling the circadian rhythm."
NIO is putting users first, selling cars second
Tantan wants to solve China’s singles problem
Here are AA’s current pay rates - https://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/american...

Multiply the rate by 1,100 for a ballpark annual salary. This doesn’t include per diem or benefits, which can be quite good. Delta, for example, puts a 16 percent match, based on total salary, into the pilot’s retirement account with no contribution from them.
AirBnB does this today, had to go through the process a few weeks ago to create an account to book a room! And of course the process failed,.. and of course we thought we were going to miss out on our room booking,.. and of course I now really dislike airBnB
That would actually be interesting! Humans are good st certain kinds of computational problems like approximate Traveling Salesman, so if you had agood algorithm that assumed access to such an oracle, you could indeed power it with Mechanical Turk workers in a nontrivial way.
If unions gave people a bad deal, then why would anyone start working at a union shop? Unions would die out because workers would abandon the workplaces that are covered by them for more lucrative non-union workplaces.
You will store your files on the blockchain! /s
New Girl Scout STEM badges bring girl power in a big way
> Pedophiles would be using something encrypted and anonymous anyway.

Except for the ones who apply for a job reviewing the nudes Facebook is collecting, anyway.
True, those are good counter examples, thanks for sharing.

Here’s a reference from the BBC (sourcing a Boeing report from 2003) that states that approximately 80% of commercial aviation accidents were caused by pilot error (when the study was performed in 2003).

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20130521-how-human-error-can...
Being born again
need info on the best way to start over fresh with new credentials
The idea of a distributed electronic currency predated bitcoin. What Satoshi did was solve a couple of remaining problems with the predecessors. Thinking of him as a "visionary" is a mistake.
The last time that happened to me I was asked to choose whether my acquaintance I had all but forgotten was one of two random people, a dog, a tree or part of a waffle that claimed to be five other people as well. Fun times.

Maybe by now FB actually has knowledge about people in the image but back then my peers just tagged random things as other friends or themselves for fun.
How can DVDFab iFoneRestore help you recover iPhone 6 from iCloud
The Girl in the Window, 10 Years Later
coinbase and other exchanges that exchange cryptocurrency for US dollars run into this issue because of Know Your Customer anti-money-laundering laws in the US. I've had to go through the same process when signing up for bank accounts online.

why the hell instagram would need this, I have no idea.
Homemade Lip Balm in 7 Different Delicious Flavors
Interesting to know if they have an SLA for this and how it's formulated.

Time is important and hard. I doubt that customers who really need precise time would walk away from their ghetto solutions with no SLA because when something like this craps out, it's almost always a circus.

But hey, when time precision and accuracy is a bonus not a requirement for your AWS instance then 'free local NTP server!'
This is the KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. Online-only banks like Ally and Simple require the same thing.

In fact, every bank requires this. If you opened a bank account in-person some years ago you may not remember but they asked you for your government-issued ID card.

It's the same thing.
This is my situation. I’ve become emotionally attached to my wife and kids, and they are emotionally attached to our mcmansion and spending their afternoons at the country club pool.

I would have to be a billionaire to maintain our midwest lifestyle in California.
Aviation causes a hundred times more greenhouse gas emissions then Bitcoin.[1] (And imagine how large you could make that look if you used "more then x countries" rhethoric.)

[1] https://medium.com/@cryptarchist/how-much-greenhouse-gas-emi...
Because the value of a 401k doesn't go up based on demand/how many people are investing into it.
But how will they find out I lie?
Yes. We decided not to use deis workflow because for some reasons, deis made our infrastructure unstable.
I believe you're looking for Monero.
If you hold it, you own the risk of securing it. If I were a mutual fund, I'd much rather pay a premium to someone with expertise (like an exchange or some agent of the exchange).
A significant fraction of compensation for Google employees is RSUs.
No its not. Of BTC is constantly in flux you would never want to write or buy bonds in it. You wouldn't know what you are getting paid back in. Strongly related, if you settle in btc the currency risk (that the fx rate would change) is too great.
This lists L1-4 salaries at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...
Don't they? Everyone I know does, who I've talked to about it.

Seems a bit like Trump supporters.
Without labor unions I would not be alive right now. I would've died young after slaving my life away in a coal mine, in permanent debt to the company that owned it.

But please. Do go on about how unions harm most workers.
Instagram isn't a bank
A debt has interest; a delayed bill doesn't. An interest-free loan is literally free money (the difference between net present value of future repayments and current value, which will be higher); I always take 0% finance if it's on offer.

(The only exception would be in a deflationary environment.)
It solves the kind of fraud where a customer receives irretrievable goods or services in exchange for a bounced check or credit from a stolen credit card.
That's not true at all. You can buy anything shipped from within India without providing any documents. Amazon requires id/address proof only when the item is shipped from abroad, and that's only because customs requires it. And you have the options of:
a) Providing the proof to the courier instead of amazon
b) Providing a different address proof like voter id
I hope you don't drive a car. If you do, you're dumping carbon into my atmosphere! You should buy an electric car and only run it on solar electricity so you're not pushing that carbon on the rest of us.
I tried to word my post to make the point that titles are inconsistent to the point of being random, especially across organizations. Using years of experience as a proxy for seniority always brings up the argument that years of experience and seniority are not the same thing, especially on HN. I agree with this to some extent, but as long as you aren't stagnant as a developer (which might not be entirely your fault) you will gain wisdom that people with less experience lack. That might not make up for a younger persons ability to crunch, or hunger, which could lead to gains in productivity, but I'd argue that people that stagnate later in their career probably weren't great at what they did to begin with.
Why is Argentina the model example, and not, say Sweden? And are you saying that the pilots unions in the US are weak?
Hi! I'm Ken from Singapore. TAGUI FEATURES • automate Chrome, Firefox, PhantomJS • visual automation of websites and desktop • write in 20+ human languages & JavaScript • Chrome extension for recording web actions • unzip and run on macOS, Linux, Windows • run by schedule, command line, API URL • advanced API / command calls to services

I left banking to do these open-source automation stuff full-time a year ago, partly out of interest and partly to dedicate time for self-directed learning. Tomorrow, I'll be moving back to full-time job at AI Singapore (https://www.aisingapore.org). It's a government initiative to build up AI capabilities locally. During my role there, integrating the tool (in its current form or a new form) with AI and ML capabilities will be part of my job scope.
Reading through the comments it looks like you’re discovering the truth in Poe’s Law [0] which roughly translates to sarcasm inevitably backfires in large persistent distributed contexts like HN or other forums.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Why?

It's not like Google or Apple pay dividends.

Google is currently handing out giant sacks with dollar signs on them to machine learning people far exceeding the meager means of most other companies, and the stock price is rising.

By your logic, shouldn't they be in the crapper for over-compensating these folks compared to what the market value?
>> House price over 20 years 10x.

Mortgage payment over 20 years 2x. House prices vary inversely with interest rates. When you go to get a loan the bank figures out how much cash flow you've got and assumes some percentage will go to paying the loan back. They start from that monthly payment and figure out how much you can borrow at the current interest rate (this is where lower interest rates mean borrow more money for the same monthly payment) then you run off to but a house and everyone (seller, agent, appraiser, everyone) has an incentive to get you to spend as much as you possibly can. So ultimately you're 30 years of payments will be based on your income. How much of that money goes to the bank vs the seller depends on interest rates. Low rates mean higher prices and more money to the seller. High rates mean lower prices and more money to the lender.

This all stems from people living paycheck to paycheck too, so the affordability of things has nothing to do with price and everything to do with size of payments.
TempleOS doesn't do scatter plots.
Care by Volvo subscription service to start at $600 a month
If you have a solar cell that starts with 20% efficiency, how many years of “20% increase claims” does it take to reach 200% ?
I think you're saying, "give me something that I value as much as porn and I'll agree with you"

Bitcoin's utility is about as subjective as porn's utility.
I think they're talking about a CF template generator being the third-party software (I could be wrong).
Hats off for trying this, good luck in English.
except hiding 256 bits is easier than hiding pallets of $100 bills, or tons of gold bars.

>The entire technical advantage relies on you effectively lying to your government

isn't that a prerequisite of any method?
The poor can borrow money from source (yes, divulging their identity to that one source, and paying interest) and buy products in cash from all their vendors.
Which DMVs require fingerprints?
> 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?

That seems to be latest meme for attacking bitcoin. You know what makes new want to spend my bitcoin? I have a bitcoin debit card, and i like beer. Not a beer in 10 minutes either. So i buy it. The only difference is that the money in my wallet isn't being debased while I'm not buying beer with it. So beer just keeps getting cheaper.
I like the concept, but it’s rate of change and lengthy transaction period and confusing transaction fees make it inhospitable for goods and services that I’d use it for.
1. Stiglitz is effectively calling for perpetuating the surveillance state - one with no privacy, no strong encryption. How else can you ultimately stop cryptocurrencies?

2. Does Joseph Stiglitz have a right to exist, even though his social utility is low? After all, he is quite old, has already done the work recognized in his Nobel prize and is unlikely to be of further use to society. Utilitarians will undoubtedly disagree with me here, but I assert that each of us has the right to trade communicate freely with one another, and to write and maintain whatever programs we wish to.
We're happy to consider anyone for Atlas; we have some requirements, but it is not a competitive process like e.g. a VC fund or Harvard. We're not trying to pick winners in advance.

With regards to your other question about Atlas: while I can't provide tax advice, in general, incorporating a US company will obligate the company to pay taxes on its US operations, but most people who own a company from outside of the US will want to be e.g. paid a salary or distributions from the company, and it is highly likely that this will result in a taxable event for you in your home country. For details, including details which can materially change this (like e.g. the effect of certain tax treaties), please talk to an accountant.
Interesting, so the purpose of linking the article wasn’t to support your point?

Regarding the elevator comment - what about light rail at airports? Terminal to terminal “air trains” don’t have human drivers.

Also, how would you counter the statistic that 80% of commercial aviation crashes are caused by pilot error (see my above comment for source)? This would seem to suggest that continuing to improve automation with the goal of removing the human altogether would reduce the number of crashes, assuming the automation wouldn’t make the same mistakes as the human.
https://developers.google.com/time/smear
Digital currency isn't competing with credit card networks, it's competing with ACH.

ACH transfers take days; wire transfers take minutes to hours and cost tens of dollars. There's ever possibility of running a digital currency that can clear transactions on the order of minutes with minimal cost. Bitcoin isn't well suited to that, partially because it hasn't been managed well.

A credit card would still pre-authorize against a balance at an institution, but it would settle between the customer and merchant bank on the same schedule (when the merchant cleared their transactions for the week) or faster (eg, on the order of minutes). That makes credit cards considerably closer to cash (fast) than what they are now, like checks (slow).

And for people who wanted it to settle immediately or treat it like cash, they could make a direct transfer, and have it clear on the order of minutes. (Not great for coffee, but something like buying a car.)

Digital currencies can be those things, they're just not.
I believe India is great for manufacturing generics (not the Java/C# variants), although I don't believe they can export them to US, even if India was innovative in this area I think export controls, lobbying and patents would hinder any disruption to US - you'll be paying $200 a course of antibotics that would cost $0.50 elsewhere for a very long time. If I was non-critically sick in America and without insurance (or even with where you pay X%), I'd do a rough calculation to see if it was cheaper to fly business class to India and go straight to a private hospital.
8MB blocks don't solve the longterm scalability problem. I agree that high fees are unacceptable, but I'd rather wait for a solution that allows order a transaction increase of several orders of magnitude rather than scaling it linearly (and therefore reducing the number of people that can actually use it).
Interview: Doug Weber talks DARPA & his best advice to Neurotech founders
Wow, I am curious was this recently?

This is next level bat shit crazy even by FB's own standards.
Check out the selectstar.io booth.
Not to mention, 0. Ask businesses (who don't have an incentive to lie on your behalf) how many Bitcoins they gave you. If you tell them fewer Bitcoins than the businesses reported giving you, you go to jail.

I mean, that's basically how the IRS works now for cash dollars.
Bitcoin is money. I'm not sure what you think we're talking about.
Agreed, my primary gripe with the original comment was that the OP used the word “must.”
Not yet...
Preemptively fulfilling KYC requirements probably eases the barriers to incorporating financial services into the platform. I'm not a fan of this, just thinking out loud
Supporting Family/Friend's businesses instead of celebrities or corps
It seems that whenever one attempts to make something easier on the surface, the complexities underneath expand cubically.
Not too difficult. You make a currency that is pegged to either a basket of commodities, a basket of currencies, both, our even just gold.

When the price of the basket goes above the original price (inflation) you reduce the mining reward (or in worse cases remove some of the coin from circulation in various ways). When the price of the basket falls (deflation) you increase the mining reward increasing supply.

You would need a trusted oracle, but that is no different than any other smart contract.
Sadly even giants like Rackspace are moving to being managers of AWS services. It’s hard to beat amazon’s pricing at scale, even if this is a touch over priced.
I'd pay $100 for a product marketer to give advice on how I should improve the positioning of https://www.soundshelter.net

contact me at my username at gmail
I don't think I'll reach financial security in my lifetime.

Political issues have caused me to wander around the world looking for a country willing to simply give me a visa. I'm now 28, and finally got 3 years of work experience in Taiwan, which will be enough to start applying for a Skilled Migrant Category (NZ) or Express Entry (Canada) visa.

I have no debt. No car. No house. My salary here is low, but my living costs are also low. Flights are expensive though, so I have to spend 3 months savings to visit relatives once a year.

I have a maximum wage, because my work visa doesn't allow me to have a second source of income.

If I am lucky to get a visa to a Western country, then I might earn more. Then I can spend it on the extortionate rents, saving for getting married, and when that's paid off, a good education for future kids.

I'm not sure if I'll ever be able to afford to have kids at all, and if I do, I'm pretty sure I won't be able to retire. I'm certain that I'll never be rich enough to buy a house. Maybe I'll get a driving license after I need to drive kids around; until then I'll keep riding a bike. AI will learn to drive before I do.
Relevant :

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/11/making-every-le...

https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2015/05/Got-a-second-A-...

https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...
Does anyone know any good and easy to use service to provide paid phone support? For example, I want to charge something like $1 or $2 per minute.
so in other words... bitcoin produces as much emissions as 1% of every single flight on earth

that's still pretty insane.